Paris, je t'aime ***

Directors: Olivier Assayas, Frederic Auburtin, Emmanuel Benbihy, Gurinder Chadha, Sylvain Chomet, Joel and Ethan Coen, Isabel Coixet, Wes Craven, Alfonso Cuarón, Gerard Depardieu, Christopher Doyle, Richard LaGravenese, Vicenzo Natali, Alexander Payne, Bruno Podalydes, Walter Salles, Oliver Schmitz, Nobuhiro Suwa, Daniela Thomas, Tom Tykwer, Gus Van Sant

Year: 2006

Milk ****

Director: Gus Van Sant

Year: 2008

Writer: Dustin Lance Black

Cinematographer: Harris Savides

Paranoid Park ****

Director: Gus Van Sant

Year: 2007

Book by: Blake Nelson

Adapted by: Gus Van Sant

Cinematographer: Christopher Doyle

The Sixth Sense ****

Writer/Director: M. Night Shyamalan

Year: 1999

Cinematographer: Tak Fujimoto

Unbreakable ***

Writer/Director: M. Night Shyamalan

Year: 2000

Cinematographer: Eduardo Serra

Signs *****

Writer/Director: M. Night Shyamalan

Year: 2002

Cinematographer: Tak Fujimoto

My favorite of Shyamalan's films, and my favorite film about aliens coming to earth.

The Village ****

Writer/Director: M. Night Shyamalan

Year: 2004

Cinematographer: Roger Deakins

The Happening *

Writer/Director: M. Night Shyamalan

Year: 2008

Cinematographer: Tak Fujimoto

Lady in the Water ***

Writer/Director: M. Night Shyamalan

Year: 2006

Cinematographer: Christopher Doyle

Rabbit-Proof Fence ****

Director: Phillip Noyce

Year: 2002

Book by: Doris Pilkington

Adapted by: Christine Olsen

Cinematographer: Christopher Doyle

Last Life in the Universe ***

Director: Pen-Ek Ratanaruang

Year: 2003

Writers: Pen-Ek Ratanaruang, Prabda Yoon

Cinematographer: Christopher Doyle

2046 ****

Writer/Director: Wong Kar Wai

Year: 2004

Cinematographer: Christopher Doyle

Erin Brockovich ****

Director: Steven Soderbergh

Year: 2000

Writer: Susannah Grant

Cinematographer: Edward Lachman

Syriana ****

Director: Stephen Gaghan

Year: 2005

Book by: Robert Baer

Adapted by: Stephen Gaghan

Cinematographer: Robert Elswit

Michael Clayton ***

Writer/Director: Tony Gilroy

Year: 2007

Cinematographer: Robert Elswit

Good Night, and Good Luck. ****

Director: George Clooney

Year: 2005

Writers: George Clooney, Grant Heslov

Cinematographer: Robert Elswit

Adaptation. ****

Director: Spike Jonze

Year: 2002

Book by: Susan Orlean

Adapted by: Charlie Kaufman

Cinematographer: Lance Acord

Confessions of a Dangerous Mind ****

Director: George Clooney

Year: 2002

Book by: Chuck Barris

Adapted by: Charlie Kaufman

Cinematographer: Newton Thomas Sigel

Being John Malkovich *****

Director: Spike Jonze

Year: 1999

Writer: Charlie Kaufman

Cinematographer: Lance Acord

Human Nature *****

Director: Michel Gondry

Year: 2001

Writer: Charlie Kaufman

Cinematographer: Tim Maurice-Jones

Hugely overlooked Gondry/Kaufman collaboration. Great film.