*I debated wether to list David Lynch's Inland Empire as a 2006 or a 2007 release and opted for the former. I had listed only 9 films in my English-language Top 10 and Lynch's latest fits appropriately at number 10 based on two viewings and much subsequent thought. An arresting and inventive piece of work that didn't involve me emotionally as much as Mulholland Drive (one of my favorites of the current decade)].

*I added one film to my Foreign list: the Argentinean film Cautiva (Captive). It's a political coming-of-age similar to Oscar-winner Official Story but from the point of view of the daughter of murdered rebels rather than from her clueless adoptive mother. It merits an honorable mention.