# Cinema Scope

Cinema Scope was an English-language film magazine published in Toronto, Canada.

## History and profile

The first issue of Cinema Scope was published in 1999. Up until 2022, the magazine compiled a list of the top ten films of each year.
Mark Peranson, the magazine's editor, was awarded the Clyde Gilmour Award by the Toronto Film Critics Association in 2009.
In 2023, Peranson suggested that the ninety-sixth issue of the magazine would likely be the penultimate issue in its current format.

## Annual Top 10 Lists

2005 :
| # | Film | Director | Country |
| 1. | L'Enfant | Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne | Belgium |
| 2. | The Death of Mr. Lazarescu | Cristi Puiu | Romania |
| 3. | Caché | Michael Haneke | France |
| 4. | Land of the Dead | George A. Romero | USA |
| 5. | Regular Lovers | Philippe Garrel | France |
| 6. | The Sun | Alexander Sokurov | Russia |
| 7. | A History of Violence | David Cronenberg | USA |
| 8. | Three Times | Hou Hsiao-hsien | Taiwan |
| 9. | The New World | Terrence Malick | USA |
| 10. | Homecoming | Joe Dante | USA |
2006 :
| # | Film | Director | Country |
| 1. | Syndromes and a Century | Apichatpong Weerasethakul | Thailand |
| 2. | Black Book | Paul Verhoeven | Netherlands |
| 3. | Colossal Youth | Pedro Costa | Portugal |
| 4. | A Scanner Darkly | Richard Linklater | USA |
| 5. | Borat | Larry Charles | USA |
| 6. | Opera Jawa | Garin Nugroho | Indonesia |
| 7. | Children of Men | Alfonso Cuarón | USA |
| 8. | The Host | Bong Joon-ho | South Korea |
| 9. | Inland Empire | David Lynch | USA |
| 10. | Old Joy | Kelly Reichardt | USA |
2007 :
| # | Film | Director | Country |
| 1. | There Will Be Blood | Paul Thomas Anderson | USA |
| 2. | Zodiac | David Fincher | USA |
| 3. | Secret Sunshine | Lee Chang-dong | South Korea |
| 4. | Unas fotos en la ciudad de Sylvia | José Luis Guerín | Spain |
| 5. | Paranoid Park | Gus Van Sant | USA |
| 6. | Profit Motive and the Whispering Wind | John Gianvito | USA |
| 7. | My Winnipeg | Guy Maddin | Canada |
| 8. | Go Go Tales | Abel Ferrara | Italy USA |
| 9. | La France | Serge Bozon | France |
| 10. | 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days | Cristian Mungiu | Romania |
2008 :
| # | Film | Director | Country |
| 1. | Liverpool | Lisandro Alonso | Argentina |
| 2. | Birdsong | Albert Serra | Spain |
| 3. | Wendy and Lucy | Kelly Reichardt | USA |
| 4. | 24 City | Jia Zhangke | China |
| 5. | RR | James Benning | USA |
| 6. | Our Beloved Month of August | Miguel Gomes | Portugal |
| 7. | Ballast | Lance Hammer | USA |
| 8. | Itinéraire de Jean Bricard | Jean-Marie Straub, Danièle Huillet | France |
| 9. | Still Walking | Hirokazu Kore-eda | Japan |
| 10. | The Headless Woman | Lucrecia Martel | Argentina |
2009 :
| # | Film | Director | Country |
| 1. | Police, Adjective | Corneliu Porumboiu | Romania |
| 2. | Everyone Else | Maren Ade | Germany |
| 3. | To Die Like a Man | João Pedro Rodrigues | Portugal |
| 4. | Inglourious Basterds | Quentin Tarantino | USA |
| 5. | Sweetgrass | Lucien Castaing-Taylor, Ilisa Barbash | USA |
| 6. | Fantastic Mr. Fox | Wes Anderson | USA |
| 7. | Trash Humpers | Harmony Korine | USA |
| 8. | Alamar | Pedro Gonzalez-Rubio | Mexico |
| 9. | Vincere | Marco Bellocchio | France |
| 10. | Mother | Bong Joon-ho | South Korea |
2010 :
| # | Film | Director | Country |
| 1. | Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives | Apichatpong Weerasethakul | Thailand |
| 2. | The Autobiography of Nicolae Ceaușescu | Andrei Ujică | Romania |
| 3. | Mysteries of Lisbon | Raúl Ruiz | Portugal |
| 4. | Film Socialisme | Jean-Luc Godard | France |
| 5. | Winter Vacation | Li Hongqi | China |
| 6. | The Strange Case of Angelica | Manoel de Oliveira | Portugal |
| 7. | I Wish I Knew | Jia Zhangke | China |
| 8. | Meek's Cutoff | Kelly Reichardt | USA |
| 9. | Attenberg | Athina Rachel Tsangari | Greece |
| 10. | The Ghost Writer | Roman Polanski | UK |
2011 :
| # | Film | Director | Country |
| 1. | This Is Not a Film | Jafar Panahi, Mojtaba Mirtahmasb | Iran |
| 2. | The Turin Horse | Béla Tarr | Hungary |
| 3. | House of Tolerance | Bertrand Bonello | France |
| 4. | Dreileben | Christian Petzold, Dominik Graf, Christoph Hochhäusler | Germany |
| 5. | Once Upon a Time in Anatolia | Nuri Bilge Ceylan | Turkey |
| 6. | The Tree of Life | Terrence Malick | USA |
| 7. | Kill List | Ben Wheatley | UK |
| 8. | It's the Earth Not the Moon | Gonçalo Tocha | Portugal |
| 9. | Sleeping Sickness | Ulrich Köhler | Germany |
| 10. | The Kid with a Bike | Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne | Belgium |
2012 :
| # | Film | Director | Country |
| 1. | Leviathan | Lucien Castaing-Taylor, Véréna Paravel | USA |
| 2. | Tabu | Miguel Gomes | Portugal |
| 3. | Holy Motors | Leos Carax | France |
| 4. | The Master | Paul Thomas Anderson | USA |
| 5. | Django Unchained | Quentin Tarantino | USA |
| 6. | Viola | Matías Piñeiro | Argentina |
| 7. | The Last Time I Saw Macao | João Pedro Rodrigues, João Rui Guerra da Mata | Portugal |
| 8. | autrement, la Molussie | Nicolas Rey | France |
| 9. | Neighboring Sounds | Kleber Mendonça Filho | Brazil |
| 10. | Moonrise Kingdom | Wes Anderson | USA |
2013 :
| # | Film | Director | Country |
| 1. | L'Inconnu du lac | Alain Guiraudie | France |
| 2. | Norte, the End of History | Lav Diaz | Philippines |
| 3. | A Touch of Sin | Jia Zhangke | China |
| 4. | What Now? Remind Me | Joaquim Pinto | Portugal |
| 5. | The Strange Little Cat [de] | Ramon Zürcher [de] | Germany |
| 6. | Stray Dogs | Tsai Ming-liang | Taiwan |
| 7. | Inside Llewyn Davis | Coen brothers | USA |
| 8. | Story of My Death | Albert Serra | Spain |
| 9. | The Wolf of Wall Street | Martin Scorsese | USA |
| 10. | Computer Chess | Andrew Bujalski | USA |
2014 :
| # | Film | Director | Country |
| 1. | Horse Money | Pedro Costa | Portugal |
| 2. | Adieu au Langage | Jean-Luc Godard | France Switzerland |
| 3. | P'tit Quinquin | Bruno Dumont | France |
| 4. | Jauja | Lisandro Alonso | Argentina Denmark |
| 5. | Phoenix | Christian Petzold | Germany |
| 6. | Inherent Vice | Paul Thomas Anderson | USA |
| 7. | The Kindergarten Teacher | Nadav Lapid | Israel |
| 8. | Maidan | Sergei Loznitsa | Ukraine |
| 9. | Journey to the West | Tsai Ming-liang | Taiwan France |
| 10. | From What Is Before | Lav Diaz | Philippines |
2015 :
| # | Film | Director | Country |
| 1. | Cemetery of Splendour | Apichatpong Weerasethakul | Thailand |
| 2. | Arabian Nights | Miguel Gomes | Portugal |
| 3. | The Assassin | Hou Hsiao-hsien | Taiwan |
| 4. | The Forbidden Room | Guy Maddin Evan Johnson | Canada |
| 5. | Right Now, Wrong Then | Hong Sang-soo | South Korea |
| 6. | Visit or Memories and Confessions | Manoel de Oliveira | Portugal |
| 7. | Lost and Beautiful | Pietro Marcello | Italy |
| 8. | No Home Movie | Chantal Akerman | Belgium France |
| 9. | The Treasure | Corneliu Porumboiu | Romania |
| 10. | Kaili Blues | Bi Gan | China |
2016 :
| # | Film | Director | Country |
| 1. | Toni Erdmann | Maren Ade | Germany |
| 2. | Sieranevada | Cristi Puiu | Romania |
| 3. | Nocturama | Bertrand Bonello | France |
| 4. | Elle | Paul Verhoeven | France |
| 5. | The Death of Louis XIV | Albert Serra | Spain France |
| 6. | Certain Women | Kelly Reichardt | USA |
| 7. | The Dreamed Path | Angela Schanelec | Germany |
| 8. | The Human Surge | Eduardo Williams | Argentina |
| 9. | Aquarius | Kleber Mendonça Filho | Brazil |
| 10. | Silence | Martin Scorsese | USA |
2017 :
| # | Film | Director | Country |
| 1. | Twin Peaks: The Return | David Lynch | USA |
| 2. | Western | Valeska Grisebach | Germany |
| 3. | Zama | Lucrecia Martel | Argentina |
| 4. | On the Beach at Night Alone | Hong Sang-soo | South Korea |
| 5. | Phantom Thread | Paul Thomas Anderson | USA |
| 6. | Good Time | Safdie brothers | USA |
| 7. | Streetscapes [Dialogue] | Heinz Emigholz | Germany |
| 8. | Jeannette: The Childhood of Joan of Arc | Bruno Dumont | France |
| 9. | First Reformed | Paul Schrader | USA |
| 10. | Prototype | William Blake | Canada |
2018 :
| # | Film | Director | Country |
| 1. | An Elephant Sitting Still | Hu Bo | China |
| 2. | Le Livre d'image | Jean-Luc Godard | Switzerland France |
| 3. | La Flor | Mariano Llinás | Argentina |
| 4. | Transit | Christian Petzold | Germany |
| 5. | What You Gonna Do When the World's on Fire? | Roberto Minervini | Italy USA |
| 6. | Long Day's Journey into Night | Bi Gan | China |
| 7. | Happy as Lazzaro | Alice Rohrwacher | Italy |
| 8. | Burning | Lee Chang-dong | South Korea |
| 9. | The Other Side of the Wind | Orson Welles | USA |
| 10. | High Life | Claire Denis | France |
2019 :
| # | Film | Director | Country |
| 1. | I Was at Home, But | Angela Schanelec | Germany |
| 2. | Vitalina Varela | Pedro Costa | Portugal |
| 3. | Martin Eden | Pietro Marcello | Italy |
| 4. | Uncut Gems | Safdie brothers | USA |
| 5. | Liberté | Albert Serra | Spain France |
| 6. | Heimat ist ein Raum aus Zeit | Thomas Heise | Germany |
| 7. | Parasite | Bong Joon-ho | South Korea |
| 8. | Once Upon a Time in Hollywood | Quentin Tarantino | USA |
| 9. | Synonyms | Nadav Lapid | Israel France |
| 10. | The Irishman | Martin Scorsese | USA |
2020 :
| # | Film | Director | Country |
| 1. | Days | Tsai Ming-liang | Taiwan |
| 2. | The Works and Days (of Tayoko Shiojiri in the Shiotani Basin) | Anders Edström C.W. Winter | USA Japan |
| 3. | The Year of the Discovery | Luis López Carrasco | Spain |
| 4. | The Last City | Heinz Emigholz | Germany |
| 5. | Small Axe: Lovers Rock | Steve McQueen | UK |
| 6. | The Woman Who Ran | Hong Sang-soo | South Korea |
| 7. | Malmkrog | Cristi Puiu | Romania |
| 8. | DAU. Natasha | Ilya Khrzhanovsky | Russia |
| 9. | City Hall | Frederick Wiseman | USA |
| 10. | Fauna | Nicolás Pereda | Mexico |
2021 :
| # | Film | Director | Country |
| 1. | What Do We See When We Look at the Sky? | Alexandre Koberidze | Georgia Germany |
| 2. | Memoria | Apichatpong Weerasethakul | Colombia Thailand |
| 3. | Drive My Car | Ryusuke Hamaguchi | Japan |
| 4. | France | Bruno Dumont | France |
| 5. | In Front of Your Face | Hong Sang-soo | South Korea |
| 6. | Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy | Ryusuke Hamaguchi | Japan |
| 7. | Annette | Leos Carax | France |
| 8. | Benedetta | Paul Verhoeven | France |
| 9. | The Tsugua Diaries | Maureen Fazendeiro Miguel Gomes | Portugal France |
| 10. | The Souvenir Part II | Joanna Hogg | UK |
2022 :
| # | Film | Director | Country |
| 1. | Pacifiction | Albert Serra | France Spain |
| 2. | De Humani Corporis Fabrica | Lucien Castaing-Taylor Véréna Paravel | France Switzerland |
| 3. | Crimes of the Future | David Cronenberg | Canada |
| 4. | Unrest | Cyril Schäublin | Switzerland |
| 5. | The Novelist's Film | Hong Sang-soo | South Korea |
| 6. | Saint Omer | Alice Diop | France |
| 7. | Showing Up | Kelly Reichardt | USA |
| 8. | EO | Jerzy Skolimowski | Poland |
| 9. | Queens of the Qing Dynasty | Ashley McKenzie | Canada |
| 10. | The Plains | David Easteal | Australia |