Cinema Scope

{{short description|Film magazine}} {{For|the widescreen filming system|CinemaScope}} {{Infobox magazine | title = Cinema Scope | image_file = | image_size = | image_caption = | president = | publisher = | editor = Mark Peranson | frequency = Quarterly | category = Film magazine | firstdate = 1999 | finaldate = 2024 | country = Canada | based = Toronto | language = English | website = {{URL|www.cinema-scope.com}} | issn = 1488-7002 }}

'''''Cinema Scope''''' was an English-language film magazine published in Toronto, Canada.<ref>{{cite book|author=Eugene P. Walz|title=Canada's Best Features: Critical Essays on 15 Canadian Films|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=CJr5BJkGQoQC&pg=PA377|access-date=1 June 2016|date=January 2002|publisher=Rodopi|isbn=90-420-1598-5|page=377}}</ref>

== 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.<ref>Chris Knight, "Toronto critics really like those Basterds". ''National Post'', December 16, 2009.</ref>

In 2023, Peranson suggested that the ninety-sixth issue of the magazine would likely be the penultimate issue in its current format.<ref>{{cite magazine|url=https://cinema-scope.com/cinema-scope-online/editors-note-3/|access-date=November 10, 2023|last=Peranson|first=Mark|issue=96|date=Fall 2023|title=Editor's Note|magazine=Cinema Scope}}</ref><ref>{{cite magazine|title=Stories in brief|date=November 2023|magazine=Sight and Sound|page=12}}</ref>

== Annual Top 10 Lists == {{More citations needed|section|date=March 2023}} {| class="wikitable" style="width:50%;" |- !colspan=4|2005 |- ! style="width:5%;"|# ! style="width:40%;"|Film ! style="width:30%;"|Director ! style="width:25%;"|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 |}

{| class="wikitable" style="width:50%;" |- !colspan=4|2006 |- ! style="width:5%;"|# ! style="width:40%;"|Film ! style="width:30%;"|Director ! style="width:25%;"|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 |}

{| class="wikitable" style="width:50%;" |- !colspan=4|2007 |- ! style="width:5%;"|# ! style="width:40%;"|Film ! style="width:30%;"|Director ! style="width:25%;"|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 |}

{| class="wikitable" style="width:50%;" |- !colspan=4|2008 |- ! style="width:5%;"|# ! style="width:40%;"|Film ! style="width:30%;"|Director ! style="width:25%;"|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 |}

{| class="wikitable" style="width:50%;" |- !colspan=4|2009 |- ! style="width:5%;"|# ! style="width:40%;"|Film ! style="width:30%;"|Director ! style="width:25%;"|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 |}

{| class="wikitable" style="width:50%;" |- !colspan=4|2010 |- ! style="width:5%;"|# ! style="width:40%;"|Film ! style="width:30%;"|Director ! style="width:25%;"|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 |}

{| class="wikitable" style="width:50%;" |- !colspan=4|2011 |- ! style="width:5%;"|# ! style="width:40%;"|Film ! style="width:30%;"|Director ! style="width:25%;"|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 |}

{| class="wikitable" style="width:50%;" |- !colspan=4|2012 |- ! style="width:5%;"|# ! style="width:40%;"|Film ! style="width:30%;"|Director ! style="width:25%;"|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 |}

{| class="wikitable" style="width:50%;" |- !colspan=4|2013<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://mubi.com/notebook/posts/the-noteworthy-cinema-scope-top-10-nayman-on-showgirls-fun-city-part-v|title=The Noteworthy: Cinema Scope Top 10, Nayman on "Showgirls", Fun City Part V|date=April 2, 2014}}</ref> |- ! style="width:5%;"|# ! style="width:40%;"|Film ! style="width:30%;"|Director ! style="width:25%;"|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. | ''{{Ill|The Strange Little Cat|de|Das merkwürdige Kätzchen}}'' | {{Ill|Ramon Zürcher|de|Ramon Zürcher (Regisseur)}} | 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 |}

{| class="wikitable" style="width:50%;" |- !colspan=4|2014<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://cinema-scope.com/columns/issue-62-editors-note-top-ten-2014/|title=Issue 62 Editor's Note: Top Ten of 2014|date=March 2015}}</ref> |- ! style="width:5%;"|# ! style="width:40%;"|Film ! style="width:30%;"|Director ! style="width:25%;"|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 |}

{| class="wikitable" style="width:50%;" |- !colspan=4|2015 |- ! style="width:5%;"|# ! style="width:40%;"|Film ! style="width:30%;"|Director ! style="width:25%;"|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 |}

{| class="wikitable" style="width:50%;" |- !colspan=4|2016 |- ! style="width:5%;"|# ! style="width:40%;"|Film ! style="width:30%;"|Director ! style="width:25%;"|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 |}

{| class="wikitable" style="width:50%;" |- !colspan=4|2017 |- ! style="width:5%;"|# ! style="width:40%;"|Film ! style="width:30%;"|Director ! style="width:25%;"|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 |}

{| class="wikitable" style="width:50%;" |- !colspan=4|2018 |- ! style="width:5%;"|# ! style="width:40%;"|Film ! style="width:30%;"|Director ! style="width:25%;"|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 |}

{| class="wikitable" style="width:50%;" |- !colspan=4|2019<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://twitter.com/CinemaScopeMag/status/1241073769420075010|title=TOP 10 2019 @CinemaScopeMag|date=March 21, 2020}}</ref> |- ! style="width:5%;"|# ! style="width:40%;"|Film ! style="width:30%;"|Director ! style="width:25%;"|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 |}

{| class="wikitable" style="width:50%;" |- !colspan=4|2020<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.yearendlists.com/2021/03/cinema-scope-top-ten-films-of-2020|title=Cinema Scope: Top Ten Films of 2020|date=March 26, 2021}}</ref> |- ! style="width:5%;"|# ! style="width:40%;"|Film ! style="width:30%;"|Director ! style="width:25%;"|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 |}

{| class="wikitable" style="width:50%;" |- !colspan=4|2021<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://cinema-scope.com/columns/cs90-editors-note/|title=Cinema Scope: Top Ten Films of 2021|date=April 10, 2022}}</ref> |- ! style="width:5%;"|# ! style="width:40%;"|Film ! style="width:30%;"|Director ! style="width:25%;"|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 |}

{| class="wikitable" style="width:50%;" |- !colspan=4|2022<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://cinema-scope.com/cinema-scope-magazine/cs94/cinema-scope-top-10-of-2022/|title=Cinema Scope: Top Ten Films of 2022|date=March 24, 2023}}</ref> |- ! style="width:5%;"|# ! style="width:40%;"|Film ! style="width:30%;"|Director ! style="width:25%;"|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 |}

==References== {{Reflist}}

==External links== * {{Official website|www.cinema-scope.com}}

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