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This November, we profile first-time filmmaker Damien Chazelle whose micro-budgeted Guy and Madeline on a Park Bench has charmed critics and found itself on several Best Undistributed Films Lists of 2009. Via Variance Films, his film is finally receiving its theatrical debut this November 5th at the Cinema Village in New York City. Below, you'll find Damien's top ten list as of November 2010 -- a nice mix of films of retro and contemporary films ranging between studio films and obscure short film titles.

He's 35 years-old. He lived for four years in Vietnam and one year in Dubai. He likes sports; in 2007, he ran in the Dubai marathon. He graduated the Romanian National Film School. He's both: a director and a screenwriter. This is Bogdan Mustata, an almost anonymous filmmaker until he won the Golden Bear at the 2008 Berlin Int. Film Festival for his short film, A Good Day For A Swim.

Rodrigo García is looking to direct Glenn Close's Albert Nobbs project, Mark Pellington's low budget I Melt With You will get the greenlight soon and Mary Harron will film a horror film (The Moth Diaries) in Montreal.

When in Doubt: Quillevere Grasps those Butterflies in the Stomach.

Similar to the Golden Globes because it is a foreign group of film journalists who conduct the voting (though I'm sure they have no mandate to prefer films loaded in stars), this year's the 15th Lumiere Awards has a pair of films in the top tier that recently that duked it out for the Louis Delluc award. Philippe Lioret's Welcome (which just got picked up by Film Movement this week) and Jacques Audiard's A Prophet (a SPC release next February) received five and four noms respectively.