100 Best Foreign Films of the 2000s
By: Eliot Churbuck
Here ya go list queens. First 30 are more or less ranked, then it starts to get a little hazy. Sure I forgot dozens of great films, and still can’t reconcile with myself if Collosal Youth is a tremendous bore or some brand of super cinema that is greater than you or me (if I’m questioning it then, yeah, its probably the latter).
Probably not that different from a straight up best of the decade list, really only lamenting the exclusion of such American classics Mulholland Drive, The Prestige and The New World. Lets just call it my crafty way of avoiding accusations of elitist snobbery.
Didn’t go the full hundred because Auteurs wouldn’t let me include these quality films (the first two are in the top twenty easy):
Harmful Insect
Raja
The Hidden Blade
Tony Manero
Devils on the Doorstep
Forest for the Trees
The Free Will
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01Apichatpong Weerasethakul
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02Béla Tarr
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03José Luis Guerín
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04Lucrecia Martel
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05Albert Serra
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06Apichatpong Weerasethakul
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07Jia Zhangke
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08Ulrich Seidl
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09Aleksandr Sokurov
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10Lars von Trier
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11Shinji Aoyama
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12Philippe Garrel
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13Hayao Miyazaki
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14Edward Yang
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15Carlos Reygadas
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16Lucrecia Martel
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17Apichatpong Weerasethakul
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18Claire Denis
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19Bong Joon-ho
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20Hou Hsiao-hsien
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21Michael Haneke
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22Hou Hsiao-hsien
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23Bruno Dumont
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24Lisandro Alonso
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25Nuri Bilge Ceylan
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26Dover Koshashvili
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27Wong Kar-wai
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28Lee Chang-dong
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29Kiyoshi Kurosawa
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30Laurent Cantet
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31Tsai Ming-liang
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32Pascale Ferran
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33Jia Zhangke
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34Abdellatif Kechiche
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35Hong Sang-soo
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36Jean-Pierre Dardenne
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37Michael Haneke
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38Arnaud Desplechin
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39Takashi Miike
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40Lisandro Alonso
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41Gaspar Noé
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42Jia Zhangke
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43Götz Spielmann
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44Bong Joon-ho
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45Andrei Zvyagintsev
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46Arnaud Desplechin
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47Jean-Pierre Dardenne
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48Lee Chang-dong
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49Nuri Bilge Ceylan
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50Michael Haneke
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51Roy Andersson
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52Marco Tullio Giordana
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53Kim Ki-duk
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54Cristi Puiu
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55Apichatpong Weerasethakul
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56Albert Serra
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57Ousmane Sembène
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58Yôji Yamada
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59Arnaud Desplechin
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60Bruno Dumont
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61Steve McQueen
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62Lucrecia Martel
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63Hou Hsiao-hsien
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64Jia Zhangke
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65Cristian Mungiu
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66Mike Leigh
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67Terence Davies
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68Nuri Bilge Ceylan
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69Andrew Dominik
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70José Padilha
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71John Woo
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72Carlos Reygadas
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73Guy Maddin
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74Jafar Panahi
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75Lee Chang-dong
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76Jean-Pierre Dardenne
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77Kim Ki-duk
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78Marina de Van
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79Stephen Chow
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80Johnnie To
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81Park Chan-wook
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82Roy Andersson
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83Park Chan-wook
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84Kiyoshi Kurosawa
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85Shunji Iwai
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86Jafar Panahi
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87Michael Haneke
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88Jean-Pierre Jeunet
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89Catherine Breillat
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90Claire Denis
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91Hong Sang-soo
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92Lynne Ramsay
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93François Ozon