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2000-2009: A Decade of Cinema

By: Mike

My 100 personal favorite films of this decade, listed roughly by personal preference. The top 10…


Terrence Malick’s The New World (2005)
I thought it was a dream—what we knew in the forest. It’s the only truth.


Martin Scorsese’s The Aviator (2004)
Don’t talk down to me! Don’t you ever talk down to me! You are a movie star, nothing more!


Vincent Gallo’s The Brown Bunny (2003)
You didn’t die…


Sofia Coppola’s Lost in Translation (2003)
The more you know who you are and what you want, the less you let things upset you.


Francis Ford Coppola’s Tetro (2009)
Don’t look into the light.


Gus Van Sant’s Last Days (2005)
It’s a long, lonely journey from death to birth.


Bernardo Bertolucci’s The Dreamers (2003)
I was one of the insatiables; the ones you’d always find sitting closest to the screen. Why did we sit so close? Maybe it was because we wanted to receive the images first, when they were still new, still fresh—before they cleared the hurdles of the rows behind us. Before they’d been relayed back from row to row, spectator to spectator. Until worn out, secondhand, the size of a postage stamp, they returned to the projectionist’s cabin. Maybe, too, the screen was really a screen. It screened us from the world.


Gregg Araki’s Mysterious Skin (2004)
I just stayed silent and trying to telepathically communicate how sorry I was about what had happened. And I thought of all the grief and sadness and fucked up suffering in the world, and it made me want to escape. I wished with all my heart that we could just leave this world behind; rise like two angels in the night and magically disappear.


Darren Aronofsky’s Requiem for a Dream (2000)
Somebody like you could really make things all right for me.


Ang Lee’s Brokeback Mountain (2005)
You know, it could be like this—just like this, always.

 

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Arsaib

20Dec11

Good list. I'm especially pleased to see 'The Brown Bunny' and 'Zodiac' among your selections.

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    Mike

    20Dec11

    Thank you. I have a special place in my heart for The Brown Bunny. Zodiac didn't do a lot for me when I first saw it at the cinema in 2007, but I was quite fond of it when I gave it another look on DVD.

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meancreek

9Jun11

This is a great list. I still need to check out Before Sunset, Chinese Coffee, Match Point, Boy A and Don's Plum among others.

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    Mike

    22Jun11

    Thank you! Don's Plum is hard to get your hands on, and a lot of people don't seem to like it, but I highly recommend giving it a chance if you can find it.

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Mike

2Jan11

As a sidenote, Anything Else got replaced at some point.

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Mike

21Oct10

Thanks for the comment! As for Anything Else... first of all, I thought It was a beautifully photographed film (Allen's only movie to be filmed using an anamorphic ratio aside from Manhattan). I found Jason Biggs charming in the lead, and I loved the screen chemistry between him and Woody Allen. In short, the film is everything I want from a romantic comedy, and so much more. What issues did you have with it?

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