BEST FILMS OF THE NEW MILLENNIUM

By: Daniel Pilger

These are my favorite films from 2000-2009, my first decade as an autodidact cinephile.

• 01
  Yi Yi: A One and a Two
  Edward Yang
• 02
  In the Mood for Love
  Wong Kar-wai
• 03
  The Royal Tenenbaums
  Wes Anderson
• 04
  Syndromes and a Century
  Apichatpong Weerasethakul
• 05
  There Will Be Blood
  Paul Thomas Anderson
• 06
  Mulholland Drive
  David Lynch
• 07
  Dogville
  Lars von Trier
• 08
  Werckmeister Harmonies
  Béla Tarr
• 09
  A History of Violence
  David Cronenberg
• 10
  The Son
  Jean-Pierre Dardenne
• 11
  The Death of Mr. Lăzărescu
  Cristi Puiu
• 12
  Hidden
  Michael Haneke
• 13
  The World
  Jia Zhangke
• 14
  Talk to Her
  Pedro Almodóvar
• 15
  4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days
  Cristian Mungiu
• 16
  Tropical Malady
  Apichatpong Weerasethakul
• 17
  The New World
  Terrence Malick
• 18
  Platform
  Jia Zhangke
• 19
  Zodiac
  David Fincher
• 20
  Elephant
  Gus Van Sant
• 21
  The Intruder
  Claire Denis
• 22
  Kings and Queen
  Arnaud Desplechin
• 23
  The White Ribbon
  Michael Haneke
• 24
  Adaptation.
  Spike Jonze
• 25
  Spirited Away
  Hayao Miyazaki
• 26
  The Gleaners & I
  Agnès Varda
• 27
  Goodbye, Dragon Inn
  Tsai Ming-liang
• 28
  No Country for Old Men
  Ethan Coen
• 29
  Inland Empire
  David Lynch
• 30
  Still Life
  Jia Zhangke
• 31
  Colossal Youth
  Pedro Costa
• 32
  A.I. Artificial Intelligence
  Steven Spielberg
• 33
  In Praise of Love
  Jean-Luc Godard
• 34
  Oldboy
  Park Chan-wook
• 35
  Grizzly Man
  Werner Herzog
• 36
  Three Times
  Hou Hsiao-hsien
• 37
  Café Lumière
  Hou Hsiao-hsien
• 38
  The Wrestler
  Darren Aronofsky
• 39
  La Commune (Paris, 1871)
  Peter Watkins
• 40
  Blissfully Yours
  Apichatpong Weerasethakul
• 41
  2046
  Wong Kar-wai
• 42
  In Vanda's Room
  Pedro Costa
• 43
  Black Swan
  Darren Aronofsky
• 44
  Millennium Mambo
  Hou Hsiao-hsien
• 45
  Gomorrah
  Matteo Garrone
• 46
  What Time Is it There?
  Tsai Ming-liang
• 47
  demonlover
  Olivier Assayas
• 48
  The Headless Woman
  Lucrecia Martel
• 49
  Amélie
  Jean-Pierre Jeunet
• 50
  Notre musique
  Jean-Luc Godard
• 51
  The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
  Andrew Dominik
• 52
  Saraband
  Ingmar Bergman
• 53
  Lost in Translation
  Sofia Coppola
• 54
  Capturing the Friedmans
  Andrew Jarecki
• 55
  The Incredibles
  Brad Bird
• 56
  The Holy Girl
  Lucrecia Martel
• 57
  I'm Not There.
  Todd Haynes
• 58
  Kill Bill: Vol. 1
  Quentin Tarantino
• 59
  The Departed
  Martin Scorsese
• 60
  Ten
  Abbas Kiarostami
• 61
  Silent Light
  Carlos Reygadas
• 62
  Punch-Drunk Love
  Paul Thomas Anderson
• 63
  L'enfant
  Jean-Pierre Dardenne
• 64
  Che
  Steven Soderbergh
• 65
  Esther Kahn
  Arnaud Desplechin
• 66
  Flight of the Red Balloon
  Hou Hsiao-hsien
• 67
  25th Hour
  Spike Lee
• 68
  O Brother, Where Art Thou?
  Joel Coen
• 69
  Summer Hours
  Olivier Assayas
• 70
  Synecdoche, New York
  Charlie Kaufman
• 71
  George Washington
  David Gordon Green
• 72
  Gosford Park
  Robert Altman
• 73
  Let the Right One In
  Tomas Alfredson
• 74
  Gerry
  Gus Van Sant
• 75
  Far from Heaven
  Todd Haynes
• 76
  Letters from Iwo Jima
  Clint Eastwood
• 77
  When The Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts
  Spike Lee
• 78
  The Squid and the Whale
  Noah Baumbach
• 79
  WALL•E
  Andrew Stanton
• 80
  Finding Nemo
  Andrew Stanton
• 81
  Toy Story 3
  Lee Unkrich
• 82
  The Wind that Shakes the Barley
  Ken Loach
• 83
  Bloody Sunday
  Paul Greengrass
• 84
  The Hurt Locker
  Kathryn Bigelow
• 85
  Kill Bill: Vol. 2
  Quentin Tarantino
• 86
  Pistol Opera
  Seijun Suzuki
• 87
  The Lives of Others
  Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck
• 88
  The Man Who Wasn't There
  Joel Coen
• 89
  Antichrist
  Lars von Trier
• 90
  Russian Ark
  Aleksandr Sokurov
• 91
  A Prairie Home Companion
  Robert Altman
• 92
  Time Out
  Laurent Cantet
• 93
  Dancer in the Dark
  Lars von Trier
• 94
  Mystic River
  Clint Eastwood
• 95
  Morvern Callar
  Lynne Ramsay
• 96
  Milk
  Gus Van Sant
• 97
  Hunger
  Steve McQueen
• 98
  Traffic
  Steven Soderbergh
• 99
  Thirst
  Park Chan-wook
• 100
  Last Days
  Gus Van Sant
• 101
  24 City
  Jia Zhangke
• 102
  Friday Night
  Claire Denis
• 103
  Ghost World
  Terry Zwigoff
• 104
  The Social Network
  David Fincher
• 105
  Spider
  David Cronenberg
• 106
  In America
  Jim Sheridan
• 107
  Ratatouille
  Brad Bird
• 108
  Memento
  Christopher Nolan
• 109
  The Piano Teacher
  Michael Haneke
• 110
  The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
  David Fincher
• 111
  Unknown Pleasures
  Jia Zhangke
• 112
  To Be and to Have
  Nicolas Philibert
• 113
  Fat Girl
  Catherine Breillat
• 114
  Gangs of New York
  Martin Scorsese
• 115
  Bad Education
  Pedro Almodóvar
• 116
  Volver
  Pedro Almodóvar
• 117
  True Grit
  Ethan Coen
• 118
  The Fog of War
  Errol Morris
• 119
  The Ghost Writer
  Roman Polanski
• 120
  Spellbound
  Jeffrey Blitz