Films of the 2000s

By: Mono No Aware

A work in progress and subject to change.

Lucille Hadzihalilovic’s Innocence would definitely top the list, closely followed by Bela Tarr’s Werckmeister Harmonies, but the rest are in alphabetical order.

If forced to make a Top 10, it would look something like this:

1) Innocence (Lucile Hadzihalilovic, 2004)
2) Werckmeister Harmonies (Béla Tarr, 2000)
3) Mulholland Drive (David Lynch, 2001)
4) In the Mood for Love (Wong Kar-Wai, 2000)
5) Yi Yi (Edward Yang, 2000)
6) Talk to Her (Pedro Almodóvar, 2002)
7) There Will Be Blood (Paul Thomas Anderson, 2007)
8) 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days (Cristian Mungiu, 2007)
9) Uzak (Nuri Bilge Ceylan, 2002)
10) What Time is it There? (Tsai Ming-Liang, 2001)

• 01
  Innocence
  Lucile Hadzihalilovic
• 02
  Werckmeister Harmonies
  Béla Tarr
• 03
  The Vertical Ray of the Sun
  Tran Anh Hung
• 04
  Before Sunset
  Richard Linklater
• 05
  Capturing the Friedmans
  Andrew Jarecki
• 06
  L'enfant
  Jean-Pierre Dardenne
• 07
  The Death of Mr. Lăzărescu
  Cristi Puiu
• 08
  Distant
  Nuri Bilge Ceylan
• 09
  The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
  Julian Schnabel
• 10
  Dogville
  Lars von Trier
• 11
  Elephant
  Gus Van Sant
• 12
  Eureka
  Shinji Aoyama
• 13
  4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days
  Cristian Mungiu
• 14
  Caché
  Michael Haneke
• 15
  A History of Violence
  David Cronenberg
• 16
  Hunger
  Steve McQueen
• 17
  I'm Not There.
  Todd Haynes
• 18
  In the Mood for Love
  Wong Kar-wai
• 19
  Irreversible
  Gaspar Noé
• 20
  Lilya 4-ever
  Lukas Moodysson
• 21
  The Lives of Others
  Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck
• 22
  Man on Wire
  James Marsh
• 23
  The Man Without a Past
  Aki Kaurismäki
• 24
  Morvern Callar
  Lynne Ramsay
• 25
  The Mourning Forest
  Naomi Kawase
• 26
  Mulholland Drive
  David Lynch
• 27
  My Winnipeg
  Guy Maddin
• 28
  The New World
  Terrence Malick
• 29
  No Country for Old Men
  Ethan Coen
• 30
  Of Time and the City
  Terence Davies
• 31
  Old Joy
  Kelly Reichardt
• 32
  On the Occasion of Remembering the Turning Gate
  Hong Sang-soo
• 33
  Pan's Labyrinth
  Guillermo del Toro
• 34
  Regular Lovers
  Philippe Garrel
• 35
  The Return
  Andrei Zvyagintsev
• 36
  The Royal Tenenbaums
  Wes Anderson
• 37
  Spirited Away
  Hayao Miyazaki
• 38
  Still Walking
  Hirokazu Kore-eda
• 39
  Summer Hours
  Olivier Assayas
• 40
  The Sun
  Aleksandr Sokurov
• 41
  Synecdoche, New York
  Charlie Kaufman
• 42
  Talk to Her
  Pedro Almodóvar
• 43
  Ten
  Abbas Kiarostami
• 44
  There Will Be Blood
  Paul Thomas Anderson
• 45
  Time Out
  Laurent Cantet
• 46
  Tokyo Sonata
  Kiyoshi Kurosawa
• 47
  Tropical Malady
  Apichatpong Weerasethakul
• 48
  United 93
  Paul Greengrass
• 49
  What Time Is it There?
  Tsai Ming-liang
• 50
  Yi yi
  Edward Yang