SIGHT & SOUND'S 30 FILMS OF THE DECADE (2000-9)

By: Kenji

End 09 edition of S&S; not a poll of top 10s,but the magazine’s selection of 30 films that “best represent the decade’s most distinctive oeuvres and movements”

In the Mood for Love

• 01
  Adaptation.
  Spike Jonze
• 02
  Battle in Heaven
  Carlos Reygadas
• 03
  The Beat That My Heart Skipped
  Jacques Audiard
• 04
  The Bourne Ultimatum
  Paul Greengrass
• 05
  Colossal Youth
  Pedro Costa
• 06
  The Death of Mr. Lăzărescu
  Cristi Puiu
• 07
  In Praise of Love
  Jean-Luc Godard
• 08
  The Five Obstructions
  Jørgen Leth
• 09
  The Gleaners & I
  Agnès Varda
• 10
  Hidden
  Michael Haneke
• 11
  Inland Empire
  David Lynch
• 12
  In the Mood for Love
  Wong Kar-wai
• 13
  Memories of Murder
  Bong Joon-ho
• 14
  The Holy Girl
  Lucrecia Martel
• 15
  Yi Yi: A One and a Two
  Edward Yang
• 16
  Platform
  Jia Zhangke
• 17
  Russian Ark
  Aleksandr Sokurov
• 18
  The Son
  Jean-Pierre Dardenne
• 19
  Spirited Away
  Hayao Miyazaki
• 20
  Talk to Her
  Pedro Almodóvar
• 21
  Ten
  Abbas Kiarostami
• 22
  There Will Be Blood
  Paul Thomas Anderson
• 23
  35 Shots of Rum
  Claire Denis
• 24
  Touching the Void
  Kevin Macdonald
• 25
  Tropical Malady
  Apichatpong Weerasethakul
• 26
  United Red Army
  Kôji Wakamatsu
• 27
  Distant
  Nuri Bilge Ceylan
• 28
  Waiting for Happiness
  Abderrahmane Sissako
• 29
  Werckmeister Harmonies
  Béla Tarr
• 30
  Workingman's Death
  Michael Glawogger