the noughties: a decade of fine celluloids.

By: Reno Nismara

some will agree, some won’t. some will be remembered, some will be gone. some will be filled with the feeling of glad, some will feel that this list is void. for me, these are all fine celluloids. before you spend your money in a game arcade, i present to you my personal film of the decade. enjoy, lads.

• 01
  There Will Be Blood
  Paul Thomas Anderson
• 02
  In the Mood for Love
  Wong Kar-wai
• 03
  Hidden
  Michael Haneke
• 04
  Amores perros
  Alejandro González Iñárritu
• 05
  Werckmeister Harmonies
  Béla Tarr
• 06
  The Best of Youth (Part 1)
  Marco Tullio Giordana
• 07
  City of God
  Fernando Meirelles
• 08
  Last Life in the Universe
  Pen-ek Ratanaruang
• 09
  The Beat That My Heart Skipped
  Jacques Audiard
• 10
  All About Lily Chou-Chou
  Shunji Iwai
• 11
  Punch-Drunk Love
  Paul Thomas Anderson
• 12
  Oldboy
  Park Chan-wook
• 13
  Requiem for a Dream
  Darren Aronofsky
• 14
  Mulholland Drive
  David Lynch
• 15
  Memento
  Christopher Nolan
• 16
  A Prophet
  Jacques Audiard
• 17
  The White Ribbon
  Michael Haneke
• 18
  Dead Man's Shoes
  Shane Meadows
• 19
  A Serious Man
  Ethan Coen
• 20
  The Triplets of Belleville
  Sylvain Chomet
• 21
  DiG!
  Ondi Timoner
• 22
  The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
  Julian Schnabel
• 23
  Irreversible
  Gaspar Noé
• 24
  Inglourious Basterds
  Quentin Tarantino
• 25
  The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
  Andrew Dominik
• 26
  Hunger
  Steve McQueen
• 27
  The Lives of Others
  Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck
• 28
  Brick
  Rian Johnson
• 29
  Anvil! The Story of Anvil
  Sacha Gervasi
• 30
  Tarnation
  Jonathan Caouette
• 31
  The Dark Knight
  Christopher Nolan
• 32
  Donnie Darko
  Richard Kelly
• 33
  Snatch.
  Guy Ritchie
• 34
  Bronson
  Nicolas Winding Refn
• 35
  Syndromes and a Century
  Apichatpong Weerasethakul
• 36
  You, the Living
  Roy Andersson
• 37
  2046
  Wong Kar-wai
• 38
  Warm Water Under a Red Bridge
  Shôhei Imamura
• 39
  Amélie
  Jean-Pierre Jeunet
• 40
  Nobody Knows
  Hirokazu Kore-eda
• 41
  Dogville
  Lars von Trier
• 42
  Morvern Callar
  Lynne Ramsay
• 43
  Kings and Queen
  Arnaud Desplechin
• 44
  The Royal Tenenbaums
  Wes Anderson
• 45
  Talk to Her
  Pedro Almodóvar
• 46
  24 Hour Party People
  Michael Winterbottom
• 47
  Head-On
  Fatih Akin
• 48
  All the Real Girls
  David Gordon Green
• 49
  Saraband
  Ingmar Bergman
• 50
  Looking for Eric
  Ken Loach