1. L’ora di religione (My Mother’s Smile, Marco Bellocchio)
Femme Fatale (Brian De Palma)
The Visitation (Nathaniel Dorsky)
Gerry (Gus Van Sant)
Russkiy kovcheg (The Russian Ark, Aleksandr Sokurov)
Demonlover (Olivier Assayas)
Rokugatsu no hebi (A Snake of June, Shinya Tsukamoto)
Blood Work (Clint Eastwood)
Lundi Marin (Monday Morning, Otar Iosseliani)
O princípio da incerteza (The Uncertainty Principle, Manoel de Oliveira)
The Bourne Identity (Doug Liman)
Le doux amour des hommes (Man’s Gentle Love, Jean-Paul Civeyrac)
Kagami no onnatachi (Women in the Mirror, Yoshishige Yoshida)
Ren xiao yao (Unknown Pleasures, Jia Zhang-ke)
Tishe! (Hush!, Viktor Kosakovsky)
Solaris (Steven Soderbergh)
25th Hour (Spike Lee)
Choses Secretes (Secret Things, Jean-Claude Brisseau)
Hable con ella (Talk to Her, Pedro Almodóvar)
Spider (David Cronenberg)
1. Gerry (Gus Van Sant)
Femme Fatale (Brian De Palma)
Hable con ella (Talk to Her, Pedro Almodóvar)
Choses Secretes (Secret Things, Jean-Claude Brisseau)
Le fils (The Son, Jean-Pierre Dardenne, Luc Dardenne)
Dolls (Takeshi Kitano)
The Bourne Identity (Doug Liman)
Signs (M. Night Shyamalan)
The Hot Chick (Tom Brady)
Demonlover (Olivier Assayas)
Dark Water (Hideo Nakata)
1. Ten (Abbas Kiarostami, Iran)
Russian Ark (Alexander Sokurov, USSR)
Sweet Sixteen (Ken Loach, United Kingdom)
And Your Mother Too / Y tu mama tambien (Alfonso Cuaron, Mexico)
The Son / Le Fil (Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne, Belgium)
Far from Heaven (Todd Hayness, USA)
10 on Ten (Abbas Kiarostami, Iran)
Funny Ha Ha (Andrew Bujalski, USA)
Talk to Her / Hable con Ella (Pedro Almodovar, Spain)
Mr. and Mrs. Iyer (Aparna Sen, India)
To Be and to Have / Etre et Avoir (Nicholas Phillibert, France)
Demonlover (Olivier Assayas, France)
The Last Letter La Derniere Lettre (Frederick Wiseman, France)
The New Life / La Vie Nouvelle (Philippe Grandrieux, France)
Distant / Uzak (Nuri Bilge Ceylan, Turkey)
Porn Theater / La Chatte a Deux Tetes (Jacques Nolot, France)
In the Mirror of Maya Deren (Martina Kudlacek, Austria)
Punch Drunk Love (Paul Thomas Anderson)
Letter from a Filmmaker to His Daughter / Lettre d’un cinéaste à sa fille (Eric Pauwels, Belgium)
Cravan Vs. Cravan (Isaki Lacuesta, Spain)
Morvern Callar (Lynne Ramsey)
Demonlover (Olivier Assayas)
Ten (Abbas Kiarostami)
Spider (Cronenberg)
Femme Fatale (De Palma)
Russian Ark (Sokurov)
Springtime in a Small Town (Tian)
The Tracker (Rolf de Heer)
The Pianist (Roman Polanski)
Talk to Her (Pedro Almodovar)
The Cat’s Meow (Bogdanovich)
The Quiet American (Philip Noyce)
Lilya 4-Ever (Lukas Moodysson)
Igby Goes Down (Burr Steers)
Gerry (Gus Van Sant)
Auto Focus (Paul Schrader)
Love Liza (Todd Louiso)
Friday Night (Claire Denis)
Talk to Her (Almodovar)
Adaptation (Jonze)
The Magdalene Sisters (Mullan)
Sympathy for Mr Vengeance (Park Chan Wook)
The Pianist (Polanski)
The Good Thief (Jordan)
Solaris (Soderbergh)
Funny Ha Ha (Bujalski)
Orange County (Kasdan)
The Quiet American (Noyce)
The Rules of Attraction (Avery)
Catch Me if You Can (Spielberg)
28 Days Later… (Boyle)
Spider (Cronenberg)
City of God (Meirelles; Lund)
Punch-Drunk Love (Anderson)
Confessions of a Dangerous Mind (Clooney)
The Kid Stays in the Picture (Burstein; Morgen)
The Powerpuff Girls Movie (McCracken)
To Be and To Have (Phillibert)
I’m really surprised that no one’s mentioned Swimfan yet…
also this year was one of the best in recent history for ‘mainstream hollywood media’. Even Brett Ratner made a semi-decent film that year (will never happen again).
Second mention of Blood Work! Well done, Miguel!
Somehow forgot Femme Fatale, a minor DePalma (but who knew he would follow it with career lows The Black Dahlia and Redacted).
So the updated list:
The Pianist
Bloody Sunday
The Bourne Identity
Dark Blue
Femme Fatale
OUT:
28 Days Later (Boyle)
IN:
Friday Night (Denis)
out: Life Show
in: Japón
1. Punch Drunk-Love
The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (extended version preferred)
Irreversible
28 Days Later
Twilight Samurai
Infernal Affairs
Spellbound
Hero
1. Century of the Self (Curtis)
The Russian Ark (Sokurov)
Ten (Kiarostami)
24 Hour Party People (Winterbottom)
Punch-Drunk Love (Anderson)
Bus 174, just seen … makes the list
Francios ozon`s 8 Women ! how could i forget .. 2002 ahhh turning into a vintage x
1.Demonlover (Assayas)
Igby Goes Down (Steers)
Adaptation (Jonze)
Funny Ha Ha (Bujalski)
The Rules of Attraction (Avery)
Confessions of a Dangerous Mind (Clooney)
Femme Fatale (De Palma)
Friday Night (Denis)
24-Hour Party People (Winterbottom)
1.Turning Gate
The Name of a River
Camel(s)
Talk to Her
The Last Letter
Unknown Pleasures
25th Hour
Distant
i’ve got a headache, it must end. this is the best year i’ve come across so far and i can’t just choose twenty. so i’m just going to list until movieguide wants to cut me off. for want of a decision i’ve chosen a crazy lady obsessed with putting things in boxes for first place.
1. Marathon (Amir Naderi)
Workers, Peasants (Danièle Huillet, Jean-Marie Straub)
Monday Morning (Otar Iosseliani)
London Orbital (Christopher Petit, Iain Sinclair)
Decasia (Bill Morrison)
Divine Intervention (Elia Suleiman)
My Mother’s Smile (Marco Bellocchio)
The Uncertainty Principle (Manoel de Oliveira)
Untouched by the West (Raymond Depardon)
Letter from a Filmmaker to His Daughter (Eric Pauwels)
Blissfully Yours (Apichatpong Weerasethakul)
The Days When I Don’t Exist (Jean-Charles Fitoussi)
Unknown Pleasures (Jia Zhang-ke)
Man’s Gentle Love (Jean-Paul Civeyrac)
Camel(s) (Park Ki-yong)
Distant (Nuri Bilge Ceylan)
Friday Night (Claire Denis)
Waiting for Happiness (Abderrahmane Sissako)
Russian Ark (Aleksandr Sokurov)
The Man Without a Past (Aki Kaurismäki)
Liberty and Homeland (Jean-Luc Godard, Anne-Marie Miéville)
Cravan Vs. Cravan (Isaki Lacuesta)
Turning Gate (Hong Sang-soo)
Ten (Abbas Kiarostami)
Chekhov’s Motifs (Kira Muratova)
Japón (Carlos Reygadas)
Portrait (Sergei Loznitsa)
Sex is Comedy (Catherine Breillat)
Gambling, Gods and LSD (Peter Mettler)
Far From Heaven (Todd Haynes)
unavailable: Eugène Green’s Le nom du feu (pretty sure if i could get to see this it’d be up at the top of my list somewhere, given how much i love him), Mariano Llinás’ Balnearios (subs!!!!) Audrius Stonys’ The Last Car, Jancsó’s Wake Up Mate, Don’t You Sleep and Marat Sarulu’s My Brother, Silk Road. :(
1)Catch Me If You Can
Minority Report
Talk to Her
Lilo & Stitch (too sweet not to put)
Panic Room
About Schmidt
Bend It Like Beckham
Dragonfly (JUST KIDDING)
Punch-Drunk Love
Far From Heaven
The Good Girl
Spellbound
Igby Goes Down
L’Auberge Espagnole
Russian Ark
Oasis
Russian Ark
Blissfully Yours
Blessing Bell
Camel(s)
Mt. Head
Man Without a Past
On the Occasion of Remembering the Turning Gate
Elegy of a Voyage
The Skywalk is Gone
1. Waiting for Happiness (Abderrahmane Sissako)
Ten (Abbas Kiarostami)
The Name of a River (Anup Singh)
Turning Gate (Hong Sang-soo)
The Twilight Samurai (Yoji Yamada)
Spider (David Cronenberg)
Company (Ram Gopal Varma)
Pistol Opera (Seijun Suzuki)
Uzak (Nuri Bilge Ceylan)
Russian Ark (Aleksandr Sokurov)
1. Talk to Her
2. Decasia
3. 25th Hour
4. Russian Ark
5. Adaptation.
6. The Bourne Identity
7. Minority Report
8. Sympathy for Mr Vengeance
1) Far from Heaven (2002, Todd Haynes)
Chicago (Rob Marshall)
Uzak (Nuri Bilge Ceylan)
The Pianist (Roman Polanski)
Talk to Her (Pedro Almodóvar)
Russian Ark (Aleksandr Sokurov)
Ônibus 174 (José Padilha, Felipe Lacerda)
Irréversible (Gaspar Noé)
Rabbit-Proof Fence (Phillip Noyce)
Adaptation (Spike Jonze)
Gangs of New York (Martin Scorsese)
City of God (Fernando Meirelles)
Hero (Yimou Zhang)
28 Days Later… (Danny Boyle)
8 Femmes (François Ozon)
It was quite painful deciding which 20 would be…
1.Aparte (Handler)
La vie nouvelle (Grandrieux)
Un mondo d’amore (Grimaldi)
Sud sanaeha (Weerasethakul)
La chatte à deux têtes (Nolot)
Bungalow (Köhler)
Chihwaseon (Im)
Vendredi soir (Denis)
Lundi matin (Iosseliani)
Heremakono (Sissako)
Satin rouge (Amari)
Deux (Schroeter)
Kedma (Gitai)
Terra incognita (Salhab)
Chekhovskie motivy (Muratova)
Edifício Master (Coutinho)
Il consiglio d’Egitto (Greco)
Ten (Kiarostami)
Ekti Nadir Naam (Singh)
Aro Tolbukhin: en la mente del asesino (Villaronga/Racine/Zimmermann)
(And: Maddin, Klimt/Pospísilová, Reygadas, Philllibert, Suleiman, Graf, Oliveira, Brass, Jia, Lee, Lee, Clark/Lachman, Civeyrac, Sarmiento, Sinapi, Lopes, Brant, Assis, Ainouz, Sene Absa, Haroun, Ducastel/Martineau, Gatlif, Trapero, Sorin, Barney, Sokurov, Van Sant, Tsukamoto, Yoshida, Kumai, Kitano, Dardennes, Wiseman, Depardon, Ceylan, Rudolph, Kaurismäki, Haynes, Yamada, Padilha/Lacerda, Bachir, Gleize, Yee, Cronenberg, Fox, Crialese, Konchalovskiy,…)
I’m overwhelmed by the huge turnout and the large number of films cited. Since the silent era is not generating much enthusiasm I have made a small change in our typical 3-weeks program:
This poll remains open until December, 9. Then we’ll do 1926 (starting December, 10) and 1965 (December, 25).
Talk to Her / Pedro Almodóvar
Blissfully Yours / Apichatpong Weerasethakul
El bonaerense / Pablo Trapero
Bungalow / Ulrich Köhler
Camel(s) / Park Ki-yong
City of Ghosts / Matt Dillon
demonlover / Olivier Assayas
Domestic Violence 2 / Frederick Wiseman
Gambling, Gods and LSD / Peter Mettler
Japón / Carlos Reygadas
Jealousy Is My Middle Name / Park Chan-ok
A Map of the Heart / Dominik Graf
Master: A Building in Copacabana / Eduardo Coutinho
My Mother’s Smile / Marco Bellocchio
Punch-Drunk Love / Paul Thomas Anderson
Russian Ark / Aleksandr Sokurov
Springtime in a Small Town / Tian Zhuangzhuang
Sunshine State / John Sayles
Ten / Abbas Kiarostami
Turning Gate / Hong Sang-soo
Ballot
25th Hour
28 Days Later…
Bend It Like Beckham
Bloody Sunday
Box 507
Demonlover
Dirty Pretty Things
Distant
Far from Heaven
Femme Fatale
In America
Intimate Stories
Mondays in the Sun
Mr. and Mrs. Iyer
My Mother’s Smile
Reign of Fire
Signs
The Cuckoo
The Son
Turning Gate
Special mention
Path to War (TV)
Deliberately excluded (TSPDT top 1000, IMDb top 250)
City of God
Infernal Affairs
Punch-Drunk Love
Talk to Her
The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
The Pianist
Wanted
A New Life
Grill Point
Secret Things
Women in the Mirror
…
I can’t edit my earlier post here, but I want to add Changing Lanes. Just watched it and I absolutely agree with Roger Ebert and his praise to this film.
1) The Man Without a Past
Punch Drunk Love
City of God
Hero
Jackass: The Movie
Dirty Pretty Things
Death to Smoochy
Bus 174
Friday Night
Love Hina Again
Pavement: Slow Century
Film ist. 7-12
Living with the Fosters
1 A Peck on the Cheek
2 Demonlover
3 Movern Callar
4 Waiting for Happiness
5 Unknown Pleasures
6 The Name of the River
7 Pistol Opera
8 Blissfully Yours
9 Chihwaseon
10 Adaptation
11 Spider
12 The Skywalk is Gone
13 Confessions of a Dangerous Mind
14 The Quiet American
15 Devdas
16 Zemsta
17 The Ring
18 Chinese Odyssey 2002
19 Hero
20 Reign of Fire
Roman Petrov
1. The Lord of the Rings – The Two Towers
Adaptation
The Pianist
Russian Ark
City of God