Dogville (Von Trier)
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The Return (Zvyagintsev)
Finding Nemo (Stanton)
Histoire de Marie et Julien (Rivette)
Fast Film (Widrich)
A Tale of Two Sisters (Kim Ji-Woon)
Story of the Weeping Camel (Davaa, Falorni)
Memories of Murder (Bong Joon-Ho)
Touching the Void (Macdonald)
1. Dogville (Lars von Trier)
2. Goodbye Dragon Inn (Tsai Ming-liang)
3. The Time of the Wolf (Michael Haneke)
4. Lost in Translation (Sofia Coppola)
5. Cowards Bend the Knee or The Blues Hands (Guy Maddin)
6. Tarnation (Jonathan Caouette)
7. Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter… and Spring (Kim Ki-duk)
Last Life in the Universe
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Good Morning, Night
A Tale of Two Sisters
The Brown Bunny
Young Adam
Swimming Pool
a pretty dismal year really …
Elephant (Van Sant)
Dogville (von Trier)
The Dreamers (Bertolucci)
The Matrix Reloaded (Wachowski Bros.)
The Matrix Revolutions (Wachowski Bros.)
Time of the Wolf (Haneke)
Zatoichi: The Blind Swordsman (Kitano)
The Five Obstructions (von Trier, Leth)
Coffee and Cigarettes (Jarmusch)
Overnight (Montana, Smith)
Mystic River (Eastwood)
Rosenstrasse (von Trotta)
Matchstick Men (R. Scott)
Stander (Hughes)
I wish to see Young Adam again as it’s been too long therefore I can’t credit it on this list…want to see Lost in Translation, The Brown Bunny, Goodbye Dragon Inn…
Goodbye, Dragon Inn (Tsai Ming-liang)
Ti Xi Qu: West of the Tracks (Wang Bing)
Time of the Wolf (Michael Haneke)
Lost in Translation (Sofia Coppola)
Dogville (Lars von Trier)
The Brown Bunny (Vincent Gallo)
Twentynine Palms (Bruno Dumont)
Oldboy (Park Chan-wook)
Crimson Gold (Jafar Panahi)
Los Angeles Plays Itself (Thom Andersen)
P.S. This was a good year.
The Company R. Altman
The Barbarian Invasions D. Arcand
The Best of Youth M.T. Giordana
Big Fish T. Burton
Dependencia sexual (Sexual Dependency) R. Bellott
Elephant G. Van Sant
Entre ciclones (Hurricanes) E. Colina
Fast Film V. Widrich
Goodbye, Dragon Inn Tsai M.L.
Los guantes mágicos (The Magic Gloves) M. Rejtman
Lost in Translation S. Coppola
Matchstick Men R. Scott
The Matrix: Reloaded Wachowskis
Memories of Murder Bong J.H.
Reconstruction C. Boe
Soldados de Salamina (Soldiers of Salamina) D. Trueba
Something’s Gotta Give N. Meyers
The Story of the Weeping Camel B. Davaa, L. Falorni
Te doy mis ojos (Take My Eyes) I. Bollaín
The Triplets of Belleville S. Chomet
The Best of Youth
The Company
Finding Nemo
Freaky Friday
The Italian Job
The Rundown
School of Rock
The Story of the Weeping Camel
1) Kill Bill: Volume 1
Lost in Translation
Return of the King
Finding Nemo
The Dreamers
Bubba Ho-Tep
American Splendor
Dogville
Mystic River
Capturing the Friedmans
Bad Santa
A Mighty Wind
Whale Rider
Touching the Void
The Cooler
Old School
Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter, Spring – Kim Ki-duk
Café Lumiere – Hou
Crimson Gold – Panahi
Dogville – von Trier
Goodbye, Dragon Inn – Tsai
Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King – Jackson
Lost in Translation – Coppola
The Return – Zvyagintsev
Ti Xi Qu: West of the Tracks – Wang Bing
Note; IMDb gives 2002 for Whale Rider (or it would be on my list, too).
Time of the Wolf – Michael Haneke
Elephant – Gus Van Sant
Gozu – Takashi Miike
Dogville – Lars von Trier
Lost in Translation – Sofia Coppola
The Saddest Music in the World – Guy Maddin
The Five Obstructions – Lars von Trier
Once Upon a Time in Mexico – Robert Rodriguez
Bad Santa – Terry Zwigoff
Koshonin (The Negotiator) – Takashi Miike
Kill Bill: Vol. 1
The Triplets of Belleville
Goodbye, Dragon Inn
Lost in Translation
The Saddest Music in the World
The Company- Altman
A Mighty Wind
The Dancer Upstairs
The Station Agent
Elephant
House of Sand and Fog
Finding Nemo
Winged Migration
Big Fish
Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl
I have all my 2003 releases based on US release date so I’m going to need a day or two to sort out the international release dates.
1. Elephant
American Splendor
Kill Bill: Volume 1
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
Lost In Translation
Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World
Mystic River
The Saddest Music in the World
School of Rock
The Triplets of Belleville
1. Goodbye, Dragon Inn
I’ll Sleep When I’m Dead
Bright Young Things
Father and Son
A Talking Picture
Kill Bill: Vol. 1
Capturing the Friedmans
Tarnation
Down With Love
That Day
Code 46
Elephant
The Flower of Evil
The Dreamers
A Mighty Wind
The Company
1. Big Fish
2. The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
3. Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl
4. Matchstick Men
5. Kill Bill: Vol. 1
6. Ruby & Quentin
7. Mystic River
8. Intolerable Cruelty
9. Vodka Lemon
10. Coffee and Cigarettes
Masked and Anonymous
Anything Else
The Station Agent
Hollywood Homicide
The Brown Bunny
Gods and Generals
Party Monster
Dogville
By far one of the worst year’s of the 2000s, 2003 nevertheless contains the best film of the decade:
Elephant
Dogville
Capturing the Friedmans
Matchstick Men
American Splendor
Nothing else worth mentioning.
(1) Monster
No runners-up as this was an execrable year.
Finding Nemo
Crimson Gold
Goodbye Dragon Inn
Master and Commander – Far Side of the World
Time of the Wolf
Dogville
Oldboy
LOTR Return of the King
Spring Summer Autumn Winter…and Spring
Northfork
Triplets of Belleville
Elephant
The Cooler
The Room
The Five Obstructions
1. The Brown Bunny
Come and Go
Dad’s Chicken
Bad Santa
The Saddest Music in the World
yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay! come and go! the old bastard’s last film! ♥
los angeles plays itself
finding nemo
the triplets of belleville
a tale of two sisters
memories of murder
oldboy
elephant
lost in translation
master and commander
bad santa
1. Time of the Wolf (Michael Haneke)
Anything Else (Woody Allen)
Memories of Murder (Bong Joon-ho)
The Year of the Rat (Julie Ng)
Saraband (Ingmar Bergman)
A Mighty Wind (Christopher Guest)
King of the Ants (Stuart Gordon)
The Brown Bunny (Vincent Gallo)
The Shape of Things (Neil LaBute)
Elephant (Gus Van Sant)
Gozu (Takashi Miike)
Bright Future (Kiyoshi Kurosawa)
Open Range (Kevin Costner)
Wheel of Time (Werner Herzog)
Zatoichi (Takeshi Kitano)
Willard (Glen Morgan)
X-Men 2 (Bryan Singer)
Freddy vs. Jason (Ronny Yu)
The Fog of War (Errol Morris)
The Saddest Music in the World (Guy Maddin)
dammit, fog of war is 2003? put that in my list too please :)
need to see time of the wolf and goodbye dragon inn
an amazing year
Twentynine Palms (Bruno Dumont)
The Brown Bunny (Vincent Gallo)
Bright Future (Kiyoshi Kurosawa)
Cowards Bend the Knees or the Blue Hands (Guy Maddin)
Crimson Gold (Jafar Panahi)
Elephant (Gus Van Sant)
Forest (Benedek Fliegauf)
Father and Son (Aleksandr Sokurov)
The Return (Andrei Zvyagintsev)
Finding Nemo (Andrew Stanton)
Gozu (Takashi Miike)
Goodbye, Dragon Inn (Tsai Ming-liang)
Kuxa Kanema: The Birth of Cinema (Margarida Cardoso)
Lost in Translation (Sofia Coppola)
Noi Albinoi (Dagur Kári)
A Tale of Two Sisters (Kim Ji-woon)
Tarnation (Jonathan Caouette)
A Thousand Months (Faouzi Bensaïdi)
Time of the Wolf (Michael Haneke)
The Triplets of Belleville (Sylvain Chomet)
Touching the Void (Kevin Macdonald)
Las Horas del Día
Elephant
Lichter
Dogville
Finding Nemo
21 Grams
I’m Not Scared
Northfork
Saraband
Freddy vs Jason
1. Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World (Peter Weir)
Destino (Dominque Monfery)
Kill Bill Vol. 1 (Quentin Tarantino)
The Saddest Music in the World (Guy Maddin)
Cowards Bend the Knee (Guy Maddin)
Crimson Gold (Jafar Panahi)
The Matrix Reloaded (Larry and Andy Wachowski)
Stander (Bronwen Hughes)
Baadasssss! (Melvin van Peebles)
Cafe Lumiere (Hou Hsiao-hsien)
Astronauts (Santi Amadeo)
Blind Shaft (Li Yang)
Charlie’s Angels: Full Throttle (trailer) (McG)
Coffee and Cigarettes (Jim Jarmusch)
Lost in Translation (Sofia Coppola)
Memories of Murder (Bong Joon-ho)
Ong-Bak (Prachya Pinkaew)
Running on Karma (Johnnie To and Wai Ka-Fai)
Saraband (Ingmar Bergman)
Zatoichi (Takeshi Kitano)
Dogville (Von Trier)
American Splendour (Berman and Pucini)
Lost in Translation (Coppola)
Cowards Bend the Knee (Maddin)
Mystic River (Eastwood)
The Flower of Evil (Chabrol)
Kill Bill Vol. 1 (Tarantino)
Saddest Music in the World (Maddin)
The Triplets of Belleville (Chomet)
The Fog of War (Morris)
MovieGuide1
What I’m asking you to do is to fill a ballot with some titles of your own choice. 2003 must be the year of first release (according to IMDb).
- Each person votes for up to 20 movies. Do not feel compelled to fill the maximum allowable number, only true favorites.
– There is no need to rank the films except the number 1, it gets two points.
– You may change your ballot as many times as you’d like.
A certain standardization of the outcome is predictable, but it is not our goal to establish a Canon. It’s just a game and individual votes are the true centers of attraction.
Results will be presented in a specially created Movie List.
Thank you in advance for joining us in this game.