“3 Iron”
’Nuff said.
Joe Dirt.
Brand Upon the Brain!
The Beat That My Heart Skipped
In The Mood for Love
Mulholland Drive
Moolaade
Yi Yi
The Son
Bright Leaves
The Lives of Others
The Gleaners and I
Tough one because I need to see many films again to confirm if they really are as good as I remember. Then there is determining ‘best’ from ‘important’.
Milk
Kill Bill or There Will Be Blood.
Depends on the day.
No Country for Old Men
bowling for columbine, quiet city, and twentynine palms
There Will Be Blood
I am a sucker for love, apparently.
3-Iron, if only for its firm footing as a movie of this decade.
Very close contenders:
- Punch Drunk Love
- Hable Con Ella
Private Fears in Public Places (Coeurs) – Elegant filmmaking
Philippe Garrel’s LES AMANTS RÉGULIERS
THE DIVING BELL AND THE BUTTERFLY.
butterfly, no?
@ fandorin-san
You are so right. Change duly noted.
Amelie
I can’t believe NO ONE has mentioned The Dark Knight!
Zodiac
Jay, I doubt The Dark Knight is much well-received here due to the hype it has been getting. It is a solid blockbuster but I would never call it a favourite of mine.
For me it has to be Hunger, probably closely followed by Mulholland Drive & There Will Be Blood.
Irreversible
Well…the decade is technically almost over, but I guess the best could still sneak through in the final months. But I am really enjoying all of the love for Eternal Sunshine that is probably in my top 5 with City of God, Children of Men, the Incredibles and my favorite…In the Mood for Love.
Magnolia
Brokeback Mountain
OP said pick one.
Lucile Hadzihalilovic’s Innocence by a fair distance.
Honorable mentions for Mulholland Drive, Yi Yi, Talk to Her, In the Mood for Love and There Will Be Blood.
Definitely The Dark Knight, it’s the Seven Samurai of today IMO
Das Leben der Anderen
Oldboy
Cremaster 3
Paranoid Park
Sideways
In the Mood for Love or Before Sunset. Ask me tomorrow and you’d probably get a very different answer.
Hopelessly Addicted
Code Inconnu (Haneke)
I agree that there should be a reasonable amount of time between the end of the decade and the poll so that everyone would have a chance to catch the films on DVDs.
I also think that there should be multi-stage voting. Everyone should nominate 10 films so that we can have a top 50 and then we can vote again for the top 10 from that list. We can make this more interesting by having negative votes (where the voters will vote for the 5 films they hate from the list…)