Mulholland Drive and Inland Empire are two worthy contenders for best film of the decade, but I will have to go with Werckmeister Harmonies. In fact, I guess it’s in my all-time top 5….. Such a thought provoking film, as well as emotional draining and tough. A film I really want to completely understand, and not just feel.
My top 10 of the 2000’s-
1- United 93
2- Children of Men
3- The Assasination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
4- In America
5- There Will Be Blood
6- Letters from Iwo Jima
7- The Lives of Others
8- Whale Rider
9- Away From Her
10- 4 Months, 3 Weeks, & 2 Days
Yi-Yi deserves more than best film of the 2000s, but taking that towering feat out of the running, I’d go with Wong Kar-wai’s Mood and 2046.
In no order…….
Fellowship of the Ring
Oldboy
The Wrestler
Brokeback Mountain
i don’t know about the “best” but I give my vote to “lost in translation” as my favorite. mulholland dr. and 4months 3weeks & 2days are up there somewhere…
Inland over mulholland any day. i full agree with rumplsink’s first comments about getting to Lynch’s head. I think Alexandr Sokurov’s mother and son will be my pick for second place.
Mulholland Drive is a great movie, I would rank it up there with the best.
Top of the Decade:
1. Fellowship of the Ring
2. Werckmeister Harmonies
3. Children of Men
I thought Mulholland Drive was thought provoking, deep, and masterfully executed by Lynch; but I missed the entertainment side of it. I own the film for it’s place in film history which I do believe it deserves to reside for many decades to come, but would anyone like to enlighten me on why they enjoyed it as entertainment? I just found it a little boring. All in all, I want to like it but I feel like there is an important element I’m missing.
Mulholland, Cache, Yi Yi, and Assassination of Jesse James, in no particular order. Better add The New World as well.
I found no entertainment value in MULHOLLAND DR. whatsoever, a near total waste of my time. By very far Lynch’s worst film, and the beginning of the end in my interest in him as a filmmaker, if crap like this and that INLAND EMPIRE are what he’s going to be churning out every couple of years.
Don’t forget that Mulholland Dr. started out as a pilot for a tv series, so in terms of “pure cinema”, some the the footage in it, esp. Robert Forster, does feel like tv. Not that it’s not a fantastic film.
In the Mood for Love or Punch-Drunk Love.
Some of my favorite movies so far this new century are, in no particular order:
Mulholland Drive
Inland Empire
Adaptation
The Hours
Lord of the Rings Trilogy
Closer
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Lost in Translation
2046
The Fountain
Mar Adentro
As much as I love David Lynch I found sitting through INLAND EMPIRE to be a real chore. I can’t think of any of his films which have not improved on second viewing but I really can’t get the nerve up to sit through it again. Glad to hear it getting so much support though. And Mulholland Dr. rocks the house.
Phil S.
Mulholland Drive is certainly not in my top 10 of the 2000s – I actually think it’s pretty lame