I still need to finish “As I Was Moving Ahead Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty” and watch a couple of other titles before I will be able to make a list, but it’s going to be difficult to save that one. Neither Weerasethakul, Hong, Tarr or Zhangke are included, and at least half of the titles can be classified as mediocre.
I have to admit, I find the list disconcerting also, but I’ve only tallied 15 lists so far. There’s no reason why things can’t turn around.
Apursansar, off the top of my head I believe that at least both Weerasethakul and Tarr are on there.
You’re right, I should have pointed out that I was refering to the Top 50 Best of the Decade list. So far the films on there are a disappointment, but I hope that more users will take part and broaden the scope. There should be enough people on here who have seen more than just the usual commercial stuff.
As of right now, I have it in alphabetical order since there isn’t enough separation for me to start ranking the films. So, it should be made clear how early a stage the poll is in. I’ll be able to start ranking it later this weekend though.
I expect an improvement overall as many of our most experienced users have yet to vote.
Top ten of the decade:
1- there will be blood
2- lord of the rings: the return of the king
3- 4 months, 3 weeks and 2 days
4- the assassination of jesse james by the coward robert ford
5- no country for old men
6- american psycho
7- punch drunk-love
8- children of men
9- collateral
10- eastern promises
Top ten of the decade:
1- there will be blood
2- lord of the rings: the return of the king
3- 4 months, 3 weeks and 2 days
4- the assassination of jesse james by the coward robert ford
5- no country for old men
6- american psycho
7- punch drunk-love
8- children of men
9- collateral
10- eastern promises
1. Mullholand Drive
2. The Headless Woman
3. There Will Be Blood
4. Tropical Malady
5. Paranoid Park
6. Extraordinary Histories
7. Lost In Translation
8. The Host
9. Oldboy
10. Inland Empire
The Road by John Hillcoat
1.Turtles Can Fly (Bahman Ghobadi)
2.The Island (Pavel Lungin)
3.Open Hearts (Susanne Bier)
4.One Long Winter Without Fire (Greg Zglinski )
5.Captain Abu Raed (Amin Matalqa)
6.Adam’s Apples (Anders Thomas Jensen)
7.In Love We Trust (Xiaoshuai Wang)
8.Three Times (Hsiao-hsien Hou)
9.Time (Ki-duk Kim)
10.Correction (Thanos Anastopoulos)
11.Chinese Eye (Yasmin Ahmad)
12.Reprise (Joachim Trier)
1.punch drunk-love
2.Let the right one in
3. La Cienaga
4- No Country For Old Men
5 The Dark Knight
6. A History of Violence (Cronenberg)
7. Inglorius Basterds
8. Elephant
9. Le Fils
10. Adaptation
Bonus tracks:
Avatar
The Host
Paranoid Park / Last Days
Extraordinary Histories
Tallageda Nights
101 Reykyavik
There will be blood
La Comunidad
Fantastic idea. I’ll be submitting close to the deadline, there’s still a lot from this decade I haven’t seen.
1 No Country For Old Men
2 In the Mood For Love
3 Adaptation
4 The Lord of the Rings Trilogy
5 Cache
6 Werckmeister Harmonies
7 Oldboy
8 Russian Ark
9 Mulholland Drive
10 Brand Upon the Brain!
Loving the Punch-Drunk love here.
Don’t we have to wait til the end of this year to do a best of the decade? Isn’t 2010 the last year of the decade?
Yes it is, but not for list making purposes. Best of the decade lists have always started with the ‘00’ year and ended with the ‘9’ year.
A decade is ten years long, and January 1, 2000 – December 31, 2009 marks a full ten year period.
2010 is the first year of the new one.
Battle Royale
Blissfully Yours
Cache
Elephant
Host
In the Mood for Love
Le Fils
Lives of Others
Mystic River
Tarnation
I do hope that the people posting their lists here are also submitting them to Adam.
I also hope that the end decade list doesn’t look like every other decade list on the internet. But its beginning to look like its heading in that direction, and I see no fair or reasonable way to veer it off this course.
The problem is most lists will have at least a few of the regulars, so those films continue to get votes, while the others will only have one or two, because each person has different “obscure” favorites.
I’m happy with the #1 choice, though. :)
Oldboy
The Lives of Others (Das Leben der Anderen)
A Prophet (Un prophète)
No Country for Old Men
Donnie Darko
Amelie (Le fabuleux destin d’Amélie Poulain)
City of God (Cidade de Deus)
The Best of Youth (La meglio gioventù)
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
Not in any particular order…..
Well,I think that there are many good films that I haven’t seen,but I believe that the ones I should definetely see,before making my list,are these:
-Syndromes and a Century
-Tropical Malady(well,it’s been months that I wanted to see Weeresethakul,but I haven’t yet)
-Still Life
-The Piano Teacher
-Yiyi
-Spirited Away
-The New World
and maybe:
-The Flight of the Red Baloon
-Zodiac
-Brockeback Mountain
-Synecdoche,New York
That’s 11 films,but I have exams until February 18th,and so I don’t have so much time watching films.What’s the deadline for submiting my list?March 1st?
1. 24 city / The world (Jia ZhangKe)
2. Café lumière / Millenium Mambo (Hou Hsiao-Hsien)
3. Elephant / Paranoid Park (Gus Van Sant)
4. The new world (Terrence Malick)
5. La vie moderne (Raymond Depardon)
6. Juventude em marcha (Pedro Costa)
7. Shara (Naomi Kawase)
8. Um filme falado / Singularidades De Uma Rapariga Loira (Manoel de Oliveira)
9. Mulholland Drive / INLAND EMPIRE (David Lynch)
10. Cœurs (Alain Resnais)
11. Woman on the beach (Hong Sang-Soo)
12. H Story / Un couple parfait (Nobuhiro Suwa)
+ Joker : Les harmonies Werckmeister
OMG ! I had forgotten (the year) 2000…
Here is the good one, a bit different :
1. Yi Yi (Edward Yang)
2. Paranoid Park (Gus Van Sant)
3. The world (Jia ZhangKe)
4. Le nouveau monde (Terrence Malick)
5. La vie moderne (Raymond Depardon)
6. En avant, jeunesse (Pedro Costa)
7. Shara (Naomi Kawase)
8. Café lumière (Hou Hsiao-Hsien)
9. Un film parlé (Manoel de Oliveira)
10. Mulholland Drive (David Lynch)
+ Très envie de les citer (un film/cinéaste) :
Eureka, de Shinji Aoyama (2000)
Ce vieux rêve qui bouge, d’Alain Guiraudie (2001)
The Dayereh, de Jafar Panahi (2001)
Ten, d’Abbas Kiarostami (2002)… See More
Blissfully yours / Syndromes and a century, d’Apichatpong Weerasethakul (2002/7)
The village, de M. Night Shyamalan (2004)
Le pont des Arts, d’Eugène Green (2004)
Goodbye, Dragon Inn, de Tsai Ming Liang (2004)
Collateral, de Michael Mann (2004)
L’enfant, des frères Dardenne (2005)
Bled number one, de RAZ (2005)
Lady Chatterley, de Pascale Ferran (2006)
Superbad, de Gregg Mottola (2007)
Ne touchez pas la hâche, de Jacques Rivette (2007)
Youth without youth, de F.F. Coppola (2007)
Waltz with Bachir, d’Ari Folman (2008)
The Darjeeling Limited, de Wes Anderson (2008)
please visit my list of : best of the decade: http://www.theauteurs.com/lists/3773
thanks.
I hope everyone remembers to officially submit their top 10s to me through personal message!!
Also, the list, so far, is, admittedly, a little less diverse than I was expecting so I hope to receive some interesting top 10s before march 1st!! I’m looking at you, Blue K!!
Adam, Expect my list within the next five minutes…
I am planning to watch a ton of films for a couple of weeks and then I will be ready with the list.
My list:
1. Mulholland Dr.
2. The Dreamers
3. The White Ribbon
4. Fat Girl
5. There Will Be Blood
6. Gangs of New York
7. Dogville
8. Y Tu Mamá También
9. Tetro
10. The New World
Ok,now I have one less to watch,cause I saw “Syndromes and a Century” yesterday night(instead of studying,hehe).But,I don’t think it could find a place in my list.To be honest,it’s really far from that.Not that it was a bad movie(on the contrary,it was very good),but,unfortunately,it didn’t live up to my expectations.Almost everybody in this site seem to like this movie,and rate Weeresethakul in general very high,so I had great expectations.As a result,I was a bit disapointed,although I liked the movie.
Very good list Drew.I’m happy to see that someone has “Gangs of New York” in his list.In my opinion,it’s Scorsese’s best,in the last many years.It will probably be in my list too.
Kurt Walker
we need less films like “Pan’s Labrynth.” yes.