Mulholland Dr (Lynch)
The Name of a River (Singh)
Hugo (Scorsese)
Werckmeister Harmonies (Tarr, Hranitzky)
Innocence (Hadzihalilovic)
Blissfully Yours (Apichatpong)
Stealing a Nation (Pilger)
Mysteries of Lisbon (Ruiz)
Letter from a Film-maker to his Daughter (Pauwels)
Eureka (Aoyama)
Some near misses: Dogville, White Ribbon, Yumurta, Silent Light, Eccentricities of a Blonde-Haired Girl, Sleep Furiously, At the Height of Summer, Piano Tuner of Earthquakes, Howl’s Moving Castle, Far from Heaven, My Winnipeg, Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon, The New World, Regular Lovers, Bab Aziz…
1. Mulholland Drive (2001, David Lynch)
2. Werckmeister Harmonies (2000, Béla Tarr)
3. Spirited Away (2002, Hayao Miyazaki)
4. There Will Be Blood (2007, PT Anderson)
5. The White Ribbon (2009, Michael Haneke)
6. Cat Soup (2001, Tatsuo Sato)
7. Dogville (2003, von Trier)
8. A Separation (2011, Asghar Farhadi)
9. Songs from the Second Floor (2000, Roy Andersson)
10. The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (2007, Julian Schnabel)
Something like that, perhaps. I feel like I should include Caché maybe… or In The Mood For Love.
Nice idea I will be throwing in my two cents when I get home
Yi Yi (Edward Yang, 2000)
Werckmeister Harmonies (Bela Tarr, 2000)
Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives (Apichatpong Weerasethakul, 2010)
The Death of Mr. Lazarescu (Cristi Puiu, 2005)
The Headless Woman (Lucrecia Martel, 2008)
Spirited Away (Hayao Miyazaki, 2001)
Mysteries of Lisbon (Raoul Ruiz, 2010)
Once Upon a Time in Anatolia (Nuri Bilge Ceylan, 2011)
Goodbye, Dragon Inn (Tsai Ming-liang, 2003)
The Son (Jean-Pierre Dardenne/ Luc Dardenne, 2002)
World on a Wire (Fassbinder)
Mysteries of Lisbon (Raul Ruiz)
Mulholland Dr. (David Lynch)
Private Fears in Public Places (Alain Resnais)
Dog Days (Ulrich Seidl)
Goodbye, Dragon Inn (Tsai Ming-liang)
Carlos (Olivier Assayas)
The Lady and the Duke (Eric Rohmer)
Last Days (Gus van Sant)
La Ciénaga (Lucrecia Martel)
1. Inland Empire-Lynch (2006)
2. Memento-Nolan (2001)
3. Hero-Yimou (2002)
4. 21 Grams-Inarritu (2003)
5. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind-Gondry (2004)
6. Mulholland Drive-Lynch (2001)
7. The Duchess of Langeais-Rivette (2007)
8. The Tree of Life-Malick (2011)
9. Werckmeister Harmonies-Tarr (2000)
10. Synecdoche, New York-Kaufman (2008)
Broken Embraces (2009 Pedro Almodóvar)
Syndromes and a Century (2006 Apichatpong Weerasethakul)
Still Walking (2008 Hirokazu Koreeda)
The Gleaners & I (2000 Agnes Varda)
Of Time and the City (2008 Terence Davies)
Meek’s Cutoff (2010 Kelly Reichardt)
Robinson in Ruins (2010 Patrick Keiller)
35 Shots of Rum (2008 Claire Denis)
Match Point (2005 Woody Allen)
Archipelago (2010 Joanna Hogg)
1. Mulholland Drive (2001, David Lynch)
2. Enter The Void (2009, Gaspar Noe)
3. The Piano Teacher (2001, Michael Haneke)
4. 2046 (2004, Wong Kar Wai)
5. 25Th hour (2002, Spike Lee)
1. Spirited Away (Hayao Miyazaki) 2001
2. Hugo (Martin Scorsese) 2011
3. Munich (Steven Spielberg) 2005
4. No Country for Old Men (Ethan Coen & Joel Coen) 2007
5. The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (Julian Schnabel) 2007
6. Zodiac (David Fincher) 2007
7. The Artist (Michel Hazanavicius) 2011
8. The Man Who Wasn’t There (Ethan Coen & Joel Coen) 2001
9. The Solitude of Prime Numbers (Saverio Costanzo) 2010
10. Carlos (Olivier Assayas) 2010
very close:
I Served the King of England (Jirí Menzel) 2006
Goodbye Solo (Ramin Bahrani) 2008
The Darjeeling Limited (Wes Anderson) 2007
A.I. Artificial Intelligence (Steven Spielberg) 2001
Traffic (Steven Soderbergh) 2000
Jarhead (Sam Mendes) 2005
Rango (Gore Verbinski) 2011
O Brother, Where Art Thou? (Ethan Coen & Joel Coen) 2000
Black Swan (Darren Aronofsky) 2010
25th Hour (Spike Lee) 2002
Inception (Christopher Nolan) 2010
Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan (2006, Larry Charles)
Brüno (2009, Larry Charles)
Pierrepoint (2005, Adrian Shergold)
In Bruges (2008, Martin McDonagh)
Chopper (2000, Andrew Dominik)
Shadow of the Vampire (2000, E. Elias Merhige)
A Closed Book (2010, Raul Ruiz)
Invincible (2001, Werner Herzog)
The Curse of the Jade Scorpion (2001, Woody Allen)
Meet the Parents (2000, Jay Roach)
Runners-up: Six Shooter (2004, Martin McDonagh), Tipping The Velvet (2002, Geoffrey Sax), Meet the Fockers (2004, Jay Roach), The Producers (2005, Susan Stroman), Private Fears in Public Places (2006, Alain Resnais), The Pianist (2002, Roman Polanski) and Downfall (2004, Oliver Hirschbiegel)
nice to see someone else love Jade Scorpion
which along with Bathory would top this list for me
Synecdoche, New York
Mulholland Drive
Cache
Werckmeister Harmonies
Millennium Actress
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Yi Yi
Talk To Her
City of God
The Motorcycle Diaries
In no particular order:
There Will Be Blood (Anderson)
A History of Violence (Cronenberg)
Mulholland Drive (Lynch)
Spirited Away (Miyazaki)
Carlos (Assayas)
4 Weeks, 2 Months, and 3 Days (Mungiu)
Gosford Park (Altman)
In the Mood For Love (Wong Kar Wai)
White Material (Denis)
Dogville (Von Trier)
1. Mulholland Drive
2. There Will Be Blood
3. The Dark Knight
4. Inland Empire
5. Zodiac
6. The Social Network
7. Scott Pilgrim vs. the World
8. Inglourious Basterds
9. The Departed
10. Toy Story 3
Subject to constant change. So many acclaimed films from the 21st century I still haven’t seen.
1) The Turin Horse (Tarr, 2011)
2) Aurora (Puiu, 2010)
3) The World (Zhangke, 2004)
4) Crimson Gold (Panahi, 2003)
5) Tomboy (Sciamma, 2011)
6) Climates (Ceylan, 2006)
7) Time to Die (Kedzeirzawska, 2007)
8) Marriage Material (Swanberg, 2012)
9) Comedy of Innocence (Ruiz, 2000)
10) Melancholia (Diaz, 2008)
In no particular order:
Donnie Darko
Memento
Shaun Of The Dead
Moulin Rouge
Inception
District 9
Casino Royale
Slumdog Millionaire
Inglorious Basterds
Big Fish
Just off the top of my head for the most part. Plus I’m still trying to catch up on the past eleven, twelve years so for the time being, this list will unfortunately seem rather limited:
- Before Sunset (Richard Linklater, 2004)
- Cold Weather (Aaron Katz, 2010)
- The Day He Arrives (Hong Sang-soo, 2011)
- Funny Ha Ha (Andrew Bujalski, 2002)
- Gosford Park (Robert Altman, 2001)
- Kissing on the Mouth (Joe Swanberg, 2005)
- Marriage Material (Joe Swanberg, 2012)
- Quiet City (Aaron Katz, 2007)
- Le Temps du Loup (Michael Haneke, 2003)
- What Time Is It There? (Tsai Ming-liang, 2001)
Nice list Kenji, I finally caught Innocence recently and it was quite the film.
1. Mulholland Drive
2. Synecdoche, NY
3. Lost in Translation
4. In the Mood for Love
5. Punch-Drunk Love
6. Oldboy
7. Adapation.
8. Spirited Away
9. A History of Violence
10. Talk to Her
starting in 2001:
Quei Loro Incontri (Straub & Huillet)
Juventude em Marcha (Costa)
Uncle Boonmee (Weerasethakul)
Memories of Murder (Joon-Ho)
Platform (Zhang-Ke)
Vai e Vem (Monteiro)
2046 (Kar-Wai)
O Princípio da Incerteza (de Oliveira)
The Fourth Dimension (Minh-ha)
The White Ribbon (Haneke)
From the quibble department: though the decade of the 2000s began on January 1, 2000, according to the Royal Observatory in Greenwich and theU.S. Naval Observatory, the century began on January 1, 2001.
Runners-up: Another Year (Leigh), A Cock and Bull Story (Winterbottom), Dogville (Von Trier), Dracula – Pages from a Virgin’s Diary (Maddin), Eureka (Aoyama), Kings and Queen (Desplechin), Memories of Murder (Bong), Rachel Getting Married (Demme), Raising Victor Vargas (Sollett), The Secret of the Grain (Kechiche), Secret Sunshine (Lee), A Separation (Farhadi), Sex and Lucía (Medem)
Memories of Murder is such an underrated and overlooked film. I think it’s right up there at the top of the list for recent Korean films. I prefer it to the more well-known Oldboy, which came out right about the same time.
- As I Was Moving Ahead Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty (Jonas Mekas, 2000)
- Lost in Translation (Sofia Coppola, 2003)
- Spirited Away (Hayao Miyazaki, 2001)
- Mulholland Drive (David Lynch, 2001)
- The New World (Terrence Malick, 2005)
- Eureka (Shinji Aoyama, 2000)
- Werckmeister Harmonies (Belà Tarr, 2000)
- In the Mood for Love (Wong Kar-Waï, 2000)
- Yi Yi (Edward Yang, 2000)
- Elephant (Gus Van Sant, 2003)
Oh, and I forgot Platform is also from 2000. I choose Goodbye, Dragon Inn by Tsai instead. I really need to see that Jonas Mekas soon!
Oh yeah duh, 2000 wouldn’t really qualify. I could easily replace my one 2000 film (the Ruiz) with Mysteries of Lisbon.
From 2000-present, no real order:
Synecdoche, New York
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
The Tree of Life
Punch-Drunk Love
There Will Be Blood
No Country for Old Men
The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
Children of Men
Yi Yi
A Serious Man
1) Mulholland Dr. (2001, David Lynch)
2) Caché (2005, Michael Haneke)
3) In the Mood for Love (2000, Wong Kar-Wai)
4) Cidade de Deus (2002, Fernando Meirelles)
5) There Will Be Blood (2007, Paul Thomas Anderson)
6) Oldboy (2003, Chan-wook Park)
7) The Assassination of Jesse James By The Coward Robert Ford (2007, Andrew Dominik)
8) Kill Bill: Vol. 1 (2003, Quentin Tarantino)
9) Dogtooth (2009, Giorgos Lanthimos)
10) Unbreakable (2000, M. Night Shyamalan)
Runner-ups: Memento (2000, Christopher Nolan); Traffic (2000, Steven Soderbergh); Luz silenciosa (2007, Carlos Reygadas); Black Swan (2009, Darren Aronofsky); Take Shelter (2011, Jeff Nichols); The Tree of Life (2011, Terrence Malick); We Need to Talk About Kevin (2011, Lynne Ramsay).
I am surprised by how well represented Spirited Away is. I just got it from Netflix, plan on watching it tonight. Its the only reoccurring film on these lists that I haven’t seen.
I’m counting 2000, which only matters for one short film.
1. Tree of Life (2011 – Terrence Mallick)
2. Mulholland Drive (2001 – David Lynch)
3. Heart of the World (2000 – Guy Maddin) <—— my favorite short film ever
4. City of God (2002 – Fernando Meirelles and Katia Lund)
5. Kill Bill (2003-2004 – Quentin Tarantino)
6. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004 – Michel Gondry)
7. Children of Men (2006 – Alfanso Cauron)
8. Lord of the Rings (2001-2003 – Peter Jackson)
9. The Dark Knight (2008 – Christopher Nolan)
10. Talk to Her (2002 – Pedro Almodovar)
Alvin
List your ten favourite films from the 21st century, and also note the director and year of release (although you don’t have to). Any film will count including foreign films or short films, as long as they came after the year 1999.