1. Amélie (2001, Jean-Pierre Jeunet)
2. Lilya 4-Ever (2002, Lukas Moodysson)
3. Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind (2004, Michel Gondry)
4. Before Sunset (2004, Richard Linklater)
5. Spirited Away (2001, Hayao Miyazaki)
6. Synecdoche, New York (2008, Charlie Kaufman)
7. Lost in Translation (2003, Sofia Coppola)
8. Mulholland Drive (2001, David Lynch)
9. Persepolis (2007, Vincent Paronnaud)
10. Blue Valentine (2010, Derek Cianfrance)
Plus: The Lord of the Rings (2001-2003, Peter Jackson)
Ok, my choices are….
Mulholland Drive (David Lynch)
The Proposition (John Hillcoat)
Memories Of Murder (Bong Joon-ho)
Graveyard Of Honor (Takashi Miike)
The Assassination Of Jesse James…… (Andrew Dominik)
2046 (Wong Kar-wai)
In Bruges (Martin McDonagh)
District 9 (Neill Blomkamp)
Public Enemies (Michael Mann)
Southland Tales (Richard Kelly)
1) West of the Tracks
2) Heremias
3) Turning Gate
4) Resurrection of the Little Match Girl
5) Yi Yi
6) Platform
7) Blind Shaft
8) Spring Fever
9) Lady Chatterley
10) Nobody Knows
These are my favorites so far…
1. (tie) Drive and The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (2011, Refn and 2007, Dominik)
2. The Tree of Life (2011, Malick)
3. There Will Be Blood (2007, P.T Anderson)
4. Grizzly Man (2005, Werner Herzog)
5. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004, Michel Gondry)
6. No Country For Old Men (2007, Joel and Ethan Coen)
7. Irreversible (2002, Gaspar Noe)
8. Inglorious Basterds (2009, Quentin Tarantino)
9. Amores Perros (2001, Innaritu) Note: any Innaritu film could be in this spot, or higher, for me.
10. 4 Months, 3 Weeks, and 2 Days (2007, Mungiu)
Others:
Moonrise Kingdom, Inception, Melancholia, Dancer in the Dark, Black Swan, Brokeback Mountain, Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon, Spirited Away, Inland Empire, Synecdoche New York, Adaptation, Kill Bill, Enter the Void, Monsters, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, I Saw the Devil, Oldboy, In Bruges, Hunger, Shame, Departures, Let the Right One In, Cache, The Piano Teacher, Uncle Boonmee, Troll Hunter, The Artist, Before Sunset, Ink, and plenty of others…
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1. Mulholland Drive (Lynch, 2001)
2. Poetry (Dong, 2010)
3. INLAND EMPIRE (Lynch, 2006
4. Talk to Her (Almodovar, 2002)
5. Scott Pilgrim vs. The World (Wright, 2010)
6. Rachel Getting Married (Demme, 2008)
7. Elephant (van Sant, 2003)
8. 25th Hour (Lee, 2002)
9. Vera Drake (Leigh, 2004)
10. My Winnipeg (Maddin, 2008)
1. No Quarto da Vanda (Costa)
2. Tie Xi Qu: West of the Tracks (Wang Bing)
3. Laisvė (Bartas)
4. Two Lovers (Gray)
5. Vai e Vem (Monteiro)
6. Les amants réguliers (Garrel)
7. The Brown Bunny (Gallo)
8. O Quinto Império: Ontem Como Hoje (Oliveira)
9. Mary (Ferrara)
10. Juventude em Marcha (Costa)
Forgot «Quei loro incontri» (Straub-Huillet). In 6º.
1. No Direction Home: Bob Dylan (Martin Scorsese/2005)
2. A Separation (Asghar Farhadi/2011)
3. Toy Story 3 (Lee Unkrich/2010)
4. Inglourious Basterds (Quentin Tarantino/2009)
5. The Damned United (Tom Hooper/2009)
6. Mary and Max (Adam Elliot/2009)
7. The Tree of Life (Terrence Malick/2011)
8. A Serious Man (Coen Brothers/2009)
9. Goodbye Solo (Ramin Bahrani/2009)
10. In Bruges (Martin McDonagh/2008)
+ Memento (Christopher Nolan/2000)
1. Yi Yi
2. Mulholland Drive
3. A.I., Artificial Intelligene
the rest in no order:
The Tree of Life
Before Sunset
The New World
In the Mood for Love
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
Femme Fatale
The Ghost Writer
1. Le Quattro Volte – Michelangelo Frammantino / 2010
2. In The Mood For Love – Wong Kar Wai / 2000
3. Syndromes And A Century – Apichatpong Weerasetakhul / 2006
4. I Am A Sex Addict – Caveh Zahedi / 2005
5. Dancer In The Dark – Lars Von Trier / 2000
6. There Will Be Blood – Paul Thomas Anderson / 2007
7. Autobiography Of Nicolae Ceausescu – Andrei Ujică / 2010
8. Brokeback Mountain – Ang Lee / 2005
9. Yi Yi : A One And A Two / 2000
0. Once Upon A Time In Anatolia – Nuri Bilge Ceylan / 2011
1. The New World – Terrence Malick / 2005
2. Everyone Else – Maren Ade / 2009
3. Moulin Rouge! – Baz Luhrman / 2001
4. Russian Ark – Alexandre Sokurov / 2002
5. Assasination Of Jesse James By The Coward Robert Ford – Andrew Dominic /2007
6. Alamar – Pedro González-Rubio
7. Lust caution – Ang Lee
8. Archipelago – Joanna Hoeg / 2010
9. The Wrestler – Darren Aronofsky/ 2008
0. Weekend – Andrew Haigh / 2011
paranoid park
lilja 4-ever
the brown bunny
japón
far from heaven
kill bill (vol. 1)
vera drake
melancholia
requiem for a dream
the dreamers
1. Syndromes and a Century
2. West of the Tracks
3. Mulholland Dr
4. Old Joy
5. L’intrus
6. The Circle
7. You Can Count on Me
8. O Princípio da Incerteza
9. Sparrow
10. Holy Motors
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No 2000 films? I suppose that’s, technically, correct.
21st Century Top 10
Los Angeles Plays Itself (Thom Andersen, 2003)
Memories of Murder (Bong Joon-ho, 2003)
13 Lakes and/or Ten Skies (James Benning, 2004)
Evolution of a Filipino Family (Lav Diaz, 2004)
Colossal Youth (Pedro Costa, 2006)
The Social Network (David Fincher, 2010)
Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives (Apichatpong Weerasethakul, 2010)
This Is Not a Film (Jafar Panahi [& Mojtaba Mirtahmasb], 2011)
The Turin Horse (Béla Tarr [& Ágnes Hranitzky], 2011)
The Master (Paul Thomas Anderson, 2012)
Gave up on ranking. Chronological order.
One per director:
-Sparrow (Johnnie To)
-Miami Vice (Michael Mann)
-L’intrus (Claire Denis)
-A.I. Artificial Intelligence (Steven Spielberg)
-Platform (Jia Zhangke)
-Yi yi (Edward Yang)
-Graveyard of Honor (Takashi Miike)
-Signs (M. Night Shyamalan)
-Millennium Mambo (Hou Hsiao-hsien)
-The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (David Fincher)
Edit: Ah it’s for the whole 21st century. I don’t wanna take any of those films off, but I’ll say that these also should be up there:
-Film socialisme (Jean-Luc Godard)
-Mysteries of Lisbon (Raul Ruiz)
From memory. Likely to change in a matter of minutes.
Werckmeister Harmonies (Bela Tarr)
Friday Night (Claire Denis)
Mysterious Skin (Gregg Araki)
I Am A Sex Addict (Caveh Zahedi)
Mister Lonely (Harmony Korine)
Daddy Longlegs (Josh & Benny Safdie)
Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives (Apichatpong Weerasethakul)
House of Tolerance (Bertrand Bonello)
Silver Bullets (Joe Swanberg)
A Burning Hot Summer (Philippe Garrel)
Fuck, I forgot Bestiaire, Margaret, Holy Motors, Twentynine Palms…
Check out my film blog post of the 10 top movies of the 2000’s
http://thecinemaniacs15.wordpress.com/
This doesn’t include 2010, 2011 or 2012, but the Tree of Life will top that list. Read my blog and feel free to comment please!
alphabetically:
Bad Education (Pedro Almodóvar, 2004)
Children of Men (Alfonso Cuarón, 2006)
Far From Heaven (Todd Haynes, 2002)
In the Mood for Love (Kar Wai Wong, 2000)
Kill Bill: Vol. 1 & 2 (Quentin Tarantino, 2003 and 2004)
Mulholland Dr. (David Lynch, 2001)
No Country for Old Men (Ethan and Joel Coen, 2007)
Spirited Away (Hayao Miyazaki, 2001)
Volver (Pedro Almodóvar, 2006)
Y tu mamá también (Alfonso Cuarón, 2001)
My top ten…plus two:
Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives – dir. Apichatpong Weerasethakul
Once Upon a Time in Anatolia – dir. Nuri Bilge Ceylan
Decasia – dir. Bill Morrison
In the City of Sylvia – dir. José Luis Guerin
Spider – dir. David Cronenberg
Mulholland Dr. – dir. David Lynch
In the Mood for Love – dir. Wong Kar Wai
Yi Yi: A One and a Two – dir. Edward Yang
At Sea – dir. Petter Hutton
The Tree of Life – dir. Terrence Malick
The White Ribbon – dir. Michael Handke
In Praise of Love – dir. Jean-Luc Godard
Zodiac – dir. David Fincher
Lists always get my aspie rocks off. Anywho…
1. Sideways (Payne)
2. There Will Be Blood (Anderson)
3. The Departed (Scorsese)
4. Drive (Refn)
5. Mulholland Dr. (Lynch)
6. No Country for Old Men (Coen)
7. Tokyo Sonata (Kurosawa, Kiyoshi)
8. Inland Empire (Lynch)
9. Punch-Drunk Love (Anderson)
10. The Social Network (Fincher)
1 COPPOLA
Tetro
2 JARMUSCH
The Limits of Control
Broken Flowers
Coffee And Cigarettes
3 COEN
A Serious Man
True Grit
No Country For Old Men
Burn After Reading
The Man Who Wasn’t There
4 LYNCH
Inland Empire
Mulholland Drive
5 P.T. ANDERSON
There Will Be Blood
The Master
6 W. ANDERSON
The Life Aquatic
The Royal Tennenbaums
7 NOE
Enter The Void
Irreversible
8 RODRIGUEZ
Sin City
Machete
Grindhouse
9 TARANTINO
Inglourious Basterds
Kill Bill
10 SCORSESE
The Departed
Hugo
Shutter Island
Honorable Mention:
The Artist
The Tree of Life
Bad Lieutenant
Midnight in Paris
Snatch
Documentaries
1 No Direction Home
2 Cave of Forgotten Dreams
Mulholland Drive
Melancholia
Once Upon a Time in Anatolia
Holy Motors
White Ribbon
Hidden
Talk to Her
The Man Who Wasn’t There
Eastern Promises
Uncle Boonmee
No order
Mulholland Drive (Lynch)
Synecdoche, New York (Kaufman)
Werckmeister Harmonies (Tarr)
Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind (Gondry)
Cache (Haneke)
Zodiac (Fincher)
4 Months, 3 Weeks, 2 Days (Mungiu)
Talk To Her (Almodovar)
Yi Yi (Yang)
Extraordinary Stories (Llinas)
Uncle Boonmee and Once Upon A Time In Anatolia are two of the greatest films I’ve seen in the past 2 years and deserve honorary mentions.
The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada.
Just in the order that they came to my head:
1. Zodiac
2. Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
3. A Serious Man/No Country for Old Men
4. Carlos
5. Zero Dark Thirty
6. A Separation
7. Cache
8. Inglourious Basterds
9. Gosford Park
10. Shaun of the Dead
1.) Children of Men
2.) There Will Be Blood
3.) Gomorrah
4.) Le Fils
5.) Che
6.) No Direction Home: Bob Dylan
7.) No End in Sight
8.) Domestic Violence
9.) The White Ribbon
10.) The Tree of Life
01 – The Dark Knight (2008) 99
02 – The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (2007) 95
03 – Before Sunset (2004) 95
04 – Ghost World (2001) 94
05 – Kill Bill: Volume 2 (2004) 94
05 – Kill Bill: Volume 1 (2003) 93
06 – The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001) 93
07 – Mulholland Drive (2001) 92
08 – Paprika (2006) 92
09 – City of God (2003) 90
10 – Carandiru (2003) 90
11 – The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003) 90
TV & DVD:
Sherlock: A Scandal in Belgravia (2012) 94
Superman II: The Richard Donner Cut (2006) 91
BBC: Planet Earth (2006) 90
Sherlock: The Reichenbach Fall (2012) 90
In no particular order:
Mulholland Drive
There Will Be Blood
4 Weeks, 3 Months and 2 Days
In the Mood for Love
Spirited Away
Carlos
A History of Violence
Dogville
Amour
Gosford Park
Honorable mention to Prairie Home Companion and Grizzly Man
1. Werckmeister Harmonies (Bela Tarr)
2. Devils on the Doorstep (Jiang Wen)
3. A Separation (Asghar Farhadi)
4. Songs from the Second Floor (Roy Andersson)
5. Irreversible (Gaspar Noe)
6. Beyond the Hills (Cristian Mungiu)
7. Time of the Wolf (Michael Haneke)
8. Uzak (Nuri Bilge Ceylan)
9. All About Lily Chou-Chou (Shunji Iwai)
10. Monday Morning (Otar Iosselliani)
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The inclusion of Oldboy on so many of these lists reminds me how much I love that film. Kind of want to sub out one of my choices and stick Oldboy on there.