Before Sunset
Bowling for Columbine
The Corporation
The Incredibles
Memento
Once
The Royal Tennenbaums
United 93
Wall*E
Wonder Boys
I never spend a lot of time laboring over these kinds of lists. I focused more on personal favorites, while films like City of God and There Will Be Blood would have made a true “Best of…” list.
Surprised to not see any Herzog films mentioned.
1. The Fountain (Aronofsky 2006)
2. The Lord of the Rings Trilogy (Jackson 2001-2003)
3. Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter…and Spring (Ki-Duk 2003)
4. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (Gondry 2004)
5. The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou (Anderson 2004)
6. Spirited Away (Miyazaki 2001)
7. Children of Men (Cuaron 2006)
8. Tokyo Godfathers (Kon 2003)
9. Survive Style 5+ (Sekiguchi 2004)
10. The Lives of Others (von Donnersmarck 2006)
This makes me realize how many films I love from the past decade…so many great ones that I had to leave out… So hard to narrow it down to 10!
Off the top of my head want to add: The Taste of Tea, Mulholland Dr., Millennium Actress, Donnie Darko, Milk, Sunshine, Wall*E, The Royal Tenenbaums, The Darjeeling Limited, Me and You and Everyone We Know, Adaptation…to name a few.
1. Cache (Hidden) (why has this not been mentioned searingly good cinema!)
2. There will be blood
3. Zodiac
4. the assasination of Jesse James by the coward Robert Ford
5. Y tu mamá también
6. Donnie Darko
7. Brokeback moutain
8. L’enfant
9. Mullholland Dr.
10. Sideways
Honorable mentions: Enternal sunshine of the spotless mind, Bowling for Collumbine, The Piano teacher, The Wrestler, Lord of the rings and Bourne Trilogy’s, Spirited away, Grizzly man, Dogville, Memento, Squid and the whale, Little children and Inland empire.
there will be blood
mulholland drive
synecdoche, new york
before sunset
no country for old men
eternal sunshine
o brother where art thou?
children of men
the departed
eastern promises
Honorable mention:
jesse james
city of god
oldboy
the pianist
punch-drunk love
wall-e
royal tenenbaums
amores perros
spirited away
etc.
10. Code 46 (2004)
9. Bad Education (2004)
8. The New World (2005)
7. There Will Be Blood (2007)
6. Eternal Sunshine (2004)
5. Inland Empire (2006)
4. The Royal Tenenbaums (2001)
3. Mulholland Drive (2001)
2. I’m Not There (2007)
1. Synecdoche, New York (2008)
Mulholland Drive
The Brown Bunny
Les Amantes Reguliares
Before Nite Falls
Irreversible
Trouble Every Day
Gumo
The Aviator
Bloody Sunday
Fur: An Imaginary Portrait of Diane Arbus
My list has changed since this topic first posted —
There Will Be Blood
Gerry
I’m Not There
Werckmeister Harmonies
The Squid and the Whale
Inland Empire
Tokyo Trash Baby
Elephant
The Believer
Lucky Number Slevin
Right now my list goes something like..
1. Cidade de Deus (Fernando Mierelles 2003) At the time it really fueled my love for foreign films.. and the rest is history
2. Yi Yi (Edward Yang 2000)
3. Oldboy (Chan Park Wook 2003)
4. Pan’s Labyrinth (Guillermo del Torro 2006)
5. Lost in Translation (Sophia Coppola 2003) Because Bill Murray does a hilarious John Wayne impression
6. No Country for Old Men (Coen Bros 2007)
7. Cache (Michael Haneke 2005)
8. Mystic River (Clint Eastwood 2003)
9. Spirited Away (Hayao Miyazaki 2001)
10. Half Nelson (Ryan Fleck 2006)
I had to grind out the last few.. Amores Perros, 4 Months 3 Weeks and 2 Days, Irreversible, Y Tu Mama Tambien, There Will Be Blood, In the Mood for Love, The Lives of Others, and Volver are all up there.
I need to see The Headless Woman (Lucrecia Martel), Synecdoche New York (Charlie Kaufman), Flight of the Red Balloon (Hou Hsiao-hsien), Private Fears in Public Places (Alain Resnais), Tropical Malady (Apichatpong Weerasethakul), Innocence (Lucile Hadzihalilovic), Goodbye Dragon Inn (Tsai Ming-liang), Russian Ark (Aleksandr Sokurov), I’m Going Home (Manoel de Oliveira), The Lady and the Duke (Eric Rohmer), Werckmeister Harmonies (Bela Tarr), The House of Mirth (Terence Davies), Mulholland Dr. (Lynch), and a few others all might be contenders. I actually started watching Mulholland Dr. and didn’t like it.. The disk was damaged so I am holding judgments until I finish it.
there will be blood
y tu mama tambien
the entire park chan wook revenge trilogy
let the right one in
eternal sunshine of the spotless mind
amores perros
waltz with bashir
city of god
Inland Empire
The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
4 Months, 3 Weeks, 2 Days
Y Tú Mamá Tambien
Talk to Her (Hable con Ella)
United 93
Lost In Translation
I’m Not There
There Will Be Blood
They’re probably not my personal favourites, but they’re what I would like the decade to be remembered with. A good decade for cinema all in all perhaps.
Never final, always changing
Werckmeister Harmonies
There Will Be Blood
The Fog of War: Eleven Lessons from the Life of Robert S. McNamara
Synecdoche, New York
No Country for Old Men
The Best of Youth
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Songs From the Second Floor
The Band’s Visit
4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days
These lists have clued me in to some films I was not aware of and now feel the need to see, such as: Code 46, Bad Education, Les Amants Regulieres, Gummo, Trouble Every Day, Innocence, Private Fears in Public Places. Thanks.
I’m very happy with the way the decade’s turned out. When I think about what I consider to be the very best films, I see some consistent themes (alienation, struggles with questions of representation, cultural commingling) that seem to have dominated much of the decade overall.
1. Punch-Drunk Love (Paul Thomas Anderson, 2002)
2. Werckmeister Harmonies (Bela Tarr, 2000)
3. Dogville (Lars von Trier, 2003)
4. The New World (Terence Malick, 2005)
5. There Will Be Blood (Paul Thomas Anderson, 2007)
6. Dancer in the Dark (Lars von Trier, 2000)
7. Tropical Malady (Apichatpong Weerasethakul, 2004)
8. Before Sunset (Richard Linklater, 2004)
9. I’m Not There (Todd Haynes, 2007)
10. Elephant (Gus Van Sant, 2003)
Hunger, Spider, A History of Violence, Kill Bill & Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon would be not far behind….
Here’s to hoping the rest of ‘09 is so excellent that this list looks radically different by the year’s end!
1. The Proposition [2006, Hillocat]
2. My Winnipeg [2008, Maddin]
3. Mulholland Drive [2001, Lynch]
4. A History of Violence [2006, Cronenberg]
5. Rezervni deli [2003, Kozole]
6. Spider [2002, Cronenberg]
7. Grizzly Man [2005, Herzog]
8. 28 Days Later [2002, Boyle]
9. Five Minutes, Mr Welles [2005, D’Onofrio]
10. Wonder Boys [2000, Hanson]
I’ve probably missed a few and in no particular order:
The Wrestler. (Darren Aronofsky, 2008)
The Good, The Bad, The Weird. (Ji-woon Kim, 2008)
Old Boy. (Chan-wook Park, 2003)
36 Quai des Orfevres. (Olivier Marchal, 2004)
Closer. (Mike Nichols, 2004)
The Lives of Others. (Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck, 2006)
Rec. (Jaume Balagueró, 2007)
The Kingdom. (Peter Berg, 2007)
Casino Royale. (Martin Campbell, 2006)
A Bitter Sweet Life. (Ji-woon Kim, 2005)
Very unscientifically (and sloppily) I tallied up the responses here to see if there were any consensus favorites. Here are the top films:
There Will Be Blood – 17 mentions
Mulholland Dr. – 16 mentions
Inland Empire – 8 Mentions
No Country For Old Men – 8 Mentions
Children of Men – 7 Mentions
City of God – 7 Mentions
Elephant – 7 Mentions
The Royal Tennenbaums – 7 Mentions
Yi Yi – 7 Mentions
Amelie – 6 Mentions
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind – 6 Mentions
I’m Not There – 6 Mentions
Memento – 6 Mentions
Werckmeister Harmonies – 6 Mentions
Zodiac – 6 Mentions
Wait a second—my list has also since changed. Here’s my new one:
10. There Will Be Blood (2007)
9. Colossal Youth (2007)
8. Eternal Sunshine (2004)
7. Star Spangled to Death (2004)
6. Bad Education (2004)
5. Inland Empire (2006)
4. I’m Not There (2007)
3. Hunger (2008)
2. Mulholland Drive (2001)
1. Synecdoche, New York (2008)
From what I remember, in no particular order.
City of God (2002)
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000)
Let the Right One (2008)
The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou (2004)
Memento (2000)
No Country for Old Men (2007)
Oldboy (2003)
Pan’s Labyrinth (2006)
The Twilight Samurai (2002)
Wall-E (2008)
Jeremy, thanks for crunching those numbers.
I’m just glad no one has said 300 or Slumdog Millionaire, lol.
Aaron, Hunger is on my list of films to see. It’s supposed to be excellent.
1.City of God———redefined the gangster genre or scorsese pic as a foreign film
2. Lord of the Rings -—EPIC in every way
3. Gladiator—-sorry but damn
4. Crouching tiger, hidden dragon——elevated the kung fu flick to high art
5. sin city——-wholly original
6.Royal tenenbaums
7.the proposition——best western of 2000s followed by jesse james
8.no country for old men
9.synecdoche, ny——zenith of greatest writer of 2000s
10.Gangs of new york——scorsese does it again
11. memento damn i wish i could fit it in.
12. ichi the killer——very influential (kill bill, horror porn)
13. house of 1000 corpses
Granted i kno my list is USA centric but im not as well schooled in foreign flicks of 2000 as i should be coming from Tennessee and all. We dont get the best movies from around the world round here
1. Wonder Boys (Curtis Hanson)
2. Children of Men (Alfonso Cuarón)
3. The Barbarian Invasions (Denys Arcand)
4. No Country for Old Men (Joel & Ethan Coen)
5. There Will Be Blood (Paul Thomas Anderson)
6. The Hour of Religion (My Mother’s Smile) (Marco Bellocchio)
7. The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (Peter Jackson)
8. Mulholland Dr. (David Lynch)
9. The Piano Teacher (Michael Haneke)
10. Songs from the Second Floor (Roy Andersson) & Waking the Dead (Keith Gordon)
Adaptation/ There Will Be Blood/ Synecdoche New York/ 3 Monkeys/ Changeling/ Of Time and the City by Davies/ Inland Empire/ Old Boy/ Kenneth Anger 2 disc set/ Stan Brakhage 2 disc set—last 2 sets only available 2000-2009 to general public on DVD. Thanks, Bobby.
1) lost in translation
2) there will be blood
3) little children
4) no country for old men
5) american psycho
6) mulholland drive
7) A.I.
8) vanilla sky
9) amelie
10) the life aquatic
10 – The Prestige
9 – The Dark Knight
8 – 28 Days Later
7 – Kill Bill 1&2
6 – Pan’s Labyrinth
5 – The Diving Bell And The Butterfly
4 – The Matrix
3 – Let The Right One In
2 – Mystic River
1 – Lord Of The Rings
Also — Spirited Away — The Assassination of Jesse James — American Psycho — Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon - Sukiyaki Western Django - The Last Samurai — Sunshine — Downfall — There Will Be Blood — Tropic Thunder — Lost In Translation — Children Of Men — The Orphanage — The Proposition — Munich — The Departed
i dont know why Sukiyaki is crossed out…i didnt do that :(
10-The Fall
9-Spirited Away
8-Ghost World
7-Michael Clayton
6-The Aviator
5-Brick
4-Let the Right One In
3-Wall-E
2-Volver
1-There Will Be Blood
HM-Grindhouse,Brand Upon the Brain!,The Foot Fist Way,Pans Labyrinth
I don’t know why I forgot this a few months ago, but bump City of God down to honorable mentions and put The Diving Bell and the Butterfly into my top 10.
1. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
2. The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
3. Spirited Away
4. Werckmeister Harmonies
5. Once
6. Milk
7. Billy Elliot
8. The Puffy Chair
9. LOTR series
10. Donnie Darko
Kenji
1.Mulholland Dr (Lynch)
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Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (Ang Lee)
Werckmeister Harmonies (Tarr)
Blissfully Yours (Apichtapong Weerasethakul)
Dogville (Von Trier)
Howl’s Moving Castle (Miyazaki)
Innocence (Hadzihalilovic)
The Piano Tuner of Earthquakes (Quay bros)
My Winnipeg (Maddin)
At the Height of Summer (Tran Anh- Hung)
Far from Heaven (Haynes)