Tyler's Best of the Year List

I won't. I really, really won't.

__________________
5-time MoFo Award winner.

20 years from now, when Batman has been rebooted for the fifth time, J.J. Abrams runs Hollywood, and both Martin Scorsese and Clint Eastwood are dead...

You can't really judge a decade properly when it's only been 3 years since it ended anyway, so never say never. It's unlikely one person could even be aware of all the movies from the 2000's that they'd have loved, let alone see all of them. Only recently have many people, critics especially, even started to look back at the 80's and realize that maybe they didn't suck so bad.

I'm no critic, yet agree about the eighties comment, I'd dismissed much there, and sort of been led back to view, enjoy, and reminisce, something I'd only recently considered here on this forum.

Cool, I love this idea too. I expect to see lots of surprising choices. That pic for Still Life made me want to check it out.

Nice to see some love for Inland Empire

__________________
"Puns are the highest form of literature." -Alfred Hitchcock

One of my favourite films, not only of the past decade but in general. Absolutely stunning.

I think 1995 was a fairly great year for movies.

Heat
The Usual Suspects
Braveheart
Rob Roy
Toy Story
Seven
Casino
La Haine
Goldeneye
Die Hard With a Vengance

There isn't much outside of them but there are some greats in there.

Also 1999 is very strong too.

Fight Club
The Matrix
American Beauty
Audition
The Insider
Magnolia
Toy Story 2
The Sixth Sense
The Talented Mr Ripley
Being John Malkovich

would probably be my ten picks with honourable mentions for;

The Green Mile
The Blair Witch Project (just because it scared the **** out of me)
Eyes Wide Shut
Ghost Dog

VERY different MoFo Millenium list if 1999 was included.

See for me it's completely opposite.

__________________

Me too, if only because it was, for me, a revelation in film. It was completely different from anything else I've experienced in film, it was brutally true, hilarious, and personal, in the most profound way. The film opened me up to cinema, and without it, I'd be completely different today. It holds a very nostalgic place in my heart.

Kaufman has been quoted as saying, "Film is dead, theater is alive." True, most film is dead, Kaufman's is not. It evolves with you and takes different forms depending on what has happened to you in the interim. What more could be asked of a film?

__________________
Mubi

Yes, I also believe that 1995 and 1999 were very good years for film. 1999 is in fact my favourite year of the 90s.

1991 is my absolute favourite year of the '90's. So many great films made that year.

__________________
"George, this is a little too much for me. Escaped convicts, fugitive sex... I've got a cockfight to focus on."

2005: The Year In Film



1. Cache
2. The Death of Mr. Lazarescu
3. Oxhide
4. Election
5. The New World
6. Workingman's Death
7. A History Of Violence
8. Sin City
9. The Descent
10. Grizzly Man

Within the first few minutes of the opening scene, Michael Haneke's Cache severs the fine line between fiction and reality or rather, how fiction becomes reality when we look closer at what divides them. This technique forces the audience to reconsider the images shown to them on screen, and is also a reminder of how the age of digital media no longer permits total privacy. Suddenly, it no longer feels safe even within the closed walls of one's own home. In Cache, a rich family in Paris is terrorized by mysterious video recordings of their home mailed to them. These recordings have no dialogue and carry no implications at all. It is the purpose of the recordings, and not the content, that confounds and shocks us. With that in mind, Haneke goes one step further in redefining the meaning of suspense - it's not even the anticipation of the 'bang', but the seemingly trivial or senseless act that can generate fear. It is with this overarching theme that Cache becomes a film unto itself, the self-reflexivity that renders the audience to become the spectator in a subconscious level as well.

+

Hmm, 2005. The only one I've seen from the list is Sin City, which I think is overrated as hell. Netflixed Cache, looks intresting. I didnt like most of what I saw from the year looking at the wiki list of wide release films. King Kong and Oliver Twist are pretty good, but I'm yet to see a great movie from the year.

On a side note 13 Tzameti which I haven't seen looks intresting.

Cache is probably the best film about making films in recent history. It has so much rich information about the objective and subjective camera that makes it a seriously perfect film for study. And you have to love Haneke's penultimate shot. Whether trivial to the plot or not, it's a brilliant composition, and purely visual way for the audience to become active. It has so much to say about the nature of film. Who shot the footage, well, of course, it has to be Haneke! Think of it in that context. Plus, Juliette Binoche is one of the best living actresses, a master of tone.

Just noticed this thread. Nice work Tyler, I'm enjoying it so far. It's something I've actually considered doing myself for a while and may still do so at some point. Though with me still not having seen so many films I considered a Year in Review thread where I'd watch through a handful of films first and review them before coming to a definitive top 10.

Out of interest is this just the 'best' films of each year, or does it also cover what you'd consider your personal favourites? For example, with 2007 for instance I'd absolutely agree that Zodiac, There Will Be Blood and Assassination of Jesse James all deserve a spot on a 'best' list, but if I was doing my 'favourites' it would have to fight it out with the likes of King of Kong, Enchanted, TMNT, Stardust and Charlie Wilson's War. Films you could consider as guilty pleasures or that have no purpose other than pure entertainment.

__________________

Agree, like the thread mate. My favorite year would probably be 2007, 2006, or 2003 for the 00's.

You've had to go back to 2005 to reach a year where the majority of the films on your list don't physically repulse me.

oh, come on now. Surely there is at least 1 movie every year that is good regardless of the year.

One? Sure. Hell, two's not a stretch, but I said the majority Of which, I mean of course, Tyler's 10.

2004: The Year In Film



1. Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind
2. The Motorcycle Diaries
3. Downfall
4. Moolaade
5. The Incredibles
6. Collateral
7. Kung Fu Hustle
8. Shaun Of The Dead
9. Kill Bill Vol. 2
10. Before Sunset

To put it plainly, ESotSM is one of the most imaginative and emotional films I've ever seen. One of the best movies of the decade.