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One of the weirdest lists that I've ever seen. A strange mixture of popular mainstream films and more artistic releasses. Two very recent films in the top five and no Tarantino at all! 
http://www.film4.com/special-feature...s-21st-century
1 - Mulholland Drive
2 - Yi Yi: A One and a Two
3 - There Will Be Blood
4 - Under the Skin
5 - Boyhood
6 - In the Mood for Love
7 - Werckmeister Harmonies
8 - Le Fils
9 - Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
10 - Zodiac
11 - Spirited Away
12 - Far from Heaven
13 - Margaret
14 - Hidden
15 - Talk to Her
16 - The White Ribbon
17 - Before Sunset
18 - Dogtooth
19 - A Separation
20 - 12 Years A Slave
21 - Pan's Labyrinth
22 - 4 Luni, 3 Săptămâni Şi 2 Zile (4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days)
23 - Brokeback Mountain
24 - Memories of Murder
25 - No Country for Old Men
26 - Let the Right One in
27 - Tropical Malady
28 - Fat Girl
29 - The Return
30 - The Social Network
31 - La Vie D'Adèle (Blue Is the Warmest Colour)
32 - The Royal Tenenbaums
33 - Once Upon A Time In Anatolia
34 - White Material
35 - Together
36 - Tomboy
37 - Moolaade
38 - A History of Violence
39 - Weekend
40 - Ghost World
41 - Sexy Beast
42 - Gravity
43 - Frances Ha
44 - A Prophet
45 - Punch-Drunk Love
46 - Kill List
47 - The Lives of Others
48 - Snowtown
49 - Nobody Knows
50 - Happy-Go-Lucky
51 - City of God
52 - The Great Beauty
53 - The Lord of the Rings Trilogy
54 - Berberian Sound Studio
55 - The Descent
56 - Ginger Snaps
57 - Elephant
58 - Fish Tank
59 - The Selfish Giant
60 - Mean Girls
61 - The Headless Woman
62 - Magic Mike
63 - Shaun of the dead
64 - Bridesmaids
65 - The Tree of Life
66 - Tyrannosaur
67 - The Puffy Chair
68 - This Is England
69 - The Man Who Wasn't There
70 - The Hurt Locker
71 - Battle Royale
72 - A.I. Artificial Intelligence
73 - Archipelago
74 - The Dark Knight
75 - In Bruges
76 - Untold Scandal
77 - Four Lions
78 - Old Joy
79 - Stoker
80 - Lost in Translation
81 - The Wolf of Wall Street
82 - American Psycho
83 - Attack The Block
84 - How I Live Now
85 - 25th Hour
86 - Frozen
87 - Young Adult
88 - The Mother
89 - We Need to Talk About Kevin
90 - District 9
91 - Adventureland
92 - Finding Nemo
93 - The Avengers
94 - Nymphomaniac
95 - The Wind That Shakes The Barley
96 - Slumdog Millionaire
97 - Goon
98 - Irreversible
99 - A Knight's Tale
100 - Casino Royale
Hello and welcome. We’re proud to present the result of months of consideration from the Film4 website team and the votes of 30 carefully selected film critics: this is our collectively collated 100 must-see movies of the 21st century so far.
Drawn from 29 countries around the world, the most recent release on our list is Richard Linklater’s Boyhood, which stormed into the chart at number 5. Other recent releases in the top 20 include Steve McQueen’s landmark 12 Years A Slave and Jonathan Glazer’s mesmeric Under The Skin. Glazer is one of just a handful of directors with two films on the list – the others are the afore-mentioned Linklater, indie essentials the Coen brothers, US powerhouse David Fincher and of course Austrian auteur Michael Haneke.
Something else we’re really proud of is the mixture of different types of film this list represents – there’s everything from modern teen classics like the Tina Fey-scripted Mean Girls, to massive animated blockbusters like Chris Buck and Jennifer Lee’s Frozen, to Oscar winners like Danny Boyle’s Slumdog Millionaire, to austere art-house triumphs such as Kelly Reichart’s Old Joy, to the acutely humane social realism found in The Selfish Giant by Clio Barnard. And much, much more.
The difficulty with these lists is always what gets left off (we're saving documentaries for another list entirely). Our long-list ran to an unwieldy 300+ which we had originally intended to cut down to a top 50 before realising that the 21st century has already generated too much brilliant cinema to represent in any meaningful way with 50 films. So with apologies to the many wonderful filmmakers whose work we were unable to include, we present our list of 100 must-see films of the century so far...
Written by Catherine Bray, David Cox, Joe Cunningham and Michael Leader
Drawn from 29 countries around the world, the most recent release on our list is Richard Linklater’s Boyhood, which stormed into the chart at number 5. Other recent releases in the top 20 include Steve McQueen’s landmark 12 Years A Slave and Jonathan Glazer’s mesmeric Under The Skin. Glazer is one of just a handful of directors with two films on the list – the others are the afore-mentioned Linklater, indie essentials the Coen brothers, US powerhouse David Fincher and of course Austrian auteur Michael Haneke.
Something else we’re really proud of is the mixture of different types of film this list represents – there’s everything from modern teen classics like the Tina Fey-scripted Mean Girls, to massive animated blockbusters like Chris Buck and Jennifer Lee’s Frozen, to Oscar winners like Danny Boyle’s Slumdog Millionaire, to austere art-house triumphs such as Kelly Reichart’s Old Joy, to the acutely humane social realism found in The Selfish Giant by Clio Barnard. And much, much more.
The difficulty with these lists is always what gets left off (we're saving documentaries for another list entirely). Our long-list ran to an unwieldy 300+ which we had originally intended to cut down to a top 50 before realising that the 21st century has already generated too much brilliant cinema to represent in any meaningful way with 50 films. So with apologies to the many wonderful filmmakers whose work we were unable to include, we present our list of 100 must-see films of the century so far...
Written by Catherine Bray, David Cox, Joe Cunningham and Michael Leader
1 - Mulholland Drive
2 - Yi Yi: A One and a Two
3 - There Will Be Blood
4 - Under the Skin
5 - Boyhood
6 - In the Mood for Love
7 - Werckmeister Harmonies
8 - Le Fils
9 - Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
10 - Zodiac
11 - Spirited Away
12 - Far from Heaven
13 - Margaret
14 - Hidden
15 - Talk to Her
16 - The White Ribbon
17 - Before Sunset
18 - Dogtooth
19 - A Separation
20 - 12 Years A Slave
21 - Pan's Labyrinth
22 - 4 Luni, 3 Săptămâni Şi 2 Zile (4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days)
23 - Brokeback Mountain
24 - Memories of Murder
25 - No Country for Old Men
26 - Let the Right One in
27 - Tropical Malady
28 - Fat Girl
29 - The Return
30 - The Social Network
31 - La Vie D'Adèle (Blue Is the Warmest Colour)
32 - The Royal Tenenbaums
33 - Once Upon A Time In Anatolia
34 - White Material
35 - Together
36 - Tomboy
37 - Moolaade
38 - A History of Violence
39 - Weekend
40 - Ghost World
41 - Sexy Beast
42 - Gravity
43 - Frances Ha
44 - A Prophet
45 - Punch-Drunk Love
46 - Kill List
47 - The Lives of Others
48 - Snowtown
49 - Nobody Knows
50 - Happy-Go-Lucky
51 - City of God
52 - The Great Beauty
53 - The Lord of the Rings Trilogy
54 - Berberian Sound Studio
55 - The Descent
56 - Ginger Snaps
57 - Elephant
58 - Fish Tank
59 - The Selfish Giant
60 - Mean Girls
61 - The Headless Woman
62 - Magic Mike
63 - Shaun of the dead
64 - Bridesmaids
65 - The Tree of Life
66 - Tyrannosaur
67 - The Puffy Chair
68 - This Is England
69 - The Man Who Wasn't There
70 - The Hurt Locker
71 - Battle Royale
72 - A.I. Artificial Intelligence
73 - Archipelago
74 - The Dark Knight
75 - In Bruges
76 - Untold Scandal
77 - Four Lions
78 - Old Joy
79 - Stoker
80 - Lost in Translation
81 - The Wolf of Wall Street
82 - American Psycho
83 - Attack The Block
84 - How I Live Now
85 - 25th Hour
86 - Frozen
87 - Young Adult
88 - The Mother
89 - We Need to Talk About Kevin
90 - District 9
91 - Adventureland
92 - Finding Nemo
93 - The Avengers
94 - Nymphomaniac
95 - The Wind That Shakes The Barley
96 - Slumdog Millionaire
97 - Goon
98 - Irreversible
99 - A Knight's Tale
100 - Casino Royale
