Decade's Top 100 Films: 2000-2009

Picking up at the end of this thread, Spider would quite probably be sitting in my top 20.


Not sure if it's been mentioned but Sight and Sound posted a list of the decades best, in alphabetical order:

Adaptation
Battle in Heaven
The Beat the My Heart Skipped
The Bourne Ultimatum
Colossal Youth
The Death of Mr Lazarescu
Eloge De l'Amour
The Five Obstructions
The Gleaners and I
Hidden
INLAND EMPIRE
In the Mood For Love
Memories of Murder
La Nina Santa
A One and a Two...
Platform
Russian Ark
The Son
Spirited Away
Talk to Her
10
There Will Be Blood
35 Shots of Rum
Touching the Void
Tropical Malady
Until Red Army
Uzak
Waiting for Happiness
Wreckmeister Harmonies
Workingman's Death

The aim of their list was to encompass the relevant aspects of cinema represented in the decade, with films standing in for movements, ideas and filmographies opposed to subjective opinions

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There's also this list from Film Comment. As per the Cronenberg discussion earlier in this thread, check out number seven.

http://www.filmlinc.com/b/?p=1490

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Good to see Miami Vice getting some retrospective love

Interesting to see that Eastern Promises isn't on that list at all. There again, they've got Grizzly Man 89 places above The Lives Of Others, so what the hell do they know.

They did have it at number nine for the year that it was released.

I just meant that, what with the discussion we've been having about the merits of the two films, they've not included it in 150 films. I wouldn't expect it to be higher than A History of Violence (obviously) but I didn't think there were 143 better films. Certainly not ones called "Grizzly Man".

Actually, taking another look through the list, I'd put it above Million Dollar Baby, Spirited Away, (just because it's anime and I can't watch it) The Royal Tenenbaums, Kill Bill: Vol. 1, Mystic River and The Incredibles. And those are just the films I've seen.

I just saw Elephant on the sundance channel or IFC... wow i love how the plot builds without the atmosphere changing if that makes sense(im not a film student so i cant eloquently say what i mean).Great movie

Well Michael, Im not a big list-maker, but I actually did compile my Top 50 of the Decade. I havent put them in any order other than chronological. Just thought I would post it in case you were interested.

1.Requiem for a Dream (2000)
2.Bully (2001)
3.A Beautiful Mind (2001)
4.From Hell (2001)
5.Hedwig & the Angry Inch (2001)
6.Monsters Ball (2001)
7.Mulholland Drive (2001)
8.The Pledge (2001)
9.Read My Lips (2001)
10.Tape (2001)
11.Gerry (2002)
12.Insomnia (2002)
13.The Pianist (2002)
14.21 Grams (2003)
15.Elephant (2003)
16.Finding Nemo (2003)
17.The Mudge Boy (2003)
18.Mystic River (2003)
19.The Station Agent (2003)
20.The Assassination Of Richard Nixon (2004)
21.Birth (2004)
22.The Woodsman (2004)
23.Brokeback Mountain (2005)
24.A History of Violence (2005)
25.Last Days (2005)
26.Babel (2006)
27.The Departed (2006)
28.Apocalypto (2006)
29.Notes on a Scandal (2006)
30.Brick (2006)
31.Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (2007)
32.Before the Devil Knows Youre Dead (2007)
33.Chop Shop (2007)
34.4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days (2007)
35.Into the Wild (2007)
36.Eastern Promises (2007)
37.No Country For Old Men (2007)
38.The Savages (2007)
39.Spiral (2007)
40.Sweeney Todd (2007)
41.There Will Be Blood (2007)
42.Changeling (2008)
43.Let the Right One In (2008)
44.Slumdog Millionaire (2008)
45.Milk (2008)
46.Snow Angels (2008)
47.Doubt (2008)
48.Waltz With Bashir (2008)
49.Frozen River (2008)
50.The Merry Gentleman (2008)

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Wow, I've only seen 5 of those Sight and Sound ones. I was going to make my own list but I see all these lists and there's so many I've not seen yet.

I really need to see The Fountain and 4 Months...

Here are a few great ones from this decade:


In America (2004)
Director: Jim Sheridan

Hotel Rwanda (2004)
Director: Terry George

Iraq in Fragments (2006)
Director: James Longley

There are many good ones that i havent seen from the above lists

Ray

I just watched 4 Months, was great film and everything but think getting bumped a bit too high on these lists. Maybe contextually it represents more significance but as a film would probably be hitting round the #50 on my list

My tentative top 50 (didn't think it warranted its own thread):

1.Gegen die Wand (Head On)
2.Lost in Translation
3.Oldboy
4.Der Untergang (Downfall)
5.Moulin Rouge!
6.Brokeback Mountain
7.Quills
8.City of God
9.The Pianist
10.24 Hour Party People
11.Spirited Away
12.Donnie Darko
13.Monsoon Wedding
14.Sin City
15.Sunshine
16.Pan's Labyrinth
17.28 Days Later
18.Bunny and the Bull
19.The Royal Tenenbaums
20.Interstella 5555
21.Dancer in the Dark
22.Latter Days
23.Dogville
24.Innocence
25.Inside I'm Dancing
26.Children of Men
27.Gangs of New York
28.In the Mood For Love
29.Memento
30.Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
31.Red Road
32.Shaun of the Dead
33.Lust, Caution
34.Stardust
35.Mulholland Drive
36.The Devil's Backbone
37.Repo: The Genetic Opera
38.Auf der Anderen Seite (The Edge of Heaven)
39.Milk
40.Die Falscher (The Counterfeiters)
41.In My Father's Den
42.Infernal Affairs
43.Atonement
44.Munich
45.Battle Royale
46.Gosford Park
47.Bad Education
48.Y Tu Mama Tambien
49.Perfume
50.Serenity

I loved The Science Of Sleep.

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And Amores Perros. Next is The Pianist and The New World.

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