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FYC: Best Film
« on: March 24, 2010, 11:00:50 AM »
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(500) Days of Summer
2046
24 Hour Party People
25th Hour
35 Shots of Rum
4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days
40-Year Old Virgin, the
49 Up
8 Femmes
13 Tzameti
28 Days Later
A Scanner Darkly
A Serious Man
A Time for Drunken Horses
About a Boy
Adaptation
AI
All About Lily Chou-Chou
All or Nothing
Almost Famous
Amelie
American Splendor
Anything Else
Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford, the
Atanarjuat: The Fast Runner
Bad Education
Bad Santa
Band's Visit, the
Battle Royale
Before Sunset
Best In Show
Best of Youth, the
Bloody Sunday
Bowling for Columbine
Bridget Jone's Diary
Brokeback Mountain
Broken Embraces
Brother's Bloom, the
Bubble
Burn After Reading
Bus 174
Cache
Casino Royale
Cast Away
Chicken Run
Child, the
Children of Men
Children Underground
Chop Shop
City of God
Climates
Closer
Code Unknown
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
Darjeeling Limited, the
Dancer in the Dark
Death of Mr. Lazarescu, the
Deep Water
Departed, the
Diving Bell and the Butterfly, the
Dogville
Donnie Darko
Downfall
Duck Season
Eastern Promises
Elephant
Esther Kahn
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Eureka
Fantastic Mr Fox
Far from Heaven
Fall, the
Finding Nemo
Finding Neverland
Flight of the Red Balloon
Fog of War
Garden State
Goodbye, Dragon Inn
Ghost World
Gladiator
Gosford Park
Grindhouse
Grizzly Man
Half Past Dead
Hedwig and the Angry Inch
Hero
Hot Fuzz
Hours, the
House of Flying Daggers
Howl's Moving Castle
I Don't Want to Sleep Alone
I Heart Huckabees
I'm Not There
In America
In Bruges
In The Bedroom
In The Mood for Love
Inglourious Basterds
Into the Wild
Isle, the
Joint Security Area
Juno
Kill Bill Vol. 1
Kill Bill Vol. 2
Kings and Queen
L.I.E.
La Danse: The Paris Opera Ballet
Lars and the Real Girl
Last Life in the Universe
Let the Right One in
Letters From Iwo Jima
Little Children
Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou , the
Lilya 4-ever
Limits of Control , the
Lives of Others, the
Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of The Ring, the
Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers, the
Lord of the Rings: Return of The King, the
Lost in Translation
Man Without a Past, the
Man Who Wasn't There, the
Matchstick Men
Matrix Reloaded
Memento
Memories of Murder
Metropolis (anime)
Miami Vice
Millenium Mambo
Minority Report
Monsoon Wedding
Mother
Motorcycle Diaries , the
Moulin Rouge
Movern Callar
Mulholland Dr.
Munich
My Winnipeg
Mysterious Skin
NARC
New World, the
No Country For Old Men
Nobody Knows
Noe
O Brother Where Art Thou?
Oldboy
Once
Open Range
Pan's Labyrinth
Perfume
Pinochet Case, the
Planet Terror
Platform
Pirates of the Caribbean: Curse of the Black Pearl
Prestige, the
Primer
Punch-Drunk Love
Ratatouille
Ray
Redbelt
Reprise
Requiem for a Dream
Revanche
Road to Perdition
Royal Tenebaums, the
Science of Sleep, the
Sea Inside, the
Secretary
Shaun of the Dead
Sideways
Sin City
Sita Sings the Blues
Slumdog Millionaire
Son, the
Spanglish
Spirited Away
Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter, and Spring Again
Station Agent, the
Still Life
Still Walking
Sweeney Todd
Sweet Sixteen
Syndromes and a Century
Synecdoche, New York
Squid and the Whale, the
Talk to Her
Team America
Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada, the
There Will Be Blood
Three Times
Tideland
Together
Touching the Void
Traffic
Tropical Malady
United 93
V For Vendetta
Vanilla Sky
Vendredi Soir
Virgin Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors
Volver
WALL-E
Wallace and Gromit: Curse of the Were-Rabbit
Waitress
Waltz With Bashir
Watchmen
Wendy and Lucy
Werckmeister Harmonies
West 47th Street
What Time is it There?
Wind that Shakes the Barley, the
World, the
Wordplay
Wrestler, the
Y Tu Mama Tabien
Yi Yi
You Can Count on Me
Zodiac



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Re: FYC: Best Film
« Reply #1 on: March 24, 2010, 08:05:57 PM »
Here's my top 10 from the decade for consideration,

Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind (2004)
Letters From Iwo Jima (2006)
Road To Perdition (2002)
El Laberinto Del Fauno (Pan’s Labyrinth, 2006)
Finding Neverland (2004)
WALL·E (2008)
Eastern Promises (2007)
Fa Yeung Nin Wa (In The Mood For Love, 2000)
Sen To Chihiro No Kamikakushi (Spirited Away, 2001)
Elephant (2003)

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Re: FYC: Best Film
« Reply #2 on: March 24, 2010, 08:34:03 PM »
Atanarjuat: The Fast Runner (Zacharias Kunuk, 2001)
All or Nothing (Mike Leigh, 2002)
Best In Show (Christopher Guest, 2000)
Children of Men (Alfonso Cuarón, 2006)
Children Underground (Edet Belzberg, 2001)
Far from Heaven (Todd Haynes, 2002)
The Fog of War (Errol Morris, 2003)
4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days (Cristian Mungiu, 2007)
In The Mood for Love (Wong Kar-wai, 2000)
Little Children (Todd Field, 2006)
Mulholland Dr. (David Lynch, 2001)
My Winnipeg (Guy Maddin, 2008)
The Pinochet Case (Patricio Guzmán, 2002)
Sweet Sixteen (Ken Loach, 2002)
You Can Count on Me (Kenneth Lonergan, 2000)
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Re: FYC: Best Film
« Reply #3 on: March 24, 2010, 09:52:07 PM »
My top 10 are pretty solid but beyond that I am really not sure.  Plus there is alot of stuff I haven't seen.



10. Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter, and Spring Again



9.  The Fog of War



8.  Ghost World



7.  Downfall



6.  Y tu Mama Tambien



5.  Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind



4.  Noi



3.  Grizzly Man



2.  The Isle



1.  Together

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Re: FYC: Best Film
« Reply #4 on: March 25, 2010, 12:50:19 AM »
How come no one has mentioned Half Past Dead (Don Michael Paul, 2002) starring the legendary Steven Seagal?

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Re: FYC: Best Film
« Reply #5 on: March 25, 2010, 07:30:30 AM »
10. Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter, and Spring Again
9.  The Fog of War
Woowoo! :)

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Re: FYC: Best Film
« Reply #6 on: March 25, 2010, 08:11:39 AM »
Let's see what I can add here to the previously mentioned Spirited Away and Children of Men:

The Prestige
28 Days Later
Garden State
Minority Report
Juno
Memento
Bowling For Columbine
Let The Right One In
Donnie Darko

and we'll just assume Clovis showed up to say Before Sunset.

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Re: FYC: Best Film
« Reply #7 on: March 25, 2010, 09:50:51 AM »
I'm going to official start my campaign for these two films:

Synecdoche, New York




In America

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Re: FYC: Best Film
« Reply #8 on: March 25, 2010, 09:51:31 AM »
There Will Be Blood is the first or second best film ever made, which means it wins.

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Re: FYC: Best Film
« Reply #9 on: March 25, 2010, 11:13:03 AM »
Yay for In America!

Also:

Eureka (Shinji Aoyama, 2000)
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (Ang Lee, 2000)
In the Bedroom (Todd Field, 2001)
Das Leben der Anderen (The Lives of Others, Florian Henckel von Donnersmark, 2006)
YiYi (Edward Yang, 2000)
Volver (Pedro Almodovar, 2006)

 

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