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Top Five By Year: 2000-2009
« on: April 21, 2011, 03:46:36 PM »
2000
1. Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (Ang Lee)
2. Rejected (Don Hertzfeldt)
3. Best in Show (Christopher Guest)
4. Billy Elliot (Stephen Daldry)
5. Chicken Run (Peter Lord and Nick Park)

2001
1. The Royal Tenenbaums (Wes Anderson)
2. Mulholland Dr. (David Lynch)
3. In the Mood for Love (Wong Kar Wai)
4. Amelie (Jean-Pierre Jeunet)
5. Memento (Christopher Nolan)

2002
1. Spirited Away (Hayao Miyazaki)
2. Punch Drunk Love (Paul Thomas Anderson)
3. Catch Me If You Can (Steven Spielberg)
4. Far From Heaven (Todd Haynes)
5. Adaptation (Spike Jonze)

2003
1. The Fog of War: Eleven Lessons from the Life of Robert S. McNamara (Errol Morris)
2. Millennium Actress (Satoshi Kon)
3. Kill Bill: Volume I (Quentin Tarantino)
4. Finding Nemo (Andrew Stanton)
5. The Lord of the Rings: Return of the King (Peter Jackson)

2004
1. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (Michel Gondry)
2. The Incredibles (Brad Bird)
3. Kill Bill: Volume II (Quentin Tarantino)
4. House of Flying Daggers (Zhang Yimou)
5. Mean Girls (Mark Waters)

2005
1. Tropical Malady (Apichatpong Weerasethakul)
2. Capote (Bennet Miller)
3. Kung Fu Hustle (Stephen Chow)
4. Cache (Michael Haneke)
5. Nobody Knows (Hirokazu Koreeda)

2006
1. Brick (Rian Johnson)
2. Volver (Pedro Almodovar)
3. Children of Men (Alfonso Cuaron)
4. Marie-Antoinette (Sofia Coppola)
5. Letters from Iwo Jima (Clint Eastwood)

2007
1. I'm Not There (Todd Haynes)
2. Ratatouille (Brad Bird)
3. No Country for Old Men (Joel and Ethan Coen)
4. No End in Sight (Charles Ferguson)
5. There Will Be Blood (Paul Thomas Anderson)

2008
1. 4 Months, 3 Weeks, and 2 Days (Cristian Mungiu)
2. Man on Wire (James Marsh)
3. The Dark Knight (Christopher Nolan)
4. Hunger (Steve McQueen)
5. Milk (Gus Van Sant)

2009
1. A Serious Man (Joel and Ethan Coen)
2. The White Ribbon (Michael Haneke)
3. Fantastic Mr. Fox (Wes Anderson)
4. Precious: Based on the Novel "Push" by Sapphire (Lee Daniels)
5. 35 Shots of Rum (Claire Denis)


WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO. So, I'm going to do this thread series until we get back to the fifties.
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Re: Top Five By Year: 2000-2009
« Reply #1 on: April 21, 2011, 04:01:45 PM »
I just used the existing threads.

2000
2001
2002
2003
2004
2005
2006
2007
2008

Can't remember where I posted my 2009 list, maybe I never did.

1. Visage
2. In the Loop
3. Mother
4. Fantastic Mr. Fox
5. Moon / A Serious Man (tie)

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Re: Top Five By Year: 2000-2009
« Reply #2 on: April 21, 2011, 04:13:48 PM »
2000:

1. Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (Ang Lee)
2. In the Mood for Love (Wong Kar-wai)
3. The Heart of the World (Guy Maddin)
4. La Commune (Paris 1871) (Peter Watkins)
5. Yi yi (Edward Yang)

2001:

1. Millennium Mambo (Hou Hsiao-hsien)
2. The Royal Tenenbaums (Wes Anderson)
3. Mulholland Dr. (David Lynch)
4. What Time Is It There? (Tsai Ming-liang)
5. Spirited Away (Hayao Miyazaki)

2002:

1. Punch-Drunk Love (Paul Thomas Anderson)
2. Hero (Zhang Yimou)
3. Morvern Callar (Lynne Ramsey)
4. Blissfully Yours (Apichatpong Weerasethakul)
5. Infernal Affairs (Andrew Lau and Alan Mak)

2003:

1. Kill Bill Vol. 1 (Quentin Tarantino)
2. Last Life in the Universe (Pen-Ek Ratanaruang)
3. Los Angeles Plays Itself (Thom Anderson)
4. Goodbye, Dragon Inn (Tsai Ming-liang)
5. PTU (Johnnie To)

2004:

1. 2046 (Wong Kar-wai)
2. House of Flying Daggers (Zhang Yimou)
3. The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou (Wes Anderson)
4. Tropical Malady (Apichatpong Weerasethakul)
5. The World (Jia Zhangke)

2005:

1. The New World (Terrence Malick)
2. Three Times (Hou Hsiao-hsien)
3. A History of Violence (David Cronenberg)
4. The Death of Mr. Lazarescu (Cristi Puiu)
5. Election (Johnnie To)

2006:

1. The Wind that Shakes the Barley (Ken Loach)
2. Still Life (Jia Zhangke)
3. Miami Vice (Michael Mann)
4. Exiled (Johnnie To)
5. Private Fears in Public Places (Alain Resnais)

2007:

1. I'm Not There (Todd Haynes)
2. There Will be Blood (Paul Thomas Anderson)
3. My Winnipeg (Guy Maddin)
4. You, the Living (Roy Andersson)
5. The Romance of Astrea and Celadon (Eric Rohmer)

2008:

1. WALL-E (Andrew Stanton)
2. Sita Sings the Blues (Nina Paley)
3. A Christmas Tale (Arnauld Desplechin)
4. Sparrow (Johnnie To)
5. Ashes of Time Redux (Wong Kar-wai)

2009:

1. Inglourious Basterds (Quentin Tarantino)
2. Fantastic Mr. Fox (Wes Anderson)
3. Oxhide II (Liu Jiayin)
4. Wild Grass (Alain Resnais)
5. La danse (Frederick Wiseman)
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Re: Top Five By Year: 2000-2009
« Reply #3 on: April 21, 2011, 05:16:22 PM »
I've posted in some of the threads, but I love being a whore... er... I mean post whore.

2000
1. Dancer in the Dark
2. Requiem for a Dream
3. Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon
4. Traffic
5. Almost Famous

2001
1. Memento
2. The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
3. Ocean's Eleven
4. In the Bedroom
5. The Royal Tenenbaums

2002
1. About Schmidt
2. Far from Heaven
3. Talk to Her
4. The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
5. Bowling for Columbine

2003
1. American Splendor
2. The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
3. Mystic River
4. School of Rock
5. Lost in Translation

2004
1. Sideways
2. Million Dollar Baby
3. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
4. The Incredibles
5. Maria Full of Grace

2005
1. Munich
2. A History of Violence
3. King Kong
4. Brokeback Mountain
5. Match Point

2006
1. Letters from Iwo Jima
2. Casino Royale
3. Borat
4. United 93
5. Pan's Labyrinth

2007
1. I'm Not There
2. There Will Be Blood
3. Before the Devil Knows You're Dead
4. No Country for Old Men
5. Michael Clayton

2008
1. Wall-E
2. The Wrestler
3. Milk
4. The Dark Knight
5. Rachel Getting Married

2009
1. Up in the Air
2. The Hurt Locker
3. Inglourious Basterds
4. Up
5. Precious
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Re: Top Five By Year: 2000-2009
« Reply #4 on: April 21, 2011, 06:12:49 PM »
Awesome lists, guys! Some really diverse stuff here - there are always more films to watch! Some of these I never even heard of before.  :D

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Re: Top Five By Year: 2000-2009
« Reply #5 on: April 21, 2011, 06:47:15 PM »
2000

YI YI (Yang)
EUREKA (Aoyama)
IN THE MOOD FOR LOVE (Wong)
PLATFORM (Jia)
THE YARDS (Gray)

2001

MILLENNIUM MAMBO (Hou)
THE ROYAL TENENBAUMS (W. Anderson)
A.I. ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE (Spielberg)
TROUBLE EVERY DAY (Denis)
WHAT TIME IS IT THERE? (Tsai)

2002

PUNCH-DRUNK LOVE (Anderson)
TALK TO HER (Almodovar)
FRIDAY NIGHT (Denis)
FUNNY HA HA (Bujalski)
THE SON (Dardennes)

2003

ALL THE REAL GIRLS (Green)
LOS ANGELES PLAYS ITSELF (Andersen)
MEMORIES OF MURDER (Bong)
LE MONDE VIVANT (Green)
THE BROWN BUNNY (Gallo)

2004

BEFORE SUNSET (Linklater)
MIND GAME (Yuasa)
MYSTERIOUS SKIN (Araki)
KINGS AND QUEEN (Desplechin)
LE PONT DES ARTS (Green)

2005

THE WAYWARD CLOUD (Tsai)
WAR OF THE WORLDS (Spielberg)
THE BAXTER (Showalter)
THREE TIMES (Hou)
L'ENFANT (Dardennes)

2006

MIAMI VICE (Mann)
STILL LIFE (Jia)
SYNDROMES AND A CENTURY (Weerasethakul)
EXILED (To)
DEJA VU (Scott)

2007

SECRET SUNSHINE (Lee)
WE OWN THE NIGHT (Gray)
THE DARJEELING LIMITED  (W. Andeson)
EN LA CIUDAD DE SYLVIA (Guerin)
DON'T TOUCH THE AXE (Rivette)

2008

35 SHOTS OF RUM (Denis)
A CHRISTMAS TALE (Desplechin)
SUMMER HOURS (Assayas)
SPARROW (To)
TWO LOVERS (Gray)

2009

FANTASTIC MR. FOX (W. Anderson)
ALAMAR (GONZALEZ-RUBIO)
EVERYONE ELSE (Ade)
LOVE AAJ KAL (Ali)
HALLOWEEN II (Zombie)
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Re: Top Five By Year: 2000-2009
« Reply #6 on: April 21, 2011, 08:01:13 PM »
2000
Fa Yeung Nin Wa (In The Mood For Love)
Yi Yi (Yi Yi: A One And A Two)
High Fidelity
Unbreakable
Traffic

2001
Sen To Chihiro No Kamikakushi (Spirited Away)
In The Bedroom
The Man Who Wasn’t There
Black Hawk Down
Monsters, Inc.

2002
Road To Perdition
28 Days Later…
Tasogare Seibei (The Twilight Samurai)
Mou Gaan Dou (Infernal Affairs)
Far From Heaven

2003
Elephant
Janghwa, Hongryeon (A Tale Of Two Sisters)
Finding Nemo
Open Range
Mystic River

2004
Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind
Finding Neverland
Before Sunset
Spider-Man 2
Der Untergang (Downfall)

2005
The Proposition
A History Of Violence
Chinjeolhan Geumjassi (Lady Vengeance)
Last Days
Sin City (Unrated)

2006
Letters From Iwo Jima
Efter Brylluppet (After The Wedding)
El Laberinto Del Fauno (Pan’s Labyrinth)
La Science Des Rêves (The Science Of Sleep)
Southland Tales

2007
Eastern Promises
No Country For Old Men
The Mist
Into The Wild
The Kite Runner

2008
WALL·E
The Wrestler
Wendy And Lucy
Låt Den Rätte Komma In (Let The Right One In)
Synecdoche, New York

2009
Up
Watchmen
Moon
Avatar
The House Of The Devil

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Re: Top Five By Year: 2000-2009
« Reply #7 on: April 22, 2011, 03:36:45 AM »
2000
1. Sexy Beast
2. O, Brother Where Art Thou?
3. Together
4. Almost Famous
5. Unbreakable

2001
1. LOTR: The Fellowship of the Ring
2. Donnie Darko
3. Mulholland Drive
4. The Man Who Wasn't There
5. A.I: Artificial Intelligence

2002
1. LOTR: The Two Towers
2. Punch-Drunk Love
3. Catch Me If You Can
4. Lilja 4-Ever
5. 28 Days Later

2003
1. LOTR: The Return of the King
2. Kill Bill Vol. 1
3. Elephant
4. Oldboy
5. Finding Nemo

2004
1. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
2. Kill Bill Vol. 2
3. Shaun of the Dead
4. Millions
5. Team America

2005
1. The New World
2. A History of Violence
3. Cachè
4. King Kong
5. Batman Begins

2006
1. The Departed
2. Casino Royale
3. The Fountain
4. Science of Sleep
5. Reprise

2007
1. The Assassination of Jesse James
2. Ratatouille
3. Hot Fuzz
4. No Country For Old Men
5. There Will Be Blood

2008
1. Låt Den Rätte Komma In
2. The Dark Knight
3. Hunger
4. Changeling
5. Milk

2009
1. Fantastic Mr. Fox
2. A Single Man
3. Up
4. Watchmen
5. Humpday

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Re: Top Five By Year: 2000-2009
« Reply #8 on: April 26, 2011, 03:03:48 PM »
2000
1. Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
2. High Fidelity
3. The Contender
4. Chocolat
5. Legacy

2001
1. Amelie
2. In the Bedroom
3. Ghost World
4. Metropolis
5. Gosford Park

2002
1. Spirited Away
2. Adaptation.
3. Dirty Pretty Things
4. 28 Days Later
5. 25th Hour

2003
1. Finding Nemo
2. American Splendor
3. The Cooler
4. Lost in Translation
5. City of God

2004
1. Million Dollar Baby
2. Sideways
3. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
4. The Incredibles
5. Before Sunset

2005
1. Crash
2. Brokeback Mountain
3. A History of Violence
4. Me and You and Everyone We Know
5. Batman Begins

2006
1. The Queen
2. When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts
3. Children of Men
4. Akeelah and the Bee
5. An Inconvenient Truth

2007
1. No Country for Old Men
2. Juno
3. 4 Months, 3 Weeks, 2 Days
4. Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
5. The Band's Visit

2008
1. The Dark Knight
2. Dear Zachary: A Letter to a Son About His Father
3. Rachel Getting Married
4. Doubt
5. Trouble the Water

2009
1. Passing Strange
2. Up in the Air
3. Cairo Time
4. A Serious Man
5. Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans

Quite a good decade. Nothing like the 80s.  ;D

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Re: Top Five By Year: 2000-2009
« Reply #9 on: April 26, 2011, 03:30:40 PM »
2000
Traffic
Amores Perros*
O Brother, Where Art Thou?
High Fidelity
Sexy Beast

2001
Mulholland Drive
Training Day
Hedwig & The Angry Inch
Amelie^
Momento

2002
25th Hour
City Of God
Talk To Her
Punch Drunk Love
Infernal Affairs*^
Joint Security Area (6 entries, too hard to choose between- great year)

2003
Oldboy
Elephant^
The Station Agent
{new entry}
Return Of The King
Master & Commander

2004
Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind
Downfall^
Before Sunset
The Incredibles*^
Shaun Of The Dead

2005
Sympathy for Lady Vengeance
Kiss Kiss Bang Bang*
Brick^*
Cache
A History of Violence

2006
The Lives of Others
Children of Men
United 93
Pan's Labyrinth
Volver

2007
Control
There Will Be Blood*^
Sunshine*^
Paranoid Park^
No Country For Old Men

2008
In Bruges*^
Happy-Go-Lucky*
Redbelt*^
Milk
Let The Right One In

2009
The Damned United
Thirst*
Moon
The White Ribbon
The Secret In Their Eyes
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