Your top 10/20/100 of the decade [Archive]

Mysterious Dude

12-31-2009, 05:09 AM

Everyone else is doing it. Why not you?

I'm still slogging through 2008 and 2009, but the moment seems right.

1. City of God (2002)
2. Requiem for a Dream (2000)
3. Children of Men (2006)
4. Waking Life (2001)
5. Bully (2001)
6. The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (2007)
7. The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (2007)
8. Mysterious Skin (2004)
9. Shaun of the Dead (2004)
10. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004)

11. Better Luck Tomorrow (2002)
12. El Bola (2000)
13. Lilja 4-Ever (2002)
14. 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days (2007)
15. Traffic (2000)
16. Kings and Queen (2004)
17. The Cell (2000)
18. The Prestige (2006)
19. Road to Perdition (2002)
20. Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World (2003)

21. Mean Creak (2004)
22. Elephant (2003)
23. Punch-Drunk Love (2002)
24. No Country for Old Men (2007)
25. The Fall (2006)
26. Y Tu Mama Tambien (2001)
27. Metropolis (2001)
28. Sexy Beast (2000)
29. The Squid and the Whale (2005)
30. Primer (2004)

31. Dancer in the Dark (2000)
32. The Proposition (2005)
33. Memento (2000)
34. Caché (2005)
35. Waitress (2007)
36. Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000)
37. There Will Be Blood (2007)
38. MirrorMask (2005)
39. Confessions of a Dangerous Mind (2002)
40. Iraq in Fragments (2006)

41. Brand Upon the Brain! (2006)
42. All the Real Girls (2003)
43. 12:08 East of Bucharest (2006)
44. Bright Star (2009)
45. Chicken Run (2000)
46. Zodiac (2007)
47. The Death of Mr. Lazarescu (2005)
48. Gomorra (2008)
49. The Return (2003)
50. Moulin Rouge! (2001)

51. Good Night, and Good Luck (2005)
52. The Piano Teacher (2001)
53. Gangs of New York (2002)
54. Syriana (2005)
55. Bloody Sunday (2002)
56. Grbavica (2006)
57. 21 Grams (2003)
58. Bus 174 (2002)
59. Mysterious Object at Noon (2000)
60. Hedwig and the Angry Inch (2001)

61. A Time for Drunken Horses (2000)
62. In the Loop (2009)
63. Adanggaman (2000)
64. Once (2006)
65. Pirates of the Caribbean (2003)
66. Babel (2006)
67. Steamboy (2004)
68. I’m Not Scared (2003)
69. Panic (2000)
70. Wild Tigers I Have Known (2006)

71. Strings (2004)
72. Kung Fu Hustle (2004)
73. Series 7: The Contenders (2001)
74. Dracula: Pages from a Virgin’s Diary (2002)
75. Let the Right One In (2008)
76. O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000)
77. The Dark Knight (2008)
78. Moon (2009)
79. Hotel Rwanda (2004)
80. The Hurt Locker (2008)

81. Monster (2003)
82. In the Mood for Love (2000)
83. Shotgun Stories (2007)
84. Snatch (2000)
85. The Science of Sleep (2006)
86. Tricks (2007)
87. Sweet Sixteen (2002)
88. Man on Fire (2004)
89. The Circle (2000)
90. Where the Wild Things Are (2009)

91. The Time of the Wolf (2003)
92. Slumdog Millionaire (2008)
93. A Serious Man (2009)
94. Jesus Camp (2006)
95. Duma (2005)
96. Ichi the Killer (2001)
97. District 9 (2009)
98. Burn After Reading (2008)
99. 28 Days Later... (2002)
100. Inglourious Basterds (2009)

Melville

12-31-2009, 05:12 AM

Copy-and-pasted from the other thread, with Antichrist added in:

1. The Son
2. Mulholland Dr.
3. The Aviator
4. In the Mood for Love
5. Punch-Drunk Love
6. There Will Be Blood
7. Requiem for a Dream
8. The New World
9. Capturing the Friedmans
10. The Good Girl
11. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
12. Lost in Translation
13. Two Lovers
14. The Royal Tenenbaums
15. Werckmeister Harmonies
16. Winged Migration
17. A Time for Drunken Horses
18. Synecdoche, NY
19. Bright Star
20. Love Exposure
21. The Forsaken Land
22. Time Out
23. Nobody Knows
24. George Washington
25. Hunger
26. Spirited Away
27. Oasis
28. Waltz with Bashir
29. Mysterious Skin
30. Let the Right One In
31. The Wayward Cloud
32. Grizzly Man
33. The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
34. Inglourious Basterds
35. Spider-Man 2
36. Inland Empire
37. Paprika
38. 4 Months, 3 Weeks, and 2 Days
39. Tristram Shandy: A Cock and Bull Story
40. Trouble Every Day
41. My Love
42. Dogville
43. Ghost World
44. Tropical Malady
45. Antichrist
46. Marie Antoinette
47. Flight of the Red Balloon
48. The Black Book
49. Jesus Camp
50. You Can Count on Me
51. Kung-fu Hustle
52. Burn After Reading
53. Once
54. Three Times
55. We Don’t Live Here Anymore
56. Pusher II

BuffaloWilder

12-31-2009, 06:16 AM

Well, I've written all about the first ten up at the site, but here's everything up to thirty for continuity's sake.

1. Children of Men (http://thefilmist.wordpress.com/2009/12/13/best-of-the-2000s-1-alfonso-caurons-children-of-men/)
2. There Will Be Blood (http://thefilmist.wordpress.com/2009/12/05/best-of-the-2000s-2-paul-thomas-andersons-there-will-be-blood-3/)
3. Happy Feet (http://thefilmist.wordpress.com/2009/11/28/best-of-the-2000s-3-george-millers-happy-feet/)
4. The Fall (http://thefilmist.wordpress.com/2009/11/21/best-of-the-2000s-4-tarsems-the-fall/)
5. Che: Part One/The Argentine (http://thefilmist.wordpress.com/2009/11/15/best-of-the-2000s-5-steven-soderberghs-che-part-onethe-argentine/)
6. No Country For Old Men (http://thefilmist.wordpress.com/2009/11/07/best-of-the-2000s-6-the-coen-brothers-no-country-for-old-men/)
7. The Hurt Locker (http://thefilmist.wordpress.com/2009/10/31/best-of-the-2000s-7-kathryn-bigelows-the-hurt-locker/)
8. Oldboy (http://thefilmist.wordpress.com/2009/10/24/best-of-the-2000s-8-park-chan-wooks-oldboy/)
9. The Lord of The Rings (http://thefilmist.wordpress.com/2009/10/16/best-of-the-2000s-9-peter-jacksons-the-lord-of-the-rings/)
10. The Dark Knight (http://thefilmist.wordpress.com/2009/10/10/best-of-the-2000s-10-christopher-nolans-the-dark-knight/)

11. Primer
12. Once
13. Wendy & Lucy
14. Goodbye Solo
15. WALL-E
16. A Scanner Darkly
17. The Assasination of Jesse James By The Coward Robert Ford
18. Black Snake Moan
19. Kill Bill - The Whole Bloody Affair
20. Moon

21. Master and Commander: The Far Side of The World
22. The New World
23. The Brothers' Bloom
24. Yi Yi
25. District 9
26. Che: Part Two/Guerilla
27. Where The Wild Things Are
28. 25th Hour
29. Collateral
30. Batman Begins

No, wait.

Boner M

12-31-2009, 06:20 AM

here (http://sydneyfilmhappenings.blogspot. com/2009/12/cos-everyones-doin-it.html)

Spinal

12-31-2009, 06:29 AM

Whee!

1. Dogville
2. Mulholland Dr.
3. Dancer in the Dark
4. Inland Empire
5. Hedwig and the Angry Inch
6. Y tu mamá también
7. Once
8. Me and You and Everyone We Know
9. City of God
10. Manderlay

11. The Piano Teacher
12. Antichrist
13. The Isle
14. Together
15. Fat Girl
16. Palindromes
17. Shaun of the Dead
18. The Heart of the World
19. The Lives of Others
20. Happy-Go-Lucky

21. A Serious Man
22. Let the Right One In
23. May
24. The Weather Underground
25. Requiem for a Dream
26. Paprika
27. Talk to Her
28. Inglourious Basterds
29. Happy Feet
30. Cowards Bend the Knee

31. Babel
32. Lars and the Real Girl
33. The Deep End
34. The Five Obstructions
35. Angels in America
36. Amelie
37. Hero
38. Brand Upon the Brain!
39. City of Ember
40. Friday Night

41. United 93
42. 49 Up
43. The Man Who Wasn’t There
44 Grizzly Man
45. Caché
46. Series 7: The Contenders
47. Burn After Reading
48. Kira’s Reason: A Love Story
49. The Princess and the Warrior
50. Pulse

Dead & Messed Up

12-31-2009, 06:48 AM

01. Requiem for a Dream
02. United 93
03. Pulse
04. Unbreakable
05. Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy
06. Primer
07. Adaptation
08. No Country for Old Men
09. Batman Begins
10. Waking Life

11. Almost Famous
12. Memories of Murder
13. Children of Men
14. Shaun of the Dead
15. Once
16. Spirited Away
17. Finding Nemo
18. Good Night and Good Luck
19. Inglourious Basterds
20. Before Sunset

21. High Fidelity
22. The Departed
23. The Descent
24. Millions
25. Monsieur Ibrahim
26. Minority Report
27. Zodiac
28. The Mist
29. Moulin Rouge
30. Watchmen

I may add more later...

baby doll

12-31-2009, 07:10 PM

There. (http://chuck-a-luck.blogspot.com/2009/12/decades-best-movies-best-movies-of.html)

Pop Trash

12-31-2009, 07:38 PM

1. Donnie Darko
2. Adaptation.
3. You Can Count on Me
4. The New World
5. A.I.
6. Ghost World
7. Memento
8. Talk to Her
9. George Washington/All the Real Girls
10. Together/Lilja 4-Ever
11. Kill Bill: The Whole Bloody Affair
12. Lost in Translation
13. Before Sunset
14. Y tu Mama Tambien
15. High Fidelity
16. The Assassination of Jesse James...
17. Pan's Labyrinth
18. The Squid and the Whale
19. Synecdoche, NY
20. Requiem for a Dream

I dunno...something like that...

Ezee E

12-31-2009, 07:55 PM

1. Children of Men
2. There Will Be Blood
3. Kill Bill
4. Amelie
5. Requiem for a Dream
6. The 25th Hour
7. The Departed
8. No Country For Old Men
9. The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
10. The Dark Knight

Grouchy

12-31-2009, 09:19 PM

Haven't we done this ten times already?

1. Mulholland Dr.
2. Oldboy
3. In the Mood for Love
4. There Will Be Blood
5. Talk to Her
6. Let the Right One In
7. I'm Not There
8. The Incredibles
9. Caché
10. Femme Fatale

11. A.I. Artificial Intelligence
12. Children of Men
13. The Dark Knight
14. The Devil's Backbone
15. Battle Royale
16. May
17. The Pianist
18. The Man Who Wasn't There
19. The Piano Teacher
20. Zodiac

21. The Dreamers
22. The Pledge
23. Spirited Away
24. Exiled
25. Inglourious Basterds
26. Punch-Drunk Love
27. Brick
28. Rachel Getting Married
29. The Descent
30. Far From Heaven

31. Kill Bill
32. Dancer in the Dark
33. Irreversible
34. Shaun of the Dead
35. Secret Sunshine
36. Kung-Fu Hustle
37. Dead Man's Shoes
38. Ichi the Killer
39. INLAND EMPIRE
40. Requiem for a Dream

41. Hero
42. MirrorMask
43. Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter... and Spring Again
44. La Comunidad
45. O Brother Where Art Thou?
46. Hunger
47. Goodbye Solo
48. No Country For Old Men
49. The Royal Tenembaums
50. Spider

51. WALL-E
52. The Twilight Samurai
53. Moulin Rouge!
54. Coraline
55. Bad Santa
56. Zatoichi
57. I'm a Cyborg, But That's OK
58. No Man's Land
59. Strange Circus
60. Unbreakable

61. Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance
62. The Triplets of Belleville
63. Waltz with Bashir
64. Amores Perros
65. A Bittersweet Life
67. Dog Soldiers
68. Dogville
69. Paprika
70. Spiderman 2

Spinal

01-01-2010, 12:23 AM

11. Kill Bill: The Whole Bloody Affair

Did this actually get released somewhere?

Pathétique

01-01-2010, 12:48 AM

I haven't seen much from '09 yet, but here's a top 50 in alphabetical order:

4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days
Adaptation.
The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
Before Sunset
Brick
Caché
Children of Men
City of God
Coffee and Cigarattes
Dancer in the Dark

The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
Le Fils
The Forsaken Land
The Fountain
Gosford Park
Grizzly Man
Hot Fuzz
I'm Not There
Inland Empire
Lake of Fire

The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou
Manderlay
Memento
Mulholland Dr.
My Winnipeg
Mysterious Skin
The New World
No Country for Old Men
Oldboy
Perfume: The Story of a Murderer

Punch-Drunk Love
Rachel Getting Married
Requiem for a Dream
The Saddest Music in the World
Sin City
Spider
Spirited Away
Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter…and Spring
Still Life
Synecdoche, New York

Talk to Her
Tape
There Will Be Blood
This is England
The Time of the Wolf
Turtles Can Fly
Unbreakable
Waiting for Happiness
What Time Is It There?
Zodiac

balmakboor

01-01-2010, 03:44 AM

Did this actually get released somewhere?

Only in his imagination.

Mysterious Dude

01-01-2010, 04:19 AM

Haven't we done this ten times already?
Very likely, but this is the only one that matters!

Edit: I just found the last thread (http://www.match-cut.org/showthread.php?t=2257), which I guess I should have just bumped. I was the first responder!

Ezee E

01-01-2010, 05:44 AM

IFC had Kill Bill Vol 1 & 2 right after each other the other day. Works just fine.

BuffaloWilder

01-01-2010, 07:28 AM

Very likely, but this is the only one that matters!

Edit: I just found the last thread (http://www.match-cut.org/showthread.php?t=2257), which I guess I should have just bumped. I was the first responder!

I think we should merge the two threads, that baby doll's nee-frightening dismissal of the connection between theme, subtext and form never be forgot.

Also,

The film may not be pro-rape per se, but it's definitely pro-rapist.

B-side

01-01-2010, 08:29 AM

I think we should merge the two threads, that baby doll's nee-frightening dismissal of the connection between theme, subtext and form never be forgot.

Also,

I laughed.

Sxottlan

01-01-2010, 08:47 AM

I don't know if I can ever settle on a top ten. I thought I had a pretty complete list and posted it to my FB page, but already I'm debating making a change. Anything past the top ten gets pretty random in terms of ranking.

B-side

01-01-2010, 08:53 AM

I don't like my list, but here it is anyway:

1. Mulholland Dr. (Lynch)
2. The Wayward Cloud (Tsai)
3. I'm Not There (Haynes)
4. Inland Empire (Lynch)
5. Dogville (Trier)
6. There Will Be Blood (Anderson)
7. Twentynine Palms (Dumont)
8. Mind Game (Yuasa)
9. Inglourious Basterds (Tarantino)
10. Dancer in the Dark (Trier)

Spinal

01-01-2010, 05:11 PM

D_Davis

01-01-2010, 05:39 PM

I can only order the top 10:

1. Mind Game
2. Oldboy
3. Exiled
4. Return of the King
5. The Fall
6. Funky Forest
7. Mulholland Drive
8. Hero
9. The Mist
10. Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon

My top films of the decade:

Mind Game
Exiled
Funky Forrest
The Taste of Tea
Kill Bill V.1
The Fall
Descent
Smile/Beautiful Dreamer
A Bittersweet Life
Kung Fu Hustle
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
Fearless (Jet Li)
Block Party
Death Trance
Death Proof
The Devil and Daniel Johnston
Southland Tales
Mulholland Drive
Inland Empire
Fearless Freaks
Freddy Vs. Jason
Godzilla Final Wars
The Great Yokai War
Sukyiaki Western Django
Hero
Old Boy
King of Kong
The Matrix: Reloaded
The Mist
Ping Pong
PTU
Rising Sun
Dogtown and Z-Boys
A Scanner Darkly
Seven Swords
Signs
Slither
Stacy
Tekkonkinkreet
United 93

baby doll

01-01-2010, 05:40 PM

My understanding is that "The Whole Bloody Affair" was a phrase created for a re-cut version of the film that screened once at Cannes and not to describe the experience of watching the two films back-to-back.According to the Cannes web site (http://www.festival-cannes.com/en/archives/2004/outOfCompetition.html), Kill Bill: Vol. 2 was screened out of competition in 2004, not some unreleased hybrid version that Tarantino's keeping in his basement.

Pop Trash

01-01-2010, 08:17 PM

Chac Mool

01-01-2010, 10:08 PM

Whee!

1. Dogville
2. Mulholland Dr.
6. Y tu mamá también
18. The Heart of the World
26. Talk to Her
32. The Deep End
42. The Man Who Wasn’t There
49. Pulse

Great stuff, particularly the Deep End mention.

baby doll

01-02-2010, 03:31 AM

Great stuff, particularly the Deep End mention.I dunno, it seemed to me an entirely unnecessary and forgettable remake of Ophüls' The Reckless Moment (a much better film). Then again, the same filmmakers also made Bee Season (one of the few literary adaptations I approve of), so maybe I'll have to see it again.

Derek

01-02-2010, 03:47 AM

I dunno, it seemed to me an entirely unnecessary and forgettable remake of Ophüls' The Reckless Moment (a much better film). Then again, the same filmmakers also made Bee Season (one of the few literary adaptations I approve of), so maybe I'll have to see it again.

Totally with you on The Deep End/The Reckless Moment, though I don't know how to respond to your suggesting that The Bee Season is one of your favorite literary adaptations. I haven't seen it, but that's, well, unexpected.

baby doll

01-02-2010, 03:58 AM

Totally with you on The Deep End/The Reckless Moment, though I don't know how to respond to your suggesting that The Bee Season is one of your favorite literary adaptations. I haven't seen it, but that's, well, unexpected.When I say it's one of the few literary adaptations I approve of, that's out of the books I've read (which isn't that many). In this case, McGehee and Seigel have a talent for thinking in images, which makes the movie more than an illustration of the novel. One of the interesting changes they make to the story is that, in the book, Juliette Binoche's character was a lawyer but in the movie she's a chemist, and the film connects the image of the kaleidoscope (which is already present in Goldberg's novel) with that of cells merging and dividing under a microscope. Instead of just filming scenes from a novel, they've really translated it into cinema, and I can't think of any other film that does this.

balmakboor

01-02-2010, 02:10 PM

It just has a better ring to it than "1&2." That's all.

Btw, I google on "whole bloody affair" about six times a year in hope of it actually coming to be some day.

balmakboor

01-02-2010, 02:13 PM

Ezee E

01-02-2010, 02:51 PM

Btw, I google on "whole bloody affair" about six times a year in hope of it actually coming to be some day.
What would be different about it if you simply play Vol 1 & 2 back to back? I hear the black and white would be color the entire time, and you'd simply remove the credits at the end of volume 1. Maybe remove Uma's driving intro at the beginning of 2.

That's about it really. Otherwise it's just one chapter to the next.

balmakboor

01-02-2010, 03:56 PM

What would be different about it if you simply play Vol 1 & 2 back to back? I hear the black and white would be color the entire time, and you'd simply remove the credits at the end of volume 1. Maybe remove Uma's driving intro at the beginning of 2.

That's about it really. Otherwise it's just one chapter to the next.

He's talked about other things as well. Little things like removing the Klingon quote at the beginning. Bigger things like House of Blue Leaves in a longer, bloodier, and in color version; a longer version of the animated sequence; seeing rather than hearing about what happened to Sophie; and a whole new animated sequence.

Best of all though, it would finally force people to stop referring to Kill Bill as two movies.

D_Davis

01-02-2010, 04:35 PM

There is also the fight between Bill and Michael Jai White's character that needs to be edited back in.

There is actually quite a bit that hasn't been seen and that is different.

Spinal

01-02-2010, 04:41 PM

Best of all though, it would finally force people to stop referring to Kill Bill as two movies.

But until it's released in a version cut together, it is two movies. Aren't there credits at the end of Part 1?

Sycophant

01-02-2010, 09:52 PM

Here is a top 20 that would probably shift around a bit if I thought about it longer:

1. The Royal Tenenbaums
2. Mind Game
3. A Serious Man
4. Millennium Actress
5. Shaolin Soccer
6. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
7. Takeshis'
8. The Squid & the Whale
9. Citizen Dog
10. Doppelganger

11. Inglourious Basterds
12. Hot Fuzz
13. Funky Forest: The First Contact
14. Oldboy
15. Dead or Alive 2: Birds
16. The Host
17. The Fall
18. Speed Racer
19. Men Suddenly in Black
20. Memories of Matsuko

balmakboor

01-03-2010, 12:28 AM

But until it's released in a version cut together, it is two movies. Aren't there credits at the end of Part 1?

But the two parts fail completely as standalone movies. They have to be watched back to back to form a complete experience.

ledfloyd

01-03-2010, 02:47 AM

i really can't do this. there are like 20 films i think should be in the top 10 and 30 i think should be in the top 20. i might give it some more thought later on. i will say my absolute favorites are mulholland drive and a christmas tale. kaufman's work is up there as well.

Spinal

01-03-2010, 02:58 AM

But the two parts fail completely as standalone movies. They have to be watched back to back to form a complete experience.

So The Lord of the Rings, in your opinion, is one film and not a trilogy?

soitgoes...

01-03-2010, 03:01 AM

Kill Bill is two movies. LotR is three movies. Star Wars is 6 movies. Just because the story flows from one film to the next does not mean that it is one film cut into however many pieces.

Spinal

01-03-2010, 03:17 AM

ledfloyd

01-03-2010, 03:20 AM

I would be excited about the prospect of a recut Kill Bill that is truly one united film. However, from all I've read, Tarantino would not take it the direction I would prefer anyway. I think it would be better with less, not more.
it would be. i think he took the split as an excuse to leave some fat in the second half. but i still love it.

Spinal

01-03-2010, 03:25 AM

By the way, edited in A Serious Man.

Ezee E

01-03-2010, 03:39 AM

I have the understanding that it was split into two because it was too long for The Weinstein Company to release it as one movie.

balmakboor

01-03-2010, 12:57 PM

So The Lord of the Rings, in your opinion, is one film and not a trilogy?

Yes.

balmakboor

01-03-2010, 01:09 PM

Kill Bill is two movies. LotR is three movies. Star Wars is 6 movies. Just because the story flows from one film to the next does not mean that it is one film cut into however many pieces.

It's kind of strange though. To me, Kill Bill is two movies that were hacked apart for commercial reasons.

Lord of the Rings feels like one really long movie (probably because it was all shot at the same time) that was divided up the same way the novel was divided up. Tolkein always thought of the story as one novel. Coming up with the three parts was the publisher's idea.

But, and this is the strange part, I consider Star Wars to be six movies. I think, with the possible exception of The Empire Strikes Back, that they all stand well on their own. Plus being filmed so far apart and often by different directors keeps them from feeling unified in terms of style and tone.

baby doll

01-03-2010, 11:08 PM

While we're on the subject, how 'bout Feuillade's serials (Fantômas, Les Vampires, Judex), Die Nibelungen, Les Enfants du paradis, Ivan the Terrible, The Decalogue, and Trois couleurs?

ledfloyd

01-04-2010, 12:07 AM

fanny and alexander?

balmakboor

01-04-2010, 12:17 AM

fanny and alexander?

Is really pretty good.

soitgoes...

01-04-2010, 12:31 AM

While we're on the subject, how 'bout Feuillade's serials (Fantômas, Les Vampires, Judex), Die Nibelungen, Les Enfants du paradis, Ivan the Terrible, The Decalogue, and Trois couleurs?
I tend to think serials and TV series to be distinct animals from theatrically released films. I mean serials were a common staple all the way through the 50's, some lasting many years. Ivan the Terrible is two films, as are the Langs. They were released as two separate films. Three Colors is the same, only of course three films. Children of Paradise, though realized as two separate films only to sidestep the Vichy government, did premiere as one film.

ledfloyd

01-04-2010, 12:37 AM

Is really pretty good.
but is it one film? or four episodes of a television series?

soitgoes...

01-04-2010, 01:01 AM

but is it one film? or four episodes of a television series?I think both would apply. Initially it was released as a series, but then a re-cut version was released as a feature film, same with Scenes from a Marriage. I haven't seen the theatrical cut of either, but I'd imagine enough has been changed to give each a totally different experience.

balmakboor

01-04-2010, 01:29 AM

but is it one film? or four episodes of a television series?

Oh, that's what you mean. The only way I've seen it was as a single movie, so I guess that's my answer.

Ivan Drago

01-05-2010, 06:05 AM

Top 40:

1. Grindhouse
2. A.I. Artificial Intelligence
3. Memento
4. In The Mood For Love
5. Irreversible
6. Donnie Darko
7. The Dark Knight
8. Punch-Drunk Love
9. Superbad
10. There Will Be Blood
11. Synecdoche, New York
12. Mulholland Dr.
13. Crank
14. Inglourious Basterds
15. No Country For Old Men
16. Pan’s Labyrinth
17. Watchmen
18. Children of Men
19. Match Point
20. Avatar
21. Unbreakable
22. Timecode
23. Mulholland Dr.
24. The Phantom of the Opera
25. The Aviator
26. Crank 2: High Voltage
27. Batman Begins
28. Lost in Translation
29. Revolutionary Road
30. Casino Royale
31. The Box
32. LOTR: FOTR
33. Requiem for a Dream
34. Big Fish
35. Pride and Prejudice
36. Cloverfield
37. The New World
38. Southland Tales
39. A History of Violence
40. Quills

Morris Schæffer

01-05-2010, 10:56 AM

In order (more or less)

1. The Lord of the Rings
2. The Best of Youth
3. The Others
4. Atonement
5. Casino Royale
6. The Dark Knight
7. Inglourious Basterds
8. The Lives of Others
9. Minority Report
10. Let The Right One In

Kinda like this, I think.

Raiders

01-05-2010, 03:28 PM

A Top 33:

1. WERCKMEISTER HARMONIES (Béla Tarr, 2000)
2. PULSE (Kiyoshi Kurosawa, 2001)
3. GEORGE WASHINGTON (David Gordon Green, 2000)
4. TROPICAL MALADY (Apichatpong Weerasethakul, 2004)
5. TWO LOVERS (James Gray, 2008)
6. TRACKER, THE (Rolf De Heer, 2002)
7. WALL·E (Andrew Stanton, 2008)
8. ETERNAL SUNSHINE OF THE SPOTLESS MIND (Michel Gondry, 2004)
9. FRIDAY NIGHT (Claire Denis, 2002)
10. HOUSE OF MIRTH, THE (Terence Davies, 2000)
11. TRUTH ABOUT CHARLIE, THE (Jonathan Demme, 2002)
12. THERE WILL BE BLOOD (Paul Thomas Anderson, 2007)
13. 2046 (Wong Kar-Wai, 2004)
14. ESTHER KAHN (Arnaud Desplechin, 2000)
15. ROYAL TENENBAUMS, THE (Wes Anderson, 2001)
16. ELEPHANT (Gus Van Sant, 2003)
17. DECASIA (Bill Morrison, 2002)
18. IN THE MOOD FOR LOVE (Wong Kar-Wai, 2000)
19. BORN INTO BROTHELS (Zana Briski; Ross Hoffmann, 2004)
20. PISTOL OPERA (Seijun Suzuki, 2001)
21. LORD OF THE RINGS, THE: THE RETURN OF THE KING (Peter Jackson, 2003)
22. SONGS FROM THE SECOND FLOOR (Roy Andersson, 2000)
23. WHAT TIME IS IT THERE? (Tsai Ming-liang, 2001)
24. RACHEL GETTING MARRIED (Jonathan Demme, 2008)
25. PARANOID PARK (Gus Van Sant, 2007)
26. DEAD MAN'S SHOES (Shane Meadows, 2004)
27. INLAND EMPIRE (David Lynch, 2006)
28. SPIDER (David Cronenberg, 2002)
29. PAN'S LABYRINTH (Guillermo Del Toro, 2006)
30. SQUID AND THE WHALE, THE (Noah Baumbach, 2005)
31. COMPANY, THE (Robert Altman, 2003)
32. PLACE PROMISED IN OUR EARLY DAYS, THE (Makato Shinkai, 2004)
33. ALL THE REAL GIRLS (David Gordon Green, 2003)

ledfloyd

01-05-2010, 09:18 PM

this is a bit sketchy but it'll do:
Adaptation
Amelie
The Assassination of Jesse James
Before Sunset
Brand Upon the Brain!
A Christmas Tale
Children of Men
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Flight of the Red Balloon
Friday Night
I'm Not There
Kill Bill
Love Exposure
Mulholland Drive
The New World
No Country for Old Men
Spirited Away
Summer Hours
Talk To Her
Zodiac

runners up:
AI
Shaun of the Dead
4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days
All the Real Girls
Wall-E

Bosco B Thug

01-07-2010, 08:16 PM

Lots of blind spots, a revealing process, had to face certain truths, bound to morph and films to jump up or down dozens of spots upon review, etc.:

1. Death Proof
2. Dogville
3. Inglourious Basterds
4. Doppelganger
5. The Piano Teacher
7. Fat Girl
8. The Company
9. Zodiac
10. Eternal Sunshine of a Spotless Mind
11. George Washington
12. Manderlay
13. Seance
14. Two Lovers
15. In the Mood for Love
16. Caché
17. Gone Baby Gone
18. Birth
19. Inland Empire
20. All the Real Girls
21. Pulse
22. Dancer in the Dark
23. This is England
24. Syndromes and a Century
25. Black Book
26. Trouble Every Day
27. Sweeney Todd
28. Beau Travail
29. Elephant
30. Mulholland Dr.
31. Into the Wild
32. Audition
33. You Can Count on Me
34. No Country for Old Men
35. The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
36. Rachel Getting Married
37. Offside
38. Sexy Beast
39. Ratatouille
40. Friday Night
41. Grizzly Man
42. May
43. A Tale of Two Sisters
44. Paranoid Park
45. Pride & Prejudice
46. Retribution
47. The Incredibles
48. One Missed Call
49. Punch Drunk Love
50. Marie Antoinette

Some HMs (in order of preference!): Tokyo Sonata, Irreversible, 4 Months, 3 Weeks, and 2 Days, The X-Files: IWTB, The Others, Joshua, Wall-E, Adaptation, I'm Not There, Kill Bill 1 & 2

Sxottlan

03-02-2010, 09:37 AM

I guess this is what I'm settling on:

1. The Lord of the Rings
2. No Country for Old Men
3. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
4. Zodiac
5. The Dark Knight
6. Millennium Actress
7. Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
8. My Winnipeg
9. Mulholland Drive
10. Revenge of the Sith

dmk

03-02-2010, 10:30 AM

1. Death Proof
18. Birth
20. All the Real Girls
33. You Can Count on Me
40. Friday Night
44. Paranoid Park
Oh, Hell Yes!!!!

Fezzik

03-02-2010, 01:01 PM

This is gonna take some thought. I did a top 20 list of the decade over at REELFocus, but that was explicitly a "favorite" films list - movies I find myself enjoying on a pure "moviewatching" level.

I find that there can be a disconnect between "best" and "favorite" - there are movies I saw once or twice, recognize their greatness, but really don't feel compelled to watch again (I will revisit them, but they're not my first choice for a Saturday afternoon DVD marathon).

Then there are movies that are cheesy as all get out, or just plain "well made" films that I get so much joy from.

I'll see if I can put together a "Best 20" list in the next day or so. I think it will be harder than the Favorite 20.