MC Inventory: Best Films of the Decade So Far (2010-14)

[dreamdead]

Cribbing from Kevin B. Lee's masterfully edited rundown of the top twenty-five films of the decade so far, posted here (http://www.fandor.com/keyframe/the-best-films-of-the-decade-so-far-2010-2014), and with a Vimeo video here,

http://vimeo.com/116202003

What do you hold to be the top ten films so far? This kind of enterprise allows for a fuller examination of what's resonating across these recent years...

[Dukefrukem]

Ugh. That Tree of life clip is soooooooooooooooooooooo obnoxious.

yay for A Separation, Uncle Boonmee and Certified Copy.

[TGM]

I was planning to tackle this on my blog in a few months, after I gave 2014 some time to really resonate and see what stands out first. But as of right now at least, here's what would make it somewhere in my Top 10 of the decade so far, listed alphabetically:

Dredd
Drive
Frozen
Inception
Interstellar
The Social Network
Sucker Punch
Tangled

And then something among these would likely round out that Top 10, with the rest making up my honorable mentions:

The Avengers
Cloud Atlas
Guardians of the Galaxy
Kung Fu Panda 2
Les Miserables
The Master

[Mysterious Dude]

1. 12 Years a Slave (2013)
2. The Artist (2011)
3. Wadjda (2012)
4. Tomboy (2011)
5. Boyhood (2014)
6. Moonrise Kingdom (2012)
7. The Tree of Life (2011)
8. The Selfish Giant (2013)
9. Birdman (2014)
10. Beasts of the Southern Wild (2012)

11. L'enfant d'en haut (2012)
12. We are the Best! (2013)
13. Martha Marcy May Marlene (2011)
14. A Separation (2011)
15. Black Swan (2010)
16. The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014)
17. No (2012)
18. Meek's Cutoff (2010)
19. Drive (2011)
20. Play (2011)

[Lazlo]

Here's fifteen. If we're gonna do an actual poll I'll rank and order them and cut out five, etc.

Boyhood
Cloud Atlas
Drive
Gone Girl
The Grand Budapest Hotel
Gravity
Interstellar
Life of Pi
Margaret
The Master
A Separation
The Social Network
The Tree of Life
The Wolf of Wall Street
Zero Dark Thirty

[Dukefrukem]

I dont want to nitpick, but technically the decade starts in 2011.

Inception Nolan, Chris 2010
The Raid: Redemption Evans, Gareth 2012
Upstream Color Carruth, Shane 2013
Black Swan Aronofsky, Darren 2010
Interstellar Nolan, Chris 2014
Cabin in the Woods Goddard, Drew 2012
Melancholia Von Trier, Lars 2011
Gravity Cuarón, Alfonso 2013
Argo Affleck, Ben 2012
The Avengers Whedon, Joss 2012
Gone Girl Fincher, David 2014
Guardians of the Galaxy Gunn, James 2014
The Raid 2 Evans, Gareth 2014
The Wolf of Wall Street Scorsese, Martin 2013
Iron Man 3 Black, Shane 2013
Intouchables Nakache, Olivier 2012
Haywire Soderbergh, Steven 2012
Prometheus Scott, Ridley 2012
21 Jump Street Lord, Phil 2012
A Separation Farhadi, Asghar 2011
Attack the Block Cornish, Joe 2011
Drive Refn, Nicolas Winding 2011
127 Hours Boyle, Danny 2010
The King's Speech Hooper, Tom 2010

[Dead & Messed Up]

The list as given on the video and site:

1. The Tree of Life (103 votes)
2. Certified Copy (91 votes)
3. The Master (76 votes)
4. Margaret (68 votes)
5. Holy Motors (66 votes)
6. A Separation (64 votes)
7. Under the Skin (61 votes)
8. Inside Llewyn Davis (59 votes)
9. Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives (45 votes)
10. Boyhood (44 votes)
11. Goodbye to Language (41 votes)
12. The Social Network (40 votes)
13. Moonrise Kingdom (36 votes)
14. Her (33 votes)
(tie) Leviathan (2012)
16. Mysteries of Lisbon (32 votes)
17. The Act of Killing (28 votes)
(tie) The Turin Horse
19. Before Midnight (27 votes)
(tie) Melancholia
(tie) Once Upon a Time in Anatolia
22. Frances Ha (25 votes)
(tie) The Wolf of Wall Street
24. The Immigrant (24 votes)
(tie) Spring Breakers

I haven't seen near enough of these, but I support inclusion of The Tree of Life, Under the Skin, The Social Network, Before Midnight, and maybe The Wolf of Wall Street.

Mine:

Before Midnight
Cloud Atlas
Inception
Kill List
The Lego Movie
Snowpiercer
The Social Network
The Tree of Life
Under the Skin
The World's End

[Peng]

1. Toy Story 3
2. Cloud Atlas
3. Before Midnight
4. 13 Assassins
5. Warrior
6. The Tree of Life
7. Two Days, One Night
8. Boyhood
9. Her
10. A Separation

11. Gravity
12. Wreck-It Ralph
13. The Social Network
14. Moonrise Kingdom
15. Only Lovers Left Alive
16. Black Swan
17. Under the Skin
18. The Act of Killing
19. 12 Years a Slave
20. The Wolf of Wall Street

21. Spring Breakers
22. Interstellar
23. Let Me In
24. Certified Copy
25. Stories We Tell

[Melville]

1. The Grey
2. Margaret
3. The Act of Killing
4. Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives
5. The Turin Horse
6. Her
7. Oslo, August 31st
8. Nymphomaniac: Vol I
9. Another Year
10. Moonrise Kingdom

HMs: Leviathan (2012), Drive, Blue Valentine, Locke, Under the Skin, Snowtown, Greenberg, Two Days, One Night, The Kid with the Bike

[transmogrifier]

Weak decade so far. I'm yet to watch a film I would score 80+

[Raiders]

I dont want to nitpick, but technically the decade starts in 2011.

No it doesn't. This isn't a technical decade counting from the year 1 AD... we aren't talking about the 201st (202nd?) decade. It is a representation of a group of ten years, like the 90's being 1990 - 1999. Not sure when the trend started (the 50's?) but we don't sequentially count decades.

Sorry for actually responding, but I remember these extensive facebook arguments on whether 2010 started a new decade, and found it nauseating.

On topic... Man, I completely forgot about the redonkulous fervor around Holy Motors. What a disappointment that turned out to be (not necessarily a bad film, but as with most cases where it is either awful or the greatest thing ever, it wound up being close to neither).

[Spinal]

I totally disregarded my initial ratings and went with the films that feel most meaningful to me right now.

1. The Tree of Life
2. Pina
3. Inception
4. The Act of Killing
5. Inside Llewyn Davis
6. The Master
7. Under the Skin
8. The Illusionist (Chomet)
9. Spring Breakers
10. The Tale of the Princess Kaguya

[Pop Trash]

1. The Tree of Life
2. Margaret
3. Greenberg
4. Her
5. The Social Network
6. Bones Brigade: An Autobiography
7. Holy Motors
8. The Immigrant
9. Under the Skin
10. Let Me In

[Henry Gale]

I was just thinking about this the other say, and I'm not sure how I'd tackle it all order-wise (especially with it being years since I've seen many), but these were the first 25 that came to mind, en alpha:


127 Hours
The Act of Killing
Amour
Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue Of Ignorance)
Black Swan
Boyhood
The Cabin In The Woods
Certified Copy
Dogtooth
Drive
Enter The Void
Exit Through The Gift Shop
Her
Holy Motors
The Illusionist (Chomet)
Inception
Inherent Vice
It's Such A Beautiful Day
The Lego Movie
Midnight In Paris
This Is Not A Film
To The Wonder
The Tree Of Life
The Wolf Of Wall Street
The World's End

Bolded the four that would likely be at the absolute top, just as they were in my respective year lists. Boyhood and Birdman are still battling it out in my mind for this year's top spot.

[Fezzik]

Since we seem to be going back to 2010 (which I'm ok with), this is my admittedly less than comprehensive list:



The Cabin in the Woods
Zero Dark Thirty
Exit Through the Gift Shop
Guardians of the Galaxy
Black Swan
Inception
Gone Girl
The Avengers
Tangled
The Social Network

[baby doll]

Carlos (Olivier Assayas, 2010)
Copie conforme (Abbas Kiarostami, 2010)
Post Mortem (Pablo LarraÃ*n, 2010)
Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives (Apichatpong Weerasethakul, 2010)
Le Gamin au vélo (Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne, 2011)
Hors Satan (Bruno Dumont, 2011)
Melancholia (Lars von Trier, 2011)
Modest Reception (Mani Haghighi, 2012)
Post Tenebras Lux (Carlos Reygadas, 2012)
Tabu (Miguel Gomes, 2012)

[Ivan Drago]

1. The Tree of Life (Terrence Malick, 2011)
2. Black Swan (Darren Aronofsky, 2010)
3. Django Unchained (Quentin Tarantino, 2012)
4. Under The Skin (Jonathan Glazer, 2014)
5. Gravity (Alfonso Cuaron, 2013)
6. The Act of Killing (Joshua Oppenheimer, 2013)
7. Shame (Steve McQueen, 2011)
8. The Social Network (David Fincher, 2010)
9. Exit Through The Gift Shop (Banksy, 2010)
10. It’s Such A Beautiful Day (Don Hertzfeldt, 2012)

Quick side note: Are we doing the Matchies this year?

[Russ]

These are some of my favorites of the decade. A bit surprised none have been mentioned yet..

Confessions (Tetsuya Nakashima, 2010)
Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen (Gyorgy Palfi, 2012)
Bibliotheque Pascal (Szabolcs Hajdu, 2010)
Girl Walk // All Day (Jacob Krupnick, 2011)
The Dance of Reality (Alejandro Jodorowsky, 2013)
Surviving Life (Jan Svankmajer, 2010)
Samsara (Ron Fricke, 2011)
Four Lions (Chris Morris, 2010)
Children Who Chase Lost Voices From Deep Below (Makoto Shinkai, 2011)
Getting Go, The Go Doc Project (Cory Krueckeberg, 2013)

[transmogrifier]

These are some of my favorites of the decade. A bit surprised none have been mentioned yet..

Confessions (Tetsuya Nakashima, 2010)


The best movie I've seen for these five years, anyway.

[Watashi]

25. MISSION IMPOSSIBLE: GHOST PROTOCOL (2011) | Directed by Brad Bird
24. FRANCES HA (2013) | Directed by Noah Baumbach
23. ANOTHER YEAR (2010) | Directed by Mike Leigh
22. CERTIFIED COPY (2010) | Directed by Abbas Kiarostami
21. INCEPTION (2010) | Directed by Christopher Nolan
20. TAKE SHELTER (2011) | Directed Jeff Nichols
19. SHORT TERM 12 (2013) | Directed by Destin Daniel Cretton
18. THE GREY (2012) | Directed by Joe Carnahan
17. ATTACK THE BLOCK (2011) | Directed by Joe Carnish
16. EXIT THROUGH THE GIFT SHOP (2010) | Directed by Banksy
15. 13 ASSASSINS (2010) | Directed by Takashi Miike
14. SENNA (2011) | Directed by Asif Kapadia
13. BLUE VALENTINE (2010) | Directed by Derek Cianfrance
12. A SEPARATION (2011) | Directed by Asghar Farhadi
11. THE MASTER (2012) | Directed by Paul Thomas Anderson
10. UNDER THE SKIN (2014) | Directed by Jonathan Glazer
9. MARGARET (2011) | Directed by Kenneth Lonergan
8. THE GRAND BUDAPEST HOTEL (2014) | Directed by Wes Anderson
7. INSIDE LLEWYN DAVIS (2013) | Directed by Joel & Ethan Coen
6. THE SOCIAL NETWORK (2010) | Directed by David Fincher
5. BEFORE MIDNIGHT (2012) | Directed by Richard Linklater
4. GIRL WALK // ALL DAY (2011) | Directed by Jacob Krupnick
3. THE TREE OF LIFE (2011) | Directed by Terrence Malick
2. THE WIND RISES (2013) | Directed by Hayao Miyazaki
1. IT'S SUCH A BEAUTIFUL DAY (2012) | Directed by Don Hertzfeldt

[MadMan]

I prefer a Top 20 instead. I could do a Top 25 but nah...

1. Drive (2011)
2. The Social Network (2010)
3. Django Unchained (2012)
4. The Guest (2014)
5. Midnight In Paris (2011)
6. The Wolf Of Wall Street (2013)
7. Birdman (2014)
8. Let The Fire Burn (2013)
9. Hugo (2011)
10. Kill List (2011)
11. The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014)
12. Godzilla (2014)
13. The Artist (2011)
14. Tinker Taylor Soldier Spy (2011)
15. Upstream Color (2013)
16. Inception (2010)
17. The Cabin In The Woods (2012)
18. The Tree Of Life (2011)
19. Blue Ruin (2014)
20. Skyfall (2012)

[Neclord]

The Master
Drive
Take Shelter
Upstream Color
Midnight In Paris
Her
The Wolf of Wall Street
Pacific Rim
Inside Llewyn Davis
Under the Skin
Scott Pilgrim vs. The World
True Grit
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
The Social Network
Tron: Legacy
The Ghost Writer
Exit Through the Gift Shop
Skyfall
Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol
The Illusionist
Hugo
The Avengers
Lincoln
Looper
The Lego Movie


Or some shit like that.

[Grouchy]

1. Under the Skin
2. Holy Motors
3. The Master
4. Django Unchained
5. Her
6. Killer Joe
7. Boyhood
8. The World's End
9. Amour
10. The Wolf of Wall Street

11. La Grande Bellezza
12. The Skin I Live In
13. Drive
14. Black Swan
15. Inside Llewyn Davis
16. Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
17. Enter the Void
18. A Separation
19. Shutter Island
20. Beasts of the Southern Wild

21. We Need to Talk About Kevin
22. The Grand Budapest Hotel
23. Hugo
24. Reality
25. The Hunt