BBC: The 21st century's 100 greatest films

[Irish]

"The best that cinema has had to offer since 2000 as picked by 177 film critics from around the world."

Top 20:

20. Synecdoche, New York (Charlie Kaufman, 2008)
19. Mad Max: Fury Road (George Miller, 2015)
18. The White Ribbon (Michael Haneke, 2009)
17. Pan's Labyrinth (Guillermo Del Toro, 2006)
16. Holy Motors (Leos Carax, 2012)
15. 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days (Cristian Mungiu, 2007)
14. The Act of Killing (Joshua Oppenheimer, 2012)
13. Children of Men (Alfonso Cuarón, 2006)
12. Zodiac (David Fincher, 2007)
11. Inside Llewyn Davis (Joel and Ethan Coen, 2013)
10. No Country for Old Men (Joel and Ethan Coen, 2007)
9. A Separation (Asghar Farhadi, 2011)
8. Yi Yi: A One and a Two (Edward Yang, 2000)
7. The Tree of Life (Terrence Malick, 2011)
6. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (Michel Gondry, 2004)
5. Boyhood (Richard Linklater, 2014)
4. Spirited Away (Hayao Miyazaki, 2001)
3. There Will Be Blood (Paul Thomas Anderson, 2007)
2. In the Mood for Love (Wong Kar-wai, 2000)
1. Mulholland Drive (David Lynch, 2001)

The rest: http://www.bbc.com/culture/story/20160819-the-21st-centurys-100-greatest-films

also: #FilmsOfTheCentury (https://twitter.com/hashtag/FilmsOfTheCentury?src=hash)

[Watashi]

It's a consensus list, so there's really no out of left field choices included. It's interesting that the most represented directors on the list are festival darlings like Apichatpong Weerasethakul and Michael Haneke or critical favorites like Wes and Paul Thomas Anderson (with 3 films each). All while heavy populist filmmakers like Spielberg and Scorsese are there with only one film each.

Also, the only animation is from a lot of Pixar and one Ghibli film (predictably Spirited Away). I mean, I love both companies, but there's a lot more out there.

[transmogrifier]

12. Zodiac (David Fincher, 2007)
8. Yi Yi: A One and a Two (Edward Yang, 2000)
6. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (Michel Gondry, 2004)
4. Spirited Away (Hayao Miyazaki, 2001)
2. In the Mood for Love (Wong Kar-wai, 2000)
1. Mulholland Drive (David Lynch, 2001)


Love all of these...




19. Mad Max: Fury Road (George Miller, 2015)
13. Children of Men (Alfonso Cuarón, 2006)
10. No Country for Old Men (Joel and Ethan Coen, 2007)
7. The Tree of Life (Terrence Malick, 2011)

The love for these, however, I'll never understand. Don't hate any of them, but they are all just... solid at best

Oh, and Before Sunset is so much better than Boyhood.

[Watashi]

It also shows you how badly The Hobbit trilogy damaged LOTR's reputation because those films usually populate lists like these.

[Peng]

I feel like if they allow voting LOTR as one film, it will probably show up.

[Dukefrukem]

"The best that cinema has had to offer since 2000 as picked by 177 film critics from around the world."

Top 20:

20. Synecdoche, New York (Charlie Kaufman, 2008)
19. Mad Max: Fury Road (George Miller, 2015)
18. The White Ribbon (Michael Haneke, 2009)
17. Pan's Labyrinth (Guillermo Del Toro, 2006)
16. Holy Motors (Leos Carax, 2012)
15. 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days (Cristian Mungiu, 2007)
14. The Act of Killing (Joshua Oppenheimer, 2012)
13. Children of Men (Alfonso Cuarón, 2006)
12. Zodiac (David Fincher, 2007)
11. Inside Llewyn Davis (Joel and Ethan Coen, 2013)
10. No Country for Old Men (Joel and Ethan Coen, 2007)
9. A Separation (Asghar Farhadi, 2011)
8. Yi Yi: A One and a Two (Edward Yang, 2000)
7. The Tree of Life (Terrence Malick, 2011)
6. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (Michel Gondry, 2004)
5. Boyhood (Richard Linklater, 2014)
4. Spirited Away (Hayao Miyazaki, 2001)
3. There Will Be Blood (Paul Thomas Anderson, 2007)
2. In the Mood for Love (Wong Kar-wai, 2000)
1. Mulholland Drive (David Lynch, 2001)

The rest: http://www.bbc.com/culture/story/20160819-the-21st-centurys-100-greatest-films

also: #FilmsOfTheCentury (https://twitter.com/hashtag/FilmsOfTheCentury?src=hash)

Love that A Seperation made this. I still kick myself that I haven't seen Spirited Away yet.

There's only two movies on this list i despise.

Rep to those who can guess which.

[Irish]

Individual critic's lists: http://www.bbc.com/culture/story/20160819-the-21st-centurys-100-greatest-films-who-voted

[baby doll]

I think there should be a rule that you can't vote for movies from your own country, since it seems like every Canadian reviewer had either a film by David Cronenberg or—yick!—Xavier Dolan on their list, and one reviewer from South Africa had Waiting for Happiness as their top choice.

[Henry Gale]

Kind of feels like an odd time to do a list like this, but it's still a nice celebration of many things I like a lot, so.. cool!

The Top 100 is a pretty handsome looking list that I can't find many faults in, other than in myself for not having seen a couple in the top quarter and about a quarter overall. In my mind I would've ideally liked to see more Aronofsky, Jonze, Refn, Mann, Enter the Void, The Look of Silence up there with Act of Killing, an unobvious Nolan choice (maybe just since I've been oddly thinking about The Prestige a lot lately), more comedy overall (particularly Edgar Wright and Apatow-affiliated stuff) or oddball redemption choices like Speed Racer. But then again, in saying all of these things I'd already have ten or more movies that I'm not sure are the ten I'd put first, so I see the trouble with choosing. I feel like more than ten choices per critic could've resulted in either more balanced variety, or potentially just normalize the consensus. Who knows!?

The most confusing of the Top 100 might be Brooklyn to me. Not just because it's so new, but because it feels so contently slight (and often even visually shabby) that I just can't personally fathom how in the last 16 years of cinema we've had it could rank amongst one's top experiences.

Also nice in the individual critics lists to see multiple mentions of Hertzfeldt's World of Tomorrow and It's Such a Beautiful Day, American Psycho and Donnie Darko (as negatively bro-y as their reputations have become and understandably soured them for some), The Congress (which I still think about a lot even if I'm not sure how wholly successful it is), as well as Casino Royale, which as far as modern actioners go, is one of the absolute tightest, most consistently rewarding and thrilling viewings that maybe gets better every time I see it.

Also, of all things, Borat might be the movie that made the most lists that didn't make it into the Top 100.

[Skitch]

There's only two movies on this list i despise.

Rep to those who can guess which.

Children of Men and (stab in the dark) Holy Motors?


I still kick myself that I haven't seen Spirited Away yet.


SHAME THIS MAN! SHAME! :)

[Irish]

Children of Men and (stab in the dark) Holy Motors?

I'm going with Holy Motors and Synecdoche, New York.

[Henry Gale]

Nah, pretty sure Duke dislikes Tree of Life and.... Boyhood??

If he meant the whole list then we could be here [springbreeaaak]forever.

[transmogrifier]

My Top 10:

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (98)
Mulholland Drive (95)
Before Sunset (94)
Battle Royale (92)
Oldboy (92)
In the Mood for Love (91)
The Emperor's New Groove (88)
Spirited Away (87)
United 93 (87)
Yi Yi: A One and a Two (86)

[Dead & Messed Up]

My Top 10:

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (98)
Mulholland Drive (95)
Before Sunset (94)
Battle Royale (92)
Oldboy (92)
In the Mood for Love (91)
The Emperor's New Groove (88)
Spirited Away (87)
United 93 (87)
Yi Yi: A One and a Two (86)

Cheers to another big fan of United 93. Not sure what my list would look like, but that flick would definitely up there.

[Dukefrukem]

Nah, pretty sure Duke dislikes Tree of Life and.... Boyhood??

If he meant the whole list then we could be here [springbreeaaak]forever.

Winnnnaaahhh

[Skitch]

Dammit this Tree of Life blu-ray has been sitting on my shelf for months. I need to watch it already.

[Henry Gale]

Some picks from the individual lists that I found surprising, baffling, interesting, or just championing of comedy in ways I wish more had come to a consensus on:


Nicholas Barber – BBC Culture (UK)
5. Madagascar 3: Europe's Most Wanted (Eric Darnell, Tom McGrath and Conrad Vernon, 2012)

Christian Blauvelt – BBC Culture (US)
5. Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith (George Lucas, 2005)

Miriam Bale – Freelance film critic (US)
4. This Is the End (Evan Goldberg and Seth Rogen, 2013)

Bilge Ebiri – The Village Voice (US)
5. Love & Basketball (Gina Prince-Bythewood, 2000)

Devin Faraci – Birth.Movies.Death. (US)
7. Frozen (Chris Buck and Jennifer Lee, 2013)
(which mainly just stuck out on a pretty good list that also had the sole Edgar Wright vote with Shaun)

Javier Porta Fouz – La Nacion (Argentina)
1. Jersey Boys (Clint Eastwood, 2014) (????)
9. Adventureland (Greg Mottola, 2009) (!!!!)
10. Open Range (Kevin Costner, 2003) (.... Do I even remember this)

Steven Gaydos – Variety (US)
9. Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby (Adam McKay, 2006)

Noah Gittell – Washington City Paper (US)
3. Bridesmaids (Paul Feig, 2011)
4. WALL-E (Andrew Stanton, 2008)
5. Brooklyn (John Crowley, 2015)
6. The Look of Silence (Joshua Oppenheimer, 2014)
(Just the oddest combo of movies in a row to me)

Angie Han – Slashfilm (US)
10. Pain & Gain (Michael Bay, 2013)

Shiguehiko Hasumi – University of Tokyo (Japan)
4. Gran Torino (Clint Eastwood, 2008)
9. DéjÃ* Vu (Tony Scott, 2006)

Eric Kohn – IndieWire (US)
10. Idiocracy (Mike Judge, 2006)

Dan Kois – Slate (US)
10. Jackass 3D (Jeff Tremaine, 2010)

Richard Lawson – Vanity Fair (US)
6. Wet Hot American Summer (David Wain, 2001)

Ben Mankiewicz – Turner Classic Movies (US)
9. Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy (Adam McKay, 2004)

Calum Marsh – Freelance film critic (Canada)
6. Crank (Mark Neveldine and Brian Taylor, 2006)
8. Miami Vice (Michael Mann, 2006)
(Good man, and not just because I've talked to him in passing a couple of times.)

Chris Nashawaty – Entertainment Weekly (US)
9. Best in Show (Christopher Guest, 2000)

Amy Nicholson – MTV News (US)
5. Alpha Dog (Nick Cassavetes, 2006)
9. Tropic Thunder (Ben Stiller, 2008)

Alaka Sahani – The Indian Express (India)
10. Shrek (Andrew Adamson and Vicky Jenson, 2001)
(Shrek is love, Shrek is life.)

Matt Zoller Seitz – New York Magazine (US)
5. Knight of Cups (Terrence Malick, 2015)
9. Godzilla (Gareth Edwards, 2014)
(wat)

Catherine Shoard – The Guardian (UK)
8. Team America: World Police (Trey Parker, 2004)

Matt Singer – ScreenCrush (US)
10. Step Brothers (Adam McKay, 2008)

Jake Wilson – Fairfax Media (Australia)
8. Be Kind Rewind (Michel Gondry, 2008)
(Kinda like this. Next to Weerasethakul and Godard, no less)

And this whole list is just a wild rollercoaster to me:

Brian Truitt – USA Today (US)
1. The Dark Knight (Christopher Nolan, 2008)
2. Mad Max: Fury Road (George Miller, 2015)
3. Captain America: Winter Soldier (Anthony and Joe Russo, 2014)
4. Star Wars: Episode VII – The Force Awakens (J. J. Abrams, 2015)
5. Love Actually (Richard Curtis, 2003)
6. Brick (Rian Johnson, 2005)
7. Chicago (Rob Marshall, 2002)
8. Tropic Thunder (Ben Stiller, 2008)
9. High Fidelity (Stephen Frears, 2000)
10. Silver Linings Playbook (David O. Russell, 2012)

[Spinal]

Top 100 ... Apologies for blind spots. There's undoubtedly good stuff I've missed.

1. Mulholland Dr. (Lynch, 2001)
2. Dancer in the Dark (Trier, 2000)
3. Songs from the Second Floor (Andersson, 2000)
4. Hedwig and the Angry Inch (Mitchell, 2001)
5. Dogville (Trier, 2003)
6. Y tu mama tambien (Cuaron, 2001)
7. Yi Yi (Yang, 2000)
8. Pina (Wenders, 2011)
9. Mustang (Ergüven, 2015)
10. It's Such a Beautiful Day (Hertzfeldt, 2012)

11. The Piano Teacher (Haneke, 2001)
12. The Tree of Life (Malick, 2011)
13. Inception (Nolan, 2010)
14. Inland Empire (Lynch, 2006)
15. Once (Carney, 2006)
16. City of God (Meirelles/Lund, 2002)
17. Fat Girl (Breillat, 2001)
18. A Serious Man (Coens, 2009)
19. The Isle (Kim, 2000)
20. The Illusionist (Chomet, 2010)

21. Happy-Go-Lucky (Leigh, 2008)
22. Let the Right One In (Alfredson, 2008)
23. Together (Moodysson, 2000)
24. Me and You and Everyone We Know (July, 2005)
25. Manderlay (Trier, 2005)
26. The Heart of the World (Maddin, 2000)
27. Palindromes (Solondz, 2004)
28. Shaun of the Dead (Wright, 2004)
29. The Lives of Others (von Donnersmarck, 2006)
30. The Deep End (McGehee/Siegel, 2001)

31. Paprika (Kon, 2006)
32. Inside Llewyn Davis (Coens, 2013)
33. Two Days, One Night (Dardennes, 2014)
34. The Tale of The Princess Kaguya (Takahata, 2013)
35. A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence (Andersson, 2014)
36. Requiem for a Dream (Aronofsky, 2000)
37. Amelie (Jeunet, 2001)
38. Cowards Bend the Knee (Maddin, 2003)
39. 49 Up (Apted, 2005)
40. Happy Feet (Miller, 2006)

41. Sing Street (Carney, 2016)
42. May (McKee, 2002)
43. Grizzly Man (Herzog, 2005)
44. The Life of Reilly (Anderson/Poltermann, 2006)
45. Antichrist (Trier, 2009)
46. Enter the Void (Noé, 2009)
47. Cache (Haneke, 2005)
48. The Act of Killing (Oppenheimer, 2012)
49. Memento (Nolan, 2000)
50. Exit Through the Gift Shop (Banksy, 2010)

51. Talk to Her (Almodovar, 2002)
52. A Town Called Panic (Aubier/Patar, 2009)
53. The Five Obstructions (Leth, 2003)
54. Babel (Inarritu, 2006)
55. Hero (Zhang, 2002)
56. The Man Who Wasn't There (Coen, 2001)
57. Lars and the Real Girl (Gillespie, 2007)
58. Inglourious Basterds (Tarantino, 2009)
59. There Will Be Blood (Anderson, 2007)
60. Friday Night (Denis, 2002)

61. Gravity (Cuarón, 2013)
62. Rango (Verbinski, 2011)
63. The Princess and the Warrior (Tykwer, 2000)
64. Series 7: The Contenders (Minahan, 2001)
65. Bridge of Spies (Spielberg, 2015)
66. Under the Skin (Glazer, 2013)
67. The King is Alive (Levring, 2000)
68. Angels in America (Nichols, 2003)
69. Super 8 (Abrams, 2011)
70. Ex Machina (Garland, 2015)

71. 3-Iron (Kim, 2004)
72. Kira's Reason: A Love Story (Madsen, 2001)
73. V for Vendetta (McTeigue, 2005)
74. Brand Upon the Brain! (Maddin, 2006)
75. United 93 (Greengrass, 2006)
76. Burn After Reading (Coens, 2008)
77. Goya's Ghosts (Forman, 2006)
78. The World's End (Wright, 2013)
79. House of Flying Daggers (Zhang, 2004)
80. Nobody Knows (Koreeda, 2004)

81. Pulse (K. Kurosawa, 2001)
82. Lost in Translation (S. Coppola, 2003)
83. The Descent (Marshall, 2005)
84. Repo! The Genetic Opera (Bousman, 2008)
85. Ghost World (Zwigoff, 2001)
86. Capote (Miller, 2005)
87. Tangled (Greno/Howard, 2010)
88. Mad Max: Fury Road (Miller, 2015)
89. Good Night, and Good Luck (Clooney, 2005)
90. Brokeback Mountain (A. Lee, 2005)

91. World of Tomorrow (Hertzfeldt, 2015)
92. Black Book (Verhoeven, 2006)
93. Spring Breakers (Korine, 2012)
94. Sideways (Payne, 2004)
95. Looper (Johnson, 2013)
96. City of Ember (Kenan, 2008)
97. Children of Men (Cuaron, 2006)
98. The Names of Love (Leclerc, 2010)
99. The Master (Anderson, 2013)
100. Zero Dark Thirty (Bigelow, 2012)

[Henry Gale]

Good on ya, Spinal. Very nice list, maybe even more diverse than BBC's and full of nice recommendations of its own, as well as making me want to watch lots of things again.

I tried to do a mere Top 10 like the submissions and gave up once I realized that at the very least 6 of my #1's since 2000 (not including this unfinished year) would have to be cut and I couldn't find any combination I was totally happy with.

Might attempt a 100 too, but similarly worried I might run into blind spots not only of what I haven't seen but even stuff I love that slip my mind / past lists I've kept.

[Winston*]

(which mainly just stuck out on a pretty good list that also had the sole Edgar Wright vote with Shaun)


You seen this?

EDGAR WRIGHT'S 1000 FAVORITE MOVIES:
https://mubi.com/lists/edgar-wrights-favorite-movies

[Henry Gale]

You seen this?

EDGAR WRIGHT'S 1000 FAVORITE MOVIES:
https://mubi.com/lists/edgar-wrights-favorite-movies

Ah yeah! Love it, and even if I've looked at it multiple times now, I still get huge swaths of new stuff out of it every time. The more recent choices are the most interesting, particularly with something like Neon Demon that I still can't quite get my head around, the fact that it's already amongst Edgar's favourite things he's ever seen colours it nicely when set against all the other stuff I know he loves. (DePalma, Argento, Roeg, Russ Meyer, etc.)

[transmogrifier]

Some picks from the individual lists that I found surprising, baffling, interesting, or just championing of comedy in ways I wish more had come to a consensus on:

Brian Truitt – USA Today (US)
1. The Dark Knight (Christopher Nolan, 2008)
2. Mad Max: Fury Road (George Miller, 2015)
3. Captain America: Winter Soldier (Anthony and Joe Russo, 2014)
4. Star Wars: Episode VII – The Force Awakens (J. J. Abrams, 2015)
5. Love Actually (Richard Curtis, 2003)
6. Brick (Rian Johnson, 2005)
7. Chicago (Rob Marshall, 2002)
8. Tropic Thunder (Ben Stiller, 2008)
9. High Fidelity (Stephen Frears, 2000)
10. Silver Linings Playbook (David O. Russell, 2012)

This guy may well be my complete cinematic opposite.

[Dukefrukem]

This guy may well be my complete cinematic opposite.

Totally. Everyone knows Inception is better than the Dark Knight.

[Melville]

Pretty good list. But not a single Dardenne movie? Nuts to that.

Following Spinal's lead, here's my own top 100:

1. The Son (Dardennes, 2002)
2. Mulholland Dr. (Lynch, 2001)
3. The Grey (Carnahan, 2011)
4. The Aviator (Scorsese, 2004)
5. Punch-Drunk Love (PT Anderson, 2002)
6. In the Mood for Love (Wong Kar-Wai, 2000)
7. Two Lovers (Grey, 2009)
8. The New World (Malick, 2005)
9. There Will Be Blood (PT Anderson, 2007)
10. The Act of Killing (Oppenheimer, 2013)
11. Requiem for a Dream (Aronofsky, 2000)
12. Mad Men (Weiner, 2007-2015)
13. Bright Star (Campion, 2009)
14. Mad Max: Fury Road (George Miller, 2015)
15. Margaret (Lonergan, 2011)
16. Oslo, August 31st (Joachim Trier, 2011)
17. Waltz with Bashir (Folman, 2008)
18. Force Majeure (Östlund, 2014)
19. The Good Girl (Arteta, 2002)
20. Capturing the Friedmans (Jarecki, 2003)
21. The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (Dominik, 2007)
22. The Royal Tenenbaums (Wes Anderson, 2001)
23. Leviathan (Andrey Zvyagintsev, 2014)
24. The Turin Horse (Tarr, 2011)
25. The Look of Silence (Oppenheimer, 2015)
26. Paprika (Kon, 2006)
27. Lost in Translation (Sofia Coppola, 2003)
28. Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives (Apichatpong Weerasethakul, 2010)
29. Millenium Mambo (Hsiao-hsien Hou, 2001)
30. Her (Spike Jonze, 2013 )
31. Werckmeister Harmonies (Tarr, 2000)
32. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (Gondry, 2004)
33. World of Tomorrow (Hertzfeldt, 2015)
34. Nymphomaniac Volume I (von Trier, 2013)
35. Spirited Away (Miyazaki, 2001)
36. Let the Right One In (Alfredson, 2008)
37. Spider-Man 2 (Raimi, 2004)
38. Mysterious Skin (Araki, 2004)
39. Moonrise Kingdom (Wes Anderson, 2012)
40. Love Exposure (Sono, 2008)
41. Inglourious Basterds (Tarantino, 2009)
42. Whiplash (Chazelle, 2014)
43. 45 Years (Haigh, 2015)
44. Blue Valentine (Cianfrance, 2010)
45. Hunger (McQueen, 2008)
46. Dogtooth (Lanthimos, 2010)
47. Love (Noé, 2015)
48. The Wayward Cloud (Tsai, 2005)
49. The Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call - New Orleans (Herzog, 2010)
50. 4 Months, 3 Weeks & 2 Days (Mungiu, 2007)
51. Drive (Refn, 2011)
52. Two Days, One Night (Dardennes, 2014)
53. My Love (Petrov, 2006)
54. Winged Migration (Perrin & Cluzaud, 2001)
55. A Time for Drunken Horses (Ghobadi, 2000)
56. Nobody Knows (Koreeda, 2004)
57. Another Year (Leigh, 2010)
58. Inland Empire (Lynch, 2007)
59. Grizzly Man (Herzog, 2005)
60. Locke (Knight, 2013)
61. Greenberg (Baumbach, 2010)
62. Synecdoche, NY (Kaufman, 2008)
63. Trouble Every Day (Denis, 2001)
64. The Lobster (Lanthimos, 2015)
65. Burn After Reading (Coens, 2008)
66. The Kid with a Bike (Dardennes, 2011)
67. The Deep Blue Sea (Davies, 2011)
68. The Bourne Ultimatum (Greengrass, 2007)
69. Forsaken Land (Jayasundara, 2006)
70. Ghost World (Zwigoff, 2001)
71. Snowtown (Kurzel, 2011)
72. The Duke of Burgundy (Strickland, 2014)
73. L’Enfant (Dardennes, 2005)
74. Oasis (Chang-dong Lee, 2002)
75. George Washington (David Gordon Green, 2001)
76. Kung Fu Hustle (Chow, 2005)
77. Dogville (von Trier, 2004)
78. Joe (David Gordon Green, 2013)
79. Under the Skin (Glazer, 2014)
80. Interstellar (Nolan, 2014)
81. Blue Jasmine (Woody Allen, 2013)
82. White Material (Denis, 2010)
83. Public Enemies (Mann, 2009)
84. The Squid and the Whale (Baumbach, 2006)
85. The Place Beyond the Pines (Cianfrance, 2013)
86. Django Unchained (Tarantino, 2013)
87. Jesus Camp (Heidi Ewing and Rachel Grady, 2007)
88. In the Loop (Iannucci, 2009)
89. A Serious Man (Coens, 2009)
90. The Double (Ayoade, 2014)
91. Enemy (Villeneuve, 2014)
92. In Bruges (McDonagh, 2008)
93. Macbeth (Kurzel, 2015)
94. Bastards (Denis, 2013)
95. Time Out (Cantet, 2002)
96. 12 Years a Slave (McQueen, 2014)
97. The Lego Movie (Phil Lord and Chris Miller, 2014)
98. Paradise Now (Abu-Assad, 2006)
99. Match Point (Woody Allen, 2006)
100. A Touch of Sin (Zhangke Jia, 2013)

Movies that would have been pretty high on the list right after I saw them, but which have faded in my mind: Once, Time, The Heart of the World, and Leviathan (the fish one)

[Melville]

The most confusing of the Top 100 might be Brooklyn to me. Not just because it's so new, but because it feels so contently slight (and often even visually shabby) that I just can't personally fathom how in the last 16 years of cinema we've had it could rank amongst one's top experiences.
Yeah, I didn't think much of that one. Technically unremarkable, populated by caricatures, and centered on an insultingly bad romantic conflict. If you took away that "will she or won't she abandon the guy she seemed fully in love with only thirty seconds ago" and came up with some other metaphor for her being torn between her old home and her new, then it would have been alright.

[baby doll]

Rather than doing my a proper top ten (or top one hundred), I'll just list some of my favourites that weren't included in the BBC list:

Platform (Jia Zhangke, 2000)
Femme Fatale (Brian De Palma, 2002)
Goodbye, Dragon Inn (Tsai Ming-liang, 2003)
The Holy Girl (Lucrecia Martel, 2004)
Marie Antoinette (Sofia Coppola, 2006)
Dans la ville de Sylvie (José Luis GuerÃ*n, 2007)
I'm Not There. (Todd Haynes, 2007)
Vincere (Marco Bellocchio, 2009)
Le Gamin au vélo (Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne, 2011)

[Gizmo]

My Top 25. After that it gets a bit muggy:

1. Mulholland Dr. 2001
2. Black Swan 2010
3. Let the Right One In 2008
4. Amelie 2001
5. Closer 2004
6. Chicago 2002
7. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind 2004
8. Inglourious Basterds 2009
9. Across the Universe 2007
10. Memento 2000
11. Lost in Translation 2003
12. Before Sunset 2004
13. Hero 2002
14. The Royal Tenenbaums 2001
15. The Prestige 2006
16. Pan's Labyrinth 2006
17. The Dark Knight 2008
18. Under the Skin 2014
19. Shutter Island 2010
20. The Others 2001
21. Oldboy 2003
22. In the Mood for Love 2000
23. Birdman 2014
24. Star Wars Episode VII: The Force Awakens 2015
25. The Incredibles 2004

[dreamdead]

This list is rather informative even if not especially new in terms of film representation. Helpful since it looks like I'll be teaching a 21st Century Cinema class in the spring. At this point Wong and Lynch being the final two is utterly expected.

The new Maren Ade is even more exciting to me--hopefully it comes South this winter.

Requiem is the kind of film that I think has dropped off since Aronofsky never quite delivered on those heights again. It remains powerful, but I wonder about Leto's performance now; will his current antics color what was a good Everyman there.

I really need to see Martel's Headless Woman.

Kim Ki-duk making this kind of list over Lee Chang-dong will be forever angering for me.

I love seeing Timbuktu so high; hoping to teach it, A Separation, The World, and either some Dardennes or Bong Joon-ho.

Not sure about TWBB at that sort of placement, but love that Inside Llewyn Davis and Tree of Life are that high.

[Russ]

Rather than doing my a proper top ten (or top one hundred), I'll just list some of my favourites that weren't included in the BBC list:

Like bd:

Songs from the Second Floor (Roy Andersson, 2000)
Fear X (Nicolas Winding Refn, 2003)
Calvaire (Fabrice Du Welz, 2004)
Hotel (Jessica Hausner, 2004)
Mind Game (Masaaki Yuasa, 2004)
Palindromes (Todd Solondz, 2004)
Survive Style 5+ (Gen Sekiguchi, 2004)
Nuit Noire (Olivier Smolders, 2005)
The Fall (Tarsem Singh, 2006)
INLAND EMPIRE (David Lynch, 2006)
5 Centimeters Per Second (Makoto Shinkai, 2007)
My Winnipeg (Guy Maddin, 2007)
After Last Season (Mark Region, 2009)*
Dogtooth (Giorgos Lanthimos, 2009)
Duburys / Vortex (Gytis Luksas, 2009)
Bibliothèque Pascal (Szabolcs Hajdu, 2010)
Confessions (Tetsuya Nakashima, 2010)
Borgman (Alex van Warmerdam, 2013)
The Dance of Reality (Alejandro Jodorowsky, 2013)
Enemy (Denis Villeneuve, 2013)
Li'l Quinquin (Bruno Dumont, 2014)
Onirica: Field of Dogs (Lech Majewski, 2014)
The Forbidden Room (Guy Maddin, Evan Johnson, 2015)

And NOTHING by György Pálfi??? (Hukkle (2002), Taxidermia (2006), and Final Cut:Ladies and Gentlemen (2012) Heck, all were deserving.


* NOT a typo

[Yxklyx]

Boo! No Lord of the Rings!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!! That and Mulholland Dr. is what got me into movies.

P.S. Hukkle is a minor masterpiece - should definitely be on this as well.

P.S.S. Couldn't stand The Tree of Life and There Will Be Blood and No Country for Old Men are way way way way overrated. I really don't understand the love.

P.S.S.S: I also thought that The Act of Killing was awful awful awful.

Requiem for a Dream is way too low. It really all comes down to one's personal taste.

My top 17:

The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (Peter Jackson)
Amelie (Jean-Pierre Jeunet)
Mulholland Dr. (David Lynch)
Songs from the Second Floor (Roy Andersson)
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (Peter Jackson)
Donnie Darko (Richard Kelly)
The Saddest Music in the World (Guy Maddin)
Planet Terror (Robert Rodriguez)
The New World (Terrence Malick)
Enter the Void (Gaspar Noé)
Memento (Christopher Nolan)
Requiem for a Dream (Darren Aronofsky)
Talk to Her (Pedro Almodóvar)
Hukkle (György Pálfi)
The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (Peter Jackson)
Ghost World (Terry Zwigoff)
United 93 (Paul Greengrass)

I've been a very big fan of the LOTR books since 1979 so that has to be on the top. Yeah it has some major flaws but seeing it on the big screen like this was a dream come true - I also followed the production of these films very closely and that had a major impact on me getting into film. I came out stunned from Mulholland Dr. but I have to give the edge to Amelie because I'd never seen anything like that before while Lynch's film retreads old ground (though it's perfected here).

I decided to never watch United 93 again. I think some of the potency is emotional but I recall a near perfect pacing to it and the final scene was one of the most harrowing I've ever seen.

[Yxklyx]

Pretty good list. But not a single Dardenne movie? Nuts to that.
...

You know, they make consistently good films. I think they play it too safe - they don't take chances. Their films don't have a WOW factor for me. I do really appreciate what they're doing - the cinema world would be much less without them.

[Skitch]

Wait a minute...youre my age but didnt get into films until LOTR? I find that fascinating. Please tell me more.

[Dukefrukem]

My Top 100 (updated in Jan 2016)

1 Inception
2 Rear Window
3 Once Upon a Time in the West
4 The Shawshank Redemption
5 The Killing
6 Seven Samurai
7 2001: A Space Oddesy
8 Pulp Fiction
9 12 Angry Men
10 The Bridge On the River Kwai
11 John Carpenter's The Thing
12 Star Wars Return of the Jedi
13 Mad Max: Fury Road
14 Rope
15 One Flew Over the CuckCoo's Nest
16 Akira
17 Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
18 The Devil’s Backbone
19 Sabotage
20 Good Will Hunting
21 The Raid: Redemption
22 Alien
23 Brazil
24 Dog Day Afternoon
25 The Departed
26 The Lion King
27 L'Avventura
28 Blade Runner
29 Spider-man 2
30 The Third Man
31 Close Encounters of the Third Kind
32 The Game
33 Primer
34 Rashomon
35 Star Wars The Empire Strikes Back
36 Burbs
37 Indiana Jones Raiders of the Lost Ark
38 A Clockwork Orange
39 Terminator 2: Judgment Day
40 Star Wars A New Hope
41 Upstream Color
42 The Conversation
43 The Matrix
44 The Dark Knight
45 The Man Who Knew Too Much
46 Abyss
47 Pan's Labyrinth
48 Videodrome
49 Stalker
50 Vertigo
51 Black Swan
52 Chinatown
53 Cabin in the Woods
54 Interstellar
55 Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
56 Young Frankenstein
57 Fargo
58 E.T.
59 A Beautiful Mind
60 Solyaris
61 Melancholia
62 American Beauty
63 The 400 Blows
64 Finding Nemo
65 No Country for Old Men
66 Citizen Kane
67 Wall-E
68 The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou
69 Antichrist
70 Moon
71 The Prestige
72 Night of the Living Dead
73 To Kill a Mockingbird
74 Full Metal Jacket
75 Snatch
76 Oldboy
77 Stand By Me
78 Back to the Future
79 Gravity
80 Ratatouille
81 M
82 The Elephant Man
83 Seven
84 Die Hard
85 The Matrix Reloaded
86 The Fugitive
87 The Killer
88 West Side Story
89 Ace in the Hole
90 Fight Club
91 American History X
92 Jaws
93 Unforgiven
94 Burn After Reading
95 Captain America: The Winter Soldier
96 The Count of Monte Cristo
97 Foreign Correspondent
98 The Insider
99 Up
100 Enter the Void

[Melville]

P.S.S.S: I also thought that The Act of Killing was awful awful awful.
?!


You know, they make consistently good films. I think they play it too safe - they don't take chances. Their films don't have a WOW factor for me. I do really appreciate what they're doing - the cinema world would be much less without them.
For me they consistently provide the biggest wow factor of any modern directors. They do moments of spiritual and ethical revelation like nobody else.

[Melville]

My Top 100 (updated in Jan 2016)
But what about your top 100 of the 21st century?

[Melville]

The Forbidden Room (Guy Maddin, Evan Johnson, 2015)
This looks so good. How does it compare to Maddin's other movies?

[Russ]

This looks so good. How does it compare to Maddin's other movies?
If anything, it has even more of that frantic fever-dream quality that characterizes his best films. For those not well-versed in his filmography, the length of this film (2 hrs +) might seem like a bit of a chore to sit through, a hurdle many may feel is magnified by the disconnected narrative, a Russian nesting egg of stories, ala Wojciech Has's The Saragossa Manuscript. But the entirety of the work is held together by the uniqueness of Maddin's batshit-insane sensibilities. There is more playful inventiveness in this one film than in some directors' entire oeuvre. Evan Johnson's technical prowess with digital manipulation and editing is a perfect compliment to the overall wacky spirit of the proceedings.

I have absolutely no problem calling this Maddin's best film, and my new favorite of his.

[Russ]

I just watched Denis Villeneuve's 2013 film, Enemy, and edited my post of missing favorites to include it. Pretty stunning piece of work.

[Dukefrukem]

But what about your top 100 of the 21st century?

Duh.

1 Inception
13 Mad Max: Fury Road
18 The Devil’s Backbone
21 The Raid: Redemption
25 The Departed
29 Spider-man 2
33 Primer
41 Upstream Color
44 The Dark Knight
47 Pan's Labyrinth
51 Black Swan
53 Cabin in the Woods
54 Interstellar
55 Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
59 A Beautiful Mind
61 Melancholia
64 Finding Nemo
65 No Country for Old Men
67 Wall-E
68 The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou
69 Antichrist
70 Moon
71 The Prestige
75 Snatch
76 Oldboy
79 Gravity
80 Ratatouille
85 The Matrix Reloaded
94 Burn After Reading
95 Captain America: The Winter Soldier
96 The Count of Monte Cristo
99 Up
100 Enter the Void
101 City of God
103 It Follows
104 Birdman
106 John Wick
110 Million Dollar Baby
112 Predestination
114 Gran Torino
116 The Gunman
117 The Wolf of Wall Street
118 The Hateful Eight
122 Argo
123 Mulholland Dr
126 The Avengers
130 A Tale of Two Sisters
131 Whiplash
132 Gone Girl
133 Intouchables

[Dukefrukem]

I hate both of those lists. So they are unofficial right now. The only thing I'm comfortable with is my #1: Inception and #2 Fury Road.

[Melville]

frantic fever-dream...a Russian nesting egg of stories...I have absolutely no problem calling this Maddin's best film, and my new favorite of his.
I need to see this.