MC Yearly Consensus - 2002

[Spinal]

Submit your five favorite films from this year and in a week I will give you a top ten. IMDb dates will be used.

The point system is as follows

1st Place-5 points
2nd Place-4 points
3rd Place-3.5 points
4th Place-3 points
5th Place-2.5 points

There will be no restrictions on short films. A minimum of three films must be listed. You may edit your post freely up until the time that the thread is locked, which will be in about a week. I will give at least 24 hours warning before tallying votes.

You may begin now.

IMDB Power Search (http://www.imdb.com/list)

[Spinal]

1. City of God
2. May
3. The Weather Underground
4. Talk to Her
5. Hero

6. The Twilight Samurai
7. Dracula: Pages from a Virgin's Diary
8. Heaven
9. Friday Night
10. Secret Things

[Watashi]

Yay! Spinal's back!

[Watashi]

1. Minority Report
2. Gangs of New York
3. In America
4. Adaptation
5. 25th Hour

----

6. Signs
7. Far From Heaven
8. Road to Perdition
9. City of God
10. Sweet Sixteen

Best year of the decade so far.

[dreamdead]

1. Decasia
2. Punch Drunk Love
3. The Son
4. In America
5. Femme Fatale

HM: Talk to Her, demonlover, 25th Hour, Bloody Sunday

[Russ]

1. Talk to Her
2. Twilight Samurai
3. City of God
4. Femme Fatale
5. Dracula: Pages from a Virgin's Diary

[Benny Profane]

Impossible year to narrow down to 5. But here goes:

1. Sweet Sixteen
2. 25th Hour
3. Bloody Sunday
4. City of God
5. Lilya 4-Ever

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Honorable Mention: Roger Dodger, Spellbound, Adaptation, Blue Car, Bubba Ho-tep, Dirty Pretty Things, Dog Soldiers, In America, In this World, The Magdalene Sisters, The Pianist, Punch Drunk Love, Rabbit Proof Fence, Raising Victor Vargas

All of which are worthy of a top 5 placement in any normal year.

[dreamdead]

whoops. Forgot about PTA's film. edited.

[Raiders]

1. The Tracker
2. Decasia
3. Spider
4. The Truth About Charlie
5. Far From Heaven

HMs: Dracula: Pages from a Virgin's Diary, Cremaster 3, Bus 174, In America, The Good Thief, Twilight Samurai, Gerry

[ledfloyd]

1. Adaptation.
2. 25th Hour
3. City of God
4. Far From Heaven
5. Talk to Her

phenomenal year.

[Russ]

I need to see this Decasia.

* bump to top of queue *

[Ezee E]

Can't even fit in Scorsese...

1. City of God
2. 25th Hour
3. Irreversible
4. Minority Report
5. Bus 174

[Yxklyx]

1. Hukkle (György Pálfi)
2. City of God (Fernando Meirelles & Kátia Lund)
3. The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (Peter Jackson)
4. Gerry (Gus Van Sant)
5. Lilya 4-Ever (Lukas Moodysson)

6. Talk to Her (Pedro Almodóvar)
7. Gangs of New York (Martin Scorsese)
8. Dracula: Pages from a Virgin Diary (Guy Maddin)
9. Distant (Nuri Bilge Ceylan)
10. Minimal Stories (Carlos Sorin)

[Sycophant]

1. Punch-Drunk Love
2. The Twilight Samurai
3. In America
4. Infernal Affairs
5. Signs

HMs: About a Boy, Moonlight Mile, Minority Report, Death to Smoochy, City of God, The 25th Hour

[soitgoes...]

1. Punch-Drunk Love (Paul Thomas Anderson)
2. Oasis (Chang-dong Lee)
3. 8 Women (François Ozon)
4. Adaptation. (Spike Jonze)
5. Talk to Her (Pedro Almodóvar)
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6. City of God (Fernando Meirelles, Kátia Lund)
7. The Twilight Samurai (Yôji Yamada)
8. Bloody Sunday (Paul Greengrass)
9. Bus 174 (José Padilha, Felipe Lacerda)
10. Far from Heaven (Todd Haynes)

[Stay Puft]

1. A Snake of June
2. Demonlover
3. Talk to Her
4. Dolls
5. The Twilight Samurai

[Philosophe_rouge]

1. Far From Heaven
2. About a Boy
3. 28 Days Later
4. Hero
5. Solaris

[origami_mustache]

1. City of God
2. Punch-Drunk Love
3. Irréversible
4. A Snake Of June
5. Blissfully Yours

6. Oasis
7. Talk To Her
8. Adaptation
9. Dracula: Pages from a Virgin's Diary
10. The Skywalk Is Gone

[bac0n]

1. City of God
2. LOTR: The Two Towers
3. Hero
4. Spider-Man
5. Adaption

[Stay Puft]

4. A Snake Of June

Oh shit, forgot that was 2002. Gotta edit my post.

[Lazlo]

1. Punch-Drunk Love
2. The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
3. Adaptation.
4. City of God
5. About Schmidt

[trotchky]

1. Talk to Her
2. Femme Fatale
3. Punch-Drunk Love
4. Far From Heaven
5. Gangs of New York

[Kurious Jorge v3.1]

1. Punch Drunk Love
2. Oasis
3. City of God
4. Roger Dodger
5. Adaptation

[MadMan]

2002 was really a damn good year for film. Even though Chicago won Best Picture. Oh well...

1. Gangs of New York
2. Bubba Ho-Tep
3. Road to Perdition
4. The Bourne Identity
5. Confessions of a Dangerous Mind
6. The Two Towers
7. Adaptation
8. Catch Me If You Can
9. Eight Legged Freaks
10. Orange County

HMs: Signs, Narc, Bowling For Columbine, and Ice Age

[Boner M]

1. The Son (where's the love?)
2. Punch-Drunk Love
3. Blissfully Yours
4. All or Nothing
5. Talk to Her

[Russ]

Twelve different Nbr. 1's and we're still on the first page. Should be an interesting consensus.

[dreamdead]

1. The Son (where's the love?)


Sigh. Man, I'm off on my films from this year. Edited again.

[Eleven]

1. The Son
2. The Twilight Samurai
3. 28 Days Later...
4. Adaptation.
5. Bubba Ho-tep

HMs: Spider, Lost in La Mancha, The Tracker, Minority Report

[Silencio]

1. The Son
2. Adaptation
3. Talk to Her
4. Lilya 4-ever
5. Far From Heaven

[Boner M]

That's better.

[Ezee E]

Can't even fit in Scorsese...

1. City of God
2. 25th Hour
3. Irreversible
4. Minority Report
5. Bus 174

edited for Irreversible.

Damn, this is a ridiculous year.

[MacGuffin]

1. Femme Fatale (De Palma)
2. Lilya 4-ever (Moodysson)
3. Reflections of Evil (Packard)
4. Spirited Away (Miyazaki)
5. 28 Days Later... (Boyle)

6. xXx (Cohen)
7. Far From Heaven (Haynes)
8. Demonlover (Assayas)
9. The Skywalk is Gone [short] (Tsai)
10. Irreversible (Noé)

[monolith94]

1. Adaptation
2. Dracula: Pages from a Virgin's Diary
3. City of God
4. The Magdalene Sisters
5. Catch Me If You Can

6. Man Without A Past
7. Far From Heaven
8. 8 Women
9. Spirited Away
10. Lilya 4-ever

11. Hero
12. Chicago
13. Stone Reader
14. Dirty Pretty Things
15. Spellbound
16. Minority Report
17. The Man On The Train
18. The Good Thief
19. Talk to Her
20. 28 Days Later...

Honorable nods: Whale Rider, Gangs of New York

[Weeping_Guitar]

1. Adaptation
2. Minority Report
3. The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
4. Catch Me If You Can
5. Solaris

[Grouchy]

1. The Pianist
2. Femme Fatale
3. Hero
4. Irreversible
5. Far From Heaven

Would love to include: May, Punch-Drunk Love, Gangs of New York, Dolls and Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance.

[Melville]

1. Punch-Drunk Love
2. The Son
3. The Good Girl
4. Friday Night
5. Dolls

6. The Quiet American
7. Twilight Samurai
8. Catch Me if You Can
9. Bowling for Columbine
10. The Bourne Identity

[Mysterious Dude]

1. City of God
2. Lilja 4-Ever
3. Better Luck Tomorrow
4. Road to Perdition
5. Punch-Drunk Love

[BirdsAteMyFace]

1. Lilja 4-ever
2. Punch-Drunk Love
3. Irréversible
4. Demonlover
5. Oasis

HM: Twilight Samurai

[Watashi]

Spirited Away is 2001, guys.

[EyesWideOpen]

1. Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance
2. Solaris
3. Punch Drunk Love
4. Gangs of New York
5. Infernal Affairs

[TrippyRamone]

1. 25th Hour
2. Punch-Drunk Love
3. Catch Me If You Can
4. The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
5. City of God

[Duncan]

1. The Son
2. Punch-Drunk Love
3. Catch Me If You Can
4. Dracula: Pages from a Virgin's Diary
5. Adaptation

And plenty more that I really like from this year.

[Dead & Messed Up]

1. Minority Report
2. Whale Rider
3. 28 Days Later
3. May
4. Gangs of New York

[berlin wallflower]

1. All or Nothing
2. Punch-Drunk Love
3. Man Without a Past
4. Open Hearts
5. Distant

[Pop Trash]

1. Adaptation.
2. About Schmidt
3. Talk to Her
4. Lilja 4-Ever
5. To Be and To Have

6. Bowling for Columbine
7. Secretary
8. Bubba Ho-tep
9. 25th Hour
10.Catch Me If You Can

Pretty outstanding year, but what is with the lack of docs on people's lists? I seem to remember critics calling 2002 the year of the docs. There was also the very good docs Stevie, Spellbound, and The Weather Underground from 2002.

[Spinal]

From here on out, I would like to invite anyone to post lists, achievements and/or notable events that contextualize the given year. Examples of this can be found in previous threads. I only ask that if you are posting a list that you keep it confined to one post. Thanks.

[Raiders]

I can't believe I forgot my favorite film from this year, Rolf de Heer's exquisite The Tracker. I need to either update my Films by Year blog or quit using it as my guide.

I have updated my list accordingly.

[Ezee E]

2002 - I began film school.

[Dead & Messed Up]

In 2002, I:

Began work on a screenplay adaptation of Lovecraft's Pickman's Model, which went on to win an award of achievement from the Iowa Motion Picture Association and heavily factored in my decision to pursue screenwriting further.

[chrisnu]

1. City of God
2. Hukkle
3. Solaris
4. Spider
5. Twilight Samurai

[Yum-Yum]

1. May
2. 24 Hour Party People
3. Secretary
4. Morvern Callar
5. Spun

[Qrazy]

1. Adaptation
2. City of God
3. Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
4. Punch Drunk Love
5. Road to Perdition

Don't really feel that strongly about the order but whatever...

HMs: Hukkle, Morvern Callar, Spider, Twilight Samurai, 25th Hour, Minority Report, Catch Me if You Can, Man Without a Past, The Pianist, Rabbit Proof Fence

Films I need/want to see: The Son, 24 Hour Party People, Friday Night, Bubba Ho-Tep

Films I hope don't make the final list: Gangs of New York, About Schmidt, Lilya-4-Ever, Bowling for Columbine

[bac0n]

In 2002 I: had my first period of extended unemployment. I went for a lot of very long bike rides and listed to Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots. What a strange and wonderful time.

[Pop Trash]

Films I hope don't make the final list: Gangs of New York, About Schmidt, Lilya-4-Ever, Bowling for Columbine
:evil:

[Qrazy]

:evil:

Muahahahaha!!!

[Sycophant]

Man. This was a phenomenal year. I could fiddle with my five endlessly, but I won't.

[monolith94]

In 2002, I graduated from high school! I actually gave the closing speech at our graduation.

[origami_mustache]

In 2002 I broke the school record and won state in the 400m and 4x400m

booya!

[Robby P]

1. Sweet Sixteen
2. All or Nothing
3. The Son
4. 25th Hour
5. Narc

What a ridiculously good year for movies.

[Ezee E]

In 2002 I broke the school record and won state in the 400m and 4x400m

booya!
Time?

[origami_mustache]

Time?

open: 48.6
relay: 3:21

[DrewG]

More Lilja 4-Ever!

Man I can really arrange this year in 100 different ways. I'll put Lilja first cause it probably might need help. 1-4 here can flip flop for my #1 spot.

1. Lilja 4-Ever
2. City of God
3. Punch-Drunk Love
4. 25th Hour
5. Irreversible

HM: Minority Report, Talk to Her

[Ezee E]

open: 48.6
relay: 3:21
I was horrible in the 400. I did the 100 and 200.

My best 100 time was 11.1. Too bad I didn't have better coaches because I could've gotten better since that was my Freshman year in high school.

[origami_mustache]

I was horrible in the 400. I did the 100 and 200.

My best 100 time was 11.1. Too bad I didn't have better coaches because I could've gotten better since that was my Freshman year in high school.
that is a very good time for a freshman.
I was on the 4X100 relay...we had a dominating lead at state and dropped the baton on the final hand off haha.
I also ran the 200m...got second in state (21.7), but never really considered it my race.

[Kurosawa Fan]

1. Solaris
2. Sweet Sixteen
3. Bloody Sunday
4. Bus 174
5. Road to Perdition

[Spinal]

One more day. OK?

[Derek]

1. Punch-Drunk Love (Paul Thomas Anderson)
2. Decasia (Bill Morrison)
3. Cremaster 3 (Matthew Barney)
4. 25th Hour (Spike Lee)
5. Spider (David Cronenberg)
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6. Femme Fatale (Brian De Palma)
7. Far From Heaven (Todd Haynes)
8. Russian Ark (Aleksandr Sokurov)
9. Changing Lanes (Roger Michell)
10. Adaptation (Spike Jonze)

[MadMan]

Well 2002 actually saw me starting to really get into film. It was also the first year time I started writing reviews as well. Oh and spent a lot of my time playing basketball with friends and spending weekends doing nothing. Its also one of the few years in this decade where I saw most of the best picture nominees....I went to the theater a great deal that year.

[Sycophant]

In 2002, I had my heart broken into a thousand tiny shards, which took me years to recover from, because I suck. But in that same year I saw The Royal Tenenbaums for the first time (first nine times, actually), which was very important as well. So it evens out.

[Spinal]

My kid was born in 2002.

I'll probably start counting tonight.

[Spinal]

#9 (tie)

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Far From Heaven

Director: Todd Haynes

Country: USA/France

A perfect 50s housewife living the perfect 50s life surprises her husband kissing another man, and her tidy world starts spinning out of control.

Nominated for four Academy Awards including Best Actress (Julianne Moore), Best Cinematography, Best Original Screenplay and Best Original Score. Moore was pregnant during the filming of the movie. Cinematographer Edward Lachman used the same type of lighting equipment (incandescent), the same lighting techniques, and the same type of lens filters as would have been used on a 1950s era melodrama.

"Haynes seemingly suggests that there is no need for labels (gay and straight, black and white, inside and outside) if people are willing to listen to others ... Here is a film of great humanism that applies as much to the '50s as it does to the world today and everyone who inhabits it." -- Ed Gonzalez

[Spinal]

#9 (tie)

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Femme Fatale

Director: Brian De Palma

Country: France

An international con artist helps pull off a diamond robbery in Cannes during the annual film festival. She double-crosses her partners-in-crime and makes off with the diamonds to Paris.

The film supposedly takes place at the 2001 Cannes Film Festival, even though the premiere that was recreated for the opening of the film is for East-West, which actually premiered in 1999. The real director, Régis Wargnier, and the star of the film, Sandrine Bonnaire, appear as themselves. Uma Thurman was originally cast as Laure Ash, but canceled when she became pregnant.

"Sly as a snake, Brian De Palma's Femme Fatale is a sexy thriller that coils back on itself in seductive deception. This is pure filmmaking, elegant and slippery. I haven't had as much fun second-guessing a movie since Mulholland Drive." -- Roger Ebert

[Derek]

Awesome start. Love both of those and they'd certainly be in my top 5 in a weaker year.

[Spinal]

#8

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The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers

Director: Peter Jackson

Country: USA/New Zealand

After the Fellowship has broken, Merry and Pippin make new allies in the Ents, while Legolas, Gimli and Aragorn make allies in the people of Rohan. All of them must launch an assault on Isengard. Meanwhile, Frodo and Sam force Gollum to guide them through Mordor, trusting him with their lives.

Won Oscars for Best Sound Editing and Best Visual Effects. Nominated for four other awards including Best Picture. Sean Astin and Elijah Wood spent most of their scenes acting to an orange ping-pong ball, which was turned into Gollum in post-production.

"Think of The Two Towers as an allegory of the spirit. That's why its fantastical architecture and locations register not as tricks but as psychological interiors ... Whether we're shown the vast wasted structures of subterranean cities, or the buttresses of an evil empire, the visual statement reinforces the real scope of the drama: the greatness and ruinousness of the human mind, and its choices." -- Mick LaSalle

[Spinal]

#7

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25th Hour

Director: Spike Lee

Country: USA

The film depicts the last day of freedom for a young man before he begins serving a seven-year jail term for drug dealing. Prowling through the city until dawn with his two close male friends and his girlfriend, he is forced to re-examine his life and how he got himself into his predicament.

Edward Norton says the word "fuck" 40 times in about five minutes during his monologue in the bathroom. Writer David Benioff said in a BBC interview, "The first time I saw [Edward Norton] on set he pulled back his hair and showed me his widow's peak. In the book, Monty Brogan has a widow's peak, but I hadn't mentioned it in the script. But Edward so wanted to be in character that he wore a prosthetic widow's peak for the entire shoot."

"Because the movie is so measured, so melodic, its bursts of wild invention, which might otherwise be irritating, are electrifying. The ending, narrated by [Brian] Cox, is as bittersweet and sincere an evocation of the American dream as I have seen on film in quite some time, acknowledging both the futility of the collective national fantasy and its consoling, resilient power." -- A.O. Scott

[Spinal]

#6

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Lilja 4-ever

Director: Lukas Moodysson

Country: Sweden

In the former Soviet Union, a 16-year old girl is abandoned by her mother without money or family in a shabby apartment. She begins to prostitute in a nightclub to survive, and meets a young man who invites her to move with him to Sweden with a promise of a job and lodging.

Nominated for Best Foreign Film at the Independent Spirit Awards. Based primarily on the real life of Dangoule Rasalaite, who ended up in Sweden after her mother took off and went to America. The film follows the events of Dangoule's life pretty closely, with the main exception of the boy, Volodja, who is entirely fictional.

"Moodysson draws a completely convincing world, creates two highly empathic characters ... and then shows us how they suffer, how life abandons them, how the world abuses them and how their only seeming escapes lie in dreams, drugs or death. Even as Lilya's plight grows worse, the movie exerts a continuous, almost overpowering fascination." -- Michael Wilmington

[Spinal]

#4 (tie)

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The Son

Director: Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne

Country: Belgium/France

A joinery instructor at a rehab center refuses to take a new teen as his apprentice, but then begins to follow the boy through the hallways and streets. Later that day, he's visited by his ex-wife, who tells him that she's remarrying and is pregnant.

Olivier Gourmet won Best Actor at the Cannes Film Festival. The film was created with him in mind. Gourmet appeared previously in the Dardennes' films, Rosetta and La Promesse.

"For all its quasi-documentary materialism, The Son is ultimately a Christian allegory of one man's inchoate desire to return good for evil. The movie requires a measure of faith, and like a job well done, it repays that trust." -- J. Hoberman

[Spinal]

#4 (tie)

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Talk to Her

Director: Pedro Almodóvar

Country: Spain

After a chance encounter at a theater, two men, Benigno and Marco, meet at a private clinic where Benigno works. Marco's girlfriend, a bullfighter by profession, has been gored and is in a coma. Benigno is looking after another woman in a coma, a young ballet student.

Won the Oscar for Best Original Screenplay. Also nominated for Best Director. The character of Benigno is based on Pedro Almodóvar's close friend Roberto Benigni. The bulls' bloodiness in the film is real.

"Almodóvar is a great admirer of actresses ... But here, men carry the weight of the film, particularly [Javier] Cámara, whose unflagging gentleness hides a swirl of confusion ... In one passage of unexpected grace after another, Talk To Her finds the gentle rhymes between tragedy and moments of happiness, and between the despair and rapture that keep its characters in the thrall of love." -- Keith Phipps

[DrewG]

This year...really was way too good. Holy crap.

[Spinal]

#3

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Adaptation

Director: Spike Jonze

Country: USA

Charlie Kaufman is struggling with the arduous task of adapting The Orchid Thief, which doesn't have an obvious dramatic line. At the same time he faces a mid-life crisis, which is worsened by the presence of his twin brother Donald, who dreams of making a lot of money with his screenplays.

Won the Oscar for Best Supporting Actor (Chris Cooper). Also nominated for Best Actor (Nicolas Cage), Best Supporting Actress (Meryl Streep) and Best Adapted Screenplay. Robert McKee personally suggested to the producers that Brian Cox play him in the movie. Donald Kaufman was nominated for an Oscar, despite being a fictional character. The Academy made it known that, in the event of a victory, the two brothers would have to share one statue.

"What a bewilderingly brilliant and entertaining movie this is--a confounding story about orchid thieves and screenwriters, elegant New Yorkers and scruffy swamp rats, truth and fiction. Adaptation is a movie that leaves you breathless with curiosity, as it teases itself with the directions it might take. To watch the film is to be actively involved in the challenge of its creation." -- Roger Ebert

[Spinal]

#2

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City of God

Director: Fernando Meirelles and Kátia Lund

Country: Brazil

Two boys growing up in a violent neighborhood of Rio de Janeiro take different paths: one becomes a photographer, the other a drug dealer.

Nominated for four Academy Awards: Best Director, Best Cinematography, Best Editing and Best Adapted Screenplay. To prepare the Runt for the scene in which he cries, (acting coach) Fátima Toledo worked with the child and discovered his biggest fear was having a toothache. So, when the time came to shoot the scene, she told him to just remember his toothache and pretend his pain had moved to his foot.

"Sensationally sensationalistic, Fernando Meirelles's City of God spews like a magma jet. Mapping out the titular Rio housing project as it evolves from a sprawling '60s wasteland to a mad '80s Gomorrah of drug trade, impulse killing, and nightened chaos, the film is both ghetto-hell realistic and nearly Homeric in its episodic, subjective mythomania." -- Michael Atkinson

[Boner M]

Yay The Son! Boo Adaptation!

[Spinal]

#1

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Punch-Drunk Love

Director: Paul Thomas Anderson

Country: USA

Barry Egan is a wreck, driven to breakdown by the henpecking of his seven sisters. One odd morning a harmonium appears in the street and a striking young lady asks for his help with her car.

Won Best Director at Cannes. The four blond brothers who go after Barry and beat him up are actually brothers in real life. When Barry says, "That's very food," it was actually just a typo that the director decided to keep.

"What Mr. Anderson wants to do is recapture, without nostalgia, the giddiness and sweep of old movies, and his mastery of the emotional machinery of the medium is breathtaking. You can feel his impulsive pleasure as he flings the camera through long tracking shots, and layers his nimble visual compositions with music." -- A.O. Scott

[Spinal]

1. Punch Drunk Love (74)
2. City of God (64.5)
3. Adaptation (49)
4t. Talk to Her (31)
4t. The Son (31)
6. Lilya 4-Ever (29)
7. 25th Hour (28.5)
8. Lord of the Rings: Two Towers (21.5)
9t. Femme Fatale (18.5)
9t. Far from Heaven (18.5)

Oh so close:
Solaris 17.5
Minority Report 17
Gangs of New York 17
Twilight Samurai 17
Irreversible 16

[Pop Trash]

Punch Drunk Love at #1? Really? Of all the great films that came out that year that's number one?

[soitgoes...]

Punch Drunk Love at #1? Really? Of all the great films that came out that year that's number one?Yes?

[Kurosawa Fan]

Wow. Not a single film from my top five made the list. Bummer.

[Raiders]

Wow. Not a single film from my top five made the list. Bummer.

I only got Far from Heaven in a tie for 9th. None of my other four even made honorable mention.

[Kurosawa Fan]

I only got Far from Heaven in a tie for 9th. None of my other four even made honorable mention.

I just realized I missed Twilight Samurai on IMDB when I was making my list. That would have been my #1. Son of a bitch.

EDIT: And that would have put it in 8th place?!? I really screwed that one up. :sad:

[Sycophant]

Pretty amazing year, really. I'm very content with our number one.

And thanks a lot, KF. :|

[Benny Profane]

Nominated for four Academy Awards: Best Director, Best Cinematography, Best Editing and Best Adapted Screenplay. To prepare the Runt for the scene in which he cries, (acting coach) Fátima Toledo worked with the child and discovered his biggest fear was having a toothache. So, when the time came to shoot the scene, she told him to just remember his toothache and pretend his pain had moved to his foot.



Cool info.

[bac0n]

Punch Drunk Love actually beat out City of God for the #1 spot? What the hell is the matter with you people? :P

[Grouchy]

Punch Drunk Love at #1? Really? Of all the great films that came out that year that's number one?
And the problem being... what, exactly?

I'm very happy Femme Fatale made the list, too.

[Spinal]

Punch Drunk Love actually beat out City of God for the #1 spot? What the hell is the matter with you people? :P

I'm skeptical as well, but I am going to re-watch Punch-Drunk before getting into it. Just reserved it from the library. I've got to get to the bottom of all this adulation.

[soitgoes...]

I'm skeptical as well, but I am going to re-watch Punch-Drunk before getting into it. Just reserved it from the library. I've got to get to the bottom of all this adulation.
Adam Sandler really helped shaped PT Anderson into the director he is today.
;)

[origami_mustache]

I spontaneously re-watched Punch-Drunk Love last night with a friend. I still think the best part of the film is when Luis Guzman's character starts wearing a suit too without it ever being addressed.

[Sven]

I spontaneously re-watched Punch-Drunk Love last night with a friend. I still think the best part of the film is when Luis Guzman's character starts wearing a suit too without it ever being addressed.

Best part is when the chair breaks under Guzman. Seen the film, like, five times and it got me each and every one.

[MadMan]

This list has now convinced me I should really see Punch Drunk Love. I've been putting it off, if only because I want to see Anderson's earlier stuff first.

[Grouchy]

Best part is when the chair breaks under Guzman. Seen the film, like, five times and it got me each and every one.
Hahah yeah! That part is amazing.

[Qrazy]

This list has now convinced me I should really see Punch Drunk Love. I've been putting it off, if only because I want to see Anderson's earlier stuff first.

Hard Eight is an interesting debut but still very much a debut and his least interesting... Boogie Nights and Magnolia are class.

[ledfloyd]

i love every film on this list EXCEPT for punch drunk love.

[Pop Trash]

And the problem being... what, exactly?

It's not that I hate PDL, it's an OK movie from my memory. The problem is that in a great year like this it just seems too slight to have at number one. Even people that love PTA, I don't think would rank it as high as Boogie Nights, Magnolia or There Will Be Blood. I think there is a good argument to be made for City of God, Adaptation, Talk to Her (many people, including me and Paul Schrader, think this is Almodovar's best film, and we are talking about one of the best filmmakers in the world for the past 25 years or so) even 25th Hour, Lilja 4-Ever, or Far From Heaven. Personally, I would vote for About Schmidt being the better human interest dramady, but I guess that's just me since hardly anyone else voted for it.

[soitgoes...]

It's not that I hate PDL, it's an OK movie from my memory. The problem is that in a great year like this it just seems too slight to have at number one. Even people that love PTA, I don't think would rank it as high as Boogie Nights, Magnolia or There Will Be Blood. I think there is a good argument to be made for City of God, Adaptation, Talk to Her (many people, including me and Paul Schrader, think this is Almodovar's best film, and we are talking about one of the best filmmakers in the world for the past 25 years or so) even 25th Hour, Lilja 4-Ever, or Far From Heaven. Personally, I would vote for About Schmidt being the better human interest dramady, but I guess that's just me since hardly anyone else voted for it.
Apparently people do love it though. This isn't someone's Top 10 list. This is a consensus in which 40+ people voted. I like PTA. I like Boogie Nights more than Punch-Drunk Love, but that's irrelevant here because Boogie Nights wasn't released in 2002. I've seen all the films you have listed, and I think they are all great films. I still think PDL is better than them all.

[Sycophant]

Punch-Drunk Love is easily my favorite P.T. Anderson film. Not quite as easily my #1 for 2002, but it does manage to secure that title as well.

[Grouchy]

It's not that I hate PDL, it's an OK movie from my memory. The problem is that in a great year like this it just seems too slight to have at number one. Even people that love PTA, I don't think would rank it as high as Boogie Nights, Magnolia or There Will Be Blood. I think there is a good argument to be made for City of God, Adaptation, Talk to Her (many people, including me and Paul Schrader, think this is Almodovar's best film, and we are talking about one of the best filmmakers in the world for the past 25 years or so) even 25th Hour, Lilja 4-Ever, or Far From Heaven. Personally, I would vote for About Schmidt being the better human interest dramady, but I guess that's just me since hardly anyone else voted for it.
I like About Schmidt too, but I prefer the Anderson movie by a long yard. I also agree Talk to Her is Almodovar's best. I rank all of the four P.T. Anderson movies except for Sydney just about the same - they're all excellent in their own ways. I'm very happy Adaptation didn't win.

Consensus is just a nerd game, it doesn't really prove the quality of a movie, more like its propularity. If anything, this one proved that 2002 was an awe-inspiring year for movies, so, for every film that won, another one wasn't taking its righteous place by someone else's calculation. Other movies that should've been on the Top10 in my opinion and aren't are May, Hero, Bubba Ho-Tep and Sympathy For Mr. Vengeance, for example.