Yearly Consensus 2000 (Deadline Sep 9, 9pm PST)

[Spinal]

Submit your five favorite films and five favorite performances from this year and in a week I will give you a top ten in both categories. 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

10.5 pts will be required to make either list.

There will be no restrictions on short films.

There will be no distinction made between male and female performances.
There will be no distinction made between lead and supporting performances.
Voice acting can be considered a performance.


I would like to be able to count votes as they come in. This means that if you change your vote, you need to make a new post. Please quote your old list and then add your new list so that I can easily track the changes. I will not be looking for edits. Once you make a post, consider your vote cast.

You may begin now.

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[Melville]

1. In the Mood for Love
2. Requiem for a Dream
3. Outer Space
4. Werckmeister Harmonies
5. Vertical Ray of the Sun

A Time for Drunken Horses or George Washington could just as easily go in the number 5 spot. All among my favorite movies.

Other HMs: The Heart of the World, Chuck & Buck, Shadow of the Vampire, You Can Count on Me, Best in Show, Code Unknown

1. Joaquin Phoenix, Gladiator
2. Ben Kingsley, Sexy Beast
3. Tony Leung, In the Mood for Love
4. Ellen Burstyn, Requiem for a Dream
5. Willem Dafoe, Shadow of the Vampire

HMs: Mark Ruffalo and Laura Linney, You Can Count on Me; Jared Leto, Requiem for a Dream

[EyesWideOpen]

1. Battle Royale
2. Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
3. In the Mood For Love
4. Cast Away
5. Almost Famous

[Robby P]

In the Mood for Love
You Can Count on Me
Shadow of the Vampire
O Brother, Where Art Thou?
Memento

Ben Kingsley, Sexy Beast
Willem Dafoe, Shadow of the Vampire
Ed Harris, Pollock
Christian Bale, American Psycho
Mark Ruffalo, You Can Count on Me

I'd be disappointed if Ben Kingsley didn't win this.

[Pop Trash]

I'd be disappointed if Ben Kingsley didn't win this.

True, but his performances lately have been a little ho-hum. Plus, seeing him cavorting around with trophy wives (or whoever they are) at every awards show doesn't help much.

I'm on Team Ruffalo.

[Pop Trash]

1. You Can Count on Me
2. Together
3. George Washington
4. High Fidelity
5. Traffic

6. American Psycho
7. Requiem for a Dream
8. Memento
9. Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
10. Battle Royale

Perfs:
1. Mark Ruffalo, YCCOM
2. Christian Bale, American Psycho
3. Ellen Burstyn, Requiem for a Dream
4. Laura Linney, YCCOM
5. Ben Kingsley, Sexy Beast

[Russ]

1. In the Mood for Love
2. Songs from the Second Floor
3. The Heart of the World
4. The Beaver Trilogy
5. Requiem for a Dream

1. Ellen Burstyn, Requiem for a Dream
2. Crispin Glover, The Beaver Trilogy
3. Sean Penn, The Beaver Trilogy
4. Frances McDormand, Almost Famous
5. Patrick Warburton, The Emperor's New Groove

[baby doll]

True, but his performances lately have been a little ho-hum. Plus, seeing him cavorting around with trophy wives (or whoever they are) at every awards show doesn't help much.

I don't know what this has to do with anything.

[baby doll]

I'd be disappointed if Ben Kingsley didn't win this.

I've always thought that Kingsley's acting in Sexy Beast wasn't all that hot as a performance per se, but rather, it was seeing Kingsley doing something radically different than what he's known for that made his work here noteworthy. That is, if Kingsley hadn't won an Oscar for playing Mahatma Gandhi, we wouldn't be talking about his work in Sexy Beast. (Incidentally, I think Ray Winstone is being shortchanged in the voting here, as he provides a necessary contrast with Kingsley's performance.)

[B-side]

1. Outer Space (Peter Tscherkassky)
2. Sincerely, Joe P. Bear (Matt McCormick)
3. Dancer in the Dark (Lars von Trier)
4. American Psycho (Mary Harron)
5. Memento (Christopher Nolan)

1. Christian Bale - American Psycho
2. Björk - Dancer in the Dark
3. Ellen Burstyn - Requiem for a Dream
4. Tony Leung - In the Mood for Love
5. Gael GarcÃ*a Bernal - Amores perros

[Pop Trash]

2. Sincerely, Joe P. Bear (Matt McCormick)

Wow. Haven't thought about this in awhile. Did you ever see McCormick's recent feature film? It was dismissed for being typical indie/quirky but I'm still curious.

[B-side]

Wow. Haven't thought about this in awhile. Did you ever see McCormick's recent feature film? It was dismissed for being typical indie/quirky but I'm still curious.

I haven't. That's still the only film of his I've seen.

[Spinal]

1. Dancer in the Dark
2. Yi Yi
3. Songs from the Second Floor
4. Together
5. The Heart of the World

1. Ellen Burstyn, Requiem for a Dream
2. Ben Kingsley, Sexy Beast
3. Bjork, Dancer in the Dark
4. Willem Dafoe, Shadow of the Vampire
5. Sergi López, With a Friend Like Harry

[Pop Trash]

1. Dancer in the Dark
2. Yi Yi
3. Songs from the Second Floor
4. Together
5. The Heart of the World

Scandinavia much?

[Yxklyx]

1. Songs from the Second Floor (Roy Andersson)
2. Memento (Christopher Nolan)
3. The Heart of the World (Guy Maddin)
4. Requiem for a Dream (Darren Aronofsky)
5. Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (Ang Lee)

1. Ben Kingsley - Sexy Beast
2. Ellen Burstyn - Requiem for a Dream
3. Tony Leung - In the Mood for Love
4. Christian Bale - American Psycho
5. Renée Zellweger - Nurse Betty

had a hard time choosing #5 performance.

[baby doll]

Films:
1. Yi Yi (Edward Yang)
2. Platform (Jia Zhang-ke)
3. In the Mood for Love (Wong Kar-wai)
4. Werckmeister Harmonies (Béla Tarr)
5. Devils on the Doorstep (Jiang Wen)

Runners-up: The Circle (Jafar Panahi), Code inconnu: Récit incomplet de divers voyages (Michael Haneke), The Day I Became a Woman (Marziyeh Meshkini), Faithless (Liv Ullmann), George Washington (David Gordon Green), Les Glaneurs et la glaneuse (Agnès Varda), The Heart of the World (Guy Maddin), In Vanda's Room (Pedro Costa), Outer Space (Peter Tscherkassky), Songs From the Second Floor (Roy Andersson), The Vertical Ray of the Sun (Tran Anh Hung), The Yards (James Gray).

Performances:
1. Tony Leung, In the Mood for Love
2. Donald Holden, George Washington
3. Lena Endre, Faithless
4. Wu Nien-jen, Yi Yi
5. Agnès Varda, Les Glaneurs et la glaneuse

2000 movies I haven't seen but want to:

La Commune (Paris, 1871) (Peter Watkins)
Esther Kahn (Arnaud Desplechin)
Eureka (Shinji Aoyama)
O Fantasma (João Pedro Rodrigues)
Hamlet (Michael Almareyda)
Oh! Soo-jung (Hong Sang-soo)
El Valley Centro (James Benning)
West of the Tracks (Wang Bing)

Just awful, I don't know why people like this movie: Battle Royale (Kinji Fukasaku)

[Bosco B Thug]

The Day I Became a Woman (Marziyeh Meshkini), Les Glaneurs et la glaneuse (Agnès Varda)

Aw. I won't change my list, but if I had remembered that these were 2000, I may have sacrificed YCCOM. Excellent films, surprised no one threw in the latter yet.

[baby doll]

Aw. I won't change my list, but if I had caught that these were 2000, I may have sacrificed YCCOM.

Well, at least I made you feel guilty.

[Bosco B Thug]

Well, at least I made you feel guilty.

Guilty about not retaining dates, not about Battle Royale.