MC Consensus - Top Films by Female Directors (2000-present)

[Spinal]

Indiewire recently posted a list of the 25 best 21st century films directed by women. But I don't care what Indiewire thinks. I want to know what Match Cut thinks.

Submit your ten favorite films from 2000-present and in a week or so I will give you a top 25. IMDb dates will be used.

The point system is as follows

1st Place-10 points
2nd Place-8 points
3rd Place-7 points
4th Place-6 points
5th Place-5 points
6th Place-4.5 points
7th Place-4 points
8th Place-3.5 points
9th Place-3 points
10th Place-2.5 points

There will be no restrictions on short films. Only lists of 10 films will be counted. If you list less than 10, I will ignore the post. If you list more than 10, I will use the first 10. If you do not rank your films, I will assign the most points to the film listed first, and proceed from there down the line.

EDIT: If you want to edit your list, please make a new post as I have started counting.

You may begin now.

[Melville]

1. Bright Star (Campion)
2. Lost in Translation (Coppola)
3. Trouble Every Day (Denis)
4. Mustang (Deniz Gamze Ergüven)
5. The Selfish Giant (Clio Barnard)
6. Monster (Patty Jenkins)
7. In My Skin (Marina de Van)
8. Jesus Camp (Heidi Ewing, Rachel Grady)
9. American Honey (Arnold)
10. White Material (Denis)

HMs: Bastards (Denis), Enough Said (Holofcener), Friday Night (Denis)
Marie Antoinette (Coppola), Wendy and Lucy (Reichardt)

I'm guessing Top of the Lake wouldn't count, but I'd put it pretty high up on the list.

[Spinal]

1. Fat Girl
2. Mustang
3. Me and You and Everyone We Know
4. The Lure
5. Monster
6. Friday Night
7. Lost in Translation
8. The Babadook
9. Zero Dark Thirty
10. A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night

[baby doll]

• The Day I Became a Woman (Marzieh Meshkini, 2000)
• À ma soeur! (Catherine Breillat, 2001)
• The Holy Girl (Lucrecia Martel, 2004)
• Innocence (Lucile Hadzihalilovic, 2004)
• Marie Antoinette (Sofia Coppola, 2006)
• Les Plages d'Agnès (Agnès Varda, 2008)
• White Material (Claire Denis, 2009)
• La Folie Amlayer (Chantal Akerman, 2011)
• We Need to Talk About Kevin (Lynne Ramsay, 2011)
• Night Moves (Kelly Reichardt, 2013)

This is just off the top of my head, so there's probably a few I'm forgetting.

[Spinal]

Waiting for someone to list Speed Racer.

[Grouchy]

Waiting for someone to list Speed Racer.

Hahahah!

[Ezee E]

1. Zero Dark Thirty
2. American Psycho
3. The Babadook
4. Hurt Locker
5. Winter’s Bone
6. Fish Tank
7. Lost in Translation
8. Deliver Us From Evil
9. Across the Universe
10. The Woodsman

[Grouchy]

1. Wendy and Lucy
2. The Beaches of Agnes
3. We Need to Talk About Kevin
4. The Holy Girl
5. Toni Erdmann
6. Trouble Every Day
7. Cloud Atlas
8. The Milk of Sorrow
9. Persepolis
10. The Love Witch

Damn that took a while.

[Russ]

Hey Spinal, I know I've pimped Jessica Hausner's Hotel before, and if there's any way you can lay your hands on it, well...let's just say it's right up your alley.

[Spinal]

Thanks! I will try to track it down.

[transmogrifier]

1. Rain (Christine Jeffs)
2. American Splendor (Shari Springer Berman)
3. Friends with Money (Nicole Holofcener)
4. Lost in Translation (Sophia Coppola)
5. Zero Dark Thirty (Kathryn Bigelow)
6. Winter's Bone (Debra Granik)
7. Monsoon Wedding (Mira Nair)
8. A Very Ordinary Couple (Roh Deok)
9. The Wonder Years (Kim Hee-Jung)
10. Whale Rider (Niki Caro)

[transmogrifier]

Wow, I assumed Shari Springer Berman and Robert Pulcini had dropped off the face of the earth after the amazing American Splendor, but it turns out they were just making Movies That Exist:

2007: The Nanny Diaries (Scarlet Johannson, Laura Linney, Paul Giamatti)
2010: The Extra Man (Kevin Kline, Paul Dano, Katie Holmes)
2012: Girl Most Likely (Kristen Wiig, Annette Bening, Matt Dillon)
2015: 10,000 Saints (Ethan Hawke, Asa Butterfield, Hailee Stanfield)

What are these things even?

[Peng]

It kills me that Beau Travail just misses the year cut-off.

1. Cloud Atlas (2012)
2. Lost in Translation (2003)
3. Toni Erdmann (2016)
4. Cameraperson (2016)
5. Selma (2014)
6. Things to Come (2016)
7. Everyone Else (2009)
8. The Square (2013)
9. American Psycho (2000)
10. Breathe (2014)

[Stay Puft]

1. 35 Shots of Rum (Claire Denis, 2008)
2. Things to Come (Mia Hansen-Løve, 2016)
3. Trouble Every Day (Claire Denis, 2001)
4. The Headless Woman (Lucrecia Martel, 2008)
5. Window Horses (Ann Marie Fleming, 2016)
6. Father of My Children (Mia Hansen-Løve, 2009)
7. Certain Women (Kelly Reichardt, 2016)
8. A Simple Life (Ann Hui, 2011)
9. Speed Racer (Lana & Lilly Wachowski, 2008)
10. The Selfish Giant (Clio Barnard, 2013)

HMs: Red Road (Andrea Arnold, 2006); Bends (Flora Lau, 2013); Goodbye First Love (Mia Hansen-Løve, 2011); All Is Forgiven (Mia Hansen-Løve, 2007); Bastards (Claire Denis, 2013); Mustang (Deniz Gamze Ergüven, 2015); Toni Erdmann (Maren Ade, 2016); The Arbor (Clio Barnard, 2010)

[Pop Trash]

1. American Psycho
2. Innocence
3. Lost in Translation
4. Bright Star
5. Wendy and Lucy
6. Tomboy
7. Zero Dark Thirty
8. The Babadook
9. Stories We Tell
10. Selma

[Mysterious Dude]

1. Bright Star (2009, Jane Campion)
2. Tomboy (2011, Céline Sciamma)
3. Sister (2012, Ursula Meier)
4. Wadjda (2012, Haifaa al-Mansour)
5. The Selfish Giant (2013, Clio Barnard)
6. Monster (2003, Patty Jenkins)
7. Meek's Cutoff (2010, Kelly Reichardt)
8. Home (2008, Ursula Meier)
9. Ramchand Pakistani (2008, Mehreen Jabbar)
10. Grbavica (2006, Jasmila Žbanić)

Honorable mention:
Waitress (2007, Adrienne Shelly)
Winter's Bone (2010, Debra Granik)

[Sycophant]

I feel like there's something I'm trying to remember that just isn't coming to me. Until it does (or doesn't):

1. Stories We Tell
2. Me and You and Everyone We Know
3. Persepolis
4. Meek's Cutoff
5. Speed Racer
6. Selma
7. Half Nelson
8. Hurt Locker
9. The German Doctor
10. The Queen and I

[transmogrifier]

This thread could well be my viewing list for the rest of the year. So much stuff I haven't seen.

[Watashi]

I'm kinda embarrassed how little I've seen. This only reminds how I've never seen a film by Claire Denis. Where do I start?

[Dukefrukem]

How do we handle the Wachowski sisters in this consensus?

[Spinal]

How do we handle the Wachowski sisters in this consensus?

I leave that up to you.

[Thirdmango]

https://letterboxd.com/danadanger/li...cted-by-women/

List that can help you find stuff.

[Thirdmango]

https://letterboxd.com/kelssa/list/female-filmmakers/

Another good list which has a couple more films I've seen than the previous one.

[Thirdmango]

1. The Hurt Locker (2008)
2. 13th (2016)
3. American Splendor (2003)
4. Selma (2014)
5. Friends with Kids (2011)
6. The Brass Teapot (2012)
7. Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry (2012)
8. Wayne's World (1992)
9. Sleeping with Other People (2015)
10. TiMER (2009)

[Thirdmango]

Wow, I assumed Shari Springer Berman and Robert Pulcini had dropped off the face of the earth after the amazing American Splendor, but it turns out they were just making Movies That Exist:

2007: The Nanny Diaries (Scarlet Johannson, Laura Linney, Paul Giamatti)
2010: The Extra Man (Kevin Kline, Paul Dano, Katie Holmes)
2012: Girl Most Likely (Kristen Wiig, Annette Bening, Matt Dillon)
2015: 10,000 Saints (Ethan Hawke, Asa Butterfield, Hailee Stanfield)

What are these things even?

I saw Girl Most Likely and here's my review of it at the time 3.5 stars

Watched Dec 17, 2013

Thirdmango’s review published on Letterboxd :
This seems to be pretty well despised here on letterboxd but I didn't think it was that bad. It was fun, had some funny jokes and pretty well did it's thing. There was some influence of American Splendor in this movie and each of the actors did a fine job in their parts. This movie isn't going to win any awards or be all that well remembered but I enjoyed it while I watched it. I really liked seeing that Darren Criss has some range in his acting. The brother was a little annoying and it wasn't clear whether or not he had mental problems but the actor did a good job. It's a little weird at times but still fun.