Best films of Past decade 2000-09

[salaam_chennai]

1. Apocalypto
2. Bobby
3. Gladiator
4. Gran Tarino/Mystic River/Million Dollar Baby
5. Requeim for a Dream
6. The Departed
7. The Incredibles
8. The Man from earth
9. The Prestige
10. There will be Blood

Honourable mentions
Das Experimet, Kill Bill(s), Donnie Darco, Big Fish, Kiss Kiss Bang Bang, Crash, In Bruges, Mulholland Dr., Thank you for smoking, Little Children

[ajithfederer]

Paathadhe konjam than. Waeld Cinema (Excluding Tamil/Telugu/Hollywood and British films in general)

Downfall (German)
Goodbye Lenin (German)
The Lives of Others ( " " )
The Counterfeiters ( " " )
My Sassy Girl (Korean)
Joint Security Area ( " " )
In the Mood for Love (Hongkong/Cantonese) - Probably the best in this category
Red Cliff 1 and 2 (Mandarin) - Saw the condensed version. Would like to see the full version.

P.S: List may be edited in future.


Indhi films, later.

[groucho070]

On my mind this morning, all Hollywood:

1. Collateral
2. The Dark Knight
3. Good Night & Good Luck
4. Million Dollar Baby
5. Gran Torino
6. Avatar
7. Gladiator
8. There will be blood
9. Iron Man
10. Up

[kid-glove]

Top 25:

Enter the Void (Noe, 2009)
There will be blood (PT Anderson, 2007)
Werckmeister Harmonies (Bela Tarr, 2000)
Casino Royale (Martin Campbell, 2006)
Paranoia Agent (Satoshi Kon, 2004) [Over 5 Hrs, this mini Anime series might be the longest feature on this list]
The World (Jia Zhang Ke, 2004)
Three Times (Hou H-Hsien, 2005)
Collateral (Michael Mann, 2004) [Could be 'Public Enemies' next time]
Yi yi (Edward Yang, 2000)
Tropical Malady (Weerasethakal, 2003)
Red Riding Trilogy (2009)
Maqbool (Vishal Bharadwaj, 2003) [Could be 'Omkara' tonight]
Extraordinary Stories (Llinas, 2008)
El Aura (bielinsky, 2004) [Could change to 'Nine Queens' any time]
Virumandi (Kamal Haasan, 2004) [over Hey! Raam for now]
House of Mirth (Terence Davies, 2000)
Far from heaven (Todd Haynes, 2002)
Mulholland Dr. (David Lynch, 2002) [Still absorbing "Inland Empire", so this might change]
Love Exposure (Sono, 2008)
The New World (Malick, 2005)
Inglorious Basterds (Tarantino, 2009) [many times over 'Kill Bill']
Three burials of melquiades estrada (Tommy Lee Jones, 2005)
A Serious Man (Coens, 2009) [over TMWWT and NCFOM to me]
Cache (Haneke, 2005)
Howl's moving castle (Miyazaki, 2004) [Possibly my fav. Miyazaki of all time]

P.S: If you can't leave out a Pixar, Ratatouille or UP for me.

I also squirm for missing out, In the mood for Love/2046 (WKW), Zodiac (Fincher, 2007), Adaptation (Jonze, 2002), ESOSM (Gondry, 2004), Synecdoche, NY (Kaufman, 2008), Century of the Self (Adam Curtis, - ), The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (Andrew Dominik, 2007), Bad Education (Almodovar, 2004), Goodbye Dragon Inn (Tsai), Bus 174, 12:08 East of Bucharest, 35 shots of Rum, etc - Maybe they call for a top 50/100.

[P_R]

Maqbool (Vishal Bharadwaj, 2003) [Could be 'Omkara' tonight]
Virumandi (Kamal Haasan, 2004) [over Hey! Raam for now]

Hey Seating phlow ! Waeld means non-Indian no?

Thanks for the list, 2011 endukuLLa pfullA paathura vENdiyadhu. I have sen only 4-5 movies in it.

[kid-glove]

I didn't say that.

[P_R]

2. The Dark Knight

Feddy aNNanukku oru uRuppinar attai ready paNNirunga.

The popularity of TWBB is heartening. The possibility of world peace increases with man's capacity for patience.

[kid-glove]

The possibility of world peace increases with man's capacity for patience.

Good luck for checking out the other titles in the list. Especially Weerasethakal, Malick and Hsien films.

[kid-glove]

I dig The Prestige/Memento over The Dark Knight.

[ajithfederer]

In kg's list i mistakenly read one of the film's release date as 2080