Wednesday, January 30, 2008

2000's

2000:
1. In the Mood for Love (Wong)
2. Requiem for a Dream (Aronofsky)
3. Werckmeister Harmonies (Tarr)
4. Memento (Nolan)
5. Yi Yi (Yang)
6. You Can Count on Me (Lonergan)
7. Dancer in the Dark (Trier)
8. American Psycho (Harron)
9. Almost Famous (Crowe)
10. Songs From the Second Floor (Andersson)

Near misses:
The Heart of the World (Maddin)
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (A. Lee)
Unbreakable (Shyamalan)
Wonder Boys (Hanson)
Traffic (Soderbergh)

1. Mulholland Dr. (Lynch)
2. The Royal Tenenbaums (W. Anderson)
3. Amelie (Jeunet)
4. The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (Jackson)
5. The Piano Teacher (Haneke)
6. A.I.: Artificial Intelligence (Spielberg)
7. What Time is it There? (Tsai)
8. Ghost World (Zwigoff)
9. Moulin Rouge! (Luhrmann)
10. Millennium Actress (Kon)

Near Misses:
Spirited Away (Miyazaki)
Hedwig and the Angry Inch (Mitchell)
Pulse (K. Kurosawa)
Donnie Darko (Kelly)
Y tu mamá también (Cuarón)


2002:
1. Punch Drunk Love (P.T. Anderson)
2. City of God (Meirelles/Lund)
3. Adaptation (Jonze)
4t. Talk to Her (Almodovar)
4t. The Son (Dardennes)
6. Lilya 4-Ever (Moodysson)
7. 25th Hour (S. Lee)
8. Lord of the Rings: Two Towers (P. Jackson)
9t. Femme Fatale (De Palma)
9t. Far from Heaven (Haynes)

Oh so close:
Solaris (Soderbergh)
Minority Report (Spielberg)
Gangs of New York (Scorsese)
Twilight Samurai (Yamada)
Irreversible (Noé)


2003:
1. Dogville (Trier)
2. Lost in Translation (S. Coppola)
3. Finding Nemo (Stanton/Unkrich)
4. Elephant (Van Sant)
5. All the Real Girls (Green)
6. The Lord of the Rings: Return of the King (Jackson)
7. Kill Bill V.1 (Tarantino)
8. Oldboy (Park)
9. Cowards Bend the Knee (Maddin)
10. Spring Summer Fall Winter … and Spring (Kim)

Not quite:
Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World (Weir)
The Station Agent (McCarthy)
Last Life in the Universe (Ratanaruang)


2004:
1. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (Gondry)
2. Before Sunset (Linklater)
3. The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou (W. Anderson)
4. The Incredibles (Bird)
5. Tropical Malady (Weerasethakul)
T6. Shaun of the Dead (Wright)
T6. 2046 (Wong)
T6. Mysterious Skin (Araki)
9. 3-Iron (Kim)
10. Kill Bill: Vol. 2 (Tarantino)


2005:
1. The New World (Malick)
2. Caché (Haneke)
3. Brick (Johnson)
4. Pride and Prejudice (Wright)
5. The Proposition (Hillcoat)
6. The Squid and the Whale (Baumbach)
7. L'Enfant (Dardennes)
8. Good Night, and Good Luck. (Clooney)
9. A History of Violence (Cronenberg)
10. Last Days (Van Sant)

Not quite:
Brokeback Mountain (A. Lee)
Grizzly Man (Herzog)
Kiss Kiss Bang Bang (Black)
Batman Begins (Nolan)


2006:
1. Children of Men (Cuarón)
2. Inland Empire (Lynch)
3. The Fountain (Aronofsky)
4. Pan’s Labyrinth (del Toro)
5. Once (Carney)
6. Syndromes and a Century (Weerasethakul)
7. The Departed (Scorsese)
8. Brand Upon the Brain! (Maddin)
9. The Lives of Others (von Donnersmarck)
10. Paprika (Kon)

Near misses:
Marie Antoinette (S. Coppola)
United 93 (Greengrass)
The Science of Sleep (Gondry)



2007:
1. There Will Be Blood (P.T. Anderson)
2. No Country for Old Men (Coens)
3. Zodiac (Fincher)
4. The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (Dominik)
5. I’m Not There (Haynes)
6. Ratatouille (Bird/Pinkava)
7. Sunshine (Boyle)
8. Death Proof (Tarantino)
9. Paranoid Park (Van Sant)
10. The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (Schnabel)

Honorable Mentions:
4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days (Mungiu)
Flight of the Red Balloon (Hou)




2008
1. Wall-E (Stanton)
2. Let the Right One In (Alfredson)
3. Rachel Getting Married (Demme)
4. The Dark Knight (Nolan)
5. Two Lovers (Gray)
6. Synecdoche, New York (Kaufman)
7. Happy-Go Lucky (Leigh)
8t. Wendy and Lucy (Reichardt)
8t. The Wrestler (Aronofsky)
10. Hunger (McQueen)

Honorable Mention:
Tokyo Sonata (K. Kurosawa)
In Bruges (McDonagh)
Burn After Reading (Coens)
Gran Torino (Eastwood)
A Christmas Tale (Desplechin)



2009
1. Inglourious Basterds (Tarantino)
2. A Serious Man (Coens)
3. Dogtooth (Lanthimos)
4. Bright Star (Campion)
5. The White Ribbon (Haneke)
6. Enter the Void (Noé)
7. Antichrist (Trier)
8. Up (Docter/Peterson)
9. Where the Wild Things Are (Jonze)
10. Everyone Else (Ade)

Honorable Mention:
Alamar (González-Rubio)
Fantastic Mr. Fox (W. Anderson)
The Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call - New Orleans (Herzog)
Moon (D. Jones)

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