Best Films of the 2000s: Q1

We are now 1/4 of the way through the 2000s. This is a thread to post your favorite films since 2000. Someone will more time than me should take the time to aggregate the lists.

 

We will add up every top 10. 1st being worth 10 points, 2nd being worth 9 points, and so on. The winner will get nothing.

 

Moonlight
Gone in 60 Seconds

 

Hoo boy, this is gonna take a little time so I’ll post a placeholder while I hammer out a list.

 

So how many movies can we pick for a list?

 

Man 2000-2024? That will be hard but this should be interesting.

 

1. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
2. there will be blood
3. The life aquatic
4. Tree of Life
5. Arrival (Denis Villeneuve, 2016)
6. Kill Bill
7. No country for old men
8. The Wolf of Wall Street
9. Mad Max: Fury Road
10. Swiss Army Man
11. Gravity
12. Moneyball

 

Freddie Got Fingered
Jackass

 

(proceeds to list the MCU in its entirety)

 

The Tree of Life is number one but after that it gets tough. I have a few days left of winter break so I will look into it.

 

Fun idea! Its wild to think we're already done with a quarter of the century. I wonder if any of us will make it to the end.

 

Let's concentrate on just making it another four years first.

 

Going to try and do a top 50 or so. Just let go of any attempt to be objective and let the bias sorter help me pick favorites.

 

Let's give this a go. Order is shaky, as always!

1. In The Mood for Love (Wong Kar Wai, 2000)
2. The Wind That Shakes The Barley (Ken Loach, 2005)
3. Joint Security Area (Park Chan Wook, 2000)
4. A Separation (Asghar Farhadi, 2011)
5. Limbo (Soi Cheang, 2021)
6. Veins of the World (Byambasuren Davaa, 2020)
7. Another Year (Mike Leigh, 2010)
8. Fish Tank (Andrea Arnold, 2009)
9. In Bruges (Martin McDonagh, 2008)
10. Before Sunset (Richard Linklater, 2004)
    
    
    
11. City of God (Fernando Meirelles, 2002)
12. Everything Everywhere All at Once (Daniel Scheinert, Daniel Kwan, 2022)
    
13. Cache (Michael Haneke, 2005)
14. Secret Sunshine (Lee Chang-Dong, 2007)
15. There Will Be Blood (Paul Thomas Anderson, 2007)
16. No Country for Old Men (Coen Brothers, 2007)
17. This is England (Shane Meadows, 2006)
18. Poetry (Lee Chang-Dong, 2010)
19. What We Do in the Shadows (Taika Waititi, Jemaine Clement, 2014)
20. Parasite (Bong Joon-ho, 2019)
    
    
    
21. Spirited Away (Hayao Miyazaki, 2001)
22. The Return (Andrey Zvyagintsev, 2003)
23. Volver (Pedro Almodovar, 2006)
24. Four Lions (Chris Morris, 2010)
25. Looking for Eric (Ken Loach, 2009)
26. The Skin I Live In (Pedro Almodovar, 2011)
27. Raw (Julia Ducournau, 2016)
28. Tyrannosaur (Paddy Considine, 2011)
29. Antiporno (Sion Sono, 2016
30. Polite Society (Nida Manzoor, 2023)
    
    
31. The Lunchbox (Ritesh Batra, 2013)
32. The Wild Goose Lake (Diao Yi-nan, 2019)
33. Long Day’s Journey into Night (Bi Gan, 2018)
    
34. Moonlight (Barry Jenkins, 2016)
35. The World of Us (Yoon Ga-eun, 2016)
    
36. Still Walking (Hirokazu Kore-eda, 2008)
37. Riding Alone for Thousands of Miles (Zhang Yimou, 2005)
    
38. The Cave of the Yellow Dog (Byambasuren Davaa, 2005)
    
39. The Descent (Neil Marshall, 2005)
40. Oldboy (Park Chan-Wook, 2003)
    
    
    
41. Dark Water (Hideo Nakata, 2002)
42. Exiled (Johnnie To, 2006)
43. Ash is Purest White (Jia Zhangke, 2018)
44. On the Beach at Night Alone (Hong Sang-Soo, 2017)
45. Microhabitat (Jeon Go-woon, 2017)
46. Broken Embraces (Pedro Almodovar, 2009)
47. Beyond the Infinite Two Minutes (Junta Yamaguchi, 2020)
48. Memories of Murder (Bong Joon-ho, 2003)
    
49. So Long, My Son (Wang Xiaoshuai, 2019)
    
50. Past Lives (Celine Song, 2023)

That'll do I guess!

 

Donnie Darko

 

Hell yeah, looking forward to spending some time on this this weekend. Due date?

We also might wanna do top 25 in case there's not enough overlap with Top 10s. Plus, it matches the 25 years thing.

 

Great list! A lot of my favourites are on here as well as a bunch of stuff I haven't seen that I can add to my watchlists.

 

25 years into this millennium, what is worth remembering? What stays in our minds, continues to talk to us, and grows and changes with our own perceptions of the world? End of the decade lists are hard enough, trying to not allow older films to carry on with nostalgia while also not trying to crown a new film too quickly, but the quarter-century is a Herculean task. I was still in elementary school in 2000, so this time period covers everything from finishing four different types of school, meeting and losing friends, watching family members perish, falling in and out of love, trying on different political identities, and settling into a career. In 25 years I will be 61, and it is hard to imagine the changes being as dramatic.

It would easy to make this list 20 or 50 or even 100, but there was a thrill in forcing it into 10. The five films that were really close to make it were THE TURIN HORSE, THE NEW WORLD, PACIFICTION, MEMORIA, and ANOTHER YEAR. Here is the ten.



10. CHILDREN OF MEN
DIRECTED BY: ALFONSO CUARON



9. BEFORE SUNSET
DIRECTED BY: RICHARD LINKLATER



8. MANCHESTER BY THE SEA
DIRECTED BY: KENNETH LONERGAN



7. DRIVE MY CAR
DIRECTED BY: RYUSUKE HAMAGUCHI



6. CERTIFIED COPY
DIRECTED BY: ABBAS KIAROSTAMI



5. THERE WILL BE BLOOD
DIRECTED BY: PAUL THOMAS ANDERSON



4. TABU
DIRECTED BY: MIGUEL GOMES



3. THE MASTER
DIRECTED BY: PAUL THOMAS ANDERSON



2. WERCKMEISTER HARMONIES
DIRECTED BY: BELA TARR



1. THE TREE OF LIFE
DIRECTED BY: TERRENCE MALICK

 

inside of you there are two wolves


I am not qualified to contribute anything here so I'll be watching other folks' lists (that said I'm seeing Tree of Life for the first time right after a Julianna Barwick set next month which feels like a good way to experience that)

 

One per director/directing team.

25. The Royal Tenenbaums (Wes Anderson, 2001)
24. Nickel Boys (RaMell Ross, 2024)
23. No Country For Old Men (Joel & Ethan Coen, 2007)
22. Ocean's Eleven (Steven Soderbergh, 2001)
21. Children of Men (Alfonso Cauron, 2006)
20. Avatar: The Way of Water (James Cameron, 2022)
19. 25th Hour (Spike Lee, 2002)
18. Millennium Actress (Satoshi Kon, 2003)
17. Babylon (Damien Chazelle, 2022)
16. Oppenheimer (Christopher Nolan, 2023)
15. The Wolf of Wall Street (Martin Scorsese, 2013)
14. Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (Bob Persichetti, Peter Ramsey & Rodney Rothman, 2018)
13. The Tree of Life (Terrance Malick, 2011)
12. The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (Peter Jackson, 2002)
11. Toy Story 3 (Lee Unkrich, 2010)
10. Speed Racer (The Wachowskis, 2008)
9. The Social Network (David Fincher, 2010)
8. Before Sunset (Richard Linklater, 2004)
7. Synecdoche, New York (Charlie Kaufman, 2008)
6. Mad Max: Fury Road (George Miller, 2015)
5. A.I. Artificial Intelligence (Steven Spielberg, 2001)
4. Inglourious Basterds (Quentin Tarantino, 2009)
3. Spirited Away (Hayao Miyazaki, 2002)
2. There Will Be Blood (Paul Thomas Anderson, 2007)
1. Mulholland Drive (David Lynch, 2001)

 

Never saw speed racer but 10? Damn

 

I also wished I liked the tree of life as much as a lot of you do.

 

Watched F.Ws Tabu last weekend, watching Gomes' this weekend

 

Both masterpieces. Was close to at least doing Jackass Number Two

 

@username come back for this plz