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Up, Before Sunset
Oasis, Silent Light,
Secret Sunshine—
Little Miss Sunshine—
Eternal Sunshine—
You, The Living—
What Time Is It There?
Nine? Ten? Thirteen?
Nobody Knows, I’m Not There
Once The Hours Cast Away
The Time That Remains,
Mirrors Everlasting Moments,
Requiem For A Dream—
The Departed…
Distance, Departures,
Waking Life, Still Life
Still Walking, Sideways
Closer, West of The Tracks—
Everyone Else,
The Lives of Others,
“The Blind Side”—
The Secret of The Grain,
The Wind That Shakes The Barley,
The Weeping Meadow
The Edge of Heaven,
Lights In The Dusk,
Frontier of The Dawn,
Where The Wild Things Are,
Precious Last Days,
The Limits of Control—
Ashes And Snow,
Before Night Falls,
Blissfully Yours,
—Hidden Moon
The gist/ rules:
BEA composes a list of our 100 favourite films of the 2000s. (Again! V2!). We've never revisited a decade before, but I think the time feels right. The world outside your window right now might be a film itself, but we'll take some time to reflect on the best of cinema from 2000 to 2009 while hopefully surviving this thing we call humanity. 28 Days Later will not be classified as a documentary. Neither will The Host hopefully.
All lists will be PMed to me or posted in this thread, maxing out at 100. The final list will be 100 films. I'll be accepting lists of any denotation up to 100. The size of your list determines its weight. Films must be longer than 40 minutes. Films must have an international premiere date between January 1st 2000 and December 31st 2009. Don't throw in something stupid, and we're all good. No fighting.
Documentaries are allowed. Miniseries (i.e. Band of Brothers) are not. Comedy specials will not be accepted either. Live concerts will be discouraged, but not banned.
Lists will also be accepted in IMDb and Letterboxd format. Deadline will be August 8th.
Ineligible Releases:
Planet Earth (2006)
Band of Brothers (2001)
The Wire (2002)
Kid A (2000)
Life (2009)
Fullmetal Alchemist
Firefly (2002)
John Adams (2007)
No Direction Home
The Staircase
Threat Level Midnight
Everything Will Be OK (2006)
David Lynch Cooks Quinoa (2007)
Eligible Releases:
Love Exposure
About Elly
Interstella 5555
La Commune
Tie Xi Qu
Hamlet (2009)
Dogtooth
Rabbits
Disintegration Loop
Notes:
—Che (2008) will be considered a single film
—Lord of The Rings trilogy will be expected to be three separate films (if not indicated, will be assumed as The Fellowship of The Ring)
—Kill Bill Vol 1 & 2 will be expected to be two separate films (if not indicated, will be assumed as Vol 1)
—Please differentiate between 9 (2009) and Nine (2009) by representing the former numerically, and hiding your username if your representing the later.
More notes will come if things get complicated
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I’ll repost my list later (maybe after finally getting to stuff like West of the Tracks,Capturing the Friedmans, and Waltz With Bashir.
But I think I’d love a discussion here about how our perception of the 2000s has changed in the past few years. I’ve often thrown around the buzzword “pseudomodernism” (which even its creator Alan Kirby eventually ditched in lieu of the phrase “Digimodernism”) to describe the way we in the 2000s fetishized the “natural” and “real” so much that we aesthetically snuck it into some of the most mindless of pop culture.
A lot of stuff like Supersize Me hasn’t aged particularly well, but I keep feeling like so many digital experiments were really profound looking back, whether it be through the snuff-like hauntology of found-footage and late-period Dogme 95 to the mainstreaming of slow cinema with Elephant, The Brown Bunny and Timecode, to all the torture porn (which could be found in everything from The Passion to Click) that often holds up as some of the most amazingly visceral cinema to this day. Even though we will surely have to discuss the ethics after a decade of dark-web fascism and the fetishism of black pain through police brutality videos, I will be happy if any form of a “torture porn revival” shows up at festivals.
All of these things can be describe in some way as “pseudo modern”, but I can’t help but find the way they mix reality and fiction together to be extraordinarily profound. It was like everyone was playing with new toys in cinema, instead of just treating it as a means to an end like it too often is today.
Ok. A couple notes with this one because I don't want to change the order/remove #101 and #102 as I made this list a long time before this:
- Since LotR is considered as 3 separate films for BEA, their placement together in my list is still correct, but my ranking for the purposes of BEA goes like so:
** Return of the King, #25
** Fellowship of the Ring, #26
** The Two Towers, #27
- One Hour Photo (#101) and Sideways (#102) are not included for BEA
I dunno what won before, but I would really be surprised if There Will Be Blood isn't at least #2 this time. Just kinda seems like the overall favourite now.
OK, here's my provisional list, for posterity. I start back at work, post-lockdown, on Monday, so might not get around to changing it, in which case this will be my final list:
1. Children of Men (2006; dir. Alfonso Cuarón)
2. Synecdoche, New York (2008; dir. Charlie Kaufman)
3. A Serious Man (2009; dir. Ethan Coen and Joel Coen)
4. Zodiac (2007; dir. David Fincher)
5. Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans (2009; dir. Werner Herzog)
6. The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (2007; dir. Andrew Dominik)
7. I'm Not There (2007; dir. Todd Haynes)
8. Sunshine (2007; dir. Danny Boyle)
9. Where the Wild Things Are (2009; dir. Spike Jonze)
=10. Kill Bill: Volume 1 (2003; dir. Quentin Tarantino)
=10. Kill Bill: Volume 2 (2004; dir. Quentin Tarantino)
12. The White Diamond (2004; dir. Werner Herzog)
13. Blade II (2002; dir. Guillermo del Toro)
14. Fish Tank (2009; dir. Andrea Arnold)
15. No Country for Old Men (2007; dir. Ethan Coen and Joel Coen)
16. Pineapple Express (2008; dir. David Gordon Green)
17. Almost Famous (2000; dir. Cameron Crowe)
18. The Proposition (2005; dir. John Hillcoat)
19. Adaptation. (2002; dir. Spike Jonze)
20. O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000; dir. Ethan Coen and Joel Coen)
21. Phone Booth (2002; dir. Joel Schumacher)
22. School of Rock (2003; dir. Richard Linklater)
23. Spirited Away (2001; dir. Hayao Miyazaki)
24. The Princess and the Frog (2009; dir. Ron Clements and John Musker)
25. Hustle & Flow (2005; dir. Craig Brewer)
26. Amores perros (2000; dir. Alejandro González Iñárritu)
27. Che (2008; dir. Steven Soderbergh)
28. Fantastic Mr. Fox (2009; dir. Wes Anderson)
29. Inglourious Basterds (2009; dir. Quentin Tarantino)
30. Chicken Run (2000; dir. Nick Park and Peter Lord)
31. A.I. Artificial Intelligence (2001; dir. Steven Spielberg)
32. Ali G Indahouse (2002; dir. Mark Mylod)
33. Wolf Creek (2005; dir. Greg McLean)
34. Lord of War (2005; dir. Andrew Niccol)
35. Superbad (2007; dir. Greg Mottola)
36. Lost in Translation (2003; dir. Sofia Coppola)
37. 8 Mile (2002; dir. Curtis Hanson)
38. Morvern Callar (2002; dir. Lynne Ramsay)
39. Låt den rätte komma in (2008; dir. Tomas Alfredson)
40. There Will Be Blood (2007; dir. Paul Thomas Anderson)
41. Bully (2001; dir. Larry Clark)
42. 24 Hour Party People (2002; dir. Michael Winterbottom)
43. The Football Factory (2004; dir. Nick Love)
44. Good Night, and Good Luck (2005; dir. George Clooney)
45. Jackass Number Two (2006; dir. Jeff Tremaine)
46. The Royal Tenenbaums (2001; dir. Wes Anderson)
47. American Psycho (2000; dir. Mary Harron)
48. Cidade de Deus (2002; dir. Fernando Meirelles)
49. Catch Me If You Can (2002; dir. Steven Spielberg)
50. Elf (2003; dir. Jon Favreau)
51. A Cock and Bull Story (2005; dir. Michael Winterbottom)
52. 25th Hour (2002; dir. Spike Lee)
53. Monsters, Inc. (2001; dir. Pete Docter)
54. 30 Days of Night (2007; dir. David Slade)
55. Taken (2008; dir. Pierre Morel)
56. Final Destination (2000; dir. James Wong)
57. Dark Days (2000; dir. Marc Singer)
58. Stranger than Fiction (2006; dir. Marc Forster)
59. Kiss Kiss Bang Bang (2005; dir. Shane Black)
60. Munich (2005; dir. Steven Spielberg)
61. El espinazo del diablo (2001; dir. Guillermo del Toro)
62. A Knight's Tale (2001; dir. Brian Helgeland)
63. Lilo & Stitch (2002; dir. Dean DeBlois and Chris Sanders)
64. Shaun of the Dead (2004; dir. Edgar Wright)
65. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (2005; dir. Garth Jennings)
66. The Matador (2005; dir. Richard Shepard)
67. Battle Royale (2000; dir. Kinji Fukasaku)
68. The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters (2007; dir. Seth Gordon)
69. A Scanner Darkly (2006; dir. Richard Linklater)
70. Mean Girls (2004; dir. Mark Waters)
71. The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001; dir. Peter Jackson)
72. Primer (2004; dir. Shane Caruth)
73. Inside Man (2006; dir. Spike Lee)
74. Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back (2001; dir. Kevin Smith)
75. The Devil and Daniel Johnston (2005; dir. Jeff Feuerzeig)
76. Step Brothers (2008; dir. Adam McKay)
77. Burn After Reading (2008; dir. Ethan Coen and Joel Coen)
78. Splinter (2008; dir. Toby Wilkins)
79. The Terminal (2004; dir. Steven Spielberg)
80. Howl's Moving Castle (2004; dir. Hayao Miyazaki)
81. Collateral (2004; dir. Michael Mann)
82. The Fast and the Furious (2001; dir. Rob Cohen)
83. The Darjeeling Limited (2007; dir. Wes Anderson)
84. In Bruges (2008; dir. Martin McDonagh)
85. Paprika (2006; dir. Satoshi Kon)
86. Oldboy (2003; dir. Park-chan Wook)
87. Snatch (2000; dir. Guy Ritchie)
88. Les Triplettes de Belleville (2003; dir. Sylvain Chomet)
89. Donnie Darko (2001; dir. Richard Kelly)
90. Mike Bassett: England Manager (2001; dir. Steve Barron)
91. Wedding Crashers (2005; dir. David Dobkin)
92. Cadillac Records (2008; dir. Darnell Martin)
93. Hard Candy (2005; dir. David Slade)
94. Up (2009; dir. Pete Docter)
95. Training Day (2001; dir. Antoine Fuqua)
96. Pan's Labyrinth (2006; dir. Guillermo del Toro)
97. Wonder Boys (2000; dir. Curtis Hanson)
98. The Strangers (2008; dir. Bryan Bertino)
99. District 9 (2009; dir. Neill Blomkamp)
100. Coraline (2009; dir. Henry Selick)
Another 50 honourable mentions:
Sexy Beast (2000; dir. Jonathan Glazer)
Traffic (2000; dir. Steven Soderbergh)
Memento (2000; dir. Christopher Nolan)
Best in Show (2000; dir. Christopher Guest)
Unbreakable (2000; dir. M. Night Shyamalan)
The Man Who Wasn't There (2001; dir. Ethan Coen and Joel Coen)
Zoolander (2001; dir. Ben Stiller)
Jason X (2001; dir. Jim Isaac)
Secretary (2002; dir. Steven Shainberg)
Friday After Next (2002; dir. Marcus Raboy)
The Bourne Identity (2002; dir. Doug Liman)
A Mighty Wind (2003; dir. Christopher Guest)
Elephant (2003; dir. Gus Van Sant)
21 Grams (2003; dir. Alejandro González Iñárritu)
Big Fish (2003; dir. Tim Burton)
Zatoichi (2003; dir. Takeshi Kitano)
Down With Love (2003; dir. Peyton Reed)
Holes (2003; dir. Andrew Davis)
Freaky Friday (2003; dir. Mark Waters)
Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy (2004; dir. Adam McKay)
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004; dir. Michel Gondry)
Dead Man's Shoes (2004; dir. Shane Meadows)
Broken Flowers (2005; dir. Jim Jarmusch)
Brick (2005; dir. Rian Johnson)
Batman Begins (2005; dir. Christopher Nolan)
Zathura: A Space Adventure (2005; dir. Jon Favreau)
The Descent (2005; dir. Neil Marshall)
A History of Violence (2005; dir. David Cronenberg)
The Departed (2006; dir. Martin Scorsese)
Clerks II (2006; dir. Kevin Smith)
Little Miss Sunshine (2006; dir. Valerie Faris and Jonathan Dayton)
Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan (2006; dir. Larry Charles)
Starter for 10 (2006; dir. Tom Vaughan)
Apocalypto (2006; dir. Mel Gibson)
This Is England (2006; dir. Shane Meadows)
Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story (2007; dir. Jake Kasdan)
Reign Over Me (2007; dir. Mike Binder)
Planet Terror (2007; dir. Robert Rodriguez)
Death Proof (2007; dir. Quentin Tarantino)
The Wrestler (2008; dir. Darren Aronofsky)
Tropic Thunder (2008; dir. Ben Stiller)
Be Kind Rewind (2008; dir. Michel Gondry)
The Dark Knight (2008; dir. Christopher Nolan)
Gomorra (2008; dir. Matteo Garrone)
Moon (2009; dir. Duncan Jones)
Watchmen (2009; dir. Zack Snyder)
An Education (2009; dir. Lone Scherfig)
The Boat That Rocked (2009; dir. Richard Curtis)
Up in the Air (2009; dir. Jason Reitman)
The Road (2009; dir. John Hillcoat)
The lack of non-English language films is, admittedly, pretty fucking shameful, and the list overall - especially towards the top - probably fairly predictable. If anybody has any recommendations that they think I'll like and that might crack my Top 100, based on the above, please don't hesitate to tell me, and I'll get round to them (free time permitting) and potentially update this nearer the deadline. _________________ 2021 in full effect. Come drop me some recs. Y'all know what I like.
I’ll repost my list later (maybe after finally getting to stuff like West of the Tracks,Capturing the Friedmans, and Waltz With Bashir.
But I think I’d love a discussion here about how our perception of the 2000s has changed in the past few years. I’ve often thrown around the buzzword “pseudomodernism” (which even its creator Alan Kirby eventually ditched in lieu of the phrase “Digimodernism”) to describe the way we in the 2000s fetishized the “natural” and “real” so much that we aesthetically snuck it into some of the most mindless of pop culture.
A lot of stuff like Supersize Me hasn’t aged particularly well, but I keep feeling like so many digital experiments were really profound looking back, whether it be through the snuff-like hauntology of found-footage and late-period Dogme 95 to the mainstreaming of slow cinema with Elephant, The Brown Bunny and Timecode, to all the torture porn (which could be found in everything from The Passion to Click) that often holds up as some of the most amazingly visceral cinema to this day. Even though we will surely have to discuss the ethics after a decade of dark-web fascism and the fetishism of black pain through police brutality videos, I will be happy if any form of a “torture porn revival” shows up at festivals.
Tell you what, you get around to Waltz With Bashir, and I'll get around to The Best of Youth
I've changed my perception on a lot of films from the 2000s in the past few years, and I wouldn't be surprised to hear others have as well.
—One of my lamer and completely uncontroversial opinions that's seeped into my brain recently is that Spirited Away should be considered one of the best films ever. It should be mentioned in the same breath as Citizen Kane, The Godfather, Seven Samurai, 12 Angry Men, Apocalypse Now, etc... it's in the same league.
—Bar No Country For Old Men, I think all the films that won Best Picture (and most that were nominated) have aged very poorly. Not all of course, I think films like Lost In Translation, Up and There Will Be Blood are some of the decade's best, but looking back I don't think the selection nominated in that category were the greatest group of films.
—2000-2002 was stacked. 2005 was not (I can't even find 10 films I like from 2005....)
I'll have my list up sometime this weekend. Need to clean some stuff up. I'm having difficulty with the 60-100 range.
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I dunno what won before, but I would really be surprised if There Will Be Blood isn't at least #2 this time. Just kinda seems like the overall favourite now.
I think it'll be my #2 (maybe #3...) but probably #2. It's aged incredibly well. Gave it another watch not too long ago.
Looking forward to your list Sounds like you have it about done.
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The lack of non-English language films is, admittedly, pretty fucking shameful, and the list overall - especially towards the top - probably fairly predictable. If anybody has any recommendations that they think I'll like and that might crack my Top 100, based on the above, please don't hesitate to tell me, and I'll get round to them (free time permitting) and potentially update this nearer the deadline.
And thanks Skinny, tallied Great choice for #1. (I forgot about Boyle's Sunshine... christ there were a lot of films with Sunshine in their title that decade... Sunshine Cleaning too). As far as non-English recs go, here's some choices from my list I could see you liking—
Y Tu Mama Tambien
Dogtooth
Memories of Murder
Russian Ark (maybe?)
Kinatay (again... maybe?)
Devils On The Doorstep
Millennium Mambo
(and if you haven't seen In The Mood For Love, well)
And it's English, but I could also see you really liking Hunger (McQueen).
I've probably seen more movies in the 2000s than any other decade, but I've seen less "serious films" in the 00's than any other decade.
When I think of the 2000s, I'm still thinking about all of the movies I saw as a kid. We used to go to a lot. I can pinpoint 2002 as a year I remember spending a lot of time in the theater during the summer to cool off; someplace air-conditioned to seek refuge.
Man, I loved Clockstoppers, what a year 2002 was, this in the cinema, Ireland were in the World Cup and the Nintendo GameCube was released in Europe. 10 year old me was living big.
That truly was the summer of Pat. _________________
1. No Country For Old Men
2. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
3. There Will Be Blood
4. Mulholland Drive
5. Spirited Away
6. Donnie Darko
7. Lost in Translation
8. Synecdoche, New York
9. Pan's Labyrinth
10. Amelie
11. Kill Bill Vol. 1
12. Inglorious Basterds
13. Requiem for a Dream
14. Ghost World
15. WALL-E
16. Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
17. Adaptation
18. Children of Men
19. City of God
20. Memento
21. Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
22. Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
23. Before Sunset
24. A Serious Man
25. O Brother, Where Art Thou?
26. The Dark Knight
27. Kill Bill Vol. 2
28. Moon
29. Let the Right One In
30. The Incredibles
31. Almost Famous
32. The Prestige
33. The Royal Tenenbaums
34. Where the Wild Things Are
35. American Psycho
36. The Departed
37. Coraline
38. High Fidelity
39. In Bruges
40. Shaun of the Dead
41. Spider-Man 2
42. In the Mood For Love
43. (500) Days of Summer
44. Batman Begins
45. Oldboy
46. Dogtooth
47. Sin City
48. Ratatouille
49. The Pianist
50. Enter the Void
51. 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days
52. School of Rock
53. 8 Mile
54. Punch-Drunk Love
55. Capote
56. The Lives of Others
57. Fantastic Mr. Fox
58. Elephant
59. Grizzly Man
60. Minority Report
61. Persepolis
62. Zodiac
63. Up
64. The Darjeeling Limited
65. Slumdog Millionaire
66. Juno
67. Mary and Max
68. Little Miss Sunshine
69. Monsters, Inc.
70. American Splendor
71. Amores Perros
72. As I was Moving Ahead Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty
73. The Return
74. Waking Life
75. Superbad
76. Snatch
77. Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter...and Spring
78. Waltz with Bashir
79. A History of Violence
80. Finding Nemo
81. Iron Man
82. The Squid and the Whale
83. Idiocracy
84. Yi Yi
85. Brokeback Mountain
86. The Wrestler
87. Gladiator
88. Into the Wild
89. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
90. Anchorman
91. Nobody Knows
92. X2: X-Men United
93. Y tu Mama Tambien?
94. Werckmeister Harmonies
95. Irreversible
96. Zoolander
97. Casino Royale
98. District 9
99. The Bourne Identity
100. My Winnipeg
So there we have it. This is what we're updating/trying to improve upon. According to badseed, this list "kinda sucked"
badseed wrote:
Okay I'm not gonna lie. Our original 2000-2009 list kinda sucks. I think we've come a long way when it comes to international cinema, so there are major improvements to make. Look at the mess of films ranked above In the Mood for Love (#42). Literally almost nothing above it is even in that film's league. At all. Hell they're not even a league below it. What were we thinking? Were we all in middle school 5 years ago?
I don't think anyone was in middle school five years ago, but high school is possible . Obviously it'll be a different crowd of participants this time around. Some of us have been here long enough to participate in both, but some participants from the first one have moved on while some of us are newer and will only be participating on this one. Anyway, I think the level of maturity will be higher this time, and badseed will get the improvement he seeks.
But I disagree our first list sucked. Sure there were questionable placements and appearances. My main issue is with the bottom of the list. How and why were Idiocracy, Harry Potter, Bourne Identity, Superbad, and Anchorman on this list? SMH. Furthermore, our first 2000s list looks a bit more mainstream than the 2010s list. badseed points to the #42 placement of In the Mood For Love, and the overall lackluster performance of international films, as a crime against humanity. Personally I hadn't seen ItMFL five years ago. I still haven't seen it today. However, streaming services have expanded so much in the past five years, accessibility is much better now than it was in 2015. So I reckon participants from 2000s 1.0 simply hadn't seen as many non-mainstream and international films? But we can now. While this poll runs, I'll be streaming 2000s movies I've never seen (including In the Mood for Love) that would have been a lot more difficult to access five years ago.
Nevertheless, I still find our first list mostly quality films. I think we missed/overlooked a few things, overpraised others. But it'll be better this time around. Looking forward to it.
Finally, at some point, possibly whenever I post my new list, I'm going to also post my old original list from five years ago. It was a long time ago, but I know I can dig it up. Haven't looked at it since, so I'm curious to see how immature I was then vs. now, haha. And to see how rankings have changed, plus films I've seen for the time since. And for other BEAers who participated in the first poll, and will participate again in this one, I would be curious to see your old lists compared to your new ones, if you're willing to dig them up and share them. I think this would be neat. _________________ on such a winter's day
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Sounds like you have it about done.
. Obviously it'll be a different crowd of participants this time around. Some of us have been here long enough to participate in both, but some participants from the first one have moved on while some of us are newer and will only be participating on this one. Anyway, I think the level of maturity will be higher this time, and badseed will get the improvement he seeks.
