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Four of moviscop's titles are on my list, two about at the same level he placed them

moviscop wrote:Also, I'm curious as to which film from my list was included in yours. Apparently only one.

I prefer to be a woman of mystery...

I suppose I should wait to post this, but oh why the hell not:

1. Goodbye, Dragon Inn – Tsai Ming Liang
2. Ce Jour-Là – Raul Ruiz
3. L’intrus – Claire Denis
4. Riviera – Anne Villaceque
5. Demonlover – Olivier Assayas
6. Dr. Horrible’s Sing-A-Long Blog – Joss Whedon
7. Innocence – Lucile Hadzihalilovic
8. Woman on the Beach – Hong Sang Soo
9. Une Catastrophe – Jean-luc Godard
10. American Psycho – Mary Harron

I'll post reasons for choices after the final list is revealed, in the "Defend your darlings" thread.

I'd like to put in a last minute plug for Alexander Payne's segment from the film Paris, je t'aime, called 14th arrondissement. It's fairly hilarious, but proves to be rather poignant as well. It's only 7 minutes long, and you can see it on Netflix Instant Viewing, starting 1:43:37 into Paris, je t'aime.

I do have a question, have any of you included "4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days" in your lists? Feel free to exercise discretion if you please

swo17 wrote:I'd like to put in a last minute plug for Alexander Payne's segment from the film Paris, je t'aime, called 14th arrondissement.

Good suggestion, swo. It may just grab a spot on my list.

My top 14. 14 because they're a cut above the rest in my list. And I want to thank everybody for their suggestions because I had only seen one of these 14 before embarking on a 2000s watch-a-thon for the purpose of this list seven months ago.

1 Battle in Heaven- Carlos Reygadas
2 Platform- Zhang Ke Jia
3 La ciénaga- Lucrecia Martel
4 Before Sunset- Richard Linklater
5 The Death of Mister Lazarescu- Cristi Puiu
6 The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada- Tommy Lee Jones
7 Los muertos- Lisandro Alonso
8 Mysterious Skin- Gregg Araki
9 Drama/Mex- Gerardo Naranja
10 Who's Camus Anyway- Mitsuo Yanagimachi
11 Elephant- Gus Van Sant
12 Woman Is the Future of Man- Sang-soo Hong
13 Memories of Murder- Joon-ho Bong
14 Linda Linda Linda- Nobuhiro Yamashita

Linda Linda Linda
Cheers bro!

Very happy to see Battle in Heaven topping a list. There were moments where I feared that I would never find someone who likes the film more than I do!

So many more to see, but here's my baker's dozen

1- What Time Is It There?
2- Mulholland Drive
3- Songs From The Second Floor
4- Woman On The Beach
5- Before Sunset
6- Lost In Translation
7- Werkmeister Harmonies
8- The Man Who Wasn't There
9- Noriko's Dinner Table
10- Femme Fatale
11- demonlover
12- The Bourne Ultimatum
13- Funny Ha Ha

swo17 wrote:I'd like to put in a last minute plug for Alexander Payne's segment from the film Paris, je t'aime, called 14th arrondissement. It's fairly hilarious, but proves to be rather poignant as well. It's only 7 minutes long, and you can see it on Netflix Instant Viewing, starting 1:43:37 into Paris, je t'aime.

Huh! I like this idea of breaking Paris je t'aime up; I thought about including the film on my list but I am not a fan of every single segment. However, you're exactly right- this is the shining jewel of the lot of 'em. Great suggestion indeed.

Murdoch wrote:6. Dr. Horrible’s Sing-A-Long Blog – Joss Whedon

Thrilled to see this on your list!! =D> It figures into mine as well, although not as high.

1) Punch-Drunk Love
2) The New World
3) Mulholland Drive
4) Bad Education
5) There Will Be Blood
6) The White Ribbon
7) 35 Rhums
8) Goodbye, Dragon Inn
9) Wall-E
10) The Gleaners and I

Mildly perverse perhaps but here's my bottom 15.
Just remembered I left out Carax's contribution to Tokyo ,which would have slotted in here too.
Did anyone else pick up on that?

35. La Nina Santa (Martel 2004)
36. Sleep furiously (Keppel UK 2008)
37. The Man Without a Past (Aki Kaurismäki Finland 2002)
38. 2046 (Wong Kar Wai China/Hong Kong/France )
39. Vendredi Soir (Denis 2002 France)
40 Silent Light (Carlos Reygadas, Mexico/France/Netherlands 2007)
41. Notre musique Jean-Luc Godard, France/Switzerland 2004
42 La ciénaga Lucrecia Martel, Argentina/Spain 2001
43.Trouble Every Day Claire Denis, France/Germany/Japan 2001
44. The Death of Mr. Lazarescu Cristi Puiu, Romania 2005
45. The Piano Teacher Michael Haneke
46. I don’t want to sleep alone Tsai
47. Rivers and Tides Riedelsheimer UK/Germany 2002
48. Manufactured Landscapes Baichwal USA 2006
49. Saraband Ingmar Bergman, Sweden 2003
50. Fat Girl (A ma soeur!) Catherine Breillat, France/Italy 2001

These lists confirm my long-held suspicion that Mulholland Drive will end up on top

LQ wrote:

Murdoch wrote:6. Dr. Horrible’s Sing-A-Long Blog – Joss Whedon

Thrilled to see this on your list!! =D> It figures into mine as well, although not as high.

Thrilled to see I'm not the only one who voted for it!

domino harvey wrote:These lists confirm my long-held suspicion that Mulholland Drive will end up on top

If that's the case, then it's really too bad. INLAND EMPIRE is so much better than Mulholland Drive. Multiply Mulholland Drive by 100 and you get INLAND EMPIRE.

In my top ten: I've placed The New World, There Will Be Blood, Bright Star, In the Mood For Love, INLAND EMPIRE. I suspect The White Ribbon would have made to my top 10 (just by the way it looks to me) but it won't come to my town until Valentine's Day.

ha, I have Mulholland Dr. and Inland Empire as #1 and 2 on my list. I couldn't help myself. Yi Yi, I'm Not There and Vendredi Soir round out my top 5.

Gus van Sant is the only director with three films on my list though none is higher than 35.

About one quarter of my list (11) is from the year 2007.

I voted for three Parisian city symphonies, all by American directors.

In a decade full of acclaimed documentaries, I only found room for one (Capturing the Friedmans), and it just barely scraped by at #47. Odd because my 70s, 80s and 90s lists were full of 'em.

Am I the only person who voted for Mean Girls?

Here's my top 15, a number selected so it wouldn't be entirely Asian:
1. Treeless Mountain 2008 Kim So-yong
2. Still Walking 2008 Kore-eda Hirokazu
3. This Charming Girl 2004 Lee Yoon-ki
4. Yi Yi 2000 Edward Yang
5. Take Care of my Cat 2001 Jeong Jae-eun
6. Café Lumière 2003 Hou Hsiao-hsien
7. In the Mood for Love 2000 Wong Kar-wai
8. Eureka 2000 Aoyama Shinji
9. Vertical Ray of the Sun, the 2000 Tran Anh Hung
10. Vibrator 2003 Hiroki Ryuichi
11. Return, the 2003 Andrei Zvyagintsev
12. Oasis 2002 Lee Chang-dong
13. On the Occasion of Remembering the Turning Gate 2002 Hong Sang-soo
14. Long Weekend in Pest & Buda, a 2003 Makk Karoly
15. One Fine Spring Day 2001 Hur Jin-ho

mikeohhh wrote:Am I the only person who voted for Mean Girls?

It's on my list

1. Encounters at the End of the World
2. Old Joy
3. Wendy and Lucy
4. Grizzly Man
5. The Puffy Chair
6. Junebug
7. In the Mood for Love
8. Goodbye Dragon Inn
9. Chalk
10. Ghost World

...or something

Foam wrote:6. Junebug

Thank God this made someone else's list. It's number two for me =D>

It made mine, definitely the most apt American movie of the decade in terms of its portrayal of the North-South divide. (And I love me some Amy Adams any day of the week!)

My numbers 6-20. The voting was a little bit strategic...

6. "CAMA ADENTRO"/"LIVE-IN MAID" ~ 2004, Jorge Gaggero
7. "ROOZI KE ZAN SHODAM"/"THE DAY I BECAME A WOMAN" ~ 2000, Marzieh Makhmalbaf
8. "MAELSTRÖM" ~ 2000, Denis Villeneuve
9. "UNE PART DU CIEL"/"A PIECE OF SKY" ~ 2002, Bénédicte Liénard
10. "TE DOY MIS OJOS"/"TAKE MY EYES" ~ 2003, Icíar Bollaín
11. "MADEMOISELLE" ~ 2001, Philippe Lioret
12. "IL EST PLUS FACILE POUR UN CHAMEAU..."/"IT'S EASIER FOR A CAMEL..." ~ 2003, Valeria Bruni Tedeschi
13. "RESPIRO" ~ 2002, Emanuele Crialese
14. "LA CAPTIVE" ~ 2000, Chantal Akerman
15. "HATUNA MEUHERET"/"LATE MARRIAGE" ~ 2001, Dover Koshashvili
16. "HOT FUZZ" ~ 2007, Edgar Wright
17. "FRIENDS WITH MONEY" ~ 2006, Nicole Holofcener
18. "JUNEBUG" ~ 2005, Phil Morrison
19. "ATONEMENT" ~ 2007, Joe Wright
20. "CHOPPER" ~ 2000, Andrew Dominik

My top 20; lots of American cinema; lots of stuff that was important to me as a college kid getting into cinema for the first time as these films were being released. Who knows if I will have the Coppola or the Payne where they are at in another 10 years.

1. There Will Be Blood
2. In the Mood for Love
3. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
4. The Royal Tenenbaums
5. Lost In Translation
6. Talk To Her
7. Sideways
8. I’m Not There
9. Zodiac
10. The Fog of War
11. No Country for Old Men
12. Half Nelson
13. WALL-E
14. Adaptation
15. Grizzly Man
16. Cache
17. Revanche
18. The Squid and the Whale
19. Synecdoche, New York
20. Ratatouille

Bringing up the rear:
41 Turn the River (Eigeman)
42 Cache (Haneke)
43 Fay Grim (Hartley)
44 No Country For Old Men (Coen Bros)
45 Primer (Carruth)
46 Last Life in the Universe (Pen-Ek)
47 Match Point (Allen)
48 Enchanted (Lima)
49 Mean Girls (Waters)
50 The Room (Wiseau)

By the end of making my list I was feeling horribly self-conscious about the lack of movies not by men from America or France. Oh well, them's the breaks. Top 15:

1. Colossal Youth (Costa)
2. Zodiac (Fincher)
3. INLAND EMPIRE (Lynch)
4. In Vanda’s Room (Costa)
5. Mulholland Drive (Lynch)
6. Star Spangled To Death (Ken Jacobs)
7. Notre Musique (Godard)
8. As I Was Moving Ahead Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty (Mekas)
9. Frownland (Bornstein)
10. Les pont des arts (Eugene Green)
11. The GoodTimesKid (Azazel Jacobs)
12. Southland Tales (Kelly)
13. Dogville (von Trier)
14. Ne change rien (Costa)
15. Before Sunset (Linklater)