I've never done a "best films of the decade" list, much less one that's 100-strong, but thanks to the esteemed A.A. Dowd, I was invited to participate in The 100 Best Films of the Decade project presented by In Review Online. Dowd is the man behind the curtain, tabulating and coordinating. You can see the cool poster he commissioned for the occasion at his blog link above.
The compiled results of all the participants' Top 100 lists will be revealed in February on In Review Online's site, but I've been granted permission to pimp my personal Top 100 list now.
And I say "Top 100," but you'll see I've given you a Nictate blog exclusive -- a 101st film! Mostly because I just remembered it fondly today.
Update: Realized I'd overlooked Reygadas' brilliantly spare Silent Light. Now added at #102 (out of laziness).
Another update: If you only rent one movie because of this list, make it Late Marriage. It's my favorite underdog here.
Without further ado:
The Top 10 - Some bitterness, some beauty
1. Dogville (von Trier)
2. No Country for Old Men (Coens)
3. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (Gondry)
4. Me and You and Everyone We Know (July)
5. Late Marriage (Koshashvili)
6. Ghost World (Zwigoff)
7. O Brother, Where Art Thou? (Coens)
8. Irreversible (Noé)
9. Synecdoche, New York (Kaufman)
10. State and Main (Mamet)
The Rest of the Top 20 - Several flavors of romance, a bit of desert mayhem and a dab o' "beyond gay"
11. Before Sunset (Linklater)
12. The Royal Tenenbaums (Anderson)
13. Lost in Translation (Coppola)
14. Kings & Queen (Desplechin)
15. Gerry (van Sant)
16. Moulin Rouge (Luhrmann)
17. Punch-Drunk Love (Anderson)
18. In the Mood for Love (Wong)
19. Humpday (Shelton)
20. The Hurt Locker (Bigelow)
The Rest of the Top 30 - The tangled webs we weave, plus a wheel o' cheese
21. Revanche (Spielmann)
22. Two Lovers (Gray)
23. Duplicity (Gilroy)
24. Julia (Zonca)
25. 35 Shots of Rum (Denis)
26. Shopgirl (Tucker)
27. The Science of Sleep (Gondry)
28. Old Joy (Reichardt)
29. Talk to Her (Almodóvar)
30. Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy (McKay)
The Rest of the Top 40 - Crimes real and concocted
31. The Man Who Wasn’t There (Coens)
32. Hedwig and the Angry Inch (Mitchell)
33. A Christmas Tale (Desplechin)
34. The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (Schnabel)
35. The Headless Woman (Martel)
36. The Brothers Bloom (Johnson)
37. 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days (Mungiu)
38. 2046 (Wong)
39. Margot at the Wedding (Baumbach)
40. 8 Women (Ozon)
The Rest of the Top 50 - Naiveté and integrity
41. Amélie (Jeunet)
42. The 40-Year Old Virgin (Apatow)
43. High Fidelity (Frears)
44. Memento (Nolan)
45. Inglourious Basterds (Tarantino)
46. The Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou (Anderson)
47. The Five Obstructions (von Trier)
48. Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (Lee)
49. Audition (Miike)
50. Head-On (Akin)
The Rest of the Top 60 - Identity crises... and zombies!
51. The Wrestler (Aronofsky)
52. Sex and Lucía (Medem)
53. Morvern Callar (Ramsay)
54. A Serious Man (Coens)
55. The Informant! (Soderbergh)
56. Pontypool (McDonald)
57. La Moustache (Carrère)
58. Half Nelson (Fleck)
59. The Secrets Lives of Dentists (Rudolph)
60. Up (Docter/Peterson)
The Rest of the Top 70 - Armoires, vampires, Batmobiles, watermelon, iguanas, et al
61. Summer Hours (Assayas)
62. Let the Right One In (Alfredson)
63. Afterschool (Campos)
64. Pan’s Labyrinth (del Toro)
65. The Dark Knight (Nolan)
66. The Wayward Cloud (Tsai)
67. Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans (Herzog)
68. Bring it On (Reed)
69. The House of Sand (Waddington)
70. Wendy and Lucy (Reichardt)
The Rest of the Top 80 - The weight of words
71. Manderlay (von Trier)
72. Happy-Go-Lucky (Leigh)
73. After the Wedding (Bier)
74. The Boss of It All (von Trier)
75. Brick (Johnson)
76. Rocket Science (Blitz)
77. Juno (Reitman)
78. Broken English (Cassavetes)
79. La Vie en Rose (Dahan)
80. The Class (Cantet)
The Rest of the Top 90 - Perception is everything
81. Volver (Almodóvar)
82. The Holy Girl (Martel)
83. The Girlfriend Experience (Soderbergh)
84. Grizzly Man (Herzog)
85. Casino Royale (Campbell)
86. What Time is it There? (Tsai)
87. Marie Antoinette (Coppola)
88. Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter... and Spring (Kim)
89. Bad Santa (Zwigoff)
90. Caché (a.k.a Hidden) (Haneke)
The Rest of the Top 101 - I'll be damned if I can see a theme here
91. Sleeping Dogs Lie (Goldthwait)
92. Three Times (Hou)
93. The Squid and the Whale (Baumbach)
94. Coffee and Cigarettes (Jarmusch)
95. Last Life in the Universe (Ratanaruang)
96. The Constant Gardener (Meirelles)
97. American Splendor (Berman/Pulcini)
98. City of God (Meirelles/Lund)
99. To Be and to Have (Philibert)
100. Japón (Reygadas)
101. The Anniversary Party (Cumming/Jason Leigh)
102. Silent Light (Reygadas)
3 comments:
Awesome undertaking! I can't wait to pore through them more closely. Another reason to delay my return to the workforce. That, and I really don't have any decent offers! I'm thrilled with Dogville at your #1: I don't even know anyone else that saw it.
I have much to catch up on!
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