Thursday, December 10, 2009

'COS EVERYONE'S DOIN' IT

Gonna kickstart this blog for the summer with a top 100 of the decade list. Have asterisked stuff that isn't available on R4 DVD (save for films that had a theatrical release here recently and haven't made it to DVD yet).

1. Mulholland Dr. (David Lynch, 2001)
2. The Son (Dardenne bros, 2002)
3. Punch-Drunk Love (Paul Thomas Anderson, 2002)
4. Blissfully Yours (Apichatpong Weerasethakul, 2002)*
5. Eureka (Shinji Aoyama, 2000)*
6. Zodiac (David Fincher, 2007)
7. Oasis (Lee Chang-Dong, 2002)*
8. Reflections of Evil (Damon Packard, 2002)*
9. Cache (Michael Haneke, 2005)
10. Last Days (Gus Van Sant, 2005)
11. All or Nothing (Mike Leigh, 2002)
12. The New World (Terrence Malick, 2005)
13. Yi Yi (Edward Yang, 2000)
14. A.I. (Steven Spielberg, 2001)
15. Tokyo Sonata (Kiyoshi Kurosawa, 2008)*
16. Memories of Murder (Joon-ho Bong, 2003)
17. Lost in Translation (Sofia Coppola, 2003)
18. Distant (Nuri Bilge Ceylan, 2003)*
19. Before Sunset (Richard Linklater, 2004)
20. I Don’t Want to Sleep Alone (Tsai Ming-Liang, 2006)
21. There Will Be Blood (Paul Thomas Anderson, 2007)
22. Tropical Malady (Apichatpong Weerasethakul, 2004)
23. In the Mood For Love (Wong Kar-wai, 2000)
24. George Washington (David Gordon Green, 2000)
25. Talk to Her (Pedro Almodovar, 2002)
26. The Death of Mr. Lazarescu (Cristi Puiu, 2005)
27. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (Michel Gondry, 2004)
28. Love Exposure (Sion Sono, 2008)*
29. Everyone Else (Maren Ade, 2009)*
30. Let the Right One In (Tomas Alfredson, 2008)
31. Import Export (Ulrich Seidl, 2007)
32. Accident (Pou-Soi Cheang, 2009)*
33. Hunger (Steve McQueen, 2008)
34. Friday Night (Claire Denis, 2002)*
35. The Limits of Control (Jim Jarmusch, 2009)
36. Spirited Away (Hayao Miyazaki, 2001)
37. Capturing the Friedmans (Andrew Jarecki, 2003)
38. The Man Without a Past (Aki Kaurismaki, 2002)
39. Femme Fatale (Brian De Palma, 2002)
40. Children of Men (Alfonso Cuaron, 2006)
41. WALL-E (Andrew Stanton, 2008)
42. A Serious Man (Joel & Ethan Coen, 2009)
43. Dogtooth (Yorgos Lanthimos, 2009)*
44. Head-On (Fatih Akin, 2004)
45. Dumplings (Fruit Chan, 2004)
46. Code Unknown (Michael Haneke, 2000)
47. Regular Lovers (Philippe Garrel, 2005)*
48. The Wayward Cloud (Tsai Ming-Liang, 2005)*
49. Mutual Appreciation (Andrew Bujalski, 2005)
50. Syndromes and a Century (Apichatpong Weerasethakul, 2006)*
51. No Country For Old Men (Joel & Ethan Coen, 2007)
52. The Royal Tenenbaums (Wes Anderson, 2001)
53. L’intrus (Claire Denis, 2004)*
54. Flight of the Red Balloon (Hou Hsiao-hsien, 2007)
55. Ballast (Lance Hammer, 2008)*
56. Ghost World (Terry Zwigoff, 2001)
57. Inglourious Basterds (Quentin Tarantino, 2009)
58. My Winnipeg (Guy Maddin, 2007)
59. Spider (David Cronenberg, 2002)
60. Gerry (Gus Van Sant, 2002)
61. 35 Shots of Rum (Claire Denis, 2008)*
62. Morvern Callar (Lynne Ramsay, 2002)
63. Forbidden Lies (Anna Broinowski, 2007)
64. Somer’s Town (Shane Meadows, 2008)
65. Kung-fu Hustle (Stephen Chow, 2004)
66. Café Lumiére (Hou Hsiao-hsien, 2003)*
67. The Day I Became a Woman (Marzieh Makhmalbaf, 2000)*
68. Little Otik (Jan Svankmajer, 2000)
69. Millennium Actress (Satoshi Kon, 2001)
70. Hot Rod (Akiva Schaffer, 2007)
71. You Can Count on Me (Kenneth Lonergan, 2000)
72. Revanche (Gotz Spielmann, 2008)
73. The White Ribbon (Michael Haneke, 2009)
74. Final Destination 2 (David R. Ellis, 2003)
75. Old Joy (Kelly Reichhardt, 2006)
76. Minority Report (Steven Spielberg, 2002)
77. Mysterious Skin (Gregg Araki, 2004)
78. The Man Who Wasn’t There (Joel & Ethan Coen, 2001)
79. The House of Mirth (Terence Davies, 2000)
80. Sparrow (Johnnie To, 2008)*
81. 24 Hour Party People (Michael Winterbottom, 2002)
82. Superbad (Greg Motolla, 2007)
83. Takeshis’ (Takeshi Kitano, 2005)
84. The White Diamond (Werner Herzog, 2004)
85. Joe Strummer: The Future is Unwritten (Julien Temple, 2007)
86. Adventureland (Greg Motolla, 2009)
87. Two Lovers (James Gray, 2008)
88. Dead Man’s Shoes (Shane Meadows, 2004)
89. The Sun (Alexander Sokurov, 2005)*
90. Lady Chatterley (Pascale Ferran, 2006)
91. A Guide to Recognising Your Saints (Dito Montiel, 2006)
92. Chopper (Andrew Dominik, 2000)
93. Into the Wild (Sean Penn, 2007)
94. Gone Baby Gone (Ben Affleck, 2007)
95. Monsters, inc. (Pete Docter, 2001)
96. The Holy Girl (Lucretia Martel, 2004)*
97. A History of Violence (David Cronenberg, 2005)
98. Wolf Creek (Greg McLean, 2005)
99. Grizzly Man (Werner Herzog, 2005)
100. 2046 (Wong Kar-wai, 2004)

5 comments:

  1. Nice selection! I'm hunting down the 12 I haven't seen right now. Except Final Destination 2.

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  2. I'd prioritise FD2 above the other 12 if I was you.

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  3. Nice. We only share 20 movies on our top 100 lists but I could probably have expanded to 200 fairly easily.

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