decade in film (in pictures) : 2004
the top 5
My Top 20 of 2004
01 Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (Michel Gondry)
02 Before Sunset (Richard Linklater)
03 Kill Bill: Vol. 2 (Quentin Tarantino)
04 Birth (Jonathan Glazer)
05 Primer (Shane Carruth)
06 The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou (Wes Anderson)
07 Man on Fire (Tony Scott)
08 The Brown Bunny (Vincent Gallo)
09 Code 46 (Michael Winterbottom)
10 P.S. (Dylan Kidd)
11 Spartan (David Mamet)
12 The Dreamers (Bernardo Bertolucci)
13 Dogville (Lars von Trier)
14 Shaun of the Dead (Edgar Wright)
15 The Return [Vozvrashcheniye] (Andrei Zvyagintsev)
16 Collateral (Michael Mann)
17 The Five Obstructions [De fem benspænd] (Lars von Trier and Jørgen Leth)
18 The Machinist (Brad Anderson)
19 Crimson Gold [Talaye sorkh] (Jafar Panahi)
20 Sideways (Alexander Payne)
My full list of films seen in 2004.
- 5 Key Films I (shamefully) haven’t yet seen: Gozu, Cowards Bend The Knee, The Saddest Music in the World, Los Angeles Plays Itself, The Motorcycle Diaries [Diarios de motocicleta],
2 Most In Need Of A Rewatch: The Machinist, The Door in the Floor
AWARDS!
Most Underrated: Wicker Park
Most Overrated: The Incredibles
Guiltiest Pleasure: 50 First Dates, Vincent Cassel in Ocean’s Twelve (especially the breakdance scene)
Best Performance: Maria Full of Grace (Catalina Sandino Moreno)
Best Cinematography: Birth (Harris Savides) & The Brown Bunny (Vincent Gallo)
Biggest Disappointment: I Heart Huckabees
Most Hilariously Bad: The Butterfly Effect
Talk about a Fab Four!
Don’t look too excited guys.
- The Situation appears perplexed by the mic (and confined by the shirt/sleeves).
- shouldn’t Pauly D be playing DJ Hero?
- JWoww with the bass for your face
- Snooki with the face for your bass
- where’s my boys Ronnie and Vinnie at?!??!?! Must be the George Martins of the group, running shit.
- Sammi = Yoko Ono. Angelina = Pete Best.
I’ve given this photo too much thought.
decade in film (in pictures) : 2003
the top 5
My Top 20 of 2003
01 Lost in Translation (Sofia Coppola)
02 Irréversible (Gaspar Noé)
03 To Be and To Have [Être et avoir] (Nicolas Philibert)
04 Lilja 4-ever (Lukas Moodysson)
05 Gerry (Gus Van Sant)
06 Capturing the Friedmans (Andrew Jarecki)
07 Kill Bill: Vol. 1 (Quentin Tarantino)
08 Elephant (Gus Van Sant)
09 Swimming Pool (François Ozon)
10 All the Real Girls (David Gordon Green)
11 21 Grams (Alejandro González Iñárritu)
12 Cabin Fever (Eli Roth)
13 May (Lucky McKee)
14 Shattered Glass (Billy Ray)
15 In My Skin [Dans ma peau] (Marina de Van)
16 Owning Mahowny (Richard Kwietniowski)
17 The Shape of Things (Neil LaBute)
18 Raising Victor Vargas (Peter Sollett)
19 The Good Thief (Neil Jordan)
20 Overnight (Tony Montana & Mark Brian Smith)
My full list of films seen in 2003.
- 5 Key Films I (shamefully) haven’t yet seen: The Son [Le Fils], Friday Night [Vendredi soir], Matchstick Men, House of Sand and Fog, Dirty Pretty Things
2 Most In Need Of A Rewatch: Shattered Glass, American Splendor
AWARDS!
Most Underrated: Masked and Anonymous
Most Overrated: Old School
Guiltiest Pleasure: The Real Cancun or Charlie’s Angels: Full Throttle
Best Performance: Lilja 4-ever (Oksana Akinshina)
Best Cinematography: Gerry (Harris Savides)
Biggest Disappointment: demonlover
Most Hilariously Bad: House of the Dead
An outstanding year in film. The top 12 are all 5-star films for me. And yet this is also a year where I feel there are an inordinate amount of desired films I haven’t yet seen.
My Top 20 of 2002
01 Punch-Drunk Love (Paul Thomas Anderson)
02 Adaptation. (Spike Jonze)
03 Solaris (Steven Soderbergh)
04 25th Hour (Spike Lee)
05 Spider (David Cronenberg)
06 Morvern Callar (Lynne Ramsay)
07 City of God [Cidade de Deus] (Fernando Meirelles & Kátia Lund)
08 Piano Teacher, The [La Pianiste] (Michael Haneke)
09 Y tu Mamá También (Alfonso Cuarón)
10 28 Days Later (Danny Boyle)
11 Roger Dodger (Dylan Kidd)
12 Talk to Her [Hable con ella] (Pedro Almodóvar)
13 Far From Heaven (Todd Haynes)
14 Minority Report (Steven Spielberg)
15 Gangs of New York (Martin Scorsese)
16 Rules of Attraction, The (Roger Avary)
17 24 Hour Party People (Michael Winterbottom)
18 Spider-Man (Sam Raimi)
19 Panic Room (David Fincher)
20 Ring, The (Gore Verbinski)
My full list of films seen in 2002.
- 5 Key Films I (shamefully) haven’t yet seen: Read My Lips [Sur mes lèvres], Trouble Every Day, Time Out [L’emploi du temps], Bloody Sunday, The Pianist
2 Most In Need Of A Rewatch: Far From Heaven, The Wild Dogs
AWARDS!
Most Underrated: Roger Dodger
Most Overrated: Orange County
Guiltiest Pleasure: Blue Crush (a John Stockwell film in back-to-back years… probably not the last)
Best Performance: 25th Hour (Edward Norton)
Best Cinematography: Morvern Callar (Alwin Kuchler)
Biggest Disappointment: Run Ronnie Run
Most Hilariously Bad: Halloween: Resurrection
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decade in film (in pictures) : 2001
the top 5
My Top 20 of 2001
01 Mulholland Dr. (David Lynch)
02 Wet Hot American Summer (David Wain)
03 In the Mood for Love [Fa yeung nin wa] (Wong Kar-wai)
04 Memento (Christopher Nolan)
05 Ghost World (Terry Zwigoff)
06 A.I. Artificial Intelligence (Steven Spielberg)
07 Freddy Got Fingered (Tom Green)
08 The Royal Tenenbaums (Wes Anderson)
09 Audition [Ōdishon] (Takashi Miike)
10 The Pledge (Sean Penn)
11 Session 9 (Brad Anderson)
12 CQ (Roman Coppola)
13 The Man Who Wasn’t There (Joel Coen)
14 Battle Royale [Batoru Rowaiaru] (Kinji Fukasaku)
15 Under the Sand [Sous le sable] (François Ozon)
16 Amélie [Le fabuleux destin d’Amélie Poulain] (Jean-Pierre Jeunet)
17 Fat Girl [À ma sœur!] (Catherine Breillat)
18 Monster’s Ball (Marc Forster)
19 Donnie Darko (Richard Kelly)
20 Ocean’s Eleven (Steven Soderbergh)
My full list of films seen in 2001.
- 5 Key Films I (shamefully) haven’t yet seen: Amores Perros, Gosford Park, The Devil’s Backbone, The Werckmeister Harmonies, Together
2 Most In Need Of A Rewatch: Battle Royale, Code Unknown [Code inconnu: Récit incomplet de divers voyages]
AWARDS!
Most Underrated: Josie and the Pussycats
Most Overrated: In the Bedroom
Guiltiest Pleasure: Crazy/Beautiful
Best Performance: Mulholland Dr. (Naomi Watts)
Best Cinematography: In the Mood for Love (Christopher Doyle)
Biggest Disappointment: The Others
Most Hilariously Bad: Finder’s Fee (directed by Jeff Probst!)
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decade in film (in pictures) : 2000
I don’t know if I’ll take the time to do one of these for each year. It took too long. But I might as well share this one if I did it. The pictures should line up evenly with my Top 20 below.
And thus begins my lists. Every year will likely follow the same format. I go by North American release date (rather than festival date) to determine the exact year of a film. Enjoy!
My Top 20 of 2000
01 Requiem for a Dream (Darren Aronofsky)
02 Ratcatcher (Lynne Ramsay)
03 American Psycho (Mary Harron)
04 Dancer In the Dark (Lars von Trier)
05 George Washington (David Gordon Green)
06 Chuck & Buck (Miguel Arteta)
07 You Can Count on Me (Kenneth Lonergan)
08 Dark Days (Marc Singer)
09 The Virgin Suicides (Sofia Coppola)
10 Ginger Snaps (John Fawcett)
11 Happy Accidents (Brad Anderson)
12 Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai (Jim Jarmusch)
13 Paradise Lost 2: Revelations (Joe Berlinger & Bruce Sinofsky)
14 Traffic (Steven Soderbergh)
15 The Cell (Tarsem)
16 Almost Famous (Cameron Crowe)
17 Wonder Boys (Curtis Hanson)
18 Bamboozled (Spike Lee)
19 Snatch. (Guy Ritchie)
20 An Affair of Love [Une liaison pornographique] (Frédéric Fonteyne)
My full list of films seen in 2000.
- 5 Key Films I (shamefully) haven’t yet seen:
Claire Dolan (Lodge Kerrigan), Beau Travail (Claire Denis), Jesus’ Son (Alison Maclean), The Yards (James Gray), L’Humanité (Bruno Dumont)
AWARDS!
Most Underrated: Happy Accidents
Most Overrated: Gladiator
Guiltiest Pleasure: Charlie’s Angels
2 Most In Need Of A Rewatch: Wonder Boys, The Way of the Gun
Best Performance: American Psycho (Christian Bale)
Best Cinematography: Ratcatcher (Alwin Kuchler)
Biggest Disappointment: Scream 3
Most Hilariously Bad: What Lies Beneath
It’s the most wonderful time of the year.
And decade.
While now may be the moment to lament the passing of time and my growing old, at least I get to bathe in a sea of lists while doing it! Like any other year, every man, woman and hyena with a website is publishing their year-end lists ‘o favourites/bests (films, albums, athletes, tv shows, haircuts, whatnots), only super-sizing things with plenty of decade-best features as well. I will of course be joining the fray.
Starting this Thursday (fingers crossed), I’ll be posting lists of my 10 or 20 favourite films for every year of the last decade, starting with 2000 and going forward chronologically. Not sure if I’ll bother with any verbiage on the films or years but we’ll see how things evolve. I’ll then try to somehow pick the overall bests of the decade before 2009 year is over.
I might do a TV-themed list or two, but films will definitely by my focus. I’d love to compile some music-related lists, but I’m pretty worn out from compiling my film ones already (the lists are pretty much complete and currently being held within Google Docs, so it’s now just a matter of confirming some release dates and drafting the pretty posts themselves). Since I listen to so much music every year (compared to the number of movies I watch), I find it that much harder to narrow things down. I may just scatter a few seminal songs of the decade throughout this month, like I did with my favourite songs last year. If I did a better job of ripping all my CDs and then properly cataloguing all my digital music, it wouldn’t seem so overwhelming. Damn.
As I did in October, I think I’ll temporarily change the look/theme of my tumblr to accommodate a month’s worth of similar-type posts.
So, even if it’s just a note-to-self,… stay tuned I guess. The suspense!
(via madmennie)
I try to limit my number of reblogs, if only to push myself to make this Tumblelog have its own (my) personality. I’m a tad less discriminating with my “likes”. If I like something, I don’t mind showing so.
And on that note, I feel obligated to reblog what ended up being my 1000th “Like”. I only now noticed that I was at 1003 likes, so I checked to see what ended up being the benchmark like. A fine choice, me!
Alison Brie’s a recent addition to my tagged-items-kept-on-dashboard, so I’ve been going on a bit of a liking binge for her, which helped secure her as the milestone it seems.