My 50 favorite films of the first decade of the 21st century
Elisha Cuthbert in The Girl Next Door
“This list means nothing, except to me. It's a list of 50 movies that gave me pleasure over the past decade. I can say without reservation that I would watch any of these again. Would I say that all of them are great films, however great films are supposed to be defined? Probably not. But that's nothing you need to worry about. Because it's my list.”
Why not? I’ve listed mine alphabetically:
1) Australia (2008)
2) Before the Devil Knows You’re Dead (2007)
3) Birth (2004)
4) Black Book (2006)
5) Black Snake Moan (2007)
6) Bowling for Columbine (2002)
7) Casino Royale (2006)
8) Catwoman (2004)
9) Code Inconnu (Code Unknown, 2000)
10) A Decade Under the Influence (2003)
11) The Devil Wears Prada (2006)
12) Eastern Promises (2007)
13) Factotum (2005)
14) The Fast and the Furious (2001)
15) Um Filme Falado (A Talking Picture, 2003)
16) La Fleur du Mal (The Flower of Evil, 2003)
17) Ghost World (2001)
18) The Girl Next Door (2004)
19) Honey (2003)
20) Hors de prix (Priceless, 2006)
21) The Hours (2002)
22) I Could Never Be Your Woman (2007)
23) I Heart Huckabees (2004)
24) The Illusionist (2006)
25) Inglourious Basterds (2009)
26) In Her Shoes (2005)
27) The Jane Austen Book Club (2007)
28) Juno (2007)
29) Lie with Me (2005)
30) Laurel Canyon (2002)
31) Lucía y el Sexo (Sex and Lucía, 2002)
32) Mayor of the Sunset Strip (2004)
33) Midnight Movies (2007)
34) Mulholland Dr. (2001)
35) Neil Young: Heart of Gold (2006)
36) No Country for Old Men (2007)
37) Open Range (2003)
38) Open Water (2004)
39) Pollock (2000)
40) Roger Dodger (2002)
41) Le Scaphandre et le papillon (The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, 2007)
42) Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow (2004)
43) Spun (2002)
44) Sukkar banat (Caramel, 2007)
45) The Sweetest Thing (2002)
46) An Unfinished Life (2005)
47) Va Savoir (2000)
48) Wanted (2008)
49) Where the Heart Is (2000)
50) X-Men (2000)
posted by Ray Young at
9:56 PM
5 Comments:
AJ looks hot with an eye patch. Sky Captain should have been a bigger hit. I also liked Larry Olivier's cameo.
Going into that film without reading anything beforehand, I had no idea of Lord Larry's, uh, performance. He'd been dead for fifteen years! I sat there thinking, Jeez, that guy looks just like Laurence Olivier!
AJ and her character (‘Capt. Franky Cook’) should've branched off into a separate franchise.
This was too good to not try. My list was a stark reminder how little I go to the theaters and how most of my rentals are at least 20 years old. Thank you for introducing me to Caramel too. http://ruby-stevens.livejournal.com/41438.html
With Sky Captain and Wanted on there, no love for Mr. and Mrs. Smith?
I think TLRHB's approach is a good one too, and it makes for much more interesting list reading. I'll try to hold to it when it comes time for my own list.
Excellent to see that you made room for Birth, Black Book, Code Unknown and The Illusionist, Ray. But what I like about your list is that it's full of things which we're blown off by the critics or which fit into the kind of populist mold that typically keeps them off lists like these (I'm thinking Catwoman, The Girl Next Door, I Could never be Your Woman and The Sweetest Thing.) And you and TLRHB have both definitely upped my curiosity about Pollock which, despite my being in love with Marcia Gay Harden, I have still not seen. Go figure.
Or better yet, don't. The conclusion you may draw could be damaging!
Mr. & Mrs. Smith has grown on me, but not to the extent of the others.
I'm forever surprised that The Girl Next Door never got the attention it deserves. I remember Jim Emerson coming out in its defense, but few were willing to laud its qualities.
Catwoman is universally loathed, yet I've never read anything explaining why it's supposedly so bad other than the standard idiocy that it "just is."
If nothing else, Pollock has a very clear understanding of Jackson's art which Harris has somehow put directly on the screen, no small feat and dangerously close to genius.
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