BEST OF THE AUGHTS: FILM

I'm sure by now those of you who know me or follow my Final Cinema project have probably realized that I'm a total list making whore. Can't make or read enough of 'em. So naturally, seeing how we've reached the end of the decade, I just felt I had to weigh in on what I thought the 30 greatest films were. Well, I don't know about "greatest" or "best", but these certainly are my favourite movies released during 2000 to 2009. Come to think of it, many of these titles may seem like total rubbish to a lot of you, but they are all films that for whatever reason hit me like a breath of fresh air upon first viewing and have continued to inspire and startle me as a cinema lover and filmmaker. I can't praise them enough, here's the countdown:







30.   INGLOURIOUS BASTERDS

29.                  OASIS

28.        FANTASTIC MR. FOX

27.          35 SHOTS OF RUM

26.               IN AMERICA

25.              DOGTOOTH

24.         BEFORE SUNRISE

23.        FAR FROM HEAVEN

22.               CORALINE

21.               REVANCHE

20. NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN

19.

A.I.: ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE

18.          WENDY AND LUCY

17.          NOBODY KNOWS

16.         TROPICAL MALADY

15.             TWO LOVERS

14.     MEMORIES OF MURDER

13.    A HISTORY OF VIOLENCE

12.      THERE WILL BE BLOOD

11.                 L'ENFANT

             ETERNAL SUNSHINE
10.     OF THE SPOTLESS MIND

9.               PLATFORM

8.                 ZODIAC

7.           SPIRITED AWAY

6.     THE ROYAL TENENBAUMS

5.       IN THE MOOD FOR LOVE

4.       GEORGE WASHINGTON

3.                     YI YI

2.            THE NEW WORLD

1.         MULHOLLAND DRIVE

*****

recap
2000-2009

1. MULHOLLAND DRIVE (Lynch)
2. THE NEW WORLD (Malick)
3. YI YI (Yang)
4. GEORGE WASHINGTON (D.Gordon Green)
5. IN THE MOOD FOR LOVE (Wong Kar-Wai)
6. ROYAL TENENBAUMS (Wes Anderson)
7. SPIRITED AWAY (Miyazaki)
8. ZODIAC (Fincher)
9. PLATFORM (Zhang Ke Jia)
10. ETERNAL SUNSHINE OF THE SPOTLESS MIND (Gondry)
11. L'ENFANT (Dardenne bros)
12. THERE WILL BE BLOOD (P.T.Anderson)
13. A HISTORY OF VIOLENCE (Cronenberg)
14. MEMORIES OF MURDER (Bong Joon Ho)
15. TWO LOVERS (Gray)
16. TROPICAL MALADY (Weerasethakul)
17. NOBODY KNOWS (Hirokazu Koreeda)
18. WENDY AND LUCY (Reichardt)
19. A.I. (Spielberg)
20. NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN (Coen)
21. REVANCHE (Götz Spielmann)
22. CORALINE (Selick)
23. FAR FROM HEAVEN (Haynes)
24. BEFORE SUNSET (Linklater)
25. DOGTOOTH (Lanthimos)
26. IN AMERICA (Sheridan)
27. 35 SHOTS OF RUM (Denis)
28. FANTASTIC MR. FOX (Wes Anderson)
29. OASIS (Lee chang dong)
30. INGLOURIOUS BASTERDS (Tarantino)

I encourage my friends and all of you strangers out there to post your favourite pics of the decade (or films you think I've shafted) in the comments section below.