Favorite Films of the Decade

in no particular order...

Hunger (Steve McQueen)
There Will Be Blood (PT Anderson)
A Serious Man (Coen Brothers)
O'Brother Where Art Thou (Coen Brothers)
Le Fils/The Son (the Dardenne Brothers)
Ballast (Lance Hammer)
Import/Export (Ulrich Siedl)
Grizzly Man (Werner Herzog)
Tulpan (Sergei Dvortsevoy)
The Corporation (Mark Achbar and Jennifer Abbott)
Into Great Silence (Philip Groning)
Manufactured Landscapes (Edward Burtynsky)
Cloverfield (JJ Abrams... yeah I loved this one!)
The Return/Vozvrashcheniye (Andrei Zvyagintsev)
The White Ribbon (Michel Haneke)
Uzak (Nuri Bilge Ceylan)

those are right off the top of my head...
 
oh sh*t... how could I forget?

Silent Light (Carlos Reygadas)
Treeless Mountain (So Yong Kim)
Frownland (Ronald Bronstein)

honorable mention...

No Country For Old Men (Coensssss)
George Washington (David Gordon Green)
Iraq In Fragments (James Longley)
Wendy and Lucy (Kelly Reichardt)
L'Enfant (Dardenne Brothers)


thanx zak! :laugh:
 
Bad Boyz II was pretty sick... I'll go ahead and throw that one in...

and Collateral was good for a hollywood thingy
 
Caffesse's out of wifi range, but he gave me his top 5 to share…

1. Postal (2007)
2. In the Name of the King: A Dungeon Siege Tale (2007)
3. Alone in the Dark (2005)
4. Rampage (2009)
5. BloodRayne II: Deliverance (2007)


 
The Good Thief
Children of Men
Pan's Labyrinth
John Adams
Jarhead
Collateral
Elephant
Little Miss Sunshine
It Might Get Loud
Avatar
The Incredibles
Dodgeball - A True Underdog Story
Lost In Translation
The Royal Tennenbaums
Shine a Light
Letters From Iwo Jima
The Darjeeling Limited
Traffic
The Departed
The Hurt Locker
 
Here are my pics:

2000 - Traffic/ Amores Perros/ Amelie
2001 - Y Tu Mama Tambien/ The Fellowship of the Ring
2002 - 28 Days Later/ The Two Towers
2003 - Lord of the Rings: Return of the King
2004 - Collateral/ Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
2005 - The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada/ Good Night and Good Luck
2006 - Children of Men/ Pan's Labyrinth/ Babel/ The Departed (GREAT year for film)
2007 - No Country For Old Men
2008 - Slumdog Millionaire/ In Bruges/ Let the Right One in
2009 - Avatar, The Hurt Locker
 
Great to see BEFORE SUNSET in at least three people's lists. Audacious movie, with more character development than a hudred Hollywood releases.
 
My top 12 (in no particular order)

Inglourious Basterds
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
No Country for Old Men
Sunshine
Requiem For a Dream
Zodiac
Bully
American Psycho
Children of Men
High Tension
Oldboy
The 40 Year Old Virgin
 
A lot of what I was going to write is already posted. Here're a few that I feel should be mentioned:

The Station Agent
3 Iron (KOR)
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
High Fidelity
BTVS Once More, with Feeling (TV)
Malena

...and this Chinese movie about dead people: With the help of dead amateur filmmakers, recently deceased people have exactly one week to comb through their former life to choose a single memory to recreate and relive for the rest of their afterlife. Can't believe I forgot the name... FCUK!
 
They say a person's top ten list is like a window into their soul. Okay, maybe not but let's see those lists anyway!
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Of all the Gus Van Sant, why Gerry? And if Gerry, why not Brown Bunny too?
 
VGurcu said:
Of all the Gus Van Sant, why Gerry? And if Gerry, why not Brown Bunny too?
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I also have Elephant listed. In Gerry I found that by all cinematic conventions, I should have been bored, but I wasn't. I was swept up in the naturalism, the beauty, the rhythms, the passage of time and the music by Arvo Part.

I also liked The Brown Bunny and almost added it as an honorable mention.
 
Vertical Ray of the Sun
Rivers and Tides
Flight from Death: The Quest for Immortality
Darwin's Nightmare
Half Nelson
Cache
Capturing the Friedman's
Three Times
I Heart Huckabees
Old Joy
All the Real Girls
Yes
How to Draw a Bunny
Talk to Her
The Barbarian Invasions
Zodiac
Me You and Everyone We Know
The Time of the Wolf
Diving Bell and the Butterfly
Downfall
The Lives of Others
Encounters at the End of the World
 
01. Gladiator (2000)
02. Chicken Run (2000)
03. We Were Soldiers (2002)
04. Lord of the Rings (the whole damned thing 2001-2003)
05. The Departed (2006)
06. Kingdom of Heaven (2005)
07. Secondhand Lions (2003)
08. Munich (2005)
09. A Beautiful Mind (2001)
10. Identity (2003)
11. Million Dollar Baby (2004)
12. Finding Neverland (2004)
13. The Constant Gardener (2005)
14. The Proposition (2005)
15. No Country for Old Men (2007)
16. Black Hawk Down (2001)
17. 3:10 to Yuma (2007)
18. Children of Men (2006)
19. Hotel Rwanda (2004)
20. Minority Report (2002)
21. Shadow of the Vampire (2000)
22. Zodiac (2007)
23. Charlie Wilson's War (2007)
24. Ratatouille (2007)
25. Almost Famous (2000)
 
1. Catch Me If You Can
2. Avatar (Not having been born when Star Wars '77 was in theaters, Avatar's my best theater experience to date)
3. Match Point
4. Collateral
5. Requiem for a Dream
6. Lord of the Rings (I consider them one long film)
7. Sunshine
8. The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
9. Prestige
10. Snatch
11. Adaptation
 
by all cinematic conventions, I should have been bored, but I wasn't. I was swept up in the naturalism, the beauty, the rhythms, the passage of time and the music
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So is this your general description of greatness for a movie? Once you describe greatness then making such a list might make a little sense, it is heavily subjective concept...
(FYI, I couldnt pass the campfire scene in Gerry & gave up, as for Brown Bunny I got nothing positive to say)
 
my taste is malleable. when a filmmaker presents a film in a "language" that defies convention, I'm more likely to open myself up to what its offering – kind of like when you're confronted with a person who doesnt speak english, you either shut down completely or you're like most people and try to absorb every little gesture and nuance of what they're trying to communicate. I rarely give up on films.

As for defining what I think a great movie is, I can't do that. While you can certainly look at my list and identify commonalities, you can't look at any film with those traits and say "Zak Forsman will like this" because it is so heavily execution dependent.
 
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