Monday, November 26, 2007

2006 (Maybe final list)

2006
1. Marie Antoinette (Sofia Coppola)
2. Miami Vice (Michael Mann)
3. When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts (Spike Lee)
4. Time (Kim Ki-duk)
5. A Scanner Darkly (Richard Linklater)
6. The Fountain (Darren Aronofsky)
7. Paprika (Satoshi Kon)
8. Inland Empire (David Lynch)
9. Renaissance (Christian Volckman)
10. Pan's Labyrinth (Guillermo del Toro)

Friday, November 16, 2007

2006

2006
1. Marie Antoinette (Sofia Coppola)
2. Miami Vice (Michael Mann)
3. When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts (Spike Lee)
4. A Scanner Darkly (Richard Linklater)
5. The Fountain (Darren Aronofsky)
6. Paprika (Satoshi Kon)
7. Inland Empire (David Lynch)
8. Renaissance (Christian Volckman)
9. Pan's Labyrinth (Guillermo del Toro)
10. Children of Men (Alfonso Cuarón)

Tuesday, November 13, 2007

2005 + 2000

Redux:

2005
1. The New World (Terrence Malick)
2. Three Times (Hou Hsiao-hsien)
3. Riding Alone for Thousands of Miles (Zhang Yimou)
4. Brokeback Mountain (Ang Lee)
5. Grizzly Man (Werner Herzog)
6. Match Point (Woody Allen)
7. March of the Penguins (Luc Jacquet)
8. Land of the Dead (George A. Romero)
9. Cache (Michael Haneke)
10. L'Enfant (Jean-Pierre/Luc Dardenne)

2000
1. In the Mood for Love (Wong Kar-wai)
2. Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (Ang Lee)
3. Gladiator (Ridley Scott)
4. Vertical Ray of the Sun (Anh Hung Tran)
5. Platform (Jia Zhang Ke)
6. You Can Count on Me (Kenneth Lonergan)
7. Yi yi (Edward Yang)
8. Suzhou River (Lou Ye)
9. Quills (Philip Kaufman)
10. Traffic (Steven Soderbergh)

2006: Friday

Sunday, November 11, 2007

2000

2000
1. In the Mood for Love (Wong Kar-wai)
2. Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (Ang Lee)
3. Gladiator (Ridley Scott)
4. Vertical Ray of the Sun (Anh Hung Tran)
5. Platform (Jia Zhang Ke)
6. You Can Count on Me (Kenneth Lonergan)
7. Yi yi (Edward Yang)
8. Traffic (Steven Soderbergh)
9. Quills (Philip Kaufman)
10. Almost Famous (Cameron Crowe)

2006: Friday

Tuesday, November 06, 2007

2002

2002
1. Far from Heaven (Todd Haynes)
2. Catch Me If You Can (Steven Spielberg)
3. Hero (Zhang Yimou)
4. Lilya 4-ever (Lukas Moodysson)
5. Punch-Drunk Love (Paul Thomas Anderson)
6. The Pianist (Roman Polanski)
7. Russian Ark (Aleksandr Sokurov)
8. Unknown Pleasures (Jia Zhang Ke)
9. Friday Night (Claire Denis)
10. Minority Report (Steven Spielberg)

Don't wait up for 00 and 06. Might be an eternity

Saturday, November 03, 2007

2001

2001
1. A.I. Artificial Intelligence (Steven Spielberg)
2. Spirited Away (Hayao Miyazaki)
3. Mulholland Dr. (David Lynch)
4. Millenium Mambo (Hou Hsiao-hsien)
5. Y tu mamá también (Alfonso Cuarón)
6. Cowboy Bebop: The Movie (Shinichirô Watanabe)
7. In the Bedroom (Todd Field)
8. Beijing Bicycle (Wang Xiaoshuai)
9. Sex and Lucia (Julio Medem)
10. Nowhere in Africa (Caroline Link)

Next: 2000, 2002, 2006 (Next week)

2003

2003
1. Lost in Translation (Sofia Coppola)
2. Mystic River (Clint Eastwood)
3. Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter... and Spring (Kim Ki-duk)
4. Elephant (Gus Van Sant)
5. All the Real Girls (David Gordon Green)
6. Last Life in the Universe (Pen-Ek Ratanaruang)
7. Jeux d'enfants (Yann Samuell)
8. Thirteen (Catherine Hardwicke)
9. Purple Butterfly (Lou Ye)
10. Cafe Lumiere (Hou Hsiao-hsien)

Friday, November 02, 2007

2004

2004
1. 2046 (Wong Kar-wai)
2. Paranoia Agent (Satoshi Kon)
3. Collateral (Michael Mann)
4. The World (Jia Zhang Ke)
5. Before Sunset (Richard Linklater)
6. The Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou (Wes Anderson)
7. 3-Iron (Kim Ki-duk)
8. Mysterious Skin (Gregg Araki)
9. Clean (Olivier Assayas)
10. Howl's Moving Castle (Hayao Miyazaki)

Tomorrow: 2003 and maybe 2001

Top 10 Series

I have made new, and improved top 10s of 2000-2006. Unfortunately, 2006 is still under construction, so I shall start at 2005. (2002 will not be decided until the next week or two)

2005
1. The New World (Terrence Malick)
2. Three Times (Hou Hsiao-hsien)
3. Riding Alone for Thousands of Miles (Zhang Yimou)
4. Brokeback Mountain (Ang Lee)
5. Grizzly Man (Werner Herzog)
6. Match Point (Woody Allen)
7. March of the Penguins (Luc Jacquet)
8. Do You Like Hitchcock? (Dario Argento)
9. Cache (Michael Haneke)
10. L'Enfant (Jean-Pierre/Luc Dardenne)

Tomorrow: 2003