best films of the 21st century

Because of it being so much better, for starters

Hard to be a God def the most glaring absences from this list. Once Upon a Time in Anatolia and Ten far too low down. No Dumont, bah.

Wall-E being so high up is a fucking disgrace.

Brian Truitt – USA Today (US)
1. The Dark Knight (Christopher Nolan, 2008)
2. Mad Max: Fury Road (George Miller, 2015)
3. Captain America: Winter Soldier (Anthony and Joe Russo, 2014)
4. Star Wars: Episode VII – The Force Awakens (J. J. Abrams, 2015)
5. Love Actually (Richard Curtis, 2003)
6. Brick (Rian Johnson, 2005)
7. Chicago (Rob Marshall, 2002)
8. Tropic Thunder (Ben Stiller, 2008)
9. High Fidelity (Stephen Frears, 2000)
10. Silver Linings Playbook (David O. Russell, 2012)

:D

i know I'm just in favor of going fwd w it, ppl always seem to bitch @ the outset but then the threads are fun and are a great resource going forward to discover things that one's missed or overlooked :)

― johnny crunch, Wednesday, August 24, 2016 3:13 AM (16 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yeah do it

― have you ever even read The Drudge Report? Have you gone on Stormfron (k3vin k.), Wednesday, August 24, 2016 3:20 AM (16 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

alright fuck it i'll do it. let me figure out the timing, i'm working like a mfer right now but my job ends in october, which would be good timing on closing the ballots. maybe a post-election day rollout...

:)

if u want help tabulating or anything id be willing

lol @ Judd Apatow complaining there are no comedies on this list (because it's "easier to not be funny". I guess he would know)

If ILX did a poll it might be worse. Then again it would have Amour Fou on it, probably.

Chuffed to see Yi Yi in the top 10. Its one of the few post-Ozu films that builds something (its been a few years so I couldn't specify rn) on his legacy, adds a layer (or several) on top. xp

― xyzzzz__, Tuesday, August 23, 2016 3:38 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark

sorry but taiwanese new wave comparisons to ozu are over and kinda questionable

btw despite everyone believing what the iMdB tells them, The Virgin Suicides was not released commercially anywhere until 2000. (and it's still Sofia Coppola's best film)

best dressed man in albania

lol @ Judd Apatow complaining there are no comedies on this list (because it's "easier to not be funny". I guess he would know)

A Serious Man is on it (and it should be higher, probably in my top ten...)

You people have no bromance in your souls.

but it is a serious comedy

xp

Yi-Yi just got a fab reissue.

― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, August 23, 2016 3:46 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I can't find any info on this. Do you have a link?

does anyone still use secret cinema?

i've not been on it in AGES but i might need to dig out the old username/pw if my acct wasn't already suspended

uhh

bingo! got in!

by "just" I mean "Criterion in 2011," of course.

not 'just'... the recent one was Yang's A Brighter Summer Day xp

https://www.criterion.com/films/781-yi-yi

The better film, but watch'em both.

Sorry, upon taking a second gander I realize there are not two but three Nolan films in this list. WTF is wrong with film critics.

The dearth of latter day Altman (two votes for Gosford) is a hell of an oversight. Gosford, The Company, and Prairie Home Companion are all worthy and would probably be in my top 25 or so.

Also holy shit not a single vote for Être et Avoir, what is this world I'm living in

quite surprised there were no votes for Aoyama's Eureka

Christopher Tookey fave Requiem for a Dream is a weird and awful choice

Gosford, The Company, and Prairie Home Companion are all worthy and would probably be in my top 25 or so.

and if by that you mean they might all be between #11 and 25, you wouldn't have voted for them either.

Thank you for clarifying how top tens work, Dr. Wisenheimer. I'd work at least one of them in there (probably The Company, which is understandably massively underrated).

it's always more interesting perusing the individual ballots than seeing the aggregated list

some favorites of mine that i'm surprised don't appear on anyone's ballot: in the city of sylvia, the grandmaster, the mill and the cross, eastern promises, cemetery of splendor, two years at sea, jauja, PTU (almost no johnnie to at all! WTF)

some favorites i'm not surprised don't appear on anyone's ballot: seance (kiyoshi kurosawa), the transporter, azur and asmar, heaven (tom tykwer film, yes i know), edge of tomorrow, duma, last life in the universe...

as usual, critics underrate genre films.

Am very surprised Election is not on anyones film. Head On made one person's list at least.

Whatre yr thoughts on the omission of kung fu hustle

also 2 mentions of Hong Sang-soo

He's good? I just rented Woman on the Beach because of seeing it on a ballot.

that's one of his best

I liked In Another Country. I saw it the day before Christmas Eve and two of the six other people in the theater walked out.

also Inland Empire got one vote, from Michael Atkinson

Whatre yr thoughts on the omission of kung fu hustle

― poor fiddy-less albion (darraghmac), Thursday, August 25, 2016 11:20 AM (fourteen minutes ago) Bookmark

shaolin soccer is better

Inland Empire > Mulholland Drive

And yeah, Woman on the Beach might be the best Hong, though I haven't really seen the early ones.

Good to see Two Lovers on Ed Gonzalez's list.

one of 2 total James Gray votes

here's a fascinating list:

Kenji Fujishima – Freelance film critic (US)

1. The World (Jia Zhangke, 2004)
2. Profit Motive and the Whispering Wind (John Gianvito, 2007)
3. Inglourious Basterds (Quentin Tarantino, 2009)
4. Pulse (Kiyoshi Kurosawa, 2001)
5. Syndromes and a Century (Apichatpong Weerasethakul, 2006)
6. In Jackson Heights (Frederick Wiseman, 2015)
7. Synecdoche, New York (Charlie Kaufman, 2008)
8. Love Exposure (Sion Sono, 2008)
9. The Tree of Life (Terrence Malick, 2011)
10. Casino Royale (Martin Campbell, 2006)

I only saw one person list bad lieutenant: pocno, that film kills

Props for Weerasethakul and Tarr inclusions. Hunger would also be my Steve McQueen pick. I need to see White Material, The Headless Woman and Margaret, so this list offers some useful reminders.

In defense of...

Amelie - Whimsy is hard to pull off on the wide-screen. For some of us, this is a enduring rainy day film.
WALL-E - As a children's film about societal concerns from environmental degradation to apathy, which should be subjects for children's films, its second only to Spirited Away. If not a great film, a necessary one.
Mad Max:Fury Road - action films distilled to an essence.

That said, I'd be content to never see another Wes Anderson, Linklater, Tarantino, or post-Memento Nolan film.

also Inland Empire got one vote, from Michael Atkinson

― The Hon. J. Piedmont Mumblethunder (Dr Morbius), Thursday, August 25, 2016 10:35 AM (nineteen minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I didn't catch that. That's insane. Almost certainly in my top ten.

not sure i'd run across this b4

"Lists are a form of cultural hysteria." - Don DeLillo

WALL-E hate in thread is weird, one of the best animated films in the last 30 years surely

The opposite of hysteria if anything, the smniest of somas

I've resisted watching Amelie for years based only on that iconic winsome movie-poster smile — it drives me mad with rage. I should get over that and just watch the dang film.

like a few other pixar films, i'm not sure wall-e lives up to its first reel or two

Profit Motive and the Whispering Wind is nifty, here's yr starter kit.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pyTGnAZugRY

http://www.slantmagazine.com/film/review/profit-motive-and-the-whispering-wind

Reckon if they asked for a top 25 or something inland empire would have got in to the 100? Maybe nobody wants to be the dick who votes for two lynch films in a top ten (I would be that dick but no danger of anyone asking)

Which of the ones I own but haven't seen yet do I need to see immediately:

The Social Network
WALL-E
Margaret (extended, have seen the original)
The Pianist
The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
Ratatouille
any of the ones streaming on Netflix