best films of the 21st century

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

Ratatouille IMO

wld have voted for Margaret, Synecdoche, Inland, The Comedy fer sure.

@Old Lunch
The Assassination of Jesse James, if you have time (2 hr 40 min, and it felt longer) and patience.

Wercmeister, Boonmee, Stray Dogs... And then seven more.

Yeah, I think if you're given a top ten, not many people would want to list multiple films by the same director, so they chose their favourite Lynch. I think I would probably put IE over MD, but maybe need to watch both again before deciding.

Oh, I forgot to quote there, but I think people can work out what I'm responding to.

Also I'm totally not convinced that an ilx poll would be *better* than this. A little different but not markedly better.

ILX would have more genre films. In my sci-fi wheelhouse I think Moon and Ex Machina would find a place, maybe even Perfect Sense and Upstream Color.

xps to get further into author insertion list fanfic, if I were voting in this and allowing myself only one lynch, I'd pick inland empire because I think it's better and also because md's place at the top is obv pretty secure

The ILX list would have Stray Dogs on it. But yeah, it would also have a lot of boring stuff.

fwiw here are some films from the past 16–17 years that mean a lot to me:

Goodbye to Language
Exiled
Platform
A History of Violence
Spirited Away
Our Beloved Month of August
35 Shots of Rum
Eccentricities of a Blonde-Haired Girl
In the City of Sylvia
AI: Artificial Intelligence
Holy Motors
The Holy Girl
Moonrise Kingdom
Inland Empire
Gravity
Melancholia
Ratatouille
Inglourious Basterds
No Country for Old Men
Hukkle
The Iron Ministry

and lots more. ah, never mind, i can't do this.

Glad to see 12 people included Synecdoche, New York in their lists. Easily the best film of the millennium so far.

synecdoche kinda the neutral milk hotel of movies for me. i get why people like it so much but.......yeah, not for me.

or maybe it's the house of leaves of movies....