10 Best Films of the 1990's and 2000's, so far

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Here are my lists:

1990's
01. Taste of Cherry (Kiarostami)
02. Eyes Wide Shut (Kubrick)
03. Flowers of Shanghai (Hou)
04. The Thin Red Line (Malick)
05. The Piano (Campion)
06. Breaking the Waves (von Trier)
07. Fallen Angels (Wong)
08. Centre Stage (aka Actress) (Kwan)
09. JLG/JLG (Godard)
10. Beau Travail (Denis)

2000's, so far:
01. In the Mood for Love (Wong)
02. Mulholland Drive (Lynch)
03. Far From Heaven (Haynes)
04. In Praise of Love (Godard)
05. A.I. Artificial Intelligence (Spielberg)
06. Spider (Cronenberg)
07. Dancer in the Dark (von Trier)
08. What Time Is It There? (Tsai)
09. The House of Mirth (Davies)
10. Millennium Mambo (Hou)

― Josh Timmermann (Josh Timmermann), Sunday, 13 July 2003 18:21 (twenty-two years ago)

Oh, and these lists are one-film-director or else Kiarostami's Close-up (and maybe The Wind Will Carry Us, too) and Hou's The Puppetmaster would've placed on my 90's list.

― Josh Timmermann (Josh Timmermann), Sunday, 13 July 2003 18:23 (twenty-two years ago)

These aren't in any kind of particular order, but here it goes

1990s
Unforgiven
Goodfellas
Pulp Fiction
Fargo
Three Kings
Ed Wood
Trois Couleurs: Rouge
Breaking the Waves
Schindler's List
Raise the Red Lantern

2000s so far
Mulholland Dr.
Spirited Away
Almost Famous
Yi Yi
Talk to Her
City of God
Gangs of New York
Adaptation
Y Tu Mama Tambien
Memento

― Anthony (Anthony F), Monday, 14 July 2003 14:03 (twenty-two years ago)

1990: An Angel at My Table
1991: Barton Fink
1992: The Player
1993: Wittgenstein
1994: Red
1995: City of the Lost Children
1996: Trainspotting
1997: U-Turn
1998: Happiness
1999: Ghost Dog
2000: Amores Perros
2001: Spirited Away
2002: Talk to Her
2003: Capturing the Friedmans

― Girolamo Savonarola, Monday, 14 July 2003 15:08 (twenty-two years ago)

three weeks pass...

A shortlist--

Muholland Drive
City of God
Spirited Away
Pulp Fiction
Yi Yi
Dancer In The Dark
Spider

― Zach S. (Zach S.), Monday, 4 August 2003 19:14 (twenty-two years ago)

90's
pulp fiction
barton fink
big lebowski
rushmore
magnolia
battle royale
the insider
trainspotting
heat
usual suspects

00's
george washington
all the real girls
ratcatcher
punch drunk love
adaptation
o brother where art thou?
capturing the friedmans
far from heaven
donnie darko
city of god

― todd swiss (eliti), Monday, 4 August 2003 22:41 (twenty-two years ago)

90s

The Colors Trilogy
Crumb
Il Postino
God of Cookery
Little Dieter Needs to Fly
Perfect Blue
Gods and Monsters
Pi
Being John Malkovich
Jesus' Son

00s

Spirited Away
Yi Yi
Donnie Darko
Hedwig and the Angry Inch
Y Tu Mama Tambien
Amelie
The Believer
Rodger Dodger
The Fast Runner
Love Liza

― Jeff-PTTL (Jeff), Tuesday, 5 August 2003 13:40 (twenty-two years ago)

1990: ¡Átame! (Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down!)
1991: La Belle noiseuse (The Beautiful Troublemaker)
1992: Kurenai no buta (The Crimson Pig)
1993: Ba wang bie ji (Farewell My Concubine)
1994: Priest
1995: La Haine (Hate)
1996: Yentown (Swallowtail)
1997: Lost Highway
1998: Bure baruta (Cabaret Balkan)
1999: Ressources humaines (Human Resources)
2000: Sånger från andra våningen (Songs from the Second Floor)
2001: Le Fabuleux destin d'Amélie Poulain (Amélie)
2002: The Pianist
2003: can't say yet.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Wednesday, 6 August 2003 10:20 (twenty-two years ago)

I've just recently seen Jia Zhangke's Unknown Pleasures which would now place at #6 on my 2000's list. It's the best film of the year!

― Josh Timmermann (Josh Timmermann), Friday, 8 August 2003 04:14 (twenty-two years ago)

Okay, I said I wanted to spice things up around ILF, so here goes nothing [note - criticism here is heavily personally biased and is a criticism only of the movies, not the people who chose them]:

The Piano: I need to watch this again. I really wasn't totally impressed with it the one time I saw it. Giving children Oscars, though, should be banned. Campion did secure a spot on my list, though.
The House of Mirth: Huh? It just seemed so de rigeur period piece, with absolutely lifeless Eric Stoltz and fair to middling Gillian Anderson. If she wants to break out of Dana Scully typecasting, GA needs to pick up something more over the top.
Pulp Fiction: I have Tarantino issues. See the Kill Bill thread on ILE.
Fargo: Decent movie, but as a Coen fan, it's one of my least favorite of theirs.
Almost Famous: Not a bad film, but for Crowe, it's mediocre.
Gangs of New York: See above.
Adaptation: This is why pomo must die.
Rushmore: Another film I didn't like in the theater that I think needs a second viewing.
Punch-Drunk Love: I admire its boldness, but I can't honestly say I felt much for it either way, despite my undying love for PTA.
Donnie Darko: A good movie lost in its own hype.
Pi: See above.

― Girolamo Savonarola, Friday, 8 August 2003 05:09 (twenty-two years ago)

I mostly agree with you, on the films I've seen. Pulp Fiction is a nice film, but overrated amongst fanboys. Fargo is definitely not the best Coen brothers flick of the nineties (that's Big Lebowski). The Coen brothers themselves are quite ovverrated; technically, they're fine filmmakers, but most of their films are pastiches made with an ironic distance, so it's really hard to care about them (Hudsucker Proxy being the most notorious example).

Almost Famous is good fun, but nothing particular about it; the plot is quite cliched, but having some great scenes saves the film. Rushmore is also a fine comedy, but I got the feeling it tried to be something deeper than it actually was. Donnie Darko's great, but it would've been brilliant without that sci-fi mumbo jumbo. Pi is the only film about which I disagree with you; I think it's an almost perfect movie, and I didn't even know it had a hype (here in Finland it didn't).

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Friday, 8 August 2003 08:20 (twenty-two years ago)

Donnie was too much of a shmuck to care about, so I didn't care for Darko at all. Ditto with Pi.

My post gives me an idea for a new thread.

― Leee (Leee), Friday, 8 August 2003 20:02 (twenty-two years ago)

Actually the thread I had in mind is not worth posting.

― Leee (Leee), Friday, 8 August 2003 20:07 (twenty-two years ago)

Almost Famous: Not a bad film, but for Crowe, it's mediocre.

Um, yeah, it's no Vanilla Sky, that's for sure.

Rushmore, well, I like J. Rosenbaum's line: "about as close to 90s Lubitsch as we deserve to get."

― Justyn Dillingham (Justyn Dillingham), Friday, 8 August 2003 22:21 (twenty-two years ago)

90s:
1) Fargo
2) Henry Fool
3) Chungking Express
4) Praise
5) Schizopolis
6) Tribulation 99: Alien Anomalies Under America
7) Lone Star
8) Seven Songs From The Tundra
9) Bottle Rocket
10) Glengarry Glen Ross

00s:
1) American Splendor
2) In Praise of Love
3) George Washington
4) Benjamin Smoke
5) Yi Yi
6) Wendigo
7) In The Mood For Love
8) 24 Hour Party People
9) The Grey Zone
10) You Can Count On Me

Well, obviously I disagree with the criticisms of Fargo. It's simply a great, classic tragedy with tremendous uber-subtle performances, beautiful cinematography, beautiful writing... it's just one of those films that I could watch forever. I do agree that it falls outside the rest of the Coen Bros. canon, but for all the right reasons.

― Joshua Houk (chascarrillo), Saturday, 9 August 2003 07:29 (twenty-two years ago)

Another Shortlist in no order (except to say that Safe is My Favourite movie from either decade)

Safe (todd haynes)
Punch Drunk Love
Irreversible
In the Mood for Love
Code Unknown
Mulholland Drive

― jed-e-3, Monday, 11 August 2003 09:36 (twenty-two years ago)

one month passes...

2000s so far:

Cast Away
Mulholland Drive
Spring Forward
About a Boy
Best in Show
Erin Brockovich
Legally Blonde
American Pie 2
Training Day
How's Your News?

Inevitable cop-out--a runners-up list (in order):

Far From Heaven
Adaptation
In the Bedroom
The Pianist
The Hulk
Memento
Gangs of New York
You Can Count On Me
Punch Drunk Love
Dark Days
Home Movie
The Filth and The Fury
Citizen Toxie: The Toxic Avenger Part 4
The Rookie
The Ladies Man
Meet the Parents
Traffic

― Pete Scholtes, Thursday, 11 September 2003 19:29 (twenty-two years ago)

'90s Top Ten List

American Dream
Hoop Dreams
Pulp Fiction
The Vanishing (Belgian version)
Goodfellas
Schindler’s List
Husbands and Wives
The Blair Witch Project
American Job
The Straight Story

Inevitable cop-out 11-50 list (in order):

Flirting With Disaster
The Apostle
Jackie Brown
Reservoir Dogs
The Dreamlife of Angels
Breaking the Waves
Out of Sight
When We Were Kings
Swingers
Manhattan Murder Mystery
Short Cuts
Safe
In the Name of the Father
El Mariachi
Clueless
The Insider
La Femme Nikita
Beauty and the Beast
Babe
Fargo
The Player
Dazed and Confused
Leaving Las Vegas
Point Break
Topsy-Turvy
Bad Lieutenant
Clerks
Crash
Booty Call
American Movie
Starship Troopers
Ed Wood
Eyes Wide Shut
Six Degrees of Separation
The Remains of the Day
Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker’s Apocalypse
Career Girls
The Killer
Schizopolis
Fast, Cheap, and Out of Control

― Pete Scholtes, Thursday, 11 September 2003 20:35 (twenty-two years ago)

Giving children Oscars, though, should be banned.

Blacks and women, too.

― Pete Scholtes, Saturday, 13 September 2003 16:04 (twenty-two years ago)

In fact, giving anyone Oscars.

― Girolamo Savonarola, Saturday, 13 September 2003 17:45 (twenty-two years ago)

They should be TAKEN!

― s1utsky (slutsky), Saturday, 13 September 2003 19:08 (twenty-two years ago)

And then sold off at a pawn shop for cash.

― Girolamo Savonarola, Sunday, 14 September 2003 01:10 (twenty-two years ago)

two years pass...

top movies of the 00s so far
1.ready to rumble 10.pokemon the movie
2.anger management
3.8 mile
4.mummy returns
5.cast away
6.shrek1 and 2
7.american pie 2
8.spideman
9.batman begins

― daniel sloan, Thursday, 1 June 2006 12:24 (twenty years ago)

i think pokemon needs to move up a slot or 3

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Thursday, 1 June 2006 20:52 (twenty years ago)

it's already been moved up 9!

― jed_ (jed), Thursday, 1 June 2006 21:29 (twenty years ago)

i wonder if, when we close the book on our young century, we will still be able to call ready to rumble the greatest?

― a spectator bird (a spectator bird), Monday, 5 June 2006 20:33 (twenty years ago)

All movies will be judged on how closely they stick to the ideals evinced in Ready To Rumble.

Before the century is out, several films will contain pull-quotes from syndicated reviewers saying they "out-Ready to Rumble Ready to Rumble!!!"

― Casuistry (Chris P), Monday, 5 June 2006 23:13 (twenty years ago)

four years pass...

favourite films of the 1990s:

Fresh
Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me
Hard Core Logo
Revolutionary Girl Utena: The Movie
Bullets Over Broadway
The Sweet Hereafter
Miller's Crossing
Gas Food Lodging
Boogie Nights
Fargo
The Ice Storm
Exotica
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles

― demons a. real (Drugs A. Money), Monday, 9 August 2010 01:23 (fifteen years ago)

zodiac
birth
songs from the second floor
a knight's tale
black book
sexy beast
the chaser
toter mann
the dancer upstairs
session 9

60% thrillers, how did that happen?

― ☆, Monday, 9 August 2010 08:19 (fifteen years ago)

& i forgot about children of men, which is another thriller, in a way.

― ☆, Monday, 9 August 2010 09:41 (fifteen years ago)

― demons a. real (Drugs A. Money), Monday, August 9, 2010 1:23 AM (3 days ago) Bookmark

Nice list imo.

― Matt Armstrong, Thursday, 12 August 2010 07:36 (fifteen years ago)

I've posted these lists on my site:

'90s

1. Boogie Nights
2. Goodfellas
3. Miller's Crossing
4. Crumb
5. Smoke
6. Reservoir Dogs
7. Boyz n the Hood
8. The Silence of the Lambs
9. Short Cuts
10. Clockers

'00s

1. Spellbound
2. Zodiac
3. Lost in Translation
4. The Heart of the Game
5. The Squid and the Whale
6. Elephant
7. No Direction Home: Bob Dylan
8. No Country for Old Men
9. Ghost World
10. Andy Warhol: A Documentary Film

The '00s list was done only a few months ago, so that stands. The '90s list goes back a decade, so I'd want to revise that. Rushmore, Jackie Brown, and Fargo would be on there, maybe also Menace II Society; I'd knock off The Silence of The Lambs and Clockers to start, not sure what else.

― clemenza, Friday, 13 August 2010 20:48 (fifteen years ago)

god rly?

― christopher dullan (Tape Store), Friday, 13 August 2010 20:52 (fifteen years ago)

Totally off the top of my head, not checking anything:
DONNIE DARKO
ZODIAC
PUNCH-DRUNK LOVE
BULLY
MYSTERIOUS SKIN
THE ORDER OF MYTHS
MIAMI VICE
INLAND EMPIRE
IN THE CITY OF SYLVIA
FROWNLAND

― christopher dullan (Tape Store), Friday, 13 August 2010 21:00 (fifteen years ago)

lol apparently i love america. n.b. i haven't seen any jia. or yi yi. or alonso. or reygadas. or assayas.

― christopher dullan (Tape Store), Friday, 13 August 2010 21:02 (fifteen years ago)

and i forgot denis!!!

― christopher dullan (Tape Store), Friday, 13 August 2010 21:03 (fifteen years ago)

nine months pass...

i need to see mysterious skin

― excitebikable boy (Drugs A. Money), Thursday, 19 May 2011 06:34 (fifteen years ago)

Saw I-VI
Fast & the Furious
2Fast 2 Furious
The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift
Fast & Furious

― Unity Tour 2011: 311 and Sublime with Rome (latebloomer), Thursday, 19 May 2011 20:54 (fifteen years ago)

2010s

Incendies
Winter's Bone

― nuclear-powered, jet-propulsion, radar, laser beams, cordless phone (abanana), Saturday, 21 May 2011 01:32 (fifteen years ago)

my fav movies of the 2010s are

the runaways
get him to the greek
fish tank
the kids are all right

― johnny crunch, Saturday, 21 May 2011 01:53 (fifteen years ago)

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