best films of the 21st century

25th Hour is skipable. I'd say the rest are well worth watching in any order.

25th Hour was Lee's best film in years.

xp I meant more as a hopeful approximation but you're probably right. At least if their tastes align with mine on 8/10 of these films then it's plausible I'll enjoy the other two.

Wouldn't disagree with that either. Still don't think it's very good.

Not when it kept the Before Diarrheas outta the top 70

― The Hon. J. Piedmont Mumblethunder (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, August 23, 2016 11:19 AM (13 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

literally no idea what you're referring to

xposts Yeah, I'd go so far as to say 25th Hour is maybe my favorite Lee film.

lol @ the balloters still clinging on to femme fatale as a good movie

by rough count i've seen 96 of the 102

32. The Lives of Others prob most pukey

whats your top 10 from this list, morbs?

“They don’t make ‘em like they used to.”

they don't use the word "great" like they used to.

What's worth seeing in Adriano Aprà's picks? I don't recognize a single one.

Has anyone seen the Headless Woman? It sounds pretty interesting.

― emil.y, Tuesday, August 23, 2016

yes – watch it!

Don't hate anything I've seen here, but WALL-E as the highest ranking Pixar is pretty bizarre.

I didn't contribute obv but here's my 2010-2015 list.

x-posts: Le Quattro Volte is pretty great, and quite wellknown I think. A docuhybrid about life in a remote Italian region from four perspectives: An old man, a goat, a tree and a pile of coal. It should probably be on the main list as well. The rest I don't know, but directors like Marco Bellochio and Ermanno Olmi aren't underground geniuses or anything, they're just old and sorta forgotten. I think he just likes Italian films.

Most of the finalists aren't terrible on lists, but I give anyone who loves There Will Be Milkshakes and recent Tarantino a pass.

Two voters for Hard To Be A God, and one of them also voted for Borat ;_;

i kinda hated wall-e.

finding nemo on the other hand is all-time for me. it's up there with stray dogs which i'm happy to see on alfred's list.

there are so many movies on that list that i've avoided for years. i've never wanted to see memento. and stuff like the master. i just never wanted that big dead guy's face in my face for 4 hours. i was never a big fan of that guy. synedoche was a chore for me. i kept falling asleep. i would watch melancholia again though. even though i can't stand von trier. because dunst and end of times and i thought it was really funny.

Rasha Salti – Independent curator/film programmer (Lebanon)
1. The Time That Remains (Elia Suleiman, 2009)
2. The Turin Horse (Béla Tarr and Ágnes Hranitzky, 2011)
3. The Box of Life (Ossama Mohammed, 2002)
4. Men at Work (Mani Haghighi, 2006)
5. Tey (Alain Gomis, 2012)
6. A Touch of Sin (Jia Zhangke, 2013)
7. My Heart Beats Only for Her (Mohamed Soueid, 2009)
8. Arabian Nights: Volume 1 – The Restless One (Miguel Gomes, 2015)
9. Nostalgia for the Light (Patricio Guzmán, 2010)
10. I Travel Because I Have To, I Come Back Because I Love You (Karim Aïnouz and Marcelo Gomes, 2009)

This looks like an amazing ballot, not least coz it has Arabian Nights aka the best thing ever on it

whats your top 10 from this list, morbs?

w/out straining too much and adding some sub-finishers, here's 12

Mulholland Dr.
Munich
The Son
Pulse
Hunger
Fantastic Mr Fox
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Far From Heaven
Film socialisme
Still Life
The New World
Certified Copy

(but i mean mad max, really? for real? it was fun and all that but..........)

i still need to finish arabian nights on netflix....

No votes for any Strickland and only one vote for a Wheatley (Kill List). Neither of which I would mind too much if there wasn't such a desperate attempt to turn Fincher and Nolan into directors of 'classics' rather than trashy nonsense.

(sorry: synecdoche)

Only one vote for Love Exposure. :(

I shouldn't be surprised that critics prefer Shame to Hunger.

there's p much nothing in my list above from the last 5 years, so mostly just as easily:

Sunset Song
Amour Fou
Stranger by the Lake
Tropical Malady/Syndromes and a Century
The Other Side
Bridge of Spies
Horse Money
The Naked Room
Creed
Magic Mike XXL

i watched the first hour or so of Love Exposure and saw some fine stuff, but that was exhausting.

but he did Himizu! i liked Himizu a lot.

I shouldn't be surprised that critics prefer Shame to Hunger.

madness imo, Hunger legit great, Shame, to me, unintentionally funny.

One Wheatley vote? Jesus. AFIE might have been my #1

Shame would probably make my ten worst list

Five Best Fassbender Cock Shots tho

lots of duds on here

a few decent ones

i've been watching a movie or tv show every weeknight for the last two years and i pretty much have nothing i really want to watch anymore

maybe it's burnout but the usual tropes kind of tire me out

was watching me before you last night. one woman decides between two men. the only semi interesting thing is one dude kills himself, but so much has been written on assisted suicide that i would expect something a little more nuanced. it's jock turned quadriplegic goes suicidal because he can't climb mountains anymore or boink a woman he was only attracted to because of his disability. appreciate the earnestness tho. go live your life, my dear, shy introvert. and by go live your life, i mean wear those black and yellow striped leggings you're so scared fashionistas will criticize you for wearing

no "Chopper" no credibility

Does anyone have an opinion on what I should watch now out of:

8. Yi Yi: A One and a Two (Edward Yang, 2000)
31. Margaret (Kenneth Lonergan, 2011)
74. Spring Breakers (Harmony Korine, 2012)
97. White Material (Claire Denis, 2009)

One thing that is really disappointing: The most important event in film history during the period has been the advent of digital cinema, yet none of the pioneers is on there. No Stray Dogs, no Colossal Youth, no Leviathan (the fishing doc), no dGeneration Chineses film and no Jia Zhangke. This might be expected, but where the fuck is Michael Mann???? Where is Collateral? So many crap American genre-pics, and no room for the one with the revolutionary aesthetics and pictures we'd never seen before?

xp watch yi yi prob; margarets great also

Oh yeah, and Tangerine. I wanted Tangerine on there. I would probably not vote for it myself, but I want it to be recognized.

xp ty, I'll let you know what I make of them.

Tangerine would definitely have been in my top 10.

Everyone loves lists like these. Critics love them because it gives them (and their opinions) valuable exposure. The movie industry loves them because it breathes some extra life into films that had mostly stopped producing revenue. Readers love them because all they need are opinions about some of the movies in order to generate a new opinion about the rankings, a process which entertains them without taxing them. It's nothing but WIN-WIN-WIN as far as the eye can see! /cynic

Oh yeah, and Tangerine. I wanted Tangerine on there. I would probably not vote for it myself, but I want it to be recognized.

― Frederik B, Tuesday, August 23, 2016 3:11 PM (6 minutes ago

it looks like the ballot instructions specifically asked the voters to name the "best", and not necessarily the "most important", films

(xpost) Pauly Shore doesn't like them.

Cool, I will keep an eye out for any chance to watch her work. The synopses aren't necessarily striking on their own (I could imagine shitty films being made out of any of them) but the consensus seems to be she shoots and paces really interestingly.

― emil.y, Tuesday, 23 August 2016 Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

The crash in this film was really well done.

Yi Yi is the best. I'm kind of in the mood to rewatch that too.

Of films that didn't get any votes, I might have voted for Atanarjuat, Tale of the Princess Kaguya, and Sweetgrass.

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

IIRC, we did a 21st Century poll sometime within the last couple of years.

Yi-Yi just got a fab reissue.

I really should see Mulholland Drive one of these days.

No kung fu hustle? Srsly?

At least there would be more anime in the ilx poll

Watched Miguel Gomes' Tabu (2012) tonight, it is interesting. Not very many of the scenes you encounter feel like what you would expect the next scene in the film to be