Best movie of 00's
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I wonder what's the best movie according to people in the know online would be...
This could be an interesting time capsule sort of thread. (will keep updating with newer information and titles. Add yours..)
so far I find, a little imbalance but will build up I guess...
Memento (2000, R)
Almost Famous (2000, R)
The State I Am In (Die Innere Sicherheit) (2000, NR)
In the Mood for Love (2000, R)
Battle Royale (Batoru rowaiaru) (2000)
The Gleaners and I (Les Glaneurs et la Glaneuse) (2000, NR)
Amelie (Le Fabuleux destin d'Amélie Poulain) (2001, R)
Spirited Away (Sen to Chihiro no kamikakushi) (2001, PG)
Mulholland Drive (2001, R)
The Royal Tenenbaums (2001, R)
Intimacy (2001, NR)
Bowling for Columbine (2002, R)
Minority Report (2002, PG-13)
Lilja 4-ever (2002, NR)
Finding Nemo (2003, G)
The Fog of War - Eleven Lessons from the Life of Robert S. McNamara (2003, PG-13)
City of God (Cidade de Deus) (2003, R)
Dogville (2003, R)
Kill Bill: Volume 1 (2003, R)
Elephant (2003, R)
Lost In Translation (2003, R)
Hotel Rwanda (2004, R)
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004, R)
The Incredibles (2004, PG )
The Consequences of Love (Le conseguenze dell'amore) (2004, NR)
Head-On (Gegen Die Wand) (2004, R)
L'Enfant (2005, R)
Junebug (2005, R)
March Of The Penguins (2005, G)
Volver (2006, R)
The Lives of Others (Das Leben der Anderen) (2006, R)
The Departed (2006, R)
Pan's Labyrinth (El Laberinto del Fauno) (2006, R)
The Host (괴물, Gwoemul - "Monster") (2006, R)
There Will Be Blood (2007, R)
4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days (2007, R)
The Duchess of Langeais (Ne touchez pas la hache) (2007, NR)
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (Le scaphandre et le papillon) (2007, PG-13)
Chop Shop (2008, NR)
Revanche (2008, NR)
Linha De Passe (2008, R)
Slumdog Millionaire (2008, R)
Tokyo Sonata (2008, R)
Kisses (2008, NR)
Gomorrah (2008, NR)
Der Baader Meinhof Komplex (2009, R)
District 9 (2009, R)
Up In the Air (2009, R)
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theplaylist.blogspot.com's coverage of this is essential
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I thought this thread was going to be about the best b-movie of the 00s.
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these three come to mind:
Mullholland Drive
4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days
Junebug
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I have several to add. But, that would kind of take a while, so here's my favorite:
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Posted by: Sean RI thought this thread was going to be about the best b-movie of the 00s.
heyy...whatddya mean B-movie? :P come on. these stuffs are great. how many Harry Potter and Lord of the ring movie can one take in a decade? yeeeech.... If I see one more computer graphic orgy movie, I'll puke.
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btw. IMDB list.
http://www.imdb.com/chart/2000s1. 8.8 The Dark Knight (2008) 407,375 2. 8.8 The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003) 327,869 3. 8.7 Cidade de Deus (2002) 147,197 4. 8.7 The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001) 354,208 5. 8.6 Memento (2000) 243,984 6. 8.6 The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002) 297,251 7. 8.5 WALL·E (2008) 153,827 8. 8.5 Le fabuleux destin d'Amélie Poulain (2001) 162,780 9. 8.5 Das Leben der Anderen (2006) 63,827 10. 8.5 Sen to Chihiro no kamikakushi (2001) 88,931 11. 8.5 The Pianist (2002) 118,130 12. 8.5 The Departed (2006) 233,129 13. 8.4 Up (2009) 65,388 14. 8.4 Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004) 197,483 15. 8.4 Inglourious Basterds (2009) 103,877 -
I already posted the link in the decade thread, but my list is here:
http://www.muruch.com/2009/12/muruchs-best-of-the-decade-films.html
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Rotten tomato list (not that hot)
http://www.slashfilm.com/2009/12/18/best-reviewed-movies-of-the-decade/
Meta critics list
http://features.metacritic.com/features/2009/the-best-movies-of-the-decade/The Best-Reviewed Movies of the Decade, 2000-09
Title Year Metascore Users 1 Pan’s Labyrinth 2006 98 8.3 2 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days 2008 97 8.0 3 Ratatouille 2007 96 8.6 4 Spirited Away 2002 94 9.3 5 Hurt Locker, The 2009 94 7.6 6 Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King, The 2003 94 8.6 The best-reviewed of all Best Picture winners of the decade 7 Sideways 2004 94 6.1 8 WALL-E 2008 93 8.9 9 Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon 2000 93 7.0 10 35 Shots of Rum 2009 93 7.3 11 Yi Yi (A One and a Two) 2000 92 8.2 12 Diving Bell and the Butterfly, The 2007 92 8.1 13 Class, The 2008 92 6.9 14 There Will Be Blood 2007 92 7.1 15 Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, The 2001 92 8.4 16 Werckmeister Harmonies 2001 92 7.0 -
I didn;t know scaruffi also does movie. pretty interesting list, the european side of it is definitely informative.
http://www.scaruffi.com/cinema/chro000.html- 8.0 Christopher Nolan: Memento (2000)
- 8.0 Zhang Yimou: Ying Xiong/ Hero (2002)
- 8.0 Alejandro Gonzales Inarritu: 21 Grams (2003)
- 7.9 Pedro Almodovar: Mala Education/ Bad Education (2004)
- 7.8 Michel Gondry: Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004)
- 7.8 Jacques Rivette: Ne Touchez Pas La Hache/ The Duchess of Langeais (2007)
- 7.7 Christian Petzold: Die Innere Sicherheit/ The State I Am In (2000)
- 7.7 David Lynch: Mulholland Drive (2001)
- 7.7 Jacques Audiard: De Battre Mon Coeur S'Est Arrete'/ The Beat That My Heart Skipped (2005)
7.7 Fatih Akin: Gegen die Wand/ Head On (2004) - 7.6 Claire Denis: L'Intrus/ The Intruder (2004)
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theyshootpictures has a meta list. (I can't wait until their own list show up)
http://www.theyshootpictures.com/
------------------------° The 21st Century's Most Acclaimed Films section serves as an ongoing companion to our listing of the 1,000 Greatest Films of all time. The 1,000 Greatest Films list, by nature of the sources used and formulas applied - and we believe quite rightly so - leans towards films that have so far stood the so-called ‘test of time'. Unsurprisingly, it currently only houses 14 films from this century: In the Mood for Love, Yi Yi, Mulholland Dr., Spirited Away, City of God, Oldboy, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, The Royal Tenenbaums, Donnie Darko, Punch-Drunk Love, Talk to Her, Lost in Translation and Memento. The 21st Century's Most Acclaimed Films listing therefore attempts to highlight and honour this century's most critically revered films and act as a sort of 'resting bay' for many great films that will, no doubt, eventually find a spot within the 1,000 Greatest Films part of our website.
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heh heh heh, I feel so validated... I am an easy sucker. -
Hey, Toronto is completely in love with Asia.
http://www.cinemathequeontario.ca/newsrelease_detail.aspx?Id=678
TIFF Cinematheque's Best Of The Decade Poll Presents The Classics Of Today
Syndromes and a Century by critically acclaimed Thai artist and filmmaker Apichatpong Weerasethakul captures the top spot
Toronto - Beginning January 21, 2010, TIFF Cinematheque presents The Best of the Decade: An Alternative View, a curated series based on a poll conducted by TIFF Cinematheque's Senior Programmer James Quandt. An esteemed panel of over sixty film curators, historians, archivists and programmers from festivals, cinematheques and similar organizations around the world participated and were asked to pick the films they thought were the most important of the past decade. The poll's participants are connected by their leadership in the field of historical film curation, with most having published books, essays and polemics on cinema, bringing perspectives that distinguish this poll from other end-of-the-decade polls.
1. Syndromes and a Century (Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Thailand) - 53 votes
2. Platform (Jia Zhang-ke, Hong Kong, China/China/Japan/France) - 49 votes
3. Still Life (Jia Zhang-ke, China) - 48 votes
4. Beau travail (Claire Denis, France) - 46 votes
5. In the Mood for Love (Wong Kar-wai, Hong Kong, China) - 43 votes
6. Tropical Malady (Apichatpong Weerasethakul, France/Thailand/Germany/Italy) - 38 votes
7. The Death of Mr. Lazarescu (Cristi Puiu, Romania) - 35 votes
Werckmeister Harmonies (Béla Tarr, Hungary) - 35 votes
8. Éloge de l'amour (Jean-Luc Godard, Switzerland/ France) - 34 votes
9. 4 Months, 3 Weeks, 2 Days (Cristian Mungiu, Romania) - 33 votes
10. Silent Light (Carlos Reygadas, Mexico/France/Netherlands) - 32 votes
11. Russian Ark (Alexander Sokurov, Russia/Germany) - 31 votes
12. The New World (Terrence Malick, USA) - 30 votes
13. Blissfully Yours (Apichatpong Weerasethakul, France/Thailand) - 29 votes
14. Le Fils (Jean-Pierre Dardenne, Luc Dardenne, Belgium/France) - 27 votes
15. Colossal Youth (Pedro Costa, Portugal/France/Switzerland) - 25 votes
16. Les Glaneurs et la glaneuse (Agnès Varda, France) - 24 votes
In Vanda's Room (Pedro Costa, Portugal/Germany/Italy/Switzerland) - 24 votes
Songs from the Second Floor (Roy Andersson, Sweden/Denmark/Norway) - 24 votes
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I am one movie away from information overload... lol
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@squashed ----- have you ever been to Toronto? MASSIVE and wonderful Asian community there, as well as Indian and Middle Eastern! My wife (rather Caucasian) was a minority in her High School. Love Toronto...
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Posted by: squashedHey, Toronto is completely in love with Asia.
Oh, bah, they only mention three different Asian directors among the titles you quoted there. There are two from Romania alone! Given how Asian cinema's boomed over the last decade, I'm surprised there's not a greater variety; they double (and triple!) up on too many directors. Choose a single Hou, a single Tsai Ming-Liang, make some room for Park Chan-wook and Joon-ho Bong. And I'm surprised, since this comes from festival programmers, that they didn't squeeze a Sang-soo Hong in there. Maybe even a Johnny To. I myself would have a Takashi Miike, but that's just me.
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something is seriously wrong with chinese/mainland cinema. They are all out of proportion and over saturated. And seem only go for 2 subject matter, reenactment of period pieces or oversize individual struggle in gigantic time or geographical landscape. It's like reverse swedish movie. which is intensely inward looking individual or extreme detail personal existential question. proper philosophical proportion. I wonder if this has something to do with chinese movie production permit. And if I see one more large group of coordinated choreography, I'll scream. It got to be their version of hollywood synchronized musical meet marvel comic superhero... ffs. bollywood singing is more tolerable. The few japanese movie I can watch from the internet (the one supposedly serious) are waaaayyyyyyyyyyyyyy geriatric, it's as if the entire nation is doing zen contemplation of facing old age. I like their dorky stuff and anime better, when they are not taking themselves so seriously. Most of south east asian movie need serious cinematic tech upgrade, I can't stand the 70's visual and audio... come onnnnnnnn.........buy better gear already. The color saturation is anemic. (The few scatter Korean and Hong Kong movies online I manage to find are mostly basic cop, comedy or another date/romance story.)
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Posted by: squashedsomething is seriously wrong with chinese/mainland cinema. They are all out of proportion and over saturated. And seem only go for 2 subject matter, reenactment of period pieces or oversize individual struggle in gigantic time or geographical landscape. It's like reverse swedish movie. which is intensely inward looking individual or extreme detail personal existential question. proper philosophical proportion. I wonder if this has something to do with chinese movie production permit. And if I see one more large group of coordinated choreography, I'll scream. It got to be their version of hollywood synchronized musical meet marvel comic superhero... ffs. bollywood singing is more tolerable. The few japanese movie I can watch from the internet (the one supposedly serious) are waaaayyyyyyyyyyyyyy geriatric, it's as if the entire nation is doing zen contemplation of facing old age. I like their dorky stuff and anime better, when they are not taking themselves so seriously. Most of south east asian movie need serious cinematic tech upgrade, I can't stand the 70's visual and audio... come onnnnnnnn.........buy better gear already. The color saturation is anemic. (The few scatter Korean and Hong Kong movies online I manage to find are mostly basic cop, comedy or another date/romance story.)
I haven't found good asian movie I like yet, except for in the mood for love.
Well, yeah, a lot of Asian art cinema tends to be slow and contemplative, it can almost boil down to a contemplation of the space within a frame and the time spent there. And a lot of Asian pop cinema is hyperkinetic and ridiculous (and fun). Some of it is that you have to come to the movie, and obvs different strokes 4 different folks. But I'm with you on having a limited patience with some of these things. Hou Hsiao-Hsien's films can be so gorgeous, the mise en scene is so perfectly controlled, but if I'm not in the mood man it's a snoozefest. (I also hope you're not watching any of these on a computer screen!)
I haven't spent much time with Chinese cinema. The only Jia Zhang-ke film I've seen was The World, which is very contemporary, but didn't click with me. It's no good narrowing Japanese cinema to any single situation; you sound like you're sampling a lot of Ozu. Their films can be, like their culture, insane. My favorite currently Japanese filmmaker is Takashi Miike, and my favorite film of his is Gozu, which is a Lynchian contemplation of sexuality in yakuza cinema. But that's got a pretty deliberate pace, too. Audition is probably his best-known movie. The Thai filmmaker in the poll you cited makes sort of amiable mindfuck stuff. Tropical Malady was very much worth it, I thought, but it also demands some patience.
I have no idea what your taste is, but: Try Park Chan-wook's Oldboy, Joon-ho Bong's Memories of Murder. They've got Western-ish tempos and topics and Eastern-ish mood swings. In the Mood for Love is a superb film, and you might want to pick up more by Wong Kar-wai. Chungking Express (which Quentin Tarantino promoted in the US) is very viewer-friendly, and 2046 was a sort of thematic sequel to In the Mood for Love. -
Posted by: Tsuru@squashed ----- have you ever been to Toronto? MASSIVE and wonderful Asian community there, as well as Indian and Middle Eastern! My wife (rather Caucasian) was a minority in her High School. Love Toronto...
never been there. I went to highschool across the border from montreal. I like montreal in sense of that's the only big city I had access to. -
ok so I decide to dig around for fun japanese movie first. because statistically, I will have more chance finding it first.
2000s
In 2000 Battle Royale was released, based on a popular novel by the same name. In 2002, Dolls was released, followed by a high-budget remake, Zatoichi in 2003, both directed and written by Takeshi Kitano. The J-Horror films Ringu, Kairo, Dark Water, Yogen, and the Grudge series were remade in English and met with commercial success. In 2004, Godzilla: Final Wars, directed by Ryuhei Kitamura, was released to celebrate the 50th anniversary of Godzilla. In 2005, director Seijun Suzuki made his 56th film, Princess Raccoon. Hirokazu Koreeda claimed film festival awards around the world with two of his films Distance and Nobody Knows. Nowadays the amount of Movies being shown in Japan has steadily been increasing with about 821 films projected in the year of 2006. Japanese films like films in many other countries are now being put nto DVD roms. Many Japanese horror films such as "The Grudge" originally titled "呪怨" (Ju-on) directed by Takashi Shimizu have been remade for American Cinema. Other popular Japanese horror films bought over to the US include "The Ring" and "One Missed Call". The movies made from the TV drama were popular in this period.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cinema_of_Japan#2000s
(this one has few with fun trailers)
http://cinematropolis.wordpress.com/2009/12/03/15-best-asian-films-of-the-decade/
15 Best Asian Films of the Decade
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I loved Princess Raccoon, but it's the sort of love that comes with a dozen asterisks. If you're up for a ridiculous rap/opera musical about interspecies love and are okay with major roles going to rubber toy frogs, than that could be your thing. (Seijun Suzuki can be an awesome director; seven of his older films have been released by Criterion.) I also loved - no asterisks - Koreeda's After Life, but that was apparently last decade; Nobobdy Knows is moving stuff, and Still Walking is supposed to be good (though, I believe, Ozu-ish).
From that list you mentioned, I'd definitely say that - along with the movies mentioned already above - Spring, Summer, etc. and Joon-ho Bong's The Host and the Yimou kung-fu epics (Hero, House of Flying Daggers) are rewarding. Kung-Fu Hustle was no more than comic book fun. I haven't seen several others, though Last Life and Twilight Samurai are sitting somewhere in my Netflix queue. If you are going to try to summon up patience for a Hou Hsiao-hsien, I'd recommend starting with Three Times instead of Cafe Lumiere. I'm dying to see Red Cliff, but it's a lose-lose in the US; the 5-hour epic can only be seen on the big screen (and it's a big screen movie) with two whole hours cut out.
As far as J-Horror goes, I'd definitely recommend Kiyoshi Kurosawa's Pulse. It's slow and creepy and ultimately a very sad film about loneliness. (I actually prefer the American remakes of Ringu and Dark Water, but stay away from the US version of Pulse.) -
Hero sucks. I give that a 6/10. I can't stand the acting, wtf with the over dramatized dialog and accentuation. It gives me that jar jar binks effect. It drowns out the relatively descent story. (Yes I know it's period piece and fantasy entertainment. But that's frigging annoying. watchable only when nothing else is on.)
Red Cliff 5.5/10. John Woo is OFF MY FUCKING LIST permanently. That guy should be banned from making more movie. His flick is nothing but endless series of nifty camera trick and small sketch with tons of bodies thrown to fill the screen. This movie is Braveheart redoing Kurozawa on basic chinese opera plot. The proportion is all wrong, the guy is confusing being grand and excess. It ends up being grotesque. The only reason this movie gets a mention, it's so big and expensive. But in general it's just another kung fu flick. Mildly interesting for the well made set.
Curse of Golden Flower. 4/10. Custom parade. weak everything else -
Posted by: squashedHero sucks. I give that a 6/10. I can't stand the acting, wtf with the over dramatized dialog and accentuation. It gives me that jar jar binks effect. It drowns out the relatively descent story. (Yes I know it's period piece and fantasy entertainment. But that's frigging annoying. watchable only when nothing else is on.)
Red Cliff 5.5/10. John Woo is OFF MY FUCKING LIST permanently. That guy should be banned from making more movie. His flick is nothing but endless series of nifty camera trick and small sketch with tons of bodies thrown to fill the screen. This movie is Braveheart redoing Kurozawa on basic chinese opera plot. The proportion is all wrong, the guy is confusing being grand and excess. It ends up being grotesque. The only reason this movie gets a mention, it's so big and expensive. But in general it's just another kung fu flick. Mildly interesting for the well made set.
Curse of Golden Flower. 4/10. Custom parade. weak everything else
Eh, I'd say the Yimou kung-fu flicks are solid three-star entertainment. It's pretty impossible to say that anything with Maggie Cheung has bad acting in it. I haven't seen Curse, but I liked Zhang Ziyi (or vice versa) lots in Flying Daggers. I do far prefer Crouching Tiger, which manages both fire and restraint. It's been a while since I've seen either movie, but I remember the Yimou stuff as lovely and fun. I'm looking forward to his Blood Simple remake, but mostly out of curiosity.
John Woo should be allowed to make as many damned movies as he damn well pleases forever anon because he made Hard-Boiled, The Killer, and Bullet in the Head. Free pass for life (even though you'd have to work to get me to see Paycheck, etc. - and I've even made arguments that his style is dated because it got consumed and spat out by too many hacks). Which Red Cliff did you see? The two-part five hour one? The cut-to-shreds three-hour one? I'm not necessarily a fan of overstuffed massive war epics, but I see no reason why -- given the subject matter and the mainland source of the film -- Woo shouldn't throw a ton of people at it. I couldn't blame the guy for kinetic action, it's what he does. I just wish I had the opportunity to see all five hours on a big screen. -
I watched the second part of the 5 hour cut. It's the same thing, one really big soap opera. First off, The title is ambitious, trying to tell a significant historical event that makes china a big empire. So the very least it has to convince audience how mind bogglingly epic and important the event is going to be right? The historical context is the back bone of the story.war, landscape, figures, etc.
But it fails to give that cue. I can't tell if the movie is telling a random fantasy chinese drama or historical war flick. I can't tell from the set if it's 169CE, generic 1600 china look , 2008 back lot studio.. or ikea catalog. It's generic. .. The troop custom specially, it makes the battle unconvincing. It's like putting WWII war scene using roman army uniform and giving them a rifle as a prop and making them bash each other head using the rifle and calling it Normandy Invasion movie. (Yes, the time scale silliness is that big.)
Then there is the music. It's so generic, It can be star wars, Lord of the Ring, Saving private ryan... it has no flavor, it just there to give emotional cue, except in hollywood accent in already generic shiny set. It ruins everything. Imagine a historical movie about Caesar with rock n roll sound track or 2001 with britney spears song. It doesn't fly.
And then the use of small sketches. It feels like reallly long meandering soap opera desperately telling big story instead of one epic. It's the different between Harry Potter and Lord of the Ring. One is really long children soap opera filled with endless adventures, the other is literature on hero mythology and conflict using fantasy adventure as a device. Red Cliff plot isn't strong enough to support the ambitious 5 hours historical war flick.
So in the end, it's just another kung fu soap opera. The story, historical context, figures, etc are merely random backdrop for generic well worned genre. You won't get real insight of "Red Cliff" battle. It's braveheart, harry potter, star wars, Batman... etc. whatever, change the channel... -
http://metropolis.co.jp/movies/eiga/top-10-japanese-films-of-the-decade/
1. Dare mo Shiranai (2004)
Hirokazu Koreeda has never been more in control of his craft than with this thoroughly compelling drama of children who must fend for themselves after being deserted by their mother. The denouement is simultaneously understated and overwhelming. Fourteen-year-old Yuya Yagira deservedly walked away from Cannes with the Best Actor award for his performance. English title: Nobody Knows. (141 min)2. Sen to Chihiro no Kamikakushi (2001)
Hayao Miyazaki’s best-known and most deeply loved film is Japan’s highest grossing movie of all time. Suffice it to say that it’s a masterpiece in the truest sense: a forcefully personal yet universal vision that is both bizarre and approachable at the same time, sketching a kaleidoscope of moods and feelings. English title: Spirited Away. (125 min)3. Tokyo Sonata (2008)
Genre-hopping Kiyoshi Kurosawa crafted this powerful and finely tuned drama. Starting off as a brilliantly realistic tale of a laid-off salaryman, the film morphs into a surreal elegy that addresses many facets of contemporary Japan. (103 min)4. Mind Game (2004)
Epitomizing the sheer energy and crazy inventiveness of the best of anime, Mind Game will mesmerize those with no particular draw to the form. A man murdered senselessly in a bar takes a phantasmagorical ride through the afterlife in order to return to the land of the living. Astounding. (103 min)5. Fish Story (2009)
When Fish Story opened in March, I called it the best J flick of 2009. And I stand by that claim. The Charlie Kaufman-esque drama has everything—fantasy, romance, comedy, music, action—and its sprawling, multi-faceted plot does the unlikely by tying it all together. (112 min) -
The best french movie
http://filmsdefrance.com/Best_2000s.html
Movie milestones of the decade
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Dare mo Shiranai (Nobody Knows) is a really good film, I urge anybody who reads this thread to check it out.
I'll throw in a few that haven't been mentioned...
Together - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0203166/
The Happiness of the Katakuris - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0304262/
Survive Style 5+ - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0430651/
Dead Mans Shoes - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0419677/
Up - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1049413/
Das Experiment - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0250258/
The Magician - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0461989/
Let The Right One In - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1139797/ -
There probably would be more 2009 movies but I'm ont caught up on them. Mostly these were movies that either awed me, made me think, disturbed me or made me laugh (alot).
You Can Count on Me (2000)
Best in Show (2000)
Donnie Darko (2001)
Adaptation (2001)
LOTR: The Fellowship of the Rings (2001)
LOTR: The Two Towers: Extended Ed. (2002)
Russian Ark (2002)
We Were Soldiers (2002)
Punch-Drunk Love (2002)
Invincible (2002)
LOTR: Return of the King: Extended Ed. (2003)
The Barbarian Invasions (2003)
Osama (2003)
Kill Bill: Vol. 1 (2003)
Kill Bill: Vol. 2 (2004)
House of Flying Daggers (2004)
Dead Man's Shoes (2004)
Finding Neverland (2004)
Kung Fu Hustle (2004)
The Lost Skeleton of Cadavra (2004)
Grizzly Man (2005)
Thank You for Smoking (2005)
The World's Fastest Indian (2005)
We Jam Econo: The Story of the Minutemen (2005)
Apocalypto (2006)
The Hills Have Eyes (2006)
Black Book (2006)
Bubble (2006)
The Pursuit of Happyness (2006)
No Country For Old Men (2007)
28 Weeks Later (2007)
Letters from Iwo Jima (2007)
300 (2007)
Sweeney Todd (2007)
Gran Torino (2008)
In Bruges (2008)
Slumdog Millionaire (2008)
Let the Right One In (2008)
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http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2010/01/01/MVK31B78QT.DTL&type=movies
Trends
Advocacy cinema: Documentaries about specific causes went mainstream, with films such as "An Inconvenient Truth," "Food, Inc." and Michael Moore's entire oeuvre, particularly "Fahrenheit 911," becoming part of the national conversation.
Shaky cameras: Too many films this decade used a shaking camera to convey excitement, though that vogue may have crested about two years ago.
Comedy: Comedy has become more grounded in truth, more harsh, less zany. A decade that began with Tom Green in the ascendant ended with Judd Apatow riding high, and with Woody Allen experiencing yet another wave of creativity.
Action that's not action: Too many action film directors forgot that action is supposed to contain plot action as well, as in events that move the story forward.
Meryl Streep: At an age when Joan Crawford was lucky to be playing ax murderers, Streep became a box office power and a genre unto herself, showing that quality can sell tickets - at least sometimes.
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http://www.cinematical.com/2009/12/30/the-best-of-the-decade-indies/
The Best of the Decade: Indies
As a point of reference, here's a double handful of more widely seen pictures that I feel best demonstrated a fierce independent artistic intent and accomplishment during the decade. Listed in order of preference:
1. There Will Be Blood (2007; d. Paul Thomas Anderson)
2. Mulholland Drive (2001; d. David Lynch)
3. No Country for Old Men (2007; d. Coen Brothers)
4. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004; d. Michel Gondry)
5. Spider (2002; d. David Cronenberg)
6. The New World (2005; d. Terence Malick)
7. 25th Hour (2002; d. Spike Lee)
8. Shattered Glass (2003; d. Billy Ray)
9. George Washington (2000; d. David Gordon Green)
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71-80
No 74 71. The Class
72. Gomorrah
73. Man On Wire
74. My Summer of Love
75. The Wrestler
76. You the Living
77. Roger Dodger
78. Days of Glory
79. Time Regained
80. Downfallhttp://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2009/dec/18/100-best-films-of-noughties
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I am adding the cove
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Cove_(film)Impact
A recent international study showed that, on average, dolphin meat contains 5 times the maximum allowable level of (element)">mercury[32] Two Taiji councilmen appeared in The Cove to express their desire to remove Dolphin meat from the school lunch program due to the risk of mercury poisoning, which is particularly harmful to children and pregnant women. After the filming of The Cove, dolphin meat was taken off the school lunch menu in Taiji.
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I am dreading that remake of Let The Right One In. They've already blown the title and the movie isn't even made yet.
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Yeah that remake will be awful for sure, but not as bad as the remake of Death at a Funeral being made at the moment. That is one of my favourite comedies ever made and it will be ruined by Chris Rock et al. It was in English the first time for fuck's sake.
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"Impact
A recent international study showed that, on average, dolphin meat contains 5 times the maximum allowable level of mercury[32] Two Taiji councilmen appeared in The Cove to express their desire to remove Dolphin meat from the school lunch program due to the risk of mercury poisoning, which is particularly harmful to children and pregnant women. After the filming of The Cove, dolphin meat was taken off the school lunch menu in Taiji."
Good addition Squashed!
IMO, Dolphins are smarter than a good majority of the human population. There are a number of Dolphin species on the Endangered list. Since I believe that Dolphins are smarter than a good majority of the human population, then killing them is akin to committing to murder."The Japanese remain unimpressed by the film's success, and note in a press release that there are different cultures and food customs around the world and that these differences should be respected."
Yeah right... Different cultures and food customs should be respected. Yeah, I can respect differences but an annual rite in Taiji, where dolphins are put into captivity and slaughtered for meat by fisherman? Hmmm, but maybe there is some justice - mercury poisoning- well I guess they get what they deserve...
I grew up watching this and it was one of my favorite shows to watch:
Title Screen, 1964
Aired on television from: Sep 1964 to: Apr 1967
And the lyrics to the Flipper theme music which I knew by heart:
"They call him Flipper, Flipper, faster than lightning,
No-one you see, is smarter than he,
And we know Flipper lives in a world full of wonder,
Lying there under, under the sea!
Everyone loves the king of the sea,
Ever so kind and gentle is he,
Tricks he will do when children appear,
And how they laugh when he's near!
They call him Flipper, Flipper, faster than lightning,
No-one you see, is smarter than he,
And we know Flipper lives in a world full of wonder,
Lying there under, under the sea!"
So, I love my Flipper and I get very upset when I hear about Flipper's being killed or eaten or whatever...
Ric O'Barry worked on the show Flipper in the 60's as a dolphin trainer. The Dude is 70 now and has dedicated most of his life to campaigning for animal rights. Check out Save Japan Dolphins.org
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A leading expert in the neuroanatomy of dolphins and whales, Marino will appear as part of a panel discussing these findings and their ethical and policy implications.
Some dolphin brains exhibit features correlated with complex intelligence, she says, including a large expanse of neocortical volume that is more convoluted than our own, extensive insular and cingulated regions, and highly differentiated cellular regions.
"Dolphins are sophisticated, self-aware, highly intelligent beings with individual personalities, autonomy and an inner life. They are vulnerable to tremendous suffering and psychological trauma," Marino says.
The growing industry of capturing and confining dolphins to perform in marine parks or to swim with tourists at resorts needs to be reconsidered, she says.
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/02/100218173112.htm
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Tuna has never been the same since they took all the dolphin out....... *sigh*
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I was thinking to post that hand meatloaf picture to gross everybody out. lol.
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Thanks Squashed for posting that bit about Dolphin's brains! Substantiates some of my rants.
I don't know Dolphin, Tuna, or Meatloaf - maybe I will just stay with Killer Whales (Beluga's ain't bad either) - but the blubber kind of sucks though...
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Slant Magazine did a series of 'Best of Aughts' features that were sort of good. The music one is very boring but the film one caught my attention. They criminally missed Amelie tho which is one of the few romantic comedies which has actually made me feel like walking on air after leaving the theatre.
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I didn't know they were remaking 'Let the right one in'. I've always found vampire stories incredibly dull and corny but I adored this movie, certainly the most stunning vampire movie I've ever seen. I love how natural it feels and the way it portrays the children as real concious beings. Really enjoyed the cinematography, it was beautiful how all the disturbing and violent scenes were handled with such a sober elegance.
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Squashed you ought to be sending me a certain list instead of ranting about dolphin meat.
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One of the things I really enjoyed about 'Let The Right One In' was that it didn't shy away from violence/gore but also didn't revel in it. A lot of so-called horror movies dial up the violence to ridiculously cartoonish levels and I find myself immediately disengaged from the story as a result.
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Posted by: MokaSquashed you ought to be sending me a certain list instead of ranting about dolphin meat.
but i don't wannnaaa.......waaa....
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LOL!!!! Good for you Squashed, to heck with what the "Boss" says, we need to Save The Dolphins!!!
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'Cove' filmmakers expose L.A. restaurant serving whale sushi during Oscars
Thu Mar 11, 2010
Ha, I Love These Cove Guys!!!
"A Santa Monica sushi restaurant and one of its sushi chefs were charged yesterday with illegally serving endangered whale meat. Its owners face up to a year in prison and up to $200,000 in fines. The restaurant accepts responsibility and will pay the fines, according to the Los Angeles Times."
"Once again armed with hidden video cameras and tiny microphones, the team behind the Oscar-winning documentary The Cove orchestrated a sting operation in one of California's most highly regarded sushi destinations — a restaurant called the Hump — while in Los Angeles to receive their Academy Award, according to the New York Times."
"This isn’t just about saving whales," said Louie Psihoyos, the director of The Cove, "But about saving the planet."
Read The Rest Here
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