The week the Times UK and The Telegraph both put together controversial lists of the Top 100 films of the decade. A worthy undertaking with interesting, if Brit-centric, results. I think we could assemble an alternative Awards Daily Top 100 of ’00’s that would beat both those two all to hell. The question is, with that many titles to wrangle, not sure how best to go about it in a way that’s manageable.
Suppose we start out a year at time — maybe do a poll of the top 12 or 15 films from each of the past 10 years in sequence. Then combine the yearly lists into one grand poll at the end December to determine the final order. 53 days left in 2009, so we’d need to poll for a different year roughly every 5 days. Would that project get in the way of the increasing Oscar drama, or be a stress-relieving distraction?
We could start suggesting titles for the best of 2000 right now, and measure the interest that way. As soon as we reach 30 titles I’ll put the first phase of the poll together. Combining the National Board of Review and AFI Top 10 lists from 2000, we have 5 overlaps and these 15 movies to start seeding the first poll, The Best of 2000:
Almost Famous
Before Night Falls
Billy Elliott
Best in Show
Croupier
Dancer in the Dark
Erin Brockovich
Gladiator
High Fidelity
Quills
Requiem for a Dream
Sunshine
Traffic
Wonder Boys
You Can Count on Me
122 Responses for "Awards Daily Top 100 of the ’00’s Project"
I only count 10…?
Requiem for a Dream definitely needs to be on the list.
Cast Away
Erin Brockovich
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
Almost Famous or rather Untitled
O Brother, Where Art Thou?
Chicken Run
High Fidelity
The Telegraph list has these titles from 2000:
Together
Memento
Amores Perros
The Gleaners and I
In the Mood for Love
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
The Times has these 2000 additions:
Yi Yi
Chopper
Battle Royale
Under the Sand
Being John Malkovich
oops, thanks Thomas. I forgot to add the combined list.
I’m going to throw in my vote for Chopper, the vastly underrated crime drama that proves Eric Bana can be brilliant when he wants to be. Likewise American Psycho re: Christian Bale.
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind definitely deserves to be on this list.
Near the top of the 100, Kay. No doubt it will rank high on the 2004 list, but today we’re just talking about 2000.
almost famous is my all time favourite movie. ever.
best in show is definitely in my top 20. mad love for requiem for a dream…amores perros should be on that list too.
i thought you can count on me was great but maybe a tad over rated…?
You Can Count on Me is the movie I return to time and again from 2000.A finely calibrated drama between brother and sister, it touches and breaks my heart every time I see it.
Billy Elliot was the best movie for 2000 for me at the time. What a beautifully told story about the things that matter to all of us: family, identity and wanting to take charge of our lives.
At the time Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon was the most amazing and visually stunning thing I’ve ever seen on the big screen. I whopped with joy at the fantastical sword fighting scenes yet the story and the performances got me too. It was the movie that made me realize Ang Lee was one of the best directors working in contemporary cinema.
Wonder Boys is by far the most underrated, underappreciated movie of the decade. By far.
Add:
Amores Perros
The Cell
and of course Crouching Tiger…
Also you need to define criteria for what year a movie is since some e.g. Memento are debated. May I suggest using US release not at a film festival on IMDB?
Perhaps the number of entries per year should depend on the year? We wouldn’t want the great movies of 2007 not to make the cut.
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon must be on this list… It would contend for my favorite of the decade.
Amores Perros (if the right year) would be a great selection.
Pollock was not my favorite, but should be on a top 30 list.
O Brother Where Art Thou deserves a spot.
For me, SIDEWAYS is my favorite film of the 2000’s. I know there was a typical, huge backlash to the film when it was initially released, but that was in my opinion just bullshit. The film itself gets better and better every time I watch it. Personally, as great as NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN, THERE WILL BE BLOOD and BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN were, in my opinion SIDEWAYS was the great American film made.
For 2000:
In The Mood for Love
Yi Yi
Tears of the Black Tiger
George Washington
The Circle
I’m Going Home
The Gleaners and I
Platform
Werckmeister Harmonies
La Commune (Paris, 1871)
Don’t forget:
The Circle – Jafar Panahi
Faithless – Liv Ullman
Songs From the Second Floor – Roy Andersson
Code: Unknown – Michael Haneke
The Gleaners and I – Agnes Varda
2000:
I’ve never really liked the pretentious TRAFFIC or the flashy, pop corn flick GLADIATOR. No connection here. When somebody asks me about 200, WONDER BOYS is the first film I’m thinking of. It was brilliant. The script, the actors, the mood… It just worked on so many levels and what makes it special is that it didn’t feel orchestrated. It felt natural. It’s sad that it didn’t get major awards’ attention. Of course, it got some nominations, but it should have been a best picture contender.
add to that list
american psycho
amores perros [released in 2000 in mexico meaning its us release was later]
bring it on
x-men
I thought Traffic was great at the time but I watched it again about a year ago and I could barely get through it. I found it incredibly dated even though we aren’t out of the decade yet.
Oh and I’d also like to add Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai, which wasn’t released in the US until 2000.
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
In the Mood for Love
These two NEED to be on the list for 2000. Period. Dot.
And what else do I pick?
Dancer in the Dark
Before Night Falls
Traffic
Memento
Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon
Cast Away should be on this list for 2000.
Also, to a lesser extent The Contender is a film I’ve always thought of as one of the best of this year, but if you’re only going to accept one of my suggestions please make it Cast Away
I think this is a great idea Ryan- far from being an unwelcome distraction!
Are we counting US release date, a la the Oscars? Is In the Mood for Love 2000 or 2001? In my opinion it’s the greatest film of the decade, so I don’t want to leave it out!
Based on US release date, my top 20 would be:
Requiem for a Dream
Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon
Memento
Nurse Betty
Traffic
Before Night Falls
Billy Elliot
Best in Show
Chicken Run
Girlfight
High Fidelity
Soft Fruit (1999)
Shadow of the Vampire
Almost Famous
O Brother, Where Art Thou?
You Can Count on Me
Cast Away
Wonder Boys
Chocolat
Dancer in the Dark
(In the Mood for Love and Amores Perros were both made in 2000 and would have made the list, but were not released in the US until 2001. Germany’s The State I Am In would have also but never got a US theatrical release )
Uhhh, In the mood for love is sooooooooooooo beautiful! It should definetly be on the list =)
More International or arthouse tiltles:
In The Mood for Love
Yi Yi
American Psycho
Amores Peros
The Virgin Suicides
Before Night Falls
Code Unknown
O Brother Where are Thou?
I’ve already attempted this “best films of 21st century” undertaking and have identified my top ten for each year. This is my list for 2000:
1. Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
2. Traffic
3. Wonder Boys
4. You Can Count On Me
5. Gladiator
6. Billy Elliott
7. Almost Famous
8. O Brother, Where Art Thou?
9. Best In Show
10. Cast Away
Almost Famous
American Psycho
Amores Perros
Billy Elliot
Burnt Money
Dancer in the Dark
Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai
Gladiator
High Fidelity
In the Mood for Love
Italian for Beginners
Jesus´ Son
Nine Queens
Our Lady of Assassins
Requiem for a Dream
Snatch
Things You Can Tell Just Looking at Her
The Virgin Suicides
Wonder Boys
You Can Count on Me
Also, “Amores Perros” and “Memento” should be 2001…
Why so early?? The decade isn’t over ’til December 31, 2010!!! 2001… 02… 03… 04… 2010 (2000 belongs to the 90s and the 20th century!)
I think this is a wonderful idea… go ahead with it.
I can’t really remember all 2000 films i’ve seen so i’m just gonna mention my top ten based on the films that have been tossed around here. This is considering In The Mood For Love and Memento for 2001
1)Almost Famous
2)Requiem For A Dream
3)Dancer In The Dark
4)Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
5)Amores Perros
6)High Fidelity
7)Traffic
8)Wonder Boys
9)Billy Elliot
10)Cast Away
Top 15 of 2000 (a pretty decent year)
1. Gladiator
2. Traffic
3. 13 Days
4. Erin Brockovich
5. Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon
6. The Patriot
7. Quills
8. Wonder Boys
9. Cast Away
10. Billy Elliot
11. Requiem for a Dream
12. U571
13. The Cell
14. O Brother Where Art Thou?
15. The Contender
O Brother, Where Art Thou?
Werckmeister Harmonies
Jesus’ Son
In the Mood for Love
Unbreakable
The Virgin Suicides
Pollock
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
You Can Count on Me
Almost Famous
Wonder Boys
@ Armando
Yes, but any ten-year period is a decade, and here we are concerned with the 2000s (i.e., 2000-2009).
(2)Crouching Tiger, Hidden Tiger
(5)Almost Famous
(11)Amores Perros
(3)Gladiator
(4)Memento
(9)Billy Elliot
(7)Chicken Run
(8)Dancer in the Dark
(10)Finding Forrester
(1)Traffic
(6)High Fidelity
(12)Snatch
Are we looking to get 10 from each year or just a combined a hundred?
For 2000 these are mine: Gladiator, Traffic, In the Mood for Love, Crouching Tiger, Requiem for a Dream, Almost Famous, Amores Perros, Best in Show, Quills.
@Ryan so I’m guessing you’ll be trekking through these to compile the 12 or 15 films for each decade for the poll.
Until I saw this, I forgot all about You Can Count On Me, that was such a great film. I really gotta re-watch some of these films before I start popping out lists.
#1. Tie: In the Mood for Love
Jesus’ Son
2. Dancer in the Dark
3. You Can Count On Me
4. Memento
5. Yi yi
6. Humanité
7. Ratcatcher
8. Requiem for a Dream
9. Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
10. The House of Mirth
honorable mentions:
Wonder Boys
Traffic
Before Night Falls
Quills
Vigin Stripped Bare By Her Bachelors
American Psycho
Amores Perros
Almost Famous
Ghost Dog
I can’t be one of the few who really loves The Contender and Nurse Betty. Both are so good and should definitely have consideration.
I really like Nurse Betty, too, Derick. I like how the threat of violence was dead serious amidst all the frilly delusion.
I would have included Being John Malkovich, but it was my #1 pick for 1999.
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
Almost Famous
Traffic
Wonder Boys
The Virgin Suicides
You Can Count On Me
Gladiator
George Washington
My Top 20 of 2000:
1 – Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
2 – Almost Famous
3 – Traffic
4 – Oh Brother Where Art Thou
5 – Wonder Boys
6 – Thirteen Days
7 – High Fidelity
8 – Virgin Suicides, The
9 – Billy Elliot
10 – Best in Show
11 – Chicken Run
12 – State and Main
13 – Unbreakable
14 – Claim, The
15 – X-Men
16 – You Can Count on Me
17 – Nurse Betty
18 – Aimee and Jaguar
19 – Winter Sleepers
20 – Widow of St Pierre
notable films from 2000 that weren’t Oscar eligible until 01 (if it all):
Memento
Amores Perros
Princess and the Warrior
Faithless
The Road Home
In the Mood for Love
Personally, I think 2000 is the weakest year of the entire decade.
Traffic
Amores Perros
Cast Away
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
Erin Brockovich
Gladiator
Requiem for a Dream
X-Men
You Can Count on Me
yes please make a poll
Amores Perros
State and Main
Almost Famous
Before Night Falls
Requiem For a Dream
You Can Count On Me
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
Billy Elliot
Dancer in the Dark
The Virgin Suicides
I love Nurse Betty too Derick. Funny yet unnerving, grisly yet poignant. Great film, fantastic performance from Renee. My #4 of the year.
This is a Brilliant Idea.
Now I can make lists of all the movies that you guys think I should see, that I haven’t.
Yes!
Talented Mr. Ripley (Nevermind – Damn those December releases)
Songs From The Second Floor should definately be on the list for best of 2000 but the film hasn’t been seen by many.
I’d also add that if you consider Memento to be a 2000 film, then I would definately add that too.
Wonder Boys is just one of the finest movies made this decade. It is still so very underrated. I love Almost Famous, as well.
Minority Report.
Of all the films this decade, “Wonder Boys” may be the most re-watchable. I absolutely love it.
crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
Requiem for a Dream
Almost Famous
Yi Yi
Traffic
You Can Count on me
Dancer in The Dark
Chicken Run
Minority report for sure, but it’s 2002!
Glad that You Can Count On Me and Wonder Boys were added to this list. They are two very under-appreciated films that are actually about something with two of the best screenplays (one original, one adapted) from the past 10 years, easily.
If you could only list one film from 2000, it should have been Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon… how did this get left off the list?
My ten are as follows:
1. Croughing Tiger…
2. Gladiator
3. Traffic
4. Meet the Parents
5. American Psycho
6. Castaway
7. Malena
8. Almost Famous
9. The Contender
10. Requiem for a Dream
Oops… put Memento #3 for me… thought that was 2001. My bad.
Amores perros
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
The Emperor’s New Groove (one of the most neglected Disney movies)
Meet the Parents
Memento
O Brother, Where Are Thou?
The Patriot
Requiem for a Dream
Return to Me
I’ve done 20 for every year this decade, so I’ll just post them as you guys post these articles. Here’s 2000:
Requiem For A Dream
Almost Famous
American Psycho
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
Gladiator
Before Night Falls
Cast Away
Traffic
Best In Show
Dancer In The Dark
Bamboozled
High Fidelity
Ghost Dog
Chuck And Buck
Amores Perros
Jesus’ Son
Meet The Parents
O Brother, Where Art Thou?
Nurse Betty
The Virgin Suicides
For the record, Memento is technically a 2001 film, given that it only played a few festivals in Europe in late 2000 and wasn’t released commercially until March 16, 2001.
For me there are only two films in 2000 that I keep coming back to time and time again:
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
Billy Elliot
So are In the mood for love and Memento in 2001? If so my list would be like this:
Requiem for a Dream
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
American Psycho
Th Virgine Suicides
Dancer in the Dark
Under the Sand
Amores Perros
Tillsammans ( Together)
Traffic
Malena
The Contender
Best in Show
I think IMDB’s year listing for movies should be the final word. It accounts for worldwide release dates and would help ease confusion with these yearly polls.
So, for instance, Being John Malkovich would be 1999 and thus not eligible for this list. Memento would be 2000 since it released in the UK in 2000 (even though the US release date was 2001)
And since some years were not as great as others, there should be an eleventh poll that serves as the wild card one. A handful of movies from each year that just missed out on the top 10 to be put into a big poll. The top 20 or so are chosen to be placed with the ranking of the other 100 gathered from the ten chosen each year. Then after the rankings, whatever comes in 101 to 120 can be cut from the list, resulting in the possibility of the stronger years being better represented in the final 100.
My votes for the top 10 of 2000:
Almost Famous
Amores Perros
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
Gladiator
High Fidelity
Memento
Requiem for a Dream
Traffic
Wonder Boys
You Can Count on Me
The Mission (Johnnie To)
The Road Home (Zhang Yimou)
In the Mood of Love
Yi Yi
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
All are Chinese films :p
Cast Away
In The Mood For Love
On the issue of dates, George, I have to agree that we need an objective arbiter and IMDb listings are dated consistently. The titles I tossed together to get us started were lifted from a lot of sources and I didn’t make an effort to crosscheck. This won’t be as big an issue for movies from the middle of the decade, but for the earliest cutoff point, we’ll have to draw the line.
AMERICAN PSYCHO WAS GREAT!
“And since some years were not as great as others, there should be an eleventh poll that serves as the wild card one. “
I thought what we might do for the final comprehensive poll is take the top 15 films from each year, and rank the top 150 films. That should help account for stronger years with an orderly method — and also show us which movies just barely missed making it into the top 100.
Ivan @ 26: Thank you so much for mentioning Our Lady of the Assassins! Great film.
Ryan, this sounds like a fun task. My suggestions to feed in to the 2000 list are (in alphabetical order):
Dancer in the Dark
Gladiator
The House of Mirth
Our Lady of the Assassins
Timecode
Water Drops on Burning Rocks
Wonder Boys
You Can Count On Me
My top 3, for 2000:
Finding Forrester
Almost Famous
High Fidelity
In that order.
Best of 2000 – FYC
Quills (2000)
Into the Arms of Strangers: Stories of the Kindertransport (2000)
Pollock (2000)
One Day in September (2000)
Nurse Betty (2000)
The Emperor s New Groove (2000) (II)
Thirteen Days (2000)
Also, I don’t really love the idea of 15 films from each year – I think some years are much stronger than others eg. 07,02 – many, many wonderful films vs. 06,03 – pretty weak field.
My best of 2000 (excluding Memento):
Gladiator
O Brother, Where Art Thou?
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
American Psycho
Unbreakable
Chicken Run
Gangster No. 1
Snatch
Top 3:
1. Requiem for a Dream
2. Billy Elliot
3. Quills
Fantastic idea, Ryan! Especially after that highly dubious Times UK list. Here’s my list of 2000:
Billy Elliot
O Brother, Where Art Thou?
Gladiator
Traffic
Almost Famous
High Fidelity
Chicken Run
X-Men
Erin Brockovich
Actually created my Greatest Top 50 of the Decade in August (plus I put every film I’ve seen in order each year under greatest and favorite). I’ve been a list fanatic since I was 12.
My decade top 50 can be found here:
http://www.cinemadoor.com/50-greatest-films-of-the-past-decade/
Here are my 15 favourite movies of 2000:
1. Urbania
2. Best in Show
3. Wonder Boys
4. Erin Brockovich
5. Dancer in the Dark
6. Sordid Lives
7. High Fidelity
8. You Can Count on Me
9. Stardom
10. Billy Elliott
11. Almost Famous
12. Brother, Where Art Thou?
13. Amores Perros
14. Requiem for a Dream
15. Plata Quemada (Burnt Money)
If TV movies count-Juste une question d’amour (Just a Question of Love)
From your list i stand behind
Almost Famous
Sunshine
Billy Elliot
Requiem for a Dream
You Can Count on Me
Wonder Boys
Quills
High Fidelity
and i would also add
Yi Yi
Faithless
In the Mood for Love
East Is East
State and Main
NBR & AFI kinda suck, huh? I’m on my way out the door. But if I don’t make it, I’ll just name ten anyway for the side-splitting humor of it all.
Requiem For A Dream
Sunshine
Quills
Best in Show
Gladiator
Memento
The Cell
The Contender
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
O Brother, Where Art Thou?
Billy Elliott
My top ten of 2000:
1.Almost Famous
2.A Dog’s Will
3.Cast Away
4.Memento
5.Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
6.Billy Elliot
7.Gladiator
8.Chocolat
9.In the Mood for Love
10.Unbreakable
1) Punch-Drunk Love
2)Dogville
3)Almost Famous
4)City of God
5)Amelie
6)The Hours
7)In the Mood For Love
8)Inglorious Basterds
9) Unbreakable
10)No country for Old Men
Top 15 of 2000: (hope this counts as my official entries cuz this took awhile to think up lol):
1. Requiem for a Dream
2. Traffic
3. O Brother, Where Art Thou?
4. American Psycho
5. Best in Show
6. Beyond the Mat
7. High Fidelity
8. Meet the Parents
9. Scary Movie
10. Unbreakable
11. Cast Away
12. Chicken Run
13. Nurse Betty
14. Wonder Boys
15. Quills
btw i’ve noticed a lot of these entries were movies that did not come out in 2000 (i.e.: amores perros, snatch) so whoever is monitoring this i would be careful to note that
I think we’ve agreed to go by the release date listed on IMDb, thomas. Amores perros premiered at Cannes in May 2000. Snatch opened in the UK in August 2000.
My list is absolutely subject to change as there are many movies I haven’t seen this decade that would most likely be on this list if I had (In The Mood For Love, Wonder Boys, Yi Yi, Syndromes And A Century, Hunger, A Christmas Tale, You Can Count On Me, etc.)
Not to mention the films from this year that haven’t been released yet that I think have a shot (A Prophet, The White Ribbon, Up In The Air, Fish Tank, Dr. Parnassus, Broken Embraces, Fish Story). This list actually will probably not be locked ever. Too many movies were released in the last 10 years to even begin to assume that I’ve seen enough of them to have any perspective. Although I have seen 70% of the “They Shoot Pictures” Most Acclaimed Films of the 21st Century list:
http://www.theyshootpictures.com/21stcentury_allfilms.htm
I agree with some of the other talkbackers regarding the method of how we compile this list. 2005 for example is an obviously weak year for film. I’d be hard pressed to find 15 movies that truly deserve to be a part of a Top 100 or even a Top 150 of this decade. There should be a slight curve in the rankings to take something like this into account.
Further essential films that have gone unmentioned:
Virgin Stripped Bare By Her Bachelors
Mysterious Object at Noon
Little Otik
Hamlet
1. Dancer from the Dark
2. Burnt Money
3. Billy Elliot
4. O Brother Where for Art Thou?
5. Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon
6. Amores Perros
7. Before Night Falls
8. Chocolat
9. Pollock
10.Traffic
2000 offered an interesting array of films. My top 10…erm, 11, would be:
Almost Famous (definitely #1, would be in my top 10 of the decade)
Amores Perros
Best in Show
Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon
The Emperor’s New Groove (underrated!)
Gladiator
O Brother Where Art Thou?
Pollock
Requiem for a Dream
The Virgin Suicides
You Can Count on Me
I can never seem to narrow it to just 10. It’s funny, when I think about films from 2000, at the time I would’ve definitely had Traffic and Quills on my list. But, after watching them again in the past few years I feel they haven’t aged well. For me, at least. They still have their merits though, especially Joaquin Phoenix’s great performance in Quills, the movie he should have been nominated (and won) for that year
1. Quills
2. Crouching Tiger
3. Chocolat
4. Chicken Run
5. Gladiator
My top 10 for 2000:
Almost Famous
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
Traffic
Croupier
Requiem for a Dream
You Can Count on Me
The Cell
New Waterford Girl
The Claim
The Virgin Suicides
Dancer in the Dark
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
Pollock
Forgive me if I get the years wrong I’m going by the IMDb and not looking at anyone else’s choices.
Unbreakable
Almost Famous
Wonder Boys
American Psycho
Requiem for a Dream
Battle Royale
Chocolat
Dancer in the Dark
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
Memento
In the Mood for Love
You Can Count on Me
Dancer in the Dark
Traffic
You Can Count on Me
Almost Famous
Erin Brockovich
Chocolat (that’s right!)
O Brother, Where Art Thou?
What Lies Beneath
Pollock
Requiem for a Dream
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
Memento
Oldboy
Irréversible
Memento
The Barbarian Invasions
Waking Life
The New World
Munich
Sin City
Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
City of God
Up
Wall-E
The best is definately Memento… also:
The Virgin Suicides
Gladiator (NOT!)
Traffic
Requiem for a Dream
Toy Story 2
I think High fidelity and Memento should be on the list.
I’m obsessed with lists and I’ve always wanted to do a top 100/250 movies of the decade list.But being slightly unfamiliar with the early 00’s(00-04),it’ll definitely take time.The shortlist here will definitely help.
Heres what i could find.
Best of 2000:
http://www.metacritic.com/film/awards/2000/
IMDB Top 250 entries:
26. 8.6 Memento (2000)
63. 8.4 Requiem for a Dream (2000)
105. 8.3 Gladiator (2000)
140. 8.1 Snatch. (2000)
162. 8.1 Amores perros (2000)
217. 8.0 Wo hu cang long (2000)
Top Meta scores:
The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie – 94
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon – 93
Yi Yi (A One and a Two) – 92
Beau Travail – 91
Almost Famous – 90
Chicken Run – 88
The Wind Will Carry Us – 86
Before Night Falls – 85
You Can Count On Me – 85
Paragraph 175 – 85(Doc)
Sound and Fury – 85(Doc)
Calle 54 -84(Doc)
Nice list there sarah.
Here are some of what I recall to be good:
Memento
Almost Famous
Traffic
Chicken Run
High fidelity
In the Mood of Love
Amores Perros
I’ll just add my Top Films from 2000 so everyone knows:
1. Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
2. X-Men
3. You Can Count On Me
4. Amores Perros
5. Battle Royale
6. Chocolat
7. Frequency
8. Almost Famous
9. Wonder Boys
10. High Fidelity
I can’t believe I forgot this film.
You must, MUST have an option for The Filth & The Fury, Julien Temple’s documentary about The Sex Pistols which I can say with absolute certainty is the best documentary I have ever seen.
2000 seems to me to be a tremendously weak year, though I admittedly haven’t seen as many films from that year as I have from other years.
There seems to be some confusion about “Memento”. It’s probably my all-time favorite film of the last 10 years. I’ll vote for it in 2000 and ‘01 if that will get it on the list
1. “Memento”
2. “Requiem for a Dream”
3. “O Brother, Where Art Thou?”
4. “Yi Yi”
5. “Almost Famous”
6. “Gladiator”
7. “American Psycho”
8. “Chicken Run”
9. “Traffic”
10. “Battle Royale”
1. In the mood for love
2. Yi Yi
Requiem for a Dream
Gladiator
Best in Show
Snatch
Overall, not a great year for movies.
How lovely, Ryan!
You posted a screen shot of one of my favourite movies of the decade in front of the article!
“In the Mood for Love” is my choice for 2000!
(one step in front of “Wonder Boys”)
for sure…..
1) Requiem for a Dream
2) Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
3) Almost Famous
4) Memento
5) Before Night Falls
My Top 10 from 2000:
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (Taiwan)
Yi-Yi (A One and a Two) (Taiwan)
George Washington
You Can Count on Me
Dancer in the Dark (Denmark)
Wind Will Carry Us, The
Requiem for a Dream
Life and Times of Hank Greenberg, The
Traffic
Best in Show
Any list that doesn’t include Yi-Yi (not meaning a personal list, but some sort of compendium) doesn’t count. So you’ve got to put Yi-Yi on there.
My top 10 from 2000:
1. Amores Perros
2. Memento
3. Sånger från andra Våningen
4. Requiem for a Dream
5. Yi Yi
6. Zamani Barayé Masti Ashba
7. You can Count on Me
8. Tillsammans
9. Der Krieger und die Kaiserin
10. Wonder Boys
My top 10 of 2000:
1. In the mood for love (Wong Kar Wai)
2. Dancer in the dark (Lars von Trier)
3. Requiem for a dream (Darren Aronofsky)
4. Little Otik (Jan Svankmajer)
5. In July (Fatih Akin)
6. Traffic (Steven Soderbergh)
7. High fidelity (Stephen Frears)
8. Amores perros (Alejandro González Iñárritu)
9. Happy times (Yimou Zhang)
10. Battle Royale (Kinji Fukasaku)
My top 10 of 2000:
Almost Famous
Amores Perros
Chicken Run
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
In the Mood for Love
George Washington
High Fidelity
Quills
Requiem for a Dream
Traffic
Well, my original entries that i had listed were purely based upon U.S. release dates for each film so if we’re counting first run even if it was first seen in a different country, then my new list would look like this:
1. Battle Royale
2. Requiem for a Dream
3. Memento
4. Traffic
5. O Brother, Where Art Thou?
6. American Psycho
7. Amores Perros
8. Best in Show
9. Beyond the Mat
10. High Fidelity
11. Snatch
12. Meet the Parents
13. Scary Movie
14. Unbreakable
15. Cast Away
#6
Ah ok, Ryan. Then scratch that, Quills should be on the 2000 list.
I think this year was so good because some of 1999 (one of the best years for film ever) rubbed off in it. Also, I’ll never get nor will I ever like Almost Famous.
1. Wonder Boys
2. Yi-Yi
3. Unbreakable
4. High Fidelity
5. American Psycho
6. Way of the Gun (don’t know why this film never caught on, its way better than Usual Suspects. Poor, poor Christopher McQuarrie)
7. Timecode (way ahead of its time)
8. O Brother
9. George Washington
10. Jesus’ Son (underrated)
1. Dancer in the Dark
2. Gladiator
3. Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
4. Cast Away
5. Billy Elliot
6. Requiem for a Dream
7. High Fidelity
8. Erin Brockovich
9. American Psycho
10. The Cell
1) Requiem For A Dream
2) Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon
3) Wonder Boys
4) Amores Perros
5) Quills
6) Before Night Falls
7) Dancer in the Dark
8. Billy Elliot
9) American Psycho
10) Best in Show
I would count Memento on on my list for 2001.
Definitely would include Lantana, Samson & Delilah, American Psycho, The Insider, Requiem For A Dream, Adaptation, Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind, The Descent, High Fidelity.
OK, since everyone is posting it´s Top 10, I sat down at home yesterday evening and completed my top 10 for every year of the decade – plus an ultimate Top Ten for the whole decade.
So, here are my choices for 2000:
1. In the Mood for Love
2. You can count on me
3. Wonder Boys
4. Traffic
5. Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
6. Le goût des autres
7. Pollock
8. Eureka
9. Requiem for a Dream
10. Dancer in the Dark
More of a stress-relieving distraction I would say!I am game!
Best of 2000
Before Night Falls
1) Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
2) Almost Famous
3) Requiem for a Dream
4) Amores Perros
5) Traffic
6) Dancer in the Dark
7) The House of Mirth
9) Gladiator
10) Wonder Boys
You guys have risen brilliantly to this task. Some impeccable lists here. I’ll put together the first poll tonight and we’ll get this party started.
GEORGE WASHINGTON
Amores Perros
Werckmeister Harmonies
Of the films not on the list, these are the ones that desperately need to be added. Also, Erin Brockovich and Gladiator suck and belong nowwhere near the best of the decade.
The Gleaners and I
Werckmeister Harmonies
1. Yi Yi: a one and a two.
2. Crouching tiger, hidden dragon.
3. In the mood for love.
4. Amores perros.
5. You can count on me.
6. Wonder boys.
7. Almost famous.
8. Chocolat.
9. Memento.
10. Before night falls.
Where’s the 2001 poll, Ryan?
We’ll get rolling on 2001 tonight, chrisw. I’ve been wrapping up off-site work so I can devote full attention to movies for a couple of weeks now.
1. Memento
2. Traffic
3. Requiem for a Dream
4. 13 Days
5. Billy Elliot
6. Nurse Betty
7. Amores Perros
8. Quills
9. Erin Brockovich
10. Urbania
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