(Updated) Seen of the 250(+) Best Movies of the 21st Century (According to the people at THEY SHOOT PICTURES DON'T THEY)

Submitted by burneyfan on Sat, 01/12/2008 - 11:32
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  1. 2046 (Wong Kar-Wai; 2004)
  2. 12:08 East of Bucharest (Porumboiu, Corneliu; 2006)
  3. 21 Grams (Inarritu, Alejandro Gonzalez; 2003)
  4. 24 Hour Party People (Winterbottom, Michael; 2001)
  5. 25th Hour (Lee, Spike; 2002)
  6. 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days (Mungiu, Cristian; 2007)
  7. A ma soeur!/Fat Girl (Breillat, Catherine; 2001)
  8. A.I. Artificial Intelligence (Spielberg, Steven; 2001)
  9. About a Boy (Weitz, Paul & is Weitz; 2002)
  10. About Schmidt (Payne, Alexander; 2002)
  11. Adaptation (Jonze, Spike; 2002 )
  12. *Ali (Mann, Michael; 2001)
  13. Almost Famous (Crowe, Cameron; 2000)
  14. Amelie (Jeunet, Jean-Pierre; 2001)
  15. *American Psycho (Harron, Mary; 2000)
  16. American Splendor (Pulcini, Robert & Shari Springer Berman; 2003)
  17. Amores perros (Inarritu, Alejandro Gonzalez; 2000)
  18. *Angels in America [TV] (Nichols, Mike; 2003)
  19. Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford, The (Dominik, Andrew; 2007)
  20. Atanarjuat: The Fast Runner (Kunuk, Zacahrias; 2000)
  21. Atonement (Wright, Joe; 2007)
  22. Aviator, The (Scorsese, Martin; 2004)
  23. Away from Her (Polley, Sarah; 2006)
  24. Bad Education (Almodovar, Pedro 2004)
  25. *Bad Santa
  26. Ballast (Hammer, Lance; 2008)
  27. Bamako (Sissako, Abderrahmane; 2006; France-Mali-US)
  28. *Bamboozled (Lee, Spike; 2000)
  29. *Barbarian Invasions, The (Arcand, Denys; 2003)
  30. Battle in Heaven (Reygadas, Carlos; 2005)
  31. *Beat That My Heart Skipped, The (Audiard, Jacques; 2005)
  32. *Beautiful Mind, A (Howard, Ron; 2001)
  33. Before Night Falls (Schnabel, Julian; 2000
  34. Before Sunset (Linklater, Richard; 2004)
  35. Before the Devil Knows You're Dead (Lumet, Sidney; 2007)
  36. Best of Youth, The (Giordana, Marco Tullio; 2003)
  37. Billy Elliot (Daldry, Stephen; 2000)
  38. Black Book (Verhoeven, Paul; 2006)
  39. Black Hawk Down (Scott, Ridley; 2001)
  40. *Blissfully Yours (Weerasethakul, Apichatpong; 2002)
  41. Bloody Sunday (Greengrass, Paul; 2001)
  42. Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan (Charles, Larry; 2006)
  43. Bowling for Columbine (Moore, Michael; 2002)
  44. Brick (Johnson, Rian; 2005)
  45. *Bright Leaves (McElwee, Ross; 2003)
  46. Brokeback Mountain (Lee, Ang; 2005)
  47. Broken Flowers (Jarmusch, Jim; 2005)
  48. Bus 174/Onibus 174 (Larceda, Felipe & Jose Padilha; 2002)
  49. Caché (Haneke, Michael; 2005)
  50. Cafe Lumiere (Hou Hsiao-Hsien; 2003)
  51. Capote (Miller, Bennett; 2005)
  52. Capturing the Friedmans (Jarecki, Andrew; 2003)
  53. *Catch Me if You Can (Spielberg, Steven; 2002)
  54. *Century of the Self, The [TV] (Curtis, Adam; 2002)
  55. Che (Soderbergh, Steven; 2008)
  56. Chicago (Marshall, Rob; 2002)
  57. Chicken Run (Lord, Peter & Nick Park; 2000)
  58. Children of Men (Cuaron, Alfonso; 2006)
  59. Christmas Tale, A (Desplechin, Arnaud; 2008)
  60. Chuck & Buck (Arteta, Miguel; 2000)
  61. Chunhyang (Im Kwon-taek; 2000)
  62. *Ciénaga, La (Martel, Lucrecia; 2001)
  63. Circle, The/Dayereh (Panahi, Jafar; 2000)
  64. City of God (Meirelles, Fernando; 2002)
  65. Climates (Ceylan, Nuri Bilge; 2006)
  66. *Closer (Nichols, Mike; 2004)
  67. *Cold Mountain (Minghella, Anthony; 2003)
  68. Collateral (Mann, Michael; 2004)
  69. Colossal Youth (Costa, Pedro; 2006)
  70. Commune (Paris, 1871), La (Watkins, Peter; 2000)
  71. *Constant Gardener, The (Meirelles, Fernando; 2005)
  72. *Control Room (Noujaim, Jehane; 2004)
  73. *Cowards Bend the Knee (Maddin, Guy; 2003)
  74. Crash [2004] (Haggis, Paul; 2004)
  75. Crimson Gold (Panahi, Jafar 2003)
  76. Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (Lee, Ang; 2000)
  77. Dancer in the Dark (von Trier, Lars; 2000)
  78. *Darjeeling Limited, The (Anderson, Wes; 2007)
  79. *Darwin's Nightmare (Sauper, Hubert; 2004)
  80. Day I Became a Woman, The (Meshkini, Marzieh; 2000)
  81. *Day Night Day Night (Loktev, Julia; 2006)
  82. Death of Mr. Lazarescu, The (Puiu, Cristi; 2005)
  83. Deep End, The (McGehee, Scott/David Siegel; 2001)
  84. demonlover (Assayas, Olivier; 2002)
  85. Departed, The (Scorsese, Martin; 2006)
  86. *Devil's Backbone, The (del Toro, Guillermo; 2001)
  87. Dirty Pretty Things (Frears, Stephen; 2002)
  88. Distant/Uzak (Ceylan, Nuri Bilge; 2003)
  89. Diving Bell and the Butterfly, The (Schnabel, Julian; 2007)
  90. Dogville (von Trier, Lars; 2003)
  91. *Dolls/Dooruzu (Kitano, Takeshi; 2002)
  92. *Domestic Violence (Wiseman, Frederick; 2001)
  93. Donnie Darko (Kelly, Richard; 2001)
  94. Duchess of Langeais, The (Rivette, Jacques, 2007)
  95. *8 Mile (Hanson, Curtis; 2002)
  96. Eastern Promises (Cronenberg, David; 2007)
  97. Edge of Heaven, The (Akin, Faith; 2007)
  98. Elephant (Van Sant, Gus; 2003)
  99. Enfant, L'/The Child (Dardenne, Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne; 2005)
  100. Erin Brockovich (Soderbergh, Steven; 2000)
  101. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (Gondry, Michel; 2004)
  102. Eureka [2000] (Aoyama, Shinji; 2000)
  103. Fahrenheit 9/11 (Moore, Michael; 2004)
  104. Faithless/Trolosa (Ullmann, Liv; 2000)
  105. Far From Heaven (Haynes, Todd; 2002)
  106. *Femme Fatale (De Palma, Brian; 2002)
  107. Finding Nemo (Stanton, Andrew & Lee Unkrich; 2003)
  108. Five Obstructions, The (Leth, Jorgen & Lars von Trier; 2003)
  109. Flags of Our Fathers (Eastwood, Clint; 2006)
  110. Flight of the Red Balloon (Hou Hsiao-Hsien; 2007)
  111. Fog of War, The (Morris, Errol; 2003)
  112. *40-Year-Old Virgin, The (Apatow, Judd; 2005)
  113. Gangs of New York (Scorsese, Martin; 2002)
  114. George Washington (Green, David Gordon; 2000)
  115. *Gerry (Van Sant, Gus; 2001)
  116. Ghost World (Zwigoff, Terry; 2001)
  117. Gladiator [2000] (Scott, Ridley; 2000)
  118. Gleaners & I, The/Les Glaneurs et la glaneuse (Varda, Agnes; 2000)
  119. *Good Morning, Night (Bellocchio, Marco; 2003)
  120. Good Night, and Good Luck (Clooney, George; 2005)
  121. Goodbye, Dragon Inn (Tsai Ming-Liang; 2003)
  122. Gosford Park (Altman, Robert; 2001)
  123. Grizzly Man (Herzog, Werner; 2005)
  124. Half Nelson (Fleck, Ryan; 2006)
  125. Happy-Go-Lucky (Leigh, Mike; 2008)
  126. Head-On (Akin, Fatih; 2003)
  127. *Heart of the World, The (Maddin, Guy; 2000)
  128. *Hedwig and the Angry Inch (Mitchell, John Cameron; 2001)
  129. Hero/Ying xiong (Zhang Yimou; 2002)
  130. High Fidelity (Frears, Stephen; 2000)
  131. History of Violence, A (Cronenberg, David; 2005)
  132. Holy Girl, The (Martel, Lucrecia; 2004)
  133. Host, The (Bong Joon-ho; 2006)
  134. Hotel Rwanda (George, Terry; 2004)
  135. Hours, The (Daldry, Stephen; 2002)
  136. House of Flying Daggers (Zhang Yimou; 2004)
  137. House of Mirth, The (Davies, Terence; 2000;)
  138. *House of Sand and Fog (Perelman, Vadim; 2003)
  139. Howl's Moving Castle (Miyazaki, Hayao; 2004)
  140. Hunger (McQueen, Steve; 2008)
  141. I Don’t Want to Sleep Alone (Tsai Ming-Liang; 2006)
  142. I Heart Huckabees (Russell, David O.; 2004)
  143. *Igby Goes Down (Steers, Burr; 2002)
  144. I'm Going Home (de Oliveira, Manoel; 2000)
  145. I'm Not There (Haynes, Todd; 2007)
  146. In America (Sheridan, Jim; 2003)
  147. In Praise of Love/Eloge de l'amour (Godard, Jean-Luc; 2001)
  148. In the Bedroom (Field, Todd; 2001)
  149. In the City of Sylvia (Guerin, José Luis; 2007)
  150. In the Mood for Love/Huayang Nianhua (Wong Kar-Wai; 2000)
  151. Incredibles, The (Bird, Brad; 2004)
  152. Inland Empire (Lynch, David; 2006)
  153. *Intimacy/Intimite (Chereau, Patrice; 2000 )
  154. Into the Wild (Penn, Sean; 2007)
  155. Intruder, The/L'Intrus (Denis, Claire; 2004)
  156. Irreversible (Noe, Gaspar; 2002)
  157. *Junebug (Morrison, Phil; 2005)
  158. Keane (Kerrigan, Lodge H.; 2004)
  159. Kill Bill Vol. 1 (Tarantino, Quentin; 2003)
  160. Kill Bill Vol. 2 (Tarantino, Quentin; 2004)
  161. King Kong [2005] (Jackson, Peter; 2005)
  162. Kings & Queen (Desplechin, Arnaud; 2004)
  163. Kinsey (Condon, Bill; 2004)
  164. *Kippur (Gitai, Amos; 2000)
  165. *Kung Fu Hustle (Chow, Stephen; 2004)
  166. *La Commune (Paris, 1871) (Watkins, Peter; 2000)
  167. *Lady & the Duke, The (Rohmer, Eric; 2001)
  168. Land of the Dead (Romero, George A.; 2005)
  169. *Lantana (Lawrence, Ray; 2001)
  170. Last Days (Van Sant, Gus; 2004)
  171. Late Marriage (Kosashvili, Dover; 2001)
  172. Let the Right One In (Alfredson, Tomas; 2008)
  173. Letters from Iwo Jima (Eastwood, Clint; 2006)
  174. Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou, The (Anderson, Wes; 2004)
  175. *Lilya 4-ever (Moodysson, Lukas; 2002)
  176. *Little Children (Field, Todd; 2006)
  177. Little Miss Sunshine (Dayton, Jonathan & Valerie Faris; 2006)
  178. *Little Otik/Otesanek (Svankmajer, Jan; 2000)
  179. Lives of Others, The (von Donnersmarck, Florian Henckel; 2006)
  180. *Look at Me (Jaoui, Agnes; 2004)
  181. Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, The (Jackson, Peter; 2001)
  182. Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King, The (Jackson, Peter; 2003)
  183. Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers, The (Jackson, Peter; 2002)
  184. Los Angeles Plays Itself (Andersen, Thom; 2003)
  185. Lost in Translation (Coppola, Sofia; 2003)
  186. *Lovely & Amazing (Holofcener, Nicole; 2001)
  187. Magdalene Sisters, The (Mullan, Peter; 2002)
  188. Man on Wire (Marsh, James; 2007)
  189. Man Who Wasn't There, The (Coen, Joel and Ethan Coen 2001)
  190. Man Without a Past, The (Kaurismaki, Aki; 2002)
  191. Maria Full of Grace (Marston, Joshua; 2003)
  192. Master and Commander: The Far Side of The World (Weir, Peter; 2003)
  193. Match Point (Allen, Woody; 2005)
  194. Me and You and Everyone We Know (July, Miranda; 2005)
  195. Memento (Nolan, istopher; 2000)
  196. *Memories of Murder (Bong Joon-ho; 2003)
  197. Michael Clayton (Gilroy, Tony; 2007)
  198. *Mighty Wind, A (Guest, Christopher; 2003)
  199. Milk (Van Sant, Gus; 2008)
  200. Million Dollar Baby (Eastwood, Clint; 2004)
  201. Minority Report (Spielberg, Steven; 2002)
  202. Monsoon Wedding (Nair, Mira; 2001)
  203. Monsters, Inc. (Docter, Peter/David Silverman/Lee Unkrich; 2001)
  204. Moolaade (Sembene, Ousmane; 2004)
  205. Morvern Callar (Ramsay, Lynne; 2002)
  206. *Motorcycle Diaries, The (Salles, Walter; 2004)
  207. Moulin Rouge! (Luhrmann, Baz; 2001)
  208. Mulholland Dr. (Lynch, David; 2001)
  209. Munich (Spielberg, Steven; 2005)
  210. *My Summer of Love (Pawlikowski, Pawel)
  211. My Winnipeg (Maddin, Guy; 2007)
  212. Mysterious Skin (Araki, Gregg; 2004)
  213. Mystic River (Eastwood, Clint; 2003)
  214. New World, The (Malick, Terrence; 2005)
  215. No Country for Old Men (Coen, Joel and Ethan Coen; 2007)
  216. *No Man's Land (Tanovic, Danis; 2001)
  217. Nobody Knows/Dare mo shiranai (Koreeda, Hirokazu 2003)
  218. Notre Musique (Godard, Jean-Luc; 2004)
  219. O Brother, Where Art Thou? (Coen, Joel and Ethan Coen; 2000)
  220. Offside (Panahi, Jafar; 2006)
  221. Old Joy (Reichardt, Kelly; 2005)
  222. Oldboy (Park Chan-Wook; 2003)
  223. Once (Carney, John; 2007)
  224. *Others, The (Amenabar, Alejandro; 2001)
  225. *Our Song (McKay, Jim; 2000)
  226. Pan's Labyrinth (del Toro, Guillermo; 2006)
  227. Paradise Now (Abu-Assad, Hany; 2005)
  228. Paranoid Park (Van Sant, Gus; 2007)
  229. Persepolis (Paronnaud, Vincent & Marjane Satrapi; 2007)
  230. Pianist, The (Polanski, Roman; 2002)
  231. Piano Teacher, The/La Pianiste (Haneke, Michael; 2001)
  232. Platform/Zhantai (Zhang Ke Jia; 2000)
  233. *Power of Nightmares, The [TV] (Curtis, Adam; 2004)
  234. Prairie Home Companion, A (Altman, Robert; 2006)
  235. *Pride & Prejudice (Wright, Joe; 2005)
  236. Proposition, The (Hillcoat, John; 2005)
  237. *Pulse/Kairo (Kurosawa, Kiyoshi; 2001)
  238. Punch-Drunk Love (Anderson, Paul Thomas; 2002)
  239. Queen, The (Frears, Stephen; 2006)
  240. *Quiet American, The (Noyce, Phillip; 2002)
  241. *Quills (Kaufman, Philip; 2000)
  242. Rabbit-Proof Fence (Noyce, Phillip; 2002)
  243. Rachel Getting Married (Demme, Jonathan; 2008)
  244. *Raising Victor Vargas (Sollett, Peter; 2002)
  245. Ratatouille (Bird, Brad; 2007)
  246. Ray (Hackford, Taylor; 2004)
  247. Regular Lovers/Les Amants reguliers (Garrel, Philippe; 2004)
  248. Reprise (Trier, Joachim; 2006)
  249. Requiem for a Dream (Aronofsky, Darren; 2000)
  250. *Return, The/Vozvras cenje (Zvyagintsev, Andrey; 2003)
  251. Royal Tenenbaums, The (Anderson, Wes; 2001)
  252. Russian Ark (Sokurov, Aleksandr; 2002)
  253. *Saddest Music in the World, The (Maddin, Guy; 2003)
  254. Saraband (Bergman, Ingmar; 2003)
  255. *Savages, The (Jenkins, Tamara; 2007)
  256. *Scanner Darkly, A (Linklater, Richard; 2006; US) ?222
  257. School of Rock (Linklater, Richard; 2003)
  258. *Secret Lives of Dentists, The (Rudolph, Alan; 2003)
  259. Sexy Beast (Glazer, Jonathan; 2000)
  260. Shattered Glass (Ray, Billy; 2003)
  261. Shaun of the Dead (Wright, Edgar; 2004)
  262. Shrek (Adamson, Andrew & Vicky Jenson; 2001)
  263. Sideways (Payne, Alexander; 2004)
  264. Silent Light (Reygadas, Carlos; 2007)
  265. *Since Otar Left (Bertucelli, Julie; 2003)
  266. *Solaris [2002] (Soderbergh, Steven; 2002)
  267. Son, The/Le Fils (Dardenne, Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne; 2002)
  268. Songs from the Second Floor (Andersson, Roy; 2000)
  269. Southland Tales (Kelly, Richard; 2006)
  270. Spellbound (Blitz, Jeffrey; 2002)
  271. Spider (Cronenberg, David; 2002)
  272. *Spider-Man (Raimi, Sam; 2002)
  273. Spider-Man 2 (Raimi, Sam; 2004)
  274. Spirited Away (Miyazaki, Hayao; 2001)
  275. Springtime in a Small Town (Tian Zhuangzhuang; 2002)
  276. Squid and the Whale, The (Baumbach, Noah; 2005)
  277. *startup.com (Hegedus, is; 2001)
  278. *State and Main (Mamet, David; 2000)
  279. Station Agent, The (McCarthy, Thomas; 2003)
  280. *Stevie (James, Steve; 2002)
  281. Still Life (Zhang Ke Jia; 2006)
  282. *Sunshine State (Sayles, John; 2002)
  283. Syndromes and a Century (Weerasethakul, Apichatpong; 2006)
  284. Synecdoche, New York (Kaufman, Charlie; 2008)
  285. Syriana (Gaghan, Stephen; 2005)
  286. *Tailor of Panama, The (Boorman, John; 2001)
  287. Talk to Her/Hable con ella (Almodovar, Pedro; 2002)
  288. Tarnation (Caouette, Jonathan; 2003)
  289. *Taste of Others, The/Les Gout des autres (Jaoui, Agnes; 2000)
  290. Ten (Kiarostami, Abbas; 2002)
  291. There Will Be Blood (Anderson, Paul Thomas; 2007)
  292. *Thirteen Conversations About One Thing (Sprecher, Jill; 2001)
  293. Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada, The (Jones, Tommy Lee; 2005)
  294. Three Times (Hou Hsiao-Hsien; 2005)
  295. Time for Drunken Horses, A (Ghobadi, Bahman; 2000)
  296. Time of the Wolf (Haneke, Michael; 2003)
  297. Time Out/L'Emploi du temps (Cantet, Laurent; 2001)
  298. *Timecode (Figgis, Mike; 2000)
  299. To Be and to Have/Etre et avoir (Philibert, Nicolas; 2002)
  300. Together/Tillsammans (Moodysson, Lukas; 2000)
  301. *Touching the Void (Macdonald, Kevin; 2003)
  302. Traffic [2000] (Soderbergh, Steven; 2000)
  303. Triplets of Belleville, The (Chomet, Sylvain; 2003)
  304. Tristram Shandy: A Cock and Bull Story (Winterbottom, Michael; 2005)
  305. Tropical Malady (Weerasethakul, Apichatpong; 2004)
  306. Under the Sand/Sous le sable (Ozon, Francois; 2000)
  307. United 93 (Greengrass, Paul; 2006)
  308. Unknown Pleasures (Zhang Ke Jia; 2002)
  309. Va savoir/Who Knows? (Rivette, Jacques; 2001)
  310. *Vendredi soir/Friday Night (Denis, Claire; 2002)
  311. Vera Drake (Leigh, Mike; 2004)
  312. *Very Long Engagement, A (Jeunet, Jean-Pierre; 2004)
  313. Volver (Almodóvar, Pedro; 2006)
  314. Waking Life (Linklater, Richard; 2001)
  315. WALL-E (Stanton, Andrew; 2008)
  316. Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit (Park, Nick & Steve Box; 2005)
  317. Waltz with Bashir (Folman, Ari; 2008)
  318. *War of the Worlds (Spielberg, Steven; 2005)
  319. Wendy and Lucy (Reichardt, Kelly; 2008)
  320. Werckmeister Harmonies (Tarr, Bela; 2000)
  321. *Whale Rider (Caro, Niki; 2002)
  322. What Time is it There? (Tsai Ming-Liang; 2001)
  323. *With a Friend Like Harry.../Harry, He's Here to Help (Moll, Dominik; 2000)
  324. Woman on the Beach (Hong Sang-soo; 2006)
  325. Wonder Boys (Hanson, Curtis; 2000)
  326. World, The (Zhang Ke Jia; 2004)
  327. Wrestler, The (Aronofsky, Darren; 2008)
  328. Y tu mama tambien/And Your Mother Too (Cuaron, Alfonso; 2001)
  329. Yi Yi/A One and a Two... (Yang, Edward; 2000)
  330. You Can Count on Me (Lonergan, Kenneth; 2000)
  331. Zodiac (Fincher, David; 2007)
Author Comments: 

I've updated the list to include TSPDT additions through 1/13/09. Movies with an asterisk (*) indicate films that have fallen off the list since its creation. (I've chosen to retain them for my own wily purposes.)

Original creator's notes: I like alphebetical lists, so that's the one I reproduced here, but there's a RANKED list too if you're into that.

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Seen of the 250 Best Movies of the 21st Century (According to the people at THEY SHOOT PICTURES DON'T THEY)