Seen of the best films of the 21st Century according to They Shoot Pictures Don't They

Submitted by MaxCastle on Sun, 01/14/2007 - 05:00
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  1. In the Mood for Love (Wong Kar-Wai, 2000)
  2. Mulholland Drive (David Lynch, 2001)
  3. Yi Yi (Edward Yang, 2000)
  4. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (Michel Gondry, 2004)
  5. Lost in Translation (Sofia Coppola, 2003)
  6. Far from Heaven (Todd Haynes, 2002)
  7. Y tu mamá también (Alfonso Cuarón, 2001)
  8. Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (Ang Lee, 2000)
  9. Sideways (Alexander Payne, 2004)
  10. A History of Violence (David Cronenberg, 2005)
  11. Spirited Away (Hayao Miyazaki, 2001)
  12. Talk to Her (Pedro Almodóvar, 2002)
  13. Million Dollar Baby (Clint Eastwood, 2004)
  14. There Will Be Blood (Paul Thomas Anderson, 2007)
  15. Before Sunset (Richard Linklater, 2004)
  16. Punch-Drunk Love (Paul Thomas Anderson, 2002)
  17. The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (Peter Jackson, 2003)
  18. Memento (Christopher Nolan, 2000)
  19. The Royal Tenenbaums (Wes Anderson, 2001)
  20. The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (Peter Jackson, 2001)
  21. No Country for Old Men (Joel & Ethan Coen, 2007)
  22. Ghost World (Terry Zwigoff, 2001)
  23. Adaptation (Spike Jonze, 2002)
  24. The Queen (Stephen Frears, 2006)
  25. 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days (Cristian Mungiu, 2007)
  26. The Death of Mr. Lazarescu (Cristi Puiu, 2005)
  27. You Can Count on Me (Kenneth Lonergan, 2000)
  28. The Departed (Martin Scorsese, 2006)
  29. Zodiac (David Fincher, 2007)
  30. Flight of the Red Balloon (Hou Hsiao-Hsien, 2007)
  31. Moulin Rouge! (Baz Luhrmann, 2001)
  32. American Splendor (Robert Pulcini & Shari Springer Berman, 2003)
  33. The Squid and the Whale (Noah Baumbach, 2005)
  34. 2046 (Wong Kar-Wai, 2004)
  35. Brokeback Mountain (Ang Lee, 2005)
  36. Finding Nemo (Andrew Stanton & Lee Unkrich, 2003)
  37. United 93 (Paul Greengrass, 2006)
  38. Mystic River (Clint Eastwood, 2003)
  39. Dancer in the Dark (Lars von Trier, 2000)
  40. The Incredibles (Brad Bird, 2004)
  41. City of God (Fernando Meirelles, 2002)
  42. Capturing the Friedmans (Andrew Jarecki, 2003)
  43. Dogville (Lars von Trier, 2003)
  44. In the Bedroom (Todd Field, 2001)
  45. Caché (Michael Haneke, 2005)
  46. A.I. Artificial Intelligence (Steven Spielberg, 2001)
  47. Grizzly Man (Werner Herzog, 2005)
  48. Kings and Queen (Arnaud Desplechin, 2004)
  49. Donnie Darko (Richard Kelly, 2001)
  50. Syndromes and a Century (Apichatpong Weerasethakul, 2006)
  51. About Schmidt (Alexander Payne, 2002)
  52. Waking Life (Richard Linklater, 2001)
  53. The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (Peter Jackson, 2002)
  54. A Christmas Tale (Arnaud Desplechin, 2008)
  55. Wendy and Lucy (Kelly Reichardt, 2008)
  56. I’m Not There (Todd Haynes, 2007)
  57. Tropical Malady (Apichatpong Weerasethakul, 2004)
  58. Pan's Labyrinth (Guillermo del Toro, 2006)
  59. Russian Ark (Aleksandr Sokurov, 2002)
  60. The Pianist (Roman Polanski, 2002)
  61. Amores Perros (Alejandro González Iñárritu, 2000)
  62. Almost Famous (Cameron Crowe, 2000)
  63. Letters from Iwo Jima (Clint Eastwood, 2006)
  64. The Aviator (Martin Scorsese, 2004)
  65. The House of Mirth (Terence Davies, 2000)
  66. The Gleaners & I (Agnès Varda, 2000)
  67. The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (Andrew Dominik, 2007)
  68. WALL-E (Andrew Stanton, 2008)
  69. Traffic (Steven Soderbergh, 2000)
  70. Atanarjuat: The Fast Runner (Zacharias Kunuk, 2000)
  71. Vera Drake (Mike Leigh, 2004)
  72. Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan (Larry Charles, 2006)
  73. Still Life (Zhang Ke Jia, 2006)
  74. Shrek (Andrew Adamson & Vicky Jenson, 2001)
  75. Oldboy (Park Chan-Wook, 2003)
  76. Requiem for a Dream (Darren Aronofsky, 2000)
  77. Children of Men (Alfonso Cuarón, 2006)
  78. My Winnipeg (Guy Maddin, 2007)
  79. Paranoid Park (Gus Van Sant, 2007)
  80. L'Enfant (Jean-Pierre Dardenne & Luc Dardenne, 2005)
  81. Good Night, and Good Luck (George Clooney, 2005)
  82. Half Nelson (Ryan Fleck, 2006)
  83. The Fog of War (Errol Morris, 2003)
  84. Happy-Go-Lucky (Mike Leigh, 2008)
  85. The World (Zhang Ke Jia, 2004)
  86. Waltz with Bashir (Ari Folman, 2008)
  87. Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World (Peter Weir, 2003)
  88. School of Rock (Richard Linklater, 2003)
  89. Time Out (Laurent Cantet, 2001)
  90. Elephant (Gus Van Sant, 2003)
  91. Munich (Steven Spielberg, 2005)
  92. The Circle (Jafar Panahi, 2000)
  93. I'm Going Home (Manoel de Oliveira, 2000)
  94. Moolaadé (Ousmane Sembene, 2004)
  95. House of Flying Daggers (Zhang Yimou, 2001)
  96. Capote (Bennett Miller, 2005)
  97. Amélie (Jean-Pierre Jeunet, 2001)
  98. Kill Bill Vol. 1 (Quentin Tarantino, 2003)
  99. In Praise of Love (Jean-Luc Godard, 2001)
  100. The Holy Girl (Lucrecia Martel, 2004)
  101. Together (Lukas Moodysson, 2000)
  102. Gosford Park (Robert Altman, 2001)
  103. Inland Empire (David Lynch, 2006)
  104. Volver (Pedro Almodóvar, 2006)
  105. Bad Education (Pedro Almodóvar, 2004)
  106. Zwartboek/Black Book (Paul Verhoeven, 2006)
  107. Gangs of New York (Martin Scorsese, 2002)
  108. Bowling for Columbine (Michael Moore, 2002)
  109. Colossal Youth (Pedro Costa, 2006)
  110. The Piano Teacher (Michael Haneke, 2001)
  111. Wonder Boys (Curtis Hanson, 2000)
  112. Eureka (Shinji Aoyama, 2000)
  113. The Hours (Stephen Daldry, 2002)
  114. The Triplets of Belleville (Sylvain Chomet, 2003)
  115. Sexy Beast (Jonathan Glazer, 2000)
  116. Silent Light (Carlos Reygadas, 2007)
  117. Synecdoche, New York (Charlie Kaufman, 2008)
  118. Let the Right One In (Tomas Alfredson, 2008)
  119. Goodbye, Dragon Inn (Tsai Ming-Liang, 2003)
  120. Last Days (Gus Van Sant, 2004)
  121. Le Fils (Jean-Pierre Dardenne & Luc Dardenne, 2002)
  122. Platform (Zhang Ke Jia, 2000)
  123. In the City of Sylvia (José Luis Guerin, 2007)
  124. Kinsey (Bill Condon, 2004)
  125. Eastern Promises (David Cronenberg, 2007)
  126. Bloody Sunday (Paul Greengrass, 2001)
  127. The Lives of Others (Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck, 2006)
  128. Erin Brockovich (Steven Soderbergh, 2000)
  129. Kill Bill Vol. 2 (Quentin tarantino, 2004)
  130. Spellbound (Jeffrey Blitz, 2002)
  131. Offside (Jafar Panahi, 2006)
  132. In America (Jim Sheridan, 2003)
  133. Notre Musique (Jean-Luc Godard, 2004)
  134. À ma soeur! (Catherine Breillat, 2001)
  135. The Man Without a Past (Aki Kaurismäki, 2002)
  136. Fahrenheit 9/11 (Michael Moore, 2004)
  137. Chicago (Rob Marshall, 2002)
  138. Once (John Carney, 2007)
  139. Black Hawk Down (Ridley Scott, 2001)
  140. What Time is it There? (Tsai Ming-Liang, 2001)
  141. Rachel Getting Married (Jonathan Demme, 2008)
  142. Little Miss Sunshine (Jonathan Dayton & Valerie Faris, 2006)
  143. Maria Full of Grace (Joshua Marston, 2003)
  144. Hunger (Steve McQueen, 2008)
  145. Regular Lovers (Philippe Garrel, 2004)
  146. Spider (David Cronenberg, 2002)
  147. The Intruder (Claire Denis, 2004)
  148. Head-On (Faith Akin, 2003)
  149. Werckmeister Harmonies (Bela Tarr, 2000)
  150. Hero (Zhang Yimou, 2002)
  151. Hotel Rwanda (Terry George, 2004)
  152. Café Lumière (Hou Hsiao-Hsien, 2003)
  153. Milk (Gus Van Sant, 2008)
  154. Nobody Knows (Hirokazu Koreeda, 2003)
  155. Gladiator (Ridley Scott, 2000)
  156. Songs from the Second Floor (Roy Andersson, 2000)
  157. Flags of Our Fathers (Clint Eastwood, 2006)
  158. 24 Hour Party People (Michael Winterbottom, 2001)
  159. The Wrestler (Darren Aronofsky, 2008)
  160. Ten (Abbas Kiarostami, 2002)
  161. Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit (Nick Park & Steve Box, 2005)
  162. Tarnation (Jonathan Caouette, 2003)
  163. High Fidelity (Stephen Frears, 2000)
  164. 21 Grams (Alejandro González Iñárritu, 2003)
  165. The Best of Youth (Marco Tullio Giordana, 2003)
  166. Être et Avoir (Nicolas Philibert, 2002)
  167. George Washington (David Gordon Green, 2000)
  168. A Prairie Home Companion (Robert Altman, 2006)
  169. Chicken Run (Peter Lord & Nick Park, 2000)
  170. Monsoon Wedding (Mira Nair, 2001)
  171. 12:08 East of Bucharest (Corneliu Porumboiu, 2006)
  172. Howl’s Moving Castle (Hayao Miyazaki, 2004)
  173. The Host (Bong Joon-Ho, 2006)
  174. Old Joy (Kelly Reichardt, 2006)
  175. I Don’t Want to Sleep Alone (Tsai Ming-Liang, 2006)
  176. The Duchess of Langeais (Jacques Rivette, 2007)
  177. La Commune (Paris, 1871) (Peter Watkins, 2000)
  178. The New World (Terrence Malick, 2005)
  179. King Kong (Peter Jackson, 2005)
  180. A Time for Drunken Horses (Bahman Ghobadi, 2000)
  181. Saraband (Ingmar Bergman, 2003)
  182. Paradise Now (Hany Abu-Assad, 2005)
  183. demonlover (Olivier Assayas, 2002)
  184. The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (Julian Schnabel, 2007)
  185. Late Marriage (Dover Kosashvili, 2001)
  186. The Edge of Heaven (Fatih Akin, 2007)
  187. Climates (Nuri Bilge Ceylan, 2006)
  188. Into the Wild (Sean Penn, 2007)
  189. Before Night Falls (Julian Schnabel, 2000)
  190. The Deep End (Scott McGehee & David Siegel, 2001)
  191. Collateral (Michael Mann, 2004)
  192. Morvern Callar (Lynne Ramsay, 2002)
  193. Ratatouille (Brad Bird, 2007)
  194. A Cock and Bull Story (Michael Winterbottom, 2005)
  195. Persepolis (Vincent Paronnaud & Marjane Satrapi)
  196. Man on Wire (James Marsh, 2007)
  197. Ballast (Lance Hammer, 2008)
  198. Under the Sand (François Ozon, 2000)
  199. Three Times (Hou Hsiao-Hsien, 2005)
  200. Bamako (Abderrahmane Sissako, 2006)
  201. Match Point (Woody Allen, 2005)
  202. Irréversible (Gaspar Noé, 2002)
  203. I &#9829 Huckabees (David O. Russell, 2004)
  204. 25th Hour (Spike Lee, 2002)
  205. Unknown Pleasures (Zhang Ke Jia, 2002)
  206. Billy Elliott (Stephen Daldry, 2000)
  207. About a Boy (Paul Weitz & Chris Weitz, 2002)
  208. Crimson Gold (Jafar Panahi, 2003)
  209. Atonement (Joe Wright, 2007)
  210. Southland Tales (Richard Kelly, 2006)
  211. Battle in Heaven (Carlos Reygadas, 2005)
  212. Va Savoir (Jacques Rivette, 2001)
  213. O Brother, Where Art Thou? (Joel Coen & Ethan Coen, 2000)
  214. Crash (Paul Haggis, 2004)
  215. Bus 174 (Felipe Larceda & Jose Padilha, 2002)
  216. Broken Flowers (Jim Jarmusch, 2005)
  217. Uzak (Nuri Bilge Ceylan, 2003)
  218. The Five Obstructions (Jorgen Leth & Lars von Trier, 2003)
  219. Woman on the Beach (Hong Sang-soo, 2006)
  220. Reprise (Joachim Trier, 2006)
  221. The Man Who Wasn't There (Joel Coen & Ethan Coen, 2001)
  222. Away from Her (Sarah Polley, 2006)
  223. Che (Steven Soderbergh, 2008)
  224. Before the Devil Knows You’re Dead (Sidney Lumet, 2007)
  225. Syriana (Stephen Gaghan, 2005)
  226. Faithless (Liv Ullmann, 2000)
  227. Minority Report (Steven Spielberg, 2002)
  228. Monsters, Inc. (Pete Docter & David Silverman & Lee Unkrich, 2001)
  229. Spider-Man 2 (Sam Raimi, 2004)
  230. Rabbit-Proof Fence (Phillip Noyce, 2002)
  231. Chunhyang (Im Kwon-taek, 2000)
  232. The Magdalene Sisters (Peter Mullan, 2002)
  233. Brick (Rian Johnson, 2005)
  234. Michael Clayton (Tony Gilroy, 2007)
  235. The Proposition (John Hillcoat, 2004)
  236. The Day I Became a Woman (Marzieh Meshkini, 2000)
  237. Me and You and Everyone We Know (Miranda July, 2005)
  238. Los Angeles Plays Itself (Thom Andersen, 2003)
  239. Shattered Glass (Billy Ray, 2003)
  240. Mysterious Skin (Gregg Araki, 2004)
  241. Keane (Lodge H. Kerrigan, 2004)
  242. Chuck & Buck (Miguel Arteta, 2000)
  243. The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou (Wes Anderson, 2004)
  244. Time of the Wolf (Michael Haneke, 2003)
  245. Land of the Dead (George A. Romero, 2005)
  246. Shaun of the Dead (Edgar Wright, 2004)
  247. Springtime in a Small Town (Tian Zhuangzhuang, 2002)
  248. The Station Agent (Thomas McCarthy, 2003)
  249. Dirty Pretty Things (Stephen Frears, 2002)
  250. Ray (Taylor Hackford, 2004)
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Collated from various critics' end-of-year lists. Details can be found here.

This is the latest version of the list, updated in January 2009.