They Shoot Pictures Top 250 Films of the 21st Century (what I have seen is highlighted)

Submitted by TonyKotlarek on Mon, 04/14/2008 - 01:49
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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. Far from Heaven (Todd Haynes, 2002)
  6. Sideways (Alexander Payne, 2004)
  7. Lost in Translation (Sofia Coppola, 2003)
  8. Y tu mamá también (Alfonso Cuarón, 2001)
  9. A History of Violence (David Cronenberg, 2005)
  10. Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (Ang Lee, 2000)
  11. Spirited Away (Hayao Miyazaki, 2001)
  12. Talk to Her (Pedro Almodóvar, 2002)
  13. Million Dollar Baby (Clint Eastwood, 2004)
  14. Punch-Drunk Love (Paul Thomas Anderson, 2002)
  15. The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (Peter Jackson, 2003)
  16. Before Sunset (Richard Linklater, 2004)
  17. There Will Be Blood (Paul Thomas Anderson, 2007)
  18. The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (Peter Jackson, 2001)
  19. Ghost World (Terry Zwigoff, 2001)
  20. Memento (Christopher Nolan, 2000)
  21. No Country for Old Men (Joel & Ethan Coen, 2007)
  22. Adaptation. (Spike Jonze, 2002)
  23. The Queen (Stephen Frears, 2006)
  24. The Departed (Martin Scorsese, 2006)
  25. Zodiac (David Fincher, 2007)
  26. United 93 (Paul Greengrass, 2006)
  27. The Squid and the Whale (Noah Baumbach, 2005)
  28. American Splendor (Robert Pulcini & Shari Springer berman, 2003)
  29. You Can Count on Me (Kenneth Lonergan, 2000)
  30. The Royal Tenenbaums (Wes Anderson, 2001)
  31. Dancer in the Dark (Lars von Trier, 2000)
  32. The Incredibles (Brad Bird, 2004)
  33. Brokeback Mountain (Ang Lee, 2005)
  34. 2046 (Wong Kar-Wai, 2004)
  35. Mystic River (Clint Eastwood, 2003)
  36. In the Bedroom (Todd Field, 2001)
  37. Moulin Rouge! (Baz Luhrmann, 2001)
  38. Finding Nemo (Andrew Stanton & Lee Unkrich, 2003)
  39. Capturing the Friedmans (Andrew Jarecki, 2003)
  40. Grizzly Man (Werner Herzog, 2005)
  41. Kings and Queen (Arnaud Desplechin, 2004)
  42. A.I. Artificial Intelligence (Steven Spielberg, 2001)
  43. Syndromes and a Century (Apichatpong Weerasethakul, 2006)
  44. Waking Life (Richard Linklater, 2001)
  45. Caché (Michael Haneke, 2005)
  46. About Schmidt (Alexander Payne, 2002)
  47. Atanarjuat: The Fast Runner (Zacharias Kunuk, 2000)
  48. The Death of Mr. Lazarescu (Cristi Puiu, 2005)
  49. Tropical Malady (Apichatpong Weerasethakul, 2004)
  50. The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (Peter Jackson, 2002)
  51. I’m Not There (Todd Haynes, 2007)
  52. 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days (Cristian Mungiu, 2007)
  53. The Pianist (Roman Polanski, 2002)
  54. Almost Famous (Cameron Crowe, 2000)
  55. Dogville (Lars von Trier, 2003)
  56. The Aviator (Martin Scorsese, 2004)
  57. Letters from Iwo Jima (Clint Eastwood, 2006)
  58. Traffic (Steven Soderbergh, 2000)
  59. The House of Mirth (Terence Davies, 2000)
  60. City of God (Fernando Meirelles, 2002)
  61. Russian Ark (Aleksandr Sokurov, 2002)
  62. Vera Drake (Mike Leigh, 2004)
  63. Pan's Labyrinth (Guillermo del Toro, 2006)
  64. Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan (Larry Charles, 2006)
  65. The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (Andrew Dominik, 2007)
  66. Shrek (Andrew Adamson & Vicky Jenson, 2001)
  67. Half Nelson (Ryan Fleck, 2006)
  68. L'Enfant (Jean-Pierre Dardenne & Luc Dardenne, 2005)
  69. Good Night, and Good Luck (George Clooney, 2005)
  70. The Fog of War (Errol Morris, 2003)
  71. Children of Men (Alfonso Cuarón, 2006)
  72. The World (Zhang Ke Jia, 2004)
  73. Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World (Peter Weir, 2003)
  74. Requiem for a Dream (Darren Aronofsky, 2000)
  75. Donnie Darko (Richard Kelly, 2001)
  76. Time Out (Laurent Cantet, 2001)
  77. Elephant (Gus Van Sant, 2003)
  78. Munich (Steven Spielberg, 2005)
  79. The Circle (Jafar Panahi, 2000)
  80. I'm Going Home (Manoel de Oliveira, 2000)
  81. Amores Perros (Alejandro González Iñárritu, 2000)
  82. Kill Bill Vol. 1 (Quentin Tarantino, 2003)
  83. House of Flying Daggers (Zhang Yimou, 2001)
  84. Moolaadé (Ousmane Sembene, 2004)
  85. Capote (Bennett Miller, 2005)
  86. Gosford Park (Robert Altman, 2001)
  87. In Praise of Love (Jean-Luc Godard, 2001)
  88. Volver (Pedro Almodóvar, 2006)
  89. The Holy Girl (Lucrecia Martel, 2004)
  90. Black Book (Paul Verhoeven, 2006)
  91. Inland Empire (David Lynch, 2006)
  92. Amélie (Jean-Pierre Jeunet, 2001)
  93. Bad Education (Pedro Almodóvar, 2004)
  94. Colossal Youth (Pedro Costa, 2006)
  95. The Piano teacher (Michael Haneke, 2001)
  96. Wonder Boys (Curtis Hanson, 2000)
  97. Eureka (Shinji Aoyama, 2000)
  98. Gangs of New York (Martin Scorsese, 2002)
  99. The Triplets of Belleville (Sylvain Chomet, 2003)
  100. Sexy Beast (Jonathan Glazer, 2000)
  101. Goodbye, Dragon Inn (Tsai Ming-Liang, 2003)
  102. The Gleaners & I (Agnès Varda, 2000)
  103. Last Days (Gus Van Sant, 2004)
  104. Platform (Zhang Ke Jia, 2000)
  105. Kinsey (Bill Condon, 2004)
  106. Together (Lukas Moodysson, 2000)
  107. Erin Brockovich (Steven Soderbergh, 2000)
  108. The Son (Jean-Pierre Dardenne & Luc Dardenne, 2002)
  109. The Hours (Stephen Daldry, 2002)
  110. Offside (Jafar Panahi, 2006)
  111. Eastern Promises (David Cronenberg, 2007)
  112. In America (Jim Sheridan, 2003)
  113. Notre Musique (Jean-Luc Godard, 2004)
  114. Bloody Sunday (Paul Greengrass, 2001)
  115. Kill Bill Vol. 2 (Quentin tarantino, 2004)
  116. The Man Without a Past (Aki Kaurismäki, 2002)
  117. Bowling for Columbine (Michael Moore, 2002)
  118. What Time is it There? (Tsai Ming-Liang, 2001)
  119. Little Miss Sunshine (Jonathan Dayton & Valerie Faris, 2006)
  120. Spellbound (Jeffrey Blitz, 2002)
  121. Maria Full of Grace (Joshua Marston, 2003)
  122. Regular Lovers (Philippe Garrel, 2004)
  123. Fat Girl (Catherine Breillat, 2001)
  124. Fahrenheit 9/11 (Michael Moore, 2004)
  125. Werckmeister Harmonies (Bela Tarr, 2000)
  126. Hotel Rwanda (Terry George, 2004)
  127. Café Lumière (Hou Hsiao-Hsien, 2003)
  128. Once (John Carney, 2007)
  129. Spider (David Cronenberg, 2002)
  130. Black Hawk Down (Ridley Scott, 2001)
  131. Hero (Zhang Yimou, 2002)
  132. School of Rock (Richard Linklater, 2003)
  133. Chicago (Rob Marshall, 2002)
  134. Ten (Abbas Kiarostami, 2002)
  135. Tarnation (Jonathan Caouette, 2003)
  136. 24 Hour Party People (Michael Winterbottom, 2001)
  137. High Fidelity (Stephen Frears, 2000)
  138. 21 Grams (Alejandro González Iñárritu, 2003)
  139. George Washington (David Gordon Green, 2000)
  140. A Prairie Home Companion (Robert Altman, 2006)
  141. The Intruder (Claire Denis, 2004)
  142. Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit (Nick Park & Steve Box, 2005)
  143. Head-On (Faith Akin, 2003)
  144. The Host (Bong Joon-Ho, 2006)
  145. Old Joy (Kelly Reichardt, 2006)
  146. Flags of Our Fathers (Clint Eastwood, 2006)
  147. I Don’t Want to Sleep Alone (Tsai Ming-Liang, 2006)
  148. The Best of Youth (Marco Tullio Giordana, 2003)
  149. Chicken Run (Peter Lord & Nick Park, 2000)
  150. King Kong (Peter Jackson, 2005)
  151. A Time for Drunken Horses (Bahman Ghobadi, 2000)
  152. demonlover (Olivier Assayas, 2002)
  153. Nobody Knows (Hirokazu Koreeda, 2003)
  154. The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (Julian Schnabel, 2007)
  155. Late Marriage (Dover Kosashvili, 2001)
  156. Into the Wild (Sean Penn, 2007)
  157. The Deep End (Scott McGehee & David Siegel, 2001)
  158. La Commune (Paris, 1871) (Peter Watkins, 2000)
  159. Monsoon Wedding (Mira Nair, 2001)
  160. The New World (Terrence Malick, 2005)
  161. To Be And To Have (Nicolas Philibert, 2002)
  162. Tristam Shandy: A Cock and Bull Story (Michael Winterbottom, 2005)
  163. Paradise Now (Hany Abu-Assad, 2005)
  164. Saraband (Ingmar Bergman, 2003)
  165. Persepolis (Vincent Paronnaud & Marjane Satrapi)
  166. 12:08 East of Bucharest (Corneliu Porumboiu, 2006)
  167. Climates (Nuri Bilge Ceylan, 2006)
  168. Before Night Falls (Julian Schnabel, 2000)
  169. Gladiator (Ridley Scott, 2000)
  170. I Heart Huckabees (David O. Russell, 2004)
  171. 25th Hour (Spike Lee, 2002)
  172. Unknown Pleasures (Zhang Ke Jia, 2002)
  173. Billy Elliott (Stephen Daldry, 2000)
  174. Collateral (Michael Mann, 2004)
  175. About a Boy (Paul Weitz & Chris Weitz, 2002)
  176. Crimson Gold (Jafar Panahi, 2003)
  177. Ratatouille (Brad Bird, 2007)
  178. Under the Sand (François Ozon, 2000)
  179. Southland Tales (Richard Kelly, 2006)
  180. Three Times (Hou Hsiao-Hsien, 2005)
  181. Battle in Heaven (Carlos Reygadas, 2005)
  182. Va Savoir (Jacques Rivette, 2001)
  183. O Brother, Where Art Thou? (Joel Coen & Ethan Coen, 2000)
  184. Bus 174 (Felipe Larceda & Jose Padilha, 2002)
  185. Distant (Nuri Bilge Ceylan, 2003)
  186. The Five Obstructions (Jorgen Leth & Lars von Trier, 2003)
  187. Morvern Callar (Lynne Ramsay, 2002)
  188. Atonement (Joe Wright, 2007)
  189. The Man Who Wasn't There (Joel Coen & Ethan Coen, 2001)
  190. Away from Her (Sarah Polley, 2006)
  191. Syriana (Stephen Gaghan, 2005)
  192. Before the Devil Knows You’re Dead (Sidney Lumet, 2007)
  193. Faithless (Liv Ullmann, 2000)
  194. Minority Report (Steven Spielberg, 2002)
  195. Monsters, Inc. (Pete Docter & David Silverman & Lee Unkrich, 2001)
  196. Rabbit-Proof Fence (Phillip Noyce, 2002)
  197. The Magdalene Sisters (Peter Mullan, 2002)
  198. The Day I Became a Woman (Marzieh Meshkini, 2000)
  199. Me and You and Everyone We Know (Miranda July, 2005)
  200. Los Angeles Plays Itself (Thom Andersen, 2003)
  201. Shattered Glass (Billy Ray, 2003)
  202. Mysterious Skin (Gregg Araki, 2004)
  203. Bamako (Abderrahmane Sissako, 2006)
  204. Keane (Lodge H. Kerrigan, 2004)
  205. Chuck & Buck (Miguel Arteta, 2000)
  206. Broken Flowers (Jim Jarmusch, 2005)
  207. The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou (Wes Anderson, 2004)
  208. Match Point (Woody Allen, 2005)
  209. Land of the Dead (George A. Romero, 2005)
  210. Springtime in a Small Town (Tian Zhuangzhuang, 2002)
  211. The Station Agent (Thomas McCarthy, 2003)
  212. The Proposition (John Hillcoat, 2004)
  213. Spider-Man 2 (Sam Raimi, 2004)
  214. Dirty Pretty Things (Stephen Frears, 2002)
  215. Irréversible (Gaspar Noé, 2002)
  216. Brick (Rian Johnson, 2005)
  217. Ray (Taylor Hackford, 2004)
  218. The Motorcycle Diaries (Walter Salles, 2004)
  219. Cold Mountain (Anthony Minghella, 2003)
  220. Junebug (Phil Morrison, 2005)
  221. Michael Clayton (Tony Gilroy, 2007)
  222. A Scanner Darkly (Richard Linklater, 2006)
  223. Kung Fu Hustle (Stephen Chow, 2004)
  224. Time of the Wolf (Michael Haneke, 2003)
  225. Femme Fatale (Brian De Palma, 2002)
  226. Crash (paul Haggis, 2004)
  227. Lovely & Amazing (Nicole Holofcener, 2001)
  228. The Others (Alejandro Amenábar, 2001)
  229. Songs from the Second Floor (Roy Andersson, 2000)
  230. Whale Rider (Niki Caro, 2002)
  231. Shaun of the Dead (Edgar Wright, 2004)
  232. The Barbarian Invasions (Denys Arcand, 2003)
  233. The Quiet American (Phillip Noyce, 2002)
  234. Little Children (Todd Field, 2006)
  235. The Darjeeling Limited (Wes Anderson, 2007)
  236. The Savages (Tamara Jenkins, 2007)
  237. Ali (Michael Mann, 2001)
  238. Cowards Bend the Knee (Guy Maddin, 2003)
  239. Hedwig and the Angry Inch (John Cameron Mitchell, 2001)
  240. La Ciénaga (Lucrecia Martel, 2001)
  241. The Saddest Music in the World (Guy Maddin, 2003)
  242. Gerry (Gus Van Sant, 2001)
  243. The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada (Tommy Lee Jones, 2005)
  244. The Return (Andrey Zvyagintsev, 2003)
  245. Oldboy (Park Chan-Wook, 2003)
  246. Solaris (Steven Soderbergh, 2002)
  247. Lantana (Ray Lawrence, 2001)
  248. The Power of Nightmares (Adam Curtis, 2004)
  249. Day Night Day Night (Julia Loktev, 2006)
  250. Bamboozled (Spike Lee, 2000)
Author Comments: 

This list of the top 250 critically acclaimed films of the 21st Century appears on TheyShootPictures.com

What I have seen is highlighted, and I plan to see them all.

Most movies I agree should be on the list, but some I do not, and many I do not agree with the ranking.

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Seen of the best films of the 21st Century according to They Shoot Pictures Don't They
enigmazach10/27/2009

School of Rock on the list at all is just wrong.