Thursday, January 05, 2006

Retrospective List making

Still list-making season, here.... When I posted my Top 10 for 2005, I made some sort of speech about how much the list can change retrospectively. Well - here's a look back and what I think (now) are the best films of each of the last few years.

2004:
1. Kings and Queen - Arnaud Desplechins
2. 2046 - Wong Kar-wei
3. House of Flying Daggers - Zhang Yimou
4. The World - Jia Jiang-ke
5. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind - Michel Gondry
6. Nobody Knows - Hirokazu Kore-eda
7. The Holy Girl- Lucretia Martel
8. Darwin's Nightmare - Hubert Sauper
9. Moolade - Ousmene Sembene
10. Napoleon Dynamite - Jared Hess

2003:
1. Goodbye, Dragon Inn - Tsai Ming-liang
2. Los Angeles Plays Itself - Thom Anderson
3. Memories of Murder - Bong Joon-ho
4. Dracula: Pages from a Virgin's Diary - Guy Maddin
5. Elephant - Gus Van Sant
6. Gerry - - Gus Van Sant
7. Cafe Lumiere - Hou Hsiao Hsien
8. Doppelganger - Kiyoshi Kurosawa
9. Blind Shaft - Li Yang
10. Crimson Gold - Jafar Panahi

2002:
1. The Son - Dardennes Brothers
2. Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance - Park Chan wook
3.The Man Without a Past - Aki Kaurismaki
4. The Pianist - Roman Polanski
5. Unknown Pleasures - Jia Jiang-ke
6. Millenium Mambo - Hou Hsiao Hsien
7. Dolls - Takeshi Kitano
8. Lilya 4-ever - Lukas Moodyson
9. Talk to Her - Pedro Almodovar
10. 24 Hour Party People - Michael Winterbottom

2001:
1. Mulholland Drive - David Lynch
2. Ichi the Killer - Takashi Miike
3. Donnie Darko - Richard Kelly
4. Distance - Kore-eda
5. The Royal Tennenbaums - Wes Anderson
6. Pistol Opera - Seijun Suzuki
7. Waking Life - Richard Linklater
8. Khandahar - Mohsen Makhmalbaf
9. Bloody Sunday - Paul Greengrass
10. All About Lily Chou Chou - Shunji Iwai

2000:
1. Yi Yi - Edward Yang
2. Platform - Jia Jiang-ke
3. O Brother Where Art Thou - Coen brothers
4. Songs from the Second Floor - Roy Andersson
5. The Circle - Jafar Panahi
6. Eureka - Shinji Aoyama
7. The Gleaners and I - Agnes Varda
8. Kippur - Amos Gitai
9. In the Mood for Love - Wong Kar-wei
10. Code Inconnu - Michael Haneke

And for the whole decade (last essayed here, but with quite a few additions):
1. Yi Yi
2. Kings and Queen
3. Goodbye Dragon Inn
4. 2046
5. Mulholland Drive
6. Los Angeles Plays Itself
7. The Son
8. House of Flying Daggers
9. Ichi the Killer
10. Donnie Darko

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

I would love to know what you liked about Kippur from Amos Gitai. I hated it.