2000's

FILMS OF THE YEAR: THE 2000's

              "Cinema can fill in the empty spaces of your life and your loneliness." Pedro Almodóvar 



2009

  1. The Hurt Locker (Kathryn Bigelow)
  2. A Prophet (Jacques Audiard)
  3. Inglourious Basterds (Quentin Tarantino)
  4. An Education (Lone Scherfig)
  5. District 9 (Neill Blomkamp)
  6. Up in the Air (Jason Reitman)
  7. Up (Pete Docter)
  8. The Cove (Louie Psihoyos)
  9. Sin Nombre (Cary Fukunaga)
  10. A Single Man (Tom Ford)
  11. Broken Embraces (Pedro Almodóvar)
  12. (500) Days of Summer (Marc Webb)
  13. Where the Wild Things Are (Spike Jonze)
  14. The Secret of Kells (Tomm Moore & Nora Twomey)
  15. The Secret in Their Eyes (Juan José Campanella)
  16. Star Trek (J. J. Abrams)
  17. White Material (Claire Denis)
  18. My Dog Tulip (Paul Fierlinger, Sandra Fierlinger)
  19. Crazy Heart (Scott Cooper)
  20. Vincere (Marco Bellocchio)

2008

  1. The Dark Knight (Christopher Nolan)
  2. Gomorrah (Matteo Garrone)
  3. Che Part One & Two (Steven Soderbergh)
  4. The Wrestler (Darren Aronofsky)
  5. WALL•E (Andrew Stanton)
  6. Encounters at the End of the World (Werner Herzog)
  7. Let the Right One In (Tomas Alfredson)
  8. Doubt (John Patrick Shanley)
  9. Mesrine Part 1 & Part 2 (Jean-François Richet)
  10. The Class (Laurent Cantet)
  11. The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (David Fincher)
  12. In Bruges (Martin McDonagh)
  13. Hunger (Steve McQueen)
  14. The Chaser (Hong-jin Na) 
  15. Waltz with Bashir (Ari Folman)
  16. Revanche (Götz Spielmann)
  17. Frozen River (Courtney Hunt)
  18. Milk (Gus Van Sant)
  19. The Visitor (Thomas McCarthy)
  20. Revolutionary Road (Sam Mendes)
  21. Gran Torino (Clint Eastwood)

2007

  1. There Will Be Blood (Paul Thomas Anderson)
  2. No Country for Old Men (Ethan Coen & Joel Coen)
  3. Zodiac (David Fincher)
  4. Michael Clayton (Tony Gilroy)
  5. Eastern Promises (David Cronenberg)
  6. Ratatouille (Brad Bird)
  7. The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (Andrew Dominik)
  8. Persepolis (Vincent Paronnaud & Marjane Satrapi)
  9. 4 Months, 3 Weeks & 2 Days (Cristian Mungiu)
  10. Before the Devil Knows You're Dead (Sidney Lumet)
  11. The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (Julian Schnabel)
  12. Juno (Jason Reitman)
  13. Once (John Carney)
  14. The Lookout (Scott Frank)
  15. Into the Wild (Sean Penn)
  16. My Winnipeg (Guy Maddin)
  17. 3:10 to Yuma (James Mangold)
  18. Gone Baby Gone (Ben Affleck)
  19. Grindhouse (Robert Rodriguez, Quentin Tarantino)
  20. The Bourne Ultimatum (Paul Greengrass)

2006

  1. Pan's Labyrinth (Guillermo del Toro)
  2. The Departed (Martin Scorsese)
  3. Children of Men (Alfonso Cuarón)
  4. The Lives of Others (Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck)
  5. Letters from Iwo Jima (Clint Eastwood)
  6. Volver (Pedro Almodóvar)
  7. United 93 (Paul Greengrass)
  8. Notes on a Scandal (Richard Eyre)
  9. Casino Royale (Martin Campbell)
  10. The Prestige (Christopher Nolan)
  11. Babel (Alejandro González Iñárritu)
  12. The Wind That Shakes the Barley (Ken Loach)
  13. Half Nelson (Ryan Fleck)
  14. Little Miss Sunshine (Jonathan Dayton & Valerie Faris)
  15. V for Vendetta (James McTeigue)
  16. Blood Diamond (Edward Zwick)
  17. Away from Her (Sarah Polley)
  18. Stranger Than Fiction (Marc Forster)
  19. Rescue Dawn (Werner Herzog)
  20. Paris, Je T'Aime (Various)

2005

  1. A History of Violence (David Cronenberg)
  2. Batman Begins (Christopher Nolan)
  3. Sin City (Frank Miller & Robert Rodriguez)
  4. Syriana (Stephen Gaghan)
  5. Brokeback Mountain (Ang Lee)
  6. Munich (Steven Spielberg)
  7. The Squid and the Whale (Noah Baumbach)
  8. Shooting Dogs (Michael Caton-Jones)
  9. No Direction Home: Bob Dylan (Martin Scorsese)
  10. The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada (Tommy Lee Jones)
  11. Good Night, and Good Luck. (George Clooney)
  12. Grizzly Man (Werner Herzog)
  13. Walk the Line (James Mangold)
  14. Brick (2005, Rian Johnson)
  15. Broken Flowers (Jim Jarmusch)
  16. The Proposition (John Hillcoat)
  17. Match Point (Woody Allen)
  18. Kiss Kiss Bang Bang (Shane Black)
  19. Capote (Bennett Miller)
  20. Thank You for Smoking (Jason Reitman)

2004

  1. Downfall (Oliver Hirschbiegel)
  2. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (Michel Gondry)
  3. Million Dollar Baby (Clint Eastwood)
  4. Collateral (Michael Mann)
  5. The Brotherhood of War (Je-gyu Kang)
  6. Kill Bill: Vol. 2 (Quentin Tarantino)
  7. Shaun of the Dead (Edgar Wright)
  8. The Aviator (Martin Scorsese)
  9. Before Sunset (Richard Linklater) 
  10. The Incredibles (Brad Bird)
  11. With Blood on My Hands: Pusher II (Nicolas Winding Refn)
  12. Howl's Moving Castle (Hayao Miyazaki)
  13. Hotel Rwanda (Terry George)
  14. The Motorcycle Diaries (Walter Salles)
  15. Bad Education (Pedro Almodóvar)
  16. Sideways (Alexander Payne)
  17. Garden State (Zach Braff)
  18. Mysterious Skin (Gregg Araki)
  19. Layer Cake (Matthew Vaughn)
  20. Vera Drake (Mike Leigh)

2003

  1. The Best of Youth (Marco Tullio Giordana) 
  2. Kill Bill: Vol. 1 (Quentin Tarantino)
  3. Memories of Murder (Bong Joon Ho)
  4. Mystic River (Clint Eastwood)
  5. Finding Nemo (Andrew Stanton)
  6. Lost in Translation (Sofia Coppola)
  7. The Triplets of Belleville (Sylvain Chomet)
  8. 21 Grams (Alejandro González Iñárritu)
  9. Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World (Peter Weir)
  10. The Last Samurai (Edward Zwick)
  11. The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (Peter Jackson)
  12. Big Fish (Tim Burton)
  13. Oldboy (Chan-wook Park)
  14. American Splendor (Shari Springer Berman, Robert Pulcini)
  15. In America (Jim Sheridan)
  16. House of Sand and Fog (Vadim Perelman)
  17. Zatoichi: The Blind Swordsman (Takeshi Kitano)
  18. The Station Agent (Tom McCarthy)
  19. A Tale of Two Sisters (Jee-woon Kim)
  20. Monster (Patty Jenkins)
  21. Elephant (Gus Van Sant)

2002

  1. Spirited Away (Hayao Miyazaki)
  2. City Of God (Fernando Meirelles)
  3. The Pianist (Roman Polanski)
  4. Talk To Her (Pedro Almodóvar)
  5. Distant (Nuri Bilge Ceylan)
  6. Adaptation. (Spike Jonze)
  7. Spider (David Cronenberg)
  8. Minority Report (Steven Spielberg)
  9. 25th Hour (Spike Lee)
  10. The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (Peter Jackson)
  11. Gangs of New York (Martin Scorsese)
  12. Confessions of a Dangerous Mind (George Clooney)
  13. Signs (M. Night Shyamalan)
  14. Insomnia (Christopher Nolan)
  15. Road to Perdition (Sam Mendes)
  16. 28 Days Later... (Danny Boyle)
  17. Punch-Drunk Love (Paul Thomas Anderson)
  18. Ripley's Game (Liliana Cavani)
  19. Infernal Affairs (Andrew Lau, Alan Mak)
  20. Whale Rider (Niki Caro)

2001

  1. The Fabulous Destiny of Amelie Poulain (Jean-Pierre Jeunet)
  2. Memento (Christopher Nolan)
  3. Y Tu Mamá También (Alfonso Cuarón)
  4. The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (Peter Jackson)
  5. No Man's Land (Danis Tanovic)
  6. Mulholland Dr. (David Lynch)
  7. In the Bedroom (Todd Field)
  8. Gosford Park (Robert Altman)
  9. Black Hawk Down (Ridley Scott)
  10. Waking Life (Richard Linklater)
  11. Monsters, Inc. (Pete Docter & David Silverman)
  12. The Pledge (Sean Penn)
  13. The Devil's Backbone (Guillermo del Toro)
  14. Donnie Darko (Richard Kelly)
  15. Frailty (Bill Paxton)
  16. Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (Chris Columbus)
  17. The Royal Tenenbaums (Wes Anderson)
  18. Ocean's Eleven (Steven Soderbergh)
  19. Ghost World (Terry Zwigoff)
  20. The Man Who Wasn't There (Joel Coen)

2000

  1. Traffic (Steven Soderbergh)
  2. Amores Perros (Alejandro González Iñárritu)
  3. Almost Famous (Cameron Crowe)
  4. American Psycho (Mary Harron)
  5. High Fidelity (Stephen Frears)
  6. Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (Ang Lee)
  7. Requiem for a Dream (Darren Aronofsky)
  8. Gladiator (Ridley Scott)
  9. Shadow of the Vampire (E. Elias Merhige)
  10. Wonder Boys (Curtis Hanson)
  11. Battle Royale (Kinji Fukasaku)
  12. Unbreakable (M. Night Shyamalan)
  13. Snatch (Guy Ritchie)
  14. The Yards (James Gray)
  15. Pollock (Ed Harris)
  16. Sexy Beast (Jonathan Glazer)
  17. O Brother, Where Art Thou? (Joel Coen)
  18. Before Night Falls (Julian Schnabel)
  19. Erin Brockovich (Steven Soderbergh)
  20. Cast Away (Robert Zemeckis)
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