Dec 2, 2009

Best of Decade: Part I

I suspect that those who follow my work even scantly will already be well aware that my love of compiling lists knows no bounds, and so, of course, the already prominent trend of announcing the best films of the decade was one I wanted to weigh in on as soon as possible. Alas, the Part I I've added to the title above is meant to indicate that this is, quite deliberately, a work in progress, and is meant to reflect my selections as they stand at the moment before I jump off the deep end in attempting to catch up on the literally hundreds of highly praised works from the past ten years that have so far eluded these eyes. Rentals, screeners and screenings galore await me for the next two months as I attempt to compile as complete a list as possible, both for my own purposes and for the in-development poll at Slant Magazine. Here, I encourage readers and friends to suggest additional titles for consideration, although it must be understood that only so many will ultimately be gotten to: from The Mad Songs of Fernanda Hussein to Jackass 2, the stacks of DVDs that await my consumption already abound. For the time being, I present this rough draft, a loose representation of the films that, more than any others these past ten years, I simply cannot live without.

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1. IN THE MOOD FOR LOVE

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2. THE NEW WORLD

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3. MIAMI VICE

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4. A.I. ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE

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5. MULHOLLAND DR.

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6. THE LIFE AQUATIC WITH STEVE ZISSOU

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7. AQUA TEEN HUNGER FORCE COLON MOVIE FILM FOR THEATERS

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8. LOST IN TRANSLATION

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9. SPEED RACER

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10. INGLOURIOUS BASTERDS

11. There Will Be Blood (pictured)
12. Zodiac
13. Wendy and Lucy
14. Gangs of New York
15. The Wild Blue Yonder
16. 25th Hour
17. Into Great Silence
18. Inland Empire
19. Youth Withouth Youth
20. Donnie Darko

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21. Before Sunset
22. Apocalypto
23. Code 46
24. Munich
25. The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
26. L'Enfant
27. Death Proof (pictured)
28. Forty Shades of Blue
29. Five Dedicated to Ozu
30. Mission to Mars

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31. No Country for Old Men
32. The White Diamond
33. Big Fish
34. Mysterious Skin
35. Spider (pictured)
36. House of Flying Daggers
37. Kill Bill: Volume 2
38. Reprise
39. I'll Sleep When I'm Dead
40. The Royal Tenenbaums

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41. A History of Violence
42. My Blueberry Nights
43. Waking Life
44. The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
45. Femme Fatale
46. Revolver
47. Punch-Drunk Love
48. Neil Young: Heart of Gold
49. Paranoid Park
50. Wolf Creek (pictured)

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51. Rachel Getting Married
52. Ghost World (pictured)
53. W.
54. Last Days
55. The Edge of Heaven
56. Dogville
57. Paprika
58. Marie Antoinette
59. Rescue Dawn
60. Two Lovers

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61. WALL-E
62. A Prairie Home Companion
63. The Fog of War (pictured)
64. We Own the Night
65. Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit
66. The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
67. The Triplets of Belleville
68. The Duchesss of Langeais
69. The Manchurian Candidate
70. Saraband

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71. Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
72. The Company
73. The Fountain
74. Happy Feet (pictured)
75. A Serious Man
76. Letters from Iwo Jima
77. Brokeback Mountain
78. Bad Santa
79. Grizzly Man
80. Junebug

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81. In America
82. Millennium Actress
83. Cast Away
84. War of the Worlds (pictured)
85. The Proposition
86. Dear Zachary: A Letter to a Son About His Father
87. Catch Me If You Can
88. Casino Royale
89. Adaptation.
90. Eastern Promises

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91. Boarding Gate (pictured)
92. Lilo & Stitch
93. Hellboy II: The Golden Army
94. Public Enemies
95. Married Life
96. Ratatouille
97. Looney Tunes: Back in Action
98. The Squid and the Whale
99. Million Dollar Baby
100. Narc

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2 comments:

  1. Tobias Ximenez10:16 PM

    fucking GREAT pics mate! your lists are always the most inspired. Gotta give you props for being one of the only serious writers on film to give serious cred to ATHF & SPEED RACER

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  2. I wish the year released followed each movie title...

    ..but the post is pretty amazing. Thanks.

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