2000's Best Movies: 20 Years Later

recently saw La Captive for the first time; not one of my fave Akermans tbh

Don't understand why EUREKA never got a bigger following.

Also, I remember YOU CAN COUNT ON ME as better than like half of these.

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never saw La Captive, for me there are so many - Code Unknown, Dancer in the Dark, The Gleaners and I, In the Mood For Love, In Venda’s Room, Platform

think I have to go with In the Mood for Love

Werckmeister Harmonies was also just amazing

harder even than 1950 for me

also really ,irked Yi Yi, but it’s hard to rate it over A Brighter Summer Day

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As I Was Moving Ahead Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty has stayed in my mind since seeing it one time, probably close to 20 years ago, especially a passage where Mekas' child walks for the first time and he uses the Velvet Underground's "Run Run Run." And another one where (I think) John Lennon is playing basketball in Mekas's driveway. So I'll vote for that. I've been meaning to see George Washington for years.

Yes, You Can Count on Me would also get my vote were it here.

never saw Eureka

La Commune was also a really interesting film

really didn’t like Memento

Yi Yi or Battle Royale, depending on the mood

You Can Count on Me is good but these are some of the greatest films

Amazing how Time Regained and La Captive were released within a year of each other.

Tonight it looks like Yi-Yi. We'll see tomorrow.

On the other hand, how on earth is Amores Perros still promoted on Netflix, Amazon, etc?

Another would-be You Can Count On Me voter here; gonna go with O Brother, Where Art Thou?.

didn’t see Code Unknown until after The Piano Teacher, Funny Games, Caché, The White Ribbon, Amour, but it is the equal of all of them

Songs From the Second Floor was also unforgettable

I love Eureka, suspect it's not better regarded because Shinji Aoyama doesn't have an auteur rep.

La Commune maybe the best achievement on here but Platform is my fave.

Akshully Battle Royale is sometimes my fave but that's like a really good kebab vs a full three course meal

agreed with this

jmm at 3:45 13 Apr 20
Yi Yi or Battle Royale, depending on the mood

Battle Royal has different cuts, the one I saw first is much better than the other one.

Battle Royale 2 is very weird and I should watch both of them again today or maybe just watch a bunch of Takeshi Kitano movies because I love him so much

oh, Songs From The Second Floor is also a contender, already voted for Yi Yi though, rats.

Eureka is stupendous, as is Platform.

With the possible exception of George Washington, I think Dude, Where's My Car? is better than all the US films on that list. TSPDT strikes again.

really didn’t like Memento

There's a sort of high-concept film that doesn't hold up to second thoughts, much less second watches.

That's his entire career

These films:

ALMOST FAMOUS (Cameron Crowe; USA) [#1748]
AMERICAN PSYCHO (Mary Harron; USA-Canada) [#1222]
DANCER IN THE DARK (Lars von Trier; Denmark) [#672]
GLADIATOR (Ridley Scott; USA-UK) [#1029]
MEMENTO (Christopher Nolan; USA) [#642]
REQUIEM FOR A DREAM (Darren Aronofsky; USA) [#710]
UNBREAKABLE (M. Night Shyamalan; USA) [#1812]

seem to have something in common in that some of my friends raved about them, I thought they were ok, not amazing, in a couple of cases actually pretty upsetting, and I cannot imagine choosing to watch them for any reason now. Contrast this with 1999 where the only film I feel this way about is Magnolia.

Requiem For A Dream had a brilliant original score of course, and the DVD had some good interviews with Hubert Selby Jr, I would listen to / watch those again.

Requiem For A Dream has its problems -- the sheer sledgehammer miserabilism of the last 15 minutes made me chuckle -- but it's miles better than most of what Aronofsky has done since.

Leto and Burstyn are dreadfully directed.

The 2000s are rife with such films as CAAL describes. Many of the acclaimed movies of the era lacked a rewatchability factor, in my opinion.

Voted with my heart, which means I voted for Crouching Tiger. Would people say Songs From the Second Floor is better or worse than You the Living? Because I've never seen the former, but I do love the hell out of the latter.

prob not a popular opinion but i think almost famous (bootleg cut only) is crowe’s best film, totally cast a spell on me the last time i watched it

I've probably seen Crouching Tiger a few too many times, but I could vote for that too. One of the most amazing first theatrical viewings of my life.

Only watch of Crouching Tiger was with my housemate who had returned from the video shop with the fucking dubbed version! Should watch it properly I guess.

I would maybe consider rewatching Almost Famous, I remember the scene at the start where they play Simon & Garfunkel being good.

I watched Crouching Tiger at the cinema on release and of course it's lovely but it's nowhere near the equal of the best Wuxia it's a tribute to

I voted Yi-Yi but this poll has reminded me that I'm overdue to watch ITMFL again.

Crouching Tiger was amazing in the theater; I watched it at home not too long and the magic had definitely faded (also due to having seen quite a few wuxia/other martial arts movies in the interim).

I haven't even seen AMORES PERROS but I suspect it belongs on CAAL's list too

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yi yi, gleaners a& I, and as i was moving ahead... are three all time contenders. will probably vote yi-yi

saw almost famous when i was 14 and found it insufferable, bemused it has such a reputation. in the mood for love is overrated

xps IDK, I watched A Touch of Zen recently and I thought the good scenes were incredible but overall found it didn't really hold my interest. Maybe I'm just a wuxia philistine.

Well I'm not saying that but I'm certainly thinking it loudly 😅

Tbf ToZ is long and baggy compared to a lot of the genre

For me it's not so much that other wuxia are better (though it's harder to really love the scene, for example, where Zhang Ziyi fucks up the restaurant when you know how much of an homage it is), but that my delight in the choreography has lessened through exposure, including, unfairly, to all the films that came in Crouching Tiger's wake.

I have seen Amores Perros, but remember almost nothing about it.

Do not get Wong Kar-Wai at all, his films do nothing for me.

just watched crouching tiger for the first time last week, and will be kicking myself for the next 20 years for skipping it when it was in theaters

There's something about the kinds of light King Hu captures in his shots that's absolutely magical to me

Yi Yi is on Youtube and I have nothing to do today..... hmm

Would people say Songs From the Second Floor is better or worse than You the Living? Because I've never seen the former, but I do love the hell out of the latter.

― may the force leave us alone (zchyrs)

Better, but both are wonderful.

(But no, seriously, Gladiator is the pits and it being on this list but not Eureka is lamentable.)

I don't trust a movie this moronic.

Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon

Together & O Brother Where Art Thou also great

huh, if CTHD wins this I will be pretty shocked

I would've expected Almost Famous but yeah, it seems drifting CTHD's way.

Shout out for La Commune!

Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon--much like Almost Famous, Memento and Unbreakable, in fact--is one I liked just fine when I saw it in theatres but have never had the slightest desire to revisit.

Action scenes in Gladiator are terrible, which seems like a huge flaw.

I watched Yi Yi this week, it's top 2 or 3 on this list easy.

1. In the Mood for Love
2. Werckmeister Harmonies
3. Platform
4. In Vanda’s Room
5. Yi Yi

for me

also really loved Code Unknown, The Gleaners and I, La Commune

and Dancer in the Dark, Songs From the Second Floor

still want to see Eureka, Esther Kahn

I hated The Forbidden Room, I’m skeptical about Guy Maddin’s films but really want to see The Green Fog

Among the best years for cinema in my lifetime. Between Bela Tarr's best and Roy Andersson's best for me.

I also write in You Can Count On Me

My lists.

But of the ones on the list, the, like, two minute clip from As I Was Moving Ahead Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty that I saw on YouTube or something a decade or so ago has stuck with me and is better than any of the other films I’ve seen in their entirety

I like your lists Alfred, but I think In the Mood For Love is counted as being from 2000, not 2001

Another bump for this monster year.

In Vanda’s Room was the second Pedro Costa film I saw after Ossos from 1997. I was somewhat disoriented by it. Seeing Vanda Duarte again made me realize she was playing her real self, I don’t think I understood until then that Costa was blurring lines between documentary and fiction

also felt like I came to more of an understanding of his static ‘monotonous’ filmmaking style and what he is maybe trying to achieve with it

Werckmeister Harmonies was bleak but beautiful, still speculating about what the whale represents

haven’t seen Together but I really loved Moodysson’s Show Me Love (Fucking Åmål) from 1998

always wanted to see Jafar Panahi’s The Circle but haven’t found a way to watch it

I remember liking Together, but I haven't thought about it much in the last 20 years.

In the Mood for Love was the best film from this year and from almost any other year imo

I like Yi Yi and I expect it will win this poll but I think it had a disappointingly sentimental ending.

At the time I would’ve said In the Mood, but in retrospect I think it’s American Psycho.

I guess I should see it again but I hated American Psycho

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

this was an incredible year for movies

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

wish Code Unknown had gotten a vote or two but this isn’t a bad result

Nice to see no-one likes Requiem For A Dream any more

To equate "no one thought it was the best of these" with "no one likes it" is a major reason I despise ILX one-choice polls. I like it.

I remember liking it too but only saw it once at the time

I like it too. It's just that 2000 was perhaps the best movie year of my adult life.

challopsy, it was '99 surely

RfaD has some very striking shots, the 700 cuts in the last 15 minutes was really relentless at the time, it went places few other movies have gone before or since, its soundtrack has been endlessly borrowed, and I never want to see it again.

xp according to IMDb it was released in October 2000

'99 was great too, but I think there were more out-and-out masterpieces in '00.

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(Also, I wasn't legally allowed to drink in '99 so.)

2001 was also a pretty good year, with Mulholland Drive, What Time Is It There?, Spirited Away, La Cienaga, Donnie Darko, Ghost World, AI Artificial Intelligence, Trouble Every Day, Moulin Rouge!, In Praise of Love,

Plus Pulse!

Plus Glitter.

haven’t seen those yet!

And your mother too!

Overdue for a rewatch as I disliked it at the time.

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