The (Now-Overrated) ILX Top 100 Films of the 2000s Poll Results

Also DUMPLINGS!

dude is repping for donnie darko & frears' high fidelity

behold the fuckin' highbrow

"Greatest high school doc is SEVENTEEN, duhhhhh"

Greatest high school doc is Frederic Wiseman's High School.

just used my SB for 2010.

i'm lost, you're not talking about me, right? def not repping for HIGH FIDELITY, i'm not 15 anymore

love high school but seventeen is def better

I'm skeptical, Wiseman doc is pretty amazing...

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v212/etienne_saint/itmfl.jpg

6 years ago, a friend had acess to a threatre at U.T. and told me to be there at 8p.m. He said I could bring one friend, but not to tell anyone else. When I got there, he had beer and popcorn, and In The Mood For Love. Watching it, alomst alone in that theatre, and not knowing anything about the movie; it was amazing. We screen movies all summer in that theatre, but none was as breathtaking as ITMFL.

― Jacob Sanders

In the mood for love's a beautiful film, though. see it at a cinema if you can. the surface (dis)connects well with the substance, if that makes sense.

- stevie

the first thing that came to mind was 'In the Mood for Love' when he's whispering his secret to a hole in Angkor Wat and then covers it with earth; this has me ready to cry again right now.

- Spencer Chow

for scores in general, i find it like it best when the same short piece of music is used as a kind of leitmotif that is used again and again. it builds a relationship to the story and characters that goes beyond just background music.

In the Mood for Love did this really well i think.

- ryan

Finally, "In the Mood for Love" by Wong Kar Wei was a wonderfully melancholy moodfilm of quiet lives and missed opportunities, as visually *rich* a movie as any I've seen since the Umbrellas of Cherbourg. Even a twilight gale-blasted Tottenham Court Road seemed romantic after seeing it.

-- Stevie T

Wong Kar Wai - Feature Films, 1988-2007

#14

In the Mood For Love
Wong Kar-Wai
2000
Hong Kong
(667 points, 23 votes, 2 first place)

WTF

Loved this movie

http://www.sf360.org/features/seventeen-reasons-why-seventeen-might-be-the-greatest-movie-about-teenagers-ever-made

lol didn't vote for IN THE MOOD but awesome!

i don't rewatch a lot of things but this i've seen at least 3 times by choice

One of the best cinema experiences of my life.

never given him a second chance after Happy Together, don't really understand his cult status

repping for, repping for, repping for ... talk like 15-year-olds, watch like 15-year-olds.

You guys cite things I "rep for" from stuff I think is great popular art (ET, EtSunshine) to stuff I just like whose virtues aren't hip enough for you.

^lol was talking about morbs, tape store

Morbs is so hip.

er I mean Chungking Express

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who the fuck is zvookster

there's yr top "foreign" pick then.

saw it in the cinema three times and loved it then watched it again a year or so ago and found it pretty cringey tbh.

it still looked rabishing though.

there are narrow limits to the way you can think about cinema if these films are the best films.

This is all I've been trying to say, thx daria.

I am not very hip at all and haven't aspired to be in awhile.

One of my all time favorites; I've driven hundreds of miles for a chance to see this again on the big screen. Sadly, I haven't liked anything he's done since, but this and Happy Together I will always adore.

there's yr top "foreign" pick then.

Nah, Spirited Away will be.

Sort of surprised that City of God didn't make it, actually.

counting beans always narrows the results! ten people voting something low will outweigh a few voting high. not that i've been happy with today's run at all...

p sure in the mood for love was #4 on my ballot - its an incredible movie visually stunning and perfectly unified in form and meaning.

i said a similar thing upthread, morbs, more snobbily than daria, alas, but a few steps up from you.

who the fuck is zvookster

― autotuna fish (Tape Store)

why do people keep asking this? you're aware it's an open forum, right?

morbs you typed "totes mcgotes" the other day!!

also tony leung's character is probably the best dressed dude in any 00s movie imo

Sort of surprised that City of God didn't make it, actually.

― Lusty Mo Frazier (jaymc), Wednesday, February 10, 2010 11:52 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark

cosign but how do you know? was ITM4<3 def the highest foreign?

xxpOh we are all too aware.

In the Mood for Love has hypnotically beautiful sequences and i'm glad it placed highly.

never given him a second chance after Happy Together, don't really understand his cult status

― Wrinkles, I'll see you on the other side (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, February 10, 2010 6:48 PM (8 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

are you just going to post a variation of this after every movie? "what the fuck guys, i haven't seen this movie but it sounds bad!!"

haha yes!

lj says 'can you post this 2 thread and ask ilx to explain the comments stream o_O'

http://unrealitymag.com/index.php/2009/07/29/unreal-movie-review-the-hurt-locker/

tell me why I should see it!

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i mean, i've posted 6 v short things on this thread and you're bitching about m,e saying that i'm repping for high fidelity, which i def am not.

"Nah, Spirited Away will be. "

of course!

xxxxp I guess I don't know, but there are only 13 movies left, and I can think of 13 movies more likely to get in than CoG. I could be wrong, of course.

also c'mon s1ocki on this thread I have praised/defended the films I liked and kept my mouth shut about films I know nothing about too

i liked 'in the mood for love' quite a lot. so stylish, wong kar wai always is.

tell me why I should see it!

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― Wrinkles, I'll see you on the other side (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, February 10, 2010 6:58 PM (29 seconds ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

because it is a beautiful and enchanting film.

tape store, he was talking about morbs re hi-fidelity not you

I've also done a fair amount of bashing films I HAVE actually seen too y'know (Lost in Translation, the Incredibles, Borat, etc)

People who hate Happy Together are people I don't want to know.

All the pretty dresses. xpost

And I know and like Shakey Mo and now I am conflicted!

has as much in common with 'chungking express' (dope film btw) as 'after hours' does with 'kundun' (directors can be surprisingly versatile!)

Guys, stop speculating and let the good times roll in.