This is the thread in which we anticipate "Capote"

Considering I would've never clicked on this thread twice if it weren't for the tangent, my guess is we're validating this thread.

I just checked my top 50 of 2000-04

Pleast post this.

1. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (Gondry, 2004)
2. All the Real Girls (Green, 2003)
3. You Can Count on Me (Lonergan, 2000)
4. 25th Hour (Lee, 2002)
5. Mulholland Dr. (Lynch, 2001)
6. Talk to Her (Almodovar, 2002)
7. Together (Moodysson, 2001)
8. Spirited Away (Miyazaki, 2002)
9. Lost in Translation (Coppola, 2003)
10. A.I.: Artificial Intelligence (Spielberg, 2001)

11. Collateral (Mann, 2004)
12. Before Sunset (Linklater, 2004)
13. Far From Heaven (Haynes, 2002)
14. Y Tu Mama Tambien (Cuaron, 2002)
15. Spellbound (Blitz, 2003)
16. Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon (Lee, 2000)
17. Lilya 4-Ever (Moodysson, 2003)
18. Wet Hot American Summer (Wain, 2001)
19. The Man Who Wasn't There (Coen, 2001)
20. Sideways (Payne, 2004)

21. Amores Perros (Gonzalez Inarritu, 2000)
22. Amelie (Jeunet, 2001)
23. In the Bedroom (Field, 2001)
24. Million Dollar Baby (Eastwood, 2004)
25. Minority Report (Spielberg, 2002)
26. High Fidelity (Frears, 2000)
27. Chuck and Buck (Arteta, 2000)
28. The Company (Altman, 2003)
29. Bully (Clark, 2001)
30. Jesus' Son (MacLean, 2000)

31. Kill Bill Vol. One (Tarantino, 2003)
32. American Splendor (Berman and Pulcini, 2003)
33. Undertow (Green, 2004)
34. Capturing the Friedmans (Jarecki, 2003)
35. Best in Show (Guest, 2000)
36. Adaptation (Jonze, 2002)
37. We Don't Live Here Anymore (Curran, 2004)
38. The Manchurian Candidate (Demme, 2004)
39. Morvern Callar (Ramsay, 2002)
40. 28 Days Later (Boyle, 2003)

41. Punch-Drunk Love (Anderson, 2002)
42. Almost Famous (Crowe, 2000)
43. Shaun of the Dead (Wright, 2004)
44. The Dreamers (Bertolucci, 2004)
45. Memento (Nolan, 2001)
46. Kill Bill Vol Two (Tarantino, 2004)
47. Requiem for a Dream (Aronofsky, 2000)
48. Ghost World (Zwigoff, 2001)
49. Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy (McKay, 2004)
50. Hedwig and the Angry Inch (Mitchell, 2001)

I didn't like Talk To Her, though.

:(

(true tho)

Movies from your 50 that show up on my lists of favorites for their respective years.

1. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (Gondry, 2004)
4. 25th Hour (Lee, 2002)
5. Mulholland Dr. (Lynch, 2001)
6. Talk to Her (Almodovar, 2002)
8. Spirited Away (Miyazaki, 2002)
10. A.I.: Artificial Intelligence (Spielberg, 2001)
12. Before Sunset (Linklater, 2004)
13. Far From Heaven (Haynes, 2002)
16. Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon (Lee, 2000)
18. Wet Hot American Summer (Wain, 2001)
24. Million Dollar Baby (Eastwood, 2004)
28. The Company (Altman, 2003)
31. Kill Bill Vol. One (Tarantino, 2003)
41. Punch-Drunk Love (Anderson, 2002)
46. Kill Bill Vol Two (Tarantino, 2004)
47. Requiem for a Dream (Aronofsky, 2000)
48. Ghost World (Zwigoff, 2001)

That's a sizable amount. A couple are borderline cases that I imagine a fresh viewing would probably merit demotion (#13, #47), but why do that?

film critics are the most pompous boring twats ever!

One half is undoubtedly pompous. The other half is obviously boring. But rarely are they both at the same time. Many of them are completely insane. Do you realize how hard it is to be both completely insane and, at the same time, completely boring?

I don't understand you. But you loved Bad Education, which didn't impress me much.

Sorry that I don't make sense.

Bad Education seemed like a tour-de-force.

Femme Fatale
Light is Calling
Kings & Queen
Mulholland Drive
Wet Hot American Summer
Elephant
Pulse
Crimson Gold
Tropical Malady
music video for "Star Guitar" (Chemical Brothers)

jaymc's list is mixed between films I love (25th Hour, Before Sunset) and 'please gouge my eyes out instead' (Lost in Translation, The Dreamers, Lost in Translation, MIllion Dollar Baby, Lost in Translation).

quickie top-10 of the millenium thus far:
25th Hour
Before Sunset
The Straight Story or Mulholland Dr.
Twilight Samurai
Morvern Callar
Jesus' Son
Gosford Park
Band of Brothers (boo-yah)
Bad Santa
Kill Bill Vol. 1

There are a lot of films (including these) I'd put in a top 50, but a top 10 is tough, there are just too few exemplary films coming out each year.

honorable mention to David Gordon Green's movies, which are always interesting, but too flawed for me to really love them. I think he'd be fantastic if someone else would write his damn scripts.

I'll help you choose. The Straight Story is '99.

Re: messiness... I think that's sort of the effect Desplechin wanted with this particular movie, since any way you cut it, 150+ minutes is a pretty flabby running time. There are obviously better defenses to be made on behalf of the film aside from "it's unpredictable, it's sloppy, it's like real life," because it's not at all like real life. Maybe it's more like real life filtered through that late-night fantasy of what the previous day's events should've been, if only you'd been more honest, and by "honest," I mean brutal and nasty and tough-lovey.

C-ing my A -- By that I mean that my own defense of the film as messy is not necessarily adequate, not that your dismissal of the film as messy is not adequate.

But I have to reprezent over here.

Not that I'm going to post one of my own.

I could post your 5-star DVDs over at Netflix, but I won't.

xp Brown Bunny!