The year before last I began to make lists of my favorite movies, which I posted on Facebook and sent out to friends. I like lists. At some point I’ll make lists of all my favorite movies, by decade. Here are the ones I’ve done so far:
TOP 20 BEST MOVIES OF THE DECADE 2000-09
4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days (4 luni, 3 saptamâni si 2 zile)
Almost Famous
Blind Shaft (盲井)
Brokeback Mountain
Downfall (Der Untergang)
Frozen River
Games of Love and Chance (L’Esquive)
Lemon Tree (עץ לימון)
Lost in Translation
Persepolis
Sideways
The Best of Youth (La Meglio gioventù)
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (Le Scaphandre et le papillon)
The Lives of Others (Das Leben der Anderen)
The Secret of the Grain (La Graine et le mulet)
The Son (Le Fils)
The Syrian Bride (הכלה הסורית)
The Yacoubian Building (عمارة يعقوبيان)
Time Out (L’Emploi du temps)
Tulpan (Тюльпан)
Honorable Mention:
Amores Perros
Caché
Crimson Gold (طلای سرخ)
Head-On (Gegen die Wand)
Khamsa
La Zona
Letters from Iwo Jima
Mystic River
Nowhere in Africa (Nirgwendo in Afrika)
The Band’s Visit (ביקור התזמורת)
BEST (AND WORST) MOVIES OF 2010
TOP 10:
Carlos
Crazy Heart
Lebanon (לבנון)
Of Gods and Men (Des hommes et des dieux)
Potiche
Precious: Based on the Novel ‘Push’ by Sapphire
Scheherazade Tell Me a Story (Femmes du Caire إحكي يا شهرزاد)
Tengri: Blue Heavens (Тенгри)
The Secret in Their Eyes (El secreto de sus ojos)
Winter’s Bone
HONORABLE MENTION:
A Serious Man
Ajami (עג’מי عجمي)
An Education
Honeymoons (Medeni mesec)
The Social Network
BEST MUCKRAKING DOCUMENTARY:
Inside Job
BEST DOCUMENTARY ABOUT THE FRENCH WORKING CLASS:
Entre nos mains
BEST DOCUMENTARY ABOUT DANISH SOLDIERS IN AFGHANISTAN:
Armadillo
BEST LIGHT COMEDY FROM ENGLAND:
Tamara Drewe
BEST COMEDY FROM ENGLAND MOCKING RADICAL ISLAMISTS:
Four Lions
BEST LIGHT COMEDY FROM FRANCE AFTER ‘POTICHE’:
Heartbreaker (L’Arnacœur)
BEST MOVIE FROM CHAD:
A Screaming Man (Un homme qui crie)
BEST MOVIE FROM KAZAKHSTAN:
Songs from the Southern Seas (Песнь южных морей)
BEST MOVIE FROM THE PHILIPPINES:
Lola
BEST MOVIE FROM GEORGIA ABOUT REFUGEES FROM ABKHAZIA:
The Other Bank (გაღმა ნაპირი)
BEST MOVIE FROM ROMANIA ABOUT THE FUNCTIONING OF BUREAUCRACIES:
Police, Adjective (Polițist, Adjectiv)
BEST MOVIE FROM BELGIUM ABOUT UNDOCUMENTED IMMIGRANTS:
Illégal
BEST MOVIE FROM TURKEY ABOUT THE TURKISH ARMY VS. KURDISH GUERRILLAS:
Breath: Long Live the Homeland (Nefes: Vatan Sağolsun)
BEST MOVIE FROM TURKEY ABOUT THE 1960s MODEL OF IMPORT SUBSTITUTION INDUSTRIALIZATION:
Cars of the Revolution (Devrim Arabaları)
BEST MOVIE FROM TURKEY WITH PRACTICALLY NO DIALOGUE:
Honey (Bal)
BEST MOVIE FROM SOUTH KOREA WITH LEAD ACTRESS OVER AGE 67:
Mother (마더)
BEST MOVIE FROM SOUTH KOREA WITH LEAD ACTRESS UNDER AGE 67:
Poetry (시)
BEST FEEL GOOD MOVIE ABOUT SOUTH AFRICA:
Invictus
BEST MOVIE ABOUT THE BUSH ADMINISTRATION THAT WILL GET YOUR BLOOD BOILING:
Fair Game
BEST MOVIE THAT WAS JUST SO BLEAK AND DEPRESSING:
Biutiful
WORST MOVIE THAT RECEIVED OVERWHELMINGLY GOOD REVIEWS:
Black Venus (Vénus noire)
WORST MOVIE THAT BOTH FRENCH CRITICS AND AUDIENCES LOVED:
Le Nom des gens
WORST CINEMATIC DEPICTION OF THE ALGERIAN WAR OF INDEPENDENCE:
Outside the Law (Hors-la-loi)
WORST CINEMATIC DEPICTION OF THE ISRAELI-PALESTINIAN CONFLICT:
Miral
WORST MOVIE FROM FRANCE ABOUT SPOUSE-SWAPPING COUPLES:
Happy few
MOST SOPORIFIC CANNES FILM FESTIVAL PALME D’OR WINNER IN AT LEAST TEN YEARS:
Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives (ลุงบุญมีระลึกชาติ)
TOP 10 BEST MOVIES OF 2009
Eyes Wide Open (עיניים פקוחות)
Frozen River
Jaffa (כלת הים)
Sin Nombre
Tetro
The Hurt Locker
Tokyo Sonata (トウキョウソナタ)
Tulpan (Тюльпан)
Un prophète
Welcome
Honorable mention: About Elly (درباره الی), Fish Tank, Katyn, Revanche, The Wrestler
10 WORST MOVIES OF THE ’90s & ’00s (in inverse chronological order)
Des poupées et des anges
Knocked Up
Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan
Looking for Comedy in the Muslim World
War of the Worlds
Closer
The Dreamers (Innocents)
Magnolia
Automne, octobre à Alger
Grand Canyon
10 FUNNIEST MOVIES OF THE ’90s & ’00s (in inverse chronological order)
Burn After Reading
Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby
Beur blanc rouge
Camping à la ferme
The Ladykillers
Astérix et Obélix : Mission Cléopâtre
Le Dîner de cons
Didier
Manhattan Murder Mystery
De Hollywood à Tamanrasset
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