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An American Film Geek's Best of the Decade, 2000-2009
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Sheesh, another list! At the end of every year, the need to do an annual best-of movie round-up seems to sneak up on me. The fact that it's now the end of the decade snuck on me all the more. In compiling this admittedly quick list, I looked over all my qualifying year-end lists, and re-evaluated where necessary. I tried to consider the films I saw in the greater sociological context of the decade itself - their effects on it, and what they have to say about it. At the same time, I also tried to include some personal selections that probably wouldn't make other such lists, but were important to me. Please keep in mind that i could not see everything, and that my beat around here is the mainstream theatrical films. I managed to narrow it down to twenty films, ranking the first ten. So here it, my best of the decade,
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Audio/Visual: A Decade of Music in Film
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It’s time to get the real party started. I’ve whittled down what I prefer to think of as the “critical darlings” of my top ten best scores of the past decade. From this point on, it’s all subjective. The next three scores are personal favorites that I feel are real standouts from the hordes of disappointingly functional soundtracks I’ve witnessed. Before I continue, let me clarify a few things. I chose these scores (and this is so for the previous picks) not just because they suited their respective films; this they did well. I am highlighting them because they are also, standalone, great music that isn’t content to merely assist the visual action. At times, these soundtracks may even overwhelm the film itself, though this is a rarity. I love them because it’s not until you hear them outside their natural habitat that you realize how phenomenal they are.
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Peter Debruge’s Top 10 of 2009
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A rough year, you say? Maybe for your 401(k). Hollywood raked it in, enjoying record box office numbers, while the indie and foreign lineup (though spread between fewer companies perhaps) yielded an unprecedented number of treasures. To be honest, I can’t remember the last time I had such a hard time cutting my best-of list off at 10. Surveying my choices, I’m hard-pressed to find a common theme. In fact, if I didn’t know better, I might even wonder what kind of critic can love a G-rated Japanese-animated cartoon and Lars von Trier’s genital-mutilation opus in the same breath, or reconcile the esoteric with the popcorn populism of James Cameron’s Avatar. But there you have it. Of the 274 first-run and festival films I saw last year (that’s as many movies as qualified for Oscar consideration in 2009 - though not the same ones), the 10 best are
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- Peter Debruge
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Lisa Schwarzbaum's 10 best movies of the decade
30 December 2009 11:49 AM, PST
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It's almost New Year's Eve. I'm ready. Let's party!
1. There Will Be Blood (2007), Paul Thomas Anderson. The entire decade, summed up in a singular American masterpiece.
2. Sideways (2004), Alexander Payne. The decade's most adult film about men and women.
3. Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003), Peter Jackson. The grand conclusion to the decade's best epic.
4. Yi Yi (2000), Edward Yang. The decade's most beautiful family story.
5. The New World (2005), Terrence Malick. The decade's most imaginative history lesson.
6. Zodiac (2007), David Fincher. The decade's most unnerving crime story.
7. The Dark Knight (2008), Christopher Nolan. The decade's best comic-book adaptation.
8. The Death of Mr. Lazarescu (2005), Cristi Puiu.
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Watch AMC's Script-To-Screen Crew Run Down The Best Films Of The Decade
30 December 2009 6:54 AM, PST
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Another year has come and gone, and with it the first decade of the 2000's (whatever happened to Y2K anyway?). With the decade drawing to a close, we here at Script-To-Screen thought we'd put together a list of what we found to be the very best films over the last 10 years.
Each of us (Myself, Kellvin and Christina) assembled a list of the 10 films we thought were the cream of the crop.
So take a look at the video below and then hop in the comments section to let us know what you think.
So to recap:
John's List (In no particular order)
Lord of the Rings - The Return of the King
Ratatouille
Wall-e
Up
The Departed
The 40 Year Old Virgin
There Will Be Blood
Moulin Rouge
A Beautiful Mind
Gladiator
Kellvin's List (In no particular order)
City of God
Casino Royale
Lord of the Rings Trilogy
Memento
Moulin Rouge!
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- John Campea
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Film Junk Podcast Episode #249: Sherlock Holmes
30 December 2009 1:02 AM, PST
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0:00 - Intro
7:15 - Top 20 Films of the Decade: Fantastic Mr. Fox, There Will Be Blood, Inglourious Basterds, Lost in Translation, No Country for Old Men
19:40 - Review: Sherlock Holmes
37:20 - Trailer Trash: Cop Out, The Karate Kid, Inception
52:10 - Other Stuff We Watched: The Marine 2, (500) Days of Summer, Adventureland, Paper Heart, The Lord of the Rings Trilogy, Under Siege, Sweet Dreams, The Office Season 5, Invictus, Precious, No Impact Man
1:24:35 - Junk Mail: Grandpa Syndrome, Best Worst Movie, Weird Web Wednesdays, Top Directors and Actors of the Decade, Rocky's Raging Bull Tribute, Skipper & Gilligan, Joe Pesci and Sean Connery
1:46:30 - This Week's DVD Releases
1:47:50 - Outro
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Best Pictures... "Play it Again, Clint"
29 December 2009 7:15 PM, PST
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Nathaniel: Once again we apologize for the long delays between episodes. This Best Picture From the Outside In series… it’s a helluva thing.
1928----1943------------------------1992-----2007
We continue to pull one movie from either end of Oscar’s chronology, working towards the center of their eighty-plus year history. This match up brings us two of Oscar’s most respected prize-winners: Casablanca (1943) and Unforgiven (1992). Both films essentially begin with a sudden eruption of violence (a shooting and a slashing, respectively) followed by the intervention of local law enforcement (embodied by Claude Rains and Gene Hackman, respectively). World War II era Morocco and Wild West era Wyoming are dangerous and morally ambiguous places. They're also fine places to escape from one's past and start anew. At least that's how Rick Blaine (Humphrey Bogart) and William Munny (Clint Eastwood) see it.
Casablanca and Unforgiven toss out key plot points and introduce multiple
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Scenes We Love: The Age of Innocence
29 December 2009 3:02 PM, PST
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My memory bank of movie reviews doesn't stretch as far back as it should, but am I wrong in feeling that Nine is the first time people have been ragging on the critical behemoth known as Daniel Day-Lewis? It's almost as though some critics have been longing to tear him apart for ages. As per The Guardian: "Listen: can you hear a sort of whooshing and gurgling? That is the sound of Daniel Day-Lewis flushing his mystique down the toilet. He has mystifyingly taken the non-singing lead in a musical that is hideously naff, shallow, creepingly misogynist, badly acted and as phoney as a three-lire bill." Yikes. Surely you ought to rack up at least one or two more bombs before they write you off that way!
Day-Lewis gets so much press for being so deeply method that I constantly like to tell people to watch movies like The Boxer,
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- Elisabeth Rappe
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Lisa Schwarzbaum's 10 movie marvels of the decade
29 December 2009 9:30 AM, PST
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Notice I didn't say best movies -- that territory has been well covered by far more passionate list makers than I am. (By the way, do you agree with me that a devotion to ranking is primarily a male urge? Tell me three good reasons why I'm right or wrong. At any rate, I don't have the gene for it.)
As the first decade of the 21st century comes to a close, though, here's fodder for your New Year's Eve party: A list, in no particular order, of 10 movie developments from the past 10 years that have impressed, depressed, excited, upset,
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- Lisa Schwarzbaum
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Top 100 Tuesday: 100 Best Movies of the Decade
29 December 2009 4:43 AM, PST
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We are leaving Kubrick behind and fast approaching Hyams. If you get that reference, go grab yourself a cookie. It is time for us to reflect back on the decade that was. On January 1st, 2000, Disney released Fantasia 2000. On Wednesday, December 30th, 2009, The White Ribbon is set to bow. Between the release of these two films, thousands of films came and went, and some of them were far more memorable than others. It was a long trek getting this list together, but here are our collective top 100 films of the past decade.
Quick Year-to-Year by the Numbers:
2009 – 11
2008 – 11
2007 – 7
2006 – 14
2005 – 12
2004 – 8
2003 – 7
2002 – 12
2001 – 10
2000 – 8
100. Million Dollar Baby (2004) – Clint Eastwood
99. Juno (2007) – Jason Reitman
98. An Education (2009) – Lone Scherfig
97. Spider-man 2 (2004) – Sam Raimi
96. Munich (2005) – Steven Spielberg
95. The Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou (2004) – Wes Anderson
94. The King Of Kong (2007) – Seth Gordon
93. Harry Potter And The Sorcerer’S Stone (2001) – Chris Columbus
92. Clerks 2 (2006) – Kevin Smith
91. Femme Fatale (2002) – Brian De Palma
90. Tasogare Seibei
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Best of the Decade #3: No Country for Old Men (2007)
29 December 2009 12:01 AM, PST
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It's funny to think that two of the decades greatest villains came out of movies that were being filmed simultaneously in the same Texas desert. I've read reports that the plumes of black smoke emitting from the set of Paul Thomas Anderson's There Will be Blood actually interfered with the filming of the Coen Brothers' Academy Award winning No Country For Old Men. I wonder if this occurrence inspired any friendly competition between the two crews during production? If so, certainly not as much as the 2007 awards season. Worthy opponents indeed.
Although No Country For Old Men seems to raise more questions than answer them, it still managed to generate a pretty heavy buzz amongst mainstream cinema-goers. I remember seeing it in the theatre and once the closing 'Directed by' credit hit the screen, a few audience members voiced their disdain towards the film's blatant ambiguity. I can only
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My Movie Diary (2000-2009)
28 December 2009 6:58 PM, PST
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I can’t remember why, I’ve slept since then, but, in January of 2000, I found myself sitting in front of a blank Word document. I had an idea in my head of what I wanted to do, and, now, 10 years later, I’m still working strong at it. I began keeping a sort of diary, listing the days and months and putting down the films I saw in the theater into it. I don’t remember why I only included movies I saw in the theater. I could have started just as an idea-giver on how many movies I actually saw each year (I also kept a running count each year). It began on January 7th, 2000, when I entered Bicentennial Man as my first film in this long and ever-growing endeavor.
In 2000, I saw 166 films in the theater. There were many a high (seeing Gladiator on May 5th and
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Discuss: Performance of the Decade?
28 December 2009 6:32 PM, PST
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During this week's At the Movies, film critic Michael Phillips not only chose There Will be Blood as his favorite film of the decade, but he also called Daniel Day-Lewis' Daniel Plainview the performance of the new century. This, then, led me to think about the single best performances of the decade -- a list I haven't really seen too many people drawing up in these last moments of the year (partly because it's such a huge undertaking and partly because such a list should and could include well over a hundred different performances).
So I began combing over the films and performances that stood out for me over the past decade, and I, like Phillips, kept coming back to Daniel Plainview. Not only is Day-Lewis' performance stunning, scary and scandalous in every conceivable way, but Plainview -- and his greedy, conniving plans to strike it rich at the
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He Said – He Said … Top Films of the Decade
28 December 2009 4:18 PM, PST
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He Said – He Said … The Top 7 Films of the Decade
Our lists are done. We’ve checked them twice (and then some). Now there is only one thing left to do, complain, rant and argue. It’s time for the He Said – He Said … Top 7 Films of the Decade.
It’s He (Jeff Bayer) and his list …
7. Inglourious Basterds
6. Moulin Rouge!
5. Michael Clayton
4. Memento
3. Wall-e
2. Lord of the Rings: Return of the King
1. Eternal Sunshine of The Spotless Mind
Versus
He (Nick Allen) and his list …
7. The Band’s Visit
6. Superbad
5. The Lives of Others
4. Adaptation
3. The Dark Knight
2. Talk to Her
1. There Will Be Blood
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Top 7 Films of the Decade by Jeff Bayer
Top 7 Movies of the Decade by Nick Allen
He Said – He Said … Top 7 Films of the Decade
Amazing. Not one movie in common. I’ve decided to let
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The Washington Post's Top Ten Films of the Decade
28 December 2009 11:02 AM, PST
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These end-of-the-year lists are always an interesting read, and given that most people consider 2009 the last year of the decade, there are plenty of end-of-the-decade picks to go over as well. We're about two days away from publishing our own, so sit tight.
But for all the conversations that can be had about the best movie from this year, they're only magnified when you expand the playing field to include nine more years. So when you look at this new list from The Washington Post's Ann Hornaday, please remember how difficult this little game is.
To me, she has some strange choices at the top. Finding Nemo might not have been the best Pixar movie of the decade, and You Can Count on Me didn't shiver my timbers that much. But I'm not Ann Hornaday. There are, however, a couple titles we'll see a lot of on the end-of-the-decade countdowns,
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Discussing a Decade: Critics Comment On The 2000s
28 December 2009 8:25 AM, PST
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Last week, indieWIRE published its annual critics poll, with a special question geared toward the best of the decade. Ninety-nine participants decided that David Lynch’s “Mulholland Drive” lead some 200 films that received votes in the category, with Wong Kar-wai’s “In The Mood For Love,” Edward Yang’s “Yi Yi” and Paul Thomas Anderson’s “There Will Be Blood” just behind. Many of the critics also included their written thoughts on the decade …
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John’s 10 Biggest Movie Surprises of 2009
24 December 2009 12:56 PM, PST
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I’ll be up front with you: the list you’re about to read wasn’t what I had in store for you. As I sat at my desk and prepared to crank out what would be another top ten list of 2009, I realized that I was utterly ill-equipped to do so. As many great films as I witnessed this year, I missed just as many that I’m sure I’d enjoy: A Serious Man. The Fantastic Mr. Fox. The Hurt Locker. The Brothers Bloom.
I know. Just thinking about it makes me sick. But I saw enough to be confident in saying that 2009 was an extremely good year for movies — from blockbusters to indie pictures, we’ve witnessed some great films and surprising debuts from unique filmmakers.
What follows isn’t a list of the “best” films of 2009, but instead is a list of the most surprising, excellent
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- John Cooper
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Josh's Top Ten Movies Of The Year--Or How The King Of The World Reclaimed His Throne
24 December 2009 12:20 PM, PST
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2009 was a year of delights at the movies. The list below testifies to that. It doesn't rival '07 when two examples of virtual moviemaking perfection were released--namely "No Country for Old Men" and "There Will Be Blood" but '09 may have been filled with as many unexpectedly joyful film going experiences as I can remember in a single calendar year.
From sitting in the first public screening of what should have been a forgetful and frivolous romantic comedy on a frigid night in Park City (see #8) to being flabbergasted by the inventiveness of a would-be sci-fi auteur (whose name I couldn't spell or pronounce at the time, see #7) for 112 riveting minutes. Franchises were reborn. Genres were injected with new life. Stephen Sommers made a watchable film called "G.I. Joe: Rise of the Cobra." Young filmmakers came of age. And one mad genius with the heart of a pussycat and
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- Josh Horowitz
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The 10 Best Films of the Decade
24 December 2009 7:29 AM, PST
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Daniel Day-Lewis in Paul Thomas Anderson's 2007 masterpiece, There Will Be Blood.
There’s no getting around it: ten-best lists are arbitrary and cruel. Summing up as cinematically rich a decade as this one is impossible, and any such attempt can promise nothing but blood feuds and celluloid psychosis. So, let’s give it a try!
10. The Dark Knight (Christopher Nolan, 2008)
The first decade of this century will be remembered as the moment when comics finally conquered the cinema. At the dawn of the decade, Comic-con was just another massive geek-fest that studios barely acknowledged. Now it’s a necessary stop on any summer blockbuster’s publicity blitz. For studio chiefs in need of $50 million-plus opening weekends, it’s become a mandatory ritual to offer their first-born (director, stars, t-shirts) to the fanboys. From Spiderman to Sin City, the fan gods have been kind (and the studios have cashed in
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Decade: Paul Thomas Anderson on “There Will Be Blood”
24 December 2009 6:22 AM, PST
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Editor’S Note: Every day for the next month, indieWIRE will be republishing profiles and interviews from the past ten years (in their original, retro format) with some of the people that have defined independent cinema in the first decade of this century. Today, we’ll step back to 2007 with an interview indieWIRE had with Paul Thomas Anderson upon the release of his “There Will Be Blood.” iW Profile | “There Will …
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