Monday, June 24, 2013

Best films of the oughts on Netflix

Indiewire has a list of 57 of the best films of the 00s available on Netflix (mostly). Here's the list, bolded where it overlaps with my top 100 of the oughts.

1. In the Mood for Love (Ranked #2 on Indiewire's Decade Survey)
2. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (Ranked #5 on Indiewire's Decade Survey)
3. Brokeback Mountain (Ranked #14 on Indiewire's Decade Survey)
4. Punch-Drunk Love (Ranked #19 on Indiewire's Decade Survey) (really?)
5. 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days (Ranked #21 on Indiewire's Decade Survey)
6. Grizzly Man (Ranked #25 on Indiewire's Decade Survey)
7. Lost in Translation (Ranked #26 on Indiewire's Decade Survey)
8. Memento (Ranked #32 on Indiewire's Decade Survey)
9. Time Out (Ranked #34 on Indiewire's Decade Survey)
10. Y Tu Mama Tambien (Ranked #34 on Indiewire's Decade Survey)
11. The Best of Youth (Ranked #35 on Indiewire's Decade Survey)
12. Morvern Callar (Ranked #36 on Indiewire's Decade Survey)
13. Code Unknown (Ranked #39 on Indiewire's Decade Survey)
14. United 93 (Ranked #40 on Indiewire's Decade Survey)
15. Iraq in Fragments (Ranked #42 on Indiewire's Decade Survey)
16. Oldboy (Ranked #43 on Indiewire's Decade Survey)
17. The Piano Teacher (Ranked #43 on Indiewire's Decade Survey)
18. Gosford Park (Ranked #44 on Indiewire's Decade Survey)
19. Irreversible (Ranked #44 on Indiewire's Decade Survey)
20. Let the Right One In (Ranked #44 on Indiewire's Decade Survey)
21. Nobody Knows (Ranked #45 on Indiewire's Decade Survey)
22. Happy-Go-Lucky (Ranked #48 on Indiewire's Decade Survey)
23. C.R.A.Z.Y. (Ranked #49 on Indiewire's Decade Survey)
24. Far From Heaven (Ranked #49 on Indiewire's Decade Survey)
25. Secret Sunshine (Ranked #50 on Indiewire's Decade Survey)
26. Afterschool (Ranked #50 on Indiewire's Decade Survey)
27. Jellyfish (Ranked #50 on Indiewire's Decade Survey)
28. Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance (Ranked #50 on Indiewire's Decade Survey)
29. Together (Ranked #50 on Indiewire's Decade Survey)
30. Primer (Ranked #52 on Indiewire's Decade Survey)
31. The Host (Ranked #52 on Indiewire's Decade Survey)
32. The Taste of Others (Ranked #52 on Indiewire's Decade Survey)
33. Bloody Sunday (Ranked #53 on Indiewire's Decade Survey)
34. Sexy Beast (Ranked #53 on Indiewire's Decade Survey)
35. The Pianist (Ranked #53 on Indiewire's Decade Survey)
36. Bright Leaves (Ranked #54 on Indiewire's Decade Survey)
37. Dahmer (Ranked #54 on Indiewire's Decade Survey)
38. Paranoid Park (Ranked #54 on Indiewire's Decade Survey)
39. Bamako (Ranked #55 on Indiewire's Decade Survey)
40. Che (Ranked #55 on Indiewire's Decade Survey)
41. Exiled (Ranked #55 on Indiewire's Decade Survey)
42. Man on Wire (Ranked #55 on Indiewire's Decade Survey)
43. Snow Falling on Cedars (Ranked #55 on Indiewire's Decade Survey)
44. The Hours (Ranked #55 on Indiewire's Decade Survey)
45. Traffic (Ranked #55 on Indiewire's Decade Survey)
46. Everlasting Moments (Ranked #56 on Indiewire's Decade Survey)
47. Liverpool (Ranked #56 on Indiewire's Decade Survey)
48. Oh! Soo-jung (aka Virgin Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors) (Ranked #56 on Indiewire's Decade Survey)
49. 21 Grams (Ranked #57 on Indiewire's Decade Survey)
50. Bully (Ranked #57 on Indiewire's Decade Survey)
51. Red Lights (Ranked #57 on Indiewire's Decade Survey)
52. The Edge of Heaven (Ranked #57 on Indiewire's Decade Survey)
53. Bowling for Columbine (Ranked #58 on Indiewire's Decade Survey)
54. Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai (Ranked #58 on Indiewire's Decade Survey)
55. Gomorrah (Ranked #58 on Indiewire's Decade Survey)
56. Keane (Ranked #58 on Indiewire's Decade Survey)
57. Red Cliff (Ranked #58 on Indiewire's Decade Survey)
 
Ghost Dog, Dahmer, Paranoid Park, the Pianist, Sexy Beast,  Bloody Sunday, the Host, Primer, Afterschool, the Best of Youth, Oldboy, 4 months..., and In the Mood for Love have all been high on my list of "to see." Maybe this'll kick my butt in gear and I'll finally get to them. 
(21 grams? Gomorrah? Snow Falling on Cedars? I heard such mixed reviews for those. Also... surely not *that* Red Lights.... And the *other* Bully?)

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