The following is my list of the 10 best (and by best, I mean my favorite) movies of the decade. I had originally wanted to give a brief paragraph on each movie beneath my choice, but found that I was having trouble keeping my comments short. All that means is that I may be posting more in-depth articles on the films listed here at a later date. But for now, here's my list:
1. Pan's Labyrinth-Guillermo Del Toro-2006
2. The Dark Knight-Christopher Nolan-2008
3. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind-Michel Gondry-2004
4. Once-John Carney-2007
5. Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon-Ang Lee-2000
6. The Royal Tenenbaums-Wes Anderson-2001
7. About Schmidt-Alexander Payne-2002
8. No Country For Old Men-The Coen Brothers-2007
9. The Lord of the Rings Trilogy-Peter Jackson-2001, 2002, 2003
10. Zodiac-2007-David Fincher
Now, the following is not exclusively my list, but is instead the result of a conversation between myself and two friends (Zak and Paul) over New Year's weekend. We each came with 10 favorites and one or two "honorable mentions" apiece. There were eight movies that either two or all three of us agreed on. The result is a list of 25 movies that all or one of us had on our list. To be as democratic as possible, I'll present these in alphabetical order (Note: the only movies all three of us had on our lists were The Dark Knight and About Schmidt):
About Schmidt-Alexander Payne-2002
Adaptation-Spike Jonze-2002Amelie-Jean-Pierre Jeunet-2001
Brokeback Mountain-Ang Lee-2005
Cache-Michael Haneke-2005
Control-Anton Corbijn-2007
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon-Ang Lee-2000
The Dark Knight- Christopher Nolan-2008
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind-Michel Gondry-2004
Finding Nemo-Andrew Stanton-2002
Grizzly Man-Werner Herzog-2005
The Lord of the Rings-Peter Jackson-2001, 2002, 2003
Michael Clayton-Tony Gilroy-2007
No Country For Old Men-The Coen Brothers-2007
Once-John Carney-2007
Pan's Labyrinth-Guillermo Del toro-2006
Punch-Drunk Love-Paul Thomas Anderson-2002
Songs From the Second Floor-Roy Andersson-2000
Spider-Man 2-Sam Raimi
Ratatouille-Brad Bird-2007
The Royal Tenenbaums-Wes Anderson-2001Unbreakable-M. Night Shyamalan-2000
Waltz With Bashir-Ari Folman-2008
Y Tu Mama Tambien-Alfonso Cuaron-2001
Zodiac-David Fincher-2007
I haven't seen all of these yet (though I hope too) so I can't pretend to vouche for them all. I just thought this was a pretty comprehensive and interesting list that came out of a great conversation--and, to me, that is what making movie lists is all about. So here's the question, if anyone's reading this, what's your choice for the best movie(s) of the decade?
