Some of you expressed some interest in seeing a recap of my “best of” list so I’ve enclosed it below. I decided to add an additional twenty that merited serious consideration. 1. Kill Bill (2003-2004) 2. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004) 3. No Country For Old Men (2007) 4. Almost Famous (2000) 5. [...]
Posts Tagged ‘The Best Movies of the 2000s’
The Best Movies of the Past Decade: A Recap
Posted in Best Of Lists, Movies, The Best Movies of the 2000s, tagged The Best Movies of the 2000s on January 15, 2010 | 5 Comments »
The Best Movies of the 2000s (1-4)
Posted in Movies, The Best Movies of the 2000s, tagged Amost Famous, Cameron Crowe, Charlie Kaufman, Coen Brothers, David Carradine, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Jim Carrey, Kate Winslet, Kill Bill, Michel Gondry, No Country for Old Men, Pierre Bismuth, Quentin Tarantino, Rza, The Best Movies of the 2000s, The Big Lebowski, Uma Thurman on January 12, 2010 | 4 Comments »
#4. Almost Famous [2000]: I’ve long since been a huge fan of Cameron Crowe’s films for a variety of reasons. Crowe’s films are typically well-written, well-acted, quirky and they all feature excellent music. Without question, Almost Famous is the best of his illustrious career. Almost Famous is a semi-biographical movie about fictional teenage writer William [...]
The Best Movies of the 2000s (5-13)
Posted in Movies, The Best Movies of the 2000s, tagged Guillermo del Toro, Jack Nicholson, Laura Linney, Mark Wahlberg, Owen Wilson, Paul Giamatti, Paul Thomas Anderson, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Sideways, The Best Movies of the 2000s, The Lives of Others, The Savages, Thomas Haden Church, Upton Sinclair, Vera Farmiga, Vince Vaughn, Virginia Madsen, Wedding Crashers on January 11, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
In the interest of brevity (and so I can move on to other topics!) I’m going to try to get through this a bit faster. Here goes 5-13: #13. The Lives of Others [2006]: Winner of the 2007 Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, The Lives of Others is a gripping drama about an [...]
The Best Movies of the 2000s
Posted in Movies, The Best Movies of the 2000s, tagged Clint Eastwood, Kevin Bacon, Sean Penn, The Best Movies of the 2000s, Tim Robbins on January 8, 2010 | 2 Comments »
#14. Mystic River [2003]: I could have easily placed at least three of Clint Eastwood’s movies from the past decade on my list. Gran Torino and Million Dollar Baby were two of my favorite movies of recent years. Yet Mystic River is the best movie Eastwood has directed since 1992′s Unforgiven. Like Eastwood’s other gems, [...]
The Best Movies of the 2000s
Posted in Movies, The Best Movies of the 2000s, tagged Cate Blanchett, Howard Hughes, Leonardo DiCaprio, Martin Scorsese, The Best Movies of the 2000s on January 8, 2010 | 1 Comment »
#15. The Aviator [2004]: Martin Scorsese brought to life the curious but tragic story of Howard Hughes in this wonderful film. The film follows Hughes’life as he weaves in and out of various pursuits such as producing successful films, dating some of Hollywood’s most prominent leading ladies, and waging a war against Pan Am Airlines. [...]
The Best Movies of the 2000s
Posted in Movies, The Best Movies of the 2000s, tagged Christian Bale, Heath Ledger, Jack Nicholson, The Best Movies of the 2000s, The Dark Knight, Tim Burton on December 30, 2009 | 5 Comments »
#16. The Dark Knight [2008]: Christopher Nolan’s supremely crafted crime thriller earns a “distinction” on my list by the mere virtue that it is the greatest movie ever made about a comic book character. Yes you read that correctly. No doubt Tim Burton’s Batman raised the bar pretty high, shattering the misconception that a movie [...]
The Best Movies of the 2000s
Posted in Movies, The Best Movies of the 2000s, tagged Alfonso Cuarón, Children of Men, Clive Owen, The Best Movies of the 2000s on December 29, 2009 | 2 Comments »
#17. Children of Men [2006]: Movies about the future often ponder what a post-apocalyptic world would look like. But what would happen if the human race suddenly became infertile? Well, Children of Men is a story that explores this very question. Set in the United Kingdom in 2027, the film is about the discovery of [...]
The Best Movies of the 2000s
Posted in Movies, The Best Movies of the 2000s, tagged Adrien Brody, Roman Polanski, The Best Movies of the 2000s, The Pianist, Wladyslaw Szpilman on December 29, 2009 | 2 Comments »
#18. The Pianist [2002]: The great (and exiled) Roman Polanski directed this brilliant film, based upon Wladyslaw Szpilman’s autobiography. The film tells the story of how Szpilman evaded capture by the SS during Hitler’s seizure of Poland. Adrien Brody turns in the performance of a lifetime as Szpilman. As is the case with several movies [...]
The Best Movies of the 2000s
Posted in Movies, The Best Movies of the 2000s, tagged Elijah Wood, J.R.R. Tolkien, Peter Jackson, Sean Astin, Star Wars, The Best Movies of the 2000s, The Lord of the Rings on December 28, 2009 | 4 Comments »
#19. The Lord of the Rings: Return of the King [2003]: Each installment of Peter Jackson’s adaptation of the Lord of the Rings trilogy could have been listed separately on my list. As such, this is in some ways a reference to the trilogy as a whole. I mention Return of the King as the [...]
The Best Movies of the 2000s
Posted in Movies, The Best Movies of the 2000s, tagged Gladiator, Joaquin Phoenix, Ridley Scott, Russel Crowe, The Best Movies of the 2000s on December 28, 2009 | 1 Comment »
#20. Gladiator [2000]: Fresh off of 1999′s hugely successful “The Insider,” Hollywood resident “bad boy” Russel Crowe returned with Gladiator. By the time Gladiator was released, Crowe had already established himself as one of the preeminent actors in Hollywood, but it was here that he became a household name. Directed by Ridley Scott, Gladiator was [...]
