Film Comment - Extended Readers' Poll Results: Best of the Decade
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Like many decade-gazers, readers were in the mood for David Lynch (Mulholland Drive #1) and Wong Kar Wai (#2). The Oscar-winning surveillance drama The Lives of Others (#15) infiltrated the Top 25, along with Lost in Translation (#14). P.T. Anderson got a second nod (#17), as other early-decade favorites City of God (#18) and the Hobbits (#21, #23, #27) ganged up anew.
In the March/April 2010 issue, we printed the Top 25; here are the Top 50. The numbers in parentheses indicate the films’ rankings in our 2009 Critics’ Poll and Decade Critics' Poll. Check out this year’s selection of readers’ comments, rants, and raves as well as those from the decade.
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1 new
Mulholland Dr.
2001 — a.k.a. Mulholland Drive, in 26 top lists Check -
2 new
Fa yeung nin wah
2000 — a.k.a. In the Mood for Love, in 30 top lists Check -
3 new
There Will Be Blood
2007, in 20 top lists Check -
4 new
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
2004, in 28 top lists Check -
5 new
Hable con ella
2002 — a.k.a. Talk to Her, in 12 top lists Check -
6 new
The Royal Tenenbaums
2001, in 8 top lists Check -
7 new
A History of Violence
2005, in 11 top lists Check -
8 new
The New World
2005, in 10 top lists Check -
9 new
Zodiac
2007, in 14 top lists Check -
10 new
Yi yi
2000 — a.k.a. Yi Yi: A One and a Two..., in 19 top lists Check -
11 new
No Country for Old Men
2007, in 23 top lists Check -
12 new
Sen to Chihiro no kamikakushi
2001 — a.k.a. Spirited Away, in 39 top lists Check -
13 new
Caché
2005, in 15 top lists Check -
14 new
Lost in Translation
2003, in 19 top lists Check -
15 new
Das Leben der Anderen
2006 — a.k.a. The Lives of Others, in 20 top lists Check -
16 new
The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward...
2007, in 7 top lists Check -
17 new
Punch-Drunk Love
2002, in 12 top lists Check -
18 new
Cidade de Deus
2002 — a.k.a. City of God, in 22 top lists Check -
19 new
Memento
2000, in 27 top lists Check -
20 new
Children of Men
2006, in 13 top lists Check -
21 new
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
2003, in 29 top lists Check -
22 new
Grizzly Man
2005, in 9 top lists Check -
23 new
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
2001, in 31 top lists Check -
24 new
4 luni, 3 saptamâni si 2 zile
2007 — a.k.a. 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days, in 13 top lists Check -
25 new
El laberinto del fauno
2006 — a.k.a. Pan's Labyrinth, in 33 top lists Check -
26 new
Match Point
2005, in 3 top lists Check -
27 new
The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
2002, in 26 top lists Check -
28 new
Before Sunset
2004, in 18 top lists Check -
29 new
A.I. Artificial Intelligence
2001, in 11 top lists Check -
30 new
Elephant
2003, in 10 top lists Check -
31 new
Dogville
2003, in 14 top lists Check -
32 new
Bu san
2003 — a.k.a. Goodbye, Dragon Inn, in 5 top lists Check -
33 new
Mystic River
2003, in 7 top lists Check -
34 new
Brokeback Mountain
2005, in 21 top lists Check -
35 new
Wo hu cang long
2000 — a.k.a. Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, in 27 top lists Check -
36 new
I'm Not There
2007, in 2 top lists Check -
37 new
Y tu mamá también
2001, in 15 top lists Check -
38 new
Le scaphandre et le papillon
2007 — a.k.a. The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, in 7 top lists Check -
39 new
Adaptation.
2002, in 11 top lists Check -
40 new
Letters from Iwo Jima
2006, in 5 top lists Check -
41 new
2046
2004, in 6 top lists Check -
42 new
Shijie
2004 — a.k.a. The World, in 7 top lists Check -
43 new
Kill Bill: Vol. 1
2003, in 18 top lists Check -
44 new
Wendy and Lucy
2008, in 5 top lists Check -
45 new
Russkiy kovcheg
2002 — a.k.a. Russian Ark, in 9 top lists Check -
46 new
Inglourious Basterds
2009, in 17 top lists Check -
47 new
Requiem for a Dream
2000, in 21 top lists Check -
48 new
The Departed
2006, in 20 top lists Check -
49 new
Werckmeister harmóniák
2000 — a.k.a. Werckmeister Harmonies, in 12 top lists Check -
50 new
San xia hao ren
2006 — a.k.a. Still Life, in 11 top lists Check
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