The Sydney Morning Herald: Ten Years, Ten Film

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Realistically there is one qualification for consideration in either list. The film had to have a cineama release, in the decade from 2000 - 2009, in Australia. In the instance of record / memory failure, IMDb is taken as the authority. Interestingly 1999 appears to have been an incredible year for cinema if the sheer number of frustrating releases that you really wish qualified, is anything to go by.

An interesting observation. In ten years of intense cinema going, DVD watching, Foxtel IQing and totally legal downloading a few truths become self-evident:

- Clearly, you will never see all the films in a decade. You will also never manage to see all the films you 'should' see from that era. So no matter what films are included in the list, someone will always respond with a film you haven't got to yet. This isn't a failing on the part of the list, it's more an incentive to go and see it. For example, here's an admission: The autho has not seen No Country For Old Men yet from what everyone has said it would otherwise have made for serious consideration.

- There were a lot of really good films made in the last ten years, no matter what your grandparents / parents / film school graduate friends tell you. They may not make them like they 'used to' or they 'should' but dang, some of them are good.

- Making one of these lists is the most subjective thing you will do today. Two people pretty much cannot agree on a top ten list. It's like taking a group of people to the DVD store and asking them all to agree on one film. If people still went to DVD stores that is.

So let's go. And remember, if your reaction to this list is of the "You're wrong", "You're mad" or "You should be shot" variety - then the response is "Well, yes" and "Challenge extended: Show us your list then!"

CATEGORIES
To try and give a variety of films a look in, the following list is broken up very roughly into genres. There are of course way more than ten categories of films, so to say that some very dis-similar films have been shoe-horned in together, would be a gross misunderstatement. As such more than one film is mentioned in each tier, and any that are named deserve a spot in the list.
1. Biopics
2. Action
3. Foreign Language
4. Australian
5. Documentary
6. Franchise
7. Indie Comedy
8. Mainstream Comedy
9. Indie
10.Animated

So without further ado...