The New Yorker has just published a list of their 'best films of the 21st century.
I wonder what they mean by Best?
Most entertaining? Most challenging? Most memorable? Most moving? Most innovative? Most ‘I want to see this again and again’? I see that great Indian and Asian Directors are missing, but I don't get to see many of their movies either. In fact I
have only seen 10 of the New Yorker’s top 25.
There
Will Be Blood,
Spirited
Away,
The
Death of Mr Lazerescu,
Inside
Out
The
Hurt Locker
Munich
Mad
Max; Thunder Road
I’m
Not There
Silent
Light
Eternal
Sunshine of the Spotless Mind.
All
of them fine films. I have seen a higher proportion of those selected by Directors they invited to choose, including;
Slumdog
Millionaire
Beasts
of the Southern Wild,
Zero
Dark 30,
Avatar
Eastern
Promise
Under
The Skin
The
Incredibles
Moulin
Rouge
Amelie
A
Single Man
Moon
Pan’s
Labyrinth
Grand
Budapest Hotel
Dogville
Children
of Men
Inception
Birth
Kill
Bill
And I
heartily approve of them all. 10 of them make it into my final choices.
And the BFI also publishes its own mega-lists of critics favourites.
Glancing
back through my blog - but only back as far as 2011 - I see;
Arrival
Hell
and High Water
Room
Spotlight
Loving
The
Spy On The Bridge
Tree
of Life
The
BFG
Under
The Skin
Bridge
of Spies
The
Dark Knight
Skyfall
True
Grit
Toy
Story 3
Song
of the Sea
Brooklyn
Gravity
Mr.
Turner
The
Guard
American
Hustle
Silver
Linings Playbook
Let
the Right One In
Only
Lovers left Alive
Thirst
The
Life of Pi
The
Great Gatsby
Cloud
Atlas
Anne
Karenina
Hero
The
Lives of Others
The
Road
Wall-E
Another
Earth
Monsters
I’ve
Loved You So Long
Where
The Wild Things Are
In the Mood For Love,
Mulholland Drive
Milk
Changeling
Lust; Caution
Up!
District
9.
The
Motorcycle Diaries
Brave
The
Assassin
Hope
Springs
So
that 60+.
How
to choose the top - how many? 10? 20?
25?
I
have chosen 34; but that’s only 2 a year
.
I
have roughly categorized them, though many of them cross my genres.
For
the beauty of their digital images and content
Inside
Out
Brave
Wall-E
Avatar
Song
of the Sea
The
BFG
Science
fiction
Mad
Max; Thunder Road
Under
The Skin
Arrival
Moon
Genre
busters (Vampire movies for someone who doesn’t
like Vampire Movies)
Thirst
Let
the Right One In
Movies
that really moved me.
Slumdog
Millionaire
Beasts
of the Southern Wild
Moulin
Rouge
Loving
The
Lives of Others
Mr.
Turner
Silver
Linings Playbook
Hero
In the Mood For Love
Thought
provokers
Pan’s
Labyrinth
Tree
of Life
I’m
Not There
The Dark
Knight
Mulholland Drive
Thrillers (?)
Zero
Dark 30,
Skyfall
American
Hustle
Comedies
Grand
Budapest Hotel
The
Guard
Great
novel adaptations
The
Life of Pi
The
Great Gatsby
The
Road
And
already a crowd is gathering demanding that others be let in!
The
Assassin, Holy Motors, Motorcycle Diaries, Hope Spring, Avengers Assemble, Mulholland Drive, Bridge of Spies....
