In November 2009 staff of Paste Magazine came up with a list of the 50 best films of the decade. There’s no real surprises although Almost Famous never felt important enough to me to be placed the 3rd best film of the decade but it’s good to see Claire Denis’s exhilarating Foreign Legion drama Beau Travail in the top 10.
- 1. City of God
- 2. Amélie
- 3. Almost Famous
- 4. The Lord of the Rings trilogy (2001, 2002, 2003)
- 5. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
- 6. Beau Travail (1999)
- 7. Lost in Translation (2003)
- 8. The Son
- 9. No Country for Old Men (2007)
- 10. The Royal Tenenbaums
- 11. The Dark Knight (2008)
- 12. There Will Be Blood (2007)
- 13. Mulholland Drive
- 14. Up (2009)
- 15. Juno (2007)
- 16. Half Nelson (2006)
- 17. Memento (2000)
- 18. Syndromes and a Century (2006)
- 19. 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days
- 20. Elephant (2003)
- 21. In the Loop (2009)
- 22. Dogville (2003)
- 23. Traffic
- 24. O Brother, Where Art Thou?
- 25. Pan’s Labyrinth
- 26. Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai (1999)
- 27. Hidden (2005)
- 28. A History of Violence (2005)
- 29. Man on Wire (2008)
- 30. Once (2007)
- 31. Gosford Park
- 32. Ratatouille
- 33. Kill Bill Vol. 1 & 2 (2003, 2004)
- 34. Little Miss Sunshine (2006)
- 35. Junebug (2005)
- 36. Millions (2004)
- 37. Billy Elliot (2000)
- 38. Donnie Darko (2001)
- 39. Spirited Away
- 40. The Departed
- 41. The Child (2005)
- 42. The Last King of Scotland
- 43. In America (2002)
- 44. Hotel Rwanda (2004)
- 45. Whale Rider (2002)
- 46. Iraq in Fragments (2006)
- 47. Grizzly Man (2005)
- 48. Flight of the Red Balloon (Le voyage du ballon rouge) (2008)
- 49. High Fidelity (2000)
- 50. The Squid and the Whale (2005)