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Paste’s 50 Best Movies of the Decade (2000-2009)

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)



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The Dallas Morning News, Chris Vognar’s top 25 films of the decade

Chris Vognar is Culture Critic for The Dallas Morning News, where he was movie critic from 2006-2014. He was the 2009 Arts and Culture Fellow at the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard. He has taught arts journalism at Southern Methodist University and film history at the University of Texas at Arlington. Below are his picks for the top 25 films of the decade 2000-2009.

  • 1. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004, directed by Michel Gondry)
  • 2. Wall-E (2008, Andrew Stanton)
  • 3. The Departed (2006, Martin Scorsese)
  • 4. Yi Yi (A One and a Two) (2000, Edward Yang)
  • 5. Mulholland Dr. (2001, David Lynch)
  • 6. The Fog Of War (2003, Errol Morris)
  • 7. There Will Be Blood (2007, Paul Thomas Anderson)
  • 8. Nobody Knows (2004, Hirokazu Koreeda)
  • 9. Memento (2000, Christopher Nolan)
  • 10. Sexy Beast (2000, Jonathan Glazer)
  • 11. Grizzly Man (2005, Werner Herzog)
  • 12. Monsoon Wedding (2001, Mira Nair)
  • 13. Letters from Iwo Jima (2006, Clint Eastwood)
  • 14. The Dark Knight (2008, Christopher Nolan)
  • 15. Up in the Air (2009, Jason Reitman)
  • 16. The Piano Teacher (2001, Michael Haneke)
  • 17. Los Angeles Plays Itself (2003, Thom Andersen)
  • 18. 25th Hour (2002, Spike Lee)
  • 19. Match Point (2005, Woody Allen)
  • 20. Talk to Her (2002, Pedro Almodóvar)
  • 21. Saraband (2003, Ingmar Bergman)
  • 22. The Aura (2005, Fabián Bielinsky)
  • 23. The Lives of Others (2006, Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck)
  • 24. Crimson Gold (2003, Jafar Panahi)
  • 25. Spirited Away (2001, Hayao Miyazaki)



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Entertainment Weekly, Lisa Schwarzbaum’s 10 best movies of the decade

Lisa Schwarzbaum is an American film critic. She joined Entertainment Weekly as a film critic in the 1990s, and remained there until February 2013. She has been featured on CNN, co-host on Siskel & Ebert At the Movies as well as a cultural, theatre and television reviewer. Below is her list of the top 10 movies for the period of 2000-2009.

1. There Will Be Blood (2007), Paul Thomas Anderson.

2. Sideways (2004), Alexander Payne.

3. Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003), Peter Jackson.

4. Yi Yi (2000), Edward Yang.

5. The New World (2005), Terrence Malick.

6. Zodiac (2007), David Fincher.

7. The Dark Knight (2008), Christopher Nolan.

8. The Death of Mr. Lazarescu (2005), Cristi Puiu.

9. Moolaade (2005),  Ousmane Sembene.

10. Sympathy for Lady Vengeance (2005), Park Chan-wook.



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Peter Travers’ (Rolling Stone) 10 Best Movies of the Decade (2009)

Travers’ top 10 films 2000-2009 for Rolling Stone featured some surprises with There Will Be Blood topping his list despite being placed only 7th on his top ten for 2007. As Travers acknowledges he’s rather cheated with naming the entire LOTRs trilogy in 10th place.

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Peter Travers (Rolling Stone) Top 10 (2007)

Peter Travers is an American film critic and journalist, who has written for People and Rolling Stone. Travers also hosts a celebrity interview show called Popcorn for ABC News.

Good to see Joe Wright’s adaptation of Atonement so high up among Travers’s picks for 2007, with its brilliant tracking shot across Dunkirk particularly memorable. There’s also a place for Cronenberg’s Eastern Promises that also has one prominent scene, the visceral fight in the Turkish baths. Also of interest is the placing of one of the 21 century’s true masterpieces There Will Be Blood  which is 7th although Travers goes on to place it his no. 1 film of the decade in December 2009!

1 No Country for Old Men
2 Atonement
3 Into the Wild
4 Eastern Promises
5 Sweeney Todd
6 American Gangster
7 There Will Be Blood
8 Before the Devil Knows
You’re Dead
9 I’m Not There
10 Knocked Up/Juno

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Nick Schager, Slant Magazine Top 10 (2007)

Nick Schager is a staff film critic for Slant magazine, a contributor to Time Out New York, and a columnist and features writer for the Independent Film Channel. His work – which is compiled at Lessons of Darkness – has also appeared in, among other publications, The Village Voice, indieWire, Cinematical, The Independent, The Screengrab, PLANET magazine and SOMA magazine.

His 2007 list includes some interesting entries, Werner Herzog’s Rescue Dawn placing 5th and the anime Paprika also included. Most interesting is Charles Burnett’s acclaimed Killer of Sheep at no. 3. The film was shot in the late 70s but couldn’t be given a proper release due to complications in securing the rights to the 22 songs on the soundtrack. The rights were purchased in 2007 for $150,000 and the film got a limited release 30 years after its original completion.

1 There Will Be Blood
2 Zodiac
3 Killer of Sheep
4 No Country for Old Men
5 Rescue Dawn
6 Persepolis
7 Away from Her
8 A Band’s Visit
9 Assassination of Jesse James
10 Paprika



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100 BEST MOVIES EVER MADE by Movieline Magazine

Movieline Magazine selected The 100 best English language films all-time in their December 1995 issue.  100 of the all-time greatest English-language films – actually 101. British director David Lean is notable by his absence, while the inclusion of Wyler’s Dodsworth, Shampoo and True Lies will surprise many. The films are listed in alphabetical order. Buy – Movieline Magazine, December 1995 (Volume VII Number 4) – Harrison Ford, The 100 Best Movies Ever Made

    • Adventures of Robin Hood, The (1938, Michael Curtiz)
    • African Queen, The (1951, John Huston)
    • All About Eve (1950, Joseph L. Mankiewicz)
    • Annie Hall (1977, Woody Allen)
    • Badlands (1973, Terrence Malick)
    • Bambi (1942, David Hand)
    • Being There (1979, Hal Ashby)
    • Best Years of Our Lives, The (1946, William Wyler)
    • Blade Runner (1982, Ridley Scott)
    • Blow Up (1966, Michelangelo Antonioni)
    • Blue Velvet (1986, David Lynch)
    • Breakfast at Tiffany’s (1961, Blake Edwards)
    • Cabaret (1972, Bob Fosse)
    • Casablanca (1942, Michael Curtiz)
    • Chinatown (1974, Roman Polanski)
    • Citizen Kane (1941, Orson Welles)
    • City Lights (1931, Charles Chaplin)
    • Conversation, The (1974, Francis Ford Coppola)
    • Dodsworth (1936, William Wyler)
    • Don’t Look Now (1973, Nicolas Roeg)
    • Double Indemnity (1944, Billy Wilder)
    • Dr. Strangelove (1964, Stanley Kubrick)
    • E.T. (1982, Steven Spielberg)
    • Elephant Man, The (1980, David Lynch)
    • Empire Strikes Back, The (1980, Irvin Kershner)
    • Face in the Crowd, A (1957, Elia Kazan)
    • Five Easy Pieces (1970, Bob Rafelson)
    • Funny Face (1957, Stanley Donen)
    • Gallipoli (1981, Peter Weir)
    • Gigi (1958, Vincente Minnelli)
    • Godfather Parts I and II, The (1972, Francis Ford Coppola)
    • Gone with the Wind (1939, Victor Fleming)
    • Gun Crazy (1949, Joseph H. Lewis)
    • Hard Day’s Night, A (1964, Richard Lester)
    • Haunting, The (1963, Robert Wise)
    • His Girl Friday (1940, Howard Hawks)
    • In a Lonely Place (1950, Nicholas Ray)
    • Informer, The (1935, John Ford)
    • Innocents, The (1961, Jack Clayton)
    • Intolerance (1916, D.W. Griffith)
    • It’s a Wonderful Life (1946, Frank Capra)
    • King Kong (1933, Merian C. Cooper & Ernest B. Schoedsack)
    • Lady Eve, The (1941, Preston Sturges)
    • Last Picture Show, The (1971, Peter Bogdanovich)
    • Letter from an Unknown Woman (1948, Max Ophuls)
    • Lost Weekend, The (1945, Billy Wilder)
    • Love Affair (1939, Leo McCarey)
    • Manchurian Candidate, The (1962, John Frankenheimer)
    • Manhattan (1979, Woody Allen)
    • McCabe & Mrs. Miller (1971, Robert Altman)
    • Meet Me in St. Louis (1944, Vincente Minnelli)
    • Miller’s Crossing (1990, Joel Coen)
    • My Man Godfrey (1936, Gregory La Cava)




    • Night of the Hunter, The (1955, Charles Laughton)
    • North By Northwest (1959, Alfred Hitchcock)
    • Notorious (1946, Alfred Hitchcock)
    • Ox-Bow Incident, The (1943, William Wellman)
    • Palm Beach Story, The (1942, Preston Sturges)
    • Paths of Glory (1957, Stanley Kubrick)
    • Peeping Tom (1960, Michael Powell)
    • Petulia (1968, Richard Lester)
    • Philadelphia Story, The (1940, George Cukor)
    • Psycho (1960, Alfred Hitchcock)
    • Purple Rose of Cairo, The (1985, Woody Allen)
    • Queen Christina (1933, Rouben Mamoulian)
    • Raging Bull (1980, Martin Scorsese)
    • Rear Window (1954, Alfred Hitchcock)
    • Rebecca (1940, Alfred Hitchcock)
    • Road Warrior, The (1981, George Miller)
    • Schindler’s List (1993, Steven Spielberg)
    • Searchers, The (1956, John Ford)
    • Shadow of a Doubt (1943, Alfred Hitchcock)
    • Shampoo (1975, Hal Ashby)
    • Sherlock Jr. (1924, Buster Keaton)
    • Singin’ In the Rain (1952, Stanley Donen & Gene Kelly)
    • Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937, Ben Sharpsteen)
    • Some Like It Hot (1959, Billy Wilder)
    • Star Is Born, A (1954, George Cukor)
    • Strangers on a Train (1951, Alfred Hitchcock)
    • Sullivan’s Travels (1941, Preston Sturges)
    • Sunday, Bloody Sunday (1971, John Schlesinger)
    • Sunrise (1927, F.W. Murnau)
    • Sunset Boulevard (1950, Billy Wilder)
    • Sweet Smell of Success (1957, Alexander Mackendrick)
    • Swing Time (1936, George Stevens)
    • Third Man, The (1949, Carol Reed)
    • 39 Steps, The (1935, Alfred Hitchcock)
    • To Kill a Mockingbird (1962, Robert Mulligan)
    • Touch of Evil (1958, Orson Welles)
    • Treasure of the Sierra Madre, The (1948, John Huston)
    • Trouble In Paradise (1932, Ernst Lubitsch)
    • True Lies (1994, James Cameron)
    • Two for the Road (1967, Stanley Donen)
    • 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968, Stanley Kubrick)
    • Unbearable Lightness of Being, The (1988, Philip Kaufman)
    • Vertigo (1958, Alfred Hitchcock)
    • West Side Story (1961, Robert Wise & Jerome Robbins)
    • Wind, The (1928, Victor Seastrom)
    • Wizard of Oz, The (1939, Victor Fleming)
    • Year of Living Dangerously, The (1983, Peter Weir)

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TotalFilm’s 150 Greatest Film Performances

A list published in TotalFilm in 2009. Note that the list is limited to one performance per actor. Difficult to complain about the top 4 here and am pleased to see Emily Watson’s sublime performance in Lars Von Trier’s Breaking the Waves so highly recognised. Another pleasant surprise was Sean Penn as the sleazy lawyer in Carlito’s Way but there are plenty of slightly odd ones as well. Tom Cruise for Magnolia and not Born on the Fouth of July doesn’t seem right or that it would be as high as 13th! Buy – Total Film – December 2008 – Keanu Reeves, Alien Invasions, Jessica Biel, 150 Greatest Performances, Leonardo DiCaprio (Issue 148)

150. Robert Shaw, Quint, Jaws
149. Nastassja Kinski, Jane Henderson, Paris, Texas
148. Christian Bale, Patrick Bateman, American Psycho
147. Matt Damon, Will Hunting, Good Will Hunting
146. Michelle Pfeiffer, Susan Diamond, The Fabulous Baker Boys
145. James Cagney, Arthur Cody Jarrett, White Heat
144. Kim Basinger, Lynn Bracken, L.A. Confidential
143. Romain Duris, Thomas Sayr, The Beat That My Heart Skipped
142. James Dean, Jett Rink, Giant
141. Halle Berry, Leticia Musgrove, Monster’s Ball
140. James Spader, James Ballard, Crash
139. Montgomery Clift, Matthew Garth, Red River
138. Forest Whitaker, Charlie Parker, Bird
137. Lauren Bacall, Vivian Rutledge, The Big Sleep
136. Eddie Murphy, Kit/Jiff Ramsey, Bowfinger
135. Judy Garland, Vicki Lester, A Star Is Born
134. Morgan Freeman, “Red” Redding, The Shawshank Redemption
133. Christopher Guest, Nigel Tufnel, This Is Spinal Tap
132. John Cusak, Martin Blank, Grosse Pointe Blank
131. Charlie Chaplin, Tramp, City Lights
130. Kirk Douglas, Chuck Tatem, Ace in the Hole
129. Gena Rowlands, Gloria Swenson, Gloria
128. Ben Kingsley, Don Logan, Sexy Beast
127. Steve McQueen, Capt. Virgil Hilts, The Great Escape
126. Richard Dreyfuss, Roy Neary, Close Encounters Of The Third Kind
125. Alec Guiness, Everyone, Kind Hearts And Coronets
124. Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Neil McCormick, Mysterious Skin
123. Sidney Poitier, Virgil Tibbs, In the Heat of the Night
122. Naomi Watts, Betty Elms, Mulholland Drive
121. Julianne Moore, Carol White, Safe
120. Martin Sheen, Kit Carruthers, Badlands
119. Isabelle Huppert, Erika Kohut, The Piano Teacher
118. John Malkovich, Valmont, Dangerous Liaisons
117. Spencer Tracy, John J Macreedy, Bad Day at Black Rock
116. Jeanne Moreau, Catherine, Jules et Jim
115. Ellen Burstyn, Sara Goldfarb, Requiem for a Dream
114. Henry Fonda, Frank, Once Upon a Time in the West
113. Winona Ryder, Veronica Sawyer, Heathers
112. Jeremy Irons, Elliot/Beverly Mantle, Dead Ringers
111. Susan Sarandon, Annie Sovoy, Bull Durham
110. Richard E Grant, Withnail, Withnail and I
109. Sean Connery, James Bond, Goldfinger
108. Takashi Shimura, Kanji Watanabe, Ikiru
107. Mia Farrow, Rosemary Woodhouse, Rosemary’s Baby
106. John Travolta, Tony Manero, Saturday Night Fever
105. Heath Ledger, The Joker, The Dark Knight
104. Woody Allen, Isaac Davis, Manhattan
103. Uma Thurman, The Bride, Kill Bill
102. Jon Voigt, Luke Martin, Coming Home
101. Jeff Bridges, Jeffrey “The Dude” Lebowski, The Big Lebowski




100. Javier Bardem, Anton Chigurh, No Country for Old Men
99. Marilyn Monroe, Sugar Kane Kowalczk, Some Like It Hot
98. Daniel Craig, James Bond, Casino Royale
97. Mark Wahlberg, Dirk Diggler, Boogie Nights
96. Paul Giamatti, Miles Raymond, Sideways
95. Gene Kelly, Don Lockwood, Singin’ in the Rain
94. Meg Ryan, Sally Albright, When Harry Met Sally…
93. Harvey Keitel, The Lieutenant, Bad Lieutenant
92. Reese Witherspoon, Tracy Flick, Election
91. Tom Hanks, Chuck Noland, Cast Away
90. Paddy Considine, Richard, Dead Man’s Shoes
89. Harrison Ford, Han Solo, Star Wars
88. Audrey Hepburn, Holly Golightly, Breakfast at Tiffany’s
87. Orson Welles, Harry Lime, The Third Man
86. Jim Carrey, Joel Barrish, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
85. Peter Lorre, Hans Beckert, M
84. Cate Blancett, Jude Quinn, I’m Not There
83. Boris Karloff, The Monster, Frankenstein
82. Dylan Baker, Bill Maplewood, Happiness
81. Angelina Jolie, Marianne Pearl, A Mighty Heart
80. Peter Sellers, Capt. Lionel Mandrake/President Merkin/Dr. Strangelove, Dr. Strangelove
79. Buster Keaton, Johnny Gray, The General
78. Arnold Schwarzenegger, The Terminator, The Terminator
77. Cary Grant, T.R. Devlin, Notorious
76. Benicio del Toro, Ernesto “Che” Guevera, Che
75. Catherine Deneuve, Severine Serizy, Belle de Jour
74. Charlize Theron, Aileen Wuornos, Monster
73. Clint Eastwood, Harry Callahan, Dirty Harry
72. Edward Norton, Derek Vinyard, American History X
71. Frances McDormand, Marge Gunderson, Fargo
70. Gregory Peck, Atticus Finch, To Kill a Mockingbird
69. Ryan Gosling, Dan Dunne, Half Nelson
68. Holly Hunter, Ada McGrath, The Piano
67. James Woods, Richard Boyle, Salvador
66. Katharine Hepburn, Tracy Lord, The Philadelphia Story
65. Kathy Bates, Annie Wilkes, Misery
64. Linda Fiorentino, Bridget Gregory/Wendy Kroy, The Last Seduction
63. Toshiro Mifune, Sanjuro Kuwabatake, Yojimbo
62. Vincent Gallo, Billy Brown, Buffalo ’66
61. Nicolas Cage, Ben Sanderson, Leaving Las Vegas
60. Nicole Kidman, Grace Margaret Mulligan, Dogville
59. Brad Pitt, Tyler Durden, Fight Club
58. Rosalind Russell, Hildy Johnson, His Girl Friday
57. Michael Rooker, Henry, Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer
56. Barbara Stanwyck, Phyllis Diedrichson, Double Indemnity
55. Johnny Depp, Edward Scissorhands, Edward Scissorhands
54. Christopher Walken, Frank White, King of New York
53. Leonardo DiCaprio, Arnie Grape, What’s Eating Gilbert Grape?
52. Dennis Hopper, Frank Booth, Blue Velvet
51. Bill Murray, Phil Connors, Groundhog Day




50. Matthew Broderick, Ferris Bueller, Ferris Bueller’s Day Off
49. Humphrey Bogart, Dixon Steele, In a Lonely Place
48. Anthony Hopkins, Hannibal Lecter, Silence of the Lambs
47. Sigourney Weaver, Lt. Ellen Ripley, Aliens
46. Robert Mitchum, Harry Powell, The Night of the Hunter
45. Samuel L. Jackson, Jules Winfield, Pulp Fiction
44. Jean-Paul Belmondo, Michel Poiccard, Breathless
43. Ray Winstone, Ray, Nil by Mouth
42. Setsuko Hara, Noriko Hirayama, Tokyo Story
41. Malcolm McDowell, Alex DeLarge, A Clockwork Orange
40. John Wayne, Ethan Edwards, The Searchers
39. Kevin Spacey, Roger “Verbil” Kilt, The Usual Suspects
38. Klaus Kinski, Don Lope de Aguirre, Aguirre, the Wrath of God
37. Joe Pesci, Tommy DeVito, GoodFellas
36. Peter Finch, Howard Beale, Network
35. Sissy Spacek, Carrie White, Carrie
34. Russell Crowe, Maximus Decimus Meridius, Gladiator
33. Robert Duvall, Lt. Col. Bill Kilgore, Apocalypse Now
32. Burt Lancaster, J.J. Hunsecker, Sweet Smell of Success
31. David Thewlis, Johnny, Naked
30. Gloria Swanson, Norma Desmond, Sunset Blvd.
29. Steve Martin, Johnny Gray, The Man With Two Brains
28. Maria Falconetti, Joan of Arc, The Passion of Joan of Arc
27. Anthony Perkins, Norman Bates, Psycho
26. Gary Oldman, Bex Bissell, The Firm
25. Diane Keaton, Annie Hall, Annie Hall
24. Liv Ullmann, Elisabeth Volger, Persona
23. Sean Penn, David Kleinfield, Carlito’s Way
22. Will Smith, Muhammed Ali, Ali
21. Dustin Hoffman, Benjamin Braddock, The Graduate
20. Jack Lemmon, Bud Baxter, The Apartment
19. Kate Winslet, Clementine Kruczynski, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
18. Bette Davis, Margo Channing, All About Eve
17. Peter O’Toole, T.E. Lawrence, Lawrence of Arabia
16. Hilary Swank, Brandon Teena, Boys Don’t Cry
15. Sylvester Stallone, Rocky Balboa, Rocky
14. Jodie Foster, Sarah Tobias, The Accused
13. Tom Cruise, Frank TJ Mackey, Magnolia
12. James Stewart, John “Scottie” Ferguson, Vertigo
11. Gene Hackman, Harry Caul, The Conversation
10. Meryl Streep, Sophie, Sophie’s Choice
9. Paul Newman, Fast Eddie Felson, The Hustler
8. Jane Fonda, Bree Daniels, Klute
7. Denzel Washington, Malcolm X, Malcolm X
6. Marlon Brando, Terry Malloy, On the Waterfront
5. Emily Watson, Bess, Breaking the Waves
4. Al Pacino, Michael Corleone, The Godfather Part II
3. Daniel Day-Lewis, Daniel Plainview, There Will Be Blood
2. Robert DeNiro, Frank LaMotta, Raging Bull
1. Jack Nicholson, Randall Patrick McMurphy, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest

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Empire’s 100 Best Films of World Cinema

In June 2010 Empire Magazine compiled a list of the very best films not in the English language. Kurosawa’s samurai epic Seven Samurai tops the list and has always had a strong following in America and the UK.

  • 100. Night Watch (2004)

  • 99. Iron Monkey (1993)

  • 98. Ran (1985)

  • 97. Farewell My Concubine (1993)

  • 96. Delicatessen (1991)

  • 95. Way of the Dragon (1972)

  • 94. Yeelen (1987)

  • 93. The Fourth Man (1983)

  • 92. Ghost in the Shell (1995)

  • 91. Goodbye Lenin (2003)

  • 90. Rififi (1995)

  • 89. Loves of a Blonde (1965)

  • 88. Leningrad Cowboys (1989)

  • 87. Andrei Rublev (1966)

  • 86. Run Lola Run (1998)

  • 85. Il Conformista (1970)

  • 84. Orphee (1950)

  • 83. Xala (1974)

  • 82. Battle Royale (2000)

  • 81. The Host (2006)

  • 80. Mother India (1957)

  • 79. Bande A Part (1964)

  • 78. Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown (1988)

  • 77. House of Flying Daggers (2004)

  • 76. The Idiots (1998)

  • 75. A Bout de Souffle (1960)

  • 74. Devdas (2002)

  • 73. Hidden (2005)

  • 72. Ten Canoes (2006)

  • 71. Persona (1966)

  • 70. Hard Boiled (1992)

  • 69. Ringu (1998)

  • 68. Solaris (1972)

  • 67. The Vanishing (1988)

  • 66. Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000)

  • 65. Un Chien Andalou (1929)

  • 64. Wings of Desire (1987)

  • 63. A Prophet (2009)

  • 62. 8 1/2 (1963)

  • 61. Knife in the Water (1962)

  • 60. Jean de Florette / Manon des Sources (1986)

  • 59. Heimat (1985)

  • 58. Persepolis (2007)

  • 57. Central Do Brasil (1998)

  • 56. Belle de Jour (1967)

  • 55. Lagaan (2001)

  • 54. Festen (1998)

  • 53. All About My Mother (1999)

  • 52. Touki Bouki (1973)

  • 51. Akira (1988)




  • 50. Closely Observed Trains (1966)

  • 49. M. Hulot’s Holiday (1953)

  • 48. Downfall (2004)

  • 47. 10 (2004)

  • 46. Jules et Jim (1962)

  • 45. Suspiria (1977)

  • 44. Ikiru (1952)

  • 43. Cyrano de Bergerac (1990)

  • 42. In The Mood For Love (2000)

  • 41. My Neighbour Totoro (1988)

  • 40. L’Avventura (1960)

  • 39. Le Samourai (1967)

  • 38. Ashes And Diamonds (1958)

  • 37. Rome Open City (1945)

  • 36. Dekalog (1988)

  • 35. La Grande Illusion (1937)

  • 33. M (1931)

  • 32. La Haine (1995)

  • 31. Godzilla (1954)

  • 30. Infernal Affairs (2002)

  • 29. Les Quatres Cent Coups (1959)

  • 28. Raise The Red Lantern (1991)

  • 27. Cinema Paradiso (1988)

  • 26. La Belle et la Bete (1946)

  • 25. Das Boot (1980)

  • 24. Come And See (1985)

  • 23. Spirit of the Beehive (1973)

  • 22. Rashomon (1950)

  • 21. Nosferatu (1922)

  • 20. Y Tu Mama Tambien (2001)

  • 19. Aguirre, Wrath of God (1972)

  • 18. Oldboy (2003)

  • 17. The Apu Trilogy (1955/56/59)

  • 16. Tokyo Story (1953)

  • 15. Let The Right One In (2008)

  • 14. Three Colours Trilogy (1993/94)

  • 13. La Regle du Jeu (1939)

  • 12. Metropolis (1927)

  • 11. La Dolce Vita (1960)

  • 10. Spirited Away (2001)

  • 9. The Wages of Fear (1953)

  • 8. The Seventh Seal (1957)

  • 7. City of God (2002)

  • 6. Battle of Algiers (1966)

  • 5. Pan’s Labyrinth (2006)

  • 4. Bicycle Thieves (1948)

  • 3. Battleship Potemkin (1925)

  • 2. Amelie (2000)

  • 1. Seven Samurai (1954)





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