AlternativeUlster
Absolutely pathetic part deux
So there are like 2 different threads about best films of the summer and best films of the year so far and it made me think about how the end of the decade is coming up. I want to make a top 50 list of the best films of the decade by January and thought that making this thread would be a good idea to catch up on some great arthouse films I might have missed (and also so I won't get bombarded by posts from people who just watched Basterds and District 9 and are already clamoring that these films are the best of the decade without really remembering what was released in 2000) and on films I might have forgotten about.
So far I know that these 4 are for sure going to be in my top 10:
Yi Yi - Hard to imagine this not being my favorite film of the decade, the most beautiful film about all stages of life I have ever seen.
The Piano Teacher - Intense work of self denial and probably my favorite performance from an actor or actress I have seen this decade.
4 Months, 3 Weeks, 2 Days - The most frame for frame perfect film I have seen that came out this decade. Absolutely everything is needed and to me is a technical marvel in itself because of that. I loved that we follow around this female lead and every once of pain she feels, we feel it too.
The Assassionation of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford - Is already in my top 3 favorite westerns of all time (along with Dead Man and The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly) there is something really haunting about The Assassionation of Jesse James and I feel that it has one of the greatest third acts I have ever seen. Probably has my favorite cinemtography and score of the decade too (oddly enough, all 3 of my favorite westerns are in my top 10 scores too).
Other films I was thinking about were the American Astronaut which in the end might turn out to be my favorite comedy of the decade (along with Freddy Got Fingered which were the milestones of the avant-comedy movement), My Winnipeg, The Lives of Others, Amelie (need to rewatch it, I worry it might feel dated but I did see it in theaters 5 times), Dancer in the Dark, Billy Elliot, About a Boy, and some others.
What else seems like essential viewing of this decade NeoGAF?
So far I know that these 4 are for sure going to be in my top 10:
Yi Yi - Hard to imagine this not being my favorite film of the decade, the most beautiful film about all stages of life I have ever seen.
The Piano Teacher - Intense work of self denial and probably my favorite performance from an actor or actress I have seen this decade.
4 Months, 3 Weeks, 2 Days - The most frame for frame perfect film I have seen that came out this decade. Absolutely everything is needed and to me is a technical marvel in itself because of that. I loved that we follow around this female lead and every once of pain she feels, we feel it too.
The Assassionation of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford - Is already in my top 3 favorite westerns of all time (along with Dead Man and The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly) there is something really haunting about The Assassionation of Jesse James and I feel that it has one of the greatest third acts I have ever seen. Probably has my favorite cinemtography and score of the decade too (oddly enough, all 3 of my favorite westerns are in my top 10 scores too).
Other films I was thinking about were the American Astronaut which in the end might turn out to be my favorite comedy of the decade (along with Freddy Got Fingered which were the milestones of the avant-comedy movement), My Winnipeg, The Lives of Others, Amelie (need to rewatch it, I worry it might feel dated but I did see it in theaters 5 times), Dancer in the Dark, Billy Elliot, About a Boy, and some others.
What else seems like essential viewing of this decade NeoGAF?
