Films of the 00s
And again…
28 Days Later (Danny Boyle, 2002)
Amélie [Le fabuleux destin d’Amél ie Poulain] (Jean-Pierre Jeunet, 2001)
Before Sunset (Richard Linklater, 2004)
Dancer in the Dark (Lars von Trier, 2000)
The Edukators [Die fetten Jahre sind vorbei] (Hans Weingarten, 2004)
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (Michel Gondry, 2004)
Frost/Nixon (Ron Howard, 2008)
Hero [Ying xiong] (Zhang Yimou, 2002)
Memento (Christopher Nolan, 2000)
Mulholland Drive (David Lynch, 2001)
Punch-Drunk Love (Paul Thomas Anderson, 2002)
Zodiac (David Fincher, 2007)
I did try to get this down to just ten, but I couldn’t. (Interestingly, only two of the twelve are from post-2004. Why is that?)
If I had to pick just one, it would be Eternal Sunshine, which is just astonishingly lovely.
Director of the decade is (was?) Christopher Nolan: Memento (2000), Insomnia (2002), Batman Begins (2005), The Prestige (2006) and The Dark Knight (2008) could all have made this list; I decided to limit myself to just the one.
