Films seen in 2004: Ranked

Submitted by P Pogo on Mon, 03/07/2005 - 05:55
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  • 5.0

  • Ladri di biciclette/The Bicycle Thief (Vittorio De Sica, 1948)
  • La Passion de Jeanne d'Arc/The Passion of Joan of Arc (Carl Th. Dreyer, 1928)

  • 4.5

  • Capturing the Friedmans (Andrew Jarecki, 2003)
  • Goodfellas (Martin Scorcese, 1990)
  • Les Parapluies de Cherbourg/The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (Jacques Demy, 1964)
  • Sideways (Alexander Payne, 2004)
  • Umberto D. (Vittorio De Sica, 1952)

  • 4.0

  • Bob le Flambeur (Jean-Pierre Melville, 1955)
  • Cidade de Deus/City of God (Fernando Meirelles, Kátia Lund, 2002)
  • Dirty Pretty Things (Stephen Frears, 2002)
  • Jules et Jim/Jules and Jim (François Truffaut, 1962)
  • Shattered Glass (Billy Ray, 2003)

  • 3.5

  • Amores Perros (Alejandro González Iñárritu, 2000)
  • American Beauty (Sam Mendes, 1999)
  • Big Fish (Tim Burton, 2003)
  • Cinemania (Angela Christlieb, Stephen Kijak, 2002)
  • Dirty Harry (Don Siegel, 1971)
  • Fahrenheit 9/11 (Michael Moore, 2004)
  • The Fog of War: Eleven Lessons from the Life of Robert S. McNamara (Errol Morris, 2003)
  • Kill Bill, Vol. 1 (Quentin Tarantino, 2003)
  • Kind Hearts and Coronets (Robert Hamer, 1949)
  • The Ladykillers (Alexander Mackendrick, 1955)
  • Mépris, Le/Contempt (Jean-Luc Godard, 1963)
  • Miller's Crossing (Joel Coen, 1990)
  • Shaun of the Dead (Edgar Wright, 2004)
  • Spiderman 2 (Sam Raimi, 2004)

  • 3.0

  • American Splendor (Shari Springer Berman, Robert Pulcini, 2003)
  • Baadasssss! (Mario Van Peebles, 2003)
  • Control Room (Jehane Noujaim, 2004)
  • Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (Michel Gondry, 2004)
  • The Filth and the Fury (Julien Temple, 2000)
  • Garden State (Zach Braff, 2004)
  • In America (Jim Sheridan, 2002)
  • The Ladykillers (Joel Coen, 2004)
  • My Architect: A Son's Journey (Nathaniel Kahn, 2003)
  • Mystic River (Clint Eastwood, 2003)
  • Napoleon Dynamite (Jared Hess, 2004)
  • Saw (James Wan, 2004)
  • Say Anything (Cameron Crowe, 1989)
  • Seabiscuit (Gary Ross, 2003)
  • Slap Shot (George Roy Hill, 1977)
  • The Station Agent (Thomas McCarthy, 2003)
  • Super Size Me (Morgan Spurlock, 2004)
  • 21 Grams (Alejandro González Iñárritu, 2003)

  • 2.5

  • The Cooler (Wayne Kramer, 2003)
  • Elephant (Gus Van Sant, 2003)
  • Narc (Joe Carnahan, 2002)
  • Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (Gore Verbinski, 2003)
  • Saved! (Brian Dannelly, 2004)
  • Withnail & I (Bruce Robinson, 1987)

  • 2.0

  • Bus 174 (José Padilha, Felipe Lacerda, 2002)
  • Frida (Julie Taymor, 2002)
  • Possession (Neil LaBute, 2002)
  • Punch-Drunk Love (Paul Thomas Anderson, 2002)
  • The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (Marcus Nispel, 2003)
  • XX/XY (Austin Chick, 2002)

  • 1.5

  • Better Luck Tomorrow (Justin Lin, 2002)
  • De-Lovely (Irwin Winkler, 2004)
  • Love Actually (Richard Curtis, 2003)
  • Max (Menno Meyjes, 2002)
  • Two Weeks Notice (Marc Lawrence, 2002)

  • 1.0

  • Starsky & Hutch (Todd Phillips, 2004)
  • Van Helsing (Stephen Sommers, 2004)

  • 0.5

  • Worse than 0.5

Author Comments: 

This is by no means all-encompassing. It's just what I remember seeing in 04.

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Films seen in 2005: Ranked