They Shoot Pictures, Don't They: 250 Greatest Films of the 21st Century

Submitted by rudolf55 on Tue, 01/13/2009 - 13:51
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  1. Fa Yeung Nin Wa (Wong Kar Wai; 2000)
  2. Mulholland Dr. (David Lynch; 2001)
  3. Yi Yi (Edward Yang; 2000)
  4. Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind (Michel Gondry; 2004)
  5. Lost In Translation (Sofia Coppola; 2003)
  6. Far From Heaven (Todd Haynes; 2002)
  7. Y Tu Mamá También (Alfonso Cuarón; 2001)
  8. Wo Hu Can Long (Ang Lee; 2000)
  9. Sideways (Alexander Payne; 2004)
  10. A History Of Violence (David Cronenberg; 2005)
  11. Sen To Chihiro No Kamikakushi (Hayao Miyazaki; 2001)
  12. Hable Con Ella (Pedro Almodóvar; 2002)
  13. Million Dollar Baby (Clint Eastwood; 2004)
  14. There Will Be Blood (Paul Thomas Anderson; 2007)
  15. Before Sunset (Richard Linklater; 2004)
  16. Punch-Drunk Love (Paul Thomas Anderson; 2002)
  17. The Lord Of The Rings: The Return Of The King (Peter Jackson; 2003)
  18. Memento (Christopher Nolan; 2000)
  19. The Royal Tenenbaums (Wes Anderson; 2001)
  20. The Lord Of The Rings: The Fellowship Of The Ring (Peter Jackson; 2001)
  21. No Country For Old Men (Ethan Coen/Joel Coen; 2007)
  22. Ghost World (Terry Zwigoff; 2001)
  23. Adaptation (Spike Jonze; 2002)
  24. The Queen (Stephen Frears; 2006)
  25. 4 Luni, 3 Saptamâni Si 2 Zile (Christian Mungiu; 2007)
  26. Moartea Domnului Lazarescu (Cristi Puiu; 2005)
  27. You Can Count On Me (Kenneth Lonergan: 2000)
  28. The Departed (Martin Scorsese; 2006)
  29. Zodiac (David Fincher; 2007)
  30. Le Voyage Du Ballon Rouge (Hou Hsiao-Hsien; 2007)
  31. Moulin Rouge! (Baz Luhrmann; 2001)
  32. American Splendor (Shari Springer Berman/Robert Pulcini; 2003)
  33. The Squid And The Whale (Noah Baumbauch; 2005)
  34. 2046 (Wong Kar-Wai; 2004)
  35. Brokeback Mountain (Ang Lee; 2005)
  36. Finding Nemo (Andrew Stanton/Lee Unkrich; 2003)
  37. United 93 (Paul Greengrass; 2006)
  38. Mystic River (Clint Eastwood; 2003)
  39. Dancer In The Dark (Lars Von Trier; 2000)
  40. The Incredibles (Brad Bird; 2004)
  41. Cidade De Deus (Fernando Meirelles; 2002)
  42. Capturing The Friedmans (Andrew Jarecki; 2003)
  43. Dogville (Lars Von Trier; 2003)
  44. In The Bedroom (Todd Field; 2001)
  45. Caché (Michael Haneke; 2005)
  46. A.I Artificial Intelligence (Steven Spielberg; 2001)
  47. Grizzly Man (Werner Herzog; 2005)
  48. Rois Et Raine (Arnaud Desplechin; 2004)
  49. Donnie Darko (Richard Kelly; 2001)
  50. Sang Sattawat (Apichatpong Weerasethakul; 2006)
  51. About Schmidt (Alexander Payne; 2002)
  52. Waking Life (Richard Linklater; 2001)
  53. The Lord Of The Rings: The Two Towers (Peter Jackson; 2002)
  54. Un Conte De Noël (Arnaud Desplechin; 2008)
  55. Wendy And Lucy (Kelly Reichardt; 2008)
  56. I'm Not There (Todd Haynes; 2007)
  57. Sud Pralad (Apichatpong Weerasethakul; 2004)
  58. El Labirinto Del Fauno (Guillermo Del Toro; 2006)
  59. Russkiy Kovcheg (Aleksandr Sokurov; 2002)
  60. The Pianist (Roman Polanski; 2002)
  61. Amores Perros (Alejandro González Iñárritu; 2000)
  62. Almost Famous (Cameron Crowe; 2000)
  63. Letters From Iwo Jima (Clint Eastwood; 2006)
  64. The Aviator (Martin Scorsese; 2004)
  65. The Hoyse Of Mirth (Terence Davies; 2000)
  66. Les Glaneurs Et La Glaneuse (Agnès Varda; 2000)
  67. The Assassination Of Jesse James By The Coward Robert Ford (Andrew Dominik; 2007)
  68. Wall-E (Andrew Stanton; 2008)
  69. Traffic (Steven Soderbergh; 2000)
  70. Atanarjuat (Zacahrias Kunuk; 2000)
  71. Vera Drake (Mike Leigh; 2004)
  72. Borat: Cultural Learnings Of America To Make Benefit Glorious Nation Of Kazakhstan (Larry Charles; 2006)
  73. Sanxia Haoren (Zhang Ke Jia; 2006)
  74. Shrek (Andrew Adamson/Vicky Jenson; 2001)
  75. Oldboy (Chan-Wook Park; 2003)
  76. Requiem For A Dream (Darren Aronofsky; 2000)
  77. Children Of Men (Alfonso Cuarón; 2006)
  78. My Winnipeg (Guy Maddin; 2007)
  79. Paranoid Park (Gus Van Sant; 2007)
  80. L'Enfant (Jean-Pierre Dardenne/Luc Dardenne; 2005)
  81. Good Night, And Good Luck (George Clooney; 2005)
  82. Half Nelson (Ryan Fleck; 2006)
  83. The Fog Of War (Errol Morris; 2003)
  84. Happy-Go-Lucky (Mike Leigh; 2008)
  85. Shijie (Zhang Ke Jia; 2004)
  86. Vals Im Bashir (Ari Folman; 2008)
  87. Master And Commander: The Far Side Of The World (Peter Weir; 2003)
  88. School Of Rock (Richard Linklater; 2003)
  89. L'Emploi Du Temps (Laurent Cantet; 2001)
  90. Elephant (Gus Van Sant; 2003)
  91. Munich (Steven Spielberg; 2005)
  92. Dayereh (Jafar Panahi; 2000)
  93. Je Rentre À La Maison (Manoel De Oliveira; 2000)
  94. Moolaadé (Ousmane Sembene; 2004)
  95. Shi Mian Mai Fu (Zhang Yimou; 2004)
  96. Capote (Bennett Miller; 2005)
  97. Le Fabuleux Destin D'Amélie Poulain (Jean-Pierre Jeunet; 2001)
  98. Kill Bill Vol. 1 (Quentin Tarantino; 2003)
  99. Éloge De L'Amour (Jean-Luc Godard; 2001)
  100. La Niña Santa (Lucrecia Martel; 2004)
  101. Tillsammans (Lukas Moodysson; 2000)
  102. Gosford Park (Robert Altman; 2001)
  103. Inland Empire (David Lynch; 2006)
  104. Volver (Pedro Almodóvar; 2006)
  105. La Mala Educacíon (Pedro Almodóvar; 2004)
  106. Zwartboek (Paul Verhoeven; 2006)
  107. Gangs Of New York (Martin Scorsese; 2002)
  108. Bowling For Columbine (Michael Moore; 2002)
  109. Juventude Em Marcha (Pedro Costa; 2006)
  110. La Pianiste (Michael Haneke; 2001)
  111. Wonder Boys (Curtis Hanson; 2000)
  112. Yurîka (Shinji Aoyama; 2000)
  113. The Hours (Stephen Daldry; 2002)
  114. Les Triplettes de Belleville (Sylvain Chomet; 2003)
  115. Sexy Beast (Jonathan Glazer; 2000)
  116. Stellet Licht (Carlos Reygadas; 2007)
  117. Synecdoche, New York (Charlie Kaufman; 2008)
  118. Låt Den Rätte Komma In (Tomas Alfredson; 2008)
  119. Bu San (Tsai Ming-Liang; 2003)
  120. Last Days (Gus Van Sant; 2004)
  121. Le Fils (Jean-Pierre Dardenne/Luc Dardenne; 2002)
  122. Zhantai (Zhang Ke Jia; 2000)
  123. En La Ciudad De Sylvia (José Luis Guerín; 2007)
  124. Kinsey (Bill Condon; 2004)
  125. Eastern Promises (David Cronenberg; 2007)
  126. Bloody Sunday (Paul Greengrass; 2001)
  127. Das Leben Des Anderen (Florian Henckel Von Donnersmarck; 2006)
  128. Erin Brockovich (Steven Soderberg; 2000)
  129. Kill Bill Vol. 2 (Quentin Tarantino; 2004)
  130. Spellbound (Jeffrey Blitz; 2002)
  131. Offside (Jafar Panahi; 2006)
  132. In America (Jim Sheridan; 2003)
  133. Notre Musique (Jean-Luc Godard; 2004)
  134. À Ma Soeur (Catherine Breillat; 2001)
  135. Mies Vailla Menneisyyttä (Aki Kaurismäki; 2002)
  136. Fahrenheit 9/11 (Michael Moore; 2004)
  137. Chicago (Rob Marshall; 2002)
  138. Once (John Carney; 2007)
  139. Black Hawk Down (Ridley Scott; 2001)
  140. Ni Na Bian Ji Dian (Tsai Ming-Liang; 2001)
  141. Rachel Getting Married (Jonathan Demme; 2008)
  142. Little Miss Sunshine (Jonathan Dayton/Valerie Faris; 2006)
  143. Maria Full Of Grace (Joshia Marston; 2003)
  144. Hunger (Steve McQueen; 2008)
  145. Les Amants Réguliers (Philippe Garrel; 2004)
  146. Spider (David Cronenberg; 2002)
  147. L'Intrus (Claire Denis; 2004)
  148. Gegen Die Wand (Fatih Akin; 2003)
  149. Werckmeister Harmóniak (Béla Tarr; 2000)
  150. Ying Xiong (Zhang Yimou; 2002)
  151. Hotel Rwanda (Terry George; 2004)
  152. Kôhî Jikô (Hou Hsiao-Hsien; 2003)
  153. Milk (Gus Van Sant; 2008)
  154. Dare Mo Shiranai (Hirokazu Koreeda; 2003)
  155. Gladiator (Ridley Scott; 2000)
  156. Sånger Från Andra Våningen (Roy Andersson; 2000)
  157. Flags Of Our Fathers (Clint Eastwood; 2006)
  158. 24 Hour Party People (Michael Winterbottom; 2001)
  159. The Wrestler (Darren Aronofsky; 2008)
  160. Ten (Abbas Kiarostami; 2002)
  161. Wallace & Gromit: The Curse Of The Were-Rabbit (Nick Park/Steve Box; 2005)
  162. Tarnation (Jonathan Caouette; 2003)
  163. High Fidelity (Stephen Frears; 2000)
  164. 21 Grams (Alejandro González Iñárritu; 2003)
  165. La Meglio Gioventu (Marco Tullio Giordana; 2003)
  166. Être Et Avoir (Nicolas Philibert; 2002)
  167. George Washington (David Gordon Green; 2000)
  168. A Prairie Home Companion (Robert Altman; 2006)
  169. Chicken Run (Nick Park/Peter Lord; 2000)
  170. Monsoon Wedding (Mira Nair; 2001)
  171. A Fost Sau N-a Fost? (Corneliu Porumboiu; 2006)
  172. Hauru No Ugoku Shiro (Hayao Miyazaki; 2004)
  173. Gwoemul (Bong Joon-Ho; 2006)
  174. Old Joy (Kelly Reichardt; 2005)
  175. Hei Yan Quan (Tsai Ming-Liang; 2006)
  176. Ne Touchez Pas La Hache (Jacques Rivette; 2007)
  177. La Commune (Paris, 1871) (Peter Watkins; 2000)
  178. The New World (Terrence Malick; 2005)
  179. King Kong (Peter Jackson; 2005)
  180. Zamani Barayé Masti Asbha (Bahman Ghobadi; 2000)
  181. Saraband (Ingmar Bergman; 2003)
  182. Paradise Now (Hany Abu-Assad; 2005)
  183. Demonlover (Olivier Assayas; 2002)
  184. Le Scaphandre Et Le Papillon (Julian Schnabel; 2007)
  185. Hatuna Meuheret (Dover Kosashvili; 2001)
  186. Auf Der Anderen Seite (Faith Akin; 2007)
  187. Iklimler (Nuri Bilge Ceylan; 2006)
  188. Into The Wild (Sean Penn; 2007)
  189. Before Night Falls (Julian Schnabel; 2000)
  190. The Deep End (David Siegel/Scott McGehee; 2001)
  191. Collateral (Michael Mann; 2004)
  192. Morvern Callar (Lynne Ramsay; 2002)
  193. Ratatouille (Brad Bird; 2007)
  194. Tristram Shandy: A Cock And Bull Story (Michael Winterbottom; 2005)
  195. Persepolis (Marjane Satrapi/Vincent Paronnaud; 2007)
  196. Man On Wire (James Marsh; 2007)
  197. Ballast (Lance Hammer; 2008)
  198. Sous Le Sable (François Ozon; 2000)
  199. Zui Hao De Shi Guang (Hou Hsiao-Hsien; 2005)
  200. Bamaki (Abderrahmane Sissako; 2006)
  201. Match Point (Woody Allen; 2005)
  202. Irréversible (Gaspar Noé; 2002)
  203. I Heart Huckabees (David O. Russell; 2004)
  204. 25th Hour (Spike Lee; 2002)
  205. Ren Xiao Yao (Zhang Ke Jia; 2002)
  206. Billy Elliott (Stephen Daldry; 2000)
  207. About A Boy (Chris Weitz/Paul Weitz; 2002)
  208. Talaye Sorkh (Jafar Panahi; 2003)
  209. Atonement (Joe Wright; 2007)
  210. Southland Tales (Richard Kelly; 2006)
  211. Batalla En El Cielo (Carlos Reygadas; 2005)
  212. Va Savoir (Jacques Rivette; 2001)
  213. O Brother, Where Art Thou? (Ethan Coen/Joel Coen; 2000)
  214. Crash (Paul Haggis; 2004)
  215. Ônibus 174 (Felipe Larceda/José Padilha; 2002)
  216. Broken Flowers (Jim Jarmisch; 2005)
  217. Uzak (Nuri Bilge Ceylan; 2003)
  218. De Fem Benspaend (Jørgen Leth/Lars Von Trier; 2003)
  219. Haebyonui Yoin (Hong Sang-Sie; 2006)
  220. Reprise (Joachim Trier; 2006)
  221. The Man Who Wasn't There (Ethan Coen/Joel Coen; 2001)
  222. Away From Her (Sarah Polley; 2006)
  223. Ché (Steven Soderbergh; 2008)
  224. Before The Devil Knows You're Dead (Sidney Lumet; 2007)
  225. Syriana (Stephen Gaghan; 2005)
  226. Trolösa (Liv Ullmann; 2000)
  227. Minority Report (Steven Spielberg; 2002)
  228. Monsters, Inc. (David Silverman/Lee Unkrich/Peter Docter; 2001)
  229. Spider-Man 2 (Sam Raimi; 2004)
  230. Rabbit-Proof Fence (Phillip Noyce; 2002)
  231. Chunhyang (Im Kwon-Taek; 2000)
  232. The Magdalene Sisters (Peter Mullan; 2002)
  233. Brick (Rian Johnson; 2005)
  234. Michael Clayton (Tony Gilroy; 2007)
  235. The Proposition (John Hillcoat; 2005)
  236. Roozi Ke Zan Shodam (Marzieh Meshkini; 2000)
  237. Me And You And Everyone We Know (Miranda July; 2005)
  238. Los Angeles Plays Itself (Thom Andersen; 2003)
  239. Shattered Glass (Billy Ray; 2003)
  240. Mysterious Skin (Gregg Araki; 2004)
  241. Keane (Lodge Kerrigan; 2004)
  242. Chuck & Buck (Miguel Arteta; 2000)
  243. The Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou (Wes Anderson; 2004)
  244. Le Temps Du Loups (Michael Haneke; 2003)
  245. Land Of The Dead (George A. Romero; 2005)
  246. Shaun Of The Dead (Edgar Wright; 2004)
  247. Xiao Cheng Zhi Chun (Tian Zhuangzhuang; 2002)
  248. The Station Agent (Thomas McCarthy; 2003)
  249. Dirty Pretty Things (Stephen Frears; 2002)
  250. Ray (Taylor Hackford; 2004)
Author Comments: 

Did this from scratch, just to be more consistent with my own lists, in appearance. I am, in fact, planning on doing this with all of my movie lists. Consistensy (sp?) is just that much fun.