Written on Dec 30, 2009 // Blog.
This list is in no particular order and the films represent what was most influential to me during the decade. There are of course many others I haven’t included and will probably add a few more before I’m finished. The links go to YouTube trailers or select scenes.
1. Inland Empire – Lynch makes a Digital Indie
2. Hedwig and the Angry Inch - Hands down the best musical of the decade.
3. Hurt Locker - Best war movie of the decade.
4. La Mala Educacion Stuck it to the bad practices of the catholic church and how they effect the lives and loves of people.
5. Little Miss Sunshine – Laughing while crying or is it the other way around. Alan Arkin shines.
6. Napoleon Dynamite - Because every indie filmmaker secretly wishes this would happen to them
7. Dazed and Confused – Criterion because good films should be re released and rediscovered
8. Four Eyed Monsters - Made me capable of watching you tube for more than 4 min. Shows new possibilities in DIY filmmaking
9. The Wire - Showed us the possibilities of the small screen.
11. CHE – You can still do great things once you get to hollywood…by going to South America
12. Borat – The best shock comedy
13. The Lives of Others – A metaphor for this decade by looking at another.
14. Let the Right One In – Transcending Horror and the vampire fetish.
15. Downfall – Hitler is the worst, and Bruno Ganz is the number 1 actor I’d like to work with.
16. Frozen River - Women in trouble working together. Plot twists that actually twist.
19. Donnie Darko – Time, fate, Jake Gyllenhaal. Deconstruction of the genre film.
20. Punch Drunk Love – Movies that are different are desirable.
21. The Savages – The best ending. Go NY Indies with A list actors.
22. Persopolis – The best coming of age story for a girl.
23. Waltz with Bashir - The ways wars and massacres ecco long after they take place
24. Independently Blue - The only film I’ve seen that accurately describes the 20 sothething experience this decade.
24. United 93 – There’s still a hole at ground zero and not a park, but at least we have one good film about the events on 9/11.
26. Walle – Making me a kid again.
27. Pans Labrynth - Mixing history with fantasy seamlessly.
28. District 9 - Getting CG to actually tell a story and interact with actors.
29. Mullholand Drive - Started everything off. “Silencio” “No hay banda”
30. Farenheit 9/11 – One of the many greats in the decade of the docs.
31. Rubber Johnny – Mind blowing short…literally.
32. Antichristo – Because it bunched up so many mens panties.
33. K-19: The Widowmaker One of my favorite Genres of Film: The Attack Sub movie, with countries like India getting nuclear subs I think we’ll see more.
34. Wendingo – Spooky woods and experimental film techniques in a narrative.
35. Paranoid Park – Atmosphere, mood, desolation and America. Trilogies instead of sequels.
36. 24 Hour Party People – Music and mayhem. A good mockumentry
37. Taste of Cherry -
38. This Film is Not Yet Rated – Censorship turned upside down at least looks funny
39. The Road - I think this movie is a metaphor for the banking industry.
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