The 21st Century’s Top 10 Films

[Persona]

With the recent list published by the BBC regarding The 21st Century’s 100 greatest films I'd like to know what your favorite films of the last 16 years are in order, here are mine:

1. Yi Yi (Edward Yang, 2000)
2. The Tree of Life (Terrence Malick, 2011)
3. Mulholland Drive (David Lynch, 2001)
4. Boyhood (Richard Linklater, 2014)
5. There Will Be Blood (Paul Thomas Anderson, 2007)
6. In the Mood for Love (Wong Kar-wai, 2000)
7. Melancholia (Lars von Trier, 2011)
8. Mommy (Xavier Dolan, 2014)
9. Synecdoche, New York (Charlie Kaufman, 2008)
10. Under the Skin (Jonathan Glazer, 2013)

[Hucksta G]

1. City of God
2. Almost Famous
3. There Will Be Blood
4. The Fountain
5. Gangs of New York
6. The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
7. Children of Men
8. The Master
9. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
10. The Departed

[Talleyrand]

1. Mulholland Drive
2. Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans
3. Killing Them Softly
4. The Lives of Others
5. There Will Be Blood
6. I Saw the Devil
7. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
8. Zodiac
9. The Neon Demon
10. Traffic

maybe

[Will.]

1. The Tree of Life
2. A Separation
3. Shame
4. There Will Be Blood
5. Mulholland Drive
6. Donnie Darko
7. Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
8. Caché
9. Hugo
10. Mad Max: Fury Road

[stvn1974]

01. Mulholland Drive
02. Ghostworld
03. Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind
04. Lord Of The Rings: Fellowship Of The Ring
05. Lord Of The Rings: Return Of The King
06. Lord Of The Rings: The Two Towers
07. Serenity
08. Casino Royale
09. Mad Max: Fury Road
10. Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon

Honorable mention: 11. Star Wars The Force Awakens.

[NP13]

1. Drive
2. Scott Pilgrim vs the World
3. The Social Network
4. Filth
5. Inside Llewyn Davis
6. Toy Story 3
7. Interstellar
8. In Bruges
9. Kingsman: The Secret Service
10. Inglourious Basterds

Honourable mentions; Cornetto Trilogy (tried to keep it to one film per director), Mad Max: Fury Road, Seven Psychopaths, Frank, Gone Girl, 28 Days Later, The Room ( [emoji6] ), Calvary.
I'm pretty happy with that selection, to be completely honest. I've barely mentioned animation, though.

[surfdude12]

1. Mulholland Drive
2. Tree of Life
3. The Lives of Others
4. Memento
5. The Fountain
6. The Master
7. There Will Be Blood
8. The New World
9. Triangle
10. Requiem for a Dream

[Doctor Jack]

I included 11 because I can't take any one of them off and feel good about it.

01. Wendy and Lucy
02. Lost in Translation
03. Once
04. Children of Men
05. Y Tu Mama Tambien
06. Toy Story 3
07. 21 Grams
08. City of God
09. Atonement
10. Gladiator/Winters Bone

[Foggy]

1. It's Such A Beautiful Day
2. Battle Royale
3. The Master
4. The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
5. Boyhood
6. Carol
7. The Wolf of Wall Street
8. Mulholland Drive
9. Synecdoche, New York
10. The Social Network

Not really satisfied with it, but I think the only way I would be satisfied is if I was allowed to do a top 100 or something.

Also tried to keep it one film per filmmaker, just so I have a lot of different stuff.

[dallywhitty]

01. Mulholland Drive
02. Donnie Darko
03. American Psycho
04. Garden State
05. Battle Royale
06. Secretary
07. The Dreamers
08. Control
09. Walk the Line
10. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2011)

Pretty much all of them are from the previous decade, but wutevs.

[Talleyrand]

Originally Posted by Talleyrand

1. Mulholland Drive

Originally Posted by stvn1974

01. Mulholland Drive

Originally Posted by surfdude12

1. Mulholland Drive

Originally Posted by dallywhitty

01. Mulholland Drive

[Arch Stanton]

1. Mulholland Drive (Lynch, 2001)
2. Inland Empire (Lynch, 2006)
3. Inherent Vice (Anderson, 2014)
4. In the Mood for Love (Kar-wai, 2000)
5. The Master (Anderson, 2012)
6. There Will Be Blood (Anderson, 2007)
7. No Country for Old Men (Coen bros, 2007)
8. Adaptation (Jonze, 2002)
9. Requiem for a Dream (Aronofsky, 2000)
10. The Witch (Eggers, 2015)

Three entries for PTA, sorry not sorry.

[spanky87]

• Kill Bill (Tarantino, 2003-2004)
• Mulholland Drive (Lynch, 2001)
• The Piano Teacher (Haneke, 2001)
• Boyhood (Linklater, 2014)
• The Skin I Live In (Almodovar, 2011)
• Black Swan (Aronofsky, 2010)
• Black Book (Verhoeven, 2006)
• House of Flying Daggers (Yimou, 2004)
• Punch Drunk Love (Anderson, 2002)
• Under The Skin (Glazer, 2014)

[PipesDonatello]

High Fidelity (Stephen Frears, 2000)
Inglourious Basterds (Quentin Tarantino, 2009)
The Royal Tenenbaums (Wes Anderson, 2001)
The Prestige (Christopher Nolan, 2006)
The Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou (Wes Anderson, 2004)
Zodiac (David Fincher, 2007)
Munich (Steven Spielberg, 2005)
Birdman Or: The Unexpected Virtue Of Ignorance (Alejandro Gonzalez-Inarritu, 2014)
The Master (Paul Thomas Anderson, 2012)
Inception (Christopher Nolan, 2010)

[Hucksta G]

Originally Posted by Foggy

Not really satisfied with it, but I think the only way I would be satisfied is if I was allowed to do a top 100 or something.

I'd actually be pretty keen for one of those forum top 25 lists for this topic.

[Ray Jackson]

1. There Will Be Blood
2. Children of Men
3. The Tree of Life
4. The Master
5. Interstellar
6. Mulholland Drive
7. The Dark Knight
8. Memento
9. Avatar
10. The Last Samurai

The last spot could easily have been taken by one of the following:

-The New World
-Collateral
-Mad Max: Fury Road
-Before Sunrise
-Sideways

...hasn't been a great century for film thus far imo.

[Talleyrand]

Originally Posted by Hucksta G

I'd actually be pretty keen for one of those forum top 25 lists for this topic.

I've said it before and I'll say it again.... midnight between August 31 and September 1 will be 1/6 of the way through this century (also 2/3 of the way through this decade)

[Popcorn_Bliss]

1. Mulholland Dr 2001
2. Mulholland Dr 2001
3. Mulholland Dr 2001
4. Mulholland Dr 2001
5. Mulholland Dr 2001
6. Mulholland Dr 2001
7. Mulholland Dr 2001
8. Mulholland Dr 2001
9. Midnight In Paris 2011
10. Almost Famous 2000



In all seriousness, I like a fair amount of films since 2000, but the three above would be the ones that are far and away the best that I've seen this century.

Mulholland Dr, especially, is probably the one film from this century that could easily sit beside the "great artistic works" of the 20th century. Thus my poor attempt at humor by listing it so often.

While I'm not one of those who believes great film is "dead" or great films can't arise, I do find that with the exception of the three above, or the exception of a great romance or historical film, most films from the century thus far do not seem to have the kind of "magic and craft" that was more commonplace in the previous century. They may be well-crafted films for those who enjoy them, or great-crafted films for the 2000's, but I certainly don't mistake them for Vertigo, The Exorcist, or La Dolce Vita.

Not that my taste is anything to brag about...

[AaronJ]

Other than the top spot, this is going to be very difficult. Here's my preliminary list. I reserve the right to make changes, when (not if) I realize that I left out something obvious.

Also, I'm going to go with Foggy's approach of keeping it to one film per director. I mean, half my list would be Fincher films otherwise.

Again, other than the top spot, I haven't decided on an order yet.

Mulholland Dr.
Tree of Life
The Neon Demon
The Social Network
Black Swan
Her
Carol
Spring Breakers
Dogville
Blue Valentine

[octagon]

This might be interesting...

Downfall, The Lives of Others and at least one of the Dragon Tattoos will likely make the list but it's going to be hard deciding on the rest.

They might not make them exactly like they used to but they still make some pretty damn good ones.

edit:

Carlos
The Lives of Others
Let the Right One In
Nightcrawler
The Other Guys
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2011)
The Lego Movie
Melancholia
Downfall
Ex Machina