BBC list of greatest films of the 21st century

[djross]

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[VinegarBob]

...the following 13 are not on the BBC list: Irreversible, Manderlay, Black Swan, Dancer in the Dark, Nymphomaniac, Saraband, The Company, Gangs of New York, Kis Uykusu, Love, Robinson in Ruins, The Story of Marie and Julien, Tiresia. Admittedly, it is quite a few years since I saw Saraband, The Company or Gangs of New York. So my list includes two films each by Noé, Kiarostami and Scorsese, and four films by von Trier.

Of those 13 I would certainly have included Amour, Saraband, Irreversible and Winter Sleep.

In addition I'd have included things like The Hunt, Poetry and Our Sunhi to name just a few. And for documentaries I'd certainly include Salt of The Earth.

Conversely, films on the BBC list that in my view have absolutely no place on any "best of" list include the following: Shame, Carol, The Hurt Locker, The Great Beauty, Zero Dark Thirty, Goodbye to Language, 12 Years a Slave, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, Son of Saul, Lost in Translation, Mad Max: Fury Road, Boyhood and In the Mood for Love.

I have no problem with Shame, Carol, The Great Beauty, 12 Years A Slave and In The Mood For Love being there.

I wouldn't have included things like Almost Famous, The Hurt Locker, Spotlight, Zero Dark Thirty or Son of Saul, and I wouldn't have A.I., Moulin Rouge, Spring Breakers or Boyhood within a hundred miles of a list like this. I've yet to see a Korine or Luhrmann film I thought didn't suck. If I were to include a Spielberg it would be Munich, and for Linklater it would be Waking Life. Oh, and if I were only including one David Lynch film it would be Inland Empire.

This list does include a lot more films that are overlooked and underappreciated than a lot of similar lists though, so overall I don't have much of a problem with it.

[Bojangles]

The Gleaners and I, which is, I think, the only documentary on the BBC list

I see The Act of Killing at #14.

@brickwall, you mentioned in the other thread there were some odd choices. What were they?

I'm surprised that critics would recognize Moulin Rouge. That always seemed like a film geared towards Academy members (even though I haven't seen the whole thing...prejudice is fun.)

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[MmzHrrdb]

Not a single mention of Up, yet one of the critics had Madagascar 3 on their list. Regrettably, I couldn't find any full length review of the film by that critic; I would love to know how it got on his list.

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[paulofilmo]

my list is a bit of an awkward teenage version of myself
except Morvern Callar, i haven't seen these films in 8+ years.

Amélie (2001)
My Brother Tom (2001)
Morvern Callar (2002)
Some Voices (2000)
Waking Life (2001)
Dead Man's Shoes (2004)
In America (2002)
In the Bedroom (2001)
Stellet licht (2007)


Here's a date-ranked, tier 10 list

Shame (2011)
Moonrise Kingdom (2012)
The Skin I Live In (2011)
Berberian Sound Studio (2012)
Surviving Life (Theory and Practice) (2010)
Punch-Drunk Love (2002)
Synecdoche, New York (2008)
Morvern Callar (2002)
5 Centimeters per Second (2007)
Happy-Go-Lucky (2008) ==== Ranked on December 15th, 2009

[lisa-]

looks pretty similar to the list that TSPDT produces every year.

my list of "exceptional" 21st century films would be:

1. melancholia
2. celestial subway lines/salvaging noise
3. inland empire
4. the turin horse
5. dancer in the dark
6. irreversible
7. synecdoche, new york
8. trains of winnipeg
9. mulholland drive
10. grizzly man

antichrist
berlin berlin
dogville
follow me
house of tolerance
imburnal
ten

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Synecdoche, New York (2008)
Keane (2004)
Margaret (2011)
Mulholland Drive (2001)
The Son (2002)
Two Lovers (2009)
Where the Wild Things Are (2009)
Romancing in Thin Air (2012)
The Royal Tenenbaums (2001)
Love Exposure (2008)

hon mens:
Cosmopolis (2012)
all Paul Thomas Anderson
The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014)
Don't Go Breaking My Heart 2 (2014)
The Man Who Wasn't There (2001)
The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (2007)
Dogville (2003)
A Field in England (2013)
Tabu (2012)
Inland Empire (2006)
Mysterious Skin (2004)
The Unspeakable Act (2012)
Aaaaaaaah! (2015)
Into Eternity (2010)
Memories of Murder (2003)
Miami Vice (2006)
Twixt (2011)
George Washington (2000)
Talk to Her (2002)

[AFlickering]

BOYHOOD is the most inexplicable inclusion in the top 50 for me.