Best of 2001


  1. Mulholland Drive                                                                     David Lynch
  2. The Devil's Backbone                                                              Guillermo del Toro
  3. Waking Life                                                                               Richard Linklater
  4. AI                                                                                                Steven Spielberg
  5. Spirited Away                                                                            Hayao Miyazaki
  6. Gosford Park                                                                             Robert Altman
  7. Y Tu Mama Tambien                                                                Alfonso Cuaron
  8. Ghost World                                                                              Terry Zwigoff
  9. The Road Home                                                                        Zhang Yimou
  10. Va Savoir                                                                                   Jacques Rivette
      Honorable Mention

      The Lady and the Duke -- Rohmer,
      The Royal Tenenbaums -- Wes Anderson, Amelie -- Jeunet 

    Films I Enjoyed

    Black Hawk Down, The Man Who Wasn't There, 
    Lovely and Amazing, Pistol Opera, 
    La Cienaga, Where Does Your Hidden Smile Lie?
    L'Emploi du temps, 
    Trouble Every Day, A Beautiful Mind, 
    The Golden Bowl, Hannibal, 
    Warm Water Under A Red Bridge,
    Disco Pigs, The Pledge,
    Platform, Donnie Darko, Shrek, 
    Rat Race, Ocean's Eleven, Training Day,  
    The Anniversary Party, Monsters Inc., 
    Shaolin Soccer, Hedwig and the Angry Inch,  
    The Princess Diaries, Frailty, 
    Spy Kids, Ichi the Killer,
    Bully, Last Orders,
    Scotland, PA, Zoolander,
    Moulin Rouge, A Knight's Tale

     Below the Mendoza Line
    
    Pulse.
    In the Bedroom, Bridget Jones' Diary, 
    Dogtown and Z Boys, Mostly Martha, 
    Suicide Club, Legally Blonde, 
    Brotherhood of the Wolf, Shallow Hal, 
    Jeepers Creepers, The Lord of the Ring: The Fellowship of the Rings,
    Swordfish, Captain Corelli's Mandolin,  
    The Fast and the Furious, Prozac Nation, 
    Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, Vanilla Sky,
    I Am Sam, The Mummy Returns, 
    The Others, Pearl Harbor
                                                    

    

     
     
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