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Magazine: Slant’s 100 Best Films Of The 2000s. A list of 100 films compiled on Letterboxd, including Audition (1999), The Virgin Suicides (1999), The Wind Will Carry Us (1999), Beau Travail (1999) and Dancer in the Dark (2000).
- Far from Heaven
- Spider
- What Time Is It There
- Femme Fatale
- Spirited Away
- Trouble Every Day
- Sunshine State
- Late Marriage
- Adaptation.
- Gangs of New York
Far from Heaven opens with a dissolve between a canvas painting of a tree branch and its real-life representation, a stylistic flourish that immediately calls attention to the mechanism at work in this melodrama. Like Douglas Sirk before him, Todd Haynes is fascinated with the thin lines that separate the world from an idealized version of reality ...
The film itself feels as if it’s been woven from the silk of Spider’s (Ralph Fiennes) memories, and as such it threatens to break at any given moment because, despite the rigorousness of its look, the raw material with which it is assembled is devastatingly fragile. Spider’s interaction with the past is an erotic ritual that reveals a Madonna/Whore...
The emotionally disconnected characters of Tsai Ming-liang’s What Time Is It There?wade through their sterile Taipei surroundings hopelessly grasping for a piece of human comfort. After the death of the film’s patriarchal figure (Mio Tien, aesthetically entrapped in the film’s lonely opening scene), his wife (Lu Yi-Ching) and son (Hsiao Kang) becom...
Brian De Palma’s formal obsession with allusions to seeing and sightlessness have forever brought to mind the works of Dario Argento, perhaps the only other living director who can create and sustain the kind of delirious artifice on fierce display in Femme Fatale. While its Cannes Film Festival sequence must count as one of the most impressive set...
In Spirited Away, 10-year-old Chihiro and her parents drive through a remote area of Japan and stumble upon an imaginary world hidden within the walls of an abandoned amusement park. When her gluttonous parents are turned into pigs, the young girl plans their escape from the witchy Yubaba’s health resort with the help of the Haku, a young boy capab...
As elegant and mysterious as Beau Travail, Trouble Every Daydemonstrates director’s Claire Denis’s signature obsession with the human body, cultural rifts, and the permissions of sex. Rarely does skin look as beautiful, desirable, even delectable, as it does in one of her mystery worlds, visually rendered by Agnes Godard’s expressionistic brush. Th...
William Faulkner’s American pastoral was built on the historical drama that extended over almost a century from the beginning of the Civil War to the time of his death. With Sunshine State, John Sayles continues exactly where Faulkner left off, tackling the institutionalized racism that seethes in the New South, here in the fictional town of Delron...
Dover Kosashvili’s first feature, Late Marriage so boldly confronts Jewish Orthodox traditions it’s a minor miracle it never becomes glib. At 32 years old, Zaza (Lior Loui Ashkenazi) is still “without full-time pussy”—or so think his parents, Yasha (Moni Moshonov) and Lily (Lili Kosashvili). Zaza is in love with the strong-willed Judith (Roni Elkab...
The real-life Charlie Kaufman pares The Orchid Thief down to its most important elements and contemplates what would have happened had Susan Orlean and John Laroche become lovers. The wackiness with which Orlean and Laroche chase after the Kaufman brothers invokes subjects revolting against their authors; their actions certainly aren’t too far off ...
Martin Scorsese deliberately and successfully fashions his hyperbolic Gangs of New York as the Holy Bible of the Big Apple (see the rivers of blood and the doors marked with candles). When a mist falls at the end, it’s as if the Holy Ghost has taken charge of Amsterdam Vallon (Leonardo DiCaprio) in order to smite Bill the Butcher (Daniel Day-Lewis)...
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"Inglourious Basterds", "No Country for Old Men", "In the Mood for Love", "Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind", & "Memories of Murder" are on The Top 50 'Slant Magazine's 'Top 50 of the Aughts'' Movies of the 2000s on Flickchart.
1. Mulholland Drive (2001) R | 147 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller. 7.9. Rate. 86 Metascore. After a car wreck on Mulholland Drive renders a woman amnesiac, she and a Hollywood-hopeful search for clues and answers across Los Angeles in a twisting venture beyond dreams and reality.
- OutKast, Stankonia. Though OutKast’s “B.O.B.” seems prescient now for other, more specifically historical reasons, Stankonia as a whole seemed to forecast the mood of this past decade by its very nature.
- Radiohead, Kid A. One of the watershed albums of the last 10 years, Radiohead’s Kid A is really more of a ’90s album, capping off that decade’s alienated computer angst in a wave of post-Y2K catharsis, a chillingly detached work that signaled a newfound ambivalence with the omnipresence of machines.
- Björk, Vespertine. Vespertine finds everyone’s favorite shrieker barely rising above a whisper. Backed by subtle clicks and bloops from Matmos and some elegantly unobtrusive strings, Björk sings the praises of solitude, monogamy, and quiet days at home—all topics that would seem out of character if they weren’t brightened by her uniquely glamorous oddness.
- Arcade Fire, Funeral. In fall of 2004, in the middle of a frustrating election season, the Montreal bleeding hearts in Arcade Fire appeared out of nowhere (back when a nascent hype cycle still allowed such things to happen) with an album of emotionally stunning, death-afflicted, pitch-perfect pop songs.
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