Year-by-Year Polls: 2001 (***Last Call***)

Rufus-T · #1

Welcome to the Year-by-Year Poll!

This poll is for the year 2001 ===> Also Sprach Zarathustra starts blasting

These polls are fairly simple. We work our way through film history selecting a different year each time, and you list your top films from the given year. Depending on the number of voters, the poll usually produces a list of around 50-90 films and is a great way of finding recommendations. Lots of people will also list other films outside their top 20 as honorable mentions or runners-up.

The Rules

- You can vote for a minimum of 5 and a maximum of 20 films.

- Feature films, documentaries, short films, TV movies, and TV mini-series are all eligible, but not continuing TV series or individual TV episodes.

- We use IMDb dates for consistency, so a title should be listed on IMDb as 2001.

- Your ballot can be either ranked or unranked, but I will assume it's ranked unless otherwise stated. For ranked ballots it makes it easier if you use a numbered list.

- IMPORTANT: Along with a list of the titles from 2001, please include the corresponding list of bare IMDb urls for the same films. Your ballot will be deemed disqualified if the IMDb urls are not included.

The Scoring

For ranked ballots, the top-ranked title will receive a number of points equal to the number of titles on the ballot, with each succeeding title receiving one fewer point. So the top title on a list of 20 films will receive 20 points, the next 19 points and so on. If the list has only 10 films, the top title will receive 10 points, the next one 9, and so on. If there are 5 films on the list, the top film will receive 5 points, the next one 4, well you get the idea.

For unranked ballots, each title will receive an equal share of the total points that would have been allotted to the ballot if it had been ranked. If there are 20 films on the ballot, this means each one would receive 10.5 points.

Some resources

2001 films with the sorted by most votes on IMDb

2001 films you've rated on IMDb

Wikipedia's 2001 in film article

2001 films you've checked on ICM

2001 films you *haven't* checked on ICM

Previous poll results as ICM lists

2017: 1940 results, 1981 results, 2005 results, 1927 results, 1968 results, 1939 results, 1976 results, 1997 results
2018: 1958 results, 2017 results, 1948 results, 1983 results, 1969 results, 1925 results, 1991 results, 1957 results, 2006 results
2019: 2018 results, 1932 results, 1972 results, 1942 results, 1987 results, 1964 results, 1994 results, 2007 results, 1955 results
2020: 2019 results, 1945 results, 1935 results, 1974 results, 1960 results, 1951 results, 2008 results, 1966 results, 1944 results
2021: 1980 results, 1929 results, 1998 results, 1933 results, 1950 results, 1978 results, 2020 results, 1967 results, 2009 results, 1946 results, 1985 results
2022: 1920 results, 1993 results, 1937 results, 2002 results, 1953 results, 2021 results, 1962 results, 1971 results, 2010 results, 1986 results, 1924 results, 1941 results
2023: 1992 results, 1931 results

The Deadline

This poll will plan to be closed at the end of Thursday March 23, midnight Eastern Standard Time, or the Friday whenever I log on. You may revise or add a ballot anytime until the poll is indicated closed in the subject header.

The next poll will be 2015 followed by 1954 and then the year-end poll for 2022.

Silga · #2

1. Spirited Away (Hayao Miyazaki)
2. The Man Who Wasn't There (Joel Coen, Ethan Coen)
3. A.I. Artificial Intelligence (Steven Spielberg)
4. Lantana (Ray Lawrence)
5. Monsters, Inc. (Pete Docter)
6. The Pledge (Sean Penn)
7. Spy Game (Tony Scott)
8. Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (Chris Columbus)
9. Ali (Michael Mann)
10. Hearts in Atlantis (Scott Hicks)
11. Ocean's Eleven (Steven Soderbergh)
12. A Beautiful Mind (Ron Howard)
13. The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (Peter Jackson)
14. The Others (Alejandro Amenábar)
15. The Curse of the Jade Scorpion (Woody Allen)
16. Hannibal (Ridley Scott)
17. Heist (David Mamet)
18. Blow (Ted Demme)
19. Frailty (Bill Paxton)
20. The Tailor of Panama (John Boorman)

IMDb

pitchorneirda · #3

1. Va savoir (Jacques Rivette)
2. Sen to Chihiro no kamikakushi (Hayao Miyazaki)
3. Berlin Babylon (Hubertus Siegert)
4. Batang West Side (Lav Diaz)
5. Go-yang-i-leul boo-tak-hae (Jae-eun Jeong)
6. What These Ashes Wanted (Philip Hoffman)
7. Wesh wesh, qu'est-ce qui se passe? (Rabah Ameur-Zaïmeche)
8. Lavoura Arcaica (Luiz Fernando Carvalho)
9. Rivers and Tides (Thomas Riedelsheimer)
10. Sennen joyû (Satoshi Kon)
11. Baran (Majid Majidi)
12. Lastpak (Frans van de Staak)
13. In den Tag hinein (Maria Speth)
14. La libertad (Lisandro Alonso)

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Teproc · #4

1. Sen to Chihiro no kamikakushi
2. Le fabuleux destin d'Amélie Poulain
3. A.I. Artificial Intelligence
4. The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
5. Ocean's Eleven
6. The Others
7. Le placard
8. Gosford Park
9. Wet Hot American Summer
10. Trouble Every Day
11. Ghost World
12. Monsters, Inc.
13. Cowboy Bebop: Tengoku no tobira
14. La tour Montparnasse infernale
15. Sennen joyû
16. Monsoon Wedding
17. Baby Boy
18. Moulin Rouge!
19. Ali
20. The Royal Tenenbaums

Spoiler

Torgo · #5

Rufus-T wrote: ↑March 1st, 2023, 9:44 pm This poll is for the year 2001 ===> Also Sprach Zarathustra starts blasting

This is a year I remember to have seen movies from, I might prepare a list

gunnar · #6

1. Band of Brothers
2. The Devil’s Backbone
3. The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
4. Nowhere in Africa
5. In the Bedroom
6. I Am Sam
7. Monsters, Inc.
8. Shrek
9. Shaolin Soccer
10. Donnie Darko
11. Lagaan: Once Upon a Time in India
12. A Beautiful Mind
13. Son of the Bride
14. Legally Blonde
15. Spirited Away
16. The Royal Tenenbaums
17. Sing!
18. The Others
19. Crayon Shin-chan: Storm-invoking Passion! The Adult Empire Strikes Back
20. Millennium Actress

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Honorable Mentions
Amélie
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone
Hornblower: Mutiny
Hornblower: Retribution
Josie and the Pussycats
Murder on a Sunday Morning
No Man’s Land
Ocean’s Eleven
Super Troopers
Winged Migration
Y Tu Mamá También

Shorts for Minkin
Sing!
Gridlock
Cat Soup
One Day Crossing
Copy Shop
The Accountant
A Man Thing
Gregor’s Greatest Invention

Spoiler

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http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0304394/maindetails
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0304107/maindetails

Minkin - I can probably help you find a few of these shorts if you want to watch them and can’t find them. Just send me a PM.

murnaunosferatu · #7

Great year!

1. Mulholland Drive
2. Spirited Away
3. Y Tu Mama Tambien
4. A.I. Artificial Intelligence
5. Lord of the Rings: the Fellowship of the Ring
6. Atanarjuat: The Fast Runner
7. Lagaan: Once Upon a Time in India
8. The Piano Teacher
9. Ghost World
10. Monsters, Inc.
11. Fat Girl
12. What Time Is It There?
13. Millenium Mambo
14. Zoolander
15. Trouble Every Day
16. Gosford Park
17. Time Out
18. La Libertad
19. In the Bedroom
20. The Royal Tenenbaums

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TraverseTown · #8

1 Millennium Actress
2 Pulse
3 Happiness of the Katakuris
4 Mulholland Dr
5 Storytelling
6 Spirited Away
7 Donnie Darko
8 Ghost World
9 Waking Life
10 The Piano Teacher
11 In the Bedroom
12 Godzilla, Mothra and King Ghidorah: Giant Monsters All-Out Attack
13 A.I. Artificial Intelligence
14 L.I.E.
15 Electric Dragon 80.000 V
16 Down
17 The Royal Tenenbaums
18 Monsters Inc
19 Pokemon 4Ever
20 Amelie

URLs

Good_Will_Harding · #9

Absolutely God tier year. Posting a list now, but with plenty left to see and re-watch yet. Links to follow.

1. The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
2. Sen to Chihiro no kamikakushi
3. A.I. Artificial Intelligence
4. Mulholland Dr.
5. The Royal Tenenbaums
6. Go-yang-i-leul boo-tak-hae
7. Sennen joyû
8. La Ciénaga
9. Qian xi man bo
10. Kairo

11. Bully
12. El espinazo del diablo
13. Ghost World
14. Gosford Park
15. The Man Who Wasn't There
16. Nimeh-ye penhan
17. Y tu mamá también
18. Le fabuleux destin d'Amélie Poulain
19. La pianiste
20. Gojira, Mosura, Kingu Gidorâ: Daikaijû sôkôgeki

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beavis · #10

The absolute pinnacle year for modern Japanese cinema!!! So many huge favorites there and then even more strong 8's that can't make the list
(also a nice year for Dutch underground art and movies with exclaimation marks in the title

)

1 - 5 - Aoi haru ( Blue Spring )
2 - 5 - Sen to Chihiro no kamikakushi ( Spirited Away )
3 - 5 - The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
4 - 5 - Avalon
5 - 5 - Mulholland Dr.
6 - 5 - Terrorama!
7 - 4.5 - Hedwig and the Angry Inch
8 - 4.5 - Mein langsames Leben
9 - 4.5 - La libertad
10 - 4.5 - Moulin Rouge!
11 - 4.5 - Ghost World
12 - 4 - Vtorostepennye lyudi ( Second Class Citizens )
13 - 4 - Distance
14 - 4 - La Ciénaga
15 - 4 - A.I. Artificial Intelligence
16 - 4 - Lastpak
17 - 4 - Lovely Rita
18 - 4 - Kairo ( Pulse )
19 - 4 - Nabbeun namja ( Bad Guy )
20 - 4 - Lavoura Arcaica ( To the Left of the Father )

Spoiler

Everything on the list is (almost) 8.5 or higher on a scale out of 10 (ratings out of 5 added to the list)
These are honorable mentions that could maybe rotate out the last place(s) on another day:

Mesto na Zemle (2001)
Yazgi (2001)
Das Experiment (2001)
Itiraf (2001)
A Knight's Tale (2001)
Manic (2001)
Zoolander (2001)
In den Tag Hinein (2001)

the Demirkubuz movies are too vague in my memory atm and I think I don't like Zoolander's humor as much now as I did back then (when I thought it was one of the best comedy's ever!), especially since the sequel left a bad taste in my mouth... But all these had a big impact on me when I first saw them.

Minkin · #11

For those not already in the know: I solicit accessible <40min short films for these year polls - to help pad out my ballot, to encourage discussion, and to help others as well find films that they might now otherwise get to - but since they're shorts, hey it doesn't take that long to get around to them! So do please offer and recommend some 2001 shorts... MOAR SHORTS!

gunnar wrote: ↑March 1st, 2023, 10:39 pm Shorts for Minkin
Sing!
Gridlock
Cat Soup
One Day Crossing
Copy Shop
The Accountant
A Man Thing
Gregor’s Greatest Invention

Minkin - I can probably help you find a few of these shorts if you want to watch them and can’t find them. Just send me a PM.

Minkin is pleased with your suggestions and will watch as many as brain allows - thanks a bunch!

Ivan0716 · #12

1. Mulholland Drive
2. What Time is it there?
3. La Ciénaga
4. Fragile as the World
5. Millenium Mambo
6. On My Lips
7. The Piano Teacher
8. The Others
9. Monsters Inc
10. LoTR: The Fellowship of the Ring
11. Spirited Away
12. Sex & Lucia
13. Pistol Opera
14. The Man Who Wasn’t There
15. Ocean’s Eleven
16. Millenium Actress
17. The Devil’s Backbone
18. No Man’s Land
19. Training Day
20. The Mummy Returns

Mysterious Dude · #13

iCheckMovies · #14

My list:

1. Mulholland Dr. (2001, David Lynch)
2. La Pianiste / The Piano Teacher (2001, Michael Haneke)
3. Le Fabuleux destin d'Amélie Poulain (2001, Jean-Pierre Jeunet)
4. Jisatsu sâkuru / Suicide Club (2001, Shion Sono)
5. Go-yang-i-leul boo-tak-hae / Take Care of My Cat (2001, Jae-eun Jeong)
6. Sen to Chihiro no kamikakushi / Spirited Away (2001, Hayao Miyazaki)
7. The Others (2001, Alejandro Amenábar)
8. Baran (2001, Majid Majidi)
9. The Royal Tenenbaums (2001, Wes Anderson)
10. El Espinazo del diablo / The Devil's Backbone (2001, Guillermo del Toro)

11. Éloge de l'amour / In Praise of Love (2001, Jean-Luc Godard)
12. Koroshiya 1 / Ichi the Killer (2001, Takashi Miike)
13. Ghost World (2001, Terry Zwigoff)
14. Bijitâ Q / Visitor Q (2001, Takashi Miike)
15. Atanarjuat / The Fast Runner (2001, Zacharias Kunuk)
16. Vtorostepennye lyudi / Second Class Citizens (2001, Kira Muratova)
17. Monsters, Inc. (2001, Pete Docter)
18. Ce vieux rêve qui bouge / Real Cool Time (2001, Alain Guiraudie)
19. No Man's Land (2001, Danis Tanovic)
20. The Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Ring (2001, Peter Jackson)

Honourable mentions:

Je rentre à la maison / I'm Going Home (2001, Manoel de Oliveira)
The Son’s Room / La stanza del figlio (2001, Nanni Moretti)
Riri Shushu no subete / All About Lily Chou-Chou (2001, Shunji Iwai)
Lucia y el sexo / Sex and Lucia (2001, Julio Medem)
Y tu mamá también (2001, Alfonso Cuarón)
AI: Artificial Intelligence (2001, Steven Spielberg)
Gosford Park (2001, Robert Altman)
L'Anglaise et le duc / The Lady and the Duke (2001, Eric Rohmer)
Mein Stern / Be My Star (2001, Valeska Grisebach)
A Beautiful Mind (2001, Ron Howard)
Suchwiin bulmyeong / Address Unknown (2001, Ki-duk Kim)
Ocean's Eleven (2001, Steven Soderbergh)

URLs:

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https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0265666/?ref_=adv_li_tt
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jeff_v · #15

1. Mulholland Dr.
2. Y tu mama tambien
3. Gosford Park
4. A.I. Artificial Intelligence
5. The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
6. Waking Life
7. Ghost World
8. No Man's Land
9. Kairo / Pulse
10. Sen to Chihiro no kamikakushi / Spirited Away
11. Distance
12. Donnie Darko
13. The Others
14. The Man Who Wasn't There
15. Le cas Pinochet / The Pinochet Case
16. Va savoir / Who Knows?
17. LucÃa y el sexo / Sex and Lucia
18. The Royal Tenenbaums
19. Wet Hot American Summer
20. Monsters, Inc.

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klaus78 · #16

1. Sen to Chihiro no kamikakushi
2. Mulholland Dr.
3. Dream Work
4. The Royal Tenenbaums
5. Le fabuleux destin d'Amélie Poulain
6. Y tu mamá también
7. La pianiste
8. Bijitâ Q
9. Éloge de l'amour
10. Koroshiya 1
11. À ma soeur!
12. Gosford Park
13. The Man Who Wasn't There
14. Ghost World
15. Sia, le rêve du python
16. The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
17. In the Bedroom
18. Waking Life
19. No Man's Land
20. Yeopgijeogin geunyeo

Spoiler

cinewest · #17

2001 was a damn good year, when I was watching a lot of movies, so I may have to add my cents. Very difficult to get down to 20, too, as there are at least twice that many that I could argue for.

Here's 12 that would definitely make it for me:

Lucia Y El Sexo
Mulholland Drive
Lavoura Arcaica
Y Tu Mama También
Atanajurat
Waking Life
Abril Despedaçado
No Man's Land
La Pianiste
L'emploi du temps
Monsoon Wedding
In the Bedroom

Possible final 8

Lantana
Nirgendwo in Afrika
Thirteen Conversations About One Thing
Akai hashi no shita no nurui mizu
Amelie
La Cienaga
Millennium Mambo
The Man Who Wasn't There

PopperTheKungFu-Dragon · #18

Go-yang-i-leul boo-tak-hae
Training Day
Mulholland Drive
Y tu mamá también
Ghost World
La pianiste
The Man Who Wasn't There
Rush Hour 2
Riding in Cars With Boys
Little Secrets
Sen to Chihiro no kamikakushi
Faat Kiné
Jeepers Creepers
The Others
Blow
The Pledge
Waterboys
Scary Movie 2
Black Hawk Down
Joy Ride

Spoiler

Lakigigar · #19

Under construction

1. Qian xi man bo [Millennium Mambo]
2. Yeopgijeogin geunyeo [My Sassy Girl]
3. Riri Shushu no subete [All About Lily Chou-Chou]
4. Black Hawk Down
5. Das Experiment [The Experiment]
6. The Others
7. Monsters, Inc.
8. A.I. Artificial Intelligence
9. Donnie Darko
10. Y Tu Mamá También
11. Sen to Chihiro no kamikakushi [Spirited Away]
12. Atlantis: The Lost Empire
13. A Beautiful Mind
14. Shrek
15. Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone
16. Ocean's Eleven
17. Hannibal
18. A Knight's Tale
19. Training Day
20. Jurassic Park III

Spoiler

This list is going to be weird, and also it's almost all 7/10 except for the last five and first two. Lily has grown me a ton also. Will maybe watch a few films before end of deadline tho (like Ghost World).

EDIT 1: Atlantis the Lost Empire -> IN. Planet of the Apes -> OUT.

joachimt · #20

1. Le fabuleux destin d'Amélie Poulain (Jean-Pierre Jeunet)
2. Mulholland Dr. (David Lynch)
3. A.I. Artificial Intelligence (Steven Spielberg)
4. Lavoura Arcaica (Luiz Fernando Carvalho)
5. No Man's Land (Danis Tanovic)
6. Serendipity (Peter Chelsom)
7. The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (Peter Jackson)
8. Lantana (Ray Lawrence)
9. Safar-e Ghandehar (Mohsen Makhmalbaf)
10. Human Nature (Michel Gondry)
11. Y tu mamá también (Alfonso Cuarón)
12. Enemy at the Gates (Jean-Jacques Annaud)
13. Vizontele (Yilmaz Erdogan, Ömer Faruk Sorak)
14. Band of Brothers ()
15. Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back (Kevin Smith)
16. A Beautiful Mind (Ron Howard)
17. Donnie Darko (Richard Kelly)
18. Ocean's Eleven (Steven Soderbergh)
19. The Man Who Wasn't There (Joel Coen)
20. Das Rad (Arvid Uibel, Heidi Wittlinger, Chris Stenner)

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Fergenaprido · #21

1. Le fabuleux destin d'Amélie Poulain [Amélie]
2. Moulin Rouge!
3. Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
4. Shrek
5. Donnie Darko
6. Life as a House
7. Gosford Park
8. Y tu mamá también [And Your Mother Too]
9. Lost and Delirious
10. The Royal Tenenbaums
11. Sen to Chihiro no kamikakushi [Spirited Away]
12. El hijo de la novia [Son of the Bride]
13. Yeopgijeogin geunyeo [My Sassy Girl]
14. L.I.E.
15. Legally Blonde
16. Le pacte des loups [Brotherhood of the Wolf]
17. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
18. Hedwig and the Angry Inch
19. Le fate ignoranti [His Secret Life / The Ignorant Fairies]
20. Bridget Jones's Diary

Spoiler

HM: Blue Planet (mini-series), Music for One Apartment and Six Drummers (short)
Monsters, Inc., The Son's Room, Kate and Leopold, The Mexican, The Shipping News, Rat Race, Black Hawk Down, Rivers and Tides, In the Bedroom, The Chimp, Baran, Lan Yu

Looking at my current list, it's an interesting mix of films. ~~Planning to watch a few more this month~~, but this is a solid enough list for me that if I don't see anything I'm still happy with it.

Fergenaprido · #22

FYI, the site header says "2021" instead of "2001", if one of the mods could fix that.

prodigalgodson · #23

1. The Ground (Robert Beavers)
2. The Fourth Dimension (Trinh T Minh-ha)
3. In Praise of Love (Jean-Luc Godard)
4. Millennium Mambo (Hou Hsiao-hsien)
5. Los (James Benning)
6. The Man Who Wasn't There (Ethan and Joel Coen)
7. Spirited Away (Hayao Miyazaki)
8. Y tu mama tambien (Alfonso Cuaron)
9. Mulholland Dr. (David Lynch)
10. Fellowship of the Ring (Peter Jackson)
11. Warm Water Under a Red Bridge (Shohei Imamura)
12. Moulin Rouge! (Baz Luhrmann)
13. La Cienaga (Lucrecia Martel)
14. Suicide Circle (Sion Sono)
15. All About Lily Chou-chou (Shunji Iwai)
16. Fat Girl (Catherine Breillat)
17. Sex and Lucia (Julio Medem)
18. The Curse of the Jade Scorpion (Woody Allen)
19. Shrek (Andrew Adamson and Vicky Jenson)
20. Training Day (Antoine Fuqua)

Spoiler

Not one of my favorite years of the 2000s.

EDIT: Well, I didn't end up watching any more, but having left out The Ground and Los, I decided to extend it to 20 anyway. Also looking at it again I have to admitthe top 10 are all pretty fire.

joachimt · #24

Fergenaprido wrote: ↑March 3rd, 2023, 1:41 am FYI, the site header says "2021" instead of "2001", if one of the mods could fix that.

Sorry, my typo. Fixed.

blocho · #25

1. Gosford Park
2. Mulholland Dr.
3. Zoolander
4. Super Troopers
5. Frailty
6. Monsters, Inc.
7. The Pledge
8. Y Tu Mama También
9. Nowhere in Africa
10. No Man’s Land
11. Lantana
12. The Devil’s Backbone
13. Enigma
14. The Deep End
15. Band of Brothers
16. Buffalo Soldiers
17. Baran
18. A Knight’s Tale
19. Spy Game
20. The Caveman’s Valentine

IMDb links

Honorable Mention: Shrek, Training Day, Spirited Away, Murder on a Sunday Morning

The Worst: 15 Minutes, Beijing Bicycle, Crocodile Dundee in Los Angeles, Heist, The Lord of the Rings 1, Brotherhood of the Wolf

hurluberlu · #26

1. Spirited Away ( Hayao Miyazaki )
2. Donnie Darko ( Richard Kelly )
3. Nirgendwo in Afrika ( Caroline Link )
4. Mulholland Dr. ( David Lynch )
5. Waking Life ( Richard Linklater )
6. La Cienaga ( Lucrecia Martel )
7. Millennium Actress ( Satoshi Kon )
8. Lavoura Arcaica ( Luiz Fernando Carvalho )
9. Lucia y el sexo ( Julio Medem )
10. Suicide Club ( Sion Sono )
11. Atanarjuat ( Zacharias Kunuk )
12. No Man's Land ( Danis Tanovic )
13. Wit ( Mike Nichols )
14. Monsters, Inc. ( David Silverman, Pete Docter, Lee Unkrich )
15. Va savoir ( Jacques Rivette )
16. The Royal Tenenbaums ( Wes Anderson )
17. The Man Who Wasn't There ( Joel Coen )
18. Le stade de Wimbledon ( Mathieu Amalric )
19. The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring ( Peter Jackson )
20. Millennium Mambo ( Hsiao-Hsien Hou )

links

1SO · #27

1. Mulholland Drive
2. Spirited Away
3. LOTR: The Fellowship of the Ring
4. Ocean’s Eleven
5. Monsters Inc.
6. Black Hawk Down
7. Moulin Rouge
8. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone
9. The Royal Tenenbaums
10. Kairo (Pulse)
11. Time Out
12. Brotherhood of the Wolf
13. Amelie
14. No Man’s Land
15. Training Day
16. Rush Hour 2
17. A Beautiful Mind
18. Y tu Mama Tambien
19. My Sassy Girl
20. Ichi the Killer

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matthewscott8 · #28

Terrible year, art in general felt to me like it was on a life support machine at the turn of the millennium. Still I do have 10 (ranked):

Fantômes (2001 - Jean-Paul Civeyrac)
Trouble every day (2001 - Claire Denis)
Marfa şi banii / Stuff and Dough (2001 - Cristi Puiu)
Mulholland Dr. (2001 - David Lynch)
The Royal Tenenbaums (2001 - Wes Anderson)
ねこぢる草 / Nekojiru-sō / Cat Soup (2001 - Tatsuo Satô)
Kiss of the Dragon (2001 - Chris Nahon)
Dream Work (2001 - Peter Tscherkassky)
L.I.E. (2001 - Michael Cuesta)
Enemy at the Gates (2001 - Jean-Jacques Annaud)

Took me until last year to get a top 10 favourites from 2001, and I was an active cinemagoer at the time. Still, Last Year in Marienbad played at my local cinema at the time, and La Ronde.

urls

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0385586/
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0295252/
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0204700/
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0265666/
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0289320/
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0166924/
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0271027/
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0303331/
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0242587/
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0215750/

Smoover · #29

1. The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
2. The Man Who Wasn't There
3. Band of Brothers
4. Sen to Chihiro no kamikakushi
5. Mulholland Dr.
6. No Man's Land
7. La stanza del figlio
8. Y tu mamá también
9. Monsters, Inc.
10. Donnie Darko
11.Yeopgijeogin geunyeo
12.The Grey Zone
13.Nirgendwo in Afrika
14.Atanarjuat
15.War Photographer
16.Âme noire - Black Soul
17.The Blue Planet
18.La pianiste
19.Lagaan: Once Upon a Time in India
20.Qian xi man bo

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Traveller · #30

01. Qian xi man bo
02. The Man Who Wasn't There
03. Ni na bian ji dian
04. Donnie Darko
05. Riri Shushu no subete
06. Mulholland Dr.
07. Nabi
08. A.I. Artificial Intelligence
09. Kairo
10. The Fast and the Furious

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https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0283283/
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0243133/
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0269746/
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0246578/
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0297721/
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0166924/
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0293442/
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0212720/
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0286751/
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0232500/

Lonewolf2003 · #31

1. Donnie Darko (2001): 10!
2. Mulholland Dr. (2001): 10!
3. Le fabuleux destin d'Amélie Poulain (2001): 10!
4. Sen to Chihiro no kamikakushi [Spirited Away] (2001): 10!
5. The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001): 9.5
6. Riri Shushu no subete [All About Lily Chou-Chou] (2001): 9.0
7. Avalon (2001): 9.0
8. La stanza del figlio (2001): 8.8
9. Sennen joyû [Millennium Actress] (2001): 8.5
10. In the Bedroom (2001): 8.5

11. Zoolander (2001): 8.5
12. Bijitâ Q [Visitor Q] (2001): 8.5
13. Training Day (2001): 8.2
14. Lucía y el sexo [Sex and Lucia] (2001): 8.0
15. Qian xi man bo [Millennium Mambo] (2001): 8.0
16. Black Hawk Down (2001): 8.0
17. Y Tu Mamá También (2001): 8.0
18. Failan (2001): 8.0
19. Go-yang-i-leul boo-tak-hae [Take Care of My Cat] (2001): 8.0
20. Yeopgijeogin geunyeo [My Sassy Girl] (2001): 8.0

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LeSchpountz · #32

1 Le fabuleux destin d'Amélie Poulain (Amélie)
2 Mulholland Dr. (Mulholland Drive)
3 The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring)
4 Sennen joyû (Millennium Actress)
5 Sen to Chihiro no kamikakushi (Spirited Away)
6 Y tu mamá también (Y Tu Mamá También)
7 The Man Who Wasn't There (The Man Who Wasn’t There)
8 The Royal Tenenbaums (The Royal Tenenbaums)
9 Waking Life (Waking Life)
10 Qian xi man bo (Millennium Mambo)
11 Ghost World (Ghost World)
12 Gosford Park (Gosford Park)
13 In the Bedroom (In the Bedroom)
14 El espinazo del diablo (The Devil’s Backbone)
15 Donnie Darko (Donnie Darko)
16 Yeopgijeogin geunyeo (My Sassy Girl)
17 Go-yang-i-leul boo-tak-hae (Take Care of My Cat)
18 Conspiracy (Conspiracy)
19 Cowboy Bebop: Tengoku no tobira (Cowboy Bebop: The Movie)
20 Ocean's Eleven (Ocean’s Eleven)

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0211915/
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0166924/
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120737/
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0291350/
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0245429/

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0245574/
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0243133/
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0265666/
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0243017/
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0283283/

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0162346/
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0280707/
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0247425/
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0256009/
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0246578/

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0293715/
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0296658/
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0266425/
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0275277/
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0240772/

timshelboy · #33

... absolutely terrifying

Torgo · #34

timshelboy wrote: ↑March 6th, 2023, 10:42 am OBSCURITIES

... absolutely terrifying

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beasterne · #35

1. The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
2. Ocean's Eleven
3. A.I. Artificial Intelligence
4. Monster's Inc.
5. Hedwig and the Angry Inch
6. Gosford Park
7. Waking Life
8. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
9. Ghost World
10. Legally Blonde
11. Shrek
12. A Beautiful Mind
13. The Royal Tenenbaums
14. Atlantis: The Lost Empire
15. A Knight's Tale
16. Rat Race
17. Moulin Rouge!
18. Zoolander
19. Osmosis Jones
20. Millennium Actress

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A lot of sentimental favorites on this ballot.

filmbantha · #36

1. Waking Life
2. Donnie Darko
3. No Man's Land
4. Hedwig and The Angry Inch
5. Black Hawk Down
6. The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
7. Super Troopers
8. Amelie
9. The Man Who Wasn't There
10. The Believer
11. Mullholland Drive
12. Ghost World
13. American Pie 2
14. Hannibal
15. The Hole
16. Blow
17.The Royal Tenenbaums
18. The Devil's Backbone
19. Manic
20. The Majestic

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George Eastman · #37

Torgo · #38

Ridiculous year. 3x 10/10 at the top for me with 8s going down into the #30-rankings or so. I remember how I recently struggled to make a worthwhile list for that lame year, what was it, 1992?, and here I will just forget about a few Japanese & Korean greats because there were too many

RANKED
Spirited Away [Sen to Chihiro no kamikakushi]
Mulholland Dr.
Donnie Darko
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
Pulse [Kairo]
Waking Life
Monsters, Inc.
The Man Who Wasn't There
La pianiste
Le fabuleux destin d'Amélie Poulain
Cat Soup
Ocean's Eleven
Ichi the Killer [Koroshiya 1]
The Royal Tenenbaums
No Man's Land
Katakuri-ke no kôfuku
Y tu mamá también
A Beautiful Mind
Blow
Das Experiment

Coming next: Monster's Ball, Le peuple migrateur, Das weiße Rauschen, A.I. Artificial Intelligence, Metoroporisu, Failan, Aoi haru, Vanilla Sky, Go, Sur mes lèvres, Bijitâ Q, Riri Shushu no subete, Zoolander, ...

Really unsure about #15-25 or so, it's been awfully long for me for A.I. and that Tom Cruise remake and so on.

OUT OF COMPETITION: ... ok fuck it, I usually don't do short films in these polls but if Cat Soup doesn't make it, it's literally my fault.

HMs: K-PAX, Session 9, The Others, Joy Ride, Lucía y el sexo, Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back, Lammbock, Yeopgijeogin geunyeo, Sennen joyû, Nabbeun namja

Watchlist: Gosford Park, Hedwig and the Angry Inch, Atanarjuat, L'emploi du temps, Trouble Every Day, What Time is It There?, Fulltime Killer, Intimacy, Pistol Opera, Prozac Nation, ...

URLs:

insomnius · #39

PARTIALLY RANKED,

...if that's allowed. Otherwise unranked.

1. The Ground (Robert Beavers)

Christabel (James Fotopoulos)
Domestic Violence (Frederick Wiseman)
Elsewhere (Nikolaus Geyrhalter)
Fear of Blushing (Jennifer Reeves)
Gosford Park (Robert Altman)
Kleftis i I pragmatikotita / Thief or Reality (Antouanetta Angelidi)
La libertad (Lisandro Alonso)
Los (James Benning)
Meditations on Revolution, Part IV: Greenville, MS (Robert Fenz)
Megalopolis (Jim Jennings)
Mesto na zemle / A Place on Earth (Artour Aristakisian)
Mulholland Dr. (David Lynch)
Operai, contadini / Workers, Peasants (Danièle Huillet, Jean-Marie Straub)
Riben guizi / Japanese Devils (Minoru Matsui)
Skyscraper (Jim Jennings)
Spin (Hannes Schüpbach)
The Or Cloud (Fred Worden)
Trouble Every Day (Claire Denis)
What These Ashes Wanted (Philip Hoffman)

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prodigalgodson · #40

insomnius wrote: ↑March 10th, 2023, 3:38 pm 1. The Ground (Robert Beavers)

Ahh I had this down as 2002. Move over Trinh T. Maybe I'll try to watch a few more and expand my list to 20 before the deadline, I'd feel bad leaving childhood staple Moulin Rouge off.

There's a hell of a short for you too Minkin!