Films of the 2000s

Posted by Jason Ihle | 1 Comment

While I’ve been putting together my list of 50 favorite films of the decade, Paul Proulx has posted this really good clip on Vimeo.

It contains clips of 104 films, listed (to the best of my ability) after the jump.

With only a handful of questionable inclusions and (of course) glaring omissions, it’s a pretty good representation of a lot of the best of the decade. For me, at least. Not counting the few I couldn’t identify, there are only 6 I haven’t seen. Additionally, I own 18 of these and there are at least a dozen more I’m itching to own. And about 34 of these are either on my list of 50 favorites or were considered seriously.

There Will Be Blood
The Hurt Locker
Training Day
Miami Vice
A History of Violence
Unbreakable
Zodiac
Narc
Dog Soldiers
28 Days Later…
Blow
Collateral
Gangs of New York
Fahrenheit 9/11
Sin City
City of God
The Descent
Sexy Beast
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
The Wrestler
8 Mile
Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World
Avatar
Freddy vs. Jason
Million Dollar Baby
Gladiator
Inglourious Basterds
The Devil’s Rejects
Walk the Line
Signs
Snatch
No Country for Old Men
The Pirates of the Caribbean (not sure which one)
The Dark Knight
Up in the Air (I think. It could be Michael Clayton)
Shaun of the Dead
Big Fish
The Cooler
A Prairie Home Companion
I Heart Huckabees
Ocean’s 11
Jackass: The Movie
Amelie
American Psycho
The Departed
Best in Show
O Brother Where Art Thou?
Secretary
Planet Terror
Swimming Pool
Cast Away
Spun
Vanilla Sky
The 40 Year Old Virgin
Burn After Reading
The Royal Tenenbaums
Ghost World
Punch Drunk Love
Dancer in the Dark
Confessions of a Dangerous Mind
Ali
Dawn of the Dead
Little Miss Sunshine
Chicago
Jarhead
Lost in Translation
Birth
Kill Bill Vol. 1
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Mystic River
?
Monster’s Ball
The Brown Bunny
Y tu mamá también
Mulholland Dr.
Traffic
Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith
Memento
The Man Who Wasn’t There
The Hours
Road to Perdition
Requiem for a Dream
Wonder Boys
Once
The New World
In the Bedroom
Inland Empire
Monster
?
About Schmidt
A.I.: Artificial Intelligence
Capote
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Audition
A Beautiful Mind
Che
Donnie Darko
The Aviator
The Assassination of Richard Nixon
Adaptation
American Gangster
The Passion of the Christ
District 9
Munich

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