Top Fifty Films of the 00s — Number Thirty

October 8, 2009August 20, 2021 Dan Seeger

#30 — The Queen (Stephen Frears, 2006) When Princess Diana died in a car crash in August 1997, the cultural impact was seismic, and, in a way, unprecedented. As opposed to other celebrity deaths that have set people to mourning in the streets, Diana’s untimely passing wasn’t tinged by movies unmade, songs unrecorded, books unwritten. More than with Elvis Presley who preceded her and Michael Jackson who followed her, the people grieving the loss of a global celebrity weren’t responding to their connection to art, but to the person. Misguided or not, they felt they knew her, loved her the … Continue reading Top Fifty Films of the 00s — Number Thirty

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Top Fifty Films of the 00s — Number Thirty-One

October 4, 2009August 20, 2021 Dan Seeger

#31 — The Lives of Others (Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck, 2006) Though we’re trained to believe otherwise, change usually happens incrementally. The misconception is fueled by newscasts and history textbooks that portray great social changes growing out singular events, tipping … Continue reading Top Fifty Films of the 00s — Number Thirty-One

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Top Fifty Films of the 00s — Number Thirty-Two

September 28, 2009October 2, 2023 Dan Seeger

#32 — Lost in Translation (Sofia Coppola, 2003) For all the time I spend pondering movies, I find I don’t often retain my specific first impressions, even when I feel very strongly about the film in question. For example, despite … Continue reading Top Fifty Films of the 00s — Number Thirty-Two

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Top Fifty Films of the 00s — Number Thirty-Three

September 21, 2009April 18, 2022 Dan Seeger

#33 — Bad Education (Pedro Almodovar, 2004) Pedro Almodovar is one of those directors that rewards those who make their film-going selections on the basis of adherence to the auteur theory. Not every Almodovar film is exceptional, but every one … Continue reading Top Fifty Films of the 00s — Number Thirty-Three

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Top Fifty Films of the 00s — Number Thirty-Four

September 16, 2009April 17, 2024 Dan Seeger

#34 — Finding Nemo (Andrew Stanton with Lee Unkrich, 2003) Recently The New York Times Magazine profiled director Spike Jonze with special attention paid to his troubled route he involuntarily took in bringing Maurice Sendak’s Where the Wild Things Are … Continue reading Top Fifty Films of the 00s — Number Thirty-Four

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Top Fifty Films of the 00s — Number Thirty-Five

September 7, 2009June 6, 2019 Dan Seeger

#35 — Brick (Rian Johnson, 2006) Sometimes movies use dialogue to capture how we do talk, wallowing in the stammers, the pauses, the redundancies. False starts and restless thinking out loud intermingle, obscuring the exposition and banter while also lending … Continue reading Top Fifty Films of the 00s — Number Thirty-Five

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Top Fifty Films of the 00s — Number Thirty-Six

September 1, 2009January 15, 2021 Dan Seeger

#36 — Pan’s Labyrinth (Guillermo del Toro, 2006) A persuasive argument can be made that all movies–all fiction movies, anyway–are individual testimonies to the wonders of the imagination. Ideas are given form and motion, emotions are conveyed in bold, almost … Continue reading Top Fifty Films of the 00s — Number Thirty-Six

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Top Fifty Films of the 00s — Number Thirty-Seven

August 27, 2009April 25, 2024 Dan Seeger

#37 — Ratatouille (Brad Bird with Jan Pinkava, 2007) When a new feature is produced by the artisans at Pixar, praise usually follows. Even after all their triumphs, there are still those who feel obligated to couch the praise in … Continue reading Top Fifty Films of the 00s — Number Thirty-Seven

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Top Fifty Films of the 00s — Number Thirty-Eight

August 24, 2009November 25, 2019 Dan Seeger

#38 — Gangs of New York (Martin Scorsese, 2002) There is a contingent of film observers that met Gangs of New York with the perspective that Martin Scorsese’s professional narrative had eclipsed that of his films. Gangs wasn’t about the … Continue reading Top Fifty Films of the 00s — Number Thirty-Eight

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Top Fifty Films of the 00s — Number Thirty-Nine

August 20, 2009April 29, 2024 Dan Seeger

#39 — 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days (Cristian Mungiu, 2007) The city the characters move through is a bleached slate gray, as if all the color had been systematically drained from it. As if a cold, winter sky … Continue reading Top Fifty Films of the 00s — Number Thirty-Nine

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Top Fifty Films of the 00s — Number Thirty

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