Reminder that lists are due todayswo17 wrote: Wed Apr 01, 2026 3:26 pm ELIGIBLE TITLES FOR 2003
VOTE THROUGH MAY 31
Please post in this thread if you think anything needs to change about the list of eligible titles
The 2003 Mini-List
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swo17
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TMDaines
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I’m just getting an error on the vercel site that “We’re having some trouble searching. Please try again later.”. It isn’t letting me select any films for my ballot.
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swo17
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Try again now
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TMDaines
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Thanks. Can we add this Oscsr nominated short, (A)Torzija (2003)?
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0350476/
And this Italian film, Caterina va in citta’ (2003): https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0366287
And the sixth Prime Suspect (2003)?
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0365651
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swo17
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All added, thanks
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denti alligator
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Too late to add Emily Richardson‘s Nocturne?
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domino harvey
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No need to add to the database as I’ve already submitted but I would have voted for these as well:
Louis Theroux and the Nazis: Theroux’s greatest achievement, a collection of unforgettable characters with “the most abhorrent world view imaginable”. Equally sad, pathetic, and laugh out loud funny (as when one slovenly white supremicist insists he’s more handsome than Denzel Washington).
My Life With Morrissey: Zero budget amateur film made by staff members of Nickelodeon about a woman obsessed with Morrissey that I will never revisit because I know it won’t be good but I have a lot of affection for it in my memory and it has one of my favorite random lines that pops into my head from time to time: “Give me back my money, you sexual leprechaun!”
Ni pour, ni contre (bien au contraire): Marie Gillain’s photojournalist joins the theft ring she’s covering in this typically entertaining offering from Cedric Klapisch
Off the Charts: Fascinating doc on an obscure service which provided customers with custom-made songs (“song-poems”) based on the lyrics/instructions they provided. Interviewing the aspiring lyricists reveals a collection of true oddballs. One of them was a legit banger too
Petites coupures: In many ways Pascal Bonitzer should just release posters and forget the movies they’re advertising entirely, but this is the best I’ve seen from him
Louis Theroux and the Nazis: Theroux’s greatest achievement, a collection of unforgettable characters with “the most abhorrent world view imaginable”. Equally sad, pathetic, and laugh out loud funny (as when one slovenly white supremicist insists he’s more handsome than Denzel Washington).
My Life With Morrissey: Zero budget amateur film made by staff members of Nickelodeon about a woman obsessed with Morrissey that I will never revisit because I know it won’t be good but I have a lot of affection for it in my memory and it has one of my favorite random lines that pops into my head from time to time: “Give me back my money, you sexual leprechaun!”
Ni pour, ni contre (bien au contraire): Marie Gillain’s photojournalist joins the theft ring she’s covering in this typically entertaining offering from Cedric Klapisch
Off the Charts: Fascinating doc on an obscure service which provided customers with custom-made songs (“song-poems”) based on the lyrics/instructions they provided. Interviewing the aspiring lyricists reveals a collection of true oddballs. One of them was a legit banger too
Petites coupures: In many ways Pascal Bonitzer should just release posters and forget the movies they’re advertising entirely, but this is the best I’ve seen from him
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ryannichols7
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got in my "before swo wakes up" ballot this time after straight up missing last month
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denti alligator
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I don't think swo ever sleeps.ryannichols7 wrote: Mon Jun 01, 2026 11:47 am got in my "before swo wakes up" ballot this time after straight up missing last month
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swo17
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It is something I've been meaning to try
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martin
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I just watched this recently.domino harvey wrote: Mon Jun 01, 2026 6:34 am Ni pour, ni contre (bien au contraire): Marie Gillain’s photojournalist joins the theft ring she’s covering in this typically entertaining offering from Cedric Klapisch
Spoiler
It's such a wonderful moment when Marie Gillain breaks the 4th wall and looks straight to the camera in the final shot (I think?).
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swo17
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The 2003 List
##. Film (Director) points/votes(top 5 placements, aka likely votes in decade list)/highest ranking
01. 살인의 추억 [Salinui chueok] [Memories of Murder] (Bong Joon-ho) 354/17(12)/1(x4)
02. 不散 [Bu san] [Goodbye, Dragon Inn] (Tsai Ming-liang) 334/17(12)/1(x2)
03. Dogville (Lars von Trier) 262/13(7)/1(x2)
04. Lost in Translation (Sofia Coppola) 253/15(6)/1(x2)
05. Elephant (Gus Van Sant) 236/13(7)/1(x2)
06. Kill Bill (2003-2004) (Quentin Tarantino) 222/12(6)/1
07. 올드보이 [Oldeuboi] [Oldboy] (Park Chan-wook) 170/10(3)/2
08. Возвращение [Vozvrashcheniye] [The Return] (Andrey Zvyagintsev) 149/11(2)/3
09. 珈琲時光 [Kōhī jikō] [Café Lumière] (Hou Hsiao-hsien) 148/9(4)/1
10. Coffee and Cigarettes (Jim Jarmusch) 147/11/6
11. Saraband (Ingmar Bergman) 142/9(3)/1
12. Los Angeles Plays Itself (Thom Andersen) 134/8(4)/3(x2)
13. Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World (Peter Weir) 130/8(3)/2
14. Capturing the Friedmans (Andrew Jarecki) 126/7(3)/2
15. School of Rock (Richard Linklater) 114/6(2)/1
16. 東京ゴッドファーザーズ [Tōkyō goddofāzāzu] [Tokyo Godfathers] (Satoshi Kon) 111/6(3)/1
(tie) Отец и сын [Otets i syn] [Father and Son] (Aleksandr Sokurov) 111/6(2)/2
18. American Splendor (Robert Pulcini & Shari Springer Berman) 110/6(2)/3
19. Les Triplettes de Belleville [The Triplets of Belleville] (Sylvain Chomet) 109/7(2)/1
20. Bad Santa (Terry Zwigoff) 103/8(1)/3
21. طلای سرخ [Talaye sorkh] [Crimson Gold] (Jafar Panahi) 102/6(1)/2
22. In the Cut (Jane Campion) 100/5(3)/2(x2)
23. Mystic River (Clint Eastwood) 97/8(1)/2
24. The Fog of War (Errol Morris) 96/7(1)/4
25. All the Real Girls (David Gordon Green) 90/5(1)/5
(tie) A Mighty Wind (Christopher Guest) 90/7(1)/4
27. 봄 여름 가을 겨울 그리고 봄 [Bom yeoreum gaeul gyeoul geurigo bom] [Spring, Summer, Autumn, Winter... and Spring] (Kim Ki-duk) 86/6(2)/5(x2)
28. Big Fish (Tim Burton) 85/6(1)/5
(tie) The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (Peter Jackson) 85/6(1)/2
30. 21 Grams (Alejandro González Iñárritu) 78/5(1)/4
31. The Saddest Music in the World (Guy Maddin) 77/5(2)/1
32. PTU (Johnnie To) 76/5(1)/2
33. La Fleur du mal [The Flower of Evil] (Claude Chabrol) 73/6/7
34. The Company (Robert Altman) 71/6(1)/5
35. Vai e Vem [Come and Go] (João César Monteiro) 70/4(1)/3
36. Good Bye, Lenin! (Wolfgang Becker) 66/4(1)/3
37. Intolerable Cruelty (Joel & Ethan Coen) 58/5/6
38. Ce jour-là [That Day] (Raúl Ruiz) 57/4(1)/1
39. La meglio gioventù [The Best of Youth] (Marco Tullio Giordana) 56/3(1)/1
40. Um Filme Falado [A Talking Picture] (Manoel de Oliveira) 55/3(2)/1
(tie) Buongiorno, notte [Good Morning, Night] (Marco Bellocchio) 55/3(1)/2
42. アカルイミライ [Akarui mirai] [Bright Future] (Kiyoshi Kurosawa) 54/4/6
43. Dying at Grace (Allan King) 53/3(1)/1
(tie) เรื่องรัก น้อยนิด มหาศาล [Ruang rak noi nid mahasan] [Last Life in the Universe] (Pen-Ek Ratanaruang) 53/4/6
(tie) Fast Film (Virgil Widrich) 53/4(1)/5
46. 바람난 가족 [Baramnan gajok] [A Good Lawyer's Wife] (Im Sang-soo) 52/3(1)/4
47. De fem benspænd [The Five Obstructions] (Lars von Trier & Jørgen Leth) 51/3/6
48. 大隻佬 [Dai zek lo] [Running on Karma] (Johnnie To & Wai Ka-fai) 50/3(1)/4
(tie) 장화, 홍련 [Janghwa hongryeon] [A Tale of Two Sisters] (Kim Jee-woon) 50/4/7
50. 極道恐怖大劇場 牛頭 [Gokudō kyōfu dai-gekijō gozu] [Gozu] (Takashi Miike) 49/3(1)/3
ALSO-RANS
The Brown Bunny (Vincent Gallo) 47/4(1)/2
The Room (Tommy Wiseau) 46/5/7
Egy hét Pesten és Budán [A Long Weekend in Pest and Buda] (Károly Makk) 45/2(2)/3
Léo, en jouant 'Dans la compagnie des hommes' [Playing 'In the Company of Men'] (Arnaud Desplechin) 45/3/8
House of Sand and Fog (Vadim Perelman) 45/4/6
The Weather Underground (Sam Green & Bill Siegel) 43/2(1)/1
Histoire de Marie et Julien [The Story of Marie and Julien] (Jacques Rivette) 42/2(1)/4
The Dreamers (Bernardo Bertolucci) 42/5/12
Destino (Dominique Monfery) 41/3(1)/4
Thirteen (Catherine Hardwicke) 41/3/6
ドッペルゲンガー [Dopperugengā] [Doppelganger] (Kiyoshi Kurosawa) 41/4/13
The Corporation (Mark Achbar & Jennifer Abbott) 40/2(1)/2
Le Monde vivant [The Living World] (Eugène Green) 40/2/6(x2)
Monster (Patty Jenkins) 39/2(1)/3
Les Invasions barbares [The Barbarian Invasions] (Denys Arcand) 39/2/6
Wolfsburg (Christian Petzold) 38/2/6
Cold Mountain (Anthony Minghella) 38/4(1)/5
Swimming Pool (François Ozon) 38/4/9
Anything Else (Woody Allen) 37/2/6
The Shape of Things (Neil LaBute) 37/3/9
Salmer fra kjøkkenet [Kitchen Stories] (Bent Hamer) 36/3/8
Le Temps du loup [Time of the Wolf] (Michael Haneke) 35/4/8
Kontroll [Control] (Nimród Antal) 34/3(1)/5
The Tulse Luper Suitcases, Part 1: The Moab Story (Peter Greenaway) 32/2/8
Finding Nemo (Andrew Stanton) 32/5(1)/5
Looney Tunes: Back in Action (Joe Dante) 31/2(1)/3
Twentynine Palms (Bruno Dumont) 31/3/8
Pas sur la bouche [Not on the Lips] (Alain Resnais) 29/3/9
Songs for Dead Children (Stephen & Timothy Quay) 27/2(1)/1
The Cooler (Wayne Kramer) 27/2(1)/4
De grønne slagtere [The Green Butchers] (Anders Thomas Jensen) 27/2/8
Touching the Void (Kevin Macdonald) 26/2(1)/3
Lichter [Distant Lights] (Hans-Christian Schmid) 26/2(1)/5
X2 (Bryan Singer) 25/2/9
Matchstick Men (Ridley Scott) 25/4/15
Wasp (Andrea Arnold) 24/2(1)/4
Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (Gore Verbinski) 24/2/6
Down with Love (Peyton Reed) 24/2/8
座頭市 [Zatōichi] (Takeshi Kitano) 24/4/11
Papillon d'amour [Butterfly of Love] (Nicolas Provost) 22/2/10
The Hunted (William Friedkin) 22/2/15(x2)
To the Happy Few (Thomas Draschan & Stella Friedrichs) 22/3/14
The Animation Show (Don Hertzfeldt) 21/2/8
Chinese Series (Stan Brakhage) 21/2/14
Bon Voyage (Jean-Paul Rappeneau) 20/2/10
La finestra di fronte [Facing Windows] (Ferzan Özpetek) 20/2/14
Cowards Bend the Knee (Guy Maddin) 17/2/13
Shattered Glass (Billy Ray) 17/2/14
Après vous... [After You] (Pierre Salvadori) 17/2/15
The Station Agent (Tom McCarthy) 16/2/13
盲井 [Mang jing] [Blind Shaft] (Li Yang) 16/2/17
Collage d'Hollywood (Richard Kerr) 15/2/18
Cantando dietro i paraventi [Singing Behind Screens] (Ermanno Olmi) 14/2/18
Fat Pizza (Paul Fenech) 13/2/18
Love Actually (Richard Curtis) 13/2/18
Wheel of Time (Werner Herzog) 12/2/17
Code 46 (Michael Winterbottom) 10/2/20
ORPHANS
Film (Director) highest ranking
پنج [Panj] [Five Dedicated to Ozu] (Abbas Kiarostami) 2
Harvie Krumpet (Adam Elliot) 9
Stupeur et Tremblements [Fear and Trembling] (Alain Corneau) 22
Последний поезд [Poslednij poezd] [The Last Train] (Aleksei German Jr.) 5
Haute Tension [High Tension] (Alexandre Aja) 22
Les Égarés [Strayed] (André Téchiné) 6
Los debutantes [The Debutantes] (Andrés Waissbluth) 25
Holes (Andrew Davis) 16
My Life with Morrissey (Andrew Overtoom) 20
Hulk (Ang Lee) 18
Les Côtelettes [The Chops] (Bertrand Blier) 17
Ингэн нулимс [Ingen nulims] [The Story of the Weeping Camel] (Byambasuren Davaa & Luigi Falorni) 6
Out of Time (Carl Franklin) 16
Ni pour, ni contre (bien au contraire) [Not For, or Against (Quite the Contrary)] (Cédric Klapisch) 18
Nat Turner: A Troublesome Property (Charles Burnett) 16
La Petite Lili [Little Lili] (Claude Miller) 15
Il ritorno di Cagliostro [The Return of Cagliostro] (Daniele Ciprì & Franco Maresco) 9
Young Adam (David Mackenzie) 22
บิวตี้ฟูล บ๊อกเซอร์ [Biutiful boksoe] [Beautiful Boxer] (Ekachai Uekrongtham) 24
Nocturne (Emily Richardson) 19
G.I. Joe PSAs (Eric Fensler) 2
De zaak Alzheimer [The Memory of a Killer] (Erik Van Looy) 18
American Eunuchs (Franco Sacchi & Gian Claudio Guiducci) 13
Ricordati di me [Remember Me, My Love] (Gabriele Muccino) 19
Trailer Town (Giuseppe Andrews) 4
David Blaine: Above the Below (Harmony Korine) 1
Isz (Jacques Perconte) 13
Le Divorce (James Ivory) 22
Off the Charts: The Song-Poem Story (Jamie Meltzer) 12
지구를 지켜라! [Jigureul jikyeora] [Save the Green Planet!] (Jang Joon-hwan) 20
La Grande Séduction [Seducing Doctor Lewis] (Jean-François Pouliot) 15
In America (Jim Sheridan) 16
Bukowski: Born into This (John Dullaghan) 15
Basic (John McTiernan) 12
Casa de los babys (John Sayles) 1
Elf (Jon Favreau) 7
Mil nubes de paz cercan el cielo, amor, jamás acabarás de ser amor [A Thousand Clouds of Peace Surround the Sky, Love, You Will Never Stop Being Love] (Julián Hernández) 4
Depuis qu'Otar est parti... [Since Otar Left] (Julie Bertuccelli) 7
Open Range (Kevin Costner) 6
The Matrix Reloaded (Lana & Lilly Wachowski) 10
The Matrix Revolutions (Lana & Lilly Wachowski) 19
Tupac: Resurrection (Lauren Lazin) 23
紫蝴蝶 [Zi hu die] [Purple Butterfly] (Lou Ye) 8
Cavale [On the Run] (Lucas Belvaux) 3
Niki Ardelean, colonel în rezervă [Niki and Flo] (Lucian Pintilie) 10
Take Away (Marc Gracie) 20
Calais: The Last Border (Marc Isaacs) 9
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (Marcus Nispel) 25
Der Wald vor lauter Bäumen [The Forest for the Trees] (Maren Ade) 11
Babae sa Breakwater [Woman of Breakwater] (Mario O'Hara) 20
Magnifico (Maryo J. de los Reyes) 11
Lost Boys of Sudan (Megan Mylan & Jon Shenk) 5
Bad Boys II (Michael Bay) 13
Northfork (Michael Polish) 11
In This World (Michael Winterbottom) 10
Mona Lisa Smile (Mike Newell) 17
Angels in America (Mike Nichols) 21
خواب ابریشم [Khabe abrisham] [Dream of Silk] (Nahid Rezaei) 9
Something's Gotta Give (Nancy Meyers) 8
沙羅双樹 [Sharasōju] [Shara] (Naomi Kawase) 7
My Architect: A Son's Journey (Nathaniel Kahn) 9
Aileen: Life and Death of a Serial Killer (Nick Broomfield) 7
ばかのハコ船 [Baka no hakobune] [No One's Ark] (Nobuhiro Yamashita) 21
リアリズムの宿 [Riarizumu no yado] [Ramblers] (Nobuhiro Yamashita) 3
Želary (Ondřej Trojan) 13
Peter Pan (P.J. Hogan) 20
Caterina va in città [Caterina in the Big City] (Paolo Virzì) 11
Petites Coupures [Small Cuts] (Pascal Bonitzer) 19
Pieces of April (Peter Hedges) 10
Le Coût de la vie [The Cost of Living] (Philippe Le Guay) 16
องค์บาก [Ong bak] [The Thai Warrior] (Prachya Pinkaew) 15
Il cuore altrove [The Heart Elsewhere] (Pupi Avati) 12
Girls Will Be Girls (Richard Day) 11
Alexandra's Project (Rolf De Heer) 17
The Missing (Ron Howard) 25
Freddy vs. Jason (Ronny Yu) 8
Bright Leaves (Ross McElwee) 4
پنج عصر [Panj é asr] [At Five in the Afternoon] (Samira Makhmalbāf) 18
High School Reunion (Sarah Jacobson) 17
軒下のならず者みたいに [Nokishitano narazumono mitaini] [Like a Desperado Under the Eaves] (Shinji Aoyama) 15
Queens of the Stone Age: Go with the Flow (Shynola) 25
Structural Filmwaste. Dissolution 1 (Siegfried A. Fruhauf) 10
Structural Filmwaste. Dissolution 2 (Siegfried A. Fruhauf) 16
(A)Torzija [(A)Torsion] (Stefan Arsenijević) 13
Time Streams (Stephanie Maxwell) 24
The Phantom Museum: Random Forays into the Vaults of Sir Henry Wellcome's Medical Collection (Stephen & Timothy Quay) 11
Louis and the Nazis (Stuart Cabb) 1
Two Cars, One Night (Taika Waititi) 4
It's All About Love (Thomas Vinterberg) 5
Old School (Todd Phillips) 11
Prime Suspect 6: The Last Witness (Tom Hooper) 12
Svjedoci [Witnesses] (Vinko Brešan) 14
にーエルディーケー [Nīerudīkē] [2LDK] (Yukihiko Tsutsumi) 13
ChromiumBlue.com (Zalman King & Scott Sampler) 1
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##. Film (Director) points/votes(top 5 placements, aka likely votes in decade list)/highest ranking
01. 살인의 추억 [Salinui chueok] [Memories of Murder] (Bong Joon-ho) 354/17(12)/1(x4)
02. 不散 [Bu san] [Goodbye, Dragon Inn] (Tsai Ming-liang) 334/17(12)/1(x2)
03. Dogville (Lars von Trier) 262/13(7)/1(x2)
04. Lost in Translation (Sofia Coppola) 253/15(6)/1(x2)
05. Elephant (Gus Van Sant) 236/13(7)/1(x2)
06. Kill Bill (2003-2004) (Quentin Tarantino) 222/12(6)/1
07. 올드보이 [Oldeuboi] [Oldboy] (Park Chan-wook) 170/10(3)/2
08. Возвращение [Vozvrashcheniye] [The Return] (Andrey Zvyagintsev) 149/11(2)/3
09. 珈琲時光 [Kōhī jikō] [Café Lumière] (Hou Hsiao-hsien) 148/9(4)/1
10. Coffee and Cigarettes (Jim Jarmusch) 147/11/6
11. Saraband (Ingmar Bergman) 142/9(3)/1
12. Los Angeles Plays Itself (Thom Andersen) 134/8(4)/3(x2)
13. Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World (Peter Weir) 130/8(3)/2
14. Capturing the Friedmans (Andrew Jarecki) 126/7(3)/2
15. School of Rock (Richard Linklater) 114/6(2)/1
16. 東京ゴッドファーザーズ [Tōkyō goddofāzāzu] [Tokyo Godfathers] (Satoshi Kon) 111/6(3)/1
(tie) Отец и сын [Otets i syn] [Father and Son] (Aleksandr Sokurov) 111/6(2)/2
18. American Splendor (Robert Pulcini & Shari Springer Berman) 110/6(2)/3
19. Les Triplettes de Belleville [The Triplets of Belleville] (Sylvain Chomet) 109/7(2)/1
20. Bad Santa (Terry Zwigoff) 103/8(1)/3
21. طلای سرخ [Talaye sorkh] [Crimson Gold] (Jafar Panahi) 102/6(1)/2
22. In the Cut (Jane Campion) 100/5(3)/2(x2)
23. Mystic River (Clint Eastwood) 97/8(1)/2
24. The Fog of War (Errol Morris) 96/7(1)/4
25. All the Real Girls (David Gordon Green) 90/5(1)/5
(tie) A Mighty Wind (Christopher Guest) 90/7(1)/4
27. 봄 여름 가을 겨울 그리고 봄 [Bom yeoreum gaeul gyeoul geurigo bom] [Spring, Summer, Autumn, Winter... and Spring] (Kim Ki-duk) 86/6(2)/5(x2)
28. Big Fish (Tim Burton) 85/6(1)/5
(tie) The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (Peter Jackson) 85/6(1)/2
30. 21 Grams (Alejandro González Iñárritu) 78/5(1)/4
31. The Saddest Music in the World (Guy Maddin) 77/5(2)/1
32. PTU (Johnnie To) 76/5(1)/2
33. La Fleur du mal [The Flower of Evil] (Claude Chabrol) 73/6/7
34. The Company (Robert Altman) 71/6(1)/5
35. Vai e Vem [Come and Go] (João César Monteiro) 70/4(1)/3
36. Good Bye, Lenin! (Wolfgang Becker) 66/4(1)/3
37. Intolerable Cruelty (Joel & Ethan Coen) 58/5/6
38. Ce jour-là [That Day] (Raúl Ruiz) 57/4(1)/1
39. La meglio gioventù [The Best of Youth] (Marco Tullio Giordana) 56/3(1)/1
40. Um Filme Falado [A Talking Picture] (Manoel de Oliveira) 55/3(2)/1
(tie) Buongiorno, notte [Good Morning, Night] (Marco Bellocchio) 55/3(1)/2
42. アカルイミライ [Akarui mirai] [Bright Future] (Kiyoshi Kurosawa) 54/4/6
43. Dying at Grace (Allan King) 53/3(1)/1
(tie) เรื่องรัก น้อยนิด มหาศาล [Ruang rak noi nid mahasan] [Last Life in the Universe] (Pen-Ek Ratanaruang) 53/4/6
(tie) Fast Film (Virgil Widrich) 53/4(1)/5
46. 바람난 가족 [Baramnan gajok] [A Good Lawyer's Wife] (Im Sang-soo) 52/3(1)/4
47. De fem benspænd [The Five Obstructions] (Lars von Trier & Jørgen Leth) 51/3/6
48. 大隻佬 [Dai zek lo] [Running on Karma] (Johnnie To & Wai Ka-fai) 50/3(1)/4
(tie) 장화, 홍련 [Janghwa hongryeon] [A Tale of Two Sisters] (Kim Jee-woon) 50/4/7
50. 極道恐怖大劇場 牛頭 [Gokudō kyōfu dai-gekijō gozu] [Gozu] (Takashi Miike) 49/3(1)/3
ALSO-RANS
The Brown Bunny (Vincent Gallo) 47/4(1)/2
The Room (Tommy Wiseau) 46/5/7
Egy hét Pesten és Budán [A Long Weekend in Pest and Buda] (Károly Makk) 45/2(2)/3
Léo, en jouant 'Dans la compagnie des hommes' [Playing 'In the Company of Men'] (Arnaud Desplechin) 45/3/8
House of Sand and Fog (Vadim Perelman) 45/4/6
The Weather Underground (Sam Green & Bill Siegel) 43/2(1)/1
Histoire de Marie et Julien [The Story of Marie and Julien] (Jacques Rivette) 42/2(1)/4
The Dreamers (Bernardo Bertolucci) 42/5/12
Destino (Dominique Monfery) 41/3(1)/4
Thirteen (Catherine Hardwicke) 41/3/6
ドッペルゲンガー [Dopperugengā] [Doppelganger] (Kiyoshi Kurosawa) 41/4/13
The Corporation (Mark Achbar & Jennifer Abbott) 40/2(1)/2
Le Monde vivant [The Living World] (Eugène Green) 40/2/6(x2)
Monster (Patty Jenkins) 39/2(1)/3
Les Invasions barbares [The Barbarian Invasions] (Denys Arcand) 39/2/6
Wolfsburg (Christian Petzold) 38/2/6
Cold Mountain (Anthony Minghella) 38/4(1)/5
Swimming Pool (François Ozon) 38/4/9
Anything Else (Woody Allen) 37/2/6
The Shape of Things (Neil LaBute) 37/3/9
Salmer fra kjøkkenet [Kitchen Stories] (Bent Hamer) 36/3/8
Le Temps du loup [Time of the Wolf] (Michael Haneke) 35/4/8
Kontroll [Control] (Nimród Antal) 34/3(1)/5
The Tulse Luper Suitcases, Part 1: The Moab Story (Peter Greenaway) 32/2/8
Finding Nemo (Andrew Stanton) 32/5(1)/5
Looney Tunes: Back in Action (Joe Dante) 31/2(1)/3
Twentynine Palms (Bruno Dumont) 31/3/8
Pas sur la bouche [Not on the Lips] (Alain Resnais) 29/3/9
Songs for Dead Children (Stephen & Timothy Quay) 27/2(1)/1
The Cooler (Wayne Kramer) 27/2(1)/4
De grønne slagtere [The Green Butchers] (Anders Thomas Jensen) 27/2/8
Touching the Void (Kevin Macdonald) 26/2(1)/3
Lichter [Distant Lights] (Hans-Christian Schmid) 26/2(1)/5
X2 (Bryan Singer) 25/2/9
Matchstick Men (Ridley Scott) 25/4/15
Wasp (Andrea Arnold) 24/2(1)/4
Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (Gore Verbinski) 24/2/6
Down with Love (Peyton Reed) 24/2/8
座頭市 [Zatōichi] (Takeshi Kitano) 24/4/11
Papillon d'amour [Butterfly of Love] (Nicolas Provost) 22/2/10
The Hunted (William Friedkin) 22/2/15(x2)
To the Happy Few (Thomas Draschan & Stella Friedrichs) 22/3/14
The Animation Show (Don Hertzfeldt) 21/2/8
Chinese Series (Stan Brakhage) 21/2/14
Bon Voyage (Jean-Paul Rappeneau) 20/2/10
La finestra di fronte [Facing Windows] (Ferzan Özpetek) 20/2/14
Cowards Bend the Knee (Guy Maddin) 17/2/13
Shattered Glass (Billy Ray) 17/2/14
Après vous... [After You] (Pierre Salvadori) 17/2/15
The Station Agent (Tom McCarthy) 16/2/13
盲井 [Mang jing] [Blind Shaft] (Li Yang) 16/2/17
Collage d'Hollywood (Richard Kerr) 15/2/18
Cantando dietro i paraventi [Singing Behind Screens] (Ermanno Olmi) 14/2/18
Fat Pizza (Paul Fenech) 13/2/18
Love Actually (Richard Curtis) 13/2/18
Wheel of Time (Werner Herzog) 12/2/17
Code 46 (Michael Winterbottom) 10/2/20
ORPHANS
Film (Director) highest ranking
پنج [Panj] [Five Dedicated to Ozu] (Abbas Kiarostami) 2
Harvie Krumpet (Adam Elliot) 9
Stupeur et Tremblements [Fear and Trembling] (Alain Corneau) 22
Последний поезд [Poslednij poezd] [The Last Train] (Aleksei German Jr.) 5
Haute Tension [High Tension] (Alexandre Aja) 22
Les Égarés [Strayed] (André Téchiné) 6
Los debutantes [The Debutantes] (Andrés Waissbluth) 25
Holes (Andrew Davis) 16
My Life with Morrissey (Andrew Overtoom) 20
Hulk (Ang Lee) 18
Les Côtelettes [The Chops] (Bertrand Blier) 17
Ингэн нулимс [Ingen nulims] [The Story of the Weeping Camel] (Byambasuren Davaa & Luigi Falorni) 6
Out of Time (Carl Franklin) 16
Ni pour, ni contre (bien au contraire) [Not For, or Against (Quite the Contrary)] (Cédric Klapisch) 18
Nat Turner: A Troublesome Property (Charles Burnett) 16
La Petite Lili [Little Lili] (Claude Miller) 15
Il ritorno di Cagliostro [The Return of Cagliostro] (Daniele Ciprì & Franco Maresco) 9
Young Adam (David Mackenzie) 22
บิวตี้ฟูล บ๊อกเซอร์ [Biutiful boksoe] [Beautiful Boxer] (Ekachai Uekrongtham) 24
Nocturne (Emily Richardson) 19
G.I. Joe PSAs (Eric Fensler) 2
De zaak Alzheimer [The Memory of a Killer] (Erik Van Looy) 18
American Eunuchs (Franco Sacchi & Gian Claudio Guiducci) 13
Ricordati di me [Remember Me, My Love] (Gabriele Muccino) 19
Trailer Town (Giuseppe Andrews) 4
David Blaine: Above the Below (Harmony Korine) 1
Isz (Jacques Perconte) 13
Le Divorce (James Ivory) 22
Off the Charts: The Song-Poem Story (Jamie Meltzer) 12
지구를 지켜라! [Jigureul jikyeora] [Save the Green Planet!] (Jang Joon-hwan) 20
La Grande Séduction [Seducing Doctor Lewis] (Jean-François Pouliot) 15
In America (Jim Sheridan) 16
Bukowski: Born into This (John Dullaghan) 15
Basic (John McTiernan) 12
Casa de los babys (John Sayles) 1
Elf (Jon Favreau) 7
Mil nubes de paz cercan el cielo, amor, jamás acabarás de ser amor [A Thousand Clouds of Peace Surround the Sky, Love, You Will Never Stop Being Love] (Julián Hernández) 4
Depuis qu'Otar est parti... [Since Otar Left] (Julie Bertuccelli) 7
Open Range (Kevin Costner) 6
The Matrix Reloaded (Lana & Lilly Wachowski) 10
The Matrix Revolutions (Lana & Lilly Wachowski) 19
Tupac: Resurrection (Lauren Lazin) 23
紫蝴蝶 [Zi hu die] [Purple Butterfly] (Lou Ye) 8
Cavale [On the Run] (Lucas Belvaux) 3
Niki Ardelean, colonel în rezervă [Niki and Flo] (Lucian Pintilie) 10
Take Away (Marc Gracie) 20
Calais: The Last Border (Marc Isaacs) 9
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (Marcus Nispel) 25
Der Wald vor lauter Bäumen [The Forest for the Trees] (Maren Ade) 11
Babae sa Breakwater [Woman of Breakwater] (Mario O'Hara) 20
Magnifico (Maryo J. de los Reyes) 11
Lost Boys of Sudan (Megan Mylan & Jon Shenk) 5
Bad Boys II (Michael Bay) 13
Northfork (Michael Polish) 11
In This World (Michael Winterbottom) 10
Mona Lisa Smile (Mike Newell) 17
Angels in America (Mike Nichols) 21
خواب ابریشم [Khabe abrisham] [Dream of Silk] (Nahid Rezaei) 9
Something's Gotta Give (Nancy Meyers) 8
沙羅双樹 [Sharasōju] [Shara] (Naomi Kawase) 7
My Architect: A Son's Journey (Nathaniel Kahn) 9
Aileen: Life and Death of a Serial Killer (Nick Broomfield) 7
ばかのハコ船 [Baka no hakobune] [No One's Ark] (Nobuhiro Yamashita) 21
リアリズムの宿 [Riarizumu no yado] [Ramblers] (Nobuhiro Yamashita) 3
Želary (Ondřej Trojan) 13
Peter Pan (P.J. Hogan) 20
Caterina va in città [Caterina in the Big City] (Paolo Virzì) 11
Petites Coupures [Small Cuts] (Pascal Bonitzer) 19
Pieces of April (Peter Hedges) 10
Le Coût de la vie [The Cost of Living] (Philippe Le Guay) 16
องค์บาก [Ong bak] [The Thai Warrior] (Prachya Pinkaew) 15
Il cuore altrove [The Heart Elsewhere] (Pupi Avati) 12
Girls Will Be Girls (Richard Day) 11
Alexandra's Project (Rolf De Heer) 17
The Missing (Ron Howard) 25
Freddy vs. Jason (Ronny Yu) 8
Bright Leaves (Ross McElwee) 4
پنج عصر [Panj é asr] [At Five in the Afternoon] (Samira Makhmalbāf) 18
High School Reunion (Sarah Jacobson) 17
軒下のならず者みたいに [Nokishitano narazumono mitaini] [Like a Desperado Under the Eaves] (Shinji Aoyama) 15
Queens of the Stone Age: Go with the Flow (Shynola) 25
Structural Filmwaste. Dissolution 1 (Siegfried A. Fruhauf) 10
Structural Filmwaste. Dissolution 2 (Siegfried A. Fruhauf) 16
(A)Torzija [(A)Torsion] (Stefan Arsenijević) 13
Time Streams (Stephanie Maxwell) 24
The Phantom Museum: Random Forays into the Vaults of Sir Henry Wellcome's Medical Collection (Stephen & Timothy Quay) 11
Louis and the Nazis (Stuart Cabb) 1
Two Cars, One Night (Taika Waititi) 4
It's All About Love (Thomas Vinterberg) 5
Old School (Todd Phillips) 11
Prime Suspect 6: The Last Witness (Tom Hooper) 12
Svjedoci [Witnesses] (Vinko Brešan) 14
にーエルディーケー [Nīerudīkē] [2LDK] (Yukihiko Tsutsumi) 13
ChromiumBlue.com (Zalman King & Scott Sampler) 1
29 lists submitted
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therewillbeblus
- Joined: Tue Dec 22, 2015 7:40 pm
Re: The 2003 Mini-List
Thanks swo!
1. Kill Bill
2. Dogville
3. Lost in Translation
4. Memories of Murder
5. All the Real Girls
6. Anything Else
7. The Room
8. 21 Grams
9. That Day
10. Fast Film
1. Kill Bill
2. Dogville
3. Lost in Translation
4. Memories of Murder
5. All the Real Girls
6. Anything Else
7. The Room
8. 21 Grams
9. That Day
10. Fast Film
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Maltic
- Joined: Sat Oct 10, 2020 5:36 am
Re: The 2003 Mini-List
My 5-year-old nephew is obsessed with The Triplets of Belleville ("the bicycle film"). I find it a little hard to get through, somewhat dour, though it sure beats watching TikTok reels.
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denti alligator
- Joined: Thu Nov 04, 2004 1:36 am
- Location: "born in heaven, raised in hell"
Re: The 2003 Mini-List
Sad that no one else voted for the magnificent Story of the Weeping Camel or Two Cars, One Night.
Happy for no. 1.
Confused that anyone would put A Talking Picture at no. 1. Please reveal yourself and explain! (I don't dislike the film, but I find it hard to believe anyone could love all of it.)
My top 10:
1. Memories of a Murder
2. Goodbye, Dragon Inn
3. School of Rock
4. Two Cars, One Night (orphaned)
5. Fast Film
6. The Story of the Weeping Camel (orphaned)
7. The Return
8. Goodbye, Lenin!
9. Dream of Silk (orphaned)
10. Structural Filmwaste Dissolution 1 (orphaned)
Happy for no. 1.
Confused that anyone would put A Talking Picture at no. 1. Please reveal yourself and explain! (I don't dislike the film, but I find it hard to believe anyone could love all of it.)
My top 10:
1. Memories of a Murder
2. Goodbye, Dragon Inn
3. School of Rock
4. Two Cars, One Night (orphaned)
5. Fast Film
6. The Story of the Weeping Camel (orphaned)
7. The Return
8. Goodbye, Lenin!
9. Dream of Silk (orphaned)
10. Structural Filmwaste Dissolution 1 (orphaned)
Last edited by denti alligator on Mon Jun 01, 2026 7:20 pm, edited 1 time in total.
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therewillbeblus
- Joined: Tue Dec 22, 2015 7:40 pm
Re: The 2003 Mini-List
A Talking Picture is great! I didn't even think to vote for it
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denti alligator
- Joined: Thu Nov 04, 2004 1:36 am
- Location: "born in heaven, raised in hell"
Re: The 2003 Mini-List
I amended my post to clarify that I don't dislike it. The first half is marvelous. But the second half...?therewillbeblus wrote: Mon Jun 01, 2026 7:19 pm A Talking Picture is great! I didn't even think to vote for it
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therewillbeblus
- Joined: Tue Dec 22, 2015 7:40 pm
Re: The 2003 Mini-List
I did watch Two Cars, One Night on your recommendation. I liked it well enough, especially the central boy's performance, but it never rose above a marginally cute little episode for me
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knives
- Joined: Sat Sep 06, 2008 10:49 pm
Re: The 2003 Mini-List
The second half actually strongly stands out in my mind.
Also much appreciation to my other The Room voters. Biggest thanks to swo though. You’re the man.
Also much appreciation to my other The Room voters. Biggest thanks to swo though. You’re the man.
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swo17
- Bloodthirsty Butcher
- Joined: Tue Apr 15, 2008 2:25 pm
- Location: SLC, UT
Re: The 2003 Mini-List
A bit of magic that The Room ended up exactly at #50
Same, I just didn't have room for it. (I also had the Fruhauf film denti recommended on my list for a while but ultimately dropped it)therewillbeblus wrote: Mon Jun 01, 2026 7:25 pm I did watch Two Cars, One Night on your recommendation. I liked it
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denti alligator
- Joined: Thu Nov 04, 2004 1:36 am
- Location: "born in heaven, raised in hell"
Re: The 2003 Mini-List
Well, thanks to both of you for giving it a try. To me the acting was eerily perfect, capturing that combination of bravado, innocence, budding desire, fascination with the other sex, awkwardness, and genuine personal connection that can happen at the threshold to puberty. The gifting of the ring was more than just a random act, but a recognition that some spark was there between them. It was sad and beautiful. And very funny.
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therewillbeblus
- Joined: Tue Dec 22, 2015 7:40 pm
Re: The 2003 Mini-List
Yeah I also liked the other kid in the car. He didn't have a ton to do, but his delivery was on point
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denti alligator
- Joined: Thu Nov 04, 2004 1:36 am
- Location: "born in heaven, raised in hell"
Re: The 2003 Mini-List
Right, the „brainy“ brother who was going to be a „gay lawyer“ … he’s busy reading.
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John Cope
- Joined: Thu Dec 15, 2005 9:40 pm
- Location: where the simulacrum is true
Re: The 2003 Mini-List
I'm just surprised that it wasn't me! My top 10 (as proof):denti alligator wrote: Mon Jun 01, 2026 7:14 pmConfused that anyone would put A Talking Picture at no. 1. Please reveal yourself and explain! (I don't dislike the film, but I find it hard to believe anyone could love all of it.)
1. ChromiumBlue.com
2. Five
3. A Talking Picture
4. A Thousand Clouds of Peace
5. The Company
6. Le Monde vivant
7. Father and Son
8. Twentynine Palms
9. Café Lumière
10. Vai e Vem
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denti alligator
- Joined: Thu Nov 04, 2004 1:36 am
- Location: "born in heaven, raised in hell"
Re: The 2003 Mini-List
I’d love to hear a defense of the second half of the film, which I found to be almost embarrassingly bad. Stilted acting, awkward delivery of lines from the three women at the table that were very clearly written by a man. I guess one could read the ending as an acknowledgment of the disaster? Anyway, I adored the first half. What an odd film!