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denti alligator wrote: Fri Mar 27, 2026 12:18 am Just watched Fruhauf‘s Exposed and was totally floored. Masterful in every way, especially the sound design: layers of whispers slowly build in intensity and volume as rectangles of light infiltrate the looped found footage. It’s only 9 minutes—easy to squeeze in before the deadline.

Fruhauf is the best, and I think he only gets better over time. Really excited to see his new work whenever it gets released

I‘m impressed by his range. Most experimentalists have a signature style or method. Many of Fruhauf‘s films could be mistaken for the works of other filmmakers—they’re that dissimilar.

Can you add Rush Hour 2? Thanks.

Done

swo17 wrote: Sun Feb 01, 2026 8:45 pm ELIGIBLE TITLES FOR 2001

VOTE THROUGH MARCH 31

Please post in this thread if you think anything needs to change about the list of eligible titles

Reminder that lists are due today!

Can K-PAX be added to the eligible title list?

Done

yoshimori wrote: Mon Feb 02, 2026 12:15 am Also, there's a 2001 Japanese medium-length doc by Sato Makoto called "Hanako" that's pretty great - about a severely autistic girl in an art class. If Mr S.W.O. 17 could add that, that'd be great.

Also missing from the list of eligibles is Bonello's The Pornographer, which derives most of its fun from Jean-Pierre Leaud's performance of the pissy, art-minded eponymous filmmaker and his meticulous "blocking" of the actors' "action".

So sorry, I'm just noticing I missed these requests somehow. I've added them now.

As a reminder, if anyone wants to edit their list for any reason and needs the link, PM me to ask

Someone asked to have until Friday to vote, so I guess if anyone else needs a little more time, there you go

now I feel a little less bad about asking for a few hours. may tack on some music videos - good year for those

And they just voted, so I'll post the results soon

The 2001 List



##. Film (Director) points/votes(top 5 placements, aka likely votes in decade list)/highest ranking

01. Mulholland Dr. (David Lynch) 438/20(17)/1(x5)
02. 千と千尋の神隠し [Sen to chihiro no kamikakushi] [Spirited Away] (Hayao Miyazaki) 277/13(8)/1(x3)
03. The Royal Tenenbaums (Wes Anderson) 268/14(8)/1(x2)
04. Y tu mamá también [And Your Mother Too] (Alfonso Cuarón) 225/12(4)/3(x2)
05. Gosford Park (Robert Altman) 179/11(2)/1
(tie) Ghost World (Terry Zwigoff) 179/13(1)/1
07. 千禧曼波 [Qian xi man bo] [Millennium Mambo] (Hou Hsiao-hsien) 177/9(4)/2
08. La Pianiste [The Piano Teacher] (Michael Haneke) 172/12(2)/4(x2)
09. 回路 [Kairo] [Pulse] (Kiyoshi Kurosawa) 148/8(5)/2
10. 你那邊幾點 [Ni na bian ji dian] [What Time Is It There?] (Tsai Ming-liang) 147/8(5)/1(x2)
11. A.I.: Artificial Intelligence (Steven Spielberg) 124/9(2)/1(x2)
12. In the Bedroom (Todd Field) 120/7(3)/1(x2)
(tie) Donnie Darko (Richard Kelly) 120/9(3)/2
14. 千年女優 [Sennen joyū] [Millennium Actress] (Satoshi Kon) 118/8(1)/2
15. La ciénaga [The Swamp] (Lucrecia Martel) 117/7(1)/4
(tie) Ocean's Eleven (Steven Soderbergh) 117/8(1)/3
17. Eloge de l'amour [In Praise of Love] (Jean-Luc Godard) 113/9(1)/2
18. Va savoir [Who Knows?] (Jacques Rivette) 108/7(1)/3
19. Waking Life (Richard Linklater) 107/7(3)/2
20. The Man Who Wasn't There (Joel & Ethan Coen) 105/7(2)/2
21. Trouble Every Day (Claire Denis) 90/7(1)/4
22. Storytelling (Todd Solondz) 89/5(2)/2
23. リリイ・シュシュのすべて [Rirī shushu no subete] [All About Lily Chou-Chou] (Shunji Iwai) 87/5(1)/1
24. The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (Peter Jackson) 83/7/7
25. Wet Hot American Summer (David Wain) 81/6(1)/4
26. À ma sœur! [Fat Girl] (Catherine Breillat) 72/5(1)/5
27. Sexy Beast (Jonathan Glazer) 69/6(1)/2
28. The Others (Alejandro Amenábar) 68/5/8
29. Sur mes lèvres [Read My Lips] (Jacques Audiard) 67/5(1)/1
30. Le Fabuleux Destin d'Amélie Poulain (Jean-Pierre Jeunet) 60/4(1)/3
31. Dream Work (Peter Tscherkassky) 59/4(1)/2
32. Monsoon Wedding (Mira Nair) 58/3(1)/5
(tie) El espinazo del diablo [The Devil's Backbone] (Guillermo del Toro) 58/5/8
34. The Believer (Henry Bean) 57/3(2)/2
35. Exposed (Siegfried A. Fruhauf) 56/3(1)/2
36. Ali (Michael Mann) 55/4(1)/5
37. L.I.E. (Michael Cuesta) 52/3/7
38. Domestic Violence (Frederick Wiseman) 51/3(2)/3
(tie) Bouquets 21-30 (2001-2005) (Rose Lowder) 51/3(1)/4
40. Heist (David Mamet) 50/3(1)/1
41. Freddy Got Fingered (Tom Green) 49/3/9(x2)
42. L'Emploi du temps [Time Out] (Laurent Cantet) 47/3(1)/3
43. ディスタンス [Disutansu] [Distance] (Hirokazu Kore-eda) 45/2(2)/2
(tie) Hedwig and the Angry Inch (John Cameron Mitchell) 45/3/7
(tie) 고양이를 부탁해 [Goyangireul butakhae] [Take Care of My Cat] (Jeong Jae-eun) 45/4/11
46. La Chambre des officiers [The Officers' Ward] (François Dupeyron) 44/2(1)/1
(tie) Lantana (Ray Lawrence) 44/2(2)/4(x2)
(tie) Bully (Larry Clark) 44/4(1)/3
49. Conspiracy (Frank Pierson) 42/2(2)/5(x2)
(tie) O (Tim Blake Nelson) 42/5/6

ALSO-RANS

La stanza del figlio [The Son's Room] (Nanni Moretti) 40/2(1)/1
Il mestiere delle armi [The Profession of Arms] (Ermanno Olmi) 40/2(1)/2
Lucía y el sexo [Sex and Lucía] (Julio Medem) 39/3/8
A Beautiful Mind (Ron Howard) 38/3(1)/5
L'Anglaise et le Duc [The Lady and the Duke] (Éric Rohmer) 37/2(1)/2
Hundstage [Dog Days] (Ulrich Seidl) 37/2(1)/5
باران [Baran] [Rain] (Majid Majidi) 37/2(1)/5
エレクトリック·ドラゴン 80000V [Erekutorikku doragon hachi jū sen boruto] [Electric Dragon 80.000 V] (Gakuryū Ishii) 37/2/6
藍宇 [Lan yu] (Stanley Kwan) 37/4/10
Frágil Como o Mundo [Fragile as the World] (Rita Azevedo Gomes) 36/2(1)/1
Training Day (Antoine Fuqua) 36/4/8
The Navigators (Ken Loach) 36/3/13

Spy Game (Tony Scott) 35/2(1)/1
Monsters, Inc. (Pete Docter) 35/4/7
Copy Shop (Virgil Widrich) 34/2/7
Элегия дороги [Elegiya dorogi] [Elegy of a Voyage] (Aleksandr Sokurov) 34/2/7
The Lord of the Rings (2001-2003) (Peter Jackson) 34/2/8
Batang West Side [West Side Avenue] (Lav Diaz) 33/2(1)/4
赤い橋の下のぬるい水 [Akai hashi no shita no nurui mizu] [Warm Water Under a Red Bridge] (Shōhei Imamura) 33/3/10
Vanilla Sky (Cameron Crowe) 33/4/15

Band of Brothers (Phil Alden Robinson, Richard Loncraine, Mikael Salomon, David Nutter, Tom Hanks, David Leland, David Frankel & Tony To) 32/2(1)/3
Où gît votre sourire enfoui? [Where Does Your Hidden Smile Lie?] (Pedro Costa) 32/3/14
Intimacy (Patrice Chéreau) 30/3/10
少林足球 [Siu lam juk kau] [Shaolin Soccer] (Stephen Chow) 28/2(1)/4
Dogtown and Z-Boys (Stacy Peralta) 28/2/6
Rivers and Tides (Thomas Riedelsheimer) 28/2/6
Nirgendwo in Afrika [Nowhere in Africa] (Caroline Link) 28/2/8
Je rentre à la maison [Vou Para Casa] [I'm Going Home] (Manoel de Oliveira) 28/3/14
No Such Thing (Hal Hartley) 27/2/12
חתונה מאוחרת [Hatuna meuheret] [Late Marriage] (Dover Kosashvili) 26/2(1)/2

The Curse of the Jade Scorpion (Woody Allen) 25/2/9
L'uomo in più [One Man Up] (Paolo Sorrentino) 23/2/7
Телец [Telets] [Taurus] (Aleksandr Sokurov) 23/2/9
Black Hawk Down (Ridley Scott) 22/2/9
Invincible (Werner Herzog) 22/2/13
Wit (Mike Nichols) 20/2/13
Ghosts of Mars (John Carpenter) 19/2/8
Last Orders (Fred Schepisi) 18/2/14
Le Peuple migrateur [Winged Migration] (Jacques Perrin) 17/3/14
El hijo de la novia [Son of the Bride] (Juan José Campanella) 16/2/12

Tape (Richard Linklater) 13/2/15
Pootie Tang (Louis C.K.) 12/2/15
The Tailor of Panama (John Boorman) 8/2/19
ピストルオペラ [Pisutoru opera] [Pistol Opera] (Seijun Suzuki) 7/2/21
The Anniversary Party (Alan Cumming & Jennifer Jason Leigh) 7/2/22
Baby Boy (John Singleton) 5/2/23
Waiting for Godot (Michael Lindsay-Hogg) 5/2/23

ORPHANS

Film (Director) highest ranking

ABC Africa (Abbas Kiarostami) 11
Bolivia (Adrián Caetano) 10
害虫 [Gaichū] [Harmful Insect] (Akihiko Shiota) 13
Ce vieux rêve qui bouge [That Old Dream That Moves] (Alain Guiraudie) 22
Du soleil pour les gueux [Sunshine for the Poor] (Alain Guiraudie) 9
Investigating Sex (Alan Rudolph) 13
Things Behind the Sun (Allison Anders) 21
Loin [Far Away] (André Téchiné) 15
Shrek (Andrew Adamson & Vicky Jenson) 11
This Filthy Earth (Andrew Kötting) 22
幽靈人間 [You ling ren jian] [Visible Secret] (Ann Hui) 14
Comment j'ai tué mon père [How I Killed My Father] (Anne Fontaine) 4
Sigur Rós: Viðrar vel til loftárása [Good Weather for an Airstrike] (Arni & Kinski) 23
लगान [Lagaan] [Once Upon a Time in India] (Ashutosh Gowariker) 12
Le Pornographe [The Pornographer] (Bertrand Bonello) 15
Mutant Aliens (Bill Plympton) 20
Rush Hour 2 (Brett Ratner) 20
A Knight's Tale (Brian Helgeland) 22
ข้างหลังภาพ [Khang lang phap] [Behind the Painting] (Cherd Songsri) 12
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (Chris Columbus) 14
War Photographer (Christian Frei) 2
Le Pacte des loups [Brotherhood of the Wolf] (Christophe Gans) 3
The Sleepy Time Gal (Christopher Münch) 9
Sobibór, 14 octobre 1943, 16 heures [Sobibór, October 14, 1943, 4PM] (Claude Lanzmann) 18
Chaos (Coline Serreau) 25
Marfa și banii [Stuff and Dough] (Cristi Puiu) 17
Series 7: The Contenders (Daniel Minahan) 4
Ничија земља [Ničija zemlja] [No Man's Land] (Danis Tanović) 7
Heartbreakers (David Mirkin) 24
Josie and the Pussycats (Deborah Kaplan & Harry Elfont) 6
Leaving the Earth (Errol Morris) 19
Mr. Personality (Errol Morris) 20
One in a Million Trillion (Errol Morris) 18
The Smartest Man in the World (Errol Morris) 21
Concorrenza sleale [Unfair Competition] (Ettore Scola) 13
Le fate ignoranti [The Ignorant Fairies] (Ferzan Özpetek) 8
Le Placard [The Closet] (Francis Veber) 4
The Score (Frank Oz) 22
L'ultimo bacio [The Last Kiss] (Gabriele Muccino) 6
R.E.M.: Imitation of Life (Garth Jennings) 3
Parrullat [Slogans] (Gjergj Xhuvani) 8
Berlin Is in Germany (Hannes Stöhr) 22
Die Schöpfer der Einkaufswelten [The Creators of Shopping Worlds] (Harun Farocki) 10
K-PAX (Iain Softley) 8
Los (James Benning) 13
Lovely Rita (Jessica Hausner) 18
13 Conversations About One Thing (Jill Sprecher) 25
Quiet Please (Joe Dante) 11
Jurassic Park III (Joe Johnston) 14
Protection (John Flynn) 23
Southern Comfort (Kate Davis) 15
Jazz (Ken Burns) 4
The Tramp and the Dictator (Kevin Brownlow & Michael Kloft) 20
Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back (Kevin Smith) 3
Второстепенные люди [Vtorostepennye lyudi] [Second Class Citizens] (Kira Muratova) 5
La libertad [Freedom] (Lisandro Alonso) 15
在上海 [Zai shang hai] [In Shanghai] (Lou Ye) 11
După-amiaza unui torționar [The Afternoon of a Torturer] (Lucian Pintilie) 16
Lavoura Arcaica [To the Left of the Father] (Luiz Fernando Carvalho) 14
花子 [Hanako] (Makoto Satō) 8
Porto da Minha Infância [Porto of My Childhood] (Manoel de Oliveira) 5
Monster's Ball (Marc Forster) 18
Lift (Marc Isaacs) 21
Earthlink: Privacy (Michel Gondry) 20
Human Nature (Michel Gondry) 10
Paperboys (Mike Mills) 13
سفر قندهار [Safar-e ghandehar] [Kandahar] (Mohsen Makhmalbāf) 8
Das Experiment [The Experiment] (Oliver Hirschbiegel) 13
El caso Pinochet [The Pinochet Case] (Patricio Guzmán) 22
Super Furry Animals: (Drawing) Rings Around the World (Pedro Romhanyi) 14
The Cat's Meow (Peter Bogdanovich) 7
Brigham City (Richard Dutcher) 18
The Office (2001-2003) (Ricky Gervais & Stephen Merchant) 4
Hannibal (Ridley Scott) 25
CQ (Roman Coppola) 10
Voiliers et Coquelicots [Poppies and Sailboats] (Rose Lowder) 12
Bella Martha [Mostly Martha] (Sandra Nettelbeck) 11
The Deep End (Scott McGehee & David Siegel) 24
Wood Land & Power Pole (Siegfried A. Fruhauf) 9
Lovesong 1 (Stan Brakhage) 6
The Mummy Returns (Stephen Sommers) 25
ビジターきゅー [Bijitā kyū] [Visitor Q] (Takashi Miike) 17
殺し屋1 [Koroshiya ichi] [Ichi the Killer] (Takashi Miike) 18
A2 (Tatsuya Mori) 12
Get Over It (Tommy O'Haver) 15
The Fourth Dimension (Trịnh Thị Minh Hà) 23
Brass Eye: Paedogeddon! (Tristram Shapeero) 19
Jeepers Creepers (Victor Salva) 19
Minoes [Miss Minoes] (Vincent Bal) 17
十七歲的單車 [Shi qi sui de dan che] [Beijing Bicycle] (Wang Xiaoshuai) 9
Sounds from a Town I Love (Woody Allen) 25
Le Souvenir d'un avenir [Remembrance of Things to Come] (Yannick Bellon & Chris Marker) 6
ᐊᑕᓈᕐᔪᐊᑦ [Atanarjuat] [The Fast Runner] (Zacharias Kunuk) 15
Women of the Night (Zalman King) 21

25 lists submitted

Great list and great year! Close to 100 films received two votes or more.

Thanks swo!

1. The Royal Tenenbaums
2. Eloge de l'amour
3. Mulholland Dr.
4. Bouquets 21-30
5. Waking Life
6. Wet Hot American Summer
7. A.I.
8. Spirited Away
9. Freddy Got Fingered
10. Storytelling

Thanks swo! Who’s my other Conspiracy-head who put it in the exact same position as me?

domino harvey wrote: Thu Apr 02, 2026 2:50 pm Thanks swo! Who’s my other Conspiracy-head who put it in the exact same position as me?

What would be me!

I'm a little surprised how 9 of my 10 had at least one other voter. I think that's the most in any mini-list for me so far.

Glad to see Spy Game and Dogtown and Z-Boys have another fan!

Interesting list! I wonder how different it would look if everyone who voted had seen every film in the top 50. I have only seen about 50%. I’m pretty sure at least some of the ones I haven’t seen would make my list. Obviously not all. My list only had 14 films on it. I have seen plenty more from 2001, but none that struck me as deserving to be voted for (including some that ranked on this top 50 list).

Muchas Gracias!

1 [Spirited Away]
2 War Photographer
3 L'Emploi du temps[Time Out]
4 In the Bedroom
5 [What Time Is It There?]
6 Rivers and Tides
7 L.I.E.
8 Le fate ignoranti[The Ignorant Fairies]
9 La Pianiste[The Piano Teacher]
10 Sur mes lèvres[Read My Lips]
11 [Rirī shushu no subete][All About Lily Chou-Chou]
12 El hijo de la novia[Son of the Bride]
13 Y tu mamá también[And Your Mother Too]
14 The Navigators
15 The Man Who Wasn't There
16 Le Fabuleux Destin d'Amélie Poulain
17 藍宇[Lan yu]
18 [Ichi the Killer]
19 Domestic Violence
20 Mutant Aliens
21 Ghost World
22 Le Peuple migrateur[Winged Migration]
23 The Anniversary Party
24 Waiting for Godot
25 Donnie Darko

denti alligator wrote: Thu Apr 02, 2026 6:50 pm Interesting list! I wonder how different it would look if everyone who voted had seen every film in the top 50. I have only seen about 50%. I’m pretty sure at least some of the ones I haven’t seen would make my list. Obviously not all. My list only had 14 films on it. I have seen plenty more from 2001, but none that struck me as deserving to be voted for (including some that ranked on this top 50 list).

I've seen 46 of the top 50 so I assume my list would not have been too different.

My strays that didn't make the list:

10. Sex and Lucía (also-ran)
14. I'm Going Home (also-ran)
15. Atanarjuat (orphan)
17. Intimacy (also-ran)
18. Rivers and Tides (also-ran)
21. One Man Up (also-ran)
22. Training Day (also-ran)
24. Winged Migration (also-ran)
25. Kandahar (orphan)

Glad someone else voted for Sex and Lucía. Unfortunately it was the cap on Medem's genius run from the 90s, and I don't think he's been very consistent since then, but it looks like he released something last year and will this year too, so we'll see!