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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

Can you please add

American Pie 2
Coup de vice (Chabrol)

Added

If Japanese films (All About Lily Chou-chou, Distance, Pulse) don't claim the top three spots this year, I'll ... uhhh ... ... I'll ... ... not be surprised, I guess. Still.

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".

I welcome 2001 recommendations. Unlike the year before, I barely have 10. Will check out All About Lily Chou-chou, Distance, and Coup de vice. Any others, especially shorts and experimental?

Rose Lowder’s Bouquets 21-30 is/are my favorite of her Bouquet films by far, and will be near the top of my list. Virgil Widrich’s Copy Shop too

Watch Siegfried Fruhauf's films from this year

Where can Coup de vice be found? (And as a TV episode does it even count?)

I've called it eligible. I think there's an OOP DVD of the series it came from (that may not have English subtitles) that's made its way to back channels

Could you add:

No Such Thing (Hal Hartley)
Paperboys (Mike Mills)
Get Over It (Tommy O’Haver)

The Narrator Returns wrote: Tue Mar 03, 2026 9:44 pm Get Over It (Tommy O’Haver)

I don’t share your affection for it but did you see that it’s finally getting a Blu-ray release from Via Vision in April?

denti alligator wrote: Sat Feb 28, 2026 7:58 pm Where can Coup de vice be found? (And as a TV episode does it even count?)

It’s excellent but I’m sure you could get the gist of it without subs. It’s a self-standing anthology segment so generally eligible

Actually, along those lines, if it’s eligible, can you add Joe Dante’s Quiet Please?

domino harvey wrote: Wed Mar 04, 2026 12:04 am

denti alligator wrote: Sat Feb 28, 2026 7:58 pm Where can Coup de vice be found? (And as a TV episode does it even count?)

It’s excellent but I’m sure you could get the gist of it without subs. It’s a self-standing anthology segment so generally eligible

Six years of French (though now two decades behind me), so I should manage, as long as there's not too much dialogue and they don't speak too fast.

I've added all the recent suggestions, thanks everyone

Farocki shocked my socks with the first of his Eye / Machine series. It’s absolutely horrifying stuff. The basis here is clearly Walter Benjamin, but the last three years of autonomous, technological invasion makes Farocki’s point clear without much need to expound further.

I was just watching The Evil of the Daleks and it pairs surprisingly well with this as both question the role of the human factor in a world colonized by technology. There’s still an attempt to police the world to fit one set of standards, but now done comfortably from home with only abstract costs.

I have another Farocki on my list, The Creators of Shopping Worlds. It’s also fairly horrifying and scathing about its subject, but capturing such bizarre and prolonged scenes of corporate brain-rot that more than anything it’s hilarious. I watched this shortly before The Chair Company started and was delighted to find that they chart very different ground with a very similar starting place: guys who design malls being the biggest freaks you’ve ever seen. Even Tim Robinson couldn’t come up with as maddening and perfect a sketch as the guys discovering that they messed up the bread aisle.

Please add:
Elling https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0279064/
Berlin Is in Germany https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0276820/
Concorrenza sleale https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0254235/
El cielo abierto https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0276863/
Minoes https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0279231/
Bella Martha https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0246772/
Protection https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0265581/
and guilty pleasure
The Mummy Returns https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0209163/

All added, thanks!

Swo, would you please add Holofcener's Lovely & Amazing? Thanks.

It's on the list for 2002

I'm not going to vote for it but is István Szabó's Taking Sides 2001 or 2002? There are some other movies I'd rather highlight but if I know the year I might drop a brief comment on Taking Sides too in the relevant thread.

2002

I've looked at this thread for a number of years now with interest but have never voted which is crazy considered the number of films I have seen and my ready made lists - though I use first commercial release date anywhere in the world which throws my lists out a little but are easy to adjust for this.

I'm going to try to vote from now on.

Could you include:

The Sleep Time Gal (Christopher Munch) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0207988/re ... time%20gal

And if eligible (though I suspect it would be considered 2000) Tears of the Black Tiger (Wisit Sasanatieng) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0269217/re ... ck%20tiger

Yes, Tears of the Black Tiger was already on the eligibility list for 2000. I've added the Munch film. Thanks!

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.