Smokey
07-14-2012, 08:35 PM
TIME Magazine has created a countdown of the 10 greatest films made since the year 2000, from No.10 (The Artist) to No.1 (see for yourself).
Not a definite list (House of Flying Daggers would've been a better candiate than Crouching Tiger), but got few good suggestions, and surprises (Devdas).
Ranked accordingly:
10. The Artist, 2011: This delightfully inventive comedy, about a swashbuckling star and the peppy waif (Bérénice Bejo) he befriends, echoes true-life Hollywood stories of the 1920s and ’30s.
http://madaboutmoviez.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/the-artist-film-review-bfi-london-film-festival-2011.png
9. Moulin Rouge!, 2001: It’s a convulsive love story daubed in a giddily gaudy palette, with the never-prettier Nicole Kidman entrancing hunkily soulful Ewan McGregor in an orgasmic swirl of color, design and pop music.
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_gEkbAGoUnuE/TUwhIlQWSxI/AAAAAAAACOc/u4LNfdkn7v0/s1600/tn2_moulin_rouge_1.jpg
8. Devdas, 2002: Song-and-danced Bollywood drama, Devdas is a visual ravishment, with sumptuous sets, fabulous frocks and beautiful people to fill them.
http://cdn.publishdev.se/cdn/2/505915/images/2009/36069_cinema_devdas_p1_62507896.jpg
7. Synecdoche, New York, 2008: In this epic tragicomedy, Caden Cotard (Philip Seymour Hoffman), a Schenectady, N.Y., theater director, moves to Manhattan with the gigantic notion of putting on a realistic drama as big as all of New York City.
http://cinephylum.files.wordpress.com/2009/04/synedoche-new-york03.jpg
6. The Hurt Locker, 2009: As The Hurt Locker lured few pleasure seekers into theaters, it was left to the Motion Picture Academy to take the film off the DVD shelf and pin a slew of Oscars on its chest.
http://s3.amazonaws.com/readers/2010/03/02/thehurtlockerpic11_1.jpg
5. The White Ribbon, 2009: Michael Haneke’s period political epic, tells the lacerating saga of collective brutality and guilt in a northern-German village two decades before Hitler came to power.
http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Film/Pix/pictures/2009/12/22/1261498126605/Scene-from-The-White-Ribb-001.jpg
4. Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, 2000: The director convened stars of three movie eras from 1960s, ’80s, and bright new lights Zhang Ziyi and Chang Chen — and set them to battling over a magical sword.
http://pppre.s3.amazonaws.com/3374793288e5880f/a/bc5db18baa44445b81d66c764c166b36.jpg
3. Avatar, 2009: The top-grossing film of all time — earning twice at the worldwide box office as any movie but Titanic — was also the first picture to justify the 3-D trend.
http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Film/Pix/pictures/2009/11/13/1258137150094/Avatar-001.jpg
2. The Lord of the Rings, 2001-03: These were long movies, some of them in excess of three hours. Films aimed at the young had taken into account the supposed limitation of children’s attention spans and usually ran 90 minutes or less. But kids and their parents stayed glued to their seats as the great sagas spun out.
http://i120.piczo.com/view/4/5/v/w/l/m/o/n/8/6/7/d/img/i284088594_20246.jpg
1. WALL•E, 2008: The movies of the past dozen years will be remembered for their technical wizardry and digital sheen. WALL•E has all that, plus a toy-meets-girl love story as pure as any in the cinema’s first 100 years.
http://lh4.ggpht.com/-XZgzMff8JGs/Tzjwnpj1wsI/AAAAAAAABaw/B_rZbDB9EjM/pixar_walle%25255B2%25255D.jpg
The Artist, 2011 | Top 10 Movies of the Millennium: Avatar, Lord of the Rings | Entertainment | TIME.com (http://entertainment.time.com/2012/05/17/top-10-movies-of-the-millennium/)
Not a definite list (House of Flying Daggers would've been a better candiate than Crouching Tiger), but got few good suggestions, and surprises (Devdas).
Ranked accordingly:
10. The Artist, 2011: This delightfully inventive comedy, about a swashbuckling star and the peppy waif (Bérénice Bejo) he befriends, echoes true-life Hollywood stories of the 1920s and ’30s.
http://madaboutmoviez.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/the-artist-film-review-bfi-london-film-festival-2011.png
9. Moulin Rouge!, 2001: It’s a convulsive love story daubed in a giddily gaudy palette, with the never-prettier Nicole Kidman entrancing hunkily soulful Ewan McGregor in an orgasmic swirl of color, design and pop music.
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_gEkbAGoUnuE/TUwhIlQWSxI/AAAAAAAACOc/u4LNfdkn7v0/s1600/tn2_moulin_rouge_1.jpg
8. Devdas, 2002: Song-and-danced Bollywood drama, Devdas is a visual ravishment, with sumptuous sets, fabulous frocks and beautiful people to fill them.
http://cdn.publishdev.se/cdn/2/505915/images/2009/36069_cinema_devdas_p1_62507896.jpg
7. Synecdoche, New York, 2008: In this epic tragicomedy, Caden Cotard (Philip Seymour Hoffman), a Schenectady, N.Y., theater director, moves to Manhattan with the gigantic notion of putting on a realistic drama as big as all of New York City.
http://cinephylum.files.wordpress.com/2009/04/synedoche-new-york03.jpg
6. The Hurt Locker, 2009: As The Hurt Locker lured few pleasure seekers into theaters, it was left to the Motion Picture Academy to take the film off the DVD shelf and pin a slew of Oscars on its chest.
http://s3.amazonaws.com/readers/2010/03/02/thehurtlockerpic11_1.jpg
5. The White Ribbon, 2009: Michael Haneke’s period political epic, tells the lacerating saga of collective brutality and guilt in a northern-German village two decades before Hitler came to power.
http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Film/Pix/pictures/2009/12/22/1261498126605/Scene-from-The-White-Ribb-001.jpg
4. Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, 2000: The director convened stars of three movie eras from 1960s, ’80s, and bright new lights Zhang Ziyi and Chang Chen — and set them to battling over a magical sword.
http://pppre.s3.amazonaws.com/3374793288e5880f/a/bc5db18baa44445b81d66c764c166b36.jpg
3. Avatar, 2009: The top-grossing film of all time — earning twice at the worldwide box office as any movie but Titanic — was also the first picture to justify the 3-D trend.
http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Film/Pix/pictures/2009/11/13/1258137150094/Avatar-001.jpg
2. The Lord of the Rings, 2001-03: These were long movies, some of them in excess of three hours. Films aimed at the young had taken into account the supposed limitation of children’s attention spans and usually ran 90 minutes or less. But kids and their parents stayed glued to their seats as the great sagas spun out.
http://i120.piczo.com/view/4/5/v/w/l/m/o/n/8/6/7/d/img/i284088594_20246.jpg
1. WALL•E, 2008: The movies of the past dozen years will be remembered for their technical wizardry and digital sheen. WALL•E has all that, plus a toy-meets-girl love story as pure as any in the cinema’s first 100 years.
http://lh4.ggpht.com/-XZgzMff8JGs/Tzjwnpj1wsI/AAAAAAAABaw/B_rZbDB9EjM/pixar_walle%25255B2%25255D.jpg
The Artist, 2011 | Top 10 Movies of the Millennium: Avatar, Lord of the Rings | Entertainment | TIME.com (http://entertainment.time.com/2012/05/17/top-10-movies-of-the-millennium/)