Top 10 Favorite Films: 2000-2008

In order of preference:

2000

1. Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (Ang Lee)
2. Little Otik (Jan Svankmajer)
3. Unbreakable (M. Night Shyamalan)
4. Thirteen Days (Roger Donaldson)
5. The Contender (Rod Lurie)
6. Traffic (Steven Soderbergh)
7. Erin Brockovich (Steven Soderbergh)
8. Bring it On (Peyton Reed)
9. Amores Perros (Alejandro González Iñárritu)
10. Quills (Philip Kaufman)

2001

1. Donnie Darko (Richard Kelly)
2. The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (Peter Jackson)
3. The Man Who Wasn’t There (Joel Coen)
4. Talk To Her (Pedro Almodobar)
5. The Devil’s Backbone (Guillermo del Toro)
6. Black Hawk Down (Ridley Scott)
7. A.I.: Artificial Intelligence (Steven Spielberg)
8. The Piano Teacher (Michael Haneke)
9. Gosford Park (Robert Altman)
10. Training Day (Antoine Fuqua)

2002

1. The Hours (Stephen Daldry)
2. The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (Peter Jackson)
3. The Twilight Samurai (Yôji Yamada)
4. Far from Heaven (Todd Haynes)
5. The City of No Limits (Antonio Hernández)
6. City of God (Fernando Meirelles, Kátia Lund)
7. Dark Water (Hideo Nakata)
8. Equilibrium (Kurt Wimmer)
9. 8 Mile (Curtis Hanson)
10. Femme Fatale (Brian De Palma)

2003

1. The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (Peter Jackson)
2. Baadasssss! (Mario Van Peebles)
3. Evil (Mikael Håfström)
4. Seabiscuit (Gary Ross)
5. When the Last Sword Is Drawn (Yojiro Takita)
6. A Tale of Two Sisters (Ji-woon Kim)
7. Girl with a Pearl Earring (Peter Webber)
8. Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World (Peter Weir)
9. Memories of Murder (Joon-ho Bong)
10. I’m No Scared (Gabriele Salvatores)

2004

1. House of Flying Daggers (Yimou Zhang)
2. Birth (Jonathan Glazer)
3. Spider-man 2 (Sam Raimi)
4. The Hidden Blade (Yôji Yamada)
5. Bad Education (Pedro Almodovar)
6. The Butterfly Effect (Eric Bress, J. Mackye Gruber)
7. Mysterious Skin (Gregg Araki)
8. 2046 (Kar Wai Wong)
9. Downfall (Oliver Hirschbiegel)
10. Spartan (David Mamet)

2005

1. The New World (Terrence Malick)
2. Caché (Michael Haneke)
3. Hustle and Flow (Craig Brewer)
4. V for Vendetta (James McTeigue)
5. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (Tim Burton)
6. Serenity (Joss Whedon)
7. Brick (Rian Johnson)
8. Batman Begins (Christopher Nolan)
9. A History of Violence (David Cronenberg)
10. Capote (Bennett Miller)

2006

1. Curse of the Golden Flower (Yimou Zhang)
2. Pan’s Labyrinth (Gullermo del Toro)
3. The Fountain (Darren Aronofsky)
4. Black Book (Paul Verhoeven)
5. Volver (Pedro Almodovar)
6. Dreamgirls (Bill Condon)
7. Perfume: The Story of a Murderer (Tom Tykwer)
8. Love and Honor (Yôji Yamada)
9. Little Children (Todd Field)
10. Notes on a Scandal (Richard Eyre)

2007

1. There Will Be Blood (Paul Thomas Anderson)
2. The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (Andrew Dominik)
3. Eastern Promises (David Cronenberg)
4. Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (Tim Burton)
5. No Country For Old Men (Joel Coen)
6. Atonement (Joe Wright)
7. Lust, Caution (Ang Lee)
8. The Mist (Frank Darabont)
9. In the Valley of Elah (Paul Haggis)
10. Control (Anton Corbijn)

2008

1. Doubt (John Patrick Shanley)
2. The Dark Night (Christopher Nolan)
3. Revolutionary Road (Sam Mendes)
4. The Reader (Stephen Daldry)
5. The Wrestler (Darren Aronofsky)
6. Milk (Gus Van Sant)
7. Martyrs (Pascal Laugier)
8. Frost/Nixon (Ron Howard)
9. Death Race (Paul W.S. Anderson)
10. Transsiberian (Brad Anderson)