My final Top 20 movies of 2004
I'm a little brain-dead today - all that talk yesterday of Realpolitik and soft power did my poor head in - so with Oscar season fast approaching, I thought a useful pointless exercise would be to update my Top Movies of 2004 (and these are all movies I've actually seen). Of course I did something similar already, back on Jan 2, so maybe this is cheating, but so what - this will be my final and definitive list ... until I change my mind!
- =1. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (USA; Focus Features; Dir. Michael Gondry) [=]
=1. Vera Drake (UK-France-NZ; Studio Canal; Dir. Mike Leigh) [=]
3. Sideways (USA; Fox Searchlight; Dir. Alexander Payne) [=]
4. Hero (Hong Kong-China; Dir. Yomou Zhang; distributed in U.S. by Miramax) [=]
5. Collateral (USA; Dreamworks SKG; Dir. Michael Mann) [-]
6. A Very Long Engagement (France-USA; Warner, Canal+; Dir. Jean-Pierre Jeunet) [+2]
7. Napoleon Dynamite (Dir. Jared Hess; distributed in U.S. by Fox Searchlight, Paramount and MTV Films) [=]
8. Control Room (USA; Magnolia Pictures; Dir. Jehane Noujaime) [-3]
9. Kill Bill: Vol. 2 (USA; Miramax; Dir. Quentin Tarantino) [+3]
10. Kinsey (USA; Qwerty Films/American Zoetrope; distributed by Fox Searchlight; Dir. Bill Condon) [+3]
11. The Yes Men (Yes Men Films; distributed in U.S. by UA and MGM) [-5]
12. The Incredibles (USA; Pixar-Disney; Dir. Brad Bird) [-2]
13. The Bourne Supremacy (USA-Germany; Universal Pictures; Dir. Paul Greengrass) [-2]
14. Shaun of the Dead (UK; Working Title; Dir. Edgar Wright) [-]
15. Fahrenheit 9/11 (USA; Dog Eat Dog Films, Miramax; Dir. Michael Moore) [-1]
16. Garden State (USA; distributed by Fox Searchlight; Dir. Zach Braff) [-1]
17. Finding Neverland (UK/USA; Film Colony/distrib. by Miramax; Dir. Marc Foster) [-1]
18. The Village (USA; Touchstone/Buena Vista Pictures; Dir. M. Night Shyamalan) [-]
19. The Aviator (USA; Warner Bros.; Dir. Martin Scorsese) [-]
=20. Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy (USA; Dreamworks SKG; Dir. Adam MacKay) [-]
=20. Around the World in Eighty Days (USA; distrib. in US by Buena Vista Pictures; Dir. Frank Coraci) [-]
OK, that's it - entered into the official record. Now I can finally breathe easy! :-)
posted by hdougie at 1/13/2005 08:17:00 AM
1 Comments:
So you were finally able to narrow it down to 20?! How very decisive of you :)
And how did Napoleon Dynamite make the list?! Very funny, yes. Also, very bad. Very, very, bad.
--lori.
PS -- No Gorilla At Large? Were you not moved by the powerful "I think they've found Goliath!" scene?
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