Let the arguments begin. The best movies of the decade, in my opinion, as follows.
Among other things, not yours, but I hope it shakes the memory list. These are the films that have had an impact. He was surprised, and caused consternation. People are waiting. Settled legacy, won awards and some worse. Nor is it easy or conventional. This is what great films are about.
10. The White Ribbon
“Austrian director Michael Haneke, the white ribbon, made in Germany, is part of the generation of Hitler, when they were in knee pants. A small-town Protestant maintains a strict hierarchy, where everyone knows their place, however, a moral code inhuman prevails. Again, as in his “cache” is well hidden, and Haneke never solve the mysteries of history. Young people have embraced the dark side of the values of adults and not have to explain where this will lead.
9. The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
The story of a devastating handicap – an attack of paralysis capture French editor Jean-Dominique Bauby in his body, in which only his left eyelid, it can communicate – it becomes an essay on the power of human spirit. This is probably the only movie that has ever existed, almost like a POV-shot long. Director Julian Schnabel, who specializes in films about artists who have overcome great odds, the writer Ronald Harwood and cinematographer Janusz Kaminski solve the problem of “lock-in” movie that shows what a man sees the bed and chair Accessibility sometimes blurred images and tremors, and their fantasies and memories. In effect, improving memory Bauby dictated by what makes us literally see and feel the anger, lust, hunger and humor that the disease may decrease. Performance Mathieu Amalric is both moving and impressive.
8. Cache
Yes, Michael Haneke makes the list twice – and I do not consider myself a fanatic. “Cache” – “hidden” in French – is a mystery and does not bother to solve the mystery. This interest is outside Haneke. He is more concerned about institutional racism, the hidden, if not unconscious prejudices that humans “sphere of another and the question of guilt, communication and voluntary amnesia. The film works as a thriller, with hints of” The window courtyard of Hitchcock, “which serves as a reminder that: – the creation of video and film – is an act of voyeurism.
7. Divine Interior
A film that probably will not appear on many lists of 10 per decade, “Divine Intervention” is Palestine, a country not recognized by many countries, and certainly not the academy of arts and sciences of motion, the opportunities for organization gave coverage to include this film is not uncomfortable in the best foreign film in its category in 2002. Subversive film is a powerful weapon that uses humor to depict the relationship between Jews and Arabs in occupied Palestine by Israel. Elia Suleiman scathing comedy is definitely the most fun in this list: the right touch of light to explore the senseless humiliation May require the occupier and occupied. Much of this stagnation is produced in small vignettes of everyday moments: If the characters caught between hostile or hopeless sitting in the car checkpoints. Nobody needs to say something: The photos do not talk all the time.
6. Far From Heaven
Todd Haynes ‘film’ is many things, not least of which is a perfect replica of the 1950 conventions of American film art direction and themes to dress and customs. But his film is immersed below the surface, to show what is taboo – the love that dare not speak its name to race relations. The film has before Stonewall and the civil rights movement, but never found before him, and a wink to us about these poor deluded fools. Accept cultural values, no, this is cheating on them. No movies have been submitted Eisenhower era or culture of a wider review of the suburbs of criticism. Few films have captured the hearts errant ways better. And the title is perfect.
5. 4 Months, 3 Weeks And 2 Days
Romanian director Cristian Mungiu describes exactly looking dark and ironic, is to navigate the streets, the cruelty and pure evil easy in a totalitarian society to “4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days”. It is not concentration camps, the strong dependence of tactics and harsh punishments, but rather a total disregard of a company, lack of empathy, let alone humans, two unfortunate young women seeking to terminate an unwanted pregnancy you want. Yes, it is apparently a portrait of the last years of communist rule in Romania, but the film is about the banality of evil in all political systems, and creatures more contempt than willing to exploit this vulnerability in all societies.
4. The Fog of War
Robert Strange McNamara, died earlier this year, thanks to the documentary by Errol Morris, go with the more complex and fundamentally altered view of the former defense secretary and architect of the disastrous war in Vietnam. This document is less demanding Morris – film distilled from 20 hours of recorded interviews with the then 85-year-old man. The film has no voice. The portrait that emerges is surprising, as surprising as the claim that McNamara and General Curtis LeMay were mostly war criminals to attack the fire directly from Tokyo and 67 cities in Japan at the end of World War II desperately his statement urged President Johnson to withdraw its troops from the nightmare of Vietnam. The film should be required viewing for all middle school classes in 20th century American history, moral philosophy and history of the war. Not to mention the types of films.
3. No Country for Old Men
Many films of the decade – many of films – is difficult because of violence in America, and some of them were from Ethan and Joel Coen. Indeed, “The Dark Knight” and “The History of Violence”, attempted to enter the call of the blood, seemingly without end for the American psyche. Perhaps because this film happening in the West, which reminds us of dark legacy, the murderers of the old West and the genocide of Manifest Destiny, “Country” reach the bottom. The title works in two ways, which describes a place where young people are predators or a place where some old. Evil exists in a commonplace, vulgar. can not argue with him or defeat him on the wrong track you down No, thanks. The dialogue of the film is surprisingly impressive portraits of characters, and the question of pure evil enters the skin like a plague.
2. United 93
A stunning, emotionally searing account of the first people to inhabit the post-September, from September 11, “United 93″ is the fatal flight unforgettable bad fourth day of the month of September. Paul Greengrass makes the experience of flight, that day, and the intersection between despair and determination. And ‘the only film of the decade so far has changed our world, its currents, a few minutes every day for the opening of a final confrontation with the madness of religion and politics.
1. Letters From Iwo Jima
Hollywood has made war films of DW Griffith, but rarely or never have an idea of how it feels. It is possible that in the first 20 minutes of Spielberg’s “Saving Private Ryan” after the film returns to the form of equality. However, “Clint Eastwood’s Letters from Iwo Jima” makes this business: You can get the war in all its horror, boredom and sand – and the point of view of the enemies of our country, so any empathy is difficult earned. With the glare disturbing, the film captures the war as experienced by soldiers lost in the fog, like the grinding, the evil machine, and the death of numbness. In the version of Eastwood, heroism and cowardice are two sides of same coin, and the glory of a concept than left to the generals and historians.
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