To celebrate the ending of 2000s Week, IndieWire asked over 100 indie filmmakers to share their favorite movies of the first decade of the 21st century. The list comes after the website’s staff ranked their 100 preferred films of the aughts, as well as such other categories as the decade’s greatest performances, scores, anime and Bollywood musical numbers.
The filmmakers divulged their top 10 features from the 2000s. There’s an overlap between their lists that proves certain movies still stand out the most in public opinion, 15 ears after the end of the decade.
Some of the more notable filmmakers asked to participate in the 2000s Week list include Sean Baker, Brady Corbet, Joe Dante, David Lowery, Jane Schoenbrun, Parker Finn, Radu Jude, Bill Hader, Jennifer Kent, Alex Ross Perry, Rodrigo Prieto and Jeremy Saulnier. As a group, the most mentioned movies include:
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind — 34 mentions
No Country For Old Men — 28
Punch-Drunk Love — 28
Children of Men — 28
Mulholland Drive — 24
Zodiac — 21
The Dark Knight — 20
In the Mood For Love — 19
Y Tu Mama Tambien — 17
Lost in Translation — 17
City of God — 16
Spirited Away — 13
Yi Yi — 12
Oldboy — 12
Below are the individual lists from several of the top filmmakers:
Sean Baker, the writer-director of Anora:
Yi Yi
Malèna
Together
Dog Days
Oasis
Morvern Callar
Dogville
Oldboy
4 months, 3 weeks and 2 days
Import/Export
Brady Corbet, the writer-director of The Brutalist:
Dancer in the Dark
Dogville
Caché
Shinji Aoyoma’s Eureka
The White Ribbon
Three Times
Inland Empire
Werckmeister Harmonies
La Commune
L’intrus
Birth
Mulholland Drive
Silent Light
The Headless Woman
In the Mood for Love
Spirited Away
Enter the Void
Joe Dante, the director: Gremlins:
Mulholland Drive
Children of Men
Pan’s Labyrinth
Idiocracy
Speed Racer
Shaun of the Dead
Inglorious Basterds
Ratatouille
Battle Royale
Gangs of New York
Jane Schoenbrun, the writer-director of I Saw the TV Glow:
A.I. Artificial Intelligence
Elephant
Funny Haha
Goodbye Dragon Inn
Mulholland Dr.
Old Joy
Southland Tales
Stepbrothers
The World
Yi Yi
Parker Finn, the writer/director of Smile:
Requiem for a Dream
Catch Me If You Can
The Ring
24 Hour Party People
A Tale of Two Sisters
Children of Men
Zodiac
There Will Be Blood
Rachel Getting Married
Enter the Void
Radu Jude, the writer-director of Don’t Expect Too Much from the End of the World:
As I Was Moving Ahead Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty
Eloge de l’amour, Notre musique, Film socialisme
Star Spangled to Death
Tale of Cinema
Inland Empire by David Lynch
Police, Adjective
Oh! Uomo
The Lady and the Duke
West of the Tracks
Austerlitz
Jennifer Kent, the writer/director: The Babadook:
In the Mood For Love
Elephant
Mulholland Drive
The White Ribbon
Memories of Murder
Pan’s Labyrinth
You, The Living
No Country For Old Men
Let The Right One In
L’Enfant
Alex Ross Perry, the writer-director of Pavements:
Cremaster 3
Some Kind of Monster/Dig!
Gerry/Last Days
The Brown Bunny/Primer
Los Angeles Plays Itself/A Decade Under the Influence
Fallen/Birdsong
Daft Punk’s Electroma/Southland Tales
[Rec.]/Inside/Martyrs
Rodrigo Prieto, the director of Pedro Páramo:
Amores Perros
In the Mood for Love
Brokeback Mountain
Lost in Translation
No Country for Old Men
Punch Drunk Love
Children of Men
Almost Famous
Babel
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
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