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in front of viewers eyes, theyre hiding something deeper and darker. Like Memento and The Dark Knight (and Insomnia and Following, for that matter), The Prestige is partly about the fragmentation of self, whether it be a division so severe that a magicians assistant cant be sure which knot hes tied from performance to performance, or a division so subtle that a man cant tell who he really is. (Words to live by: Theyre all your hats.) But The Prestige is also about the role technology plays in our alienation, as science makes possible feats that were charming as magic tricks, but horrific as reality. And so here we are, whether we like it or not: the transported man.38. Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter... And Spring (2003)The festival circuit in the early 00s was awash in an unofficial cinema of cruelty movement, and one of its most active participants was Korean filmmaker Kim Ki-duk, whose films The Isle and Bad Guy punished audiences with horrific images they could never un-see. Kim left shock behind with Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter... And Spring, a gentle Buddhist parable set at a temple floating in the middle of a mountain lake. The story takes place over 30 years, as a boy grows to manhood under the guidance of a wise old monk. The film's lessons are plain, and deal with the close relationship between what can be shed in this life and what binds people to the world in spite of their best efforts to purify. In the final section of the film, Kim himself plays the student, now an adult, still grappling with how to spend a life in service to other people without forming lasting emotional attachments. This is a different conception of cruelty from Kim: a movie that contends, persuasively, that the very act of living is impossible.37. A History Of Violence (2005)David Cronenberg used to make films in which repressed instincts manifested themselves in physical form. They were scary, but just as scary in its own way is this look at the persistence of bloodlust in a gentle man with no discernible past (a revelatory Viggo Mortensen) and the heartland whose wholesome, neighborly values he appears to embody.36. Pans Labyrinth (2006)Guillermo del Toro tends to get a little distracted by his fantasy visualsin the Hellboy movies, for instance, he seems to be concentrating more on making the creatures look amazing than on telling a story thatll appeal to people not entirely caught up in his fairy-tale-with-teeth world. Which is why Pans Labyrinth is such a wonder: It finds him again working at the top of his considerable game with the visuals, but also telling a story with some depth. The ultimate moral about the escapist qualities of fantasy is more chilling than comforting, but again, del Toros fairy stories have teeth, so its no surprise that this allegorical tale of a child in 1944 fascist Spain goes in dark, ugly directions, and leaves the application of light up to individual viewers. Its uncommonly ambitious and beautiful, but tragic as well. And was there
puts together a universally recognizable picture of family life out of the particulars of a single place. Its an abundant, humane film, but also a bittersweet one filled with the knowledge that the coming of the new invariably means the fading of the old.23. The Man Who Wasnt There (2001)The Coen brothers predilection for ripping up genres and eras to reveal whats really behind them reached arguably its purest form with The Man Who Wasnt There, a film-noir homage as much about the times that shaped noir as it is about dark shadows and stained men. As stoic barber Billy Bob Thornton deals with an unfaithful wife and a murder rap, the Coens inject sci-fi paranoia, commentary on post-war American expansion, and contemplation of Heisenbergs uncertainty principle into their usual mix of dry comedy and pristine art direction. The Man Who Wasnt There effectively analyzes the underpinnings of noir and why the genre emerged when it did, but its also unmistakably a Coen brothers movie, full of broadly drawn supporting characters and a chilly protagonist frustrated by what he cant control. (Thornton is a fastidious man, yet hes surrounded by clumps and strands of human hair, which never stops growing.) The result is a film that some found too aloof and bizarreone for the hardcore Coen-heads, in other words.22. United 93 (2006)Immediately after 9/11, some cultural commentators predicted an end to big Hollywood movies about exploding buildings and mass murder, while others were certain that it was only a matter of time before one of the worst days in American history became fodder for one of those Hollywood fireball-fests. Paul Greengrass verite approach to the subject turned out to be the right way to go, seeming not so much sensationalistic or jingoistic as merely considerate and thorough. Greengrass recreates the events of the day one piece after another, prompting viewers to recall their own reactions to 9/11. What does this mean? What do we do now? How could this happen? United 93 touches on those big issues, but only inasmuch as they relate to the smaller details, from the military response to the terrorists' anxiousness. Greengrass doesn't oversell the ironies (like the title plane being delayed just long enough for the passengers to learn what was happening elsewhere, but not long enough to prevent takeoff) and he doesn't oversell the heroism of the passengers, who look alternately horrified and feral. United 93 is a restrained but gut-wrenching piece of you-are-there filmmaking, and an explication of how the five years after 9/11 quickly evolved from shock to violence to exhaustion21. Zodiac (2007)David Fincher is notorious for his hyper-demanding, Kubrickian pursuit of perfection, where even the simplest shot can demand a hundred takes. With that in mind, rarely have filmmaker and subject been as compatible as in Finchers Zodiac, a mesmerizing procedural that follows the still-unsolved case of a Bay Area serial killer all the way down an obsessive-compulsive rabbit hole. What begins as a gorgeous evocation of a region under the grips of a cryptic serial killerthe opening, from the fireworks on July
4, 1969 to the haunting Hurdy Gurdy Man sequence that accompanies the first murder, is as good as it getsbecomes all the more fascinating once the case goes cold and only a miserable few cant bring themselves to let it go. Its an obsessive movie about the nature of obsession, made by a man who cant distance himself from the puzzle any more easily than his bleary-eyed characters can.20.The Squid and The Whale (2005)Noah Baumbach reportedly wanted friend and writing partner Wes Anderson to direct The Squid And The Whale, but Anderson wisely turned the project down, arguing that only Baumbach was qualified to direct such a personal project. Baumbach has played down the autobiographical aspects of his film about the messy divorce of elitist professor and has-been writer (Jeff Daniels) and his more successful writer wife (Laura Linney) in Reagan-era New York, but it certainly feels ripped from the most agonizing moments of its creators past. Baumbach is especially unsparing and uncompromising in his depiction of his surrogate (Jesse Eisenberg), a pretentious young intellectual-in-training who has internalized the worst aspects of his fathers sneering disdain for everyone he considers inferior. (Which is to say, the sum of humanity). Prominent among the films many virtues is its brevity: At 81 minutes, its a little less than 70 minutes shorter than Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, and arguably the better film.19. The Lord Of The Rings: The Two Towers (2002)Really, the entire Lord Of The Rings trilogy should be on here as a collective entry; seen back-to-back, the entire thing plays like a single immense, episodic film. But we grudgingly decided that a) that would be cheating, and b) we couldnt cough up three slots on this list for it. So by reluctant group consensus, we pointed to The Two Towers as the slight standout of the lot, if only for the David Lean-esque majestic sweep of the battle of Helms Deep. The whole Rings series is a tremendous cinematic accomplishment, but virtually no part of it offers the visceral thrill of that seemingly doomed last stand against an unimaginable forceor at least one that seemed unimaginable before Peter Jackson put it up on the screen in all its gritty glory.18. Mulholland Dr. (2001)Mulholland Dr. began as David Lynchs attempt to return to network television, the medium that left him embittered after his experiences with Twin Peaks. He never got a chance to get frustrated a second time; ABC declined the pilot he shot. Where most directors would simply have walked away, Lynch reworked the material from Hollywood black comedy to a reality-warping tragedy that uses film-noir conventions and Lynchs effortless ability to find the surreal in the banal everyday to show a soul getting warped and corrupted under the blaring spotlights and the warm California sun.17. The Royal Tenenbaums (2001)Wes Anderson followed up his beloved breakthrough film Rushmore with The Royal Tenenbaums, a dazzlingly ambitious comedy-drama that filtered The Magnificent Ambersons and J.D. Salingers stories about the Glass family through his unmistakable sensibility. In a majestic lead performance, the great Gene Hackman
life to living among grizzly bears in Alaska. Treadwell set out to protect the bears he loved not wisely, but too well, but he was ultimately the one in desperate need of protection; its remarkable that Treadwell somehow managed to spend 13 summers with his beloved grizzlies before meeting a tragic, seemingly inevitable fate. Drawing on more than a hundred hours of footage shot by Treadwell and his girlfriend, Grizzly Man builds into a devastating cautionary tale about the dangers of idealizing and anthropomorphizing wild animals.12. Before Sunset (2004)The perfect will they or wont they ending to Richard Linklaters Before Sunrise seemed like exactly the sort of ambiguous question that most emphatically doesnt require an answer. It takes roots in the viewers imagination: Depending on who you are, romantic or cynic, you either believe that Ethan Hawke and Julie Delpy reunited in Vienna exactly one year later, or that they would only have that one night together, and never see each other again. And yet from their very first scene together in Before Sunset, everything feels right about the sequelbetter, evenbecause the conversation that Hawke and Delpy continue so naturally 10 years later is now seasoned by the experiences theyve had in the interim. Turns out that one night meant a great deal to both of them, but they aren't necessarily in a position to pick up right where they left off. What follows is every bit as enchanting as the first film, but considerably more complicated and adult, tooand with its own tantalizingly open-ended denouement.11. Time Out (2001)The infamous true story that inspired Laurent Cantets Time Out concerned the terrible deceptions of a white-collar Frenchman who was leading an impossible double lifeclaiming to be a doctor working out of Geneva, Switzerland while in fact hed never graduated from medical school, hadnt had a job in two decades, and was living off a dwindling (and bilked) savings account. When his scheme reached its inevitable end point, he slaughtered his entire family and tried to make it look like a house fire. The small miracle of Time Out is that it de-sensationalizes this real-life tragedy and brings it back down to the everyday. By taking the murders out of the story, Cantet intensifies his focus on a man (Aurelien Recoing) who derives his entire sense of dignity and self-worth from the workplace, and gets walled in by denial. His is still an extreme casehis desperate scramble to keep his lies afloat recalls William H. Macy in Fargobut anyone whos lost a job can identify.10. Children Of Men (2006)The scenario of Children Of Mena near-future in which humanity has lost its ability to bear childrenis extreme. The details, however, are not. Alfonso Cuarons adaptation of a P.D. James novel takes the turn of the millenniums most alarming political and social trends and follows them along a downward arc. Religious radicals battle fascists as the opposition either retreats to marijuana-filled isolation, or echoes the extremism of their opposition. Its a desperate, dying place, but the appearance of a thin sliver of hope drives the films
badass motherfuckery ensues as Thurman goes after her former partners in crime, leaving a trail of destruction in her wake. Tarantinos kung-fu adventure soars as pure cinema, a sustained adrenaline rush that skips giddily from one unforgettable setpiece to another while quietly laying the groundwork for its quieter, more substantive, and dialogue-heavy second volume.6. Spirited Away (2001)All of Hayao Miyazakis animated films are finely crafted artifacts, steeped in old-school craft and a sense of joyous wonder. But Spirited Away may well be his magnum opus, first among comparable masterpieces. The fable of a lost, fearful little girl finding her courage after she and her parents are trapped in the spirit world, it has the usual Miyazaki hallmarks, including a fascination with flight, a deep respect for people of sincere good heart, and scary villains who arent really villains when seen up close. But even for a Miyazaki film, its uncommonly beautiful, and uncommonly moving. Its the rarest of things: an animated movie safe for kids but equally suitable for adults, with no pandering to either group.5. Memento (2000)Heres how to tell that a movie is innovative and watertight: Seen nearly a decade after release, Memento still feels experimental and daring, and it still holds up as a viewing experience. Director Christopher Nolan, working from a story by his brother Jonathan (later to be his writing partner on The Prestige and The Dark Knight), tells the story backward, starting with a killing that makes no sense out of context, then moving back through time to establish why that initial/final murder happened, and what it means in a tragic larger context. Along the way, he reveals a lot about protagonist Guy Pearce, a man with a baffling memory condition that opens him up to monstrous errors in judgmentand yet the exposition is so deftly handled that it never feels forced, in the usual Hollywood people telling each other what they already know way. In spite of its audacious structure, Memento manages to reveal its backstory more organically and smoothly than most linear films do. On top of that, the small cast is fantastic, the mystery is genuinely compelling, and Memento gave us one of the most outrageously funniest film moments of the decade, summed up with the lines Okay, so what am I doing? Oh, Im chasing this guy? [One gunshot later...] No, hes chasing me.4. No Country For Old Men (2007)When Joel and Ethan Coen accepted the Best Director Oscar for No Country For Old Men, Joel thanked all of you out there for letting us continue to play in our corner of the sandbox, which was an apt way to describe a career that can progress from the goofy Intolerable Cruelty and The Ladykillers to an award-winning Cormac McCarthy adaptation. With No Country, the ever-inscrutable Coens reached beyond themselves and connected with a wider audience, turning McCarthys sparse, allegorical thriller into a finely tuned anxiety-delivery device. They were ably aided by Javier Bardem, playing a grinning jack-in-the-box who springs out every time the Coens turn the crank just enough, and by Josh
Brolin, playing a muttering hunter who seems to be having a running conversation in his head. While those two chase each other (and a suitcase full of money) across the southwest, lawman Tommy Lee Jones stands off to the side, as the old man this newer, scarier country has left behind. Rarely do the Coens seem overly interested in any reality but their own, but with No Country For Old Men, they tapped into the waking nightmare of our age of terror, and did so in a way that made impending doom feel viscerally exciting.3. There Will Be Blood (2007)For a filmmaker with such a bold, unmistakable vision, P.T. Anderson has written and directed a remarkably eclectic array of films, covering everything from the hard-boiled world of professional gamblers (Hard Eight) to the porn industry of the 70s and early 80s (Boogie Nights) to the interconnectedness of humanity and the universality of suffering (Magnolia) to the romantic angst of a tortured man-child (Punch-Drunk Love). True to form, Andersons bruisingly intense 2007 Upton Sinclair adaptation There Will Be Blood looks and feels nothing like any of his previous films. Its a brawling, two-fisted indictment of conscienceless capitalism built around Daniel Day-Lewis volcanic performance as a ruthless oilman who gains the world and loses what little is left of his soul. Anderson has made a film at once epic and intimate, a character study of a man whose lust for money and power knows no bounds. As long as we remain addicted to oil, Andersons gut-punch of a film will retain extraordinary contemporary resonance.2. 25th Hour (2002)In the immediate aftermath of 9/11, filmmakers were rushing to digitally blot out any evidence that the Twin Towers ever existed on the New York skyline. Not Spike Lee. New York is his town, and he alone was committed to documenting it truthfully and poignantly, as an event that touched everyones lives in that specific time and place and should not be papered over. That sense of profound loss dovetails beautifully with David Benioffs story of a convicted New York drug dealer (Edward Norton) spending his final day of freedom before serving a seven-year sentence. Lee connects his regret over the life hes ledcompounded by the realization that the world will keep turning without himwith the vibrancy and resilience of the wounded city he at one point professes to hate, but loves with bone-deep transparency.1. Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind (2004)A film is many things, among them a defiance of mortality and a hedge against the fading of memory. All filmsfrom the best to the worstsay something about the way we thought and acted and felt at a particular time and in a particular place. But theyre also artful lies, constructed realities that bend the world into a shape guided by the obsessions of those who make them. (Or the commercial interests of the marketplace, or a momentary whim.)In this, theyre much like memories, which act more subjectively and self-servingly than any film. Painful rejections get blurred. Estranged friends fall victim to careless erasures. We cant remake
the past, but we constantly try to make it a place in which were more comfortable living.The Michel Gondry-directed, Charlie Kaufman-scripted (from a story by Kaufman, Gondry, and Pierre Bismuth) Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind takes this process to an absurd, moving extreme by positing a world in which technology facilitates our ability to smooth out our past, eliding over the events that hurt us, and removing the people who did the hurting. Its a freedom that comes, as the leads played by Kate Winslet and a never-better Jim Carrey discover, at a considerable cost.Though Kaufman is hardly a purely cerebral writer, his philosophical inquiries find an added emotional weight under Gondrys direction. Portraying the fading and flaring of love in gargantuan bookstores and on railway lines, Gondry captures a moment thats quintessentially of the 21st century, and yet timeless. In 2000, the calendar rolled over to a new millennium. With it came a symbolic break with the past, but our old passions and conflicts reasserted themselves seemingly at the stroke of midnight. So it is with Eternal Sunshines lovers, whose circular path brings them back together for an ending thats ambiguous but guardedly hopeful about the possibility of a future not necessarily doomed to reprise the hurt of the past, though it also may well revisit the same mistakes. Its the rare film that shows us who we are now and who were likely, for better or worse, forever to be.
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