Best of the decade?
As you may or may not know, two of the Mayfair’s owners also co-host the weekly radio show The Drunken Master Revue (motto: by movie geeks, for movie geeks).
On yesterday’s show, we shared our lists of the best films of the decade. It’s a thing people are doing. Here are each of the hosts’ lists. What do you think? Are we crazy? What did we miss? What should we have given a miss? Let us know – that’s what the comments section is for!
(And if what you read interests you, you could do worse than tuning in every Wednesday, from 5-6, live on the mighty 93.1, CKCU on your FM dial.)
Adrian Tripod’s best films of the decade
Adaptation
The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
Battle Royale
Borat
Capturing the Friedmans
Casino Royale
Dancer in the Dark
The Departed
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
Exiled
Ghost Dog
Grizzly Man
A History of Violence
Kill Bill
The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters
The Life Aquatic
The Man Who Wasn’t There
Marie Antoinette
Mayor of the Sunset Strip
Mulholland Drive
The New World
Ong Bak
Palindromes
Shaun of the Dead
There Will Be Blood
This is England
Zodiac
Alvy Singer’s best films of the decade
2000
memento
high fidelity
saving grace
vinyl
2001
ghost world
in the bedroom
the royal tennenbaums
storytelling
2002
secretary
bowling for columbine
adaptation
2003
house of sand and fog
lost in translation
a mighty wind
elephant
2004
before sunrise
sideways
2005
Enron: the smartest guy in the room
A history of violence
match point
march of the penguins
The squid and the whale
2006
borat
volver
casino royale
the devil and daniel johnston
thank you for smoking
2007
the diving bell and the butterfly
no country for old men
sicko
2008
man on wire
the dark knight
milk
the king of kong:a fistful of quarters
in bruges
elegy
the wackness
2009
ponty pool
rip: a remix manifesto
frost/nixon
inglourious basterds
the cove
Colonel Trautman’s best films of the decade
THE TOP 10
There Will Be Blood
Mulholland Drive
The Queen
25th Hour
Grizzly Man
The Royal Tennenbaums
Adaptation
The Dark Knight
The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
WALL-E
RUNNERS UP
Caché
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
The Lives of Others
Barbarian Invasions
Hustle and Flow
El Aura
Hedwig and the Angry Inch
When the Levees Broke
Primer
Before Sunset
BODIES OF WORK
Steven Spielberg: A.I./Munich/War of the Worlds/Minority Report/Catch Me if You Can
Gus Van Sant: Last Days/Elephant/Gerry
Peter Jackson: The Lord of the Rings Trilogy
ONES I’M SURE WILL BE ON OTHER LISTS
Battle Royale
Infernal Affairs
No Country for Old Men
Kill Bill
American Psycho
Requiem for a Dream
Ong Bak
The Host
King of Kong
Oldboy
Lists from co-hosts Carrie Nation and the Drunken Master still to come (whenever they get around to emailing me)!
Check back soon for more, and in the meantime, let us know what you think – what are your top films of the decade?
Cut.
Some of my favorites of the decade:
Almost Famous
Wonder Boys
City of God
Donnie Darko
Kill Bill Vol. 1 & 2
Black Book
Shaun of the Dead
No Country For Old Men
Snow Angels
There Will Be Blood
The Dark Knight
Thanks for posting your listings, guys. I am the poor sap who was stuck in traffic and phoned in with the suggestion. Now what you have to do is post a podcast of the show so I can listen to the ones I miss because traffic was so bad I actually had to get out of my car and slam my head into the pavement.
Favourite 20 Horror films of the decade
20. Frailty (2001 dir. Bill Paxton)
19. Devil’s Rejects (2005 dir Rob Zombie)
18. Hard Candy (2005 – David Slade)
17. May (2002 – Lucky McKee)
16. Cabin Fever (2002 – Eli Roth)
15. American Psycho (2000 – Mary Harron)
14. Battle Royale (2000 – Kinji Fukasaku)
13. Frontier(s) (2007 – Xavier Gens)
12. Ginger Snaps (2000 – John Fawcett)
11. Session 9 (2001 – Brad Anderson)
10. Exorcism of Emily Rose (2005 – Scott Derrickson)
09. High Tension (2003 – Alexander Aja)
08. Donnie Darko (2001 – Richard Kelly)
07. Land of the Dead (2005 – George A. Romero)
06. Drag Me to Hell (2009 – Sam Raimi)
05. Trick R’ Treat (2009 – Michael Dougherty)
04. Shaun of the Dead (2004 – Edgar Wright)
03. Let the Right One In (2008 – Tomas Alferdson)
02. The Descent (2005 – Neil Marshall)
01. The Inside (2007 – Alexandre Bustillo & Julien Maury)
Favourite 10 Superhero movies of the decade
10. X-Men (2000 – Bryan Singer)
09. Unbreakable (2000 – M. Night Shyamalan)
08. Batman Begins (2005 – Christopher Nolan)
07. Superman Returns (2006 – Bryan Singer)
06. Iron Man (2008 – Jon Favreau)
05. Hellboy (2004 –Guillermo Del Toro)
04. Spider-Man (2002 – Sam Raimi)
03. Hellboy II: The Golden Army (2008 – Guillermo Del Toro)
02. Spider-Man 2 (2004 – Sam Raimi)
01. The Dark Knight (2008 – Christopher Nolan)
2000
3- Ghostdog: The Way of the Samurai
2- O’Brother Where Art Thou
1- Requiem for a Dream
2001
3- Amelie
2- Mulholland Dr.
1- The Royal Tenenbaums
2002
3- Punch Drunk Love
2- Narc
1- Gangs of New York
2003
3- Old Boy
2- Lost in LaMancha
1- Kill Bill
2004
3- Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
2- Collateral
1- The Aviator
2005
3- Batman Begins
2- Casino Royale
1- A History of Violence
2006
3- Inside Man
2- The Departed
1- Pan’s Labyrinth
2007
3- Eastern Promises
2- Zodiac
1- There will be Blood
2008
3- The Dark Knight
2- The Wrestler
1- Let the Right One In
2009
10- Brothers
9- Star Trek
8- Taken
7- Pontypool
6- Bruno
5- Drag me to Hell
4- Trick R’ Treat
3- Fantastic Mr. Fox
2- District 9
1- Inglorious Basterds
pretty incredibly terrible decade for movies…