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2001 year in film

Tobias

These are the best films of 2001, THERE ARE NONE GREATER....these lists are excerpts from an ongoing book/project on film I've been editing since 1999 titled "The Refined and Uncompromising Picture Show". Not all of these films are for everyone, but I promise if you true cinephiles sit through most of them maybe you'll take something away. These are the motion pictures that tower above all other films for the years they came out in the U.S. If any of your favorite films are missing let me know and i'll either thank you for reminding me or i'll let you know why i didn't feel i needed to mention it. I would love to hear anyone's thoughts on these lists or read your own personal film lists! You can read more about these films extensively if you copy and paste the titles @ http://www.imdb.com

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The Royal Tenenbaums (2001, R)

Memento (2000, R)

Mulholland Drive (2001, R)

The Man Who Wasn't There (2001, R)

The Lord of the Rings - The Fellowship of the Ring (2001, PG-13)

Waking Life (2001, R)

Fa Yeung Nin Wa (In the Mood for Love) (2001, PG)

Amelie (Le Fabuleux destin d'Amélie Poulain) (2001, R)

Moulin Rouge! (2001, PG-13)

Rivers and Tides: Andy Goldsworthy Working With Time (, R)

Hedwig and the Angry Inch (2001, R)

Monsters, Inc. (2001, G)

Donnie Darko (2001, R)

I initially hated this film....i didn't just not like it, I HATED it. My reaction was similar to Woody Allen's reaction to Kubrick's "2001: a Space Odyssey"(1968), When I first saw it I didn't like it.....Then a couple of years went by and I saw it again and I liked some things about it, but still had problems with the film. I felt it had too many teen film genre conventions. Then a few more years went by and i saw it yet again and really liked it a lot more, and then another year went by and I sat and thought "Damn....you know, that's a really really good film." And i realized it was one of the few times in my film-going history that the artist (Richard Kelly) was light years ahead of me. Donnie Darko challenged my expectations of what i thought of as filmmaking. I didn't comprehend when i first saw it that it was simultaneously an homage and satire of John Hughes' teen-films of the 80's mixed with the surrealist tendencies of David Lynch. And it was also impressive to me that nothing in the film felt like a Lynchian rip-off (which sadly happens a lot in the indie film world) it feels like it's own original and bizarre take on Americana, an art-film reaction to the Reaganist 1980's if you will. A lot of the post-modernist overtones of "weird for the sake of weird" and "cheesy for the sake of" may throw off most audiences (it sure as hell threw me off), but everything in the picture exists for a narrative reason. In a nutshell, this ideally cultivated film is best summed up by (the then 27 year old) director Richard Kelly's saying that "it's like an anti-Holden Caulfield story channeled through Philip K. Dick's alienated and paranoid spirit."