Best/Favorite Films of 1997

1. The Ice Storm

2. The Game

3. L.A. Confidential

4. Life is Beautiful

5. Jackie Brown

6. Boogie Nights

7. Cop Land

8. The Spanish Prisoner

9. Affliction

10. Clockwatchers

11. In the Company of Men

12. Lost Highway

13. Kundun

14. Insomnia

Amistad

As Good as It Gets

The Devil’s Advocate

Eve’s Bayou

The Postman

Romy and Michele’s High School Reunion

Seven Years in Tibet

Spice World

The Sweet Hereafter

Taste of Cherry

Tomorrow Never Dies

——— still need to see:

Afterglow

The Apostle

Blood and Wine

The Boxer

City of Industry

Critical Care

The Devil’s Own

Donnie Brasco

The End of Violence

Face/Off

The Fifth Element

Good Will Hunting

Grosse Point Blank

Henry Fool

Inventing the Abbotts

Kiss the Girls

A Life Less Ordinary

Love and Death on Long Island

Metroland

Night Falls on Manhattan

Oscar and Lucinda

Photographing Fairies

Picture Perfect

The Rainmaker

She’s So Lovely

‘Til There Was You

Touch

Under the Lighthouse Dancing

Wag the Dog

Washington Square

The Wings of the Dove

Best/Favorite Films of 1998

1. The Red Violin

2. Rushmore

3. The Big Lebowski

4. The Truman Show

5. Autumn Tale

6. The Thin Red Line

7. After Life

8. The Last Days of Disco

9. Snake Eyes

10. Saving Private Ryan

11. Shakespeare in Love

The Celebration

Celebrity

Dark City

Hilary and Jackie

Lock, Stock, and Two Smoking Barrels

Pi

Ronin

A Simple Plan

Tango

The Wedding Singer

——-films that look promising:

City of Angels

Croupier

Elizabeth

Eternity and a Day

The Gingerbread Man

The Idiots

The Legend of 1900

The Naked Man

Next Stop Wonderland

No Looking Back

Rounders

Sliding Doors

Wide Awake

Your Friends & Neighbors

Best/Favorite Films of 1999

1. Magnolia

2. Ride with the Devil

3. The Green Mile

4. Topsy-Turvy

5. The Straight Story

6. Fight Club

7. Liberty Heights

8. Election

9. The Sixth Sense

10. Eyes Wide Shut

11. Summer of Sam

12. Fantasia 2000

13. Office Space

14. The Talented Mr. Ripley

15. The Ninth Gate

Any Given Sunday

Buena Vista Social Club

The Haunting

The Limey

Man on the Moon

The Matrix

The Omega Code

The Phantom Menace

Ratcatcher

The World is Not Enough

———still need to see:

Beau travail

Bicentennial Man

The Bone Collector

Cookie’s Fortune

The Deep End of the Ocean

The End of the Affair

Entrapment

Existenz

For Love of the Game

Grey Owl

The Insider

October Sky

Rosetta

Sleepy Hollow

Snow Falling on Cedars

Tea with Mussolini

The 13th Warrior

The Winslow Boy

Best/Favorite Films of 2000

1. Almost Famous

2. O Brother Where Art Thou?

3. The Claim

4. Yi Yi

5. Dancer in the Dark

6. In the Mood for Love

7. Code Unknown

8. Small Time Crooks

9. Bless the Child

10. Cast Away

10. Italian for Beginners

12. Frequency

13. The Legend of Bagger Vance

14. High Fidelity

15. Rules of Engagement

The Beach

Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon

Gladiator

Joint Security Area

Memento

The Patriot

Snatch

Unbreakable

Vertical Limit

What Lies Beneath

———still need to see:

All the Pretty Horses

Amores perros

The Big Kahuna

Eureka

The Family Man

Love’s Labour Lost

Mercy Streets

Mysterious Object at Noon

Nurse Betty

Signs and Wonders

Songs from the Second Floor

State and Main

Tears of the Black Tiger

Vatel

The Vertical Ray of the Sun

The Virgin Suicides

The Wedding

What Women Want

Where the Money Is

Best/Favorite Films of 2001

1. The Royal Tenenbaums

2. Mulholland Dr.

3. A.I.

3. The Man Who Wasn’t There

5. Vanilla Sky

6. A Beautiful Mind

7. Gosford Park

7. In the Bedroom

9. Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone

10. The Son’s Room

11. The Curse of the Jade Scorpion

12. Amelie

13. Moulin Rouge!

14. The Score

15. Donnie Darko

16. The Cat’s Meow

The Pledge

Zoolander

Along Came a Spider

The Devil’s Backbone

Human Nature

Josie and the Pussycats

Jurassic Park III

The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring

Ocean’s Eleven

The Others

The Piano Teacher

Session 9

——— films I haven’t seen yet, but look promising:

Ali

America’s Sweethearts

Captain Corelli’s Mandolin

Heist

The Lady and the Duke

Lantana

The Man from Elysian Fields

Pulse

The Safety of Objects

Sidewalks of New York

Time Out

Best/Favorite Films of 2002

1. Russian Ark

2. The Pianist

3. Punch-Drunk Love

4. Moonlight Mile

5. Uzak [Distant]

6. Road to Perdition

7. Le fils [The Son]

8. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

9. About Schmidt

9. Chicago

9. Catch Me If You Can

12. Panic Room

Elgar: Portrait on a Composer on a Bicycle

Gangs of New York

Hollywood Ending

The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers

Minority Report

Signs

Spider-Man

Pinocchio

Attack of the Clones

Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress

Die Another Day

Dirty Pretty Things

Femme Fatale

In America

My Big Fat Greek Wedding

The Ring

Zhou Yu’s Train

——————–still need to see:

Auto Focus

Blood Work

Blue Crush

City by the Sea

Confessions of a Dangerous Mind

The Dancer Upstairs

Festival in Cannes

Insomnia (C. Nolan version)

Murder by Numbers

The Quiet American

Ripley’s Game

The Sum of All Fears

Best/Favorite Films of 2003

1. House of Sand and Fog

2. Shattered Glass

3. The Return

4. The Station Agent

5. Big Fish

6. American Splendor

7. Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World

8. Intolerable Cruelty

9. Bright Young Things

10. Coffee and Cigarettes

11. Lost in Translation

12. The Five Obstructions

The Barbarian Invasions

The Dreamers

Elf

The Gospel of John

The Hunted

Ju-On

The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King

Matchstick Men

A Mighty Wind

Mystic River

Pirates of the Caribbean: …Black Pearl

Swimming Pool

Timeline

———————- still need to see:

Anything Else

The Battle of Shaker Heights

Cafe Lumiere

Cold Mountain

The Company

Danny Deckchair

Daredevil

Down with Love

Father and Son

Girl with a Pearl Earring

Gods and Generals

Goodbye, Dragon Inn

I Capture the Castle

Johnny English

Looney Tunes: Back in Action

Open Range

Pieces of April

Singing Behind Screen

The Triplets of Belleville

Veronica Guerin

Vodka Lemon

Wonderland

Wondrous Oblivion

Zelary

Best/Favorite Films of 2004

1. The Passion of the Christ

2. Spider-Man 2

3. The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou

4. The Village

5. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

6. The Phantom of the  Opera

7. The Machinist

8. Sideways

9. Maria Full of Grace

10. Two Brothers

11. The World

12. Garden State

After the Day Before

The Aviator

Before Sunset

Beyond the Sea

Bobby Jones – Stroke of Genius

Collateral

Crash

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

Exorcist: The Beginning

Finding Neverland

Hawaii, Oslo

The Ladykillers

Lemony Snicket’s A Series of Unfortunate Events

Marebito

Melinda and Melinda

Miracle

National Treasure

Ocean’s Twelve

Our Own

Primer

Shaun of the Dead

Spanglish

The Terminal

Ushpizin

Vanity Fair

A Very Long Engagement

The Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill

———- films I haven’t seen yet, but look promising:

As It Is in Heaven

The Chorus

The Garden of Earthly Delights

Holy Lola

Hotel Rwanda

Nobody Knows

Ray

Songs from the Second Floor

The Taste of Tea

Tony Takitani

Triple Agent

2046

The Weeping Meadow

Wicker Park

Best/Favorite Films of 2005

1. The New World

2. Elizabethtown

2. Munich

4. Thank You for Smoking

5. The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada

6. The Squid and the Whale

7. The Lost City

8. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire 

9. Everything is Illuminated

10. Match Point

11. Memoirs of a Geisha

12. Broken Flowers

13. The Secret Life of Words

14. Cache

Brick

The Brothers Grimm

Charley and the Chocolate Factory

Cinderella Man

Dark Water

Dominion

Dreamer: Inspired By a True Story

Duma

Good Night, and Good Luck.

The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy

The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe

Nanny McPhee

The Producers

The Sun

The Weather Man

————- films I haven’t seen yet, but look promising:

The Ballad of Jack and Rose

Batman Begins

Don’t Come Knocking

L’Enfant

The Great Raid

The Ice Harvest

The Island

Joyeux Noel

Junebug

Lassie

Man Push Cart

Pride and Prejudice

The Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio

The Proposition

Romance and Cigarettes

Wah-Wah

Walk the Line

The World’s Fastest Indian

Best/Favorite Films of 2006

1. I Served the King of England

2. The Lives of Others

3. Casino Royale

4. Syndromes and a Century

5. The Departed

6. Inland Empire

7. The Prestige

8. Children of Men

9. Breaking and Entering

10. Scoop

11. Island

12. The Good Shepherd

13. Hors de prix (Priceless)

Amazing Grace

Basic Instinct 2

A Good Year

Lady in the Water

The Unknown Woman

Starter for 10

Apocalypto

The Black Dahlia

Climates

Flicka

The Good German

Hollywoodland

The Illusionist

Little Children

Miss Potter

Nacho Libre

Night at the Museum

OSS 117 – Cairo, Nest of Spies

The Painted Veil

Pan’s Labyrinth

Paris, je t’aime

Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest

The Pursuit of Happyness

The Queen

Rocky Balboa

The Science of Sleep

Tell No One

10 Items or Less

———— still need to see:

Art School Confidential

Bella

Bug

Employee of the Month

The Fountain

The Holiday

I’m a Cyborg, But That’s OK

Idiocracy

The Nativity Story

Old Joy

A Prairie Home Companion

Private Fears in Public Places

Still Life