Monday 21 April 2014

Top Tens: 2003

Link to the full list of films I've seen from this year at least once - http://letterboxd.com/coheed/list/my-personal-2003-ranked/

Admittedly I see the need to rewatch a few of these films, but its a testament to some of them that a single viewing a long time ago was enough for them to remain burnt into my thoughts. Put aside that I will re-encounter these films, all of them, again some day, and its clear that the 2000s was an incredibly strong decade by itself, not through a lot of the films that were praised in end of decade lists, but those that were off the beaten path.

Ranking 2003
(In Order as of 21th April 2014)

Gozu (Dir. Takashi Miike, 2003)
Zatoichi (Dir. ‘Beat Takeshi Kitano, 2003)
Le Monde Vivant (Dir. Eugène Green, 2003) 
Dogville (Dir. Lars von Trier, 2003)
Spring, Summer, Autumn, Winter…and Spring
(Dir. Kim Ki-Duk, 2003)
 
Tokyo Godfathers (Dirs. Shogo Furuya & Satoshi Kon, 2003) 
The Triplets of Belleville aka. Belleville Rendez-vous
(Dir. Sylvain Chomet, 2003)
 
(Daft Punk) Interstella 5555
(Dirs. Kazuhisa Takenouchi, Leiji Matsumoto, 2003) 
Cowards Bend the Knee (Dir. Guy Maddin, 2003)
Fast Film (Dir. Virgil Widrich, 2003/Short)

Honorable Mention:
Fear X (Dir. Nicolas Winding Refn, 2003)
After the initial disappointment of Only God Forgives (2013), it jars against the fact Refn made a film long before that perfectly captured the uneasy air he was going for.
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