Overstreet's Favorite Films: 2000

Here is the current (but occasionally updated) list of my favorite films from 2000.

In order to understand the purpose and meaning of this list, please read my introduction to the Looking Closer Favorite Films lists here.

Red = Treasures
Purple = Favorites
Blue = Achievements
Gray = Decent/Noteworthy
Green = Unseen or Undecided
* = This film was discovered after the year in question and added in a list revision.
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2000

The Decalog (USA DVD release)
Yi-Yi
Almost Famous (review)
The Wind Will Carry Us*
The Emperor’s New Groove
Beau Travail*
You Can Count On Me
The Virgin Suicides
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
High Fidelity
Wonder Boys
Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai*
The Color of Paradise*
Best in Show
Unbreakable
Sexy Beast
Erin Brockovich
George Washington
Pollock
The House of Mirth
The Big Kahuna
X-Men
Not of This World (Fuori Dal Mondo)*
O Brother, Where Art Thou
Amores Perros*
Croupier*
Dancer in the Dark*
Chicken Run
Divided We Fall
The Vertical Ray of the Sun*

The Million Dollar Hotel
With a Friend Like Harry…
The King is Alive
State and Main
American Movie*
Cast Away
Thirteen Days
The Dish*
Tully
Billy Eliot
Girl on the Bridge*
Traffic
Bread and Tulips
Chocolat
Hamlet (Michael Almereyda)
Return to Me
Under the Sand
Shaft
Shadow of the Vampire
The Way of the Gun
Gladiator
Requiem for a Dream
Nurse Betty
Timecode
Girlfight
Small Time Crooks
American Psycho
Pitch Black

As-yet Unseen or Unratable Films of 2000
101 Reykjavík
A Modern Cannibal Tale
A Time for Drunken Horses
Ali Zaoua, prince de la rue
As I Was Moving Ahead Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty (Jonas Mekas)
Bamboozled (Spike Lee)
Battle Royale
Beat (Gary Walkow)
Before Night Falls
Blackboards
Blackboards (Samira Makhmalbaf)
Boiler Room
Bread and Roses
Brother (Takeshi Kitano)
Bruiser (George A. Romero)
Calle 54
Catastrophe (David Mamet)
Chopper (Andrew Dominik)
Chuck & Buck
Comedy of Innocence
Dark Days
Demons (Mario O’Hara)
Denti
Devils on the Doorstep (Jiang Wen)
Diamond Men
Dinosaur
Diva Dolorosa
Dr T and the Women
Esther Kahn (Arnaud Desplechin)
Eureka (Shinji Aoyama)
Everybody’s Famous!
Everything Put Together
Faithless (Liv Ullman)
Freedom
Gangster No. 1 (Paul McGuigan)
Ginger Snaps
Ginger Snaps (John Fawcett)
Il Partigiano Johnny
I’m the One That I Want
In Vanda’s Room (Pedro Costa)
Innocence
Into the Arms of Strangers: Stories of the Kindertransport
ivansxtc. (Bernard Rose)
Jiyuan qiaohe
Joe Gould’s Secret
Keep the River on Your Right:
Kippur
La captive (Chantal Akerman)
La commune (Paris, 1871) (Peter Watkins)
La Lingua del santo
Last Resort
Les Destinees
Les Savates de Bon Dieu (Jean-Claude Brisseau)
Liam
Light Keeps Me Company
Liulian piao piao
Long Night’s Journey Into Day
Loser (Amy Heckerling)
Lumumba
Maelström
Malèna
Maryam
Merci pour le chocolat (Claude Chabrol)
Mission to Mars (Brian De Palma)
Muri Romani (Jon Jost)
My Dog Skip
Mysterious Object at Noon (Apichatpong Weerasethakul)
Nine Queens
Fantasma
Our Lady of the Assassins
Palavra e Utopia
Panic
Paradise Express (Tikoy Aguiluz)
Paragraph 175
Peppermint Candy (Lee Chang-dong)
Platform (Jia Zhang-Ke)
Proof of Life
Quills
Scarlet Diva (Asia Argento)
Séance (Kiyoshi Kurosawa)
Selon Matthieu
Signs & Wonders
Songcatcher
Space Cowboys (Clint Eastwood)
Suzhou River (Lou Ye)
Tears of the Black Tiger
The Child and the Soldier
The Day I Became a Woman
The Endurance: Shackleton’s Legendary Antarctic Expedition
The Filth and the Fury
The Goddess of 1967
The Heart of the World (Guy Maddin)
The Hundred Steps
The Iron Ladies
The Isle
The Legend of Rita
The Man Who Cried
The Taste of Others (Agnes Jaoui)
The Weight of Water (Kathryn Bigelow)
The Yards (James Gray)
Third World Hero (Mike De Leon)
Time and Tide (Tsui Hark)
Together (Lukas Moodysson)
Two Family House
Urbania (Jon Shear)
Uttara
Virgin Stripped Bare by her Bachelors (Hong Sang-soo)
Waydowntown
What’s Cooking?

Overstreet’s Favorite Films: 2000

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