{"id":82742,"date":"2012-05-29T18:21:01","date_gmt":"2012-05-30T01:21:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lookingcloser.org\/?p=79201"},"modified":"2012-05-29T18:21:01","modified_gmt":"2012-05-30T01:21:01","slug":"2000-overstreets-favorite-films","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/lookingcloser\/2012\/05\/2000-overstreets-favorite-films\/","title":{"rendered":"2000: Overstreet's Favorite Films"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

Here is the current (but occasionally updated) list of my favorite films from 2000.<\/p>\n

In order to understand the purpose and meaning of this list, please read my introduction to the Looking Closer Favorite Films lists here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u2022<\/p>\n

2000<\/h2>\n

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    \n
  1. Code Unknown*<\/span><\/li>\n
  2. Yi-Yi (A One and a Two)<\/span><\/li>\n
  3. Almost Famous (review<\/a>)
    \n<\/span><\/li>\n
  4. The Gleaners and I*<\/span><\/li>\n
  5. In the Mood for Love<\/span>*<\/li>\n
  6. Werckmeister Harmonies*<\/span><\/li>\n
  7. You Can Count On Me<\/span><\/li>\n
  8. Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon<\/span><\/li>\n
  9. The Emperor\u2019s New Groove<\/span><\/li>\n
  10. Italian for Beginners*
    \n<\/span><\/li>\n
  11. The Road Home*<\/span><\/li>\n
  12. The Circle*<\/span><\/li>\n
  13. The Widow of St. Pierre*<\/span><\/li>\n
  14. Songs from the Second Floor*<\/span><\/li>\n
  15. High Fidelity<\/span><\/li>\n
  16. Wonder Boys<\/span><\/li>\n
  17. Best in Show<\/span><\/li>\n
  18. Unbreakable<\/span><\/li>\n
  19. Memento*<\/span><\/li>\n
  20. Sexy Beast<\/span><\/li>\n
  21. Erin Brockovich<\/span><\/li>\n
  22. George Washington<\/span><\/li>\n
  23. Pollock<\/span><\/li>\n
  24. The House of Mirth<\/span><\/li>\n
  25. X-Men<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
      \n
    • O Brother, Where Art Thou<\/span><\/li>\n
    • Amores Perros*<\/span><\/li>\n
    • Dancer in the Dark*<\/span><\/li>\n
    • Chicken Run<\/span><\/li>\n
    • Divided We Fall<\/span><\/li>\n
    • The Vertical Ray of the Sun*<\/span><\/li>\n
    • The Million Dollar Hotel<\/span><\/li>\n
    • With a Friend Like Harry\u2026<\/span><\/li>\n
    • The King is Alive<\/span><\/li>\n
    • State and Main<\/span><\/li>\n
    • American Movie*<\/span><\/li>\n
    • Cast Away<\/span><\/li>\n
    • Thirteen Days<\/span><\/li>\n
    • The Dish*<\/span><\/li>\n
    • Tully<\/span><\/li>\n
    • Billy Eliot<\/span><\/li>\n
    • Traffic<\/span><\/li>\n
    • Bread and Tulips<\/span><\/li>\n
    • Chocolat<\/span><\/li>\n
    • Hamlet (Michael Almereyda)<\/span><\/li>\n
    • Return to Me<\/span><\/li>\n
    • Under the Sand<\/span><\/li>\n
    • Shaft<\/span><\/li>\n
    • Shadow of the Vampire<\/span><\/li>\n
    • The Way of the Gun<\/span><\/li>\n
    • Gladiator<\/span><\/li>\n
    • Requiem for a Dream<\/span><\/li>\n
    • Nurse Betty<\/span><\/li>\n
    • Timecode<\/span><\/li>\n
    • Girlfight<\/span><\/li>\n
    • Small Time Crooks<\/span><\/li>\n
    • American Psycho<\/span><\/li>\n
    • Pitch Black<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
      As-yet Unseen or Unratable Films of 2000
      \n101 Reykjav\u00edk<\/span>
      \n A Modern Cannibal Tale<\/span>
      \n A Time for Drunken Horses<\/span>
      \n Ali Zaoua, prince de la rue<\/span>
      \n As I Was Moving Ahead Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty (Jonas Mekas)<\/span>
      \n Bamboozled (Spike Lee)<\/span>
      \n Battle Royale<\/span>
      \n Beat (Gary Walkow)<\/span>
      \n Before Night Falls<\/span>
      \n Blackboards<\/span>
      \n Blackboards (Samira Makhmalbaf)<\/span>
      \n Boiler Room<\/span>
      \n Bread and Roses<\/span>
      \n Brother (Takeshi Kitano)<\/span>
      \n Bruiser (George A. Romero)<\/span>
      \n Calle 54<\/span>
      \n Catastrophe (David Mamet)<\/span>
      \n Chopper (Andrew Dominik)<\/span>
      \n Chuck & Buck<\/span>
      \n Comedy of Innocence<\/span>
      \n Dark Days<\/span>
      \n Demons (Mario O\u2019Hara)<\/span>
      \n Denti<\/span>
      \n Devils on the Doorstep (Jiang Wen)<\/span>
      \n Diamond Men<\/span>
      \n Dinosaur<\/span>
      \n Diva Dolorosa<\/span>
      \n Dr T and the Women<\/span>
      \n Esther Kahn (Arnaud Desplechin)<\/span>
      \n Eureka (Shinji Aoyama)<\/span>
      \n Everybody\u2019s Famous!<\/span>
      \n Everything Put Together<\/span>
      \n Faithless (Liv Ullman)<\/span>
      \n Freedom<\/span>
      \n Gangster No. 1 (Paul McGuigan)<\/span>
      \n Ginger Snaps<\/span>
      \n Ginger Snaps (John Fawcett)<\/span>
      \n Il Partigiano Johnny<\/span>
      \n I\u2019m the One That I Want<\/span>
      \n In Vanda\u2019s Room (Pedro Costa)<\/span>
      \n Innocence<\/span>
      \n Into the Arms of Strangers: Stories of the Kindertransport<\/span>
      \n ivansxtc. (Bernard Rose)<\/span>
      \n Jiyuan qiaohe<\/span>
      \n Joe Gould\u2019s Secret<\/span>
      \n Keep the River on Your Right:<\/span>
      \n Kippur<\/span>
      \n La captive (Chantal Akerman)<\/span>
      \n La commune (Paris, 1871) (Peter Watkins)<\/span>
      \n La Lingua del santo<\/span>
      \n Last Resort<\/span>
      \n Les Destinees<\/span>
      \n Les Savates de Bon Dieu (Jean-Claude Brisseau)<\/span>
      \n Liam<\/span>
      \n Light Keeps Me Company<\/span>
      \n Liulian piao piao<\/span>
      \n Long Night\u2019s Journey Into Day<\/span>
      \n Loser (Amy Heckerling)<\/span>
      \n Lumumba<\/span>
      \n Maelstr\u00f6m<\/span>
      \n Mal\u00e8na<\/span>
      \n Maryam<\/span>
      \n Merci pour le chocolat (Claude Chabrol)<\/span>
      \n Mission to Mars (Brian De Palma)<\/span>
      \n Muri Romani (Jon Jost)<\/span>
      \n My Dog Skip<\/span>
      \n Mysterious Object at Noon (Apichatpong Weerasethakul)<\/span>
      \n Nine Queens<\/span>
      \n Fantasma<\/span>
      \n Our Lady of the Assassins<\/span>
      \n Palavra e Utopia<\/span>
      \n Panic<\/span>
      \n Paradise Express (Tikoy Aguiluz)<\/span>
      \n Paragraph 175<\/span>
      \n Peppermint Candy (Lee Chang-dong)<\/span>
      \n Platform (Jia Zhang-Ke)<\/span>
      \n Proof of Life<\/span>
      \n Quills<\/span>
      \n Scarlet Diva (Asia Argento)<\/span>
      \n S\u00e9ance (Kiyoshi Kurosawa)<\/span>
      \n Selon Matthieu<\/span>
      \n Signs & Wonders<\/span>
      \n Songcatcher<\/span>
      \n Space Cowboys (Clint Eastwood)<\/span>
      \n Suzhou River (Lou Ye)<\/span>
      \n Tears of the Black Tiger<\/span>
      \n The Child and the Soldier<\/span>
      \n The Day I Became a Woman<\/span>
      \n The Endurance: Shackleton\u2019s Legendary Antarctic Expedition<\/span>
      \n The Filth and the Fury<\/span>
      \n The Goddess of 1967<\/span>
      \n The Heart of the World (Guy Maddin)<\/span>
      \n The Hundred Steps<\/span>
      \n The Iron Ladies<\/span>
      \n The Isle<\/span>
      \n The Legend of Rita<\/span>
      \n The Man Who Cried<\/span>
      \n The Taste of Others (Agnes Jaoui)<\/span>
      \n The Weight of Water (Kathryn Bigelow)<\/span>
      \n The Yards (James Gray)<\/span>
      \n Third World Hero (Mike De Leon)<\/span>
      \n Time and Tide (Tsui Hark)<\/span>
      \n Together (Lukas Moodysson)<\/span>
      \n Two Family House<\/span>
      \n Urbania (Jon Shear)<\/span>
      \n Uttara<\/span>
      \n Virgin Stripped Bare by her Bachelors (Hong Sang-soo)<\/span>
      \n Waydowntown<\/span>
      \n What\u2019s Cooking?<\/span><\/h6>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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