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?

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