Overstreet’s Favorite Films: 2001

Here is the current (but occasionally updated) list of my favorite films from 2001.

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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Code Unknown*
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
Gosford Park
Spirited Away*
The Gleaners and I*
The Royal Tenenbaums
Amélie (review)
Werckmeister Harmonies*
Lantana
Moulin Rouge!
Mulholland Drive
Waking Life
The Devil’s Backbone
Rivers and Tides: Andy Goldsworthy Working in Time
In the Mood for Love*
Donnie Darko
Zoolander
Flowers of Shanghai* (DVD release)
Metropolis*
Monsoon Wedding*
Ghost World
Time Out
Memento*
A.I. (Artificial Intelligence) (review)
The Circle*
The Widow of St. Pierre*
The Road Home*
What Time Is It There?
In the Bedroom
Last Orders
Monster’s Inc.
Atanarjuat (The Fast Runner)*
The Son’s Room

The Others
The Man Who Wasn’t There
Y Tu Mama Tambien*
Iris
Ocean’s 11
Wit
Heist
Winged Migration
Shrek
The Pledge
Black Hawk Down
Lovely and Amazing
Mostly Martha
The Believer
Training Day
Hearts in Atlantis
The Shipping News
Blow
The Deep End
Thirteen Conversations About One Thing
Jurassic Park III
Bridget Jones’s Diary
Crazy/beautiful
The Cat’s Meow

As-yet Unseen or Unratable Films of 2001

A Song for Martin Ali (Michael Mann) All About Lily Chou-Chou (Shunji Iwai) American Desi Autumn Spring Baby Boy Bad Guy (Kim Ki-duk) Baran Batang West Side (Lav Diaz) Be My Star (Valeska Grisebach) Behind the Sun Bitter Harvest Brief Crossing (Catherine Breillat) Bully (Larry Clark) Cat Soup (Masaaki Yuasa) Chaos Dark Blue World Dog Days Dogtown and Z-Boys Eden Elling Éloge de l’amour (Jean-Luc Godard) Faat Kiné (Ousmane Sembène) Fat Girl (Catherine Breillat) Fate (Zeki Demirkubuz) Harmful Insect (Akihiko Shiota) Hedwig and the Angry Inch (John Cameron Mitchell) Heung gong yau gok hor lei wood His Secret Life (Ferzan Özpetek) i am sam Ichi the Killer (Takashi Miike) I’m Going Home (Manoel de Oliveira) In Praise of Love Inch’Allah dimanche Intacto (Juan Carlos Fresnadillo) Intimacy (Patrice Chéreau) Invincible Joy Ride Kandahar (Mohsen Makhmalbaf) Khaled Kissing Jessica Stein Kwik Stop L.I.E. La cienega (Lucrecia Martel) Lagaan L’Après-midi d’un tortionnaire Late Marriage (Dover Kosashvili) Life as a House Light of My Eyes Loin Lost and Delirious Luna rossa Made Marilyn Monroe: The Final Days Maya Me Without You Mein Stern Millennium Actress (Satoshi Kon) Millennium Mambo (Hou Hsiao-hsien) My Father and I My First Mister No Man’s Land No Such Thing (Hal Hartley) Nowhere in Africa O Operai, contadini Où gît votre sourire enfoui? Paris: XY (Zeka Laplaine) Pauline & Paulette Pistol Opera (Seijun Suzuki) Promises Pulse (Kiyoshi Kurosawa) Quem És Tu? ‘R Xmas (Abel Ferrara) Read My Lips (Jacques Audiard) Roberto Succo (Cedric Kahn) Savage Innocence (Philippe Garrel) Secret Ballot Shaolin Soccer (Stephen Chow) Sobibor, Oct. 14, 1943, 4 p.m. Son of the Bride Southern Comfort Startup.com Storytelling Suchwiin bulmyeong Tape (Richard Linklater) The Center of the World The Crimson Rivers The Diaries of Vaslav Nijinsky The Experiment The Grey Zone The Jesus Trilogy and Coda (Stan Brakhage) The Legend of Suriyothai The Life of Rosa (Chito Rono) The Mad Songs of Fernanda Hussein The Man from Elysian Fields The Navigators The Piano Teacher The Seagull’s Laughter The Sleepy Time Gal The Tailor of Panama The Triumph of Love (Clare Peploe) The Warrior Trembling Before G-D Trouble Every Day (Claire Denis) Va savoir (Jacques Rivette) Visitor Q (Takashi Miike) Wet Hot American Summer (David Wain) Wild Innocence (Philippe Garrel) Zus & Zo

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