Overstreet’s Favorite Films: 2002

Here is the current (but occasionally updated) list of my favorite films from 2002.

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

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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.**

The Son*
Punch-drunk Love
Stevie*
In America*
Hero*
Naked*
The Pianist
The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
Distant*
Italian for Beginners*
The Rookie
28 Days Later…* (review)
Dirty Pretty Things*
Catch Me If You Can
Adaptation (review)
Spellbound*
Whale Rider
To Be and To Have
Stone Reader*
The Quiet American
The Man on the Train
Infernal Affairs*
The Bourne Identity
City of God*
Russian Ark
Personal Velocity: Three Portraits

The Lady and the Duke*
Signs
Gangs of New York
Bus 174
Far from Heaven
The Man Without a Past
Springtime in a Small Town
25th Hour
About a Boy
Sunshine State
In This World
The Hours
Ice Age
The Secret Lives of Dentists
Bowling for Columbine
OT: Our Town
Changing Lanes
Derrida
Frida
Raising Victor Vargas
I Am Trying to Break Your Heart
Insomnia
Lilo and Stitch
Morvern Callar
Minority Report
All or Nothing
8 Women
Spider-man
Star Wars, Episode Two: Attack of the Clones
Max
Panic Room
Dracula: Pages from a Virgin’s Diary
Rabbit-Proof Fence
Road to Perdition
Roger Dodger
Ripley’s Game
The Good Girl
Enemy at the Gates
The Truth About Charlie
24 Hour Party People
Solaris (dir. Soderbergh)

As-yet Unseen or Unratable Films of 2002

*Corpus Callosum Almost Peaceful An Amazing Couple Ararat Balseros Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress Bear’s Kiss Below (David Twohy) Bend It Like Beckham Better Luck Tomorrow Blind Spot: Hitler’s Secretary Blissfully Yours (Apichatpong Weerasethakul) Blood Work (Clint Eastwood) Bloody Sunday (Paul Greengrass) Blue Car Carnage for the Destroyer Charlotte Sometimes Comedian Confessions of a Dangerous Mind (George Clooney) Daughter from Danang Decasia (Bill Morrison) demonlover (Olivier Assayas) Devdas (Sanjay Leela Bhansali) Divine Intervention Dolls (Takeshi Kitano) Elsker dig for evigt Femme Fatale (Brian De Palma) Friday Night (Claire Denis) Führer Ex Funny Ha Ha (Andrew Bujalski) Gerry He Loves Me, He Loves Me Not House of Fools In My Skin (Marina de Van) Irreversible Japon (Carlos Reygadas) Jealousy is My Middle Name (Park Chan-ok) Ken Park (Larry Clark) Killing Me Softly (Chen Kaige) La Forza del passato Les Chemins de l’oued Lilya 4-ever (Lukas Moodysson) Love Liza Manito May (Lucky McKee) Meili shiguang Mondays in the Sun Mother Ghost My Mother’s Smile (Marco Bellocchio) My Sister Maria Nearest to Heaven Nha fala Nicholas Nickleby Oasis (Lee Chang-dong) On the Run Only the Strong Survive Porn Theater (Jacques Nolot) Prisoner of Paradise Pumpkin Real Women Have Curves Reflections of Evil (Damon Packard) Safe Conduct Secret Things (Jean-Claude Brisseau) Secretary (Steven Shainberg) Sex is Comedy (Catherine Breillat) Skins Standing in the Shadows of Motown Suddenly Sweet Sixteen Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance (Park Chan-wook) Talk to Her Tangos volés Ten (Abbas Kiarostami) The Crime of Padre Amaro The Dangerous Lives of Altar Boys The Eye The Good Thief (Neil Jordan) The Healer The Kid Stays in the Picture The Uncertainty Principle (Manoel de Oliveira) The Weather Underground Together (Chen Kaige) Turning Gate (Hong Sang-soo) Twilight Samurai (Yôji Yamada) Twin Sisters Un Viaggio chiamato amore Velocità massima White Oleander XX/XY

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