Overstreet’s Favorite Films: 2003

Here is the current (but occasionally updated) list of my favorite films from 2003.

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.**

Finding Nemo
The Station Agent
Lost in Translation
The Five Obstructions*
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
Dogville*
Time of the Wolf*
The Story of the Weeping Camel*
Café Lumiere
Pieces of April
Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World
Last Life in the Universe
X2: X-Men United
American Splendor (review)
The Triplets of Bellville
The Best of Youth*
Goodbye, Dragon Inn*
Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl
Whale Rider
The Fog of War
Kill Bill, Vol. 1
Lost in La Mancha

Lost in La Mancha
I Capture the Castle
All the Real Girls
A Mighty Wind (review)
The Saddest Music in the World
Crimson Gold
Thirteen
Down With Love
Matchstick Men
Touching the Void
Coffee and Cigarettes
The Dreamers
Cold Mountain
The Barbarian Invsions
Intolerable Cruelty
Open Range
Girl with a Pearl Earring
Spring Summer Fall Winter…and Spring
Shattered Glass
Holes
Peter Pan
The Matrix Revolutions
House of Sand and Fog
The Human Stain
Levity
Monster
Swimming Pool
Love Actually
Northfork

As-yet Unseen or Unratable Films of 2003

7:35 in the Morning A Tale of Two Sisters (Kim Ji-woon) A Talking Picture (Manoel de Oliveira) Alila At Five in the Afternoon Baadasssss! Baramnan gajok Basic (John McTiernan) Bon Voyage Bright Future Bright Young Things Broadway: The Golden Age, by the Legends Who Were There Bukowski: Born into This Cinema 16 Code 46 Cowards Bend the Knee (Guy Maddin) Deliver Us from Eva Destino Dopamine Doppelganger (Kiyoshi Kurosawa) Elephant (Gus Van Sant) End of the Century Evil Father and Son (Alexander Sokurov) Ghosts of the Abyss Girlhood Go Further Good Bye, Lenin! Good Morning, Night Gozu (Takashi Miike) Head of State Identity Il Miracolo I’ll Sleep When I’m Dead (Mike Hodges) I’m Not Scared (Gabriele Salvatores) Imagining Argentina Intermission Japanese Story Jesus, You Know (Ulrich Seidl) Johnny English Kitchen Stories (Bent Hamer) Kôhî jikô La Petite Lili Le Cerf-volant Les Sentiments Lian zhi feng jing Looney Tunes: Back in Action Los Angeles Plays Itself (Thom Andersen) Memories of Murder (Bong Joon-ho) Monsieur Ibrahim My Architect: A Son’s Journey My Flesh and Blood My Life Without Me No Rest for the Brave (Alain Guiraudie) Not on the Lips (Alain Resnais) Noviembre Off the Map Open Water Osama Owning Mahowny Playing ‘In the Company of Men’ (Arnaud Desplechin) Pornografia Raja (Jacques Doillon) Rhinoceros Eyes Rosenstrasse Runaway Jury S-21 (Rithy Panh) Saraband Schultze Gets the Blues Segreti di stato Shara (Naomi Kawase) Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas Sjaj u ocima Son frère (Patrice Chereau) Stuck on You (Bobby and Peter Farrelly) Take My Eyes Tarnation (Jonathan Caouette) The Agronomist The Animation Show The Blind Swordsman: Zatôichi The Company (Robert Altman) The Cooler The Corporation (Mark Achbar and Jennifer Abbott) The Far Side of the Moon (Robert Lepage) The Flower of Evil (Claude Chabrol) The Forest for the Trees (Maren Ade) The Hunted (William Friedkin) The Memory of a Killer The Mother The Rundown The Same River Twice The Shape of Things The Story of Marie and Julien (Jacques Rivette) Timeline (Richard Donner) Tokyo Godfathers Tom Dowd & the Language of Music Toutes ces belle promesses (Jean-Paul Civeyrac) Tupac: Resurrection Twentynine Palms (Bruno Dumont) Two Cars, One Night Untold Scandal (Lee Je-yong) Vai e Vem (João César Monteiro) Vibrator (Ryuichi Hiroki) Voices of a Distant Star (Makoto Shinkai and Steven Foster) Waiting for the Clouds (Yesim Ustaoglu) Wasp West of the Tracks (Wang Bing) Zatoichi (Takeshi Kitano) Zelary Zero Day (Ben Coccio)

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