These Films Will Be Able To Drink Next Year

 Okay, Jesse Walker's top ten movie list is now back to 2003:

The Perpetual Three-Dot Column (jessewalker.blogspot.com)

Here's his top ten:

1. The Wire (season 2)

2. Tarnation

3. The Saddest Music In The World

4. Osama

5. Lost In Translation

6. Saraband

7. Kill Bill: Vol. 1

8. Good Bye Lenin!

9. Looney Tunes: Back In Action

10. The Same River Twice

My biggest disagreement with Jesse is how TV shows keep popping up on his movie lists.  The Wire was a great show (even season 2), but it shouldn't be here.

I can see Tarnation and The Saddest Music In The World on this list.  Haven't seen Osama, Saraband or The Same River Twice. Jesse says the last is what The Big Chill was trying to be.  I thought that was Return Of The Secaucus Seven. (And I guess TBC won't make his 1983 list.)

It's Sofia Coppola's only big hit, but I don't get Lost In Translation. (If we're still doing this in ten years, we'll find out what Jesse thinks of Priscilla.)

While they have some cool set pieces, the Kill Bill films are far from my favorite Tarantino (and I like Volume 2 better).

Good Bye Lenin! is fine.  Looney Tunes is okay, but not much more.

Here are Jesse's honorable mentions:

11. The Triplets Of Belleville

12. Swimming Pool

13. The Agronomist

14. Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter...and Spring

15. A Mighty Wind

16. Capturing The Friedmans

17. All The Real Girls

18. Hurl

19. My Architect

20. Cunnilingus In North Korea

11 might make my top ten.  12, 14, 15, 19 are all worthy of the top twenty. Haven't seen 13, 17, 18 or 20. 16 is good, and I was recently thinking about it, since I saw Subject, a documentary that looks at what it's like to be a subject in a documentary.

Other films that would make my top ten (or twenty):

American Splendor

The Barbarian Invasions

Elephant

Oldboy

The Station Agent

The Wild Parrots Of Telegraph Hill

Other good films from the year:

Bright Young Things, Broadway: The Golden Age, Coffee And Cigarettes (parts of it), Dogville, Finding Nemo, The Five Obstructions, Freaky Friday, Girl With A Pearl Earring, Japanese Story, Kitchen Stories, Pieces Of April, School Of Rock, Sky High

Other films of note:

2 Fast 2 Furious, 21 Grams, Aileen: Life And Death Of A Serial Killer, Alex & Emma, American Wedding, Anger Management, Anything Else, Baadasssss!, Bad Santa, Basic, The Battle Of Shaker Heights, Battle Royale II, Big Fish. Breakfast With Hunter, Bringing Down The House, The Brown Bunny, Bruce Almighty, Bulletproof Monk, Calendar Girls, Casa De Los Babys, The Cat In The Hat, Charlie’s Angels: Full Throttle, Cheaper By The Dozen, Code 46, The Company, The Cooler, The Core, D.E.B.S., Daddy Day Care, Danny Deckchair, Dickie Roberts: Former Child Star, Le Divorce, Down With Love, The Dreamers, Duplex, Elf, The Fog Of War, Freddy V. Jason, From Justin To Kelly, Ghosts Of The Abyss, Gigli, Grimm, Guru, The Haunted Mansion, The Hebrew Hammer, Holes, Hollywood Homicide, House Of 1000 Corpses, House Of Sand And Fog, How To Deal, How To Lose A Guy In 10 Days, Hulk, The Human Stain, Identity, In The Cut, The In-Laws, Intermission, Intolerable Cruelty, The Italian Job, Johnny English, Ju-on: The Grudge 2, Just Married, Kangaroo Jack, Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle Of Life, The Last Samurai, The Last Supper, The League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen, Levity, The Life Of David Gale, Lord Of The Rings: The Return Of The King, Love Actually, Madeleine, Malibu’s Most Wanted, Mambo Italiano, Masked And Anonymous, Master And Commander: The Far Side Of The World, Matchstick Men, The Matrix Reloaded, The Matrix Revolutions, Mayor Of The Sunset Strip, The Medallion, Melvin Goes To Dinner, The Missing, Monsieur Ibrahim, Mystic River, Northfork, Old School, Once Upon A Time In Mexico, Open Range, Open Water, Out Of Time, Owning Mahowny, Party Monster, Pauly Shore Is Dead, Paycheck, Peter Pan, Pirates Of The Caribbean: The Curse Of The Black Pearl, Radio, The Real Cancun, The Reckoning, The Recruit, Robot Stories, The Room, Rugrats, Runaway Jury, Saw, Seabiscuit, Secondhand Lions, Shanghai Knights, The Singing Detective, The Sleeping Dictionary, Something’s Gotta Give, Spy Kids 3-D, The Statement, Stealing Rembrandt, Step Into Liquid, Stuck On You, S.W.A.T., Sylvia, Tears Of The Sun, Terminator 3, The Man Of The Year, Thirteen, Timeline, Touch & Go, Twentynine Palms, Under The Tuscan Sun, The United States Of Leland, Uptown Girls, Veronica Guerin, View From The Top, What A Girl Wants, Wonderland, The Yes Men, Young Adam