Comments on: Best of the Decade Derby: Can I Count on You Can Count on Me and other English language films from 2000?

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Wed, 28 Jan 2009 22:11:10 +0000

[...] English language film from 2000 I got a lot of great feedback, and a lot of recommendations from my post pondering the merits of English-language cinema from the year 2000, and if there were any worth [...]

By: alsolikelife

alsolikelife — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 20:59:27 +0000

actually Jesse I was just referring to the year 2000. When I get around to revisiting 2004 you better believe Before Sunset will be in the queue.

By: jesse

jesse — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 21:19:16 +0000

“Before Sunset” better be an exception to your “virtually no English language films” comment! I personally love “House of Mirth,” but I don't see you being particularly taken by it.

-jesse

By: Christianne

Christianne — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 02:53:11 +0000

Most of my own favorite movies of 2000 don't show on the TSPDT list. The only one there is High Fidelity, which I love to death for reasons that have nothing to do with its actual qualities as cinema. After that, I'm partial to Quills, Ginger Snaps, Live Nude Girls Unite, and The Filth and the Fury. I remember liking You Can Count on Me, but I'll be damned if I can remember a single thing about it.

By: Matt Parker

Matt Parker — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 21:37:37 +0000

I love “You Can Count on Me.” And no didn't bring anything new to the medium. It's an expansion of a one-act play. But neither did half of Bergman's films, many of which are recognized cinematic masterpieces. Sometimes films are great because they add something to the cinematic language. And sometimes they're great simply because they do the best with what's already there.

By: Michael Kerpan

Michael Kerpan — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 19:14:09 +0000

I'm afraid I'm not much help on English language films of 2000.

Some other noteworthy 2000 films -- Shinji Aoyama's Eureka, and Makoto Shinozaki's Not Forgotten (never available in English) I would note that there are two possibly excellent 2000 films from Japan that I still have not managed to see -- Kawase's Firefly and Jun Ichikawa's Zawa-zawa Shimokita-sawa.

As to Korea, don't forget Bong's Barking Dogs.

I have a great fondness for To's (and Wai's) Needing you -- but it probably isn't the sort of thing that figures on most people's greatest lists.

Have you seen Ruiz's Comedy of Innocence -- probably my favorite French language film of 2000 -- though Guylaine Dionne's Quebecois film -- The Three Madeleines -- might edge it out. Alas, Dionne's film is impossible to see. When it was shown several years ago at Harvard, Dionne had to find a print and take it to Cambridge herself.

By: Marcy Dermansky

Marcy Dermansky — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 14:19:18 +0000

I find I have to insist on Almost Famous, which gets better and better with repeated viewings.

By: Keith Uhlich

Keith Uhlich — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 12:13:47 +0000

I must INSIST on “The House of Mirth.” It's magnificent. And I'd be happy to provide the DVD and the venue.

By: chad

chad — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 07:45:58 +0000

You Can Count on Me is worth the placement. Also, give George Washington another look.