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Today, the BBC unveiled its list of the 100 greatest films of the 21st century, and No. 1 is Lynch’s 2001 opus, Mulholland Drive. The Oscar-nominated neo-noir mystery topped the likes of Wong Kar-Wai’s In the Mood for Love, Paul Thomas Anderson’s There Will Be Blood, Hayao Miyazaki’s Spirited Away, and Richard Linklater’s Boyhood.
Here’s how they put the whole thing together:
"For our poll to determine the 100 greatest American films, we surveyed 62 film critics from around the world. This time, we received responses from 177 – from every continent except Antarctica. Some are newspaper or magazine reviewers, others write primarily for websites; academics and cinema curators are well-represented too.
For the purposes of this poll we have decided that a list of the greatest films of the 21st Century should include the year 2000, even though we recognise that there was no ‘Year Zero’ and that 2001 is mathematically the start of the century. Not only did we all celebrate the turn of the millennium on 31 December 1999, but the year 2000 was a landmark in global cinema, and, in particular, saw the emergence of new classics from Asia like nothing we had ever seen before."
Not that we’re counting or anything, but the directors with the most films on the list include Paul Thomas Anderson, Wes Anderson, the Coen Brothers, and Christopher Nolan.
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The top 10:
10. No Country for Old Men (Joel and Ethan Coen, 2007)
09. A Separation (Asghar Farhadi, 2011)
08. Yi Yi: A One and a Two (Edward Yang, 2000)
07. The Tree of Life (Terrence Malick, 2011)
06. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (Michel Gondry, 2004)
05. Boyhood (Richard Linklater, 2014)
04. Spirited Away (Hayao Miyazaki, 2001)
03. There Will Be Blood (Paul Thomas Anderson, 2007)
02. In the Mood for Love (Wong Kar-wai, 2000)
01. Mulholland Drive (David Lynch, 2001)
Read more:
http://consequenceofsound.net/2016/0...-21st-century/
