Top Ten: 1998

Ranking the Decades

A Year in Film List + Image Gallery

Lovers of the Arctic Circle [Julio Medem, 1998]:

The Truman Show [Peter Weir, 1998]:

The Idiots [Lars von Trier, 1998]:

Buffalo '66 [Vincent Gallo, 1998]:

Festen (The Celebration) [Thomas Vinterberg, 1998]:

Secret Defense [Jacques Rivette, 1998]:

Bullet Ballet [Shin'ya Tsukamoto, 1998]:

The Apple [Samira Makhmalbaf, 1998]:

Sombre [Philippe Grandrieux, 1998]:

Ring [Hideo Nakata, 1998]:

Above, arranged in order of preference, my personal top-ten best films of the year (from what I've seen), accurate at the time of writing.

Top Ten: 2001

Ranking the Decades

A Year in Film List + Image Gallery

Millennium Actress [Satoshi Kon, 2001]:

In Praise of Love (Éloge de l'amour) [Jean-Luc Godard, 2001]:

Mulholland Drive [David Lynch, 2001]:

A.I. Artificial Intelligence [Steven Spielberg, 2001]:

Avalon [Mamoru Oshii, 2001]:

Pulse (Kairo) [Kiyoshi Kurosawa, 2001]:

Millennium Mambo [Hou Hsiao-Hsien, 2001]:

Sex and Lucía [Julio Medem, 2001]:

Monsters, Inc. [Pete Docter & David Silverman, 2001]:

The Devil's Backbone [Guillermo del Toro, 2001]:

Above, arranged in order of preference, my personal top-ten best films of the year (from what I've seen), accurate at the time of writing.