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But despite the wild variety among our 5. Best Movies from 2. Bollywood Movies List Released On 2000. The Best Years of Our Lives. There are few films that are classics or films from Hollywood\'s Golden Era in this list. 15 Best Hollywood Movies of The Decade (2000-2010). This list includes 15 best Hollywood films of the decade as decided by the critics and the audience. Over 200,000 Hollywood insiders. A personal best choice of movies, including animated films. There are masters like Martin Scorcese and Lars Von Trier, and relative newcomers like Fernando Meirelles and Anna Boden. There are documentaries, comedies and dramas, as well as animated films and even a super- hero flick. Mirroring a decade of globalism, the filmmakers are from the United States, New Zealand, Taiwan, Germany, Ireland, France, Japan, Canada, Mexico, Denmark, Romania, Thailand, Brazil, and nearly every part of the U. K. Let these be our recommendations for your Netflix queue—or in the case of #2. Personally, after reading the loving descriptions in these pages, I’ve already got films I missed the first time around—like Syndromes and a Century and Beau Travail—on the way.—Josh Jackson, Paste editor- in- chief. The Squid and the Whale (2. Hollywood.com\'s picks for the best movies of all time for your bucket list. Hollywood.com\'s picks for the best movies of all time for your bucket list. Writer/Director: Noah Baumbach Starring: Jeff Daniels, Laura Linney, Jesse Eisenberg, Owen Kline Studio: Samuel Goldwyn Films. Borrowing themes from his previous films—children of failed marriages; characters whose bookish smarts seem to work against them; a floating sense of fatalism—The Squid and the Whale creeps ever closer to Noah Baumbach’s own tempestuous past. His parents’ faltering union isn’t just a detail used to add depth to a certain character. It’s the whole story—a gorgeous, candid portrait of the messy car crash of divorce, from all angles. It is a natural extension of what I have intended and what I feel. I trusted myself more on this one.”—Keenan Mayo. High Fidelity (2. Director: Stephen Frears Writer: Nick Hornby (novel) Stars: John Cusack, Jack Black, Lisa Bonet, Todd Louiso Studio: Touchstone Pictures. Funny, insightful and insanely quotable, High Fidelity plays like an ultra- hip Woody Allen movie. Writer Nick Hornby tapped into the psyche of the 2. John Cusack playing an everyman who retraces his past girlfriend history only to find he let the perfect woman slip through his fingers.—Jeremy Medina. Flight of the Red Balloon (Le voyage du ballon rouge) (2. Writer/Director: Hou Hsiao- Hsien Stars: Juliette Binoche, Hippolyte Giradot Studio: IFC Films. It’s tempting to put the latest movie by Hou Hsiao- hsien into a neat little box. Although it’s not a film for kids, it’s an homage to Albert Lamorisse’s endearing children’s short “The Red Balloon,” and at times it seems as buoyant and aimless as a helium- filled toy. Hou is working in France instead of his usual Taiwan, and with Academy Award- winning actress Juliette Binoche instead of his cast of regulars. This makes the entire project feel like a detour for an artist best known for complex, austere films about Taiwan’s pulsing present and tumultuous history. Lamorisse’s short is about a loner of a boy who has the best of all possible friends, an amazingly reactive balloon, but Hou’s film is a realistic look at the inside of this fantasy, at the modern- day stresses on close- knit families. He slips behind Lamorisse’s facade like the Taiwanese amateur filmmaker who takes a job as Binoche’s nanny, an echo of Hou within his own story; the nanny even tells us how special effects make the balloon move. Since Flight falls at the simple- but- elegant end of Hou’s spectrum, the mysterious and lyrical finale in the Mus. Grizzly Man (2. 00. Writer/Director: Werner Herzog Stars: Timothy Treadwell, Werner Herzog Studio: Lions Gate Films. This pro? le of nature lover Timothy Treadwell, who unwisely tried to live among wild bears in Alaska until he was devoured, cuts a Herzogian swath across the hillside: A man attempts to ? Herzog puts it, “chaos, hostility and murder.” Looming over the ? Treadwell’s demise but also an audio recording of the tragedy, taped inadvertently by the video camera in Treadwell’s tent. Herzog tastefully omits it from the ? You only see me from behind, listening to it with earphones. The interesting thing is that Jewel Palovak who was working with Treadwell and living with Treadwell for 2. The moment I heard the tape it was instantly clear: Only over my dead body is this tape going to end up in the movie. I’m not into doing a snuff ? I have to respect the dignity and privacy of two individuals’ deaths.”—Robert Davis. Iraq in Fragments (2. Director: James Longley Studio: HBO Documentary Films. Applying the full spectrum of cinematic technique to a nonfiction film, Longley made one of the most striking movies this year, an immersive view of life in Iraq; a record of opinions and faces from across the country, all captured at close range.—Robert Davis. Whale Rider (2. 00. Director: Niki Caro Writers: Witi Ihimaera (novele), Niki Caro (screenplay) Stars: Keisha Castle- Huges, Rawiri Paratene Studio: Newmarket Films Whale Rider tells the story of a young girl, Paikea, who lives in New Zealand with a stern grandfather who, apparently, needs to get modern. Every scene tells us this and gives us an opportunity to tsk- tsk his staunch rejection of his granddaughter who he believes, despite her lineage, can’t inherit the leadership of this Maori village because of her gender. She’ll need to convince her grandfather she can lead just as well as the boys can, and she’ll need to do it before the end of the movie. But just when you think you have the film pegged, its sincerity manages to break through the thin characterizations and age- old plot. Young actress Keisha Castle- Hughes gives Paikea a richly expressive voice, and the turning point is an astonishingly heartfelt speech she delivers at a school program for parents. Castle- Hughes’ grace and beauty on the screen is probably the main reason Whale Rider became a surprise art- house hit.—Robert Davis. Hotel Rwanda (2. 00. Director: Terry George Writers: Keir Pearson, Terry George Stars: Don Cheadle, Sophie Okonedo, Nick Nolte, Joaquin Phoenix Studio: Lions Gate. While Hotel Rwanda attempts to document the country’s genocide in 1. Rusesabagina (played by Don Cheadle), who gave refuge to hundreds of fleeing Tutsis. Calling in dozens of favors with his extensive network of contacts, he was able to hold the Hutu extremists (the Interahamwe militia) at bay, until the Tutsi rebels drove the Hutu from power. Cheadle portrays Rusesabagina as an efficient manager who cares deeply about his family and the people in he looks after It’s a gripping film that bears witness to both a historic tragedy and one man’s bravery. In America (2. 00. Director: Jim Sheridan Writers: Jim, Naomi and Kristen Sheridan Stars: Paddy Considine, Dijmon Hounsou Studio: Fox Searchlight Pictures. Approximately one minute of this film is all it takes to fall in love with the two girls in the lead roles (real- life sisters Sarah and Emma Bolger). Four minutes later, you’re in love with the parents (Samantha Morton and Paddy Considine), too. This Irish family is recovering from tragedy by immigrating to the tenements of New York. Their attempts to mend their broken hearts and scarred psyches after the death of their son—with the help of AIDS- stricken Djimon Hounsou, and a new baby—is heartrending, but the wide- eyed candor of the girls and writer- director Jim Sheridan’s sense of humor save it from being maudlin.—Emily Riemer. The Last King of Scotland (2. Director: Kevin Macdonald Writers: Giles Foden (novel), Peter Morgan and Jeremy Brock (screenplay) Stars: Forrest Whitaker, James Mc. Avoy Studio: Fox Searchlight Pictures. The brutality of this film is at times difficult to bear, but harder still would be tearing your eyes away from Forrest Whitaker, who is fully inhabited by the charismatic monster Idi Amin. Director Kevin Macdonald pulls us gradually into the world of the Ugandan dictator through Amin’s Scottish personal physician, making for a Faustian seduction with horrific returns.—Josh Jackson. L’Enfant (2. 00. 6)Writer/Directors: Jean- Pierre Dardenne, Luc Dardenne Stars: J. But the Dardennes love them anyway, telling their story in the unvarnished style that’s become their trademark.—Robert Davis.
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