Best Movies of 2002

Those first four films on the list are so deliciously weird, 2002 certainly provided some excellent "weird" films that I love so much. Oscar winner Chicago rounds out that top five. Adaptation is the film that made me interested in film, before that I was a fairly apathetic film viewer.

Adaptation and Confessions of a Dangerous Mind makes the second and third Charlie Kaufman penned film to make the top five. George Clooney and Paul Thomas Anderson also make their second apperance in the top five as directors.

1. Adaptation (Spike Jonze)
2. Secretary (Steven Shainberg)
   
3. Punch-Drunk Love (Paul Thomas Anderson)
4. Confessions of a Dangerous Mind (George Clooney)
5. Chicago (Rob Thomas)
6. Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (Peter Jackson)
7. City of God (Fernando Meirelles & Katia Lund)
   
8. Catch Me If You Can (Steven Spielberg)
9. The Hours (Stephen Daldry)
   
10. The Bourne Identity (Doug Liman)
    
11. Dirty Pretty Things (Stephen Frears)
    
12. One Hour Photo (Mark Romanek)
13. Ice Age (Chris Wedge & Carlos Saldanha)
    

Best Movies of 2005

Finding a list of movies was a bit harder for 2005 than it was for 2006. Though I haven't seen the most popular film at the Oscars that year: Brokeback Mountain or any foreign film it seems. Nevertheless...

1. Match Point (Woody Allen)
2. Serenity (Joss Whedon)
3. Me & You & Everyone We Know (Miranda July)
4. Good Night & Good Luck (George Clooney)
5. Sin City (Robert Rodrigeuz & Frank Miller)
6. Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit (Nick Park & Steve Box)
7. Batman Begins (Christopher Nolan)
   
8. Capote (Bennett Miller)
   
9. The Squid & The Whale (Noah Baumbach)
   
10. The Hitchiker's Guide to the Galaxy (Garth Jennings)
    

Top Movie of 2010?

I'm going to make a bold useless prediction right now. The Yiddish Policemen's Union is going to be the best movie of 2010.

Fresh off watching the awesome No Country For Old Men, I was reading up on the Coen Brother's next film: Burn After Reading (trailer below - looks promising) when I found out that a couple of projects down the line, the Coen Brothers intend to adapt Michael Chabon's The Yiddish Policemen's Union which I'm in the middle of reading. I must say, that this is a match made in heaven - I was thinking as I was reading how perfect it will be if the Coen Brothers made a movie from it - it's scheduled to be released in 2010 but knowing reality will probably be delayed - especially as two of their movies will be released before we get to see this. This is one project I'm excited about.