Best Movies of 2003

Until recently, Scarlett Johansson could have secured herself a second first place finish after Match Point in 2005 but The Triplets of Belleville - an amazing animated french film has displaced her from that honour. Me repeating myself doesn't stop there - Finding Nemo is the third Pixar film to end up in the top five and the fourth to appear in these lists. Tim Burton and the Coen Brothers have also now made two apperances in the top ten.

1. The Triplets of Belleville (Sylvain Chomet)
   
2. Lost In Translation (Sofia Coppola)
   
3. American Splendour (Shari Springer Berman & Robert Pulcini)
   
4. Finding Nemo (Andrew Stanton & Lee Unkrich)
   
5. Shattered Glass (Billy Ray)
   
6. Big Fish (Tim Burton)
   
7. Kitchen Stories (Bent Hamer)
   
8. Intolerable Cruelty (Joel & Ethan Coen)
   
9. Goodbye Lenin! (Wolfgang Becker)
   
10. 21 Grams (Alejandro Inarritu)
    
11. X2: X-Men United (Bryan Singer)
    
12. Matchstick Men (Ridley Scott)
    
13. School of Rock (Richard Linklater)
    
14. Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (Gore Verbinski)
    
15. Bad Santa (Terry Zwigoff)
    

Best Movies of 2007

One thing that obsesses me is the constant battle of ranking my favourite things. So I've decided to embark on a journey of ranking my favourite movies of all time. I'm going to do this at a painfully slow pace - year by year. I'll start with last year - not that this list means much as I've yet to see a lot of 2007 movies. I rarely venture to the theatre and mainly watch movies by renting them on $3 or $1 days at the rental places. I've seen a few though - enough to put together a collection of more than ten movies that I enjoyed last year. So I haven't started too badly.

1. No Country For Old Men (Joel & Ethan Coen)
   
2. Ratatouille (Brad Bird)
   
3. Juno (Jason Reitman)
   
4. Sweeney Todd (Tim Burton)
   
5. There Will Be Blood (Paul Thomas Anderson)
   
6. Eagle vs. Shark (Taika Cohen)
   
7. Planet Terror (Robert Rodriguez)
   
8. Death at a Funeral (Frank Oz)
   
9. Sunshine (Danny Boyle)
   
10. The Bourne Ultimatum (Paul Greengrass)
    
11. Zodiac (David Fincher)