2003 Film List - Page 9

Dana Fillhart · 09-13-2003, 12:57 PM

Updated my list with Once Upon a Time in Mexico, 85%, and Cabin Fever, 80%.

Dana Fillhart · 09-13-2003, 11:41 PM

Added to my list the beautiful gem of a film, Whale Rider (90%), followed by the filthiest piece of dreck I've seen in about 2 years, House of 1000 Corpses (40%).

Brook K · 09-14-2003, 04:47 AM

Daredevil - WEAK in basically every respect. Easily the worst of the new comic movies (haven't seen Hulk yet). D+

Once Upon A Time In Mexico - I didn't find it hard to follow but there were definitely some strange edits and obviously missing pieces. Depp is hilarious and gets all the good lines, making Banderas almost the secondary player. A few good action scenes but beyond Depp, the movie is very short on characterization. I liked it, but definitely the least of the trilogy. B-

Edwin Pereyra · 09-14-2003, 09:15 AM

Updated with Robert Rodriguez's Once Upon A Time In Mexico.

~Edwin

Eric Howell · 09-15-2003, 12:30 AM

Planned criteria is first screening Canada/USA:

The list:
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The 2003 list(alphabetically):
Film	Director	Year	Country	Rating(of 10)
11:14	Greg Marcks	2003	USA	7
21 Grams	Alejandro González Iñárritu	2003	USA	7
28 Days Later	Danny Boyle	2002	UK	6+
A Good Lawyer's Wife	Im Sang-soo	2003	South Korea	6
A Nation Without Women	Manish Jha	2003	India	6
A Problem With Fear	Gary Burns	2003	Canada	5+
All the Real Girls	David Gordon Green	2003	USA	6+
Animatrix	-	-	-	7
At Five in the Afternoon	Samira Makhmalbaf	2003	Iran	7
Bad Boys II	Michael Bay	2003	USA	6-
Bright Future	Kiyoshi Kurosawa	2002	Japan	6
Bruce Almighty	Tom Shadyac	2003	USA	6
Casa de los Babys	John Sayles	2003	USA	7
Code 46	Michael Winterbottom	2003	UK	5
Coffee & Cigarettes	Jim Jarmusch	2003	USA	8
Company, The	Robert Altman	2003	USA	5
Corporation, The	Mark Achbar, Jennifer Abbott	2003	Canada	7+
Cypher	Vincenzo Natali	2002	USA	6+
Dallas 362	Scott Caan	2003	USA	6
Daredevil	Mark Steven Johnson	2003	USA	5
Down With Love	Peyton Reed	2003	USA	7
Elephant	Gus Van Sant	2003	USA	7
Evil	Mikael Håfström	2003	Sweeden	7
Finding Nemo	Andrew Stanton, Lee Unkrich	2003	USA	9+
Flyerman	Jeff Stephenson, Jason Tan	2003	Canada	5+
Gozu	Takashi Miike	2003	Japan	6
Grudge, The	Takashi Shimizu	2002	Japan	8
Haute Tension	Alexandre Aja	2003	France	6+
He Loves me, He Loves Me Not	Laetitia Colombani	2002	France	6
Hero	Yimou Zhang	2002	China	7+
Holes	Andrew Davis	2002	USA	7
How to Get the Man's Foot Outta Your Ass	Mario Van Peebles	2003	USA	7
Hulk	Ang Lee	2003	USA	6
Hunted, The	William Friedkin	2003	USA	6
I Love Your Work	Adam Goldberg	2003	USA	5+
Identity	James Mangold	2003	USA	6
Intolerable Cruelty	Coen Bros	2003	USA	8
Italian Job, The	F. Gary Gray	2003	USA	6
Kill Bill Vol. 1	Quentin Tarantino	2003	USA	8
Last Life in the Universe	Pen-ek Ratanaruang	2003	Thailand	8
Le Temps du loup	Michael Haneke	2003	France	6-
Lord of the Rings: Return of the King	Peter Jackson	2003	USA	7+
Lost in Translation	Sofia Coppola	2003	USA	8
Matchstick Men	Ridley Scott	2003	USA	7
Matrix 2: Reloaded	Andy Wachowski, Larry Wachowski	2003	USA	6-
Matrix 3: Still Reloadin	Andy Wachowski, Larry Wachowski	2003	USA	6-
Mighty Wind	Christopher Guest	2003	USA	8
My Sassy Girl	Jae-young Kwak	2001	South Korea	8
Nine Souls	Toshiaki Toyoda	2003	Japan	7
Nothing	Vincenzo Natali	2003	Canada	7+
Ong-Bak Muay Thai Warrior	Prachya Pinkaew	2003	Thailand	7+
Out of Time	Carl Franklin	2003	USA	6
Owning Mahowny	Richard Kwietniowski	2003	Canada	5+
Pirates of the Caribbean	Gore Verbinski	2003	USA	7
PTU	Johnnie To	2003	China	6
Qui a tué Bambi?	Gilles Marchand	2003	France	7+
Recruit, The	Roger Donaldson	2003	USA	6
Revolution Will Not Be Televised, The	Kim Bartley, Donnacha O'Briain	2003	Ireland	7+
Rhinoserous Eyes	Aaron Woodley	2003	USA	7
S21, La Machine de mort Khmère Rouge	Rithy Pahn	2003	France	3
Save the Green Planet	Jang Jun-hwan	2003	South Korea	7
School of Rock, The	Richard Linklater	2003	USA	7+
Shanghai Knights	David Dobkin	2003	USA	7
Shape of Things, The	Neil LaBute	2003	USA	5
Station Agent, The	Thomas McCarthy	2003	USA	7+
Terminator 3	Jonathan Mostow	2003	USA	6
Tesseract, The	Oxide Pang	2003	Thailand	7
TriggerStreet.com Project, The	ten of em	2003	USA	7
Undead	Peter Spierig, Michael Spierig	2002	Australia	7
Wonderland	James Cox	2003	USA	6
X2	Bryan Singer	2003	USA	7+
Yes Men, The	Dan Ollman, Sarah Price, Chris Smith	2003	USA	10
Zatoichi	Takeshi Kitano	2003	Japan	7

My Top Films so far this year(not ordered yet):
The Yes Men 10/10
Finding Nemo 9+/10
Coffee & Cigarettes 8/10
The Grudge 8/10
Intolerable Cruelty 8/10
Kill Bill: Volume 1 8/10
Last Life in the Universe 8/10
Lost in Translation 8/10
Mighty Wind 8/10
My Sassy Girl 8/10

Not eligible under first screening criteria, for one reason or another, but saw 'em this year:
Bend it Like Beckham 6+/10
Better Luck Tomorrow 7+/10
Blue Car 5/10
City of God 7+/10
Cowboy Bebop: The Movie 7/10
Gerry 5/10
Good Thief, The 6/10
Irreversible 4/10
Laurel Canyon 6/10
Man on the Train 6/10
May 7+/10
Millennium Actress 6+/10
Phone Booth 6/10
Raising Victor Vargas 6+/10
Russian Ark 5/10
Spellbound 8/10
Whale Rider 7/10
Winged Migration 7/10
XX/XY 5+/10

Previous Year's Lists:
2000 List
2001 list
2002 list

Previous Years Top 10 Lists:
2000 Top 10(same as the 2000 list)
2001 Top 10
2002 Top 10

Saw at the Toronto Film Fest this year(44 total films, listed in order of preference):
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The Toronto Film Fest:
Film	Director	Year	Country	Rating(of 10)
The Yes Men	Dan Ollman, Sarah Price, Chris Smith	2003	USA	10
Last Life in the Universe	Pen-ek Ratanaruang	2003	Thailand	8
Coffee & Cigarettes	Jim Jarmusch	2003	USA	8
The Grudge	Takashi Shimizu	2002	Japan	8
Alien(a revised cut)	Sir Ridley Scott	1979	USA	8
The Revolution Will Not Be Televised	Kim Bartley, Donnacha O'Briain	2003	Ireland	7+
Ong-Bak Muay Thai Warrior	Prachya Pinkaew	2003	Thailand	7+
The School of Rock	Richard Linklater	2003	USA7+
Nothing	Vincenzo Natali	2003	Canada	7+
Qui a tué Bambi?	Gilles Marchand	2003	France	7+
The Corporation	Mark Achbar, Jennifer Abbott	2003	Canada	7+
Rhinoserous Eyes	Aaron Woodley	2003	USA	7
At Five in the Afternoon	Samira Makhmalbaf	2003	Iran	7
11:14	Greg Marcks	2003	USA	7
Zatoichi	Takeshi Kitano	2003	Japan	7
21 Grams	Alejandro González Iñárritu	2003	USA	7
Nine Souls	Toshiaki Toyoda	2003	Japan	7
Casa de los Babys	John Sayles	2003	USA	7
Undead	Peter Spierig, Michael Spierig	2002	Australia	7
Matchstick Men	Ridley Scott	2003	USA	7
How to Get the Man's Foot Outta Your Ass	Mario Van Peebles	2003	USA	7
Save the Green Planet	Jang Jun-hwan	2003	South Korea	7
The Tesseract	Oxide Pang	2003	Thailand	7
Evil	Mikael Håfström	2003	Sweeden	7
Elephant	Gus Van Sant	2003	USA	7
The TriggerStreet.com Project	ten of em	2003	USA	7
Haute Tension	Alexandre Aja	2003	France	6+
Cypher	Vincenzo Natali	2002	USA	6+
A Good Lawyer's Wife	Im Sang-soo	2003	South Korea	6
A Nation Without Women	Manish Jha	2003	India	6
Dallas 362	Scott Caan	2003	USA	6
Gozu	Takashi Miike	2003	Japan	6
PTU	Johnnie To	2003	China	6
Bright Future	Kiyoshi Kurosawa	2002	Japan	6
Out of Time	Carl Franklin	2003	USA	6
The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz	Ted Kotcheff	1974	Canada	6
Wonderland	James Cox	2003	USA	6
Le Temps du loup	Michael Haneke	2003	France	6-
Flyerman	Jeff Stephenson, Jason Tan	2003	Canada	5+
A Problem With Fear	Gary Burns	2003	Canada	5+
I Love Your Work	Adam Goldberg	2003	USA	5+
Code 46	Michael Winterbottom	2003	UK	5
The Company	Robert Altman	2003	USA	5
S21, La Machine de mort Khmère Rouge	Rithy Pahn	2003	France	3

Matt Stone · 09-15-2003, 03:03 AM

Updated with:

Tears of the Sun (***/*****) - Partially models itself on Three Kings, only without the compelling characters, good writing, political commentary, or visual style.

Malibu's Most Wanted (***/*****) - Very stupid, but there are a few laughs to be had. Better than I expected.

Edwin Pereyra · 09-17-2003, 12:39 AM

Updated with one of this year's best films, Robert Pulcini and Shari Springer Berman's American Splendor.

~Edwin

Nick Sievers · 09-17-2003, 05:43 AM

I didn't have a chance to update my list eariler, but I saw American Splendor last night as well. For me its the best film I have seen this year, granted a lot hasn't been released here in terms of the critically acclaimed films, but it was fan-bloody-tastic.