as if this record matters, so early on, to anyone.

Let it be known henceforth that the following movies would once be declared the best of the 00s decade by none other than one added voice in the cloud:

1. Synecdoche, NY (Charlie Kaufman, USA 2008)
2. Cargo 200 (Груз 200) (Aleksei Balabanov, Russia 2007)
3. Children of Men (Alfonso Cuarón, GB 2006)
4. Rescue Dawn (Werner Herzog, USA 2007)
5. Talk to Her (Hable con ella) (Pedro Almodóvar, Spain 2002)
6. In This World (Michael Winterbottom, GB 2002)
7. Deep Water (Louise Osmond and Jerry Rothwell, GB, 2006)
8. Michael Clayton (Tony Gilroy, USA 2007)
9. The Lives of Others (Das Leben der Anderen) (Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck, Germany 2006)
10. Code Unknown (Code inconnu: Récit incomplet de divers voyages, Michael Haneke, France 2000)
11. Head-On (Gegen die Wand) (Fatih Akin, Germany 2004)
12. Intolerable Cruelty (Ethan and Joel Coen, USA 2003)
13. Amélie (Le Fabuleux Destin d'Amélie Poulain) (Jean-Pierre Jeunet, France 2000)
14. Adaptation (Spike Jonze, USA 2002)
15. The Squid and the Whale (Noah Baumbach, USA 2005)
16. Mulholland Drive (David Lynch, USA 2001)
17. Sideways (Alexander Payne, USA 2004)
18. The Three Rooms of Melancholia (Melancholian 3 Huonetta) (Pirjo Honkasalo, Finland 2004)
19. Russian Ark, (Русский ковчег) (Alexandr Sokurov, Russia 2002)
20. Halbe Treppe (Andreas Dresen, Germany 2002)
21. Still Life (三峡好人 Sānxiá hǎorén) (Jia Zhangke, China 2006)
22. There Will Be Blood (Paul Thomas Anderson, USA 2007)
23. The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (Le scaphandre et le papillon) (Julian Schnabel, France 2007)
24. Brokeback Mountain (Ang Lee, USA 2005)
25. First on the Moon (Первые на Луне) (Aleksei Fedorchenko, Russia 2005)

Honorable Mentions (because nobody else will): Die Unberührbare (Oskar Roehler, Germany 2000), Zoolander (Ben Stiller, USA 2001), Herr Schmidt und Herr Friedrich (Ulrike Franke, Germany 2001), Igby Goes Down (Burr Steers, USA 2002), Napoleon Dynamite (Jared Hess, USA 2004), Muxmäuschenstill (Marcus Mittermeier, Germany 2004), Fateless (Lajos Koltai, Hungary 2005), Domino (Tony Scott, USA 2005), Idiocracy (Mike Judge, USA 2006), Manda Bala (Jason Kohn, Brazil 2007), Sunshine (Danny Boyle, GB 2007), Wendy and Lucy (Kelly Reichardt, USA 2008)

(And some of the worst movies I have yet to repress: The Family Stone, Munich, The Break-Up, I Know Who Killed Me, Babel, Redacted, American Gangster, Alexandra, Vicky Christina Barcelona, Righteous Kill, House of Sand and Fog, and –sacrilege, but really, folks– 2046)

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