2004 Poll

[Lencho of the Apes]

Choose your favorite films from 2004 (according to IMDb).

– Each person votes for up to 20 movies. Do not feel compelled to fill the maximum allowable number, if you're enthusiastic about fewer than twenty.
– Do not rank the films except the number 1, it gets two points..

Users are urged to post their provisional lists as soon as possible so that others may use them for recommendations. You may, of course, revise your lists at any point prior to the deadline.

Ballots posted by new members who have not participated in other parts of the forum will not be counted.

Deadline for 2004 lists will be Tuesday, September 1st at approximately 1 PM Pacific Time.

[Lencho of the Apes]

So far, this only looks like a good year for movies I was indifferent toward. The other list is in the usual place.

Didn't hate:

Grandma - Lidiyta Bobrova
Hana And Alice - Iwai
El misterio de los almendros - Jaime Humberto Hermosillo
Survive Style 5 - Gen Sekiguchi
The Tulse Luper Suitcases 2: Vaux To The Sea - Peter Greenaway
Voces Inocentes -Mandoki

[greennui]

1. Disintegration Loop 1.1 (William Basinski)

The Holy Girl (Lucrecia Martel)
Marseille (Angela Schanelec)
Collateral (Michael Mann)
The World (Jia Zhangke)
Mysterious Skin (Gregg Araki)
2046 (Wong Kar-wai)
The Hand (Wong Kar-wai)
The Bridge of Arts (Eugène Green)
Skagafjördur (Peter Hutton)
Butterfly of Love (Nicolas Provost)
Woman Is the Future of Man (Hong Sang-soo)
Tropical Malady (Apichatpong Weerasethakul)
Nobody Knows (Hirokazu Koreeda)
13 Lakes (James Benning)
The Power of Nightmares (Adam Curtis)
A Hole in My Heart (Lukas Moodysson)
Birth (Jonathan Glazer)
The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou (Wes Anderson)
Head-On (Fatih Akin)
Bad Education (Pedro Almodóvar)
Los Muertos (Lisandro Alonso)
Alone in the Wilderness

watchlst:

Anatomy of Hell (Catherine Breillat)
Breaking News (Johnnie To)
The Case of the Grinning Cat (Chris Marker)
Chain (Jem Cohen)
Man on Fire (Tony Scott)
Palindromes (Todd Solondz)
Throw Down (Johnnie To)

[pabs]

1.The Hand (Wong)

The Life and Death of Peter Sellers (Hopkins)
Nobody Knows (Kore-eda)
Mysterious Skin (Araki)
Bad Education (Almodóvar)
Head On (Akin)



Watched for this poll[/s]:


The Life and Death of Peter Sellers (Hopkins)
Nobody Knows (Kore-eda)

[rischka]

some great woman directed films

l'intrus - denis
the holy girl - martel
innocence - hadžihalilović
main hoon na - khan

los muertos - alonso
le pont des arts - green
skagafjördur - hutton
pirated copy - he
yesterday once more - to
throw down - to
mean girls - waters

i'll watch a man in the wilderness, recently acquired and realized i've seen this on pbs years ago. also to watch
evolution of a filipino family
the hidden blade
survive style 5
tropical malady
moolaade

[kanafani]

some great woman directed films

Indeed, and here are some more!

The sky turns (Mercedes Alvarez)
Marseille (Angela Schanelec)
Or (my treasure) (Karen yedeya)

[oscarwerner]

1. Vera Drake (Mike Leigh)-My top hit
----------------------
Other films:
2. Million Dollar Baby (Clint Eastwood)
3. Turtles Can Fly (Bahman Ghobadi)
4. Bad Education (Pedro Almodóvar)
5. The Aviator (Martin Scorsese)
6. Downfall (Oliver Hirschbiegel)
7. Kill Bill: Vol. 2 (Quentin Tarantino)
8. Nobody Knows (Hirokazu Koreeda)
9. 36 Quai des Orfèvres (Olivier Marchal)
10. The Passion of the Christ (Mel Gibson)
11. Mysterious Skin (Gregg Araki)
12. Hotel Rwanda (Terry George)
13. The Machinist (Brad Anderson)
14. 5x2 (François Ozon)
15. Fahrenheit 9/11 (Michael Moore)
16. Howl's Moving Castle (Hayao Miyazaki)
17. The Bourne Supremacy (Paul Greengrass)
18. Ray (Taylor Hackford)
19. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (Alfonso Cuarón)
20. Collateral (Michael Mann)

[flip]

i normally don't put shorts or tv in my top slot in these polls, and of the 2004 feature films i've seen, none really stands out as an obvious #1 choice, so i'll go with something fun:

DEBS (Angela Robinson)

Deadwood: "Deadwood" (Walter Hill)
Papillon d'amour (Nicolas Provost)
5x2 (Francois Ozon)
Hana and Alice (Shunji Iwai)
Innocence (Lucile Hadzihalilovic)
Turtles Can Fly (Bahman Ghobadi)
Kekexili: Mountain Patrol (Lu Chuan)
The Ladykillers (Coen Brothers)
Man on Fire (Tony Scott)
Spartan (David Mamet)
Zebraman (Takashi Miike)
The Terminal (Steven Spielberg)
The Staircase (Jean-Xavier de Lestrade)
The Lizard (Kamal Tabrizi)
District B13 (Pierre Morel)
13 Lakes (James Benning)
Mean Girls (Mark Waters)

[Evelyn Library P.I.]

Final votes:

1. Mouse Heaven (Kenneth Anger)
Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson (Ken Burns)

[Roscoe]

VERA DRAKE (Leigh)
ETERNAL SUNSHINE OF THE SPOTLESS MIND (Gondry)
BEFORE SUNSET (Linklater)
SIX SHOOTER (McDonagh)
THE INCREDIBLES (Bird)
HARRY POTTER AND THE PRISONER OF AZKABAN (Cuaron)
SHAUN OF THE DEAD (Wright)

Based on other lists, there's a lot that I didn't see. Based on other lists, there's a lot I saw and wouldn't put on a Best list. 2004 seems to have been the height of Eastwoodmania -- the insanity that overtook otherwise sensible folks when that hack released one of his basic cable level excretions.

[DT.]

1. Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence (Mamoru Oshii)

Birth (Jonathan Glazer)
Breaking News (Johnnie To)
The Bridesmaid (Claude Chabrol)
Clean (Olivier Assayas)
Collateral (Michael Mann)
The Consequences of Love (Paolo Sorrentino)
Innocence (Lucile Hadzihalilovic)
Keane (Lodge Kerrigan)
Kings and Queen (Arnaud Desplechin)
The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou (Wes Anderson)
Life Is a Miracle (Emir Kusturica)
Man on Fire (Tony Scott)
Million Dollar Baby (Clint Eastwood)
Nobody Knows (Hirokazu Koreeda)
Notre musique (Jean-Luc Godard)
Ocean's Twelve (Steven Soderbergh)
Somersault (Cate Shortland)
Tropical Malady (Apichatpong Weerasethakul)
2046 (Wong Kar-wai)

Want to watch:

Dead Man’s Shoes (Shane Meadows)
Dumplings (Fruit Chan)
The Garden of Earthly Delights (Lech Majewski)
The Heart Is Deceitful Above All Things (Asia Argento)
The Hidden Blade (Yoji Yamada)
The Holy Girl (Lucrecia Martel)
The Intruder (Claire Denis)
Izo (Takashi Miike)
Marebito (Takashi Shimizu)
Mondovino (Jonathan Nossiter)
My Summer of Love (Pawel Pawlikowski)
Oh! Man (Angela Ricci Lucchi and Yervant Gianikian)
Palindromes (Todd Solondz)
Primer (Shane Carruth)
Triple Agent (Eric Rohmer)
The Tuner (Kira Muratova)
Undertow (David Gordon Green)
Vital (Shinya Tsukamoto)
The White Diamond (Werner Herzog)
Woman is the Future of Man (Hong Sang-soo)
Zebraman (Takashi Miike)
5x2 (Francois Ozon)
9 Songs (Michael Winterbottom)

[Silga]

Provisional list:

1. Before Sunset (Richard Linklater)

Fahrenheit 9/11 (Michael Moore)
Ocean's Twelve (Steven Soderbergh)
Hotel Rwanda (Terry George)
Howl's Moving Castle (Hayao Miyazaki)
The Bourne Supremacy (Paul Greengrass)
Downfall (Oliver Hirschbiegel)
Ray (Taylor Hackford)
The Aviator (Martin Scorsese)
The Ladykillers (Ethan Coen, Joel Coen)
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (Alfonso Cuarón)
Bad Education (Pedro Almodóvar)
The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou (Wes Anderson)
Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy (Adam McKay)
Spartan (David Mamet)
Strip Search (Sidney Lumet)
Melinda and Melinda (Woody Allen)
Life Is a Miracle (Emir Kusturica)
Collateral (Michael Mann)
The Final Cut (Omar Naim)

[sally]

oh god. i get to yell about wolff von amerongen again. director made this then killed himself. more people need to see! (warning it's an ironic narration of history over slow shots of place documentary so mileage may...)

1. Wolff Von Amerongen: Did He Commit Bankruptcy Offences?
light is calling - bill morrison
notre musique
le pont des arts
skagafjördur
une visite au louvre
el cielo gira
pirated copy
marseille
the face you deserve - miguel gomes
woman is the future of man
l'intrus
los muertos
whisky - rebella, stoll
tulse luper 2
oh! uomo
the case of the grinning cat
kings and queen - desplechin
duck season
yes - potter
ten skies
Cycling Chronicles: Landscapes the Boy Saw
The Garden of Earthly Delights - majewski
Kenedi Goes Back Home - zilnik

also special mention: my summer of love. film is not my taste, but you can see the roof of my house in it.

to watch
days in the country - ruiz
all the ships at sea

[liquidnature]

Primer (Carruth) - watch it and thank me later, even if many years later and after many rewatches

National Treasure (Turteltaub) ♥
13 Lakes (Benning)
Before Sunset (Linklater)
Collateral (Mann)
Ocean’s Twelve (Soderbergh)
The Polar Express (Zemeckis)
Christmas with the Kranks (Roth)
The Incredibles (Bird)
Ten Skies (Benning)

[thoxans]

yell about wolff von amerongen again

remember this being circulated within a certain mubi community (ahem, scfz v 1.0) back in the day, around the same time the parallel street started making the rounds iirc

[thoxans]

THROW down (Johnnie To)

13 going on 30 (gary winick)
before sunset (richard linklater)
breaking news (johnnie to)
ek hasina thi (sriram raghavan)
harry potter and the prisoner of azkaban (alfonso cuaron)
khakee (rajkumar santoshi)
kung fu hustle (stephen chow)
main hoon na (farah khan)
seed of chucky (don mancini)
swades (ashutosh gowariker)
tropical malady (apichatpong weerasethakul)
the village (m. night shyamalan)
woman is the future of man (hong sang-soo)
yuva (mani ratnam)

throw down has one of my most fav scenes, while woman is the future of man has one of my most fav main themes (hate how impossible it is to find the music from foreign films)

[therouxxx]

Million Dollar Baby (Clint Eastwood)
Spanglish (James L. Brooks)
Man on Fire (Tony Scott)
Yuva (Mani Ratnam)
Venus et Fleur (Emmanuel Mouret)
Napoleon Dynamite (Jared Hess)
Los muertos (Lisandro Alonso)

watchlist--

7G Rainbow Colony, Aayitha Ezhuthu, Anand, Dev, Triple Agent, All the Ships at Sea, El Patio, The Notebook, Fahrenheit 9/11, The Village, 50 First Dates, Surviving Christmas, Evolution of a Filipino Family, Ghost in the Shell 2, House of Flying Daggers, Howl’s Moving Castle, L'intrus, Manmadhan, Notre Musique, Raincoat, Swades, Swapner Din, Throwdown, Veer-Zaara, Vismayathumbathu, The Holy Girl, D.E.B.S., Kung Fu Hustle, Dumplings, 2046

Edit: didn't watch any, so this is final ballot

[sally]

yell about wolff von amerongen again

remember this being circulated within a certain mubi community (ahem, scfz v 1.0) back in the day, around the same time the parallel street started making the rounds iirc

yeah that was me. no one watched it then either. it's fine. i like it.

[rischka]

yell about wolff von amerongen again

remember this being circulated within a certain mubi community (ahem, scfz v 1.0) back in the day, around the same time the parallel street started making the rounds iirc

yeah that was me. no one watched it then either. it's fine. i like it.

i have a copy and i will watch it!!

[nrh]

swapner din, buddhadeb dasgupta

l'intrus, claire denis
main hoon na, farah khan
moon & cherry, yuki tanada
the face you deserve, miguel gomes
tropical malady, apichatpong weerasethakul
throwdown, johnnie to
yesterday once more, johnnie to
triple agent, eric rohmer
7/G rainbow colony, selvaraghavan
ek hasina thi, sriram raghavan
2046, wong kar-wai
bow barracks forever, anjan dutt
ab tak chhappan, shimit amin
spartan, david mamet
notre musique, jean-luc godard
the fifth empire, manoel de oliveira
cream lemon (nobuhiro yamashita)
fantasia, wai ka-fai
naach, ram gopal varma

a lot of films (like the martel) i'd need to rewatch before ranking.

would love to see - virumaandi (kamal haasan), cold spring (dominik graf), meenakshi (mf hussain), yuva and aayatha ezhuthu (mani ratnam), raincoat (rituparno ghosh), khakhee (rajkumar santoshi), black friday (anurag kashyap)

[...]

A good year for movies I've seen. A nice mix of simpler fun stuff and more involved artistic efforts, many of which are plenty fun in their own way.

Initial list:

Clean
Tropical Malady
Innocence
The World
Head On
Light is Calling
Paranoia Agent
The Case of the Grinning Cat
Kung Fu Hustle
Moolaade
The Holy Girl
Anatomy of Hell
Sissy-Boy Slap-Party
The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou
Triple Agent
Nobody Knows
The Hidden Blade
The Garden of Earthly Delights
Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence
Samurai Champloo
House of Flying Daggers
Yesterday Once More
Breaking News
Throw Down
Collateral
Aaltra
Brothers
Hana and Alice
Dirt
Strings
Whisky
Antares
9 Songs
10 Skies
Ocean's Twelve
2046

Harold and Kumar Go to White Castle
Howl's Moving Castle
The Aviator
Sombra Dolorosa
Godzilla: Final Wars
The Chronicles of Riddick
The Grudge
Troy
I (heart symbol) Huckabees
Bad Education
National Treasure
Butterfly Effect
The Place Promised in Our Early Days
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Woman is the Future of Man
Kamikaze Girls
Mean Girls
Bride and Prejudice
The Ferpect Crime
Before Sunset
Kinsey
The Terminal
Hidalgo
Wolf's Rain
Spider Forest
The White Diamond
Night Watch
R-Point
Ginger Snaps 2
Suspect Zero
Prime Suspect 6
Team America World Police
The Incredibles
A Very Long Engagement
Izo
Steamboy
Hellboy
Man on Fire
Beyond Our Ken
Dead Leaves
Immortal
Shaun of the Dead

[mesnalty]

I might watch it, I gotta know whether or not Wolff Von Amerongen committed bankruptcy offences

[augusto]

throw down (johnnie to)

swapner din (buddhadeb dasgupta)
tropical malady (apichatpong weerasethakul)
skagafjördur (peter hutton)
main hoon na (farah khan)

the sky turns (mercedes alvarez)
light is calling (bill morrison)
une visite au louvre (straub/huillet)
pirated copy (he jianjun)
moolaade (sembene)

the face you deserve (gomes)
breaking news (johnnie to)
ek hasina thi (sriram raghavan)
ab tak chappan (shimit amin)
black friday (anurag kashyap)

the world (jia zhangke)
2046 (wong kar-wai)
the hidden blade (yoji yamada)
meenaxi: a tale of three cities (m.f. hussain)
kung fu hustle (stephen chow)

[Holymanm]

The Taste of Tea (Katsuhito Ishii, 2004)
Mysterious Skin (Gregg Araki, 2004)
The Place Promised in Our Early Days (Makoto Shinkai, 2004)
Nobody Knows (Hirokazu Koreeda, 2004)
Kung Fu Hustle (Stephen Chow, 2004)
Napoleon Dynamite (Jared Hess, 2004)
R-Point (Kong Su-chang, 2004)
The World (Zhang Ke Jia, 2004)
The Hidden Blade (Yôji Yamada, 2004)
Mind Game (Masaaki Yuasa, 2004)
Vital (Shinya Tsukamoto, 2004)
Brotherhood (Kang Je-gyu, 2004)
Machuca (Andrés Wood, 2004) (2nd viewing)
Crash (Paul Haggis, 2004)
The Sea Inside (Alejandro Amenábar, 2004)
Howl's Moving Castle (Hayao Miyazaki, 2004)
Before Sunset (Richard Linklater, 2004)
Love Song for Rapper (Sho Fujiwara, 2004)
Undertow (David Gordon Green, 2004)
Hana and Alice (Shunji Iwai, 2004)



The Passion of the Christ (Mel Gibson, 2004)
Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy (Adam McKay, 2004)
Christmas with the Kranks (Joe Roth, 2004)
Starsky and Hutch (Todd Phillips, 2004)
The Face You Deserve (Miguel Gomes, 2005)
Walking Tall (Kevin Bray, 2004)

[FLABREZU]

initial list

2046
Kung Fu Hustle
The World
Mysterious Skin
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Survive Style 5+
The Hidden Blade
Vital
Before Sunset
Nobody Knows
Collateral
Otakus in Love
The Taste of Tea
Head-On
Hana and Alice
Napoleon Dynamite

[flip]

Love Song for Rapper (Sho Fujiwara, 2003)

[Holymanm]

Whoops, yup! It is actually 2004 (according to LBD); I just copied and pasted it from my log before I'd fixed it...

[ofrene]

definitely

Before Sunset
Bridge of Arts
Cinevardaphoto
Collateral
Throw Down

and some more...

Bad Education
Birth
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Marseille
Million Dollar Baby
The Aviator
The Face You Deserve
The Incredibles
The Intruder
Tomorrow We Move

[karl]

Pont des Arts or Tropical Malady's a tough choice for me. Two of the best movies of the last 20 years. Altogether not so bad far as the 21st century goes; however, since I'm abroad again I doubt I'll see many more. This may end up being the final.

Tropical Malady

Le Pont des Arts
Nobody Knows
Los muertos
Turtles Can Fly
The World (Jia Zhangke)
Woman Is the Future of Man
Exiles (Tony Gatlif)
The Night Is Bright (Roman Balayan) (this is subtitled on the director's Youtube channel: romanbalaian)
Being Julia (Istvan Szabo)
Buffalo Boy (Minh Nguyen-Vo)
Mondovino
Low Life (Im Kwon-taek)
Land of Plenty
Ae Fond Kiss
Consequences of Love
White Diamond
Midwinter Night's Dream (Goran Paskaljević)
Vera Drake
The Keys to the House (Gianni Amelio)

[MrCarmady]

I completely fluffed the 1980 watchlist so we'll see to what extent I can follow through this time around, but here's a tentative, very mainstream 20:

Before Sunset (Linklater)
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (Gondry)
Breaking News (To)
Head-On (Akin)
Vera Drake (Leigh)
Kung Fu Hustle (Chow)
The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie (Hillenburg)
Harold and Kumar Go to White Castle (Leiner)
Sideways (Payne)
2046 (Wong)*
Six Shooter (McDonagh)
Kinsey (Condon)
Mean Girls (Waters)
Closer (Nichols)
The Consequences of Love (Sorrentino)
Wind Along the Coast (Maximov) short - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ILuV6gSpeMA
Kings and Queen (Desplechin)
The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou (Anderson)*
The Girl Next Door (Greenfield)
Bad Education (Almodovar)*

Re-watch *s + Woman Is the Future of Man + Marseille

To see:
Nobody Knows
Innocence
Birth
Triple Agent
Shaun of the Dead
Duck Season
Dig!
Moolaadé
Howl's Moving Castle
My Summer of Love