Old Blues Chapter and Verse | The Best 21st Century Films I’ve Seen: 100-91 @OldBluesChapterandVerse | Uploaded October 2020 | Updated October 2024, 2 hours ago.
I've long believed that the first two decades of this century have been two of the weakest decades for cinema. It occurred to me not long ago to wonder what, then, might be the best films from these 20 years -- the gems in the dross, if you will. So during the pandemic, I started filling in gaps in my viewing and assembling a ranked list of the 21st century films I -- as a student of film, as an unabashed film fan and as a former Film Studies instructor -- considered the best.
Here is the link to the introductory video in this project of mine:
youtube.com/watch?v=f-zhCGB601g&t=73s
Please feel free to let me know which of the films discussed herein you've seen and what you thought of them.
And be on the lookout for my 90-81 video on October 28th, 2020.
Films discussed in this video:
Atanarjuat: The Fast Runner (dir: Zacharias Kunuk)
Brotherhood of the Wolf (dir: Christophe Gans)
Everlasting Moments (dir: Jan Troell)
The Favourite (dir: Yorgos Lanthimos)
Gladiator (dir: Ridley Scott)
A Hidden Life (dir: Terrence Malick)
In the Loop (dir: Armando Iannucci)
Into Great Silence (dir: Philip Groning)
Vera Drake (dir: Mike Leigh)
X-Men: Days of Future Past (dir: Bryan Singer)
I've long believed that the first two decades of this century have been two of the weakest decades for cinema. It occurred to me not long ago to wonder what, then, might be the best films from these 20 years -- the gems in the dross, if you will. So during the pandemic, I started filling in gaps in my viewing and assembling a ranked list of the 21st century films I -- as a student of film, as an unabashed film fan and as a former Film Studies instructor -- considered the best.
Here is the link to the introductory video in this project of mine:
youtube.com/watch?v=f-zhCGB601g&t=73s
Please feel free to let me know which of the films discussed herein you've seen and what you thought of them.
And be on the lookout for my 90-81 video on October 28th, 2020.
Films discussed in this video:
Atanarjuat: The Fast Runner (dir: Zacharias Kunuk)
Brotherhood of the Wolf (dir: Christophe Gans)
Everlasting Moments (dir: Jan Troell)
The Favourite (dir: Yorgos Lanthimos)
Gladiator (dir: Ridley Scott)
A Hidden Life (dir: Terrence Malick)
In the Loop (dir: Armando Iannucci)
Into Great Silence (dir: Philip Groning)
Vera Drake (dir: Mike Leigh)
X-Men: Days of Future Past (dir: Bryan Singer)
