Top 10's of 2004

Wilbur Wants to Kill Himself

in no particular order:

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Vera Drake
The Woodsman
King Arthur
The Motorcycle Diaries
Wilbur Wants to Kill Himself
The Five Obstructions
The Legend of Leigh Bowery
Bright Young Things
I Heart Huckabees

1. Kill Bill, Vol. II
2. Infernal Affairs
3. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
4. The Saddest Music in the World
5. On the Run
6. The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou
7. Goodbye, Dragon Inn
8. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
9. Tarnation
10. An Amazing Couple

Infernal Affairs

Kitchen Stories

(in alphabetical order)

The Control Room
The Corporation
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
The Fog of War
Kitchen Stories
Monster
The Return
The Sea Inside
The Story of the Weeping Camel
Supersize me

 

1. Last Life in the Universe
2. Belvaux's The Trilogy
3. Good Bye Dragon Inn
4. Hero
5. Dogville
6. The Saddest Music in the World
7. The Time of the Wolf
8. Tarnation
9. DiG!/Metallica: Some Kind of Monster
10. Japanese Story
11. Twilight Samurai
12. Screaming Men
13. Moolaadé
14. Father & Son
15. Undertow

Couldn't Quite Squeeze On: Distant, Stander, The Rage in Placid Lake, Millennium Mambo, Yossi & Jagger, Wilbur Wants to Kill Himself, Broken Wings

Top 10 Festival Films:
Wilby Wonderful
Clean
A Problem with Fear
Brothers
Nobody Knows
A Hole in My Heart
Off Beat
The Best Thief in the World
Saving Face
Childstar

Bad... just Bad: The Manson Family, Latter Days, The Company, De-Lovely, The Motorcycle Diaries, Bright Young Things

Tarnation

(in approximate order)

Tarnation
Reconstruction
Lucas Belvaux's Trilogy
Good Bye, Dragon Inn
Gozu
Last Life in the Universe
Undertow
Primer
Saddest Music in the World, The
Saved!

(in alphabetical order)

Bad Education
Dogville
Goodbye Dragon Inn
Ju-On
Last Life in the Universe
Reconstruction
The Return
Sideways
Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter... and Spring
Lucas Belvaux's The Trilogy

Goodbye Dragon Inn

Twilight Samurai

1. Last Life in the Universe
2. Hero
3. Tokyo Godfathers
4. Kill Bill Vol. 2
5. The Twilight Samurai
6. The Incredibles
7. Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter... and Spring
8. The Lovers
9. Gozu
10. The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou

1. Goodbye Dragon Inn
2. Last Life In The Universe
3. Moolaade
4. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
5. Hero / House of Flying Daggers (if the good things about both films were distilled into one feature, it would be the greatest martial arts movie of all time! ... maybe)
6. Hellboy
7. Zatôichi: the Blind Swordsman
8. Time of the Wolf
9. Infernal Affairs
10. Coffee and Cigarettes
11. Ju-On
12. Dawn of the Dead
13. Lucas Belvaux's The Trilogy

The Rest of the Best (alphabetical): Anatomy Of Hell, The Agronomist, The Five Obstructions, I Heart Huckabees,
Kill Bill - Vol. 2, Noi, Notre Musique, The Saddest Music In The World, Saw,
Sky Captain & The World Of Tomorrow, Spider Man 2, Touching the Void

Top 10 Festival Films:
Oldboy
Kung Fu Hustle
Land of Plenty
Clean
Doppelganger
Tale of Two Sisters
Memories of Murder
Les Revenants
Blessing Bell
Delamu

Bottom of the Barrel: Chronicles of Riddick, Satan's Little Helper, Alien vs Predator, Blade: Trinity, The Card Player, Van Helsing

Zatôichi: the Blind Swordsman

Oldboy

1. Goodbye Dragon Inn
2. The Mudge Boy
3. Intimate Strangers
4. Infernal Affairs
5. Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter... and Spring
6. The Corporation
7. Dogville
8. The Return
9. Being Julia
10. The Last Life in the Universe

The Rage in Placid Lake

Wilbur Wants to Kill Himself
The Return
Sideways
The Trilogy
Maria Full of Grace
Bukowski: Born Into This
The Rage In Placid Lake
Hero
The Fog of War
Monster

1. Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter...and Spring
2. Kitchen Stories
3. Sideways
4. Hero
5. An Amazing Couple
6. Infernal Affairs
7. Girl with a Pearl Earring
8. Wilbur wants to Kill Himself
9. Last Life in the Universe
10. Dogville

DiG!
Festival Express
Wings of Desire
Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter, and Spring
Control Room
Hero
Kitchen Stories
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Millennium Mambo
The Return

I also liked The Rage in Placid Lake (but I had to watch it twice), Touching
the Void, Robot Stories, Dogville, Power Trip, Shaun of the Dead, Coffee and
Cigarettes, Nosey Parker, and Blind Shaft.

Millennium Mambo

Howard Semone's Top 10 Movies of 2004

1. Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind
2. A Very Long Engagement
3. The Incredibles
4. Shaun Of The wDead
5. Spider-Man 2
6. Tokyo Godfathers
7. Riding Giants
8. The Lost Skeleton Of Cadavra
9. Mean Girls
10. Kill Bill: Vol. 2

Diane Young's Top 10 Movies of 2004

1. Spring, summer, fall, winter & spring
2. The mother
3. Maria full of grace
4. The return
5. My architect
6. Goodbye Dragon Inn
7. We don't live here anymore
8. Untold scandal
9. Sideways
10. The Incredibles
      

1. DiG!
2. Saved!
3. A Home at the End of the World
4. Finding Neverland
5. The Woodsman
6. Bad Education
7. Girl with a Pearl Earring
8. Wilbur Wants to Kill Himself
9. Kinsey
10. Tarnation