Your 21st century classics

So, we're a dirty dozen years into this century of cinema, and most of us have watched a good few hundred if not thousand of films from this era. Please feel free to list or rank your favourites and give your rationale if you want. Which films have stood out the most in your eyes? Do you think any will be classics for generations to come?

Here are my top 10:

1. Amélie (Jeunet)
2. The Lives of Others (Henckel von Donnersmarck)
3. Pan's Labyrinth (Del Toro)
4. Les triplettes de Belleville (Chomet)
5. The Return (Zvyagintsev)
6. Into the Wild (Penn)
7. City of God (Meirelles)
8. Holy Motors (Carax)
9. Snatch (Ritchie)
10. The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (Schnabel)

Honourable mention to a few Hollywood blockbusters: Gladiator, the Lord of the Rings trilogy, and the Craig Bonds (well, two of them anyway).

I'll have to check back because I'm blanking at the moment. I'm trying to think of what films might be talked about 30 years from now that I've already seen.

2012 Skyfall (Mendes) (Logan)
2011 Tinker Tailor Solder Spy (Alfredson) (Straughan)
2010 The American (Corbjin) (Joffe)
2009 Antichrist (von Trier)
2008 In Bruges (McDonagh)
2007 Funny Games (Haneke)
2006 Idiocracy (Judge) (Judge/Cohen)
2005 Where the Truth Lies (Egoyan)
2004 A Way of Life (Amma Asante)
2003 Bad Santa (Zwigoff) (Ficarra, Requa)
2002 Adaptation (Jonze) (Kaufman)
2001 Mulholland Drive (Lynch)
2000 Memento (Nolan)

SKYFALL and MULHOLLAND drive are great picks.

Bad Santa is a great pick. She's good value, too.

MULHOLLAND DR. is one that came to my mind, too. As for SKYFALL, it's bizarre to have a newer Bond film that I'm not complaining about.

Jesus, I've not seen BAD SANTA in years. A sequel is coming apparently. We'll see how that turns out.

Skyfall
Quantum of Solace
Casino Royale
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
An Education
Atonement
La Vie En Rose
The Tree of Life
Melancholia
Rabbit Hole
Precious
Shame

To name a few...

TINKER TAILOR SOLDIER SPY
GOOD NIGHT AND GOOD LUCK
ZERO DARK THIRTY
MEMENTO
CACHE
A PRAIRIE HOME COMPANION
4 MONTHS, 3 WEEKS, AND 2 DAYS
MULHOLLAND DR.
IN THE MOOD FOR LOVE
CAPTURING THE FRIEDMANS

Never in a million years would I pick MEMENTO. Cinema for idiot savant unichs.

Largo's Shark wrote:

Never in a million years would I pick MEMENTO. Cinema for idiot savant unichs.

Funnily, no one has mentioned Nolan's Batman trilogy, or at least The Dark Knight. I'm sure that film would be near the top of the list if such were compiled by most entertainment critics/websites/magazines/bloggers,etc. I personally don't think The Dark Knight will be considered all that jazz in a few decades. I don't remember much of Memento - I saw it only once and at too early an age, so it didn't sink in much.

Never has amnesia been so boring.

Largo's Shark wrote:

Never has amnesia been so boring.

In fairness you wouldn't remember if it was!