100. The Devil Wears Prada (David Frankel, 2006)Meryl Streep begins her own populist career reinvention (soon to be followed by Mamma Mia!) by playing a tyrannical and thinly disguised version of Vogue editor Anna Wintour in this satirical yet soft-centered account of life among the fashionistas.
68. Memento (Christopher Nolan, 2000)Formally intricate and expertly executed, Memento is a devious brainteaser of a film. Guy Pearce is a haunted man doomed by short-term memory loss to live forever in the present, who carries clues to his past in the tattoos on his body.
53. Milk (Gus Van Sant, 2008)“Best Actor” winner Sean Penn, surrounded by firebrand talent including Emile Hirsch and Josh Brolin, stars in a timely movie that brings the selfless (and ultimately fatal) activism of gay campaigner Harvey Milk to the mainstream. Released, ironically, just as California passed the anti-gay-marriage bill Section 8.
20. Donnie Darko (Richard Kelly, 2001)Head-tripping sci-fi goes to high school in an Eighties-set psychological thriller with dark Lynchian overtones. Jake Gyllenhaal plays the titular teen — a possible paranoid schizophrenic who may just have the key to time travel.
17. Brokeback Mountain (Ang Lee, 2005)This achingly sad love story gave Heath Ledger a chance to explore hitherto unsuspected depths. It’s a hugely powerful performance — his inarticulate yearning is almost painful to watch.
16. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (Michel Gondry, 2004)Testing the limits of narrative convolutions and visual technique, Gondry directs an ingenious script about memory-wiping. A central tempestuous romance between Jim Carrey’s Joel and Kate Winslet’s Clementine, however, is never once overshadowed.
Source: entertainment.timesonline.co.uk
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We're compiling a top 100 of the decade over at www.lastsiteontheleft.blogspot.com.
there's also a 'poll'. Would be great if you could pop over and have your say
thanks for the invitation, I'll give it a try if I find time :)
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