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FILM COMMENT
January/February 2002
20 BEST FILMS OF 2001
(Released theatrically in the US)
1. Mulholland Drive (David Lynch, US) 748 points2. In the Mood for Love (Wong Kar-Wai, Hong Kong) 423
3. The Royal Tenenbaums (Wes Anderson, US) 365
4. Ghost World (Terry Zwigoff, US) 346
5. A.I. Artificial Intelligence (Steven Spielberg, US) 299
6. Fat Girl (Catherine Breillat, US) 298
7. Waking Life (Richard Linklater, US) 287
8. In the Bedroom (Todd Field, US) 274
9. The Gleaners and I (Agnes Varda, France) 269
10.Werckmeister Harmonies (Béla Tarr, Hungary) 258
11.Memento (Christopher Nolan, US) 254
12.The Circle (Jafar Panahi, Iran) 245
13.Moulin Rouge (Baz Luhrmann, US/Australia) 227
and
Va Savoir (Jacques Rivette, France) 227 (tied)
14.The Man Who Wasn't There (Joel Coen, US) 216
15.Apocalypse Now Redux (Francis Ford Coppola, US) 210
16.Amores Perros (Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu, Mexico) 197
17.Gosford Park (Robert Altman, US) 181
18.Donnie Darko (Richard Kelly, US) 175
19.Eureka (Shinji Aoyama, Japan) 165
20.Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Ring (Peter Jackson, US/New Zealand) 164
10 BEST
UNRELEASED FILMS OF 2001
(Premiered last year but not yet released in the US)
1. Iām Going Home (Manoel de Oliveira, Portugal/France) 110
2. In Praise of Love (Eloge de lāamour) (Jean-Luc Godard, Switzerland) 96
3. What Time is it There? (Tsai Ming-liang, Taiwan) 85
4. Time Out (Laurent Cantet, France) 67
5. Warm Water Under a Red Bridge (Shohei Imamura, Japan) 60
6. The Piano Teacher (Michael Haneke, France/Austria) 47
7. Millenium Mambo (Hou Hsiao-hsien, Taiwan/France) 45
8. Y tu mama tambien (Alfonso Cuaron, Mexico) 43
9. Pulse (Kiyoshi Kurosawa, Japan) 42
10.The Lady and the Duke (Eric Rohmer, France) 40
We asked contributors and selected colleagues to vote for 20 films in the first category and ten films in the second. The results were determined by a point system with a number one choice receiving 20 points.
Participants: Peggy Ahwesh, John Anderson, David Ansen, Nicole Armour, Paul Arthur, Michael Atkinson, Marjorie Baumgarten, Chris Chang, Andrew Lewis Conn, Travis Crawford, Edward Crouse, Manohla Dargis, Graham Fuller, Larry Gross, Howard Hampton, J. Hoberman, Peter Hogue, Robert Horton, Harlan Jacobson, Kent Jones, Kristin Marriott Jones, Dave Kehr, Susan Kerr, Stuart Klawans, Michael Koresky, Phillip Lopate, Alice Lovejoy, Alvin Lu, Greil Marcus, Todd McCarthy, Wesley Morris, Nick Nicastro, Chris Morris, Mark Olsen, Gerald Peary, Richard Peña, Mark Peranson, Tony Pipolo, Alissa Quart, Rachel Rosen, Jonathan Rosenbaum, Lisa Schwarzbaum, A. O. Scott, Gavin Smith, Roger Smith, Gregory Solman, Chuck Stephens, David Sterritt, Amy Taubin, Charles Taylor, Anne Thompson, Armond White, Michael Wilmington.
© 2002 by The Film Society of Lincoln Center
