Yeah, I'm A Freak: Or Here's the List of Recent Films I Want to Catch Up

Yeah, I'm A Freak: Or Here's the List of Recent Films I Want to Catch Up

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One of my many obsessions is to complete lists. And another of my obsessive behavior is to collect everything. Going to a thrift shop near my day job has been a near religious experience buying rare records, rare books, rare comics, etc. In fact, you know what? I love culture in all of its forms, pop, underground, counter, well name it. I will collect it.

Cinema or films has been an amalgame of all this crap and completing lists and collecting movies is a passion of mine. As my long time followers might have got since a bit one of the main focuses of this blog is to watch all the films on the 1000 Greatest Films lists posted yearly on the referencial website hosted by Bill Georgaris They Shoot Pictures Don’t They?

It might be lesser known that Bill also compile a list of the best films of the 21st Century. It is a top 250, much like IMDb but better. The ten first films have been pretty static but the rest changes a bit each year with every new Oscar Season and new movie buzz. It is an interesting list but I’ve been too much into classic or old films to even take real notice of the list. However, lately, I watched some pictures that were 2015 Oscar winners and I was intrigued to catch up on the more recent years.  

Here’s its top 10 :

1. IN THE MOOD FOR LOVE
2. MULHOLLAND DR.
3. YI YI
4. SPIRITED AWAY
5. WERCKMEISTER HARMONIES
6. THE TREE OF LIFE
7. THERE WILL BE BLOOD
8. RUSSIAN ARK
9. ETERNAL SUNSHINE OF THE SPOTLESS MIND
10. CACHÉ

It is a conversation starter and a hint for more discoveries but I think it is a pretty interesting top considering that I have still Yi Yi and Werckmeister Harmonies to watch. For 2015 I’ve challenged myself to complete the 100 first films of this list as a starter and a way to catch up on contemporary Cinema.

Here’s my mandatory list of 35 :

3	Yi yi	Yang, Edward	2000
5	Werckmeister Harmonies	Tarr, Béla	2000
12	Gleaners & I, The	Varda, Agnès	2000
16	Tie Xi Qu: West of the Tracks	Wang Bing	2003
17	Platform	Jia Zhangke	2000
21	Death of Mr. Lazarescu, The	Puiu, Cristi	2005
27	Y tu mamá también	Cuarón, Alfonso	2001
37	Melancholia	von Trier, Lars	2011
42	Son, The	Dardenne, Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne	2002
43	Grizzly Man	Herzog, Werner	2005
45	Goodbye, Dragon Inn	Tsai Ming-liang	2003
46	In Vanda's Room	Costa, Pedro	2000
50	Piano Teacher, The	Haneke, Michael	2001
51	Songs from the Second Floor	Andersson, Roy	2000
55	Colossal Youth	Costa, Pedro	2006
56	Turin Horse, The	Tarr, Béla	2011
60	Capturing the Friedmans	Jarecki, Andrew	2003
62	Distant	Ceylan, Nuri Bilge	2002
63	Zero Dark Thirty	Bigelow, Kathryn	2012
64	Boyhood	Linklater, Richard	2014
66	Code Unknown	Haneke, Michael	2000
68	Still Life	Jia Zhangke	2006
69	Amour	Haneke, Michael	2012
70	Finding Nemo	Stanton, Andrew & Lee Unkrich	2003
78	Headless Woman, The	Martel, Lucrecia	2008
79	Ciénaga, La	Martel, Lucrecia	2001
84	Winter's Bone	Granik, Debra	2010
85	As I Was Moving Ahead Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty	Mekas, Jonas	2000
87	Ghost World	Zwigoff, Terry	2001
88	Act of Killing, The	Oppenheimer, Joshua	2012
91	Master, The	Anderson, Paul Thomas	2012
95	Commune (Paris, 1871), La	Watkins, Peter	2000
96	Fog of War, The	Morris, Errol	2003
97	World, The	Jia Zhangke	2004
100	Nostalgia for the Light	Guzmán, Patricio	2010