Best Films of 2003

 

Top Twelve (Alphabetical order)

 

AlexandraÕs Project (Rolf de Heer)

Blind Shaft (Li Yang)

Confessions of a Dangerous Mind (George Clooney)

Etre et Avoir ((Nicholas Philibert)

The Good Girl (Miguel Arteta)

The Mother (Roger Michell)

The Man Without a Past (Aki Kaurismaki)

Mystic River (Clint Eastwood)

Sweet Sixteen (Ken Loach)

Talk to Her (Pedro Almodovar)

Ten (Abbas Kiarostami)

Wilbur Wants to Kill Himself (Lone Scherflig)

 

Best on DVD

 

The Big Combo (Joseph H. Lewis)

Carlton + Godard = Cinema (Nigel Buesst)

Les Dames du Bois de Boulogne (Robert Bresson)

Insomnia (Erik Skjoldbaerg)

Red Desert (Michelangelo Antonioni)

SatanÕs Brew (Rainer Werner Fassbinder)

Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy (John Irvin)

Tokyo Drifter (Seijun Suzuki)

La Vie est un Roman (Alain Resnais)

The Wild Bunch (Sam Peckinpah)

 

Guilty Pleasures

 

Intacto (Jose-Luis Fresnadillo)

Pirates of the Caribbean (Gore Verbinski)

Secretary (Steven Shainberg)

By Jeeves (Alan Ayckbourn & Andrew Lloyd Webber) DVD

 

Best Revivals

 

Palm Beach (Albie Thoms)

Red Circle (Jean-Pierre Melville)

 

Duds

 

Bride of the Wind (Bruce Beresford)

GettinÕ Square (Jonathan Teplitzky)

Ned Kelly (Gregor Jordan)