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Over the past few days, I've been enjoying these European film productions on dvd:
And earlier this year:
But most of all, I've enjoyed this dreamy, Summery Polish film, when I saw it at the Muhka Cinematek (now Cinema Zuid) last January: "Sztuczki (Tricks)" …

Incidentally, czech this post for more on the French + Czech film "La planète sauvage" + psychedelic tv commercials from the US of A: http://uzine.posterous.com/win-your-un-thing-dacron-polyester !

best films of the past decade

... and while I'm on the subject of media critique ...
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Also, I was outraged by this here shallow list by the (London) Times !
[Is this The Times 2009 a.d. ?!? poor anglosaxons, you're so out of touch with "ROW" (rest-of-world) !]
And so I made my own list of "best films 2000-2009" - what's your top ten?

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01. Les glaneurs et la glaneuse + Deux ans après (Agnès Varda, 2000 + 2002)

02. Le fabuleux destin d'Amélie Poulain (Jean-Pierre Jeunet, 2001)

03. Hundstage (Ulrich Seidl, 2001)

04. Spring, summer, fall, winter ... and spring (Ki-Duk Kim, 2003)

05. Luz silenciosa (Carlos Reygadas, 2005)

06. La stanza del figlio (Nanni Moretti, 2001)

07. Tricks (Andrzej Jakimowski, 2007)

08. The blessing bell (Hiroyuki Tanaka aka Sabu, 2002)

09. Sympathy for Lady Vengeance (Chan-Wook Park, 2005)

10. Grizzly man (Werner Herzog, 2005)

 

And I'm sure I forgot plenty others in this here "didn't make the top ten of best films 2000-2009" list:

 

Een ander zijn geluk (Fien Troch, 2005)

Any way the wind blows (Tom Barman, 2003)

Autofocus (Paul Schrader, 2002)

Bad guy (Ki-Duk Kim, 2001)

The banishment (Andrey Zviagintsev, 2006)

Les Barons (Nabil Ben Yadir, 2009)

Borat - cultural learnings [...] (Larry Charles, 2006)

The Bourne identity (Paul Greengrass, 2002)

The Bourne supremacy (Paul Greengrass, 2004)

The Bourne ultimatum (Paul Greengrass, 2007)

Breath (Ki-Duk Kim, 2007)

Caché (Michael Haneke, 2005)

Cashback (Sean Ellis, 2004)

4 ("Chetyr", Ilya Khrjanovski, 2005)

Children of men (Alfonso Cuarón, 2006)

Cidade de deus (Fernando Meirelles, 2002)

Dagen zonder lief (Felix Van Groeningen, 2007)

Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind (Michel Gondry, 2004)

Le fils (Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne, 2002)

Gouttes d'eau sur pierres brulantes (François Ozon, 2000)

Happy-go-lucky (Mike Leigh, 2007)

Home (Ursula Meier, 2008)

Import / Export (Ulrich Seidl, 2007)

Inglourious basterds (Quentin Tarantino, 2009)

Insomnia (Christopher Nolan, 2002)

In the mood for love (Kar Wai Wong, 2000)

L'intrus (Claire Denis, 2004)

Irréversible (Gaspar Noé, 2002)

The isle (Ki-Duk Kim, 2000)

Das Leben der Anderen (Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck, 2006)

Linkeroever (Pieter Van Hees, 2008)

Lost in translation (Sofia Coppola, 2003)

Lust, caution (Ang Lee, 2007)

El maquinista (Brad Anderson, 2004)

Micmacs à tire-larigot (Jean-Pierre Jeunet, 2009)

Monday (Hiroyuki Tanaka aka Sabu, 2000)

The new world (Terrence Malick, 2005)

Nobody knows (Hirokazu Kore-Eda, 2004)

Nuit noire (Olivier Smolders, 2004)

Oasis (Chang-Dong Lee, 2002)

One hour photo (Mark Romanek, 2002)

Panique au village (Stéphane Aubier & Vincent Patar, 2009)

La pianiste (Michael Haneke, 2001)

Les plages d'Agnès (Agnès Varda, 2008)

The return (Andrey Zviagintsev, 2003)

Samaritan girl (Ki-Duk Kim, 2007)

Sexy beast (Jonathan Glazer, 2000)

Shoot 'em up (Michael Davis, 2007)

Spider (David Cronenberg, 2002)

Steve + Sky (Felix Van Groeningen, 2004)

Storytelling (Todd Solondz, 2001)

Stupeurs et tremblements (Alain Corneau, 2003)

Synechdoche, New York (Charlie Kaufman, 2008)

The Royal Tenenbaums (Wes Anderson, 2001)

Twenty-nine palms (Bruno Dumont, 2003)

Ultranova (Bouli Lanners, 2005)

Das weisse Band (Michael Haneke, 2009)

Where the truth lies (Atom Egoyan, 2005)

Yi-yi (Edward Yang, 2000)

De zaak Alzheimer (Erik Van Looy, 2003)

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Bonus: a very cinefile, challenging "best of the decade" list on
And more listomaniac links via the cool people at Criterion :

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