THE BEST OF 2001
CONTRIBUTORS SHARE THEIR FAVORITES
OF THE YEAR
Damien Bona
1. A.I. Artificial Intelligence (Steven Spielberg)
2. Mulholland Drive (David Lynch)
3. The Royal Tenenbaums (Wes Anderson)
4. Kandahar (Mohsen Makhmalbaf)
5. Shallow Hal (Farrelly Bros.)
6. Gosford Park (Robert Altman)
7. The Tailor of Panama (John Boorman)
8. Hedwig and the Angry Inch (John Cameron Mitchell)
9. Waking Life (Richard Linklater)
10. L.I.E. (Michael Cuesta)
Zach Campbell
(In vaguely descending order)
A.I. Artificial Intelligence (Steven Spielberg)
What Time Is It There? (Tsai Ming-liang)
Va Savoir (Jacques Rivette)
Mulholland Drive (David Lynch)
The Royal Tenenbaums (Wes Anderson)
ABC Africa (Abbas Kiarostami)
Late Marriage (Dover Kosashvili)
Shallow Hal (Farrelly Bros.)
Domestic Violence (Frederick Wiseman)
Kandahar (Mohsen Makhmalbaf)
Fat Girl (Catherine Breillat)
Ghosts of Mars (John Carpenter)
Gosford Park (Robert Altman)
Osmosis Jones (Farrelly Bros.)
Hedwig and the Angry Inch (John Cameron Mitchell)
Andrew Chan
1. Moulin Rouge (Baz Luhrmann)
2. Ghost World (Terry Zwigoff)
3. Gosford Park (Robert Altman)
4. Memento (Chris Nolan)
5. Mulholland Drive (David Lynch)
6. The Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Ring (Peter Jackson)
7. A.I. Artificial Intelligence (Steven Spielberg)
8. Va Savoir (Jacques Rivette)
Paul Fileri
(Three tiers, alphabetical order)
I
I'm Going Home (Manoel de Oliveira)
Jung (War): In the Land of the Mujaheddin (Fabrizio Lazzaretti and
Alberto Vendemmiati)
Millenium Mambo (Hou Hsiao-hsien)
Mulholland Drive (David Lynch)
The Royal Tenenbaums (Wes Anderson)
Va Savoir (Jacques Rivette)
What Time Is It There? (Tsai Ming-liang)
II
Donnie Darko (Richard Kelly)
Fat Girl (Catherine Breillat)
Ghosts of Mars (John Carpenter)
Ghost World (Terry Zwigoff)
Silence ... We're Rolling (Youssef Chahine)
Warm Water Under a Red Bridge (Shohei Imamura)
Y Tu Mamá También (Alfonso Cuarón)
III
Ginger Snaps (John Fawcett)
In the Bedroom (Todd Field)
Shallow Hal (Farrelly Bros.)
Waking Life (Richard Linklater)
Wet Hot American Summer (David Wain)
Murray Leeder
1. Mulholland Drive (David Lynch)
2. Gosford Park (Robert Altman)
3. Waking Life (Richard Linklater)
4. Ghost World (Terry Zwigoff)
5. The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (Peter Jackson)
6. Fat Girl (Catherine Breillat)
7. The Royal Tenenbaums (Wes Anderson)
8. Hedwig and the Angry Inch (John Cameron Mitchell)
9. Moulin Rouge (Baz Lurhmann)
10. Ginger Snaps (John Fawcett)
Victor Morton
1. Time Out (Laurent Cantet)
2. Amélie (Jean-Pierre Jeunet)
3. Black Hawk Down (Ridley Scott)
4. The Lady and the Duke (Eric Rohmer)
5. In the Bedroom (Todd Field)
6. Late Marriage (Dover Kosashvili)
7. Trembling Before G-d (Sandi Dubowski)
8. Waterboys (Shinobu Yaguchi)
9. Jay & Silent Bob Strike Back (Kevin Smith)
10. No Man's Land (Danis Tanovic)
Dan Sallitt
1. Fat Girl (Catherine Breillat)
2. Late Marriage (Dover Kosashvili)
3. Waking Life (Richard Linklater)
4. Bully (Larry Clark)
5. Paris: XY (Zeka Laplaine)
6. Be My Star (Valeska Grisebach)
7. The Royal Tenenbaums (Wes Anderson)
8. The Fluffer (Richard Glatzer and Wash West)
9. Dog Days (Ulrich Seidl)
10. Harmful Insect (Akihiko Shiota)
11. No Such Thing (Hal Hartley)
12. Ce vieux reve qui bouge (Alain Ruiraudie)
13. Millenium Mambo (Hou Hsiao-hsien)
14. Hush! (Ryosuke Hashiguchi)
15. Gosford Park (Robert Altman)
16. Manic (Jordan Melamed)
17. Margarita Happy Hour (Ilya Chaiken)
18. Y tu mamá también (Alfonso Cuáron)
19. Comment j'ai tue mon pere (Anne Fontaine)
20. La femme qui boit (Bernard Emond)
21. Resurrection (Taviani Bros.)
Max Scheinin
1. The Royal Tenenbaums (Wes Anderson)
2. Ghost World (Terry Zwigoff)
3. Donnie Darko (Richard Kelly)
4. In the Mood for Love (Wong Kar-Wai)
5. A.I. Artificial Intelligence (Steven Spielberg)
6. Undeclared [pilot episode] (Judd Apatow)
7. In the Bedroom (Todd Field)
8. Moulin Rouge (Baz Luhrmann)
9. Mulholland Drive (David Lynch)
10. Freddy Got Fingered (Tom Green)
11. The Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Ring (Peter Jackson)
Peter Sobczynski
1. The Royal Tenenbaums (Wes Anderson)
2. Mulholland Drive (David Lynch)
3. A.I. Artificial Intelligence (Steven Spielberg)
4. Waking Life (Richard Linklater)
5. Amélie (Jean-Pierre Jeunet)
6. Lost and Delirious (Léa Pool)
7. Ghost World (Terry Zwigoff)
8. The Pledge (Sean Penn)
9. Ali (Michael Mann)
10. Time and Tide (Tsui Hark)