it’s been seven years…

since the new millenium started. and i know it’s probably asking too much, considering the cinema is really a child of the 20th century, and all that history just makes it statistically more probable that the lion’s share of the good films would have been made at that time.

but have there been any great movies since 2005′s Goodfellas? (which, i have to agree is a pretty great film).

as for good (meaning critically acclaimed or with some sort of impact on life in general) films I’ve yet to watch, here’s a list, in no particular order:

1. La Règle du Jeu by Jean Renoir
2. The Searchers by John Ford
3. Tokyo Monogatari by Ozu Yasujiro
4. Sunrise and Nosferatu by F.W. Murnau
5. Triumph of the Will by Leni Riefenstahl (yes, this is the Hitler propaganda flick, I wanna see this because they say it was such great propaganda… scary…)
6. Ghost World by by Terry Zwigoff (yes! a 2001 film! about a comic book!)
7. M by Fritz Lang
8. Picnic at Hanging Rock by Peter Weir
9. Mon oncle Antoine by Claude Jutra (will probably catch this Canadian film, as well as the other Canadian films on this list when I head back there this year, they should be in the library.)
10. Jésus de Montréal by Denys Arcand
11. Un Zoo La Nuit by Jean-Claude Lauzon
12. Xiaocheng zhi Chun (Spring in a Small Town) by Fei Mu
13. Yingxiong Bense (A Better Tomorrow) by John Woo
14. Memorias de Subdesarollo by Tomas Gutierrez Alea (I actually saw this Cuban film in university, I just need to see it again)
15. Les Enfants du Paradis by Marcel Carné
16. The Yacoubian Building by Alaa al-Aswany
17. Das Boot by Wolfgang Petersen (again another film I’ve seen but need to see again)
18. The Apu Trilogy (Pather Panchali, Aparajito, and Apur Sansar) by Satyalit Ray
19. Bronenosets Potyemkin (The Battleship Potemkin) by Sergei Eisenstein
20. Det sjunde inseglet (The Seventh Seal) by Ingmar Bergman
21. The Third Man by Carol Reed
22. Get Carter by Mike Hodges

I’ll post here once I’ve seen these films. And if you’ve any other films that you believe are “must watch”, please let me know.