2003 - year in review
Introduction

top ten
#10) Raising Victor Vargas
#9) Lord of the Rings
        The Return of the King

#8) Elephant
#7) Irreversible
#6) demonlover
#5) Spellbound
#4) The Son
#3) Mystic River
#2) Lost In Translation
#1) Kill Bill

individual top tens

but what about...
Bad Santa
City of God
City of God 2
Dog Days
Friday Night
Holes
Japon
Lilja 4 Ever
Open Range
Shattered Glass
Unknown Pleasures
Wrong Turn


get over it:
LOTR - The Return of the King
Monster
Mystic River


articles and reviews:
2 Cents - mini reviews
Hollywood's Year of Dad Rock
The Cinema of Joseph Cornell
Year of the Doc
Angels in America
Big Fish
The Dreamers
Kids Are Alright
My Architect
Pieces of April - redux

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    Individual Top Tens

Saul Austerlitz
1. An Injury to One
2. Angels in America
3. Mystic River
4. Spellbound
5. Lilya 4-Ever
6. The Man Without a Past
7. Crimson Gold
8. Chihwaseon
9. Elephant
10. Demonlover and The Fog of War (tie)

Neal Block
1. All the Real Girls
2. Kill Bill Volume One
3. Secret Lives of Dentists
4. Bad Santa
5. Elephant
6. Lost In Translation
7. Raising Victor Vargas
8. School of Rock
9. Spellbound
10. House of 1000 Corpses

Bob Carroll
1. Kill Bill Volume One
2. Mystic River
3. Lord of the Rings: Return of the King
4. City of God
5. Amen
6. 28 Days Later
7. To Be and To Have
8. Master and Commander
9. In The Cut
10. The Hard Word

Stefano Ciammaroni
1. Kill Bill Volume One
2. Final Destination 2
3. Irreversible
4. Mystic River
5. Elephant
6. Dirty Pretty Things
7. Lost In Translation
8. Capturing the Friedmans
9. Pirates of the Caribbean
10. Something’s Gotta Give

Michael Garofalo
The Flower of Evil
In America
Kill Bill Volume One
The Lord of the Rings: Return of the King
Lost In Translation
Spellbound
Stone Reader
The Weather Underground

   

Michael Koresky
1. The Son
2. Kill Bill Volume One
3. Love and Diane
4. Lost In Translation
5. Irreversible
6. Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
7. Demonlover
8. Spellbound
9. Angels In America
10. Open Range

Ohad Landesman
1. Kill Bill: Volume One
2. Irreversible
3. Raising Victor Vargas
4. Lost In Translation
5. Mystic River
6. Swimming Pool
7. The Fog of War
8. Spellbound
9. Ten
10. Finding Nemo

Alice Lovejoy
1. All the Real Girls
2. Demonlover
3. Eat Sleep No Women (Heiner Stadler, Germany)
4. Friday Night
5. Hukkle
6. Kill Bill: Volume One
7. Lilya 4.Ever
8. Lost In Translation
9. Remembrance of Things To Come
10. 66 Seasons

John McCarron
1. Spider
2. Triplets of Belleville
3. Winged Migration
4. Ten
5. American Splendor
6. In America
7. Kill Bill Vol 1
8. Master and Commander
9. Lost In Translation
10. The Lord of the Rings: Return of the King

Nick Pinkerton
1. Dog Days
2. Mystic River
3. In America
4. Hell’s Highway
5. Bad Santa
6. Irreversible
7. Shanghai Knights
8. Wrong Turn
9. Friday Night

   

Matthew Plouffe
1. Demonlover
2. Friday Night
3. Unknown Pleasures
4. Lilya 4-Ever
5. The Son
6. Elephant
7. Angels in America
8. Father and Son
9. Lost In Translation
10. 21 Grams

Chris Povey
1. Kill Bill Volume One
2. Ten
3. To Be and To Have
4. Capturing the Friedmans
5. Sweet Sixteen
6. American Splendor
7. In My Skin
8. Raising Victor Vargas
9. Lost In Translation
10. Respiro

Jeff Reichert
1. Kill Bill: Volume One
2. demonlover
3. Japon
4. All the Real Girls
5. School of Rock
6. Friday Night
7. Open Range
8. The Son
9. Finding Nemo
10. Stevie

Vicente Rodriguez-Ortega
1. City of God
2. Elephant
3. Dirty Pretty Things
4. Lost In Translation
5. demonlover
6. Raising Victor Vargas
7. Thirteen
8. X2: X.Men United
9. Dog Days
10. The Barbarian Invasions

Michael Rowin
El Bonaerense (Pablo Trapero)
La Commune (Paris, 1871) (Peter Watkins)
demonlover (Olivier Assayas)
Dogville (Lars von Trier)
Families (James Fotopoulos)
Goodbye Dragon Inn (Tsai Ming.liang)
Japon (Carlos Reygadas)
() (Morgan Fisher)
School of Rock (Richard Linklater)
Star Spangled to Death (Ken Jacobs)

   

Cecilia Sayad
1. Kill Bill: Vol. 1
2. Gerry
3. Irreversible
4. The Son
5. Raising Victor Vargas
6. Spellbound
7. Swimming Pool
8. Final Destination 2
9. Lost in Translation
10. The Flower of Evil

Suzanne Scott
1. Lord of the Rings: Return of the King
2. Kill Bill: Volume One
3. Lost In Translation
4. School of Rock
5. Bubba Ho Tep
6. Holes
7. Freddy Vs. Jason
8. Texas Chainsaw Massacre
9. Finding Nemo
10. Pirates of the Caribbean

Erik Syngle
1. The Son
2. Spellbound
3. Remembrance of Things to Come
4. Demonlover
5. September 11
6. Platform
7. Mystic River
8. Friday Night
9. Holes
10. All the Real Girls

Jessica Ward
1. Lilya 4 Ever
2. L'Auberge Espagnole
3. Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
4. Irreversible
5. Young Adam
6. Spellbound
7. Lost in Translation
8. City of God
9. The Eye
10. Dogville

Karen Wilson
1. Lost In Translation
2. Shattered Glass
3. Lord of the Rings: Return of the King
4. I Capture the Castle
5. Man Without a Past
6. Lilya 4 Ever
7. Pirates of the Caribbean
8. School of Rock
9. X2
10. My Life Without Me




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