The American publication The Washington Post has compiled a list of the 23 best films made in the 21st century. The rating was released under the title “New Canon”.
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“This is a list of acclaimed films that helped shape the cinematic language. They not only captured their own spirit of the times, but also stood the test of history, becoming true examples in the field of aesthetics, technology, grammar and taste,” say the authors of the rating.
According to them, since the early 2000s, cinema has seen many striking examples of directors experimenting with storytelling, form and genre. The editors are confident that the existing canon, where films like Alfred Hitchcock’s “Vertigo” or Orson Welles’ “Citizen Kane” occupy the first places, needs to be expanded with new films. And despite the fact that they were filmed relatively recently, they deserve the attention of viewers.
Since everyone is accustomed to considering films made in the last century as classic examples, The Washington Post names 23 films made since the beginning of 2000 that are no worse and just as timeless.
Children of Men (directed by Alfonso Cuaron, 2006)
“25th Hour” / 25th Hour (directed by Spike Lee, 2002)
The Hurt Locker (directed by Kathryn Bigelow, 2008)
“Michael Clayton” / Michael Clayton (director Tony Gilroy, 2007)
Pan’s Labyrinth (directed by Guillermo Del Toro, 2006)
There Will Be Blood (directed by Paul Thomas Anderson, 2007)
“Youth” / Boyhood (director Richard Linkleter, 2014)
“Four months, three weeks, two days” / 4 luni, 3 săptămâni şi 2 zile (director Cristian Mungiu, 2007)
“Old Joy” / Old Joy (director Kelly Ryckardt, 2006)
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (directed by Michel Gondry, 2004)
Hunger (directed by Steve McQueen, 2008)
“You Can Count on Me” (directed by Kenneth Lonergan, 2000)
No Country for Old Men (directed by the Coen brothers, 2007)
“I’m Not There” / I’m Not There (director Todd Haynes, 2007)
Minority Report (directed by Steven Spielberg, 2002)
Dunkirk (directed by Christopher Nolan, 2017)
Mudbound Farm (directed by Dee Rees, 2017)
“Spotlight” / Spotlight (directed by Tom McCarthy, 2015)
“Son of Saul” / Saul fia (director Laszlo Nemes, 2015)
Stories We Tell (directed by Sarah Polley)
The Fog of War (directed by Errol Morris, 2003)
The Royal Tenenbaums (directed by Wes Anderson, 2001)
Spirited Away / 千と千尋の神隠し (directed by Hayao Miyazaki, 2001)