Jade Bahr
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So how about a movie ranking for the handsome birthday boy?
@Lilja K
o1.) Elvis
(maybe not the best take on Elvis ever made but like most Baz movies the visuals are stunning and Austins performance is a force of nature. I was blown away in cinema. truly a performance for the ages or movie magic at it's finest. It was like watching a movie star born
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o2.) Dune part 2
(not entirely sure if the intention of the director or Austin was to make us turned on by a bald crazy psycho but here we are. His "knife" is welcome to stab me any day
another great intense sometimes frightening performance)
o3.) Once Upon A Time in Hollywood
(I love this movie too much to put it lower even though Austin is just a side character here. It's also easily my most watched movie of him. I also love the fact that he's so versatile. I mean look at these 3 totally different characters. He's so much more than just "a pretty face")
o4.) The Bikeriders
(good lord he's pretty in this movie it's almost absurd 🤣 I know I claimed the exact opposite right above but this movie is like a montage of him being gorgeous at all angles. It's a feat for the eyes and his beauty owns the screen completely sucks you in makes you stare at him like a needy idiot
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o5.) Masters of the Air
(he even makes sniffing on a letter so damn sexy 😻 I don't know what to say more. It's really hard to stay focus on his perfomance -or anything else- when he looks like this
but overall I really enjoyed this show)
o6.) Dude
(more a cameo but he ripped me apart and his presence is felt during the whole movie even when he isn't visible 💔 also love long haired Austin sayin things like this so dreamy
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on my watchlist: The Carrie Diaries (nowhere to find sadly 😒), The Shannara Chronicles, The Dead Don't Die
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More lists of 2000s movies this time from directors/indie filmmakers. Feel free to ignore them!
Joe Dante (director: “Gremlins”)
No order
“Mulholland Drive”
“Children of Men”
“Pan’s Labyrinth”
“Idiocracy”
“Speed Racer”
“Shaun of the Dead”
“Inglorious Basterds”
“Ratatouille”
“Battle Royale”
“Gangs of New York”Parker Finn (writer/director: “Smile”)
“Requiem for a Dream”
“Catch Me If You Can”(Spielberg firing on all cylinders — about as close as you can get to a perfect movie.)
“The Ring”
“24 Hour Party People”
“A Tale of Two Sisters”
“Children of Men”
“Zodiac”
“There Will Be Blood”
“Rachel Getting Married”
“Enter the Void”Michael Felker (writer/director: “Things Will Be Different”)
“THE AVIATOR”
Saw this in theaters with my dad. I distinctly remember him whispering to me before it started, “Any time you see a Martin Scorsese movie, you may be seeing the greatest movie ever made.” And for awhile, this was the greatest. Everything I learned about crafting a compelling but flawed protagonist came from this film. The brief white flashes into Howard Hughes’ obsessive psyche and crippling anxiety genuinely still move me to this day.Nora Finghschneidt (writer/director “The Outrun”)
Other films of that decade that cannot go unmentioned: REPRISE (Joachim Trier, 2006), THE RETURN (Andrei Petrowitsch Swjaginzew, 2003) , I KILLED MY MOTHER (Xavier Dolan, 2009), THE WHITE RIBBON (Michael Haneke, 2009), THE SQUID & THE WHALE (Noah Baumbach, 2005), THE DEPARTED (Martin Scorsese, 2006)
Annie Hamilton (actor: “Between the Temples”)
“The Gangs of New York”/”The Aviator”
Can watch these two cuties any day any time. Gorgeous gorgeous gorgeous entertainment. I had a great “Aviator” poster, but I wasn’t allowed to hang posters in my room, so I kept it under my bed and would pull it out to view it before I went to sleep.
“Catch Me If You Can” should be on here too – I know I’m cheating – but I cant put it on the header cus it’s Spielberg’s not Scorsese’s. My friends like to joke that it’s the only movie I’ve ever seen start to finish (at one point, this might’ve been true..)Robert Kolodny (director: “The Featherweight”)
11. “The Aviator” (Scorsese)
Spiritually, Scorsese is my personal saint of cinema and it would be disingenuous to not include him here. “The Aviator” is a staggering film in so many ways, so fully grandiose and echoing with adoration for the history of cinema. It also belongs to a personal favorite sub-genre of “power hungry eccentric geniuses going over the edge”. Other entries in that genre include: “The Red Shoes,” “There Will be Blood,” “Tár,” and “Citzen Kane.”Joe Lynch (director: “Suitable Flesh”)
“THE DEPARTED” (Martin Scorsese, 2006) – At the time I thought the film was lower-key Marty, itself a remake of the fantastic Japanese thriller INFERNAL AFFAIRS. But it’s that moment when he and editor Thelma Schoonmaker abruptly cut the iconic Dropkick Murphy’s track after a montage to start a casual conversation with an old lady at a doorstep, I knew they were taking the studio star-vehicle potboiler to avant-garde heights only Scorsese could get away with. Seriously, any other director making the shot and edit choices he does in this would have been kicked off the lot or kicked out of the edit room. It’s a Hollywood “One For Them” that kinda backfired in that he made one of my favorite films in his filmography. Of the movies Scorsese directed in the 00’s, this is the one I revisit at least once a year.
Neil Marshall (co-writer/director: “Duchess”)
INCEPTION
Perhaps the first intellectual blockbuster of the modern age. Christopher Nolan dared to try something new, dense and complex, challenging audiences to think for themselves in a time of largely being spoon-fed. And they loved him for it.McG (director: “Uglies”)
In no particular order….
“The Dark Knight”
“Amélie”
“Gladiator”
“The Royal Tenenbaums”
“There Will Be Blood”
“Casino Royale”
“Snatch”
“The Incredibles”
“The Departed”
“Slumdog Millionaire”Alex Saks (producer: “It Ends with Us”)
3. “The Departed” Watch this film every Christmas, by myself, since it came out. Can’t explain why. Do not read into that.
ALTERNATES!!!
Devil Wears Prada
Training Day
Michael Clayton
You Can Count on Me
Legally Blonde
Oceans 11
Big Fish
Anchorman
My Big Fat Greek Wedding
Little Miss Sunshine
Chicago
Blood Diamond
Children of Men
There Will Be Blood
Diving Bell and the Butterfly
Dark Knight
Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Wedding Crashers
Wall-E
An EducationRob Savage (director: “The Boogeyman”)
Ginger Snaps (John Fawcett, 2000)
Werckmeister Harmonies (Béla Tarr, 2000)
Unbreakable (M. Night Shyamalan, 2000)
Bully (Larry Clark, 2001)
Metropolis (Rintaro, 2001)
Solaris (Steven Soderbergh, 2002)
Lilya 4-Ever (Lukas Moodysson, 2002)
Morvern Callar (Lynne Ramsay, 2002)
In This World (Michael Winterbottom, 2002)
Sweet Sixteen (Ken Loach, 2002)
The Triplets of Belleville (Sylvain Chomet, 2003)
The Return (Andrey Zvyagintsev, 2003)
The Aviator (Martin Scorsese, 2004)
Mysterious Skin (Gregg Araki, 2004)
Cache (Michael Haneke, 2005)
Lady Vengeance (Park Chan-wook, 2005)
Wolf Creek (Greg McLean, 2005)
The Hills Have Eyes (Alexandre Aja, 2006)
Red Road (Andrea Arnold, 2006)
Requiem (Hans-Christian Schmid, 2006)
Silent Light (Carlos Reygadas, 2007)
The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (Andrew Dominik, 2007)
Rec (Jaume Balagueró, Paco Plaza, 2007)
Lake Mungo (Joel Anderson, 2008)
Where the Wild Things Are (Spike Jonze, 2009)Jessica M. Thompson (director: “The Invitation”)
“A Beautiful Mind” (2001) – I feel this kicked off a feverish run of biopics (“Ray”, “Walk the Line”, “The Aviator”, “The Queen”, “La Vie en Rose”, “Milk” all quickly followed), and I am here for every single one of them. This was such an illuminating and searing insight into the fractured mind of a genius. (Also, what a one-two Russell Crowe had!)
Jeff Wadlow (co-writer/director “Imaginary”)
“THE DEPARTED” (2006)
I love Martin Scorsese, but I have a slightly controversial opinion — this is his best movie. Don’t get me wrong, I’m a huge fan of GOODFELLAS, TAXI DRIVER, RAGING BULL (the list goes on and on), but if I had to pick one to re-watch right now, it would be THE DEPARTED. It’s just such an amazing concept (based on 2002’s INFERNAL AFFAIRS) and Scorese is at the top of his game. You can feel him bringing to bear all the tools he’s had as a filmmaker over the years, and he assembled a truly jaw-dropping cast. From Leonard DiCaprio giving one of his best performances, to Matt Damon’s awesome turn as a villain (what other director could get Damon to do that?), to all the supporting players (Vera Farmiga, Martin Sheen, Alec Baldwin, Mark Wahlberg — and so many more), and to finally Jack Nicholson, giving arguably his final iconic performance (apologies to THE BUCKET LIST, which came out a year later) — this is Scorsese at his best. -
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in Male Actors
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