Asian Directors Giving Their Top 10 of 2000s

Taken from the Jan ’10 issue of Les Cahiers du cinema:

Jia Zhang-ke
1. Colossal Youth, Pedro Costa
2. Elephant, Gus Van Sant
3. Millenium Mambo, Hou Hsiao-hsien
4. Nobody Knows, Hirokazu Kore-eda
5. Yi Yi: A One and a Two, Edward Yang
6. Secret Sunshine, Lee Chang-dong
7. Uzak, Bilge Ceylan
8. I Don’t Want to Sleep Alone, Tsai Ming-liang
9. Summer Palace, Lou Ye
10. Syndromes and a Century, Apichatpong Weerasethakul

Kiyoshi Kurosawa
1. War of the Worlds, Steven Spielberg
2. A History of Violence, David Cronenberg
3. Mystic River, Clint Eastwood
4. Our Music, JL Godard
5. L’enfant, Dardennes Bros
6. Eureka, Shinji Aoyama
7. Death Proof, Quentin Tarantino
8. Platform, Jia Zhang-ke
9. The Host, Bong Joon-ho
10. The Bridesmaid, Claude Chabrol

Bong Joon-ho
Zodiac, David Fincher
A History of Violence, David Cronenberg
No Country for Old Men, Coen Bros
Still Life, Jia Zhang-ke
Jellyfish, Kiyoshi Kurosawa
Woman on the Beach, Hong Sang Soo
Punch-Drunk Love, Paul T. Anderson
The Class, Laurent Cantet
Hunger, Steve McQueen
A Brand New Life, Ounie Lecomte

Shinji Aoyama
Jean Bricards’ Itinerary, Huillet & Straub
Our Music, JL Godard
War of the Worlds, Steven Spielberg
Death Proof, Quentin Tarantino
Woman on the Beach, Hong Sang-soo
Merde, Léos Carax
Gran Torino, Clint Eastwood
The Darjeeling Limited, Wes Anderson
Four Nights with Anna, Skolimovski
Romance of Astree and Celadon, Eric Rohmer

And now, asian films mentioned by non-asian directors;
• Quentin Tarantino: Battle Royale, Audition
• Asia Argento: Visitor Q
• Pascale Ferran: The Host, Yi Yi: A One and a Two, Blissfully Yours, Kaïro

Finally, Cahiers’ Top 10:
1. Mulholland Drive
2. Elephant
3. Tropical Malady
4. The Host
5. A History of Violence
6. The Secret of the Grain
7. Tie Xi Qu: West of the Tracks
8. War of the Worlds
9. The New World
10. Ten

Tagged as: 2000s, Asian Directors, Bong Joon Ho, Cahiers du Cinema, Decade, Jia Zhang Ke, Kiyoshi Kurosawa, Shinji Aoyama, Top 10

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