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Ray Pride Counts Down His Film List of 2000



1. Beau Travail, Claire Denis
2. In the Mood for Love, Wong Kar-Wai
3. George Washington, David Gordon Green
4. Ratcatcher, Lynne Ramsay
5. Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, Ang Lee
6. Maelstrom, Denis Villeneuve
7. The Wind Will Carry Us, Abbas Kiarostami
8. Traffic, Steven Soderbergh
9. Before Night Falls, Julian Schnabel
10. Croupier, Mike Hodges
11. You Can Count on Me, Kenneth Lonergan
12. The Virgin Suicides, Sofia Coppola
13. Die Innere Sicherheit (The State I'm In), Christian Petzold
14. Almost Famous, Cameron Crowe
15. Werkmeister Harmonies, Bela Tarr
16. Yi Yi, Edward Yang
17. Not Forgotten, Makoto Shinozaki
18. The House of Mirth, Terence Davies
I love Davies's earlier, lyrical non-narratives, Distant Voices, Still Lives and The Long Day Closes, but The House of Mirth is more accessible while retaining the visual rigor or his earlier work. A brilliant, restrained adaptation of Edith Wharton's novel, it avoids the deadly chi-chi that often kills period costume drama, such as Martin Scorsese's Wharton folly, The Age of Innocence. It has a stirring central performance by Gillian Anderson, and Davies refuses to let the foolishness of the characters remain unpunished. Amazing work. (Sony Pictures Classics)
19. The Mission, Johnny To
20. Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai, Jim Jarmusch

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