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FILM COMMENT
January/February 2003
FINAL CUT 2002
Film Comment’s end-of-year poll
above: Unknown Pleasures
Movies that Mattered |
Guilty Pleasures | Worst of 2002
20 BEST FILMS OF 2002
(Released theatrically in the U.S.)
01. Far From Heaven (Todd Haynes, U.S.) 597 points
02. Adaptation (Spike Jonze, U.S.) 471
03. Y tu mama también (Alfonso Cuarón, Mexico) 413
04. Talk to Her (Pedro Almodóvar, Spain) 403
05. About Schmidt (Alexander Payne, U.S.) 367
06. Time Out (Laurent Cantet, France) 361
07. The Fast Runner (Zacharias Kunuk, Canada) 334
08. Punch-Drunk Love (Paul Thomas Anderson,
U.S.) 318
09. Russian Ark (Alexander Sokurov,
Russia/Germany) 303
10. Gangs of New York (Martin Scorsese, U.S.) 297
11. Minority Report (Steven Spielberg, U.S.) 296
12. Spirited Away (Hayao Miyazaki, Japan) 277
13. In Praise of Love (Jean-Luc Godard,
France/Switzerland) 264
14. I'm Going Home (Manoel de Oliveira,
Portugal/France) 247
15. Bloody Sunday (Paul Greengrass, U.K./Ireland) 236
16. The Piano Teacher (Michael Haneke, Austria/France) 220
17. What Time Is It There? (Tsai Ming-liang,
Taiwan/France) 200
18. Femme Fatale (Brian De Palma, U.S.) 192
19. The Pianist (Roman Polanski, Poland/U.K./
France) 185
20. Late Marriage (Dover Kosashvili, Israel) 174
10 BEST UNRELEASED FILMS OF 2002
(Seen last year but not yet released in the U.S.)
01. Unknown Pleasures (Jia Zhangke, China) 223
02. The Man Without a Past
(Aki Kaurismäki, Finland) 217
03. Spider (David Cronenberg, Canada/U.K.) 209
04. Ten (Abbas Kiarostami, Iran/France) 174
05. Springtime in a Small Town
(Tian Zhuangzhuang, China) 150
06. Millennium Mambo
(Hou Hsiao-hsien, France/Taiwan) 145
07. Divine Intervention
(Elia Suleiman, Palestine/France) 124
08. The Son (Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne, Belgium/France) 123
09. To Be and to Have (Nicolas Philibert, France) 120
10. The Uncertainty Principle
(Manoel de Oliveira, Portugal/France) 118
Fifty-nine of this year's contributors and selected colleagues voted for the 20 best films released in the US in 2002, and the ten best unreleased films of the year. Participants: John Anderson, David Ansen, Nicole Armour, Paul Arthur, Michael Atkinson, Marjorie Baumgarten, Chris Chang, Travis Crawford, Edward Crouse, Manohla Dargis, Roger Ebert, F. X. Feeney, Graham Fuller, Jason Gross, Ernest Hardy, Dennis Harvey, J. Hoberman, Robert Horton, Gary Indiana, Harlan Jacobson, Kent Jones, Kristin Marriott Jones, Dave Kehr, Sarah Kerr, Stuart Klawans, Michael Koresky, Nathan Lee, Jacob Levich, Philip Lopate, Alice Lovejoy, Guy Maddin, Todd McCarthy, Maitland McDonagh, Wesley Morris, Nick Nicastro, Chris Norris, Geoffrey O'Brien, Mark Olsen, Gerald Peary, Richard Peña, Mark Peranson, Tony Pipolo, Alissa Quart, Bérénice Reynaud, Jonathan Rosenbaum, Lisa Schwarzbaum, Gavin Smith, Roger Smith, Gregory Solman, Chuck Stephens, David Sterritt, Amy Taubin, Anne Thompson, Kenneth Turan, Giulia D'Agnolo Vallan, Armond White, Michael Wilmington.
EDITORS’ CHOICE
Gavin Smith
Adaptation;
Bloody Sunday;
demonlover;
Far From Heaven;
Femme Fatale;
Friday Night (Claire Denis);
Ichi the Killer;
Super 8 films of José Rodriguez;
Unknown Pleasures;
The Visitation (Nathaniel Dorsky);
Video:;
One Mile per Minute (Robby Abate);
Down from the Mountains
(Alfred Guzzetti);
Music Video:
Six Days – DJ Shadow
(Wong Kar-wai)
Chris Chang
1. Minority Report;
2. Late Marriage;
3. Talk to Her;
4. The Fast Runner ;
5. The Son;
6. Ichi the Killer;
7. Unknown Pleasures;
8. Alias Betty;
9. Domestic Violence ;
10. Exam (Nasser Refaie);
Short:
Zeno Writing
(William Kentridge);
Best Dog:
Mouki (Late Marriage)
Alice Lovejoy
Adaptation;
Domestic Violence;
Gangs of New York;
Late Marriage;
The Man Without a Past;
Russian Ark;
The Son;
Sunshine State;
Talk to Her;
To Be and to Have;
Best Dog:
Tähti as Hannibal
(The Man Without a Past)
Kent Jones
Afghanistan Year 1380
(Vendemmiati & Lazzaretti);
Blissfully Yours;
demonlover;
Friday Night;
Gangs of New York;
The Son;
Spirited Away;
Springtime in a Small Town;
Talk to Her;
Unknown Pleasures;
Shorts:
Voice of the Prophet (Bob Edwards);
Int. Trailer – Night (Jim Jarmusch);
And one great scene:
An ss officer peering through a
window at a demonstration of the new gas chambers in Costa-Gavras’s Amen;
Best Dog:
Scooby Doo
