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The Best Movies of the 2000s: Jane Schoenbrun, Sean Baker, Gregg Araki, Brady Corbet, Radu Jude, Zia Anger, Bill Hader, and More Share Their Favorites

IndieWire asked a group of Hollywood directors, producers, writers, and stars which movies from the 2000s stand out.

Yi Yi (2000, Edward Yang) Code Unknown (2000, Michael Haneke) The Yards (2000, James Gray) Eureka (2000, Aoyama Shinji) Millennium Mambo (2001, Hou Hsiao-Hsien) Pulse (2001, Kiyoshi Kurosawa) All About Lily Chou-Chou (2001, Shunji Iwai) Ghost World (2001, Terry Zwigoff) The Pledge (2001, Sean Penn) Punch-Drunk Love (2002, Paul Thomas Anderson) Oasis (2002, Lee Chang-Dong) A Snake of June (2002, Shinya Tsukamoto) Memories of Murder (2003, Bong Joon-hoo) Gozu (2003, Takashi Miike) Spider man 2 (2004, Sam Raimi) The Eternal Sunshine Of My Spotless Mind (2004, Michel Gondry) Marebito (2004, Takashi Shimizu) Before Sunset (2004, Richard Linklater) Brokeback Mountain (2005, Ang Lee) A History of Violence (2005, David Cronenberg) Lady in the Water (2006, M. Night Shyamalan) The Wind That Shakes The Barley (2006, Ken Loach) Déjà vu (2006, Tony Scott) Black Book (2006, Paul Verhoeven) No Country For Old Men (2007, Joel & Ethan Coen) Zodiac (2007, David Fincher) REC (2007, Jaume Balaguero & Paco Plaza) Margot at the Wedding (2007, Noah Baumbach) Gran Torino (2008, Clint Eastwood) The Dark Knight (2008, Christopher Noran) District 9 (2009, Neill Blomkamp) Fantastic Mr. Fox (2009, Wes Anderson) The Limits of Control (2009, Jim Jarmusch) A Prophet (2009, Jacque Audiard) Whip It (2009, Drew Barrymore) Documentary “The Gleaners and I” (Agnès Varda, 2000) “Domestic Violence” (Frederick Wiseman, 2001) “The Century of the Self” (Adam Curtis, 2002) “The Odds of Recovery” (Su Friedrich, 2002) “Tie Xi Qu: West of the Tracks” (Wang Bing, 2002) “Small Town Ecstasy” (Jay Blumenfield, 2002) “Los Angeles Plays Itself” (Thom Andersen, 2003) “Metallica: Some Kind of Monster” (Joe Berlinger & Bruce Sinofsky, 2004) “Our Daily Bread” (Nikolaus Geyrhalter, 2005) “Running Stumbled” (John Maringouin, 2006) Image Credit: LOTTE ENTERTAINMENT/THE KOREA HERALD “A Bitterweet Life” (2005) – Kim Jee-woon “Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind” (2004) – Michel Gondry “Happy-Go-Lucky” (2008) – Mike Leigh “In Bruges” (2008) – Martin McDonagh “Inglourious Basterds” (2009) – Quentin Tarantino “Lars and the Real Girl” (2007) – Craig Gillespie “Mother” (2009) – Bong Joon-ho “No Country for Old Men” (2007) – Joel and Ethan Coen “Punch-Drunk Love” (2002) – Paul Thomas Anderson “Zodiac” (2007) – David Fincher

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