Top 10 Films of 2001

1. "Y tu mama tambien" (Alfonso Cuaron, Mexico)

2. ''Mulholland Drive'' (David Lynch, USA)

3. "Memento" (Christopher Nolan, USA)

4. "Lord Of The Rings: The Fellowship Of The Ring" (Peter Jackson, USA)

5. "Gosford Park" (Robert Altman, USA)

6. ''Le Fabuleux destin d'Amélie Poulain'' (Jean-Pierre Jeunet, France)

7. "Moulin Rouge" (Baz Luhrmann, USA)

8. ''Monster's Ball'' (Marc Forster, USA)

9. ''Le Libertin'' (Gabriel Aghion, France)

10. ''Intimacy'' (Patrice Chéreau, UK)

Other great films:

A ma soeur (France)

Angelus (Poland)

L'Anglaise et le Duc (France)

Aria

Atanarjuat The Fast Runner (Canada)

Atlantis: The Lost Empire

Bad Guy (South Korea)

Betty Fisher et autres histoires (France)

Brève Traversée (France)

Bridget Jones's Diary (UK)

Bully 

Clement (France)

Un Crabe dans la tête (Canada)
Curse Of The Jade Scorpion

Desire (Canada)

Dog Days (Austria)

Donnie Darko
Eloge de l'amour (Switzerland)

Enemy At The Gates

Das Experiment (Germany)

Expulsion From Paradise (Czech Republic)

Fade To Black

La Femme qui boit (Canada)

Forbidden Highway

Fulltime Killer (Hong Kong)

Ghost World
Ginger Snaps (Canada)

Golden Girl (France)

Harry Potter And The Philosopher's Stone
Hedwig And The Angry Inch

Iris (UK)

Jalla Jalla (Sweden)

Les Jolies choses (France)

Jurassic Park 3
Kandahar (Iran)

Last Wedding (Canada)

L.I.E.
La Loi du cochon (Canada)

Lost And Delirious (Canada)

The Man Who Wasn't There

Monsoon Wedding (India)
Monsters Inc

No Man's Land (Bosnia)
The Others

Le Pacte des Loups (France)

Le Pornographe (France)

Requiem (Poland)

Roberto Succo (France)

Samsara (India)

Santa Maradona (Italy)

Shrek

Storytelling

Sugar And Spice
Super 8 Stories (Yugoslavia)

Taurus (Russia)

Thomas est amoureux (Belgium)

Training Day

Treed Murray (Canada)

Uomo in piu (Italy)

Visitor Q (Japan)

Waking Life
Weiser (Poland)

What Time Is It There? (Taiwan)

Women In Film

Top 10 Guilty Pleasures of 2001:

1. "Te Amo Made In Chile" (Sergio M. Castilla, Chile)

2. "Sex And Lucia" (Julio Medem, Spain)

3. "So Faraway And Blue" (Roy Cross, Canada)

4. "Slashers" (Maurice Devereaux, Canada)

5. "Swordfish" (Dominic Sena, Warner)

6. "Mezzo Forte" (Yasuomi Umetsu, Japan)

7. "Mariages" (Catherine Martin, Canada)

8. "Lovely And Amazing" (Nicole Holofcener, USA)

9. "Late Marriage" (Dover Koshashvili, Israel)

10. "Too Much Flesh" (Pascal Arnold, Jean-Marc Barr, France)

Short Top 3:

1. "Film" (Deco Dawson, Canada)

2. "Sister Lulu" (Philip John, UK)

3. "La Riviere" (Michel Houellebecq, France)

Other great shorts:

The Accountant

La Première fois (Canada)

Slaughtered Pigtails

Stethoscope

Top Music Video:

1. "Weapon Of Choice" (Spike Jonze, Fatboy Slim)

2. "Imitation Of Life" (Garth Jennings, R.E.M.)

3. "Pagan Poetry" (Nick Knight, Bjork)

Other great music videos:

Lady Marmalade

Lapdance

Top Commercial:

"Ghost Town" (E*Trade)

TV Top 3:

1. "24: Season 1" (Fox)

2. "Six Feet Under: Season 1" (HBO)

3. "The Sopranos: Season 3" (HBO)

Other great TV shows:

Further Tales Of The City

Kabaret Olgi Lipinskiej: Karnawalowy przerywnik (Poland)

Kabaret Olgi Lipinskiej: Odprawa poslow (Poland)

Kabaret Olgi Lipinskiej: Popiol i sledzik (Poland)

Kabaret Olgi Lipinskiej: Sprawa otwarta (Poland)

Kabaret Olgi Lipinskiej: Wielkie otwarcie (Poland)
Phylactere Cola (Canada)

Cartoon Top 3:

1. "For The Birds" (Ralph Eggleston, Pixar)

2. "Strange Invaders" (Cordell Barker, NFB, Canada)

3. "Giver Up Yer aul Sins" (Cathal Gaffney, Ireland)

Weak films of 2001:

15 février 1839 (Canada)
Ali
L'Ange de goudron (Canada)
Artificial Intelligence A.I.
A Beautiful Mind
Between The Moon And Montevideo (Canada)
Black Hawk Down
Les Boys III (Canada)

Century Hotel (Canada)
Chaos (France)
Le Ciel sur la tête (Canada)
Crème glacée, chocolat et autres consolations (Canada)
The Deep End
Eisenstein (Canada)
Hannibal
In The Bedroom
Italian For Beginners (Denmark)
Une Jeune fille à la fenêtre (Canada)
Legally Blonde
Marine Life (Canada)
Millennium Actress (Japan)
Ocean's Eleven

Our Lady Of The Assassins (Columbia)
Pearl Harbor
The Piano Teacher (Austria)
Quo Vadis (Poland)
The Royal Tennenbaums

Sexy Beast (UK)
Shipping News
The Son's Room (Italy)
Sous le sable (France)
Sur mes lèvres (France)
Tanguy (France)
Trois princesses pour Roland (Canada)
Unfinished Song (Iran)
Vanilla Sky

Varian's War (Canada)

Weak shorts:

Camping With Camus (New Zealand)
Cul-de-sac (Canada)
Ismaël (Canada)
Killing Time (Canada)
Meska sprawa (Poland)
Una Mujer con panuelo (Spain)
Soother (Canada)

Weak TV shows:

Kabaret Olgi Lipinskiej: Nowe perspektywy (Poland)

Kabaret Olgi Lipinskiej: Same dobre wiadomosci (Poland)

Kabaret Olgi Lipinskiej: Tyle zlego co dobrego (Poland)

Kabaret Olgi Lipinskiej: Zupa a la kacza (Poland)

Weak cartoons:

Fifty Percent Grey (Ireland)
Stubble Trouble

Top Musical of 2001

"Moulin Rouge" (Baz Luhrmann, 20th-Fox)

Memento (2001) *****

Christopher Nolan's masterpiece.

Lord Of The Rings: The Fellowship Of The Ring (2001) *****

The first of Peter Jackson's six Tolkien's adaptations, visually magnificent, constantly entertaining and flawless in every respect.

Gosford Park (2001) *****

One of Robert Altman's greatest films.

Le Fabuleux destin d'Amélie Poulain (2001) ****

Y tu mama tambien (2001) *****

Alfonso Cuaron's masterpiece, a daring and exciting political allegory about corruption in contemporary Mexico, loaded with sex and nudity, as well as deep tenderness and compassion for humanity. The twin opening scenes are stunning. They set the tone for the rest of the film, which becomes increasingly politicized as it progresses, using a narration to inform us of disturbing social realities that the main protagonists blissfully ignore. And that's because they are too busy trying to get into the pants of a middle-aged, but stunningly beautiful Maribel Verdu. Here the film offers a brilliant twist. What at first appears as a fulfilment of the young men's conscious sexual fantasies, ultimately focuses on the sexual fantasies of Verdu, as well as the young men's unconscious (and deeply hidden) desires. To put it bluntly, she takes advantage of them, rather than vice versa. And as result, their friendship is over. 

Mulholland Drive (2001) *****

Hypnotic, surrealistic and enchanting film about the Hollywood dream and the Los Angeles reality.

Slashers (2001) ****

Mezzo Forte (2001) ****

One of the best hentai animé films to come from Japan in recent years, ''Mezzo Forte'' (2001) is a terrifically entertaining action comedy directed by Yasuomi Umetsu (who also directed an equally impressive, but much somber ''Kite''). The good thing about this movie is that it doesn't take itself very seriously, and yet delivers the goods as far as exciting action scenes, sharp dialogues and explicit sex are concerned. The violence is completely over-the-top and incredibly bloody, but with a light and very ironic tone that makes it closer in spirit to Quentin Tarantino than to Martin Scorsese. The often self-deprecating humour is refreshing and original. And the quality of the animation really sets it apart from others of its kind. As one reviewer wrote quite enthusiastically, "a little dangerous, a little naughty, and more than a little fun, Mezzo Forte is, well, freakin' awesome."

Das Experiment (2001) ****

Shrek (2001) ****

Superb animated film about a sympathetic ogre.

Intimacy (2001) ****

Le Libertin (2001) ****

Monster's Ball (2001) ****

Moulin Rouge (2001) ****

Fulltime Killer (2001) ***