{"id":2401,"date":"2009-05-19T22:58:30","date_gmt":"2009-05-20T02:58:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/?p=2401"},"modified":"2012-06-22T02:47:53","modified_gmt":"2012-06-22T06:47:53","slug":"flashback-movie-lists-2000-2004","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/2401","title":{"rendered":"Flashback: Movie Lists 2000-2004"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In 2004 I had a different idea for this website &#8211; instead of tracking every blasted movie I&#8217;ve ever seen, I&#8217;d write focused reviews of &#8220;obscure&#8221; movies, the idea being to develop myself as a film critic without covering all the same titles everyone else was talking about.  Later I&#8217;d decide I didn&#8217;t want to be a film critic or to write for any audience besides myself, and this movie journal was born.  To flesh out the old site since I hadn&#8217;t written many reviews yet, I made some top-ten lists of my favorite obscure films of recent years (&#8220;obscure&#8221; mathematically defined as anything with fewer than 3,000 votes on the IMDB).  Those lists (from early &#8217;05) follow, unmodified.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<br \/>\n<strong>2004<\/strong><br \/>\n1. <a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/5\">A Very Long Engagement<\/a><br \/>\n2. <a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/7261\">Zebraman<\/a><br \/>\n3. Primer<br \/>\n4. Dig!<br \/>\n5. She Hate Me<br \/>\n6. Cash Flow (Argent Liquide)<br \/>\n7. The Fourth World War<br \/>\n8. Move<br \/>\n9. Criminal<br \/>\n10. Dumplings<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<br \/>\n<strong>2003<\/strong><br \/>\n1. The Saddest Music in the World<br \/>\n2. <a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/148\">Bright Leaves<\/a><br \/>\n3. <a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/568\">A Talking picture (Un Filme Falado)<\/a><br \/>\n4. <a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/510\">Cowards Bend the Knee<\/a><br \/>\n5. The Return<br \/>\n6. Doppelganger<br \/>\n7. Rocks (Das Rad)<br \/>\n8. Long Gone<br \/>\n9. Masked &#038; Anonymous<br \/>\n10. The Five Obstructions<br \/>\nRunners-up: Code 46, My Architect, The Singing Detective, <a href=\"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/253\">Pan With Us<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<br \/>\n<strong>2002<\/strong><br \/>\n1. Dracula: Pages from a Virgin&#8217;s Diary<br \/>\n2. Amandla! A Revolution in Four Part Harmony<br \/>\n3. Populi<br \/>\n4. <a href=\"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/89\">Infernal Affairs<\/a><br \/>\n5. Demonlover<br \/>\n6. Dark Water<br \/>\n7. Cremaster 3<br \/>\n8. Mt. Head<br \/>\n9. The Trilogy (Lucas Belvaux)<br \/>\n10. Ken Park<br \/>\nRunners-up: Dolls, The Cuckoo, Horns and Halos, The Weather Underground<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<br \/>\n<strong>2001<\/strong><br \/>\n1. Pulse (Ka\u00efro)<br \/>\n2. Winged Migration<br \/>\n3. Ichi the Killer<br \/>\n4. No Such Thing<br \/>\n5. Pootie Tang<br \/>\n6. Autumn Spring<br \/>\n7. The Happiness of the Katakuris<br \/>\n8. Pistol Opera<br \/>\n9. <a href=\"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/316\">Wet Hot American Summer<\/a><br \/>\n10. Human Nature<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<br \/>\n<strong>2000<\/strong><br \/>\n1. The Heart of the World<br \/>\n2. <a href=\"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/1186\">Rejected<\/a><br \/>\n3. George Washington<br \/>\n4. The Circle<br \/>\n5. Camera<br \/>\n6. Steal This Movie<br \/>\n7. Time and Tide<br \/>\n8. <a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/3199\">The Gleaners &#038; I<\/a><br \/>\n9. The House of Mirth<br \/>\n10. Trade Off<br \/>\nRunners-Up: Dark Days, Uzumaki<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 2004 I had a different idea for this website &#8211; instead of tracking every blasted movie I&#8217;ve ever seen, I&#8217;d write focused reviews of &#8220;obscure&#8221; movies, the idea being to develop myself as a film critic without covering all the same titles everyone else was talking about. 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