Top 50 Films of the Decade

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Friday 4 December 2009

New Zealand's film critics announce the Top 50 Films of the Decade

New Zealand’s leading online movie website Flicks.co.nz has compiled a comprehensive list of the ‘Top 50 Films of the Decade’.

Nine of New Zealand’s most respected film critics painstakingly selected the fifty films from every cinematic release in New Zealand between 2000 and 2009.

These nine contributors hail from - deep breath - Flicks.co.nz, The New Zealand Herald, TV One’s Breakfast, TV3’s Sunrise, 3news.co.nz, Rip It Up magazine, Real Groove magazine, The Christchurch Press, RadioLive and bFM.

Aware of the casual filmgoer, Flicks.conz is proud that the list includes a broad mix of movies, combining blockbuster entertainment with art-house fare.

Their favourite superhero film of the decade was The Dark Knight, while the best love story was deemed to be Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind.

Several filmmakers had two films on the list: the Coen brothers, Quentin Tarantino, Ang Lee, Wes Anderson, Christopher Nolan, Peter Jackson and Michel Gondry.

The most recent releases featured were Quentin Tarantino’s WWII epic, Inglourious Basterds, and the Peter Jackson-produced sci-fi sleeper hit, District 9.

The number one film of the decade was judged to be No Country For Old Men, directed by the Coen brothers. Winner of the Best Picture Oscar at the 2008 Academy Awards, the modern western was an adaptation of the novel by Cormac McCarthy. Flicks.co.nz reasoned that, “despite being set in 1980, its contemporary concerns of escalating violent crime resonate deeply at the end of the 2000s.”

The Top 50 list is now available to read online exclusively at Flicks.co.nz, see it here: http://www.flicks.co.nz/features/top-50-films-of-the-decade/

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