#500: Top 5 Films of the Filmspotting Era (2005-14)

Announced live at the Music Box Theatre on Saturday, July 26, 2014

Adam

1. The Master

2. The Tree of Life

3. No Country For Old Men

4. There Will Be Blood

5. Inglourious Basterds

Josh

1. The Tree of Life

2. No Country for Old Men

3. Where the Wild Things Are

4. Volver

5. Meek's Cutoff

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Michael Phillips

1. There Will Be Blood

2. Climates

3. Her

4. Last Train Home

5. Ratatouille

Dana Stevens

1. There Will Be Blood

2. Grizzly Man

3. 4 Months, 3 Weeks, 2 Days

4. Children of Men

5. The Tree of Life

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Rian Johnson

There Will Be Blood
The Master
No Country for Old Men
A Serious Man
Inglourious Basterds
The Darjeeling Limited
Under the Skin
The Tree of Life
Upstream Color
Holy Motors

David Wain

Munich
The Lives of Others
Michael Clayton
Anvil! The Story of Anvil
A Serious Man
Boyhood

Richard Linklater

Synecdoche, NY

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Matt Singer

Zodiac

Sam Van Hallgren

The Tree of Life
The Master
There Will Be Blood
Where the Wild Things Are
Before Midnight

Alison Willmore

You, The Living

Filmspotting Advisory Board

The Tree of Life
Certified Copy
The New World
Flight of the Red Balloon

#380: Top 10 Films of 2011

Adam

1. The Tree of Life

2. Take Shelter

3. Drive

4. Certified Copy

5. Meek's Cutoff

6. The Arbor

7. Hugo

8. A Separation

9. The Artist

10. Super 8

#11-30 (Alphabetical): Bill Cunningham New York, Bridesmaids, Cave of Forgotten Dreams, The Descendants, Hanna, The Interrupters, Margaret, Margin Call, Melancholia, Martha Marcy May Marlene, Project Nim, Senna, The Skin I Live In, Source Code, Tabloid, The Trip, Warrior, War Horse, Weekend, Win Win.

Josh

1. The Tree of Life

2. Cedar Rapids

3. Meek's Cutoff

4. The Muppets

5. Take Shelter

6. Certified Copy

7. The Interrupters

8. Rise of the Planet of the Apes

9. Drive

10. Martha Marcy May Marlene

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Michael Phillips

1. Poetry

2. Moneyball

3. Certified Copy

4. The Descendants

5. The Interrupters

6. Guy and Madeline on a Park Bench

7. A Separation

8. The Tree of Life

9. Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy

10. Weekend

Scott Tobias

1. Meek's Cutoff

2. Certified Copy

3. A Separation

4. The Tree of Life

5. Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives

6. Martha Marcy May Marlene

7. Drive

8. Weekend

9. Margaret

10. The Arbor

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Guest's #1 Picks

Rian Johnson
The Tree of Life

Edward Burns
Midnight in Paris

Peter Labuza
Certified Copy

Steve Prokopy
Drive

Alison Willmore
Melancholia

Matt Singer
Take Shelter

Filmspotting Advisory Board
Shame / The Muppets

Chris Klimek
Midnight in Paris

#191: Top 10 Films of 2007

Adam

1. No Country for Old Men
2. Atonement
3. The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
4. Zodiac
5. Juno
6. There Will Be Blood
7. Once
8. The Bourne Ultimatum
9. Death Proof
10. The King of Kong

Matty

1. The Wind That Shakes the Barley
2. No Country for Old Men
3. Juno
4. This Is England
5. After the Wedding
6. The Lives of Others
7. Once
8. Into the Wild
9. The Namesake
10. The King of Kong

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Michael Phillips 

1. Once
2. The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
3. 4 Months, 3 Weeks, 2 Days
4. Ratatouille
5. There Will Be Blood
6. No End in Sight
7. Margot at the Wedding
8. The Bourne Ultimatum
9. The Assassination of Jesse James...
10. Knocked Up

Guest #1 Films

Sam Van Hallgren
Rescue Dawn

Matt Singer, IFC News
No Country for Old Men

Steve Prokopy, Ain't It Cool News
No Country for Old Men

Rian Johnson, "Brick" Writer/Director
The Assassination of Jesse James...

#120: Filmspotting University: Top 5 Films Every Young Filmmaker Should See

Adam

1. Raging Bull

2. Chinatown

3. Blue Velvet

4. Trust

5. L'Avventura / The Passenger

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Sam

1. Tokyo Story

2. Kill Bill (1 and 2)

3. Herzog-Kinski Marathon

4. Slacker

5. George Washington

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Rian Johnson

1. Fellini's 8 1/2

2. Brazil

3. Barton Fink

4. Annie Hall / The Apartment

5. Goodfellas