Finest Movies Of 2001

Title Screen Film Genre(s), Title, Year, (Country),Length, Director, Description

A.I.Artificial Intelligence (2001), 145minutes, D: Steven SpielbergThis futuristic science-fiction fairy tale became a re-telling ofDisney's Pinocchio (1940) approximately the hunt of a puppet tobecome a real boy and locate real love. It starred Haley Joel Osmentas 11 year-vintage Pinocchio-questing David, a Cybertronics androidchild "mecha" (robotof the future). Wrongly believing that he had actual emotions andunconditional love along with his adoptive dad and mom, David was abandonedand forced to take a adventure to discover the "Blue Fairy" thatcould make him "real" and reason his mom Monica Swinton(Frances O'Connor) to like and be given him for all time.

Amelie (2001, Fr./Germ.) (aka Le FabuleuxDestin d'Amélie Poulain), 121 minutes, D: Jean-PierreJeunet

A Beautiful Mind (2001), 134 mins, D: RonHoward

Black Hawk Down (2001), a hundred and forty four mins, D: RidleyScott

Donnie Darko (2001), 122 minutes, D: RichardKelly

Fat Girl (2001, Fr./It.) (aka A Ma Soeur!),93 mins, D: Catherine Breillat

Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within (2001), 106minutes, D: Hironobu Sakaguchi, Moto Sakakibara

Ghost World (2001), 111 minutes,D: Terry Zwigoff

Gosford Park (2001, UK/US), 137minutes, D: Robert Altman

Hannibal (2001), 131minutes, D: Ridley ScottSee Hannibal series.

Harry Potterand the Sorcerer's Stone (2001, UK/US), 152 minutes,D: Chris ColumbusSee Harry Potter collection.

In the Bedroom (2001), 138 minutes,D: Todd Field

The Lordof the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001, US/NZ), 178minutes, D: Peter JacksonSee The Lord of the Rings series.Peter Jackson's enormous, big-budget action/journey epic (all threefilms) changed into a superb synthesis of many fantastical elements from J.R.R.Tolkein's masterwork about Middle-Earth: an heroic quest, top vs.evil, conflict testimonies, sci-fi creatures (dwarves, elves, goblins, orcs,etc.) and historical wonders. Multiple tale strains and epic battles wereinterwoven together in a tale of friendship, loyalty, honor and courage.The quest turned into especially to break a powerful artifact recognized asthe One Ring, created through the Dark Lord Sauron (the eponymous "Lordof the Rings"), which will end Sauron's lordship over the Elvesand Middle Earth. A series of awe-inspiring battles culminated withthe defeat of Sauron, an end to corrupted Wizard Saruman the White(Christopher Lee), and the destruction of the Ring. Innovative motioncapture created the unforgettable, Ring-addicted creature of Gollum(Andy Serkis) (once an awesome hobbit named Sméagol), who servedas the wretched manual to young hobbits Frodo (Elijah Wood) and friendSam (Sean Astin) all through their undertaking - to go back the Ring to Mordorand smash it in Mount Doom's molten lava.

The Man Who Wasn't There (2001),116 mins, D: Joel Coen

Monsoon Wedding (2001, India/US/Fr./It.),114 mins, D: Mira Nair

Monster's Ball (2001), 111 minutes, D: MarcForster

Monsters, Inc. (2001), ninety two minutes, D: PeterDocter, Lee Unkrich, David Silverman

Moulin Rouge! (2001, US/Australia), 126 minutes,D: Baz Luhrmann

Mulholland Dr. (2001), 146 mins, D: DavidLynch

The Others (2001), 101 minutes, D: AlejandroAmenabar

The Piano Teacher (2001, Fr./Austria) (akaLa Pianiste), a hundred thirty mins, D: Michael Haneke

The Pledge (2001), 124 mins, D: Sean Penn Director Sean Penn's mental thriller concerned the gruesomemurder of a touch blonde lady named Ginny Larsen (Taryn Knowles),whose frame become determined within the snowy location round Reno, Nevada.Retiring cop Jerry Black (Jack Nicholson) pledged his "soul'ssalvation" tothe farm-proudly owning mom, Margaret Larsen (Patricia Clarkson),that he would discover the killer. Unsatisfied whilst a mentally unstableNative American (Benicio Del Toro) was arrested and committedsuicide following a botched interrogation, Jerry commenced to suspecta tall, black-garbed killer, seen in one among Ginny's hand-drawnpictures, who may have dedicated comparable murders of two others.He soon installation a surrogate circle of relatives with an abused single motherLori (Robin Wright) and her eight-yr-old daughter, using the girlas bait for the child killer. The unsettling film ended withoutclosure, except for Black's hallucinatory insanity and the realizationthat his assumptions had been proper about severa possible suspects.

The Royal Tenenbaums (2001), 108 minutes,D: Wes Anderson

Shrek (2001), 90minutes, D: Andrew Adamson, Vicky JensonSee Shrek collection.

Spirited Away (2001, Jp./US) (aka Sen ToChihiro No Kamikakushi), 124 mins, D: Hayao MiyazakiJapanese master Hayao Miyazaki's acclaimed animated delusion, an Alicein Wonderland self-discovery tale, combined splendor with mystery andthe supernatural. In the middle of her family's flow to the suburbs,spoiled and sullen 10-yr-old lady Chihiro entered a paranormal worldin an abandoned amusement park - really a holiday hotel for a groupof bizarre gods and spirits. A spell grew to become her disobedient parentsinto pigs as punishment for ingesting meals meant for the gods. Duringher coming-of-age navigation of this dream-like other-world mostlyinside sorceress-witch Yubaba's spirit bathhouse, she had to completeritualistic obligations throughout her quest to live on, heroically loose herselfand break out returned to the human international. Chihiro become symbolically renamedSen - to mark the begin of her rite of passage. She become challengedto research the unusual illogical regulations of life, engage with manygods, creatures, herbal spirits and monsters, and display bravery, self-confidence,and loyalty before reuniting with her mother and father.

Waking Life (2001), ninety nine mins, D: RichardLinklater

Winged Migration (2001, Fr.) (akaLe PeupleMigrateur), ninety eight mins, D: Jacques PerrinFrench director Jacques Perrin's surprising flora and fauna documentary trackedbird migrations thru all styles of weather and threatening situationsin forty international locations and all seven continents over a duration of 4 years.Gliders, helicopters, balloons and small planes prepared with ingeniously-designedcameras intimately filmed the wondrous beauty and grandeur of flight,providing a experience of hovering over extraordinary landscapes and flying bylandmarks - the Eiffel Tower, the Great Wall, Mont-Saint-Michel, theStatue of Liberty, and Monument Valley. There had been V-fashioned flocks ofCanadian geese winging their manner throughout verdant backdrops and snowy mountains.Pelicans skimmed their dinner from the surf, storks strutted throughout creamyAfrican sand dunes, ducks flew from an avalanche in Nepal, colourful parrotssoaked in an Amazonian jungle downpour, and a lone sharp-eyed bald eaglehunted inside the Grand Canyon.

Y Tu Mama Tambien (2001, Mex./US) (aka And YourMother Too), one zero five mins, D: Alfonso Cuaron