TOP 100 films of the decade

The Times has just published a TOP 100 films of the decade. #1 is "Hidden (Caché)" by Michael Haneke and # 100, "The devil wears Prada" by David Frankel.

Some interesting elements:

1 - In this list, 90% of the selected films are wether from the US, wether from Europe. Some great nations of cinema were not very "active" this decade (only 3 Italian films in the TOP 100), other nations begin to appear on the movie world stage ( China with 2 films for instance)

Out of a hundred movies :

46 from the United States

15 from Great Britain

11 from France

4 From Spain (2 by Almodovar!)

3 from Germany ( and within the TOP 15!)

3 from Italy

2 from Australia

2 from Japan

2 from Mexico

2 from China

1 from Korea, Turkey, Israel, Belgium, Brazil, Romania,Taiwan, India

2 - There is a good share of documentaries with 9 films (the first one being # 4 "Grizzly man" by Werner Herzog) and of cartoon movies with 7 films (the first one being #5 " Team America : World Police")

3 - Some directors are especially gifted : several of their movies are in the Top 100 list !

Paul Greengrass with three films (#2 "The Bourne supremacy" and "The Bourne ultimatum", and #19 "United 93"). Thus, according to The Times, that director is responsible for 15% of the 20 best films of the decade!

Michael Haneke ( #1"Hidden" and #85 "The piano teacher"), 

Kevin Mac Donald (#7 "The last king of Scotland" and #45 "Touching the void")

Danny Boyle (#6 "Slumdog millionaire" and  #24 "28 days later"),  

Stephen Frears ( #8 "The Queen" and #92 "Dirty pretty things"),

Alfonso Cuaron (#35 "Y tu Mamà Tambien" and #41 "Children of men"),

Christopher Nolan (#43 "The dark knight" and #68 "Memento")

Fernando Mereilles ( #52 "The constant gardener" and #66 "City of God"),

Pedro Almodovar ( #56 "Volver" and #75 "Talk to her")

4 -  Only one man is part of the Top list both as an actor (#21 "Goodnight and Goodluck" and #40 "Syriana" ), as a director (#21 "Goodnight and Goodluck") and as a producer ( #40 "Syriana") : Georges Clooney.

5 - The choices of the Times critics are rather different from the choices of  the Oscars : out of the last 10 Oscar winners, 6 are not part of the TOP 100 films of the decade : "American Beauty", "A beautiful mind", "Chicago", "Million dollar baby", "Crash", "The Departed". Equally, 2 Golden Palm of the Cannes Festival are not included in the TOP 100 "Farenheit 9/11" and "Elephant".

6 - And the most stunning element : only 7 women directed films within this list! I guess there is a slight problem of sexism in this profession....

This list is very popular on the Times site. During two days following the publication, it has been the most read article. It has also generated  more than 200 long comments. The only problem is that, as a reader, the only way to give your own list is to write it in the Comments section. It would have been nice to have a tool to create easily and rapidly a list and to have the possibility to compare the average readers' lists to the Times' one. Create your list here  ( with one film or a hundred, you decide!).