"There Will Be Blood."
From Maren Ade to Terry Zwigoff, there are close to 100 directors who did exceptional work over the past decade yet don’t have a film on Affllictor’s Top 20 Films of the Aughts list. But the difficult paring-down process is complete. In alphabetical order, here are the lucky devils who made the grade:
- 4 (Ilya Khrjanovsky)
- Capturing the Friedmans (Eugene Jarecki)
- The Devil and Daniel Johnston (Jeff Feuerzeig)
- Devils on the Doorstep (Jiang Wen)
- The Gleaners and I (Agnes Varda)
- Grizzly Man (Werner Herzog)
- A History of Violence (David Cronenberg)
- Late Marriage (Dover Koshashvili)
- Los Angeles Plays Itself (Thom Anderson)
- Memento(Christopher Nolan)
- Memories of Murder (Bong Joon-ho)
- Oldboy (Park Chan-wook)
- The Son (Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne)
- Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter… And Spring (Kim Ki-duk)
- Talk to Her(Pedro Almodóvar)
- There Will Be Blood (Paul Thomas Anderson)
- Time Out (Laurent Cantet)
- Together (Lukas Moodysson)
- Werckmeister Harmonies (Bela Tarr)
- The World (Jia Zhangke)