Films

They Shoot Pictures, Don't They?'s top 50 narrative films of Blair's first term. There's some bangers in there, but LOTR 41 spots below The Thin Red Line is nonsense.

1. In the Mood for Love (Wong Kar-wai - 2000)
   
2. Mulholland Dr. (Lynch, David - 2001)
   
3. Beau travail (Denis, Claire - 1999)
   
4. Yi yi (Yang, Edward - 2000)
   
5. Spirited Away (Miyazaki, Hayao - 2001)
   
6. Thin Red Line, The (Malick, Terrence - 1998)
   
7. Big Lebowski, The (Coen, Joel & Ethan Coen - 1998)
   
8. Magnolia (Anderson, Paul Thomas - 1999)
   
9. Eyes Wide Shut (Kubrick, Stanley - 1999)
   
10. Matrix, The (Wachowski, Lana & Lilly Wachowski - 1999)
    
11. All About My Mother (Almodóvar, Pedro - 1999)
    
12. Happy Together (Wong Kar-wai - 1997)
    
13. Werckmeister Harmonies (Tarr, Béla - 2000)
    
14. Lost Highway (Lynch, David - 1997)
    
15. Platform (Jia Zhangke - 2000)
    
16. Fight Club (Fincher, David - 1999)
    
17. Taste of Cherry (Kiarostami, Abbas - 1997)
    
18. Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (Lee, Ang - 2000)
    
19. Festen (Vinterberg, Thomas - 1998)
    
20. Boogie Nights (Anderson, Paul Thomas - 1997)
    
21. Flowers of Shanghai (Hou Hsiao-hsien - 1998)
    
22. Amélie (Jeunet, Jean-Pierre - 2001)
    
23. A.I. Artificial Intelligence (Spielberg, Steven - 2001)
    
24. Songs from the Second Floor (Andersson, Roy - 2000)
    
25. Wind Will Carry Us, The (Kiarostami, Abbas - 1999)
    
26. Royal Tenenbaums, The (Anderson, Wes - 2001)
    
27. Rosetta (Dardenne, Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne - 1999)
    
28. In Vanda's Room (Costa, Pedro - 2000)
    
29. Rushmore (Anderson, Wes - 1998)
    
30. Y tu mamá también (Cuarón, Alfonso - 2001)
    
31. Hana-Bi (Kitano, Takeshi - 1997)
    
32. Ciénaga, La (Martel, Lucrecia - 2001)
    
33. Memento (Nolan, Christopher - 2000)
    
34. After Life (Koreeda, Hirokazu - 1998)
    
35. Titanic (Cameron, James - 1997)
    
36. Piano Teacher, The (Haneke, Michael - 2001)
    
37. Audition (Miike, Takashi - 1999)
    
38. Dancer in the Dark (von Trier, Lars - 2000)
    
39. Gummo (Korine, Harmony - 1997)
    
40. Funny Games (Haneke, Michael - 1997)
    
41. Saving Private Ryan (Spielberg, Steven - 1998)
    
42. Requiem for a Dream (Aronofsky, Darren - 2000)
    
43. Mother and Son (Sokurov, Aleksandr - 1997)
    
44. L.A. Confidential (Hanson, Curtis - 1997)
    
45. Moulin Rouge! (Luhrmann, Baz - 2001)
    
46. River, The (Tsai Ming-liang - 1997)
    
47. Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, The (Jackson, Peter - 2001)
    
48. Code Unknown (Haneke, Michael - 2000)
    
49. Starship Troopers (Verhoeven, Paul - 1997)
    
50. Amores perros (González Iñárritu, Alejandro - 2000)