Lynch ranks first in BBC’s Top 100 films of 21st century

Carol, Boyhood, also make the cut

There’s still 84 years to go, but a new list ranks David Lynch’s Mulholland Drive as the top film of the 21st century, followed by Wong Kar-wai’s In the Mood for Love and Paul Thomas Anderson’s There Will Be Blood .

The BBC created the Top 100 list by surveying 177 film critics — from every continent except Antarctica — and included films from 2000, though not technically the start of the century.

Among the notable entries were Todd Haynes’ Carol at No. 69, Kathryn Bigelow’s The Hurt Locker at No. 67 and Her by Spike Jonze landing at No. 84.

No films directed by Woody Allen, nor any by Alejandro G. Inarritu, who won back-toback directing Oscars for Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) and The Revenant, made the list.

The list does include Richard Linklater’s Boyhood at No. 5, George Miller’s Mad Max: Fury Road at No. 19 and Steve McQueen’s 12 Years a Slave at No. 44. The highest ranked film directed by a woman was Sofia Coppola’s Lost in Translation at No. 22. Spike Lee’s 25th Hour is the only movie by an African-American to make the list.

Two Ang Lee films — Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon and Brokeback Mountain — made the list, as did three by Christopher Nolan — The Dark Knight, Memento and Inception. There were also three films by Joel and Ethan Coen — A Serious Man, Inside Llewyn Davis and No Country for Old Men — and three by Wes Anderson: The Royal Tenenbaums, The Grand Budapest Hotel and Moonrise Kingdom.