Toronto Star

Lynch yes, Woody no on Top 100 film list

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

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: Todd Haynes’ Carol at No. 69 and Her by Spike Jonze at No. 84.

No films directed by Woody Allen nor any by Alejandro G. Inarritu, who won back-to-back directing Oscars for Birdman 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.

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