Jonathan Rosenbaum’s 1000 Essential Films: 2004-present
Originally published in Essential Cinema, copyright 2004 Jonathan Rosenbaum
Below are Rosenbaum's 143 favorite films from 2004-present':
2004
Million Dollar Baby (Eastwood)
Moolade (Sembene)
Saddest Music in the World (Maddin)
Before Sunset (Linklater)
Young Adam (Mackenzie)
Coffee and Cigarettes (Jarmusch)
Springtime in a Small Town (Zhuangzhuang)
2005
The World (Zhang-Ke)
Not on the Lips (Resnais)
History of Violence (Cronenberg)
Tropical Malady (Apitachatpong)
Howls Moving Castle (Myazaki)
Me, You and Everyone We Know (July)
Yes (Potter)
Capote (Miller)
Broken Flowers (Jarmusch)
Squid and the Whale (Baumbach)
2046 (Wong)
Goodbye Dragon Inn (Tsai)
Girl From Monday (Hartley)
Bamako (Sissako)
Ten Skies (Benning)
2006
Three Times (Hou)
Cafe Limiere (Hou)
Illusionist (Burger)
The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada (TL Jones)
Ask the Dust (Towne)
Hollywoodland (Coulter)
Fast Food Nation (Linklater)
War Tapes (Scranton)
Iraq in Fragments (Longley)
Find me Guilty (Lumet)
Half Nelson (Fleck)
Power of Nightmares (Curtis)
2007
In the Valley of Elah (Haggis)
Honeydripper (Sayles)
I’m Not There (Haynes)
Ratatouille (Bird)
Private Fears in Public Places (Resnais)
Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (Dominik)
The Dead Girl (Karen Moncreiff)
Away From Her (Sarah Polley)
Offside (Panahi)
Margot at the Wedding (Baumbach)
Starting Out in the Evening (Wagner)
Letters From Iwo Jima (Eastwood)
Warsaw Bridge (Portabella)
My Dad is 100 Years Old (Maddin)
Bobby (Estevez)
2008
24 City (Zhang-Ke)
Momma’s Man (Jacobs)
Of Time and the City (Davies)
Order of Myths (Brown)
Beaches of Agnes (Varda)
Profit Motive and the Whispering Wind (Gianvito)
RR (Benning)
Silence Before Bach (Portabella)
Trouble the Water (Deal/Lessin)
2009
The Sun (Sokhurov)
Me and Orson Welles (Linklater)
Imaginarium of Dr Parnassus (Gilliam)
Merde (Carax)
Limits of Control (Jarmusch)
Last Station (Hoffman)
Bright Star (Campion)
2010
Les Herbes Folles (Resnais)
Vincere (Bellochio)
Change Rien (Costa)
Art of the Steal (Sobol)
Carlos (assayas)
Chloe (Egoyan)
Greenberg (Baumbach)
Ghost (Polanski)
Social Network (fincher)
Winter’s Bone ( Deborah Granik)
2011
Poetry (Dong)
Quattro Volte (Frammartino)
Mysteries of Lisbon (Ruiz)
Dangerous Method (Cronenberg)
Terri (Jacobs)
Road to Nowhere (Hellman)
Hugo (Scorsese)
Putty Hill (Porter)
Skin I Live in (Almodovar)
Uncle Boonmee Who Recalls His Past Lives (Apitachatpong)
Certified Copy (Kiarostami)
2012
Turin Horse (Tarr)
Holy Motors (Carax)
The Kid with the Bike (Dardennes)
Vous N’Avez Encore Rien (Resnais)
Deep Blue Sea (Davies)
Bernie (Linklater)
Unforgivable (Techine)
Keyhole (Maddin)
Forgotten Space (Seculas/Burch)
Moonrise Kingdom (Anderson W)
The Hunter (Pitts)
Far From Afghanistan (Gianvito)
2013
Fruitvale Station (Cougler)
Gloria (Lelio)
Hannah Arendt (Von trotta)
Kill Your darlings (Krokidas)
Last of the Unjust (Lanzman)
Museum Hours (Cohen)
Stories We Tell (Polley)
Night Across the Street (Ruiz)
Unspeakable Act (Salitt)
2014 *
Boyhood (Linklater)
Under the Skin (Glazer)
Grand Budapest Hotel (Anderson)
Two Days, One Night (Dardennes)
2015
Son of Saul (Nemes)
Jauja (Alonso)
Ex-Machina (Garland)
I, Dalio (Rappaport)
Journey to the West (Tsai)
2016
Paterson (Jarmusch)
Everybody Wants Some (Linklater)
Moonlight (Jenkins)
Arrival (Villeneuve)
Love Witch (Anna Biller)
Indignation (Schamus)
Hell or High Water (Mackenzie)
Certain Women (Kelly Reichardt)
LaLa Land (Chazelle)
Miles Ahead (Cheadle)
2017
Phantom Thread (Anderson PT)
Downsizing (Payne)
Streetscapes (Holz)
Boom For Real (Sara Driver)
Marjorie prime (Almereyda)
2018
A Bread Factory (Wang)
Image Book (Godard)
Did You Wonder Who Fired the Gun (Wilkerson)
Roma (Cuaron)
The Eye was in the Tomb (Chloe Galibert-Laîné )
2019
Vitalina Varela (Costa)
Transit (Petzold)
It must be Heaven (Suleiman)
Conrad Veidt (Rappaport)
Where My Roy Cohn (Tyrncover)
If Beale Street Could Talk (Jenkins)
Ad Astra (Gray)
Flannery (Elizabeth Coffman/Bosco)
The Souvenir (Joanna Hogg)
2020
Elephant Sitting Still (Bo)
Dark Waters (Haynes)
Little Women (Greta Gerwig)
Motherless Brooklyn (Norton)
Last year in Dachau (Rappaport)
Bottled Songs -My Crush was a Superstar (Chloe Galibert-Laîné /Kevin B Lee)
Cenote (Oda)
First Cow (Kelly Reichardt)
France Against the Robots (Straub)
Her Socialist Smile (Gianvito)
MLK/FBI (Pollard)
Las Ninas Schoolgirls (Pilar Palarmero)
Women ascending to Man (Saeed Nouri)
2021
Tiong Bahru Social Club (Tan Bee Thiam)
Martin und Hans (Rappaport)
The Taking (O. Phillipe)
John Farrow - Man in the Shadows (Rappaport)
Enquanto enstamos aqui- While We Are Here (Clarissa Campolina/ Luis Pretti)
Letters From the End of the World- (Bistrik 7)
Uncut Gems (Safdie/Safdie)
Cry Macho (Eastwood)
Bad Luck Banging or Looney Porn Babardeala cu bucluc sau porno balamuc-(Jude)
2022
Banshees of Innisherin (McDonagh)
Memoria (Apitchatpong)
Men (Garland)
Potemkinisti (Jude)
American -An Odyssey to 1947 (Wu)
2023
Barbie (Greta Gerwig)
Afire (Petzold)
Daughter of Fire (Costa)
Killers of the Flower Moon (Scorsese)
The Master Gardner (Schrader)
No Bears (Panahi)
Saint Omer (Alice Diop)
Don’t Expect Too Much From the End of the World (Jude)
Asteroid City (Anderson W)
Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar (Anderson W)