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2001

Favorite films

Amélie
Amores Perros
Bridget Jones’s Diary
Donnie Darko
Ghost World
Gladiator
The Gleaners and I (Agnes Varda documentary)
The Last Castle
Legally Blonde
Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Ring
Memento
Monsoon Wedding
Monsters Inc.
Ocean’s 11
The Royal Tenenbaums
Serendipity
Sexy Beast
Shrek
Training Day
Wet Hot American Summer

Honorable mention

A.I.
Ali
A Beautiful Mind
Black Hawk Down
I Am Sam
In the Bedroom
Gosford Park
The Majestic
The Man Who Wasn’t There
Monster’s Ball
Moulin Rouge
Mulholland Drive
The Pledge
The Score
Shallow Hal
Super Troopers

All ages

Beauty and the Beast
Monsters Inc.
Shrek
Spy Kids

Guilty pleasures

American Pie 2
Joy Ride
Swordfish

Holiday

Serendipity

Want to see, or in some unspecified cases, feel like I should

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Das Experiment (Hirschbiegel, who also did 2004’s Downfall)
The Devil’s Backbone
Elling (Norway)
Fat Girl
Hedwig & the Angry Inch
In the Mood for Love
Innocence
The Man Who Wasn’t There (Coen Brothers)
Manic (Joseph Gordon-Levitt in mental institution)
My Sassy Girl (S. Korea)
No Man’s Land
One Night at McCool’s
The Safety of Objects (Glenn Close, Joshua Jackson)
Shaolin Soccer
Sobibor
Tape (Richard Linklater)
Waking Life
Wit
Werckmeister Harmonies (Hungarian drama mystery)

Underwhelmed

Evolution
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone
K-PAX

ESSENTIAL MUSIC OF 2001

Albums I loved then and still do

1. Andrew W.K. - I Get Wet

2. Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds - No More Shall We Part

3. Electric Light Orchestra - Zoom

4. Ed Harcourt - Here Be Monsters

5. James - Pleased To Meet You

6. Jimmy Eat World - Bleed American

7. Mercury Rev - All is Dream

8. Radiohead - Amnesiac

9. System of a Down - Toxicity

10. The Strokes - Is This It?

11. Weezer - Green Album

Honorable Mention

Beachwood Sparks - Once We Were Trees
Clem Snide - The Ghost of Fashion
Clinic - Internal Wrangler
Dave Matthews Band - Everyday
Dropkick Murphys - Sing Loud, Sing Proud
Fantômas - Director’s Cut
Four Tet - Pause
The Handsome Family - Twilight
Jay-Z - Blueprint
Langley Schools Music Project - Innocence & Despair
Low - Things We Lost in the Fire
Manic Street Preachers - Know Your Enemy
Mark Lanegan - Field Songs
Missy Elliott - Miss E...So Addictive
Old 97’s - Satellite Rides
Super Furry Animals - Rings Around the World
2Pac - Until the End of Time
The White Stripes - White Blood Cells

The greatest songs of 2001

1. Can't Get You Out of My Head - Kyle Minogue

2. Clint Eastwood - Gorillaz

3. Don’t Let Go - Weezer

4. A Drop in Time - Mercury Rev

5. The Dark Is Rising - Mercury Rev

6. Don’t Be Afraid of Your Anger - Clem Snide

7. Everything Hits At Once - Spoon

8. Fallin’ - Alicia Keys

9. Gates to the Garden - Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds

10. Is This It? - The Strokes

11. Island in the Sun - Weezer

12. Joan Jett of Arc - Clem Snide

13. Little Rhymes - Mercury Rev

14. The Middle - Jimmy Eat World

15. The Modern Age - The Strokes

16. No More Mosquitoes - Four Tet

17. Photograph - Weezer

18. She Fell Into My Arms - Ed Harcourt

19. The Space Between - Dave Matthews Band

20. The Snow White Diner - The Handsome Family

21. We Came Along This Road - Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds

Overrated and/or underwhelming

Tool - Lateralus

Intend to listen to more

The Microphones - The Glow Pt. 2

2001 PLAYLISTS BY MONTH

January

1. Little Rhymes - Mercury Rev

2. Everything Hits At Once - Spoon

3. Is This It? - The Strokes

4. Gates to the Garden - Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds

February

1. Joan Jett of Arc - Clem Snide

2. Your House - Jimmy Eat World

3. She Fell Into My Arms - Ed Harcourt

4. Like Only Lovers Can - Ed Harcourt

March

1. Don’t Be Afraid of Your Anger - Clem Snide

2. The Space Between - Dave Matthews Band

3. Fallin’ - Alicia Keys

April

1. Hear You Me - Jimmy Eat World

2. A Drop in Time - Mercury Rev

3. We Came Along This Road - Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds

May

1. Can't Get You Out of My Head - Kyle Minogue

2. Hey Baby - No Doubt

3. Clint Eastwood - Gorillaz

June

1. A Praise Chorus - Jimmy Eat World

2. Flavor of the Weak - American Hi-Fi

July

1. The Middle - Jimmy Eat World

2. The Modern Age - The Strokes

3. Island in the Sun - Weezer

August

1. So Why So Sad - Manic Street Preachers

2. Get It Faster - Jimmy Eat World

3. Photograph - Weezer

September

1. No More Mosquitoes - Four Tet

2. Don’t Let Go - Weezer

October

1. The Snow White Diner - The Handsome Family

2. Something In My Eye - Ed Harcourt

November

1. Sweetness - Jimmy Eat World

2. The Dark Is Rising - Mercury Rev

December

1. coming soon

Spiritual

1. Gates to the Garden - Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds

2. God Is in the House - Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds

3. Oh My Lord - Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds

4. We Came Along This Road - Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds

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