Top Ten Films of 2003

Though 2003 was a decade ago, many of the films are fresh in our minds. Peter Jackson's Lord of the Rings: Return of the King, the last part of his Lord of The Rings, trilogy swept the Academy awards, winning every award that it was nominated for. Bill Murray struck gold when he acted in Sophia Coppola's Lost in Translation and Gus Van Sant haunted us with his spellbinding and heartbreaking Elephant, based on the Columbine school shootings. Here are the top ten of 2003, reasons will be in point form.

10. Finding Nemo

- Fun animated film that can be re watched over and over, without getting dull

- Highlights the stages of grief

9. Goodbye Lenin!


- Hilarious comedy involving memory loss, the USSR, West and East Germany

-Fun and thought-provoking. A great movie to get yourself lost in

8. Lord of the Rings: Return of the King

- The set design

- The score

- The end

7. Kill Bill Vol 1

-Revenge fantasy at its finest

- The last great/good Tarantino film

- Shocking violence, remarkably choreographed

- East meets West

6. Cowards Bend the Knee

- Another brilliant experiment in Canadian expressionism by Guy Maddin

-Funny, weird and unsettling. It's hard to not be moved by this film

5. Dogville

- A brilliantly constructed part of Lars Von Triers Golden Hearts Trilogy

-Nicole Kidman in perhaps her best role

-Observations about Humanity and America itself

4. Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter...and Spring

- One of the closest films that most resembles a poem

- Touching and humane

3. Lost in Translation

-Bill Murray's greatest performance

-Sophia Coppola's best film as a director

  

2. The Five Obstructions

- A wonderfully constructed documentary which is a bit hard to explain. One must see the film many times to fully appreciate it

1. Dying at Grace

-Slow heartbreaking Canadian film about patients who are dying at Toronto's Grace Hospital