榜单时刻：Best of the Decade
Posted: 2009-12-13 11:15
每到年底，潮流人士纷纷推出自己的年度最佳，暗含本人的品味甚可推荐的意思。21世纪第一个十年，那么也有decade best。这里是Sunday Times的最佳电影和最佳电视。这个答案和票房成绩很不相同，英国票房十年里最好的，是哈利波特和魔戒系列。
就列一下前五名吧。
The best films of the decade
A Hong Kong director made the film of the Noughties, despite Hollywood’s best efforts, animation and documentaries
1 In The Mood For Love (2000)
Wong Kar-Wai
Sumptuous and sensual, silent for long stretches where the clothes and lilting music speak volumes instead, this visually rich, romantic film introduced the Hong Kong director to the wider audience he deserved. Maggie Cheung and Tony Leung, as the married neighbours in 1960s Hong Kong whose friendship blossoms out of proportion to their sense of decorum, are quietly on fire throughout.
2 Mulholland Drive (2001)
David Lynch
A stunning, hallucinatory love letter to cinema, laced with Lynch’s venom towards a money-grubbing film industry. He miraculously balances the childlike wonder of a Hollywood starlet’s dreams with a truly adult horror as the dreams are crushed. It renews your faith in the medium’s power.
3 Master and Commander (2003)
Peter Weir
It’s 1805, and a British and a French frigate play cat and mouse around the South American coast in this superbly realised nautical adventure based on Patrick O’Brian’s novels. Better than the books.
4 The Lives of Others (2006)
Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck
The late Ulrich Mühe gave one of the performances of the decade as a cold, controlled secret policeman in 1980s East Berlin, whose surveillance of an actress and her writer lover starts to shift his political allegiances and emotional equilibrium.
5 Gladiator (2000)
Ridley Scott
Swords-and-sandals movies were supposed to have died of ridicule with the 1950s. Scott revived the genre with this dignified, exciting epic, and we discovered that computer-generated effects could do ancient monuments as well as spaceships.
The best television of the decade
1 The Wire 2002-08
The best drama series ever, honestly: an epic undertaking, up there with the great 19th-century novels that lay out a whole society for scrutiny — here, seen-better-days Baltimore, from the corrupt state senator to the “hoppers”, the kids who collect drug money on the “corners”. It’s intelligent, beguiling drama that never loosens its grip.
2 The Sopranos 1999-2007
The mob genre seemed to be sleeping with the fishes when Tony Soprano had his first intimations of mortality out by the pool.
The six series became a uniquely menacing soap, blending farce and ferocity as Tony juggled the demands of family and “family”.
3 The West Wing 1999-2006
The one to beat for screwball-fast dialogue; the one to watch for insights into the way things work behind the scenes in the world’s leading democracy. Its realism was confirmed when the senator it had used as a model for its Hispanic presidential candidate turned out to be Barack Obama.
4 Mad Men 2007-
Cocking its felt hat at four-square realism, this is an ambitious, stylish portrait of a society moving into a higher and more dangerous gear, as its aspiring 1950s ad executives evolve into driven 1960s men.
5 Bleak House 2005
The BBC served up Dickens in half-hour chunks, twice weekly, and a better class of costume drama was born. It wove its opulent casts and genre clichés into a gripping, atmospheric thriller.
就列一下前五名吧。
The best films of the decade
A Hong Kong director made the film of the Noughties, despite Hollywood’s best efforts, animation and documentaries
1 In The Mood For Love (2000)
Wong Kar-Wai
Sumptuous and sensual, silent for long stretches where the clothes and lilting music speak volumes instead, this visually rich, romantic film introduced the Hong Kong director to the wider audience he deserved. Maggie Cheung and Tony Leung, as the married neighbours in 1960s Hong Kong whose friendship blossoms out of proportion to their sense of decorum, are quietly on fire throughout.
2 Mulholland Drive (2001)
David Lynch
A stunning, hallucinatory love letter to cinema, laced with Lynch’s venom towards a money-grubbing film industry. He miraculously balances the childlike wonder of a Hollywood starlet’s dreams with a truly adult horror as the dreams are crushed. It renews your faith in the medium’s power.
3 Master and Commander (2003)
Peter Weir
It’s 1805, and a British and a French frigate play cat and mouse around the South American coast in this superbly realised nautical adventure based on Patrick O’Brian’s novels. Better than the books.
4 The Lives of Others (2006)
Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck
The late Ulrich Mühe gave one of the performances of the decade as a cold, controlled secret policeman in 1980s East Berlin, whose surveillance of an actress and her writer lover starts to shift his political allegiances and emotional equilibrium.
5 Gladiator (2000)
Ridley Scott
Swords-and-sandals movies were supposed to have died of ridicule with the 1950s. Scott revived the genre with this dignified, exciting epic, and we discovered that computer-generated effects could do ancient monuments as well as spaceships.
The best television of the decade
1 The Wire 2002-08
The best drama series ever, honestly: an epic undertaking, up there with the great 19th-century novels that lay out a whole society for scrutiny — here, seen-better-days Baltimore, from the corrupt state senator to the “hoppers”, the kids who collect drug money on the “corners”. It’s intelligent, beguiling drama that never loosens its grip.
2 The Sopranos 1999-2007
The mob genre seemed to be sleeping with the fishes when Tony Soprano had his first intimations of mortality out by the pool.
The six series became a uniquely menacing soap, blending farce and ferocity as Tony juggled the demands of family and “family”.
3 The West Wing 1999-2006
The one to beat for screwball-fast dialogue; the one to watch for insights into the way things work behind the scenes in the world’s leading democracy. Its realism was confirmed when the senator it had used as a model for its Hispanic presidential candidate turned out to be Barack Obama.
4 Mad Men 2007-
Cocking its felt hat at four-square realism, this is an ambitious, stylish portrait of a society moving into a higher and more dangerous gear, as its aspiring 1950s ad executives evolve into driven 1960s men.
5 Bleak House 2005
The BBC served up Dickens in half-hour chunks, twice weekly, and a better class of costume drama was born. It wove its opulent casts and genre clichés into a gripping, atmospheric thriller.
Shaun的新系列里出现两个新人物，分别被我命名为WC (The Wicked Cat）和SD（The Silly Ducks）。加上原来就有的Naughty Pigs，Helpless Dog和Clueless Farmer，好不热闹。牧羊狗Bitzer的新造型穿了一件毛大衣。