榜单时刻：Best of the Decade

[CAVA]

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.

[Jun]

Sunday Times 跟我的口味差别很大么。我就不说他们口味差了，嘻嘻。这是一个人拿出来的名单还是代表 Sunday Times 的全体影评人？不象一个人的口味，各方面都努力照顾的样子，又有“高雅”代表 （王家卫, David Lynch），又有安全的“大众”代表。

[CAVA]

估计是一群影评人凑出来的，不少电影我闻所未闻。当然我也记不清楚2000-2009年间都出了哪些电影了。电视嘛，不把Shaun the Sheep算上，我是很不服滴。

[putaopi]

魔戒系列起码比Gladiator强啊！Russel Crowe演的两部片Gladiator、Master and Commender都有上榜，英国影评人还真喜欢看他。

[Knowing]

魔戒气势庞大制作精量，评最佳影片我倒同意。in the mood for love 算什么啊，养眼言情片儿一个，看的时候没什么感触，看完了也没痕迹。the life of others 还让人感触多些。

同意the wire, mad men可以算最佳电视剧集。不过我看的剧集不多，喜欢的更少。著名的big love, soprano， west wing 都没看过。

[Jun]

你有无发现，喜剧从来就没人看得起？其实喜剧最难弄了，但是绝大部分评论者根本不懂。

[putaopi]

<花样年华〉我看就是一段长达九十分钟的MTV。

[笑嘻嘻]

你有无发现，喜剧从来就没人看得起？其实喜剧最难弄了，但是绝大部分评论者根本不懂。

太有道理了，太有道理了。我就喜欢看精致的喜剧。我的日常生活已经太正剧了。我怀疑影评人的生活不够艰苦。

[Jun]

英国报纸是不是也象美国报纸那样纷纷倒闭裁员了？这两天两次看见网站上的打印/排版错误，还挺明显的，一个 Telegraph 一个 Sunday Times，算比较大的报纸吧？传统媒体现在都不好过呀，职业影评人更是一窝一窝地被裁掉。

喜剧一直是被人瞧不起的。Cary Grant 没有得过奥斯卡奖，因为别人都以为喜剧很容易，看上去多轻松，不如大哭大喊撕心裂肺的表演来得震撼，其实难度高着呢。

[笑嘻嘻]

真的是岁末大家纷纷列单子。我订阅的这个人在博客上给出今年的法语佳片单子。这个博客多数是影评，嗯，评的基本是娱乐片。 不甚文艺，所以我订阅了。 现在搞得我特别想看这单子上的电影。
2009年法国电影佳片推荐

[tiffany]

其实 王家卫早期的片子比如东邪西毒还有灵魂一点儿，不过我觉得他主要是片子拍得太慢，就混上一个本decade的。

看到法国非艺术电影推荐单，容我哀悼一下儿我国各大p2p网站的倒掉－－－以后我可到哪儿去下天线宝宝中文版啊！

[CAVA]

VeryCD还勉强支撑着。

天线宝宝还有出新的么？

[silkworm]

阿土仔爱好天线宝宝啦？

小朋友的片子我受不了天线宝宝，看一会儿甚至听一会儿，我就觉得智商嗖嗖往下降，脑袋要爆炸。无奈孩子在某一阶段就是爱看。好歹她现在不爱看了，我松了口气儿。后来听朋友说，还有个花园宝宝，异曲同工，我很庆幸我们干脆没引进，眼不见心不烦。

[CAVA]

天线宝宝针对的是小朋友乐于复述的阶段，貌似？偶尔转台的时候看到过一两眼花园宝宝，造型相当诡异。

[tiffany]

哟，可爱看了！这个真不服不行，人家早告诉我这么大小孩儿就爱看那个，我还不信，结果放给阿土仔一看，他自己能跟那儿坐着看半天看得还跟那儿哈哈笑，还对着电视跟宝宝们白白。不过他一般要求人陪看，良人陪看了5分钟，苦苦哀求我过来陪看，说：太～～～～傻了！然后我就歌颂我的新手机，能随时上网，我就陪坐，阿土仔看宝宝，我上网看小说。

[silkworm]

不光造型，里面太整的句子也不多，都是些“外星”音，还不断重复，把小朋友给逗得眉开眼笑手舞足蹈。

[tiffany]

看，这我都不知道，充分说明我看天线宝宝有多么的专心啊！但是但是我知道那个紫色的叫丁丁的是个小同志。

[CAVA]

周围的年轻父母都曾经受过天线宝宝的折磨

不瞒你们说，看在Shaun的份上我还观赏过两集Timmy Time，不过很快就放弃了 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。