Top 10’s of 2003

Chlotrudis Awards members were invited to share their Top 10 movie lists of 2003 on the website. See what various members chose as their top films of the year. See how many of their favorites made the final ballot. See if your tastes coincide with any particular Chlotrudis member. If you’re a member, send in your Top 10 of the year and we’ll include it here.

 

Elsker dig for evigt
Open Hearts

Peg Aloi’s Top 12 Movies of 2003  (in no particular order)

  • 28 Days Later
  • The Lawless Heart
  • Lilya 4-ever
  • Morvern Callar
  • The Navigators
  • The Triplets of Belleville
  • Open Hearts
  • The Station Agent
  • Winged Migration
  • Lost in Translation
  • Whale Rider

Honorable Mentions: The Event,  Bubba Ho-Tep,  Thirteen,  In this World, Irreversible, Amandla! A Revolution in Four-Part Harmony, The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King, Intacto

Notable for Good Visuals: The Sea, Down With Love

 

Spellbound
Spellbound

Scot Capehart’s Top 10 Movies of 2003 (in alphabetical order)

  • All the Real Girls
  • Lilja 4-Ever
  • Marion Bridge
  • Melvin Goes to Dinner
  • My Life Without Me
  • O.T.: Our Town
  • The Safety of Objects
  • Spellbound
  • Swimming Pool
  • Take Care of My Cat

 

The Secret Lives of Dentists
The Secret Lives of Dentists

Laura Clifford’s Top 10 Movies of 2003

  1. The Secret Lives of Dentists
  2. Mystic River
  3. The Triplets of Belleville
  4. Girl with a Pearl Earring
  5. The Station Agent
  6. Thirteen
  7. Open Hearts
  8. In My Skin/Irreversible
  9. Bus 174/In… Mirror of Maya Deren
  10. Ten

Honorable Mentions: The Man Without a Past, Bend it Like Beckham, The Magdalene Sisters, City of God, The Fog of War, Gerry, Amen, Cremaster 3, Divine Intervention, Love and Diane

 

Marion Bridge
Marion Bridge

Michael Colford’s Top 10 Movies of 2003 (in alphabetical order)

  • All the Real Girls
  • Lilja 4-Ever
  • Lost in Translation
  • Marion Bridge
  • Open Hearts
  • Raising Victor Vargas
  • The Safety of Objects
  • The Station Agent
  • Take Care of My Cat
  • Ten

Also Deserving: Demonlover, The Man Without a Past, Shattered Glass, This Little Life

Best Documentaries: Love & Diane, O.T.: Our Town, Spellbound

 

Marooned in Iraq
Marooned in Iraq

Johanna Cooper’s Top 10 Movies of 2003 (in no particular order)

  • 21 Grams
  • The Triplets of Belleville
  • The Station Agent
  • Lost in Translation
  • Winged Migration
  • Lilja 4-Ever
  • Marooned in Iraq
  • The Barbarian Invation
  • Rivers & Tides
  • City of God

 

 

Pieces of April
Pieces of April

Jim Doescher’s Top 10 Movies of 2003

  1. The Dancer Upstairs
  2. Dirty Pretty Things
  3. The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
  4. Rivers & Tides
  5. Whale Rider
  6. Pieces of April
  7. The Station Agent
  8. The Triplets of Belleville
  9. Tibet: Cry of the Snow Lion
  10. Winged Migration

 

L'homme du train
The Man on the Train

Georgette Gagne’s Top 10 Movies of 2003

  1. The Man on the Train
  2. The Station Agent
  3. The Triplets of Belleville
  4. The Man Without a Past
  5. Spellbound
  6. Winged Migration
  7. Lost in La Mancha
  8. Divine Intervention
  9. Lost in Translation
  10. To Be and To Have

 

 

Yadon ilaheyya
Divine Intervention

Bob Gladstein’s Top 10 Movies of 2003 (in alphabetical order)

  • American Splendor
  • The Barbarian Invasions
  • Divine Intervention
  • Friday Night
  • Ju-On: The Grudge
  • Lilja 4-Ever
  • Lost in Translation
  • Morvern Callar
  • Station Agent
  • Triplets of Belleville

 

Ned Hinkle’s Top 13 Films of the Year (because any fewer would be unlucky – in alphabetical order)

  • The Station Agent
    The Station Agent

    28 Days Later

  • American Splendor
  • Bad Santa
  • Bus 174
  • Godzilla Mothra King Gidorah!
  • Kill Bill: Volume 1
  • Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
  • Lost in Translation
  • Mystic River
  • Pirates of the Caribbean
  • School of Rock
  • The Station Agent
  • Swimming Pool

Runner-Ups: The Animation Show, Bubba Ho-Tep, Holes, Hulk, Intacto, Japon, Spider, Tamala 2010: A Punk Cat in Outer Space, Versus, Weather Underground, X-2: X-Men United

Most Disappointing Films of the Year: Charlie’s Angels: Full Throttle,  Gothika,  League of Extraordinary Gentlemen,  Matrix 2+3

 

Les invasions barbares
The Barbarian Invasions

Bruce Kingsley’s Top 10 Movies of 2003

  1. The Barbarian Invasions
  2. My Architect: a Son’s Journey
  3. Elephant
  4. The Station Agent
  5. Spellbound
  6. Autumn Spring
  7. Nosey Parker
  8. The Man on the Train
  9. Pieces of April
  10. Bend it Like Beckham

 

 

 

Raising Victor Varga
Raising Victor Vargas

Chris Kriofske’s Top 10 Movies of 2003

  1. Lost in Translation
  2. American Splendor
  3. Raising Victor Vargas
  4. The Station Agent
  5. The Triplets of Belleville
  6. Spellbound
  7. Morvern Callar
  8. Lilja 4-Ever
  9. Lawless Heart
  10. Dracula: Pages From a Virgin’s Diary

Non-Indie Honorable Mention: The School of Rock

 

 

Owning Mahowny
Owning Mahowny

Barbara Lonergan’s Top 11 Movies of 2003 (in alphabetical order)

  • All the Real Girls
  • Confidence
  • Divine Intervention
  • Laurel Canyon
  • Lost in Translation
  • The Man on the Train
  • Owning Mahowny
  • The Pianist
  • The Quiet American
  • Spellbound
  • Ten

 

The Dancer Upstairs
The Dancer Upstairs

Mary McIntire’s Top 10 Movies of 2003

  1. The Dancer Upstairs
  2. The Station Agent
  3. The Triplets of Belleville
  4. Lost in Translation
  5. The Pianist
  6. Owning Mahowny
  7. Amen
  8. Stone Reader
  9. Love, Liza
  10. Lilja 4-Ever

 

The Safety of Objects
The Safety of Objects

Hilary Nieukirk’s Top 10 Movies of 2003 (in alphabetical order)

  • All the Real Girls
  • American Splendor
  • Camp
  • City of God
  • In America
  • Lost in Translation
  • The Safety of Objects
  • The Secret Lives of Dentists
  • Swimming Pool
  • The Triplets of Belleville

Best Documentary: Spellbound

 

Gerry
Gerry

Rick Osberg’s Top 10 Movies of 2003

  1. Gerry
  2. The Quiet American
  3. Speedo
  4. On Guard!
  5. The Weather Underground
  6. Capturing the Friedman’s 
  7. Shattered Glass
  8. Sweet Sixteen
  9. To Have and To Hold
  10. Lost in Translation

 

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Ten

Jeffrey Pike’s Top 10 Movies of 2003

  1. Ten
  2. Marion Bridge
  3. Open Hearts
  4. O.T.: Our Town
  5. In the Mirror of Maya Deren
  6. Northfork
  7. Winged Migration
  8. Intolerable Cruelty
  9. The Quiet American
  10. Spider

Best Chlotrudis Non-Eligible Film: The School of Rock

 

 

 

Lost in Translation
Lost in Translation

Howard Semones Top 10 Movies of 2003

  1. Lost in Translation
  2. Finding Nemo
  3. The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
  4. Whale Rider
  5. The Triplets of Belleville
  6. Big Fish
  7. Kill Bill: Volume One
  8. The Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl
  9. Pieces of April
  10. Winged Migration

Guilty Pleasure of the Year: Freaky Friday

Morvern Callar
Morvern Callar

Kevin Smith’s Top 10 Movies of 2003

  1. Morvern Callar
  2. Kill Bill: Volume 1
  3. 28 Days Later…
  4. Holes
  5. House of Sand and Fog
  6. Russian Ark
  7. In America
  8. Blind Spot: Hitler’s Secretary
  9. Nowhere in Africa
  10. Cold Mountain

Honorable Mentions:

Hulk: 21 Grams, X2: X-Men United, All the Real Girls

 

The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King

Nathaniel Tyson’s Top 10 Movies of 2003

  1. The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
  2. Elephant
  3. Kill Bill: Volume 1
  4. Peter Pan
  5. Lost in Translation
  6. The Man Without a Past
  7. Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl
  8. Big Fish
  9. Raising Victor Vargas
  10. X2: X-Men United

 

All the Real Girls
All the Real Girls

Mary Wasmuth’s Top 10 Movies of 2003

  1. Lost in Translation
  2. American Splendor
  3. 25th Hour
  4. Confessions of a Dangerous Mind
  5. Spellbound
  6. In America
  7. The Barbarian Invasions
  8. All the Real Girls
  9. The Good Thief
  10. Lawless Heart

 

American Splendor
American Splendor

Diane Young’s Top 10 Movies of 2003 (in alphabetical order)

  • American Splendor
  • Bus 174
  • Mondays in the Sun
  • My Life Without Me
  • O.T.: Our Town
  • Pieces of April
  • The Secret Lives of Dentists
  • Spellbound
  • The Station Agent
  • Tupperware!