Top 10’s of 2004

Chlotrudis Awards members were invited to share their Top 10 movie lists of 2004 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.

Wilbur Wants to Kill Himself
Wilbur Wants To Kill Himself

Peg Aloi’s Top 10 Movies of 2004 (in no particular order)

  • Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
  • Vera Drake
  • The Woodsman
  • King Arthur
  • The Motorcycle Diaries
  • Wilbur Wants to Kill Himself
  • The Five Obstructions
  • The Legend of Leigh Bowery
  • Bright Young Things
  • I Heart Huckabees

 

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Infernal Affairs

Caitlin Buckley’s Top 10 Movies of 2004

  1. Kill Bill, vol. 2
  2. Infernal Affairs
  3. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
  4. The Saddest Music in the World
  5. On the Run
  6. The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou
  7. Goodbye, Dragon Inn
  8. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
  9. Tanration
  10. An Amazing Couple

 

 

 

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Kitchen Stories

Beth Caldwell’s Top 10 Movies of 2004

  • The Control Room
  • The Corporation
  • Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
  • The Fog of War
  • Kitchen Stories
  • Monster
  • The Return
  • The Sea Inside
  • The Story of the Weeping Camel
  • Supersize me

 

 

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Last Life in the Universe

Michael Colford’s Top 15 Movies of 2004

  1. Last Life in the Universe
  2. Belvaux’s The Trilogy
  3. Good Bye Dragon Inn
  4. Hero
  5. Dogville
  6. The Saddest Music in the World
  7. The Time of the Wolf
  8. Yossi & Jagger
  9. DiG!/Metallica: Some Kind of Monster
  10. Japanese Story
  11. Twilight Samurai
  12. Screaming Men
  13. Moolaadé
  14. Father & Son
  15. Undertow

Couldn’t Quite Squeeze On: Distant, Stander, Tarnation, The Rage in Placid Lake, Millennium Mambo, Wilbur Wants to Kill Himself, Broken Wings

Wilby Wonderful
Wilby Wonderful

Michael’s Top 10 Festival Films

  1. Wilby Wonderful
  2. Clean
  3. A Problem with Fear
  4. Brothers
  5. Nobody Knows
  6. A Hole in My Heart
  7. Off Beat
  8. The Best Thief in the World
  9. Saving Face
  10. Childstar

 

 

 

Tarnation
Tarnation

Scot Colford’s Top 10 Movies of 2004

  1. Tarnation
  2. Reconstruction
  3. Lucas Belvaux’s Trilogy
  4. Good Bye, Dragon Inn
  5. Gozu
  6. Last Life in the Universe
  7. UndertowPrimer
  8. Saddest Music in the World, The
  9. Saved!

 

 

Bu San
Goodbye,Dragon Inn

Bob Gladstein’s Top 10 Movies of 2004! 

  • Bad Education
  • Dogville
  • Goodbye Dragon Inn
  • Ju-On
  • Last Life in the Universe
  • Reconstruction
  • The Return
  • Sideways
  • Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter… and Spring
  • Lucas Belvaux’s The Trilogy

 

Ying Xiong
Hero

Thomas Guttadauro’s Top 10 Movies of 2004!

  1. Last Life in the Universe
  2. Hero
  3. Tokyo Godfathers
  4. Kill Bill Vol. 2
  5. The Twilight Samurai
  6. The Incredibles
  7. Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter… and Spring
  8. The Lovers
  9. Gozu
  10. The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou
Moolaadé
Moolaadé

 

 

Ned Hinkle’s Top 13 Films Released In US Theaters in 2004! 

  1. Goodbye, Dragon Inn
  2. Last Life in the Universe
  3. Moolaadé
  4. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
  5. Hero / House of Flying Daggers (if the good things about both films were distilled into one feature, it would be the greatest martial arts movie of all time! … maybe)
  6. Hellboy
  7. Zatôichi: the Blind Swordsman
  8. The Time of the Wolf
  9. Infernal Affairs
  10. Coffee and Cigarettes
  11. Ju-On
  12. Dawn of the Dead
  13. Lucas Belvaux’s The Trilogy

The Rest of the Best (alphabetically): Anatomy Of Hell, The Agronomist, The Five Obstructions, I Heart Huckabees, Kill Bill – Vol. 2, Noi, Notre Musique, The Saddest Music In The World, Saw, Sky Captain & The World Of Tomorrow, Spider Man 2, Touching the Void

 

Oldeuboi
Oldboy

Ned’s Top 10 Festival Films of 2004

  1. Oldboy
  2. Kung Fu Hustle
  3. Land of Plenty
  4. Clean
  5. Doppelganger
  6. Tale of Two Sisters
  7. Memories of Murder
  8. Les Revenants
  9. Blessing Bell
  10. Delamu

 

 

 

The Mudge Boy
The Mudge Boy

Bruce Kingsley’s Top 10 Movies fo 2004

  1. Goodbye, Dragon Inn
  2. The Mudge Boy
  3. Intimate Strangers
  4. Infernal Affairs
  5. Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter… and Spring
  6. The Corporation
  7. Dogville
  8. The Return
  9. Being Julia
  10. Last Life in the Universe
Vozvrashchenie
The Return

Chris Kriofske’s Top 10 Movies of 2004!

  1. The Return
  2. Tarnation
  3. Before Sunset
  4. Sideways
  5. Dogville
  6. The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou
  7. Undertow
  8. The Saddest Music in the World
  9. Moolaadé
  10. Goodbye, Dragon Inn

Honorable Mentions: DiG!, Vera Drake, Time of the Wolf, Monster, The Incredibles

Maria Full of Grace
Maria Full of Grace

Barbara Lonergan’s Top 10 Movies of 2004!

  1. Wilbur Wants To Kill Himself
  2. The Return
  3. Sideways
  4. Lucas Belvaux’s The Trilogy
  5. Maria Full of Grace
  6. Bukowski: Born Into This
  7. The Rage in Placid Lake
  8. Hero
  9. The Fog of War
  10. Monster

 

 

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An Amazing Couple

Mary McIntire’s Top 10 Movies of 2004

  1. Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter… and Spring
  2. Kitchen Stories
  3. Sideways
  4. Hero
  5. An Amazing Couple
  6. Infernal Affairs
  7. The Girl with the Pearl Earring
  8. Wilbur Wants to Kill Himselfr
  9. Last Life in the Universe
  10. Dogville

 

Bad Education
Bad Education

Hilary Nieukirk’s Top 10 Movies of 2004! (in alphabetical order)

  • Bad Education
  • Being Julie
  • DiG!
  • A Home at the End of the World
  • Napoleon Dynamite
  • Shaun of the Dead
  • Sideways
  • Stander
  • Tarnation
  • Vera Drake

Best Chlotrudis Ineligible: The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou

Best DVD Release: The Apple (1980)
“WHOA, crazy apple/Take a bite!”

 

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Millennium Mambo

Jeffrey Pike’s Top 10 Movies of 2004!

  1. DiG!
  2. Festival Express
  3. Wings of Desire
  4. Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter… and Spring!
  5. Control Room
  6. Hero
  7. Kitchen Stories
  8. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
  9. Millennium Mambo
  10. The Return

I Also Liked: The Rage in Placid Lake (but I had to watch it twice!), Touching the VoidRobot StoriesDogvillePower TripShaun of the DeadCoffee and CigarettesNosey Parker, and Blind Shaft

 

Shaun of the Dead
Shaun of the Dead

Howard Semones Top 10 Movies of 2004!

  1. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
  2. A Very Long Engagement
  3. The Incredibles
  4. Shaun of the Dead
  5. Spider-Man 2
  6. Tokyo Godfathers
  7. Riding Giants
  8. The Lost Skeleton of Cadavra
  9. Mean Girls
  10. Kill Bill, Vol. 2

 

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Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter… and Spring

Diane Young’s Top 10 Movies of 2004!

  1. Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter… and Spring!
  2. The Mother
  3. Maria Full of Grace
  4. The Return
  5. My Architect
  6. Goodbye, Dragon Inn
  7. We Don’t Live Here Anymore
  8. Untold Scandal
  9. Sideways
  10. The Incredibles

 

 

 

 

DiG!
DiG!

Carolyn Ziering’s Top 10 Movies of 2004!

  1. DiG!
  2. Saved
  3. A Home at the End of the World
  4. Finding Neverland
  5. The Woodsman
  6. Bad Education
  7. Girl with a Pearl Earring
  8. Wilbur Wants to Kill Himself
  9. Kinsey
  10. Tarnation