Digital Cinema
Digital cameras, CGI everywhere, the DVD boom and bust, the rise of streaming. PT Anderson, Linklater, Cuarón, the Dardennes, Park Chan-wook, Apichatpong. Cinema and television finally trade places.
Part of Films
41 moments in this segment.
- — Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon. Ang Lee. First foreign-language film to gross $100M+ in the US. Yuen Woo-ping's wire-work choreography; the bamboo-forest duel. Brought wuxia to Western mass audiences.
- — Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000) Trailer #1 | Movieclips Classic Trailers. · 00:02:04
- — In the Mood for Love. Wong Kar-wai. Maggie Cheung's cheongsams, Tony Leung's cigarette smoke, Nat King Cole on the soundtrack. The most stylistically beautiful film of the 2000s.
- — Amélie. Jean-Pierre Jeunet. Audrey Tautou's breakthrough. Defined the candy-coloured, twee, Montmartre-romanticised Paris that flooded film and design for the next decade.
- — Amélie (2001) Official Trailer 1 - Audrey Tautou Movie. · 00:01:03
- — Mulholland Drive. David Lynch. Originally shot as an ABC pilot the network rejected; Lynch shot extra material and turned it into a feature. Sight & Sound's greatest film of the 21st century in the 2016 poll.
- — Mulholland Drive | Official Trailer | Starring Naomi Watts. · 00:01:24
- — Spirited Away. Hayao Miyazaki. First non-English-language animated feature to win the Oscar. Highest-grossing Japanese film ever. The bathhouse-of-the-gods imagery remains unsurpassed in animation.
- — Spirited Away - Official Trailer. · 00:02:27
- — The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring. Peter Jackson, shot the trilogy back-to-back in New Zealand. WETA Digital's motion-capture for Gollum. Made the franchise blockbuster respectable to critics.
- — The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring Official Trailer #1 - (2001) HD. · 00:02:56
- — City of God. Fernandes Meirelles. Cast Rio favela non-actors. Burst of energy that put Latin American cinema back on the world map. Made gritty, kinetic poverty-cinema briefly fashionable.
- — City of God (2002) Official Trailer - Crime Drama HD. · 00:01:04
- — Oldboy. Park Chan-wook. The hammer fight shot in a single take. Won the Grand Prix at Cannes — Tarantino, on the jury, championed it. The film that broke Korean cinema globally.
- — OLDBOY - Official Trailer. After being kidnapped and imprisoned for fifteen years, Oh Dae-su (Choi Min-sik) is released, only to find that he must find his captor in five days.
- — Before Sunset. Richard Linklater. Sequel to Before Sunrise (1995). 80 minutes of Jesse and Céline walking through Paris. Realised in 2013 with Before Midnight as the definitive trilogy of romantic conversation in modern cinema.
- — Before Sunset (2004) Official Trailer #1 - Ethan Hawke Movie. · 00:02:46
- — Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. Michel Gondry, script by Charlie Kaufman. Jim Carrey and Kate Winslet erasing each other from their memories. The best original screenplay of the 2000s.
- — Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind Official Trailer #1 - Jim Carrey, Kate Winslet Movie (2004) HD. · 00:01:24
- — No Country for Old Men. Coen brothers. Javier Bardem's coin-flip killer. Won Best Picture. Single-handedly restored the dread-Western to American cinema; ended with a monologue rather than a resolution.
- — No Country For Old Men (2007) Official Trailer - Tommy Lee Jones, Javier Bardem Movie HD. · 00:02:31
- — There Will Be Blood. Paul Thomas Anderson. Daniel Day-Lewis as oilman Daniel Plainview. "I drink your milkshake." Often called the best American film of the 2000s.
- — There Will Be Blood (2007) Official Trailer - Daniel Day-Lewis, Paul Dano Movie HD. · 00:02:12
- — WALL-E. Andrew Stanton. First 40 minutes nearly dialogue-free. Pixar at its peak; environmental allegory wrapped in romance between two robots. Won Best Animated Feature.
- — WALL-E (2008) Trailer #1 | Movieclips Classic Trailers. · 00:02:22
- — The Dark Knight. Christopher Nolan. Heath Ledger's posthumous Oscar for the Joker. Killed the "comic-book-films-are-disposable" assumption; made superhero stories Oscar-eligible. Did $1B+ worldwide.
- — The Dark Knight (2008) Official Trailer #1 - Christopher Nolan Movie HD. · 00:02:30
- — Avatar. James Cameron. $237M budget; grossed $2.9B. Sold 3D to the world (briefly). Defined the era's peak-CGI immersive blockbuster. Held the all-time gross record for a decade.
- — Avatar | Official Trailer (HD) | 20th Century FOX. · 00:03:31
- — Inception. Christopher Nolan. Dreams-within-dreams heist film. Folding Paris, hallway zero-g fight, the spinning top. Made conceptual blockbusters viable.
- — Inception (2010) Official Trailer #1 - Christopher Nolan Movie HD. · 00:02:23
- — The Social Network. Fincher, Sorkin script. Jesse Eisenberg as Zuckerberg. Made before anyone knew how much Facebook would matter. The opening Erica Albright dialogue is a masterclass.
- — THE SOCIAL NETWORK - Official Trailer [2010] (HD). ) · 00:02:30
- — The Tree of Life. Terrence Malick. 1950s Texas childhood + the cosmic origin of the universe. Booed and applauded at Cannes; won the Palme d'Or. The most divisive American film of the decade.
- — THE TREE OF LIFE Official HD Trailer. · 00:02:12
- — Amour. Michael Haneke. Emmanuelle Riva and Jean-Louis Trintignant as an elderly couple after her stroke. Won the Palme d'Or and Best Foreign Language Film. Devastating, unsentimental masterpiece on aging and love.
- — Amour (2012) - Official Trailer [HD]. ] · 00:02:00
- — 12 Years a Slave. Steve McQueen. Chiwetel Ejiofor, Lupita Nyong'o. First film directed by a Black filmmaker to win Best Picture. McQueen's static camera doesn't look away from the violence of slavery.
- — 12 YEARS A SLAVE - Official Trailer (HD). ) · 00:02:30
- — The Grand Budapest Hotel. Wes Anderson. The film that codified Anderson's aesthetic into a household look (and a million Instagram filters). Ralph Fiennes as M. Gustave.
- — THE GRAND BUDAPEST HOTEL - Official Wolrdwide Trailer HD. · 00:02:26
