Stotty's 2000s Favourites


About Elly | 2009 | Iran | Asghar Farhadi


Adam & Paul | 2004 | Ireland | Lenny Abrahamson


Adaptation. | 2002 | USA | Spike Jonze


Adrift | 2009 | Brazil | Heitor Dhalia


All or Nothing | 2002 | UK | Mike Leigh


Almost Famous | 2000 | USA | Cameron Crowe


Amelie | 2001 | France | Jean-Pierre Jeunet


Angel | 1999-04 | USA | Joss Whedon & David Greenwalt


La Antena | 2007 | Argentina | Esteban Sapir


Apocalypse Now Redux | 2001 | USA | Francis Ford Coppola


Arrested Development | 2003- | USA | Mitchell Hurwitz


Battlestar Galactica | 2004-09 | USA | Ronald D. Moore


The Beaches of Agnès | 2008 | France | Agnès Varda


Before Sunset | 2004 | USA | Richard Linklater


Blind Light | 2007 | UK | Sarah Pucill


Bodysong | 2003 | UK | Simon Pummell


Border | 2009 | Armenia | Harutyun Khachatryan


The Bothersome Man | 2006 | Norway / Iceland | Jens Lien


Breaking Bad | 2008-13 | USA | Vince Gilligan


Brick | 2005 | USA | Rian Johnson


The Brown Bunny | 2003 | USA | Vincent Gallo


Buffy the Vampire Slayer | 1997-03 | USA | Joss Whedon


Butterfly of Love | 2003 | Belgium | Nicolas Provost


Café Lumière | 2003 | Japan / Taiwan | Hou Hsiao-hsien


Cameras Take Five | 2003 | Canada | Steven Woloshen


Carnivàle | 2003-05 | USA | Daniel Knauf


Charlie and Lola | 2005-08 | UK | Lauren Child


Children of Men | 2006 | UK / USA | Alfonso Cuarón


Chopper | 2000 | Australia | Andrew Dominik


Control | 2007 | UK | Anton Corbijn


Conversation(s) with Other Women | 2005 | USA | Hans Canosa


Couscous | 2007 | France | Abdel Kechiche


Crimson Gold | 2003 | Iran | Jafar Panahi


The Cuckoo | 2002 | Russia / Finland | Aleksandr Rogozhkin


Curb Your Enthusiasm | 2000- | USA | Larry David


Dance Party, USA | 2006 | USA | Aaron Katz


Dans Paris | 2006 | France | Christophe Honoré


Dead Like Me | 2003-04 | USA | Stephen Godchaux


The Death of Mr. Lazarescu | 2005 | Romania | Cristi Puiu


Decasia: The State of Decay | 2002 | USA | Bill Morrison


Donnie Darko | 2001 | USA | Richard Kelly


Dragonflies | 2001 | Norway | Marius Holst


Early Doors | 2003-04 | UK | Craig Cash & Phil Mealey


Editorial | 2009 | Canada | Steven Woloshen


END Trilogy | 2008 | Spain | Carlos Casas


Energie! | 2007 | Germany | Thorsten Fleisch


Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind | 2004 | USA | Michel Gondry


Everything Will Be OK | 2006 | USA | Don Hertzfeldt


The Exploding Girl | 2009 | USA | Bradley Rust Gray


Exposed | 2001 | Austria | Siegfried A. Fruhauf


Family Guy | 1999- | USA | Seth MacFarlane


15 Storeys High | 2002-04 | UK | Sean Lock


Five: 5 Long Takes Dedicated to Yasujiro Ozu | 2003 | Iran | Abbas Kiarostami


Flight Over Lithuania or 510 Seconds of Silence | 2000 | Lithuania | Audrius Stonys & Arūnas Matelis


4 | 2005 | Russia | Ilya Khrzhanovskiy


4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days | 2007 | Romania | Cristian Mungiu


Freaks and Geeks | 1999-00 | USA | Paul Feig & Judd Apatow


Frontale | 2002 | Austria | Siegfried A. Fruhauf


Gerry | 2002 | USA | Gus Van Sant


Ghost World | 2001 | USA | Terry Zwigoff


The Gleaners & I | 2000 | France | Agnès Varda


The Goddess of 1967 | 2000 | Australia | Clara Law


Goodbye Solo | 2008 | USA | Ramin Bahrani


Goodbye, Dragon Inn | 2003 | Taiwan | Tsai Ming-liang


Googlewhack Adventure | 2004 | UK | Dave Gorman


Gosford Park | 2001 | UK / USA | Robert Altman


The Half Hidden | 2009 | Sweden | Jonas Gardell


Hana & Alice | 2004 | Japan | Iwai Shunji


Hancock & Joan | 2008 | UK | Richard Cottan


Happy Accidents | 2000 | USA | Brad Anderson


Happy-Go-Lucky | 2008 | UK | Mike Leigh


Harvie Krumpet | 2003 | Australia | Adam Elliot


Heartbeat Detector | 2007 | France | Nicolas Klotz


Honey Bunny | 2001 | USA | Vincent Gallo


Hotel | 2004 | Austria | Jessica Hausner


Hotel Chevalier | 2007 | USA | Wes Anderson


How I Met Your Mother | 2005-14 | USA | Carter Bays & Craig Thomas


Hunger | 2008 | UK / Ireland | Steve McQueen


I Am Love | 2009 | Italy | Luca Guadagnino


I Am So Proud of You | 2008 | USA | Don Hertzfeldt


Idiocracy | 2006 | USA | Mike Judge


In the City of Sylvia | 2007 | Spain | José Luis Guerín


In the Mood for Love | 2000 | Hong Kong | Wong Kar Wai


The Incredibles | 2004 | USA | Brad Bird


Innocence | 2004 | France / Belgium | Lucile Hadžihalilović


Instructions for a Light and Sound Machine | 2005 | Austria | Peter Tscherkassky


Irréversible | 2002 | France | Gaspar Noé


It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia | 2005- | USA | Rob McElhenney & Glenn Howerton


A Joy | 2005 | USA | Jodie Mack


Junebug | 2005 | USA | Phil Morrison


Krapp's Last Tape | 2000 | Ireland | Atom Egoyan


Last Days | 2005 | USA | Gus Van Sant


Last Resort | 2000 | UK | Paweł Pawlikowski


Light | 2001 | Spain | Carlos Casas


Lilly | 2007 | UK / USA | Jodie Mack


Lilya 4-Ever | 2002 | Sweden | Lukas Moodysson


Los | 2001 | USA | James Benning


Lost | 2004-10 | USA | Jeffrey Lieber, J.J. Abrams, & Damon Lindelof


Lost in Translation | 2003 | USA / Japan | Sofia Coppola


Lourdes | 2009 | Austria / France | Jessica Hausner


Mad Men | 2007-15 | USA | Matthew Weiner


Man Push Cart | 2005 | USA | Ramin Bahrani


The Man Who Wasn't There | 2001 | USA | Joel & Ethan Coen


Marion & Geoff | 2000-03 | UK | Hugo Blick & Rob Brydon


Mary and Max | 2009 | Australia | Adam Elliot


Me and You and Everyone We Know | 2005 | USA | Miranda July


The Meaning of Life | 2005 | USA | Don Hertzfeldt


Memento | 2000 | USA | Christopher Nolan


Memories of Murder | 2003 | South Korea | Bong Joon-ho


Minuet | 2003 | Canada | Steven Woloshen


Mirror Mechanics | 2005 | Austria | Siegfried A. Fruhauf


Modern Life | 2008 | France | Raymond Depardon


Monk | 2002-09 | USA | Andy Breckman


Monster | 2004 | Ireland | Dylan Moran


Morvern Callar | 2002 | UK | Lynne Ramsay


La Moustache | 2005 | France | Emmanuel Carrère


Mulholland Dr. | 2001 | USA | David Lynch


My Life without Me | 2003 | Spain / Canada | Isabel Coixet


My Winnipeg | 2007 | Canada | Guy Maddin


Next Door | 2005 | Norway | Pål Sletaune


The Night Shift | 2007 | Iceland | Ragnar Bragason


No Country for Old Men | 2007 | USA | Joel & Ethan Coen


O'Horten | 2007 | Norway | Bent Hamer


The Office | 2005-13 | USA | Greg Daniels


Oldboy | 2003 | South Korea | Park Chan-wook


Once | 2007 | Ireland | John Carney


A One and a Two | 2000 | Taiwan | Edward Yang


One Way Boogie Woogie/27 Years Later | 2005 | USA | James Benning


Our Daily Bread | 2005 | Austria | Nikolaus Geyrhalter


Ox | 2001 | Spain | Carlos Casas


Party Down | 2009-10 | USA | John Enbom, Rob Thomas, Dan Etheridge, & Paul Rudd


Peep Show | 2003-15 | UK | Jesse Armstrong & Sam Bain


The Piano Teacher | 2001 | France / Austria | Michael Haneke


The Pleasure of Being Robbed. | 2008 | USA | Joshua Safdie


The Proposition | 2005 | Australia | John Hillcoat


Punch-Drunk Love | 2002 | USA | Paul Thomas Anderson


Quiet City | 2007 | USA | Aaron Katz


Read My Lips | 2001 | France | Jacques Audiard


A Real Summer | 2007 | UK | Stephen Poliakoff


Rejected | 2000 | USA | Don Hertzfeldt


The Return | 2003 | Russia | Andrei Zvyagintsev


Roger Dodger | 2002 | USA | Dylan Kidd


The Royal Tenenbaums | 2001 | USA | Wes Anderson


The Royle Family | 1998-12 | UK | Caroline Aherne & Craig Cash


Schultze Gets the Blues | 2003 | Germany | Michael Schorr


A Serious Man | 2009 | USA | Joel & Ethan Coen


Shaun of the Dead | 2004 | UK | Edgar Wright


Shipwreck | 2002 | Spain | Carlos Casas


Sideways | 2004 | USA | Alexander Payne


Silent Light | 2007 | Mexico | Carlos Reygadas


Six Feet Under | 2001-05 | USA | Alan Ball


Snip | 2004 | Canada | Steven Woloshen


Somersault | 2004 | Australia | Cate Shortland


The Son | 2002 | Belgium | Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne


Songs from the Second Floor | 2000 | Sweden | Roy Andersson


The Sopranos | 1999-07 | USA | David Chase


The Squid and the Whale | 2005 | USA | Noah Baumbach


Sshtoorrty | 2005 | Canada | Michael Snow


Superbad | 2007 | USA | Greg Mottola


Syndromes and a Century | 2006 | Thailand | Apichatpong Weerasethakul


Synecdoche, New York | 2008 | USA | Charlie Kaufman


This Filthy Earth | 2001 | UK | Andrew Kötting


Time Out | 2001 | France | Laurent Cantet


Timecrimes | 2007 | Spain | Nacho Vigalondo


Together | 2000 | Sweden | Lukas Moodysson


Tony Manero | 2008 | Chile | Pablo Larraín


Transhumanic | 2004 | Spain | Carlos Casas


Trees of Syntax, Leaves of Axis | 2009 | Canada | Daïchi Saïto


Tropical Malady | 2004 | Thailand | Apichatpong Weerasethakul


Truly Human | 2001 | Denmark | Åke Sandgren


Tundra | 2007 | Spain | Carlos Casas


The Turning Gate | 2002 | South Korea | Hong Sang-soo


24 Hour Party People | 2002 | UK | Michael Winterbottom


The Unloved | 2009 | UK | Samantha Morton


Unmade Beds | 2009 | UK | Alexis Dos Santos


Uzak | 2002 | Turkey | Nuri Bilge Ceylan


Vendredi Soir | 2002 | France | Claire Denis


The Vicious Kind | 2009 | USA | Lee Toland Krieger


La Vie en Rose | 2007 | France | Olivier Dahan


The Village | 2004 | USA | M. Night Shyamalan


Vinyan: Lost Souls | 2008 | Belgium | Fabrice Du Welz


Wendy and Lucy | 2008 | USA | Kelly Reichardt


Werckmeister Harmonies | 2000 | Hungary | Tarr Béla


What Time Is It There? | 2001 | Taiwan | Tsai Ming-liang


When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts | 2006 | USA | Spike Lee


White Material | 2009 | France / Cameroon | Claire Denis


The White Ribbon | 2009 | Austria / Germany | Michael Haneke


Willow and Wind | 2000 | Iran | Mohammad-Ali Talebi


The Wire | 2002-08 | USA | David Simon


You Can Count on Me | 2000 | USA | Kenneth Lonergan


You, the Living | 2007 | Sweden | Roy Andersson