The Japanese master’s greatest achievement, this is an anime of endless imagination and hypnotic power, winning the coveted Oscar for Best Animated Feature.
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Spirited Away (2001)
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Tag / 2001
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Pulse (2001)
Friends commit suicide or disappear in this eerie, prophetic J-Horror essential as Kurosawa shows how the web would exacerbate collective angst and loneliness as ghosts are stuck in liminal spaces between the afterlife and reality, mediated by the digital screen.
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Trouble Every Day (2001)
Denis’ somewhat maligned slow-burn thriller still gives morbid pleasures if you find vampirism in everyday settings fascinating, as her exploitation-esque work explores the insatiable lust for sex and blood.
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Visible Secret (2001)
Ann Hui’s horror-comedy is at best an odd curiosity, a way too convoluted genre exercise that still manages to flaunt its film language, as Shu Qi plays a woman who can see ghosts.
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Lovely Rita (2001)
Hausner’s bleak feature debut can be difficult to watch, adopting lo-fi aesthetics and conspicuously fast zoom-ins, as an outcast teenage girl tries to cope with the problems of family and school by seducing an older man and a younger boy.
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All About Lily Chou-Chou (2001)
A tad overlong, but this coming-of-age, teen angst movie captures with exceptional ambition the pre-social media stan culture with a kind of authenticity, intimacy and raging fervour quite rarely experienced in cinema.
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Son’s Room, The (2001)
A patient, sensitively-drawn portrait of grief and loss in a family, though this Cannes Palme d’Or winner doesn’t seem to truly hit right in the gut.
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Lan Yu (2001)
Stanley Kwan’s gay drama, set in 1980s Beijing, feels more impressionistic than a deeply-felt journey with its characters, though the performances are compelling enough to overcome its rather lean narrative.
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Millennium Actress (2001)
A stunning achievement, Kon’s second feature-length anime is both a tribute to the history of Japanese cinema and the relentless pursuit of love to the ends of the world.
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Black Hawk Down (2001)
One of the great modern urban war films of the last twenty years, directed with masterful skill by Ridley Scott.
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