Mulholland Drive is big winner for top spot in 2000’s polling
by Sam Juliano
David Lynch’s surrealist mind bender, Mullholland Drive, captured the top spot in the long-running 2000’s poll conducted by WitD by a comfortable margin, according to Voting Tabulator Extraordinaire Angelo A. D’Arminio Jr. from his Fairview home yesterday. D’Arminio announced that 40 ballots had been received, with a few of those revisions on earlier submissions. The total represents the most ever received for any of the decade pollings, though this development was largely expected because of the younger age of most of the voters. The Lynch masterpiece was probably the most cited film by professional critics as well, in assessing the best films of the past ten years.
Terrence Malick’s ravishing ruminative tone poem The New World was a strong second-place finisher, while the hugely popular oil saga There Will Be Blood, and the Coens’ Oscar winner No Country For Old Men expectedly finished in the top five. The No. 5 choice, Wong Kar-Wai’s In the Mood For Love was the highest for any foreign-language film, and the #6, Steven Spilberg’s A.I. Artificial Intelligence, represented a deep passion from WitD voters, who engineered this surprising high placement.
#2 The New World
#3 There Will Be Blood
#4 No Country for Old Men
#5 In the Mood For Love
#6 A.I. Artificial Intelligence
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