Twenty Favorite Fantasy Movies of the 21st Century
(I stumbled across this June 2016 Playlist catalog of the 20 best fantasy films of the 21st century and concurred with two or maybe three of them. Here’s my own attempt at a top twenty, in order of preference.)
3-Iron (directed by Ki-duk Kim, 2004)
The Eclipse (directed by Conor McPherson, 2009)
My Winnipeg (directed by Guy Maddin, 2007)
Mister Lonely (directed by Harmony Korine, 2007)
The Eye (directed by Danny and Oxide Chung Pang, 2002)
A Ghost Story (directed by David Lowery, 2017)
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (directed by Ang Lee, 2000)
The Devil’s Backbone (directed by Guillermo del Toro, 2001)
Wolf Children (directed by Mamoru Hosoda, 2012)
The Beauty Inside (directed by Baek Jong-yul, 2015)
Enemy (directed by Denis Villeneuve, 2013)
Good Manners (directed by Juliana Rojas and Marco Dutra, 2017)
The Others (directed by Alejandro Amenábar, 2001)
Happy as Lazzaro (directed by Alice Rohrwacher, 2018)
Spirited Away (directed by Hayao Miyazaki, 2001)
Pan’s Labyrinth (directed by Guillermo del Toro, 2006)
Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives (directed by Apichatpong Weerasethakul, 2010)
Let the Right One In (directed by Tomas Alfredson, 2008)
Air Doll (directed by Hirokazu Kore-eda, 2009)
I Lost My Body (directed by Jérémy Clapin, 2019)
— March 28, 2021