Friends,
Here we are for the third year in a row with my annual “Best of Film” list from last year. Yes, I know it’s almost April, but believe it or not, I saw two films this week that made it onto my top fifteen. The year 2002 started out as a slow one for movies, however, when I sat down in early December and started to put pen to paper to make a list of the films that moved me, entertained me and just flat out disturbed me, the list was rather large and this was right before the onslaught of moves that Hollywood throws at us for the holiday season.

Hopefully 2002 will be remembered as a year with many exceptional films. While there was no Almost Famous, Shawshank or Good Will Hunting this year (a film which I immediately fell in love with and dragged everyone I knew to it), it was a year in which numerous films moved me beyond words. Every year all people seem to do is complain about the quality of films coming from Hollywood. Personally, while there is plenty of trash, one thing that is overlooked is that they are producing more films each year than they were the year before. Therefore, since there were well over 400 films released last year, they are also making more high quality films than ever before. We just have to be wise in our choices.

Why one film made it higher on the list over another I can not give any real reason. Does it matter? I guess it does when you put numbers to it. You could move around all of the films in my top twenty in any form and it would not really matter, they’re all extraordinary. Therefore, I ranked them in the order that they stayed with me, remained in my thoughts, made me want to call an old friend, forced me to reexamine my life, made me miss a lost love and simply stayed close to my heart weeks after viewing it. In picking the top films, I thought back on what the late Gene Siskel would do each and every year; he would pick the film, which he felt, showed the greatest joy and love of filmmaking and that was usually his number one movie. This year I took that approach and created the list below.

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What follows is a list of films that I inspired me in one way or another. I don’t expect everyone to love each and every one of them, but maybe have an appreciation for them. Each of the movies below spoke to me in some fashion whether they were a two hour escape for me. I am grateful to those creative forces behind them who hope that the world will take their art to heart.

Thumbs Way Up…
Tony

1. The Lord of the Rings - The Two Towers
Peter Jackson has made a masterpiece that will not only stand the test of time, but will be cherished by film lovers forever. He has taken the unfeasible job of constructing these three books onto film and made a magnum opus that will be viewed for all time. The elation of the filmmaking involved with the process is evident and yet effortless at the same time. To me, this film exhibited a greater joy of filmmaking than anything else I saw on the screen last year.

2.“Gangs of New York
Martin Scorsese took a chance when he decided to create a film about the tribal warfare among the immigrants during the late Nineteenth Century in New York. Nobody tells New York stories better than Scorsese. Like Springsteen who uses New Jersey ideals and lifestyles to encompass his music, Scorsese's muse is New York. The film is more than just a history of New York, it's a reflection of ideals that helped shape, form and continue to be issues today in America. Politicians and dangerous gangs fight over control of the corners and Burroughs of New York. What is most stunning is that while the event in this film took place well over one hundred and twenty years ago, many of these same issues still haunt the American landscape today. Daniel Day Lewis steals the movie with his over-the-top portrayal of “Bill the Butcher”, one of the truly evil characters to ever grace us with their presence on the screen. From the opening battle scene of the natives and immigrants fighting to the final image of the pre-9/11 New York City skyline with U2's “The Hands That Built America” playing over it, this film is a feast on the eyes and mind.

3. Adaptation
We are what we love, not what loves us -Donald Kaufmann
Easily the best script from 2002 and one of the most absorbing films I have ever seen. Nicolas Cage takes on a double role playing two brothers, Donald and Charlie Kaufman, who are both writers. Donald is laid back and wants to write a by the numbers action thriller. Charlie is the man behind Being John Malkovich and is adapting the best seller The Orchid Thief . One problem: A film on orchids is mind-numbing. He can not adapt the book and his confusion falls over into his real life, which he winds up adding to the story. Somehow, the books author Susan Orlean (Meryl Streep) and the man she wrote about, John Laroche (Chris Cooper), all become involved in the movie with Charlie tracking them down. The movie is a film within a film. Confused? Well, when you see it you won't be. I don't want to give too much away to those who have not seen it and others who have seen it, know exactly what I'm writing about. The screenplay is a combination of the two brothers so you get a serious film, with a big action scene, which I won't reveal. I can ensure that many people maybe turned off by the finale of the third act, but there is where the irony is at its best. I was sitting up in my seat when the film finished, I was smiling and I could feel that happiness move throughout my body as I walked to my car, drove home and wrote four paragraphs on the film before I went to bed that night. You may not grab everything on one viewing, so make sure you see it twice. It's a heartfelt film about love, passion, writing and most importantly life and how art and inspiration can help us embrace it. The hybrid of these two writers (Donald and Charlie) comes together in this brilliant, truthful, loving and mesmerizing film.

4. The 25th Floor
Spike Lee's masterpiece...a surreal and evocative day in post 9/11 New York. While I believe Spike Lee is an extraordinarily talented filmmaker, I consider many of his films are off base and ill conceived. Yet, each and every film of his has something in it that I fall in love with. He has taken all of his best qualities and crafted his masterpiece. People will look back twenty-five years from now and see this as an unheralded work of genius. Ed Norton delivers a truly amazing performance of a drug dealer who spends one last day with his friends and family and ponders the decisions he has made in his life. Along with Norton the cast is a tour de force with superb supporting performances by Brian Cox, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Barry Pepper and Rosario Dawson. The film ends on a subdued note with the haunting, but fitting, Bruce Springsteen track, “The Fuse” playing over the ending credits.

5. City of God
Take The Godfather, Goodfellas and Mean Streets and you have possibly the three greatest gangster films ever made. Take the best elements of these three films, change the setting to the slums of Rio de Janeiro and you have one of the most exhilarating and awe-inspiring film experiences in recent memory. There is no authority on these streets as gangs and drug dealers control the society. The film is narrated by “Rocket” who tell the story which covers three decades of turbulence, struggle and gangland wars which are terrifying for no other reason than because they are never ending the decadence begins at a young age where children are murdering others in the streets. There is nothing Hollywood about this brutally truthful and inspired piece of work. It's as real and truthful as any film ever made.

6. Read My Lips
Every critic each year has one movie on their list that NO ONE has ever heard of. Read My Lips is my movie. The film evolves around Carla, who is an office worker who is death, but can read lips. Due to the stress involved with her work, she hires a male assistant, who has a criminal past. Slowly a story evolves involving Carla, the former convict and his past. All of these circumstances come into play as the story unravels in front of us. Before we know it, a risky chain of events unfold in which the success of them depends on Carla's ability to read lips. No other film held my attention as well as this one did in 2002. Yes, it has subtitles, but you don't even realize it half of the time because of the actions that take place. It's one of the best noir thrillers I have ever seen and Hollywood should buy the rights to this movie and re-make like they did with Insomnia .

7. Punch Drunk Love
There is nothing more depressing than a bewildered and secluded soul who walks through life by themselves without any cohort to disclose life's experiences with. Those who went into this film expecting to see an Adam Sandler film walked out disappointed. On the flipside...those who went in expecting to see a Paul Thomas Anderson film walked away on cloud nine. Sandler gives a bravura performance as a semi-lovable loser who finally discovers love with Emily Watson. This is not that different from his other performances. The difference this time is that he is not in the middle of some plot that involves him getting rich quick or inheriting a kid. There are side plots in this film involving extortion and a loop hole that involves Sandler's character (Barry Egan) to get over one million frequent flyer miles from purchasing pudding (yes, you read that correctly). I loved this idiosyncratic film because it so reminded me of how the outside world can be so callous, malicious and sadistic to insecure people. You then lose sight of your dreams, goals and ambitions because you feel no love or hope. Many found the actions of the characters in the film comical, when they should have been dismayed. I hope people are willing to give this movie another chance, as it is a film about finding a muse who can make you feel invincible.

8. Minority Report
The futuristic noir-thriller view was half Blade Runner and half Metropolis . It has all the goods of all of the other action films from the last twenty five years, but this film above all else has a human element. This film is visually striking and the type of film that Hitchcock would have made if he were alive today. Spielberg proves that Hollywood can make truly entertaining action films based around complex and original ideas. Steven Spielberg has always been a great filmmaker and somehow very few other directors working today can make truly engaging pieces of art and be so ingenious and innovative in the process. Despite his incredible success he continually pushes the envelope and dares the mass audience to come along for the ride.

9. About A Boy
A film defined as a romantic comedy but is more or less a movie about maturity and the insight that comes from it. I loved this film to pieces (based on Nick Hornby's book) about a bachelor for life who lives off of his inheritance and the relationship he forges with a 12-year-old boy. No, this is not a story based on Michael Jackson's life, but a cavernous relationship built out of admiration where Will (Hugh Grant) teaches as much as he learns from Marcus ( Nicholas Hoult). The film does not have a cookie cutter ending, but this only adds to the films charm.

10. Spirited Away by Hayao Miyazaki
Hands down the year's best-animated feature that SHOULD win the Oscar for Best Animated Feature but probably will not. This is a film involving an inexplicable tale of a young girl who finds adventure and maturity. The animated images are so authentic that when I saw it in a theater the younger children were timorous like the Hobbits upon first view of the Ents. This is a film for children 7 and up. The real motive behind the Japanese master of cinema, Hayao Miyazaki, making animated films is because his imagination is so immeasurable and spacious; he could not conceive live actions films that could physically be filmed with the technology available today. This is the man that all Disney animators point to as their muse. This film is the all time box office champion in Japan (yes, it sold more tickets and made more money than Star Wars, Harry Potter or Titanic ). Disney picked up the North American rights to the film and dropped the ball by not promoting the film at all, which is a shame because it meant that people most likely paid to see another movie playing in the same theater that was nowhere near as enchanting and mysterious as this one. If there is any justice, Miyazaki will walk away with the Oscar for a film that should wonder any fan of cinema worldwide.

11. About Schmidt
Jack Nicholson is masterful as a retired man who comes to learn that he has virtually nothing in his life (after his wife dies). The only person with whom he can truly communicate with is a 6-year-old Tanzanian boy named Ndugu. The films best moments are when Nicholson is writing his letters to the boy. They give the film its best laughs and make being the level of humanity to the surface. The film is eccentric with an underlying sense of melancholy. This is demonstrated in his love for his daughter whom he loves and adores but somehow never actually tells her. She has no idea how much he cherishes her. It's ironic how so many of us talk about expressing emotions and will do so for film, music or novels, but when it comes to confronting human beings with emotion, we choose the road of silence. A life lesson is to be taken from this film...don't let life slip through your fingers, grab it by the throat, scream and make yourself heard.

12. Kissing Jessica Stein
The film at its core is a comedy, but as it peels away its layers, it is much deeper than that. Jennifer Westfeldt and Heather Juergensen wrote the screenplay from a play they had done off of Broadway. One woman is fed up with the dating scene and finds a woman with whom she has a genuine connection. The most poignant moment of the film involves Westfeldt (Jessica Stein) sitting on the porch of her house having a discussion in which her mother ( Tovah Feldshuh ) turns a basic conversation into a moment that is unforgettable and poignant. It's not a film about sex so much as it is about coming to terms with those we love and their flaws and accepting them. I found myself continuing to think about this film in the months after I saw it. It's sweet, melancholy and has more to do with human relationships than sexual preferences.

13. Roger Dodger
I don't know how this happened, but I missed this film when in theaters. I had to wait till this past week when it came out on DVD to experience it, I am glad I did. Roger (Campbell Scott) is a brash advertising executive who is presumptuous, insensitive and just the man that his sixteen year old nephew comes to (uninvited) for advice on women. Roger performs his job and seduces women the same way. He makes people feel bad so they'll buy products or in the case of women, they go home with him for some kind of human touch. Roger is a dream role for any actor, let alone one that is utilized as little as Campbell Scott. Most people know him as the good guy from Cameron Crowe's Singles , but here he transforms into this snake-like creature that is fascinating to watch. The dialogue is so rich and menacing that if I did not know any better, I would have assumed that David Mamet may have written it. Roger and his nephew then start a voyage into the New York night where they both walk away different people who have reexamined their lives, for the better. The final scene in the film is classic as Roger spews advice on how to meet women to a bunch of nerdy sixteen year olds. The journey up to that final scene is worth the ride too, yet it culminates perfectly in that last frame of the film.

14. The Man From Elysian Fields
This is simply one of the year's most underrated films. It's a straightforward story of a struggling writer played by Andy Garcia who will do anything to support his family…even if it means becoming a male escort. Mick Jagger, whose performance should have been nominated for an Oscar, runs the head of the agency Garcia works for. What ensues over the next two hours in an enjoyable film, but what takes it to another level is the presence of Jagger. He is natural in his acting skills. Even though his screen time is limited, it is the most effortless acting I witnessed in 2002 and a role with great essence and presence, which can be felt throughout the entire film, even when he is not on screen.

15. Lilo & Stich
This is easily the best non-CGI Disney film since The Lion King . How a destructive and chaotic character like Stitch ever got pass Disney's censor board is beyond me, but I am glad it did. This character is nothing but pure chaos. Somewhere beneath all of the pandemonium that ensues, is a film with heart and the theme of “Ohana” (no one gets left behind). While all of the Disney films are enjoyable, I feel very few have been great since The Lion King . However, this film is one of the most entertaining and heartfelt films I have seen in recent years and it demonstrates that Disney films can still be entertaining and stimulating for all ages. The Elvis songs and sci-fi aspect just added to the peculiar temperament and eccentricity of Stitch.

16. Possession
Aaron Eckhart and Gwyneth Paltrow are two scholars in London, in search of clues of a possible affair from two famous Nineteenth Century poets ( Jeremy Northam and Jennifer Ehle) . The film demonstrates, in a very honest sense, how a century has given great advances in social circles regarding the sexes but in the end we still push people away for no good reason. We, not society, make relationships difficult, in the 21 st Century. We can live in society where women and men have equal rights and there is no one to judge us, yet, people still make love difficult. If there is any consistent theme in the relationship films from 2002, it appears to be the lack of faith in disclosure to those we care about. We will write about it, sing it, direct it but somehow we can not look that other person in the eye and tell them how we feel about them…sad but true.

17. Episode II: Attack of the Clones
I don't care what anyone says, the Star Wars films are still great Saturday matinee films. Episode II was actually an electrifying ride, which I found to be right behind the original Star Wars and Empire in terms of greatness. The prevalent quandary with these prequels is that nothing was going to live up to what we had built in our imaginations for sixteen years. When we were younger, we felt the original trilogy and its softness. In the present, we think about these films to the point to where we don't enjoy them. The film is the ultimate Saturday matinee. I personally did not have a problem with the dialogue in the love scenes as I remember being young once and I know that the thoughts and views I expressed were not Shakespeare, but a love stricken teenager tripping over his words. I still marvel at these films. Maybe my opinions of this second trilogy will change over time, but till then, I still see these films as great entertainment.

18. Far From Heaven
The best Douglas Sirk film never made. Todd Haynes takes all of the qualities of a Sirk film from the 1950's and pushes the envelope. Whereas Sirk may have been hinting at issues within his films, Haynes lays it all out in this film: homosexuality, infidelity, and bi-racial relationships. Julianne Moore gives a career making performance and probably is the role of a lifetime. Dennis Hasbert who is best know as the President on 24 gives such an understated performance it is the heart and soul of the film. A heartbreaking yet beautifully told narrative of a time that may not have been as perfect as we think.

19. Bowling For Columbine
The most thought provoking film of the year from Michael Moore. Moore has made a career of going after the big evil machine of corporate America. Here he puts it all together and the results are staggering. The images of student running around Columbine high school with guns and the 911 phone calls is as haunting as anything ever put on celluloid. This is a film about gun control that every American needs to see.

20. Thirteen Conversations About One Thing
What is happiness? This film tries to dissect it in 4 separate storylines and does so brilliantly. The film asks some tough questions and whether or not if we have any control over our destinies and what we do when we are dealt a bad hand. Another film that came and went in the theaters, I urge you to seek it out. It will sit with you and brew inside your mind for weeks.

21. Bloody Sunday
Paul Greengrass has made a film that for all intended purposes future generations may mistake for a documentary. Many people may not realize that they know this story, but anyone who has heard the U2 song of the same name knows what happened. In January 1972, British soldiers killed 13 passive civilians during a protest. The film is largely shot on hand held cameras to give the documentary-like feeling. I felt numb and dizzy after walking out of the theater seeing this film. A stunning and realistic film that portrays Ireland’s struggles in the late 20th Century better than any other film ever made.

22. Catch Me If You Can
Spielberg, Dicaprio, Hanks, and Walken…does it get any better than this? Believe it or not…it does. Spielberg not only made one of the most inventive and thought provoking films of the year (Minority Report), but he also made one of the most entertaining ones as well. There are no lessons to be learned here, just a great caper tale of a young man on the run. It’s perfectly paced and everything in the film (acting, writing, directing) is executed to perfection.

22. The Pianist
Roman Polanski’s haunting and terrifying tale of one man’s journey through World War II as a Polish Jew in hiding. It’s an extraordinary story showing of one mans struggle to stay alive. Adrien Brody gets to show the world what all film lovers have known for years, that he is a exceptionally endowed actor who will etch his characters into our minds just with his facial expressions. Polanski has made one of the greatest films of his career, which includes Chinatown. There is no unwinding plot, just a horrific series of events that this one man has to overcome in order to stay alive. His survival story gives us hope and faith that there are truly decent human beings out there who are selfless.

23. Rabbit Proof Fence / The Quiet American
Philip Noyce’s one-two punch of movie masterpieces he has created. Instead of picking the latest Jack Ryan thriller to direct (Sum of All Fears) he chose instead to direct two incredibly stunning films that should stand the test of time. Rabbit Proof Fence follows the story of three Australian aboriginal girls who were detached from their families in order to blend them in with white families so that they could create one master race. The Quiet American is a story involving a British journalist (Michael Caine), an American with an ulterior motive and a Vietnamese girl in the middle. While the two men do fight for the woman, the events in Vietnam that unfold behind them (in the early 50’s) set the stage for American presence that would later lead to the Vietnam War. Caine’s performance is a subtle yet elegant one. If anything comes from these two films, let’s hope people watch them and learn from them so these horrific events never take place again.

24. Auto Focus
While many of the college directors (Scorsese Spielberg, Copolla, Lucas) have each had their place in cinema forever engraved, Paul Schrader has consistently worked on the edge between the studio system and independent film. He is best known for his scripts (Taxi Driver, Raging Bull) but his is a remarkable director as well. Here he tells Bob Crane’s story of rising to the top, falling from grace and a blood sullied ending. The irony of this film is how lost in the flood Crane (played to absolute perfection by Greg Kinnear) does not see anything wrong with his appetite for sex even though it is consistently ruining his life at every corner he turns. His partner in crime throughout the film is techno-wizard John Carpenter (played by Willem Dafoe, who would have received an Oscar nomination if anyone had actually seen this film). Its simple story of a man’s fall from grace and his tragic ending, but Schrader puts a human element in the film which is fascinating, disturbing and sad all at the same time.

25. Changing Lanes
The most surprising film of the year if for no other reason than this looked like a movie of the week on the surface. Samuel L. Jackson and Ben Affleck give performances of grit and wisdom here. It’s an intense film which everyone can relate to. How would we react if everything went wrong for us on the same day? A smart intelligent film, incredibly well paced with two lead performances that make these characters more than just over excited New Yorkers, but human beings we comprehend as good people who are pushed to extreme limits by everyday life.

26. One Hour Photo
This is one of the most unnerving exercises in isolation on screen since Taxi Driver. While this film does not tackle the subject matter as heavily, it is still creepy and eerie to watch this film unravel in front of your eyes. Robin Williams gives a truly eerie performance in a film that is set up so perfectly from its décor and sets; you are just waiting for his character to begin to crack.

27. The Bourne Identity
This was my favorite action film from last year for no other reason than a clever script and fresh directing. It had all of the best things every action movie should have and an intelligent script to boot. Not to mention that Franke Potenke is easy on the eyes. This is actually a film series I would love to see Damon and director Liman visit again. I believe that Jason Bourne has more adventures ahead of him. It’s a film that paces itself with story instead of action. When there are action sequences, they are more or less gymnastic exercises, but it’s refreshing to see instead of explosions from a Vin Diesel movie. .

28. Y Tu Mama Tambien
The year’s best coming of age story that involves two high school friends, an older woman and the search for a happiness and peace of mind. It’s also an ironic tale of class divisions throughout Mexico. Beneath all of the sex, innocence and skylines is a film that digs deep into the characters souls.

29. Antwone Fisher
Many people felt this was the “feel good” film of the year and they’re right. Denzel Washing makes his directorial debut is a sweet and touching film in which newcomer Derek Luke plays the title character, based on a true story, in a film about the struggle to find yourself.

30. The Road To Perdition
The film unwinds like a Greek tragedy where all of the characters feel that their destiny has been pre-ordained. While one would think that this would take away from the films tension, it does not. It’s a film with incredible acting, cinematography and directing in a film that is part mob drama, road trip discovery and father-son tale.

31. Signs
My parents grew up with Hitchcock as their tour de force director, where everyone saw his films no matter what. Spielberg took over the crown for my generation and the next generation will have M. Night Shymalan. He has proven that his is a mater storyteller and can somehow bring the mass audience along with him, even in this story about the renewal of faith.

32 Stolen Summer
This was the little film that could…it was infinitely better than it should have been and Pete Jones deserves to direct another movie despite all of the drama that unfolded on HBO’s Project Greenlight. It’s just a sweet and simple story of faith.

33. Femme Fatale
Brian De Palma is back. After a few major misfires, the director who divides audiences like no one else can did it again with this noir-like tale of thievery, seduction and second chances. Surprisingly Rebecca Romijn-Stamos proves she can do more than just be the sexy Mystique (X-Men) with a lot of paint on, she is dazzling in this film. The film is dicey and you constantly wonder if you missed something. Have no fear you have not, it will all eventually unravel. Those who hated this film simply missed the point the ingenious plot devices that drive it.

34. Insomnia
Chris Nolan (Memento) directed a remake of a truly prodigious Norwegian film and made it into his own big budget Hollywood movie, without making any sacrifices that hurt the story. Al Pacino and Robin Williams (in his other great role this year) play off each other perfectly in this thriller that delivers on every level.

35. Chicago
The big Hollywood musical is back with a vengeance. I enjoyed every little bit of Chicago but could not help but feel that it was nowhere in the same league as Moulin Rouge. While this film will most certainly sweep the Oscars, I wonder if this will be one of these years when we look back twenty years from now and see all of the other truly great films that came out and wonder how Chicago won the Best Picture Oscar. Either way, it’s top notch entertainment that was executed after years in production hell. Catherine Zeta-Jones has the juiciest role of the bunch and she shows that she’s more than just a pretty face with a good body, but a truly gifted actress who can steal the show anytime she wants.

36. The Hours
Three stories of three different women told from three different decades. It’s an amazing treatment of a book most people felt would be un-adaptable. All three women in the film are incredible and show a dynamic range of subtlety in their depression. Say what you want, but 2002 was an extraordinary year for acting. Each acting category could have been expanded to 10 nominations and there still would be plenty of top-notch performances left unrecognized. For my money, Meryl Streep gives a truly heartrending performance. My heart broke just by looking at her face. The disappointment and sadness she unveils in it is something that no other actress other than her could have pulled off.

37. Talk To Her
Pedro Almodovar has constructed a complicated tale about love for those we don’t even know. I must admit, while I enjoyed the film, it did not grab me like many of the other films on this list. However, the film has consistently stayed with me in my thoughts and I continue to piece the complexities of the characters and the stories. Two male characters have feelings for women who are in comas. The irony is that they get to know them better when they are comatose than when they were alive. I intend to see the film again when it comes to DVD, but as of now, I see it as a film about human sacrifice and the need for empathy for others.

38. Panic Room
David Fincher is a master of infuriating audiences with his films (Seven, Fight Club). Here is a film that would have failed miserably in another director’s hands. Where Fincher saw problems in the script he worked them into the story and answering the audience’s questions. It also has the best opening title sequence in recent memory.

39. Confessions of A Dangerous Mind
George Clooney proves that he is more than just a guy who can select good movie roles and align himself with powerful directors; his direction in this film is unlike anything else I have seen in cinema in the last half decade. The film appears to be so effortless, but just look at the ease in which his cuts scenes and moves from one set to another without any breaks in the movie. Sam Rockwell as the ever eccentric Chuck Barris shows the world that he is a chameleon of an actor who can probably make any role his own.

40. 8 Mile
Eminem proves that he more than just a rapper here for his fifteen minutes of fame. He’s an artist who struggled for what he has earned. Director Curtis Hanson has taken a mundane film that could have been glossed over and turned it into a tenacious struggle where the average American can see the everyday struggles of Jimmy Smith (Eminem) as someone they may know. It also has one of the truly great angst music anthem play over the credits of the film, a song that will be viewed favorably twenty plus years from now as classic.