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Our Top Ten Films Of The Decade

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By Total Film published 27 November 2009

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Sam Ashurst - Digital Features Editor

1. There Will Be Blood

2. The Royal Tenenbaums
3. Inglourious Basterds
4. Dead Man's Shoes
5. Dogville
6. Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind
7. Inland Empire
8. American Psycho
9. Audition
10. The Devil's Rejects

Louise Brock - Designer

1. Lord Of The Rings: The Fellowship Of The Ring

2. The Dark Knight
3. (500) Days Of Summer
4. Almost Famous
5. Amelie
6. Moulin Rouge!
7. Pan's Labyrinth
8. Monsters Inc.
9. Coraline (in 3D)
10. O Brother Where Art Thou?

Ben Chapman - Digital Designer

1. Amelie

2. Batman Begins
3. Miami Vice
4. The Bourne Ultimatum
5. Donnie Darko
6. Hurt Locker
7. The Prestige
8. Mullholland Drive
9. Memento
10. Chopper

Jonathan Crocker - Contributing Editor

1. Finding Nemo (2003)

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2. INLAND EMPIRE
3. There Will Be Blood
4. No Country For Old Men
5. In The Mood For Love
6. Silent Light
7. Moulin Rouge!
8. The Lord Of The Rings
9. Memories Of Murder
10. The King Of Kong

Tom Dawson - Contributor

1. Uzak (Distant)

2. There Will be Blood
3. Talk to Her
4. Spider
5. The Lives of Others
6. Hunger
7. The Family Friend
8. The Son (Le Fils)
9. Zodiac
10. The Death of Mr Lazarescu

Aubrey Day - Editor-In-Chief

1. Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless MInd

2. Sideways
3. There Will Be Blood
4. Finding Nemo
5. O Brother Where Art Thou
6. The Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou
7. American Splendor
8. Catch Me If You Can
9. Together
10. Anchorman

Jonathan Dean - Features Editor

1. Donnie Darko

2. The Dark Knight
3. You Can Count On Me
4. Pan’s Labyrinth
5. In Bruges
6. Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind
7. This Is England
8. There Will Be Blood
9. Half Nelson
10. The Three Burials Of Melquiades Estrada

Rosie Fletcher - News Editor

1. Dead Man's Shoes

2. No Country for Old Men
3. The Wrestler
4. Sideways
5 Mulholland Drive
6. The Squid and The Whale
7. Donnie Darko
8. Sin City
9. Wolf Creek
10. The White Ribbon

Elena Goodinson - Picture Editor

1. Don’t Come Knocking

2. Let the Right One In
3. Science of Sleep
4. Adaptation
5. Everything Is Illuminated
6. The Brown Bunny
7. The Heart Is Deceitful Above All Things
8. A Mighty Wind
9. Pan’s Labyrinth
10. A Guide to Recognising Your Saints

Dan Goodswen - Digital Production Editor

1. American Psycho

2. Almost Famous
3. The Dark Knight
4. Kiss Kiss Bang Bang
5. Let The Right One In
6. The Devil's Backbone
7. Old Boy
8. Tell No One
9. The Diving Bell and The Butterfly
10. The Mist

Jamie Graham - Deputy Editor

1. There Will Be Blood

2. The Lord Of The Rings
3. The New World
4. Half Nelson
5. Mulhollhand Drive
6. No Country For Old Men
7. Martyrs
8. Sideways
9. Spring, Summer, Autumn, Winter… And Spring
10. The Assassination Of Jesse James By The Coward Robert Ford

Kevin Harley - Contributing Editor

1. Yi Yi

2. In the Mood for Love
3. My Winnipeg
4. Mulholland Drive
5. There Will Be Blood
6. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
7. Control
8. A History of Violence
9. Vendredi Soir
10. Keane

Matt Hobbs - Deputy Art Editor

1. Fellowship Of The Ring

2. Unbreakable
3. Sunshine
4. Dead Man’s Shoes
5. No Country For Old Men
6. Elephant
7. Dig
8. Donnie Darko
9. Angel-A
10. The Darjeeling Limited

Richard Jord an - Production Assistant

1. Gladiator

2. The Lord Of The Rings: The Fellowship Of The Ring
3. Memento
4. Casino Royale
5. The Others
6. Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind
7. The Dark Knight
8. Oldboy
9. Shaun Of The Dead
10. Volver

Philip Kemp - Contributor

(in no order)
Memento

Spirited Away
Downfall
The House of Mirth
In Bruges
Pan's Labyrinth
Lust, Caution
Moolade
Il Divo
A History of Violence

Matthew Leyland - Reviews Editor

1. Mulholland Drive

2. There Will Be Blood
3. Monsters, Inc.
4. 2046
5. Spring, Summer, Autumn, Winter... And Spring
6. Zodiac
7. Kill Bill Vol. 1
8. The New World
9. Minority Report
10. The Wrestler

Andy Lowe - Digital Editor

1. Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind

2. There Will Be Blood
3. Dead Man's Shoes
4. The Wrestler
5. No Country For Old Men
6. Memento
7. Unbreakable
8. Finding Nemo
9. Half Nelson
10. Let The Right One In

Matt Mueller - Contributing Editor

1. The Lives Of Others

2. No Country For Old Men
3. The Lord Of The Rings trilogy
4. Memento
5. Amelie
6. Finding Nemo
7. Sideways
8. Brokeback Mountain
9. Oldboy
10. Borat

Jamie Russell - Contributing Editor

1. Mulholland Drive

2. Memento
3. Spring, Summer, Autumn, Winter... And Spring
4. Fahrenheit 911
5. Zodiac
6. Memories of Murder
7. DiG!
8. Borat
9. Way of the Gun
10. Lost in Translation

Mark Salisbury - Contributing Editor

1= Memento
1= Zodiac

3. City Of God
4. In The Mood For Love
5. Almost Famous
6. The Assassination Of Jesse James By The Coward Robert Ford
7. The Incredibles
8. Sideways
9. Wonder Boys
10. The New World

Neil Smith - Contributing Editor

1. Memento

2. The Wrestler
3. The Royal Tenenbaums
4. Shaun Of The Dead
5. Shattered Glass
6. Anchorman
7. Grizzly Man
8. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
9. Children Of Men
10. Team America: World Police

Ceri Thomas - Contributing Editor

1. O Brother Where Art Thou?

2. Spider-Man 2
3. Sideways
4. Casino Royale
5. Finding Nemo
6. Shaun Of The Dead
7. Amelie
8. The Bourne Identity
9. Catch Me If You Can
10. Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon

Kathryn Twyford - Production Editor

1. The Wrestler

2. Gladiator
3. Elf
4. City Of God
5. Pan’s Labyrinth
6. Moulin Rouge!
7. Donnie Darko
8. Brokeback Mountain
9. Memento
10. About A Boy

Sarah Tully - Picture Editor

1. The Lord of the Rings trilogy

2. Little Miss Sunshine
3. The 40-Year-Old Virgin
4. Pan's Labyrinth
5. Dodgeball
6. Moulin Rouge!
7. Gladiator
8. Brokeback Mountain
9. Castaway
10. Casino Royale

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