Wassup and welcome to IndieWire’s 2000’s Week, our annual summer-time celebration of whichever decade we’re thinking on most fondly this particular season. As we’ve previously done with both the ’80s (rad) and the ’90s (the shiznit), we’re spending this stretch of the dog days of summer looking back on some recent history. Some very recent history, in this case.
Like those previous iterations, this celebration of the best (or, at least, the stuff we’re still obsessing over) of the early aughts’ cinematic output will kick off with our ranked mega-list of the decade’s 100 greatest films, which we will then follow with interviews with the people who made them, essays about the impact these contemporary classics had on the world at large, close listens of the scores and needle-drops that still reverberate in our ears, and so very much more.
As we’re fond of saying around these parts, if you’re worried about the depth of cinematic treasures to be found during a period of time (in this case and for our own record-keeping, 2000 – 2009), we here at IndieWire are all too happy to direct your attention to the movies, stars, and more that endure, even if they were concocted in the hothouse environment of Y2K and all that followed (potential computer crashes all the way up to, oh, what’s that, an upcoming film literally entitled “Y2K” from our friend Kyle Mooney!).
Below, you’ll find a comprehensive schedule of the 2000’s Week goodness to come, which will update with links to our stories as they go live over the course of the week. Simply put: that’s hot!
Monday
10 a.m. ET: The 100 Best Movies of the 2000s
12 p.m.: An Interview with Todd Field on “In the Bedroom” and “Little Children” by Jim Hemphill
2 p.m.: “Torture Porn and the War on Terror” by Katie Rife
Tuesday
10 a.m.: The 50 Best Film Performances of the 2000s
12 p.m.: An Interview with Michael Mann on “Collateral” and “Miami Vice” by Chris O’Falt
2 p.m.: An interview with Alison Lohman on “Matchstick Men” and “Drag Me to Hell” by Esther Zuckerman
4 p.m.: The Legacy of “Elite Squad” by Guilherme Jacobs
Wednesday
10 a.m.: The 25 Best Film Scores of the 2000s
12.m.: An Interview with Gregg Araki by Ryan Lattanzio
2 p.m.: The Best Bollywood Musical Numbers of the 2000s by Proma Khosla
4 p.m.: “Funny Ha Ha” and the Mumblecore Movement by Vikram Murthi
Thursday
10 a.m.: The 10 Best Anime Films of the 2000s by Kambole Campbell
12 p.m.: An Interview with “Y2K” director Kyle Mooney on “The Cell” by Alison Foreman
2 p.m.: The 2000s Belonged to the Mean Girls by Kate Erbland
4 p.m.: A Tribute to Cinematographer Harris Savides by Chris O’Falt
Friday
10 a.m.: Our Favorite Stars, Filmmakers, and More Share Their Favorite Films of the 2000s
12 p.m.: “Scooby-Doo” Is Bisexual Canon by David Opie
2 p.m.: The Scariest Horror Films of the 2000s by Alison Foreman
4. p.m.: An Interview with Pete Docter on “Up” and Pixar in the 2000s by Bill Desowitz
