Mulholland Dr. is LAFCA's Film of the Decade

LA critics name Mulholland Dr. Film Of The Decade
Jan 13, 2010


The Los Angeles Film Critics Association (LAFCA) has anointed David Lynch’s Mulholland Dr. Film Of The Decade.

The film, which gave Naomi Watts her big break and also stars Laura Harring and Justin Theroux, beat 189 titles and was selected by 41 LAFCA members who participated in a vote.

Ironically Mulholland Dr.finished as runner-up to Todd Fields’ In The Bedroom in the group’s 2001 vote for film of the year

LAFCA’s top ten films of the decade are: Mulholland Dr.; There Will Be Blood; Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind; Brokeback Mountain; No Country For Old Men and Zodiac tied in fifth place; Yi Yi; 4 Months, 3 Weeks And 2 Days and The Lord Of The Rings tied in seventh place; Spirited Away; United 93and Y Tu Mama Tambien tied in ninth place; and Sideways.

LAFCA president Brent Simon called Mulholland Dr. a “beautiful, woozy mystery for the id – portions of its meaning are readily apparent, while others dance along its edges, deliciously up for substantive argument and debate.”

This marks the group’s inaugural survey of the best films from the previous decade.



More 'Mulholland Drive' Love from Film Comment

David Lynch's Mulholland Drive earned some more love as the best film of the decade (2000-2009) this week as Film Comment published the results of a poll of critics, film enthusiasts and filmmakers the world over. This choice matches the results of the recent IndieWire poll, the Los Angeles Film Critics Association and the French film magazine Cahiers du Cinema. Lynch's film was released in 2001 and received a single Oscar nomination, for Best Director. Lynch lost to Ron Howard, whose A Beautiful Mind, incidentally, has not turned up anywhere on any of these polls.