2. OLDBOY
Chan Wook Park뭩 SYMPATHY FOR MR VENGEANCE was my number 1 pick from last year. That he made a better film this year is? astonishing. That I saw a better film than this this year is a true testament to how fucking great RETURN OF THE KING was. The performance of Min-sik Choi is frankly the best performance by an actor in cinema this year. Choi뭩 Dae-su is simply one of the greatest performances I have ever seen. It is all at once pathetic, noble, sad, melancholy, tragic, comic, furious, under-stated, over-the-top and cool. The film will shake you where you sit and it will stay in your mind like an inoperable tumor. The antagonist of the film, as played by Ji-Tae Yu, is equally amazing. More proof that the most vital and overlooked region of cinema is South Korea. Some day the rest of the world will wake up to the phenomenal work coming from there.

Harry's Top Ten Of 2003!
1. RETURN OF THE KING
2. OLDBOY
3. PING PONG
4. THE REVOLUTION WILL NOT BE TELEVISED
5. LOST IN TRANSLATION
6. AMERICAN SPLENDOR
7. CAPTURING THE FRIEDMANS
8. TRIPLETTES OF BELLEVILLE
9. TWILIGHT SAMURAI
10. KILL BILL VOL 1