12/14/15

Best Films - 2014


Taking a brief look back at my "Best Films" list from the last couple of years, the best I can say is that the few films at the top--Harmony Korine's Spring Breakers, Peter Strickland's Berberian Sound Studio, Paul Thomas Anderson's The Master, Leos Carax's Holy Motors--are still reliable indicators of what is invigorating and hopeful to me about the current state of movies. Here are the films that struck an ecstatic chord with me in 2014:


Birdman (or the Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)
Alejandro Inarritu


The Act of Killing  Joshua Oppenheimer


Ida  Pawel Pawlikowski


Under the Skin  Jonathan Glazer


The Homesman  Tommy Lee Jones


Nightcrawler  Dan Gilroy


Enemy  Denis Villeneuve


Her  Spike Jonze


Jodorowsky’s  Dune  Frank Pavich


The Rover  David Michod


The Best of the Rest:

Only Lovers Left Alive Jim Jarmusch
We Are The Best! Lukas Moodysson
Nebraska Alexander Payne
Lucy Luc Besson
A Girl Walks Home Alone At Night Ana Lily Amirpour
Night Moves Kelley Reichardt
Willow Creek Bobcat Goldthwait
Locke Steven Knight
Edge of Tomorrow Doug Liman
Boyhood Richard Linklater
Frank Lenny Arahamsom
Fury David Ayer
Welcome To Me Shira Piven


Tilda Swinton in Only Lovers Left Alive


The Disappointments

Inside Llewyn Davis (Joel and Ethan Cohen), Leviathan (Andrey Zivyagintsev),
Whiplash (Damien Chazelle), Slow West (John Maclean)

Just Terrible:
The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1 (Frances Lawrence), Saw (James Wan - 10th Anniversary Re-Release...my first "Saw movie")




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