2014 poll

[MrCarmady]

Not sure I'll have time for my other planned watches before the deadline but Hill of Freedom goes straight onto the list, very funny, hits all the Hong notes.

I found it really endearing and real with dialogue that's mostly in broken English. Such a neat, bittersweet film.

Yes, he has a real ear for how people communicate in a second language. Have you seen In Another Country?

[greennui]

Not sure I'll have time for my other planned watches before the deadline but Hill of Freedom goes straight onto the list, very funny, hits all the Hong notes.

I found it really endearing and real with dialogue that's mostly in broken English. Such a neat, bittersweet film.

Yes, he has a real ear for how people communicate in a second language. Have you seen In Another Country?

Yeah, I liked it but not as much as HoF. Breezier but not as potent.

[Lencho of the Apes]

TOOT FINNY.

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[Lencho of the Apes]

Things in a sequence: an array

1
Jauja (Lisandro Alonso)

2
Boyhood (Linklater)

3
Clouds of Sils Maria (Assayas)

4
The Homesman
Leviathan (Andrey Zvyagintsev)
Nightcrawler

7
Goodbye to Language (Jean-Luc Godard)
Inherent Vice (Paul Thomas Anderson)
A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence (Andersson)
Two Days, One Night (Dardennes)

11
Grand Hotel Budapest
Mr. Turner (Leigh)
Phoenix (Petzold)
Wild Tales (Szifron)

15
Don't Go Breaking My Heart 2 (To)
Heaven Knows What (Safdie
Hill of Freedom (Hong Sang-soo)
Horse Money - Pedro Costa
Maps to the Stars
Whiplash (Damien Chazelle)
0.5 mm

22
Birdman (Alejandro G. Iñárritu)
The Duke of Burgundy (Strickland)
Nuits Blanches Sur La Jetee - Paul Vecchiali

25
Force Majeure (Ruben Östlund)
Foxcatcher (Bennett Miller
From What is Before (Diaz)
Gone Girl (Fincher)
Gueros - Alonso Ruizpalacios
Haider - V. Bhardwaj
Happy New Year (Khan)
It Follows (Mitchell
Li'l Quinquin (Dumont)
Marshland (Alberto Rodríguez)
Mommy (Xavier Dolan)
When Marnie Was There (Hiromasa Yonebayashi, 2014)
White Bird in a Blizzard (Gregg Araki)

38
Ex Machina (Alex Garland
A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night (Amirpour)
Girlhood (Sciamma)
journey to the west
A Most Violent Year (Chandor)
National Gallery
pompeii (paul w.s. anderson)
Timbuktu
Welcome to New York (Ferrara)
Winter Sleep

48 - 58
Beloved Sisters (Dominik Graf)
Cold in July (Mickle)
Edge of Tomorrow
Fehér isten (White God)
Highway
Interstellar
Life of Riley- Alain Resnais
Maidan - Loznitsa
Not My Type (Belvaux
Pasolini (Ferrara)
Saint Laurent

[Lencho of the Apes]

You can def. see Penalosa's influence here. Ah, 2014. Was that the last year he was here with us?

[rischka]

You can def. see Penalosa's influence here. Ah, 2014. Was that the last year he was here with us?

you think?? seems like ferrera would be higher lol

the big list

[nrh]

yeah this year is a weird one where some of jerry's faves line up with the bigger movies of the year. mostly i think it's a pretty mainstream/film comment type best of list with a few outliers in the top tiers.

[rischka]

surprised to see clouds of sils maria so high. do i need to watch this? i'm so sick of juliette binoche lol

[...]

Well, better her as the French actor du jour than Gerard Depardieu anyway, but maybe not if you don't like Binoche since her character emotionally dominates most of the film, with Stewart underplaying her role in/for contrast.

It does sort of amuse that Jerry's aesthetic is so strong here, when there is also a fondness for vulgar auteurism, which he wasn't as much a fan of outside of a few areas of coinciding opinion like with Ferrara. Makes me feel more the odd man out for not fitting with either I guess.

[Silga]

Great to see Mr. Turner scoring a high place in the poll. I was sceptical about its chances here.

[nrh]

the genuine funniest thing is farah’s film maudit getting same tier as haider.

actually think farah is the only genuine vulgar auteurist thing here - pwsa is Just kind of excepted as interesting figure at this point and pompeii is the prestige one to pick for him

[...]

Farah? Really? I wouldn't see Happy New Year as a typical vulgar auteurist choice, less than say Gone Girl and arguably/potentially some others. Oddly enough I suppose, it might even be possible to say the Prabhudeva flick, Action Jackson, would be closer to the VA thing, were he better known. There's maybe an interesting comparison to be made between Prabhudeva's movies and Farah Khans, both coming from choreography, but with almost diametrically opposed strengths as directors that seem to be informed from their styles in staging dance. (Deva is much more about the payoff, Khan the set up, to excessively simplify the idea)

[MrCarmady]

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