2013 poll

[Forty40]

Blue is the Warmest Colour is five years old already? Yikes.

[sally]

the past

right. that's it. i'm fed up with 2013 right now. how ambiguous-wooo is that, mr farhadi? and i liked a separation.

[pabs]

No one else is giving Yeon Sang-ho's The Fake any notice? Not seen or not liked? It's easily my favorite of the year, nothing else so far even close.

Thanks for bringing it up. I saw it and I'm glad I did, even though it won't make my final list.

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Thanks for bringing it up. I saw it and I'm glad I did, even though it won't make my final list.

Wont make your final list!! What? Watch it again!


Nah, I'm just glad you didn't find it a waste of time. I'm a sucker for "the world is an awful place and people are terrible" movies, but I'm sure that interest isn't the same for everyone.

[rischka]

i'm watching it and the world is certainly a terrible place. however i fell asleep and had a terrible dream so i've yet to see how it turns out. love your new avatar greg

[sally]

Where are you all watching it?

[rischka]

at my house. come over. i skipped my stupid holiday work party

[rischka]

ok it's posted at the place. this was really fucking powerful if ugly. i'd call it the anti-christmas movie. it will definitely make my list

thx greg

[thoxans]

the anti-christmas movie

i'll be sure to rec it as the holiday flick for the annual get-together at the in-laws' crib

[MatiasAlbertotti]

I still have a lot that I'd like to see before monday, but I will only be able to squeeze a couple more. The list might change, but I don't expect the N°1 to change.

1-Jealousy
Camille Claudel, 1915
Borgman
The Lunchbox
Why Don't You Play in Hell?
Only Lovers Left Alive
Nymphomaniac
Ugly
Night Moves
Nobody's Daughter Haewon
Gravity
Her
Inside Llewyn Davis
Snowpiercer
Before Midnight
The Wind Rises
Upstream Color

[ofrene]

missed a few stuff but anyway..


Stray Dogs

'Til Madness Do Us Part
Stranger by the Lake
At Berkeley
Before Midnight
The Tale of Iya
The Wolf of Wall Street
Under the Skin
The Immigrant
Three Landscapes
Jealousy
Big Good
Nobody's daugther Haewon
Inside Llewyn Davis
Blind Detective
The Missing Picture
The Tale of the Princess Kaguya
Ida
Nebraska
Tokyo Family

[blueboy]

My final list:

1.
A Spell to Ward off the Darkness (Ben Rivers & Ben Russell, 2013)

2-7 (in no partucular order):
Bloody Beans (Narimane Mari, 2013)
What Now? Remind Me (Joaquim Pinto, 2013)
Jin (Reha Erdem, 2013)
Stop the Pounding Heart (Roberto Minervini, 2013)
Tale of Iya (Tetsuichiro Tsuta, 2013)
Three Landscapes (Peter B. Hutton, 2013)

8-20 (in no particular order):
Stray Dogs (Ming-liang Tsai, 2013)
Seventh Walk (Amit Dutta, 2013)
Coming to Terms (Jon Jost, 2013)
Fish & Cat (Shahram Mokri, 2013)
Till Madness Do Us Part (Bing Wang, 2013)
Two Museums (Heinz Emigholz, 2013)
Island of St. Matthews (Kevin Jerome Everson, 2013)
To The Wolf (Christina Koutsospyrou & Aran Hughes, 2013)
Invisible Life (Vitor Goncalves, 2013)
Les Trois Desastres (Jean Luc Godard, 2013)
Metamorphosen (Sebastian Mez, 2013)
Strange Little Cat (Ramon Zurcher, 2013)
Sentimental Education (Julio Bressane, 2013)

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21-35 (in no particular order):
Manuscripts Don't Burn (Mohammad Rasoulof, 2013)
Parrot and the Swan (Alejo Moguillansky, 2013)
Pays Barbare (Yervant Gianikian & Angela Ricci Lucchi, 2013)
Dialogue d' Ombres (Jean-Marie Straub, 2013)
Hard to be a God (Aleksey German, 2013)
Harmony Lessons (Emir Baigazin, 2013)
Camille Claudel 1915 (Bruno Dumont, 2013)
Story of my Death (Albert Serra, 2013)
Our Sunhi (Sang-soo Hong, 2013)
Manakamana (Stephanie Spray & Pacho Velez, 2013)
Nobody's Daughter Haewon (Sang-soo Hong, 2013)
Norte, the End of History (Lav Diaz, 2013)
Nobody's Daughter Haewon (Sang-soo Hong, 2013)
Notebook (Janos Szasz, 2013)
Shirley: Visions of Reality


36-40 (in no particular order):
A Thousand Suns (Mati Diop, 2013)
Stranger by the Lake (Alain Guiraudie, 2013)
Dance of Reality (Alejandro Jodorowsky, 2013)
These Birds Walk (Omar Mullick & Bassam Tariq, 2013)
A Field in England (Ben Wheatley, 2013)

[flip]

posted this already on tapatalk, but pasting it here in case it's helpful:

Norte, the End of History (Lav Diaz)

Fish and Cat (Shahram Mokri)
How I Live Now (Kevin MacDonald)
A Touch of Sin (Jia Zhangke)
Under the Skin (Jonathan Glazer)
The Past (Asghar Farhadi)
The Wolf of Wall Street (Martin Scorsese)
CAFe CAFe (Patrick Downing)
Prisoners (Denis Villeneuve)
Lone Survivor (Peter Berg)
Austenland (Jerusha Hess)
Captain Phillips (Paul Greengrass)
We are the Best! (Lukas Moodysson)
Wrong Cops (Quentin Dupieux)
The Makeover (John Gray)

[thoxans]

something about prisoners just didn't do it for me in the end. i thought it was fine. there was nothing about it that i disliked. i just didn't like it. that's all. idk. perfs were good, though jackman hammed it up a bit. didn't really understand gyllenhaal's character, though he did a fine job playing this character that i didn't really understand. the aesthetics were good. nice atmosphere and all. but i don't think a single striking image really sticks out in my mind (tho, for some reason, i do remember gyllenhaal sitting in a car, in the rain, while the windshield wipers on the car did their little methodical back-and-forth thing). nothing about the film offended me. i'd watch it again, if someone i knew really wanted to watch it. but idk. i'm ambivalent (but i know i did dislike sicario, so maybe it's a villeneuve issue, something that joks knows all about)

[mesnalty]

I've been hoping to see Jodie Mack's Dusty Stacks of Mom for years, and I finally got a chance today - perfect timing! It screened alongside three Mack shorts, two of them from 2013, and Let Your Light Shine was the standout. It's like what I imagine doing psychedelic drugs is like (though, I'm afraid, only if you watch it through prismatic glasses).

I loved Dusty Stacks of Mom, too. Mack's quickly becoming one of my favorite experimental filmmakers - her work is so colorful and fun and full of humor and utterly unique.

[nrh]

fwiw norte the end of history is the worst film i've ever seen in a theater setting.

[josiahmorgan11]

nrh so funny

[ofrene]

Lav Diaz is one of my favorite contemporary asian director but Norte is one of the weakest of his.. really wanna to see Jodie Mack

[arkheia]

Here's my latest list:

1. Listening to the Space in My Room (Robert Beavers)

Dialogue of Shadows (Jean-Marie Straub)
Sentimental Education (Júlio Bressane)
After Earth (M. Night Shyamalan)
The Lone Ranger (Gore Verbinski)
BNSF (James Benning)
Young Detective Dee: Rise Of The Sea Dragon (Tsui Hark)
[not on IMDB] Falling Notes Unleaving (Saul Levine)
[not on IMDB] To Be Here (Ute Aurand)

Still planning to watch:
Blind Detective
Goliyon Ki Raasleela Ram-Leela
A Touch of Sin
Stray Dogs

[sally]

how did you see the beavers????

[arkheia]

how did you see the beavers????

He presented it at a screening at the Pacific Film Archive back in 2016. Unfortunately it's not online afaik :/

[mesnalty]

Final list:

1. Let Your Light Shine (Mack)

Upstream Color (Carruth)
The Strange Colour of Your Body's Tears (Cattet and Forzani)
Shirley: Visions of Reality (Deutsch)
Hard to Be a God (German)
Under the Skin (Glazer)
Exhibition (Hogg)
Three Landscapes (Hutton)
Before Midnight (Linklater)
Dusty Stacks of Mom (Mack)
Glistening Thrills (Mack)
La Ultima Pelicula (Martin and Peranson)
What Now? Remind Me (Pinto)
Home from Home (Reitz)
Why Don't You Play in Hell? (Sono)
Blind Detective (To)
Stray Dogs (Tsai)
Enemy (Villeneuve)
Til Madness Do Us Part (Wang)
The Strange Little Cat (Zurcher)

[sally]

how did you see the beavers????

He presented it at a screening at the Pacific Film Archive back in 2016. Unfortunately it's not online afaik :/

gah! lucky you!

[sally]

ai. the rocha. another portuguese swansong (he died 2012) as sad and as self-referential as vai-e-vem. i've never seen a director cannibalise their own films quite like that tho, and regurgitate it into myths and stories that go beyond them. film as fractal.

[Umbugbene]

Just realized I needed to transfer my list from the old board. No changes so far. I liked all of these, but they drop off fast after the first two:

1. Enemy (Villeneuve)
2. The Counselor (Scott)
3. Borgman (van Warmerdam)
4. Escape from Tomorrow (Moore)
5. The Lunchbox (Batra)
6. Like Father, Like Son (Kore-eda)
7. The Past (Farhadi)
8. Closed Curtain (Panahi, Partovi)
9. Nymphomaniac (von Trier)
10. From One Second to the Next (Herzog)
11. Locke (Knight)
12. Night Train to Lisbon (August)
13. Europa Report (Cordero)
14. Prisoners (Villeneuve)
15. Snowpiercer (Bong)
16. Concrete Night (Honkasalo)
17. Bastards (Denis)
18. Side Effects (Soderbergh)

[rischka]

i started watching manakamana and... well i don't know. i'll have to finish it tmrw as it's putting me to sleep. nearly half an hour with no dialogue, just people staring at or away from the camera?? i hope there's more to it than that. i'm about done with 2013 i think. updated my list above.

[pabs]

Side Effects made me fall asleep 10 times, and I wasn't even tired.

I probs have time to see one more. Maybe that long, long, b+w medieval sci-fi one, but its length is daunting.

[sally]

last time i checked there were 14,228 movies made in 2013. i must have been watching the wrong ones because even clocking in 50 felt like a chore.

i'm not going to have much internet over xmas, so final list:

1. if i were a thief...i'd steal (rocha)
2. the parrot and the swan (moguillansky)
3. story of my death (serra)
4. sentimental education (bressane)
5. our sunhi (hong)
6. nobody's daughter haewon (hong)
7. what now? remind me (pinto)
8. three landscapes (hutton)
9. skinningrove (almereyda)
10. alan partridge: alpha papa (lowney)
11. tirez la langue, mademoiselle (ropert)
12. hard to be a god (german)
13. a spell to ward off the darkness (rivers, russell)
14. computer chess (bujalski)
15. when evening falls on bucharest or metabolism (porumboiu)

[brian d]

(probably) final list:
blind detective (to)*
grandmaster (wong)
skinningrove (almereyda)
the best offer (tornatore)
camille claudel, 1915 (dumont)
gold (arslan)
story of my death (serra)


might have time to watch:
dialogue d'ombres (straub)

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Yikes, not a great year for my viewing. Only a small handful of movies I really liked, a solid year for anime, and some relatively enjoyable action films. Most of the arthouse stuff I saw didn't work for me at all, to the point of annoyance in some instances, but I missed out on a lot of the stuff other people have listed so there's probably at least some better movies I could have added. Oh well, can't see everything and some years are just gonna look weak because of that. (Oh and FWIW, the anime Ace of Diamond would have made the list ahead of a lot of the other choices, but even though it started in 2013, the majority of the first season was 2014 so I didn't count it. Not that anyone cares, but I gotta try and keep an honest accounting.)

The Fake (Sang-ho Yeon)
The Great Beauty (Paolo Sorrentino)
Goliyon Ki Raasleela Ram-Leela (Sanjay Leela Bhansali)
Saint Young Men (Noriko Takao)
The Tale of Princess Kaguya (Isao Takahata)
The Wind Rises (Hayao Miyazaki)
Fast & Furious 6 (Justin Lin)
The Devil is a Part-Timer! (Naoto Hosoda)
In a World (Lake Bell)
The Grandmaster (Wong Kar-wai)
Journey to the West: Conquering Demons (Derek Kwok, Stephen Chow)
Under the Skin (Jonathan Glazer)
Upstream Color (Shane Carruth)
Top of the Lake (Jane Campion, Garth Davis)
Inside Llewyn Davis (Joel & Ethan Coen)
Puella Magi Madoka Magica the Movie Part III: Rebellion (Akiyuki Shinbo)
Attack on Titan ( Tetsurô Araki, Hiroyuki Tanaka)
Austenland (Jerusha Hess)
R... Rajkumar (Prabhu Deva)
Man of Tai Chi (Keanu Reeves)