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Choose your favorite films from 2013 (according to IMDb).

– Each person votes for up to 20 movies. Do not feel compelled to fill the maximum allowable number, only true favorites.
– Do not rank the films except the number 1, it gets two points..

Users are urged to post their provisional lists as soon as possible so that others may use them for recommendations. You may, of course, revise your lists at any point prior to the deadline.

Ballots posted by people who do not participate in other parts of the forum will not be counted.

Deadline for 2013 lists will be Monday, December 24 at approximately 1 PM Pacific Time.

Some things what is available for viewing:

(Unfortunately, I won't be tracking down additional recommendations for running updates this time around, because disorganized.)

Abus du faiblesse - Breillat
Ain't Them Bodies Saints - Lowery
As I Lay Dying - Franco
At Berkeley - Wiseman
Behind The Candelabra - Soderbergh
Blue Is The Warmest Color - Keechiche
Comuter Chess - Bujolski
Cosmonaut -
Crossing Bridges - Thongdok
Crystal Fairy y el cactus magico - Silva
The Dance Of Reality- Jodorowsky
Djinn - Hooper
A Field In England - Wheatley
Figyua Na Amata - Takashi, Ishii
For Those In Peril - Wright
Gerontophilia - LaBruce
The Grandmaster - Wonk Kar-Wei
Heli - Escalante
Her -
I Am Divine - Schwartz
Ida - Pawlikosky
L'image manquante [The Missing Picture]
Inside Llewellyn Davis - Coens
Interior: Leather Bar - Franco, Matthews
La jalousie - Garrel
La jaula de oro - Quemada-Diaz
Journey to the West: Conquering the Demons
Kajarya - Anand
Kill Your Darlings - Krokidas
Ku-on
Lauf Junge Lauf - Danquart
Like Father Like Son - Koreeda
The Lunchbox (Batra)
Madame Empfiehlt Sich - Emmanuelle Bercot
Madras Cafe - Sircar
Manuscripts Don't Burn (Mohammad Rasoulof, 2013)
matru ki bijlee ka mandola (Bhardwaj)
miss and the doctor
Mother Of George - Dosunmu
A Nagy Fuzet/Le Grand Cahier - Szasz
Nobody's Daughter Haewon - Hong, SangSoo
Norte, The End Of History - Diaz
Nymphomaniac VC 1 / V2 - van Trier
Old Boy - Spike Lee
Only God Forgives - refn
Only Lovers Left Alive - Jarmusch
Pacific Rim - del Toro
Paradjanov - Avedikian, Fetisova
La Partida/The Last Match - Hens
Our Vinyl Weighs a Ton: This Is Stones Throw Records (Jeff Broadway)
Patema
P3ND3JO5
Pour Une Femme - Diane Kurys
Quito 2023 - Izurieta, Moscoso
rangbhoomi (kamal swaroop)
The Route - Maru
Les Salauds/The Bastards - Denis
Salome - Pacino
Se Fosse Ladrao Roubava.
Shield of Straw (Takashi Miike)
Snowpiercer - Joon Ho Bong
soodhu kavvum (nalan kumarasamy)
a spell to ward off the darkness
The Square 2013 - Noujaim
The Strange Color Of Your Body's Tears - Cattet, Forzani
The Strange Little Cat (Ramon Zürcher, 2013)
Stray Dogs - Ming-Lian
The Tale of Princess Kaguya dubbed
Three Landscapes (Peter B. Hutton, 2013)
The Trials Of Kate McCall - Karen Moncrieff
Trudno byt bogom / Hard To Be A God - German
Venus In Fur - Polanski
Vi Ar Bast/ We Are The Best - Moodysson
vishwaroopam (kamal haasan)
W Inie.../In The Name Of God - Szumowska
What Now? Remind Me (Joaquim Pinto)
When Evening Falls On Bucharet or Metabolism - Porumboiu
Why Don't You Play In Hell? - Sono
A Wolf At The Door - Coimbra
The Wolf Of Wall Street
Young Detective Dee: Rise Of The Sea Dragon - Tsui,

I guess those posts need to be here so we can resume the ongoing discussion...

The IMMIGRANT (James Gray)

at berkeley (frederick wiseman)
before midnight (richard linklater)
behind the candelabra (steven soderbergh)
blind detective (johnnie to)
chennai express (rohit shetty)
the wolf of wall street (martin scorsese)

*updated ballot from crapatalk (note: added blind detective, which was one of the most screwball things i've seen in a good while)

i'll transfer my progress so far

stray dogs
what now remind me
the parrot and the swan
wolf of wall street
tale of princess kaguya
three landscapes
BNSF
pays barbare
the fake
rangbhoomi
the wind rises
blind detective

the final list

Jealousy (Philippe Garrel, 2013)
What Now? Remind Me (Joaquim Pinto, 2013)
Bastards (Claire Denis, 2013)
Stranger by the Lake (Alain Guiraudie, 2013)
Nobody's Daughter Haewon (Hong Sang-soo, 2013)
The Strange Little Cat (Ramon Zürcher, 2013)
Norte, the End of History (Lav Diaz, 2013)
Blue Is the Warmest Color (Abdellatif Kechiche, 2013)
Manakamana (Stephanie Spray, Pacho Velez, 2013)
Our Sunhi (Hong Sang-soo, 2013)
Coming to Terms (Jon Jost, 2013)
At Berkeley (Frederick Wiseman, 2013)
Three Landscapes (Peter B. Hutton, 2013)
Night Moves (Kelly Reichardt, 2013)
Computer Chess (Andrew Bujalski, 2013)
The Immigrant (James Gray, 2013)
Venus in Fur (Roman Polański, 2013)
Behind the Candelabra (Steven Soderbergh, 2013)
Omar (Hany Abu-Assad, 2013)
Paradise: Hope (Ulrich Seidl, 2013)
This Is Martin Bonner (Chad Hartigan, 2013)

2013 Shit films (aka: why I don't watch contemporary films)

Despicable Me 2
We Are the Best!
Starred Up
Fandry
American Hustle
Nobody's Daughter Haewon
Snowpiercer
The Grandmaster
After Earth
Pacific Rim
Star Trek Into Darkness
Elysium
Oblivion
Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues
Ender's Game
The Immigrant
A Touch of Sin
Man of Steel
World War Z
Hard to Be a God
Ida
Under the Skin

1. Only God Forgives (Nicolas Winding Refn, 2013)
Like Father, Like Son (Hirokazu Kore-eda, 2013)
Tom at the Farm (Xavier Dolan, 2013)
Before Midnight (Richard Linklater, 2013)
The Immigrant (James Gray, 2013)
The Tale of Princess Kaguya (Isao Takahata, 2013)
The Wind Rises (Hayao Miyazaki, 2013)
Three Landscapes (Peter Hutton, 2013)
Sarah Prefers to Run (Chloé Robichaud, 2013)
Stoker (Park Chan-wook, 2013)
Is the Man Who Is Tall Happy? (Michel Gondry, 2013)
Mood Indigo (Michel Gondry, 2013)
Under the Skin (Jonathan Glazer, 2013)
Ida (Paweł Pawlikowski, 2013)
Blue Is the Warmest Color (Abdellatif Kechiche, 2013)
Inside Llewyn Davis (Joel Coen/Ethan Coen, 2013)
Her (Spike Jonze, 2013)
A Touch of Sin (Jia Zhangke, 2013)
12 Years a Slave (Steve McQueen, 2013)
Upstream Color (Shane Carruth, 2013)

When I'm tabulating, I keep a running list of whose ballots I've processed to avoid accidental double dipping between prelim and finals. No need to delete anything/nothing lost if you do.

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1. Heli (Escalante)


Before Midnight (Linklater)
The Past (Farhadi)
La vie d'Adèle / Blue is the Warmest Colour (Kechiche)
Blue Jasmine (Allen)
Inside Llewyn Davis (Coen)
Nebraska (Payne)
Billie Jean King (Erskine)
Short Term 12 (Cretton)
Salinger (Salerno)
Mel Brooks: Make a Noise (Trachtenberg)
The Great Beauty (Sorrentino)
L'inconnu au lac (Guiraudie)
La jalousie (Garrel)
Ida (Pawlikowski)


Watchlist:

Side Effects (Soderbergh)
The Fake (Yeon)
Ida (Pawlikowski)
La jalousie (Garrel)
L'inconnu au lac (Guiraudie)
The Great Beauty (Sorrentino)
The Turning (Wasikowska, Wenham, et al)
Casse-tête chinois / Chinese Puzzle (Klapisch)
The Dirties (Johnson)
Prince Avalanche (Green)

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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.

greg x wrote: ↑Fri Dec 14, 2018 1:07 pm 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.

Not seen. It's going on my immediate to-do list

I should warn you it's animated, but different in tone from most animated movies, more a bleak and brutal noirish thing rather than especially fantastic.

Here's the trailer:
http://youtu.be/a5AFq3NezKA

I would say that The Fake is probably the only animated movie I would even chance on recommending as something you might like though, but it's a bet I well might lose of course.

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Thanks greg, I'll try to see it too.

I saw L'inconnu au lac (Giraudie) just now and I must say, a bit confronting, with all those cocks in my face and gay male sex, even fully erect penises at times. It was a glimpse into a world I knew existed (gay beats) but had no real conception of before. The tension and foreboding, without which it would have only amounted to a cheap porno, were well handled and quite thrilling.
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I would watch the fake, I like to try and see everyone's number one if I can, but I haven't the faintest idea how to.

I'll look into it when I get home!

1. WOLF OF WALL STREET
2. GRAVITY
3. HER
4. BEFORE MIDNIGHT
5. THE PAST
6. STRANGER BY THE LAKE
7. HARD TO BE A GOD

Under construction

Dabba (The Lunchbox)

Blood Ties
Blue Ruin
Dallas Buyers Club
Don Jon
Gloria
Hundraåringen som klev ut genom fönstret och försvann (The 100 Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared)
Il capitale umano (Human Capital)
Ilo Ilo
La migliore offerta (The Best Offer)
Le temps de l'aventure (Just a Sigh)
Les salauds (Bastards)
Locke
Metro Manila
Pozitia copilului (Child's Pose)
Still Life
The Book Thief
The Immigrant
Vivir es fácil con los ojos cerrados (Living Is Easy with Eyes Closed)
Zulu

Special mention (remakes)
Tôkyô kazoku - Tokyo monogatari
Yurusarezaru mono - Unforgiven

Guilty pleasures
Big Ass Spider!
Pacific Rim
White House Down

Deliberately excluded (IMDb/TSPDT top 250)
12 Years a Slave
Before Midnight
Gravity
Her
Ida
Inside Llewyn Davis
La grande bellezza
La vie d'Adèle
Mandariinid
Prisoners
Rush
The Wolf of Wall Street 
Under the Skin

To see before the deadline
Byeon-ho-in
Heli
Razredni sovraznik
Sorg og glæde
Uroki garmonii
Wolf

Wanted
Thwara Zanj

man, aadhi baghavan is a really interesting trainwreck. ameer sultan made a few of the most interesting tamil films of the 2000s, super focused, low to mid budget, very rural films that (especially with the success of paruthiveeran in 2007) had a big hand in changing what was commercially possible in a tamil movie.

so for his paruthiveeran follow up he makes...a bizarre mish mash of tamil masala, international b grade action, '90s john woo...there are genuinely great sequences throughout but almost nothing holds together, nearly every top level creative decision is a little baffling.

this is a movie where for the first half everyone speaks a mix of english, telugu, and a diaspora tamil that even lots of native speakers would need subs for, and then when it shifts to bombay post interval we get a full screen title card telling us that the hindi characters will be dubbed in tamil for clarity? sadly ameer hasn't made a movie since.

Let the Fire Burn (Osder)

Manakamana (Spray & Velez)
Under the Skin (Glazer)
Her (Jonze)
At Berkeley (Wiseman)
Gravity (Cuaron)
Before Midnight (Linklater)
Stray Dogs (Ming-liang)
12 Years a Slave (McQueen)
Ida (Pawlikowski)
The Dance of Reality (Jodorowsky)
Hard to Be a God (German)
Upstream Color (Carruth)
Inside Llewyn Davis (Coens)
The Strange Little Cat (Zurcher)
Visitors (Reggio)
Blue is the Warmest Color (Kechiche)
Blue Ruin (Saulnier)
Night Moves (Reichardt)
The Wolf of Wall Street (Scorsese)

Edit: Apparently Post Tenebras Lux, First Cousin Once Removed, The Act of Killing, and Drug War are all 2012 premieres per IMDb, so replaced them with the new bottom 4.

Repost from the old tapatalk thread:

Provisional list:

Seen 180:

2013 might just be one of, if not, The best year post-2000

So many great films that I could easily vote for 40-50 films.

Top 20:

1. The Great Beauty (Paolo Sorrentino) - The best film of the 21st century

Nebraska (Alexander Payne)
Blue Is the Warmest Color (Abdellatif Kechiche)
A Touch of Sin (Jia Zhangke)
The Wolf of Wall Street (Martin Scorsese)
The Grandmaster (Wong Kar Wai)
Tangerines (Zaza Urushadze)
The Counsellor (Ridley Scott)
Heavenly Shift (Márk Bodzsár)
August: Osage County (John Wells)
Only God Forgives (Nicolas Winding Refn)
Ida (Pawel Pawlikowski)
Inside Llewyn Davis (Coen brothers)
Before Midnight (Richard Linklater)
Bastards (Claire Denis)
Finding Vivian Maier (John Maloof & Charlie Siskel)
The Great Gatsby (Baz Luhrmann)
Side Effects (Steven Soderbergh)
Human Capital (Paolo Virzì)
Matterhorn (Diederik Ebbinge)
Also worth mentioning the worst films of 2013:

Upstream Color (Shane Carruth)
Moebius (Kim Ki-duk)
The Canyons (Paul Schrader)
After Earth (M. Night Shyamalan)
Evil Dead (Fede Alvarez)


And most overrated:

The Immigrant (James Gray)
Only Lovers Left Alive (Jim Jarmusch)
Enemy (Denis Villeneuve)
Prisoners (Denis Villeneuve)

haven't seen many from 2013

the fake looks interesting, thanks greg i'll have to check that one out!

I remember enjoying these:

The Bastards
Three Landscapes
Hard To Be A God
Stray Dogs
We Are The Best
Tarr Béla, I Used to Be a Filmmaker
Shirley Visions of Reality
BNSF
Punk Singer
At Berkeley
Night Moves
Finding Vivian Maier
The Wind Rises
Only Lovers Left Alive

Under the Skin (Jonathan Glazer)
The Wind Rises (Hayao Miyazaki)
Ida (Pawel Pawlikowski)
The Tale of the Princess Kaguya (Isao Takahata)
Inside Llewyn Davis (Coen brothers)
A Touch of Sin (Zhangke Jia)
Tom at the Farm (Xavier Dolan)
The Grandmaster (Wong Kar Wai)
Three Landscapes (Peter B. Hutton)
Grosse fatigue (Camille Henrot)

Final list, probably.

Final list

01. Kaze tachinu "The Wind Rises" (Hayao Miyazaki, Japan)
02. Vi är bäst! "We Are the Best!" (Lukas Moodysoon, Sweden/Denmark)
03. Man of Steel (Zack Snyder, USA/UK)
04. Abus de faiblesse "Abuse of Weakness" (Catherine Breillat, France/Belgium/Germany)
05. The Green Inferno (Eli Roth, USA/Chile/Canada/Spain)
06. Sinsegye "New World" (Hoon-jung Park, South Korea)
07. Pain & Gain (Michael Bay, USA)
08. Cheatin' (Bill Plympton, USA)
09. Only God Forgives (Nicolas Winding Refn, Denmark/USA/France/Sweden)

i started watching upstream color and i guess i'll continue since i made it past the disgusting part?? i hope?

i remember liking primer altho it gave me a headache

disgusting part? well i'm probably never going to watch it so it's not worth spoilering.

anyone like all is lost? it's sea-based and 2013 so....but on the other hand i reckon i have to really like bob to watch it...

It involves worms and that's all I'm saying

Dialogue of Shadows - Straub
Why Don't You Play in Hell? - Sono
Hard to be a God - German
Pays Babare - Gianiki

Delirium - Podolchak
The Great Beauty - Sorrentino
Bastards - Denis

To see
Fitoussi – The Enclosure of Time
Deutsch – Shirley - Visions of Reality
Dutta - The Seventh Walk
Bing - Til' Madness do Us Part

gee.... this was an incredible year....

1. Djinn
hard to be a god
mike birbiglia: my girlfriend's boyfriend
a spell to ward off the darkness
as i lay dying
exhibition
three landscapes
dialogue d'ombres
pyramid flare
costa da morte
the dirty history of laundry
why don't you play in hell?
night moves
behind the candelabra
after earth
the double
BNSF
inside llewyn davis
the wolf of wall street
under the skin

Quito 2023 - Izurieta, Moscoso (Ecuador)

Obscure enough to be worth mentioning, but it's not going to make my list. Near-future dystopia on an indie budget, science fiction with no SFX. The strategies they used to put their work across (chilly/dirty blue filters, claustrophobic mise en scene, etc) were curiously similar to a Hungarian dystopia I saw fairly recently called O-Bi, O-Ba, The End Of Civilization. How well you should dig this one is probably predetermined by how much you're into dystopian fic as a subgenre.