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Choose your favorite films from 2014 (according to IMDb).

– Each person votes for up to 20 movies. Do not feel compelled to fill the maximum allowable number, if you're enthusiastic about fewer than twenty.
– 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 new members who have not participated in other parts of the forum will not be counted.

Deadline for 2014 lists will be Friday, May 1st at approximately 1 PM Pacific Time. Or something.

Seen and liked well enough to consider:

El Ardor - Pablo Fendrik
La Dictadura Perfecta - Luis Estrada
Gonzalez: The False Prophet - Christian Diaz Pardo
Goodnight, Mommy - S. Viala, V. Frantz
Gueros - Alonso Ruizpalacios
Haider - V. Bhardwaj
Llevate Mis Amores/All Of Me - Arturo Gonz�lez Villase�or
Maidan - Loznitsa
Navajazo - Ricardo Silva
Nuits Blanches Sur La Jetee - Paul Vecchiali

My watchlist posted in the usual place.

1. Beloved Sisters (Dominik Graf)

The Babadook (Jennifer Kent)
Bird People (Pascale Ferran)
Blind Massage (Lou Ye)
Clouds of Sils Maria (Olivier Assayas)
Dearest (Peter Chan)
Haider (Vishal Bhardwaj)
Heaven Knows What (Josh and Benny Safdie)
It Follows (David Robert Mitchell)
Leviathan (Andrey Zvyagintsev)
Maps to the Stars (David Cronenberg)
The Midnight After (Fruit Chan)
Mommy (Xavier Dolan)
Maidan (Sergei Loznitsa)
The Rover (David Michod)
Shipwreck (Morgan Knibbe)
Two Days, One Night (Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne)
White Bird in a Blizzard (Gregg Araki)
Winter Sleep (Nuri Bilge Ceylan)

Want to watch:

Fires on the Plain (Shinya Tsukamoto)
Horse Money (Pedro Costa)
Life of Riley (Alain Resnais)
National Gallery (Frederick Wiseman)
A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence (Roy Andersson)
The Postman's White Nights (Andrei Konchalovsky)
Reality (Quentin Dupieux)

0.5 mm (Momoko Ando)
Hill of Freedom (Hong Sang-soo)
Parallel I-IV (Harun Farocki)
Faces of Emmanuelle (Rob Feulner)
Welcome to New York (Abel Ferrara)
Heaven Knows What (Josh Safdie/Benny Safdie)
Jauja (Lisandro Alonso)
The Homesman (Tommy Lee Jones)
White Nights on the Pier (Paul Vecchiali)
Pasolini (Abel Ferrara)
Ex Machina (Alex Garland)
Something Must Break (Ester Martin Bergsmark)
Have You Ever Killed a Bear? Or Becoming Jamila (Marwa Arsanios)


I'm still a bit jaded of 2010's films so I probably won't watch much, did a quick glance at potential films to watch and I didn't find much.

1. Wild Tales (Damian Szifrón)
Tu dors Nicole (Stéphane Lafleur)
Li'l Quinquin (Bruno Dumont)
The Grand Budapest Hotel (Wes Anderson)
The Duke of Burgundy (Peter Strickland)
Phoenix (Christian Petzold)
A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence (Roy Andersson)
Jauja (Lisandro Alonso)
The Rover (David Michôd)
Aimer, boire et chanter (Alain Resnais)
Distance (Sergio Caballero)
A Hard Day (Kim Seong-hoon)

To watch:
Don't Go Breaking My Heart 2
Edge of Tomorrow
Flowers
Haider
Happy New Year
Lucy
Noah
Non-Stop
PK
When Marnie Was There

1.Phoenix (Petzold)

Leviathan (Zvyagintsev)
Wild Tales (Szifrón)
The Grand Budapest Hotel (Anderson)
Pasolini (Ferrara)
The Babadook (Kent)
Mommy (Dolan)
Foxcatcher (Miller)
Birdman (Iñárritu)
A Hard Day (Kim)
Heaven Knows What (Safdie)


Watched for this poll:

Heaven Knows What √
It Follows √
Two Days, One Night √
A Hard Day √

Might just be my favorite year of 2010s

Provisional list:

1. Foxcatcher (Bennett Miller)

Winter Sleep (Nuri Bilge Ceylan)
Leviathan (Andrey Zvyagintsev)
Clouds of Sils Maria (Olivier Assayas)
Timbuktu (Abderrahmane Sissako)
Marshland (Alberto Rodríguez)
Wild Tales (Damián Szifron)
The Homesman (Tommy Lee Jones)
Inherent Vice (Paul Thomas Anderson)
Calvary (John Michael McDonagh)
Mr. Turner (Mike Leigh)
The Duke of Burgundy (Peter Strickland)
Nightcrawler (Dan Gilroy)
God's Pocket (John Slattery)
Ex Machina (Alex Garland)
Interstellar (Christopher Nolan)
Boyhood (Richard Linklater)
The Grand Budapest Hotel (Wes Anderson)
Birdman (Alejandro G. Iñárritu)
Whiplash (Damien Chazelle)


Primary watchlist targets:

A Most Violent Year
99 Homes
La French / The Connection

1. INHERENT VICE (Anderson)

A PIGEON SAT ON A BRANCH REFLECTING ON EXISTENCE (Andersson)
BOYHOOD (Linklater)
LEVIATHAN (Zvyagintsev)
MR. TURNER (Leigh)


I rather liked LOVE AND MERCY (Pohlad), but don't know if I can put it on this list. Same with NIGHTCRAWLER (Gilroy).

1. Kunįkága Remembers Red Banks, Kunįkága Remembers the Welcome Song (Sky Hopinka)
Beyond Zero: 1914-1918 (Bill Morrison & David Harrington)
Transformers: The Premake (Kevin B. Lee)
Becoming Anita Ekberg (Mark Rappaport)

Watchlist
-- 9×10 Novanta (Omnibus with nine directors)
-- American Sniper (Clint Eastwood)
-- Forbidden Films (Felix Moeller)
-- From Caligari to Hitler: German Cinema in the Age of the Masses (Rüdiger Suchsland)
-- Maybe some others if I have time and inclination

Seen some 60 films

Final List


01. The Homesman (Tommy Lee Jones, USA/France)
02. Nightcrawler (Dan Gilroy, USA)
03. Torneranno i prati "Greenery Will Bloom Again" (Ermanno Olmi, Italy)
04. Atlantic. (Jan-Willem van Ewijk, Germany/Belgium/Netherlands/Morocco/France)
05. Phoenix (Christian Petzold, Germany/Poland)
06. Edge of Tomorrow (Doug Liman, USA/Canada)
07. A Most Violent Year (J. C. Chandor, USA/United Arab Emirates)
08. White Bird in a Blizzard (Gregg Araki, France/USA)
09. Die geliebten Schwestern "Beloved Sisters" (Dominik Graf, Germany/Austria/Switzerland)
10. RoboCop (Jose Padilha, USA)

11. Omoide no Mani "When Marnie Was There" (Hiromasa Yonebayashi, Japan)
12. Anna (Bruno Sukrow, Germany)
13. Non-Stop (Jaume Collet-Serra, UK/France/USA/Canada)
14. Maps to the Stars (David Cronenberg, Canada/Germany/France/USA)
15. It Follows (David Robert Mitchell , USA)
16. National Gallery (Frederick Wiseman, France/UK/USA)

Reality (Quentin Dupieux)

A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence (Roy Andersson)
Journey to the West (Tsai Ming-liang)
Symphony No 42 (Reka Bucsi)
Force Majeure (Ruben Ostlund)
Boyhood (Richard Linklater)
Ex Machina (Alex Garland)
What We Do in the Shadows (Taika Waititi/Jemaine Clement)
Marshland (Alberto Rodriguez)
Diplomacy (Volker Schlorndorff)
Leviathan (Andrey Zvyagintsev)
Kingsman: The Secret Service (Matthew Vaughn)
Closer to the Moon (Nae Caranfil)
Welcome to Me (Shira Piven)
Goodbye to Language (Jean-Luc Godard)
Pompeii (Paul WS Anderson)
Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit (Kenneth Branagh)

Kunįkága Remembers Red Banks, Kunįkága Remembers the Welcome Song (Sky Hopinka)

Just watched what will probably be my #1 for the year (I will put in a place). It's a beautiful short film featuring voices of Indigenous history and culture placed atop the land settlers call Green Bay, Wisconsin. Highly recommended, especially for viewers who, like me, are major Green Bay Packers fans and need a reminder of the true history of the region.

0.5 mm
don't go breaking my heart 2
horse money
phoenix
jauja
it follows
journey to the west
welcome to new york
white nights on the pier
gueros
the homesman
song of the sea
national gallery
john wick :p

to watch

the princess of france
court
heaven knows what
night will fall
natural history
pasolini
hill of freedom
leviathan
timbuktu
nightcrawler (maybe)

Definitely

From What Is Before
Phoenix
National Gallery
Boyhood
Two Days One Night
0.5mm
Foxcatcher
The Grand Budapest Hotel
Horse Money
Journey to the West

Also good

A Midsummer’s Fantasia
Beloved Sisters
Citizenfour
Clouds of Sils Maria
Don't Go Breaking My Heart 2
Ex Machina
Force Majeure
Gett: The Trial of Viviane Amsalem
Girlhood
Goodbye to Language
Heaven Knows What
Hill of Freedom
Inherent Vice
It Follows
Jauja
Leviathan
Li’l Quinquin
Nightcrawler
Parallel I-IV
Saint Laurent
Storm Children, Book One
The Homesman
The Lego Movie
The Look of Silence
Winter Sleep

0.5mm (momoko ando)
the midnight after (fruit chan)
don't go breaking my heart 2 (tsui hark)
madras (pa. rajnjith)
the homesman (tommy lee jones)
jauja (lisandro alonso)
hill of freedom (hong sang-soo)
haider (vishal bharadwaj)
dedh ishqiya (abhishek chaubey)
white nights on the pier (paul vecchiali)
jigarthanda (karthik subbaraj)
pisaasu (mysskin)
cuckoo (raju murugan)
highway (imtiaz ali)
happy new year (farah khan)
the gold bug (alejo moguillansky & fia-stina sandlund)
she's funny that way (peter bogdanovich)
bangalore days (anjali menon)
hibi rock: puke afro and the pop star (yu irie)
ping pong (masaaki yuasa)


to watch -
titli
ankhon dekhi
qissa
swapaanam
over your dead body
phoenix
beloved sisters

tentative (based on letterboxd dates, so some are probably wrong), in some random order:

the old man of belem (oliveira)
ex machina (garland)
saint laurent (bonello)
little quinquin (dumont)
the duke of burgundy (strickland)
metamorphoses (honoré)
maidan (loznitsa)
the homesman (jones)
amour fou (hausner)
mr turner (leigh)
good night cinderella (conceição)
stella cadente (miñarro)
a girl walks home alone at night (amirpour)

to see:
don't go breaking my heart 2 (to)

1. Güeros — Alonso Ruizpalacios

Aloft — Claudia Llosa
Appropriate Behavior — Desirée Akhavan
Boyhood — Richard Linklater
Clouds of Sils Maria — Olivier Assayas
Conducta / Behavior — Ernesto Daranas
Gone Girl — David Fincher
Inherent Vice — Paul Thomas Anderson
Invasión — Ábner Benaim
Jamie Marks Is Dead — Carter Smith
Jauja — Lisandro Alonso
Love Is Strange — Ira Sachs
Mala mala — Dan Sickles, Antonio Santini
Maps to the Stars — David Cronenberg
Matar a un hombre / To Kill a Man — Alejandro Fernández Almendras
Mr. Turner — Mike Leigh
Still Alice — Richard Glatzer, Wash Westmoreland
Timbuktu — Abderrahmane Sissako
Las vacas con gafas / Cows Wearing Glasses — Alex Santiago Pérez
Whiplash — Damien Chazelle

Boyhood (Linklater)

Clouds of Sils Maria (Assayas)
22 Jump Street (Lord, Miller)
A Most Violent Year (Chandor)
Force majeure (Östlund)
Gone Girl (Fincher)
Inherent Vice (Anderson)
The Salt of the Earth (Wenders)
Kingsman: the Secret Service (Vaughn)
Maps to the Stars (Cronenberg)
Mr. Turner (Leigh)
Hill of Freedom (Hong)
The Duke of Burgundy (Strickland)
Non-Stop (Collet-Serra)
Leviathan (Zvyagintsev)
A Pigeon Sat On a Branch Reflecting On Existence (Andersson)
Edificio España (Moreno)
Birdman (Inarritu)
While We're Young (Baumbach)
Wild (Vallée)

I loved the TV version of The Trip to Italy but haven't seen the edited down movie one so don't know if I should include it. Wouldn't mind trimming the bottom of my list somewhat, I like all of these films and I know I don't have to vote for them if I don't want to, but up to about Leviathan they're all excellent.

Wanna see:
Two Days, One Night (Dardenne, Dardenne)
Mommy (Dolan)
Winter Sleep (Ceylan)
National Gallery (Wiseman)
The Look of Silence (Oppenheimer)
Girlhood (Sciamma)
A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night (Amirpour)
Eden (Hansen-Løve)
Wild Tales (Szifron)
Heaven Knows What (Safdie, Safdie)

Provisional-

Happy new year - farah khan
Haider - vishal bhardwaj
Dos disparos - rejtman
Princess of france - piñeiro
Unfriended
Stations of the cross
Bewakoofiyan
Highway - Imtiaz Ali

Liked:
Brouillard: Passage #14 (Larose)
Nightcrawler (Gilroy)
Gone Girl (Fincher)
Fury (Ayer)
Edge of Tomorrow (Liman)

Most Interested in Seeing:
phoenix
boyhood
jauja
timbuktu
the old man of belem
the homesman
0.5mm
white nights on the pier
goodbye to language
horse money
national gallery
don't go breaking my heart 2
natural history
pasolini
journey to the west
ex machina
pompeii
hill of freedom

1. Mommy (Xavier Dolan, 2014)

When Marnie Was There (Hiromasa Yonebayashi, 2014)
Welcome to Me (Shira Piven, 2014)
Boyhood (Richard Linklater, 2014)
Leviathan (Andrey Zvyagintsev, 2014)
Listen Up Philip (Alex Ross Perry, 2014)
Happy Christmas (Joe Swanberg, 2014)
Pompeii (Paul W. S. Anderson, 2014)
Nightcrawler (Dan Gilroy, 2014)
Song of the Sea (Tomm Moore, 2014)
Inherent Vice (Paul Thomas Anderson, 2014)
Goodbye to Language 3D (Jean-Luc Godard, 2014)
The Grand Budapest Hotel (Wes Anderson, 2014)
Obvious Child (Gillian Robespierre, 2014)
A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night (Ana Lily Amirpour, 2014)
The Second Game (Corneliu Porumboiu, 2014)
White Bird in a Blizzard (Gregg Araki, 2014)
Wild Tales (Damián Szifron, 2014)
The Homesman (Tommy Lee Jones, 2014)

1. A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence (2014, Roy Andersson)
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Jauja (2014, Lisandro Alonso)
Adieu au langage / Goodbye to Language (2014, Jean-Luc Godard)
Inherent Vice (2014, Paul Thomas Anderson)
The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014, Wes Anderson)
Birdman: Or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) (2014, Alejandro González Iñárritu)
Plemya / The Tribe (2014, Myroslav Slaboshpytskyi)
-
Bai ri yan huo / Black Coal, Thin Ice (2014, Diao Yi'nan)
Maps to the Stars (2014, David Cronenberg)
Kreuzweg / Stations of the Cross (2014, Dietrich Brüggemann)
Lost River (2014, Ryan Gosling)
Nightcrawler (2014, Dan Gilroy)
-
Turist / Force Majeure (2014, Ruben Östlund)
Clouds of Sils Maria (2014, Olivier Assayas )
Whiplash (2014, Damien Chazelle)
Theeb (2014, Naji Abu Nowar)
I Believe in Unicorns (2014, Leah Meyerhoff)
Deux jours, une nuit / Two Days, One Night (2014, The Dardenne Brothers)
Faults (2014, Riley Stearns)
Fehér isten / White God (2014, Kornél Mundruczó)

wba wrote: ↑Wed Apr 01, 2020 1:21 pm 08. White Bird in a Blizzard (Gregg Araki, France/USA)

0% surprised you're a fan!

i'm watching nightcrawler and while i appreciate it's noirish anti-heart, i am positive i've seen a low budget 40s movie with similar plot, specifically vividly remember photographer taking pictures instead of saving drowning motorist. i thought it was 'night editor' but seems like i'm wrong, anyone recall this???? between lencho, flip and greg i'm betting at least one of you has seen it. maybe it is 'night editor'? it's on youtube so might have to investigate because it's driving me crazy



nice to see bill paxton again

good year depth-wise - little top-light, apart from #1

When Marnie Was There (Hiromasa Yonebayashi, 2014)

Girlhood (Céline Sciamma, 2014)
A Girl at My Door (July Jung, 2014)
Boyhood (Richard Linklater, 2014)
White Bird in a Blizzard (Gregg Araki, 2014)
Tamako Love Story (Naoko Yamada, 2014)

Our Family (Kim Do-hyun-I, 2014)
Kingsman: The Secret Service (Matthew Vaughn, 2014)
Nightcrawler (Dan Gilroy, 2014)
Guardians of the Galaxy (James Gunn, 2014)
Gukje Market (JK Youn, 2014)

Don't Think I've Forgotten: Cambodia's Lost Rock and Roll (John Pirozzi, 2014)
American Sniper (Clint Eastwood, 2014)
Leviathan (Andrey Zvyagintsev, 2014)
From Scotland with Love (Virginia Heath, 2014)
The Vancouver Asahi (Yûya Ishii, 2014)

White God (Kornél Mundruczó, 2014)
Nowitzki: The Perfect Shot (Sebastian Dehnhardt, 2014)
Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day (Miguel Arteta, 2014)
How to Train Your Dragon 2 (Dean DeBlois, 2014)




Hate Hate Hate:

Ex Machina (Alex Garland, 2014)
John Wick (Chad Stahelski, David Leitch, 2014)
Dawn of the Planet of the Apes (Matt Reeves, 2014)
Hill of Freedom (Hong Sang-soo, 2014)
Snow Hut (Yoriko Mizushiri, 2014)

Duet (Glen Keane, 2014)
Heaven Is for Real (Randall Wallace, 2014)
Birdman (Alejandro González Iñárritu, 2014)
A Most Violent Year (J.C. Chandor, 2014)
Miracle (Gavin O'Connor, 2014)

God's Not Dead (Harold Cronk, 2014)
What We Do in the Shadows (Jemaine Clement, Taika Waititi, 2014)
The Babadook (Jennifer Kent, 2014)
The Purge: Anarchy (James DeMonaco, 2014)
Maleficent (Robert Stromberg, 2014)

Interstellar (Christopher Nolan, 2014)

Really surprised at what a good year this was!
Resnais' swan song tops it for me. I think one of his more subtly brilliant works, and really sadly underappreciated. But a beautiful film that I find myself thinking about a lot.

Life of Riley- Alain Resnais
Jauja - Lisondro Alonso
A Pigeon Sat on A Branch,,, - Roy Anderson
Inherent Vice - Paul Thomas Anderson
Gone Girl - David Fincher

While We're Young - Noah Baumbach
Nightcrawler - Dan Gilroy
Hill of Freedom - Hong Sang Soo
Birdman - Alejandro Gonzales Innaritu
Force Majeure - Ruben Ostlund

Journey to the West - Tsai Ming Liang
Whiplash - Damian Chazelle
Maps to the Stars - David Cronenberg
The One I Love - Charlie Mcdowell
Creep - Patrick Bryce

specifically vividly remember photographer taking pictures instead of saving drowning motorist.

The basic idea kinda sounds familiar, but I don't remember a specific scene like you're describing offhand and I'm having a hard time recalling many films from that era with photographers as the main character, more amoral official types. The few I do remember with shutterbugs don't quite seem to fit. Maybe the 1950 movie Shakedown?

Haven't seen enough from 2014 to get much of a feel for the year, but of the 60 or so movies I have seen there were enough I liked to not be disappointed by the year so far, but most are films others have already listed, so not much new to add. Starter list of possibles:

Timbuktu
Clouds of Sils Maria
Jauja
Goodbye to Language
Interstellar
Mr. Turner
Horse Money
Dawn in Luxor
good kid, m.A.A.d. city
Malificent

Grand Hotel Budapest
Dawn of the Planet of the Apes
Brotherhood of Blades
Kundo: Age of the Rampant
What We Do in the Shadows
Magical Girl
Your Lie in April
Saint Laurent
Nightcrawler
A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night
Don't Hug Me I'm Scared 3 & 2

Kumiko, the Treasure Hunter
Birdman
Garm Wars: The Last Druid
Song of the Sea
The Monuments Men
Noah
Happy New Year
Ballet 422
John Wick
November Man
Maps to the Stars

Holymanm wrote: ↑Thu Apr 02, 2020 1:07 am Hate Hate Hate:

Ex Machina (Alex Garland, 2014)
John Wick (Chad Stahelski, David Leitch, 2014)
Dawn of the Planet of the Apes (Matt Reeves, 2014)
Hill of Freedom (Hong Sang-soo, 2014)
Snow Hut (Yoriko Mizushiri, 2014)

Duet (Glen Keane, 2014)
Heaven Is for Real (Randall Wallace, 2014)
Birdman (Alejandro González Iñárritu, 2014)
A Most Violent Year (J.C. Chandor, 2014)
Miracle (Gavin O'Connor, 2014)

God's Not Dead (Harold Cronk, 2014)
What We Do in the Shadows (Jemaine Clement, Taika Waititi, 2014)
The Babadook (Jennifer Kent, 2014)
The Purge: Anarchy (James DeMonaco, 2014)
Maleficent (Robert Stromberg, 2014)

Interstellar (Christopher Nolan, 2014)

Damn that's a lot of hatred!
If we're doing that, I'm gonna go for American Sniper which may be the worst movie ever made, and Kumiko, which may be the most pointless one.

greg x wrote: ↑Thu Apr 02, 2020 9:29 am

specifically vividly remember photographer taking pictures instead of saving drowning motorist.

The basic idea kinda sounds familiar, but I don't remember a specific scene like you're describing offhand and I'm having a hard time recalling many films from that era with photographers as the main character, more amoral official types. The few I do remember with shutterbugs don't quite seem to fit. Maybe the 1950 movie Shakedown?

looks like a good bet but i haven't seen it