made a gift-tastic list of my fav Canadian Films of the year: http://ixdaily.com/the-grind/our-top-fa ... ovies-2015

this is the list of the 25 films I watched for the first time in 2015:

https://beyondtheredroom.wordpress.com/ ... e-in-2015/

Yes L'enfer!

So much to watch.

My top ten of 2015:

http://vaguevisages.com/2015/12/31/just ... s-of-2015/

Shit yeah Carly Rae Jepsen

First Timers: 2015

Brute Force (Dassin, 1947)
Kings of the Road (Wenders, 1976)
Night and the City (Dassin, 1950)
World on a Wire (Fassbinder, 1973)
Alice in the Cities (Wenders, 1974)
Zelig (Allen, 1983)
Happy Together (Wai, 1997)
Slacker (Linklater, 1991)
Bullets over Broadway (Allen, 1994)
2046 (Wai, 2004)
Fox and His Friends (Fassbinder, 1976)
Waking Life (Linklater, 2001)
The Decalogue (Kieslowski, 1989)
Crimes and Misdemeanors (Allen, 1989)
Brick (Johnson, 2005)

Ew

Sneaky editing.

You watched 1251 movies in a year?

Well, it's the name of the podcast mentioned in the post. I assumed Wigwam would understand that's all I meant.

Three and a half movies a day, every day, for a year ... I can't even.

2015 Films - First Draft

Creed
Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation
Steve Jobs
Blackhat
Mad Max: Fury Road
It Follows
Results
Bone Tomahawk
Jupiter Ascending
Brooklyn

Sicario
Tangerine
Bridge of Spies
Inside Out
The Hateful 8
Mistress America
Anomalisa
The Assassin
Everest
Slow West

The Visit
Furious 7
Kingsman: The Secret Service
Cinderella
The Nightmare
Krampus
The Lobster
While We're Young
Chi-Raq
Unfriended

Top10 I've seen for the first time in 2015 (out of a total of 105 films):

Olmo & the Seagull (Petra Costa/Lea Glob, 2015)
De ofrivilliga/Involuntary (Ruben Östlund, 2008)
Deux jours, une nuit (Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne, 2014)
Keeper (Guillaume Senez, 2015)
The Forbidden Room (Guy Maddin/Evan Johnson, 2015)
Turist/Force Majeure (Ruben Östlund, 2014)
Kicking and Screaming (Noah Baumbach, 1995)
As Mil e Uma Noites pt. 1-3 (Miguel Gomes, 2015)
P'tit Quinquin (TV Mini-Serie) (Bruno Dumont, 2014)
20000 Days on Earth (Iain Forsyth/Jane Pollard, 2014)

A pretty good year.

I voted in this:

http://lwlies.com/articles/the-best-fil ... -part-one/

Part two tomorrow.

Part two: http://lwlies.com/articles/the-best-fil ... -part-two/

Personal lists: http://lwlies.com/articles/best-films-o ... nal-lists/

Rouge and Ethan also voted.

death to ethan ~.~

Thanks for this one. I hadn't even heard of it before, and really enjoyed it!


Hey, Corrie should do this, too.

Current decade:

The Turin Horse
Stray Dogs
A Touch of Sin
The Strange Little Cat
Hard to Be a God
Phoenix
Like Father Like Son
Holy Motors
Laurence Anyways
Himizu Guilty of Romance

yay cool, i expected good things cuz of the cast and Lonesome Jim but it was even better than I could have imagined

I'll do a decade list when I get home, ipads suck for spreadsheets

Wig, I want to see your list!

Did a little digging and found that four of my ten don't appear on any of the Little White Lies lists. Totally understandable in the case of The Strange Little Cat, Like Father Like Son, and Himizu. But where is A Touch of Sin?!

Also, I put the wrong Sono on mine. Guilty of Romance is a significantly greater film, though I love it somewhat less.

Fuck this was so hard! I went for what I consider "Best" as opposed to "Favorite" if that distinction matters

The Turin Horse
Under the Skin
Saint Laurent
Goodbye to Language
The Master
To the Wonder
Melancholia
Margaret
Nobody's Daughter Haewon
Computer Chess

Yeah, I mostly did, too. Which is why I should have used the other Sono.

Computer Chess was on my shortlist (along with Post Tenebras Lux, A Field in England and A Simple Life).

1. The Assassin (Hou Hsiao-hsien)
2. The Immigrant (James Gray)
3. The Act of Killing (Joshua Oppenheimer)
4. Holy Motors (Leos Carax)
5. Bastards (Claire Denis)
6. Post Tenebras Lux (Carlos Reygadas)
7. The Turin Horse (Béla Tarr)
8. Almayer's Folly (Chantal Akerman)
9. Spring Breakers (Harmony Korine)
10. Under the Skin (Jonathan Glazer)

All masterpieces or near-masterpieces IMO. It's been a great decade so far.

I've been trying to control my expectations a little, based on what I've read. But you're not helping at all.

Sorry. The hype is huge on that one, unfortunately. But Hou Hsiao-hsien is like a top 5 director for me, so it was damn near inevitable in my case. It's a contender for his best film IMO.

Has anyone seen the new Pedro Costa?

Has anyone seen the new Pedro Costa?

I have. It's so good! Another haunting poem of loss, but this time transplanting Ventura from the dreamy Lisbon of Colossal Youth to a timeless prison/hospital/mental space of torment and regret. It sent shivers down my spine.

I'm dying to see it. How does it rank/compare to his others? (Particularly the trilogy)

Top 10 this decade:

1. Abrir puertas y ventanas
2. Blind Detective
3. A Simple Life
4. Mysteries of Lisbon
5. Labour of Love
6. The Grand Budapest Hotel
7. The Midnight After
8. Stray Dogs
9. Don't Go Breaking My Heart 2
10. Harmonica's Howl

Still need more to process The Assassin.

I love you. My working 1 and 2 as well. (although I know it might have changed by now, just going back through the thread since I've been out of loop.)

Hmm, I don't know how I'd rank it. It's very similar to Colossal Youth, but darker, with much broader concerns of history and guilt.

I could maybe put his work in tiers:

Horse Money/ Colossal Youth/ Casa de Lava
Ossos/ O Sangue
In Vanda's Room

argh need to finish watching this, doh

Interesting, thanx.

I think i'm one of the few that holds Ossos in pretty high regard (tier 1)

Well, I love Ossos and O Sangue, so it's more of a mezzanine level, maybe.

ofc!

Horse Money is his best to date imo

trip, did you have come back to the five and dime, jimmy dean, jimmy dean on last years list?

yeah

https://bmtr.wordpress.com/2015/01/04/m ... scoveries/

thanks, i wasn't sure if it was yours i saw it on or someone else. just watched it the other night and thought it was great.

here's a list of stuff that stuck, or at least what i can remember for first seen in 2015 (rough order)

The Swimmer (Perry, 1968)
Applause (Mamoulian, 1929)
...All the Marbles (Aldrich, 1981)
Colossal Youth (Costa, 2006)
Run of the Arrow (Fuller, 1957)
Love Streams (Cassavetes, 1984)
Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia (Peckinpah, 1974)
I am Cuba (Kalatozov, 1964)
Tokyo Godfathers (Kon, 2003)
Triangle (Smith, 2009)

cool i have this downloaded, need to prioritize it!

I love all these too:

Films I plan on seeing in the next ten days at the IFFR:

Chevalier
L'accademia delle muse
The Island Funeral
Chaotic Love Poems
Informe General Sobre etc.
Sex and Broadcasting – A Film About WFMU
Évolution
Kaili Blues
El viento sabe que vuelvo a casa
Sayonara
Yakuza Apocalypse
Three Stories of Love
Mountains May Depart
The Shell Collector
L'ombre des femmes
Arabian Nights Vol. 1
Califórnia
Helmut Berger, Actor
Paradise
The Strange Case of Shiva
Original Copy
Arabian Nights Vol. 2
Noche de vino tinto
Neon Bull
An
Strange Love
100 Yen Love
Arabian Nights Vol. 3
Love & Friendship
The Fourth Direction
The Assassin
As I Open My Eyes