Sunday, January 4, 2015

Top 20 Discoveries of 2014

Bulk of my cinematic exploration came early this year: there was always dependable Rendez-vous with French Cinema series of course, providing me with my #2 pick of the year, Love Battles, then there was the best film series I've ever been part of in a long time, the first inaugural Art of the Real, presented by FSLC. The series encapsulated everything I was interested in cinema now - blurring the boundaries between film and reality, fired up by people at Havard Film Ethnography Lab (Leviathan, Manakamana, Iron Ministry). Then there was annual New York African Film Festival which fueled my interest in African films. Needless to say, It's been a very good year for films.

Top 20 in order watched:

Drowning by Numbers (1988) - Greenaway
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Another Sky (1954) - Lambert
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Still of the Night - (1982) - Benton
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Le Notti di Cabiria (1957) - Fellini
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Under the Sun of Satan (1987) - Pialat
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US Go Home (1994) - Denis
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Libera Me (1993) - Cavalier
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Touki Bouki (1973) - Mambéty
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Yeelen (1987) - Cissé
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Sinbad (1971) - Huszárik
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Phaedra (1962) - Dassin
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Goodbye Again (1961) - Litvak
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Koumiko Mystery (1967) - Marker
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L'Avventura (1960) - Antonioni
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Détective (1985) - Godard
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Rendez-vous (1985) - Techiné
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The Public Woman (1984) - Zulawski
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Strayed (2003) - Techiné
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Buffet Froid (1979) - Blier
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Viola (2012) - Piñeiro
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