Saturday, February 27, 2016

Last 2015 Lists

Top ten films that are under 60 minutes and premiered within the last two years

Buffalo Juggalos (Scott Cummings, 2014)

1.  The Exquisite Corpus (Peter Tscherkassky, Austria, 2015)

2.  Minotaur (Nicolás Pereda, Mexico, 2015)

3.  “Argentina” (Gaspar Noé, Mexico, 2014)

4.  Night is Coming: Threnody for the Victims of Marikana (Aryan Kaganof, South Africa, 2014)

5.  Traces/Legacy (Scott Stark, USA, 2015)

6.  Erysichthon (Jon Rafman, Canada, 2015)

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8.  Ramona (Andrei Cretulescu, Romania, 2015)

9.  Buffalo Juggalos (Scott Cummings, USA, 2014)

10.  Hyperlinks or It Didn’t Happen (Cécile B. Evans, United Kingdom, 2014)


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Top twenty pre-2015 films I saw in 2015


Tokyo Fist (Shin'ya Tsukamoto, 1995)

1.  Edvard Munch (Peter Watkins, United Kingdom, 1974)

2.  L’Argent (Robert Bresson, France, 1983)

3.  F For Fake (Orson Welles, France, 1973)

4.  Playtime (Jacques Tati, France, 1967)

5.  Khrustalyov, My Car! (Aleksei German, Russia, 1998)

6.  Emperor Visits Hell (Luo Li, China, 2012)

7.  Tokyo Fist (Shin’ya Tsukamoto, Japan, 1995)

8.  Not Reconciled (Jean-Marie Straub & Danièle Huillet, West Germany, 1965)

9.  Pickpocket (Robert Bresson, France, 1959)

10.  Clean, Shaven (Lodge Kerrigan, USA, 1993)

11.  Carlito’s Way (Brian De Palma, USA, 1993)

12.  Traces (Scott Stark, USA, 2012)

13.  Stalker (Andrei Tarkovsky, Soviet Union, 1979)

14. Buffalo ’66 (Vincent Gallo, USA, 1998)

15. End of the Road (Aram Avakian, USA, 1970)

16. Some Came Running (Vincent Minnelli, USA, 1958)

17. Home (Luther Price, USA, 1990-1999)

18. The House is Black (Forugh Farrokhzad, Iran, 1963)

19. In the Family (Patrick Wang, USA, 2011)

20. Rouge (Stanley Kwan, Hong Kong, 1987)