Favorite Theatrical Releases
Favorite films that had a one-week run in NYC during 2014. In order of preference. (The complete list can be found at Letterboxd.)
- The Immigrant (James Gray)
- The Strange Little Cat (Ramon Zurcher)
- Jealousy (Philippe Garrel)
- What Now? Remind Me (Joaquim Pinto)
- Norte, The End of History (Lav Diaz)
- Goodbye to Language (Jean-Luc Godard)
- Night Moves (Kelly Reichardt)
- Stray Dogs (Tsai Ming-liang)
- The Last of the Unjust (Claude Lanzmann)
- Closed Curtain (Jafar Panahi)
Favorite As-Yet Undistributed Features
Hopefully at least half of these will make their way into theaters in 2015. In order of preference.
- Horse Money (Pedro Costa)
- Phoenix (Christian Petzold)
- Amour Fou (Jessica Housner)
- Episode of the Sea (Siebren de Haan and Lonnie van Brummelen)
- Tu dors Nicole (Stéphane LaFleur)
- De la musique ou La jota de Rosset (Jean-Charles Fitoussi)
- Sentimental Education (Julio Bressane)
- Pasolini (Abel Ferrara)
- How to Disappear Completely (Raya Martin)
- Approaching the Elephant (Amanda Wilder)
Favorite New Experimental Shorts
Putting these lists together has made me realize that I need to make a habit of going to Rotterdam. In alphabetical order.
- Deorbit (Makino Takashi & Telecosystems)
- Dot Matrix (Richard Tuohy)
- The Innocents (Jean-Paul Kelly)
- Konrad & Kurfurst (Esther Urlus)
- New Fancy Foils (Jodie Mack)
- Photooxidation (Pablo Mazzolo)
- Red Capriccio (Blake Williams)
- Sea Series #9, 11, 12, 13, 14 (John Price)
- A Study in Natural Magic (Charlotte Pryce)
- Sun Song (Joel Wanek)
Favorite Discoveries
Older films I saw for the first time this year, limited to one film per director. In alphabetical order.
- D’Annunzios Höhle (Heinz Emigholz, 2005)
- Gideon of Scotland Yard (John Ford, 1958)
- The Goddess (Yonggang Wu, 1934)
- The Great Flamarion (Anthony Mann, 1945)
- Lars Ole 5.C (Nils Malmros, 1973)
- Love Streams (John Cassavetes, 1984)
- Rivette – The Night Watchman (Claire Denis, 1990)
- The Spy in Black (Michael Powell, 1939)
- Tchoupitoulas (Bill Ross and Turner Ross, 2012)
- Twentieth Century (Howard Hawks, 1934)