Showing posts with label music video. Show all posts
Showing posts with label music video. Show all posts

Thursday, January 9, 2020

The Decade in Moving Images

This is mostly meant for personal use as a reminder of what I've seen and what I still value. Don't be alarmed if it doesn't seem to make sense as a whole. If you feel this way, you're probably right as this inventory hasn't been edited to highlight any filmmaking trends whatsoever.

2019

Films

Heimat Is a Space in Time / Heimat ist ein Raum aus Zeit (Thomas Heise)
Jallikattu (Lijo Jose Pellissery)
Martin Eden (Pietro Marcello)
Pure Art / Чыстае мастацтва (Maksim Shved)
The Cordillera of Dreams / La cordillere des songes (Patricio Guzmán)
The Souvenir (Joanna Hogg)
The Traitor / Il traditore (Marco Bellocchio)
Vitalina Varela (Pedro Costa)

TV shows

Atlanta (2nd season, Donald Glover, Hiro Murai, 2016-)
Crazy Ex-Girlfriend (Rachel Bloom, Aline Brosh McKenna, 2015-2019)
The Show About the Show (Caveh Zahedi, 2015-)

Archives

Ears. Eyes. Throats. Restored Classic and Lost Punk Films (1976-1981))

Sunday, December 18, 2016

Best Films of 2016 at Cineticle - the Day Before Post-Cinema (My Take on the Year's Pictures)

So, Cineticle made a choice of the best films this year, the first of the really worthwile year-end-lists.
My own top is there. And here's a concise version, so to say; without any reflections and ruminations:


1. Histoire de Judas (Rabah Ameur-Zaimeche, 2015)
2. As Mil e Uma Noites (Miguel Gomes, 2015)
3. Homeland (Iraq Year Zero) (Abbas Fahdel, 2015)
4. Horace and Pete (Louis CK, 2016)
5. 88:88 (Isiah Medina,2015)
6. Everybody Wants Some!! (Richard Linklater, 2016)
7. Somethin Between Us (Jodie Mack, 2015)
8. The Pearl Button (Patricio Guzman, 2015)
9. The Day Before the End (Lav Diaz, 2016)
10. The Plague at the Karatas Village (Adilkhan Yerzhanov, 2016)


+ 15 more excellent films, in alphabetical order:

Bahubali: The Beginning (S. S. Rajamouli, 2015)
Bella e perduta (Pietro Marcello, 2015)
Fuocoammare (Gianfranco Rosi, 2016)
Gravity Falls (2012-2016)
In Jackson Heights (Frederick Wiseman, 2015)
L'avenir (Mia Hansen-Love, 2016)
L'oiseau de la nuit (Marie Losier, 2015)
La academia de las musas (Jose Luis Guerin, 2015)
La Deuxieme Nuit (Eric Pauwels, 2016)
Love (Judd Apatow, 2016)
Love & Partnership (Nikita Lavretski, 2016)
Palms (Mary Helena Clark, 2015)
The Exquisite Corpus (Peter Tscherkassky, 2015)
The Sky Trembles and the Earth Is Afraid and the Two Eyes Are Not Brothers (Ben Rivers, 2015)
Wake (Subic) (John Gianvito, 2015)


+ my post-cinematic 13 of music videos

ANOHNI - Drone Bomb Me (Nabil)
Arca - Sin Rumbo (Jesse Kanda)
clipping - wriggle (Rodney Ascher)
Ital Tek - Beyond Sight (Clayton Welham and Joseph Lion)
James Blake - I Need A Forest Fire (ft. Bon Iver) (United Visual Artists: Matt Clark, Chris Davenport)
Julianna Barwick - Nebula (Derrick Belcham)
Kari Faux - Fantasy (Carlos Lopez Estrada)
Oneohtrix Point Never - Animals (Rick Alverson)
Soda_Jerk & The Avalanches - The Was (Soda_Jerk)
Massive Attack - The Spoils ft. Hope Sandoval (John Hillcoat)
Mark Pritchard - Sad Alron (Jonathan Zawada)
The Avalanches - Frankie Sinatra (Fleur, Manu)
Vince Staples - Prima Donna (Nabil)

I only regret forgetting to include Tyrone Lebon's video for Nikes by Frank Ocean.
Overall, it was a troubled and rushed but nevertheless very enjoyable year. Cheers!