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PIG (Michael Sarnoski 2021)

I caught up on this highly praised film of last year today on Amazon, perhaps because I was thinking of seeing Andrea Arnold's COW to catch up on this year's most...

As you see my NYFF coverage was incomplete last year and I haven't caught up on this one. 14 years on Metacritic isn't bad. Almodovar or Campion is an unfair comparison.

I was confusing FIRST COW with PIG (just joking), which I haven't watched. I saw FIRST COW at the NYFF and remember where I was sitting, which is usually a good sign about a movie-watch. My Ten...

I have reviewed THE BLACK BOOK (2007) TRICKED (2012), and ELLE (2018). BENEDETTA is not a priority. I'm still catching up on Pasolini!

Not that one, no. Also have still not seen from my watch list CMOON CMON or ANNETTE.
Here's a list of the NYFF 2021 Main lSlate films I have and haven't reviewed: LIST.

Benedetta (Verhoeven)...

From the SF IndieFest (Feb. 3-13, 2022): Paul Owens' LANDLOCKED

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MASON OWENS IN LANDLOCKED

An ingenious DIY found footage/time travel movie

Watch...

The add-ons continue.

I would add to my runner's up list Michel Franco's SUNDOWN, even though Anthony Lane recently said it "lacks the courage of its despair" (the concluding "explanation" for Tim...

A compendium of year-end lists

CAHIERS DU CINÉMA: 10 Best Flms of 2021

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RENATE REINSVE, ANDERS DANIELSEN LIE IN THE WORST PERSON IN THE WORLD


I've updated 2021 top ten list again:


I took out THE DISCIPLE and BEGINNING...

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TONI SERVILLO, FILIPPO SCOTTI IN THE HAND OF GOD

My updated top ten list:


I took out THE DISCIPLE and BEGINNING because I saw them last year in the...

Thanks for the information. I had not heard of t this HBO series. It sounds brilliant and devastating - it's been heralded as a masterpiece by many critics - and I'm sure could well qualify as Best...

My current year's end watch list.

Seeing Sorrentino's THE HAND OF GOD changed everything. It's my favorite of his films and it has to take a top, maybe the top, position on my 2021 best list, so...

P.s. I'm not finding theatrical French releases on AlloCiné going back that far. His 2008 PASSION was released in France, but in 2019. They likely have had releases in other forms of Hamaguchi...

It also may be that he is improving himself - by fits and starts as before - more significantly lately. WHEEL OF FORTUNE AND FANTASY was a beautiful, elegant study of people, but an anthology film...

BEST FOREIGN OSCAR

94TH ACADEMY AWARDS® SHORTLIST
INTERNATIONAL FEATURE FILM
Austria, “Great Freedom”
Belgium, “Playground”
Bhutan, “Lunana: A Yak in the Classroom”
Denmark, “Flee”
Finland,...

The New York Times 2021 Ten Best Movies

Found HERE

A.O. SCOTT

1. ‘Summer of Soul’ (Questlove)
This documentary about a series of open-air concerts in Harlem in 1969, interweaving...

SCREEN SLATE'S YEAR-END LIST:
Found here:


Barack Obama's "favorite movies of 2021"

More 2021 movie best lists (including some Variety critics) HERE

FILM COMMENT'S 2021 BEST LIST


1. Memoria
Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Colombia/Thailand/UK/France/Germany/Mexico/Qatar

Of all the mysterious objects engineered by Apichatpong, Memoria may be...

BEING THE RICARDOS (Aaron Sorkin 2021)

Richard Abele's review for The Wrap eloquently describes this movie's many faults that I saw but can't write about because I am recovering from surgery on a...

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LAST AND FIRST MEN

The Stunning Feature Debut and Cinematic Swan Song from
Composer Jóhann Jóhannsson
Narrated by Tilda Swinton

Now Playing...

Lots more to see though which will take a considerable time as Oscar knows.

The Indiewire Poll https://www.indiewire.com/gallery/best-movies-of-the-year-2021/



Richard Brody's (New Yorker) favorites (which may make more coherent sense because they are not a poll):...

My other choices - Indiewire Poll

Best Director
Wes Anderson

Best Actress
Kristen Stewart

Best Actor
Will Smith

Important coming end-of-year 2021 releases.

WEST SIDE STORY (Spielberg) is out in the UK and Peter Bradshaw's review in the GUARDIAN is a rave.

Chris Knipp's 2021 Best Movie Lists
Films for a not-yet-final annual movie best list for 2021:
Favorite features and documentaries of the Year among those that I have seen so far. Some are films I...