Top30 Film Discoveries of 2018
This year I bested myself. From the 384 movies that I saw, I’ll make my customary list of favorite films discoveries from year 2014 downward.
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Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen
Over the weekend we had the chance to discover György Pálfi’s Final Cut: Ladies and Gentleman (Final Cut: Hölgyeim és Uraim), which is possibly the most ambitious supercut since the invention of the internet to date.
Top30 Favorite Film Discoveries of 2016
Amy takes a look at the not-so-recent movies she’s watched for the first time in 2016.
Arsaib’s Favorite Films of 2015
‘The human animal differs from the lesser primates in his passion for lists.’ — H. Allen Smith
Chinese Odyssey 2002
Is it possible to write a nonsensical story with a purpose? Jeffrey Lau’s early millennium period comedy -sometimes wuxia sometimes musical- of ‘imprisoned’ Imperial siblings that meet their destined lovers in the outcasts of a tiny village during the Ming dynasty seems to prove it.
Monk Comes Down the Mountain
After a Taoist monk apprentice is thrown out of his temple and left to fend for himself, he meets other masters to discover life through betrayal, vengeance, forgiveness and love.
Hou Hsiao-Hsien’s The Assassin Trailer with English Subtitles
The kidnapped daughter of a general is trained to become an assassin by a Daoist nun, and sent to kill her fated betrothed cousin in this historical action drama.
Experiment Awards: Foreign – Best of the 2000s
Instead of reviewing my favorite films of the past decade (2000-09) for The LAMB’s Foreign Chops: Best of the 2000s, I wanted to list them all.
