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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Experiment Awards: Best of 2014
There are a lot of movie all over the world, some left in distribution limbo, some others left unsubtitled, so this is my attempt at making some sort of comprehensive list of what I thought was great… with some surprises, like last year.
#DoubleFeature: My Kid Has Disappeared
Anurag Kashyap’s Ugly Tetsuya Nakashima’s The World of Kanako (渇き。)
YAM’s Top Films of 2014
Tusks were out, discussions on distribution dates were put on the table, and some hard lobbying was done to put our favorites forward to battle it out. As a result, though local movie distribution is still king, we have some very awesome titles sprinkled here and there for everyone’s taste.
Oyaji no Senaka
Oyaji no Senaka is a 10-episode series anthology focusing on fathers’ relationships with their children and families, written and directed by ten different teams of creatives and featuring ten different sets of actors.
YAM’s Most Anticipated Films of 2014
We took a little longer to get together and talk about the movies we wanted to watch this 2014… but here they are in all their glory. Over 60 films were in contention, but only 15 got the most votes.
Tetsuya Nakashima’s The World of Kanako Trailer
Lo and behold. ‘Tis a thing of beauty. The first trailer to Tetsuya Nakashima’s adaptation of Akio Fukamachi’s novel.
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.
Hara-Kiri: Death of a Samurai
A masterless samurai stricken by poverty requests to commit Seppuku, but before he does the deed, he’s told the story of a young samurai who came for the same reason and ended up slashing his stomach for his misdeed.
