It's almost the middle of the year, and we want to check in with
your favourite films of the year so far.
So after some careful consideration, we here at Dazed have come up with a countdown of
our favourite films of the year.
My favourite film of the year thus far (that I've seen, of course).
Bursting onto the scene at the Cannes Film Festival where it was greeted with a 15 - minute standing ovation (and the Best Director Award for Refn), the film — which co-stars Carey Mulligan, Bryan Cranston, Christina Hendricks, Ron Perlman and Albert Brooks — has since went on to rack up the accolades and just manages to pip Attack the Block as
our favourite film of the year by the narrowest of margins.
I have to say that I am probably firmly in between those who are praising UPSTREAM COLOR as one of
their favourite films of the year and those who couldn't really care less.
It seems that we are currently enjoying a golden age of animation, and it's significant that
my favourite film of the year, Pixar's Inside Out, is one of three animated features to make my top 10.
Joing them in the hunt for Best European Film are «The Class» and «Happy - Go - Lucky,» which makes four of
my favourite films of the year in the list.
His favourite film of the year thus far, Richard Linklater's Boyhood should be put on your radar.
Anne Brodie: 45 Years is one of
my favourite films of the year but I fear it will be overlooked in awards season by strong films like The Revenant, Joy and Hateful Eight.
Last December saw the release of one of the most anticipated and fan
favourite films of the year, as Star Wars returned to our screens in the form of Episode VII: The Force Awakens.
Not exact matches
This coming Tuesday sees Channel 4 broadcast the first episode
of THIS IS ENGLAND ’86 and I'm very excited, not just because I'm a huge fan
of Shane Meadows, but because I remember that
year so clearly... It was the
year of Halleys Comet, Short Circuit, Ferris Bueller, The World Cup, Transformers, Mike Tyson and one
of my all time
favourite films «The Money Pit»
A
film that I considered my all - time
favourite for
years (which may be a little out - dated now) it has the stunning, British - representing main cast
of Zeta - Jones and Connery.
Popular 3D titles from 20th Century Fox include Avatar and Prometheus and with older titles such as iRobot now re-mastered for 3D Blu - ray release it looks like we will be viewing more and more
of our
favourite 3D
films at home this
year.
Liam Hemsworth was thrilled to be cast in the 20 -
years - later sequel Independence Day: Resurgence, since the 1996 original
film was one
of his childhood
favourites.
One
of our
favourite movies
of the latter part
of this
year in the upcoming The Disaster Artist, James Franco's feature that looks into the making
of the cult
film The Room, one that is heralded as being the Citizen Kane
of bad movies.
Ive been impressed with the quality
of films we've had this
year and I've still to catch up with some but, so far, this is my
favourite.
In the last few
years,
films made by first - timers with tiny budgets have tended to dominate, together with worthy documentaries examining social problems and global warming, the latter one
of Redford's
favourite hobby horses.
Very exciting, it's been 8
years since Primer (a science - fiction
favourite in these parts), and while the writer / director's screenplay for «A Topiary» never got made into a
film, he whipped out this surprise to many earlier this week by way
of the festival announcement and a very shiny bit
of key art which confirms that Carruth will star in the
film along with Amy Seimetz (A Horrible Way To Die).
MUBI is heading to Cannes once again this
year, with the world's biggest
film festival taking over the subscription service to offer a collection
of Croisette
favourites.
Definitely one
of my
favourite films so far this
year, and sufficiently enjoyable to go out and buy the book straight away.
One
of my
favourite films on the festival circuit last
year, from Sundance to Toronto After Dark, was the debut feature from Polish director Agnieszka Smoczynska.
Old
favourites that still delighted and enthralled included Blake Edwards» Victor / Victoria, Woody Allen's Love and Death, Michael Apted's Coalminer's Daughter and Steve Barron's Electric Dreams, a
film that now seems 20
years ahead
of its time.
The part at the credits was one
of my
favourites moments in
film this
year.
A beautifully made
film, one
of my
favourites this
year
Joe has two
films coming out later this
year — Mary Queen
of Scot and The
Favourite, both period pieces, and both to be released in time for award season.
(In my
favourite gag in the
film, because I'm intellectually twelve
years old, Harry's meth - eating cat Butthole — so named because he has a butthole, duh — flatulates a big gust
of feathers.)
The terror began as anticipation, thanks to the fact that Ken Lonergan's Margaret is one
of my
favourite films of all time, a drama with few peers that hit a high note on first impression and sustained it for six
years.
Carol was one
of my
favourite films last
year — personally I'd have had it down for 4 or 5 Oscars at least... I think it was streets ahead
of most
of the nominees in the categories it did get nominated for and streets ahead in those which, bizarrely, it didn't get nominated for.
While catching up on all the
films makes us root for our
favourites during the ceremony, it is the charm
of the Oscars that draws us to the coveted award ceremony every
year.
In the interest
of serving this magnificent and hugely rewarding
film, without question my
favourite of the
year, if you've got an inkling to see it — do it without reading this.
As well as their top ten
films of the
year, the NBR also name their
favourite documentaries, foreign and indie
films, including most
of the usual suspects aside from CAPTAIN PHILLIPS.
Every
year the IFI staff vote for their
favourite films of the past
year and the top ten form the shortlist for the IFI Audience Choice slot on IFI Open Day.
As far as snubs go, I was disappointed to see that my personal
favourite of the
year, Armando Iannucci's The Death
of Stalin, was not on the best
film list as well as best British
film.
Click the link below to continue on for those
films which just missed our on a place in the top ten, how our top ten would have looked had we gone with UK release date, and our writers» individual
favourites of the
year...
Britain fared better, with my
favourite sci - fi horror
film in a long time, Glazer's Under the Skin, and my
favourite entertainment
film of the
year, the conventional, but charming Pride, while the flawed Mr. Turner impressively reflects the great painter's sun worship through Dick Pope's widescreen cinematography.Highlights
of my
year included being on the FIPRESCI jury at the Hong Kong IFF, where I admired Yang Hen's third feature, Na pian hu shui (Lake August), and a couple
of first features among others, as well as attending the amazing HK
film market for the first time, where I saw one
of my three 2014 «
films for the ages», Tsai's Journey to the West; and seeing a nitrate print
of Hitchcock's Rebecca at the George Eastman House in Rochester (where they are doing a three - day all - nitrate festival in May, 2015!).
For the majority
of the
film we're stuck with him — in fact, it's almost always a headshot — and it's an extraordinary performance, akin to that
of Ryan Reynolds» in Buried (my
favourite film of last
year.)
I loved Evil Dead, probably my
favourite horror
film of the
year (just ahead
of The Conjuring).
Not unlike my
favourite film of last
year, The Clouds
of Sils Maria (Olivier Assayas, 2014), at its core Tangerine is a
film about two women supporting one another within a profession that objectifies and exploits them.
One
of my
favourite things to happen in the cinema this
year may not have even been a
film itself, but, as the aspect ratios
of «moving image art works» are stretched, until they seem boundless, what does it matter any more?
I think The Neon Demon has a 56 % rating on RT and that was easily my
favourite film of last
year, and after five times I still can't stop watching it.
The master storyteller was beaten to both the 1983 Best Director and Best Picture prize by Richard Attenborough's Gandhi, but it was a very strong
year of double - header noms - Sydney Pollack for Tootsie (one
of my all - time
favourite films) and Sidney Lumet (The Verdict) were also in the running - while Wolfgang Petersen (for Das Boot) and Costa Gavras's Missing (Best Picture) were in the mix too.
The Visitor is a fantastic
film, another one
of my
favourites last
year.
Too bad, it's a very, very solid
film, one
of my
favourites of the
year so far.
This is my sixth feature
film shot in Scotland and autumn is my
favourite time
of year to shoot so I am excited to bring this
film to light in the beautiful Scottish elements — come rain, shine, storm or snow.
A David Lynch classic and Pedro Almodóvar's
favourite film are among the highlights
of this
year's programme.
I've not managed to catch this yet but I reckon it's the only
film left that could possibly be my
favourite of year.
are two
of this
year's most celebrated
films — and two
of The Seventh Row's
favourites.
Taika Waititi writes, directs and stars in my
favourite of the
films I saw at this
year's MIFF.
If it were up to me, however, I'd vote for Greta Gerwig's coming -
of - age gem Lady Bird, my
favourite film of the past
year.
Looking back on my 2017 list
of 10
films I was most anticipating for the 12 months ahead, I note that just two
of them, Dunkirk and Blade Runner 2049, made it to my Top 10 list
of favourites at
year's end.