Sunday, 3 January 2021

SIGHT & SOUND Best Films of 2020

 

  1. Small Axe: Lovers Rock — Steve McQueen
  1. Time — Garrett Bradley
  1. First Cow — Kelly Reichardt
  1. I'm Thinking of Ending Things — Charlie Kaufman
  1. Saint Maud — Rose Glass
  1. Dick Johnson Is Dead — Kirsten Johnson
  1. Never Rarely Sometimes Always — Eliza Hittman
  1. Nomadland — Chloé Zhao
  1. Rocks — Sarah Gavron
  1. Days — Tsai Ming-liang
  1. Bloody Nose, Empty Pockets — Bill Ross IV and Turner Ross
  1. Da 5 Bloods — Spike Lee
  1. Small Axe: Mangrove — Steve McQueen
  1. The Assistant — Kitty Green
  1. Shirley — Josephine Decker
  1. David Byrne's American Utopia — Spike Lee
  1. Bacurau — Kleber Mendonça Filho and Juliano Dornelles
  1. The Woman Who Ran — Hong Sang-soo
  1. Wolfwalkers — Tomm Moore and Ross Stewart
  1. Kajillionaire — Miranda July
  1. The Year of the Discovery — Luis López Carrasco
  1. Possessor — Brandon Cronenberg
  1. The Inheritance — Ephraim Asili
  1. Undine — Christian Petzold
  1. Babyteeth — Shannon Murphy
  1. The Disciple — Chaitanya Tamhane
  1. His House — Remi Weekes
  1. Les Misérables — Ladj Ly
  1. Little Women — Greta Gerwig
  1. Martin Eden — Pietro Marcello
  1. Ema — Pablo Larraín
  1. Host — Rob Savage
  1. Limbo — Ben Sharrock
  1. Mank — David Fincher
  1. Mogul Mowgli — Bassam Tariq
  1. Relic — Natalie Erika James
  1. She Dies Tomorrow — Amy Seimetz
  1. Tenet — Christopher Nolan
  1. The 40-Year-Old Version — Radha Blank
  1. The Personal History of David Copperfield — Armando Iannucci
  1. About Endlessness — Roy Andersson
  1. Another Round — Thomas Vinterberg
  1. Birds of Prey — Cathy Yan
  1. Borat Subsequent Moviefilm — Jason Woliner
  1. Clemency — Chinonye Chukwu
  1. Collective — Alexander Nanau
  1. Richard Jewell — Clint Eastwood
  1. The Invisible Man — Leigh Whannell
  1. The Truth — Hirokazu Kore-eda
  1. The Vast of Night — Andrew Patterson
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Thursday, 31 December 2020

Films watched in 2020

Films watched in 2020

Downloads & streaming:

The Keepers - season 1 (Netflix documentary series) 9/10

Tell Me Who I Am (Netflix) 9/10

The Staircase (Netflix documentary series) 8.5/10 

Don't F**k With Cats (Netflix documentary series) 8.5/10 

Tiger King (Netflix documentary series) 8.5/10  

Finding Vivian Maier (Amazon) 8.5/10 

Three Identical Strangers (Netflix) 8.5/10

Flint Town (Netflix documentary series) 8.5/10

Killer Inside: The Mind of Aaron Hernandez (Netflix) 8.5/10

Better Call Saul - Season One (Netflix) 8.5/10 

Better Call Saul - Season Two (Netflix) 8.5/10 

Better Call Saul - Season Three (Netflix) 8.5/10

Better Call Saul - Season Four (Netflix) 8.5/10 

Better Call Saul - Season Five (Netflix) 8.5/10 

Breaking Bad - Season One (Netflix) 8.5/10

Breaking Bad - Season Two (Netflix) 8.5/10

Breaking Bad - Season Three (Netflix) 8.5/10

Breaking Bad - Season Four (Netflix) 8.5/10 

Breaking Bad - Season Five (Netflix) 8.5/10

The Salt of the Earth - Wim Wenders (Mubi) 8.5/10

King Rat - Bryan Forbes (Amazon) 8.5/10

Wild Wild Country (Netflix documentary series) 8.5/10

Sunset Boulevard - Billy Wilder (Amazon) 8.5/10

Stories We Tell (Mubi) 8.5/10

Icarus (Netflix) 8.5/10

Diego Maradona (Amazon rental) 8/10

Dirty Dancing (Amazon) 8/10

Ferris Bueller’s Day Off (Netflix) 8/10

Nurse Jackie – season four (Amazon) 8/10

Nurse Jackie – season five (Amazon) 8/10

Nurse Jackie – season six (Amazon) 8/10

Nurse Jackie – season seven (Amazon) 8.5/10

Fahrenheit 11/9 (Netflix) 8/10

American Murder The Family Next Door (Netflix) 8/10

Voyeur (Netflix) 8/10
November 13: Attack on Paris (Netflix) 8/10
Portrait of a Lady on Fire (Mubi) 8/10

Five Easy Pieces (Amazon) 8/10

The Untouchables (Amazon) 8/10 

Bacurau (Mubi) 8/10  

Grey Gardens 2009 (Amazon) 8.0/10

A Streetcar Named Desire - Elia Kazan (Amazon rental) 8/10

Les Dames Du Boise De Boulogne - Robert Bresson (Amazon rental) 8/10
Gloria - John Cassavetes (Amazon) 8/10
Man with a Movie Camera - 1929 (Amazon) 8/10
The Last Detail (Amazon) 8/10
The Friends Of Eddie Coyle (Amazon) 8/10

The Kiosk (Mubi) 8/10

Michael Palin: Travels Of A Lifetime series (BBC I-player) 8/10

The Apartment (Amazon) 8/10

Lemmy (Netflix) 8/10

Bikram – Yogi – Guru – Predator (Netflix) 8/10
The Human Condition Part 1: No Greater Love (Amazon) 8/10
I Vitelloni - Fellini (Mubi) 8/10
The Sunshine Hotel (Amazon) 8/10
Struggle: The Life and Lost Art of Szukalski (Netflix) 8/10
After Life - series 2 (Netflix) 8/10
Long Weekend (Amazon) 8/10

The Big Clock (Amazon rental) 8/10

Strangers on a Train – Hitchcock (Amazon rental) 8/10
The Big Sleep (Amazon rental) 8/10
The Big Heat (Amazon) 8/10

Under The Volcano (Amazon) 8/10
Olla - short (Mubi) 8/10
Meshes of the Afternoon - short (Mubi) 8/10
Trust - Hal Hartley (Amazon rental) 8/10

This Country series two (BBC I-player) 8/10

Black Books series two x 2 (Netflix) 8/10

Black Books series three (Netflix) 8/10

Black Books series one x 2 (Netflix) 7.5/10

This Country series three (BBC I-player) 7.5/10

The Wayward Girl (Edith Calmar) (Mubi) 7.5/10

The Pharmacist (Netflix) 7.5/10

The Social Dilemma (Netflix) 7.5/10
The Booksellers (Amazon) 7.5/10

The Collector – Turkish documentary (Mubi) 7.5/10
The Stranger (Netflix) 7.5/10
Da 5 Bloods (Netflix) Spike Lee 7.5/10
Selma (Mubi) 7.5/10
The Innocent Man (Netflix) 7.5/10
The Hitch-Hiker 1953 (Mubi) 7.5/10

Moonrise Kingdom (Amazon rental) 7.5/10
Jeffrey Epstein: Filthy Rich (Netflix) 7.5/10
Pharos of Chaos (Mubi) 7.5/10
Spring Night, Summer Night (Mubi) 7.5/10
Uncut Gems (Netflix) 7.5/10
La Bete Humaine - Renoir (Mubi) 7.5/10
Our Town 1956 (Mubi) 7.5/10
This Country series one (BBC I-player) 7.5/10
Fear City:  New York Vs The Mafia (Netflix) 7.5/10
Fyre: The Greatest Party That Never Happened (Netflix documentary) 7.5/10
The Two Killings of Sam Cooke (Netflix documentary) 7.5/10
Trump: An American Dream (Netflix documentary) 7.5/10

Jim & Andy (Netflix documentary) 7.5/10
The Limits Of Control - Jim Jarmusch (Amazon Prime) 7.5/10

Four Horsemen (YouTube) 7.5/10

Get Me Roger Stone (Netflix) 7.5/10

Mank (Netflix) David Fincher 7/10

El Camino (Netflix) 7/10

Wits in Felixstowe (Amazon Prime) 7/10

John Was Trying To Contact Aliens (Netflix short documentary) 7/10

Panic in the Streets (Amazon) 7/10 

Second City Firsts: Early to Bed – Alan Bleasdale (Amazon) 7/10 

Henry Fool - Hal Hartley (Amazon) 7/10  

Amateur - Hal Hartley (Amazon) 7/10  

Our Man in Havana (Amazon) 7/10

At the Mouth of Madness (Amazon) 7/10  

The Dead Don't Die (Amazon) 7/10  

Coffee and Cigarettes (Mubi) 7/10 

The Great Hack (Netflix) 7/10  

Beat the Devil (Amazon) 7/10

De Palma (Mubi) 7/10  

The Limey (Amazon) 6/10 

Woman in Chains (Mubi) 6/10  

Alphaville (Mubi) 6/10 

Eva (Mubi) 6/10

Vivarium (Amazon rental) 6/10  

Color Out of Space 5.5/10  

 



Blu Ray:

Bait (Mark Jenkin) 9/10
The Shop on the High Street (Ján Kadár, Elmar Klos) 9/10
Nights of Cabiria (Federico Fellini) 9/10
Joker (Todd Phillips) 9/10

Don't Look Now (Nicolas Roeg) 9/10

The French Connection (William Friedkin) – original colour timing version 9/10

Touch of Evil (Orson Welles) – 1998 restoration (1.85:1 version) 9/10

Das Boot – original 6-part series (Wolfgang Petersen) 8.5/10

The World at War – original series (Lawrence Oliver narrated episodes only) 8.5/10

Séance On A Wet Afternoon (Bryan Forbes) 8.5/10
The Cremator (Juraj Herz) 8.5/10
The Ear (Ucho) Karel Kachyna 8.5/10
Fargo - Season One 8.5/10
Road (Alan Clarke) 8.5/10
My Life As A Dog (Lasse Hallström) 8.5/10
The Lighthouse (Robert Eggers) 8.5/10
Parasite (Bong Joon Ho) 8.5/10
Onibaba (Kaneto Shindô) 8.5/10
The Cranes are Flying (Mikhail Kalatozov) 8.5/10

The Man Who Laughs 8.5/10
Wake in Fright (Ted Kotcheff) 8.5/10
Kiss Me Deadly (Robert Aldrich) 8.5/10

On Dangerous Ground (Nicholas Ray) 8.5/10

Sweet Smell of Success (Alexander Mackendrick) 8.5/10

Apollo 11 8.5/10

Odd Man Out (Carol Reed) 8.5/10

Three Outlaw Samurai (Hideo Gosha) 8.5/10
The Sword of Doom (Kihachi Okamoto) 8.5/10
Grey Gardens (1975) 8.5/10

Mouchette (Robert Bresson) 8.5/10

Nurse Jackie – season one 8.5/10

Nurse Jackie – season two 8.5/10

Nurse Jackie – season three 8.5/10

Fail Safe (Sidney Lumet) 8.5/10

Ace in the Hole (Billy Wilder) 8.5/10

Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind (Michel Gondry) 8.5/10

Being John Malcovich (Spike Jonze) 8/10

Closely Observed Trains (Jirí Menzel) 8/10

Lord of the Flies 8/10

Girlfriends (Claudia Weill) 8/10

The Killers (Robert Siodmak) 8/10

My Ain Folk (Bill Douglas) 8/10

My Childhood (Bill Douglas) 8/10

My Way Home (Bill Douglas) 8/10

Bunny Lake is Missing (Otto Preminger) 8/10

The Painted Bird 8/10
Still Walking (Hirokazu Koreeda) 8/10

Smithereens (Susan Seidelman) 8/10

Le Bonheur (Agnes Varda) 8/10
Jabberwocky (Terry Gilliam) 8/10

12 Monkeys (Terry Gilliam) 8/10

Jacob’s Ladder  8/10

The Snake Bit (Anatole Litvak) 8/10
Il Grido (Michelangelo Antonioni) 8/10

Under The Tree (Hafsteinn Gunnar Sigurðsson) 8/10

Sanjuro (Akira Kurosawa) 8/10

The Burmese Harp (Kon Ichikawa) 8/10
Angel Heart (Alan Parker) 8/10

The Manchurian Candidate (John Frankenheimer) 8/10
A Face in the Crowd (Elia Kazan) 8/10
The Hallelujah Handshake 8/10

F For Fake (Orson Welles) 8/10
Le Quai Des Brumes (Marcel Carné) 8/10
Distant Journey (Alfréd Radok) 8/10
Night Tide (Curtis Harrington) 8/10

Nightfall (Jacques Tourneur) 8/10
The Firm (Alan Clarke) 8/10
A Follower for Emily (Alan Clarke) 8/10
The Quiet Earth 8/10
Monos 8/10
Double Indemnity (Billy Wilder) 8/10
They Live By Night (Nicholas Ray) 8/10

This Gun For Hire (Frank Tuttle) 8/10

Ministry of Fear (Fritz Lang) 8/10
ItalianAmerican (Martin Scorsese documentary) 8/10
Hotel Du Nord (Marcel Carné) 8/10
The Music Room (Satyajit Ray) 8/10

Rebel Without A Cause (Nicholas Ray) 7.5/10
Tetro (Francis Ford Coppola) 7.5.10
Rogue Male 7.5/10

Pickup On South Street (Samuel Fuller) 7.5/10

Criss Cross (Robert Siodmak) 7.5/10

Laura (Otto Preminger) 7/10

Gun Crazy (Joseph H. Lewis) 7.5/10

Gilda (Charles Vidor) 7.5/10

Mildred Pierce (Michael Curtiz) 7.5/10

Horace (Alan Clarke) 7.5/10
Funeral Parade of Roses 7.5/10

Human Desire (Fritz Lang) 7.5/10

The Lady of Shanghai (Orson Welles) 7.5/10

The Reckless Moment (Max Ophüls) 7.5/10

The Woman in the Window 7.5/10
The Man Who Knew Too Much - (Alfred Hitchcock 1956 version) 7.5/10
The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith 7.5/10
The Last Movie (Dennis Hopper) 7.5/10
Psy Warriors (Alan Clarke) 7.5/10
To Live And Die in LA (William Friedkin) 7.5/10
In a Lonely Place (Nicholas Ray) 7.5/10

The Big Combo 7.5/10
Detour (Edgar G. Ulmer) 7.5/10
Der müde Tod (Destiny) 7.5/10
Shock Corridor (Sam Fuller) 7.5/10
The Killing (Stanley Kubrick) 7.5/10

The Old Dark House (James Whale) 7/10

Dementia 7/10
Under the Age (Alan Clarke) 7/10

And You Act Like One Too – short (Susan Seidelman) 7/10
American Boy (Martin Scorsese) 7/10
Finally, Sunday (François Truffaut) 7/10

Les 3 Boutons (Agnes Varda) 7/10
The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds (Paul Newman) 7/10 
That Cold Day in the Park 7/10
Silence and Cry (Miklós Jancsó) 7/10
The Beales of Grey Gardens 7/10

The Killers (Don Siegel) 6.5/10

The Strange World Of Gurney Slade 6.5/10
Antoine and Collette (Truffaut) 6.5/10

Why Don't You Just Die 6.5/10
Elephant (Alan Clarke) 6.5/10
Eating Raoul 6.5/10
Christine (Alan Clarke) 6/10
The Naked Kiss (Sam Fuller) 6/10
New World (Hoon-jung Park) 6/10

DVD:

The Singing Detective (Dennis Potter) 10/10

GBH (Alan Bleasdale) 10/10
Boys from the Blackstuff (Alan Bleasdale) 10/10

Connections (James Burke) 9/10

The Kingdom (Lars Von Trier) 8.5/10
Jake's Progress (Alan Bleasdale) 8.5/10
All or Nothing (Mike Leigh) 8.5/10
Robin Redbreast 8/10
Le Signe du Lion (the Sign of Leo) Eric Rohmer 8/10
Something Different (Vera Chytilová) 8/10
The Sun In A Net (Štefan Uher) 8/10
Abigail's Party (Mike Leigh)  8/10
The Party And The Guests (Jan Němec) 8/10
Transport from Paradise (Zbyněk Brynych) 8/10
Meantime (Mike Leigh) 7.5/10
Four Days in July (Mike Leigh) 7.5/10
"Nuts in May" (Mike Leigh) 7.5/10
Divorce Italian Style 7.5/10
Mama Roma (Pier Paolo Pasolini) 7.5/10
Home Sweet Home (Mike Leigh) 7.5/10
A Tale of Springtime (Eric Rohmer) 7.5/10
The Big Flame (Ken Loach) 7.5/10

Thriller – Lady Killer 7.5/10
Romeo, Juliet and Darkness (Jiří Weiss) 7.5/10
The Kiss of Death (Mike Leigh) 7/10
La Boulangere de Monceau (Eric Rohmer) 7/10
A Summer's Tale (Eric Rohmer) 7/10
Hard Labour (Mike Leigh) 7/10
In Two Minds (Ken Loach) 7/10
The End of Arthur's Marriage (Ken Loach)  7/10
A Bagful Of Fleas (Věra Chytilová) 7/10
Grown Ups (Mike Leigh) 7/10

Come Dancing (Bill Douglas) 7/10
3 Clear Sundays (Ken Loach) 7/10
The Permissive Society (Mike Leigh) 6.5/10
Who's Who (Mike Leigh) 6.0/10


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