Tops films 2015

[granit]

Uncut (UK)

01. Inherent vice
02. The Duke of Burgundy
03. Love & Mercy
04. Carol
05. Mad Max
06. Birdman
07. While we're young
08. Wild tales
09. Beasts of No Nation
10. Timbuktu
11. Inside out ( Vice Versa)
12. Sicario
13. A girl walks home alone at night
14. Whiplash
15. Ex-Machina
16. Foxcatcher
17. The Lobster
18. It follows
19. Mistress America
20. Cartel land

[granit]

Sight & Sound (UK)

01. The Assassin
02. Carol
03. Mad Max Fury Road
04. Arabian Nights
05. Cemetery of Splendour
06. No Home Movie
07. 45 Years
08. Son of Saul
=9. Amy
=9. Inherent Vice
=11. Anomalisa
=11. It Follows
13. Phoenix
=14. Girlhood
=14. Hard to Be a God
=14. Inside Out
=14. Tangerine
=14. Taxi Tehran
=19. Horse Money
=19. The Look of Silence

[granit]

Cahiers du Cinéma (Fr)

01. Mia Madre (Nanni Moretti)
02. Cemetery of Splendour (Apichatpong Weerasethakul)
03. A l'ombre des femmes (Philippe Garrel)
04. The Smell of Us (Larry Clark)
05. Mad Max: Fury Road (George Miller)
06. Jauja (Lisandro Alonso)
07. Inherent Vice (Paul Thomas Anderson)
08. Les Mille et une Nuits (Miguel Gomes)
09. Summer (Alante Kavaite)
10. Vers l'autre rive (Kiyoshi Kurosawa)

[granit]

Empire (UK)

20. Jurassic World
19. Song Of The Sea
18. Inherent Vice
17. Brooklyn
16. Macbeth
15. Avengers: Age Of Ultron
14. White God
13. Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation
12. Me And Earl And The Dying Girl
11. Birdman
10. A Most Violent Year
09. Carol
08. It Follows
07. The Martian
06. Steve Jobs
05. Sicario
04. Ex Machina
03. Inside Out
02. Whiplash
01. Mad Max: Fury Road

[granit]

Premiere (Fr)
10 – The Walk, rêver plus haut de Robert Zemeckis
09 – Belles familles de Jean-Paul Rappeneau
08 – Hacker de Michael Mann
07 – Les Nouveaux sauvages de Damian Szifron
06 – Birdman d’Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
05 – Inherent Vice de Paul Thomas Anderson
04 – It Follows de David Robert Mitchell
03 – Vice Versa de Pete Docter et Ronnie Del Carmen
02 – Sicario de Denis Villeneuve
01 – Mad Max Fury Road de George Miller

[granit]

The Skinny (UK)

01. Inherent Vice
02. 45 Years
03. Mad Max: Fury Road
04. It Follows
05. Carol
06. Whiplash
07. Inside Out
08. The Duke of Burgundy
09. The Lobster
10. Eden
11. The Look of Silence
12. A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence
13. Birdman
14. Magic Mike XXL
15. Ex Machina
16. While We’re Young
17. Macbeth
18. Girlhood
19. Listen Up Philip
20. Sicario

[antonius]

Focus Knack (BE)

http://focus.knack.be/entertainment/fil ... 34455.html

1. SON OF SAUL - László Nemes
2. A PIGEON SAT ON A BRANCH REFLECTING ON EXISTENCE - Roy Andersson
3. CEMETERY OF SPLENDOUR - Apichatpong Weerasethakul
4. INHERENT VICE - Paul Thomas Anderson
5. FOXCATCHER - Bennett Miller
6. A MOST VIOLENT YEAR - J.C. Chandor
7. NO HOME MOVIE - Chantal Akerman
8. BIRDMAN - Alejandro González Iñárritu
9. THE LOOK OF SILENCE - Joshua Oppenheimer
10. MAD MAX: FURY ROAD - George Miller

[Jirin]

I saw way too few films this year. But the only one that stood out was Mad Max. The other ones I saw in the theater were The Martian and Star Wars, both of which were just good.

[antonius]

The 405

http://www.thefourohfive.com/film/artic ... f-2015-143

No order

A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night
Goodnight Mommy
Kingsman: The Secret Service
The Martian
Selma
The Gift
Catch Me Daddy
Mad Max: Fury Road
Ex Machina
Whiplash

[antonius]

KUT site (Belgian independent film site,

http://www.kutsite.com/artikel/dit-was-2015/page/0/1

10. The Duke of Burgundy
9. Mad Max: Fury Road
8. Slow West
7. Inside Out
6. Turist
5. The Lobster
4. Whiplash
3. A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence
2. Son of Saul
1. Birdman

[antonius]

National Society of Film Critics (US)

http://nationalsocietyoffilmcritics.com/

ENGLISH LANGUAGE
1. Spotlight (Tom McCarthy)
2. Carol (Todd Haynes)
3. Mad Max: Fury Road (George Miller)

FOREIGN LANGUAGE
1. Timbuktu (Abderrahmane Sissako)
2. Phoenix (Christian Petzold)
3. The Assassin (Hou Hsiao-hsien)

[Maschine_Man]

I saw The Hateful Eight on 70mm the other day. Possibly the most amazing Cinema experience I have ever had. Obviously excluding the time I saw The Tuxedo and was the only person in the theater.

Edit: Just realised this is not at all the appropriate thread.

[Jirin]

I saw way too few films this year. My running has replaced a lot of the time I used to go see films and I've less and less wanted to sit still for two hours. Of the ones I did see.

Great movies:

1. Mad Max
One of the best action films I've ever seen.

2. Anamolisa
Really cool Charlie Kaufman film, cleverly using stop motion to tell a parable about depression.

Good films:

3. The Martian
Well executed film but leans way too much on the sentimental.

4. Star Wars 7
Neither exceeded nor fell short of expectations. Introduced great new characters but way too close to the story of the original. Could have used more original ideas.

5. H8ful Eight
The more I think about it and read about it the more I appreciate it. Especially after I read an article about the idea that the film was shaming the audience for liking Django Unchained, dispelling the myths Django perpetuated. It just didn't get me much invested in the characters.

Okay:

6. Avengers 2

Entertaining at points, lots of amusing moments. All around decent film.

So many films I need to catch up on, especially the ones that got a shorter play in the US. The Assassin, Carol, Inherent Vice, pretty much all the rest of the Sight & Sound top 10.

[Jirin]

Just got back from seeing Hail Caesar. It was pretty weak. I'm a huge fan of the Coen's, but this had ads making it look like one of their fun movies like O Brother Where Art Thou, it was trying to be Barton Fink, and ended up being an inconsistent mishmash of themes vaguely satirical of the mechanisms of Hollywood. Almost like the film was dressing up a way for writers to complain about the size of their cut.