Jan 5, 2015

There's still quite a few films I'll be catching up on, but here's my best of 2014 at the moment. These are based on US release dates so The Look of Silence and Jauja will count for next year for me. Overall, I saw 75 2014 movies (Not quite as good as @FilmAndWhisky but not bad).

Best Films
1. Under the Skin
2. Boyhood
3. Winter Sleep
4. The Immigrant
5. Force Majeure
6. The Tale of Princess Kaguya
7. Listen Up Philip
8. Two Days, One Night
9. Inherent Vice
10.Calvary

Honorable Mention: Ida, The Grand Budapest Hotel, Starred Up, We Are the Best!, Goodbye to Language, Selma, The Guest, Birdman, Stranger by the Lake, CitizenFour

Best Actor
1. Ralph Fiennes, The Grand Budapest Hotel
2. Jack O' Connell, Starred Up
3. Brendan Gleeson, Calvary
4. David Oyelowo, Selma
5. Tom Hardy, Locke

Best Actress
1. Scarlett Johansson, Under the Skin
2. Marion Cotillard, Two Days, One Night
3. Marion Cotillard, The Immigrant
4. Essie Davis, The Babadook
5. Rosamund Pike, Gone Girl

Best Supporting Actor
1. Ethan Hawke, Boyhood
2. Mark Ruffalo, Foxcatcher
3. Jonathan Pryce, Listen Up Philip
4. Ben Mendelsohn, Starred Up
5. Josh Brolin, Inherent Vice

Best Supporting Actress
1. Elizabeth Moss, Listen Up Philip
2. Patricia Arquette, Boyhood
3. Rose Byrne, Neighbors
4. Agata Kulesza, Ida
5. Jessica Chastain, A Most Violent Year

Best Director: Jonathan Glazer, Under the Skin Runner-Up: Richard Linklater, Boyhood

Best Cinematography: Darius Khondji, The Immigrant, Runner-Up: Emmanuel Lubezki, Birdman

Best Score: Mica Levi, Under the Skin Runner Up: Steve Moore, The Guest

Best Screenplay: Alex Ross Perry, Listen Up Philip, Runner-Up: John Michael McDonagh, Calvary

Some key films I haven't seen yet: Mommy, Maps to the Stars, Strange Little Cat, Maidan, The Theory of Everything, The Imitation Game, Wild, Still Alice, Dear White People, Actress, American Sniper

 

Jan 16, 2015

Okay, a little late, but at least it is here!

My top 25 of 2014: https://aestheticsofthemind.wordpress.com/2015/01/16/kamran-ahmeds-top-25-films-of-2014/

 

Feb 23, 2015

1. Mommy (Xavier Dolan)
2. The Immigrant (James Gray)
3. Inherent Vice (Paul Thomas Anderson)
4. Norte, the End of History (Lav Diaz)
5. Boyhood (Richard Linklater)
6. Timbuktu (Abderrahmane Sissako)
7. Stray Dogs (Tsai Ming-liang)
8. Jauja (Lisandro Alonso)
9. Atlas (Antoine d'Agata)
10. Leviathan (Andrei Zvyagintsev)
11. Under the Skin (Jonathan Glazer)
12. Maps to the Stars (David Cronenberg)
13. Listen Up Philip (Alex Ross Perry)
14. Only Lovers Left Alive (Jim Jarmusch)
15. Black Coal, Thin Ice (Diao Yi'nan)
16. Winter Sleep (Nuri Bilge Ceylan)
17. Closed Curtain (Jafar Panahi & Kambuzia Partovi)
18. The Grand Budapest Hotel (Wes Anderson)
19. Force Majeure (Ruben Ostlund)
20. Goodbye to Language 3D (Jean-Luc Godard)

 

Dec 1, 2014

Top 20. Have seen like 19 more but I'm too lazy to list them.

1.) Boyhood
2.) The Grand Budapest Hotel
3.) Under the Skin
4.) Nymphomaniac, Vol. 1
5.) Gone Girl
6.) The Immigrant
7.) Captain America: The Winter Soldier
8.) Edge of Tomorrow
9.) Enemy
10.) Maps to the Stars
11.) Guardians of the Galaxy
12.) The Raid 2
13.) X-Men: Days of Future Past
14.) Blue Ruin
15.) Interstellar
16.) The Babadook
17.) Coherence
18.) Snowpiercer
19.) The Guest
20.) The Double

Best theater experience: Interstellar/Guardians
Best Director: Richard Linklater
Favorite Actor: Ben Affleck
Favorite Actress: Marion Cotillard (honorable mentions - Uma Thurman in Nymphomaniac, Pike in Gone Girl)
Score: The Grand Budapest Hotel
Soundtrack: The Guest
Cinematography: Enemy/Under the Skin

 

Dec 9, 2014

My quick top 5 of 2014 probably looks like this.

1. Under the Skin
2. Blue Ruin / Snow Piercer / The Immigrant (3- way tie)
3. Grand Budapest Hotel
4. The Babadook
5. Boyhood

 

Dec 8, 2014

2014 films I've seen:
1. The Grand Budapest Hotel
2. Under The Skin
3. Gone Girl
4. The Tale of the Princess Kaguya
5. X-Men: Days of Future Past
6. The Immigrant
7. Captain America: The Winter Soldier
8. Godzilla

Still have yet to see Boyhood, Interstellar, or Inherent Vice, which are the big three I know I need to catch up on. I've wanted to see The Babadook but nowhere around me picked it up.