Tough cookie, lost count of how many films I've seen. Over 200, less than 300 ? I started to put them on Letterboxed starting late October but still didn't catch up with the rest.
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Top of the series is here and films from 2024 are again a problem, The Brutalist and The Substance should've make the 2025 list, as there still are some of 2025 which I haven't seen yet (Hamnet, Resurrection, Sound of Falling ?).
Just caught up with Park Chan-Wook's No Other Choice that makes the list. It's limited in Romanian Cinemas now, so try to see it on the big screen, it's worthy.
Kinda disappointed with Romanian Cinema this year too. I liked Kontinental '25 and that's it. Could 've been also Jude's Dracula but he made it such an intentional mess and duration wise a whole calvary...
But disappointments of the year: the new Running Man by Edgar Wright. And the last Mission: Impossible. Hopefully...Oy...
Top 5 -alphabetically:
all that's clickable as links are my "reviews"
O agente secreto-Kleber Mendonça Filho
Almost Famous ;) -also alphabetically:
Ballad of a Small Player -Edward Berger
Bugonia -Yorgos Lanthimos
Frankenstein -Guillermo del Toro
In the Hand of Dante -Julian Schnabel
Nouvelle Vague -Richard Linklater
The Materialist -Kelly Reichardt
Tornado - John McLean
Train Dreams- Clint Bentley
Warfare -Alex Garland & Ray Mendoza
Nicolas Cage Award of the Year: The Surfer (d. by Lorcan Finnegan) 2024 ! Horror:
28 years Later-Danny Boyle
Good Boy- Ben Leonberg
Dangerous Animals -Sean Byrne
Keeper -Osgood Perkins
Comedy:
even weaker as it is, still good fun !!!
Bunny -Ben Jacobsen
an indie, punkish NY film in the best way, kinetic, quirky, funny, dark comedy, punkimprovised, irreverent. Cool punk songs too.
Documentary:
Soundtrack for a coup d'etat -2024-Johan Grimonprez
the doors -When You're Strange- - Tom DiCillo, from 2009 but remastered in Cinema limited
pink floyd at pompei -1972. Adrian Mabel, remastered in Cinema limited
Devo -2024, Chris Smith -netflix
Sly Lives! (aka the Burden of Black Genius) 2025/ Questlove -netflix
Catch-Up -Four Aces:
The Childhood of a Leader -2015 Brady Corbet
Finalmente l'alba - Saverio Costanzo -2023, on which I wrote:
Rome and Cinecitta 1953. More like a drreamlike story, a false thriller, homage to Fellini and La Dolce Vita, Notti di Cabiria, and linked to a real muder cold case known as the Italian Black Dahlia. Interesting slow film, in the Venice Competition in 2023. Modern beat score, strange and eerie. Song Last Nite by The Stokes (2011) on the end credits.
3 1/2 out of 5
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