An owl flying into a schoolroom through a lit chimney, in flames, being immediately swatted down by the teacher, and showing up stuffed on the wall in a scene an hour later in TINKER, TAILOR, SOLDIER, SPY (Tomas Alfredson, 2011).Matthew Macfayden spinning in and out of his coats in ANNA KARENINA (Joe Wright, 2012).Oscar Isaac dancing in EX MACHINA (Alex Garland, 2015). Ciarán Hinds giving Helen Mirren the bug eyes right before all the lights in the room dim in their last scene together in THE DEBT (John Madden, 2010).“I’m the captain now.” - Barkhad Abdi in CAPTAIN PHILLIPS (Paul Greengrass, 2013).Ben Kinglsey literally pulling out a chart on an easel to explain the plot in SHUTTER ISLAND (Martin Scorsese, 2010).TOP TEN THINGS I WILL STILL REMEMBER FROM FILMS FROM THIS DECADE WHEN I’VE FORGOTTEN ALL THE GOOD FILMS AND THE NAMES OF MOST OF MY RELATIVES AND MY BRAIN IS ABOUT TO RELEASE DMT ON MY DEATHBED: Twin Peaks: The Return (David Lynch, 2017).Universal Soldier: Day of Reckoning (John Hyams, 2012).Leviathan (Verena Paravel/Lucien Castaing-Taylor, 2012). Ross, 2012) Meek’s Cutoff (Oscilloscope Laboratories) Jason Michelitch: John McEnroe: In the Realm of Perfection (Julien Faraut, 2018) Cold War (Criterion Collection) Shane Pfender: Why Don’t You Play in Hell? (Sion Sono, 2013)īaahubali: The Beginning (S.S. I offer these in no particular order (I am tempted to offer them in truly no order at all and jumble the names together, but I’ll restrain myself, as I have to do with the noodles that slip through my colander the first time). Under the Skin (Jonathan Glazer, 2013) Post Tenebras Lux Jim Hickcox:Īs a horribly inconsistent film viewer who drains such facts as release dates like angel hair through my well-worn colander, I am going to list 10 movies that have inspired me in some way and which I assume came out in the last decade. Post Tenebras Lux (Carlos Reygadas, 2012) The House That Jack Built (Lars Von Trier, 2018) Goodbye to Language (Jean-Luc Godard, 2014)įield Niggas (Khalik Allah, 2015) Under The Skin Frankie Vanaria: Thou Wast Mild and Lovely (Josephine Decker, 2014) The World’s End (Edgar Wright, 2013) Leviathan Danny Moltrasi:Īn Oversimplification of Her Beauty (Terrance Nance, 2012) Springsteen on Broadway (Thom Zimny, 2018) Leviathan (Lucien Castaing-Taylor, Véréna Paravel, 2012) Read Bennett’s interview with Buzzard director Joel Potrykusīuzzard (Oscilloscope Laboratories) Craig Wright:Īudrey the Trainwreck (Frank V. Each has directed more than one film that could’ve found a spot in the list above. Sniadecki, and Apichatpong Weerasethakul. Here’s 11 more directors who deserve a place in any 2010s retrospective: Maren Ade, Khalik Allah, Olivier Assayas, Noah Baumbach, Josephine Decker, Nathaniel Dorsky, Asghar Farhadi, Josh and Benny Safdie, J.P. If this list has a flaw (and that’s a big if) it’s that it totally ignores Martin Scorsese who somehow made this decade the most fruitful of his long and storied career. Manakamana (Stephanie Spray & Pacho Velez, 2013) Read Logan’s guide to “Elevated Horror” in the 2010s Bennett Glace:Įx Libris: The New York Public Library (Frederick Wiseman, 2017)
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