December 12, 2014

Top 10 Films of 2014

1. "Timbuktu" (Abderrahmane Sissako, Mauretania)

2. "Inherent Vice" (Paul Thomas Anderson, USA)

3. "Ida" (Pawel Pawlikowski, Poland)

4. "Wild" (Jean-Marc Vallee, USA)

5. "Leviathan" (Andrey Zvyagintsev, Russia)

6. "Birdman" (Alejandro González Iñárritu, USA)

7. "The Grand Budapest Hotel" (Wes Anderson, USA)

8. "Boyhood" (Richard Linklater, USA)

9. "Finding Vivian Maier" (John Maloof, Charlie Siskel, USA)

10. "American Sniper" (Clint Eastwood, USA)


Other great films:

1987 (Canada)
Bloedlink (Holland)
D'où je viens (Canada)
Force Majeure (Sweden)
Gun Woman (Japan)
Pas son genre (France)
Pride (UK) 
Respire (France)
Saint Laurent (France)
Scarlet Innocence (South Korea)
Tangerines (Estonia)
Wild Tales (Argentina)
Winter Sleep (Turkey)


Top 10 Guilty Pleasures of 2014:

1. "Under The Skin" (Jonathan Glazer, UK)

2. "Adieu au langage" (Jean-Luc Godard, France)

3. "Jack" (Edward Berger, Germany)

4. "L'Homme qu'on aimait trop" (André Téchiné, France)

5. "The Tribe" (Myroslav Slaboshpytskyi, Ukraine)

6. "Free Fall" (György Pálfi, Hungary)

7. "Sex Tape" (Jake Kasdan, Columbia)

8. "Welcome To Me" (Shira Piven, USA)

9. "Diet Of Sex" (Borja Brun, Spain)

10. "Fidelio l'Odyssee d'Alice" (Lucie Borleteau, France)


Short Top 3:

1. "La Table" (Izabel Grondin, Canada)

2. "Mynarski chute mortelle" (Matthew Rankin, Canada)

3. "Wayward" (Kira Richards Hansen, Denmark)


Other great shorts:

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Les Enfants sauvages (Canada)
Esclava (Mexico)
Khan Khanne (Switzerland)
Lactee (Canada)
Naked (France)
Nasza klatwa (Poland)
Petit frère (Canada)
Seagull Eggs (Iran)

Top 3 Music Videos:

1. "Shake It Off" (Mark Romanek, Taylor Swift)

2. "Eleanor Lye" (Allie Avital Tsypin, Young Ejecta)

3. "Anaconda" (Colin Tilley, Nicki Minaj)


Other great music videos:


4. "Ray Donovan: Season 2" (Showtime)





9. "Banshee: Season 2" (Cinemax)




Cartoon Top 3:

1. "Me And My Moulton" (Torill Kove, Norway)

2. "Soif" (Michèle Cournoyer, Canada)

3. "Day 40" (Sol Friedman, Canada)


Other great cartoons:

The Chaperones (Canada)
Dji Death Sails (Moldova)
Jutra (Canada)
A Single Life (Holland)

Top Stand-Up Comedy Show:



Weak films of 2014:

2 temps 3 mouvements (Canada)
3 Histoires d'Indiens (Canada)
Afflicted (Canada)
Aimer boire et chanter (France)
Altman (Canada)
Arwad (Canada)
Bande de filles (France)
Bang Bang Baby (Canada)
Eastern Boys (France)
Unbroken
Uvanga (Canada)
Virunga
X-Men: Days Of Future Past
Yves Saint Laurent (France)

Weak shorts:

Aya (Israel)
Boogaloo And Graham (UK)
Butter Lamp (China)
La Coupe (Canada)
Hole (Canada)
Island Of Lemurs: Madagascar
Joanna (Poland)
La Parka The Reaper (Mexico)
Parvaneh (Switzerland)
The Phone Call (UK)
Sleeping Giant (Canada)
Suivre la piste du renard (Canada)

Weak TV shows:

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Top Musical of 2014

"Begin Again" (John Carney, Weinstein)

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November 11, 2014

Timbuktu (2014) *****

Powerful African film about Islamist extremists terrorizing a town.
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October 10, 2014

Boyhood (2014) ****

Brilliant film that follows a young boy (and his family) as he grows up from 7 to 18 years of age.
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The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014) ****

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Birdman (2014) ****

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Leviathan (2014) ****

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Wild (2014) ****

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Inherent Vice (2014) ****

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Ida (2014) ****


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