Movies (and some tv series/episodes) that are so insanely packed with things and ideas and visuals they become dense in one way or another.
Ordered alphabetically.
Suggestions welcomed but I'll have to see them to see if they fit my criteria.
Mes coups de cœurs, tout simplement ! Hors des sentiers battus pour la plupart :)
Melting-pot des films et séries préférés de la famille !
Essential movies for lonely people out there... if you want to feel something in this big big world.…
Movies that aren't from A24, but could've been.
(personal opinion)
If you have a recommendation, please, leave a comment with it!
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Movies from 2010-2019 with 6.5+ IMDB, 6.5+ TMDB, 65%+ RottenTomatoes, at least 10K votes. Sorted by popularity.
Using IMDb advanced search, filtering only by English language.
Notable entries missing include:
What Maisie Knew (2012)
Buried (2010)
The Babadook (2014)
Song of the Sea (2014)
Sleeping with Other People (2015)
Coriolanus (2011)
Palo Alto (2013)
The Hunt (2012)
Tamara Drewe (2010)
Machine Gun Preacher (2011)
Bilal: A New Breed of Hero (2015)
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In a year defined by division, the one thing we could all agree on was movies. Just kidding! If anything, film discourse grew more contentious and fractured than ever in 2018, which began with a battle for the soul of the world’s most popular franchise and moved on from there to debates about the value of Netflix and seeing movies on the big screen, the politics of a biopic about an American icon, the importance of representation in not just cinema but also criticism, and of course picking a side in the big box-office standoff of the year, Lady Gaga versus Tom Hardy as a sexy, slobbering monster. If consensus ever really existed in the thunderdome of movie opinion, the internet has officially slayed it. Hell, even the critical favorite of the year (see our No. 7 below) has its very vocal detractors.
All of which is say that The A.V. Club’s rundown of the best films of 2018 is destined to tick you off. Hell, we could barely agree on it, which is one reason we’ve posted, as we do every year, the individual ballots of contributors. But if the following list is little more than a snapshot of what this particular group of cinephiles loved over the last 12 months, it’s one that acknowledges a spectrum of successes, from intimate documentaries to visionary spins on film noir to one belatedly completed curiosity from a dead master of the medium. (Netflix, it must be admitted, had quite the year, and is accordingly represented.) Because though we might not have been enthusiastic about all the same movies, there were plenty of movies worthy of enthusiasm. On that, hopefully, we all can agree.
https://film.avclub.com/the-best-films-of-2018-1831159568
2019 Film Independent Spirit Awards nominees and winners:
- Best Feature: 01, 02, 03, 04, 05. | 05 - If Beale Street Could Talk.
- Best First Feature: 06, 07, 08, 09, 10. | 09 - Sorry to Bother You.
- Best Director: 01, 02, 04, 05, 11. | 05 - If Beale Street Could Talk (Barry Jenkins).
- Best Male Lead: 01, 04, 12, 13, 14. | 04 - First Reformed (Ethan Hawke).
- Best Female Lead: 03, 06, 07, 15, 16, 17. | 15 - The Wife (Glenn Close).
- Best Supporting Male: 03, 10, 18, 19, 20. | 20 - Can You Ever Forgive Me? (Richard E. Grant).
- Best Supporting Female: 02, 05, 11, 21, 22. | 05 - If Beale Street Could Talk (Regina King).
- Best Screenplay: 04, 09, 11, 20, 23. | 20 - Can You Ever Forgive Me? (Jeff Whitty, Nicole Holofcener).
- Best First Screenplay: 03, 08, 21, 24, 25. | 03 - Eighth Grade (Bo Burnham).
- Best Cinematography: 06, 10, 16, 26, 27. | 26 - Suspiria (Sayombhu Mukdeeprom).
- Best Editing: 01, 08, 10, 28, 29. | 01 - You Were Never Really Here (Joe Bini).
- Best International Film: 30, 31, 32, 33, 34. | 30 - Roma.
- Best Documentary: 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40. | 35 - Won't You Be My Neighbor?.
- Robert Altman Award (ensemble cast, dir. and casting dir.): 26. | 26 - Suspiria.
- John Cassavetes Award (Best Feature Under $500,000): 14, 22, 41, 42, 43. | 42 - En el séptimo día.
- Truer Than Fiction Award: 36, 39, 40. | 36 - Minding the Gap.
- Someone to Watch Award: 10, 14, 44. | 14 - Alexandre Moratto (Socrates).
Conventional wisdom holds that the best movies of any given year tend to arrive sometime between Labor Day and Christmas—those few weeks annually and unofficially designated as “awards season.” But while the major studios and their indie subsidiaries do tend to hold their big prestige titles until at least early autumn, the truly diligent moviegoer knows that every month on the calendar brings quality cinema. (Yes, even January, provided you’re on Liam Neeson’s aging-asskicker wavelength.) Case in point, we’re halfway through 2018, and there are already enough good-to-great movies to stock a respectable year-in-review rundown. In fact, that’s basically what we’ve assembled below: From Black Panther to Zama, these are the best films that have opened in theaters since New Year’s Day. Rather than ranking the highlights (there will be plenty of time for that come December), we’ve divided them into three tiers: the wide releases and studio blockbusters that opened everywhere; the bigger indie films that slowly rolled out into theaters across the country; and the foreign fare and arthouse acquisitions that popped up at only a handful of venues this winter, spring, or early summer. Consider it a halftime guide to everything you need to catch up with, before attentions inevitably drift to this year’s designated Oscar hopefuls and holiday spectacles.
https://film.avclub.com/the-best-films-of-2018-so-far-1827116305
As I Was Moving Ahead, Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty.
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