Your Top 10 of 2013

[Pop Trash]

1. Her
2. Stories We Tell
3. Before Midnight
4. The Hunt
5. Spring Breakers
6. Computer Chess
7. Room 237
8. Nebraska
9. 12 Years a Slave
10. Gravity

Pretty great year. I'm starting to remove things I really don't want to.

[Rowland]

1. Her
2. Inside Llewyn Davis
3. Computer Chess
4. Frances Ha
5. Blue Jasmine
6. Passion
7. Like Someone in Love
8. Stories We Tell
9. Drug War
10. The World's End

HM: Room 237, Byzantium, Stoker, The Bling Ring, From Up on Poppy Hill, To the Wonder, Evil Dead, A Hijacking, Only God Forgives, The Lords of Salem, Pain & Gain, Lee Daniels' The Butler

[Raiders]

What are we considering Ben Wheatley's A Field in England? I guess it does now have some sort of distribution and limited release coming in February for the US, but I have been thinking of it as 2013 for a while now...

[Boner M]

Probably because it had a unique, simultaneous multi-platform release last year in the UK (cinema/on-demand/DVD/blu-ray all at once). But yeah, 2014 release for these purposes.

Really disappointed with the film, though (and I really liked his prior two).

[Raiders]

Probably because it had a unique, simultaneous multi-platform release last year in the UK (cinema/on-demand/DVD/blu-ray all at once). But yeah, 2014 release for these purposes.

Really disappointed with the film, though (and I really liked his prior two).

Only seen his two from this year (Sightseers and this one) and both would have graced my year-end thread in one capacity or another. Shame I have to move England to 2014.

[Boner M]

Kill List is his best, watch it immediately.

[Izzy Black]

Probably because it had a unique, simultaneous multi-platform release last year in the UK (cinema/on-demand/DVD/blu-ray all at once). But yeah, 2014 release for these purposes.

That's exactly why I consider it a 2013 release. I mean, pretty much anyone could've seen it in 2013.

[Raiders]

That's exactly why I consider it a 2013 release. I mean, pretty much anyone could've seen it in 2013.

I had to obtain it through less-than-respectable means. You could only view the VOD stuff if you live in the UK (Film4 restricts access to UK citizens). It hasn't been available to anyone in the US except through rips or copies of the UK blu-ray.

For my part, I didn't realize it was getting distributed here other than some future DVD/Blu-ray release so I figured it was 2013 and because it intrigued me so much I went ahead and watched it.

[Izzy Black]

Oh, I don't use U.S. dates anyway, especially when not everyone on this board or my other forums are from the U.S. I'm more concerned with commercial premiere dates and since I do download, stateside distribution isn't typically a problem.

[Ivan Drago]

Holy crap I needed to update my list.

1. Gravity
2. The Kings of Summer
3. Nebraska
4. Blue Is The Warmest Color
5. The Spectacular Now
6. 12 Years A Slave
7. Much Ado About Nothing
8. Upstream Color
9. Spring Breakers
10. All Is Lost


11. Only God Forgives
12. Pacific Rim
13. Stoker
14. Blue Jasmine
15. 20 Feet From Stardom
16. Frances Ha
17. The Great Beauty
18. To The Wonder
19. This Is The End
20. Ain't Them Bodies Saints
21. Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues
22. Iron Man 3
23. Star Trek Into Darkness
24. Oblivion
25. Escape From Tomorrow
26. The Great Gatsby
27. Man of Steel
28. The Way, Way Back
29. The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug

[number8]

Like last years, I limited my top 10 to just limited release movies (http://www.artboiled.com/2014/top-ten-most-overlooked-films-of-2013/).

[dreamdead]

Like last years, I limited my top 10 to just limited release movies (http://www.artboiled.com/2014/top-ten-most-overlooked-films-of-2013/).

Lovely to see other ardent supporters of Sun Don't Shine. Definitely need to get around to Bastards on VOD.

[Dukefrukem]

Great list.

Sometimes when I hate a movie so much, it clouds my bias I have towards directors I love (a good thing). Example: Only God Forgives I hated, but thanks to 8, he reminds me of my love for Valhalla Rising and Drive.

[Gizmo]

Still have a number of the top films to see, but I'll post my list now that I've seen 21 from the year:

1. Before Midnight
2. 12 Years a Slave
3. American Hustle
4. Gravity
5. The World's End
6. Hunger Games: Catching Fire
7. Star Trek Into Darkness
8. The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug
9. Frozen
10. Blackfish

[dreamdead]

Latest Update:

1. The Act of Killing - 8.5
2. Upstream Color - 8.5
3. Before Midnight - 8.5
4. Sun Don't Shine - 8
5. Computer Chess - 8
6. 12 Years a Slave - 8
7. Her - 8
8. Inside Llewyn Davis - 8
9. To the Wonder - 7.5
10. Stories We Tell - 7.5


Frances Ha - 7.5
Museum Hours - 7.5
Enough Said - 7.5
The Grandmasters - 7.5
The Wolf of Wall Street - 7
Gravity - 7
Blackfish - 7
Blue Jasmine - 7
Byzantium - 6.5
Drug War - 6
The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug - 6
Much Ado About Nothing (Whedon) - 6
Spring Breakers - 6
Stoker - 6
The Hunger Games: Catching Fire - 5.5
The World's End - 5.5
Only God Forgives - 5.5
The Great Gatsby - 5.5
Passion - 5.5
Prince Avalanche - 5.5
The Counselor - 5
Pacific Rim - 5
Iron Man 3 - 5
Man of Steel - 4.5
Admission - 4

[Dukefrukem]

New top 10

1 Upstream Color Carruth, Shane
2 Gravity Cuarón, Alfonso
3 The Wolf of Wall Street Scorsese, Martin
4 Iron Man 3 Black, Shane
5 John Dies at the End Coscarelli, Don
6 Wrong Dupieux, Quentin
7 Her Jonze, Spike
8 Batman: The Dark Knight Returns, Part 2 Oliva, Jay
9 Much Ado About Nothing Whedon, Joss
10 Inside Llewyn Davis Coen Brothers

[Winston*]

Kill List is his best, watch it immediately.

Nah, Sightseers > A Field in England > Kill List.

[Stay Puft]

1. Upstream Color
2. To the Wonder
3. No
4. The Selfish Giant
5. The Past
6. Bastards
7. The World's End
8. Drug War
9. Leviathan
10. A Touch of Sin

Feelin' pretty good about this now, and I still have a lot to see.

[Bandy Greensacks]

1. A Field in England
2. Her
3. Before Midnight

4. Gravity
5. Inside Llewyn Davis
6. The Wolf of Wall Street

7. Bastards
8. Magic Magic
9. Drinking Buddies
10. Blue Jasmine

[Ivan Drago]

Holy crap I needed to update my list.

1. Gravity
2. The Kings of Summer
3. Nebraska
4. Blue Is The Warmest Color
5. The Spectacular Now
6. 12 Years A Slave
7. Much Ado About Nothing
8. Upstream Color
9. Spring Breakers
10. All Is Lost


11. Only God Forgives
12. Pacific Rim
13. Stoker
14. Blue Jasmine
15. 20 Feet From Stardom
16. Frances Ha
17. The Great Beauty
18. To The Wonder
19. This Is The End
20. Ain't Them Bodies Saints
21. Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues
22. Iron Man 3
23. Star Trek Into Darkness
24. Oblivion
25. Escape From Tomorrow
26. The Great Gatsby
27. Man of Steel
28. The Way, Way Back
29. The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug

1. The Wolf of Wall Street
2. Gravity
3. The Kings of Summer
4. Nebraska
5. Blue Is The Warmest Color
6. The Spectacular Now
7. 12 Years A Slave
8. Much Ado About Nothing
9. Upstream Color
10. Her


11. Spring Breakers
12. All Is Lost
13. Only God Forgives
14. Pacific Rim
15. Dallas Buyers Club
16. Stoker
17. American Hustle
18. Blue Jasmine
19. 20 Feet From Stardom
20. Frances Ha
21. The Great Beauty
22. To The Wonder
23. This Is The End
24. Ain't Them Bodies Saints
25. Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues
26. Iron Man 3
27. Star Trek Into Darkness
28. Oblivion
29. Escape From Tomorrow
30. The Great Gatsby
31. Man of Steel
32. The Way, Way Back
33. The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug

[Henry Gale]

Well, apparently I haven't done this all year. Still got a lot to catch up on, but right now, roughly:


Her
To The Wonder
The Wolf Of Wall Street
The World's End
Spring Breakers
Inside Llewyn Davis
Captain Phillips
Under The Skin
Upstream Color
A Band Called Death



Her
To The Wonder
The Wolf Of Wall Street
The Act Of Killing
The World's End
Spring Breakers
Inside Llewyn Davis
Nebraska
Captain Phillips
Upstream Color (or Under The Skin if you consider it 2013)

[Stay Puft]

1. Upstream Color
2. To the Wonder
3. The Act of Killing
4. The Selfish Giant
5. The Past
6. No
7. Bastards
8. The World's End
9. Leviathan
10. A Touch of Sin

Updated, rearranged, etc.

[The Bad Guy]

1. Spring Breakers (Harmony Korine)
2. To the Wonder (Terrence Malick)

One of my friends has the exact same top two in this order.

[dreamdead]

A Bad Guy sighting! Hope you're able to grace up with a list of your own at some point...

[The Bad Guy]

A Bad Guy sighting! Hope you're able to grace up with a list of your own at some point...

Yeah, I'm still alive. My apologies for faking my own death.

My list should be ready sometime later this month.

[EyesWideOpen]

1. Stoker
2. Her
3. Enough Said
4. Blackfish
5. Upstream Color
6. 12 Years a Slave
7. Side Effects
8. The Place Beyond the Pines
9. The Act of Killing
10. Spring Breakers

Finally starting to catch up. Still a bunch of major stuff I haven't seen: Wolf on Wall Street, Gravity, Inside Llewyn Davis, Nebraska, American Hustle, Dallas Buyers Club, etc.

[Sxottlan]

After watching 85 movies, I feel like I've seen everything I want to from 2013.

So here are my top ten:

1. Gravity: ****
2. Iron Man 3: ****
3. Only God Forgives: ****
4. Her: ****
5. The Act of Killing: ***1/2
6. Computer Chess: ***1/2
7. Spring Breakers: ***1/2
8. Pacific Rim: ***1/2
9. Drug War: ***1/2
10. The Wind Rises: ***1/2

And the bottom ten:

1. The Family: *1/2
2. The Counselor: **
3. Blue is the Warmest Color: **
4. Frozen: **
5. A Good Day to Die Hard: **
6. Passion: **
7. Despicable Me 2: **
8. Gangster Squad: **
9. Jack the Giant Slayer: **
10. Dead Man Down: **

Most disappointing films: John Dies at the End, Blue is the Warmest Color

Most surprising film: Computer Chess

Favorite scenes:
1. Tony Stark meets Trevor Slattery in Iron Man 3.
2. Gandalf versus Sauron in The Desolation of Smaug.
3. Big Tokyo brawl in Pacific Rim.
4. Train station fight in The Grandmaster.
5. A very special performance by The Lords of Salem.

Favorite moments:
1. A camera dolly shot shows off the design lineage of starships in Star Trek into Darkness.
2. A room full of butterflies in Dallas Buyers Club.
3. A riverbed covered in keys in Now You See Me.
4. A man pops his top in Post Tenebras Lux.
5. Llewyn stops to check on a cat his clipped with his car in Inside Llewyn Davis.

Favorite shots:
1. A man jumps off an elevated train platform through a window of a building in The Secret Life of Walter Mitty.
2. A glass house robbed in one shot in The Bling Ring.
3. Two people fall through a skylight while a chopper goes down in flames behind them in A Good Day to Die Hard.
4. A shot deep underwater looking up as a boat rights itself, pulling a man out of the water with it in All is Lost.
5. Sparks and water cascade down on a pilot in a damaged cockpit in Pacific Rim.

A good year.

[Melville]

Everything I've seen:

1. The Act of Killing - 9
2. Blue Jasmine - 8.5
3. The Place Beyond the Pines - 8.5
4. Inside Llewyn Davis - 8
5. Like Someone in Love - 8
6. 12 Years a Slave - 8
7. Mud - 8
8. Spring Breakers - 7.5
9. American Hustle - 7
10. Fast & Furious 6 - 7
11. Frances Ha - 7
12. Captain Phillips - 7
13. Behind the Candelabra - 7
14. Before Midnight - 7
15. All is Lost - 6.5
16. This is the End - 6
17. To the Wonder - 6
18. Upstream Color - 6
19. Stories We Tell - 5.5
20. Gravity - 5.5
21. Only God Forgives - 5
22. The Wolf of Wall Street - 4.5
23. Computer Chess - 4
24. The Wolverine - 3.5
25. Nebraska - 3.5
26. The Counsellor - 3
27. Blue is the Warmest Color - 3
28. The World's End - 3
29. Side Effects - 2.5

Things I still want to see: Ain't Them Bodies Saints, Bastards, Beyond the Hills, Blackfish, The Grandmaster, Her, The Hunt, Leviathan, Paradise: Faith, Post Tenebras Lux, The Selfish Giant, The Spectacular Now, A Touch of Sin

Most disappointed me even though I still liked it: All Is Lost. It doesn't live up to the title.

Most reaffirmed my growing dislike of Alexander Payne: Nebraska.

[baby doll]

Masterpieces
Before Midnight (Richard Linklater) (http://lesamantsreguliers.wordpress.c om/2013/10/09/time-and-space-before-midnight-gravity/)
Hors Satan (Bruno Dumont) (http://lesamantsreguliers.wordpress.c om/2012/10/27/girl-youll-be-a-woman-soon-corpo-celeste-hors-satan/)
Post Tenebras Lux (Carlos Reygadas) (http://lesamantsreguliers.wordpress.c om/2013/09/27/missing-links-post-tenebras-lux-neighboring-sounds/)

Must Sees
American Hustle (David O. Russell)
The Angels' Share (Ken Loach) (http://lesamantsreguliers.wordpress.c om/2012/12/15/local-heroes-the-angels-share-two-years-at-sea/)
Behind the Candelabra (Steven Soderbergh) (http://lesamantsreguliers.wordpress.c om/2013/12/09/the-best-of-both-worlds-mud-behind-the-candelabra/)
Beyond the Hills (Cristian Mungiu) (http://lesamantsreguliers.wordpress.c om/2013/07/31/reality-and-realism-beyond-the-hills-betrayal/)
The Grandmaster (Wong Kar-wai) (http://lesamantsreguliers.wordpress.c om/2013/07/21/lost-in-china-the-grandmaster-drug-war/)
Gravity (Alfonso Cuarón) (http://lesamantsreguliers.wordpress.c om/2013/10/09/time-and-space-before-midnight-gravity/)
Inside Llewyn Davis (Ethan and Joel Coen)
J'ai tué ma mère (Xavier Dolan)
Mud (Jeff Nichols) (http://lesamantsreguliers.wordpress.c om/2013/12/09/the-best-of-both-worlds-mud-behind-the-candelabra/)
Nebraska (Alexander Payne)
No (Pablo LarraÃ*n)
Paradise: Love (Ulrich Seidl) (http://lesamantsreguliers.wordpress.c om/2013/09/11/it-aint-easy-being-white-it-aint-easy-being-brown-paradise-love-la-folie-almayer/)
The Place Beyond the Pines (Derek Cianfrance) (http://lesamantsreguliers.wordpress.c om/2013/08/12/the-young-ones-the-place-beyond-the-pines-what-maisie-knew/)
Spring Breakers (Harmony Korine) (http://lesamantsreguliers.wordpress.c om/2014/02/26/the-end-of-st-petersburg-florida-harmony-korines-spring-breakers/)
Stories We Tell (Sarah Polley)
To the Wonder (Terrence Malick) (http://lesamantsreguliers.wordpress.c om/2013/07/09/stand-by-your-man-keep-the-lights-on-to-the-wonder/)

Worth Seeing
The Act of Killing (Joshua Oppenheimer)
Blue Jasmine (Woody Allen)
The Canyons (Paul Schrader)
The Croods (Kirk Di Micco / Chris Sanders)
Drug War (Johnnie To) (http://lesamantsreguliers.wordpress.c om/2013/07/21/lost-in-china-the-grandmaster-drug-war/)
Frances Ha (Noah Baumbach)
From Up on Poppy Hill (Goro Miyazaki)
Ginger and Rosa (Sally Potter) (http://lesamantsreguliers.wordpress.c om/2013/04/16/pale-fire-ginger-and-rosa-blancanieves/)
Her (Spike Jonze)
The Hunt (Thomas Vinterberg) (http://lesamantsreguliers.wordpress.c om/2013/05/29/bad-girls-the-hunt-lapollonide-souvenirs-de-la-maison-close/)
Inch'Allah (Anaïs Barbeau-Lavalette)
Passion (Brian De Palma)
Reality (Matteo Garrone)
Rebelle (Kim Nguyen) (http://lesamantsreguliers.wordpress.c om/2013/02/18/about-a-girl-rebelle-silver-linings-playbook/)
Les Salauds (Claire Denis)
Short Term 12 (Destin Cretton)
Side Effects (Steven Soderbergh)
Star Trek Into Darkness (J.J. Abrams)
A Touch of Sin (Jia Zhang-ke)
What Maisie Knew (Scott McGehee / David Siegel) (http://lesamantsreguliers.wordpress.c om/2013/08/12/the-young-ones-the-place-beyond-the-pines-what-maisie-knew/)
The World's End (Edgar Wright)

Has Redeeming Facet
Blancanieves (Pablo Berger) (http://lesamantsreguliers.wordpress.c om/2013/04/16/pale-fire-ginger-and-rosa-blancanieves/)
The Bling Ring (Sofia Coppola)
La grande bellezza (Paolo Sorrentino) (http://lesamantsreguliers.wordpress.c om/2013/11/18/the-fat-and-the-lean-la-grande-bellezza-la-cinquieme-saison/)
The Great Gatsby (Baz Luhrmann)
Iron Man 3 (Shane Black)
Laurence Anyways (Xavier Dolan) (http://lesamantsreguliers.wordpress.c om/2012/12/26/short-cuts-laurence-anyways-xxy/)
Pacific Rim (Guillermo Del Toro)
The Selfish Giant (Clio Bernard)
Trance (Danny Boyle)

Worthless
Le Capital (Costa-Gavras)
Finding Mr. Right (Xue Xiaolu)Updated for the end of May.

[Dukefrukem]

Do we have one of these threads for 2014?