Saturday 27 December 2014

Best Films of 2014

Some of my favorite films of the year as published (or to be published in early January) on Keyframe, Senses of Cinema, and MUBI Notebook.


فيلم‌هاي برگزيدۀ سال
Top 10/ده فيلم برگزيده

The Wolf of Wall Street (Martin Scorsese, 2013)/گرگ وال استريت

Timbuktu (Abderrahmane Sissako, 2014)/تيمبوكتو

Adieu au langage (Jean-Luc Godard, 2014) + Khan Khanne (Jean-Luc Godard, 2014)/خداحافطظ زبان + كن كن

Ida (Paweł Pawlikowski, 2013)/ايدا

Locke (Steven Knight, 2013)/لاك

Kreuzweg (Dietrich Brüggemann, 2014)/طريقت تصليب؟

Life of Riley (Alain Resnais, 2014)/زندگي رايلي

Winter Sleep (Nuri Bilge Ceylan, 2014)/خواب زمستاني

Fifi Howls from Happiness (Mitra Farahani, 2013)/فيفي از خوشحالي زوزه ميكشد

Under the Skin (Jonathan Glazer, 2013)/زير پوست




Honorable Mentions/برگزيده‌هاي ديگر:


Fish & Cat (Shahram Mokri, 2013)/گربه و ماهي

Leviathan (Andrey Zvyagintsev, 2014)/لواياتان

Güeros (Alonso Ruiz Palacios, 2014)/گوئروس

Profession: Documentarist (Shirin Barghnavard, Firouzeh Khosrovani, Farahnaz Sharifi, Mina Keshavarz, Sepideh Abtahi, Sahar Salahshoor, Nahid Rezaei, 2014)/ حرفه مستندساز

Relatos salvajes (Damián Szifrón, 2014)/داستان هاي باورنكردني

Keep on Keepin' On (Alan Hicks, 2014)/كم نيار

Loin des hommes (David Oelhoffen, 2014)/ دور از مردان




Revivals/قديمي‌هاي دوباره به نمايش عمومي درآمده:

Still Life (Sohrab Shahid Saless, 1974)/طبيعت بيجان Fribourg International Film Festival

The Star Witness (William Wellman, 1931)/شاهد اصلي Il Cinema Ritrovato

The Strange One (Jack Garfein, 1957)/غيرعادي BFI

Razzia in St. Pauli (Werner Hochbaum, 1932)/رازيا در سن پالي Il Cinema Ritrovato

Jûjiro (Teinosuke Kinugasa, 1928)/جوجيرو Berlinale

La più bella serata della mia vita (Ettore Scola, 1972) Il Cinema Ritrovato

La petite vendeuse de soleil (Djibril Diop Mambéty, 1999)/دختري كه سان (آفتاب) ميفروخت UK theatrical screening

The Night of the Hunchback (Farokh Ghafari, 1965)/شب قوزي Edinburgh International Film Festival


Favorite books of the year (in English)/كتاب‌هاي برگزيدۀ انگليسي

Edgar G. Ulmer: A Filmmaker at the Margins/ ادگار اولمر: فيلسمازي در حاشيه‌ها (Noah Isenberg, 2014)

An Invention Without a Future: Essays on Cinema/اختراع بي آينده: مقالاتي دربارۀ سينما (James Naremore, 2014)





All images from Adieu au langage.

3 comments:

  1. We have a number of movies in common... that's good

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    1. Is there any place I can see your list?

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    2. sorry for late reply. I contributed to MUBI list and also a more complete version in my Persian blog (http://eidizadeh.persianblog.ir/post/52/)... and The Wolf of Wall Street was in my last year list.

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