Your Favourite Films of 2013
 

I spent more money on cinema tickets this year than on records, here are my favourites, what were yours?

Top 3:
1. Hors Satan
2. Caesar Must Die
3. Before Midnight

The Rest:
Home (Yurt)
Gimme The Loot
Like Someone in Love
Alan Partridge
Seven Psychopaths
Like Father, Like Son
Enough Said
I Wish
The Servant (rerelase)

Documentary:
The Act of Killing
Jiro Dreams of Sushi
The Battle of The Sexes
Dirty Wars
Punk Syndrome

Still a lot of stuff from this year I want to though:
Bullhead, Beyond the Hills, Camp 14, Computer Chess, Paradise Trilogy, Leviathan, The Wall, Upstream Color, Much Ado About Nothing, For Those in Peril, In Fear, Le Skylab, The Great Beauty, Pieta, In A World, No, Foxfire, Wadjda, Dragon, Village at The end of The World, One Mile Away, Whitehouse Down...

thank you for this thread and your list; gonna use it.
12 years a slave should be pretty amazing film.

I see where Outside Satan is a 2011 French Film.

Please help my confusion......why is Hors Satan on a 2013 list?

i live near no decent movie houses so i must wait for netflix-- 3-6 month delay, and then i end up watching a bunch of movies from the 40s

i saw before midnight and it was okay but not as fun as the prequels-- i didn't really like the characters too much anymore-- goatee is a manchild and julie delpy is too american.

much ado about nothing on the other hand was a welcome surprise because i expected meh and i was "owwwwww fred!!!" and okay i have a bias maybe, but vs the kenneth branagh version this was cool and not cheesy-- i really had fun with this movie and nathan fillion was superhilarious.

waiting for various 2013 releases on netflix-- blue jasmine, 12 years as a slave, her, the act of killing, and whatever other movie corpse floats to the top after everything settles (wolf, warmest color, etc maybe). oh and i'll need orange is the new black on disc.

ps jiro is awesome but it's 2011/12 too

ps- oh, i see you just got it

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1772925/...?ref_=tt_dt_dt

Going by UK release, it came out here in January.

Yep, UK release 2013. Anywho me and my gf are going to Tokyo in March and we're going to book ourselves in for lunch at Jiro's, even if it is crazy expensive.

i've read he can be pretty fucking nasty towards gaijin to the point of kicking them out of the place as they arrive. as the movie hints, his temper is nothing to fuck with. which is, you know, hilarious and all, but if it happens to you it could be a major letdown. make backup plans. (ps you should be booking now for march i think)

Booking for March starts starts in a couple of weeks. Good to know about his attitude, especially considering my gf is the type to drown her sushi in wasabi and soy sauce.

Wolf of Wall Street and secret life of Walter Mitty were both outstanding. Tom hanks did great in captain Phillips. Before midnight was really good too but I thought it was the least best of the before series

A couple more to your list:

Film:
Museum hours - Jem Cohen
Vous n'avez encore rien vu - Alan Resnais
La danza de la realidad - Alejandro Jodorowsky

Documentary:
The perverts guide to ideology - Slavoj Zizek

I feel like I'm the only person who has yet to see "Spring Breakers", wish Netflix would Instant Watch that damn movie already. Best movie I saw this year is still "Bullhead".

Only God Forgives.

Nothing really stood out from last year for me. I enjoyed The Canyons a lot, without necessarily thinking it was any good.

The Harry Hill Movie and Alan Partridge: Alpha Papa were my joint favourite films of 2013.

Never saw the Harry Hill film but did like Alpha Papa, although it did have that sitcom christmas special feel to it. One of those films where I felt a bit out of place watching it in a cinema instead of on tv. But on its own terms, it's hard to fault.

Yeah it was shot like a TV program and looked a bit odd on a cinema screen, however it made me laugh more than anything I've seen in the cinema since Borat.

hahahahahahahahaa


leviathan all the way for me, maybe the act of killing too. non-documentary I'd say the bling ring, in that it was so gloriously vacuous. yet to see spring breakers, unfortunately.

did the call come out this year? that was fucking bone-chilling, heart palpitations abound during that one.

I was trying to think of 2013 films I saw.

^THIS is way up there.

Evil Dead 2013 as well.

i kinda hate har-kor by default

i'll have to be convinced to watch that

please nobody fucking say: "it's just like my life!"

ps- i did enjoy "django unchained", although it wasn't life-altering or anything.

star trek was okay but the first one was better-- as good as bandersnatch is as sherlock, he really wasn't a kahn. ironman 3 was… shit, i've already forgotten about it. that was fast!

i haven't seen ANY of the movies manohla dargis mentions as her favorites in the bottom of this article:
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/12/15/mo...anted=all&_r=0

doesn't look too promising and i suspect demonyo is right in that this wasn't a blow-your-socks-off year for film. eh! there's plenty of old stuff.

BTW, please watch BLANCANIEVES.