As always, I wish I had so much more to time to watch/rewatch films, and see every last film that played in 2020, but that's impossible so this is just what I decided to run with.
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You can also check out our selection of Favorite Movie Posters from 2021 featuring a look at some of the best artwork for films.Ī few notes: this is a list of my favorite films, not the best films of the year, these are the ones that I love for my own reasons and I'll try to explain why with each one. But I also need to feel the emotions, and when a good one really gets to me, that's the kind of film that sticks with me all year.įor the previous year's Top 10 of 2020 list, topped by Edson Oda's Nine Days, click here. I'm a sucker for visuals and style the better a movie looks, the more I enjoy it. This year in cinema took us on journeys to far away places, distant planets, as well as to mountaintops and valleys and deserts around this planet. But as always, I'm lucky to have a chance to discover terrific films. 2021 was an invigorating and exciting year - with so many ups and downs. I try to watch as much as I can and give myself time to catch up with any extra films at the end of the year, but I also want to make sure I don't forget about some of my favorites from earlier in the year.
After watching over 460 films throughout 2021 (yes I was keeping track on Letterboxd!) it's time to share my final selection of My Top 10 Favorite Films of 2021.
But in this moment, when audiences are nostalgic for a more recent past, it plays like Zhang's homage to the movies, dedicated to the heroes who may soon return to cinemas."The mystery of life isn't a problem to solve, but a reality to experience." Another year, another Top 10. In China, Cliff Walkers is a nostalgic and patriotic tale - dedicated to the heroes of the revolution. All while slipping, sliding and - especially - shooting in a glistening, frigid landscape that would make Dr. Here he revels in the period details - sleek, fitted trench coats, vintage cars, a drowning-in-neon movie theater playing Chaplin's The Gold Rush - and sets his Communist spies to dismantling 1930s train cabins, picking locks with paper clips, drugging their own coffee, and generally playing with genre tricks that were time-honored when Hitchcock used them. Zhang, celebrated for both masterworks ( Raise the Red Lantern), and pop hits ( House of Flying Daggers), can't seem to make a film that isn't visually exquisite. And that's all before they've even gotten where they're going. Allies who aren't what they seem, enemies who may be double agents, lies, traitors, double- and triple-crosses.
It's 1931 and they're Chinese agents, trained in Russia to fight the Japanese who've set up torture camps in Manchuria.īefore they quite get their bearings they're separated and up to their eyeballs in far more than snow. Omar (Amir El-Masry), a sad-eyed 19-year-old musician, has arrived with just his oud, a guitar-like instrument he hasn't played since leaving Syria for reasons we'll understand later.įarhad (Vikash Bhai) is his buddy, an Afghan who's modeled his moustache on Freddie Mercury's, and has been in this refugee camp almost three years without quite grasping the local lingo.īut they bounce up, pistols drawn, squinting in all directions. It's hard to imagine a more persuasive limbo. It offers sparsely furnished rooms for maybe 20 young men, all of whom appear disoriented, bored, or both. Limbo's is stark and wind-swept - a fictional island in the Hebrides that's been outfitted as a holding camp for would-be Scottish immigrants. Scotland's refugee dramedy Limbo, opens in select art-house theaters this weekend, as does Cliff Walkers, a spy-flick from celebrated Chinese director Zhang Yimou, and both boast visual palettes eminently worthy of the big screen. With Hollywood blockbusters still missing-in-action - it'll be weeks before A Quiet Place Part II makes your local cinema a less quiet place - it's nice to report that other countries are happy to fill American screens. Vikash Bhai (left) as Farhad and Amir El-Masry as Omar in Limbo, a Scottish dramedy about the refugee crisis.
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