Best Films of 2014 (So far)
Best Films of 2014 (So far)
Borstalboy
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/9/04
#1Best Films of 2014 (So far)
Posted: 7/15/14 at 10:31am
And I haven't seen any of them....except DANCE OF REALITY, which rocked.
According to the AV Club
"Impossible is just a big word thrown around by small men who find it easier to live in the world they've been given than to explore the power they have to change it. Impossible is not a fact. It's an opinion. Impossible is not a declaration. It's a dare. Impossible is potential. Impossible is temporary. Impossible is nothing.”
~ Muhammad Ali
#2Best Films of 2014 (So far)
Posted: 7/15/14 at 3:36pm
Man, it's been a tough year so far finding movies I can really recommend.
LIFE ITSELF
EDGE OF TOMORROW
IDA
THE GRAND BUDAPEST HOTEL (rates for its design though it didn't make a lick of sense)
SNOWPIERCER's first half or so.
BELLE (mostly)
A pretty short list.
Updated On: 7/15/14 at 03:36 PM
#2Best Films of 2014 (So far)
Posted: 7/15/14 at 3:39pmTHE IMMIGRANT is the best film I've seen so far this year...perhaps the best film in a few years, for me.
"You travel alone because other people are only there to remind you how much that hook hurts that we all bit down on. Wait for that one day we can bite free and get back out there in space where we belong, sail back over water, over skies, into space, the hook finally out of our mouths and we wander back out there in space spawning to other planets never to return hurrah to earth and we'll look back and can't even see these lives here anymore. Only the taste of blood to remind us we ever existed. The earth is small. We're gone. We're dead. We're safe."
-John Guare, Landscape of the Body
Phyllis Rogers Stone
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/16/07
#4Best Films of 2014 (So far)
Posted: 7/15/14 at 3:46pm
"THE IMMIGRANT is the best film I've seen so far this year"
Wow, really fascinating to hear that. We found it an intriguing setting for a rarely heard tale. Great design. But oh, Lord, was that a soul-suckingly gloomy script to sit through. The luminous performances of Marion Cotillard and especially Jeremy Renner weren't nearly enough compensation for us. Glad they were for you.
Updated On: 7/15/14 at 03:46 PM
StephanCasey
Stand-by Joined: 6/22/14
Borstalboy
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/9/04
#6Best Films of 2014 (So far)
Posted: 7/15/14 at 4:58pm
The excellent movie website The Dissolve has their list of anticipated films of 2014
"Impossible is just a big word thrown around by small men who find it easier to live in the world they've been given than to explore the power they have to change it. Impossible is not a fact. It's an opinion. Impossible is not a declaration. It's a dare. Impossible is potential. Impossible is temporary. Impossible is nothing.”
~ Muhammad Ali
#7Best Films of 2014 (So far)
Posted: 7/15/14 at 5:39pm
Under the Skin
Snowpiercer
Ida
Stranger By the Lake
The Immigrant- Cotillard is revelatory and I'm sure his next round with PTA will be great but Joaquin Phoenix and James Gray are the best director-actor collaboration going. One of his stronger performances ever.
The Missing Picture
The Grand Budapest Hotel
Obvious Child
Palo Alto
I need to see more docs though The Missing Picture will be hard to beat. Heard good things about Morris' The Unknown Known and The 12 o'clock Boys. Still need to see Ernest & Celestine for the animation.
Noticed Norte, The End of History on the list. When there is movement, it is a very strong drama and set of performances but the pace (I know, a 4 hour long movie having pace issues sound silly but I can go long with many films and this became a chore) and the aping of Tarkovsky, particularly in the weakest part of the film, kind of made me look less on it. You literally could cut an hour, very little will change and it would become one of the stronger Dostoevsky adaptations ever. Instead, it is a respectable adaptation and probably the only Lav Diaz film you will feel like you have to see.
#8Best Films of 2014 (So far)
Posted: 7/15/14 at 6:53pmI think so far, Dawn Of The Planet Of The Apes
Well I didn't want to get into it, but he's a Satanist.
Every full moon he sacrifices 4 puppies to the Dark Lord and smears their blood on his paino.
This should help you understand the score for Wicked a little bit more.
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#9Best Films of 2014 (So far)
Posted: 7/15/14 at 8:55pm
I'd say these are all worth a watch:
Boyhood
The Grand Budapest Hotel
the first 3/4 of Divergent
X-Men: Days of Future Past (if you are familiar with the series)
The Fault in Our Stars
Begin Again
henrikegerman
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/29/05
#11Best Films of 2014 (So far)
Posted: 7/15/14 at 10:22pm
hmm... Some of my favorites from this year:
Blue Ruin
Child's Pose
Elaine Strich: Shoot Me
Enemy
Grand Budapest Hotel, TheLife Itself
Life Itself
Night Moves
Only Lovers Left Alive
Snowpiercer
Under the Skin
JP2
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/2/07
#12Best Films of 2014 (So far)
Posted: 7/16/14 at 5:51amThought this year has been really strong for the sci-fi genre. Captain America, X-Men, Edge of Tomorrow, Snowpiercer, and Apes are all pretty fantastic.
#13Best Films of 2014 (So far)
Posted: 7/16/14 at 9:48am
"THE IMMIGRANT is the best film I've seen so far this year"
Wow, really fascinating to hear that. We found it an intriguing setting for a rarely heard tale. Great design. But oh, Lord, was that a soul-suckingly gloomy script to sit through. The luminous performances of Marion Cotillard and especially Jeremy Renner weren't nearly enough compensation for us. Glad they were for you.
I'm not put off my dark storytelling, particularly when (as is the case here) it's the right choice for the piece. Tonally, I felt that everything was just right. And I found it to be the best representation of that era, seen from that perspective, that I've encountered in a long time.
"You travel alone because other people are only there to remind you how much that hook hurts that we all bit down on. Wait for that one day we can bite free and get back out there in space where we belong, sail back over water, over skies, into space, the hook finally out of our mouths and we wander back out there in space spawning to other planets never to return hurrah to earth and we'll look back and can't even see these lives here anymore. Only the taste of blood to remind us we ever existed. The earth is small. We're gone. We're dead. We're safe."
-John Guare, Landscape of the Body
#14Best Films of 2014 (So far)
Posted: 7/16/14 at 10:17am
Boyhood has easily been my favorite movie this year.
The Immigrant and The Grand Budapest Hotel were also excellent.
Other great films:
Palo Alto
Violette
Captain America
Begin Again
Obvious Child
Under the Skin
Coherence
Marie: Don't be in such a hurry about that pretty little chippy in Frisco.
Tony: Eh, she's a no chip!
#15Best Films of 2014 (So far)
Posted: 7/20/14 at 12:40pm
Heads up: The Immigrant is now available on Netflix. Though not a 2014 release, they've also added The Master.
I'm looking forward to checking out The Immigrant later this week - especially after reading all the raves on here.
Updated On: 7/20/14 at 12:40 PM
#16Best Films of 2014 (So far)
Posted: 7/20/14 at 1:02pmI could not disagree more about Proxy. That film was just stupid. The dialogue was bad and the acting was worse.
Pretty pretty please don't you ever ever feel like you're less than f**ckin' perfect!
TheGingerBreadMan
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/7/12
#17Best Films of 2014 (So far)
Posted: 7/20/14 at 8:55pmThe Fault in Our Stars was pretty frickin' fantastic. Maybe it's just because I'm a sucker for sappy love stories, but I loved it a lot.
#18Best Films of 2014 (So far)
Posted: 7/20/14 at 9:42pmBOYHOOD just moved to my no 1
"The Spectacle has, indeed, an emotional attraction of its own, but, of all the parts, it is the least artistic, and connected least with the art of poetry. For the power of Tragedy, we may be sure, is felt even apart from representation and actors. Besides, the production of spectacular effects depends more on the art of the stage machinist than on that of the poet."
--Aristotle
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#19Best Films of 2014 (So far)
Posted: 7/20/14 at 10:27pm
I put up my own list a couple weeks ago.
Rigor Mortis
The Lego Movie
Snowpiercer
Muppets Most Wanted
Obvious Child
Captain America: The Winter Soldier
Belle
That comes with the caveat that I missed out on Grand Budapest Hotel, Only Lovers Left Alive, and Under the Skin. Knowing my preferences, those seem like they'd have been contenders.
#20Best Films of 2014 (So far)
Posted: 7/21/14 at 12:00am
Saw BOYHOOD this weekend, so now I can officially join this conversation simply to say it's the best movie I've seen this year by leaps and bounds.
It's perfect in its imperfections. The ambition makes me the whole far, far greater than the sum of its parts. It is, truly, life itself, captured unassumingly and utterly magnificently.
Words don't deserve that kind of malarkey. They're innocent, neutral, precise, standing for this, describing that, meaning the other, so if you look after them you can build bridges across incomprehension and chaos. But when they get their corners knocked off, they're no good anymore…I don't think writers are sacred, but words are. They deserve respect. If you get the right ones in the right order, you can nudge the world a little.
beautywickedlover
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/28/07
#21Best Films of 2014 (So far)
Posted: 7/21/14 at 12:07am
Here are mine in no particular order:
The Lego Movie
Captain America: The Winter Soldier
Chef
Begin Again
Edge of Tomorrow
Dawn of the Planet of the Apes
X-Men: Days of Future Past
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