The Sunken Place is already baked into popular culture.ġ5. Get Out Jordan Peele, 2017 Peele's horror addresses complacent liberal attitudes to race without ever letting up on the tension or dampening the black humour. The relationship between Saoirse Ronan's Lady Bird and her hassled mom – the flawless Laurie Metcalf – is painfully believable.ġ6. Lady Bird Greta Gerwig, 2017 What an unqualified delight Greta Gerwig's first feature turned out to be. Features hairy beasts with luminous eyes and sex between people and fish. Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives Apichatpong Weerasethakul, 2010 The Thai experimentalist ascended to film royalty with his tricky, funny study of a man contemplating the roots of illness. Too many reviews said "Lord of the Flies by way of Apocalypse Now". Monos Alejandro Landes, 2019 Brilliantly offbeat Colombian drama about a group of commandos living desperate lives on an unforgiving mountainside. Kirsten Dunst won best actress at Cannes for her role as a women contemplating marriage as the world comes to an end.ġ9. Melancholia Lars von Trier, 2011 Lars von Trier's quietest, least aggressive film of the decade proved to be his finest.
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The great Scottish director Lynne Ramsay casts him as a lone maniac fighting for the lives of sex-trafficked children in a harsh, grainy universe. You Were Never Really Here Lynne Ramsay, 2017 We can probably call Joaquin Phoenix the actor of the decade. Blue Is the Warmest Colour Abdellatif Kechiche, 2013 Among the most celebrated films of its year – starring Léa Seydoux and Adèle Exarchopoulos as passionate lovers – the Palme d'Or winner fell from critical grace when allegations emerged about abuse on set. Holy Motors Leos Carax, 2012 About eight brilliant movies bound together in one hyperbrilliant package, Leos Carax's fantasy draws a breathtakingly varied performance from Denis Lavant and a closing cameo from Kylie Minogue.Ģ2. Carruth does everything and does it all well.Ģ3. Upstream Colour Shane Carruth, 2013 But what does it all mean? And why has Shane Carruth not made another film? Weird, skewed science-fiction puzzler about a psychotropic larva and other stuff. Arrival Denis Villeneuve, 2016 The "aha!" moment at the end is well earned in a science-fiction film that wears its philosophical concerns lightly. So, in reverse order of merit… THE TOP 25Ģ5. There are no winners of the Oscar for best picture, but three Palme d’Or winners make it in. With four films each, 20 were the highest-scoring years in the top 25. Some facts? Directors from seven nationalities appear in our top 10 (two of them Hungarian). Grand traditions ran through a decade that, against the odds, produced as many great films as any other in the past 50 years. Yet the works below employ montage, camera movement and sound design in ways that John Ford or Akira Kurosawa would recognise. We've talked about the streaming revolution elsewhere.
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Only a handful of films listed below were actually shot on film – László Nemes's Son of Saul is among them – and those directors have become evangelists for the old medium.
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As we end the decade, physical prints, like vinyl LPs, are often viewed as heritage luxuries. We began in 2010 with digital production and exhibition on a dramatic rise. Despite all the challenges facing cinema in the outgoing decade, the medium somehow managed to honour many of the aesthetics the pioneers devised more than 100 years ago.