Fin de cinéma

If 2014 was a lackluster year for film, it was a pretty fantastic one for music, at least from my own vantage point. As the ways in whic...

Few years in recent memory have felt as lousy as 2014. I fear that I might make such a claim every year, but in looking back, it's ...

Nymphomaniac . Lars von Trier. Denmark/Germany/France/Belgium. I don't even know what to really say about Lars von Trier's f...

#10. Only Lovers Left Alive . Jim Jarmusch. UK/Germany/France/Greece/Cyprus. Director Jim Jarmusch ( Stranger than Paradise , Myster...

#9. Obvious Child . Gillian Robespierre. USA. It's not everyday that I walk away from a film with as many scatological jokes as ...

#8. Child's Pose ( Poziția copilului ). Călin Peter Netzer. Romania. Winner of the Golden Bear at last year's Berlinale and...

#7. Maps to the Stars . David Cronenberg. Canada/Germany/USA/France. It only takes a few minutes into David Cronenberg's Maps to...

#6. Abuse of Weakness ( Abus de faiblesse ). Catherine Breillat. France/Germany/Belgium. Perhaps still best known for their brilli...

#5. Misunderstood ( Incompresa ). Asia Argento. Italy/France. In her third outing as director, Asia Argento physically takes hersel...

#4. Xenia . Panos H. Koutras. Greece/France/Belgium. There are a lot of films out there that are hard to sell others on. The most co...

#3. Ida . Paweł Pawlikowski. Poland/Denmark/France/UK. As many of you know, I have a Tumblr extension of this blog which features hu...

 #2. Force majeure ( Turist ). Ruben Östlund. Sweden/France/Norway. Set entirely on an isolated tourist ski resort somewhere in ...

My therapist and I agreed that not dwelling on the negative (as I have been known to do) might be a fun new thing for me to try, so I...