The world's most authoritative annual top ten! How many movies did you miss?

Near the end of the year, it is time for all kinds of "Top Ten of the Year" to compete for the stage.

At this time of the year, major media in Europe and America, such as The New York Times's Film Handbook, will select their own top ten films of the year, followed by industry organizations such as the Motion Picture Association of America (AFI), and then the annual award season, ready to make a final conclusion on this year's film art quality.

In more and more such lists, people will be a little tired and numb after a long time. So many so-called top ten, who do we believe? How much is really worth making up lessons?

In the list of various authorities, there is one "authority among authorities" in my eyes, and that is the British magazine Audio-visual.

Audiovisual is a publication of the British Film Academy (BFI), which is both a professional institution and a media. Since the 1960s, the film list they selected is the most objective and fair one in my opinion. The vision covers the whole world and has its own opinions and judgments, but it will not be too unconventional.

No. 1

Rome

Alfonso Cuarón's new work Rome, directed by Gravity, won theNo. 1 this year. In the eyes of many people, this choice is absolutely deserved.

"Rome" has won the laurel in Venice Film Festival and won unanimous praise. The title of the film "Rome" does not refer to the well-known Millennium City of Italy, but to a middle-class community in Caron's hometown of Mexico City. This is also the first time that Caron returned to Mexico to film after going to Hollywood for many years.

Rome is a personal epic that tries to see the big from the small, and reflects the social unrest in Mexico in the 1970s through the heroine and her family. Such a pan-political theme, coupled with the charming black-and-white photography of the whole movie, can easily win the favor of people in the industry.

Domestic friends can't see this film at present, maybe they will in the near future when the resources come out collectively in the award season. As far as a few netizens who have seen films in overseas film festivals are concerned, they are definitely strong competitors for the best film this year. Douban is currently as high as 9 points and is expected to grow substantially.

second

Ghost sewer

PTA's masterpiece Ghost Sewer is shown every year. In the external impression, it seems to be last year's work. "Seeing and Listening" ranked it as the second in the year, reminding us again that there is this excellent film this year.

The exquisite costumes of this film are the most impressive point of view, and all kinds of textual research and exquisiteness are aimed at setting off the protagonist Reynolds played by Daniel Day Lewis. His highly sensitive psychology and extremely introverted personality are the basis of the whole story.

PTA is obviously not satisfied with just providing a good suspense story. What he wants to capture is always the heart of the character.

Many times, we will think that this is a Hitchcock-style suspense film. I have to say that PTA's suspense is really a bit of Hitchcock's charm.

But at the end of the film, we suddenly realized that this is a story that truly reflects the love and killing of two people. The relationship between Reynolds and Alma has already surpassed our cognition.

third place

aflame

When the movie first came out, we wrote a long analysis of Burning, so let's make a long story short and just focus on the main points.

The beauty of Burning lies in its ambiguity, which provides a variety of interpretation spaces behind a seemingly unremarkable story. There are many seemingly contradictory explanations in the film. Did Ben (steven yeun) burn down the house or kill anyone? Li Cangdong also gave two contradictory answers.

The truth behind the contradiction may not matter. What is important is that Burning accurately describes the different lifestyles of the protagonists of three different classes. In this way of life, they can't understand each other, but they are doomed to doubt and even destroy each other.

fourth

Cold War

This beautiful black and white film is my personal best film of the year. From the image to the core of the story, it is the movie that touched me the most this year.

First of all, the Cold War has a kind of lens beauty similar to still life photography. It can be seen that the composition of each frame is carefully designed by the director. This aesthetic feeling presents the most primitive truth of the film, which is an extremely rare image form this year.

As the title, The Cold War is a highly politicized love fable. The hero and heroine who love each other to death are like enemies standing in the two camps of East and West. They are in the same boat, but in the end they can't live without each other.

This film digs out the truest and cruelest state between lovers-when they are together, they hate each other; When they were apart, they missed each other very much.

Fifth place

First reformed church

This is the new work of director paul schrader after he has been dormant for many years, and has been listed in the top ten of the year by many media.

Paul schrader is the screenwriter of martin scorsese's Taxi Driver and Angry Bull, so he is well known to the world. He is also an excellent film critic and director. Although his works are few, they are of good quality.

The First Reform Society is considered by many European and American media to reproduce robert bresson's classic style. He is the greatest film director in the hearts of countless filmmakers, and his style is considered difficult to reproduce.

We can't see the film yet, so we will wait and see.

Sixth

leaving no trace

Leave no trace is a budding film of Sundance Film Festival at the beginning of the year, and later it was selected as a biweekly unit for directors of Cannes Film Festival.

There is no star in the film, and director Debra Granik is the director of Bones in Winter, which has a good reputation in previous years, and is known as "Sundance Major".

The film explores a very serious proposition-how can we escape from the existing material civilization? To this end, the hero took his daughter into the jungle, trying to bid farewell to society completely, like a fugitive.

At some point, he seems to be successful, but in the end, he is doomed to fail.

Seventh place

beloved

Beloved is believed to be the same, but the form of expression may be a little different. The director set the time background at18th century this time.

Lance Moss's style often has two poles. People you like can't, and people you don't like don't catch a cold at all. Personally, I prefer the latter. However, what is the quality of the film? You might as well make a detailed comment after watching the movie.

Tiebian no.7

You've never been here

Another highly stylized film was directed by Lynne Ramsay, the director of What's wrong with Kevin.

"You've never been in the future" is not an attempt to tell a story, but an attempt to convey an emotion. The protagonist played by joaquin phoenix is full of depressed and manic emotions.

In order to convey this emotion, Ramsey tried to complete it completely through images and sounds, but gave up narrative and dialogue (most of the time there was no dialogue). In many places, the image and sound presentation of this film is almost experimental art.

This crooked sword style may not attract ordinary audience, but it is still worth encouraging.

Ninth place

Happy lazaro.

Many people regard this film as a "masterpiece of the year", and I have written a long review about this film before.

"Happy lazaro" created a charming atmosphere, which was then doubled with the help of the angelic hero lazaro.

Under the image of oil painting, it is actually a fable directed at people's hearts. Lazaro is like a clean and bright mirror, reflecting the filth of the world.

Tiebian No.9

Zama

Strictly speaking, Zama is a movie of last year. It premiered at Venice Film Festival last year and was released in Europe and America this year. It is the top ten dark horses of the year selected by many European and American media this year.

In recent years, South American movies always bring surprises to people. Before fistful of dollars, after Outstanding Citizen, all of them told the bizarre stories that happened in this magical continent of South America in a very meaningful and charming way.

There are still quite vivid descriptions of South American customs in Zama, this time in Paraguay. The protagonist Zama is a Spanish judge stationed in a South American colony. He wants to be transferred. The process of transfer is full of all kinds of bureaucracy. Through this process, we can get a glimpse of the chronic disease and irreparable bureaucracy of Latin American colonialism.

If you are tired of familiar stories and genres, Zama is the kind of movie you have been looking forward to.