Classic Film : The official CFB 2016 poll! CLOSED!

Welcome to the CFB poll for the year 2016! I run this poll slightly differently than the yearly polls as you may know them. Since there are always many holdover films from previous years, I am not as strict on dates. The rule is that any film released in the 2016 calendar year in your area is eligible (most release dates for all countries can be found on a film's IMDb front page). The cutoff for this is two years. Please do not include any films with IMDb dates earlier than 2014. No films that made our top 20 the previous year will be counted. I am truly sorry if Carol didn't open in your country until April of 2016, but it got plenty of recognition last year and doesn't need to be mentioned again (the poll results from last year will be listed near the top of the thread). Also feel free to include films that might rollout into your area before the poll ends. Please don't include January 2017 releases. We all know Monster Trucks is going to be awesome, but it will get its chance next year.

The poll will run for about a month, and end on February 5th at midnight, IMDb time (this isn't going to be super strict, but all lists are finalized when I begin counting the morning of Feb 5).

Choose your top 20 (or fewer) films of 2016. Please indicate whether your list is ranked or unranked. If ranked, your top film will receive 20 points, your second place will receive 19 and so forth. If unranked, each of your films will receive 10.5 points (the average amount of points if you had used all 20 of your slots ranked).

We also rank performances for this poll. Others (not 100% solidified yet, we'll need at least one more counter if anyone is interested; clayton has already volunteered). 10 spots are allowed for the categories Best Lead Actor, Best Lead Actress, Best Supporting Actor and Best Supporting Actress.

Please save your ballots, along with any updates. It will be kind of pointless for me to save everyone's lists, since, unlike the older yearly polls, your 2015 ballot is likely to change over the course of the month. Keep checking in to make sure the poll has remained intact. I'll post a link in my profile. If it disappears for any reason, I will repost it. I will try to keep it alive no matter what.

You know who else was just following orders? HITLER!

Here they are, the results to the CFB 2015 poll. Thanks to all who participated, whom I listed below (if you don't see your name on this list, please tell me):

zetes, OldAle1, morrison-dylan-fan, Addison-de-Witt, Perception_de_Ambiguity, Good_Will_Harding, howard.schumann, RealJim, sol-, Red-Barracuda, leifeng_2003, intothemist, Carmel98, jdidaco, soullimbo, PoppyTransfusion, Friend_of_Millhouse, clayton-12, ali-112, timmy-501, ushizo, melvelvit-1, outdoorcats, Antonius Block, Spikeopath, Rufus-T, oOgiandujaOo, zolaaar, Jimmy_the_Gent, rudeboy_murray, timshelboy, Modern_Classics, creightonhale, bkamberger, kijii, flaiky, Dan_Quixote, glen_esq, JoeBeducci, PoppertheKungFu-Dragon, JeffersonCody, awoodbine, cayado-coro, & LuxNatalis.

Title (Director) - Total Points, # of votes (1st place votes), place on last year's list (if the title is listed in blue)

1. Inside Out (Pete Docter & Ronnie Del Carmen) - 284, 21 (soullimbo, Friend_of_Millhouse, ushizo)
2. Room (Lenny Abrahamson) - 236.5, 20
3. Mad Max: Fury Road (George Miller) - 214, 17 (zetes)
4. Carol (Todd Haynes) - 209, 16 (outdoorcats, creightonhale, Dan_Quixote, JeffersonCody)
5. The Revenant (Alejandro González Iñárritu) - 202, 17 (zolaaar, glen_esq)
6. Ex Machina (Alex Garland) - 186, 17 (Red_Barracuda)
7. The Martian (Ridley Scott) - 180, 17
8. Brooklyn (John Crowley) - 170.5, 13 (Modern_Classics)
9. Sicario (Denis Villeneuve) - 152, 12 (sol-)
10. Spotlight (Thomas McCarthy) - 145.5, 13

11. 45 Years (Andrew Haigh) - 144, 12
12. Star Wars: The Force Awakens (J.J. Abrams) - 137.5, 15
13. The Hateful Eight (Quentin Tarantino) - 136.5, 11 (RealJim)
14. Phoenix (Christian Petzold) - 133, 13
15. The Assassin / Nie yin niang (Hou Hsiao-Hsien) - 131, 8 (Antonius Block)
16. Bridge of Spies (Steven Spielberg) - 127.5, 12 (Rufus-T)
17. Amy (Asif Kapadia) - 115, 9 (PoppyTransfusion)
18. Creed (Ryan Coogler) - 111, 9 (intothemist)
19. Me and Earl and the Dying Girl (Alfonso Gomez-Rejon) - 107.5, 9
20. It Follows (David Robert Mitchell) - 98, 8

21. Straight Outta Compton (F. Gary Gray) - 92, 8
22. Jauja (Lisandro Alonso) - 86, 6 (OldAle1)
23. Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation (Christopher McQuarrie) - 83.5, 6
24. Victoria (Sebastian Schipper) - 82, 7 (LuxNatalis)
24. World of Tomorrow (Don Herzfeldt) - 82, 7 (Carmel98)
26. Youth (Paolo Sorrentino) - 80.5, 8 (flaiky)
27. Son of Saul / Saul fia (László Nemes) - 80, 6 (howard.schumann)
28. Anomalisa (Charlie Kaufman) - 78, 6 (Joe Beducci)
29. The Big Short (Adam McKay) - 75, 6
30. Timbuktu (Abderrahmane Sissako) - 72.5, 7

31. Beasts of No Nation (Cary Joji Fukunaga) - 72, 7
32. Spectre (Sam Mendes) - 71.5, 6
33. The End of the Tour (James Ponsoldt) - 63, 5
34. Steve Jobs (Danny Boyle) - 61.5, 5
35. Slow West (John Maclean) - 61, 6
36. Tokyo Tribe (Shion Sono) - 58.5, 4 (Perception_de_Ambiguity)
37. The Lobster (Yorgos Lanthimos) - 55, 5
38. Mistress America (Noah Baumbach) - 53, 4
39. Clouds of Sils Maria (Olivier Assayas) - 52, 6
39. Jurassic World (Colin Trevorrow) - 52, 5

41. The Diary of a Teenage Girl (Marielle Heller) - 49, 5
41. Shaun the Sheep Movie (Mark Burton & Richard Starzak) - 49, 3 (awoodbine)
43. The Duke of Burgundy (Peter Strickland) - 47, 5
44. Far from the Madding Crowd (Tomas Vinterberg) - 45, 4
45. Tangerine (Sean Baker) - 44, 6
45. Mustang (Deniz Gamze Ergüven) - 44, 4
45. Crimson Peak (Guillermo del Toro) - 44, 3 (timmy_501)
45. The Salt of the Earth (Juliano Ribeiro Salgado & Wim Wenders) - 44, 3
49. The Forbidden Room (Guy Maddin) - 43, 4
49. Trumbo (Jay Roach) - 43, 4

51. The Look of Silence (Joshua Oppenheimer) - 41, 3
51. When Marnie Was There / Omoide no Mânî (Hiromasa Yonebayashi) - 41, 3
53. The Danish Girl (Tom Hooper) - 40.5, 4
54. Theeb (Naji Abu Nowar) - 38, 3
55. Bone Tomahawk (S. Craig Zahler) - 37.5, 5
56. Irrational Man (Woody Allen) - 37, 3
57. The Gift (Joel Edgerton) - 36.5, 4
57. Blackhat (Michael Mann) - 36.5, 3
59. Embrace of the Serpent / El abrazo de la serpiente (Ciro Guerra) - 36, 4
59. My Golden Days / Trois souvenirs de ma jeunesse (Arnaud Desplechin) - 36, 3 (leifeng_2003)

61. Love & Mercy (Bill Pohlad) - 34.5, 4
62. Kingsman: The Secret Service (Matthew Vaughn) - 31.5, 3
63. Cobain: Montage of Heck (Brett Morgen) - 30, 3
64. Cemetary of Splendor / Rak ti Khon Kaen (Apichatpong Weerasethakul) - 29, 3
64. The Voices (Marjane Satrapi) - 29. 3
66. A Most Violent Year (J.C. Chandor) - 26.5, 3; #60
67. Wild Tales / Relatos salvajes (Damián Szifrón) - 23.5, 3
68. Joy (David O. Russell) - 18.5, 3

Solitary First Place Votes

Bitter Lake (Adam Curtis) - morrison-dylan-fan (one more vote from OldAle1)
Breathe / Respire (Melanie Laurent) - Good_Will_Harding (one more vote from OldAle1)
Listen to Me Marlon (Stevan Riley) - Jimmy_the_Gent (one more vote from Perception_de_Ambiguity)
Paradise in Service / Jun zhong le yuan (Doze Niu) - clayton-12
White Nights on the Pier / Nuits blanches sur la jetée (Paul Vecchiali) - jdidaco, ali-112 (two first place votes in this case)
Last Cab to Darwin (Jeremy Sims) - PoppertheKungFu-Dragon (one more vote from JeffersonCody)
Li'l Quinquin / P'tit Quinquin (Bruno Dumont) - oOgiandujaOo
Song of the Sea (Tom Moore) - bkamberger (one more vote from zetes)
Suite Française (Saul Dibb) - timshelboy
What Happened, Miss Simone? (Liz Garbus) - kijii

You know who else was just following orders? HITLER!

1/8 - Added Janelle Monae from Hidden Figures to Supporting Actress

1/9 - Added Barry to the top 20 list and switched a couple of things around on it. Also added its star, Devon Terrell, to the Best Actors list.

1/15 - Added Silence, which was just masterful, easily one of Scorsese's best works. Also added Andrew Garfield in Best Actor (this blows away his gollygoshgee performance in Hacksaw Ridge) and Issei Ogata in Supporting Actor. I could have easily added Tadanobu Asano, Shinya Tsukamoto, Adam Driver and Yosuke Kubuzuka, as well. All are just fantastic. Unfortunately, as is common with Scorsese, the women of the picture are very secondary (there were more major roles for women in the 1974 Japanese version), but oh well.

1/20 - Added 20th Century Women, which lands near the bottom of my top 20. It doesn't entirely gel, but it's a wonderful collection of scenes. Bening is wonderful (and makes my list), but the gem of the cast is Greta Gerwig, who gives her best performance since Frances Ha. Elle Fanning is also excellent, her best of three very good performances this year, and both made my supporting actress list.

1/21 - Added Koreeda's wonderful Our Little Sister, but unfortunately, I placed it at spot #20 and couldn't raise it any higher. Also added Jarmusch's Paterson to the honorable mentions.

1/25 - Although I watched it on Sunday, I haven't gotten around to adding 13th to my list until this morning. It's exceptional, though. Everyone should watch it.

1/28 - Added O.J. Simpson: Made in America. Took me a few days, but I watched it in huge chunks when I watched it. Very addictive, and, obviously, such a remarkable tale told extremely well.

2/1 - Added Morris from America to the top 20, switched some stuff around, and added a couple of actors from Morris to the list.

1. The Witch (Robert Eggers)
2. Silence (Martin Scorsese)
3. Jackie (Pablo Larrain)
4. Hail, Caesar! (Joel & Ethan Coen)
5. Moonlight (Barry Jenkins)
6. Kubo and the Two Strings (Travis Knight)
7. Green Room (Jeremy Saulnier)
8. The Handmaiden (Chan-wook Park)
9. 13th (Ava DuVernay)
10. The Invitation (Karyn Kusama)
11. Queen of Katwe (Mira Nair)
12. Southside with You (Richard Tanne)
13. Barry (Vikram Gandhi)
14. Arrival (Denis Villeneuve)
15. The Fits (Anna Rose Holmer)
16. Morris from America (Chad Hartigan)
17. Manchester by the Sea (Kenneth Lonergan)
18. The Light Between Oceans (Derek Cianfrance)
19. 20th Century Women (Mike Mills)
20. Elle (Paul Verhoeven)

Honorable Mentions (ranked)
21. O.J. Simpson: Made in America (Ezra Edelman)
22. The Jungle Book (Jon Favreau)
23. Our Little Sister (Hirokazu Koreeda)
24. High-Rise (Ben Wheatley)
25. Paterson (Jim Jarmusch)
26. Maggie's Plan (Rebecca Miller)
27. Finding Dory (Andrew Stanton & Angus MacLane)
28. Lion (Garth Davis)
29. Florence Foster Jenkins (Stephen Frears)
30. The BFG (Steven Spielberg)

Some films I hope to see before the month is up: Toni Erdmann, Julieta, Paterson, The Red Turtle. And a lot more. My Netflix queue is loaded and there's a lot arriving in my city by Feb. 5th.

Performances:

Best Actor
1. Casey Affleck (Manchester by the Sea)
2. Ryan Gosling (The Nice Guys)
3. Ralph Ineson (The Witch)
4. Andrew Garfield (Silence)
5. Hugh Grant (Florence Foster Jenkins)
6. John Goodman (10 Cloverfield Lane)
7. Julian Dennison (Hunt for the Wilderpeople)
8. Colin Farrell (The Lobster)
9. Parker Sawyers (Southside with You)
10. Devon Terrell (Barry)

Best Actress
1. Natalie Portman (Jackie)
2. Anya Taylor-Joy (The Witch)
3. Alicia Vikander (The Light Between Oceans)
4. Hailee Steinfeld (The Edge of Seventeen)
5. Amy Adams (Arrival)
6. Min-hee Kim (The Handmaiden)
7. Tae-ri Kim (The Handmaiden)
8. Isabelle Huppert (Elle)
9. Annette Bening (20th Century Women)
9. Melissa Rauch (The Bronze)

Best Supporting Actor
1. Alden Ehrenreich (Hail, Caesar!)
2. David Oyelowo (Queen of Katwe)
3. Craig Robinson (Morris from America)
4. Zac Efron (Neighbors 2: Sorority Rising)
5. Stephen Lang (Don't Breathe)
6. Mahershala Ali (Moonlight)
7. Issei Ogata (Silence)
8. Harvey Scrimshaw (The Witch)
9. Ashton Sanders (Moonlight)
10. Chris Hemsworth (Ghostbusters)

Best Supporting Actress
1. Lupita Nyong'o (Queen of Katwe)
2. Michelle Williams (Manchester by the Sea)
3. Greta Gerwig (20th Century Women)
4. Carla Juni (Morris from America)
5. Kate Dickie (The Witch)
6. Angourie Rice (The Nice Guys)
7. Lily Gladstone (Certain Women)
8. Imogen Poots (Green Room)
9. Janelle Monae (Hidden Figures)
10. Nicole Kidman (Lion)

You know who else was just following orders? HITLER!

yeah.

1. La La Land (Damien Chazelle)
(no possibility at all of this changing)

2. Unimachi Diary / Our Little Sister (Hirokazu Koreeda)
3. Paterson (Jim Jarmusch)
4. Silence (Martin Scorsese)
5. Sunset Song (Terence Davies)[/blue]
6. Moonlight (Barry Jenkins)
7. The Thoughts That Once We Had (Thom Andersen)
8. Taxi (Jafar Panahi)
9. Saul fia / Son of Saul (László Nemes)
10. The Lobster (Yorgos Lanthimos)
11. Manchester by the Sea (Kenneth Lonergan)
12. Love & Friendship (Whit Stillman)
13. Maggie's Plan (Rebecca Miller)
14. Zootopia (Howard/Moore/Bush)
15. Aferim! (Radu Jude)
16. Elle (Paul Verhoeven)
17. Certain Women (Kelly Reichardt)
18. The Vvitch (Robert Eggers)
19. A Tale of Love and Darkness (Natalie Portman)
20. Arrival (Denis Villeneuve)

21. Nocturnal Animals (Tom Ford)
22. Ah-ga-ssi / The Handmaiden (Chan-wook Park)
23. Nahid (Ida Panahandeh)
24. Mustang (Deniz Gamze Ergüven)



2015 films
watched Jan 1 or later

LEAD ACTRESS:

1. Emma Stone, La La Land
2. Tae-ri Kim, Ah-ga-ssi
3. Min-hee Kim, Ah-ga-ssi
4. Annette Bening, 20th Century Women
5. Kate Beckinsale, Love & Friendship
6. Agyness Deyn, Sunset Song
7. Golshifteh Farahani, Paterson
8. Anya Taylor-Joy, The Vvitch
9. Haruka Ayase, Unimachi Diary
10. Isabelle Huppert, Elle

LEAD ACTOR:

1. Colin Farrell, The Lobster
2. Ryan Gosling, La La Land
3. Géza Röhrig, Saul fia
4. Casey Affleck, Manchester by the Sea
5. Jake Gylenhaal, Nocturnal Animals
6. Ralph Ineson, The Vvitch
7. Paul Dano, Swiss Army Man
8. Andrew Garfield, Silence
9. Adam Driver, Paterson
10. Teodor Corban, Aferim!

SUPPORTING ACTRESS:

1. Lily Gladstone, Certain Women
2. Viola Davis, Fences
3. Michelle Williams, Manchester by the Sea
4. Kristen Stewart, Certain Women
5. Suzu Hirose, Unimachi Diary
6. Naomi Harris, Moonlight
7. Greta Gerwig, Certain Women
8. Elle Fanning, Certain Women
9. Nicole Kidman, Lion
10. Sienna Miller, High-Rise

SUPPORTING ACTOR

1. Mahershala Ali, Moonlight
2. Trevante Rhodes, Moonlight
3. Liam Neeson, Silence
4. Michael Shannon, Nocturnal Animals
5. Joel Edgerton, Midnight Special
6. Lucas Hedges, Manchester by the Sea
7. Aaron Eckhart, Sully
8. Luke Evans, High-Rise
9. Laurent Lafitte, Elle
10. Dev Patel, Lion

SPECIAL NON-HUMAN AWARD

1. Nellie, Paterson

Wish I had more time to mull these over, them's the breaks.

Be true, Unbeliever.

I saw La La Land a few days ago. I liked it okay, but felt it was too much empty nostalgia. The lead performances are very good, though, and I was saddened that Emma Stone ranked below my top 10. Like last year, it was a strong year for actresses.

You know who else was just following orders? HITLER!

It was a heckuva lot more than "empty nostalgia" for me, I think - though who knows? When you've seen as many films as either of us have seen, it's hard to find something "new", at least when it comes to conventional narrative films. I'm still trying to figure out exactly what it adds up to. At any rate, I've seen it twice and will likely see it at least twice more while it's still playing - the particular charge I got out of it is something I can't remember feeling since Defending Your Life, 25 years ago.


Be true, Unbeliever.

There are some very original films this year, like, for instance, The Witch and The Handmaiden. Among several others, those feel like something I've never seen before. I have a review coming tomorrow, so you can read more there.

You know who else was just following orders? HITLER!

Haven't seen The Witch but I wouldn't call The Handmaiden all that original as a narrative; perhaps having a lot of sex in this kind of story-told-from-different-angles narrative is something new, but otherwise the concept certainly goes back to Rashomon and probably earlier. Not that I'm complaining, I think it was very good and in fact it's one I suspect I'll like more on another viewing - but I remember feeling at the end like it wasn't in fact as new or fresh as I'd hoped for, as it seemed at first. And in many respects it's a straight line from Park's earlier films (especially JSA) to this one.

Anyway "originality" is overrated. Like NOLAN. And chocolate.

Be true, Unbeliever.

I don't know of any film that's pulled off the narrative tricks of alternate points of view as well as The Handmaiden. There's that glorious moment when you finally know for sure that, yes, the one woman does in fact love the other and wasn't conning her that's just rapturous.

You know who else was just following orders? HITLER!

L'Avenir
Cafe Society
Denial
Elle
Fences
Hidden Figures
The Invitation
Jackie
Julieta
La La Land
Lion
The Lobster
Loving
Manchester By The Sea
Moonlight
Nocturnal Animals
Queen Of Katwe
20th Century Women
Weiner Dog
The Witch

Casey Affleck Manchester By The Sea
Joel Edgerton Loving
Ryan Gosling La La Land
Hugh Grant Florence Foster Jenkins
Jake Gyllenhaal Nocturnal Animals
Tom Hanks Sully
Ralph Ineson The Witch
Michael Keaton The Founder
Matthew McConaughey Gold
Denzel Washington Fences

Annette Bening 20th Century Women
Jessica Chastain Miss Sloane
Viola Davis Fences
Isabelle Huppert Elle
Isabelle Huppert L'Avenir
Ruth Negga Loving
Natalie Portman Jackie
Emma Stone La La Land
Meryl Streep Florence Foster Jenkins
Rachel Weisz Denial

Mahershala Ali Moonlight
Jeff Bridges Hell Or High Water
Kevin Costner Hidden Figures
Alden Ehrenreich Hail Caesar
Eddie Murphy Mr. Church
Liam Neeson Silence
Michael Shannon Nocturnal Animals
Timothy Spall Denial
Tom Wilkinson Denial
Mykelti Williamson Fences

Tammy Blanchard Tallulah
Judy Davis The Dressmaker
Kirsten Dunst Hidden Figures
Dakota Fanning American Pastoral
Elle Fanning Live By Night
Naomie Harris Moonlight
Nicole Kidman Genius
Nicole Kidman Lion
Margo Martindale The Hollars
Lupita Nyong'o Queen Of Katwe

In ancient Egypt, cats were worshipped as gods. They have never forgotten this

Eye in the Sly, eh? Haven't heard of that one!

You know who else was just following orders? HITLER!

It's a documentary on Stallone, you really should check it out! But since I doubt it's going to any other votes, I'll switch to Eye In The Sky instead.

In ancient Egypt, cats were worshipped as gods. They have never forgotten this

Hi Zetes,here is my current lists,in order:

1:HyperNormalisation (Adam Curtis)

2:Trump vs. Bernie in the First Ever @midnight Presidential Debate (Michael Dimich)

3: Ouija: Origin of Evil (Mike Flanagan)

4:The Devil of Christmas (Inside No. 9 X-Mas Special) (Graeme Harper)

5:The Girl with All the Gifts (Colm McCarthy)

6:Train to Busan (Sang-ho Yeon)

7:Before I Wake (Mike Flanagan)

8:Ethel & Ernest (Roger Mainwood)

9:Hush (Mike Flanagan)

10:Deep Water (mini-series) (Shawn Seet)

11: Tallulah (Sian Heder)

12:The Fundamentals of Caring ( Rob Burnett)

13: Zootopia ( Byron Howard, Rich Moore, Jared Bush)

14:Captain America: Civil War (Anthony Russo, Joe Russo)

15:Finding Dory (Andrew Stanton, Angus MacLane)

16:Rogue One: A Star Wars Story (Gareth Edwards)

17:The Girl on the Train (Tate Taylor)

18:Jason Bourne (Paul Greengrass)

19: Bad Moms ( Jon Lucas/Scott Moore)

20: Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them (David Yates)

Best Actor:

1:Anthony Atamanuik (Trump V Bernie)

2:Noah Taylor (Deep Water)

3: Neel Sethi (The Jungle Book)

4: Albert Brooks (Finding Dory)

5:Paul Rudd (The Fundamentals of Caring)

6: Joel Edgerton (Jane Got A Gun)

7:John Gallagher Jr (Hush)

8: Jason Bateman (Zootopia)

9: Jim Broadbent (Ethel & Ernest)

10: Matt Damon (Jason Bourne)




Best Actress:

1:Kate Siegel (Hush)

2:Sennia Nanua (Girl With All The Gifts)

3: Alicia Vikander (Jason Bourne)

4: Soo-an Kim (Train to Busan)

5: Andrea Riseborough (The Witness for the Prosecution )

6: Ellen Page (Tallulah)

7: Yael Stone (Deep Water)

8: Kate Bosworth (Before I Wake)

9: Paula Patton (Warcraft: The Beginning)

10: Ellen DeGeneres (Finding Dory)

Best Supporting Actress:

1: Gemma Arterton (Girl With All The Gifts)

2: Christina Applegate (Bad Moms)

3: Selena Gomez (The Fundamentals of Caring)

4: Allison Janney (Tallulah)

5: Annalise Basso (Ouija:Origin of Evil)

6:Glen Close (Girl With All The Gifts)

7: Jenny Slate (Secret Life Of Pets)

8: Thea Sofie Loch Næss (The Last King)

9:Chloe Pirrie (To Walk Invisible: The Bronte Sisters)

10:Rebecca Ferguson (The Girl on the Train.)

Supporting actor:

1:Paddy Considine (Girl With All The Gifts)

2: Bill Murray (Jungle Book)

3:Tommy Lee Jones (Jason Bourne)

4:Henry Thomas (Ouija:Origin of Evil)

5:Ed O'Neill (Finding Dory)

6: Bryan Cranston (Kung-Fu Panda 3)

7: Ben Kingsley (The Jungle Book)

8: Danny McBride (The Angry Birds Movie)

9:Christoph Waltz (The Legend of Tarzan)

10: Dominic Cooper ( Warcraft: The Beginning)

Oh, something like this eventually. I'll think about actors, etc., later (since I haven't done one of these in a while).

1. The Witch
2. Silence
3. Sing Street
4. I Am Not Your Negro

The rest in some sort of order.
20th Century Women
Interrogation
The Handmaiden
Three
Krisha
Moonlight
The Mermaid
A Fire at Sea
The Wailing
The Edge of Seventeen
Hell or High Water
The Invitation
10 Cloverfield Lane
Cameraperson
A Man Called Ove
Allied
A Monster with A Thousand Heads
Finding Dory/Moana/Zootopia
The Jungle Book
Being 17
Star Trek Beyond
Peter and the Farm
Sherpa
Ixcanul

I have not seen: Manchester by the Sea, Lion, Arrival, Elle, Certain Women, Julietta, La La Land, Fences, Jackie, Toni Erdmann, etc.







I wanna wreck my stockings in some jukebox dive.

I remember last year (or maybe it was even the year before) I wasn't able to count your list because you didn't organize it in a way I could figure out what you wanted me to count. If you forget to come back and edit, I'll probably just count your top listed entry as your #1 and count down to #20. I try to count everyone's list, even if they don't get it edited in a discernable fashion, if I can.

You know who else was just following orders? HITLER!

Time to put this to bed - the final list is gonna look like:

1. After the Storm Umi yori mo mada fukaku (2016)
2. Hell or High Water (2016)
3. The Handmaiden Ah-ga-ssi (2016)
4. Green Room (2015)
5. Port of Call Daap hyut cam mui (2015)
6. Our Little Sister Umimachi Diary (2015)
7. The Nice Guys (2016)
8. The Wailing Goksung (2016)
9. Train to Busan Busanhaeng (2016)
10. The Mermaid Mei ren yu (2016)
11. A Man and a Woman Nam-gwa yeo (2016)
12. Paths of the Soul Kang rinpoche (2015)
13. The Treasure Comoara (2015)
14. Kaili Blues Lu bian ye can (2015)
15. Himeanole Himeanôru (2016)
16. Sweet Red Bean Paste An (2015)
17. Raman Raghav 2.0 (2016)
18. Aquarius (2016)
19. Girl Asleep (2015)
20. Graduation Bacalaureat (2016)

and 15 that I would have loved to include, but there just wasn't enough room:

10 Cloverfield Lane (2016)
Captain Fantastic (2016)
Cock and Bull Zhui xiong zhe ye (2016)
Dheepan (2015)
The Fits (2015)
Goldstone (2016)
Heart Attack Freelance: Ham puay Ham phak Ham rak mor (2015)
Hunt for the Wilderpeople (2016)
The Invitation (2015)
Love & Peace Rabu & Pîsu (2015)
Loving (2016)
A Man Called Ove En man som heter Ove (2015)
Midnight Special (2016)
Mountain Cry (2015)
Toni Erdmann (2016)

This is a great poll for people like me, who want to separate the wheat from the chaff before we plonk down some hard earned $$$ on a DVD or movie ticket.

My choices for 2016? Sorry, I don't have any - yet. hacksaw ridge and Hail Caesar were both disappointing.

I've mentioned MoviePass to you before. You might want to check it out. I have no clue where you live, but in some areas I think it's as little as $25. Of course, few have the kind of stomach for garbage that I do. I see a lot more bad movies using it! Plus, it doesn't cover the arthouse movies, which sucks! Anyway, I'm glad to know the poll is useful to you even if you can't participate.

You know who else was just following orders? HITLER!

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I've mentioned MoviePass to you before. You might want to check it out. I have no clue where you live, but in some areas I think it's as little as $25.

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Thanks, I appreciate it. Haven't found it where I live - yet. I'll keep on trying because its a great way to see films.

It's true not all movie theaters take it. Check out their website: www.moviepass.com/

You know who else was just following orders? HITLER!

rocean, you hit the nail on the head. Love these polls because then I can go find the films that won and watch those. Saves much money.

Shout out to 'Horace and Pete' starring Louis C.K., Steve Buscemi, Alan Alda, Edie Falco, Laurie Metcalf, Jessica Lange and more, which is the best thing recently made, but is unfortunately considered ineligible

#1 Horace and Pete
#1 Bo Burnham: Make Happy
#2 Elle
#3 The Neon Demon
#4 /The Handmaiden
#5 Arrival
#6 Paterson
#7 Midnight Special
#8 Toni Erdmann
#9 Rogue One
#10 Rick and Morty: State of Georgia Vs. Denver Fenton Allen
#11 Lo and Behold, Reveries of the Connected World
#12 Hell or High Water
#13 La La Land
#14 Sausage Party
#15 Hail, Caesar!
#16 Deadpool
#17 Silence
#18 10 Cloverfield Lane
#19 人/Three
#20 Morgan

Lead actresses:

#1 Isabelle Huppert (Elle)
#2 Tae-ri Kim (The Handmaiden)
#3 Min-hee Kim (The Handmaiden)
#4 Emma Stone (La La Land)
#5 Elle Fanning (The Neon Demon)
#6 Sandra Hüller (Toni Erdmann)
#7 Amy Adams (Arrival)
#8 Felicity Jones (Rogue One)
#9 Mary Elizabeth Winstead (10 Cloverfield Lane)
#10 Golshifteh Farahani (Paterson)


Lead actors:

#1 Bo Burnham (Bo Burnham: Make Happy)
#2 Peter Simonischek (Toni Erdmann)
#3 Justin Roiland (Rick and Morty: State of Georgia Vs. Denver Fenton Allen)
#4 Ryan Gosling (La La Land)
#5 Andrew Garfield (Silence)
#6 Adam Driver (Paterson)
#7 Jeremy Renner (Arrival)
#8 John Goodman (10 Cloverfield Lane)
#9 Jaeden Lieberher (Midnight Special)
#10 Michael Shannon (Midnight Special)


Supporting actresses:

#1 Jena Malone (The Neon Demon)
#2 Edie Falco (Horace and Pete)
#3 Laurie Metcalf (Horace and Pete)
#4 Jessica Lange (Horace and Pete)
#2 Tilda Swinton (Hail, Caesar!)
#3 Kirsten Dunst (Midnight Special)
#7 Karen Pittman (Horace and Pete)
#8 Aidy Bryant (Horace and Pete)
#9 Maria Dizzia (Horace and Pete)
#4 Anne Consigny (Elle)
#5 Wei Zhao (Three)


Supporting actors:

#1 Steve Buscemi (Horace and Pete)
#2 Alan Alda (Horace and Pete)
#1 Nellie (it's actually a she that plays a he called Marvin) (Paterson)
#2 Jung-woo Ha (The Handmaiden)
#5 Louis C.K. (Horace and Pete)
#3 Alden Ehrenreich (Hail, Caesar!)
#4 Jeff Bridges (Hell or High Water)
#5 Laurent Lafitte (Elle)
#6 Charles Berling (Elle)
#7 Jin-woong Jo (The Handmaiden)
#8 Mads Mikkelsen (Rogue One)
#9 Ben Foster (Hell or High Water)
#10 Issei Ogata (Silence)

IT iS A GiANT CREEPY FiSH HEAD THiNG!

1. Train to Busan (Busanhaeng)
2. Nocturnal Animals
3. Under the Shadow
4. Shepherds and Butchers
5. Bone Tomahawk *
6. The Colony (Colonia) *
7. Seoul Station
8. Harold and Lillian: A Hollywood Love Story *
9. Arrival
10. Tickled
11. The Conjuring 2
12. The Hollow Point
13. A Conspiracy of Faith (Flaskepost fra P)
14. Shadow World
15. Lost in France
16. Santoalla
17. The Love Witch
18. The Invitation
19. David Brent: Life on the Road
20. The Neon Demon

* - 2015 but released in the UK in 2016

Frazer
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Hi Frazer,I hope you are having a good weekend,and got to say the that is a terrific list,with you giving space to the mainstream (Conjuring,Arrival) and the alt (Tickled,Santoalla.)

Being impatient for it to hit DVD/Blu next week, (plus,also getting plenty of free time for the first time in weeks!)I finally caught Train to Busan today,and wow mate,what a superb movie. Two things I really liked was how confined the director made the train look,and also how the (mostly) single setting never ran out of steam,thanks to the writer always putting new dangers on the tracks.

Although he does not see that many Asia flicks,I was wondering if you think Busan is a flick that Spike would enjoy?

Watching it as a 2016 zombie double bill,I was wondering if you have seen The Girl With All The Gift? I found it to be an excellent,slightly Ex_Machina British Drama Horror.

Looking at my ratings over the last 5 or so years,I was wondering what your take is on how the 2010's have been for Horror? My take is that in the 90's the genre hit a low point until the late 90's,when Scream and J-Horror picked things up. Whilst things got more active with Gorno and remakes,I feel that the early-mid 2000's was an indecisive time for the genre,due to the remakes stopping the big studios from risking original work,and the indie scene having guys like Eli Roth doing "tribute" movies,which despite pushing the gore,would cut to a joke instead of a shock. For a turning point,I would say the arrival of Blumehouse with PA1 really hit a chord when the low-budget Insidious beat Scream 4 at the box office,which I feel has help usher in the best half decade and a bit for Horror since the 80's.

Alright there mate. That's great that you enjoyed Train to Busan. I thought it was such a kinetic movie that benefited from having great characters too.

That's the second time in a week that I have been given The Girl with the Gift as a recommendation. Will defo have to check it out.

I fully agree with you that the 90's, specifically the mid-90's was a real low point in the horror genre. There was a real dearth of worthwhile movies. It seems that the genres of the day were crime, action and psychological thrillers but horror had kind of ran out of ideas at that point. Fast-forwarding to the 2010's, well quite honestly, I don't think I am too much of an expert so I am unsure how good things are. I've seen a few good ones, occasional ones which were excellent, but I am not sure overall how it compares to the 2000's. It seems quite similar to me in terms of quality on the whole.

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January 5 - updated for The Edge of Seventeen

January 6 - updated for Sully

January 15 - updated for Don't Breathe

January 17 - updated for I, Daniel Blake and Jackie

January 18 - updated for The Neon Demon

January 19 - updated for Lion

January 21 - updated for Captain Fantastic

January 22 - updated for Zootopia

January 23 - updated for Café Society

January 24 - updated for Hunt for the Wilderpeople

February 4 - updated for Split and (apparently) La La Land

1. Nocturnal Animals - Tom Ford
2. Arrival - Denis Villeneuve
3. Eye in the Sky - Gavin Hood
4. volution - Lucile Hadzihalilovic
5. Elle - Paul Verhoeven
6. Embrace of the Serpent - Ciro Guerra
7. The Founder - John Lee Hancock
8. Hell or High Water - David Mackenzie
9. I, Daniel Blake - Ken Loach
10. Allied - Robert Zemeckis
11. The Neon Demon - Nicolas Winding Refn
12. Midnight Special - Jeff Nichols
13. Money Monster - Jodie Foster
14. Florence Foster Jenkins - Stephen Frears
15. The Edge of Seventeen - Kelly Fremon Craig
16. Hunt for the Wilderpeople - Taika Waititi
17. Hail, Caesar! - Joel & Ethan Coen
18. La La Land - Damien Chazelle
19. Zootopia - Byron Howard & Rich Moore
20. Lion - Garth Davis

Also seen / not good enough (rough order of preference): Split; The Beatles: Eight Days a Week; Scouts Guide to the Zombie Apocalypse; The Invitation; Trumbo; Experimenter; 11 Minutes; A Bigger Splash; 10 Cloverfield Lane; Sully; Café Society; Captain Fantastic; Don't Breathe; Intruders; The Shallows; Jackie; The VVitch; Bone Tomahawk; Central Intelligence; Our Brand is Crisis; Barely Lethal; Dirty Grandpa; Concussion; Suffragette; London Has Fallen; The Forbidden Room.

1. Jake Gyllenhaal, Nocturnal Animals
2. Hugh Grant, Florence Foster Jenkins
3. Michael Keaton, The Founder
4. Dave Johns, I, Daniel Blake
5. Bryan Cranston, Trumbo
6. Brad Pitt, Allied
7. Tom Hanks, Sully
8. Dev Patel, Lion
9. Sunny Pawar, Lion
10. Peter Sarsgaard, Experimenter

1. Anya Taylor-Joy, The VVitch
2. Amy Adams, Arrival
3. Elle Fanning, The Neon Demon
4. Natalie Portman, Jackie
5. Emma Stone, La La Land
6. Isabelle Huppert, Elle
7. Tilda Swinton, A Bigger Splash
8. Helen Mirren, Eye in the Sky
9. Hailee Steinfeld, The Edge of Seventeen
10. Mary Elizabeth Winstead, 10 Cloverfield Lane

1. Michael Shannon, Nocturnal Animals
2. Jeff Bridges, Hell or High Water
3. Ben Foster, Hell or High Water
4. John Goodman, 10 Cloverfield Lane
5. Sam Neill, Hunt for the Wilderpeople
6. Hayden Szeto, The Edge of Seventeen
7. Woody Harrelson, The Edge of Seventeen
8. George MacKay, Captain Fantastic
9. Stephen Lang, Don't Breathe
10. Aaron Eckhart, Sully

1. Anya Taylor-Joy, Split
2. Amy Adams, Nocturnal Animals
3. Kyra Sedgwick, The Edge of Seventeen
4. Hayley Squires, I, Daniel Blake
5. Ellen Fanning, Trumbo
6. Helen Mirren, Trumbo
7. Diane Lane, Trumbo
8. Nicole Kidman, Lion
9. Laura Dern, The Founder
10. Kristen Stewart, Café Society

Most people think I'm mad. At least I know I'm mad.

1. Horace and Pete (Louis C.K.) [dramedy mini-series]
2. The Blackcoat's Daughter / February (Oz Perkins) [atmospheric psychological/supernatural horror]
3. 路边餐 / Kaili Blues (Gan Bi) [the future of cinema, hypnotic mindbender]
4. Christine (Antonio Campos) [film]
5. Homo sapiens (Nikolaus Geyrhalter) [wordless experimental documentary, post-apocalyptic/post-human earth evocation, meditative mood piece]
6. Der Nachtmahr / The Nightmare (Akiz / Achim Bornhak) [arthouse creature feature, psychological horror]
7. Bo Burnham: Make Happy (Bo Burnham & Christopher Storer) [stand-up comedy show]
8. Manhattan Night / Manhattan Nocturne (Brian DeCubellis) [NYC-based present-day low-key neo-noir]
9. 人 / Three (Johnnie To) [cops-and-robbers(-and-doctors) suspense, prolonged-build-up action movie, morality play, chamber piece]
10. I Am the Pretty Thing That Lives in the House (Oz Perkins) [gothic tone poem, evocative ghost horror]
11. 海まだ深く / After the Storm (Hirokazu Kore-eda) [understated protagonist-centric family drama, loser portrait]
12. Toni Erdmann (Maren Ade) [alienation & existential cinema by way of father-daughter relationship drama, social satire, feminist drama]
13. La deuxième nuit (Eric Pauwels) [personal love letter, essay film]
14. Le convoi / Fast Convoy (Frédéric Schoendoerffer) [on-the-road action, drug-smuggler thriller]
15. Rick and Morty: State of Georgia Vs. Denver Fenton Allen (Erica Hayes)
16. Midnight Special (Jeff Nichols) [superhero movie/action-thriller subversion, spiritual genre film]
17. Anomalisa (Charlie Kaufman)
18. Sausage Party (Greg Tiernan & Conrad Vernon)
19. Sully (Clint Eastwood)
20. The Bronze (Bryan Buckley)
HMs:
The Invitation (Karyn Kusama) [dinner party thriller, paranoid chamber play]
Deadpool (Tim Miller) [comedic superhero movie refreshment]
Elle (Paul Verhoeven) [genre subversion, feminist thriller, drama]
The Lobster
Deadpool
Hail, Caesar!
Son of Saul
The Night Of
The Hateful Eight
Bone Tomahawk
The Nice Guys


- Lead Actress -

1. Melissa Rauch in The Bronze
2. Rebecca Hall in Christine
3. Sandra Hüller in Toni Erdmann
4. Isabelle Huppert in Elle
5. Anya Taylor-Joy in The Witch / The VVitch: A New-England Folktale
6. Carolyn Genzkow in Der Nachtmahr
7. Margaret Qualley in Kenzo World
8. Tilda Swinton in A Bigger Splash
9. Kate Siegel in Hush
10. Alycia Debnam-Carey in Friend Request
HMs:
Yun Lin in The Mermaid
Amy Adams in Arrival


- Supporting Actress -

1. Laurie Metcalf in Horace and Pete
2. Kirin Kiki in After the Storm
3. Lucy Boynton in The Blackcoat's Daughter / February
4. Jessica Lange in Horace and Pete
5. Emma Roberts in The Blackcoat's Daughter / February
6. Paula Prentiss in I Am the Pretty Thing That Lives in the House
7. Jennifer Jason Leigh in Anomalisa
8. Ellen Burstyn in Wiener-Dog
9. Teyonah Parris in Chi-Raq
10. Karen Pittman in Horace and Pete
HMs:
Dakota Fanning in The Escape
Tilda Swinton in Hail, Caesar!
Ariane Labed in The Lobster
Léa Seydoux in The Lobster
Jeannie Berlin in The Night Of
Edie Falco in Horace and Pete
Kiernan Shipka in The Blackcoat's Daughter / February
Wei Zhao in Three
Satomi Kobayashi in After the Storm
Maria Dizzia in Christine
Gina Carano in Deadpool
Haley Lu Richardson in The Bronze
Imogen Poots in Green Room
Laura Linney in Sully
Kristen Wiig in Sausage Party
Amara Karan in The Night Of
Yôko Maki in After the Storm
Yuqi Zhang in The Mermaid
Sean Young in Bone Tomahawk
Maria Bello in Lights Out
Angourie Rice in The Nice Guys
Roxane Duran in volution
Jennifer Beals in Manhattan Night / Manhattan Nocturne
Morena Baccarin in Deadpool
Min-hee Kim in The Handmaiden
Tae-ri Kim in The Handmaiden


- Lead Actor -

1. Bo Burnham in Bo Burnham: Make Happy
2. Orenthal James "O.J." Simpson AKA The Juice in O.J.: Made in America
3. Adrien Brody in Manhattan Night / Manhattan Nocturne
4. Peter Simonischek in Toni Erdmann
5. Tom Hanks in Sully
6. Nicolas Cage in Dog Eat Dog
7. Nicolas Cage in Army of One
8. Hiroshi Abe in After the Storm
9. Ryan Gosling in The Nice Guys
10. Justin Roiland in Rick and Morty: State of Georgia Vs. Denver Fenton Allen
HMs:
Géza Röhrig in Son of Saul
Riz Ahmed in The Night Of
Ryan Reynolds in Deadpool
Logan Marshall-Green in The Invitation
Colin Farrell in The Lobster
Adrien Brody in Come Together: H&M
Elmer Bäck in Eisenstein in Guanajuato
George Clooney in Hail, Caesar!
Andy Samberg in Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping
Chris Pine in Hell or High Water
Russell Crowe in The Nice Guys
Michael Moore in Michael Moore in TrumpLand
Ben Affleck in Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice
Tom Hiddleston in High-Rise
Mark Rylance in The BFG
Anton Yelchin in Green Room
David Bowie in David Bowie: Lazarus


- Supporting Actor -

1. Steve Buscemi in Horace and Pete
2. Jonah Hill in War Dogs
3. Bill Camp in The Night Of
4. Willem Dafoe in Dog Eat Dog
5. Louis C.K. in Horace and Pete
6. James Remar in The Blackcoat's Daughter / February
7. John Turturro in The Night Of
8. Tom Noonan in Anomalisa
9. Alan Alda in Horace and Pete
10. Aaron Eckhart in Sully
HMs:
Michael Shannon in Midnight Special
Steven Wright in Horace and Pete
Richard Jenkins in Bone Tomahawk
Jaeden Lieberher in Midnight Special
Kurt Russel in Bone Tomahawk
Michael C. Hall in Christine
Joel Edgerton in Midnight Special
Ralph Fiennes in Hail, Caesar!
Ralph Ineson in The Witch / The VVitch: A New-England Folktale
Ralph Fiennes in A Bigger Splash
Christopher Matthew Cook in Dog Eat Dog
Jonah Hill in Sausage Party
Ben Foster in Hell or High Water
Tom Noonan in Horace and Pete
Bob Balaban in I Am the Pretty Thing That Lives in the House
Patrick Stewart in Green Room
Jeremy Irons in High-Rise
Patrick Wilson in Bone Tomahawk
Laurent Lafitte de la Comédie Française in Elle
Gary Cole in The Bronze
Matthew Fox in Bone Tomahawk
Christian Berkel in Elle
Jeff Bridges in Hell or High Water
Geoffrey Rush in Gods of Egypt
Keanu Reeves in The Neon Demon
Jeffrey Ross in Comedy Central Roast of Rob Lowe
Gil Birmingham in Hell or High Water
Jung-woo Ha in The Handmaiden[/black]

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Not sure I like Horace & Pete up there. I've been meaning to check it out, but from what I understand it was a weekly show that was meant to be renewed for a second season, but it cost too much.

You know who else was just following orders? HITLER!

Admittedly 'Horace and Pete' wasn't announced as a mini-series from the start from what I gathered, but C.K. overall gave out very little information about what the hell this thing is that he is distributing through his own website without any notable promotion. It was a fairly experimental endeavor for C.K and for all I know he didn't even know himself where or when he wanted it to end, but as it approached its concluding episodes I think it certainly did feel like a self-contained thing, and I don't expect any more episodes to follow. Ultimately I certainly consider it to be a mini-series and I haven't heard anything about that the primary reason it's finished is because of money issues. C.K. financed the whole thing out of his own pocket, which most importantly means that he has total control over it, and he said that he is finished with the project, so I'll take that as the final word on it.

- just another film blog -
http://perception-de-ambiguity.tumblr.com

From what I heard he lost a bunch of money on it. Anyway, I'll check it out over the course of the month and make a ruling on it later on.

You know who else was just following orders? HITLER!

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Not sure I like Horace & Pete up there. I've been meaning to check it out, but from what I understand it was a weekly show that was meant to be renewed for a second season, but it cost too much.

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Just for the record book zetes, if you had seen Louis C.K.'s brilliant, one-of-a-kind tragi-comedy HORACE & PETE you would realize it is a one-off and that after the shocking ending there could never be a follow-up. All the episodes are different lengths and it tells a story that ends.

No, it's not allowed. It's a TV series. Sure, not a conventional one, but it would fit in fine on Netflix (and is fitting in fine on Hulu).

You know who else was just following orders? HITLER!

(smile emoticon) Oh dear, I wasn't going to vote for HORACE & PETE, but now I am contemplating slotting it in at number one on my ballot as a protest vote. I fecking loved it so.

I am only jesting becauase I generally don't vote for TV series and documentaries on the annual poll. That said, I will be voting for the searing 13th and the sprawling, brilliant O.J. MADE IN AMERICA this year, because they are simply stunning films and, like ONCE UPON A TIME IN THE WEST and THE WILD BUNCH, they transcend genre. So many good films this year.

Funny thing, though. There are going to be a lot more TV and cable TV-series coming into the frame in the next few years. Because, sooner rather than later, it is only going to be sci-fi blockbusters, superhero trash and big budget garbage at the movies, and all the cool stuff will be made for TV and cable TV. The movies as we know them are going to be a thing of the past one of these days.

Best Film

1. Elle (Paul Verhoeven)
2. Moonlight (Barry Jenkins)
3. The Witch (Robert Eggers)
4. Sieranevada (Cristi Puiu)
5. HyperNormalisation (Adam Curtis)
6. La La Land (Damien Chazelle)
7. Sunset Song (Terence Davies)
8. The Red Turtle (Michael Dudok de Wit)
9. Tokyo Tribe (Sion Sono)
10. The Invitation (Karyn Kusama)
11. Bleak Street (Arturo Ripstein)
12. Train to Busan (Yeon Sang-ho)
13. Toni Erdmann (Maren Ade)
14. Glory (Kristina Grozeva, Petar Valchanov)
15. The Handmaiden (Park Chan-wook)
16. Hell or High Water (David Mackenzie)
17. Bacalaureat (Cristian Mungiu)
18. A Monster Calls (J.A. Bayona)
19. I, Daniel Blake (Ken Loach)
20. Love & Friendship (Whit Stillman)


Best Lead Actress

1. Isabelle Huppert (Elle)
2. Kate Beckinsale (Love & Friendship)
3. Sandra Hüller (Toni Erdmann)
4. Agyness Deyn (Sunset Song)
5. Amy Adams (Arrival)
6. Hayley Squires (I, Daniel Blake)
7. Cynthia Nixon (A Quiet Passion)
8. Blake Lively (The Shallows)
9. Anya Taylor-Joy (The Witch)
10. Sara Vertongen (Le Ciel Flamand)

Special mention: Bryce Dallas Howard in Black Mirror, Season 3, Episode 1, Nosedive


Best Lead Actor

1. Mimi Branescu (Sieranevada)
2. Adrian Titieni (Bacalaureat)
3. John Goodman (10 Cloverfield Lane)
4. Peter Van den Begin (King of the Belgians)
5. Peter Simonischek (Toni Erdmann)
6. Lewis MacDougall (A Monster Calls)
7. Casey Affleck (Manchester by the Sea)
8. Dave Johns (I, Daniel Blake)
9. Viggo Mortensen (Captain Fantastic)
10. Adam Driver (Paterson)


Best Supporting Actress

1. Lily Gladstone (Certain Women)
2. Veerle Baetens (The Ardennes)
3. Esra Vandenbussche (Le Ciel Flamand)
4. Kim Hwan-hee (The Wailing)
5. Naomie Harris (Moonlight)
6. Kate Dickie (The Witch)
7. Laura Dern (Certain Women)
8. Michelle Williams (Manchester by the Sea)
9. Michelle Williams (Certain Women)
10. Sienna Miller (High Rise)


Best Supporting Actor

1. Alden Ehrenreich (Hail, Caesar!)
2. André Holland (Moonlight)
3. Tom Bennett (Love & Friendship)
4. Mahershala Ali (Moonlight)
5. John Carroll Lynch (The Invitation)
6. Barkhad Abdi (Eye in the Sky)
7. George MacKay (Captain Fantastic)
8. Harvey Scrimshaw (The Witch)
9. Jared Harris (Certain Women)
10. Stijn Van Opstael (De Premier)


I've seen the future, baby: it is murder!

A weak year so far this is just an ephemeral top, hopefully.
Edits

1. Closet Monster ( Stephen Dunn , 2015 )
2. Sweet Dreams / Fai bei sogni ( Marco Bellocchio, 2016 )
3. Kaili / Lu bian ye can ( Gan Bi, 2015 )
4. Manchester by the Sea( Kenneth Lonergan, 2016 )
5. Slack Bay / Ma Loute ( Bruno Dumont , 2016 )
6. The Handmaiden / Ah-ga-ssi ( Chan-wook Park , 2016 )
7. Graduation / Bacalaureat ( Cristian Mungiu , 2016 )
8. Neruda ( Pablo Larraín, 2016 )
9. The Aquatic Effect / L'Effet Aquatique ( Solveig Anspach, Jean-Luc Gaget , 2016 )
10. After the Storm / Umi yori mo mada fukaku ( Hirokazu Koreeda , 2016 )
11. Coin Locker Girl / Cha-i-na-ta-un ( Jun-hee Han , 2015 )
12. Moonlight ( Barry Jenkins, 2016 )
13. Toni Erdmann ( Maren Ade, 2016 )
14. Parasol ( Valéry Rosier , 2015 )
15. Paterson ( Jim Jarmusch , 2016 )
16. The VVitch ( Robert Eggers , 2015 )
17. Verfehlung ( Gerd Schneider , 2015 )
18. Deadpool ( Tim Miller , 2016 )
19. Love & Friendship ( Whit Stillman , 2016 )
20. Midnight Special ( Jeff Nichols , 2016 )

21. Personal Shopper (Olivier Assayas, 2016)
22. Passengers ( Morten Tyldum , 2016 )
23. Hell or High Water ( David Mackenzie, 2016 )
24. Right Now, Wrong Then / Ji-geum-eun-mat-go-geu-ddae-neun-teul-li-da ( Sang-soo Hong , 2015 )
25. Rogue One ( Gareth Edwards , 2016 )
26. Tanna ( Martin Butler, Bentley Dean , 2015 )
27. The Red Turtle / La Tortue Rouge ( Michael Dudok de Wit , 2016)
28. Things to Come / L'avenir ( Mia Hansen Love , 2016 )
29. Train to Busan / Busanhaeng ( Sang-ho Yeon , 2016 )
30. Cemetery of Splendor / Rak ti Khon Kaen ( Apichatpong Weerasethakul, 2015 )

Second chance: My Golden Days / Trois souvenirs de ma jeunesse, Mustang, The Lobster

Watchlist: Ixcanul, Three, Divines, Aquarius, Planetarium, Nocturnal Animals, Himeanole

Disappointments: 10 Cloverfield Lane, Arrival, Captain Fantastic, The Neon Demon, Café Society, Elle, Louder Than Bombs, La La Land, Nocturama


#JeSuisCharlie Liberté, liberté chérie !

God, that Korean title for the Hong Sang-soo movie is crazy long. I wonder what it literally means.

You know who else was just following orders? HITLER!

I understand that the English title is a faithful and fairly literal translation of the original Korean title, notwithstanding the syllable differential.

It looks like a full sentence, not a title!

You know who else was just following orders? HITLER!

It is the same title, as a sentence: "It's right now, and then it's wrong.".

The film is possibly the response of Hong San-soo to those who criticize him for making the same movie over and over (this time basically repeating the first half with subtle variations in the second half), it certainly deserved a long sentence to say little.

#JeSuisCharlie Liberté, liberté chérie !

Not that I have anything much to add to the list:

1. Knight of Cups
2. Captain Fantastic
3. Into the Inferno
4. Before the Flood
5. A.D. 1363, the End of Chivalry

I suppose episodes from miniseries are not eligible?



"You see things; and you say Why? But I dream things that never were and I say Why not?"

I would say music videos aren't eligible, either. TV movies and miniseries are eligible - I'm less happy about the latter but that has always been precedent (I'll reserve to right to reject them, though). You have to list the whole miniseries, though, not an individual episode. Like American Crime Story should be eligible,

You know who else was just following orders? HITLER!

I don't mean to be too argumentative Zetes and I don't think any music video would actually feature in my top twenty but I do certainly believe they should be a category allowed in a poll such as this. They are in essence short films/videos made to accompany music with roots that go as far back as Dulac and Kirsanoff in the 1920s and 1930s. So, yes, I think they should be allowed. I'd be interested as to why you deem them inadmissable.

Happy New Year! Looking forward to watching quite a few wonderful recent films over the course of the next month.


That's all, folks!

What about commercials? They are essentially short films, too. No, I'm not counting them.

You know who else was just following orders? HITLER!

Well, it's your prerogative to accept what you deem suitable. I suppose I'd even be open to commercials as long as there was some element of artistry or ingenuity to them. Advertising though isn't necessarily as inextricably linked to art and culture as music is. That's why I'd be in favour of consideration being extended to them. Anyhow, it's a moot point now. Thanks for the response.

That's all, folks!

Oh, ok. I haven't seen the entire mini-series so that's the problem but the episode I watched was great. Only including entire mini-series is for the better though.

I'm with Roger in that music-videos should count, some of them are really excellent, like Sabotage (Beastie Boys), Thriller (Michael Jackson) or Elastic Heart (Sia). Sometimes even highly acclaimed directors do them, Lars von Trier did one for Sigur Ros, Jonze made Sabotage, John Landis made Thriller and PTA made Daydreaming. However you run the poll, so just cross them off my list.



"You see things; and you say Why? But I dream things that never were and I say Why not?"

Still Need to See: Certain Women, The Salesman, The Jungle Book, Captain Fantastic, A Monster Calls, Silence

Top 20 Favorite Films
1. Moonlight
2. Paterson
3. Krisha
4. Don't Think Twice
5. Indignation
6. La La Land
7. Manchester by the Sea
8. Kubo and the Two Strings
9. Jackie
10. Fences
11. Things to Come
12. Sieranevada
13. The Handmaiden
14. I, Daniel Blake
15. Other People
16. The Lobster
17. 20th Century Women
18. The Love Witch
19. The Happiest Day in the Life of Olli Mäki
20. Hidden Figures

Favorite Lead Actresses
1. Viola Davis, Fences
2. Krisha Fairchild, Krisha
3. Natalie Portman, Jackie
4. Annette Bening, 20th Century Women
5. Emma Stone, La La Land
6. Isabelle Huppert, Things to Come
7. Taraji P. Henson, Hidden Figures
8. Gillian Jacobs, Don't Think Twice
9. Amy Adams, Arrival
10. Sally Field, Hello, My Name Is Doris

Favorite Lead Actors
1. Adam Driver, Paterson
2. Denzel Washington, Fences
3. Logan Lerman, Indignation
4. Dave Johns, I, Daniel Blake
5. Ryan Gosling, La La Land
6. Hugh Grant, Florence Foster Jenkins
7. Colin Farrell, The Lobster
8. Jesse Plemons, Other People
9. Viggo Mortensen, Captain Fantastic
10. Jarkko Lahti, The Happiest Day in the Life of Olli Mäki

Favorite Supporting Actresses
1. Kirin Kiki, After the Storm
2. Paulina García, Little Men
3. Linda Emond, Indignation
4. Molly Shannon, Other People
5. Naomie Harris, Moonlight
6. Janelle Monáe, Hidden Figures
7. Greta Gerwig, 20th Century Women
8. Elle Fanning, 20th Century Women
9. Hayley Squires, I, Daniel Blake
10. Olivia Colman, The Lobster

Favorite Supporting Actors
1. Mahershala Ali, Moonlight
2. Alden Ehrenreich, Hail, Caesar!
3. Dev Patel, Lion
4. Michael Shannon, Nocturnal Animals
5. Tracy Letts, Indignation
6. Stephen Henderson, Fences
7. Andre Holland, Moonlight
8. Craig Robinson, Morris from America
9. C.J. Wilson, Manchester by the Sea
10. Jovan Adepo, Fences



Everything's coming up Milhouse!

I'm not familiar with Don't Think Twice, Other People, or The Love Witch, but they sure sound good, films that I'd be interested in seeing. Have they had a general release or just Film Festival showings because I don't remember them having played here?

No love for Casey Affleck or Lucas Hedges from Manchester by the Sea?

The truly civilized man is marked by empathy - Malcolm Kerr

Thanks for the response. All 3 of the films you asked about have received fairly limited releases. Except Don't Think Twice did manage to get up to 200 theatres I believe and has a major company (Universal?) handling the US DVD distribution.

I think of the 3 you would like Other People and Don't Think Twice. Both appealed to me because they're about comedy writers dealing with sadness and/or angst.

The Love Witch is an oddity. I admired the director's audacity trying to recreate the stilted look and feel of a 70s drive-in adult film that has supernatural touches. It's kind of intentionally bad but that's Anna Biller's approachto paint these movies as ridiculous. She also does everything on her filmsthe sets, costumes, the script.

Affleck: I thought he did a good job, but he's pretty much the same in every film. Hedges: the supporting actor category was very very strong this year. He came in 11th or 12th place for me. My putting CJ Wilson in over him is political I'll admit it: Wilson gives a key underrated performance in the movie and wasn't even included in the SAG Best Ensemble Award (meanwhile Matthew Broderick was for what was essentially a cameo). I like to use these lists as shout outs to the underdogs.

Thanks for calling my attention to these films. I will keep an eye out for them. Most films get here sooner or later. I would not have chosen CJ Wilson over Hedges but I also like underdogs.

The truly civilized man is marked by empathy - Malcolm Kerr

Alright, let's do this:

1. Paterson (Jim Jarmusch)
2. Manchester by the Sea (Kenneth Lonergan)
3. The Witch (Robert Eggers)
4. La La Land (Damien Chazelle)
5. Moonlight (Barry Jenkins)
6. Hell or High Water (David Mackenzie)
7. Elle (Paul Verhoeven)
8. Silence (Martin Scorsese)
9. Moana (Walt Disney Animation Studios)
10. The Lobster (Yorgos Lanthimos)

11. Arrival (Denis Villenueve)
12. La tortue rouge / The Red Turtle (Michael Dudok de Wit)
13. Love & Friendship (Whit Stillman)
14. Hail, Caesar! (Joel & Ethan Coen)
15. The Edge of Seventeen (Kelly Fremon)
16. Christine (Antonio Campos)
17. Toni Erdmann (Maren Ade)
18. Cameraperson (Kristen Johnson)
19. Loving (Jeff Nichols)
20. Ah-ga-ssi / The Handmaiden (Park Chan-Wook)

Acting lineups, in progress:

Actor
Viggo Mortensen, Captain Fantastic
Casey Affleck, Manchester by the Sea
Chris Pine, Hell or High Water
Adam Driver, Paterson
Andrew Garfield, Hacksaw Ridge
Logan Lerman, Indignation
Hugh Grant, Florence Foster Jenkins
Anton Yelchin, Green Room
Paul Dano, Swiss Army Man
Colin Farrell, The Lobster

Actress
Anya Taylor-Joy, The Witch
Emma Stone, La La Land
Rebecca Hall, Christine
Isabelle Huppert, Elle
Tae-ri Kim, The Handmaiden
Alicia Vikander, The Light Between Oceans
Hailee Steinfeld, The Edge of Seventeen
Kate Beckinsale, Love & Friendship
Ruth Negga, Loving
Amy Adams, Arrival

Supporting Actor
Dev Patel, Lion
Ashton Sanders, Moonlight
Ben Foster, Hell or High Water
Hugo Weaving, Hacksaw Ridge
Ralph Ineson, The Witch
Liam Neeson, Silence
Mahershala Ali, Moonlight
Alden Ehrenreich, Hail, Caesar!
Lucas Hedges, Manchester by the Sea
Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Nocturnal Animals

Supporting Actress
Viola Davis, Fences
Katie Dickie, The Witch
Angourie Rice, The Nice Guys
Haley Lu Richardson, The Edge of Seventeen
Golshifteh Farahani, Paterson
Blake Lively, Cafe Society
Naomi Harris, Moonlight
Rahcel Weisz, The Light Between Oceans
Michelle Williams, Manchester by the Sea
Sarah Gadon, Indignation

A bit conflicted about some of the placements, but I'll adjust accordingly.

Welcome home, Mr. Bailey