March 05, 2018

Best films 2018?

An elephant sitting still  (China)
Ash is pure white  (China)
Burning  (Korea)
Infinite football  (Romania)
Shoplifters  (Japan)
The image book  (Switzerland/France)
The mule  (Usa)
The wild pear tree  (Turkey)
Transit  (Germany)

October 02, 2017

Best Films 2017

Downsizing  (Usa)  Alexander Payne
First reformed  (Usa)  Paul Schrader
Ghost in the mountains  (China) Yang Heng
Jeanette  (France)  Bruno Dumont
Milla  (France)  Valerie Massadian
Scarred hearts  (Romania)  Radu Jude
The day after  (Korea)  Hong Sang Soo
The other side of hope  (Finland) Aki Kaurismaki
Western  (Germany)  Valeska Grisebach
Zama  (Argentina)  Lucretia Martel


The Golden Gongs

Best Picture: Zama
Best Director:  Valeska Grisebach

Achievement Award: Paul Schrader

July 27, 2017

some .. essential asian cinema part three

Vive l'amour
Fallen angels
Comrades
Goodbye south goodbye
The river
Dil se
Flowers of shanghai
The hole
The power of kangwon province
The mission
In the mood for love
Platform
The virgin stripped bare
Yi yi
Millenium mambo
What time is it over there
Turning gate
Unknown pleasures
Last life in the universe
Goodbye dragon inn
2046
The world
Tropical malady
Oxhide
Three times
I dont want to sleep alone
Syndromes and a century
Woman on the beach
Sparrow
Oxhide 2

July 01, 2017

Best films 2016

A quiet passion  (Britain)  Terence Davies
Elle  (France/Netherlands)  Paul Verhoeven
Happy hour  (Japan) Ryusuke Hamaguchi
Nocturama  (France)  Bertrand Bonello
Paterson  (Usa)  Jim Jarmusch
Sieranevada  (Romania)  Cristi Puiu
The death of louis the fourteenth  (France/Spain)
The ornithologist  (Portugal)  Jaoa Rodriguez
Things to come  (France)  Mia Hansen Love
Toni erdman  (Germany)  Maren Ade
Yourself and yours  (Korea)  Hong Sang Soo


The Golden Gongs

Best Picture:  A Quiet Passion
Best Director:  Cristi Puiu

Achievement Award:  Paul Verhoeven

Best films 2015

Blackhat  (Usa)  Michael Mann
Cemetery of splendor  (Thailand)  Apichatpong Weeresathul
Chevalier  (Greece)  Athina Tsangari
From what is before  (Philippines) Lav Diaz
Knight of cups  (Usa)  Terence Malick
My golden days  (France)  Arnaud Deschlepin
Right now, wrong then  (Korea)  Hong Sang Soo
Taxi  (Iran)  Jafar Panahi
The assassin  (Taiwan/China)  Hao Hsiao Hsien
The forbidden room  (Canada) Guy Maddin
The treasure  (Romania)  Corneliu Porumbiou


The Golden Gongs 

Best Picture: The Assassin
Best Director:  Lav Diaz

Achievement Award:  Guy Maddin

July 28, 2016

some ... essential east european cinema

Men of the mountain
Inspiration
Ashes and diamonds
Mother joan of the angels
A game with stones
Intimate lighting
Loves of a blonde
Closely observed trains
Daisies
The red and the white
The structure of crystal
Love
Camouflage
Man of marble
Blind chance
Man of iron
Dimensions of dialogue
No end
Year of the quiet sun
Decalogue
Damnation
Satantango
Werckmeister harmonies
The death of mr lazerescu
12:08 from bucharest
Four months two weeks
Police adjective
Aurora
My joy
The turin horse

some ... essential french cinema part 5

The aviators wife
A good marriage
Danton
Passion
A nos amours
L'argent
Pauline at the beach
Three crowns of the sailor
A sunday in the country
Melo
Shoah
Rendezvous
Vagabond
The green ray
My girlfriends boyfriend
Under the sun of satan
The gang of four
Nouvelle vague
La belle noiseuese
The double life of veronique
Van gogh
Abrahams valley
Cold water
Haut bas fragile
La ceremonie
Jlg/jlg
How i got into an argument
Irma vep
An autumn tale
Beau travail
Rosetta
Time regained