March 16, 2014

best films 2013

A touch of sin  (China)  Jia Zhangke

Before midnight (Usa)  Richard Linklater
Closed curtain  (Iran)  Jafar Panahi
Stray dogs  (Taiwan/Malaysia)  Tsai Ming Liang
The end of history  (Philippines)  Lav Diaz
The grandmaster  (Hong Kong/China) Wong Kar Wai
The great beauty  (Italy)  Paulo Sorrentino

The immigrant  (Usa) James Gray
The strange little cat  (Germany/Switzerland)  Ramon Zurcher


The Golden Gongs 

Best Picture: Closed Curtain
Best Director:  Tsai Ming Liang

Achievement Award:  Paulo Sorrentino






best films 2012

Barbara  (Germany)  Christian Petzold
Beyond the hills  (Romania)  Cristian Mungiu
Cosmopolis  (Canada)  David Cronenberg

Django unchained (Usa) Quentin Tarantino
Holy motors  (France) Leos Carax
In another country  (Korea)  Hong Sang Soo
Leviathan  (Usa/Switzerland)  Verena Paravel
Moonrise kingdom  (Usa)  Wes Anderson
Neighbouring sounds  (Brazil)  Kleber Filho
Tabu  (Portugal)  Miguel Gomes



The Golden Gongs 

Best Picture:  Moonrise Kingdom
Best Director:  Leos Carax

Achievement Award:  Cristian Mungui

best films 2011

A seperation  (Iran) Asghar Farhadi
Le havre  (Finland)  Aki Kaurismaki
Old dog  (China/Tibet) Pema Tseden
Once upon a time in anatolia  (Turkey)  Nuri Ceylan
On the day he arrives  (Korea)  Hong Sang Soo
The deep blue sea  (Britain)  Terence Davies

The skin I live in  (Spain)  Pedro Aldomovar
The tree of life  (Usa) Terence Malick
The turin horse  (Hungary)  Bela Tarr
This is not a film  (Iran)  Jafar Panahi


The Golden Gongs:

Best Picture:  This is not a film
Best Director:  Nuri Ceylan

Achievement Award:  Pedro Aldomovar

March 15, 2014

best films 2010

Another year  (Britain) Mike Leigh
Aurora  (Romania)  Cristi Puiu
Certified copy  (France/Iran)  Abbas Kiarostami
Hahaha  (Korea)  Hong Sang Soo
My joy  (Ukraine/Belarus) Sergei Loznitsa
Mysteries of lisbon  (Portugal/Chile)  Raul Ruiz
The social network  (Usa)  David Fincher

Tuesday after christmas (Romania) Radu Muntean
Uncle boonmee  (Thailand)  Apichatpong Weerasethakul 


Winter vacation  (China) Li Hongqi



The Golden Gongs

Best Picture: Uncle Boonmee
Best Director:  Abbas Kiarostami

Achievement Award:  David Fincher

 

The Hall of Fame 


Alfred Hitchcock 34

Eric Rohmer  34

Howard Hawks  29

Victor Sjostrom  28

Kenji Mizoguchi  28

Robert Bresson  28

Jean Luc Godard  27

Abbas Kiarostami 27

Georges Melies  26
Yasujiro Ozu  26

Carl Dreyer 25
Albert Capellani  24

Jean Renoir  24

Luis Bunuel  24

Yevgeni Bauer  21 

Manoel Oliviera  21

Roberto Rossellini  21

Stanley Kubrick  20

Reiner Fassbinder  20

Terence Malick  19
Hao Hsiao Hsien 19

Sergei Eisenstein  18 

Mikio Naruse  18

Satyajit Ray  17

Andrei Tarkovsky  17

Jacques Rivette  17

DW Griffiths  16

Orson Welles  16

Max Ophuls  16 

Michael Powell  16

Josef Sternberg  15

John Ford  15
Michaelangelo Antonioni 15

Wong Kar Wai  15

Edward Yang  15

Jean Epstein  14

John Cassavetes  14
Clint Eastwood  14

Charlie Chaplin  13

FW Murnau  13

Fritz Lang  13

Ernst Lubitsch  13

Alexander Dovshenko  13
Billy Wilder  13

Nicholas Ray  13

Werner Herzog  13

Frederic Fellini  12 

Jim Jarmusch  12

Ferdinand Zecca  11

Alain Resnais  11 

Maurice Pialat 11

Alexander Sukorov  11

Apichatpong Weeresathul  11

Leo Mccarey  10

Luchino Visconte  10

Andrsej Wajda  10

Krystoff Kieslowski  10 

Terence Davies  10

Tsai Ming Liang  10

Jia Zhangke  10


Cine-o-meter: Usa 287  France 168  Japan 74  Germany 50  Russia 48  Britain 47  Italy 43  India 27  Sweden 22  Taiwan 20  China  18  Portugal  17  Iran 16  Hong kong 16  Korea 10  Denmark 9  Poland 9  Spain  9

best films 2009

Bright star  (Australia/New Zealand)  Jane Campion
Dogtooth  (Greece)  Yorgos Lanthimos
Everybody else  (Germany)  Maren Ade
Fantastic mr fox  (Usa)  Wes Anderson
Hadewych  (France)  Bruno Dumont
I am love  (Italy)  Luca Guadagnino

Mother (Korea) Boon Jong Ho
Oxhide 2  (China) Liu Jiayin
Police adjective  (Romania)  Cornelius Porumboiu
The limits of control  (Usa) Jim Jarmusch



The Golden Gongs

Best Picture:  Police adjective
Best Director:  Luca Guadagnino

Achievement Award:  Boon Jong Ho

March 14, 2014

best films 2008

A christmas tale  (France)  Arnaud Deschlepin

Extraordinary stories (Argentina) Mariano Llinas
Fine totally fine  (Japan)  Yoseke Fujita
Gran torino (Usa) Clint Eastwood
Liverpool  (Argentina)  Lisandro Alonso
Our beloved month of august  (Portugal)  Miguel Gomes
Sparrow  (Hong kong)  Johnny To
The headless woman   (Argentina)  Lucrecia Martel
Tokyo sonata  (Japan)  Kiyoshi Kurosawa
Two lovers  (Usa)  James Gray



The Golden Gongs


Best Picture: A christmas tale
Best Director: Lucretia Martel

Achievement Award:  Johnnie To

March 12, 2014

best films 2007

Adfrift in tokyo  (Japan) Satoshi Miki
Eastern promises  (Britain/Canada)  David Cronenberg
Flight of the red balloon  (France/China)  Hao Hsiao Hsien
Four months three weeks two days  (Romania) Cristian Mungiu
In the city of sylvia  (Spain) Jose Guerin
Silent light  (Mexico)  Carlos Reygadas
The darjeeling limited  (Usa)  Wes Anderson
The romance of astrea and celadon  (France)  Eric Rohmer
The trap (Britain) Adam Curtis
Yella  (Germany)  Christian Petzold


The Golden Gongs

Best Picture: The Romance of Astrea and Celadon
Best Director:  Carlos Reygedas

Achievement Award: Wes Anderson

March 06, 2014

best films 2006

12:08 east of bucharest  (Romania)  Corneliu Porumboiu
Climates  (Turkey)  Nuri Ceylan
Colossal youth (Portugal) Pedro Costa
Deja vu  (Usa/Britian)  Tony Scott
Longing  (Germany) Valeska Grisebach

Miami vice  (Usa) Michael Mann
Private fears in public spaces  (France)  Alain Resnais
Still life  (China)  Jia Zhangke
Syndromes and a century  (Thailand)  Apichatpong Weerasethakul
Woman on the beach  (Korea) Hong Sang Soo



The Golden Gongs

Best Picture: Syndromes and a Century
Best Director: Alain Resnais

Achievement Award:  Pedro Costa

March 04, 2014

best films 2005

A history of violence  (Usa/Canada)  David Cronenberg
At five in the afternoon  (Iran)  Samira Makhalmaf
Cache  (France/Austria)  Michael Hanake
L'enfant  (Belgium)  Luc Dardenne
Linda linda linda  (Japan)  Nobuhiro Yamashita
Oxhide  (China)  Liu Jiayin
The death of mr lazerescu  (Romania)  Cristi Puiu
The new world  (Usa)  Terence Malick
The sun  (Russia)  Alexander Sukurov
Three times  (Taiwan/China)  Hao Hsiao Hsien



The Golden Gongs

Best Picture:  The new world
Best Director:  Cristi Puiu

Achievement Award:  Liu Jiayin