This was a great year for films, with a run of great Chinese movies at the start and great Japanese movies at the end from various film festivals.
In no special order, some of the most interesting films were Sunstruck (if you can imagine Wake in Fright as a children's film); Most of My Memoirs are Plagiarized (an absurd, possibly self-financed, deeply unwell film that seems to be a forgotten entry in the James Incandenza oeuvre), The Emperor's Naked Army Marches On (a disorienting documentary), and Eisenstein in Guanajuato (Greenaway's most surprising film for a long time).
Also mention of The March, a film I saw on TV as a child which haunted me for two decades, in which the poor populations of Africa march on Europe. Watching this in 2015 coincided with the Syrian refugee crisis and this film seemed pretty percipient.
I was hoping Sweden's A Pigeon Sat on a Branch would be the arthouse king this year but it didn't live up to expectations. Contrast that with Germany's The Scorpion's Sting, a portmanteau film dominated by a long 'short' film within, "Deep Gold", which while only 25 minutes long may have been the best thing I've seen for years. I saw it directly after Three Stories of Love, which may be the best feature film I saw all year.
Summer Time Machine Blues is a Japanese children's film which I saw on an aeroplane once and have loved ever since. It's like Back to the Future with all elements of romance erased.
Summer Time Machine Blues is a Japanese children's film which I saw on an aeroplane once and have loved ever since. It's like Back to the Future with all elements of romance erased.
M1. 20,000 Days on Earth, 2014.
M2. loudQUIETloud: A Film about the Pixies, 2006.
M3. サカサマのパテマ ("Patema Inverted"), 2013.
M4. Sunstruck, 1972.
M4a. A Zed & Two Noughts, 1985.
M5. Monty Python Live (mostly) - One Down Five To Go, 2014. [DVD unedited version]
M6. 红高粱 ("Red Sorghum"), 1987.
M7. 大紅燈籠高高掛 ("Raise the Red Lantern"), 1991.
M7a. サマー タイム マシン ブルース ("Summer Time Machine Blues"), 2005.
M8. Most of My Memoirs are Plagiarized, 2014.
M9. This Body is Wrong for Us, 2011.
M10. Norman Lovett: Outside the Box, 2011.
M11. Kar korsanlari ("Snow Pirates"), 2015.
M12. Arj Barker: Balls, 2008.
M13. It's That Man Again, 1943.
M14. Bill Bailey: Part Troll, 2004.
M15. Jesus Camp, 2006.
M16. Mr. Mike's Mondo Video, 1979.
M17. Tunnel Vision, 1976.
M18. 绝响 ("Swan Song"), 1985.
M19. Utopia, 2013.
M19a. Finisterre, 2003.
M20. The Honourable Wally Norman, 2003.
M21. Dreams of a Life, 2011.
M22. Lee and Herring Live at the Cochrane, 1995.
M23. Disco ex Machina: The Movie, 2015.
M24. The Look of Silence, 2014.
M25. ゆきゆきて、神軍 ("The Emperor's Naked Army Marches On"), 1987.
M26. Eisenstein in Guanajuato, 2015.
M27. They Might Be Giants: Live in Berlin, 2015. (screen title: They Might Be Giants: Live in Berlin 2013)
M28. The Target Shoots First, 2000.
M29. The Queen of Versailles, 2012.
M30. Little Dieter Needs to Fly, 2001? (original film 1998, viewed version includes later postscript)
M31. The Legend of Leigh Bowery, 2002.
M31a. The March, 1990.
M32. Zero Dark Thirty, 2012.
M33. Nirgendwo in Afrika ("Nowhere in Africa"), 2001.
M34. Bliss, 2010. (Opera Australia broadcast)
M35. Alive Inside, 2014.
M36. Only Lovers Left Alive, 2013.
M36a. Bliss, 1985. (theatrical version)
M37. Overnight, 2004.
M37a. Gigantic: A Tale of Two Johns, 2002.
M38. Parting Shots, 1998.
M39. Johnny English Reborn, 2011.
M40. En duva satt på en gren och funderade på tillvaron (“A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence”), 2014.
M41. Thai Die, 201X [undated].
M42. The Lobster, 2015.
M43. Hell House, 2001.
M44. Tanna, 2015.
M45. Lucky Miles, 2007.
M46. 日本のいちばん長い日 ("The Emperor in August"), 2015.
M47. 野火 ("Fires on the Plain"), 2014.
M47a. Kokoda, 2006.
M48. 駆込み女と駆出し男 ("KAKEKOMI"), 2015.
M49. 恋人たち ("Three Stories of Love"), 2015.
M50. Der Stachel des Skorpions ("The Scorpion's Sting"), 2014.
M51. Mad Max: Fury Road, 2015.
M52. 99 Homes, 2014.
M53. Home of the Brave, 1986.
M54. Bill, 2014.
M55. Suffragette, 2015.
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