Sight & Sound: Top 50 films of 2020

[Brayden Fitzsimmons Joined: May 3rd, 2015 Topics: 108 Posts: 6863 View Predictions]

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BFI’s monthly film magazine just published the 2020 edition of their best films of the year

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1. Small Axe: Lovers Rock — Steve McQueen
2. Time — Garrett Bradley
3. First Cow — Kelly Reichardt
4. I’m Thinking of Ending Things — Charlie Kaufman
5. Saint Maud — Rose Glass
6. Dick Johnson Is Dead — Kirsten Johnson
7. Never Rarely Sometimes Always — Eliza Hittman
8. Nomadland — Chloé Zhao
9. Rocks — Sarah Gavron
10. Days — Tsai Ming-liang
11. Bloody Nose, Empty Pockets — Bill Ross IV and Turner Ross
12. Da 5 Bloods — Spike Lee
13. Small Axe: Mangrove — Steve McQueen
14. The Assistant — Kitty Green
15. Shirley — Josephine Decker
16. David Byrne’s American Utopia — Spike Lee
17. Bacurau — Kleber Mendonça Filho and Juliano Dornelles
18. The Woman Who Ran — Hong Sang-soo
19. Wolfwalkers — Tomm Moore and Ross Stewart
20. Kajillionaire — Miranda July
21. The Year of the Discovery — Luis López Carrasco
22. Possessor — Brandon Cronenberg
23. The Inheritance — Ephraim Asili
24. Undine — Christian Petzold
25. Babyteeth — Shannon Murphy
26. The Disciple — Chaitanya Tamhane
27. His House — Remi Weekes
28. Les Misérables — Ladj Ly
29. Little Women — Greta Gerwig
30. Martin Eden — Pietro Marcello
31. Ema — Pablo Larraín
32. Host — Rob Savage
33. Limbo — Ben Sharrock
34. Mank — David Fincher
35. Mogul Mowgli — Bassam Tariq
36. Relic — Natalie Erika James
37. She Dies Tomorrow — Amy Seimetz
38. Tenet — Christopher Nolan
39. The 40-Year-Old Version — Radha Blank
40. The Personal History of David Copperfield — Armando Iannucci
41. About Endlessness — Roy Andersson
42. Another Round — Thomas Vinterberg
43. Birds of Prey — Cathy Yan
44. Borat Subsequent Moviefilm — Jason Woliner
45. Clemency — Chinonye Chukwu
46. Collective — Alexander Nanau
47. Richard Jewell — Clint Eastwood
48. The Invisible Man — Leigh Whannell
49. The Truth — Hirokazu Kore-eda
50. The Vast of Night — Andrew Patterson

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[wolfali Joined: Sep 4th, 2018 Topics: 257 Posts: 16485 View Predictions]

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Ok I love Lovers Rock but ffs Small Axe is not a film!

Great to see Da 5 Bloods.

FYC OSCARS : PROMISING YOUNG WOMAN IN ALL CATEGORIES (ESP. ACTRESS – Carey Mulligan AND ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY — EMERALD FENNELL), VANESSA KIRBY FOR "PIECES OF A WOMAN", ESSIE DAVIS FOR "BABYTEETH"

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[Kafka_Gyllenhaal Joined: Nov 13th, 2020 Topics: 0 Posts: 128 View Predictions]

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I guess the lack of Minari is due to release dates in the UK?

FYC: Evie the Cow for Best Supporting Actress

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[mafro987 Joined: Jan 23rd, 2014 Topics: 3 Posts: 2203 View Predictions]

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I know it technically shouldn’t even be on the list, but I refuse to believe they saw Mangrove and ranked Da 5 Bloods above it. The list reminded me that I really need to see Saint Maud.

For Your Consideration:

Best International Feature: Instinct (The Netherlands)
Best Actress: Carice van Houten (Instinct)

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[Eddy Q Joined: Oct 13th, 2012 Topics: 23 Posts: 4490 View Predictions]

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Kafka_Gyllenhaal wrote:

I guess the lack of Minari is due to release dates in the UK?

Yes, as well as anywhere else outside of US (it’s an international poll). This probably also counts towards Nomadland ranking only 8th; it did have a bigger festival showing than Minari which may be partly how it ranked as high as it did.

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[wolfali Joined: Sep 4th, 2018 Topics: 257 Posts: 16485 View Predictions]

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mafro987 wrote:

I know it technically shouldn’t even be on the list, but I refuse to believe they saw Mangrove and ranked Da 5 Bloods above it. The list reminded me that I really need to see Saint Maud.

You weren’t a fan of Da 5 Bloods?

Saint Maud is excellent but it is also one of the most terrifying things on screen I have seen in my life.

FYC OSCARS : PROMISING YOUNG WOMAN IN ALL CATEGORIES (ESP. ACTRESS – Carey Mulligan AND ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY — EMERALD FENNELL), VANESSA KIRBY FOR "PIECES OF A WOMAN", ESSIE DAVIS FOR "BABYTEETH"

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braydenfitzsimmons wrote:

3.First Cow — Kelly Reichardt

17. Bacurau — Kleber Mendonça Filho and Juliano Dornelles 

Yay! I loved both of these movies.

FYC: Evie the Cow for Best Supporting Actress

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[mafro987 Joined: Jan 23rd, 2014 Topics: 3 Posts: 2203 View Predictions]

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wolfali wrote:

You weren’t a fan of Da 5 Bloods?

Saint Maud is excellent but it is also one of the most terrifying things on screen I have seen in my life.

I would give Da 5 Bloods about a 6.5/10.

On Saint Maud – I love Jennifer Ehle so I’m looking forward to it! I didn’t want to go to the cinema when it was out though.

For Your Consideration:

Best International Feature: Instinct (The Netherlands)
Best Actress: Carice van Houten (Instinct)

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[Luca Joined: Jun 23rd, 2017 Topics: 33 Posts: 8573 View Predictions]

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I love the Relic inclusion. What an underrated film.

A Fervent Believer in the Church of Viola Davis

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I really want to see Never Rarely Sometimes Always. But how?

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Jasmine is French wrote:

I really want to see Never Rarely Sometimes Always. But how?

I think it’s just VOD right now. I lied. If you live in the states it’s on HBO Max apparently.

FYC:

Best Screenplay: Never Rarely Sometimes Always
Best Actress: Sidney Flanigan

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Jasmine is French wrote:

I really want to see Never Rarely Sometimes Always. But how?

It’s on Sky streaming services in Europe, should be a cheap rental everywhere else by now.

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[wolfali Joined: Sep 4th, 2018 Topics: 257 Posts: 16485 View Predictions]

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mafro987 wrote:

I would give Da 5 Bloods about a 6.5/10.

On Saint Maud – I love Jennifer Ehle so I’m looking forward to it! I didn’t want to go to the cinema when it was out though.

Yeah I was fortunate enough to go to an outdoor cinema screening for Saint Maud. Haven’t been to an indoor cinema since Parasite! I’m too scared of Covid and the spread of this new variant in the UK isn’t very helpful.

I hadn’t been impressed by Ehle’s work before but she was truly astonishing here. Perhaps it was due to the shocking nature of the film (it is a horror after all) but she gave one of my favourite supporting performances of the year. Just to warn you it is very very scary! And I say this as a fan of the horror genre.

FYC OSCARS : PROMISING YOUNG WOMAN IN ALL CATEGORIES (ESP. ACTRESS – Carey Mulligan AND ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY — EMERALD FENNELL), VANESSA KIRBY FOR "PIECES OF A WOMAN", ESSIE DAVIS FOR "BABYTEETH"

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