OLDER & DEEPER IN DEBT 2014.

Another year at the movies. The following titles that I saw for the first time impressed me.

Grand Budapest Hotel

MARLON BRANDO; an actor named desire (Documentary by Phillippe Kohly) FROZEN (Chris Buck, Jennifer Lee), DIAZ: Don't Clean Up This Blood (Vicari), Las BRUJAS de ZUGARRA MURDI  (Witching & Bitching: De Iglasea), PHILOMENA, Feuerwerk (Fireworks; Kurt Hoffmann 1954) La classe operaia va in paradiso (The Working Class Goes to Heaven: Petri 1971), KAGYUAMIME NO MONOGATARI (The Tale of Princess Kaguya: Takahata), A SERIOUS MAN (Coens), TRESPASSING BERGMAN (Jane Magnusson, Hynek Pallas), INSIDE LLEWELIN DAVIS, CHAIISAI OUCI ( The Little House:Yôji Yamada), DAST-NEVESHTEHAA NEMISOOAND (Manuscripts Don't Burn: Mohammad Rasoulof), The Grand Budapest Hotel, Always san-chôme

Orlac's Hands: Veidt & Kortner

noyûhi (Always - Sunset on Third Street: Takashi Yamazaki 2005) Jûsan-nin no shikaku (13 Assassins: Miike), The Book Thief (Brian Percival), L'autre Dumas (Safy Nebbou 2010), Der ganz große Traum (The Big Dream: Sebastian Grobler), Calvary (John Michael McDonagh), Win Win (Thomas McCarthy), Guardians of the Galaxy (James Gunn), Winter Passing (Adam Rapp),  Yôkame no semi (Rebirth: Izuru Narushima), Oblomov (Nikita Mikhalkov 1980), Bai ri yan huo (Black Coal: Yi'nan Diao), Mickey Mouse In Get A Horse! (Lauren MacMullan) Neskolko dney iz zhizni Czlowiek z nadziei (Walesa: Man of Hope: Wajda) Gan  (Wild Geese: Shirô Toyoda 1951) The Wolf of Wall Street, Orlacs Hände (The Hands of Orlac: Robert Wiene 1924), Jersey Boys.

This works out as Two documentaries rating significantly high this year, nine multiplex releases, two on TV, ten at events - festivals, film weeks, ethnic screenings etc, four on DVD, one streamed and one (here's a change) on a plane.

Barrie Pattison.