Lists are silly but I nevertheless love thinking about some great films and TV series I loved this year.
These were my top five films
The Power of the Dog (Jane Campion)
Licorice Pizza (Paul Thomas Anderson)
Titane (dir Julia Ducournau)
The Innocents (dir Eskil Vogt)
Spencer (dir Pablo Larrain)
And then, err... 23 more films (in alphabetical order)
Ali & Ava (Clio Barnard)
Belfast (Kenneth Branagh)
Boiling Point (Philip Barantini)
Compartment No. 6 (Juho Kuosmanen)
Censor (Prano Bailey-Bond)
Children of the Enemy (Gorki Glaser-Müller)
C’mon, C’mon (Mike Mills)
Flee (Jonas Poher Rasmussen)
Great Freedom (Sebastian Meise)
The Hand of God (Paolo Sorrentino)
Lamb (Valdimar Johansson)
Last Night in Soho (Edgar Wright)
The Lost Daughter (Maggie Gyllenhaal)
Ninjababy (Yngvild Sve Flikke)
Petit Maman (Celine Sciamma)
Pig (Michael Sarnoski)
Playground (Laura Wandel)
Pleasure (Ninja Thyberg)
Quo Vadis, Aida? (Jasmila Zbanic)
The Rescue (E. Chai Vasarhelyi and Jimmy Chin)
West Side Story (Steven Spielberg)
The Worst Person in the World (Joachim Trier)
The Velvet Underground (Todd Haynes)
(fyi films like The Nest and Zola were on last year's list.)
And goodness, I watched a lot of great TV, here are some favourites:
Mare of Easttown
Succession
Starstruck
The White Lotus
We Are Lady Parts
Pretend It’s A City
It’s a Sin
Ted Lasso
The Investigation
Maid
This Way Up
Curb Your Enthusiasm
The North Water
Line of Duty
The Serpent
Exterminate All the Brutes
Help
Shrill
Halston
Flight Attendant
Unforgotten
Not exactly prestige TV but I also loved: Oprah with Harry & Meghan, The Dog House, Gogglebox, Masterchef, Bake-Off and all my other comfort TV faves.
And you know my top music is over here in two playlists.
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