Bulk of my cinematic exploration came early this year: there was always dependable Rendez-vous with French Cinema series of course, providing me with my #2 pick of the year, Love Battles, then there was the best film series I've ever been part of in a long time, the first inaugural Art of the Real, presented by FSLC. The series encapsulated everything I was interested in cinema now - blurring the boundaries between film and reality, fired up by people at Havard Film Ethnography Lab (Leviathan, Manakamana, Iron Ministry). Then there was annual New York African Film Festival which fueled my interest in African films. Needless to say, It's been a very good year for films.
Top 20 in order watched:
Drowning by Numbers (1988) - Greenaway
Another Sky (1954) - Lambert
Still of the Night - (1982) - Benton
Le Notti di Cabiria (1957) - Fellini
Under the Sun of Satan (1987) - Pialat
US Go Home (1994) - Denis
Libera Me (1993) - Cavalier
Touki Bouki (1973) - Mambéty
Yeelen (1987) - Cissé
Sinbad (1971) - Huszárik
Phaedra (1962) - Dassin
Goodbye Again (1961) - Litvak
Koumiko Mystery (1967) - Marker
L'Avventura (1960) - Antonioni
Détective (1985) - Godard
Rendez-vous (1985) - Techiné
The Public Woman (1984) - Zulawski
Strayed (2003) - Techiné
Buffet Froid (1979) - Blier
Viola (2012) - Piñeiro
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