Saturday, May 4, 2019

Andréa Picard Top Ten Lists

These lists are sourced as follows: Village Voice 2007-2009, Senses of Cinema 2013-2018, except as noted, and by release year until 2009, and by premiere year onwards until 2021.

2007

  1. Syndromes and a Century (Apichatpong Weerasethakul)
  2. I Don't Want to Sleep Alone (Tsai Ming-liang)
  3. Colossal Youth (Pedro Costa)
  4. Flandres (Bruno Dumont)
  5. Regular Lovers (Philippe Garrel)
  6. 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days (Cristian Mungiu)
  7. Belle Toujours (Manoel de Oliveira)
  8. Bamako (Abderrahmane Sissako)
  9. Eastern Promises (David Cronenberg)
  10. In Between Days (So Yong Kim)

2008

  1. Before I Forget (Jacques Nolot)
  2. The Romance of Astrée and Céladon (Éric Rohmer)
  3. Still Life (Jia Zhangke)
  4. Alexandra (Aleksandr Sokurov)
  5. The Duchess of Langeais (Jacques Rivette)
  6. Silent Light (Carlos Reygadas)
  7. Love Songs (Christophe Honoré)
  8. Slingshot (Brillante Mendoza)
  9. Woman on the Beach (Hong Sang-soo)
  10. Profit motive and the whispering wind (John Gianvito)

2009

  1. The Headless Woman (Lucrecia Martel)
  2. 24 City (Jia Zhangke)
  3. Liverpool (Lisandro Alonso)
  4. Still Walking (Koreeda Hirokazu)
  5. Import/Export (Ulrich Seidl)
  6. Night and Day (Hong Sang-soo)
  7. Lorna's Silence (Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne)
  8. Frontier of the Dawn (Philippe Garrel)
  9. Summer Hours (Olivier Assayas)
  10. Serbis (Brillante Mendoza)

Decade [IndieWire]

  1. Syndromes and a Century (2006, Apichatpong Weerasethakul)
  2. In Praise of Love (2001, Jean-Luc Godard)
  3. Three Times (2005, Hou Hsiao-hsien)
  4. Platform (2000, Jia Zhangke)
  5. Colossal Youth (2006, Pedro Costa)
  6. Los muertos (2004, Lisandro Alonso)
  7. The Headless Woman (2008, Lucrecia Martel)
  8. Beau Travail (1999, Claire Denis)
  9. Moolaadé (2004, Ousmane Sembène)
  10. Regular Lovers (2005, Philippe Garrel)

2013

  1. Norte, the End of History (Lav Diaz)
  2. Stranger by the Lake (Alain Guiraudie)
  3. A Touch of Sin (Jia Zhangke)
  4. Story of My Death (Albert Serra)
  5. 'Til Madness Do Us Part (Wang Bing)
  6. What Now? Remind Me (Joaquim Pinto)
  7. The Strange Little Cat (Ramon Zürcher)
  8. Stray Dogs (Tsai Ming-liang)
  9. A Thousand Suns (Mati Diop)
    The King's Body (João Pedro Rodrigues)
    Redemption (Miguel Gomes)
  10. Mouton (Gilles Deroo & Marianne Pistone)

2014

  1. P'tit Quinquin (Bruno Dumont)
  2. Horse Money (Pedro Costa)
  3. Goodbye to Language (Jean-Luc Godard)
  4. Nathalie Granger (Marguerite Duras)
  5. Jauja (Lisandro Alonso)
  6. Das Spektrum Europas (Cristi Puiu)
  7. Amour Fou (Jessica Hausner)
  8. Kommunisten (Jean-Marie Straub)
  9. Hill of Freedom (Hong Sang-soo)
  10. The Innocents (Jean-Paul Kelly)
    Brouillard: Passage #14 (Alexandre Larose)
    The Dragon Is the Frame (Mary Helena Clark)

2016 [possibly unranked list]

  1. Sieranevada (Cristi Puiu)
  2. The Death of Louis XIV (Albert Serra)
  3. The Dreamed Path (Angela Schanelec)
  4. Elle (Paul Verhoeven)
  5. Toni Erdmann (Maren Ade)
  6. Nocturama (Bertrand Bonello)
  7. The Human Surge (Eduardo Williams)
  8. The Ornithologist (João Pedro Rodrigues)
  9. The Dreamed Ones (Ruth Beckermann)
  10. Certain Women (Kelly Reichardt)

2017

  1. Zama (Lucrecia Martel)
  2. Western (Valeska Grisebach)
  3. On the Beach at Night Alone (Hong Sang-soo)
  4. Eight Hours Don't Make a Day (Rainer Werner Fassbinder)
  5. Good Time (Josh & Benny Safdie)
  6. Araby (João Dumans & Affonso Uchôa)
  7. Also Known as Jihadi (Éric Baudelaire)
  8. Streetscapes [Dialogue] (Heinz Emigholz)
  9. The Nothing Factory (Pedro Pinho)
  10. The Other Side of Hope (Aki Kaurismäki)

2018

  1. Transit (Christian Petzold)
  2. The Image Book (Jean-Luc Godard)
  3. An Elephant Sitting Still (Hu Bo)
  4. Dead Souls (Wang Bing)
  5. What You Gonna Do When the World's on Fire? (Roberto Minervini)
  6. L. COHEN (James Benning)
  7. In My Room (Ulrich Köhler)
  8. Ada Kaleh (Helena Wittmann)
  9. The Load (Ognjen Glavonić)
  10. Ash Is Purest White (Jia Zhangke)

2021 [Film Comment]

  1. Memoria (Apichatpong Weerasethakul)
  2. The Souvenir Part II (Joanna Hogg)
  3. Days (Tsai Ming-liang)
  4. Drive My Car (Hamaguchi Ryusuke)
  5. The Woman Who Ran (Hong Sang-soo)
  6. Malmkrog (Cristi Puiu)
  7. Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy (Hamaguchi Ryusuke)
  8. Undine (Christian Petzold)
  9. What Do We See When We Look at the Sky? (Alexandre Koberidze)
  10. Bergman Island (Mia Hansen-Løve)

2022 [Screen Slate]

  1. In Front of Your Face (Hong Sang-soo)
  2. Crimes of the Future (David Cronenberg)
  3. The Eternal Daughter (Joanna Hogg)
  4. A Night of Knowing Nothing (Payal Kapadia)
  5. The Novelist's Film (Hong Sang-soo)
  6. Întregalde (Radu Muntean)
  7. Vortex (Gaspar Noé)
  8. Aftersun (Charlotte Wells)
  9. Ahed's Knee (Nadav Lapid)
  10. Return to Seoul (Chou Davy)

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