2010 in Films
That’s it. Finally done. As I look back the whole year, 2010 actually is filled with some good, plenty awful, and many great surprises. A huge proportion of my gratitude goes to The Nouveau Cinema Film Festival in Montreal, which knocked me over with Gaspar Noé’s visual masterpiece, Tetsuya Nakashima’s highly textualized psycho thriller, and of course, the Palm d’or winning Uncle Boonmee by Apichatpong Weerasethakul.
For me, the first two places are really a tie. The retrospective noir portrait of Michael Haneke that speaks of the timelessness of evil and the moral tale of the social medium that changes our time and forever by David Fincher are both extraordinarily brilliant. I decided to put the white band on the top for its breathtaking density and Haneke’s outstanding vision.
As shameful as I am, I still have to admit the reason that the list came out this late was due to me missing Incendies while it was playing in Montreal theatre so I had to catch it up in Taipei.
My 30 Best Films of 2010 (from Jan.01 to Dec.31 screened in cinemas of Montreal)
- Das weisse Bande by Michael Haneke
- The Social Network by David Fincher
- Un prophète by Jacques Audiard
- Carlos by Olivier Assayas
- Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives by Apichatpong Weerasethakul
- Kynodontas (Dogtooth) by Giorgos Lanthimos
- Incendies by Denis Villeneuve
- Winter’s Bone by Debra Granik
- Black Swan by Darren Aronofsky
- The King’s Speech by Tom Hopper
- Io sono l’amore by Luca Guadagnino
- Exit Through The Gift Shop by Banksy
- Des hommes et des dieux by Xavier Beauvois
- Fish Tank by Andrea Arnold
- True Grit by Ethan and Joel Coen
- The Kids Are All Right by Lisa Cholodenko
- Howl by Rob Epstein & Jeffery Friedman
- Please Give by Nicole Holofcener
- Kokuhaku (Confessions) by Tetsuya Nakashima
- Inside Job by Charles Ferguson
- Madeo (Mother) by Bong Joon-ho
- Inception by Christopher Nolan
- The Ghost Writer by Roman Polanski
- The Fighter by David O. Russell
- Ddongpari by Yang Ik-june
- Enter The Void by Gaspar Noé
- 127 Hours by Danny Boyle
- Kaboom by Gregg Araki
- L’illusionniste by Sylvain Chomet
- Scott Pilgrim vs. the World by Edgar Wright
Special mention:
Alle Anderen (Everyone Else) by Maren Ade
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