{"id":21242,"date":"2022-01-01T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-01-01T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blakewilliams.net\/blog\/?p=21242"},"modified":"2024-02-03T22:28:54","modified_gmt":"2024-02-04T03:28:54","slug":"top-10-of-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blakewilliams.net\/blog\/2022\/01\/top-10-of-2021\/","title":{"rendered":"Top 10 of 2021"},"content":{"rendered":"

*Click on the ‘Lists & Logs’ tab to see lists from previous years.<\/strong><\/p>\n

This list will be updated each time I see a film from 2021 (world premiere\/imdb date) that is better than at least one of the films already on the list.<\/p>\n

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  1. Memoria (Apichatpong Weerasethakul)<\/li>\n
  2. France (Bruno Dumont)<\/li>\n
  3. The Tsugua Diaries (Miguel Gomes & Maureen Fazendeiro)<\/li>\n
  4. Rock Bottom Riser (Fern Silva)<\/li>\n
  5. First Time \u2014 The Time for All but Sunset [Violet] (Nicolaas Schmidt)<\/li>\n
  6. Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy (Ry\u00fbsuke Hamaguchi)<\/li>\n
  7. The Souvenir Part II (Joanna Hogg)<\/li>\n
  8. What Do We See When We Look at the Sky? (Alexandre Koberidze)<\/li>\n
  9. Red Rocket (Sean Baker)<\/li>\n
  10. Un monde flottant (Jean-Claude Rousseau)<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

     <\/p>\n

    Polls Top 10<\/span><\/strong> (Eligible titles appear here<\/a>.)<\/p>\n

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    1. Memoria (2021, Apichatpong Weerasethakul)<\/li>\n
    2. France (2021, Bruno Dumont)<\/li>\n
    3. Her Socialist Smile (2020, John Gianvito)<\/li>\n
    4. Fauna (2020, Nicol\u00e1s Pereda)<\/li>\n
    5. Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy (2021, Ry\u00fbsuke Hamaguchi)<\/li>\n
    6. The Souvenir Part II (2021, Joanna Hogg)<\/li>\n
    7. What Do We See When We Look at the Sky? (2021, Alexandre Koberidze)<\/li>\n
    8. Days (2020, Tsai Ming-liang)<\/li>\n
    9. Red Rocket (2021, Sean Baker)<\/li>\n
    10. Bergman Island (2021, Mia Hansen-L\u00f8ve)<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

       <\/p>\n

      My Top 10 Discoveries During 2021<\/span><\/strong> (for first-time viewings of films made before 2010)<\/p>\n

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      1. Twin Peaks (1977, Al Wong)<\/li>\n
      2. Dressed to Kill (1980, Brian De Palma)<\/li>\n
      3. The Sugarland Express (1974, Steven Spielberg)<\/li>\n
      4. RoboCop (1987, Paul Verhoeven)<\/li>\n
      5. De son appartement (2007, Jean-Claude Rousseau)<\/li>\n
      6. Homework (1989, Abbas Kiarostami)<\/li>\n
      7. La vall\u00e9e close (1995, Jean-Claude Rousseau)<\/li>\n
      8. The Seventh Continent (1989, Michael Haneke)<\/li>\n
      9. Funniest Show on Earth (1953, Mario Mattoli)<\/li>\n
      10. The Bridges of Madison County (1995, Clint Eastwood)<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

         <\/p>\n

        Other 2021 films I\u2019ve seen<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

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        • Bergman Island (Mia Hansen-L\u00f8ve) \u2013 7.0<\/li>\n
        • Saxifrages, Four White Nights (Nicolas Klotz & Elisabeth Perceval) \u2013 7.0<\/li>\n
        • Who’s Stopping Us (Jon\u00e1s Trueba) \u2013 6.9<\/li>\n
        • Mr. Bachmann and His Class (Maria Speth) \u2013 6.9<\/li>\n
        • Licorice Pizza (Paul Thomas Anderson) \u2013 6.8<\/li>\n
        • Vortex (Gaspar No\u00e9) \u2013 6.8<\/li>\n
        • The Girl and the Spider (Ramon Z\u00fcrcher) \u2013 6.8<\/li>\n
        • The Beatles: Get Back (Peter Jackson) \u2013 6.7<\/li>\n
        • Ready Mix (Lucy Raven) \u2013 6.7<\/li>\n
        • The Worst Person in the World (Joachim Trier) \u2013 6.7<\/li>\n
        • The Card Counter (Paul Schrader) \u2013 6.6<\/li>\n
        • Introduction (Hong Sang-soo) \u2013 6.6<\/li>\n
        • Teenage Emotions (Fr\u00e9d\u00e9ric Da) \u2013 6.5<\/li>\n
        • The Dog Who Wouldn’t Be Quiet (Ana Katz) \u2013 6.5<\/li>\n
        • Wood and Water (Jonas Bak) \u2013 6.5<\/li>\n
        • The Good Woman of Sichuan (Sabrina Zhao) \u2013 6.5<\/li>\n
        • El Planeta (Amalia Ulman) – 6.4<\/li>\n
        • El Gran Movimiento (Kiro Russo) \u2013 6.4<\/li>\n
        • Petite Maman (C\u00e9line Sciamma) \u2013 6.4<\/li>\n
        • Old (M. Night Shyamalan) \u2013 6.4<\/li>\n
        • from Bakersfield to Mojave (James Benning) \u2013 6.4<\/li>\n
        • Hit the Road (Panah Panahi) \u2013 6.4<\/li>\n
        • Friends and Strangers (James Vaughan) \u2013 6.3<\/li>\n
        • Annette (Leos Carax) \u2013 6.3<\/li>\n
        • Full Time (\u00c9ric Gravel) \u2013 6.3<\/li>\n
        • Fabian, or Going to the Dogs (Dominik Graf) \u2013 6.3<\/li>\n
        • Ghost Song (Nicolas Peduzzi) \u2013 6.3<\/li>\n
        • Moon, 66 Questions (Jacqueline Lentzou) \u2013 6.2<\/li>\n
        • Onoda (Arthur Harari) \u2013 6.2<\/li>\n
        • Drive My Car (Ry\u00fbsuke Hamaguchi) \u2013 6.1<\/li>\n
        • Third Grade (Jacques Doillon) \u2013 6.1<\/li>\n
        • Mr. Landsbergis (Sergei Loznitsa) \u2013 6.1<\/li>\n
        • No Sudden Move (Steven Soderbergh) \u2013 6.1<\/li>\n
        • Topology of Sirens (Jonathan Davies) \u2013 6.1<\/li>\n
        • Benedetta (Paul Verhoeven) \u2013 6.1<\/li>\n
        • Come Here (Anocha Suwichakornpong) \u2013 6.0<\/li>\n
        • Titane (Julia Ducournau) \u2013 6.0<\/li>\n
        • Prayers for the Stolen (Tatiana Huezo) \u2013 6.0<\/li>\n
        • A Chiara (Jonas Carpignano) \u2013 6.0<\/li>\n
        • Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn (Radu Jude) \u2013 5.9<\/li>\n
        • In Front of Your Face (Hong Sang-soo) \u2013 5.9<\/li>\n
        • Ste. Anne (Rhayne Vermette) – 5.9<\/li>\n
        • Drift Away (Xavier Beauvois) \u2013 5.9<\/li>\n
        • Belle (Mamoru Hosoda) \u2013 5.9<\/li>\n
        • We (Alice Diop) \u2013 5.9<\/li>\n
        • Pebbles (P.S. Vinothraj) \u2013 5.9<\/li>\n
        • Ahed\u2019s Knee (Nadav Lapid) \u2013 5.8<\/li>\n
        • We’re All Going to the World’s Fair (Jane Schoenbrun) \u2013 5.8<\/li>\n
        • Searchers (Pacho Velez) \u2013 5.8<\/li>\n
        • All Light, Everywhere (Theo Anthony) \u2013 5.8<\/li>\n
        • The Crusade (Louis Garrel) \u2013 5.7<\/li>\n
        • Double Wow (Ken Jacobs) \u2013 5.7<\/li>\n
        • Haruhara-san\u2019s Recorder (Kyoshi Sugita) \u2013 5.7<\/li>\n
        • The Tale of King Crab (Alessio Rigo de Righi & Matteo Zoppis) \u2013 5.7<\/li>\n
        • \u00centregalde (Radu Muntean) \u2013 5.6<\/li>\n
        • Kinorama \u2013 Beyond the Walls of the Real (Edgar P\u00eara) \u2013 5.6<\/li>\n
        • A River Runs, Turns, Erases, Replaces (Shengze Zhu) \u2013 5.6<\/li>\n
        • Neptune Frost (Saul Williams & Anisia Uzeyman) \u2013 5.6<\/li>\n
        • Parallel Mothers (Pedro Almod\u00f3var) \u2013 5.6<\/li>\n
        • The Inventory Will Be Drawn Up at 11 a.m. in the Presence of the Poet\u2019s Wife (Martin Verdet) \u2013 5.6<\/li>\n
        • Petite Solange (Axelle Ropert) \u2013 5.6<\/li>\n
        • The Lost Daughter (Maggie Gyllenhaal) \u2013 5.5<\/li>\n
        • Azor (Andreas Fontana) \u2013 5.5<\/li>\n
        • The Cathedral (Ricky D\u2019Ambrose) \u2013 5.5<\/li>\n
        • Futura (Pietro Marcello, Francesco Munzi, & Alice Rohrwacher) \u2013 5.5<\/li>\n
        • A Glitch in the Matrix (Rodney Ascher) \u2013 5.5<\/li>\n
        • Unclenching the Fists (Kira Kovalenko) \u2013 5.5<\/li>\n
        • From Where They Stood (Christophe Cognet) \u2013 5.5<\/li>\n
        • Zeros and Ones (Abel Ferrara) \u2013 5.4<\/li>\n
        • For Lucio (Pietro Marcello) \u2013 5.4<\/li>\n
        • The Beta Test (Jim Cummings & PJ McCabe) \u2013 5.4<\/li>\n
        • Terra Femme (Courtney Stephens) \u2013 5.4<\/li>\n
        • Vengeance is Mine, All Others Pay Cash (Edwin) \u2013 5.4<\/li>\n
        • Nitram (Justin Kurzel) \u2013 5.4<\/li>\n
        • Cryptozoo (Dash Shaw) \u2013 5.4<\/li>\n
        • Black Notebooks [Ronit] (Shlomi Elkabetz) \u2013 5.4<\/li>\n
        • Social Hygiene (Denis C\u00f4t\u00e9) – 5.4<\/li>\n
        • The Matrix Resurrections (Lana Wachowski) – 5.4<\/li>\n
        • Babi Yar. Context (Sergei Loznitsa) – 5.4<\/li>\n
        • Pig (Michael Sarnoski) \u2013 5.3<\/li>\n
        • Drunken Birds (Ivan Grbovic) \u2013 5.3<\/li>\n
        • Passing (Rebecca Hall) \u2013 5.3<\/li>\n
        • Dirty Feathers (Carlos Alfonso Corral) \u2013 5.3<\/li>\n
        • Forest: I See You Everywhere (Bence Fliegauf) \u2013 5.3<\/li>\n
        • Outside Noise (Ted Fendt) \u2013 5.2<\/li>\n
        • Earwig (Lucile Had\u017eihalilovi\u0107) \u2013 5.2<\/li>\n
        • The Invisible Mountain (Ben Russell) \u2013 5.2<\/li>\n
        • The Power of the Dog (Jane Campion) \u2013 5.2<\/li>\n
        • A Hero (Asghar Farhadi) \u2013 5.2<\/li>\n
        • The Velvet Underground (Todd Haynes) \u2013 5.2<\/li>\n
        • Happening (Audrey Diwan) \u2013 5.2<\/li>\n
        • Landscapes of Resistance (Marta Popivoda) \u2013 5.2<\/li>\n
        • I’m Your Man (Maria Schrader) \u2013 5.1<\/li>\n
        • Il Buco (Michelangelo Frammartino) \u2013 5.1<\/li>\n
        • Black Notebooks [Viviane] (Shlomi Elkabetz) \u2013 5.1<\/li>\n
        • Aloners (Hong Sung-eun) \u2013 5.1<\/li>\n
        • Atlantide (Yuri Ancarani) \u2013 5.1<\/li>\n
        • Tralala (Arnaud & Jean-Marie Larrieu) \u2013 5.1<\/li>\n
        • Jack’s Ride (Susana Nobre) \u2013 5.1<\/li>\n
        • Great Freedom (Sebastian Meise) \u2013 5.0<\/li>\n
        • Don’t Look Up (Adam McKay) \u2013 5.0<\/li>\n
        • Marx Can Wait (Marco Bellocchio) \u2013 5.0<\/li>\n
        • Returning to Reims [Fragments] (Jean-Gabriel P\u00e9riot) \u2013 5.0<\/li>\n
        • Deception (Arnaud Desplechin) \u2013 5.0<\/li>\n
        • A Night of Knowing Nothing (Payal Kapadia) \u2013 5.0<\/li>\n
        • Bloodsuckers (Julian Radlmaier) – 5.0<\/li>\n
        • Compartment No. 6 (Juho Kuosmanen) \u2013 4.9<\/li>\n
        • Malignant (James Wan) \u2013 4.9<\/li>\n
        • A Cop Movie (Alonso Ruizpalacios) \u2013 4.9<\/li>\n
        • The White Fortress (Igor Drlja\u010da) – 4.9<\/li>\n
        • Censor (Prano Bailey-Bond) – 4.9<\/li>\n
        • Prism (El\u00e9onore Yameogo, An van. Dienderen, & Rosine Mbakam) – 4.8<\/li>\n
        • Taming the Garden (Salom\u00e9 Jashi) – 4.8<\/li>\n
        • Reflection (Valentyn Vasyanovych) \u2013 4.8<\/li>\n
        • Dune: Part One (Denis Villeneuve) \u2013 4.8<\/li>\n
        • The Divide (Catherine Corsini) \u2013 4.8<\/li>\n
        • House Arrest (Alexey German Jr.) \u2013 4.8<\/li>\n
        • What Will Summer Bring (Ignacio Ceroi) – 4.8<\/li>\n
        • Petrov\u2019s Flu (Kirill Serebrennikov) \u2013 4.7<\/li>\n
        • The Scary of Sixty-First (Dasha Nekrasova) \u2013 4.7<\/li>\n
        • West Side Story (Steven Spielberg) \u2013 4.7<\/li>\n
        • The Green Knight (David Lowery) \u2013 4.7<\/li>\n
        • Flee (Jonas Poher Rasmussen) \u2013 4.7<\/li>\n
        • The Story of My Wife (Ildiko Enyedi) \u2013 4.7<\/li>\n
        • Let\u2019s Say Revolution (Nicolas Klotz & Elisabeth Perceval) \u2013 4.6<\/li>\n
        • Garage: Engines and Men (Claire Simon) – 4.6<\/li>\n
        • Pleasure (Ninja Thyberg) – 4.6<\/li>\n
        • The Restless (Joachim Lafosse) – 4.6<\/li>\n
        • Pilgrims (Laurynas Barei\u0161a) \u2013 4.6<\/li>\n
        • Limbo (Soi Cheang) – 4.5<\/li>\n
        • C’mon C’mon (Mike Mills) \u2013 4.5<\/li>\n
        • Mr. Kneff (Steven Soderbergh) \u2013 4.5<\/li>\n
        • The Last Duel (Ridley Scott) \u2013 4.5<\/li>\n
        • Jane by Charlotte (Charlotte Gainsbourg) \u2013 4.5<\/li>\n
        • Paris 13th District (Jacques Audiard) \u2013 4.4<\/li>\n
        • Casablanca Beats (Nabil Ayouch) \u2013 4.4<\/li>\n
        • Language Lessons (Natalie Morales) – 4.4<\/li>\n
        • Sundown (Michel Franco) – 4.4<\/li>\n
        • They Carry Death (Samuel M. Delgado & Helena Gir\u00f3n) \u2013 4.3<\/li>\n
        • Last Night in Soho (Edgar Wright) \u2013 4.3<\/li>\n
        • Lamb (Valdimar J\u00f3hannsson) \u2013 4.3<\/li>\n
        • Taste (L\u00ea B\u1ea3o) – 4.3<\/li>\n
        • Natural Light (D\u00e9nes Nagy) \u2013 4.2<\/li>\n
        • Three Floors (Nanni Moretti) \u2013 4.2<\/li>\n
        • Between Two Worlds (Emmanuel Carr\u00e8re) \u2013 4.2<\/li>\n
        • Ski (Manque La Banca) – 4.1<\/li>\n
        • The French Dispatch of the Liberty, Kansas Evening Sun (Wes Anderson) \u2013 4.1<\/li>\n
        • CODA (Si\u00e2n Heder) – 4.1<\/li>\n
        • Ali & Ava (Clio Barnard) \u2013 4.1<\/li>\n
        • The Tragedy of Macbeth (Joel Coen) \u2013 4.1<\/li>\n
        • Lingui (The Sacred Bonds) (Mahamat-Saleh Haroun) \u2013 4.0<\/li>\n
        • Just a Movement (Vincent Meessen) \u2013 4.0<\/li>\n
        • Benediction (Terence Davies) \u2013 3.8<\/li>\n
        • Everything Went Fine (Fran\u00e7ois Ozon) \u2013 3.8<\/li>\n
        • The Innocents (Eskil Vogt) \u2013 3.7<\/li>\n
        • Cow (Andrea Arnold) \u2013 3.6<\/li>\n
        • Spencer (Pablo Larra\u00edn)\u2013 3.6<\/li>\n
        • The First 54 Years: An Abbreviated Manual for Military Occupation (Avi Mograbi) \u2013 3.5<\/li>\n
        • After Yang (Kogonada) \u2013 3.4<\/li>\n
        • After Blue (Paradis sale) (Bertrand Mandico) \u2013 3.2<\/li>\n
        • Hold Me Tight (Matheiu Amalric) \u2013 3.1<\/li>\n
        • Prisoners of the Ghostland (Sion Sono) – 3.1<\/li>\n
        • Playground (Laura Wandel) \u2013 2.9<\/li>\n
        • Nuclear Family (Erin & Travis Wilkerson) \u2013 2.9<\/li>\n
        • Flag Day (Sean Penn) \u2013 2.4<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

          *Click on the ‘Lists & Logs’ tab to see lists from previous years. This list will be updated each time I see a film from 2021 (world premiere\/imdb date) that is better than at least one of the films already on the list. Memoria (Apichatpong Weerasethakul) France (Bruno Dumont) The Tsugua Diaries (Miguel Gomes & […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21242","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blakewilliams.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21242","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blakewilliams.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blakewilliams.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blakewilliams.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blakewilliams.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21242"}],"version-history":[{"count":21,"href":"http:\/\/blakewilliams.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21242\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24042,"href":"http:\/\/blakewilliams.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21242\/revisions\/24042"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blakewilliams.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blakewilliams.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blakewilliams.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}