TIMOTHY SPALL IN MR. TURNER

CHRIS KNIPP'S 2014 MOVIE BEST LISTS

BEST ENGLISH LANGUAGE FILMS:
MR. TURNER (Mike Leigh)
BLUE RUIN (Jeremy Saulnier)
CALVARY ( John Michael McDonagh)
NIGHT MOVES (Kelly Reichardt)
THEORY OF EVERYTHING (James Marsh)
BIRDMAN (Alessandro G. Innaritu)
LISTEN UP PHILIP (Alex Ross Perry)
LOCKE (Steven Knight)
THE DROP (Michaël R. Roskam)
NIGHTCRAWLER (Dan Gilroy)
COLD IN JULY ( Jim Mickle)
PALO ALTO (Gia Coppola)


ANAÏS DEMOUSTIER IN BIRD PEOPLE

BEST FOREIGN FILMS:
IDA (Pawel Pawlikowski)
WE ARE THE BEST! (Lucas Moodysson)
TWO DAYS, ONE NIGHT (Jean-Pierre, Luc Dardenne)
BIRD PEOPLE (Pascale Ferran)
BELOVED SISTERS ( Dominik Graf)
SAINT LAURENT (Bertrand Bonello)
STRANGER BY THE LAKE (Alain Guiraudie)
LEVIATHAN (Andrey Zvyagintsev)
NYMPHOMANIAC 1 & 2 (Lars von Trier)
L'IL QUINQUIN (Bruno Dumont)


JAY REINKE IN THE OVERNIGHTERS

BEST DOCUMENTARIES:
THE OVERNIGHTERS (Jesse Moss)
POINT AND SHOOT (Marshall Curry)
THE INTERNET'S OWN BOY (Brian Knappenberger)
SEYMOUR: AN INTRODUCTION (Ethan Hawke)
LLYN FOULKES ONE MAN BAND (Tamar Halpern, Chris Quilty)
CITIZENFOUR (Laura Poitras)
FINDING VIVIAN MEIER/THE VIVIAN MEIER MYSTERY
PARTICLE FEVER (Mark Levinson)
JODOROVSKY'S DUNE (Frank Pavich)
LIFE ITSELF (Steve James)
TALES OF THE GRIM SLEEPER (Nick Broomfield)
THE LAST OF THE UNJUST (Claude Lanzmann)
THE MISSING PICTURE (Rithy Panh)
12 O'CLOCK BOYS (Lotfy Nathan)
THE KILL TEAM (Dan Krauss)
RICH HILL ( Andrew Droz Palermo, Tracy Droz Tragos)
HAPPY VALLEY (Mir Bar-Lev)
RED ARMY ( Gabe Polsky)
NATIONAL GALLERY (Frederick Wiseman)
THE GREEN PRINCE (Nadav Schirman)

SHORTLISTED, BOTH CATEGORIES:
THE LEGO MOVIE (Phil Lord, Christopher Miller)
FURY (David Ayer)
INHERENT VICE (Paul Thomas Anderson)
LAST DAYS OF VIETNAM (Rory Kennedy)
. . .

KIRILL EMELYANOV, OLIVIER RABOURDIN IN EASTERN BOYS

(SOME) BEST FESTIVAL UNRELEASED:
'71 (Yann Demange) NYFF (coming Feb. 2015)
HILL OF FREEDOM (Hong Sang-soo)
TIMBUKTU (Abderrahmane Sissako NYFF) (coming Jan. 2015)
THE RETURN TO HOMS (documentary ND/NF)
EASTERN BOYS (Robin Campillo, French RV) (Feb. 2015 release)

OTHERS LIKE:
BOYHOOD (Richard Linklater)
THE GRAND BUDAPEST HOTEL (Wes Anderson)
WHIPLASH (Damien Chazelle)
​FOXCATCHER (Bennett Miller)
UNDER THE SKIN (Jonathan Glazer)
MAPS TO THE STARS (David Cronenberg)

UNFORTUNATELY HAVE MISSED:
LAST DAYS IN VIETNAM (Rory Kennedy)
WINTER SLEEP (Nuri Bilge Ceylan)
THE HOMESMAN (Tommy Lee Jones)

BEST LATE RELEASE:
A SUMMER'S TALE (Eric Rohmer)

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