Time for the yearly ranking! As always, it will conclude all the contemporary (i.e. 2012 and 2013) films I have seen this year and asterisks denote films we saw in theaters.
1. Before Midnight
2. Inside Llewyn Davis *
3. The Dictator
4. Rent-a-neko
5. Cesare deve morire
6. The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug *
7. Elysium *
8. Iron Sky
9. In another country
10. Silver Linings Playbook
11. Django Unchained *
12. Gravity *
13. PietÃ
14. Europa Report
15. Brave
16. 2 Days in New York
To be honest, I am surprised so many films showed up on this list. I totally expected to end up with 5 or something. I am even more shocked to see that I saw a total of 97 movies this year, which is only 10 less than last year! Next year, however, I would like to go back to watching films more regularly again. As usual, I liked all of the films I saw in theaters. In this ranking, I’d say 1-3 are brilliant, 4-8 were really good, 9-13 were good and 14-16 were meh. Overall though, “Before Midnight” is like a grand slam, “Inside Llewyn Davis” is a home run and the others are more or less decent hits.
I am looking forward to what next year will bring. I hope I will be able to go back to seeing many films, but honestly I don’t even know where I would do that. We recently discussed with friends that this is a crossroads period for us, and it really is. I have wild fantasies of living a bohemian lifestyle in France or other random parts of the world, and then “settle” in a MUJI house in the Japanese countryside. Wild, I’m telling you.
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