Posted on 02/26/2015 at 02:04 PM
| Filed Under Blogs
Essentials from last year: The Lego Movie, Boyhood, Under The Skin (not for everyone but worth a look), The Raid 2 (see the first one if you haven't, as this recaps nothing), Life Itself (excellent doc about Roger Ebert), Jodorowsky's Dune (excellent doc on a film project that never happened but mattered anyway), Gone Girl, Inherent Vice, The Guest, Locke, Dawn of the Planet of the Apes, Only Lovers Left Alive, How To Train Your Dragon 2, 22 Jump Street, Edge of Tomorrow, Interstellar, Chef, Noah, X-Men: Days of Future Past, Guardians of the Galaxy.
I love films for their own brand of immersion, for a kind of storytelling that is unique to its own form. I love the collaboration that goes into making films, how all these people and all these moving parts (script, set design, lighting, costumes, music, camerawork, acting, visual effects) can work together to generate a specific vision that can wrestle any emotion out of you. Whether they challenge you, validate a certain belief or worldview, arouse you or comfort you, film is an amazing art form and my favorite of all of them.