LFF 2014 Round-up

Total Films

1. Hill of Freedom
2. Come Back to the 5 and Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean
3. Black Coal Thin Ice
4. Bjork Biophilia Live
5. Tokyo Tribe
6. Shrew’s Nest
7. Still the Water
8. Giovanni’s Island
9. The Drop
10. The New Girlfriend
11. Dearest
12. Rosewater
13. John Stewart Debate Event
14. War Book
15. The Wonders
16. A Girl Walks Home Alone, at Night
17. Black Souls
18. The Goddess
19. A Girl at My Door
20. No Man’s Land
21. Betibú
22. Dragon Inn
23. Jauja
24. Leviathan
25. Furthest End Awaits
26. Shadow Days
27. White Haired Witch of Lunar Kingdom
28. Winter Sleep
29. Satellite Girl and Milk Cow
30. Three Hearts
31. Mommy

Booked but Missed

1. Pasolini
2. Exit
3. White Bird in a Blizzard

Wanted to see but couldn’t (off the top of my head, probably I’ve forgotten most of them)

1. Duke of Burgundy
2. The Dinner
3. pretty much everything else

Top Picks (the ones I liked most, not necessarily the ‘best’ films, also a bit arbitrary )

1. A Girl Walks Home Alone, At Night
2. The New Girl Friend
3. Mommy
4. Black Coal Thin Ice
5. The Furthest End Awaits

So, the London film festival is over for another year. Blow for blow I think I feel less ‘wowed’ by this year than others even though most of the films I saw were more than good and I only saw two that I didn’t like so much, hmm – well maybe three.  My selections were a bit random though – started with the ones I most wanted to see and worked around those meaning I missed some of the most popular titles like Hard to be a God, Goodbye to Language, The Tribe etc. I really wanted to see Duke of Burgundy but that’ll get a release soon enough, bit disappointed I had to miss Exit but it was for a good reason. Would have liked to have seen more of the archive stuff – had an idea I didn’t really like Altman but I was kind of blown away by Jimmy Dean. Oddly I saw most of the competition films and agree with the winner, Leviathan – a true masterpiece. I guess that’s it ’til next year – I wonder what that will bring?