I love films. I’ve been making these lists since 2012 and it’s amazing to me how much my taste in films has changed & developed over the years.
Looking over the choices for what qualified as a cinematic masterpiece, I can vaguely see a unifying thread that gravitates me towards these films. Most of the films all share the unifying detail of being a movie about people & love. To get deeper on this point, they're movies about people and the abundance or absence of love in their lives.
The selected films are created by filmmakers with varying styles and technical expertise, but at the same time they all have films that made me feel and think inwardly about my own life and relationships. Thinking about my mortality, the trajectory of my love life, the legacy I want to leave on this world; these are some questions that form when watching these films.
As I mentioned before on the last list I wrote, it is becoming increasingly hard for me to add movies on to this list, not because there's no good films out in the world( I have many more films i’ve been needing to see)that's absolutely not the case, but looking past the visuals, the score and the performance all the matters is the story.
Now on an internal and somewhat spiritual level I find myself asking did this film truly make me care? Do I really care for the survival of these characters relationship? Do I care this character just went through a physical & mental ordeal? Do I care for the success of a plan executed by the character? Of course I do want to care but sometimes the the trajectory of the story is like a roller coaster; when you get all this momentum to the top but then the hype doesn't meet expectations it makes a movie I really wanted to love just a movie I have alot of appreciation for. But there's those moment when a film keeps going on the building momentum to the top, and then once the big drops finally happens my God does it feel so gratifying to witness, that’s the magic I crave for in films.
Alright this post has gotten way off track and gone on to rambling I was not prepared for so here's the list
Cinema 2019
• The Grandmaster
•Glass
•The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button
•Pariah
•Only The Brave
•Blindspotting
•The Fisher King
• Once Upon A Time In Hollywood
•A Star Is Born (2018)
• Burning
•Revenge Of The Nerds
•Manila In The Claws Of Light
• Days Of Being Wild
•Joker
• Happy Together
•Y Tu Mamá También
•Alita : Battle Angel
Cinema 2020
• Troop Zero
•Parasite
•Ghost In The Shell
•Tootsie
•The Disaster Artist
•I, Tonya
•Knives Out
• Long Shot
•La Haine
• Jay & Silent Bob Reboot
•Hostiles
•Da 5 Bloods
• The Karate Kid
•After School
• Bad Hair
•Paddington II
Do yourself a favor and checkout a few of these films and tell me what you thought.
Hope You Enjoy
-Andrew