{"id":111390,"date":"2015-12-21T08:54:52","date_gmt":"2015-12-21T13:54:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=111390"},"modified":"2015-12-21T08:58:14","modified_gmt":"2015-12-21T13:58:14","slug":"oliver-farrys-top-movies-of-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=111390","title":{"rendered":"Oliver Farry’s Top Movies of 2015"},"content":{"rendered":"

A thoughtful and well-written (understatement) list of the Top Movies of 2015, by journalist\/novelist\/broadcaster Oliver Farry<\/a>. <\/p>\n

Farry leads you off the beaten track, although a couple of popular films that reached a wide audience are on the list. But he gives a great sense of what else is going on around the world, and there is so much here to discover – to broaden your horizons, so to speak. I also loved Arabian Nights<\/i> from Portuguese director Miguel Gomes (a three-parter, released as 3 separate films: and this was recently: they may still be in arthouse theatres), The Look of Silence<\/i> (Joshua Oppenheimer’s follow-up documentary to the harrowing The Act of Killing<\/i>, about the genocidal gangsters who wreaked havoc in Indonesia, a film I admired more than Farry did – although I agree that the follow-up is even more upsetting, and such an explosive topic that many of the crew are listed as Anonymous – similar to Jafar Panahi’s credit-list in his first film after his arrest, This Is Not a Film<\/i>, a film on a zip drive smuggled out of Iran in the middle of a pastry.) And I loved A Most Violent Year<\/i>, starring Oscar Issac (in a role that completely transformed him from – at least my introduction of him – the character in Inside Llewyn Davis<\/i>) and Jessica Chastain. A mob movie that feels extremely small-time and petty: an interesting take on a familiar genre. And very glad to see the smart horror film It Follows<\/i> included. For a long time, that film was in my Top 10. Taxi<\/i> made it on my Top 10, the latest from dissident and hounded and supposedly “silenced” Iranian director Jafar Panahi, my favorite. <\/p>\n

Many here I have not seen: I missed the screenings for Aferim!<\/i> (bummed out about it, because the films coming out of Romania are so exciting: along with Iran, it is one of the most exciting film scenes in the world), and Cemetery of Splendour<\/i>, by master Thai director Apichatpong Weerasethakul. And many others I need to check out. <\/p>\n

Once again, here is Oliver Farry’s list.<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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