Favourite Movies of 2013
My "official" year-end top list.Year by the first general/non-festival release listed…
My "official" year-end top list.Year by the first general/non-festival release listed…
Jan 1
Dec 31
twice
twice
Stan Lee 4
Stan Lee 4
Don Heck 3
Peyo 2
Mary Vernieu 12
Nina Gold 11
Jongo 2
Bo Welch 2
J.J. Perry 11
Clay Cullen 10
Peter Burgis 12
Anna Behlmer 10
Andy Nelson 10
Ann Roth 3
Ve Neill 4
Paramount 13
Canal+ 9
Aardman 7
Christine Cynn 4.5
Anonymous 4.5
Anna Boden 4.5
Barry Cook 4.0
Morgan Francis 2.0
Daniel Attias 5.0
Katy Emde 5.0
Roxane Andreani 5.0
Stephen E. Hagen 5.0
Josh Robertson 5.0
Ben Howard 5.0
Edward Brett 5.0
Marcia Gay 5.0
Christos Nikou 5.0
Anna Nikolaou 5.0
Frank Capra III 5.0
Sue Collins 5.0
Jemima Daly 5.0
Thomas A. Reilly 5.0
Richard Patrick 5.0
James Alan Hensz 5.0
Charlie Picerni 5.0
Brian Smrz 4.5
Shinji Otsuka 4.5
Katsuya Kondo 4.5
Jeremy Lovering 4.5
Dick Ziker 4.5
Mickey Gilbert 4.5
Andrew Gordon 4.5
Robert H. Russ 4.5
Michael Stocker 4.5
Bruno Dequier 4.5
Pierre Leduc 4.5
Kenny Bates 4.5
Chris Forster 4.5
Todd Hallowell 4.5
John Mahaffie 4.5
Steve Starkey 4.5
Joel Kramer 4.5
Wolfgang Ramml 5.0
Ellen Winn Wendl 5.0
Melissa Mathison 5.0
Isabelle Coulet 5.0
Alfonso Cuarón 5.0
David Heyman 5.0
Sara Woodhatch 5.0
Christos V. Konstantakopoulos 5.0
Tom Jacobson 5.0
Ramey E. Ward 5.0
Mauri Syd Gayton 5.0
Melanie Coombs 5.0
Leanne Smith 5.0
Pauline Piechota 5.0
Joni Rubin 5.0
Stephen Jones 5.0
Nikki Penny 5.0
Martin Shafer 5.0
Jacob Pechenik 5.0
Nicholas Stoller 5.0
Jason Segel 5.0
Martin G. Baker 5.0
John G. Scotti 5.0
Daniel Grodnik 5.0
Mark Gooder 5.0
Iain Canning 5.0
Paul Hardart 5.0
Tom Hardart 5.0
Dale Cornelius 5.0
Andrew Mackie 5.0
Richard Payten 5.0
Bryce Menzies 5.0
Jonathan Page 5.0
Jim Rash 5.0
Kim Krizan 5.0
Julie Delpy 5.0
Ethan Hawke 5.0
Melissa Mathison 5.0
Alfonso Cuarón 5.0
Jonás Cuarón 5.0
Frank Capra 5.0
Albert Hackett 5.0
Frances Goodrich 5.0
Nicholas Stoller 5.0
Jason Segel 5.0
Adam Elliot 5.0
Jim Rash 5.0
Nat Faxon 5.0
David Mamet 5.0
Paul Attanasio 5.0
Stephen Belber 5.0
Baillie Walsh 5.0
Sarah Polley 4.8
Kim Krizan 5.0
Jim Henson 5.0
David Mamet 5.0
Stephen Belber 5.0
Hayao Miyazaki 4.5
Eiko Kadono 4.5
Mickey Rapkin 4.5
Aoi Hiiragi 4.5
Patrick Marber 4.5
David Mitchell 4.5
Mike Myers 4.5
Lynn Barber 4.5
A. A. Milne 4.5
Martin Sixsmith 4.5
Alycia Aumuller 5.0
Judy Henderson 5.0
Heidi Levitt 5.0
Brooke Howden 5.0
Sylvia Fay 5.0
Felicia Fasano 5.0
Jason Knight 4.5
John Buchan 4.5
Robert Sterne 4.5
Jane Feinberg 4.5
Mike Fenton 4.5
Gail Stevens 4.5
Michelle Morris 4.5
Allison Estrin 4.5
Rich Delia 4.5
Wayne Morse 4.5
Lisa Miller Katz 4.5
Carol Littleton 5.0
Kathleen Korth 5.0
Alfonso Cuarón 5.0
Mark Sanger 5.0
Tania Clarke 5.0
Debs Richardson 5.0
William Hornbeck 5.0
Glen Whelan 5.0
Robert Hoffman 5.0
Sandra Adair 4.9
Stu Linder 4.8
Douglas Crise 4.5
Jeffrey Ford 4.5
Paul Hirsch 4.5
James Thomas 4.5
Jay Deuby 4.5
Lee Daniel 5.0
Allen Daviau 5.0
Joseph F. Biroc 5.0
Victor Milner 5.0
Gerald Thompson 5.0
Juan Ruiz Anchía 5.0
Jamie Anderson 5.0
Michael Ballhaus 5.0
Luc Montpellier 5.0
Maryse Alberti 5.0
Joseph Walker 4.8
John Bailey 4.8
Frank Griebe 4.5
Andrij Parekh 4.5
Robbie Ryan 4.5
Tobias Datum 4.5
Hisao Shirai 4.5
David M. Dunlap 4.5
Paul Alexander 5.0
Peter Taylor 5.0
Douglas Knapp 5.0
Randy Nolen 5.0
Jon Billington 5.0
Robin Plunkett 5.0
Craig Haagensen 5.0
Gary Jay 5.0
Florian Ballhaus 5.0
Sean Jensen 5.0
Maryse Alberti 5.0
Roger Deakins 4.5
Bela Trutz 4.5
Mark Meyers 4.5
John Palmer 4.5
David Carey 4.5
Gero Lasnig 5.0
James Plannette 5.0
John Higgins 5.0
Ashley Palin 5.0
Stephen Mathie 5.0
George Bird 5.0
Terry May 5.0
Bernard O'Brien 5.0
Darren Howton 5.0
Homer Plannette 5.0
Bill Silic 5.0
Kevin Kelley 5.0
Terry Kelly 5.0
Clayton Allis 5.0
Chris Napolitano 4.5
Ellen Poon 4.5
Diana J. Zeng 4.5
Olun Riley 4.5
Jeffrey Benedict 4.5
Michael Seresin 5.0
Kirk Bales 5.0
Eric Engler 5.0
Ann Lukacs 5.0
Jimmy Simak 5.0
Frank Godwin 4.5
Larry Blanford 4.5
Peter Field 4.5
Mark Moriarty 4.5
Reed Morano 4.5
Jim Powers 4.5
Michael Wood 4.5
Ryley Brown 4.5
Isabelle Arnold 4.5
Cliff Shirpser 4.5
Shane Kelly 4.5
Steve Saklad 5.0
Stephen Marsh 5.0
Adam Elliot 5.0
Mark Ricker 5.0
Jon Hutman 5.0
Matthew Davies 5.0
Stephen Beatrice 5.0
Jane Musky 4.8
Marcus Rowland 4.5
Rusty Smith 4.5
Patrice Vermette 4.5
Bill Brzeski 4.5
David Womersley 4.5
Julie Berghoff 4.5
Hinoshi Ono 4.5
Marcia Hinds 4.5
Brian Thomson 4.5
Ricky Nierva 4.5
Bob Shaw 5.0
Mark Scruton 5.0
Jack Okey 5.0
Anna Georgiadou 5.0
Beala Neel 5.0
Craig Fison 5.0
Jeremy Woodward 5.0
William Barclay 5.0
Ray Yamagata 5.0
Tim Galvin 5.0
Ed Check 5.0
Jay Pelissier 4.5
Michael Ahern 4.5
Phil Lewis 4.5
Lauren Abiouness 4.5
Paul D. Kelly 4.5
Jackie Carr 5.0
Francois Poublan 5.0
Joanne Woollard 5.0
Rosie Goodwin 5.0
Anna Georgiadou 5.0
Tracey A. Doyle 5.0
Lisa Fischer 5.0
Isabel Peppard 5.0
Claire Tennant 5.0
Robert J. Franco 5.0
Natalie Richards 5.0
Samara Schaffer 5.0
Leslie A. Pope 4.5
Alan Burg 4.5
Lynn Christopher 4.5
Rena DeAngelo 4.5
Erik Polczwartek 4.5
Dale L. Martin 5.0
Carlo Rambaldi 5.0
Karol Stachowicz 5.0
Kevin Lumley 5.0
Stuart Kerr 5.0
Russell A. Cully 5.0
Daniel Hays 5.0
Gary L. Karas 5.0
Dieter Sturm 5.0
Isabel Peppard 5.0
Mike Maggi 5.0
Kaoru Tanifuji 4.5
David Fletcher 4.5
Michael Hauck 4.5
David Hill 4.5
Luke Marcel 4.5
Catherine Hart 4.5
Al Bailey 5.0
Carlo Rambaldi 5.0
Tony Clark 5.0
Alex Meddick 5.0
Tim Webber 5.0
Max Solomon 5.0
David Shirk 5.0
Richard Graham 5.0
Charles Howell 5.0
Fiona Walkinshaw 5.0
Richard McBride 5.0
Ian Cope 5.0
Dennis Jones 5.0
Dale Newton 5.0
Tim Bowman 5.0
Nick Pill 5.0
Mathieu Vig 5.0
Adam Paschke 5.0
Adam Potter 5.0
Ben Paschke 5.0
Melanie Etchell 5.0
Jory Hull 5.0
Matt Curtis 4.5
Jeremy Chinn 4.5
Janette Scott 4.5
Adrian Molina 4.5
Susan Bradley 4.5
Charles Christopher Rubino 4.5
J. John Corbett 4.5
Andrew Kramer 4.5
Steve Viola 4.5
Dan Curry 4.5
Kyle Cooper 4.5
Lisa Bolan 4.5
Ben Schoen 4.5
Jason Marlow 4.5
Julia Brown 4.5
Wayne Fitzgerald 4.2
Felix Silla 5.0
Bobby Porter 5.0
Chuck Waters 5.0
Ted Grossman 5.0
Fred Lerner 5.0
David Cronnelly 5.0
Diz Sharpe 5.0
Bean Peel 5.0
Shelly Benison 5.0
Lila Finn 5.0
Doru Raceala 5.0
John Robotham 5.0
Steve Picerni 5.0
Leslie Hoffman 5.0
Philip Romano 5.0
Litza Bixler 4.5
David Toguri 4.5
Gillian Gregory 4.5
Aakomon Jones 4.5
Denise Faye 4.5
John DeLuca 4.5
Mary Ann Kellogg 4.5
Miranda Garrison 4.5
Cate Caplin 4.5
Alison Faulk 4.0
Daniel Ezralow 4.0
Amy Wright 4.0
Emma Annetts 4.0
Francesca Jaynes 3.8
Troy P. Liddell 3.5
Marc Breaux 3.5
Dee Dee Wood 3.5
Jeff Dimitriou 3.5
Fred Frith 5.0
Dale Cornelius 5.0
Steven Price 4.8
Dimitri Tiomkin 4.8
Graham Reynolds 4.8
Joe Hisaishi 4.5
Reinhold Heil 4.5
Johnny Klimek 4.5
Mark Isham 4.5
Tom Tykwer 4.5
Luis Bacalov 4.5
Jake Monaco 4.5
Dan Mudford 4.5
Pete Woodhead 4.5
Marc Shaiman 4.5
Lisa Hannigan 5.0
Katherine Ellis 5.0
Bret McKenzie 5.0
Luis Bacalov 4.5
Robert Lopez 4.5
Richard O'Brien 4.5
Richard Hartley 4.5
Anna Kendrick 4.5
Zooey Deschanel 4.5
Leslie Bricusse 4.0
Aoi Teshima 4.0
Vincent Belorgey 4.0
Peter Auty 4.0
Howard Blake 4.0
Jessie Ware 4.0
Wayne Bell 5.0
Larry Kemp 5.0
Ossama Khuluki 5.0
Thomas Szabolcs 5.0
Larry Seyer 5.0
Steve Jaszkowiak 5.0
Robert Knudson 5.0
Robert Glass 5.0
Don Digirolamo 5.0
David Pettijohn 5.0
Bernard Bats 5.0
Jason Piatt 5.0
Chris Benstead 5.0
Nina Hartstone 5.0
Clem Portman 5.0
John Aalberg 5.0
Colin Nicolson 5.0
Thierry Delettre 5.0
Jany Temime 5.0
Janey Temime 5.0
Edward Stevenson 5.0
Vasileia Rozana 5.0
Rahel Afiley 5.0
Michael Kaplan 5.0
Jane Greenwood 5.0
Wendy Chuck 5.0
Kathy O'Rear 5.0
Lea Carlson 5.0
Louise Frogley 4.5
Kari Perkins 4.5
Diaz Jacobs 4.5
Sharen Davis 4.5
Renée April 4.5
Mynka Draper 4.5
Rosanna Norton 4.5
Sharon Ilson 5.0
Robert Sidell 5.0
Anne Bourdiol 5.0
Evi Zafiropoulou 5.0
Ronnie Specter 5.0
Cheryl Ann Nick 5.0
Lee Harman 5.0
Lynne K. Eagan 5.0
Gordon Bau 4.5
Candice Banks 4.5
Stephen Abrums 4.5
Angela Levin 4.5
Claudia Pascual 4.5
Leo Won 4.5
David Kalahiki 4.5
Daniel Parker 4.5
Trish Seeney 4.5
Kyra Panchenko 4.5
Ioulia Sygrimi 5.0
Hronis Tzimos 5.0
Kaye Pownall 5.0
Teressia Carter 5.0
Cammy R. Langer 5.0
Rita Troy 5.0
Francesca Paris 5.0
Kyra Panchenko 5.0
Deidra Dixon 4.5
Christina Raye 4.5
Barbara Lorenz 4.5
Daniel Parker 4.5
Brenda McNally 4.5
Joani Yarbrough 4.5
Bunny Parker 4.5
Taylor Knight 4.5
Vincent Gideon 4.5
Filmhaus Films 5.0
Columbia Pictures Corporation 5.0
Warner Independent Pictures 5.0
Esperanto Filmoj 5.0
Liberty Films 5.0
What Just Happened Productions 5.0
GGR 5.0
Movie Central 5.0
I'm not sure how much the decision to have Aviva played by a handful of different actresses really enhanced the movie, even after reading Solondz's explanatory notes in the DVD package. No matter; enigmatic structural choices aside, this is a thoughtful, powerful film, dark in subject matter and even darker in humour.
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