Movies: Best Film of the Year: 2013

[Howard Beale]

The 2012 poll is led by:
1. Django Unchained
T2. Life of Pi
T2. Silver Linings Playbook

The 2011 poll is led by:
1. Drive
2. Moneyball
T3. The Tree of Life
T3. Midnight in Paris
T3. Rise of the Planet of the Apes

The 2010 poll is led by:
1. Inception
2. The Social Network
3. Black Swan


For 2013, I've included the 9 Oscar nominees for Best Picture:

• 12 Years a Slave
• The Wolf of Wall Street
• Gravity
• Her
• Captain Phillips
• American Hustle
• Dallas Buyers Club
• Nebraska
• Philomena

And 17 others:

• Blue is the Warmest Colour
• Blue Jasmine
• The World's End
• Before Midnight
• Inside Llewyn Davis
• Frances Ha
• Spring Breakers
• Upstream Colours
• Prisoners
• Hunger Games: Catching Fire
• The Act of Killing
• Mud
• The Great Beauty (La grande bellezza)
• The Great Gatsby
• The Conjuring
• Star Trek: into Darkness
  

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[EXTRAS]

Is this meant to say 2013?

 

[Howard Beale]

Is this meant to say 2013?

Yep... if a Mod can change the title, it would be much appreciated!

EDIT: nevermind, I figured it out

 

[EXTRAS]

Add great gatsby, the conjuring, and star trek: into darkness.

 

[Pranzo Oltranzista]

Voted for Her and Blue Is the Warmest Color. I think Blue was my favorite of the year. Otherwise it was L'étrange couleur des larmes de ton corps. Her was a very good film too.

Edit: Added Before Midnight to my votes... strangely didn't have it on IMDB.



What I've got for 2014 is so thin...... my only 8/10 was The Babadook, which can't be the best film of the year. Otherwise I've got a half a dozen films at 7, Boyhood, Birdman might be considered... And a few films at 6 that I would have wanted to love and that were still good but just weren't what I hoped for, Bande de filles, Incompresa, Interstellar...

 

[Savi]

I absolutely love 2013, might be one of my favourite years of the decade (that, and 2014) I could go at least 15 movies deep that I all truly adored and after that there's still a bunch I really liked as well.

1. Only God Forgives (Refn, Denmark)
2. Enemy (Villeneuve, Canada)
3. Blue is the Warmest Color (Kechiche, 2013)
4. Upstream Color (Carruth, US)
5. Under the Skin (Glazer, UK)
6. Stockholm (Sorogoyen, Spain)
7. Short Term 12 (Cretton, US)
8. Inside Llewyn Davis (Coen, US)
9. The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby: Her (Benson, US)
10. The Past (Farhadi, Iran)

HMs: Honey (Golino, Italy); Coherence (Byrkit, US); Borgman (Warmerdam, Netherlands); The Garden of Words (Shinkai, Japan); Palo Alto (Coppola, US); Only Lovers Left Alive (Jarmusch, UK)

 

[Pranzo Oltranzista]

I absolutely love 2013, might be one of my favourite years of the decade (that, and 2014) I could go at least 15 movies deep that I all truly adored and after that there's still a bunch I really liked as well.

1. Only God Forgives (Refn, Denmark)
2. Enemy (Villeneuve, Canada)
3. Blue is the Warmest Color (Kechiche, 2013)
4. Upstream Color (Carruth, US)
5. Under the Skin (Glazer, UK)
6. Stockholm (Sorogoyen, Spain)
7. Short Term 12 (Cretton, US)
8. Inside Llewyn Davis (Coen, US)
9. The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby: Her (Benson, US)
10. The Past (Farhadi, Iran)

HMs: Honey (Golino, Italy); Coherence (Byrkit, US); Borgman (Warmerdam, Netherlands); The Garden of Words (Shinkai, Japan); Palo Alto (Coppola, US); Only Lovers Left Alive (Jarmusch, UK)

I am quite surprised that I've seen 4 of your top-5 films (and less surprised that I haven't seen anything afterwards except for Only Lovers Left Alive). Enemy and Under the Skin were 7/10 for me. The Refn and Jarmusch films I have at 5/10 and thought were rather disappointing.

 

[Ralph Spoilsport]

Voted.

Will be looking for Goodbye To Language and possibly Maps To The Stars for 2014.

 

[Spring in Fialta]

Not a bad year when you look back on it. Mine would probably be Only Lovers Left Alive. Love Savi's top 2 picks as well. Didn't actually care too much for Blue.

 

[Pranzo Oltranzista]

Voted.

Will be looking for Goodbye To Language and possibly Maps To The Stars for 2014.

Haven't seen either one, but I'm confident they must be better than my pick.

 

[Howard Beale]

Add great gatsby, the conjuring, and star trek: into darkness.

Since I think it's a pretty strong year (and those are genres that tend to get underrepresented in my polls) I've added all 3.

Not a bad year when you look back on it. Mine would probably be Only Lovers Left Alive. Love Savi's top 2 picks as well. Didn't actually care too much for Blue.

I'll include Only Lovers Left Alive in 2014 (that's when it got released in most countries).

 

[GlassesJacketShirt]

What a phenomenal year at the top. Went with Her (favorite of the decade), Blue is the Warmest Colour (possibly my second favorite), and The Act of Killing (an all-time great documentary), but I would recommend almost every film on this list without question.

 

[nameless1]

Blue is the Warmest Colour and Her are definitely my top two, but the third is hard. It was between Gravity and Inside Llewyn Davis, but I went with Gravity at the end. The technology in that one is damn impressive.

 

[Mario Lemieux fan 66]

1- Tangerines (Mandariinid)
2- The Tale of the Princess Kaguya
3- Louis Cyr
4- Omar
5- Rush
6- like father like son
7- 12 Years a Slave
8- Her
9- Blue is the Warmest Colour
10- Identity Thief
11- Dallas Buyers Club
12- Gravity
13- Short Term 12
14- Ida
15- We're the Millers

The main difficulty is finding the date of the foreign movie. I added the Hunt as my number 1 for 2012 and The Tale of the Princess Kaguya as my number 2 for this year.

 

[kihei]

Picked: Gravity
HMs: Like Father, Like Son; Upstream Color; Enemy; Blue Is the Warmest Colour

Suggested for 2014: Mommy
Also worth consideration: Ida; Goodbye to Language; Only Lovers Left Alive; Leviathan; Force Majeur

 

[Tkachuk4MVP]

Enemy and Under the Skin are two of my favorites of the decade, ultimately went with the former.

 

[nameless1]

I forgot about Like Father, Like Son. That would have been my third choice.

Man, what a great year for movies in 2013. There were so many good ones.

 

[firewagonHOCKEY]

Easy, Wolf of Wallstreet was so good I still watch it once in a awhile

 

[Savi]

Man, what a great year for movies in 2013. There were so many good ones.

Almost too many to mention. I was just checking, and some that haven't been mentioned already but were also very good IMO: Fruitvale Station (Coogler, US); Young and Beautiful (Ozon, France); Blue Ruin (Saulnier, US); Metro Manila (Ellis, UK); Out of the Furnace (Cooper, US); Snowpiercer (Bong, South Korea); The Golden Dream (Diez, Mexico); Europa Report (Cordero, US); The Best Offer (Tornatore, Italy); The Spectacular Now (Ponsoldt, US); Stoker (Park, UK); Trance (Boyle, UK) and since I love me some good mumblecore I'll mention Drinking Buddies (Swanberg, US) too

Also had one of the more WTF movies of the decade with The Counselor as well

 

[Trap Jesus]

No Under the Skin? Suggested it last time, I feel like maybe it would have got another couple votes. Favorite movie of all time so I would have taken it easily. Blue Ruin would be my next favorite, but from this list Prisoners and Blue Jasmine.

 

[Martinez]

1. Prisoners
2. American Hustle
3. The Wolf of Wall Street
Hm. Dallas Buyers Club

What a great year for movies

 

[Howard Beale]

No Under the Skin? Suggested it last time, I feel like maybe it would have got another couple votes. Favorite movie of all time so I would have taken it easily. Blue Ruin would be my next favorite, but from this list Prisoners and Blue Jasmine.

I've got that listed for 2014 - it aired in festivals in 2013 but was properly released in 2014 - and I'll definitely include it.

That said, I realize that my determination of which year to include movies has created some confusion, and I feel like maybe I should have just gone with the IMDB-listed years, to keep things simple... but I've come too far to change now.


Anyway, I agree with everyone that 2013 was a really great year in film... My top 3:

1. Her
2. The Wolf of Wall Street
3. 12 Years a Slave

HMs: Before Midnight, The World's End, Blue Jasmine, and Frances Ha

 

[Savi]

maybe I should have just gone with the IMDB-listed years

I generally take this approach as well, even if I have only seen some of these in 2014 as well

 

[KallioWeHardlyKnewYe]

Went with Wolf of Wall Street but seriously considered Her.

Vote would have been Under the Skin (which would be on my short list for my favorite of the decade) if it is 2013. Seen it listed as 2014 though too so I might still have my chance ...

 

[ThreeOfAPerfectPair]

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