Since I no longer work for a Montreal weekly, I have the luxury to list films that haven’t opened here yet; this is just a list of new films I have seen this year, either here or at festivals elsewhere, and liked. In alphabetical order:
Attack the Block - Joe Cornish
Beyond the Black Rainbow - Panos Cosmatos
Book chon bang hyang (The Day He Arrives) - Hong Sang-soo (I used the Korean title because I really don’t like the English one)
Drive - Nicolas Winding Refn
Fright Night - Craig Gillespie
Hanna - Joe Wright
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Pt. 2 - David Yates
Melancholia - Lars von Trier
Midnight in Paris - Woody Allen
Oslo, August 31 - Joachim Trier
Tree of Life - Terrence Malick (at least one solid hour of it)
Thor - Kenneth Branagh
TrollHunter - André Øverdal
Your Sister’s Sister - Lynne Shelton
X-Men: First Class - Matthew Vaughn
