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Tim McCormick - Films/TV watched and to watch - see tmccormick.org/projects/films-list for notes & how to use
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TITLEYRCOUNTRYDIRECTORNotesCategoryBFI 100 2020
BAFTA Outstanding British Film
BAFTA Best Film (any source)CANNES FILM FESTIVALDezeen 20 architecture films
Academy Awards Best Foreign Film
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TOPPIG2021USAMichael Sarnoski
drama film written and directed by Michael Sarnoski in his directorial debut. It stars Nicolas Cage, Alex Wolff, and Adam Arkin, and follows a truffle forager whose beloved truffle-finding pig is stolen.
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TOPWest Side Story2021USASteven Spielberg
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TOPHamilton2020USAThomas Kail
live stage recording of the 2015 Broadway musical of the same name, which was inspired by the 2004 biography Alexander Hamilton by Ron Chernow. It was directed and produced by Thomas Kail and produced, written, and composed by Lin-Manuel Miranda
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TOPIf Beale Street Could Talk2019USA
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TOPFantastic Fungi2019USALouie Schwartzberg
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TOPThe Right to Rest2019USA
Sarah Megyesy, Guillermo Roqués
documentary
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TOPLittle Woods2018USANia DaCosta
crime thriller film, written and directed by Nia DaCosta in her feature directorial debut. The film stars Tessa Thompson
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TOPGreen Book2018USAPeter Farrelly2018 runner-up
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TOPMinimalism2016USA
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TOPZero Dark Thirty2012USAKathryn Bigelow2012 runner-up
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TOPMeek's Cutoff2010USAKelly Reichardt
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TOPUp2009USAPixar
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TOPAvatar2009USAJames Cameron2009 runner-up
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TOPThe Curious Case of Benjamin Button2008USADavid Fincher2008 runner-up
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TOPWhen the Levees Broke2006USASpike Lee
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TOPAlmost Famous2000USACameron Crowe2000 runner-up
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TOPRonin1998USAJohn Frankenheimer
written by John David Zeik and David Mamet, under the pseudonym Richard Weisz.
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TOPPecker1998USAJohn Watersrecommended by Erin
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TOPBound1996USAWachowski brothers
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TOPThe Lion King1994USA
Roger Allers and Rob Minkoff
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TOPTrue Romance1993USATony Scott
written by Quentin Tarantino
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TOPAvalon1990USABarry Levinson
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TOPRiver's Edge1986USATim Hunter
​​American crime drama film written by Neal Jimenez, and starring Crispin Glover, Keanu Reeves, Ione Skye Leitch, Daniel Roebuck and Dennis Hopper.
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TOPTootsie1982USASydney Pollack1983 runner-up
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TOPWolfen1981USAMichael Wadleigh
crime horror film directed by Michael Wadleigh, based on Whitley Strieber's 1978 novel The Wolfen. It stars Albert Finney, Diane Venora, Gregory Hines and Edward James Olmos.
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TOPThe Shining1980USAStanley Kubrick
psychological horror film produced and directed by Stanley Kubrick and co-written with novelist Diane Johnson. The film is based on Stephen King's 1977 novel
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TOPBreaking Away1979USAPeter Yates
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TOPThe Wanderers1979USAPhilip Kaufman
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TOPAll That Jazz1979USABob Fosse1980 Palm d'Or
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TOPDays of Heaven1978USATerence Malick
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Search/"Days of Heaven"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Search/"Days of Heaven"
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TOPHud1963USAMartin Rittstarring Paul Newman1963 runner-up
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TOPInherit the Wind1960USAStanley Kramer1960 runner-up
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TOPThe Magnificent Ambersons1942USAOrson Welles
American period drama written, produced, and directed by Orson Welles
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TOPSynecdoche, New York2008USCharlie Kaufman
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TOPDriving Miss Daisy1990USBruce Beresford1990 runner-up
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TOPBait2019UKMark Jenkin2019 runner-up
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TOPBeast2018UKMichael Pearce2018 runner-up
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TOPDunkirk2017UKChristopher Nolan2017 runner-up
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TOPElectric Dreams, E03: "The Commuter" 2017UK
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TOPElectric Dreams, E04: "Sales Pitch"2017UK
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TOPElectric Dreams, E05: "Exhibit Piece"2017UK
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TOPElectric Dreams, E06: "Human Is"2017UK
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TOPElectric Dreams, E07: "The Father-thing"2017UK
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TOPElectric Dreams, E08: "Autofac"2017UK
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TOPElectric Dreams, E09: "Foster, You're Dead!" 2017UK
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TOPElectric Dreams, E10: "Foster, You're Dead!" 2017UK
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TOPDarkest Hour2017UKJoe Wright2017 runner-up2017 runner-up
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TOPHenry VI, Part 2/32016UK
The Hollow Crown, BBC series
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TOPHenry VI, Part 1/22016UK
The Hollow Crown, BBC series
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TOPRichard III2016UK
The Hollow Crown, BBC series
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TOPThe Lobster2015UKYorgos Lanthimos2015 runner-up
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TOPBrooklyn2015UKJohn Crowley2015 winner
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TOPFar From the Madding Crowd2015UKThomas Vinterberg
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TOPUnder the Skin2014UKJonathan Glazer2014 runner-up
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TOPRichard II2012UK
The Hollow Crown, BBC series
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TOPHenry IV, Part 12012UK
The Hollow Crown, BBC series
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TOPHenry IV, Part 22012UK
The Hollow Crown, BBC series
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TOPHenry V2012UK
The Hollow Crown, BBC series
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TOPNowhere Boy2009UKSam Taylor-Wood2009 runner-up
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TOPBuilding Africa: Architecture of a Continent2005UKDavid Adjaye
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r8RKb2w1yd8
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TOPMurder on the Orient Express1974UKSidney Lumet1974 runner-up
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TOPFar From the Madding Crowd1967UKJohn Schlesinger
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TOPRichard III1955UKLaurence Olivier1955 winner1955 winner
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TOPLove on the Dole1941UKJohn Baxter
starring Deborah Kerr and Clifford Evans. It was adapted from the novel of the same name by Walter Greenwood
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TOPRoma2018MexicoAlfonso Cuarón2018 winner
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TOPShoplifters2018Japan
Manbiki Kazoku - Hirokazu Kore-eda
2018 Palm d'Or
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TOPThe Last Emperor1987Italy, UK, ChinaBernardo Bertolucci1988 winner
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TOPA Bigger Splash2015ItalyLuca Guadagnino
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TOPThe Great Beauty2013ItalyPaolo Sorrentino
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TOPKings2007IrelandTom Collins
written & directed by Tom Collins and based on Jimmy Murphy's play The Kings of the Kilburn High Road
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TOPAtlantics (Atlantique)2019France, SenegalMati Diop2019 Grand Jury
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TOPTitane2021FranceJulia Ducournau
horror film written and directed by Julia Ducournau. The French-Belgian co-production stars Agathe Rousselle in her feature film debut as Alexia, a woman who, after being injured in a car accident as a child, has a titanium plate fitted into her head.
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TOPLe Grand Meaulnes2006FranceJean-Daniel Verhaeghe
based on the classic novel of the same name.
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TOPThe Gleaners And I2000FranceAgnes Varda
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TOPBeau Travail1999FranceClair Denis
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TOPUn coeur en hiver (A Heart in Winter)1992Francelaude Sautet
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TOPMurs Murs (“Walls Walls”)1980FranceAgnès Vardafilmed in LA
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TOPThe Wanderer (French: Le Grand Meaulnes)1967France
based on the novel Le Grand Meaulnes by Alain-Fournier.
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TOPThe Man Without a Past2002FinlandAki Kaurismäki2002 Grand Jury
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TOPSankofa1993EthiopiaHaile Gerima
centered on the Atlantic slave trade.
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TOPA Fantastic Woman2017ChileSebastián LelioWinner
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TOPThe Motorcycle Diaries2004
Argentina, USA, Germany, UK, Chile, Peru, France
Walter Salles2004 runner-up
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TOPThe Theory of Everything2014James Marsh
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TOPTreme
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Summer of Soul (...Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised)
2021USA
Ahmir "Questlove" Thompson
about the 1969 Harlem Cultural Festival.
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The French Dispatch2021USAWes Anderson
The French Dispatch of the Liberty, Kansas Evening Sun is a 2021 American anthology comedy film written, directed and produced by Wes Anderson from a story he conceived with Roman Coppola, Hugo Guinness and Jason Schwartzman.
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First Cow2019USAKelly Reichardt
from a screenplay by Reichardt and Jonathan Raymond based on Raymond's novel The Half Life
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The Farewell2019USALulu Wang
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Andy Irons: Kissed by God2018USASteve and Todd Jones
documentary about the three-time world champion who died at 32 after a lifelong struggle with bipolar disorder and addiction.
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Skyscraper2018USA
Rawson Marshall Thurber
Dezeen 20
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Bronx Gothic2017USAAndrew Rossi
documentary on Okwui Okpokwasili's 'Bronx Gothic'
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The Shape of Water2017USAGuillermo del Toro
American romantic fantasy film directed by and written by del Toro and Vanessa Taylor.
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Blade Runner 20492017USADenis Villeneuve
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I Am Divine2013USAJeffrey Schwartz
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The Wolf of Wall Street2013USAMartin Scorsese
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Wendy and Lucy2008USAKelly Reichardt
Reichardt and Jon Raymond adapted the screenplay from his short story Train Choir. The film stars Michelle Williams as Wendy, a homeless woman who searches for her lost dog,
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Gran Torino2008USAClint Eastwood
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All the Kings Men2006USASteven Zaillian
written, directed and produced by Steven Zaillian based on the 1946 Pulitzer Prize–winning novel of the same name by Robert Penn Warren.