Monday, 11 January 2016

The Standout Movies of 2015

The standout films I saw for the first time (or so long ago it may as well be for the first time) in 2015 in the order in which I saw them: 


Dr Jekyll & Sister Hyde – Roy Ward Baker 1972
Tintin: Secret of the Unicorn – Steven Spielberg 2011
American Reunion – John Hurwitz & Haden Schlossberg 2012
Silver Lining Playbook – David O Russell 2012
Pretty Poison – Noel Black 1968






The Guard – John Michael McDonagh 2011
And Soon the Darkness – Robert Fuest 1971
Angel Face – Otto Preminger 1952
The Monster Club – Roy Ward Baker 1981
Violent City – Sergio Sollima 1970


Fort Apache, the Bronx – Daniel Petrie 1981
A Prophet – Jacques Audiard 2009
New Centurions – Richard Fleisher 1972
Dark Shadows – Tim Burton 2012
Lunacy – Jan Svankmajer 2005




The Boys From Brazil – Franklin J Schaffener 1978
Key Largo – John Huston 1948
The Sicilian Clan – Henri Verneuil 1969
Maniac – Franck Khalfoun 2012
Young Detective Dee: Rise of the Sea Dragon – Tsui Hark 2013
The Dogs of War – John Irvin 1980


The Master – Paul Thomas 2012
Horror Express – Eugenio Martin 1972
Midnight in Paris – Woody Allen 2011
Dance of Reality – Alejandro Jodorowksy 2013
Colossus: The Forbin Project – Joseph Sargent 1970
Pasolini – Abel Ferrara 2014
Damsels in Distress – Whit Stillman 2011
Judex – Georges Franju 1963