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My 2014 or 24 films by 24fpsverite

The official selection of the 24 films that marked the cinematic year of 2014.

The Act of Killing (2012)

Joshua Oppenheimer creates a multilayered documentary that explores the Indonesian massacres by blending fiction with reality, the present with the past and surrealism with true horror.

Documentary, Politics, Venice 2014

The Look of Silence – Venice 71

Joshua Oppenheimer's second strikingly profound and captivating documentary looks straight into the horror of Indonesia’s hidden past.

REVIEWS

Sauve Qui Peut (La Vie) (Every Man for Himself, 1980)

Jean-Luc Godard explores the limits of individualism, apathy and venality as the children of Marx and Coca-Cola grew up.

Theeb (ذيب) – Venice 71 Orizzonti

A visually impressive and highly emotional coming-of-age film by Naji Abu Nowar, set in the Jordanian desert just before the Arab Revolt. Orizzonti Award for Best Director at the 71st Venice Film Festival.

Un Lac (A Lake, 2008)

An excellent example of experimental cinema that touches the verges of lyrical poetic naturalism by Philippe Grandrieux.

Italian Gangsters – Venice 72 Orizzonti

Renato De Maria creates an unconventional and extremely minimalistic dramatized documentary that explores the most violent thirty-year criminal period of post-war Italy.

Dallas Buyers Club (2013)

A film of marginal pairs’ balance that move among realism and fantasy, hope and disillusionment, justice and injustice, heterosexuality and homosexuality, AIDS and life.

TagJoshua Oppenheimer

My 2014 or 24 films by 24fpsverite

The Act of Killing (2012)

The Look of Silence – Venice 71

Sauve Qui Peut (La Vie) (Every Man for Himself, 1980)

Theeb (ذيب) – Venice 71 Orizzonti

Un Lac (A Lake, 2008)

Italian Gangsters – Venice 72 Orizzonti

Dallas Buyers Club (2013)

Jafar Panahi: I don’t like political movies.

Solitudine (1966)

Antonioni on directing

Pasolini on Hope

There has always been violence in art