Film Comment’s Top 10 Films Released in 2013
1. Joel & Ethan Coen’s INSIDE LLEWYN DAVIS
2. Steve McQueen’s 12 YEARS A SLAVE
3. Richard Linklater’s BEFORE MIDNIGHT
4. Joshua Oppenheimer’s THE ACT OF KILLING
5. Jia Zhang-ke’s A TOUCH OF SIN
6. Lucien Castaing-Taylor & Véréna Paravel’s LEVIATHAN
7. Alfonso Cuarón’s GRAVITY
8. Andrew Bujalski’s COMPUTER CHESS
9. Noah Baumbach’s FRANCES HA
10. Shane Carruth’s UPSTREAM COLOR.
Rankings #11 – #20
11. Museum Hours, Director: Jem Cohen
12. Blue Is the Warmest Color, Director: Abdellatif Kechiche
13. Bastards, Director: Claire Denis
14. Spring Breakers, Director: Harmony Korine
15. Like Someone in Love, Director: Abbas Kiarostami
16. Stories We Tell, Director: Sarah Polley
17. Her, Director: Spike Jonze
18. Nebraska, Director: Alexander Payne
19. American Hustle, Director: David O. Russell
20. The Grandmaster, Director: Wong Kar Wai
Rankings #21 – #30
21. At Berkeley, Director: Frederick Wiseman
22. Beyond the Hills, Director: Cristian Mungiu
23. No, Director: Pablo Larraín
24. The Great Beauty, Director: Paolo Sorrentino
25. Blue Jasmine, Director: Woody Allen
26. All Is Lost, Director: J.C. Chandor
27. Post Tenebras Lux, Director: Carlos Reygadas
28. Something in the Air, Director: Olivier Assayas
29. Viola, Director: Matías Piñeiro
30. Fruitvale Station, Director: Ryan Coogler
Rankings #31 – #40
31. To the Wonder, Director: Terrence Malick
32. Night Across the Street, Director: Raúl Ruiz
33. Room 237, Director: Rodney Ascher
34. Faust, Director: Aleksandr Sokurov
35. Let the Fire Burn, Director: Jason Osder
36. Le Pont du Nord, Director: Jacques Rivette
37. The Wolf of Wall Street, Director: Martin Scorsese
38. You Ain’t Seen Nothin’ Yet, Director: Alain Resnais
39. The Last Time I Saw Macao, Director: João Pedro Rodrigues
40. The Past, Director: Asghar Farhadi
Rankings #41 – #50
41. The Square, Director: Jehane Noujaim
42. The Wind Rises, Director: Hayao Miyazaki
43. Drug War, Director: Johnnie To
44. Cousin Jules, Director: Dominique Benicheti
45. Much Ado About Nothing, Director: Joss Whedon
46. Passion, Director: Brian De Palma
47. Short Term 12, Director: Destin Daniel Cretton
48. Dallas Buyers Club, Director: Jean-Marc Vallee
49. Berberian Sound Studio, Director: Peter Strickland
50. Captain Phillips, Director: Paul Greengrass
FILMS WITHOUT DISTRIBUTION 2013
1. Jealousy, Director: Philippe Garrel
2. Stray Dogs, Director: Tsai Ming-liang
3. What Now? Remind Me, Director: Joaquim Pinto
4. Nobody’s Daughter Haewon, Director: Hong Sang-soo
5. Abuse of Weakness, Director: Catherine Breillat
6. Our Sunhi, Director: Hong Sang-soo
7. The Strange Little Cat, Director: Ramon Zürcher
8. A Spell to Ward Off the Darkness, Directors: Ben Rivers & Ben Russell
9. Story of My Death, Director: Albert Serra
10. Club Sandwich, Director: Fernando Eimbcke
Rankings #11 – #20
11. Closed Curtain, Director: Jafar Panahi
12. Til Madness Do Us Part, Director: Wang Bing
13. Three Interpretation Exercises, Director: Cristi Puiu
14. Stemple Pass, Director: James Benning
15. People’s Park, Directors: Libbie D. Cohn & J. P. Sniadecki
16. The Strange Color of Your Body’s Tears, Directors: Hélène Cattet & Bruno Forzani
17. La Ultima Película, Directors: Raya Martin & Mark Peranson
18. Butter on the Latch, Director: Josephine Decker
19. Blind Detective, Director: Johnnie To
20. Coast of Death, Director: Lois Patiño
Offering the most comprehensive assessment of the year in film, Film Comment received responses from more than 120 participants including (in alphabetical order): David Ansen (LAFF Artistic Director), Richard Brody (The New Yorker), Scott Foundas (Variety), Susan Gerhard (Editor, Fandor), Haden Guest (Director, Harvard Film Archive), Eugene Hernandez (Director of Digital Strategy, Film Society of Lincoln Center), J. Hoberman (The New York Times), Ann Hornaday (Washington Post), Kent Jones (Programming Director of NYFF), Daniel Kasman (MUBI), Eric Kohn (IndieWire), Dennis Lim (FSLC Director of Cinematheque Programming), Scott Macaulay (Filmmaker Magazine), Leonard Maltin (Entertainment Tonight), Todd McCarthy (Hollywood Reporter), Andréa Picard (Programmer, Toronto Film Festival’s “Wavelengths” Curator), Amy Taubin (Film Comment Contributing Editor and NYFF Selection