to close out (and exorcise) 2020, we've trawled through our film diaries and letterboxd accounts to put together our top 10s of the year!

we also discuss some of our favourite first time watches over the last twelve lockdown-y months, from OUT 1 to CLOSELY WATCHED TRAINS via the Guided by Voices documentary WATCH ME JUMPSTART, as well as some of the film-related books and podcasts that have kept us entertained this year.

Emmett No. 10: THE TWO POPES 00:02:02Sam No. 10: LES MISERABLES 00:03:05E No. 9: BILL AND TED FACE THE MUSIC 00:05:09S No. 9: THE GOOD GIRLS 00:06:58E No. 8: PORTRAIT OF A LADY ON FIRE 00:08:26S No. 8: ABOUT ENDLESSNESS 00:10:04E No. 7: THE WOMAN WHO RAN 00:10:40S No. 7: PARASITE 00:13:08E No. 6: BACURAU 00:15:00S No. 6: VITALINA VARELA 00:16:03

Worst Films of the Year 00:18:19

E No. 5: I’M THINKING OF ENDING THINGS 00:20:55S No. 5: THE LIGHTHOUSE 00:22:47E No. 4: DARK WATERS / RICHARD JEWELL 00:27:26S No. 4: A PORTUGESE WOMAN 00:32:46E No. 3: BLOODY NOSE, EMPTY POCKETS 00:40:15S No. 3: BACURAU 00:44:13E No 2: ABOUT ENDLESSNESS 00:48:22S No 2: SAINT MAUD 00:50:53E No. 1: VITALINA VARELA 00:56:51S No 1: SMALL AXE 01:04:07

Favourite first time watches from 01:20:34 :

WAGON MASTER (Ford 1950),THE RISING OF THE MOON (Ford 1957), SATANTANGO (Tarr 1994),HUNGARIANS (Fabri 1978),NIGHT TRAIN (Kawalerowicz 1959),A MOMENT OF INNOCENCE (Makhmalbaf 1996),REMINISCENCES OF A JOURNEY TO LITHUANIA (Mekas 1972), THE HUMAN CONDITION (Kobayashi 1959-61), FIRES ON THE PLAIN (Ichikawa 1959),DON’T LET THE RIVERBEAST GET YOU (Roxburgh 2012), UNDER THE SUN OF SATAN (Pialat 1987),WATCH ME JUMPSTART (Tarver 1998),CANYON PASSAGE (Tourneur 1946), FIRST COW (Reichardt 2020),NASHVILLE (Altman 1975), SHANGHAI EXPRESS (Von Sternberg 1932)I AM A FUGITIVE FROM A CHAIN GANG (LeRoy 1932), DESTINY (Lang 1921), CLOSELY OBSERVED TRAINS (Mendel 1966), TONGUES UNTIED (Riggs 1989), ETHNIC NOTIONS (Riggs 1987), LOOKING FOR LANGSTON (Julien 1989),OUT 1: NOLI ME TANGERE (Rivette 1971)

with covers of some of our favourite music from last year including bob dylan, deerhoof, the microphones and dogleg.

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co-produced by Emmett Cruddas and Sam Storey.