Top 10 this year
1. Cold Case Hammerskjöld (Mads Brugger, Denmark)
2. They Shall Not Grow Old (Peter Jackson, Britain / New Zealand)
3. Dragged Across Concrete (S. Craig Zahler, USA)
4. Apollo 11 (Todd Douglas Miller, USA)
5. High Life (Claire Denis, France)
6. Untitled Amazing Johnathan Documentary (Ben Berman, USA)
7. Ash Is Purest White (Jia Zhang-ke, China)
8. Everybody Knows (Asghar Farhadi, Spain)
9. The Inventor (Alex Gibney, USA)
10. 3 Faces (Jafar Panahi, Iran)
Number of films on this list I expect to at least make HM at year’s end: 7
HONORABLE MENTIONS
English fiction:
Foreign fiction:
Documentary:
Festival films with 8-,9- or 10-grades, with distribution uncertain: I Do Not Care If We Go Down in History as Barbarians (Radu Jude, Romania); Queen of Hearts (May El-Toukhy, Denmark); Give Me Liberty (Kirilk Mikhanovsky, USA); In My Room (Ulrich Kohler, Germany); American Dharma (Errol Morris, USA); Monos (Alejandro Landes and Alexis Dos Santos, Colombia)
