I moved house in August and have struggled to blog the films I’ve been watching; maybe next year will have more time in it. I have seen the two movies the critics have been raving about (Amour and The Master) but didn’t like either.
Film released last year
Best of friends
- The Hunt
- About Elly
- Once Upon a Time in Anatolia
- The Iron Lady
- Anna Karenina
- Ill Manors
- A Simple Life
- Looper
- Everyday
- Nostalgia for the Light
Films seen last year
What might have been
- Vertigo
- Gattaca
- Ashes and Diamonds
- The Hunt
- About Elly
- Battle for Haditha
- In a Better World
- Once Upon a Time in Anatolia
- Import/Export
- Son of Babylon
Books of the Year
- The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet, David Mitchell
- God is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything, Christopher Hitchens
- Chavs, Owen Jones
- A Doll’s House, Ibsen
- The Information, James Gleick
- The Submission, Amy Waldman
- School Wars, Melissa Benn
- Arc 1.1: The Future Always Wins
- Granta 116: Ten Years Later
- Pictures from an Exhibition, Patrick Gale
Albums of the Year
- Kristina Train, Dark Black
- Thea Gilmore, John Wesley Harding
- Alt-J, Awesome
- Jessie Ware, Devotion
- Richard Hawley, Standing at the Sky’s Edge
- Vasks: Plainscapes Latvian Radio Choir
- Frank Turner, England Keep My Bones
- Django Django, Django Django
- Liszt: Harmonies du Soir, Nelson Freires
- 1982, Pintura
Live events of the year
- The Unthanks Singing Weekend, Seahouses
- Lucian Freud Portraits, National Portrait Gallery, London
- Brahms: German Requiem, Chester Festival Chorus, RLPO – Petrenko, Chester Cathedral
- Richard Hawley, City Hall, Sheffield
- Infinite Kusama – Tate Modern
- Joy in People, Jeremy Deller, Hayward
- Civil Wars, Apollo, Manchester
- Bellowhead, St George’s Hall, Bradford
- Top Girls, Caryl Churchill, West Yorkshire Playhouse, Leeds
- Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin
I will have to consider including ‘best TV’ because of the brilliant series: The Killing, Borgen, The Bridge, Homeland, and Mad Men.
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