Politically a shit year which probably had nothing to do with me falling out of love with film. There’s hope, for me, in that I’m managed to watch, and enjoy, a few films recently. However, not enough for me to declare with a scintilla of sincerity that I can judge the year’s top movies.
Top TV
- The Bridge – series 3
- The Night Manager
- War and Peace
- Undercover
- Happy Valley – series 2
- In the Line of Duty – series 3
- Marcella
- The A Word
- Follow the Money
- Trapped
Top live
- Anna Meredith – Belgrave Music Hall – Leeds
- Melt Yourself Down – Wardrobe, Leeds
- A Night at the Museum – Yorkshire Sculpture Park, Wakefield
- Orff: Carmina Burana – RLPO, Liverpool
- The Bad Plus – Howard Assembly Rooms, Leeds
- Tchaikovsky Symphony Orchestra – Vladimir Fedoseyev, Leeds Town Hall
- Rachael Yamagata – King’s Head, Salford
- A Streetcar Named Desire, Tennesse Williams, Royal Exchange – Manchester
- Laura Cortese and the Dance Cards, The Live Room – Saltaire
- Making Mischief, The Other Place – Stratford
Top books
- Satin Island, Tom McCarthy
- Olive Kitteridge, A Novel in Stories, Elizabeth Strout
- The Establishment, Owen Jones
- Prodigal Summer, Barbara Kingsolver
- But You Did Not Come Back, Marceline Loridan-Ivens
- The Rest is Noise, Alex Ross
- The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox, Maggie O’Farrell
- The Other Hand, Colin Cleave
- A Whole Life, Robert Seethaler
- 1599: A Year in the Life of William Shakespeare, James Shapiro
Top albums
- Shostakovich: Symphones 5, 8 & 9 – BSO -Nelsons
- Laura Gibson, Empire Builder
- Maarja Nuut, Une Meeles
- Melt Yourself Down, Last Evenings on Earth
- Rachel Newton, Here’s My Heart Come Take It
- Christian Scott, Stretch Music
- Phronesis, Parallax
- Ruby Hughes and Joseph Middleton, Nocturne
- Lisa Hannigan, At Swim
- Auntie Flo, Theory of Flo
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