I always look forward to ScreenSlate’s year-end polling of directors and critics. They’ve chosen the best films of the year and half the titles in the resulting top ten will be on my own (soon to be published).
If you take a look at the individual ballots, some filmmakers who submitted their own personal top tens this year include Bela Tarr, Elegance Bratton, Davy Chou, Guy Maddin, Alex Ross Perry, and Paul Schrader.
Tarr had an amusing note on his ballot:
I haven’t seen any good movies since years
Last good films were: Reygadas, Costa and Apitchatpongs movies.
I like their works
That’s all what I can say to you.
Meanwhile, here’s Paul Schrader’s list:
Benediction (Terence Davies)
The Cairo Conspiracy (Tarik Saleh)
Bardo (Alejandro González Iñárritu)
The Worst Person in the World (Joachim Trier)
The Fabelmans (Steven Spielberg)
All Quiet on Western Front (Edward Berger)
The Whale (Darren Aronofsky)
Aftersun (Charlotte Wells)
Tár (Todd Field)