| 1. The Tree of Life | Terrence Malick | 2011 |
| 2. Roma | Alfonso Cuarón | 2018 |
| 3. Dunkirk | Christopher Nolan | 2017 |
| 4. The Turin Horse | Béla Tarr | 2011 |
| 5. The Master | Paul Thomas Anderson | 2012 |
| 6. The Revenant | Alejandro Iñárritu | 2015 |
| 7. La La Land | Damien Chazelle | 2016 |
| 8. Birdman | Alejandro Iñárritu | 2014 |
| 9. Cold War | Paweł Pawlikowski | 2018 |
| 10. Mad Max: Fury Road | George Miller | 2015 |
| 11. The Grand Budapest Hotel | Wes Anderson | 2014 |
| 12. Vitalina Varela | Pedro Costa | 2019 |
| 13. Ida | Paweł Pawlikowski | 2013 |
| 14. The Social Network | David Fincher | 2010 |
| 15. Inception | Christopher Nolan | 2010 |
| 16. The Favourite | Yorgos Lanthimos | 2018 |
| 17. Inside Llewyn Davis | The Coen Brothers | 2013 |
| 18. Midsommar | Ari Aster | 2019 |
| 19. Melancholia | Lars von Trier | 2011 |
| 20. Moonlight | Barry Jenkins | 2016 |
| 21. Once Upon a Time in Hollywood | Quentin Tarantino | 2019 |
| 22. Black Swan | Darren Aronofsky | 2010 |
| 23. About Endlessness | Roy Andersson | 2012 |
| 24. Moonrise Kingdom | Wes Anderson | 2016 |
| 25. Parasite | Bong Joon-ho | 2019 |
| 26. Shame | Steve McQueen | 2011 |
| 27. Ad Astra | James Gray | 2019 |
| 28. Blade Runner 2049 | Denis Villeneuve | 2019 |
| 29. Columbus | Kogonada | 2017 |
| 30. The Irishman | Martin Scorsese | 2017 |
| 31. Burning | Lee Chang-dong | 2018 |
| 32. Waves | Trey Edward Shults | 2019 |
| 33. Phantom Thread | Paul Thomas Anderson | 2017 |
| 34. Whiplash | Damien Chazelle | 2014 |
| 35. First Reformed | Paul Schrader | 2017 |
| 36. A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence | Roy Andersson | 2014 |
| 37. A Hidden Life | Terrence Malick | 2019 |
| 38. 1917 | Sam Mendes | 2019 |
| 39. We Need to Talk About Kevin | Lynne Ramsey | 2011 |
| 40. Mr. Turner | Mike Leigh | 2014 |
| 41. Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives | Apichatpong Weerasetkul | 2010 |
| 42. Enemy | Denis Villeneuve | 2013 |
| 43. Gravity | Alfonso Cuarón | 2013 |
| 44. Paterson | Jim Jarmusch | 2016 |
| 45. Little Women | Greta Gerwig | 2019 |
| 46. Marriage Story | Noah Baumbach | 2019 |
| 47. Hereditary | Ari Aster | 2018 |
| 48. Holy Motors | Leos Carax | 2012 |
| 49. Son of Saul | László Nemes | 2015 |
| 50. The Great Beauty | Paolo Sorrentino | 2013 |
| 51. 12 Years a Slave | Steve McQueen | 2013 |
| 52. Call Me By Your Name | Luca Guadagnino | 2017 |
| 53. Good Time | The Safdie Brothers | 2017 |
| 54. Django Unchained | Quentin Tarantino | 2012 |
| 55. Only God Forgives | Nicolas Winding Refn | 2013 |
| 56. Certified Copy | Abbas Kiarostami | 2010 |
| 57. Drive | Nicolas Winding Refn | 2011 |
| 58. The Dark Knight Rises | Christopher Nolan | 2012 |
| 59. The Neon Demon | Nicolas Winding Refn | 2016 |
| 60. Mommy | Xavier Dolan | 2014 |
| 61. Victoria | Sebastian Schipper | 2015 |
| 62. The Assassin | Hou Hsiao-hsien | 2015 |
| 63. The Lighthouse | Robert Eggers | 2019 |
| 64. The Shape of Water | Guillermo del Toro | 2017 |
| 65. Laurence Anyways | Xavier Dolan | 2012 |
| 66. Widows | Steve McQueen | 2018 |
| 67. Climax | Gaspar Noé | 2018 |
| 68. The Grandmaster | Wong Kar-wai | 2013 |
| 69. Gone Girl | David Fincher | 2014 |
| 70. Before Midnight | Richard Linklater | 2013 |
| 71. Spring Breakers | Harmony Korine | 2012 |
| 72. Blue Valentine | Derek Cianfrance | 2010 |
| 73. Under the Skin | Jonathan Glazer | 2013 |
| 74. The Ghost Writer | Roman Polanski | 2010 |
| 75. Boyhood | Richard Linklater | 2014 |
| 76. Portrait of a Lady on Fire | Céline Sciamma | 2019 |
| 77. Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse | Bob Persichetti, Peter Ramsey, Rodney Rothman | 2018 |
| 78. The Lobster | Yorgos Lanthimos | 2015 |
| 79. Interstellar | Christopher Nolan | 2014 |
| 80. Carol | Todd Haynes | 2015 |
| 81. Only Lovers Left Alive | Jim Jarmusch | 2013 |
| 82. Swallow | Carlo Mirabella-Davis | 2019 |
| 83. Jackie | Pablo Larraín | 2016 |
| 84. A Separation | Asghar Farhadi | 2011 |
| 85. Frances Ha | Greta Gerwig | 2012 |
| 86. Tale of Tales | Matteo Garrone | 2015 |
| 87. If Beale Street Could Talk | Barry Jenkins | 2018 |
| 88. The Deep Blue Sea | Terence Davies | 2011 |
| 89. Skyfall | Sam Mendes | 2012 |
| 90. Her | Spike Jonze | 2013 |
| 91. You Were Never Really Here | Lynne Ramsey | 2017 |
| 92. The Souvenir | Joanna Hogg | 2019 |
| 93. Nightcrawler | Dan Gilroy | 2014 |
| 94. Shutter Island | Martin Scorsese | 2010 |
| 95. Submarine | Richard Ayoade | 2010 |
| 96. Sunset Song | Terence Davies | 2015 |
| 97. Sicario | Denis Villeneuve | 2015 |
| 98. The Big Short | Adam McKay | 2015 |
| 99. The Immigrant | James Gray | 2013 |
| 100. Get Out | Jordan Peele | 2017 |
The Best Films of 2019
Pedro Costa’s meditative camera lingers in the decaying home of a recent widow, Bong Joon-ho takes a scalpel to South Korea’s class system, and Martin Scorsese’s epic gangster film wrestles with his long-time fascinations of sin and guilt.
The Best Films of 2018
Alfonso Cuarón cements his status as an all-time great director with a black-and-white memory piece, Ari Aster takes the horror genre to a new level with fresh artistic sensibilities, and a hyper-kinetic animation deconstructs decades of superhero stories.
The Best Films of 2017
Christopher Nolan shakes up the war genre with his tremendous editing, Denis Villeneuve astoundingly builds on a decades-old classic with a phenomenal sequel, and Paul Schrader’s theological character study features Ethan Hawke in a self-destructive spiral.
The Best Films of 2016
Damien Chazelle’s ode to Hollywood musicals becomes one of the genre’s best, Jim Jarmusch’s impressively formal work celebrates the beauty of routine, and Denis Villeneuve finds a new linguistic spin on the alien science-fiction film.
The Best Films of 2015
Leonardo DiCaprio transforms into a spirit animal in Alejandro Iñárritu’s awe-inspiring revisionist western, George Miller makes a high-octane career comeback, and Adam McKay turns the Global Financial Crisis into an audacious piece of cinema.
The Best Films of 2014
Alejandro Iñárritu’s studies celebrity and ego in his one-take wonder, Wes Anderson throws back to mid-century Budapest with his immaculate pastel artistry, and Richard Linklater’s coming-of-age epic breaks new ground in realist cinema.
The Best Films of 2013
Paweł Pawlikowski delivers a haunting meditation on the long-lasting trauma of the Holocaust, Richard Linklater ties off his decades-spanning Before trilogy, and Nicolas Winding Refn’s neon-tinted violence heavily polarises audiences.
The Best Films of 2012
Paul Thomas Anderson creates an ambitiously enigmatic work studying symbiotic opposites, Christopher Nolan ends his Dark Knight trilogy with kinetic style, and Sam Mendes delivers the most inspired James Bond film to date.
The Best Films of 2011
Terrence Malick delivers a landmark of transcendental cinema, while Béla Tarr and Lars von Trier both impress with heavy, philosophical films contemplating two different apocalypses.
The Best Films of 2010
Aaron Sorkin pens the greatest screenplay of his career with David Fincher, Christopher Nolan blows minds with his most visually inventive film to date, and Darren Aronofsky crafts a horrifying character study of ambition and obsession.
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Have you seen Twin Peaks: The Return yet? (I’m currently on Part 11)
If not, I’d highly recommend you at least watch Part 8 in isolation. I haven’t seen anyone who uses The Cinema Archives’ system give an individual episode a grade yet, and I would love to see your review.
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I haven’t yet, first I will need to prioritise a rewatch of season 1 and then get through season 2. It may take some time but I would like to get to The Return eventually.
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Part 8 can work in isolation if you don’t have the patience for the rest. It’s a myth that Season 2 is mostly bad, it actually has some of the best episodes of the show. I know the consensus is that Part 8 is peak Twin Peaks, but I would still pick the Season 2 finale.
Will you review the original show when you finish it?
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I’m not too sure yet – it’s possible I will, but this may be a project for next year.
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Do you know of any other tv shows that have impressed you from a cinematic style perspective? For me, its only Twin Peaks (and even then only certain episodes and scenes), but I’ve only seen a few shows. I’ve never seen Breaking Bad.
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Largely auteur-driven shows. There’s been a good number in recent years – The Underground Railroad, Small Axe, Copenhagen Cowboy, or more recently Ripley. Going back further, Kieslowski’s Dekalog is pretty remarkable.
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I’m not a expert on Twin Peaks by any means. But I would recommend you skip Season 2 and go straight from Season 1 to Season 3(or The Return). Lynch’s involvement is minimal in that season barring 2-3 episodes and there are like 18 episodes in total. The Return is the one to prioritize.
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I would definitely watch every Lynch-directed episode of the first two seasons (there are 6), ESPECIALLY the series finale (of the original). As for the rest of the show, this guy I think summarizes the quality pretty well.
Twin Peaks Review
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This blog I think summarizes the quality of the show quite well:
https://www.alternateending.com/2017/06/twin-peaks-1990-1991-2017.html
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(I accidentally made a duplicate)
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