Accounting For Taste

Cinema Scope 2014

Intro

The following films appeared on the Cinema Scope best of 2014 list.

Source: Editor’s Note: Top Ten of 2014

Films

1. Horse Money

Cavalo dinheiro
Portugal
Pedro Costa

Lists: Film Comment (15, 2015) | Sight & Sound (3, 2014 / 19, 2015)

Festivals: Locarno (International Competition, 2014) | New York (Main Slate, 2014) | Rotterdam (Spectrum, 2015) | Toronto (Wavelengths, 2014)

2. Goodbye to Language

Adieu au langage
France
Jean-Luc Godard

Lists: Film Comment (2, 2014) | New York Times (Dargis, 2014) | Sight & Sound (2, 2014)

Festivals: Cannes (Competition, 2014) | Locarno (Out of Competition, 2014) | New York (Main Slate, 2014) | Toronto (Masters, 2014)

3. Li'l Quinquin

P'tit Quinquin
France
Bruno Dumont

Festivals: Cannes (Directors' Fortnight, 2014) | Toronto (Contemporary World Cinema, 2014)

4. Jauja

Argentina, USA, Netherlands, France, Mexico
Lisandro Alonso

Lists: Film Comment (16, 2015) | Sight & Sound (9, 2014)

Festivals: Cannes (Un Certain Regard, 2014) | New York (Main Slate, 2014) | Rotterdam (Spectrum, 2015) | Toronto (Wavelengths, 2014)

5. Phoenix

Germany
Christian Petzold

Lists: Film Comment (8, 2015) | Sight & Sound (13, 2015)

Festivals: Berlin (LOLA at Berlinale, 2015) | Rotterdam (Limelight, 2015) | Toronto (Special Presentations, 2014)

6. Inherent Vice

USA
Paul Thomas Anderson

Lists: Film Comment (9, 2014) | New York Times (Dargis, 2014) | Sight & Sound (9, 2015)

Festivals: New York (Main Slate - Centerpiece, 2014) | Rotterdam (Limelight, 2015)

7. The Kindergarten Teacher

Haganenet
Israel, France
Nadav Lapid

Lists: Film Comment (8 - Undistributed, 2014) | New York Times (7 - Dargis, 2015)

Festivals: Cannes (Critics' Week, 2014)

8. Maidan

Ukraine
Sergei Loznitsa

Festivals: Cannes (Special Screenings, 2014) | Toronto (Wavelengths, 2014)

9. Journey to the West

Xi You
France, Taiwan
Tsai Ming-liang

Lists: Film Comment (12 - Undistributed, 2014)

Festivals: Berlin (Panorama, 2014) | Toronto (Wavelengths, 2014)

10. From What Is Before

Mula sa kung ano ang noon
Philippines
Lav Diaz

Lists: Film Comment (5 - Undistributed, 2014)

Festivals: Locarno (International Competition, 2014) | Rotterdam (Spectrum, 2015) | Toronto (Wavelengths, 2014)

Special Mentions

Amour Fou

Austria, Luxembourg, Germany
Jessica Hausner

Festivals: Cannes (Un Certain Regard, 2014) | Rotterdam (Limelight, 2015) | Toronto (Contemporary World Cinema, 2014)

Boyhood

USA
Richard Linklater

Lists: Film Comment (1, 2014) | New York Times (Dargis, 2014 / 1 - Scott, 2014) | Sight & Sound (1, 2014)

Festivals: Berlin (Competition, 2014) | Sundance (Premieres, 2014)

Episode of the Sea

Netherlands
Lonnie van Brummelen; Siebren de Haan; the inhabitants of Urk, Netherlands

Festivals: Toronto (Wavelengths, 2014)

Force Majeure

Turist
Sweden
Ruben Östlund

Lists: Film Comment (14, 2014)

Festivals: Cannes (Un Certain Regard, 2014) | Rotterdam (Limelight, 2015) | Toronto (Special Presentations, 2014)

Two Days, One Night

Deux jours, une nuit
Belgium, France, Italy
Jean-Pierre Dardenne, Luc Dardenne

Lists: Film Comment (11, 2014) | New York Times (Runner Up - Scott, 2014) | Sight & Sound (16, 2014)

Festivals: Cannes (Competition, 2014) | New York (Main Slate, 2014) | Telluride (2014) | Toronto (Special Presentations, 2014)