- Prepare yourself for Buzzard.
I occasionally participate in the weekly critic’s survey over at IndieWire.com. If you aren’t familiar, it’s an informal feature that poses a single question for dozens of film critics and collects the responses in a single post. One of the recent queries, handed down by editor Sam Adams, asked ““What’s your process for making a Top 10?”, meaning a list of the ten best films of the year. This was my answer:
The top ten, ranked loosely in order of preference:
See You Next Tuesday (dir. Drew Tobia, USA) Like I said above, American independent filmmaking is a lot of fun right now, and this caustic comedy stands as proof. Directing his first feature, Drew Tobia completely ignores the line between brilliant and appalling.
Closed Curtain (dir. Jafar Panahi, Iran) I’m really, really glad Jafar Panahi is still making movies.
