Month: December 2014

Here is a playlist of ten songs (released this year) I particularly enjoyed:

Here are my favourite records released this year:

Metronomy – Love Letters
The Dø – Shake Shook Shaken
Mina Tindle – Parades
Frànçois & The Atlas Mountains – Piano Ombre
Dorian Pimpernel – Allombon
The New Pornographers – Bill Bruisers

Here are my favourite films released in French theatres this year:

Claus Drexel – Au bord du monde
Nicole Garcia – Un beau dimanche
Pawel Pawlikowski – Ida

Tizza Covi + Rainer Frimmel – Der Glanz des Tages
Wes Anderson – The Grand Budapest Hotel
Julie Bertuccelli – La cour de Babel

Quentin Dupieux – Wrong cops
Spike Jonze – Her
Danis Tanović – An Episode in the Life of an Iron Picker

Alain Resnais – Aimer, boire et chanter
Alexander Payne – Nebraska
Michel Gondry – Is the man who is tall happy?

Mizuho Nishikubo – Giovanni’s island
Pascale Ferran – Bird people
Anurag Kashyap – Ugly

Yi’nan Diao – Black coal
Shlomi & Roni Elkabetz – Gett, Le procès de Viviane Amsalem
Jonathan Glazer – Under the skin

Nuri Bilge Ceylan – Winter sleep
Olivier Assayas – Sils Maria
Yves Jeuland – Les gens du Monde

Denis Gheerbrant – On a grèvé
Andreï Zviaguintsev – Leviathan
Myroslav Slaboshpytskiy – The tribe

Nadège Trebal – Casse
Frederick Wiseman – National gallery
Dietrich Brüggemann – Kreuzweg

Laurent Bécue-Renard – Of men and war
Ira Sachs – Love is strange
Virgil Vernier – Mercuriales

Werner Herzog – Les ascensions de Werner Herzog
Abderrahmane Sissako – Timbuktu

We’ve been featured in severals year end lists so far:

We appear in L’année du rock Français 2014-2015:

A nice post by Sun burns out: