]]>gilesfdeTop 20 Film Discoveries of 2014http://letterboxd.com/gilesfde/list/top-20-film-discoveries-of-2014/ letterboxd-list-458513Tue, 23 Dec 2014 11:51:04 +1300Older films seen for the first time in 2014. 

]]>gilesfde2014 Year End Listhttp://letterboxd.com/gilesfde/list/2014-year-end-list/ letterboxd-list-449164Thu, 11 Dec 2014 01:26:00 +1300#1-20 of this list are firm and immutable; #21-30 are essentially ‘Honourable Mentions’ but I can’t take the numbering system out of the Letterboxd list, so…

The list is comprised of films I saw in 2014 that either had a legitimate Theatrical release or had at least one major *Public* festival appearance somewhere in the world. 

Full disclosure: the list includes a number of films released-in-2014/to-be-released-in-2015 by Metrodome which count if for no other reason than that I loved them so much I bought them. 

Fascinating counterpoint to BOYHOOD (parents, children, time, the magisterial importance of seemingly insignificant but quietly momentous incidents) and a gob-smacking visual spectacle with gushing emotional catharsis.  Also, the year’s best score.  Caps off a very humanistic year for mainstream cinema. 

Grand monster mythology parceled into a deeply felt, completely honest and human love story.  Thrillingly maintains the continued trajectory of two of the most wildly talented young filmmakers working today. 

]]>gilesfdeVideo Orgy 1 (just Bon and Giles)http://letterboxd.com/gilesfde/list/video-orgy-1-just-bon-and-giles/ letterboxd-list-379678Tue, 19 Aug 2014 07:17:30 +1200Back in the early 90s, a few like-minded nerds and I created a series of Video Orgies.  Ostensibly a way for us to gorge our 15 year old selves on a diet of unadulterated (and sometimes adulterated?)  schlock that we had heretofore (in the pre-internet, BBFC-scourged landscape of UK VHS) only read about in Kim Newman's seminal NIGHTMARE MOVIES and the outer reaches of Fangoria, the pitch was simple: everyone bought a random horror/weird genre film and we stayed up all night to marathon them.  These were simpler times and we thought we were trail-blazing or something.  But we were just nascent film geeks.  We just didn't know there were many out there like us.  And it was the start of the road that very sincerely led to where I am today.  All these events happened between 1992 and 1996.  Films are listed in the order watched.