



Young Ahmed (Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne, Belgium)ħ. Small Axe: Alex Wheatle (Steve McQueen, UK)Ħ. Small Axe: Red, White and Blue (Steve McQueen, UK)ĥ. (Autumn de Wilde) (the last film I saw in a theater), One Night in Miami (Regina King), Palm Springs (Max Barbakow), Sound of Metal (Darius Marder), The Vast of Night (Andrew Patterson), Wolfwalkers (Tomm Moore and Ross Stewart) Vasilisa Perelygina and Viktoria Miroshnichenko in ‘Beanpole.’ Photo credit: Kino LorberĢ.
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Mank (David Fincher) and The Trial of the Chicago 7 (Aaron Sorkin)Īnd a few more memorable films (in alphabetical order): Ammonite (Francis Lee), Bacurau (Juliano Dornelles and Kleber Mendonça Filho), Corpus Christi (Jan Komasa), Da Five Bloods (Spike Lee), Emma. Promising Young Woman (Emerald Fennell)īill and Ted Face the Music (Dean Parisot) and American Utopia (Spike Lee) Never Rarely Sometimes Always (Eliza Hittman)Ĩ. Films listed in preferential orders (unless otherwise noted)Ĥ. With that noted, here are the lists of Parallax View contributors and friends.Ĭontributors listed in alphabetical orders. We’re just trying to grapple with the changes and catch up with what we can. That’s one reason our annual accounting is delayed this year. It also disperses the releases across a more varied landscape, making it harder to see everything that one might have access to in more normal years. That leaves the question “What qualifies as a 2020 film?” more open to interpretation. Many films were delayed by studios, some independent films chose the Virtual Cinema route, other films went the more tradition video-on-demand, and an unprecedented number of major films debuted directly to streaming services. It is no less true for the year in cinema, as theaters shuttered across the nation (in Seattle, they were shut down for more than half of 2020). It goes without saying that this has been an unusual year in every way. A belated welcome to 2021 with one last look back at the best releases of 2020.
