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!f 2016 Watcheds and Wanna Watchs

by vepmastir • Created 9 years ago • Modified 9 years ago
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  • Speed Sisters (2015)

    1. Speed Sisters

    20151h 18m65Metascore
    6.9 (245)
    The Speed Sisters are the first all-women race car driving team in the Middle East. They're bold. They're fearless. And they're tearing up tracks all over Palestine.
    DirectorAmber Fares
  • The End of the Tour (2015)

    2. The End of the Tour

    20151h 46mR82Metascore
    7.2 (34K)
    The story of the five-day interview between Rolling Stone reporter David Lipsky and acclaimed novelist David Foster Wallace, which took place right after the 1996 publication of Wallace's groundbreaking epic novel, 'Infinite Jest.'
    DirectorJames PonsoldtStarsJason SegelJesse EisenbergAnna Chlumsky
  • The Apostate (2015)

    3. The Apostate

    20151h 20mUnrated66Metascore
    5.7 (753)
    An existential comedy about a Spanish man trying to apostatize from the Catholic Church.
    DirectorFederico VeirojStarsÁlvaro OgallaMarta LarraldeBárbara Lennie
  • Yallah! Underground (2015)

    4. Yallah! Underground

    20151h 25mNot Rated
    7.4 (122)
    YALLAH! follows today's most important and progressive underground artists from Egypt, Lebanon, Palestine, Jordan and Israel through years of rapid change from 2009 to 2014.
    DirectorFarid EslamStarsZeid HamdanShadi ZaqtanMaii Waleed Yassin
  • Liza the Fox-Fairy (2015)

    5. Liza the Fox-Fairy

    20151h 38m
    7.5 (9.9K)
    Liza's a nurse, seeking love. Her only company is a long-dead Japanese pop star, who turns her into a fox-fairy out of jealousy. Now, every men who desires Liza shall die horribly. Can she overcome the curse?
    DirectorKároly Ujj MészárosStarsMónika BalsaiSzabolcs Bede FazekasDavid Sakurai
  • Gregg Turkington in Entertainment (2015)

    6. Entertainment

    20151h 43mR65Metascore
    5.7 (3.4K)
    En route to meet his estranged daughter and attempting to revive his dwindling career, a broken, middle-aged comedian plays a string of dead-end shows in the Mojave desert.
    DirectorRick AlversonStarsGregg TurkingtonJohn C. ReillyTye Sheridan
  • The Sky Trembles and the Earth Is Afraid and the Two Eyes Are Not Brothers (2015)

    7. The Sky Trembles and the Earth Is Afraid and the Two Eyes Are Not Brothers

    20151h 35m
    6.3 (269)
    At the heart of the film's multiple narratives is an adaptation of A Distant Episode, the savage short story set in Morocco by American author Paul Bowles, first published in 1947. Moving between documentary, fiction and fable, "The Sky Trembles and the Earth Is Afraid and the Two Eyes Are Not Brothers" observes its protagonist, filmmaker Oliver Laxe, directing his own film Las Mimosas in Morocco, only to walk off set and into Rivers' narrative. Shot against the staggering beauty of the Moroccan landscape, from the rugged terrain of the Atlas Mountains to the stark and surreal emptiness of the Sahara, with its encroaching sands and abandoned film sets, Laxe is drawn into a hallucinatory and perilous adventure of cruelty and madness to form a multi-layered excavation into the illusion of cinema itself. "In a café in Morocco, about 50 years ago, Paul Bowles overheard a man, high on kif, say the title of this film. And so he wrote a story around this statement, a story that moves between different planes of reality. I read the story, and the story behind the story, and the strange phrase kept circling around my mind, creating images and dreams. This film is a manifestation of these images, along with obsessions about cinema and how far we will go to make it". Oliver Laxe.
    DirectorBen RiversStarOliver Laxe
  • Denden, Reiko Takashima, Kiyohiko Shibukawa, Hayato Ichihara, Ryushin Tei, Lily Franky, Riko Narumi, Masanori Mimoto, Yayan Ruhian, Shô Aoyagi, and Mio Yûki in Yakuza Apocalypse (2015)

    8. Yakuza Apocalypse

    20151h 55mR62Metascore
    5.5 (4.7K)
    In the ruthless underground world of the yakuza, no one is more legendary than boss Kamiura. Rumored to be invincible, the truth is he is a vampire-a bloodsucking yakuza vampire boss! Among Kamiura's gang is Kageyama, his most loyal underling. However, the others in the gang view Kageyama with disdain and ridicule him for his inability to get tattooed due to sensitive skin. One day, assassins aware of boss Kamiura's secret arrive from abroad and deliver him an ultimatum: Return to the international syndicate he left years ago, or die. Kamiura refuses and, during a fierce battle with anime-otaku martial-arts expert Kyoken, is torn limb from limb. With his dying breath, Kamiura bites Kageyama, passing on his vampire powers to the unsuspecting yakuza. As he begins to awaken to his newfound abilities, Kageyama's desire to avenge the murder of boss Kamiura sets him on a course for a violent confrontation with Kaeru-kun, the foreign syndicate's mysterious and seemingly unstoppable leader!
    DirectorTakashi MiikeStarsHayato IchiharaRiko NarumiShô Aoyagi
  • Alexander Skarsgård, Kristen Wiig, and Bel Powley in The Diary of a Teenage Girl (2015)

    9. The Diary of a Teenage Girl

    20151h 42mR87Metascore
    6.8 (35K)
    A teen artist living in 1970s San Francisco enters into an affair with her mother's boyfriend.
    DirectorMarielle HellerStarsBel PowleyAlexander SkarsgårdKristen Wiig
  • Call Me Marianna (2015)

    10. Call Me Marianna

    20151h 15m
    6.6 (215)
    What does it mean to be oneself? What is a price to be paid for achieving such a state?
    DirectorKarolina BielawskaStarsMariusz BonaszewskiJowita BudnikKatarzyna Klapczynska
  • Anomalisa (2015)

    11. Anomalisa

    20151h 30mR88Metascore
    7.2 (77K)
    A man crippled by the mundanity of his life experiences something out of the ordinary.
    DirectorsDuke JohnsonCharlie KaufmanStarsDavid ThewlisJennifer Jason LeighTom Noonan
  • Notes on Blindness (2014)

    12. Notes on Blindness

    201414mShort
    8.1 (58)
    In 1983, following a decade of steady deterioration, writer and theologian John Hull lost all traces of sight sensation. For the next three years he would keep a diary on audio cassette - over sixteen hours in total - a unique and insightful meditation on memory, consciousness and perception. The diaries were published in 1992 to wide critical acclaim. The neurologist Oliver Sacks described the work as a 'masterpiece... the most extraordinary, precise, deep and beautiful account of blindness I have ever read.' The NOTES ON BLINDNESS series is the first time John's original audio recordings have been heard in public. Encompassing dreams, memory and his imaginative life, the films take a creative approach tot he documentary form, excavating the interior world of blindness.
    DirectorsPeter MiddletonJames SpinneyStarsJohn M. HullMarilyn HullRafe Beckley
  • The Russian Woodpecker (2015)

    13. The Russian Woodpecker

    20151h 20mNot Rated74Metascore
    6.7 (1.5K)
    A gripping, award-winning documentary about an irradiated Ukrainian artist's search for the truth about Chernobyl and his prescient and powerful warnings about Putin's plans for a coming Russian invasion.
    DirectorChad GraciaStarsAndrei AlexandrovichFedor AlexandrovichIgor Alexandrovich
  • The Wolfpack (2015)

    14. The Wolfpack

    20151h 30mR75Metascore
    7.0 (14K)
    Confined in an apartment from a New York housing project, the six Angulo brothers learned everything they know about the world through watching films and spend their time reenacting their favorite movies with intricate homemade costumes.
    DirectorCrystal MoselleStarsMukunda AnguloNarayana AnguloSusanne Angulo
  • Nicholas Hoult in Kill Your Friends (2015)

    15. Kill Your Friends

    20151h 43mNot Rated45Metascore
    6.0 (10K)
    An A&R man working at the height of the Britpop music craze goes to extremes in order to find his next hit.
    DirectorOwen HarrisStarsNicholas HoultThomas ConroyJames Corden
  • Listen to Me Marlon (2015)

    16. Listen to Me Marlon

    20151h 43mUnrated87Metascore
    8.1 (8.1K)
    A documentary that utilizes hundreds of hours of audio that Marlon Brando recorded over the course of his life to tell the screen legend's story.
    DirectorStevan RileyStarsMarlon BrandoStella AdlerBernardo Bertolucci
  • 88:88 (2015)

    17. 88:88

    20151h 5m
    6.0 (203)
    An experimental film diary about young people in Winnipeg who have difficulty making ends meet.
    DirectorIsiah MedinaStarsErik BergEliza BronteAlexandre Galmard
  • Shu Qi in The Assassin (2015)

    18. The Assassin

    20151h 45mNot Rated82Metascore
    6.3 (19K)
    A female assassin receives a dangerous mission to kill a political leader in eighth-century China.
    DirectorHsiao-Hsien HouStarsShu QiChang ChenYun Zhou
  • Benjamin Dickinson in Creative Control (2015)

    19. Creative Control

    20151h 37mR58Metascore
    5.3 (2.3K)
    In near future Brooklyn, an ad executive uses a new Augmented Reality technology to conduct an affair with his best friend's girlfriend...sort of.
    DirectorBenjamin DickinsonStarsBenjamin DickinsonNora ZehetnerDan Gill
  • Brand: A Second Coming (2015)

    20. Brand: A Second Coming

    20151h 40mR63Metascore
    5.9 (954)
    Follows comedian/author/activist Russell Brand as he dives headlong into drugs, sex & fame in an attempt to find happiness, only to realize that our culture feeds us bad ideas & empty idols. Through his stand up, Brand explores his own true icons - Gandhi, Che Guevara, Malcolm X & Jesus Christ- & evolves from addict & Hollywood star to an unexpected political disruptor & newfound hero to the underserved. Will Brand hold fast against the roar of criticism to break out of the very system that built him?
    DirectorOndi TimonerStarsRussell BrandSimon AmstellAndrew Antonio
  • Kurt Cobain in Cobain: Montage of Heck (2015)

    21. Cobain: Montage of Heck

    20152h 12mTV-MA83Metascore
    7.5 (33K)
    An authorized documentary on the late musician Kurt Cobain, from his early days in Aberdeen, Washington to his success and downfall with the grunge band Nirvana.
    DirectorBrett MorgenStarsKurt CobainWendy O'ConnorDon Cobain
  • Daniel Fripan and David Scheller in The Bunker (2015)

    22. The Bunker

    20151h 25mNot Rated
    6.1 (2.2K)
    A young student seeks quiet and solitude to focus on an important work but ends up as the teacher of a peculiar boy who is home-schooled by his parents in an isolated bunker mansion. THE BUNKER is a dark, twisted, and funny tale about childhood, growing up and education.
    DirectorNikias ChryssosStarsDavid SchellerOona von MaydellDaniel Fripan
  • Ralph Fiennes, Dakota Johnson, Matthias Schoenaerts, and Tilda Swinton in A Bigger Splash (2015)

    23. A Bigger Splash

    20152h 5mR74Metascore
    6.4 (35K)
    A famous rock star's vacation in Italy with her boyfriend is disrupted by the unexpected visit of an old friend and his daughter.
    DirectorLuca GuadagninoStarsTilda SwintonMatthias SchoenaertsRalph Fiennes
  • Elliot Page and Evan Rachel Wood in Into the Forest (2015)

    24. Into the Forest

    20151h 41mR59Metascore
    5.8 (23K)
    After a massive power outage, two sisters learn to survive on their own in their isolated woodland home.
    DirectorPatricia RozemaStarsElliot PageEvan Rachel WoodMax Minghella

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