Saturday, 2 November 2013

Current Top Ten Films of All Time

Sorted chronologically

1. Le Jour Se Lève (1939, Carné)
2. Bigger Than Life (1956, Ray)
3. The Act of Seeing with One's Own Eyes (1971, Brakhage)
4. Nashville (1975, Altman)
5. Jeanne Dielman, 23, Quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles (1975, Akerman)
6. Dead Ringers (1988, Cronenberg)
7. A City of Sadness (1989, Hou)
8. Safe (1995, Haynes)
9. Old Joy (2006, Reichardt)
10. Syndromes and a Century (2006, Weerasethakul)


Monday, 7 January 2013

Top 10 Albums of 2012

1. Swans - The Seer
2. Black Sun Roof - Feral
3. Survival Knife - Live at Eagles Hall Bar 29/03/2012 (and other bootleg recordings)
4. Vatican Shadow - Ghosts Of Chechnya
5. Aluk Todolo - Occult Rock
6. X-TG - Desertshore/The Final Report
7. Valley of Fear - Valley of Fear
8. Horrid Red - Nightly Wreaths
9. Death Grips - The Money Store
10. Keiji Haino/Stephen O'Malley/Oren Ambarchi - Nazoranai

Honourable mentions
Pigs - You Ruin Everything
Norman Westberg - Plough
Jens Lekman - I Know What Love Isn't
Dean Blunt/Inga Copeland - Black Is Beautiful
Bosse-de-Nage - III
Wreck and Reference - No Youth
Horseback - Half Blood
Lungfish - ACR 1999
Pyramids/Horseback - A Throne Without a King
Scott Walker - Bish Bosch
Internet Club - Final Tears
Botanist - III: Doom in Bloom/Allies
Yochai Wolf - Every Telling has a Tailing