Sunday, 22 December 2024

Cinema of 2024: 10 Favourite Films (Sight and Sound ballot)

The full list of individual Top 10s for the Sight and Sound Best Films of 2024 Top 50 is up at the BFI website. You can read the full set of lists here.

My Top 10: 



  1. Challengers (Luca Guadagnino, US, Italy)
  2. Emilia Pérez (Jacques Audiard, France, Belgium)
  3. All We Imagine as Light (Payal Kapadia, France, India, Netherlands, Luxembourg, US, Italy, Switzerland)
  4. When Fall is Coming (François Ozon, France)
  5. Perfect Days (Wim Wenders, Japan, Germany)
  6. Dahomey (Mati Diop, France, Senegal, Benin, UK)
  7. On Becoming a Guinea Fowl (Rungano Nyoni, Zambia, UK, Ireland)
  8. Pepe (Nelson Carlo De Los Santos Arias, Dominican Republic, France, Namibia, Germany)
  9. A Real Pain (Jesse Eisenberg, Poland, US)
  10. Blitz (Steve McQueen, UK, France, US)

 




Sight and Sound (Winter 2024-25)

 


The Winter issue of Sight and Sound is out now, including the Top 50 Films of the Year list. I wrote about Home Alone for the "Endings ..." column in this issue. More about it here.