by Ju | Feb 8, 2021 | Film, Rinus, Top 50 2011-20
35-31 the Top Films of 2011-2020 35. Dick Johnson is Dead (2020, Kirsten Johnson, USA) Dick Johnson is Dead is a documentary film about the approaching end of the life of director Kirsten Johnson’s father Dick. When her father started to suffer from...
by Ju | Jan 28, 2021 | Film, Rinus, Top 50 2011-20
40-36 the Top Films of 2011-2020 40. Ida (2013, Pawel Pawlikowski, Poland) This multiple awarded film continues to cast its spell on me regardless of how many times I see it. Who can resist this strong and complex drama, that opens so many issues at the same time?...
by Ju | Jan 26, 2021 | Film, Rinus, Top 50 2011-20
45-41 the Top Films of 2011-2020 45. Makala (2017, Emmanuel Gras, France) This documentary film, awarded at the 2017 Cannes Film Festival, has stayed vividly alive in my mind as a profound metaphor of life. It is the story of a young family father, Kabwita, living in...
by Ju | Jan 19, 2021 | Film, Rinus, Top 50 2011-20
50-46 the Top Films of 2011-2020 50. The Rider (2017, Chloé Zhao, USA) This contemporary western, filmed by a director who was born and raised in China(!), gives us an intimate, absorbing story of a man who needs to get reconciled with another life and future than the...
