Soda’s Top 5: Part 8
Our penultimate top 5 of the year is brought to you by our Content Co-ordinator, Jamie Heatly:
Top 5 films of the year
The Hurt Locker - Tense, bewildering and brilliant. Unravels war’s addictive brew of fear and testosterone.
Let The Right One In - Perfectly sparse, dark Scandinavian beauty.
3 Monkeys - Veiled crimes draw you into an intriguing, murky Istanbul.
Drag Me To Hell - Proper, entertaining, jumpy horror - Raimi doing what he does best.
The Wrestler - Rourke is mesmerizing, and altogether honest, as a crumbling man coming round to a crumbling America
The Wrestler
Top Soda film of the year
Modern Life - Beautifully photographed, slow burning immersion into a fading rural existence…a bit like going back to Hereford for Christmas.
Modern Life
Top films of the decade
Gomorrah - A great de-glamourising, gutter-up look at Italian organised crime
There Will Be Blood - Jonny Greenwood’s amazing score envelops the film and perfectly unsettles the tone.
The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada - A weary-eyed, dusty tale of pilgrimage and redemption down on the Mexican border. Nice.
Finding Nemo - Incredible…UP pales in comparison. One of the best kid’s films ever.
Finding Nemo
Mulholland Drive - Mysterious, stylish, masterful Lynch
The Man Who Wasn’t There - A favourite film. Stunningly shot, and wonderfully scripted - creates a thick, blackly comic atmosphere as only the Coens know how. Billy Bob Thornton puts in a superb laconic performance as the Barber and Scarlett Johansen shines as Birdy.
Silent Light - More transcendent work from Reygadas, and worth a watch for the opening shot alone.
Defining film of the decade
No Country For Old Men - Anton Chigurh as an unflinching, amoral force of nature ushering in a new age of terror, leaving the old lawmen blinking in the dust. Broody, bloody, witty desert brilliance.
No Country For Old Men