Nikola Gocić

Animirani, opskurni i akcioni filmovi – Nikola Gocić

Nikola Gocić
Animirani filmovi:
Given that I haven’t seen as much animated features as I wanted to (not to mention that most of the commercial flicks haven’t piqued my interest), the ‘Inner Child’ list will be the shortest and the only one containing two films by the same author (Masaaki Yuasa, to be exact). Another exception is the honorably mentioned Lastman series.
1. Nova Seed (Nick DiLiberto, 2016) (8+)
2. Night Is Short, Walk on Girl (Masaaki Yuasa, 2017) (8+)
3. In This Corner of the World (Sunao Katabuchi, 2017) (8)
4. Genocidal Organ (Shūkō Murase, 2017) (8)
5. Lu over the Wall (Masaaki Yuasa, 2017) (8-)
6. Smurfs: The Lost village (Kelly Asbury, 2017) (7+)
7. Blame! (Hiroyuki Seshita, 2017) (7)
8. Window Horses (Ann Marie Fleming, 2016) (7)
9. Ancien and the Magic Tablet (Kenji Kamiyama, 2017) (7)
10. Alice in Dreamland (Kentaro Hachisuka, 2015) (7)
Honorable Mention:
Lastman (Jérémie Périn, 2016) (9)

Top 3 pre-2015 films I watched in 2017:

1. Ra: Path of the Sun God (Lesley Keen, 1990) (10-)

2. The Cathedral of New Emotions (Helmut Herbst, 2006) (8)

3. Rio 2096: A Story of Love and Fury (Luiz Bolognesi, 2013) (8-)

Opskurni filmovi:
Encompassing alchemical, experimental, genre-defying, highly personal, boldly eclectic, mind-expanding and/or pareidolia-inducing features (of the last three years, but seen in 2017), as well as a few ‘conventional arthouse’ films which have had limited release, ]Cinema Obscura[ list marks the 1000th article on NGboo Art and for a good reason.
This small jubilee is my way of sending a very special ‘Thank you’ to the filmmakers or rather cine-dream weavers who have given a significant boost to my self-confidence which has been almost ruined by some… local factors. Your works inspire me to move on, so I shall be looking forward to seeing your future offerings.
1. The Kingdom of Shadows (Daniel Fawcett & Clara Pais, 2016) (10)
2. Ten Years in the Sun (Rouzbeh Rashidi, 2015) (9)
3. Sleep Has Her House (Scott Barley, 2017) (8+)
4. The Drawer Boy (Arturo Pérez Torres, 2017) (8+)
5. Easy (Andrea Magnani, 2017) (8+)
6. Yesterday I Was Wonder (Gabriel Mariño, 2017) (8+)
7. The Boy on the Train (Roger Deutsch, 2016) (8+)
8. Still the Earth Moves (Pablo Chavarría Gutiérrez, 2017) (8)
9. Suffering of Ninko (Norihiro Niwatsukino, 2016) (8)
10. Frozen May (Péter Lichter, 2017) (8)
11. Open Wound (Momir Milošević, 2016) (8)
12. Symptom (Angelos Frantzis, 2015) (8)
13. Pop Meets the Void (William Cusick, 2015) (8)
14. Subimago (Christophe Leclaire, 2017) (8)
15. #Beings (Andrei Stefanescu, 2015) (8)
16. Cloud of Skin (Maximilian Le Cain, 2015) (8)
17. Sisyphus K. (Filip Gajić, 2015) (7+)
18. Anarchy in the UK: The New Underground Cinema (Fabrizio ‘Jett Hollywood’ Federico, 2016) (7+)
19. Limunovo drvo (Branko Radaković, 2015) (7+)
20. Hel (Katarzyna Priwieziencew & Pawel Tarasiewicz, 2016) (7+)
Honorable mention (recent, pre-2015 films):
1. The Girl Behind the White Picket Fence (Stefanie Schneider, 2013) (8+)
2. White Epilepsy (Philippe Grandrieux, 2012) (8)
3. Suggestive Gestures (David Finkelstein, 2014) (8)
4. The Warriors of Beauty (Pierre Coulibeuf, 2003) (8-)
5. All My Friends Are Funeral Singers (Tim Rutili, 2010) (8-)
6. Pepperminta (Pipilotti Rist, 2009) (8-)
Extremely memorable, even though it’s not my cup of tea:
Pazucus: The Island of Vomit and Despair (Gurcius Gewdner, 2017) 

Akcioni filmovi:
Let the 2017 listomania (not to be confused with Lisztomania) begin with the list that focuses on action/comic/spectacle-oriented movies involving shootouts, car chases, martial arts, various CGI supplements or whatnot and, in some cases, both ‘what’ and ‘not’ and even more.
3. Gardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 (James Gunn, 2017) (8-)
4. Tokyo Ghoul (Kentarō Hagiwara, 2017) (7+)
6. Blade of the Immortal (Takashi Miike, 2017) (7)
7. Logan (James Mangold, 2017) (7)
8. Baby Driver (Edgar Wright, 2017) (7)
11. Life (Daniel Espinosa, 2017) (6+)
13. Wonder Woman (Patty Jenkins, 2017) (6+)
15. Headshot (Kimo Stamboel & Timo Tjahjanto, 2016) (6+)
16. Resident Evil: Vendetta (Takanori Tsujimoto, 2017) (6+)
17. John Wick: Chapter 2 (Chad Stahelski, 2017) (6+)
18. Alien: Covenant (Ridley Scott, 2017) (6)
19. The Villainess (Byung-gil Jung, 2017) (6)
20. Ghost in the Shell (Rupert Sanders, 2017) (6)
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