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BlogJanuary 4, 2014

Review Of The Year: 2013

By Mark Wilshin

In black and white or riotous colour, here’s a quick look back over the best and worst films of 2013 and a sneak preview of the movies to watch out for in 2014.

★★★★, Cambodia, documentaryJanuary 3, 2014

The Missing Picture / L’Image Manquante (2013)

By Mark Wilshin

★★★★☆
A testimony to the horrors of the Khmer Rouge in clay, Rithy Panh’s The Missing Picture is a poetic and intelligent rumination on survival, memory and murder.

★★★, documentary, USADecember 6, 2013

Scatter My Ashes At Bergdorf’s (2013)

By Laura Bennett

★★★☆☆
Matthew Miele’s Scatter My Ashes at Bergdorf’s is a suitably sleek star-studded behind-the-scenes documentary looking at New York’s über department store.

★, documentary, USANovember 29, 2013

Leviathan (2012)

By Mark Wilshin

★☆☆☆☆
A vibrant kaleidoscope of life on the high seas, Lucien Castaing-Taylor and Verena Paravel’s Leviathan sails the rough waters between video art and cinema.

★★★, Australia, documentaryNovember 15, 2013

Utopia (2013)

By Mark Wilshin

★★★☆☆
Veteran documentary filmmaker John Pilger’s latest, Utopia, is a hard-hitting investigation into modern Australia’s commitment to its indigenous communities.

★★★★, documentary, queer, USANovember 8, 2013

How To Survive A Plague (2012)

By Mark Wilshin

★★★★☆
Exposing the front lines of the AIDS epidemic on the streets of New York, David France’s How To Survive A Plague is a moving testament to people power.

★★★★, documentary, USANovember 8, 2013

Seduced And Abandoned (2013)

By Mark Wilshin

★★★★☆
A documentary shot at the Cannes Film Festival in 2012, James Toback’s Seduced And Abandoned explores the unique aura of the festival itself, cinema art, money, glamour and death.

★★★, documentary, USANovember 3, 2013

Milius (2013)

By Mark Wilshin

★★★☆☆
The making of a legend, Joey Figueroa and Zak Knutson’s bio-documentary Milius uncovers the gun-toting storyteller and filmmaker that took Hollywood on and lost.