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Chicago Reader: Ben Sachs: 30 Favorite Films of 2014

29 December 2014

The Wind Rises - Hayao Miyazaki

Ben Sachs: 30 Favorite Films of 2014, as published by The Chicago Reader

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  1. The Wind Rises
    Hayao Miyazaki
  2. Rambleras
    Daniela Speranza
  3. Mood Indigo
    Michel Gondry
  4. Starred Up
    David Mackenzie
  5. Boyhood
    Richard Linklater
  6. What Now? Remind Me
    Joaquim Pinto
  7. Breakfast with Curtis
    Laura Colella
  8. Jimmy P.
    Arnaud Desplechin
  9. Thy Womb
    Brillante Mendoza
  10. Gone Girl
    David Fincher
  11. Only Lovers Left Alive
    Jim Jarmusch
  12. The Golden Era
    Ann Hui
  13. Level Five
    Chris Marker
  14. Clouds of Sils Maria
    Olivier Assayas
  15. Camille Claudel 1915
    Bruno Dumont
  16. The President
    Mohsen Makhmalbaf
  17. The Amazing Catfish
    Claudia Sainte-Luce
  18. The Stuart Hall Project
    John Akomfrah
  19. The Homesman
    Tommy Lee Jones
  20. Listen Up Philip
    Alex Ross Perry
  21. Beyond the Lights
    Gina Prince-Bythewood
  22. Timbuktu
    Abderrahmane Sissako
  23. Non-Stop
    Jaume Collet-Serra
  24. Words and Pictures
    Fred Schepisi
  25. Exhibition
    Joanna Hogg
  26. The Grand Budapest Hotel
    Wes Anderson
  27. Gloria
    Sebastián Lelio
  28. Corner Stores
    Amina Waheed
  29. Nymphomaniac
    Lars von Trier
  30. National Gallery
    Frederick Wiseman

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