Las salas de cine estuvieron cerradas. Los festivales fueron virtuales. Las grandes producciones hollywoodenses se quedaron archivadas. Y, a pesar de ellos, los críticos de cabecera del New York Times, Manohla Dargis y A.O. Scott, encontraron abundantes e inspiradores signos de vida cinematográfica durante estos meses de pandemia y encierro.
Manohla Dargis
10. Beanpole (Dir. Kantemir Balagov)
Lee aquí nuestra minicrítica
9. The Forty-Year-Old Version (Dir. Radha Blank)
8. Collective (Dir. Alexander Nanau)
7. Never Really Sometimes Always (Dir. Eliza Hittman)
Ve aquí el corto Forever's Gonna Start Tonight de Eliza Hittman
6. First Cow (Dir. Kelly Reichardt)
5. Bacurau (Dir. Juliano Dornelles, Kleber Mendonça Filho)
4. David Byrne's American Utopia (Dir. Spike Lee)
3. Gunda (Dir. Victor Kossakovsky)
2. City Hall (Dir. Frederick Wiseman)
1. Martin Eden (Dir. Pietro Marcello)
Manohla aclara que habría incluido Time de Garret Bradley, de no haber sido porque es una coproducción del New York Times y quiso evitar el conflicto de interés, y hace otra larga lista de filmes que recomienda ver: 76 Days, Alex Wheatle, Borat Subsequent Moviefilm, Buoyancy, Circumstantial Pleasures, Coded Bias, Crip Camp, Da 5 Bloods, Dick Johnson Is Dead, Emma, Fireball: Visitors From Darker Worlds, Harley Quinn: Birds of Prey, House of Hummingbird, I Wish I Knew, The Invisible Man, Lost Girls, Minari, Miss Juneteenth, Nomadland, The Old Guard, On the Record, On the Rocks, One Night in Miami, The Photograph, Tesla, The Traitor, The Wild Goose Lake, Sorry We Missed You, Soul, The Truffle Hunters, The Truth.
A.O. Scott
10. Soul (Dir. Pete Docter)
9. Dick Johnson Is Dead (Dir. Kirsten Johnson)
8. David Byrne's American Utopia (Dir. Spike Lee) / Lovers Rock (Dir. Steve McQueen)
7. Bacurau (Dir. Juliano Dornelles, Kleber Mendonça Filho)
6. Palms Springs (Dir. Mark Barbakow)
5. The Forty-Year-Old Version (Dir. Radha Blank)
4. Martin Eden (Dir. Pietro Marcello)
3. First Cow (Dir. Kelly Reichardt)
2. City Hall (Dir. Frederick Wiseman) / Collective (Dir. Alexander Nanau)
1. Borat Subsequent Moviefilm (Dir. Jason Woliner)
Fuente: New York Times
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