Gallery | Indie, blood-sipping and oddly endearing, with focus on diverse preoccupations, art and great cinematography are the best films of the year, as selected by 11Polaroids desk.
11Polaroids desk
Only Lovers Left Alive (Jim Jarmusch)
12 Years a Slave (Steve McQueen)
CITIZENFOUR (Laura Poitras)
Jimmy’s Hall (Ken Loach)
The Stuart Hall Project (John Akomfrah)
The Golden Dream (Diego Quemada-Diez)
Two Days, One Night (Jean-Pierre Dardenne, Luc Dardenne)
When I Saw You (Annemarie Jacir)
The Grand Budapest Hotel (Wes Anderson)
Exhibition (Joanna Hogg)
Concerning Violence (Göran Olsson)
Finding Vivian Maier (John Maloof and Charlie Siskel)
Nymphomaniac: Volumes I & II (Lars von Trier)
A Story of Children and Film (Mark Cousins)
Tracks (John Curran)
Mr. Turner (Mike Leigh)
Goodbye to Language (Jean-Luc Godard)
Ida (Pawel Pawlikowski)
The Internet’s Own Boy: The Story of Aaron Swartz (Brian Knappenberger)