2021 [Ranking]
Films officially released for the first time in 2021 — in festivals or commercially or in streaming, national or international-wide — that I watched in 2021.
Had it been listed on IMDb, the following film would be:
#33 Sombra (2021) [João Pedro Faro]
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Had it been listed on IMDb, the following film would be:
#33 Sombra (2021) [João Pedro Faro]
More on Letterboxd: https://letterboxd.com/mmassias/list/2021-ranking/
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- DirectorJames BenningA document of one of the most famous 66 miles of railroad track in the world including the Tehachapi Loop.
- DirectorJúlio BressaneStarsMariana XimenesEnrique DiazVladimir Brichta"If you had to choose between me and your mother, who would it be?" Capitu asks provocatively of her problematic lover. Elsewhere, they dance to inaudible music, with their friends, each couple keeping to a rhythm of their own. At times, this depiction of the memories we see one Dom Casmurro commit to paper with a flamboyant pen seems to be an interplay of conflicting emotions - particularly when jealousy raises its head.
- DirectorPaul SchraderStarsOscar IsaacTiffany HaddishTye SheridanWilliam Tell is an ex-military interrogator living under the radar as a low-stakes gambler. When he encounters a young man looking to commit revenge against a mutual enemy, he takes him on the casino circuit to set him on a new path.
- DirectorLeos CaraxStarsAdam DriverMarion CotillardSimon HelbergA stand-up comedian and his opera singer wife have a two-year-old daughter with a surprising gift.
- DirectorM. Night ShyamalanStarsGael García BernalVicky KriepsRufus SewellA vacationing family discovers that the secluded beach where they're relaxing for a few hours is somehow causing them to age rapidly, reducing their entire lives into a single day.
- DirectorTodd HaynesStarsJohn WatersMary WoronovBarbara WaltersThe Velvet Underground explores the multiple threads that converged to bring together one of the most influential bands in rock and roll.
- DirectorEugenio PuppoFor over a decade challenging the policy of erasure that burns and haunts the memory of national cinema, Eugenio Puppo revisits the emergence of one of the most notorious generations of filmmakers in the country, exploring the close and unusual relationship between a papal encyclical and the emergence of Cinema Marginal. Comprised of a rich collection of archival material and images, the film becomes a genuine time capsule, echoing in the present (in a direct nod to the future) the confrontational voices and images of Reichenbach, Sganzerla, Mojica, and many others.
- DirectorGuli SilbersteinConfinement, madness and love haunt an asylum, where a couple and their daughter become entangled in a troubled past. A re-work of the pioneering, visionary film 'A Page of Madness' (1926, Japan, director: Teinosuke Kinugasa)
- DirectorPedro UranoAn experimental trip about Brazil after H.O.
- 20211h 58mPG-138.0 (14K)96MetascoreDirectorQuestloveStarsDorinda DrakeBarbara Bland-AcostaDarryl LewisDocumentary about the legendary 1969 Harlem Cultural Festival which celebrated African-American music and culture and promoted Black pride and unity.
- DirectorCeleste BellPaul SngStarsCeleste BellPoly StyreneX-Ray SpexThe death of punk icon and X-Ray Spex front-woman Poly Styrene sends her daughter on a journey through her mother's archives in this intimate documentary.
- DirectorGlenda NicácioAry RosaBrazil, 2030. The sisters Alayr and Sabrina are hearing on the cell radio the judgment that could change the course of a country "without energy". They are surprised by Fátima, the sister who returns from the dead to fraternize on this historic night.
- DirectorMia Hansen-LøveStarsVicky KriepsTim RothMia WasikowskaA couple retreat to the island that inspired Ingmar Bergman to write screenplays for their upcoming films when the lines between reality and fiction start to blur.
- DirectorAnocha SuwichakornpongStarsSirat IntarachoteWaywiree IttianunkulApinya SakuljaroensukFour young travelers embark on a trip to Kanchanaburi to see the museum, but pass the time in other ways when they find out it's closed for refurbishment.
- DirectorPedro TavaresStarsPatricia BelloArcai BrenckenfeldFrancisco CarboneA structuralist slow-burn investigation thriller. In a high-class neighbourhood in Rio De Janeiro a young woman is murdered. Detectives are contacted but the killer continues around.
- DirectorKeishi OtomoStarsTakeru SatohKasumi ArimuraYôsuke EguchiBefore becoming a protector, Kenshin is a fearsome assassin known as Battosai, but his story changes when he meets the gentle Tomoe Yukishiro.
- DirectorNicolas KlotzElisabeth PercevalIn the shadows of Low Life, a secret ceremony dedicated to thirteen guardians of humanity's common treasures, love and resistance, youth and poetry, equality and difference, insurrection and revolution. Saxifrages - These rootless plants' windblown destiny is a soft perseverance doubled by an imperceptible intransigence, which, in time, imposes on the hardness of stones a patience that can break them.
- DirectorBruno CostaStarsAltamar CezarMaria Luiza da CostaStephanie FernandesMaycon is a boxer who trains to return to the ring while sharing his time with two underemployees. Malu's father, the result of a casual relationship he had with Michele, he has his life overturned when he finds himself in the situation of having to take care of his daughter alone. Between the exhausting routine of training and training to survive Maycon's biggest fight has yet to be won: becoming a father.
- DirectorNia DaCostaStarsYahya Abdul-Mateen IITeyonah ParrisNathan Stewart-JarrettA sequel to the horror film Candyman (1992) that returns to the now-gentrified Chicago neighborhood where the legend began.
- DirectorKeishi OtomoStarsTakeru SatohMackenyuEmi TakeiKenshin's past catches up to him causing the destruction of Akabeko Restaurant, which was Kenshin's favorite place to eat. There, he finds a note with the word "Junchu" on it.
- DirectorAna JohannStarsClarissa KisteIrandhir SantosLaís CristinaRenata lives isolated in the countryside with her teenage daughter and her husband, conceiving fear as a common feeling. The arrival of a stranger awakens in her the desire for all that was asleep.
- DirectorBobbi Jo HartStarsFannyJune MillingtonJean MillingtonFANNY: The Right to Rock reveals the untold story of a Filipina American garage band that morphed into the ferocious rock group Fanny, who almost became the female Beatles. Features Bonnie Raitt, Joe Elliott.
- DirectorDavid Gordon GreenStarsJamie Lee CurtisJudy GreerAndi MatichakSurviving victims of Michael Myers form a vigilante mob and vow to end his reign of terror.
- DirectorClaudio SzynkierStarsClaudio SzynkierAna Ferron TermignoniApparitions, mystical presences and lost stories from São Paulo and Rangoon are discovered over the course of a summer, probably, in the future.
- DirectorReha ErdemStarsSerkan KeskinNihal YalçinBülent Emin YararIstanbul is under quarantine. Felek and Kerim find the best way to make profits in this period. They will access people's computers and introduce themselves as government officials, making them confess their "crimes". However, the city in question is Istanbul and all kinds of people live here.