"New York City is the only place you might have been able to see all of my top ten this year. Thank the higher and lower powers (and maybe even the film gods) for the New York Film Festival, revival houses that often do better business with crackpot art films than supposed commercial blockbusters, and all the film nuts still out there who commute to the city to worship at the altar of alternative cinema."
"My favorite movie of the year is a disagreeable but highly entertaining tale as exhausting as today's politics with characters nobody could possibly root for. Yet it's so terrifyingly funny, so confusingly chaste and kinky that you'll feel coo-coo crazy and oh-so-cultural after watching. If you don't like this film, I hate you. The best sequel to the coolest cinematic franchise ever."
New York City offered exclusive access to a personal top-ten of provocative films through the New York Film Festival, revival houses, and dedicated cinephiles. Several established directors secured financing and distribution for signature-style projects. The favorite film is disagreeable yet highly entertaining, mirroring political exhaustion, populated by unlovable characters, and mixing terrifying humor with confusing chastity and kink. A standout sequel becomes a ferocious, fractured exploitation-art statement beyond trash. Three Norwegian films examine homo- and hetero-love with smart, hopeful dialogue. A jaw-dropping Moroccan desert road trip channels Mad Max and The Wages of Fear into an intense, feel-bad acid adventure. A sexy Copenhagen-set first feature centers on a bathhouse affair.
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