Streams of Unconsciousness: My Top Ten Films of 2021

05 January 2022

My Top Ten Films of 2021

1. Drive My Car (Hamaguchi)

2. The Power of the Dog (Campion)

3. Licorice Pizza (P.T. Anderson)

4. The Tragedy of MacBeth (Coen)

5. Red Rocket (Baker)

6. tick, tick...Boom! (Miranda)

7. The Lost Daughter (Gyllenhaal)

8. The Hand of God (Sorrentino)

9. Belfast (Branagh)

10. Spencer (Larrain)

Honorable Mention: The French Dispatch (W. Anderson), Passing (Hall), C'mon, C'mon (Mills), The Souvenir Part II (Hogg), Bergman Island (Hansen-Love).

Best Actress: Kristen Stewart (Spencer). Runners Up: Olivia Colman (Lost Daughter) and Alana Haim (Licorice Pizza).

Best Actor: Andrew Garfield (tick, tick...Boom!). Runners Up: Benedict Cumberbatch (Power of the Dog) and Simon Rex (Red Rocket).

Best Supporting Actress: Caitriona Balfe (Belfast). Runners Up: Jessie Buckley (Lost Daughter) and Kathryn Hunter (MacBeth).

Best Supporting Actor: Kodi Smit-McPhee (Power of the Dog). Honorable Mention: Jesse Plemons (Power of the Dog) and Jamie Dornan (Belfast).

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"Read anything I write for the pleasure of reading it. Whatever else you find will be the measure of what you brought to the reading". - Ernest Hemingway

"They have a mind to till the soil and the love of possession is a disease with them. These people have made many rules that the rich may break but the poor may not. They take their tithes from the poor and weak to support the rich and those who rule." - Sitting Bull

"Here's what we can do to change the world, right now.... Take all that money we spend on weapons and defenses each year and instead spend it feeding and clothing and educating the poor of the world, which it would pay for many times over, not one human being excluded, and we could explore space, together, both inner and outer, forever, in peace." - Bill Hicks

“Everything can happen, everything is possible and probable. Time and place do not exist; on a significant bases of reality, the imagination spins, weaving new patterns; a mixture of memories, experiences, free fancies, incongruities and improvisations.” - August Strindberg

We got to face some facts. That the masses are poor, that the masses belong to what you call the lower class, and when I talk about the masses, I'm talking about the white masses, I'm talking about the black masses, and the brown masses, and the yellow masses, too. We've got to face the fact that some people say you fight fire best with fire, but we say you put fire out best with water. We say you don't fight racism with racism. We're gonna fight racism with solidarity. We say you don't fight capitalism with no black capitalism; you fight capitalism with socialism. -- Fred Hampton