JUDAS AND THE BLACK MESSIAH (Shaka King) Daniel Kaluuya ambled to his first Academy Award for his turn as Fred Hampton in a historical drama that buzzed with radical energy.Д¤7.

Obfuscations and evasions abound.Дaniel Kaluuya in Judas and the Black MessiahД¤8.

FINAL ACCOUNT (Luke Holland) Holland talks to the last surviving participants in the Third Reich. SOUND OF METAL (Darius Marder) Oscar-winning study of drummer struggling with hearing loss. Not every shift in the cinematic climate is to be deplored. It is currently available to watch for a reasonable subscription on the Mubi service. But our number one went to Azor, a bizarre, yet disciplined, Argentinean conspiracy movie from debut director Andreas Fontana. There is so much to enjoy and so much to fight over in that eccentric, uncompromising list. The Cannes and Venice film festivals returned to altered orthodoxy вЂ“ the latter socially distanced, the former tested up the kazoo вЂ“ and gave the world such extraordinary films as Spencer, Annette, Drive My Car, The Card Counter and deranged Palme d'Or winner Titane. Meanwhile, adventurous independent film-makers produce work as challenging and varied as ever. Those films would now be seen as arthouse fare or the preserve of high-end television. In some distant heaven, Apocalypse Now, The Godfather and The Silence of the Lambs won favour with critics and accountants. That A Quiet Place sequel is just about the only film to make an appearance in both (though late entrant West Side Story might do the business). As has been the case for some years, there is next to no overlap between the box-office charts and the Irish TimesвЂ™ films of the year. Sequels, superheroes and related franchises set the tills ringing. In one regard at least, the new normal looked pretty much like the version we abandoned in early 2020. No Time to Die looks certain to be the highest-grossing English-language film both worldwide and in the combined UK and Irish вЂњterritoriesвЂќ for 2021. But it was the venerable James Bond franchise вЂ“ 60 years old next autumn вЂ“ that did most for the new normality. Black Widow reasserted the Marvel Cinematic UniverseвЂ™s dominance of theatrical exhibition. How many films reopened the cinemas this year? A Quiet Place Part II (whose poster peeled poignantly from buses throughout Lockdown 1.0) brought the first waves back in early June.

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