2020 First Viewings and Discoveries from Screen Slate
December 15, 2020
https://www.screenslate.com/articles/454#
In addition to top 2020 releases, we invited our friends and contributors to submit lists of 2020 “first viewings” and discoveries, broadly defined. Below, please find their wonderful, weird, and endlessly fascinating responses, along with their individual 2020 lists as applicable.
Here are the critics who listed it:
SARAH FENSOM
Film About a Father Who
Portrait of a Lady on Fire
(You’ll Make It In) Florida
Losing Ground
War and Peace (1968)
House of Games
How to Beat the High Cost of Living
The Skin
The Potluck and the Passion
Cactus Flower
Dry Summer
Last Hurrah for Chivalry
Wolfen
Happy Go Lucky
The Pilgrim (1923)
The Big Country
Benji
In Heaven There Is No Beer?
Under the Volcano
How the West Was Won
A Midwinter’s Tale (aka In the Bleak Midwinter)
Grandma’s Boy (1922)
Jack-o
The Pruitt-Igoe Myth
Great Expectations (1946)
Images
CHRIS SHIELDS
Babyteeth
Film About a Father Who
Sonic the Hedgehog
Portrait of a Lady on Fire
A MONTH OF SINGLE FRAMES is also listed:
INNEY PRAKASH
1. Vitalina Varela (Pedro Costa)
2. Infinity Minus Infinity (The Otolith Group)
3. Circumstantial Pleasures (Lewis Klahr)
4. I’ve Been Afraid (Cecelia Condit)
5. A Month of Single Frames (Lynne Sachs)
6. Shirley (Josephine Decker)
7. Talking About Trees (Suhaib Gasmelbari)
8. Mangrove (Steve McQueen)
9. Dick Johnson Is Dead (Kirsten Johnsonn)
10. The Giverny Document (Ja’Tovia Gary)