The 2020 Village Voice Voice Poll, Reconstructed

Filmmaker Magazine
https://filmmakermagazine.com/110892-the-2020-village-voice-voice-poll-reconstructed/#.YCRKTJNKg8M

BRIAN DARR
(unranked)
The Beast Must Die
The Brilliant Biograph: Earliest Moving Images of Europe
Days
Film About a Father Who
First Cow
Fourteen
The Giverny Document
Nomadland
Steven Arnold: Heavenly Bodies
Undine

from Nelson Kim
My 20 favorite new movies of 2020, in alphabetical order. (LOVERS ROCK and NEVER RARELY SOMETIMES ALWAYS were probably my favorite-favorites.)

ANOTHER ROUND (Thomas Vinterberg)
THE ASSISTANT (Kitty Green)
BAD EDUCATION (Cory Finley)
BEANPOLE (Kantemir Balagov)
THE CLOUD IN HER ROOM (Zheng Lu Xinyuan)
COLLECTIVE (Alexander Nanau)
DICK JOHNSON IS DEAD (Kirsten Johnson)
EMMA (Autumn DeWilde)
FILM ABOUT A FATHER WHO (Lynne Sachs)
FIRST COW (Kelly Reichardt)
THE GRAND BIZARRE (Jodie Mack)
LOVERS ROCK (Steve McQueen)
MINARI (Lee Isaac Chung)
NEVER RARELY SOMETIMES ALWAYS (Eliza Hittman)
NOMADLAND (Chloe Zhao)
SHITHOUSE (Cooper Raiff)
SWALLOW (Carlo Mirabella-Davis)
TIME (Garrett Bradley)
THE TROUBLE WITH BEING BORN (Sandra Wollner)
THE VAST OF NIGHT (Andrew Patterson)

BFI: The best films of 2020 – all the votes

We asked 104 contributors – British and international – to pick the ten best new films they’d seen in 2020. Here you can browse all 353 films they nominated.

18 December 2020
https://www.bfi.org.uk/sight-and-sound/polls/best-films-2020-all-votes

Tara Judah
Critic and programmer, UK

Lynne Sachs’s body of work first came to my attention via Sheffield Doc/Fest’s online focus and I am now completely immersed in her craft.

There are many more films that will seem like omissions and perhaps it is only that my eyes await them, as I was unable to see the usual level of films this year, though I have still witnessed great talent, art and beauty.

Cine-File Contributors’ Best of 2020 Lists

https://www.cinefile.info/blog/best-of-2020

Kathleen Sachs
Favorite New(-ish) Releases I Saw for the First Time in 2020
1. CITY HALL (Frederick Wiseman)
2. DAYS (Tsai Ming-liang)
3. BEANPOLE (Kantemir Balagov)
4. THE WOMAN WHO RAN (Hong Sang-soo)
5. EMA (Pablo Larraín)
6. (Tie) MAAT MEANS LAND/SAN DIEGO (Fox Maxy)
7. JUANITA (Leticia Tonos Paniagua)
8. (Tie) FILM ABOUT A FATHER WHO (Lynne Sachs)/A HOUSE IS NOT A HOME: WRIGHT OR WRONG (Mehrnaz Saeed-Vafa)
9. ON A MAGICAL NIGHT (Christophe Honoré)
10. FIRST COW (Kelly Reichardt)