Year-End Lists

Ben Sachs: 30 Favorite Films of 2014, as published by The Chicago Reader

1. The Wind Rises
   Hayao Miyazaki
2. Rambleras
   Daniela Speranza
3. Mood Indigo
   Michel Gondry
4. Starred Up
   David Mackenzie
5. Boyhood
   Richard Linklater
6. What Now? Remind Me
   Joaquim Pinto
7. Breakfast with Curtis
   Laura Colella
8. Jimmy P.
   Arnaud Desplechin
9. Thy Womb
   Brillante Mendoza
10. Gone Girl
    David Fincher
11. Only Lovers Left Alive
    Jim Jarmusch
12. The Golden Era
    Ann Hui
13. Level Five
    Chris Marker
14. Clouds of Sils Maria
    Olivier Assayas
15. Camille Claudel 1915
    Bruno Dumont
16. The President
    Mohsen Makhmalbaf
17. The Amazing Catfish
    Claudia Sainte-Luce
18. The Stuart Hall Project
    John Akomfrah
19. The Homesman
    Tommy Lee Jones
20. Listen Up Philip
    Alex Ross Perry
21. Beyond the Lights
    Gina Prince-Bythewood
22. Timbuktu
    Abderrahmane Sissako
23. Non-Stop
    Jaume Collet-Serra
24. Words and Pictures
    Fred Schepisi
25. Exhibition
    Joanna Hogg
26. The Grand Budapest Hotel
    Wes Anderson
27. Gloria
    Sebastián Lelio
28. Corner Stores
    Amina Waheed
29. Nymphomaniac
    Lars von Trier
30. National Gallery
    Frederick Wiseman