Essential Films of 2015
Favorites
The Big Short
The Gift
Inside Out
Mad Max: Fury Road
The Martian
Paper Planes
The Revenant
Room
Sicario
Spotlight
Star Wars: The Force Awakens
Honorable mention
Avengers: Age of Ultron
Child 44
The Gift
The Intern
The Man From U.N.C.L.E.
Mission Impossible-Rogue Nation
Sicario
Straight Outta Compton
Tomorrowland
Trainwreck
The Witch
All ages
Inside Out
Paper Planes
Tomorrowland
Guilty pleasures
coming soon
Holiday
Want to see
45 Years
A Bigger Splash (Luca Guadagnino)
Anomalisa (animated)
The Assassin
The Best of Enemies (doc about Gore Vidal and William F. Buckley)
Big Sky (Kyra Sedgwick, cannibals, survival. sold)
Brooklyn
Crimson Peak (Del Toro)
Entertainment
Experimenter (about Stanley Milgram)
Evolution
The Forbidden Room
Here’s To The Future!
The Look of Silence (documentary about Indonesian genocide)
Jafar Panahi's Taxi (Iran)
McFarland (Costner running coach)
The Mend
Mississippi Grind (Mendelsohn, R. Reynolds)
Mistress America
Sherpa (Mt. Everest avalanche documentary)
Son of Saul (Hungarian, WWII Auschwitz)
Steve Jobs
Suffragette
Tangerine
Timbuktu (French-Mauritanian drama, Islamic militants)
The Wave (Norwegian)
Special category : films I’d like to see, but probably won’t because of extremely graphic violence I don’t feel like having float around in my head
Bone Tomahawk
Did not like / hated / disappointed
The Hateful Eight
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ESSENTIAL MUSIC OF 2015
11 favorite albums
a-ha - Cast in Steel
Chvrches - Every Open Eye
Kelly Clarkson - Piece by Piece
The Dears - Times Infinity Volume One
Deafheaven - New Bermuda
Kendrick Lamar - To Pimp a Butterfly
Loretta Lynn - Full Circle
Jeff Lynne's ELO - Alone In The Universe
Sufjan Stevens - Carrie & Lowell
Honorable Mention
Adele - 25
Ash - Kablammo!
Cage the Elephant - Tell Me I’m Pretty
The Cribs - For All My Sisters
Faith No More - Sol Invictus
Jeff Lynne's ELO - Alone in the Universe
Matt Maher - Saints and Sinners
Modest Mouse - Strangers to Ourselves
Giorgio Moroder - Déjà vu
Natalie Prass - Natalie Prass
Sea of Bees - Build a Boat to the Sun
Tame Impala - Currents
They Might Be Giants - Glean
They Might Be Giants - Why? (children’s album)
The Wainwright Sisters - Songs in the Dark
Wolf Alice - My Love Is Cool
Yukon Blonde - On Blonde
44 favorite tracks of 2015
Luna - Deafheaven
Police Encounters - FFS
Run - AWOLNation
2015 Playlists by Month
January
Run - AWOLNation
Luna - Deafheaven
February
March
Nemesis - Benjamin Clementine
Mainstream Kid - Brandi Carlile
April
May
June
July
Police Encounters - FFS
August
September
October
Brought to the Water - Deafheaven
November
December
Selected Poetry of 2015
Famous - Naomi Shihab Nye
