Best Films of 2016 – Darrel’s Dozen
As I go over the films of this last year, these are the ones that rise above the others for me. I usually pick twelve films because I like the alliteration of Darrel?s Dozen.
As I go over the films of this last year, these are the ones that rise above the others for me. I usually pick twelve films because I like the alliteration of Darrel?s Dozen.
I, Daniel Blake is Ken Loach?s most recent tale of an everyman who faces societal structures that are often at odds with what is right. Loach won his second Palme d?Or with this film.
Pablo Larra?n’s latest Chilean focused film is Neruda about the famous Chilean poet Pablo Neruda and how the Cold War played out in Chile.
Besides working well on the level of plot and character, this is a film that also provides some philosophical depth.
The film is a heavily satirical look at religion, but through that satire some of the basic questions that people have about life and its meaning are brought forward.
“But I say to you, Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, so that you may be children of your Father in heaven.? (Matt. 5:43-45) We may well know and affirm those verses, but it is a very difficult teaching to actually live out.
The advent of information technology has made a great many things possible?including crime. In Anonymous? Alex (Callen McAuliffe), a young man who is upset with the bank that fired his mother, sets off to disrupt the system through hacking.
In Mia Hansen-L?ve?s film Things to Come, a middle aged woman faces sudden changes and must set about finding the course she wants for her life.
Can a sports team be the catalyst that not only unites a nation but also gives it a sense of the nation?s place in the world?
What an amazing political year this has been! One of the things that have led to the strangeness of this election cycle is a mistrust in the very institutions that make up the political landscape.