🎥 Mulan (1998)
📊 Ranked #96/452 on my Flickchart
🎯 Flickscore™: 79
beat Aftersun (#227 → #228)
beat Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol (#112 → #113)
lost to The Descent (held at #56)
lost to F1 (held at #84)
beat Enemy of the State (#98 → #99)
lost to The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (held at #91)
lost to The Martian (held at #94)
beat Sinners (#96 → #97)
lost to North by Northwest (held at #95)
🎥 Alice in Wonderland (1951)
📊 Ranked #340/451 on my Flickchart
🎯 Flickscore™: 25
lost to Death on the Nile (held at #226)
lost to Quantum of Solace (held at #338)
beat Bone Tomahawk (#394 → #395)
beat Mystic River (#366 → #367)
beat Nosferatu (#352 → #353)
beat Left Bank (#345 → #346)
beat Smile (#341 → #342)
lost to Raya and the Last Dragon (held at #339)
beat The Girl on the Bridge (#340 → #341)
A film in which one of the most moving scenes of the year is set to a Katy Perry song. It takes an exceptionally good director to pull THAT off.
I should be annoyed by this film's stubborn refusal to make a lick of sense, but I'm not. Not one bit. Over a decade after I first saw it, MULHOLLAND DRIVE remains as sumptuous and mesmerising an experience as ever. I'm almost inclined to suggest that to try to decode it and impose rational logic on it is to miss the point - better to just let the sounds and images wash over you and experience it as Diane (the…
