In the lead-up to the unveiling of our definitive Top 50 Movies of 2013 list, we’ve asked some friends of Paste to tell us their favorites of the year. Tune in for a different list each day. Today’s contributor is actor Sophia Takal, who has appeared in, among others, Gabi on the Roof in July (pictured), Green (which she also directed), V/H/S, and this year’s Hellaware and All the Light in the Sky.
2013 Movies I Thought Were the Tops
In the interest of full disclosure, I feel compelled to admit that I don’t watch very many movies. I never have. I’m not proud of this fact, but I did feel like mentioning this fact because my list is far from comprehensive and doesn’t include movies I should have seen or even said I saw to seem cool, but didn’t actually watch. That being said, the movies on this list are films that I truly loved.
I am not a journalist and this is an opinion piece, so I hope you don’t mind that I am putting some of my close friends films on this list. They are on here because I happen to have extremely talented friends who made extraordinary films.
I will list them reverse alphabetical order because I am tired of every single movie starting with the letter A just so it can be first on VOD.
Wolf of Wall Street
by Martin Scorsese
Do I really need to put a Martin Scorsese movie on my top 10 list? I mean, he doesn’t need the help, right? But this movie was so damn good. Out of all the movies starring Money this year, this one was right up there in my number one spot. The acting was great. And even though I got really bored sometimes when all the characters were doing was dancing around and the music was so loud that it woke the old lady sleeping next to me, I still loved it.
White Reindeer
by Zach Clark
I love this movie with all of my heart. Everyone has said so much about what makes this movie great when it came out that I feel redundant pointing out how truly special this movie is. Anna Margaret shines as a newly widowed suburban real estate agent.
Sun Don’t Shine
by Amy Seimetz
Thank God Amy Seimetz exists. Without her I would probably believe what everyone says when they talk about how film is dying or dead. It’s not, and Sun Don’t Shine is here to prove it. This film is a real living thing. It’s on its own trip (in a good way) and Kate Sheil is fucking amazing in this movie.
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