Pauline Lampert is a Phd candidate in the Department of Communication Arts at UW Madison. She is also Project Assistant and Programmer for the Cinematheque and the Wisconsin Film Festival.

Best of 2021

1. Power of the Dog (Campion)

2. West Side Story (Spielberg)

3. A Hero (Farhadi)

4. Barb and Star Go to Vista Del Mar (Greenbaum)

5. The French Dispatch (Anderson)

6. Pretend It’s a City (Scorsese)

7. The Velvet Underground (Haynes)

8. The Lost Daughter (Gyllenhaal)

9. Flee (Poher Rasmussen)

10. Petite Maman (Sciamma)

2021 Honorable Mentions

The Worst Person in the World (Trier)

Parallel Mothers (Almodóvar)

Try Harder! (Lum)

Best first views of 2021 in alphabetical order:

1. Bell, Book and Candle (Quine, 1958)

2. Blue Hawaii (Taurog, 1961)

3. Chan is Missing (Wang, 1982)

4. Chess of the Wind (Reza Aslani, 1975)

5. Crossing Delancey (Micklin Silver,1988)

6. The End of the Track (Mou Tun-fei, 1970)

7. Ghost ( Zucker, 1990)

8. He Ran All the Way (Berry, 1951)

9. Hester Street (Micklin Silver, 1975)

10. Klute (Pakula, 1971)

11. The Little Girl Who Sold the Sun (Mambéty, 1999)

12. Miss Juneteenth (Godfrey Peoples, 2020)

13. She-Devil (Seidelman, 1989)

14. The Story of Temple Drake (Roberts, 1933)

15. West Indies (Hondo, 1979)