Top Tens: 2006

Sexuality permeates this year's list, along with drifting away from reality and the presence of some obscure films. Checking the full list of all the films I've seen from this year as I go along, you can see that big, acclaimed works have not even got past the label 'Average'. In their place is one of the first films that I saw depict real sex onscreen, which is also one of the sweetest comedy-dramas I've ever seen, and the last feature David Lynch has made of yet, the first of his I ever saw, leading me to wait in hope he comes back for one or two more in the 2010s. An absurdist Norwegian film and a dramatic thriller from Tajikistan, Satoshi Kon's last ever feature film, two entries from the (Sadly) forgotten Destricted anthology on sexuality, and the tasteless genius of Neveldine/Taylor amongst the list.

Ranking 2006

(In Order as of 26th April 2014)

Shortbus (Dir. John Cameron Mitchell, 2006)

INLAND EMPIRE (Dir. David Lynch, 2006)

Lights in the Dusk (Dir. Aki Kaurismäki, 2006) 

Fantasma (Dir. Lisandro Alonso, 2006)

Crank (Dirs. Mark Neveldine and Brian Taylor, 2006)

Paprika (Dir. Satoshi Kon, 2006) 

To Get To Heaven First You Have To Die
(Dir. Jamshed Usmonov, 2006)

The Bothersome Man (Dir. Jens Lien, 2006)

Hoist (Dir. Matthew Barney, 2006) [From 'Destricted']

Impaled (Dir. Larry Clark, 2006) [From 'Destricted']

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