John Waters Reveals His Prime 10 Movies of 2022 – Chalamet & Donkey
by Alex Billington
December 1, 2022
“Can a film be each silly and effete but unironic? Solely the French can pull that off…” Able to shock us once more!! It is all the time a pleasure to find what John Waters has chosen for his Prime 10 checklist yearly. One among our favourite “better of the 12 months” lists that kicks off this time of the 12 months is from filmmaker John Waters – his Prime 10 favourite movies in a listing that’s in contrast to another. For 2022, Waters has chosen yet one more (anticipated) unusual mixture of movies, that includes not just one however two movies from French filmmaker François Ozon – Peter Von Kant and Every thing Went Advantageous. These initially premiered in several years, however have been launched collectively in 2022. Different highlights embody Bones and All, largely as a result of he is actually interested in Timothée Chalamet (who is not??), Quentin Dupieux’s goofball superhero comedy Smoking Causes Coughing, and the long-lasting donkey film EO, which premiered in Cannes this summer season. Try all of his favorites under.
Waters features a quick one/two-sentence clarification with every decide, so head to ArtForum to learn all of his ideas on his Prime 10 of 2022. I’ve included just a few of his feedback in quotes under for a few of the movies the place he mentioned some attention-grabbing issues. With out additional ado, listed here are John Waters’ Prime 10 Movies of 2022:
1. Peter von Kant (dir. François Ozon) “Hilariously stilted, usually overwrought, all the time extremely entertaining, this cock-eyed tribute will make you swoon when Hanna Schygulla lastly makes an look and Isabelle Adjani quickly follows. My God, it is simply plain Douglas Sirk excellent.”
2. EO (dir. Jerzy Skolimowski) “One other tribute movie, this time Bresson’s Au Hasard Balthazar meets Outdated Yeller. Can a donkey bear in mind? Simply ask Isabelle Huppert, who pops up on this film for no obvious purpose besides that she’s the very best actress on the planet.”
3. Every thing Went Advantageous (dir. François Ozon)
4. Sick of Myself (dir. Kristoffer Borgli)
5. Bruno Reidal, Confession of a Assassin (dirs. Vincent Le Port Petri)
6. Detainee 001 (dir. Greg Barker) “John Walker Lindh, the American Taliban. This doc examines the hysteria of this case and asks the query I’ve been questioning about for years—was he an overhyped traitor or only a well-traveled child caught within the mistaken place on the mistaken time? Oh, yeah, he’s actually cute, in a grunge form of manner.”
7. Dinner in America (dir. Adam Rehmeier)
8. Will-o’-the-Wisp (dir. João Pedro Rodrigues) “A racially dangerous, raunchy Portuguese musical about class and pyromania that can gentle you on hearth. Facials! Pretend dicks! An actual arty head-scratcher of a movie that makes Titane appear tame.”
9. Smoking Causes Coughing (dir. Quentin Dupieux)
10. Bones and All (dir. Luca Guadagnino) “Is there such a factor as a butch twink? Sure, there may be, and Timothée Chalamet goes all Larry Clark on us right here, a soft-trade hetero cannibal who kills an evil closeted homosexual trick so he and his flesh-eating girlfriend can feed. Is that gay-bashing or cannibally appropriate love? Simply asking.”
What do you make of Waters’ Prime 10 checklist for this 12 months? Have you ever seen all the movies he lists this 12 months? As all the time, his picks are so kooky and unusual! However that is what makes his Prime 10 so refreshing each single 12 months. It is good to see Bones and All and EO on right here, however all of his different picks from 2022 are a bit odd. I’ve heard nice issues about Dinner in America (trailer right here) and Will-o’-the-Wisp (trailer right here), however I have never had an opportunity to see both of them but. I hated Peter von Kant, I’m simply not a François Ozon fan in any respect. A few of these on his checklist I’ve by no means even heard of earlier than at present. Dupieux’s Smoking Causes Coughing is enjoyable, however I desire his different 2022 movie known as Unimaginable However True as an alternative of this one, however I do not know if anybody has seen that one both. There’s all the time one thing wacky and peculiar to observe, and Waters is all the time introducing us to a few of the most original movies of the 12 months. As normal, it’s good to choose a minimum of considered one of these you have not seen but, and provides it a glance to see if it impresses/intrigues you as a lot because it did him. Ideas on his 2022 picks?
