"a beautifully, achingly sad film where horror and sci-fi merely modulate those feelings which it is hard for us to confront directly": Al White's STARFISH (2018) is a genre-paved journey through grief. #NewYearsEveFilms https://projectedfigures.com/2020/04/11/starfish-2018/

56 Roy Andersson-like tableaux encompassing all of (Icelandic) society: Rúnar Rúnarsson's ECHO (BERGMÁL, 2019) #NewYearsEveFilms https://projectedfigures.com/2020/12/24/echo-bergmal-2019/

Mediapocalypse: THE SIGNAL (2007) "asks if there is ever any real escape short of simply switching off – which is harder than it sounds with a film as mesmerising, astonishing and irresistible as this" #NewYearsEveFilms https://projectedfigures.com/2013/07/10/the-signal-2012

"It is as though the future is already inscribed in the present, and the past - whether Oscar's personal history, or America's ugly tradition of racial injustice - proves difficult to shake": Ryan Coogler's FRUITVALE STATION (2013) #NewYearsEveFilms https://projectedfigures.com/2014/06/06/fruitvale-station-2013

"a tragic character study of one man's flight from society, reality and himself": Sarah Adina Smith's elegantly enigmatic BUSTER'S MAL HEART (2016) #NewYearsEveFilms https://projectedfigures.com/2017/05/24/busters-mal-heart-2016

Deliverance, Australian style: in Damien Power’s feature debut KILLING GROUND (2016), history repeats. #NewYearsEveFilms https://projectedfigures.com/2018/01/13/killing-ground-2016

"Here, it is cinema itself which is the phantom carriage, taking us on a journey that can divert, horrify and depress – but also enlighten and improve": Victor Sjöström's THE PHANTOM CARRIAGE (KÖRKARLEN, 1921) #NewYearsEveFilms https://projectedfigures.com/2020/12/25/the-phantom-carriage-korkarlen-1921/

"parochial alien invasion comedy on New Year’s Eve, 2014 in the lower half of the Welsh one-street village of Cwmtwrch": Peter Stray's CANARIES (aka ALIEN PARTY CRASHERS, 2017) #NewYearsEveFilms https://projectedfigures.com/2019/03/11/alien-party-crashers-aka-canaries-2017

"an apocalyptic farce where New Year’s Eve might also be the End of Days": Caye Casas & Alberto Pintó’s KILLING GOD (MATAR A DIOS, 2017) #NewYearsEveFilms https://projectedfigures.com/2019/06/02/killing-god-matar-a-dios-2017/

New Year’s (f)Eve(r) dream: Kirill Serebrennikov's sick trip PETROV'S FLU (PETROVY Y GRIPPE, 2021) rings the generational changes on Russian history. #NewYearsEveFilms https://projectedfigures.com/2023/01/05/petrovs-flu-petrovy-y-grippe-2021

Rearranging the dynastic deck chairs: Ben Wheatley's family tragicomedy HAPPY NEW YEAR, COLIN BURSTEAD (2018) looks back and forward to England's endless disco dance of power. #NewYearsEveFilms https://projectedfigures.com/2018/12/18/happy-new-year-colin-burstead-2018/

Film 6 - Band Aid (2017)

Marriage falling apart? Try forming a band! A band aid.

Made it to six films! Not sure if Mastodon cares but tried to make pasta for the first time earlier and ended up breaking the pasta machine.

Happy new year all 🎉 🍝

#BandAid #NewYearsEveFilms #filmastodon #FailedAtPasta

Film 5 - Strawberry Mansion (2021)

A taxman for dreams audits an old woman's VHS dream collection. Looks trippy... 🍓🏠

#StrawberryMansion #NewYearsEveFilms #filmastodon

Film 4 - Nemesis (1992)

Never seen an Albert Pyun film, thought I should correct that after he passed away this year.

#Nemesis #AlbertPyun #NewYearsEveFilms #filmastodon

Film 2 - Rumble Fish (1983)

Dracula is one of my favourite films so looking forward to seeing this other Francis Ford Coppola flick.

To be accompanied by ceviche fish and tortillas 🐟

#RumbleFish #NewYearsEveFilms #Filmastodon