The Best of April 2020
Best Discovery: Kagerō-za
Runners Up: The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover, The Meyerowitz Stories, My Left Foot, Pin, Season of the Witch, Serpent's Path, Smoking/No Smoking, Someone to Love, The Tale of Genji, Twice in a Lifetime, An Unforgettable Summer
Best Rewatch: Naked
Runners Up: The Ballad of Narayama, Barry Lyndon, The Draughtsman's Contract, Drugstore Cowboy, The Late Show, A Man Vanishes, Nightcrawler, Ornamental Hairpin, Pulse, Shy People, A Snake of June, Vanya on 42nd Street
Most Enjoyable Fluff: Cocoon
Runners Up: An Ideal Husband, Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome, Point Break, Unstoppable, Vanishing Act
Best Male Performance: David Thewlis in Naked
Runners Up: Pierre Arditi in Smoking/No Smoking, Art Carney in The Late Show, Matt Dillon in Drugstore Cowboy, Michael Gambon in The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover, Jake Gyllenhaal in Nightcrawler, Daniel Day-Lewis in My Left Foot, Wallace Shawn in Vanya on 42nd Street
Best Female Performance: Ellen Burstyn in Twice in a Lifetime
Runners Up: Sabine Azéma in Smoking/No Smoking, Cate Blanchett in Veronica Guerin, Jill Clayburgh and Barbara Hershey in Shy People, Asuka Kurosawa in A Snake of June, Julianne Moore in Vanya on 42nd Street, Kinuyo Tanaka in The Ballad of Narayama, Kristin Scott Thomas in An Unforgettable Summer, Lily Tomlin in The Late Show
Best Supporting Performance or Cameo: Greg Cruttwell in Naked
Runners Up: William S. Burroughs in Drugstore Cowboy, Katrin Cartlidge, Lesley Sharp and Peter Wight in Naked, Doris Dowling in The Lost Weekend, Dustin Hoffman in The Meyerowitz Stories, Martha Plimpton and Mare Winningham in Shy People, Rene Russo in Nightcrawler, Brooke Smith in Vanya on 42nd Street
Best Ensemble Cast: Naked
Runners Up: The Meyerowitz Stories, Shy People, Someone to Love, Vanya on 42nd Street
Most Enjoyable Ham: Julianne Moore in An Ideal Husband
Runners Up: Kiyoshirō Imawano in The Happiness of the Katakuris, Sarah Miles in White Mischief, Miranda Richardson in Snow White: The Fairest of Them All, Miranda Richardson and Martin Short in Merlin, Meryl Streep in Heartburn, Tina Turner in Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome
Best Cinematography: Barry Lyndon (John Alcott)
Runners Up: The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover (Sacha Vierny), The Draughtsman's Contract (Curtis Clark), Drugstore Cowboy (Robert Yeoman), Kagerō-za (Kazue Nagatsuka), Miss Oyu (Kazuo Miyagawa), Naked (Dick Pope), Pulse (Jun'ichirō Hayashi), Shy People (Chris Menges), A Snake of June (Shin'ya Tsukamoto), An Unforgettable Summer, (Călin Ghibu), Vanya on 42nd Street (Declan Quinn), A Zed & Two Noughts (Sacha Vierny),
Best Use of Color: Akira
Runners Up: The Ballad of Narayama, The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover, Kagerō-za, Melody Time, The Tale of Genji
Best Locations: Ornamental Hairpin
Runners Up: Barry Lyndon, The Draughtsman's Contract, A Hen in the Wind, Kagerō-za, Lekce Faust, The House on Carroll Street, Pulse, Serpent's Path, Shy People, Sudden Fury
Best Action Scenes: Point Break
Runners Up: Akira, Extraction, Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome, Unstoppable
Best Score: The Tale of Genji (Haruomi Hosono)
Runners Up: Akira (Shōji Yamashiro), The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover (Michael Nyman), The Draughtsman's Contract (Michael Nyman), Drugstore Cowboy (Elliot Goldenthal), A Man Vanishes (Toshirō Mayuzumi), Miss Oyu (Fumio Hayasaka), Naked (Andrew Dickson), Pulse (Takefumi Haketa), Serpent's Path (Hikaru Yoshida), Shy People (Tangerine Dream), Smoking/No Smoking (John Pattison), A Snake of June (Chu Ishikawa)
Best Hunk: Wilford Brimley in Cocoon
Runners Up: Beau Bridges in The Positively True Adventures of the Alleged Texas Cheerleader-Murdering Mom, Chris Cardona in Who Shot Patakango?, Moe Dunford in Dark Lies the Island, Mel Gibson in Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome, Charles Haid in Storyville, Gregory Harrison in Dangerous Pursuit, Chris Hemsworth in Extraction, Charlie Hunnam in King Arthur: Legend of the Sword, Pat Laffan in Barry Lyndon, Tim Rossovich in Night Shift
Honorable Mention: Terry Crews in John Henry, Jeremy Northam in An Ideal Husband,
Assorted Pleasures:
- Close-up animal footage and microphotography in Science Is Fiction
- Cozily stagey sets in The Ballad of Narayama and Smoking/No Smoking
- Claymation sequences in Lekce Faust
- Bloody ukiyo-e backdrops in Kagerō-za
- Intricately rendered Neo-Tokyo cityscapes in Akira
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