Introduction: 2015 World Poll

Happy new year all and welcome to the Senses of Cinema World Poll.

The end of a year can make one a little list-fatigued, so consider this one more a cinephilic kickstart to the new year.

Our 12th Senses of Cinema World Poll is a loose, open affair, and our largest ever. It’s not intended to be a list of 2015’s best films but a snapshot of the favourite films and film-related events of Senses readers, contributors and friends (mostly international programmers, critics, filmmakers) from all over the world. It is also different in that it accepts, indeed encourages, older titles seen in 2015 to be included. We are interested in the messy, open-minded way people watch films and what they love – how a Hollywood film or Japanese masterpiece from the 1930s can be viewed next to an avant garde work from 2015.

Thank you to Aleena Glentis, Jessica Balanzategui, Kiri Sullivan, Felicity Ford, Joanna Batsakis and Daniel Fairfax for their help in compiling, editing and formatting these 141 entries, and to Andréas Giannopoulos and webmaster Rachel Brown for getting them up over the holiday period.

This poll is dedicated to the memory of Danish Film Programmer Thure Munkholm, a previous poll contributor and dear friend of the journal (and of many of our contributors). Thure was an ardent cinephile, open to all films and to how they could be programmed. It deeply saddens me to think we will never again share our batty “programming ideas” lists at the beginning of each Rotterdam film festival.

Enjoy the lists!

– Michelle Carey

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