My Favourites From 2022 World Cinema
Every story has a destiny, every film has its box office or OTT course. 2022 has opened up the global lockdowns and given Cinema some respite from a 2-year onslaught of slaughter. Still, it felt like a year where we did not have anything while we achieved something or better everything that we have always dreamt of. From the highest possible rates -to- Oscar shortlists -to- huge disappointments -to- major postponements / cancellation -to- movie viewing fatigue at theatres. We have gone through a lot. My Favourites of 2022
2022 feels like a dream in front of 2021 and leaves a lot in store for 2023.
Indian Cinema hit a high with winning Cannes / Sundance Awards, nominating for Golden Globe, and getting short-listed for the Oscars. All That breathes, RRR, The Elephant Whisperers, and Chhello Show movies have been the biggest newsmakers while KGF Chapter 2, Kantara became the most profitable. Kantara, in particular, has created a sensation in Indian Cinema and showed that even though your story is rooted and from a village background, you can still connect with audiences, if your craft is good. Kannada Cinema made giant inroads in showcasing its variety and upcoming talents with KGF Chapter 2, 777 Charlie, and Kantara. On the other hand, Tamil Cinema had a major number of profitable films among all industries.
Valimai, Beast managed to recover money for distributors even though they have disappointed fans. At the same time, the films that have been regarded as “definite flops” like Vikram and PS-1 proved to be major box office money spinners. In fact, they have become the biggest comeback stories for Kamal Haasan and Mani Ratnam at the box office after a decade of lulls or not up to their “standard box office films”. PS-1 turned out to be the biggest money spinner ever in Tamil Nadu and the movie deserved more love from other languages too. Viruman, Sardar, Don, Thiruchitrambalam, and Love Today became hits showing Tamil Nadu audience taste is different and varied.
Telugu Films mostly managed to be a mixed bag. Pawan Kalyan’s Bheemlanayak found fan support but audiences did not like it as much as the makers anticipated. Mahesh Babu’s Sarkaru Vaari Paata also turned out to be disappointing. The major shock came with Acharya and Godfather. Megastar Chiranjeevi delivering such forgettable films and audiences not showing interest to watch them even during the first weekend may be due to hiked prices, should be examined closely. RRR did great business but also opened a pandora box with hiked prices as they have been doubled. KGF Chapter 2, Karthikeya 2, and RRR are the only films that registered housefuls despite such huge prices. Major film had to show that 130/- ticket price can help audiences to return after many disasters with makers going slightly greedy. While, films like Oke Oka Jeevitham, Bhimbisara tried to add some new flavors.
You can easily calculate the number of hits for Telugu and Hindi industries and they are that low. Malayalam Industry stuck gold with the content, they started off with Hridayam kind of enjoyable movie, and continued with Jana Gana Mana, Bheeshma Parvam, Rorschach, Jaya Jaya Jaya Jaya Hey, Thallumaala, Nna Thaan Case Kodu.. etc . From Hollywood, we had the Avatar sequel finally coming out but like MCU, and Star Wars, this movie also proved to be an unworthy sequel to the prequel. May be not a Disney, Marvel / DC year as even Pixar did not deliver any memorable content. Well, with all this in mind, here is my list of interesting films from all over the world for the year 2022. which were able to grab my attention with their ideas, effort, and creativity.
So without further ado, let’s dive into this year’s list… My Favourites of 2022
Web Series:
- Andor |Toby Haynes, Benjamin Caron | 2022 | USA | Adventure
- Descendants of the Sun | Lee Eun-Sook, Baek Sang Hoon | South Korea | 2016 | Action Drama
- Flower of Evil | Kim Cheol-kyu| South Korea | 2020 | Romance Thriller
- How to Become A Tyrant| USA | 2021 | Documentary
- Mind Over Murder | Nanfu Wang | USA | 2022 | Crime Documentary
- Panchinko | Justin Chon, Kogonada | Canada, South Korea | 2022| Drama
- Scenes From A Marriage| Hagai Levi | Sweden USA | 2021 | Drama
- Severance | Dan Erickson | USA | 2022| Sci-fi Mystery
- Suzhal | Bramma G, Anucharan | India | 2022 | Crime Mystery
- Tokyo Vice| Micheal Mann | UK | 2022 | Crime Drama
- The Bear | Christopher Storer |USA | 2022 | Comedy Drama
Hollywood Cinema:
- Apollo 10½: A Space Age Childhood | Richard Linklater | Netherland USA | 2022 | Sci Fi Adventure
- Bullet Train | David Leitch | USA | 2022 | Action Comedy
- Bodies Bodies Bodies | Halina Reijn | USA | 2022 | Comedy Thriller
- Cha Cha Real Smooth | CooperRaiff | USA | 2022 | Comedy Drama
- Descendant | Margaret Brown | USA | 2022 | Documentary
- Elvis | Baz Luhrmann | USA | 2022 | Musical Drama
- Everything Everywhere All At Once | Daniel Scheinert, Daniel Kwan | USA | 2022 | Sci-fi Adventure
- Fall | Scott Mann | USA | 2022 | Thriller
- Marcel the Shell with Shoes On | Dean Fleischer-camp | USA | 2021 | Drama
- Nope | Jordan Peele | USA Japan | 2022 | Sci Fi
- Pearl | Ti West | USA | 2022 | Mystery Horror
- Pinocchio | Guillermo Del Toro | USA | 2022 | Fantasy Drama
- TAR | Todd Field | USA | 2022 | Musical Drama
- The Blackphone | Scott Derrickson | USA | 2022 | Horror Thriller
- The Fabelmans | Steven Spielberg | USA | 2022 | Drama
- The Menu | Mark Mylod | USA | 2022 | Comedy Thriller
- The Northman | Robert Eggers | USA | 2022 | Action Adventure
- Top Gun Maverick | Joseph Kosinski | USA | 2022 | Action Drama
- X | Ti West | USA | 2022 | Horror
World Cinema:
- 777 Charlie | Kiranraj K | India | 2022 | Adventure Drama
- Appan | Maju | India | 2022 | Drama
- An Action Hero | Anirudh Iyer | India | 2022 | Action Comedy
- Aavasavyuham | Krishand | India | 2022 | Sci Fi
- Short Story | Bi Gan | China | 2022 | Adventure Fantasy
- Aftersun | Charlotte Wells | Turkey USA | 2022 | Drama
- All Quiet On The Western Front | Edward Berger | Germany | War Drama
- Argentina 1985 | Santiago Mitre | Argentina | 2022 | Drama
- Bhoothakaalam | Rahul Sadasivan | India | 2022 | Horror Mystery
- Bones and All | Luca Guadagnino | Italy | 2022 | Romance
- Broker | Hirokazu Kore-eda | Korean | 2022 | Drama
- Chup | R Balki | India | 2022 | Crime Thriller
- Crimes of the Future | David Cronenberg | Canada France | Sci Fi Horror
- Corsage | Marie Kreutzer | Austria | 2022 | History Drama
- Decision To Leave | Park Chan-wook | Korea | 2022 | Crime Drama
- El silencio de otros | Almudena Carracedo, Robert Bahar | 2018 | Documentary
- Falcon Lake | Charlotte Le Bon | Canada, France | 2022 | Romance
- Fire of Love | Sara Dosa | Canada USA | 2022 | Documentary
- Gargi | Gautham Ramachandran | India | 2022 | Drama
- Girl Picture | Alli Haapasalo | Finland | 2022 | Drama
- Hit the Road | Panah Panahi | Iran | 2021 | Drama
- Hridayam | Vineeth Sreenivasan | India | 2022 | Romance
- Holy Spider | Ali Abbasi | Denmark | 2022 | Crime Drama
- In the Same Breath | Nanfu Wang | USA | 2022 | Documentary
- Ikiru | Akira Kurosawa | Japan | 1952 | Drama
- Jana Gana Mana | Dijo Jose Antony | India | 2022 | Crime Thriller
- Jaya Jaya Jaya Jaya Hey | Vipin Das | India | 2022 | Drama
- Jhund | Nagaraj Manjule | India | 2022 | Drama
- Joyland | Saim Sadiq | Pakistan | 2022 | Romance Drama
- Jujutsu Kaisen 0 | Sunghoo Park | 2022 | Animation
- Kadaisi Vivasayi | M Manikandan | India | 2022 | Drama
- Kantara | Rishab Shetty | India | 2022 | Action Drama
- KGF 2 | Prashanth Neel | India | 2022 | Action Drama
- Last Film Show | Pan Nalin | India | 2022 | Drama
- Love and Leashes | Park Hyun-jin | South Korea | 2022 | Drama
- Mad God | Phil Tippett | 2022 | Fantasy
- Nna Thaan Case Kodu | Ratheesh Balakrishnan Poduval | Indian | 2022
- Oke Oka Jeevitham | Shree Karthick | India | 2022 | Sci Fi
- One Day, You Will Reach the Sea | Ryutaro Nakagawa | Japan | 2022 | Drama
- Pada | Kamal K M | India | 2022 | Crime Thriller
- Ponniyin Selvan | Mani Ratnam | India | 2022 | Drama
- Plan 75 | Chie Hayakawa | Japan | 2022 | Drama
- Rorschach | Nissam Basheer | India | 2022 | Psychological Thriller
- RRR | S S Rajamouli | India | 2022 | Action Drama
- Thallumaala | Khalid Rahman | India | 2022 | Action Comedy
- Thiruchitrambalam | Mithran R Jawahar | India | 2022 | Romantic Comedy
- Triangle of Sadness | Ruben Ostlund | Denmark USA | 2022 | Comedy Drama
- The Banshees Of Inisherin | Martin McDonagh | Ireland | 2022 | Comedy Drama
- The Elephant Whisperers | Kartiki Gonsalves | India | 2022
- The Novelist’s Film | Hong Sang-soo | South Korea | 2022
- The Wind Will Carry Us | Abbas Kiarostami | Iran | Drama | 1999
- Vikram | Lokesh Kanagaraj | India | 2022 | Action Thriller
- You Wont Be Alone | Goran Stolevski | Serbia | 2022 | Horror
- Zakir Khan’s Tathastu | Zakir Khan | India | 2022 | Comedy
That’s it for this year…
2022 has been completed with lots of great memories, awesome discussions, crazy trips and movie experiences. I hope this new year will be the best year of our life. Happy New Year folks!!
Good one Survi !!!