January means the annual appearance of David Ehrlich’s latest Best Films of the Year video.
Yes, it’s a simplistic purified distillation, a click-baity listicle at heart, a confection engineered to mine short-term cinephilic nostalgia – and yet these days, nothing rekindles my love for the incredible art form of Cinema, nothing reminds me what’s so magic about those 24 simple frames per second as much as David Ehrlich’s yearly treat.

The true magic, the actual Art, lies within the films themselves of course. However this doesn’t detract from the fact that Ehrlich is a master-editor who is able to make the best films of the year riff off each other to wonderful, emotive effect. He finds ways to draw out topical themes, strands of deeper meaning within the collective arc of the year’s artistic output, elevating their individual genius to an even greater teritory.