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Welcome to the annual best of the year movie lists - taking place of the
Month at the Movies article for December, as a lot of these films I did actually watch last month for the first time in my end of year catchup. I ve seen a lot of great movies in 2020 and whilst it may have been the smart thing to cut down this list, in a year with so little else going for it, one of the best things about this year has been the wide quality of consistently great movies that we ve had over the course of 2020. In a year so good that I could quite happily have upped this list to 60 films (you ll notice that excellent blockbusters,
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There are working-class heroes and there are unsung heroes. Take Lucy Pardee, the casting director of Rocks and Perfect 10, two of the year’s outstanding British films, both about working-class teenage girls. What Pardee does is traditionally called street casting – finding non-professional actors from backgrounds that don’t usually open doors to a career in the arts. (Her credits include films by Andrea Arnold and Jonathan Glazer).
To assemble the girl squad in Rocks, a gorgeously warm drama about teenage friendship in east London, Pardee went into 14 schools and auditioned 1,300 children. “I literally stood up in front of assemblies and said: ‘You might not see yourself on screen, but we want you.’”