nice. i haven't seen 'the hunt' but i like the rest.
i'll bombard you with recs and you can pick and choose lol:
any sion sono stuff might hit the spot, he's probably the closest i've found to a live action animé director (and OLDBOY is kind of like live action animé to me). TAG on my 2015 list is by him, it's a mess but really great in places. LOVE EXPOSURE is the best one i've seen but it's completely fucking insane and offputting for some people.
there's actually a shitload of great korean genre movies i could recommend: MEMORIES FOR MURDER is one of the best police procedurals i've seen, SNOWPIERCER by the same guy is stupid as fuck but great fun (post-apocalyptic train thriller), BLEAK NIGHT is a really good unsung one (lives up to the title). koreans even do more basic action movies way better than hollywood does these days, they just go fucking batshit, no restraint or good taste in there. A HARD DAY from last year is a fun one.
re: animated movies, i highly recommend everything by satoshi kon, particularly PERFECT BLUE (basically an animated MULHOLLAND DRIVE from 3 years earlier, if you like david lynch), MILLENNIUM ACTRESS and PAPRIKA. definitely check out don hertzfeldt's IT'S A BEAUTIFUL DAY (the full length version) as well, about a stick-figure called bill who struggles with memory loss and his encroaching mortality. given you like MONONOKE you should check out miyazaki's recent swansong THE WIND RISES too, it's a little different from his older weirder stuff but an uber emotional experience. MARY AND MAX is a good one from down under, with philip seymour hoffman voicing the main character.
i think i said this before but check out KES if you like THE SELFISH GIANT, as it probably provided the blueprint. also andrea arnold's WUTHERING HEIGHTS, the dardennes' THE SON, mike leigh's NAKED - all intense working class dramas that will probably stay with me forever.
as for FAR FROM MEN (good movie btw!), i could go on all day recommending great westerns, but if we keep it to last year i'd say check out THE HOMESMAN (and UNFORGIVEN if you haven't seen that, as this is basically tommy lee jones' version of eastwood's classic methinks) and BONE TOMAHAWK, a 'cannibal western' directed by the guy from metal band realmbuilder. my all-time fav western is probably MCCABE AND MRS MILLER or MY DARLING CLEMENTINE.
i realise i linked to the letterboxd list which doesn't contain my reviews. if you can be bothered reading any of my ramblings then go
here instead. also my list for the cream of the previous five years
here (i'd change it around quite a bit now but it's all good stuff).
you should check out criticker or letterboxd if you're genuinely looking for ways of keeping track of movies you see, both are super useful. criticker actually has probably the best recommendation engine i've ever seen for anything, the accuracy of its rating predictions is uncanny at times (it does need a sizeable sample of movie ratings to work though). i wish there was a music version.
edit: oh, yeah, TAXI is cool. i'd probably recommend seeing THIS IS NOT A FILM first as it provides the context. the director was under house arrest because iran is fascist as fuck about what cinema it tolerates, and THIS IS NOT A FILM is basically him in his house trying to make a movie without going outside or having any crew, and it's all just one giant cheeky fuck you to the system, you get the impression he could get arrested at any moment. he supposedly smuggled the movie out of the country inside a cake, there are quite a few little legends surrounding it. TAXI is kind of like a follow up where he's actually allowed to go outside. it's hard to describe how fun it is without you seeing it for yourself.
There should be a movie site that you can keep track of this stuff. It's hard to otherwise.
