Last week Cass Sunstein, former regulation guru in the Obama administration, playfully announced his annual Behavioral Economics film awards - called Becons. I tried to work out which ones I would nominate, but gave up - this was too much of a corset for thinking about my largely pleasurable film watching. Instead, here's the three most remarkable films I watched for the first time this year - only one was actually released this year:

1. Black Sun (2006), tells the dance-with-life story of Hugues de Montalembert, a French artist and filmmaker living in New York, who was victim of a violent assault. The documentary is directed by Gary Tarn. (Film was featured in a previous post in September 2013).

2. Let's Get Lost (1988), a documentary about jazz trumpeter Chet Baker, directed by Bruce Weber, and only recently available in the US because of conflicts over copyright. (Full movie on Youtube.)

3. The Gatekeepers (2013) a documentary directed by Dror Moreh, who interviews 6 former heads of the Israeli intelligence agency Shin Bet about their counter-terrorism work in West Bank and Gaza.