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December 2022 rewatch All ratings out of 10 Top Gun (Tony Scott, 1986) 6 Ferris Bueller's Day Off (John Huges, 1986) 9 The Living Daylights (John Glen, 1987) 6 Licence to Kill (John Glen, 1989) 7 Home Alone (Chris Columbus, 1990) 9 The Hunt for Red October (John McTiernan, 1990) 9 Home Alone 2 (Chr...

I loved Benediction. Saw it last spring at a local festival and it is one of the best films I saw in cinema this year. A captivating film that made me happy and hopeful that this type of dramas are still here. A beautiful, classic filmmaking by the great Terence Davies.

Yesterday I started watching the documentary Nothing Compares about Sinead O'Connor. Maybe I'll finish it tonight. Really sad to hear about all the abuse she has suffered.

Duel [TV version] (Steven Spielberg, 1971, USA) [7/10] State of Grace (Phil Joanou, 1990, USA/UK) [7/10] Comanche Station (Budd Boetticher, 1959, USA) [7/10] A Few Good Men (Rob Reiner, 1992, USA) [8/10] The Firm (Sydney Pollack, 1993, USA) [8/10] Last Train from Gun Hill (John Sturges, 1959, USA) ...

Being the Ricardos (Aaron Sorkin, 2021) Remember (Atom Egoyan, 2015) Rango (Gore Verbinski, 2011) We Own the Night (James Gray, 2007) Watch Out for the Automobile (Eldar Ryazanov, 1966) These are all favorites of mine. Great to see the love for Egoyan's Remember . A vastly underrated film that I sa...

Best films seen in 2022 One film that was better than anything else I saw all year. 10/10 is not enough : SPENCER (Pablo Larraín, 2021) - watched twice The rest is grouped by rating and then listed by the year of release : 10/10 Blues in the Night (Anatole Litvak, 1941) McCabe & Mrs. Miller (Ro...

wba wrote: ↑Mon Dec 19, 2022 7:17 pm I don't make a difference between re-watches or not, cause every time I watch a movie it's a new experience.

Thanks for participating, WBA.

OK, I changed the OP, re-watches are fine for anyone who considers that they gained new experience or had a change of heart.

Your favorite films that you saw this year, regardless of what year they were made.

Should we have a new thread for 2022 instead?

Yes! Thank You, Georgia!

I hope so. I'm sitting here in Vilnius, 5000 miles away from Atlanta, but it worries me just the same. 51-49 would make Joe Manchin and his antics obsolete. Let's hope it goes this way and Warnock wins.

I will contribute as well.

November 2022 A great month of film-noir discoveries! rewatch All ratings out of 10 Man Hunt (Fritz Lang, 1941) 8 Manpower (Raoul Walsh, 1941) 6 High Sierra (Raoul Walsh, 1941) 8 Swamp Water (Jean Renoir, 1941) 4 Suspicion (Alfred Hitchcock, 1941) 7 Johnny Eager (Mervyn LeRoy, 1941) 9 Sleepers West...

A great soundtrack of Light Sleeper that I recently watched and loved. Songs by Michael Been

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=af3KAUGXtps

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LjZwi4b4jo8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yzh2np3Hhos

The Fabelmans opens here on January 27th. I plan to see it in cinema.

McDonagh's The Banshees of Inisherin slated for February 3rd. Probably my most anticipated of this season.

Homecoming is the only decent Tom Holland Spider-Man movie. The other two are ridiculously over-stuffed with characters and nonsensical plot. (or should I say - more so than the first one or other Marvel movies).

https://twitter.com/Liz_Cheney/status/1 ... 4982808576


Cheney waited for the right moment to respond.

CNN just called it for Katie Hobbs! Congrats Rischka and congrats Arizona! Senate, Governor and Secretary of State!

Johnny Eager (Mervyn LeRoy, 1941) 9/10

Van Heflin absolutely deserved his Oscar win. What an amazing performance by him and everyone else, really. Spectacular noir!

It's a shame that Wisconsin's Senate seat went to GOP. I kind of expected that Dems might win there.

Also watched this absorbing and beautiful noir - The Shanghai Gesture (Josef von Sternberg, 1941)

Ona Munson as "Mother" Gin Sling.

speaking of garfield he finally gets a non-criminal role. an escaped prisoner of war hunted by the nazis. or is he... iirc garfield was considered the forerunner of brando's acting style. ofc he died quite young, hounded to death by HUAC. RIP hero I've just finished another Garfield noir where he a...

Blues in the Night (Anatole Litvak, 1941) 10/10
Out of the Fog (Anatole Litvak, 1941) 6/10

Blues in the Night is an absolutely perfect film in my book. An exhilarating masterpiece that I will watch again and again.

1. The Face Behind the Mask (Robert Florey, 1941) 8/10 2. Among the Living (Stuart Heisler, 1941) 7/10 The Face Behind the Mask is wonderful and exciting film! There are two scenes that feel reminiscent of those in Tim Burton's Batman and Francis Ford Coppola's The Godfather . Maybe Burton and Coppo...

October 2022 All ratings out of 10 The Wolf Man (George Waggner, 1941) 6 House of Usher (Roger Corman, 1960) 5 Let's Scare Jessica to Death (John D. Hancock, 1971) 9 The Night Stalker (John Llewellyn Moxey, 1972) 3 The Omen (Richard Donner, 1976) 8 (rewatch) The Sentinel (Michael Winner, 1977) 6 Da...

Speaking about cats, this is from the horror movie The Sentinel (1977) I watched this month.

Cat named Jessabelle even had a birthday party!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5gLYQBuguhs

New(ish) films I've seen in 2022 Years 2018-2022 All ratings out of 10 Spencer (Pablo Larraín, 2021) 10 (watched twice, already in my Top 10 Films of the 21st Century) Utama (Alejandro Loayza Grisi, 2022) 9 No Sudden Move (Steven Soderbergh, 2021) 9 Boiling Point (Philip Barantini, 2021) 9 Petite M...

Best documentaries I've seen in 2022 so far: All ratings out of 10 The War Room (Chris Hegedus, D.A. Pennebaker, 1993) 9 Italianamerican (Martin Scorsese, 1974) 8 Attica (Traci Curry, Stanley Nelson, 2021) 8 QT8: The First Eight (Tara Wood, 2019) 8 Letter from My Village (Safi Faye, 1976) 7 Ascensio...

Let's Scare Jessica to Death (John D. Hancock, 1971) 9/10

Let's Scare Jessica to Death is a breath of fresh air, a beautiful gothic horror story. A truly independent production brimming with unique, insidious atmosphere. A captivating performance by Zohra Lampert.