Best films seen in 2019 regardless of year

[Silga]

Pabs posted this topic last year, so let's do it again this year.



Best first time watches of 2019, not including 2019 films or re-watches:

They Drive by Night (Raoul Walsh, 1940)
City for Conquest (Anatole Litvak, 1940)
Double Indemnity (Billy Wilder, 1944)
Champion (Mark Robson, 1949)
Criss Cross (Robert Siodmak, 1949)
House of Strangers (Joseph L. Mankiewicz, 1949)
The Spy Who Came in from the Cold (Martin Ritt, 1965)
Beware of the Car (Eldar Ryazanov, 1966)
Klute (Alan J. Pakula, 1971)
The Andromeda Strain (Robert Wise, 1971)
Touki Bouki (Djibril Diop Mambéty, 1973)
Dog Day Afternoon (Sidney Lumet, 1975)
Capricorn One (Peter Hyams, 1977)
Blue Collar (Paul Schrader, 1978)
Hardcore (Paul Schrader, 1979)
The China Syndrome (James Bridges, 1979)
Prince of the City (Sidney Lumet, 1981)
Music Box (Costa-Gavras, 1989)
For All Mankind (Al Reinert, 1989)
Harlem Nights (Eddie Murphy, 1989)
The Hot Spot (Dennis Hopper, 1990)
After Dark, My Sweet (James Foley, 1990)
Candyman (Bernard Rose, 1992)
Hyenas (Djibril Diop Mambéty, 1992)
Ali (Michael Mann, 2001)
Still Life (Jia Zhangke, 2006)
First Reformed (Paul Schrader, 2017)
Vice (Adam McKay, 2018)
Rojo (Benjamín Naishtat, 2018)
Ash Is Purest White (Jia Zhangke, 2018)
The Ballad of Buster Scruggs (Joel Coen & Ethan Coen, 2018)

[flip]

Le Garde-Meubles Automatique (Romeo Bosetti, 1912)
Hell Harbor (Henry King, 1930)
Joseph Killian (Pavel Juracek/Jan Schmidt, 1963)
L'Immortelle (Alain Robbe-Grillet, 1963)
Renaissance (Walerian Borowczyk, 1963)
Black Is (Aldo Tambellini, 1965)
A Man for All Seasons (Fred Zinnemann, 1966)
Je t'aime, je t'aime (Alain Resnais, 1968)
Larks on a String (Jiri Menzel, 1969)
Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion (Elio Petri, 1970)
The Ear (Karel Kachyna, 1970)
Ommo (Myron Ort, 1972)
The Garden of Stones (Parviz Kimiavi, 1976)
Mandala (Im Kwon-taek, 1981)
Hajji Washington (Ali Hatami, 1982)
Village in the Mist (Im Kwon-taek, 1983)
The Big Chill (Lawrence Kasdan, 1983)
Come and See (Elem Klimov, 1985)
The Needle (Rashid Nugmanov, 1988)
The Hedge Theater (Robert Beavers, 2003)
DEBS (Angela Robinson, 2004)
Las Meninas (Ihor Podolchak, 2008)
The Class (Laurent Cantet, 2008)
Ashkan, The Charmed Ring and Other Stories (Shahram Mokri, 2009)
The Lighthouse (Robert Eggers, 2019)
Jojo Rabbit (Taika Waititi, 2019)
Uncut Gems (Safdie Brothers, 2019)

[rischka]

as i was moving ahead i occasionally saw brief glimpses of beauty
casa de lava
a better tomorrow III
the mad fox
equinox flower
nazareno cruz and the wolf
playtime
the cobweb
the wind will carry us
uncut gems

[Evelyn Library P.I.]

Posted a fav discoveries list to letterboxd, but that was restricted to lesser-known finds. This is a somewhat different question, hence a somewhat different list, the cream of my crop of first-time watches, including canonical greats.

Toute la mémoire du monde (Resnais, 1956)
Cellbound (Avery, 1955)
La colonne de feu (Melies, 1899)
Tom, Dick, and Harry (Kanin, 1941)
Spare Time (Jennings, 1939)
I Married a Monster from Outer Space (Fowler Jr., 1958)
Le sang des bêtes (Franju, 1949)
Midnight Mary (Wellman, 1933)
Bend of the River (Mann, 1952)
Fog Line (Gottheim, 1970)
Super Inframan (Hua, 1975)
Murder, She Said (Pollock, 1961)
Sally Swing (Fleischer, 1938)
Bachelor Mother (Kanin, 1939)
Stop That Noise (Fleischer, 1935)
Hellfire (Springsteen, 1949)
American Dreams (Lost and Found) (Benning, 1984)
Le piano irrésistible (Guy-Blache, 1907)
The Land Beyond the Sunset (Shaw, 1912)
Around the Village Green (Cherry and Taylor, 1937)
Wagon Master (Ford, 1950)
The Man from Tumbleweeds (H. Lewis, 1940)
Three Landscapes (Hutton, 2013)
The Ladies Man (Lewis, 1961)
The Raven (Landers, 1935)
Wife! Be Like a Rose! (Naruse, 1935)
Murders in the Rue Morgue (Florey, 1932)
Blood Feast (Gordon Lewis, 1963)
Switching Goals (Mary-Kate & Ashley, 1999)
The Wasp Woman (Corman, 1959)
Ladies They Talk About (Keighley and Bretherton, 1933)
Machine-Gun Kelly (Corman, 1958)
Teenage Doll (Corman, 1957)
Fuga in Francia (Soldati, 1948)
Relentless (Sherman, 1948)
3 Godfathers (Ford, 1948)

[Monsieur Arkadin]

Mostly watched relatively new stuff this year. The Berlinale didn't yield stunning results for me except for one new revelation and one retrospective screening. TIFF revealed two great films that I would have seen regardless of attending the festival. The rest were just things I stumbled upon during normal viewings.

Bait - Mark Jenkin - 2019
Variety - Bette Gordon - 1983
Silent Light - Reygadas - 2007
Marquise of O - Rohmer - 1976
The Five Obstructions - Von Trier - 2003
The Ballad of Buster Scruggs - Coen Bros -2018
The Color of Lies - Chabrol - 1999
Leave No Trace - Debra Granik - 2018
The Last Black Man in San Francisco - Joe Talbot - 2019
Once Upon a Time in Hollywood - Quentin Tarantino - 2019
Society - Brian Yuzna - 1989
Uncut Gems - Safdie Brothers -2019
Marriage Story - Noah Baumbach -2019
Portrait of a Lady on Fire - Celine Sciamma -2019
Dog Day Afternoon - Sidney Lumet - 1975
Meyerowitz Stories - Noah Baumbach - 2017

[liquidnature]

https://letterboxd.com/liquidnature/lis ... s-of-2019/

First time watches:

top 3:
Marketa Lazarová (1967, Frantisek Vlácil)
Fjols til fjells / Fools in the Mountains (1957, Edith Carlmar)
They Live by Night (1948, Nicholas Ray)

chronological next 30:
From Leadville to Aspen: A Hold-Up in the Rockies (1906, Francis J. Marion , Wallace McCutcheon)
The Butcher Boy (1917, Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle)
Coves and Caves (1920, Claude Friese-Greene)
All Quiet on the Western Front (1930, Lewis Milestone)
M - Eine Stadt sucht einen Mörder / M (1931, Fritz Lang)
Pilgrimage (1933, John Ford)
Top Hat (1935, Mark Sandrich)
Make Way for Tomorrow (1937, Leo McCarey)
Remember the Night (1940, Mitchell Leisen)
The Westerner (1940, William Wyler)
Teresa Venerdì (1941, Vittorio De Sica)
When Strangers Marry (1944, William Castle)
Les maudits / The Damned (1947, René Clément)
Une si jolie petite plage / Such a Pretty Little Beach (1949, Yves Allégret)
The Furies (1950, Anthony Mann)
Apache Drums (1951, Hugo Fregonese)
A Portrait of Ga (1952, Margaret Tait)
Diabolique (1955, Henri-Georges Clouzot)
3:10 to Yuma (1957, Delmer Daves)
Spartacus (1960, Stanley Kubrick)
Two-Lane Blacktop (1971, Monte Hellman)
Pumping Iron (1977, George Butler, Robert Fiore)
E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982, Steven Spielberg)
The Snowman (1982, Dianne Jackson, Jimmy T. Murakami)
Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991, James Cameron)
Green Dream (1994, Josephine Massarella)
Fly Away Home (1996, Carroll Ballard)
13 Lakes (2004, James Benning)
Brouillard: Passage #14 (2014, Alexandre Larose)
Leave No Trace (2018, Debra Granik)

Best Rewatches (love all of these dearly):
Days of Heaven (1978, Terrence Malick)
Lost in Translation (2003, Sofia Coppola)
Dead Poets Society (1989, Peter Weir)
Zodiac (2007, David Fincher)
The Iron Giant (1999, Brad Bird)
Mulan (1998, Tony Bancroft, Barry Cook)
The Thin Red Line (1998, Terrence Malick)
Point Break (1991, Kathryn Bigelow)
The 39 Steps (1935, Alfred Hitchcock)
Tarzan (1999, Chris Buck, Kevin Lima)
Pocahontas (1995, Mike Gabriel, Eric Goldberg)
National Treasure (2004, Jon Turteltaub)
The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog (1927, Alfred Hitchcock)

[Lencho of the Apes]

https://letterboxd.com/lencho_o_t_apes/ ... han-other/

[Umbugbene]

I spent most of the year reviewing and writing about movies I'd seen before, so I didn't have much time for new exploration. Here's everything I rated 8 or 9 out of 10:

1. Parasite (Bong Joon-ho)
2. A Day Off (Lee Man-hui)
3. The House that Jack Built (Lars von Trier)
4. Machorka-Muff (Jean-Marie Straub/Danièle Huillet)
5. The Son of Joseph (Eugène Green)
6. Neither Heaven Nor Earth (Clément Cogitore)
7. The Portuguese Nun (Eugène Green)
8. Diamonds of the Night (Jan Němec)
9. Wild Geese (Shirô Toyoda)
10. Frost (Šarūnas Bartas)
11. Sleepwalk (Sara Driver)
12. Endless Desire (Shohei Imamura)

Worst movie I watched in 2019:

Blue Jasmine (Woody Allen)

[vaka]

I've created a list of my 50 top first-time viewings.
https://letterboxd.com/vaka/list/top-50 ... n-in-2019/

[...]

These are the movies I saw for the first time last year which I found most interesting. The interest has varying reasons, some of which probably aren't likely to be shared by many other viewers. (Top faves ital/bold)

Counting (Jem Cohen 2015)
Birdboy: The Forgotten Children ( Alberto Vázquez, Pedro Rivero 2015)
Personal Shopper (Olivier Assayas 2016)
Spring Parade (Henry Koster 1940)
Brotherhood of Blades (Lu Yang 2014)
The Forgotten Kingdom (Andrew Mudge 2013)
The Grub Stake (Nell Shipman, Bert Van Tuyle 1923)
Yamadonga (S.S. Rajamouli 2007)
Eega (S.S. Rajamouli 2012)
A Dancer's World (Peter Glushanok 1957)
Appalachian Spring (Peter Glushanok 1957)
Broadway by Light (William Klein 1958)
Amelia and the Angels (Ken Russell 1958)
Fanfare (Bert Haanstra 1958)
Glas (Bert Haanstra 1958)
Spider-Man: Into the Spiderverse (Rodney Rothman, Peter Ramsey 2018)
Operation Red Sea (Dante Lam 2018)
Tiger Zinda Hai (Ali Abbas Zafar 2017)
Aferim! (Radu Jude 2015)
Kshana Kshanam (Ram Gopal Varma 1991)
Paradox (Wilson Yip 2017)
Have a Nice Day (Liu Jian 2017)
Born to be Bad (Nicholas Ray 1950)
R100 (Hitoshi Matsumoto 2013)
Ant-Man and the Wasp (Peyton Reed 2018)
Cossacks of the Kuban (Ivan Pyryev 1949)
Fort Graveyard (Kihachi Okamoto 1965)
The Human Bullet (Kihachi Okamoto 1968)
Mouse Mazurka (Friz Freleng 1949)
Between Midnight and Dawn (Gordon Douglas 1950)
Le Silence de la Mer (Jean-Pierre Melville 1949)
Topaze (Harry d’Abbadie d’Arrast 1933)
The Man from Cairo (Ray Enright, Edoardo Anton 1953)
Texas, Brooklyn & Heaven (William Castle 1948)
Killer Clans (Chor Yuen 1976)
Fan (Maneesh Sharma 2016)
High Life (Claire Denis 2018)
Hereditary (Ari Aster 2018)
The Doll That Took the Town (Francesco Maselli 1965)
Manifesto (Julian Rosefeldt 2015)
The Gene Krupa Story (Don Weis 1959)
Who Killed Teddy Bear? (Joseph Cates 1965)
Mission Impossible: Fallout (Christopher McQuarrie 2018)
Kiss of the Rabbit God (Andrew Huang 2019)
The New Gulliver (Aleksandr Ptushko 1935)
Kid Commotion (Torajiro Saito 1935)
Aerograd (Alexander Dovzhenko 1935)
The Sunshine Makers (Ted Eshbaugh, Burt Gillett 1935)
New Women (Cai Chu-Sheng 1935)
The Ghost of Yotsuya (Nobuo Nakagawa 1959)
Seoul Station (Yeon Sang-ho 2016)
The New Moscow (Aleksandr Medvedkin, Aleksandr Olenin 1938)
Moscow-Cassiopeia (Richard Viktorov 1974)
Teens in the Universe (Richard Viktorov 1975)
The Big Space Travel (Valentin Selivanov 1975)
Healthy People for Fun (Karpo Aćimović-Godina 1971)
Shadow (Zhang Yimou 2018)
Inn of Evil (Masaki Kobayashi 1971)
The Night Visitor (László Benedek 1971)
Some of My Best Friends are... (Mervyn Nelson 1971)
Prospect (Christopher Caldwell, Zeek Earl 2018)
Aniara (Pella Kågerman, Hugo Lilja 2018)
The Quiet One (Sidney Meyers 1948)
Babies Rolling Eggs (Edwin S Porter 1902)
Maniac Chase (Edwin S Porter 1904)
The Strenuous Life; or, Anti-Race Suicide (Edwin S Porter 1904)
College Chums ( Edwin S. Porter, J. Searle Dawley 1907)
Holdup of the Rocky Mountain Express (Edwin S Porter 1906)
The Terrible Eruption of Mount Pelee and Destruction of St. Pierre, Martinique (Georges Méliès 1902)
Troubles of a Grass Widower (Max Linder 1908)
The Stolen Lump (Chuzo Aoji, Yasuji Murata 1929)
Children of the Beehive (Hiroshi Shimizu 1948)

[Joks Trois]

Beauty and The Beast (Herz)
Climax (Noe)
The Confessions of Winifred Wagner (Syberberg)
The Crucified Lovers (MIzoguchi)
Die Nacht (Syberberg)
Faraon (Kawalerowicz)
Khrustalyov, My Car! (German)
Mr Death: The Rise and Fall of Fred A.Leuchter, Jr (Morris)
My Friend Ivan Lapshin (German)
Night of The Demon (Tournier)
Shoah (Lanzmann)
The Sun in a Net (Uher)
They Shoot Horses, Don't They? (Pollack)
The Whispering Star (Sono)
The Wild Pear Tree (Ceylan)

[greennui]

Major:

Two in the Shadow (Mikio Naruse, 1967)
Eight Hours Don’t Make a Day (Rainer Werner Fassbinder, 1972)
The Last Dive (João César Monteiro, 1992)
0.5 mm (Momoko Ando, 2014)
Panic (Julien Duvivier, 1946)
Babylon (Franco Rosso, 1980)
On the Occasion of Remembering the Turning Gate (Hong Sang-soo, 2002)
Burning (Lee Chang-dong, 2018)
Messidor (Alain Tanner, 1979)
First Name: Carmen (Jean-Luc Godard, 1983)
Transit (Christian Petzold, 2018)
The Tall T (Budd Boetticher, 1957)
César (Marcel Pagnol, 1936)
Simple Men (Hal Hartley, 1992)
The Blackout (Abel Ferrara, 1997)
L’eau de la Seine (Teo Fernandez, 1983)

Full list:

https://letterboxd.com/greennui/list/2019/

[Roscoe]

The Good:
TWENTIETH CENTURY (Hawks)
THE BAKER'S WIFE (Pagnol)
CAN YOU EVER FORGIVE ME?
ALTERED STATES (Russell)
NOSFERATU THE VAMPYRE (Herzog)
WHITE HEAT (Walsh)
IT (Clara Bow)
HOPE AND GLORY (Boorman)
THEY SHALL NOT GROW OLD (Jackson)
THE WEDDING MARCH (von Stroheim)
DETOUR (Ulmer)
PHANTOM THREAD (Anderson)
MURDER ON THE ORIENT EXPRESS (Lumet, of course)
PETERLOO (Leigh)
8 1/2 (Fellini)
DUMBO (Burton)
US (Peele)
SMILES OF A SUMMER NIGHT (Bergman)
PYGMALION (Asquith)
OPIUM (Reinert)
EARTH (Dovzhenko)
THE CAMERAMAN (Keaton)
GOONA GOONA (Roosevelt/Denis)
L'HOMME DU LARGE (L'Herbier)
OUR HOSPITALITY (Keaton)
THE OYSTER PRINCESS (Lubitsch)
SIR ARNE'S TREASURE (Stiller)
L'INFERNO (Bertolini/Padovan/De Liguoro)
RAPSODICAL SATANICA (Oxilia)
THE LITTLE FOXES (Wyler)
BADLANDS (Malick)
BEGONE DULL CARE (McLaren)
TABOO (Oshima)
THE EXECUTIONER
IVAN THE TERRIBLE PART ONE (Eisenstein)
THE WIZARD OF OZ (Fleming)
THE BITTER TEA OF GENERAL YEN (Capra)
STALKER (Tarkovsky)
THE PHANTOM OF LIBERTY (Bunuel)
TO DIE FOR (Van Sant)
REPORT ON THE PARTY And GUESTS (Nemec)
ROMA (Cuaron)
APOCALYPSE NOW FINAL CUT (Coppola)
KAIJU BUNRAKU
MOULIN ROUGE! (Luhrmann)
HIGH AND LOW (Kurosawa)
A HARD DAY'S NIGHT (Lester)
FILMWORKER (Zierra)
NASHVILLE (Altman)
THE SHINING (Kubrick)
THE DEVILS (Russell)
HOUSEKEEPING (Forsyth)
COTTON CLUB ENCORE (Coppola)
JOKER (Phillips)
THE QUEEN OF SPADES (Dickinson)
DOLEMITE IS MY NAME (Brewer)
TOKYO OLYMPIAD (Ichikawa)
WHERE'S MY ROY COHN? (Tyrnauer)
OUT OF THE PAST (Tourneur)
PROSPERO'S BOOKS (Greenaway)
THE IRISHMAN (Scorsese)
TOKYO TWILIGHT (Ozu)
JASON AND THE ARGONAUTS (Harryhausen)
THE NEW WORLD (Malick)
RAGING BULL (Scorsese)
THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA (Niblo)
Program of Short Films (Guy-Blache)
REDSKIN (Schertzinger)
Program of Arbuckle/Keaton shorts (Arbuckle)
SENSE AND SENSIBILITY (Lee)
CASINO (Scorsese)
UNCUT GEMS (Safdie)

The Okay
FANTASTIC PLANET
CHINATOWN (Polanski)
LOVE OF JEANNE NEY (Pabst)
HELL BENT (Ford)
THE SIGNAL TOWER (Brown)
TONKA OF THE GALLOWS (Anton)
WOLF SONG (Fleming)
YOU NEVER KNOW WOMEN (Fleming)
SHIRAZ: A ROMANCE OF INDIA (Osten)
LAST YEAR AT MARIENBAD (Resnais)
THREE DAYS OF THE CONDOR (Pollack)
I KNOW WHERE I"M GOING (Powell/Pressburger)
HEDWIG AND THE ANGRY INCH (Mitchell)
THE HORSE'S MOUTH (Neame)
TIGER OF ESCHANPUR (Lang)
THE INDIAN TOMB (Lang)
MARATHON MAN (Schlesinger)
THUNDERBALL (Young)
KNIVES OUT (Johnson)
JABBERWOCKY (Gilliam)

The Not Worth It:
BLACK PANTHER
THE TAKING OF POWER BY LOUIS XIV
HOLIDAY
THE FRENCH LIEUTENANT'S WOMAN
HEATHERS
WAR AND PEACE (Bondarchuk)
PARASITE (Ho)
THE MARRIAGE CIRCLE (Lubitsch)
ONCE UPON A TIME IN HOLLYWOOD (Tarantino)

The Horror, The Horror
THE MAGIC FLUTE (Branagh)
TRUE STORIES (Byrne)
MACBETH (Fassbender)

The Oh, Dear...
THE MAN WHO KILLED DON QUIXOTE (Gilliam)
MADELEINE (Lean)

[john ryan]

cherry-picked a few great first-time views. local hero was the only new film I rated 5/5 stars. loved it so much.

local hero (forsyth, 1983)
four nights of a dreamer (bresson, 1971)
a chinese odyssey parts i and ii (lau, 1995)
othon (straub/huillet, 1970)
the homesman (jones, 2014)
a city of sadness (hou-hsien, 1989)

[Curtis, baby]

NOT COUNTING REWATCHES:

Slow Fiction (Chick Strand, 1979)
Walking the Streets of Moscow (Georgiy Daneliya, 1964)
As I Was Moving Ahead Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty (Jonas Mekas, 2000)
Portrait of a Lady on Fire (Céline Sciamma, 2019)
Berlin: Symphony of a Great City (Walter Ruttmann, 1927)
Under the Bridges (Helmut Käutner, 1946)
The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover (Peter Greenaway, 1989)
Cairo Station (Youssef Chahine, 1958)
Reprise (Joachim Trier, 2006)
Drive a Crooked Road (Richard Quine, 1954)
Eight Diagram Pole Fighter (Lau Kar-leung, 1984)
Nobody Knows (Hirokazu Kore-eda, 2004)
Orders to Kill (Anthony Asquith, 1958)
The Bird People in China (Takashi Miike, 1998)
BlacKkKlansman (Spike Lee, 2018)
Mikey and Nicky (Elaine May, 1976)
Devi (Satyajit Ray, 1960)
Parasite (Bong Joon-ho, 2019)

shorts:

"Origins of the 21st Century" (Jean-Luc Godard, 2000)
"31/75: Asylum" (Kurt Kren, 1975)
"46/90: Falter 2" (Kurt Kren, 1990)
"37/78: Tree Again" (Kurt Kren, 1978)
"Song of Avignon" (Jonas Mekas, 1998)
"The Song of Stockholm" (Jonas Mekas, 1981)
"The Destruction Quartet" (Jonas Mekas, 2006)
"WTC Haikus" (Jonas Mekas, 2010)
"The Vanity Tables of Douglas Sirk" (Mark Rappaport, 2015)
"Life on the Mississippi" (Bill Brown, 2018)
"Bouquets 1-10" (Rose Lowder, 1995)
"How to Stop a Motorcar" (Percy Stow, 1902)
"Antoine and Colette" (François Truffaut, 1962)
"Pas de Deux" (Norman McLaren, 1968)
"Mindscape" (Jacques Drouin, 1976)
"Butterfly of Love" (Nicolas Provost, 2003)

many ppl have referred to 2019 as "the year of kren and mekas" and it's easy to see why

[thoxans]

elvis (john carpenter)
bicycle thieves (vittorio de sica)
andhadhun (sriram raghavan)
love on delivery (lee lik-chi)
the bitter tea of general yen (frank capra)
l'aîné des ferchaux (jean-pierre melville)
california split (robert altman)
tampopo (juzo itami)
i was a teenage zombie (john elias michalakis)
an autumn afternoon (yasujiro ozu)
petta (karthik subbaraj)
fast-walking (james b. harris)
i fidanzati (ermanno olmi)
mary jane's not a virgin anymore (sarah jacobson)
spring dreams (keisuke kinoshita)
the horse thief (tian zhuangzhuang)
the age of the medici (roberto rossellini)
the whole shootin' match (eagle pennell)
graduate first (maurice pialat)
3 bad men (john ford)
accident (soi cheang)
mad love (karl freund)
unknown pleasures (jia zhangke)
emitai (ousmane sembene)
fools' parade (andrew v. mclaglen)
trimurti (mukul s. anand)
duck, you sucker (sergio leone)

*listed in order watched. interesting looking back through my boxd diary. some films that i gave four stars, i don't feel like putting on my list, cuz it doesn't feel right now as though they had a lasting effect. then there are some films i gave three stars, and yet i feel like i have to add them here, cuz i'm still sitting here smiling as i think about them. it was a great year overall, but also a sad year. my used-to-be-local movie rental spot closed after thirty years in business. grew up going there. big part of my development into a super champ. a lot of the films listed above were my last rentals before they closed. most of the other films listed were watched cuz of scfz, so thx y'all! and for anyone who hasn't seen some of the stuff above, i really truly highly rec it! there's something there for everyone too. dt might like andhadhun. sally might like love on delivery. curtis might like l'aîné des ferchaux. lota might like i was a teenage zombie. rischka might like mary jane's not a virgin anymore. nrh might like accident. and everyone could, would, should, and better like the whole shootin' match!

[sally]

sally might like love on delivery

how curious. i did! if films were noses, i'd sneeze

[thoxans]

nice! one legit rec out of seven is way beyond my normal average ::insert here that obligatory pic of that random baby that kinda sorta looks like it's doing a fistpump::

[thoxans]

DEBS (Angela Robinson, 2004)

am i the only one that noticed this...?

[nrh]

i like accident too! not quite as much as motorway, if we're just talking soi milkyway period, but it's very strong.

[pabs]

Thanks so much for resurrecting this topic, Silga! I'll defo add mine in later.

I'm currently overseas, in Europe.

[flip]

DEBS (Angela Robinson, 2004)

am i the only one that noticed this...?

it's really good!

[thoxans]

believe me, flip my boy, it's been watchlisted accordingly

[josiahmorgan11]

yes DEBS is incredible

[DT.]

dt might like andhadhun.

Just watched it. An interesting ride, to say the least! I've seen some people compare it to Dil Se in its mash-up of genres, though Andhadhun lacks the political overtones that make Dil Se and its romance so potent. Andhadhun tackles some social themes, but they're largely overtaken by the twisty genre thrills it's going for. Still, a fun bit of pulp fiction. Thanks for the rec!

[tuggingonmoustaches]

Looks like I have watched more films in January 2020 than the whole of last year! Notable watches in no particular order:

Irishman (Scorsese)
Uncut Gems (Safdie brothers)
La Pointe Courte (Varda)
Colossal Youth (Costa)
Tunes of Glory (Neame)

Good to see this forum still alive and kicking!

[rischka]

good to see you alive and kicking too

[tuggingonmoustaches]

good to see you alive and kicking too

Thanks Rischka! Life’s been good actually; just different priorities. Hopefully, will have more time for films this year.

I hope you are doing fine too. Thanks for keeping the SCFZ torch burning!

[rischka]

couldn't have done it all alone lol. never thought it would last this long tbh