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Your favourite films that you saw this year, regardless of what year they were made. No re-watches allowed.

The best first time viewings in order of the release year:

Cat People (Jacques Tourneur, 1942)
China (John Farrow, 1943)
The Desperadoes (Charles Vidor, 1943)
Background to Danger (Raoul Walsh, 1943)
Five Graves to Cairo (Billy Wilder, 1943)
The Spider Woman (Roy William Neill, 1943)
I Walked with a Zombie (Jacques Tourneur, 1943)
The Body Snatcher (Robert Wise, 1945)
Silver Lode (Allan Dwan, 1954)
Drive a Crooked Road (Richard Quine, 1954)

Track of the Cat (William A. Wellman, 1954)
The Barefoot Contessa (Joseph L. Mankiewicz, 1954)
Invasion of the Body Snatchers (Don Siegel, 1956)
Breakfast at Tiffany’s (Blake Edwards, 1961)
Good Neighbor Sam (David Swift, 1964)
A Shot in the Dark (Blake Edwards, 1964)
The Sterile Cuckoo (Alan J. Pakula, 1969)
Pete ’n’ Tillie (Martin Ritt, 1972)
Now Where Did the 7th Company Get to? (Robert Lamoureux, 1973)
Framed (Phil Karlson, 1975)

Night Moves (Arthur Penn, 1975)
Flic Story (Jacques Deray, 1975)
Fear Over the City (Henri Verneuil, 1975)
Aloha, Bobby and Rose (Floyd Mutrux, 1975)
Report to the Commissioner (Milton Katselas, 1975)
The French Detective (Pierre Granier-Deferre, 1975)
The Seventh Company Has Been Found (Robert Lamoureux, 1975)
Superman (Richard Donner, 1978)
The Brink’s Job (William Friedkin, 1978)
Koko: A Talking Gorilla (Barbet Schroeder, 1978)

Starting Over (Alan J. Pakula, 1979)
Melvin and Howard (Jonathan Demme, 1980)
The Taming of the Scoundrel (Franco Castellano, Giuseppe Moccia, 1980)
La Chèvre (Francis Veber, 1981)
The Professional (Georges Lautner, 1981)
Le Marginal (Jacques Deray, 1983)
The Hidden (Jack Sholder, 1987)
Talk Radio (Oliver Stone, 1988)
Radio Bikini (Robert Stone, 1988)
The Needle (Rashid Nugmanov, 1988)

The Big Blue (Luc Besson, 1988) director's cut
Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown (Pedro Almodóvar, 1988)
Howards End (James Ivory, 1992)
Heaven & Earth (Oliver Stone, 1993)
Natural Born Killers (Oliver Stone, 1994) director's cut
The Addiction (Abel Ferrara, 1995)
Nixon (Oliver Stone, 1995) director's cut
The Portrait of a Lady (Jane Campion, 1996)
Ricky Jay and His 52 Assistants (David Mamet, 1996)
The Winslow Boy (David Mamet, 1999)

The Savages (Tamara Jenkins, 2007)
We Own the Night (James Grey, 2007)
24 City (Jia Zhangke, 2008)
Mesrine: Killer Instinct (Jean-François Richet, 2008)
Mesrine: Public Enemy No. 1 (Jean-François Richet, 2008)
The Babadook (Jennifer Kent, 2014)
By Sidney Lumet (Nancy Buirski, 2015)
Twilight’s Kiss (Ray Yeung, 2019)
Lucy in the Sky (Noah Hawley, 2019)
The Traitor (Marco Bellocchio, 2019)

Pain and Glory (Pedro Almodóvar, 2019)
Nomadland (Chloé Zhao, 2020)
Apples (Christos Nikou, 2020)
Shiva Baby (Emma Seligman, 2020)
The Father (Florian Zeller, 2020)
The Woman Who Ran (Hong Sang-soo, 2020)
Some Kind of Heaven (Lance Oppenheim, 2020)
Jasper Mall (Bradford Thomason, Brett Whitcomb, 2020)
Swimming Out Till the Sea Turns Blue (Jia Zhangke, 2020)
Zack Snyder’s Justice League (Zack Snyder, 2021)

In release order as well:

Ingeborg Holm (Victor Sjöström, 1913)
Intolerance (D.W. Griffith, 1916)
Within our gates (Oscar Micheaux, 1920)
Destiny / Der müde tod (Fritz Lang, 1921)
Nanook of the North (Robert J. Flaherty, 1922)
Timothy's quest (Sidney Olcott, 1922)
Die Nibelungen: Siegfried (Fritz Lang, 1924)
Die Nibelungen: Kriemhild's revenge (Fritz Lang, 1924)
October (Ten days that shook the world) / Oktyabr (Sergei M. Eisenstein & Grigoriy Aleksandrov, 1927)
A throw of dice / Prapancha Pash (Franz Osten, 1929)

Doctor Bull (John Ford, 1933)
Rio Grande (John Ford, 1950)
Brigadoon (Vincente Minnelli, 1954)
Room at the top (Jack Clayton, 1959)
The basilisks / I basilischi (Lina Wertmüller, 1963)
...ere erera baleibu izik subua aruaren... (José Antonio Sistiaga, 1970)
About some meaningless events / De quelques évènements sans signification (Mostafa Derkaoui, 1974)
Cross of iron (Sam Peckinpah, 1977)
Crazy thunder road / Kuruizaki sanda rodo (Gakuryû Ishii, 1980)
Las grandes aguas (Servando González, 1980)

Llocsi caimanta (Jorge Sanjinés, 1981)
Ms .45 (Abel Ferrara, 1981)
Repentance / Monanieba (Tengiz Abuladze, 1984)
Gothic (Ken Russel, 1986)
Bu su (Jun Ichikawa, 1987)
China girl (Abel Ferrara, 1987)
Days of being wild / Ah fei jing juen (Wong Kar-Wai, 1990)
King of New York (Abel Ferrara, 1990)
A woman's tale (Paul Cox, 1991)
A watcher in the attic / Yaneura no sanposha (Akio Jissoji, 1993)

Interview with the vampire: The vampire chronicles (Neil Jordan, 1994)
Apollo 13 (Ron Howard, 1995)
Beating (Barbara Sternberg, 1995)
Artificial paradises / Paraísos artificiales (Yulene Olaizola, 2011)
Green Lantern: Emerald Knights (Christopher Berkeley, Lauren Montgomery & Jay Oliva, 2011)
Killer Joe (William Friedkin, 2011)
Justice League: Doom (Lauren Montgomery, 2012)
Coco (Lee Unkrich & Adrián Molina, 2017)
Ad Astra (James Gray, 2019)
Hope / Håp (Maria Sødahl, 2019)

La revolución y la tierra (Gonzalo Benavente Secco, 2019)
Lupin III: The First (Takashi Yamazaki, 2019)
Yalda, a night for forgiveness / Yalda (Massoud Bakhshi, 2019)
Armugán. El último acabador (Jo Sol, 2020)
Mamá, mamá, mamá (Sol Berruezo Pichon-Rivière, 2020)
Nomadland (Chloé Zhao, 2020)
Sun children / Khorshid (Majid Majidi, 2020)
The father (Florian Zeller, 2020)
Wolfwalkers (Tomm Moore & Ross Stewart, 2020)
Gintama: The Final (Chizuru Miyawaki, 2021)

as always, it's the year polls that give the most. need to focus on them and stop faffing around with the silents (not gonna happen)

maniac chase 1904
the right to exist 1913
le gendarme est sans culottes 1914
the strangling hand 1920
el dorado 1921
the bear's wedding 1925
katka's reinette apples 1926
west of zanzibar 1928
the fall of the house of usher 1928
the wonderful lies of nina petrovna 1929
the woman he scorned 1929
lumiere d'ete 1943
the phantom baron 1943
private imaginings and narrative facts 1968
kummatty 1979
flights in dreams and reality 1983
lost and beautiful 2015
deux remi deux 2015
classical period 2018
operation: jane walk 2018

Два-Бульди-два (1929) / Two-Buldi-Two dir. Lev Kuleshov
教室の子供たち 学習指導への道 (1954) / Children in the Classroom dir. Susumu Hani
Hargez (1973) / Never dir. Esfandiar Monfaredzadeh
極道黒社会 (1997) / Rainy Dog dir. Takashi Miike
Dead or Alive: Final (2002) dir. Takashi Miike
初恋 (2019) / First Love dir. Takashi Miike
La France contre les robots (2020) dir. Jean-Marie Straub


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Best films seen for the first time in 2021

TOO MANY KISSES - 1925
KUNDUN -- seen before but so long ago it might as well have been a new film
VARIETY LIGHTS
MACBETH -- Welles
BLESSED EVENT - 1933
LA ROUE - Gance 1923
JUDAS AND THE BLACK MESSIAH
UNDERWORLD
MEAN STREETS
DEATHDREAM
ALICE - Svanjmaker, seen before but so long ago....
DAWN OF THE DEAD - Romero
SIMON OF THE DESERT
ABOUT ENDLESSNESS - Andersson
THE KILLERS - Siodmak
BLONDE VENUS
STATE FUNERAL
HE WALKED BY NIGHT - 1948
BEING A HUMAN PERSON
ROBIN HOOD - 1922
RAW DEAL
FLOWERS OF SHANGHAI
DAY OF THE DEAD - Romero
THE NIGHT STALKER - the original TV film, seen long ago actually on TV during one of the first showings, I'm old.
KHRUSTALYOV, MY CAR!
COUNT DRACULA -- 1977, with Louis Jourdan
THE OLD-FASHIONED WAY
MACAO
LICORICE PIZZA

Ella Cinders (1926) - Alfred E. Green
Underground (1928) - Anthony Asquith
Holiday (1938) - George Cukor
A Woman’s Face (1941) - George Cukor
Shock Corridor (1963) - Sam Fuller
Weekend (1967) - Jean-Luc Godard
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1969) - Ronald Neame
Night Moves (1975) - Arthur Penn
Katie Tippel (1975) - Paul Verhoeven
Surreal Estate (1976) - Edoardo De Gregorio

The Witch Who Came from the Sea (1976) - Matt Cimber
Between the Lines (1977) - Joan Micklin Silver
Return of the Secaucus Seven (1980) - John Sayles
The Brother From Another Planet (1984) - John Sayles
Smooth Talk (1985) - Joyce Chopra
Matewan (1987) - John Sayles
La Belle Noiseuse (1991) - Jacques Rivette
City of Hope (1991) - John Sayles
Haute, Bas, Fragile (1995) - Jacques Rivette
Rendez-Vouz in Paris (1995) - Eric Rohmer

Secret Defense (1998) - Jacques Rivette
The Story of Marie and Julien (2003) - Jacques Rivette
Woman Is The Future of Man (2004) Hong Sang-Soo
The Time That Remains (2009) - Elia Suleiman
Black Book (2012) - Paul Verhoeven
It Must Be Heaven (2019) - Elia Suleiman
Shiva Baby (2020) - Emma Seligman
Mayor (2020) - David Osit
Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn (2021) - Radu Jude
Benedetta (2021) - Paul Verhoeven

FIRST-TIME VIEWINGS + REAPPRAISALS

10012021 Talking to Strangers (Rob Tregenza, 1988)
07022021 Judy Versus Capitalism (Mike Hoolboom, 2020)
07022021 A Little Romance (George Roy Hill, 1979)
01052021 "Betty Tells Her Story" (Liane Brandon, 1972)

(1.78) vanilla sex // dir. cheryl dunye, 1992 // 4m, .mkv
(1.78) greetings from africa // dir. cheryl dunye, 1995 // 10m, .mkv
(2.12) kuhle wampe // dir. slatan dudow, 1932 // 73m, .mkv
(2.47) the little girl who sold the sun // dir. djibril diop mambéty, 1999 // 45m, .mkv
(2.50) the watermelon woman // dir. cheryl dunye, 1996 // 84m, .mkv
(2.55) the house of an angel // dir. leopoldo torre nilsson, 1957 // 73m, .avi
(2.75) three bewildered people in the night // dir. gregg araki, 1987 // 94m, .avi
*(2.77) billy madison // dir. tamra davis, 1995 // 90m, .mkv
(2.78) the waterboy // dir. frank coraci, 1998 // 90m, .mkv
*(2.81) 50 first dates // dir. peter segal, 2004 // 99m, .mp4
(2.84) from saturday to sunday // dir. gustav machatý, 1931 // 69m, .mkv
(2.84) a.i. artificial intelligence // dir. steven spielberg, 2001 // 146m, DCP (VIFC)
*(2.89) the wedding singer // dir. frank coraci, 1998 // 100m, .mp4
(3.2) mr. deeds // dir. stephen brill, 2002 // 96m, .mp4
(3.12) him // dir. guro bruusgaard, 2021 // 85m, DCP (Rio)
(3.15) bergman island // dir. mia hansen-løve, 2021 // 112m, DCP (Playhouse)
(3.16) little palestine, diary of a siege // dir. abdallah al-khatib, 2021 // 110m, DCP (PCP)
(3.18) be still // dir. elizabeth lazbenik, 2021 // 83m, DCP (VIFC)
(3.20) petite maman // dir. céline sciamma, 2021 // 72m, DCP (Playhouse)
(3.22) smiley face // dir. gregg araki, 2007 // 84m, .mp4
(3.23) frankenweenie // tim burton, 2012 // 87m, .mp4
(3.40) i was a teenage serial killer // dir. sarah jacobson, 1993 // 27m, .mkv
(3.50) an autumn's tale // dir. mabel cheung, 1987 // 98m, .mkv
(3.59) bless their little hearts // dir. billy woodberry, 1983 // 85m, .mkv
(3.73) snow // dir. geoffrey jones, 1963 // 8m [Youtube]
(3.77) here's hockey // dir. leslie mcfarlane, 1953 // 11m [NFB]
*(3.77) bad santa // dir. terry zwigoff, 2003 // 100m, .mp4
*(3.79) jack frost // dir. troy miller, 1998 // 101m, .mp4
(3.84) edward scissorhands // dir. tim burton, 1990 // 106m, .avi
(4.2) the street // dir. karl grune, 1923 // 72m, .mkv

saw a number of good films last year, but not much truly excellent. cream o' crop:

the parson's wife (dreyer)
shame (bergman)
this is my country (brocka)
three godless years (o'hara)
the manxman (hitchock)
the strongest (lindblom & sjoberg)
a piece of sky (malyan)

Hello,

I didn't really like the movie The Good Shepherd either. On the other hand, I loved the strongest one.

https://letterboxd.com/rischka/list/fav ... w-in-2022/

my list is here - i added 2 this week! thx again sally! and everyone here at scfz and film twitter

Should we have a new thread for 2022 instead?

yeah, sure Silga, start one!