Best Films Seen in 2022 Regardless of Year
Best Films Seen in 2022 Regardless of Year
Your favorite films that you saw this year, regardless of what year they were made.
Last edited by Silga on Mon Dec 19, 2022 7:37 pm, edited 1 time in total.
My list with ratings for every film is here : https://letterboxd.com/wba/list/2022-favorites/
I don't make a difference between re-watches or not, cause every time I watch a movie it's a new experience.
listed chronologically from January till December 2022
Missing in Action 2: The Beginning (Lance Hool, 1984, USA) [9/10]
Legend of the Lost (Henry Hathaway, 1957, USA/Italy) [8/10]
Over the Top (Menahem Golan, 1987, USA) [9/10]
Duel [TV version] (Steven Spielberg, 1971, USA) [7/10]
バス停にて "At the Bus Stop" (Hideaki Anno, 1980, Japan) [7/10]
Taiyo no kisetsu "Season of the Sun" (Takumi Furukawa, 1956, Japan) [7/10]
三鳳震武林 / San feng zhen wu lin "Vengeance of the Phoenix Sister" (Hung-Min Chen, 1968, Taiwan) [9/10]
Eyewitness (Peter Yates, 1981, USA) [10/10]
The Hunting Party (Don Medford, 1971, UK/USA) [8/10]
Cops and Robbers (Aram Avakian, 1973, USA) [9/10]
Hour of the Gun (John Sturges, 1967, USA) [8/10]
Sword of Sherwood Forest (Terence Fisher, 1960, UK) [7/10]
Edge of Eternity (Donald Siegel, 1959, USA) [9/10]
The Owl and the Pussycat (Herbert Ross, 1970, USA) [8/10]
Grenzgänger (Ilse Hofmann, 1981, West Germany) [8/10]
The Kentuckian (Burt Lancaster, 1955, USA) [9/10]
State of Grace (Phil Joanou, 1990, USA/UK) [7/10]
The Missing (Ron Howard, 2003, USA) [8/10]
Comanche Station (Budd Boetticher, 1959, USA) [7/10]
A Few Good Men (Rob Reiner, 1992, USA) [8/10]
Wild Geese II (Peter R. Hunt, 1985, UK/Australia) [8/10]
Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure (Stephen Herek, 1989, USA) [8/10]
Mach die Musik leiser "Turn Down the Music" (Thomas Arslan, 1994, Germany) [8/10]
The Sand Pebbles [edited 182 minute version] (Robert Wise, 1966, USA) [8/10]
Lone Wolf McQuade (Steve Carver, 1983, USA) [8/10]
The Mechanic (Michael Winner, 1972, USA) [7/10]
The Wonderful Country (Robert Parrish, 1959, USA) [7/10]
Rain Man (Barry Levinson, 1988, USA) [8/10]
Nell (Michael Apted, 1994, USA) [7/10]
Silent Rage (Michael Miller, 1982, USA) [8/10]
48 Hrs. (Walter Hill, 1982, USA) [8/10]
Duel: A Conversation with Director Steven Spielberg (Laurent Bouzereau, 2001, USA) [7/10]
柳川の運河の物語 / Yanagawa horiwari monogatari "The Story of Yanagawa's Canals" (Isao Takahata, 1987, Japan) [10/10]
Beverly Hills Cop (Martin Brest, 1984, USA) [9/10]
Sleepless (Baran bo Odar, 2016, USA) [7/10]
Beverly Hills Cop II (Tony Scott, 1987, USA) [8/10]
My Stepmother Is an Alien (Richard Benjamin, 1988, USA) [8/10]
The Firm (Sydney Pollack, 1993, USA) [8/10]
Liebesdings (Anika Decker, 2022, Germany) [9/10]
Flashdance (Adrian Lyne, 1983, USA) [9/10]
Guilty Bystander (Joseph Lerner, 1950, USA) [9/10]
Last Train from Gun Hill (John Sturges, 1959, USA) [7/10]
Money Train (Joseph Ruben, 1995, USA) [8/10]
The Octagon (Eric Karson, 1980, USA) [7/10]
Jeder fragt nach Erika (Friedrich Zelnik, 1931, Germany) [9/10]
Taste of Fear (Seth Holt, 1960, UK) [9/10]
Das Mädchen auf der Treppe (Peter Adam, 1982, West Germany) [9/10]
While You Were Sleeping (Jon Turteltaub, 1995, USA) [9/10]
Terminal Velocity (Deran Sarafian, 1994, USA/Canada/Japan) [8/10]
Can’t Buy Me Love (Steve Rash, 1987, USA) [7/10]
Apostle (Gareth Evans, 2018, UK/USA) [9/10]
Predator (John McTiernan, 1987, USA/Mexico) [9/10]
The 13th Warrior (Michael Crichton/John McTiernan, 1999, USA) [8/10]
Romancing the Stone (Robert Zemeckis, 1984, USA/Mexico) [8/10]
När mörkret faller "When Darkness Falls" (Arne Mattsson, 1960, Sweden) [8/10]
Good Morning, Vietnam (Barry Levinson, 1987, USA) [8/10]
V. I. Warshawski (Jeff Kanew, 1991, USA) [8/10]
Babes in Toyland (Jack Donohue, 1961, USA) [7/10]
Sujeol "Fidelity" (Gil-jong Ha, 1974, South Korea) [7/10]
Shu jian en chou lu "The Emperor and His Brother" (Yuen Chor, 1981, Hong Kong) [8/10]
Jiao tou "The Kung Fu Instructor" (Chung Sun, 1979, Hong Kong) [7/10]
City of Industry (John Irvin, 1996, USA) [9/10]
Kingpin (Bobby Farrelly/Peter Farrelly, 1996, USA) [9/10]
The Saint (Phillip Noyce, 1997, USA) [8/10]
The Phantom (Simon Wincer, 1996, USA/Australia) [7/10]
Saturday Night Fever (John Badham, 1977, USA) [8/10]
Blindside (Paul Lynch, 1987, Canada) [7/10]
The Secret of Roan Inish (John Sayles, 1994, USA/Ireland) [9/10]
Kaptn Oskar (Tom Lass, 2013, Germany) [8/10]
I don't make a difference between re-watches or not, cause every time I watch a movie it's a new experience.
listed chronologically from January till December 2022
Missing in Action 2: The Beginning (Lance Hool, 1984, USA) [9/10]
Legend of the Lost (Henry Hathaway, 1957, USA/Italy) [8/10]
Over the Top (Menahem Golan, 1987, USA) [9/10]
Duel [TV version] (Steven Spielberg, 1971, USA) [7/10]
バス停にて "At the Bus Stop" (Hideaki Anno, 1980, Japan) [7/10]
Taiyo no kisetsu "Season of the Sun" (Takumi Furukawa, 1956, Japan) [7/10]
三鳳震武林 / San feng zhen wu lin "Vengeance of the Phoenix Sister" (Hung-Min Chen, 1968, Taiwan) [9/10]
Eyewitness (Peter Yates, 1981, USA) [10/10]
The Hunting Party (Don Medford, 1971, UK/USA) [8/10]
Cops and Robbers (Aram Avakian, 1973, USA) [9/10]
Hour of the Gun (John Sturges, 1967, USA) [8/10]
Sword of Sherwood Forest (Terence Fisher, 1960, UK) [7/10]
Edge of Eternity (Donald Siegel, 1959, USA) [9/10]
The Owl and the Pussycat (Herbert Ross, 1970, USA) [8/10]
Grenzgänger (Ilse Hofmann, 1981, West Germany) [8/10]
The Kentuckian (Burt Lancaster, 1955, USA) [9/10]
State of Grace (Phil Joanou, 1990, USA/UK) [7/10]
The Missing (Ron Howard, 2003, USA) [8/10]
Comanche Station (Budd Boetticher, 1959, USA) [7/10]
A Few Good Men (Rob Reiner, 1992, USA) [8/10]
Wild Geese II (Peter R. Hunt, 1985, UK/Australia) [8/10]
Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure (Stephen Herek, 1989, USA) [8/10]
Mach die Musik leiser "Turn Down the Music" (Thomas Arslan, 1994, Germany) [8/10]
The Sand Pebbles [edited 182 minute version] (Robert Wise, 1966, USA) [8/10]
Lone Wolf McQuade (Steve Carver, 1983, USA) [8/10]
The Mechanic (Michael Winner, 1972, USA) [7/10]
The Wonderful Country (Robert Parrish, 1959, USA) [7/10]
Rain Man (Barry Levinson, 1988, USA) [8/10]
Nell (Michael Apted, 1994, USA) [7/10]
Silent Rage (Michael Miller, 1982, USA) [8/10]
48 Hrs. (Walter Hill, 1982, USA) [8/10]
Duel: A Conversation with Director Steven Spielberg (Laurent Bouzereau, 2001, USA) [7/10]
柳川の運河の物語 / Yanagawa horiwari monogatari "The Story of Yanagawa's Canals" (Isao Takahata, 1987, Japan) [10/10]
Beverly Hills Cop (Martin Brest, 1984, USA) [9/10]
Sleepless (Baran bo Odar, 2016, USA) [7/10]
Beverly Hills Cop II (Tony Scott, 1987, USA) [8/10]
My Stepmother Is an Alien (Richard Benjamin, 1988, USA) [8/10]
The Firm (Sydney Pollack, 1993, USA) [8/10]
Liebesdings (Anika Decker, 2022, Germany) [9/10]
Flashdance (Adrian Lyne, 1983, USA) [9/10]
Guilty Bystander (Joseph Lerner, 1950, USA) [9/10]
Last Train from Gun Hill (John Sturges, 1959, USA) [7/10]
Money Train (Joseph Ruben, 1995, USA) [8/10]
The Octagon (Eric Karson, 1980, USA) [7/10]
Jeder fragt nach Erika (Friedrich Zelnik, 1931, Germany) [9/10]
Taste of Fear (Seth Holt, 1960, UK) [9/10]
Das Mädchen auf der Treppe (Peter Adam, 1982, West Germany) [9/10]
While You Were Sleeping (Jon Turteltaub, 1995, USA) [9/10]
Terminal Velocity (Deran Sarafian, 1994, USA/Canada/Japan) [8/10]
Can’t Buy Me Love (Steve Rash, 1987, USA) [7/10]
Apostle (Gareth Evans, 2018, UK/USA) [9/10]
Predator (John McTiernan, 1987, USA/Mexico) [9/10]
The 13th Warrior (Michael Crichton/John McTiernan, 1999, USA) [8/10]
Romancing the Stone (Robert Zemeckis, 1984, USA/Mexico) [8/10]
När mörkret faller "When Darkness Falls" (Arne Mattsson, 1960, Sweden) [8/10]
Good Morning, Vietnam (Barry Levinson, 1987, USA) [8/10]
V. I. Warshawski (Jeff Kanew, 1991, USA) [8/10]
Babes in Toyland (Jack Donohue, 1961, USA) [7/10]
Sujeol "Fidelity" (Gil-jong Ha, 1974, South Korea) [7/10]
Shu jian en chou lu "The Emperor and His Brother" (Yuen Chor, 1981, Hong Kong) [8/10]
Jiao tou "The Kung Fu Instructor" (Chung Sun, 1979, Hong Kong) [7/10]
City of Industry (John Irvin, 1996, USA) [9/10]
Kingpin (Bobby Farrelly/Peter Farrelly, 1996, USA) [9/10]
The Saint (Phillip Noyce, 1997, USA) [8/10]
The Phantom (Simon Wincer, 1996, USA/Australia) [7/10]
Saturday Night Fever (John Badham, 1977, USA) [8/10]
Blindside (Paul Lynch, 1987, Canada) [7/10]
The Secret of Roan Inish (John Sayles, 1994, USA/Ireland) [9/10]
Kaptn Oskar (Tom Lass, 2013, Germany) [8/10]
Last edited by wba on Sun Jan 01, 2023 12:23 pm, edited 2 times in total.
"I too am a child burned by future experiences, fallen back on myself and already suspecting the certainty that in the end only those will prove benevolent who believe in nothing." – Marran Gosov
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.
strange year all around, didn't watch nearly as many movies as usual, reverse chronologically the best i saw, though i'm an outlier on a lot of these:
Drive My Car (Ryusuke Hamiguchi, 2021)
Being the Ricardos (Aaron Sorkin, 2021)
The Vast of Night (Andrew Patterson, 2019)
Bird Box (Susanne Bier, 2018)
Loving (Jeff Nichols, 2016)
Remember (Atom Egoyan, 2015)
Rango (Gore Verbinski, 2011)
When We Are All Sleep (Bahram Beizai, 2009)
We Own the Night (James Gray, 2007)
Jawbreaker (Darren Stein, 1999)
Babe: Pig in the City (George Miller, 1998)
Matilda (Danny DeVito, 1996)
Passage a l'acte (Martin Arnold, 1993)
Piece Touchée (Martin Arnold, 1989)
Tampopo (Juzo Itami, 1985)
The King of Comedy (Martin Scorsese, 1982)
Associations (John Smith, 1975)
Watch Out for the Automobile (Eldar Ryazanov, 1966)
Mirage (Edward Dmytryk, 1965)
Cairo Station (Youssef Chahine, 1958)
Drive My Car (Ryusuke Hamiguchi, 2021)
Being the Ricardos (Aaron Sorkin, 2021)
The Vast of Night (Andrew Patterson, 2019)
Bird Box (Susanne Bier, 2018)
Loving (Jeff Nichols, 2016)
Remember (Atom Egoyan, 2015)
Rango (Gore Verbinski, 2011)
When We Are All Sleep (Bahram Beizai, 2009)
We Own the Night (James Gray, 2007)
Jawbreaker (Darren Stein, 1999)
Babe: Pig in the City (George Miller, 1998)
Matilda (Danny DeVito, 1996)
Passage a l'acte (Martin Arnold, 1993)
Piece Touchée (Martin Arnold, 1989)
Tampopo (Juzo Itami, 1985)
The King of Comedy (Martin Scorsese, 1982)
Associations (John Smith, 1975)
Watch Out for the Automobile (Eldar Ryazanov, 1966)
Mirage (Edward Dmytryk, 1965)
Cairo Station (Youssef Chahine, 1958)
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 (Robert Altman, 1971)
King of the Hill (Steven Soderbergh, 1993)
The Remains of the Day (James Ivory, 1993)
9/10
Johnny Eager (Mervyn LeRoy, 1941)
Taking Off (Milos Forman, 1971)
Let’s Scare Jessica to Death (John D. Hancock, 1971)
All the Marbles (Robert Aldrich, 1981)
Crimes and Misdemeanors (Woody Allen, 1989)
Light Sleeper (Paul Schrader, 1992)
In the Name of the Father (Jim Sheridan, 1993)
The War Room (D. A. Pennebaker, Chris Hegedus, 1993)
Pickpocket (Jia Zhangke, 1997)
Winter’s Bone (Debra Granik, 2010)
Boiling Point (Philip Barantini, 2021)
Petite Maman (Céline Sciamma, 2021)
Nightmare Alley (Guillermo del Toro, 2021)
No Sudden Move (Steven Soderbergh, 2021)
The Forgiven (John Michael McDonagh, 2021)
Utama (Alejandro Loayza Grisi, 2022)
8/10
Man Hunt (Fritz Lang, 1941)
High Sierra (Raoul Walsh, 1941)
The Face Behind the Mask (Robert Florey, 1941)
The Shanghai Gesture (Josef von Sternberg, 1941)
Saboteur (Alfred Hitchcock, 1942)
The Big Risk (Claude Sautet, 1960)
The Entertainer (Tony Richardson, 1960)
The Bad Sleep Well (Akira Kurosawa, 1960)
Get Carter (Mike Hodges, 1971)
Nicholas and Alexandra (Franklin J. Schaffner, 1971)
Fist of Fury (Lo Wei, 1972)
Italianamerican (Martin Scorsese, 1974)
Same Time, Next Year (Robert Mulligan, 1978)
The Runner Stumbles (Stanley Kramer, 1979)
The Man in the Moon (Robert Mulligan, 1991)
Bob Roberts (Tim Robbins, 1992)
The Crying Game (Neil Jordan, 1992)
The Piano (Jane Campion, 1993)
Sleepless in Seattle (Nora Ephron, 1993)
What’s Eating Gilbert Grape (Lasse Hallström, 1993)
Showgirls (Paul Verhoeven, 1995)
Open Your Eyes (Alejandro Amenábar, 1997)
Office Space (Mike Judge, 1999)
Trick 'r Treat (Michael Dougherty, 2007)
Before the Devil Knows You’re Dead (Sidney Lumet, 2007)
The Messenger (Oren Moverman, 2009)
The Girlfriend Experience (Steven Soderbergh, 2009)
I Wish I Knew (Jia Zhangke, 2010)
France (Bruno Dumont, 2021)
Red Rocket (Sean Baker, 2021)
Belfast (Kenneth Branagh, 2021)
Happening (Audrey Diwan, 2021)
Drunken Birds (Ivan Grbovic, 2021)
Benediction (Terence Davies, 2021)
Evolution (Kornél Mundruczó, 2021)
The Power of the Dog (Jane Campion, 2021)
Attica (Stanley Nelson Jr., Traci A. Curry, 2021)
Montana Story (Scott McGehee, David Siegel, 2021)
Kimi (Steven Soderbergh, 2022)
7/10
Suspicion (Alfred Hitchcock, 1941)
Dressed to Kill (Eugene Forde, 1941)
A Woman’s Face (George Cukor, 1941)
Unholy Partners (Mervyn LeRoy, 1941)
Rage in Heaven (W.S. Van Dyke, 1941)
Among the Living (Stuart Heisler, 1941)
Flight from Destiny (Vincent Sherman, 1941)
The Wagons Roll at Night (Ray Enright, 1941)
Gunsmoke (Nathan Juran, 1953)
La Vérité (Henri-Georges Clouzot, 1960)
Comanche Station (Budd Boetticher, 1960)
Diary of a Mad Housewife (Frank Perry, 1970)
The Hired Hand (Peter Fonda, 1971)
Two-Lane Blacktop (Monte Hellman, 1971)
Follow Me! (Carol Reed, 1972)
The Hot Rock (Peter Yates, 1972)
Lovin’ Molly (Sidney Lumet, 1974)
Letter from My Village (Safi Faye, 1976)
Assault on Precinct 13 (John Carpenter, 1976)
The Whistle Blower (Simon Langton, 1986)
The Lost Boys (Joel Schumacher, 1987)
High Heels (Pedro Almodóvar, 1991)
The Age of Innocence (Martin Scorsese, 1993)
Clueless (Amy Heckerling, 1995)
Everyone Says I Love You (Woody Allen, 1996)
Live Flesh (Pedro Almodóvar, 1997)
October Sky (Joe Johnston, 1999)
Windtalkers (John Woo, 2002)
Land of the Dead (George A. Romero, 2005)
The Blackcoat’s Daughter (Oz Perkins, 2015)
Unsane (Steven Soderbergh, 2018)
Holler (Nicole Riegel, 2020)
Italian Studies (Adam Leon, 2021)
Being the Ricardos (Aaron Sorkin, 2021)
The Card Counter (Paul Schrader, 2021)
A Mouthful of Air (Amy Koppelman, 2021)
Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy (Ryusuke Hamaguchi, 2021)
Downfall: The Case Against Boeing (Rory Kennedy, 2022)
Best from TV Land:
Cosmos: A SpaceTime Odyssey (2014)
The Victim (2019)
The Home of Basketball (2021)
Best Short Films:
Tup Tup (Nedeljko Dragić, 1972)
Refrain (Krzysztof Kieślowski, 1972)
Somebody Waiting (Hal Riney, Dick Snider, 1972)
Norman Rockwell’s World An American Dream (Robert Deubel, 1972)
A Grand Day Out (Nick Park, 1989)
The Village (Mark Baker, 1993)
Screen Play (Barry Purves, 1993)
The Screw (Didier Flamand, 1993)
Black Rider (Pepe Danquart, 1993)
The Wrong Trousers (Nick Park, 1993)
Chicks in White Satin (Elaine Holliman, 1993)
A Close Shave (Nick Park, 1995)
The Hedonists (Jia Zhangke, 2016)
The Long Goodbye (Aneil Karia, 2020)
Affairs of the Art (Joanna Quinn, 2021)
The Queen of Basketball (Ben Proudfoot, 2021)
Robin Robin (Daniel Ojari, Michael Please, 2021)
Best re-watches:
The Silence of the Lambs (Jonathan Demme, 1991) improved my rating from 9 to 10
Shutter Island (Martin Scorsese, 2010) from 8 to 9
Ad Astra (James Gray, 2019) was doubtful about previously rating it 9, but after a re-watch it had solidified its original rating
Directors with multiple films on this list:
5 - Steven Soderbergh
3 - Nick Park, Jia Zhangke, Martin Scorsese
2 - Woody Allen, Sidney Lumet, Paul Schrader, Mervyn LeRoy, Jane Campion, Robert Mulligan, Alfred Hitchcock, Pedro Almodóvar
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 (Robert Altman, 1971)
King of the Hill (Steven Soderbergh, 1993)
The Remains of the Day (James Ivory, 1993)
9/10
Johnny Eager (Mervyn LeRoy, 1941)
Taking Off (Milos Forman, 1971)
Let’s Scare Jessica to Death (John D. Hancock, 1971)
All the Marbles (Robert Aldrich, 1981)
Crimes and Misdemeanors (Woody Allen, 1989)
Light Sleeper (Paul Schrader, 1992)
In the Name of the Father (Jim Sheridan, 1993)
The War Room (D. A. Pennebaker, Chris Hegedus, 1993)
Pickpocket (Jia Zhangke, 1997)
Winter’s Bone (Debra Granik, 2010)
Boiling Point (Philip Barantini, 2021)
Petite Maman (Céline Sciamma, 2021)
Nightmare Alley (Guillermo del Toro, 2021)
No Sudden Move (Steven Soderbergh, 2021)
The Forgiven (John Michael McDonagh, 2021)
Utama (Alejandro Loayza Grisi, 2022)
8/10
Man Hunt (Fritz Lang, 1941)
High Sierra (Raoul Walsh, 1941)
The Face Behind the Mask (Robert Florey, 1941)
The Shanghai Gesture (Josef von Sternberg, 1941)
Saboteur (Alfred Hitchcock, 1942)
The Big Risk (Claude Sautet, 1960)
The Entertainer (Tony Richardson, 1960)
The Bad Sleep Well (Akira Kurosawa, 1960)
Get Carter (Mike Hodges, 1971)
Nicholas and Alexandra (Franklin J. Schaffner, 1971)
Fist of Fury (Lo Wei, 1972)
Italianamerican (Martin Scorsese, 1974)
Same Time, Next Year (Robert Mulligan, 1978)
The Runner Stumbles (Stanley Kramer, 1979)
The Man in the Moon (Robert Mulligan, 1991)
Bob Roberts (Tim Robbins, 1992)
The Crying Game (Neil Jordan, 1992)
The Piano (Jane Campion, 1993)
Sleepless in Seattle (Nora Ephron, 1993)
What’s Eating Gilbert Grape (Lasse Hallström, 1993)
Showgirls (Paul Verhoeven, 1995)
Open Your Eyes (Alejandro Amenábar, 1997)
Office Space (Mike Judge, 1999)
Trick 'r Treat (Michael Dougherty, 2007)
Before the Devil Knows You’re Dead (Sidney Lumet, 2007)
The Messenger (Oren Moverman, 2009)
The Girlfriend Experience (Steven Soderbergh, 2009)
I Wish I Knew (Jia Zhangke, 2010)
France (Bruno Dumont, 2021)
Red Rocket (Sean Baker, 2021)
Belfast (Kenneth Branagh, 2021)
Happening (Audrey Diwan, 2021)
Drunken Birds (Ivan Grbovic, 2021)
Benediction (Terence Davies, 2021)
Evolution (Kornél Mundruczó, 2021)
The Power of the Dog (Jane Campion, 2021)
Attica (Stanley Nelson Jr., Traci A. Curry, 2021)
Montana Story (Scott McGehee, David Siegel, 2021)
Kimi (Steven Soderbergh, 2022)
7/10
Suspicion (Alfred Hitchcock, 1941)
Dressed to Kill (Eugene Forde, 1941)
A Woman’s Face (George Cukor, 1941)
Unholy Partners (Mervyn LeRoy, 1941)
Rage in Heaven (W.S. Van Dyke, 1941)
Among the Living (Stuart Heisler, 1941)
Flight from Destiny (Vincent Sherman, 1941)
The Wagons Roll at Night (Ray Enright, 1941)
Gunsmoke (Nathan Juran, 1953)
La Vérité (Henri-Georges Clouzot, 1960)
Comanche Station (Budd Boetticher, 1960)
Diary of a Mad Housewife (Frank Perry, 1970)
The Hired Hand (Peter Fonda, 1971)
Two-Lane Blacktop (Monte Hellman, 1971)
Follow Me! (Carol Reed, 1972)
The Hot Rock (Peter Yates, 1972)
Lovin’ Molly (Sidney Lumet, 1974)
Letter from My Village (Safi Faye, 1976)
Assault on Precinct 13 (John Carpenter, 1976)
The Whistle Blower (Simon Langton, 1986)
The Lost Boys (Joel Schumacher, 1987)
High Heels (Pedro Almodóvar, 1991)
The Age of Innocence (Martin Scorsese, 1993)
Clueless (Amy Heckerling, 1995)
Everyone Says I Love You (Woody Allen, 1996)
Live Flesh (Pedro Almodóvar, 1997)
October Sky (Joe Johnston, 1999)
Windtalkers (John Woo, 2002)
Land of the Dead (George A. Romero, 2005)
The Blackcoat’s Daughter (Oz Perkins, 2015)
Unsane (Steven Soderbergh, 2018)
Holler (Nicole Riegel, 2020)
Italian Studies (Adam Leon, 2021)
Being the Ricardos (Aaron Sorkin, 2021)
The Card Counter (Paul Schrader, 2021)
A Mouthful of Air (Amy Koppelman, 2021)
Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy (Ryusuke Hamaguchi, 2021)
Downfall: The Case Against Boeing (Rory Kennedy, 2022)
Best from TV Land:
Cosmos: A SpaceTime Odyssey (2014)
The Victim (2019)
The Home of Basketball (2021)
Best Short Films:
Tup Tup (Nedeljko Dragić, 1972)
Refrain (Krzysztof Kieślowski, 1972)
Somebody Waiting (Hal Riney, Dick Snider, 1972)
Norman Rockwell’s World An American Dream (Robert Deubel, 1972)
A Grand Day Out (Nick Park, 1989)
The Village (Mark Baker, 1993)
Screen Play (Barry Purves, 1993)
The Screw (Didier Flamand, 1993)
Black Rider (Pepe Danquart, 1993)
The Wrong Trousers (Nick Park, 1993)
Chicks in White Satin (Elaine Holliman, 1993)
A Close Shave (Nick Park, 1995)
The Hedonists (Jia Zhangke, 2016)
The Long Goodbye (Aneil Karia, 2020)
Affairs of the Art (Joanna Quinn, 2021)
The Queen of Basketball (Ben Proudfoot, 2021)
Robin Robin (Daniel Ojari, Michael Please, 2021)
Best re-watches:
The Silence of the Lambs (Jonathan Demme, 1991) improved my rating from 9 to 10
Shutter Island (Martin Scorsese, 2010) from 8 to 9
Ad Astra (James Gray, 2019) was doubtful about previously rating it 9, but after a re-watch it had solidified its original rating
Directors with multiple films on this list:
5 - Steven Soderbergh
3 - Nick Park, Jia Zhangke, Martin Scorsese
2 - Woody Allen, Sidney Lumet, Paul Schrader, Mervyn LeRoy, Jane Campion, Robert Mulligan, Alfred Hitchcock, Pedro Almodóvar
Spoiler!
Last edited by Silga on Sat Dec 31, 2022 12:58 am, edited 4 times in total.
These are all favorites of mine. Great to see the love for Egoyan's Remember. A vastly underrated film that I saw at BFI Film Festival + a Q&A with Egoyan.
These are all favorites of mine.wba wrote: ↑Mon Dec 19, 2022 7:17 pm 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) [7/10]
Predator (John McTiernan, 1987, USA/Mexico) [9/10]
Romancing the Stone (Robert Zemeckis, 1984, USA/Mexico) [8/10]
Good Morning, Vietnam (Barry Levinson, 1987, USA) [8/10]
I need to re-watch State of Grace. Would love to see it on a big screen in cinema. Love the ending and that scene where Penn and Wright go to a bar and Sinéad O'Connor's Drink Before the War plays in the background.
Also, I see that we probably have a different opinion about films by The Cannon Group.
25 for 22 (so far)
Trouble in Mind (Alan Rudolph, 1985)
Red Rocket (Sean Baker, 2021)
Lourdes (Jessica Hausner, 2009)
The Tragedy of Macbeth (Joel Coen, 2021)
My Night at Maud’s (Éric Rohmer, 1969)*
Smash Palace (Roger Donaldson, 1981)
The Worst Person in the World (Joachim Trier, 2021)
The Marquise of O (Éric Rohmer, 1976)
Sherman's March (Ross McElwee, 1985)
Caniba (Lucien Castaing-Taylor and Véréna Paravel, 2017)
Mr. Bachmann and His Class (Maria Speth, 2021)
Labour of Love (Aditya Vikram Sengupta, 2014)
Streetwise (Martin Bell, 1984)
The Quiet Girl (Colm Bairéad, 2022)
La Cérémonie (Claude Chabrol, 1995)
Everything Everywhere All at Once (Dan Kwan and Daniel Scheinert, 2022)
Mädchen in Uniform (Leontine Sagan, 1931)
Crimes of the Future (David Cronenberg, 2022)
Petulia (Richard Lester, 1968)
Repast (Mikio Naruse, 1951)
Men (Alex Garland, 2022)
The China Syndrome (James Bridges, 1979)
Tár (Todd Field, 2022)
Bones and All (Luca Guadagnino, 2022)
The Banshees of Inisherin (Martin McDonagh, 2022)
Trouble in Mind (Alan Rudolph, 1985)
Red Rocket (Sean Baker, 2021)
Lourdes (Jessica Hausner, 2009)
The Tragedy of Macbeth (Joel Coen, 2021)
My Night at Maud’s (Éric Rohmer, 1969)*
Smash Palace (Roger Donaldson, 1981)
The Worst Person in the World (Joachim Trier, 2021)
The Marquise of O (Éric Rohmer, 1976)
Sherman's March (Ross McElwee, 1985)
Caniba (Lucien Castaing-Taylor and Véréna Paravel, 2017)
Mr. Bachmann and His Class (Maria Speth, 2021)
Labour of Love (Aditya Vikram Sengupta, 2014)
Streetwise (Martin Bell, 1984)
The Quiet Girl (Colm Bairéad, 2022)
La Cérémonie (Claude Chabrol, 1995)
Everything Everywhere All at Once (Dan Kwan and Daniel Scheinert, 2022)
Mädchen in Uniform (Leontine Sagan, 1931)
Crimes of the Future (David Cronenberg, 2022)
Petulia (Richard Lester, 1968)
Repast (Mikio Naruse, 1951)
Men (Alex Garland, 2022)
The China Syndrome (James Bridges, 1979)
Tár (Todd Field, 2022)
Bones and All (Luca Guadagnino, 2022)
The Banshees of Inisherin (Martin McDonagh, 2022)
Silga wrote: ↑Mon Dec 19, 2022 8:30 pm
I need to re-watch State of Grace. Would love to see it on a big screen in cinema. Love the ending and that scene where Penn and Wright go to a bar and Sinéad O'Connor's Drink Before the War plays in the background.
Also, I see that we probably have a different opinion about films by The Cannon Group.
I wasn't too keen on much of the film after the first half (after most of the exposition is finished and the plot starts to really kick in), but the screen chemistry between Penn and Wright is out of this world in this one. It rivals any screen chemistry I've seen in film history. The best scenes for me were all the scenes with Penn and Wright, when they were relaxed (when they were arguing or shouting, not so much). This probably would have been a masterpiece, if everyone had ditched the movie they were making, the screenplay had been completely rewritten and everyone had then tried to shoot a romantic film à la Before Sunrise instead, with Penn and Wright the sole focus.
We definitely have a different opinion about films from The Cannon Group if you don't agree with me that it was the best studio/film company working in the USA between 1892 and 2022.
Last edited by wba on Tue Dec 20, 2022 8:54 am, edited 2 times in total.
"I too am a child burned by future experiences, fallen back on myself and already suspecting the certainty that in the end only those will prove benevolent who believe in nothing." – Marran Gosov
I saw this at the cinema a few years ago and it completely blew my mind. I had seen it a lot of times before on TV and such and knew it was a pretty good film, but I was never a big fan of it. Now it's an easy 10/10 and an all-time favorite. I noticed, that I had never realized that the film is completely about Jodie Foster's character, that Jonathan Demme arranged EVERYTHING for her and around her and that it's probably a love letter to Foster as a person and as an actress. There's really no room for anyone else, with Hannibal Lecter and Buffalo Bill representing merely other/different aspects of her psyche and her (subconscious) self. An incredible film, and even more of a proof and a masterclass in making completely personal and idiosyncratic work inside the Hollywood system without anyone noticing than the films of Alfred Hitchcock.
"I too am a child burned by future experiences, fallen back on myself and already suspecting the certainty that in the end only those will prove benevolent who believe in nothing." – Marran Gosov
the 4 films I've seen from your list are all personal favorites.
"I too am a child burned by future experiences, fallen back on myself and already suspecting the certainty that in the end only those will prove benevolent who believe in nothing." – Marran Gosov
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Evelyn Library P.I.
- Posts: 1370
- Joined: Thu Dec 20, 2018 10:36 pm
Fav discoveries, five per semester (spring, summer, fall) in viewing order:
La caduta di Troia (Giovanni Pastrone and Luigi Romano Borgnetto, 1911)
She Done Him Wrong (Lowell Sherman, 1933) [rewatch]
The Dark Horse (Alfred E. Green, 1932)
Roman Scandals (Frank Tuttle, 1933)
Suspense (Frank Tuttle, 1946)
The Smiling Lieutenant (Ernst Lubitsch, 1931)
Tea and Sympathy (Vincente Minnelli, 1956)
Tennessee’s Partner (Allan Dwan, 1955)
Slightly Scarlet (Allan Dwan, 1956)
French Cancan (Jean Renoir, 1955)
Mona's Candle Light (unknown, 1950)
The Vampire Lovers (Roy Ward Baker, 1970)
Bells Are Ringing (Vincente Minnelli, 1960)
Girls Can Play (Lambert Hillyer, 1937)
Music for Madame (John G. Blystone, 1937)
La caduta di Troia (Giovanni Pastrone and Luigi Romano Borgnetto, 1911)
She Done Him Wrong (Lowell Sherman, 1933) [rewatch]
The Dark Horse (Alfred E. Green, 1932)
Roman Scandals (Frank Tuttle, 1933)
Suspense (Frank Tuttle, 1946)
The Smiling Lieutenant (Ernst Lubitsch, 1931)
Tea and Sympathy (Vincente Minnelli, 1956)
Tennessee’s Partner (Allan Dwan, 1955)
Slightly Scarlet (Allan Dwan, 1956)
French Cancan (Jean Renoir, 1955)
Mona's Candle Light (unknown, 1950)
The Vampire Lovers (Roy Ward Baker, 1970)
Bells Are Ringing (Vincente Minnelli, 1960)
Girls Can Play (Lambert Hillyer, 1937)
Music for Madame (John G. Blystone, 1937)
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Lencho of the Apes
- Posts: 1900
- Joined: Tue Dec 11, 2018 4:38 am
The opposite of 'reify' is... ?
In order of viewing, January at the top:
THIS IS SPINAL TAP
SEVEN SAMURAI
DEAD RINGERS (Cronenberg)
THE CONVERSATION
KHRUSTALYOV, MY CAR!
SNOW TRAIL -- Mifune's debut, and memorable mainly for his awesome star power.
THRONE OF BLOOD
HIDDEN FORTRESS
RED BEARD
FLEE
GO WEST (Keaton)
HIGH AND LOW
TOUCH OF EVIL
NOMADLAND
MR. KLEIN
DR. MABUSE THE GAMBLER
THE GENERAL (Keaton)
SWEENEY TODD, THE DEMON BARBER OF FLEET STREET
FOOLISH WIVES
LADY WINDERMERE'S FAN (Lubitsch)
DANS LA NUIT (Vanel)
SHE DONE HIM WRONG
THE DOLL (Lubitsch)
THE THREE MUSKETEERS (Lester)
THE GODFATHER
BENEDICTION
THREE WOMEN (Lubitsch)
AMERICAN BOY
ITALIANAMERICAN
THE BLUE ANGEL
TWELVE MONKEYS
THE SEVENTH SEAL
THEY SHOOT HORSES, DON'T THEY?
THE CROWD
SHADOW OF A DOUBT
BORN TO KILL
INHERENT VICE
PINK FLAMINGOS
ED WOOD
A DANGEROUS METHOD
THE BELOVED ROGUE
THE 400 BLOWS
FOOTLIGHT PARADE
HEAVEN'S GATE
DR. JEKYLL AND MR. HYDE (Mamoulian)
THE BANSHEES OF INISHERIN
ABOUT ENDLESSNESS
A BRIGHTER SUMMER DAY
THE NEW WORLD (Malick)
IN BRUGES
THE STEPFATHER
BRAZIL
EVERYTHING EVERYWHERE ALL AT ONCE
THE DRAUGHTSMAN'S CONTRACT
SCROOGE (1951 Sim version)
RULES OF THE GAME (Renoir)
And included as a bonus, because it is at least as good and a lot better than a lot of the movies I saw -- the final season of the sublime BETTER CALL SAUL.
THIS IS SPINAL TAP
SEVEN SAMURAI
DEAD RINGERS (Cronenberg)
THE CONVERSATION
KHRUSTALYOV, MY CAR!
SNOW TRAIL -- Mifune's debut, and memorable mainly for his awesome star power.
THRONE OF BLOOD
HIDDEN FORTRESS
RED BEARD
FLEE
GO WEST (Keaton)
HIGH AND LOW
TOUCH OF EVIL
NOMADLAND
MR. KLEIN
DR. MABUSE THE GAMBLER
THE GENERAL (Keaton)
SWEENEY TODD, THE DEMON BARBER OF FLEET STREET
FOOLISH WIVES
LADY WINDERMERE'S FAN (Lubitsch)
DANS LA NUIT (Vanel)
SHE DONE HIM WRONG
THE DOLL (Lubitsch)
THE THREE MUSKETEERS (Lester)
THE GODFATHER
BENEDICTION
THREE WOMEN (Lubitsch)
AMERICAN BOY
ITALIANAMERICAN
THE BLUE ANGEL
TWELVE MONKEYS
THE SEVENTH SEAL
THEY SHOOT HORSES, DON'T THEY?
THE CROWD
SHADOW OF A DOUBT
BORN TO KILL
INHERENT VICE
PINK FLAMINGOS
ED WOOD
A DANGEROUS METHOD
THE BELOVED ROGUE
THE 400 BLOWS
FOOTLIGHT PARADE
HEAVEN'S GATE
DR. JEKYLL AND MR. HYDE (Mamoulian)
THE BANSHEES OF INISHERIN
ABOUT ENDLESSNESS
A BRIGHTER SUMMER DAY
THE NEW WORLD (Malick)
IN BRUGES
THE STEPFATHER
BRAZIL
EVERYTHING EVERYWHERE ALL AT ONCE
THE DRAUGHTSMAN'S CONTRACT
SCROOGE (1951 Sim version)
RULES OF THE GAME (Renoir)
And included as a bonus, because it is at least as good and a lot better than a lot of the movies I saw -- the final season of the sublime BETTER CALL SAUL.
These matters are best disposed of from a great height. Over water.
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St. Gloede
- Posts: 712
- Joined: Sat Feb 09, 2019 5:50 pm
In terms of first-time viewings this is my list:
https://letterboxd.com/gloede/list/firs ... -the-crop/
The top 20:
https://letterboxd.com/gloede/list/firs ... -the-crop/
The top 20:
20 of the Best of the New(ish) Stuff
All Quiet on the Western Front 2022 Edward Berger
Charlatan 2020 Agnieszka Holland
Under The Open Sky 2020 Miwa Nishikawa
Benediction 2021 Terence Davies
The Shadow in My Eye 2021 Ole Bornedal
The Electrical Life of Louis Wain 2021 Will Sharpe
Drive My Car 2021 Ryusuke Hamaguchi
Supernova 2020 Harry Macqueen
Nope 2022 Jordan Peele
Antlers 2021 Scott Cooper
Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings 2021 Destin Daniel Cretton
Willy’s Wonderland 2021 Kevin Lewis
The Card Counter 2021 Paul Schraeder
Suicide Forest Village 2021 Takashi Shimizu
Waidmannsdank 2020 Daniel Prochaska
No Man of God 2021 Amber Sealey
Joy Ride 2021 Bobcat Goldthwait
Everything Everywhere All at Once 2022 Daniel Scheinert, Daniel Kwan
Crimes of the Future 2022 David Cronenberg
Titane 2021 Julia Ducournau
20 Classics I finally caught up on
Westfront 1918 1930 G W Pabst
The Spirit of the Beehive 1973 Victor Erice
No Way Out 1950 Joseph L Mankiewitz
He Who Must Die 1957 Jules Dassin
A Guy Named Joe 1943 Victor Fleming
Pandora and the Flying Dutchman 1951 Al Lewin
When Willie Comes Marching Home 1950 John Ford
Red Rock West 1993 John Dahl
The Hidden Blade 2004 Yoji Yamada
The Mortal Storm 1940 Frank Borzage
The Winslow Boy 1948 Anthony Asquith
Separate Tables 1958 Delbert Mann
It Happened Tomorrow 1944 Rene Clair
Black Magic 1949 Gregory Ratoff
Day of Wrath 1943 Carl Theodor Dreyer
Merrily We Live 1938 Norman Z McLeod
The Day of the Outlaw 1959 Andre de Toth
Husbands 1970 John Cassavettes
This Gun for Hire 1942 Frank Tuttle
Ordet 1955 Carl Theodor Dreyer
Best Discoveries
The Shanghai Drama 1938 G W Pabst
Truman 2015 Cesc Gay
Vanishing Waves 2012 Kristina Buozyte
Cold Souls 2009 Sophie Barthes
Next Time I’ll Aim For The Heart 2008 Cedric Anger
The Island on Bird Street 1997 Søren Kragh-Jacobsen
A Grain of Truth 2015 Borys Lankosz
Aftermath 2012 Wladyslaw Pasikowski
The Last Days of Emmanuel Kant 1992 Philippe Collin
The Silence 2010 : Baran bo Odar
The Tobacconist 2018 Nikolaus Leytner
I Think We’re Alone Now 2018 Reed Morano
The Hippopotamus 2017 John Jencks
Three Wise Men 2008 Mika Kaurismaki
Black Peter 1964 Milos Forman
Biggest Surprises
The 3 Penny Opera 1931 G W Pabst
Without Anesthesia aka Rough Treatment 1978 Andrzej Wajda
The Disappearance 1977 Stuart Cooper
Smilin’ Through (silent) 1932 Sidney Franklin
Penthouse 1933 W.S. Van Dyke
The Road to Glory 1936 Howard Hawks
Human Cargo 1936 Allan Dwan
A Girl Must Live 1939 Carol Reed
The Remarkable Andrew 1942 Stuart Heisler
Young Mr Pitt 1942 Carol Reed
Paracelsus 1943 G W Pabst
The Americanization of Emily 1964 Arthur Hiller
Freaks 2019 Zach Lipovsky & Adam Stein
Mr Forbush and the Penguins aka Cry for the Penguins 1971 Roy Boulting
The Go-Between 1971 Joseph Losey
Best Horror I Found
Antiviral 2014 Brandon Cronenberg
Cold Skin 2018 Xavier Gens
House of Wax 2005 Jaume Collet-Serra
Monsters 2010 Gareth Edwards
Ghost Sweepers 2012 Jeong-won Shin
Dans la brume aka Just a Breath Away 2018 Daniel Roby
The Tag- Along 2014 Cheng Wei-Hao
Vampire Cleanup Department 2017 Sin-Hang Chiu, Pak-Wing Yan
Draug 2018 Karin Engman, Klas Persson
The Appearance 2018 Kurt Knight
How Did This Get Made? (Not in a bad way, just surprised)
Rise: Blood Hunter 2007 Sebastian Gutierrez
Luz 2018 Tilman Singer
Project Ithaca 2019 Nicholas Humphries
Welcome to Happiness 2015 Oliver Thompson
Crave 2012 Charles de Lauzirika
The Japanese are Very Strange and Very Funny
Survive Style +5 2004 Gen Sekiguchi
Big Man Japan 2007 Hitoshi Matsumoto
Zebraman 2004 Takashi Miike
Getting Any? 1994 Takashi ‘Beat’ Kitano
Best Docs
Andrew Jackson: Good, Evil & The Presidency 2007 Mitch Wilson
My Journey Through French Cinema 2017 Bertrand Tavernier
German Concentration Camps Factual Survey 2014 Sidney Bernstein
The Great Postal Heist 2022 Jay Galione
My Enemy’s Enemy 2007 Kevin MacDonald
Girl 27 2007 David Stenn
Rewind 2019 Sasha Joseph Neulinger
Lost Soul: The Doomed Journey of Richard Stanley’s Island of Dr Moreau 2014 David Gregory
Howard Zinn: A People’s History of the United States 2015 Oliver Azam
The Velvet Underground 2021 Todd Haynes
Team Foxcatcher 2016 Jon Greenhalgh
The Most Beautiful Boy in the World 2021 Kristian Petri, Kristina Lindström
The Age of Consequences 2016 Jared P Scott
The Seven Five 2014 Tiller Russell
Barbara Rubin and the Exploding NY Underground 2018 Chuck Smith
I, Dolours 2018 Maurice Sweeney
The Life and Times of Don Luis Buñuel 1983 Anthony Wall
Freaks & Errors: A Rare Collection 2017 Mark Cwiakala
The Murder Network: A Serial Killer in Nazi Paris 2021 Tom O’Dell
Old Growth Murder 2022 Tom Olsen Jr.
Best Foreign Films
The Third Part of the Night 1971 Andrzej Żuławski Poland
Afterimage 2016 Andrzej Wajda Poland
Mother Joan of the Angels 1961 Jerzy Kawalerowicz Poland
The Widower 1959 Dino Risi Italy
Strangled 2016 Árpád Sopsits Hungary
Im Schatten der Angst 2019 Till Endemann Germany
Battle of the Rails 1946 Rene Clement France
Barbara 2012 Christian Petzold Germany
A Coffee in Berlin 2012 Jan Ole Gerster Germany
Ai margini della metropoli aka At the Edge of the City 1953 Carlo Lizzani Italy
Things I’d watched before (and revisit again and again)
My Man Godfrey (An annual reminder of sanity) 1936 Gregory La Cava
Here Comes Mr. Jordan (*So good I watched it twice!*) 1941 Alexander Hall
The Pianist 2002 Roman Polanski
Planet of the Apes 1968 Franklin J Schaffer
Zodiac 2007 David Fincher
Three Days of the Condor 1975 Sydney Pollock
Lured 1947 Douglas Sirk
Ben Hur 1959 William Wyler
Sahara 1943 Zoltan Korda
House on Haunted Hill 1959 William Castle
His Girl Friday 1940 Howard Hawks
The Lady Vanishes 1938 Alfred Hitchcock
Trumbo 2007 Peter Askin
Arrival 2016 Denis Villeneuve
We Have a Pope 2011 Nanni Moretti
Juliet of the Spirits 1965 Frederico Fellini
Broken Flowers 2005 Jim Jarmusch
All The Presidents Men 1976 Alan J Pakula
The Treatment 2014 Hans Herbots
Tell No One 2006 Guillaume Canet
Contagion 2011 Steven Soderbergh
The Lodger 1944 John Brahm
Bell, Book and Candle 1958 Richard Quine
The Conjuring 2013 James Wan
Seven Days in May 1962 John Frankenheilmer
'Films that have not aged well
I am Legend 2007 Francis Lawrence
The Razor’s Edge 1984 John Byrum
Last Tango in Paris 1972 Bernardo Bertolucci
The worst
Embryo 1976 Ralph Nelson
The Three Musketeers 1939 Allan Dwan
Saturn 3 1980 Stanley Donen
Killing Me Softly 2002 Chen Kaige
The Guardian 1990 William Friedkin
The Hound of the Baskervilles 1978 Paul Morrissey
The Frozen Dead 1966 Herbert J Leder
The Eye 2008 David Moreau, Zavier Palud
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court 1949 Tay Garnett
Holmes and Watson 2018 Etan Cohen
The Weakest Links
Blacklight 2022 Mark Williams
X 2022 Ti West
Deep Water 2022 Adrian Lynne
The Last Duel 2021 Ridley Scott
Stillwater 2021 Tom McCarthy
Infinite 2021 Antoine Fuqua
Blonde 2022 Andrew Dominik
Inside Man 2022 Paul McGuigan
Elvis 2022 Baz Lurmann
The Wonder 2022 Sebastián Lelio
The 6 Dumbest Docs
Dead Asleep 2021 Skye Borgman
A Glitch in the Matrix 2021 Rodney Ascher
An Unknown Compelling Force 2021 Liam Le Guillou
Misha and the Wolves 2021 Sam Hobkinson
Crime Scenes: Hotel Cecil 2022 Joe Berlinger
Framing John DeLorean 2019 Don Argott, Sheena M. Joyce
What inspired the monster in ‘Nope’
Dogora 1964 Ishiro Honda
Disappointments that had a possibility
Slipstream 1989 Steven Lisberger
The Pale Blue Eye 2022 Scott Cooper
Max Steel 2016 Stewart Hendler
Solver 2017 Xandy Smith
My Blueberry Nights 2008 Wong Kar Wai
547 Films seen
98 Foreign Language
115 Documentaries
61 Re-runs
All Quiet on the Western Front 2022 Edward Berger
Charlatan 2020 Agnieszka Holland
Under The Open Sky 2020 Miwa Nishikawa
Benediction 2021 Terence Davies
The Shadow in My Eye 2021 Ole Bornedal
The Electrical Life of Louis Wain 2021 Will Sharpe
Drive My Car 2021 Ryusuke Hamaguchi
Supernova 2020 Harry Macqueen
Nope 2022 Jordan Peele
Antlers 2021 Scott Cooper
Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings 2021 Destin Daniel Cretton
Willy’s Wonderland 2021 Kevin Lewis
The Card Counter 2021 Paul Schraeder
Suicide Forest Village 2021 Takashi Shimizu
Waidmannsdank 2020 Daniel Prochaska
No Man of God 2021 Amber Sealey
Joy Ride 2021 Bobcat Goldthwait
Everything Everywhere All at Once 2022 Daniel Scheinert, Daniel Kwan
Crimes of the Future 2022 David Cronenberg
Titane 2021 Julia Ducournau
20 Classics I finally caught up on
Westfront 1918 1930 G W Pabst
The Spirit of the Beehive 1973 Victor Erice
No Way Out 1950 Joseph L Mankiewitz
He Who Must Die 1957 Jules Dassin
A Guy Named Joe 1943 Victor Fleming
Pandora and the Flying Dutchman 1951 Al Lewin
When Willie Comes Marching Home 1950 John Ford
Red Rock West 1993 John Dahl
The Hidden Blade 2004 Yoji Yamada
The Mortal Storm 1940 Frank Borzage
The Winslow Boy 1948 Anthony Asquith
Separate Tables 1958 Delbert Mann
It Happened Tomorrow 1944 Rene Clair
Black Magic 1949 Gregory Ratoff
Day of Wrath 1943 Carl Theodor Dreyer
Merrily We Live 1938 Norman Z McLeod
The Day of the Outlaw 1959 Andre de Toth
Husbands 1970 John Cassavettes
This Gun for Hire 1942 Frank Tuttle
Ordet 1955 Carl Theodor Dreyer
Best Discoveries
The Shanghai Drama 1938 G W Pabst
Truman 2015 Cesc Gay
Vanishing Waves 2012 Kristina Buozyte
Cold Souls 2009 Sophie Barthes
Next Time I’ll Aim For The Heart 2008 Cedric Anger
The Island on Bird Street 1997 Søren Kragh-Jacobsen
A Grain of Truth 2015 Borys Lankosz
Aftermath 2012 Wladyslaw Pasikowski
The Last Days of Emmanuel Kant 1992 Philippe Collin
The Silence 2010 : Baran bo Odar
The Tobacconist 2018 Nikolaus Leytner
I Think We’re Alone Now 2018 Reed Morano
The Hippopotamus 2017 John Jencks
Three Wise Men 2008 Mika Kaurismaki
Black Peter 1964 Milos Forman
Biggest Surprises
The 3 Penny Opera 1931 G W Pabst
Without Anesthesia aka Rough Treatment 1978 Andrzej Wajda
The Disappearance 1977 Stuart Cooper
Smilin’ Through (silent) 1932 Sidney Franklin
Penthouse 1933 W.S. Van Dyke
The Road to Glory 1936 Howard Hawks
Human Cargo 1936 Allan Dwan
A Girl Must Live 1939 Carol Reed
The Remarkable Andrew 1942 Stuart Heisler
Young Mr Pitt 1942 Carol Reed
Paracelsus 1943 G W Pabst
The Americanization of Emily 1964 Arthur Hiller
Freaks 2019 Zach Lipovsky & Adam Stein
Mr Forbush and the Penguins aka Cry for the Penguins 1971 Roy Boulting
The Go-Between 1971 Joseph Losey
Best Horror I Found
Antiviral 2014 Brandon Cronenberg
Cold Skin 2018 Xavier Gens
House of Wax 2005 Jaume Collet-Serra
Monsters 2010 Gareth Edwards
Ghost Sweepers 2012 Jeong-won Shin
Dans la brume aka Just a Breath Away 2018 Daniel Roby
The Tag- Along 2014 Cheng Wei-Hao
Vampire Cleanup Department 2017 Sin-Hang Chiu, Pak-Wing Yan
Draug 2018 Karin Engman, Klas Persson
The Appearance 2018 Kurt Knight
How Did This Get Made? (Not in a bad way, just surprised)
Rise: Blood Hunter 2007 Sebastian Gutierrez
Luz 2018 Tilman Singer
Project Ithaca 2019 Nicholas Humphries
Welcome to Happiness 2015 Oliver Thompson
Crave 2012 Charles de Lauzirika
The Japanese are Very Strange and Very Funny
Survive Style +5 2004 Gen Sekiguchi
Big Man Japan 2007 Hitoshi Matsumoto
Zebraman 2004 Takashi Miike
Getting Any? 1994 Takashi ‘Beat’ Kitano
Best Docs
Andrew Jackson: Good, Evil & The Presidency 2007 Mitch Wilson
My Journey Through French Cinema 2017 Bertrand Tavernier
German Concentration Camps Factual Survey 2014 Sidney Bernstein
The Great Postal Heist 2022 Jay Galione
My Enemy’s Enemy 2007 Kevin MacDonald
Girl 27 2007 David Stenn
Rewind 2019 Sasha Joseph Neulinger
Lost Soul: The Doomed Journey of Richard Stanley’s Island of Dr Moreau 2014 David Gregory
Howard Zinn: A People’s History of the United States 2015 Oliver Azam
The Velvet Underground 2021 Todd Haynes
Team Foxcatcher 2016 Jon Greenhalgh
The Most Beautiful Boy in the World 2021 Kristian Petri, Kristina Lindström
The Age of Consequences 2016 Jared P Scott
The Seven Five 2014 Tiller Russell
Barbara Rubin and the Exploding NY Underground 2018 Chuck Smith
I, Dolours 2018 Maurice Sweeney
The Life and Times of Don Luis Buñuel 1983 Anthony Wall
Freaks & Errors: A Rare Collection 2017 Mark Cwiakala
The Murder Network: A Serial Killer in Nazi Paris 2021 Tom O’Dell
Old Growth Murder 2022 Tom Olsen Jr.
Best Foreign Films
The Third Part of the Night 1971 Andrzej Żuławski Poland
Afterimage 2016 Andrzej Wajda Poland
Mother Joan of the Angels 1961 Jerzy Kawalerowicz Poland
The Widower 1959 Dino Risi Italy
Strangled 2016 Árpád Sopsits Hungary
Im Schatten der Angst 2019 Till Endemann Germany
Battle of the Rails 1946 Rene Clement France
Barbara 2012 Christian Petzold Germany
A Coffee in Berlin 2012 Jan Ole Gerster Germany
Ai margini della metropoli aka At the Edge of the City 1953 Carlo Lizzani Italy
Things I’d watched before (and revisit again and again)
My Man Godfrey (An annual reminder of sanity) 1936 Gregory La Cava
Here Comes Mr. Jordan (*So good I watched it twice!*) 1941 Alexander Hall
The Pianist 2002 Roman Polanski
Planet of the Apes 1968 Franklin J Schaffer
Zodiac 2007 David Fincher
Three Days of the Condor 1975 Sydney Pollock
Lured 1947 Douglas Sirk
Ben Hur 1959 William Wyler
Sahara 1943 Zoltan Korda
House on Haunted Hill 1959 William Castle
His Girl Friday 1940 Howard Hawks
The Lady Vanishes 1938 Alfred Hitchcock
Trumbo 2007 Peter Askin
Arrival 2016 Denis Villeneuve
We Have a Pope 2011 Nanni Moretti
Juliet of the Spirits 1965 Frederico Fellini
Broken Flowers 2005 Jim Jarmusch
All The Presidents Men 1976 Alan J Pakula
The Treatment 2014 Hans Herbots
Tell No One 2006 Guillaume Canet
Contagion 2011 Steven Soderbergh
The Lodger 1944 John Brahm
Bell, Book and Candle 1958 Richard Quine
The Conjuring 2013 James Wan
Seven Days in May 1962 John Frankenheilmer
'Films that have not aged well
I am Legend 2007 Francis Lawrence
The Razor’s Edge 1984 John Byrum
Last Tango in Paris 1972 Bernardo Bertolucci
The worst
Embryo 1976 Ralph Nelson
The Three Musketeers 1939 Allan Dwan
Saturn 3 1980 Stanley Donen
Killing Me Softly 2002 Chen Kaige
The Guardian 1990 William Friedkin
The Hound of the Baskervilles 1978 Paul Morrissey
The Frozen Dead 1966 Herbert J Leder
The Eye 2008 David Moreau, Zavier Palud
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court 1949 Tay Garnett
Holmes and Watson 2018 Etan Cohen
The Weakest Links
Blacklight 2022 Mark Williams
X 2022 Ti West
Deep Water 2022 Adrian Lynne
The Last Duel 2021 Ridley Scott
Stillwater 2021 Tom McCarthy
Infinite 2021 Antoine Fuqua
Blonde 2022 Andrew Dominik
Inside Man 2022 Paul McGuigan
Elvis 2022 Baz Lurmann
The Wonder 2022 Sebastián Lelio
The 6 Dumbest Docs
Dead Asleep 2021 Skye Borgman
A Glitch in the Matrix 2021 Rodney Ascher
An Unknown Compelling Force 2021 Liam Le Guillou
Misha and the Wolves 2021 Sam Hobkinson
Crime Scenes: Hotel Cecil 2022 Joe Berlinger
Framing John DeLorean 2019 Don Argott, Sheena M. Joyce
What inspired the monster in ‘Nope’
Dogora 1964 Ishiro Honda
Disappointments that had a possibility
Slipstream 1989 Steven Lisberger
The Pale Blue Eye 2022 Scott Cooper
Max Steel 2016 Stewart Hendler
Solver 2017 Xandy Smith
My Blueberry Nights 2008 Wong Kar Wai
547 Films seen
98 Foreign Language
115 Documentaries
61 Re-runs
in chronological order: oh darling! yeh hai india! : absolutely delirious wonderfully romantic anarchic stuff, full of contradictions, but somehow cohesive, just sosososososo good; spirit: stallion of the cimarron : seriously, it's a silent film, but animated, and from 2002, and it works, like a lot; hooper : sneaky good, sure, there's the ridiculous cartoonish bullshit, but that only serves as a needed counterbalance to something that shouldn't be as poignant as it is, hey burt reynolds; four nocturnes : saw it twice on a trisplitscreen at a museum, and made out with a girl during one of those two times; twin peaks: fire walk with me : fuck commercial tv, cable is where it's at. also saw other decent things that most other people have seen, so it doesn't really matter if i give nods to them here. but oh, fuck the many saints of newark. watched 20min of it, and turned it off cuz even in that short span of time it actually started to tarnish the legacy of the sopranos for me
