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Post by Joaquim on Dec 31, 2021 19:58:35 GMT
It’s the end of the year so post those lists
1. The Last Detail (Ashby, 1973)
2. Oedipus Rex (Pasolini, 1967)
3. Kill Bill Vol. 1 (Tarantino, 2003)
4. Blow Out (De Palma, 1981)
5. The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie (Buñuel, 1972)
6. The Battle of Algiers (Pontecorvo, 1966)
7. The Long Goodbye (Altman, 1973)
8. The Bird with the Crystal Plumage (Argento, 1970)
9. The Set-Up (Wise, 1949)
10. The Night of the Hunter (Laughton, 1955)
11. La Chienne (Renoir, 1931)
12. He Who Gets Slapped (Sjostrom, 1924)
13. Cowards Bend the Knee (Maddin, 2003)
14. Brick (Johnson, 2005)
15. Michael (Dreyer, 1924)
16. Female Trouble (Waters, 1974)
17. Stalag 17 (Wilder, 1953)
18. WR: Mysteries of the Organism (Makavejev, 1971)
19. Safe (Haynes, 1995)
20. The Skin (Cavani, 1981)
Please discuss.
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Post by Miles Morales on Dec 31, 2021 20:36:12 GMT
1. Hirak Rajar Deshe 2. In the Mood for Love 3. Chungking Express 4. Mahanagar 5. Charulata 6. Dead Poets Society 7. La Haine 8. Brief Encounter 9. Close-Up 10. Nayak 11. Sonar Kella 12. Four Adventures of Reinette and Mirabelle 13. Millennium Actress 14. The Third Man 15. Heat 16. Tokyo Godfathers 17. Agantuk 18. Au Revoir Le Enfants 19. Taste of Cherry 20. After Hours 21. Asha Jaowar Majhe 22. Minari 23. The Father 24. The Diving Bell and the Butterfly 25. Killa
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Post by pacinoyes on Dec 31, 2021 21:22:32 GMT
The bigger ones that made a strong impression this year - no order within groups:
9-10: Godhead levelThe House Is Black (documentary) (1963) - Forough Farrokhzad Chess Game of The Wind (1976) - Mohammad Resi Aslani Demons (Shura) (1971) - Toshio Matsumoto This Transient Life (1970) - Akio Jissôji Blind Beast (1969) - Yasuzô Masumura Irezumi - (1966) - Yasuzô Masumura Hagazussa - (2017) - Lukas Feigelfeld 8 or higher:
Le Horla (short) (1966) - Jean-Daniel Pollet Demon (1978) - Yoshitarō Nomura The Mad Fox (1962) - Tomu Uchida IO Island (1977) - Kim Ki-young The Insect Woman (1972) - Kim Ki-young The Face of Another (1966) - Hiroshi Teshigahara The Forbidden Room (1977) - Dino Risi Nasty (short) (2015) - Prano Bailey-Bond Hands of Purple Distances (short) (1962) - Sava Trifković Spontaneous (2020) - Brian Duffield 7+ But essential viewing...... to me anyway:
In The Dark (2000?) - Clifton Holmes He Died With His Eyes Open (1985) - Jacques Deray The Piper (2015) - Kim Kwang-tae Toc Toc (2017) - Vicente Villanueva
Guilty Pleasure:Abrakadabra (2018) - Luciano & Nico Onetti  |
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Post by Viced on Dec 31, 2021 21:32:03 GMT
(nothing recent)
1. Rocco and His Brothers (Visconti)
2. Turkish Delight (Verhoeven)
3. Black Book (Verhoeven)
4. A Special Day (Scola)
5. New World (Park)
6. Bitter Moon (Polanski)
7. Elle (Verhoeven)
8. Excalibur (Boorman)
9. Starship Troopers (Verhoeven)
10. The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (Demy)
11. Showgirls (Verhoeven)
12. Joint Security Area (Park)
13. Crossing Delancey (Micklin Silver)
14. The Grey Fox (Borsos)
15. Kansas City (Altman)
16. Ride with the Devil (Lee)
17. The Ninth Gate (Polanski)
18. Ripley's Game (Cavani)
19. Lola (Demy)
20. S.O.B. (Edwards)
21. Ladybug Ladybug (Perry)
22. Spring Night, Summer Night (Anderson)
23. The Third Lover (Chabrol)
24. October Sky (Johnston)
25. Sounder (Ritt)
26. My Life as a Dog (Hallström)
27. A Pure Formality (Tornatore)
28. Race with the Devil (Starrett)
29. Suburbia (Spheeris)
30. The Young Girls of Rochefort (Demy)
31. Mr. Holland's Opus (Herek)
32. There's Always Tomorrow (Sirk)
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Post by stephen on Dec 31, 2021 21:42:59 GMT
(nothing recent) 1. Rocco and His Brothers (Visconti) Niiiiiice. |
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Post by Martin Stett on Dec 31, 2021 22:06:47 GMT
This was a spectacular year of movie-watching for me. 1. La Flor (2018) - I watched this fourteen hour behemoth just so I could complain about it (I do so like complaining). I wasn't expecting the most fun movie "about movies" ever made. It reminds me of nothing so much as Cowboy Bebop in the way it plays with narrative conventions for the sake of seeing what fresh things can be done with them. (The way the songs in the musical segment change meaning based on which character is telling the story is especially reminiscent of how Bebop will redo small concepts, whole episodes or even the backstories of characters from a fresh vantage point.) I have to make special mention of the 5 1/2 hour spy movie taking up the middle third of this monstrosity. Taken by itself, episode 3 may be... um... my favorite... movie... ever...  The other sections are terrific as well, but the highwire of a tone traversed by episode 3 (a cross between James Bond, The Spy Who Came In from the Cold and Get Smart - with far more of the latter than I could have possibly expected) is my kind of heaven. 2. Jean de Florette/Manon of the Spring (1986) - I do love classical tragedy, and here we have one of the very best. This is almost Miltonian in the way it shows the degradation of a single character casting away any part of himself that isn't evil. 3. Red Post on Escher Street (2020) - This makes for a great companion piece to La Flor, as they are both tributes to "cinema" that focus on the simple fun of make believe. There's an ecstatic enthusiasm at play here, like Sono has thrown away his caution and is running wild with his actors, having the time of his life. 4. Blue Is the Warmest Color (2013) - One of the finest coming-of-age movies I've seen, showing a character who knows what she wants to be, but doesn't have a clue who she really is. As Adele tries to mold Emma into her image of what life should be, Emma is doing the same to Adele, crushing their love in their inability to truly see how much they are hurting each other. I love the ending, which reminds me of the children's novel Criss Cross by Lynne Rae Perkins. Like in Criss Cross, there is no judgment here. They're growing up, and screwing up is part of that. 5. The Illusionist (2010) - A mixture of City Lights and Limelight, but funnier and more heartbreaking than either. Sylvain Chomet doesn't just resurrect Tati, but every one of the supporting characters has their own carefully choreographed body language that makes the entire movie come alive as a magical dream. 6. Samurai Rebellion (1967) - I've jokingly called Masaki Kobayashi "the angriest man in Japan," but there is a romantic streak to him too. Both sides are on full display in this romantic tragedy that is characteristically pissed off. Much like Takashi Miike would do with the remake of Harakiri, Kobayashi focuses on a doomed romance between good people being destroyed by an evil system of corrupt men. Unlike Takashi Miike, he is able to get Toshiro Mifune at the top of his game. 7. Lupin the Third: Strange Psychokinetic Strategy (1974) - Pure zaniness. This has some of the weirdest and funniest visual gags I've ever seen. That joke about the censors cutting the sex scene has got to be one of the most surreal gags ever put on film. 8. Brotherhood of the Wolf (2001) - Every time that I thought I had a handle on how batshit this movie was, it found ways of surprising me. There's no better way to keep a grin glued to my face. 9. The Personal History of David Copperfield (2019) - Down with stuffy literary adaptations! I'm sure that this doesn't do justice to most of the plot in the Dickens novel, but much like half of the other movies on my list this year, this film is having fun in every second. It comes off as a guy telling you all of his favorite parts and skipping about from scene to scene rapidly because he had a blast and he can't wait to tell you everything about it. The enthusiasm is contagious. 10. Sorry We Missed You (2019) - Loach doing Loach. Which is fine by me. What sets him apart from so many other misery porn directors is that he is so obviously invested in showing his characters as people. Not as jobs, not as downtrodden workers, but as people who laugh and cry and eat together and love each other and get angry with each other. And then he builds on that foundation, showing how the economic system destroys families because it turns them into numbers and supplies and doesn't give a damn if the people they live for suffer because of it. Honorable mentions: Armor Hunter Mellowlink (1988 miniseries) Assassins (2020) Collective (2020) The Deeper You Dig (2019) Gretel & Hansel (2020) Happiest Season (2020) Help! (1965) Iphigenia (1977) Legend of the Galactic Heroes: My Conquest Is the Sea of Stars (1988) Legend of the Galactic Heroes: Overture to a New War (1993) The Paleface (1922) Snatch. (2000) Somewhere Beneath the Wide Sky (1954) Street Without End (1934) The Wolf House (2018) |
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Post by Mattsby on Dec 31, 2021 22:19:05 GMT
Loved all these........
01. Chess of the Wind (1976) - 10/10
02. Days and Nights in the Forest (1970) - 9/10
03. The Grey Fox (1982)
04. Woman in the Dunes (1964)
05. Salesman (1969)
06. Through the Olive Trees (1994)
07. Seventeen Moments of Spring (1973)
08. The Lady in Red (1979)
09. The Organizer (1963)
10. The Arch (1968)
11. The Tall T (1957)
12. Demons (1971)
13. Sister (2012)
14. Ghostwatch (1992)
15. Godzilla vs Hedorah (1971)
16. Ripley’s Game (2002)
17. There’s Always Tomorrow (1955)
18. Cobra Verde (1988)
19. Penda’s Fen (1974)
20. Savage Hunt of King Stakh (1979)
21. Age of Success (1988)
22. Skin Game (1971)
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Post by Mattsby on Dec 31, 2021 22:38:28 GMT
20. The Skin (Cavani, 1981) I saw this a while ago, don't remember it well but there was a line Burt Lancaster says like "Did you know no one in history ever conquered Rome from the South?" that sent me googling for hours lol. Speaking of conquering, between this and Ripley's Game for me and Viced.... Liliana Cavani making moves in this thread! |
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Post by Film Socialism on Dec 31, 2021 22:45:18 GMT
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Post by Mattsby on Dec 31, 2021 23:00:54 GMT
The bigger ones that made a strong impression this year - no order within groups:
9-10: Godhead levelThe House Is Black (documentary) (1963) - Forough Farrokhzad Chess Game of The Wind (1976) - Mohammad Resi Aslani Demons (Shura) (1971) - Toshio Matsumoto This Transient Life (1970) - Akio Jissôji Blind Beast (1969) - Yasuzô Masumura Irezumi - (1966) - Yasuzô Masumura Hagazussa - (2017) - Lukas Feigelfeld 8 or higher:
Le Horla (short) (1966) - Jean-Daniel Pollet Demon (1978) - Yoshitarō Nomura The Mad Fox (1962) - Tomu Uchida IO Island (1977) - Kim Ki-young The Insect Woman (1972) - Kim Ki-young The Face of Another (1966) - Hiroshi Teshigahara The Forbidden Room (1977) - Dino Risi Nasty (short) (2015) - Prano Bailey-Bond Hands of Purple Distances (short) (1962) - Sava Trifković Spontaneous (2020) - Brian Duffield Oh man, I can't wait for this board to see Chess of the Wind when it drops on Criterion sometime in 2022 (it should). It's insane how many movies called Demon you've seen this year hahah....and how 7/13 of your 8+ or higher features are Japanese! And tomorrow.........starts Japanuary! (Some awesome ones on Criterion if you haven't seen: The Perfect Game, Sword of the Beast, Third Shadow Warrior, Oshima's Gohatto ) Toc Toc and What's In A Name both just missed the cut for me - find more like those in 2022 for the board, Mo.  |
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Post by Mattsby on Dec 31, 2021 23:03:06 GMT
2. Jean de Florette/Manon of the Spring (1986) - I do love classical tragedy, and here we have one of the very best. This is almost Miltonian in the way it shows the degradation of a single character casting away any part of himself that isn't evil. 3. Red Post on Escher Street (2020) - This makes for a great companion piece to La Flor, as they are both tributes to "cinema" that focus on the simple fun of make believe. There's an ecstatic enthusiasm at play here, like Sono has thrown away his caution and is running wild with his actors, having the time of his life.  "We melt into the scene!" |
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Post by coop032 on Jan 1, 2022 0:20:14 GMT
1. Days of Wine and Roses
2. Fail Safe
3. Lilya 4-ever
4. The Baby of Macon
5. Cool Hand Luke
6. Open Your Eyes
7. The Mission
8. 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days
9. Corpus Christi
10. In Cold Blood
11. They Shoot Horses, Don't They
12. The Broken Circle Breakdown
13. Crumb
14. 8 Women
15. Strictly Ballroom
16. What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?
17. Summer Hours
18. That Cold Day in the Park
19. A Bittersweet Life
20. Angst
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Post by Joaquim on Jan 1, 2022 0:31:59 GMT
20. The Skin (Cavani, 1981) I saw this a while ago, don't remember it well but there was a line Burt Lancaster says like "Did you know no one in history ever conquered Rome from the South?" that sent me googling for hours lol. Well if you want to go off a technicality, Sulla’s first march on Rome during his long power struggle with Marius was from the south |
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Post by SZilla on Jan 1, 2022 2:01:05 GMT
The only 10/10 I rated this year was
Touchez Pas au Grisbi (1954)
I also rated Michael Jackson's Thriller (1983) a 10/10 but that's a music video (and one I've probably seen before this year but wasn't sure.)
My 9/10s from this year in no order:
A Face in the Crowd (1957)
Titicut Follies (1967)
Ghostwatch (1992)
The Browning Version (1951)
The Crowd (1928)
Dune (2021)
Dr. Mabuse, the Gambler (1922)
The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters (2007)
The Father (2020)
The Testament of Dr. Mabuse (1933)
Minari (2020)
The Rider (2017)
The Patsy (1928)
Bo Burnham: Inside (2021)
Destiny (1921)
Koyaanisqatsi (1982)
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Post by stabcaesar on Jan 1, 2022 5:24:28 GMT
Excluding 2020 releases.
1. Hud (1963)
2. Fanny and Alexander (1982)
3. The Spy Who Came in from the Cold (1965)
4. Farewell My Concubine (1993)
5. Tower (2016)
6. The Last Picture Show (1971)
7. Raise the Red Lantern (1991)
8. Judgment at Nuremberg (1961)
9. L'Avventura (1960)
10. Rififi (1955)
11. Le retour de Martin Guerre (1982)
12. Ace in the Hole (1951)
13. The Conversation (1974)
14. Compliance (2012)
15. They Shoot Horses, Don't They (1969)
16. Jagten (2012)
17. Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988)
18. Short Cuts (1993)
19. Back to the Future (1985)
20. Wait Until Dark (1967)
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Post by themoviesinner on Jan 1, 2022 10:48:11 GMT
Not including 2021 films:
1. Canoa: A Shameful Memory (1976)
2. Nashville (1975)
3. Resident Evil: Afterlife (2010)
4. Harvest: 3,000 Years (1974)
5. Punishment Park (1971)
6. Life Without Principle (2011)
7. The Betrayal (1966)
8. Resident Evil: Retribution (2012)
9. The Day Of The Jackal (1973)
10. When The Tenth Month Comes (1984)
HMs: The Driver (1978), Duvidha (1973), The Verdict (1982), Lux Aeterna (2019), After The Curfew (1954)
All pretty fantastic.
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Post by themoviesinner on Jan 1, 2022 10:56:59 GMT
7. Lupin the Third: Strange Psychokinetic Strategy (1974) - Pure zaniness. This has some of the weirdest and funniest visual gags I've ever seen. That joke about the censors cutting the sex scene has got to be one of the most surreal gags ever put on film. Watched this yesterday. Yeah, it's very fun. Wacky and cartoonish, just the way I like it. And that joke you mention was definitely the funniest part of the film (although the heist job was just as hilarious). Overall, I had a great time. |
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Post by JangoB on Jan 1, 2022 11:21:21 GMT
I'll exclude the 2021 films too:
1. Early Summer (1951)
2. Our Little Sister (2015)
3. Why Don’t You Play in Hell? (2013)
4. The Browning Version (1951)
5. Red Post on Escher Street (2020)
6. When Marnie Was There (2014)
7. City of Hope (1991)
8. Floating Weeds (1959)
9. Personal Shopper (2016)
10. Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance (2002)
11. Hustle & Flow (2005)
12. Peppermint Soda (1977)
13. Burning (2018)
14. The Importance of Being Earnest (1952)
15. This Sporting Life (1963)
16. A Tale of Two Sisters (2003)
17. Far from the Madding Crowd (1967)
18. The Love Witch (2016)
19. The Whispering Star (2016)
20. The Bow (2005)
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Post by DeepArcher on Jan 1, 2022 17:32:59 GMT
My annual Letterboxd list: letterboxd.com/deeparcher/list/20-best-discoveries-of-2021/1. Strange Days (1995, Kathryn Bigelow) 2. A Matter of Life and Death (1946, Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger) 3. A New Leaf (1971, Elaine May) 4. Contact (1997, Robert Zemeckis) 5. Vanilla Sky (2001, Cameron Crowe) 6. Showgirls (1995, Paul Verhoeven) 7. Girlfriends (1978, Claudia Weill) 8. The Village (2004, M. Night Shyamalan) 9. The Palm Beach Story (1942, Preston Sturges) 10. Only Yesterday (1991, Isao Takahata) 11. Bamboozled (2000, Spike Lee) 12. Eat Drink Man Woman (1994, Ang Lee) 13. The Matrix Reloaded (2003, Lana and Lilly Wachowski) 14. Center Stage (1991, Stanley Kwan) 15. Come Back to the 5 & Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean (1982, Robert Altman) 16. Streets of Fire (1984, Walter Hill) 17. In the Cut (2003, Jane Campion) 18. Carnival of Souls (1962, Herk Harvey) 19. The Manchurian Candidate (1962, John Frankenheimer) 20. A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984, Wes Craven) |
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Post by Martin Stett on Jan 1, 2022 17:55:37 GMT
8. The Village (2004, M. Night Shyamalan)  |
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Post by Mattsby on Jan 1, 2022 19:21:01 GMT
Touchez Pas au Grisbi (1954)A Face in the Crowd (1957)
Ghostwatch (1992)
Dr. Mabuse, the Gambler (1922) |
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Post by Tommen_Saperstein on Jan 1, 2022 19:50:35 GMT
excluding 2021 and 2020 films
1. Rear Window (Hitch, 1954)
2. Winchester '73 (Mann, 1950)
3. Sudden Fear (Miller, 1952)
4. Baby Doll (Kazan, 1956)
5. Vertigo (Hitch, 1958)
6. Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (Brooks, 1958)
7. Our Man in Havana (Reed, 1959)
8. Summer Interlude (Bergman, 1951)
9. North by Northwest (Hitch, 1959)
10. Dial M for Murder (Hitch, 1954)
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11. 7 Men from Now (Boetticher, 1956)
12. Sunset Blvd. (Wilder, 1950)
13. Fires on the Plain (Ichikawa, 1959)
14. Creepshow (Romero, 1982)
15. Odds Against Tomorrow (Wise, 1959)
16. Bloody Sunday (Greengrass, 2002)
17. Confessions of a Dangerous Mind (Clooney, 2002)
18. King Creole (Curtiz, 1958)
19. Outrage (Lupino, 1950)
20. Early Summer (Ozu, 1951)
I think most of the 50s movies I watched are in here. Such a fantastic decade
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Post by isabelaolive on Jan 1, 2022 23:30:56 GMT
In 2021 I watched 224 movies, almost 100 movies less than I saw in 2020, but I still managed to watch a lot. Unfortunately I saw few animations and films directed by women compared to last year, but I managed to watch a lot of old movies (from the 40s/50s/60s) and non-English language productions.
Anyway, these were the 50 best I saw last year in chronological order.
M 1931
Citizen Kane 1941
Rome, Open City 1945
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre 1948
Night and the City 1950
Rashomon 1950
Ace in the Hole 1951
Strangers on a Train 1951
The Wages of Fear 1953
Two Acres of Land 1953
Salt of the Earth 1954
Seven Samurai 1954
Pather Panchali 1955
Rio, 40 Degrees C. 1955
Rififi 1955
A Face in the Crowd 1957
Rio, North Zone 1957
The Bridge on the River Kwai 1957
Anatomy of a Murder 1959
Ben-Hur 1959
Room at the Top 1959
Le Trou 1960
Il Posto 1961
Assault on the Pay Train 1962
Lawrence of Arabia 1962
The Given Word 1962
Tocaia no Asfalto 1962
Hud 1963
Soy Cuba 1964
Seconds 1966
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly 1966
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid 1969
They Shoot Horses, Don’t They? 1969
The Terminator 1984
The Official Story 1985
Vagabond 1985
The Thin Blue Line 1988
Boyz n the Hood 1991
Casino 1995
Heat 1995
Boogie Nights 1997
L.A. Confidential 1997
The Big Lebowski 1998
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon 2000
Gladiator 2000
Snatch 2000
Captain Phillips 2013
Crip Camp: A Disability Revolution 2020
The Father 2020
Wolfwalkers 2020
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Post by ireallyamsomething on Jan 2, 2022 8:31:46 GMT
Favorite new-to-me movies: 2021 Possessor (2020) The Sin of Nora Moran (1933) The Kid Detective (2020) Saint Maud (2019) Suntan (2016) Minari (2020) Another Round (2020) The Father (2020) The Passenger (1975) Sound of Metal (2019) About Endlessness (2019) Something, Anything (2014) Blue My Mind (2017) Blind Beast (1969) Bo Burnham: Inside (2021) Censor (2021) The Disciple (2020) Helen (2008) Taste of Fear (1961) Nadia, Butterfly (2020) Irezumi (1966) Insiang (1976) Pleasure Party (1975) The Whistlers (2019) A Sun (2019) Riders of Justice (2020) Stillwater (2021) The Night House (2020) The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (1964) Aamis (2019) Model Shop (1969) Benedetta (2021) The Mitchells vs The Machines (2021) Last Night in Soho (2021) Rocks in My Pockets (2014) Titane (2021) West of Zanzibar (1928) In the City of Sylvia (2007) Shout out to pacinoyes for a few great recommendations! |
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Post by pacinoyes on Jan 2, 2022 11:50:43 GMT
I just realized I didn't include The Amusement Park (1975) on my first time watch list and thats in my "top 10ish" of 2021 since its release "date" is so weird........  |
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The other sections are terrific as well, but the highwire of a tone traversed by episode 3 (a cross between James Bond, The Spy Who Came In from the Cold and Get Smart - with far more of the latter than I could have possibly expected) is my kind of heaven.
