Top 10 first-time viewings of 2017 so far

Top 20, alphabetically-

Aliens
Batman
The Beguiled
Call Me By Your Name
The Edge of Seventeen
Get Out
The Impossible
Lion
Logan
Manchester By the Sea
Patriot's Day
Signs
Silence
The Sixth Sense
Split
The Square
Unbreakable
What We Do in the Shadows
Wind River
Wonder Woman

1. Paris, Texas
2. Come and See
3. Close-Up
4. Seven Samurai
5. Casablanca
6. Yi Yi
7. Chungking Express
8. La Haine
9. A Separation
10. Tokyo Story

Something like that. I'm still not yet sure how a lot of these films rank for me. 

1. Once Upon a Time in America
2. Stalker
3. Woman in the Dunes
4. Leolo
5. Angst
6. Floating Weeds
7. Aguirre, the Wrath of God
8. A City of Sadness
9. Three Colors: Red
10. Pierrot le Fou

Boi

In no order:

Brief Encounter (1945)
Europe '51 (1952)
Vengeance is Mine (1979)
Soy Cuba (1964)
Branded to Kill (1967)
Wings of Desire (1987)
Rocco and His Brothers (1960)
In the Mood for Love (2000)
L'Atalante (1934)
Rebecca (1940)

Yeah I didn't expect to love it as much as I did. The script is incredible. 

Make Way for Tomorrow (McCarey, 1937)
Kiss Me Deadly (Aldrich, 1955)
La commune (Paris, 1871) (Watkins, 2000)
The Devils (Russell, 1971)
My Neighbor Totoro (Miyazaki, 1988)
Miami Vice (Mann, 2006)
Woman in the Dunes (Teshigahara, 1964)
The Wedding March (von Stroheim, 1928)
Eggshells (Hooper, 1969)
Julien Donkey-Boy (Korine, 1999)

God, this is hard:

Shorts:
1. Det perfekte menneske (1967, Leth)
2. Aguaespejo granadino (1955, del Omar)
3. Lucifer Rising (1972, Anger)
4. The Act of Seeing with One's Own Eyes (1971, Brakhage)
5. Blight (1996, Smith)
6. The Dream of a Ridiculous Man (1992, Petrov)
7. My Love (2006, Petrov)
8. Breakaway (1966, Conner)
9. Chess Fever (1925, Pudovkin)
10. Le vampire (1945, Painlevé)

Features:
1. Elephant (2003, van Sant)
2. Nun va Goldoon (1996, Makhmalbaf)
3. Genuine (1920, Wiene)
4. Odd Man Out (1947, Reed)
5. Mädchen in Uniform (1931, Sagan, Froelich)
6. 7th Heaven (1927, Borzage)
7. The River (1951, Renoir)
8. Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961, Edwards)
9. Stromboli (1950, Rosselini)
10. Out 1, noli me tangere (1971, Rivette)

Mädchen in Uniform & Genuine are the hardest to rank, I gave them the benefit of the doubt and placed them as high as I could. Makhmalbaf & van Sant are head to head.

HM: Storm over Asia (1928), Olympia (1938), The Fall (2006), Mon Oncle Antoine (1971), Deep End (1970), Toni Erdmann (2016), Beau travail (1999), Bodou saved from Drowning (1932), Porto of my Childhood (2001), Manoel on the Island of Wonders (1984), Passion (1982), The Tarnished Angels (1958), French Can Can (1955), The Ascent (1977), The Hart of London (1970)

Comments:

-Det perfekte menneske - probably works a bit better if you understand danish. Also watch von Trier's 5 Obsctructions which is a documentary about recreating this film 5 times.
-Aguaespejo granadino - Holy shit, what is going on?
-Lucifer Rising - Pure occultism
-The Act of Seeing with One's Own Eyes - Very hard to watch
-Blight - "Kill the Spiders", feels like a Symphony of post-modernism
-The Dream of a Ridiculous Man - Excellent animated storytelling.
-My Love - Same as above.
-Breakaway - Must be one of the first music videos. Also one of the very best, if not the best I've ever seen.
-Chess Fever - This could be Chaplin or Keaton
-Le vampire - Sucking blood is somber

-Elephant (2003, van Sant) - This would have been every bit as good without the shooting (if not better). It's a timecapsule of directionless years.
-Nun va Goldoon (1996, Makhmalbaf) - One of the best films about youth ever. The 2 stories bein told at the same time heightens the immersion. Even though it's set in winter, it feels like a warm summer day.
-Genuine (1920, Wiene) - An enigmatic and sad tale about doomed beauty.
-Odd Man Out (1947, Reed) - a film about dying and turning into a statue.
-Mädchen in Uniform (1931, Sagan, Froelich) - Another timecapsule entoombed in total darkness and very subversive for its time.
-7th Heaven (1927, Borzage) - just a pitch-perfect drama.
-The River (1951, Renoir) - An utterly fantastic coming of age film.
-Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961, Edwards) - I wrote an extensive review
-Stromboli (1950, Rosselini) - This is the missing link I've been searching for between Rosselini's early neo-realism and his Bergman "romances". Rosselini had the strange ability to let everything in the picture stand out. It's a deeply moving film. The fishing scene and the volcano scenes are stunning.
-Out 1, noli me tangere (1971, Rivette) - I made a post about it.

That imagery in Renoir's The River... nostalgic and idyllic like no other film. Glad you finally got around to Stromboli, it's been growing in my mind ever since I saw it. No idea why it's so underated and underdiscussed relative to the rest of Rosselini's oeuvre. Also, why did nobody ever think of coining the term ''progressive neorealism'' after seeing this film?!

My list would probably be almost identical to the one I posted like 3 months ago, so I won't bother.

I've really been gunning it this year. Halfway through, I have tackled 441 first-time viewings. However, I have seen a few more lemons than last year. Still a pretty good year for viewings overall though.

Alphabetically:
Ben-Hur (1959)
The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2008)
Judgment at Nuremburg (1961)
La La Land (2016)
Lili (1953)
Magnolia (1999)
Nights of Cabiria (1957)
Strangers on a Train (1951)
20th Century Women (2016)

HMs: The Assassination of Jesse James, The Ballad of Cable Hogue, Dances with Wolves, The Godfather Part III, Ali:Fear Eats the Soul, A Star is Born (1937), I Want to Live, Silence, Somewhere in Time, Gandhi, Touch of Evil, Big Fish, Secrets and Lies, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf, Lion, Jackie, Say Anything, Ryan's Daughter, The Walking Stick, The Green Mile, Much Ado About Nothing, JFK

Great film, fantastic at capturing summer mood (like A Day in the Country). Renoir is very consistent, haven't seen anything from him that would disappoint me.