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For Background

Charles Francois’ Letter Grades

A: For All Time
A-: Event
B+/A-: Near Great
B+: Must See
B/B+: Warmly Recommended
B: Recommended
B-/B: Recommended with Mild Reservations
B-: Recommended with Strong Reservations
C+/B-: On the Fence, Leaning Forward
C+: Take It or Leave It
C/C+: On the Fence, Leaning Backward
C: Pass
C-: Ugh
D+: Double-Ugh
D: Bomb
F: Burn the Negative
Walk-outs: Channel Surfing
Incomplete: Mishap/Bad Timing

Mike D’Angelo’s 100-Point Scale

100-90: Masterpiece, or damn close. Very rare.
89-80: Fanthefucktastic. Near-lock for my year-end top 10 list.
79-70: Definitely something special. Do not miss. Likely list contender.
69-60: Very good, but also flawed or missing some crucial element.
59-50: Didn’t quite work for me, but has many redeeming qualities.
49-40: Demerits clearly outweigh merits.
39-30: I really did not enjoy this picture, but talent was involved.
29-20: When will this fucking picture end. When.
19-10: Outright fiasco and/or unwatchably boring.
9-0: One of the worst movies I’ve ever seen. Very rare.
W/O: I don’t know the director and the first two reels (about 35 to 40 minutes) didn’t convince me that (s)he has it going on.

On Letterboxd, shift all of the point values up 1 (aside from 100 and 0, of course) to get my star ratings (5 for the first tier, 4.5 for the second, etc.).

Blake Williams’ Richter Scale

A+ 9.4 – 10.0 [Top 10 of All Time contender]
A 8.6 – 9.3 [Masterpiece]
A- 7.8 – 8.5 [Pretty great; Near-masterpiece]
B+ 7.0 – 7.7 [Kinda great; Contender for Top 10 of its year]
B 6.2 – 6.9 [Has a special something]
B- 5.4 – 6.1 [Solid]
C+ 4.6 – 5.3 [Doesn’t arouse any particularly strong emotions either way]
C 3.8 – 4.5 [Useless; Mediocre; Significantly flawed]
C- 3.0 – 3.7 [What a failure]
D+ 2.2 – 2.9 [What-a-failure with cheese]
D 1.4 – 2.1 [Grating]
D- 0.6 – 1.3 [Offensively horrific; Horrifically offensive]
F 0.0 – 0.5 [Worst of All Time consideration]

On Letterboxd, the tiers proceed in half points for Williams’ star ratings (9.5-10.0 for the first tier, 8.5-9.4 for the second, etc.).

Miscellanea

Dan Sallitt’s color-coded lists use the colors red, orange, green, blue, and purple in decreasing order of liking. (parentheses below indicate my corresponding rating for the objective version)

The Movie Nerd Discussion Group uses a rating system of PRO/pro/mixed/con/CON; to conflate it with the ++/+/+x/x/xx Critics Roundup scale, they are as follows:
100 points, an ecstatic reaction/75 points, positive/50 points, mixed, ambivalent or barely positive/24 points, negative/0 points, extremely negative.

The Skandies group utilizes Leonard Maltin’s 4-star scale, with no 0.5 rating. (For my own purposes, I use D’Angelo’s interpretation.)

My Interpretation

D’Angelo’s scale is my baseline.

100 10.0, 9.9, 9.8, 9.7, 9.6, 9.5 (A, PRO, 4.0)
99 9.4
98 9.3
97 9.2
96 9.1
95 9.0
94 8.9
93 8.8
92 8.7
91 8.6 (A-)
90 8.5
89 8.5
88 8.4
87 8.3 (3.5)
86 8.2
85 8.1
84 8.0
83 7.9
82 7.8
81 7.7 (B+/A-)
80 7.6
79 7.6
78 7.5 (B+)
77 7.4 (D’Angelo pro)
76 7.3
75 7.2
74 7.1 (3.0, pro)
73 7.0
72 6.9 (B/B+)
71 6.8
70 6.7
69 6.7 (B)
68 6.6
67 6.5
66 6.4
65 6.3
64 6.2
63 6.1 (B-/B)
62 6.0 (2.5)
61 5.9
60 5.8 (B-)
59 5.8
58 5.7 (mixed)
57 5.6
56 5.5
55 5.4
54 5.3 (C+/B-)
53 5.2
52 5.1
51 5.0 (C+)
50 4.9
49 4.9 (2.0)
48 4.8
47 4.7
46 4.6
45 4.5 (C/C+, con)
44 4.4
43 4.3
42 4.2 (C)
41 4.1
40 4.0
39 4.0 (D’Angelo con)
38 3.9
37 3.8
36 3.7 (C-, 1.5)
35 3.6
34 3.5 (CON)
33 3.4
32 3.3
31 3.2
30 3.1
29 3.1
28 3.0
27 2.9 (D+)
26 2.8
25 2.7 (D’Angelo CON)
24 2.6
23 2.5
22 2.4 (1.0)
21 2.3
20 2.2
19 2.2
18 2.1 (D)
17 2.0
16 1.9
15 1.9
14 1.8
13 1.7
12 1.6
11 1.5
10 1.4 (0.0)
9 1.3 (F)
8 1.2
7 1.1
6 1.0
5 0.9
4 0.8
3 0.7
2 0.6
1 0.6
0 0.5, 0.4, 0.3, 0.2, 0.1, 0.0

Zatoichi

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***1/2 (Excellent)

Zatoichi is, as some critics have mentioned, a film of two minds. On one hand, it is a straightforward martial arts movie, with no small amount of pulpy violence and exceedingly impressive fighters. On the other, it is a subversive act in defiance of the samurai genre, by turns overtly comedic and almost disturbingly violent, turning the viewer’s expectations on their head at every possible turn. Correspondingly, Kitano’s plotting is admittedly a bit scattered, consistently following a straightforward narrative but going on frequent digressions, though these tangents almost always end up expanding the scope and the viewer’s interest in the movie.

Zatoichi begins and exists in a state of in media res. From the start, Kitano quickly introduces the viewer to the main characters in vignettes that eschew clear exposition for specific traits and moments that will come to define these figures. The rest of the film does little in the way of tangible explanation, save for a few scattered lines and one or two extended flashbacks, but somehow every character feels fleshed out to the exact amount that each needs. Zatoichi, for example, remains to a large degree an enigma, defined largely by his abilities and interactions rather than any sense of past. The ronin and the aunt and nephew are similarly defined squarely in the present, by those around them; they have clearly defined ways and outlooks towards life and generally stick to their paths, no matter where it carries them in the narrative. On the other hand, the siblings’ past is expanded upon, both in the two flashbacks that clearly explain their desire for revenge and in the small hints through quick flashbacks that similarly define the rest of the characters.

Kitano’s style is simply a delight to watch, as he incorporates the martial arts trappings within the comedic aspects of Zatoichi. Most of the film proceeds in a relatively straightforward manner, fluidly introducing the viewer to the various locations that the film centers around in scenes that are gleefully comic. In the violent sequences, the action comes quick and brutally, using blatantly digital and cartoonish blood to both accentuate the violence and, perhaps unintentionally, subvert the notion of this traditional samurai film. Additionally, there are some incredibly pleasant stylistic touches, both in combat (a zoom in on a combatant’s face, fractured editing/slow-motion) and not (a cross-faded shot playing over another shot where someone is describing the subject of said shot, quick cut-ins of flashbacks).

Kitano’s subversion of the tradition he is imitating is perhaps strongest not in the final plot twist relating to Zatoichi (which is itself subverted at the very end), or even in the various shifting identities that are revealed throughout Zatoichi, but in the finale. Throughout the film, there are occasional, digressive presentations of farmers that seem to imitate the percussive music playing over the scene, which return rather unexpectedly in the festival finale. (Side-note: the score blends surprisingly well with the traditional geisha music played diegetically in several scenes.) The supposed climax is not in the final duel that the film had been building up to, as it takes place in a matter of seconds (in two possible scenarios), but in a glorious celebration of movement and even the intersection of past and present. After a more traditionally styled prelude, the festival resumes after the final death with a shocking burst of sound and dance, as the music becomes blatantly electronic, especially using drum machines. The percussive stomping feels traditional, and the period setting is never violated (though the use of slow-mo, canted angles, and focused close-ups does interrupt the aesthetic to some degree), but there is an unmistakably modern vibrancy to the images and motions, as every character besides Zatoichi (who does get the final shot in his own film) comes out to dance, celebrating both the positive outcome of the narrative and of the film itself. It is subversive, but genuinely enjoyable. Zatoichi isn’t necessarily a film meant to stand with the samurai classics of old, but its status as an oddity is perhaps even more important.

From the Other Side

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**** (Great)

More than anything, the tapestry of disparate faces that form From the Other Side are defined by two things: their shared humanity and their location. Whether they be on the Mexican or American side, the inhabitants are defined by a close proximity to the border. For the Mexicans, it practically represents the whole gamut of human existence: hopes, desires, loss, sadness, and especially an irrepressible melancholy. For the Americans, a more mixed reaction is produced, as Akerman interviews a variety of Arizonians whose reactions span the range from total, anguished sympathy for the Mexicans’ plight to a wary resignation to outright intimations of violence towards the illegal immigrants. But what From the Other Side illustrates so well is the sense of restlessness and melancholy that every person shares, especially those out in the desert.

The first two-thirds of the movie is devoted to the Mexican people, with particular attention on their ways of life. It is a desolate setting, full of dirt and decay, but signs of life are scattered throughout: a group of children playing sports, people walking as cars drive past, and people simply doing their work. The interviews are even more revealing, as all of the interview subjects clearly try to put on a brave face, but their smiles cannot hide their sadness and their melancholy as they tell stories of missed opportunities, dead brothers or sons, and failed attempts to get to the other side. In Akerman’s style, a single, jarring cut from a barber standing behind a chair to him sitting in the chair without speaking is treated with the same reverence as an unblinking shot of a grandmother who has lost both her son and her grandson as she tries to keep in her emotions. Speaking about the minutiae concerning the past is just as important as a man reading a prepared statement about his entire group’s tribulations; Akerman is willing to observe everything with compassion, as her voice drifts from offscreen with a questioning but gentle tone.

The wall is treated in stark contrast, using a similar framing each time as it seems to stretch on to infinity. It appears in several iterations, sometimes with people and sometimes without, sometimes as a solid wall and sometimes formed out of vertical wooden poles, but each time it is a barrier, not only towards the Mexicans but also towards the viewer. Nowhere is this more clearly illustrated than in two tracking shots: the first begins in a close-up of the wall and makes a 180 degree turn to show a seemingly unending row of houses of different materials and social classes all directly opposite this obstacle, and the second is a bravura 10-minute shot (a few shots before the film crosses into America) that begins on the wall, moves through an extensive line of cars waiting to try to cross the border, shows that the line to cross from the other side is nonexistent, and ends in a Mexican town’s parking lot. In a few shots taken at night, the wall only seems more foreboding, coupled with some nighttime tracking shots almost abstract in the mix of the digital camera and the low lighting and a chilling night-vision shot of helicopters spotting a few would-be illegal immigrants.

From the Other Side, fittingly, moves over to America with a shot of a sign calling on citizens to keep out criminals, a clear sign of Akerman’s sympathies. But she does not merely use ignorant xenophobes (though she does use one such couple who threaten illegal immigrants with violence); a wide variety of people, from a resigned Mexican-American official to a sympathetic Arizonian sheriff to a wary restaurant owner, form a different but very clear sort of mirror to the Mexican people. It is a very different nation (for one, the majority of shots are indoors), but Akerman shows the emotions, whether it be fear, disgust, sadness, or melancholy, without sacrificing her sympathy for the Mexicans. Even when taking into account two troubling shots (one following a Federale and one thermal image taken from the air of a line of migrants), she is never anything but fair-minded, willing to show the whole extent of the American attitude towards the other side.

But Akerman does not end there; she ends with an almost stream-of-consciousness reading of her own words in French, as she remembers an illegal immigrant who had taken up residence in Los Angeles, gotten to know Akerman, then vanished. Overlaid over footage taken from a car heading to Los Angeles, the coda takes on a dreamlike aesthetic, a reconciling of these two different areas by bringing them together under Akerman’s point of view. From the Other Side asks the viewer to consider both sides as they look towards the other, and to observe just how the other half lives.

Thief

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****1/2 (Tour de force)

Throughout Thief’s virtually wordless opening sequence, Mann both lays the foundation for and sets a sort of false expectation regarding the rest of the film. Aside from the heist centerpiece and the relatively simple action sequence at the end of the film, Thief proceeds in a low, contemplative key that has all the drive of a regular action film while focusing on Frank. But the ideal of this master thief that is established in the beginning is vital to the movie; it is the conception that Frank is continually pressured into adopting, as he is torn between his criminal ways and his genuine desire to go on the straight and narrow. Practically every character aside from Jessie pushes and pulls Frank to either keep going or to leave, but all pigeonhole him, only thinking of him as a thief.

There is no denying that Frank (and by proxy Mann and the audience) takes pleasure in what he calls his “magic act”. Mann shoots the heists largely in extreme close-ups, focusing on the hands of the thieves and the detailed instruments; though the viewer doesn’t necessarily understand exactly what is going on, there is such an incredibly purposefulness to each shot that carries the viewer along in the controlled rush that the sequences offer. The rest of the film rarely lets go of this intensity, judiciously using tight close-ups and long shots that observe the body language of the characters (notably, Frank is much more dynamic in his motions), frequently holding in a way that both increases tension and allows the viewer to ponder what drives Frank. The visual look is also incredibly gorgeous, rendering each scene with both unmistakable, gritty realism and a more dreamlike aura. Especially in the nighttime scenes, the neon streets seem just a bit abstract, just a bit too beautiful to be real.

One of Thief’s greatest strengths is that it is willing to seriously consider Frank’s desire to become, for lack of a better term, ordinary. In the bravura coffee shop sequence, Mann forges an uncommon and touching intimacy towards his recollections of the past and hopes for the future, using both the ruminative dialogue and the power of Caan’s by turns ferocious and subdued performance present two sides to the complicated figure at the center of the film.

Tangerine Dream’s score must be mentioned, both in just how lush the pulsing synths sound and in how they are used. Without exception, the synths only come in moments of transition; almost none of the dialogue scenes have a score, whether it be a quiet discussion or a tense confrontation, and even a large portion of the second heist lacks any music cues. The transitions are, quite simply, the most important parts to Frank’s life (and indeed, Mann’s filmography), as they signal to him that he is indeed going somewhere, that there is something more than the doldrums of running successful businesses or the quick thrills of heists.

But in the end, Thief reveals its hand in the best way possible, as both it and Frank realize that he cannot exist in a world with anyone by himself. Caan’s work is key here, as he manages to sell his character’s devolution in a matter of minutes, and his shedding of all of his accouterments feels both saddening and cathartic; after all this time he is free to fulfill his true desires. And he does so, in a glorious haze of gunfire that is assisted by the film’s most soaring music cue and startling alternations between slow-motion and quick cuts that make the deaths all the more impactful. Thief is pure genre, but it also feels like so much more: character study, ode to professionalism, and drama, all made with an equal amount of pulp and grace.

South

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Even though South takes place almost exclusively in the town of Jasper, Texas, focusing on the horrific murder of a black man, there is no denying that there is a universality to the portrayal of the many different locales throughout the film. The audience is shown a cross section of this Southern community in parts, never using anything too specific to Jasper but dealing in the universal iconography of cars, forests, churches, stores, and other such commonplace signifiers.

Akerman’s style is as unmistakeable as ever, subtly shaping the viewer’s perception of the setting. Predominately, static shots are used, often of individuals dwarfed by their surroundings. Even in shots that appear to be in the countryside, cars can be frequently heard and seen, serving as a connecting device between these disparate locations. This is taken to a further extent with the extended tracking shots taken from a car, patiently observing as the buildings change, get more crowded or more separated, or disappear altogether, as people drive by and frequently wave to the camera.

These two signature Akerman techniques are contrasted with the interviews and the pivotal church scene. The interviews are perhaps the both the most political and the most intimate passages in South, putting side by side the personal, passionate recollections of black people which detail racism from both the 1960s and the present (1998) and the fairly dispassionate, sometimes misguided or downright false testimonies of white people (who are only seen in these scenes and in one brief shot of a white man in a field on a horse). The body language also contributes to the divide, as the black interviewees lean in, presenting themselves and their words with frank warmness (occasionally with accoutrements like children or an electric guitar) whereas the first two white people are shot behind desks and the third in an armchair. (Oddly, during two interviews, including the third white man’s, there are several fades to black, even though the others are all done in an unedited shot.)

Without a doubt, however, the most important and impactful scene is the sequence set in a church. Partly passionate and partly reserved, it covers both the political and the personal responses to the brutal tragedy that was James Byrd, Jr.’s murder. Fittingly, it expresses these emotions to a large degree through song that acts as both a lament and praise towards God, and it is no accident that all but one of South’s close-ups are in this scene.

I must echo the concerns of others that South is inadequate when it comes to articulating a clear position on the South and its inherent racism. But the key to me is the shots of nature that appear sporadically, especially in the last third, which suggest to me that the movie is quite simply a document. It is meant to be an evocation of the South, if not the “South” and all the political and societal entanglements that the term implies, and if it doesn’t achieve the lofty heights of a true dissection of this messy region, it is an experience the likes of which only Akerman can truly deliver.

Aloha

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Written for The Dissolve Facebook group’s Lovefest feature.

LoveFest Summer 2016 #2: “How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Sky” – Cameron Crowe’s Aloha

Aloha was probably doomed to fail even before it was released in theaters. Between the scathing emails by Amy Pascal unearthed in the Sony Pictures Entertainment hack, with such choice phrases like “People don’t like people in movies who flirt with married people or married people who flirt”, and the rather unfortunate controversy over Emma Stone’s casting as a quarter-Hawaiian, quarter-Chinese Air Force pilot, the odds seemed stacked against the film’s success, on both critical and commercial levels. Aloha’s commercial failure, at least from an general overview, seems inexplicable, as almost all of his previous films turned at minimum a respectable profit (except, intriguingly, what is considered by some to be his best film, Almost Famous). Crowe’s critical cachet, on the other hand, has lessened over the years, as his past three films (Elizabethtown, We Bought a Zoo, and Aloha) have all received at best mixed reviews, and Aloha in particular has been savaged.

I should note here that I have not seen any other Cameron Crowe films, but earlier this year, when I saw Aloha on a plane as part of a sort of 2015 wrap-up, it completely knocked me off of my feet. Even then, I knew it was a special film, bursting with life and joy, and on a recent watch (after it had kept rolling in my head over and over) Aloha seemed to click on both intellectual and emotional levels.

One of the keys to Aloha’s charm is its setting. Like Lost in Translation, another one of my favorites (and perhaps a future Lovefest entry?), what could have (and is likely viewed by many, certainly much more than for Lost in Translation) been a cheap feint at exoticism becomes completely vital to both the characters and the narrative at large. Though Lost in Translation used its setting to evoke alienation and Aloha uses it to evoke a sense of tradition and friendliness, both emphasize the importance of relationships and the sometimes chaotic intersection between past and present. Theo Panayides described it in his Letterboxd review as a “magical setting”, and there is undeniably an almost mystical mood that bleeds through many of the most consequential scenes. Frequent mention is made of the mythology of the Hawaiian people, and even discounting the tantalizing glimpses at the possibility of spirits inhabiting the Hawaiian islands (mainly through too-strong gusts of wind and recurring whispers, especially the ones that happen right before Brian’s climactic decision), the magic of the setting makes the more outlandish situations and characters seem more believable, in a same way. It must be emphasized that the setting is not exploited; characters like the nationalist King Kanahele (playing himself) are treated not as caricatures (if anything, the military officials are more pigeonholed, though they do have their distinguishing, humanizing traits) but as idiosyncratic, strong-willed and passionate people, and the three main characters all have essential ties to the islands. In a way, the movie can be seen as fundamentally the journey of Brian trying to reconnect with his roots in Hawaii through the people he learns to love.

Aloha is also built on the notion of the sky; Brian, Allison, and Tracy’s son are or were at one point obsessed with the beauty of space and its contents, and the clash of Brian’s cynicism and Allison’s optimism in the first half of the movie is founded in part by his disillusionment. Indeed, the opening of the film is a mix of these two ideas, as it intercuts footage of the Hawaiian natives with objects in space before transitioning seamlessly into a CGI recreation of a space cluttered with objects, over which Brian’s wistful but resentful narration plays. The “action” part of the plot centers around Carson’s attempts to control the sky with his weaponized satellite, and no matter how far-fetched it seems (for me it fits in with the overall tone of the film, and is clearly never meant to be treated too seriously) it goes against the deeply-held beliefs of the Hawaiian people and Allison; for Brian his decision to eventually destroy the satellite is the final nail in the coffin for his cynicism and gray sense of morality, as he is willing to sacrifice his livelihood for both the woman and the home that he loves.

But the aspect that struck me most about Aloha this time was how it uses that mode of cinema so loved by vulgar auteurists: “gestures”, and more specifically, glances. Peter Labuza described the film as a rom-com without a single shot of coverage, and it is apparent how meticulously yet effortlessly planned each shot is; Crowe scarcely uses more than one angle on a person for each segment of a conversation, and each edit to something different, no matter how seemingly inconsequential the contents of that frame, feels purposeful. The apex of this feeling is through the gestures that happen extensively through the course of the movie, from military salutes to a friendly but firm shoulder touch to the hula dance. Woody (John Krasinski) is perhaps the personification of this ideal, as he stays mostly silent, only rarely saying something truly important, but the way he physically interacts with people says so much (a phenomenon commented on by Brian and Tracy, and hilariously literalized in the closing minutes with a series of Annie Hall-esque subtitles). Even more important are the glances that form a large part of Aloha‘s most indelible images. Most of the time, the words that the characters utter are almost secondary to their expressions, and large portions of the film are played out entirely through the way they look at each other, whether it be in anger, love, or even a sense of wonder. To carry the idea further, the sunglasses that various characters wear throughout the movie, especially the first half, obscures these glances, making their intentions somewhat unclear. Though it may just be my perception, the characters’ traits seem to be more magnified: Brian is more cynical and willing to bend his principles, Allison becomes more naive and reliant on her heritage, and Carson becomes even more enigmatic, and when each of these characters takes off their sunglasses they become more down-to-earth and more nuanced. It is perhaps not an accident that Carson, in his final appearance, briefly puts on sunglasses and then takes them off, laughing and accepting his arrest.

Turning away from this possible navel-gazing, even without these ideas Aloha is a wildly entertaining, immensely well-crafted film. Crowe’s screenplay may not be the most coherent, straightforwardly plotted thing imaginable, but it moves gracefully with a lighthearted but never weightless mood, as the characters feel alive and converse in an irrepressibly playful manner. Every main actor plays his or her part magnificently: Cooper gives a bona fide movie-star performance, mixing his natural charisma with a sense of inner darkness to create his character’s conflicted nature; Stone, unfairly maligned by the whitewashing controversy, gives a spirited and youthful performance that uses her energetic personality and expressiveness to their fullest extent; and McAdams produces an almost explosive performance (that, I might add, by far outpaces her still wonderful performance in Spotlight), as she is by turns sarcastic, witty, and tender, easily exposing the cracks in Brian’s cynicism in the relatively few scenes she has. The music choices (Cameron Crowe’s specialty) span a wide range of styles, easily mixing (and furthering the idea of the intersection of past and present) together classic rock songs, traditional Hawaiian music (Allison even asks for and is given a performance of an old Hawaiian song that she desperately wanted to hear again) and a modern indie musical score. Of course, I would be remiss in not mentioning Eric Gautier’s cinematography, which, with all due respects to our dear Narrator, is purposely shaky; in the first half Brian is still trying to find solid ground, so to speak, and so the camera careens around as he is thrust into the world and people which he had left; the camera steadies just before the Christmas party (the turning point of the film) and remains mostly stable from then on.

And yet, the most striking and indeed moving part of Aloha is its ending, which may seem almost inconsequential to someone not totally invested in its characters. The only main character in it is Brian, and it is the first and only time in the film that he and his biological daughter (with Tracy), Grace, interact. But it seems to encapsulate every part of the film’s driving ideas: the scene plays with no dialogue, driven entirely by the editing between the glances Brian and Grace share, and has as its subtext the past, present, and now future, as the final shot of the film is of Grace’s hands (another gesture) as she dances the traditional hula. As if to underscore all of this, the music gradually moves from non-diagetic Hawaiian music to the modern score.

In the end, I’m not sure if I can fully explain my love for Aloha coherently. It may just be something that appeals to me in a way that seems incomprehensible and incredibly misguided to most others. But, to my eyes, it is an incredibly well-crafted, moving, and genuinely funny romantic comedy, made with an overflowing amount of love and care.

2016 First Watches

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Renewed Appreciation: The Social Network, Casablanca, True Grit, Easy Rider, Pina, Unknown, Mission: Impossible, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon

Shorts: “The Heart of the World,” “Let Your Light Shine,” “Lady Blue Shanghai,” “Amuse-guele #1: Digital Destinies,” “Duck Dodgers in the 24½th Century,” “Foyer,” “Rabbit Seasoning,” “Something Between Us,” “Sailing With Bushnell Keeler,” “In Absentia,” “Mad Ladders,” “Cat Listening to Music,” “Broadway by Light,” “Cilaos,” “The Comb,” “Indefinite Pitch,” “Fe26,” “A Train Arrives at the Station,” “Screw”

  1. A Brighter Summer Day (1991, Edward Yang) [July]
  2. Chungking Express (1994, Wong Kar-wai) [September]
  3. Trust (1990, Hal Hartley) [August]
  4. Wavelength (1967, Michael Snow) [December]
  5. Manhunter (1986, Michael Mann) [May]
  6. Passion (2012, Brian De Palma) [September]
  7. The Devils (1971, Ken Russell) [February]
  8. Miami Vice (2006, Michael Mann) [May]
  9. Carlito’s Way (1993, Brian De Palma) [September]
  10. Carol (2015, Todd Haynes) [January]
  11. Public Enemies (2009, Michael Mann) [May]
  12. Out 1: Noli me tangere (1971, Jacques Rivette) [January]
  13. Margaret (2011, Kenneth Lonergan) [November]
  14. Meek’s Cutoff (2010, Kelly Reichardt) [August]
  15. Ran (1985, Akira Kurosawa) [March]
  16. Mistress America (2015, Noah Baumbach) [January]
  17. Days of Being Wild (1990, Wong Kar-wai) [September]
  18. Manchester by the Sea (2016, Kenneth Lonergan) [December]
  19. Possession (1981, Andrzej Zulawski) [October]
  20. Cameraperson (2016, Kirsten Johnson) [June]
  21. Femme Fatale (2002, Brian De Palma) [September]
  22. Thief (1981, Michael Mann) [May]
  23. The Forbidden Room (2015, Guy Maddin) [January]
  24. My Golden Days (2015, Arnaud Desplechin) [April]
  25. Death Proof (2007, Quentin Tarantino) [January]
  26. The Handmaiden (2016, Park Chan-wook) [October]
  27. The Insider (1999, Michael Mann) [May]
  28. O.J.: Made in America (2016, Ezra Edelman) [October]
  29. Inherent Vice (2014, Paul Thomas Anderson) [February]
  30. Blow Out (1981, Brian De Palma) [August]
  31. Nosferatu (1922, F.W. Murnau) [March]
  32. The Gang’s All Here (1943, Busby Berkeley) [July]
  33. Two Days, One Night (2014, Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne) [November]
  34. Ali (2001, Michael Mann) [May]
  35. Wendy and Lucy (2008, Kelly Reichardt) [August]
  36. Mountains May Depart (2015, Jia Zhangke) [June]
  37. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004, Michel Gondry) [January]
  38. Inglourious Basterds (2009, Quentin Tarantino) [January]
  39. Casualties of War (1989, Brian De Palma) [September]
  40. Godzilla (1954, Ishiro Honda) [March]
  41. Right Now, Wrong Then (2015, Hong Sang-soo) [October]
  42. Blackhat (2015, Michael Mann) [January]
  43. Holy Motors (2012, Leos Carax) [July]
  44. The Master (2012, Paul Thomas Anderson) [February]
  45. Body Double (1984, Brian De Palma) [September]
  46. When Marnie Was There (2014, Hiromasa Yonebayashi) [January]
  47. Raising Arizona (1987, Joel & Ethan Coen) [February]
  48. Carrie (1976, Brian De Palma) [July]
  49. The Man Who Wasn’t There (2001, Joel & Ethan Coen) [February]
  50. Beauty and the Beast (1946, Jean Cocteau) [February]
  51. Magic Mike XXL (2015, Gregory Jacobs) [January]
  52. Elle (2016, Paul Verhoeven) [December]
  53. Cemetery of Splendour (2015, Apichatpong Weerasethakul) [March]
  54. Old Joy (2006, Kelly Reichardt) [August]
  55. The Day He Arrives (2011, Hong Sang-soo) [October]
  56. The Last of the Mohicans (1992, Michael Mann) [May]
  57. Non-Stop (2014, Jaume Collet-Serra) [June]
  58. The World’s End (2013, Edgar Wright) [May]
  59. Collateral (2004, Michael Mann) [May]
  60. Mildred Pierce (1945, Michael Curtiz) [May]
  61. D’Est (1993, Chantal Akerman) [May]
  62. Dragon Inn (1967, King Hu) [June]
  63. You Can Count on Me (2000, Kenneth Lonergan) [November]
  64. Kate Plays Christine (2016, Robert Greene) [July]
  65. John Wick (2014, Chad Stahelski) [June]
  66. Certain Women (2016, Kelly Reichardt) [October]
  67. Things to Come (2016, Mia Hansen-Løve) [December]
  68. Phantom of the Paradise (1974, Brian De Palma) [July]
  69. Oldboy (2003, Park Chan-wook) [October]
  70. Sunset Song (2015, Terence Davies) [May]
  71. Sully (2016, Clint Eastwood) [September]
  72. L for Leisure (2014, Lev Kalman & Whitney Horn) [June]
  73. Orphan (2009, Jaume Collet-Serra) [June]
  74. Lady Vengeance (2005, Park Chan-wook) [October]
  75. SPL II: A Time for Consequences (2015, Soi Cheang) [September]
  76. Creepy (2016, Kiyoshi Kurosawa) [November]
  77. Aquarius (2016, Kleber Mendonça Filho) [December]
  78. Henry Gamble’s Birthday Party (2015, Stephen Cone) [July]
  79. The Edge of Seventeen (2016, Kelly Fremon Craig) [December]
  80. Justin Timberlake + the Tennessee Kids (2016, Jonathan Demme) [October]
  81. Intolerable Cruelty (2003, Joel & Ethan Coen) [February]
  82. Dressed to Kill (1980, Brian De Palma) [August]
  83. The Hateful Eight (2015, Quentin Tarantino) [January]
  84. Hot Fuzz (2007, Edgar Wright) [May]
  85. The Shallows (2016, Jaume Collet-Serra) [October]
  86. River of Grass (1994, Kelly Reichardt) [August]
  87. Shin Godzilla (2016, Hideaki Anno) [October]
  88. Scarface (1983, Brian De Palma) [August]
  89. From the Other Side (2002, Chantal Akerman) [August]
  90. Burn After Reading (2008, Joel & Ethan Coen) [February]
  91. To Lavoisier, Who Died in the Reign of Terror (1991, Michael Snow) [December]
  92. Everybody Wants Some!! (2016, Richard Linklater) [April]
  93. Love & Friendship (2016, Whit Stillman) [June]
  94. Shaun of the Dead (2004, Edgar Wright) [May]
  95. Chimes at Midnight (1965, Orson Welles) [May]
  96. Aloha (2015, Cameron Crowe) [March]
  97. Afterschool (2008, Antonio Campos) [October]
  98. The Silence of the Lambs (1991, Jonathan Demme) [June]
  99. Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice (2016, Zack Snyder) [April]
  100. Snake Eyes (1998, Brian De Palma) [September]
  101. Looper (2012, Rian Johnson) [August]
  102. Raising Cain (1992, Brian De Palma) [September]
  103. Sisters (1972, Brian De Palma) [July]
  104. A Serious Man (2009, Joel & Ethan Coen) [February]
  105. 45 Years (2015, Andrew Haigh) [January]
  106. Night Moves (2013, Kelly Reichardt) [September]
  107. Jackie Brown (1997, Quentin Tarantino) [January]
  108. Russian Ark (2002, Alexander Sokurov) [April]
  109. Bridge of Spies (2015, Steven Spielberg) [January]
  110. Boogie Nights (1997, Paul Thomas Anderson) [February]
  111. In Another Country (2012, Hong Sang-soo) [October]
  112. The Keep (1983, Michael Mann) [May]
  113. Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956, Don Siegel) [October]
  114. Until the End of the World (1991, Wim Wenders) [March]
  115. Frances Ha (2012, Noah Baumbach) [January]
  116. In the Shadow of Women (2015, Philippe Garrel) [December]
  117. Belladonna of Sadness (1973, Eiichi Yamamoto) [May]
  118. The Glass Shield (1994, Charles Burnett) [September]
  119. Tower (2016, Keith Maitland) [November]
  120. Kubo and the Two Strings (2016, Travis Knight) [September]
  121. Hail, Caesar! (2016, Joel & Ethan Coen) [February]
  122. The American Friend (1977, Wim Wenders) [March]
  123. Moonlight (2016, Barry Jenkins) [November]
  124. Blondes in the Jungle (2009, Lev Kalman & Whitney Horn) [June]
  125. Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance (2002, Park Chan-wook) [October]
  126. The Black Dahlia (2006, Brian De Palma) [September]
  127. Zatoichi (2003, Takeshi Kitano) [August]
  128. Allied (2016, Robert Zemeckis) [November]
  129. Kill Bill: Volume 1 (2003, Quentin Tarantino) [January]
  130. Kill Bill: Volume 2 (2004, Quentin Tarantino) [January]
  131. Rogue One: A Star Wars Story (2016, Gareth Edwards) [December]
  132. Weiner (2016, Josh Kriegman & Elyse Steinberg) [December]
  133. De Palma (2015, Noah Baumbach & Jake Paltrow) [September]
  134. Clouds of Sils Maria (2014, Olivier Assayas) [January]
  135. Mustang (2015, Deniz Gamze Ergüven) [March]
  136. I Am Not Madame Bovary (2016, Feng Xiaogang) [November]
  137. Our Little Sister (2015, Hirokazu Kore-eda) [September]
  138. The Treasure (2015, Corneliu Porumboiu) [December]
  139. South (1999, Chantal Akerman) [August]
  140. Run All Night (2015, Jaume Collet-Serra) [June]
  141. Office (2015, Johnnie To) [February]
  142. James White (2015, Josh Mond) [January]
  143. Only Yesterday (1991, Isao Takahata) [March]
  144. Actress (2014, Robert Greene) [July]
  145. Greetings (1968, Brian De Palma) [July]
  146. House of Wax (2005, Jaume Collet-Serra) [June]
  147. Rules Don’t Apply (2016, Warren Beatty) [November]
  148. The Academy of Muses (2015, José Luis Guerin) [December]
  149. Arrival (2016, Denis Villeneuve) [November]
  150. Güeros (2014, Alonso Ruizpalacios) [April]
  151. High School (1968, Frederick Wiseman) [November]
  152. Hell or High Water (2016, David Mackenzie) [September]
  153. Journey to the Shore (2015, Kiyoshi Kurosawa) [September]
  154. Aferim! (2015, Radu Jude) [December]
  155. The Love Witch (2016, Anna Biller) [November]
  156. Neruda (2016, Pablo Larraín) [December]
  157. Dead Slow Ahead (2015, Mauro Herce) [November]
  158. Knight of Cups (2015, Terrence Malick) [December]
  159. Hospital (1970, Frederick Wiseman) [November]
  160. The Fury (1978, Brian De Palma) [September]
  161. Obsession (1976, Brian De Palma) [August]
  162. Don’t Breathe (2016, Fede Alvarez) [September]
  163. Joint Security Area (2000, Park Chan-wook) [August]
  164. Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping (2016, Akiva Schaffer & Jorma Taccone) [December]
  165. Voyage of Time: The IMAX Experience (2016, Terrence Malick) [November]
  166. Home Movies (1979, Brian De Palma) [August]
  167. The Untouchables (1987, Brian De Palma) [July]
  168. Hard Eight (1996, Paul Thomas Anderson) [February]
  169. Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939, Frank Capra) [April]
  170. Lemonade (2016, Khalil Joseph and Beyoncé Knowles Carter) [October]
  171. Buena Vista Social Club (1999, Wim Wenders) [March]
  172. The Diary of a Teenage Girl (2015, Marielle Heller) [January]
  173. A Bigger Splash (2015, Luca Guadagnino) [May]
  174. Miller’s Crossing (1990, Joel & Ethan Coen) [February]
  175. Chantal Akerman: From Here (2010, Gustavo Beck & Leonardo Ferreira) [April]
  176. Titicut Follies (1967, Frederick Wiseman) [November]
  177. Demolition (2015, Jean-Marc Vallée) [April]
  178. Das Boot (1981, Wolfgang Petersen) [June]
  179. O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000, Joel & Ethan Coen) [February]
  180. Boy & the World (2013, Alê Abreu) [February]
  181. The Nice Guys (2016, Shane Black) [May]
  182. Django Unchained (2012, Quentin Tarantino) [January]
  183. Blood Simple (1984, Joel & Ethan Coen) [February]
  184. Green Room (2015, Jeremy Saulnier) [April]
  185. The Invitation (2015, Karyn Kusama) [September]
  186. The Lobster (2015, Yorgos Lanthimos) [June]
  187. 42nd Street (1933, Lloyd Bacon) [April]
  188. Moana (2016, John Musker & Ron Clements) [December]
  189. The Fits (2015, Anna Rose Holmer) [December]
  190. Là-bas (2006, Chantal Akerman) [May]
  191. Los Sures (1984, Diego Echeverria) [September]
  192. 10 Cloverfield Lane (2016, Dan Trachtenberg) [March]
  193. Avengers: Age of Ultron (2015, Joss Whedon) [March]
  194. Easy Rider (2012, James Benning) [March]
  195. Hacksaw Ridge (2016, Mel Gibson) [November]
  196. X-Men: Apocalypse (2016, Bryan Singer) [May]
  197. Steve Jobs (2015, Danny Boyle) [January]
  198. I Don’t Belong Anywhere: The Cinema of Chantal Akerman (2015, Marianne Lambert) [April]
  199. Blue Ruin (2013, Jeremy Saulnier) [August]
  200. Captain America: Civil War (2016, Anthony & Joe Russo) [May]
  201. Doctor Strange (2016, Scott Derrickson) [November]
  202. True Lies (1994, James Cameron) [July]
  203. April and the Extraordinary World (2015, Christian Desmares & Franck Ekinci) [April]
  204. Café Society (2016, Woody Allen) [May]
  205. Fences (2016, Denzel Washington) [December]
  206. Viva (2007, Anna Biller) [November]
  207. Midnight Special (2016, Jeff Nichols) [April]
  208. Mission to Mars (2000, Brian De Palma) [September]
  209. Cloverfield (2008, Matt Reeves) [March]
  210. Ant-Man (2015, Peyton Reed) [March]
  211. Dionysus in ’69 (1970, Brian De Palma) [July]
  212. Bad Seed (1934, Billy Wilder & Alexandre Esway) [September]
  213. Minotaur (2015, Nicolás Pereda) [October]
  214. The Fighter (2010, David O. Russell) [November]
  215. Purple Rain (1984, Albert Magnoli) [May]
  216. Fish Tank (2009, Andrea Arnold) [September]
  217. Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them (2016, David Yates) [December]
  218. Francofonia (2015, Alexander Sokurov) [April]
  219. No Way Out (1950, Joseph L. Mankiewicz) [May]
  220. Sing Street (2016, John Carney) [August]
  221. Neighbors 2: Sorority Rising (2016, Nicholas Stoller) [June]
  222. No Home Movie (2015, Chantal Akerman) [April]
  223. Deepwater Horizon (2016, Peter Berg) [October]
  224. High-Rise (2015, Ben Wheatley) [May]
  225. Zootopia (2016, Byron Howard & Rich Moore) [April]
  226. Bataan (1943, Tay Garnett) [May]
  227. The Jungle Book (2016, Jon Favreau) [April]
  228. Krivina (2012, Igor Drljaca) [October]
  229. American Honey (2016, Andrea Arnold) [September]
  230. Coraline (2009, Henry Selick) [January]
  231. The Magnificent Seven (2016, Antoine Fuqua) [October]
  232. Jason Bourne (2016, Paul Greengrass) [September]
  233. Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk (2016, Ang Lee) [November]
  234. La La Land (2016, Damien Chazelle) [November]
  235. Eye in the Sky (2015, Gavin Hood) [August]
  236. Hi, Mom! (1970, Brian De Palma) [July]
  237. The Cheat (1915, Cecil B. DeMille) [March]
  238. The Sky Trembles and the Earth Is Afraid and the Two Eyes Are Not Brothers (2015, Ben Rivers) [October]
  239. High Noon (1952, Fred Zinnemann) [May]
  240. Murder à la Mod (1968, Brian De Palma) [July]
  241. Harold and Maude (1971, Hal Ashby) [February]
  242. The Witch (2015, Robert Eggers) [February]
  243. The Public Enemy (1931, William A. Wellman) [April]
  244. The Ladykillers (2004, Joel & Ethan Coen) [February]
  245. The Hudsucker Proxy (1994, Joel & Ethan Coen) [February]
  246. The Blues Brothers (1980, John Landis) [February]
  247. Passengers (2016, Morten Tyldum) [December]
  248. The Bonfire of the Vanities (1990, Brian De Palma) [September]
  249. Simon Killer (2012, Antonio Campos) [October]
  250. Embrace of the Serpent (2015, Ciro Guerra) [March]
  251. The Huntsman: Winter’s War (2016, Cedric Nicolas-Troyan) [April]
  252. Money Monster (2016, Jodie Foster) [June]
  253. Keanu (2016, Peter Atencio) [June]
  254. Nocturnal Animals (2016, Tom Ford) [December]
  255. 13th (2016, Ava DuVernay) [November]
  256. House of Little Deaths (2016, Scout Tafoya) [September]
  257. Lion (2016, Garth Davis) [December]
  258. Room (2015, Lenny Abrahamson) [January]
  259. Groundhog Day (1993, Harold Ramis) [January]
  260. Anomalisa (2015, Charlie Kaufman & Duke Johnson) [January]
  261. Meet the Patels (2014, Ravi Patel & Geeta Patel) [November]
  262. The Distance (2014, Sergio Caballero) [October]
  263. Song of Lahore (2015, Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy & Andy Schocken) [May]
  264. Redacted (2007, Brian De Palma) [September]
  265. Jackie (2016, Pablo Larraín) [December]
  266. Synecdoche, New York (2008, Charlie Kaufman) [January]
  267. Son of Saul (2015, László Nemes) [February]
  268. Cosmos (2015, Andrzej Zulawski) [December]
  269. Assassin’s Creed (2016, Justin Kurzel) [December]
  270. On the Silver Globe (1988, Andrzej Zulawski) [October]
  271. Get to Know Your Rabbit (1972, Brian De Palma) [August]
  272. Deadpool (2016, Tim Miller) [February]
  273. The Revenant (2015, Alejandro González Iñárritu) [January]
  274. The Wedding Party (1969, Brian De Palma & Wilford Leach & Cynthia Munroe) [July]
  275. The Neon Demon (2016, Nicolas Winding Refn) [November]
  276. Now You See Me 2 (2016, Jon M. Chu) [June]
  277. Beasts of No Nation (2015, Cary Joji Fukunaga) [January]
  278. Game Change (2012, Jay Roach) [February]
  279. The Big Short (2015, Adam McKay) [January]
  280. Only God Forgives (2013, Nicolas Winding Refn) [June]
  281. Wise Guys (1986, Brian De Palma) [September]
  282. Suicide Squad (2016, David Ayer) [September]

Old

  1. A Brighter Summer Day (1991, Edward Yang)
  2. Chungking Express (1994, Wong Kar-wai)
  3. Trust (1990, Hal Hartley)
  4. Wavelength (1967, Michael Snow)
  5. Manhunter (1986, Michael Mann)
  6. Passion (2012, Brian De Palma)
  7. The Devils (1971, Ken Russell)
  8. Miami Vice (2006, Michael Mann)
  9. Carlito’s Way (1993, Brian De Palma)
  10. Public Enemies (2009, Michael Mann)
  11. Out 1: Noli me tangere (1971, Jacques Rivette)
  12. Margaret (2011, Kenneth Lonergan)
  13. Meek’s Cutoff (2010, Kelly Reichardt)
  14. Ran (1985, Akira Kurosawa)
  15. Days of Being Wild (1990, Wong Kar-wai)
  16. Possession (1981, Andrzej Zulawski)
  17. Femme Fatale (2002, Brian De Palma)
  18. Thief (1981, Michael Mann)
  19. Death Proof (2007, Quentin Tarantino)
  20. The Insider (1999, Michael Mann)
  21. Blow Out (1981, Brian De Palma)
  22. Nosferatu (1922, F.W. Murnau)
  23. The Gang’s All Here (1943, Busby Berkeley)
  24. Ali (2001, Michael Mann)
  25. Wendy and Lucy (2008, Kelly Reichardt)
  26. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004, Michel Gondry)
  27. Inglourious Basterds (2009, Quentin Tarantino)
  28. Casualties of War (1989, Brian De Palma)
  29. Godzilla (1954, Ishiro Honda)
  30. Raising Arizona (1987, Joel & Ethan Coen)
  31. Carrie (1976, Brian De Palma)
  32. The Man Who Wasn’t There (2001, Joel & Ethan Coen)
  33. Beauty and the Beast (1946, Jean Cocteau)
  34. Old Joy (2006, Kelly Reichardt)
  35. The Day He Arrives (2011, Hong Sang-soo)
  36. The Last of the Mohicans (1992, Michael Mann)
  37. The World’s End (2013, Edgar Wright)
  38. Collateral (2004, Michael Mann)
  39. Mildred Pierce (1945, Michael Curtiz)
  40. D’Est (1993, Chantal Akerman)
  41. Dragon Inn (1967, King Hu)
  42. You Can Count on Me (2000, Kenneth Lonergan)
  43. Phantom of the Paradise (1974, Brian De Palma)
  44. Oldboy (2003, Park Chan-wook)
  45. Orphan (2009, Jaume Collet-Serra)
  46. Lady Vengeance (2005, Park Chan-wook)
  47. Intolerable Cruelty (2003, Joel & Ethan Coen)
  48. Dressed to Kill (1980, Brian De Palma)
  49. Hot Fuzz (2007, Edgar Wright)
  50. River of Grass (1994, Kelly Reichardt)
  51. Scarface (1983, Brian De Palma)
  52. From the Other Side (2002, Chantal Akerman)
  53. Burn After Reading (2008, Joel & Ethan Coen)
  54. To Lavoisier, Who Died in the Reign of Terror (1991, Michael Snow)
  55. Shaun of the Dead (2004, Edgar Wright)
  56. Chimes at Midnight (1965, Orson Welles)
  57. Afterschool (2008, Antonio Campos)
  58. The Silence of the Lambs (1991, Jonathan Demme)
  59. Snake Eyes (1998, Brian De Palma)
  60. Looper (2012, Rian Johnson)
  61. Raising Cain (1992, Brian De Palma)
  62. Sisters (1972, Brian De Palma)
  63. A Serious Man (2009, Joel & Ethan Coen)
  64. Night Moves (2013, Kelly Reichardt)
  65. Jackie Brown (1997, Quentin Tarantino)
  66. Russian Ark (2002, Alexander Sokurov)
  67. Boogie Nights (1997, Paul Thomas Anderson)
  68. In Another Country (2012, Hong Sang-soo)
  69. The Keep (1983, Michael Mann)
  70. Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956, Don Siegel)
  71. Until the End of the World (1991, Wim Wenders)
  72. Frances Ha (2012, Noah Baumbach)
  73. Belladonna of Sadness (1973, Eiichi Yamamoto)
  74. The Glass Shield (1994, Charles Burnett)
  75. The American Friend (1977, Wim Wenders)
  76. Blondes in the Jungle (2009, Lev Kalman & Whitney Horn)
  77. Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance (2002, Park Chan-wook)
  78. The Black Dahlia (2006, Brian De Palma)
  79. Zatoichi (2003, Takeshi Kitano)
  80. Kill Bill: Volume 1 (2003, Quentin Tarantino)
  81. Kill Bill: Volume 2 (2004, Quentin Tarantino)
  82. South (1999, Chantal Akerman)
  83. Only Yesterday (1991, Isao Takahata)
  84. Greetings (1968, Brian De Palma)
  85. House of Wax (2005, Jaume Collet-Serra)
  86. High School (1968, Frederick Wiseman)
  87. Hospital (1970, Frederick Wiseman)
  88. The Fury (1978, Brian De Palma)
  89. Obsession (1976, Brian De Palma)
  90. Joint Security Area (2000, Park Chan-wook)
  91. Home Movies (1979, Brian De Palma)
  92. The Untouchables (1987, Brian De Palma)
  93. Hard Eight (1996, Paul Thomas Anderson)
  94. Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939, Frank Capra)
  95. Buena Vista Social Club (1999, Wim Wenders)
  96. Miller’s Crossing (1990, Joel & Ethan Coen)
  97. Chantal Akerman: From Here (2010, Gustavo Beck & Leonardo Ferreira)
  98. Titicut Follies (1967, Frederick Wiseman)
  99. Das Boot (1981, Wolfgang Petersen)
  100. O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000, Joel & Ethan Coen)
  101. Boy & the World (2013, Alê Abreu)
  102. Django Unchained (2012, Quentin Tarantino)
  103. Blood Simple (1984, Joel & Ethan Coen)
  104. 42nd Street (1933, Lloyd Bacon)
  105. Là-bas (2006, Chantal Akerman)
  106. Los Sures (1984, Diego Echeverria)
  107. Easy Rider (2012, James Benning)
  108. Blue Ruin (2013, Jeremy Saulnier)
  109. True Lies (1994, James Cameron)
  110. Viva (2007, Anna Biller)
  111. Mission to Mars (2000, Brian De Palma)
  112. Cloverfield (2008, Matt Reeves)
  113. Dionysus in ’69 (1970, Brian De Palma)
  114. Bad Seed (1934, Billy Wilder & Alexandre Esway)
  115. The Fighter (2010, David O. Russell)
  116. Purple Rain (1984, Albert Magnoli)
  117. Fish Tank (2009, Andrea Arnold)
  118. No Way Out (1950, Joseph L. Mankiewicz)
  119. Bataan (1943, Tay Garnett)
  120. Krivina (2012, Igor Drljaca)
  121. Coraline (2009, Henry Selick)
  122. Hi, Mom! (1970, Brian De Palma)
  123. The Cheat (1915, Cecil B. DeMille)
  124. High Noon (1952, Fred Zinnemann)
  125. Murder à la Mod (1968, Brian De Palma)
  126. Harold and Maude (1971, Hal Ashby)
  127. The Public Enemy (1931, William A. Wellman)
  128. The Ladykillers (2004, Joel & Ethan Coen)
  129. The Hudsucker Proxy (1994, Joel & Ethan Coen)
  130. The Blues Brothers (1980, John Landis)
  131. The Bonfire of the Vanities (1990, Brian De Palma)
  132. Simon Killer (2012, Antonio Campos)
  133. Groundhog Day (1993, Harold Ramis)
  134. Redacted (2007, Brian De Palma)
  135. Synecdoche, New York (2008, Charlie Kaufman)
  136. On the Silver Globe (1988, Andrzej Zulawski)
  137. Get to Know Your Rabbit (1972, Brian De Palma)
  138. The Wedding Party (1969, Brian De Palma & Wilford Leach & Cynthia Munroe)
  139. Game Change (2012, Jay Roach)
  140. Only God Forgives (2013, Nicolas Winding Refn)
  141. Wise Guys (1986, Brian De Palma)

New

  1. Carol (Todd Haynes)
  2. Mistress America (Noah Baumbach)
  3. Manchester by the Sea (Kenneth Lonergan)
  4. Cameraperson (Kirsten Johnson)
  5. The Forbidden Room (Guy Maddin)
  6. My Golden Days (Arnaud Desplechin)
  7. The Handmaiden (Park Chan-wook)
  8. O.J.: Made in America (Ezra Edelman)
  9. Inherent Vice (Paul Thomas Anderson)
  10. Two Days, One Night (Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne)
  11. Mountains May Depart (Jia Zhangke)
  12. Right Now, Wrong Then (Hong Sang-soo)
  13. Blackhat (Michael Mann)
  14. Holy Motors (2012, Leos Carax)
  15. The Master (2012, Paul Thomas Anderson)
  16. Body Double (1984, Brian De Palma)
  17. When Marnie Was There (Hiromasa Yonebayashi)
  18. Magic Mike XXL (Gregory Jacobs)
  19. Elle (Paul Verhoeven)
  20. Cemetery of Splendour (Apichatpong Weerasethakul)
  21. Non-Stop (Jaume Collet-Serra)
  22. Kate Plays Christine (Robert Greene)
  23. John Wick (Chad Stahelski)
  24. Certain Women (Kelly Reichardt)
  25. Things to Come (Mia Hansen-Løve)
  26. Sunset Song (Terence Davies)
  27. Sully (Clint Eastwood)
  28. L for Leisure (Lev Kalman & Whitney Horn)
  29. SPL II: A Time for Consequences (Soi Cheang)
  30. Creepy (Kiyoshi Kurosawa)
  31. Aquarius (Kleber Mendonça Filho)
  32. Henry Gamble’s Birthday Party (Stephen Cone)
  33. The Edge of Seventeen (Kelly Fremon Craig)
  34. Justin Timberlake + the Tennessee Kids (Jonathan Demme)
  35. The Hateful Eight (Quentin Tarantino)
  36. The Shallows (Jaume Collet-Serra)
  37. Shin Godzilla (Hideaki Anno)
  38. Everybody Wants Some!! (Richard Linklater)
  39. Love & Friendship (Whit Stillman)
  40. Aloha (Cameron Crowe)
  41. Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice (Zack Snyder)
  42. 45 Years (Andrew Haigh)
  43. Bridge of Spies (Steven Spielberg)
  44. In the Shadow of Women (Philippe Garrel)
  45. Tower (Keith Maitland)
  46. Kubo and the Two Strings (Travis Knight)
  47. Hail, Caesar! (Joel & Ethan Coen)
  48. Moonlight (Barry Jenkins)
  49. Allied (Robert Zemeckis)
  50. Rogue One: A Star Wars Story (Gareth Edwards)
  51. Weiner (Josh Kriegman & Elyse Steinberg)
  52. De Palma (Noah Baumbach & Jake Paltrow)
  53. Clouds of Sils Maria (Olivier Assayas)
  54. Mustang (Deniz Gamze Ergüven)
  55. I Am Not Madame Bovary (Feng Xiaogang)
  56. Our Little Sister (Hirokazu Kore-eda)
  57. The Treasure (Corneliu Porumboiu)
  58. Run All Night (Jaume Collet-Serra)
  59. Office (Johnnie To)
  60. James White (Josh Mond)
  61. Actress (Robert Greene)
  62. Rules Don’t Apply (Warren Beatty)
  63. The Academy of Muses (José Luis Guerin)
  64. Arrival (Denis Villeneuve)
  65. Güeros (Alonso Ruizpalacios)
  66. Hell or High Water (David Mackenzie)
  67. Journey to the Shore (Kiyoshi Kurosawa)
  68. Aferim! (Radu Jude)
  69. The Love Witch (Anna Biller)
  70. Neruda (Pablo Larraín)
  71. Dead Slow Ahead (Mauro Herce)
  72. Knight of Cups (Terrence Malick)
  73. Don’t Breathe (Fede Alvarez)
  74. Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping (Akiva Schaffer & Jorma Taccone)
  75. Voyage of Time: The IMAX Experience (Terrence Malick)
  76. Lemonade (Khalil Joseph and Beyoncé Knowles Carter)
  77. The Diary of a Teenage Girl (Marielle Heller)
  78. A Bigger Splash (Luca Guadagnino)
  79. Demolition (Jean-Marc Vallée)
  80. The Nice Guys (Shane Black)
  81. Green Room (Jeremy Saulnier)
  82. The Invitation (Karyn Kusama)
  83. The Lobster (Yorgos Lanthimos)
  84. Moana (John Musker & Ron Clements)
  85. The Fits (Anna Rose Holmer)
  86. 10 Cloverfield Lane (Dan Trachtenberg)
  87. Avengers: Age of Ultron (Joss Whedon)
  88. Hacksaw Ridge (Mel Gibson)
  89. X-Men: Apocalypse (Bryan Singer)
  90. Steve Jobs (Danny Boyle)
  91. I Don’t Belong Anywhere: The Cinema of Chantal Akerman (Marianne Lambert)
  92. Captain America: Civil War (Anthony & Joe Russo)
  93. Doctor Strange (Scott Derrickson)
  94. April and the Extraordinary World (Christian Desmares & Franck Ekinci)
  95. Café Society (Woody Allen)
  96. Fences (Denzel Washington)
  97. Midnight Special (Jeff Nichols)
  98. Ant-Man (Peyton Reed)
  99. Minotaur (Nicolás Pereda)
  100. Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them (David Yates)
  101. Francofonia (Alexander Sokurov)
  102. Sing Street (John Carney)
  103. Neighbors 2: Sorority Rising (Nicholas Stoller)
  104. No Home Movie (Chantal Akerman)
  105. Deepwater Horizon (Peter Berg)
  106. High-Rise (Ben Wheatley)
  107. Zootopia (Byron Howard & Rich Moore)
  108. The Jungle Book (Jon Favreau)
  109. American Honey (Andrea Arnold)
  110. The Magnificent Seven (Antoine Fuqua)
  111. Jason Bourne (Paul Greengrass)
  112. Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk (Ang Lee)
  113. La La Land (Damien Chazelle)
  114. Eye in the Sky (Gavin Hood)
  115. The Sky Trembles and the Earth Is Afraid and the Two Eyes Are Not Brothers (Ben Rivers)
  116. The Witch (Robert Eggers)
  117. Passengers (Morten Tyldum)
  118. Embrace of the Serpent (Ciro Guerra)
  119. The Huntsman: Winter’s War (Cedric Nicolas-Troyan)
  120. Money Monster (Jodie Foster)
  121. Keanu (Peter Atencio)
  122. Nocturnal Animals (Tom Ford)
  123. 13th (Ava DuVernay)
  124. House of Little Deaths (Scout Tafoya)
  125. Lion (Garth Davis)
  126. Room (Lenny Abrahamson)
  127. Anomalisa (Charlie Kaufman & Duke Johnson)
  128. Meet the Patels (Ravi Patel & Geeta Patel)
  129. The Distance (Sergio Caballero)
  130. Song of Lahore (Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy & Andy Schocken)
  131. Jackie (Pablo Larraín)
  132. Son of Saul (László Nemes)
  133. Cosmos (Andrzej Zulawski)
  134. Assassin’s Creed (Justin Kurzel)
  135. Deadpool (Tim Miller)
  136. The Revenant (Alejandro González Iñárritu)
  137. The Neon Demon (Nicolas Winding Refn)
  138. Now You See Me 2 (Jon M. Chu)
  139. Beasts of No Nation (Cary Joji Fukunaga)
  140. The Big Short (Adam McKay)
  141. Suicide Squad (David Ayer)

2016 Omnibus Log

Ryan Swen Lists Tags: ,

(accurate from August onwards)

001. +Heat (1995, Michael Mann) Television, File (Family) 01 Jan – 8.4 [up from 8.3]
002. +Yi Yi (2000, Edward Yang) Television, File (Family) 02 Jan – 9.3 [same]
003. Carol (2015, Todd Haynes^) Guild 45th, DCP (Friend) 04 Jan – 8.3
004. +Carol (2015, Todd Haynes) SIFF Uptown, DCP 05 Jan – 8.4 [up from 8.3]
005. The Big Short (2015, Adam McKay^) SIFF Uptown, DCP 05 Jan – 2.8
006. +The Social Network (2010, David Fincher) Laptop, File 07 Jan – 7.6 [up from ~6.9]
007. +Reservoir Dogs (1992, Quentin Tarantino) Projector, ? (Club) 07 Jan – 5.5 [down from ~7.4]
008. +Birdman, or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) (2014, Alejandro González Iñárritu) Laptop, File 09 Jan – 3.5 [down from 6.0]
009. The Revenant (2015, Alejandro González Iñárritu) SIFF Egyptian, DCP (Friends) 09 Jan – 3.5 [slight]
010. +The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (1964, Jacques Demy) Laptop, Blu-ray 11 Jan – 8.9 [same]
011. +Being John Malkovich (1999, Spike Jonze*) Laptop, File 11 Jan – 6.6 [down from ~7.1]
012. +Adaptation (2002, Spike Jonze*) Laptop, File 11 Jan – 6.6 [dowm from ~7.0]
013. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004, Michel Gondry^*) Laptop, File 12 Jan – 7.6
014. Synecdoche, New York (2008, Charlie Kaufman^*) Laptop, File 12 Jan – 4.6
015. Anomalisa (2015, Charlie Kaufman & Duke Johnson^*) Regal Thornton, DCP 12 Jan – 4.8
016. +The Revenant (2015, Alejandro González Iñárritu) SIFF Egyptian, DCP 13 Jan – 3.7 [up from 3.5]
s001. +World of Tomorrow (2015, Don Hertzfeldt) Laptop, Netflix 14 Jan – 8.6
017. Coraline (2009, Henry Selick^) Projector, ? (Club) 14 Jan – 5.2
018. Steve Jobs (2015, Danny Boyle^) Laptop, File 15 Jan – 5.9
019. +Pulp Fiction (1994, Quentin Tarantino*) Laptop, File 15 Jan – 6.8 [down from ~7.5]
020. Jackie Brown (1997, Quentin Tarantino*) Laptop, File 16 Jan – 6.8
021. Kill Bill Vol. 1 (2003, Quentin Tarantino*) Laptop, File 16 Jan – 6.4
022. Kill Bill Vol. 2 (2003, Quentin Tarantino*) Laptop, File 16 Jan – 6.4
023. Death Proof (2007, Quentin Tarantino*) Laptop, iTunes 17 Jan – 7.8
024. Inglourious Basterds (2009, Quentin Tarantino*) Laptop, Netflix 17 Jan – 7.6
025. Django Unchained (2012, Quentin Tarantino*) Laptop, Netflix 17 Jan – 5.9 [intermittent]
026. Room (2015, Lenny Abrahamson^) AMC Pacific Place, DCP 18 Jan – 4.8
027. The Hateful Eight (2015, Quentin Tarantino*) AMC Pacific Place, DCP 18 Jan – 7.2
028. Beasts of No Nation (2015, Cary Joji Fukunaga^) Laptop, Netflix 20 Jan – 3.4 [intermittent]
029. Magic Mike XXL (2015, Gregory Jacobs^) Laptop, File 21 Jan – 7.3
030. +Nightcrawler (2014, Dan Gilroy) Projector, ? (Club) 21 Jan – 6.0 [down from ~6.8]
031. The Forbidden Room (2015, Guy Maddin^) Laptop, Fandor 22 Jan – 7.9 [intermittent]
032. +Blade Runner [Final Cut] (1982, Ridley Scott) Laptop, Blu-ray (Commentary) 22 Jan – 9.0 [same]
033. +Blade Runner [Final Cut, Cinema Dissection] (1982, Ridley Scott) SIFF Film Center, DCP 23 Jan – 9.0 [same]
034. +Carol (2015, Todd Haynes) SIFF Uptown, DCP 23 Jan – 8.6 [up from 8.4]
035. Out 1: Noli me tangere (1971, Jacques Rivette^) SIFF Film Center, DCP 24 Jan – 8.4
036. Frances Ha (2012, Noah Baumbach^@) Laptop, Netflix 25 Jan – 6.4
037. Mistress America (2015, Noah Baumbach@) Laptop, File 26 Jan – 7.5
038. Groundhog Day (1993, Harold Ramis^) Projector, ? (Lecture) 27 Jan – 4.8
039. Blackhat (2015, Michael Mann) Laptop, File 28 Jan – 7.4
040. Bridge of Spies (2015, Steven Spielberg) Laptop, File 29 Jan – 6.8
041. The Diary of a Teenage Girl (2015, Marielle Heller^) Laptop, File 30 Jan – 6.0
042. 45 Years (2015, Andrew Haigh^) SIFF Uptown, DCP (Friend) 30 Jan – 7.0
043. James White (2015, Josh Mond^) Laptop, Vimeo 30 Jan – 6.2
s002. Screw (1982, Takashi Ito) Laptop, YouTube 31 Jan – 5.8
044. When Marnie Was There (2014, Hiromasa Yonebayashi^) Laptop, File 31 Jan – 7.4 [intermittent]
045. Clouds of Sils Maria (2014, Olivier Assayas^) Laptop, File 31 Jan – 6.3
046. Blood Simple (1984, Joel & Ethan Coen*) Laptop, File 03 Feb – 5.9
047. Raising Arizona (1987, Joel & Ethan Coen*) Laptop, File 04 Feb – 7.4
048. Game Change (2012, Jay Roach^) Projector, ? (Club) 04 Feb – 3.2
049. Miller’s Crossing (1990, Joel & Ethan Coen*) Laptop, File 05 Feb – 6.0
050. +Barton Fink (1991, Joel & Ethan Coen*) Laptop, File 05 Feb – 7.5 [same]
051. The Hudsucker Proxy (1994, Joel & Ethan Coen*) Laptop, Vudu 06 Feb – 5.0
052. +Fargo (1996, Joel & Ethan Coen*) Laptop, File 06 Feb – 7.4 [~same; intermittent]
053. +The Big Lebowski (1998, Joel & Ethan Coen*) Laptop, File 07 Feb – 6.8 [dowm from ~7.4]
054. O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000, Joel & Ethan Coen*) Laptop, Vudu 08 Feb – 5.9 [intermittent]
055. The Man Who Wasn’t There (2001, Joel & Ethan Coen*) Laptop, Vudu 09 Feb – 7.3
056. Intolerable Cruelty (2003, Joel & Ethan Coen*) Laptop, Netflix 10 Feb – 7.2
057. The Ladykillers (2004, Joel & Ethan Coen*) Laptop, Netflix 10 Feb – 5.0
058. +Her (2013, Spike Jonze) Projector, ? (Club) 11 Feb – 6.5 [dowm from ~7.0]
059. Boy and the World (2013, Alê Abreu^) SIFF Egyptian, DCP 12 Feb – 5.9
060. +No Country for Old Men (2007, Joel & Ethan Coen*) Laptop, File 12 Feb – 6.8 [down from ~7.2]
061. Burn After Reading (2008, Joel & Ethan Coen*) Laptop, iTunes 12 Feb – 7.0
062. Beauty and the Beast (1946, Jean Cocteau^) SIFF Uptown, DCP 13 Feb – 7.3
063. Harold and Maude (1971, Hal Ashby^) SIFF Uptown, DCP 13 Feb – 5.1
064. The Devils (1971, Ken Russell^) SIFF Film Center, 35mm 13 Feb – 8.6
065. The Witch: A New-England Folktale (2015, Robert Eggers^) SIFF Uptown, DCP (Director Q&A) 14 Feb – 5.0
066. A Serious Man (2009, Joel & Ethan Coen*) Laptop, File 14 Feb – 7.3
067. +True Grit (2010, Joel & Ethan Coen*) Laptop, File 15 Feb – 6.5 [up from ~5.9]
068. Deadpool (2016, Tim Miller^) SIFF Uptown, DCP 15 Feb – 3.8
069. Office (2015, Johnnie To) SIFF Uptown, 3D 15 Feb – 6.2
070. +Inside Llewyn Davis (2013, Joel & Ethan Coen*) Laptop, File 16 Feb – 7.4 [up from ~6.9]
071. Hail, Caesar! (2016, Joel & Ethan Coen*) Regal Thornton, DCP 16 Feb – 6.6
072. +It’s Such a Beautiful Day (2012, Don Hertzfeldt) Laptop, Netflix 17 Feb – 7.7 [dowm from 9.0]
073. +Carol (2015, Todd Haynes) SIFF Egyptian, DCP 17 Feb – 8.6 [same]
074. +Steve Jobs (2015, Danny Boyle) Projector, ? (Club) 18 Feb – 5.8 [down from 5.9]
075. Hard Eight (1996, Paul Thomas Anderson*) Laptop, File 19 Feb – 6.0
076. Boogie Nights (1997, Paul Thomas Anderson*) Laptop, File 20 Feb – 6.8
077. +Magnolia (1999, Paul Thomas Anderson*) Laptop, File 20 Feb – 7.0 [dowm from ~7.5]
078. +Punch-Drunk Love (2002, Paul Thomas Anderson*) Laptop, Netflix 21 Feb – 7.2 [up from 7.0]
079. The Blues Brothers (1980, John Landis^) Projector, ? (Club) 25 Feb – 5.0
080. +There Will Be Blood (2007, Paul Thomas Anderson*) Laptop, File 26 Feb – 7.4 [~same]
081. The Master (2012, Paul Thomas Anderson*) Laptop, Netflix 26 Feb – 7.5
082. Inherent Vice (2014, Paul Thomas Anderson*) Laptop, File 27 Feb – 7.7
083. Son of Saul (2015, László Nemes^) Seven Gables, DCP 29 Feb – 4.6
084. Only Yesterday (1991, Isao Takahata) SIFF Uptown, DCP (Dub) 02 Mar – 6.2
085. The American Friend (1977, Wim Wenders) SIFF Film Center, DCP 02 Mar – 6.8 [intermittent]
086. Mustang (2015, Deniz Gamze Ergüven^) SIFF Uptown, DCP 02 Mar – 6.3
087. +Paris, Texas (1984, Wim Wenders) Northwest Film Forum, DCP 03 Mar – 9.4 [same]
088. +Sans soleil (1983, Chris Marker) Laptop, Blu-ray (Friend) 05 Mar – 9.7 [~same]
089. Cloverfield (2008, Matt Reeves^) Projector, ? (Club) 10 Mar – 5.6
090. 10 Cloverfield Lane (2016, Dan Trachtenberg^) AMC Pacific Place, DCP (Friends) 12 Mar – 5.8
091. Nosferatu (1922, F.W. Murnau) SIFF Uptown, DCP (Live Score by Invincible Czars) 14 Mar – 7.6
092. Embrace of the Serpent (2015, Ciro Guerra^) SIFF Uptown, DCP 14 Mar – 4.9 [intermittent]
s003. +World of Tomorrow (2015, Don Hertzfeldt) Laptop, Blu-ray 15 Mar – 8.6 [same]
093. Avengers: Age of Ultron (2015, Joss Whedon) Airplane 16 Mar – 5.8
094. +Inside Out (2015, Pete Docter) Airplane 16 Mar – 6.6
095. +Mad Max: Fury Road (2015, George Miller) Television, File (Parents) 17 Mar – 7.8 [same]
096. +Phoenix (2014, Christian Petzold) Television, Netflix (Parents) 19 Mar – 8.2 [same]
097. +Easy Rider (1969, Dennis Hopper) Television, Blu-ray 20 Mar – 6.0 [same]
098. Easy Rider (2012, James Benning^) Television, File 21 Mar – 5.8
099. Godzilla (1954, Ishiro Honda^) Television, Blu-ray (Parents) 22 Mar – 7.5
100. +Star Wars: Episode VII — The Force Awakens (2015, J.J. Abrams) Television, File 23 Mar – 7.0 [same]
101. Aloha (2015, Cameron Crowe^) Airplane 27 Mar – 6.0
102. Ant-Man (2015, Peyton Reed) Airplane 27 Mar – 5.6
103. Cemetery of Splendour (2015, Apichatpong Weerasethakul^) SIFF Film Center, DCP 28 Mar – 7.2 [intermittent]
104. Ran (1985, Akira Kurosawa) SIFF Uptown, DCP 29 Mar – 8.2
105. The Cheat (1915, Cecil B. DeMille^) Projector, ? (Lecture) 30 Mar – 5.1
106. Buena Vista Social Club (1999, Wim Wenders) SIFF Film Center, DCP 30 Mar – 6.0 [intermittent]
107. +Pina (2011, Wim Wenders) SIFF Uptown, 3D 30 Mar – 6.9 up from 6.5]
108. Until the End of the World [Director’s Cut] (1991, Wim Wenders) Northwest Film Forum, DCP 31 Mar – 6.7
s004. Rabbit Seasoning (1952, Chuck Jones) Laptop, Vimeo 02 Apr – 6.7
s005. Duck Dodgers in the 24½th Century (1953, Chuck Jones) Laptop, Vimeo 02 Apr – 7.0
109. Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice (2016, Zack Snyder) Cinerama, DCP 02 Apr – 7.1
110. Zootopia (2016, Byron Howard & Rich Moore & Jared Bush^) Regal Thornton, DCP 04 Apr – 5.3
111. The Public Enemy (1931, William A. Wellman^) Projector, ? (Lecture) 06 Apr – 5.1
112. +The Terminator (1984, James Cameron) Projector, ? (Club) 06 Apr – 7.5 [up from ~7.4]
s006. +Duck Amuck (1953, Chuck Jones) Laptop, Dailymotion 07 Apr – 8.5 [same]
113. 42nd Street (1933, Lloyd Bacon^) Projector, ? (Lecture) 13 Apr – 5.9
114. +Hercules (1997, John Musker & Ron Clements) Projector, ? (Club) 14 Apr – 3.8 [down from ~5.2]
115. Midnight Special (2016, Jeff Nichols^) Regal Thornton, DCP 16 Apr – 5.7
116. Demolition (2015, Jean-Marc Vallée^) Regal Meridian, DCP 16 Apr – 5.9
117. +The Hateful Eight [Roadshow Version] (2015, Quentin Tarantino) Cinerama, 70mm 16 Apr – 7.1 [down from 7.2]
118. +Ex Machina (2015, Alex Garland) Television, Blu-ray (Friend) 17 Apr – 5.3 [same]
119. Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939, Frank Capra) Projector, ? (Lecture) 20 Apr – 6.0 [parts]
120. Green Room (2015, Jeremy Saulnier^) AMC Pacific Place, DCP (Friends) 22 Apr – 5.9
121. Russian Ark (2002, Alexander Sokurov^@) Laptop, Netflix 23 Apr – 6.8[intermittent]
122. No Home Movie (2015, Chantal Akerman) SIFF Film Center, DCP 23 Apr – 5.3 [intermittent]
123. Francofonia (2015, Alexander Sokurov@) SIFF Uptown, DCP 23 Apr – 5.5 [intermittent]
124. I Don’t Belong Anywhere: The Cinema of Chantal Akerman (2015, Marianne Lambert^) SIFF Film Center, DCP 23 Apr – 5.8
125. April and the Extraordinary World (2015, Christian Desmares^ & Franck Ekinci^) SIFF Uptown, DCP 23 Apr – 5.7
126. +Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice (2015, Zack Snyder) Regal Thornton, DCP 24 Apr – 7.0 [down from 7.1]
127. The Jungle Book (2016, Jon Favreau) Regal Thornton, 3D 24 Apr – 5.3
128. Everybody Wants Some!! (2016, Richard Linklater) Regal Thornton, DCP 26 Apr – 6.9
129. +Casablanca (1942, Michael Curtiz) Projector, ? (Lecture) 27 Apr – 7.8 [up from ~6.9]
130. +The Big Short (2015, Adam McKay) Projector, ? (Club) 28 Apr – 3.0 [up from 2.8]
131. My Golden Days (2015, Arnaud Desplechin^) Northwest Film Forum, DCP 29 Apr – 7.5
132. Güeros (2014, Alonso Ruizpalacios^) Northwest Film Forum (Director Q&A) 29 Apr – 6.2 [intermittent]
133. Chantal Akerman, From Here (2010, Gustavo Beck^ & Leonardo Ferreira^) Northwest Film Forum, DCP 30 Apr – 6.0
134. The Huntsman: Winter’s War (2016, Cedric Nicolas-Troyan^) Regal Meridian, DCP 30 Apr – 4.9
135. D’Est (1993, Chantal Akerman) Northwest Film Forum, DCP 01 May – 7.2 [intermittent]
136. +My Golden Days (2015, Arnaud Desplechin) Northwest Film Forum, DCP 01 May – 7.9 [up from 7.5]
137. Là-bas (2006, Chantal Akerman) Northwest Film Forum, DCP 02 May – 5.8 [intermittent]
138. Purple Rain (1984, Albert Magnoli^) SIFF Uptown, DCP 03 May – 5.5
139. Bataan (1943, Tay Garnett^) Projector, ? (Lecture) 04 May – 5.3 [parts]
140. +Persona (1966, Ingmar Bergman) Laptop, Blu-ray 04 May – 9.4 [same]
141. Song of Lahore (2015, Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy^ & Andy Schocken^) Projector, ? (Club) 05 May – 4.7
142. Shaun of the Dead (2004, Edgar Wright@) Laptop, File 05 May – 7.0
143. Captain America: Civil War (2016, Anthony & Joe Russo) Regal Thornton, DCP 06 May – 5.8
144. +Green Room (2015, Jeremy Saulnier) AMC Pacific Place, DCP (Friend) 07 May – 5.9 [same]
145. Hot Fuzz (2007, Edgar Wright@) Laptop, Netflix 07 May – 7.1
146. Thief (1981, Michael Mann*) Laptop, Blu-ray 08 May – 8.2 [intermittent]
147. The Keep (1983, Michael Mann*) Laptop, File 08 May – 6.7
148. Manhunter (1986, Michael Mann*) Laptop, File 09 May – 8.8
149. Mildred Pierce (1945, Michael Curtiz) Projector, ? (Lecture) 11 May – 7.2 [parts]
150. The World’s End (2013, Edgar Wright@) Projector, ? (Club) 12 May – 7.3
s007. Daydreaming (2016, Paul Thomas Anderson) SIFF Egyptian, 35mm 14 May – 5.8
151. High-Rise (2015, Ben Wheatley^) SIFF Egyptian, DCP 14 May – 5.3
152. The Last of the Mohicans (1992, Michael Mann*) Laptop, File 14 May – 7.3
153. +Heat (1995, Michael Mann*) Laptop, Blu-ray 15 May – 9.0 [up from 8.4]
154. The Insider (1999, Michael Mann*) Laptop, File 16 May – 8.1
155. Ali (2001, Michael Mann*) Laptop, File 17 May – 7.6 [intermittent]
156. No Way Out (1950, Joseph L. Mankiewicz^) Projector, ? (Lecture) 18 May – 5.5 [parts]
157. Collateral (2004, Michael Mann*) Laptop, File 18 May – 7.2
158. Café Society (2016, Woody Allen) McCaw Hall, DCP [SIFF] 19 May – 5.7
159. Miami Vice (2006, Michael Mann*) Laptop, File 20 May – 8.7
160. Sunset Song (2015, Terence Davies^) Majestic Bay, DCP [SIFF] 21 May – 7.2 [subtitles]
161. Public Enemies (2009, Michael Mann*) Laptop, File 21 May – 8.6
162. A Bigger Splash (2015, Luca Guadagnino^) AMC Pacific Place, DCP 22 May – 6.1
163. +Blackhat (2015, Michael Mann*) Laptop, File 22 May – 7.5 [up from 7.4]
164. Chimes at Midnight (1965, Orson Welles) SIFF Egyptian, DCP [SIFF] 24 May – 7.0 [intermittent]
165. High Noon (1952, Fred Zinnemann^) Projector, ? (Lecture) 25 May – 5.1 [parts]
166. Belladonna of Sadness (1973, Eiichi Yamamoto^) Northwest Film Forum, DCP 25 May – 6.6
167. +The Night of the Hunter (1955, Charles Laughton) Laptop, Blu-ray 27 May – 9.0 [same]
168. X-Men: Apocalypse (2016, Bryan Singer) Regal Thornton, DCP 29 May – 5.8
169. The Nice Guys (2016, Shane Black) Regal Thornton, DCP 30 May – 5.9
170. Cameraperson (2016, Kirsten Johnson^) SIFF Uptown, DCP (Director Q&A) [SIFF] 01 Jun – 7.2
171. The Lobster (2015, Yorgos Lanthimos^) Regal Meridian, DCP 07 Jun – 5.9
172. Keanu (2016, Peter Atencio^) Regal Meridian, DCP 07 Jun – 4.9
173. Love & Friendship (2016, Whit Stillman^) Regal Meridian, DCP 07 Jun – 6.6 [intermittent]
174. +Singin’ in the Rain (1952, Stanley Donen & Gene Kelly) Laptop, File 07 Jun – 7.8 [down from ~8.2]
175. Money Monster (2016, Jodie Foster^) AMC Pacific Place, DCP 08 Jun – 4.9
176. Neighbors 2: Sorority Rising (2016, Nicholas Stoller^) AMC Pacific Place, DCP 08 Jun – 5.4
177. Dragon Inn (1967, King Hu^) SIFF Egyptian, DCP [SIFF] 08 Jun – 7.2
178. Mountains May Depart (1967, Jia Zhangke^) SIFF Uptown, DCP [SIFF] 09 Jun – 6.1 [intermittent]
179. Now You See Me 2 (2016, Jon M. Chu^) Regal Meridian, DCP 09 Jun – 3.4
180. +Hail, Caesar! (2016, Joel & Ethan Coen) Airplane 09 Jun – 6.6 [same]
181. +Mulholland Drive (2001, David Lynch) Television, Blu-ray (Parents) 11 Jun – 9.8 [same]
182. +Sicario (2015, Denis Villeneuve) Television, File (Parents) 15 Jun – 7.4 [same]
183. The Silence of the Lambs (1991, Jonathan Demme) Television, File (Parents) 17 Jun – 6.9
184. John Wick (2014, Chad Stahelski^ and David Leitch^) Television, File (Parents) 18 Jun – 7.2
185. L for Leisure (2014, Lev Kalman^ & Whitney Horn^) Laptop, Vimeo 21 Jun – 7.1
186. Blondes in the Jungle (2009, Lev Kalman & Whitney Horn) Laptop, Vimeo 22 Jun – 6.4
187. House of Wax (2005, Jaume Collet-Serra*) Television, File 24 Jun – 6.2
188. Orphan (2009, Jaume Collet-Serra*) Television, File 25 Jun – 6.9 [parts]
189. +Unknown (2011, Jaume Collet-Serra*) Television, File 25 Jun – 6.4 [up from ~5.6]
190. Non-Stop (2014, Jaume Collet-Serra*) Television, File 26 Jun – 7.3
191. Run All Night (2015, Jaume Collet-Serra*) Television, File 27 Jun – 6.3
s008. Let Your Light Shine (2013, Jodie Mack) Laptop, Vimeo 28 Jun – 7.3
192. Das Boot [Director’s Cut] (1981, Wolfgang Petersen) Television, File 28 Jun – 5.9 [parts]
193. Only God Forgives (2013, Nicolas Winding Refn) Television, File 29 Jun – 2.9
s009. Lady Blue Shanghai (2010, David Lynch) Laptop, YouTube 30 Jun – 7.2
194. +Mission: Impossible (1996, Brian De Palma*) Television, File (Parents) 01 Jul – 6.7 [up from ~6.1]
195. The Untouchables (1987, Brian De Palma*) Television, File (Parents) 02 Jul – 6.3 [parts]
196. Sisters (1973, Brian De Palma*) Television, File (Parents) 06 Jul – 6.9
197. Carrie (1976, Brian De Palma*) Television, File (Parents) 07 Jul – 7.4
198. +The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (1964, Jacques Demy) Television, Blu-ray (Parents) 08 Jul – 8.9 [same]
199. The Gang’s All Here (1943, Busby Berkeley^) Television, File 11 Jul – 7.6
200. Actress (2014, Robert Greene^@) Television, Vimeo 12 Jul – 6.2
201. Holy Motors (2012, Leos Carax^) Laptop, File 13 Jul – 7.5
202. Kate Plays Christine (2016, Robert Greene@) Television, File 14 Jul – 7.2
203. True Lies (1994, James Cameron) Television, File (Parents) 15 Jul – 5.8
204. Henry Gamble’s Birthday Party (2015, Stephen Cone^) Television, Vimeo 16 Jul – 6.6
204. Murder à la Mod (1967, Brian De Palma*) Television, Blu-ray 17 Jul – 5.1 [intermittent]
205. The Wedding Party (1969, Brian De Palma*) Television, Amazon Prime 18 Jul – 4.2 [intermittent]
206. Greetings (1968, Brian De Palma*) Television, File 19 Jul – 6.2
207. Phantom of the Paradise (1974, Brian De Palma*) Television, File 20 Jul – 7.2
208. Hi, Mom! (1970, Brian De Palma*) Television, File 22 Jul – 5.1
209. A Brighter Summer Day (1991, Edward Yang) Television, Blu-ray 23 Jul – 9.5 [parts]
210. Dionysus in ’69 (1970, Brian De Palma*) Television, File 24 Jul – 5.6
p001. +Everybody Wants Some!! (2016, Richard Linklater) Airplane 04 Aug
211. Sing Street (2016, John Carney^) Airplane 04 Aug – 5.7
212. Eye in the Sky (2015, Gavin Hood) Airplane 04 Aug – 5.4 [Inc. break, unfinished]
p002. +Scott Pilgrim vs. the World (2010, Edgar Wright) Laptop, File 06 Aug
213. +Aloha (2015, Cameron Crowe) Laptop, File 06 Aug – 7.0 [up from 6.0; interrupted]
p003. +Inglourious Basterds (2009, Quentin Tarantino) Laptop, File 07 Aug
214. Home Movies (1980, Brian De Palma*) Laptop, File 08 Aug – 6.0
p004. +The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014, Wes Anderson) Laptop, File 08 Aug
s010. Cat Listening to Music (1988, Chris Marker) Laptop, YouTube 09 Aug – 6.2
s011. Venice 70: Future Reloaded (2013, Abbas Kiarostami) Laptop, YouTube 09 Aug – 5.9
s012. A Train Arrives at the Station (2016, Thom Andersen) Laptop, Vimeo 09 Aug – 5.8
215. Get to Know Your Rabbit (1972, Brian De Palma*) Laptop, File 09 Aug – 4.6 [intermittent]
r001. Hi, Mom! (1970, Brian De Palma) 09 Aug – 5.1 [up from 5.0]
t001. +Flight of the Phoenix (2013, Arrested Development) Laptop, Netflix 09 Aug
t002. +Borderline Personalities (2013, Arrested Development) Laptop, Netflix 09 Aug
216. Obsession (1976, Brian De Palma*) Laptop, File 10 Aug – 6.1 [slept during second act]
p005. +Aloha (2015, Cameron Crowe) Laptop, File 11 Aug [for review]
217. Dressed to Kill (1980, Brian De Palma*) Laptop, Blu-Ray 12 Aug – 7.1
s013. Glove (2016, Alexa Haas & Bernardo Britto) Laptop, YouTube 12 Aug – 5.6
t003. +Asteroid Blues (1998, Cowboy Bebop) Laptop, Hulu (Dub) 12 Aug
p006. +Carol (2015, Todd Haynes) Laptop, Blu-ray 12 Aug
t004. +Stray Dog Strut (1998, Cowboy Bebop) Laptop, File (Dub) 12 Aug
218. Scarface (1983, Brian De Palma*) Laptop, File 13 Aug – 7.0
219. Blow Out (1981, Brian De Palma*) Laptop, Blu-Ray 14 Aug – 7.7
220. South (1999, Chantal Akerman) Laptop, MUBI 16 Aug – 6.3
p007. +Thief (1981, Michael Mann) Laptop, File 16 Aug [for review]
p008. From the Other Side (2002, Chantal Akerman) Laptop, MUBI 17 Aug [fell asleep]
221. From the Other Side (2002, Chantal Akerman) Laptop, MUBI 17 Aug – 7.0 [intermittent]
s014. Sailing with Bushnell Keeler (1967, David Lynch) Laptop, YouTube 18 Aug – 6.4
t005. +Honky Tonk Women (1998, Cowboy Bebop) Laptop, File (Dub) 19 Aug
t006. +Gateway Shuffle (1998, Cowboy Bebop) Laptop, File (Dub) 19 Aug
222. +Blow Out (1981, Brian De Palma) Television, Blu-Ray (Family) 19 Aug – 7.7 [same]
t007. +Ballad for Fallen Angels (1998, Cowboy Bebop) Laptop, File (Dub) 20 Aug
t008. +Sympathy for the Devil (1998, Cowboy Bebop) Laptop, File (Dub) 20 Aug
t009. +Heavy Metal Queen (1998, Cowboy Bebop) Laptop, File (Dub) 21 Aug
t010. +Waltz for Venus (1998, Cowboy Bebop) Laptop, File (Dub) 21 Aug
223. Trust (1990, Hal Hartley^) Laptop, MUBI 21 Aug – 8.9
224. Zatoichi (2003, Takeshi Kitano^) Laptop, MUBI 21 Aug – 6.4 [Internet problems]
t011. +Jamming With Edward (1998, Cowboy Bebop) Laptop, File (Dub) 22 Aug
t012. +Ganymede Elegy (1998, Cowboy Bebop) Laptop, File (Dub) 22 Aug
t013. +Toys in the Attic (1998, Cowboy Bebop) Laptop, File (Dub) 22 Aug
225. +Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000, Ang Lee) Television, File (Family) 22 Aug – 8.0 [up from ~7.8]
t014. +Jupiter Jazz, Part 1 (1999, Cowboy Bebop) Laptop, File (Dub) 23 Aug
t015. +Jupiter Jazz, Part 2 (1999, Cowboy Bebop) Laptop, File (Dub) 23 Aug
226. +Blackhat (2015, Michael Mann) Television, File (Family) 23 Aug – 7.5 [same]
227. Joint Security Area (2000, Park Chan-wook^) Laptop, MUBI 24 Aug – 6.0
s015. Rehearsals for Extinct Anatomies (1987, Steven & Timothy Quay) Laptop, MUBI 24 Aug – 5.7
228. Looper (2012, Rian Johnson^) Television, Website (Family) 24 Aug – 6.9
p009. +The Forbidden Room (2015, Guy Maddin) Laptop, Fandor 25 Aug
p010. +Trust (1990, Hal Hartley) Laptop, Fandor 25 Aug
t016. Shanghai (2014, Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown) Television, Netflix (Family) 25 Aug
s016. The Comb (1990, Steven & Timothy Quay) Laptop, MUBI 26 Aug – 5.9
229. +Sans soleil (1983, Chris Marker) Television, Blu-Ray (Parents) 26 Aug – 9.7 [same]
s017. De Artificiali Perspectiva, or Anamorphosis (1993, Steven & Timothy Quay) Laptop, MUBI 27 Aug – 5.6
p011. +Inherent Vice (2014, Paul Thomas Anderson) Laptop, File 27 Aug
s018. In Absentia (2000, Steven & Timothy Quay) Laptop, MUBI 28 Aug – 6.3 [Inc.]
s019. While You Were Fighting: A Thor Mockumentary (2016, Taika Waititi) Laptop, YouTube 28 Aug – 6.0
s020. +In Absentia (2000, Steven & Timothy Quay) Laptop, MUBI 28 Aug – 6.3
230. River of Grass (1994, Kelly Reichardt^*) Television, MUBI 28 Aug – 7.0
r002. Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory (1971, Mel Stuart) 29 Aug – ~6.2 [up from ~5.4]
231. Old Joy (2006, Kelly Reichardt*) Television, MUBI 29 Aug – 7.2
s021. My Mutant Brain (2016, Spike Jonze) Laptop, YouTube 30 Aug – 5.8
232. Blue Ruin (2013, Jeremy Saulnier) Television, Amazon Prime (Father) 30 Aug – 5.8
r003. The Hunger Games: Catching Fire (2013, Francis Lawrence) 30 Aug – ~5.8 [up from ~5.6]
233. Wendy and Lucy (2008, Kelly Reichardt*) Television, MUBI 31 Aug – 7.6
s022. Digital Destinies (2012, Gina Telaroli) Laptop, Vimeo 31 Aug – 7.0
234. Meek’s Cutoff (2010, Kelly Reichardt*) Television, MUBI 31 Aug – 8.3
r004. Lawrence of Arabia (1962, David Lean) 31 Aug – 8.0 [down from 8.4]
r005. Play Time (1967, Jacques Tati) 31 Aug – 8.0 [down from 8.4]
235. The Invitation (2015, Karyn Kusama^) Television, Netflix (Father) 01 Sep – 5.9
236. Night Moves (2013, Kelly Reichardt*) Television, Amazon Prime 01 Sep – 6.8
t017. +Bohemian Rhapsody (1999, Cowboy Bebop) Laptop, File (Dub) 02 Sep
t018. My Funny Valentine (1999, Cowboy Bebop) Laptop, File (Dub) 02 Sep
237. The Fury (1978, Brian De Palma*) Television, Netflix 02 Sep – 6.5
t019. Stray Dog Serenade (1999, Cowboy Bebop) Laptop, File (Dub) 03 Sep
t020. Mushroom Samba (1999, Cowboy Bebop) Laptop, File (Dub) 03 Sep
t021. Speak Like a Child (1999, Cowboy Bebop) Laptop, File (Dub) 04 Sep
t022. Wild Horses (1999, Cowboy Bebop) Laptop, File (Dub) 04 Sep
238. Jason Bourne (2016, Paul Greengrass) Movie Tavern, DCP (Father) 04 Sep – 5.2
239. Wise Guys (1986, Brian De Palma*) Laptop, File 05 Sep – 2.4
t022. Pierrot Le Fou (1999, Cowboy Bebop) Laptop, File (Dub) 05 Sep
t022. Boogie Woogie Feng Shui (1999, Cowboy Bebop) Laptop, File (Dub) 05 Sep
s023. +Duck Amuck (1953, Chuck Jones) Laptop, Dailymotion 05 Sep – 8.8 [up from 8.5]
240. Casualties of War (1989, Brian De Palma*) Television, File 05 Sep – 7.6
t023. Cowboy Funk (1999, Cowboy Bebop) Laptop, File (Dub) 06 Sep
t024. Brain Scratch (1999, Cowboy Bebop) Laptop, File (Dub) 06 Sep
241. The Bonfire of the Vanities (1990, Brian De Palma*) Television, File 06 Sep – 4.9
r006. Die Hard 2 (1990, Renny Harlin) 07 Aug – 5.2 [up from 4.9]
t025. Hard Luck Woman (1999, Cowboy Bebop) Laptop, File (Dub) 07 Sep
t026. The Real Folk Blues, Part 1 (1999, Cowboy Bebop) Laptop, File (Dub) 07 Sep
t027. The Real Folk Blues, Part 2 (1999, Cowboy Bebop) Laptop, File (Dub) 07 Sep
242. Carlito’s Way (1993, Brian De Palma*) Laptop, File 08 Sep – 8.9
243. Raising Cain (1992, Brian De Palma*) Laptop, File 08 Sep – 6.9 [phone]
244. Chungking Express (1994, Wong Kar-wai) Television, File (Family) 09 Sep – 9.0
r007. Heat (1995, Michael Mann) 10 Sep – 9.0 [down from 9.1]
245. Days of Being Wild (1990, Wong Kar-wai) Television, File (Family) 10 Sep – 8.1
246. Body Double (1984, Brian De Palma*) Television, File 11 Sep – 8.0
r008. Carlito’s Way (1993, Brian De Palma) 12 Sep – 8.7 [down from 8.9]
247. Femme Fatale (2002, Brian De Palma*) Television, File 12 Sep – 8.2
s024. +Too Many Cooks (2014, Casper Kelly) Laptop, YouTube 13 Sep – 6.4 [up from 5.9]
248. Bad Seed (1934, Billy Wilder and Alexander Esway^) Television, MUBI 13 Sep – 5.6
s025. Steven Spielberg’s “Obama” (2013, Steven Spielberg) Laptop, YouTube 15 Sep – 5.9
249. The Glass Shield (1994, Charles Burnett^) Laptop, MUBI 16 Sep – 6.6
r009. The Fury (1978, Brian De Palma) 16 Sep – 6.1 [down from 6.5]
250. +Mountains May Depart (2015, Jia Zhangke) Television, Netflix (Mom) 16 Sep – 7.2 [up from 6.6]
251. House of Little Deaths (2016, Scout Tafoya^) Laptop, Vimeo 17 Sep – 4.9 [intermittent]
252. SPL II: A Time for Consequences (2015, Soi Cheang^) Television, Netflix (Parents) 17 Sep – 7.1
p012. +Chungking Express (1994, Wong Kar-wai) Laptop, File 19 Sep
253. Snake Eyes (1998, Brian De Palma*) Laptop, File 19 Sep – 6.9
r010. Body Double (1984, Brian De Palma) 19 Sep – 7.8 [down from 8.0]
254. Mission to Mars (2000, Brian De Palma*) Television, File 19 Sep – 5.6
r011. The Martian (2015, Ridley Scott) 20 Sep – 6.2 [up from 5.9]
255. The Black Dahlia (2006, Brian De Palma*) Television, File (Parents) 20 Sep – 6.4
p013. +John Wick (2014, Chad Stahelski) Laptop, File 21 Sep
t028. Pilot (2016, Designated Survivor) Televison, ABC (Parents) 21 Sep
256. Redacted (2007, Brian De Palma*) Laptop, File 22 Sep – 4.6
r012. The Wedding Party (1969, Brian De Palma & Wilford Leach & Cynthia Munroe) 22 Sep – 3.5 [down from 4.2]
r013. Get to Know Your Rabbit (1972, Brian De Palma) 22 Sep – 3.9 [down from 4.6]
257. Passion (2012, Brian De Palma*) Laptop, Netflix 23 Sep – 8.8
258. Our Little Sister (2015, Hirokazu Kore-eda^) Airplane 23 Sep – 6.3
259. Journey to the Shore (2015, Kiyoshi Kurosawa^) Airplane 23 Sep – 6.1
p014. +Eye in the Sky (2015, Gavin Hood) Airplane 23 Sep
r014. A Bigger Splash (2015, Luca Guadagnino) 23 Sep – 6.0 [down from 6.1]
260. Fish Tank (2009, Andrea Arnold^@) Laptop, Hulu 25 Sep – 5.5
261. American Honey (2016, Andrea Arnold@†) SIFF Uptown, DCP (Club, Actress/Producer Q&A) 25 Sep – 5.2
s026. Broadway by Light (1958, William Klein) Laptop, MUBI 26 Sep – 6.2
262. Suicide Squad (2016, David Ayer) Regal Thornton, DCP 26 Sep – 1.9
263. Kubo and the Two Strings (2016, Travis Knight^) Regal Thornton, DCP 26 Sep – 6.5
264. Don’t Breathe (2016, Fede Alvarez^) Regal Meridian, DCP 27 Sep – 6.1
265. Hell or High Water (2016, David Mackenzie^) Regal Meridian, DCP 27 Sep – 6.2
266. Sully (2016, Clint Eastwood) Regal Meridian, DCP 27 Sep – 7.2
267. De Palma (2015, Noah Baumbach & Jake Paltrow^)* Laptop, iTunes 28 Sep – 6.5
268. +Cameraperson (2016, Kirsten Johnson) SIFF Uptown, DCP 28 Sep – 8.1 [up from 7.2]
269. Los Sures (1984, Diego Echeverria^) Laptop, MUBI 30 Sep – 5.8
270. +The Night of the Hunter (1955, Charles Laughton) Capitol Theater, DCP (Friends) 01 Oct – 9.3 [up from 9.0]
271. The Shallows (2016, Jaume Collet-Serra) Laptop, iTunes 03 Oct – 7.0
r015. A Serious Man (2009, Joel & Ethan Coen) 03 Oct – 6.9 [down from 7.1]
s027. Something Between Us (2015, Jodie Mack) Laptop, MUBI 03 Oct – 6.6
272. +The Shallows (2016, Jaume Collet-Serra) Laptop, iTunes 03 Oct – 7.0 [same]
m273. O.J.: Made in America [Part 1] (2016, Ezra Edelman^) Laptop, Hulu 04 Oct
274. The Distance (2014, Sergio Caballero^) Laptop, MUBI 04 Oct – 5.3 [intermittent]
m273. O.J.: Made in America [Part 2] (2016, Ezra Edelman^) Laptop, Hulu 05 Oct
s028. The AC!D Reign Chronicles (2016, Grimes) Laptop, YouTube 05 Oct – 6.2
m273. O.J.: Made in America [Part 3] (2016, Ezra Edelman^) Laptop, Hulu 06 Oct
275. +Mistress America (2015, Noah Baumbach) Projector, iTunes (Club) 06 Oct – 8.2 [same]
m273. O.J.: Made in America [Part 4] (2016, Ezra Edelman^) Laptop, Hulu 07 Oct
m273. O.J.: Made in America [Part 5] (2016, Ezra Edelman^) Laptop, Hulu 08 Oct – 7.7
r016. Body Double (1984, Brian De Palma) 08 Oct – 7.5 [down from 7.8]
276. The Day He Arrives (2011, Hong Sang-soo^@) Laptop, Fandor 09 Oct – 7.3 [fell asleep]
p015. +The Day He Arrives (2011, Hong Sang-soo) Laptop, Fandor 09 Oct
p016. +Trust (1990, Hal Hartley) Laptop, Fandor 10 Oct
r017. A.I. Artificial Intelligence (2001, Steven Spielberg) 10 Oct – 8.9 [up from 8.8]
277. In Another Country (2012, Hong Sang-soo@) Laptop, Fandor 10 Oct – 6.7
278. Right Now, Wrong Then (2015, Hong Sang-soo@) Laptop, Fandor 11 Oct – 7.2
279. Krivina (2012, Igor Drljaca^) Laptop, MUBI 12 Oct – 5.4 [intermittent]
s029. Fe26 (2014, Kevin Jerome Everson) Laptop, MUBI 13 Oct – 5.8
s030. Mad Ladders (2015, Michael Robinson) Laptop, MUBI 13 Oct – 6.2
280. +Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004, Michel Gondry) Projector, iTunes (Club) 13 Oct – 7.6 [same]
281. The Sky Trembles and the Earth is Afraid and the Two Eyes Are Not Brothers (2015, Ben Rivers^) Laptop, MUBI 15 Oct – 5.1 [intermittent]
r018. The Distance (2014, Sergio Caballero) 15 Oct – 4.8 [down from 5.3]
282. Minotaur (2015, Nicolás Pereda^) Laptop, MUBI 15 Oct – 5.6 [rewound]
r019. Krivina (2012, Igor Drljaca) 16 Oct – 5.3 [down from 5.4]
s031. Regal (2015, Karissa Hahn) Laptop, MUBI 16 Oct – 5.6
s032. Now: End of Season (2016, Ayman Nahle) Laptop, MUBI 16 Oct – 5.5
s033. Cilaos (2016, Camilo Restrepo) Laptop, MUBI 16 Oct – 6.1
283. Justin Timberlake + the Tennessee Kids (2016, Jonathan Demme) Laptop, Netflix 17 Oct – 7.1 [rewound]
p017. +Justin Timberlake + the Tennessee Kids (2016, Jonathan Demme) Laptop, Netflix 18 Oct
284. Lemonade (2016, Kahlil Joseph and Beyoncé Knowles Carter) Laptop, TIDAL 18 Oct – 6.0 [rewound]
r019. “REALiTi” (2015, Grimes) 19 Oct – 6.6 [up from 5.9]
r020. “Oblivion” (2012, Emily Kai Bock and Claire Boucher) 19 Oct – 6.1 [up from 5.7]
285. Possession (1981, Andrzej Zulawski^@) Laptop, File 21 Oct – 8.1
r021. Steven Spielberg’s “Obama” (2013, Steven Spielberg) 21 Oct – 5.7 [down from 5.9]
r022. The Seventh Continent (1989, Michael Haneke) 21 Oct – 8.0 [down from 8.1]
r023. Femme Fatale (2002, Brian De Palma) 21 Oct – 8.1 [down from 8.2]
r024. The Insider (1999, Michael Mann) 21 Oct – 7.8 [down from 8.1]
r025. Lawrence of Arabia (1962, David Lean) 21 Oct – 7.9 [down from 8.0]
r026. Playtime (1967, Jacques Tati) 21 Oct – 7.7 [down from 8.0]
r027. Dr. Strangelove, or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964, Stanley Kubrick) 21 Oct – 7.8 [down from 8.0]
286. On the Silver Globe (1988, Andrzej Zulawski@) SIFF Uptown, DCP 21 Oct – 5.1 [slight]
r028. Thief (1981, Michael Mann) 22 Oct – 7.9 [down from 8.2]
287. Shin Godzilla (2016, Hideaki Anno^) Regal Meridian, DCP 22 Oct – 7.0
288. Deepwater Horizon (2016, Peter Berg) Regal Meridian, DCP 22 Oct – 5.3
289. The Magnificent Seven (2016, Antoine Fuqua) AMC Pacific Place, DCP 22 Oct – 5.2
290. Certain Women (2016, Kelly Reichardt) SIFF Egyptian, DCP 23 Oct – 7.2
r029. Old Joy (2006, Kelly Reichardt) 23 Oct – 7.3 [up from 7.2]
s034. Foyer (2016, Ismaïl Bahri) Laptop, MUBI 24 Oct – 7.0
s035. Indefinite Pitch (2016, James N. Kienitz Wilkins) Laptop, MUBI 25 Oct – 5.8
291. Afterschool (2008, Antonio Campos^@) Laptop, DVD 26 Oct – 6.9
292. Simon Killer (2012, Antonio Campos@) Laptop, DVD 27 Oct – 4.9
293. Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956, Don Siegel^) Projector, iTunes (Club) 27 Oct – 6.7
294. Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance (2002, Park Chan-wook@) Laptop, Blu-ray 28 Oct – 6.2
295. Oldboy (2003, Park Chan-wook@) Laptop, Hulu 29 Oct – 7.1
s036. Kwaku Ananse (2013, Akosua Adoma Owusu) Laptop, Vimeo 30 Oct – 5.5
296. Lady Vengeance (2005, Park Chan-wook@) Laptop, Hulu 30 Oct – 7.1
r030. Oldboy (2003, Park Chan-wook) 30 Oct – 7.2 [up from 7.1]
r031. Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance (2002, Park Chan-wook) 30 Oct – 6.4 [up from 6.2]
r032. Intolerable Cruelty (2003, Joel & Ethan Coen) 30 Oct – 7.1 [down from 7.2]
297. The Handmaiden (2016, Park Chan-wook@) SIFF Uptown, DCP 30 Oct – 7.8
p018. +Possession (1981, Andrzej Zulawski) Laptop, File 31 Oct
s037. The Heart of the World (2000, Guy Maddin) Laptop, Fandor 31 Oct – 8.4
r033. Dancer in the Dark (2000, Lars von Trier) 31 Oct – 8.3 [down from 8.5]
p019. +Saving Private Ryan (1998, Steven Spielberg) Television, Netflix (Dorm) 01 Nov
r034. Saving Private Ryan (1998, Steven Spielberg) 01 Nov – 6.6 [up from 5.9]
298. Moonlight (2016, Barry Jenkins^†) AMC Pacific Place, DCP (Club) 01 Nov – 6.4
p020. Henry Gamble’s Birthday Party (2015, Stephen Cone) Laptop, Netflix 01 Nov
p021. Chungking Express (1994, Wong Kar-wai) Laptop, FilmStruck 01 Nov
r035. De Palma (2015, Noah Baumbach & Jake Paltrow) 01 Nov – 6.4 [down from 6.5]
299. The Fighter (2010, David O. Russell) Projector, Blu-ray (Club) 03 Nov – 5.6
p020. +Kingsman: The Secret Service (2014, Matthew Vaughn) Television, Website (Dorm) 05 Nov
r036. Kingsman: The Secret Service (2014, Matthew Vaughn) 05 Nov – ~3.0 [down from ~3.6]
p021. Evolution of a Filipino Family (2004, Lav Diaz) Laptop, MUBI 05 Nov
300. +Kate Plays Christine (2016, Robert Greene) Northwest Film Forum, DCP 05 Nov – 7.2 [same; slight]
301. Tower (2016, Keith Maitland) Northwest Film Forum, DCP 05 Nov – 6.6
p022. Evolution of a Filipino Family (2004, Lav Diaz) Laptop, MUBI 06 Nov [intermittent]
302. +The Handmaiden (2016, Park Chan-wook) SIFF Uptown, DCP (Friend) 06 Nov – 7.8 [same]
303. Arrival (2016, Denis Villeneuve†) Regal Thornton, DCP (Club) 07 Nov – 6.2
304. You Can Count on Me (2000, Kenneth Lonergan^*) Laptop, DVD 09 Nov – 7.2
p023. Shrek 2 (2004, Andrew Adamson & Kelly Asbury & Conrad Vernon) Television, Website (Dorm) 09 Nov
305. Meet the Patels (2014, Geeta V. Patel^ & Ravi V. Patel^) Projector, Netflix (Club) 10 Nov – 4.8
306. Margaret (2011, Kenneth Lonergan*) Laptop, Blu-ray 11 Nov – 7.9 [interrupted]
307. +Margaret [Extended Cut] (2011, Kenneth Lonergan*) Laptop, DVD 11 Nov – 8.3 [Theatrical Cut: 7.9; intermittent]
308. Titicut Follies (1967, Frederick Wiseman^) Northwest Film Forum, 35mm 11 Nov – 6.0 [intermittent]
309. High School (1968, Frederick Wiseman) Grand Illusion, 35mm 12 Nov – 6.2 [late, intermittent]
310. Hospital (1970, Frederick Wiseman) Grand Illusion, 35mm 12 Nov – 6.1
311. Voyage of Time: The IMAX Experience (2016, Terrence Malick) Pacific Science Center, IMAX DCP 13 Nov – 5.9 [late]
312. Doctor Strange (2016, Scott Derrickson^) Regal Meridian, DCP 13 Nov – 5.8
313. Hacksaw Ridge (2016, Mel Gibson) Regal Meridian, DCP 13 Nov – 5.8
r037. Voyage of Time: The IMAX Experience (2016, Terrence Malick) 13 Nov – 6.0 [up from 5.9]
314. The Neon Demon (2016, Nicolas Winding Refn) Laptop, Amazon Prime 15 Nov – 3.5
315. La La Land (2016, Damien Chazelle†) AMC Pacific Place, DCP (Club) 15 Nov – 5.1
316. 13th (2016, Ava DuVernay) Laptop, Netflix 17 Nov – 4.9 [rewound]
317. Two Days, One Night (2014, Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne^) Projector, iTunes (Club) 17 Nov – 7.6
318. Dead Slow Ahead (2015, Mauro Herce^) Northwest Film Forum, DCP (Friend) 19 Nov – 6.1 [intermittent]
319. Creepy (2016, Kiyoshi Kurosawa) SIFF Uptown, DCP 20 Nov – 7.1
320. Allied (2016, Robert Zemeckis†) Regal Thornton, DCP (Club) 21 Nov – 6.4
321. I Am Not Madame Bovary (2016, Feng Xiaogang^) AMC Pacific Place, DCP 22 Nov – 6.2
322. +Voyage of Time: The IMAX Experience (2016, Terrence Malick) Pacific Science Center, IMAX DCP (Friend) 26 Nov – 6.0 [same]
323. Rules Don’t Apply (2016, Warren Beatty^) AMC Pacific Place, DCP 27 Nov – 6.1
r038. I Am Not Madame Bovary (2016, Feng Xiaogang) 27 Nov – 6.3 [up from 6.2]
r039. Rules Don’t Apply (2016, Warren Beatty) 27 Nov – 6.2 [up from 6.1]
s038. Come Together (2016, Wes Anderson) Laptop, YouTube 28 Nov – 5.8
324. Viva (2007, Anna Biller^@) Laptop, MUBI 28 Nov – 5.6 [intermittent]
325. The Love Witch (2016, Anna Biller@) SIFF Film Center, 35mm 28 Nov – 6.1
326. Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk (2016, Ang Lee) Regal Thornton, DCP 30 Nov – 5.2
327. +Sing Street (2016, John Carney) Projector, iTunes (Club) 01 Dec – 5.5
r040. Eye in the Sky (2015, Gavin Hood) 01 Dec – 5.1 [down from 5.4]
328. Manchester By The Sea (2016, Kenneth Lonergan) SIFF Uptown, DCP 02 Dec – 8.1
329. The Edge of Seventeen (2016, Kelly Fremon Craig^) Regal Meridian, DCP 03 Dec – 7.1
r040. Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice (2016, Zack Snyder) 04 Dec – 6.9 [down from 7.1]
r041. Henry Gamble’s Birthday Party (2015, Stephen Cone) 04 Dec – 7.1 [up from 6.6]
330. Neruda (2016, Pablo Larraín^) Laptop, Screener 06 Dec – 6.1
331. The Fits (2015, Anna Rose Holmer^) Laptop, Amazon Prime 07 Dec – 5.8
332. Wavelength (1967, Michael Snow^) Northwest Film Forum, 16mm (Friend) 08 Dec – 8.8
333. To Lavoisier, Who Died in the Reign of Terror (1991, Michael Snow) Northwest Film Forum, 16mm (Friend) 08 Dec – 7.0 [slight]
334. +Love & Friendship (2016, Whit Stillman) Laptop, Amazon Prime 09 Dec – 7.0 [up from 6.6]
r042. Everybody Wants Some!! (2016, Richard Linklater) 09 Dec – 7.0 [up from 6.9]
335. Nocturnal Animals (2016, Tom Ford^) SIFF Egyptian, DCP 09 Dec – 4.9
336. Krisha (2015, Trey Edward Shults^) Laptop, Amazon Prime 11 Dec – 5.0 [slight]
337. Things to Come (2016, Mia Hansen-Løve^) Laptop, Screener 11 Dec – 7.2
r043. Mountains May Depart (2015, Jia Zhangke) 11 Dec – 7.6 [up from 7.2]
p024. +Henry Gamble’s Birthday Party (2015, Stephen Cone) Laptop, Netflix 12 Dec
p025. +Mountains May Depart (2015, Jia Zhangke) Laptop, Netflix 12 Dec
p026. +Sunset Song (2015, Terence Davies) Laptop, Netflix 12 Dec
p027. +Things to Come (2016, Mia Hansen-Løve) Laptop, Screener 13 Dec
p028. +Boyhood (2014, Richard Linklater) Laptop, Blu-ray 16 Dec
338. Jackie (2016, Pablo Larraín) SIFF Egyptian, DCP 17 Dec – 4.6
339. In the Shadow of Women (2015, Philippe Garrel^) Laptop, iTunes 18 Dec – 6.6 [intermittent]
340. Aquarius (2016, Kleber Mendonça Filho^) Laptop, Screener 18 Dec – 7.1 [buffering]
341. The Treasure (2015, Corneliu Porumboiu^) Laptop, Netflix 19 Dec – 6.3
342. Knight of Cups (2015, Terrence Malick) Laptop, DVD 19 Dec – 6.1 [fell asleep]
343. Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them (2016, David Yates) Regal Thornton, DCP 19 Dec – 5.5
344. Fences (2016, Denzel Washington†) Regal Thornton, DCP 19 Dec – 5.7
345. Assassin’s Creed (2016, Justin Kurzel†) Regal Thornton, DCP 20 Dec – 4.3
s039. Inner Workings (2016, Leo Matsuda) Regal Thornton, DCP 20 Dec – 3.7
346. Moana (2016, John Musker & Ron Clements) Regal Thornton, DCP 20 Dec – 5.8
p029. +Right Now, Wrong Then (2015, Hong Sang-soo) Laptop, Fandor (Friend) 21 Dec
r044. Right Now, Wrong Then (2015, Hong Sang-soo) 21 Dec – 7.5 [up from 7.3]
r045. Queen of Earth (2015, Alex Ross Perry) 21 Dec – 7.3 [down from 7.5]
347. +Manchester By The Sea (2016, Kenneth Lonergan) SIFF Uptown, DCP 21 Dec – 8.1 [same]
348. Rogue One (2016, Gareth Edwards^) Regal Thornton, DCP 22 Dec – 6.4
349. Elle (2016, Paul Verhoeven) Seven Gables, DCP 24 Dec – 7.3
350. +It’s a Wonderful Life (1946, Frank Capra) Grand Illusion, 35mm 25 Dec – 7.9 [down from ~8.1]
351. Cosmos (2015, Andrzej Zulawski) Laptop, Netflix 27 Dec – 4.4 [intermittent]
r046. On the Silver Globe (1988, Andrzej Zulawski) 27 Dec – 4.2 [down from 5.1]
352. Lion (2016, Garth Davis^) Regal Meridian, DCP 27 Dec – 4.8
353. Passengers (2016, Morten Tyldum) AMC Pacific Place, DCP 27 Dec – 4.9
354. The Academy of Muses (2015, José Luis Guerín^) Laptop, Fandor 28 Dec – 6.2
355. Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping (2016, Akiva Schaffer^ & Jorma Taccone^) Laptop, Blu-ray 29 Dec – 6.0
356. Aferim! (2015, Radu Jude^) Laptop, DVD 29 Dec – 6.1
357. Weiner (2016, Josh Kriegman^ & Elyse Steinberg^) Laptop, DVD 29 Dec – 6.4

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Decades: 2020s, 2010s, 2000s, 1990s, 1980s, 1970s, 1960s, 1950s, 1940s, 1930s, 1920s, Pre-1920s

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Ten Favorite Films

  1. YI YI (Edward Yang)
  2. MULHOLLAND DR. (David Lynch)
  3. SANS SOLEIL (Chris Marker)
  4. THE MAGNIFICENT AMBERSONS (Orson Welles)
  5. A TOUCH OF ZEN (King Hu)
  6. IN THE MOOD FOR LOVE (Wong Kar-wai)
  7. A BRIGHTER SUMMER DAY (Edward Yang)
  8. THE YOUNG GIRLS OF ROCHEFORT (Jacques Demy)
  9. THE NIGHT OF THE HUNTER (Charles Laughton)
  10. CÉLINE AND JULIE GO BOATING (Jacques Rivette)

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2020s

Best of the Decade

  1. DRIVE MY CAR (Hamaguchi Ryūsuke)
  2. CAN’T GET YOU OUT OF MY HEAD: AN EMOTIONAL HISTORY OF THE MODERN WORLD (Adam Curtis)
  3. MEMORIA (Apichatpong Weerasethakul)
  4. WALK UP (Hong Sang-soo)
  5. PACIFICTION (Albert Serra)
  6. THE NOVELIST’S FILM (Hong Sang-soo)
  7. EO (Jerzy Skolimowski)
  8. DAYS (Tsai Ming-liang)
  9. THE WORKS AND DAYS (OF TAYOKO SHIOJIRI IN THE SHIOTANI BASIN) (C.W. Winter & Anders Edström)
  10. WHAT DO WE SEE WHEN WE LOOK AT THE SKY? (Alexandre Koberidze)

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2022

  1. WALK UP (Hong Sang-soo)
  2. PACIFICTION (Albert Serra)
  3. THE NOVELIST’S FILM (Hong Sang-soo)
  4. EO (Jerzy Skolimowski)
  5. TRENQUE LAUQUEN (Laura Citarella)
  6. SECTION 1 (Jon Bois)
  7. CAPTAIN AHAB: THE STORY OF DAVE STIEB (Jon Bois)
  8. THE FABELMANS (Steven Spielberg)
  9. IRMA VEP (Olivier Assayas)
  10. DIARY OF A FLEETING AFFAIR (Emmanuel Mouret)

2021

  1. DRIVE MY CAR (Hamaguchi Ryūsuke)
  2. CAN’T GET YOU OUT OF MY HEAD: AN EMOTIONAL HISTORY OF THE MODERN WORLD (Adam Curtis)
  3. MEMORIA (Apichatpong Weerasethakul)
  4. WHAT DO WE SEE WHEN WE LOOK AT THE SKY? (Alexandre Koberidze)
  5. IL BUCO (Michelangelo Frammartino)
  6. WHEEL OF FORTUNE AND FANTASY (Hamaguchi Ryūsuke)
  7. WHO’S STOPPING US (Jonás Trueba)
  8. A NEW OLD PLAY (Qiu Jiongjiong)
  9. EARTHEARTHEARTH (Saïto Daïchi, Canada)
  10. WEST SIDE STORY (Steven Spielberg)

2020

  1. DAYS (Tsai Ming-liang)
  2. THE WORKS AND DAYS (OF TAYOKO SHIOJIRI IN THE SHIOTANI BASIN) (C.W. Winter & Anders Edström)
  3. THE WOMAN WHO RAN (Hong Sang-soo)
  4. SHORT VACATION (Kwon Min-pyo & Seo Han-sol)
  5. BEGINNING (Déa Kulumbegashvili)
  6. THE HISTORY OF THE SEATTLE MARINERS (Jon Bois)
  7. WIFE OF A SPY (Kurosawa Kiyoshi)
  8. MALMKROG (Cristi Puiu)
  9. IF YOU COULD GO BACK, I WOULD SEE HER. (Joshua R. Troxler)
  10. LABOR OF LOVE (Sylvia Schedelbauer)

2010s

Best of the Decade

  1. LA FLOR (Mariano Llinás)
  2. YOURSELF AND YOURS (Hong Sang-soo)
  3. STRAY DOGS (Tsai Ming-liang)
  4. TWIN PEAKS: THE RETURN (David Lynch)
  5. MOUNTAINS MAY DEPART (Jia Zhangke)
  6. MYSTERIES OF LISBON (Raúl Ruiz)
  7. LIKE SOMEONE IN LOVE (Abbas Kiarostami)
  8. ASAKO I & II (Hamaguchi Ryūsuke)
  9. THE DAY HE ARRIVES (Hong Sang-soo)
  10. THE ASSASSIN (Hou Hsiao-hsien)

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2019

  1. MARTIN EDEN (Pietro Marcello)
  2. I HEARD YOU PAINT HOUSES (Martin Scorsese)
  3. TO THE ENDS OF THE EARTH (Kurosawa Kiyoshi)
  4. THE BOB EMERGENCY (Jon Bois)
  5. FOURTEEN (Dan Sallitt)
  6. PRESENT.PERFECT. (Zhu Shengze)
  7. PARASITE (Bong Joon-ho)
  8. UNCUT GEMS (Josh & Benny Safdie)
  9. I WAS AT HOME, BUT… (Angela Schanelec)
  10. SHAKTI (Martín Rejtman)

2018

  1. LA FLOR (Mariano Llinás)
  2. ASAKO I & II (Hamaguchi Ryūsuke)
  3. TRANSIT (Christian Petzold)
  4. LONG DAY’S JOURNEY INTO NIGHT (Bi Gan)
  5. GRASS (Hong Sang-soo)
  6. ASH IS PUREST WHITE (Jia Zhangke)
  7. AMANDA (Mikhaël Hers)
  8. HIGH LIFE (Claire Denis)
  9. THE OTHER SIDE OF THE WIND (Orson Welles)
  10. AN ELEPHANT SITTING STILL (Hu Bo)

2017

  1. TWIN PEAKS: THE RETURN (David Lynch)
  2. FIRST REFORMED (Paul Schrader)
  3. HANAGATAMI (Ōbayashi Nobuhiko)
  4. ON THE BEACH AT NIGHT ALONE (Hong Sang-soo)
  5. THE DAY AFTER (Hong Sang-soo)
  6. ARBORETUM CYCLE (Nathaniel Dorsky)
  7. CLAIRE’S CAMERA (Hong Sang-soo)
  8. ★ (Johann Lurf)
  9. STREETSCAPES [DIALOGUE] (Heinz Emigholz)
  10. PRINCESS CYD (Stephen Cone)

2016

  1. YOURSELF AND YOURS (Hong Sang-soo)
  2. SILENCE (Martin Scorsese)
  3. CAMERAPERSON (Kirsten Johnson)
  4. MANCHESTER BY THE SEA (Kenneth Lonergan)
  5. TONI ERDMANN (Maren Ade)
  6. HYPERNORMALISATION (Adam Curtis)
  7. CERTAIN WOMEN (Kelly Reichardt)
  8. THE HUMAN SURGE (Eduardo Williams)
  9. SIERANEVADA (Cristi Puiu)
  10. THE HEDONISTS (Jia Zhangke)

2015

  1. MOUNTAINS MAY DEPART (Jia Zhangke)
  2. THE ASSASSIN (Hou Hsiao-hsien)
  3. CAROL (Todd Haynes)
  4. CEMETERY OF SPLENDOUR (Apichatpong Weerasethakul)
  5. BLACKHAT (Michael Mann)
  6. RIGHT NOW, WRONG THEN (Hong Sang-soo)
  7. MISTRESS AMERICA (Noah Baumbach)
  8. HAPPY HOUR (Hamaguchi Ryūsuke)
  9. JOURNEY TO THE SHORE (Kurosawa Kiyoshi)
  10. AFTERNOON (Tsai Ming-liang)

2014

  1. PHOENIX (Christian Petzold)
  2. JAUJA (Lisandro Alonso)
  3. DON’T GO BREAKING MY HEART 2 (Johnnie To)
  4. HORSE MONEY (Pedro Costa)
  5. INHERENT VICE (Paul Thomas Anderson)
  6. GOODBYE TO LANGUAGE (Jean-Luc Godard)
  7. THE GRAND BUDAPEST HOTEL (Wes Anderson)
  8. HILL OF FREEDOM (Hong Sang-soo)
  9. GONE GIRL (David Fincher)
  10. THE PRINCESS OF FRANCE (Matías Piñeiro)

2013

  1. STRAY DOGS (Tsai Ming-liang)
  2. MANAKAMANA (Stephanie Spray & Pacho Velez)
  3. THE GRANDMASTER (Wong Kar-wai)
  4. THE WIND RISES (Miyazaki Hayao)
  5. NOBODY’S DAUGHTER HAEWON (Hong Sang-soo)
  6. BEFORE MIDNIGHT (Richard Linklater)
  7. BASTARDS (Claire Denis)
  8. THE TALE OF THE PRINCESS KAGUYA (Takahata Isao)
  9. OUR SUNHI (Hong Sang-soo)
  10. TIREZ LA LANGUE, MADEMOISELLE (Axelle Ropert)

2012

  1. LIKE SOMEONE IN LOVE (Abbas Kiarostami)
  2. PASSION (Brian De Palma)
  3. DRUG WAR (Johnnie To)
  4. ROMANCING IN THIN AIR (Johnnie To)
  5. IN ANOTHER COUNTRY (Hong Sang-soo)
  6. FRANCES HA (Noah Baumbach)
  7. TABU (Miguel Gomes)
  8. LINCOLN (Steven Spielberg)
  9. MOONRISE KINGDOM (Wes Anderson)
  10. DIFFERENTLY, MOLUSSIA (Nicolas Rey)

2011

  1. THE DAY HE ARRIVES (Hong Sang-soo)
  2. THE TREE OF LIFE (Terrence Malick)
  3. DON’T GO BREAKING MY HEART (Johnnie To)
  4. MARGARET (Kenneth Lonergan)
  5. THIS IS NOT A FILM (Jafar Panâhi & Mojtaba Mirtahmasb)
  6. DREILEBEN: BEATS BEING DEAD (Christian Petzold)
  7. LIST (Hong Sang-soo)
  8. DREILEBEN: DON’T FOLLOW ME AROUND (Dominik Graf)
  9. THE COLOR WHEEL (Alex Ross Perry)
  10. THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO (David Fincher)

2010

  1. MYSTERIES OF LISBON (Raúl Ruiz)
  2. CERTIFIED COPY (Abbas Kiarostami)
  3. MEEK’S CUTOFF (Kelly Reichardt)
  4. UNCLE BOONMEE WHO CAN RECALL HIS PAST LIVES (Apichatpong Weerasethakul)
  5. HAHAHA (Hong Sang-soo)
  6. OKI’S MOVIE (Hong Sang-soo)
  7. THE CITY BELOW (Christoph Hochhäusler)
  8. FILM SOCIALISME (Jean-Luc Godard)
  9. LOVE IN A PUFF (Pang Ho-cheung)
  10. THE GHOST WRITER (Roman Polański)

2000s

Best of the Decade

  1. YI YI (Edward Yang)
  2. MULHOLLAND DR. (David Lynch)
  3. IN THE MOOD FOR LOVE (Wong Kar-wai)
  4. GOODBYE, DRAGON INN (Tsai Ming-liang)
  5. PLATFORM (Jia Zhangke)
  6. CROUCHING TIGER, HIDDEN DRAGON (Ang Lee)
  7. OXHIDE II (Liu Jiayin)
  8. A.I. ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE (Steven Spielberg)
  9. SPIRITED AWAY (Miyazaki Hayao)
  10. SYNDROMES AND A CENTURY (Apichatpong Weerasethakul)

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2009

  1. OXHIDE II (Liu Jiayin)
  2. IT FELT LIKE A KISS (Adam Curtis)
  3. DISORDER (Huang Weikai)
  4. LIKE YOU KNOW IT ALL (Hong Sang-soo)
  5. ACCIDENT (Soi Cheang)
  6. PUBLIC ENEMIES (Michael Mann)
  7. ORPHAN (Jaume Collet-Serra)
  8. INGLOURIOUS BASTERDS (Quentin Tarantino)
  9. FANTASTIC MR. FOX (Wes Anderson)
  10. TREES OF SYNTAX, LEAVES OF AXIS (Saïto Daïchi)

2008

  1. SPARROW (Johnnie To)
  2. NIGHT AND DAY (Hong Sang-soo)
  3. BEIJING OLYMPICS OPENING CEREMONY (Zhang Yimou)
  4. 35 SHOTS OF RUM (Claire Denis)
  5. THE HEADLESS WOMAN (Lucrecia Martel)
  6. TOKYO SONATA (Kurosawa Kiyoshi)
  7. SPEED RACER (Lana & Lilly Wachowski)
  8. HISTORIAS EXTRAORDINARIAS (Mariano Llinás)
  9. TWO LOVERS (James Gray)
  10. WENDY AND LUCY (Kelly Reichardt)

2007

  1. THE TRAP: WHAT HAPPENED TO OUR DREAM OF FREEDOM (Adam Curtis)
  2. ZODIAC (David Fincher)
  3. DEATH PROOF (Quentin Tarantino)
  4. LA FRANCE (Serge Bozon)
  5. scenes from THE WIND (Edward Yang)
  6. MICHAEL CLAYTON (Tony Gilroy)
  7. HANNAH TAKES THE STAIRS (Joe Swanberg)
  8. MY BLUEBERRY NIGHTS (Wong Kar-wai)
  9. THERE WILL BE BLOOD (Paul Thomas Anderson)
  10. PROFIT MOTIVE AND THE WHISPERING WIND (John Gianvito)

2006

  1. SYNDROMES AND A CENTURY (Apichatpong Weerasethakul)
  2. MIAMI VICE (Michael Mann)
  3. INLAND EMPIRE (David Lynch)
  4. ELECTION 2 (Johnnie To)
  5. STILL LIFE (Jia Zhangke)
  6. DEJA VU (Tony Scott)
  7. MARIE ANTOINETTE (Sofia Coppola)
  8. WOMAN ON THE BEACH (Hong Sang-soo)
  9. I DON’T WANT TO SLEEP ALONE (Tsai Ming-liang)
  10. EXILED (Johnnie To)

2005

  1. THE NEW WORLD (Terrence Malick)
  2. OXHIDE (Liu Jiayin)
  3. TALE OF CINEMA (Hong Sang-soo)
  4. THROUGH THE FOREST (Jean-Paul Civeyrac)
  5. THE DEATH OF MR. LAZARESCU (Cristi Puiu)
  6. CACHÉ (Michael Haneke)
  7. THE WAYWARD CLOUD (Tsai Ming-liang)
  8. ELECTION (Johnnie To)
  9. PERHAPS LOVE (Peter Chan)
  10. THE SQUID AND THE WHALE (Noah Baumbach)

2004

  1. TROPICAL MALADY (Apichatpong Weerasethakul)
  2. 2046 (Wong Kar-wai)
  3. BEFORE SUNSET (Richard Linklater)
  4. THROW DOWN (Johnnie To)
  5. THE HAND (Wong Kar-wai)
  6. THE POWER OF NIGHTMARES: THE RISE OF THE POLITICS OF FEAR (Adam Curtis)
  7. VERA DRAKE (Mike Leigh)
  8. THE WORLD (Jia Zhangke)
  9. ETERNAL SUNSHINE OF THE SPOTLESS MIND (Michel Gondry)
  10. COLLATERAL (Michael Mann)

2003

  1. GOODBYE, DRAGON INN (Tsai Ming-liang)
  2. LOS ANGELES PLAYS ITSELF (Thom Andersen)
  3. PTU (Johnnie To)
  4. LOST IN TRANSLATION (Sofia Coppola)
  5. RUNNING ON KARMA (Johnnie To & Wai Ka-fai)
  6. KILL BILL: VOLUME 1 (Quentin Tarantino)
  7. MEMORIES OF MURDER (Bong Joon-ho)
  8. ( ) (Morgan Fisher)
  9. OLDBOY (Park Chan-wook)
  10. TEXTISM (Hirabayashi Isamu)

2002

  1. FEMME FATALE (Brian De Palma)
  2. MY LEFT EYE SEES GHOSTS (Johnnie To & Wai Ka-fai)
  3. BLISSFULLY YOURS (Apichatpong Weerasethakul)
  4. ON THE OCCASION OF REMEMBERING THE TURNING GATE (Hong Sang-soo)
  5. CHINESE ODYSSEY 2002 (Jeffrey Lau)
  6. HERO (Zhang Yimou)
  7. THE CENTURY OF THE SELF (Adam Curtis)
  8. FRIDAY NIGHT (Claire Denis)
  9. UNKNOWN PLEASURES (Jia Zhangke)
  10. THE SKYWALK IS GONE (Tsai Ming-liang)

2001

  1. MULHOLLAND DR. (David Lynch)
  2. A.I. ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE (Steven Spielberg)
  3. SPIRITED AWAY (Miyazaki Hayao)
  4. PULSE (Kurosawa Kiyoshi)
  5. MILLENNIUM MAMBO (Hou Hsiao-hsien)
  6. LA LIBERTAD (Lisandro Alonso)
  7. WHAT TIME IS IT THERE? (Tsai Ming-liang)
  8. LA CIÉNAGA (Lucrecia Martel)
  9. ALL ABOUT LILY CHOU-CHOU (Iwai Shunji)
  10. ALI (Michael Mann)

2000

  1. YI YI (Edward Yang)
  2. IN THE MOOD FOR LOVE (Wong Kar-wai)
  3. PLATFORM (Jia Zhangke)
  4. CROUCHING TIGER, HIDDEN DRAGON (Ang Lee)
  5. THE HEART OF THE WORLD (Guy Maddin)
  6. BAMBOOZLED (Spike Lee)
  7. THE EMPEROR’S NEW GROOVE (Mark Dindal)
  8. HAMLET (Michael Almereyda)
  9. VIRGIN STRIPPED BARE BY HER BACHELORS (Hong Sang-soo)
  10. YOU CAN COUNT ON ME (Kenneth Lonergan)

1990s

Best of the Decade

  1. A BRIGHTER SUMMER DAY (Edward Yang)
  2. CHUNGKING EXPRESS (Wong Kar-wai)
  3. HEAT (Michael Mann)
  4. THE HOLE (Tsai Ming-liang)
  5. NEON GENESIS EVANGELION: “TAKE CARE OF YOURSELF.” (Anno Hideaki)
  6. COMRADES: ALMOST A LOVE STORY (Peter Chan)
  7. TWIN PEAKS: FIRE WALK WITH ME (David Lynch)
  8. TRUST (Hal Hartley)
  9. MAHJONG (Edward Yang)
  10. CLOSE-UP (Abbas Kiarostami)

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1999

  1. EYES WIDE SHUT (Stanley Kubrick)
  2. OUTER SPACE (Peter Tscherkassky)
  3. BEAU TRAVAIL (Claire Denis)
  4. GOHATTO (Ōshima Nagisa)
  5. MY NEIGHBORS THE YAMADAS (Takahata Isao)
  6. COWBOY BEBOP: “PIERROT LE FOU” (Watanabe Shinichirō)
  7. THE INSIDER (Michael Mann)
  8. COWBOY BEBOP: “SPEAK LIKE A CHILD” (Watanabe Shinichirō)
  9. THE MATRIX (Lana & Lilly Wachowski)
  10. POLA X (Leos Carax)

1998

  1. THE HOLE (Tsai Ming-liang)
  2. FLOWERS OF SHANGHAI (Hou Hsiao-hsien)
  3. THE THIN RED LINE (Terrence Malick)
  4. A HERO NEVER DIES (Johnnie To)
  5. RUSHMORE (Wes Anderson)
  6. NEW ROSE HOTEL (Abel Ferrara)
  7. THE POWER OF KANGWON PROVINCE (Hong Sang-soo)
  8. COWBOY BEBOP: “SYMPATHY FOR THE DEVIL” (Watanabe Shinichirō)
  9. FESTEN (Thomas Vinterberg)
  10. VASSOURINHA: THE VOICE AND THE VOID (Carlos Adriano)

1997

  1. THE END OF EVANGELION (Anno Hideaki)
  2. CURE (Kurosawa Kiyoshi)
  3. THE RIVER (Tsai Ming-liang)
  4. LOST HIGHWAY (David Lynch)
  5. HAPPY TOGETHER (Wong Kar-wai)
  6. TOO MANY WAYS TO BE NO. 1 (Wai Ka-fai)
  7. TASTE OF CHERRY (Abbas Kiarostami)
  8. FACE/OFF (John Woo)
  9. THE SWEET HEREAFTER (Atom Egoyan)
  10. STARSHIP TROOPERS (Paul Verhoeven)

1996

  1. NEON GENESIS EVANGELION: “TAKE CARE OF YOURSELF.” (Anno Hideaki)
  2. MAHJONG (Edward Yang)
  3. COMRADES: ALMOST A LOVE STORY (Peter Chan)
  4. NEON GENESIS EVANGELION: “DO YOU LOVE ME?” (Anno Hideaki)
  5. NEON GENESIS EVANGELION: “THE BEGINNING AND THE END, OR ‘KNOCKIN’ ON HEAVEN’S DOOR’” (Anno Hideaki)
  6. IRMA VEP (Olivier Assayas)
  7. NEON GENESIS EVANGELION: “WEAVING A STORY 2: ORAL STAGE” (Anno Hideaki)
  8. SECRETS & LIES (Mike Leigh)
  9. VIVA EROTICA (Derek Yee & Lo Chi-leung)
  10. GOODBYE SOUTH, GOODBYE (Hou Hsiao-hsien)

1995

  1. HEAT (Michael Mann)
  2. STRANGE DAYS (Kathryn Bigelow)
  3. THE BRIDGES OF MADISON COUNTY (Clint Eastwood)
  4. FALLEN ANGELS (Wong Kar-wai)
  5. SAFE (Todd Haynes)
  6. BEFORE SUNRISE (Richard Linklater)
  7. CLUELESS (Amy Heckerling)
  8. TATORT: FRAU BU LACHT (Dominik Graf)
  9. PREMONITIONS FOLLOWING AN EVIL DEED (David Lynch)
  10. WHEN IT RAINS (Charles Burnett)

1994

  1. CHUNGKING EXPRESS (Wong Kar-wai)
  2. ASHES OF TIME (Wong Kar-wai)
  3. A CONFUCIAN CONFUSION (Edward Yang)
  4. IN THE HEAT OF THE SUN (Jiang Wen)
  5. SÁTÁNTANGÓ (Tarr Béla)
  6. VIVE L’AMOUR (Tsai Ming-liang)
  7. POM POKO (Takahata Isao)
  8. WING CHUN (Yuen Woo-ping)
  9. BLACK ICE (Stan Brakhage)
  10. U.S. GO HOME (Claire Denis)

1993

  1. GREEN SNAKE (Tsui Hark)
  2. NAKED (Mike Leigh)
  3. JE VOUS SALUE, SARAJEVO (Jean-Luc Godard)
  4. CARLITO’S WAY (Brian De Palma)
  5. D’EST (Chantal Akerman)
  6. STELLAR (Stan Brakhage)
  7. DAZED AND CONFUSED (Richard Linklater)
  8. THREE COLORS: BLUE (Krzysztof Kieślowski)
  9. TAI-CHI MASTER (Yuen Woo-ping)
  10. THE PIANO (Jane Campion)

1992

  1. TWIN PEAKS: FIRE WALK WITH ME (David Lynch)
  2. THE ROCKING HORSEMEN (Ōbayashi Nobuhiko)
  3. HARD-BOILED (John Woo)
  4. THE LONG DAY CLOSES (Terence Davies)
  5. ONCE UPON A TIME IN CHINA II (Tsui Hark)
  6. UNFORGIVEN (Clint Eastwood)
  7. MALCOLM X (Spike Lee)
  8. THE LAST OF THE MOHICANS (Michael Mann)
  9. DEEP COVER (Bill Duke)
  10. REBELS OF THE NEON GOD (Tsai Ming-liang)

1991

  1. A BRIGHTER SUMMER DAY (Edward Yang)
  2. ONCE UPON A TIME IN CHINA (Tsui Hark)
  3. SURVIVING DESIRE (Hal Hartley)
  4. ONLY YESTERDAY (Takahata Isao)
  5. THE SIMPSONS: “ONE FISH, TWO FISH, BLOWFISH, BLUE FISH” (Wes Archer)
  6. THE SIMPSONS: “LISA’S SUBSTITUTE” (Rich Moore)
  7. BARTON FINK (Joel & Ethan Coen)
  8. LA VIE DES MORTS (Arnaud Desplechin)
  9. UNTIL THE END OF THE WORLD (Wim Wenders)
  10. AMBITION (Hal Hartley)

1990

  1. TRUST (Hal Hartley)
  2. CLOSE-UP (Abbas Kiarostami)
  3. DAYS OF BEING WILD (Wong Kar-wai)
  4. BULLET IN THE HEAD (John Woo)
  5. TWIN PEAKS: “LONELY SOULS” (David Lynch)
  6. WILD AT HEART (David Lynch)
  7. TOTAL RECALL (Paul Verhoeven)
  8. TWIN PEAKS: “PILOT” (David Lynch)
  9. THE SIMPSONS: “TREEHOUSE OF HORROR” (Wes Archer & Rich Moore & David Silverman)
  10. THE SIMPSONS: “ITCHY & SCRATCHY & MARGE” (Jim Reardon)

1980s

Best of the Decade

  1. SANS SOLEIL (Chris Marker)
  2. L’ARGENT (Robert Bresson)
  3. BLUE VELVET (David Lynch)
  4. THE KILLER (John Woo)
  5. A CITY OF SADNESS (Hou Hsiao-hsien)
  6. BEIJING WATERMELON (Ōbayashi Nobuhiko)
  7. PEKING OPERA BLUES (Tsui Hark)
  8. PARIS, TEXAS (Wim Wenders)
  9. MANHUNTER (Michael Mann)
  10. STOP MAKING SENSE (Jonathan Demme)

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1989

  1. THE KILLER (John Woo)
  2. A CITY OF SADNESS (Hou Hsiao-hsien)
  3. BEIJING WATERMELON (Ōbayashi Nobuhiko)
  4. PEDICAB DRIVER (Sammo Hung)
  5. DO THE RIGHT THING (Spike Lee)
  6. THE UNBELIEVABLE TRUTH (Hal Hartley)
  7. KIKI’S DELIVERY SERVICE (Miyazaki Hayao)
  8. CASUALTIES OF WAR (Brian De Palma)
  9. LES SIÈGES DE L’ALCAZAR (Luc Moullet)
  10. THE SEVENTH CONTINENT (Michael Haneke)

1988

  1. MY NEIGHBOR TOTORO (Miyazaki Hayao)
  2. SCHOOL ON FIRE (Ringo Lam)
  3. AS TEARS GO BY (Wong Kar-wai)
  4. 36 FILLETTE (Catherine Breillat)
  5. CAT LISTENING TO MUSIC (Chris Marker)
  6. UMA PEDRA NO BOLSO (Joaquim Pinto)
  7. MIRACLE MILE (Steve De Jarnatt)
  8. DIE KATZE (Dominik Graf)
  9. AKIRA (Ōtomo Katsuhiro)
  10. DIE HARD (John McTiernan)

1987

  1. EASTERN CONDORS (Sammo Hung)
  2. ISHTAR (Elaine May)
  3. DAUGHTER OF THE NILE (Hou Hsiao-hsien)
  4. 4 ADVENTURES OF REINETTE AND MIRABELLE (Éric Rohmer)
  5. CITY ON FIRE (Ringo Lam)
  6. WINGS OF DESIRE (Wim Wenders)
  7. ROBOCOP (Paul Verhoeven)
  8. RAISING ARIZONA (Joel & Ethan Coen)
  9. AN AUTUMN’S TALE (Mabel Cheung)
  10. SIGN “O” THE TIMES (Prince)

1986

  1. BLUE VELVET (David Lynch)
  2. PEKING OPERA BLUES (Tsui Hark)
  3. MANHUNTER (Michael Mann)
  4. THE TERRORIZERS (Edward Yang)
  5. BOUND FOR THE FIELDS, THE MOUNTAINS, AND THE SEACOAST (Ōbayashi Nobuhiko)
  6. THE GREEN RAY (Éric Rohmer)
  7. ROSA LA ROSE, FILLE PUBLIQUE (Paul Vecchiali)
  8. FAUBOURG ST. MARTIN (Jean-Claude Guiguet)
  9. HIS MOTORBIKE, HER ISLAND (Ōbayashi Nobuhiko)
  10. DOUBLE MESSIEURS (Jean-François Stévenin)

1985

  1. TAIPEI STORY (Edward Yang)
  2. RAN (Kurosawa Akira)
  3. POLICE STORY (Jackie Chan)
  4. CONTACT (Alan Clarke)
  5. BACK TO THE FUTURE (Robert Zemeckis)
  6. DAY OF THE DEAD (George A. Romero)
  7. BRAZIL (Terry Gilliam)
  8. AFTER HOURS (Martin Scorsese)
  9. MY BEAUTIFUL LAUNDRETTE (Stephen Frears)
  10. TROUBLE IN MIND (Alan Rudolph)

1984

  1. PARIS, TEXAS (Wim Wenders)
  2. STOP MAKING SENSE (Jonathan Demme)
  3. SHANGHAI BLUES (Tsui Hark)
  4. WHEELS ON MEALS (Sammo Hung)
  5. STANDARD GAUGE (Morgan Fisher)
  6. CHOOSE ME (Alan Rudolph)
  7. DUNE (David Lynch)
  8. THE TERMINATOR (James Cameron)
  9. CLASS RELATIONS (Jean-Marie Straub & Danièle Huillet)
  10. BODY DOUBLE (Brian De Palma)

1983

  1. SANS SOLEIL (Chris Marker)
  2. L’ARGENT (Robert Bresson)
  3. THAT DAY, ON THE BEACH (Edward Yang)
  4. VIDEODROME (David Cronenberg)
  5. PAULINE AT THE BEACH (Éric Rohmer)
  6. TESTAMENT (Lynne Littman)
  7. EIN BILD (Harun Farocki)
  8. THE KEEP (Michael Mann)
  9. BORN IN FLAMES (Lizzie Borden)
  10. AT THE TOP OF THE STAIRS (Paul Vecchiali)

1982

  1. BLADE RUNNER (Ridley Scott)
  2. E.T. THE EXTRA-TERRESTRIAL (Steven Spielberg)
  3. NOMAD (Patrick Tam)
  4. POLTERGEIST (Tobe Hooper)
  5. TOO EARLY/TOO LATE (Jean-Marie Straub & Danièle Huillet)
  6. THE THING (John Carpenter)
  7. EXPECTATIONS (Edward Yang)
  8. KOYAANISQATSI (Godfrey Reggio)
  9. EN RACHÂCHANT (Jean-Marie Straub & Danièle Huillet)
  10. IN OUR TIME (Tao Te-chen/Edward Yang/Ko I-chen/Chang Yi)

1981

  1. THE AVIATOR’S WIFE (Éric Rohmer)
  2. TREE OF KNOWLEDGE (Nils Malmros)
  3. RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK (Steven Spielberg)
  4. MY YOUNG AUNTIE (Lau Kar-leung)
  5. THIEF (Michael Mann)
  6. BLOW OUT (Brian De Palma)
  7. AT THIS LATE DATE, THE CHARLESTON (Okamoto Kihachi)
  8. ORDERLY OR DISORDERLY (Abbas Kiarostami)
  9. POSSESSION (Andrzej Żuławski)
  10. THE GARDEN OF EARTHLY DELIGHTS (Stan Brakhage)

1980

  1. KAGEMUSHA (Kurosawa Akira)
  2. SIMONE BARBÈS OR VIRTUE (Marie-Claude Treilhou)
  3. DANGEROUS ENCOUNTERS – FIRST KIND (Tsui Hark)
  4. EVERY MAN FOR HIMSELF (Jean-Luc Godard)
  5. THE SHINING (Stanley Kubrick)
  6. EQUATION TO AN UNKNOWN (Dietrich de Velsa)
  7. CRUISING (William Friedkin)
  8. LOULOU (Maurice Pialat)
  9. THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK (Irvin Kershner)
  10. THE BIRTH OF MAGELLAN: CADENZA I (Hollis Frampton)

1970s

Best of the Decade

  1. A TOUCH OF ZEN (King Hu)
  2. CÉLINE AND JULIE GO BOATING (Jacques Rivette)
  3. OUT 1: NOLI ME TANGERE (Jacques Rivette)
  4. THE MOTHER AND THE WHORE (Jean Eustache)
  5. PERCEVAL LE GALLOIS (Éric Rohmer)
  6. FEMMES FEMMES (Paul Vecchiali)
  7. INDIA SONG (Marguerite Duras)
  8. ERASERHEAD (David Lynch)
  9. (NOSTALGIA) (Hollis Frampton)
  10. JEANNE DIELMAN, 23, QUAI DU COMMERCE, 1080 BRUXELLES (Chantal Akerman)

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1979

  1. DIRTY HO (Lau Kar-leung)
  2. THE MARRIAGE OF MARIA BRAUN (Rainer Werner Fassbinder)
  3. LEGEND OF THE MOUNTAIN (King Hu)
  4. STALKER (Andrei Tarkovsky)
  5. APOCALYPSE NOW (Francis Ford Coppola)
  6. RAINING IN THE MOUNTAIN (King Hu)
  7. THE BUGS BUNNY/ROAD RUNNER MOVIE (Chuck Jones)
  8. ALIEN (Ridley Scott)
  9. ASPARAGUS (Suzan Pitt)
  10. WISE BLOOD (John Huston)

1978

  1. PERCEVAL LE GALLOIS (Éric Rohmer)
  2. THE 36TH CHAMBER OF SHAOLIN (Lau Kar-leung)
  3. DAYS OF HEAVEN (Terrence Malick)
  4. DAWN OF THE DEAD (George A. Romero)
  5. IN A YEAR WITH 13 MOONS (Rainer Werner Fassbinder)
  6. GET OUT YOUR HANDKERCHIEFS (Bertrand Blier)
  7. THE HYPOTHESIS OF THE STOLEN PAINTING (Raúl Ruiz)
  8. REMEMBER MY NAME (Alan Rudolph)
  9. LES RENDEZ-VOUS D’ANNA (Chantal Akerman)
  10. THE GREEN ROOM (François Truffaut)

1977

  1. ERASERHEAD (David Lynch)
  2. THE DEVIL, PROBABLY (Robert Bresson)
  3. CLOSE ENCOUNTERS OF THE THIRD KIND (Steven Spielberg)
  4. PROVIDENCE (Alain Resnais)
  5. ANNIE HALL (Woody Allen)
  6. HOUSE (Ōbayashi Nobuhiko)
  7. THAT OBSCURE OBJECT OF DESIRE (Luis Buñuel)
  8. THE AMERICAN FRIEND (Wim Wenders)
  9. STAR WARS (George Lucas)
  10. SUSPIRIA (Dario Argento)

1976

  1. ASSAULT ON PRECINCT 13 (John Carpenter)
  2. DUELLE (UNE QUARANTAINE) (Jacques Rivette)
  3. THE MARQUISE OF O… (Éric Rohmer)
  4. TAXI DRIVER (Martin Scorsese)
  5. IN THE REALM OF THE SENSES (Ōshima Nagisa)
  6. INSIANG (Lino Brocka)
  7. ALL THE PRESIDENT’S MEN (Alan J. Pakula)
  8. NOROÎT (UNE VENGEANCE) (Jacques Rivette)
  9. CARRIE (Brian De Palma)
  10. SÉRAIL (Eduardo de Gregorio)

1975

  1. INDIA SONG (Marguerite Duras)
  2. JEANNE DIELMAN, 23, QUAI DU COMMERCE, 1080 BRUXELLES (Chantal Akerman)
  3. NASHVILLE (Robert Altman)
  4. MOSES UND ARON (Jean-Marie Straub & Danièle Huillet)
  5. SALÒ, OR THE 120 DAYS OF SODOM (Pier Paolo Pasolini)
  6. JAWS (Steven Spielberg)
  7. THE VALIANT ONES (King Hu)
  8. DERSU UZALA (Kurosawa Akira)
  9. THE PASSENGER (Michelangelo Antonioni)
  10. FOX AND HIS FRIENDS (Rainer Werner Fassbinder)

1974

  1. CÉLINE AND JULIE GO BOATING (Jacques Rivette)
  2. FEMMES FEMMES (Paul Vecchiali)
  3. THE TEXAS CHAIN SAW MASSACRE (Tobe Hooper)
  4. ALI: FEAR EATS THE SOUL (Rainer Werner Fassbinder)
  5. LANCELOT DU LAC (Robert Bresson)
  6. A SIMPLE EVENT (Sohrab Shahid-Saless)
  7. THE CONVERSATION (Francis Ford Coppola)
  8. THE BENCH OF DESOLATION (Claude Chabrol)
  9. STAVISKY… (Alain Resnais)
  10. THE MOUTH AGAPE (Maurice Pialat)

1973

  1. THE MOTHER AND THE WHORE (Jean Eustache)
  2. F FOR FAKE (Orson Welles)
  3. THE FATE OF LEE KHAN (King Hu)
  4. BADLANDS (Terrence Malick)
  5. WORLD ON A WIRE (Rainer Werner Fassbinder)
  6. MEAN STREETS (Martin Scorsese)
  7. DAY FOR NIGHT (François Truffaut)
  8. INTRODUCTION TO ARNOLD SCHOENBERG’S “ACCOMPANIMENT TO A CINEMATOGRAPHIC SCENE” (Jean-Marie Straub & Danièle Huillet)
  9. A DOLL’S HOUSE (Joseph Losey)
  10. THE ILLUMINATION (Krzysztof Zanussi)

1972

  1. OUT 1: SPECTRE (Jacques Rivette)
  2. THE BITTER TEARS OF PETRA VON KANT (Rainer Werner Fassbinder)
  3. AVANTI! (Billy Wilder)
  4. THE HEARTBREAK KID (Elaine May)
  5. LOVE IN THE AFTERNOON (Éric Rohmer)
  6. WE WON’T GROW OLD TOGETHER (Maurice Pialat)
  7. POETIC JUSTICE (Hollis Frampton)
  8. THE DISCREET CHARM OF THE BOURGEOISIE (Luis Buñuel)
  9. NATHALIE GRANGER (Marguerite Duras)
  10. TOUT VA BIEN (Jean-Luc Godard & Jean-Pierre Gorin)

1971

  1. A TOUCH OF ZEN (King Hu)
  2. OUT 1: NOLI ME TANGERE (Jacques Rivette)
  3. (NOSTALGIA) (Hollis Frampton)
  4. A NEW LEAF (Elaine May)
  5. TWO ENGLISH GIRLS (François Truffaut)
  6. THE DEVILS (Ken Russell)
  7. PUNISHMENT PARK (Peter Watkins)
  8. THE CEREMONY (Ōshima Nagisa)
  9. FOUR NIGHTS OF A DREAMER (Robert Bresson)
  10. JUST BEFORE NIGHTFALL (Claude Chabrol)

1970

  1. ZORNS LEMMA (Hollis Frampton)
  2. CLAIRE’S KNEE (Éric Rohmer)
  3. EYES DO NOT WANT TO CLOSE AT ALL TIMES, OR PERHAPS ONE DAY ROME WILL PERMIT HERSELF TO CHOOSE IN HER TURN (Jean-Marie Straub & Danièle Huillet)
  4. SERENE VELOCITY (Ernie Gehr)
  5. LE BOUCHER (Claude Chabrol)
  6. LA RUPTURE (Claude Chabrol)
  7. THE CONFORMIST (Bernardo Bertolucci)
  8. DAYS AND NIGHTS IN THE FOREST (Satyajit Ray)
  9. THE WILD CHILD (François Truffaut)
  10. DEEP END (Jerzy Skolimowski)

1960s

Best of the Decade

  1. THE YOUNG GIRLS OF ROCHEFORT (Jacques Demy)
  2. LA JETÉE (Chris Marker)
  3. LAST YEAR AT MARIENBAD (Alain Resnais)
  4. DRAGON INN (King Hu)
  5. MURIEL, OR THE TIME OF RETURN (Alain Resnais)
  6. GERTRUD (Carl Theodor Dreyer)
  7. WAVELENGTH (Michael Snow)
  8. HIGH AND LOW (Kurosawa Akira)
  9. THE UMBRELLAS OF CHERBOURG (Jacques Demy)
  10. PIERROT LE FOU (Jean-Luc Godard)

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1969

  1. MY NIGHT AT MAUD’S (Éric Rohmer)
  2. L’AMOUR FOU (Jacques Rivette)
  3. THE COLOR OF POMEGRANATES (Sergei Parajanov)
  4. BOY (Ōshima Nagisa)
  5. DESTROY, SHE SAID (Marguerite Duras)
  6. THE NAIL CLIPPERS (Jean-Claude Carriére)
  7. THE SORROW AND THE PITY (Marcel Ophuls)
  8. UNE FEMME DOUCE (Robert Bresson)
  9. LEMON (Hollis Frampton)
  10. DOUBLE SUICIDE (Masahiro Shinoda)

1968

  1. DEATH BY HANGING (Ōshima Nagisa)
  2. ONCE UPON A TIME IN THE WEST (Sergio Leone)
  3. JE T’AIME, JE T’AIME (Alain Resnais)
  4. 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY (Stanley Kubrick)
  5. THE IMMORTAL STORY (Orson Welles)
  6. GOLDEN SWALLOW (Chang Cheh)
  7. LA CHAMADE (Alain Cavalier)
  8. NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD (George A. Romero)
  9. MEMORIES OF UNDERDEVELOPMENT (Tomás Gutiérrez Alea)
  10. ROSEMARY’S BABY (Roman Polański)

1967

  1. THE YOUNG GIRLS OF ROCHEFORT (Jacques Demy)
  2. DRAGON INN (King Hu)
  3. WAVELENGTH (Michael Snow)
  4. WEEKEND (Jean-Luc Godard)
  5. LA COLLECTIONNEUSE (Éric Rohmer)
  6. MOUCHETTE (Robert Bresson)
  7. ONE-ARMED SWORDSMAN (Chang Cheh)
  8. THE RED AND THE WHITE (Jancsó Miklós)
  9. POINT BLANK (John Boorman)
  10. LE DÉPART (Jerzy Skolimowski)

1966

  1. ALL MY LIFE (Bruce Baillie)
  2. PERSONA (Ingmar Bergman)
  3. THE BATTLE OF ALGIERS (Gillo Pontecorvo)
  4. AU HASARD BALTHAZAR (Robert Bresson)
  5. THE TAKING OF POWER BY LOUIS XIV (Roberto Rossellini)
  6. BLACK GIRL (Ousmane Sembène)
  7. ROGER LA HONTE (Riccardo Freda)
  8. COME DRINK WITH ME (King Hu)
  9. THE GOOD, THE BAD, AND THE UGLY (Sergio Leone)
  10. THE NUN (Jacques Rivette)

1965

  1. PIERROT LE FOU (Jean-Luc Godard)
  2. SONS OF THE GOOD EARTH (King Hu)
  3. NOT RECONCILED (Jean-Marie Straub & Danièle Huillet)
  4. THE WAR GAME (Peter Watkins)
  5. SIMON OF THE DESERT (Luis Buñuel)
  6. TOKYO OLYMPIAD (Ichikawa Kon)
  7. RED BEARD (Kurosawa Akira)
  8. LE BONHEUR (Agnès Varda)
  9. THE KOUMIKO MYSTERY (Chris Marker)
  10. SHADOWS OF FORGOTTEN ANCESTORS (Sergei Parajanov)

1964

  1. GERTRUD (Carl Theodor Dreyer)
  2. THE UMBRELLAS OF CHERBOURG (Jacques Demy)
  3. YEARNING (Naruse Mikio)
  4. WOMAN IN THE DUNES (Teshigahara Hiroshi)
  5. THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO ST. MATTHEW (Pier Paolo Pasolini)
  6. MARNIE (Alfred Hitchcock)
  7. CHARULATA (Satyajit Ray)
  8. DOG STAR MAN (Stan Brakhage)
  9. NOTHING BUT A MAN (Michael Roemer)
  10. UNE FEMME MARIÉE (Jean-Luc Godard)

1963

  1. MURIEL, OR THE TIME OF RETURN (Alain Resnais)
  2. HIGH AND LOW (Kurosawa Akira)
  3. THE LOVE ETERNE (Li Han-hsiang)
  4. THE BIRDS (Alfred Hitchcock)
  5. THE HOUSE IS BLACK (Forough Farrokhzad)
  6. MOTHLIGHT (Stan Brakhage)
  7. THE SERVANT (Joseph Losey)
  8. BAY OF ANGELS (Jacques Demy)
  9. LE JOLI MAI (Chris Marker)
  10. PASAZERKA (Andrzej Munk)

1962

  1. LA JETÉE (Chris Marker)
  2. AN AUTUMN AFTERNOON (Ozu Yasujirō)
  3. COSMIC RAY (Bruce Conner)
  4. L’ECLISSE (Michelangelo Antonioni)
  5. CLÉO FROM 5 TO 7 (Agnès Varda)
  6. JULES ET JIM (François Truffaut)
  7. LOLITA (Stanley Kubrick)
  8. VIVRE SA VIE (Jean-Luc Godard)
  9. CARNIVAL OF SOULS (Herk Harvey)
  10. THE EXTERMINATING ANGEL (Luis Buñuel)

1961

  1. LAST YEAR AT MARIENBAD (Alain Resnais)
  2. ALLURES (Jordan Belson)
  3. LOLA (Jacques Demy)
  4. HERCULES CONQUERS ATLANTIS (Vittorio Cottafavi)
  5. PARIS BELONGS TO US (Jacques Rivette)
  6. THE EXILES (Kent Mackenzie)
  7. YOJIMBO (Kurosawa Akira)
  8. WEST SIDE STORY (Robert Wise & Jerome Robbins)
  9. VIRIDIANA (Luis Buñuel)
  10. A WOMAN IS A WOMAN (Jean-Luc Godard)

1960

  1. BREATHLESS (Jean-Luc Godard)
  2. THE 1000 EYES OF DR. MABUSE (Fritz Lang)
  3. PSYCHO (Alfred Hitchcock)
  4. L’AVVENTURA (Michelangelo Antonioni)
  5. PEEPING TOM (Michael Powell)
  6. THE APARTMENT (Billy Wilder)
  7. ARNULF RAINER (Peter Kubelka)
  8. NIGHT AND FOG IN JAPAN (Ōshima Nagisa)
  9. THE BELLBOY (Jerry Lewis)
  10. LA DOLCE VITA (Federico Fellini)

1950s

Best of the Decade

  1. THE NIGHT OF THE HUNTER (Charles Laughton)
  2. VERTIGO (Alfred Hitchcock)
  3. SEVEN SAMURAI (Kurosawa Akira)
  4. DUCK AMUCK (Chuck Jones)
  5. GENTLEMEN PREFER BLONDES (Howard Hawks)
  6. SANSHO THE BAILIFF (Mizoguchi Kenji)
  7. RIO BRAVO (Howard Hawks)
  8. A MAN ESCAPED (Robert Bresson)
  9. TOKYO STORY (Ozu Yasujirō)
  10. REAR WINDOW (Alfred Hitchcock)

—

1959

  1. RIO BRAVO (Howard Hawks)
  2. THE 400 BLOWS (François Truffaut)
  3. HIROSHIMA MON AMOUR (Alain Resnais)
  4. NORTH BY NORTHWEST (Alfred Hitchcock)
  5. LE CHANT DU STYRÈNE (Alain Resnais)
  6. SHADOWS (John Cassavetes)
  7. PICKPOCKET (Robert Bresson)
  8. THE WORLD OF APU (Satyajit Ray)
  9. WINDOW WATER BABY MOVING (Stan Brakhage)
  10. I DIMENTICATI (Vittorio De Seta)

1958

  1. VERTIGO (Alfred Hitchcock)
  2. TOUCH OF EVIL (Orson Welles)
  3. LE BEAU SERGE (Claude Chabrol)
  4. A MOVIE (Bruce Conner)
  5. PESCHERECCI (Vittorio De Seta)
  6. ROBIN HOOD DAFFY (Chuck Jones)
  7. UN GIORNO IN BARBAGIA (Vittorio De Seta)
  8. PASTORI DI ORGOSOLO (Vittorio De Seta)
  9. HARE-WAY TO THE STARS (Chuck Jones)
  10. ENJO (Ichikawa Kon)

1957

  1. PYAASA (Guru Dutt)
  2. SWEET SMELL OF SUCCESS (Alexander Mackendrick)
  3. EIGHT HOURS OF TERROR (Suzuki Seijun)
  4. WHAT’S OPERA, DOC? (Chuck Jones)
  5. THRONE OF BLOOD (Kurosawa Akira)
  6. PATHS OF GLORY (Stanley Kubrick)
  7. ALI BABA BUNNY (Chuck Jones)

1956

  1. A MAN ESCAPED (Robert Bresson)
  2. NIGHT AND FOG (Alain Resnais)
  3. THE WRONG MAN (Alfred Hitchcock)
  4. THE MAN WHO KNEW TOO MUCH (Alfred Hitchcock)
  5. THE BURMESE HARP (Ichikawa Kon)
  6. TOUTE LA MÉMOIRE DU MONDE (Alain Resnais)
  7. THE SEARCHERS (John Ford)

1955

  1. THE NIGHT OF THE HUNTER (Charles Laughton)
  2. FLOATING CLOUDS (Naruse Mikio)
  3. REBEL WITHOUT A CAUSE (Nicholas Ray)
  4. LOLA MONTÈS (Max Ophuls)
  5. THE LONG GRAY LINE (John Ford)
  6. MOONFLEET (Fritz Lang)
  7. MR. ARKADIN (Orson Welles)
  8. ALL THAT HEAVEN ALLOWS (Douglas Sirk)
  9. ARTISTS AND MODELS (Frank Tashlin)
  10. SURFARARA (Vittorio De Seta)

1954

  1. SEVEN SAMURAI (Kurosawa Akira)
  2. SANSHO THE BAILIFF (Mizoguchi Kenji)
  3. REAR WINDOW (Alfred Hitchcock)
  4. A STAR IS BORN (George Cukor)
  5. JOURNEY TO ITALY (Roberto Rossellini)
  6. GODZILLA (Honda Ishirō)
  7. THE CRUCIFIED LOVERS (Mizoguchi Kenji)
  8. MAGNIFICENT OBSESSION (Douglas Sirk)
  9. LU TEMPU DI LI PISCI SPATA (Vittorio De Seta)
  10. ISOLE DI FUOCO (Vittorio De Seta)

1953

  1. DUCK AMUCK (Chuck Jones)
  2. GENTLEMEN PREFER BLONDES (Howard Hawks)
  3. TOKYO STORY (Ozu Yasujirō)
  4. THE SAGA OF ANATAHAN (Josef von Sternberg)
  5. UGETSU MONOGATARI (Mizoguchi Kenji)
  6. DUCK DODGERS IN THE 24½TH CENTURY (Chuck Jones)
  7. A GEISHA (Mizoguchi Kenji)
  8. DUCK! RABBIT, DUCK! (Chuck Jones)
  9. BULLY FOR BUGS (Chuck Jones)
  10. THE BIG HEAT (Fritz Lang)

1952

  1. THE GOLDEN COACH (Jean Renoir)
  2. THE QUIET MAN (John Ford)
  3. SINGIN’ IN THE RAIN (Stanley Donen & Gene Kelly)
  4. THE LUSTY MEN (Nicholas Ray)
  5. RABBIT SEASONING (Chuck Jones)
  6. OPERATION: RABBIT (Chuck Jones)
  7. FEED THE KITTY (Chuck Jones)
  8. EUROPA ’51 (Roberto Rossellini)
  9. IKIRU (Kurosawa Akira)

1951

  1. DIARY OF A COUNTRY PRIEST (Robert Bresson)
  2. AWAARA (Raj Kapoor)
  3. THE TALL TARGET (Anthony Mann)
  4. OTHELLO (Orson Welles)
  5. AN AMERICAN IN PARIS (Vincente Minnelli)
  6. RABBIT FIRE (Chuck Jones)

1950

  1. LA RONDE (Max Ophuls)
  2. RABBIT OF SEVILLE (Chuck Jones)
  3. ALL ABOUT EVE (Joseph L. Mankiewicz)
  4. SUNSET BLVD. (Billy Wilder)
  5. RASHOMON (Kurosawa Akira)
  6. LOS OLVIDADOS (Luis Buñuel)
  7. LES ENFANTS TERRIBLES (Jean-Pierre Melville)

1940s

Best of the Decade

  1. THE MAGNIFICENT AMBERSONS (Orson Welles)
  2. MEET ME IN ST. LOUIS (Vincente Minnelli)
  3. LATE SPRING (Ozu Yasujirō)
  4. LETTER FROM AN UNKNOWN WOMAN (Max Ophuls)
  5. CITIZEN KANE (Orson Welles)
  6. HIS GIRL FRIDAY (Howard Hawks)
  7. THE HEIRESS (William Wyler)
  8. NOTORIOUS (Alfred Hitchcock)
  9. SPRING IN A SMALL TOWN (Fei Mu)
  10. THE BIG SLEEP (Howard Hawks)

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1949

  1. LATE SPRING (Ozu Yasujirō)
  2. THE HEIRESS (William Wyler)
  3. THE THIRD MAN (Carol Reed)
  4. A LETTER TO THREE WIVES (Joseph L. Mankiewicz)

1948

  1. LETTER FROM AN UNKNOWN WOMAN (Max Ophuls)
  2. SPRING IN A SMALL TOWN (Fei Mu)
  3. FORT APACHE (John Ford)
  4. THE RED SHOES (Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger)
  5. BERLIN EXPRESS (Jacques Tourneur)
  6. WOMEN OF THE NIGHT (Mizoguchi Kenji)
  7. DRUNKEN ANGEL (Kurosawa Akira)
  8. ROPE (Alfred Hitchcock)

1947

  1. OUT OF THE PAST (Jacques Tourneur)
  2. DAISY KENYON (Otto Preminger)
  3. FIREWORKS (Kenneth Anger)
  4. THE SIN OF HAROLD DIDDLEBOCK (Preston Sturges)

1946

  1. NOTORIOUS (Alfred Hitchcock)
  2. THE BIG SLEEP (Howard Hawks)
  3. CANYON PASSAGE (Jacques Tourneur)
  4. IT’S A WONDERFUL LIFE (Frank Capra)
  5. THE LOCKET (John Brahm)
  6. BEAUTY AND THE BEAST (Jean Cocteau)
  7. ENAMORADA (Emilio Fernández)

1945

  1. THE CLOCK (Vincente Minnelli)
  2. BRIEF ENCOUNTER (David Lean)
  3. DETOUR (Edgar G. Ulmer)
  4. LES DAMES DU BOIS DE BOULOGNE (Robert Bresson)
  5. MILDRED PIERCE (Michael Curtiz)
  6. ROME, OPEN CITY (Roberto Rossellini)
  7. MY NAME IS JULIA ROSS (Joseph H. Lewis)

1944

  1. MEET ME IN ST. LOUIS (Vincente Minnelli)
  2. GROSSE FREIHEIT NR. 7 (Helmut Käutner)
  3. DOUBLE INDEMNITY (Billy Wilder)
  4. LAURA (Otto Preminger)

1943

  1. MESHES OF THE AFTERNOON (Maya Deren & Alexander Hammid)
  2. THE SEVENTH VICTIM (Mark Robson)
  3. I WALKED WITH A ZOMBIE (Jacques Tourneur)
  4. THE GANG’S ALL HERE (Busby Berkeley)
  5. THE LEOPARD MAN (Jacques Tourneur)
  6. HEAVEN CAN WAIT (Ernst Lubitsch)
  7. ANGELS OF SIN (Robert Bresson)
  8. SHADOW OF A DOUBT (Alfred Hitchcock)
  9. OSSESSIONE (Luchino Visconti)

1942

  1. THE MAGNIFICENT AMBERSONS (Orson Welles)
  2. CAT PEOPLE (Jacques Tourneur)
  3. CASABLANCA (Michael Curtiz)
  4. RADIO DYNAMICS (Oskar Fischinger)

1941

  1. CITIZEN KANE (Orson Welles)

1940

  1. HIS GIRL FRIDAY (Howard Hawks)
  2. REBECCA (Alfred Hitchcock)

1930s

Best of the Decade

  1. ONLY ANGELS HAVE WINGS (Howard Hawks)
  2. THE RULES OF THE GAME (Jean Renoir)
  3. THE TESTAMENT OF DR. MABUSE (Fritz Lang)
  4. RUGGLES OF RED GAP (Leo McCarey)
  5. THE AWFUL TRUTH (Leo McCarey)
  6. M (Fritz Lang)
  7. SHANGHAI EXPRESS (Josef von Sternberg)
  8. A DAY IN THE COUNTRY (Jean Renoir)
  9. MOROCCO (Josef von Sternberg)
  10. FURY (Fritz Lang)

—

1939

  1. ONLY ANGELS HAVE WINGS (Howard Hawks)
  2. THE RULES OF THE GAME (Jean Renoir)
  3. STAGECOACH (John Ford)
  4. THE WIZARD OF OZ (Victor Fleming)
  5. THE WOMEN (George Cukor)

1938

  1. HOLIDAY (George Cukor)
  2. THE LADY VANISHES (Alfred Hitchcock)

1937

  1. THE AWFUL TRUTH (Leo McCarey)
  2. MAKE WAY FOR TOMORROW (Leo McCarey)
  3. GRAND ILLUSION (Jean Renoir)
  4. A STAR IS BORN (William A. Wellman)

1936

  1. A DAY IN THE COUNTRY (Jean Renoir)
  2. FURY (Fritz Lang)
  3. THE STORY OF A CHEAT (Sacha Guitry)
  4. SABOTAGE (Alfred Hitchcock)
  5. ROSE HOBART (Joseph Cornell)
  6. THE CRIME OF MONSIEUR LANGE (Jean Renoir)

1935

  1. RUGGLES OF RED GAP (Leo McCarey)
  2. THE 39 STEPS (Alfred Hitchcock)
  3. TONI (Jean Renoir)

1934

  1. THE GODDESS (Wu Yonggang)
  2. L’ATALANTE (Jean Vigo)

1933

  1. THE TESTAMENT OF DR. MABUSE (Fritz Lang)
  2. ONLY YESTERDAY (John M. Stahl)
  3. DRAGNET GIRL (Ozu Yasujirō)
  4. LIEBELEI (Max Ophuls)
  5. DESIGN FOR LIVING (Ernst Lubitsch)

1932

  1. SHANGHAI EXPRESS (Josef von Sternberg)
  2. TROUBLE IN PARADISE (Ernst Lubitsch)
  3. WHERE NOW ARE THE DREAMS OF YOUTH? (Ozu Yasujirō)
  4. SCARFACE (Howard Hawks)
  5. BLONDE VENUS (Josef von Sternberg)
  6. THE MASK OF FU MANCHU (Charles Brabin)

1931

  1. M (Fritz Lang)
  2. DISHONORED (Josef von Sternberg)
  3. CITY LIGHTS (Charles Chaplin)
  4. TABU (F.W. Murnau)
  5. LA CHIENNE (Jean Renoir)
  6. FRANKENSTEIN (James Whale)
  7. MARIUS (Alexander Korda)

1930

  1. MOROCCO (Josef von Sternberg)
  2. EARTH (Alexander Dovzhenko)
  3. THE BIG TRAIL (Raoul Walsh)
  4. THE BLUE ANGEL (Josef von Sternberg)

1920s

Best of the Decade

  1. SUNRISE: A SONG OF TWO HUMANS (F.W. Murnau)
  2. NAPOLÉON (Abel Gance)
  3. THE PASSION OF JOAN OF ARC (Carl Theodor Dreyer)
  4. SPIONE (Fritz Lang)
  5. THE GENERAL (Buster Keaton)
  6. GREED (Erich von Stroheim)
  7. THE DOCKS OF NEW YORK (Josef von Sternberg)
  8. DR. MABUSE, THE GAMBLER (Fritz Lang)
  9. SEVEN CHANCES (Buster Keaton)
  10. MAN WITH A MOVIE CAMERA (Dziga Vertov)

—

1929

  1. MAN WITH A MOVIE CAMERA (Dziga Vertov)
  2. APPLAUSE (Rouben Mamoulian)
  3. UN CHIEN ANDALOU (Luis Buñuel)
  4. RAIN (Joris Ivens & Mannus Franken)
  5. THUNDERBOLT (Josef von Sternberg)
  6. LIBERTY (Leo McCarey)
  7. BRUMES D’AUTOMNE (Dimitri Kirshoff)
  8. TOKYO MARCH (Mizoguchi Kenji)

1928

  1. THE PASSION OF JOAN OF ARC (Carl Theodor Dreyer)
  2. SPIONE (Fritz Lang)
  3. THE DOCKS OF NEW YORK (Josef von Sternberg)
  4. STEAMBOAT BILL, JR. (Charles Reisner and Buster Keaton)
  5. THE WEDDING MARCH (Erich von Stroheim)
  6. THE LIFE AND DEATH OF 9413, A HOLLYWOOD EXTRA (Robert Florey & Slavko Vorkapich)
  7. RECORD 957 (Germaine Dulac)
  8. SHOW PEOPLE (King Vidor)

1927

  1. SUNRISE: A SONG OF TWO HUMANS (F.W. Murnau)
  2. NAPOLÉON (Abel Gance)
  3. METROPOLIS (Fritz Lang)
  4. THE SEASHELL AND THE CLERGYMAN (Germaine Dulac)

1926

  1. THE GENERAL (Buster Keaton)

1925

  1. SEVEN CHANCES (Buster Keaton)
  2. BATTLESHIP POTEMKIN (Sergei Eisenstein)
  3. THE MERRY WIDOW (Erich von Stroheim)

1924

  1. GREED (Erich von Stroheim)
  2. SHERLOCK JR. (Buster Keaton)
  3. THE THIEF OF BAGDAD (Raoul Walsh)
  4. MÉNILMONTANT (Dimitri Kirshoff)
  5. BALLET MÉCANIQUE (Fernand Léger & Dudley Murphy)
  6. HE WHO GETS SLAPPED (Victor Sjöström)

1923

  1. SAFETY LAST! (Fred C. Newmeyer & Sam Taylor)

1922

  1. DR. MABUSE, THE GAMBLER (Fritz Lang)
  2. NOSFERATU (F.W. Murnau)
  3. NANOOK OF THE NORTH (Robert J. Flaherty)

Pre-1920s

Best Before 1920

  1. LES VAMPIRES (Louis Feuillade)
  2. WORKERS LEAVING THE LUMIÈRE FACTORY IN LYON (Louis & Auguste Lumière)
  3. TIH-MINH (Louis Feuillade)
  4. FANTÔMAS (Louis Feuillade)
  5. THE MUSKETEERS OF PIG ALLEY (D.W. Griffith)
  6. THE ARRIVAL OF A TRAIN AT LA CIOTAT STATION (Louis & Auguste Lumière)
  7. THE SPRINKLER SPRINKLED (Louis & Auguste Lumière)
  8. TUNNELING THE ENGLISH CHANNEL (Georges Méliès)
  9. THE BLACK IMP (Georges Méliès)
  10. A TRIP TO THE MOON (Georges Méliès)

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1918

  1. TIH-MINH (Louis Feuillade)

1915

  1. LES VAMPIRES (Louis Feuillade)
  2. THE BIRTH OF A NATION (D.W. Griffith)

1914

  1. KID AUTO RACES AT VENICE (Henry Lehrman)

1913

  1. FANTÔMAS (Louis Feuillade)

1912

  1. THE MUSKETEERS OF PIG ALLEY (D.W. Griffith)

1910

  1. THE UNCHANGING SEA (D.W. Griffith)

1907

  1. TUNNELING THE ENGLISH CHANNEL (Georges Méliès)

1905

  1. THE BLACK IMP (Georges Méliès)

1904

  1. THE MERMAID (Georges Méliès)

1902

  1. A TRIP TO THE MOON (Georges Méliès)

1896

  1. THE ARRIVAL OF A TRAIN AT LA CIOTAT STATION (Louis & Auguste Lumière)

1895

  1. WORKERS LEAVING THE LUMIÈRE FACTORY IN LYON (Louis & Auguste Lumière)
  2. THE SPRINKLER SPRINKLED (Louis & Auguste Lumière)
  3. THE BABY’S MEAL (Louis & Auguste Lumière)
  4. BOAT LEAVING THE PORT (Louis & Auguste Lumière)

The Gang’s All Here

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Written for The Solute’s Forgotbusters series, edited by Sam Scott.

The name “Busby Berkeley” is practically synonymous with the extravagant Hollywood musicals of the Depression era. For about fifteen years, Berkeley was the king of the musical, serving as the choreographer and sometimes director of lavish song-and-dance films, as his geometric, intricate dances often served as the highlights of the somewhat standard backstage dramas that typified the Hollywood musical of that time. Indeed, it was not until the rise of the Freed Unit, with its own iconic musicals such as Singin’ in the Rain and The Band Wagon, that the musical numbers became more integrated into the narrative instead of being largely confined to the stage.

Berkeley is perhaps best known today for the famous films he choreographed for other directors at Warner Bros., such as 42nd Street, Gold Diggers of 1933, and Footlight Parade. These films were all made in 1933, and slowly Berkeley’s brand of extravagance became less popular, as he even made forays into straight drama. Thus, the late-career masterpiece that is The Gang’s All Here is even more unexpected.

The Gang’s All Here was made in 1943, in the middle of World War II, and it stands out for a number of reasons. First, and perhaps most importantly, it was the first color film that Berkeley had directed or even worked extensively on, and stunningly he shows no sign of tentativeness, lavishly and liberally using the fantastical Technicolor to render the both the songs and the narrative sequences in strong hues that add a vital amount of character to the images. Secondly, he was the sole director of the film, and while this may not have altered too much, it gives The Gang’s All Here a more cohesive approach than something like 42nd Street (the only other Berkeley movie I have seen); the aesthetic approach is very similar in most of the scenes and there is an abundance of performances that occur even during the narrative sections.

The plot of The Gang’s All Here is relatively straightforward, relying more on the character interactions than any sense of drama or urgency. The film begins in the Club New Yorker, known for its lavish and wild shows featuring Phil Baker (Phil Baker) and Dorita (Carmen Miranda), as it introduces the de facto protagonist Andy Mason (James Ellison), an Army sergeant about to leave for the Pacific Front. He sees and then meets Eadie Allen (Alice Faye), a new dancer at the Club, and they quickly fall in love. He leaves the next day, and is allowed to return home after receiving a medal. Upon receiving this news, Andrew Mason Sr., his father (Eugene Pallette) decides to throw a party when his son returns/ And, after a series of deliberations, he invites the performers at the Club New Yorker and the Benny Goodman Orchestra (as themselves) to stay at his and his colleague’s homes while they rehearse for a new show and frames the party as a war bond rally. From here, the film splits into a surprisingly complex number of sub-plots, the most relevant being the Andy’s desire to marry Eadie even though he is betrothed to Potter’s daughter Vivian, but by the film’s closing party, as everyone is reconciled. It is a pleasurable story, to be sure, and some parts become truly emotional (especially Eadie’s loneliness at Andy’s absence), but it is by and large an excuse for the musical sequences that grow more and more strange, culminating in perhaps the most profoundly odd 5 minutes I have ever seen in any film. Shall we begin?

The very first shot is a marvel, beginning with a shadowed figure singing “Aquarela do Brasil” (yes, the song from Terry Gilliam’s Brazil). The camera zooms in, and then moves down an inexplicably abstract pattern of lines before settling on a boat from Brazil carrying both passengers and cargo. The camera pans up an improbably large bundle of fruit and back down to reveal Dorida, who begins singing as the camera moves over to Phil Baker, then through the proscenium to reveal the entirety of the audience. And that’s all just in the first shot.

To describe the extent of the ingenuity of The Gang’s All Here, or to just describe each musical number in an acceptable amount of detail, would take several articles. Berkeley’s approach here is less in line with the strict theatricality of something like 42nd Street, where an explicit narrative is being told, and more in terms of a free-associativity, where the performance is embraced for the performance’s sake. From an utterly inexplicable number featuring a long line of chorus girls wielding giant bananas to a simple performance on the Staten Island ferry by Eadie to Andy (that features the fourth-wall breaking exchange, “Hear the orchestra?” “Where’s it coming from?”), to the second-to-last number, featuring heretofore unseen young children dancing in polka-dot dresses, scenes that would normally be incredibly disruptive and extraneous in an ordinary film are the most important, as Berkeley constructs a celebration of creativity and art that is never less than a joy to watch.

But the most surprising aspect of The Gang’s All Here is the ending, which quite literally comes out of nowhere. After a brief segment of the performers with lighted, floating hoops while wearing what look like space suits the film literalizes the kaleidoscopic effect that Berkeley had received acclaim for, turning the dance into completely abstract images, before the faces of all the principal players zoom out of the screen and the heads of the entire cast sings in unison. It is an eerie, almost scary effect, one that would shock almost any viewer.

How then, can such a profoundly weird film be forgotten? Most likely, The Gang’s All Here was probably dismissed as “just another” Hollywood musical, and it likely is about as famous as any other famous-at-the-time film from that era. But Berkeley’s accomplishment speaks for itself; he once said that his main goal was to top himself, and here, at the end of his heyday, he made a musical film that shares more qualities with the avant-garde than anything else, even the musicals which he had done so much to popularize.