Wednesday, January 01, 2020
I, THE AUDIENCE: The Movies I saw in 2019
1911-1920
1913 — The Bangville Police — 1914 — Judith of Bethulia — 1920 — Anna Bolena * The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
1921-1930
1923 — Three Ages — 1924 — Die Nibelungen: Siegfried — 1925 — Joyless Street — 1926 — Battling Butler — 1927 — Chicago — 1928 — Street Angel * The Racket — 1929 — Unaccustomed As We Are * Diary of a Lost Girl * The Locked Door — 1930 — The Rounder * Sinner’s Holiday
1931-1940
1931 — Guilty Hands — 1932 — One Way Passage * Make Me a Star * Girl Crazy * Tiger Shark * Vampyr * Central Park * I Was Born, But … * War Babies * Runt Page *Vanity Fair (Indecent) * Shopworn * Big City Blues — 1933 — The Secret of the Blue Room * King Kong * Passing Fancy * Blondie Johnson * Ex-Lady * The Invisible Man * Flying Down to Rio — 1934 — His Greatest Gamble * Fashions of 1934 * Anne of Green Gables * The Return of Chandu — 1935 — We’re In the Money * The Tin Man * The Nitwits * Chandu on the Magic Island * The Bride of Frankenstein — 1936 — Dracula’s Daughter * As You Like It * Charlie Chan’s Secret * Poor Little Rich Girl — 1937 — Non Stop New York — 1938 — Bringing Up Baby * The Adventures of Robin Hood * A Christmas Carol — 1939 — Honolulu * The Phantom Creeps — 1940 — Charlie Chan in Panama
1941-1950
1941 — The Maltese Falcon * Two-Faced Woman * Sleepers West —1942 — Eyes of the Underworld * Just Off Broadway * The Man Who Wouldn’t Die * She Wore a Yellow Ribbon — 1943 — Pin Up Girl * Sahara — 1944 — Detective Kitty O’Day * Hollywood Canteen * Rationing * Voodoo Man * The Mummy’s Ghost — 1945 — Apology for Murder * Hangover Square * House of Dracula * The Men Who Tread on the Tiger’s Tail * The Body Snatcher — 1946 — The Brute Man * The Razor’s Edge * Black Angel * Great Expectations * Mr. Noisy * The Time of Their Lives — 1947 — The Way With Women * One Wonderful Sunday — 1948 — Pitfall * The Monkey’s Paw — 1949 — Sands of Iwo Jima * She Wore a Yellow Ribbon * The Third Man * Manhandled * Africa Screams — 1950 — Woman on the Run * Rashomon
1951-1960
1951 — Bride of the Gorilla — 1952 — Viva Zapata! — 1953 — 99 River Suite * El Bruto — 1954 — Executive Suite * The Raid — 1955 — I Live in Fear * Female Jungle *Rage at Dawn — 1956 — Attack! * Storm Center — 1958 — The Barbarian and the Geisha * — 1959 — Warlock * The Big Circus — 1960 — Legions of the Nile * Eyes Without a Face
1961-1970
1961 — Lola * A Chronicle of Summer — 1962 — Pitfall — 1963 — Winter Light * The Silence * The Cool World * The Birds — 1964 — Night Must Fall * Pale Flower * Red Desert — 1965 — Subarnarehka (Golden River) * The Saragossa Manuscript — 1966 — Daimajin * The Face of Another * Come Drink With Me — 1967 — 2 or 3 Things I Know About Her * The Red and the White * Branded to Kill * Dragon Gate Inn — 1968 — Memories of Underdevelopment * Bandolero! The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter * Destroy All Monsters! * Golden Swallow — 1969 — Marooned * The Passion of Anna * Le boucher (The Butcher) * Double Suicide * Lucia * Fellini Satyricon * The Flying Dagger
1971-1980
1971 — The Devils * Trafic * Murmur of the Heart * Sweet Sweetback’s Baadasssss Song * Lady Frankenstein * The Lady Hermit — 1972 — 1776 * The Thing With Two Heads — 1973 — La maman et la putain (The Mother and the Whore) * The Harder They Come * Turkish Delight * Coffy * Battles Without Honor or Humanity: Hiroshima Death Match * Police Woman (Young Tiger) — 1974 — Foxy Brown — 1975 — O Thiassos! (Travelling Players) * India Song * Deewaar (The Wall) * Sheba, Baby *Bucktown * Coonskin — 1976 — The Ritz * Cria cuervos! — 1977 — Killer of Sheep * Last Chants for a Slow Dance * Man of Marble * The Day of the Animals — 1978 — The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith — 1979 — Disco Godfather — 1980 — Simon
1981-1990
1981 — Too Early, Too Late * Man of Iron — 1982 — Turkey Shoot * Veronika Voss * Cat People — 1983 — L’argent (Money) * Le dernier combat (The Last Battle — 1984 — Utu * Decoder — 1986 — The Official Story * The Horse Thief * The Fly * The Decline of the American Empire — 1987 — Yeelen (Brightness) * Project A, Part II * Princess from the Moon * Planes, Trains and Automobiles — 1988 — Landscapes in the Mist * A Cry in the Dark * Drowning by Numbers * The Decalogue
1991-2000
1991 — The Double Life of Veronique * Once upon a Time in China * A Brighter Summer Day * The Rapture — 1992 — Strictly Ballroom * A Tale of Winter * In the Soup * Yuen Ling-yuk (The Actress) — 1993 — The Blue Kite * The Wedding Banquet * Thirty-Two Short Films About Glenn Gould * The Puppetmaster — 1994 — Muriel’s Wedding * Through the Olive Trees * Terminal Velocity * Caro Diario * Satantango — 1995 — Strange Days * Underground * Zero Kelvin — 1997 — Mother and Son * Kundun * The Butcher Boy * Happy Together * — 1998 — Buffalo ’66 * Idioterne (The Idiots) * Happiness * Sombre — 1999 — Gohatto (Taboo) * Attack the Gas Station * The Wind Will Carry Us * Time Regained * She’s All That * Deep Blue Sea — 2000 — Signs & Wonders * Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
2001-2010
2001 — Ghost World * The Happiness of the Katakuris — 2003 — Scorched * Bad Santa — 2005 — The Devil’s Rejects — 2006 — Curse of the Golden Flower — 2007 — Spider-Man 3 — 2010 — Four Lions
2011-2019
2011 — Shark Night — 2012 — The Amazing Spider-Man — 2013 — Austenland * Oblivion — 2014 — Ouija * Edge of Tomorrow — 2015 — Spy * Ex Machina — 2016 — The Shallows * X-Men: Apocalypse * Passengers * Keeping Up With the Joneses * The Secret Life of Pets * Bad Moms * The Girl on the Train * Mike and Dave Need Wedding Dates * Batman: The Return of the Caped Crusaders * Masterminds * Love and Friendship — 2017 — Happy Death Day * The Lego Batman Movie * Murder on the Orient Express * Rough Night * The Greatest Showman * Phantom Thread * The Happytime Murders — 2018 — Roma * Mary, Queen of Scots * Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse * Stan & Ollie * BlacKkKlansman * Bohemian Rhapsody * Green Book *Collette * The Favourite * Annihilation * Free Solo * RBG * Shoplifters * Won’t You Be My Neighbor? * The Eyes of Orson Welles * The Spy Who Dumped Me * Hereditary * Sorry to Bother You * Crazy Rich Asians * Capernaum * Birdbox — 2019 — Escape Room * Isn’t It Romantic * Happy Death Day 2U * Captain Marvel * Greta * The Curse of La Llorona * Avengers: Endgame * Leaving Neverland * Dark Phoenix * Spider-Man: Far From Home * Once Upon a Time in Hollywood * Ready or Not * Ad Astra * Downton Abbey * Harriet * Joker * Jojo Rabbit * Charlie’s Angels * 21 Bridges * The Irishman * Booksmart * Ford vs. Ferrari * Knives Out * Parasite * A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood * Cats * Bombshell * Little Women
2019 was a great year for the movies! I can't decide between Jojo Rabbit, Once Upon a Time … in Hollywood or Cats as my favorite film of the year.