Saturday, January 06, 2024
I, THE AUDIENCE: 2023
Here's a list of all the movies I saw in 2023:
1911 to 1920
1916 — Hell’s Hinges — 1920 — The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
1921 to 1930
1923 — Little Old New York — 1925 — Master of the House — 1926 — For Heaven’s Sake — 1927 — Barbed Wire * The Unknown — 1928 — Spione — 1929 — Perfect Day * Men O’ War — 1930 — People on Sunday * Blotto * Brats
1931 to 1940
1931 — The Drums of Jeopardy * Platinum Blonde * Safe in Hell * Laughing Gravy — 1932 — The House of the Dead * Miss Pinkerton * Man Wanted * Freaks * The Old Dark House — 1933 — La llorona * Twice Two ̶ 1934 — It Happened One Night * Going Bye Bye! — 1935 — Tange Saizen and the Million-Ryo Pot * The Case of the Lucky Legs * Front Page Woman * Roberta — 1936 — Intermezzo — 1937 — The Prisoner of Zenda * Charlie Chan on Broadway — 1938 — A Slight Case of Murder * A Christmas Carol — 1939 — Confessions of a Nazi Spy — 1940 — Midnight Limited
1941 to 1950
1941 — Broadway Limited * Hold that Ghost * Party Girl * The Wolf Man — 1942 — The Major and the Minor * The Man Who Couldn’t Die * I Married a Witch * Just Off Broadway — 1943 — The Crime Doctor — 1944 — Escape in the Fog * Detective Kitty O’Day * Voodoo Man — 1945 — The Crime Doctor’s Courage * The Body Snatcher — 1946 — Night Editor * The Chase * The Brute Man — 1947 — The Crime Doctor’s Gamble * My Favorite Brunette * It Only Rains on Sunday * I Walk Alone * Repeat Performance — 1948 — Return of the Whistler * Brighton Rock — 1949 — Mother Is a Freshman — 1950 — Pygmy Island * Quicksand * Storm Warning * High Lonesome
1951 to 1960
1951 — The Fat Man * La poison * Miracle in Milan — 1952 — Lightning * Eight Iron Men — 1953 — The Stranger Wore a Gun * The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms — 1954 — White Christmas * The Law vs. Billy Kid * La strada — 1955 — Floating Clouds — 1956 — The Conqueror — 1957 — Eight Hours of Terror — 1958 — Varan the Unbelievable — 1959 — Don’t Give Up the Ship — 1960 — The Human Vapor * Eyes Without a Face
1961 to 1970
1961 — Lover Come Back * A Wife Confesses * Yojimbo — 1962 — Jigsaw * Akitsu Springs * Cape Fear * 13 West Street * Carnival of Souls — 1963 — Les tontons flingueurs * High and Low * The Girl Hunters * The Birds — 1964 — Send Me No Flowers * Bay of Angels * The World of Henry Orient — 1965 — Abashiri Prison * Repulsion — 1966 — The Glass Bottom Boat * The Pornographers * Yukoku: The Rite of Love and Death * Black Girl * The Good, the Bad and the Ugly — 1967 — The Shooting * Zatoichi the Outlaw * Zatoichi Challenged * The Mikado * The Producers * Spider Baby — 1968 — Zatoichi and the Fugitives * Samaritan Zatoichi — 1969 — Goyokin * Godzilla’s Revenge * Sweet Charity — 1970 — Nini Tirabuscio * Heroic Purgatory * Stray Cat Rock: Delinquent Girl Boss * Space Amoeba * Zatoichi Meets Yojimbo * Stray Cat Rock: Wild Jumbo * Zatoichi at the Fire Festival * Santa Claus Is Comin’ to Town
1971 to 1980
1971 — Play Misty for Me * Duel * Zatoichi Meets the One-Armed Swordsman * A Fistful of Dynamite * Le Mans — 1972 — Death Line * Daigoro vs. Goliath * Zatoichi at Large * Zatoichi in Desperation * 1776 * Yakuza Wolf — 1973 — Westworld * Zatoichi’s Conspiracy — 1974 — Killdozer * The Year Without a Santa Claus — 1975 — Tora-San’s Rise and Fall * Graveyard of Honor * New Battles Without Honor or Humanity 2: The Boss’s Head ̶ 1976 — The Food of the Gods ̶ 1977 — Kingdom of the Spiders * Are You Being Served? * Hausu ̶ 1978 — Lady Iron Monkey * Swords of Vengeance — 1979 — City on Fire * Alien — 1980 — Times Square * Private Benjamin
1981 to 1990
1981 — Student Bodies — 1982 — I Are You, You Am Me — 1983 — Tokyo Trial * A Christmas Story — 1984 — The Lonely Guy * The Defective Detective — 1985 — Typhoon Club — 1986 — Rosa Luxemburg * Aliens — 1987 — Amazon Women on the Moon — 1988 — Appointment with Death * The Last Temptation of Christ — 1989 — Penn and Teller Get Killed — 1990 — The Cherry Orchard * Flatliners
1991 to 2000
1991 — Drop Dead Fred — 1992 — Monster in a Box — 1993 — CB4 — 1994 — Shallow Grave * Fear of a Black Hat ̶ 1995 ̶ La ceremonie ̶ 1996 ̶ The Van * Waiting for Guffman * The Frighteners * Jingle All the Way — 1997 — The Love Bug * Face/Off * Little Dieter Needs to Fly — 1998 — The Faculty — 1999 — Topsy-Turvy — 2000 — Final Destination * Supernova
2001 to 2010
2001 — Trouble Every Day * All About Lily Chou-Chou — 2002 — The Importance of Being Earnest * 28 Days Later * Auto Focus * Ju-On: The Grudge — 2003 — Runaway Jury * Hulk * Tokyo Godfathers * Bad Santa — 2004 — Catwoman — 2005 — The 40-Year-Old Virgin — 2006 — Little Man — 2007 — Balls of Fury * Death Proof — 2008 — The Eye — 2009 — Coco Before Chanel * Big Fan — 2010 — The Other Guys * The Human Centipede
2011 to 2020
2011 — Fast Five * Into the Abyss — 2012 — The Grey — 2013 — Stranger by the Lake * Spring Breakers * Fast & Furious 6 — 2014 — The Equalizer * A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night * A Walk Among the Tombstones — 2015 — Trumbo *Furious Seven * Carol — 2016 — Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping * Whiskey Tango Foxtrot * Terrifier * Train to Busan * Colossal — 2017 — Guardians of the Galaxy, Vol. 2 *The Fate of the Furious — 2018 — Halloween * The Nun * The Commuter — 2019 — Cats * Shazam! * The Platform * A Good Doctor * Hobbs & Shaw * Signal 100 — 2020 — Peninsula * Underwater * Deep Blue Sea 3
2021 to 2023
2021 — The Worst Person in the World * F9: The Fast Saga — 2022 — Babylon * Glass Onion * Top Gun: Maverick * All Quiet on the Western Front * Women Talking * Three Thousand Years of Longing * Triangle of Sadness * Nope * The Fabelmans * Avatar: The Way of Water * Tar * Hell Dogs * Halloween Ends * Bodies Bodies Bodies — 2023 — M3gan * Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania * Scream 6 * Cocaine Bear * The Boston Strangler * John Wick 4 * Guardians of the Galaxy, Vol. 3 * Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse * The Blackening * The Flash * Asteroid City * Fast X * No Hard Feelings * Barbie * Meg 2: The Trench * Strays * Bottoms * Theater Camp * Beau Is Afraid * Are You There, God? It’s Me, Margaret * Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour * The Marvels * Godzilla Minus One * Oppenheimer
Sunday, February 05, 2023
I, THE AUDIENCE
1911-1920
1913 — Bout-de-Zan vole un elephant — 1916 — Judex
1921-1930
1925 — The Gold Rush — 1926 — Mat (Mother) — 1927 — A Diary of Chuji’s Travels — 1928 — Sadie Thompson — 1929 — The Hoose-Gow * Alibi * The Love Parade * In Old Arizona * The Hollywood Revue of 1929 — 1930 — What Made Her Do It? * The Blood of a Poet * Morocco
1931-1940
1931 — Trader Horn * The Front Page * Arrowsmith * Skippy * Dracula (Spanish language) * Dracula * Frankenstein — 1932 — The Chimp * Love Affair * Helpmates * Shanghai Express * Taxi! * One Hour With You * If I Had a Million — 1933 — Hard to Handle * Footlight Parade * Tierra sin pan — 1934 — Here Comes the Navy * Them Thar Hills * Tit for Tat * One Night of Love * Death Takes a Holiday * Flirtation Walk — 1935 — Bride of Frankenstein — 1936 — The Story of Louis Pasteur * Libeled Lady * Our Relations * Sisters of the Gion * Without Orders * Dracula’s Daughter * I Am a Cat * Rembrandt — 1937 — In Old Chicago * Lost Horizon * 100 Men and a Girl * They Won’t Forget — 1938 — Four Daughters * The Citadel * Test Pilot * Fallen Blossoms * Blind Alibi * A Christmas Carol * Bluebeard’s Eighth Wife * Carefree — 1939 — Never Say Die * Son of Frankenstein — 1940 — Chamber of Horrors
1941-1950
1941 — Charlie Chan in Rio * Blossoms in the Dust * One Foot in Heaven * Hold Back the Dawn * Ornamental Hairpin * Topper Returns — 1942 — Random Harvest * Kings Row * Sock A Bye Baby * The Ghost of Frankenstein — 1943 — Son of Dracula * In Which We Serve * The Human Comedy * Le corbeau * Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man * The Ghost Ship — 1944 — House of Frankenstein — 1945 — The Unseen * House of Dracula — 1946 — House of Horrors — 1947 — The Brasher Doubloon * The Ball at the Anjo House — 1948 — Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein — 1949 — Africa Screams * Bitter Rice — 1950 — The File on Thelma Jordan
1951-1960
1951 — Abbot and Costello Meet the Invisible Man * Alice in Wonderland — 1952 — Singin’ in the Rain — 1953 — Scared Stiff — 1954 — Black Widow * Twenty-Four Eyes — 1955 — Violent Saturday — 1956 — Hollywood or Bust * Street of Shame * Crazed Fruit * The Bad Seed — 1957 — The Incredible Shrinking Man — 1958 — The Geisha Boy * Giants and Toys — 1959 — The Shaggy Dog * Alias Jesse James — 1960 — L’avventura * Eyes Without a Face
1961-1970
1961 — Yojimbo * Pigs and Battleships — 1962 — The Tale of Zatoichi *The Tale of Zatoichi Continues * King Kong vs. Godzilla * Whatever Happened to Baby Jane? — 1963 — New Tale of Zatoichi * Zatoichi the Fugitive * X – The Man With the X-Ray Eyes * Zatoichi on the Road * Who’s Minding the Store? * The Birds — 1964 — Zatoichi and the Chest of Gold * Mothra vs. Godzilla * Assassination * Manji * — Zatoichi’s Flashing Sword * Fight, Zatoichi, Fight * Adventures of Zatoichi * Intentions of Murder * 36 Hours * 1965 — Zatoichi and the Doomed Man * Invasion of the Astro-Monster * Cat Ballou * Samurai Assassin * A Fugitive from the Past * Zatoichi’s Revenge * Zatoichi and the Chess Expert * The Sword of the Beast — 1966 — Ebirah, Horror of the Deep * The Ugly Dachshund * Red Angel * Way … Way Out * Zatoichi’s Vengeance * Zatoichi’s Pilgrimage — 1967 — Spider Baby * The Son of Godzilla * Monkeys, Go Home! * Zatoichi’s Cane Sword — 1968 — Rachel Rachel * Destroy All Monsters * Blackbeard’s Ghost * Kill! * The Man Without a Map * Death by Hanging * The Snake Girl and the Silver-Haired Witch * The Horse in the Gray Flannel Suit — 1969 — They Shoot Horses, Don’t They? * Go, Go, Second-Time Virgin * Blind Beast * Hook, Line and Sinker * The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes — 1970 — Zatoichi Meets Yojimbo
1971-1980
1971 — The Emigrants * Godzilla vs. Hedora * Demons * Throw Away Your Books, Rally in the Streets! * Mandara * Million Dollar Duck — 1972 — Godzilla vs. Gigan * The Ecstasy of the Angels * Snowball Express — 1973 — Godzilla vs. Megalon * Hanzo the Razor: The Snare * The Spook Who Sat by the Door — 1974 — Godzilla vs. Mecha-Godzilla * Demon Seed * Hanzo the Razor: Who’s Got the Gold? * Pastoral: To Die in the Country * Herbie Rides Again — 1975 — Strip Nude for Your Killer * The Apple Dumpling Gang * Breakheart Pass* Terror of Mecha-Godzilla * A.K.A. Serial Killer * The Strongest Man in the World — 1976 — Rome – Armed to the Teeth * Bound for Glory * Mikey and Nicky * The Shaggy D.A. — 1977 — Candleshoe * Freaky Friday * Herbie Goes to Monte Carlo — 1978 — The Rutles: All You Need Is Cash * An Unmarried Woman — 1979 — The Apple Dumpling Gang Rides Again — 1980 — Friday the 13th * Urban Cowboy * Carny * The Fiendish Plot of Dr, Fu Manchu * The Long Good Friday * Herbie Rides Again
1981-1990
1981 — Possession * Modern Romance * Going Ape! * Mephisto * My Dinner With Andre * Cutter’s Way * Gregory’s Girl — 1982 — Labyrinth of Passion * White Dog * The Dark Crystal * Young Doctors in Love — 1983 — Sudden Impact * El Sur * Breathless * Testament * Staying Alive! * The Family Game — 1984 — Neverending Story * Crimes of Passion * Police Academy * Supergirl * 2010 * Brother from Another Planet — 1985 — Murder With Mirrors * Demons * My Beautiful Laundrette * Legend * The Black Cauldron * Desperately Seeking Susan — 1986 — Mona Lisa * Ruthless People * Howard the Duck * Under the Cherry Moon * Big Trouble in Little China — 1987 — Near Dark * A Taxing Woman * Matewan * Suspect * Planes, Trains and Automobiles — 1988 — Jack’s Back * Twins * Earth Girls Are Easy * School Daze — 1989 — Zatoichi * Marquis * Slaves of New York * Elephant — 1990 — The Hunt for Red October * Crazy People * Mack the Knife * Metropolitan * The Handmaid’s Tale
1991-2000
1991 — Only Yesterday — 1992 — Batman Returns * Minbo — 1993 — Ticks — 1994 — Clifford — 1995 — Outbreak — 1996 — Bottle Rocket * Swingers — 1997 — 8 Heads in a Duffel Bag * The Eel — 1998 — Samurai Fiction * A Simple Plan — 1999 — Girl, Interrupted — 2000 — Eureka
2001-2010
2001 — The Glass House * Pootie Tang * Joy Ride — 2002 — Suicide Club — 2003 — Zatoichi * Freaky Friday — 2004 — Survive Style 5+ * Mind Game — 2005 — Herbie: Fully Loaded — 2006 — The Breed * The Devil Wears Prada — 2007 — Nancy Drew — 2008 — The Other Boleyn Girl — 2009 — Moon * Fish Story * Symbol — 2010 — Confessions
2011-2020
2011 — My Weekend With Marilyn — 2012 — Seeking a Friend for the End of the World * Bait — 2013 — In a World … * Frankenstein’s Army * The Great Passage — 2014 — John Wick — 2015 — Bone Tomahawk * Inside Out * The Lobster — 2016 — Train to Busan * Shin Godzilla — 2017 — John Wick 2 * The Third Murder * Antiporno * The Florida Project * The Hungry Lion * 47 Meters Down — 2018 — The Miseducation of Cameron Post * Buñuel in the Land of Turtles * The Ghost of Peter Sellers — 2019 — Jojo Rabbit * John Wick: Chapter 3: Parabellum * The Curse of La Llorona — 2020 — One Night in Miami * Rifkin’s Festival * The King of Staten Island * Another Round
2021
2021 — Don’t Look Now * Nightmare Alley * The Suicide Squad * Spider-Man: No Way Home * The Power of the Dog * Drive My Car * Spencer * CODA * Being the Ricardos * The Tragedy of Macbeth * Titane * Dune * West Side Story * King Richard * Belfast * Licorice Pizza * Parallel Mothers * Gunpowder Milkshake * Malignant — 2022 — The 355 * Moonfall * The Batman * Death on the Nile * The Bubble * Men * The Bob’s Burgers Movie * Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness * The Northman * Downton Abbey: A New Era * The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent * Thor: Love and Thunder * Bullet Train * Elvis * Bodies Bodies Bodies * See How They Run * Everything Everywhere All at Once * Moonage Daydream * Amsterdam * Black Adam * The Banshees of Inisherin * Black Panther: Wakanda Forever * Smile * The League of Super-Pets * The Menu * Emily the Criminal * Violent Night * Fall * X * The Whale
Wednesday, January 19, 2022
I, The Audience: 2021
Here are the movies I saw in 2021:
1911-1920
1914 — Judith of Behtulia — 1915 — The Cheat — 1918 — Stella Maris — 1919 — J’Accuse — 1920 — Last of the Mohicans
1921-1930
1921 — Tol’able David * The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse — 1922 — Tess of the Storm Country — 1925 — Variete — 1926 — Menilmontant — 1927 — For the Term of His Natural Life * The Battle of the Monkey and the Crabs * My Best Girl * The Student Prince of Old Heidelberg * Underworld — 1928 — Kurama Tengu — 1929 — Days of Youth * Double Whooppee * The Iron Mask — 1930 — The Laurel-Hardy Murder Case * Berth Marks * Brats
1931-1940
1931 — The Lady and the Beard * Beau Hunks — 1932 — Below Zero * Murders in the Rue Morgue * I Cover the Waterfront — 1933 — Busy Bodies * King Kong * Desert Command — 1934 — Punch Drunks — 1935 — Man on the Flying Trapeze * Gold Diggers of 1935 — 1936 — Ace Drummons (serial) * Osaka Elegy — 1937 — Shall We Dance * Danger – Love at Work — 1938 — The Baker’s Wife * A Christmas Carol * Boys Town * Alexander’s Ragtime Band — 1939 — We Want Our Mummy * Young Mr. Lincoln * The Four Feathers * The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle — 1940 — Forty Thousand Horsemen * Our Town * The Long Voyage Home
1941-1950
1941 — I Killed That Man * Here Comes Mr. Jordan * Men of Boys Town — 1942 — The Pied Piper * Tombstone: The Town Too Tough to Die * Cat People — 1943 — The Black Raven * They Stooge to Conga * Heaven Can Wait * Madame Curie — 1944 — Zorro’s Back Whip (serial) — 1945 — Detour * Midnight Manhunt * Nancy Drew, Reporter (serial) * Treasure of Fear * The Bells of St. Mary’s * The Voice of the Whistler — 1946 — The Last Crooked Mile * Uncivil War Birds * Bird on the Brain * Shoeshine * The Secret of the Whistler — 1947 — Germany Year Zero — 1948 — A Hen in the Wind — 1949 — Blood of the Beasts * I Shot Jesse James — 1950 — The Munekata Sisters
1951-1960
1951 — Penny Points to Paradise — 1952 — Big Jim McLain * Moulin Rouge — 1953 — El * Beat the Devil — 1954 — Musashi Miyamoto * Three Coins in the Fountain — 1955 — Duel at Ichijoji Temple * Picnic * Escape to Burma — 1956 — Duel at Ganryu Island * The King and I * Friendly Persuasion * Invasion of the Body Snatchers — 1957 — Sayonara — 1958 — Rock-A-Bye Baby — 1959 — The Great St. Louis Bank Robbery * The Human Condition: No Greater Love * The Human Condition: The Road to Eternity * Room at the Top — 1960 — Elmer Gantry * Sons and Lovers * The Sundowners * The Naked Island * Eyes Without a Face
1961-1970
1961 — The Mask * The Human Condition: A Soldier’s Prayer * The Parent Trap — 1962 — Danger Pays * The Christian Revolt — 1963 — Bye Bye Birdie * Lilies of the Field * America America — 1964 — The Strangler * Invitation to a Gunfighter — 1965 — The Family Jewels * The Sword of Doom — 1966 — They’re a Weird Mob * The Last of the Secret Agents? * The Fat Spy * Alfie * The Russians Are Coming The Russians Are Coming * Murderer’s Row * The Sand Pebbles * Grand Prix * It Happened Here — 1967 — Dragon Gate Inn * Doctor Dolittle — 1968 — The Anniversary * The Wrecking Crew * The Love Bug — 1969 — Godzilla’s Revenge * Army of Shadows * Pigsty * Medea * Hello, Dolly! * Number One — 1970 — A Man Vanishes * Le Cercle Rouge
1971-1980
1971 — Godzilla vs. Hedorah * Fiddler on the Roof — 1972 — The Adventures of Barry McKenzie * Lone Wolf and Cub: Baby Cart at the River Styx * Lone Wolf and Cub: Baby Cart n Peril * 1776 * Sounder — 1973 — Yakuza Papers: Proxy War * A Touch of Class * Hanzo the Razor: The Snare * Lone Wolf and Cub: Baby Cart in the Land of Demons — 1974 — The Cars that Ate Paris * Yakuza Papers: Police Tactics * The Towering Inferno * Yakuza Papers: Final Episode * Lone Wolf and Cub: White Heaven in Hell — 1975 — Deep Red * Farewell My Lovely — 1976 — The Blazing Temple * Gus — 1977 — March Or Die * Hitler: A Career * Julia * The Turning Point — 1978 — Movie Movie * Magic * Heaven Can Wait * Coming Home — 1979 — Rock N Roll High School * Norma Rae — 1980 — Pepi. Luci, Bom
1981-1990
1981 — Charlie Chan and the Curse of the Dragon Queen * Vernon, Florida * Thief * Evilspeak * The Decline of Western Civilization * Blow Out — 1982 — Smithereens * Missing — 1983 — Stop Making Sense * Sleepaway Camp * Flashdance * The Dresser * Trading Places * Tender Mercies * Risky Business — 1984 — The Karate Kid * The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai * Footloose * A Soldier’s Story * Places in the Heart * The Times of Harvey Milk * Where the Green Ants Dream — 1985 — Night on the Galactic Railroad * After Hours * Commando * Police Story * Lost in America — 1986 — The Three Amigos * The Mission * Rawhead Rex * Something Wild — 1987 — Hellraiser * Predator * Crawlspace * Dirty Dancing * Law of Desire * The Lost Boys * Hollywood Shuffle — 1988 — Mystic Pizza * Superstar: The Karen Carpenter Story * They Live * Police Story 2 *Coming to America — 1989 — Dead Calm * Sweetie — 1990 — Boiling Point * Kindergarten Cop * Blind Fury * The Grifters
1991-2000
1991 — High Heels — 1992 — Damage — 1993 — Bad Boy Bubby — 1994 — Trois Couleurs: Blanc — 1995 — Rumble in the Bronx — 1996 — Shall We Dance? * Jingle All the Way — 1997 — The Castle * Rainy Dog * The Daytrippers — 1998 — The Interview — 1999 — Bicentennial Man — 2000 — Malena
2001-2010
2001 — Jason X * In the Bedroom * Training Day — 2002 — Death to Smoochy * Twilight Samurai — 2003 — Seabiscuit — 2004 — Bullet Explosion * Bad Education * Ray * Finding Neverland — 2005 — A History of Violence * Funky Forest: The First Contact — 2006 — Kenny * Letters from Iwo Jima — 2007 — Shoot Em Up * Michael Clayton — 2008 — Still Walking * The Reader * Frost/Nixon * Milk * Penelope * Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull — 2009 — Vanquisher * A Serious Man * Up in the Air * The Blind Side *Whiteout * Agora — 2010 — Animal Kingdom * Outrage
2011-2020
2011 — Moneyball * Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close — 2012 — Beyond Outrage * Bait * Caesar Must Die * Cloud Atlas * Beasts of the Southern Wild — 2013 — Philomena * Her * Captain Phillips — 2014 — Foxcatcher * Selma * American Sniper * The World of Kanako * John Wick — 2015 — Our Little Sister — 2016 — Elle * Julieta * Love and Friendship * Hacksaw Ridge * Fences * Hidden Figures * Lion * Personal Shopper * Neighbors 2 — 2017 — Outrage Coda * Stephanie * Darkest Hour * The Post * Unforgettable * The Snowman — 2018 — Game Night — 2019 — A Rainy Day in New York * Godzilla: King of the Monsters * The Assistant * The Vast of Space * Saint Maud * Rocks — 2020 — We Can Be Heroes * The Croods 2: A New Age * Wonder Woman 1984 * A Whisker Away * Borat Subsequent Moviefilm * Nomadland * The Mole Agent * The Trial of the Chicago 7 * Miss Americana * My Octopus Teacher * Shadow in the Cloud * Minari * Tenet * Promising Young Woman * Judas and the Black Messiah * Birds of Prey (and the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn) * The Father * Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom * Soul * Sound of Metal * Never Rarely Sometimes Always * The Invisible Man
2021
2021 — The United States v. Billie Holiday * Kid 90 * Godzilla vs. Kong * Coming 2 America * Black Widow * Tom and Jerry * Luca * The Suicide Squad * The French Dispatch * Last Night in Soho * No Time to Die * Eternals * House of Gucci
Sunday, January 03, 2021
I, THE AUDIENCE: Movies I saw in 2020
1901-1910
1902 — A Trip to the Moon — 1907 — The Dancing Pig * I Fetch the Bread — 1909 — The Monkey Race
1911-1920
1912 — The Life and Death of King Richard III * Artheme Swallows His Clarinet — 1914 — Kid’s Auto Races — 1918 — A Dog’s Life
1921-1930
1921 — Destiny — 1922 — The Pest — 1923 — The Silent Command * Our Hospitality — 1924 — The Nibelungenlied: Kriemhild’s Revenge * Lizzies of the Field — 1926 — So’s Your Old Man — 1927 — College * Seventh Heaven — 1929 — Perfect Day * Asphalt — 1930 — Hell-Bound Train * Storm Over Mont Blanc * They Learned About Woman * Oira no yakyu * I Flunked But … * That Night’s Wife
1931-1940
1931 — The Painted Desert — 1932 — The Roar of the Dragon * Manhattan Tower * The Penguin Pool Murders — 1933 — Dragnet Girl * Parachute Jumper * The Jungle Bride * The Kennel Murder Case — 1934 — Zouzou * Lawlless Frontier — 1935 — Escape Me Never * An Inn in Tokyo — 1936 — Two Against the World (One Fatal Hour) * Mr. Thank You * Shadow of Chinatown (serial) * Flash Gordon (serial) — 1937 — Humanity and Paper Balloons * Snow White * Dead End What Did the Lady Forget? — 1938 — The Masseurs and a Woman * A Christmas Carol — 1939 — Inspector Hornleigh — 1940 — Nobuko
1941-1950
1941 — 49th Parallel * Ghost Train * Jungle Girl (serial) * The Brothers and Sisters of the Toda Family — 1942 — The Big Shot * There Was a Father * Back Room Boy * Bowery at Midnight * Holiday Inn — 1943 — Momotaro’s Sea Eagles * Sanshiro Sugata — 1944 — Since You Went Away * The Most Beautiful * Voodoo Man — 1945 — The Southerner * Detour * Sanshiro Sugata 2 — 1946 — The Inner Circle * Dangerous Money * Renegade Girl — 1947 — Dishonored Lady — 1948 — Walk a Crooked Mile * Belle Starr’s Daughter — 1949 — Master Minds — 1950 — At War With the Army
1951-1960
1951 — Der Verlorene (The Lost One) * Der Untertan (The Kaiser’s Lackey) * That’s My Boy * Early Summer * The Lemon Drop Kid — 1952 — The Belle of New York * Mother Riley Meets the Vampire * Come Back, Little Sheba * Bela Lugosi Meets a Brooklyn Gorilla * Jack and the Beanstalk * The Flavor of Green Tea Over Rice — 1953 — The Caddy * Love in the City — 1954 — The Fast and the Furious * Jail Bait — 1955 — Wiretapper * The Night My Number Came Up — 1956 — Warning from Space — 1957 — The Sad Sack — 1958 — Mansion of the Ghost Cat — 1959 — Jet Storm * Fires on the Plain — 1960 — Afraid to Die * Five Cartridges * When a Woman Ascends the Stairs * Late Autumn
1961-1970
1961 — Atlas in the Land of the Cyclops — 1962 — Sherlock Holmes and the Deadly Necklace * Attack of the Mushroom People * King Kon vs. Godzilla — 1963 — The Insect Woman * The Birds — 1964 — The Flower and the Sword * The Patsy — 1965 — Color Me Blood Red * Orgy of the Dead * That Darn Cat * Kwaidan — 1966 — War of the Gargantuas * The Sword of Doom — 1967 — A Bullet for the General * Deadlier than the Male * King Kong Escapes — 1968 — The Ruthless Four * Finian’s Rainbow * The War of the Insects * Kuroneko * Krakatoa, East of Java — 1969 — Eros + Massacre * Funeral Parade of Roses * The Gay Deceivers * Attack of the Monsters * Godzilla’s Revenge — 1970 — Equinox * Rio Lobo * The Diane Linkletter Story * Gamera vs. Jiger * Love Story * Multiple Maniacs
1971-1980
1971 — His Name Was King * Cain’s Cut-Throats * Gamera vs. Zigra * Even Dwarfs Started Small * Big Jake — 1972 — Lone Wolf and Club: Sword of Vengeance * Lone Wolf and Cub: Baby Cart to Hades * Endless Night — 1973 — The Blockhouse * The Horror at 37,000 Feet * Satan’s School for Girls * Battles Without Honor or Humanity — 1974 — The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser * Black Christmas — 1975 — Shivers * Crazy Fat Ethel * Wolf Guy: Enraged Lycanthrope * The Devil’s Rain — 1976 — Mad Dog Morgan * Aces High * Heart of Glass — 1977 — Three Women — 1978 — Cerro Cora — 1979 — Grass Labyrinth * Woyzeck * Vengeance Is Mine — 1980 — Gamera: Space Monster * Coal Miner’s Daughter * Hardly Working
1981-1990
1981 — Ms. 45 * Adieu Galaxy Express 999 * Cannibal Ferox — 1982 — The Wizard of Oz — 1983 — Dead on Time * A Christmas Story — 1984 — The Hotel New Hampshire — 1985 — Lust in the Dust * Phenomena * Creature * Tokyo-Ga — 1986 — Gothic * In a Glass Cage — 1987 — Robot Carnival — 1988 — Track 29 — 1989 — Black Rain (Kuroi ame) * Wicked Stepmother * Violent Cop * Christmas Vacation — 1990 — Akira Kurosawa’s Dreams (Yume) * The Voice of the Moon
1991-2000
1991 — The King of Ads * Otaku No Video — 1992 — Lessons of Darkness — 1993 — The Crush * Fear of a Black Hat * Hocus Pocus — 1994 — Tora-San’s Easy Advice * Mad Monk * Lamerica * Blue Tiger — 1995 — Freeway * Tom and Huck * Tank Girl — 1996 — Black Jack : The Movie — 1997 — Cure * Princess Mononoke — 1998 — Cats!: The Musical * Perfect Blue — 1999 — My Best Fiend — 2000 — But I’m a Cheerleader * Versus * Barking Dogs Never Bite
2001-2010
2001 — Millennium Actress * Ichi the Killer * Pulse — 2002 — Dark Water * Lilo and Stitch — 2003 — Monster * Gozu — 2004 — Nobody Knows * The Taste of Tea * Kung Fu Hustle — 2005 — Lady Vengeance * Koala Executive * The Sun * Bewitched — 2006 — Paprika * Priceless * The Slanted Screen * The Girl Who Leapt Through Time * Snakes on a Plane — 2007 — Smokin’ Aces * Kill Ugly TV * United Red Army * Big Man Japan * Zoo * A Slit-Mouthed Woman — 2008 — Departures * Bikini Samurai Squad * What We Do Is Secret * The Machine Girl * Tokyo Sonata — 2009 — The Maid (La nana) * Psycho Shark — 2010 — Who Killed Captain Alex? * The Boy Who Cried Werewolf * The Women on the Sixth Floor * 13 Assassins * Four Lions * Cold Fish
2011-2020
2011 — Butter * The Extraordinary Voyage * Karate Girl — 2012 — Shady * Iron Sky * A Christmas Story 2 — 2013 — Snowpiercer * R100 * Banshee Chapter * The Tale of Princess Kaguya — 2014 — Camp * What We Do in the Shadows * High Kick Angels * Tusk — 2015 — Dawit * Equals * The Hollow * Tag — 2016 — Zootopia * The Doll * Lo and Behold: Reveries of the Connected World * Your Name * Creepy * Out of Print * Jerry Lewis: The Man Behind the Clown * Hunt for the Wilderpeople — 2017 — The Chase * Spider-Man: Homecoming * Children of Mud * Coco * Mary and the Witch’s Flower * A Bad Moms Christmas * Blade of the Immortal — 2018 — Psycho Sideshow: Demon Freaks * Monrovia, Indiana * Climax * Ocean’s Eight — 2019 — Dolemite Is My Name * Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker * Marriage Story * Pain and Glory * Judy * 1917 * Us * The Two Popes * Honeyland * American Factory * The Edge of Democracy * The Cave * Midsommar * The Forest of love * The Farewell * For Sama * Uncut Gems * The Lighthouse * Portrait of a Lady on Fire * I Lost My Body * The Peanut Butter Falcon * Hustlers * Waves * Toy Story 4 * Monos * Richard Jewell — 2020 — Underwater * The Gentlemen * Birds of Prey (and the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn) * Seberg * Emma * Trolls World Tour * The Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt: Kimmy vs the Reverend * Resleeved * Cuties * Happiest Season * Mank
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.
Tuesday, January 01, 2019
I, THE AUDIENCE: The movies I saw in 2018
1911-1920
1911 — L’inferno — 1913 — Quo Vadis? — 1916 — The Curse of Quan Gwon — 1920 — Life of the Party
1921-1930
1921 — The Wildcat — 1922 — Salomé — 1924 — Peter Pan — 1925 —Lady of the Night — 1927 — Wings — 1928 — A Lady of Chance — 1929 — Disraeli * Piccadilly — 1930 — Hell’s Angels * With Byrd at the South Pole * Up the River
1931-1940
1931 — It Pays to Advertise — 1932 — The Cabin in the Cotton * So Big! * Lawyer Man * The Last Mile — 1933 — The Fatal Glass of Beer * The Water Magician * The Sin of Nora Moran * Diplomaniacs * Night of Terror * Footlight Parade * Whistling in the Dark * The Keyhole — 1934 — Babes in the Goods — 1935 — Murder on a Honeymoon * Front Page Woman * Top Hat — 1936 — The Story of a Cheat * The Gorgeous Hussy * Postal Inspector * The Case of the Black Cat * Three Smart Girls * Another face * Make Way for a Lady * Mummy’s Boys * The Man Who Changed His Mind * Three Godfathers — 1937 — The Man Who Found Himself * Back in Circulation * Music for Madame — 1938 — The Baker’s Wife * Boy Meets Girl * A Christmas Carol — 1939 — Story of the Last Chrysanthemums * The Gorilla * The Rules of the Game * The Human Monster — 1940 — The Saint’s Double Trouble * Stage to Chino * Saps at Sea
1941-1950
1941 — Never Give a Sucker an Even Break * Blue, White and Perfect * That Hamilton Woman * The Face Behind the Mask * Never Give a Sucker an Even Break — 1942 — The Mexican Spitfire Sees a Ghost * Ship Ahoy — 1943 — Cabin in the Sky * The Man in Grey * Ossessione — 1944 — Wilson * The Conspirators * Four Jills in a Jeep * The Mask of Dimitrios * The Mummy’s Ghost * Meet Me in St. Louis — 1945 — Tarzan and the Amazons * Dead of Night — 1946 — Step by Step * Courage of Lassie * My Darling Clementine * Spook Busters — 1947 — The Unsuspected * It Happened on Fifth Avenue — 1948 — The Red Shoes — 1949 — The Barkleys of Broadway * Orpheus * Whiskey Galore! — 1950 — No Way Out * Saddle Legion * Broken Arrow * Mystery Street * The Men
1951-1960
1951 — Pandora and the Flying Dutchman * Rhubarb — 1952 — Phone Call from a Stranger * Europa ‘51 — 1953 — The Golden Coach * Beat the Devil — 1954 — Senso (Wanton Contessa) * Creature from the Black Lagoon — 1955 — Lola Montes * Hill 24 Doesn’t Answer — 1956 — Bigger than Life * Written on the Wind * All That Heaven Allows * Julie — 1957 — Forty Guns * Letter from Siberia * Mother India — 1959 — Shadows * Black Orpheus * The Hole (Le trou) — 1960 — Primary * Holiday in Spain (Scent of Mystery) * The Cloud-Capped Star * Eyes Without a Face
1961-1970
1961 — La note * The Exiles — 1962 — Girls! Girls! Girls1 * Cleo from 5 to 7 * Vivre sa vie (My Life to Live) * Keeper of Promises * Gigot — 1963 — An Actor’s Revenge * The Servant * The Birds * Vidas secas (Barren Lives) — 1964 — Cruel Gun Story * A Ravishing Idiot * Prima della rivoluzione (Before the Revolution) — 1965 — Darling * The War Game * The Man Who Had His Hair Cut Short * Tokyo Olympiad * The Sound of Music — 1966 — Seconds * Daisies * Come Drink With Me * Masculin Feminin * Triple Cross * Tokyo Drifter * Modesty Blaise — 1967 — Vij * Report * A Colt Is My Passport * The Fireman’s Ball * Fitzwilly * The Mummy’s Shroud * Earth Entranced (Terra em transe) — 1968 — Inspector Clouseau * Black Lizard * David Holzman’s Diary * Shame * The Cow (Gaav) * Faces * Spirits of the Dead — 1969 — My Night at Maud’s * In the Year of the Pig * The Color of Pomegranates * Cactus Flower * Kes * A Touch of Zen
1971-1980
1971 — WR – Mysteries of the Organism * Wake in Fright * Red Psalm * Wanda * The Hired Hand * Two-Lane Blacktop — 1972 — 1776 * The Last Tango in Paris — 1973 — The Neptune Factor — 1975 — Capone * Manila in the Claws of Light * The Little Girl from Hanoi * Fox and His Friends * The Manchu Eagle Murder Caper Mystery — 1976 — The Ascent * Fellini’s Casanova * Cria cuervos * 1900 — 1977 — The Last Wave * The American Friend * Soldier of Orange * Sleeping Dogs * Ceddo — 1978 — The Tree of Wooden Clogs * Days of Heaven — 1979 — Tess * Christ Stopped at Eboli * Nosferatu the Vampyre — 1980 — Motel Hell * The Plumber * Fatso
1981-1990
1981 — Three Brothers * On Golden Pond — 1982 — Trail of the Pink Panther * A Question of Silence * The Draughtsman’s Contract * Yol * The Night of the Shooting Stars — 1983 — El Norte — 1984 — A Passage to India — 1985 — The Goonies * Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters * Shoah * The Color Purple * The Quiet Earth * Tampopo * Revolution * The Time to Live and the Time to Die * Vagabond * Witness — 1986 — Salvador * Manhunter * Peking Opera Blues — 1987 — Red Sorghum * Housekeeping * A Chinese Ghost Story — 1988 — Beetlejuice * Distant Voices, Still Lives * A Tale of the Wind * Dead Ringers * Neco z Alenky (Alice) — 1990 — Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer * King of New York * Trust * Archangel * Reversal of Fortune * Blue Steel * S’en fout la mort
1991-2000
1991 — Tongues Untied * William S. Burroughs: Commissioner of Sewers — 1992 — Man Bites Dog * Romper Stomper — 1993 — Three Colors: Blue * Son of the Pink Panther — 1994 — The Last Seduction * Fear of a Black Hat — 1995 — Deseret * Smoke, Cyclo * Diwale Duhaniya le Jayenge (The Brave-Hearted Will Take the Bride) * The White Balloon — 1997 — Fast, Cheap and Out of Control * Taste of Cherry * Funny Games * Fireworks (HANA-BI) * Abre los ojos (Open Your Eyes) — 1998 — Pi — 1999 — Rosetta * Beau Travail — 2000 — Dancer in the Dark * The Gleaners and I * Ali Zaoua, Prince of the Streets * Kippur * Yi Yi (A One and a Two) * The Captive
2001-2010
2001 — Fat Girl * No Man’s Land * Lagaan * Kandahar * What Time Is It There? * The Piano Teacher * The Son’s Room — 2002 — Distant (Uzak) — 2003 — The Barbarian Invasions * The Best of Youth — 2004 — 3-Iron (Bin-jip) * The Consequences of Love * Head-On — 2005 — Live and Become — 2007 — My Winnipeg — 2010 — Unstoppable * Tucker and Dale vs. Evil * The Kids Are All Right
2011-2018
2012 — Seven Psychopaths — 2013 — The Call * I’m So Excited! — 2015 — The Martian * Krampus * Brooklyn — 2016 — Dawson City: Frozen Time * The Last Laugh * The Handmaiden * The Fifth Wave — 2017 — Gaga: Five Foot Two * Lady Bird * Three Billboards Outside Ebbings, Missouri * The Shape of Water * The Last Men in Aleppo * Sarah Silverman: A Speck of Dust * Faces Places * I, Tonya * Get Out * Wonder Wheel * Batman and Bill * Dunkirk * Icarus * Wait for Your Laugh * Call Me By Your Name * Lady Macbeth * The Disaster Artist * Venus — 2018 — The Black Panther * Red Sparrow * Isle of Dogs * Avengers: Infinity War * A Quiet Place * The Incredibles 2 * Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom * Ant-Man and the Wasp * Teen Titans Go to the Movies * The Death of Stalin * Fahrenheit 11/9 * A Star Is Born * Bad Times at the El Royale * Ralph Wrecks the Internet * The Meg * Vice * Aquaman * Hotel Artemis
My favorite movie from 2018 was Vice. Probably. Other contenders for my favorite movie from 2018 include Isle of Dogs, The Death of Stalin and Teen Titans Go to the Movies.
Here's a sampling of some of the best or most notable movies I saw in 2018: Come Drink With Me (pictured above), L'inferno, Salome, A Lady of Chance, Piccadilly, Hell's Angels, The Water Magician, The Baker's Wife, Story of the Last Chrysanthemum, Cabin in the Sky, The Red Shoes, No Way Out, The Men, Written on the Wind, La notte, Darling, An Actor's Revenge, Tokyo Drifter, Seconds, Daisies, A Touch of Zen, Cria cuervos!, The Fireman's Ball, The Little Girl from Hanoi, A Question of Silence, The Nigh of the Shooting Stars, Shoah, Peking Opera Blues, A Chinese Ghost Story, Vagabond, Red Sorghum, Man Bites Dog, Fear of a Black Hat, Deseret, The Brave-Hearted Will Take the Bride, The White Balloon, Rosetta, Dancer in the Dark, The Piano Teacher, The Gleaners and I, Lagaan, My Winnipeg, I'm So Excited!, Dawson City: Frozen Time, The Handmaiden, Faces Places, I, Tonya, The Disaster Artist, Bad Times at the El Royale
Monday, January 01, 2018
I, THE AUDIENCE: The movies I saw in 2017
1911-1920
1912 — Cleopatra — 1913 — The Insects’ Christmas — 1914 — The Great Toe Mystery
1921-1930
1921 — A Sailor-Made Man * Camille — 1922 — When Knighthood Was in Flower — 1924 — Big Business * Hot Water * He Who Gets Slapped — 1927 — Napoleon * The Red Mill * Love * Downhill * The Unknown * Mockery — 1928 — The Smart Set * A Woman of Affairs — 1929 — Spite Marriage * Fraulein Else — 1930 — War Nurse * Madame Satan * Not So Dumb
1931-1940
1931 — Private Lives * Night Nurse * Tokyo Chorus * God’s Gift to Women * Dracula — 1932 — Polly of the Circus * The Music Box * The Mummy — 1933 — Ecstasy * Female * What! No Beer? * Lady for a Day — 1934 — Dames * Long Lost Father — 1935 — The Girl from Tenth Avenue * The Man Who Broke the Bank at Monte Carlo * The Arizonian — 1936 — A Day in the Country * Suzy * The Golden Arrow * M’Liss * Dracula’s Daughter — 1937 — The Toast of New York * Stand-In * Danger Patrol * Midnight Song (Ye ban ge sheng) — 1938 — The Great Waltz * Olympia, Part 1: The Festival of Nations * Olympia, Part 2: Festival of Beauty * The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse * Law of the Underworld * Crashing Hollywood * Dramatic School * A Christmas Carol — 1939 — Babes in Arms * In Name Only * Boy Slaves * The Spy in Black * Mr. Moto Takes a Vacation * Daybreak (Le jour se leve) * Golden Boy * Dancing Co-Ed — 1940 — Brother Orchid * Two Girls on Broadway
1941-1950
1941 — Meet Boston Blackie * Great Guns * Suspicion — 1942 — The Falcon’s Brother — 1943 — The Moon Is Down * Meshes of the Afternoon * After Midnight with Boston Blackie * Son of Dracula * Fires Were Started — 1944 — Gaslight * The Private Life of a Cat — 1945 — The Power of the Whistler * Voice of the Whistler — 1946 — The Killers * Humoresque * The Secret of the Whistler * Notorious * Bedlam — 1947 — Black Narcissus * Mourning Becomes Elektra * Crossfire * Cry Wolf * Record of a Tenement Gentlemen * The Devil Thumbs a Ride — 1948 — The Return of the Whistler * Spring in a Small Town * Louisiana Story * Portrait of Jennie * Force of Evil * The Loves of Carmen * Secret Beyond the Door — 1949 — Late Spring * The Reckless Moment — 1950 — The Magnificent Yankee * The Jackie Robinson Story * All About Eve * Born to Be Bad * The Young and the Damned (Los olvidados)
1951-1960
1953 — Indiscretion of an American Wife * Jeopardy * Monsieur Hulot’s Holiday * Beat the Devil * The Stranger Wore a Gun * Fear and Desire — 1954 — Silver Lode * The Adventures of Hajji Baba * Magnificent Obsession * Animal Farm * A Story from Chikamatsu * The Naked Jungle * Salt of the Earth * Robinson Crusoe * Betrayed * Dial M for Murder — 1955 — The Far Country * Godzilla Raids Again * The Left Hand of God * Many Rivers to Cross * Interrupted Melody * Strange Lady in Town * The Rose Tattoo * Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing * The Mad Masters * The Prodigal — 1956 — Moby Dick * High Society — 1957 — The Prince and the Showgirl * Tokyo Twilight * The Incredible Shrinking Man — 1958 — Lonelyhearts * Man of the West * Cairo Station * Bitter Victory * The Music Room — 1959 — The Restless Years — 1960 — Cruel Story of Youth * Jigoku * Rocco and His Brothers
1961-1970
1961 — Two Women * The Ladies’ Man — 1962 — Reptilicus * Panic in Year Zero * The L-Shaped Room * Heaven and Earth Magic * Tender Is the Night * Mondo Cane * An Autumn Afternoon * Dog Star Man — 1963 — Flaming Creatures * The Incredible Journey * The Leopard * The Nutty Professor * Diary of a Madman * The Birds * Mediterranee — 1964 — Carry On Cleo * Woman in the Dunes * Godzilla vs. Mothra * Scorpio Rising * Roustabout * Black God, White Devil * All These Women — 1965 — Vinyl * Dr. Goldfoot and the Bikini Machine * The Collector * Boeing, Boeing — 1966 — Batman: The Movie * The Glass Bottom Boat * Hold Me While I’m Naked * The Reptile — 1967 — The Young Girls of Roquefort * Hombre * The Dirty Dozen * Cours du soir * Weekend * Welcome to Hard Times * Wavelength * Marketa Lazarova — 1968 — Hostile Witness * Pretty Poison — 1969 — Boy * High School — 1970 — Gimme Shelter * The Grandmother * The Spider’s Stratagem * Deep End * The Garden of the Finzi-Continis
1971-1980
1971 — Shaft * Godzilla’s Revenge * The Zodiac Killer * Socrates * Nicholas and Alexandra — 1972 — And now for Something Completely Different … * Night of the Lepus * 1776 * Frogs * The Heartbreak Kid * The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant — 1973 — Fantastic Planet * Belladonna of Sadness * Battle for the Planet of the Apes * Night Watch * The Stone Killer * The Wicker Man * Amarcord — 1974 — Ali: Fear Eats the Soul * Celine and Julie Go Boating — 1975 — Doc Savage: The Man of Bronze * Nashville — 1976 — The Seven-Per-Cent Solution * Police Python 357 * Taxi Driver — 1977 — Stroszek — 1978 — The Five Deadly Venoms * Grease * Shaolin Master Killer — 1979 — Real Life — 1980 — Werner Herzog Eats His Shoe * Loulou * The Last Metro
1981-1990
1981 — Neighbors * Scanners — 1983 — And the Ship Sails On * A Christmas Story — 1984 — A Nightmare on Elm Street * Paris, Texas — 1985 — Red Sonja — 1986 — Hannah and Her Sisters — 1987 — Wall Street * Good Morning, Vietnam — 1988 — Ariel * Bull Durham — 1989 — When Harry Met Sally * The Asthenic Syndrome * The Unbelievable Truth * A City of Sadness — 1990 — Pretty Woman * Close-Up
1991-2000
1991 — Raise the Red Lantern — 1992 — Candyman * Aileen Wuornos: The Selling of a Serial Killer — 1993 — Fatal Instinct * Manhattan Murder Mystery * Philadelphia — 1994 — Clerks * Chungking Express — 1996 — Secrets and Lies * The Pillow Book * Gabbeh * Three Lives and Only One Death * Breaking the Waves — 1997 — The Ice Storm * The Sweet Hereafter — 1998 — Run Lola Run * Rushmore — 1999 — Sweet and Lowdown * Being John Malkovich * Eyes Wide Shut — 2000 — Meet the Parents * Small-Time Crooks * Nine Queens
2001-2010
2001 — Monsoon Wedding * Artificial Intelligence * Lantana — 2002 — Far from Heaven * The Hours * Russian Ark — 2003 — Osama * Aileen: Life and Death of a Serial Killer * Goodbye Lenin! * Elephant — 2004 — Meet the Fokkers * Sideways * Melinda and Melinda * Moolaade — 2005 — The Constant Gardener * Cache (Hidden) * Tsotsi — 2006 — Factory Girl — 2007 — Cassandra’s Dream * Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story — 2008 — The Class — 2009 — An Education * Precious * Whatever Works — 2010 — Nightmare on Elm Street * You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger * Senna * Nostalgia de la Luz * Of Gods and Men
2011-2017
2011 — Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy * Shame * The Kid With a Bike * War Horse * Le Havre * Bodyguard — 2012 — Bring Me the Head of Machine Gun Woman * Amour * Wadjda * If I Were You * Dredd — 2013 — Blue Jasmine * La Grande Bellezza * Ida * A Touch of Sin * The World’s End — 2014 — Magic in the Moonlight * Whiplash * Leviathan * Gone Girl — 2015 — Straight Outta Compton * Tangerine * Irrational Man * Bridge of Spies * Son of Saul * Tab Hunter Confidential * Love Among the Ruins * Room — 2016 — Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children * La La Land * The Founder * Moonlight * 13th * Under the Shadow * I, Daniel Blake * The Jungle Book * Manchester by the Sea * Arrival * Mifune: The Last Samurai * Hell or High Water * Jackie * Toni Erdmann * The Huntsman: Winter War * Train to Busan — 2017 — Resident Evil: The Final Chapter * Kong Skull Island * Logan * Beauty and the Beast * Life * The Zookeeper’s Wife * Ghost in the Shell * The Boss Baby * Born in China * Alien Covenant * Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales * Megan Leavey * Wonder Woman * Atomic Blonde * War for the Planet of the Apes * Okja * Ingrid Goes West * mother! * Professor Marston and the Wonder Women * Blade Runner 2049 * Thor Ragnarok * Justice League * The Little Hours * Star Wars: The Last Jedi
My favorite movie from 2017 was Atomic Blonde.
I'm not sure I even want to begin listing the great films I saw in 2017. There were so many! But I guess I could point out a few dozen: When Knighthood Was in Flower, Napoleon, A Woman of Affairs, Fraulein Else, War Nurse, Madam Satan, Tokyo Chorus, M'Liss, Stand-In, The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse, Dancing Co-Ed, The Private Life of a Cat, Black Narcissus, Spring in a Small Town, Record of a Tenement Gentlemen, Portrait of Jennie, Force of Evil, M. Hulot's Holiday, Tokyo Twilight, Cairo Station, The Music Room, Cruel Story of Youth, Jigoku, Two Women, Panic in Year Zero, An Autumn Afternoon, Carry On Cleo, Woman in the Dunes, Scorpio Rising, Vinyl, All These Women, Marketa Lazarova, Boy, Gimme Shelter, Deep End, The Bitter Tears of Petra van Kant, The Belladonna of Sadness, The Wicker Man, The Last Metro, Shaolin Master Killer, The Five Deadly Venoms, Paris, Texas, Raise the Red Lantern, Secrets and Lies, Run Lola Run, Rushmore, Nine Queens, Lantana, Far from Heaven, Moolaade, Factory Girl, Bring Me the Head of Machine Gun Woman, Wadjda, Blue Jasmine, La La Land, Under the Shadow, Jackie, Train to Busan, Logan, Wonder Woman, Professor Marston and the Wonder Women