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SpelingError 12-31-22 07:42 PM
Originally Posted by SpelingError (Post 2357919)
Here are my favorite first-time viewings of this year:

10/10:
1. Wings of Desire
2. The Trial
3. Raise the Red Lantern

9/10:
4. From Here to Eternity
5. Dersu Uzala
6. Apocalypse Now (Theatrical Version)
7. Dancer in the Dark
8. Le Million
9. Make Way for Tomorrow
10. Early Summer

Honorable Mentions:

The Heiress
The Fifth Seal
Written on the Wind
The Incredible Shrinking Man

Also, since I watched a bunch of short films this year, I figured I'd list my favorites as well (unranked):

The Act of Seeing With One's One Eyes
Boulder Blues and Pearls and...
Castro Street
Delicacies of Molten Horror Synapse
The Man Who Planted Trees
Mirror of Holland
More
Pas de Deux
Window Water Baby Moving
https://www.listchallenges.com/every...the-first-time

cricket 12-31-22 07:56 PM
Not necessarily in order-

Hey Fredrick 01-01-23 10:10 AM
Originally Posted by Frightened Inmate No. 2 (Post 2357901)
6. ride in the whirlwind

Love this one and just watched it again about two weeks ago. If I had joined the most recent HoF this was one of the films I was seriously considering. I'm a little leery of recommending it after I recommended Monte Hellman's companion flick, The Shooting, a while back and it went over like a lead balloon.

Little Ash 01-01-23 10:58 AM
An interesting idea. Looking at this past year, I'm going to run into the opposite problem from the usual top 10 of the current year list (just so many good first viewings).

Culling from the short list in no particular order (and some of the decisions/cuts feeling arbitrary):
The Red and The White (1967)
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-xUqiWd5iFa...57.16%255D.jpg

Cabaret (1972)
https://media.giphy.com/media/VgwLj4...OSZ1/giphy.gif

Successive Slidings of Pleasure (1974)
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The Third Part of the Night (1971)
https://m.media-amazon.com/images/M/...5MA@@._V1_.jpg

The Devil's Trap (1962)
https://dafilms.com/media/gallery/20...ova_past_1.jpg

Burning (2018)
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https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-WB_9XbJ_t...ehousefilm.jpg

The Underground Railroad (I know it's not a movie, but I'm lumping it in)
https://theartsdesk.com/sites/defaul...?itok=xe5OoU-U

The Iron Rose (1973)
https://i.pinimg.com/originals/b8/1f...a63a90ec72.gif

Columbus (2017)
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A Night of Knowing Nothing (2021)
https://youtu.be/UgFSjBKqdSY


Initial shortlist/Honorable mentions (~the order I watched them):
A Night of Knowing Nothing
The Underground Railroad
The Red and The White
After Yang
Elle
Drive My Car
Cabaret
All That Jazz
Successive Slidings of Pleasure
The Third Part of the Night
The Devil's Trap
Eugenie (1970)
Burning
The Iron Rose
Songs my Brothers Taught Me
Columbus
Tower
Aftersun

I think All That Jazz might have longer legs with me than Cabaret, but just going off of the first viewing. Aftersun, I really want to re-watch in the near future.

Kayden Kross 01-01-23 11:36 AM
Deprisa, Deprisa (Saura, 1981)
Elvira Madigan (Widerberg, 1967)
A Degree of Murder (Schlöndorff, 1967)
La Reine Margot (Chéreau, 1994)
Walker (Cox, 1987)
Europa, Europa (Holland, 1990)
Mr. Klein (Losey, 1976)
Kes (Loach, 1969)
Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice (Mazursky, 1969)
The Third Part of the Night (Zulawski, 1971)

Kayden Kross 01-01-23 11:45 AM
Big yes to The Iron Rose. It took me a few viewings before I really started to love it, but I made sure to visit Amiens just to walk around that cemetery when I was in France. Couldn't find the crypt they crawl into unfortunately.

Little Ash 01-01-23 02:28 PM
Originally Posted by Kayden Kross (Post 2358110)
Big yes to The Iron Rose. It took me a few viewings before I really started to love it, but I made sure to visit Amiens just to walk around that cemetery when I was in France. Couldn't find the crypt they crawl into unfortunately.

Yeah, I didn't need multiple viewings, but it benefitted from sitting in my head for the past couple of months. It managed to surpass Requiem for a Vampire which I saw for the first time this past year as well. And I think given the other films I put on that top 10, i definitely feel more comfortable saying it fits in that company.


I see you also watched The Third Part of the Night for the first time this year. Was that an interesting coincidence? I know it's getting a German(?) blu-ray release in 2023, but I don't think I'm aware of it making any indie theater circuits the past year (at least in the US), the way Possession seemed to get. It's just been on my watchlist for a number of years now.

Little Ash 01-01-23 02:31 PM
Originally Posted by SpelingError (Post 2357919)
Here are my favorite first-time viewings of this year:

10/10:
1. Wings of Desire
2. The Trial
3. Raise the Red Lantern

9/10:
4. From Here to Eternity
5. Dersu Uzala
6. Apocalypse Now (Theatrical Version)
7. Dancer in the Dark
8. Le Million
9. Make Way for Tomorrow
10. Early Summer

Honorable Mentions:

The Heiress
The Fifth Seal
Written on the Wind
The Incredible Shrinking Man

Also, since I watched a bunch of short films this year, I figured I'd list my favorites as well (unranked):

The Act of Seeing With One's One Eyes
Boulder Blues and Pearls and...
Castro Street
Delicacies of Molten Horror Synapse
The Man Who Planted Trees
Mirror of Holland
More
Pas de Deux
Window Water Baby Moving

The Trial and Apocalypse Now are long running favorites of mine.
Raise the Red Lantern was a weird HBO staple for a few months way back during my formative years right before I went off to college, so it holds a weird spot in my consciousness. Though I haven't revisited it in probably 20 years. Is there a good blu-ray of it now? I don't think I could bring myself to revisit it on anything less than 1080p.

Thief 01-01-23 02:57 PM
Re: Yearly First Viewing Top Tens
 
I'm still in the process of reviewing and rating a bunch of December first-time watches that could probably make this list, but aside from those, this has been my top first-time watches of 2022 (in no order)...

Feature Films
Picnic at Hanging Rock (1975)
Parenthood (1989)
Black Girl (1966)
The Heiress (1949)
Whiplash (2014)
The Mitchells vs. The Machines (2021)

Documentaries
Be Natural: The Untold Story of Alice Guy-Blaché (2018)
Night and Fog (1955)

Short Films
One Week (1920)
Strings (2013)
Where You Are (2016)

LAMb EELYAK 01-01-23 04:19 PM
I don't have a list of the older movies I watched last year, but here are some that I liked:


I'm Thinking of Ending Things
Fruitvale Station
Steve Jobs
Eyes Wide Shut
Marnie
One Fine Day
World of Tomorrow

Kayden Kross 01-01-23 04:24 PM
Originally Posted by Little Ash (Post 2358168)
Yeah, I didn't need multiple viewings, but it benefitted from sitting in my head for the past couple of months. It managed to surpass Requiem for a Vampire which I saw for the first time this past year as well. And I think given the other films I put on that top 10, i definitely feel more comfortable saying it fits in that company.


I see you also watched The Third Part of the Night for the first time this year. Was that an interesting coincidence? I know it's getting a German(?) blu-ray release in 2023, but I don't think I'm aware of it making any indie theater circuits the past year (at least in the US), the way Possession seemed to get. It's just been on my watchlist for a number of years now.

Requiem for a Vampire is another that needs a rewatch. I did enjoy it the first time, but that unusually long rape sequence didn't really sit very well. As far as Rollin goes, Fascination is king and Shiver of the Vampires is a strong second. He's never really done anything I haven't liked to some extent.


I went on a brief Zulawski binge after watching The Most Important Thing: Love which would probably top my rewatches this year if I did a list for those. Sometime the hysterics in his films puts me off them a little bit, although I enjoyed The Third Part of the Night more than Diabel.

SpelingError 01-01-23 04:27 PM
Originally Posted by Little Ash (Post 2358169)
The Trial and Apocalypse Now are long running favorites of mine.
Raise the Red Lantern was a weird HBO staple for a few months way back during my formative years right before I went off to college, so it holds a weird spot in my consciousness. Though I haven't revisited it in probably 20 years. Is there a good blu-ray of it now? I don't think I could bring myself to revisit it on anything less than 1080p.
I don't know about blu ray, but I found a good copy of the film online when I watched it.

Iroquois 01-13-23 03:16 AM
https://harvardfilmarchive.org/publi...01a3142333.jpg

1. Werckmeister Harmonies
2. The Sacrifice
3. The Turin Horse
4. Manila in the Claws of Light
5. The Duellists
6. The Great Silence
7. Z
8. Love Exposure
9. The Killing of a Chinese Bookie
10. L'Argent (1983)

Honourable mentions: Good Morning, The Cranes Are Flying, Matewan, Bay of Angels, Lola (1961), Tabu: A Story of the South Seas, Missing, Je Tu Il Elle, Siberia (2020), An Elephant Sitting Still, The Shop on Main Street, The Sweet Hereafter, La Cérémonie, Asako I & II, Where Is My Friend's House?, The Passion of Anna, Floating Clouds, Eastern Condors, Dog Star Man, Certain Women, May, Lancelot du Lac, Taipei Story, The Ascent, Le Petit Soldat, Joint Security Area, A Geisha, Le Cercle Rouge, Tokyo Sonata, Nymphomaniac: Vol I, Nymphomaniac: Vol. II, Greed (1924}, A Trip to the Moon, Ariel, The Adventures of Prince Achmed, Harlan County U.S.A., The Wind Will Carry Us, The Man Without A Past, Blue (1993), Boys State, Throw Down, Heaven Knows What, Purple Noon, Beastie Boys Story, Mona Lisa, Mephisto, The Whispering Star, Early Summer, Red Psalm, Underground, Diary of a Country Priest, Head-On (2004), Never Rarely Sometimes Always, A Raisin in the Sun, The Hidden Fortress, The Bad Sleep Well, Dante's Inferno (1911), They Shoot Horses Don't They?, All About Lily Chou-Chou

Took almost a fortnight to do this and I still think that, aside from Werckmeister Harmonies basically being a lock for the #1 spot, I could still shuffle around #2-#10 not just among themselves but with at least a couple of dozen other titles in the honourable mentions. It's just been a really good year for watching movies.

John-Connor 01-13-23 05:54 AM



  1. SEVEN DAYS IN MAY 1964 John Frankenheimer
  2. THE BREAKING POINT 1950 Michael Curtiz
  3. DERSU UZALA 1975 Akira Kurosawa
  4. BLACK CHRISTMAS 1974 Bob Clark
  5. THE CAINE MUTINY 1954 Edward Dmytryk
  6. CAPERNAUM 2018 Nadine Labaki
  7. ENNIO: THE MAESTRO 2022 Giuseppe Tornatore
  8. AMERICAN GIGOLO 1980 Paul Schrader
  9. TOP GUN: MAVERICK 2022 Joseph Kosinski
  10. GREAT EXPECTATIONS 1946 David Lean

    ___________________________________________________________

  11. THE SET-UP 1949 Robert Wise
  12. INTO THE NIGHT 1985 John Landis
  13. CODA (Child of Deaf Adults) 2021 Siân Heder
  14. ONE CUT OF THE DEAD 2017 Shinichiro Ueda
  15. SPIELBERG 2017 Susan Lacy
  16. PADDINGTON I & II 2014-2017 Paul King
  17. THE HARDER THEY FALL 1956 Mark Robson
  18. THE HEIRESS 1949 William Wyler
  19. BOILING POINT 2021 Philip Barantini
  20. ANTHROPOID 2016 Sean Ellis
  21. PAULINE AT THE BEACH 1983 Éric Rohmer
  22. THE KILLING OF A CHINESE BOOKIE 1976 John Cassavetes
  23. PICKUP ON SOUTH STREET 1953 Samuel Fuller
  24. EASTERN CONDORS 1987 Sammo Hung
  25. THE WRONG MAN 1956 Alfred Hitchcock

___________________________________________________________


honourable mentions:

THE BAD SLEEP WELL 1960 Akira Kurosawa
HUD 1963 Martin Ritt
KANSAS CITY CONFIDENTIAL 1952 Phil Karlson
THE BATMAN 2022 Matt Reeves
THE NICE GUYS 2016 Shane Black
THE BODY 2012 ‘El cuerpo’ Oriol Paulo
I, DANIEL BLAKE 2016 Ken Loach

John W Constantine 01-01-24 12:02 PM
2023 mofo all - first timers

01 jagten / 2012, thomas vinterberg /
02 ida / 2013, pawet pawlikowski /
03 the irishman / 2019, martin scorsese /
04 the father / 2020, florian zeller /
05 aftersun / 2022, charlotte wells /
06 beau travail / 1999, claire denis /
07 spider-man: across the spider-verse / 2023, joaquim dos santos, justin k. thompson, kemp powers /
08 martin / 1977, george a. romero /
09 sound of metal / 2020, darius marder /
10 the driller killer / 1979, abel ferrara /
11 skinamarink / 2022, kyle edward ball /
12 hello mary lou: prom night II / 1987, bruce pittman /
13 soul / 2020, pete docter /
14 Lo squartatore di New York / 1982, lucio fulci /
15 a separation / 2011, asgahr farhadi /

There's a top 10 in there somewhere...

Allaby 01-01-24 12:14 PM
My favourite first time watches this year: (excluding 2023 films and short films):

No Way Out 1950
High and Low 1963
Lilya 4-ever 2002
Marcel the Shell with Shoes On 2021
When the Cat Comes 1963
I Wouldn’t Be in Your Shoes 1948
Storm Warning 1951
The Harder They Fall 1956
The Bigamist 1953
The Dark Mirror 1946

Thursday Next 01-01-24 01:47 PM
War and Peace
Drunken Angel
Hausu
Shoah
Quo Vadis Aida
Barefoot Gen
Fried Green Tomatoes
John Wick
Kanal
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes

SpelingError 01-01-24 05:55 PM
Re: Yearly First Viewing Top Tens
 
1. The Piano Teacher
2. Branded to Kill
3. Arsenic and Old Lace
4. The Horse Thief
5. Little Big Man
6. The Unbelievable Truth
7. Breaking Away
8. Carlito's Way
9. A.I. Artificial Intelligence
10. Hellzapoppin'

Honorable Mentions:

The Servant
Nosferatu the Vampyre
The Quiet Earth
Entranced Earth
I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang
The Red Angel
Sherman's March
Raising Arizona
As I Was Moving Ahead Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty
Seven Chances
Titicut Follies
Elevator to the Gallows
Sawdust and Tinsel
Curse of the Demon
Paper Flowers
21 Up
28 Up

crumbsroom 01-01-24 07:55 PM
Originally Posted by Iroquois (Post 2361708)
https://harvardfilmarchive.org/publi...01a3142333.jpg

1. Werckmeister Harmonies
2. The Sacrifice
3. The Turin Horse
4. Manila in the Claws of Light
5. The Duellists
6. The Great Silence
7. Z
8. Love Exposure
9. The Killing of a Chinese Bookie
10. L'Argent (1983)

Honourable mentions: Good Morning, The Cranes Are Flying, Matewan, Bay of Angels, Lola (1961), Tabu: A Story of the South Seas, Missing, Je Tu Il Elle, Siberia (2020), An Elephant Sitting Still, The Shop on Main Street, The Sweet Hereafter, La Cérémonie, Asako I & II, Where Is My Friend's House?, The Passion of Anna, Floating Clouds, Eastern Condors, Dog Star Man, Certain Women, May, Lancelot du Lac, Taipei Story, The Ascent, Le Petit Soldat, Joint Security Area, A Geisha, Le Cercle Rouge, Tokyo Sonata, Nymphomaniac: Vol I, Nymphomaniac: Vol. II, Greed (1924}, A Trip to the Moon, Ariel, The Adventures of Prince Achmed, Harlan County U.S.A., The Wind Will Carry Us, The Man Without A Past, Blue (1993), Boys State, Throw Down, Heaven Knows What, Purple Noon, Beastie Boys Story, Mona Lisa, Mephisto, The Whispering Star, Early Summer, Red Psalm, Underground, Diary of a Country Priest, Head-On (2004), Never Rarely Sometimes Always, A Raisin in the Sun, The Hidden Fortress, The Bad Sleep Well, Dante's Inferno (1911), They Shoot Horses Don't They?, All About Lily Chou-Chou

Took almost a fortnight to do this and I still think that, aside from Werckmeister Harmonies basically being a lock for the #1 spot, I could still shuffle around #2-#10 not just among themselves but with at least a couple of dozen other titles in the honourable mentions. It's just been a really good year for watching movies.

Havent seen The Duelists, but everything else in that top 10 is a banger.

Torgo 01-01-24 09:55 PM
2023:

1. Blue Spring
2. Past Lives
3. Phoenix (2014)
4. Beau Travail
5. Weathering With You
6. RRR
7. The Virgin Suicides
8. The Mission (1999)
9. The Naked Kiss
10. BlackBerry

Honorable Mentions: Beyond the Infinite Two Minutes, Coherence, Deep Cover, The Grey Fox, The Quiet Girl


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