Yearly First Viewing Top Tens

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My top ten first time viewings of 2019
1. Paths of Glory (1957)
2. Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (1967)
3. And Then There Were None (1945)
4. Glory (1989)
5. The Ox-Bow Incident (1942)
6. Key Largo (1948)
7. Rush (2013)
8. Paper Moon (1973)
9. Near Dark (1987)
10. Logan (2017)



A bit of a thin year for me. Not in any order but these are probably my 10 favorites

Skin
The Irishman
Once Upon a Time in Hollywood
Schindler's List
Cinema Paradiso
Climax
Greed
The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada
The Killer
Sleep Tight



Also answers to Jabba
For 2019 it looks something like this for me (in random order).

8 1/2
Nights of Cabiria
The Mission
The Traveling Players
Marriage Story
Pather Panchali
Cold War
Knife in the Water
Last Tango in Paris
The Battle of Algiers

Came close:
The Night Hunter
To Have and Have Not
Your Name
Babel



Trip To The Movies: Nostromo 2019

10. Dokken: Unchain The Night (1986)

Music videos and VHS content of the metal band featuring Don Dokken Lead Vocals, George Lynch on Guitar, Jeff Pilson Bass / Background vocals, and Mick Brown drums.

Woow Woww Woowww WoWWW



9. Licence To Kill (1989)

"Problem solved."
Robert Davi


"007"


8. Sunset Strip (2012)

Hollywood blvd glorified in music, song and story. Whiskey-A-Go-Go objective.



7. Buccaneer's Girl (1950)

Yvonne De Carlo, romping dame



6. Twins Of Evil (1971)

Which is the Virgin? Which is the Vampire?



5. Night Of The Demons 2 (1994)

Their bodies were chopped, graded, sliced and diced, totally toasted!
Ughh, Terry!!


4. Halloween 5: The Revenge Of Michael Myers (1989)

They know that Michael Myers is her Uncle, and that she attacked her Stepmother, on Halloween...

"Leopard Sheets"
Samantha & Tina



3. Pretty In Pink (1986)

Strong lips
This is not the time to get serious over some nimrod.
Well, not nothing. I mean, I kissed him...



2. Buffy The Vampire Slayer (1992)

She was the one person I could really count on.
Kill him a lot.
Hi.
Hi.
What are you doing here?
What am I doing here? I'm saving your butt!



1. St Elmo's Fire (1985)

I can't remember who met who first...
Aboogadah Boogadah Boogadah Ah Ahh Ahhh!

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These are my 4/5 first time viewed films last year (didn't give better ratings to any, but that's just me). I tried to put them in some order but it's really hard. I also think I may have overestimated The Last Hangover when I saw it but I'll go with my ratings here.

The House with Laughing Windows (1976)
Demons (1971)
The Blackcoat's Daughter (2015)
Marshland (2014)
Tigers Are Not Afraid (2017)
The Children (2008)
Who Can Kill a Child? (1976)
The Third Murder (2017)
The Witch: Part 1. The Subversion (2018)
The Last Hangover (2018)

And here's the 3.5/5 films (rest of the GOOD films) in no order.

Monos (2019)
The Dark Valley (2014)
The Hunting Party (1971)
A Conspiracy of Faith (2016)
The Nightingale (2018)
Caliber 9 (1972)
Captive State (2019)
Us (2019)
Forbidden Games (1952)
[REC] (2007)
They Shall Not Grow Old (2018)
Rust Creek (2018)
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This is my first year at MoFo. There has never been a year that I have seen more movies (First time viewings + re-watches) than in 2019!
So, cheers to all the members and their recs, hof noms, countdowns, top 100 lists and ratings.
First time viewing Top10 + honorable mentions :


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Favorite First-Time Watches of 2019


#10) Scarlet Street
(Fritz Lang, 1945)


#9) The Florida Project
(Sean Baker, 2017)


#8) The Wailing
(Na Hong-jin, 2016)


#7) The Longest Yard
(Robert Aldrich, 1974)


#6) To Be or Not to Be
(Ernst Lubitsch, 1942)


#5) It Follows
(David Robert Mitchell, 2014)


#4) The Land of Silence and Darkness
(Werner Herzog, 1971)


#3) Faust
(F.W. Murnau, 1926)


#2) Night and the City
(Jules Dassin, 1950)


#1) Once Upon a Time . . . in Hollywood
(Quentin Tarantino, 2019)


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Bruh, your list includes Halloween 5, Pretty in Pink, and Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Watching new movies can only be an improvement.
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This is my first year at MoFo. There has never been a year that I have seen more movies (First time viewings + re-watches) than in 2019!
So, cheers to all the members and their recs, hof noms, countdowns, top 100 lists and ratings.
First time viewing Top10 + honorable mentions :


Hey, you should link your Letterboxd! I’d love to follow you.



Hey, you should link your Letterboxd! I’d love to follow you.
We're already following each other ahwell i'm John McClane on letterbox.
Oh lol, I always assumed that was just John McClane from here.



Maybe this is a little early but eh...If I see something spectacular in the next nine days I'll update.

Honorable Mentions:
The Killers*
Recommended by edarsenal
Ace in the Hole*
Recommended by Don't Know Yet
It Happened One Night*
Recommended by Wyldesyde
King Cohen

The Terrorist

Perfect Blue

Hanna Bi aka Fireworks

Mary and Max*
Recommended by Miss Vicky
Sanjuro

The Long Goodbye*
Recommended by John Connor
Le Trou*
Recommended by Neiba
For All mankind

Walkabout

Parasite

The Hunt

Midsommar


And the top ten:
10.The Lighthouse

9.Les Diaboliques

8. The Virgin Spring

7. True Grit (1969)

6. Shoot the Piano Player

5. Viridiana

4. Rosemary's Baby

3. Once Upon a Time in Hollywood

2. Pandora's Box*
Recommended by ahwell
1. One Cut of the Dead
The most fun I've had watching a movie in years!

Strangest movie - Hard to be a God (hm Forbidden Zone)
Most Disgusting - Pink Flamingos* Recommended by Captain Spaulding
Best Bad Movie - Hell Comes to Frogtown (hm White Slave)

* Movies were recommended in a MoFo HoF.



The trick is not minding
here it is, my top 20 movies I watched for the first time this year! I watched around 270 films this year, as well as a handful of rewatches.




20 Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter and Spring again
19 Blackfish
18 Lust, Caution
17 Pather Panchali
16 Shoeshine
15 Le Corbeau
14 Drive
13 That Obscure Object of Desire
12 March of the Pengiuins
11 Blood Simple
10 The Hunt
9 Slumdog Millionaire
8 Breathless
7 Life Itself
6 Sullivan's Travels
5 Parasite
4 Bride of Frankenstien
3 Double indemnity
2 Dial M for Murder
1 Metropolis (2001 restoration)


it was a great year for me, with some overdue classics finally getting removed from my watch list. At some point, i need to see the Metroplis 2010 restoration.....but the version i saw still took my breath away!
this....this is why I watch movies!



Here are my 10 favorite first-time watches of 2020:

1. A Moment of Innocence (1996)
2. It Happened One Night (1934)
3. The Wild Bunch (1969)
4. City Lights (1931)
5. The Young Girls of Rochefort (1967)
6. Perfect Blue (1997)
7. The Death of Mr. Lazarescu (2005)
8. Cabaret (1972)
9. Minnie and Moskowitz (1971)
10. Brief Encounter (1945)

In no particular order, here are some other films I loved from this year:

The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938)
Ali: Fear Eats the Soul (1974)
American Movie (1999)
Bonnie and Clyde (1967)
Black Sunday (1960)
Brief Encounter (1945)
Dawn of the Dead (1978)
A Fistful of Dollars (1964)
God Told Me To (1976)
Hard-Boiled (1992)
The Hidden Fortress (1958)
Ivan the Terrible, Part 1 (1944)
The King of Comedy (1982)
I Know Where I'm Going! (1945)
Love Streams (1984)
The Maltese Falcon (1941)
Minnie and Moskowitz (1971)
Mouchette (1967)
Predator (1987)
Sanjuro (1962)
Scarface (1932)
Shadow of a Doubt (1943)
Shock Corridor (1963)
The Sixth Sense (1999)
The Tenant (1976)
The Unknown (1927)
The Wages of Fear (1953)
White Heat (1949)
Yojimbo (1961)
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The trick is not minding
Here are my 10 favorite first-time watches of 2020:

1. A Moment of Innocence (1996)
2. It Happened One Night (1934)
3. The Wild Bunch (1969)
4. City Lights (1931)
5. The Young Girls of Rochefort (1967)
6. Perfect Blue (1997)
7. The Death of Mr. Lazarescu (2005)
8. Cabaret (1972)
9. Minnie and Moskowitz (1971)
10. Brief Encounter (1945)

In no particular order, here are some other films I loved from this year:

The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938)
Ali: Fear Eats the Soul (1974)
American Movie (1999)
Bonnie and Clyde (1967)
Black Sunday (1960)
Brief Encounter (1945)
Dawn of the Dead (1978)
A Fistful of Dollars (1964)
God Told Me To (1976)
Hard-Boiled (1992)
The Hidden Fortress (1958)
Ivan the Terrible, Part 1 (1944)
The King of Comedy (1982)
I Know Where I'm Going! (1945)
Love Streams (1984)
The Maltese Falcon (1941)
Minnie and Moskowitz (1971)
Mouchette (1967)
Predator (1987)
Sanjuro (1962)
Scarface (1932)
Shadow of a Doubt (1943)
Shock Corridor (1963)
The Sixth Sense (1999)
The Tenant (1976)
The Unknown (1927)
The Wages of Fear (1953)
White Heat (1949)
Yojimbo (1961)
That right there is some first time viewing list. I envy you. To be able to experience many of those for the first time is a treasure you can only savor once.



That right there is some first time viewing list. I envy you. To be able to experience many of those for the first time is a treasure you can only savor once.
Thanks! I definitely preferred the first-time watches I saw in 2020 over the ones I watched in 2019. Next year, I'm going to try to aim for at least 200 first-time watches.



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1. Yi Yi
2. A Woman Under the Influence
3. The Mirror
4. Sansho the Bailiff
5. Viridiana
6. Wild Strawberries
7. The Swimmer
8. My Dinner With Andre
9. Beau Travail
10. Happy Hour


Honourable mentions: The Addiction, After the Storm, Angels With Dirty Faces, Angst, Au Revoir Les Enfants, Bob Le Flambeur, Bride of Frankenstein, Close-Up, Contempt, The Dawns Here Are Quiet, Diabolique, Le Doulos, Drug War, Elevator to the Gallows, Faust: A German Folk Legend, The Firemen's Ball, The Fire Within, Forbidden Games, Germany Year Zero, The Green Ray, Ivan's Childhood, Ivan the Terrible Parts I & II, Killer of Sheep, LA 92, The Last Wave, The Magic Blade, A Moment of Innocence, New Rose Hotel, The Ninth Gate, Notorious (1946), Old Joy, Oslo August 31st, Out of the Blue, Pierrot Le Fou, Rat Film, Ronin, Sleuth (1972), Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter...and Spring, The Tenant, Vivre sa vie.

Narrowing down the best viewings to a ranked top 10 is tough in any year, but especially one where there was nothing to do but sit at home and watch movies (more so than usual, anyway). Still, I figured that Yi Yi was the stand-out for me - I had not seen any of Edward Yang's work before and jumping in with a sprawling three-hour tale of a Taiwanese family with little in the way of external action would always be a bit of a gamble, but he demonstrates such a command over such simple dramatics and slice-of-life sincerity that I just proved mesmerised for the entirety of the runtime. This arguably also applies to my number-two pick, A Woman Under the Influence, but that is much more clearly defined as a tale of ordinary madness that deftly avoids simplifying any of its key relationships or characters.

I picked Solaris as my favourite first-time viewing last year and joked about how The Mirror might take the top spot the following year, but I guess it wasn't to be. Tarkovsky's reverie takes place at the intersection of dreams and memories in such a way as to prove reasonably compelling, but at the same time so matter-of-fact that I feel it's going to have to grow on me. Sansho the Bailiff lives up to its reputation as a grim period drama that doesn't let the restrictions of its time prevent it from crafting a horrifying (yet occasionally beautiful) tragedy that still resonates. Viridiana sees Bunuel unleash a no-holds-barred satire that skewers so many different targets - pious would-be saviours, upper-class perverts, even an underclass that refuses to be treated as victims to be saved - to the point where it almost seems too broad for its own good, but it retains its sharpness from start to finish.

I realise now that the ten I singled out do kind of bleed into one another thematically as I move on Wild Strawberries, another odyssey through life and death that bounces between past and present in a valiant attempt to make sense of both, but at least having Bergman at the helm makes it interesting in its own right. The Swimmer touches on the same thing with its bizarre New Hollywood satire where an extremely game Burt Lancaster ruthlessly deconstructs his own movie star persona in order to undercut not just the foolish aloofness of his protagonist but of the society that alternately humours and disparages him. My Dinner With Andre may be the true outlier here with its infamously low-key premise about two friends getting together for dinner and just talking about whatever crosses their minds - I've watched a whole bunch of Louis Malle films this past year and he's certainly jumped genres and themes a whole lot in the process, but this is currently my pick for a favourite.

To cap things off, more shenanigans involving weird power structures and how they alternatively help and hinder the individuals who move within them in the form of Beau Travail, Claire Denis' homoerotic arthouse comedy about the French Foreign Legion and a bizarre love triangle that unfolds mostly as a result of the jealousies of one man (the ever-mercurial Denis Lavant). The number ten pick brings things full circle with another lengthy Asian drama, this time the five-hour Happy Hour and its tale of a circle of friends who find their seemingly pleasant lives being slowly thrown out of balance. It may be one of my favourite films of the decade.

As for the rest, hard to argue with any of them. Most of them are great and even the ones that aren't can have compelling arguments made for them.