Movies you watched for the first time in 2020 and really enjoyed

Don't know if they have this here but always enjoyed it at the corrie for a few years. Here's a few of my picks.

dressed to kill - 1980
kuroneko (black cat) - 1968
war and peace - 1966
zombie - 1979
dr. mabuse the gambler - 1922
duel in the sun - 1946
cruising - 1980
shaft in africa - 1973
paint your wagon - 1969
naked lunch - 1991
m. butterfly - 1993
judgment at nuremberg - 1961
a hidden life - 2019
clue - 1985
the straight story - 1999
the last boy scout - 1991
dead man - 1995
othello - 1951
hellraiser - 1987
body heat - 1981
support your local sheriff - 1969
westworld - 1973
the bravados - 1958

We have this thread where people post their top ten first-time viewings of the year. Still holding out until the end of the year before I post a new list, though.

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Ah, got it.

Thanks! I was literally about to start a thread of my top 20 films seen this year but seeing as there is a thread already, I’ll just toss them there.

Last Year At Marienbad

More than I hoped it would be.

It is a good one, I realized later . I thought back on that later and it seemed to add a little to JD

Some of my favourite first time watches of 2020:

Beyond The Hills (2012)
Sons of the Desert (1933)
Henry Gamble’s Birthday Party (2015)
Thank You and Good Night (1992)
Me and You and Everyone We Know (2005)
The Cameraman (1928)
The House That Jack Built (2018)
The Wise Kids (2011)
Dolores Claiborne (1995)
Fruitvale Station (2013)

Rashomon
Wuthering Heights
Parasite
Prom Night 2: Hello Mary Lou
Throne Of Blood
Belle Du Jour
Dark Passage
Long Weekend
Sword Of Doom
The Big Sleep

These were all somewhere between good and great.
I also went back and watched all the Friday the 13th movies I had never bothered to watch, which included 5, 7, 8, and 9. None were good but there is a certain garbage-can level of charm.
There were more but few notables.

I didn't watch a ton of movies in 2020 compared to the years before, I'll try to correct that in 2021, but these are my A(-/+) for first time watches:

Metropolis (2001) (A)
Reefer Madness (A)
Falling Down (A-)
The Neon Demon (A+)
Gandahar (A-)
Yojimbo (A)
Raw (A)
Edmond (A-)
Relic (A)
Videodrome (A)
A Moment of Innocence (A)
Lawnmower Man (A)

Some movies I watched for the first time in 2020 that were released prior to 2019/2020:

The Blues Brothers

The Awful Truth

The Pink Panther (1963)

The Muppets (2011)

Help!

The Hurricane

Christmas in Connecticut

Five Easy Pieces

The Panic in Needle Park

The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford

The Shop Around the Corner

Including the holdovers from 2019 that I saw this year, my list would look like this...

1. Paris, Texas
2. Moonlight
3. Parasite
4. Uncut Gems
5. 1917
6. The Handmaiden
7. Do The Right Thing
8. The Texas Chainsaw Massacre
9. The Searchers
10. Drug War

What are your thoughts on Paris, Texas? I remember you mentioning you were meaning to check that film out some time ago. It's definitely great and glad that it topped your list!

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My personal No.1 (if we don't take Rocky Horror seriously).

From the ones I remember watching last year I enjoyed Spartacus, The Chaser, The Spy Gone North, To Live and Die in LA and The Death of Stalin.


And the best of the lot was

Whoops, forgot The Red Shoes.

It was a bit of a slow burn throughout, albeit an increasingly emotional one, and of course, the final 15 minutes were superb, and enough to put it over the top for me.

I forgot a couple of others:

Jojo Rabbit struck me with a mixture of irony and drama