Top Ten Films First Seen in 2021

[StanleyK]

Only for first time viewings. For instance, I'm 99% sure that The Apartment is a 10/10, but I'm going to watch it again at least once before I officially induct it into my Hall of Fame. That's serious business, you know.

[Lazlo]

1. Heaven's Gate (Cimino, 1980)
2. Shin Godzilla (Anno, 2016)
3. Wolfwalkers (Moore / Stewart, 2020)
4. Thief (Mann, 1981)
5. Paper Moon (Bogdanovich, 1973)
6. The Verdict (Lumet, 1982)
7. Paris, Texas (Wenders, 1984)
8. Titane (Ducournau, 2021)
9. In the Heights (Chu, 2021)
10. The Train (Frankenheimer, 1964)

1. Heaven's Gate (Cimino, 1980)
2. Shin Godzilla (Anno, 2016)
3. Wolfwalkers (Moore / Stewart, 2020)
4. Thief (Mann, 1981)
5. Paper Moon (Bogdanovich, 1973)
6. The Verdict (Lumet, 1982)
7. Dune (Villeneuve, 2021)
7. Paris, Texas (Wenders, 1984)
9. Titane (Ducournau, 2021)
10. In the Heights (Chu, 2021)

[megladon8]

1.) Leave Her to Heaven (1945 / Stahl)
2.) The Uninvited (1944 / Allen)
3.) The Fly (1986 / Cronenberg)
4.) Little Monsters (2019 / Forsythe)
5.) The Nice Guys (2016 / Black)
6.) Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (2019 / Tarantino)
7.) Mandy (2018 / Cosmatos)
8.) Nighthawks (1981 / Malmuth)
9.) Possessor (2020 / Cronenberg)
10.) Shin Godzilla (2016 / Anno & Higuchi)


11.) Archenemy (2020 / Mortimer)
12.) The Company of Wolves (1984 / Jordan)
13.) Fiend Without a Face (1958 / Crabtree)
14.) The Lighthouse (2019 / Eggers)
15.) The Exterminating Angel (1962 / Buñuel)
16.) The Scarlet Empress (1934 / von Sternberg)
17.) Searching (2018 / Chaganty)
18.) Us (2019 / Peele)
19.) April Fool's Day (1986 / Walton)
20.) The Red Queen Kills Seven Times (1972 / Miraglia)
21.) The Wolf of Snow Hollow (2020 / Cummings)
22.) Stray Dog (1949 / Kurosawa)
23.) Bride of Chucky (1998 / Yu)
24.) Bumblebee (2018 / Knight)
25.) Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings (2021 / Cretton)
26.) Fear Street: Part Two - 1978 (2021 / Janiak)
27.) Fear Street: Part One - 1994 (2021 / Janiak)
28.) The Spirit of the Beehive (1973 / Erice)
29.) Avengers: Endgame (2019 / Russo Brothers)
30.) Frenzy (1972 / Hitchcock)
31.) Birds of Prey (2020 / Yan)
32.) Love and Monsters (2020 / Matthews)
33.) Bill & Ted Face the Music (2020 / Parisot)
34.) One Missed Call (2003 / Miike)
35.) Willy's Wonderland (2021 / Lewis)
36.) Fear Street: Part Three - 1666 (2021 / Janiak)
37.) Gonjiam: Haunted Asylum (2018 / Jeong)
38.) Boss Level (2021 / Carnahan)
39.) The Foreigner (2017 / Campbell)
40.) Escape From L.A. (1996 / Carpenter)
41.) The Exterminator (1980 / Glickenhaus)
42.) A Quiet Place Part 2 (2020 / Krasinski)
43.) Terminator: Dark Fate (2019 / Miller)
44.) The Hateful Eight (2015 / Quentin Tarantino)
45.) Host (2020 / Savage)
46.) Relic (2020 / James)
47.) Tenet (2020 / Nolan)
48.) Thirst (2009 / Park)
49.) Child's Play 2 (1990 / Lafia)
50.) You Were Never Really Here (2017 / Ramsay)
51.) Freaky (2020 / Landon)
52.) Spider-Man Far From Home (2019 / Watts)
53.) Every Man For Himself (1980 / Jean-Luc Godard)
54.) Sea Fever (2019 / Hardiman)
55.) The Dark and the Wicked (2020 / Bertino)
56.) Child's Play 3 (1991 / Bender)
57.) Jack's Back (1988 / Herrington)
58.) Solo: A Star Wars Story (2018 / Howard)
59.) Hell Fest (2018 / Plotkin)
60.) It Chapter 2 (2019 / Muschietti)
61.) The Naked Cage (1985 / Nicholas)
62.) The Dark Tower (2017 / Arcel)


Added Shang-Chi at spot 25.

[Yxklyx]

1. It’s Such a Beautiful Day (2012, Don Hertzfeldt)
2. A Taste of Honey (1961, Tony Richardson)
3. Uncut Gems (2019, Benny Safdie, Josh Safdie)
4. Another Round (2020, Thomas Vinterberg)
5. Blue Collar (1978, Paul Schrader)
6. Too Late Blues (1961, John Cassavetes)
7. Il Sorpasso (1962, Dino Risi)
8. The Crowd (1928, King Vidor)
9. Alice in the Cities (1974, Wim Wenders)
10. Manhunter (1986, Michael Mann)

[StanleyK]

1. The Apartment (Wilder, 1960) - ***½
2. 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days (Mungiu, 2007) - ***½
3. Amour (Haneke, 2012) - ***½
4. The Act of Killing (Oppenheimer, 2012) - ***½
5. The Driver (Hill, 1978) - ***½
6. Total Recall (Verhoeven, 1990) - ***½
7. Crossroads (Hill, 1986) - ***½
8. Ace in the Hole (Wilder, 1951) - ***½
9. Elle (Verhoeven, 2016) - ***½
10. Invasion of the Body Snatchers (Kaufman, 1978) - ***½

11. Witness for the Prosecution (Wilder, 1957) - ***½
12. Five Graves to Cairo (Wilder, 1943) - ***½
13. The Fortune Cookie (Wilder, 1966) - ***½
14. The Fourth Man (Verhoeven, 1983) - ***½
15. The Friends of Eddie Coyle (Yates, 1973) - ***½
16. The Beguiled (Siegel, 1971) - ***½
17. Stalag 17 (Wilder, 1953) - ***½
18. The Shootist (Siegel, 1976) - ***½
19. 48 Hrs. (Hill, 1982) - ***½
20. Southern Comfort (Hill, 1981) - ***½
21. Hard Times (Hill, 1975) - ***½
22. First Cow (Reichardt, 2019) - ***½
23. The Dresser (Yates, 1983) - ***½
24. Johnny Handsome (Hill, 1989) - ***½
25. Madigan (Siegel, 1964) - ***½
26. Broken Trail (Hill, 2003) - ***
27. Hell Is for Heroes (Siegel, 1962) - ***
28. The Warriors (Hill, 1979) - ***
29. The Wanderers (Kaufman, 1979) - ***
30. Flesh + Blood (Verhoeven, 1985) - ***
31. Behind the Sun (Salles, 2001) - ***
32. Beavis and Butt-Head Do America (Judge, 1996) - ***
33. Black Book (Verhoeven, 2006) - ***
34. Portrait of a Lady on Fire (Sciamma, 2019) - ***
35. Knives Out (Johnson, 2019) - ***
36. The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes (Wilder, 1970) - ***
37. The Bad and the Beautiful (Minnelli, 1952) - ***
38. Shaft (Parks, 1971) - ***
39. Soul (Docter, 2020) - ***
40. Soldier of Orange (Verhoeven, 1977) - ***
41. Boccaccio '70 (De Sica/Fellini/Monicelli/Visconti, 1962) - ***
42. Diva (Beineix, 1981) - ***
43. Bullitt (Yates, 1968) - ***
44. Streets of Fire (Hill, 1984) - ***
45. The Big Steal (Siegel, 1949) - ***
46. The Front Page (Milestone, 1931) - ***
47. The Double (Ayoade, 2013) - ***
48. Wolf Children (Hosoda, 2012) - ***
49. Starship Troopers (Verhoeven, 1997) - ***
50. One, Two, Three (Wilder, 1961) - ***
51. Extract (Judge, 2009) - ***
52. Red Heat (Hill, 1988) - ***
53. El Bruto (Buñuel, 1953) - ***
54. The Criminal Life of Archibaldo de la Cruz (Buñuel, 1955) - ***
55. The Spirit of St. Louis (Wilder, 1957) - ***
56. Meet Me in St. Louis (Minnelli, 1944) - ***
57. The Lion in Winter (Harvey, 1968) - ***
58. Time of the Wolf (Haneke, 2003) - ***
59. Undisputed (Hill, 2002) - ***
60. Step Brothers (McKay, 2008) - ***
61. Addams Family Values (Sonnenfeld, 1993) - ***
62. Bullet to the Head (Hill, 2012) - ***
63. Submarine (Ayoade, 2010) - ***
64. Betty Blue (Beineix, 1986) - ***
65. Trespass (Hill, 1992) - ***
66. Riot in Cell Block 11 (Siegel, 1954) - ***
67. Brewster's Millions (Hill, 1985) - ***
68. Men in Black (Sonnenfeld, 1997) - ***
69. The Front Page (Wilder, 1974) - ***
70. The Black Windmill (Siegel, 1974) - ***
71. A Woman without Love (Buñuel, 1952) - ***
72. The Lineup (Siegel, 1958) - **½
73. Extreme Prejudice (Hill, 1987) - **½
74. The Brothers Bloom (Johnson, 2008) - **½
75. Sabrina (Wilder, 1954) - **½
76. El (Buñuel, 1953) - **½
77. The Guard (McDonagh, 2011) - **½
78. Spirits of the Dead (Fellini/Malle/Vadim) - **½
79. The Lighthouse (Eggers, 2019) - **½
80. The River and Death (Buñuel, 1954) - **½
81. Charley Varrick (Siegel, 1973) - **½
82. The Long Riders (Hill, 1980) - **½
83. Benny's Video (Haneke, 1992) - **½
84. The Seventh Continent (Haneke, 1989) - **½
85. 71 Fragments of a Chronology of Chance (Haneke, 1994) - **½
86. Central Station (Salles, 1998) - **½
87. My Cousin Vinny (Lynn, 1992) - **½
88. A Simple Plan (Raimi, 1998) - **½
89. Luca (Casarosa, 2021) - **½
90. Calvary (McDonagh, 2014) - **½
91. Robinson Crusoe (Buñuel, 1954) - **½
92. No Time to Die (Fukunaga, 2021) - **½
93. Lust for Life (Minnelli, 1956) - **½
94. Spetters (Verhoeven, 1980) - **½
95. The Man from Earth (Schenkman, 2007) - **½
96. Father of the Bride (Minnelli, 1950) - **½
97. Susana (Buñuel, 1951) - **½
98. The Band Wagon (Minnelli, 1953) - **½
99. Avanti! (Wilder, 1972) - **½
100. Mexican Bus Ride (Buñuel, 1952) - **½
101. Nomadland (Zhao, 2020) - **½
102. Happy End (Haneke, 2017) - **½
103. The Clowns (Fellini, 1970) - **½
104. Last Man Standing (Hill, 1996) - **½
105. The Rider (Zhao, 2017) - **½
106. Another 48 Hrs. (Hill, 1990) - **½
107. That Is the Dawn (Buñuel, 1956) - **½
108. Tenet (Nolan, 2020) - **½
109. For Love or Money (Sonnenfeld, 1993) - **½
110. The Major and the Minor (Wilder, 1942) - **½
111. Get Shorty (Sonnenfeld, 1995) - **½
112. The Girl Who Leapt Through Time (Hosoda, 2006) - **½
113. Kiss Me, Stupid (Wilder, 1964) - **½
114. Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby (McKay, 2006) - **½
115. Satyricon (Fellini, 1969) - **½
116. Flaming Star (Siegel, 1960) - **½
117. Space Jam (Pytka, 1996) - **½
118. Breaking Away (Yates, 1979) - **½
119. The Killers (Siodmak, 1946) - **½
120. Katie Tippel (Verhoeven, 1975) - **½
121. Brigadoon (Minnelli, 1954) - **½
122. The Deep (Yates, 1977) - **½
123. The Addams Family (Sonnenfeld, 1991) - **½
124. Gigi (Minnelli, 1958) - **
125. Roma (Fellini, 1972) - **
126. Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery (Roach, 1997) - **
127. Wild Bill (Hill, 1995) - **
128. Invasion of the Body Snatchers (Siegel, 1956) - **
129. A Foreign Affair (Wilder, 1948) - **
130. Hollow Man (Verhoeven, 2000) - **
131. Illusion Travels by Streetcar (Buñuel, 1954) - **
132. An American in Paris (Minnelli, 1951) - **
133. Telefon (Siegel, 1977) - **
134. The Killers (Siegel, 1964) - **
135. Love in the Afternoon (Wilder, 1957) - **
136. Supernova (Hill, 2000) - **
137. Geronimo: An American Legend (Hill, 1993) - **
138. The Boy and the Beast (Hosoda, 2015) - **
139. The Emperor Waltz (Wilder, 1948) - **
140. Turkish Delight (Verhoeven, 1973) - **
141. Tomorrowland (Bird, 2015) - **
142. Mirai (Hosoda, 2018) - **
143. The Assignment (Hill, 2016) - **
144. Mauvaise Graine (Esway & Wilder, 1934) - **
145. I'm Thinking of Ending Things (Kaufman, 2020) - *½
146. Irma la Douce (Wilder, 1963) - *½
147. Showgirls (Verhoeven, 1995) - *½
148. Wuthering Heights (Buñuel, 1954) - *½
149. Summer Wars (Hosoda, 2009) - *
150. Casino Royale (Guest/Hughes/Huston/McGrath/Parrish, 1967) - *

[baby doll]

Une simple histoire (Marcel Hanoun, 1959)
A Wife Confesses (Masumura Yasuzo, 1961)
A Woman's Place (Naruse Mikio, 1962)
The Insect Woman (Imamura Shohei, 1963)
Mandabi (Sembène Ousmane, 1968)
Le Camion (Marguerite Duras, 1977)
Bildnis einer Trinkerin (Ulrike Ottinger, 1979)
To Sleep with Anger (Charles Burnett, 1990)
The Bed You Sleep In (Jon Jost, 1993)
The Mill and the Cross (Lech Majewski, 2011)

[megladon8]

1.) Leave Her to Heaven (1945 / Stahl)
2.) The Uninvited (1944 / Allen)
3.) The Fly (1986 / Cronenberg)
4.) Little Monsters (2019 / Forsythe)
5.) The Nice Guys (2016 / Black)
6.) Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (2019 / Tarantino)
7.) Mandy (2018 / Cosmatos)
8.) Nighthawks (1981 / Malmuth)
9.) Possessor (2020 / Cronenberg)
10.) The Muppet Christmas Carol (1992 / Henson)


11.) Shin Godzilla (2016 / Anno & Higuchi)
12.) Archenemy (2020 / Mortimer)
13.) The Company of Wolves (1984 / Jordan)
14.) Fiend Without a Face (1958 / Crabtree)
15.) The Lighthouse (2019 / Eggers)
16.) The Exterminating Angel (1962 / Buñuel)
17.) The Scarlet Empress (1934 / von Sternberg)
18.) Searching (2018 / Chaganty)
19.) Us (2019 / Peele)
20.) April Fool's Day (1986 / Walton)
21.) The Red Queen Kills Seven Times (1972 / Miraglia)
22.) The Wolf of Snow Hollow (2020 / Cummings)
23.) Stray Dog (1949 / Kurosawa)
24.) Bride of Chucky (1998 / Yu)
25.) Bumblebee (2018 / Knight)
26.) Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings (2021 / Cretton)
27.) Fear Street: Part Two - 1978 (2021 / Janiak)
28.) Fear Street: Part One - 1994 (2021 / Janiak)
29.) The Spirit of the Beehive (1973 / Erice)
30.) Avengers: Endgame (2019 / Russo Brothers)
31.) Frenzy (1972 / Hitchcock)
32.) Birds of Prey (2020 / Yan)
33.) Love and Monsters (2020 / Matthews)
34.) Bill & Ted Face the Music (2020 / Parisot)
35.) One Missed Call (2003 / Miike)
36.) Fatman (2020 / Nelms & Nelms)
37.) Willy's Wonderland (2021 / Lewis)
38.) Fear Street: Part Three - 1666 (2021 / Janiak)
39.) Gonjiam: Haunted Asylum (2018 / Jeong)
40.) Boss Level (2021 / Carnahan)
41.) The Foreigner (2017 / Campbell)
42.) Escape From L.A. (1996 / Carpenter)
43.) The Exterminator (1980 / Glickenhaus)
44.) A Quiet Place Part 2 (2020 / Krasinski)
45.) Terminator: Dark Fate (2019 / Miller)
46.) The Hateful Eight (2015 / Quentin Tarantino)
47.) Host (2020 / Savage)
48.) Relic (2020 / James)
49.) Tenet (2020 / Nolan)
50.) Thirst (2009 / Park)
51.) Child's Play 2 (1990 / Lafia)
52.) You Were Never Really Here (2017 / Ramsay)
53.) Freaky (2020 / Landon)
54.) Spider-Man Far From Home (2019 / Watts)
55.) Every Man For Himself (1980 / Jean-Luc Godard)
56.) Sea Fever (2019 / Hardiman)
57.) The Dark and the Wicked (2020 / Bertino)
58.) Child's Play 3 (1991 / Bender)
59.) Jack's Back (1988 / Herrington)
60.) Solo: A Star Wars Story (2018 / Howard)
61.) Hell Fest (2018 / Plotkin)
62.) It Chapter 2 (2019 / Muschietti)
63.) The Naked Cage (1985 / Nicholas)
64.) The Dark Tower (2017 / Arcel)


Added The Muppet Christmas Carol at spot 10, and Fatman at spot 36.

[Idioteque Stalker]

I feel like Leave Her to Heaven stayed at your #1 spot all year, and I know nothing about it. Watchlisted.

[StanleyK]

Final update:



1. The Apartment (Wilder, 1960) - ***½
2. 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days (Mungiu, 2007) - ***½
3. Amour (Haneke, 2012) - ***½
4. The Act of Killing (Oppenheimer, 2012) - ***½
5. The Driver (Hill, 1978) - ***½
6. Total Recall (Verhoeven, 1990) - ***½
7. Crossroads (Hill, 1986) - ***½
8. Ace in the Hole (Wilder, 1951) - ***½
9. Elle (Verhoeven, 2016) - ***½
10. Invasion of the Body Snatchers (Kaufman, 1978) - ***½

11. Witness for the Prosecution (Wilder, 1957) - ***½
12. Five Graves to Cairo (Wilder, 1943) - ***½
13. The Fortune Cookie (Wilder, 1966) - ***½
14. The Fourth Man (Verhoeven, 1983) - ***½
15. The Friends of Eddie Coyle (Yates, 1973) - ***½
16. The Beguiled (Siegel, 1971) - ***½
17. Stalag 17 (Wilder, 1953) - ***½
18. The Shootist (Siegel, 1976) - ***½
19. 48 Hrs. (Hill, 1982) - ***½
20. Southern Comfort (Hill, 1981) - ***½
21. Hard Times (Hill, 1975) - ***½
22. First Cow (Reichardt, 2019) - ***½
23. The Dresser (Yates, 1983) - ***½
24. Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure (Herek, 1989) - ***½
25. Johnny Handsome (Hill, 1989) - ***½
26. Madigan (Siegel, 1964) - ***½
27. Broken Trail (Hill, 2003) - ***
28. Hell Is for Heroes (Siegel, 1962) - ***
29. The Warriors (Hill, 1979) - ***
30. All Quiet on the Western Front (Milestone, 1930) - ***
31. The Wanderers (Kaufman, 1979) - ***
32. Flesh + Blood (Verhoeven, 1985) - ***
33. Casanova (Fellini, 1976) - ***
34. Behind the Sun (Salles, 2001) - ***
35. Beavis and Butt-Head Do America (Judge, 1996) - ***
36. Black Book (Verhoeven, 2006) - ***
37. Portrait of a Lady on Fire (Sciamma, 2019) - ***
38. Knives Out (Johnson, 2019) - ***
39. The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes (Wilder, 1970) - ***
40. The Bad and the Beautiful (Minnelli, 1952) - ***
41. Shaft (Parks, 1971) - ***
42. Soul (Docter, 2020) - ***
43. Soldier of Orange (Verhoeven, 1977) - ***
44. Boccaccio '70 (De Sica/Fellini/Monicelli/Visconti, 1962) - ***
45. Diva (Beineix, 1981) - ***
46. Bullitt (Yates, 1968) - ***
47. Streets of Fire (Hill, 1984) - ***
48. The Big Steal (Siegel, 1949) - ***
49. The Front Page (Milestone, 1931) - ***
50. The Double (Ayoade, 2013) - ***
51. Wolf Children (Hosoda, 2012) - ***
52. Starship Troopers (Verhoeven, 1997) - ***
53. One, Two, Three (Wilder, 1961) - ***
54. Extract (Judge, 2009) - ***
55. Red Heat (Hill, 1988) - ***
56. El Bruto (Buñuel, 1953) - ***
57. The Criminal Life of Archibaldo de la Cruz (Buñuel, 1955) - ***
58. The Spirit of St. Louis (Wilder, 1957) - ***
59. Meet Me in St. Louis (Minnelli, 1944) - ***
60. The Lion in Winter (Harvey, 1968) - ***
61. Time of the Wolf (Haneke, 2003) - ***
62. Undisputed (Hill, 2002) - ***
63. Step Brothers (McKay, 2008) - ***
64. Addams Family Values (Sonnenfeld, 1993) - ***
65. Bullet to the Head (Hill, 2012) - ***
66. Submarine (Ayoade, 2010) - ***
67. Betty Blue (Beineix, 1986) - ***
68. Trespass (Hill, 1992) - ***
69. Riot in Cell Block 11 (Siegel, 1954) - ***
70. Brewster's Millions (Hill, 1985) - ***
71. Men in Black (Sonnenfeld, 1997) - ***
72. The Front Page (Wilder, 1974) - ***
73. Buddy Buddy (Wilder, 1981) - ***
74. The Black Windmill (Siegel, 1974) - ***
75. A Woman without Love (Buñuel, 1952) - ***
76. The Lineup (Siegel, 1958) - **½
77. Extreme Prejudice (Hill, 1987) - **½
78. The Brothers Bloom (Johnson, 2008) - **½
79. Sabrina (Wilder, 1954) - **½
80. El (Buñuel, 1953) - **½
81. The Guard (McDonagh, 2011) - **½
82. Spirits of the Dead (Fellini/Malle/Vadim) - **½
83. The Lighthouse (Eggers, 2019) - **½
84. The River and Death (Buñuel, 1954) - **½
85. Charley Varrick (Siegel, 1973) - **½
86. The Long Riders (Hill, 1980) - **½
87. Benny's Video (Haneke, 1992) - **½
88. The Seventh Continent (Haneke, 1989) - **½
89. 71 Fragments of a Chronology of Chance (Haneke, 1994) - **½
90. Central Station (Salles, 1998) - **½
91. My Cousin Vinny (Lynn, 1992) - **½
92. A Simple Plan (Raimi, 1998) - **½
93. Luca (Casarosa, 2021) - **½
94. Calvary (McDonagh, 2014) - **½
95. Robinson Crusoe (Buñuel, 1954) - **½
96. No Time to Die (Fukunaga, 2021) - **½
97. Lust for Life (Minnelli, 1956) - **½
98. Spetters (Verhoeven, 1980) - **½
99. The Man from Earth (Schenkman, 2007) - **½
100. Father of the Bride (Minnelli, 1950) - **½
101. Susana (Buñuel, 1951) - **½
102. The Band Wagon (Minnelli, 1953) - **½
103. Avanti! (Wilder, 1972) - **½
104. Mexican Bus Ride (Buñuel, 1952) - **½
105. Benedetta (Verhoeven, 2021) - **½
106. Nomadland (Zhao, 2020) - **½
107. Happy End (Haneke, 2017) - **½
108. The Clowns (Fellini, 1970) - **½
109. Last Man Standing (Hill, 1996) - **½
110. Fedora (Wilder, 1978) - **½
111. The Rider (Zhao, 2017) - **½
112. Another 48 Hrs. (Hill, 1990) - **½
113. That Is the Dawn (Buñuel, 1956) - **½
114. Tenet (Nolan, 2020) - **½
115. For Love or Money (Sonnenfeld, 1993) - **½
116. The Major and the Minor (Wilder, 1942) - **½
117. Get Shorty (Sonnenfeld, 1995) - **½
118. The Girl Who Leapt Through Time (Hosoda, 2006) - **½
119. Kiss Me, Stupid (Wilder, 1964) - **½
120. Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby (McKay, 2006) - **½
121. Satyricon (Fellini, 1969) - **½
122. Flaming Star (Siegel, 1960) - **½
123. Space Jam (Pytka, 1996) - **½
124. Breaking Away (Yates, 1979) - **½
125. The Killers (Siodmak, 1946) - **½
126. Katie Tippel (Verhoeven, 1975) - **½
127. Brigadoon (Minnelli, 1954) - **½
128. The Deep (Yates, 1977) - **½
129. The Addams Family (Sonnenfeld, 1991) - **½
130. Gigi (Minnelli, 1958) - **
131. Crimewave (Raimi, 1985) - **
132. Roma (Fellini, 1972) - **
133. Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery (Roach, 1997) - **
134. Wild Bill (Hill, 1995) - **
135. Invasion of the Body Snatchers (Siegel, 1956) - **
136. A Foreign Affair (Wilder, 1948) - **
137. Hollow Man (Verhoeven, 2000) - **
138. Illusion Travels by Streetcar (Buñuel, 1954) - **
139. An American in Paris (Minnelli, 1951) - **
140. Telefon (Siegel, 1977) - **
141. The Killers (Siegel, 1964) - **
142. Love in the Afternoon (Wilder, 1957) - **
143. Supernova (Hill, 2000) - **
144. Geronimo: An American Legend (Hill, 1993) - **
145. The Boy and the Beast (Hosoda, 2015) - **
146. The Emperor Waltz (Wilder, 1948) - **
147. Turkish Delight (Verhoeven, 1973) - **
148. Tomorrowland (Bird, 2015) - **
149. Mirai (Hosoda, 2018) - **
150. The Assignment (Hill, 2016) - **
151. Mauvaise Graine (Esway & Wilder, 1934) - **
152. I'm Thinking of Ending Things (Kaufman, 2020) - *½
153. Irma la Douce (Wilder, 1963) - *½
154. Showgirls (Verhoeven, 1995) - *½
155. Wuthering Heights (Buñuel, 1954) - *½
156. Summer Wars (Hosoda, 2009) - *
157. Casino Royale (Guest/Hughes/Huston/McGrath/Parrish, 1967) - *

[megladon8]

I feel like Leave Her to Heaven stayed at your #1 spot all year, and I know nothing about it. Watchlisted.

Yes please!! Watch it!! Man oh man is it good.

Freaking chilling stuff. And gorgeous to boot.

[Peng]

Top 20 First Watches for 2021:

1. Akira (1988)
2. Still Walking (2008)
3. Taste of Cherry (1997)
4. Imitation of Life (1959)
5. Come and See (1985)
6. Hobson's Choice (1954)
7. The Wind (1928)
8. Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter? (1957)
9. Pather Panchali (1955)
10. A Man Escaped (1956)

11. The Earrings of Madame de… (1953)
12. The Cranes Are Flying (1957)
13. The Court Jester (1955)
14. I Vitelloni (1953)
15. Ordet (1955)
16. Some Came Running (1958)
17. French Cancan (1955)
18. The Devils (1971)
19. Night and Fog (1956)
20. Perfect Blue (1997)

[Ivan Drago]

10. The Bride of Frankenstein (James Whale, 1935)
09. The Sword of Doom (Kihachi Okamoto, 1966)
08. Forbidden Planet (Fred M. Wilcox, 1956)
07. The Great Muppet Caper (Jim Henson, 1981)
06. Deep Red (Dario Argento, 1975)
05. Heat (Michael Mann, 1995)
04. The Sound of Music (Robert Wise, 1965)
03. The Last Picture Show (Peter Bogandovich, 1971)
02. La Piscine (Jacques Deray, 1969)
01. Yi Yi (Edward Yang, 2000)

[DFA1979]

Yes please!! Watch it!! Man oh man is it good.

Freaking chilling stuff. And gorgeous to boot.

Yes that movie rocks.

[DFA1979]

Movie Log 2021 (https://madman731.wordpress.com/2021/01/01/movie-log-2021/)

250 viewed total for the year. A new record oh boy. I need to go outside more in 2022.

1. The Master (2012, Netflix Instant Viewing)
2. The House of Games (1987, Tubi TV)
3. I Am Not Your Negro (2016, Netflix Instant Viewing)
4. McCabe & Mrs. Miller (1971, Criterion DVD)
5. Brokeback Mountain (2005, Peacock)
6. The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo (2011, Netflix Instant Viewing)
7. Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter… and Spring (2003, Tubi)
8. Hunger (2008), Plex
9. Ace In The Hole (1951), Criterion Blu-ray
10. The Apartment (1960, Tubi)

[Yxklyx]

1. It’s Such a Beautiful Day (2012, Don Hertzfeldt)
2. A Taste of Honey (1961, Tony Richardson)
3. Uncut Gems (2019, Benny Safdie, Josh Safdie)
4. Another Round (2020, Thomas Vinterberg)
5. Blue Collar (1978, Paul Schrader)
6. Too Late Blues (1961, John Cassavetes)
7. Il Sorpasso (1962, Dino Risi)
8. World of Tomorrow (2015, Don Hertzfeldt)
9. The Crowd (1928, King Vidor)
10. Alice in the Cities (1974, Wim Wenders)

[dreamdead]

Spent more of the year watching K-dramas than films, so this is the lowest number of films in forever. But:

1. Quo Vadis, Aida
2. An Oversimplification of Her Beauty
3. Minari
4. First Cow
5. Night Moves (1975)
6. Asako I and II
7. To the Ends of the Earth
8. The Forty-Year-Old Version
9. The Manchurian Candidate (1962)
10. Little Forest

Nomadland
Moonlit Winter
Chilsu and Mansu
Angels Wear White
The Father
March of Fools
Driveways
Soul
Raining in the Mountains
Judas and the Black Messiah
The Thieves
A Day Off
Suddenly at Midnight / Suddenly in the Dark
Moonstruck
Whale Hunting
A Single Spark
The King of Pigs
Another Round
Il Mare
One Night in Miami
Time
Emma.
The Swimmer
Promising Young Woman
Mist
Invisible Man
New World
Tenet
Shirley
The Voyeurs
Spa Night
Obsessed
Mortal Kombat
Birds of Prey and the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn
Antebellum

[origami_mustache]

1. The American Friend (Wim Wenders, 1977)
2. California Split (Robert Altman, 1974)
3. McCabe & Mrs. Miller (Robert Altman, 1971)
4. Out of the Blue (Dennis Hopper, 1980)
5. The Last Movie (Dennis Hopper, 1971)
6. The Long Goodbye (Robert Altman, 1973)
7. Licorice Pizza (Paul Thomas Anderson, 2021)
8. Can't Get You Out of My Head (Adam Curtis, 2021)
9. The Beatles: Get Back (Peter Jackson, 2021)
10. Memoria (Apichatpong Weerasethakul, 2021)