Top 10 Films First Seen During 2013

[Dead & Messed Up]

1. The Passion of Joan of Arc (Carl Dreyer, 1928)
2. Promised Land (Gus Van Sant, 2012)

[Ivan Drago]

1. Life of Pi (Ang Lee, 2012)
2. Les Miserables (Tom Hooper, 2012)
3. Django Unchained (Quentin Tarantino, 2012)
4. Your Sister's Sister (Lynn Shelton, 2012)
5. Shut Up and Play The Hits (Southern/Lovelace, 2012)
6. Take This Waltz (Sarah Polley, 2012)
7. The Five-Year Engagement (Nicholas Stoller, 2012)
8. Zero Dark Thirty (Kathryn Bigelow, 2012)
9. Beasts of the Southern Wild (Benh Zeitlin, 2012)
10. Silver Linings Playbook (David O. Russell, 2012)


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11. A Liar's Autobiography: The Untrue Story of Monty Python's Graham Chapman (Jones/et al, 2012)
12. Ted (Seth MacFarlane, 2012)
13. Amour (Michael Haneke, 2012)
14. Tiny Furniture (Lena Dunham, 2010)
15. Flight (Robert Zemeckis, 2012)

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[B-side]

1. Steamboat Round the Bend (John Ford | 1935 | USA)
2. You Don't Mess with the Zohan (Dennis Dugan | 2008 | USA)

[Kurious Jorge v3.1]

1. Dangerous Game (Abel Ferrara/1993) 86
2. Eadweard Muybridge, Zoopraxographer (Thom Anderson/1975) 81
3. "Junkopia" (Chris Marker/1981) 79
4. The Magnificent Ambersons (Orson Welles/1942) 78
5. Deconstructing Harry (Woody Allen/1997) 77
6. "Study of a River" (Peter Hutton/1997) 76
7. "Running Around Like a Chicken..." (Les Blank/1960) 76
8. Dance Party, USA (Aaron Katz/2006) 74
9. Dottie Gets Spanked (Todd Haynes/1993) 73
10. "The Blues According to Lightnin' Hopkins" (Les Blank/1970) 72

[B-side]

Ferrara's the best, man.

[baby doll]

• The Phantom Carriage (Victor Sjöström, 1921)
• American Madness (Frank Capra, 1932)
• The Miracle of Morgan's Creek (Preston Sturges, 1944)
• Thieves' Highway (Jules Dassin, 1949)
• The Music Room (Satyajit Ray, 1958)
• Seduced and Abandoned (Pietro Germi, 1964)
• Martha (Rainer Werner Fassbinder, 1974)
• L'innocente (Luchino Visconti, 1976)
• White Dog (Samuel Fuller, 1982)
• La Haine (Mathieu Kassovitz, 1995)

[Rowland]

1. Dangerous Game (Abel Ferrara/1993) 86
2. "Running Around Like a Chicken..." (Les Blank/1960) 76
3. Dance Party, USA (Aaron Katz/2006) 74
4. Charleen (Ross McElwee/1980) 72
5. "Cigarette Blues" (Les Blank/1985) 72
6. Dont Look Back (D.A. Pennebaker/1967) 70
7. Looper (Rian Johnson/2012) 65
8. Backyard (Ross McElwee/1984) 63
9. Meanwhile (Hal Hartley/2011) 59
10. Raising Arizona (Coen Bros./1987) 55

This is one eclectic list of viewings for only a week into the new year. Dance Party USA is pretty good stuff, I like it more in retrospect than Katz's following features, Quiet City and Cold Weather.

[Kurious Jorge v3.1]

This is one eclectic list of viewings for only a week into the new year. Dance Party USA is pretty good stuff, I like it more in retrospect than Katz's following features, Quiet City and Cold Weather.

:lol: I am moving to South Korea in a month to teach english...so january = no job + 3-4 films a day. I have already watched 18 films in this young year (a handful of them were some Les Blank shorts)

I definitely need to see some more Katz. I held a bias against his work without seeing it simply because of of how many times mumblecorish indie has offended my sensibilities. The only mumbecore film I would call great is Mutual Appreciation. I loathe Lena Dunham.

Ferrara's the best, man.

I dont know about the best, but he owned the early to mid 90's, and Ms. 45 is a masterpiece as well. 4:44 Last Day on Earth was a bore though.

[Winston*]

1. This Is Not A Film
2. Senna
3. Faust (Svankmajer)
4. Wreck It Ralph
5. Indiana Jones and The Temple of Doom

[B-side]

4:44 Last Day on Earth was a bore though.

Bah!

[SirNewt]

1 Sleepwalk with Me
2 Street Thief
3 Freakonomics

All I got, so far.

[Dukefrukem]

1. John Dies At the End

[Dead & Messed Up]

1. The Passion of Joan of Arc (Carl Dreyer, 1928)
2. A Night at the Opera (Sam Wood, 1935)
3. Promised Land (Gus Van Sant, 2012)

[SirNewt]

5. Indiana Jones and The Temple of Doom

Whoa. For reals?

[Winston*]

Whoa. For reals?

It's pretty bad.

[Melville]

Great movies I've seen so far:

Fat City
The Master
Distant Voices, Still Lives
Splendour in the Grass

[Dukefrukem]

It's pretty bad.

[Winston*]

Why the rolled eyes? It's hardly a controversial opinion. Spielberg doesn't even like the film.

[SirNewt]

Why the rolled eyes? It's hardly a controversial opinion. Spielberg doesn't even like the film.

I really liked it the last time I saw it (8 years ago).

I was just more surprised that someone who's been on match-cut as long as you have hadn't seen it before.

[SirNewt]

1 Sleepwalk with Me
2 Martha Marcy May Marlene
3 Street Thief
4 Freakonomics
5 Waiting for Guffman

[baby doll]

I was just more surprised that someone who's been on match-cut as long as you have hadn't seen it before.

I haven't seen it at all, but then I've never been a huge fan of Raiders of the Lost Ark.

[SirNewt]

I haven't seen it at all, but then I've never been a huge fan of Raiders of the Lost Ark.

Makes sense, most people say it's inferior. For me, Spielberg was such a staple of my childhood that had I not sat down and watched the movie through, I likely would have seen it's combined footage between commercials on network television and out of the corners of my eyes at friends' houses.

[Winston*]

I really liked it the last time I saw it (8 years ago).

I was just more surprised that someone who's been on match-cut as long as you have hadn't seen it before.

I wasn't sure if I'd seen it as a kid or not until I watched it the other night.

[Scar]

1) Dredd (2012)

[Scar]

I find Temple of Doom to be passable entertainment. Ranks third in the Indy movies. Certainly liked it more as a kid, but still enjoyable.

Hell, when I walked into the Ossuary at Sedlec (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sedlec_ossuary), the chanting from Temple of Doom kicked in in my head and I started giggling.