Top 10 Films First Seen During 2013

[ContinentalOp]

1. L'atalante- ****
2. Safety Last!- ****
3. Unforgiven- ****
4. The Dark Knight Returns, Part 2- *** 1/2
5. Everything Will Be Ok- *** 1/2
6. Killer Joe- *** 1/2
7. Before Midnight- *** 1/2
8. Life of Pi- *** 1/2
9. Argo- *** 1/2
10. Justice League: The Flashpoint Paradox- *** 1/2

[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)
• Pom Poko (Isao Takahata, 1994)
• La Haine (Mathieu Kassovitz, 1995)

Updated for the beginning of August.

[Stay Puft]

1. A Grin Without a Cat (Chris Marker, 1977)
2. My Friend Ivan Lapshin (Aleksey German, 1986)
3. The Terrorizers (Edward Yang, 1986)
4. The Earrings of Madame de... (Max Ophüls, 1953)
5. Woman in the Dunes (Hiroshi Teshigahara, 1964)
6. Upstream Color (Shane Carruth, 2013)
7. Yearning (Mikio Naruse, 1964)
8. The Conformist (Bernardo Bertolucci, 1970)
9. The Face of Another (Hiroshi Teshigahara, 1966)
10. Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (F.W. Murnau, 1927)

[elixir]

1. Out 1, noli me tangere (Jacques Rivette, 1971)
2. Yoyo (Pierre Étaix, 1965)
3. Evolution of a Filipino Family (Lav Diaz, 2004)
4. Le rayon vert (Eric Rohmer, 1986)
5. Le départ (Jerzy Skolimowski, 1967)
6. A Summer's Tale (Eric Rohmer, 1996)
7. Red Desert (Michelangelo Antonioni, 1964)
8. Limite (Mario Peixoto, 1931)
9. Pauline at the Beach (Eric Rohmer, 1983)
10. Quick Billy (Bruce Baillie, 1971)

updated

[Stay Puft]

Out 1, noli me tangere (Jacques Rivette, 1971)

Where did you see this?

[elixir]

Where did you see this?

well, i didn't see it this way since this was, like, my first viewing of the year, but it can be bought now:http://www.absolutmedien.de/main.php?view=film&id=1451; otherwise, the usual sources...

[Stay Puft]

Ahhhhh finally. I remember waiting for that release years ago and it just kept getting delayed and delayed.

[ContinentalOp]

I love Matthew McConaughey.

1. L'atalante- ****
2. Safety Last!- ****
3. Unforgiven- ****
4. The Dark Knight Returns, Part 2- *** 1/2
5. Mud- *** 1/2
6. Everything Will Be Ok- *** 1/2
7. Killer Joe- *** 1/2
8. Before Midnight- *** 1/2
9. Life of Pi- *** 1/2
10. Harvey- *** 1/2

[Yum-Yum]

1. Samurai Cop (Amir Shervan, 1991)
2. Tuff Turf (Fritz Kiersch, 1985)
3. Blood Diner (Jackie Kong, 1987)
4. City of the Living Dead (Lucio Fulci, 1980)
5. Tenebre (Dario Argento, 1982)
6. The Sentinel (Michael Winner, 1977)
7. There's Nothing Out There (Rolfe Kanefsky, 1991)
8. Looker (Michael Crichton, 1981)
9. Tromeo and Juliet (Lloyd Kaufman, 1996)
10. The Oracle (Roberta Findlay, 1985)


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A
Aguirre, the Wrath of God (Werner Herzog, 1972)
Amer (Bruno Forzani, 2009)
Angst (Gerald Kargl, 1983)
Assault! Jack the Ripper (Yasuharu Hasebe, 1976)
Avengers, The (Joss Whedon, 2012)

B
Baby, The (Ted Post, 1973)
Bad Inclination (Pierfrancesco Campanella, 2003)
Beastmaster 2: Through the Portal of Time (Sylvio Tabet, 1991)
Behind the Candelabra (Steven Soderbergh, 2013)
Being, The (Jackie Kong, 1983)
Below the Belt (Robert Fowler, 1980)
Berberian Sound Studio (Peter Strickland, 2012)
Beyond the Black Rainbow (Panos Cosmatos, 2010)
Bitch Slap (Rick Jacobson, 2009)
Black Demons (Umberto Lenzi, 1991)
Black Devil Doll (Jonathan Louis Lewis, 2007)
Black Magic Rites (Renato Polselli, 1973)
Black Moon Rising (Harely Cokeliss, 1986)
Black Shampoo (Greydon Clark, 1976)
Blood Diner (Jackie Kong, 1987)
Blue Jean Monster, The (Kai-Ming Lai, 1991)
Boys Next Door, The (Penelope Spheeris, 1985)

C
Cabin Boy (Adam Resnick, 1994)
Cabin in the Woods, The (Drew Goddard, 2011)
Candy Snatchers, The (Guerdon Trueblood, 1973)
Candy Tangerine Man, The (Matt Cimber, 1975)
Cannibal Man, The (Eloy de la Iglesia, 1972)
Cast a Deadly Spell (Martin Campbell, 1991)
Cavegirl (David Oliver, 1985)
Citizen Toxie: The Toxic Avenger IV (Lloyd Kaufman and Michael Herz, 2000)
City of the Living Dead (Lucio Fulci, 1980)
Class of 1984 (Mark L. Lester, 1982)
Convent of Sinners (Joe D'Amato, 1986)
Cosmopolitan Girls, The (Roger Watkins, 1981)
Creepozoids (David DeCoteau, 1987)
Criminal Lovers (François Ozon, 1999)

D
Danger: Diabolik (Mario Bava, 1968)
Dark Horse (Todd Solondz, 2011)
Dead Hooker in a Trunk (Jen and Sylvia Soska, 2008)
Deadfall (Christopher Coppola, 1993)
Deadly Illusion (Larry Cohen, 1987)
Death Walks at Midnight (Luciano Ercoli, 1972)
Death Walks on High Heels (Luciano Erocoli, 1971)
Demoniacs, The (Jean Rollin, 1974)
Devil's Sword, The (Ratno Timoer, 1984)
Divine Trash (Steve Yeager, 1998)
Dudes (Penelope Spheeris, 1987)
Dust Devil (Richard Stanley, 1992)

E
El Monstro Del Mar! (Stuart Simpson, 2010)
Empire Records (Alan Moyle, 1995)
Evil Dead, The (Sam Raimi, 1981)

F
Fatty Girl Goes to New York (Umberto Lenzi, 1982)
Fear in the Night (Jimmy Sangster, 1972)
Fit to Kill (Andy Sidaris, 1993)
Fitzcarraldo (Werner Herzog, 1982)
Five Dolls for an August Moon (Mario Bava, 1972)
Forbidden Photos of a Lady Above Suspicion, The (Luciano Ercoli, 1970)
Foreigner, The (Amos Poe, 1977)
Friday the 13th Part VII: The New Blood (John Carl Buechler, 1988)
Friday the 13th Part VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan (Rob Hedden, 1989)
Fuego (Armando Bo, 1969)

G
Gate of Flesh (Seijun Suzuki, 1964)
Girl from Rio, The (Jess Franco, 1969)
Girl in the Lift (Richard Stalin, 2007)
Godmonster of Indian Flats (Fredric Hobbs, 1973)

H
Hard Hunted (Andy Sidaris, 1992)
Hellraiser (Clive Barker, 1987)
Hellbound: Hellraiser II (Tony Randel, 1989)
Horrors of Malformed Men (Teruo Ishii, 1969)
Headless Eyes, The (Kent Bateman, 1971)
Hollywood Cop (Amir Shervan, 1987)
Humanoids from the Deep (Barbara Peeters, 1980)
Hunk (Lawrence Bassoff, 1987)

I
I Spit on Your Grave (Meir Zarchi, 1978)

J
Jabberwalk (Romano Vanderbes, 1977)
Janitor, The (2003)
Jason Goes to Hell: The Final Friday (Adam Marcus, 1993)

K
Killer Joe (William Friedkin, 2011)

L
Let's Get Lost (Bruce Weber, 1988)
Lips of Blood (Jean Rollin, 1975)
Lisztomania (Ken Russell, 1975)
Looker (Michael Crichton, 1981)
Love and a .45 (C.M. Talkington, 1994)

M
Mark of the Whip (Roman Nowicki, 2005)
Moonrise Kingdom (Wes Anderson, 2012)
My Best Fiend (Werner Herzog, 1999)
My Bloody Valentine (George Mihalka, 1981)

N
Night Evelyn Came Out of the Grave, The (Emilio Miraglia, 1971)
Nightmares (Joseph Sargent, 1983)

O
Oracle, The (Roberta Findlay, 1985)

P
Phantom of Death (Ruggero Deodato, 1988)
Psychic, The (Lucio Fulci, 1977)
Pyjama Girl Case, The (Flavio Mogherini, 1977)

Q

R
Rat Scratch Fever (Jeff Leroy, 2011)
Rated X (Emilio Estevez, 2000)
Return to Sleepaway Camp (Robert Hiltzik, 2008)
Room, The (Tommy Wiseau, 2003)
Run and Kill (Billy Tang, 1993)

S
Samurai Cop (Amir Shervan, 1991)
Savage Vengeance (Donald Farmer, 1993)
Sentinel, The (Michael Winner, 1977)
Scared Stiff (Richard Friedman, 1987)
She Mob (Harry Wuest, 1968)
Slaughter High (George Dugdale, 1986)
Slaughter Hotel (Fernando Di Leo, 1971)
Smash Cut (Lee Demarbre, 2009)
Space Thing (Byron Mabe, 1968)
Spirit of '76, The (Lucas Reiner, 1990)
Suburbia (Penelope Spheeris, 1983)
Super (James Gunn, 2010)

T
Tenebre (Dario Argento, 1982)
Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Next Generation (Kim Henkel, 1994)
There's Nothing Out There! (Rolfe Kanefsky, 1991)
Things (Andrew Jordan, 1989)
Tiger on Beat (Chia-Liang Liu, 1988)
Tiptoes (Matthew Bright, 2003)
Toolbox Murders, The (Dennis Donnelly, 1978)
Touch of Death (Lucio Fulci, 1988)
Toxic Avenger, The (Lloyd Kaufman and Michael Herz, 1983)
Toxic Avenger, The Part II (Lloyd Kaufman and Michael Herz, 1989)
Toxic Avenger, The, Part III: The Last Temptation of Toxie (Lloyd Kaufman and Michael Herz, 1989)
Tromeo and Juliet (Lloyd Kaufman, 1996)
Tuff Turf (Fritz Kiersch, 1985)

U

V

W
Watch Me When I Kill (Antonio Bido, 1977)
Watcher in the Attic, The (Noboru Tanaka, 1976)
Weekend Pass (Lawrence Bassoff, 1984)
Wild Zero (Tetsuro Takeuchi, 2000)

X

Y

Z

]

[B-side]

1. I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang (Mervyn LeRoy | 1932 | USA)
2. Whispering Pages (Aleksandr Sokurov | 1994 | Russia/Germany)
3. The Apple (Samira Makhmalbaf | 1998 | Iran/France)
4. Limbo: The Organized Mind (Jim Henson | 1966 | USA)
5. The Man from Laramie (Anthony Mann | 1955 | USA)
6. La libertad (Lisandro Alonso | 2001 | Argentina)
7. Steamboat Round the Bend (John Ford | 1935 | USA)
8. The White Meadows (Mohammad Rasoulof | 2009 | Iran)
9. The Corridor (Sharunas Bartas | 1995 | Germany/Lithuania)
10. His Girl Friday (Howard Hawks | 1940 | USA)

1. I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang (Mervyn LeRoy | 1932 | USA)
2. She's Gotta Have It (Spike Lee | 1986 | USA)
3. Whispering Pages (Aleksandr Sokurov | 1994 | Russia/Germany)
4. The Apple (Samira Makhmalbaf | 1998 | Iran/France)
5. Limbo: The Organized Mind (Jim Henson | 1966 | USA)
6. The Man from Laramie (Anthony Mann | 1955 | USA)
7. La libertad (Lisandro Alonso | 2001 | Argentina)
8. Steamboat Round the Bend (John Ford | 1935 | USA)
9. The White Meadows (Mohammad Rasoulof | 2009 | Iran)
10. The Corridor (Sharunas Bartas | 1995 | Germany/Lithuania)

[Yxklyx]

1. Pelle the Conqueror (1987, Bille August)
2. The Ballad of Narayama (1983, Shôhei Imamura)
3. High Hopes (1988, Mike Leigh)
4. Moonrise Kingdom (2012, Wes Anderson)
5. Mud (2012, Jeff Nichols)
6. 56 Up (2012, Michael Apted & Paul Almond)
7. Take This Waltz (2011, Sarah Polley)
8. Life of Pi (2012, Ang Lee)
9. Nuts in May (1976, Mike Leigh)
10. Frances Ha (2012, Noah Baumbach)

[Dead & Messed Up]

Updated for The Verdict, The Wolverine, Christmas Bounty, Sushi: Global Catch, Teach, Non-Stop, and Genghis Blues.

1. The Passion of Joan of Arc (Carl Dreyer, 1928)
2. Ace in the Hole (Billy Wilder, 1951)
3. A Night at the Opera (Sam Wood, 1935)
4. Floating Weeds (Yasujiro Ozu, 1959)
5. Steamboat Bill Jr. (Charles Reisner, 1928)
6. Sanjuro (Akira Kurosawa, 1962)
7. Umberto D. (Vittorio De Sica, 1952)
8. The Verdict (Sidney Lumet, 1982)
9. Rio Bravo (Howard Hawks, 1959)
10. The Iron Giant (Brad Bird, 1999)

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• Pacific Rim (Guillermo del Toro, 2013)
• Jigoku (Nobuo Nakagawa, 1960)
• The Quiet Earth (Geoff Murphy, 1985)
• Delicatessen (Jeunet & Caro, 1991)
• Upstream Color (Shane Carruth, 2013)
• Genghis Blues (Roko Belic, 1999)
• Rise and Fall of The Clash (Danny Garcia, 2012)
• The Most Dangerous Game (Pichel & Schoedsack, 1932)
• Man of Steel (Zack Snyder, 2013)
• V/H/S (Adam Wingard et al, 2012)
• Quadrophenia (Franc Roddam, 1979)
• Skyfall (Sam Mendes, 2012)
• Time After Time (Nicholas Meyer, 1979)
• Solaris (Andrei Tarkovsky, 1972)
• The Abyss (James Cameron, 1989)
• Stake Land (Jim Mickle, 2010)
• The Wolverine (James Mangold, 2013)
• The Place Promised in Our Early Days (Makoto Shinkai, 2004)
• Men in Black 3 (Barry Sonnenfeld, 2012)
• Vamps (Amy Heckerling, 2012)
• Evil Dead (Fede Alvarez, 2013)
• Son of Frankenstein (Rowland V. Lee, 1939)
• Phantasm II (Don Coscarelli, 1988)
• Cannibal Holocaust (Ruggero Deodato, 1980)
• The Funhouse (Tobe Hooper, 1981)
• Promised Land (Gus Van Sant, 2012)
• Sushi: Global Catch (Mark Hall, 2012)
• Teach (TV) (Davis Guggenheim, 2013)
• The Space Children (Jack Arnold, 1958)
• Explorers (Joe Dante, 1985)
• The Specials (Craig Mazin, 2000)
• The 'burbs (Joe Dante, 1989)
• Sssssss (Bernard L. Kowalski, 1973)
• Slightly Single in LA (Christie Will, 2013)
• Non-Stop (Richard Gabai, 2014)
• Christmas Bounty (TV) (???, 2013)

]

[Boner M]

1. Vive L'amour (Tsai, 1994)
2. Love (Iimura, 1962)
3. Route One/USA (Kramer, 1989)
4. Dust in the Wind (Hou, 1987)
5. Sombre (Grandrieux, 1998)
6. Death by Hanging (Oshima, 1968)
7. Our Daily Bread (Geyrhalter, 2005)
8. Nenette + Boni (Denis, 1996)
9. White Nights (Visconti, 1957)
10. A Brighter Summer Day (Yang, 1991)

RU: Talking to Strangers (Tregenza, 1987), Variations on a Cellophane Wrapper (Rimmer, 1972),u The Terrorizers (Yang, 1986)Intentions of Murder (Imamura, 1964), New York Portrait: Part 1 (Hutton, 1979), City of Sadness (Hou, 1989)[/QUOTE]

Was almost done with including shorts among features but that Iimura film is mindblowingly great enough to warrant inclusion.

[Melville]

1. The Gospel According to Matthew (Pasolini)
2. Criss Cross (Siodmak)
3. Margaret (Lonergan)
4. Beyond the Valley of the Dolls (Meyer)
5. Peter Ibbetson (Hathaway)
6. Fat City (Huston)
7. The Devil Is a Woman (von Sternberg)
8. Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid (Peckinpah)
9. The Master (Anderson)
10. Django Unchained (Tarantino)

Runners up:
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• The Black Cat (Ulmer)
• The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (Powell and Pressburger)
• The Long Day Closes (Davies)
• Gold Diggers of 1933 (LeRoy)
• Body Heat (Kasdan)
• Distant Voices, Still Lives (Davies)
• Moonrise (Borzage)
• Kes (Loach)
• The Place Beyond the Pines (Cianfrance)
• Snowtown (Kurzel)
• The Heiress (Wyler)
• The American Friend (Wenders)
• Odd Man Out (Reed)
• Splendour in the Grass (Kazan)
• Blue Jasmine (Allen)
• Wanda (Loden)
• The Informer (Ford)
• Repo Man (Cox)
• The Killers (Siodmak)
• Love Me Tonight (Mamoulian)
• Salesman (Maysles)
• How Green Was My Valley (Ford)
• Listen to Britain (Jennings)
• The Strange Love of Martha Ivers (Milestone)
• Journey to Italy (Rossellini)
• Atlantic City (Malles)

]

Worst: The Fountainhead (Vidor)

[Gizmo]

Haven't updated list since June ended. Had a really slow film watching summer, but picked it up a bit in September and October. Made it all the way up to 47 on the year. Having 2 little kids has put a damper on my goal of seeing 150+ new films, but I've rewatched so many Disney, etc. movies now!

1. Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid 1969
2. Nuovo Cinema Paradiso 1988
3. Django Unchained 2012
4. Amour 2012
5. The Skin I Live In 2011
6. Argo 2012
7. Zero Dark Thirty 2012
8. The General 1926
9. Lincoln 2012
10. Gravity 2013


Bottom 5:
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43. Man on a Ledge 2012
44. The Babysitters 2007
45. The Dictator 2012
46. Movie 43 2013
47. Human Centipede 2 2011

]

[Yxklyx]

1. Pelle the Conqueror (1987, Bille August)
2. The Ballad of Narayama (1983, Shôhei Imamura)
3. High Hopes (1988, Mike Leigh)
4. Moonrise Kingdom (2012, Wes Anderson)
5. Wuthering Heights (1939, William Wyler)
6. Mud (2012, Jeff Nichols)
7. 56 Up (2012, Michael Apted & Paul Almond)
8. Magic Magic (2013, Sebastián Silva)
9. Take This Waltz (2011, Sarah Polley)
10. Life of Pi (2012, Ang Lee)

[Dead & Messed Up]

Updated for all these fresh new movies: World War Z, Europa Report, Cloud Atlas, Dredd, V/H/S/ 2.

1. The Passion of Joan of Arc (Carl Dreyer, 1928)
2. Ace in the Hole (Billy Wilder, 1951)
3. A Night at the Opera (Sam Wood, 1935)
4. Floating Weeds (Yasujiro Ozu, 1959)
5. Steamboat Bill Jr. (Charles Reisner, 1928)
6. Sanjuro (Akira Kurosawa, 1962)
7. Umberto D. (Vittorio De Sica, 1952)
8. The Verdict (Sidney Lumet, 1982)
9. Rio Bravo (Howard Hawks, 1959)
10. Cloud Atlas (The Wachowskis & Tykwer, 2012)

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• The Iron Giant (Brad Bird, 1999)
• V/H/S 2 (Gareth Evans et al, 2013)
• Pacific Rim (Guillermo del Toro, 2013)
• Jigoku (Nobuo Nakagawa, 1960)
• The Quiet Earth (Geoff Murphy, 1985)
• Delicatessen (Jeunet & Caro, 1991)
• Upstream Color (Shane Carruth, 2013)
• Genghis Blues (Roko Belic, 1999)
• Rise and Fall of The Clash (Danny Garcia, 2012)
• The Most Dangerous Game (Pichel & Schoedsack, 1932)
• The Abyss (James Cameron, 1989)
• Europa Report (Sebastián Cordero, 2013)
• Man of Steel (Zack Snyder, 2013)
• V/H/S (Adam Wingard et al, 2012)
• Quadrophenia (Franc Roddam, 1979)
• Skyfall (Sam Mendes, 2012)
• Time After Time (Nicholas Meyer, 1979)
• Solaris (Andrei Tarkovsky, 1972)
• Stake Land (Jim Mickle, 2010)
• The Wolverine (James Mangold, 2013)
• The Place Promised in Our Early Days (Makoto Shinkai, 2004)
• Men in Black 3 (Barry Sonnenfeld, 2012)
• Vamps (Amy Heckerling, 2012)
• Dredd (Pete Travis)
• World War Z (Marc Forster, 2013)
• Evil Dead (Fede Alvarez, 2013)
• Son of Frankenstein (Rowland V. Lee, 1939)
• Phantasm II (Don Coscarelli, 1988)
• Cannibal Holocaust (Ruggero Deodato, 1980)
• The Funhouse (Tobe Hooper, 1981)
• Promised Land (Gus Van Sant, 2012)
• Sushi: Global Catch (Mark Hall, 2012)
• Teach (TV) (Davis Guggenheim, 2013)
• The Space Children (Jack Arnold, 1958)
• Explorers (Joe Dante, 1985)
• The Specials (Craig Mazin, 2000)
• The 'burbs (Joe Dante, 1989)
• Sssssss (Bernard L. Kowalski, 1973)
• Slightly Single in LA (Christie Will, 2013)
• Non-Stop (Richard Gabai, 2014)
• Christmas Bounty (TV) (???, 2013)

]

[Russ]

1. Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen (György Pálfi, 2012)
2. The Naked Island (Kaneto Shindo, 1960)
3. Dogtooth (Giorgos Lanthimos, 2009)
4. La belle équipe / They Were Five (Julien Duvivier, 1936)
5. Carnet de bal, Un / Dance Program (Julien Duvivier, 1937)
6. Under the Bridges (Helmet Kautner, 1946)
7. El Verdugo / The Executioner (Luis Garcia Berlanga, 1963)
8. Memories of Murder (Joon-ho Bong, 2003)
9. The Castle of Sand (Yoshitaro Nomura, 1974)
10. Last Chants For a Slow Dance (Jon Jost, 1977)

[Dead & Messed Up]

New stuf.

1. The Passion of Joan of Arc (Carl Dreyer, 1928)
2. Ace in the Hole (Billy Wilder, 1951)
3. A Night at the Opera (Sam Wood, 1935)
4. Floating Weeds (Yasujiro Ozu, 1959)
5. Steamboat Bill Jr. (Charles Reisner, 1928)
6. Sanjuro (Akira Kurosawa, 1962)
7. Umberto D. (Vittorio De Sica, 1952)
8. The Verdict (Sidney Lumet, 1982)
9. Cloud Atlas (The Wachowskis & Tykwer, 2012)
10. Before Midnight (Richard Linklater, 2013)

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• The Iron Giant (Brad Bird, 1999)
• Ugetsu (Kenji Mizoguchi, 1953)
• Rio Bravo (Howard Hawks, 1959)
• Dial M for Murder (Alfred Hitchcock, 1954)
• Jigoku (Nobuo Nakagawa, 1960)
• Upstream Color (Shane Carruth, 2013)
• Genghis Blues (Roko Belic, 1999)
• V/H/S 2 (Gareth Evans et al, 2013)
• Nebraska (Alexander Payne, 2013)
• Pacific Rim (Guillermo del Toro, 2013)
• Monsters University (Dan Scanlon, 2013)
• The Conjuring (James Wan, 2013)
• The Quiet Earth (Geoff Murphy, 1985)
• 12 Years a Slave (Steven McQueen, 2013)
• Gravity (Alfonso Cuaron, 2013)
• Delicatessen (Jeunet & Caro, 1991)
• Rise and Fall of The Clash (Danny Garcia, 2012)
• Stoker (Park Chan-Wook, 2013)
• The Most Dangerous Game (Pichel & Schoedsack, 1932)
• Blue Jasmine (Woody Allen, 2013)
• The Abyss (James Cameron, 1989)
• Frozen (Buck & Lee, 2013)
• Europa Report (Sebastián Cordero, 2013)
• Skyfall (Sam Mendes, 2012)
• Man of Steel (Zack Snyder, 2013)
• V/H/S (Adam Wingard et al, 2012)
• Quadrophenia (Franc Roddam, 1979)
• Time After Time (Nicholas Meyer, 1979)
• Solaris (Andrei Tarkovsky, 1972)
• Stake Land (Jim Mickle, 2010)
• This Is the End (Rogen & Goldberg, 2013)
• American Hustle (David O. Russell, 2013)
• The Wolverine (James Mangold, 2013)
• The Place Promised in Our Early Days (Makoto Shinkai, 2004)
• Men in Black 3 (Barry Sonnenfeld, 2012)
• Vamps (Amy Heckerling, 2012)
• Dredd (Pete Travis)
• World War Z (Marc Forster, 2013)
• Evil Dead (Fede Alvarez, 2013)
• Son of Frankenstein (Rowland V. Lee, 1939)
• Phantasm II (Don Coscarelli, 1988)
• John Dies at the End (Don Coscarelli, 2013)
• Insidious, Chapter Two (James Wan, 2013)
• Cannibal Holocaust (Ruggero Deodato, 1980)
• The Funhouse (Tobe Hooper, 1981)
• Promised Land (Gus Van Sant, 2012)
• Sushi: Global Catch (Mark Hall, 2012)
• Teach (TV) (Davis Guggenheim, 2013)
• The Space Children (Jack Arnold, 1958)
• Explorers (Joe Dante, 1985)
• The Specials (Craig Mazin, 2000)
• The 'burbs (Joe Dante, 1989)
• The ABCs of Death (a bunch of morons, 2012)
• Sssssss (Bernard L. Kowalski, 1973)
• Slightly Single in LA (Christie Will, 2013)
• Non-Stop (Richard Gabai, 2014)
• Christmas Bounty (TV) (???, 2013)
• Loss of Life (Damiata & Rossi, 2013)

]

[Melville]

Likely my last update of the year. Out of roughly 185 movies seen for the first time,

1. The Gospel According to Matthew (Pasolini)
2. Criss Cross (Siodmak)
3. Margaret (Lonergan)
4. Beyond the Valley of the Dolls (Meyer)
5. The Act of Killing (Oppenheimer et al)
6. Peter Ibbetson (Hathaway)
7. Fat City (Huston)
8. Dekalog (Kieslowski)
9. The Devil Is a Woman (von Sternberg)
10. Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid (Peckinpah)

Runners up:
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• Django Unchained (Tarantino)
• The Black Cat (Ulmer)
• The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (Powell and Pressburger)
• Gold Diggers of 1933 (LeRoy)
• The Master (Anderson)
• Body Heat (Kasdan)
• The Long Day Closes (Davies)
• Distant Voices, Still Lives (Davies)
• Kes (Loach)
• The Place Beyond the Pines (Cianfrance)
• Moonrise (Borzage)
• Snowtown (Kurzel)
• The Heiress (Wyler)
• The American Friend (Wenders)
• Odd Man Out (Reed)
• Splendour in the Grass (Kazan)
• Blue Jasmine (Allen)
• He Who Gets Slapped (Sjöström)
• Wanda (Loden)
• The Informer (Ford)
• Repo Man (Cox)
• Rome, Open City (Rossellini)
• The Killers (Siodmak)
• Chopper (Dominik)
• Love Me Tonight (Mamoulian)
• Salesman (Maysles)
• How Green Was My Valley (Ford)
• Listen to Britain (Jennings)
• The Strange Love of Martha Ivers (Milestone)
• Journey to Italy (Rossellini)
• Atlantic City (Malles)

]

Worst: The Fountainhead, The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey, On the Road, Perfume: The Story of a Murderer, The Quiet Man, Femme Fatale, The Ghost and Mrs. Muir, Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer, Damsels in Distress

[Spun Lepton]

New stuf.The ABCs of Death (a bunch of morons, 2012)

Bah-hahahaha!!

[Dead & Messed Up]

Finality.

Masterpiece - Great - Good - Mixed - Bad - Awful - Craptacular

1. The Passion of Joan of Arc (Carl Dreyer, 1928)
2. Ace in the Hole (Billy Wilder, 1951)
3. A Night at the Opera (Sam Wood, 1935)
4. Floating Weeds (Yasujiro Ozu, 1959)
5. Steamboat Bill Jr. (Charles Reisner, 1928)
6. Sanjuro (Akira Kurosawa, 1962)
   
7. Umberto D. (Vittorio De Sica, 1952)
8. The Verdict (Sidney Lumet, 1982)
9. Cloud Atlas (The Wachowskis & Tykwer, 2012)
10. Before Midnight (Richard Linklater, 2013)
11. The Iron Giant (Brad Bird, 1999)
12. Ugetsu (Kenji Mizoguchi, 1953)
13. Rio Bravo (Howard Hawks, 1959)
14. Dial M for Murder (Alfred Hitchcock, 1954)
15. Jigoku (Nobuo Nakagawa, 1960)
16. Upstream Color (Shane Carruth, 2013)
17. Genghis Blues (Roko Belic, 1999)
18. Nebraska (Alexander Payne, 2013)
19. Bernie (Richard Linklater, 2012)
20. The Quiet Earth (Geoff Murphy, 1985)
21. Pacific Rim (Guillermo del Toro, 2013)
22. V/H/S 2 (Gareth Evans et al, 2013)
23. Monsters University (Dan Scanlon, 2013)
24. The Conjuring (James Wan, 2013)
25. 12 Years a Slave (Steven McQueen, 2013)
26. Gravity (Alfonso Cuaron, 2013)
27. Delicatessen (Jeunet & Caro, 1991)
28. Rise and Fall of The Clash (Danny Garcia, 2012)
29. Stoker (Park Chan-Wook, 2013)
30. The Most Dangerous Game (Pichel & Schoedsack, 1932)
31. Blue Jasmine (Woody Allen, 2013)
32. The Abyss (James Cameron, 1989)
33. Philomena (Stephen Frears, 2013)
34. Frozen (Buck & Lee, 2013)
35. Europa Report (Sebastián Cordero, 2013)
36. Skyfall (Sam Mendes, 2012)
37. Man of Steel (Zack Snyder, 2013)
38. V/H/S (Adam Wingard et al, 2012)
39. Quadrophenia (Franc Roddam, 1979)
40. Time After Time (Nicholas Meyer, 1979)
41. Solaris (Andrei Tarkovsky, 1972)
42. Stake Land (Jim Mickle, 2010)
43. This Is the End (Rogen & Goldberg, 2013)
44. American Hustle (David O. Russell, 2013)
45. The Heat (Paul Feig, 2013)
46. The Wolverine (James Mangold, 2013)
47. The Place Promised in Our Early Days (Makoto Shinkai, 2004)
48. Men in Black 3 (Barry Sonnenfeld, 2012)
49. Vamps (Amy Heckerling, 2012)
50. Dredd (Pete Travis)
51. World War Z (Marc Forster, 2013)
52. Son of Frankenstein (Rowland V. Lee, 1939)
53. Phantasm II (Don Coscarelli, 1988)
54. Sushi: Global Catch (Mark Hall, 2012)
    
55. Promised Land (Gus Van Sant, 2012)
56. Evil Dead (Fede Alvarez, 2013)
57. John Dies at the End (Don Coscarelli, 2013)
58. Insidious, Chapter Two (James Wan, 2013)
59. Cannibal Holocaust (Ruggero Deodato, 1980)
60. The Funhouse (Tobe Hooper, 1981)
61. Teach (TV) (Davis Guggenheim, 2013)
62. The Space Children (Jack Arnold, 1958)
63. Explorers (Joe Dante, 1985)
64. The Specials (Craig Mazin, 2000)
    
65. The 'burbs (Joe Dante, 1989)
66. The ABCs of Death (a bunch of morons, 2012)
    
67. Sssssss (Bernard L. Kowalski, 1973)
68. Slightly Single in LA (Christie Will, 2013)
    
69. Non-Stop (Richard Gabai, 2014)
70. Christmas Bounty (TV) (???, 2013)
71. Loss of Life (Damiata & Rossi, 2013)

[Mysterious Dude]

My top 50 first seen in 2013:

1. Iphigenia (1977)
2. Gervaise (1956)
3. Man Is Not a Bird (1965)
4. Les Misérables (1934)
5. Duvar (1983)
6. Son of Babylon (2009)
7. Humanity and Paper Balloons (1937)
8. Archangel (1991)
9. ¡Alambrista! (1977)
10. Electra (1962)

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11. L'enfant Lion (1993)
12. Travelling Circus (1988)
13. Bitter Rice (1949)
14. The Candidate (1972)
15. The Murderer Lives at Number 21 (1942)
16. Chang: A Drama of the Wilderness (1927)
17. Thérèse Raquin (1953)
18. The Night of Truth (2004)
19. Catfish (2010)
20. The Molly Maguires (1970)

21. Dust of Life (1995)
22. Longtime Companion (1989)
23. Mala Noche (1986)
24. Damn the Defiant (1962)
25. Together (2002)
26. Mao's Last Dancer (2009)
27. The Adventures of Baron Munchausen (1988)
28. The Painting (2011)
29. The Cabin in the Woods (2011)
30. Evil Dead II (1987)

31. The Horse Thief (1986)
32. The Twelve Chairs (1962)
33. A Big Hand for a Little Lady (1966)
34. Siberiade (1979)
35. C.R.A.Z.Y. (2005)
36. 1981 (2009)
37. I Love You Phillip Morris (2009)
38. The Willow Tree (2005)
39. Burnt by the Sun (1994)
40. Sunflower (2005)

41. A Simple Life (2011)
42. Manhunter (1986)
43. Ballad of Narayama (1958)
44. The Burning Plain (2008)
45. The Hit (1984)
46. The King and the Clown (2005)
47. The Magician (1958)
48. The Place Without Limits (1978)
49. The Phenix City Story (1955)
50. Brother (1997)

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And my top 20 re-watches:

1. Germany Year Zero (1948)
2. Z (1969)
3. The General (1926)
4. Double Indemnity (1944)
5. The Red and the White (1967)
6. Aguirre, the Wrath of God (1972)
7. The Conversation (1974)
8. Der Golem (1920)
9. Romeo and Juliet (1968)
10. Y Tu Mamá También (2001)

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11. Chinatown (1974)
12. Jesus Christ Superstar (1973)
13. Sexy Beast (2000)
14. Freaks (1932)
15. The Phantom of the Opera (1925)
16. Kes (1969)
17. Once Upon a Tim in America (1984)
18. Midnight Cowboy (1969)
19. Clue (1985)
20. Confessions of a Dangerous Mind (2002)

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[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)

Final list.

[Gizmo]

The end of a slow year, hopefully next year I get a chance to see more, but unlikely. I got a whopping 52 in, with 1 eeking into my top 100 overall:

1. Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid 1969
2. Nuovo Cinema Paradiso 1988
3. Django Unchained 2012
4. Amour 2012
5. The Skin I Live In 2011
6. Argo 2012
7. Zero Dark Thirty 2012
8. The General 1926
9. Lincoln 2012
10. Gravity 2013


Bottom 5:
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48. Battleship
49. The Babysitters 2007
50. The Dictator 2012
51. Movie 43 2013
52. Human Centipede 2 2011

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