Top Ten Films First Seen in 2020

[Pop Trash]

1. A Hidden Life
2. The Long Goodbye
3. The Invisible Man (2020)
4. Light of My Life
5. Da 5 Bloods
6. California Split
7. Nighthawks
8. The Vast of Night
9. Some Kind of Wonderful
10. Not Another Teen Movie

[Ivan Drago]

4. Light of My Life
10. Not Another Teen Movie

Is the former really that good, and does the latter really hold up now? I enjoyed it as a dumb pre-teen back in the day, admittedly, but never watched it since.

[megladon8]

1.) Nothing Sacred (1937 / Wellman)
2.) One Cut of the Dead (2017 / Ueda)
3.) Blade Runner 2049 (2017 / Villeneuve)
4.) Sister Street Fighter (1974 / Yamaguchi)
5.) Underwater (2020 / Eubank)
6.) Little Shop of Horrors (1986 / Oz)
7.) The Untouchables (1987 / De Palma)
8.) The Goonies (1985 / Donner)
9.) Color Out of Space (2019 / Stanley)
10.) Crawl (2019 / Aja)


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11.) Overlord (2018 / Avery)
12.) Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels (1998 / Ritchie)
13.) Pyewacket (2017 / MacDonald)
14.) A Study in Terror (1965 / Hill)
15.) Murder on the Orient Express (2017 / Branagh)
16.) Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker (2019 / Abrams)
17.) Freaks (2018 / Lipovsky & Stein)
18.) The Dead Don't Die (2019 / Jarmusch)
19.) Oldboy (2013 / Lee)
20.) The House on Tombstone Hill (1989 / Riffel)
21.) The Poughkeepsie Tapes (2007 / Dowdle)

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Dune (1984 / Lynch)

[Skitch]

1. 1917
2. Dr. Sleep (DC)
3. Underwater
4. Birds of Prey
5. Ip Man 4
6. Coherence
7. Seven Psychopaths
8. Le Mans
9. The Blood on Satan's Claw

[Pop Trash]

Is the former really that good, and does the latter really hold up now? I enjoyed it as a dumb pre-teen back in the day, admittedly, but never watched it since.

I really like it. Casey Affleck has some real skill as a filmmaker. I think if he wasn't semi "canceled" it would have gotten more positive attention. Most of the people I follow on letterboxd that saw it liked it as well. I saw it a few weeks before covid-19 took over everything, and I imagine it would be even more prescient today.

Not Another Teen Movie is surprisingly funny. Keep in mind, I've been rewatching lots of stuff lately, so everything on my list is first time watches which is slimmer (and even more slim w/o movie theaters being open). But I do like everything in my top ten.

[Peng]

1. The Battle of Algiers (1966)
2. Neon Genesis Evangelion: The End of Evangelion (1997)
3. The Wild Bunch (1969)
4. Volver (2006)
5. The Red and the White (1967)
6. The Young Girls of Rochefort (1967)
7. They Shoot Horses, Don't They (1969)
8. Cléo from 5 to 7 (1962)
9. Point Blank (1967)
10. Onibaba (1964)

[megladon8]

1.) Nothing Sacred (1937 / Wellman)
2.) One Cut of the Dead (2017 / Ueda)
3.) Blade Runner 2049 (2017 / Villeneuve)
4.) Sister Street Fighter (1974 / Yamaguchi)
5.) Underwater (2020 / Eubank)
6.) VFW (2019 / Begos)
7.) Ready Or Not (2019 / Bettinelli-Olpin & Gillett)
8.) Little Shop of Horrors (1986 / Oz)
9.) The Untouchables (1987 / De Palma)
10.) The Goonies (1985 / Donner)


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11.) Crawl (2019 / Aja)
12.) Color Out of Space (2019 / Stanley)
13.) Overlord (2018 / Avery)
14.) Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels (1998 / Ritchie)
15.) Pyewacket (2017 / MacDonald)
16.) A Study in Terror (1965 / Hill)
17.) Murder on the Orient Express (2017 / Branagh)
18.) Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker (2019 / Abrams)
19.) Freaks (2018 / Lipovsky & Stein)
20.) The Relic (1997 / Hyams)
21.) The Dead Don't Die (2019 / Jarmusch)
22.) Oldboy (2013 / Lee)
23.) The House on Tombstone Hill (1989 / Riffel)
24.) The Poughkeepsie Tapes (2007 / Dowdle)

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Dune (1984 / Lynch)

[Mal]

1. They All Laughed
2. Crash (1996)
3. The Swimmer
4. Tree's Lounge
5. The French Lieutenant's Woman
6. Never Rarely Sometimes Always
7. Kes
8. Crooklyn
9. Arthur
10. Flashdance

[Stay Puft]

1. Quick Billy (1971, dir. Bruce Baillie)
2. Au Hasard Balthazar (1966, dir. Robert Bresson)
3. Our Town (1956, dir. Yûzô Kawashima)
4. India Song (1975, dir. Marguerite Duras)
5. The Taste of Tea (2004, dir. Katsuhito Ishii)
6. Sun in the Last Days of the Shogunate (1957, dir. Yûzô Kawashima)
7. I Walked with a Zombie (1943, dir. Jacques Tourneur)
8. A Man Escaped (1956, dir. Robert Bresson)
9. The Grand Bizarre (2018, dir. Jodie Mack)
10. A Moment of Romance (1990, dir. Benny Chan)

[Yxklyx]

Room at the Top - 1959, Clayton
Once Upon a Time in Hollywood - 2019, Tarantino
10 Rillington Place - 1971, Fleischer
Apocalypto - 2006, Gibson
City of Hope - 1991, Sayles
Roma - 2018, Cuarón
Light of My Life - 2019, Affleck
Bob Dylan: Dont Look Back - 1967, Pennebaker
Park Row - 1952, Fuller
The Salesman - 2016, Farhadi

[DFA1979]

1. The Cranes Are Flying (1957, Kalatozov), Criterion Blu-ray
2. 12 Monkeys (1996, Gilliam), DVD
3. The Great Escape (1963, Sturges), DVD
4. Johnny Guitar (1954, Ray), Hulu
5. Parasite (2019, Bong), Theater Viewing
6. Platoon (1986, Stone), Blu-ray
7. Steamboat Bill, Jr. (1928, Reisner), Tubi
8. 1917 (2019, Mendes), Theater
9. Portrait of a Lady on Fire (2019, Sciamma), Hulu
10. Wake In Fright (1971, Kotcheff), Shudder

[Philip J. Fry]

Yes, I cheated.

HM: Children Who Chase Lost Voices (Makoto Shinkai, 2011)
La Casa Lobo (JoaquÃ*n Cociña & Cristóbal León, 2018)
Da 5 Bloods (Spike Lee, 2020)
Incendies (Denis Villeneuve, 2010)
Ride Your Wave (Masaaki Yuasa, 2019)

10. I Want to Eat Your Pancreas (Shin'ichirō Ushijima, 2018)
9. Paths of Glory (Stanley Kubrick, 1957)
8. High Noon (Fred Zinnemann, 1952)
7. Johnny Guitar (Nicholas Ray 1954)
6. The Nightingale (Jennifer Kent, 2019)
5. Harakiri (Masaki Kobayashi, 1962)
4. The Thing (John Carpenter, 1982)
3. Parasite (Bong Joon-ho, 2019)
2. It's Such a Beautiful Day (Don Hertsfeldt, 2012)
1. The Apu Trilogy (Pather Panchali > Apur Sansar > Aparajito, but they're all great) (Satyajit Ray, 1955–59)

[megladon8]

1.) Nothing Sacred (1937 / Wellman)
2.) One Cut of the Dead (2017 / Ueda)
3.) Fort Apache, The Bronx (1981 / Petrie)
4.) Blade Runner 2049 (2017 / Villeneuve)
5.) Sister Street Fighter (1974 / Yamaguchi)
6.) The Invisible Man (2020 / Whannell)
7.) Underwater (2020 / Eubank)
8.) VFW (2019 / Begos)
9.) Ready Or Not (2019 / Bettinelli-Olpin & Gillett)
10.) Breakdown (1997 / Mostow)
10.) Little Shop of Horrors (1986 / Oz)


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11.) Little Shop of Horrors (1986 / Oz)
12.) The Untouchables (1987 / De Palma)
13.) Crawl (2019 / Aja)
14.) The Goonies (1985 / Donner)
15.) Color Out of Space (2019 / Stanley)
16.) Overlord (2018 / Avery)
17.) Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels (1998 / Ritchie)
18.) Pyewacket (2017 / MacDonald)
19.) A Study in Terror (1965 / Hill)
20.) Murder on the Orient Express (2017 / Branagh)
21.) Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker (2019 / Abrams)
22.) Freaks (2018 / Lipovsky & Stein)
23.) The Relic (1997 / Hyams)
24.) The Dead Don't Die (2019 / Jarmusch)
25.) Deadly Friend (1986 / Craven)
26.) Oldboy (2013 / Lee)
27.) Bloodshot (2020 / Wilson)
28.) The House on Tombstone Hill (1989 / Riffel)
29.) The Poughkeepsie Tapes (2007 / Dowdle)

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Dune (1984 / Lynch)


The Invisible Man was fantastic.

Not sure it'll stay that high, but man, it was good.

[Dead & Messed Up]

Current Top Ten New Views:

01. The Nice Guys
02. Babe: Pig in the City
03. Point Break
04. Umbrellas of Cherbourg
05. The Invisible Man
06. Stagecoach
07. 1917
08. Godzilla vs. Hedorah
09. Sorry to Bother You
10. Jules et Jim

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JANUARY

1917 (Sam Mendes, 2019) A-
Buck Rogers (Beebe & Goodkind, 1939) B+
Candyman: Farewell... (Bill Condon, 1995) B-
The Grudge (Nicolas Pesce, 2020) C
How to Train Your Dragon 3 (Dean DeBlois, 2019) C
Kindred Spirits (Lucky McKee, 2019) B-
The Laundromat (Steven Soderbergh, 2019) C
The Lost Weekend (Billy Wilder, 1947) B+
Marriage Story (Noah Baumbach, 2019) B+
Ready or Not (Radio Silence, 2019) B-
Season of the Witch (George Romero, 1973) B
Terry and the Pirates (James W. Horne, 1940) C-

FEBRUARY

The Cloverfield Paradox (Julius Onah, 2018) D+
Ford vs. Ferrari (James Mangold, 2019) B
The Gentlemen (Guy Ritchie, 2020) B
Once Upon a Time In... (Quentin Tarantino, 2019) B+
Rawhead Rex (George Pavlou, 1986) D+
The Pit and the Pendulum(Stuart Gordon, 1991) B
The Invisible Man (Leigh Whannell, 2020) A
She's Gotta Have It (Spike Lee, 1986) (partial)
/ Zodiac / (David Fincher, 2007) A

MARCH

The Education of Charlie...(Fred Durst, 2007) C+
/ Candyman / (Bernard Rose, 1992) A-
Blue Crush (John Stockwell, 2004) B-
Sneakers (Phil Alden Robinson, 1992) B
No Telling (Larry Fessenden, 1991) B- / B
Species (Roger Donaldson, 1995) C
The Mask of Zorro (Martin Campbell, 1998) B
Atlantic Rim (Jared Cohn, 2013) F

APRIL

Highlander (Russell Mulcahy, 1987) C+
/ Constantine / (Francis Lawrence, 2005) B+
The Addiction (Abel Ferrara, 1995) B
The Ninth Configuration (William Peter Blatty, 1980) B+
The Relic (Peter Hyams, 1997) B
El Topo (Jodorowsky, 1970) B
/ Stand By Me / (Rob Reiner, 1986) A-
Whispering Corridors (Park Ki-Hyung, 1998) B-
Memento Mori (Kim Tae-yong, Min Kyu-dong, 1999) B+

MAY

Ravenous (Antonia Bird, 1999) B+
Tales From the Hood (Rusty Cundieff, 1995) B+
Def by Temptation (James Bond III, 1990) B
Deep Rising (Stephen Sommers, 1998) C+
/ Tremors / (Ron Underwood, 1990) A-
Nadja (Almeyerda, 1996) C+ / B-
/ Cure / (Kiyoshi Kurosawa, 1997) A-
Hardware (Richard Stanley, 1990) C+
/ Looper / (Rian Johnson, 2012) B+
Frankenhooker (Frank Henenlotter, 1990) C+
Return of the Living Dead 3 (Brian Yuzna, 1993) B-

JUNE

Sorry to Bother You (Boots Riley, 2016) B+
Inside Man (Spike Lee, 2006) B
Da Five Bloods (Spike Lee, 2020) B
Shall We Dance (Peter Chelsom, 2004) B
Mona Lisa Smile (Mike Newell, 2003) B-
Walking Tall (Kevin Bray, 2004) C-
/ Blade 2 / (Guillermo del Toro, 2002) B+
Underwater (William Eubank, 2020) B

JULY

Free Fire (Ben Wheatley, ) B+
Babe: Pig in the City (George Miller, 1998) A-
The Kid (Charlie Chaplin, 1921) B
Hausu (Nobuhiko Obayashi, 1977) B
Godzilla vs. Hedorah (Yoshimitsu Banno, 1971) B+
Stagecoach (John Ford, 1939) A-
Detective Pikachu (Rob Letterman, 2019) B-
/ Speed Racer / (The Wachowskis, 2008) B+
War Horse (Steven Spielberg, ) B+
Final Destination 2 (David R. Ellis, 2003) C
Final Destination 3 (James Wong, 2006) C+
The Final Destination (David R. Ellis, 2009) F
Final Destiation 5 (Steven Quale, 2011) B-
Magnum Force (Ted Post, 1973) B-
The Enforcer (James Fargo, 1976) B-
/ The Last Jedi / (Rian Johnson, 2017) B+
The Nice Guys (Shane Black, 2018) A
Sudden Impact (Clint Eastwood, 1983) C+ (or B+)
The Dead Pool (Buddy Van Horn, 1988) B
I Married a Witch (Rene Clair, 1942) B+

AUGUST

The Lighthouse (Robert Eggers, 2019) B+
Coherence (James Ward Byrkit, 2013) B-
Color Out of Space (Richard Stanley, 2019) B / B+
Vampire's Kiss (Robert Bierman, 1987) B+
Blue Steel (Kathryn Bigelow, 1989) C+ / B-
Point Break (Kathryn Bigelow, 1991) A-
/ Hot Fuzz / (Edgar Wright, 2007) A-
Palm Springs (Max Barbakow, 2020) B+
The Ritual (David Bruckner, 2018) B-
Umbrellas of Cherbourg (Jacques Demy, 1964) A-
Jules et Jim (Francois Truffaut, 1962) B+

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[megladon8]

You've been watching some great stuff!!

Love seeing the positivity for Mask of Zorro. A great action adventure flick, I love it

[Dead & Messed Up]

You've been watching some great stuff!!

Love seeing the positivity for Mask of Zorro. A great action adventure flick, I love it

It's fun! Banderas deserved more sequels, and sooner. He had the perfect charisma for the role.

[baby doll]

• Dodsworth (William Wyler, 1936)
• The Far Country (Anthony Mann, 1954)
• A Woman of Rumour (Mizoguchi Kenji, 1954)
• The Cloud-Capped Star (Ritwik Ghatak, 1960)
• Cruel Story of Youth (Oshima Nagisa, 1960)
• Duvidha (Mani Kaul, 1973)
• Duelle (une quarantine) (Jacques Rivette, 1976)
• Tian mi mi (Comrades, Almost a Love Story) (Peter Chan, 1996)
• Sicilia! (Danièle Huillet/Jean-Marie Straub, 1999)
• Ema (Pablo LarraÃ*n, 2019)

[megladon8]

1.) Nothing Sacred (1937 / Wellman)
2.) One Cut of the Dead (2017 / Ueda)
3.) When a Stranger Calls (1979 / Walton)
4.) Fort Apache, The Bronx (1981 / Petrie)
5.) Blade Runner 2049 (2017 / Villeneuve)
6.) Sister Street Fighter (1974 / Yamaguchi)
7.) The Invisible Man (2020 / Whannell)
8.) Doctor Sleep DC (2019 / Flanagan)
9.) Underwater (2020 / Eubank)
10.) Trilogy of Terror (1975 / Curtis)


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11.) Ad Astra (2019 / Gray)
12.) VFW ( 2019 / Begos)
13.) Ready Or Not (2019 / Bettinelli-Olpin & Gillett)
14.) Breakdown (1997 / Mostow)
15.) Little Shop of Horrors (1986 / Oz)
16.) The Untouchables (1987 / De Palma)
17.) Crawl (2019 / Aja)
18.) The Goonies (1985 / Donner)
19.) Color Out of Space (2019 / Stanley)
20.) Overlord (2018 / Avery)
21.) Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels (1998 / Ritchie)
22.) Mary Shelley's Frankenstein (1994 / Branagh)
23.) Pyewacket (2017 / MacDonald)
24.) A Study in Terror (1965 / Hill)
25.) Murder on the Orient Express (2017 / Branagh)
26.) Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker (2019 / Abrams)
27.) Freaks (2018 / Lipovsky & Stein)
28.) The Relic (1997 / Hyams)
29.) The Dead Don't Die (2019 / Jarmusch)
30.) Deadly Friend (1986 / Craven)
31.) Oldboy (2013 / Lee)
32.) Bloodshot (2020 / Wilson)
33.) The House on Tombstone Hill (1989 / Riffel)
34.) The Poughkeepsie Tapes (2007 / Dowdle)

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Dune (1984 / Lynch)

[Peng]

Final one for this year, so going(/cheating) with a Top 20 summary:

1. The Battle of Algiers (1966)
2. Neon Genesis Evangelion: The End of Evangelion (1997)
3. The Wild Bunch (1969)
4. Volver (2006)
5. The Red and the White (1967)
6. The Young Girls of Rochefort (1967)
7. They Shoot Horses, Don't They (1969)
8. Cléo from 5 to 7 (1962)
9. Point Blank (1967)
10. Advise and Consent (1962)

11. Onibaba (1964)
12. Rocco and His Brothers (1960)
13. Le Trou (1960)
14. Full Metal Jacket (1987)
15. The Leopard (1963)
16. Kes (1969)
17. Michael Clayton (2007)
18. Lola (1961)
19. The Testament of Dr. Mabuse (1933)
20. Il Posto (1961)

[megladon8]

Just posting this as a reminder to myself that I need to work these into my list (which is actually just everything I've seen for the first time this year)...

Split Second
A Christmas Carol (1938)
The Shop Around the Corner
You've Got Mail
Anna and the Apocalypse
The Year Without a Santa Claus

[transmogrifier]

I saw THREE films all year that were above 70. What a crappy movie watching year.

Ride Lonesome (1959) - 71
Svaha: The Sixth Finger (2019) - 71
The Hunt (2012) - 71

[Ivan Drago]

1. The Lost Boys (Joel Schumacher, 1987)
2. Stop Making Sense (Jonathan Demme, 1984)
3. The Turin Horse (Bela Tarr, 2011)
4. Commando (Mark Lester, 1985)
5. The Descent (Neil Marshall, 2005)
6. Lone Wolf and Cub: Sword of Vengeance (Kenji Misumi, 1972)
7. Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice (Paul Mazursky, 1969)
8. Snatch. (Guy Ritchie, 2000)
9. The Exterminating Angel (Luis Buñuel, 1962)
10. The Masque of the Red Death (Roger Corman, 1964)

[DFA1979]

Over 200 films viewed. Maybe I'll get outside more next year. Full list here.

1. A Matter of Life and Death (1946, Criterion Blu-ray)
2. Johnny Guitar (1954, Hulu)
3. The Rules of the Game (1939, Criterion DVD)
4. The Cranes Are Flying (1957, Criterion Blu-ray)
5. Parasite (2019, Theater Viewing)
6. Red River (1948, Criterion DVD)
7. The Great Escape (1963, DVD)
8. 12 Monkeys (1996. DVD)
9. Platoon (1986, Blu-ray)
10. Steamboat Bill, Jr. (1928, Tubi TV)

[baby doll]

• Dodsworth (William Wyler, 1936)
• The Far Country (Anthony Mann, 1954)
• A Woman of Rumour (Mizoguchi Kenji, 1954)
• Cruel Story of Youth (Oshima Nagisa, 1960)
• Spring Night, Summer Night (Joseph L. Anderson, 1967)
• Duvidha (Mani Kaul, 1973)
• Duelle (une quarantine) (Jacques Rivette, 1976)
• Tian mi mi (Comrades, Almost a Love Story) (Peter Chan, 1996)
• Sicilia! (Danièle Huillet/Jean-Marie Straub, 1999)
• Ema (Pablo LarraÃ*n, 2019)

[transmogrifier]

Out of nowhere, the last film I watched in 2020 turns out to be the best first viewing of the year. Apt title as well.

It's a Disaster (2013) - 76
Ride Lonesome (1959) - 71
Svaha: The Sixth Finger (2019) - 71
The Hunt (2012) - 71