Top Ten Films First Seen in 2020

[Stay Puft]

My final list, no actual updates since August alas; been trying to catch up on current releases lately, some close to great stuff (e.g. Nomadland) but nothing made the cut.

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)

[Mal]

1. They All Laughed
2. Crash (1996)
3. The Swimmer
4. On the Rocks
5. Tree's Lounge
6. The French Lieutenant's Woman
7. Phantom of the Paradise
8. City Hall (2020)
9. Crooklyn
10. Sorcerer (1977)

351 movies for the first time, a personal record for as long as I've been doing records

[Skitch]

1. A Christmas Carol (2019, FX)
2. 1917
3. Le Mans
4. Ford v Ferrari
5. Birds of Prey
6. Coherence (2013)
7. The Hunt
8. Da 5 Bloods
9. Lost Bullet
10. Lily C.A.T.
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11. McMillions
12. Gemini Man
13. Jay and Silent Bob Reboot

Didn't watch a lot of new stuff this year that was worthy of making the list.

[StuSmallz]

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 GemsFargo
5. 1917
6. The Handmaiden
7. Do The Right Thing
8. The Texas Chainsaw Massacre
10. Drug War

[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.) The Shop Around the Corner (1940 / Lubitsch)
16.) Little Shop of Horrors (1986 / Oz)
17.) The Untouchables (1987 / De Palma)
18.) Crawl (2019 / Aja)
19.) A Christmas Carol (1938 / Marin)
20.) The Goonies (1985 / Donner)
21.) Color Out of Space (2019 / Stanley)
22.) Overlord (2018 / Avery)
23.) Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels (1998 / Ritchie)
24.) Mary Shelley's Frankenstein (1994 / Branagh)
25.) Pyewacket (2017 / MacDonald)
26.) A Study in Terror (1965 / Hill)
27.) Murder on the Orient Express (2017 / Branagh)
28.) You've Got Mail (1998 / Ephron)
29.) Split Second (1992 / Maylam)
30.)The Year Without a Santa Claus (1974/ Bass & Rankin Jr.)
31.) Anna and the Apocalypse (2017 / McPhail)
32.) Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker (2019 / Abrams)
33.) Freaks (2018 / Lipovsky & Stein)
34.) The Relic (1997 / Hyams)
35.) The Dead Don't Die (2019 / Jarmusch)
36.) Deadly Friend (1986 / Craven)
37.) Oldboy (2013 / Lee)
38.) Bloodshot (2020 / Wilson)
39.) The House on Tombstone Hill (1989 / Riffel)
40.) The Poughkeepsie Tapes (2007 / Dowdle)

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Dune (1984 / Lynch)

[Yxklyx]

My August post looks good. Been watching lots of TV, like Sopranos for the first time...

[Dukefrukem]

like Sopranos for the first time...

I bet there are some episodes that haven't aged well.

[Yxklyx]

I bet there are some episodes that haven't aged well.

Hah, all the scenes shot in the Sopranos household are lighted as if it were a Rosanne episode. Way too much lighting! I figure their first year budget wasn't that great but they decided to keep the same look throughout. It was a good show overall.

[StuSmallz]

I bet there are some episodes that haven't aged well.

I wouldn't be so sure of that:

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[Dukefrukem]

I wouldn't be so sure of that:

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That was from one of the later seasons.