Nearly five months into the year, time for the annual checkpoint thread.
Nearly five months into the year, time for the annual checkpoint thread.
Midnight Run (1988) - 9
The Smiling Lieutenant (1931) - 8.5
The Adventures of Robinhood (1938) - 8
Sisters (1973) - 6.5
Shin Godzilla (2016) - 7.5
1. Challengers
2. Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga
3. Dune: Part Two
4. Hundreds of Beavers
5. The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar and Three More
6. Evil Does Not Exist
7. Girls State
8. The Goldman Case
9. The Greatest Night in Pop
10. Midwives
Midnight Run (1988) - 9
The Smiling Lieutenant (1931) - 8.5
The Adventures of Robinhood (1938) - 8
Sisters (1973) - 6.5
Shin Godzilla (2016) - 7.5
1. Furiosa
2. Challengers
3. Hundreds of Beavers
4. Here
5. Dune 2
1. Challengers
2. Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga
3. Dune: Part Two
4. The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar and Three More
5. Hundreds of Beavers
6. Problemista
7. Hit Man
8. Evil Does Not Exist
9. Girls State
10. Mars Express
Midnight Run (1988) - 9
The Smiling Lieutenant (1931) - 8.5
The Adventures of Robinhood (1938) - 8
Sisters (1973) - 6.5
Shin Godzilla (2016) - 7.5
1. Furiosa
2. The Taste of Things
3. Henry Sugar + 3
4. The Substance
5. Challengers
6. Hundreds of Beavers
7. Love Lies Bleeding
8. Here
9. Dune 2
I have a top 5, I've only seen 12 from this year lol
1. Cuckoo
2. Monkey Man
3. Kneecap
4. Maxxxine
5. Alien: Romulus
Only Monkey Man isn't a theater viewing
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It's on America's tortured brow
That Mickey Mouse has grown up a cow
Now the workers have struck for fame
'Cause Lennon's on sale again
See the mice in their million hordes
From Ibiza to the Norfolk Broads
Rule Britannia is out of bounds
To my mother, my dog, and clowns
1. Challengers
2. Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga
3. Dune: Part Two
4. The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar and Three More
5. Hundreds of Beavers
6. The Substance
7. Rebel Ridge
8. The Beast
9. Problemista
10. Hit Man
Midnight Run (1988) - 9
The Smiling Lieutenant (1931) - 8.5
The Adventures of Robinhood (1938) - 8
Sisters (1973) - 6.5
Shin Godzilla (2016) - 7.5
1. Challengers
2. Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga
3. Anora
4. Dune: Part Two
5. The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar and Three More
6. Chime
7. Hundreds of Beavers
8. The Substance
9. Rebel Ridge
10. Twilight of the Warriors: Walled In
Midnight Run (1988) - 9
The Smiling Lieutenant (1931) - 8.5
The Adventures of Robinhood (1938) - 8
Sisters (1973) - 6.5
Shin Godzilla (2016) - 7.5
Going by US release dates:
- Anora (Sean Baker)
- La Bete and Coma (Bertrand Bonello)
- Between the Temples (Nathan Silver)
- Close Your Eyes (Victor Erice)
- Hit Man (Richard Linklater)
- Kidnapped (Marco Bellocchio)
- Music (Angela Schanelec)
Just because...
The Fabelmans (Steven Spielberg, 2022) mild
Petite maman (Céline Sciamma, 2021) mild
The Banshees of Inisherin (Martin McDonagh, 2022) mild
The last book I read was...
The Complete Short Stories by Mark Twain
The (New) World
Year-end snapshot Top 10, far from final:
1. Challengers
2. Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga
3. Anora
4. Dune: Part Two
5. The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar and Three More
6. Chime
7. A Different Man
8. Hundreds of Beavers
9. The Substance
10. Rebel Ridge
Midnight Run (1988) - 9
The Smiling Lieutenant (1931) - 8.5
The Adventures of Robinhood (1938) - 8
Sisters (1973) - 6.5
Shin Godzilla (2016) - 7.5
My Top 5 Movies of 2024: https://cwiddop.blogspot.com/2024/12...s-of-2024.html
and
My Top 10 Movies of the '20s so far: https://cwiddop.blogspot.com/2025/01...0s-so-far.html
1. Anora
2. The People's Joker
3. The Taste of Things
4. Furiosa
5. Henry Sugar + 3
6. The Substance
7. Last Summer
8. Hundreds of Beavers
9. Conclave
10. Nosferatu
1. Nosferatu (theater)
2. Cuckoo (theater)
3. Flow (theater)
4. Monkey Man (Peacock)
5. Kneecap (theater)
6. MaXXXine (theater)
7. A Real Pain (theater)
8. Heretic (theater)
9. Alien: Romulus (theater)
10. A Complete Unknown (theater)
Out of 20, but hey I'll catch up eventually. Peacock has The Wild Robot and Conclave, and I will see about The Brutalist, Sonic 3 and if I should grab beers and watch Wicked. Nah....
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It's on America's tortured brow
That Mickey Mouse has grown up a cow
Now the workers have struck for fame
'Cause Lennon's on sale again
See the mice in their million hordes
From Ibiza to the Norfolk Broads
Rule Britannia is out of bounds
To my mother, my dog, and clowns
1. Challengers
2. Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga
3. The Count of Monte Cristo
4. Anora
5. Dune: Part Two
6. The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar and Three More
7. Chime
8. A Different Man
9. Flow
10. Close Your Eyes
Midnight Run (1988) - 9
The Smiling Lieutenant (1931) - 8.5
The Adventures of Robinhood (1938) - 8
Sisters (1973) - 6.5
Shin Godzilla (2016) - 7.5
Last Five Films I've Seen (Out of 5)
The Boy, The Mole, The Fox and the Horse (Mackesy, 2022) 4.5
Puss In Boots: The Last Wish (Crawford, 2022) 4
Confess, Fletch (Mottola, 2022) 3.5
M3GAN (Johnstone, 2023) 3.5
Turning Red (Shi, 2022) 4.5
Tokyo Story (Ozu, 1953) 5
615 Film
Letterboxd
I've seen 4, I guess if I counted Hundreds of Beavers it would be in my list.Quoting Ivan Drago (view post)
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It's on America's tortured brow
That Mickey Mouse has grown up a cow
Now the workers have struck for fame
'Cause Lennon's on sale again
See the mice in their million hordes
From Ibiza to the Norfolk Broads
Rule Britannia is out of bounds
To my mother, my dog, and clowns
1. Nosferatu (theater)
2. Hundreds of Beavers (Tubi, why not)
3. Cuckoo (theater)
4. The Wild Robot (Peacock)
5. Flow (theater)
6. Monkey Man (Peacock)
7. Dune Part 2 (Public Library)
8. Kneecap (theater)
9. MaXXXine (theater)
10. A Real Pain (theater)
Conclave was great, it doesn't make the list though, I haven't seen the BP winner lol, I'm kind moving on to 2025, will update if I see any others.
2024 https://boxd.it/vn0nA
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It's on America's tortured brow
That Mickey Mouse has grown up a cow
Now the workers have struck for fame
'Cause Lennon's on sale again
See the mice in their million hordes
From Ibiza to the Norfolk Broads
Rule Britannia is out of bounds
To my mother, my dog, and clowns
"Finalized" list, to be edited later if a few pending blindspots can deliver into top 20.
1. Challengers (Luca Guadagnino)
2. Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga (George Miller)
3. Nickel Boys (RaMell Ross)
4. The Count of Monte Cristo (Alexandre de La Patelliere & Matthieu Delaporte)
5. Anora (Sean Baker)
6. Dune: Part Two (Denis Villeneuve)
7. The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar and Three More (Wes Anderson)
8. Soundtrack to a Coup d'Etat (Johan Grimonprez)
9. Chime (Kiyoshi Kurosawa)
10. A Different Man (Aaron Schimberg)
11. Hard Truths (Mike Leigh)
12. Flow (Gints Zilbalodis)
13. Close Your Eyes (Victor Erice)
14. No Other Land (Basel Adra, Yuval Abraham, Hamdan Ballal, & Rachel Szor)
15. Hundreds of Beavers (Mike Cheslik)
16. The Substance (Coralie Fargeat)
17. Rebel Ridge (Jeremy Saulnier)
18. Twilight of the Warriors: Walled In (Soi Cheang)
19. Black Box Diaries (Shiori Ito)
20. The Beast (Bertrand Bonello)
HM: Problemista (Julio Torres), All We Imagine as Light (Payal Kapadia), Hit Man (Richard Linklater), Evil Does Not Exist (Ryūsuke Hamaguchi), ME (Don Hertzfeldt)
Pending: Universal Language, Made in England: The Films of Powell and Pressburger, The Shadowless Tower
Last edited by Peng; 03-17-2025 at 05:15 PM.
Midnight Run (1988) - 9
The Smiling Lieutenant (1931) - 8.5
The Adventures of Robinhood (1938) - 8
Sisters (1973) - 6.5
Shin Godzilla (2016) - 7.5
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