Top 10 Films First Seen During 2014

[Scar]

Man, before it was released this seemed like a slam-dunk for McCarthy and Scott. I'm not even sure I want to see it anymore.

I can't recommend it, except as something you don't pay for, are drunk, and just pay attention during the gory parts.

[Spun Lepton]

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The Road (Hillcoat; 2009)
Attack the Block (Cornish; 2011)
You're Next (Wingard; 2011)
Lovelace (Epstein, Friedman; 2013)
Despicable Me 2 (Coffin, Renaud; 2013)
48 Hours (Hill; 1982)

----06
The Innkeepers (West, 2012)
Carrie (Peirce, 2013)
We're the Millers (Thurber; 2013)

----05
The Last Stand (Jee-Woon, 2013)

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----05
Duplex (DeVito; 2003)

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Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters (Wirkola; 2013)
Sheba, Baby (Girdler; 1975)
Futureworld (Heffron; 1976)

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Botched (Ryan; 2007)

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(N/A)

----01
(N/A)

[Dead & Messed Up]

1. The World's End (Edgar Wright, 2013)
2. Inside Llewyn Davis (The Coens, 2013)
3. Beneath (TV) (Larry Fessenden, 2013)
4. Dallas Buyers Club (Jean-Marc Vallee, 2013)
5. A Field in England (Ben Wheatley, 2013)
6. The Battery (Jeremy Gardner, 2013)
7. The Hobbit: The Mehsolation of Smaug (Peter Jackson, 2013)
8. Saving Mr. Banks (John Lee Hancock, 2013)

[Raiders]

3. Beneath (TV) (Larry Fessenden, 2013)
...
5. A Field in England (Ben Wheatley, 2013)

I'm going to avoid posting the cliche Scanners image, but my brain hurts trying to imagine this opinion existing in non-bizarro world. And I say that as a big Fessenden fan, but this film was shit. Wheatley's film is a whole different ballpark... hell it ain't even the same league, or even the same fucking sport. It's got craftsmanship to spare... Fessenden was just being lazy. And after seven years! I guess he was desperate and a random script from Chiller was the best he could get?

[Spun Lepton]

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----09
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----08
(N/A)

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The Road (Hillcoat; 2009)
Attack the Block (Cornish; 2011)
You're Next (Wingard; 2011)
Lovelace (Epstein, Friedman; 2013)
Despicable Me 2 (Coffin, Renaud; 2013)
48 Hours (Hill; 1982)

----06
The Innkeepers (West, 2012)
Duel (Spielberg; 1971)
Carrie (Peirce, 2013)
We're the Millers (Thurber; 2013)

^^^TOP TEN^^^

----05
The Last Stand (Jee-Woon, 2013)
Duplex (DeVito; 2003)

---04
Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters (Wirkola; 2013)
Sheba, Baby (Girdler; 1975)
Futureworld (Heffron; 1976)

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Botched (Ryan; 2007)

----02
(N/A)

----01
(N/A)

[Stay Puft]

Well I can roll out a top five for now...

1. Far from Vietnam (Chris Marker, et al, 1967)
2. The Wind Rises (Hayao Miyazaki, 2013)
3. The Act of Killing (Joshua Oppenheimer, 2012)
4. The Past (Asghar Farhadi, 2013)
5. Scarface (Howard Hawks, 1932)

[transmogrifier]

Only reporting the 70+ films this year. My cut-off for unreserved recommendations.

1. The Innocents (1961) 76
2. The Wolf of Wall Street (2013) 73
3. Mike Yokohama: A Forest with No Name (2002) 72
4. Hell in the Pacific (1968) 70
5. You're Next (2013) 70

[Bandy Greensacks]

My Neighbor Totoro (Hayao Miyazaki, 1988)
Her (Spike Jonze, 2013)
Inside Llewyn Davis (Ethan & Joel Coen, 2013)
The Wolf of Wall Street (Martin Scorsese, 2013)
Na wylot (Grzegorz Królikiewicz, 1973)
The Possessed (Luigi Bazzoni & Franco Rossellini, 1965)
Entrance (Dallas Richard Hallam & Patrick Horvath, 2012)
Low-Flying Aircraft (Solveig Nordlund, 2002)
Nuit noire (Olivier Smolders, 2005)
Blue Jasmine (Woody Allen, 2013)

[Mr. McGibblets]

Top ten after February:

1. Noises Off... (1992)
2. Inside Llewyn Davis (2013)
3. Sightseers (2012)
4. Targets (1968)
5. The Past (2013)
6. The Act of Killing (2013)
7. Side Effects (2013)
8. The Ballad of Cable Hogue (1970)
9. Moon (2009)
10. Mud (2013)

[baby doll]

• Jezebel (William Wyler, 1938)
• The Killers (Robert Siodmak, 1946)
• The Samurai Trilogy (Hiroshi Inagaki, 1954-56)
• Du rififi chez les hommes (Jules Dassin, 1955)
• Seppuku (Masaki Kobayashi, 1962)
• Pale Flower (Masahiro Shinoda, 1964)
• The Story of Qiu Jiu (Zhang Yimou, 1992)
• To Live (Zhang Yimou, 1994)
• The Bridges of Madison County (Clint Eastwood, 1995)
• Barbara (Christian Petzold, 2012)

So this is where it stands at the end of February.

[Spun Lepton]

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The Road (Hillcoat; 2009)
Attack the Block (Cornish; 2011)
The Ice Harvest (Ramis; 2005)
You're Next (Wingard; 2011)
Lovelace (Epstein, Friedman; 2013)
Despicable Me 2 (Coffin, Renaud; 2013)
48 Hours (Hill; 1982)

----06
The Innkeepers (West; 2012)
Duel (Spielberg; 1971)
Carrie (Peirce; 2013)

^^^TOP TEN^^^

----06
We're the Millers (Thurber; 2013)

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The Last Stand (Jee-Woon, 2013)
Duplex (DeVito; 2003)

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Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters (Wirkola; 2013)
Sheba, Baby (Girdler; 1975)
Futureworld (Heffron; 1976)

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Botched (Ryan; 2007)

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(N/A)

----01
(N/A)

[transmogrifier]

1. The Innocents (1961) 76
2. Eureka (2000) 74
3. The Wolf of Wall Street (2013) 73
4. Mike Yokohama: A Forest with No Name (2002) 72
5. Hell in the Pacific (1968) 70
6. You're Next (2013) 70

[Mysterious Dude]

1. My Home Is Copacabana (1965)
2. America America (1963)
3. No (2012)
4. Assassination (1964)
5. Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll (2010)
6. The Way I Spent the End of the World (2006)
7. The Leopard Man (1943)
8. Hard Eight (1996)
9. Amigo (2010)
10. Tinimbang ka ngunit kulang (1974)

[Boner M]

1. Monsieur Verdoux (Chaplin, 1947)
2. Reminiscences of a Journey to Lithuania (Mekas, 1971)
3. Ida (Pawlikowski, 2013)
4. House by the River (Lang, 1950)
5. Le deuxième souffle (Melville, 1966)
6. Shame (Bergman, 1968)
7. Reds (Beatty, 1981)
8. The Talented Mr. Ripley (Minghella, 1999)
9. Odds Against Tomorrow (Wise, 1959)
10. Breaking Away (Yates, 1979)

[Melville]

Everything I've given 8/10 or above:

1. Onibaba
2. Nymphomaniac: Volume I
3. The Hired Hand
4. The Defiant Ones
5. Another Year
6. The Man with the Golden Arm
7. Serpico
8. Like Someone in Love
9. Jezebel
10. Camille
11. White Material
12. Slacker
13. Le Havre
14. 42nd Street
15. Duel in the Sun
16. 12 Years a Slave

[Yum-Yum]

1. Liquid Dreams (Mark Manos, 1991)
2. Shredder Orpheus (Robert McGinley, 1990)
3. Ms. 45 (Abel Ferrera, 1981)
4. Indecent Desires (Doris Wishman, 1968)
5. Exorcism (Jess Franco, 1975)
6. Virgins from Hell (Ackyl Anwari, 1986)
7. Smell of Honey, a Swallow of Brine, A (Byron Mabe, 1966)
8. Beaver Trilogy, The (Trent Harris, 2000)
9. Public Woman, The (Andrzej Żuławski, 1984)
10. Cabaret Sin (Philip O'Toole, 1987)


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A
Abducted By the Daleks (Roman Nowicki, 2005)
Another Day, Another Man (Doris Wishman, 1966)

B
Bad Girls Go to Hell (Doris Wishman, 1965)
Bamboo House of Dolls (Chih-Hung Kuei, 1973)
Beaver Trilogy, The (Trent Harris, 2000)
Blue Monkey (William Fruet, 1987)

C
Cabaret Sin (Philip O'Toole, 1987)
Chosen Survivors (Sutton Roley, 1974)
Corpse Grinders, The (Ted V. Mikels, 1971)
Corpse Grinders II, The (Ted V. Mikels, 2000)
Curse of Her Flesh, The (Michael Findlay, 1968)

D
Dämonenbrut (Andreas Bethmann, 2000)
Day of the Warrior (Andy Sidaris, 1996)
Devil's Plaything, The (Joseph W. Sarno, 1973)
Don't Deliver Us from Evil (Joël Séria, 1971)

E
Exitus interruptus - Der Tod ist erst der Anfang (Andreas Bethmann, 2006)
Exorcism (Jess Franco, 1975)

F
Female Vampire (Jess Franco, 1973)
Forced Entry (Shaun Costello, 1973)

G
"GETEVEN" (John De Hart, 1993)

H

I
Immoral Three, The (Doris Wishman, 1975)
Impulse (William Grefe, 1974)
Indecent Desires (Doris Wishman, 1968)

J

K
Kid Stays in the Picture, The (2002)
Killing of Satan, The (Efren C. Piñon, 1983)
Kiss of Her Flesh, The (Michael Findlay, 1968)
Krull (Peter Yates, 1983)

L
Liquid Dreams (Mark Manos, 1991)

M
Maniac (Franck Khalfoun, 2012)
Men from the Gutter (Ngai Choi Lam, 1983)
Millennium (Michael Anderson, 1989)
Ms. 45 (Abel Ferrera, 1981)
My Brother's Wife (Doris Wishman, 1966)

N

O

P
Prowler, The (Joseph Zito, 1981)
Public Woman, The (Andrzej Żuławski, 1984)

Q
Queen of the Black Magic, The (Liliek Sudjio, 1979)

R
Return to Savage Beach (Andy Sidaris, 1998)
Roaring Fire (Noribumi Suzuki, 1982)

S
Satan's Slave (Norman J. Warren, 1976)
Saturday Morning Mystery (Spencer Parsons, 2012)
Saturn 3 (Stanley Donen, 1980)
Shag (Zelda Barron, 1989)
Shredder Orpheus (Robert McGinley, 1990)
Smell of Honey, a Swallow of Brine, A (Byron Mabe, 1966)
Specials, The (Craig Mazin, 2000)
SS Hell Camp ( Luigi Batzella, 1976)

T
Touch of Her Flesh, The (Michael Findlay, 1967)

U

V
Virgins from Hell (Ackyl Anwari, 1986)
Vixen! (Russ Meyer, 1968)

W

X

Y

Z

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[Spun Lepton]

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(N/A)

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----08
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The Road (Hillcoat; 2009)
Attack the Block (Cornish; 2011)
The Ice Harvest (Ramis; 2005)
You're Next (Wingard; 2011)
Lovelace (Epstein, Friedman; 2013)
Despicable Me 2 (Coffin, Renaud; 2013)
48 Hours (Hill; 1982)

----06
The Innkeepers (West; 2012)
Duel (Spielberg; 1971)
Carrie (Peirce; 2013)

^^^TOP TEN^^^

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We're the Millers (Thurber; 2013)
Not Another Teen Movie (Gallen; 2001)

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The Last Stand (Jee-Woon, 2013)
Duplex (DeVito; 2003)

---04
Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters (Wirkola; 2013)
Sheba, Baby (Girdler; 1975)
Futureworld (Heffron; 1976)

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Botched (Ryan; 2007)

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(N/A)

----01
(N/A)

[Scar]

1. Lone Survivor (2013)
2. Captain Phillips (2013) Great flick. The medic scene at the end trumps the bad ass SEAL's
sequences.
3. End of Watch (2012) Going to watch this with some LEO friends.
4. 1 (2013)
5. Gravity (2013)
6. American Hustle (2012) I think I'd watch Jennifer Lawrence in anything. Fuck, guess I gotta keep watching the Hunger Games movies.
7. Out of The Furnace (2013) Sometimes, we all need a vengeance flick.
8. 12 Years a Slave (2103) Will I watch it again, probably not. Am I glad I watched it? Yes.
9. Ender's Game (2013)
10. Dallas Buyers Club (2013)
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11. Carrie (2013)
12. The Counselor (2013)
13. Machete Kills (2013)

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[Scar]

1. Lone Survivor (2013)
2. Captain Phillips (2013)
3. Wolf Of Wall Street (2013) Entertataining as all Hell. The hate for Leo from years ago is gone. Matt McConaughey's performance stands out as the best in a film with all around great performances. And.... Lots of boobies.
4. End of Watch (2012)
5. 1 (2013)
6. Gravity (2013)
7. American Hustle (2012)
8. Out of The Furnace (2013)
9. 12 Years a Slave (2013)
10. Ender's Game (2013)
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11. Dallas Buyers Club (2013)
12. Carrie (2013)
13. The Counselor (2013)
14. Machete Kills (2013)

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[Spun Lepton]

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The Road (Hillcoat; 2009)
Attack the Block (Cornish; 2011)
The Ice Harvest (Ramis; 2005)
You're Next (Wingard; 2011)
Lovelace (Epstein, Friedman; 2013)
Despicable Me 2 (Coffin, Renaud; 2013)

----06
Star Trek: Nemesis (Baird; 2002)
48 Hours (Hill; 1982)
The Innkeepers (West; 2012)
Duel (Spielberg; 1971)

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Carrie (Peirce; 2013)
We're the Millers (Thurber; 2013)
Not Another Teen Movie (Gallen; 2001)
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The Last Stand (Jee-Woon, 2013)
Duplex (DeVito; 2003)
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Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters (Wirkola; 2013)
Sheba, Baby (Girdler; 1975)
Futureworld (Heffron; 1976)
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Botched (Ryan; 2007)
----02
----01

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[Stay Puft]

1. Far from Vietnam (Chris Marker, et al, 1967)
2. The Wind Rises (Hayao Miyazaki, 2013)
3. The Act of Killing (Joshua Oppenheimer, 2012)
4. The Past (Asghar Farhadi, 2013)
5. Mildred Pierce (Michael Curtiz, 1945)
6. Scarface (Howard Hawks, 1932)

I saw a theatrical presentation of Mildred Pierce introduced by David Bordwell. That was pretty cool. He said he was going to keep his introduction short so there would be more time to discuss the film afterwards, and then this fountain of film knowledge just starts gushing out of him and it's still going strong like ten minutes later. The guy just exudes passion.

[Spun Lepton]

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The Road (Hillcoat; 2009)
Attack the Block (Cornish; 2011)
The Ice Harvest (Ramis; 2005)
You're Next (Wingard; 2011)
Lovelace (Epstein, Friedman; 2013)
Big Night (Scott, Tucci; 1996)
Despicable Me 2 (Coffin, Renaud; 2013)

----06
Star Trek: Nemesis (Baird; 2002)
48 Hours (Hill; 1982)
The Innkeepers (West; 2012)

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Duel (Spielberg; 1971)
Carrie (Peirce; 2013)
We're the Millers (Thurber; 2013)
Not Another Teen Movie (Gallen; 2001)
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The Last Stand (Jee-Woon, 2013)
Duplex (DeVito; 2003)
---04
Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters (Wirkola; 2013)
Sheba, Baby (Girdler; 1975)
Futureworld (Heffron; 1976)
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Botched (Ryan; 2007)
----02
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[Ivan Drago]

1. The Telephone Book (Nelson Lyon, 1971)
2. The Wolf of Wall Street (Martin Scorsese, 2013)
3. Nebraska (Alexander Payne, 2013)
4. Her (Spike Jonze, 2013)
5. Dallas Buyers Club (Jean-Marc Vallee, 2013)
6. Night of the Comet (Tom Eberhardt, 1984)
7. Prince Avalanche (David Gordon Green, 2013)
8. Inside Llewyn Davis (Joel and Ethan Coen, 2013)

1. Akira (Katsuhiro Otomo, 1988)
2. The LEGO Movie (Phil Lord and Christopher Miller, 2014)
3. The Telephone Book (Nelson Lyon, 1971)
4. The Wolf of Wall Street (Martin Scorsese, 2013)
5. Nebraska (Alexander Payne, 2013)
6. Crumb (Terry Zwigoff, 1994)
7. Her (Spike Jonze, 2013)
8. Dallas Buyers Club (Jean-Marc Vallee, 2013)
9. Night of the Comet (Tom Eberhardt, 1984)
10. Prince Avalanche (David Gordon Green, 2013)


11. Inside Llewyn Davis (Joel and Ethan Coen, 2013)
12. Enemy (Dennis Villeneuve, 2014)

[Boner M]

1. Moving (Somai, 1993)
2. Monsieur Verdoux (Chaplin, 1947)
3. Reminiscences of a Journey to Lithuania (Mekas, 1971)
4. Ida (Pawlikowski, 2013)
5. Everybody in Our Family (Jude, 2012)
6. House by the River (Lang, 1950)
7. Le deuxième souffle (Melville, 1966)
8. Journey to the West (Tsai, 2014)
9. Shame (Bergman, 1968)
10. The Talented Mr. Ripley (Minghella, 1999)

[baby doll]

• Jezebel (William Wyler, 1938)
• The Killers (Robert Siodmak, 1946)
• The Samurai Trilogy (Hiroshi Inagaki, 1954-56)
• Du rififi chez les hommes (Jules Dassin, 1955)
• Seppuku (Masaki Kobayashi, 1962)
• Police (Maurice Pialat, 1985)
• The Suspended Step of the Stork (Theo Angelopoulos, 1991)
• To Live (Zhang Yimou, 1994)
• Mysteries of Lisbon [272 minute version] (Raúl Ruiz, 2010)
• Barbara (Christian Petzold, 2012)

This is where it stands at the end of March. I'm planning to watch the long version of Carlos over the weekend, though I'm not sure if that counts as a film first seen in 2014 as I already saw the shorter version a few years ago.