Favorite older movies watched this year:
1. Wim Wenders: Alice in the Cities / Wrong Move / Kings of the Road
2. Agnès Varda: Jane B. par Agnes V. / Kung-Fu Master
3. Hard-Boiled (1992, John Woo)
4. Love Torn In Dream (2000, Raoul Ruiz)
5. Total Balalaika Show (1994, Aki Kaurismäki)
6. Ali: Fear Eats the Soul (1974, Rainer Fassbinder)
7. Mind Game (2004, Masaaki Yuasa)
8. The Falls (1980, Peter Greenaway)
9. The Silence Before Bach (2007, Pere Portabella)
10. You Can Count On Me (2000, Kenneth Lonergan)
11. The Devil-Doll (1936, Tod Browning)
12. Anticipation of the Night (1958, Stan Brakhage)
13. Wanda (1971, Barbara Loden)
14. History is Made at Night (1937, Frank Borzage)
15. Frailty (2001, Bill Paxton)
16. Story of a Three-Day Pass (1968, Melvin Van Peebles)
17. The White Balloon (1995, Jafar Panahi)
18. Sorcerer (1977, William Friedkin)
19. Bluebeard’s Castle (1963, Michael Powell)
20. Jimi Plays Monterey (1986, D.A. Pennebaker)
21. The River (1997, Tsai Ming-Liang)
22. Porco Rosso (1992, Hayao Miyazaki)
23. Mahanagar/The Big City (1963, Satyajit Ray)
24. The Conformist (1970, Bernardo Bertolucci)
25. The Spy Who Came In From The Cold (1965, Martin Ritt)
26. The Hitcher (1986, Robert Harmon)
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Favorite rewatches of the year
(ranked by rewatch experience, not necessarily quality of film)
1. In the Mouth of Madness on 35mm at the Plaza
2. SHOCKtober rewatches by Tod Browning, George Romero, Paul WS Anderson, Rob Zombie, Robert Eggers, Kiyoshi Kurosawa, David Prior, David Cronenberg, and David Robert Mitchell.
3. Meet Me in St. Louis and Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon and Mean Streets and City of Lost Children all looking better than ever on HD.
4. World of Tomorrow trilogy (Don Hertzfeldt) with Trevor
5. The Nice Guys (2016, Shane Black)
6. Manhunt (Lang) and Nazarín (Buñuel)
7. The Kingdom I & II (Lars Von Trier)
8. Johnny Mnemonic and Chopping Mall