{"id":17162,"date":"2024-12-31T23:00:40","date_gmt":"2025-01-01T04:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/?p=17162"},"modified":"2024-12-31T22:24:59","modified_gmt":"2025-01-01T03:24:59","slug":"2024-favorites-older-movies-and-rewatches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/17162","title":{"rendered":"2024 Favorites: Older Movies and Rewatches"},"content":{"rendered":"

The filmmaker of the year award goes to Tsui Hark.<\/strong> After beginning 2024 with his Dangerous Encounters of the First Kind<\/a><\/em>, I moved on to the six-film Once Upon a Time in China<\/em> series, stopping between episodes to check out other films he directed (Green Snake<\/a><\/em>, The Blade<\/a><\/em>, Love in the Time of Twilight<\/a><\/em>) or produced (Iron Monkey<\/a><\/em>, Burning Paradise<\/a><\/em>, Dragon Inn<\/a><\/em>) and related Wong Fei-hung stories (Drunken Master 2<\/a><\/em>, The Magnificent Butcher<\/a><\/em>).<\/p>\n

Favorite non-Tsui Hark older movies watched this year:<\/strong><\/p>\n

1. Fanny & Alexander<\/a><\/em> (1982, Ingmar Bergman)<\/strong>
\n2. Minnie and Moskowitz<\/a><\/em> (1971, John Cassavetes)<\/strong>
\n3. The Decline of Western Civilization<\/a><\/em> (1981, Penelope Spheeris)<\/strong>
\n4. U.S. Go Home<\/a><\/em> (1994, Claire Denis)<\/strong>
\n5. Lone Star<\/a><\/em> (1996, John Sayles)<\/strong>
\n6. Of Great Events and Ordinary People<\/a><\/em> (1978, Raoul Ruiz)<\/strong>
\n7. Messiah of Evil<\/a><\/em> (1973, Willard Huyck)<\/strong>
\n8. Body Melt<\/a><\/em> (1993, Philip Brophy)<\/strong>
\n9. Cobra Verde<\/a><\/em> (1987, Werner Herzog)<\/strong>
\n10. Brief Encounters<\/a><\/em> (1967, Kira Muratova)<\/strong>
\n11. Deep Cover<\/a><\/em> (1992, Bill Duke)<\/strong>
\n12. Garlic is as Good as Ten Mothers<\/a><\/em> (1980, Les Blank)<\/strong>
\n13. Ga-ga: Glory to the Heroes<\/a><\/em> (1986, Piotr Szulkin)<\/strong>
\n14. Junk Head<\/a><\/em> (2017, Takahide Hori)<\/strong>
\n15. Serpent’s Path<\/a><\/em> \/ Eyes of the Spider<\/a><\/em> (Kiyoshi Kurosawa)<\/strong>
\n16. The Music Lovers<\/a><\/em> (1970, Ken Russell)<\/strong>
\n17. Gerry<\/a><\/em> (2002, Gus Van Sant)<\/strong>
\n18. The Doom Generation<\/a><\/em> (1995, Gregg Araki)<\/strong>
\n19. Demon Knight<\/a><\/em> (1995, Ernest R. Dickerson)<\/strong>
\n20. The Right Stuff<\/a><\/em> (1983, Philip Kaufman)<\/strong>
\n21. Body Bags<\/a><\/em> (1993, John Carpenter & Tobe Hooper)<\/strong>
\n22. The Big Gundown<\/a><\/em> (1967, Sergio Sollima)<\/strong>
\n23. The Big Parade<\/a><\/em> (1925, King Vidor)<\/strong>
\n24. The Big Sleep<\/a><\/em> (1946, Howard Hawks)<\/strong>
\n25. \u00c0 nous la libert\u00e9<\/a><\/em> (1931, Ren\u00e9 Clair)<\/strong>
\n26. National Gallery<\/a><\/em> (2014, Frederick Wiseman)<\/strong>
\n27. Red Psalm<\/a><\/em> (1972, Mikl\u00f3s Jancs\u00f3)<\/strong>
\n28. Hamlet<\/a><\/em> (2000, Michael Almereyda)<\/strong>
\n29. Torque<\/a><\/em> (2004, Joseph Kahn)<\/strong>
\n30. Pauline at the Beach<\/a><\/em> (1983, Eric Rohmer)<\/strong><\/p>\n

Favorite rewatches of the year (alphabetical):<\/strong><\/p>\n

Assault on Precinct 13<\/a><\/em> (1976, John Carpenter)<\/strong>
\nBlade<\/a><\/em> (1998, Stephen Norrington)<\/strong>
\nCareful<\/a><\/em> & Archangel<\/a><\/em> & Gimli Hospital<\/a><\/em> (Guy Maddin)<\/strong>
\nDays of Heaven<\/a><\/em> (1978, Terrence Malick)<\/strong>
\nFallen Angels<\/a><\/em> (1995, Wong Kar-Wai)<\/strong>
\nFlesh for Frankenstein<\/a><\/em> & Young Frankenstein<\/a><\/em><\/strong>
\nLancelot of the Lake<\/a><\/em> (1974, Robert Bresson)<\/strong>
\nNadja<\/a><\/em> (1994, Michael Almereyda)<\/strong>
\nNaked<\/a><\/em> (1993, Mike Leigh)<\/strong>
\nSense and Sensibility<\/a><\/em> (1995, Ang Lee)<\/strong>
\nThe Sixth Sense<\/a><\/em> (1999, M. Night Shyamalan)<\/strong>
\nThe Texas Chain Saw Massacre<\/a><\/em> (1974, Tobe Hooper)<\/strong>
\nTwin Peaks season 3<\/a><\/em> (2017, David Lynch)<\/strong>
\nUnderground<\/a><\/em> (1995, Emir Kusturica)<\/strong>
\nWerckmeister Harmonies<\/a><\/em> (2000, B\u00e9la Tarr)<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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