{"id":173,"date":"2006-12-31T23:00:24","date_gmt":"2007-01-01T03:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/173"},"modified":"2013-05-26T16:21:03","modified_gmt":"2013-05-26T20:21:03","slug":"brandons-twenty-favorite-old-movies-of-2006","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/173","title":{"rendered":"Brandon’s Twenty Favorite Old Movies of 2006"},"content":{"rendered":"

1. Black Narcissus<\/a><\/strong> – I enjoyed this so much that the review I wrote that night is raving nonsense. I did call it one of the best movies I’ve ever seen, so I’ll take my word for it.<\/p>\n

2. The Double Life of Veronique<\/a><\/strong> – beautiful in a way that doesn’t even make sense… will have to see it again and again.<\/p>\n

3. Spaced<\/strong>, season 1 – good thing I’m accountable to no one with my end-of-year lists, so I can put a TV series up here among all the movies. Watched the whole season twice, and I’d do it again… hilarious and brilliant.<\/p>\n

4. Edvard Munch<\/strong> – such a powerful movie, it troubled my mind all year.<\/p>\n

5. Scarlet Street<\/a><\/strong> – I almost want to lower its ranking to punish Fritz Lang for being so cruel to Edward G. Robinson. So very dark… best noir I’ve seen since Out of the Past<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n

6. F.W. Murnau’s Faust<\/a><\/strong> – c’mon, it’s Faust.<\/p>\n

7. Moolaade<\/a><\/strong> – best movie on female genital mutilation I’ve ever seen.<\/p>\n

8. Dazed and Confused<\/a><\/strong> – a good time, a very happy movie.<\/p>\n

9. Tokyo Story<\/a><\/strong> – not as happy, but an emotional trip… gotta see more Ozu soon.<\/p>\n

10. Kageroza<\/a><\/strong> – glad to see what Seijun Suzuki did during his “time off” from filmmaking.<\/p>\n

11. Touch the Sound<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

12. The Philadelphia Story<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

13. Greed<\/a><\/strong> (The TCM reconstructed version)<\/p>\n

14. La Strada<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

15. Wages of Fear<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

16. Hypothesis of the Stolen Painting<\/a><\/strong> – made the list as soon as the curator fell asleep and the disembodied narrator started whispering so as not to wake him.<\/p>\n

17. Jean Renoir’s The Lower Depths<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

18. Petulia<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

19. Mr. Arkadin<\/a><\/strong> (corinth version) – Orson Welles in full-on crazy mode… a bunch of amazing scenes loosely stitched together with a ridiculous (and poorly dubbed) framing device. Too weird not to love.<\/p>\n

20. Letter From Siberia<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Honorable mentions to The Thief of Bagdad<\/a><\/strong>, The Newton Boys<\/a><\/strong>, Knowing Me Knowing You with Alan Partridge<\/strong>, the Judex<\/strong> silent serial, and Fritz Lang’s While The City Sleeps<\/strong>, among many others.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

1. Black Narcissus – I enjoyed this so much that the review I wrote that night is raving nonsense. I did call it one of the best movies I’ve ever seen, so I’ll take my word for it. 2. The Double Life of Veronique – beautiful in a way that doesn’t even make sense… will […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,2],"tags":[152],"class_list":["post-173","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-journal","category-movie","tag-lists"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=173"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8656,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173\/revisions\/8656"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}