1. The Campus Corpse* (Curtis) - C-
2. The Annotated Field Guide of Ulysses S. Grant* (Finn)
3. Heat (Mann) - A
4. The Most Popular Things in the World to Do* (Higgins)
5. Kitâb al-Isfâr: The Book of the Journey* (Hillman)
6. Topology of Sirens* (Davies)
7. Her Name Was Europa* (Dornieden/Monroy)
8. Bloodshot Heart* (Malfitano)
9. Patching Topias* (Deltrieux)
10. Skagit* (Thompson)
* - First-time watch
Most of the titles on this list are submissions that I previewed for an upcoming film festival and I’m therefore not assigning them letter grades. I have made no secret of my fondness for Topology of Sirens, however, a film I consider to be one of the year’s best. You can read my review at Letterboxd here.
Category Archives: The Last Ten Movies I Saw
The Last Ten Movies I Saw
The Last Ten Movies I Saw
1. Joni Mitchell: A Woman of Heart and Mind* (Lacy) - B+
2. Jimmy Carter: Rock and Roll President* (Wharton) - B
3. Mr. Klein* (Losey) - A
4. Odds Against Tomorrow* (Wise) - A-
5. The Lady Eve (Sturges) - A+
6. Taste of Cherry (Kiarostami) - A+
7. Inside Llewyn Davis (Coen/Coen) - A-
8. I’m Not There (Haynes) - B
9. No Direction Home: Bob Dylan (Scorsese) - A+
10. Gun Crazy (Lewis) - A
The Last Ten Movies I Saw
1. Tesla* (Almereyda) - A-
2. Nausicaa* (Varda) - I’m unable to give this a rating as it was reconstructed from a battered workprint and therefore incomplete. But, like all of Agnes Varda’s films, it is worth seeing.
3. The Gleaners and I: Two Years Later* (Varda) B+
4. Jacquot de Nantes* (Varda) - A-
5. Kung-Fu Master!* (Varda) - A
6. Jane B. par Agnes V.* (Varda) - B
7. Les Creatures* (Varda) - B+
8. Relic* (James) - B
9. Daguerreotypes* (Varda) - A
10. The Narrow Margin* (Fleischer) - A-
* First-time watch
The Last Ten Movies I Saw
1. La Pointe Court (Varda) - A-
2. The Cameraman (Keaton/Sedgwick) - A
3. Mur Murs (Varda) - A
4. Clash By Night (Lang) - A
5. She Dies Tomorrow* (Seimetz) - A-
6. Now and Then* - (Glatter) - C+
7. Good Time (Safdie/Safdie) - A-
8. The Sun Shines Bright (Ford) - A+
9. Days of Heaven (Malick) - A
10. Breathless (Godard) - A
*First-time watch
The Last Ten Movies I Saw
1. Wagon Master (Ford) - A+
2. Carmen Jones* (Preminger) - A-
3. Rear Window (Hitchcock) - A+
4. Bunny Lake is Missing* (Preminger) - A-
5. Straight Shooting (Ford) - B+
6. Bicycle Thieves (De Sica) - A
7. Bad Day at Black Rock* (Sturges) - A-
8. Da Big Zip* (Alonzo) - B
9. Color Out of Space* (Stanley) - C+
10. Vertigo (Hitchcock) - A+
*First-time watch
The Last Ten Movies I Saw
1. Devil in a Blue Dress (Franklin) - A
2. The Awful Truth (McCarey) - A+
3. Hardly Working* (Lewis) - A-
4. Secret Honor* (Altman) - B
5. Bloody Nose, Empty Pockets* (Ross/Ross) - A-
6. My Own Love Song* (Dahan) - D-
7. The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (Wiene) - A+
8. Sherlock Jr. (Keaton) - A+
9. Mrs. Miniver (Wyler) - B-
10. Best in Show* (Guest) - C
* First-time watch
The Last Ten Movies I Saw
1. Sabrina* (Pollack) - C-
2. The Heiress* (Wyler) - A+
3. The Connection* (Clarke) - B-
4. Polyester* (Waters) - B
5. Rocky (Avildsen) - B+
6. The Barefoot Contessa (Mankiewicz) - A
7. M* (Losey) - B
8. Hill of Freedom* (Hong) - A-
9. Never Rarely Sometimes Always* (Hittman) - B+
10. Yourself and Yours* (Hong) - A-
*First-time watch
The Last Ten Movies I Saw
1. Anatomy of a Murder (Preminger) - A+
2. Stuffed* (Derham) - C+
3. Queen of Lapa* (Collatos) - B+
4. Da 5 Bloods* (Lee) - B-
5. Shirley* (Decker) - C+
6. Come Back to the Five and Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean* (Altman) - B+
7. The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (Hooper) - A-
8. The Long Gray Line (Ford) - A+
9. Gosford Park (Altman) - A
10. Tommaso* (Ferrara) - A-
* First-time watch
The Last Ten Movies I Saw
1. The Big Heat (Lang) - A+
2. Easy Money (Signorelli) - B+
3. Midsommar* (Aster) - C-
4. Tales From the Crypt* (Francis) - B
5. Summer of 84* (Simard/Whissell/Whissell) - D+
6. Fly Away Home* (Ballard) - B
7. The Cool World* (Clarke) - B+
8. Human Desire* (Lang) - A
9. Bob and Carol and Ted and Alice* (Mazursky) - B
10. Model Shop* (Demy) - A-
* First-time watch
The Last Ten Movies I Saw
1. Twilight Zone: The Movie (Landis/Spielberg/Dante/Miller) - C
2. The Last Hurrah (Ford) - A-
3. The Long Gray Line (Ford) - A+
4. Gideon’s Day (Ford) - A
5. The Whole Town’s Talking (Ford) - A-
6. The Return of the Living Dead* (O’Bannon) - B-
7. Fourteen* (Sallitt) - B+
8. The Lineup* (Siegel) - A-
9. Day of the Dead (Romero) - B+
10. Lion’s Love (…and Lies)* (Varda) - A-
*First-time watch