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Best New Discoveries: January

The Field (1990)
The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938)
The Touch (1971)
The Gift (2000)
February 1, 2025 at 9:24 PM
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Top 10 movies I saw for the first time in 2024:
1. Anatomy of a Fall (2023) dir. Justine Triet 2. The Cloud-Capped Star (1960) dir. Ritwik Ghatak 3. The Virgin Suicides (1999) dir. Sofia Coppola 4. Love Jones (1997) dir. Theodore Witcher 5. Charulata (1964) dir. Satyajit Ray 6. News from Home (1976) dir. Chantal Akerman 7. Lone Star (1996) dir. John Sayles 8. Macross Plus (1994) dir. Yuji Moriyama, Shinichiro Watanabe, Shoji Kawamori 9. Gloria (1980) dir. John Cassavetes 10. The Fifth Seal (1976) dir. Zoltán Fábri
January 7, 2025 at 3:16 AM
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Top 10 movies I saw for the first time in 2023:
1. Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse (2023) dir. Kemp Powers, Justin K. Thompson & Joaquim Dos Santos 2. Mississippi Masala (1991) dir. Mira Nair 3. Come Back to the 5 & Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean (1982) dir. Robert Altman 4. Le Trou (1960) dir. Jacques Becker 5. The Incredible Shrinking Man (1957) dir. Jack Arnold 6. Oppenheimer (2023) dir. Christopher Nolan 7. Real Life (1979) dir. Albert Brooks 8. Beau Is Afraid (2023) dir. Ari Aster 9. Paper Moon (1973) dir. Peter Bogdanovich 10. Night Tide (1961) dir. Curtis Harrington
November 20, 2024 at 7:18 AM
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Top 10 movies I saw for the first time in 2022:
1. Out of the Blue (1980) dir. Dennis Hopper 2. Drive My Car (2021) dir. Ryūsuke Hamaguchi 3. The Banshees of Inisherin (2022) dir. Martin McDonagh 4. The Beatles: Get Back (2021) dir. Peter Jackson 5. Buddies (1985) dir. Arthur J. Bressan, Jr. 6. The Blue Sky Maiden (1957) dir. Yasuzō Masumura 7. Hombre (1967) dir. Martin Ritt 8. Take Out (2004) dir. Tsou Shih-Ching, Sean Baker 9. Broken Arrow (1950) dir. Delmer Daves 10. The Ox-Bow Incident (1942) dir. William A. Wellman
November 20, 2024 at 6:56 AM
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Top 10 movies I saw for the first time in 2021:
1. All About Lily Chou-Chou (2001) dir. Shunji Iwai 2. Tropical Malady (2004) dir. Apichatpong Weerasethakul 3. The Emperor's Naked Army Marches On (1987) dir. Kazuo Hara 4. Broadcast News 5. Johnny Guitar (1954) dir. Nicholas Ray 6. The Swimmer (1968) dir. Frank Perry 7. The Big Red One (1980) dir. Samuel Fuller 8. The Servant (1963) dir. Joseph Losey 9. Marty (1955) dir. Delbert Mann 10. Alice (1988) dir. Jan Švankmajer
November 20, 2024 at 6:17 AM
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Top 10 movies I saw for the first time in 2020:
1. Little Forest: Summer/Autumn (2014) dir. Junichi Mori 2. Boris Godounov (1989) dir. Andrzej Żuławski 3. Yasha (1985) dir. Yasuo Furuhata 4. Umberto D. (1952) dir. Vittorio De Sica 5. The Funeral (1984) dir. Juzo Itami 6. The Lovers on the Bridge (1991) dir. Leos Carax 7. Z (1969) dir. Costa-Gavras 8. Michael (1924) dir. Carl Theodor Dreyer 9. Pain and Glory (2019) dir. Pedro Almodóvar 10. Abashiri Prison (1965) dir. Teruo Ishii
November 20, 2024 at 5:52 AM
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Top 10 movies I saw for the first time in 2019:
1. Rio Bravo (1959) dir. Howard Hawks 2. An American in Paris (1951) dir. Vincente Minnelli 3. The Graduate (1967) dir. Mike Nichols 4. Zigeunerweisen (1980) dir. Seijun Suzuki 5. Germany Year Zero (1948) dir. Roberto Rossellini 6. After Life (1999) dir. Hirokazu Koreeda 7. Burning (2018) dir. Lee Chang-dong 8. Daisies (1966) dir. Věra Chytilová 9. The Irishman (2019) dir. Martin Scorsese 10. The Blackcoat's Daughter (2015) dir. Osgood Perkins
November 20, 2024 at 5:24 AM
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Top 10 movies I saw for the first time in 2018:
1. La Notte (1961) dir. Michelangelo Antonioni 2. Paths of Glory (1957) dir. Stanley Kubrick 3. The Grapes of Wrath (1940) dir. John Ford 4. Lola (1961) dir. Jacques Demy 5. Days of Heaven (1978) dir. Terrence Malick 6. Rome, Open City (1945) dir. Roberto Rossellini 7. Closely Watched Trains (1966) dir. Jiří Menzel 8. El Sur (1983) dir. Victor Erice 9. That Day, on the Beach (1983) dir. Edward Yang 10. A Better Tomorrow II (1987) dir. John Woo
November 20, 2024 at 4:29 AM
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Top 10 movies I saw for the first time in 2017:
1. Easy Rider (1969) dir. Dennis Hopper 2. A Summer's Tale (1996) dir. Éric Rohmer 3. Kings of the Road (1976) dir. Wim Wenders 4. Il Sorpasso (1962) dir. Dino Risi 5. It's a Wonderful Life (1946) dir. Frank Capra 6. I Knew Her Well (1965) dir. Antonio Pietrangeli 7. Four Adventures of Reinette and Mirabelle (1987) dir. Éric Rohmer 8. Je Tu Il Elle (1974) dir. Chantal Akerman 9. Macross: Do You Remember Love? (1984) dir. Shoji Kawamori, Noboru Ishiguro 10. Badlands (1973) dir. Terrence Malick
November 20, 2024 at 4:23 AM
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Top 10 movies I saw for the first time in 2016:
November 20, 2024 at 4:21 AM
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Top 10 movies I saw for the first time in 2015:
November 20, 2024 at 4:04 AM
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Top 10 movies I saw for the first time in 2014:
November 20, 2024 at 4:03 AM
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going to port over some of my stuff from the old site since that's one of the only reasons I want to keep my account there.

It's fun to look back on my favorite movies I saw for the first time each year, I started doing that in 2019 on Twitter but since I'm starting over, here's 2013
November 20, 2024 at 3:54 AM
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KIDNAPPING BLUES (1982)
November 16, 2024 at 4:43 PM
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ON THE SILVER GLOBE (1988)
November 15, 2024 at 8:49 PM