For me the best movie I saw this year for the first time that was NOT released in 2022 was… Rocky (1976). It’s very rare for me that a movie that has been so hyped up can ever leave up to it… but Rocky REALLY is worth the hype and is just amazing. It has a real shot as one of my all time favorite films.
While I couldn’t possibly name every film I saw this year, some of the best ones I saw for the first time include: Django (1966), Once Upon A Time In The West (1968), Jackie Brown (1997), There Will Be Blood (2007), Taxi Driver (1976), La Dolce Vita (1960), Lawrence of Arabia (1962), L.A. Confidential (1997), Chinatown (1974), Rope (1948), The Cabinet of Doctor Caligari (1920), Mean Streets (1973), The Sound of Music (1965), West Side Story (1961), JFK (1991), Pan’s Labyrinth (2006), and Blazing Saddles (1974), all of which are now among my favourite films of all time. I’ve really attempted to get more accustomed with foreign cinema (particularly European cinema like France and Italy) and especially the films of Martin Scorsese.
in no order, my top 10 of the year were 1. Shoplifters 2. City of God 3. Mikey and Nicky 4. Goodbye Dragon Inn 5. Young Girls of Rochefort 6. Night of the Hunter 7. Raising Arizona 8. Gridlock'd 9. The Story of a Three Day Pass 10. Everything Everywhere All At Once Honorable mentions: La Jetee, High and Low, and The Last Picture Show
So according to my Letterboxd diary I watched 344 films during 2022. I had some well known classics that I hadn't seen yet that really proved to live up to the hype, and then there were a few other films that really resonated with me. I really like this idea of end-of-year listing as you can find endless videos of creators on TH-cam sharing favorite films of the past year that can tend to be much the same. I think it's a shame that so many people having film channels on TH-cam feel they have to lean so much on new releases, as I feel cinema is too much expansive to only focus on what's "new". Not to say you shouldn't seek out new films of course, that's how we keep cinema alive. But I've found that since I decided to choose completely freely to watch whatever film I feel like at any moment from any era, my enthusiasm for film has only grown. Although it wasn't among my top 10 films I watched for the first time this year, one of my favorite surprises this year was watching Pépé le Moko (1937). A film I didn't know anything about, and I had the luck of seeing at the movie theater. I don't know if this has been a bit of a rambling or not (I've had a cold with a fever for several days now) but all of this is to say that film is great because you can find favorites from all of its over 120 years of existence. That's just neat. Anyway, these are my top 10 choices for the best films I saw in 2022. 1. Taxi Driver (1976) 2. Slacker (1990) 3. Hereditary (2018) 4. Fanny and Alexander (1982) 5. Notorious (1946) 6. The Raid 2 (2014) 7. Raise the Red Lantern (1991) 8. 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) 9. All About My Mother (1999) 10. Blood Simple (1984)
@@EyebrowCinema Yeah, loved that one for all the reasons you mentioned. I've only seen four of Almodóvar's films so I'm no expert but I highly recommend Bad Education and Volver, especially the former. I was very glad to finally coming around to the films in the top 5 as they mostly consist of films by my favorite directors. Would have been perfect to watch Fanny and Alexander during the winter instead of the autumn (being Swedish we do get some wonderful snow where I live sometimes), but that'll be for my second watch I guess. Of the films you listed other than All About My Mother I've only seen Wings of Desire (which is one of my favorites), Far from Heaven and Winter Light. Great picks!
Blood Simple (1984) just blows my mind when I watch it: Every shot is gorgeous AND has meaning and purpose for the story the whole way, and it all fits together so beautifully! - It truly amazes me that two young pimply lads from nowhere (The Cohen Brothers) barely out of their teens could make this on their FIRST effort! How!? 😅
Oh boy will my list get shit upon. I watched 29 movies this year, let’s have fun. 5. Weird: The Al Yankovic Story 4. Killer Klowns from Outer Space 3. Napoleon Dynamite 2. Terminator 2: Judgment Day 1. jackass the movie, number two, 2.5, 3D, bad grandpa, forever. I’m a simple man who likes stupid movies
Dumb movies that _know they're dumb,_ and are willing to have a heap of fun with ALL the stupid are A RIOT to watch! - _Killer Klowns from Outer Space_ RULES! \😹/
Masaki Kobayashi always feels underappreciated due to being at the time of Kurosawa and Ozu. But Kwaidan and Human condition are masterful works of Japanese cinema, at the same level of Ran, Late Autumn and Yojimbo/Sanjuro and Tokyo Twilight and Early Spring. Another Japanese filmmaker who remains underappreciated is Kenji Mizoguchi who made Life of Oharu, Ugetsu monogatari and the great epic Sansho the Bailiff.
My Top 10 best first watches this year 10. Metropolis (9/10) 9. Avatar 2 (9/10) 8. Seven Samurai (9/10) 7. Interstellar (9/10) 6. Full Metal Jacket (9/10) 5. The Passion of Joan of Arc (10/10) 4. Fantastic Planet (10/10) 3. American Psycho (10/10) 2. Schindlers List (10/10) 1.A Clockwork Orange (10/10)
1. Hunger (1966) dir. Henning Carlsen 2. Happy as Lazzaro (2018) dir. Alice Rohrwacher 3. The Swimmer (1968) dir. Frank Perry 4. Greed (1924) dir. Erich von Stroheim 5. Burden of Dreams (1982) dir. Les Blank 6. Raise the Red Lantern (1991) dir. Zhang Yimou 7. Fox and His Friends (1975) dir. Rainer Werner Fassbinder 8. Peppermint Candy (1999) dir. Lee Chang-dong 9. Old Joy (2006) dir. Kelly Reichardt 10. Death of a Salesman (1985) dir. Volker Schlöndorff
Totally unfamiliar with your top two. Raise the Red Lantern is one I owe a rewatch. Greatly enjoyed it when I saw it but the subtitled translation I was working with was clearly inaccurate.
Here are my top 10 films I watched in 2022. 1. Ikiru 2. Throne of Blood 3. The Elephant Man 4. High and Low 5. The Skeleton of Mrs. Morales 6. Ran 7. Dead Poets Society 8. Come and See 9. Yojimbo 10. Cinema Paradiso I also saw Ivan’s Childhood and The Great Silence both were good but didn’t make it to top 10 they at least got top 50. I do plan on watching more Tarkovsky this year and the Human Condition
Ivan's Childhood made me realize that Andrei Tarkovsky is the godfather of ASMR. Like seriously, almost every movie of his there's always a scene where you hear water droplets everywhere. Also, really awesome to see Wings of Desire on this list. It deserves a second viewing after over a decade. That Wim Wenders collection I bought really comes in handy right now.
10- the adventures of Faustus Bidgood 9-do the right thing 8-evil dead 2 7-dazed and confused 6-nope 5-the thing 4-my dinner with Andre 3-under the silver lake 2-network 1-before sunset
This year I’ve seen plenty film noir,and the filmography of many directors like Polanski,Melville,Wilder, Takeshi Kitano,Coen brothers,Jarmusch Godard,De Palma,Bertolucci . My top 10 list would be: 1.The conformist (1970） 2.Repulsion (1965) 3.Out of the Past (1947) 4.Blow out (1981) 5.Le Deuxieme Soufflé (1966) 6.Double Indemnity (1944) 7.Sonatine (1993) 8.Blood Simple (1984) 9.Sweet Smell of Success (1957) 10.Don’t look now (1973)
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Favourite Non 2022 Films that I watched for the first time in 2022 (not ranked) - - American Psycho - Groundhog Day - Prince of Egypt - Snowpiercer - Memories of Murder - Inside Llewyn Davis - 2001: A Space Odyssey - The Nice Guys - There will be Blood - The Master - West Side Story (2021) - Phantom Thread - Licorice Pizza - Spencer - Drive My Car - Evil Dead 2 - A Simple Plan - Children of Men - Nayakan - 12 Angry Men - Manchester by the Sea
First Reformed definitely tackles the fear of climate change more fully than Winter Light does nuclear armageddon. I would give Winter Light the edge in terms of the continued performance of a task despite a shattered faith, which is the area I most related to it.
I thought that Winter Lights was a better movie than First Reformed overall. But the first 20 minutes of First Reformed burnt so brightly that it overshadowed either movies by the end of it all. That conversation between the protagonist and the enviormentalist goes for the throat like almost nothing else in cinema. Its shockingly intense and intelligent, arriving seemingly out-of-nowhere after such a mellow start, startling in a way Winter Light's opposite never was.
I really like this idea a lot! I love videos like this and your DVD Dumpster Dive. Would it be okay if I do something similar for my TH-cam channel this December? I would give credit!
Pain and Glory is a mutch watch for Almodovar. A beautiful modern retelling of 8 and a half in some ways, Banderas is so wonderful in it (and it continues to amaze me how different actors in their native countries are than in the west. Banderas in Spain can play sensitive, thoughtful, repressed characters, in the west he's Puss in Boots and the dad from Spy Kids).
Banderas is beautiful in that film - I sobbed so hard after it ended! If you liked him in Pain and Glory, I can recommend the fairly new Official Competition (with Penelope Cruz I might add!)
i began watching ingmar bergmans films and HOLY SHIT what a visionary my personal favourite of his being automn sonata also two othar great filmmakers i discovered were abbas kiarostami and nuri bilge ceylan oh and also i checked out the apartmant because you made a vid about it also the umberallas of cherbourg and festen were fantastic films
@@EyebrowCinema of the 2 duds one involves nuns getting high in their nunnery with a domestic tiger and the other one involves a love septuple where one of the parties is Javier Bardem as a wheelchair basketball player, so while neither might pull of the landing, they are definetly worth watching anyway
Here's a bunch of bizarre and/or interesting horror films from the 20th century I watched in 2022: Deranged (1974) Waxworks (1924) The Beast With Five Fingers (1946) Targets (1968) It's Alive (1974) Isle of the Dead (1945) Don't Torture A Duckling (1972) Lemora: A Child's Tale of the Supernatural (1973) The House That Screamed (1969) A Chinese Ghost Story (1987) Lord of Illusions (1995) Race With The Devil (1975) Hangover Square (1945) Vampyres (1974) Jigoku (1960) Frightmare (1974) The Devil and Daniel Webster (1941) Q: The Winged Serpent (1982) Puppetmaster (1989) The Lair of the White Worm (1988) The Other (1972) The Night Stalker (1972) The House of Laughing Windows (1976) The Walking Dead (1936) Horror Express (1972) When A Stranger Calls (1979) Rabid (1977) Burn Witch Burn (1962) Seance On A Wet Afternoon (1964) The Picture of Dorian Gray (1945) Ms 45 (1981) Taste of Fear (1961) Mumsy, Nanny, Sonny, and Girly (1970) The Shout (1978) Bedlam (1946) Burial Ground (1981)
My 15 best first time watches this year (not including 21st century releases) have got to be: Battleship Potemkin (1925) To Be Or Not To Be (1942) Casablanca (1942) Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961) The Love Eterne (1963) War and Peace (1965) The Holy Mountain (1973) Lady Snowblood (1973) Wings of Desire (1987) Kiki's Delivery Service (1989) Raise the Red Lantern (1991) To Live (1994) Gattaca (1997) Good Will Hunting (1997) Eyes Wide Shut (1999)
I'm probably forgetting a lot, but 10 of the best films I first saw in 2022 are: The Servant (1963) Barry Lyndon (1975) Naked (1993) Bringing Out The Dead (1999) Who's Afraid Of Virginia Woolf (1966) Gone To Earth (1950) Brighton Rock (1948) Deep End (1970) Kind Hearts And Coronets (1949) The Element Of Crime (1984)
The Lord of the Rings and Hobbit Trilogies, Top Gun & Top Gun Maverick, Tokyo Godfathers, Memories, Shin Godzilla, The Fifth Element, The Sound of Music, and to top them all: Samurai Cop. But in all seriousness, 2022 was a major year for movies for me. While there was some new stuffed I liked such as TP Maverick, Dragon Ball Super Super Heroes, and The Batman, there really wasn't anything else that I was interested in compared to older films.
My personal thoughts on your favorites: Wings of Desire - I saw this when I was around 15 and hated it. But it's been a long time and I can't recall too well what worked or didn't. Wenders has one terrific movie under him (Paris, Texas), but for the most part I haven't connected with the guy. All About My Mother - Ewww, Almodovar. :P This one did not work for me at all, with his garish comedy clashing with the overt soap melodrama every step of the way. I found the whole thing to be a mess, honestly. Ivan's Childhood - Big Tarkovsky fan here, and Ivan is definitely in that top tier of his. It's the perfect vengeance movie, showing how Ivan's whole being has been warped by the war, destroying all joy. Did you watch Tarkovsky's 40 minute student film The Steamroller and the Violin? I saw it on TH-cam earlier this year, and I think it is worth a watch. Far from Heaven - I do not think we share the same tastes at all. :D This thing is so on-the-nose and so openly melodramatic and so very, very annoying. I do think Haynes can do good movies - I'm Not There is brilliant, and Carol is solid - but this ain't it. Bergman - Hoo boy, am I gonna dislike this section... not that I hate the guy, but I find him rather pretentious in his theological bullshit. As someone who has grown up in a religious environment myself, I find his movies eye-rollingly simplistic, as a rule. The Magic Flute is a lot of fun, one of his best movies (it helps that he didn't write it). Scenes from a Marriage is quite good, as I recall. Shame is decent. And... Winter Light. Well, it's better than that awful remake from Schrader, anyway? I find the pastor's argument with God to be so self-centered that it is impossible to be sympathetic to him. The Human Condition: KOBAYASHI THE KING. This isn't his best - the middle part drags - nor is it his angriest (Harakiri or Hymn to a Tired Man take that position), but this is when he came into his own. (I slightly prefer his earlier Somewhere Beneath the Wide Sky, but that was more Naruse or Ozu than what he would later become.) Along with Kon Ichikawa's Fires on the Plain, this is one of the great anti-war movies in that it shows the simple human center of a soldier. Other honorable mentions: Dangerous Liaisons - A lot of fun I Married a Witch - Even more fun Pandora's Box - One of the great silents, a stunningly immersive experience Tokyo Godfathers - Far and away my favorite movie in this video. Hilarious and heartbreaking in equal measure, one of my all-timers. Not as good as Kon's Paranoia Agent (his one swing at TV), and I STRONGLY RECOMMEND checking that out if you are a fan of his.
Stunning list. Very inspiring, gives me ideas for films to explore. Beside Mubi, may I ask what other platforms/streaming services you use to find those gems? Any suggestions?
My serious cinema journey began in 2022 and in that year, I daresay, I've watched 274 movies out of which 241 were non American. But just to name a few Les Quatre Cents Coups, À Bout de Souffle, Playtime, Au Hasard Balthazar, Le Samourai, Pierrot le Fou, L'Avventura, Otto e Mezzo, Nights of Cabiria, Bicycle Thieves, Salo, Sans Soleil, Portrait de la Jeune Fille en feu, La Haine, The Seventh Seal, Persona, Fanny and Alexander, Scenes from a Marriage, The Great Beauty, Paris Texas, Holy Motors, Naked, Y tu Mama Tambien, Roma, Le Mépris, Jules et Jim, La Nuit Americaine, Amores Perros, Virdinia, Belle de Jour, The discreet charm of the Bourgeoisie, Bob le Flambeur, Umbrellas of Cherbourgh, Amour, Hiroshima mon Amour, All Tarkovsky, All Kieslowski, Close Up, Taste of Cherry, The wind will carry us, Through the Olive trees, Where is the friend's house, Fitzcarraldo, Agguire der Zorn Gottes, Berlin Alexanderplatz, Ali: Fear eats the Soul, Bitter tears of Petra Von Kant, Man with a movie camera, Cache and many more...
I think Law of Desire and Bad Education are Almodovar's best movies, but given the ones you've listed and said you like, you would probably enjoy Pain and Glory quite a bit.
i watched robert altmans NASHVILLE for the first time this past year and it’s since become my favourite film of all time, so that would probably be my number one. la dolce vita is also a contender
Narrowing down only 10 films was impossible so here is my top 15 favourite first watches of 2022: 1. Battleship Potemkin 2. Oslo, August 31st 3. The Celebration 4. Ivan the Terrible 5. Dial M for Murder 6. Le Trou 7. Cries and Whispers 8. Breif Encounter 9. Stoker 10. Winter Sleep 11. Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance 12. Au Hasard Balthazar 13. The Soft Skin 14. Holy Motors 15. La Dolce Vita I also saw basically every Orson Welles film for the first time during a retrospective of his career at the Stockholm cinematheque. None of them quite cracked this list but still want to give a shoutout to Touch of Evil, F for Fake, the Stranger, and the Trial.
Really great list. Love seeing Potemkin at the time. I should really check out Oslo, August 31st. Loved The Worst Person in the World and want to see more Joachim Trier.
@@EyebrowCinema thank you, your list is great as well. Out of every discovery I made this past year Eisenstein was easily the best, I had been led to believe his films would mostly have a theoretical value but they really are exhilarating pieces of cinema. Oslo, August 31st is something truly special, I really hope you enjoy it. Of course I would recommend every film on my list but one other I would like to especially recommend is Vinterberg's The Celebration.
When you began to say number nine, what followed I could not understand first. But after the summary and your well undersold powerhouse of a jawdrop ending, I made efforts. I watched Quo vadis aida yesterday with as much preparation as the 10 hour pickling you did for your #1 pick. Thank you. What an excellent and heart wrenching film. That ending, even with your warning, beckoned to be seen and change the one who saw it. After the film ended and my tears dried, I looked up information on that particular massacre until I could not stand to see more bodies. The film was only the second Serbian film of my catalogue. That is you don't count A Serbian Film - a deserved subject but not for this discussion. What you may count and count yourself lucky to see is Savior, Dennis Quaid's 1998 powerhouse which if you will allow its cold desert cloak of anxiety wrap around you long enough to meet the child, you too will be picking up your jaw and wiping away tears. He is both miscast and perfectly cast. One a bit more obscure but worth your time is The Hater, currently streaming on Netflix. This 2020 Polish thriller hits close to home with internet espianoge and a young confidence man who hasn't yet decided how far he will bend the world. Loved your runners up, all worthy but Dangerous Liasons becomes more special as it ages, showing it stars at time when their had not yet hit the max of their powers and what a powerhouse they all were together - you as well Keanu and also you Swoosie.
Lots of movies on here that I need to see. Glad to see The Human Condition made it to the list. Such an affecting experience. It's definitely the only trilogy of that length besides LOTR that I would consider re-watching all in the same sitting.
While I didn’t watch as much as I’d have liked filmwise, I did finally watch Godfather I & II for the first time (long overdue) in 4K at my local museum cinema. They lived up to expectations as cornerstones of American cinema for sure. Preferred the first over the second, which goes against popular consensus, but if I had subtitles for Marlon Brando’s Don Corleone I could’ve viewed it a five out of five perfect masterpiece. Weird that such an iconic cinematic role even with surround sound in a large screening room, was nigh on unintelligible to my ears.
Some nice and obscure films. Here are my top 10 favorite movies I watched in 2022. It wasn’t as good as my movies I watched in 2021, but hopefully, this year will be better and will have more movies this year. 1. Inglorious Basterds 2. Vertigo 3. Breathless 4. Monty Python and the Holy Grail 5. Claudine 6. Mean Streets 7. Death Wish 3 (Yes I love this one because of how insane and action packed it is) 8. To Sir, with Love 9. Death Wish 2 10. Hara-Kiri
@@EyebrowCinema Oh Thank you. Maybe this has to do with the fact that I'm trying to expand my taste in movies given the fact that I'm actually 15 after all, but I'll get there. Maybe I'm not giving myself that much credit, but I promise that this year will be even better than last year. But glad you liked my list.
For me I think my top ten would be: Cinema Paradiso American Pyscho Raging bull Citezen Kane Godfather trilogy Scarface Once upon a time in america The good the bad and the ugly The Conversation (francis for coppola) Django Unchained You've got a brilliant list, ive gotta check out some of those, I'm getting tired of seeing the same old blockbuster films on every youtubers best movies of the year list, it's great having a breath of fresh air👍
If you like Almodovar's more perverse, horror-adjacent side, I'd recommend MATADOR and LAWS OF DESIRE. They're somewhere between gialli and erotic thrillers.
This year I finally got aorund to watching a lot of classics, as well as delving into just nay movie I'd been curious about watching. Some of my best first time watches of the year were Jaws, Jurassic Park, the first two Thin Man movies, the Chucky and Child's Play movies, Ravenous, Hail,Caesar!, O Brother, Where Are Thou?, Miller's Crossing, All You Need is Cash, Kiss Kiss Bang Bang and Brokeback Mountain.
My list: Sorcerer Crash (1996) A Place in the Sun Memories of Murder A Perfect World Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid The Wild Bunch After Hours Jacob's Ladder Hour of the Gun
I only seen from your list Ivan’s Childhood (really good) and Natural Born Killers (not a fan personally). Definitely keeping the other movies mentioned in the back burner. Can’t wait for more videos this year
I hated the great silence so much when I first warched it, but with time, I now consider it one of the best spaghetti westerns As for my favorite first watches this year: The Mission Blast of Silence The Ox Bow Incident Peeping Tom Scream Black Christmas No country for old men Scarface (1983) Blade Runner (final cut) Kill Bill Vol.1
My biggest discoveries were all Soviet productions, The Cranes are Flying (1957) and I Am Cuba (1964) by Mikhail Kalatozov and Sergei Bondarchuk's 7 hour long War and Peace (1965), all some of the most jaw-dropping, awe inspiring films I've ever seen
@@EyebrowCinema definitely worth the runtime! It mostly gets attention (rightfully) for its insane scale and battle scenes, but it's just as impressive in it's more intimate moments as well
You can also find Kalatozov's _Letter Never Sent_ (1960) in HD on TH-cam.....It's truly GORGEOUS! 🥰 - Another one on YT is _ZeroGrad_ (1988) - an absurdist Soviet comedy that had a movie flavour that was completely new to me. Loved it! 👍
I'm glad I'm not the only one that has a very particular kink for 'Snow Westerns' (as you call 'em) - It somehow refreshes _everything_ about these stories..... *McCabe & Mrs Miller* (1971) might be my favourite; what a find!
10. Vertigo 9. Badlands 8. Bicycle Thieves 7. The 400 Blows 6. The Insider 5. Come And See 4. Chinatown 3. Barry Lyndon 2. Once Upon A Time In America 1. Manhunter Going into Manhunter I never expected to like it as much as I did, even being a huge Michael Mann fan. But it’s grown on me unlike any other movie I’ve seen in a long, long time.
Love the video!!! The best films I saw this year for the first time: A Matter of Life and Death The Apartment Key Largo Macbeth (1948) In a Lonely Place The Lavender Hill Mob The Man Who Would Be King The Ladykillers The Great Silence Oliver Twist Brief Encounter I Know Where I’m Going Great Expectations To Catch a Thief The Killers (1964) Across the Pacific Casablanca To Have and Have Not
the only meaningful first-time watches i've had this year have been with the films of Fred Zinnemann, since i was a big fan of Day of the Jackal. I was especially impressed with Nun's Story and A Man For All Seasons, two movies i thought would be boring and pretentious but turned out to be scathing. so yeah, Zinnemann is a master of the craft and most of his movies exceeded my expectations. happy new year ^^
@@EyebrowCinema yes it's pretty damn good especially for the time, but i still rank it below Jackal, Nun and All Seasons. High Noon still feels a bit raw in terms of execution compared to his later films, but the story, dialogue and acting are all top-notch. and again, all the more impressive when you consider it's historical context contrasted with it's deconstruction of western mythology (one of the first films to do so, if no the first?). you know you're doing something right when you piss off John Wayne and Hawks enough to make Rio Bravo
I was lucky enough to discover some of my favorite films ever this year, including Paddington 2 (2018), Children of Men (2006), The Fly (1986), Bright Star (2009), The Innocents (1961), The Host (2006), Sunset Boulevard (1950), Stalker (1979), The Age of Innocence (1993), and The Red Shoes (1948)- which blew my mind so much that I immediately begged my friends to add it to our group movie night roster. I really need to get around to Wings of Desire and Almodóvar’s work this year!
Watched a low number of new films this year (90) but add this list to the fire! 10. The Banshees of Insiherin 2022/The Crusades 1935 9. Night Flier 1997 (Squarely for the ending. One of the most eye-popping depictions of Vamperism I've seen) 8. The Gunfighter 1950 7. The Northman 2022 6. Black Phone 2022 5. Antigone 1961 4. Collateral 2004 3. Mother Joan of the Angels 1961 2. The Moon of Israel 1924 1. Black Narcissus 1947
@@EyebrowCinema Thanks! I initially wrote like 500 words just slandering Wings of Desire but then thought to myself: "No. 2023 cannot start like this." I only saw the first part of the Human Condition trilogy and while its certainly pretty, I honestly found it a bit to blunt, didactic, and heavy-handed to be properly impactful. Also discussing The Great Silence is just a trauma trigger.
I first saw Ivan's Childhood (aka My Name is Ivan) back in 2000 before turning 15, during a summer camp with a counselor who was a major film buff. It was my introduction to Tarkovsky. And as a fan of Japanese cinema, The Human Condition, which I first saw much later in my late 20's, is not only long, but a real tearjerker for me.
I have to admit, I'm not huge on Bergman, or at least Winter Light. It's good, but I feel like I've seen films explore similar themes better (I was a huge fan of Scorsese's Silence for example).
I had to watch Ivan's Childhood for university due to studying the europe during the aftermath of WWII. I thought it was interesting and one I definatly a well made film which I remember.
The best movie I saw this year was death proof. Not only we’re the cars so so fucking cool but also the idea that a group of women in the middle of nowhere can defeat a rampaging serial killer who has no emotions and still finds enjoyment of killing women with his car
For me, the best movie I saw this year was actually released this year: Everything Everywhere All at Once. One of the times I watched a movie and was met with a truly spiritual experience. Some of my other most impressive movie-watching experiences this year were 12 Angry Men (1957), Spirited Away (2001), The Tree of Life (2011), A.I. Artificial Intelligence (2001), Climax (2018), and Tar (2022). Each one was a favorite film for a while, and some also gave me a near-spiritual experience when watching them, just like EEAAO.
Snow westerns rock so much, it wouldn't make my top 10 first watches this year but Day of the Outlaw from the snow western collection on the Criterion Channel was great. For top 10 first watches though The Human Condition would also make my list, I liked the other Kobayashi movies I had seen before but this is the one that really made me love him as a director. Some other fav first watches in no particular order: Asako I & II, Fox and His Friends, The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp, The Shop Around the Corner, Millennium Actress, Ballad of a Soldier, Deep Cover, Peeping Tom, and The Insider.
If you liked the great silence might want to check out the movie Jeremiah Johnson. One of the great westerns that isn’t talked about much. Much of it takes place in winter
I second this motion! Every outdoorsmans favorite movie. Jeremiah Johnson is one of those films I'd call genuinelly poetic, but not in terms of storytelling or style (like, say, another poetic Western like Jarmusch's Dead Man) but in how its protagonist evolves and changes in accordance with the rythms of his life. Its one of the most splendid character-arches in cinema. Its ending is also as understated as it is radical, finding accord and co-existence yeilding from the chaos of our lives and grimness of our hatreads. Very different from what you'd find in other "Indian Westerns" like say Dances with Wolves
You've done it again. Now I have to watch all of the films in this list for myself. Congratulations, you did your work well. But seriously, this is another great video from you. Keep them coming and happy new year! 🤟🏻
10. Fail-Safe (1964) 9. A Few Good Men 8. Hell Comes to Frog Town 7. RRR 6. The African Queen 5. Ben Hur (1959) 4. Prey (2022) 3. Dersu Uzala 2. Best Years of Our Lives 1. The Petrified Forest
A lot of very respectable movies that I saw this year, but only one that really knocked my socks off. However, there were a couple of great TV shows, a movie that I have sorta kinda already seen, and a short film I'm listing as *mentions, making this a top 14. Like I said, a lot of very respectable movies. 1. Arcane: League of Legends* (2021) - Somebody went and made a show from a video game I have no interest in playing and created a masterpiece. A magnificent tragedy full of a dozen or so fully realized characters in a narrative that reminds me of nothing so much as *The Battle of Algiers* in its portrayal of revolutionaries and cops battling over a city's soul. Heartbreaking stuff. 2. Happy Old Year (2019) - The standout movie of the year is this little Thai movie about a woman decluttering her house. Sounds like a very dull dramedy that is innocent enough to be bearable, but instead I got a tragedy about a woman coming face to face with her own sins. Chutimon Chuengcharoensukying is great as this woman casting away her soul one stuffed garbage bag at a time. This goes right into my GOAT list of 100 movies or so. 3. Agnes (2021) - The greatest discovery of the year is director Mickey Reece (there is a good chance a movie of his I watched today will make my top ten for 2023 - the deliciously titled Strike, Dear Mistress, and Cure His Heart). Agnes sits at a comfortable 4.0 average rating on IMDb, and I am not surprised at all... this is a very odd, unique film. It starts off as a B-movie parody of exorcism films, before morphing into a serious drama in which characters intelligently talk about... faith. The substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. Molly C. Quinn is easily Oscar worthy as a nun who loses her faith (culminating in a magnificent scene in which she sits down with a priest and hold a ten minute long conversation about God and how we can know Him). The comedic elements won't connect with a lot of people, and the dramatic elements will throw people enjoying the comedy... but if you connect with both aspects of the movie, you will be entranced. 4. Bad Genius (2017) - My favorite performance of the year goes to Chutimon Chuengcharoensukying as a brilliant high school student running an exam cheating business at her private school. Snappy editing, a star turn for the ages, and a script that examines class and opportunity in a vein VERY similar to Parasite (it is even couched in a "heist movie but not really a heist movie" formula in a similar way). An absolute blast. 5. Moonlit Winter (2019) - There's a scene in this movie in which a woman offers her forty year old niece a hug, and they just... hold each other. For 86 seconds. There's a teenage girl who is constantly taking pictures of everything but people, and when asked why, she says that she only photographs "beautiful things." She spends the rest of the movie photographing her mother. *There was no way I wouldn't love this.* The film is so kind and gentle and warm, but there is also so much pain under the surface, with both of the main characters - played by Kim Hee-ae and Yuko Nakamura, both of whom are beyond spectacular - holding back through the whole film, wary and weary and never letting anybody know what is going on in their heads and how much they are hurting. And the people around them, knowing anyway, being kind and trying to help in their own ways. 6. The Amusement Park (1975) - George Romero's nightmarish, surreal horror is what The Father should have been. Old age has never been so terrifying. 7. House of Cards (1990)* - This miniseries starring the great Ian Richardson is delightfully twisted fun. Richardson is having the time of his life doing a mashup of Iago, Macbeth and Richard III - a slimeball politician full of ambition and purely amoral greed. The rottenness of the whole affair can be off-putting, but it embraces every seedy, ugly second for pure entertainment potential. I haven't seen the American remake with Kevin Spacey, but I can't believe it is half this much fun. 8. House of Hummingbird (2019) - I have now reached the point that I'm old enough to watch movies and say "wow, that totally captures a very specific time that I actually lived through." I am not a Korean, but this coming of age film captures the time and more importantly, it captures the people. It is hard to describe just what makes it so great, just that it is honest about parental child relationships, sibling relationships, loneliness, self-loathing... I really, really like it. 9. Madoka Magica: Eternal (2012)* - This is a recap movie for the last third of the Madoka Magica TV series, of which I am a MEGAFAN. And it pretty much just... takes the four episodes as is, save for a couple of very smart interludes added in that happen between "episodes" and allow us to catch our breath (whereas they are unnecessary in the show, as you WILL be stopping for a breath after those episodes instead of continuing onwards). It's too bad the first recap movie (titled Beginnings) is such a poorly paced disaster, as this entry is solid enough that I could recommend it in place of the show. 10. Little Forest: Winter/Spring (2015) - The Korean remake was one of my favorite movies of 2021, so I was excited to check out the original Japanese duology. The first part (Summer/Autumn) is aimless but wonderfully calming... but this second part is more intense (as in, it goes from "wonderfully calming" to "still really, REALLY calming compared to 99% of everything ever but it feels like a roller coaster in comparison"), questioning what our protagonist wants out of life and if her time in Little Forest is just escaping from her responsibilities. It's more focused and thus more powerful. Great stuff. 11. The Taking of Pelham One Two Three (1974) - I love seeing professionals being professional. The movie feels so realistic and smart, a far cry from modern Hollywood's fascination with and fellation of insubordinate idiots that act like entitled children. Walter Matthau is the action star I didn't know we needed. 12. The Black Tower (1987)* - A short horror film about a man being pursued by a mysterious black tower. The film plays entirely without people on screen or moving cameras, just a camera looking out a window, or to the skyline, always with this unnervingly black thing that looks like a hole in existence. The narrative is carried by narration, making this more like an audio book than a movie in some ways. Not that I'm complaining, as the mixture of image and word is truly scary stuff. 13. The Whispering Star (2015) - Sion Sono's experimental art film about a robot delivery woman traveling across the galaxy to deliver packages to people who ordered them decades prior. It's an ineffably sad film, seeing what these people find so important that they send them into the future like time capsules. A cigarette, a photograph, a life contained in an item that is, in itself, nothing at all. It's gently heartbreaking. 14. The State I Am In (2000) - Christian Petzold's first theatrical feature (his three prior TV movies are quite good too) is a great picture of parental abuse and what it does to a child. A teenage girl on the run with her terrorist parents, unable to open herself up to anyone, because if she does, *her parents will literally die.* But she wants to be normal oh so much, and the push-pull between her love for the people who love her and the life they are keeping from her is tangibly painful.
I think this would be my top 10: 10. Ali: Fear Eats the Soul 9. Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore 8. Cool Hand Luke 7. The Ballad of Narayama 6. Don't Look Now 5. Witness for the Prosecution 4. The Banshees of Inisherin 3. Once Upon a Time in America 2. The Night of the Hunter 1. Scenes from a Marriage
You should watch Volver and Broken Embraces from Almodovar, both with Penelope Cruz, both awesome. Broken Embraces is the kind of movie about moviemaking. Oh and Pain And Glory with Banderas is also pretty good
As a spanish cinephile and long time fan of Almodovar, I would recommend you to watch Pain and Glory (Dolor y Gloria). It's my favourite film of his, alongside Talk to her (Hable con ella) and All about my mother (Todo sobre mi madre).
Much appreciated. Talk to Her is one I should probably rewatch too. It was my first Almodovar and I'm pretty sure I was still in high school at the time.
Great video! The Human Condition is something else. Love Kobayashi. My favorite discovers of this year were Seven Beauties (1975) The Captive (2000) Serie Noire (1979) All About Lily Chou Chou (2001) and thanks to you Beyond the Hills! You should check out Pedro’s Volver (2006) next!
I had a similar experience with Almodóvar’s films this past year. One great one I watched is Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown, which is an excellent take on the screwball comedy.
If you like Pedro Almodovar, I swear by Bad Education. I'd compare it Nocturnal Animals but I think it goes way harder. Anyway, here is my own top ten of what I saw for the first time this year: 10. Hiroshima mon amour/Last Year at Marienbad 9. AI: Artificial Intelligence 8. Husbands 7. Gates of Heaven 6. Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans 5. Fanny and Alexander (miniseries) 4. Blue Collar 3. The Man Who Fell to Earth 2. Saturday Night Fever 1. Freaks
I really enjoy these lists. Gives me some good recommendations to check out sometime. Anyway, here are my favorite first time watches this year in no particular order: 1. Pain & Gain (2013) 2. Ragin Bull (1980) 3. Rashomon (1950) 4. Klute (1971) 5. Mulholland Drive (2001) 6. The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo (2011) 7. Before Midnight (2013) 8. The 13th Warrior (1999) 9. Chinatown (1974) 10. Antichrist (2009)
@@EyebrowCinema I was surprised how much I liked it. It’s basically Michael Bay’s take on a true crime story in the vein of Fargo with some Parasite-esque class warfare thrown in for good measure.
My favorite first Time watches are 1. The Young Girls of Rochefort 2. Everything Everywhere All at Once 3. The Tale of Princess Kaguya 4. Black Christmas 5. The French Dispatch 6. Scream 7. The Wicker Man 8. The Amazing Catfish 9. The Kid 10. Malcolm X Also came to the relization that Horror Is my favorite Genere, Musicals being on second place.
@@EyebrowCinema It's a Mexican movie released on 2013, It actually Is really hard to find since distribution on Mexico Is rather lackluster, but It was for a limited Time on mubi, unfortunately It has long since been removed, I Guess it can be bought on I tunes or Google Play, but I'm not really sure
It's about a supermarket worker who after being hospitalized due to apendicitis, Meets an woman who has AIDS, a widowed mother with four children. The main character starts hanging out and bonding with the family, as the mother's illness starts making It hard for her to take care of the kids.
Actually doesn't count since I technically discovered the film 2 years ago in a goodwill, but I can safely say that this was the year for certain, after many times watching, that I can say that 1985's "Night on The Galactic Railroad" directed by Gisaburo Sugii has now become a favorite animated film of mine, from it's wild vistas, having Esperanto be the language of choice in text as a nod to the interest of the original author of the tale, and concepts to the core of a lonely kid taking on adult responsibilities finding both respite and resolve for the future afterwards. It takes me aback each time and I never fail to stop it until the credits are completely done.
The 10 best movies I saw for the first time this year are It’s a Wonderful Life, Top Gun Maverick, The Sting, Blues Brothers, Barry Lyndon, Magnolia, Some Like it Hot, My Dinner with Andre, The Thing, and Hausu. Love your videos and keep up the good work!
For me the best movie I saw this year for the first time that was NOT released in 2022 was… Rocky (1976). It’s very rare for me that a movie that has been so hyped up can ever leave up to it… but Rocky REALLY is worth the hype and is just amazing. It has a real shot as one of my all time favorite films.
I adore Rocky. I agree with you that it really is that great.
@@EyebrowCinema It really is, now I got to do a deep dive into all the sequels
Absolutely!
The second Rocky film is also tremendous quality 😸_👍
While I couldn’t possibly name every film I saw this year, some of the best ones I saw for the first time include: Django (1966), Once Upon A Time In The West (1968), Jackie Brown (1997), There Will Be Blood (2007), Taxi Driver (1976), La Dolce Vita (1960), Lawrence of Arabia (1962), L.A. Confidential (1997), Chinatown (1974), Rope (1948), The Cabinet of Doctor Caligari (1920), Mean Streets (1973), The Sound of Music (1965), West Side Story (1961), JFK (1991), Pan’s Labyrinth (2006), and Blazing Saddles (1974), all of which are now among my favourite films of all time.
I’ve really attempted to get more accustomed with foreign cinema (particularly European cinema like France and Italy) and especially the films of Martin Scorsese.
Oh man, there's some really amazing stuff here, Samuel. I'm honestly a little envious.
in no order, my top 10 of the year were
1. Shoplifters
2. City of God
3. Mikey and Nicky
4. Goodbye Dragon Inn
5. Young Girls of Rochefort
6. Night of the Hunter
7. Raising Arizona
8. Gridlock'd
9. The Story of a Three Day Pass
10. Everything Everywhere All At Once
Honorable mentions: La Jetee, High and Low, and The Last Picture Show
I really need to see Shoplifters. Loved Our Little Sister back in 2016 but have since fallen behind.
So according to my Letterboxd diary I watched 344 films during 2022. I had some well known classics that I hadn't seen yet that really proved to live up to the hype, and then there were a few other films that really resonated with me. I really like this idea of end-of-year listing as you can find endless videos of creators on TH-cam sharing favorite films of the past year that can tend to be much the same. I think it's a shame that so many people having film channels on TH-cam feel they have to lean so much on new releases, as I feel cinema is too much expansive to only focus on what's "new". Not to say you shouldn't seek out new films of course, that's how we keep cinema alive. But I've found that since I decided to choose completely freely to watch whatever film I feel like at any moment from any era, my enthusiasm for film has only grown. Although it wasn't among my top 10 films I watched for the first time this year, one of my favorite surprises this year was watching Pépé le Moko (1937). A film I didn't know anything about, and I had the luck of seeing at the movie theater.
I don't know if this has been a bit of a rambling or not (I've had a cold with a fever for several days now) but all of this is to say that film is great because you can find favorites from all of its over 120 years of existence. That's just neat. Anyway, these are my top 10 choices for the best films I saw in 2022.
1. Taxi Driver (1976)
2. Slacker (1990)
3. Hereditary (2018)
4. Fanny and Alexander (1982)
5. Notorious (1946)
6. The Raid 2 (2014)
7. Raise the Red Lantern (1991)
8. 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
9. All About My Mother (1999)
10. Blood Simple (1984)
Oh cool, we both have All About My Mother in our lists! You watched some really amazing films last year, I must say.
@@EyebrowCinema Yeah, loved that one for all the reasons you mentioned. I've only seen four of Almodóvar's films so I'm no expert but I highly recommend Bad Education and Volver, especially the former. I was very glad to finally coming around to the films in the top 5 as they mostly consist of films by my favorite directors. Would have been perfect to watch Fanny and Alexander during the winter instead of the autumn (being Swedish we do get some wonderful snow where I live sometimes), but that'll be for my second watch I guess.
Of the films you listed other than All About My Mother I've only seen Wings of Desire (which is one of my favorites), Far from Heaven and Winter Light. Great picks!
Blood Simple (1984) just blows my mind when I watch it: Every shot is gorgeous AND has meaning and purpose for the story the whole way, and it all fits together so beautifully!
- It truly amazes me that two young pimply lads from nowhere (The Cohen Brothers) barely out of their teens could make this on their FIRST effort! How!? 😅
You know this is gonna be a good list when the first movie mentioned is Wings of Desire
Almadovar!!!
#1 LAW OF DESIRE
#2 BAD EDUCATION
You can thank me later!!
Seeing as you loved Ivan's childhood and Winter Lights, I think you're going to absolutely adore Tarkovsky's Nostalghia and the Sacrifice
Consider me excited.
Still haven't seen Nostalgia, but yes, The Sacrifice is something I've obsessed over and watched many times, it's own mysterious web.
Oh boy will my list get shit upon. I watched 29 movies this year, let’s have fun.
5. Weird: The Al Yankovic Story
4. Killer Klowns from Outer Space
3. Napoleon Dynamite
2. Terminator 2: Judgment Day
1. jackass the movie, number two, 2.5, 3D, bad grandpa, forever.
I’m a simple man who likes stupid movies
"Terminator 2's a pretty awesome movie." - Paul Thomas Anderson
You're in good company.
'know thyself' - socrates ... kudos, bold list
Dumb movies that _know they're dumb,_ and are willing to have a heap of fun with ALL the stupid are A RIOT to watch!
- _Killer Klowns from Outer Space_ RULES! \😹/
Masaki Kobayashi always feels underappreciated due to being at the time of Kurosawa and Ozu. But Kwaidan and Human condition are masterful works of Japanese cinema, at the same level of Ran, Late Autumn and Yojimbo/Sanjuro and Tokyo Twilight and Early Spring.
Another Japanese filmmaker who remains underappreciated is Kenji Mizoguchi who made Life of Oharu, Ugetsu monogatari and the great epic Sansho the Bailiff.
My Top 10 best first watches this year
10. Metropolis (9/10)
9. Avatar 2 (9/10)
8. Seven Samurai (9/10)
7. Interstellar (9/10)
6. Full Metal Jacket (9/10)
5. The Passion of Joan of Arc (10/10)
4. Fantastic Planet (10/10)
3. American Psycho (10/10)
2. Schindlers List (10/10)
1.A Clockwork Orange (10/10)
Fantastic list. I still haven't seen Fantastic Planet myself but otherwise I can co-sign all of these.
Why is fmj 9/10 i find it perfect
@@Kailash76166 9/10 means amazing and can mean its perfect. 10/10 is just for like favorites and stuff that emotionally resonated with me.
@@davidpictures6809 yea that makes sense great list btw
End of Evangelion was my favorite discovery of the year. Beautiful, gut-wrenching, unforgettable storytelling.
I also watched Evangelion for the first time in 2022 now that I think about it.
great idea and lots to add to my watch list
the transition between each movie is quite jarring though - not a fan
1. Hunger (1966) dir. Henning Carlsen
2. Happy as Lazzaro (2018) dir. Alice Rohrwacher
3. The Swimmer (1968) dir. Frank Perry
4. Greed (1924) dir. Erich von Stroheim
5. Burden of Dreams (1982) dir. Les Blank
6. Raise the Red Lantern (1991) dir. Zhang Yimou
7. Fox and His Friends (1975) dir. Rainer Werner Fassbinder
8. Peppermint Candy (1999) dir. Lee Chang-dong
9. Old Joy (2006) dir. Kelly Reichardt
10. Death of a Salesman (1985) dir. Volker Schlöndorff
Totally unfamiliar with your top two. Raise the Red Lantern is one I owe a rewatch. Greatly enjoyed it when I saw it but the subtitled translation I was working with was clearly inaccurate.
Here are my top 10 films I watched in 2022.
1. Ikiru
2. Throne of Blood
3. The Elephant Man
4. High and Low
5. The Skeleton of Mrs. Morales
6. Ran
7. Dead Poets Society
8. Come and See
9. Yojimbo
10. Cinema Paradiso
I also saw Ivan’s Childhood and The Great Silence both were good but didn’t make it to top 10 they at least got top 50. I do plan on watching more Tarkovsky this year and the Human Condition
Very good list. Always great to see lots of Kurosawa. I hope you like The Human Condition Trilogy!
Ivan's Childhood made me realize that Andrei Tarkovsky is the godfather of ASMR. Like seriously, almost every movie of his there's always a scene where you hear water droplets everywhere.
Also, really awesome to see Wings of Desire on this list. It deserves a second viewing after over a decade. That Wim Wenders collection I bought really comes in handy right now.
Fun fact: Wings of Desire initially sat at number four in this list. After I did the write-up though I decided to drop it down.
Two of the best movies I watched this year were his (Paris, Texas was #1 and Until the End of the World was #2).
Very true, hahah never realized that. Stalker especially, is mind-blowing in term of sound.
10- the adventures of Faustus Bidgood
9-do the right thing
8-evil dead 2
7-dazed and confused
6-nope
5-the thing
4-my dinner with Andre
3-under the silver lake
2-network
1-before sunset
Nice list. I've seen everything here but Under the Silver Lake and Faustus Bidgood, the latter of which I don't think I've even heard of.
This year I’ve seen plenty film noir,and the filmography of many directors like Polanski,Melville,Wilder, Takeshi Kitano,Coen brothers,Jarmusch
Godard,De Palma,Bertolucci .
My top 10 list would be:
1.The conformist (1970）
2.Repulsion (1965)
3.Out of the Past (1947)
4.Blow out (1981)
5.Le Deuxieme Soufflé (1966)
6.Double Indemnity (1944)
7.Sonatine (1993)
8.Blood Simple (1984)
9.Sweet Smell of Success
(1957)
10.Don’t look now (1973)
Women on the verge of nervous breakdown is the only Almodovar joint I've seen thus far and it was a lot of fun.
Yeaaaah
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Favourite Non 2022 Films that I watched for the first time in 2022 (not ranked) -
- American Psycho
- Groundhog Day
- Prince of Egypt
- Snowpiercer
- Memories of Murder
- Inside Llewyn Davis
- 2001: A Space Odyssey
- The Nice Guys
- There will be Blood
- The Master
- West Side Story (2021)
- Phantom Thread
- Licorice Pizza
- Spencer
- Drive My Car
- Evil Dead 2
- A Simple Plan
- Children of Men
- Nayakan
- 12 Angry Men
- Manchester by the Sea
Wonderful list. Nice to find a fellow Spencer fan.
I watched 82 films in 2022 and 74 new ones And I must say pulp fiction,whiplash and saving private Ryan have to be my favourites
Winter Light is a good movie for sure. However, I couldn't help but feel First Reformed explored these themes and subject matter much better imo.
First Reformed definitely tackles the fear of climate change more fully than Winter Light does nuclear armageddon. I would give Winter Light the edge in terms of the continued performance of a task despite a shattered faith, which is the area I most related to it.
I thought that Winter Lights was a better movie than First Reformed overall. But the first 20 minutes of First Reformed burnt so brightly that it overshadowed either movies by the end of it all. That conversation between the protagonist and the enviormentalist goes for the throat like almost nothing else in cinema. Its shockingly intense and intelligent, arriving seemingly out-of-nowhere after such a mellow start, startling in a way Winter Light's opposite never was.
I really like this idea a lot! I love videos like this and your DVD Dumpster Dive. Would it be okay if I do something similar for my TH-cam channel this December? I would give credit!
Oh absolutely! Go for it :)
Pain and Glory is a mutch watch for Almodovar. A beautiful modern retelling of 8 and a half in some ways, Banderas is so wonderful in it (and it continues to amaze me how different actors in their native countries are than in the west. Banderas in Spain can play sensitive, thoughtful, repressed characters, in the west he's Puss in Boots and the dad from Spy Kids).
Banderas is beautiful in that film - I sobbed so hard after it ended! If you liked him in Pain and Glory, I can recommend the fairly new Official Competition (with Penelope Cruz I might add!)
You should check out classic "SHOLAY"
It's a Masala Western genre film
i began watching ingmar bergmans films and HOLY SHIT what a visionary my personal favourite of his being automn sonata
also two othar great filmmakers i discovered were abbas kiarostami and nuri bilge ceylan
oh and also i checked out the apartmant because you made a vid about it
also the umberallas of cherbourg and festen were fantastic films
I'm so glad to hear. I need to watch more Cylan and Kiarostami. Loved Ceylan's film Winter Sleep.
I have seen 20 Almodovar movies and there is, if I am being very harsh, 2 duds among them. Watch anything you can get your hands on
This is the best endorsement I can think of.
@@EyebrowCinema of the 2 duds one involves nuns getting high in their nunnery with a domestic tiger and the other one involves a love septuple where one of the parties is Javier Bardem as a wheelchair basketball player, so while neither might pull of the landing, they are definetly worth watching anyway
Here's a bunch of bizarre and/or interesting horror films from the 20th century I watched in 2022:
Deranged (1974)
Waxworks (1924)
The Beast With Five Fingers (1946)
Targets (1968)
It's Alive (1974)
Isle of the Dead (1945)
Don't Torture A Duckling (1972)
Lemora: A Child's Tale of the Supernatural (1973)
The House That Screamed (1969)
A Chinese Ghost Story (1987)
Lord of Illusions (1995)
Race With The Devil (1975)
Hangover Square (1945)
Vampyres (1974)
Jigoku (1960)
Frightmare (1974)
The Devil and Daniel Webster (1941)
Q: The Winged Serpent (1982)
Puppetmaster (1989)
The Lair of the White Worm (1988)
The Other (1972)
The Night Stalker (1972)
The House of Laughing Windows (1976)
The Walking Dead (1936)
Horror Express (1972)
When A Stranger Calls (1979)
Rabid (1977)
Burn Witch Burn (1962)
Seance On A Wet Afternoon (1964)
The Picture of Dorian Gray (1945)
Ms 45 (1981)
Taste of Fear (1961)
Mumsy, Nanny, Sonny, and Girly (1970)
The Shout (1978)
Bedlam (1946)
Burial Ground (1981)
This is really cool. Stoked to see Targets amidst the films listed.
My 15 best first time watches this year (not including 21st century releases) have got to be:
Battleship Potemkin (1925)
To Be Or Not To Be (1942)
Casablanca (1942)
Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961)
The Love Eterne (1963)
War and Peace (1965)
The Holy Mountain (1973)
Lady Snowblood (1973)
Wings of Desire (1987)
Kiki's Delivery Service (1989)
Raise the Red Lantern (1991)
To Live (1994)
Gattaca (1997)
Good Will Hunting (1997)
Eyes Wide Shut (1999)
Awesome list. I'm seeing a lot of Battleship Potemkin in these comments.
I'm probably forgetting a lot, but 10 of the best films I first saw in 2022 are:
The Servant (1963)
Barry Lyndon (1975)
Naked (1993)
Bringing Out The Dead (1999)
Who's Afraid Of Virginia Woolf (1966)
Gone To Earth (1950)
Brighton Rock (1948)
Deep End (1970)
Kind Hearts And Coronets (1949)
The Element Of Crime (1984)
Cool list! Lots of movies I haven't seen here too.
The Lord of the Rings and Hobbit Trilogies, Top Gun & Top Gun Maverick, Tokyo Godfathers, Memories, Shin Godzilla, The Fifth Element, The Sound of Music, and to top them all: Samurai Cop.
But in all seriousness, 2022 was a major year for movies for me. While there was some new stuffed I liked such as TP Maverick, Dragon Ball Super Super Heroes, and The Batman, there really wasn't anything else that I was interested in compared to older films.
Good to see Samurai Cop still kicking.
My personal thoughts on your favorites:
Wings of Desire - I saw this when I was around 15 and hated it. But it's been a long time and I can't recall too well what worked or didn't. Wenders has one terrific movie under him (Paris, Texas), but for the most part I haven't connected with the guy.
All About My Mother - Ewww, Almodovar. :P This one did not work for me at all, with his garish comedy clashing with the overt soap melodrama every step of the way. I found the whole thing to be a mess, honestly.
Ivan's Childhood - Big Tarkovsky fan here, and Ivan is definitely in that top tier of his. It's the perfect vengeance movie, showing how Ivan's whole being has been warped by the war, destroying all joy. Did you watch Tarkovsky's 40 minute student film The Steamroller and the Violin? I saw it on TH-cam earlier this year, and I think it is worth a watch.
Far from Heaven - I do not think we share the same tastes at all. :D This thing is so on-the-nose and so openly melodramatic and so very, very annoying. I do think Haynes can do good movies - I'm Not There is brilliant, and Carol is solid - but this ain't it.
Bergman - Hoo boy, am I gonna dislike this section... not that I hate the guy, but I find him rather pretentious in his theological bullshit. As someone who has grown up in a religious environment myself, I find his movies eye-rollingly simplistic, as a rule. The Magic Flute is a lot of fun, one of his best movies (it helps that he didn't write it). Scenes from a Marriage is quite good, as I recall. Shame is decent. And... Winter Light. Well, it's better than that awful remake from Schrader, anyway? I find the pastor's argument with God to be so self-centered that it is impossible to be sympathetic to him.
The Human Condition: KOBAYASHI THE KING. This isn't his best - the middle part drags - nor is it his angriest (Harakiri or Hymn to a Tired Man take that position), but this is when he came into his own. (I slightly prefer his earlier Somewhere Beneath the Wide Sky, but that was more Naruse or Ozu than what he would later become.) Along with Kon Ichikawa's Fires on the Plain, this is one of the great anti-war movies in that it shows the simple human center of a soldier.
Other honorable mentions:
Dangerous Liaisons - A lot of fun
I Married a Witch - Even more fun
Pandora's Box - One of the great silents, a stunningly immersive experience
Tokyo Godfathers - Far and away my favorite movie in this video. Hilarious and heartbreaking in equal measure, one of my all-timers. Not as good as Kon's Paranoia Agent (his one swing at TV), and I STRONGLY RECOMMEND checking that out if you are a fan of his.
yes, at different ages of our lives, movies affect us differently, and we see different meanings ... peace, have a great one !
Stunning list. Very inspiring, gives me ideas for films to explore.
Beside Mubi, may I ask what other platforms/streaming services you use to find those gems? Any suggestions?
A lot of Criterion Channel. Quo Vadis, Aida I actually saw on Netflix. No idea if it's still there though.
@@EyebrowCinema Good call. Mubi and Criterion should keep me busy for many nights. Thanks for the tip!
I didn't watch a lot of movies in 2022 but some of my favorites were Battle of Algiers and Stand By Me
Those are two really great ones.
My serious cinema journey began in 2022 and in that year, I daresay, I've watched 274 movies out of which 241 were non American.
But just to name a few
Les Quatre Cents Coups, À Bout de Souffle, Playtime, Au Hasard Balthazar, Le Samourai, Pierrot le Fou, L'Avventura, Otto e Mezzo, Nights of Cabiria, Bicycle Thieves, Salo, Sans Soleil, Portrait de la Jeune Fille en feu, La Haine, The Seventh Seal, Persona, Fanny and Alexander, Scenes from a Marriage, The Great Beauty, Paris Texas, Holy Motors, Naked, Y tu Mama Tambien, Roma, Le Mépris, Jules et Jim, La Nuit Americaine, Amores Perros, Virdinia, Belle de Jour, The discreet charm of the Bourgeoisie, Bob le Flambeur, Umbrellas of Cherbourgh, Amour, Hiroshima mon Amour, All Tarkovsky, All Kieslowski, Close Up, Taste of Cherry, The wind will carry us, Through the Olive trees, Where is the friend's house, Fitzcarraldo, Agguire der Zorn Gottes, Berlin Alexanderplatz, Ali: Fear eats the Soul, Bitter tears of Petra Von Kant, Man with a movie camera, Cache and many more...
I think Law of Desire and Bad Education are Almodovar's best movies, but given the ones you've listed and said you like, you would probably enjoy Pain and Glory quite a bit.
Thanks for the recommendations!
god I love Far From Heaven's colors, there needs to be more Sirkian-looking colorgasmic movies
i watched robert altmans NASHVILLE for the first time this past year and it’s since become my favourite film of all time, so that would probably be my number one. la dolce vita is also a contender
I've been itching to revisit Nashville for a while now. Also, love La Dolce Vita.
Volver, Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown and Pain and Glory are all must-see Almodóvar.
Noted. Cheers!
Narrowing down only 10 films was impossible so here is my top 15 favourite first watches of 2022:
1. Battleship Potemkin
2. Oslo, August 31st
3. The Celebration
4. Ivan the Terrible
5. Dial M for Murder
6. Le Trou
7. Cries and Whispers
8. Breif Encounter
9. Stoker
10. Winter Sleep
11. Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance
12. Au Hasard Balthazar
13. The Soft Skin
14. Holy Motors
15. La Dolce Vita
I also saw basically every Orson Welles film for the first time during a retrospective of his career at the Stockholm cinematheque. None of them quite cracked this list but still want to give a shoutout to Touch of Evil, F for Fake, the Stranger, and the Trial.
Really great list. Love seeing Potemkin at the time. I should really check out Oslo, August 31st. Loved The Worst Person in the World and want to see more Joachim Trier.
@@EyebrowCinema thank you, your list is great as well. Out of every discovery I made this past year Eisenstein was easily the best, I had been led to believe his films would mostly have a theoretical value but they really are exhilarating pieces of cinema.
Oslo, August 31st is something truly special, I really hope you enjoy it. Of course I would recommend every film on my list but one other I would like to especially recommend is Vinterberg's The Celebration.
I watched Kurosawa’s Ikiru this year and it quietly blew my mind.
Wonderful film.
Love this shit
When you began to say number nine, what followed I could not understand first. But after the summary and your well undersold powerhouse of a jawdrop ending, I made efforts. I watched Quo vadis aida yesterday with as much preparation as the 10 hour pickling you did for your #1 pick. Thank you. What an excellent and heart wrenching film. That ending, even with your warning, beckoned to be seen and change the one who saw it. After the film ended and my tears dried, I looked up information on that particular massacre until I could not stand to see more bodies. The film was only the second Serbian film of my catalogue. That is you don't count A Serbian Film - a deserved subject but not for this discussion. What you may count and count yourself lucky to see is Savior, Dennis Quaid's 1998 powerhouse which if you will allow its cold desert cloak of anxiety wrap around you long enough to meet the child, you too will be picking up your jaw and wiping away tears. He is both miscast and perfectly cast. One a bit more obscure but worth your time is The Hater, currently streaming on Netflix. This 2020 Polish thriller hits close to home with internet espianoge and a young confidence man who hasn't yet decided how far he will bend the world. Loved your runners up, all worthy but Dangerous Liasons becomes more special as it ages, showing it stars at time when their had not yet hit the max of their powers and what a powerhouse they all were together - you as well Keanu and also you Swoosie.
Lots of movies on here that I need to see. Glad to see The Human Condition made it to the list. Such an affecting experience. It's definitely the only trilogy of that length besides LOTR that I would consider re-watching all in the same sitting.
While I didn’t watch as much as I’d have liked filmwise, I did finally watch Godfather I & II for the first time (long overdue) in 4K at my local museum cinema. They lived up to expectations as cornerstones of American cinema for sure. Preferred the first over the second, which goes against popular consensus, but if I had subtitles for Marlon Brando’s Don Corleone I could’ve viewed it a five out of five perfect masterpiece. Weird that such an iconic cinematic role even with surround sound in a large screening room, was nigh on unintelligible to my ears.
Glad to hear you caught up with Godfather I and II, that sounds like a pretty great screening too.
Watched Natural Born Killers for the first time this year, aswell.
My opinion about it differs from yours, though.
For what it's worth, I get it.
Some nice and obscure films. Here are my top 10 favorite movies I watched in 2022. It wasn’t as good as my movies I watched in 2021, but hopefully, this year will be better and will have more movies this year.
1. Inglorious Basterds
2. Vertigo
3. Breathless
4. Monty Python and the Holy Grail
5. Claudine
6. Mean Streets
7. Death Wish 3 (Yes I love this one because of how insane and action packed it is)
8. To Sir, with Love
9. Death Wish 2
10. Hara-Kiri
You say this wasn't as good as 2021, but from where I stand this is a mighty fine list.
@@EyebrowCinema Oh Thank you. Maybe this has to do with the fact that I'm trying to expand my taste in movies given the fact that I'm actually 15 after all, but I'll get there. Maybe I'm not giving myself that much credit, but I promise that this year will be even better than last year. But glad you liked my list.
For me I think my top ten would be:
Cinema Paradiso
American Pyscho
Raging bull
Citezen Kane
Godfather trilogy
Scarface
Once upon a time in america
The good the bad and the ugly
The Conversation (francis for coppola)
Django Unchained
You've got a brilliant list, ive gotta check out some of those, I'm getting tired of seeing the same old blockbuster films on every youtubers best movies of the year list, it's great having a breath of fresh air👍
Thanks, Ryan. I hoped this sort of style of list could provide some variety. Also, your picks are fantastic. Some absolutely brilliant films here.
If you like Almodovar's more perverse, horror-adjacent side, I'd recommend MATADOR and LAWS OF DESIRE. They're somewhere between gialli and erotic thrillers.
Sounds great to me.
Haven’t heard of any of them ha! Good thing I have the Criterion Channel. Thanks for the recommendations!
Hope you enjoy any you watch, and please let us know if you do!
This year I finally got aorund to watching a lot of classics, as well as delving into just nay movie I'd been curious about watching. Some of my best first time watches of the year were Jaws, Jurassic Park, the first two Thin Man movies, the Chucky and Child's Play movies, Ravenous, Hail,Caesar!, O Brother, Where Are Thou?, Miller's Crossing, All You Need is Cash, Kiss Kiss Bang Bang and Brokeback Mountain.
Great bunch of movies here, Elliot. I've seen the first Thin Man but it's been ages and I really should revisit it.
My list:
Sorcerer
Crash (1996)
A Place in the Sun
Memories of Murder
A Perfect World
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
The Wild Bunch
After Hours
Jacob's Ladder
Hour of the Gun
Real good stuff. Sorcerer is on my watchlist and I've been meaning to revisit A Place in the Sun for a while now.
@@EyebrowCinema I just recently started delving into the work of Montgomery Clift this year, and boy oh boy
What a brilliantly original take on the top ten list… WELL DONE.
Cheers. Thanks man.
Must this blessing shield you from the wrath of the Holy Ones & Zeros.
The only Archpriest who matters.
The Great Silence is sooo good ❤❤
I only seen from your list Ivan’s Childhood (really good) and Natural Born Killers (not a fan personally). Definitely keeping the other movies mentioned in the back burner. Can’t wait for more videos this year
Cheers, Matt! Thank you.
I hated the great silence so much when I first warched it, but with time, I now consider it one of the best spaghetti westerns
As for my favorite first watches this year:
The Mission
Blast of Silence
The Ox Bow Incident
Peeping Tom
Scream
Black Christmas
No country for old men
Scarface (1983)
Blade Runner (final cut)
Kill Bill Vol.1
Lots of awesone films here. I actually just added Blast of Silence to my parents' pvr during a recent visit. Hope I get around to it soon.
@@EyebrowCinema I strongly recommend it. Great little noir. It's very short too. I think it lasts 80 minutes.
Yessss - Kobayashi > Tarkovsky!
My biggest discoveries were all Soviet productions, The Cranes are Flying (1957) and I Am Cuba (1964) by Mikhail Kalatozov and Sergei Bondarchuk's 7 hour long War and Peace (1965), all some of the most jaw-dropping, awe inspiring films I've ever seen
Oh man, I haven't seen Bondarchuk's War and Peace but I love Kalatozov. Exceptional filmmaker.
@@EyebrowCinema definitely worth the runtime! It mostly gets attention (rightfully) for its insane scale and battle scenes, but it's just as impressive in it's more intimate moments as well
great calls - i discovered Mosfilm a few years ago,,, amazing !!
You can also find Kalatozov's _Letter Never Sent_ (1960) in HD on TH-cam.....It's truly GORGEOUS! 🥰
- Another one on YT is _ZeroGrad_ (1988) - an absurdist Soviet comedy that had a movie flavour that was completely new to me. Loved it! 👍
Love this list, I wish every film buff made one of these each year.
I'm glad I'm not the only one that has a very particular kink for 'Snow Westerns' (as you call 'em)
- It somehow refreshes _everything_ about these stories..... *McCabe & Mrs Miller* (1971) might be my favourite; what a find!
10. Vertigo
9. Badlands
8. Bicycle Thieves
7. The 400 Blows
6. The Insider
5. Come And See
4. Chinatown
3. Barry Lyndon
2. Once Upon A Time In America
1. Manhunter
Going into Manhunter I never expected to like it as much as I did, even being a huge Michael Mann fan. But it’s grown on me unlike any other movie I’ve seen in a long, long time.
Manhunter rules. It's also stuck with me quite strongly. Your whole list is fantastic.
Love the video!!!
The best films I saw this year for the first time:
A Matter of Life and Death
The Apartment
Key Largo
Macbeth (1948)
In a Lonely Place
The Lavender Hill Mob
The Man Who Would Be King
The Ladykillers
The Great Silence
Oliver Twist
Brief Encounter
I Know Where I’m Going
Great Expectations
To Catch a Thief
The Killers (1964)
Across the Pacific
Casablanca
To Have and Have Not
Lots of classics here. Also cool that we share The Great Silence.
@@EyebrowCinema based on your review, im definitely checking out the human condition soon. Looks incredible.
the only meaningful first-time watches i've had this year have been with the films of Fred Zinnemann, since i was a big fan of Day of the Jackal. I was especially impressed with Nun's Story and A Man For All Seasons, two movies i thought would be boring and pretentious but turned out to be scathing. so yeah, Zinnemann is a master of the craft and most of his movies exceeded my expectations. happy new year ^^
Happy New Year, Radu! As a Zinnemann fan, have you seen High Noon?
@@EyebrowCinema yes it's pretty damn good especially for the time, but i still rank it below Jackal, Nun and All Seasons. High Noon still feels a bit raw in terms of execution compared to his later films, but the story, dialogue and acting are all top-notch. and again, all the more impressive when you consider it's historical context contrasted with it's deconstruction of western mythology (one of the first films to do so, if no the first?). you know you're doing something right when you piss off John Wayne and Hawks enough to make Rio Bravo
I was lucky enough to discover some of my favorite films ever this year, including Paddington 2 (2018), Children of Men (2006), The Fly (1986), Bright Star (2009), The Innocents (1961), The Host (2006), Sunset Boulevard (1950), Stalker (1979), The Age of Innocence (1993), and The Red Shoes (1948)- which blew my mind so much that I immediately begged my friends to add it to our group movie night roster.
I really need to get around to Wings of Desire and Almodóvar’s work this year!
Some real great stuff here. I still need to catch up on Bright Star actually.
fantastic list ... and i'm totally ignorant on Powell & Pressburger, man, going to have to put that on my winter list or something
Watched a low number of new films this year (90) but add this list to the fire!
10. The Banshees of Insiherin 2022/The Crusades 1935
9. Night Flier 1997 (Squarely for the ending. One of the most eye-popping depictions of Vamperism I've seen)
8. The Gunfighter 1950
7. The Northman 2022
6. Black Phone 2022
5. Antigone 1961
4. Collateral 2004
3. Mother Joan of the Angels 1961
2. The Moon of Israel 1924
1. Black Narcissus 1947
Cook list. Lots here I'm not familiar with too.
@@EyebrowCinema Thanks!
I initially wrote like 500 words just slandering Wings of Desire but then thought to myself: "No. 2023 cannot start like this."
I only saw the first part of the Human Condition trilogy and while its certainly pretty, I honestly found it a bit to blunt, didactic, and heavy-handed to be properly impactful.
Also discussing The Great Silence is just a trauma trigger.
I first saw Ivan's Childhood (aka My Name is Ivan) back in 2000 before turning 15, during a summer camp with a counselor who was a major film buff. It was my introduction to Tarkovsky. And as a fan of Japanese cinema, The Human Condition, which I first saw much later in my late 20's, is not only long, but a real tearjerker for me.
I saw Far From Heaven in the theater and loved it. Fantastic movie. I never went back and rewatched it, perhaps its time to do that this year.
There's some good Blu-Rays out there.
I have to admit, I'm not huge on Bergman, or at least Winter Light. It's good, but I feel like I've seen films explore similar themes better (I was a huge fan of Scorsese's Silence for example).
I had to watch Ivan's Childhood for university due to studying the europe during the aftermath of WWII. I thought it was interesting and one I definatly a well made film which I remember.
I guess you didn't see Mobius?
You would be correct.
I love this videos
can you type out the names of the films as a title card in the video next time, I'm bad at spelling and it makes it hard to find some of the films
There's a link to a letterboxd list of all the films featured in the description.
@@EyebrowCinema looks like I'm bad at reading too, thanks!
@@mp10549 No sweat, Michael. Cheers.
Happy New Year. God bless everyone
Happy New Year, Sophia :)
Out of curiosity what were the films from 0:00-0:50? And the films that begin the number 10, number 9, etc countdown?
The best movie I saw this year was death proof. Not only we’re the cars so so fucking cool but also the idea that a group of women in the middle of nowhere can defeat a rampaging serial killer who has no emotions and still finds enjoyment of killing women with his car
For me, the best movie I saw this year was actually released this year: Everything Everywhere All at Once. One of the times I watched a movie and was met with a truly spiritual experience.
Some of my other most impressive movie-watching experiences this year were 12 Angry Men (1957), Spirited Away (2001), The Tree of Life (2011), A.I. Artificial Intelligence (2001), Climax (2018), and Tar (2022). Each one was a favorite film for a while, and some also gave me a near-spiritual experience when watching them, just like EEAAO.
Snow westerns rock so much, it wouldn't make my top 10 first watches this year but Day of the Outlaw from the snow western collection on the Criterion Channel was great. For top 10 first watches though The Human Condition would also make my list, I liked the other Kobayashi movies I had seen before but this is the one that really made me love him as a director. Some other fav first watches in no particular order: Asako I & II, Fox and His Friends, The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp, The Shop Around the Corner, Millennium Actress, Ballad of a Soldier, Deep Cover, Peeping Tom, and The Insider.
Nice to find a fellow Human Condition fan! And yeah, the Snow Westerns playlist is just excellent.
The audio is all over the place in this video. Your voice is fairly low volume while the countdown counter inserts are way too loud.
If you liked the great silence might want to check out the movie Jeremiah Johnson. One of the great westerns that isn’t talked about much. Much of it takes place in winter
I second this motion!
Every outdoorsmans favorite movie.
Jeremiah Johnson is one of those films I'd call genuinelly poetic, but not in terms of storytelling or style (like, say, another poetic Western like Jarmusch's Dead Man) but in how its protagonist evolves and changes in accordance with the rythms of his life. Its one of the most splendid character-arches in cinema.
Its ending is also as understated as it is radical, finding accord and co-existence yeilding from the chaos of our lives and grimness of our hatreads. Very different from what you'd find in other "Indian Westerns" like say Dances with Wolves
I quite enjoy Jeremiah Johnson. Very good movie.
You've done it again. Now I have to watch all of the films in this list for myself. Congratulations, you did your work well. But seriously, this is another great video from you. Keep them coming and happy new year! 🤟🏻
Happy New Year, Alfredo :)
10. Fail-Safe (1964)
9. A Few Good Men
8. Hell Comes to Frog Town
7. RRR
6. The African Queen
5. Ben Hur (1959)
4. Prey (2022)
3. Dersu Uzala
2. Best Years of Our Lives
1. The Petrified Forest
Good list. Really hope Canada gets a Dersu Uzala blu-ray at some point because I'm itching for a rewatch.
A lot of very respectable movies that I saw this year, but only one that really knocked my socks off. However, there were a couple of great TV shows, a movie that I have sorta kinda already seen, and a short film I'm listing as *mentions, making this a top 14. Like I said, a lot of very respectable movies.
1. Arcane: League of Legends* (2021) - Somebody went and made a show from a video game I have no interest in playing and created a masterpiece. A magnificent tragedy full of a dozen or so fully realized characters in a narrative that reminds me of nothing so much as *The Battle of Algiers* in its portrayal of revolutionaries and cops battling over a city's soul. Heartbreaking stuff.
2. Happy Old Year (2019) - The standout movie of the year is this little Thai movie about a woman decluttering her house. Sounds like a very dull dramedy that is innocent enough to be bearable, but instead I got a tragedy about a woman coming face to face with her own sins. Chutimon Chuengcharoensukying is great as this woman casting away her soul one stuffed garbage bag at a time. This goes right into my GOAT list of 100 movies or so.
3. Agnes (2021) - The greatest discovery of the year is director Mickey Reece (there is a good chance a movie of his I watched today will make my top ten for 2023 - the deliciously titled Strike, Dear Mistress, and Cure His Heart). Agnes sits at a comfortable 4.0 average rating on IMDb, and I am not surprised at all... this is a very odd, unique film. It starts off as a B-movie parody of exorcism films, before morphing into a serious drama in which characters intelligently talk about... faith. The substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. Molly C. Quinn is easily Oscar worthy as a nun who loses her faith (culminating in a magnificent scene in which she sits down with a priest and hold a ten minute long conversation about God and how we can know Him). The comedic elements won't connect with a lot of people, and the dramatic elements will throw people enjoying the comedy... but if you connect with both aspects of the movie, you will be entranced.
4. Bad Genius (2017) - My favorite performance of the year goes to Chutimon Chuengcharoensukying as a brilliant high school student running an exam cheating business at her private school. Snappy editing, a star turn for the ages, and a script that examines class and opportunity in a vein VERY similar to Parasite (it is even couched in a "heist movie but not really a heist movie" formula in a similar way). An absolute blast.
5. Moonlit Winter (2019) - There's a scene in this movie in which a woman offers her forty year old niece a hug, and they just... hold each other. For 86 seconds. There's a teenage girl who is constantly taking pictures of everything but people, and when asked why, she says that she only photographs "beautiful things." She spends the rest of the movie photographing her mother. *There was no way I wouldn't love this.* The film is so kind and gentle and warm, but there is also so much pain under the surface, with both of the main characters - played by Kim Hee-ae and Yuko Nakamura, both of whom are beyond spectacular - holding back through the whole film, wary and weary and never letting anybody know what is going on in their heads and how much they are hurting. And the people around them, knowing anyway, being kind and trying to help in their own ways.
6. The Amusement Park (1975) - George Romero's nightmarish, surreal horror is what The Father should have been. Old age has never been so terrifying.
7. House of Cards (1990)* - This miniseries starring the great Ian Richardson is delightfully twisted fun. Richardson is having the time of his life doing a mashup of Iago, Macbeth and Richard III - a slimeball politician full of ambition and purely amoral greed. The rottenness of the whole affair can be off-putting, but it embraces every seedy, ugly second for pure entertainment potential. I haven't seen the American remake with Kevin Spacey, but I can't believe it is half this much fun.
8. House of Hummingbird (2019) - I have now reached the point that I'm old enough to watch movies and say "wow, that totally captures a very specific time that I actually lived through." I am not a Korean, but this coming of age film captures the time and more importantly, it captures the people. It is hard to describe just what makes it so great, just that it is honest about parental child relationships, sibling relationships, loneliness, self-loathing... I really, really like it.
9. Madoka Magica: Eternal (2012)* - This is a recap movie for the last third of the Madoka Magica TV series, of which I am a MEGAFAN. And it pretty much just... takes the four episodes as is, save for a couple of very smart interludes added in that happen between "episodes" and allow us to catch our breath (whereas they are unnecessary in the show, as you WILL be stopping for a breath after those episodes instead of continuing onwards). It's too bad the first recap movie (titled Beginnings) is such a poorly paced disaster, as this entry is solid enough that I could recommend it in place of the show.
10. Little Forest: Winter/Spring (2015) - The Korean remake was one of my favorite movies of 2021, so I was excited to check out the original Japanese duology. The first part (Summer/Autumn) is aimless but wonderfully calming... but this second part is more intense (as in, it goes from "wonderfully calming" to "still really, REALLY calming compared to 99% of everything ever but it feels like a roller coaster in comparison"), questioning what our protagonist wants out of life and if her time in Little Forest is just escaping from her responsibilities. It's more focused and thus more powerful. Great stuff.
11. The Taking of Pelham One Two Three (1974) - I love seeing professionals being professional. The movie feels so realistic and smart, a far cry from modern Hollywood's fascination with and fellation of insubordinate idiots that act like entitled children. Walter Matthau is the action star I didn't know we needed.
12. The Black Tower (1987)* - A short horror film about a man being pursued by a mysterious black tower. The film plays entirely without people on screen or moving cameras, just a camera looking out a window, or to the skyline, always with this unnervingly black thing that looks like a hole in existence. The narrative is carried by narration, making this more like an audio book than a movie in some ways. Not that I'm complaining, as the mixture of image and word is truly scary stuff.
13. The Whispering Star (2015) - Sion Sono's experimental art film about a robot delivery woman traveling across the galaxy to deliver packages to people who ordered them decades prior. It's an ineffably sad film, seeing what these people find so important that they send them into the future like time capsules. A cigarette, a photograph, a life contained in an item that is, in itself, nothing at all. It's gently heartbreaking.
14. The State I Am In (2000) - Christian Petzold's first theatrical feature (his three prior TV movies are quite good too) is a great picture of parental abuse and what it does to a child. A teenage girl on the run with her terrorist parents, unable to open herself up to anyone, because if she does, *her parents will literally die.* But she wants to be normal oh so much, and the push-pull between her love for the people who love her and the life they are keeping from her is tangibly painful.
I really should get around to Amusement Park. Also happy to see The Taking of Pelham One Two Three. That movie rocks.
I think this would be my top 10:
10. Ali: Fear Eats the Soul
9. Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore
8. Cool Hand Luke
7. The Ballad of Narayama
6. Don't Look Now
5. Witness for the Prosecution
4. The Banshees of Inisherin
3. Once Upon a Time in America
2. The Night of the Hunter
1. Scenes from a Marriage
Awesome list. Ali: Fear Eats the Soul is one of my big blindspots.
You should watch Volver and Broken Embraces from Almodovar, both with Penelope Cruz, both awesome. Broken Embraces is the kind of movie about moviemaking. Oh and Pain And Glory with Banderas is also pretty good
Cool. Thanks, Daniel.
Will you do more Bond rankings?Like songs, actors, titles?
wowwwwwwwwwww, u had quite the year!!!!!!!!!! thanks for this!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! amazing...
As a spanish cinephile and long time fan of Almodovar, I would recommend you to watch Pain and Glory (Dolor y Gloria).
It's my favourite film of his, alongside Talk to her (Hable con ella) and All about my mother (Todo sobre mi madre).
Much appreciated. Talk to Her is one I should probably rewatch too. It was my first Almodovar and I'm pretty sure I was still in high school at the time.
Great video! The Human Condition is something else. Love Kobayashi.
My favorite discovers of this year were Seven Beauties (1975) The Captive (2000) Serie Noire (1979) All About Lily Chou Chou (2001) and thanks to you Beyond the Hills!
You should check out Pedro’s Volver (2006) next!
I'll move Volver up the priorities. Thanks for the suggestion!
I had a similar experience with Almodóvar’s films this past year. One great one I watched is Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown, which is an excellent take on the screwball comedy.
Thanks, Michael. I'll have to check that one out.
Winter Light is my favorite Bergman.
If you like Pedro Almodovar, I swear by Bad Education. I'd compare it Nocturnal Animals but I think it goes way harder. Anyway, here is my own top ten of what I saw for the first time this year:
10. Hiroshima mon amour/Last Year at Marienbad
9. AI: Artificial Intelligence
8. Husbands
7. Gates of Heaven
6. Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans
5. Fanny and Alexander (miniseries)
4. Blue Collar
3. The Man Who Fell to Earth
2. Saturday Night Fever
1. Freaks
Really great list. I adore Fanny and Alexander and I love seeing A.I. get more love.
@@EyebrowCinema Same to you. It was difficult to not make it twenty or twenty five movies.
Haynes wishes he was Sirk. He is not.
I really enjoy these lists. Gives me some good recommendations to check out sometime.
Anyway, here are my favorite first time watches this year in no particular order:
1. Pain & Gain (2013)
2. Ragin Bull (1980)
3. Rashomon (1950)
4. Klute (1971)
5. Mulholland Drive (2001)
6. The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo (2011)
7. Before Midnight (2013)
8. The 13th Warrior (1999)
9. Chinatown (1974)
10. Antichrist (2009)
Lots of great movies here. Perhaps it's time I revisit Pain and Gain.
@@EyebrowCinema I was surprised how much I liked it. It’s basically Michael Bay’s take on a true crime story in the vein of Fargo with some Parasite-esque class warfare thrown in for good measure.
Leave her to Heaven should be in top 10
why is your transision music so darn load
My favorite first Time watches are
1. The Young Girls of Rochefort
2. Everything Everywhere All at Once
3. The Tale of Princess Kaguya
4. Black Christmas
5. The French Dispatch
6. Scream
7. The Wicker Man
8. The Amazing Catfish
9. The Kid
10. Malcolm X
Also came to the relization that Horror Is my favorite Genere, Musicals being on second place.
Real good list here. I've seen everything but The Amazing Catfish, which I'm completely unfamiliar with.
@@EyebrowCinema It's a Mexican movie released on 2013, It actually Is really hard to find since distribution on Mexico Is rather lackluster, but It was for a limited Time on mubi, unfortunately It has long since been removed, I Guess it can be bought on I tunes or Google Play, but I'm not really sure
It's about a supermarket worker who after being hospitalized due to apendicitis, Meets an woman who has AIDS, a widowed mother with four children. The main character starts hanging out and bonding with the family, as the mother's illness starts making It hard for her to take care of the kids.
Actually doesn't count since I technically discovered the film 2 years ago in a goodwill, but I can safely say that this was the year for certain, after many times watching, that I can say that 1985's "Night on The Galactic Railroad" directed by Gisaburo Sugii has now become a favorite animated film of mine, from it's wild vistas, having Esperanto be the language of choice in text as a nod to the interest of the original author of the tale, and concepts to the core of a lonely kid taking on adult responsibilities finding both respite and resolve for the future afterwards. It takes me aback each time and I never fail to stop it until the credits are completely done.
I'll have to keep an eye out for that film. I've never heard of it.
@@EyebrowCinema You can find it free on many official sources online. I hope it works for you too.
Watch pretty village pretty flame
The 10 best movies I saw for the first time this year are It’s a Wonderful Life, Top Gun Maverick, The Sting, Blues Brothers, Barry Lyndon, Magnolia, Some Like it Hot, My Dinner with Andre, The Thing, and Hausu.
Love your videos and keep up the good work!
It’s A Wonderful Life is perfection and makes me cry every time
Lots of real great stuff here. Magnolia was a very important first time watch for me as a teenager.
I got into obsessing on My Dinner with Andre again with it being on youtube, damn ... love that movie and it was a beacon to me as a teen in the 80s