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Discoveries, 2024 (aka Old Movies I Saw for the First Time)

7 films

This was another middle-of-the-road moviegoing year for me. I only saw 151 movies! Pretty lame, if you ask me. And…

  • 3 Women
  • The 36th Chamber of Shaolin
  • Bad Girls Go to Hell
  • All My Babies... A Midwife's Own Story
  • All That Heaven Allows
  • All That Jazz
  • Annabelle Serpentine Dance
  • Army of Shadows
  • Assault on Precinct 13
  • Au Hasard Balthazar

My 100 Favorite Movies, as of Today (2018), Part 2

106 films

I once joked to a cinephile friend that I'd like to make a second Top 100 list, with every single…

  • The 400 Blows
  • All My Babies... A Midwife's Own Story
  • All That Heaven Allows
  • Andrei Rublev
  • Aparajito

My 100 Favorite Movies, 2003

120 films

It’s an uncanny experience looking back at this list, which I found in an old journal I kept way back…

  • The Wounded Man
  • Eight Deadly Shots
  • The Sky on Location
  • P. P. Rider
  • Typhoon Club

Discoveries, 2023 (aka Old Movies I Saw for the First Time)

8 films

This was a decent year, maybe a bit disappointing. I seem to have slowed down on my moviegoing. It looks…

  • Seven Beauties
  • Bless Their Little Hearts
  • Hanagatami
  • The Ascent
  • The Asthenic Syndrome

Discoveries, 2022 (aka Old Movies I Saw for the First Time)

14 films

This was a pretty good year for me. Apparently, I saw 223 features this year, back to my middle-aged average…

  • Pictures from a Revolution
  • The Story of a Three-Day Pass
  • Working Girls
  • Chess of the Wind
  • Brief Crossing

Discoveries, 2021 (aka Old Movies I Saw for the First Time)

5 films

This was my worst moviegoing year in more than a decade. I think I saw only 110 features. Unlike most…

  • Bush Mama
  • Reichsautobahn
  • La Cecilia
  • Female Prisoner Scorpion: #701
  • Blind Beast

Discoveries (2020) (aka Old Movies I Saw for the First Time)

11 films

This was the second disappointing moviegoing year in a row for me. Up until Mar 10th -- the day NYU…

  • Girlfriends
  • How to Survive a Plague
  • Nostalgia for the Light
  • Despair
  • Fat Girl

Discoveries, 2019 (aka Old Movies I Saw for the First Time)

8 films

This was my worst moviegoing year since 2012 or 2013, I think. Letterboxd tells me I saw only 136 movies…

  • Pickup
  • Dillinger
  • 99 River Street
  • Murder by Contract
  • Soft Fiction

Discoveries, 2018 (aka Old Movies I Saw for the First Time)

16 films

This was an average moviegoing year for me -- I saw 202 films, which is less than 300 but more…

  • The Entertainer
  • Saturday Night and Sunday Morning
  • Mur Murs
  • Scum
  • Rita, Sue and Bob Too

Discoveries, 2017 (aka Old Movies I Saw for the First Time)

11 films

This wasn't my best moviegoing year. Letterboxd tells me I saw only 161 features in 2017, my lowest count since…

  • I Love You, I Don't
  • Doomed Love
  • The Errand Boy
  • The Student Nurses
  • Salesman

Discoveries, 2016 (aka Old Movies I Saw for the First Time)

14 films

This was a surprisingly good year for old discoveries, despite being a disgusting year in general. I keep getting older…