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• Jigoku
• Jules and Jim
• Aguirre, the Wrath of God
• The Enigma of Kaspar Ha
• Nashville
• Alien
• The Thing
• GoodFellas
• Pulp Fiction
• Before Sunrise

...plus 50 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

1. Godzilla Minus One
2. John Wick: Chapter 4
3. Killers of the Flower Moon
4. All of Us Strangers
5. Barbie
6. Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
7. Anatomy of a Fall
8. Oppenheimer
9. Bottoms
10. May December

...plus 49 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

Films that, IMO, should have received more credit and recognition for what they did / what they are.

• 13 Assassins
• Aftersun
• All the Real Girls
• Always Shine
• Bacurau
• Barton Fink
• Born in Flames
• Buried
• Clearcut
• Colossal

...plus 48 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

2024 releases and how good I thought they were or something

• The Brutalist
• Anora
• Monkey Man
• Longlegs
• The Substance
• We Live in Time
• A Different Man
• Kinds of Kindness
• Nosferatu
• Late Night with the Devil

...plus 37 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

• Black Bear
• Another Round
• Sound of Metal
• Bacurau
• Minari
• First Cow
• The Empty Man
• Nomadland
• She Dies Tomorrow
• Palm Springs

...plus 35 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

Slashers and creature features + contemporary and classic + genre hallmarks and hidden gems.

• The Thing
• The House of the Devil
• Videodrome
• Trick 'r Treat
• Alien
• You're Next
• The Descent
• Suspiria
• V/H/S
• It

...plus 36 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

Ranked according to how good I thought they were or something

• Everything Everywhere All at Once
• Emily the Criminal
• The Banshees of Inisherin
• Crimes of the Future
• RRR
• Fire Island
• Decision to Leave
• Marcel the Shell with Shoes On
• TÁR
• Nope

...plus 40 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

Ranked below!

• Get Out
• Baby Driver
• Raw
• Columbus
• Blade Runner 2049
• Atomic Blonde
• Ingrid Goes West
• Call Me by Your Name
• It
• Nocturama

...plus 68 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

My first attempt at Hooptober'ing it up! Will update the list below as I make my way through the month. Suggestions welcome!

(See the explanation / rules, per Cinemonster, here: letterboxd.jeux1001.com/cinemonster/list/hooptober-11-the-return-to-texas-because/

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Six countries:

Australia (1)
Canada (2)
China (1)
England (1)
(1)
(2)
India (2)
Italy (4)
Spain (1)
USA (17)

Eight decades:

1920s (2)
1960s (2)
1970s (6)
1980s (6)
1990s (3)
2000s (2)
2010s (4)
2020s (7)

ALL of the films from a horror franchise with at least four entries: All Hallows' Eve (cheating a bit with this franchise), Terrfier, Terrifier 2, Terrifier 3

One film by Wes Craven: Shocker

One film caused by/worsened by weather: Black Sunday

One film starring a Black woman: Def By Temptation

One Donald Sutherland film: Don't Look Now

Three films from New World Pictures: Rabid, God Told Me To, Slugs

Two Indian films: 404: Error Not Found; Bulbbul

Four Italian films: The Church, Deep Red, Black Sunday, All the Colors of the Dark

Two horror comedies: Death Becomes Her, Tucker and Dale vs. Evil

Two films made primarily or entirely in Texas: The Initiation, Eaten Alive

One film that exists in at least two available cuts (you just have to watch one. Bonus if you watch them all): Deep Red

One Robert Wiene film: Genuine

One Michele Soavi film: The Church

One film from 2011: 404: Error Not Found

One film from 1984: The Initiation

And One Tobe Hooper Film (There must ALWAYS be a Hooper film): Eaten Alive

• The Cat
• The Spine of Night
• All the Colors of the Dark
• Death Becomes Her
• Black Sunday
• Def by Temptation
• The Substance
• Terrifier 2
• Shocker
• Halloween III: Season of the Witch

...plus 22 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

Following up this year’s Hooptober with a journey into the back alleys, seedy underbellies, and cold shadows of film noir.

Not doing any sort of challenge here, but keeping track of what I’m watching with my first concerted deep dive into the genre.

Suggestions welcome!

• The Maltese Falcon
• Gilda
• The Third Man
• The Sniper
• Touch of Evil
• The Long Goodbye
• Blow Out
• Fallen Angels
• Memories of Murder
• Collateral

Niki and I are slowly watching the top 100 “Greatest Films of All Time,” as determined through Sight and Sound’s once-a-decade poll.

• Vertigo
• Citizen Kane
• In the Mood for Love
• 2001: A Space Odyssey
• Mulholland Drive
• Singin' in the Rain
• Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans
• The Godfather
• Apocalypse Now
• Seven Samurai

...plus 29 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

Ranked below!

• Parasite
• John Wick: Chapter 3 – Parabellum
• The Farewell
• Little Women
• The Last Black Man in San Francisco
• The Nightingale
• Booksmart
• Us
• The Lighthouse
• Uncut Gems

...plus 47 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

• The Worst Person in the World
• The French Dispatch
• Barb & Star Go to Vista Del Mar
• No Sudden Move
• Titane
• The Green Knight
• The Card Counter
• Pig
• Summer of Soul (...Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised)
• Malignant

...plus 41 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

Way behind the curve (always) on this list, but better late than never?

1. Mad Max: Fury Road
2. Tangerine
3. Ex Machina
4. What We Do in the Shadows
5. The Duke of Burgundy
6. Sicario
7. Felt
8. Spotlight
9. Bloomin Mud Shuffle
10. Anomalisa

Ranked below!

• First Reformed
• If Beale Street Could Talk
• Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse
• Sorry to Bother You
• Mandy
• The Favourite
• Suspiria
• Minding the Gap
• Halloween
• Eighth Grade

...plus 52 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

Self-expanatory

• Blood Hook
• Porno
• Bloody Muscle Body Builder in Hell
• Mandy
• Phantom of the Paradise
• Willy's Wonderland

Ranked below! Steadily, if not unevenly, growing list of films from 2016 I've watched thus far.

1. Moonlight
2. 13th
3. Green Room
4. The Handmaiden
5. Hunt for the Wilderpeople
6. The Invitation
7. The Lobster
8. Silence
9. Tickled
10. Nocturnal Animals

...plus 54 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

Favorite films of 2014 are a go!

Honorable mentions: Nightcrawler, Gone Girl, Frank, The Overnighters, Selma

1. Boyhood
2. The Guest
3. Citizenfour
4. Whiplash
5. A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night
6. Under the Skin
7. Blue Ruin
8. Timbuktu
9. Snowpiercer
10. Wetlands

• A Gay Girl in Damascus: The Amina Profile
• Bloomin Mud Shuffle
• Ex Machina
• Faults
• Avengers: Age of Ultron
• It Follows
• Felt
• Mad Max: Fury Road
• I Am Not Lorena
• Creep

...plus 21 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

A growing list of 2014 releases I've seen thus far.

• The Lego Movie
• Top Five
• The Imitation Game
• Starry Eyes
• V/H/S: Viral
• Nightcrawler
• John Wick
• Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)
• Whiplash
• Gone Girl

...plus 90 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.