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• First Knight
• Return of the Jedi
• The Two Jakes
• Fast Times at Ridgemont High
• Dirty Pretty Things
• Little Man Tate
• GoodFellas
• The Musketeer
• 7 Lucky Ninja Kids
• The Last Emperor

...plus 81 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

This is my collection. In order of when they were acquired (roughly).
4K's and Blu-rays are listed in the notes everything else is DVD
Films noted as Region B will not play in the US unless you have a region free blu-ray player.
Films that are a part of boxsets are listed in notes and can be rented with the set or separately.

Sister List: Films I Should Own

1. There Will Be Blood

   Blu-ray

2. Punch-Drunk Love

   Criterion Collection (Blu-ray)

3. Hard Eight

   Blu-ray & DVD (OOP)

4. Magnolia
5. Taxi Driver
6. GoodFellas
7. Casino
8. The Aviator
9. Mean Streets
10. Bringing Out the Dead

    Upgraded (4K)

...plus 1984 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

This is a list of films in which the main premise centers around the game of chess or those who play it.

I will not be including films that merely contain scenes of chess.

• The Queen's Gambit
• 8 x 8: A Chess-Sonata in 8 Movements
• Algorithms
• Barbaric Genius
• Black and White Like Day and Night
• Bobby Fischer Against the World
• Bobby Fischer Live
• Brainwashed
• Brooklyn Castle
• Capablanca

...plus 67 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

Specific collector's editions listed in notes.

Sister List: Films I Own

• When the Last Sword Is Drawn

  www.blu-ray.com/movies/Mibu-gishi-den-Blu-ray/107829/

• The Bear Who Slept Through Christmas
• Alps

  www.blu-ray.com/movies/Alps-Blu-ray/247431/

• The Ninth Gate

  www.blu-ray.com/movies/The-Ninth-Gate-Blu-ray/5425/

• Carnage
• The Ewok Adventure
• Alive
• Fresh
• Life of a King
• The Dark Horse

...plus 179 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

These are the best Double Features I've tried and/or really want to try... plus a few Triple Features!

No sequels/prequels or remakes
No pairings from the same director
Recommended to view in the order listed.

All films with no cover art are just space fillers to make the double features clearer to see (when viewing in a web browser).

• Turbo
• Senna
• Nothing
• The Summit
• K2
• The Long Goodbye
• Inherent Vice
• Spot
• Scott Pilgrim vs. the World

  7 of a Kind Double Feature

• 7 Lucky Ninja Kids

  7 of a Kind Double Feature

...plus 202 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

The Playlist

• Duck, You Sucker
• Django
• Winchester '73
• The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
• Shane
• The Great Silence
• The Homesman
• High Noon
• Giant
• The Shootist

...plus 137 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

I've been hosting a weekly party called Whiskey Western Wednesday for years and I've always wanted to do a full week of drink and film genre pairings, but was never able to realize my vision.
In the midst of the Coronavirus pandemic, I was finally able to accomplish my idea! Now I the challenge to you! It's simple, just follow the guidelines below and pair a drink with a film from the listed alliteration for each day. Post what you drank and watched in the comments for this list, or make your own letterboxd list and share the link in the comments!

Round 1
Melodrama Margarita Monday
Tonic Time Travel Tuesday
Whiskey Western Wednesday
Thirsty Thriller Thursday (any drink you want)
French Film Framboise Friday
Sour Sci-fi Saturday
Sake Samurai Sunday

Round 2
Moscow Mule Monster Movie Monday
(hot) Toddy Townie Tuesday
Wine & Women Wednesday
Three-shot Thievery Thursday
Fifty-Fifty Fantasy Friday
Sangria Satire Saturday
Sidecar Silent Sunday

• The Bridges of Madison County

  Margarita (El Espolòn Tequila)

• Idaho Transfer

  Gin & Tonic (Bombay Sapphire)

• The Great Silence

  Old Fashioned (Small Batch 1792)

• Le Cercle Rouge

  Thriller Chiller (Chocolate Malt w/Rebel Yell Bourbon)

• Last Year at Marienbad

  Framboise (Trimbach Raspberry Brandy)

• Until the End of the World

  Mezcal Sour (Bozal)

• Lady Snowblood

  Saké (Tōzai Snow Maiden junmai nigori)

• Q

  Moscow mule (Vodka)

• Reach the Rock

  Hot Toddy (Rebel Yell Whiskey)

• Daughters of the Dust

...plus 4 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

Organized by Size: Smallest to Largest

• Portrait of a Lady on Fire

  Promotional

• Manchester by the Sea

  Promotional

• The Wrestler

  Promotional
  Multiple

• Top Gun: Maverick

  Promotional

• Eagle vs Shark

  Promotional

• Black Snake Moan

  Promotional
  Multiple

• Death Proof

  Promotional
  Cardboard

• Burn After Reading

  Promotional

• Children of Men

  Promotional

• Snow Angels

  Promotional

...plus 139 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

My love of film over the years has led me to many infatuations, sometimes of a particular character and other times introducing me to an actress I can no longer live without. These are those formative films.

• Elvira Madigan

  Pia Degermark as Hedvig Jensen

• Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me

  Heather Graham as Felicity Shagwell

• The Double Life of Véronique

  Irene Jacob as Weronika/Veronique

• The Fearless Vampire Killers

  Sharon Tate as Sarah Shagal

• Donnie Darko

  Jena Malone as Gretchen Ross

• Ema

  Mariana Di Girolamo as Ema

• Under the Silver Lake

  Grace Van Patten as Balloon Girl

• Until the End of the World

  Solveig Dommartin as Claire Tourneur

• Desert Hearts

  Patricia Charbonneau as Cay Rivvers

• Black Book

  Carice van Houten as Rachel Stein/Ellis De Vries

...plus 38 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

The main protagonist changes or transitions in some strange abrupt way at some point during the film

• The Place Beyond the Pines
• Waves
• No Country for Old Men
• The Devil All the Time
• 2001: A Space Odyssey
• Psycho
• The Double Life of Véronique
• Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance
• The Ten Commandments
• The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford

...plus 3 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

• Dahomey
• Crossing
• Janet Planet
• Daughters
• Do Not Expect Too Much from the End of the World
• The Delinquents
• Inside the Yellow Cocoon Shell
• Problemista
• Oblivion Verses
• Red Rooms

...plus 18 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

No particular order

• The Weather Underground
• Burden of Dreams
• Dear Zachary: A Letter to a Son About His Father
• Senna
• Touching the Void
• Man on Wire
• Exit Through the Gift Shop
• The Cove
• Grizzly Man
• Being Elmo: A Puppeteer's Journey

...plus 101 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

These are films that, for the most part, are wholly grounded in reality save for those few moments when they surprise you with the unexpected bit of magic that lifts the film, and your experience of it, to a whole nother level.

No particular order

• Jauja
• The Fits
• Happy as Lazzaro
• The Spirit of the Beehive
• Petite Maman
• Magnolia
• First Reformed
• Fanny and Alexander
• Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives
• Atlantics

...plus 81 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

Other Criterion Collection Lists:
Currently OOP (out of print) Criterion Collection Films
Criterion Films That Have Been Released In a Digipak
Criterion Supplements
Criterion Releases That Have a Dual Format Edition
Criterion Films That Include a Poster
My Criterion Collection

• The Face of Another

  OOP (Three Films by Hiroshi Teshigahara, Boxset)

• Port of Shadows

  OOP (DVD)

• Flesh for Frankenstein

  OOP (DVD)

• City Lights

  Dual Format OOP

• Spartacus
• 8½
• Loves of a Blonde
• Band of Outsiders
• My Life as a Dog
• Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence

...plus 82 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

No particular order. Links to each performance in notes!

Please comment suggestions :)

Also check out this sister list:
Best Random Dance Sequence In a Film That Isn’t a Musical or About Dancing In Particular

• Lucky

  www.youtube.com/watch?v=77rJ8OSjhdM

• Manglehorn

  www.youtube.com/watch?v=BSFjSTzOH4M

• Magnolia

  www.youtube.com/watch?v=gC96_vph-oI

• Holy Motors

  www.youtube.com/watch?v=SzYB6I1oq1Y

  www.youtube.com/watch?v=lR9ktdI4LFM

• Toni Erdmann

  www.youtube.com/watch?v=lI4fy4XrfvY

• Full Metal Jacket

  www.youtube.com/watch?v=5JD_u4iMP_4
  www.youtube.com/watch?v=PmILOL55xP0

• Blue Valentine

  www.youtube.com/watch?v=ANbkNhU4VSY

• The Master

  www.youtube.com/watch?v=3H4i9gpAWrs

• The Fisher King

  www.youtube.com/watch?v=rmfGLfWqlzA

• 2001: A Space Odyssey

  www.youtube.com/watch?v=E7WQ1tdxSqI

...plus 77 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

See notes for spine # and if the film is part of a boxset.

Other Criterion Collection Lists:
Criterion Wishlist
Criterion Films That Have Been Released In a Digipak
Criterion Supplements
Criterion Releases That Have a Dual Format Edition
Criterion Films That Include a Poster

• Grand Illusion

  Spine #1 (DVD)

• The Killer

  Spine #8 (DVD)

• Hard Boiled

  Spine #9 (DVD)

• This Is Spinal Tap

  Spine #12 (DVD)

• Dead Ringers

  Spine #21 (DVD)

• RoboCop

  Spine #23 (DVD)

• Alphaville

  Spine #25 (DVD)

• Flesh for Frankenstein

  Spine #27 (DVD)

• Blood for Dracula

  Spine #28 (DVD)

• Nanook of the North

  Spine #33 (DVD)

...plus 91 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

I've included films I loved up until high school, as I still consider this to be my childhood. I've attempted to list at least a time period, if not a specific age, at which I most probably had seen each film originally.

• The Sword in the Stone

  Child, 2-6

• Robin Hood

  Child, 2-6

• Davy Crockett, King of the Wild Frontier

  Child 3-6

• Pee-wee's Big Adventure

  Child, 3-6

• Annie

  Child 3-6

• The Goonies

  Child, 3-7

• The Ewok Adventure

  Child, 3-7

• The NeverEnding Story

  Child, 3-7

• The Rescuers

  Child, 4-6

• Frog Dreaming

  Child, 4-6

...plus 119 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

• The Lighthouse
• Prince Avalanche
• Swiss Army Man
• Barry Lyndon
• Fanny and Alexander
• Okja
• Escanaba in da Moonlight
• The Worst Person in the World
• The Northman
• Walker

...plus 20 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

Movie related items I own (not including posters).
Specific items listed in notes.

• Something Wild

  Vinyl

• The Tramp

  Stuffed Doll of Chaplin as The Tramp

• The Lighthouse

  Grooming Set shop.a24films.com/products/the-lighthouse-joya-grooming-set

• Everything Everywhere All at Once

  Hotdog Fingers shop.a24films.com/products/hot-dog-hands

• The Bob's Burgers Movie

  Art

• Licorice Pizza

  Vinyl

• The Green Knight

  Board Game: shop.a24films.com/products/the-green-knight-a-fantasy-roleplaying-game?_pos=1&_sid=004b33ca8&_ss=r

• Man on the Moon

  Hat

• Twin Peaks: The Return

  Pins & Plastic Scene Stand

• Frank

  Head

...plus 64 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

• Kneecap
• Sasquatch Sunset
• Exhibiting Forgiveness
• Malu
• Love Lies Bleeding
• I Saw the TV Glow
• Tendaberry
• A Different Man
• Handling the Undead
• Porcelain War

...plus 44 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

• The Last Detail
• The Wind Journeys
• Starman
• The Mountain
• Until the End of the World
• Paris, Texas
• Five Easy Pieces
• Meek's Cutoff
• The Motorcycle Diaries
• Nebraska

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

• Winter Sleep
• November
• Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans
• Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives
• Vitalina Varela
• Maria, Mirabella
• Andriesh
• To Love
• Ouvertures
• The Gods Must Be Crazy

...plus 118 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

Links to images in notes!

Other Criterion Collection Lists:
Criterion Wishlist
Currently OOP (out of print) Criterion Collection Films
Criterion Films That Have Been Released In a Digipak
Criterion Supplements
Criterion Releases That Have a Dual Format Edition

• Lady Snowblood

  www.criterionforum.org/img/packaging/ladysnowbloodblu6.jpg

• Inside Llewyn Davis

  www.criterionforum.org/img/packaging/llewynblu5.jpg

• Tampopo

  www.criterionforum.org/img/packaging/tampopoblu6.jpg

• Dazed and Confused

  www.criterionforum.org/img/packaging/dazedblu10.jpg

• Withnail & I

  www.criterionforum.org/img/packaging/withnailandi5.JPG

• Che: Part One

  www.criterionforum.org/img/packaging/cheblu14.jpg

• Rushmore

  www.criterionforum.org/img/packaging/rushmoreblu5.jpg

• Moonrise Kingdom

  www.criterionforum.org/img/packaging/moonriseblu11.jpg
  www.criterionforum.org/img/packaging/moonriseblu12.jpg

• Rumble Fish

  www.criterionforum.org/img/packaging/rumblefishblu6.jpg

• Night of the Living Dead

  DVD Only
  www.criterionforum.org/img/packaging/livingdeadblu9.jpg

...plus 45 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

I've only included individual films, since most boxsets are digipak. The term 'digipak' is used here loosely to describe any release not in a plastic case.

Other Criterion Collection Lists:
Criterion Wishlist
Currently OOP (out of print) Criterion Collection Films
Criterion Supplements
Criterion Releases That Have a Dual Format Edition
Criterion Films That Include a Poster

• The 400 Blows

  Blu-ray (discontinued)
  www.criterionforum.org/Packaging/the-400-blows-the-criterion-collection-blu-ray

• Ace in the Hole

  Dual format (discontinued)
  www.criterionforum.org/Packaging/ace-in-hole-the-criterion-collection-dual-format-edition

• All About Eve

  Blu-ray
  www.criterionforum.org/Packaging/all-about-eve-the-criterion-collection-blu-ray

• Amarcord

  Blu-ray
  www.criterionforum.org/Packaging/amarcord-the-criterion-collection-blu-ray

• Andrei Rublev

  Blu-ray
  www.criterionforum.org/Packaging/andrei-rublev-the-criterion-collection-blu-ray

• Babette's Feast

  Blu-ray
  www.criterionforum.org/Packaging/babettes-feast-the-criterion-collection-blu-ray

• The Battle of Algiers

  Blu-ray
  www.criterionforum.org/Packaging/the-battle-of-algiers-the-criterion-collection-blu-ray

• Berlin Alexanderplatz

  Blu-ray
  www.criterionforum.org/Packaging/berlin-alexanderplatz-the-criterion-collection-blu-ray

• Bicycle Thieves

  DVD only
  www.criterionforum.org/Packaging/bicycle-thieves-the-criterion-collection-dvd

• Blow-Up

  Blu-ray
  www.criterionforum.org/Packaging/blow-up-the-criterion-collection-blu-ray

...plus 104 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

Leave a comment with a film you think I'd like or one you think is great in general. I'll add the movie to this list and link your profile in the notes.
I'll try and get to them when i can!

• Your Choice!

• Fallen Angels

  Recommended by jude!

• Heaven Knows What

  Recommended by jude!

• The Sacrifice

  Recommended by jude!

• Crime Wave

  Recommended by danielscalph

• Psychos in Love

  Recommended by danielscalph

• Wings of Desire

  Recommended by Roberto Palet

• The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog
• Zach Galifianakis: Live at the Purple Onion
• Princess Arete

...plus 1 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

Streaming services listed in notes :)

• Dune: Part Two

  Max
  Netflix

• Alien: Romulus

  Hulu

• Conclave

  Peacock

• Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes

  Hulu

• Maria

  Netflix

• Sugarcane

  Disney+

• The Substance

  Mubi

• Black Box Diaries

  Paramount+

• The Wild Robot

  Peacock

• A Real Pain

  Hulu

...plus 10 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

• The Challenge
• Sherpa
• North Face
• K2
• The Summit
• Meru
• Cliffhanger
• Vertical Limit
• Touching the Void
• The Eiger Sanction

...plus 196 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

Links to watch each dance in notes!

This is a list of mostly unmotivated or surprising dance sequences or scenes in films where dancing is fairly out of context.

Open to suggestions :)

Sister list:
Best Random Singing Performance In a Film That Isn’t a Musical or About Singing In Particular

• Dogtooth

  www.youtube.com/watch?v=KLOy4_tzXHY

• Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

  www.youtube.com/watch?v=WWdK9nhQpE0

• Satantango

  www.youtube.com/watch?v=W5wtaMQYJGY

• Punch-Drunk Love

  www.youtube.com/watch?v=o-kVU3XbeGM

• The Lighthouse

  www.youtube.com/watch?v=23bonoyne8U

• The Fearless Vampire Killers

  www.youtube.com/watch?v=WLY0cgXcMVw

• A Clockwork Orange

  www.youtube.com/watch?v=zwtRpy7jrU8

• Monty Python and the Holy Grail

  www.youtube.com/watch?v=dviEWs_VIG4

• Ferris Bueller's Day Off

  www.youtube.com/watch?v=8jOKNM4z9Zs

• High Fidelity

  www.youtube.com/watch?v=JtQB0L4Lric

...plus 144 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

• About Endlessness
• Smoke
• A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence
• You, the Living
• Songs from the Second Floor
• Coffee and Cigarettes
• Dreams
• The Ballad of Buster Scruggs
• Night on Earth
• Person to Person

...plus 51 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

• It's Never Over, Jeff Buckley

  Theater Only

• Jimpa

  Theater Only

• If I Had Legs I’d Kick You

  Theater Only

• SLY LIVES! (aka The Burden of Black Genius)

  Theater Only

• Opus

  Theater Only

• Magic Farm

  Theater Only

• The Legend of Ochi

  Theater Only

• Train Dreams

  Theater Only

• Rabbit Trap

  Theater Only

• Peter Hujar’s Day

  Theater Only

...plus 31 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

My s on Plex

• Air Doll
• All Ladies Do It
• Always Shine
• Anita, Swedish Nymphet
• Antiporno
• At Berkeley
• Attenberg
• Battle Beyond the Stars
• The Beast
• Certain Women

...plus 109 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

This is a list of films for anyone curious about the history of cinema, interested in filmmaking as an art form, and/or hoping to explore filmmaking as a career path. Carefully curated as an essential starter pack (for a nephew of mine), with a healthy dose of personal bias, I hope that this collection of films can help to educate and inspire.

Eventually I hope to have a note for each film explaining its importance (in my opinion), and what one should analyze upon viewing. I recommend watching the films in the order listed, but how you educate yourself is always up to you. Enjoy!

1. A Trip to the Moon

   Streaming on the Criterion Channel

   George Melies is one of the most influential of the early directors in the history of cinema. Early films were mostly made up of what were known as Actuality films, one to two minute stationary shots of actual events. This was because movies were invented as an extension of still photography, hence the name motion pictures. Melies was one of the first filmmakers to utilize the medium of film to tell stories, especially fantastical stories. In this film you can see how he utilized his experience in theater and magic to test the capabilities of filmmaking.

   What to look for:
   Theaters influence on storytelling in early cinema and how movies have evolved to develop their own unique language to tell stories.
   - no close ups
   - no varied angles
   - long takes with stationary shots that put you in the perspective of the
   audience of a stage play
   - linear storytelling with most scenes unfolding in real time
   Melies use of practical effects and how he used his knowledge of magic to create his own movie magic and how that has paved the way for modern day special effects.
   - invisible edits to make something appear or disappear
   - use of scaled models
   - make-up and set design

2. Hugo

   Streaming on Netflix

   Though most of the films on this list are in chronological order, I have decided to intersperse some modern films here and there to act as counter-reference points and break up some of the tedium of watching several silent films in a row.
   I've included this film to show you just how far reaching George Melies influence has been. Here one of todays greatest living filmmakers (Martin Scorsese) has payed homage to Melies by lovingly directing this fictionalized tale of a young boy discovering the magic Melies created and reviving that magic in the man himself and in turn in us the audience.

   What to watch for:
   Contrasts with early filmmaking
   - Scorseses use of moving camera shots and wide variety of angles,
   something unheard of and practically impossible in early film due to the
   shear size and weight of cameras at that time
   - multiple cuts with in a scene
   - use of close-ups
   Several references to the early days of cinema

3. The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari

   Streaming on Tubi

   This film is widely considered to be the quintessential example of German expressionism, a highly influential film movement that emerged from in the early days of cinema.

4. The Third Man

   Streaming on the Criterion Channel

5. Safety Last!

   Streaming on the Criterion Channel

6. Sherlock Jr.
7. City Lights

   Streaming on Criterion Channel/ HBO/ Roku Channel

8. Battleship Potemkin

   Streaming on Criterion Channel/ HBO/ Vudu

9. Rashomon

   Streaming on Criterion Channel/ HBO

10. Koyaanisqatsi

...plus 45 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

Best of...
Opening Scenes
Random Dance In a Film That Isn’t a Musical or About Dancing In Particular
Random Singing In a Film That Isn’t a Musical or About Singing In Particular
FatalList (AKA: Affecting On-screen Deaths)
Affecting On-screen Deaths of Animals
Affecting On-screen Deaths of Inanimate Objects
All Time Favs
My Favorite Posters
My Favorite Letterboxd Backdrops
Favorite Scenes
Childhood Favorites
Docs
Four Favs
My Favorite Endings
2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | Decade (2010's) | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 |
2024 |

Themes
Bio Pics | Chess | Climbing | Extraordinary Kindness | Farts | Fall Season Frights | 10 Characters Or Less | 3 Hours or Longer | Anthology Films | Cult Classics | Films in Chapters | Places | Symbols in the Title | High School | Immigration/Emigration | Kids and Balloons | LA | Moments of Magical Realism | Mood Piece | New York City | Protagonal Shifts | Rivers | Road Movies | Samurai | Small Town | Sports | Subverting the Studio Logo | Survival | Thieves | Unconventional Trilogies | Vampire | Weird, Uncomfortable, and Often Disturbing | Westerns | On Repeat | Guilty Pleasure | Who Would Win In a Foot Race | I Don’t Get It… But It Got Me! | Cinematic Crush | A Cinephile Mixtape | Unexplained Anachronisms | Marionettes | Never Put a Hat On the Bed! | Pools | Childhood Theater Veiwings |

Collections
Films I Own
Films I Should Own
Movie Posters I Own
Collectables I Own
My s
400 Disc Mega Changer
Criterion Wishlist
Currently OOP (out of print) Criterion Collection Films
Criterion Films That Have Been Released In a Digipak
Criterion Supplements
Criterion Releases That Have a Dual Format Edition
Criterion Films That Include a Poster
My Criterion Collection
My VHS Collection

Recommendations
Uncle Jake’s Film School
What Do You Recommend?
Streaming Recs
Double Features
Christmas
Thanksgiving
Summer
Autumnal
Winter
Nocturnal
Alcohol Alliteration Apocalyptic-theater: a Quarantine Challenge

Awards & Festivals
Oscar Nominated Films for 2017
Oscar Predictions 2017
Oscars 2018
Oscars 2021
Oscars 2021 Shortlists
Sundance 2018
Sundance 2019
Sundance 2020
Sundance 2021
Sundance 2022
Sundance 2023
Sundance 2024
Sundance 2025
TIFF 2024

Showdowns
Cinematography | Coming of Age | Zombies | Vacation Locations | Time Travel | Androids | Directorial Debuts | Fictional Female Leads | Boats | Outstanding LGBTQ Characters | Confined Spaces | Music Docs | Animal Leads | Overlooked Films of the 2010s | Forests or Jungles | Under Seen Mafia Films | Beaches | Revenge | Camp | Remakes | Underrated Sci-fi | Siblings | Oscar-Nominated Film Directing |

Watchlists

2024 Must Watch
2025 Must Watch
Remaining Countries
With Julie
With Neighbors

• Functional Design

• Corsage
• Marie Antoinette
• Caravaggio
• The Favourite
• Walker
• Monty Python and the Holy Grail
• A Knight's Tale
• Titus
• Happy as Lazzaro

• 3 Women
• The Mother and the Whore
• Nostalgia
• Valerie and Her Week of Wonders
• Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid
• Vampyr
• The Girl and the Spider
• Phantom of the Paradise
• Flux Gourmet
• Son of the White Mare

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

• Annette
• The Double Life of Véronique
• Being John Malkovich
• Fanny and Alexander
• The Bones
• Monkey Man
• A Quiet Place: Day One
• The Green Knight
• Pinocchio
• The Sound of Music

...plus 4 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

No Particular Order
The Tunes

• Fanny and Alexander
• The Shop Around the Corner
• George and the Christmas Star
• It's a Wonderful Life
• Carol
• The Bear Who Slept Through Christmas
• Rare Exports: A Christmas Tale
• Kiss Kiss Bang Bang
• Home Alone
• Home Alone 2: Lost in New York

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

Specific scene for each film is referenced in notes.

• The Tenant

  First nightmare sequence

• There Will Be Blood

  Give me the Blood, but really any

• You, the Living

  Apartment Train

• Blade Runner

  Like tears in rain

• Andrei Rublev

  The Bell Maker, but really any scene

• The Lighthouse

  Doodle Let Me Go, but pretty much any

• Down by Law

  Ice Cream Chant

• The Ice Storm

  Playing in the ice

• Smooth Talk

  Confrontation at home

• Lovers Rock

  Silly Games

...plus 23 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

NPO

• McCabe & Mrs. Miller
• Fargo
• Ikiru
• The Great Silence
• The Revenant
• Lady Snowblood
• Kumiko, the Treasure Hunter
• Let the Right One In
• TransSiberian
• Troll Hunter

...plus 100 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

• Murmur of the Heart
• Punch-Drunk Love
• The Grand Budapest Hotel
• Moonrise Kingdom
• The Royal Tenenbaums
• Fantastic Mr. Fox
• Rushmore
• The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou
• The Darjeeling Limited
• Bottle Rocket

...plus 724 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

• Over the Garden Wall
• October Sky
• Fantastic Mr. Fox
• Moonrise Kingdom
• Good Will Hunting
• Little Women
• Dead Poets Society
• Autumn Sonata
• Where the Wild Things Are
• Donnie Darko

...plus 67 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

Films i've watched half of, but still need to finish (mostly because of dvd roulette and falling asleep)

• Weekend

  #314 dvd roulette

• The Doors

  #330 dvd roulette

• The Man Who Laughs

  #56 dvd roulette

• Survive Style 5+

  YouTube

• Pauline at the Beach

  Library DVD

• Out 1

  Boxset (My Collection)

• The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension

  Amazon Prime

• Relaxer

  Criterion Channel

• From What Is Before

  Mubi

• The Kingdom

  Mubi

...plus 19 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

Bird's the Word

• Fantastic Mr. Fox
• The Ice Storm
• Planes, Trains and Automobiles
• The Last Waltz
• Krisha
• A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving
• Alice's Restaurant
• Son in Law
• Hannah and Her Sisters
• Avalon

...plus 16 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

Preliminary voting for the 97th Academy Awards will begin on Monday, December 9, 2024 and end on Friday, December 13, 2024. Shortlists for the 97th Academy Awards will be announced on Tuesday, December 17, 2024. Nominations for the 97th Academy Awards will be announced on Friday, January 17, 2025.

The 97th Oscars will be held on Sunday, March 2, 2025

ANIMATED FEATURE FILM
“Art College 1994”
“Captain Avispa”
“Chicken for Linda!”
“The Colors Within”
“The Day the Earth Blew Up: A Looney Tunes Movie”
“Despicable Me 4”
“Flow”
“The Garfield Movie”
“Ghost Cat Anzu”
“The Glassworker”
“The Imaginary”
“Inside Out 2”
“Kensuke’s Kingdom”
“Kung Fu Panda 4”
“Living Large”
“Look Back”
“The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim”
“Mars Express”
“Memoir of a Snail”
“Moana 2”
“Piece by Piece”
“Rocket Club: Across the Cosmos”
“Sirocco and the Kingdom of Winds”
“Spellbound”
“Sultana’s Dream”
“That Christmas”
“Thelma the Unicorn”
“Transformers One”
“Ultraman: Rising”
“Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl”
“The Wild Robot”

INTERNATIONAL FEATURE FILM
Albania, “Waterdrop”
Algeria, “Algiers”
Argentina, “Kill the Jockey”
Armenia, “Yasha and Leonid Brezhnev”
Austria, “The Devil’s Bath”
Bangladesh, “The Wrestler”
Belgium, “Julie Keeps Quiet”
Bolivia, “Own Hand”
Bosnia and Herzegovina, “My Late Summer”
Brazil, “I’m Still Here”
Bulgaria, “Triumph”
Cambodia, “Meeting with Pol Pot”
Cameroon, “Kismet”
Canada, “Universal Language”
Chile, “In Her Place”
Colombia, “La Suprema”
Costa Rica, “Memories of a Burning Body”
Croatia, “Beautiful Evening, Beautiful Day”
Czech Republic, “Waves”
Denmark, “The Girl with the Needle”
Dominican Republic, “Aire Just Breathe”
Ecuador, “Behind the Mist”
Egypt, “Flight 404”
Estonia, “8 Views of Lake Biwa”
Finland, “Family Time”
, “Emilia Pérez”
Georgia, “The Antique”
, “The Seed of the Sacred Fig”
Greece, “Murderess”
Guatemala, “Rita”
Hong Kong, “Twilight of the Warriors: Walled In”
Hungary, “Semmelweis”
Iceland, “Touch”
India, “Lost Ladies”
Indonesia, “Women from Rote Island”
Iran, “In the Arms of the Tree”
Iraq, “Baghdad Messi”
Ireland, “Kneecap”
Israel, “Come Closer”
Italy, “Vermiglio”
Japan, “Cloud”
Kazakhstan, “Bauryna Salu”
Kenya, “Nawi”
Kyrgyzstan, “Paradise at Mother’s Feet”
Latvia, “Flow”
Lebanon, “Arzé”
Lithuania, “Drowning Dry”
Malaysia, “Abang Adik”
Malta, “Castillo”
Mexico, “Sujo”
Mongolia, “If Only I Could Hibernate”
Montenegro, “Supermarket”
Morocco, “Everybody Loves Touda”
Nepal, “Shambhala”
Netherlands, “Memory Lane”
Nigeria, “Mai Martaba”
Norway, “Armand”
Pakistan, “The Glassworker”
Palestine, “From Ground Zero”
Panama, “Wake Up Mom”
Paraguay, “The Last Ones”
Peru, “Yana-Wara”
Philippines, “And So It Begins”
Poland, “Under the Volcano”
Portugal, “Grand Tour”
Romania, “Three Kilometres to the End of the World”
Senegal, “Dahomey”
Serbia, “Russian Consul”
Singapore, “La Luna”
Slovakia, “The Hungarian Dressmaker”
Slovenia, “Family Therapy”
South Africa, “Old Righteous Blues”
South Korea, “12.12: The Day”
Spain, “Saturn Return”
Sweden, “The Last Journey”
Switzerland, “Queens”
Taiwan, “Old Fox”
Tajikistan, “Melody”
Thailand, “How to Make Millions before Grandma Dies”
Tunisia, “Take My Breath”
Turkey, “Life”
Ukraine, “La Palisiada”
United Kingdom, “Santosh”
Venezuela, “Back to Life”
Vietnam, “Peach Blossom, Pho and Piano”

DOCUMENTARY FEATURE FILM
“Adrianne & the Castle”
“After the Rain: Putin’s Stolen Children Come Home”
“Agent of Happiness"
“Am I Racist?”
“American Cats: The Good, the Bad & the Cuddly”
“Americans with No Address”
“America’s Burning”
“And So It Begins”
“At the Door of the House Who Will Come Knocking”
“Bad Actor: A Hollywood Ponzi Scheme”
“Bad Faith”
“Bad River”
“Behind the Mist”
“The Bibi Files”
“Black Box Diaries”
“Black Girls”
“Blind Spot”
“Blink”
“Bob Mackie: Naked Illusion”
“The Body Politic”
“Bread & Roses”
“Brief Tender Light”
“Carol Doda Topless at the Condor”
“Carville: Winning Is Everything, Stupid”
“¡Casa Bonita Mi Amor!”
“Catching Fire: The Story of Anita Pallenberg”
“Celebrating Laughter, The Life and Films of Colin Higgins”
“The Commandant’s Shadow”
“Copa 71”
“The Cowboy and the Queen”
“Dahomey”
“Daughters”
“Death without Mercy”
“Einhundertvier”
“Elton John: Never Too Late”
“Eno”
“Ernest Cole: Lost and Found”
“Escape from Extinction Rewilding”
“Every Little Thing”
“The Fabulous Gold Harvesting Machine”
“Farming the Revolution”
“Favoriten”
“Federer: Twelve Final Days”
“Fighting Spirit: A Combat Chaplain’s Journey”
“500 Days in the Wild”
“The Flats”
“Flipside”
“Following Harry”
“Food and Country”
“Food, Inc. 2”
“Forgetting the Many: The Royal Pardon of Alan Turing”
“Frank Miller: American Genius”
“Frida”
“From Ground Zero”
“Gaucho Gaucho”
“Girls State”
“God & Country”
“Gonzo for Democracy”
“The Grab”
“The Greatest Night in Pop”
“Happy Campers”
“Happy Clothes: A Film about Patricia Field”
“Hidden Master: The Legacy of George Platt Lynes”
“Hollywoodgate”
“Homegrown”
“How to Come Alive with Norman Mailer”
“Hummingbirds”
“I Am: Celine Dion”
“I Can’t Breathe”
“In Between Stars and Scars: Masters of Cinema”
“Indigo Girls: It’s Only Life After All”
“Intercepted”
“Invisible Nation”
“It Happened on Our Ground”
“Jewel of the Desert”
“Jim Henson Idea Man”
“ or Die”
“Just a Bit Outside: The Story of the 1982 Milwaukee Brewers”
“King of Kings: Chasing Edward Jones”
“Kiss the Future”
“The Landscape and the Fury”
“The Last Journey”
“The Last of the Sea Women”
“The Last Ones”
“Leap of Faith”
“Left Behind”
“Legacy: The De-Colonized History of South Africa”
“Look into My Eyes”
“Lost Angel: The Genius of Judee Sill”
“The Lost Legacy of Tony Gaudio”
“Lovely Jackson”
“Lover of Men, The Untold History of Abraham Lincoln”
“Luther: Never Too Much”
“Mad about the Boy – The Noel Coward Story”
“Made in England: The Films of Powell and Pressburger”
“Majority Rules”
“Marching in the Dark”
“Martha”
“Maya and the Wave”
“Mediha”
“Merchant Ivory”
“Mom & Dad’s Nipple Factory”
“Money Electric: The Bitcoin Mystery”
“Mountain Queen: The Summits of Lhakpa Sherpa”
“Music by John Williams”
“My Sweet Land”
“Natterer’s Treasure”
“Never Look Away”
“A New Kind of Wilderness”
“New Wave”
“No One Asked You”
“No Other Land”
“Nocturnes”
“Nurse Unseen”
“October H8te: The Fight for the Soul of America”
“Of Color and Ink”
“One Person, One Vote?”
“1489”
“One with the Whale”
“Ozogoche”
“Patrice: The Movie”
“A Photographic Memory”
“Piece by Piece”
“Porcelain War”
“Power”
“Queendom”
“Ray of Hope”
“The Remarkable Life of Ibelin”
“ing Gene Wilder”
“Resurgo Detroit: The Rise from Within”
“Resynator”
“Sabbath Queen”
“Samuel: Hollywood vs Hollywood”
“Seeking Mavis Beacon”
“Separated”
“She Rises Up”
“The Sinking of the Lisbon Maru”
“The Sixth”
“64 Days – The Insurrection Playbook”
“Skywalkers: A Love Story”
“Sorry/Not Sorry”
“Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat”
“State Organs: Unmasking Transplant Abuse in China”
“Stolen Time”
“Stripped for Parts: American Journalism on the Brink”
“Studio One Forever”
“Sugarcane”
“Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story”
“Sweetheart Deal”
“Taking Venice”
“The Taste of Mango”
“The Tuba Thieves”
“2073”
“Uncropped”
“Unfightable”
“Union”
“Veselka: The Rainbow on the Corner at the Center of the World”
“Vigilantes Inc.: America’s New Vote Suppression Hitmen”
“War Game”
“We Will Dance Again”
“Welcome to Babel”
“Whale Restaurant”
“Who’s Afraid of Nathan Law?”
“Will & Harper”
“William Shatner: You Can Call Me Bill”
“The World According to Allee Willis”
“The World Is Family”
“Yintah”
“Zurawski v Texas”

• Art College 1994
• Captain Avispa
• Chicken for Linda!
• The Colors Within
• The Day the Earth Blew Up: A Looney Tunes Movie
• Despicable Me 4
• Flow
• The Garfield Movie
• Ghost Cat Anzu
• The Glassworker

...plus 266 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

NPO

• Marketa Lazarová
• A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence
• Jauja
• Synecdoche, New York
• Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives
• 2001: A Space Odyssey
• Inherent Vice
• Annihilation
• The Lighthouse
• The Double Life of Véronique

...plus 32 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

My all time favorites

• Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans
• The ion of Joan of Arc
• M
• The Red Shoes
• Strangers on a Train
• Ikiru
• Limelight
• The Night of the Hunter
• All That Heaven Allows
• A Man Escaped

...plus 243 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

• Ran
• Swimmer
• Satantango
• The Fountain
• Harakiri
• Days of Heaven
• Modern Times
• The Last Dance
• Full Metal Jacket
• Funeral Parade of Roses

...plus 142 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

• Trash Humpers
• Antichrist
• Enter the Void
• Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom
• Sweet Movie
• WR: Mysteries of the Organism
• Irreversible
• Videodrome
• A Serbian Film
• Blue Velvet

...plus 61 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

A horror season weekly watch party

• Censor
• The Silence
• Eyes Without a Face
• Pontypool
• Calvaire
• A Tale of Two Sisters
• They Look Like People
• Noroi: The Curse
• Hagazussa
• In Fabric

...plus 87 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

SPOILERS ABOUND!
Suggestions are welcome, but I will only be listing deaths to which I personally had an emotional reaction that elicited a visceral response
Related Lists:
Affecting On-screen Deaths
Affecting On-screen Deaths of Animals

• The Red Balloon

  The red ballon

• Waterworld

  The Mariner's best friend (his ship)

• Cast Away

  Wilson!!

• Harold and Maude

  Jaguar Hearse

• Cinema Paradiso

  The Cinema Paradiso

• The Sacrifice