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My first Shirley Temple movie

Nice to see Jimmy Stewart together with some of the other cast from Mr. Smith Goes to Washington and You Can't Take It with You again

As an OH fan, this has long been a blindspot for me, as I've seen that it's a favourite of a lot of people I follow here. Well, I'm happy to report it's a favourite of mine now, too!

I could try to write a longer review, but right now I'm just like Ronald Colman's character in the beginning; I can't form any coherent sentences. It was just a complete knockout.

The actors were good-looking and Gregory Peck almost dropped the F-bomb. Unfortunately, it didn't have much else going for it.

With the Bond marathon completed, it's a return to the regularly scheduled programming of Old Hollywood movies. 

Bill and Connie kind of seemed like a gender-swapped version of Jefferson Smith and Clarissa Saunders. How Ann Sheridan is so unknown/underrated puzzles me. In addition to being unbelievably beautiful she could do both comedy and drama, and possibly had the best laugh in the business.

This review may contain spoilers.

*this review is pretty much all spoilers*

I feel how much you like this really depends on how invested you are in Bond's relationship with Madeleine. When I first watched it in the cinema, I neither loved nor hated the ending, it was more a case of me going "well, that was a choice". Actually, the ending hit a bit harder this time around, maybe due to the knowledge that the franchise is now fully in the hands of Amazon and thus this might be the last 'proper' Bond film.

Overall, I don't think it's a particularly good film, though. The runtime is definitely bloated and it feels quite tired that a new version of "we don't know who are enemies are" is introduced as a plot point for a third (or maybe even fifth?) film in a row. Like with Spectre, I also feel some things here were quite forced by the script. To me it was quite obvious that Madeleine didn't betray Bond in the beginning and it just felt like a little too convenient a way to separate them for five years. I also don't want to be too hard on Rami Malek, but like with Christoph Waltz as Blofeld, I just think Safin is one of the worst written villains in the series. He seems to speak exclusively in clichés and platitudes, with pauses and an undefined foreign accent for added effect. They also make the same mistake as with Blofeld in the previous film, by trying so hard to show how powerful he is. SPECTRE is supposedly this all-powerful organisation, but Safin kills them all like it was nothing, by turning them into the colony of Slippermen (Genesis fans will get that reference).

But enough negativity! There were some things I actually liked. I don't think you can say anything bad about how this looks visually. Linus Sandgren did a really great job as the cinematographer here. There were also two sequences I really liked. First, the opening scene is really creepy and a great introduction for Safin. Second, the car chase that ends in the misty Norwegian woods was also really cool. And an F-bomb in a Bond film?! And it's M dropping it! Oh, and if it wasn't obvious enough, I really liked Ana de Armas in this (a shame she didn't have more screen time).

No Time to Die? Well, there was. 163 minutes to be exact.

After much deliberation, here is my ranking of the Bond films.

This review may contain spoilers.

*contains spoilers*

I that when I saw this in theatres ten years ago, I didn't really like it, when everyone else seemed to. Maybe it was just me, I thought, and a rewatch could possibly make me appreciate it more. Well, here I am ten years later and I still don't like it.

This film is strange, because a lot of it should work for me on paper but it just… doesn't. I think my biggest problem, in addition to a sluggish pace, is that many things the film tries to set up as cool and meaningful just fall completely flat for me, because they don't feel earned. Perhaps the most obvious example is Christoph Waltz as Blofeld. Waltz is a great actor, but he's just written as a boring and stereotypical Bond villain here. Even worse, they introduce a backstory that Bond is his adopted brother and that Blofeld has been behind everything that has happened in the previous Craig films. Apart from the fact that it doesn't really make any sense when you think about it, it just feels incredibly forced that they have to invent this bullshit to make Blofeld look like the big bad. I also think making the reason for everything that has happened in these films be that Blofeld is jealous of Bond makes both him and SPECTRE as a whole feel much less threatening.

And that leads me on to my second major issue, which is that any sense of excitement or menace is severely lacking. Even the action scenes just don't really do it for me, probably because Bond seems to get out of every situation far too easily. The script is very predictable, which doesn't necessarily have to be a problem, but when a "twist" is too obvious from the start I find myself bored. Like, how could anyone think that Andrew Scott – fresh off playing Moriarty on Sherlock – could be anything else than a villain from the first frame? The whole thing of ending MI6 doesn't even make sense. I mean, you're not going to need any people in the field because you've got a lot of security cameras?

Moving on to Craig as Bond, I don't really understand his motivations in this. Firstly, the video message from Judi Dench's M was an incredibly lazy way to get him to start investigating SPECTRE, from a writing perspective. Secondly, why was he so sympathetic towards Mr. White? This guy had a hand in the death of Vesper and was taunting Bond about it in previous films, but Bond weirdly doesn't seem that angry with him here. I also don't really sense much chemistry between Bond and Madeleine Swann, let alone that she's the love of his life in the next film. To me it would've made more sense to have Bond be a kind of father figure to her. I suspect I'm not the only one who wished Bond had run off with Monica Bellucci instead. There's also this moment when Madeleine watches the video of her father's death, and the way they cut between her and Bond suggests he had lied about the way he died. But he told her everything that was on that video, so what was the big deal?

Well, at least Ralph Fiennes got to be a bit badass as M, I suppose. Also, the opening title sequence takes the prize for the most tentacle p*rn in the series (mind you, there's another Bond film literally called Octopussy).

*the last paragraph contains a spoiler*

There are several aspects of Skyfall that can rightfully be criticised. It's a kind of Dark Knight light at times, Bond fails most of his missions and the central thesis of the film makes much more sense for the series as a whole than for Craig's version of the character specifically.

The thing is, however, it doesn't really matter that much to me. Sure, Sam Mendes might want to be Christopher Nolan a bit too much, but it's not like the Bond series hasn't ripped off other films before. Overall, I just think it's very well done and engaging. Javier Bardem's Raoul Silva makes for a memorable villain, Roger Deakins' cinematography is gorgeous and the theme song by Adele is one of the series' very best. 

*spoilers below*

Judi Dench is also so good here, and they gave her a fitting send-off in the beautiful Scottish Highlands.

To those who think Genesis only did pop songs without any edge, may I kindly direct you to the 10 minute song where Peter Gabriel, playing a boy killed in a croquet accident who then comes back in spirit form as a sexually frustrated old man, twerks while screaming "touch me now!"?

It's actually crazy that they're all younger than me here (I'm not having a crisis, I swear). Peter was weird as hell, Phil had some impressive sideburns and Tony was his usual cheerful self. I also noticed a little thing that Steve did with his hands in between the guitar parts that I've seen him still doing at his shows.

I just love this strange band so much! 🦊🌻

From what I consider the best Bond film we move on to the worst (official one). I know there was a writers' strike going on and everything, but was it absolutely necessary to rush this to theatres? The headache-inducing editing makes the action incredibly hard to follow, and the terrible script gives the viewer no reason to care anyway. Its greatest sin is that it is so booooring. Bond spends a lot of time here covered in dust, and I felt like I was, too, by the end of this. Yes, it is the shortest film in the entire series, but I'm reminded of a quote by Roger Ebert: "no good movie is too long and no bad movie is short enough". If you want a more thrilling and emotionally resonant adventure featuring British people in Bolivia, you're far better off watching the Top Gear Bolivia Special.

I don't know if I can even begin to list the problems with Quantum of Solace, but I'll try. First of all, I dare anyone to summarise in one sentence what the plot is supposed to be. And if being a big nothingburger wasn't bad enough, it's also pretentious enough to think it has deep things to say about global warming, American colonialism etc. while being about as profound as a Wikipedia summary. All these half-baked ideas ultimately don't add up to much more than "we live in a society". It's frustrating because I genuinely think critiquing the Bond series' pro-colonialist tendencies could work in a film, but it has to be done more intelligently. I also think the scene with the attempted sa could have been handled more tactfully (which is definitely saying something for this series). The dialogue is likewise awful at times, and the different fonts for every new location really looked like Marc Forster had just discovered iMovie for the first time.

When it comes to the characters, firstly, I think it's strange that several of them have names that don't correspond to their nationalities. One of these, Dominic Greene, is such a wimp of a villain and are we seriously expected to believe he is higher up in the pecking order than Le Chiffre? (I guess he resembles Elon Musk a little, though). Craig isn't bad, but Bond is a pretty terrible agent in this one. To try to find some positives, I guess Olga Kurylenko and Judi Dench are pretty good under the circumstances. It was also nice to hear Guillermo del Toro's voice at one point.

Although Quantum is not quite as dumb as Diamonds Are Forever, at least that film had some memorable moments. I mean, if they dressed Dominic Greene in drag I might give Quantum the edge, but alas.

(I have noticed my longest reviews in this series are for the films I don't like lol. I guess I'm a glass half empty kind of guy.)

Just amazing 🤩 Craig as a rookie Bond, the relationship with Vesper, Le Chiffre, the setpieces, the final shot. My only possible criticism is that the pacing could be tweaked slightly, but that is really minor.

Spoiler alert: this will be #1 in my ranking of the Bond films

Heading into this, I thought the title of the movie was referring to Tom Cruise playing a bartender, but now I'm inclined to believe it's actually due to the movie being a mix of every aspect of the 1980s

Though I think Tom Cruise went a bit overboard with making himself Jesus, I was on edge for pretty much 3 hours straight. Will add a rating once my pulse has settled.

EDIT: Added a rating now and kudos to Letterboxd for the cool thing that happens when you post a review 👏

Nothing that exceptional, but I did laugh quite a bit. Kenneth Williams was my favourite part, so I'll probably continue with the series at some point, since he's in 26 out of the 31 (!) films. Nice to see Shirley Eaton pre-gold paint, too.

Went into this with no prior knowledge of Pee-wee as a character. I'd describe him as Mr. Bean on crack.

Some good performances, but the mix of mental illness drama and romcom didn't quite work for me. It's a shame I don't like it more because that David O. Russell seems like such a nice fella.

Not the worst Bond film, but also had potential to be better. The villains are decent but their motivations are not that convincing. I love that Robbie Coltrane came back as Zukovsky for this one, he really steals the show for me. 

Out of all the Bond actors, Brosnan really drew the short straw when it comes to cars, didn't he? In GoldenEye, he drives a BMW Z3 (described in Top Gear as a hairdresser's car). In Tomorrow Never Dies, he gets a pretty boring BMW 750 that he drives from the back seat using his phone as a remote control. In this, the Z8 is a step up, but before he has a chance to escape the bad guys, it's sawed in half. In Die Another Day, he finally gets a proper Bond car in the Aston Martin V12 Vanquish, but then they make that invisible so most of the time you can't even see it. What's wrong with a regular car chase Eon?!

When Bond asked Desmond Llewelyn's Q "You're not retiring any time soon. Are you?" 😢 I'm not crying.

I don't know if I'd go as far as calling it straight-up bad, but Tomorrow Never Dies is possibly the most aggressively unremarkable Bond film (except for maybe Quantum of Solace). So much time is spent in office buildings, warehouses and car parks. Excuse me for wanting a little bit more oomph to my Bond adventures.

A big problem is that I also find the villain to be the least threatening in the series (again, except for maybe QoS). While I like Jonathan Pryce as an actor and I'm all for demonising people like Rupert Murdoch, he reminded me a lot of Steve Martin's character in Looney Tunes: Back in Action (which is way more fun btw). His anchorman joke was pretty funny, though.

At least it had that cool motorcycle chase with Brosnan and Michelle Yeoh. And Dr. Kaufman, he was the real MVP.

Side note: The director of this also made Turner & Hooch. Not sure if I have a point with that, but I think it's a neat bit of trivia. 

Feels like a completely different world seeing the British cooperating with both the Russians and the Chinese. Ah, what could've been.

EDIT: I changed my mind, I WILL call it bad.

(I watched GoldenEye and Die Another Day with a mate back in November, so I'm skipping them now.)

Taking a break from my Bond marathon for another entry in the Cecil B. DeMille Sexy Religious Cinematic Universe. Hedy Lamarr certainly delivered in that regard (although, sadly, her racy outfit shown on the poster was nowhere to be found). The sets and the costumes by Edith Head were really impressive and George Sanders was quite entertaining. Victor Mature was a serviceable Samson, but not much more. 

Overall, it was a bit meh, honestly, and the story felt stretched at 134 minutes. I also very much did not expect this to be set in Gaza.

Probably the nastiest film in the series. Although it certainly doesn't follow the usual Bond formula and is quite small-scale in comparison to The Living Daylights, it might ultimately be a better fit for Dalton's version of Bond. As stripped-down, revenge-driven Bond films go, I prefer this to both For Your Eyes Only and Quantum of Solace. It was also nice to see Key West after having been there myself. 

Robert Davi and Benicio del Toro are both very unsettling as the main villain and henchman, respectively. It also doesn't hurt that this features not one, but two of the hottest Bond girls in the series.

Just the splash of energy the franchise needed after seven Roger Moore films. I really like Timothy Dalton as Bond here, as you can tell he takes the character very seriously, while also being funnier than I ed. This film also features arguably the cutest romance in the series, and the scene where Bond and Kara use her cello case as a sled is an all-time Bond moment for me. While the Aston Martin DB5 will always be THE Bond car, the V8 here is no slouch, either (although not the most discreet vehicle for a spy mission in communist-era Bratislava).

The problems I have with it are in the second half. Like many other Bond films, the plot gets too convoluted and hard to follow. First the bad guys are smuggling weapons, but then also diamonds, but then also also drugs? A character like Whitaker also feels like he belongs much more in a Roger Moore film than here. Oh, and the Mujahideen plot did perhaps not age that brilliantly 14 years later.

Was a little too "tell, don't show" for me in the beginning, but it continuously got better as it went along. I'm not entirely sure why they didn't cast an Asian actress as Mrs. Hammond, especially since she didn't have any lines.

(I love this poster btw, looks like Bette is Dirty Harry.)

Christopher Walken was entertaining and Grace Jones was pretty badass, but unfortunately Tanya Roberts was quite terrible as the Bond girl. And good lord Roger Moore was doubled a lot in this. Even with this rating I might actually be overrating it a bit, but I really like Walken and the theme song by Duran Duran.

How have I not realised until now that both Alison Doody (Elsa from Last Crusade) and Dolph Lundgren are in this?

Where did that ostrich come from?

My first Dirk Bogarde film, and it won't be the last. An interesting slow burner, although the ending was a bit meandering for me. 

Definitely one to watch without reading up on it beforehand.

I knew it was a religious film because when I saw those gams I went ”Oh, Jesus!”

”Your brother's dead. Keep dancing!"

It shouldn't have been that difficult to make the best Bond film of 1983, but this is so terrible it makes Octopussy look like Goldfinger in comparison. Despite the exotic locations it's also really ugly visually. The only thing even remotely entertaining is Fatima Blush and there is a bizarre scene where she forces Bond to it (in writing) that she is the best shag he's ever had.

Ugh, I honestly just want to forget this even exists. It will not be included in my final ranking of the Bond films.

*possibly contains some minor spoilers*

My memory of this from before was that it was super boring, but that was actually less of an issue than I expected this time around. That is not to say that the film is good, though. The plot is too convoluted for its own good and the fact that they go back and forth between the locations gives it a repetitive and disted feel. In one scene we're also expected to believe that Roger Moore at 55 can outrun the entire personnel of a U.S. air base and some of the West German police force, as well (I mean, a Tom Cruise he ain't).

I would be lying, however, if I said there weren't moments I enjoyed. There's lots of action scenes and they're all entertaining. The film is also chock-full of cheesy moments I loved. I mean, how can you not laugh at the way Bond tells a tiger to sit, with his finger sassily up in the air? Or when he tells a snake to "hiss off"? Or, when hiding in a gorilla suit right in front of the bad guys discussing when a bomb will detonate, he checks his watch and they somehow don't notice? There's even a scene at the end where a group of scantily clad women (naturally) infiltrate the bad guys' hideout and there's the suggestion that Q, out of all people, will be getting it on with said women.

Somehow, the film manages to be even more crass when it comes to racial insensitivity and sex jokes than the old Connery films. As for the titular Octopussy, she got that nickname from her dad?! 

The villains here were good but not great. Louis Jourdan works as a smug villain, although I didn't want to punch him in the face as much as when he was the killer on Columbo. When it comes to Steven Berkoff as General Orlov, he chewed the scenery to such a degree that I'm convinced that to this day, somewhere in the Kremlin, there is a wall with a massive hole in it. I also have to say, because she features here as an uncredited voice, that we as a society were robbed of Ingrid Pitt as a Bond girl!

The connection between this film and the Indiana Jones franchise is interesting, because Octopussy has scenes where it clearly tries to be Raiders. On the other hand, Temple of Doom would come out one year after Octopussy, and that is obviously also both set in India and features a scene where the protagonist is served some freaky food at a fancy dinner. Weird.

That East German biathlon champion just cracks me up. I mean, he looks like he's never been on skis in his life. And then he picks up a whole motorcycle and throws it at Bond in frustration. 😂

For Your Eyes Only feels like it's not sure if it wants to be a gritty down-to-earth thriller or a Roger Moore adventure, and it ends up being a strange mix of both. In the opening scene, a quiet reflective moment for Bond is immediately followed by a silly helicopter set-piece, and this kind of sums up the film as a whole. Similarly, the music, while not bad, feels a little out of place at times. Pacing-wise, it also gets a little slow for my liking once the action moves to Greece.

Because of the tonal whiplash, the film's message about revenge gets a bit muddled. Like, why is Bond stopping Melina from avenging her dead parents when he himself threw Blofeld down a chimney with utter glee? The character of Melina works on paper, but the fact that she is so excessively dubbed is very distracting. Nice to see Charles Dance in a small role, although he doesn't have any lines. 

From a historical and geopolitical perspective, it's interesting that the Soviets are back to being the bad guys (probably because of Afghanistan). In The Spy Who Loved Me, Gogol had been an ally (kind of), but here he's clearly an adversary. Oh, and then there's that ridiculous scene with Margaret Thatcher at the end.

I just ed my Apple TV+ free trial ends soon, so I decided to watch this. It was good!

2D Animation Supremacy 🙌

Me when Tony Todd (RIP) showed up: Yeah, fucking Candyman's here!

Me during the majority of the run time: 😴

If I were a character in the movie, I'd put on the John Denver record ASAP just to put me out of my misery

”You know, you don't have to get mad just because you're so stupid!”

As any dude turning 25, I decided to celebrate my birthday in the best way possible (i.e., by rewatching a favourite Jean Arthur film). This is just a laughfest from start to finish.

At this moment in time, a comedy taking the mickey out of the super-rich feels particularly apt. Before the Wolf of Wall Street, there was the Bull of Broad Street. Jean being totally confused about computing interest rates was literally me in the basic course of finance btw. And also, since it seems completely fine right now for the American President to do it, I think it's kosher to say let Jean single-handedly crash the stock market.

I would say that the most adorable scene in cinema history is when she puts the blindfold on her piggy bank before smashing it to bits, but then there's also every other scene she's in. Like, her immediate reaction to earning $18,000 is to buy a dog 🥺. Let's just say that if I worked in that automat, I'd do exactly the same thing as Ray Milland.

To the Criterion Collection, pretty please, with sugar on top, release this on blu-ray.

Is it absolutely preposterous? Yes. Is it somewhat underrated? Also, yes.

If it wasn't already clear by the blatant Star Wars-ripoff finale that the producers were looking to cash in on the sci-fi craze at the time, they also included bits of music from both 2001 and Close Encounters of the Third Kind. Good for Jaws getting the girl. I had also forgotten just how dark Corinne Dufour's death scene is.

”I think he's attempting re-entry, sir.” Q, you dirty dog.

Such a breath of fresh air after The Man with the Golden Gun. Tonally consistent, well-paced and entertaining. The Lotus Esprit-turned-submarine is one of the best cars in the series and Jaws is a great henchman who's silly and threatening in equal measure. Considering how much the preceding few films did the female characters dirty, Major Amasova was a, well, major step up.

Christopher Lee deserved a better movie

*also, Bond uses Fahrenheit?!

It must've annoyed Garbo having to mispronounce Oxenstierna

Did I watch this just for Jean Arthur's screen test? Maybe

Watched on Sunday May 11, 2025.

Apparently, I have taken an almost 4-year long hiatus from watching Kurosawa films. That's far too long.

On the other hand, this was my least favourite of his films so far. The acting and characters were both very strong, but I was definitely expecting more to happen during 139 minutes.

Watched on Thursday May 8, 2025.

Watched before my trip to Spain. I do like slow and symbolic movies from time to time, but this was a bit too much of both for me and it left me quite cold. But idk, maybe I'll give it a slightly higher rating once I've thought about it more.

Jimmy Bond and a British(?) Leiter. Whaat?!

🎶Who is the man that would risk his neck for his brother man?
-Bond!🎶

The Roger Moore era proves that a Bond film can be silly but still work if it's fun (take notes, Diamonds Are Forever). The funeral procession gag in particular is fantastic, even though it really doesn't make any sense.

Wish I cared more about the plot here, though. But the cast was good. Yaphet Kotto was kickass, Jane Seymour was beautiful and Whisper was, well, whispering. And the theme song is an all-time banger (but then again, what would you expect from Sir Paul McCartney?)

Definitely in the running for the worst entry in the series, what an absolute mess. Like seriously, this plot should not be so hard to follow. Connery looks so old and tired, too (even though he was only 40 here!)

Ngl pretty amazing that this movie has the same DP as The Dark Knight, Inception, Memento and The Prestige

I hadn't seen this in ages, but back in the day I used to watch it pretty much every day. It's kinda amazing how many adult jokes they managed to sneak in. I love that the movie can be seen as a tribute to Paul Newman, especially since Doc Hudson would turn out to be his last role. Awesome that George Carlin and Michael Keaton were in this, too. I feel the logic of how the Cars universe works would fall apart pretty quickly if you thought about it for too long, though.

I wouldn't mind seeing a Luigi & Guido spin-off. Loved the Free Bird joke, too.

I can't make up my mind about whether I think this movie's title is awesome or terrible. I would've liked it a lot more if Edwige Fenech was the lead, she had surprisingly little screen time. 

That they put the "any references to actual events or real persons living or dead is purely coincidental" text at the end was frickin' hilarious.

Still not sure how Bizet, Hammerstein, Preminger, Dandridge and Belafonte all came together but I'm glad they did

In keeping with this movie's approach to story and plot, this review will also omit such inconveniences as a coherent narrative or logical structure in favour of something far superior (i.e., random stuff thrown in without reason or rhyme).

- Did the filmmakers even bother to read the cliff notes on these myths? I mean, I don't claim to be a scholar on Greek mythology or anything, but the Kraken?! Really? And the Kraken doesn't even look like that either!

- Mount Olympus was among the most '80s things I've seen, with an MTV aesthetic and neon lights.

- Before Danny DeVito as Philoctetes, there was Burgess Meredith as Ammon.

- Bubo the mechanical owl was very similar to R2-D2 in appearance and to Chewbacca in the sense that the main character inexplicably understood everything it was 'saying'.

- Ursula Andress as Aphrodite reminded me of a German band called Eloy that sang about Greek mythology in English wiz a very strong accent.

- I don't think there were any actual titans in this, and not much of a clash either.

It's pretty much impossible not to compare this to Flow. Not only did they come out the same year and were the frontrunners for Best Animated Feature, they both have a similar setting and feature a flood. The Wild Robot's high points were really high, but overall I felt it was a bit uneven, too.

My ranking of the official Bond films produced by Eon. Some were really hard to put in order, so it's definitely not set in stone.

1. Casino Royale
2. From Russia with Love
3. On Her Majesty's Secret Service
4. GoldenEye
5. Goldfinger
6. Skyfall
7. The Spy Who Loved Me
8. Licence to Kill
9. The Living Daylights
10. Dr. No

...plus 15 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

It would probably take a lifetime to watch all these films

• The Kingdom of the Fairies
• The Impossible Voyage
• Dante's Inferno
• The Life and Death of King Richard III
• Fantômas
• The Photo-Drama of Creation
• Cabiria
• Hypocrites
• A Daughter of the Gods
• Judex

...plus 2355 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

These are all films I have seen but should rewatch. Some I can't much about, some I feel I might have misjudged and some I simply haven't seen in a while.

• Metropolis
• The Public Enemy
• Scarface
• Trouble in Paradise
• King Kong
• It Happened One Night
• The Thin Man
• Bride of Frankenstein
• Modern Times
• The Ex-Mrs. Bradford

...plus 186 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

Some of my favourite films of all time (in no particular order)

• Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
• Parasite
• 2001: A Space Odyssey
• The Lives of Others
• The Silence of the Lambs
• Fargo
• Short Cuts
• All About Eve
• High and Low
• Persona

...plus 108 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

• One Week
• Häxan
• The Last Laugh
• The Freshman
• Faust
• Napoleon
• The Cameraman
• Un Chien Andalou
• The Blue Angel
• Frankenstein

...plus 93 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

• The Golem: How He Came Into the World
• The Kid
• Dr. Mabuse, the Gambler
• Die Nibelungen: Siegfried
• The Gold Rush
• The General
• Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans
• The ion of Joan of Arc
• Man with a Movie Camera
• L'Âge d'or

...plus 94 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

• A Trip to the Moon
• The Great Train Robbery
• The Vampires or, The Arch Criminals of Paris
• Intolerance: Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages
• The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
• The Phantom Carriage
• Nosferatu
• Safety Last!
• The Thief of Bagdad
• Battleship Potemkin

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

• Somebody Lied
• Spring Fever
• Case Dismissed
• The Powerful Eye
• Wine of Youth
• The Iron Horse
• Fast and Fearless
• Biff Bang Buddy
• Bringin' Home the Bacon
• Thundering Romance

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

• Mr. Smith Goes to Washington

  That little nod she gives Jimmy after he reads the note at the end kills me every time

• Mr. Deeds Goes to Town

  How could Gary Cooper capture exactly how I feel about Jean in his poem?

• Only Angels Have Wings

  Has anyone ever looked more angelic than Jean in her bathrobe?

• You Can't Take It with You

  I want to try the phone trick now

• Easy Living

  Jean being completely confused about how interest rates are calculated was me in the basic course of finance

• History Is Made at Night

  Jean's most emotional performance

• The More the Merrier

  Ah, to share an apartment with Jean and skirt the Hays Code together

• The Talk of the Town

  I think this was the start of her 'making weird screaming noises' era

• The Devil and Miss Jones

  Jean, you are the combustible type!

• The Whole Town's Talking

  Probably the best introduction scene she has in any movie

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

• Nanook of the North
• Sherlock Jr.
• The Phantom of the Opera
• Wings
• The Circus
• The Saturday Night Kid
• Morocco
• Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
• Trouble in Paradise
• Gold Diggers of 1933

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

As of 1 January 2025, these are some of the most notable movies I haven't seen yet (chronologically)

• The Man Who Laughs
• Dinner at Eight
• Queen Christina
• The Scarlet Empress
• Fury
• Captains Courageous
• Olympia: Part One – Festival of the Nations
• Olympia: Part Two – Festival of Beauty
• The Ox-Bow Incident
• The Young and the Damned

...plus 195 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

As my regular watchlist keeps ballooning, maybe this list will help me decide what to watch more quickly. Will update once I've seen the 10 films included.

• The Man Who Laughs
• Queen Christina
• Samson and Delilah
• Ordet
• Au Hasard Balthazar
• Papillon
• Annie
• Jacob's Ladder
• Dancer in the Dark
• Silver Linings Playbook

Inspired by this Sporcle quiz. A different star for each year, in movies I haven't seen.

1. Challengers

   Zendaya

2. Anatomy of a Fall

   Sandra Hüller

3. Bones and All

   Timothée Chalamet

4. Judas and the Black Messiah

   Daniel Kaluuya

5. The Father

   Anthony Hopkins

6. Us

   Lupita Nyong'o

7. Annihilation

   Natalie Portman

8. You Were Never Really Here

   Joaquin Phoenix

9. Elle

   Isabelle Huppert

10. Room

    Brie Larson

...plus 95 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

Inspired by this list by Ben. Probably won't watch all of these this year, at least in this order. I just like making lists :). All but #4 are films I haven't seen before.

1. Safe
2. George Washington
3. 3 Women
4. All About Eve
5. Performance
6. Rocco and His Brothers
7. The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog
8. Winchester '73
9. The Scarlet Empress
10. Happiness

...plus 42 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

If you're looking for suggestions, Criterion. (Mostly) excluding films I own on other labels.

• Intolerance: Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages
• The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
• Dr. Mabuse, the Gambler
• Nosferatu
• Sherlock Jr.
• The Thief of Bagdad
• Greed
• Metropolis
• Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans
• The Crowd

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

NOT ordered by spine number (I'm a pleb, I know). See notes for some of my (random) thoughts.

• Berlin Alexanderplatz

  Sometimes my strange fascination with films of behemoth length gets the better of me

• Diabolique

  Hitchcock en français

• Double Indemnity

  Probably THE quintessential noir

• A Face in the Crowd

  I long for a time when this is no longer relevant

• Heaven's Gate

  Even if it definitely drags in places, it's a fascinating story that is very much an anti-Western. 

• High and Low

  One of the best thrillers I have seen

• His Girl Friday

  Sometimes I wish I lived in a B&W movie where everyone talks a mile a minute (quite often, actually).

• History Is Made at Night

  I may or may not have bought a region free player from the US and paid exorbitant customs on it just to see Jean's beautiful face on Criterion blu-ray.

• In Cold Blood

  The home invasion scene is seriously intense

• Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion

  An interesting concept, but felt too cold and distant for me to really get into it.

...plus 14 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

I'll have to clear the schedule for these

• Heimat II: A Chronicle of a Generation
• La Flor
• Out 1
• Evolution of a Filipino Family
• Band of Brothers
• Tie Xi Qu: West of the Tracks
• The Photo-Drama of Creation
• Eight Hours Don’t Make a Day
• Hitler: A Film from
• La Roue

...plus 63 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

• Metropolis
• King Kong
• Modern Times
• Easy Living
• The Wizard of Oz
• The Women
• Ball of Fire
• To Be or Not to Be
• The Talk of the Town
• Casablanca

...plus 73 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

Exploring the evolution of cinema through movies I haven't seen before

1. The Thief of Bagdad
2. Strike
3. Faust
4. Napoleon
5. The Crowd
6. The Blue Angel
7. Vampyr
8. 42nd Street
9. Things to Come
10. Wuthering Heights

...plus 80 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

• Prisoners
• Parasite
• Inception
• The Grand Budapest Hotel
• The Master
• The Wolf of Wall Street
• 1917
• The Irishman
• Dunkirk
• 12 Years a Slave

...plus 5 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

• Citizen Kane
• Casablanca
• The Third Man
• It's a Wonderful Life
• Double Indemnity
• Brief Encounter
• The Maltese Falcon
• The Red Shoes
• Rebecca
• The Great Dictator

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

• The Dark Knight
• There Will Be Blood
• Inglourious Basterds
• The Lives of Others
• The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
• The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
• No Country for Old Men
• Pan's Labyrinth
• The Incredibles
• Memento

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

• The Shawshank Redemption
• Pulp Fiction
• GoodFellas
• The Lion King
• The Usual Suspects
• The Silence of the Lambs
• Heat
• Short Cuts
• Schindler's List
• Fargo

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

• Raging Bull
• Raiders of the Lost Ark
• The Vanishing
• The Empire Strikes Back
• Scarface
• Die Hard
• Blue Velvet
• Fanny and Alexander
• Beverly Hills Cop
• Blade Runner

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

• The Godfather
• The Godfather Part II
• Chinatown
• Network
• Apocalypse Now
• A Clockwork Orange
• Taxi Driver
• Monty Python and the Holy Grail
• The Exorcist
• Dog Day Afternoon

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

• Psycho
• Lawrence of Arabia
• 2001: A Space Odyssey
• It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
• Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
• To Kill a Mockingbird
• The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
• Rosemary's Baby
• The Apartment
• The Great Escape

...plus 5 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

• 12 Angry Men
• All About Eve
• Rear Window
• Seven Samurai
• On the Waterfront
• The Night of the Hunter
• Vertigo
• Ben-Hur
• North by Northwest
• Sunset Boulevard

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

• Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
• M
• Only Angels Have Wings
• Mr. Deeds Goes to Town
• Gone with the Wind
• City Lights
• The Rules of the Game
• Modern Times
• The Wizard of Oz
• King Kong

...plus 5 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

• Metropolis
• Nosferatu
• The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
• Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans
• Battleship Potemkin
• The Gold Rush
• Dr. Mabuse, the Gambler
• The ion of Joan of Arc
• Die Nibelungen: Siegfried
• Die Nibelungen: Kriemhild's Revenge

...plus 5 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.