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this was an exercise I decided to do while delaying doing a paper for school. I did not put a ton of thought into this and think in a hour I could massively regret forgetting X movie. I think this could work as a cool time capsule of my film taste and what I have seen as November 26th 2024. to avoid repetition I limited myself to 4 to a director. not ranked

• The Red Shoes
• Margaret
• Mirror
• Parasite
• Oppenheimer
• Whiplash
• Pulp Fiction
• Lady Bird
• Gone Girl
• Inglourious Basterds

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

Lots of lows

1. Challengers
2. A Real Pain
3. Dune: Part Two
4. The Substance
5. Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga
6. Trap
7. Longlegs
8. Love Lies Bleeding
9. Horizon: An American Saga – Chapter 1
10. Civil War

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

1. Sunset Boulevard
2. The Red Shoes
3. Mirror
4. Dog Day Afternoon
5. Margaret
6. Happy Together
7. The Master
8. Do the Right Thing
9. Stories We Tell
10. GoodFellas

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

My personal ranking of what I’ve seen from 2022! 

I think this year was a pretty good year for movies but Im very disappointed with the selection of movies that played widely in theatres. The only theatre within a hour driving to me only plays films that receive a very wide release meaning many of the year’s best I was forced to watch on a tv screen. I don’t think it’s a coincidence that eight of my top ten are movies I saw at the movie theatre. 

Still need to see Tar, Armageddon time, Aftersun, the eternal daughter, women talking and Bones and all.

1. Babylon

   My favourite of the year! I’ve seen it twice at time of writing both times in theatres. It’s rare that I would willingly commit over 3 hours of my day to see a movie for a second time mere 4 days after the first watch but Babylon was such a thrill in the theatre I just had to see it again. 

   Babylon is a movie that is almost custom made to match my interests. I love Boogie Nights, Whiplash, and my favourite movie of all time is Sunset Boulevard. It was almost a guarantee that I would at least somewhat like this, I like shock factor stuff in movies when done right and I love movies about movies. I don’t usually love epics but I think that’s because most epic films are usually on subjects that I’m not interested in as much. 

   My favourite scene in any movie of 2022 is the scene at the end of the first day of filming in Babylon when Brad Pitt gets his scene done right as Margot Robbie finishes her scene.  I totally get why this isn’t for everyone but it would be hard to find a movie that aligned with my own interests better than Babylon did. Fastest 3 hours of my life

2. TÁR
3. The Banshees of Inisherin

   The Banshees of Inisherin is a movie that does a great job perfectly capturing someone’s entire world. The audience knows everything we need to about Colin Farrell’s character’s life very quickly into the movie. The film uses comedy to prevent the film from being the most depressing two hours ever but the jokes never feel like they are too much or undermine the story.
   Kerry Condon would receive my vote for best ing actress if I got one. I find she is able to display a sense of longing for something more and to getaway from Inisherin while also showing how much she cares for her brother and helping him. 
   I think the idea of the canons firing in the background is one of the smartest ideas for setting the feel of the movie  in any movie of 2022.

4. The Fabelmans

   It took over a month of waiting for me to be able to watch this in a movie theatre. I woke up at 6 am (5 hours earlier than I would like to during a vacation) to get to see a noon showing of this in a theatre a few hours away. It was totally worth the wait. A lot of my favourite movies this year (and in general) are about making movies. I think this is because other than university I dedicate more time to movies than anything else rather that’s actually watching movies, consuming other people’s content about movies, or talking to people about movies.
    My whole life I was was always incredibly into movies. In first grade for a class assignment I wrote that I wanted to be a director I don’t think I even knew what a director was. This made this movie incredibly easy for me to like. Im pretty confident that everyone who spent their childhood loving movies will enjoy this movie. I can acknowledge the cheesy parts of this movie (the second half of the hallway scene) but I don’t think I’d want it any other way. 
   The Fabelmans perfectly fits what I would want a semi auto-biographical movie about the most famous mainstream director to be. It’s very melancholy at times while still ultimately making me feel happy. The ending scene with the Lynch cameo was perfect and made me leave the theatre forgetting most of my criticisms of the movie.  
   Hall of Fame movie Dad performance by Paul Dano too.

5. Nope

   Nope is everything I want from mainstream genre movies. It says so much but it’s also just so freaking fun. During the third act I found my head moving around to watch different parts of the movie screen. It reminded of when I was quite young and would go to the movies and get so into them. The blockbuster aspects of Nope were all great but then the next week or so I was able to talk with my Dad about the movie and all the different ideas Peele was presenting in it. Daniel Kaluuya and KeKe Palmer can be the two leads in every movie for the rest of my life for all I care because they were perfect in Nope and had amazing chemistry. I really hope the trio of Kaluuya, Palmer, and Peele come together to make another movie. 

6. Women Talking
7. Decision to Leave

   Decision to Leave is the first Park Chan-wook movie I’ve ever seen. It was a great introduction to him. It plays perfectly on the femme fatale trope. I had no idea that it would be funny in anyway and was very pleasantly surprised with how much I found myself laughing during the film. This year for a while every Wednesday after work I would drive to my Grandmother’s to watch a old movie a lot of the time the movie we decided to watch was a noir movie with a femme fatale. That meant that this year I became very familiar with the idea of a femme fatale in movies and thought I knew pretty much to expect with this movie, boy was I wrong. 
   Tang Wei was incredible in this and had the ability to take every scene she was in and made it her own. It felt as though Tang Wei took every single famous femme fatale of the 40s and put them all together for a performance that made it great for 2022.  
   My main takeaway from Decision to Leave is that I really need to watch more of Park Chan-wook’s movies in 2023.

8. Top Gun: Maverick

   Plane goes fast movie is fun. That’s all that needs to be said about Top Gun Maverick and I mean that as a compliment. 
   I saw this movie opening night with a friend of mine and the theatre wasn’t empty by any means but it certainly wasn’t packed. Around a month later I went with my Dad and the theatre  was anything but empty. We went to a earlier showing on weekday when theatres are usually less busy. I think that speaks to the way this movie was popular, not by some sort of artificial hype that made some people feel as though they needed to watch it right away in order to finish the cycle of hype. Rather because everyone and their mother talked about how much fun it was, if you liked movies and didn’t go to top gun someone told you were missing out.
   I think one of the most fun scenes of the year is that stupid training scene with won’t get fooled again playing just dumb fun in the best way. A great summer blockbuster that helped remind people how cool the movie theatre is. 

9. Aftersun
10. "Sr."

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All movies I have on criterion

Ranked by the order I got them

1. The Red Shoes
2. Punch-Drunk Love
3. Election
4. Rififi
5. 12 Angry Men
6. s Ha
7. Do the Right Thing
8. Parasite
9. Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters
10. Stalker

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

Probably my favourite film maker. At least my favourite contemporary American film maker

1. The Master
2. Phantom Thread
3. There Will Be Blood
4. Boogie Nights
5. Punch-Drunk Love
6. Licorice Pizza
7. Magnolia
8. Inherent Vice
9. Hard Eight

1. Eyes Wide Shut
2. Barry Lyndon
3. Paths of Glory
4. The Shining
5. 2001: A Space Odyssey
6. Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
7. Spartacus
8. Full Metal Jacket
9. A Clockwork Orange
10. Lolita

...plus 2 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

1. Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse
2. Spider-Man 2
3. Spider-Man
4. Spider-Man: No Way Home
5. The Amazing Spider-Man
6. Spider-Man: Homecoming
7. Spider-Man 3
8. Spider-Man: Far From Home
9. The Amazing Spider-Man 2

1. Licorice Pizza
2. Drive My Car
3. Dune
4. The Power of the Dog
5. West Side Story
6. Nightmare Alley
7. CODA
8. King Richard
9. Don't Look Up
10. Belfast

1. The Master
2. Whiplash
3. The Social Network
4. Lady Bird
5. Gone Girl
6. s Ha
7. Phantom Thread
8. The Lighthouse
9. Parasite
10. The Grand Budapest Hotel

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

1. The Royal Tenenbaums
2. The Grand Budapest Hotel
3. Moonrise Kingdom
4. The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou
5. Fantastic Mr. Fox
6. Rushmore
7. The French Dispatch
8. Bottle Rocket
9. Isle of Dogs
10. The Darjeeling Limited

I made this list on April 5th 2022 so any movie from the 2000s I watch after April 5th 2022 may not be on the list as I don't plan on constantly updating it.

1. Zodiac
2. Inglourious Basterds
3. There Will Be Blood
4. Kill Bill: Vol. 1
5. Adventureland
6. In the Mood for Love
7. Punch-Drunk Love
8. The Departed
9. Hot Fuzz
10. WALL·E

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

1. Shithouse
2. I'm Thinking of Ending Things
3. Mank
4. Boys State
5. Palm Springs
6. Soul
7. Borat Subsequent Moviefilm
8. Da 5 Bloods
9. One Night in Miami...
10. Tenet

...plus 6 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

Got this all from Wikipedia so it could be wrong

• Battleship Potemkin
• Metropolis
• Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans
• Vertigo
• Au Hasard Balthazar
• Taxi Driver
• Do the Right Thing
• Naked
• Yi Yi
• There Will Be Blood

1. GoodFellas
2. Eyes Wide Shut
3. The Player
4. Pulp Fiction
5. Boogie Nights
6. Election
7. Magnolia
8. Fargo
9. Unforgiven
10. Reservoir Dogs

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

All movies I watched over March break 2022 ranked. 

I really enjoyed this week as a chance to watch a lot of movies has since I started university I had been a lot more busy than I use to be. I have had less chances than usual to watch movies so this week was a great change of pace.

1. Eyes Wide Shut
2. Casablanca
3. In the Mood for Love
4. Rififi
5. Hoop Dreams
6. Beautiful Boy
7. The Card Counter
8. The Graduate
9. The Favourite
10. Princess Mononoke

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

1. Do the Right Thing
2. Platoon
3. Born on the Fourth of July
4. The Shining
5. Back to the Future
6. Ferris Bueller's Day Off
7. The Empire Strikes Back
8. Raging Bull
9. This Is Spinal Tap

All of these are great

1. Inglourious Basterds
2. Pulp Fiction
3. Django Unchained
4. Reservoir Dogs
5. Kill Bill: Vol. 1
6. Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood
7. Kill Bill: Vol. 2
8. Death Proof
9. Jackie Brown
10. True Romance

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

1. Parasite
2. The Lighthouse
3. Marriage Story
4. Portrait of a Lady on Fire
5. Little Women
6. Uncut Gems
7. Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood
8. The Irishman
9. 1917
10. Knives Out

All the movies I watched in March break 2020 ranked (does not include a movie I have already seen)

1. The Godfather Part II
2. Marriage Story
3. The Grand Budapest Hotel
4. The Shining
5. The Lobster
6. BlacKkKlansman

   Really want to move this one up a spot but the lobster left a bigger impact on me

7. Raging Bull
8. La La Land
9. Death Proof
10. Shaun of the Dead

...plus 7 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

• s Ha
• Rope
• Parasite
• Fight Club
• Little Women
• Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
• Shaun of the Dead
• Scott Pilgrim vs. the World

1. Pulp Fiction
2. Marriage Story
3. Reservoir Dogs
4. Barton Fink
5. La La Land
6. Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood
7. The Big Lebowski
8. American History X
9. Jackie Brown
10. Inception

1. s Ha
2. Juno
3. The Lego Movie
4. The Last Waltz
5. Back to the Future
6. Hot Fuzz
7. Planes, Trains and Automobiles
8. Ferris Bueller's Day Off
9. La La Land
10. Napoleon Dynamite

1. Star Wars: The Last Jedi
2. The Empire Strikes Back
3. Star Wars
4. Return of the Jedi
5. Star Wars: The Force Awakens
6. Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith
7. Rogue One: A Star Wars Story
8. Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace
9. Solo: A Star Wars Story
10. Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker

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