This year I re-watched a lot of older films that I had seen before. Time and maturity really gives one a different perspective on some of those stories. I also continued watching as many of Yasujirō Ozu’s films as I could find on the streaming platforms – always great stuff from him. I’ve put my new and old favorites in bold type.
- Braveheart (1995)
- The Breakfast Club (1985)
- Sixteen Candles (1984)
- The Last Duel (2021)
- Weathering with You (2019)
- Don’t Look Up (2021)
- Encanto (2021)
- Vivarium (2019)
- Spencer (2021)
- Nomadland (2020)
- Alien (1979)
- Drive My Car (2021)
- Malignant (2021)
- The Sword and the Sorcerer (1982)
- Death on the Nile (2022)
- Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore (1974)
- King Richard (2021)
- Street Gang: How We Got to Sesame Street (2021)
- Suspiria (2018)
- Tokyo Twilight (1957)
- Old (2021)
- The End of Summer (1961)
- Early Spring (1956)
- An Autumn Afternoon (1962)
- Navalny (2022)
- Equinox Flower (1958)
- Station Eleven (2021)
- Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
- Paranormal Activity (2007)
- Good Morning (1959)
- The Many Saints of Newark (2021)
- First Blood (1982)
- Chernobyl: The Lost Tapes (2022)
- Napoleon Dynamite (2004)
- Floating Weeds (1959)
- Nope (2022)
- Rashomon (1950)
- The Worst Person in the World (2021)
- Prey (2022)
- The Omen (1976)
- The Princess (2022)
- The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014)
- The Night House (2020)
- Pulp Fiction (1994)
- Blade Runner 2049 (2017)
- Phil Tippett: Mad Dreams and Monsters (2019)
- Light & Magic (2022)
- Growing Fangs (2021)
- Total Recall (1990)
- The Janes (2022)
- Marcel the Shell with Shoes On (2021)
- The Northman (2022)
- Licorice Pizza (2021)
- Slash/Back (2022)
- Forrest Gump (1994)
- Belfast (2021)
- Where the Crawdads Sing (2022) – didn’t finish
- The Witch (2015)
- Barbarian (2022)
- Elf (2003)
- Call Me Miss Cleo (2022)
- Christmas in Connecticut (1945)
- Christmas Vacation (1989)
- Avatar: The Way of Water (2022)
- Dune (2021)