2022 Feature Length Favorites / Discoveries
Chronological 5-star choices
January ranking of complete favorites:
1. Affair in the Snow
2. A Bay of Blood
3. Nightmare Alley (rewatch)
4. The Big Gundown
5. Akitsu Springs
6. Kaili Blues
7. L.A. 92
8. Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein (rewatch)
9. Long Weekend
10. Django
11. Behemoth
12. Fighting Elegy
13. Distant Journey
14. Phantasm
15. Man's Favorite Sport?
16. The Hand of God
17. No Way Out
18. Mystery of the Wax Museum
19. Beautiful Thing
20. The Worst Person in the World
21. Hold That Ghost
22. Princess Raccoon
23. The End of St. Petersburg
24. Bullfighter and the Lady
25. Enchanted April
26. Us and Them
27. The Bedford Incident
28. Tony Manero
29. The Lost Daughter
30. Colossus: The Forbin Project
31. Ulzana's Raid
32. A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night
33. Scarlet Street
34. The Man in the White Suit
35. Encanto
36. Winged Migration
37. Pistol Opera
38. The Dark Valley
39. The Boat is Full
Short Films:
1. Puting Paalam aka White Wedding
2. The Ballad of Crowfoot
3. A Suspeita aka The Suspect
4. The Crown Jewels of Iran
January ranking of complete favorites:
1. Affair in the Snow
2. A Bay of Blood
3. Nightmare Alley (rewatch)
4. The Big Gundown
5. Akitsu Springs
6. Kaili Blues
7. L.A. 92
8. Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein (rewatch)
9. Long Weekend
10. Django
11. Behemoth
12. Fighting Elegy
13. Distant Journey
14. Phantasm
15. Man's Favorite Sport?
16. The Hand of God
17. No Way Out
18. Mystery of the Wax Museum
19. Beautiful Thing
20. The Worst Person in the World
21. Hold That Ghost
22. Princess Raccoon
23. The End of St. Petersburg
24. Bullfighter and the Lady
25. Enchanted April
26. Us and Them
27. The Bedford Incident
28. Tony Manero
29. The Lost Daughter
30. Colossus: The Forbin Project
31. Ulzana's Raid
32. A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night
33. Scarlet Street
34. The Man in the White Suit
35. Encanto
36. Winged Migration
37. Pistol Opera
38. The Dark Valley
39. The Boat is Full
Short Films:
1. Puting Paalam aka White Wedding
2. The Ballad of Crowfoot
3. A Suspeita aka The Suspect
4. The Crown Jewels of Iran
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- DirectorLiang ZhaoUnder the sun, the heavenly beauty of grasslands will soon be covered by the raging dust of mines. Facing the ashes and noises caused by heavy mining , the herdsmen have no choice but to leave as the meadow areas dwindle. In the moonlight, iron mines are brightly lit throughout the night. Workers who operate the drilling machines must stay awake. The fight is tortuous, against the machine and against themselves. Meanwhile, coal miners are busy filling trucks with coals. Wearing a coal-dust mask, they become ghostlike creatures. An endless line of trucks will transport all the coals and iron ores to the iron works. There traps another crowd of souls, being baked in hell. In the hospital, time hangs heavy on miners' hands. After decades of breathing coal dust, death is just around the corner. They are living the reality of purgatory, but there will be no paradise.
- DirectorDaniel LindsayT.J. MartinStarsHenry AlfaroDanny BakewellJohn D. BarnettTwenty-five years after the verdict in the Rodney King trial sparked several days of protests, violence and looting in Los Angeles, filmmakers examine that tumultuous period through rarely seen archival footage.
- DirectorEdmund GouldingStarsTyrone PowerJoan BlondellColeen GrayThe rise and fall of Stanton Carlisle, a mentalist whose lies and deceit prove to be his downfall.rewatch
- DirectorCharles BartonWalter LantzStarsBud AbbottLou CostelloLon Chaney Jr.The Wolf Man tries to warn a dimwitted porter that Dracula wants his brain for Frankenstein monster's body.rewatch
- DirectorColin EgglestonStarsJohn HargreavesBriony BehetsMike McEwenWhen a suburban couple go camping for the weekend at a remote beach, they discover that nature isn't in an accommodating mood.
- DirectorMario BavaStarsClaudine AugerLuigi PistilliClaudio CamasoThe murder of a wealthy countess triggers a chain reaction of brutal killings in the surrounding bay area, as several unscrupulous characters try to seize her large estate.
- DirectorYoshishige YoshidaStarsMariko OkadaHiroyuki NagatoSô YamamuraJust after WW2, a romance between an innkeeper and a man with tuberculosis unravels near a thermal spring.
- DirectorYoshishige YoshidaStarsMariko OkadaIsao KimuraYukio NinagawaIn an isolated mountain resort, a woman gets involved in a love triangle between herself, her volatile lover, and her ex-boyfriend, who she had platonic feelings for.
- DirectorSeijun SuzukiStarsHideki TakahashiJunko AsanoYûsuke KawazuDuring the 1930s, a teenager yearns for a Catholic girl, whose only desire is to reform his sinful tendencies. Hormones raging, the young man channels his unsatisfied lust into the only outlet available: savage, crazed violence.
- DirectorAlfréd RadokStarsBlanka WaleskáOtomar KrejcaViktor OcásekThe terrible effect of the Nazis upon a single Jewish family provides the basis for this drama. The family cannot handle the strain and gradually breaks up. Interspliced within the film are newsreel clips of angry crowds, and scenes of horror.
- DirectorBi GanStarsYongzhong ChenFeiyang LuoLixun XieWhile travelling the countryside to locate his nephew, a small town doctor finds himself interacting with people from his past and future.
- DirectorSergio SollimaStarsLee Van CleefTomas MilianWalter BarnesAn unofficial lawman and would-be senator is tasked by a railroad baron with hunting down a knife-wielding Mexican peasant accused of raping and killing a young girl.
- DirectorSergio CorbucciStarsFranco NeroJosé CanalejasJosé BódaloA coffin-dragging gunslinger and a prostitute become embroiled in a bitter feud between a Klan of Southern racists and a band of Mexican Revolutionaries.
- DirectorSeijun SuzukiStarsJô ShishidoMisako WatanabeTamio KawajiA violent thug plays opposing yakuza bosses against each other.
- DirectorRichard WhorfStarsRonald ColmanCeleste HolmVincent PriceIn order to get even with the pompous president of a soap company, an eccentric genius goes on his quiz show in order to bankrupt his company.
- DirectorAlain ResnaisStarsDirk BogardeEllen BurstynJohn GielgudA dying writer bases his last book on his own perception of his family.
- DirectorRyûsuke HamaguchiStarsHidetoshi NishijimaTôko MiuraReika KirishimaA renowned stage actor and director learns to cope with a big personal loss when he receives an offer to direct a production of Uncle Vanya in Hiroshima.
- DirectorKatsuhito IshiiStarsMaya BannoTakahiro SatôTadanobu AsanoA spell of time of a rural family's slightly surreal life.
- DirectorGuy MaddinStarsMichael GottliDavid FalkenbergMichael O'SullivanAn amnesiac soldier, seeking his lost love, arrives in Archangel in northern Russia to help the townsfolk in their fight against the Bolsheviks, all quite unaware that the Great War ended three months ago.
- DirectorRuss MeyerStarsTura SatanaHajiLori WilliamsThree go-go dancers holding a young girl hostage come across a crippled old man living with his two sons in the desert. After learning he's hiding a sum of cash around, the women start scheming on him.
- DirectorPatricio GuzmánStarsGaspar GalazLautaro NúñezLuís HenríquezA documentary about two different searches conducted in the Chilean Atacama Desert: one by astronomers looking for answers about the history of the cosmos, and one by women looking for the remains of loved ones killed by Pinochet's regime.
- DirectorEmile de AntonioStarsHarry S. AshmoreDaniel BerriganJoseph ButtingerA documentary chronicling the background to, and history of, the Vietnam War.
- DirectorFrederick WisemanDocumentary filmmaker Frederick Wiseman takes us inside Northeast High School as a fly on the wall to observe the teachers and how they interact with the students.
- DirectorMarguerite DurasStarsDelphine SeyrigMichael LonsdaleMathieu CarrièreAnne-Marie Stretter, wife of a French diplomat, lives in 1930s India. She takes many lovers as systems of oppression decay around her.
- DirectorAbbas KiarostamiStarsBehzad DoraniNoghre AsadiRoushan Karam ElmiIrreverent city engineer Behzad comes to a rural village in Iran to keep vigil for a dying relative. In the meanwhile the film follows his efforts to fit in with the local community and how he changes his own attitudes as a result.