Film Favs 2025
Films I watched (again) and dug in 2025 — in no particular order:
Point Break – directed by Kathryn Bigelow
Origin – directed by Ava DuVernay
Here – directed by Robert Zemeckis
The Piano Lesson – directed by Malcolm Washington
The Five-Year Engagement – directed by Nicholas Stoller
The Birth Of A Nation – directed by Nate Parker
Heretic – directed by Scott Beck, Bryan Woods
The Conjuring – directed by James Wan
Flow – directed by Gints Zilbalodis
Goodrich – directed by Hallie Meyers-Shyer
Groundhog Day – directed by Harold Ramis
Nightcrawler – directed by Dan Gilroy
True Grit – directed by Ethan Coen, Joel Coen
Super 8 – directed by J.J. Abrams
There Will Be Blood – directed by Paul Thomas Anderson
No Country For Old Men – directed by Ethan Coen, Joel Coen
Mountainhead – directed by Jesse Armstrong
The Brutalist – directed by Brady Corbet
Hitchcock – directed by Sacha Gervasi
The Greatest Night In Pop – directed by Bao Nguyen
Pee-wee As Himself – directed by Matt Wolf
The Creator – directed by Gareth Edwards
Sinners – directed by Ryan Coogler
Chef – directed by Jon Favreau
The Revenant – directed by Alejandro González Iñárritu
Harold and Maude – directed by Hal Ashby
Little Miss Sunshine – directed by Valerie Faris, Jonathan Dayton
The Sound Of Music – directed by Robert Wise
An Officer And A Gentlemen – directed by Taylor Hackford
Deliverance – directed by John Boorman
The American Society of Magical Negroes – directed by Kobi Libii
Moana – directed by John Musker, Ron Clements
Your Monster – directed by Caroline Lindy
Sasquatch Sunset – directed by Nathan Zellner, David Zellner
Tar – directed by Todd Field
Mickey 17 – directed by Bong Joon Ho
Aladdin – directed by Ron Clements, John Musker
Maverick – directed by Richard Donner
Empire Records – directed by Allan Moyle
Wolfwalkers – directed by Tomm Moore, Ross Stewart
Frankenstein – directed by Guillermo Del Toro
Train Dreams – directed by Clint Bentley
Jay Kelly – directed by Noah Baumbach
One Battle After Another – directed by Paul Thomas Anderson
Marcel the Shell with Shoes On – directed by Dean Fleischer Camp
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Film Favs 2024
Films I watched (again) and dug in 2024 — in no particular order:
Yardie – directed by Idris Elba
How To Train Your Dragon – directed by Chris Sanders, Dean DeBlois
The Vast Of Night – directed by Andrew Patterson
Society Of The Snow – directed by J. A. Bayona
The Only Living Boy In New York – directed by Marc Webb
Uncle Frank – directed by Alan Ball
Spider-Man: Across The Spider-Verse – directed by Joaquim Dos Santos, Kemp Powers, Justin K. Thompson
Manchester By The Sea …
Film Favs 2023
Films I watched (again) and dug in 2023 — in no particular order:
In The Mood For Love – directed by Wong Kar-wai
The Last Movie Star – directed by Adam Rifkin
Sicario – directed by Denis Villeneuve
All Quiet On The Western Front – directed by Edward Berger
Saturday Night Fever – directed by John Badham
Rocky – directed by John G. Avildsen
The Silence of the Lambs – directed by Jonathan Demme
Arctic – directed by Joe Penna
Tucker: The Man And His Dream – directed by …
Film Favs 2021
Films I watched (again) and dug in 2021 — in no particular order:
Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom – directed by George C. Wolfe
Sound Of Metal – directed by Darius Marder
Dazed And Confused – directed by Richard Linklater
Coming To America – directed by John Landis
Judas And The Black Messiah – directed by Shaka King
Dune Part One – directed by Denis
Film Favs 2020
Films I watched (again) and dug in 2020 — in no particular order:
I Lost My Body – directed by Jérémy Clapin
Inception – directed by Christopher Nolan
1917 – directed by Sam Mendes
Klaus – directed by Sergio Pablos
The Skeleton Twins – directed by Craig Johnson
Honey Boy – directed by Alma Har’el
One Child Nation – directed by Nanfu Wang, Lynn Zhang
Marriage Story – directed by Noah Baumbach
Yesterday – directed by Danny Boyle
MFKZ – directed by Guillaume Renard, Shoujirou Nishimi
Wild Wild Country – directed …
Film Favs 2019
Films I watched (again) and dug in 2019 — in no particular order:
Bohemian Rhapsody – directed by Brian Singer
The Master – directed by Paul Thomas Anderson
Incredibles 2 – directed by Brad Bird
The Handmaiden – directed by Park Chan-wook
The Stanford Prison Experiment – directed by Kyle Patrick Alvarez
Don’t Worry, He Won’t Get Far On Foot – directed by Gus Van Sant
The King’s Speech – directed by Tom Hooper
The Red Violin – directed by François Girard
Music and Lyrics – directed by Marc …
Film Favs 2018
Films I watched (again) and dug in 2018 — in no particular order:
Imperial Dreams – directed by Malik Booth
Dope – directed by Rick Famuyiwa
Sicario – directed by Denis Villeneuve
The Shape of Water – directed by Guillermo del Toro
50/50 – directed by Jonathan Levine
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri – directed by Martin McDonagh
The Gift – directed by Joel Edgerton
Last Flag Flying – directed by Richard Linklater
Arrival – directed by Denis Villeneuve
Only The Brave – directed by Joseph Kosinski
Brawl In Cell Block …