Since the last update, I handed out the 2023 Endy Awards. Over at the Criterion Collection’s online magazine Current, I wrote about Hou Hsiao-hsien’s early films. And for InReview Online I reviewed Ann Hui’s latest film, Elegies, which played at the International Film Festival Rotterdam.

At The Chinese Cinema, I reviewed: Onlookers, The Heroic Trio and Executioners, Death Notice, Eye for an Eye 2, The Mystery of Chess Boxing, Beach of the War Gods, Visible Secret, Dancing with the Dead, The Mad Monk, Art College 1994, The Roundup: Punishment, Sailor Suit and Machine Gun, and Casino Raiders. You can get all those and much much more for the low price of only $1/month or $10/year.

These are the movies I’ve watched and rewatched over the last few months, and where they place on my year-by-year rankings.

Seven Samurai (Kurosawa Akira) – 1, 1954
Lawrence of Arabia (David Lean) – 6, 1962
The Taming of the Shrew (Franco Zeffirelli) – 26, 1967
The Italian Job (Peter Collinson) – 13, 1969
Beach of the War Gods (Jimmy Wang Yu) – 24, 1973

Cloud of Romance (Chan Hung-lit) – 22, 1977
The Fall of Ako Castle (Fukasaku Kinji) – 18, 1978
Lover on the Wave (Chen Kun-hou) – 30, 1978
The Mystery of Chess (Joseph Kuo) – 13, 1979
Chu Lien (Lai Cheng-ying) – 27, 1979

Cute Girl (Hou Hsiao-hsien) – 18, 1980
Sailor Suit and Machine Gun (Somai Shinji) – 17, 1981
Cheerful Wind (Hou Hsiao-hsien) – 38, 1981
Conan the Barbarian (John Milius) – 6, 1982
The Green, Green Grass of Home (Hou Hsiao-hsien) – 21, 1982
The Boys from Fengkuei (Hou Hsiao-hsien) – 7, 1983

Bull Durham (Ron Shelton) – 2, 1988
Les sièges des l’Alcazar (Luc Moullet) – 15, 1989
Major League (David S. Ward) – 37, 1989
Casino Raiders (Wong Jing & Jimmy Heung) – 50, 1989
Hamlet (Franco Zeffirelli) – 28, 1990

Backdraft (Ron Howard) – 47, 1991
Basic Instinct (Paul Verhoeven) – 25, 1992
Noises Off… (Peter Bogdanovich) – 34, 1992
Wayne’s World (Penelope Spheeris) – 59, 1992
When Cinema Reflects the Times: Hou Hsiao-hsien and Edward Yang (Kore-eda Hirokazu) – 30, 1993

Executioners (Johnnie To & Ching Siu-tung) – 33, 1993
The Heroic Trio (Johnnie To) – 43, 1993
The Mad Monk (Johnnie To) – 93, 1993
Loving You (Johnnie To) – 38, 1995
Get Shorty (Barry Sonnenfeld) – 44, 1995

Romeo + Juliet (Baz Luhrmann) – 10, 1996
Twister (Jan de Bont) – 44, 1996
Lifeline (Johnnie To) – 22, 1997
Expect the Unexpected (Patrick Yau) – 10, 998
Out of Sight (Steven Soderbergh) – 18, 1998
Shakespeare in Love (John Madden) – 47, 1998

The Matrix (Lilly and Lana Wachowski) – 2, 1999
Help!!! (Johnnie To & Wai Ka-fai) – 29, 2000
Center Stage (Nicholas Hytner) – 43, 2000
Visible Secret (Ann Hui) – 10, 2001

Ocean’s Eleven (Steven Soderbergh) – 24, 2001
Ocean’s Twelve (Steven Soderbergh) – 40, 2004
Red Eye (Wes Craven) – 32, 2005
Classic Albums: Nirvana – Nevermind (Bob Smeaton) – 66, 2005
Ocean’s Thirteen (Steven Soderbergh) – 54, 2007

Burn After Reading (Joel & Ethan Coen) – 35, 2008
The Lone Ranger (Gore Verbinski) – 20, 2013
Gyeongju (Zhang Lü) – 34, 2014
The Intern (Nancy Meyers) – 53, 2015
Love and… (Zhang Lü) – 126, 2015

Everybody Wants Some!! (Richard Linklater) – 26, 2016
A Quiet Dream (Zhang Lü) – 31, 2016
Table 19 (Jeffrey Blitz) – 147, 2017
Ode to the Goose (Zhang Lü) – 12, 2018
Fukuoka (Zhang Lü) – 25, 2019
Sound! Euphonium the Movie: Our Promise – A Brand New Day (Ishihara Tatsuya) – 57, 2019
Yanagawa (Zhang Lü) – 34, 2021

Evil Does Not Exist (Hamaguchi Ryusuke) – 5, 2023
Death Notice (Herman Yau) – 41, 2023
Onlookers (Kimi Takesue) – 44, 2023
Sound! Euphonium: Ensemble Contest (Ishihara Tatsuya) – 49, 2023
Art College 1994 (Liu Jian) – 56, 2023
Self-Reliance (Jake Johnson) – 76, 2023
The Marvels (Nia DaCosta) – 78, 2023

Eye for an Eye 2 (Yang Bingjia) -2, 2024
The Roundup: Punishment (Heo Myeong-haeng) – 3, 2024
Steve! (Morgan Neville) – 4, 2024