Since the last rankings update, I launched a new website, which will be the home of all my Chinese Cinema-related writings, called The Chinese Cinema. I think it looks nicer and is easier to read than WordPress, but there’s a lot of work to be done with it. I also set up a ko-fi.com page as a fund-raiser. If you’d like to help support my writing about movies on the internet, I’d very much appreciate it.

The Vancouver International Film Festival has just come to an end and we at Seattle Screen Scene were there in force. There’s an index of all our coverage here. In addition to several festival reviews, since the last update I also wrote about Ex Libris: New York Public Library, Good Time, The Legend of the Naga Pearls, Ingrid Goes West, Leap!, In this Corner of the World, The Adventurers, Once Upon a Time, and Shock Wave. And Melissa and I dusted off The Frances Farmer Show for an episode on the book and film adaptations of True Grit. Finally, I wrote an ode to the greatness of Sammo Hung over at Frame.land.

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

The Bellboy (Jerry Lewis) – 4, 1960
Time Out for Trouble (David S. Glidden) – 22, 1961
Essays (Peter Nestler) – 25, 1963
Mülheim/Ruhr (Peter Nestler) – 33, 1964
Rhine River (Peter Nestler) – 18, 1966

True Grit (Henry Hathaway) – 9, 1969
A New Leaf (Elaine May) – 3, 1971
The Great Muppet Caper (Jim Henson) – 18, 1981
To Be Number One (Poon Man-kit) – 60, 1991
The Living Dead (Adam Curtis) – 62, 1995

If You are the One (Feng Xiaogang) – 27, 2008
True Grit (Joel & Ethan Coen) – 19, 2010
Baahubali: The Beginning (SS Rajamouli) – 10, 2015
In this Corner of the World (Sunao Katabuchi) – 27, 2016
Still Night, Still Light (Sophie Goyette) – 87, 2016
Leap! (Eric Summer & Éric Warin) – 98, 2016

Baahubali: The Conclusion (SS Rajamouli) – 1, 2017
Ex Libris: New York Public Library (Frederick Wiseman) – 2, 2017
Claire’s Camera (Hong Sangsoo) – 4, 2017
120 Beats per Minute (Robin Campillo) – 5, 2017
Maison du bonheur (Sofia Bohdanowicz) – 7, 2017

Bad Genius (Nattawut Poonpiriya) – 9, 2017
Faces Places (Agnès Varda & JR) – 10, 2017
Call Me By Your Name (Luca Guadagnino) – 11, 2017
24 Frames (Abbas Kiarostami) – 15, 2017
Fail to Appear (Antoine Bourges) – 16, 2017

SPL: Paradox (Wilson Yip) – 17, 2017
Western (Valeska Grisebach) – 18, 2017
Prototype (Blake Williams) – 19, 2017
The Great Buddha+ (Huang Hsin-Yao) – 24, 2017
Ismael’s Ghosts (Arnaud Desplechin) – 25, 2017

I’ve Got the Blues (Angie Chen) – 28, 2017
The Hidden Sword (Xu Haofeng) – 35, 2017
Shock Wave (Herman Yau) – 37, 2017
AlphaGo (Greg Kohs) – 38, 2017
Scaffold (Kazik Radwanski) – 39, 2017

A Beautiful Star (Daihachi Yoshida) – 41, 2017
Good Time (Josh & Benny Safdie) – 45, 2017
Forest Movie (Matthew Taylor Blais) – 46, 2017
Golden Exits (Alex Ross Perry) – 47, 2017
Once Upon a Time (Zhao Xiaoding) – 51, 2017

Black Cop (Cory Bowles) – 52, 2017
The Adventurers (Stephen Fung) – 61, 2017
Idizwadidiz (Isiah Medina) – 64, 2017
Maineland (Miao Wang) – 65, 2017
Logan (James Mangold) – 66, 2017

Meditation Park (Mina Shum) – 68, 2017
Whitney: Can I Be Me (Nick Broomfield & Rudi Dolezal) – 71, 2017
The Legend of the Naga Pearls (Yang Lei) – 72, 2017
Shepherd’s Purse (Dong Hao) – 73, 2017
The Killing of a Sacred Deer (Yorgos Lanthimos) – 75, 2017
Caniba (Lucien Castaing-Taylor & Verena Paravel) – 78, 2017