Since the last rankings update I’ve been at work over at The Chinese Cinema, editing a whole lot of old reviews and standardizing their formats and such. So far I have complete indices of all my writing on Pantheon directors Chang Cheh, Hou Hsiao-hsien, Jia Zhangke, Johnnie To, Tsui Hark and Edward Yang, along with Zhang Yimou (Less Than Meets the Eye). I also have a review there for Chang’s The New One-Armed Swordsman. Over at Seattle Screen Scene, I have reviews up for Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s Daguerrotype, Takashi Miike’s Dead or Alive, Pere Portabella’s Vampir-Cuadecuc, Yorgos Lanthimos’s The Killing of a Sacred Deer, and Sean Baker’s The Florida Project, along with a conversation about Todd Haynes’s Wonderstruck.

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

The Chase (Arthur Ripley) – 13, 1946
The Magnificent Trio (Chang Cheh) – 28, 1966
The Trail of the Broken Blade (Chang Cheh) – 34, 1967
Count Dracula (Jesús Franco) – 26, 1970
Vampir-Cuadecuc (Pere Portabella) – 7, 1971

The New One-Armed Swordsman (Chang Cheh) – 14, 1971
Shaolin Martial Arts (Chang Cheh) – 27, 1974
The Private Eye Blues (Eddie Fong) – 34, 1994
Dead or Alive (Takashi Miike) – 10, 1999
Behemoth (Zhao Liang) – 50, 2015

A Quiet Passion (Terence Davies) – 10, 2016
Daguerrotype (Kiyoshi Kurosawa) – 84, 2016
Hidden Figures (Theodore Melfi) – 116, 2016
The Florida Project (Sean Baker) – 6, 2017
77 Heartbreaks (Herman Yau) – 18, 2017

Wasteland No. 1: Ardent Verdant (Jodie Mack) – 27, 2017
The Sleep Curse (Herman Yau) – 28, 2017
Wonderstruck (Todd Haynes) – 34, 2017
Baby Driver (Edgar Wright) – 39, 2017
Wherever You Go, There We Are (Jesse McLean) – 52, 2017
Guardians of Martial Arts (Wen Zhang) – 66, 2017

The Big Sick (Michael Showalter) – 68, 2017
The Meyerowitz Stories (Noah Baumbach) – 69, 2017
My Little Pony: The Movie (Jayson Thiessen) – 77, 2017
Wu Kong (Derek Kwok) – 83, 2017
The Sinking City: Capsule Odyssey (Nero Ng & Stephen Ng) – 84, 2017
Kung Fu Yoga (Stanley Tong) – 89, 2017