Since the last update, I wrote about some more festival films at InReview Online: Following the Sound, The Breaking Ice, 100 Yards, and A Light Never Goes Out. At SeattleScreenScene I wrote about Boudica: Queen of War. Over at The Chinese Cinema, I wrote about The White Storm 3: Heaven or Hell, The Imp, Gen-X Cops and Gen-Y Cops, The Mr. Vampire Sequels, The Arrow Bruce Lee Boxset, New Fist of Fury, and Baby Assassins: 2 Babies. I appeared, along with my daughter, on The Wiseman Podcast to talk about Ballet, and I recorded a commentary track for the upcoming Kino/Metrograph Bluray of Fruit Chan’s Made in Hong Kong.

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

Brothers and Sisters of the Toda Family (Ozu Yasujiro) – 14, 1941
Record of a Tenement Gentleman (Ozu Yasujiro) – 15, 1947
A Hen in the Wind (Ozu Yasujiro) – 23, 1948
Zulu (Cy Endfield) – 4, 1964
It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown (Bill Melendez) – 1, 1966

The Big Boss (Lo Wei) – 6, 1971
The Way of the Dragon (Bruce Lee) – 15, 1972
Fist of Fury (Lo Wei) – 19, 1972
Enter the Dragon (Robert Clouse) – 11, 1973
New Fist of Fury (Lo Wei) – 36, 1976
Game of Death (Robert Clouse) – 36, 1978

The Happenings (Yim Ho) – 20, 1980
The Imp (Dennis Yu) – 26, 1981
Once Bitten (Howard Storm) – 50, 1985
Ferris Bueller’s Day Off (John Hughes) – 30, 1986

Mr. Vampire II (Ricky Lau) – 53, 1986
Mr. Vampire 3 (Ricky Lau) – 36, 1987
Mr. Vampire Saga 4 (Ricky Lau) – 45, 1988
Vampire vs. Vampire (Lam Ching-ying) – 67, 1989

Searching for Bobby Fischer (Steven Zaillian) – 18, 1993
Heaven and Earth (David Lai) – 49, 1994
Made in Hong Kong (Fruit Chan) – 2, 1997
Bio Zombie (Wilson Yip) – 21, 1998

Gen-X Cops (Benny Chan) – 61, 1999
Gen-Y Cops (Benny Chan) – 50, 2000
Millennium Mambo (Hou Hsiao-hsien) – 1, 2001
U-Man (Cheung Chi-sing) – 52, 2002

La La Land (Damien Chazelle) – 82, 2016
Murder on the Orient Express (Kenneth Branagh) – 141, 2017
In Search of Ozu (Daniel Raim) – 105, 2018
Hydra (Sonomura Kensuke) – 67, 2019
Ponniyin Selvan Part 1 (Mani Ratnam) – 3, 2022

100 Yards (Xu Haofeng and Xu Junfeng) – 1, 2023
Baby Assassins: 2 Babies (Sakamoto Yugo) – 2, 2023
The Final Game of Death (James Flower) – 5, 2023
Ponniyin Selvan Part 2 (Mani Ratnam) – 8, 2023
Anatomy of a Fall (Justine Triet) – 15, 2023

The Killer (David Fincher) – 20, 2023
Blackberry (Matt Johnson) – 22, 2023
The History of the Minnesota Vikings (Jon Bois) – 23, 2023
Raid on the Lethal Zone (Herman Yau, 26, 2023
Bottoms (Emma Seligman) – 27, 2023

Boudica: Queen of War (Jesse V. Johnson) – 37, 2023
The Breaking Ice (Anthony Chen) – 39, 2023
Still: A Michael J. Fox Movie (Davis Guggenheim) – 41, 2023
The White Storm 3: Heaven or Hell (Herman Yau) – 43, 2023