Since the last update, festival season dominated my schedule, with coverage of Japan Cuts and the New York Asian Film Festival over at The Chinese Cinema and Fantasia and Cannes at InReview Online. I also put together a video introduction for a Tsui Hark retrospective that played at The Cinematheque in Vancouver.

At The Chinese Cinema, I’ve reviewed Scenes of City Life and Street Angel, Bullet Train and Bullet Train Explosion, Girl Students’ Dormitory, The Old Woman with the Knife, All the Wrong Clues (…For the Right Solution), 11 Rebels, and Ghost Killer.

Also, since it’s apparently quarter-century list season, I counted down the top Chinese Language and Non-Chinese Language films of the 2000s so far.

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

Scenes of City Life (Yuan Muzhi) – 4, 1935
Street Angel (Yuan Muzhi) – 4, 1937
Casablanca (Michael Curtiz) – 1, 1942
Singin’ in the Rain (Stanley Donen & Gene Kelly) – 1, 1952

Lawrence of Arabia (David Lean) – 6, 1962
The Bullet Train (Sato Jun’ya) – 11, 1975
All the Wrong Clues (…For the Right Solution) (Tsui Hark) – 32, 1981
Girl Students’ Dormitory (Shi Shujun) – 5, 1983

Love Hotel (Somai Shinji) – 16, 1985
Working Class (Tsui Hark) – 23, 1985
Bull Durham (Ron Shelton) – 1, 1988
The Naked Gun (David Zucker) – 20, 1988
Glory (Edward Zwick) – 17, 1989

Love Letter (Iwai Shunji) – 13, 1995
The Chinese Feast (Tsui Hark) – 41, 1995
I Just Wasn’t Made for These Times (Don Was) – 51, 1995
Carrotblanca (Douglas McCarthy, Spike Brandt, Tony Cervone) – 108, 1995
Mission: Impossible (Brian De Palma) – 20, 1996

Serpent’s Path (Kurosawa Kiyoshi) – 23, 1998
License to Live (Kurosawa Kiyoshi) – 27, 1998
Mission: Impossible 2 (John Woo) – 24, 2000
Final Destination (James Wong) – 42, 2000
Final Destination 2 (David R. Ellis) – 45, 2003

Beautiful Dreamer (David Leaf) – 66, 2004
Final Destination 3 (James Wong) – 43, 2006
Mission: Impossible 3 (JJ Abrams) – 48, 2006
Tom Waits: Under Review (Unknown) – 60, 2006
The Simpsons Movie (David Silverman) – 50, 2007

The Final Destination (David R. Ellis) – 81, 2009
Hugo (Martin Scorsese) – 19, 2011
Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol (Brad Bird) – 20, 2011
Final Destination 5 (Steven Quale) – 59, 2011
42 (Brian Helgeland) – 73, 2013

Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation (Christopher McQuarrie) – 92, 2015
Rogue One (Gareth Edwards) – 23, 2016
Mission: Impossible – Fallout (Christopher McQuarrie) – 132, 2018
Long Promised Road (Brent Wilson) – 35, 2021
Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning (Christopher McQuarrie) – 73, 2023

She Taught Me Serendipity (Ohku Akiko) – 5, 2024
11 Rebels (Shiraishi Kazuya) – 10, 2024
The Gesuidouz (Ugana Kenichi) – 18, 2024
Ghost Killer (Sonomura Kensuke) – 25, 2024
See You Tomorrow (Michimoto Saki) – 39, 2024

Honeko Akabane’s Bodyguards (Ishikawa Junichi) – 42, 2024
Possession Street (Jack Lai) – 48, 2024
Serpent’s Path (Kurosawa Kiyoshi) – 54, 2024
Striking Rescue (Cheng Siyu) – 64, 2024

Rewrite (Matsui Daigo) – 1, 2025
Shifty (Adam Curtis) – 2, 2025
Sinners (Ryan Coogler) – 3, 2025
Muromachi Outsiders (Irie Yu) – 7, 2025
Bullet Train Explosion (Higuchi Shinji) – 8, 2025

Deep in the Mountains (Li Yongyi) – 9, 2025
Superman (James Gunn) – 10, 2025
Girl on Edge (Zhou Jinghao) – 11, 2025
Thug Life (Mani Ratnam) – 12, 2025
The Phoenician Scheme (Wes Anderson) – 13, 2025

Sham (Miike Takashi) – 14, 2025
Pee Wee as Himself (Matt Wolf) – 15, 2025
Predator: Killer of Killers (Dan Trachtenberg) – 16, 2025
Girls on Wire (Vivian Qu) – 17, 2025
A Useful Ghost (Ratchapoom Boonbunchachoke) – 18, 2025

Fantastic Four: First Steps (Matt Shakman) – 19, 2025
Informant (Kim Seok) – 22, 2025
Happy Gilmore 2 (Kyle Newacheck) – 24, 2025
Billy Joel: And So It Goes (Jessica Levin & Susan Lacy) – 25, 2025
Holy Night: Demon Hunters (Lim Daehee) – 26, 2025

Becoming Led Zeppelin (Bernard MacMahon) – 27, 2025
Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning (Christopher McQuarrie) – 28, 2025
Smashing Frank (Trevor Choi) – 29, 2025
Final Destination: Bloodlines (Directed by Zach Lipovsky and Adam B. Stein) – 30, 2025
The Stone (Arak Amornsupasiri and Vuthipong Sukhanindr) – 31, 2025
Behind the Shadows (Jonathan Li and Chou Man You) – 32, 2025

Lost Bullet 3 (Guillaume Pierret) – 34, 2025
The Old Woman with the Knife (Min Kyudong) – 35, 2025
So Beautiful, Wonderful, and Lovely (Okawara Megumi) – 36, 2025
The Old Way (Fan Xiang) – 37, 2025
Another Simple Favor (Paul Feig) – 38, 2025
Captain America: Brave New World (Julius Onah) – 39, 2025