The Top 309 Films of All-Time

It’s time once again for a list of my favorite movies. For the last decade or so, I’ve been creating a randomly selected Top 100 out of a much larger consideration set. This year, I tried to make a list of my favorites that was as small as possible, and ended up with 309 I simply couldn’t bear to cut. Here they are in random order.

1. Labyrinth of Cinema
2. Steamboat Bill, Jr
3. Celine and Julie Go Boating
4. An Autumn Afternoon
5. Hard-Boiled
6. Millennium Mambo
7. Moonrise Kingdom
8. Ballet
9. Vampyr
10. Red Cliff
11. The Lion in Winter
12. A Canterbury Tale
13. The Love Eterne
14. Dangerous Encounters — First Kind
15. Kicking and Screaming
16. The Grandmaster
17. Trouble in Paradise
18. Whisper of the Heart
19. Ran
20. School on Fire
21. Funny Face
22. The Day He Arrives
23. Seven Samurai
24. Bram Stoker’s Dracula
25. Modern Times


26. One Froggy Evening
27. Made in Hong Kong
28. Shanghai Express
29. I’m Not There
30. Rushmore
31. The Matrix
32. The Right Stuff
33. Yi yi
34. The Lady Eve
35. Intolerance: Love’s Struggle through the Ages
36. Only Angels Have Wings
37. Legend of the Mountain
38. Throw Down
39. In the Mood for Love
40. House
41. The Empire Strikes Back
42. The Adventures of Robin Hood
43. Journey to the West: Conquering the Demons
44. 35 Shots of Rum
45. Once Upon a Time in the West
46. Casablanca
47. Nomad
48. A Matter of Life and Death
49. Dead Man
50. Fantasia


51. A Touch of Zen
52. Blind Detective
53. Dazed and Confused
54. Days of Being Wild
55. Eyes Wide Shut
56. Oki’s Movie
57. The Flowers of Shanghai
58. The Thin Red Line
59. The General
60. The Bellboy
61. Zulu
62. Bull Durham
63. Slacker
64. Jackie Brown
65. Original Cast Album: Company
66. Die Nibelungen
67. L’Avventura
68. Harlan County, USA
69. Metropolis
70. Fantastic Mr. Fox
71. Duck Soup
72. The Puppetmaster
73. Black Narcissus
74. Duvidha
75. The Midnight After


76. Inherent Vice
77. Awaara
78. Last of the Mohicans
79. Chan is Missing
80. Orlando
81. Reds
82. Heat
83. The History of the Seattle Mariners
84. Comrades: Almost a Love Story
85. Still Life
86. The Mission (1999)
87. Big Night
88. Xiao Wu
89. Johnny Guitar
90. The Last Temptation of Christ
91. Duck Amuck
92. In the Heat of the Sun
93. The New World
94. Jeanne Dielman, 23 quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles
95. A New Leaf
96. What’s Opera, Doc?
97. The Red Shoes
98. The Terrorizers
99. Pierrot le fou
100. A City of Sadness


101. Two-Lane Blacktop
102. The Philadelphia Story
103. Wheels on Meals
104. Yearning
105. Mahanagar
106. The 36th Chamber of Shaolin
107. The Searchers
108. Shanghai Blues
109. Bringing Up Baby
110. All About Eve
111. The Quiet Man
112. Howard’s End
113. All that Jazz
114. Robin and Marian
115. The Battle of Algiers
116. Mughal-e-azam
117. Les amants du Pont-Neuf
118. Hero
119. They Were Expendable
120. A Day in the Country
121. The Docks of New York
122. The Musketeers of Pig Alley
123. Rock ‘n’ Roll High School
124. The Third Man
125. Raiders of the Lost Ark


126. Touch of Evil
127. Stranger than Paradise
128. The Rules of the Game
129. Romancing in Thin Air
130. Certified Copy
131. Sunrise
132. The Miracle Fighters
133. Annie Hall
134. Dragon Gate Inn
135. Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest
136. A Woman is a Woman
137. Hatari!
138. Beau travail
139. Unforgiven
140. The Eight-Diagram Pole Fighter
141. The Harder They Come
142. Singin’ in the Rain
143. Exiled
144. The Shop Around the Corner
145. The Blade
146. Police Story
147. Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
148. Lovers Rock
149. Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
150. Punch-Drunk Love


151. Chungking Express
152. Alien
153. Hellzapoppin’
154. Airplane!
155. Fort Apache
156. Blackhat
157. SPL 2: A Time for Consequences
158. Les Vampires
159. Mulholland Dr.
160. Histoire(s) du cinema
161. Wagon Master
162. Renaldo & Clara
163. Out of the Past
164. The Last Days of Disco
165. La Commune (Paris 1871)
166. Charade
167. Peking Opera Blues
168. Bambi
169. The Bad News Bears
170. Mahjong
171. Broadcast News
172. Hana and Alice
173. Sans soleil
174. Pyaasa
175. The Age of Innocence


176. Holiday
177. Los Angeles Plays Itself
178. The Heart of the World
179. His Motorbike, Her Island
180. Goodbye, Dragon Inn
181. Metropolitan
182. Shadow Kingdom
183. The Fellowship of the Ring
184. Late Spring
185. Throne of Blood
186. Running on Karma
187. Three Colors: Blue
188. Vertigo
189. City Lights
190. Don’t Go Breaking My Heart 2
191. Liz and the Blue Bird
192. The Bridges of Madison County
193. Tropical Malady
194. Perceval le Gallois
195. The Princess Bride
196. Ash is Purest White
197. Anatomy of a Murder
198. Ugetsu
199. Satantango
200. Speed Racer


201. Chimes at Midnight
202. The Royal Tenenbaums
203. Glengarry Glen Ross
204. Mad Max: Fury Road
205. It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown
206. Playtime
207. Let the Bullets Fly
208. A Charlie Brown Christmas
209. Rear Window
210. Gremlins 2: The New Batch
211. Sparrow
212. My Fair Lady
213. The Music Room
214. La danse: The Paris Opera Ballet
215. Trainspotting
216. Dirty Ho
217. Young Mr. Lincoln
218. The Umbrellas of Cherbourg
219. The BIg Sleep
220. Miller’s Crossing
221. My Neighbor Totoro
222. I am Cuba
223. Platform
224. Meek’s Cutoff
225. Citizen Kane


226. Linda Linda Linda
227. Fallen Angels
228. Miami Vice
229. Children of Paradise
230. Song of the Exile
231. Night of the Hunter
232. Only Yesterday (1991)
233. Happy Together
234. Meet Me in St. Louis
235. Broken Blossoms
236. Kiki’s Delivery Service
237. The Big Red One
238. My Left Eye Sees Ghosts
239. Excalibur
240. Green Snake
241. Bound for the Fields, the Mountains, and the Seacoast
242. Kung Fu Hustle
243. The Killer
244. Good Men, Good Women
245. Conan the Barbarian
246. A Moment of Romance
247. An American in Paris
248. Phantoms of Nabua
249. Henry V
250. It Felt Like a Kiss


251. Voyage in Italy
252. Journey to the West (2014)
253. Days of Heaven
254. Sherlock, Jr
255. Once Upon a Time in China
256. Kill Bill Vol. 1
257. Rio Bravo
258. Kiss Me Kate
259. The Big Lebowski
260. Wolf Children
261. Om Shanti Om
262. Dangerous Liaisons
263. City on Fire
264. Irma Vep
265. Morocco
266. The Time to Live, the Time to Die
267. M. Hulot’s Holiday
268. The Rocking Horsemen
269. Pulp Fiction
270. Full Contact
271. Safety Last
272. It’s a Wonderful Life
273. A Brighter Summer Day
274. Last Life in the Universe
275. Paterson


276. Monty Python and the Holy Grail
277. Apocalypse Now
278. The Story of Woo Viet
279. Do the Right Thing
280. Fire Walk with Me
281. Rouge
282. F for Fake
283. Little Women
284. The Birds
285. Ruggles of Red Gap
286. 2046
287. The Wind that Shakes the Barley
288. News from Home
289. The Green Ray
290. Ashes of Time
291. Mean Streets
292. The Band Wagon
293. Cat People
294. A Better Tomorrow
295. Oxhide II
296. The Pirate
297. One Week
298. Psycho
299. Jaws
300. The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly


301. Amanda (2019)
302. Spring in a Small Town
303. Japanese Girls at the Harbor
304. Ishtar
305. North by Northwest
306. Yourself & Yours
307. Claire’s Camera
308. Baahubali
309. Early Summer

This Week in Rankings

Since the last update, I’ve covered a number of films for various film festivals: In Our Day for Cannes, Enter the Clones of Bruce for Tribeca, Vital Sign, Kitty the Killer, A Light Never Goes Out, and Nomad for the New York Asian Film Festival, Shin Kamen Rider, My Heart is that Eternal Rose, Take Care of My Cat, and River for Fantasia, and When Morning Comes I Feel Empty, Mondays, The First Slam Dunk, Convenience Story, Saga Saga, Hand, and Plastic for Japan Cuts. I also wrote about The Roundup: No Way Out at InReview Online and Barbie, Once Upon a Time in Uganda, and Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny at Seattle Screen Scene.

At The Chinese Cinema, to which you can subscribe for a mere $1/month or $10/year, I wrote about the Swordsman of All Swordsmen Trilogy, Mutant Ghost Wargirl, The Sparring Partner and A Guilty Conscience, Heart of Dragon, A Janitor and Yellow Dragon’s Village, High Risk, Woman Basketball Player No. 5, Mad Fate, two versions of The Red Detachment of Women, and The Avenging Eagle.

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

How to Play Golf (Jack Kinney) – 15, 1944
A Study in Choreography for Camera (Maya Deren) – 13, 1945
Woman Basketball Player No. 5 (Xie Jin) – 19, 1957
Breakfast at Tiffany’s (Blake Edwards) – 5, 1961
The Red Detachment of Women (Xie Jin) – 9, 1961

The Good, the Bad, & the Ugly (Sergio Leone) – 1, 1966
The Swordsman of All Swordsmen (Joseph Kuo) – 12, 1968
The Red Detachment of Women (Pan Wenzhan & Fu Jie) – 11, 1970
The Bravest Revenge (Chien Lung) – 14, 1970
The Ghost Hill (Ting Shan-hsi) – 8, 1971
The Avenging Eagle (Sun Chang) – 19, 1978

Nomad (Patrick Tam) – 1, 1982
Repo Man (Alex Cox) – 22, 1984
Pee Wee’s Big Adventure (Tim Burton) – 21, 1985
Heart of Dragon (Sammo Hung) – 31, 1985
My Heart is that Eternal Rose (Patrick Tam) – 9, 1989

Dances with Wolves (Kevin Costner) – 39, 1990
Ballet (Frederick Wiseman) – 5, 1995
High Risk (Wong Jing) – 21, 1995
Happy Gilmore (Dennis Dugan) – 36, 1996
Take Care of My Cat (Jeong Jae-eun) – 15, 2001
The Princess Diaries (Garry Marshall) – 58, 2001

Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers: Runnin’ Down a Dream (Peter Bogdanovich) – 24, 2007
Transformers (Michael Bay) – 55, 2007
Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (Michael Bay) – 83, 2009
Transformers: Dark of the Moon (Michael Bay) – 65, 2011
Moonrise Kingdom (Wes Anderson) – 2, 2012
Transformers: Age of Extinction (Michael Bay) – 82, 2014

The American Ballet Theatre: A History (Ric Burns) – 143, 2015
Dunkirk (Christopher Nolan) – 85, 2017
Transformers: The Last Knight (Michael Bay) – 88, 2017
Bumblebee (Travis Knight) – 83, 2018
Extraction (Sam Hargrave) – 40, 2020

Licorice Pizza (Paul Thomas Anderson) – 6, 2021
Yellow Dragon’s Village (Sakamoto Yugo) – 19, 2021
A Janitor (Sakamoto Yugo) – 50, 2021
Once Upon a Time in Uganda (Cathryne Czubek) – 55, 2021

The First Slam Dunk (Inoue Takehiko) – 19, 2022
When Morning Comes, I Feel Empty (Ichibashi Yuho) – 24, 2022
Mondays (Takebayashi Ryo) – 31, 2022
The Sparring Partner (Ho Cheuk-tin) – 42, 2022
It’s What Each Person Needs (Sophy Romvari) – 45, 2022

A Light Never Goes Out (Anastasia Tsang) – 54, 2022
Hand (Matsui Daigo) – 58, 2022
Mutant Ghost Wargirl (Liu Binjie) – 71, 2022
Convenience Story (Miki Satoshi) – 82, 2022

Asteroid City (Wes Anderson) – 1, 2023
Oppenheimer (Christopher Nolan) – 3, 2023
In Our Day (Hong Sangsoo) – 5, 2023
Barbie (Greta Gerwig) – 6, 2023
Mad Fate (Soi Cheang) – 7, 2023

Plastic (Miyazaki Daisuke) – 8, 2023
A Guilty Conscience (Jack Ng) – 11, 2023
John Wick Chapter 4 (Chad Stahelski) – 12, 2023
River (Yamaguchi Junta) – 13, 2023
You Hurt My Feelings (NIcole Holofcener) – 14, 2023

Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning, Part One (Christopher McQuarrie) – 16, 2023
Shin Kamen Rider (Anno Hideaki) – 17, 2023
Saga Saga (Natsuto Aimi) – 18, 2023
Past Lives (Celine Song) – 19, 2023
Extraction 2 (Sam Hargrave) – 20, 2023

The Roundup: No Way Out (Lee Sang-yong) – 22, 2023
Indiana Jones & the Dial of Destiny (James Mangold) – 23, 2023
Spider-Man: Across the Spider-verse (Joaquim Dos Santos, Justin K. Thompson, Kemp Powers) – 24, 2023
Enter the Clones of Bruce (David Gregory) – 25, 2023
Following the Sound (Sugita Kyoshi) – 26, 2023

Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves (John Francis Daley & Jonathan Goldstein) – 27, 2023
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol 3 (James Gunn) – 29, 2023
Vital Sign (Cheuk Wan-chi) – 31, 2023
Kitty the Killer (Lee Thongkham) – 33, 2023
Scream VI (Tyler Gillett & Matt Bettinelli-Olpin) – 34, 2023
Transformers: Rise of the Beasts (Steven Caple) – 35, 2023

This Week in Rankings

Since the last update, I handed out the winners for the 2022 Endy Awards and announced that I’ve written an essay for the upcoming Radiance Films release of Benny Chan and Johnnie To’s A Moment of Romance. For InReview Online I wrote about Tsai Ming-liang’s Where, playing at the Prismatic Ground festival, Shinkai Makoto’s Suzume, Ernesto Díaz Espinoza and Marko Zaror’s Fist of the Condor, Veronica Ngô’s Furies, and the Berlin Film Festival’s Remembering Every Night, There is a Stone, and Absence.

Over at The Chinese Cinema, I wrote about: Swordsman and Enchantress, The Bare-Footed Kid, The Wandering Earth II, New Kung Fu Cult Master (Parts I & II), Black Cat and Black Cat II: The Assassination of President Yeltsin, Secret Police, Undeclared War, Hidden Blade, Fist of Legend, Black Mask 2: City of Masks, In Water, Snipers, The Tantana, Easy Money, Red Pirate, Peace Hotel, In the Line of Duty III and IV, The Shaolin Invincibles and Seven to One, Code of the Assassins, Saviour of the Soul I & II, Treasure Hunt, and Full River Red. Please do consider subscribing if you’re able and you like my work. It’s only $1/month or $10/year.

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 Battle of Midway (John Ford) – 17, 1942
Buccaneer Bunny (Friz Freleng) – 28, 1948
Duck Amuck (Chuck Jones) – 5, 1953
The Godfather (Francis Ford Coppola) – 5, 1972

Seven to One (Hou Cheng) – 41, 1973
The Godfather Part II (Francis Ford Coppola) – 4, 1974
Shaolin Invincibles (Hou Cheng) – 18, 1977
Swordsman and Enchantress (Chor Yuen) – 11, 1978

Radioactive Dreams (Albert Pyun) – 20, 1984
Dirty Dancing (Emile Ardolino) – 28, 1987
Easy Money (Stephen Shin) – 53, 1987
In the Line of Duty III (Brandy Yuen & Arthur Wong) – 35, 1988

Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure (Stephen Herek) – 15, 1989
Dead Poets Society (Peter Weir) – 26, 1989
In the Line of Duty IV (Yuen Woo-ping) – 30, 1989
A Moment of Romance (Benny Chan) – 9, 1990
I Love You to Death (Lawrence Kasdan) – 31, 1990
Undeclared War (Ringo Lam) – 57, 1990

Saviour of the Soul (Corey Yuen, Jeffrey Lau & David Lai) – 49, 1991
Black Cat (Stephen Shin) – 56, 1991
The Royal Scoundrel (Johnnie To) – 85, 1991
The Tantana (Mang Hoi) – 92, 1991

Saviour of the Soul II (Corey Yuen & David Lai) – 49, 1992
Black Cat II: The Assassination of President Yeltsin (Stephen Shin) – 72, 1992
Secret Police (Yiu Tin-hung) – 79, 1992
Dazed and Confused (Richard Linklater) – 3, 1993
Future Cops (Wong Jing) – 49, 1993
A Moment of Romance II (Benny Chan) – 77, 1993
The Bare-Footed Kid (Johnnie To) – 94, 1993

Fist of Legend (Gordon Chan) – 13, 1994
The Returning (Jacob Cheung) – 26, 1994
Eat Drink Man Woman (Ang Lee) – 28, 1994
Treasure Hunt (Jeffrey Lau) – 52, 1994
In Between (Samson Chiu, Yonfan & Sylvia Chang) – 61, 1994

Peace Hotel (Wai Ka-fai) – 35, 1995
The Phantom Lover (Ronny Yu) – 67, 1995
Beyond Hypothermia (Patrick Leung) – 23, 1996
A Moment of Romance III (Johnnie To) – 46, 1996

Eighteen Springs (Ann Hui) – 16, 1997
Walk In (Herman Yau) – 71, 1997
Red Pirate (Chen Chi-hwa) – 81, 1997
The Truman Show (Peter Weir) – 28, 1998
Classic Albums: Steely Dan – Aja (Alan Lewens) – 27, 1999

Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (Ang Lee) – 4, 2000
Bend it Like Beckham (Gurinder Chadha) – 44, 2002
Black Mask 2: City of Masks (Tsui Hark) – 50, 2002
Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World (Peter Weir) – 7, 2003
Jiang Hu (Wong Ching-po) – 43, 2004

The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants (Ken Kwapis) – 53, 2005
Undisputed II: Last Man Standing (Isaac Florentine) – 57, 2006
In Search of Mozart (Phil Grabsky) – 61, 2006
Superbad (Greg Mottola) – 45, 2007
Undisputed III: Redemption (Isaac Florentine) – 55, 2010

George Harrison: Living in the Material World (Martin Scorsese) – 14, 2011
El Gringo (Eduardo Rodriguez) – 49, 2012
John Wick (Chad Stahelski) – 40, 2014
Draft Day (Ivan Reitman) – 63, 2014

Close Range (Isaac Florentine) – 48, 2015
Everybody Wants Some!! (Richard Linklater) – 39, 2016
Boyka: Undisputed IV (Todor Chapkanov) – 55, 2016
John Wick Chapter 2 (Chad Stahelski) – 54, 2017
Savage Dog (Jesse V. Johnson) – 72, 2017

The Debt Collector (Jesse V. Johnson) – 38, 2018
Ballet Now (Steven Cantor) – 55, 2018
Avengement (Jesse V. Johnson) – 32, 2019
John Wick Chapter 3: Parabellum (Chad Stahelski) – 47, 2019
Murder Mystery (Kyle Newacheck) – 66, 2019
Abduction (Ernie Barbarash) – 90, 2019

Greyhound (Aaron Schneider) – 21, 2020
Debt Collectors (Jesse V. Johnson) – 30, 2020
The Great Director (Lei Xu) – 72, 2021
Where (Tsai Ming-liang) – 14, 2022
Remembering Every Night (Kiyohara Yui) – 19, 2022
Suzume (Shinkai Makoto) – 32, 2022

Furies (Veronica Ngô) – 37, 2022
New Kung Fu Cult Master (Parts I & II) (Wong Jing and Venus Keung) – 41, 2022
Snipers (Zhang Yimou) – 43, 2022
Fall (Scott Mann) – 44, 2022

Special Delivery (Park Dae-min) – 45, 2022
There is a Stone (Ota Tatsunari) – 49, 2022
Everything Everywhere All At Once (Daniel Kwan & Daniel Scheinert) – 50, 2022
Song of the Assassins (Daniel Lee) – 74, 2022

In Water (Hong Sangsoo) – 1, 2023
Hidden Blade (Cheng Er) – 2, 2023
Fist of the Condor (Ernesto Díaz Espinoza) – 3, 2023
Full River Red (Zhang Yimou) – 4, 2023
Absence (Wu Lang) – 5, 2023

The Wandering Earth II (Frant Gwo) – 6, 2023
Sakra (Donnie Yen & Kam Ka-wai) – 7, 2023
The Super Mario Bros. Movie (Aaron Horvath & Michael Jelenic) – 8, 2023
Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania (Peyton Reed) – 9, 2023


Predictions for the 95th Annual Academy Awards

These are my Oscar predictions. I’m not sure yet if I’m going to live-tweet the Endy Award winners during the ceremony again this year. Maybe.

BEST PICTURE

All Quiet on the Western Front
Avatar: The Way of Water
The Banshees of Inisherin
Elvis
Everything Everywhere All at Once
The Fabelmans
Tár
Top Gun: Maverick
Triangle of Sadness
Women Talking

BEST DIRECTOR

Martin McDonagh, The Banshees of Inisherin
Daniel Kwan & Daniel Scheinert, Everything Everywhere All at Once
Steven Spielberg, The Fabelmans
Todd Field, Tár
Ruben Östlund, Triangle of Sadness

BEST ACTOR

Austin Butler, Elvis
Colin Farrell, The Banshees of Inisherin
Brendan Fraser, The Whale
Paul Mescal, Aftersun
Bill Nighy, Living

BEST ACTRESS

Cate Blanchett, Tár
Ana de Armas, Blonde
Andrea Riseborough, To Leslie
Michelle Williams, The Fablemans
Michelle Yeoh, Everything Everywhere All at Once

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR

Brendan Gleeson, The Banshees of Inisherin
Brian Tyree Henry, Causeway
Judd Hirsch, The Fabelmans
Barry Keoghan, The Banshees of Inisherin
Ke Huy Quan, Everything Everywhere All at Once

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS

Angela Bassett, Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
Hong Chau, The Whale
Kerry Condon, The Banshees of Inisherin
Jamie Lee Curtis, Everything Everywhere All at Once
Stephanie Hsu, Everything Everywhere All at Once

BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY

Todd Field, Tár
Tony Kushner and Steven Spielberg, The Fabelmans
Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert, Everything Everywhere All at Once
Martin McDonagh, The Banshees of Inisherin
Ruben Östlund, Triangle of Sadness

BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY

Ehren Kruger, Eric Warren Singer, and Christopher McQuarrie from a story by Peter Craig and Justin Marks, Top Gun: Maverick
Kazuo Ishiguro, Living
Rian Johnson, Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery
Sarah Polley, Women Talking
Edward Berger, Ian Stokell, and Lesley Paterson, All Quiet on the Western Front

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY

All Quiet on the Western Front
Bardo
Elvis
Empire of Light
Tár

BEST FILM EDITING

The Banshees of Inisherin
Elvis
Everything Everywhere All at Once
Tár
Top Gun: Maverick

BEST VISUAL EFFECTS

All Quiet on the Western Front
Avatar: The Way of Water
The Batman
Black Panther
Top Gun: Maverick

BEST PRODUCTION DESIGN

All Quiet on the Western Front
Avatar: The Way of Water
Babylon
Elvis
The Fabelmans

BEST COSTUME DESIGN

Babylon
Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
Elvis
Everything Everywhere All at Once
Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris

BEST MAKEUP & HAIRSTYLING

All Quiet on the Western Front
The Batman
Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
Elvis
The Whale

BEST ORIGINAL SCORE

All Quiet on the Western Front
Babylon
The Banshees of Inisherin
Everything Everywhere All at Once
The Fabelmans

BEST ORIGINAL SONG

Applause – Tell It Like a Woman (Diane Warren)
Hold My Hand – Top Gun: Maverick (Lady Gaga, BloodPop)
Naatu Naatu – RRR (MM Keeravaani, Chandrabose)
Lift Me Up – Black Panther: Wakanda Forever (Tems, Ludwig Göransson, Rihanna and Ryan Coogler)
This Is A Life – Everything Everywhere All at Once (Ryan Lott, David Byrne, Mitski)

BEST SOUND

All Quiet on the Western Front
Avatar: The Way of Water
The Batman
Elvis
Top Gun: Maverick

BEST ANIMATED FEATURE

Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio
Marcel the Shell With Shoes On
Puss In Boots: The Last Wish
The Sea Beast
Turning Red

BEST DOCUMENTARY FEATURE

All That Breathes
All the Beauty and the Bloodshed
Fire of Love
A House Made of Splinters
Navalny

BEST INTERNATIONAL FEATURE FILM

All Quiet on the Western Front (Germany)
Argentina, 1985 (Argentina)
Close (Belgium)
EO (Poland)
The Quiet One (Ireland)

BEST DOCUMENTARY SHORT

The Elephant Whisperers
Haulout
How Do You Measure a Year
The Martha Mitchell Effect
Stranger at the Gate

BEST LIVE ACTION SHORT

An Irish Goodbye
Ivalu
Le Pupille
Night Ride
The Red Suitcase

BEST ANIMATED SHORT

The Boy, The Mole, The Fox and the Horse
The Flying Sailor
Ice Merchants
My Year of Dicks
An Ostrich Told Me the World is Fake and I Think I Believe It

This Week in Rankings

Since the last update, a whopping four (4) Charlie Brown specials have come and gone. I wrote a bunch of stuff for subscribers only over at The Chinese Cinema: Wolf Pack and Baby Assassins, House, Walk Up, a series on the later In the Line of Duty films (Middle Man, Forbidden Arsenal, Sea Wolves, and Queen’s High), A Confucian Confusion, Warriors of Future, School in the Crosshairs, Revengeful Swordswoman and Tower of Death, and Police Story 3: Supercop. Please do consider subscribing if you’re able and you like my work. It’s only $1/month or $10/year.

I also had all the usual end of the year stuff here at The End: my favorite Books and Film Discoveries of the year, along with the nominations for the 2022 Endy Awards.

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 Scarlet Pumpernickel (Chuck Jones) – 30, 1950
Zipping Along (Chuck Jones) – 35, 1953
A Charlie Brown Christmas (Bill Melendez) – 3, 1965
It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown (Bill Melendez) – 2, 1966
How the Grinch Stole Christmas (Chuck Jones) – 15, 1966
A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving (Bill Melendez, & Phil Roman) – 38, 1973

House (Obayashi Nobuhiko) – 4, 1977
The Lord of the Rings (Ralph Bakshi) – 28, 1978
Revengeful Swordswoman (Artis Chow) – 28, 1979
Prom Night (Paul Lynch) – 38, 1980

School in the Crosshairs (Obayashi Nobuhiko) – 16, 1981
Tower of Death (Ng See-yuen) – 30, 1981
The Keep (Michael Mann) – 32, 1983
Happy New Year, Charlie Brown (Sam Jaimes & Bill Melendez) – 60, 1986
Batman (Tim Burton) – 22, 1989

In the Line of Duty V: Middle Man (Cha Chuen-yee) – 77, 1990
Queen’s High (Chris Lee Kin-sang) – 48, 1991
In the Line of Duty 7: Sea Wolves (Cheng Siu-keung) – 52, 1991
In the Line of Duty 6: Forbidden Arsenal (Cheng Siu-keung & Yuen Jun-man) – 70, 1991
Police Story 3: Supercop (Stanley Tong) – 1992

Nemesis (Albert Pyun) – 21, 1992
A Confucian Confusion (Edward Yang) – 7, 1994
Speed (Jan de Bont) – 25, 1994
Heat (Michael Mann) – 4, 1995
Jerry Maguire (Cameron Crowe) – 34, 1996

The Fellowship of the Ring (Peter Jackson) – 3, 2001
The Two Towers (Peter Jackson) – 8, 2002
The Return of the King (Peter Jackson) – 11, 2003
The Lake House (Alejandro Agresti) – 18, 2006
Avatar (James Cameron) – 25, 2009

The Three Musketeers (Paul WS Anderson) – 13, 2011
Ballet 422 (Jody Lee Lipes) – 9, 2014
Mad Max: Fury Road (George Miller) – 2, 2015
The Weaving of a Dream (Ferris Lin) – 114, 2016
Accident Man (Jesse V. Johnson) – 133, 2018

Lost Bullet (Guillaume Pierret) – 38, 2020
Sonic the Hedgehog (Jeff Fowler) – 58, 2020
Mad God (Phil Tippett) – 59, 2021
Disney’s FastPass: A Complicated History (Kevin Perjurer) – 66, 2021

Ponniyin Selvan Part 1 (Mani Ratnam) – 2, 2022
The Fabelmans (Steven Spielberg) – 3, 2022
Walk Up (Hong Sangsoo) – 4, 2022
Three Thousand Years of Longing (George Miller) – 7, 2022
Apollo 10 1/2 (Richard Linklater) – 11, 2022

Avatar: The Way of Water (James Cameron) – 12, 2022
Tár (Todd Field) – 13, 2022
Nope (Jordan Peele) – 15, 2022
Thirteen Lives (Ron Howard) – 16, 2022
Armageddon Time (James Gray) – 18, 2022

Crimes of the Future (David Cronenberg) – 19, 2022
White Noise (Noah Baumbach) – 20, 2022
The Banshees of Inishirin (Martin McDonagh) – 23, 2022
Turn Every Page (Lizzie Gottlieb) – 26, 2022
Fire of Love (Sara Dosa) – 27, 2022

Vikram (Lokesh Kanagaraj) – 29, 2022
The Munsters (Rob Zombie) – 33, 2022
Disney Channel’s Theme: A History Mystery (Kevin Perjurer) – 34, 2022
The Eternal Daughter (Joanna Hogg) – 35, 2022
Dead for a Dollar (Walter Hill) – 38, 2022

Lost Bullet 2 (Guillaume Pierret) – 40, 2022
Eo (Jerzy Skolimowski) – 42, 2022
Emily the Criminal (John Patton Ford) – 47, 2022
The Woman King (Gina Prince-Bythewood) – 49, 2022
Don’t Worry Darling (Olivia Wilde) – 50, 2022

Glass Onion (Rian Johnson) – 51, 2022
Warriors of Future (Ng Yuen-fai) – 52, 2022
Accident Man: Hitman’s Holiday (George & Harry Kirby) – 54, 2022
The People You’re Paying to Be in Shorts (Jon Bois) – 56, 2022
Barbarian (Zach Cregger) – 57, 2022

Day Shift (JJ Perry) – 58, 2022
Werewolf by Night (Michael Giacchino) – 63, 2022
The Menu (Mark Mylod) – 64, 2022
Selena Gomez: My Mind and Me (Alek Keshishian) – 66, 2022
Black Panther: Wakanda Forever (Ryan Coogler) – 68, 2022
Wolf Pack (Michael Chiang) – 70, 2022

2022 Endy Awards

These are the 2022 Endy Awards, wherein I pretend to give out maneki-neko statues to the best movies, performances, etc of this year in film. Awards for many other years can be found in the Rankings & Awards Index. Eligibility is determined by imdb date and by whether or not I’ve seen the movie in question. Films are presented in alphabetical order, and the winners are bolded. As always, the winners and nominees are subject to change as I watch more movies. And the Endy goes to. . .

Best Picture:

1. Apollo 10 1/2
2. Captain Ahab: The Story of Dave Stieb
3. Decision to Leave
4. Detective vs. Sleuths
5. The Fabelmans
6. The Novelist’s Film
7. Ponniyin Selvan: Part 1
8. Shin Ultraman
9. Three Thousand Years of Longing
10. Walk Up

Best Director:

1. James Cameron, Avatar: The Way of Water
2. Park Chan-wook, Decision to Leave
3. Steven Spielberg, The Fabelmans
4. Hong Sangsoo, The Novelist’s Film
5. Mani Ratnam, Ponniyin Selvan: Part 1

Best Actor:

1. Colin Farrell, The Banshees of Inisherin
2. Jon Hamm, Confess, Fletch
3. Lau Ching-wan, Detective vs. Sleuths
4. Austin Butler, Elvis
5. Gabriel LaBelle, The Fabelmans
6. Karthi, Ponniyin Selvan: Part 1
7. Ram Charan, RRR
8. NT Rama Rao Jr, RRR
9. Idris Elba, Three Thousand Years of Longing
10. Kamal Haasan, Vikram
11. Kwon Hae-hyo, Walk Up
12. Adam Driver, White Noise

Best Actress:

1. Tang Wei, Decision to Leave
2. Aubrey Plaza, Emily the Criminal
3. Tilda Swinton, The Eternal Daughter
4. Michelle Yeoh, Everything Everywhere All at Once
5. Bae Doona, Next Sohee
6. Keke Palmer, Nope
7. Lee Hye-young, The Novelist’s Film
8. Amber Midthunder, Prey
9. Park So-dam, Special Delivery
10. Cate Blanchett, Tár
11. Tilda Swinton, Three Thousand Years of Longing
12. Viola Davis, The Woman King

Supporting Actor:

1. Anthony Hopkins, Armageddon Time
2. Barry Keoghan, The Banshees of Inisherin
3. Willem Dafoe, Dead for a Dollar
4. Ke Huy Quan, Everything Everywhere All at Once
5. Paul Dano, The Fabelmans
6. Judd Hirsch, The Fabelmans
7. Michael Wincott, Nope
8. Vikram, Ponniyin Selvan: Part 1
9. Ray Stevenson, RRR
10. Vijay Sethupathi, Vikram

Supporting Actress:

1. Sigourney Weaver, Avatar: The Way of Water
2. Kerry Condon, The Banshees of Inisherin
3. Kristen Stewart, Crimes of the Future
4. Chloe East, The Fabelmans
5. Jessica Henwick, Glass Onion
6. Janice Man, New Kung Fu Cult Master
7. Kim Min-hee, The Novelist’s Film
8. Aishwarya Rai Bachchan, Ponniyin Selvan: Part 1
9. Trisha, Ponniyin Selvan: Part 1
10. Lashana Lynch, The Woman King

Original Screenplay:

1. Apollo 10 1/2, Richard Linklater
2. Captain Ahab: The Story of Dave Stieb, Jon Bois & Alex Rubenstein
3. Detective vs. Sleuths, Wai Ka-fai, Ray Chan, & Mak Tin-shu
4. The Fabelmans, Steven Spielberg & Tony Kushner
5. Walk Up, Hong Sangsoo

Adapted Screenplay:

1. Confess, Fletch, Zev Borow & Greg Mottola
2. Ponniyin Selvan: Part 1, Mani Ratnam & Elango Kumaravel
3. Shin Ultraman, Hideaki Anno
4. Three Thousand Years of Longing, George Miller & Augusta Gore
5. White Noise, Noah Baumbach

English Language Film:

1. Apollo 10 1/2 (Richard Linklater)
2. Avatar: The Way of Water (James Cameron)
3. Captain Ahab: The Story of Dave Stieb (Jon Bois)
4. The Fabelmans (Steven Spielberg)
5. Three Thousand Years of Longing (George Miller)

Non-English Language Film:

1. Detective vs. Sleuths (Wai Ka-fai)
2. The Novelist’s Film (Hong Sangsoo)
3. Ponniyin Selvan: Part 1 (Mani Ratnam)
4. Shin Ultraman (Higuchi Shinji)
5. Walk Up (Hong Sangsoo)

Non-Fiction Feature Film:

1. Blue Island (Chan Tze-woon)
2. Captain Ahab: The Story of Dave Stieb (Jon Bois)
3. Fire of Love (Sara Dosa)
4. The King of Wuxia (Lin Jing-jie)
5. Turn Every Page (Lizzie Gottlieb)

Animated Feature Film:

1. Apollo 10 1/2 (Richard Linklater)

Short Film:

1. How to Score Ten Runs in the First Inning and Lose (Jon Bois)
2. Section 1 (Jon Bois)
3. The Great Director (Xu Lei)

Unseen Film:


1. Benediction (Terence Davies)
2. Both Sides of the Blade (Claire Denis)
3. Pacification (Albert Serra)
4. Saint Omer (Alice Diop)
5. Stars at Noon (Claire Denis)

Film Editing:

1. Avatar: The Way of Water
2. Decision to Leave
3. Detective vs. Sleuths
4. RRR
5. Tár

Cinematography:

1. Avatar: The Way of Water
2. Decision to Leave
3. Nope
4. Ponniyin Selvan: Part 1
5. RRR

Art Direction:

1. Avatar: The Way of Water
2. The Munsters
3. Ponniyin Selvan: Part 1
4. Three Thousand Years of Longing
5. White Noise

Costume Design:

1. Elvis
2. The Munsters
3. Ponniyin Selvan: Part 1
4. Three Thousand Years of Longing
5. White Noise

Make-Up and Hair:

1. Elvis
2. The Munsters
3. Ponniyin Selvan: Part 1
4. RRR
5. White Noise

Original Score:

1. Crimes of the Future
2. Decision to Leave
3. Nope
4. Ponniyin Selvan: Part 1
5. RRR

Adapted Score:

1. Confess, Fletch
2. Decision to Leave
3. Don’t Worry Darling
4. Elvis
5. Tár

Choreography:

1. Accident Man: Hitman’s Holiday
2. The Killer
3. Lost Bullet 2
4. The Princess
5. Special Delivery

Sound:

1. Avatar: The Way of Water
2. Decision to Leave
3. The Fabelmans
4. Nope
5. Tár

Sound Editing:

1. Ambulance
2. Avatar: The Way of Water
3. The Battle at Lake Changjin II
4. Nope
5. Top Gun: Maverick

Visual Effects:

1. Avatar: The Way of Water
4. Nope
3. RRR
5. Shin Ultraman
5. Three Thousand Years of Longing

The Best Older Movies I Saw in 2022

An annual tradition here at The End, this is a look at my favorite film discoveries of the year, any movie more than a few years old that I saw for the first time in 2022. Previous years include: 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2013, 2012, 2011, 2010, 2009, 2008, 2007, and 2006. I watched just over 260 films this year, about a third of which qualified for this list. Here are 50 of my favorites.

1. House (Obayashi Nobuhiko, 1977)
2. A Confucian Confusion (Edward Yang, 1994)
3. The Seventh Curse (Lam Nai-choi, 1986)
4. Miami Blues (George Armitage, 1990)
5. Naked Killer (Clarence Fok, 1992)
6. The Daytrippers (Greg Mottola, 1997)
7. So Close (Corey Yuen, 2002)
8. The 7 Grandmasters (Joseph Kuo, 1977)
9. The Keep (Michael Mann, 1983)
10. Burning Ambition (Frankie Chan, 1989)
11. The Web of Death (Chor Yuen, 1976)
12. Dreaming the Reality (Tony Lou Chun-ku, 1991)
13. It’s a Drink! It’s a Bomb! (David Chung, 1985)
14. 18 Bronzemen (Joseph Kuo, 1976)
15. Tiger Cage II (Yuen Woo-ping, 1990)
16. Outlaw Brothers (Frankie Chan, 1990)
17. The 36 Deadly Styles (Joseph Kuo, 1979)
18. Gorgeous (Vincent Kok, 1999)
19. Angel Terminators 2 (Tony Lou Chun-ku & Chan Lau, 1993)
20. Nemesis (Albert Pyun, 1992)
21. Muppet Treasure Island (Brian Henson, 1996)
22. The Outlaws (Kang Yoon-Sung, 2017)
23. The Shaolin Kids (Joseph Kuo, 1975)
24. The Sandlot (David Mickey Evans, 1993)
25. Den of Thieves (Christian Gudegast, 2018)


26. Return of the 18 Bronzemen (Joseph Kuo, 1976)
27. Lethal Panther 2 (Cindy Chow, 1993)
28. Mercenaries from Hong Kong (Wong Jing, 1982)
29. A Girl at My Door (July Jung, 2014)
30. Prom Night (Paul Lynch, 1980)
31. Lethal Panther (Godfrey Ho, 1990)
32. Devil Hunters (Tony Lou Chun-ku, 1989)
33. In the Line of Duty VII: Sea Wolves (Cheng Siu-keung, 1991)
34. The Cat’s Meow (Peter Bogdanovich, 2001)
35. Hero (Corey Yuen, 1997)
36. The Admiral: Roaring Currents (Kim Han-min, 2014)
37. The Inspector Wears Skirts (Wellson Chin, 1988)
38. Butterfly & Sword (Michael Mak, 1993)
39. Tiger Cage 3 (Yuen Woo-ping, 1991)
40. The Mole Song: Undercover Agent Reiji (Miike Takashi, 2013)
41. Monkey Kung Fu (John Law Ma, 1979)
42. Project S (Supercop 2) (Stanley Tong, 1993)
43. The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug (Peter Jackson, 2013)
44. The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies (Peter Jackson, 2014)
45. The Shaolin Plot (Huang Feng, 1977)
46. The Eight Hundred (Guan Hu, 2020)
47. This is Korea! (John Ford, 1951)
48. Shaolin Kung Fu (Joseph Kuo, 1974)
49. Angel Terminators (Wai Lit, 1992)
50. Last Christmas (Paul Feig, 2019)

Books of 2022

This is a ranked list of the books I finished reading in 2022.

1. Compass, Mathias Énard
2. On the Road, Jack Kerouac
3. The Seagull, Anton Chekhov
4. The Philosophy of Modern Song, Bob Dylan
5. A Christmas Carol, Charles Dickens
6. Death on the Nile, Agatha Christie
7. Norwood, Charles Portis
8. A Hero Born (Condor Heroes #1), Louis Cha
9. A Bond Undone (Condor Heroes #2), Louis Cha
10. These Fists Break Bricks, Grady Hendrix & Chris Poggiali
11. The Flintstones: Deluxe Edition, Mark Russell & Steve Pugh
12. Murder in Mesopotamia, Agatha Christie
13. Memento Mori, Muriel Spark
14. The Essence of Entertainment: Cinema City’s Glory Days, HKFA
15. Cards on the Table, Agatha Christie
16. A Different Brilliance, The D & B Story, HKFA
17. Bruce, Peter Carlin Ames
18. Masters of Atlantis, Charles Portis
19.. The Good Asian Vol 1, Pornsak Pichetshote
20. Bruce Springsteen: The Stories Behind the Songs, Brian Hiatt
21. Ask for the Moon, Meredith Lewis
22. Poirot Loses a Client, Agatha Christie
23. Red Carpet, Erich Schwartzel

These are my favorites of the books I spent significant time reading in 2022 but did not (yet) finish:


1. The Annotated Arabian Nights, trans. Yasmine Seale
2. The Pickwick Papers, Charles Dickens
3. The Silmarillion, JRR Tolkien
4. The Arabian Nights: A Companion, Robert Irwin
5. Hawaii (first two sections only), James Michener
6. Typee, Herman Melville
7. Killing Floor, Lee Child
8. The King James Bible
9. The Method, Isaac Butler
10. The Dawn of Everything, David Wengrow and David Graeber
11. Always in the Dark: A Study of Hong Kong Gangster Films, HK Film Archive
12. Dictionary of the Khazars, Milorad Pavić
13. Bullshit Jobs, David Graeber
14. The World of Jia Zhang-ke, Jean-Michel Frodon
15. God Only Knows: The Story of Brian Wilson, the Beach Boys, and the California Myth, David Leaf

This Week in Rankings

Since the last update, I’ve written the following new subscription-only reviews at The Chinese Cinema: Septet: The Story of Hong Kong, The King of Wuxia, the Running Out of Time series, A New Old Play, Lethal Panther, Lethal Panther 2, the Tiger Cage trilogy, The Best of the Martial Arts Films, The Novelist’s Film, Righting Wrongs, and Detective vs. Sleuths. I reviewed Yuasa Masaaki’s Inu-Oh at Seattle Screen Scene. Over at InReview Online I wrote about Tsai Ming-liang’s The Night, and a bunch of festival movies: Decision to Leave, Broker, We Are Still Here, The Roundup, Legendary in Action!, Confession, Hansan: Rising Dragon, Mercenaries from Hong Kong, Just Remembering, The Mole Song: Final, Shin Ultraman, and Nothing Serious.

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

Rabbit Every Monday (Friz Freleng) – 28, 1951
Mercenaries from Hong Kong (Wong Jing) – 41, 1982
The Breakfast Club (John Hughes) – 27, 1985
Righting Wrongs (Corey Yuen) – 13, 1986

Tiger Cage (Yuen Woo-ping) – 20, 1988
Troop Beverly Hills (Jeff Kanew) – 66, 1989
Tiger Cage II (Yuen Woo-ping) – 30, 1990
The Best of the Martial Arts Films (Sandra Weintraub) – 65, 1990
Tiger Cage III (Yuen Woo-ping) – 51, 1991

Lethal Panther (Godfrey Ho) – 53, 1991
Hard-Boiled (John Woo) – 4, 1992
Lethal Panther 2 (Cindy Chow) – 68, 1993
Maverick (Richard Donner) – 68, 1994
Whisper of the Heart (Kondō Yoshifumi) – 3, 1995
Clueless (Amy Heckerling) – 14, 1995

Titanic (James Cameron) – 14, 1997
Running Out of Time (Johnnie To) – 15, 1999
Dick (Andrew Fleming) – 45, 1999
Shaolin Soccer (Stephen Chow) – 8, 2001
Running Out of Time 2 (Johnnie To & Law Wing-cheong) – 13, 2001

Phantoms of Nabua (Apichatpong Weerasethakul) – 6, 2009
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey (Peter Jackson) – 49, 2012
The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug (Peter Jackson) – 49, 2013
The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies (Peter Jackson) – 69, 2014
The Admiral: Roaring Currents (Kim Hanmin) – 88, 2014

Pumpkin Movie (Sophy Romvari) – 30, 2017
The Outlaws (Kang Yoonsung) – 53, 2017
The History of the Seattle Mariners (Jon Bois) – 1, 2020
Septet: The Story of Hong Kong (Various) – 3, 2020

The Night (Tsai Ming-liang) – 5, 2021
Baby Assassins (Sakamoto Yugo) – 12, 2021
A New Old Play (Qiu Jiongjiong) – 13, 2021
Inu-Oh (Yuasa Masaaki) – 21, 2021
Just Remembering (Matsui Daigo) – 35, 2021

The Novelist’s Film (Hong Sangsoo) – 1, 2022
Detective vs. Sleuths (Wai Ka-fai) – 3, 2022
The King of Wuxia (Lin Jing-jie) – 5, 2022
Decision to Leave (Park Chanwook) – 6, 2022

Prey (Dan Trachtenberg) – 13, 2022
Elvis (Baz Luhrmann) – 14, 2022
Confess, Fletch (Greg Mottola) – 15, 2022
Broker (Kore-eda Hirokazu) – 18, 2022
The Roundup (Lee Sangyong) – 19, 2022

Top Gun: Maverick (Joseph Kosinski) – 21, 2022
We Are Still Here (Various) – 28, 2022
Hansan: Rising Dragon (Kim Hanmin) – 30, 2022
Thor: Love and Thunder (Taika Waititi) – 32, 2022
Morbius (Daniel Espinosa) – 35, 2022

A Top 100 Films of All-Time

It is time once again for a Top 100 Films of All-Time list. The film listed here were randomly selected from a consideration set of 310 films . The order is also randomized.

My Left Eye Sees Ghosts (Johnnie To & Wai Ka-fai, 2002)
Reds (Warren Beatty, 1981)
Hellzapoppin’ (HC Potter, 1941)
It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown (Bill Melendez, 1966)
Last Life in the Universe (Pen-Ek Ratanaruang, 2003)
Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid (Sam Peckinpah, 1973)
The Killer (John Woo, 1989)
A Day in the Country (Jean Renoir, 1936)
The Lion in Winter (Anthony Harvey, 1968)
Mother! (Darren Aronofsky, 2017)


Broadcast News (James L. Brooks, 1987)
Titanic (James Cameron, 1997)
The Rules of the Game (Jean Renoir, 1939)
Duck Soup (Leo McCarey, 1933)
Certified Copy (Abbas Kiarostami, 2010)
What’s Opera, Doc? (Chuck Jones, 1957)
Original Cast Album: Company (DA Pennebaker, 1970)
The Love Eterne (Li Han-hsiang, 1963)
One Froggy Evening (Chuck Jones, 1955)
Journey to the West (Tsai Ming-liang, 2014)


The Wind that Shakes the Barley (Ken Loach, 2006)
Les amants du Pont-Neuf (Leos Carax, 1991)
Meek’s Cutoff (Kelly Reichardt, 2010)
News from Home (Chantal Akerman, 1977)
The Gang’s All Here (Busby Berkeley, 1943)
Meet Me in St Louis (Vincente Minnelli, 1944)
The Big Red One (Samuel Fuller, 1980)
They Were Expendable (John Ford, 1946)
Duvidha (Mani Kaul, 1973)
The Bellboy (Jerry Lewis, 1960)


Early Summer (Ozu Yasujiro, 1951)
Three Times (Hou Hsiao-hsien, 2005)
Rouge (Stanley Kwan, 1987)
The Philadelphia Story (George Cukor, 1940)
The Manchurian Candidate (John Frankenheimer, 1962)
Yourself & Yours (Hong Sangsoo, 2016)
The Lady Eve (Preston Sturges, 1941)
Bound for the Fields, the Mountains, and the Seacoast (Obayashi Nobuhiko, 1986)
8 Diagram Pole Fighter (Lau Kar-leung, 1984)
Intolerance (DW Griffith, 1916)


Seven Samurai (Kurosawa Akira, 1954)
The Terrorizers (Edward Yang, 1986)
City on Fire (Ringo Lam, 1987)
Last of the Mohicans (Michael Mann, 1992)
Tropical Malady (Apichatpong Weerasethakul, 2004)
Robin and Marian (Richard Lester, 1976)
Zulu (Cy Endfield, 1964)
Japanese Girls at the Harbor (Shimizu Hiroshi, 1933)
Drive My Car (Hamaguchi Ryusuke, 2021)
Beau travail (Claire Denis, 1999)


The Young Girls of Rochefort (Jacques Demy, 1967)
Made in Hong Kong (Fruit Chan, 1998)
Morocco (Josef von Sternberg, 1930)
Xiao Wu (Jia Zhangke, 1997)
Don’t Look Back (DA Pennebaker, 1967)
The Good, the Bad, & the Ugly (Sergio Leone, 1966)
Fire Walk with Me (David Lynch, 1992)
The Quiet Man (John Ford, 1952)
Kiss Me Kate (George Sydney, 1953)
Pierrot le fou (Jean-Luc Godard, 1965)


Cat People (Jacques Tourneur, 1942)
Only Angels Have Wings (Howard Hawks, 1938)
Miami Vice (Michael Mann, 2006)
Choose Me (Alan Rudolph, 1984)
Time and Tide (Tsui Hark, 2000)
Om Shanti Om (Farah Khan, 2007)
The Harder they Come (Perry Henzell, 1972)
Rock n Roll High School (Allan Arkush, 1979)
Liz and the Blue Bird (Yamada Naoko, 2018)
Jazz on a Summer’s Day (Aram Avakian & Bert Stern, 1959)


Heat (Michael Mann, 1995)
Green Snake (Tsui Hark, 1993)
Yearning (Naruse Mikio, 1964)
Shanghai Blues (Tsui Hark, 1984)
Out of the Past (Jacques Tourneur, 1947)
Metropolitan (Whit Stillman, 1990)
Bull Durham (Ron Shelton, 1988)
Speed Racer (Lana & Lilly Wachowski, 2008)
The Music Room (Satyajit Ray, 1958)
Ace Attorney (Miike Takashi, 2012)


The Third Man (Carol Reed, 1949)
Linda Linda Linda (Yamashita Nobuhiro, 2005)
F for Fake (Orson Welles, 1973)
The Last Days of Disco (Whit Stillman, 1998)
Jaws (Steven Spielberg, 1975)
Phantoms of Nabua (Apichatpong Weerasethakul, 2009)
Vertigo (Alfred Hitchcock, 1958)
The Birds (Alfred Hitchcock, 1962)
Hero (Zhang Yimou, 2002)
A Brighter Summer Day (Edward Yang, 1991)


The Docks of New York (Josef von Sternberg, 1928)
Inherent Vice (Paul Thomas Anderson, 2014)
Amanda (Mikhaël Hers, 2018)
His Motorbike, Her Island (Obayashi Nobuhiko, 1986)
Mughal-e-azam (K. Asif, 1960)
La Commune (Paris, 1871) (Peter Watkins, 2000)
Fat Choi Spirit (Johnnie To & Wai Ka-fai, 2002)
The Day He Arrives (Hong Sangsoo, 2011)
Once Upon a Time in China (Tsui Hark, 1991)
Dirty Ho (Lau Kar-leung, 1979)