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 2015. Previous years include: 2014, 2013, 2012, 2011, 2010, 2009, 2008, 2007, and 2006. I watched 368 or so movies in 2015, roughly third of which qualify for this list. That’s a sizable decline from last year, where half the films I watched were discoveries, a result of spending more of my movie-time this year on new releases for Seattle Screen Scene and on rewatches for They Shot Pictures. Here are 75 that I liked.

1. Linda Linda Linda (Nobuhiro Yamashita, 2005)

2. It Felt Like a Kiss (Adam Curtis, 2009)

3. News from Home (Chantal Akerman, 1977)

4. Pather Panchali (Satyajit Ray, 1955)

5. Le bonheur (Agnès Varda, 1965)

6. The Civil War (Ken Burns, 1990)

7. Man of Aran (Robert Flaherty, 1934)

8. Tokyo Olympiad (Kon Ichikawa, 1965)

9. Christmas in July (Preston Sturges, 1940)

10. The Sun Shines Bright (John Ford, 1953)

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