Over the last few years, I’ve posted mega-lists of works I’m either just starting to chew on or digesting. I’ve tried to write about this more frequently this year. Titles in bold are ones I particularly liked.
If you’re interested, I posted a Criterion and AFI Top 100+ lists this year, too.
Animated
“Logorama” (2009)
“Coda” (2013)
“Deer Flower” (2016)
Kubo and the Two Strings (2016)
Moana (2016)
Sing (2016)
“Superbia” (2016)
Trolls (2016)
Documentary
“A Modern Coed” (1966)
Choke (1999)
Heaven’s Gate: The Untold Story (1999)
My Scientology Movie (2015)
Art / Literature
Poetry in Motion (1982)
Louie Bluie (1985)
Crumb (1994)
And Everything Is Going Fine (2010)
The American Scream (2012)
Future Shock!: The Story of 2000 AD (2014)
Film
Werner Herzog Eats His Shoe (1980)
Something to Scream About (2003)
Cameraperson (2011)
Kong! Long Live the King! (2016)
Music
New York Doll (2005)
Get Thrashed (2006)
Can’t Stand Losing You: Surviving the Police (2012)
Blackhearts (2016)
Art House
Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Take One (1968)
“A Day with the Boys” (1969)
Conversions (1971)
“Junkopia” (1981)
Poison (1981)
My Winnipeg (2007)
“24 Frames Per Century” (2013)
Horror / Sci-fi / VHS Weirdness
5 Dolls for an August Moon (1970)
Multiple Maniacs (1970)
Images (1972)
Invasion of the Bee Girls (1973)
The Beast Must Die (1974)
Rollerball (1975)
Blue Sunshine (1978)
The Final Terror (1983)
Death Spa (1988)
Hobo with a Shotgun (2011)
Spring (2014)
The Blackcoat’s Daughter (2015)
The Autopsy of Jane Doe (2016)
I Am the Pretty Thing That Lives in the House (2016)
The Void (2016)
Get Out (2017)
Everything Else
Speedy (1928)
“I Graduated, But…” (1929)
Zero for Conduct (1933)
The Rules of the Game (1939)
Rome, Open City (1945)
The Strange Love of Martha Ivers (1946)
The Red Shoes (1948)
La Notte (1961)
Putney Swope (1969)
The Long Goodbye (1973)
The Second Awakening of Christa Klages (1978)
Paris, Texas (1984)
The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert (1994)
Walking and Talking (1996)
“La cambrure” (1999)
Magnolia (1999)
In the Mood for Love (2000)
“Incident By a Bank” (2009)
Blue Ruin (2013)
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