January 2014

The first month of the new year has passed. During it I decided to improve my cinematic diet immensely. A couple of ill-advised choices were chosen, but the quality is a drastic improvement. I realised I couldn't watch everything and that it may have not been worth the time to see everything, which is a good thing to learn now rather than when I'm old. It'll hopefully have a greater effect on this year with this in mind.

1. 8½ (Dir. Federico Fellini, 1963/France-Italy) [Rewatch]

2. Late Kenji Mizogychi Films [Some Rewatches]

3. Peeping Tom (Dir. Michael Powell, 1960/UK) [Rewatch]

4. The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance & Donovan’s Reef (Dir. John Ford, 1962-3/USA) 

5. Neighbouring Sounds (Dir. Kleber Mendonça Filho, 2012/Brazil)

6. Upstream Color (Shane Carruth, 2013/USA)

7. Taxi Zum Klo (Dir. Frank Ripploh, 1980/West Germany) [Rewatch]

8. Bullet Ballet (Dir. Shinya Tsukamoto, 1998/Japan)  [Rewatch]

9. Walerian Borowczyk Shorts

10. The Wall (Dir. Julian Pölsler, 2012/Austria-Germany)

11. This Land Is Mine (Dir. Jean Renoir, 1943/USA)

12. Walter Ruttmann

13. She Killed In Ecstasy (Dir. Jesus Franco, 1971/Spain-West Germany)

14. Let There Be Light (Dir. John Huston, 1946/USA) 

15. Black Sunday (Dir. Mario Bava, 1960/Italy)

16. The Blade (Dir. Tsui Hawk, 1995/Hong Kong) [Rewatch]

17. The Night of the Hunted (Dir. Jean Rollin, 1980/France)

18. Viridiana (Dir. Luis Buñuel, 1961/Mexico-Spain) [Rewatch]

19. Confidential: Secret Market aka. (Maruhi) shikijô mesu ichiba (Dir. Noboru Tanaka, 1974/Japan) 

20. The Wolf of Wall Street (Dir. Martin Scorsese, 2013/USA)

Honourable Mentions (In Order of Preference): Pentimento (Dir. Frans Zwartjes, 1979/Netherlands); American Hustle (Dir. David O. Russell, 2013/USA); Gyo: Tokyo Fish Attack (Dir. Takayuki Hirao, 2012/Japan); Touch of Evil (Dir. Orson Welles, 1958/USA) [Rewatch]; Inside Llewyn Davis (Dirs, Joel Coen and Ethan Coen, 2013/France-USA); The Glass Shield (Dir. Charles Burnett, 1994/France-USA); Baise-moi (Dirs. Coralie and Virginie Despentes, 2000/France) [Rewatch]; Midori (Dir. Hiroshi Harada, 1992/Japan); The Devil Came From Akasava (Dir. Jess Franco, 1971/Spain-West Germany); Call Me Tonight (Dir. Tatsuya Okamoto, 1986/Anime OVA/Japan)