Monday, December 28, 2015

First Time Viewings / 2015

Twenty five, in vaguely preferential order:

Les Fantomes du Chapelier (Claude Chabrol, 1982)
Alice, or the Last Escapade (Claude Chabrol, 1977)
Abigail's Party (Mike Leigh, 1977)
The Last Hunt (Richard Brooks, 1956)
A Geisha (Kenji Mizoguchi, 1953)

Greed (Erich von Stroheim, 1924)
La tempestaire (Jean Epstein, 1947)
The Tin Star (Anthony Mann, 1957)
Sabotage (Alfred Hitchcock, 1936)
La signora di tutti (Max Opuhls, 1934)

The Ceremony (Nagisa Oshima, 1971)
Warm Water Under a Red Bridge (Shohei Imamura, 2001)
La signora senza camelie (Michelangelo Antonioni, 1953)
Jour de fete (Jacques Tati, 1948)
Phoenix (Christian Petzold, 2014)

Five Came Back (John Farrow, 1939)
Spontaneous Combustion (Tobe Hooper, 1990)
The Outfit (John Flynn, 1973)
Tomorrow (Joseph Anthony, 1972)
Bay of Angels (Jacques Demy, 1963)

Toni (Jean Renoir, 1935)
The Kindergarten Teacher (Nadav Lapid, 2014)
Schachnovelle aka Brainwashed (Gerd Oswald, 1961)
The Visitors (Elia Kazan, 1972)
Danger: Diabolik (Mario Bava, 1968)