A collection of first-time views from 2017 that are worth noting, starting with one of Kaurismäki's lesser-known classics, Take Care of Your Scarf, Tatiana, and Dino Risi's superb Il Sorpasso, both recommended by Jim Jarmusch in a recent interview. Also included here are a few pictures that are only for the truly adventurous, Ontological-Hysteric Theater founder Richard Foreman's Strong Medicine primary among them (as far as I know, only available to view on YouTube), followed closely by an absurdist post-Beckett/pre-Gilliam gem, Richard Lester's The Bed-Sitting Room. And, as always, a few older pics (the Pre-Code salaciousness of Murder at the Vanities!), mixed in with a few more recent ones (the 2007 salaciousness of Anna Biller's Viva!), a little art, a little trash, and a little "in-between"...
Aki Kaurismäki
The Dead, 1987
John Huston
Strong Medicine, 1981
Richard Foreman
1984, 1956
Michael Anderson
The Bed Sitting Room, 1969
Richard Lester
Murder at the Vanities, 1934
Mitchell Leisen
All About Lily Chou-Chou, 2001
Shunji Iwai
The Servant, 1963
Joseph Losey
Il Sorpasso, 1962
Dino Risi
Tony Manero, 2008
Pablo Larraín
Twentieth Century, 1934
Howard Hawks
The Gladiators, 1969
Peter Watkins
Starcrash, 1978
Luigi Cozzi (as Lewis Coates)
Viva, 2007
Anna Biller
Skidoo, 1968
Otto Preminger
We Can't Go Home Again, 1973
Nicholas Ray
Camera (Short), 2000
David Cronenberg
