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Best Discoveries 2020
The best of the newly discovered films in 2020. For a while, the focus was to see films that feel like huge gaps in my movie watching history--movies it seems everyone has seen but you (Oliver Twist, Oliver!, Fiddler, Cinema Paradiso). Along the way, got some great Noir recommendations (The Lodger, The Lineup) from teaching colleague Dave Cochran (author of American Noir: Underground Writers and Filmmakers of the Post-War Era), finally saw the excellent conclusion to Penelope Spheeris's Decline series, uncovered a number of hyper-stylized gems (Dames, The Thomas Crown Affair, The Hunger, Amer), and, of course, kept up a steady diet of delicious trash (Hell Comes to Frogtown, Night of a Thousand Cats). What can I say? There was a lot of extra viewing time this past year.
Click on the titles for links to scenes, interviews, trailers, etc - in the case of Hal Ashby's The Landlord , which can be difficult to find, I linked to the entire film on youtube. Same for the Canadian daredevil doc The Devil at Your Heels, and the excellent Chinese film by Bi Gan, Kaili Blues.
The Lodger 1944
John Brahm
Dames 1934
Busby Berkeley/Ray Enright
Amer 2009
Hélène Cattet/Bruno Forzani
Lisztomania 1975
Ken Russell
The Hunger 1983
Tony Scott
Pasolini 2014
Abek Ferrara
The Decline of Western Civilization Part III 1998
Penelope Spheeris
Hamlet Goes Business 1987
Aki Kaurismäki
Robert Fortier
The Lineup 1958
Don Siegel
Night Tide 1961
Curtis Harrington
Out of the Blue 1980
Dennis Hopper
Tsai Ming-liang
Cinema Paradiso 1988
Giuseppe Tornatore
Oliver Twist 1948
David Lean
Oliver! 1968
Carol Reed
Night of a Thousand Cats 1972
René Cardona Jr.
The Thomas Crown Affair 1968
Norman Jewison
Fiddler on the Roof 1971
Norman Jewison
The Landlord 1970
Hal Ashby
Wise Blood 1979
John Huston (as Jhon Huston)
In Another Country 2012
Hong Sang-soo
Kaili Blues 2015
Bi Gan
Tangerine 2015
Sean Baker
Donald G. Jackson/R.J. Kizer
