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Jeffrey Goodman blogs about the films and albums that inspire him. And his experiences with his first feature-length film, starring Tom Sizemore and Sasha Alexander.

Sunday, September 3, 2017

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Favorite Films Each Year

1926: Nana (Jean Renoir)
1927: Sunrise (FW Murnau)
1928: The Passion of Joan of Arc (Carl Theodor Dreyer)
1930: The Blue Angel (Josef von Sternberg)
1931: La chienne (Jean Renoir)
1932: La Nuit du Carrefour (Jean Renoir)
1933: Das Testament des Dr. Mabuse (Fritz Lang)
1934: L'atalante (Jean Vigo)
1935: The 39 Steps (Alfred Hitchcock)
1936: Les bas-fonds (Jean Renoir)
1937: You Only Live Once (Fritz Lang)
1938: Holiday (George Cukor)
1939: La regle du jeu (Jean Renoir)
1940: The Shop Around the Corner (Ernst Lubitsch)
1941: Sergeant York (Howard Hawks)
1942: The Magnificent Ambersons (Orson Welles)
1943: Shadow of a Doubt (Alfred Hitchcock)
1944: Double Indemnity (Billy Wilder)
1945: Les dames du bois de Boulogne (Robert Bresson)
1946: The Best Years of Our Lives (William Wyler)
1947: Out of the Past (Jacques Tourneur)
1948: Letter from an Unknown Woman (Max Ophuls)
1949: Jour de fete (Jacques Tati)
1950: In a Lonely Place (Nicholas Ray)
1951: A Place in the Sun (George Stevens)
1952: Casque d'or (Jacques Becker)
1953: The Big Heat (Fritz Lang)
1954: The Barefoot Contessa (Joseph Mankiewicz)
1955: Ordet (Carl Theodor Dreyer)
1956: Written on the Wind (Douglas Sirk)
1957: Men in War (Anthony Mann)
1958: Bonjour Tristesse (Otto Preminger)
1959: Pickpocket (Robert Bresson)
1960: Shoot the Piano Player (Francois Truffaut)
1961: Splendor in the Grass (Elia Kazan)
1962: The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (John Ford)
1963: Contempt (Jean-Luc Godard)
1964: Gertrud (Carl Theodor Dreyer)
1965: Pierrot le fou (Jean-Luc Godard)
1966: Au Hasard Balthazar (Robert Bresson)
1967: La Collectionneuse (Eric Rohmer)
1968: L'enfance nue (Maurice Pialat)
1969: The Wild Bunch (Sam Peckinpah)
1970: The Conformist (Bernardo Bertolucci)
1971: The French Connection (William Friedkin)
1972: The Godfather (Francis Ford Coppola)
1973: The Mother and the Whore (Jean Eustache)
1974: Chinatown (Roman Polanski)
1975: Night Moves (Arthur Penn)
1976: Kings of the Road (Wim Wenders)
1977: Annie Hall (Woody Allen)
1978: Straight Time (Ulu Grosbard)
1979: Apocalypse Now (Francis Ford Coppola)
1980: Melvin and Howard (Jonathan Demme)
1981: Blow Out (Brian De Palma)
1982: The Thing (John Carpenter)
1983: L'argent (Robert Bresson)
1984: Boy Meets Girl (Leos Carax)
1985: Year of the Dragon (Michael Cimino)
1986: Hoosiers (David Anspaugh)
1987: Where Is the Friend's House (Abbas Kiarostami)
1988: Bird (Clint Eastwood)
1989: Do the Right Thing (Spike Lee)
1990: Trust (Hal Hartley)
1991: My Own Private Idaho (Gus Van Sant)
1992: Unforgiven (Clint Eastwood)
1993: Carlito's Way (Brian De Palma)
1994: Les Roseaux sauvages (Andre Techine)
1995: Heat (Michael Mann)
1996: Fargo (Joel and Ethan Coen)
1997: Hana-bi (Takeshi Kitano)
1998: The Thin Red Line (Terrence Malick)
1999: The Insider (Michael Mann)
2000: Yi Yi (Edward Yang)
2001: Mulholland Dr. (David Lynch)
2002: Funny Ha Ha (Andrew Bujalski)
2003: All the Real Girls (David Gordon Green)
2004: Million Dollar Baby (Clint Eastwood)
2005: Les amants reguliers (Philippe Garrel)
2006: L'enfant (Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne)
2007: 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days (Cristian Mungiu)
2008: Tulpan (Sergei Dvortsevoy)
2009: Police, Adjective (Corneliu Porumboiu)
2010: Mysteries of Lisbon (Raul Ruiz)
2011: Margaret (Kenneth Lonergan)
2012: Tabu (Miguel Gomes)
2013: At Berkeley (Frederick Wiseman)
2014: Clouds of Sils Maria (Olivier Assayas)
2015: Right Now, Wrong Then (Hong Sang-soo)
2016: Paterson (Jim Jarmusch)
2017: Certain Women (Kelly Reichardt)
2018: Summer (Kirill Serebrennikov)
2019: Ad Astra (James Gray)
2020: Love Affair(s) (Emmanuel Mouret)
2021: Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy (Ryusuke Hamaguchi)
2022: Both Sides of the Blade (Claire Denis)
2023: Close Your Eyes (Victor Erice)
Favorites Wrap-Up

MOST RECENTLY WATCHED

Murder, My Sweet (1944)
Dillinger (1973)
8 Million Ways to Die (1986)
Tex (1982)
Fallen Leaves (2023)
Monterey Pop (1968)
Journey Through the Past (1973)
Ennio (2021)
Blue Note Records: Beyond the Notes (2018)
Moynihan (2018)

On the headphones

Jazz

On the nightstand

The Path to Power

In the lab

Scotch

Album blurbs

Before Hollywood, The Go-Betweens, 1983
Arthur (Or the Decline and Fall of the British Empire), The Kinks, 1969
Ill Communication, Beastie Boys, 1994
Remain in Light, Talking Heads, 1980
Reckoning, REM, 1984

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