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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.

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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
Favorites Wrap-Up

MOST RECENTLY WATCHED

Joji (2021)
The French (1982)
Sound of Metal (2019)
A Screaming Man (2010)
Parasite (2019)
Songs My Brothers Taught Me (2015)
About Some Meaningless Events (1974)
Hooligan Sparrow (2016)
Dons of Disco (2018)
Nomadland (2020)

On the headphones

Next Mixtape

On the nightstand

These Truths: A History of the United States

In the lab

Ideal Martini

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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