Tuesday, January 12, 2021

The 10 Best Movies of 2020

 
Along with a lot of other things lately, the coronavirus threw a monkey wrench into the Movie Buzzard's annual Top Ten List. There just weren't many new movies to choose from. The following list was scraped together from the movies I saw last year, either for the first time ever, or for the first time in 30 or 40 years. I managed to catch a few of them in theaters before the pandemic closed things down. Most were viewed on YouTube or TCM.

MOVIES I LIKED A LOT:
"Berlin: Symphony of a City" (1927)
"1917" (2019)
"Once Were Brothers: Robbie Robertson and The Band" (2019)
"Heavy Trip" (2018)
"Certain Women" (2015)
"Un Carnet de Bal" (1937)
"Stories We Tell" (2012)
"The Steel Helmet" (1951)
"Portrait of a Lady On Fire" (2019)
"Vampyr" (1932)

MOVIES I MIGHT WATCH AGAIN SOMETIME:
"Fool's Parade" (1971)
"Two For the Seesaw" (1962)
"The Typewriter, the Rifle and the Movie Camera" (1996)
"Midsummer Madness" (2007)
"Buchanan Rides Alone" (1958)
"Desperado" (1995)
"The Crossing" (2000)
"Edge of Darkness" (1943)
"Dead Reckoning" (1947)
"Two For the Road" (1967)

SECRET TREASURES:
"The Lure" (2015)
"The White Buffalo" (1975)
"The Secret Ways" (1961)
"Destination Murder" (1950)

GUILTY PLEASURES:
"Madhouse" (1974)
"The Rhythm Section" (2020)
"The Tingler" (1959)
"Swedish Gas Pump Girls" (1980)

TOXIC WASTE:
"A Darker Fifty Shades: The Fetish Set" (2015)