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 years. Some I managed to see on the big screen. Others were on Kanopy, YouTube, or TCM. Some were rentals from Scarecrow, Seattle's only remaining video store.
MOVIES I LIKED A LOT:
"The Banshees of Inisherin" (2022)
"All Quiet On the Western Front" (2022)
"Belfast" (2021)
"Bullet Train" (2022)
"Forsaken" (2015)
"X" (2022)
"Little Women" (2019)
"See How they Run" (2022)
"Running Scared" (2006)
"C'était un Rendezvous" (1976)
SECRET TREASURES:
"Colewell" (2019)
"Ray Meets Helen" (2017)
"Interstate 60" (2002)
"Mystery, Alaska" (1999)
GUILTY PLEASURES:
"Assassination Nation" (2018)
"Benedetta" (2021)
"Mandy" (2018)
"The Corpse of Anna Fritz" (2015)
MOVIES I MIGHT WATCH AGAIN SOMETIME:
"Hell Drivers" (1957)
"Strangers In Paradise" (1984)
"Chicago 10" (2007)
"The Northman" (2022)
"The Man Who Sued God" (2001)
"Somewhere In the Night" (1946)
"The Good Liar" (2019)
"Lisbon Story" (1994)
"A Long Way Down" (2014)
"The Night My Number Came Up" (1955)
FOUR FROM THE VAULT:
"Airplane!" (1980)
"Absolute Power" (1997)
"Slap Shot" (1977)
"Tarzan and His Mate" (1934)
TOXIC WASTE:
"Demented Death Farm Massacre" (1971/1986)