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 a 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 Quiet Girl" (2022)
"Poor Things" (2023)
"LOLA" (2022)
"Scrapper" (2023)
Saltburn" (2023)
"Oppenheimer" (2023)
"Killers of the Flower Moon" (2023)
"Fallen Leaves" (2o23)
"Pearl" (2022)
"Dead For a Dollar" (2022)
SECRET TREASURES:
"Tag" (2015)
"Breaking Surface" (2020)
"Moon Garden" (2022)
"The Ballad of Lefty Brown" (2017)
GUILTY PLEASURES:
"Renfield" (2023)
"The Pope's Exorcist" (2023)
"Loaded Weapon 1" (1993)
"Lobster Man From Mars" (1989)
MOVIES I MIGHT WATCH AGAIN SOMETIME:
"A Love Song" (2o22)
"Full Time" (2021)
"In a Valley of Violence" (2016)
"The Holdovers" (2023)
"Godzilla Minus One" (2023)
"Asteroid City" (2023)
"Tár" (2022)
"Mystery Road" (2018)
"Living" (2022)
"The Lost King" (2022)
FOUR FROM THE VAULT:
"Blast of Silence" (1961)
"The Last Picture Show" (1971)
"Pink Flamingos"(1972)
"The Treasure of the Sierra Madre" (1948)
TOXIC WASTE:
"Wet Wilderness" (1975)
