Dynamic Top Tens of 2024

[Dr Amicus]

1) Late Night with the Devil (Colin and Cameron Haines)
2) No Dogs or Italians Allowed (Alain Ughetto)

[brundlefly]

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[Grand Wazoo]

1. Do Not Expect Too Much from the End of the World

[The Fanciful Norwegian]

My main list, limited to movies that premiered in 2023 or 2024 that I first viewed this year:

1. Man in Black (Wang Bing)
2. Trailer of a Film That Will Never Exist: "Phony Wars" (Jean-Luc Godard)
3. The Beast (Bertrand Bonello)
4. House of the Seasons (Oh Jung-min)
5. Black Box Diaries (Itō Shiori)
6. Killing the Violet (Zhang Yu)
7. Rafa (Mehdi Ghazanfari)
8. Club Zero (Jessica Hausner)
9. Evil Does Not Exist (Hamaguchi Ryūsuke)

Best 2024 U.S. commercial releases:

1. Trailer of a Film That Will Never Exist: "Phony Wars" (Jean-Luc Godard)
2. The Beast (Bertrand Bonello)
3. Do Not Expect Too Much from the End of the World (Radu Jude)
4. Conann (Bertrand Mandico)
5. Art College 1994 (Liu Jian)
6. Evil Does Not Exist (Hamaguchi Ryūsuke)

Best ineligible first watches:

1. Peeping Tom (1960, Michael Powell)
2. Bluebeard's Eighth Wife (1938, Ernst Lubitsch)
3. The Plot Against Harry (1971, Michael Roemer)
4. Semi-Tough (1977, Michael Ritchie)
5. The Stranger Wore a Gun (1953, Andre de Toth)
6. Prizzi's Honor (1985, John Huston)

Some films I anticipate (hopefully) seeing this year: Abiding Nowhere (Tsai Ming-liang), Aggro Dr1ft (Harmony Korine), All In, All 4 You (Cai Chengjie), All Shall Be Well (Ray Yeung), All We Imagine as Light (Payal Kapadia), Be with Me (Hwarng Wern-ying), Black Tea (Abderrahmane Sissako), Caught by the Tides (Jia Zhangke), Characters Disappearing (Connor Sen Warnick), Chime (Kurosawa Kiyoshi), Close Your Eyes (Víctor Erice), A Different Man (Aaron Schimberg), Dwelling by the West Lake (Gu Xiaogang), The Escaping Man (Wang Yichun), Fish Memories (Chen Hung-i), Furiosa (George Miller), Hard Times (Mike Leigh), Hedgehog (Gu Changwei), The Invasion (Sergey Loznitsa), It's Not Me (Leos Carax), Limonov: The Ballad (Kirill Serebrennikov), Meeting with Pol Pot (Rithy Panh), Misericordia (Alain Guiraudie), Mond (Kurdwin Ayub), My Father's Son (Qiu Sheng), My Friend Andre (Dong Zijian), Resurrection (Bi Gan), Rumours (Evan Johnson, Galen Johnson, Guy Maddin), Scénarios (Jean-Luc Godard), The Seed of the Sacred Fig (Mohammad Rasoulof), Serpent's Path (Kurosawa Kiyoshi), The Shrouds (David Cronenberg), Snow in Midsummer (Chong Keat Aun), Spectateurs! (Arnaud Desplechin), Stranger Eyes (Yeo Siew Hua), Those Who Loved Me (Yang Mingming), Three Words (Lou Ye), Twilight of the Warriors: Walled In (Soi Cheang), An Unfinished Film (Lou Ye), Universal Language (Matthew Rankin), Viet and Nam (Trương Minh Quý), Visiting Hours (Patricia Mazuy), Wild Punch (Yu Lik-wai and Wang Jing)

Previous lists: 2021, 2022, 2023

[beamish14]

Definitely excited about Megalopolis and Mike Figgis’ accompanying documentary on it, even though I think the likelihood is high that it will be an unmitigated disaster

There is a new Mike Leigh coming as well. And potentially the last directorial outing from Paul Schrader.

As someone who unironically considers Torque to be among the most significant films of the last 30 years, color me very excited about Joseph Kahn’s new feature

[Murdoch]

Page twooooo

Hopefully I get out to the theater more than I did last year!

Saltburn - Fennell
Perfect Days - Wenders (was s'alright)

[The Curious Sofa]

1. All of Us Strangers (Andrew Haigh)
2. Love Lies Bleeding (Rose Glass)
3. Ripley (Steven Zaillian)
4. Civil War (Alex Garland)
5. Sasquatch Sunset (David & Nathan Zellner)
6. Late Night with the Devil (Colin & Cameron Cairnes)
7. Last Stop in Yuma County (Francis Galluppi)

Also seen:

Yep: Immaculate (Michael Mohan), Dune Part 2 (this may make it onto the list after a rewatch. This keeps to be the case for me with Denis Villeneuve), New Life (John Rosman)

Meh: Sons (Gustav Möller), Arcadian (Benjamin Brewer), You'll Never Find Me (Indianna Bell&Josiah Allen), Frogman (Anthony Cousins), Double Blind (Ian Hunt-Duffy), ISS (Gabriela Cowperthwaite)

Nope: The Devil's Bath (Veronika Franz & Severin Fiala)

[low]

1 The Taste of Things (Tran)
2

[nicolas]

So far:

1. Dune: Part Two (Villeneuve)

[RSTooley]

Reserved

[cantinflas]

1. Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga
2. Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire
3. Rebel Moon — Part Two: The Scargiver
4. The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare

[Altair]

1. Dune: Part Two
2. Challengers
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[Yakushima]

1. Perfect Days.
2. Drive-Away Dolls.
3. Furiosa.
4.
5. Dune: Part Two.

(Updated 05-25-2024)