thread of the best films i saw for the first time in 2020, in chronological order:

the kingdom of the fairies (george melies 1903)

the last command (josef von sternberg 1928)

the docks of new york (josef von sternberg 1928)

pilgrimage (john ford 1933)

the black cat (edgar g. ulmer 1934)

the raven (lew landers 1935)

the bride of frankenstein (james whale 1935)

the whole town's talking (john ford 1935)

easy living (mitchell leisen 1937)

the edge of the world (michael powell 1937)

the hockey champ (jack king 1939)

hellzapoppin' (h.c. potter 1941)

screwball squirrel (tex avery 1944)

brief encounter (david lean 1945)

the stranger (orson welles 1946)

macbeth (orson welles 1948)

the pirate (vincente minnelli 1948)

a song is born (howard hawks 1948)

the set-up (robert wise 1949)

born yesterday (george cukor 1950)

cue ball cat (william hanna & joseph barbera 1950)

rio grande (john ford 1950)

casque d'or (jacques becker 1952)

el (luis bunuel 1953)

the wages of fear (georges clouzot 1953)

the princess yang kwei fei (kenji mizoguchi 1955)

aparajito (satyajit ray 1956)

the naked kiss (samuel fuller 1964)

the color of pomegranates (sergei parajanov 1969)

two english girls (francois truffaut 1971)

minnie and moskowitz (john cassavetes 1971)

the heartbreak kid (elaine may 1972)

the friends of eddie coyle (peter yates 1973)

the passenger (michelangelo antonioni 1975)

the chess game of the wind (mohammad reza aslani 1976)

the driver (walter hill 1978)

filming othello (orson welles 1978)

satyam shivam sundaram (raj kapoor 1978)

shaolin mantis (lau kar-leung 1978)

inferno (dario argento 1980)

mad max 2: the road warrior (george miller 1981)

berenice (raul ruiz 1983)

lupin the third: the legend of the gold of babylon (seijun suzuki & shigetsugu yoshida 1985)

where is the friend's home? (abbas kiarostami 1987)

a tale of the wind (joris ivens 1988)

center stage (stanley kwan 1991)

celine (jean-claude brisseau 1992)

giant robo: the day the earth stood still (yasuhiro imagawa 1992)

hyenas (djibril diop mambety 1992)

life and nothing more (abbas kiarostami 1992)

malcolm x (spike lee 1992)

ocean waves (tomomi mochizuki 1993)

helas pour moi (jean-luc godard 1993)

joan the maid (jacques rivette 1994)

through the olive trees (abbas kiarostami 1994)

devil in a blue dress (carl franklin 1995)

the neon bible (terence davies 1996)

2046 (wong kar-wai 2004)

inland empire (david lynch 2006)

mother (bong joon-ho 2009)

first cow (kelly reichardt 2019)

and that's a wrap on my year in cinema! some very bright spots in an otherwise bad year for the world.

i love movies so much