Dynamic Top Tens of 2024

[Dr Amicus]

I’ll try and watch more new films this year….

[brundlefly]

1.

[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. Trailer of a Film That Will Never Exist: "Phony Wars" (Jean-Luc Godard)

Best 2024 U.S. commercial releases:

Best ineligible first watches:

1. Peeping Tom (1960, Michael Powell)
2. Bluebeard's Eighth Wife (1938, Ernst Lubitsch)

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), Be with Me (Hwarng Wern-ying), The Beast (Bertrand Bonello), Black Tea (Abderrahmane Sissako), 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), Evil Does Not Exist (Hamaguchi Ryūsuke), Fish Memories (Chen Hung-i), Furiosa (George Miller), Hedgehog (Gu Changwei), I Saw the TV Glow (Jane Schoenbrun), Ick (Joseph Kahn), It's Not Me (Leos Carax), Limonov (Kirill Serebrennikov), Man in Black (Wang Bing), Mickey 17 (Bong Joon Ho), Mond (Kurdwin Ayub), My Father's Son (Qiu Sheng), My Friend Andre (Dong Zijian), Resurrection (Bi Gan), Serpent's Path (Kurosawa Kiyoshi), Snow in Midsummer (Chong Keat Aun), Stranger Eyes (Yeo Siew Hua), Talks Overnight (Su Qiqi), The Taste of Things (Trần Anh Hùng), Those Who Loved Me (Yang Mingming), Three Words (Lou Ye), Twilight of the Warriors: Walled In (Soi Cheang), We Shall Be All (Jia Zhangke), Wild Punch (Yu Lik-wai and Wang Jing), The World Is Family (Anand Patwardhan)

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. Sasquatch Sunset (David & Nathan Zellner)
4. Late Night with the Devil (Colin & Cameron Cairnes)

Also seen:

Yep: Immaculate (Michael Mohan), Dune Part 2 (Denis Villeneuve)
Meh: Sons (Gustav Möller)
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. Rebel Moon — Part Two: The Scargiver (Snyder)
2. Midnight (Miike)

[Altair]

1. Dune: Part Two

[Yakushima]

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