2020
Movies are listed in watch order
赤い波止場 Red Pier (1958)
ギターを持った渡り鳥 The Rambling Guitarist (1959)
Anatomy of a Murder 1959
1917 2019
天気の子 Weathering with You (2019)
Blow Out 1981
Logan's Run 1976
Death Race 2000 1975
하녀 The Housemaid (1960)
天気の子 Weathering with You (2019)
A pátý jezdec je Strach …And the Fifth Horseman Is Fear (1965)
12 Angry Men 1957
Zenon: Girl of the 21st Century 1999
Hairspray 2007
Guess Who's Coming to Dinner 1967
我的镜头 Chinese Portrait (2018)
Cats 2019
Sonic the Hedgehog 2020
Snowpiercer 2013
夜は短し歩けよ乙女 Night Is Short, Walk On Girl (2017)
きみと、波にのれたら Ride Your Wave (2019)
狂熱の季節 The Warped Ones (1960)
Candyman 1992
Иди и смотри Come and See (1985)
The last trip to theaters before city-wide shutdowns
There Will Be Blood 2007
破坏之王 Love on Delivery (1994)
The Blob 1958
言の葉の庭 The Garden of Words (2013)
Dolemite Is My Name 2019
Det sjunde inseglet The Seventh Seal (1957)
Rope a Dope 2013
Bacurau 2019
南方车站的聚会 The Wild Goose Lake (2019)
Onward 2020
用心棒 Yojimbo (1961)
Dolemite 1975
用心棒 Yojimbo (1961)
Rewatched with commentary by Stephen Prince
卧虎藏龙 Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000)
黑眼圈 I Don't Want to Sleep Alone (2006)
招半式闖江湖 Half a Loaf of Kung Fu (1978)
The Italian Job 1969
The Producers 1967
Fail Safe 1964
Fail Safe 1964
Rewatched with commentary by Sidney Lumet
Dark Star 1974
師弟出馬 The Young Master (1980)
椿三十郎 Sanjuro (1962)
Monty Python and the Holy Grail 1975
椿三十郎 Sanjuro (1962)
Rewatched with commentary by Stephen Prince
俺たちの血が許さない Our Blood Will Not Forgive (1964)
So many interesting visual sequences here, some of which individually make returns in later films, but the density of them makes this special.
Foxy Brown 1974
Hercules 1997
Mulholland Drive 2001
À bout de souffle Breathless (1960)
Independence Day 1996
帰って来たヨッパライ Three Resurrected Drunkards (1968)
Newsies 1992
Camp Nowhere 1994
Watched this with a bunch of anarchists who provided commentary about the ways the camp adhered to anarchist principles of organization
WE ARE LITTLE ZOMBIES We Are Little Zombies (2019)
火口のふたり It Feels So Good (2019)
It’s been over a month and I still think about the opening credits
River of Grass 1995
Raiders of the Lost Ark 1981
Babe 1995
El hoyo The Platform (2019)
Who Framed Roger Rabbit 1988
Leviathan 2012
Bisbee '17 2018
Total Recall 1990
賭場の牝猫 Gambling Kitten (1965)
After watching Suzuki’s “Flesh Trilogy”, I decided to continue with another film starring Yumiko Nogawa. This doesn’t quite live up those films.
洞 The Hole (1999)
Following 1999
刺青一代 Tattooed Life (1965)
Worth it if only for the genre/style shift in the finale.
Spice World: The Movie 1997
Josie and the Pussycats 2001
The Texas Chain Saw Massacre 1974
Nosferatu, eine Symphonie des Grauens Nosferatu (1922)
殺しの烙印 Branded to Kill (1967)
I first watched this in 2008. It was the first Suzuki film I’d seen, and was the seed for this year’s Artist of the Year selection. It’s hard for me to neutrally assess this, since it clearly left an impact on me then. It was nice seeing so many motifs from earlier films reappear here, even if I’m more impressed with their utilization in the earlier films. It’s remarkable how otherwise stylistically distinct it is from his other Nikkatsu work.
Season of the Witch 1972
Sisters 1973
Blue Diary 1998
Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl 2003
拳銃は俺のパスポート A Colt Is My Passport (1967)
블랙핑크: 세상을 밝혀라 BLACKPINK: Light Up the Sky (2020)
Batman Returns 1992
The Hills Have Eyes 1977
Videodrome 1983
Invasion of the Body Snatchers 1978
Acid Rain 2019
I’m always excited to see interesting uses of subtitles. There’s a late scene here that does something I’ve never seen before. It’s so good, I suspect the scene is strongest if you don’t know Polish.
The Slumber Party Massacre 1982
The Best Man 1964
The Living End 1992
Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story 2007
Smooth Talk 1985
The Joy of Life 2005
지푸라기라도 잡고 싶은 짐승들 Beasts Clawing at Straws (2020)
Totally Fucked Up 1993
Mysterious Skin 2004
香港製造 Made in Hong Kong (1997)
ツィゴイネルワイゼン Zigeunerweisen (1980)
Additionally read the source short story, The Sarasate Disk
I keep returning to this one. While it didn’t grab me in the moment, it’s certainly the Suzuki film I’ve spent the most time thinking about.
The Royal Road 2015
旺角卡門 As Tears Go By (1988)
Watched the 2020 restoration
阿飛正傳 Days of Being Wild (1990)
Watched the 2020 restoration
플란다스의 개 Barking Dogs Never Bite (2000)
不散 Goodbye, Dragon Inn (2003)
ピストルオペラ Pistol Opera (2001)
It’s so good seeing Suzuki work in the blown out early 2000s digital video aesthetic. I might like this even more than the coloring of Tokyo Drifter.
