Forgot how good they are:
Lost in Translation. Force of Evil. Sirk's A Time to Love and a Time to Die / Imitation of Life. The Door in the Floor. Nebraska. Stars and Bars. Wonder Boys, L.A. Confidential and In Her Shoes (three very different Curtis Hanson films, who died this year too early). The Magnificent Ambersons. Michel Gondry's Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind and Be Kind Rewind.
New old classics:
Thieves' Highway / They Drive By Night / On Dangerous Ground (linked by I.A. Bezzerides). A Lady Without Passport. Man with a Movie Camera. Portrait of Jennie. Cluny Brown (undiscovered Lubitsch - thanks Peter Bogdanovich). Gold Diggers of 1933 (staggering stuff from Busby Berkeley).
Discoveries:
Accident. The Optimists of Nine Elms. The Black Stallion. Wrony (Crows).
Fantastic Year for TV:
War and Peace. The Night Manager. Line of Duty. The A Word (Peter Bowker). True Detective: Season Two (much better than touted). Ellen (devastating one off drama). The return of Cold Feet. Humans. This Is Us (Dan Fogelman.)
New (to us):
Irrational Man. Café Society.
The Spectacular Now / The Fault in our Stars. Shailene Woodley (The Descendants) double bill, both written by Scott Neustadter and Michael H Weber.
Bridge of Spies.
Room.
Joy (David O Russell).
Hail Caesar! (the Coens funniest film).
Youth.
The Lunchbox.
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