Favorite films watched this year

By: Christi​an Harding

A complitation of my favorite first-time viewings from this year so far. Ordering isn’t set in stone; just a fun little list I’m working on.

• 01
  The Tree of Life
  Terrence Malick
• 02
  Duck Soup
  Leo McCarey
• 03
  Harold and Maude
  Hal Ashby
• 04
  The Red Shoes
  Michael Powell
• 05
  Smiles of a Summer Night
  Ingmar Bergman
• 06
  The General
  Buster Keaton
• 07
  All About Eve
  Joseph L. Mankiewicz
• 08
  Fort Apache
  John Ford
• 09
  Beginners
  Mike Mills
• 10
  His Girl Friday
  Howard Hawks
• 11
  Limelight
  Charlie Chaplin
• 12
  The Secret of NIMH
  Don Bluth
• 13
  Dust in the Wind
  Hou Hsiao-hsien
• 14
  The Descendants
  Alexander Payne
• 15
  Eyes Without a Face
  Georges Franju
• 16
  Day of Wrath
  Carl Theodor Dreyer
• 17
  The Killing
  Stanley Kubrick
• 18
  Jane Eyre
  Cary Fukunaga
• 19
  A Woman of Paris
  Charlie Chaplin
• 20
  The Conversation
  Francis Ford Coppola
• 21
  Cléo from 5 to 7
  Agnès Varda
• 22
  The Furies
  Anthony Mann
• 23
  Hanna
  Joe Wright
• 24
  The Sacrifice
  Andrei Tarkovsky
• 25
  Norwegian Wood
  Tran Anh Hung
• 26
  Around a Small Mountain
  Jacques Rivette
• 27
  A Night at the Opera
  Sam Wood
• 28
  Cries and Whispers
  Ingmar Bergman
• 29
  Cave of Forgotten Dreams
  Werner Herzog
• 30
  12 Angry Men
  William Friedkin
• 31
  Andrei Rublev
  Andrei Tarkovsky
• 32
  Three Colors: Blue
  Krzysztof Kieślowski
• 33
  Mysterious Skin
  Gregg Araki
• 34
  A Summer at Grandpa's
  Hou Hsiao-hsien
• 35
  Marnie
  Alfred Hitchcock
• 36
  Diary of a Country Priest
  Robert Bresson
• 37
  The Illusionist
  Sylvain Chomet
• 38
  Fitzcarraldo
  Werner Herzog
• 39
  The Spirit of the Beehive
  Víctor Erice
• 40
  Son of Frankenstein
  Rowland V. Lee