These are my favorites of the movies I watched from January to March of this year which I haven't already posted anything about, in alphabetical order. Some of these were films my friends and I watched in our efforts to explore underseen films. The image above is from Johnnie To's 2004 film Throw Down , which I watched as part of my quest to find every movie about judo. It's one of the purest judo movies I know if, and its characters love judo not for fighting but just because it feels good to move your body. I don't feel a need to say more than that about this movie, except that I hope that conveys just how good it is. Au Hasard Balthazar (1966) At the beginning of this year the only films directed by Robert Bresson I had seen were A Man Escaped and Pickpocket , and my friends encouraged me to watch more. Having done so, I noticed a divide between the films from the 1950s and later films, from Balthazar to Bresson's final film L'argent . Dia...
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