This Week in Rankings

I posted another two podcasts this week, with Episode Two of The George Sanders Show, on Dead Man and Ride Lonesome and Episode #17 of They Shot Pictures, on the movies of Sammo Hung. I also wrote about Chor Yuen's Intimate Confessions of a Chinese Courtesan. That review and my other recent writings about Hong Kong genre cinema can be found in the Summer of Sammo Index. Over at Letterboxd I have new director lists for Jim Jarmusch and Stanley Donen.

These are the movies I've watched and rewatched over the last week, and where they place on my year-by-year rankings. Links are to short reviews at Letterboxd.

The Maltese Falcon (John Huston) - 5, 1941

Ride Lonesome (Budd Boetticher) - 7, 1959

Charade (Stanley Donen) - 2, 1963

The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes (Billy Wilder) - 8, 1970

Intimate Confessions of a Chinese Courtesan (Chor Yuen) - 2, 1972

Blood Brothers (Chang Cheh) - 19, 1973

The Way We Were (Sydney Pollack) - 26, 1973

The Miracle Fighters (Yuen Woo-ping) - 5, 1982

The Eight-Diagram Pole Fighter (Lau Kar-leung) - 3, 1984

Righting Wrongs (Corey Yuen) - 15, 1986

Dead Man (Jim Jarmusch) - 1, 1995

Drunken Monkey (Lau Kar-leung) - 13, 2003