This Week in Rankings

Over the past month or so I wrote about King Arthur here at The End and a bunch of movies over at Seattle Screen Scene, including Christmas in July, Trainwreck and The Lady Eve, A Hard Day and Unexpected, and a quartet of Running Out of Karma movies: Wild City; Yes, Madam!; The Heroic Trio, and A Better Tomorrow.

We discussed that last one as well on The George Sanders Show, along with Blackhat. We also did shows on Summer Interlude and Songs from the Second Floor and The Green Ray and X: The Man with X-Ray Eyes. We have a new episode of They Shot Pictures on Preston Sturges ready to go, it should be making it's way onto the internet any time now. And, following tradition, I made a bunch of Best of the Year So Far lists.

I also went on a bit of an Endy Awards kick, handing out fake cat statues to films from the years 1993, 1995, 1996 and 1997. I also updated the years 1994 and 1998-2014, changing some nominees and winners based on new movies I've seen since the last revision in March. You can find all of those, as always, in the Endy Awards Index.

These are the movies I've watched and rewatched over the last few weeks and where they place on my year-by-year rankings. Short comments or capsule reviews for them can be found over at letterboxd.

The Power and the Glory (William K. Howard) - 33, 1933
The Good Fairy (William Wyler) - 11, 1935
The Adventures of Robin Hood (Michael Curtiz) - 2, 1938
Christmas in July (Preston Sturges) - 4, 1940
The Great McGinty (Preston Sturges) - 20, 1940

The Lady Eve (Preston Sturges) - 2, 1941
Sullivan's Travels (Preston Sturges) - 11, 1941
The Palm Beach Story (Preston Sturges) - 5, 1942
Hail the Conquering Hero (Preston Sturges) - 8, 1944
The Miracle of Morgan's Creek (Preston Sturges) - 12, 1944

Unfaithfully Yours (Preston Sturges) - 5, 1948
Summer Interlude (Ingmar Bergman) - 31, 1951
X: The Man with X-Ray Eyes (Roger Corman) - 24, 1963
Temple of the Red Lotus (Hsu Tsung-hung) - 27, 1965
The Story of a Discharged Prisoner (Patrick Lung-kong) - 21, 1967

A Better Tomorrow (John Woo) - 1, 1986
The Green Ray (Eric Rohmer) - 2, 1986
Middlemarch (Anthony Page) - 40, 1994
Songs from the Second Floor (Roy Andersson) - 23, 2000
Emma (Jim O'Hanlon) - 27, 2009

Blackhat (Michael Mann) - 3, 2015
Wild City (Ringo Lam) - 12, 2015
Trainwreck (Judd Apatow) - 13, 2015
7 Days in Hell (Jake Szymanski) - 17, 2015