Ewan Graf

2024 In Film | A Movie Montage YouTube video by Quiet On Set Podcast

2024 In Film | A Movie Montage

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Favorite First Watches of December (still very much in a rut, but let's hope 2025 will be better)

The Bridges of Madison County (1995)
Nosferatu (2024)
Exhibiting Forgiveness (2024)

first month this year I don't have enough movies to even get to four picks that I rated an 8/10 or higher

Sundance 2025 - Full Program Overview (the films not yet on Letterboxd will be added later - let us know in the comments if you find them) U.S. Dramatic Competition - Love, Brooklyn U.S. Documentary Competition - Andre is an Idio...

The line up for the @sundancefest.bsky.social is out and I made a @letterboxd.social list for @quietonsetpodcast.bsky.social

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If I ever get to interview Paul Mescal I will definitely bring up that we both played Javert in Les Misérables.

Anyone else who has us in their Top 5?

no surprise here - I will have to rewatch it but I wasn't as blown away as other were. But very keen to see it again

'monumental' they say

actually, I got no notes on this one.

and some that haven't premiered in the US yet
- My Sunshine
- Souleymane’s Story
- To Live, To Die, To Live Again
- Jim’s Story
- Savages
- The Glassworker

I liked this one, didn't love it as much as others did (mainly journalists)

here are a few more great International films

- Girl With the Needle
- The Seed of the Sacred Fig
- Twilight of the Warriors: Walled In
- The Beast

another film without Swiss distribution - baffling how late (or never) we get these films

another great pick that I see go all the way to an Oscar win but I have to give credit to two documentaries I loved even more than No Other Land, those being

- Black Box Diaries
- Daughters

No distribution for this in Switzerland... so I'll have to wait until I can catch this on VOD in 2-3 months

I liked Janet Planet but I'd have gone with other debuts like

- Didi
- Familiar Touch
- Good One
- On Falling
- Orion and the Dark
- The Piano Lesson
- Thelma
- Things Will Be Different

lovely pick

BEST ANIMATED FILM: Flow

funny thing is I applied for the in-person one too. so it's not even a rejection just based on that. but next stop: Berlinale it is then

not to be too bitter but sucks that we have been doing very in-depth festival recaps for Cannes, Venice, Zurich & Gent for years but somehow Sundance has always rejected us. I especially don't get why they limit the access for digital press so much...

Favorite First Watches of November (I was in a rut this month)

Green Room (2015)
Things Will Be Different (2024)
Look Back (2024)
Mystic River (2003)

Favorite First Watched of October 2024 (20th ZFF & beyond edition)

Black Box Diaries (2024)
Memoir of a Snail (2024)
A Real Pain (2024)
No Other Land (2024)
Harvie Krumpet (2003)

Honorable Mentions: Conclave / On Falling / It's What's Inside / Good One / All Shall Be Well / My Old Ass

Favorite First Watched of September 2024 (Venice Edition)

Broken Rage (2024)
Happyend (2024)
The Quiet Son (2024)
Love (2024)
Cloud (2024)
Horizon: An American Saga - Chapter 2 (2024)
Familiar Touch (2024)
Families Like Ours (2024)
I’m Still Here (2024)
The Time It Takes (2024)

Favorite First Watched of August 2024

Alien: Romulus (2024)
Daughters (2024)
September 5 (2024)
Babygirl (2024)
The Order (2024)
The Witness (2024)
The Ties That Bind Us (2024)
Disclaimer (2024)
The Killer (1989)
Beetlejuice (1988)
La Piscine (1969)
The Fugitive (1993)

Favorite First Watched of July 2024 (aka Western month)

It’s a Wonderful Life (1946)
Manchester by the Sea (2016)
Chime (2024)
Go West (1925)
Stagecoach (1939)
Longlegs (2024)
Destry Rides Again (1939)
A Silent Voice: The Movie (2016)
Phantom Thread (2017)

Favorite First Watched of June 2024

I Used to Be Funny (2024)
A Fistful of Dollars (1964)
The Last Stop in Yuma County (2024)
The Glassworker (2024)
Fancy Dance (2024)

Favorite First Watched of May 2024 (Cannes edition)

Challengers (2024)
The Girl with the Needle (2024)
Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga (2024)
Anora (2024)
The Seed of the Sacred Fig (2024)
The Substance (2024)
My Sunshine (2024)

Favorite First Watches of April 2024

RIPLEY (2023)
Fish Tank (2009)
Open Range (2003)
Mad Max 2 (1981)

Favorite First Watches of March 2024

Hundreds of Beavers (2022)
Election 1 & 2 (2005/2006)
The First Slam Dunk (2022)
The Master (2012)
Incendies (2010)

Favorite First Watches of February 2024

Dune: Part 2 (2024)
Orion and the Dark (2024)
Enemy (2013)
Shōgun (2024)

Favorite First Watches of January 2024

American Fiction (2023)
Everybody Wants Some!! (2016)
Dìdi (弟弟) (2024)
All of Us Strangers (2023)

Honorable mentions: Miracle (2004), Society of the Snow (2023), The Abyss (1989)

Since I wanna abandon the other place as soon as possible I'm gonna bring my 'Favorite First Watch of x month' over here

here's January-October + a BlueSky exclusive November one at the end