THE SMALL BACK ROOM

SCANDAL SHEET

NIRVANNA

LUSTMORD

#Top5FirstViews March 2026
1. THE SMALL BACK ROOM (Powell & Pressburger)
2. SCANDAL SHEET (Karlson)
3. NIRVANNA THE BAND THE SHOW THE MOVIE (Johnson)
4. LUSTMORD (Satõ)
5. THE HOUSE WITH LAUGHING WINDOWS (Avati)

#Top5FirstViews | March 2026

1. Bright Star (Jane Campion, 2009)
2. A Useful Ghost (Ratchapoom Boonbunchachoke, 2025)
3. A Poet (Simón Mesa Soto, 2025)
4. Days and Nights in the Forest (Satyajit Ray, 1970)
5. The Napa Boys (Nick Corirossi, 2025)

#Top5FirstViews March 2026
1. Beverly Hills Cop (1984)
2. Best In Show (2000)
3. One Battle After Another (2025)
4. Wicked: For Good
5. The Things We Did Last Summer (1978)

#Top5FirstViews for March:

The Big Combo (1955)
Bugonia (2025)
Operation Condor (1991)
Armour of God (1986)
Winners and Sinners (1983)

A collage of the aforementioned films.

My #Top5FirstViews of March
- Project Hail Mary (2026)
- Predator: Killer of Killers (2025)
- Lollipop (2024)
- Pretty Lethal (2026)
- Everybody to Kenmure Street (2026)

#Top5FirstViews February 2026:

1. MARTY SUPREME
2. THE BLACK STALLION
3. THE PERFECT NEIGHBOR
4. THE VIRGIN SPRING
5. TRAIN DREAMS

BRIGHTON ROCK

SEND HELP

BLOODY PARROT

GOOD NEWS

#Top5FirstViews February 2026
1. BRIGHTON ROCK (Boulton)
2. SEND HELP (Raimi)
3. BLOODY PARROT (Shan)
4. GOOD NEWS (Walter’s)
5. SONG SUNG BLUE (Brewer)

Notable TV first watch of LONESOME DOVE.

Weird month.

#Top5firstviews | Fevereiro 2026

1. TAIPEI STORY (Edward Yang, 1985)
2. NO OTHER CHOICE (Park Chan Wook, 2025)
3. FIREWORKS, SHOULD WE SEE IT FROM THE SIDE OR THE BOTTOM? (Shunji Iwai, 1993)
4. RECIFE FRIO (Kleber Mendonça Filho, 2009)
5. WEAPONS (Zach Cregger, 2025)

#Top5FirstViews | Fevereiro 2026

1. Baixo Gávea (Haroldo Marinho Barbosa, 1986)
2. The Lightship (Jerzy Skolimowski, 1995)
3. The Hours and the times (Christopher Munch, 1991)
4. F for Fake (Orson Welles, 1973)

#Top5FirstViews | February 2026

1. Seven Sweethearts (Frank Borzage, 1942)
2. EPiC: Elvis Presley in Concert (Baz Luhrmann, 2025)
3. The Vanishing Virginian (Frank Borzage, 1942)
4. Five Came Back (John Farrow, 1939)
5. Nirvanna the Band the Show the Movie (Matt Johnson, 2025)

#Top5FirstViews February 2026
1. The Singers (short, 2025)
2. Blazing Saddles (1974)
3. Mr. Holland’s Opus (1995)
4. Here Today (2021)
5. Fear And Loathing In Las Vegas (1998)

#Top5FirstViews for February:

One Battle After Another (2025)
Licorice Pizza (2021)
Love & Basketball (2000)
Predator: Badlands (2025)
Save the Green Planet! (2003)

#top5firstviews February:

THE SECRET AGENT (2025)
THE BEAST (2023)
PARIS IS BURNING (1990)
ONCE UPON A TIME IN CHINA (1991)
DO NOT EXPECT TOO MUCH FROM
THE END OF THE WORLD (2023)

Honorable mention:

BAD LIEUTENANT (1992)
FLOW (2024)
LESSONS OF DARKNESS (1992)
FALCON LAKE (2022)
ATHENA (2022)

A collage of the aforementioned films.

My #Top5FirstViews of February
- Good Luck, Have Fun, Don't Die (2025)
- Code 3 (2025)
- Hoppers (2026)
- Send Help (2026)
- The Long Kiss Goodnight (1996)

#Top5FirstViews January 2026
1. Dead Poets Society (1989)
2. Over The Hedge (2006)
3. Frankenstein (2025)
4. Stripes (1981)
5. The Lorax (2012)

#Top5FirstViews | January 2026

1. Marty Supreme (Josh Safdie, 2025)
2. When the Wind Blows (Jimmy T. Murakami, 1986)
3. Le Ciel est à vous (Jean Grémillon, 1944)
4. My Lucky Stars (Sammo Hung, 1985)
5. Seven Days to Noon (John Boulting, Roy Boulting, 1950)

28 YEARS LATER: THE BONE TEMPLE

SOULEYMANE’S STORY

CHRISTY

THE RIP

#Top5FirstViews January 2026
1. 28 YEARS LATER: THE BONE TEMPLE (DaCosta)
2. SOULEYMANE’S STORY (Lojkine)
3. CHRISTY (Michôd)
4. THE RIP (Carnahan)
5. SKETCH (Worley)

All new movies. Cramming 2025 releases for Skandies and catching some better than usual 2026 dumpuary ones.

#Top5FirstViews for January:

King of New York (1990)
The Gambler (1974)
Don't Torture a Duckling (1972)
Painted Faces (1988)
Black Phone 2 (2025)

#Top5FirstViews | December 2025

1. 92 in the Shade (Thomas McGuane, 1975)
2. Pandora and the Flying Dutchman (Albert Lewin, 1951)
3. Sense and Sensibility (Ang Lee, 1995)
4. Demonlover (Olivier Assayas, 2002)
5. The Secret Agent (Kleber Mendonça Filho, 2025)

#Top5FirstViews for December:

Night of the Juggler (1980)
The Long Walk (2025)
Wake Up Dead Man (2025)
Mr. Vampire (1985)
Pulse (2001)

#Top5FirstViews December 2025
1. Murdaugh: Death In The Family (2025)
2. Mr. Dressup: The Magic Of Make Believe (documentary, 2023)
3. Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery (2025)
4. Duplex (2003)
5. Arlington Road (1999)

#top5firstviews December:

AUTUMN SONATA (1978)
A MOMENT OF INNOCENCE (1996)
MARTY SUPREME (2025)
GILDA (1946)
A TASTE OF CHERRY (1997)

Honorable mention:

A BRIGHTER SUMMER DAY (1991)
HAPPY TOGETHER (1997)
WAKE UP DEAD MAN (2025)

A collage of images from the mentioned films.

My #Top5FirstViews of December
- Prime Minister (2025)
- Eternity (2025)
- Some Like It Hot (1959)
- Zootopia 2 (2025)
- A Very Jonas Christmas Movie (2025)

#top5firstviews November 2025:-

1. Malcolm X (Spike Lee, 1992)
2. Soundtrack to a Coup d'etat (Johan Grimonprez, 2024)
3. 28 Days Later (Danny Boyle, 2002)
4. The Invisible Man (James Whale, 1933)
5. Nouvelle Vague (Richard Linklater, 2025)

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Megadoc

Angel Guts: Red Porno

Die My Love

The War Game

#Top5FirstViews November
(I skipped October because it would have been all AFI FEST, this list is still mostly new release catch up.)
1. MEGADOC (Figgis)
2. ANGEL GUTS: RED PORNO (Ikeda)
3. DIE MY LOVE (Ramsay)
4. THE WAR GAME (Watkins)
5. IT WAS JUST AN ACCIDENT (Panahi)

#Top5FirstViews | November 2025

1. Die My Love (Lynne Ramsay, 2025)
2. Peter Hujar's Day (Ira Sachs, 2025)
3. Trouble in Mind (Alan Rudolph, 1985)
4. Rain or Shine (Frank Capra, 1930)
5. Left-Handed Girl (Shih-Ching Tsou, 2025)

#Top5FirstViews November 2025
1. The Patient (2022)
2. The Roses (2025)
3. When We Went MAD! (documentary, 2025)
4. The Golden Girls: 40 Years Of Laughter And Friendship (documentary, 2025)
5. Good Morning, Vietnam! (1987)

#Top5FirstViews for November:

Weapons (2025)
Zootopia (2016)
At Close Range (1986)
Frankenstein (2025)
Foxy Brown (1974)

#top5firstviews November

THE AWFUL TRUTH (1937)
PICKUP ON SOUTH STREET (1953)
THE GREAT SILENCE (1968)
MISHIMA (1985)
KEY LARGO (1948)

Honorable mention

THE HUMAN CONDITION I (1959)
JOUR DE FÊTE (1949)
ZERO FOR CONDUCT (1933)
IT WAS JUST AN ACCIDENT (2025)
WEAPONS (2025)
LA BÊTE HUMAINE (1938)

Not watched enough (good) films to have a #Top5FirstViews this month so here’s my 3 favourite first time watches of November:
- Last Christmas (2019)
- Now You See Me: Now You Don’t (2025)
- Predator: Badlands (2025)