25 Favorite First-Time Viewings of 2025

One per director. Chronologically organized.

Merrily We Go to Hell (Dorothy Arzner, 1932)
Duel in the Sun (King Vidor, 1946)
Forever Amber (Otto Preminger, 1947)
Secret Beyond the Door (Fritz Lang, 1947)
Raw Deal (Anthony Mann, 1948)
The Asphalt Jungle (John Huston, 1950)
Don’t Bother to Knock (Roy Ward Baker, 1952)
Magnificent Obsession (Douglas Sirk, 1954)
Pushover (Richard Quine, 1954)
Senso (Luchino Visconti, 1954)
Cleopatra (Joseph L. Mankiewicz, 1963)
Valley of the Dolls (Mark Robson, 1967)
Looking for Mr. Goodbar (Richard Brooks, 1977)
Looker (Michael Crichton, 1981)
The Appointment (Lindsey C. Vickers, 1982)
Mike’s Murder (James Bridges, 1984)
Cold Heaven (Nicolas Roeg, 1991)
Single White Female (Barbet Schroeder, 1992)
Color of Night (Richard Rush, 1994)
Torment (Claude Chabrol, 1994)
Double Team (Tsui Hark, 1997)
Unfaithful (Adrian Lyne, 2002)
How Do You Know (James L. Brooks, 2010)
The Eternal Daughter (Joanna Hogg, 2022)
Cloud (Kiyoshi Kurosawa, 2024)