HeyJaredThe Movies of Happenstance
In season 1 we celebrated the 25th anniversary of the movies of 1999, reckoned by many to be the greatest year of movies of all time. In season 2 we celebrated the 40th anniversary of the movies of 1985, watching movies that we missed in our youth.
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S03E08 - 2005 (opens the original)
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This month Jason Hutchens watches films from 2005 that he's never seen before, using Letterboxd ratings to uncover hidden gems. This month's selection is: Domino (Tony Scott, USA) Lady Vengeance (Park Chan-wook, South Korea) Broken Flowers (Jim Jarmusch, USA) Caché (Michael Haneke, France) Brick (Rian Johnson, USA) Linda Linda Linda (Nobuhiro Yamashita, Japan) The Proposition (John Hillcoat, Australia) The New World (Terrence Malick, USA) See Jason's review scores for these eight movies on Lette
S03E07 - 2000 (opens the original)
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This month Jason Hutchens watches films from 2000 that he's never seen before, using Letterboxd ratings to uncover hidden gems. This month's selection is: Sexy Beast (Jonathan Glazer, UK) Joint Security Area (Park Chan-wook, South Korea) Yi Yi (Edward Yang, Taiwan) State and Main (David Mamet, USA) Wonder Boys (Curtis Hanson, USA) The Captive (Chantal Akerman, Belgium) Werckmeister Harmonies (Béla Tarr, Germany) Code Unknown (Michael Haneke, France) See Jason's review scores for these eight movi
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