Act One Viewing History
Below is a complete record of the films that have been officially selected for discussion during the group's history.
The group uses a five star rating system, with the average of all member scores recorded as our final rating for each selection. Ratings are, of course, entirely subjective and can be based on whatever factors are deemed appropriate by each member.
01/16
The Man Who Fell to Earth (1976)
Directed by Nicolas Roeg
★★
They Live (1988)
Directed by John Carpenter
★★★
02/16
Rebecca (1940)
Directed by Alfred Hitchcock
★★★ ½
Harold and Maude (1971)
Directed by Hal Ashby
★★★
03/16
Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961)
Directed by Blake Edwards
★★ ½
A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night (2014)
Directed by Ana Lily Amirpour
★★★ ½
04/16
What's Up, Doc? (1972)
Directed by Peter Bogdanovich
★★★
Grey Gardens (1975)
Directed by Albert & David Maysles
★★ ½
05/16
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000)
Directed by Ang Lee
★★★★
The Book Thief (2013)
Directed by Brian Percival
★★★ ½
06/16
The Third Man (1949)
Directed by Carol Reed
★★★★
Agora (2009)
Directed by Alejandro Amenábar
★★ ½
07/16
Barry Lyndon (1975)
Directed by Stanley Kubrick
★★★
Harvey (1950)
Directed by Henry Koster
★★★★
08/16
Paper Moon (1973)
Directed by Peter Bogdanovich
★★★★
The Warriors (1979)
Directed by Walter Hill
★★★ ½
09/16
Stand By Me (1986)
Directed by Rob Reiner
★★★★
Fame (1980)
Directed by Alan Parker
★★★
10/16
Let the Right One In (2008)
Directed by Tomas Alfredson
★★★★
Phantasm (1979)
Directed by Don Coscarelli
★★★
11/16
V for Vendetta (2006)
Directed by The Wachowskis
★★★ ½
Flash Gordon (1980)
Directed by Mike Hodges
★★★★
12/16
The Bishop's Wife (1947)
Directed by Henry Koster
★★★ ½
Die Hard (1988)
Directed by John McTiernan
★★★★
01/17
This is Spinal Tap (1984)
Directed by Rob Reiner
★★★ ½
The Blob (1958)
Directed by Irvin Yeaworth
★★★
02/17
On Golden Pond (1981)
Directed by Mark Rydell
★★★ ½
Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975)
Directed by Terry Gilliam & Terry Jones
★★★★ ½
03/17
Eraserhead (1977)
Directed by David Lynch
★★ ½
Black Girl (1966)
Directed by Ousmane Sembène
★★★ ½
04/17
Clue (1985)
Directed by Jonathan Lynn
★★★ ½
Gosford Park (2001)
Directed by Robert Altman
★★★ ½
05/17
The One I Love (2014)
Directed by Charlie McDowell
★★★★
Beverly Hills Cop (1984)
Directed by Martin Brest
★★★ ½
06/17
Enter the Dragon (1973)
Directed by Robert Clouse
★★★★
The Blues Brothers (1980)
Directed by John Landis
★★★★
07/17
Batman: The Movie (1966)
Directed by Leslie H. Martinson
★★★★
A Hard Day's Night (1964)
Directed by Richard Lester
★★★ ½
08/17
The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters (2007)
Directed by Seth Gordon
★★★★
Planet of the Apes (1968)
Directed by Franklin J. Schaffner
★★★★
09/17
Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988)
Directed by Robert Zemeckis
★★★ ½
Ocean's 11 (1960)
Directed by Lewis Milestone
★★ ½
10/17
Pan's Labyrinth (2006)
Directed by Guillermo del Toro
★★★★ ½
Halloween (1978)
Directed by John Carpenter
★★★★
11/17
Dr. No (1962)
Directed by Terence Young
★★★ ½
Scotland, PA (2001)
Directed by William Morrissette
★★★ ½
12/17
Metropolis (1927)
Directed by Fritz Lang
★★★★
The Thin Man (1934)
Directed by W.S. Van Dyke
★★★★
01/18
Casablanca (1942)
Directed by Michael Curtiz
★★★★★
Pulp Fiction (1994)
Directed by Quentin Tarantino
★★★★
02/18
Before Sunrise (1995)
Directed by Richard Linklater
★★★ ½
The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014)
Directed by Wes Anderson
★★★★
03/18
The Prestige (2006)
Directed by Christopher Nolan
★★★ ½
Blade Runner (1982)
Directed by Ridley Scott
★★★ ½
04/18
Rear Window (1954)
Directed by Alfred Hitchcock
★★★★ ½
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1958)
Directed by Richard Brooks
★★★
05/18
A Band Called Death (2012)
Directed by Mark Christopher Covino & Jeff Howlett
★★★ ½
O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000)
Directed by Joel & Ethan Coen
★★★ ½
06/18
Bloodsport (1988)
Directed by Newt Arnold
★★ ½
Big Trouble in Little China (1986)
Directed by John Carpenter
★★★ ½
07/18
Taxi Driver (1976)
Directed by Martin Scorcese
★★★ ½
Wet Hot American Summer (2001)
Directed by David Wain
★★★ ½
08/18
Them! (1954)
Directed by Gordon Douglas
★★★
Mean Girls (2004)
Directed by Mark Waters
★★★ ½
09/18
How to Win at Checkers (Every Time) (2015)
Directed by Josh Kim
★★★★
Turner & Hooch (1989)
Directed by Roger Spottiswood
★★★
10/18
A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984)
Directed by Wes Craven
★★★ ½
Arsenic and Old Lace (1944)
Directed by Frank Capra
★★★
11/18
Planes, Trains and Automobiles (1987)
Directed by John Hughes
★★★ ½
From Russia with Love (1963)
Directed by Terence Young
★★★ ½
12/18
Gremlins (1984)
Directed by Joe Dante
★★★
It’s a Wonderful Life (1946)
Directed by Frank Capra
★★★★ ½
01/19
I’ll Be Seeing You (1944)
Directed by William Dieterle
★★★
Schindler’s List (1993)
Directed by Steven Spielberg
★★★★★
02/19
Beasts of No Nation (2015)
Directed by Cary Fukunaga
★★★★ ½
Do the Right Thing (1989)
Directed by Spike Lee
★★★★
03/19
Willow (1988)
Directed by Ron Howard
★★★ ½
Florence Foster Jenkins (2016)
Directed by Stephen Frears
★★★
04/19
What We Do in the Shadows (2014)
Directed by Jemaine Clement and Taika Waititi
★★★ ½
The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected) (2017)
Directed by Noah Baumbach
★★★ ½
05/19
After the Thin Man (1936)
Directed by W.S. Van Dyke
★★★★
Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind (1984)
Directed by Hayao Miyazaki
★★★★ ½
06/19
Point Break (1991)
Directed by Kathryn Bigelow
★★★ ½
Network (1976)
Directed by Sidney Lumet
★★★
07/19
An American Tail (1986)
Directed by Don Bluth
★★★ ½
A Room with a View (1985)
Directed by James Ivory
★★★★
08/19
Ghost World (2001)
Directed by Terry Zeigoff
★★★
The Hunt for Red October (1990)
Directed by John McTiernan
★★★
09/19
The Dark Crystal (1982)
Directed by Jim Henson and Frank Oz
★★★★
Free Solo (2018)
Directed by Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi and Jimmy Chin
★★★★
10/19
North by Northwest (1959)
Directed by Alfred Hitchcock
★★★ ½
The Exorcist (1973)
Directed by William Friedkin
★★★★
11/19
Starship Troopers (1997)
Directed by Paul Verhoeven
★★★
Goldfinger (1964)
Directed by Guy Hamilton
★★★ ½
12/19
Snowpiercer (2013)
Directed by Bong Joon-ho
★★★★ ½
The Shop Around the Corner (1940)
Directed by Ernst Lubitsch
★★★
01/20
The Shawshank Redemption (1994)
Directed by Frank Darabont
★★★★ ½
Misery (1990)
Directed by Rob Reiner
★★★★ ½
02/20
Black Narcissus (1947)
Directed by Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger
★★★
Marriage Story (2019)
Directed by Noah Baumbach
★★★★
03/20
The 400 Blows (1959)
Directed by François Truffaut
★★★★
Sister Act (1992)
Directed by Emile Ardolino
★★★ ½
04/20
Westworld (1973)
Directed by Michael Crichton
★★★ ½
Bonnie and Clyde (1967)
Directed by Arthur Penn
★★★
05/20
Boyz n the Hood (1991)
Directed by John Singleton
★★★★ ½
The Outsiders (1983)
Directed by Francis Ford Coppola
★★★ ½
06/20
Demolition Man (1993)
Directed by Marco Brambilla
★★★
Dirty Dancing (1987)
Directed by Emile Ardolino
★★★★
07/20
Timecop (1994)
Directed by Peter Hyams
★★★
A Mighty Wind (2003)
Directed by Christopher Guest
★★★★
08/20
The Wizard (1989)
Directed by Todd Holland
★★★
Fast Color (2018)
Directed by Julia Hart
★★★ ½
09/20
The Matrix (1999)
Directed by the Wachowskis
★★★★★
The Devil All the Time (2020)
Directed by Antonio Campos
★★★★
10/20
Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1992)
Directed by Fran Rubel Kuzui
★★★★
Friday the 13th (1980)
Directed by Sean S. Cunningham
★★★ ½
11/20
Thunderball (1965)
Directed by Terence Young
★★ ½
Booksmart (2019)
Directed by Olivia Wilde
★★★★
12/20
The Thing (1982)
Directed by John Carpenter
★★★★ ½
Jingle All the Way (1996)
Directed by Brian Levant
★★★
01/21
The Revenant (2015)
Directed by Alejandro González Iñárritu
★★★★ ½
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001)
Directed by Peter Jackson
★★★★★
02/21
But I’m a Cheerleader (1999)
Directed by Jamie Babbit
★★★★
The Big Sick (2017)
Directed by Michael Showalter
★★★★
03/21
The Silence of the Lambs (1991)
Directed by Jonathan Demme
★★★★ ½
Searching for Bobby Fischer (1993)
Directed by Steven Zaillian
★★★★
04/21
Lifeforce (1985)
Directed by Tobe Hooper
★★ ½
The Omen (1976)
Directed by Richard Donner
★★★
05/21
Les Diaboliques (1955)
Directed by Henri-Georges Clouzot
★★★★
Frida (2002)
Directed by Julie Taymor
★★★
06/21
The Handmaid’s Tale (1990)
Directed by Volker Schlöndorff
★★ ½
A Fistful of Dollars (1964)
Directed by Sergio Leone
★★★★
07/21
9 to 5 (1980)
Directed by Colin Higgins
★★★ ½
Bone Tomahawk (2015)
Directed by S. Craig Zahler
★★★★ ½
08/21
Tombstone (1993)
Directed by George P. Cosmatos
★★★ ½
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1990)
Directed by Steve Barron
★★★★
09/21
St. Elmo’s Fire (1985)
Directed by Joel Schumacher
★ ½
2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
Directed by Stanley Kubrick
★★★★ ½
10/21
The Love Witch (2016)
Directed by Anna Biller
★★ ½
The Birds (1963)
Directed by Alfred Hitchcock
★★★ ½
11/21
You Only Live Twice (1967)
Directed by Lewis Gilbert
★★ ½
When Harry Met Sally… (1989)
Directed by Rob Reiner
★★★★
12/21
The Night of the Hunter (1955)
Directed by Charles Laughton
★★★★★
Love Actually (2003)
Directed by Richard Curtis
★★★ ½
01/22
For a Few Dollars More (1965)
Directed by Sergio Leone
★★★★
The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002)
Directed by Peter Jackson
★★★★ ½
02/22
Another Thin Man (1939)
Directed by W.S. Van Dyke
★★★ ½
A Patch of Blue (1965)
Directed by Guy Green
★★★★ ½
03/22
Veronica Mars (2014)
Directed by Rob Thomas
★★★
Sunset Boulevard (1950)
Directed by Billy Wilder
★★★★ ½
04/22
The Highwaymen (2019)
Directed by John Lee Hancock
★★★ ½
Between Two Ferns: The Movie (2019)
Directed by Scott Aukerman
★★★ ½
05/22
The Godfather (1972)
Directed by Francis Ford Coppola
★★★★ ½
Futureworld (1976)
Directed by Richard T. Heffron
★★★
06/22
Viva Las Vegas (1964)
Directed by George Sidney
★★ ½
Saturday Night Fever (1977)
Directed by John Badham
★★ ½
07/22
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966)
Directed by Sergio Leone
★★★★
A League of Their Own (1992)
Directed by Penny Marshall
★★★★ ½
08/22
The Fly (1986)
Directed by David Cronenberg
★★★★★
Atomic Blonde (2017)
Directed by David Leitch
★★★★
09/22
Jaws (1975)
Directed by Steven Spielberg
★★★★ ½
Thelma & Louise (1991)
Directed by Ridley Scott
★★★ ½
10/22
Goosebumps (2015)
Directed by Rob Letterman
★★★
Beetlejuice (1988)
Directed by Tim Burton
★★★★ ½
11/22
The Long Kiss Goodnight (1996)
Directed by Renny Harlin
★★★★
On Her Majesty’s Secret Service (1969)
Directed by Peter R. Hunt
★★★★
12/22
Metropolitan (1990)
Directed by Whit Stillman
★★★ ½
The Apartment (1960)
Directed by Billy Wilder
★★★★ ½
01/23
Carol (2015)
Directed by Todd Haynes
★★★
School Ties (1992)
Directed by Robert Mandel
★★★ ½
02/23
Before Sunset (2004)
Directed by Richard Linklater
★★★★
Moonrise Kingdom (2012)
Directed by Wes Anderson
★★★★ ½
03/23
A Face in the Crowd (1957)
Directed by Elia Kazan
★★★★
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003)
Directed by Peter Jackson
★★★★
04/23
Wendy and Lucy (2008)
Directed by Kelly Reichardt
★★★★
Midsommar (2019)
Directed by Ari Aster
★★★ ½
05/23
The Electrical Life of Louis Wain (2021)
Directed by Will Sharpe
★★★
The Last Unicorn (1982)
Directed by Arthur Rankin Jr. and Jules Bass
★★★ ½
06/23
The Princess Bride (1987)
Directed by Rob Reiner
★★★★ ½
Ten Inch Hero (2007)
Directed by David Mackay
★★ ½
07/23
Adventureland (2009)
Directed by Greg Mottola
★★★
Picnic at Hanging Rock (1975)
Directed by Peter Weir
★★★★
08/23
Mulholland Drive (2001)
Directed by David Lynch
★★★★ ½
Romancing the Stone (1984)
Directed by Robert Zemeckis
★★★ ½
09/23
An American in Paris (1951)
Directed by Vincente Minnelli
★★★ ½
Manhunter (1986)
Directed by Michael Mann
★★★★
10/23
The Lost Boys (1987)
Directed by Joel Schumacher
★★★★ ½
Vampire’s Kiss (1989)
Directed by Robert Bierman
★★★★
11/23
Diamonds Are Forever (1971)
Directed by Guy Hamilton
★★
Robin Hood: Men in Tights (1993)
Directed by Mel Brooks
★★★ ½
12/23
Shadow of the Thin Man (1941)
Directed by W.S. Van Dyke
★★★
Three Days of the Condor (1975)
Directed by Sydney Pollack
★★★ ½
11/24
Live and Let Die (1973)
Directed by Guy Hamilton
The Man with the Golden Gun (1974)
Directed by Guy Hamilton
