Movies of 2014 Part 1: 150-51, presented without comment

So it's fairly late for me to be commencing an end-of-year write-up collection, but I'm going to do it anyway because I've been working on it and I need to post for posterity my thoughts on the movies I watched last year, because egoism.

However, although I've been 'working' on write-ups, the work has been very slow-going and laborious (basically, I'm giving fewer fucks) and so even though I'm really tardy with this, I've only actually written up 81 of the movies I saw last year (and by 'written up' I mean 'written up or still yet to write up') while the remaining 100 I have ranked in my order of preference, and will present to you here without any comment, like I did with my entire list a couple of years ago.

So just as a breakdown of what's coming in the next few days:

Post 1 - Number 150 to Number 51, the 'Middling sludge' that I neither like enough nor dislike enough to bother about writing up;
Post 2 - Number 50 to Number 21, the 'Good but not quite good enough' brigade;
Post 3 - Number 151 to Number 181, my bottom 31;
Post 4 - My Top Twenty

For now, as per a couple of years ago, if you have any questions or comments about the order or would like some thoughts on any of these, just let me know. Otherwise, without comment:

150) Romper Stomper (1992, Geoffrey Wright)

149) Pather Panchali (1955, Satyajit Ray)

148) Aparajito (1957, Satyajit Ray)

147) Harlan County, USA (1976, Barbara Kopple)

146) Big Trouble in Little China (1986, John Carpenter)

145) Neighbors (1920, Edward F Cline/Buster Keaton)

144) Frankenstein (1931, James Whale)

143) The Omega Man (1971, Boris Sagal)

142) True Grit (1969, Henry Hathaway)

141) White Christmas (1954, Michael Curtiz)

140) Sympathy for Lady Vengeance (Chinjeolhan Geumjassi, 2005, Chan-wook Park)

139) Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid (1973, Sam Peckinpah)

138) Barefoot in the Park (1967, Gene Saks)

137) An American in Paris (1951, Vincente Minnelli)

136) Tom Jones (1963, Tony Richardson)

135) Stripes (1981, Ivan Reitman)

134) Roger & Me (1989, Michael Moore)

133) Seven Chances (1925, Buster Keaton)

132) Cabaret (1972, Bob Fosse)

131) College (1927, James W Horne/Buster Keaton)

130) Carefree (1938, Mark Sandrich)

129) The Age of Innocence (1993, Martin Scorsese)

128) Serpico (1973, Sidney Lumet)

127) Captain America: The First Avenger (2011, Joe Johnston)

126) A Hard Day's Night(1964, Richard Lester)

125) Sleepers (1996, Barry Levinson)

124) Singles (1992, Cameron Crowe)

123) She Wore a Yellow Ribbon (1949, John Ford)

122) Philomena (2013, Stephen Frears)

121) Family Plot (1976, Alfred Hitchcock)

120) The Trip to Italy (2014, Michael Winterbottom)

119) Fahrenheit 451 (1966, François Truffaut)

118) The Avengers (2012, Joss Whedon)

117) Intolerance (1916, D.W. Griffith)

116) Paris is Burning (1990, Jennie Livingston)

115) La Notte (1961, Michelangelo Antonioni)

114) A Single Man (2009, Tom Ford)

113) The Cameraman (1928, Edward Sedgwick/Buster Keaton)

112) Slacker (1991, Richard Linklater)

111) Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942, Michael Curtiz)

110) Fruitvale Station (2013, Ryan Coogler)

109) One Week (1920, Edward F Cline/Buster Keaton)

108) Inherit the Wind (1960, Stanley Kramer)

107) The Draughtman's Contract (1982, Peter Greenaway)

106) Wings (1927, William A Wellman/Harry d’Abbadie d’Arrast

105) The Committee (1968, Peter Sykes)

104) The Moon is Blue (1953, Otto Preminger)

103) King Kong (1933, Merian C Cooper/Ernest B Schoedsack)

102) The Goonies (1985, Richard Donner)

101) Holy Flying Circus (2011, Owen Harris)

100) Cries & Whispers (Viskningar och Rop, 1972, Ingmar Bergman)

99) Dallas Buyers Club (2013, Jean-Marc Vallée)

98) Misery (1990, Rob Reiner)

97) Goldfinger (1964, Guy Hamilton)

96) Once were Warriors (1994, Lee Tamahori)

95) Die Hard 2 (1990, Renny Harlin)

94) Mildred Pierce (1945, Michael Curtiz)

93) A Man Escaped (Un condamné à mort s’est échappé ou Le vent soufflé où il veut, 1956, Robert Bresson)

92) Shakes the Clown (1991, Bobcat Goldthwait)

91) The Sea Hawk (1940, Michael Curtiz)

90) The Navigator (1924, Donald Crisp/Buster Keaton)

89) Before Night Falls (2000, Julian Schnabel)

88) Spellbound (1945, Alfred Hitchcock)

87) Nebraska (2013, Alexander Payne)

86) Halloween (1978, John Carpenter)

85) Focus (2001, Neal Slavin)

84) Seven Psychopaths (2012, Martin McDonagh)

83) Interstellar (2014, Christopher Nolan)

82) Frances Ha (2012, Noah Baumbach)

81) Ninotchka (1939, Ernst Lubitsch)

80) The Last Detail (1973, Hal Ashby)

79) Le Cercle Rouge (1970, Jean-Pierre Melville)

78) Frozen (2013, Chris Buck/Jennifer Lee)

77) Killer's Kiss (1955, Stanley Kubrick)

76) The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014, Wes Anderson)

75) The Magnificent Ambersons (1942, Orson Welles)

74) Scenes from a Marriage (Scener ur ett äktenskap, 1973, Ingmar Bergman)

73) The Spectacular Now (2013, James Ponsoldt)

72) Primer (2014, Shane Caruth)

71) Blue is the Warmest Color (La vie d’Adèle, 2013, Abdellatif Kechiche)

70) Suspiria (1977, Dario Argento)

69) Mutiny on the Bounty (1935, Frank Lloyd)

68) Heidi (1937, Allan Dwan)

67) Mud (2012, Jeff Nichols)

66) Indecent Proposal (1993, Adrian Lyne)

65) Superman (1978, Richard Donner)

64) August Osage County (2013, John Wells)

63) Gimme Shelter (1970, Albert & David Maysles/Charlotte Zwerin)

62) Inside Llewyn Davis (2013, Joel & Ethan Coen)

61) Only Lovers Left Alive (2014, Jim Jarmusch)

60) Wadjda (2012, Haifaa Al-Mansour)

59) Looper (2012, Rian Johnson)

58) Advise & Consent (1962, Otto Preminger)

57) Times of Harvey Milk (1984, Rob Epstein)

56) Steamboat Bill, Jr (1928, Charles Reisner/Buster Keaton)

55) What have I done to deserve this? (¿Qué he hecho yo para merecer esto!!, 1984, Pedro Almodóvar)

54) The Act of Killing (2012, Joshua Oppenheimer)

53) Happy Together (Chun gwong cha sit, 1997, Kar Wai Wong)

52) Wild at Heart (1990, David Lynch)

51)Letter from an Unknown Woman (1948, Max Ophüls)