Time for one of my bi-yearly threads on my favorite first-time watches so far this year, let's go

1. DOG DAY AFTERNOON (1975)
Dir. Sidney Lumet

(also, the numbers aren't in order of preference, just when I saw them)

2. THE GODFATHER: PART II (1974)
Dir. Francis Ford Coppola

3. THE RED SHOES (1948)
Dir. Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger

4. PET SEMATARY (1989)
Dir. Mary Lambert

5. ENEMY OF THE STATE (1998)
Dir. Tony Scott

6. THE BLOB (1988)
Dir. Chuck Russell

7. BEFORE SUNSET (2004)
Dir. Richard Linklater

8. MYSTERIOUS SKIN (2004)
Dir. Gregg Araki

9. MARRIAGE STORY (2019)
Dir. Noah Baumbach

10. FIRE (1996)
Dir. Deepa Mehta

11. FLESH + BLOOD (1985)
Dir. Paul Verhoeven

12. PARASITE (2019)
Dir. Bong Joon-Ho

13. ONCE UPON A TIME IN HOLLYWOOD (2019)
Dir. Quentin Tarantino

14. 1917 (2019)
Dir. Sam Mendes

15. PERFORMANCE (1970)
Dir. Nicolas Roeg, Donald Cammell

16. DOCTOR SLEEP (2019)
Dir. Mike Flanagan

17. OLD JOY (2006)
Dir. Kelly Reichardt

18. LITTLE WOMEN (2019)
Dir. Greta Gerwig

19. NEVER CRY WOLF (1983)
Dir. Carroll Ballard

20. BIRDS OF PREY (AND THE FANTABULOUS EMANCIPATION OF ONE HARLEY QUINN) (2020)
Dir. Cathy Yan

21. CLIFFHANGER (1993)
Dir. Renny Harlin

22. WHAT DID JACK DO? (2020)
Dir. David Lynch

23. FROM DUSK TILL DAWN (1996)
Dir. Robert Rodriguez

24. SUMMER INTERLUDE (1951)
Dir. Ingmar Bergman

25. GRIZZLY MAN (2006)
Dir. Werner Herzog

26. JEREMIAH JOHNSON (1972)
Dir. Sydney Pollack

27. AGUIRRE, THE WRATH OF GOD (1972)
Dir. Werner Herzog

28. HANNAH AND HER SISTERS (1986)
Dir. [unnamed terrible human]

29. CAT PEOPLE (1982)
Dir. Paul Schrader

30. NORTH BY NORTHWEST (1959)
Dir. Alfred Hitchcock