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September 4
8:30am + Magellan (Lav Diaz), Scotiabank 8
11:30am – Landmarks (Lucrecia Martel), Lightbox 3
3:55pm – The Fence (Claire Denis), Scotiabank 14
9:15pm – Bouchra (Orian Barki & Meriem Bennani), Scotiabank 10
 

September 5
8:30am – The Wizard of the Kremlin (Olivier Assayas), Lightbox 1
12:45pm – Levers (Rhayne Vermette), Scotiabank 9
3:15pm – Wavelengths 1: Map of Traces, Lightbox 3
               + Ten Mornings Ten Evenings and One Horizon (2016, Tomonari Nishikawa)
               – Rojo Žalia Blau (Viktoria Schmid)
               – Disappeared (Sohrab Hura)
               – 09/05/1982 (Jorge Caballero & Camilo Restrepo)
               – Map of Traces (Chan Hau Chun)
               – In Transit (Vadim Kostrov)
7:15pm + Dry Leaf (Alexandre Koberidze), Scotiabank 6
 

September 6
9:00am – The Testament of Ann Lee (Mona Fastvold), Lightbox 1 70mm
1:15pm – Wavelengths 2: Into the Blue, Lightbox 4
               – I Saw the Face of God in the Jet Wash (Mark Jenkin)
               – From My Cloud (Minjung Kim)
               – Cairo Streets (Abdellah Taïa)
               – Daria’s Night Flowers (Maryam Tafakory)
               – Aftertide (Kaiwen Ren)
3:30pm – To the Victory! (Valentyn Vasyanovych), Scotiabank 11
 

September 7
8:30am – Dead Man’s Wire (Gus Van Sant), Scotiabank 14
3:30pm – Wavelengths 3: Slightest Pretense, Lightbox 3
               – Land of Barbar (Fredj Moussa)
               – Conditio Humana (Friedl vom Gröller)
               – Slightest Pretense (Eri Saito)
               – CONFERENCE (Björn Kämmerer)
               – Morgenkreis (Basma al-Sharif)
               + FELT (Blake Williams) 3D
 

September 8
11:45am – Orphan (László Nemes), Scotiabank 5
4:00pm – The Voice of Hind Rajab (Kaouther Ben Hania), Scotiabank 14
9:00pm – Duse (Pietro Marcello), Scotiabank 4
 

September 9
8:45am – Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery (Rian Johnson), Lightbox 2
11:30am – Powwow People (Sky Hopinka), Scotiabank 5
2:15pm – Cover-Up (Laura Poitras & Mark Obenhaus), Scotiabank 6
7:30pm – The Smashing Machine (Benny Safdie), Scotiabank 12
 

September 10
8:55am – The Currents (Milagros Mumenthaler), Scotiabank 8
10:00pm + The Love That Remains (Hlynur Pálmason), Scotiabank 11
 

September 11
9:15am – Two Pianos (Arnaud Desplechin), Lightbox 2
11:30am – No Other Choice (Park Chan-wook), Lightbox 1
3:07pm – Houston Astros vs. Toronto Blue Jays, Rogers Centre
10:00pm – Barrio Triste (STILLZ), Scotiabank 11
 

September 12
12:45pm – Train Dreams (Clint Bentley), Lightbox 4
5:00pm – Blue Heron (Sophy Romvari), Lightbox 3
9:45pm – Exit 8 (Genki Kawamura), Scotiabank 3
 

September 13
10:30am – Nirvanna the Band the Show the Movie (Matt Johnson), Scotiabank 2
1:15pm – Hen (György Pálfi), Scotiabank 8
9:00pm – The Christophers (Steven Soderbergh), Lightbox 1
 

September 14
8:55am – Below the Clouds (Gianfranco Rosi), Scotiabank 8
12:15pm – Silent Friend (Ildikó Enyedi), Scotiabank 3
3:45pm – Rose of Nevada (Mark Jenkin), Scotiabank 10
6:30pm – Maddie’s Secret (John Early), Scotiabank 11

 
 
 

Films I have already seen:
BLKNWS: Terms & Conditions (Kahlil Joseph)
Blue Moon (Richard Linklater)
The Blue Trail (Gabriel Mascaro)
Copper (Nicolás Pereda)
Dry Leaf (Alexandre Koberidze)
If I Had Legs I’d Kick You (Mary Bronstein)
It Was Just an Accident (Jafar Panahi)
The Last One for the Road (Francesco Sossai)
Left-Handed Girl (Shih-Ching Tsou)
The Little Sister (Hafsia Herzi)
The Love That Remains (Hlynur Pálmason)
Lucky Lu (Lloyd Lee Choi)
Magellan (Lav Diaz)
Mare’s Nest (Ben Rivers)
Mirrors No. 3 (Christian Petzold)
Nouvelle Vague (Richard Linklater)
Olmo (Fernando Eimbcke)
A Private Life (Rebecca Zlotowski)
Put Your Soul on Your Hand and Walk (Sepideh Farsi)
The Seasons (Maureen Fazendeiro)
The Secret Agent (Kleber Mendonça Filho)
Sentimental Value (Joachim Trier)
Sirāt (Óliver Laxe)
Sound of Falling (Mascha Schilinski)
Two Prosecutors (Sergei Loznitsa)
With Hasan in Gaza (Kamal Aljafari)

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TIFF 2025 Line-Up

Key:
Features (40min. and up) are in bold
Shorts are in italics
● - I have seen this film
★ - I have seen this film and am fond of it (6.0 and higher)
✘ - I have seen this film and had a bad time watching it (4.0 and lower)
○ - I am seriously considering making an attempt to see this film
☀ - I made this film
16mm, 35mm, 70mm - This film will be screened from a celluloid print
👓 - This film is stereoscopic
L - Has TIFF's "Luminaries" label, i.e. it'd be in "Masters" if the section still existed

Colour coding:
NYFF - Slate and Main
SUNDANCE - If they had taste they'd pan you
BERLINALE - What the Nature Said
CANNES - Blow it up!
LOCARNO - Ericssonian therapy
VENICE - Nala Sinephro Smash
NOTABLE - New films by directors whose work I actively look forward to

(Colours trump whatever is below them; e.g. if a film screens at Cannes and is then later
announced as part of NYFF's Main Slate, it will be purple)

 

Special Presentations (58 | 2024: 57)
& Sons (Pablo Trapero)
Bad Apples (Jonatan Etzler)
Ballad of a Small Player (Edward Berger)
California Schemin’ (James McAvoy)
Calle Malaga (Maryam Touzani)
The Captive (Alejandro Amenábar)
Charlie Harper (Tom Dean & Mac Eldridge)
The Christophers (Steven Soderbergh)
Christy (David Michôd)
Couture (Alice Winocour) ○
Dead Man’s Wire (Gus Van Sant)
Degrassi: Whatever It Takes (Lisa Rideout)
Dog 51 (Cédric Jimenez)
Easy’s Waltz (Nic Pizzolatto)
EPiC: Elvis Presley in Concert (Baz Luhrmann)
Eternal Return (Yaniv Raz)
The Fence (Claire Denis) L
Frankenstein (Guillermo del Toro)
Franz (Agnieszka Holland) L
Good News (Sung-hyun Byun)
Hedda (Nia DaCosta)
If I Had Legs I’d Kick You (Mary Bronstein)
It Was Just an Accident (Jafar Panahi)
It Would Be Night in Caracas (Mariana Rondón & Marité Ugás)
Kokuho (Lee Sang-il)
Ky Nam Inn (Leon Le)
The Lost Bus (Paul Greengrass)
Lovely Day (Philippe Falardeau)
Meadowlarks (Tasha Hubbard)
Mile End Kicks (Chandler Levack)
Monkey in a Cage (Anurag Kashyap)
Nouvelle Vague (Richard Linklater)
A Pale View of Hills (Kei Ishikawa)
A Poet (Simón Mesa Soto)
Poetic License (Maude Apatow)
Primavera (Damiano Michieletto)
Project Y (Lee Hwan)
Rental Family (Hikari)
Rose of Nevada (Mark Jenkin)
Sacrifice (Romain Gavras)
Scarlet (Mamoru Hosoda)
The Secret Agent (Kleber Mendonça Filho)
Sentimental Value (Joachim Trier)
Silent Friend (Ildikó Enyedi)
Sirāt (Óliver Laxe)
The Smashing Machine (Benny Safdie)
Sound of Falling (Mascha Schilinski)
Steal Away (Clement Virgo)
The Testament of Ann Lee (Mona Fastvold) 70mm
The Ugly (Yeon Sang-ho)
Three Goodbyes (Isabel Coixet)
Train Dreams (Clint Bentley)
Tuner (Daniel Roher)
Uiksaringitara (Wrong Husband) (Zacharias Kunuk) L
The Voice of Hind Rajab (Kaouther Ben Hania)
Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery (Rian Johnson)
The Wizard of the Kremlin (Olivier Assayas)
You Had to Be There: How the Toronto Godspell Ignited the Comedy Revolution… (Nick Davis)

 

Centrepiece (55 | 2024: 44)
Arco (Ugo Bienvenu)
Barrio Triste (STILLZ)
Blood Lines (Gail Maurice)
Blue Heron (Sophy Romvari)
Blue Moon (Richard Linklater)
The Blue Trail (Gabriel Mascaro)
Carolina Caroline (Adam Carter Rehmeier)
The Condor Daughter (Álvaro Olmos Torrico)
The Cost of Heaven (Mathieu Denis) ○
Dandelion’s Odyssey (Momoko Seto)
Diya (Achille Ronaimou)
Duse (Pietro Marcello)
Eagles of the Republic (Tarik Saleh)
Erupcja (Pete Ohs) ○
Exit 8 (Genki Kawamura)
Follies (Eric K. Boulianne)
The Fox King (Woo Ming Jin)
Girl (Shu Qi)
Good Boy (Jan Komasa)
Hamlet (Aneil Karia)
Honey Bunch (Madeleine Sims-Fewer & Dusty Mancinelli)
I Swear (Kirk Jones)
In Search of the Sky (Jitank Singh Gurjar)
Irkalla: Gilgamesh’s Dream (Mohamed Jabarah Al-Daradji)
The Last One for the Road (Francesco Sossai)
The Last Viking (Anders Thomas Jensen)
Left-Handed Girl (Shih-Ching Tsou)
Little Amélie or the Character of Rain (Maïlys Vallade & Liane-Cho Han)
The Little Sister (Hafsia Herzi)
The Love That Remains (Hlynur Pálmason)
Lucky Lu (Lloyd Lee Choi)
Mama (Or Sinai)
Memory of Princess Mumbi (Damien Hauser)
Milk Teeth (Mihai Mincan)
Mirrors No. 3 (Christian Petzold)
Motor City (Potsy Ponciroli)
My Father’s Shadow (Akinola Davies Jr.)
The Mysterious Gaze of the Flamingo (Diego Céspedes)
New Years Rev (Lee Kirk)
Nomad Shadow (Eimi Imanishi)
Olmo (Fernando Eimbcke)
Orphan (László Nemes)
Palimpsest: the Story of a Name (Mary Stephen)
The President’s Cake (Hasan Hadi)
Renoir (Chie Hayakawa)
Saipan (Lisa Barros D’Sa & Glenn Leyburn)
Space Cadet (Kid Koala)
The Sun Rises On Us All (Cai Shangjun Cai)
Two Prosecutors (Sergei Loznitsa)
Under the Same Sun (Ulises Porra)
Unidentified (Haifaa Al Mansour)
A Useful Ghost (Ratchapoom Boonbunchachoke)
Wasteman (Cal McMau)
Whitetail (Nanouk Leopold)
Youngblood (Hubert Davis)

 

TIFF Docs (24 | 2024: 21)
Aki (Darlene Naponse)
The Balloonists (John Dower)
Below the Clouds (Gianfranco Rosi) L
Canceled: The Paula Deen Story (Billy Corben)
Cover-Up (Laura Poitras & Mark Obenhaus)
The Eyes of Ghana (Ben Proudfoot)
Flana (Zahraa Ghandour)
Landmarks (Lucrecia Martel)
A Life Illuminated (Tasha Van Zandt)
LOVE+WAR (Chai Vasarhelyi & Jimmy Chin)
Modern Whore (Nicole Bazuin)
Ni-Naadamaadiz: Red Power Rising (Shane Belcourt)
Nuns vs. The Vatican (Lorena Luciano)
Orwell: 2+2=5 (Raoul Peck)
Powwow People (Sky Hopinka)
Put Your Soul on Your Hand and Walk (Sepideh Farsi)
The Road Between Us: The Ultimate Rescue (Barry Avrich)
A Simple Soldier (Juan Camilo Cruz & Artem Ryzhykov)
Still Single (Jamal Burger & Jukan Tateisi)
The Tale of Silyan (Tamara Kotevska)
There Are No Words (Min Sook Lee)
True North (Michèle Stephenson)
While the Green Grass Grows: A Diary in Seven Parts (Peter Mettler)
Whistle (Christopher Nelius)

 

Discovery (23 | 2024: 26)
Amoeba (Siyou Tan)
As We Breathe (Şeyhmus Altun)
Babystar (Joscha Bongard)
Bayaan (Bikas Ranjan Mishra)
Dinner with Friends (Sasha Leigh Henry)
Egghead Republic (Pella Kågerman & Hugo Lilja)
Forastera (Lucía Aleñar Iglesias)
Ghost School (Seemab Gul)
Julian (Cato Kusters)
Laundry (Zamo Mkhwanazi)
Little Lorraine (Andy Hines)
Maddie’s Secret (John Early)
The Man in My Basement (Nadia Latif)
Mārama (Taratoa Stappard)
Nika & Madison (Eva Thomas)
Noviembre (Tomás Corredor)
Oca (Karla Badillo)
100 Sunset (Kunsang Kyirong)
Our Father (Goran Stankovic)
Out Standing (Mélanie Charbonneau)
Retreat (Ted Evans)
Sink (Zain Duraie)
The Son and the Sea (Stroma Cairns)

 

Gala Presentations (22 | 2024: 22)
Adulthood (Alex Winter)
The Choral (Nicholas Hytner)
Driver’s Ed (Bobby Farrelly)
Eleanor the Great (Scarlett Johansson)
Eternity (David Freyne)
Fuze (David Mackenzie) ○
Glenrothan (Brian Cox)
Good Fortune (Aziz Ansari)
Hamnet (Chloé Zhao)
Homebound (Neeraj Ghaywan)
John Candy: I Like Me (Colin Hanks)
Lilith Fair: Building a Mystery (Ally Pankiw)
No Other Choice (Park Chan-wook)
Nuremberg (James Vanderbilt)
Palestine 36 (Annemarie Jacir)
Peak Everything (Anne Émond)
A Private Life (Rebecca Zlotowski)
Roofman (Derek Cianfrance)
She Has No Name (2024, Peter Ho-Sun Chan)
Sholay (1975, Ramesh Sippy)
Swiped (Rachel Lee Goldenberg)
Two Pianos (Arnaud Desplechin)

 

Wavelengths (11 [incl. 3 shorts programmes] | 2024: 15 [3])
BLKNWS: Terms & Conditions (Kahlil Joseph)
Copper (Nicolás Pereda)
Dry Leaf (Alexandre Koberidze)
Levers (Rhayne Vermette)
Magellan (Lav Diaz) L
Mare’s Nest (Ben Rivers)
The Seasons (Maureen Fazendeiro)
With Hasan in Gaza (Kamal Aljafari)
               – preceded by It’s So Beautiful Here (Basma al-Sharif)
 

Wavelengths 1: Map of Traces
+ Ten Mornings Ten Evenings and One Horizon (2016, Tomonari Nishikawa) 16mm
Rojo Žalia Blau (Viktoria Schmid)
Disappeared (Sohrab Hura)
09/05/1982 (Jorge Caballero & Camilo Restrepo)
Map of Traces (Chan Hau Chun)
In Transit (Vadim Kostrov)

Wavelengths 2: Into the Blue
I Saw the Face of God in the Jet Wash (Mark Jenkin)
From My Cloud (Minjung Kim)
Cairo Streets (Abdellah Taïa)
Daria’s Night Flowers (Maryam Tafakory)
Aftertide (Kaiwen Ren)

Wavelengths 3: Slightest Pretense
Land of Barbar (Fredj Moussa)
Conditio Humana (Friedl vom Gröller) 16mm
Slightest Pretense (Eri Saito)
CONFERENCE (Björn Kämmerer) 35mm
Morgenkreis (Basma al-Sharif)
+ FELT (Blake Williams) 👓 ☀

 

Platform (10 | 2024: 10)
Between Dreams and Hope (Farnoosh Samadi)
Bouchra (Orian Barki & Meriem Bennani) ○
The Currents (Milagros Mumenthaler)
Hen (György Pálfi) ○
Nino (Pauline Loquès)
Sk+te’kmujue’katik (At the Place of Ghosts) (Bretten Hannam)
Steve (Tim Mielants)
To The Victory! (Valentyn Vasyanovych) ○
Winter of the Crow (Kasia Adamik)
The World of Love (Yoon Ga-eun)

 

Midnight Madness (10 | 2024: 10)
Dead Lover (Grace Glowicki)
Dust Bunny (Bryan Fuller)
Fuck My Son! (Todd Rohal) ○
The Furious (Kenji Tanigaki)
Junk World (Takahide Hori)
Karmadonna (Aleksandar Radivojević)
The Napa Boys (Nick Corirossi)
Nirvanna the Band the Show the Movie (Matt Johnson) ○
Normal (Ben Wheatley)
Obsession (Curry Barker)

 

Primetime (10 | 2024: 8)
Black Rabbit (Zach Baylin & Kate Susman)
Gandhi (Sameer Nair & Hansal Mehta)
The Lowdown (Sterlin Harjo)
Origin: The Story of the Basketball Africa League (Richard Brown & Tebogo Malope)
Portobello – The Fall of Enzo Tortora (Marco Bellocchio) L
Reunion (William Mager & Luke Snellin)
Rise of the Raven (Balázs Lengyel & Robert Dornhelm)
A Sámi Wedding (Åse Kathrin Vuolab & Pål Jackman)
The Savage (Houman Seyyedi)
Wayward (Mae Martin, Ryan Scott)

 

TIFF Classics (6 | 2024: 6)
Aniki-Bóbó (1942, Manoel de Oliveira) ○
The Arch (1968, T’ang Shushuen) ○
Bashu, the Little Stranger (1986, Bahram Beyzaie)
Days and Nights in the Forest (1970, Satyajit Ray) ●
Jaws (1975, Steven Spielberg) 35mm
Nadja (1994, Michael Almereyda) ★

 

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Yes: It’s a Cannes 2025 Schedule

May 13
8:00pm – Leave One Day (Amelie Bonnin), Bazin
 

May 14
8:45am — Enzo (Robin Campillo), Théâtre Croisette
3:30pm — Sound of Falling (Mascha Schilinski), Bazin
10:15pm — Two Prosecutors (Sergei Loznitsa), Debussy
 

May 15
8:30am — Mission: Impossible — The Final Reckoning (Christopher McQuarrie), Lumière
2:00pm — The Mysterious Gaze of the Flamingo (Diego Céspedes), Debussy W/O
5:00pm — Case 137 (Dominik Moll), Debussy
9:45pm — Sirât (Oliver Laxe), Debussy
 

May 16
11:45am — Her Will Be Done (Julia Kowalski), Théâtre Croisette
4:55pm — Eddington (Ari Aster), Debussy
 

May 17
8:30am — The Little Sister (Hafsia Herzi), Varda
11:45am — Mirrors No. 3 (Christian Petzold), Théâtre Croisette
5:30pm — New Wave (Richard Linklater), Debussy
10:15pm — Die My Love (Lynne Ramsay), Debussy
 

May 18
8:30am — Urchin (Harris Dickinson), Debussy
3:00pm — The Secret Agent (Kleber Mendonça Filho), Lumière
6:00pm — The Phoenician Scheme (Wes Anderson), Debussy
8:15pm — The Love That Remains (Hlynur Pálmason), Debussy
 

May 19
8:45am — Lucky Lu (Lloyd Lee Choi), Théâtre Croisette
2:30pm — I Only Rest in the Storm (Pedro Pinho), Cineum Screen X
9:30pm — Magellan (Lav Diaz), Varda
 

May 20
8:30am — Highest 2 Lowest (Spike Lee), Buñuel
11:15am — Alpha (Julia Ducournau), Varda
4:00pm — It Was Just an Accident (Jafar Panahi), Lumière
 

May 21
8:30am — A Private Life (Rebecca Zlotowski), Buñuel
2:00pm — A Last One for the Road (Francesco Sossai), Debussy
4:15pm — Romeria (Carla Simón), Bazin
10:30pm — Sentimental Value (Joachim Trier), Debussy
 

May 22
11:45am — Yes (Nadav Lapid), Théâtre Croisette
3:30pm — Woman and Child (Saeed Roustaee), Lumière
10:00pm — Resurrection (Bi Gan), Debussy
 

May 23
4:00pm — Young Mothers (Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne), Lumière
6:00pm — The Mastermind (Kelly Reichardt), Debussy
9:00pm — Heads or Tails? (Alessio Rigo de Righi & Matteo Zoppis), Bazin W/O
 
 
 

Already Seen
Drunken Noodles (Lucio Castro)
Left-Handed Girl (Shih-Ching Tsou)
Pillion (Harry Lighton)
The Plague (Charlie Polinger)
Put Your Soul On Your Hand and Walk (Sepideh Farsi)
 

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Top 10 of 2024

*Click on the ‘Lists & Logs’ tab to see lists from previous years.

This list will be updated each time I see a film from 2024 (world premiere/imdb date) that is better than at least one of the films already on the list.

  1. Baby Invasion (Harmony Korine)
  2. The Periphery of the Base (Zhou Tao)
  3. Megalopolis (Francis Ford Coppola)
  4. Misericordia (Alain Guiraudie)
  5. Afternoons of Solitude (Albert Serra)
  6. DIRECT ACTION (Ben Russell & Guillaume Cailleau)
  7. Here (Robert Zemeckis)
  8. Chime (Kiyoshi Kurosawa)
  9. The Invisible Zoo (Romuald Karmakar)
  10. The Adamant Girl (P.S. Vinothraj)

 

Polls Top 10 (Eligible titles [will] appear here.)

  1. AGGRO DR1FT (2023, Harmony Korine)
  2. Megalopolis (2024, Francis Ford Coppola)
  3. Coma (2022, Bertrand Bonello)
  4. The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar and Three More (Wes Anderson)
  5. The Natural History of Destruction (2022, Sergei Loznitsa)
  6. We Had the Day Bonsoir (2022, Narimane Mari)
  7. A Prince (2023, Pierre Creton)
  8. The Dream and the Radio (2022, Renaud Després-Larose & Ana Tapia Rousiouk)
  9. Fairytale (2022, Aleksandr Sokurov)
  10. Close Your Eyes (2023, Víctor Erice)

 

My Top 10 “Oldies” (first-time viewings of films made before 2010)

  1. Ruskin (1975, Robert Beavers)
  2. Near Orouët (1971, Jacques Rozier)
  3. Time of Maturity (1976, Sohrab Shahid Saless)
  4. Nathalie Granger (1972, Marguerite Duras)
  5. The Trouble with Harry (1955, Alfred Hitchcock)
  6. Live Flesh (1997, Pedro Almodóvar)
  7. Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence (1983, Nagisa Oshima)
  8. Destroy, She Said (1969, Marguerite Duras)
  9. Taboo (1999, Nagisa Oshima)
  10. Invisible Days, or the Legend of the White Crocodiles [English Version] (1991, Eva Hiller)

 

Other 2024 films I’ve seen

  • A Traveler’s Needs (Hong Sang-soo) – 6.7
  • The Shrouds (David Cronenberg) – 6.6
  • Challengers (Luca Guadagnino) – 6.5
  • Anora (Sean Baker) – 6.5
  • Queer (Luca Guadagnino) – 6.4
  • Between the Temples (Nathan Silver) – 6.4
  • Hard Truths (Mike Leigh) – 6.4
  • Measures for a Funeral (Sofia Bohdanowicz) ~ 6.4
  • By the Stream (Hong Sang-soo) – 6.3
  • Christmas Eve in Miller’s Point (Tyler Taormina) – 6.3
  • bluish (Lilith Kraxner & Milena Czernovsky) – 6.3
  • Invention (Courtney Stephens) – 6.2
  • The Empire (Bruno Dumont) – 6.2
  • Abiding Nowhere (Tsai Ming-liang) – 6.2
  • Youth (Homecoming) (Wang Bing) – 6.2
  • Lázaro at Night (Nicolás Pereda) – 6.1
  • You Burn Me (Matías Piñeiro) – 6.0
  • Nanacatepec (Elena Pardo & Azucena Losana) – 6.0
  • Caught by the Tides (Jia Zhang-ke) – 5.9
  • Seven Walks with Mark Brown (Pierre Creton & Vincent Barré) – 5.9
  • 100,000,000,000,000 (Virgil Vernier) – 5.9
  • Shambhala (Min Bahadur Bham) – 5.9
  • exergue — on documenta 14 (Dimitris Athiridis) – 5.8
  • Juror #2 (Clint Eastwood) – 5.8
  • All We Imagine as Light (Payal Kapadia) – 5.8
  • The Substance (Coralie Fargeat) – 5.8
  • Collective Monologue (Jessica Sarah Rinland) – 5.7
  • Dahomey (Mati Diop) – 5.7
  • The Seed of the Sacred Fig (Mohammad Rasoulof) – 5.7
  • Cloud (Kiyoshia Kurosawa) – 5.7
  • Cidade; Campo (Juliana Rojas) – 5.7
  • April (Dea Kulumbegashvili) – 5.6
  • The Suit (Heinz Emigholz) – 5.6
  • Viet and Nam (Minh Quý Trương) – 5.6
  • Black Dog (Guan Hu) – 5.6
  • Favoriten (Ruth Beckermann) – 5.6
  • Kinds of Kindness (Yorgos Lanthimos) – 5.6
  • Fire of Wind (Marta Mateus) – 5.6
  • Suspended Time (Olivier Assayas) – 5.6
  • Who By Fire (Philippe Lesage) – 5.5
  • Universal Language (Matthew Rankin) – 5.5
  • Sleep #2 (Radu Jude) – 5.5
  • Jimmy (Yashaddai Owens) – 5.5
  • Emilia Pérez (Jacques Audiard) – 5.5
  • The Damned (Roberto Minervini) – 5.4
  • Trap (M. Night Shyamalan) – 5.4
  • Pepe (Nelson Carlos De Los Santos Arias) – 5.4
  • Black Tea (Abderrahmane Sissako) – 5.4
  • Filmlovers! (Arnaud Desplechin) – 5.4
  • A Different Man (Aaron Schimberg) – 5.3
  • The Other Way Around (Jonás Trueba) – 5.3
  • Nickel Boys (RaMell Ross) – 5.3
  • Bogancloch (Ben Rivers) – 5.3
  • Visiting Hours (Patricia Mazuy) – 5.3
  • Matt and Mara (Kazik Radwanski) – 5.3
  • Dreaming Dogs (Levin Peter & Elsa Kremser) – 5.3
  • The Diary of a Sky (Lawrence Abu Hamdan) – 5.3
  • The Girl with the Needle (Magnus von Horn) – 5.3
  • Dreams (Dag Johan Haugerud) – 5.2
  • Rumours (Guy Maddin, Evan Johnson, & Galen Johnson) – 5.2
  • Eat the Night (Caroline Poggi & Jonathan Vinel) – 5.2
  • Motel Destino (Karim Aïnouz) – 5.2
  • The Room Next Door (Pedro Almodóvar) – 5.1
  • The Sparrow in the Chimney (Ramon Zürcher) – 5.1
  • My Undesirable Friends: Part I — Last Air in Moscow (Julia Loktev) – 5.1
  • Sleep with Your Eyes Open (Nele Wohlatz) – 5.1
  • Eephus (Carson Lund) – 5.1
  • The Wrong Movie (Keren Cytter) – 5.1
  • Grand Tour (Miguel Gomes) – 5.0
  • Oh, Canada (Paul Schrader) – 5.0
  • Flow (Gints Zilbalodis) – 5.0
  • Youth (Hard Times) (Wang Bing) – 5.0
  • Nightbitch (Marielle Heller) – 4.9
  • This Life of Mine (Sophie Fillières) – 4.9
  • Drama 1882 (Wael Shawky) – 4.9
  • Architecton (Victor Kossakovsky) – 4.9
  • Eight Postcards from Utopia (Radu Jude & Christian Ferencz-Flatz) – 4.9
  • Relay (David Mackenzie) – 4.8
  • Diciannove (Giovanni Tortorici) – 4.8
  • Pavements (Alex Ross Perry) – 4.8
  • Small Things Like These (Tim Mielants) – 4.8
  • The Second Act (Quentin Dupieux) – 4.7
  • The Fable (Raam Reddy) – 4.7
  • Death Will Come (Christoph Hochhäusler) – 4.6
  • Little, Big, and Far (Jim Cohen) – 4.6
  • It Doesn’t Matter (Josh Mond) – 4.6
  • Happyend (Neo Sora) – 4.5
  • When the Phone Rang (Iva Radivojević) – 4.5
  • I Saw the TV Glow (Jane Schoenbrun) – 4.5
  • Beating Hearts (Gilles Lellouche) – 4.5
  • Twilight of the Warriors: Walled In (Soi Cheang) – 4.5
  • Blue Sun Palace (Constance Tsang) – 4.5
  • No Other Land (Basel Adra, Hamdan Ballal, Yuval Abraham, & Rachel Szor) – 4.4
  • Telepathic Letters (Edgar Pêra) – 4.4
  • Nothing in Its Place (Burak Çevik) ~ 4.4
  • A Family (Christine Angot) – 4.4
  • Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga (George Miller) – 4.3
  • Twisters (Lee Isaac Chung) – 4.3
  • So Long (Guillaume Brac) – 4.3
  • Ivo (Eva Trobisch) – 4.3
  • Friendship (Andrew DeYoung) – 4.2
  • On Becoming a Guinea Fowl (Rungano Nyoni) – 4.2
  • All the Long Nights (Shô Miyake) – 4.2
  • Babygirl (Halina Reijn) – 4.1
  • The End (Joshua Oppenheimer) – 4.1
  • The Box Man (Gakuryu Ishii) – 4.1
  • An Unfinished Film (Lou Ye) – 4.0
  • Three Kilometers to the End of the World (Emanuel Parvu) – 4.0
  • It’s Not Me (Leos Carax) – 3.9
  • The Brutalist (Brady Corbet) – 3.9
  • Turn in the Wound (Abel Ferrara) – 3.9
  • Marcello Mio (Christophe Honoré) – 3.8
  • Wild Diamond (Agathe Riedinger) – 3.8
  • The Ballad of Suzanne Césaire (Madeleine Hunt-Ehrlich) – 3.6
  • Harvest (Athina Rachel Tsangari) – 3.5
  • Stranger Eyes (Siew Hua Yeo) – 3.5
  • The Life of Chuck (Mike Flanagan) – 3.4
  • The Apprentice (Ali Abbasi) – 3.2
  • The Human Hibernation (Anna Cornudella) – 3.2
  • The Most Precious of Cargoes (Michel Hazanavicius) – 3.2
  • La Cocina (Alonso Ruizpalacios) – 3.0
  • Bird (Andrea Arnold) – 2.7
  • Presence (Steven Soderbergh) – 2.4
  • Parthenope (Paolo Sorrentino) – 2.3
  • Gazer (Ryan J. Sloan) – 1.7

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Nights/Weekends/Afternoons of Solitude: It’s a schedule of NYC Rep & NYFF screenings

September 26
6:45 PM — Robert Beavers: Program 1, Anthology Film Archives
Early Monthly Segments (1970) 35mm
Winged Dialogue (1967) 16mm
Plan of Brussels (1968) 16mm
8:45 PM — Robert Beavers: Program 2, Anthology Film Archives
The Count of Days (1969) 16mm
Palinode (1970) 16mm
“Der Klang, die Welt…” (2018) 16mm
 

September 27
7:00 PM — Robert Beavers: Program 3, Anthology Film Archives
Diminished Frame (1970) 16mm
Still Light (1970) 16mm
8:45 PM — Robert Beavers: Program 4, Anthology Film Archives
+ From the Notebook of… (1971) 35mm
The Painting (1972) 16mm
 

September 28
5:30 PM — Robert Beavers: Program 5, Anthology Film Archives
+ Work Done (1972) 35mm
Ruskin (1975) 35mm
Amor (1980) 35mm
8:00 PM — Robert Beavers: Program 6, Anthology Film Archives
Sotiros (1978) 35mm
Efpsychi (1983) 35mm
Wingseed (1985) 35mm
 

September 29
5:30 PM — Robert Beavers: Program 7, Anthology Film Archives
The Hedge Theatre (1990) 35mm
+ The Stoas (1997) 35mm
+ The Ground (2001) 35mm
Pitcher of Colored Light (2007) 35mm
8:00 PM — Robert Beavers: Program 8, Anthology Film Archives
+ The Suppliant (2010) 16mm
+ Listening to the Space in My Room (2013) 16mm
Among the Eucalyptuses (2017) 16mm
The Sparrow Dream (2022) 16mm
Dedication: Bernice Hodges (2024) 16mm
 

September 30
1:30 PM — Jimmy (Yashaddai Owens), EBM Film Center (HGT)
3:30 PM — bluish (Lilith Kraxner & Milena Czernovsky), EBM Film Center (HGT)
 

October 1
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October 2
8:30 PM — Pavements (Alex Ross Perry), Alice Tully Hall
 

October 3
4:00pm — My Left Eye Sees Ghosts (2002, Johnnie To & Wai Ka-fai), MoMA Theater 2 35mm
7:45 PM — Nickel Boys (RaMell Ross), MoMI Redstone Theater
 

October 4
3:15 PM — Stranger Eyes (Siew Hua Yeo), EBM Film Center (FBT)
9:00 PM — Afternoons of Solitude (Albert Serra), EBM Film Center (FBT)
 

October 5
2:00 PM — My Undesirable Friends: Part I — Last Air in Moscow [Chapters 1-3, Part 1 of 2] (Julia Loktev), Walter Reade
6:30 PM — Little, Big, and Far (Jim Cohen), Walter Reade
 

October 6
12:00 PM — Currents Program 4: Space Is the Place, EBM Film Center (HGT)
+ Revolving Rounds (Christina Jauernik & Johann Lurf) 3D
ESP (Laura Kraning)
re-engraved (Lei Lei)
+ A Black Screen Too (Rhayne Vermette)
The Land at Night (Richard Tuohy & Dianna Barrie) 16mm
+ Archipelago of Earthen Bones — To Bunya (Malena Szlam)
1:30 PM — Currents Program 5: Material Worlds, EBM Film Center (FBT)
Vibrant Matter (Pablo Marín)
Towards the Sun, Far from the Center (Pascal Viveros & Luciana Merino)
No Spank (Jordan Strafer)
Sinking Feeling (Zachary Epcar)
The Invisible Worm (Rosalind Nashashibi) [Skipping so I can get to…]
2:45 PM — My Undesirable Friends: Part I — Last Air in Moscow [Chapters 4-5, Part 2 of 2] (Julia Loktev), Walter Reade
5:30 PM — The Suit (Heinz Emigholz), EBM Film Center (HGT)
9:15 PM — Currents Program 6: Poetry Is Not a Luxury, EBM Film Center (FBT)
Refuse Room (Simon Liu)
Machine Boys (Karimah Ashadu)
Razeh-del (Maryam Tafakory)
+ Practice, Practice, Practice (Kevin Jerome Everson)
+ October Noon (Francisco Rodríguez Teare)
 

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Eye & Ear Control: It’s a TIFF24 schedule

is for Public
is for Free
 

September 5
9:40am – Lázaro at Night (Nicolás Pereda), Scotiabank 7
12:45pm – No Other Land (Basel Adra, Hamdan Ballal, Yuval Abraham, & Rachel Szor), Scotiabank 9
3:45pm – Diciannove (Giovanni Tortorici), Scotiabank 9
8:30pm – Cloud (Kiyoshia Kurosawa), Lightbox 2
 

September 6
9:45am – The Brutalist (Brady Corbet), Lightbox 3
1:35pm – Drama 1882 (Wael Shawky), Lightbox 4
4:00pm – Wavelengths 1: Eye & Ear Control, Lightbox 4
               – Revolving Rounds (Johann Lurf & Christina Jauernik) 3D
               – The Diary of a Sky (Lawrence Abu Hamdan)
               – October Noon (Francisco Rodríguez Teare)
               – A Black Screen Too (Rhayne Vermette)
               – Archipelago of Earthen Bones — To Bunya (Malena Szlam)
 

September 7
9:30am – The Room Next Door (Pedro Almodóvar), Scotiabank 14
12:00pm – Hard Truths (Mike Leigh), Scotiabank 4
4:45pm – Wavelengths 2: Ride the Wave, Lightbox 4
               – Someplace in Your Mouth (Beatrice Gibson & Nick Gordon)
               – Notes of a Crocodile (Daphne Xu)
               – Adrift Potentials (Leonardo Pirondi)
               – Go Between (Chris Kennedy)
               – The Sojourn (Tiffany Sia)
8:15pm – Measures for a Funeral (Sofia Bohdanowicz), Lightbox 2
 

September 8
9:00am – Nightbitch (Marielle Heller), Scotiabank 1
12:00pm – Youth (Homecoming) (Wang Bing), Scotiabank 10
3:05pm – Happyend (Neo Sora), Scotiabank 8
6:00pm – Wavelengths 3: Exposé(s) – Jean-Luc Godard/John Smith, Lightbox 3
               + Scénarios (Jean-Luc Godard)
               + Exposé du film annonce du film “Scénario” (Jean-Luc Godard)
               – Being John Smith (John Smith)
8:10pm – April (Dea Kulumbegashvili), Scotiabank 6
 

September 9
8:45am – Relay (David Mackenzie), Scotiabank 3
3:05pm – Collective Monologue (Jessica Sarah Rinland), Scotiabank 8
8:30pm + Anora (Sean Baker), Scotiabank 4
 

September 10
9:05am – The Ballad of Suzanne Césaire (Madeleine Hunt-Ehrlich), Scotiabank 8
11:35pm – Queer (Luca Guadagnino), Scotiabank 13
3:30pm – Essene (1972, Frederick Wiseman), Lightbox 4
8:00pm + Megalopolis (Francis Ford Coppola), Scotiabank 12
 

September 11
8:45am – Babygirl (Halina Reijn), Lightbox 1
1:00pm – Harvest (Athina Rachel Tsangari), Scotiabank 1
3:40pm – Friendship (Andrew DeYoung), Scotiabank 7
9:00pm + Misericordia (Alain Guiraudie), Scotiabank 8
 

September 12
5:30pm – Better Man (Michael Gracey), Scotiabank 3 W/O
9:00pm – The End (Joshua Oppenheimer), Scotiabank 1
 

September 13
2:40pm – The Life of Chuck (Mike Flanagan), Scotiabank 3
9:40pm – Perfumed with Mint (Muhammed Hamdy), Scotiabank 5 W/O
 

September 14
7:45pm – Presence (Steven Soderbergh), Scotiabank 2
 

September 15
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Films I have already seen:
All We Imagine as Light (Payal Kapadia)
Anora (Sean Baker)
Bird (Andrea Arnold)
By the Stream (Hong Sang-soo)
Caught by the Tides (Jia Zhang-ke)
Dahomey (Mati Diop)
The Damned (Roberto Minervini)
Emilia Pérez (Jacques Audiard)
exergue — on documenta 14 (Dimitris Athiridis)
Flow (Gints Zilbalodis)
The Girl with the Needle (Magnus von Horn)
Grand Tour (Miguel Gomes)
Matt and Mara (Kazik Radwanski)
Megalopolis (Francis Ford Coppola)
Misericordia (Alain Guiraudie)
Oh, Canada (Paul Schrader)
On Becoming a Guinea Fowl (Rungano Nyoni)
Pepe (Nelson Carlos De Los Santos Arias)
Rumours (Guy Maddin, Evan Johnson, & Galen Johnson)
The Seed of the Sacred Fig (Mohammad Rasoulof)
The Shrouds (David Cronenberg)
The Substance (Coralie Fargeat)
An Unfinished Film (Lou Ye)
Universal Language (Matthew Rankin)
Viêt and Nam (Minh Quý Trương)
Youth (Hard Times) (Wang Bing)

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TIFF 2024 Line-Up

Key:
Features (40min. and up) are in bold
Shorts are in italics
● - I have seen this film
★ - I have seen this film and am fond of it (6.0 and higher)
✘ - I have seen this film and had a bad time watching it (4.0 and lower)
○ - I am seriously considering making an attempt to see this film
16mm, 35mm, 70mm - This film will be screened from a film print
 🕶️ - This is a 3D film
L - Has TIFF's "Luminaries" label, i.e. it'd be in "Masters" if the section still existed

Colour coding:
NYFF - Slate and Main
SUNDANCE - Like if Michael Snow had decided to remake The Shining in a small suburban house
BERLINALE - Rollin' with Dahomey
CANNES - The Most Precious of Festivals
LOCARNO - Hard Times
VENICE - They planted that seed and I will see Harvest
NOTABLE - New films by directors whose work I actively look forward to

(Colours trump whatever is below them; e.g. if a film screens at Cannes and is then later
announced as part of NYFF's Main Slate, it will be purple)

 

Special Presentations (57 | 2023: 52)
All of You (William Bridges)
All We Imagine as Light (Payal Kapadia)
Anora (Sean Baker)
The Assessment (Fleur Fortune)
Babygirl (Halina Reijn)
Bird (Andrea Arnold)
Bring Them Down (Chris Andrews)
The Brutalist (Brady Corbet) 70mm
Can I Get a Witness? (Ann Marie Fleming)
Carnival Is Over (Fernando Coimbra)
Caught by the Tides (Jia Zhang-ke)
Conclave (Edward Berger)
The Cut (Sean Ellis)
Dahomey (Mati Diop)
Emilia Pérez (Jacques Audiard)
The End (Joshua Oppenheimer) ○
The Fire Inside (Rachel Morrison)
40 Acres (R.T. Thorne)
The Girl with the Needle (Magnus von Horn)
Hard Truths (Mike Leigh)
Harvest (Athina Rachel Tsangari)
Heretic (Scott Beck & Bryan Woods)
Hold Your Breath (Karrie Crouse & Will Joines)
I’m Still Here (Walter Salles)
I, the Executioner (Ryoo Seung-wan)
K-Pops (Anderson .Paak)
The Last Showgirl (Gia Coppola)
The Life of Chuck (Mike Flanagan) ○
Love in the Big City (E.oni)
The Luckiest Man in America (Samir Oliveros)
Millers in Marriage (Edward Burns)
Misericordia (Alain Guiraudie)
Nightbitch (Marielle Heller) ○
On Becoming a Guinea Fowl (Rungano Nyoni)
On Swift Horses (Daniel Minahan)
The Order (Justin Kurzel)
Paul Anka: His Way (John Maggio)
The Piano Lesson (Malcolm Washington)
Piece by Piece (Morgan Neville)
Queer (Luca Guadagnino)
Quisling – The Final Days (Erik Poppe)
Relay (David Mackenzie) ○
Rez Ball (Sydney Freeland)
Riff Raff (Dito Montiel)
The Room Next Door (Pedro Almodóvar)
Rumours (Guy Maddin, Evan Johnson, & Galen Johnson)
The Salt Path (Marianne Elliott)
Saturday Night (Jason Reitman)
Sharp Corner (Jason Buxton)
Shell (Max Minghella)
Shepherds (Sophie Deraspe)
Sketch (Seth Worley)
Vermiglio (Maura Delpero)
We Live in Time (John Crowley)
Went Up the Hill (Samuel Van Grinsven)
Without Blood (Angelina Jolie)
Young Werther (José Avelino Gilles Corbett Lourenço)

 

Centrepiece (44 | 2023: 47)
Addition (Marcelle Lunam)
Anywhere Anytime (Milad Tangshir)
April (Dea Kulumbegashvili)
Beloved Tropic (Ana Endara)
Bliss (Hemda) (Shemi Zarhin)
Bound in Heaven (Huo Xin)
By the Stream (Hong Sang-soo) L
Cloud (Kiyoshia Kurosawa) L
Crocodile Tears (Tumpal Tampubolon)
Don’t Cry, Butterfly (Dương Diệu Linh)
Edge of Night (Türker Süer)
Fanatical: The Catfishing of Tegan and Sara (Erin Lee Carr)
Flow (Gints Zilbalodis)
Front Row (Merzak Allouache) L
Happyend (Neo Sora)
Happy Holidays (Scandar Copti)
Jane Austen Wrecked My Life (Laura Piani)
Julie Keeps Quiet (Leonardo van Dijl)
Ka Whawhai Tonu – Struggle Without End (Michael Jonathan)
Kill the Jockey (Luis Ortega)
The Legend of the Vagabond Queen of Lagos (Agbajowo Collective)
Little Jaffna (Lawrence Valin)
Los Tortuga (Belén Funes)
Matt and Mara (Kazik Radwanski)
Measures for a Funeral (Sofia Bohdanowicz)
A Missing Part (Guillaume Senez)
The Mother and the Bear (Johnny Ma)
The Mountain (Rachel House)
My Sunshine (Hiroshi Okuyama)
Pimpinero: Blood and Oil (Andrés Baiz)
Presence (Steven Soderbergh)
Santosh (Sandhya Suri)
The Seed of the Sacred Fig (Mohammad Rasoulof)
Seven Days (Ali Samadi Ahadi)
Souleymane’s Story (Boris Lojkine)
Sunshine (Antoinette Jadaone)
The Swedish Torpedo (Frida Kempff)
Sweet Angel Baby (Melanie Oates)
To a Land Unknown (Mahdi Fleifel)
Under the Volcano (Damian Kocur)
An Unfinished Film (Lou Ye)
Universal Language (Matthew Rankin)
The Village Next to Paradise (Mo Harawe)
When the Light Breaks (Rúnar Rúnarsson)

 

Discovery (26 | 2023: 26)
Aberdeen (Ryan Cooper & Eva Thomas)
Bonjour Tristesse (Durga Chew-Bose)
Boong (Lakshmipriya Devi)
The Courageous (Jasmin Gordon)
Diciannove (Giovanni Tortorici)
Do I Know You From Somewhere? (Arianna Martinez)
Freedom Way (Afolabi Olalekan)
Gülizar (Belkıs Bayrak)
Horizonte (César Augusto Acevedo)
Ink Wash (Sarra Tsorakidis)
Linda (Mariana Wainstein)
Meat (Dimitris Nakos)
Mother Mother (K’naan Warsame)
My Fathers’ Daughter (Egil Pedersen)
On Falling (Laura Carreira)
The Paradise of Thorns (Boss Kuno)
The Party’s Over (Elena Manrique)
The Quiet Ones (Frederik Louis Hviid)
Really Happy Someday (J Stevens)
Saba (Maksud Hossain)
Sad Jokes (Fabian Stumm)
Seeds (Kaniehtiio Horn)
Shook (Amar Wala)
U Are the Universe (Pavlo Ostrikov)
Village Keeper (Karen Chapman)
You Are Not Alone (Marie-Hélène Viens & Philippe Lupien)

 

Gala Presentations (22 | 2023: 21)
Andrea Bocelli: Because I Believe (Cosima Spender)
Better Man (Michael Gracey) ○
Don’t Let’s Go to the Dogs Tonight (Embeth Davidtz)
The Deb (Rebel Wilson)
Eden (Ron Howard)
Elton John: Never Too Late​ (R.J. Cutler & David Furnish)
The Friend (Scott McGehee & David Siegel)
Harbin (Woo Min-ho)
Meet the Barbarians (Julie Delpy)
Megalopolis (Francis Ford Coppola)
Nutcrackers (David Gordon Green)
Oh, Canada (Paul Schrader)
The Penguin Lessons (Peter Cattaneo)
The Return (Uberto Pasolini)
Road Diary: Bruce Springsteen and The E Street Band (Thom Zimny)
The Shrouds (David Cronenberg)
Superboys of Malegaon (Reema Kagti)
Takin’ Care of Business (Tyler Measom)
Unstoppable (William Goldenberg)
The Wild Robot (Chris Sanders)
Will & Harper (Josh Greenbaum)
William Tell (Nick Hamm)

 

TIFF Docs (21 | 2023: 23)
Blue Road – The Edna O’Brien Story (Sinéad O’Shea)
Ernest Cole: Lost and Found (Raoul Peck)
The Freedom of Fierro (Santiago Esteinou)
From Ground Zero (Various)
The Last of the Sea Women (Sue Kim)
The Last Republican (Steve Pink)
Living Together (Halima Elkhatabi)
Men of War (Billy Corben & Jen Gatien)
Mistress Dispeller (Elizabeth Lo)
No Other Land (Basel Adra, Hamdan Ballal, Yuval Abraham, & Rachel Szor)
Patrice: The Movie (Ted Passon)
Russians at War (Anastasia Trofimova)
A Sisters’ Tale (Leila Amini)
So Surreal: Behind the Masks (Neil Diamond & Joanne Robertson)
Space Cowboy (Marah Strauch & Bryce Leavitt)
Sudan, Remember Us (Hind Meddeb)
Tata (Lina Vdovîi & Radu Ciorniciuc)
Temporary Shelter (Anastasiia Bortuali)
Vice Is Broke (Eddie Huang)
Wishing on a Star (Péter Kerekes)
Your Tomorrow (Ali Weinstein)

 

Wavelengths (15 [incl. 3 shorts programmes] | 2023: 15 [3])
The Ballad of Suzanne Césaire (Madeleine Hunt-Ehrlich) ○
Collective Monologue (Jessica Sarah Rinland)
The Damned (Roberto Minervini)
Drama 1882 (Wael Shawky) ○
exergue — on documenta 14 (Dimitris Athiridis)
Grand Tour (Miguel Gomes)
Lazaro at Night (Nicolás Pereda)
Pepe (Nelson Carlos De Los Santos Arias)
Perfumed with Mint (Muhammed Hamdy)
Viêt and Nam (Minh Quý Trương)
Youth (Hard Times) (Wang Bing) L
Youth (Homecoming) (Wang Bing) L

Wavelengths 1: Eye & Ear Control
Revolving Rounds (Johann Lurf & Christina Jauernik) 🕶️
The Diary of a Sky (Lawrence Abu Hamdan)
October Noon (Francisco Rodríguez Teare)
A Black Screen Too (Rhayne Vermette)
Archipelago of Earthen Bones — To Bunya (Malena Szlam)

Wavelengths 2: Ride the Wave
Someplace in Your Mouth (Beatrice Gibson & Nick Gordon)
Notes of a Crocodile (Daphne Xu)
Adrift Potentials (Leonardo Pirondi)
Go Between (Chris Kennedy)
The Sojourn (Tiffany Sia)

Wavelengths 3: Exposé(s) – Jean-Luc Godard/John Smith
Scénarios (Jean-Luc Godard)
Exposé du film annonce du film “Scénario” (Jean-Luc Godard)
Being John Smith (John Smith)

 

Midnight Madness (10 | 2023: 10)
Dead Mail (Joe DeBoer & Kyle McConaghy)
Dead Talent Society (John Hsu)
Else (Thibault Emin)
Escape from the 21st Century (Li Yang)
Friendship (Andrew DeYoung) ○
The Gesuidouz (Kenichi Ugana)
Ick (Joseph Kahn)
It Doesn’t Get Any Better Than This (Nick Toti & Rachel Kempf)
The Substance (Coralie Fargeat)
The Shadow Strays (Timo Tjahjanto)

 

Platform (10 | 2023: 10)
Daniela Forever (Nacho Vigalondo)
Daughter’s Daughter (Huang Xi)
Mr. K (Tallulah H. Schwab)
Paying for It (Sook-Yin Lee)
Pedro Páramo (Rodrigo Prieto)
They Will Be Dust (Carlos Marques-Marcet)
Triumph (Petar Valchanov & Kristina Grozeva)
Viktor (Olivier Sarbil)
Winter in Sokcho (Koya Kamura)
The Wolves Always Come at Night (Gabrielle Brady)

 

Primetime (8 | 2023: 9)
Disclaimer [Chapters 1-3] (Alfonso Cuarón)
Faithless [Episodes 1 & 2] (Tomas Alfredson & Sara Johnsen)
Families Like Ours [Entirety] (Thomas Vinterberg)
M. Son of the Century [Episodes 1 & 2] (Joe Wright)
The Knowing [Select Episodes] (Courtney Montour & Tanya Talaga)
The Listeners [Select Episodes] (Janicza Bravo & Jordan Tannahill)
The Tragically Hip: No Dress Rehearsal [Entirety] (Mike Downie)
Thou Shalt Not Steal [Episodes 1-3] (Dylan River)

 

TIFF Classics (6 | 2023: 5)
Awāra (1951, Raj Kapoor) ○
Bona (1980, Lino Brocka) ○
Essene (1972, Frederick Wiseman) ○
Masala (1991, Srinivas Krishna) ○
The Sweet Hereafter (1997, Atom Egoyan) ★
Time of Maturity (1976, Sohrab Shahid Saless) ★

 

Special Events (2)
Double Happiness (1994, Mina Shum)
Whiplash (2014, Damien Chazelle) ★

 

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This Life of Mine: It’s a Cannes 2024 schedule

May 14
5:30pm – An Unfinished Film (Lou Ye), Olympia 9
8:00pm – The Second Act (Quentin Dupieux), Bazin
 

May 15
8:45am – This Life of Mine (Sophie Fillières), Théâtre Croisette
11:30am – On Becoming a Guinea Fowl (Rungano Nyoni), Olympia 5
2:00pm – It Doesn’t Matter (Josh Mond), Palais C
4:00pm – Wild Diamond (Agathe Riedinger), Bazin
10:30pm – The Girl with the Needle (Magnus von Horn), Debussy
 

May 16
8:30am – Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga (George Miller), Lumière
12:00pm – Bird (Andrea Arnold), Bazin
4:45pm – Megalopolis (Francis Ford Coppola), Debussy
 

May 17
8:30am – Twilight of the Warriors: Walled In (Soi Cheang), Buñuel
12:30pm – Christmas Eve in Miller’s Point (Tyler Taormina), Théâtre Croisette
4:45pm – Scénarios (Jean-Luc Godard), Buñuel
7:00pm – Kinds of Kindness (Yorgos Lanthimos), Bazin
10:30pm – Oh, Canada (Paul Schrader), Bazin
 

May 18
8:45am – Universal Language (Matthew Rankin), Théâtre Croisette
11:30am – Visiting Hours (Patricia Mazuy), Théâtre Croisette
2:30pm – Caught by the Tides (Jia Zhang-ke), Bazin
4:45pm – Emilia Pérez (Jacques Audiard), Debussy
7:30pm – It’s Not Me (Leos Carax), Debussy
9:45pm – Rumours (Guy Maddin, Evan Johnson, & Galen Johnson), Debussy
 

May 19
8:45am – Eephus (Carson Lund), Théâtre Croisette
11:15am – Three Kilometers to the End of the World (Emanuel Parvu), Cineum Salle 3
1:30pm – The Damned (Roberto Minervini), Cineum Salle 3
5:45pm – Black Dog (Guan Hu), Bazin
9:30pm – The Substance (Coralie Fargeat), Debussy
 

May 20
8:30am – Blue Sun Palace (Constance Tsang), Miramar
2:00pm – So Long (Guillaume Brac), Palais C
5:00pm – The Apprentice (Ali Abbasi), Debussy
7:30pm – Misericordia (Alain Guiraudie), Debussy
10:00pm – The Shrouds (David Cronenberg), Debussy
 

May 21
11:45am – Eat the Night (Caroline Poggi & Jonathan Vinel), Théâtre Croisette
3:00pm – Anora (Sean Baker), Lumière
5:30pm – Marcello Mio (Christophe Honoré), Debussy
10:30pm – Parthenope (Paolo Sorrentino), Debussy
 

May 22
11:30am – Gazer (Ryan J. Sloan), Théâtre Croisette
3:00pm – Grand Tour (Miguel Gomes), Lumière
10:00pm – Motel Destino (Karim Aïnouz), Debussy
 

May 23
9:00am – Flow (Gints Zilbalodis), Debussy
1:30pm – Filmlovers! (Arnaud Desplechin), Cineum Screen X
3:30pm – Viet and Nam (Minh Quý Trương), Cineum Screen X
 

May 24
9:00am – All We Imagine as Light (Payal Kapadia), Varda
11:30am – Beating Hearts (Gilles Lellouche), Varda
4:00pm – The Other Way Around (Jonás Trueba), Théâtre Croisette
7:30pm – The Most Precious of Cargoes (Michel Hazanavicius), Bazin
 

May 25
9:00am – The Seed of the Sacred Fig (Mohammad Rasoulof), Cineum IMAX
 

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February 14
7:30PM – Small Things Like These (Tim Mielants), CinemaxX 1-4
 

February 15
9:00AM – The Adamant Girl (Vinothraj PS), Arsenal 1
2:00PM – All the Long Nights (Shô Miyake), Arsenal 1
7:00PM – Favoriten (Ruth Beckermann), CinemaxX 7
10:00PM – La Cocina (Alonso Ruizpalacios), CinemaxX 1-4
 

February 16
9:00AM – Sleep with Your Eyes Open (Nele Wohlatz), CinemaxX 7
11:45AM – A Different Man (Aaron Schimberg), Berlinale Palast
4:30PM – The Fable (Raam Reddy), Akademie der Künst
7:00PM – Forum Expanded Exhibition: On the Battlefield (Little Egypt Collective, Theresa Delsoin, Lisa Marie Malloy, J.P. Sniadecki, & Ray Whitaker), silent green Kulturquartier
8:00PM – Nanacatepec (Elena Pardo & Azucena Losana), Cinema Betonhalle@Silent Green 16mm
9:45PM – Suspended Time (Olivier Assayas), CinemaxX 1-4
 

February 17
9:30AM – A Family (Christine Angot), CinemaxX 7
12:00PM – Republic (Jin Jiang), Cinema Betonhalle@Silent Green
6:00PM – Who By Fire (Philippe Lesage), Cubix 8
9:45PM – The Empire (Bruno Dumont), CinemaxX 1-4
 

February 18
9:00AM – Dahomey (Mati Diop), Berlinale Palast
1:00PM – Turn in the Wound (Abel Ferrara), Zoo Palast 2
4:30PM – The Periphery of the Base (Zhou Tao), Arsenal 1
7:00PM – “A Kind of Freedom,” CinemaxX 8
               – Chime (Kiyoshi Kurosawa)
               – August My Heaven (Riho Kudo)
9:30PM – A Traveler’s Needs (Hong Sang-soo), CinemaxX 1-4
 

February 19
9:00AM – Architecton (Victor Kossakovsky), Berlinale Palast
1:45PM – The Box Man (Gakuryu Ishii), Verti Music Hall
7:30PM – Pepe (Nelson Carlos De Los Santos Arias), CinemaxX 1-4
 

February 20
9:30AM – You Burn Me (Matías Piñeiro), CinemaxX 7
12:30PM – Matt and Mara (Kazik Radwanski), Akademie der Künst
4:15PM – Ivo (Eva Trobisch), Akademie der Künst
7:30PM – Time of Maturity (1976, Sohrab Shahid Saless), Akademie der Künst
 

February 21
10:30AM – Abiding Nowhere (Tsai Ming-liang), Cubix 7-8
12:30PM – Cidade; Campo (Juliana Rojas), Colosseum 1
6:30PM – Between the Temples (Nathan Silver), Cubix 5
 

February 22
9:30AM – Black Tea (Abderrahmane Sissako), Verti Music Hall
12:30PM – Invisible Days, or the Legend of the White Crocodiles [English Version] (1991, Eva Hiller), Cubix 6
3:30PM – The Invisible Zoo (Romuald Karmakar), Cubix 7
 

February 23
10:30AM – Direct Action (Ben Russell & Guillaume Cailleau), Cubix 7
3:15PM – Shambhala (Min Bahadur Bham), Berlinale Palast
7:00PM – The Human Hibernation (Anna Cornudella), Cubix 7
 

February 24
10:00AM – barrunto (Emilia Beatriz), Arsenal 1 W/O
6:30PM – I Saw the TV Glow (Jane Schoenbrun), Cubix 9
9:30PM + The Periphery of the Base (Zhou Tao), Arsenal 1

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2024 Film Log

Click for links to past logs.
 

FYI:
8mm/16mm/35mm/70mm indicates that what I saw was a film print.
DP indicates that what I saw was a Digital Projection in a theatre.
3D indicates that I saw a theatrical presentation and was encouraged to watch the picture while wearing some sort of special lens(es) (Polarized, Anaglyph, ChromaDepth, Pulfrich, Diffraction, et al). If I saw a film in “regular” / “full” 3D at home, the title of the film will be succeeded by “[3D]”. If it was an unusual format, that will be noted (“[Anaglyph 3D]”, “[ChromaDepth 3D]”, and so on). If the film was shot in an “Immersive Video” format (180-degree 3D) and viewed on a VR or mixed reality headset (e.g. an Apple Vision Pro), the format will be noted as “[IV-3D]”.
IV-DP / IV-3D indicates that I saw an “immersive” screening that was augmented by the addition of pre-programmed environmental effects. (e.g. 4DX, the Sphere, etc.)
– All others were from Blu-Rays, downloads, television, etc.
– A plus sign (+) at the beginning of a line indicates that I had seen this film before.
 

Furthermore:
– I only assign numerical ratings to films that are at least 40 minutes long.
– “Inc.” in lieu of a rating indicates that I don’t think that this screening was an accurate enough presentation of the film for me to make a quality judgment, either because it was a work-in-progress cut, or there weren’t English subtitles for a foreign language film, or the projector broke/sound cut out/the print burned, or someone in the theatre distracted me with too much talking/popcorn eating/cellular telephone usage/etc.
– I don’t log W/Os.
– I do log short films (≤ 39min.), sans ratings, but only those viewed from a film print, or in an official theatrical context (i.e., where there is published documentation that the screening of this particular film took place), or in 3D (regardless of format, as long as glasses are involved), or if it’s a first-time viewing of a film that was selected to screen (virtually or otherwise) in a credible film festival or was made by a clearly reputable filmmaker (whose work, perhaps, has screened at a credible festival in the past. Or whatever, they’re legit just trust me). Why these conditions? My OCD makes it difficult to distinguish between short films, television commercials, Youtube videos, random viral TikToks, etc.; I don’t want to log everything, and I don’t want to be arbitrarily discriminating what I log and what I don’t. This (admittedly still arbitrary) fix allows me to log only short films proper (whatever that means, etc.), which by the way will predominantly be avant-garde works. These films will appear below in italics.

 


 

And that translates to:

A+	9.4 - 10.0	[Top 10 of All Time contender]
A	8.6 - 9.3	[Masterpiece]
A-	7.8 - 8.5	[Pretty great; Near-masterpiece]
B+	7.0 - 7.7	[Kinda great; Contender for Top 10 of its year]
B	6.2 - 6.9	[Has a special something]
B-	5.4 - 6.1	[Solid]
C+	4.6 - 5.3	[Doesn't arouse any particularly strong emotions either way]
C	3.8 - 4.5	[Useless; Mediocre; Significantly flawed]
C-	3.0 - 3.7	[What a failure]
D+	2.2 - 2.9	[What-a-failure with cheese]
D	1.4 - 2.1	[Grating]
D-	0.6 - 1.3	[Offensively horrific; Horrifically offensive]
F	0.0 - 0.5	[Worst of All Time consideration]

 

January

Ferrari (2023, Michael Mann) DP – 4.7

The Long Farewell (1971, Kira Muratova) DP – 5.5

Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence (1983, Nagisa Oshima) 35mm – 5.8

Taboo (1999, Nagisa Oshima) 35mm – 5.6

Full Time (2021, Éric Gravel) – 6.3

 

February

The Restless (2021, Joachim Lafosse) – 4.6

Stoneymollan Trail (2015, Charlie Prodger) DP – 5.2

BRIDGIT (2016, Charlie Prodger) DP

Interlude (1957, Douglas Sirk) 35mm – 3.4

Small Things Like These (2024, Tim Mielants) Berlinale, DP – 4.8

The Adamant Girl (2024, P.S. Vinothraj) Berlinale, DP – 6.7

All the Long Nights (2024, Shô Miyake) Berlinale, DP – 4.2

Favoriten (2024, Ruth Beckermann) Berlinale, DP – 5.6

La Cocina (2024, Alonso Ruizpalacios) Berlinale, DP – 3.0

Sleep with Your Eyes Open (2024, Nele Wohlatz) Berlinale, DP – 5.1

A Different Man (2024, Aaron Schimberg) Berlinale, DP – 5.3

The Fable (2024, Raam Reddy) Berlinale, DP – 4.7

On the Battlefield (2024, Little Egypt Collective, Theresa Delsoin, Lisa Marie Malloy, J.P. Sniadecki, & Ray Whitaker) Berlinale, DP

Nanacatepec (2024, Elena Pardo & Azucena Losana) Berlinale, 16mm – 6.0

Suspended Time (2024, Olivier Assayas) Berlinale, DP – 5.6

A Family (2024, Christine Angot) Berlinale, DP – 4.4

Republic (2023, Jin Jiang) Berlinale, DP – 5.8

Who By Fire (2024, Philippe Lesage) Berlinale, DP – 5.5

The Empire (2024, Bruno Dumont) Berlinale, DP – 6.2

Dahomey (2024, Mati Diop) Berlinale, DP – 5.7

Turn in the Wound (2024, Abel Ferrara) Berlinale, DP – 3.9

The Periphery of the Base (2024, Zhou Tao) Berlinale, DP – 7.0

Chime (2024, Kiyoshi Kurosawa) Berlinale, DP – 6.9

August My Heaven (2024, Riho Kudo) Berlinale, DP

A Traveler’s Needs (2024, Hong Sang-soo) Berlinale, DP – 6.7

Architecton (2024, Victor Kossakovsky) Berlinale, DP – 4.9

The Box Man (2024, Gakuryu Ishii) Berlinale, DP – 4.1

Pepe (2024, Nelson Carlos De Los Santos Arias) Berlinale, DP – 5.4

You Burn Me (2024, Matías Piñeiro) Berlinale, DP – 6.0

Matt and Mara (2024, Kazik Radwanski) Berlinale, DP – 5.3

Ivo (2024, Eva Trobisch) Berlinale, DP – 4.3

Time of Maturity (1976, Sohrab Shahid Saless) Berlinale, DP – 6.6

Abiding Nowhere (2024, Tsai Ming-liang) Berlinale, DP – 6.2

Cidade; Campo (2024, Juliana Rojas) Berlinale, DP – 5.7

Between the Temples (2024, Nathan Silver) Berlinale, DP – 6.4

Black Tea (2024, Abderrahmane Sissako) Berlinale, DP – 5.4

Invisible Days, or the Legend of the White Crocodiles [English Version] (1991, Eva Hiller) Berlinale, DP – 5.5

The Invisible Zoo (2024, Romuald Karmakar) Berlinale, DP – 6.8

DIRECT ACTION (2024, Ben Russell & Guillaume Cailleau) Berlinale, DP – 7.2

Shambhala (2024, Min Bahadur Bham) Berlinale, DP – 5.9

The Human Hibernation (2024, Anna Cornudella) Berlinale, DP – 3.2

I Saw the TV Glow (2024, Jane Schoenbrun) Berlinale, DP – 4.5

+The Periphery of the Base (2024, Zhou Tao) Berlinale, DP – 7.4 [up from 7.0]

+Laberint Sequences (2023, Blake Williams) 3D

Twittering Soul (2023, Deimantas Narkevičius) 3D – Inc. [No English subtitles]

 

March

+The Periphery of the Base (2024, Zhou Tao) – 7.6 [up from 7.4]

The Wrong Movie (2024, Keren Cytter) – 5.1

Sunday in Paris (2016, Ernie Gehr) 
DP

Back in the Park (2019, Ernie Gehr) DP

Construction Sight (2019, Ernie Gehr) 
DP

+Flying Over Brooklyn (2020, Ernie Gehr) DP

For the Birds (2016, Ernie Gehr) DP


Auto-Collider XX (2014, Ernie Gehr) DP

Delirium (2020, Ernie Gehr) DP


Pedestrian Activities (2023, Ernie Gehr) DP

Here & Elsewhere (2023, Bram Ruiter) DP

+It follows it passes on (2023, Erica Sheu) DP

West Lounge (2023, Kevin Jerome Everson) DP

Banging on Their Bars in Rhythm (2024, Kevin Jerome Everson) DP

Stone, Hat, Ribbon & Rose (2023, Eva Giolo) DP

How to Run a Trotline (2024, Carl Elsaesser) DP

Caracole (for Mac) (2022, Nathaniel Dorsky) 16mm

Seasonal Concerns (2024, Maximilien Luc Proctor) 16mm

Five Days Till Tomorrow (2022, Lewis Klahr) DP

Holographic Will (2023, Mike Stoltz) 16mm

Hey Sweet Pea (2023, Alee Peoples) 16mm

Glider (2001, Ernie Gehr)
 DP

Mechanical Magic Lantern Slides II (2019, Ernie Gehr)
 DP

In Slumberland (Thanks to Winsor McCay)* (2015, Ernie Gehr)
 DP

Creatures of the Night (2023, Ernie Gehr)
 DP

Medicine Cabinet (2022, Ernie Gehr) DP

Chambers of Time (2010, Ernie Gehr) DP

Through the Hoops of Time (2020, Ernie Gehr) DP

Approposessexstreetmarket (2018, Ernie Gehr) DP

New York Central (2020, Ernie Gehr)

High-Wire Act (2023, Ernie Gehr) DP

Bon Voyage (2016, Ernie Gehr) DP

Lisbon Views (2022, Ernie Gehr) DP

What’s Up! (2023, Ernie Gehr) DP

Carroll Gardens (2023, Ernie Gehr) DP

Gasoline Rainbow (2023, Bill Ross IV & Turner Ross) DP – 5.2

Ryuichi Sakamoto | Opus (2023, Neo Sora) DP – 4.8

Air (2023, Ben Affleck) – 4.6

Dredd [3D] (2012, Pete Travis) – 5.4

The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar and Three More (2023, Wes Anderson) – 7.1

 

April

Louis and Languages (2024, Aurélien Froment)

Where Are All My Lovers? (2024, Jean-Claude Rousseau)

Marbled Golden Eyes (2024, Kevin Jerome Everson)

Destroy, She Said (1969, Marguerite Duras) 35mm – 5.8

Her Venetian Name in Deserted Calcutta (1976, Marguerite Duras) DP – 5.0

The Truck (1977, Marguerite Duras) 35mm – 4.7

Woman of the Ganges (1974, Marguerite Duras) DP – 3.7

Nathalie Granger (1972, Marguerite Duras) DP – 6.1

Microcosmos (2021, Takashi Makino) DP

Space Noise 3D (2015, Takashi Makino) 3D-16mm

Memento Stella (2018, Takashi Makino) DP – 5.3

The Wolf House (2018, Joaquín Cociña & Cristóbal León) – 5.7

Poem of E.L. (2022, Maya Gurantz)

 

May

The Island (2023, Damien Manivel) Jeonju, DP – 5.1

Not a Pretty Picture (1976, Martha Coolidge) Jeonju, DP – 6.4

Where (2022, Tsai Ming-liang) Jeonju, DP – 6.8

+DIRECT ACTION (2024, Ben Russell & Guillaume Cailleau) Jeonju, DP – 7.2 [same]

Center (2024, Burak Çevik) Jeonju, DP

Nothing in Its Place (2024, Burak Çevik) Jeonju, DP

+Allures (1961, Jordan Belson) Jeonju, 35mm

+Side/Walk/Shuttle (1992, Ernie Gehr) Jeonju, 35mm – 6.1 [same]

+Work Done (1984, Robert Beavers) Jeonju, 35mm

No Form (2012, Tsai Ming-liang) Jeonju, DP

+Walker (2012, Tsai Ming-liang) Jeonju, DP

Sleepwalk (2012, Tsai Ming-liang) Jeonju, DP

Mimang (2023, Kim Tae-yang) Jeonju, DP – 3.9

Dreaming Dogs (2024, Levin Peter & Elsa Kremser) Jeonju, DP – 5.3

Diamond Sutra (2012, Tsai Ming-liang) Jeonju, DP

Walking on Water (2013, Tsai Ming-liang) Jeonju, DP

+No No Sleep (2015, Tsai Ming-liang) Jeonju, DP

The Trouble with Harry (1955, Alfred Hitchcock) 35mm – 5.9

An Unfinished Film (2024, Lou Ye) Cannes, DP – 4.0

The Second Act (2024, Quentin Dupieux) Cannes, DP – 4.7

This Life of Mine (2024, Sophie Fillières) Cannes, DP – 4.9

On Becoming a Guinea Fowl (2024, Rungano Nyoni) Cannes, DP – 4.2

It Doesn’t Matter (2024, Josh Mond) Cannes, DP – 4.6

Wild Diamond (2024, Agathe Riedinger) Cannes, DP – 3.8

The Girl with the Needle (2024, Magnus von Horn) Cannes, DP – 5.3

Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga (2024, George Miller) Cannes, DP – 4.3

Bird (2024, Andrea Arnold) Cannes, DP – 2.7

Megalopolis (2024, Francis Ford Coppola) Cannes, DP – 7.6

Twilight of the Warriors: Walled In (2024, Soi Cheang) Cannes, DP – 4.5

Christmas Eve in Miller’s Point (2024, Tyler Taormina) Cannes, DP – 6.3

Scénarios (2024, Jean-Luc Godard) Cannes, DP

Exposé du film annonce du film “Scénario” (2024, Jean-Luc Godard) Cannes, DP

Kinds of Kindness (2024, Yorgos Lanthimos) Cannes, DP – 5.6

Oh, Canada (2024, Paul Schrader) Cannes, DP – 5.0

Universal Language (2024, Matthew Rankin) Cannes, DP – 5.5

Visiting Hours (2024, Patricia Mazuy) Cannes, DP – 5.3

Caught by the Tides (2024, Jia Zhang-ke) Cannes, DP – 5.9

Emilia Pérez (2024, Jacques Audiard) Cannes, DP – 5.5

It’s Not Me (2024, Leos Carax) Cannes, DP – 3.9

Rumours (2024, Guy Maddin, Evan Johnson, & Galen Johnson) Cannes, DP – 5.2

Eephus (2024, Carson Lund) Cannes, DP – 5.1

Three Kilometers to the End of the World (2024, Emanuel Parvu) Cannes, DP – 4.0

The Damned (2024, Roberto Minervini) Cannes, DP – 5.4

Black Dog (2024, Guan Hu) Cannes, DP – 5.6

The Substance (2024, Coralie Fargeat) Cannes, DP – 5.8

Blue Sun Palace (2024, Constance Tsang) Cannes, DP – 4.5

So Long (2024, Guillaume Brac) Cannes, DP – 4.3

The Apprentice (2024, Ali Abbasi) Cannes, DP – 3.2

Misericordia (2024, Alain Guiraudie) Cannes, DP – 6.9

The Shrouds (2024, David Cronenberg) Cannes, DP – 6.6

Eat the Night (2024, Caroline Poggi & Jonathan Vinel) Cannes, DP – 5.2

Anora (2024, Sean Baker) Cannes, DP – 7.0

Marcello Mio (2024, Christophe Honoré) Cannes, DP – 3.8

Parthenope (2024, Paolo Sorrentino) Cannes, DP – 2.3

Gazer (2024, Ryan J. Sloan) Cannes, DP – 1.7

Grand Tour (2024, Miguel Gomes) Cannes, DP – 5.0

Motel Destino (2024, Karim Aïnouz) Cannes, DP – 5.2

Flow (2024, Gints Zilbalodis) Cannes, DP – 5.0

Filmlovers! (2024, Arnaud Desplechin) Cannes, DP – 5.4

Viet and Nam (2024, Minh Quý Trương) Cannes, DP – 5.6

All We Imagine as Light (2024, Payal Kapadia) Cannes, DP – 5.8

Beating Hearts (2024, Gilles Lellouche) Cannes, DP – 4.5

The Other Way Around (2024, Jonás Trueba) Cannes, DP – 5.3

The Most Precious of Cargoes (2024, Michel Hazanavicius) Cannes, DP – 3.2

The Seed of the Sacred Fig (2024, Mohammad Rasoulof) Cannes, DP – 5.7

Challengers (2024, Luca Guadagnino) – 6.5

Photosynthesis [ChromaDepth 3D] (2023, Brian Zahm)

 

June

This Closeness (2023, Kit Zauhar) – 5.1

The Man Who Wasn’t There [3D] (1983, Bruce Malmuth) – 5.1

Flamenco (2024, Jean-Claude Rousseau)

Life Story (2024, Jessica Dunn Rovinelli)

Leisure, Utopic (2024, Beatrice Gibson)

 

July

Terrorizers (1986, Edward Yang) DP – 5.3

The Great Gatsby [3D] (2013, Baz Luhrmann) – 4.9

Seven Walks with Mark Brown (2024, Pierre Creton & Vincent Barré) – 5.9

+Boxing Gym (2010, Frederick Wiseman) – 6.0 [down from 6.8]

Twisters (2024, Lee Isaac Chung) IV-DP – 4.3

The Sparrow in the Chimney (2024, Ramon Zürcher) – 5.1

Invention (2024, Courtney Stephens) – 6.2

 

August

Trap (2024, M. Night Shyamalan) DP – 5.4

+Old (2021, M. Night Shyamalan) – 6.4 [same]

Bogancloch (2024, Ben Rivers) – 5.3

The Exploding Girl (2024, Caroline Poggi & Jonathan Vinel)

Practice, Practice, Practice (2024, Kevin Jerome Everson)

Days Before the Death of Nicky (2024, Denis Côté)

Telepathic Letters (2024, Edgar Pêra) – 4.4

Death Will Come (2024, Christoph Hochhäusler) – 4.6

Freak (2024, Claire Barnett)

Sleep #2 (2024, Radu Jude) – 5.5

Eight Postcards from Utopia (2024, Radu Jude & Christian Ferencz-Flatz) – 4.9

Gender Reveal (2024, Mo Matton)

When the Phone Rang (2024, Iva Radivojević) – 4.5

Fire of Wind (2024, Marta Mateus) – 5.6

100,000,000,000,000 (2024, Virgil Vernier) – 5.9

Youth (Hard Times) (2024, Wang Bing) – 5.0

By the Stream (2024, Hong Sang-soo) – 6.3

exergue — on documenta 14 (2024, Dimitris Athiridis) – 5.8

 

September

Lázaro at Night (2024, Nicolás Pereda) TIFF, DP – 6.1

No Other Land (2024, Basel Adra, Hamdan Ballal, Yuval Abraham, & Rachel Szor) TIFF, DP – 4.4

Diciannove (2024, Giovanni Tortorici) TIFF, DP – 4.8

Cloud (2024, Kiyoshia Kurosawa) TIFF, DP – 5.7

The Brutalist (2024, Brady Corbet) TIFF, 35mm – 3.9

Drama 1882 (2024, Wael Shawky) TIFF, DP – 4.9

Revolving Rounds (2024, Johann Lurf & Christina Jauernik) TIFF, 3D

The Diary of a Sky (2024, Lawrence Abu Hamdan) TIFF, DP – 5.3

October Noon (2024, Francisco Rodríguez Teare) TIFF, DP

A Black Screen Too (2024, Rhayne Vermette) TIFF, DP

Archipelago of Earthen Bones — To Bunya (2024, Malena Szlam) TIFF, DP

The Room Next Door (2024, Pedro Almodóvar) TIFF, DP – 5.1

Hard Truths (2024, Mike Leigh) TIFF, DP – 6.4

Someplace in Your Mouth (2024, Beatrice Gibson & Nick Gordon) TIFF, DP

Notes of a Crocodile (2024, Daphne Xu) TIFF, DP

Adrift Potentials (2024, Leonardo Pirondi) TIFF, DP

Go Between (2024, Chris Kennedy) TIFF, DP

The Sojourn (2024, Tiffany Sia) TIFF, DP

Measures for a Funeral (2024, Sofia Bohdanowicz) TIFF, DP

Nightbitch (2024, Marielle Heller) TIFF, DP – 4.9

Youth (Homecoming) (2024, Wang Bing) TIFF, DP – 6.2

Happyend (2024, Neo Sora) TIFF, DP – 4.5

+Scénarios (2024, Jean-Luc Godard) TIFF, DP

+Exposé du film annonce du film “Scénario” (2024, Jean-Luc Godard) TIFF, DP

Being John Smith (2024, John Smith) TIFF, DP

April (2024, Dea Kulumbegashvili) TIFF, DP – 5.6

Relay (2024, David Mackenzie) TIFF, DP – 4.8

Collective Monologue (2024, Jessica Sarah Rinland) TIFF, DP – 5.7

+Anora (2024, Sean Baker) TIFF, DP – 6.5 [down from 7.0]

The Ballad of Suzanne Césaire (2024, Madeleine Hunt-Ehrlich) TIFF, DP – 3.6

Queer (2024, Luca Guadagnino) TIFF, DP – 6.4

Essene (1972, Frederick Wiseman) TIFF, DP – 4.5

+Megalopolis (2024, Francis Ford Coppola) TIFF, DP – 7.6 [same]

Babygirl (2024, Halina Reijn) TIFF, DP – 4.1

Harvest (2024, Athina Rachel Tsangari) TIFF, DP – 3.5

Friendship (2024, Andrew DeYoung) TIFF, DP – 4.2

+Misericordia (2024, Alain Guiraudie) TIFF, DP – 7.4 [up from 6.9]

The End (2024, Joshua Oppenheimer) TIFF, DP – 4.1

The Life of Chuck (2024, Mike Flanagan) TIFF, DP – 3.4

Presence (2024, Steven Soderbergh) TIFF, DP – 2.4

Early Monthly Segments (1970, Robert Beavers) 35mm

Winged Dialogue (1967, Robert Beavers) 16mm

Plan of Brussels (1968, Robert Beavers) 16mm

The Count of Days (1969, Robert Beavers) 16mm

Palinode (1970, Robert Beavers) 16mm

“Der Klang, die Welt…” (2018, Robert Beavers) 16mm

Subtitled (2019, Christian Marclay) DP

Exodus (1997, Steve McQueen) DP

Sunshine State (2022, Steve McQueen) 2 x DP

Diminished Frame (1970, Robert Beavers) 16mm

Still Light (1970, Robert Beavers) 16mm

+From the Notebook of… (1971, Robert Beavers) 35mm – 7.3 [same]

The Painting (1972, Robert Beavers) 16mm

+Work Done (1972, Robert Beavers) 35mm

Ruskin (1975, Robert Beavers) 35mm – 7.5

Amor (1980, Robert Beavers) 35mm

Sotiros (1978, Robert Beavers) 35mm

Efpsychi (1983, Robert Beavers) 35mm

Wingseed (1985, Robert Beavers) 35mm

The Hedge Theatre (1990, Robert Beavers) 35mm

+The Stoas (1997, Robert Beavers) 35mm

+The Ground (2001, Robert Beavers) 35mm

Pitcher of Colored Light (2007, Robert Beavers) 35mm

+The Suppliant (2010, Robert Beavers) 16mm

+Listening to the Space in My Room (2013, Robert Beavers) 16mm

Among the Eucalyptuses (2017, Robert Beavers) 16mm

The Sparrow Dream (2022, Robert Beavers) 16mm

Dedication: Bernice Hodges (2024, Robert Beavers) 16mm

Jimmy (2024, Yashaddai Owens) NYFF, DP – 5.5

bluish (2024, Lilith Kraxner & Milena Czernovsky) NYFF, DP – 6.3

 

October

Pavements (2024, Alex Ross Perry) NYFF, DP – 
4.8

My Left Eye Sees Ghosts (2002, Johnnie To & Wai Ka-fai) 35mm – 
4.5

Nickel Boys (2024, RaMell Ross) NYFF, DP – 5.3

Stranger Eyes (2024, Siew Hua Yeo) NYFF, DP – 
3.5

Afternoons of Solitude (2024, Albert Serra) NYFF, DP – 7.1

Little, Big, and Far (2024, Jim Cohen) NYFF, DP – 
4.6

Neighboring Animals (2024, Mary Helena Clark)

Man number 4 (2024, Miranda Pennell)

+Revolving Rounds (2024, Christina Jauernik & Johann Lurf) NYFF, 3D

ESP (2024, Laura Kraning) NYFF, DP

re-engraved (2024, Lei Lei) NYFF, DP

+A Black Screen Too (2024, Rhayne Vermette) NYFF, DP

The Land at Night (2024, Richard Tuohy & Dianna Barrie) NYFF, 16mm

+Archipelago of Earthen Bones — To Bunya (2024, Malena Szlam) NYFF, DP

Vibrant Matter (2024, Pablo Marín) NYFF, DP

Towards the Sun, Far from the Center (2024, Pascal Viveros & Luciana Merino) NYFF, DP

No Spank (2024, Jordan Strafer) NYFF, DP

Sinking Feeling (2024, Zachary Epcar) NYFF, DP

My Undesirable Friends: Part I — Last Air in Moscow (2024, Julia Loktev) NYFF, DP – 5.1

The Suit (2024, Heinz Emigholz) NYFF, DP – 5.6

Refuse Room (2024, Simon Liu) NYFF, DP

Machine Boys (2024, Karimah Ashadu) NYFF, DP

Razeh-del (2024, Maryam Tafakory) NYFF, DP

+Practice, Practice, Practice (2024, Kevin Jerome Everson) NYFF, DP

+October Noon (2024, Francisco Rodríguez Teare) NYFF, DP

Reaching for the Doors to Paradise [3D] (2024, Marc Downie & Paul Kaiser)

BlackLetter [3D] (2022, Marc Downie & Paul Kaiser)

Submerged [IV-3D] (2024, Edward Berger)

Near Orouët (1971, Jacques Rozier) DP – 6.6

cinéma concret [Pulfrich 3D] (2015, Takashi Makino)

Red Rooms (2023, Pascal Plante) – 5.5

Bwana Devil [3D] (1952, Arch Oboler) – 3.3

 

November

A Very Harold & Kumar 3D Christmas [3D] (2011, Todd Strauss-Schulson) – 5.6

Four Unloved Women, Adrift on a Purposeless Sea, Experience the Ecstasy of Dissection (2023, David Cronenberg)

Postcard from Earth (2023, Darren Aronofsky) IV-DP – 6.8

Live Flesh (1997, Pedro Almodóvar) 35mm – 5.9

Here (2024, Robert Zemeckis) – 6.2

+L’Arrivée d’un Train 3D (1935, Louis Lumière) 3D

Untitled Lumière Relief Test [“Woman and Baby”] (1935, Louis Lumière) 3D

Untitled Lumière Relief Test [“People at the Beach”] (1935, Louis Lumière) 3D

Untitled Lumière Relief Test [“Steering a Boat”] (1935, Louis Lumière) 3D

Untitled Lumière Relief Test [“Kids at the Pier”] (1935, Louis Lumière) 3D

+Hugo (2011, Martin Scorsese) 3D – 6.0 [down from 6.4]

 

December

+Dimensional Excursions (2024, Peter Rose) 3D

+Red Capriccio (2014, Blake Williams) 3D

+Mutations (1972, Lillian F. Schwartz) 3D

+The Green Wave (2011, Ken Jacobs) DP

+cinéma concret (2015, Takashi Makino) 3D

+Let Your Light Shine (2013, Jodie Mack) 3D

Transcontinent [3D] (2024, Peter Rose)

+Speechless (2008, Scott Stark) 16mm

+Flesh for Frankenstein (1973, Paul Morrissey) 3D – 7.3 [same]

+Goodbye to Language (2014, Jean-Luc Godard) 3D – 8.5 [down from 9.2]

+The Three Disasters (2013, Jean-Luc Godard) 3D

+Laberint Sequences (2023, Blake Williams) 3D

+Ulysses in the Subway (2017, Marc Downie, Paul Kaiser, & Ken and Flo Jacobs) 3D – 6.5 [same]

+Jackass 3D (2010, Jeff Tremaine) 3D – 5.5 [down from 6.1]

+House of Wax (1953, André De Toth) 3D – 6.8 [up from 6.4]

+Treasure of the Four Crowns (1983, Ferdinando Baldi) 3D – 7.4 [same]

Domo Arigato [3D] (1973, Arch Oboler) – 4.8

No is E (2006, Takashi Makino)

At the Horizon (2017, Takashi Makino & Manuel Knapp)

TT3D: Closer to the Edge [3D] (2011, Richard De Aragues) – 4.2

+Sorcerer (1977, William Friedkin) – 7.6 [same]

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