February 15
7:00PM – Woche der Kritik: Cinema of Care – Opening Conference (Elke Marhöfer, Julia Bee, Claire Denis, Marek Hovorka, Abby Sun, Devika Girish, & Isabell Lorey), Akademie der Künste, Pariser Platz
 

February 16
11:00AM – Our Body (Claire Simon), Kino Arsenal 1 [Press]
3:15PM – Forum Expanded: An Atypical Orbit, Silent Green Kulturquartier
               – Dreams (Tenzin Phuntsog)
               – Comrade leader, comrade leader, how nice to see you (Walid Raad)
               – Father Mother (Tenzin Phuntsog)
               – Achala (Tenzin Phuntsog)
               – Dancing Boy (Tenzin Phuntsog)
               – Summer Grass (Tenzin Phuntsog)
               – A Very Long Gif (Eduardo Williams)
10:00PM – BlackBerry (Matt Johnson), CinemaxX 3 [Press]
 

February 17
9:00AM – The Survival of Kindness (Rolf de Heer), Berlinale Palast [Press]
1:00PM – Being in a Place – A Portrait of Margaret Tait (Luke Fowler), Kino Arsenal 1
2:45PM – Forum Expanded: An Atypical Orbit, Silent Green Kulturquartier
               – A Chair (1970, Takahiko Iimura)
               – Blinking (1970, Takahiko Iimura)
               – Self Identity #4: (I Am (Not) Takahiro Iimura, I Am (Not) Akiko Iimura) [1978 version] (1972, Takahiko Iimura)
               – Time Tunnel (1971, Takahiko Iimura)
4:15PM – White Plastic Sky (Tibor Bánóczki & Sarolta Szabó), Akademie der Künste
8:00PM – Regardless of Us (Yoo Heong-jun), Kino Arsenal 1
 

February 18
8:45AM – The Shadowless Tower (Zhang Lu), Berlinale Palast [Press]
12:30PM – Manodrome (John Trengove), Berlinale Palast [Press]
3:30PM – Forum Expanded: Tartupaluk (Prototype) (Laakkuluk Williamson Bathory), Botschaft von Kanada – Marshall McLuhan Salon
4:00PM – Melting Ink (Dominik Graf), Hackesche Höfe Kino
10:00PM – The Echo (Tatiana Huezo), Cubix 5
 

February 19
10:00AM – The Beast in the Jungle (Patric Chiha), Cubix 7
3:00PM – Forms of Forgetting (Burak Çevik), Cubix 1 [Press]
7:30PM – The Adults (Dustin Guy Defa), Zoo Palast 3,4,5
10:00PM – Orlando, My Political Biography (Paul B. Preciado), Cubix 5
 

February 20
10:00AM – Past Lives (Celine Song), Cubix 9
1:00PM – Here (Bas Devos), Cubix 7
4:00PM – Notes from Eremocene (Viera Čákanyová), Kino Arsenal 1
7:30PM – Order (1980, Sohrab Shahid Saless), Akademie der Künste 16mm
 

February 21
8:45AM – Music (Angela Schanelec), Berlinale Palast [Press]
1:00PM – Samsara (Lois Patiño), Cubix 5
3:30PM – Tótem (Lila Avilés), Zoo Palast 1
6:45PM – The Plough (Philippe Garrel), Berlinale Palast
10:30PM – Talk to Me (Danny & Michael Philippou), Kino International
 

February 22
9:00AM – Afire (Christian Petzold), Berlinale Palast
12:30PM – Disco Boy (Giacomo Abbruzzese), Zoo Palast 1
5:00PM – in water (Hong Sang-soo), Akademie der Künste
8:00PM – Home Invasion (Graeme Arnfield), Kino Arsenal 1
 

February 23
10:30AM – About Thirty (Martín Shanly), Zoo Palast 5
3:30PM – The Trial (Ulises de la Orden), Delphi Filmpalast
 

February 24
9:00AM – Till the End of the Night (Christoph Hochhäusler), Berlinale Palast
1:30PM – Living Bad (João Canijo), Zoo Palast 5
6:45PM – Bad Living (João Canijo), Verti Music Hall
 

February 25
11:00AM – Twilight (1990, György Fehér), Cubix 3
2:00PM – ALLENSWORTH (James Benning), [email protected] green

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

This list will be updated each time I see a film from 2022 (world premiere/imdb date) that is better than at least one of the films already on the list.

1. EO (Jerzy Skolimowski)
2. The Plains (David Easteal)
3. Showing Up (Kelly Reichardt)
4. Trenque Lauquen (Laura Citarella)
5. De Humani Corporis Fabrica (Véréna Paravel & Lucien Castaing-Taylor)
6. Apollo 10½: A Space Age Childhood (Richard Linklater)
7. Coma (Bertrand Bonello)
8. We Had the Day Bonsoir (Narimane Mari)
9. The Natural History of Destruction (Sergei Loznitsa)
10. The Dream and the Radio (Renaud Després-Larose & Ana Tapia Rousiouk)

 

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

1. EO (2022, Jerzy Skolimowski)
2. The Tsugua Diaries (2021, Miguel Gomes & Maureen Fazendeiro)
3. Apollo 10½: A Space Age Childhood (2022, Richard Linklater)
4. Rock Bottom Riser (2021, Fern Silva)
5. The Last City (2020, Heinz Emigholz)
6. Mr. Bachmann and His Class (2021, Maria Speth)
7. The Novelist’s Film (2022, Hong Sang-soo)
8. Vortex (2021, Gaspar Noé)
9. Saint Omer (2022, Alice Diop)
10. The Girl and the Spider (2021, Ramon Zürcher)

 

My Top 10 Discoveries During 2022 (for first-time viewings of films made before 2010)

1. Hospital (1970, Frederick Wiseman)
2. Vengeance Is Mine (1984, Michael Roemer)
3. Femme Fatale (2002, Brian De Palma)
4. Blind (1987, Frederick Wiseman)
5. The French (1982, William Klein)
6. Man’s Favorite Sport? (1964, Howard Hawks)
7. Forever a Woman (1955, Kinuyo Tanaka)
8. Tales from the Gimli Hospital Redux (1988, Guy Maddin)
9. Take Me Out to the Ball Game (1949, Busby Berkeley)
10. Soylent Green (1973, Richard Fleischer)

 

Other 2022 films I’ve seen

• Queens of the Qing Dynasty (Ashley McKenzie) – 6.9
• Fairytale (Aleksandr Sokurov) – 6.9
• The Lives of Infamous Men (Gilles Deroo & Marianne Pistone) – 6.9
• The Novelist’s Film (Hong Sang-soo) – 6.8
• Saint Omer (Alice Diop) – 6.8
• Pacifiction (Albert Serra) – 6.7
• Afterwater (Dane Komljen) – 6.7
• Rewind & Play (Alain Gomis) – 6.7
• The Middle Ages (Alejo Moguillansky & Luciana Acuña) – 6.7
• Sparta (Ulrich Seidl) – 6.6
• TÁR (Todd Field) – 6.6
• Dry Ground Burning (Adirley Queirós & Joana Pimenta) – 6.6
• The African Desperate (Martine Syms) – 6.6
• Crimes of the Future (David Cronenberg) – 6.5
• Safe Place (Juraj Lerotić) – 6.5
• The United States of America (James Benning) – 6.5
• Met Mes (Sam de Jong) – 6.5
• White Noise (Noah Baumbach) – 6.4
• The Fabelmans (Steven Spielberg) – 6.4
• About the Clouds (María Aparicio) – 6.4
• All the Beauty and the Bloodshed (Laura Poitras) – 6.4
• That Kind of Summer (Denis Côté) – 6.4
• Tales of the Purple House (Abbas Fahdel) – 6.4
• Negative Path (Alan Martín Segal) – 6.3
• Walk Up (Hong Sang-soo) – 6.3
• Avatar: The Way of Water (James Cameron) – 6.3
• The Civil Dead (Clay Tatum) – 6.3
• Mother and Son (Léonor Serraille) – 6.3
• One Fine Morning (Mia Hansen-Løve) – 6.2
• Blonde (Andrew Dominik) – 6.2
• The Unstable Object II (Daniel Eisenberg) – 6.2
• Third Grade (Jacques Doillon) – 6.1
• Dying in Ibiza: A Film in Three Summers (Mattéo Eustachon, Léo Couture, & Anton Balekdjian) – 6.1
• Glass Onion (Rian Johnson) – 6.1
• ALLENSWORTH (James Benning) – 6.1
• Funny Pages (Owen Kline) – 6.1
• I Didn’t See You There (Reid Davenport) – 6.1
• Triangle of Sadness (Ruben Östlund) – 6.1
• Return to Seoul (Davy Chou) – 6.0
• Magdala (Damien Manivel) – 6.0
• Tori and Lokita (Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne) – 6.0
• Dos Estaciones (Juan Pablo González) – 6.0
• Striking Land (Raul Domingues) – 6.0
• Nobody’s Hero (Alain Guiraudie) – 5.9
• Being in a Place (Luke Fowler) – 5.9
• The Banshees of Inisherin (Martin McDonagh) – 5.9
• Armageddon Time (James Gray) – 5.9
• The Adventures of Gigi the Law (Alessandro Comodin) – 5.9
• Christophe… Definitely (Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster & Ange Leccia) – 5.9
• Kimi (Steven Soderbergh) – 5.9
• Brother and Sister (Arnaud Desplechin) – 5.8
• A Little Love Package (Gastón Solnicki) – 5.7
• The Fire Within: Requiem for Katia and Maurice Krafft (Werner Herzog) – 5.7
• Sharp Stick (Lena Dunham) – 5.7
• Barail (Denis Cointe) – 5.7
• R.M.N. (Cristian Mungiu) – 5.7
• Where Is This Street? or With No Before or After (João Pedro Rodrigues & João Rui Guerra da Mata) – 5.7
• See You Friday, Robinson (Mitra Farahani) – 5.6
• Riceboy Sleeps (Anthony Shim) – 5.6
• Scarlet (Pietro Marcello) – 5.6
• Poitiers (Jérôme Reybaud) – 5.6
• Horse Opera (Moyra Davey) – 5.6
• Both Sides of the Blade (Claire Denis) – 5.6
• Nope (Jordan Peele) – 5.6
• There There (Andrew Bujalski) – 5.6
• Answering the Sun (Rainer Kohlberger) – 5.6
• Fourth of July (Louis C.K.) – 5.6
• Aftersun (Charlotte Wells) – 5.5
• Footnote (Zhengfan Yang) – 5.5
• Happer’s Comet (Tyler Taormina) – 5.5
• Unrest (Cyril Schäublin) – 5.5
• How to Blow Up a Pipeline (Daniel Goldhaber) – 5.5
• Camouflage (Jonathan Perel) – 5.5
• Mutzenbacher (Ruth Beckermann) – 5.5
• Riotsville, USA (Sierra Pettengill) – 5.5
• Cha Cha Real Smooth (Cooper Raiff) – 5.5
• The Eternal Daughter (Joanna Hogg) – 5.5
• So Much Tenderness (Lina Rodriguez) – 5.5
• A Very Long Gif (Eduardo Williams) – 5.5
• The Passengers of the Night (Mikhaël Hers) – 5.4
• Human Flowers of Flesh (Helena Wittmann) – 5.4
• Enys Men (Mark Jenkin) – 5.4
• Resurrection (Andrew Semans) – 5.4
• Good Luck to You, Leo Grande (Sophie Hyde) – 5.4
• Three Thousand Years of Longing (George Miller) – 5.4
• The Kingdom: Exodus (Lars von Trier) – 5.4
• Theater of Thought (Werner Herzog) – 5.4
• A Flower in the Mouth (Éric Baudelaire) – 5.3
• Jackass Forever (Jeff Tremaine) – 5.3
• Top Gun: Maverick (Joseph Kosinski) – 5.3
• For 13 Days, I Believed Him (Kiyoshi Kurosawa) – 5.3
• Viking (Stéphane Lafleur) – 5.3
• It Is Night in America (Ana Vaz) – 5.3
• Forever Young (Valeria Bruni Tedeschi) – 5.3
• The Dam (Ali Cherri) – 5.3
• Matter Out of Place (Nikolaus Geyrhalter) – 5.3
• Pamfir (Dmytro Sukholytkyy-Sobchuk) – 5.3
• Godland (Hlynur Pálmason) – 5.2
• Metronom (Alexandru Belc) – 5.2
• Other People’s Children (Rebecca Zlotowski) – 5.2
• This House (Miryam Charles) – 5.2
• Darkness, Darkness, Burning Bright (Gaëlle Rouard) – 5.2
• Small, Slow but Steady (Shô Miyake) – 5.2
• 2nd Chance (Ramin Bahrani) – 5.2
• Sick of Myself (Kristoffer Borgli) – 5.1
• A Couple (Frederick Wiseman) – 5.1
• Aftersun (Lluís Galter) – 5.1
• Fall (Vadim Kostrov) – 5.1
• Slaughterhouses of Modernity (Heinz Emigholz) – 5.1
• The Kegelstatt Trio (Rita Azevedo Gomes) – 5.1
• Descendant (Margaret Brown) – 5.1
• Self-Portrait (Joële Walinga) – 5.1
• Falcon Lake (Charlotte Le Bon) – 5.1
• Navalny (Daniel Roher) – 5.1
• Summering (James Ponsoldt) – 5.1
• Rodeo (Lola Quivoron) – 5.1
• Diary of a Fleeting Affair (Emmanuel Mouret) – 5.0
• blood (Bradley Rust Gray) – 5.0
• Geographies of Solitude (Jacqueline Mills) – 5.0
• Corsage (Marie Kreutzer) – 5.0
• Will-o’-the-Wisp (João Pedro Rodrigues) – 4.9
• The Eight Mountains (Charlotte Vandermeersch & Felix van Groeningen) – 4.9
• Exterior Night (Marco Bellocchio) – 4.9
• Deep Water (Adrian Lyne) – 4.9
• No Bears (Jafar Panahi) – 4.9
• Nomotopowell (Brent Chesanek) – 4.9
• Way Out Ahead of Us (Rob Rice) – 4.8
• Flux Gourmet (Peter Strickland) – 4.8
• Barbarian (Zach Cregger) – 4.8
• Call Jane (Phyllis Nagy) – 4.8
• Decision to Leave (Park Chan-wook) – 4.8
• Fire of Love (Sara Dosa) – 4.8
• The Water (Elena López Riera) – 4.8
• The Worst Ones (Romane Gueret & Lise Akoka) – 4.8
• Women Talking (Sarah Polley) – 4.8
• Brother in Every Inch (Alexander Zolotukhin) – 4.7
• EAMI (Paz Encina) – 4.7
• You Have to Come and See It (Jonás Trueba) – 4.7
• The Maiden (Graham Foy) – 4.7
• Tchaïkovsky’s Wife (Kirill Serebrennikov) – 4.7
• You Have to Come and See It (Jonás Trueba) – 4.7
• Don Juan (Serge Bozon) – 4.6
• Life Lasts Two Days (Leonardo Mouramateus) – 4.6
• Everything Everywhere All at Once (Daniel Kwan & Daniel Scheinert) – 4.6
• The Child (Marguerite de Hillerin & Félix Dutilloy-Liégeois) – 4.6
• Mangosteen (Tulapop Saenjaroen) – 4.6
• The Greatest Beer Run Ever (Peter Farrelly) – 4.6
• Stars at Noon (Claire Denis) – 4.5
• Joyland (Saim Sadiq) – 4.5
• Alcarràs (Carla Simón) – 4.5
• Babylon (Damien Chazelle) – 4.5
• Rimini (Ulrich Seidl) – 4.4
• Bones and All (Luca Guadagnino) – 4.4
• The Line (Ursula Meier) – 4.4
• Stonewalling (Huang Ji & Otsuka Ryuji) – 4.4
• Garden Sandbox (Yukinori Kurokawa) – 4.4
• Nostalgia (Mario Martone) – 4.4
• Robe of Gems (Natalia López Gallardo) – 4.3
• Valeria Is Getting Married (Michal Vinik) – 4.3
• Final Cut (Michel Hazanavicius) – 4.2
• The Inspection (Elegance Bratton) – 4.2
• Quarries (Ellie Ga) – 4.2
• La Jauría (Andrés Ramírez Pulido) – 4.1
• Holy Spider (Ali Abbasi) – 4.1
• Talk to Me (Danny & Michael Philippou) – 4.0
• Boy from Heaven (Tarik Saleh) – 4.0
• Jet Lag (Zheng Lu Xinyuan) – 3.9
• Super Natural (Jorge Jácome) – 3.8
• Night Detour (Paul Chotel & Ariane Falardeau St-Amour) – 3.8
• My Two Voices (Lina Rodriguez) – 3.8
• Empire of Light (Sam Mendes) – 3.7
• God’s Creatures (Saela Davis & Anna Rose Holmer) – 3.7
• The Veteran (Jerónimo Rodríguez) – 3.6
• The Five Devils (Léa Mysius) – 3.6
• Broker (Hirokazu Kore-eda) – 3.6
• Dalíland (Mary Harron) – 3.4
• Close (Lukas Dhont) – 3.4
• Leila’s Brothers (Saeed Roustaee) – 3.3
• Can Someone Meet Me in Dark Alley? (Gaetano Liberti & Luciano Pérez Savoy) – 3.3
• The Name of Things (Diego Escobar) – 3.3
• The Survival of Kindness (Rolf de Heer) – 3.2
• Three Tidy Tigers Tied a Tie Tighter (Gustavo Vinagre) – 2.8
• The Whale (Darren Aronofsky) – 2.2

Ⓟ is for Public
Ⓕ is for Free
Ⓜ is for Market
 

September 8
9:45am – Valeria Is Getting Married (Michal Vinik), Scotiabank 9
1pm – Joyland (Saim Sadiq), Scotiabank 1
4:30pm – Women Talking (Sarah Polley), Scotiabank 12
9pm – Return to Seoul (Davy Chou), Lightbox 2 Ⓟ
 

September 9
9am – The Inspection (Elegance Bratton), Scotiabank 1
12:50pm – So Much Tenderness (Lina Rodriguez), Scotiabank 7
3:30-5pm – Meriem Bennani: Life on the CAPS (Meriem Bennani), The Power Plant
9:15pm – Horse Opera (Moyra Davey), Lightbox 4 Ⓟ
               – preceded by EVENTIDE (Sharon Lockhart)
 

September 10
12:10pm – No Bears (Jafar Panahi), Scotiabank 11
3pm – Tales from the Gimli Hospital Redux (Guy Maddin), Lightbox 4 Ⓕ
6:45pm – Wavelengths 1: Fata Morgana, Lightbox 4 Ⓟ
               – Fata Morgana (Tacita Dean)
               + After Work (Céline Condorelli & Ben Rivers)
               – F1ghting Looks Different 2 Me Now (Fox Maxy)
               – Moonrise (Vincent Grenier)
               – The Time That Separates Us (Parastoo Anoushahpour)
 

September 11
8am – The Fabelmans (Steven Spielberg), Lightbox 1 & 2
1pm – Dalíland (Mary Harron), Scotiabank 12
3:40pm – Other People’s Children (Rebecca Zlotowski), Scotiabank 7
6pm – Wavelengths 2: Crisis of Contact, Lightbox 4 Ⓟ
               – What Rules the Invisible (Tiffany Sia)
               + Hors-titre (Wiame Haddad)
               – Puerta a Puerta (Luis Arnías & Jessica Sarah Rinland)
               – Bigger on the Inside (Angelo Madsen Minax)
               – I Thought the World of You (Kurt Walker)
               + The Newest Olds (Pablo Mazzolo)
 

September 12
9am – The Whale (Darren Aronofsky), Scotiabank 1
12:30pm – Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery (Rian Johnson), Royal Alexandra Theatre
3:40pm – Riceboy Sleeps (Anthony Shim), Scotiabank 5
6pm – All the Beauty and the Bloodshed (Laura Poitras), Lightbox 1 Ⓟ
 

September 13
8:45am – The Banshees of Inisherin (Martin McDonagh), Scotiabank 3
12:15pm – Saint Omer (Alice Diop), Scotiabank 13
3pm – Empire of Light (Sam Mendes), Princess of Wales Ⓟ
6:30pm – Falcon Lake (Charlotte Le Bon), Scotiabank 4 Ⓟ
 

September 14
9:05am – The Greatest Beer Run Ever (Peter Farrelly), Lightbox 1
11:35am – Viking (Stéphane Lafleur), Scotiabank 11
2:45pm – Stonewalling (Huang Ji & Otsuka Ryuji), Scotiabank 9 Ⓟ
8:30pm + EO (Jerzy Skolimowski), Scotiabank 12 Ⓟ
 

September 15
9:30am – Subtraction (Mani Haghighi), Scotiabank 13 W/O
12:10pm – Life (Emir Baigazin), Scotiabank 5 W/O
 

September 16
8:30am – How to Blow Up a Pipeline (Daniel Goldhaber), Scotiabank 2
12:45pm – Walk Up (Hong Sang-soo), Scotiabank 9
3:30pm – I Shot Andy Warhol (Mary Harron), Lightbox 3 Ⓕ
8pm – Theater of Thought (Werner Herzog), Scotiabank 12 Ⓟ
 

September 17
9:15am – The Worst Ones (Romane Gueret & Lise Akoka), Scotiabank 10 Ⓟ
9:30pm – The Maiden (Graham Foy), Lightbox 3 Ⓟ
 

September 18
1pm – The Eternal Daughter (Joanna Hogg), Scotiabank 1 Ⓟ

 

Films I have already seen:
Aftersun (Charlotte Wells)
Broker (Hirokazu Kore-eda)
Concrete Valley (Antoine Bourges)
Corsage (Marie Kreutzer)
De Humani Corporis Fabrica (Lucien Castaing-Taylor & Véréna Paravel)
Decision to Leave (Park Chan-wook)
Dry Ground Burning (Joana Pimenta & Adirley Queirós)
EO (Jerzy Skolimowski)
Godland (Hlynur Pálmason)
Holy Spider (Ali Abbasi)
La Jauría (Andrés Ramírez Pulido)
One Fine Morning (Mia Hansen-Løve)
Pacifiction (Albert Serra)
Queens of the Qing Dynasty (Ashley McKenzie)
R.M.N. (Cristian Mungiu)
Triangle of Sadness (Ruben Östlund)
Unrest (Cyril Schäublin)
Will-o’-the-Wisp (João Pedro Rodrigues)

Key:
Features (40min. and up) are in bold
Shorts are in italics
★ - I have seen this film and feel that it is worth seeing (5.5 and higher)
✘ - I have seen this film and wish I hadn't (3.9 and lower)
● - I have seen this film and am more or less okay with that
○ - I am seriously considering making an attempt to see this film during the festival
16mm, 35mm, 70mm - It'll be screened from a film print

Colour coding:
NYFF - Slate and Main (galas included, this year)
SUNDANCE - Good luck to you, Nikyatu Jusu
BERLINALE - Brief encounters
CANNES - The worst ones
LOCARNO - 🧐
VENICE - Other people's movies
NOTABLE - New features by filmmakers whose work I actively look forward to

(Colours trump whatever is below them, so e.g. a film that played both Cannes and Locarno will be gold, unless e.g. it ends up in the NYFF Main Slate in which case it will become purple)

 

Contemporary World Cinema (50; Last year: 25)
Aftersun (Charlotte Wells) ★
Alam (Firas Khoury)
Amanda (Carolina Cavalli)
Ashkal (Youssef Chebbi)
Autobiography (Makbul Mubarak) ○
Beyond the Wall (Vahid Jalilvand)
Blind Willows, Sleeping Women (Pierre Földes)
Bones of Crows (Marie Clements)
Coyote (Katherine Jerkovic)
Domingo and the Mist (Ariel Escalante Meza)
The End of Sex (Sean Garrity)
EO (Jerzy Skolimowski) ★
Falcon Lake (Charlotte Le Bon) ○
Fixation (Mercedes Bryce Morgan)
Godland (Hlynur Pálmason) ●
The Happiest Man in the World (Teona Strugar Mitevska)
The Hotel (Wang Xiaoshuai)
La Jauría (Andrés Ramírez Pulido) ●
Life (Emir Baigazin) ○
Living (Oliver Hermanus) ○
Love and Mathematics (Claudia Sainte-Luce)
Love Life (Kôji Fukada) ○
Luxembourg, Luxembourg (Antonio Lukich)
The Maiden (Graham Foy) ○
Manticore (Carlos Vermut) ○
Muru (Tearepa Kahi)
My Sailor, My Love (Klaus Härö)
Nighttalk (Donald Shebib)
North of Normal (Carly Stone)
The Origin of Evil (Sébastien Marnier)
Plan 75 (Chie Hayakawa)
Return to Dust (Li Ruijun)
R.M.N. (Cristian Mungiu) ★
So Much Tenderness (Lina Rodriguez) ○
Sparta (Ulrich Seidl) ○
Stellar (Darlene Naponse)
Stonewalling (Huang Ji & Otsuka Ryuji) ○
The Swearing Jar (Lindsay MacKay)
The Umbrella Men (John Barker)
Under the Fig Trees (Erige Sehiri)
Valeria Is Getting Married (Michal Vinik) ○
Vicenta B. (Carlos Lechuga)
Victim (Michal Blasko)
War Sailor (Gunnar Vikene)
The Water (Elena López Riera) ○
We Are Still Here (Beck Cole, Dena Curtis, Tracey Rigney, Danielle MacLean, Tim Worrall, Renae Maihi, Miki Magasiva, Mario Gaoa, Richard Curtis, & Chantelle Burgoyne)
Wildflower (Matt Smukler)
Winter Boy (Christophe Honoré) ○
The Worst Ones (Romane Gueret & Lise Akoka) ○
Zwigato (Nandita Das)

 

Special Presentations (47; Last year: 30)
Allelujah (Sir Richard Eyre)
All Quiet on the Western Front (Edward Berger)
The Banshees of Inisherin (Martin McDonagh)
Biosphere (Mel Eslyn)
Blueback (Robert Connolly)
The Blue Caftan (Maryam Touzani)
Broker (Hirokazu Kore-eda) ✘
Bros (Nicholas Stoller)
Brother (Clement Virgo)
Catherine Called Birdy (Lena Dunham) ○
Causeway (Lila Neugebauer)
Chevalier (Stephen Williams)
Corsage (Marie Kreutzer) ●
Decision to Leave (Park Chan-wook) ●
Devotion (JD Dillard)
Driving Madeleine (Christian Carion)
El Suplente (Diego Lerman)
Empire of Light (Sam Mendes) ○
The Eternal Daughter (Joanna Hogg) ○
The Fabelmans (Steven Spielberg) ○
Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery (Rian Johnson) ○
Good Night Oppy (Ryan White) ○
The Good Nurse (Tobias Lindholm)
Holy Spider (Ali Abbasi) ●
Joyland (Saim Sadiq) ○
The King’s Horseman (Biyi Bandele)
The Lost King (Stephen Frears)
A Man of Reason (Jung Woo-sung)
The Menu (Mark Mylod)
Moonage Daydream (Brett Morgan) ○
My Policeman (Michael Grandage)
Nanny (Nikyatu Jusu) ○
No Bears (Jafar Panahi) ○
Nope (Jordan Peele) ●
On the Come Up (Sanaa Lathan)
One Fine Morning (Mia Hansen-Løve) ★
Other People’s Children (Rebecca Zlotowski) ○
The Return of Tanya Tucker: Featuring Brandi Carlile (Kathlyn Horan)
Saint Omer (Alice Diop) ○
Sanctuary (Zachary Wigon)
Stories Not to Be Told (Cesc Gay)
Triangle of Sadness (Ruben Östlund) ★
Walk Up (Hong Sang-soo) ○
Wendell & Wild (Henry Selick)
Women Talking (Sarah Polley) ○
The Whale (Darren Aronofsky) ○
The Wonder (Sebastián Lelio)

 

Discovery (23; Last year: 16)
Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe (Aitch Alberto) ○
Baby Ruby (Bess Wohl)
Carmen (Benjamin Millepied)
Daughter of Rage (Laura Baumeister)
A Gaza Weekend (Basil Khalil)
I Like Movies (Chandler Levack) ○
The Inspection (Elegance Bratton) ○
A Long Break (Davit Pirtskhalava)
Rosie (Gail Maurice)
Return to Seoul (Davy Chou) ○
Runner (Marian Mathias)
Shimoni (Angela Wanjiku Wamai)
Snow and the Bear (Selcen Ergun)
Soft (Joseph Amenta)
Something You Said Last Night (Luis De Filippis)
Susie Searches (Sophie Kargman)
Sweet As (Jub Clerc)
The Taste of Apples Is Red (Ehab Tarabieh)
This Place (V. T. Nayani)
Unruly (Malou Reymann)
Until Branches Bend (Sophie Jarvis) ○
When Morning Comes (Kelly Fyffe-Marshall)
The Young Arsonists (Sheila Pye)

 

TIFF Docs (22; Last year: 14)
All the Beauty and the Bloodshed (Laura Poitras) ○
Buffy Sainte-Marie: Carry It On (Madison Thomas)
Casa Susanna (Sébastien Lifshitz)
Ciné-Guerrillas: Scenes from the Labudovic Reels (Mila Turajlic)
The Colour of Ink (Brian Johnson)
Documentary Now! (Alex Buono, Rhys Thomas, & Micah Gardner)
Ever Deadly (Chelsea McMullan & Tanya Tagaq)
Free Money (Sam Soko & Lauren DeFilippo)
The Grab (Gabriela Cowperthwaite)
In Her Hands (Tamana Ayazi & Marcel Mettelsiefen)
Louis Armstrong’s Black & Blues (Sacha Jenkins)
Mariupolis 2 (Mantas Kvedaravičius) ○
Maya and the Wave (Stephanie Johnes)
Miúcha, the Voice of Bossa Nova (Daniel Zarvos & Liliane Mutti)
My Imaginary Country (Patricio Guzmán)
Patrick and the Whale (Mark Fletcher)
Pray for Our Sinners (Sinéad O’Shea)
Self-Portrait as a Coffee Pot (William Kentridge) ○
752 Is Not a Number (Babak Payami)
Theatre of Thought (Werner Herzog) ○
To Kill a Tiger (Nisha Pahuja)
While We Watched (Vinay Shukla)

 

Gala Presentations (19; Last year: 15)
Alice, Darling (Mary Nighy)
Black Ice (Hubert Davis)
The Greatest Beer Run Ever (Peter Farrelly) ○
Butcher’s Crossing (Gabe Polsky)
Dalíland (Mary Harron) ○
The Hummingbird (Francesca Archibugi)
Hunt (Lee Jung-jae)
A Jazzman’s Blues (Tyler Perry)
Kacchey Limbu (Shubham Yogi)
Moving On (Paul Weitz)
Paris Memories (Alice Winocour) ○
Prisoner’s Daughter (Catherine Hardwicke)
Raymond & Ray (Rodrigo García)
Roost (Amy Redford)
Sidney (Reginald Hudlin)
The Son (Florian Zeller)
The Swimmers (Sally El Hosaini)
What’s Love Got to Do With It? (Shekhar Kapur)
The Woman King (Gina Prince-Bythewood)

 

Wavelengths (11; Last year: 7, including shorts programmes & exhibitions)
Concrete Valley (Antoine Bourges) ●
De Humani Corporis Fabrica (Lucien Castaing-Taylor & Véréna Paravel) ★
Dry Ground Burning (Joana Pimenta & Adirley Queirós) ★
Horse Opera (Moyra Davey) ○
               – preceded by EVENTIDE (Sharon Lockhart)
Pacifiction (Albert Serra) ★
Queens of the Qing Dynasty (Ashley McKenzie) ★
Unrest (Cyril Schäublin) ★
Will-o’-the-Wisp (João Pedro Rodrigues) ●

Wavelengths 1: Fata Morgana ○
– Fata Morgana (Tacita Dean) 16mm
+ After Work (Céline Condorelli & Ben Rivers)
– F1ghting Looks Different 2 Me Now (Fox Maxy)
– Moonrise (Vincent Grenier)
– The Time That Separates Us (Parastoo Anoushahpour)

Wavelengths 2: Crisis of Contact ○
– What Rules the Invisible (Tiffany Sia)
+ Hors-titre (Wiame Haddad)
– Puerta a Puerta (Luis Arnías & Jessica Sarah Rinland)
– Bigger on the Inside (Angelo Madsen Minax)
– I Thought the World of You (Kurt Walker)
+ The Newest Olds (Pablo Mazzolo) 35mm

Meriem Bennani: Life on the CAPS (Meriem Bennani @ The Power Plant) ○
– Life on the CAPS (2018-22, Meriem Bennani)
– 2 Lizards (2020, Meriem Bennani & Orian Barki)

 

Platform (10; Last year: 8)
Charcoal (Carolina Markowicz)
Emily (Frances O’Connor)
The Gravity (Cédric Ido)
Hawa (Maïmouna Doucouré)
How to Blow Up a Pipeline (Daniel Goldhaber) ○
Riceboy Sleeps (Anthony Shim) ○
Subtraction (Mani Haghighi) ○
Thunder (Carmen Jaquier)
Tora’s Husband (Rima Das)
Viking (Stéphane Lafleur) ○

 

Midnight Madness (10; Last year: 6)
The Blackening (Tim Story)
Leonor Will Never Die (Martika Ramirez Escobar)
Pearl (Ti West)
The People’s Joker (Vera Drew) ○
Project Wolf Hunting (Kim Hongsun)
Sick (John Hyams) ○
Sisu (Jalmari Helander)
Venus (Jaume Balagueró)
V/H/S/ 99 (Maggie Levin, Johannes Roberts, Tyler MacIntyre, Flying Lotus, Joseph Winter, & Vanessa Winter)
Weird: The Al Yankovic Story (Eric Appel)

 

Primetime (7; Last year: 4)
Dear Mama [Pilot Episode (?)] (Allen Hughes)
1899 [Three (?) Episodes] (Baran bo Odar & Jantje Friese)
The Handmaid’s Tale [Two Episodes] (Bruce Miller)
High School [Three (?) Episodes] (Clea DuVall)
The Kingdom Exodus [Two (?) Episodes] (Lars von Trier) ○
LIDO TV [Pilot Episode (?)] (Maya Annik Bedward & Alicia K. Harris)
Mystery Road: Origin [Two (?) Episodes] (Dylan River)

 

TIFF Cinematheque (5; Last year: 7)
Agantuk (1991, Satyajit Ray) ○
I Shot Andy Warhol (1996, Mary Harron) 35mm ○
Strictly Ballroom (1992, Baz Luhrmann)
Tales from the Gimli Hospital Redux (1988, Guy Maddin) ○
Werckmeister Harmonies (2000, Béla Tarr & Ágnes Hranitzky) ★

 

Special Events (Last year: 8)
R.I.P.

 

Short Cuts / In Conversation With…
Check the festival website for info about films & events in these sections.

 

July 6
2:00pm – Way Out Ahead of Us (Rob Rice), Variétés 1
6:30pm – Garden Sandbox (Yukinori Kurokawa), Variétés 2
9:00pm – The Lives of Infamous Men (Gilles Deroo & Marianne Pistone), Variétés 1
 

July 7
2:00pm – Flash Competition Shorts, Variétés 1
               – Welcome (Jean-Claude Rousseau)
               – Against Time (Ben Russell)
               – Ptitsa (Alina Maksimenko)
               – After Work (Ben Rivers & Celine Condorelli)
9:00pm – +A Woman Escapes (Sofia Bohdanowicz, Burak Çevik, & Blake Williams), Cinéma Artplexe
 

July 8
10:00am – We Had the Day Bonsoir (Narimane Mari), Variétés 1
12:00pm – Fall (Vadim Kostrov), Videodrome 2
2:00pm – Life Lasts Two Days (Leonardo Mouramateus), La Baleine
 

July 9
12:30pm – Nomotopowell (Brent Chesanek), Cinéma Artplexe
4:30pm – +A Woman Escapes (Sofia Bohdanowicz, Burak Çevik, & Blake Williams), Cinéma Artplexe
9:00pm – Night Detour (Ariane Falardeau St-Amour & Paul Chotel), Cinéma Artplexe

 

July 10
2:30pm – +Unrest (Cyril Schäublin), Cinéma Artplexe
6:30pm – International Competition Mid-lengths, Variétés 5
               – Quarries (Ellie Ga)
               – Who Is Afraid of Ideology? Part IV – Reverse Shot (Marwa Arsanios)
9:00pm – Aftersun (Lluís Galter), Variétés 5
 

July 11
9:30am – The Unstable Object II (Daniel Eisenberg), Vidéodrome 2
2:30pm – About the Clouds (María Aparicio), Cinéma Artplexe
 

May 17
7:00pm – Final Cut (Michel Hazanavicius), Debussy
 

May 18
9:00am – Exterior Night (Marco Bellocchio), Debussy
3:30pm – Tchaïkovsky’s Wife (Kirill Serebrennikov), Lumière
7:00pm – Scarlet (Pietro Marcello), Théâtre Croisette
10:30pm – The Eight Mountains (Charlotte Vandermeersch & Felix van Groeningen), Debussy
 

May 19
8:30am – God’s Creatures (Saela Davis & Anna Rose Holmer), Théâtre Croisette
11:00am – Rodeo (Lola Quivoron), Debussy
6:30pm – Armageddon Time (James Gray), Debussy
10:15pm – EO (Jerzy Skolimowski), Debussy
 

May 20
8:30am – One Fine Morning (Mia Hansen-Løve), Théâtre Croisette
11:00am – Corsage (Marie Kreutzer), Debussy
2:45pm – Enys Men (Mark Jenkin), Théâtre Croisette
7:45pm – Son of Ramses (Clément Cogitore), Miramar W/O
10:15pm – Brother and Sister (Arnaud Desplechin), Debussy
 

May 21
9:00am – Three Thousand Years of Longing (George Miller), Varda
11:45am – Pamfir (Dmytro Sukholytkyy-Sobchuk), Théâtre Croisette
4:30pm – Triangle of Sadness (Ruben Östlund), Debussy
7:30pm – Diary of a Fleeting Affair (Emmanuel Mouret), Debussy
10:00pm – R.M.N. (Cristian Mungiu), Debussy
 

May 22
8:30am – Aftersun (Charlotte Wells), Miramar
2:15pm – Magdala (Damien Manivel), Palais C
4:45pm – Holy Spider (Ali Abbasi), Bazin
7:45pm – Don Juan (Serge Bozon), Debussy
10:15pm – Sick of Myself (Kristoffer Borgli), Debussy
 

May 23
8:30am – The Five Devils (Léa Mysius), Théâtre Croisette
11:30am – De Humani Corporis Fabrica (Véréna Paravel & Lucien Castaing-Taylor), Théâtre Croisette
4:30pm – Decision to Leave (Park Chan-wook), Debussy
 

May 24
8:30am – Funny Pages (Owen Kline), Théâtre Croisette
11:00am – The Natural History of Destruction (Sergei Loznitsa), Buñuel
5:00pm – The Dam (Ali Cherri), Théâtre Croisette
7:30pm – Crimes of the Future (David Cronenberg), Bazin
10:00pm – Will-o’-the-Wisp (João Pedro Rodrigues), Théâtre Croisette
 

May 25
8:30am – Metronom (Alexandru Belc), Debussy
12:00pm – Forever Young (Valeria Bruni Tedeschi), Cineum Aurore
3:45pm – Leila’s Brothers (Saeed Roustaee), Bazin
7:30pm – Godland (Hlynur Pálmason), Bazin
10:30pm – Stars at Noon (Claire Denis), Debussy
 

May 26
8:30am – La Jauría (Andrés Ramírez Pulido), Miramar
3:15pm – Pacifiction (Albert Serra), Lumière
10:15pm – Close (Lukas Dhont), Debussy
 

May 27
8:30am – Broker (Hirokazu Kore-eda), Lumière
3:15pm – Showing Up (Kelly Reichardt), Lumière
5:30pm – Mother and Son (Léonor Serraille), Bazin
 

May 28
11:30am – Boy from Heaven (Tarik Saleh), Bazin
3:30pm – Tori and Lokita (Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne), Varda
5:15pm – Nostalgia (Mario Martone), Varda

Ⓟ is for Public screenings

 
February 10
12:30PM – Super Natural (Jorge Jácome), CinemaxX 10
2:45PM – Nobody’s Hero (Alain Guiraudie), CinemaxX 1
6:00PM – Rimini (Ulrich Seidl), CinemaxX 1
9:00PM – Flux Gourmet (Peter Strickland), CinemaxX 4
 

February 11
9:30AM – Coma (Bertrand Bonello), CinemaxX 4
1:30PM – Jet Lag (Zheng Lu Xinyuan), Kino Arsenal 1 Ⓟ
3:30PM – Robe of Gems (Natalia López Gallardo), Berlinale Palast Ⓟ
6:30PM – Both Sides of the Blade (Claire Denis), CinemaxX 1
9:30PM – The United States of America (James Benning), Delphi Filmpalast Ⓟ
 

February 12
9:30AM – The Kegelstatt Trio (Rita Azevedo Gomes), CinemaxX 10
12:30PM – The Death of My Mother (Jessica Krummacher), CinemaxX 7 Ⓟ W/O
3:00PM – The Line (Ursula Meier), Friedrichstadt-Palast Ⓟ
7:00PM – Happer’s Comet (Tyler Taormina), CinemaxX 10
9:00PM – The Middle Ages (Alejo Moguillansky & Luciana Acuña), Delphi Filmpalast Ⓟ
 

February 13
9:30AM – This House (Miryam Charles), CinemaxX 10
12:00PM – The Passengers of the Night (Mikhaël Hers), CinemaxX 1
3:30PM – That Kind of Summer (Denis Côté), CinemaxX 1
7:00PM – Dry Ground Burning (Adirley Queirós & Joana Pimenta), CinemaxX 10
 

February 14
9:30AM – Queens of the Qing Dynasty (Ashley McKenzie), CinemaxX 3
12:00PM – Small, Slow but Steady (Shô Miyake), Cubix 7
4:00PM – Striking Land (Raul Domingues), CinemaxX 10
7:00PM – Camouflage (Jonathan Perel), CinemaxX 10
9:30PM – Unrest (Cyril Schäublin), CinemaxX 7 Ⓟ
 

February 15
9:30AM – Nuclear Family (Erin & Travis Wilkerson), CinemaxX 10
12:30PM – The Veteran (Jerónimo Rodríguez, CinemaxX 10
3:00PM – Brother in Every Inch (Alexander Zolotukhin), CinemaxX 6
7:00PM – Afterwater (Dane Komljen), CinemaxX 10
9:00PM – The Novelist’s Film (Hong Sang-soo), CinemaxX 1
 

February 16
9:30AM – A Little Love Package (Gastón Solnicki), CinemaxX 5
11:00AM – Forum Expanded Program 2, Kino Arsenal 1 Ⓟ
               – Gazing… Unseeing (Mohamed Abdelkarim)
               – Surface Rites (Faraz & Parastoo Anoushahpour, & Ryan Ferko)
               – Sun Under Ground (Mareike Bernien & Alex Gerbaulet)
2:30PM – Mutzenbacher (Ruth Beckermann), CinemaxX 5
5:30PM – Rewind & Play (Alain Gomis), Akademie der Künste
 

February 17
12:00PM – See You Friday, Robinson (Mitra Farahani), Akademie der Künste Ⓟ

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

This list will be updated each time I see a film from 2021 (world premiere/imdb date) that is better than at least one of the films already on the list.

1. Memoria (Apichatpong Weerasethakul)
2. France (Bruno Dumont)
3. The Tsugua Diaries (Miguel Gomes & Maureen Fazendeiro)
4. Rock Bottom Riser (Fern Silva)
5. First Time — The Time for All but Sunset [Violet] (Nicolaas Schmidt)
6. Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy (Ryûsuke Hamaguchi)
7. The Souvenir Part II (Joanna Hogg)
8. What Do We See When We Look at the Sky? (Alexandre Koberidze)
9. Red Rocket (Sean Baker)
10. Un monde flottant (Jean-Claude Rousseau)

 

Polls Top 10 (Eligible titles appear here.)

1. Memoria (2021, Apichatpong Weerasethakul)
2. France (2021, Bruno Dumont)
3. Her Socialist Smile (2020, John Gianvito)
4. Fauna (2020, Nicolás Pereda)
5. Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy (2021, Ryûsuke Hamaguchi)
6. The Souvenir Part II (2021, Joanna Hogg)
7. What Do We See When We Look at the Sky? (2021, Alexandre Koberidze)
8. Days (2020, Tsai Ming-liang)
9. Red Rocket (2021, Sean Baker)
10. Bergman Island (2021, Mia Hansen-Løve)

 

My Top 10 Discoveries During 2021 (for first-time viewings of films made before 2010)

1. Twin Peaks (1977, Al Wong)
2. Dressed to Kill (1980, Brian De Palma)
3. The Sugarland Express (1974, Steven Spielberg)
4. RoboCop (1987, Paul Verhoeven)
5. De son appartement (2007, Jean-Claude Rousseau)
6. Homework (1989, Abbas Kiarostami)
7. La vallée close (1995, Jean-Claude Rousseau)
8. The Seventh Continent (1989, Michael Haneke)
9. Funniest Show on Earth (1953, Mario Mattoli)
10. The Bridges of Madison County (1995, Clint Eastwood)

 

Other 2021 films I’ve seen

• Bergman Island (Mia Hansen-Løve) – 7.0
• Saxifrages, Four White Nights (Nicolas Klotz & Elisabeth Perceval) – 7.0
• Who’s Stopping Us (Jonás Trueba) – 6.9
• Mr. Bachmann and His Class (Maria Speth) – 6.9
• Licorice Pizza (Paul Thomas Anderson) – 6.8
• Vortex (Gaspar Noé) – 6.8
• The Girl and the Spider (Ramon Zürcher) – 6.8
• The Beatles: Get Back (Peter Jackson) – 6.7
• Ready Mix (Lucy Raven) – 6.7
• The Worst Person in the World (Joachim Trier) – 6.7
• The Card Counter (Paul Schrader) – 6.6
• Introduction (Hong Sang-soo) – 6.6
• Teenage Emotions (Frédéric Da) – 6.5
• The Dog Who Wouldn’t Be Quiet (Ana Katz) – 6.5
• Wood and Water (Jonas Bak) – 6.5
• The Good Woman of Sichuan (Sabrina Zhao) – 6.5
• El Planeta (Amalia Ulman) – 6.4
• El Gran Movimiento (Kiro Russo) – 6.4
• Petite Maman (Céline Sciamma) – 6.4
• Old (M. Night Shyamalan) – 6.4
• from Bakersfield to Mojave (James Benning) – 6.4
• Hit the Road (Panah Panahi) – 6.4
• Friends and Strangers (James Vaughan) – 6.3
• Annette (Leos Carax) – 6.3
• Fabian, or Going to the Dogs (Dominik Graf) – 6.3
• Ghost Song (Nicolas Peduzzi) – 6.3
• Moon, 66 Questions (Jacqueline Lentzou) – 6.2
• Onoda (Arthur Harari) – 6.2
• Drive My Car (Ryûsuke Hamaguchi) – 6.1
• Third Grade (Jacques Doillon) – 6.1
• Mr. Landsbergis (Sergei Loznitsa) – 6.1
• No Sudden Move (Steven Soderbergh) – 6.1
• Topology of Sirens (Jonathan Davies) – 6.1
• Benedetta (Paul Verhoeven) – 6.1
• Come Here (Anocha Suwichakornpong) – 6.0
• Titane (Julia Ducournau) – 6.0
• Prayers for the Stolen (Tatiana Huezo) – 6.0
• A Chiara (Jonas Carpignano) – 6.0
• Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn (Radu Jude) – 5.9
• In Front of Your Face (Hong Sang-soo) – 5.9
• Ste. Anne (Rhayne Vermette) – 5.9
• Drift Away (Xavier Beauvois) – 5.9
• Belle (Mamoru Hosoda) – 5.9
• We (Alice Diop) – 5.9
• Pebbles (P.S. Vinothraj) – 5.9
• Ahed’s Knee (Nadav Lapid) – 5.8
• We’re All Going to the World’s Fair (Jane Schoenbrun) – 5.8
• Searchers (Pacho Velez) – 5.8
• All Light, Everywhere (Theo Anthony) – 5.8
• The Crusade (Louis Garrel) – 5.7
• Double Wow (Ken Jacobs) – 5.7
• Haruhara-san’s Recorder (Kyoshi Sugita) – 5.7
• The Tale of King Crab (Alessio Rigo de Righi & Matteo Zoppis) – 5.7
• Întregalde (Radu Muntean) – 5.6
• Kinorama – Beyond the Walls of the Real (Edgar Pêra) – 5.6
• A River Runs, Turns, Erases, Replaces (Shengze Zhu) – 5.6
• Neptune Frost (Saul Williams & Anisia Uzeyman) – 5.6
• Parallel Mothers (Pedro Almodóvar) – 5.6
• The Inventory Will Be Drawn Up at 11 a.m. in the Presence of the Poet’s Wife (Martin Verdet) – 5.6
• The Lost Daughter (Maggie Gyllenhaal) – 5.5
• Azor (Andreas Fontana) – 5.5
• The Cathedral (Ricky D’Ambrose) – 5.5
• Futura (Pietro Marcello, Francesco Munzi, & Alice Rohrwacher) – 5.5
• A Glitch in the Matrix (Rodney Ascher) – 5.5
• Unclenching the Fists (Kira Kovalenko) – 5.5
• From Where They Stood (Christophe Cognet) – 5.5
• Zeros and Ones (Abel Ferrara) – 5.4
• For Lucio (Pietro Marcello) – 5.4
• The Beta Test (Jim Cummings & PJ McCabe) – 5.4
• Terra Femme (Courtney Stephens) – 5.4
• Vengeance is Mine, All Others Pay Cash (Edwin) – 5.4
• Nitram (Justin Kurzel) – 5.4
• Cryptozoo (Dash Shaw) – 5.4
• Black Notebooks [Ronit] (Shlomi Elkabetz) – 5.4
• Social Hygiene (Denis Côté) – 5.4
• The Matrix Resurrections (Lana Wachowski) – 5.4
• Babi Yar. Context (Sergei Loznitsa) – 5.4
• Pig (Michael Sarnoski) – 5.3
• Drunken Birds (Ivan Grbovic) – 5.3
• Passing (Rebecca Hall) – 5.3
• Dirty Feathers (Carlos Alfonso Corral) – 5.3
• Forest: I See You Everywhere (Bence Fliegauf) – 5.3
• Outside Noise (Ted Fendt) – 5.2
• Earwig (Lucile Hadžihalilović) – 5.2
• The Invisible Mountain (Ben Russell) – 5.2
• The Power of the Dog (Jane Campion) – 5.2
• A Hero (Asghar Farhadi) – 5.2
• The Velvet Underground (Todd Haynes) – 5.2
• Happening (Audrey Diwan) – 5.2
• Landscapes of Resistance (Marta Popivoda) – 5.2
• I’m Your Man (Maria Schrader) – 5.1
• Il Buco (Michelangelo Frammartino) – 5.1
• Black Notebooks [Viviane] (Shlomi Elkabetz) – 5.1
• Aloners (Hong Sung-eun) – 5.1
• Atlantide (Yuri Ancarani) – 5.1
• Tralala (Arnaud & Jean-Marie Larrieu) – 5.1
• Jack’s Ride (Susana Nobre) – 5.1
• Great Freedom (Sebastian Meise) – 5.0
• Don’t Look Up (Adam McKay) – 5.0
• Marx Can Wait (Marco Bellocchio) – 5.0
• Returning to Reims [Fragments] (Jean-Gabriel Périot) – 5.0
• Deception (Arnaud Desplechin) – 5.0
• A Night of Knowing Nothing (Payal Kapadia) – 5.0
• Bloodsuckers (Julian Radlmaier) – 5.0
• Compartment No. 6 (Juho Kuosmanen) – 4.9
• Malignant (James Wan) – 4.9
• A Cop Movie (Alonso Ruizpalacios) – 4.9
• The White Fortress (Igor Drljača) – 4.9
• Censor (Prano Bailey-Bond) – 4.9
• Prism (Eléonore Yameogo, An van. Dienderen, & Rosine Mbakam) – 4.8
• Taming the Garden (Salomé Jashi) – 4.8
• Reflection (Valentyn Vasyanovych) – 4.8
• Dune: Part One (Denis Villeneuve) – 4.8
• The Divide (Catherine Corsini) – 4.8
• House Arrest (Alexey German Jr.) – 4.8
• What Will Summer Bring (Ignacio Ceroi) – 4.8
• Petrov’s Flu (Kirill Serebrennikov) – 4.7
• The Scary of Sixty-First (Dasha Nekrasova) – 4.7
• West Side Story (Steven Spielberg) – 4.7
• The Green Knight (David Lowery) – 4.7
• Flee (Jonas Poher Rasmussen) – 4.7
• The Story of My Wife (Ildiko Enyedi) – 4.7
• Let’s Say Revolution (Nicolas Klotz & Elisabeth Perceval) – 4.6
• Garage: Engines and Men (Claire Simon) – 4.6
• Pleasure (Ninja Thyberg) – 4.6
• Limbo (Soi Cheang) – 4.5
• C’mon C’mon (Mike Mills) – 4.5
• Mr. Kneff (Steven Soderbergh) – 4.5
• The Last Duel (Ridley Scott) – 4.5
• Jane by Charlotte (Charlotte Gainsbourg) – 4.5
• Paris 13th District (Jacques Audiard) – 4.4
• Casablanca Beats (Nabil Ayouch) – 4.4
• Language Lessons (Natalie Morales) – 4.4
• Sundown (Michel Franco) – 4.4
• They Carry Death (Samuel M. Delgado & Helena Girón) – 4.3
• Last Night in Soho (Edgar Wright) – 4.3
• Lamb (Valdimar Jóhannsson) – 4.3
• Taste (Lê Bảo) – 4.3
• Natural Light (Dénes Nagy) – 4.2
• Three Floors (Nanni Moretti) – 4.2
• Between Two Worlds (Emmanuel Carrère) – 4.2
• Ski (Manque La Banca) – 4.1
• The French Dispatch of the Liberty, Kansas Evening Sun (Wes Anderson) – 4.1
• CODA (Siân Heder) – 4.1
• Ali & Ava (Clio Barnard) – 4.1
• The Tragedy of Macbeth (Joel Coen) – 4.1
• Lingui (The Sacred Bonds) (Mahamat-Saleh Haroun) – 4.0
• Just a Movement (Vincent Meessen) – 4.0
• Benediction (Terence Davies) – 3.8
• The Innocents (Eskil Vogt) – 3.7
• Cow (Andrea Arnold) – 3.6
• Spencer (Pablo Larraín)– 3.6
• The First 54 Years: An Abbreviated Manual for Military Occupation (Avi Mograbi) – 3.5
• After Yang (Kogonada) – 3.4
• After Blue (Paradis sale) (Bertrand Mandico) – 3.2
• Hold Me Tight (Matheiu Amalric) – 3.1
• Prisoners of the Ghostland (Sion Sono) – 3.1
• Playground (Laura Wandel) – 2.9
• Nuclear Family (Erin & Travis Wilkerson) – 2.9
• Flag Day (Sean Penn) – 2.4

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, Prismatic, et al). If I saw a film in 3D at home, the title of the film will be succeeded by “[3D]”.
– 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? The main reason I never logged shorts before 2015 is that my OCD had prevented me from distinguishing between short films, television commercials, Youtube videos, random viral TikToks, etc.; I didn’t want to log everything, and I didn’t want to be arbitrarily discriminating what I logged and what I didn’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

+Red Rocket (2021, Sean Baker) – 7.1 [down from 7.4]

Soylent Green (1973, Richard Fleischer) – 4.9

Don’t Look Up (2021, Adam McKay) – 5.0

The Lost Daughter (2021, Maggie Gyllenhaal) – 5.5

The Killing of Two Lovers (2020, Robert Machoian) – 6.3

Missing (2021, Allison Chhorn)

The Last Duel (2021, Ridley Scott) – 4.5

My Two Voices (2022, Lina Rodriguez) – 3.8

Answering the Sun (2022, Rainer Kohlberger) – 5.6

Pleasure (2021, Ninja Thyberg) – 4.6

Belle (2021, Mamoru Hosoda) – 5.9

The Tragedy of Macbeth (2021, Joel Coen) – 4.1

Enemies of the State (2020, Sonia Kennebeck) – 5.3

Who’s Stopping Us (2021, Jonás Trueba) – 6.9

Happening (2021, Audrey Diwan) – 5.2

Riotsville, USA (2022, Sierra Pettengill) – 5.5

Call Jane (2022, Phyllis Nagy) – 4.8

The Beatles: Get Back (2021, Peter Jackson) – 6.7

Summering (2022, James Ponsoldt) – 5.1

Sharp Stick (2022, Lena Dunham) – 5.7

Cha Cha Real Smooth (2022, Cooper Raiff) – 5.5

Resurrection (2022, Andrew Semans) – 5.4

Dos Estaciones (2022, Juan Pablo González) – 6.0

blood (2022, Bradley Rust Gray) – 5.0

Good Luck to You, Leo Grande (2022, Sophie Hyde) – 5.4

Glass Life [Single Channel] (2021, Sara Cwynar)

Wasteland No. 3: Moons, Sons (2021, Jodie Mack)

Impersonator (2021, Andrew Norman Wilson)

A Human Certainty (2021, Morgan Quaintance)

Glazing (2022, Lilli Carré)

Bogwaters (2022, Michiel van Bakel)

The Ocean Analog (2022, Luis Macías)

Isn’t It a Beautiful World (2020, Joseph Wilson)

Ikebana (2021, Rita Ferrando)

Tomorrow Is a Water Palace (2022, Juanita Onzaga)

Punctured Sky (2021, Jon Rafman)

Nazarbazi (2022, Maryam Tafakory)

Becoming Male in the Middle Ages (2022, Pedro Neves Marques)

Fireflies (2021, Pauline Curnier Jardin & Feel Good Cooperative)

Skin to Skin (2021, Mel Arranz)

The Worm (2021, Ed Atkins)

Double Wow [3D] (2021, Ken Jacobs) – 5.7

Sonata for Smoke (2021, Samson Young)

Golden Jubilee (2021, Suneil Sanzgiri)

EAMI (2022, Paz Encina) – 4.7

OUTHERE (for Lee Lozano) (2021, Maïder Fortuné & Annie MacDonell)

Shunyata (2021, Lichun Tseng & Robert Kroos)

Kinorama – Beyond the Walls of the Real [3D] (2021, Edgar Pêra) – 5.6

Fingerpicking (2021, Riccardo Giacconi)

Nosferasta: First Bite (2021, Bayley Sweitzer & Adam Khalil)

Constant (2022, Sasha Litvintseva & Beny Wagner)

Chants from a Holy Book (2022, Cesar Gananian & Cassiana Der Haroutiour)

Dawn (2021, Leonor Noivo)

urban solutions (2022, Arne Hector, Vinícius Lopes, Luciana Mazeto, & Minze Tummescheit)

Tugging Diary (2021, Yan Wai Yin)

The Reflection of the Man (2022, Martine Stig)

Places We’ll Breathe (2022, Davor Sanvincenti)

Songs for Dying (2022, Korakrit Arunanondchai)

Met Mes (2022, Sam de Jong) – 6.5

Songs for Living (2022, Korakrit Arunanondchai & Alex Gvojic)

The Making of Crime Scenes (2022, Hsu Che-yu)

The Name of Things (2022, Diego Escobar) – 3.3

Aromana (2021, Vukan Žarković)

yet another leap year (2022, Sara Rajaei)

The Price for Fire (2021, Rossella Nisio)

When We Were Monsters (2020, James Richards & Steve Reinke)

Heat Waves (2021, Kent Chan)

A Sod State (2022, Eoghan Ryan)

EKOBIO (2022, Elkin Calderón Guevara & Diego Piñeros García)

The Plains (2022, David Easteal) – 7.5

The African Desperate (2022, Martine Syms) – 6.6

 

February

The Civil Dead (2022, Clay Tatum) – 6.3

The Child (2022, Marguerite de Hillerin & Félix Dutilloy-Liégeois) – 4.6

Footnote (2022, Zhengfan Yang) – 5.5

Third Grade (2021, Jacques Doillon) – 6.1

Jackass Forever (2022, Jeff Tremaine) DP – 5.3

West Side Story (2021, Steven Spielberg) DP – 4.7

The Dream and the Radio (2022, Renaud Després-Larose & Ana Tapia Rousiouk) – 7.0

Geographies of Solitude (2022, Jacquelyn Mills) – 5.0

Super Natural (2022, Jorge Jácome) Berlinale, DP – 3.8

Nobody’s Hero (2022, Alain Guiraudie) Berlinale, DP – 5.9

Rimini (2022, Ulrich Seidl) Berlinale, DP – 4.4

Flux Gourmet (2022, Peter Strickland) Berlinale, DP – 4.8

Coma (2022, Bertrand Bonello) Berlinale, DP – 7.2

Jet Lag (2022, Zheng Lu Xinyuan) Berlinale, DP – 3.9

Robe of Gems (2022, Natalia López Gallardo) Berlinale, DP – 4.3

Both Sides of the Blade (2022, Claire Denis) Berlinale, DP – 5.6

The United States of America (2022, James Benning) Berlinale, DP – 6.5

The Kegelstatt Trio (2022, Rita Azevedo Gomes) Berlinale, DP – 5.1

The Line (2022, Ursula Meier) Berlinale, DP – 4.4

Happer’s Comet (2022, Tyler Taormina) Berlinale, DP – 5.5

The Middle Ages (2022, Alejo Moguillansky & Luciana Acuña) Berlinale, DP – 6.7

This House (2022, Miryam Charles) Berlinale, DP – 5.2

The Passengers of the Night (2022, Mikhaël Hers) Berlinale, DP – 5.4

That Kind of Summer (2022, Denis Côté) Berlinale, DP – 6.4

Dry Ground Burning (2022, Adirley Queirós & Joana Pimenta) Berlinale, DP – 6.6

Queens of the Qing Dynasty (2022, Ashley McKenzie) Berlinale, DP – Inc. [Missed first 15 min. due to delayed COVID test results]

Small, Slow but Steady (2022, Shô Miyake) Berlinale, DP – 5.2

Striking Land (2022, Raul Domingues) Berlinale, DP – 6.0

The Sower of Stars (2022, Lois Patiño)

Camouflage (2022, Jonathan Perel) Berlinale, DP – 5.5

Unrest (2022, Cyril Schäublin) Berlinale, DP – 4.9

Nuclear Family (2021, Erin & Travis Wilkerson) Berlinale, DP – 2.9

The Veteran (2022, Jerónimo Rodríguez) Berlinale, DP – 3.6

Brother in Every Inch (2022, Alexander Zolotukhin) Berlinale, DP – 4.7

Afterwater (2022, Dane Komljen) Berlinale, DP – 6.7

The Novelist’s Film (2022, Hong Sang-soo) Berlinale, DP – 6.8

A Little Love Package (2022, Gastón Solnicki) Berlinale, DP – 5.7

Gazing… Unseeing (2022, Mohamed Abdelkarim) Berlinale, DP

Surface Rites (2022, Parastoo & Faraz Anoushahpour, & Ryan Ferko) Berlinale, DP

Sun Under Ground (2022, Mareike Bernien & Alex Gerbaulet) Berlinale, DP

A Flower in the Mouth (2022, Éric Baudelaire) – 5.3

Mutzenbacher (2022, Ruth Beckermann) Berlinale, DP – 5.5

Rewind & Play (2022, Alain Gomis) Berlinale, DP – 6.7

See You Friday, Robinson (2022, Mitra Farahani) Berlinale, DP – 5.6

partial differential equation (2020, Kevin Jerome Everson)

Kicking the Clouds (2022, Sky Hopinka)

2020 (2021, Friedl vom Gröller Kubelka)

The Newest Olds (2022, Pablo Mazzolo)

What Distinguishes the Past (2020, Ben Russell)

MERAPI (2021, Malena Szlam)

Sea Series 23 (2022, John Price)

Zero Length Spring (2021, Ross Meckfessel)

Kimi (2022, Steven Soderbergh) – 5.9

a so-called archive (2020, Onyeka Igwe)

Fire Emergencies (2022, Kevin Jerome Everson)

vs (2022, Lydia Nsiah)

Agrilogistics (2022, Gerard Ortín Castellví)

+Queens of the Qing Dynasty (2022, Ashley McKenzie) – 6.9 [up from ~6.1]

 

March

Dragon Tooth (2022, Rafael Castanheira Parrode)

My Home (2022, Azar Saiyar)

Moune Ô (2022, Maxime Jean-Baptiste)

Instant Life (2022, Anja Dornieden, Juan David González Monroy, & Andrew Kim)

Mr. Landsbergis (2021, Sergei Loznitsa) Cinéma du réel, DP – 6.1

Man’s Favorite Sport? (1964, Howard Hawks) 35mm – 6.2

Lago Gatún (2021, Kevin Jerome Everson) Cinéma du réel, DP – 5.7

Hors-titre (2021, Wiame Haddad) Cinéma du réel, DP

Intermède (2022, Maria Kourkouta) Cinéma du réel, DP

7h15 – Blackbird (2021, Judith Auffray) Cinéma du réel, DP

Everything Near Becomes Distant (2021, Yunyi Zhu) Cinéma du réel, DP

Language of Birds (2022, Erik Bullot) Cinéma du réel, DP – 3.6

Anyox (2022, Ryan Ermacora & Jessica Johnson) Cinéma du réel, DP – 4.0

We, Students! (2022, Rafiki Fariala) Cinéma du réel, DP – 5.5

The Tomb of Kafka (2022, Jean-Claude Rousseau) Cinéma du réel, DP

When There Is No More Music to Write, and Other Roman Stories (2022, Éric Baudelaire) Cinéma du réel, DP – 3.9

Deep Water (2022, Adrian Lyne) – 4.9

Navalny (2022, Daniel Roher) – 5.1

Apollo 10½: A Space Age Childhood (2022, Richard Linklater) DP – 6.8

 

April

Catwoman vs. The White House (2022, Scott Calonico) Hot Docs, DP

+Rewind & Play (2022, Alain Gomis) Hot Docs, DP – 6.7 [same]

 

May

Fire of Love (2022, Sara Dosa) – 4.8

Her Scents of Pu Er (2022, Anna-Claria Ostasenko Bogdanoff) Hot Docs, DP

Terra Femme (2021, Courtney Stephens) Hot Docs, DP – 5.4

2nd Chance (2022, Ramin Bahrani) – 5.2

I Didn’t See You There (2022, Reid Davenport) – 6.1

Call of the Wild [Anaglyph 3D] (2009, Richard Gabai) – 2.3

Concrete Valley (2022, Antoine Bourges) – Inc. [Rough cut]

+Treasure of the Four Crowns [3D] (1983, Ferdinando Baldi) – 7.4 [up from 7.1]

Final Cut (2022, Michel Hazanavicius) Cannes, DP – 4.2

Exterior Night (2022, Marco Bellocchio) Cannes, DP – 4.9

Tchaïkovsky’s Wife (2022, Kirill Serebrennikov) Cannes, DP – 4.7

Scarlet (2022, Pietro Marcello) Cannes, DP – 5.6

The Eight Mountains (2022, Charlotte Vandermeersch & Felix van Groeningen) Cannes, DP – 4.9

God’s Creatures (2022, Saela Davis & Anna Rose Holmer) Cannes, DP – 3.7

Rodeo (2022, Lola Quivoron) Cannes, DP – 5.1

Armageddon Time (2022, James Gray) Cannes, DP – 5.9

EO (2022, Jerzy Skolimowski) Cannes, DP – 7.8

One Fine Morning (2022, Mia Hansen-Løve) Cannes, DP – 6.2

Corsage (2022, Marie Kreutzer) Cannes, DP – 5.0

Enys Men (2022, Mark Jenkin) Cannes, DP – 5.4

Brother and Sister (2022, Arnaud Desplechin) Cannes, DP – 5.8

Three Thousand Years of Longing (2022, George Miller) Cannes, DP – 5.4

Pamfir (2022, Dmytro Sukholytkyy-Sobchuk) Cannes, DP – 5.3

Triangle of Sadness (2022, Ruben Östlund) Cannes, DP – 6.1

Diary of a Fleeting Affair (2022, Emmanuel Mouret) Cannes, DP – 5.0

R.M.N. (2022, Cristian Mungiu) Cannes, DP – 5.7

Aftersun (2022, Charlotte Wells) Cannes, DP – 5.5

Magdala (2022, Damien Manivel) Cannes, DP – 6.0

Holy Spider (2022, Ali Abbasi) Cannes, DP – 4.1

Don Juan (2022, Serge Bozon) Cannes, DP – 4.6

Sick of Myself (2022, Kristoffer Borgli) Cannes, DP – 5.1

The Five Devils (2022, Léa Mysius) Cannes, DP – 3.6

De Humani Corporis Fabrica (2022, Véréna Paravel & Lucien Castaing-Taylor) Cannes, DP – 7.4

Decision to Leave (2022, Park Chan-wook) Cannes, DP – 4.8

Funny Pages (2022, Owen Kline) Cannes, DP – 6.1

The Natural History of Destruction (2022, Sergei Loznitsa) Cannes, DP – 7.1

The Dam (2022, Ali Cherri) Cannes, DP – 5.3

Crimes of the Future (2022, David Cronenberg) Cannes, DP – 6.5

Will-o’-the-Wisp (2022, João Pedro Rodrigues) Cannes, DP – 4.9

Metronom (2022, Alexandru Belc) Cannes, DP – 5.2

Forever Young (2022, Valeria Bruni Tedeschi) Cannes, DP – 5.3

Leila’s Brothers (2022, Saeed Roustaee) Cannes, DP – 3.3

Godland (2022, Hlynur Pálmason) Cannes, DP – 5.2

Stars at Noon (2022, Claire Denis) Cannes, DP – 4.5

The Night of the Hunters (2022, Pascale Arbillot) Cannes, DP

La Jauría (2022, Andrés Ramírez Pulido) Cannes, DP – 4.1

Pacifiction (2022, Albert Serra) Cannes, DP – 6.7

Close (2022, Lukas Dhont) Cannes, DP – 3.4

Broker (2022, Hirokazu Kore-eda) Cannes, DP – 3.6

Christophe… Definitely (2022, Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster & Ange Leccia) – 5.9

Showing Up (2022, Kelly Reichardt) Cannes, DP – 7.5

Mother and Son (2022, Léonor Serraille) Cannes, DP – 6.3

Boy from Heaven (2022, Tarik Saleh) Cannes, DP – 4.0

Tori and Lokita (2022, Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne) Cannes, DP – 6.0

Nostalgia (2022, Mario Martone) Cannes, DP – 4.4

 

June

Hospital (1970, Frederick Wiseman) – 7.2

Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai (1999, Jim Jarmusch) 35mm – 4.7

+Crimes of the Future (2022, David Cronenberg) DP – 6.5 [same]

+France (2021, Bruno Dumont) – 7.7 [same]

Forever a Woman (1955, Kinuyo Tanaka) DP – 5.3

The Human Torch (2022, Risto-Pekka Blom)

Blind (1987, Frederick Wiseman) – 6.4

The Big Chill (1983, Lawrence Kasdan) – 4.2

+Hugo [3D] (2011, Martin Scorsese) – 6.4 [same]

Take Me Out to the Ball Game (1949, Busby Berkeley) – 5.0

 

July

+Dial M for Murder [3D] (1954, Alfred Hitchcock) – 8.1 [same]

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

Way Out Ahead of Us (2022, Rob Rice) FIDMarseille, DP – 4.8

Garden Sandbox (2022, Yukinori Kurokawa) FIDMarseille, DP – 4.4

The Lives of Infamous Men (2022, Gilles Deroo & Marianne Pistone) FIDMarseille, DP – 6.9

Welcome (2022, Jean-Claude Rousseau) FIDMarseille, DP

Against Time (2022, Ben Russell) FIDMarseille, DP

Ptitsa (2022, Alina Maksimenko) FIDMarseille, DP

After Work (2022, Céline Condorelli & Ben Rivers) FIDMarseille, DP

+A Woman Escapes (2022, Sofia Bohdanowicz, Burak Çevik, & Blake Williams) FIDMarseille, 3D – H.i

We Had the Day Bonsoir (2022, Narimane Mari) FIDMarseille, DP – 7.1

Fall (2022, Vadim Kostrov) FIDMarseille, DP – 5.1

Life Lasts Two Days (2022, Leonardo Mouramateus) FIDMarseille, DP – 4.6

Nomotopowell (2022, Brent Chesanek) FIDMarseille, DP – 4.9

+A Woman Escapes (2022, Sofia Bohdanowicz, Burak Çevik, & Blake Williams) FIDMarseille, 3D – H.i [~same]

Night Detour (2022, Paul Chotel & Ariane Falardeau St-Amour) FIDMarseille, DP – 3.8

+Unrest (2022, Cyril Schäublin) FIDMarseille, DP – 5.5 [up from 4.9]

Quarries (2022, Ellie Ga) FIDMarseille, DP – 4.2

Who Is Afraid of Ideology? Part IV – Reverse Shot (2022, Marwa Arsanios) FIDMarseille, DP

Aftersun (2022, Lluís Galter) FIDMarseille, DP – 5.1

The Unstable Object II (2022, Daniel Eisenberg) FIDMarseille, DP – 6.2

About the Clouds (2022, María Aparicio) FIDMarseille, DP – 6.4

Dispatch from Przemyśl (Notes for a Democratic Europe) (2022, Marine Hugonnier)

Sappukei (2022, Wang Chun & Hikky Chen)

Site of Passage (2022, Lucy Kerr)

Nope (2022, Jordan Peele) DP – 5.6

Can Someone Meet Me in Dark Alley? (2022, Gaetano Liberti & Luciano Pérez Savoy) – 3.3

Barail (2022, Denis Cointe) – 5.7

Dying in Ibiza: A Film in Three Summers (2022, Mattéo Eustachon, Léo Couture, & Anton Balekdjian) – 6.1

You Have to Come and See It (2022, Jonás Trueba) – 4.7

+Concrete Valley (2022, Antoine Bourges) – TK

 

August

The French (1982, William Klein) DP – 6.3

Human Flowers of Flesh (2022, Helena Wittmann) – 5.4

To Be Sound Is to Be Solid (2022, Erin Johnson)

Poitiers (2022, Jérôme Reybaud) – 5.6

It Is Night in America (2022, Ana Vaz) – 5.3

Matter Out of Place (2022, Nikolaus Geyrhalter) – 5.3

The Adventures of Gigi the Law (2022, Alessandro Comodin) – 5.9

Angles of Incidence (1973, William Raban)

View (1970, William Raban)

Colours of This Time (1972, William Raban)

Breath (1974, William Raban)

Sundial (1992, William Raban)

The Potemkinists (2022, Radu Jude)

as time passes (2022, Jamil McGinnis)

Underground Rivers (2022, Simón Velez)

Tender Kisses (1972, Mike Leggett)

Sheepwoman (1970, Mike Leggett)

What The Water Said, nos. 1—3 (1998, David Gatten)

What the Water Said, nos. 4 – 6 (2007, David Gatten)

+The Lobby (2020, Heinz Emigholz) – 6.7 [same]

 

September

Life Without Dreams (2022, Jessica Bardsley)

News from Nowhere (2020, Ben Balcom)

Kalsubai (2021, Yudhajit Basu)

Continuity of Parks (2022, Zhenia Kazankina)

Eyes and Horns (2021, Chaerin Im)

Beef (2022, Brendon Kingsbury & Sean Webley)

Tigre del Carbón (2022, aZuLosa)

Lacerate (2020, Janis Rafa)

What Dying Feels Like (2022, Philip Ullman)

Cherries (2022, Vytautas Katkus)

Alcarràs (2022, Carla Simón) – 4.5

Fairytale (2022, Aleksandr Sokurov) – 6.9

Valeria Is Getting Married (2022, Michal Vinik) TIFF, DP – 4.3

Joyland (2022, Saim Sadiq) TIFF, DP – 4.5

Women Talking (2022, Sarah Polley) TIFF, DP – 4.8

Return to Seoul (2022, Davy Chou) TIFF, DP – 6.0

The Inspection (2022, Elegance Bratton) TIFF, DP – 4.2

So Much Tenderness (2022, Lina Rodriguez) TIFF, DP – 5.5

2 Lizards (2020, Meriem Bennani & Orian Barki) TIFF, DP

Life on the CAPS (2022, Meriem Bennani) TIFF, DP

EVENTIDE (2022, Sharon Lockhart) TIFF, DP

Horse Opera (2022, Moyra Davey) TIFF, DP – 5.6

No Bears (2022, Jafar Panahi) TIFF, DP – 4.9

Tales from the Gimli Hospital Redux (1988, Guy Maddin) TIFF, DP – 5.0

Fata Morgana (2022, Tacita Dean) TIFF, 16mm

+After Work (2022, Céline Condorelli & Ben Rivers) TIFF, DP

F1ghting Looks Different 2 Me Now (2022, Fox Maxy) TIFF, DP

Moonrise (2022, Vincent Grenier) TIFF, DP

The Time That Separates Us (2022, Parastoo Anoushahpour) TIFF, DP

The Fabelmans (2022, Steven Spielberg) TIFF, DP – 6.4

Dalíland (2022, Mary Harron) TIFF, DP – 3.4

Other People’s Children (2022, Rebecca Zlotowski) TIFF, DP – 5.2

What Rules the Invisible (2022, Tiffany Sia) TIFF, DP

+Hors-titre (2022, Wiame Haddad) TIFF, DP

Puerta a Puerta (2022, Luis Arnías & Jessica Sarah Rinland) TIFF, DP

Bigger on the Inside (2022, Angelo Madsen Minax) TIFF, DP

I Thought the World of You (2022, Kurt Walker) TIFF, DP

+The Newest Olds (2022, Pablo Mazzolo) TIFF, DP

The Whale (2022, Darren Aronofsky) TIFF, DP – 2.2

Glass Onion (2022, Rian Johnson) TIFF, DP – 6.1

Riceboy Sleeps (2022, Anthony Shim) TIFF, DP – 5.6

All the Beauty and the Bloodshed (2022, Laura Poitras) TIFF, DP – 6.4

The Banshees of Inisherin (2022, Martin McDonagh) TIFF, DP – 5.9

Saint Omer (2022, Alice Diop) TIFF, DP – 6.8

Empire of Light (2022, Sam Mendes) TIFF, DP – 3.7

Falcon Lake (2022, Charlotte Le Bon) TIFF, DP – 5.1

The Greatest Beer Run Ever (2022, Peter Farrelly) TIFF, DP – 4.6

Viking (2022, Stéphane Lafleur) TIFF, DP – 5.3

Stonewalling (2022, Huang Ji & Otsuka Ryuji) TIFF, DP – 4.4

+EO (2022, Jerzy Skolimowski) TIFF, DP – 7.8 [same]

How to Blow Up a Pipeline (2022, Daniel Goldhaber) TIFF, DP – 5.5

Walk Up (2022, Hong Sang-soo) TIFF, DP – 6.3

I Shot Andy Warhol (1996, Mary Harron) TIFF, 35mm – 4.3

Theater of Thought (2022, Werner Herzog) TIFF, DP – 5.4

The Worst Ones (2022, Romane Gueret & Lise Akoka) TIFF, DP – 4.8

The Maiden (2022, Graham Foy) TIFF, DP – 4.7

The Eternal Daughter (2022, Joanna Hogg) TIFF, DP – 5.5

Femme Fatale (2002, Brian De Palma) 35mm – 6.7

Maria Schneider, 1983 (2022, Elisabeth Subrin)

+Goodbye to Language [3D] (2014, Jean-Luc Godard) – 9.2 [down from 9.9]

PEAK HEAVEN LOVE FOREVER (2022, Jordan Strafer)

Watch the Fire or Burn Inside It (2022, Caroline Poggi & Jonathan Vinel)

+Avatar (2009, James Caneron) 3D – 5.8 [up from 5.4]

Blonde (2022, Andrew Dominik) DP – 6.2

 

October

Slaughterhouses of Modernity (2022, Heinz Emigholz) – 5.1

+A Woman Escapes (2022, Sofia Bohdanowicz, Burak Çevik, & Blake Williams) VIFF, 3D – H.i

*** ***** ***** ** **** (2023, ******* ********** ****) – Inc. [Rough cut]

+A Woman Escapes (2022, Sofia Bohdanowicz, Burak Çevik, & Blake Williams) Black Canvas, 3D – H.i

Negative Path (2022, Alan Martín Segal) Black Canvas, DP – 6.3

+It Is Night in America (2022, Ana Vaz) Black Canvas, DP – 5.3 [same]

The Water (2022, Elena López Riera) Black Canvas, DP – 4.8

A Couple (2022, Frederick Wiseman) Black Canvas, DP – 5.1

Sparta (2022, Ulrich Seidl) Festival du nouveau cinéma, DP – 6.6

+Numéro deux (1975, Jean-Luc Godard) 35mm – 6.9 [up from 5.9]

TÁR (2022, Todd Field) DP – 4.9

 

November

Babylon (2022, Damien Chazelle) DP – 4.5

Devil’s Peak (2021, Simon Liu)

FELT TIP (2018, Elizabeth Price)

Underfoot (2022, Elizabeth Price)

There There (2022, Andrew Bujalski) – 5.6

Vengeance Is Mine (1984, Michael Roemer) 35mm – 6.9

 

December

Top Gun: Maverick (2022, Joseph Kosinski) – 5.3

+Apollo 10½: A Space Age Childhood (2022, Richard Linklater) DP – 7.3 [up from 6.8]

Exhibition (2022, Mary Helena Clark)

M＊U＊S＊H (2022, Jodie Mack)

Cactus Raptus (2018, Maxime Hot)

Black Palms (2022, Justin Clifford Rhody)

Black Hole Space Debt, or a Basic Guide to Syncing Sound and Image (2022, Stephen Wardell)

The Black Tower (1987, John Smith)

The Black Tower (2022, Mandy Eugeniou)

ROTOЯ | Sonic Body (2020, NO1)

Woman as Image, Man as Bearer of the Look (2022, Carlos Velandia)

Om (1986, John Smith)

Gargantuan (1992, John Smith)

The Kiss (1999, John Smith & Ian Bourn)

The Waste Land (1999, John Smith)

Leading Light (1975, John Smith)

FAN (1978, John Smith)

Avatar: The Way of Water [48fps] (2022, James Cameron) 3D – 6.3

RRR (2022, S. S. Rajamouli) DP – 6.6

A State of Grace (2019, John Smith)

The Girl Chewing Gum (1976, John Smith)

Regression (1999, John Smith)

Shepherd’s Delight: An Analysis of Humour (1984, John Smith)

A Short Story (2022, Bi Gan)

Échos (2021, Eléonore Huisse & François J. Bonnet)

Fourth of July (2022, Louis C.K.) – 5.6

Descendant (2022, Margaret Brown) – 5.1

Ⓓ is for Digital
Ⓘ is for Industry [physical screening]
Ⓟ is for Public [physical screening]
 

September 9
10:00AM – Vengeance is Mine, All Others Pay Cash (Edwin) Ⓘ / Scotiabank 3
12:00PM – Dug Dug (Ritwik Pareek) Ⓘ / Scotiabank 12 W/O
Afternoon – As in Heaven (Tea Lindeburg) Ⓓ W/O
Night – +Petite Maman (Céline Sciamma) Ⓓ
 

September 10
11:00AM – The Power of the Dog (Jane Campion) Ⓘ / Lightbox 1
Afternoon – Violet (Justine Bateman) Ⓓ W/O
5:00PM – +Drive My Car (Ryusuke Hamaguchi) Ⓟ / Scotiabank 1
9:30PM – Last Night in Soho (Edgar Wright) Ⓘ / Lightbox 3
 

September 11
Morning – Aloners (Hong Sung-eun) Ⓓ
12:00PM – Dune (Denis Villeneuve) Ⓘ / Scotiabank 12
3:30PM – Earwig (Lucile Hadžihalilović) Ⓘ / Scotiabank 2
Evening – +The Tsugua Diaries (Miguel Gomes & Maureen Fazendeiro) Ⓓ
Night – Neptune Frost (Saul Williams & Anisia Uzeyman) Ⓓ
 

September 12
Morning – DASHCAM (Kamila Andini) Ⓓ W/O
2:00PM – A Night of Knowing Nothing (Payal Kapadia) Ⓟ / Lightbox 3
Late Afternoon – Inexorable (Fabrice du Welz) Ⓓ W/O
Night – +Onoda (Arthur Harari) Ⓓ
 

September 13
10:30AM – Benediction (Terence Davies) Ⓘ / Scotiabank 4
4:00PM – +Memoria (Apichatpong Weerasethakul) Ⓟ / Cinesphere
Night – Sundown (Michel Franco) Ⓓ
 

September 14
Morning – Unclenching the Fists (Kira Kovalenko) Ⓓ
Afternoon – The Falls (Chung Mong-Hong) Ⓓ W/O
Evening – Drunken Birds (Ivan Grbovic) Ⓓ
Night – Yuni (Kamila Andini) Ⓓ W/O
 

September 15
10:00AM – Spencer (Pablo Larraín) Ⓘ / Lightbox 3
Afternoon – Out of Sync (Juanjo Giménez) Ⓓ W/O
Late Afternoon – Zalava (Arsalan Amiri) Ⓓ W/O
5PM – Terrorizers (Ho Wi Ding) Ⓓ W/O
8:00PM – +France (Bruno Dumont) Ⓟ / Lightbox 2
 

September 16
Morning – the other tom. (Rodrigo Plá & Laura Santullo) Ⓓ W/O
Early Afternoon – The Good House (Maya Forbes & Wallace Wolodarsky) Ⓓ W/O
Afternoon – Costa Brava, Lebanon (Mounia Akl) Ⓓ W/O
Late Afternoon – Flee (Jonas Poher Rasmussen) Ⓓ
8:00PM – +Titane (Julia Ducournau) Ⓟ / Cinesphere
 

September 17
Afternoon – After Blue (Paradis sale) (Bertrand Mandico) Ⓓ
Late Afternoon – Saloum (Jean Luc Herbulot) Ⓓ W/O
6:00PM – Wolf (Nathalie Biancheri) Ⓟ / Princess of Wales Theatre W/O
9:30PM – Mr. Kneff (Steven Soderbergh) Ⓟ / Princess of Wales Theatre
 

September 18
Afternoon – Silent Night (Camille Griffin) Ⓓ Not Available 🤷‍♂️
Evening – One Second (Zhang Yimou) Ⓓ Didn’t bother 🤷‍♂️
 

One Day Soon
Night – WL shorts: Present, Tense (various) Ⓓ
               – Dear Chantal (Nicolás Pereda)
               – The Capacity for Adequate Anger (Vika Kirchenbauer)
               – Inner Outer Space (Laida Lertxundi)
               – “The red filter is withdrawn.” (Minjung Kim)
               – Polycephaly in D (Michael Robinson)
               + earthearthearth (Daïchi Saïto)
               + Train Again (Peter Tscherkassky)

 

Films I have already seen and won’t be revisiting during TIFF:
Ahed’s Knee (Nadav Lapid)
Ali & Ava (Clio Barnard)
Bergman Island (Mia Hansen-Løve)
Compartment No. 6 (Juho Kuosmanen)
Futura (Pietro Marcello, Francesco Munzi, & Alice Rohrwacher)
The Girl and the Spider (Ramon & Silvan Zürcher)
A Hero (Asghar Farhadi)
I’m Your Man (Maria Schrader)
Întregalde (Radu Muntean)
Lingui (The Sacred Bonds) (Mahamat-Saleh Haroun)
Ste. Anne (Rhayne Vermette)
The Story of My Wife (Ildikó Enyedi)
Three Floors (Nanni Moretti)
The Worst Person in the World (Joachim Trier)