Ⓟ is for Public
Ⓒ is for Combined
Ⓕ is for Free
September 8
9:00AM + Manchester by the Sea (Kenneth Lonergan) – I can’t beat my disinterest in Hirokazu Kore-eda.
1:45PM – A Decent Woman (Lukas Valenta Rinner) – Love when a woman is decent.
5:00PM + Nocturama (Bertrand Bonello) Ⓒ – Hoping that it’ll be the same, only new.
11:59PM – Free Fire (Ben Wheatley) Ⓟ – The best things in life are free.
September 9
9:00AM – Nocturnal Animals (Tom Ford) – Venice buzz.
12:15PM – Voyage of Time: Life’s Journey (Terrence Malick) – Lifetime pass after Knight of Cups.
3:30PM – Nightlife (Cyprien Gaillard) Ⓕ – 3D avant-garde.
7:00PM – Wavelengths 1: The Fire Within Ⓒ
– Silueta Sangrienta (Ana Mendieta)
+ Há Terra! (Ana Vaz)
– Venus Delta (Antoinette Zwirchmayr)
– 025 Sunset Red (Laida Lertxundi)
– Untitled, 1925 (Madi Piller)
– Children of Lir (Katherin McInnis)
– Burning mountains that spew flame (Helena Girón & Samuel M. Delgado)
– Anima, Silueta de Cohetes (Firework Piece) (Ana Mendieta)
September 10
9:15AM – The Rehearsal (Alison Maclean) Ⓟ – NYFF.
1:15PM – Talent Lab Master Class #9: Bertrand Bonello – I’m moderating this. You should come. You’re not allowed.
4:15PM + Irma Vep (1996, Olivier Assayas) Ⓕ – One of the GOATs, only seen it on crappy DVD editions.
7:30PM – Wavelengths 2: Incantati Ⓒ
– Incantati (Danièle Huillet & Jean-Marie Straub)
– Cilaos (Camilo Restrepo)
– An Aviation Field (Joana Pimenta)
– Strange Vision of Seeing Things (Ryan Ferko)
– Ears, Nose and Throat (Kevin Jerome Everson)
– Ten Mornings Ten Evenings and One Horizon (Tomonari Nishikawa)
– Luna e Santur (Joshua Gen Solondz)
10:45PM – Voyage of Time: The IMAX Experience (Terrence Malick) Ⓟ – 70mm. “Dear child…”
September 11
9:15AM – Una (Benedict Andrews) – My name is
11:30AM – Daughters of the Dust (1991, Julie Dash) Ⓕ – Dash.
3:15PM – (re)ASSIGNMENT (Walter Hill) – Hill, dream Weaver.
6:00PM – Wavelengths 3: Post-performance Ⓒ
– Untitled (Björn Kämmerer)
– What’s New (Nina Könnemann)
– Foyer (Ismaïl Bahri)
– 350 MYA (Terra Long)
– I’ll Remember You as You Were, Not as What You’ll Become (Sky Hopinka)
– Dark Adaptation (Chris Gehman)
– The Watershow Extravaganza (Sophie Michael)
9:45PM + The Human Surge (Eduardo Williams) Ⓒ – Teddy. (It’s good.)
September 12
9:30PM – Daguerrotype (Kiyoshi Kurosawa) Ⓟ – Creepy was robbed.
12:00PM – La La Land (Damien Chazelle) – Whiplash is a good movie.
3:00PM – Jackie (Pablo Larraín) – No.
6:30PM – Wavelengths 4: Indefinite Ⓒ
– Flowers of the Sky (Janie Geiser)
– Ayhan and me (belit sağ)
– AS WITHOUT SO WITHIN (Manuela De Laborde)
+ Indefinite Pitch (James N. Kienitz Wilkins)
9:30PM – Neruda (Pablo Larraín) Ⓟ – Just…No.
September 13
9:15AM – Searchers (Zacharias Kunuk) – Hopefully better than the fast runner.
11:15AM – Katie Says Goodbye (Wayne Roberts) – Feels like I’m going to lose my mind.
6:30PM – I Had Nowhere to Go (Douglas Gordon) Ⓟ – Mekas.
9:30PM – Yourself and Yours (Hong Sang-soo) Ⓟ – Hong.
September 14
School Day. All of it.
September 15
9:00AM – The Untamed (Amat Escalante) – Well that escalanted quickly.
11:30AM – Message from the King (Fabrice du Welz) – Alléluia.
2:00PM – The B-Side: Elsa Dorfman’s Portrait Photography (Errol Morris) – Morris.
5:45PM – Arrival (Denis Villeneuve) – I taught a sci-fi course this summer.
9:30PM – Salt and Fire (Werner Herzog) Ⓟ – Shannon + Herzog.
September 16
9:00AM – The Bad Batch (Ana Lily Amirpour) – Did someone say Southland Tales? (A Girl Walks Home… is bad btw)
2:30PM – Kékszakállú (Gastón Solnicki) – Some people I know liked Papirosen considerably more than I did.
5:20PM – Sully (Clint Eastwood) – I was either gonna see it now or never.
8:15PM – My Entire High School Sinking Into the Sea (Dash Shaw) Ⓟ – NYFF.
September 17
9:45AM – Ember (Zeki Demirkubuz) Ⓟ – First Demirkubuz.
12:30PM – Raw (Julia Ducournau) Ⓟ – Big Cannes omission, I’m told.
3:30PM – Mister Universo (Tizza Covi & Rainer Frimmel) Ⓟ – People seem to like it.
6:00PM – Justin Timberlake + The Tennessee Kids (Jonathan Demme) Ⓟ – Demme god.
8:00PM – Colossal (Nacho Vigalondo) Ⓟ – Youth, hopefully.
September 18
9:00AM – The Beautiful Days of Aranjuez (Wim Wenders) Ⓟ – 3D disaster picture.
12:30PM – My Life as a Courgette (Claude Barras) Ⓟ – Sciamma, Quinzaine, 66 minutes.
3:45PM – Safari (Ulrich Seidl) Ⓟ – Feature length Unsere Afrikareise or gtfo.
6:00PM – Abacus: Small Enough to Jail (Steve James) Ⓟ – J-J-J-James.
9:15PM – The Ornithologist (João Pedro Rodrigues) Ⓟ – O Birdman.
Films that would be priorities for me if I hadn’t already seen them:
Toni Erdmann (Maren Ade) – 8.4
Nocturama (Bertrand Bonello) – 7.5
Certain Women (Kelly Reichardt) – 7.4
Elle (Paul Verhoeven) – 7.3
The Dreamed Path (Angela Schanelec) – 7.1
Paterson (Jim Jarmusch) – 7.1
The Death of Louis XIV (Albert Serra) – 7.0
Manchester by the Sea (Kenneth Lonergan) – 7.0
A Quiet Passion (Terence Davies) – 6.9
The Human Surge (Eduardo Williams) – 6.9
Personal Shopper (Olivier Assayas) – 6.6
Aquarius (Kleber Mendonça Filho) – 6.5
The Salesman (Asghar Farhadi) – 6.4
Hermia & Helena (Matías Piñeiro) – 6.1
Christine (Antonio Campos) – 6.0
Things to Come (Mia Hansen-Løve) – 6.0
Mimosas (Oliver Laxe) – 5.9
Werewolf (Ashley McKenzie) – 5.8
Fire at Sea (Gianfranco Rosi) – 5.8
The Unknown Girl (Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne) – 5.7
Dog Eat Dog (Paul Schrader) – 5.7
Harmonium (Kôji Fukada) – 5.6
I, Daniel Blake (Ken Loach) – 5.5
Austerlitz (Sergei Loznitsa) – 5.4
Sweet Dreams (Marco Bellocchio) – 5.3
Graduation (Christian Mungiu) – 5.1
Sieranevada (Cristi Puiu) – 4.9
Moonlight (Barry Jenkins) – 4.9
By the Time it Gets Dark (Anocha Suwichakornpong) – 4.9
Ta’ang (Wang Bing) – 4.8
The Handmaiden (Park Chan-wook) – 4.8
The Dreamed Ones (Ruth Beckermann) – 4.1
American Honey (Andrea Arnold) – 4.1
The Woman Who Left (Lav Diaz) – 4.1
Loving (Jeff Nichols) – 3.9
Ma’ Rosa (Brillante Mendoza) – 3.4
It’s Only the End of the World (Xavier Dolan) – 2.9
Regrettable Omissions:
The Birth of a Nation (Nate Parker) – Opens in October.
Catfight (Onur Tukel) – Love cats.
Into the Inferno (Werner Herzog & Clive Oppenheimer) – Netflix October 28.