2018 Film Log

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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 feature-length 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 an ass in the theatre distracted me with too much talking/popcorn eating, or whatever.
– I don’t log W/Os.
– I do log short films (≤ 39min.), sans ratings, but only those viewed either 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). 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, music videos, random viral clips, 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 narrow it down to only short films proper (whatever that means, etc.), which will almost exclusively consist of 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

Daisy Kenyon (1947, Otto Preminger) – 8.1

+A Restoration (2016, Elizabeth Price) DP

Room 666 (1982, Wim Wenders) DP – 5.3

ROOM H.264: Brooklyn, NY, June 2016 (2018, Jeff Reichert, Damon Smith, & Eric Hynes) DP – 5.6

Blade Runner 2049 (2017, Denis Villeneuve) – 5.4

The Disaster Artist (2017, James Franco) – 5.1

Behemoth (2015, Zhao Liang) – 5.7

+Phantom Thread (2017, Paul Thomas Anderson) DP – 6.6 [same]

The Green Fog (2017, Guy Maddin, Evan Johnson, & Galen Johnson) – 5.5

Ava (2017, Sadaf Foroughi) DP – 4.2

The Road Movie (2016, Dmitrii Kalashnikov) – 6.1

+Princess Cyd (2017, Stephen Cone) – 5.5 [same]

The Post (2017, Steven Spielberg) – 3.7

I Can No Longer Hear the Guitar (1991, Philippe Garrel) 35mm – 4.9

+The Inner Scar (1972, Philippe Garrel) 35mm – 8.0 [same]

+Eye Myth (1967, Stan Brakhage) 16mm

In Between (1955, Stan Brakhage) 16mm

+Mothlight (1963, Stan Brakhage) 16mm

Coupling (1999, Stan Brakhage) 16mm

+Window Water Baby Moving (1959, Stan Brakhage) 16mm

Creation (1979, Stan Brakhage) 16mm

The Cat of the Worm’s Green Realm (1997, Stan Brakhage) 16mm

I… Dreaming (1988, Stan Brakhage) 16mm

+The Dante Quartet (1987, Stan Brakhage) 35mm

The Christians (2008, Stephen Cone) – 4.6

This Afternoon (2014, Stephen Cone) – 6.2

The Mystery of Life (2014, Stephen Cone) – 5.6

In Memoriam (2011, Stephen Cone) – 4.5

Rue Fontaine (1984, Philippe Garrel) 35mm

Liberté, la nuit (1984, Philippe Garrel) 35mm – 3.9

 

February

Piercing (2018, Nicolas Pesce) – 5.5

+Wild Grass (2009, Alain Resnais) – 8.4 [same]

+Personal Shopper (2016, Olivier Assayas) – 6.1 [down from 6.6]

★ [January 2018 Cut] (2017, Johann Lurf) – 7.1

Hymn to Her (1974, Stan Brakhage) 16mm

The Stars Are Beautiful (1974, Stan Brakhage) 16mm

+On the Beach at Night Alone (2017, Hong Sang-soo) DP – 6.8 [up from 5.7]

+Syndromes and a Century (2006, Apichatpong Weerasethakul) – 9.6 [same]

Grass (2018, Hong Sang-soo) – 5.5

+A Ghost Story (2017, David Lowery) – 6.0 [down from 6.3]

Notes on an Appearance (2018, Ricky D’Ambrose) – 5.1

Madeline’s Madeline (2018, Josephine Decker) – 5.6

Classical Period (2018, Ted Fendt) – 4.8

Casanova Gene (2018, Luise Donschen) – 5.3

The Wold Shadow (1972, Stan Brakhage) 16mm

Sirius Remembered (1959, Stan Brakhage) 16mm

Anticipation of the Night (1958, Stan Brakhage) 16mm – 6.9

 

March

Infinite Football (2018, Corneliu Porumboiu) – 5.8

+Phantom Thread (2017, Paul Thomas Anderson) 70mm – 6.6 [same]

Transit (2018, Christian Petzold) – 6.6

In the Waves (2017, Jacquelyn Mills) DP – 4.6

+The Wandering Soap Opera (2017, Raúl Ruiz & Valeria Sarmiento) – 7.1 [same]

Black Mother (2018, Khalik Allah) – 6.9

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

Annihilation (2018, Alex Garland) – 4.7

Five: 5 Long Takes Dedicated to Yasujiro Ozu (2003, Abbas Kiarostami) DP – 7.2

Spice It Up [3D] (2018, Calvin Thomas & Yonah and Lev Lewis) – Inc. [Rough cut]

Releasing Human Energies (2012, Mark Toscano) Big Ears, 16mm

What is a Man? (1958, Sara Kathryn Arledge) Big Ears, 16mm

Associations (1975, John Smith) Big Ears, 16mm

Hot Leatherette (1967, Robert Nelson) Big Ears, 16mm

+Dyketactics (1974, Barbara Hammer) Big Ears, 16mm

Flower, The Boy, The Librarian (1997, Stephanie Barber) Big Ears, 16mm

The Snowman (1995, Phil Solomon) Big Ears, 16mm

+Swiss Army Knife with Rats & Pigeons (1981, Robert Breer) Big Ears, 16mm

+Confessions (1971, Curt McDowell) Big Ears, 16mm

Thine Inward-Looking Eyes (1993, Thad Povey) Big Ears, 16mm

Mercy (1989, Abigail Child) Big Ears, 16mm

Akbar (1970, Richard Myers) Big Ears, 16mm

+3D Movie (1975, Paul Sharits) Big Ears, 3D-16mm

+Olympiad (1971, Lillian F. Schwartz) Big Ears, 3D

+Enigma (1972, Lillian F. Schwartz) Big Ears, 3D

+Cyclops Observes the Celestial Bodies (2014, Ken Jacobs) Big Ears, DP

+NOT AND OR (2015, Simon Payne) Big Ears, DP

+Let Your Light Shine (2013, Jodie Mack) Big Ears, 3D-16mm

+Arrival of a Train at La Ciotat (1935, Auguste & Louis Lumière) Big Ears, 3D

Ulysses in the Subway (2017, Marc Downie, Paul Kaiser, & Ken and Flo Jacobs) Big Ears, 3D – 6.5

Two Hours to Zero (2004, Lewis Klahr) Big Ears, DP

Black River Falls (2017, Lewis Klahr) Big Ears, DP

+City Film (1992, Lewis Klahr) Big Ears, DP

Well Then There Now (2011, Lewis Klahr) Big Ears, DP

High Rise (2017, Lewis Klahr) Big Ears, DP

+The Occidental Hotel (2014, Lewis Klahr) Big Ears, DP

Open Eye Sleep (2012, Lewis Klahr) Big Ears, DP

+Goodbye to Language (2014, Jean-Luc Godard) Big Ears, 3D – 9.9 [same]

+Twelve Tales Told (2014, Johann Lurf) Big Ears, 3D

+Insight’s Cataract (2008, Willy Le Maitre) Big Ears, 3D

+more than everything (2018, Rainer Kohlberger) Big Ears, 3D

+2012 (2013, Takashi Makino) Big Ears, 3D

Light Lick (Amen) (2017, Saul Levine) Big Ears, 16mm

Catfilm for Katy and Cynnie (1973, Standish Lawder) Big Ears, 16mm

Ciao Bella or Fuck Me Dead (1978, Betzy Bromberg) Big Ears, 16mm

28.IV.81 (Bedouin Spark) (2009, Christopher Harris) Big Ears, 16mm

Redshift (2001, Emily Richardson) Big Ears, 16mm

+A Study in Natural Magic (2013, Charlotte Pryce) Big Ears, 16mm

Starlight (1970, Robert Fulton) Big Ears, 16mm

Swish (1982, Jean Sousa) Big Ears, 16mm

Hand Held Day (1975, Gary Beydler) Big Ears, 16mm

Portland (1996, Greta Snider) Big Ears, 16mm

Degrees of Limitation (1982, Scott Stark) Big Ears, 16mm

Shrimp Boat Log (2010, David Gatten) Big Ears, 16mm

Boston Fire (1979, Peter Hutton) Big Ears, 16mm

Orchard (2004, Julie Murray) Big Ears, 16mm

+Jackass 3D (2010, Jeff Tremaine) Big Ears, 3D – 6.1 [up from 5.2]

Duo Concertantes (1964, Lawrence Jordan) Big Ears, 16mm

Billabong (1969, Will Hindle) Big Ears, 16mm

Love It/Leave It (1973, Tom Palazzolo) Big Ears, 16mm

Removed (1999, Naomi Uman) Big Ears, 16mm

Chronicles of a Lying Spirit (by Kelly Gabron) (1992, Cauleen Smith) Big Ears, 16mm

Terrace 49 (2004, Janie Geiser) Big Ears, 16mm

Point de Gaze (2012, Jodie Mack) Big Ears, 16mm

Encounters I May Or May Not Have Had With Peter Berlin (2014, Mariah Garnett) Big Ears, 16mm

Lie Back & Enjoy It (1982, JoAnn Elam) Big Ears, 16mm

Decodings (1988, Michael Wallin) Big Ears, 16mm

+Now is the Time (To Put On Your Glasses) (Norman McLaren) Big Ears, 3D

+Around is Around (1951, Norman McLaren) Big Ears, 3D

+A to A (2011, Johann Lurf) Big Ears, 3D

+All Sides of the Road (2012, Paul Kaiser & Marc Downie) Big Ears, 3D

+Terra Incognita (2009, Kerry Laitala) Big Ears, 3D

+UFOs (1971, Lillian F. Schwartz) Big Ears, 3D

+Apotheosis (1972, Lillian F. Schwartz) Big Ears, 3D

+Speechless (2008, Scott Stark) Big Ears, DP

Another Occupation (2011, Ken Jacobs) Big Ears, DP

+Seeking the Monkey King (2011, Ken Jacobs) Big Ears, DP – 7.3 [up from 6.3]

Ready Player One (2018, Steven Spielberg) DP – 6.0

 

April

+PROTOTYPE (2017, Blake Williams) Locarno in LA, DP – H.i [same]

+Wasteland No. 1: Ardent, Verdant (2017, Jodie Mack) Locarno in LA, DP

+Plus Ultra (2017, Helena Girón & Samuel M. Delgado) Locarno in LA, DP

+Aliens (2017, Luis López Carrasco) Locarno in LA, DP

+Fantasy Sentences (2017, Dane Komljen) Locarno in LA, DP

+Scaffold (2017, Kazik Radwanski) Locarno in LA, DP

Distant Constellation (2017, Shevaun Mizrahi) Locarno in LA, DP – 6.2

Victory Day (2018, Sergei Loznitsa) – 3.6

 

May

Let the Summer Never Come Again (2017, Alexandre Koberidze) Jeonju, DP – 5.0

The Best We Can (2018, Alejandro Fernández Almendras) Jeonju, DP – 4.2

+PROTOTYPE (2017, Blake Williams) Jeonju, 3D – H.i [same]

Three Crowns of the Sailor (1983, Raúl Ruiz) Jeonju, DP – 5.5

Spell Reel (2017, Filipa César) Jeonju, DP – 4.3

An Elephant Sitting Still (2018, Hu Bo) Jeonju, DP – 6.3

Readers (2017, James Benning) Jeonju, DP – 5.4

The Golden Boat (1990, Raúl Ruiz) Jeonju, DP – 6.5

+Transit (2018, Christian Petzold) Jeonju, DP – 6.2 [down from 6.6]

Happy Hour (2015, Ryûsuke Hamaguchi) – 7.0

Everybody Knows (2018, Asghar Farhadi) Cannes, DP – 4.0

Birds of Passage (2018, Cristina Gallego & Ciro Guerra) Cannes, DP – 4.1

Support the Girls (2018, Andrew Bujalski) Marché du Film, DP – 5.9

Donbass (2018, Sergei Loznitsa) Cannes, DP – 6.8

Yomeddine (2018, A.B. Shawky) Cannes, DP – 3.5

Petra (2018, Jaime Rosales) Cannes, DP – 6.0

To the Ends of the World (2018, Guillaume Nicloux) Cannes, DP – 5.1

Border (2018, Ali Abbasi) Cannes, DP – 4.9

Sorry Angel (2018, Christophe Honoré) Cannes, DP – 4.6

Cold War (2018, Pawel Pawlikowski) Cannes, DP – 4.9

Ten Years Thailand (2018, Aditya Assarat, Wisit Sasanatieng, Chulayarnon Sriphol, & Apichatpong Weerasethakul) Cannes, DP – 5.3

The Image Book (2018, Jean-Luc Godard) Cannes, DP – 7.5

Ash is Purest White (2018, Jia Zhang-ke) Cannes, DP – 6.2

Diamantino (2018, Gabriel Abrantes & Daniel Schmidt) Cannes, DP – 4.7

+The Image Book (2018, Jean-Luc Godard) Cannes, DP – 7.5 [same]

The Load (2018, Ognjen Glavonic) Cannes, DP – 5.6

Girls of the Sun (2018, Eva Husson) Cannes, DP – 4.4

Climax (2018, Gaspar Noé) Cannes, DP – 7.7

3 Faces (2018, Jafar Panahi) Cannes, DP – 5.2

Happy as Lazzaro (2018, Alice Rohrwacher) Cannes, DP – 5.7

Girl (2018, Lukas Dhont) Cannes, DP – 5.8

Shoplifters (2018, Hirokazu Kore-eda) Cannes, DP – 5.6

Buy Me a Gun (2018, Julio Hernández Cordón) Cannes, DP – 5.0

Asako I & II (2018, Ryūsuke Hamaguchi) Cannes, DP – 6.6

BlacKkKlansman (2018, Spike Lee) Cannes, DP – 6.5

The House That Jack Built (2018, Lars von Trier) Cannes, DP – 8.7

Long Day’s Journey Into Night (2018, Bi Gan) Cannes, 3D – 7.3

At War (2018, Stéphane Brizé) Cannes, DP – 5.4

Leave No Trace (2018, Debra Granik) Cannes, DP – 4.6

Under the Silver Lake (2018, David Robert Mitchell) Cannes, DP – 3.9

The Pluto Moment (2018, Ming Zhang) Cannes, DP – 5.1

Burning (2018, Lee Chang-dong) Cannes, DP – 7.7

The Dead and the Others (2018, João Salaviza & Renée Nader Messora) Cannes, DP – 5.3

Dogman (2018, Matteo Garrone) Cannes, DP – 4.7

Âmes sœurs (2018, Pierre Deladonchamps) Cannes, DP

Sauvage (2018, Camille Vidal-Naquet) Cannes, DP – 4.9

In My Room (2018, Ulrich Köhler) Cannes, DP – 6.5

Capernaum (2018, Nadine Labaki) Cannes, DP – 4.5

Knife + Heart (2018, Yann Gonzalez) Cannes, DP – 4.4

Ayka (2018, Sergey Dvortsevoy) Cannes, DP – 5.6

The Wild Pear Tree (2018, Nuri Bilge Ceylan) Cannes, DP – 5.0

Summer (2018, Kirill Serebrennikov) Cannes, DP – 3.6

The Task (2017, Leigh Ledare) – 5.9

Pirosmani (1969, Giorgi Shengelaia) 35mm – 4.5

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

Hale County This Morning, This Evening (2018, RaMell Ross) – 5.6

Hereditary (2018, Ari Aster) DP – 4.4

The Tale (2018, Jennifer Fox) – 4.7

 

June

The Miseducation of Cameron Post (2018, Desiree Akhavan) Inside Out, DP – 4.0

How to Disappear Completely (2013, Raya Martin) – 5.2

In the Realm of Perfection (2018, Julien Faraut) – 6.5

Please Give (2010, Nicole Holofcener) – 6.0

Game Night (2018, John Francis Daley & Jonathan M. Goldstein) – 5.7

The 15:17 to Paris (2018, Clint Eastwood) – 4.1

Blood (2013, Alina Rudnitskaya) – 6.2

MS Slavic 7 (2019, Sofia Bohdanowicz & Deragh Campbell) – Inc. [Rough cut]

The Bubble [3D] (1966, Arch Oboler) – 6.4

The Shores of Phos: A Fable (1972, Stan Brakhage) 16mm

The Text of Light (1974, Stan Brakhage) 16mm – 7.9

The Heartbreak Kid (1972, Elaine May) 35mm – 7.2

Hatari! (1962, Howard Hawks) 35mm – 7.4

The Maze [3D] (1953, William Cameron Menzies) – 4.5

Le amiche (1955, Michelangelo Antonioni) 35mm – 4.2

The Grand Bizarre (2018, Jodie Mack) – 6.6

Introduzione All’Oscuro (2018, Gastón Solnicki) – 4.8

Faust (2018, Andrea Bussmann) – 4.3

Coincoin and the Extra-Humans (2018, Bruno Dumont) – 6.3

Winter’s Night (2018, Jang Woo-jin) – 5.9

Speed Racer (2008, The Wachowskis) 70mm – 6.7

+Notorious (1946, Alfred Hitchcock) – 7.6 [same]

+Seeking the Monkey King (2011, Ken Jacobs) – 7.3 [same]

 

July

Isle of Dogs (2018, Wes Anderson) – 4.9

+Milla (2017, Valérie Massadian) DP – 5.9 [same]

TRON: Legacy [3D] (2010, Joseph Kosinski) – 3.8

Jaws 3-D [3D] (1983, Joe Alves) – 6.6

Tortured Dust (1984, Stan Brakhage) 16mm – 7.4

To Live and Die in L.A. (1985, William Friedkin) 35mm – 4.7

Cruising (1980, William Friedkin) 35mm – 5.1

Roi Soleil (2018, Albert Serra) – 5.0

+Moneyball (2011, Bennett Miller) – 7.5 [same]

Boy (1969, Nagisa Oshima) 35mm – 5.3

Performance (1970, Nicolas Roeg & Donald Cammell) 35mm – 5.3

+Lost Highway (1997, David Lynch) 35mm – 7.3 [~same]

+The Grand Bizarre (2018, Jodie Mack) – 6.6 [same]

 

August

The Maltese Falcon (1941, John Huston) 35mm – 5.6

Scary Mother (2017, Ana Urushadze) – 5.4

+Moneyball (2011, Bennett Miller) – 7.5 [same]

+MS Slavic 7 (2019, Sofia Bohdanowicz & Deragh Campbell) – Inc. [Rough cut]

Too Late to Die Young (2018, Dominga Sotomayor) – 4.6

+Li’l Quinquin (2014, Bruno Dumont) – 7.3 [same]

Your Face (2018, Tsai Ming-liang) – 4.9

Creature from the Black Lagoon (1954, Jack Arnold) 3D – 4.4

Revenge of the Creature (1955, Jack Arnold) 3D – 5.0

 

September

+PROTOTYPE (2017, Blake Williams) 3D – H.i [same]

The Other Side of the Wind (2018, Orson Welles) – 5.1

Wildlife (2018, Paul Dano) TIFF, DP – 3.0

Non-Fiction (2018, Olivier Assayas) TIFF, DP – 6.2

Our Time (2018, Carlos Reygadas) TIFF, DP – 6.9

The River (2018, Emir Baigazin) TIFF, DP – 4.6

Aniara (2018, Pella Kågerman & Hugo Lilja) TIFF, DP – 3.2

The Mountain (2018, Rick Alverson) TIFF, DP – 4.0

Greta (2018, Neil Jordan) TIFF, DP – 5.4

Polly One (2018, Kevin Jerome Everson) TIFF, DP

Blue (2018, Apichatpong Weerasethakul) TIFF, DP

Fainting Spells (2018, Sky Hopinka) TIFF, DP

Prologue to the Tarot: Glenna (2018, Brittany Gravely & Ken Linehan) TIFF, 16mm

+Hoarders Without Boarders (2018, Jodie Mack) TIFF, 16mm

ante mis ojos (2018, Lina Rodriguez) TIFF, DP

ALTIPLANO (2018, Malena Szlam) TIFF, 35mm

Arena (2018, Björn Kämmerer) TIFF, 70mm

L. COHEN (2018, James Benning) TIFF, DP – 7.1

Vox Lux (2018, Brady Corbet) TIFF, DP – 4.7

Those Who Desire (2018, Elena López Riera) TIFF, DP

+The Grand Bizarre (2018, Jodie Mack) TIFF, 16mm – 6.6 [same]

Belmonte (2018, Federico Veiroj) TIFF, DP – 5.3

Ada Kaleh (2018, Helena Wittmann) TIFF, DP

The Glass Note (2018, Mary Helena Clark) TIFF, DP

mumok kino (2017, Philipp Fleischmann) TIFF, 35mm

Trees Down Here (2018, Ben Rivers) TIFF, 35mm

1986 Summer (1986, Toshio Matsumoto) TIFF, DP

+Words, Planets (2018, Laida Lertxundi) TIFF, DP

The Invisible Cinema 3 (2017, Philipp Fleischmann) TIFF, 16mm

Walled, Unwalled (2018, Lawrence Abu Hamdan) TIFF, DP

Widows (2018, Steve McQueen) TIFF, DP – 5.7

A Faithful Man (2018, Louis Garrel) TIFF, DP – 5.1

Girl Pack (1981, Lisa Baumgardner) TIFF, DP

Please step out of the frame. (2018, Karissa Hahn) TIFF, DP

The Air of the Earth in Your Lungs (2018, Ross Meckfessel) TIFF, 16mm

Sira (2018, Rolla Tahir) TIFF, DP

Slip (2018, Celia Perrin Sidarous) TIFF, 16mm

Alice (1974, Maria Lassnig) TIFF, DP

Fallen Arches (2018, Simon Liu) TIFF, 35mm

I Hope I’m Loud When I’m Dead (2018, Beatrice Gibson) TIFF, DP

+Climax (2018, Gaspar Noé) TIFF, DP – 7.7 [same]

If Beale Street Could Talk (2018, Barry Jenkins) TIFF, DP – 5.1

Her Smell (2018, Alex Ross Perry) TIFF, DP – 4.7

Colophon (for the Arboretum Cycle) (2018, Nathaniel Dorsky) TIFF, 16mm

A Return (2018, James Edmonds) TIFF, 16mm

The Labyrinth (2018, Laura Huertas Millán) TIFF, DP

Île d’Ouessant (2018, David Dudouit) TIFF, 16mm

Julio Iglesias’s House (2018, Natalia Marín) TIFF, DP

Man in the Well (2018, Hu Bo) TIFF, DP

High Life (2018, Claire Denis) TIFF, DP – 7.0

ROMA (2018, Alfonso Cuarón) TIFF, DP – 5.2

The Death and Life of John F. Donovan (2018, Xavier Dolan) TIFF, DP – 3.4

Jinpa (2018, Pema Tseden) TIFF, DP – 5.9

What You Gonna Do When the World’s on Fire? (2018, Roberto Minervini) TIFF, DP – 5.4

Sunset (2018, László Nemes) TIFF, DP – 3.7

Meeting Gorbachev (2018, Werner Herzog & André Singer) TIFF, DP – 4.9

Mid90s (2018, Jonah Hill) TIFF, DP – 5.6

A Star is Born (2018, Bradley Cooper) TIFF, DP – 5.6

Maya (2018, Mia Hansen-Løve) TIFF, DP – 5.4

+Long Day’s Journey Into Night (2018, Bi Gan) TIFF, 3D – 7.3 [same]

The Trial (2018, Sergei Loznitsa) TIFF, DP – 4.5

Green Book (2018, Peter Farrelly) TIFF, DP – 6.6

Monrovia, Indiana (2018, Frederick Wiseman) TIFF, DP – 6.0

Destroyer (2018, Karyn Kusama) TIFF, DP – 4.8

The Land of Steady Habits (2018, Nicole Holofcener) TIFF, DP – 3.8

In Fabric (2018, Peter Strickland) TIFF, DP – 4.9

La Flor (2018, Mariano Llinas) TIFF, DP – 6.4

First Man (2018, Damian Chazelle) TIFF, DP – 5.0

Hotel by the River (2018, Hong Sang-soo) TIFF, DP – 6.4

Anthem of a Teenage Prophet (2018, Robin Hays) – 2.9

+Notes on an Appearance (2018, Ricky D’Ambrose) – 5.8 [up from 5.1]

Clara (2018, Akash Sherman) – 2.8

Firecrackers (2018, Jasmin Mozaffari) – 3.5

Thunder Road (2018, Jim Cummings) – 5.5

Where (2018, Sofia Bohdanowicz)
 VIFF, DP

Roy Thomson (2018, Sofia Bohdanowicz) VIFF, DP

+Spice It Up (2018, Lev and Yonah Lewis & Calvin Thomas)
 VIFF, DP – 6.3

A Family Tour (2018, Ying Liang)
 VIFF, DP – 3.9

The Soft Space (2018, Sofia Bohdanowicz & Melanie Scheiner) VIFF, DP

M/M (2018, Drew Lint) VIFF, DP – 5.9

The Far Shore (2018, David Uloth)
 – 4.1

RAY & LIZ (2018, Richard Billingham) VIFF, DP – 5.2

The Museum of Forgotten Triumphs (2018, Bojan Bodružić)
 VIFF, DP – 4.0

N.O.N. (2018, Zebulon Zang) VIFF, DP – 5.3

 

October

Communion Los Angeles (2018, Peter Bo Rappmund & Adam R. Levine)
 VIFF, DP – 5.8

Mangoshake (2018, Terry Chiu) VIFF, DP – 4.7

Freaks (2018, Zach Lipovsky & Adam Stein) VIFF, DP – 3.8

When the Storm Fades (2018, Sean Devlin)
 – 4.6

The New Romantic (2018, Carly Stone) – 4.6

A Land Imagined (2018, Siew Hua Yeo)
 VIFF, DP – 4.9

The Favourite (2018, Yorgos Lanthimos) VIFF, DP – 5.4

The Grizzlies (2018, Miranda de Pencier) – 2.3

Quickeners (2014, Jeremy Shaw)
 VIFF, DP

Liminals (2017, Jeremy Shaw)
 VIFF, DP

I Can See Forever (2018, Jeremy Shaw)
 VIFF, DP – 6.5

Everything Outside (2018, David Findlay) – 5.2

Diane (2018, Kent Jones)
 VIFF, DP – 4.2

Roads in February (2018, Katherine Jerkovic) – 4.8

Three Atlas (2018, Miryam Charles) VIFF, DP

A Fortress (2018, Miryam Charles) VIFF, DP

Song of a Seer (2018, Aïda Maigre-Touchet) VIFF, DP – 3.9

+The House That Jack Built (2018, Lars von Trier) VIFF, DP – 8.7 [same]

+Game Night (2018, John Francis Daley & Jonathan M. Goldstein) – 5.7 [same]

+Titanic (1997, James Cameron) – 6.5 [~same]

Unfriended: Dark Web (2018, Stephen Susco) – 5.6

Private Life (2018, Tamara Jenkins) – 6.1

Mandy (2018, Panos Cosmatos) – 4.3

Eighth Grade (2018, Bo Burnham) – 6.3

Sorry to Bother You (2018, Boots Riley) – 5.4

Minding the Gap (2018, Bing Liu) – 5.3

Touch Me Not (2018, Adina Pintilie) – 4.9

Thoroughbreds (2017, Cory Finley) – 5.5

 

November

Suspiria (2018, Luca Guadagnino) DP – 4.1

+Burning (2018, Lee Chang-dong) DP – 7.2 [down from 7.7]

Gemini (2017, Aaron Katz) – 5.5

Night Music (1986, Stan Brakhage) 16mm

First Hymn to the Night — Novalis (1994, Stan Brakhage) 16mm

The Horseman, the Woman, and the Moth (1968, Stan Brakhage) 16mm

Garden Path (2001, Stan Brakhage & Mary Beth Reed) 16mm

Autumnal (1993, Stan Brakhage) 16mm

Naughts (1994, Stan Brakhage) 16mm

The Dark Tower (1999, Stan Brakhage) 16mm

Stately Mansions Did Decree (1999, Stan Brakhage) 16mm

Persian Series 1-5 (1999, Stan Brakhage) 16mm

Interpolations 1-5 (1992, Stan Brakhage) 35mm

Japón (2002, Carlos Reygadas) – 6.2

+Our Time (2018, Carlos Reygadas) – 6.9 [same]

+Post Tenebras Lux (2012, Carlos Reygadas) – 5.5 [down from 6.1]

The Garden of Earthly Delights (1981, Stan Brakhage) 35mm

A Child’s Garden and the Serious Sea (1991, Stan Brakhage) 16mm – 8.2

Run for Cover (1995, Richard W. Haines) 3D-35mm – 3.9

Frankenstein’s Bloody Terror (1968, Enrique Lopez Eguiluz) 3D-35mm – 5.3

Treasure of the Four Crowns (1983, Ferdinando Baldi) 3D-35mm – 7.1

+Jaws 3-D (1983, Joe Alves) 3D-35mm – 5.9 [down from 6.6]

Amityville 3-D (1983, Richard Fleischer) 3D-35mm – 6.8

Flesh for Frankenstein (1973, Paul Morrissey) 3D-35mm – 7.3

Friday the 13th Part III (1982, Steve Miner) 3D-35mm – 2.8

Silent Madness (1984, Simon Nuchtern) 3D-35mm – 5.7

Comin’ at Ya! (1981, Ferdinando Baldi) 3D-35mm – 4.8

Parasite (1982, Charles Band) 3D-35mm – 5.0

The Ballad of Buster Scruggs (2018, Joel & Ethan Coen) – 4.6

A*P*E [3D] (1976, Paul Leder) – 4.7

Blankets for Indians [3D] (2012, Ken Jacobs) – 6.5

A Primer in Sky Socialism [3D] (2013, Ken Jacobs) – 4.3

What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (1962, Robert Aldrich) 35mm – 3.3

 

December

Electro-Pythagoras: A Portrait of Martin Bartlett (2017, Luke Fowler) – 4.5

+Daisy Kenyon (1947, Otto Preminger) 35mm – 8.0 [down from 8.1]

+Support the Girls (2018, Andrew Bujalski) – 5.9 [same]

El Mar La Mar (2017, Joshua Bonnetta & J.P. Sniadecki) – 5.5

Chinese Series (2003, Stan Brakhage) 35mm

Commingled Containers (1996, Stan Brakhage) 16mm

+Seasons… (2002, Stan Brakhage & Phil Solomon) 16mm

Max (2002, Stan Brakhage) 16mm

Panels for the Walls of Heaven (2002, Stan Brakhage) 16mm

Lovesong 3 & 4 (2001, Stan Brakhage) 16mm

The Mule (2018, Clint Eastwood) DP – 5.2

+The House That Jack Built (2018, Lars von Trier) – 8.7 [same]

+Pina [3D] (2011, Wim Wenders) – 5.7 [down from 6.3]

+The Tree of Life [Extended Version] (2011, Terrence Malick) – 7.1 [Theatrical Version: 7.5]

Bisbee ’17 (2018, Robert Greene) – 4.7

Dim the Fluorescents (2017, Daniel Warth) – 5.6

+Ready Player One [3D] (2018, Steven Spielberg) – 6.7 [2D Version: 6.0]

They Shall Not Grow Old (2018, Peter Jackson) 3D – 4.9

+In the Realm of Perfection (2018, Julien Faraut) – 6.5 [same]

Empire of the Sun (1987, Steven Spielberg) 35mm – 5.8

+The General (1926, Buster Keaton & Clyde Bruckman) – 7.6 [same]