Top 10 of 2022

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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
  • Where (Tsai Ming-liang) – 6.8
  • Saint Omer (Alice Diop) – 6.8
  • Pacifiction (Albert Serra) – 6.7
  • The Wall of the Dead (Eugène Green) – 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
  • 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
  • Obscure night – Wild leaves (The burning ones, the obstinate) (Sylvain George) – 5.8
  • 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
  • Clorindo Testa (Mariano Llinás) – 5.2
  • Godland (Hlynur Pálmason) – 5.2
  • Metronom (Alexandru Belc) – 5.2
  • Other People’s Children (Rebecca Zlotowski) – 5.2
  • Emily the Criminal (John Patton Ford) – 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
  • Master Gardener (Paul Schrader) – 5.1
  • The Kegelstatt Trio (Rita Azevedo Gomes) – 5.1
  • Descendant (Margaret Brown) – 5.1
  • There Is a Stone (Tatsunari Ota) – 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
  • REVOLUTION+1 (Masao Adachi)– 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
  • Fragments of Paradise (KD Davison) – 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
  • Kick Me (Gary Huggins) – 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