Key
– Saw at TIFF (Sept. 6-16)
– Saw at Cannes or Jeonju
– Saw a screener of some kind
Tier 0 [A- / A / A+]
[insert The House That Jack Built (8.7) here]
Tier 1 [B+]
Climax (Gaspar Noé) – 7.7
Burning (Lee Chang-dong) – 7.7
The Image Book (Jean-Luc Godard) – 7.5
Long Day’s Journey Into Night (Bi Gan) – 7.3
L. COHEN (James Benning) – 7.1
High Life (Claire Denis) – 7.0
Tier 2 [B]
Our Time (Carlos Reygadas) – 6.9
Donbass (Sergei Loznitsa) – 6.8
Asako I & II (Ryūsuke Hamaguchi) – 6.6
The Grand Bizarre (Jodie Mack) – 6.6
Green Book (Peter Farrelly) – 6.6
In My Room (Ulrich Köhler) – 6.5
La Flor (Mariano Llinás) – 6.4
Hotel by the River (Hong Sang-soo) – 6.4
An Elephant Sitting Still (Hu Bo) – 6.2
Ash is Purest White (Jia Zhang-ke) – 6.2
Transit (Christian Petzold) – 6.2
Non-Fiction (Olivier Assayas) – 6.2
Tier 3 [B-]
Monrovia, Indiana (Frederick Wiseman) – 6.0
Jinpa (Pema Tseden) – 5.9
Widows (Steve McQueen) – 5.7
A Star is Born (Bradley Cooper) – 5.6
The Load (Ognjen Glavonic) – 5.6
Mid90s (Jonah Hill) – 5.6
Shoplifters (Hirokazu Kore-eda) – 5.6
Greta (Neil Jordan) – 5.4
Maya (Mia Hansen-Løve) – 5.4
What You Gonna Do When the World’s on Fire? (Robert Minervini) – 5.4
Tier 4 [C+]
Belmonte (Federico Veiroj) – 5.3
3 Faces (Jafar Panahi) – 5.2
ROMA (Alfonso Cuarón) – 5.2
A Faithful Man (Louis Garrel) – 5.1
If Beale Street Could Talk (Barry Jenkins) – 5.1
First Man (Damien Chazelle) – 5.0
The Wild Pear Tree (Nuri Bilge Ceylan) – 5.0
In Fabric (Peter Strickland) – 4.9
Cold War (Pawel Pawlikowski) – 4.9
Meeting Gorbachev (Werner Herzog & André Singer) – 4.9
Border (Ali Abbasi) – 4.9
Destroyer (Karyn Kusama) – 4.8
Diamantino (Gabriel Abrantes & Daniel Schmidt) – 4.7
Her Smell (Alex Ross Perry) – 4.7
Vox Lux (Brady Corbet) – 4.7
Dogman (Matteo Garrone) – 4.7
Too Late to Die Young (Dominga Sotomayor) – 4.6
The River (Emir Baigazin) – 4.6
Tier 5 [C]
The Trial (Sergei Loznitsa) – 4.5
Capernaum (Nadine Labaki) – 4.5
Girls of the Sun (Eva Husson) – 4.4
Birds of Passage (Cristina Gallego & Ciro Guerra) – 4.1
The Mountain (Rick Alverson) – 4.0
Everybody Knows (Asghar Farhadi) – 4.0
The Land of Steady Habits (Nicole Holofcener) – 3.8
Tier 6 [C-]
Sunset (László Nemes) – 3.7
The Death and Life of John F. Donovan (Xavier Dolan) – 3.4
Aniara (Pella Kagerman & Hugo Lilja) – 3.2
Wildlife (Paul Dano) – 3.0
Fausto (Andrea Bussmann) – TK
Shorts [Alphabetical]
– Ada Kaleh (Helena Wittmann)
– The Air of the Earth in Your Lungs (Ross Meckfessel)
– Alice (1974, Maria Lassnig)
– ALTIPLANO (Malena Szlam)
– ante mis ojos (Lina Rodriguez)
– Arena (Björn Kämmerer)
– Blue (Apichatpong Weerasethakul)
– Colophon (for the Arboretum Cycle) (Nathaniel Dorsky)
– Fainting Spells (Sky Hopinka)
– Fallen Arches (Simon Liu)
– Girl Pack (1981, Lisa Baumgardner)
– The Glass Note (Mary Helena Clark)
– Hoarders Without Boarders (Jodie Mack)
– I Hope I’m Loud When I’m Dead (Beatrice Gibson)
– Île d’Ouessant (David Dudouit)
– The Invisible Cinema 3 (Philipp Fleischmann)
– Julio Iglesias’s House (Natalia Marín)
– The Labyrinth (Laura Huertas Millán)
– Man in the Well (Hu Bo)
– mumok kino (hilipp Fleischmann)
– 1986 Summer (1986, Toshio Matsumoto)
– Please step out of the frame. (Karissa Hahn)
– Polly One (Kevin Jerome Everson)
– Prologue to the Tarot: Glenna (Brittany Gravely & Ken Linehan)
– A Return (James Edmonds)
– Slip (Celia Perrin Sidarous)
– Sira (Rolla Tahir)
– Those Who Desire (Elena López Riera)
– Trees Down Here (Ben Rivers)
– Walled, Unwalled (Lawrence Abu Hamdan)
– Words, Planets (Laida Lertxundi)