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, Diffraction, 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? My OCD makes it difficult to distinguish between short films, television commercials, Youtube videos, random viral TikToks, etc.; I don’t want to log everything, and I don’t want to be arbitrarily discriminating what I log and what I don’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
Worst Case Scenario (2003, John Smith)
Bones and All (2022, Luca Guadagnino) – 4.4
The Demands of Ordinary Devotion (2022, Eva Giolo)
Lost Sound (2001, John Smith & Graeme Miller)
Slow Glass (1991, John Smith) – 6.9
White Noise (2022, Noah Baumbach) – 6.4
Snow in Venice (1970, Don Owen)
Barbarian (2022, Zach Cregger) – 4.8
Darkness, Darkness, Burning Bright (2022, Gaëlle Rouard) – 5.2
Three Tidy Tigers Tied a Tie Tighter (2022, Gustavo Vinagre) – 2.8
Twice (2020, John Smith)
Flag Mountain (2010, John Smith)
Wil-o-Wisp (2018, Rachel Rose)
Paradiso, XXXI, 108 (2022, Kamal Aljafari)
+Invocation (1982, Amy Halpern) 16mm
Elixir (2012, Amy Halpern) 16mm
Falling Lessons (1992, Amy Halpern) 16mm – 6.5
The Fire Within: Requiem for Katia and Maurice Krafft (2022, Werner Herzog) – 5.7
For 13 Days, I Believed Him (2022, Kiyoshi Kurosawa) – 5.3
Astrakan (2022, David Depesseville) – 5.4
Skinamarink (2022, Kyle Edward Ball) – 5.0
Where Is This Street? or With No Before or After (2022, João Pedro Rodrigues & João Rui Guerra da Mata) – 5.7
The Kingdom (1994, Lars von Trier) – 4.6
Trenque Lauquen (2022, Laura Citarella) – 7.4
Tales of the Purple House (2022, Abbas Fahdel) – 6.4
3rd Degree [Single Screen version] (1982, Paul Sharits)
Gush (2023, Fox Maxy) – 5.9
Last Things [Anaglyph 3D] (2023, Deborah Stratman) – 5.0
A Common Sequence (2023, Mary Helena Clark & Mike Gibisser) – 5.8
Self-Portrait (2022, Joële Walinga) DP – 5.1
A Folded Ocean (2023, Benjamin Brewer)
Smoke Sauna Sisterhood (2023, Anna Hints) – 6.1
The House Is Black (1962, Forugh Farrokhzad)
February
About 12 (2014, Martín Shanly) – 6.3
Knock at the Cabin (2023, M. Night Shyamalan) DP – 6.2
+Slow Glass (1991, John Smith) – 7.7 [up from 6.9]
Everything Everywhere All at Once (2022, Daniel Kwan & Daniel Scheinert) – 4.6
The Kingdom II (1997, Lars von Trier) – 4.0
All That Breathes (2022, Shaunak Sen) – 4.7
+TÁR (2022, Todd Field) – 6.6 [up from 4.9]
The Kingdom: Exodus (2022, Lars von Trier) – 5.4
Soils_Habit_Plants (2017, Elke Marhöfer) Woche der Kritik, DP
Our Body (2023, Claire Simon) Berlinale, DP – 7.0
Dreams (2022, Tenzin Phuntsog) Berlinale, DP
Father Mother (2022, Tenzin Phuntsog) Berlinale, DP
Comrade leader, comrade leader, how nice to see you (2022, Walid Raad) Berlinale, DP
Achala (2022, Tenzin Phuntsog) Berlinale, DP
Dancing Boy (2022, Tenzin Phuntsog) Berlinale, DP
Summer Grass (2022, Tenzin Phuntsog) Berlinale, DP
A Very Long Gif (2022, Eduardo Williams) Berlinale, DP – 5.5
BlackBerry (2023, Matt Johnson) Berlinale, DP – 3.5
The Survival of Kindness (2022, Rolf de Heer) Berlinale, DP – 3.2
Being in a Place (2022, Luke Fowler) Berlinale, DP – 5.7
A Chair (1970, Takahiko Iimura) Berlinale, DP
Blinking (1970, Takahiko Iimura) Berlinale, DP
Self Identity #4 (I Am (Not) Takahiko Iimura, I Am (Not) Akiko Iimura) [1978 version] (1972, Takahiko Iimura) Berlinale, DP
Time Tunnel [32min. version] (1971, Takahiko Iimura) Berlinale, DP
White Plastic Sky (2023, Tibor Bánóczki & Sarolta Szabó) Berlinale, DP – 5.2
Regardless of Us (2023, Yoo Heong-jun) Berlinale, DP – 5.6
The Shadowless Tower (2023, Zhang Lu) Berlinale, DP – 4.7
Manodrome (2023, John Trengove) Berlinale, DP – 3.6
Tartupaluk (Prototype) (2023, Laakkuluk Williamson Bathory) Berlinale, VR
Melting Ink (2023, Dominik Graf) Woche der Kritik, DP – 5.0
The Echo (2023, Tatiana Huezo) Berlinale, DP – 5.9
The Beast in the Jungle (2023, Patric Chiha) Berlinale, DP – 3.5
Forms of Forgetting (2023, Burak Çevik) Berlinale, DP
The Adults (2023, Dustin Guy Defa) Berlinale, DP – 6.1
Orlando, My Political Biography (2023, Paul B. Preciado) Berlinale, DP – 5.3
Past Lives (2023, Celine Song) Berlinale, DP – 4.1
Here (2023, Bas Devos) Berlinale, DP – 6.6
Notes from Eremocene (2023, Viera Čákanyová) Berlinale, DP – 4.0
Order (1980, Sohrab Shahid Saless) Berlinale, 16mm – 6.4
Music (2023, Angela Schanelec) Berlinale, DP – 6.5
Samsara (2023, Lois Patiño) Berlinale, DP – 6.4
Tótem (2023, Lila Avilés) Berlinale, DP – 5.8
The Plough (2023, Philippe Garrel) Berlinale, DP – 5.1
Talk to Me (2022, Danny & Michael Philippou) Berlinale, DP – 4.0
Afire (2023, Christian Petzold) Berlinale, DP – 4.9
Disco Boy (2023, Giacomo Abbruzzese) Berlinale, DP – 4.0
in water (2023, Hong Sang-soo) Berlinale, DP – 4.7
Home Invasion (2023, Graeme Arnfield) Berlinale, DP – 4.3
About Thirty (2023, Martín Shanly) Berlinale, DP – 6.7
The Trial (2023, Ulises de la Orden) Berlinale, DP – 5.5
Till the End of the Night (2023, Christoph Hochhäusler) Berlinale, DP – 5.2
Living Bad (2023, João Canijo) Berlinale, DP – 3.9
Bad Living (2023, João Canijo) Berlinale, DP – 4.5
Twilight (1990, György Fehér) Berlinale, DP – 5.9
ALLENSWORTH (2022, James Benning) Berlinale, DP – 6.1
Kuzu (Junk) (1962, Takahiko Iimura)
Ai (Love) (1962, Takahiko Iimura)
On Eye Rape (1962, Takahiko Iimura)
Iro (Colors) (1962, Takahiko Iimura)
Dada ’62 (1962, Takahiko Iimura)
Onan (1963, Takahiko Iimura)
Anma (The Masseurs) (1963, Takahiko Iimura)
Inside & Outside (1963, Takahiko Iimura)
My Documentary (1964, Takahiko Iimura)
A Dance Party in the Kingdom of Lilliput (1964, Takahiko Iimura)
March
+Funny Ha Ha (2002, Andrew Bujalski) DP – 6.2 [same]
+There There (2022, Andrew Bujalski) DP – 5.6 [same]
+Beeswax (2009, Andrew Bujalski) DP – 6.2 [same]
+Computer Chess (2013, Andrew Bujalski) DP – 8.0 [up from 7.9]
Square the Circle (2023, Hanna Hovitie)
Mangosteen (2022, Tulapop Saenjaroen) – 4.6
The Sun (1988, Pierre Clémenti) DP
New Old (1979, Pierre Clémenti) DP – 4.5
Hotel Cartograph [silent] (1982, Scott Stark)
Aribada (2022, Simon[e] Jaikiriuma Paetau & Natalia Escobar)
12 Stabs at Blade Runner [3D] (2014, Marc Downie & Paul Kaiser)
+Let Your Light Shine [Diffraction 3D] (2013, Jodie Mack)
+not even nothing can be free of ghosts [Diffraction 3D] (2016, Rainer Kohlberger)
3/78 (Objects and Transformations) [Diffraction 3D] (1978, Larry Cuba)
Two Space [Diffraction 3D] (1979, Larry Cuba)
+Free Radicals [Diffraction 3D] (1958, Len Lye)
+Particles in Space [Diffraction 3D] (1980, Len Lye)
Silence [Diffraction 3D] (1968, Jules Engel)
Study No. 6 [Diffraction 3D] (1930, Oskar Fischinger)
Study No. 7 [Diffraction 3D] (1931, Oskar Fischinger)
Detroit Transect: Spine [3D] (2014, Marc Downie & Paul Kaiser) – 5.5
Detroit Transect: Glimpsing [3D] (2014, Marc Downie & Paul Kaiser)
Heaven [3D] (2019, Marc Downie & Paul Kaiser)
plant [3D] (2012, Marc Downie & Paul Kaiser)
Innermost [3D] (2021, Marc Downie & Paul Kaiser)
Camera, Monitor, Frame (1976, Takahiko Iimura)
Observer/Observed (1975, Takahiko Iimura)
Observer/Observed/Observer (1976, Takahiko Iimura)
+plant [3D] (2012, Marc Downie & Paul Kaiser)
+All Sides of the Road [3D] (2012, Marc Downie & Paul Kaiser)
+Innermost [3D] (2021, Marc Downie & Paul Kaiser)
Spin (2001, Hannes Schüpbach)
Ofrenda (1978, Claudio Caldini)
Cathedral (1971, Ronald Chase)
Tollhaus (1979, Bastian Clevé)
A Moment in Love (1956, Shirley Clarke)
V.W. Vitesse Women (1974, Claudine Eizykman)
From the Ladies (1977, Holly Fisher)
Sodom (1989, Luther Price)
Safe Place (2022, Juraj Lerotić) – 6.5
Grandeur Nature (2023, Arnaud Dezoteux)
The Film You Are About to See (2023, Maxime Martinot)
Saintonge Roundabout (2023, Quentin Papapietro)
If You Don’t Watch the Way You Move (2023, Kevin Jerome Everson)
Souvenir d’Athènes (2023, Jean-Claude Rousseau) Cinéma du Réel, DP
+EVENTIDE (2022, Sharon Lockhart) Cinéma du Réel, DP
+Laberint Sequences [Anaglyph] (2023, Blake Williams) Cinéma du Réel, 3D
Infinite Distances (2022, Pablo Alvarez Mesa)
The Fuckee’s Hymn (2023, Travis Wilkerson) Cinéma du Réel, DP – 3.7
El Chinero, a Phantom Hill (2023, Bani Khoshnoudi) Cinéma du Réel, DP
Extended Presences (2023, Margaux Dauby) Cinéma du Réel, DP
The Secret Garden (2023, Nour Ouayda) Cinéma du Réel, DP
+Being in a Place (2022, Luke Fowler) Cinéma du Réel, DP – 5.9 [up from 5.7]
Lunch Break (2008, Sharon Lockhart) Cinéma du Réel, DP – 5.6
En rachâchant [No English subtitles] (1982, Danièle Huillet & Jean-Marie Straub) Cinéma du Réel, DP
Routine Pleasures (1986, Jean-Pierre Gorin) Cinéma du Réel, DP – 4.9
+Souvenir d’Athènes (2023, Jean-Claude Rousseau) Cinéma du Réel, DP
+EVENTIDE (2022, Sharon Lockhart) Cinéma du Réel, DP
+Laberint Sequences [Anaglyph] (2023, Blake Williams) Cinéma du Réel, 3D
April
Emily the Criminal (2022, John Patton Ford) – 5.2
+Mulholland Dr. (2001, David Lynch) – 8.9 [same]
+INLAND EMPIRE (2006, David Lynch) – 10.0 [up from 9.8]
+Showing Up (2022, Kelly Reichardt) DP – 7.5 [same]
Every Thing Will Be Fine [3D] (2015, Wim Wenders) – 2.5
Anaxia (2018, Weston Razooli)
Beau Is Afraid (2023, Ari Aster) DP – 5.7
Adoption (1975, Márta Mészáros) DP – 5.0
Our Ark (2021, Deniz Tortum & Kathryn Hamilton)
Pilgrims (2021, Laurynas Bareiša) – 4.6
Petite Solange (2021, Axelle Ropert) – 5.6
Master Gardener (2022, Paul Schrader) Jeonju, DP – 5.1
The Hidden Gesture. War and Melodrama in Hollywood’s 30s and 40s (2023, Dana Najlis) Jeonju, DP
+Maria Schneider, 1983 (2022, Elisabeth Subrin) Jeonju, DP
Camera Test (2022, Siegfried A. Fruhauf) Jeonju, DP
Promise (2022, Claudio Caldini) Jeonju, DP
So Long Michael (2021, Elisabeth Perceval & Nicolas Klotz) Jeonju, DP
Staging Death (2022, Jan Soldat) Jeonju, DP
NE Corridor (2022, Joshua Gen Solondz) Jeonju, DP
This Is for Jonas Mekas (2023, Friedl vom Gröller) Jeonju, 16mm
The Garden of Earthly Delights (1981, Stan Brakhage) Jeonju, 35mm
+Koyaanisqatsi (1982, Godfrey Reggio) Jeonju, 35mm – 7.0 [same]
+Laberint Sequences (2023, Blake Williams) Jeonju, 3D
+A Woman Escapes (2022, Sofia Bohdanowicz, Burak Çevik, & Blake Williams) Jeonju, 3D – H.i
REVOLUTION+1 (2022, Masao Adachi) Jeonju, DP – 4.8
Bloom (2023, Helena Girón & Samuel M. Delgado) Jeonju, DP
Cave Painting (2023, Siegfried A. Fruhauf) Jeonju, DP
May
Diaries (1971-1976) (1982, Ed Pincus) Jeonju, DP – 6.3
Still Free (2023, Vadim Kostrov) Jeonju, DP
After the Dust (2022, Colectivo Silencio) Jeonju, DP
Clorindo Testa (2022, Mariano Llinás) Jeonju, DP – 5.2
That Obscure Object of Desire (1977, Luis Buñuel) Jeonju, DP – 5.6
The Quiet Migration (2023, Malene Choi) Jeonju, DP – 4.5
Obscure night – Wild leaves (The burning ones, the obstinate) (2022, Sylvain George) Jeonju, DP – 5.8
Fragments of Paradise (2022, KD Davison) Jeonju, DP – 4.4
Branded to Kill (1967, Seijun Suzuki) Jeonju, DP – 6.0
West Indies: The Fugitive Slaves of Liberty (1979, Med Hondo) Jeonju, DP – 4.9
Breath (2023, Jéro Yun) Jeonju, DP – 4.8
There Is a Stone (2022, Tatsunari Ota) Jeonju, DP – 5.1
Silent Witnesses (2023, Luis Ospina & Jerónimo Atehortúa Arteaga) Jeonju, DP – 5.6
+The Potemkinists (2022, Radu Jude) Jeonju, DP
The Wall of the Dead (2022, Eugène Green) Jeonju, DP – 6.7
Flesh of Morning (1986, Stan Brakhage) 16mm
Hurry! Hurry! (1957, Marie Menken) 16mm
Cosmic Ray (1962, Bruce Conner) DP
+Ai (Love) (1962, Takahiko Iimura) 16mm
Body Double (1984, Brian De Palma) 35mm – 5.9
Of Special Merit (1968, Hellmuth Costard) DP
Orange (1969, Karen Johnson) 16mm
Onanism (1969, Nalini Malani) DP
Dance (1969, Georg Brintrup) DP
I Change I Am the Same (1969, Alice Anne Parker & Shelby Kennedy) DP
Birds (1968, Frans Zwartjes) DP
Oblivion (1969, Tom Chomont) 16mm
Face (1969, Takahiko Iimura) 16mm
Dafnis y Cloe (1969, Antoni Padrós) DP
Kubi (2023, Takeshi Kitano) Cannes, DP – 4.9
L’Amour fou (1969, Jacques Rivette) Cannes, DP – 7.3
Jeanne du Barry (2023, Maïwenn) Cannes, DP – 4.3
Occupied City (2023, Steve McQueen) Cannes, DP – 6.1
Anselm (2023, Wim Wenders) Cannes, 3D – 6.7
Monster (2023, Hirokazu Kore-eda) Cannes, DP – 4.4
Homecoming (2023, Catherine Corsini) Cannes, DP – 5.0
Deserts (2023, Faouzi Bensaïdi) Cannes, DP – 4.3
The Sweet East (2023, Sean Price Williams) Cannes, DP – 6.5
A Prince (2023, Pierre Creton) Cannes, DP – 7.0
Lost in the Night (2023, Amat Escalante) Cannes, DP – 4.8
Black Flies (2023, Jean-Stéphane Sauvaire) Cannes, DP – 3.2
Youth (Spring) (2023, Wang Bing) Cannes, DP – 5.9
The Zone of Interest (2023, Jonathan Glazer) Cannes, DP – 5.7
Eureka (2023, Lisandro Alonso) Cannes, DP – 6.0
About Dry Grasses (2023, Nuri Bilge Ceylan) Cannes, DP – 5.6
Four Daughters (2023, Kaouther Ben Hania) Cannes, DP – 4.9
Killers of the Flower Moon (2023, Martin Scorsese) Cannes, DP – 5.9
May December (2023, Todd Haynes) Cannes, DP – 6.9
Banel & Adama (2023, Ramata-Toulaye Sy) Cannes, DP – 5.3
Riddle of Fire (2023, Weston Razooli) Cannes, DP – 6.4
Godard by Godard (2023, Florence Platarets) Cannes, DP – 5.0
Trailer for Phony Wars (take one) (2023, Jean-Luc Godard) Cannes, DP
Anatomy of a Fall (2023, Justine Triet) Cannes, DP – 5.5
The Book of Solutions (2023, Michel Gondry) Cannes, DP – 3.6
Club Zero (2023, Jessica Hausner) Cannes, DP – 6.5
Close Your Eyes (2023, Víctor Erice) Cannes, DP – 5.8
Grace (2023, Ilya Povolotsky) Cannes, DP – 5.5
The Daughters of Fire (2023, Pedro Costa) Cannes, DP
Man in Black (2023, Wang Bing) Cannes, DP – 5.7
Fallen Leaves (2023, Aki Kaurismäki) Cannes, DP – 5.1
Asteroid City (2023, Wes Anderson) Cannes, DP – 5.4
The Feeling That the Time for Doing Something Has Passed (2023, Joanna Arnow) Cannes, DP – 6.7
Kidnapped (2023, Marco Bellocchio) Cannes, DP – 4.7
Inside the Yellow Cocoon Shell (2023, Thien An Pham) Cannes, DP – 6.1
A Brighter Tomorrow (2023, Nanni Moretti) Cannes, DP – 2.4
The Pot-au-Feu (2023, Trần Anh Hùng) Cannes, DP – 5.8
The Delinquents (2023, Rodrigo Moreno) Cannes, DP – 6.3
In Our Day (2023, Hong Sang-soo) Cannes, DP – 6.0
Last Summer… (2023, Catherine Breillat) Cannes, DP – 6.8
Perfect Days (2023, Wim Wenders) Cannes, DP – 5.1
The Chimera (2023, Alice Rohrwacher) Cannes, DP – 6.4
The Old Oak (2023, Ken Loach) Cannes, DP – 4.6
Firebrand (2023, Karim Aïnouz) Cannes, DP – 3.7