May 17
7:00pm – Final Cut (Michel Hazanavicius), Debussy
 

May 18
9:00am – Exterior Night (Marco Bellocchio), Debussy
3:30pm – Tchaïkovsky’s Wife (Kirill Serebrennikov), Lumière
7:00pm – Scarlet (Pietro Marcello), Théâtre Croisette
10:30pm – The Eight Mountains (Charlotte Vandermeersch & Felix van Groeningen), Debussy
 

May 19
8:30am – God’s Creatures (Saela Davis & Anna Rose Holmer), Théâtre Croisette
11:00am – Rodeo (Lola Quivoron), Debussy
6:30pm – Armageddon Time (James Gray), Debussy
10:15pm – EO (Jerzy Skolimowski), Debussy
 

May 20
8:30am – One Fine Morning (Mia Hansen-Løve), Théâtre Croisette
11:00am – Corsage (Marie Kreutzer), Debussy
2:45pm – Enys Men (Mark Jenkin), Théâtre Croisette
7:45pm – Son of Ramses (Clément Cogitore), Miramar W/O
10:15pm – Brother and Sister (Arnaud Desplechin), Debussy
 

May 21
9:00am – Three Thousand Years of Longing (George Miller), Varda
11:45am – Pamfir (Dmytro Sukholytkyy-Sobchuk), Théâtre Croisette
4:30pm – Triangle of Sadness (Ruben Östlund), Debussy
7:30pm – Diary of a Fleeting Affair (Emmanuel Mouret), Debussy
10:00pm – R.M.N. (Cristian Mungiu), Debussy
 

May 22
8:30am – Aftersun (Charlotte Wells), Miramar
2:15pm – Magdala (Damien Manivel), Palais C
4:45pm – Holy Spider (Ali Abbasi), Bazin
7:45pm – Don Juan (Serge Bozon), Debussy
10:15pm – Sick of Myself (Kristoffer Borgli), Debussy
 

May 23
8:30am – The Five Devils (Léa Mysius), Théâtre Croisette
11:30am – De Humani Corporis Fabrica (Véréna Paravel & Lucien Castaing-Taylor), Théâtre Croisette
4:30pm – Decision to Leave (Park Chan-wook), Debussy
 

May 24
8:30am – Funny Pages (Owen Kline), Théâtre Croisette
11:00am – The Natural History of Destruction (Sergei Loznitsa), Buñuel
5:00pm – The Dam (Ali Cherri), Théâtre Croisette
7:30pm – Crimes of the Future (David Cronenberg), Bazin
10:00pm – Will-o’-the-Wisp (João Pedro Rodrigues), Théâtre Croisette
 

May 25
8:30am – Metronom (Alexandru Belc), Debussy
12:00pm – Forever Young (Valeria Bruni Tedeschi), Cineum Aurore
3:45pm – Leila’s Brothers (Saeed Roustaee), Bazin
7:30pm – Godland (Hlynur Pálmason), Bazin
10:30pm – Stars at Noon (Claire Denis), Debussy
 

May 26
8:30am – La Jauría (Andrés Ramírez Pulido), Miramar
3:15pm – Pacifiction (Albert Serra), Lumière
10:15pm – Close (Lukas Dhont), Debussy
 

May 27
8:30am – Broker (Hirokazu Kore-eda), Lumière
3:15pm – Showing Up (Kelly Reichardt), Lumière
5:30pm – Mother and Son (Léonor Serraille), Bazin
 

May 28
11:30am – Boy from Heaven (Tarik Saleh), Bazin
3:30pm – Tori and Lokita (Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne), Varda
5:15pm – Nostalgia (Mario Martone), Varda

Ⓟ is for Public screenings

 
February 10
12:30PM – Super Natural (Jorge Jácome), CinemaxX 10
2:45PM – Nobody’s Hero (Alain Guiraudie), CinemaxX 1
6:00PM – Rimini (Ulrich Seidl), CinemaxX 1
9:00PM – Flux Gourmet (Peter Strickland), CinemaxX 4
 

February 11
9:30AM – Coma (Bertrand Bonello), CinemaxX 4
1:30PM – Jet Lag (Zheng Lu Xinyuan), Kino Arsenal 1 Ⓟ
3:30PM – Robe of Gems (Natalia López Gallardo), Berlinale Palast Ⓟ
6:30PM – Both Sides of the Blade (Claire Denis), CinemaxX 1
9:30PM – The United States of America (James Benning), Delphi Filmpalast Ⓟ
 

February 12
9:30AM – The Kegelstatt Trio (Rita Azevedo Gomes), CinemaxX 10
12:30PM – The Death of My Mother (Jessica Krummacher), CinemaxX 7 Ⓟ W/O
3:00PM – The Line (Ursula Meier), Friedrichstadt-Palast Ⓟ
7:00PM – Happer’s Comet (Tyler Taormina), CinemaxX 10
9:00PM – The Middle Ages (Alejo Moguillansky & Luciana Acuña), Delphi Filmpalast Ⓟ
 

February 13
9:30AM – This House (Miryam Charles), CinemaxX 10
12:00PM – The Passengers of the Night (Mikhaël Hers), CinemaxX 1
3:30PM – That Kind of Summer (Denis Côté), CinemaxX 1
7:00PM – Dry Ground Burning (Adirley Queirós & Joana Pimenta), CinemaxX 10
 

February 14
9:30AM – Queens of the Qing Dynasty (Ashley McKenzie), CinemaxX 3
12:00PM – Small, Slow but Steady (Shô Miyake), Cubix 7
4:00PM – Striking Land (Raul Domingues), CinemaxX 10
7:00PM – Camouflage (Jonathan Perel), CinemaxX 10
9:30PM – Unrest (Cyril Schäublin), CinemaxX 7 Ⓟ
 

February 15
9:30AM – Nuclear Family (Erin & Travis Wilkerson), CinemaxX 10
12:30PM – The Veteran (Jerónimo Rodríguez, CinemaxX 10
3:00PM – Brother in Every Inch (Alexander Zolotukhin), CinemaxX 6
7:00PM – Afterwater (Dane Komljen), CinemaxX 10
9:00PM – The Novelist’s Film (Hong Sang-soo), CinemaxX 1
 

February 16
9:30AM – A Little Love Package (Gastón Solnicki), CinemaxX 5
11:00AM – Forum Expanded Program 2, Kino Arsenal 1 Ⓟ
               – Gazing… Unseeing (Mohamed Abdelkarim)
               – Surface Rites (Faraz & Parastoo Anoushahpour, & Ryan Ferko)
               – Sun Under Ground (Mareike Bernien & Alex Gerbaulet)
2:30PM – Mutzenbacher (Ruth Beckermann), CinemaxX 5
5:30PM – Rewind & Play (Alain Gomis), Akademie der Künste
 

February 17
12:00PM – See You Friday, Robinson (Mitra Farahani), Akademie der Künste Ⓟ

*Click on the ‘Lists & Logs’ tab to see lists from previous years.

This list will be updated each time I see a film from 2021 (world premiere/imdb date) that is better than at least one of the films already on the list.

1. Memoria (Apichatpong Weerasethakul)
2. France (Bruno Dumont)
3. The Tsugua Diaries (Miguel Gomes & Maureen Fazendeiro)
4. Rock Bottom Riser (Fern Silva)
5. First Time — The Time for All but Sunset [Violet] (Nicolaas Schmidt)
6. Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy (Ryûsuke Hamaguchi)
7. The Souvenir Part II (Joanna Hogg)
8. What Do We See When We Look at the Sky? (Alexandre Koberidze)
9. Red Rocket (Sean Baker)
10. Un monde flottant (Jean-Claude Rousseau)

 

Polls Top 10 (Eligible titles appear here.)

1. Memoria (2021, Apichatpong Weerasethakul)
2. France (2021, Bruno Dumont)
3. Her Socialist Smile (2020, John Gianvito)
4. Fauna (2020, Nicolás Pereda)
5. Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy (2021, Ryûsuke Hamaguchi)
6. The Souvenir Part II (2021, Joanna Hogg)
7. What Do We See When We Look at the Sky? (2021, Alexandre Koberidze)
8. Days (2020, Tsai Ming-liang)
9. Red Rocket (2021, Sean Baker)
10. Bergman Island (2021, Mia Hansen-Løve)

 

My Top 10 Discoveries During 2021 (for first-time viewings of films made before 2010)

1. Twin Peaks (1977, Al Wong)
2. Dressed to Kill (1980, Brian De Palma)
3. The Sugarland Express (1974, Steven Spielberg)
4. RoboCop (1987, Paul Verhoeven)
5. De son appartement (2007, Jean-Claude Rousseau)
6. Homework (1989, Abbas Kiarostami)
7. La vallée close (1995, Jean-Claude Rousseau)
8. The Seventh Continent (1989, Michael Haneke)
9. Funniest Show on Earth (1953, Mario Mattoli)
10. The Bridges of Madison County (1995, Clint Eastwood)

 

Other 2021 films I’ve seen

• Bergman Island (Mia Hansen-Løve) – 7.0
• Saxifrages, Four White Nights (Nicolas Klotz & Elisabeth Perceval) – 7.0
• Who’s Stopping Us (Jonás Trueba) – 6.9
• Mr. Bachmann and His Class (Maria Speth) – 6.9
• Licorice Pizza (Paul Thomas Anderson) – 6.8
• Vortex (Gaspar Noé) – 6.8
• The Girl and the Spider (Ramon Zürcher) – 6.8
• The Beatles: Get Back (Peter Jackson) – 6.7
• Ready Mix (Lucy Raven) – 6.7
• The Worst Person in the World (Joachim Trier) – 6.7
• The Card Counter (Paul Schrader) – 6.6
• Introduction (Hong Sang-soo) – 6.6
• Teenage Emotions (Frédéric Da) – 6.5
• The Dog Who Wouldn’t Be Quiet (Ana Katz) – 6.5
• Wood and Water (Jonas Bak) – 6.5
• The Good Woman of Sichuan (Sabrina Zhao) – 6.5
• El Planeta (Amalia Ulman) – 6.4
• El Gran Movimiento (Kiro Russo) – 6.4
• Petite Maman (Céline Sciamma) – 6.4
• Old (M. Night Shyamalan) – 6.4
• from Bakersfield to Mojave (James Benning) – 6.4
• Hit the Road (Panah Panahi) – 6.4
• Friends and Strangers (James Vaughan) – 6.3
• Annette (Leos Carax) – 6.3
• Fabian, or Going to the Dogs (Dominik Graf) – 6.3
• Ghost Song (Nicolas Peduzzi) – 6.3
• Moon, 66 Questions (Jacqueline Lentzou) – 6.2
• Onoda (Arthur Harari) – 6.2
• Drive My Car (Ryûsuke Hamaguchi) – 6.1
• Third Grade (Jacques Doillon) – 6.1
• Mr. Landsbergis (Sergei Loznitsa) – 6.1
• No Sudden Move (Steven Soderbergh) – 6.1
• Topology of Sirens (Jonathan Davies) – 6.1
• Benedetta (Paul Verhoeven) – 6.1
• Come Here (Anocha Suwichakornpong) – 6.0
• Titane (Julia Ducournau) – 6.0
• Prayers for the Stolen (Tatiana Huezo) – 6.0
• A Chiara (Jonas Carpignano) – 6.0
• Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn (Radu Jude) – 5.9
• In Front of Your Face (Hong Sang-soo) – 5.9
• Ste. Anne (Rhayne Vermette) – 5.9
• Drift Away (Xavier Beauvois) – 5.9
• Belle (Mamoru Hosoda) – 5.9
• We (Alice Diop) – 5.9
• Pebbles (P.S. Vinothraj) – 5.9
• Ahed’s Knee (Nadav Lapid) – 5.8
• We’re All Going to the World’s Fair (Jane Schoenbrun) – 5.8
• Searchers (Pacho Velez) – 5.8
• All Light, Everywhere (Theo Anthony) – 5.8
• The Crusade (Louis Garrel) – 5.7
• Double Wow (Ken Jacobs) – 5.7
• Haruhara-san’s Recorder (Kyoshi Sugita) – 5.7
• The Tale of King Crab (Alessio Rigo de Righi & Matteo Zoppis) – 5.7
• Întregalde (Radu Muntean) – 5.6
• Kinorama – Beyond the Walls of the Real (Edgar Pêra) – 5.6
• A River Runs, Turns, Erases, Replaces (Shengze Zhu) – 5.6
• Neptune Frost (Saul Williams & Anisia Uzeyman) – 5.6
• Parallel Mothers (Pedro Almodóvar) – 5.6
• The Inventory Will Be Drawn Up at 11 a.m. in the Presence of the Poet’s Wife (Martin Verdet) – 5.6
• Petite Solange (Axelle Ropert) – 5.6
• The Lost Daughter (Maggie Gyllenhaal) – 5.5
• Azor (Andreas Fontana) – 5.5
• The Cathedral (Ricky D’Ambrose) – 5.5
• Futura (Pietro Marcello, Francesco Munzi, & Alice Rohrwacher) – 5.5
• A Glitch in the Matrix (Rodney Ascher) – 5.5
• Unclenching the Fists (Kira Kovalenko) – 5.5
• From Where They Stood (Christophe Cognet) – 5.5
• Zeros and Ones (Abel Ferrara) – 5.4
• For Lucio (Pietro Marcello) – 5.4
• The Beta Test (Jim Cummings & PJ McCabe) – 5.4
• Terra Femme (Courtney Stephens) – 5.4
• Vengeance is Mine, All Others Pay Cash (Edwin) – 5.4
• Nitram (Justin Kurzel) – 5.4
• Cryptozoo (Dash Shaw) – 5.4
• Black Notebooks [Ronit] (Shlomi Elkabetz) – 5.4
• Social Hygiene (Denis Côté) – 5.4
• The Matrix Resurrections (Lana Wachowski) – 5.4
• Babi Yar. Context (Sergei Loznitsa) – 5.4
• Pig (Michael Sarnoski) – 5.3
• Drunken Birds (Ivan Grbovic) – 5.3
• Passing (Rebecca Hall) – 5.3
• Dirty Feathers (Carlos Alfonso Corral) – 5.3
• Forest: I See You Everywhere (Bence Fliegauf) – 5.3
• Outside Noise (Ted Fendt) – 5.2
• Earwig (Lucile Hadžihalilović) – 5.2
• The Invisible Mountain (Ben Russell) – 5.2
• The Power of the Dog (Jane Campion) – 5.2
• A Hero (Asghar Farhadi) – 5.2
• The Velvet Underground (Todd Haynes) – 5.2
• Happening (Audrey Diwan) – 5.2
• Landscapes of Resistance (Marta Popivoda) – 5.2
• I’m Your Man (Maria Schrader) – 5.1
• Il Buco (Michelangelo Frammartino) – 5.1
• Black Notebooks [Viviane] (Shlomi Elkabetz) – 5.1
• Aloners (Hong Sung-eun) – 5.1
• Atlantide (Yuri Ancarani) – 5.1
• Tralala (Arnaud & Jean-Marie Larrieu) – 5.1
• Jack’s Ride (Susana Nobre) – 5.1
• Great Freedom (Sebastian Meise) – 5.0
• Don’t Look Up (Adam McKay) – 5.0
• Marx Can Wait (Marco Bellocchio) – 5.0
• Returning to Reims [Fragments] (Jean-Gabriel Périot) – 5.0
• Deception (Arnaud Desplechin) – 5.0
• A Night of Knowing Nothing (Payal Kapadia) – 5.0
• Bloodsuckers (Julian Radlmaier) – 5.0
• Compartment No. 6 (Juho Kuosmanen) – 4.9
• Malignant (James Wan) – 4.9
• A Cop Movie (Alonso Ruizpalacios) – 4.9
• The White Fortress (Igor Drljača) – 4.9
• Censor (Prano Bailey-Bond) – 4.9
• Prism (Eléonore Yameogo, An van. Dienderen, & Rosine Mbakam) – 4.8
• Taming the Garden (Salomé Jashi) – 4.8
• Reflection (Valentyn Vasyanovych) – 4.8
• Dune: Part One (Denis Villeneuve) – 4.8
• The Divide (Catherine Corsini) – 4.8
• House Arrest (Alexey German Jr.) – 4.8
• What Will Summer Bring (Ignacio Ceroi) – 4.8
• Petrov’s Flu (Kirill Serebrennikov) – 4.7
• The Scary of Sixty-First (Dasha Nekrasova) – 4.7
• West Side Story (Steven Spielberg) – 4.7
• The Green Knight (David Lowery) – 4.7
• Flee (Jonas Poher Rasmussen) – 4.7
• The Story of My Wife (Ildiko Enyedi) – 4.7
• Let’s Say Revolution (Nicolas Klotz & Elisabeth Perceval) – 4.6
• Garage: Engines and Men (Claire Simon) – 4.6
• Pleasure (Ninja Thyberg) – 4.6
• Pilgrims (Laurynas Bareiša) – 4.6
• Limbo (Soi Cheang) – 4.5
• C’mon C’mon (Mike Mills) – 4.5
• Mr. Kneff (Steven Soderbergh) – 4.5
• The Last Duel (Ridley Scott) – 4.5
• Jane by Charlotte (Charlotte Gainsbourg) – 4.5
• Paris 13th District (Jacques Audiard) – 4.4
• Casablanca Beats (Nabil Ayouch) – 4.4
• Language Lessons (Natalie Morales) – 4.4
• Sundown (Michel Franco) – 4.4
• They Carry Death (Samuel M. Delgado & Helena Girón) – 4.3
• Last Night in Soho (Edgar Wright) – 4.3
• Lamb (Valdimar Jóhannsson) – 4.3
• Taste (Lê Bảo) – 4.3
• Natural Light (Dénes Nagy) – 4.2
• Three Floors (Nanni Moretti) – 4.2
• Between Two Worlds (Emmanuel Carrère) – 4.2
• Ski (Manque La Banca) – 4.1
• The French Dispatch of the Liberty, Kansas Evening Sun (Wes Anderson) – 4.1
• CODA (Siân Heder) – 4.1
• Ali & Ava (Clio Barnard) – 4.1
• The Tragedy of Macbeth (Joel Coen) – 4.1
• Lingui (The Sacred Bonds) (Mahamat-Saleh Haroun) – 4.0
• Just a Movement (Vincent Meessen) – 4.0
• Benediction (Terence Davies) – 3.8
• Everything Went Fine (François Ozon) – 3.8
• The Innocents (Eskil Vogt) – 3.7
• Cow (Andrea Arnold) – 3.6
• Spencer (Pablo Larraín)– 3.6
• The First 54 Years: An Abbreviated Manual for Military Occupation (Avi Mograbi) – 3.5
• After Yang (Kogonada) – 3.4
• After Blue (Paradis sale) (Bertrand Mandico) – 3.2
• Hold Me Tight (Matheiu Amalric) – 3.1
• Prisoners of the Ghostland (Sion Sono) – 3.1
• Playground (Laura Wandel) – 2.9
• Nuclear Family (Erin & Travis Wilkerson) – 2.9
• Flag Day (Sean Penn) – 2.4

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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 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? The main reason I never logged shorts before 2015 is that my OCD had prevented me from distinguishing between short films, television commercials, Youtube videos, random viral TikToks, 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 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

+Red Rocket (2021, Sean Baker) – 7.1 [down from 7.4]

Soylent Green (1973, Richard Fleischer) – 4.9

Don’t Look Up (2021, Adam McKay) – 5.0

The Lost Daughter (2021, Maggie Gyllenhaal) – 5.5

The Killing of Two Lovers (2020, Robert Machoian) – 6.3

Missing (2021, Allison Chhorn)

The Last Duel (2021, Ridley Scott) – 4.5

My Two Voices (2022, Lina Rodriguez) – 3.8

Answering the Sun (2022, Rainer Kohlberger) – 5.6

Pleasure (2021, Ninja Thyberg) – 4.6

Belle (2021, Mamoru Hosoda) – 5.9

The Tragedy of Macbeth (2021, Joel Coen) – 4.1

Enemies of the State (2020, Sonia Kennebeck) – 5.3

Who’s Stopping Us (2021, Jonás Trueba) – 6.9

Happening (2021, Audrey Diwan) – 5.2

Riotsville, USA (2022, Sierra Pettengill) – 5.5

Call Jane (2022, Phyllis Nagy) – 4.8

The Beatles: Get Back (2021, Peter Jackson) – 6.7

Summering (2022, James Ponsoldt) – 5.1

Sharp Stick (2022, Lena Dunham) – 5.7

Cha Cha Real Smooth (2022, Cooper Raiff) – 5.5

Resurrection (2022, Andrew Semans) – 5.4

Dos Estaciones (2022, Juan Pablo González) – 6.0

blood (2022, Bradley Rust Gray) – 5.0

Good Luck to You, Leo Grande (2022, Sophie Hyde) – 5.4

Glass Life [Single Channel] (2021, Sara Cwynar)

Wasteland No. 3: Moons, Sons (2021, Jodie Mack)

Impersonator (2021, Andrew Norman Wilson)

A Human Certainty (2021, Morgan Quaintance)

Glazing (2022, Lilli Carré)

Bogwaters (2022, Michiel van Bakel)

The Ocean Analog (2022, Luis Macías)

Isn’t It a Beautiful World (2020, Joseph Wilson)

Ikebana (2021, Rita Ferrando)

Tomorrow Is a Water Palace (2022, Juanita Onzaga)

Punctured Sky (2021, Jon Rafman)

Nazarbazi (2022, Maryam Tafakory)

Becoming Male in the Middle Ages (2022, Pedro Neves Marques)

Fireflies (2021, Pauline Curnier Jardin & Feel Good Cooperative)

Skin to Skin (2021, Mel Arranz)

The Worm (2021, Ed Atkins)

Double Wow [3D] (2021, Ken Jacobs) – 5.7

Sonata for Smoke (2021, Samson Young)

Golden Jubilee (2021, Suneil Sanzgiri)

EAMI (2022, Paz Encina) – 4.7

OUTHERE (for Lee Lozano) (2021, Maïder Fortuné & Annie MacDonell)

Shunyata (2021, Lichun Tseng & Robert Kroos)

Kinorama – Beyond the Walls of the Real [3D] (2021, Edgar Pêra) – 5.6

Fingerpicking (2021, Riccardo Giacconi)

Nosferasta: First Bite (2021, Bayley Sweitzer & Adam Khalil)

Constant (2022, Sasha Litvintseva & Beny Wagner)

Chants from a Holy Book (2022, Cesar Gananian & Cassiana Der Haroutiour)

Dawn (2021, Leonor Noivo)

urban solutions (2022, Arne Hector, Vinícius Lopes, Luciana Mazeto, & Minze Tummescheit)

Tugging Diary (2021, Yan Wai Yin)

The Reflection of the Man (2022, Martine Stig)

Places We’ll Breathe (2022, Davor Sanvincenti)

Songs for Dying (2022, Korakrit Arunanondchai)

Met Mes (2022, Sam de Jong) – 6.5

Songs for Living (2022, Korakrit Arunanondchai & Alex Gvojic)

The Making of Crime Scenes (2022, Hsu Che-yu)

The Name of Things (2022, Diego Escobar) – 3.3

Aromana (2021, Vukan Žarković)

yet another leap year (2022, Sara Rajaei)

The Price for Fire (2021, Rossella Nisio)

When We Were Monsters (2020, James Richards & Steve Reinke)

Heat Waves (2021, Kent Chan)

A Sod State (2022, Eoghan Ryan)

EKOBIO (2022, Elkin Calderón Guevara & Diego Piñeros García)

The Plains (2022, David Easteal) – 7.5

The African Desperate (2022, Martine Syms) – 6.6

 

February

The Civil Dead (2022, Clay Tatum) – 6.3

The Child (2022, Marguerite de Hillerin & Félix Dutilloy-Liégeois) – 4.6

Footnote (2022, Zhengfan Yang) – 5.5

Third Grade (2021, Jacques Doillon) – 6.1

Jackass Forever (2022, Jeff Tremaine) DP – 5.3

West Side Story (2021, Steven Spielberg) DP – 4.7

The Dream and the Radio (2022, Renaud Després-Larose & Ana Tapia Rousiouk) – 7.0

Geographies of Solitude (2022, Jacquelyn Mills) – 5.0

Super Natural (2022, Jorge Jácome) Berlinale, DP – 3.8

Nobody’s Hero (2022, Alain Guiraudie) Berlinale, DP – 5.9

Rimini (2022, Ulrich Seidl) Berlinale, DP – 4.4

Flux Gourmet (2022, Peter Strickland) Berlinale, DP – 4.8

Coma (2022, Bertrand Bonello) Berlinale, DP – 7.2

Jet Lag (2022, Zheng Lu Xinyuan) Berlinale, DP – 3.9

Robe of Gems (2022, Natalia López Gallardo) Berlinale, DP – 4.3

Both Sides of the Blade (2022, Claire Denis) Berlinale, DP – 5.6

The United States of America (2022, James Benning) Berlinale, DP – 6.5

The Kegelstatt Trio (2022, Rita Azevedo Gomes) Berlinale, DP – 5.1

The Line (2022, Ursula Meier) Berlinale, DP – 4.4

Happer’s Comet (2022, Tyler Taormina) Berlinale, DP – 5.5

The Middle Ages (2022, Alejo Moguillansky & Luciana Acuña) Berlinale, DP – 6.7

This House (2022, Miryam Charles) Berlinale, DP – 5.2

The Passengers of the Night (2022, Mikhaël Hers) Berlinale, DP – 5.4

That Kind of Summer (2022, Denis Côté) Berlinale, DP – 6.4

Dry Ground Burning (2022, Adirley Queirós & Joana Pimenta) Berlinale, DP – 6.6

Queens of the Qing Dynasty (2022, Ashley McKenzie) Berlinale, DP – Inc. [Missed first 15 min. due to delayed COVID test results]

Small, Slow but Steady (2022, Shô Miyake) Berlinale, DP – 5.2

Striking Land (2022, Raul Domingues) Berlinale, DP – 6.0

The Sower of Stars (2022, Lois Patiño)

Camouflage (2022, Jonathan Perel) Berlinale, DP – 5.5

Unrest (2022, Cyril Schäublin) Berlinale, DP – 4.9

Nuclear Family (2021, Erin & Travis Wilkerson) Berlinale, DP – 2.9

The Veteran (2022, Jerónimo Rodríguez) Berlinale, DP – 3.6

Brother in Every Inch (2022, Alexander Zolotukhin) Berlinale, DP – 4.7

Afterwater (2022, Dane Komljen) Berlinale, DP – 6.7

The Novelist’s Film (2022, Hong Sang-soo) Berlinale, DP – 6.8

A Little Love Package (2022, Gastón Solnicki) Berlinale, DP – 5.7

Gazing… Unseeing (2022, Mohamed Abdelkarim) Berlinale, DP

Surface Rites (2022, Parastoo & Faraz Anoushahpour, & Ryan Ferko) Berlinale, DP

Sun Under Ground (2022, Mareike Bernien & Alex Gerbaulet) Berlinale, DP

A Flower in the Mouth (2022, Éric Baudelaire) – 5.3

Mutzenbacher (2022, Ruth Beckermann) Berlinale, DP – 5.5

Rewind & Play (2022, Alain Gomis) Berlinale, DP – 6.7

See You Friday, Robinson (2022, Mitra Farahani) Berlinale, DP – 5.6

partial differential equation (2020, Kevin Jerome Everson)

Kicking the Clouds (2022, Sky Hopinka)

2020 (2021, Friedl vom Gröller Kubelka)

The Newest Olds (2022, Pablo Mazzolo)

What Distinguishes the Past (2020, Ben Russell)

MERAPI (2021, Malena Szlam)

Sea Series 23 (2022, John Price)

Zero Length Spring (2021, Ross Meckfessel)

Kimi (2022, Steven Soderbergh) – 5.9

a so-called archive (2020, Onyeka Igwe)

Fire Emergencies (2022, Kevin Jerome Everson)

vs (2022, Lydia Nsiah)

Agrilogistics (2022, Gerard Ortín Castellví)

+Queens of the Qing Dynasty (2022, Ashley McKenzie) – 6.9 [up from ~6.1]

 

March

Dragon Tooth (2022, Rafael Castanheira Parrode)

My Home (2022, Azar Saiyar)

Moune Ô (2022, Maxime Jean-Baptiste)

Instant Life (2022, Anja Dornieden, Juan David González Monroy, & Andrew Kim)

Mr. Landsbergis (2021, Sergei Loznitsa) Cinéma du réel, DP – 6.1

Man’s Favorite Sport? (1964, Howard Hawks) 35mm – 6.2

Lago Gatún (2021, Kevin Jerome Everson) Cinéma du réel, DP – 5.7

Hors-titre (2021, Wiame Haddad) Cinéma du réel, DP

Intermède (2022, Maria Kourkouta) Cinéma du réel, DP

7h15 – Blackbird (2021, Judith Auffray) Cinéma du réel, DP

Everything Near Becomes Distant (2021, Yunyi Zhu) Cinéma du réel, DP

Language of Birds (2022, Erik Bullot) Cinéma du réel, DP – 3.6

Anyox (2022, Ryan Ermacora & Jessica Johnson) Cinéma du réel, DP – 4.0

We, Students! (2022, Rafiki Fariala) Cinéma du réel, DP – 5.5

The Tomb of Kafka (2022, Jean-Claude Rousseau) Cinéma du réel, DP

When There Is No More Music to Write, and Other Roman Stories (2022, Éric Baudelaire) Cinéma du réel, DP – 3.9

Deep Water (2022, Adrian Lyne) – 4.9

Navalny (2022, Daniel Roher) – 5.1

Apollo 10½: A Space Age Childhood (2022, Richard Linklater) DP – 6.8

 

April

Catwoman vs. The White House (2022, Scott Calonico) Hot Docs, DP

+Rewind & Play (2022, Alain Gomis) Hot Docs, DP – 6.7 [same]

 

May

Fire of Love (2022, Sara Dosa) – 4.8

Her Scents of Pu Er (2022, Anna-Claria Ostasenko Bogdanoff) Hot Docs, DP

Terra Femme (2021, Courtney Stephens) Hot Docs, DP – 5.4

2nd Chance (2022, Ramin Bahrani) – 5.2

I Didn’t See You There (2022, Reid Davenport) – 6.1

Call of the Wild [Anaglyph 3D] (2009, Richard Gabai) – 2.3

Concrete Valley (2022, Antoine Bourges) – Inc. [Rough cut]

+Treasure of the Four Crowns [3D] (1983, Ferdinando Baldi) – 7.4 [up from 7.1]

Final Cut (2022, Michel Hazanavicius) Cannes, DP – 4.2

Exterior Night (2022, Marco Bellocchio) Cannes, DP – 4.9

Tchaïkovsky’s Wife (2022, Kirill Serebrennikov) Cannes, DP – 4.7

Scarlet (2022, Pietro Marcello) Cannes, DP – 5.6

The Eight Mountains (2022, Charlotte Vandermeersch & Felix van Groeningen) Cannes, DP – 4.9

God’s Creatures (2022, Saela Davis & Anna Rose Holmer) Cannes, DP – 3.7

Rodeo (2022, Lola Quivoron) Cannes, DP – 5.1

Armageddon Time (2022, James Gray) Cannes, DP – 5.9

EO (2022, Jerzy Skolimowski) Cannes, DP – 7.8

One Fine Morning (2022, Mia Hansen-Løve) Cannes, DP – 6.2

Corsage (2022, Marie Kreutzer) Cannes, DP – 5.0

Enys Men (2022, Mark Jenkin) Cannes, DP – 5.4

Brother and Sister (2022, Arnaud Desplechin) Cannes, DP – 5.8

Three Thousand Years of Longing (2022, George Miller) Cannes, DP – 5.4

Pamfir (2022, Dmytro Sukholytkyy-Sobchuk) Cannes, DP – 5.3

Triangle of Sadness (2022, Ruben Östlund) Cannes, DP – 6.1

Diary of a Fleeting Affair (2022, Emmanuel Mouret) Cannes, DP – 5.0

R.M.N. (2022, Cristian Mungiu) Cannes, DP – 5.7

Aftersun (2022, Charlotte Wells) Cannes, DP – 5.5

Magdala (2022, Damien Manivel) Cannes, DP – 6.0

Holy Spider (2022, Ali Abbasi) Cannes, DP – 4.1

Don Juan (2022, Serge Bozon) Cannes, DP – 4.6

Sick of Myself (2022, Kristoffer Borgli) Cannes, DP – 5.1

The Five Devils (2022, Léa Mysius) Cannes, DP – 3.6

De Humani Corporis Fabrica (2022, Véréna Paravel & Lucien Castaing-Taylor) Cannes, DP – 7.4

Decision to Leave (2022, Park Chan-wook) Cannes, DP – 4.8

Funny Pages (2022, Owen Kline) Cannes, DP – 6.1

The Natural History of Destruction (2022, Sergei Loznitsa) Cannes, DP – 7.1

The Dam (2022, Ali Cherri) Cannes, DP – 5.3

Crimes of the Future (2022, David Cronenberg) Cannes, DP – 6.5

Will-o’-the-Wisp (2022, João Pedro Rodrigues) Cannes, DP – 4.9

Metronom (2022, Alexandru Belc) Cannes, DP – 5.2

Forever Young (2022, Valeria Bruni Tedeschi) Cannes, DP – 5.3

Leila’s Brothers (2022, Saeed Roustaee) Cannes, DP – 3.3

Godland (2022, Hlynur Pálmason) Cannes, DP – 5.2

Stars at Noon (2022, Claire Denis) Cannes, DP – 4.5

The Night of the Hunters (2022, Pascale Arbillot) Cannes, DP

La Jauría (2022, Andrés Ramírez Pulido) Cannes, DP – 4.1

Pacifiction (2022, Albert Serra) Cannes, DP – 6.7

Close (2022, Lukas Dhont) Cannes, DP – 3.4

Broker (2022, Hirokazu Kore-eda) Cannes, DP – 3.6

Christophe… Definitely (2022, Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster & Ange Leccia) – 5.9

Showing Up (2022, Kelly Reichardt) Cannes, DP – 7.5

Mother and Son (2022, Léonor Serraille) Cannes, DP – 6.3

Boy from Heaven (2022, Tarik Saleh) Cannes, DP – 4.0

Tori and Lokita (2022, Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne) Cannes, DP – 6.0

Nostalgia (2022, Mario Martone) Cannes, DP – 4.4

 

June

Hospital (1970, Frederick Wiseman) – 7.2

Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai (1999, Jim Jarmusch) 35mm – 4.7

+Crimes of the Future (2022, David Cronenberg) DP – 6.5 [same]

+France (2021, Bruno Dumont) – 7.7 [same]

Forever a Woman (1955, Kinuyo Tanaka) DP – 5.3

The Human Torch (2022, Risto-Pekka Blom)

Blind (1987, Frederick Wiseman) – 6.4

The Big Chill (1983, Lawrence Kasdan) – 4.2

+Hugo [3D] (2011, Martin Scorsese) – 6.4 [same]

Take Me Out to the Ball Game (1949, Busby Berkeley) – 5.0

 

July

+Dial M for Murder [3D] (1954, Alfred Hitchcock) – 8.1 [same]

+Treasure of the Four Crowns [3D] (1983, Ferdinando Baldi) – 7.4 [same]

Way Out Ahead of Us (2022, Rob Rice) FIDMarseille, DP – 4.8

Garden Sandbox (2022, Yukinori Kurokawa) FIDMarseille, DP – 4.4

The Lives of Infamous Men (2022, Gilles Deroo & Marianne Pistone) FIDMarseille, DP – 6.9

Welcome (2022, Jean-Claude Rousseau) FIDMarseille, DP

Against Time (2022, Ben Russell) FIDMarseille, DP

Ptitsa (2022, Alina Maksimenko) FIDMarseille, DP

After Work (2022, Céline Condorelli & Ben Rivers) FIDMarseille, DP

+A Woman Escapes (2022, Sofia Bohdanowicz, Burak Çevik, & Blake Williams) FIDMarseille, 3D – H.i

We Had the Day Bonsoir (2022, Narimane Mari) FIDMarseille, DP – 7.1

Fall (2022, Vadim Kostrov) FIDMarseille, DP – 5.1

Life Lasts Two Days (2022, Leonardo Mouramateus) FIDMarseille, DP – 4.6

Nomotopowell (2022, Brent Chesanek) FIDMarseille, DP – 4.9

+A Woman Escapes (2022, Sofia Bohdanowicz, Burak Çevik, & Blake Williams) FIDMarseille, 3D – H.i [~same]

Night Detour (2022, Paul Chotel & Ariane Falardeau St-Amour) FIDMarseille, DP – 3.8

+Unrest (2022, Cyril Schäublin) FIDMarseille, DP – 5.5 [up from 4.9]

Quarries (2022, Ellie Ga) FIDMarseille, DP – 4.2

Who Is Afraid of Ideology? Part IV – Reverse Shot (2022, Marwa Arsanios) FIDMarseille, DP

Aftersun (2022, Lluís Galter) FIDMarseille, DP – 5.1

The Unstable Object II (2022, Daniel Eisenberg) FIDMarseille, DP – 6.2

About the Clouds (2022, María Aparicio) FIDMarseille, DP – 6.4

Dispatch from Przemyśl (Notes for a Democratic Europe) (2022, Marine Hugonnier)

Sappukei (2022, Wang Chun & Hikky Chen)

Site of Passage (2022, Lucy Kerr)

Nope (2022, Jordan Peele) DP – 5.6

Can Someone Meet Me in Dark Alley? (2022, Gaetano Liberti & Luciano Pérez Savoy) – 3.3

Barail (2022, Denis Cointe) – 5.7

Dying in Ibiza: A Film in Three Summers (2022, Mattéo Eustachon, Léo Couture, & Anton Balekdjian) – 6.1

You Have to Come and See It (2022, Jonás Trueba) – 4.7

+Concrete Valley (2022, Antoine Bourges) – TK

 

August

The French (1982, William Klein) DP – 6.3

Human Flowers of Flesh (2022, Helena Wittmann) – 5.4

To Be Sound Is to Be Solid (2022, Erin Johnson)

Poitiers (2022, Jérôme Reybaud) – 5.6

It Is Night in America (2022, Ana Vaz) – 5.3

Matter Out of Place (2022, Nikolaus Geyrhalter) – 5.3

The Adventures of Gigi the Law (2022, Alessandro Comodin) – 5.9

Angles of Incidence (1973, William Raban)

View (1970, William Raban)

Colours of This Time (1972, William Raban)

Breath (1974, William Raban)

Sundial (1992, William Raban)

The Potemkinists (2022, Radu Jude)

as time passes (2022, Jamil McGinnis)

Underground Rivers (2022, Simón Velez)

Tender Kisses (1972, Mike Leggett)

Sheepwoman (1970, Mike Leggett)

What The Water Said, nos. 1—3 (1998, David Gatten)

What the Water Said, nos. 4 – 6 (2007, David Gatten)

+The Lobby (2020, Heinz Emigholz) – 6.7 [same]

 

September

Life Without Dreams (2022, Jessica Bardsley)

News from Nowhere (2020, Ben Balcom)

Kalsubai (2021, Yudhajit Basu)

Continuity of Parks (2022, Zhenia Kazankina)

Eyes and Horns (2021, Chaerin Im)

Beef (2022, Brendon Kingsbury & Sean Webley)

Tigre del Carbón (2022, aZuLosa)

Lacerate (2020, Janis Rafa)

What Dying Feels Like (2022, Philip Ullman)

Cherries (2022, Vytautas Katkus)

Alcarràs (2022, Carla Simón) – 4.5

Fairytale (2022, Aleksandr Sokurov) – 6.9

Valeria Is Getting Married (2022, Michal Vinik) TIFF, DP – 4.3

Joyland (2022, Saim Sadiq) TIFF, DP – 4.5

Women Talking (2022, Sarah Polley) TIFF, DP – 4.8

Return to Seoul (2022, Davy Chou) TIFF, DP – 6.0

The Inspection (2022, Elegance Bratton) TIFF, DP – 4.2

So Much Tenderness (2022, Lina Rodriguez) TIFF, DP – 5.5

2 Lizards (2020, Meriem Bennani & Orian Barki) TIFF, DP

Life on the CAPS (2022, Meriem Bennani) TIFF, DP

EVENTIDE (2022, Sharon Lockhart) TIFF, DP

Horse Opera (2022, Moyra Davey) TIFF, DP – 5.6

No Bears (2022, Jafar Panahi) TIFF, DP – 4.9

Tales from the Gimli Hospital Redux (1988, Guy Maddin) TIFF, DP – 5.0

Fata Morgana (2022, Tacita Dean) TIFF, 16mm

+After Work (2022, Céline Condorelli & Ben Rivers) TIFF, DP

F1ghting Looks Different 2 Me Now (2022, Fox Maxy) TIFF, DP

Moonrise (2022, Vincent Grenier) TIFF, DP

The Time That Separates Us (2022, Parastoo Anoushahpour) TIFF, DP

The Fabelmans (2022, Steven Spielberg) TIFF, DP – 6.4

Dalíland (2022, Mary Harron) TIFF, DP – 3.4

Other People’s Children (2022, Rebecca Zlotowski) TIFF, DP – 5.2

What Rules the Invisible (2022, Tiffany Sia) TIFF, DP

+Hors-titre (2022, Wiame Haddad) TIFF, DP

Puerta a Puerta (2022, Luis Arnías & Jessica Sarah Rinland) TIFF, DP

Bigger on the Inside (2022, Angelo Madsen Minax) TIFF, DP

I Thought the World of You (2022, Kurt Walker) TIFF, DP

+The Newest Olds (2022, Pablo Mazzolo) TIFF, DP

The Whale (2022, Darren Aronofsky) TIFF, DP – 2.2

Glass Onion (2022, Rian Johnson) TIFF, DP – 6.1

Riceboy Sleeps (2022, Anthony Shim) TIFF, DP – 5.6

All the Beauty and the Bloodshed (2022, Laura Poitras) TIFF, DP – 6.4

The Banshees of Inisherin (2022, Martin McDonagh) TIFF, DP – 5.9

Saint Omer (2022, Alice Diop) TIFF, DP – 6.8

Empire of Light (2022, Sam Mendes) TIFF, DP – 3.7

Falcon Lake (2022, Charlotte Le Bon) TIFF, DP – 5.1

The Greatest Beer Run Ever (2022, Peter Farrelly) TIFF, DP – 4.6

Viking (2022, Stéphane Lafleur) TIFF, DP – 5.3

Stonewalling (2022, Huang Ji & Otsuka Ryuji) TIFF, DP – 4.4

+EO (2022, Jerzy Skolimowski) TIFF, DP – 7.8 [same]

How to Blow Up a Pipeline (2022, Daniel Goldhaber) TIFF, DP – 5.5

Walk Up (2022, Hong Sang-soo) TIFF, DP – 6.3

I Shot Andy Warhol (1996, Mary Harron) TIFF, 35mm – 4.3

Theater of Thought (2022, Werner Herzog) TIFF, DP – 5.4

The Worst Ones (2022, Romane Gueret & Lise Akoka) TIFF, DP – 4.8

The Maiden (2022, Graham Foy) TIFF, DP – 4.7

The Eternal Daughter (2022, Joanna Hogg) TIFF, DP – 5.5

Femme Fatale (2002, Brian De Palma) 35mm – 6.7

Maria Schneider, 1983 (2022, Elisabeth Subrin)

+Goodbye to Language [3D] (2014, Jean-Luc Godard) – 9.2 [down from 9.9]

PEAK HEAVEN LOVE FOREVER (2022, Jordan Strafer)

Watch the Fire or Burn Inside It (2022, Caroline Poggi & Jonathan Vinel)

+Avatar (2009, James Caneron) 3D – 5.8 [up from 5.4]

Blonde (2022, Andrew Dominik) DP – 6.2

 

October

Slaughterhouses of Modernity (2022, Heinz Emigholz) – 5.1

+A Woman Escapes (2022, Sofia Bohdanowicz, Burak Çevik, & Blake Williams) VIFF, 3D – H.i

*** ***** ***** ** **** (2023, ******* ********** ****) – Inc. [Rough cut]

+A Woman Escapes (2022, Sofia Bohdanowicz, Burak Çevik, & Blake Williams) Black Canvas, 3D – H.i

Negative Path (2022, Alan Martín Segal) Black Canvas, DP – 6.3

+It Is Night in America (2022, Ana Vaz) Black Canvas, DP – 5.3 [same]

The Water (2022, Elena López Riera) Black Canvas, DP – 4.8

A Couple (2022, Frederick Wiseman) Black Canvas, DP – 5.1

Sparta (2022, Ulrich Seidl) Festival du nouveau cinéma, DP – 6.6

+Numéro deux (1975, Jean-Luc Godard) 35mm – 6.9 [up from 5.9]

TÁR (2022, Todd Field) DP – 4.9

 

November

Babylon (2022, Damien Chazelle) DP – 4.5

Devil’s Peak (2021, Simon Liu)

FELT TIP (2018, Elizabeth Price)

Underfoot (2022, Elizabeth Price)

There There (2022, Andrew Bujalski) – 5.6

Vengeance Is Mine (1984, Michael Roemer) 35mm – 6.9

 

December

Top Gun: Maverick (2022, Joseph Kosinski) – 5.3

+Apollo 10½: A Space Age Childhood (2022, Richard Linklater) DP – 7.3 [up from 6.8]

Exhibition (2022, Mary Helena Clark)

M＊U＊S＊H (2022, Jodie Mack)

Cactus Raptus (2018, Maxime Hot)

Black Palms (2022, Justin Clifford Rhody)

Black Hole Space Debt, or a Basic Guide to Syncing Sound and Image (2022, Stephen Wardell)

The Black Tower (1987, John Smith)

The Black Tower (2022, Mandy Eugeniou)

ROTOЯ | Sonic Body (2020, NO1)

Woman as Image, Man as Bearer of the Look (2022, Carlos Velandia)

Om (1986, John Smith)

Gargantuan (1992, John Smith)

The Kiss (1999, John Smith & Ian Bourn)

The Waste Land (1999, John Smith)

Leading Light (1975, John Smith)

FAN (1978, John Smith)

Avatar: The Way of Water [48fps] (2022, James Cameron) 3D – 6.3

RRR (2022, S. S. Rajamouli) DP – 6.6

A State of Grace (2019, John Smith)

The Girl Chewing Gum (1976, John Smith)

Regression (1999, John Smith)

Shepherd’s Delight: An Analysis of Humour (1984, John Smith)

A Short Story (2022, Bi Gan)

Échos (2021, Eléonore Huisse & François J. Bonnet)

Fourth of July (2022, Louis C.K.) – 5.6

Descendant (2022, Margaret Brown) – 5.1

Ⓓ is for Digital
Ⓘ is for Industry [physical screening]
Ⓟ is for Public [physical screening]
 

September 9
10:00AM – Vengeance is Mine, All Others Pay Cash (Edwin) Ⓘ / Scotiabank 3
12:00PM – Dug Dug (Ritwik Pareek) Ⓘ / Scotiabank 12 W/O
Afternoon – As in Heaven (Tea Lindeburg) Ⓓ W/O
Night – +Petite Maman (Céline Sciamma) Ⓓ
 

September 10
11:00AM – The Power of the Dog (Jane Campion) Ⓘ / Lightbox 1
Afternoon – Violet (Justine Bateman) Ⓓ W/O
5:00PM – +Drive My Car (Ryusuke Hamaguchi) Ⓟ / Scotiabank 1
9:30PM – Last Night in Soho (Edgar Wright) Ⓘ / Lightbox 3
 

September 11
Morning – Aloners (Hong Sung-eun) Ⓓ
12:00PM – Dune (Denis Villeneuve) Ⓘ / Scotiabank 12
3:30PM – Earwig (Lucile Hadžihalilović) Ⓘ / Scotiabank 2
Evening – +The Tsugua Diaries (Miguel Gomes & Maureen Fazendeiro) Ⓓ
Night – Neptune Frost (Saul Williams & Anisia Uzeyman) Ⓓ
 

September 12
Morning – DASHCAM (Kamila Andini) Ⓓ W/O
2:00PM – A Night of Knowing Nothing (Payal Kapadia) Ⓟ / Lightbox 3
Late Afternoon – Inexorable (Fabrice du Welz) Ⓓ W/O
Night – +Onoda (Arthur Harari) Ⓓ
 

September 13
10:30AM – Benediction (Terence Davies) Ⓘ / Scotiabank 4
4:00PM – +Memoria (Apichatpong Weerasethakul) Ⓟ / Cinesphere
Night – Sundown (Michel Franco) Ⓓ
 

September 14
Morning – Unclenching the Fists (Kira Kovalenko) Ⓓ
Afternoon – The Falls (Chung Mong-Hong) Ⓓ W/O
Evening – Drunken Birds (Ivan Grbovic) Ⓓ
Night – Yuni (Kamila Andini) Ⓓ W/O
 

September 15
10:00AM – Spencer (Pablo Larraín) Ⓘ / Lightbox 3
Afternoon – Out of Sync (Juanjo Giménez) Ⓓ W/O
Late Afternoon – Zalava (Arsalan Amiri) Ⓓ W/O
5PM – Terrorizers (Ho Wi Ding) Ⓓ W/O
8:00PM – +France (Bruno Dumont) Ⓟ / Lightbox 2
 

September 16
Morning – the other tom. (Rodrigo Plá & Laura Santullo) Ⓓ W/O
Early Afternoon – The Good House (Maya Forbes & Wallace Wolodarsky) Ⓓ W/O
Afternoon – Costa Brava, Lebanon (Mounia Akl) Ⓓ W/O
Late Afternoon – Flee (Jonas Poher Rasmussen) Ⓓ
8:00PM – +Titane (Julia Ducournau) Ⓟ / Cinesphere
 

September 17
Afternoon – After Blue (Paradis sale) (Bertrand Mandico) Ⓓ
Late Afternoon – Saloum (Jean Luc Herbulot) Ⓓ W/O
6:00PM – Wolf (Nathalie Biancheri) Ⓟ / Princess of Wales Theatre W/O
9:30PM – Mr. Kneff (Steven Soderbergh) Ⓟ / Princess of Wales Theatre
 

September 18
Afternoon – Silent Night (Camille Griffin) Ⓓ Not Available 🤷‍♂️
Evening – One Second (Zhang Yimou) Ⓓ Didn’t bother 🤷‍♂️
 

One Day Soon
Night – WL shorts: Present, Tense (various) Ⓓ
               – Dear Chantal (Nicolás Pereda)
               – The Capacity for Adequate Anger (Vika Kirchenbauer)
               – Inner Outer Space (Laida Lertxundi)
               – “The red filter is withdrawn.” (Minjung Kim)
               – Polycephaly in D (Michael Robinson)
               + earthearthearth (Daïchi Saïto)
               + Train Again (Peter Tscherkassky)

 

Films I have already seen and won’t be revisiting during TIFF:
Ahed’s Knee (Nadav Lapid)
Ali & Ava (Clio Barnard)
Bergman Island (Mia Hansen-Løve)
Compartment No. 6 (Juho Kuosmanen)
Futura (Pietro Marcello, Francesco Munzi, & Alice Rohrwacher)
The Girl and the Spider (Ramon & Silvan Zürcher)
A Hero (Asghar Farhadi)
I’m Your Man (Maria Schrader)
Întregalde (Radu Muntean)
Lingui (The Sacred Bonds) (Mahamat-Saleh Haroun)
Ste. Anne (Rhayne Vermette)
The Story of My Wife (Ildikó Enyedi)
Three Floors (Nanni Moretti)
The Worst Person in the World (Joachim Trier)

Key:
Features (40min. and up) are in bold
Shorts are in italics
★ - I have seen this film and feel that it is worth seeing (5.5 and higher)
✘ - I have seen this film and wish I hadn't (3.9 and lower)
● - I have seen this film and am more or less okay with that
○ - I am seriously considering making an attempt to see this film during the festival
16mm, 35mm, 70mm - It'll be screened from a film print

Colour coding:
NYFF - Slate and Main
SUNDANCE - All slight, everywhere 
BERLINALE - Taste
CANNES - FRANCE
LOCARNO - Zeros and Ones
VENICE - They Carry Death
NOTABLE - Movies I am actively looking forward to, for whatever reason

(Colours trump whatever is below them, so e.g. a film that played both Cannes and Locarno will be gold, unless e.g. it ends up in the NYFF Main Slate in which case it will become purple)

 

Special Presentations (30; Two years ago: 55)
Ahed’s Knee (Nadav Lapid) ★
Ali & Ava (Clio Barnard) ●
All My Puny Sorrows (Michael McGowan)
Benediction (Terence Davies) ○
Charlotte (Eric Warin & Tahir Rana)
The Box (Lorenzo Vigas)
Dionne Warwick: Don’t Make Me Over (Dave Wooley & David Heilbroner)
Drive My Car (Ryusuke Hamaguchi) ★
Encounter (Michael Pearce)
The Eyes of Tammy Faye (Michael Showalter)
The Falls (Chung Mong-Hong) ○
France (Bruno Dumont) ★
The Guilty (Antoine Fuqua) ○
The Humans (Stephen Karam)
I’m Your Man (Maria Schrader) ●
Inexorable (Fabrice du Welz) ○
Inu-Oh (Masaki Yuasa)
Lingui, the Sacred Bonds (Mahamat-Saleh Haroun) ●
The Middle Man (Bent Hamer)
Mothering Sunday (Eva Husson)
Official Competition (Mariano Cohn & Gastón Duprat)
Petite Maman (Céline Sciamma) ★
The Power of the Dog (Jane Campion) ○
The Starling (Theodore Melfi) ○
The Story of My Wife (Ildikó Enyedi) ●
Sundown (Michel Franco) ○
Three Floors (Nanni Moretti) ●
Violet (Justine Bateman) ○
Where Is Anne Frank? (Ari Folman)
Wolf (Nathalie Biancheri)

 

Contemporary World Cinema (25; Two years ago: 55)
Are You Lonesome Tonight? (Wen Shipei)
Compartment No. 6 (Juho Kuosmanen) ●
Costa Brava, Lebanon (Mounia Akl) ○
The Daughter (Manuel Martín Cuenca)
The Gravedigger’s Wife (Khadar Ayderus Ahmed)
The Hill Where the Lionesses Roar (Luàna Bajrami)
Întregalde (Radu Muntean) ★
Jockey (Clint Bentley)
Kicking Blood (Blaine Thurier)
La Soga 2 (Manny Perez)
Maria Chapdelaine (Sébastien Pilote) ○
Medusa (Anita Rocha da Silveira) ○
Murina (Antoneta Alamat Kusijanović) ○
Nobody Has to Know (Bouli Lanners)
The Odd-Job Men (Neus Ballús)
The Other Tom (Rodrigo Plá & Laura Santullo)
Out of Sync (Juanjo Giménez) ○
7 Prisoners (Alexandre Moratto)
Small Body (Laura Samani)
Terrorizers (Ho Wi Ding) ○
True Things (Harry Wootliff)
Unclenching the Fists (Kira Kovalenko) ○
Vengeance is Mine, All Others Pay Cash (Edwin) ○
The Wheel (Steve Pink)
Whether the Weather is Fine (Carlo Francisco Manatad)

 

Discovery (16; Two years ago: 37)
Aloners (Hong Sung-eun) ○
Anatolian Leopard (Emre Kayış)
As in Heaven (Tea Lindeburg)
A Banquet (Ruth Paxton)
Dug Dug (Ritwik Pareek) ○
Farha (Darin J. Sallam)
The Game (Ana Lazarevic)
Learn to Swim (Thyrone Tommy)
Lo Invisible (Javier Andrade)
Quickening (Haya Waseem)
River of Blood (Nithin Lukose)
Scarborough (Shasha Nakhai, Rich Williamson)
Snakehead (Evan Jackson Leong)
To Kill the Beast (Agustina San Martín) ○
Tug of War (Amil Shivji)
Wildhood (Bretten Hannam)

 

Gala Presentations (15; Two years ago: 20)
Belfast (Kenneth Branagh) ○
Bergman Island (Mia Hansen-Løve) ★
Dear Evan Hansen (Stephen Chbosky)
The Electrical Life of Louis Wain (Will Sharpe)
The Forgiven (John Michael McDonagh)
The Good House (Maya Forbes & Wallace Wolodarsky) ○
Jagged (Alison Klayman)
Lakewood (Phillip Noyce)
Last Night in Soho (Edgar Wright)
The Mad Women’s Ball (Mélanie Laurent)
Night Raiders (Danis Goulet)
One Second (Zhang Yimou) ○
Silent Night (Camille Griffin) ○
The Survivor (Barry Levinson)
The Worst Person In The World (Joachim Trier) ★

 

TIFF Docs (14; Two years ago: 25)
Attica (Stanley Nelson)
Beba (Rebeca Huntt)
Becoming Cousteau (Liz Garbus)
Burning (Eva Orner)
Comala (Gian Cassini)
The Devil’s Drivers (Mohammed Abugeth & Daniel Carsenty)
Flee (Jonas Poher Rasmussen) ○
Hold Your Fire (Stefan Forbes)
Julia (Julie Cohen & Betsy West)
Listening to Kenny G (Penny Lane)
Oscar Peterson: Black + White (Barry Avrich)
The Rescue (E. Chai Vasarhelyi & Jimmy Chin)
Three Minutes – A Lengthening (Bianca Stigter)
Wochiigii lo: End of the Peace (Heather Hatch)

 

Platform (8; Two years ago: 10)
Arthur Rambo (Laurent Cantet)
Drunken Birds (Ivan Grbovic)
Earwig (Lucile Hadžihalilović) ○
Good Madam (Jenna Cato Bass)
Huda’s Salon (Hany Abu-Assad)
Montana Story (Scott McGehee & David Siegel) ○
Silent Land (Aga Woszczyńska)
Yuni (Kamila Andini) ○

 

Special Events (8; Two years ago: 5)
Dune (Denis Villeneuve) ○
A Hero (Asghar Farhadi) ●
Memoria (Apichatpong Weerasethakul) ★
Memory Box: Echoes of 9/11 (Bjørn Johnson & David Belton)
Surprise Screening of New Steven Soderbergh Film (Steven Soderbergh) ○
Spencer (Pablo Larraín) ○
Triumph: Rock & Roll Machine (Sam Dunn & Marc Ricciardelli)

NBA Films For Fans created with OLG
– Born Identities (Kat Jayme)
– Draft Day (Thyrone Tommy)
– Inheritance (Shawn Gerrard)
– Shorty (Romeo Candido)
– The Shot (S.M. Turrell)

 

Wavelengths (7, including shorts programmes; Two years ago: 16)
Futura (Pietro Marcello, Francesco Munzi, & Alice Rohrwacher) ★
The Girl and the Spider (Ramon & Silvan Zürcher) ★
Neptune Frost (Saul Williams & Anisia Uzeyman) ○
A Night of Knowing Nothing (Payal Kapadia) ○
Ste. Anne (Rhayne Vermette) ●
The Tsugua Diaries (Miguel Gomes & Maureen Fazendeiro) ★

WL shorts: Present, Tense
– Dear Chantal (Nicolás Pereda) ○
– The Capacity for Adequate Anger (Vika Kirchenbauer) ○
– Inner Outer Space (Laida Lertxundi) ○
– “The red filter is withdrawn.” (Minjung Kim) ○
– Polycephaly in D (Michael Robinson) ○
– earthearthearth (Daïchi Saïto) ★
– Train Again (Peter Tscherkassky) ★

 

TIFF Cinematheque (7; Two years ago: 5)
Atanarjuat: The Fast Runner (2001, Zacharias Kunuk) ●

Celebrating Alanis – The Dignity of Children: Programme 1
– Snowshoes (1972, Alanis Obomsawin)
– Walking Is Medicine (2017, Alanis Obomsawin)
– Our People Will Be Healed (2017, Alanis Obomsawin)

Celebrating Alanis – The Dignity of Children: Programme 2
– Honour to Senator Murray Sinclair (2021, Alanis Obomsawin)
– Mount Currie Summer Camp (1975, Alanis Obomsawin)
– Children (1972, Alanis Obomsawin)
– Sigwan (2005, Alanis Obomsawin)
– When All the Leaves Are Gone (2010, Alanis Obomsawin)
– Christmas at Moose Factory (1971, Alanis Obomsawin)

Celebrating Alanis – Lighting the Fire: Programme 1
– The Canoe Picture of Maple leaf (1972, Alanis Obomsawin)
– Kanehsatake: 270 Years of Resistance (1993, Alanis Obomsawin)

Celebrating Alanis – Lighting the Fire: Programme 2
– Moose Call (1972, Alanis Obomsawin)
– Amisk (1977, Alanis Obomsawin)
– Incident at Restigouche (1984, Alanis Obomsawin)

Celebrating Alanis – Portraits: Programme 1
– Puberty – Part 1 (1975, Alanis Obomsawin)
– Puberty – Part 2 (1975, Alanis Obomsawin)
– Mother of Many Children (1977, Alanis Obomsawin)

Celebrating Alanis – Portraits: Programme 2
– Richard Cardinal: Cry from a Diary of a Métis Child (1986, Alanis Obomsawin)
– No Address (1988, Alanis Obomsawin)

 

Midnight Madness (6; Two years ago: 10)
After Blue (Dirty Paradise) (Bertrand Mandico) ○
DASHCAM (Rob Savage) ○
Saloum (Jean Luc Herbulot)
Titane (Julia Ducournau) ★
You Are Not My Mother (Kate Dolan)
Zalava (Arsalan Amiri)

 

Primetime (4; Two years ago: 6)
Colin in Black and White (Ava DuVernay & Colin Kaepernick)
Hellbound (Yeon Sang-ho)
The Panthers (Tom Hern & Halaifonua Finau)
Sort Of (Bilal Baig & Fab Filippo)

 

Masters (R.I.P.; Two years ago: 11)
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Short Cuts [Both “Canada” and “International”]
Check the festival website for info about films playing in this section.

 
Pre-Cannes
Link – Playground (Laura Wandel)
Link – Returning to Reims [Fragments] (Jean-Gabriel Périot)
Link – Întregalde (Radu Muntean)
 
 

July 6
4:30pm – Ghost Song (Nicolas Peduzzi), Palais G
7:25pm – Annette (Leos Carax), Debussy
 

July 7
8:30am – Between Two Worlds (Emmanuel Carrère), Théâtre Croisette
11:30am – Black Notebooks I & II (Shlomi Elkabetz), Soixantième
4:00pm – Ahed’s Knee (Nadav Lapid), Lumière
7:15pm – Onoda (Arthur Harari), Debussy
10:30pm – Jane by Charlotte (Charlotte Gainsbourg), Debussy
 

July 8
8:30am – The Souvenir Part II (Joanna Hogg), Théâtre Croisette
11:00am – Great Freedom (Sebastian Meise), Debussy
2:00pm – Cow (Andrea Arnold), Debussy
7:15pm – After Yang (Kogonada), Debussy
10:00pm – The Worst Person in the World (Joachim Trier), Debussy
 

July 9
8:30am – Lingui, the Sacred Bonds (Mahamat-Saleh Haroun), Soixantième
11:00am – House Arrest (Alexey German Jr.), Debussy
5:00pm – Benedetta (Paul Verhoeven), Debussy
10:15pm – The Divide (Catherine Corsini), Debussy
 

July 10
8:30am – Hit the Road (Panah Panahi), Théâtre Croisette
11:30am – The Tale of King Crab (Alessio Rigo de Righi & Matteo Zoppis), Théâtre Croisette
3:30pm – Compartment No. 6 (Juho Kuosmanen), Lumière
10:15pm – Flag Day (Sean Penn), Debussy
 

July 11
8:30am – Ali & Ava (Clio Barnard), Théâtre Croisette
11:00am – The Innocents (Eskil Vogt), Debussy
3:00pm – Drive My Car (Ryûsuke Hamaguchi), Lumière
8:00pm – Three Floors (Nanni Moretti), Bazin
10:15pm – Bergman Island (Mia Hansen-Løve), Debussy
 

July 12
12:00pm – Futura (Pietro Marcello, Francesco Munzi, & Alice Rohrwacher), Théâtre Croisette
4:30pm – Petrov’s Flu (Kirill Serebrennikov), Bazin
7:30pm – French Dispatch (Wes Anderson), Bazin
10:15pm – The Crusade (Louis Garrel), Debussy
 

July 13
8:30am – The Tsugua Diaries (Miguel Gomes & Maureen Fazendeiro), Théâtre Croisette
11:00am – Lamb (Valdimar Jóhannsson), Debussy
3:30pm – A Hero (Asghar Farhadi), Lumière
7:00pm – Deception (Arnaud Desplechin), Debussy
9:45pm – Titane (Julia Ducournau), Debussy
 

July 14
8:30am – Tralala (Arnaud & Jean-Marie Larrieu), Soixantième
11:30am – Quinzaine shorts 1, Arcades
               – Simone est partie (Mathilde Chavanne)
               – Sycorax (Lois Patiño & Matías Piñeiro)
               – The Windshield Wiper (Alberto Mielgo)
               – Train Again (Peter Tscherkassky)
3:30pm – Red Rocket (Sean Baker), Lumière
7:30pm – The Story of My Wife (Ildiko Enyedi), Bazin
10:30pm – Paris 13th District (Jacques Audiard), Debussy
 

July 15
11:45am – Hold Me Tight (Matheiu Amalric), Soixantième
3:30pm – Memoria (Apichatpong Weerasethakul), Lumière
7:30pm – France (Bruno Dumont), Bazin
10:45pm – Casablanca Beats (Nabil Ayouch), Debussy
 

July 16
8:30am – Prayers for the Stolen (Tatiana Huezo), Debussy
1:30pm – In Front of Your Face (Hong Sang-soo), Bazin
4:15pm – Nitram (Justin Kurzel), Bazin
 

July 17
10:00am – Marx Can Wait (Marco Bellocchio), Cinéum Aurore
12:30pm – Vortex (Gaspar Noé), Cinéum Aurore

*Click on the ‘Lists & Logs’ tab to see lists from previous years.

This list will be updated each time I see a film from 2020 (world premiere/imdb date) that is better than at least one of the films already on the list.

1. DAU. Degeneration (Ilya Khrzhanovskiy & Ilya Permyakov)
2. Her Socialist Smile (John Gianvito)
3. Fauna (Nicolás Pereda)
4. The Last City (Heinz Emigholz)
5. Days (Tsai Ming-liang)
6. DAU. Three Days (Ilya Khrzhanovskiy & Jekaterina Oertel)
7. Let Them All Talk a.k.a. The Fall of 2019 (Steven Soderbergh)
8. The Salt of Tears (Philippe Garrel)
9. DAU. Brave People (Ilya Khrzhanovskiy & Aleksey Slusarchuk)
10. The Disciple (Chaitanya Tamhane)

 

Polls Top 10 (Eligible titles [will] appear here.) (Note: This year I started including streaming-only releases on this list; eligibility determined by my whims and moods.)

1. Liberté (2019, Albert Serra)
2. The Giverny Document (Single Channel) (2019, Ja’Tovia Gary)
3. DAU. Degeneration (2020, Ilya Khrzhanovskiy & Ilya Permyakov)
4. I Was at Home, But… (2019, Angela Schanelec)
5. DAU. Three Days (2020, Ilya Khrzhanovskiy & Jekaterina Oertel)
6. Fourteen (2019, Dan Sallitt)
7. About Endlessness (2019, Roy Andersson)
8. Young Ahmed (2019, Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne)
9. DAU. Brave People (2020, Ilya Khrzhanovskiy & Aleksey Slusarchuk)
10. The History of the Seattle Mariners (2020, Jon Bois)

 

My Top 10 Discoveries During 2020 (for first-time viewings of films made before 2010)

1. The Fountainhead (1949, King Vidor)
2. Variety (1983, Bette Gordon)
3. Stella Dallas (1937, King Vidor)
4. The Wedding Night (1935, King Vidor)
5. Happy Here and Now (2002, Michael Almereyda)
6. Woman on the Beach (2006, Hong Sang-soo)
7. Street Scene (1931, King Vidor)
8. Night and Day (2008, Hong Sang-soo)
9. The Power of Kangwon Province (1998, Hong Sang-soo)
10. Koyaanisqatsi (1982, Godfrey Reggio)

 

Other 2020 films I’ve seen

• Malmkrog (Cristi Puiu) – 6.8
• The History of the Seattle Mariners (Jon Bois) – 6.8
• The Lobby (Heinz Emigholz) – 6.7
• Da 5 Bloods (Spike Lee) – 6.7
• Bloody Nose, Empty Pockets (Bill Ross IV & Turner Ross) – 6.7
• DAU. Natasha (Ilya Khrzhanovskiy & Jekaterina Oertel) – 6.7
• Tesla (Michael Almereyda) – 6.6
• Microphones in 2020 (Phil Elverum) – 6.6
• Inventing the Future (Isiah Medina) – 6.6
• Hopper/Welles (Orson Welles) – 6.6
• The Works and Days (of Tayoko Shiojiri in the Shiotani Basin) (Anders Edström & C.W. Winter) – 6.5
• Slow Machine (Paul Felten & Joe DeNardo) – 6.5
• s01e03 (Kurt Walker) – 6.5
• City Hall (Frederick Wiseman) – 6.5
• The Monopoly of Violence (David Dufresne) – 6.5
• Circumstantial Pleasures (Lewis Klahr) – 6.4
• The Woman Who Ran (Hong Sang-soo) – 6.4
• Red Post on Escher Street (Sion Sono) – 6.4
• Time (Garrett Bradley) – 6.4
• Beginning (Dea Kulumbegashvili) – 6.3
• Boys State (Amanda McBaine & Jesse Moss) – 6.3
• The Invisible Man (Leigh Whannell) – 6.3
• The Killing of Two Lovers (Robert Machoian) – 6.3
• So Late So Soon (Daniel Hymanson) – 6.3
• Build the Wall (Joe Swanberg) – 6.2
• Atarrabi and Mikelats (Eugène Green) – 6.2
• Second Star to the Right and Straight On ’Til Morning (Bill Ross IV & Turner Ross) – 6.2
• Maggie’s Farm (James Benning) – 6.1
• Expedition Content (Ernst Karel & Veronika Kusumaryati) – 6.0
• The American Sector (Courtney Stephens & Pacho Velez) – 6.0
• Tenet (Christopher Nolan) – 5.9
• Isabella (Matías Piñeiro) – 5.9
• The Nest (Sean Durkin) – 5.9
• DAU. String Theory (Ilya Khrzhanovskiy & Aleksey Slusarchuk) – 5.9
• I’m Thinking of Ending Things (Charlie Kaufman) – 5.8
• Kokoloko (Gerardo Naranjo) – 5.8
• DAU. New Man (Ilya Khrzhanovskiy & Ilya Permyakov) – 5.8
• We Are Who We Are (Luca Guadagnino) – 5.7
• The Tango of the Widower and Its Distorting Mirror (Raúl Ruiz & Valeria Sarmiento) – 5.7
• One Night in Miami (Regina King) – 5.7
• Shithouse (Cooper Raiff) – 5.7
• Notturno (Gianfranco Rosi) – 5.7
• DAU. Katya Tanya (Ilya Khrzhanovskiy & Jekaterina Oertel) – 5.7
• Intimate Distances (Phillip Warnell) – 5.7
• Kajillionaire (Miranda July) – 5.6
• Undine (Christian Petzold) – 5.6
• Saint-Narcisse (Bruce LaBruce) – 5.6
• There Are Not Thirty-Six Ways of Showing a Man Getting on a Horse (Nicolás Zukerfeld) – 5.6
• Short Vacation (Kwon Min-pyo & Seo Han-sol) – 5.6
• Some Kind of Heaven (Lance Oppenheim) – 5.6
• French Exit (Azazel Jacobs) – 5.6
• Fireball: Visitors from Darker Worlds (Werner Herzog & Clive Oppenheimer) – 5.6
• The Inheritance (Ephraim Asili) – 5.5
• Mank (David Fincher) – 5.5
• Dick Johnson is Dead (Kirsten Johnson) – 5.5
• Palm Springs (Max Barbakow) – 5.5
• Things We Say, Things We Do: Love Affair(s) (Emmanuel Mouret) – 5.4
• Shiva Baby (Emma Seligman) – 5.4
• Gunda (Viktor Kossakovsky) – 5.4
• Education (Steve McQueen) – 5.4
• Sportin’ Life (Abel Ferrara) – 5.4
• DAU. Nikita Tanya (Ilya Khrzhanovskiy & Jekaterina Oertel) – 5.3
• Her Name Was Europa (Anja Dornieden & Juan David González Monroy) – 5.3
• Wife of a Spy (Kiyoshi Kurosawa) – 5.3
• Lovers Rock (Steve McQueen) – 5.3
• Blue Eyes and Colorful My Dress (Polina Gumiela) – 5.3
• Enemies of the State (Sonia Kennebeck) – 5.3
• The Wolf of Snow Hollow (Jim Cummings) – 5.3
• The Truffle Hunters (Michael Dweck & Gregory Kershaw) – 5.3
• Death of Nintendo (Raya Martin) – 5.3
• Swimming Out Till the Sea Turns Blue (Jia Zhang-ke) – 5.2
• DAU. Nora Mother (Ilya Khrzhanovskiy & Jekaterina Oertel) – 5.2
• David Byrne’s American Utopia (Spike Lee) – 5.2
• A Shape of Things to Come (J.P. Sniadecki & Lisa Malloy) – 5.2
• IWOW: I Walk on Water (Khalik Allah) – 5.1
• Red, White and Blue (Steve McQueen) – 5.1
• Siberia (Abel Ferrara) – 5.0
• Uppercase Print (Radu Jude) – 5.0
• Liminal (Philippe Grandrieux, Manuela de Laborde, Lav Diaz, & Óscar Enríquez) – 5.0
• Zero (Kazuhiro Soda) – 5.0
• Identifying Features (Fernanda Valadez) – 5.0
• The Calming (Song Fang) – 4.9
• Spring Blossom (Suzanne Lindon) – 4.9
• Never Rarely Sometimes Always (Eliza Hittman) – 4.9
• Bicentenario (Pablo Alvarez Mesa) – 4.9
• Summer of 85 (François Ozon) – 4.9
• All In: The Fight for Democracy (Liz Garbus & Lisa Cortés) – 4.9
• Preparations to Be Together For an Unknown Period of Time (Lili Horváth) – 4.8
• Window Boy Would Also Like to Have a Submarine (Alex Piperno) – 4.8
• maɬni – towards the ocean, towards the shore (Sky Hopinka) – 4.8
• Pieces of a Woman (Kornél Mundruczó) – 4.8
• MLK/FBI (Sam Pollard) – 4.8
• Last and First Men (Jóhann Jóhannsson) – 4.8
• Viena and the Fantomes (Gerardo Naranjo) – 4.7
• A l’abordage (Guillaume Brac) – 4.7
• Night of the Kings (Philippe Lacôte) – 4.7
• Orphea (Alexander Kluge & Khavn) – 4.7
• Nasir (Arun Karthick) – 4.7
• Purple Sea (Amel Alzakout & Khaled Abdulwahed) – 4.6
• Los Conductos (Camilo Restrepo) – 4.6
• Promising Young Woman (Emerald Fennell) – 4.6
• Shirley (Josephine Decker) – 4.5
• There Is No Evil (Mohammad Rasoulof) – 4.4
• The Year of the Discovery (Luis López Carrasco) – 4.3
• Night for Day (Emily Wardill) – 4.3
• Epicentro (Hubert Sauper) – 4.3
• Nomadland (Chloé Zhao) – 4.2
• Red Moon Tide (Lois Patiño) – 4.1
• I Carry You with Me (Heidi Ewing) – 4.1
• Ammonite (Francis Lee) – 4.1
• Mangrove (Steve McQueen) – 4.0
• Minari (Lee Isaac Chung) – 4.0
• Corporate Accountability (Jonathan Perel) – 3.9
• Rebecca (Ben Wheatley) – 3.9
• Tragic Jungle (Yulene Olaizola) – 3.8
• She Dies Tomorrow (Amy Seimetz) – 3.7
• The Trial of the Chicago 7 (Aaron Sorkin) – 3.7
• Alex Wheatle (Steve McQueen) – 3.7
• Long Gone Summer (AJ Schnack) – 3.7
• Ploy (Prapat Jiwarangsan) – 3.6
• Borat Subsequent Moviefilm (Jason Woliner) – 3.6
• On the Rocks (Sofia Coppola) – 3.5
• Home Front (Lucas Belvaux) – 3.5
• The Empty Man (David Prior) – 3.4
• The Viewing Booth (Ra’anan Alexandrowicz) – 3.4
• New Order (Michel Franco) – 3.4
• All the Dead Ones (Marco Dutra & Caetano Gotardo) – 3.1
• Irradiated (Rithy Panh) – 2.6
• The Devil All the Time (Antonio Campos) – 2.5

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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 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 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 — new for 2021! — 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 (increasingly lax) conditions? The main reason I never logged shorts before 2015 is that my OCD had prevented me from distinguishing between short films, television commercials, Youtube videos, random viral TikToks, 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 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

The Seventh Continent (1989, Michael Haneke) – 6.1

The Girl and the Spider (2021, Ramon Zürcher) – 6.8

Teenage Emotions (2021, Frédéric Da) – 6.5

Some Kind of Heaven (2020, Lance Oppenheim) – 5.6

+Lux Æterna (2019, Gaspar Noé) – 6.5 [same]

El Planeta (2020, Amalia Ulman) – 6.4

 

February

A Glitch in the Matrix (2021, Rodney Ascher) – 5.5

Searchers (2021, Pacho Velez) – 5.8

All Light, Everywhere (2021, Theo Anthony) – 5.8

Prisoners of the Ghostland (2021, Sion Sono) – 3.1

In My Room (2020, Mati Diop)

Pebbles (2021, P.S. Vinothraj) – 5.9

Er is een geest van mij (2021, Mateo Vega)

Flowers Blooming In Our Throats (2021, Eva Giolo)

Sunsets, Everyday (2021, Basir Mahmood)

Taming the Garden (2021, Salomé Jashi) – 4.8

Patrick (2020, Luke Fowler)

Citadel (2020, John Smith)

Something to Touch That Is Not Corruption or Ashes or Dust (2020, Mike Stoltz)

Tellurian Drama (2020, Riar Rizaldi)

Tracing Utopia (2021, Nick Tyson & Catarina de Sousa)

Plant (879 pages, 33 days) (2020, Ruth Höflich)

Maat Means Land (2020, Fox Maxy)

The Hole’s Journey (2021, Ghita Skali)

80,000 Years Old (2020, Christelle Lheureux)

Inner Landscape Meditations [Anaglyph 3D] (2014, Dominik Lange)

Manifesto (2021, Ane Hjort Guttu)

For the Sake of Calmness (2020, Newsha Tavakolian)

The Women’s Revenge (2020, Su Hui-yu)

Best Year Ever (2021, James N. Kienitz Wilkins)

Friends and Strangers (2021, James Vaughan) – 6.3

Desert Lights (2021, Félix Blume)

Lemongrass Girl (2021, Pom Bunsermvicha)

The Eternal Springtime (2021, Việt Vũ)

Who Is Afraid of Ideology? Part 3 Micro Resistances (2020, Marwa Arsanios)

You Like It, I Love It (2013, James Vaughan)

earthearthearth (2021, Daïchi Saïto)

Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy (2021, Ryûsuke Hamaguchi) – 7.0

Jack’s Ride (2021, Susana Nobre) – 5.1

Bicentenario (2020, Pablo Alvarez Mesa) – 4.9

Night for Day (2020, Emily Wardill) – 4.3

Ploy (2020, Prapat Jiwarangsan) – 3.6

Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn (2021, Radu Jude) – 5.9

Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird (2021, Ana Vaz)

Natural Light (2021, Dénes Nagy) – 4.2

Keep on turning (1974, Karin Wiertz & Jacques Verbeek)

The Good Woman of Sichuan (2021, Sabrina Zhao) – 6.5

Ste. Anne (2021, Rhayne Vermette) – 4.5

Taste (2021, Lê Bảo) – 4.3

A River Runs, Turns, Erases, Replaces (2021, Shengze Zhu) – 5.6

Bloodsuckers (2021, Julian Radlmaier) – 5.0

Dirty Feathers (2021, Carlos Alfonso Corral) – 5.3

The White Fortress (2021, Igor Drljača) – 4.9

Cryptozoo (2021, Dash Shaw) – 5.4

+Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy (2021, Ryûsuke Hamaguchi) – 7.2 [up from 7.0]

 

March

Censor (2021, Prano Bailey-Bond) – 4.9

Language Lessons (2021, Natalie Morales) – 4.4

Moon, 66 Questions (2021, Jacqueline Lentzou) – 6.2

Drift Away (2021, Xavier Beauvois) – 5.9

Fabian, or Going to the Dogs (2021, Dominik Graf) – 6.3

For Lucio (2021, Pietro Marcello) – 5.4

Ballad of a White Cow (2021, Behtash Sanaeeha & Maryam Moghaddam) – 5.0

Come Here (2021, Anocha Suwichakornpong) – 6.0

The Scary of Sixty-First (2021, Dasha Nekrasova) – 4.7

What Do We See When We Look at the Sky? (2021, Alexandre Koberidze) – 6.5

Petite Maman (2021, Céline Sciamma) – 5.8

I’m Your Man (2021, Maria Schrader) – 5.1

Limbo (2021, Soi Cheang) – 4.5

May June July (2021, Kevin Jerome Everson)

Social Hygiene (2021, Denis Côté) – 5.4

Ski (2021, Manque La Banca) – 4.1

Introduction (2021, Hong Sang-soo) – 6.6

The Dog Who Wouldn’t Be Quiet (2021, Ana Katz) – 6.5

Rock Bottom Riser (2021, Fern Silva) – 7.3

Forest: I See You Everywhere (2021, Bence Fliegauf) – 5.3

What Will Summer Bring (2021, Ignacio Ceroi) – 4.8

A Cop Movie (2021, Alonso Ruizpalacios) – 4.9

We (2021, Alice Diop) – 5.9

Azor (2021, Andreas Fontana) – 5.5

From Where They Stood (2021, Christophe Cognet) – 5.4

Mr. Bachmann and His Class (2021, Maria Speth) – 6.9

The Men Who Wait (2021, Trương Minh Quý)

Wife of a Spy (2020, Kiyoshi Kurosawa) – 5.3

The Depths (2010, Ryûsuke Hamaguchi) – 5.2

Landscapes of Resistance (2021, Marta Popivoda) – 5.2

Garage, Engines and Men (2021, Claire Simon) – 4.6

Kindertotenlieder (2021, Virgil Vernier)

Come Coyote (2019, Dani & Sheilah ReStack)

Future from Inside (2021, Dani & Sheilah ReStack)

THOMA (2021, Gina Telaroli)

The Inventory Will Be Drawn Up at 11 a.m. in the Presence of the Poet’s Wife (2021, Martin Verdet) – 5.6

The I and S of Lives (2021, Kevin Jerome Everson)

Random Patrol (2021, Yohan Guignard)

Saxifrages, Four White Nights (2021, Nicolas Klotz & Elisabeth Perceval) – 7.0

End of the Season (2020, Jason Evans)

Sol de Campinas (2021, Jessica Sarah Rinland)

Retour d’un repère (1979, Rose Lowder)

Les Tournesols colorés (1983, Rose Lowder)

Bouquets 1-10 (1995, Rose Lowder)

Bouquets 21-30 (2005, Rose Lowder)

Under the Sun (2011, Rose Lowder)

Sources (2012, Rose Lowder)

Nightvision (2021, Clara Claus)

Un monde flottant (2021, Jean-Claude Rousseau) – 7.0

The Human Voice (2020, Pedro Almodóvar)

Corps Samples (2021, Astrid de la Chapelle)

Armour (2020, Sandro Aguilar)

Jeune femme à sa fenêtre lisant une lettre (1983, Jean-Claude Rousseau) – 5.3

Venise n’existe pas (1984, Jean-Claude Rousseau)

Keep in Touch (1987, Jean-Claude Rousseau)

Faux départ (2006, Jean-Claude Rousseau)

Deux fois le tour du monde (2006, Jean-Claude Rousseau)

Delft dans le lointain (2017, Jean-Claude Rousseau)

In Memoriam (2019, Jean-Claude Rousseau)

Juste avant l’orage (2004, Jean-Claude Rousseau)

Veduta (2010, Jean-Claude Rousseau)

Chansons d’amour (2016, Jean-Claude Rousseau)

Eaux profondes (2012, Jean-Claude Rousseau)

Partage des Eaux (2014, Jean-Claude Rousseau)

Pas cette nuit (2007, Jean-Claude Rousseau)

Nuit blanche (2011, Jean-Claude Rousseau)

Un jour (2011, Jean-Claude Rousseau)

Attique (2011, Jean-Claude Rousseau)

L’air d’être là (2013, Jean-Claude Rousseau)

L’appel de la forêt (2008, Jean-Claude Rousseau)

Série noire (2009, Jean-Claude Rousseau)

Senza mostra (2011, Jean-Claude Rousseau)

Saudade (2012, Jean-Claude Rousseau)

 

April

+Streetscapes [Dialogue] (2017, Heinz Emigholz) – 7.0 [same]

La vallée close (1995, Jean-Claude Rousseau) – 6.1

Dernier soupir (2011, Jean-Claude Rousseau)

Une vue sur l’autre rive (2005, Jean-Claude Rousseau)

La Villa (2017, Jean-Claude Rousseau)

Festival (2010, Jean-Claude Rousseau) – 5.8

+The Last City (2020, Heinz Emigholz) – 7.1 [up from 6.9]

 

May

Trois fois rien (2006, Jean-Claude Rousseau) – Inc. [No English subtitles]

De son appartement (2007, Jean-Claude Rousseau) – 6.3

A Tuning Fork (2021, Phil Coldiron)

La Nature (2019, Artavazd Pelechian) – 5.5

+Charlie Victor Romeo [3D] (2013, Robert Berger, Patrick Daniels, & Karlyn Michelson) – 6.8 [2D version: 5.3]

The Empty Man (2020, David Prior) – 3.4

 

June

Short Vacation (2020, Kwon Min-pyo & Seo Han-sol) – 5.6

+Siberia (2020, Abel Ferrara) – 5.0 [down from 6.6]

RoboCop (1987, Paul Verhoeven) – 7.1

Promising Young Woman (2020, Emerald Fennell) – 4.6

Upgrade (2018, Leigh Whannell) – 5.5

Basic Instinct (1992, Paul Verhoeven) – 5.3

Playground (2021, Laura Wandel) – 2.9

 

July

Returning to Reims [Fragments] (2021, Jean-Gabriel Périot) – 5.0

Întregalde (2021, Radu Muntean) – 5.6

Ghost Song (2021, Nicolas Peduzzi) Cannes, DP – 6.3

Annette (2021, Leos Carax) Cannes, DP – 5.5

Between Two Worlds (2021, Emmanuel Carrère) Cannes, DP – 4.2

Black Notebooks [Viviane] (2021, Shlomi Elkabetz) Cannes, DP – 5.1

Black Notebooks [Ronit] (2021, Shlomi Elkabetz) Cannes, DP – 5.4

Ahed’s Knee (2021, Nadav Lapid) Cannes, DP – 5.8

Onoda (2021, Arthur Harari) Cannes, DP – 7.0

Jane by Charlotte (2021, Charlotte Gainsbourg) Cannes, DP – 4.5

The Souvenir Part II (2021, Joanna Hogg) Cannes, DP – 7.2

Great Freedom (2021, Sebastian Meise) Cannes, DP – 5.0

Cow (2021, Andrea Arnold) Cannes, DP – 3.6

After Yang (2021, Kogonada) Cannes, DP – 3.4

The Worst Person in the World (2021, Joachim Trier) Cannes, DP – 6.7

Lingui (The Sacred Bonds) (2021, Mahamat-Saleh Haroun) Cannes, DP – 4.0

House Arrest (2021, Alexey German Jr.) Cannes, DP – 4.8

Benedetta (2021, Paul Verhoeven) Cannes, DP – 6.1

The Divide (2021, Catherine Corsini) Cannes, DP – 4.8

Hit the Road (2021, Panah Panahi) Cannes, DP – 6.4

The Tale of King Crab (2021, Alessio Rigo de Righi & Matteo Zoppis) Cannes, DP – 5.7

Compartment No. 6 (2021, Juho Kuosmanen) Cannes, DP – 4.9

Flag Day (2021, Sean Penn) Cannes, DP – 2.4

Ali & Ava (2021, Clio Barnard) Cannes, DP – 4.1

The Innocents (2021, Eskil Vogt) Cannes, DP – 3.7

Drive My Car (2021, Ryûsuke Hamaguchi) Cannes, DP – 6.8

Three Floors (2021, Nanni Moretti) Cannes, DP – 4.2

Bergman Island (2021, Mia Hansen-Løve) Cannes, DP – 7.0

Futura (2021, Pietro Marcello, Francesco Munzi, & Alice Rohrwacher) Cannes, DP – 5.5

Petrov’s Flu (2021, Kirill Serebrennikov) Cannes, DP – 4.7

The French Dispatch of the Liberty, Kansas Evening Sun (2021, Wes Anderson) Cannes, DP – 4.6

The Crusade (2021, Louis Garrel) Cannes, DP – 5.7

The Tsugua Diaries (2021, Miguel Gomes & Maureen Fazendeiro) Cannes, DP – 7.1

Lamb (2021, Valdimar Jóhannsson) Cannes, DP – 4.3

A Hero (2021, Asghar Farhadi) Cannes, DP – 5.2

Deception (2021, Arnaud Desplechin) Cannes, DP – 5.0

Titane (2021, Julia Ducournau) Cannes, DP – 6.6

Tralala (2021, Arnaud & Jean-Marie Larrieu) Cannes, DP – 5.1

Simone Is Gone (2021, Mathilde Chavanne) Cannes, DP

Sycorax (2021, Lois Patiño & Matías Piñeiro) Cannes, DP

The Windshield Wiper (2021, Alberto Mielgo) Cannes, DP

Train Again (2021, Peter Tscherkassky) Cannes, DP

Red Rocket (2021, Sean Baker) Cannes, DP – 7.4

The Story of My Wife (2021, Ildiko Enyedi) Cannes, DP – 4.7

Paris 13th District (2021, Jacques Audiard) Cannes, DP – 4.4

Hold Me Tight (2021, Matheiu Amalric) Cannes, DP – 3.1

Memoria (2021, Apichatpong Weerasethakul) Cannes, DP – 6.3

France (2021, Bruno Dumont) Cannes, DP – 7.7

Casablanca Beats (2021, Nabil Ayouch) Cannes, DP – 4.4

Prayers for the Stolen (2021, Tatiana Huezo) Cannes, DP – 6.0

In Front of Your Face (2021, Hong Sang-soo) Cannes, DP – 5.9

Nitram (2021, Justin Kurzel) Cannes, DP – 5.4

Marx Can Wait (2021, Marco Bellocchio) Cannes, DP – 5.0

Vortex (2021, Gaspar Noé) Cannes, DP – 6.8

Outside Noise (2021, Ted Fendt) FIDMarseille, DP – 5.2

The Invisible Mountain (2021, Ben Russell) FIDMarseille, DP – 5.2

Worlds (2021, Isaac Goes)

Let’s Say Revolution (2021, Nicolas Klotz & Elisabeth Perceval) FIDMarseille, DP – 4.6

Constellation (2021, Dania Reymond Boughenou) FIDMarseille, DP

Vikken (2021, Dounia Sichov) FIDMarseille, DP

Topology of Sirens (2021, Jonathan Davies) FIDMarseille, DP – 6.1

Pig (2021, Michael Sarnoski) – 5.3

Twin Peaks (1977, Al Wong) – 7.6

 

August

Four Letter Words (2000, Sean Baker) – 2.3

Take Out (2004, Sean Baker & Shih-Ching Tsou) – 5.1

Prince of Broadway (2008, Sean Baker) – 4.5

Ventana (2021, Edgar Jorge Baralt)

Surviving You, Always (2020, Morgan Quaintance)

Emergence Collapse (2021, Rainer Kohlberger & Jung An Tagen)

+What Do We See When We Look at the Sky? (2021, Alexandre Koberidze) – 7.1 [up from 6.5]

The First 54 Years: An Abbreviated Manual for Military Occupation (2021, Avi Mograbi) – 3.5

Wood and Water (2021, Jonas Bak) – 6.5

CODA (2021, Siân Heder) – 4.1

+Annette (2021, Leos Carax) – 6.3 [up from 5.5]

+Fourteen (2019, Dan Sallitt) – 6.9 [same]

First Time — The Time for All but Sunset [Violet] (2021, Nicolaas Schmidt) – 6.9

Final Stage — The Time for All but Sunset [BGYOR] (2017, Nicolaas Schmidt)

Inflorescence (2020, Nicolaas Schmidt)

 

September

+Twin Peaks (1977, Al Wong) – 7.6 [same]

+First Time — The Time for All but Sunset [Violet] (2021, Nicolaas Schmidt) – 7.2 [up from 6.9]

The Cathedral (2021, Ricky D’Ambrose) – 5.5

Reflection (2021, Valentyn Vasyanovych) – 4.8

Ieva (2021, Domas Petronis & Vytautas Plukas)

Immaculate Virtual (2021, Ryley O’Byrne)

Motorcyclist’s Happiness Won’t Fit Into His Suit (2021, Gabriel Herrera)

Vengeance is Mine, All Others Pay Cash (2021, Edwin) TIFF, DP – 5.4

+Petite Maman (2021, Céline Sciamma) – 6.4 [up from 5.8]

The Power of the Dog (2021, Jane Campion) TIFF, DP – 5.2

+Drive My Car (2021, Ryûsuke Hamaguchi) TIFF, DP – 6.1 [down from 6.8]

Last Night in Soho (2021, Edgar Wright) TIFF, DP – 4.3

Aloners (2021, Hong Sung-eun) – 5.1

Dune: Part One (2021, Denis Villeneuve) TIFF, DP – 4.8

Earwig (2021, Lucile Hadžihalilović) TIFF, DP – 5.2

+The Tsugua Diaries (2021, Miguel Gomes & Maureen Fazendeiro) – 7.3 [up from 7.1]

Neptune Frost (2021, Saul Williams & Anisia Uzeyman) – 5.6

A Night of Knowing Nothing (2021, Payal Kapadia) TIFF, DP – 5.0

+Onoda (2021, Arthur Harari) – 6.2 [down from 7.0]

Benediction (2021, Terence Davies) TIFF, DP – 3.8

+Memoria (2021, Apichatpong Weerasethakul) TIFF, DP – 7.9 [up from 6.3]

Sundown (2021, Michel Franco) – 4.4

Unclenching the Fists (2021, Kira Kovalenko) – 5.5

Drunken Birds (2021, Ivan Grbovic) – 5.3

Spencer (2021, Pablo Larraín) TIFF, DP – 3.6

+France (2021, Bruno Dumont) TIFF, DP – 7.7 [same]

Flee (2021, Jonas Poher Rasmussen) – 4.7

+Titane (2021, Julia Ducournau) TIFF, DP – 6.0 [down from 6.6]

After Blue (Paradis sale) (2021, Bertrand Mandico) – 3.2

Mr. Kneff (2021, Steven Soderbergh) TIFF, DP – 4.5

(No Subject) (2021, Guillermo Moncayo)

In Flow of Words (2021, Eliane Esther Bots)

Day Is Done (2021, Zhang Dalei)

38 (2021, Daniel Chew & Micaela Durand)

Elle (2021, Luise Donschen)

Do Not Circulate (2021, Tiffany Sia)

Dreams Under Confinement (2020, Christopher Harris)

All of Your Stars Are but Dust on My Shoes (2021, Haig Aivazian)

Dear Chantal (2021, Nicolás Pereda)

The Capacity for Adequate Anger (2021, Vika Kirchenbauer)

Polycephaly in D (2021, Michael Robinson)

“The red filter is withdrawn.” (2021, Minjung Kim)

Inner Outer Space (2021, Laida Lertxundi)

Personality Test (2021, Justin Jinsoo Kim)

Dog Star Descending (2020, Aykan Safoğlu)

Homage to the Work of Philip Henry Gosse (2020, Pablo Martín Weber)

Home When You Return (2021, Carl Elsaesser)

Cutting the Mushroom (2021, Mike Crane)

Estuary (2021, Ross Meckfessel)

The Canyon (2021, Zachary Epcar)

Reach Capacity (2020, Ericka Beckman)

Here is the Imagination of the Black Radical (2020, Rhea Storr)

Strange Object (2020, Miranda Pennell)

To Pick a Flower (2021, Shireen Seno)

Grandma’s Scissors (2021, Erica Sheu)

Blind Body (2021, Allison Chhorn)

If I could name you myself (I would hold you forever) (2021, Hope Strickland)

What is it that you said? (2021, Shun Ikezoe)

In and Out a Window (2021, Richard Tuohy & Dianna Barrie)

Tonalli (2021, Los Ingrávidos)

Ficciones (2021, Manuela de Laborde)

Six Seventy-Two Variations, Variation 1 (2021, Tomonari Nishikawa)

They Carry Death (2021, Samuel M. Delgado & Helena Girón) – 4.3

El Gran Movimiento (2021, Kiro Russo) – 6.4

Sad Film (2021, Vasili)

Veslemøy’s Song (2018, Sofia Bohdanowicz)

 

October

Everything Went Fine (2021, François Ozon) – 3.8

Haruhara-san’s Recorder (2021, Kyoshi Sugita) – 5.7

Semiotic Plastic (2021, Radu Jude)

The Card Counter (2021, Paul Schrader) – 5.8

Old (2021, M. Night Shyamalan) – 6.4

Babi Yar. Context (2021, Sergei Loznitsa) – 5.4

The Velvet Underground (2021, Todd Haynes) – 5.2

flowers/distance 3.20 – 4.19 (2021, Taylor Yocom)

Learning Tagalog with Kayla (2021, Kayla Galang)

Butterfly Birth Bed (2021, Virginia Lee Montgomery)

Salvage (2021, Christopher Boulton)

The Water Knows (2021, Uwa Iduozee)

The Wind and the Kite (2021, Robert Machoian & Keely Song)

Be Kind, Please (2021, Ace McColl)

A Few Things I’m Beginning to Understand (2021, Xenia Matthews)

In Place of Monuments (2021, Naima Ramos-Chapman)

Procession (2021, Robert Greene) – 3.9

Many Fires This Time: We the 100 Million (2021, Jason R.A. Foster) – 4.7

A Chiara (2021, Jonas Carpignano) – 6.0

I Want to Talk About Duras (2021, Claire Simon) – 4.9

Flak-Kaserne Ludwigsburg (2021, Kevin Jerome Everson)

Bunker (2021, Jenny Perlin) – 6.2

The Night (2021, Tsai Ming-liang)

South (2021, Morgan Quaintance)

North by Current (2021, Angelo Madsen Minax) – 4.5

+Ste. Anne (2021, Rhayne Vermette) – 5.9 [up from 4.5]

We’re All Going to the World’s Fair (2021, Jane Schoenbrun) – 5.8

Ready Mix (2021, Lucy Raven) – 6.7

Canticles (2019, Nathaniel Dorsky) 16mm

Lamentations (2020, Nathaniel Dorsky) 16mm

Temple Sleep (2020 Nathaniel Dorsky) 16mm

Emanations (2020, Nathaniel Dorsky) 16mm

Ember Days (2021, Nathaniel Dorsky) 16mm

Terce (2021, Nathaniel Dorsky) 16mm

No Sudden Move (2021, Steven Soderbergh) – 6.1

 

November

The Green Knight (2021, David Lowery) – 4.7

The Sugarland Express (1974, Steven Spielberg) – 7.2

Dressed to Kill (1980, Brian De Palma) – 7.4

The Bridges of Madison County (1995, Clint Eastwood) – 6.1

+Vanilla Sky (2001, Cameron Crowe) – 5.2 [~same]

+The French Dispatch of the Liberty, Kansas Evening Sun (2021, Wes Anderson) DP – 4.1 [down from 4.6]

+Where Does Your Hidden Smile Lie? (2001, Pedro Costa) – 7.6 [~same]

 

December

Passing (2021, Rebecca Hall) – 5.3

Zeros and Ones (2021, Abel Ferrara) – 5.4

The Beta Test (2021, Jim Cummings & PJ McCabe) – 5.4

Prism (2021, Eléonore Yameogo, An van. Dienderen, & Rosine Mbakam) – 4.8

Just a Movement (2021, Vincent Meessen) – 4.0

+Chronicle of Anna Magdalena Bach (1968, Jean-Marie Straub & Danièle Huillet) – 5.8 [same]

Atlantide (2021, Yuri Ancarani) – 5.1

Parallel Mothers (2021, Pedro Almodóvar) – 5.6

Il Buco (2021, Michelangelo Frammartino) – 5.1

Malignant (2021, James Wan) – 4.9

Licorice Pizza (2021, Paul Thomas Anderson) 70mm – 6.8

Funniest Show on Earth [3D] (1953, Mario Mattoli) – 6.1

from Bakersfield to Mojave (2021, James Benning) – 6.4

+Flesh for Frankenstein [3D] (1973, Paul Morrissey) – 7.3 [same]

The Matrix Resurrections (2021, Lana Wachowski) – 5.4

+The Card Counter (2021, Paul Schrader) – 6.6 [up from 5.8]

C’mon C’mon (2021, Mike Mills) – 4.5

Homework (1989, Abbas Kiarostami) – 6.3

Just going to start collecting these in one place, for posterity. (As Seen On Twitter)

 

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