January 23
6:00PM – Best of Enemies (Morgan Neville & Robert Gordon)
9:30PM – The Witch (Robert Eggers)

January 24
9:00AM – The Overnight (Patrick Brice)
12:00PM – I Am Michael (Justin Kelly)
3:30PM – Tangerine (Sean Baker)
6:30PM – James White (Josh Mond)
9:00PM – Fresh Dressed (Sacha Jenkins)

January 25
8:30AM – Mistress America (Noah Baumbach) [Public]
12:00PM – Western (Bill & Turner Ross) [Public]
4:00PM – Nasty Baby (Sebastian Silva)
6:30PM – Last Days in the Desert (Rodrigo Garcia) [Public]
9:30PM – Ten Thousand Saints (Robert Pulcini & Shari Springer Berman)

January 26
9:00AM – Unexpected (Kris Swanberg)
12:00PM – Cronies (Michael J. Larnell)
2:30PM – The Forbidden Room (Guy Maddin & Evan Johnson) [Public]
6:00PM – Things of the Aimless Wanderer (Kivu Ruhorahoza) [Public]
9:00PM – Entertainment (Rick Alverson) [Public]

January 27
8:300AM – Take Me to the River (Matt Sobel) [Public]
11:20AM – The Trouble with Dot and Harry (Gary Walkow) [Slamdance]
3:00PM – Digging for Fire (Joe Swanberg)
6:30PM – Results (Andrew Bujalski)

January 28
9:30AM – The Nightmare (Rodney Ascher)
12:15PM – Dope (Rick Famuyiwa) [Public]
3:30PM – Zipper (Mora Stephens)
6:00PM – Station to Station (Doug Aitken) [Public]
8:50PM – Diamond Tongues (Pavan Moondi & Brian Robertson) [Slamdance]

January 29
9:00AM – Experimenter (Michael Almereyda)
11:30AM – The Wolfpack (Crystal Moselle) [Public]
2:30PM – Kurt Cobain: Montage of Heck (Brett Morgen)
5:30PM – Slow West (John Maclean) [Public]
8:15PM – +The Forbidden Room (Guy Maddin & Evan Johnson) [Public]

January 30
9:00AM – +Results (Andrew Bujalski) [Public]

Past Logs

2014 Film Log
2013 Film Log
2012 Film Log
2011 Film Log
2010 Film Log
2009 Film Log
2007 Film Log

– 8mm/16mm/35mm/70mm denotes that what I saw was a film print.
– DP denotes that what I saw was a Digital Projection in a theatre.
– 3D denotes that I saw a theatrical projection for which I was provided some sort of special spectacles—including but not limited to Polarized, Anaglyph, ChromaDepth, Pulfrich, and Prismatic technologies—to wear during part or all of the film. If I saw a feature-length film in 3D at home, the title of the film will be succeeded by “[3D]”.
– All others were from Blu-Rays, downloads, television, etc.
– A plus sign (+) at the beginning of a line denotes that I had seen this film before.

– Only films that are at least 40 minutes long (the Academy’s minimum for a feature film) are logged.
– A grade of “Inc.” denotes that I don’t think that this screening was an accurate enough presentation of the film for me to make a value judgment, either because their 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, etc.
– I don’t log W/Os.

***NEW for 2015***
I’m now logging short films (≤ 39min.), sans ratings, but only those viewed either from a film print or in an official theatrical context (i.e., where there is published documentation that the screening of this particular film took place). Why these conditions? The main reason I’ve never logged shorts is that my OCD has prevented me from distinguishing between short films, television commercials, music videos, random viral clips, etc.; I didn’t want to log everything, and I didn’t want to be arbitrarily discriminating what I logged and what I didn’t. This (admittedly still arbitrary) fix allows me to narrow it down to only the short films proper, which will almost exclusively consist of avant-garde works. These films will appear below in italics.
**********************

And that translates to:

A+	9.4 - 10.0	[Top 10 of All Time contender]
A	8.6 - 9.3	[Masterpiece]
A-	7.8 - 8.5	[Pretty great; Near-masterpiece]
B+	7.0 - 7.7	[Kinda great; Contender for Top 10 of its year]
B	6.2 - 6.9	[Has a special something]
B-	5.4 - 6.1	[Solid]
C+	4.6 - 5.3	[Doesn't arouse any particularly strong emotions either way]
C	3.8 - 4.5	[Useless; Mediocre; Significantly flawed]
C-	3.0 - 3.7	[What a failure]
D+	2.2 - 2.9	[What-a-failure with cheese]
D	1.4 - 2.1	[Grating]
D-	0.6 - 1.3	[Offensively horrific; Horrifically offensive]
F	0.0 - 0.5	[Worst of All Time consideration]

January

+Safe (1995, Todd Haynes) – 8.8 [~same]

+Whiplash (2014, Damien Chazelle) – 5.9 [up from 5.5]

A Most Violent Year (2014, J.C. Chandor) – 5.6

A Master Builder (2013, Jonathan Demme) – 4.7

Selma (2014, Ava DuVernay) – 4.4

+Inherent Vice (2014, Paul Thomas Anderson) DP – 6.2 [same]

A Most Wanted Man (2014, Anton Corbijn) – 4.1

Beloved Sisters (2014, Dominik Graf) – 6.6

The Naked Room (2013, Nuria Ibáñez) – 5.8

John Wick (2014, Chad Stahelski) – 5.3

Da Sweet Blood of Jesus (2014, Spike Lee) – 3.8

Blackhat (2015, Michael Mann) DP – 6.4

Stop the Pounding Heart (2013, Roberto Minervini) – 6.8

+Oh, Woe is Me (1993, Jean-Luc Godard) 35mm – 6.2 [down from 6.9]

Last Days in Vietnam (2014, Rory Kennedy) – 5.1

Dear White People (2014, Justin Simien) – 5.3

The Imitation Game (2014, Morten Tyldum) – 4.6

The Trouble with Dick (1987, Gary Walkow) – 5.9

Best of Enemies (2015, Morgan Neville & Robert Gordon) Sundance, DP – 4.8

The Witch (2015, Robert Eggers) Sundance, DP – 5.7

The Overnight (2015, Patrick Brice) Sundance, DP – 4.9

I Am Michael (2015, Justin Kelly) Sundance, DP – 4.0

Tangerine (2015, Sean Baker) Sundance, DP – 7.2

James White (2015, Josh Mond) Sundance, DP – 6.5

Fresh Dressed (2015, Sacha Jenkins) Sundance, DP – 5.1

Mistress America (2015, Noah Baumbach) Sundance, DP – 5.9

Western (2015, Bill Ross IV & Turner Ross) Sundance, DP – 6.1

Nasty Baby (2015, Sebastian Silva) Sundance, DP – 2.8

Last Days in the Desert (2015, Rodrigo Garcia) Sundance, DP – 2.2

Ten Thousand Saints (2015, Robert Pulcini & Shari Springer Berman) Sundance, DP – 5.2

Unexpected (2015, Kris Swanberg) Sundance, DP – 3.8

Cronies (2015, Michael J. Larnell) Sundance, DP – 5.3

The Forbidden Room (2015, Guy Maddin & Evan Johnson) Sundance, DP – 6.7

Things of the Aimless Wanderer (2015, Kivu Ruhorahoza) Sundance, DP – 5.9

Entertainment (2015, Rick Alverson) Sundance, DP – 6.6

Take Me to the River (2015, Matt Sobel) Sundance, DP – 2.6

The Trouble with Dot and Harry (2015, Gary Walkow) Slamdance, DP – 6.0

Digging for Fire (2015, Joe Swanberg) Sundance, DP – 4.4

Results (2015, Andrew Bujalski) Sundance, DP – 5.8

The Nightmare (2015, Rodney Ascher) Sundance, DP – 6.5

Dope (2015, Rick Famuyiwa) Sundance, DP – 3.9

Zipper (2015, Mora Stephens) Sundance, DP – 2.5

Station to Station (2015, Doug Aitken) Sundance, DP – 4.7

Diamond Tongues (2015, Pavan Moondi & Brian Robertson) Slamdance, DP – 5.1

Experimenter (2015, Michael Almereyda) Sundance, DP – 6.3

The Wolfpack (2015, Crystal Moselle) Sundance, DP – 7.1

Kurt Cobain: Montage of Heck (2015, Brett Morgen) Sundance, DP – 4.8

Slow West (2015, John Maclean) Sundance, DP – 5.7

+The Forbidden Room (2015, Guy Maddin & Evan Johnson) Sundance, DP – 8.2 [up from 6.7]

+Results (2015, Andrew Bujalski) Sundance, DP – 6.6 [up from 5.8]

Get on Up (2014, Tate Taylor) – 4.3

February

Christmas, Again (2014, Charles Poekel) – 5.5

Something, Anything (2014, Paul Harrill) – 5.6

The Chinese Mayor (2015, Hao Zhou) – 5.5

The Comedy (2012, Rick Alverson) – 6.0

Appropriate Behavior (2014, Desiree Akhavan) – 6.4

One, Two, Three (1961, Billy Wilder) 35mm – 5.8

Five Graves to Cairo (1943, Billy Wilder) 35mm – 5.1

Kiss Me, Stupid (1964, Billy Wilder) 35mm – 6.6

Accidental Love (2015, Stephen Greene [aka David O. Russell]) – 3.6

What We Do in the Shadows (2014, Jemaine Clement & Taika Waititi) – 6.0

Tatum’s Ghost (2011, Stephanie Barber) DP

Degas (2011, Stephanie Barber) DP

At the Baths (2011, Stephanie Barber) DP

Miniatures (2011, Stephanie Barber) DP

At the Shore (2011, Stephanie Barber) DP

Some Animals (2011, Stephanie Barber) DP

Have You Seen Diane (2011, Stephanie Barber) DP

Little Kitten (2011, Stephanie Barber) DP

For W.G. Sebald (Travel Without Travel) (2011, Stephanie Barber) DP

To Be Old (2011, Stephanie Barber) DP

The Phone Call (2011, Stephanie Barber) DP

Bruce Nauman (2011, Stephanie Barber) DP

The White Caravan (1964, Tamaz Meliava & Eldar Shengelaia) 35mm – 4.2

The Money Complex (2015, Juan Rodrigáñez) – 5.6

Prison System 4614 (2015, Jan Soldat) – 5.4

The Mend (2014, John Magary) – 6.5

Altair (1995, Lewis Klahr) 16mm

Engram Sepals (2000, Lewis Klahr) 16mm

Daylight Moon (2002, Lewis Klahr) 16mm

Helen of T (2013, Lewis Klahr) DP

+False Aging (2008, Lewis Klahr) DP

Green ’62 (1996, Lewis Klahr) 16mm

City Film (1993, Lewis Klahr) DP

Shop Windows (Lewis Klahr) 16mm

“Home Movie of Middle Aged Couple” (Lewis Klahr) 16mm

Whirligigs in the Late Afternoon (1996, Lewis Klahr) 16mm

+Occidental Hotel (2014, Lewis Klahr) DP

Over the Years (2015, Nikolaus Geyrhalter) – 5.6

Approaching the Elephant (2014, Amanda Rose Wilder) – 7.5

Androids Dream (2014, Ion De Sosa) – 4.6

Mar (2014, Dominga Sotomayor) – 5.5

Tired Moonlight (2015, Britni West) – 5.5

+Images of the World and the Inscription of War (1989, Harun Farocki) 16mm – 7.1 [up from 4.7]

+(nostalgia) (1971, Hollis Frampton) 16mm

Poetic Justice (1972, Hollis Frampton) 16mm

Critical Mass (1971, Hollis Frampton) 16mm

Travelling Matte (1971, Hollis Frampton) 16mm

Ordinary Matter (1972, Hollis Frampton) 16mm

Remote Control (1972, Hollis Frampton) 16mm

Special Effects (1972, Hollis Frampton) 16mm

The Chinatown Mystery (1928, J.P. McGowan) 35mm – 4.8

The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes (1970, Billy Wilder) 35mm – 5.9

March

+Vertigo (1958, Alfred Hitchcock) 70mm – 8.8 [same]

Ray Gun Virus (1966, Paul Sharits) 16mm

+69 (1968, Robert Breer) 16mm

Rubber Cement (1976, Robert Breer) 16mm

+S:TREAM:S:S:ECTION:S:ECTION:S:S:ECTIONED (1971, Paul Sharits) 16mm – 8.1 [down from 8.6]

Big Deal on Madonna Street (1958, Mario Monicelli) 35mm – 4.1

The Fall of the House of Usher (1928, Jean Epstein) – 6.5

Game (1965, Karpo Godina & Jure Pervanje) 35mm

Dog (1965, Karpo Godina & Mario Uršić) 35mm

A.P. (Anno Passato) (1965, Karpo Godina) 35mm

The Gratinated Brains of Pupilija Ferkeverk (1970, Karpo Godina) 35mm

About the Art of Love or a Film with 14441 Frames (1972, Karpo Godina) 35mm

Bite Me. Once Already (1980, Davorin Marc) 8mm

Slaughter Ahoy (1981, Davorin Marc) 8mm

Fear in the City (1181 Days Later or Smell of Rats) (1984, Davorin Marc) 35mm

Buzzard (2014, Joel Potrykus) DP – 3.6

King Kong (1933, Merian C. Cooper & Ernest B. Schoedsack) 35mm – 6.3

Storm Children: Book One (2014, Lav Diaz) CAAMFest, DP – 4.7

Spartacus & Cassandra (2014, Ioanis Nuguet) – 5.4

Beginning (1967, Artavazd [aka Arthur] Peleshian) 35mm

Crossroads (1976, Bruce Conner) 35mm

Our Lady of the Sphere (1969, Lawrence Jordan) 35mm

Quasi at the Quackadero (1976, Sally Cruikshank) 35mm

The Forenoon of a Faun (1963, Tomislav Gotovac) 16mm

Straight Line (Stevens-Duke) (1964, Tomislav Gotovac) 16mm

Circle (Jutkevich-Count) (1964, Tomislav Gotovac) 16mm

I’m Mad (1967, Ivan Martinac) 16mm

Encounter (1963, Vladimir Petek, Yugoslavia) 35mm

Focus (1967, Ivan Martinac) 35mm

People (in Passing) II (1967, Lordan Zafranović) 35mm

Afternoon (The Gun) (1968, Lordan Zafranović) 35mm

+Tangerine (2015, Sean Baker) – 6.7 [down from 7.2]

Antonio’s Broken Mirror (1957, Dušan Makavejev) DP

Triptych on Matter and Death (1960, Živojin Pavlović) DP

The Wall (1960, Vojislav Kokan Rakonjac) DP

Smoke and Water (1962, Dragoslav Lazić) DP

Arms in the Purple Distance (1962, Sava Trifković) DP

Ecstasy (1963, Petar Arandjelović) DP

Blue Rider (Godard-Art) (1964, Tomislav Gotovac) DP

Violet (2014, Bas Devos) – 4.3

+Inherent Vice (2014, Paul Thomas Anderson) 70mm – 6.2 [same]

Rules of the Game (2014, Claudine Bories & Patrice Chagnard) – 6.5

+John Wick (2014, Chad Stahelski) – 5.3 [same]

+A Cold Compress (2010, Blake Williams) DP

+Depart (2012, Blake Williams) DP

+Coorow-Latham Road (2011, Blake Williams) DP

+C-LR: Coorow-Latham Road For Those Who Don’t Have the Time (2013, Blake Williams) DP

+Many a Swan (2012, Blake Williams) 3D

+Baby Blue (2013, Blake Williams) 3D

+Red Capriccio (2014, Blake Williams) 3D

+Something Horizontal (2015, Blake Williams) 3D

District 9 (2009, Neill Blomkamp) – 5.6

Sweaty Betty (2015, Joe Frank & Zack Reed) – 6.4

Funny Games (2007, Michael Haneke) – 6.8

The Corral and the Wind (2014, Miguel Hilari) – 4.0

+Phoenix (2014, Christian Petzold) – 7.6 [same]

April

+Ali: Fear Eats the Soul (1974, Rainer Werner Fassbinder) 35mm – 7.0 [up from ~6.0]

+Sorrows (1969, Gregory J. Markopoulos) 16mm

The Mysteries (1968, Gregory J. Markopoulos) 16mm – 5.1

Political Portraits (1969, Gregory J. Markopoulos) 16mm

Innocence (2004, Lucile Hadzihalilovic) – 5.8

+In the Mood for Love (2000, Wong Kar-wai) 35mm – 6.0 [up from 5.8]

layover (2014, Vanessa Renwick) CROSSROADS, DP

+Figure-Ground (2013, Jean-Paul Kelly) CROSSROADS, DP

A Field Guide to the Ferns (2015, Basma Alsharif) CROSSROADS, DP

Song for Awe and Dread (2015, Tommy Becker) CROSSROADS, DP

The Quilpo Dreams Waterfalls (2012, Pablo Mazzolo) CROSSROADS, DP

a Beginning a Middle and an End (2013, Jon Behrens) CROSSROADS, DP

Greetings to the Ancestors (2015, Ben Russell) CROSSROADS, DP

Hypnosis Display [live score by Grouper] (2014, Paul Clipson) CROSSROADS, 16mm – 6.3

The HandEye (Bone Ghosts) (2012, OJOBOCA) CROSSROADS, 16mm

+Sea of Vapors (2014, Sylvia Schedelbauer) CROSSROADS, DP

Emulsion Electrons Imbued (2014, Karissa Hahn) CROSSROADS, DP

The Somber Vault (2014, John Powers) CROSSROADS, DP

+Things (2014, Ben Rivers) CROSSROADS, DP

Apocalypse for You [double projection] (2014, OJOBOCA) CROSSROADS, 16mm

Cicatrix (2014, Jeremy Moss) CROSSROADS, DP

Soon (2014, Jeanne Liotta) CROSSROADS, DP

Dancing Glitch (2013, Michael Betancourt) CROSSROADS, DP

L’entre Deux (2014, Karl Lemieux) CROSSROADS, 16mm

Sayre’s Vapor (2013, Karissa Hahn) CROSSROADS, DP

Conjectures (2013, Pablo Mazzolo) CROSSROADS, DP

As Near as Light (2014, Susan DeLeo) CROSSROADS, DP

+Second Sighted (2014, Deborah Stratman) CROSSROADS, DP

The Golden Hour (2014, Ross Meckfessel) CROSSROADS, DP

Laborat (2014, Guillaume Cailleau) CROSSROADS, DP

+Jenny Haniver (2014, Stephen Broomer) CROSSROADS, 16mm

Chestnut Street (2014, Karissa Hahn) CROSSROADS, DP

7285 (2015, Sarah J. Christman) CROSSROADS, 16mm

Photooxidation (2013, Pablo Mazzolo) CROSSROADS, DP

Sunspots and Solar Flares (2013, Maria Magnusson) CROSSROADS, DP

Demolished Every Second (2014, John Davis) CROSSROADS, DP

vindmøller (2014, Margaret Rorison) CROSSROADS, 16mm

Traces/Legacy (2015, Scott Stark) CROSSROADS, 35mm

Bunte Kuh (2015, Faraz Anoushahpour, Parastoo Anoushahpour, & Ryan Ferko) CROSSROADS, DP

+Under the Heat Lamp an Opening (2014, Zachary Epcar) CROSSROADS, DP

Travelling with Maxim Gorkiy (2014, Kolja Kunt & Bernd Lützeler) CROSSROADS, DP

Meanwhile at the Moon Hotel (2014, Jesse Stead) CROSSROADS, DP

Frozen Giants (2013, Christine Negus) CROSSROADS, DP

Simmer (2014, Karissa Hahn) CROSSROADS, DP

A Home Inside [triple projection] (2013, OJOBOCA) CROSSROADS, 16mm

+vis à vis (2013, Abigail Child) CROSSROADS, DP

+Lunar Almanac (2013, Malena Szlam) CROSSROADS, 16mm

Prisoner’s Cinema (2012, Joshua Gen Solondz) CROSSROADS, DP

Wake (2015, Eric Stewart) CROSSROADS, 16mm

The Kiss (2014, Luis Maciás) CROSSROADS, 35mm

+The Sound of Running in My Voice (2014, Mary Helena Clark) CROSSROADS, DP

a kind of quiet (2014, Jonathan Schwartz) CROSSROADS, 16mm

an aging process (2014, Jonathan Schwartz) CROSSROADS, 16mm

+a certain worry (2014, Jonathan Schwartz) CROSSROADS, 16mm

+Sugarcoated Arsenic (2014, Claudrena Harold & Kevin Jerome Everson) CROSSROADS, DP

+O, Persecuted (2014, Basma Alsharif) CROSSROADS, DP

+Sunset Blvd. (1950, Billy Wilder) 35mm – 6.2 [down from ~7.7]

I Am the People (2014, Anna Roussillon) – 5.6

A New Leaf (1971, Elaine May) 35mm – 6.8

+Entertainment (2015, Rick Alverson) SFIFF, DP – 7.3 [up from 6.6]

Wanda (1970, Barbara Loden) SFIFF, 35mm – 6.5

+The Forbidden Room (2015, Guy Maddin & Evan Johnson) SFIFF, DP – 8.2 [same]

The Searchers (1956, John Ford) 35mm – 5.7

+The Look of Silence (2014, Joshua Oppenheimer) SFIFF, DP – 5.1 [same]

Listen to Me Marlon (2015, Stevan Riley) SFIFF, DP – 5.3

Me and Earl and the Dying Girl (2015, Alfonso Gomez-Rejon) SFIFF, DP – 3.2

+Results (2015, Andrew Bujalski) SFIFF, DP – 6.6 [same]

Cosmodrama (2015, Philippe Fernandez) – 4.6

May

Noh (1977, Takashi Ito) Oberhausen, DP

Movement 2 (1979, Takashi Ito) Oberhausen, DP


Movement 3 (1980, Takashi Ito) Oberhausen, DP

+
Spacy (1981, Takashi Ito) Oberhausen, 16mm

+Box (1982, Takashi Ito)
 Oberhausen, 16mm

Thunder (1982, Takashi Ito) Oberhausen, 16mm


Drill (1983, Takashi Ito)
 Oberhausen, 16mm

Ghost (1984, Takashi Ito)
 Oberhausen, 16mm

Grim (1985, Takashi Ito)
 Oberhausen, 16mm

Zone (1995, Takashi Ito)
 Oberhausen, 16mm

L’Arrivée d’un train en gare de La Ciotat (1935, Auguste & Louis Lumière)
 Oberhausen, 3D

Come Coco (2008, Santiago Caicedo) Oberhausen, 3D


Lapse of Time (2013, Céline Tricart) Oberhausen, 3D


The Chimera of M. (2013, Sebastian Buerkner)
 Oberhausen, 3D

Cochemare (2013, Chris Lavis & Maciek Szczerbowski)
 Oberhausen, 3D

Spell (2011, ZAPRUDERfilmmakersgroup [David Zamagni & Nadia Ranocchi]) Oberhausen, 3D


An Improvisation (2015, Nishizaki Keisuke & Okamura Tomomi) Oberhausen, DP


Unfinished Film (2014, Evgeny Granilshchikov)
 Oberhausen, DP

+Sound of My Soul (2014, Wojciech Bąkowski)
 Oberhausen, DP

Last Angel (2014, Takashi Ito) Oberhausen, DP


We Know We Are Just Pixels (2014, Laure Prouvost) Oberhausen, DP

Shashin Ki (Takashi Ito) Oberhausen, DP


Wall (1987, Takashi Ito)
 Oberhausen, 16mm

Shashin Ki 87 (1987, Takashi Ito)
 Oberhausen, DP

Akuma No Kairozu (1988, Takashi Ito)
 Oberhausen, 16mm

Miira No Yume (1989, Takashi Ito)
 Oberhausen, 16mm

Venus (1990, Takashi Ito)
 Oberhausen, 16mm

Ju-Ni-Gatsu No Kakurenbo (1993, Takashi Ito)
 Oberhausen, DP

The Moon (1994, Takashi Ito)
 Oberhausen, 16mm

Gi Sochi M (1996, Takashi Ito) Oberhausen, 16mm

Die Urszene (1981, Christine Noll Brinckmann)
 Oberhausen, 16mm

The Whitewashing of 5 Pointz (2014, Ben Schwartz)
 Oberhausen, 3D

_grau (2015, Robert Seidel)
 Oberhausen, 3D

Ora (2011, Philippe Baylaucq) Oberhausen, 3D

+Box (1982, Takashi Ito)
 Oberhausen, 16mm

Skizm (2014, Andristyák Marcell) Oberhausen, DP

+Red Capriccio (2014, Blake Williams) Oberhausen, 3D


Aurora Borealis (2015, Nakamura Ikuo)
 Oberhausen, 3D

Something Might Happen (2014, Timothy Geraghty) Oberhausen, 3D

Declaration of War (2011, Valérie Donzelli) – 4.9

Monochrome Head (1997, Takashi Ito)
 Oberhausen, 16mm

A Silent Day (2002, Takashi Ito)
 Oberhausen, DP

Dizziness (2001, Takashi Ito)
 Oberhausen, 16mm

Sweet Life (2010, Takashi Ito) Oberhausen, DP

The Last Mango Before the Monsoon (2014, Payal Kapadia)
 Oberhausen, DP

Zlaté Piesky Rocket Launch (2015, Josef Dabernig)
 Oberhausen, 35mm

+Color Neutral (2014, Jennifer Reeves) Oberhausen, 16mm


Two Clothespins in an Envelope (2015, Susanna Wallin)
 Oberhausen, DP

+7285 (2015, Sarah Christman) Oberhausen, DP


Blow-Up (2014, Zhu Changquan) Oberhausen, DP


From Another Movie (2014, Sarah Ibrahim) Oberhausen, DP

moon blink (2015, Rainer Kohlberger) Oberhausen, DP

Max Thurnheim (2014, Friedl vom Gröller) Oberhausen, 16mm

carte noire (2014, Michaela Grill) Oberhausen, DP

Tiniest Dreams (2014, Randy Sterling Hunter) Oberhausen, DP

Odessa Crash Test (Notes on Film 09) (2014, Norbert Pfaffenbichler) Oberhausen, DP

Of Stains, Scraps and Tires (2014, Sebastian Bramshuber) Oberhausen, DP

Tarang (2013, Jonny Greenwald & Shyam Kannapurakaran) Oberhausen, 3D

+Capitalism: Child Labor (2006, Ken Jacobs) Oberhausen, DP

3D-Movie (1975, Paul Sharits) Oberhausen, 3D-16mm

All Sides of the Road (2012, OpenEndedGroup [Marc Downie & Paul Kaiser]) Oberhausen, 3D

Galaxy (2008, Santiago Caicedo) Oberhausen, 3D

To the Sea (Mint Julep) (2013, A Nice Idea Every Day [Vivien Weyrauch & Fabian Röttger]) Oberhausen, DP

Hate (2012, Sami van Ingen) Oberhausen, 35mm

Terra Incognita (2011, Kerry Laitala) Oberhausen, 3D

Arheo29 (2010, Vladislav Knežević) Oberhausen, 3D

Back Track (2015, Virgil Widrich) Oberhausen, 3D

All Is Not Lost (OK Go) (2011, Trish Sie & Eric Kurland) Oberhausen, 3D

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

5 m 80 (2012, Nicolas Deveaux) Oberhausen, 3D

Speechless (2008, Scott Stark) Oberhausen, 16mm

Ztring Theory (2009, Karl Bryhn & Jo Eldøen) Oberhausen, 3D

Impression en Haute Atmosphère (1989, Jose Antonioni Sistiaga) Oberhausen, 3D-35mm

+Around Is Around (1951, Norman McLaren) Oberhausen, 3D

Plasticity (2010, Ryan Suits) Oberhausen, 3D

Color Rhapsody (1948, Mary Ellen Bute) Oberhausen, 3D-16mm

Virtuos Virtuell (2013, Thomas Stellmach & Maja Oschmann) Oberhausen, 3D

Our World Is a Crazy Fractal (2014, San Base) Oberhausen, 3D

Stare (1991, Karl Kels) Oberhausen, 3D-16mm

Invocation (1982, Amy Halpern) Oberhausen, 16mm

Quick Billy Roll 47 (1970, Bruce Baillie) Oberhausen, 16mm

Penny Bright and Jimmy Witherspoon (1967, Robert Nelson) Oberhausen, 16mm

Money (1970, Mike Henderson) Oberhausen, 16mm

The Gypsy Cried (1973, Chris Langdon) Oberhausen, 16mm

Toxic Shock (1983, Vanessa Renwick) Oberhausen, 16mm

Primary Stimulus (1980, Robert Russett) Oberhausen, 16mm

Coreopsis (1998, Pat O’Neill) Oberhausen, 35mm

Madame Mao’s Lost Love Letters (1983, Tom Leeser & Diana Wilson) Oberhausen, 35mm

A Soft Warrior (1981, Nina Menkes) Oberhausen, DP

Endtrip (2013, Koen de Mol, Olivier Ballast, & Rick Franssen) Oberhausen, 3D

Arrive (2002, Ed Holdsworth) Oberhausen, 3D

Wanderlust (Björk) (2008, Encyclopedia Pictura) Oberhausen, 3D

Transmutation (2012, Volker Kuchelmeister) Oberhausen, 3D

Opening the 19th Century: 1896 (1990 Ken Jacobs) Oberhausen, 3D-16mm

When I Paint! (2014, Dirk-Martin Heinzelmann) Oberhausen, 3D

Embargo (2014, Johann Lurf) Oberhausen, 3D

Plant (2011, OpenEndedGroup [Mark Downie, Shelley Eshkar, & Paul Kaiser]) Oberhausen, 3D

+brouillard – passage 14 (2013, Alexandre Larose) Oberhausen, 35mm

(Be)Longing (2014, João Pedro Plácido) – 5.5

The Kidnapping of Michel Houellebecq (2014, Guillaume Nicloux) – 5.3

Alms for a Blind Horse (2011, Gurvinder Singh) – 5.9

Aliyah (2012, Elie Wajeman) – 6.0

On My Way (2013, Emmanuelle Bercot) – 4.8

My Sex Life… or How I Got Into an Argument (1996, Arnaud Desplechin) – 7.2

Standing Tall (2015, Emmanuelle Bercot) Cannes, DP – 4.7

Tale of Tales (2015, Matteo Garrone) Cannes, DP – 5.3

Actua 1 (1968, Philippe Garrel) Cannes, 35mm

In the Shadow of Women (2015, Philippe Garrel) Cannes, DP – 6.2

Sleeping Giant (2015, Andrew Cividino) Cannes, DP – 5.4

One Floor Below (2015, Radu Muntean) Cannes, DP – 6.5

Son of Saul (2015, László Nemes) Cannes, 35mm – 5.8

The Anarchists (2015, Elie Wajeman) Cannes, DP – 3.8

The Lobster (2015, Yorgos Lanthimos) Cannes, DP – 5.7

My Golden Days (2015, Arnaud Desplechin) Cannes, DP – 6.0

Taxi (2015, Jafar Panahi) Cannes Marché du Film, DP – 4.9

Afterthought (2015, Elad Keidan) Cannes, DP – 6.1

The Shameless (2015, Oh Seung-Uk) Cannes, DP – 4.2

My Mother (2015, Nanni Moretti) Cannes, DP – 5.0

Arabian Nights: Volume 1, The Restless One (2015, Miguel Gomes) Cannes, DP – 7.3

Carol (2015, Todd Haynes) Cannes, DP – 5.2

Disorder (2015, Alice Winocour) Cannes, DP – 6.4

Mon roi (2015, Maïwenn) Cannes, DP – 3.4

The High Sun (2015, Dalibor Matanic) Cannes, DP – 3.7

Journey to the Shore (2015, Kiyoshi Kurosawa) Cannes, DP – 4.3

Louder than Bombs (2015, Joachim Trier) Cannes, DP – 6.1

The Measure of a Man (2015, Stéphane Brizé) Cannes, DP – 5.3

Cemetery of Splendour (2015, Apichatpong Weerasethakul) Cannes, DP – 7.6

Two Friends (2015, Louis Garrel) Cannes, DP – 4.0

Arabian Nights: Volume 2, The Desolate One (2015, Miguel Gomes) Cannes, DP – 7.5

Marguerite & Julien (2015, Valérie Donzelli) Cannes, DP – 5.9

Sicario (2015, Denis Villeneuve) Cannes, DP – 4.5

Songs My Brothers Taught Me (2015, Chloé Zhao) Cannes, DP – 5.5

Inside Out (2015, Pete Docter) Cannes, DP – 6.2

Mountains May Depart (2015, Jia Zhangke) Cannes, DP – 5.6

Arabian Nights: Volume 3, The Enchanted One (2015, Miguel Gomes) Cannes, DP – 6.9

Peace to Us in Our Dreams (2015, Sharunas Bartas) Cannes, DP – 4.1

The Assassin (2015, Hou Hsiao-hsien) Cannes, DP – 6.4

Love (2015, Gaspar Noé) Cannes, 3D – 6.6

The Treasure (2015, Corneliu Porumboiu) Cannes, DP – 7.2

The Other Side (2015, Roberto Minervini) Cannes, DP – 6.3

Cosmos (2015, Andrzej Zulawski) Cannes Marché du Film, DP – 5.9

Visit, or Memories and Confessions (1982, Manoel de Oliveira) Cannes, 35mm – 6.1

Chronic (2015, Michel Franco) Cannes, DP – 2.0

Dheepan (2015, Jacques Audiard) Cannes, DP – 4.9

The Grief of Others (2015, Patrick Wang) Cannes, DP – 5.1

Paulina (2015, Santiago Mitre) Cannes, DP – 4.9

The Fourth Direction (2015, Gurvinder Singh) Cannes, DP – 6.1

Macbeth (2015, Justin Kurzel) Cannes, DP – 5.2

Papé (2015, Nicolas Polixène) Cannes, DP

Mustang (2015, Deniz Gamze Ergüven) Cannes, DP – 5.0

Embrace of the Serpent (2015, Ciro Guerra) Cannes, DP – 3.9

Our Little Sister (2015, Hirokazu Kore-eda) Cannes, DP – 4.6

Youth (2015, Paolo Sorrentino) Cannes, DP – 4.4

Valley of Love (2015, Guillaume Nicloux) Cannes, DP – 6.6

Mad Max: Fury Road (2015, George Miller) DP – 6.0

+A Midsummer’s Fantasia (2014, Jang Kun-jae) DP – 7.2 [same]

June

She’s Funny That Way (2014, Peter Bogdanovich) – 5.4

(T)ERROR (2015, Lyric R. Cabral & David Felix Sutcliffe) – 6.3

Babobilicons (1982, Daina Krumins) 35mm

Water and Power (1989, Pat O’Neill) 35mm – 5.8

7 Chinese Brothers (2015, Bob Byington) – 4.3

Field Niggas (2015, Khalik Allah) – 6.2

+Margaret [Theatrical Cut] (2011, Kenneth Lonergan) – 7.5 [same; Extended Cut: 8.8]

Kumiko, the Treasure Hunter (2014, David Zellner) – 5.4

Island of Lost Souls (1932, Erle C. Kenton) – 4.5

Nahid (2015, Ida Panahandeh) – 5.0

natural history (2014, James Benning) – 7.3

+Singin’ in the Rain (1952, Stanley Donen & Gene Kelly) – 6.1 [down from 6.7]

Hole (2014, Martin Edralin) DP

+What Now? Remind Me (2013, Joaquim Pinto) DP – 5.9 [up from 5.2]

What’s Out Tonight Is Lost (1983, Phil Solomon) 16mm

Crossroad (2005, Phil Solomon & Mark LaPore) DP

The Exquisite Hour (1994, Phil Solomon) 16mm

The Secret Garden (1988, Phil Solomon) 16mm

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

The Snowman (1995, Phil Solomon) 16mm

Heaven Can Wait (1943, Ernst Lubitsch) 35mm – 5.7

Love Battles (2013, Jacques Doillon) – 5.5

When Marnie Was There (2014, Hiromasa Yonebayashi) – 5.8

Félix & Meira (2014, Maxime Giroux) – 6.3

July

A Poem Is a Naked Person (1974, Les Blank) – 5.2

Stinking Heaven (2015, Nathan Silver) – 5.7

In the Basement (2014, Ulrich Seidl) – 4.4

+Sherlock Jr. (1924, Buster Keaton) 16mm – 8.4 [up from 8.1]

Le Million (1931, René Clair) 16mm – 6.9

The Royal Road (2015, Jenni Olson) – 5.6

A Walk (2008, Ute Aurand) 16mm

In the Park (2008, Ute Aurand) 16mm

ZUOZ (2008, Ute Aurand) 16mm

Hanging Upside Down in the Branches (2009, Ute Aurand) 16mm

+To Be Here (2013, Ute Aurand) 16mm

At Home (1998, Ute Aurand) 16mm

Toponymy (2015, Jonathan Perel) – 5.0

The Children Are Watching Us (1944, Vittorio De Sica) 35mm – 4.9

+Prelude (2000, Michael Snow) 35mm

+Presents (1981, Michael Snow) 16mm – 8.0 [up from 7.4]

+Landform 1 (2015, Stephen Broomer) 16mm

Toccata for Toy Trains (1957, Charles & Ray Eames) 16mm

Island of Death (1976, Nico Mastorakis) – 4.2

The Tales of Hoffmann (1951, Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger) DP – 4.7

88:88 (2015, Isiah Medina) – Inc. [Rough cut]

My Name Is Hmmm… (2013, Agnès Troublé) – 3.3

+O Canada (1951, Evelyn Lambart) 3D

Twirligig (1952, Gretta Ekman) 3D

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

Now Is the Time (1951, Norman McLaren) 3D

Begone Dull Care (1947, Norman McLaren & Evelyn Lambart) DP

Fiddle-De-Dee (1947, Norman McLaren) DP

Dots (1940, Norman McLaren) DP

Blinkity Blank (1955, Norman McLaren) DP

Norman McLaren: Animated Musician (2014, Donald McWilliams) DP

Pas de deux (1968, Norman McLaren) DP

Magnificent Obsession (1954, Douglas Sirk) DP – 6.4

Santa Teresa & Other Stories (2015, Nelson De Los Santos Arias) – 4.7

How Heavy This Hammer (2015, Kazik Radwanski) – Inc. [Rough cut]

+Red Desert (1964, Michelangelo Antonioni) 35mm – 6.2 [down from ~7.7]

Queen of Earth (2015, Alex Ross Perry) – 3.9

Veils (2013, Madison Brookshire) 16mm

Color Series (2010, Madison Brookshire) 16mm – 4.5

Lost and Beautiful (2015, Pietro Marcello) – 5.2

August Winds (2014, Gabriel Mascaro) – 5.7

+88:88 (2015, Isiah Medina) – 6.9 [up from ~6.0]

+Championship (2013, Stephen Broomer) 16mm

+Sentimental Education (2013, Júlio Bressane) DP – 6.7 [same]

Seduced and Abandoned (1964, Pietro Germi) 35mm – 5.4

Crossing the Line (2007, Pietro Marcello) – 4.2

Amy (2015, Asif Kapadia) DP – 4.5

August

The Silence of Pelešjan (2011, Pietro Marcello) – 5.7

+The Mouth of the Wolf (2009, Pietro Marcello) – 5.8 [down from 6.1]

+Lost and Beautiful (2015, Pietro Marcello) – 6.5 [up from 5.2]

The Movement (2015, Benjamin Naishtat) – 5.9

+So Is This (1983, Michael Snow) 16mm – 7.5 [same]

+SSHTOORRTY (2000, Michael Snow) 35mm

+Lucy (2014, Luc Besson) – 6.8 [same]

No Home Movie (2015, Chantal Akerman) – 5.3

Mission: Impossible — Rogue Nation (2015, Christopher McQuarrie) DP – 4.1

Right Now, Wrong Then (2015, Hong Sang-soo) – 6.6

Invention (2015, Mark Lewis) – 5.9

+88:88 (2015, Isiah Medina) – 6.0 [down from 6.9]

Brooklyn (2015, John Crowley) DP – 3.8

+Cemetery of Splendour (2015, Apichatpong Weerasethakul) DP – 7.6 [same]

Magic Mike XXL (2015, Gregory Jacobs) – 7.1

45 Years (2015, Andrew Haigh) DP – 5.6

September

BAM (2015, Howie Shia) DP

Bird Heart (2015, Halfdan Olav Ullmann Tøndel) DP

A Few Seconds (2015, Nora El Hourch) DP

The Magnetic The Magnetic Nature (2015, Mateo Bendesky) DP

4 Quarters (2015, Ashley McKenzie) DP

Rate Me (2015, Fyzal Boulifa) DP

The Man Who Shot Hollywood (2015, Barry Avrich) DP

Court (2014, Chaitanya Tamhane) DP – 6.3

Heart of a Dog (2015, Laurie Anderson) DP – 4.5

Chevalier (Athina Rachel Tsangari) DP – 5.5

Under Capricorn (1949, Alfred Hitchcock) 35mm – 4.3

+Court (2014, Chaitanya Tamhane) DP – 6.3 [same]

+How Heavy This Hammer (2015, Kazik Radwanski) – 5.6 [~same]

Tharlo (2015, Pema Tseden) – 5.9

Hitchcock/Truffaut (2015, Kent Jones) TIFF, DP – 4.6

+One Floor Below (2015, Radu Muntean) TIFF, DP – 6.5 [same]

In Jackson Heights (2015, Frederick Wiseman) TIFF, DP – 6.3

The Pearl Button (2015, Patricio Guzmán) TIFF, DP – 5.7

The Chickening (2015, Davy Force & Nick DenBoer) TIFF, DP

Green Room (2015, Jeremy Saulnier) TIFF, DP – 5.4

The Martian (2015, Ridley Scott) TIFF, 3D – 4.9

Office (2015, Johnnie To) TIFF, 3D – 6.9

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

Fugue (2015, Kerstin Schrödinger) TIFF, 16mm

Prima Materia (2015, Charlotte Pryce) TIFF, 16mm

The Fire in My Brain That Separates Us (2015, Benjamin Ramírez Pérez) TIFF, DP

+Something Horizontal (2015, Blake Williams) TIFF, 3D

The Exquisite Corpus (2015, Peter Tscherkassky) TIFF, 35mm

11 Minutes (2015, Jerzy Skolimowski) TIFF, DP – 3.5

Evolution (2015, Lucile Hadžihalilovic) TIFF, DP – 4.8

Bang Gang (A Modern Love Story) (2015, Eva Husson) TIFF, DP – 4.6

A Distant Episode (2015, Ben Rivers) TIFF, 16mm

An Old Dog’s Diary (2015, Shai Heredia & Shumona Goel) TIFF, DP

The Reminder (2015, Behrouz Rae) TIFF, DP

Solo for Rich Man (2015, Beatrice Gibson) TIFF, DP

YOLO (2015, Ben Russell) TIFF, DP

Analysis of Emotions and Vexations (2015, Wojciech Bąkowski) TIFF, DP

+Bunte Kuh (2015, Ryan Ferko, Parastoo Anoushahpour, & Faraz Anoushahpour) TIFF, DP

Anomalisa (2015, Charlie Kaufman) TIFF, DP – 7.2

Sunset Song (2015, Terence Davies) TIFF, DP – 5.3

Maggie’s Plan (2015, Rebecca Miller) TIFF, DP – 5.4

From Afar (2015, Lorenzo Vigas) TIFF, DP – 4.5

Navigator (2015, Björn Kämmerer) TIFF, 35mm

Théodolitique (2015, David K. Ross) TIFF, DP

Office Space Modulation (2015, Terrarea [aka Janis Demkiw, Emily Hogg, & Olia Mishchenko]) TIFF, DP

Palms (2015, Mary Helena Clark) TIFF, DP

Occidente (2014, Ana Vaz) TIFF, DP

Terrestrial (2015, Calum Walter) TIFF, DP

Tarlabaşı (2015, Cynthia Madansky) TIFF, DP

Faux Départ (False Start) (2015, Yto Barrada) TIFF, DP

Sector IX B (2015, Mathieu Kleyebe Abonnenc) TIFF, DP – 5.7

High-Rise (2015, Ben Wheatley) TIFF, DP – 5.9

Bleak Street (2015, Arturo Ripstein) TIFF, DP – 6.2

Incident Light (2015, Ariel Rotter) TIFF, DP – 4.1

+Actua 1 (1968, Philippe Garrel) TIFF, 35mm

Time for Outrage! (2015, Friedl vom Gröller) TIFF, 16mm

Untitled (2015, Behrouz Rae) TIFF, DP

Many Thousands Gone (2015, Ephraim Asili) TIFF, DP

Neither God nor Santa Maria (2015, Samuel M. Delgado & Helena Girón) TIFF, DP

Psychic Driving (2015, William E. Jones) TIFF, DP

UNcirCling (2015, John Creson & Adam Rosen) TIFF, DP

Engram of Returning (2015, Daïchi Saïto) TIFF, 35mm

The Apostate (2015, Federico Veiroj) TIFF, DP – 6.0

+Office (2015, Johnnie To) TIFF, 3D – 6.7 [down from 6.9]

Bring Me the Head of Tim Horton (2015, Guy Maddin, Evan Johnson, & Galen Johnson) TIFF, DP

Blood of My Blood (2015, Marco Bellocchio) TIFF, DP – 7.5

Demolition (2015, Jean-Marc Vallée) TIFF, DP – 6.3

Hong Kong Trilogy: Preschooled Preoccupied Preposterous (2015, Christopher Doyle) TIFF, DP – 5.1

The Event (2015, Sergei Loznitsa) TIFF, DP – 5.5

Francofonia (2015, Alexander Sokurov) TIFF, DP – 4.6

The War of the Worlds (1953, Byron Haskin) – 2.9

Afternoon (2015, Tsai Ming-liang) TIFF, DP – 6.2

Campo Grande (2015, Sandra Kogut) TIFF, DP – 5.5

The Sky Trembles and the Earth is Afraid and the Two Eyes Are Not Brothers (2015, Ben Rivers) TIFF, 35mm – 6.1

The Club (2015, Pablo Larraín) TIFF, DP – 4.5

Story of Judas (2015, Rabah Ameur-Zaïmeche) TIFF, DP – 5.9

Our Brand is Crisis (2015, David Gordon Green) TIFF, DP – 4.0

Yakuza Apocalypse (2015, Takashi Miike) TIFF, DP – 5.6

+The Treasure (2015, Corneliu Porumboiu) TIFF, DP – 7.2 [same]

The Wait (2015, Piero Messina) TIFF, DP – 5.2

Les Cowboys (2015, Thomas Bidegain) TIFF, DP – 5.3

Where to Invade Next (2015, Michael Moore) TIFF, DP – 4.9

Neon Bull (2015, Gabriel Mascaro) TIFF, DP – 6.4

Forbidden Planet (1956, Fred M. Wilcox) – 5.5

Standard Time (1967, Michael Snow) 16mm

Seated Figures (1990, Michael Snow) 16mm – 5.1

+Puccini Conservato (2008, Michael Snow) DP

+Blood of My Blood (2015, Marco Bellocchio) – 7.5 [same]

Summer (2013, Nathaniel Dorsky) NYFF, 16mm

February (2014, Nathaniel Dorsky) NYFF, 16mm

Avraham (2014, Nathaniel Dorsky) NYFF, 16mm

December (2014, Nathaniel Dorsky) NYFF, 16mm

Love’s Refrain (2001, Nathaniel Dorsky) NYFF, 16mm

Intimations (2015, Nathaniel Dorsky) NYFF, 16mm

Prelude (2015, Nathaniel Dorsky) NYFF, 16mm

+Ingreen (1964, Nathaniel Dorsky) NYFF, 16mm

+A Fall Trip Home (1964, Nathaniel Dorsky) NYFF, 16mm

+Summerwind (1965, Nathaniel Dorsky) NYFF, 16mm

Kodachrome Dailies from the Time of Song and Solitude (Reel 1) (2006, Nathaniel Dorsky) NYFF, 16mm – 6.0

+Bring Me the Head of Tim Horton (2015, Guy Maddin, Evan Johnson, & Galen Johnson) NYFF, DP

Two Personal Gifts aka Fool’s Spring (1967, Jerome Hiler & Nathaniel Dorsky) NYFF, 16mm

Hours for Jerome Part 1 (1982, Nathaniel Dorsky) NYFF, 16mm

Hours for Jerome Part 2 (1982, Nathaniel Dorsky) NYFF, 16mm

+In the Stone House (2012, Jerome Hiler) NYFF, 16mm

New Shores (2012, Jerome Hiler) NYFF, 16mm

Marginalia (2015, Jerome Hiler) NYFF, 16mm

Gladly Given (1997, Jerome Hiler) NYFF, 16mm

+Words of Mercury (2011, Jerome Hiler) NYFF, 16mm

The Walk (2015, Robert Zemeckis) 3D – 5.3

Pneuma (1983, Nathaniel Dorsky) NYFF, 16mm

17 Reasons Why (1987, Nathaniel Dorsky) NYFF, 16mm

Alaya (1987, Nathaniel Dorsky) NYFF, 16mm

Triste (1996, Nathaniel Dorsky) NYFF, 16mm

Variations (1998, Nathaniel Dorsky) NYFF, 16mm

Arbor Vitae (2000, Nathaniel Dorsky) NYFF, 16mm

+Song and Solitude (2006, Nathaniel Dorsky) NYFF, 16mm

Threnody (2004, Nathaniel Dorsky) NYFF, 16mm

The Visitation (2002, Nathaniel Dorsky) NYFF, 16mm

+Blow Out (1981, Brian De Palma) NYFF, DP – 4.9 [down from 5.9]

October 

+Compline (2009, Nathaniel Dorsky) NYFF, 16mm

+Aubade (2010, Nathaniel Dorsky) NYFF, 16mm

Winter (2007, Nathaniel Dorsky) NYFF, 16mm

+The Return (2011, Nathaniel Dorsky) NYFF, 16mm

+Pastourelle (2010, Nathaniel Dorsky) NYFF, 16mm

+August and After (2012, Nathaniel Dorsky) NYFF, 16mm

+April (2012, Nathaniel Dorsky) NYFF, 16mm

+Song (2013, Nathaniel Dorsky) NYFF, 16mm

+Spring (2013, Nathaniel Dorsky) NYFF, 16mm

+Neither God nor Santa María
 (2014, Samuel M. Delgado & Helena Girón) NYFF, DP

+Something Horizontal (2015, Blake Williams) NYFF, 3D

+Analysis of Emotions and Vexations (2015, 

Wojciech Bakowski) NYFF, DP

+Traces/Legacy
 (2015, Scott Stark) NYFF, 35mm

+
Entangled (2014, Riccardo Giacconi) NYFF, DP

+Prima Materia (
2015, Charlotte Pryce) NYFF, 16mm


Intersection (2015, 
Vincent Grenier) NYFF, DP


Port Noir (2014, 
Laura Kraning) NYFF, DP


Centre of the Cyclone (
2015, Heather Trawick) NYFF, 16mm

The Devastated Land
 (2015, Emmanuel Lefrant) NYFF, 35mm

Cathode Garden
 (2015, Janie Geiser) NYFF, DP


Something Between Us
 (2015, Jodie Mack) NYFF, 16mm


brouillard – passage 15
 (2014, Alexandre Larose) NYFF, 35mm

+
A Distant Episode (
2015, Ben Rivers) NYFF, DP


In Girum Imus Nocte (2015, 
Giorgio Andreotta Calò) NYFF, DP



Half Human, Half Vapor (
2015, Mike Stoltz) NYFF, 16mm

+

Occidente (2014, Ana Vaz) NYFF, DP

+

YOLO
 (2015, Ben Russell) NYFF, DP



Ah humanity! (
2015, Ernst Karel, Verena Paravel, & Lucien Castaing-Taylor) NYFF, DP

+Neither God nor Santa María
 (2014, Samuel M. Delgado & Helena Girón) NYFF, DP

+Something Horizontal (2015, Blake Williams) NYFF, 3D

+Analysis of Emotions and Vexations (2015, 

Wojciech Bakowski) NYFF, DP

+Traces/Legacy
 (2015, Scott Stark) NYFF, 35mm

+
Entangled (2014, Riccardo Giacconi) NYFF, DP



Night Without Distance
 (2015, Lois Patiño) NYFF, DP



Hard as Opal
 (2015, Jared Buckhiester & Dani Leventhal) NYFF, DP



Confessions
 (1971, Curt McDowell) NYFF, 16mm




Non-Stop Beautiful Ladies
 (2015, Alee Peoples) NYFF, 16mm




Mars Garden
 (2014, Lewis Klahr) NYFF, DP

+


The Exquisite Corpus
 (2015, Peter Tscherkassky) NYFF, 35mm




Lost Note
 (2015, Saul Levine) NYFF, 16mm

Soft Fiction (1979, 
Chick Strand) NYFF, 16mm – 6.6





Live to Live
 (2015, 
Laida Lertxundi) NYFF, 16mm

Minotaur (
2015, Nicolas Pereda) NYFF, DP – 5.7

Hello
 (2015, Simon Fujiwara) NYFF, DP

+
F for Fibonacci
 (2014, Beatrice Gibson) NYFF, DP


Black Code (2015, 
Louis Henderson) NYFF, DP

Lessons of War
 (2014, Peggy Ahwesh) NYFF, DP

Scales in the Spectrum of Space
 (2015, Fern Silva) NYFF, DP

Microbe and Gasoline (2015, Michel Gondry) NYFF, DP – 5.6


OM Rider
 (2014, Takeshi Murata) NYFF, DP

Rabbit Season, Duck Season
 (2014, Michael Bell-Smith) NYFF, DP

All My Love All My Love
 (2015, Hannah Black) NYFF, DP

Velvet Peel 1
 (2015, Victoria Fu) NYFF, DP

Don’t Blink: Robert Frank (2015, Laura Israel) NYFF, DP – 4.4

+Bunte Kuh (2015, Ryan Ferko, Faraz Anoushahpour & Parastoo Anoushahpour) NYFF, DP

The Everyday Ritual of Solitude Hatching Monkeys (2015, Basim Magdy) NYFF, DP

Radio at Night (2015, 
James Richards) NYFF, DP

All That Is Solid (
2014, Louis Henderson) NYFF, DP

Mad Ladders (2015, 
Michael Robinson) NYFF, DP


Erysichthon (2015, 
Jon Rafman) NYFF, DP

Slow Zoom Long Pause (
2015, Sara Magenheimer) NYFF, DP

Hyperlinks or It Didn’t Happen
 (2014, Cécile B. Evans) NYFF, DP

Neither Heaven Nor Earth (2015, Clément Cogitore) – 5.2

+2001: A Space Odyssey (1968, Stanley Kubrick) – 9.6 [same]

Junun (2015, Paul Thomas Anderson) – 5.1

+Queen of Earth (2015, Alex Ross Perry) DP – 3.9 [same]

+Twelve Monkeys (1995, Terry Gilliam) – 6.5 [down from 6.9]

Baby Doll (1982, Tessa Hughes-Freeland) 16mm

Mutiny (1982, Abigail Child) 16mm

Noyes (1976, Bette Gordon) 16mm

Abstraction (1971, Rosalind Schneider) 16mm

All Women Are Equal (1972, Marguerite Paris) 16mm

The Scary Movie (1996, Peggy Ahwesh) 16mm

What Is a Man? (1958, Sara-Kathryn Arledge) 16mm

Bridge of Spies (2015, Steven Spielberg) DP – 6.1

+Mulholland Dr. (2001, David Lynch) 35mm – 8.9 [up from 8.4]

+The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951, Robert Wise) – 6.1 [up from ~5.0]

Love Exists (1960, Maurice Pialat) 35mm

+Naked Childhood (1968, Maurice Pialat) 35mm – 7.3 [~same]

Doomsdays (2013, Eddie Mullins) – 5.2

Loulou (1980, Maurice Pialat) 35mm – 5.7

+Valley of Love (2015, Guillaume Nicloux) DP – 6.6 [same]

We Won’t Grow Old Together (1972, Maurice Pialat) 35mm – 5.8

Unfriended (2014, Levan Gabriadze) – 5.0

In Absentia (2000, Stephen & Timothy Quay) 35mm

Quay (2015, Christopher Nolan) 35mm

The Comb (From the Museums of Sleep) (1999, Stephen & Timothy Quay) 35mm

+Street of Crocodiles (1986, Stephen Quay) 35mm

Mark of the Vampire (1935, Tod Browning) 16mm – 5.9

Edgar Allan Poe (1909, D.W. Griffith) 16mm

+The Fall of the House of Usher (1928, Jean Epstein) 16mm – 6.5 [same]

Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956, Don Siegel) – 6.3

+À nos amours (1983, Maurice Pialat) 35mm – 7.6 [same]

Chelsea Girls (1966, Andy Warhol & Paul Morrissey) 16mm – 7.9

November

The Mouth Agape (1974, Maurice Pialat) DP – 6.0

Shaun the Sheep Movie (2015, Mark Burton & Richard Starzack) – 5.4

Kid (2015, Júlio Bressane) – 6.0

Here’s to the Future! (2014, Gina Telaroli) DP – 5.2

+Hit 2 Pass (2014, Kurt Walker) DP – 5.6 [same]

+Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977, Steven Spielberg) – 7.1 [up from 5.7]

Harlot (1965, Andy Warhol) 16mm – 5.6

Fists in the Pocket (1965, Marco Bellocchio) – 5.9

The Witches’ Sabbath (1988, Marco Bellocchio) – 5.8

Vincere (2009, Marco Bellocchio) – 4.7

+Alphaville (1965, Jean-Luc Godard) – 6.7 [same]

My Mother’s Smile (2002, Marco Bellocchio) – 5.9

Police (1985, Maurice Pialat) 35mm – 5.3

Good Morning, Night (2003, Marco Bellocchio) – 6.0

+Dormant Beauty (2012, Marco Bellocchio) – 5.6 [up from 4.8]

+Blood of My Blood (2015, Marco Bellocchio) – 7.5 [same]

The Wedding Director (2006, Marco Bellocchio) – 5.0

+Metropolis [2010 restored version] (1927, Fritz Lang) – 6.9 [down from 7.8]

Le Garçu (1995, Maurice Pialat) 35mm – 6.7

+Where is the Friend’s Home? (1987, Abbas Kiarostami) DP – 9.0 [same]

Short Shave (1965, Michael Snow) 16mm

TO LAVOISIER, Who Died in The Reign of Terror (1991, Michael Snow) 16mm – 6.9

Aloha (2015, Cameron Crowe) – 5.9

The Plague Dogs (1982, Martin Rosen) – 4.1

+Mad Max: Fury Road (2015, George Miller) – 6.0 [same]

Creed (2015, Ryan Coogler) DP – 5.7

December

+Semi-auto colours (2010, Isiah Medina) DP

(∃u) [u ≤ f and u ≤ m] (2013, Isiah Medina) DP

For May and December (2015, Isiah Medina) DP

+Field Niggas (2015, Khalik Allah) DP – 6.2 [same]

Oblivion (2013, Joseph Kosinski) – 3.1

John’s T-Shirts (2014, John Porter) 8mm

Amusement Park (1978, John Porter) 8mm

Firefly (1980, John Porter) 8mm

Funnel Benefit (1982, John Porter) 8mm

Urban Underground (1985, John Porter) 8mm

More Milk, Yvette (1966, Andy Warhol) 16mm – 2.3

+Carol (2015, Todd Haynes) DP – 5.2 [same]

Spotlight (2015, Tom McCarthy) – 4.9

A to Z (1956, Michael Snow) 16mm

+*Corpus Callosum (2002, Michael Snow) 16mm – 7.9 [~same]

Room (2015, Lenny Abrahamson) – 4.7

Of Men and War (2014, Laurent Bécue-Renard) – 5.0

Ex Machina (2015, Alex Garland) – 5.3

Star Wars: Episode VII – The Force Awakens (2015, J.J. Abrams) 3D – 5.6

The Diary of a Teenage Girl (2015, Marielle Heller) – 6.1

+Christmas, Again (2014, Charles Poekel) DP – 5.8 [up from 5.5]

The Hateful Eight (2015, Quentin Tarantino) 70mm – 7.4

Steve Jobs (2015, Danny Boyle) – 4.2

Chi-Raq (2015, Spike Lee) – 5.1

The Intestine (2016, Lev Lewis) – Inc. [rough cut]

Gabriel (2014, Lou Howe) – 6.4

+All That Heaven Allows (1955, Douglas Sirk) – 7.3 [same]

+The Hateful Eight (2015, Quentin Tarantino) 70mm – 7.4 [same]

Joy (2015, David O. Russell) – 6.0

Jellyfish Eyes (2013, Takashi Murakami) – 2.7

Knight of Cups (2015, Terrence Malick) – 7.7

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

This list will be updated each time I see a film which had its world premiere in 2014 that is better than at least one of the films already on the list.

1. Goodbye to Language (Jean-Luc Godard)
2. Interstellar (Christopher Nolan)
3. Boyhood (Richard Linklater)
4. Journey to the West (Tsai Ming-liang)
5. Horse Money (Pedro Costa)
6. Phoenix (Christian Petzold)
7. Approaching the Elephant (Amanda Rose Wilder)
8. National Gallery (Frederick Wiseman)
9. Li’l Quinquin (Bruno Dumont)
10. natural history (James Benning)

 

Polls Top 10 (eligible titles appear/will appear here)

1. Goodbye to Language (2014, Jean-Luc Godard)
2. The Strange Little Cat (2013, Ramon Zürcher)
3. Boyhood (2014, Richard Linklater)
4. MANAKAMANA (2013, Stephanie Spray & Pacho Velez)
5. Norte, the End of History (2013, Lav Diaz)
6. Stranger by the Lake (2013, Alain Guiraudie)
7. Stray Dogs (2013, Tsai Ming-liang)
8. National Gallery (2014, Frederick Wiseman)
9. Nymphomaniac: Volume II (2013, Lars von Trier)
10. Gone Girl (2014, David Fincher)

 

My Top 10 Discoveries During 2014 (only first-time viewings of films made before 2000 are eligible)

1. The Marquise of O (1976, Eric Rohmer)
2. The Magnificent Ambersons (1942, Orson Welles)
3. Sorcerer (1977, William Friedkin)
4. Je t’aime je t’aime (1968, Alain Resnais)
5. The Big Sleep (1946, Howard Hawks)
6. King Lear (1987, Jean-Luc Godard)
7. My Darling Clementine (1946, John Ford)
8. The Clock (1945, Vincente Minnelli)
9. Far from Vietnam (1967, Alain Resnais, William Klein, Joris Ivens, Agnès Varda, Claude Lelouch, Jean-Luc Godard, & Chris Marker)
10. The Bride of Frankenstein (1935, James Whale)

 

Other 2014 films I’ve seen

• A Midsummer’s Fantasia (Jang Kun-jae) – 7.2
• Amour fou (Jessica Hausner) – 7.1
• Not My Type (Lucas Belvaux) – 7.1
• Welcome to New York (Abel Ferrara) – 7.0
• Gone Girl (David Fincher) – 7.0
• Hill of Freedom (Hong Sang-soo) – 6.9
• Lucy (Luc Besson) – 6.8
• A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence (Roy Andersson) – 6.8
• Two Days, One Night (Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne) – 6.8
• Maps to the Stars (David Cronenberg) – 6.7
• Bird People (Pascale Ferran) – 6.7
• Jauja (Lisandro Alonso) – 6.6
• Heaven Knows What (Joshua & Benny Safdie) – 6.6
• Beloved Sisters (Dominik Graf) – 6.6
• Eden (Mia Hansen-Løve) – 6.6
• The Mend (John Magary) – 6.5
• Rules of the Game (Claudine Bories & Patrice Chagnard) – 6.5
• The Kindergarten Teacher (Nadav Lapid) – 6.5
• Saint Laurent (Bertrand Bonello) – 6.4
• Gabriel (Lou Howe) – 6.4
• Appropriate Behavior (Desiree Akhavan) – 6.4
• Winter Sleep (Nuri Bilge Ceylan) – 6.4
• Edge of Tomorrow (Doug Liman) – 6.4
• Court (Chaitanya Tamhane) – 6.3
• Tu dors Nicole (Stéphane Lafleur) – 6.3
• The Grand Budapest Hotel (Wes Anderson) – 6.3
• Hypnosis Display (Paul Clipson) – 6.3
• About 12 (Martín Shanly) – 6.3
• Obvious Child (Gillian Robespierre) – 6.3
• Noah (Darren Aronofsky) – 6.3
• Félix & Meira (Maxime Giroux) – 6.3
• Inherent Vice (Paul Thomas Anderson) – 6.2
• Clouds of Sils Maria (Olivier Assayas) – 6.2
• The Wonders (Alice Rohrwacher) – 6.2
• Love is Strange (Ira Sachs) – 6.2
• Life of Riley (Alain Resnais) – 6.2
• This Afternoon (Stephen Cone) – 6.2
• In the Name of My Daughter (André Téchiné) – 6.2
• Alleluia (Fabrice Du Welz) – 6.1
• La Sapienza (Eugène Green) – 6.1
• Silvered Water, Syria Self-Portrait (Ossama Mohammed) – 6.1
• Tales of the Grim Sleeper (Nick Broomfield) – 6.1
• Eat Your Bones (Jean-Charles Hue) – 6.1
• Force Majeure (Ruben Östlund) – 6.0
• Gett, the Trial of Viviane Amsalem (Ronit Elkabetz & Shlomi Elkabetz) – 6.0
• Actress (Robert Greene) – 6.0
• What We Do in the Shadows (Jemaine Clement & Taika Waititi) – 6.0
• CITIZENFOUR (Laura Poitras) – 6.0
• Timbuktu (Abderrahmane Sissako) – 6.0
• Happy Christmas (Joe Swanberg) – 6.0
• Maïdan (Sergei Loznitsa) – 5.9
• It Follows (David Robert Mitchell) – 5.9
• Whiplash (Damien Chazelle) – 5.9
• Ellie Lumme (Ignatiy Vishnevetsky) – 5.9
• The Lies of the Victors (Christoph Hochhäusler) – 5.9
• See No Evil (Jos de Putter) – 5.9
• The Possibilities Are Endless (James Hall & Edward Lovelace) – 5.9
• Episode of the Sea (Lonnie van Brummelen, Siebren de Haan, & the inhabitants of Urk) – 5.8
• Ned Rifle (Hal Hartley)
 – 5.8
• Christmas, Again (Charles Poekel) – 5.8
• Listen Up Philip (Alex Ross Perry) – 5.8
• The Iron Ministry (J.P. Sniadecki) – 5.8
• When Marnie Was There (Hiromasa Yonebayashi) – 5.8
• The Homesman (Tommy Lee Jones) – 5.8
• Ming of Harlem: Twenty One Storeys in the Air (Phillip Warnell) – 5.8
• Rich Hill (Andrew Droz Palermo & Tracy Droz Tragos) – 5.8
• August Winds (Gabriel Mascaro) – 5.7
• The Overnighters (Jesse Moss) – 5.7
• Manglehorn (David Gordon Green) – 5.7
• Hit 2 Pass (Kurt Walker) – 5.6
• I Am the People (Anna Roussillon) – 5.6
• Something, Anything (Paul Harrill) – 5.6
• A Most Violent Year (J.C. Chandor) – 5.6
• Joy of Man’s Desiring (Denis Côté) – 5.6
• The Mystery of Life (Stephen Cone) – 5.6
• The Vanquishing of the Witch Baba Yaga (Jessica Oreck) – 5.6
• Happy Valley (Amir Bar-Lev) – 5.6
• Mr. Turner (Mike Leigh) – 5.5
• Detroit Transect: Spine (Marc Downie & Paul Kaiser) – 5.5
• While We’re Young (Noah Baumbach) – 5.5
• L for Leisure (Lev Kalman & Whitney Horn) – 5.5
• Mar (Dominga Sotomayor) – 5.5
• Sand Dollars (Laura Amelia Guzmán & Israel Cárdenas) – 5.5
• Don’t Go Breaking My Heart 2 (Johnnie To) – 5.5
• Angels of Revolution (Aleksei Fedorchenko) – 5.5
• (Be)Longing (João Pedro Plácido) – 5.5
• Queen and Country (John Boorman) – 5.5
• She’s Funny That Way (Peter Bogdanovich) – 5.4
• The Lego Movie (Phil Lord & Christopher Miller) – 5.4
• Spartacus & Cassandra (Ioanis Nuguet) – 5.4
• Wild (Jean- Marc Vallée) – 5.4
• Art and Craft (Jennifer Grausman & Sam Cullman) – 5.4
• Kumiko, the Treasure Hunter (David Zellner) – 5.4
• The Tribe (Myroslav Slaboshpytskiy) – 5.4
• Guardians of the Galaxy (James Gunn) – 5.4
• Pasolini (Abel Ferrara) – 5.3
• The Second Game (Corneliu Porumboiu) – 5.3
• The Blue Room (Mathieu Amalric) – 5.3
• The Guests (Ken Jacobs) – 5.3
• The Kidnapping of Michel Houellebecq (Guillaume Nicloux) – 5.3
• Breathe (Mélanie Laurent) – 5.3
• Black Coal, Thin Ice (Diao Yinan) – 5.3
• The Interview (Evan Goldberg & Seth Rogen) – 5.3
• Dear White People (Justin Simien) – 5.3
• Wild Tales (Damián Szifron) – 5.3
• Misunderstood (Asia Argento) – 5.3
• The Songs of Rice (Uruphong Raksasad) – 5.3
• Futuro Beach (Karim Aïnouz) – 5.2
• The Tale of Princess Kaguya (Isao Takahata) – 5.2
• Still Alice (Richard Glatzer & Wash Westmoreland) – 5.2
• Here’s to the Future! (Gina Telaroli) – 5.2
• 1001 Grams (Bent Hamer) – 5.2
• The Salvation (Kristian Levring) – 5.2
• Jimmy’s Hall (Ken Loach) – 5.1
• The Look of Silence (Joshua Oppenheimer) – 5.1
• Nightcrawler (Dan Gilroy) – 5.1
• Last Days in Vietnam (Rory Kennedy) – 5.1
• Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) (Alejandro G. Iñárritu) – 5.1
• Party Girl (Marie Amachoukeli, Claire Burger, & Samuel Theis) – 5.1
• Unfriended (Levan Gabriadze) – 5.0
• White Nights on the Pier (Paul Vecchiali) – 5.0
• Letters to Max (Eric Baudelaire)
 – 5.0
• Tokyo Tribe (Sion Sono)
 – 5.0
• Mercuriales (Virgil Vernier) – 5.0
• Non-Stop (Jaume Collet-Serra) – 5.0
• Dumb and Dumber To (Bobby & Peter Farrelly) – 5.0
• Two Shots Fired (Martín Rejtman) – 5.0
• Guidelines (Jean-François Caissy) – 5.0
• Of Men and War (Laurent Bécue-Renard) – 5.0
• The Princess of France (Matías Piñeiro) – 4.9
• Foxcatcher (Bennett Miller) – 4.9
• From What is Before (Lav Diaz) – 4.9
• ’71 (Yann Demange) – 4.9
• A Hard Day (Kim Seong-hun) – 4.9
• Run (Philippe Lacôte) – 4.9
• Mommy (Xavier Dolan) – 4.8
• Beautiful Youth (Jaime Rosales) – 4.8
• Cathedrals of Culture (Wim Wenders, Michael Glawogger, Michael Madsen, Robert Redford, Margreth Olin, & Karim Aïnouz) – 4.8
• Iris (Albert Maysles) – 4.8
• Love & Mercy (Bill Pohlad) – 4.8
• Los Hongos (Oscar Ruiz Navia) – 4.8
• Storm Children: Book One (Lav Diaz) – 4.7
• The Captive (Atom Egoyan) – 4.7
• Flapping in the Middle of Nowhere (Diep Hoang Nguyen) – 4.7
• The Theory of Everything (James Marsh) – 4.7
• The Immortalists (David Alvarado & Jason Sussberg) – 4.7
• Androids Dream (Ion De Sosa) – 4.6
• A Girl at My Door (July Jung) – 4.6
• Far from Men (David Oelhoffen)
 – 4.6
• The Imitation Game (Morten Tyldum) – 4.6
• 22 Jump Street (Phil Lord & Christopher Miller) – 4.5
• Girlhood (Celine Sciamma) – 4.5
• Fort Buchanan (Benjamin Crotty) – 4.5
• Selma (Ava DuVernay) – 4.4
• In the Basement (Ulrich Seidl) – 4.4
• Elephant Song (Charles Binamé) – 4.4
• Snow in Paradise (Andrew Hulme) – 4.4
• Darker Than Midnight (Sebastiano Riso) – 4.3
• Violet (Bas Devos) – 4.3
• Get on Up (Tate Taylor) – 4.3
• The Salt of the Earth (Wim Wenders & Juliano Ribeiro Salgado) – 4.3
• Time Out of Mind (Oren Moverman) – 4.2
• The Search (Michel Hazanavicius) – 4.2
• Red Army (Polsky Gabe) – 4.2
• When Animals Dream (Jonas Alexander Arnby) – 4.1
• The Babadook (Jennifer Kent) – 4.1
• Living Stars (Mariano Cohn & Gastón Duprat) – 4.1
• A Most Wanted Man (Anton Corbijn) – 4.1
• Leviathan (Andrei Zvyagintsev) – 4.0
• The Corral and the Wind (Miguel Hilari) – 4.0
• Concerning Violence (Göran Olsson) – 3.9
• Lost River (Ryan Gosling) – 3.9
• Da Sweet Blood of Jesus (Spike Lee) – 3.8
• An Eye for Beauty (Denys Arcand) – 3.8
• Still the Water (Naomi Kawase) – 3.6
• Hippocrates (Thomas Lilti) – 3.6
• The Duke of Burgundy (Peter Strickland) – 3.5
• Coming Home (Zhang Yimou) – 3.5
• A Girl Walks Home Alone (Ana Lily Amirpour) – 3.4
• Sin City: A Dame to Kill For (Robert Rodriguez & Frank Miller) – 3.3
• Calvary (John Michael McDonagh) – 3.3
• White God (Kornél Mundruczó) – 3.2
• The New Girlfriend (François Ozon) – 3.2
• Fires on the Plain (Shinya Tsukamoto) – 3.1
• Return to Ithaca (Laurent Cantet) – 3.0
• The Girl and the River (Aurélia Georges) – 3.0
• Le beau danger (René Frölke) – 2.9
• Grace of Monaco (Olivier Dahan) – 2.9
• The Cobbler (Thomas McCarthy) – 2.7

September 30 

8:30PM + Saint Laurent (Bertrand Bonello, France, 2014, DCP, 150m)

Key
– Saw at TIFF Proper (between Sept. 4-14)
– Saw at Cannes
– Saw at TIFF pre-festival press screening
– Saw a screener of some kind

Tier 0
Goodbye to Language 3D (Jean-Luc Godard) – 9.9

Tier 1
Journey to the West (Tsai Ming-liang) – 7.9

Tier 2
Horse Money (Pedro Costa)
 – 7.7
Phoenix (Christian Petzold)
 – 7.6

National Gallery (Frederick Wiseman) – 7.5

Li’l Quinquin (Bruno Dumont)
 – 7.3
Amour fou (Jessica Hausner) – 7.1
Not My Type (Lucas Belvaux) – 7.1

Tier 3
Hill of Freedom (Hong Sang-soo) – 6.9
A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence (Roy Andersson) – 6.8

Two Days, One Night (Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne) – 6.8

Maps to the Stars (David Cronenberg) – 6.7
Jauja (Lisandro Alonso) – 6.6
Heaven Knows What (Joshua & Benny Safdie) – 6.6
Eden (Mia Hansen-Løve) – 6.6
Winter Sleep (Nuri Bilge Ceylan) – 6.4
Tu dors Nicole (Stéphane Lafleur) – 6.3
Clouds of Sils Maria (Olivier Assayas) – 6.2

Tier 4

La Sapienza (Eugène Green) – 6.1
Alleluia (Fabrice Du Welz) – 6.1

Silvered Water, Syria Self-Portrait (Ossama Mohammed) – 6.1
Tales of the Grim Sleeper (Nick Broomfield) – 6.1

Force Majeure (Ruben Östlund) – 6.0
Gett, the Trial of Viviane Amsalem (Ronit & Shlomi Elkabetz)
 – 6.0

Timbuktu (Abderrahmane Sissako) – 6.0

Maidan (Sergei Loznitsa) – 5.9

It Follows (David Robert Mitchell) – 5.9
Episode of the Sea (Lonnie van Brummelen, Siebren de Haan, & the inhabitants of Urk)
 – 5.8

Ned Rifle (Hal Hartley)
 – 5.8
Manglehorn (David Gordon Green)
 – 5.7

While We’re Young (Noah Baumbach)
 – 5.5
Sand Dollars (Laura Amelia Guzmán & Israel Cárdenas)
 – 5.5

Mr. Turner (Mike Leigh) – 5.5

Whiplash (Damien Chazelle) – 5.5
Don’t Go Breaking My Heart 2 (Johnnie To) – 5.5

The Tribe (Myroslav Slaboshpytskiy) – 5.4
Wild (Jean- Marc Vallée) – 5.4


Tier 5

Pasolini (Abel Ferrara) – 5.3

Wild Tales (Damian Szifron) – 5.3
Breathe (Mélanie Laurent) – 5.3

The Tale of Princess Kaguya (Isao Takahata) – 5.2

1001 Grams (Bent Hamer) – 5.2
The Look of Silence (Joshua Oppenheimer) – 5.1
Letters to Max (Eric Baudelaire)
 – 5.0
Tokyo Tribe (Sion Sono)
 – 5.0

Two Shots Fired (Martín Rejtman) – 5.0
The Princess of France (Matías Piñeiro) – 4.9
Foxcatcher (Bennett Miller) – 4.9
From What is Before (Lav Diaz) – 4.9

’71 (Yann Demange)
 – 4.9
A Hard Day (Kim Seong-hun) – 4.9
Run (Philippe Lacôte) – 4.9
Bird People (Pascale Ferran) – 4.8
Los Hongos (Oscar Ruiz Navia) – 4.8
Mommy (Xavier Dolan) – 4.8
Flapping in the Middle of Nowhere (Diep Hoang Nguyen) – 4.7
The Theory of Everything (James Marsh) – 4.7
Far from Men (David Oelhoffen)
 – 4.6

A Girl at My Door (July Jung) – 4.6

Tier 6
Girlhood (Celine Sciamma) – 4.5
Elephant Song (Charles Binamé) – 4.4
Time Out of Mind (Oren Moverman) – 4.2
Red Army (Gabe Polsk) – 4.2
The Search (Michel Hazanavicius) – 4.2
Leviathan (Andrei Zvyagintsev) – 4.0
An Eye for Beauty (Denys Arcand) – 3.8

Tier 7

Still the Water (Naomi Kawase) – 3.6
The Duke of Burgundy (Peter Strickland) – 3.5

Coming Home (Zhang Yimou) – 3.5
The New Girlfriend (François Ozon)
 – 3.2
Fires on the Plain (Shinya Tsukamoto)
 – 3.1
Return to Ithaca (Laurent Cantet)
 – 3.0


Tier 8
Le beau danger (René Frölke) – 2.9
The Cobbler (Thomas McCarthy) – 2.7

September 4
9:45AM – The Tale of Princess Kaguya (Isao Takahata) – 5.2
12:00PM – Gett, the Trial of Viviane Amsalem (Ronit & Shlomi Elkabetz) – 6.0
2:45PM – ’71 (Yann Demange) – 4.9
4:45PM – Mirage (Szabolcs Hajdu) – W/O
8:45PM – +Alleluia (Fabrice Du Welz) – 6.1 [down from 6.9]

September 5
8:30AM – Far from Men (David Oelhoffen) – 4.6
12:00PM – A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence (Roy Andersson) – 6.8
3:15PM – +Goodbye to Language 3D (Jean-Luc Godard) – 9.9 [same]
6:30PM – Wavelengths 1: Open Forms – KwieKulik Group, Larose, and Rousseau for the (modest) wins.
9:45PM – +Amour fou (Jessica Hausner) – 7.1 [same]

September 6
8:45AM – Magical Girl (Carlos Vermut) – W/O
12:30PM – Phoenix (Christian Petzold) – 7.6
2:30PM – OBRA (Gregorio Graziosi) – W/O
4:30PM – Letters to Max (Eric Baudelaire) – 5.0
7:45PM – Wavelengths 2: Something in the Atmosphere – Too many strong ones to single anything out. Honoured to screen in this program.

September 7
11:30AM – Episode of the Sea (Lonnie van Brummelen, Siebren de Haan, & the inhabitants of Urk) – 5.8
2:00PM – Pasolini (Abel Ferrara) – 5.3
4:45PM – Tales of the Grim Sleeper (Nick Broomfield) – 6.1
7:15PM – Wavelengths 3: Tales Told – All solid, if not much beyond that.

September 8
8:30AM – While We’re Young (Noah Baumbach) – 5.5
6:30PM – Eden (Mia Hansen-Løve) – 6.9
9:45PM – Heaven Knows What (Joshua & Benny Safdie) – 6.6

September 9
8:45AM – Manglehorn (David Gordon Green) – 5.7
4:45PM – The Duke of Burgundy (Peter Strickland) – 3.5
7:00PM – Horse Money (Pedro Costa) – 7.7
9:45PM – Fires on the Plain (Shinya Tsukamoto) – 3.1

September 10
9:30AM – Wild (Jean- Marc Vallée) – 5.4
2:45PM – The Look of Silence (Joshua Oppenheimer) – 5.1
9:00PM – Time Out of Mind (Oren Moverman) – 4.2

September 11
2:15PM – Sand Dollars (Laura Amelia Guzmán & Israel Cárdenas) – 5.5
5:00PM – The Color of Pomegranates (1968, Sergei Parajanov) – 3.4
6:45PM – Return to Ithaca (Laurent Cantet) – 3.0
9:45PM – +La Sapienza (Eugène Green) – 6.1 [up from 5.6]

September 12
9:30AM – Ned Rifle (Hal Hartley) [SCREENING LIBRARY] – 5.8
4:45PM – The New Girlfriend (François Ozon) – 3.2
7:15PM – +Journey to the West (Tsai Ming-liang) – 7.9 [up from 7.2]

September 13
9:15AM – Breathe (Mélanie Laurent) – 5.3
11:45AM – +Horse Money (Pedro Costa) – 7.7 [same]
2:30PM – From What is Before (Lav Diaz) – 4.9
9:30PM – +Jauja (Lisandro Alonso) – 6.6 [up from 5.6]

September 14
9:00AM – +Li’l Quinquin (Bruno Dumont) – 7.3 [up from 6.5]
3:30PM – Tokyo Tribe (Sion Sono) – 5.0
6:15PM – Don’t Go Breaking My Heart 2 (Johnnie To) – 5.5
9:30PM – +Eden (Mia Hansen-Løve) – 6.6 [down from 6.9]

Films that would be priorities for me if I hadn’t already seen them:
Goodbye to Language 3D (Jean-Luc Godard) – 9.9
National Gallery (Frederick Wiseman) – 7.5
Journey to the West (Tsai Ming-liang) – 7.2
Amour fou (Jessica Hausner) – 7.1
Not My Type (Lucas Belvaux) – 7.1
Hill of Freedom (Hong Sang-soo) – 6.9
Alleluia (Fabrice Du Welz) – 6.9
Two Days, One Night (Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne) – 6.8

Maps to the Stars (David Cronenberg) – 6.7

Li’l Quinquin (Bruno Dumont) – 6.5
Winter Sleep (Nuri Bilge Ceylan) – 6.4
Tu dors Nicole (Stéphane Lafleur) – 6.3
Clouds of Sils Maria (Olivier Assayas) – 6.2

Silvered Water, Syria Self-Portrait (Ossama Mohammed) – 6.1

Force Majeure (Ruben Östlund) – 6.0

Timbuktu (Abderrahmane Sissako) – 6.0

Maidan (Sergei Loznitsa) – 5.9

It Follows (David Robert Mitchell) – 5.9
Jauja (Lisandro Alonso) – 5.6

La Sapienza (Eugène Green) – 5.6
Mr. Turner (Mike Leigh) – 5.5

Whiplash (Damien Chazelle) – 5.5
The Tribe (Myroslav Slaboshpytskiy) – 5.4

Wild Tales (Damian Szifron) – 5.3
1001 Grams (Bent Hamer) – 5.2
Two Shots Fired (Martín Rejtman) – 5.0
The Princess of France (Matías Piñeiro) – 4.9
Foxcatcher (Bennett Miller) – 4.9
A Hard Day (Kim Seong-hun) – 4.9
Run (Philippe Lacôte) – 4.9
Bird People (Pascale Ferran) – 4.8
Los Hongos (Oscar Ruiz Navia) – 4.8
Mommy (Xavier Dolan) – 4.8
Flapping in the Middle of Nowhere (Diep Hoang Nguyen) – 4.7
The Theory of Everything (James Marsh) – 4.7
A Girl at My Door (July Jung) – 4.6
Girlhood (Celine Sciamma) – 4.5
Elephant Song (Charles Binamé) – 4.4
Red Army (Gabe Polsk) – 4.2
The Search (Michel Hazanavicius) – 4.2
Leviathan (Andrei Zvyagintsev) – 4.0
An Eye for Beauty (Denys Arcand) – 3.8

Still the Water (Naomi Kawase) – 3.6

Coming Home (Zhang Yimou) – 3.5
Le beau danger (René Frölke) – 2.9
The Cobbler (Thomas McCarthy) – 2.7

Key:
16mm, 35mm, 70mm - It'll be screened from a film print. (Probably only applicable to Wavelengths shorts from now on.)
Features (40min. and up) are in bold.
Shorts are in italics.
⚉ - I have seen this film.
★ - I have seen this film and recommend it (6.0 and higher)
✖ - I have seen this film and recommend that you don't (3.9 and lower).
♨ - This film can go to hell.
○ - I am seriously considering making an attempt to see this film.
ஃ - I made this film.
C - This film was made by a Canadian. If it's any good, Torontonians ought to be able to catch up with it soon enough.
FS - This film is available for me to watch on Festival Scope.
® - This film has a Canadian distributor.
® - This film has a US distributor.

Colour coding:
NYFF - Main Selection only.
SUNDANCE - Listen Up Cameron.
BERLINALE - Alfred Bauer or bust.
CANNES - I've seen maybe two of the Jury Prize winners and I really don't like one of them.
LOCARNO - 5 hours and 38 minutes.
VENICE - The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance.
BIGGIES - Films by name directors that I'm actively anticipating, perhaps ill-advisedly. Also, films with raves from the other major festivals (Rotterdam, BAFICI, SxSW, Tribeca, etc.).

(Colors trump each other hierarchically, so e.g. a film that played both Berlin and Cannes will be red, unless e.g. it ends up in the NYFF Main Slate in which case it will become purple.)

Special Presentations (71; last year: 81)
American Heist (Sarik Andreasyan)
Before We Go (Chris Evans)
Beyond the Lights (Gina Prince-Bythewood) ® ®
Breakup Buddies (Ning Hao)
Cake (Daniel Barnz) ®
Clouds of Sils Maria (Olivier Assayas) ® ® ★
The Cobbler (Thomas McCarthy) ® ✖
Coming Home (Zhang Yimou) ® ® ✖
The Dead Lands (Toa Fraser)
Dearest (Peter Ho-Sun Chan)
Don’t Go Breaking My Heart 2 (Johnnie To) ⚉
The Drop (Michael R. Roskam) ® ®
Eden (Mia Hansen-Løve) ★
The Elephant Song (Charles Binamé) C ® ® ⚉
An Eye for Beauty (Denys Arcand) C ® ✖
Far From Men (David Oelhoffen) ⚉
Force Majeure (Ruben Östlund) ® ® ★
The Gate (Régis Wargnier)
Gemma Bovery (Anne Fontaine) ®
Gentlemen (Mikael Marcimain)
Gomorrah (Stefano Sollima) ®
Good Kill (Andrew Niccol) ®
The Good Lie (Philippe Falardeau) C ® ®
Hector and the Search for Happiness (Peter Chelsom) ® ®
Human Highway [Director’s Cut] (Bernard Shakey and Dean Stockwell) ®
The Humbling (Barry Levinson) ®
Hungry Hearts (Saverio Costanzo)
The Imitation Game (Morten Tyldum) ® ®
Kahlil Gibran’s The Prophet (Roger Allers, Gaëtan Brizzi, Paul Brizzi, Joan C. Gratz,Mohammed Saeed Harib, Tomm Moore, Nina Paley, Bill Plympton, Joann Sfar, & Michal Socha)
The Keeping Room (Daniel Barber)
The Last Five Years (Richard LaGravenese)
Learning to Drive (Isabel Coixet)
Love & Mercy (Bill Pohlad)
Madame Bovary (Sophie Barthes)
Maggie (Henry Hobson)
Manglehorn (David Gordon Green) ⚉
Mary Kom (Omung Kumar)
Men, Women and Children (Jason Reitman) ® ®
Miss Julie (Liv Ullmann)
Mommy (Xavier Dolan) C ® ® ⚉
Mr. Turner (Mike Leigh) ® ® ⚉
My Old Lady (Israel Horovitz) ® ®
Ned Rifle (Hal Hartley) ⚉
Nightcrawler (Dan Gilroy) ® ®
99 Homes (Ramin Bahrani) ®
October Gale (Ruba Nadda) C ®
Pasolini (Abel Ferrara) ⚉
Phoenix (Christian Petzold) ® ★
Preggoland (Jacob Tierney) C ®
Pride (Matthew Warchus) ® ®
The Reach (Jean-Baptiste Leonetti) ®
Red Amnesia (Wang Xiaoshuai)
Return to Ithaca (Laurent Cantet) ⚉
Revenge of the Green Dragons ((Andrew Lau & Andrew Loo) ® ®
Roger Waters The Wall (Sean Evans & Roger Waters)
Rosewater (Jon Stewart) ® ®
The Search (Michel Hazanavicius) ® ⚉
A Second Chance (Susanne Bier)
Shelter (Paul Bettany)
The Sound and the Fury (James Franco)
St. Vincent (Theodore Melfi)
Still Alice (Richard Glatzer & Wash Westmoreland)
The Theory of Everything (James Marsh) ® ® ⚉
Three Hearts (Benoît Jacquot) ® ®
Time Out of Mind (Oren Moverman) ⚉
Top Five (Chris Rock)
Two Days, One Night (Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne) ® ® ★
Welcome to Me (Shira Piven) ®
While We’re Young (Noah Baumbach) ⚉
Whiplash (Damien Chazelle) ® ® ⚉
Wild Tales (Damian Szifron) ® ® ⚉

Contemporary World Cinema (58; last year: 59)
Aire Libre (Anahí Berneri)
Amour fou (Jessica Hausner) ® ★
Behavior (Ernesto Daranas)
Bird People (Pascale Ferran) ® ® ⚉
Black Souls (Francesco Munzi)
Breathe (Mélanie Laurent) ® ⚉
Charlie’s Country (Rolf de Heer)
Cut Bank (Matt Shakman)
Cut Snake (Tony Ayres) ®
The Dark Horse (James Napier Robertson)
Don’t Breathe (Nino Kirtadze)
The Farewell Party (Sharon Maymon & Tal Granit)
Felix and Meira (Maxime Giroux) C ®
Frailer (Mijke de Jong)
Gett, The Trial of Viviane Amsalem (Ronit Elkabetz & Shlomi Elkabetz) ® ★
Girlhood (Celine Sciamma) ® ⚉
The Grump (Dome Karukoski)
Heartbeat (Andrea Dorfman) C ®
High Society (Julie Lopes Curval)
Impunity (Jyoti Mistry)
In the Crosswind (Martti Helde)
Itsi Bitsi (Ole Christian Madsen)
Justice (Joel Lamangan)
Kabukicho Love Hotel (Ryuichi Hiroki)
Kill Me Three Times (Kriv Stenders)
Labyrinth of Lies (Giulio Ricciarelli)
Leopardi (Mario Martone)
The Lesson (Kristina Grozeva & Petar Valchanov)
Li’l Quinquin (Bruno Dumont) ® ® ★
Love in the Time of Civil War (Rodrigue Jean) C ®
Lulu (Luis Ortega)
Margarita, with a Straw (Shonali Bose)
Meet Me in Montenegro (Alex Holdridge & Linnea Saasen)
Men Who Save the World (Liew Seng Tat)
Mirage (Szabolcs Hajdu)
Modris (Juris Kursietis)
Not My Type (Lucas Belvaux) ® ★
Out of Nature (Ole Giæver)
The Owners (Adilkhan Yerzhanov) FS
Partners in Crime (Chang Jung-Chi)
The Reaper (Zvonimir Jurić)
Red Rose (Sepideh Farsi)
Sand Dollars (Laura Amelia Guzmán & Israel Cárdenas) ⚉
Still the Water (Naomi Kawase) ✖
Tales (Rakhshan Bani-E’temad)
Teen Lust (Blaine Thurier) C ® ®
Tigers (Danis Tanović)
Today (Reza Mirkarimi)
Tokyo Fiancée (Stefan Liberski)
Tour de Force (Christian Zübert) FS
Tu dors Nicole (Stéphane Lafleur) C ® ★
Two Shots Fired (Martín Rejtman) ⚉
The Valley (Ghassan Salhab)
Venice (Kiki Álvarez)
Voice Over (Cristián Jiménez)
Where I Am King (Carlos Siguion-Reyna)
Who Am I – No System is Safe (Baran bo Odar)
Xenia (Panos H. Koutras) ®

Discovery (39; last year: 28)
Adult Beginners (Ross Katz)
Atlantic. (Jan-Willem van Ewijk)
Backcountry (Adam MacDonald) C ®
Bang Bang Baby (Jeffrey St. Jules) C
Big Muddy (Jefferson Moneo) C ®
Corbo (Mathieu Denis) C ®
The Crow’s Egg (M. Manikandan)
Dukhtar (Afia Nathaniel)
Flapping in the Middle of Nowhere (Nguyen Hoang Diep) ⚉
The Great Man (Sarah Leonor)
Guidance (Pat Mills) C
I Am Not Lorena (Isidora Marras)
In Her Place (Albert Shin) C
The Intruder (Shariff Korver)
La Salada (Juan Martín Hsu)
Life in a Fishbowl (Baldvin Zophoníasson)
The Little Death (Josh Lawson)
Los Hongos (Oscar Ruiz Navia) ⚉
Magical Girl (Carlos Vermut)
Mardan (Batin Ghobadi)
May Allah Bless France! (Abd Al Malik)
The Narrow Frame of Midnight (Tala Hadid)
OBRA (Gregorio Graziosi)
Run (Philippe Lacôte) ⚉
Second Coming (Debbie Tucker Green)
Senza nessuna pietà (Michele Alhaique)
’71 (Yann Demange) ⚉
Songs She Wrote About People She Knows (Kris Elgstrand) C
Stories of Our Lives (Anonymous)
Sway (Rooth Tang)
Theeb (Naji Abu Nowar)
The Tribe (Miroslav Slaboshpitsky) ® ⚉
UNLUCKY PLAZA (Ken Kwek)
The Valley Below (Kyle Thomas) C
The Vanished Elephant (Javier Fuentes-León)
Villa Touma (Suha Arraf)
We Were Wolves (Jordan Canning) C
Wet Bum (Lindsay Mackay) C + Red Alert (Barry Avrich)
X + Y (Morgan Matthews)

TIFF Docs (21; last year: 22)
Beats of the Antonov (Hajooj Kuka)
I Am Here (Lixin Fan)
Iraqi Odyssey (Samir)
The Kingdom of Dreams and Madness (Mami Sunada)
Merchants of Doubt (Robert Kenner) ® ®
Monsoon (Sturla Gunnarsson) C ®
National Diploma (Dieudo Hamadi)
National Gallery (Frederick Wiseman) ® ★
Natural Resistance (Jonathan Nossiter)
The Price We Pay (Harold Crooks) C ®
Red Army (Gabe Polsk) ® ® ⚉
Roger & Me (1989, Michael Moore)
Seymour: An Introduction (Ethan Hawke)
Silvered Water, Syria Self-Portrait (Ossama Mohammed) ★
Sunshine Superman (Marah Strauch)
Tales of the Grim Sleeper (Nick Broomfield) ★
The Look of Silence (Joshua Oppenheimer) ⚉
This Is My Land (Tamara Erde)
The Wanted 18 (Amer Shomali & Paul Cowan) C
The Years of Fierro (Santiago Esteinou)
The Yes Men Are Revolting (Laura Nix & The Yes Men)

Gala Presentations (20; last year: 20)
Black and White (Mike Binder)
Boychoir (François Girard) ®
The Connection (Cédric Jimenez) ® ®
The Equalizer (Antoine Fuqua) ® ®
Escobar: Paradise Lost (Andrea Di Stefano) ® ®
The Forger (Philip Martin) ®
Foxcatcher (Bennett Miller) ® ® ⚉
Haemoo (Shim Sung-bo)
Infinitely Polar Bear (Maya Forbes) ® ®
The Judge (David Dobkin) ® ®
Laggies (Lynn Shelton) ® ®
A Little Chaos (Alan Rickman)
Maps to the Stars (David Cronenberg) C ® ® ★
The New Girlfriend (François Ozon) ✖
Pawn Sacrifice (Ed Zwick)
The Riot Club (Lone Scherfig)
Ruth & Alex (Richard Loncraine)
Samba (Olivier Nakache & Eric Toledano) ®
This is Where I Leave You (Shawn Levy) C ® ®
Wild (Jean-Marc Vallée) C ® ® ⚉

Wavelengths (19, including shorts programs; last year: 21)
Episode of the Sea (Lonnie van Brummelen, Siebren de Haan, & the inhabitants of Urk) ⚉
Fires on the Plain (Shinya Tsukamoto) ✖
From What is Before (Lav Diaz) ⚉
Heaven Knows What (Joshua & Benny Safdie) ★
Horse Money (Pedro Costa) ★
Jauja (Lisandro Alonso) ® ★
La Sapienza (Eugène Green) ⚉
Le beau danger (René Frölke) ✖
Letters to Max (Eric Baudelaire) ⚉
Maidan (Sergei Loznitsa) ® ⚉
The Princess of France (Matías Piñeiro) ® ⚉
A Single Word (Mariama Sylla & Khady Sylla)
Songs from the North (Soon-mi Yoo) FS ○

Journey to the West with Spectrum Reverse Spectrum
  – Spectrum Reverse Spectrum (Margaret Honda) 70mm ★
  – Journey to the West (Tsai Ming-liang) ★

Pimenta/ de Oliveira/ Abrantes ○
  – The Figures Carved into the Knife by the Sap of the Banana Trees (Joana Pimenta)
  – The Old Man of Belem (Manoel de Oliveira)
  – Taprobana (Gabriel Abrantes)

Wavelengths 1: Open Forms
  – brouillard – passage #14 (Alexandre Larose) 35mm ★
  – Against Landscape (Josh Gen Solondz) ✖
  – Open Form – Game on an Actress’s Face (KwieKulik Group) ★
  – The Dragon is the Frame (Mary Helena Clark) 16mm ⚉
  – Open Form – Street and Tribune in Front of PKiN (KwieKulik Group) ⚉
  – Poetry for Sale (Friedl vom Gröller) 16mm ⚉
  – Under a Changing Sky (Jean-Claude Rousseau) ⚉
  – Panchrome I, II, III (T. Marie) ⚉

Wavelengths 2: Something in the Atmosphere
  – The pimp and his trophies (Antoinette Zwirchmayr) 35mm ★
  – The Innocents (Jean-Paul Kelly) ★
  – Catalogue (Dana Berman Duff) ⚉
  – Relief (Calum Walter) ⚉
  – Red Capriccio (Blake Williams) ஃ
  – Under the Atmosphere (Mike Stoltz) 16mm ★
  – Beep (Kim Kyung-man) ⚉

Wavelengths 3: Tales Told
  – Twelve Tales Told (Johann Lurf) 35mm ⚉
  – San Siro (Yuri Ancarani) ⚉
  – Intransit (Jakrawal Nilthamrong) 35mm ⚉
  – Canopy (Ken Jacobs) ★
  – Detour de Force (Rebecca Baron) ★

Wavelengths 4: Night Noon
  – Lunar Almanac (Malena Szlam) 16mm ★
  – Deep Sleep (Basma Alsharif) ⚉
  – Orizzonti Orizzonti! (Anna Marziano) ⚉
  – The Policeman’s House (Mich’ael Zupraner) ⚉
  – Night Noon (Shambhavi Kaul) ★
  – Sea of Vapors (Sylvia Schedelbauer) ⚉

Masters (14; last year: 11)
The Face of an Angel (Michael Winterbottom)
Foreign Body (Krzysztof Zanussi)
The Golden Era (Ann Hui) ® ®
Goodbye to Language 3D (Jean-Luc Godard) ® ® ★
Hill of Freedom (Hong Sang-soo) ★
Leviathan (Andrei Zvyagintsev) ® ® ⚉
Murder in Pacot (Raoul Peck)
1001 Grams (Bent Hamer) ⚉
A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence (Roy Andersson) ★
Revivre (Im Kwon-taek) ○
The Tale of The Princess Kaguya (Isao Takahata) ⚉
Timbuktu (Abderrahmane Sissako) ® ® ★
Trick or Treaty? (Alanis Obomsawin) C ®
Winter Sleep (Nuri Bilge Ceylan) ★

Vanguard (12; last year: 16)
Alleluia (Fabrice Du Welz) ® ® ★
The Duke of Burgundy (Peter Strickland) ® ✖
Goodnight Mommy (Veronika Franz & Severin Fiala)
Hyena (Gerard Johnson)
Luna (Dave McKean)
Over Your Dead Body (Takashi Miike)
Shrew’s Nest (Juanfer Andrés & Esteban Roel) ® ®
Spring (Justin Benson & Aaron Moorhead)
They Have Escaped (JP Valkeapää)
The Voices (Marjane Satrap)
Waste Land (Pieter Van Hees)
The World of Kanako (Tetsuya Nakashima)

Midnight Madness (10; last year: 10)
Big Game (Jalmari Heleander)
Cub (Jonas Govaerts)
The Editor (Matthew Kennedy & Adam Brooks) C
Electric Boogaloo: The Wild, Untold Story of Cannon Films (Mark Hartley) ® ®
The Guest (Adam Wingard) ® ®
It Follows (David Robert Mitchell) ® ® ⚉
[REC] 4: Apocalypse (Jaume Balagueró) ® ®
Tokyo Tribe (Sion Sono) ⚉
Tusk (Kevin Smith) ®
What We Do in the Shadows (Jemaine Clement & Taika Waititi)

Mavericks (9; last year: 9)
Do I Sound Gay? (David Thorpe)
The 50 Year Argument (Martin Scorsese & David Tedeschi)
Mavericks Conversation With… Denzel Washington and Antoine Fuqua
Mavericks Conversation With… Juliette Binoche
Mavericks Conversation With… Reese Witherspoon
Mavericks Conversation With… Richard Gere
Mavericks Conversation With… Robert Duvall
Mavericks Conversation With… Jon Stewart
A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Julie Taymor)

City to City: Seoul (8; last year: 10)
Alive (Park Jung-bum) ○
A Dream of Iron (Kelvin Kyung Kun Park) FS
A Girl at My Door (July Jung) ⚉
A Hard Day (Kim Seong-hun) ⚉
Cart (Boo Ji-Young)
Confession (Lee Do-yun)
Gyeongju (Zhang Lu) FS
Scarlet Innocence (Yim Pil-sung)

TIFF Cinematheque (8; last year: 7)
The Color of Pomegranates (Sergei Parajanov) ✖
Crime Wave (1985, John Paizs) C ○
Cruel Story of Youth (Nagisa Ôshima) ○
Dragon Inn (King Hu) ○
The Goddess (Wu Yonggang) ⚉
In Comparison (Harun Farocki) ★
My Darling Clementine (John Ford) ○
Speaking Parts (1989, Atom Egoyan) C ○

Future Projections (5; last year: 9)
Anna and the Tower (Lynne Marsh)
BMX Channel + Midnight Traceur (Shaun Gladwell)
Nature of the Self (Laurent Montaron)
Provenance (Amie Siegel) ○
Some Graphic Sex, Heavy Drinking, Bloody Violence, and Dirty Language: Seven One-Minute Feature-Like Films About Seoul (Young-Hae Chang Heavy Industries)

TIFF Kids (4; last year: 5)
Labyrinthus (Douglas Boswell)
Paper Planes (Robert Connolly)
Secrets of War (Dennis Bots)
Song of the Sea (Tomm Moore)

Short Cuts Canada
Go to the festival website if you want to know what’s playing in this section.

Short Cuts International
Ditto.

Tier 0 (A / A+)
Goodbye to Language (Jean-Luc Godard) – 9.9

Tier 1 (A-)
–

Tier 2 (B+)
National Gallery (Frederick Wiseman) – 7.5
Amour fou (Jessica Hausner) – 7.1

Tier 3 (B)
Alleluia (Fabrice Du Welz) – 6.9
Two Days, One Night (Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne) – 6.8
Welcome to New York (Abel Ferrara) – 6.6
Li’l Quinquin (Bruno Dumont) – 6.5
The Kindergarten Teacher (Nadav Lapid) – 6.5
Winter Sleep (Nuri Bilge Ceylan) – 6.4
Saint Laurent (Bertrand Bonello) – 6.3
Clouds of Sils Maria (Olivier Assayas) – 6.2
In the Name of My Daughter (André Téchiné) – 6.2
The Wonders (Alice Rohrwacher) – 6.2

Tier 4 (B-)
Silvered Water, Syria Self-Portrait (Ossama Mohammed) – 6.1
Eat Your Bones (Jean-Charles Hue) – 6.1
Force Majeure (Ruben Östlund) – 6.0
Timbuktu (Abderrahmane Sissako) – 6.0
Maïdan (Sergei Loznitsa) – 5.9
It Follows (David Robert Mitchell) – 5.9
The Homesman (Tommy Lee Jones) – 5.8
Jauja (Lisandro Alonso) – 5.6
Mr. Turner (Mike Leigh) – 5.5
Queen and Country (John Boorman) – 5.5
The Tribe (Myroslav Slaboshpytskiy) – 5.4

Tier 5 (C+)
The Blue Room (Mathieu Amalric) – 5.3
Wild Tales (Damián Szifron) – 5.3
Misunderstood (Asia Argento) – 5.3
The Salvation (Kristian Levring) – 5.2
Jimmy’s Hall (Ken Loach) – 5.1
Party Girl (Marie Amachoukeli, Claire Burger, & Samuel Theis) – 5.1
Mercuriales (Virgil Vernier) – 5.0
Foxcatcher (Bennett Miller) – 4.9
Run (Philippe Lacôte) – 4.9
Bird People (Pascale Ferran) – 4.8
Mommy (Xavier Dolan) – 4.8
Beautiful Youth (Jaime Rosales) – 4.8
The Captive (Atom Egoyan) – 4.7
A Girl at My Door (July Jung) – 4.6

Tier 6 (C)
Girlhood (Celine Sciamma) – 4.5
Snow in Paradise (Andrew Hulme) – 4.4
Darker Than Midnight (Sebastiano Riso) – 4.3
The Salt of the Earth (Wim Wenders & Juliano Ribeiro Salgado) – 4.3
The Search (Michel Hazanavicius) – 4.2
Red Army (Polsky Gabe) – 4.2
When Animals Dream (Jonas Alexander Arnby) – 4.1
Maps to the Stars (David Cronenberg) – 4.0
Leviathan (Andrei Zvyagintsev) – 4.0
Lost River (Ryan Gosling) – 3.9

Tier 7 (C-)
Still the Water (Naomi Kawase) – 3.6
Hippocrates (Thomas Lilti) – 3.6
Coming Home (Zhang Yimou) – 3.5
White God (Kornél Mundruczó) – 3.2
The Girl and the River (Aurélia Georges) – 3.0

Tier 8 (D+)
Grace of Monaco (Olivier Dahan) – 2.9

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“Like a tiny drop of dew, or a bubble floating in a stream,
Like a flash of lightning in a summer cloud,
Or a flickering lamp, an illusion, a phantom, or a dream.
So is all conditioned existence to be seen.”

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Past Logs

2013 Film Log
2012 Film Log
2011 Film Log
2010 Film Log
2009 Film Log
2007 Film Log

 

*8mm/16mm/35mm/70mm denotes that what I saw was a film print.
*DP denotes that what I saw was a Digital Projection in a theatre, either because the film doesn’t exist on celluloid, or the theatre where I saw it is run by incompetent penny pinchers [or – more likely now – that’s the only “print” the studio was willing to send out].
*3D denotes that I saw it in 3D, obvi.
*All others were either from DVDs, downloads, or television.
*Only films that are at least 40 minutes long (the Academy’s minimum for a feature film) are logged.
*A grade of “Inc.” denotes that I don’t think that this screening was an accurate enough presentation of the film for me to make a value judgment, either because their 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, like the incident with 2001: A Space Odyssey at the Coolidge Corner Theatre in Brookline, MA, the reels are shown out of order.
*Regarding W/Os, I almost always finish what I start, and what I don’t, I don’t log.
*A ‘+’ at the beginning of a line means that I had seen this film before.

 

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	[Great; Near-masterpiece]
B+	7.0 - 7.7	[Near-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	[Decent, but flawed]
C	3.8 - 4.5	[Forgettable; Mediocre]
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

American Hustle (2013, David O. Russell) DP – 4.8

Enough Said (2013, Nicole Holofcener) – 6.3

+City Lights (1931, Charles Chaplin) – 6.9 [down from ~8.5]

The Conjuring (2013, James Wan) – 4.0

Ossessione (1943, Luchino Visconti) – 5.1

+Contempt (1963, Jean-Luc Godard) DP – 6.6 [same]

Cocksucker Blues (1972, Robert Frank) DP – 6.9

Candyman (1992, Bernard Rose) – 3.4

+Inside Llewyn Davis (2013, Joel & Ethan Coen) DP – 6.5 [same]

The Minister (2011, Pierre Schöller) – 4.9

White Reindeer (2013, Zach Clark) – 4.8

The Rocket (2013, Kim Mordaunt) – 3.8

Ain’t Them Bodies Saints (2013, David Lowery) – 4.5

Pépé le Moko (1937, Julien Duvivier) – 5.4

Old Dog (2011, Pema Tseden) – 5.4

About Time (2013, Richard Curtis) – 4.9

Paradise: Faith (2012, Ulrich Seidl) – 6.0

Paradise: Hope (2013, Ulrich Seidl) – 5.5

First Cousin Once Removed (2012, Alan Berliner) – 6.1

The Dallas Buyers Club (2013, Jean-Marc Vallée) – 5.2

eXistenZ (1999, David Cronenberg) 35mm – 6.7

Scanners (1981, David Cronenberg) 35mm – 5.3

Sheep (2013, Gilles Deroo & Marianne Pistone) – 7.1

Double Play: James Benning and Richard Linklater (2013, Gabe Klinger) – 6.3

+Frances Ha (2012, Noah Baumbach) – 7.4 [up from 7.0]

The Bandit (1946, Alberto Lattuada) – 4.7

Frankenstein (1931, James Whale) 16mm – 5.8

The Bride of Frankenstein (1935, James Whale) 16mm – 7.0

+Friday Night (2002, Claire Denis) – 6.4 [same]

Le Petit soldat (1963, Jean-Luc Godard) 35mm – 5.6

Business is Business (1971, Paul Verhoeven) 35mm – Inc. [awful English dub]

+A Woman is a Woman (1961, Jean-Luc Godard) 35mm – 5.1 [down from ~7.5]

Story of a Love Affair (1950, Michelangelo Antonioni) – 4.3

+The Counselor [Unrated Extended Cut] (2013, Ridley Scott) – 6.9 [Theatrical Cut: 6.4]

Sentimental Education (2013, Júlio Bressane) – 6.7

The Carabineers (1963, Jean-Luc Godard) 35mm – 4.7

Charlie Victor Romeo (2013, Robert Berger, Patrick Daniels, & Karlyn Michelson) – 5.3

Katie Tippel (1975, Paul Verhoeven) 35mm – 4.9

 

February

Band of Outsiders (1964, Jean-Luc Godard) 35mm – 5.7

Body and Soul (1925, Oscar Micheaux) 35mm – 5.4

Funny Ha Ha (2002, Andrew Bujalski) 35mm – 6.2

Mr. Arkadin [Comprehensive Version] (1955, Orson Welles) – 4.5

Mutual Appreciation (2005, Andrew Bujalski) 35mm – 4.8

+The Counselor [Unrated Extended Cut] (2013, Ridley Scott) – 6.9 [same]

Masculin Féminin (1966, Jean-Luc Godard) 35mm – 6.0

+Berlin: Symphony of a Great City (1927, Walter Ruttmann) – 5.7 [up from 5.2]

Made in U.S.A. (1966, Jean-Luc Godard) 35mm – 4.9

+The Talented Mr. Ripley (1999, Anthony Minghella) – 5.9 [~same]

Far from Vietnam (1967, Alain Resnais, William Klein, Joris Ivens, Agnès Varda, Claude Lelouch, Jean-Luc Godard, & Chris Marker) DP – 7.2

+In the City of Sylvia (2007, José Luis Guerín) – 8.7 [~same]

Purple Noon (1960, René Clément) – 6.1

We Are the Best! (2013, Lukas Moodysson) – 5.8

La Chinoise (1967, Jean-Luc Godard) 35mm – 5.0

Six in Paris (1965, Jean Douchet, Jean Rouch, Jean-Daniel Pollet, Eric Rohmer, Jean-Luc Godard, & Claude Chabrol) – 5.9

+M (1931, Fritz Lang) – 7.8 [same]

+Birth (2004, Jonathan Glazer) – 7.1 [down from 7.5]

Sexy Beast (2000, Jonathan Glazer) – 5.1

The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014, Wes Anderson) DP – 7.3

Age of Panic (2013, Justine Triet) – 5.5

The Lady from Shanghai (1947, Orson Welles) DP – 6.1

+Only Lovers Left Alive (2013, Jim Jarmusch) – 7.0 [up from 6.4]

The Great Dictator (1940, Charles Chaplin) 35mm – 6.2

The Fourth Man (1983, Paul Verhoeven) 35mm – 5.8

Two Rode Together (1961, John Ford) 35mm – 5.9

45365 (2009, Bill Ross IV & Turner Ross) – 6.5

Destiny (1921, Fritz Lang) 16mm – 5.2

+Upstream Color (2013, Shane Carruth) – 6.9 [same]

The Grim Reaper (1962, Bernardo Bertolucci) – 6.3

Moonfleet (1955, Fritz Lang) 35mm – 5.4

Journey to the West (2014, Tsai Ming-liang) – 7.2

+The Bride of Frankenstein (1935, James Whale) 16mm – Inc. [awful sound on print; still ~7.0]

 

March

+A Prophet (2009, Jacques Audiard) – 4.8 [same]

The Lego Movie (2014, Phil Lord. & Christopher Miller) 3D – 5.4

+Disorder (2009, Huang Weikai) – 7.1 [up from 6.7]

Nymphomaniac: Volume I (2013, Lars von Trier) DP – 5.6

Nymphomaniac: Volume II (2013, Lars von Trier) DP – 7.4 [Rating for the combined film]

Stemple Pass (2012, James Benning) DP – 6.0

+Make Way for Tomorrow (1937, Leo McCarey) – 7.8 [same]

+Bad Education (2004, Pedro Almodóvar) – 5.5 [down from ~7.0]

Life of Riley (2014, Alain Resnais) – 6.2

The Second Game (2014, Corneliu Porumboiu) – 5.3

A Month in Thailand (2012, Paul Negoescu) – 6.6

Showgirls (1995, Paul Verhoeven) 35mm – 5.9

+Once Upon a Time in Anatolia (2011, Nuri Bilge Ceylan) – 7.7 [same]

The Hawks and the Sparrows (1966, Pier Paolo Pasolini) 35mm – 4.2

+Dogtooth (2009, Yorgos Lanthimos) – 8.2 [same]

+Disorder (2009, Huang Weikai) – 7.1 [same]

The Decameron (1971, Pier Paolo Pasolini) 35mm – 6.1

The Canterbury Tales (1972, Pier Paolo Pasolini) 35mm – 3.3

Arabian Nights (1974, Pier Paolo Pasolini) 35mm – 4.9

Snowpiercer (2013, Bong Joon-ho) – 6.6

+Ajami (2009, Scandar Copti & Yaron Shani) – 3.8 [~same]

Love Meetings (1964, Pier Paolo Pasolini) 35mm – 5.3

The Overnighters (2014, Jesse Moss) – 5.7

+Chungking Express (1994, Wong Kar-wai) – 7.0 [~same]

+Journey to the West (2014, Tsai Ming-liang) – 7.2 [same]

Nô (1998, Robert Lepage) 35mm – 5.5

 

April

Kasbah (2000, Mariano Barroso) – 2.9

Noah (2014, Darren Aronofsky) DP – 6.3

The Wind (1928, Victor Sjöström) Toronto Silent, 16mm – 5.8

The Stolen Man (2007, Matías Piñeiro) DP – 5.9

Porcile (1969, Pier Paolo Pasolini) 35mm – 4.6

Rosalinda (2011, Matías Piñeiro) DP – 6.0

+Viola (2012, Matías Piñeiro) DP – 7.2 [same]

Actress (2014, Robert Greene) – 6.0

Joy of Man’s Desiring (2014, Denis Côté) – 5.6

The Vanquishing of the Witch Baba Yaga (2014, Jessica Oreck) – 5.6

Guidelines (2014, Jean-François Caissy) – 5.0

The Possibilities Are Endless (2014, James Hall & Edward Lovelace) – 5.9

The Immortalists (2014, David Alvarado & Jason Sussberg) – 4.7

+Beetlejuice (1988, Tim Burton) – 6.4 [down from ~7.4]

Concerning Violence (2014, Göran Olsson) – 3.9

Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom (1975, Pier Paolo Pasolini) 35mm – 5.0

The Songs of Rice (2014, Uruphong Raksasad) – 5.3

Sorcerer (1977, William Friedkin) DP – 7.6

A Dirty Story (1977, Jean Eustache) Images, 35mm – 6.8

Acadia Acadia?!? (1971, Michel Brault) DP – 6.7

+Julia (2008, Erick Zonca) – 7.3 [down from ~7.5]

Lucía (1968, Humberto Solás) 35mm – 6.4

+Dusty Stacks of Mom: The Poster Project (2013, Jodie Mack) – 8.6 [up from 8.3]

Miraculous Tales (2013, Daniel Vernon) – 4.9

Proxy (2013, Zack Parker) – 5.8

Enemy (2013, Denis Villeneuve) – 4.7

Portrait of Jason (1967, Shirley Clarke) Hot Docs, 35mm – 5.5

Happy Valley (2014, Amir Bar-Lev) Hot Docs, DP – 5.6

 

May

Art and Craft (2014, Jennifer Grausman & Sam Cullman) Hot Docs, DP – 5.4

Ida (2013, Pawel Pawlikowski) – 5.2

See No Evil (2014, Jos de Putter) – 5.9

Rich Hill (2014, Andrew Droz Palermo & Tracy Droz Tragos) – 5.8

The Great Escape (1963, John Sturges) DP – 6.2

Je t’aime je t’aime (1968, Alain Resnais) 35mm – 7.5

+A Month in Thailand (2012, Paul Negoescu) DP – 7.2 [up from 6.6]

M (1951, Joseph Losey) 35mm – 5.1

Too Much Johnson (1938, Orson Welles) 35mm – 6.9

The Magnificent Ambersons (1942, Orson Welles) 35mm – 7.8

Grace of Monaco (2014, Olivier Dahan) Cannes, DP – 2.9

Timbuktu (2014, Abderrahmane Sissako) Cannes, DP – 6.0

Mr. Turner (2014, Mike Leigh) Cannes, DP – 5.5

Party Girl (2014, Marie Amachoukeli, Claire Burger, & Samuel Theis) Cannes, DP – 5.1

Darker Than Midnight (2014, Sebastiano Riso) Cannes, DP – 4.3

Girlhood (2014, Celine Sciamma) Cannes, DP – 4.5

The Captive (2014, Atom Egoyan) Cannes, DP – 4.7

The Blue Room (2014, Mathieu Amalric) Cannes, DP – 5.3

Winter Sleep (2014, Nuri Bilge Ceylan) Cannes, DP – 6.4

Wild Tales (2014, Damián Szifron) Cannes, DP – 5.3

Amour fou (2014, Jessica Hausner) Cannes, DP – 7.1

Saint Laurent (2014, Bertrand Bonello) Cannes, DP – 6.3

National Gallery (2014, Frederick Wiseman) Cannes, DP – 7.5

Welcome to New York (2014, Abel Ferrara) Cannes Marché du Film, DP – 6.6

It Follows (2014, David Robert Mitchell) Cannes, DP – 5.9

Force Majeure (2014, Ruben Östlund) Cannes, DP – 6.0

Beautiful Youth (2014, Jaime Rosales) Cannes, DP – 4.8

Jauja (2014, Lisandro Alonso) Cannes, DP – 5.6

Maps to the Stars (2014, David Cronenberg) Cannes, DP – 4.0

Eat Your Bones (2014, Jean-Charles Hue) Cannes, DP – 6.1

A Girl at My Door (2014, July Jung) Cannes, DP – 4.6

The Wonders (2014, Alice Rohrwacher) Cannes, DP – 6.2

Bird People (2014, Pascale Ferran) Cannes, DP – 4.8

Still the Water (2014, Naomi Kawase) Cannes, DP – 3.6

When Animals Dream (2014, Jonas Alexander Arnby) Cannes, DP – 4.1

Two Days, One Night (2014, Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne) Cannes, DP – 6.8

Foxcatcher (2014, Bennett Miller) Cannes, DP – 4.9

The Kindergarten Teacher (2014, Nadav Lapid) Cannes, DP – 6.5

Queen and Country (2014, John Boorman) Cannes, DP – 5.5

The Girl and the River (2014, Aurélia Georges) Cannes, DP – 3.0

Lost River (2014, Ryan Gosling) Cannes, DP – 3.9

The Search (2014, Michel Hazanavicius) Cannes, DP – 4.2

Maïdan (2014, Sergei Loznitsa) Cannes, DP – 5.9

Goodbye to Language (2014, Jean-Luc Godard) Cannes, 3D – 9.9

Mommy (2014, Xavier Dolan) Cannes, DP – 4.8

Snow in Paradise (2014, Andrew Hulme) Cannes, DP – 4.4

Jimmy’s Hall (2014, Ken Loach) Cannes, DP – 5.1

Alleluia (2014, Fabrice Du Welz) Cannes, DP – 6.9

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

Leviathan (2014, Andrei Zvyagintsev) Cannes, DP – 4.0

Misunderstood (2014, Asia Argento) Cannes, DP – 5.3

Clouds of Sils Maria (2014, Olivier Assayas) Cannes, DP – 6.4

The Tribe (2014, Myroslav Slaboshpytskiy) Cannes, DP – 5.4

Hippocrates (2014, Thomas Lilti) Cannes, DP – 3.6

White God (2014, Kornél Mundruczó) Cannes, DP – 3.2

Li’l Quinquin (2014, Bruno Dumont) Cannes, DP – 6.5

Run (2014, Philippe Lacôte) Cannes, DP – 4.9

The Salvation (2014, Kristian Levring) Cannes, DP – 5.2

Red Army (2014, Polsky Gabe) Cannes, DP – 4.2

The Homesman (2014, Tommy Lee Jones) Cannes, DP – 5.8

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

The Salt of the Earth (2014, Wim Wenders & Juliano Ribeiro Salgado) Cannes, DP – 4.3

Coming Home (2014, Zhang Yimou) Cannes, DP – 3.5

In the Name of My Daughter (2014, André Téchiné) Cannes, DP – 6.2

+12 Angry Men (1957, Sidney Lumet) – 8.3 [~same]

Silvered Water, Syria Self-Portrait (2014, Ossama Mohammed) – 6.1

The Lord’s Ride (2010, Jean-Charles Hue) – 5.4

Futuro Beach (2014, Karim Aïnouz) Inside Out, DP – 5.2

Lucky Them (2013, Megan Griffiths) – 5.7

 

June

+Film Socialisme (2010, Jean-Luc Godard) – 6.3 [down from 7.1]

+The Kid with a Bike (2011, Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne) – 6.5 [same]

Locke (2013, Steven Knight) DP – 4.5

+Sheep (2013, Gilles Deroo & Marianne Pistone) – 7.1 [same]

Illumination (1973, Krzysztof Zanussi) DP – 5.9

Camouflage (1977, Krzysztof Zanussi) DP – 5.3

Mercuriales (2014, Virgil Vernier) – 5.0

L for Leisure (2014, Lev Kalman & Whitney Horn) – 5.5

+Nashville (1975, Robert Altman) – 9.4 [same]

What Now? Remind Me (2013, Joaquim Pinto) – 5.2

Cremaster 4 (1995, Matthew Barney) 35mm – 4.4

Cremaster 5 (1997, Matthew Barney) 35mm – 5.4

Ashes and Diamonds (1958, Andrzej Wajda) DP – 4.1

Opening Night (1977, John Cassavetes) – 7.0

The Marquise of O (1976, Eric Rohmer) – 8.1

Man of Iron (1981, Andrzej Wajda) DP – 3.3

Coherence (2013, James Ward Byrkit) – 6.4

+The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014, Wes Anderson) – 6.3 [down from 7.3]

+Rosetta (1999, Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne) – 6.1 [down from ~7.8]

Boyhood (2014, Richard Linklater) NXNE, DP – 7.7

Non-Stop (2014, Jaume Collet-Serra) – 5.0

Rendezvous in Paris (1995, Eric Rohmer) – 6.2

Pauline at the Beach (1983, Eric Rohmer) – 6.8

The Hourglass Sanatorium (1973, Wojciech Has) DP – 3.5

+The Green Ray (1986, Eric Rohmer) – 7.5 [same]

The Last of England (1988, Derek Jarman) 35mm – 5.7

A Summer’s Tale (1996, Eric Rohmer) – 6.4

From the Notebook of… (2000, Robert Beavers) 16mm – 7.3

The Last Day of Summer (1958, Tadeusz Konwicki) DP – 4.9

+Only Lovers Left Alive (2013, Jim Jarmusch) – 7.0 [same]

Exhibition (2013, Joanna Hogg) – 5.3

i hate myself :) (2013, Joanna Arnow) DP – 6.0

Blue (1993, Derek Jarman) 35mm – 5.9

The Aviator’s Wife (1981, Eric Rohmer) – 6.8

It Felt Like Love (2013, Eliza Hittman) – 4.8

The Saragossa Manuscript (1965, Wojciech Has) DP – 3.4

Wittgenstein (1993, Derek Jarman) DP – 5.4

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

 

July

A Good Marriage (1982, Eric Rohmer) – 5.7

Four Adventures of Reinette and Mirabelle (1987, Eric Rohmer) – 6.6

+Pather Panchali (1955, Satyajit Ray) 35mm – 5.8 [up from 5.5]

Aparajito (1956, Satyajit Ray) 35mm – 5.2

The River (1951, Jean Renoir) 35mm – 5.0

The World of Apu (1959, Satyajit Ray) 35mm – 5.9

Days and Nights in the Forest (1970, Satyajit Ray) 35mm – 4.8

The Tiger of Eschnapur (1959, Fritz Lang) 35mm – 5.5

The Indian Tomb (1959, Fritz Lang) 35mm – 5.2

Life Itself (2014, Steve James) – 6.1

Gradual Speed (2013, Els Van Riel) Media City, 16mm – 4.6

Rivers of Sand (1974, Robert Gardner) 16mm – 6.0

All That Heaven Allows (1955, Douglas Sirk) – 7.3

Every Night (2001, Eugène Green) – 5.4

The Living World (2003, Eugène Green) – 6.5

+Le Pont des Arts (2004, Eugène Green) – 6.6 [down from 7.6]

Three Daughters [Two Daughters + Monihara] (1961, Satyajit Ray) 35mm – 4.6

The Portuguese Nun (2009, Eugène Green) – 5.4

India: Matri Bhumi (1959, Roberto Rossellini) DP – 5.2

+Hard to Be a God (2013, Alexei German) – 6.2 [same]

India Song (1975, Marguerite Duras) 35mm – 7.1

La Sapienza (2014, Eugène Green) – 5.6

You Are Not I (1981, Sara Driver) DP – 6.6

+Clouds of Sils Maria (2014, Olivier Assayas) – 6.2 [down from 6.4]

Lucy (2014, Luc Besson) DP – 6.8

+Spring Breakers (2012, Harmony Korine) – 7.5 [up from 6.9]

Orlando (1992, Sally Potter) 35mm – 5.7

Thief (1981, Michael Mann) – 5.3

They Came Together (2014, David Wain) – 4.1

+The Living World (2003, Eugène Green) – 6.5 [same]

 

August

Barry Lyndon (1975, Stanley Kubrick) 35mm – 6.7

+Boyhood (2014, Richard Linklater) DP – 8.0 [up from 7.7]

MASH (1970, Robert Altman) DP – 5.8

+McCabe & Mrs. Miller (1971, Robert Altman) 35mm – 5.1 [down from 6.0]

That Cold Day in the Park (1969, Robert Altman) 35mm – 6.1

+Le Pont des Arts (2004, Eugène Green) – 6.6 [same]

Whiplash (2014, Damien Chazelle) DP – 5.5

The Coward (1965, Satyajit Ray) 35mm – 5.9

The Holy Man (1965, Satyajit Ray) 35mm – 4.4

Year of the Horse (1997, Jim Jarmusch) 35mm – 4.7

Don’t Go Breaking My Heart (2011, Johnnie To) – 5.9

Yojimbo (1961, Akira Kurosawa) 35mm – 5.1

The Long Goodbye (1973, Robert Altman) 35mm – 6.9

An Eye for Beauty (2014, Denys Arcand) DP – 3.8

+Maps to the Stars (2014, David Cronenberg) DP – 6.7 [up from 4.0]

Tu dors Nicole (2014, Stéphane Lafleur) DP – 6.3

Thieves Like Us (1974, Robert Altman) 35mm – 6.2

Images (1972, Robert Altman) 35mm – 3.7

California Split (1974, Robert Altman) 35mm – 5.8

Le beau danger (2014, René Frölke) – 2.9

Señoritas (2013, Lina Rodriguez) DP – 5.5

Hill of Freedom (2014, Hong Sang-soo) – 6.9

Come Back to the 5 & Dime Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean (1982, Robert Altman) 35mm – 4.8

+Double Play: James Benning and Richard Linklater (2013, Gabe Klinger) DP – 6.0 [down from 6.3]

+American Dreams: Lost and Found (1984, James Benning) 35mm – 6.4 [up from 5.8]

The Princess of France (2014, Matías Piñeiro) – 4.9

Los Hongos (2014, Oscar Ruiz Navia) – 4.8

Elephant Song (2014, Charles Binamé) DP – 4.4

1001 Grams (2014, Bent Hamer) DP – 5.2

+Short Cuts (1993, Robert Altman) 35mm – 8.2 [up from ~6.1]

Two Shots Fired (2014, Martín Rejtman) DP – 5.0

A Hard Day (2014, Kim Seong-hun) DP – 4.9

The Theory of Everything (2014, James Marsh) DP – 4.7

Flapping in the Middle of Nowhere (2014, Diep Hoang Nguyen) DP – 4.7

Not My Type (2014, Lucas Belvaux) DP – 7.1

The Company (2003, Robert Altman) 35mm – 6.5

 

September

Henry Fool (1997, Hal Hartley) – 6.6

The Cobbler (2014, Thomas McCarthy) DP – 2.7

Fay Grim (2006, Hal Hartley) – 5.4

The Tale of Princess Kaguya (2013, Isao Takahata) TIFF, DP – 5.2

Gett, the Trial of Viviane Amsalem (2014, Ronit Elkabetz & Shlomi Elkabetz) TIFF, DP – 6.0

’71 (2014, Yann Demange) TIFF, DP – 4.9

+Alleluia (2014, Fabrice Du Welz) TIFF, DP – 6.1 [down from 6.9]

Far from Men (2014, David Oelhoffen) TIFF, DP – 4.6

A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence (2014, Roy Andersson) TIFF, DP – 6.8

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

+Amour fou (2014, Jessica Hausner) TIFF, DP – 7.1 [same]

Phoenix (2014, Christian Petzold) TIFF, DP – 7.6

Letters to Max (2014, Eric Baudelaire) TIFF, DP – 5.0

Episode of the Sea (2014, Lonnie van Brummelen, Siebren de Haan, & the inhabitants of Urk) TIFF, DP – 5.8

Pasolini (2014, Abel Ferrara) TIFF, DP – 5.3

Tales of the Grim Sleeper (2014, Nick Broomfield) TIFF, DP – 6.1

While We’re Young (2014, Noah Baumbach) TIFF, DP – 5.5

Eden (2014, Mia Hansen-Løve) TIFF, DP – 6.9

Heaven Knows What (2014, Joshua & Benny Safdie) TIFF, DP – 6.6

Manglehorn (2014, David Gordon Green) TIFF, DP – 5.7

The Duke of Burgundy (2014, Peter Strickland) TIFF, DP – 3.5

Horse Money (2014, Pedro Costa) TIFF, DP – 7.7

Fires on the Plain (2014, Shinya Tsukamoto) TIFF, DP – 3.1

Wild (2014, Jean-Marc Vallée) TIFF, DP – 5.4

The Look of Silence (2014, Joshua Oppenheimer) TIFF, DP – 5.1

Time Out of Mind (2014, Oren Moverman) TIFF, DP – 4.2

Sand Dollars (2014, Laura Amelia Guzmán & Israel Cárdenas) TIFF, DP – 5.5

The Color of Pomegranates (1968, Sergei Parajanov) TIFF, DP – 3.4

Return to Ithaca (2014, Laurent Cantet) TIFF, DP – 3.0

+La Sapienza (2014, Eugène Green) TIFF, DP – 6.1 [up from 5.6]

Ned Rifle (2014, Hal Hartley) TIFF – 5.8

The Emperor’s Naked Army Marches On (1987, Kazuo Hara) – 5.3

The New Girlfriend (2014, François Ozon) TIFF, DP – 3.2

+Journey to the West (2014, Tsai Ming-liang) TIFF, DP – 7.9 [up from 7.2]

Breathe (2014, Mélanie Laurent) TIFF, DP – 5.3

+Horse Money (2014, Pedro Costa) TIFF, DP – 7.7 [same]

From What is Before (2014, Lav Diaz) TIFF, DP – 4.9

+Jauja (2014, Lisandro Alonso) TIFF, DP – 6.6 [up from 5.6]

+Li’l Quinquin (2014, Bruno Dumont) TIFF, DP – 7.3 [up from 6.5]

Tokyo Tribe (2014, Sion Sono) TIFF, DP – 5.0

Don’t Go Breaking My Heart 2 (2014, Johnnie To) TIFF, DP – 5.5

+Eden (2014, Mia Hansen-Løve) TIFF, DP – 6.6 [down from 6.9]

Every Man for Himself (1980, Jean-Luc Godard) 35mm – 5.6

Listen Up Philip (2014, Alex Ross Perry) DP – 5.8

Love is Strange (2014, Ira Sachs) DP – 6.2

Edge of Tomorrow (2014, Doug Liman) – 6.4

+Stormy Waters (1941, Jean Grémillon) – 6.5 [down from 8.1]

+The Marquise of O (1976, Eric Rohmer) – 8.1 [same]

+Saint Laurent (2014, Bertrand Bonello) NYFF, DP – 6.4 [up from 6.3]

 

October

The Fugitive Kind (1960, Sidney Lumet) 35mm – 5.9

The Man from Laramie (1955, Anthony Mann) NYFF, DP – 5.5

The Clock (1945, Vincente Minnelli) 35mm – 7.2

Iris (2014, Albert Maysles) NYFF, DP – 4.8

People Will Talk (1951, Joseph L. Mankiewicz) NYFF, 35mm – 5.1

Don’t Grieve (1969, Giorgi Danelia) 35mm – 3.6

Gone Girl (2014, David Fincher) DP – 7.0

Ming of Harlem: Twenty One Storeys in the Air (2014, Phillip Warnell) NYFF, DP – 5.8

Inherent Vice (2014, Paul Thomas Anderson) NYFF, DP – 6.2

Sauerbruch Hutton Architects (2013, Harun Farocki) NYFF, DP – 5.5

El Futuro (2013, Luis Lopez Carrasco) NYFF, DP – 5.0

A Film Like Any Other (1968, Jean-Luc Godard) 16mm – 4.3

Obvious Child (2014, Gillian Robespierre) – 6.3

White Bird in a Blizzard (2014, Gregg Araki) – 4.9

+Modern Times (1936, Charles Chaplin) – 6.5 [same]

First Name: Carmen (1983, Jean-Luc Godard) 35mm – 6.5

The Wrong Man (1956, Alfred Hitchcock) 35mm – 5.9

Hail Mary (1985, Jean-Luc Godard) 35mm – 6.4

Détective (1985, Jean-Luc Godard) 35mm – 5.6

Angels of Revolution (2014, Aleksei Fedorchenko) – 5.5

The Lies of the Victors (2014, Christoph Hochhäusler) – 5.9

My Twentieth Century (1989, Ildikó Enyedi) – 5.1

Rancho Notorious (1952, Fritz Lang) 35mm – 5.7

Pravda (1970, Dziga Vertov Group) [Jean-Luc Godard, Paul Burron, & Jean-Henri Roger] DP – 3.6

British Sounds (1970, Jean-Luc Godard & Jean-Henri Roger) 16mm – 4.9

+Two Days, One Night (2014, Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne) – 6.8 [same]

Wind from the East (1970, Dziga Vertov Group) [Jean-Luc Godard, Jean-Pierre Gorin, & Gérard Martin] 16mm – 2.5

Struggle in Italy (1971, Dziga Vertov Group) [Jean-Luc Godard & Jean-Pierre Gorin] 16mm – 4.5

The Extra Girl (1923, F. Richard Jones) – 5.8

The Iron Ministry (2014, J.P. Sniadecki) – 5.8

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

King Lear (1987, Jean-Luc Godard) 35mm – 7.3

One P.M./One Pennebaker Movie (1971, Jean-Luc Godard, Richard Leacock, & D.A. Pennebaker) DP – 5.6

Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) (2014, Alejandro G. Iñárritu) DP – 5.1

+24 City (2008, Jia Zhang-ke) – 5.7 [~same]

 

November

Blackmail [Silent Version] (1929, Alfred Hitchcock) DP – 6.3

Downhill (1927, Alfred Hitchcock) DP – 4.0

+Welcome to New York (2014, Abel Ferrara) – 7.0 [up from 6.6]

Keep Your Right Up (1987, Jean-Luc Godard) 35mm – 5.9

Killer’s Kiss (1955, Stanley Kubrick) 35mm – 3.3

Interstellar (2014, Christopher Nolan) 70mm – 5.0

Madame DuBarry (1919, Ernst Lubitsch) 16mm – 4.7

Rouge (1987, Stanley Kwan) – 4.9

CITIZENFOUR (2014, Laura Poitras) DP – 6.0

Criss Cross (1949, Robert Siodmak) 35mm – 5.3

Nouvelle vague (1990, Jean-Luc Godard) 35mm – 6.1

The Big Sleep (1946, Howard Hawks) 35mm – 7.5

Tout va bien (1972, Jean-Luc Godard & Jean-Pierre Gorin) 35mm – 5.5

Letter to Jane: An Investigation About a Still (1972, Jean-Luc Godard & Jean-Pierre Gorin) 16mm – 4.8

Paths of Glory (1957, Stanley Kubrick) DP – 5.6

Hit 2 Pass (2014, Kurt Walker) – 5.6

A Midsummer’s Fantasia (2014, Jang Kun-jae) – 7.2

+Superstar: The Karen Carpenter Story (1988, Todd Haynes) – 7.8 [same]

Germany Year 90 Nine Zero (1991, Jean-Luc Godard) 35mm – 4.4

JLG/JLG – Self-Portrait in December (1994, Jean-Luc Godard) 35mm – 6.4

The Babadook (2014, Jennifer Kent) – 4.1

+Wavelength (1967, Michael Snow) 16mm – 9.7 [up from 9.3]

Oh, Woe Is Me (1993, Jean-Luc Godard) 35mm – 6.9

Numéro deux (1975, Jean-Luc Godard) 35mm – 5.9

For Ever Mozart (1996, Jean-Luc Godard) DP – 4.7

Level Five (1997, Chris Marker) – 5.7

Still Alice (2014, Richard Glatzer & Wash Westmoreland) – 5.2

Soft and Hard (1985, Jean-Luc Godard & Anne-Marie Miéville) DP – 4.6

The Children Play Russian (1993, Jean-Luc Godard) DP – 6.3

2 x 50 Years of French Cinema (1995, Jean-Luc Godard & Anne-Marie Miéville) DP – 6.7

 

December

+In Praise of Love (2001, Jean-Luc Godard) 35mm – 5.5 [same]

Nightcrawler (2014, Dan Gilroy) – 5.1

Le rapport Darty (1989, Jean-Luc Godard & Anne-Marie Miéville) DP – 5.2

+Do the Right Thing (1989, Spike Lee) – 8.7 [~same]

Ellie Lumme (2014, Ignatiy Vishnevetsky) – 5.9

+Eyes Wide Shut (1999, Stanley Kubrick) 35mm – 7.9 [down from ~8.5]

The Old Place (2000, Jean-Luc Godard & Anne-Marie Miéville) DP – 6.4

Always for Pleasure (1978, Les Blank) – 6.7

Starred Up (2013, David Mackenzie) – 5.8

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

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

My Darling Clementine (1946, John Ford) – 7.3

+3x3D (2013, Jean-Luc Godard, Peter Greenaway, & Edgar Pêra) 3D – 6.1 [Greenaway: [7]; Pêra: [1]; Godard: [9]] [down from 7.0]

Calvary (2014, John Michael McDonagh) – 3.3

+Gone Girl (2014, David Fincher) – 7.0 [same]

The Interview (2014, Evan Goldberg & Seth Rogen) – 5.3

+Under the Skin (2013, Jonathan Glazer) – 6.2 [down from 7.3]

Living Stars (2014, Mariano Cohn & Gastón Duprat) – 4.1

+The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974, Tobe Hooper) – 7.4 [same]

22 Jump Street (2014, Phil Lord & Christopher Miller) – 4.5

A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night (2014, Ana Lily Amirpour) – 3.4

Happy Christmas (2014, Joe Swanberg) – 6.0

Dumb and Dumber To (2014, Bobby & Peter Farrelly) – 5.0

Guardians of the Galaxy (2014, James Gunn) – 5.4

Bird People (2014, Pascale Ferran) – 6.7 [up from 4.8]