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This list will be updated each time I see a film from 2024 (world premiere/imdb date) that is better than at least one of the films already on the list.
- The Periphery of the Base (Zhou Tao)
- Megalopolis (Francis Ford Coppola)
- Misericordia (Alain Guiraudie)
- DIRECT ACTION (Ben Russell & Guillaume Cailleau)
- Afternoons of Solitude (Albert Serra)
- Chime (Kiyoshi Kurosawa)
- The Invisible Zoo (Romuald Karmakar)
- The Adamant Girl (P.S. Vinothraj)
- A Traveler’s Needs (Hong Sang-soo)
- The Shrouds (David Cronenberg)
Polls Top 10 (Eligible titles [will] appear here.)
- AGGRO DR1FT (2023, Harmony Korine)
- Megalopolis (2024, Francis Ford Coppola)
- Coma (2022, Bertrand Bonello)
- We Had the Day Bonsoir (2022, Narimane Mari)
- The Natural History of Destruction (2022, Sergei Loznitsa)
- A Prince (2023, Pierre Creton)
- The Dream and the Radio (2022, Renaud Després-Larose & Ana Tapia Rousiouk)
- Fairytale (2022, Aleksandr Sokurov)
- Close Your Eyes (2023, Víctor Erice)
- The Lives of Infamous Men (2022, Gilles Deroo & Marianne Pistone)
My Top 10 “Oldies” (first-time viewings of films made before 2010)
- Ruskin (1975, Robert Beavers)
- Near Orouët (1971, Jacques Rozier)
- Time of Maturity (1976, Sohrab Shahid Saless)
- Nathalie Granger (1972, Marguerite Duras)
- The Trouble with Harry (1955, Alfred Hitchcock)
- Live Flesh (1997, Pedro Almodóvar)
- Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence (1983, Nagisa Oshima)
- Destroy, She Said (1969, Marguerite Duras)
- Taboo (1999, Nagisa Oshima)
- Invisible Days, or the Legend of the White Crocodiles [English Version] (1991, Eva Hiller)
Other 2024 films I’ve seen
- Challengers (Luca Guadagnino) – 6.5
- Anora (Sean Baker) – 6.5
- Queer (Luca Guadagnino) – 6.4
- Between the Temples (Nathan Silver) – 6.4
- Hard Truths (Mike Leigh) – 6.4
- Measures for a Funeral (Sofia Bohdanowicz) ~ 6.4
- By the Stream (Hong Sang-soo) – 6.3
- Christmas Eve in Miller’s Point (Tyler Taormina) – 6.3
- bluish (Lilith Kraxner & Milena Czernovsky) – 6.3
- Invention (Courtney Stephens) – 6.2
- The Empire (Bruno Dumont) – 6.2
- Abiding Nowhere (Tsai Ming-liang) – 6.2
- Youth (Homecoming) (Wang Bing) – 6.2
- Lázaro at Night (Nicolás Pereda) – 6.1
- You Burn Me (Matías Piñeiro) – 6.0
- Nanacatepec (Elena Pardo & Azucena Losana) – 6.0
- Caught by the Tides (Jia Zhang-ke) – 5.9
- Seven Walks with Mark Brown (Pierre Creton & Vincent Barré) – 5.9
- 100,000,000,000,000 (Virgil Vernier) – 5.9
- Shambhala (Min Bahadur Bham) – 5.9
- exergue — on documenta 14 (Dimitris Athiridis) – 5.8
- All We Imagine as Light (Payal Kapadia) – 5.8
- The Substance (Coralie Fargeat) – 5.8
- Collective Monologue (Jessica Sarah Rinland) – 5.7
- Dahomey (Mati Diop) – 5.7
- The Seed of the Sacred Fig (Mohammad Rasoulof) – 5.7
- Cloud (Kiyoshia Kurosawa) – 5.7
- Cidade; Campo (Juliana Rojas) – 5.7
- April (Dea Kulumbegashvili) – 5.6
- The Suit (Heinz Emigholz) – 5.6
- Viet and Nam (Minh Quý Trương) – 5.6
- Black Dog (Guan Hu) – 5.6
- Favoriten (Ruth Beckermann) – 5.6
- Kinds of Kindness (Yorgos Lanthimos) – 5.6
- Fire of Wind (Marta Mateus) – 5.6
- Suspended Time (Olivier Assayas) – 5.6
- Who By Fire (Philippe Lesage) – 5.5
- Universal Language (Matthew Rankin) – 5.5
- Sleep #2 (Radu Jude) – 5.5
- Jimmy (Yashaddai Owens) – 5.5
- Emilia Pérez (Jacques Audiard) – 5.5
- The Damned (Roberto Minervini) – 5.4
- Trap (M. Night Shyamalan) – 5.4
- Pepe (Nelson Carlos De Los Santos Arias) – 5.4
- Black Tea (Abderrahmane Sissako) – 5.4
- Filmlovers! (Arnaud Desplechin) – 5.4
- A Different Man (Aaron Schimberg) – 5.3
- The Other Way Around (Jonás Trueba) – 5.3
- Nickel Boys (RaMell Ross) – 5.3
- Bogancloch (Ben Rivers) – 5.3
- Visiting Hours (Patricia Mazuy) – 5.3
- Matt and Mara (Kazik Radwanski) – 5.3
- Dreaming Dogs (Levin Peter & Elsa Kremser) – 5.3
- The Diary of a Sky (Lawrence Abu Hamdan) – 5.3
- The Girl with the Needle (Magnus von Horn) – 5.3
- Rumours (Guy Maddin, Evan Johnson, & Galen Johnson) – 5.2
- Eat the Night (Caroline Poggi & Jonathan Vinel) – 5.2
- Motel Destino (Karim Aïnouz) – 5.2
- The Room Next Door (Pedro Almodóvar) – 5.1
- The Sparrow in the Chimney (Ramon Zürcher) – 5.1
- My Undesirable Friends: Part I — Last Air in Moscow (Julia Loktev) – 5.1
- Sleep with Your Eyes Open (Nele Wohlatz) – 5.1
- Eephus (Carson Lund) – 5.1
- The Wrong Movie (Keren Cytter) – 5.1
- Grand Tour (Miguel Gomes) – 5.0
- Oh, Canada (Paul Schrader) – 5.0
- Flow (Gints Zilbalodis) – 5.0
- Youth (Hard Times) (Wang Bing) – 5.0
- Nightbitch (Marielle Heller) – 4.9
- This Life of Mine (Sophie Fillières) – 4.9
- Drama 1882 (Wael Shawky) – 4.9
- Architecton (Victor Kossakovsky) – 4.9
- Eight Postcards from Utopia (Radu Jude & Christian Ferencz-Flatz) – 4.9
- Relay (David Mackenzie) – 4.8
- Diciannove (Giovanni Tortorici) – 4.8
- Pavements (Alex Ross Perry) – 4.8
- Small Things Like These (Tim Mielants) – 4.8
- The Second Act (Quentin Dupieux) – 4.7
- The Fable (Raam Reddy) – 4.7
- Death Will Come (Christoph Hochhäusler) – 4.6
- Little, Big, and Far (Jim Cohen) – 4.6
- It Doesn’t Matter (Josh Mond) – 4.6
- Happyend (Neo Sora) – 4.5
- When the Phone Rang (Iva Radivojević) – 4.5
- I Saw the TV Glow (Jane Schoenbrun) – 4.5
- Beating Hearts (Gilles Lellouche) – 4.5
- Twilight of the Warriors: Walled In (Soi Cheang) – 4.5
- Blue Sun Palace (Constance Tsang) – 4.5
- No Other Land (Basel Adra, Hamdan Ballal, Yuval Abraham, & Rachel Szor) – 4.4
- Telepathic Letters (Edgar Pêra) – 4.4
- Nothing in Its Place (Burak Çevik) ~ 4.4
- A Family (Christine Angot) – 4.4
- Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga (George Miller) – 4.3
- Twisters (Lee Isaac Chung) – 4.3
- So Long (Guillaume Brac) – 4.3
- Ivo (Eva Trobisch) – 4.3
- Friendship (Andrew DeYoung) – 4.2
- On Becoming a Guinea Fowl (Rungano Nyoni) – 4.2
- All the Long Nights (Shô Miyake) – 4.2
- Babygirl (Halina Reijn) – 4.1
- The End (Joshua Oppenheimer) – 4.1
- The Box Man (Gakuryu Ishii) – 4.1
- An Unfinished Film (Lou Ye) – 4.0
- Three Kilometers to the End of the World (Emanuel Parvu) – 4.0
- It’s Not Me (Leos Carax) – 3.9
- The Brutalist (Brady Corbet) – 3.9
- Turn in the Wound (Abel Ferrara) – 3.9
- Marcello Mio (Christophe Honoré) – 3.8
- Wild Diamond (Agathe Riedinger) – 3.8
- The Ballad of Suzanne Césaire (Madeleine Hunt-Ehrlich) – 3.6
- Harvest (Athina Rachel Tsangari) – 3.5
- Stranger Eyes (Siew Hua Yeo) – 3.5
- The Life of Chuck (Mike Flanagan) – 3.4
- The Apprentice (Ali Abbasi) – 3.2
- The Human Hibernation (Anna Cornudella) – 3.2
- The Most Precious of Cargoes (Michel Hazanavicius) – 3.2
- La Cocina (Alonso Ruizpalacios) – 3.0
- Bird (Andrea Arnold) – 2.7
- Presence (Steven Soderbergh) – 2.4
- Parthenope (Paolo Sorrentino) – 2.3
- Gazer (Ryan J. Sloan) – 1.7