FILMS SEEN, 2016

All films from U.S.A. unless otherwise specified.

(/ repeat viewing; [v] video piece; [p] paracinema (installation, etc.); [s] short, under 30 minutes; [m] medium length, 30-69 min; * grade changed upon repeat viewing; \ repeat viewing of something I walked out of or fell asleep during)

 

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JANUARY

-End of Year (Jonas Mekas) [s] [6]

-1-----1 {tension} (Karissa Hahn) [s] [7]

-Of the North (Dominic Gagnon, Canada) [5]

-Bridge of Spies (Steven Spielberg, U.S. / Germany / India) [6]

-The Project of the Century (Carlos Machado Quintela, Cuba / Argentina / Switzerland / Germany) [7]

-Sisters (Jason Moore) [6]

-The Treasure (Corneliu Porumboiu, Romania / France) [7]

-Reportage ! (Rei Hayama, Japan) [s] [6]

-Across (Cara Morton, Canada, 1997) [s]

-Pixel Jungle (Klara Ravat, Spain / Germany) [s] [7]

/-Cross Worlds (Cécile Fontaine, France, 2006) [s]

-The Tower (Salomé Lamas, Portugal / Germany / Moldova) [s] [4]

-Trois strophes sur le nom de Sacher (Chantal Akerman, France, 1989) [s]

-Her Silent Seaming (Nazlı Dinçel) [s] [7] [tentative grade]

-Maschile, Roma (Frield vom Gröller, Austria) [s] [7]

-Defenestration (Bea Haut, U.K.) [s] [5]

-Nocturno (Naoko Sasaki, Canada, 2003) [s]

-Light Reading (Lis Rhodes, U.K., 1978) [s]

-Meurtrière (Philippe Grandrieux, France) [m] [6]

-Partners (Joey Ally) [s] [5]

/-Barbie and her Sisters in A Pony Tale (Kyran Kelly, 2013)

/-Un chien andalou (Luis Buñuel, France, 1929) [s]

/-Rose Hobart (Joseph Cornell, 1936) [s]

/-Passage á l'acte (Martin Arnold, Austria, 1993) [s]

/-Bouquets 1-10 (Rose Lowder, France, 1995) [s]

/-Pony Glass (Lewis Klahr, 1998) [s]

-Big Hero 6 (Don Hall and Chris Williams) [6]

-Tomorrowland (Brad Bird) [5]

-Three Landscapes (Peter Hutton, 2013) [m]

-Sorrow and Joy (Nils Malmros, Denmark, 2013)

-Our Sunhi (Hong Sang-soo, South Korea, 2013)

 

FEBRUARY

/-Ballet Méchanique (Fernand Léger and Dudley Murphy, France, 1924) [s]

/Traces / Legacy (Scott Stark) [v/s] [7]

/-Mutiny (Abigail Child, 1982) [s]

/-The Man With the Movie Camera (Dziga Vertov, U.S.S.R., 1929)

-Coda I and Coda II (Peter Gidal, U.K., 2013) [s]

-Steve Jobs (Danny Boyle, U.K. / U.S.) [5]

-The Tony Longo Trilogy (Thom Andersen) [s] [6]

/-Meshes of the Afternoon (Maya Deren and Alexander Hammid, 1943) [s]

/-A Movie (Bruce Conner, 1958) [s]

-In the Absence of Light, Darkness Prevails (Fern Silva, U.S. / Brazil, 2010) [s]

/-Vivir para vivir / Live to Live (Laida Lertxundi, U.S. / Spain) [s] [7]

-A Movie by Jen Proctor (Jen Proctor, 2012) [s]

/-Mario Banana 1 (Andy Warhol, 1964) [s]

/-Barn Rushes (Larry Gottheim, 1971) [m]

/-Time and Tide(Peter Hutton, 2000) [m]

/-Sound That (Kevin Jerome Everson) [s] [8]

-Focus (Glenn Ficarra and John Requa) [5]

/My Neighbor Totoro (Hayao Miyazaki, Japan, 1988)

/-Pootie Tang (Louis C.K., 2001)

-Mustang (Deniz Gamze Ergüven, France / Germany / Turkey / Qatar) [6]

/-Unsere Afrikareise (Peter Kubelka, Austria, 1966) [s]

/-My Name Is Oona (Gunvor Nelson, U.S. / Sweden, 1969) [s]

/-Swiss Army Knife with Rats and Pigeons (Robert Breer, 1980) [s]

/-Puce Moment (Kenneth Anger, 1949) [s]

/-Scorpio Rising (Kenneth Anger, 1964) [s]

 

MARCH

-Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Road Chip (Walt Becker) [4]

-The Measure of a Man [La Loi du marché] (Stéphane Brizé, France) [6]

/-Four Corners (James Benning, 1997)

/-Spy (Paul Feig) [7]

-Fort Buchanan (Benjamin Crotty, France / Tunisia) [m] [6]

-Discontinuity (Lori Felker) [s] [6]

/-Barbie in A Mermaid Tale (Adam Wood, 2010)

The Lighted Field (Andrew Noren, 1987) [m]

Counting (Jem Cohen) [W/O] (0:32)

Jack's Dream (Joseph Cornell, 1938) [s]

Mirror (Robert Morris, 1969) [s]

/Anal Masturbation and Object Loss (Steve Reinke, U.S. / Canada, 2002) [v/s]

/My Parents Read Dreams I've Had About Them (Neil Goldberg, 1998) [v/s]

Je Suis Une Bombe (I Am a Bomb) (Elodie Pong, Switzerland, 2006) [v/s]

letters, notes (Stephanie Barber, 2000) [s]

/Standard Gauge (Morgan Fisher, 1984) [m]

Hand Movie (Yvonne Rainer, 1966) [s]

/A & B in Ontario (Joyce Wieland and Hollis Frampton, U.S. / Canada, 1984) [s]

Ah humanity! (Ernst Karel, Véréna Paravel, and Lucien Castaing-Taylor, France / U.S. / Japan) [s] [6]

The Mermaid (Stephen Chow, China) [7]

Irradiant Field (Laura Kraning) [s] [5]

Gasometers 3 (Nicky Hamlyn, U.K.) [s] [7]

Our Selves Unknown (Edwin Rostron, U.K.) [s] [6]

Bending To Earth (Rosa Barba, Germany) [s] [7]

King of Boys (Abattoir of Makoko) (Karimah Ashadu, Nigeria) [v/s] [5]

Coming Cold (Robert Todd) [s] [5]

There is a Happy Land Further Away (Ben Rivers, U.K.) [s] [7]

Reluctantly Queer (Akosua Adoma Owusu, Ghana / U.S.) [s] [7]

Summer 1975 (Wrik Mead, Canada) [v/s] [6]

I Remember Nothing (Zia Anger) [s] [4]

Loads (Curt McDowell, 1980)

A Boy Needs a Friend (Steve Reinke, U.S. / Canada) [v/s] [7]

Light Music (Lis Rhodes, U.K., 1977) [p/m]

/From The East (Chantal Akerman, Belgium / France / Portugal, 1993) [screening halted at 1:00 mark due to print damage]

Police Power and Freedom of Assembly: The GregoryMarch (The Film Group, 1969) [s]

The Illinois Parables (Deborah Stratman) [m] [7]

December (Nathaniel Dorsky) [s] [8] [tentative grade]

/The Devastated Land (Emmanuel Lefrant, France) [s] [6]*

Territorio (Alexandra Cuesta, Ecuador) [7]

Expression of the Sightless (Jessica Sarah Rinland, U.K.) [s] [7]

Jáaji Approx. (Sky Hopinka, U.S. / Ho-Chunk Nation) [s] [6]

6500 (Lisa Truttmann, U.S. / Austria) [s] [5]

A mystery inside a fact (Jonathan Schwartz) [s] [6]

26 Pulse Wrought - (Film for Rewinds) Vol. I Windows for Recursive Triangulation (Andrew Busti) [s] [7]

House Fire (Micah Weber) [s] [4]

Ears, Nose & Throat (Kevin Jerome Everson) [s] [7]

Vapour (Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Thailand / South Korea / China) [v/s] [6]

/Decodings (Michael Wallin, 1988) [s]

The Host (Miranda Pennell, U.K.) [m] [4]

Auditioning for Nathaniel (Kevin Jerome Everson) [s] [7]

time/OUT OF JOINT (Caspar Stracke, U.S. / Germany) [W/O] (0:22)

-He Who Eats Children (Ben Russell, U.S. / Suriname) [s] [7]

/-Sixty Six (Lewis Klahr) [9]*

Le Boudin (Salomé Lamas, Portugal / Germany) [s] [5]

Who painted the sky with wispy clouds? (Miranda Dershimer) [s] [5]

Solitary Acts 4 (Nazlı Dinçel) [s] [7]

/Sixty Six (Lewis Klahr) [9]

/-Zorns Lemma (Hollis Frampton, 1970) [m]

/-Wavelength (Michael Snow, Canada, 1967) [m]

-Fish Point (Pablo Mazzolo, Argentina) [s] [7]

-Actual TV Picture (William E. Jones) [v/s] [6]

-between us (Coral Short, Canada) [v/s] [4]

-Body Contours (Kristin Reeves) [s] [7]

-Bulletin (Craig Baldwin) [s] [5]

-Catalogue Vol. 3 (Small Spaces) (Dana Berman Duff) [s] [4]

-Covert Ciné (Janis Crystal Lipzin) [s] [7]

-Coy With Conviction (Karissa Hahn) [s] [5]

-Crack House (Vanessa Renwick) [s] [6]

-Dark Logic (Margaret Rorison) [s] [6]

-Diary - January 8th, 2015 (Jason Halprin) [s] [6]

-Endless, Nameless (Mont Tesprateep, Thailand) [s] [7]

-Friday Mosque (Azadeh Navai, U.S. / Iran) [s] [7]

-Gulls at Gibralter (Stephen Broomer, Canada) [s] [7]

-Harbour City (Simon Liu, U.S. / Hong Kong) [s] [6]

-Hold On (Bettina Hoffmann, Canada) [v/s] [4]

-In The Vicinity (Kelly Sears) [s] [5]

-Industrioclaustria (Zack Parrinella) [s] [5]

-Instrument (Anna Kipervaser, U.S. / Ukraine) [s] [4]

-Invert and All That Is Solid (Olivia Ciummo) [s] [7]

-Iron Condor (Meredith Lackey) [s] [6]

-Jenny & John (Heather Trawick) [v/s] [7]

-Journey to the Sea (Josh Gibson) [s] [7]

-Lacrimae rerum (Jamie Hull) [s] [5]

/-Landform 1 (Stephen Broomer, Canada) [s] [7]

-Leukos (Kris T. Force) [v/s] [3]

-Love Me (Barbara Sternberg, Canada) [s] [4]

-Maelstroms (Lana Z. Kaplan) [s] [5]

-Magnetic Resonance (Malic Amalya and Nathan Hill) [s] [4]

-newritual (Susan DeLeo) [s] [4]

-Non-Places: Beyond the Infinite (Péter Lichter, Hungary) [s] [5]

-Old Hat (Zach Iannazzi) [s] [8]

-On The Evening (Olivia Ciummo) [s] [5]

-One Universe, One God, One Nation (Yin-Ju Chin, Taiwan, 2012) [s]

-Shooting Star (Pierre Yves Clouin, France) [v/s] [4]

-Silent Sister (Janie Geiser) [s] [6]

-Soliloquy (Gina Basso) [s] [7]

-Excerpts From a Work in Progress (Undesirables) (Owen Land, 1999) [s]

/-Vertical Features Remake (Peter Greenaway, U.K., 1978) [m]

/-Wide Angle Saxon (Owen Land, 1975) [s]

-song for koko (Tommy Becker) [v/s] [4]

-song for our aquarium (Tommy Becker) [v/s] [4]

-Summer's Eve (Robert Todd) [s] [6]

-That Which Moves The Sun and Stars (Takahiro Suzuki, 2013) [v/s]

-The Dark Rift (Michael Betancourt) [v/s] [4]

-The Dogs of Space (Michael Betancourt) [v/s] [3]

-The Liquid Casket / Wilderness of Mirrors (Paul Clipson) [s] [6]

-The Man From Hong Kong (Karen Yasinsky) [s] [7]

-The Mess (Peter Burr) [v/s] [?]

-The Problem is That Everything is Fleeting (Karly Stark) [s] [7]

-Their (Julie Murray) [v/s] [6]

-Vito Acconci's Pryings (1971/2014) (Nishat Hossain) [s] [5]

-Whirred Whirled (Jesse Malmed) [s] [5]

-Wild Currents (Stephen Broomer, Canada) [s] [7]

-winter beyond winter (Jonathan Schwartz) [s] [6]

-Yi-Ren (The Person Of Whom I Think) (Tzu-An Wu, Taiwan) [s] [5]

-100 FORCE QUIT NOISE CANCEL CALCULATORS (Jon Satrom) [v/s] [3]

 

APRIL

-Hail, Caesar! (Joel Coen & Ethan Coen, U.K. / U.S. / Japan) [7]

/-Riddles of the Sphinx (Laura Mulvey and Peter Wollen, U.K., 1977)

-Mountains May Depart (Jia Zhangke, China / France / Japan) [6]

-Uncle Kent (Joe Swanberg, 2010)

-Out-Takes From the Life of a Happy Man (Jonas Mekas, 2012)

-Five Year Diary -- Reel 23: A Breakdown and After the Mental Hospital (Anne Charlotte Robertson, 1982) [s]

/-winter beyond winter (Jonathan Schwartz) [s] [6]

/-Her Silent Seaming (Nazlı Dinçel) [s] [7]

-Bleak Street (Arturo Ripstein, Mexico / Spain) [6]

-Lebanon: Salvaged From the Open Sea (Lynn Marie Kirby, U.S. / Lebanon, 2006) [s]

-Kick That Habit (Peter Liechti, Switzerland, 1989) [s]

-Signer's Suitcase (Peter Liechti, Switzerland, 1995)

-The Witch: A New-England Folktale (Robert Eggers, U.S. / U.K. / Canada / Brazil) [5]

-Lemonade (D. Rimmasch / T. Tourso / K. Joseph / M. Romanek / J. Åkerlund / B. Knowles / M. Matsoukas) [m] [8]

-The Boss (Ben Falcone) [5]

/-Sharon and the Birds on the Way to the Wedding (Lynn Kirby, 1987) [s]

/-Out of Step (Lynn Marie Kirby, 1999) [s]

-Requiescat (Lynn Marie Kirby, 2006) [s]

-34/400 Standardized Screen Tests (Lynn Marie Kirby, 2008) [s]

-Truly Sisters [excerpt] (Lynn Marie Kirby) [s]

-Vertical-Horizontal (Peter Liechti, Switzerland, 1985) [s]

-Zootopia (Byron Howard, Rich Moore, and Jared Bush) [7]

 

MAY

/-Light Is Waiting (Michael Robinson, 2007) [s]

-The Present (Jacob Frey, Germany) [s] [5]

-Louder Than Bombs (Joachim Trier, Norway / France / Denmark / U.S.) [6]

-Radiohead: Daydreaming (Paul Thomas Anderson, U.S. / U.K.) [7]

-Demon in the Freezer (Errol Morris) [s] [6]

/-When Marnie Was There (Hirosama Yonebayashi, Japan) [6]

-The Family Fang (Jason Bateman) [6]

-We Are Your Friends (Max Joseph, U.K. / France / U.S.) [5]

-A Lullaby to the Sorrowful Mystery (Lav Diaz, The Philippines / Singapore) [8]

 

JUNE

-From What is Before (Lav Diaz, The Philippines) [8]

-Jurassic World (Colin Trevorrow) [4]

-Fifty Shades of Grey (Sam Taylor-Johnson) [4]

-Remember (Atom Egoyan, Canada / Germany) [6]

-Wiener-Dog (Todd Solondz) [6]

/-Right Now, Wrong Then (Hong Sang-soo, South Korea) [8]

 

JULY

-Venice 70: Future Reloaded (Abbas Kiarostami, Iran / Italy, 2013) [s]

-Answer Print (Mónica Savirón) [s] [7]

-John Fitzgerald (Ashley MacLean) [v/s] [5]

-Our Little Sister (Hirokazu Kore-eda, Japan) [6]

-Short Stay (Ted Fendt) [m] [6]

Ghostbusters (Paul Feig) [6]

-Homo Sapiens (Nikolaus Geyrhalter, Austria / Germany / Switzerland) [8]

-0% Down (Josephine Meckseper, 2008) [s]

-Roommate: Curses (Jodie Mack) [s] [5]

-Love & Friendship (Whit Stillman, Ireland / Netherlands / France / U.S. / U.K.) [7]

-Florence (Peter Hutton, 1975) [s]

-Boston Fire (Peter Hutton, 1979) [s]

-Lódź Symphony (Peter Hutton, U.S. / Poland, 1993) [s]

-Landscape (for Manon) (Peter Hutton, 1987) [s]

 

AUGUST

-Cameraperson (Kirsten Johnson) [8]

-Slack Bay (Bruno Dumont, France) [6]

-The Dreamed Ones (Ruth Beckermann, Austria) [7]

-025 Sunset Red (Laida Lertxundi, U.S. / Spain) [s] [8]

-350 MYA (Terra Long, Morocco / Canada) [s] [7]

-Viva água (Cynthia Madansky, Italy) [s] [7] [tentative grade]

-Shades of Safflower-dyed celluloid (Oki Kayako, Japan) [s] [6]

-Sieranevada (Cristi Puiu, Romania / France / Bosnia and Herzegovina / Macedonia) [8]

-General Report II: The Abduction of Europe (Pere Portabella, Spain) [7]

-By the Time It Gets Dark (Anocha Suwichakornpong, Thailand / Netherlands / France / Qatar) [5]

-Images of Asian Music (A Diary from Life 1973-74) (Peter Hutton, U.S. / Thailand, 1974) [s]

-The Levelling (Hope Dickson Leach, U.K.) [5]

-In The Radiant City (Rachel Lambert) [4]

-Werewolf (Ashley McKenzie, Canada) [7]

-Hello Destroyer (Kevan Funk, Canada) [7]

-Park (Sofia Exarchou, Greece) [5]

-Little Wing (Selma Vilhunen, Finland) [6]

-Jeffrey (Yannilys Perez, Dominican Republic / France) [6]

Southside With You (Richard Tanne) [7]

 

SEPTEMBER

-Hermia & Helena (Matías Piñeiro, U.S. / Argentina) [7]

-The Death of Louis XIV (Albert Serra, France / Portugal) [tentative 7]

-Le Ciel Flamand (Peter Monsaert, Belgium) [5]

-Mimosas (Oliver Laxe, Spain / Morocco / France / Qatar) [8]

-Austerlitz (Sergei Loznitsa, Germany) [9]

-The Hedonists (Jia Zhangke, China) [s] [7]

-Abacus: Small Enough to Jail (Steve James) [7]

-ARQ (Tony Elliott, U.S. / Canada) [4]

-Ember (Zeki Demirkubuz, Turkey / Germany) [4]

-Silueta Sangreienta (Ana Mendieta, 1975) [s]

-Anima, Silueta de Cohetes (Firework Piece) (Ana Mendieta, 1976) [s]

-Há Terra! (Ana Vaz, Brazil / France) [s] [7]

-An Aviation Field (Joana Pimenta, Portugal / U.S. / Brazil) [4]

-Children of Lir (Katherin McInnis) [s] [4]

-Venus Delta (Antoinette Zwirchmayr, Austria) [s] [6]

-What's New (Nina Könnemann, Germany) [s] [4]

-The Water Show Extravaganza (Sophie Michael, U.K.) [s] [5]

-I'll Remember You As You Were, Not As What You'll Become (Sky Hopinka) [s] [5]

-Untitled (Björn Kämmerer, Austria) [s] [7]

-Strange Vision of Seeing Things (Ryan Ferko, Canada / Serbia) [s] [6]

-Luna e Santur (Joshua Gen Solondz) [s] [8]

/-Ears, Nose and Throat (Kevin Jerome Everson) [s] [7]

-Ten Mornings Ten Evenings and One Horizons (Tomonari Nishikawa, Japan) [s] [7]

-Flowers of the Sky (Janie Geiser) [s] [5]

-Ayhan and me (belit sag, Netherlands) [s] [4]

-Dark Adaptation (Chris Gehman, Canada) [s] [5]

-AS WITHOUT SO WITHIN (Manuela De Laborde, Mexico / U.S. / U.K.) [5]

-Cilaos (Camilo Restrepo, France) [s] [8]

-Foyer (Ismaïl Bahri, Tunisia / France) [s] [6]

-Indefinite Pitch (James N. Kienitz Wilkins) [s] [8]

-Burning mountains that spew flame (Helena Girón and Samuel M. Delgado, Spain) [s] [5]

-Untitled, 1925 (Madi Piller, Canada) [s] [4]

-Karl Marx City (Petra Epperlein and Michael Tucker, U.S. / Germany) [7]

Mad World (Wong Chun, Hong Kong) [6]

-Heartstone (Guðmundur Arnar Guðmundsson, Iceland / Denmark) [5]

Nocturama (Bertrand Bonello, France / Germany / Belgium) [8]

The Untamed (Amat Escalante, Mexico / Denmark / France / Germany / Norway / Switzerland) [4]

The Woman Who Left (Lav Diaz, Philippines) [7]

Ta'ang (Wang Bing, Hong Kong / France) [6]

Elle (Paul Verhoeven, France) [7]

Hunting Flies (Izer Aliu, Norway) [6]

Fixer (Adrian Sitaru, Romania / France) [5]

In The Blood (Rasmus Heisterberg, Denmark) [4]

Incantati (Danièle Huillet, Jean-Marie Straub, France, 2002) [s]

/Cilaos (Camilo Restrepo, France) [s] [7]*

/An Aviation Field (Joana Pimenta, Portugal / U.S. / Brazil) [s] [5]*

/Strange Vision of Seeing Things (Ryan Ferko, Canada / Serbia) [s] [6]

/Ears, Nose and Throat (Kevin Jerome Everson) [s] [7]

/Ten Mornings Ten Evenings and One Horizon (Tomonari Nishikawa, Japan) [s] [7]

/Luna e Santur (Joshua Gen Solondz) [s] [8]

Aquarius (Kleber Mendonça Filho, Brazil / France) [9]

Blessed Benefit (Mahmoud al Massad, Jordan / Germany / Netherlands) [6]

I Had Nowhere To Go (Douglas Gordon, Germany) [4]

-Kati Kati (Mbithi Masya, Kenya / Germany) [6]

It's Only the End of the World (Xavier Dolan, Canada / France) [5]

Norman: The Moderate Rise and Tragic Fall of a New York Fixer (Joseph Cedar, U.S. / Israel) [7]

Jackie (Pablo Larraín, U.K.) [4]

A Quiet Passion (Terence Davies, U.K. / Belgium) [7]

The Dreamed Path (Angela Schanelec, Germany) [tentative 7]

Katie Says Goodbye (Wayne Roberts) [2]

Safari (Ulrich Seidl, Austria) [6]

-The Empty Box (Claudia Sainte-Luce, Mexico / France) [5]

Paterson (Jim Jarmusch) [7]

My Entire High School Sinking Into the Sea (Dash Shaw) [7]

Moonlight (Barry Jenkins) [6]

Frantz (François Ozon, France / Germany) [5]

-The Giant (Johannes Nyholm, Sweden / Denmark) [6]

-The Ornithologist (João Pedro Rodrigues, Portugal / France / Brazil) [6]

Orphan (Arnaud des Pallières, France) [5]

Maliglitit (Searchers) (Zacharias Kunuk, Canada) [7]

Once Again (Adorr Gopalakrishnan, India) [5]

-Kékszakállú (Gastón Solnicki, Argentina) [7]

-Miss Impossible (Emilie Deleuze, France) [6]

The Bad Batch (Ana Lily Amirpour) [W/O] (1:12)

Singularity (Albert Serra, Spain / Italy) [p] [9]

Rudzienko (Sharon Lockhart, U.S. / Poland) [p] [6]

-Noces (Stephan Streker, Belgium / France / Luxembourg / Pakistan) [W/O] (0:43)

-A Brief History of Princess X (Gabriel Abrantes, France / Portugal / U.K.) [s] [7]

-The Fits (Anna Rose Holmer) [7]

-Operation Avalanche (Matt Johnson, Canada / U.S.) [5]

/-Meshes of the Afternoon (Maya Deren and Alexander Hammid, 1943) [s] [x3]

/-Ears, Nose and Throat (Kevin Jerome Everson) [s] [x3] [8]

Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children (Tim Burton, U.K. / Belgium / U.S.) [6]

 

OCTOBER

-Kate Plays Christine (Robert Greene) [7]

-Certain Women (Kelly Reichardt) [7]

-The Stairs (Hugh Gibson, Canada) [8]

-Chronic (Michel Franco, Mexico / France) [5]

/-Charlie Victor Romeo (Robert Berger, Karlyn Michelson, and Patrick Daniels) [x3] [8]

-The Commune (Thomas Vinterberg, Denmark / Sweden / Netherlands) [5]

-The Neon Demon (Nicolas Winding Refn, France / Denmark / U.S.) [5]

 

NOVEMBER

-Staying Vertical (Alain Guiraudie, France) [8]

-The Audition (Celia Rowlson-Hall, 2012) [s]

-Prom Night (Celia Rowlson-Hall, 2010) [s]

-The Act of Killing (Joshua Oppenheimer, Christine Cynn, and Anonymous, U.K. / Denmark / Norway, 2012) [x3]

-Tower (Keith Maitland) [7]

-Eldorado XXI (Salomé Lamas, Portugal / France / Peru) [6]

-In the Last Days of the City (Tamer El Said, Egypt / Germany / U.K. / United Arab Emirates) [6]

-Ma (Celia Rowlson-Hall) [7]

-I, Daniel Blake (Ken Loach, U.K. / France / Belgium) [6]

-The Love Witch (Anna Biller) [7]

-Formations (Brett Kashmere, Canada) [s] [7]

Arrival (Denis Villeneuve) [W/O] (0:30) [killing time until a Q&A job]

/Ma (Celia Rowlson-Hall) [7]

-Dyketactics (Barbara Hammer, 1974) [s]

-Race d'Ep [aka The Homosexual Century] (Lionel Soukaz, France, 1979)

-Knight of Cups (Terrence Malick) [4]

-Le Sexe des Anges (Lionel Soukaz, France, 1976) [m]

-White Lite (Jeff Keen, U.K., 1967) [s]

-Marvo Movie (Jeff Keen, U.K., 1967) [s]

-Ixe (Lionel Soukaz, France, 1980) [m]

-Sully (Clint Eastwood) [5]

-Theatrum Orbis Terrarum (Salomé Lamas, Portugal, 2013) [s]

-Encounters With Landscape (3x) (Salomé Lamas, Portugal, 2012) [s]

-Pending (Vincent Grenier, U.S. / Canada) [s] [7]

-Yourself and Yours (Hong Sangsoo, South Korea) [6]

-The Academy of Muses (José Luis Guerín, Spain) [4]

-The Girl on the Train (Tate Taylor) [5]

-Everything Else (Natalia Almada, Mexico) [5]

-My Golden Days (Arnaud Desplechin, France) [6]

-High-Rise (Ben Wheatley, U.K. / Belgium) [6]

-Off Frame AKA Revolution Until Victory (Mohanad Yaqubi, Palestine / Qatar) [m] [7]

-Three (Johnnie To, Hong Kong / China) [5]

-Sarah Winchester: A Ghost Opera (Bertrand Bonello, France) [s] [6]

 

DECEMBER

-Christine (Antonio Campos, U.S. / U.K.) [7]

-Krisha (Trey Edward Shults) [3]

-Manchester by the Sea (Kenneth Lonergan) [6]

-Graduation (Cristian Mungiu, Romania / France / Belgium) [6]

-Raman Raghav 2.0 (Anurag Kashyap, India) [7]

-Starless Dreams (Mehrdad Oskouei, Iran) [7]

-The Handmaiden (Park Chan-wook, South Korea) [W/O] (1:15)

-The Prison in Twelve Landscapes (Brett Story, Canada / U.S.) [6]

-Reichstag 9/11 (Ken Jacobs) [m] [6]

-Fire at Sea (Gianfranco Rosi, Italy / France) [6]

-Toni Erdmann (Maren Ade, Germany / Austria) [8]

-Everybody Wants Some!! (Richard Linklater) [6]

-Never Eat Alone (Sofia Bohdanowicz, Canada) [6]

-13th (Ava DuVernay) [6]

-Things to Come (Mia Hansen-Løve, France / Germany) [7]

-Good Buy Human (Carly Mark) [s] [4]

-Did I Really Die? (Carly Mark) [s] [4]

-O Sentimental Machine (William Kentridge, South Africa / Turkey) [s] [7]

-The Unknown Girl (Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne, Belgium / France) [5]

-American Honey (Andrea Arnold, U.K. / U.S.) [6]

-Julieta (Pedro Almodóvar, Spain) [7]

-Aferim! (Radu Jude, Romania / Bulgaria / Czech Republic / France) [7]

-I Am Not Your Negro (Raoul Peck, U.S. / France) [7]

-Life After Life (Zhang Hanyi, China) [7]

-The Human Surge (Eduardo Williams, Argentina / Brazil / Portugal) [4]

-Neruda (Pablo Larraín, Chile / Argentina / France / Spain / U.S.) [7]

-Bad mama, who cares (Brigid McCaffrey) [s] [7]

-GUN, HAT, GIRL, SCREAM (Mary Billyou) [s] [6]

-I don't think I can see an island (Christopher Becks and Emmanuel Lefrant, France) [s] [6]

-If You Can't See My Mirrors, I Can't See You (Alee Peoples) [s] [8]

-The Day Before the End (Lav Diaz, Philippines) [s] [5]

/-Answer Print (Mónica Savirón, U.S. / Spain) [s] [7]

-See a Dog, Hear a Dog (Jesse McLean) [s] [7]

-Élysée (Laurent Grasso, France) [s] [7]

-Wutharr - Saltwater Dreams (Karrabing Film Collective, Australia) [s] [7]

/-The Illinois Parables (Deborah Stratman) [m] [7]

-Voices Going to Indigo [Ai ni yuku tsubu no koe] (Kayako Oki, Japan) [s] [6]

-Braised Scales [Katsu gime no iroko] (Masaharu Oki, Japan) [s] [7]

-The Salesman (Asghar Farhadi, Iran / France) [6]

/-Indefinite Pitch (James N. Kienitz Wilkins) [s] [7]*

/-Elf (Jon Favreau, 2003)

-O.J.: Made in America (Ezra Edelman) [6]

-Little Men (Ira Sachs, U.S. / Greece) [7]

-I Am the Pretty Thing That Lives In the House (Osgood Perkins) [7]

-The Net (Kim Ki-duk, South Korea) [7]

-20th Century Women (Mike Mills) [8]

-Hidden Figures (Theodore Melfi) [7]

-Nocturnal Animals (Tom Ford) [5]

-Halimuhfack (Christopher Harris) [s] [8]

-Distant Shores (Christopher Harris) [s] [5]

-Bad Moms (Jon Lucas and Scott Moore) [5]

/-Moonlight (Barry Jenkins) [7]

-The Magnificent Seven (Antoine Fuqua) [W/O] (0:45)

-Swiss Army Man (Dan Kwan and Daniel Scheinert) [W/O] (0:51)

/-Eisenstein in Guanajuato (Peter Greenaway, Netherlands / Mexico / Finland / Belgium / France) [7]*

-Michael Jackson's Journey from Motown to Off The Wall (Spike Lee) [5]

-Loving (Jeff Nichols) [6]

/-Bad mama, who cares (Brigid McCaffrey) [s] [7]

/-Reluctantly Queer (Akosua Adoma Owusu, U.S. / Ghana) [s] [7]

-No Shooting Stars (Basim Magdy, France / Egypt) [s] [7] [tentative grade]

-Being 17 (André Téchiné, France) [7]

-The Future Perfect (Nele Wohlatz, Argentina) [m] [7]

-Ñores (sin señalar) [Misters - without blame-] (Annalisa D. Quagliata, Mexico) [s] [tentative 7]

-The Son of Joseph (Eugène Green, France / Belgium) [7]

fuck off and die 2016

 

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