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