FILMS SEEN, 2026

 

(No tickmark = seen theatrically; / 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

-Broken Rage (Takeshi Kitano, Japan, 2024) [m]

-Counting Crows: Have You Seen Me Lately? (Amy Scott, U.S., 2025)

Resurrection (Bi Gan, China / France, 2025)

-Rond est le monde (Olivier Dekegel, Belgium, 2013) [m]

-Om Dar-B-Dar (Kamal Swaroop, India, 1988)

-A Bigger Splash (Luca Guadagnino, Italy / France / U.S., 2015)

-There Is a Stone (Tatsunari Ota, Japan, 2022)

-Duse (Pietro Marcello, Italy / France, 2025)

-Siddheshwari (Mani Kaul, India, 1989)

-Shari (Nao Yoshigai, Japan, 2021) [m]

-Alien: Covenant (Ridley Scott, U.S., 2017)

-Pillion (Harry Lighton, U.K. / Ireland / Netherlands, 2025)

-Wounded Edges (Yannick Mosimann, Switzerland, 2026) [s]

-Decalogue I (Krzysztof Kieslowski, Poland, 1989) [m]

/-Geomeunyeo (Park Kyujae, South Korea, 2025) [s]

/-A Dark Room (Heehyun Choi, South Korea, 2025) [s]

/-Tulsa (Scott Stark, U.S., 2025) [s]

The Voice of Hind Rajab (Kaouther Ben Hania, France / Tunisia / U.S. / U.K. / Cyprus / Saudi Arabia / Italy / Netherlands, 2025)

-Decalogue II (Krzysztof Kieslowski, Poland, 1989) [m]

The Testament of Ann Lee (Mona Fastvold, U.S. / U.K. / Sweden / Cyprus / Hungary, 2025)

-Decalogue III (Krzysztof Kieslowski, Polans, 1989) [m]

-Things Many Eyes Have Seen (Yannick Mosimann, Switzerland, 2025) [s]

/-Wounded Edges (Yannick Mosimann, Switzerland, 2026) [s]

/-Did You Wonder Who Fired the Gun? (Travis Wilkerson, U.S., 2017)

-Decalogue IV (Krzysztof Kieslowski, Poland, 1989) [m]

-Back Home (Tsai Ming-liang, Taiwan / Laos, 2025)

-Decalogue V (Krzysztof Kieslowski, Poland, 1989) [m]

-Unerasable! (Socrates Saint-Wulfstan Drakos, Belgium / Thailand / Sweden, 2026)

-Fuori (Mario Martone, Italy / France, 2025)

-Decalogue VI (Krzysztof Kieslowski, Poland, 1989) [m]

-Decalogue VII (Krzysztof Kieslowski, Poland, 1989) [m]

-Decalogue VIII (Krzysztof Kieslowski, Poland, 1989) [m]

-Ella McKay (James L. Brooks, U.S., 2025) [W/O]

 

FEBRUARY

-Two Seasons, Two Strangers (Sho Miyake, Japan, 2025)

-Decalogue IX (Krzysztof Kieslowski, Poland, 1989) [m]

-Decalogue X (Krzysztof Kieslowski, Poland, 1989) [m]

Magellan (Lav Diaz, Philippines / Portgual / Spain / France / Taiwan, 2025)

His Motorbike, Her Island (Nobuhiko Obayashi, Japan, 1986)

-Exit 8 (Genki Kawamura, Japan, 2025)

-The Arab (Malek Bensmaïl, Algeria / Belgium / France / Switzerland / Saudi Arabia, 2026)

-Hamnet (Chloé Zhao, U.S. / U.K., 2025)

-The Adventure of Faustus Bidgood (Michael Jones and Andy Jones, Canada, 1986)

-A Useful Ghost (Ratchapoom Boonbunchachoke, Thailand / Singapore / France / Germany, 2025)

-Three Colors: White (Krzysztof Kieslowski, France / Poland / Switzerland, 1994)

-Peak Everything (Anne Émond, Canada, 2025) [W/O]

-Rabid (David Cronenberg, Canada, 1977)

-Limonov. The Ballad (Kirill Serebrennikov, France / Italy / Spain, 2024)

/-The Heart of the World (Guy Maddin, Canada, 2000) [s]

 

MARCH

-Camera Buff (Krzysztof Kieslowski, Poland, 1979)

-Yes (Nadav Lapid, Israel / France / Cyprus / Germany, 2025)

-In the Blink of an Eye (Andrew Stanton, U.S., 2026)

-Krakatoa (Carlos Casas, Spain / U.K. / Poland, 2026) [W/O]

-Everything Else is Noise (Nicolás Pereda, Mexico / Canada / Germany, 2026)

/-Working Girls (Lizzie Borden, U.S., 1986)

-Narrative (Anocha Suwichakornpong, Thailand / South Korea, 2025) [m]

-Eight Bridges (James Benning, U.S., 2026)

-The Little Sister (Hafsia Herzi, France / Germany, 2025)

-Nirvanna the Band the Show the Movie (Matt Johnson, Canada, 2025)

/-Magnolia (Paul Thomas Anderson, U.S., 1999)

-Dheepan (Jacques Audiard, France, 2015)

/-Zodiac (David Fincher, U.S., 2007)

-La Bête Humaine (Jean Renoir, France, 1938)

/-Lost in Translation (Sofia Coppola, U.S. / U.K., 2003)

-The Weary Hours of Two Lab Assistants (Burak Çevik, Turkey / Germany / U.K. / Croatia, 2026) [s]

-Summer of the Serpent (Kimi Takesue, U.S., 2004) [s]

-Dao (Alain Gomis, France / Guinea-Bissau / Senegal, 2026)

-Send Help (Sam Raimi, U.S., 2026)

-The Rib of the Greater Bay Area (Zhou Tao, Hong Kong, 2026)

-London (Sebastian Brameshuber, Austria, 2026)

-Drugstore Cowboy (Gus Van Sant, U.S., 1989)

Alpha (Julia Ducournau, France / Belgium, 2025)

-And the Moon Sets Over the Temple That Was (Justin Jinsoo Kim, South Korea, 2025)

-Another Earth (Ben Russell, France, 2026) [s]

-Local Sensations (Tulapop Saenjaroen, Thailand, 2026) [s]

 

APRIL

-Alyonka (Boris Barnet, U.S.S.R., 1962)

-To Die For (Gus Van Sant, U.S. / U.K., 1995)

/-We're All Going to the World's Fair (Jane Schoenbrun, U.S., 2021)

/-The Feeling That the Time for Doing Something Has Passed (Joanna Arnow, U.S., 2023)

-Anniversary (Jan Komasa, U.S. / Ireland, 2025)

-Eagles of the Republic (Tarik Saleh, Denmark / Finland / France / Sweden, 2025)

-The Suspended Step of the Stork (Theo Angelopoulos, Greece / France / Italy / Switzerland, 1991)

-The Air We Breathe (Christina Battle, Canada, 2023) [s]

-Document With No End (Kym McDaniel, U.S., 2025) [s]

/-Less Lethal Fetishes (Theo Cuthand, Canada, 2019) [s]

-Caves of Our Insides (Sabīne Šnē, Latvia, 2024) [s]

-Heavy Blood (Naomi Rincón-Gallardo, Mexico, 2018) [s]

-Weird Absurd Whatever (Zeynep Dadak and Çiçek Kahraman, Turkey, 2025) [s]

-KATARAKT (Sofia Dona, Germany / Greece, 2023) [s]

-Last May in Theaters (Arief Budiman, Soutk Korea / Indonesia, 2025) [s]

/-[pink noise] (Clint Enns, Canada, 2025) [s]

-What Birds Talk About When They Talk (Richard Ibghy & Marilou Lemmens, Canada, 2021) [s]

-Animal Eye (Carlo Nasisse, Costa Rica / U.S., 2025) [s]

-Unless the Eye Catch Fire (Brandon Poole, Canada, 2025) [s]

-Koki, Ciao (Quenton Miller, Netherlands, 2025) [s]

-Cursive (Serena Lee, Canada, 2026) [m]

-Extra Life (and Decay) (Stéphanie Lagarde, France / Netherlands, 2025) [s]

-The Rabbit Always Dies (Oona Taper, U.S., 2025) [s]

-Gorg O Mish (Radin Khodadadi, Canada / Iran, 2025) [x2] [s]

-Fragments Of (Elena Calvo, Spain, 2025) [x2] [s]

-Pasaj [Alley] (Defne Kirmizi, Turkey, 2026) [x2] [s]

-Anomalies dans le paysage (Félix Caraballo, France, 2025) [x2] [s]

-An Archive of Disappearing Sounds (Michaela Michalak, Canada, 2026) [s]

-The Noise of Time (Patricio Escartín, Mexico, 2024) [s]

-The Land Where Ghosts Could Speak (Tianhui Wu, U.K., 2024) [s]

-blue and sentimental (Chloë Gordon, Canada, 2024) [s]

-Herida (Wounded Gazelle) (Diana Esther, Domimican Republic, 2026) [s]

-Gathering Dust (Fox Maxy, U.S., 2023) [s]

-bio (space/opal) (Cassie Packham, Canada, 2026) [s]

-FoUBARthes: Death of the Author (Dayna McLeod, Canada, 2024) [s]

-A Weak & Panicked Animal (Jake Starr, Australia, 2024) [s]

-How to Excel at Everything (Marion Balac, France, 2024) [s]

-Sacred Disease (Renèe Helèna Browne, Ireland / U.K., 2020) [s]

-Per Se (Dierdre Logue, Canada, 2005) [s]

-Pixel Metabolism's Interface Ulcer (Zhongyao Wang, China, 2025) [s]

-LetMEbeaWomanTM.mp4 (E. Jane, U.S., 2020) [s]

-Surrendur (Karthik Pandian, U.S., 2026)

-The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser (Werner Herzog, West Germany, 1974)

-The Stopover (Collectif Faire-Part, Democratic Republic of Congo / Belgium, 2022) [s]

-95 and 6 to Go (Kimi Takesue, U.S., 2016)

-Where Are You Taking Me? (Kimi Takesue, U.S. / Uganda, 2010)

-Looking for Adventure (Kimi Takesue, U.S. / Peru, 2013) [m]

-Heaven's Crossroad (Kimi Takesue, U.S. / Vietnam, 2002) [m]

-Suspended (Kimi Takesue, U.S., 2009) [s]

-E=nyc2 (Kimi Takesue, U.S., 2005) [s]

-That Which Once Was (Kimi Takesue, U.S., 2011) [s]

-Rosewater (Kimi Takesue, U.S., 1999) [s]

-Bound (Kimi Takesue, U.S., 1995) [s]

/-Onlookers (Kimi Takesue, U.S. / Laos, 2023)

-The River Train (Lorenzo Ferro and Lucas A. Vignale, Argentina, 2026)

-Fantasy (Isabel Pagliai, France, 2025)

-Trial of Hein (Kai Stänicke, Germany, 2026)

-Only One Earth (Chen Jue and Jiu Ke, China, 1990)

-Romería (Carla Simón, Spain / Germany, 2025)

-Reform School Students (Wang Zijun and Wang Lan, China, 1994)

-Humboldt USA (G. Anthony Svatek, U.S., 2026)

Two Prosecutors (Sergei Loznitsa, France / Germany / Netherlands / Latvia / Romania / Lithuania / Ukraine, 2025)

-Every Contact Leaves a Trace (Lynne Sachs, U.S., 2025)

-A Date with Shirley (Ken Jacobs, U.S., 2026) [m]

-Clifford (Paul Flaherty, U.S., 1994)

The Devil Wears Prada 2 (David Frankel, U.S., 2026)

 

MAY

-Speech for a Melting Statue (Nizar Saleh, Paul Shemisi, Rob Jacobs, Anne Reijniers, Democratic Republic of Congo / Belgium, 2022) [s]

/-In the Mood for Love (Wong Kar-Wai, Hong Kong / France, 2000)

-What We Said to Brussels Airlines (Collectif Faire-Part, Democratic Republic of Congo / Belgium, 2026) [s]

-Joy Boy: A Tribute to Julius Eastman (Mawena Yehouessi, Fallon Mayanja, Rob Jacobs, Victoire Karina Kampire, Paul Shemisi, Anne Reijniers, Dem. Rep. of Congo / Belgium, 2026) [m]

-Flim Flam (Siegfried A. Fruhauf, Austria, 2026) [s]

-Veronique (Friedl vom Gröller, Austria, 2026) [s]

-Forever...Forever (Johann Lurf, Austria, 2026) [s]

-Depression (Bram Ruiter, Netherlands, 2025) [s]

-Black Trees (Francisco Rojas, Chile, 2026) [s]

/-The Virgin Suicides (Sofia Coppola, U.S., 1999)

-Unmeasurable Particles (Francisco Rojas, Chile, 2026) [s]

-Out Iris (Rushnan Jaleel, India, 2026) [s]

-Fractais Tropicais (Leonardo Pirondi, Brazil / Portugal, 2026)

/-Out Iris (Rushnan Jaleel, India, 2026) [s]

-Travelers' Suite (Leonardo Pirondi, Brazil / Portugal, 2026) [s]

-Manifesto of Feeble and Bitter Love (Abinadi Meza, U.S. / Mexico, 2025) [s]

-Polychora (Abinadi Meza, U.S. / Mexico, 2026) [s]

-Mounds Above the Earth (Jiayi Chen, U.S., 2026) [s]

-In Spite of Hell (Maximilien Luc Proctor, Germany, 2026) [s]

/-Memoirs Found in a Bathtub (Leonardo Pirondi, Brazil, 2026) [s]

-Remarkably Bright Creatures (Olivia Newman, U.S., 2026)

-Case 137 (Dominik Moll. France, 2025)

/-Challengers (Luca Guadagnino, U.S. / Italy, 2024)

-The Christophers (Steven Soderbergh, U.S. / U.K., 2025)

-Forever Your Maternal Animal (Valentina Maurel, Costa Rica / Belgium / France / Mexico, 2026)

-A Poet (Simón Mesa Soto, Colombia / Germany / Sweden, 2025) [W/O]

-Three Kilometres to the End of the World (Emanuel Pârvu, Romania, 2024)

-Mother Mary (David Lowery, U.S. / Germany / Ireland / Finland, 2026) [W/O]

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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