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]