NEW RELEASES SEEN,
2015
All films from
U.S.A. unless otherwise specified.
([v] video piece; [s] short, under 30 minutes; [m] medium length, 30-69 min; *
grade changed upon repeat viewing)
[10]
[9]
Cemetery of Splendour (Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Thailand / U.K. / France / Germany / Malaysia / South Korea / Mexico / U.S. / Norway)
Engram of Returning (Daïchi Saïto, Canada) [s]
The Forbidden Room (Guy Maddin and Evan Johnson, Canada)
Hard To Be a God (Aleksei German, Russia)*
Night Without Distance (Lois Patiño, Spain / Portugal) [s]
[8]
Amour Fou (Jessica Hausner, Austria / Luxembourg / Germany)
Eisenstein in Guanajuato (Peter Greenaway, The Netherlands / Mexico / Finland / Belgium / France)
Experimenter: The Stanley Milgram Story (Michael Almereyda)
The Exquisite Corpus (Peter Tscherkassky, Austria) [s]
45 Years (Andrew Haigh, U.K.)
Invention (Mark Lewis, U.K. / Canada)
The Lanthanide Series (Erin Espelie)
El Movimiento (Benjamín Naishtat, Argentina / South Korea)
The Occidental Hotel (Lewis Klahr) [m]
Right Now, Wrong Then (Hong Sang-soo, South Korea)
Something Between Us (Jodie Mack) [s]
YOLO (Ben Russell, U.S. / South Africa) [s]
[7]
Afternoon (Tsai Ming-liang, Taiwan)
Appropriate Behavior (Desiree Akhavan, U.K.)
Arabian Nights: Volume 1, The Restless One (Miguel Gomes, Portugal / France / Germany / Switzerland)
Arabian Nights: Volume 2, The Desolate One (Miguel Gomes, Portugal / France / Germany / Switzerland)
The Assassin (Hou Hsiao-hsien, Taiwan / China / Hong Kong / France)
Baby Blue (Blake Williams, Canada) [v/s]
Bring Me The Head of Tim Horton (Guy Maddin, Evan Johnson and Galen Johnson, Canada) [m]
Chevalier (Athina Rachel Tsangari, Greece)
Chi-Raq (Spike Lee)
Chums From Across the Void (Jim Finn) [s]
Creed (Ryan Coogler)
Crimson Peak (Guillermo Del Toro, U.S. / Canada)
The Devastated Land (Emmanuel Lefrant, France) [s]
Drill Blue (Richard Kerr, Canada) [s]
The Duke of Burgundy (Peter Strickland, U.K.)
Effigy in Emulsion (Karissa Hahn) [s]
88:88 (Isiah Medina, Canada) [m]
Emulsion Electrons Imbued (Karissa Hahn) [s]
Entangled (Riccardo Giacconi, Colombia / Italy) [s]
The Event (Sergei Loznitsa, The Netherlands / Belgium)
The Everyday Ritual of Solitude Hatching Monkeys (Basim Magdy, Egypt / U.S. / U.K.) [s]
Field Niggas (Khalik Allah) [m]
Francofonia (Alexander Sokurov, France / Germany / The Netherlands)
Frozen Fever (Chris Buck and Jennifer Lee) [s]
Fugue (Kerstin Schroedinger, Canada / Germany) [s]
Girlhood (Céline Sciamma, France)
Grandma (Paul Weitz)
Half Human, Half Vapor (Mike Stoltz) [s]
Happy Hour (Ryusuke Hamaguchi, Japan)
Heart of a Dog (Laurie Anderson, France / U.S.)
How Heavy This Hammer (Kazik Radwanski, Canada)
Hyperlinks or It Didn't Happen (Cécile B. Evans, U.K.) [s]
In Effluence accord: Emulsion (Karissa Hahn) [s]
In Nothing Flat (Karissa Hahn) [s]
In the Shadow of Women (Philippe Garrel, France / Switzerland)
Intersection (Vincent Grenier, U.S. / Canada) [s]
Joy (David O. Russell)
The Kindergarten Teacher (Nadav Lapid, Israel)
Landform 1 (Stephen Broomer, Canada) [s]
Lessons of War (Peggy Ahwesh) [s]
Magic Mike XXL (Gregory Jacobs)
Mars Garden (Lewis Klahr) [s]
Men & Chicken (Anders Thomas Jensen, Denmark / Germany)
Message of Greetings: Prix Suisse / My Thanks / Dead of Alive (Jean-Luc Godard, Switzerland) [s]
The Mend (John Magary)
Navigator (Björn Kämmerer, Austria) [s]
Ned Rifle (Hal Hartley)
Neither God Nor Santa Maria (Samuel M. Delgado and Helena Girón, Spain) [s]
Office (Johnnie To, Hong Kong / China)
An Old Dog's Diary (Shumona Goel and Shai Heredia, India) [s]
Park Lanes (Kevin Jerome Everson)
People, Places, Things (James C. Strouse)
Phoenix (Christian Petzold, Germany / Poland)
Prima Materia (Charlotte Pryce) [s]
Psychic Driving (William E. Jones) [s]
Queen of Earth (Alex Ross Perry)
Rosehill (Brigitta Wagner, U.S. / Germany)
The Royal Road (Jenni Olson) [m]
Saint Laurent (Bertrand Bonello, France / Belgium)
Scales in the Spectrum of Space (Fern Silva) [s]
7 Chinese Brothers (Bob Byington)
Shaun the Sheep Movie (Mark Burton and Richard Starzak, U.K. / France)
Sicario (Denis Villeneuve)
Sixty Six (Lewis Klahr)
Something Horizontal (Blake Williams, Canada) [v/s]*
SPL 2: A Time For Consequences (Soi Cheang, China)
Spy (Paul Feig)
Sugarcoated Arsenic (Kevin Jerome Everson and Claudrena Harold) [s]
The Take-Up (Patrick Tarrant, U.K.) [s]
Taxi (Jafar Panahi, Iran)
They Had It Coming (Jon Jost)
Timbuktu (Abderrahmane Sissako, France / Mauritania)
Topophilia (Peter Bo Rappmund) [m]
Traces / Legacy (Scott Stark) [s]
UNcirCling (John Creson and Adam Rosen, Canada) [s]
untitled (Ashley MacLean) [v/s]
Ventos de Agosto (Gabriel Mascaro, Brazil)
vindmøller (Margaret Rorison) [s]
Vivir para vivir / Live to Live (Laida Lertxundi, U.S. / Spain) [s]
Wake (Eric Stewart) [s]
What We Do In the Shadows (Jemaine Clement and Taika Waititi, New Zealand)
While We're Young (Noah Baumbach)
World of Tomorrow (Don Hertzfeldt) [s]
[6]
All My Love All My Love (Hannah Black, U.K.) [s]
Alluvia (Sasha Litvintseva, U.K. /Russia / Turkey) [s]
Analysis of Emotions and Vexations (Wojcieck Bakowski, Poland) [s]
The Benaki Museum (Athina Rachel Tsangari, Greece) [s]
Black Code (Louis Henderson, France) [s]
Buzzard (Joel Potrykus)
Bridge 1A (Stephen Broomer, Canada) [s]
Bridge 1B (Stephen Broomer, Canada) [s]
Brooklyn (John Crowley, U.S. / U.K. / Ireland)
Call Me Lucky (Bobcat Goldthwait)
Carol (Todd Haynes, U.S. / U.K. / France)
Cathode Garden (Janie Geiser) [s]
Chestnut Street (Karissa Hahn) [s]
Coming to Terms (Jon Jost)*
A Deadly Adoption (Rachel Goldenberg)
The Diary of a Teenage Girl (Marielle Heller)
A Distant Episode (Ben Rivers, U.K.) [s]
Edge of Tomorrow (Doug Liman, U.S. / Australia)
Ex Machina (Alex Garland, U.S. / U.K.)
Exile Exotic (Sasha Litvintseva, U.K. / Russia) [s]
(ex)land (Mihai Grecu and Tibault Gleize, France) [s]
F For Fibonacci (Beatrice Gibson, U.K.) [s]
Faux Départ (False Start) (Yto Barrada, Morocco / U.S.) [s]
Gerontophilia (Bruce LaBruce, Canada)
The Great Invisible (Margaret Brown)
Hard As Opal (Jared Buckhiester and Dani Leventhal) [m]
An Honest Liar (Tyler Meason and Justin Weinstein, U.S. / Spain / Italy / Canada)
Hong Kong Trilogy: Preschooled Preoccupied Preposterous (Christopher Doyle, Hong Kong)
Honor Thy Father (Erik Matti, The Philippines)
The Hunting Ground (Kirby Dick)
The Iron Ministry (J.P. Sniadecki, U.S. / China)
Inside Out (Pete Docter)
Lost and Beautiful (Pietro Marcello, Italy)
Mad Ladders (Michael Robinson) [s]
Mad Max: Fury Road (George Miller, Australia / U.S.)
La mano visible (Gael García Bernal, U.S. / Argentina) [s]
Minotaur (Nicolás Pereda, Mexico / Canada) [m]
A Minute Ago (Rachel Rose) [s]
Mommy (Xavier Dolan, Canada)
My Skinny Sister (Saana Lenken, Sweden / Germany)
No Home Movie (Chantal Akerman, Belgium)
Non-Stop Beautiful Ladies (Alee Peoples) [s]*
OM Rider (Takeshi Murata) [s]
The Other Side (Roberto Minervini, Italy / France / U.S.)
Paper Towns (Jake Schreier)
A Pigeon Sat On a Branch Reflecting On Existence (Roy Andersson, Sweden / Germany / Norway / France)
Port Noir (Laura Kraning) [s]
Rabbit Season, Duck Season (Michael Bell-Smith) [s]
Retracking Home (Karissa Hahn) [s]*
Return of the Atom (Mika Taanila and Jussi Eerola, Finland / Germany)
Simmer (Karissa Hahn) [s]
The Sky Trembles and the Earth Is Afraid and the Two Eyes Are Not Brothers (Ben Rivers, U.K. / Morocco)
Son of Saul (László Nemes, Hungary)
The Spongebob Movie: Sponge Out of Water (Paul Tibbett)
Spotlight (Tom McCarthy)
Starfish Aorta Collosus (Lynne Sachs) [s]
Stinking Heaven (Nathan Silver)
Tangerine (Sean Baker)
Théodolitique (David K. Ross, Canada) [s]
Trainwreck (Judd Apatow)
Welcome To Me (Shira Piven)
When Marnie Was Here (Hiromasa Yonebayashi, Japan)
[5]
The Age of Adaline (Lee Toland Krieger)
All That Is Solid (Louis Henderson, France / U.K. / Ghana) [s]
Anomalisa (Duke Johnson and Charlie Kaufman)
Before the Portrait (Karissa Hahn) [s]
Beyond The Lights (Gina Prince-Bythewood)
The Big Short (Adam McKay)
Centre of the Cyclone (Heather Trawick, Canada) [s]
A Disaster Forever (Michael Gitlin) [s]
Far from the Madding Crowd (Thomas Vinterberg, U.K. / U.S.)
52 Tuesdays (Sophie Hyde, Australia)
The Girl in the Book (Marya Cohn)
Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief (Alex Gibney)
Goosebumps (Rob Letterman, U.S. / Australia)
The Hateful Eight (Quentin Tarantino)
Invocation of Uzi (Ross Meckfessel) [s]
Irrational Man (Woody Allen)
It Follows (David Robert Mitchell)
It's All So Quiet (Nanouk Leopold, The Netherlands / Germany)
Koza (Ivan Ostrochovský, Slovakia / Czech Republic)
last light (Ellie Epp, Canada) [s]
Many Thousands Gone (Ephraim Asili, Brazil / U.S.) [s]
Mistress America (Noah Baumbach)
Office Space Modulation (Terrarea, Canada) [s]
Price of Love (Hermon Hailay, Ethiopia)
The Reminder (Behrouz Rae) [s]
Results (Andrew Bujalski)
Room (Lenny Abrahamson, Ireland / Canada)
Rose (Shiloh Cinquemani) [s]
Sayre's Vapor (Karissa Hahn) [s]
Self/less (Tarsem Singh)
Song of Songs (Eva Neymann, Ukraine)
Stations of the Cross (Dietrich Brüggemann, Germany / France)
Tarlabaşi (Cynthia Madansky, Turkey) [s]
1001 Grams (Bent Hamer, Norway / Germany)
The Two Sights (Katherin McInnis) [s]
untitled (Behrouz Rae) [s]
A Young Patriot (Du Haibin, China / U.S.)
[4]
Cicatrix (Jeremy Moss) [s]
The Danish Girl (Tom Hooper, U.K. / Germany / U.S.)
The DUFF (Ari Sandel)
Entertainment (Rick Alverson)
Erysichthon (Jon Rafman, Canada) [s]
Eva Doesn't Sleep (Pablo Agüero, France / Argentina / Spain)
The Fire in My Brain That Separates Us (Benjamin Ramirez Pérez, Germany) [s]
Girls Lost (Alexandra-Therese Keining, Sweden / Denmark / Norway)
The Great Flood (Bill Morrison)
The Guest (Adam Wingard)
here (Ellie Epp, Canada) [s]
The Humbling (Barry Levinson, U.S. / Canada)
I Smile Back (Adam Salky)
In Girum Imus Nocte (Giorgio Andreotta Calò, Italy) [s]
Jupiter Ascending (The Wachowskis, U.S. / U.K.)
The Lobster (Yorgos Lanthimos, Ireland / U.K. / Greece / France / The Netherlands / U.S.)
Occidente (Ana Vaz, France / Portugal) [s]
The Other Woman (Nick Cassavetes)
The Peanuts Movie (Steve Martino)
Pitch Perfect 2 (Elizabeth Banks)
Pixels (Chris Columbus)
The Reflection of Power (Mihai Grecu, France) [s]
Reveries (Karissa Hahn) [s]
The Second Game (Corneliu Porumboiu, Romania)
Slow Zoom Long Pause (Sara Magenheimer) [s]
Solo For Rich Man (Beatrice Gibson, U.K.) [s]
The Somber Vault (John Powers) [s]
Something, Anything (Paul Harrill)
Terrestrial (Calum Walter) [s]
Uncertain Terms (Nathan Silver)
Victoria (Sebastian Schipper, Germany)
The Wonders (Alice Rohrwacher, Italy)
[3]
America: Imagine a World Without Her (Dinesh D'Souza and John Sullivan)
Hotel Transylvania 2 (Genndy Tartakovsky)
Lava (James Ford Murphy) [s]
My Name Is Emily (Simon Fitzmaurice, Ireland)
Radio at Night (James Richards, Germany / U.K.) [s]
[2]
Hello (Simon Fujiwara, Germany) [s]
Wild Canaries (Lawrence Michael Levine)
[1]
[W/O]
Blue Strait (Jon Jost) (0:45)
Fort Tilden (Sarah-Violet Bliss and Charles Rogers) (0:26)
Let's Kill Ward's Wife (Scott Foley) (0:28)
Northern Soul (Elaine Constantine, U.K.) (0:37)
The Pearl Button (Patricio Guzmán, Chile / France / Spain / Switzerland) (0:26)