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)