NEW RELEASES SEEN,
2019
All films from
U.S.A. unless otherwise specified.
([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)
[10]
[9]
Pelourinho, They Don't Really Care About Us (Akosua Adoma Owusu, Germany / Ghana / Brazil) [s]
[8]
Above the Rain (Ken Jacobs) [s]
Austrian Pavilion (Philipp Fleischmann, Austria) [s]
Cézanne (Luke Fowler, U.K. / France) [s]
Chinese Portrait (Wang Xiaoshuai, China / Switzerland)
Cityscape (Michael Snow, Canada) [s]
Un Film Dramatique (Éric Baudelaire, France)
Fourteen (Dan Sallitt)
The Giverny Document (Single Channel) (Ja'Tovia Gary) [m]*
Heimat Is a Space in Time (Thomas Heise, Germany / Austria)
Joan of Arc (Bruno Dumont, France)
Just Don't Think I'll Scream (Frank Beauvais, France)
[7]
About Endlessness (Roy Andersson, Sweden / Norway / Germany)
Ashore [aka Terra Franca] (Leonor Teles, Portugal)
Atlantics (Mati Diop, France / Senegal / Côte d'Ivoire / Belgium)
The Bed and the Street (Mike Hoolboom and Heather Frise, Canada) [s]
Booksmart (Olivia Wilde)
Calder for Peter (Ephraim Asili) [s]
Cavalcade (Johann Lurf, Austria) [s]
The Chambermaid (Lila Avilés, Mexico)
Climax (Gaspar Noé, France / Belgium / U.S.)
Come Coyote (Dani and Sheilah ReStack, U.S. / Canada) [s]
Dark Waters (Todd Haynes)
Dear Babylon (Ayo Akingbade, U.K.) [s]
Dolemite Is My Name (Craig Brewer)
E-Ticket (Simon Liu, U.K. / U.S. / Hong Kong) [s]
Fast Color (Julia Hart)
La Flor (Mariano Llinás, Argentina)
Gathering Moss (Erin Espelie) [s]
Ghost Strata (Ben Rivers, U.K.) [m]
Ghost Town Anthology (Denis Côté, Canada)
Green Ash (Pablo Mazzolo, Argentina) [s]
Heavy Metal Detox (Josef Dabernig, Austria) [s]
Her Smell (Alex Ross Perry)
High Flying Bird (Steven Soderbergh)
Hope (Maria Sødahl, Norway / Sweden)
Hrvoji, Look at You From the Tower (Ryan Ferko, Slovenia / Croatia / Serbia / Canada) [s]
I Remember the Crows (Gustavo Vinagre, Brazil)
The Irishman [I Hear You Paint Houses] (Martin Scorsese, U.S. / Canada / Ireland)
Kitbull (Rosana Sullivan) [s]
Knife + Heart (Yann Gonzalez, France / Mexico / Switzerland)
Liberté (Albert Serra, France / Portugal / Spain)
Light From Light (Paul Harrill)
Light Licks: Pardes: Counting Flowers on the Wall (Saul Levine) [s]
Little Joe (Jessica Hausner, U.K. / Austria)
Lore (Sky Hopinka, Ho-Chunk Nation / U.S.) [s]*
Love Child (Eva Mulvad, Denmark)
Love Seat (Lyndsay Bloom) [s]
The Mafia Is Not What It Used to Be (Franco Maresco, Italy)
The Man Who Killed Don Quixote (Terry Gilliam, Spain / Belgium / France / Portugal / U.K.)
MS Slavic 7 (Sofia Bohdanowicz and Deragh Campbell, Canada) [m]
Mum's Cards (Luke Fowler, U.K.) [s]
The New King of Comedy (Stephen Chow, China)
No Data Plan (Miko Revereza)
No Land (Emily Chao) [s]
Once Upon a Planet (Ken Jacobs) [s]
Our Time (Carlos Reygadas, Mexico / France / Germany / Denmark / Sweden)
Oven Scene (Lyndsey Bloom) [s]
Parasite (Bong Joon-Ho, South Korea)
Parsi (Eduardo Williams and Mariano Blatt, Mexico) [s]
Pig (Mani Haghighi, Iran)
The Plagiarists (Peter Parlow)
Portrait of a Lady on Fire (Céline Sciamma, France)
Present.Perfect. (Shengze Zhu, U.S. / Hong Kong)
Ralf's Colors (Lukas Marxt, Austria)
The Red Album, or a Poetic Intent (Miryam Charles, Canada) [s]
Return of the Electric Love (Take II) (Ephraim Asili, U.S. / Canada) [s]
Rojo (Benjamín Naishtat, Argentina / Brazil / France / Netherlands / Germany)
A Room With a Coconut View (Tulapop Saenjaroen, Thailand) [m]
San Vittore (Yuri Ancarani, Italy / Germany) [s]
Science Without Substance (Daniel Barnett)
Shadow (Zhang Yimou, China)
The Sky is Clear and Blue Today (Ricky D'Ambrose) [s]
So Pretty (Jessie Jeffrey Dunn Rovinelli)
Sun Rave (Roy Samaha, Lebanon) [s]*
Sword of Trust (Lynn Shelton)
Teal (Björn Kämmerer, Austria / Germany) [s]
This Action Lies (James N. Kienitz Wilkins) [s]
Tondal's Vision (Stephen Broomer, Canada) [m]
A Topography of Memory (Burak Çevik, Turkey) [m]
(tourism studies) (Joshua Gen Solondz) [s]
Transcript (Erica Sheu, U.S. / Taiwan) [s]
The Twentieth Century (Matthew Rankin, Canada)
Two Sisters Who Are Not Sisters (Beatrice Gibson, France / U.K.) [s]
2008 (Blake Williams, Canada) [s]
Uncut Gems (Josh and Benny Safdie)
Vever (Deborah Stratman) [s]
Vitalina Varela (Pedro Costa, Portugal)
Wasteland No. 2: Hardy, Hearty (Jodie Mack) [s]
[6]
After DeCarava (Paige Taul) [s]
Amusement Ride (Tomonari Nishikawa, Japan / U.S.) [s]
Anne at Thirteen Thousand Feet (Kazik Radwanski, Canada)
Apollo 11 (Todd Douglas Miller)
L'avenir (Friedl vom Gröller, Austria) [s]
Bacurau (Kleber Mendonça Filho and Juliano Dornelles, Brazil / France)
Bait (Mark Jenkin, U.K.)
The Beach Bum (Harmony Korine, Switzerland / U.K. / France / U.S.)
Belonging (Burak Cevik, Turkey / Canada / France)
A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood (Marielle Heller)
The Body Remembers When the World Broke Open (Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers and Kathleen Hepburn, Canada / Norway)
Book of Hours (Annie McDonell, Canada) [s]
Circumplector (Gastón Solnicki, Argentina) [s]
Color-Blind (Ben Russell, U.S. / France / Germany) [s]
The Dead Don't Die (Jim Jarmusch, U.S. / Sweden)
Earth (Nikolaus Geyrhalter, Austria)
El Camino (Vince Gilligan)
The Family (Rok Biček, Slovenia / Austria)
Fluorescent Girl (Janie Geiser) [s]
Glass (M. Night Shyamalan)
Geometric Becomings 2 (Manuel DeLanda) [s]
Happy New Year, Colin Burstead (Ben Wheatley, U.K.)
The Heat: A Kitchen (R)evolution (Maya Gallus, Canada)
I Am Not Alone (Garin Hovannisian, Armenia / U.S.)
It Must Be Heaven (Elia Suleiman, Palestine / France / Canada / Germany / Turkey)
It's In the Game (Sondra Perry) [s]
Jordan River Anderson, the Messenger (Alanis Obomsawin, Canada) [m]
Leto (Kirill Serebrennikov, Russia / France)
Lines of Force (Dan Browne, Canada) [s]*
Low Tide (Eva Kolcze, Canada) [s]*
Once Upon a Time...in Hollywood (Quentin Tarantino, U.S. / U.K. / China)
Pain and Glory (Pedro Almodóvar, Spain)
Past Perfect (Jorge Jácome, Portugal) [s]
Peterloo (Mike Leigh, U.K.)
PHX (X Is For Xylonite) (Frances Scott, U.K.) [s]
Points (Syd Staiti) [s]
Postal (Colectivo Los Ingrávidos, Mexico) [s]
Preemptive Listening (Part 1: The Fork in the Road) (Aura Satz, U.K.) [s]
Les Proies (The Game) (Marine de Contes, France) [m]
The Sequence of Years (Ben Balcom) [s]
Slow Volumes (Mike Gibisser) [s]
So Many Voices in the Silence Now (Cristiana Miranda, Brazil) [s]
A Study of Fly (Cherilyn Hsing-Hsin Liu) [s]
Tempting Devils (Jean-Claude Brisseau, France)
The Tree (Henry Hills) [s]
The Whistlers (Corneliu Porumboiu, Romania / France / Germany)
A Wild Stream (Nuria Ibáñez Castañeda, Mexico)
Wittnerchrome Notes I & II (Nick Collins, U.K.) [s]
Years of Construction (Heinz Emigholz, Germany)
Young Ahmed (Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne, Belgium / France)
Zombi Child (Bertrand Bonello, France)
[5]
A ogni uccello il suo nido è bello (Lorenzo Gattorna) [s]
Ad Astra (James Gray, U.S. / China)
At Eternity's Gate (Julien Schnabel, Switzerland / Ireland / U.K. / France / U.S.)
At War (Stéphane Brizé, France)
Billy (Zachary Epcar) [s]
The Bite (Pedro Neves Marques, Brazil / Portugal) [s]
Black Sun (Maureen Fazendiero, Portugal / France) [s]
cold soup, pubic hair, raw meat (Laura Gillmore) [s]
The Farewell (Lulu Wang)
The Father (Petar Valchanov and Kristina Grozeva, Italy / Greece / Bulgaria)
Framing John DeLorean (Don Argott and Sheena M. Joyce)
Hidden Man (Jiang Wen, China)
High Life (Claire Denis, France / Germany / Poland / U.K.)
The Hottest August (Brett Story)
Joker (Todd Phillips)
The Last Black Man in San Francisco (Joe Talbot)
Letter to the Editor (Alan Berliner)
Lumen (Richard Ashrowan, U.K.) [s]
Lydon (Lucy Kerr) [s]
The Magic Life of V (Tonislav Hristov, Finland / Denmark / Bulgaria)
Marriage Story (Noah Baumbach)
Mektoub, My Love: Canto Uno (Abdellatif Kechiche, France / Italy)
Mister America (Eric Notarnicola)
more than everything (Rainer Kohlberger, Austria) [s]
Murmur (Heather Young, Canada)
Non-Fiction [Doubles vies] (Olivier Assayas, France)
Our Mothers (César Díaz, Guatemala / Belgium / France)
Paddleton (Alexandre Lehmann)
Pink Curtain (Jennifer Bolande) [s]
Pwdre Ser the rot of stars (Charlotte Pryce) [s]
Queen & Slim (Melina Matsoukas)
Replicas (Jeffrey Nachmanoff, U.K. / China / Puerto Rico / U.S.)
Rest in Peace - Clown: Gone Forever (Luisa Andrade, Brazil) [s]
SaF05 (Charlotte Prodger, U.K. / Italy) [s]
Second Generation (Miryam Charles, Canada) [s]
Sunset (László Nemes, Hungary / France)
Synonyms (Nadav Lapid, Israel / France)
Take Me Somewhere Nice (Ena Sendijarević, Netherlands / Bosnia and Herzegovina)
Those That, at a Distance, Resemble Another (Jessica Sarah Rinland, Argentina / Spain / U.K.) [m]
Those That Tremble as if They Were Mad (Salma Shamel, U.S. / Egypt) [s]
Traveling Shoes (Kevin Jerome Everson) [s]
Trouble (Mariah Garnett, U.S. / U.K.)
Two (Vasilios Papaioannu) [s]
Walking On Water (Andrey M. Paounov, Italy / U.S. / Germany / U.A.E.)
When It Is Still (Anna Kipervaser) [s]
Who's Afraid of Ideology? (Marwa Arsanios, Lebanon) [m]
The Wild Goose Lake (Diao Yinan, China / France)
Yomeddine (Abu Bakr Shawky, Egypt / U.S. / Austria)
[4]
Ayka (Sergey Dvortsevoy, Russia / Germany / Poland / Kazakhstan / China / France)
Between Dog and Wolf (Julia Dogra-Brazell, U.K.) [s]
Dorothy (Diana Sánchez) [s]
Everybody Knows (Asghar Farhadi, Spain / France)
everyday star (Rajee Samarasinghe, Sri Lanka / U.S.) [s]
A Faithful Man (Louis Garrel, France)
Fire Will Come (Oliver Laxe, Spain / France / Luxembourg)
The Forcing (epilogue) (Lydia Moyer) [s]
God's Nightmares (Daniel Cockburn, Canada) [s]
Helios (Eric Stewart) [s]
Hochzeit im Paradies (Friedl vom Gröller, Austria) [s]
Inherent Drone (Colectivo Los Ingrávidos, Mexico) [s]
Mustererkenntnis (Pattern Cognition) (Thorsten Fleisch, Germany) [s]
Night Eyes (Arte Matu) [s]
A Post Post-Racial Apolitical Ode (Colored Collage #3) (Jon-Sesrie Goff) [s]
The Price of Everything (Nathaniel Kahn)
Redados (Colectivo Los Ingrávidos, Mexico) [s]
Resin (Daniel Borgman, Denmark)
Ruins (Shona Masarin) [s]
Sauvage (Camille Vidal-Naquet, France)
A Soft Place to Fall (Nan Wang, China / Netherlands) [s]
A Tale of Three Sisters (Emin Alper, Turkey / Germany / Netherlands / Greece)
Touch Me Not (Adina Pintilie, Romania / Germany / Czech Republic / Bulgaria / France)
Waves (Trey Edward Shults)
We Still Have to Close Our Eyes (John Torres, Philippines) [s]
[3]
Capernaum (Nadine Labaki, Lebanon / France / U.S.)
The Forcing (Lydia Moyer) [m]
[2]
Devil Between the Legs (Arturo Ripstein, Mexico / Spain)
[1]
[W/O]
Aquarela (Viktor Kossakovsky, U.K. / Germany / Denmark / U.S. / Greenland) (0:35)
Before You Know It (Hannah Pearl Utt) (0:28)
Clara's Ghost (Bridey Elliott) (0:38)
Jupiter's Moon (Kornél Mundruczó, Hungary / France / Germany) (1:04)
Never Look Away [Werk ohne Autor] (Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck, Germany / Italy) (0:59)
Now something is slowly changing (mint film office, Netherlands) (0:45)