NEW RELEASES SEEN,
2020
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)
[10]
[9]
Circumstantial Pleasures (Lewis Klahr) [m]
[8]
Autoficción (Laida Lertxundi, U.S. / Spain) [s]
The Disciple (Chaitanya Tamhane, India)
Figure Minus Fact (Mary Helena Clark) [s]
Her Socialist Smile (John Gianvito)*
Labor of Love (Sylvia Schedelbauer, Germany) [s]
Malmkrog (Cristi Puiu, Romania / Serbia / Switzerland / Sweden / Bosnia and Herzegovina / Republic of North Macedonia)
Martin Eden (Pietro Marcello, Italy / France)
Meridian (Calum Walter) [s]
Nasir (Arun Karthick, India / Singapore / Netherlands)
Una película en color (Bruno Delgado Ramo, Spain) [m]
Siberia (Abel Ferrara, Italy / Germany / Mexico)
[7]
Alfred (Esther Urlus, Netherlands) [s]
Another Round (Thomas Vinterberg, Denmark / Sweden / Netherlands)
Apiyemiyekî? (Ana Vaz, Brazil / France / Portugal / Netherlands)
Apparition (Ismaïl Bahri, Tunisia / France) [s]
An Arrow Pointing to a Hole (Steve Reinke, U.S. / Canada) [s]
As Long As There Is Breath (Emily Chao) [s]
Atomic Bomb Loading Pit (Lukas Marxt, Germany) [s]
Beginning (Dea Kulumbegashvili, Georgia / France)
Berzah (Deren Ercenk, Germany / Turkey) [s]
Bloody Nose, Empty Pockets (Bill Ross IV and Turner Ross)
cada vuelte que da una cosa enrollada alrededor de otra (Bruno Varela, Mexico / Bolivia) [s]
Camera Sick (Jeremy Moss) [s]
Cinetracts '20 (various filmmakers)
City Hall (Frederick Wiseman)
The Cloud in Her Room (Zheng Lu Xinyuan, China / Hong Kong)
Collective (Alexander Nanau, Romania / Luxembourg)
Colors at War (Manuel DeLanda) [s]
Correspondence (Carla Simón and Dominga Sotomayor, Spain / Chile) [s]
Da 5 Bloods (Spike Lee)
DAU. Natasha (Ilya Khyzhanovskiy and Jekaterina Oertel, Germany / Ukraine / U.K. / Russia)
David Byrne's American Utopia (Spike Lee)
Deerskin (Quentin Dupieux, France)
Distance Film (Siegfried A. Fruhauf, Austria) [s]*
Family Romance, LLC (Werner Herzog, U.S. / Japan)
Fire Fly EYE (Kerry Laitala) [s]
First Cow (Kelly Reichardt)
Flying Over Brooklyn (Ernie Gehr) [s]
-force- (Simon Liu and Jennie MaryTai Liu, U.S. / Hong Kong) [s]
The Game of Shifting Mirrors (Amit Dutta, India) [s]
Glimpses From a Visit to Orkney in Summer 1995 (Ute Aurand, Germany) [s]
The Golden Glove (Fatih Akin, Germany / France)
Happy Valley (Simon Liu, Hong Kong / U.S.) [s]
Hard, Cracked the Wind (Mark Jenkin, U.K.) [s]
Her Name Was Europa (Anja Dornieden and Juan David González Monroy [OJOBOCA], Germany)
Hidden (Jafar Panahi, Iran / France) [s]
His House (Remi Weekes, U.K.)
The Human Voice (Pedro Almodóvar, Spain) [m]
Humongous (Aya Kawazoe, Japan) [s]
In Praise of Shadows (Joshua Gen Solondz) [s]
The Inheritance (Ephraim Asili)
Inventing the Future (Isiah Medina, Canada)
Isabella (Matías Piñeiro, Argentina / France)
Kajillionaire (Miranda July)
The Kid Detective (Evan Morgan, Canada)
Krabi, 2532 (Ben Rivers and Anocha Suwichakornpong, U.K. / Thailand)
L. COHEN (James Benning) [m]
The Last City (Heinz Emigholz, Germany)
Less Lethal Fetishes (Thirza Cuthand, Canada) [s]
Letter From Your Far-off Country (Suneil Sanzgiri, U.S. / India) [s]
Little Women (Greta Gerwig)
Lovers Rock (Steve McQueen, U.K.)
Maggie's Farm (James Benning)
maƚni – towards the ocean, towards the shore (Sky Hopinka, U.S. / Chinook Nation)
Maman Maman Maman (Lucia Margarita Bauer, Germany) [m]
The Marriage Project (Atieh Attarzadeh and Hesam Eslami, Iran / France / Qatar)
Marriage Story (Jessica Dunn Rovinelli) [s]
Medium (Edgardo Cozarinsky, Argentina)
Midsommar (Ari Aster, U.S. / Sweden)
mockingbird (Kevin Jerome Everson) [s]
The Mole Agent (Maite Alberdi, Chile / U.S. / Germany / Netherlands / Spain)
The Monopoly of Violence (David Defresne, France)
A Month of Single Frames (Lynn Sachs) [s]
Mother, I Am Suffocating. This Is My Last Film About You. (Lemohang Jeremiah Mosese, Lesotho / Qatar)
Movie That Invites Pausing (Ken Jacobs) [s]
My Nudity Means Nothing (Marina de Van, France)
Nardjes A. (Karim Aïnouz, Algeria / France / Germany / Brazil / Qatar)
Nature (Artavazd Pelechian, Armenia / France / Germany) [m]
The Nest (Sean Durkin, U.S. / U.K. / Canada)
No Archive Can Restore You (Onyeka Igwe, U.K.) [s]
Notturno (Gianfranco Rosi, Italy / France / Germany)
Object Lessons, or: What Happened Whitsunday (Ricky D'Ambrose) [s]
oh my homeland (Stephanie Barber) [s]
One Day in the Life of Noah Piugattuk (Zacharias Kunuk, Canada)
The Pageant (Eytan Ipeker, France / Turkey / Israel / Germany)
Paris Calligrammes (Ulrike Ottinger, Germany / France)
Point and Line to Plane (Sofia Bohdanowicz, Canada) [s]
Pomp (Katrina Daschner, Austria) [s]
Pyrale (Roxanne Gaucherand, France) [m]
Red, White and Blue (Steve McQueen, U.K.)
Resident Ground Floor (Jan Soldat, Germany) [m]
A Revolt Without Images (Pilar Monsell, Spain) [s]
s01e03 (Kurt Walker, Canada) [m]
Saint Frances (Alex Thompson)
Shakti (Martín Rejtman, Argentina) [s]
Shirley (Josephine Decker)
Signal 8 (Simon Liu, U.K. / U.S. / Hong Kong) [s]
Still Processing (Sophy Romvari, Canada) [s]
Stump the Guesser! (Guy Maddin, Evan Johnson, and Galen Johnson, Canada) [s]
Swimming Out till the Sea Turns Blue (Jia Zhangke, China)
System Crasher (Nora Fingscheidt, Germany)
Tape 39 (Amit Dutta, India) [s]
This Day Won't Last (Mouaad el Salem, Tunisia / Belgium) [s]
This Is Not a Burial, It's a Resurrection (Lemohang Jeremiah Mosese, Lesotho / South Africa / Italy)
Thorax (Siegfried A. Fruhauf, Austria) [s]
Time (Garrett Bradley)
Traces (Carleen Maur) [s]
The Traitor (Marco Bellocchio, Italy / France / U.S. / Brazil)
Trust Study #1 (Shobun Baile) [s]
Undine (Christian Petzold, Germany / France)
Uppercase Print (Radu Jude, Romania)
A Voluntary Year (Ulrich Köhler and Henner Winckler, Germany)
We Carry With Us Our Mother (Olivia Ciummo) [s]
When you're lost in the rain (Sky Hopinka, U.S. / Ho-Chunk Nation) [s]
Whispering Pines 10 (Shana Moulton) [s]
White Lie (Calvin Thomas & Yonah Lewis, Canada)
A White, White Day (Hlynur Pálmason, Iceland / Denmark / Sweden)
Wilcox (Denis Côté, Canada) [m]
Window Boy Would Also Like to Have a Submarine (Alex Piperno, Uruguay / Argentina / Brazil / Netherlands / Philippines)
The Wolf House (Cristóbal León and Joaquín Cosiña, Chile / Germany)
The Works and Days (of Tayoko Shiojiri in the Shiotani Basin) (Anders Edström and C.W. Winter, U.S. / Sweden / Japan / U.K.)
[6]
//\///\////\ (Michael Robinson and Phillip Andrew Lewis) [s]
Alex Wheatle (Steve McQueen, U.K.)
Amor Fati (Cláudia Varejão, Portugal / France / Switzerland)
Aquí y Allá (Melisa Liebenthal, Argentina / France) [s]
Beanpole (Kantemir Balagov, Russia)
Black Is King (Beyoncé Knowles Carter, et al.)
Build the Wall (Joe Swanberg) [m]
The Calming (Song Fang, China)
Color Out of Space (Richard Stanley, Malaysia / Portugal / U.S.)
The Cordillera of Dreams (Patricio Guzmán, Chile / France)
Cotton Ikebana (Cauleen Smith) [s]
Days (Tsai Ming-liang, Taiwan / France)
Dick Johnson Is Dead (Kirsten Johnson)
dream less (Charlotte Clermont, Canada) [s]
Eeb Allay Ooo! (Prateek Vats, India)
Episodes - Spring 2018 (Mathilde Girard, France) [m]
Eviction, Demolition (Karissa Hahn) [s]
Extractions (Thirza Cuthand, Canada) [s]
Fabricated in the Actual Arctic (After Nanook) (Matthew Lax) [s]
The Fever (Maya Da-Rin, Brazil / France / Germany)
Frankie (Ira Sachs, France / Portugal)
Ghosts of Our Fallen (Kit Young) [s]
Guest of Honour (Atom Egoyan, Canada)
The Half of It (Alice Wu)
A Hidden Life (Terrence Malick, U.S. / Germany)
horses in the year of the dog (Terra Long, Canada) [s]
I'm Thinking of Ending Things (Charlie Kaufman)
The Infiltrators (Alex Rivera and Cristina Ibarra)
In Sudden Darkness (Tayler Montague) [s]
Intimate Distances (Phillip Warnell, U.K. / U.S.) [m]
It Is Here Where We Are... (Andrew Busti) [s]
It Was Summer When (Gloria Chung) [s]
Itinerary of Surfaces (Carl Elsaesser) [s]
King of Sanwi (Akosua Adoma Owusu, Ghana / U.S.) [s]
The King of Staten Island (Judd Apatow)
Laurel Sabino y Jaguilla (Beatriz Santiago Muñoz) [s]
Linda Ronstadt: The Sound of My Voice (Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman)
The Lobby (Heinz Emigholz, Germany / Argentina)
A Loft Again (Maximilien Luc Proctor, Germany) [s]
Look Then Below (Ben Rivers, U.K.) [s]
Ma Rainey's Black Bottom (George C. Wolfe)
Makeshift (for Mekas) (Jem Cohen) [s]
Mas Paritarias Menos Yuta (Moira Lacowicz and Leonardo Zito, Brazil / Argentina) [s]
My First Film (Zia Anger) [p]
My Mexican Bretzel (Nuria Giménez, Spain)
Nomadland (Chloé Zhao)
Non Western (Laura Plancarte, U.K. / Mexico / U.S.)
noonwraith blues (Kamila Kuc, U.K.) [s]
The Notes of Anna Azzori / A Mirror That Travels Through Time (Constanze Ruhm, Germany / France / Austria)
Ouvertures (The Living and the Dead Ensemble, Haiti / France / U.K.)
Patrick (Luke Fowler, U.S. / U.K.) [s]
Parts & Labour (Julie Murray) [s]
The Plastic House (Allison Chhorn, Australia) [m]
A Potentiality (Dana Berman Duff) [s]
Red Moon Tide (Lois Patiño, Spain)
Run (Aneesh Chaganty)
Sanfield (Kevin Jerome Everson) [s]
Servants (Ivan Ostrochovský, Slovakia / Romania / Czech Republic / Ireland)
She Dies Tomorrow (Amy Seimetz)
Shepherds (Teboho Edkins, Lesotho / South Africa / Germany) [s]
Sibyl (Justine Triet, France / Belgium)
Sorry We Missed You (Ken Loach, U.K. / France / Belgium)
Specialised Technique Onyeka Igwe, U.K.) [s]
Tear Gas (Colectivo los ingrávidos, Mexico) [s]
Technoboss (João Nicolao, Portugal / France)
Tell Me (Azar Saiyan, Finland) [s]
Tenet (Christopher Nolan, U.K. / U.S.)
Tesla (Michael Almereyda)
Thank, You (Karissa Hahn) [s]
There is No Evil (Mohammad Rasoulof, Iran / Germany / Czech Republic)
Thrown (Siegfried A. Fruhauf, Austria) [s]
To Forget (Lydia Nsaih, Austria) [s]
Tommaso (Abel Ferrara, U.S. / Italy)
The Tower (Silvestar Kolbas, Croatia) [s]
Untitled Sequence of Gaps (Vika Kirchenbauer, Germany) [s]
While Cursed by Specters (Burak Çevik, Turkey) [s]
The Woman Who Ran (Hong Sangsoo, South Korea)
Wonders in the Suburbs (Jeanne Balibar, France)
The Year of the Discovery (Luis López Carrasco, Spain / Switzerland)
Z = |Z/Z·Z-1 mod 2| -1: Lavender Town Syndrome (Andrew Norman Wilson) [s]
[5]
Air Conditioner (Fradique, Angola)
The American Sector (Pacho Velez and Courtney Stephens) [m]
At Home But Not At Home (Suneil Sanzgiri, U.S. / India) [s]
August 22, This Year (Graham Foy, Canada) [s]
Bathers (Douglas Urbank) [s]
Blue Curtain (Noah Rosenberg) [s]
Borat Subsequent Moviefilm (Jason Woliner)
Class Action Park (Seth Porges and Chris Charles Scott III)
The Chicken (Neo Sora) [s]
Cold Meridian (Peter Strickland, U.K. / Hungary) [s]
Los conductos (Camilo Restrepo, Colombia / France / Brazil)
Curious Fantasies (Jesse McLean) [s]
Cuties (Maïmouna Doucouré, France)
Days of Cannibalism (Teboho Edkins, Lesotho / South Africa / France / Netherlands)
DeKooning Passed (Ken Jacobs) [s]
Dear Comrades! (Andrei Konchalovsky, Russia)
Diane (Kent Jones)
Distancing (Miko Revereza, U.S. / Philippines) [s]
Eastern State (Talena Sanders) [s]
Education (Steve McQueen, U.K.)
Ekphrasis (Riccardo Giacconi, Italy) [s]
Fauna (Nicolás Pereda, Mexico / Canada)
Feast (Mike Hoolboom, Canada) [s]
French Exit (Azazel Jacobs, Ireland / Canada)
Further Radical (Stefano Canapa, France) [s]
Gangster Scribbles (Manuel DeLanda) [s]
Girl is Presence (Lynne Sachs and Anne Lesley Selcer) [s]
Gunda (Victor Kossakovsky, Norway)
Hamilton (Thomas Kail)
Happiest Season (Clea DuVall)
Imitation of Life (Rajee Samarasinghe, Sri Lanka / U.S.) [s]
In Fabric (Peter Strickland, U.K.)
International Face (Natalie Tsui) [s]
The Invisible Man (Leigh Whannell)
The Isolated (Jay Giampietro) [s]
Liminal (Philippe Grandrieux / Manuela de Laborde / Lav Diaz / Óscar Enriquez, Mexico / France / Philippines)
Locus Suspectus (J.M. Martínez) [s]
Luminous Variations in the City Skies (Giuseppe Spina, Italy) [s]
Mangrove (Steve McQueen, U.K.)
Mank (David Fincher)
The Metamorphosis of Birds (Catarina Vasconcelos, Portugal)
Miss Americana (Lana Wilson)
Miss Juneteenth (Channing Godfrey Peoples)
MLK/FBI (Sam Pollard)
Momentary Stretch (Maximilien Luc Proctor, Germany) [s]
Die Nacht (Wenhua Shi, U.S. / China) [s]
Never Rarely Sometimes Always (Eliza Hittman)
A Night at the Opera (Sergei Loznitsa, France) [s]
Notes, Imprints (On Love): Part 1 (Alexandra Cuesta, U.S. / Ecuador) [s]
Oh Mercy [Roubaix, un lumière] (Arnaud Desplechin, France)
On the Rocks (Sofia Coppola)
Palm Springs (Max Barbakow)
Patent Nr. 314805 (Mika Taanila, Finland) [s]
The Personal History of David Copperfield (Armando Iannucci, U.K.)
Porvenir (Renata Poljak, Croatia / Chile) [s]
Promising Young Woman (Emerald Fennell, U.K. / U.S.)
Purple Sea (Amel Alzakout / Khaled Abdulwahed, Germany) [m]
Rio Grande Sun (Courtney Fellion and Linda Scobie) [s]
Room Film With Reflections (Nick Collins, U.K.) [s]
Secret Zoo (Son Jae-gon, South Korea)
Semiotics of the City (Daniel Burkhardt, Germany) [s]
Shots in the Dark With David Godlis (Noah Kloster and Lewie Kloster) [s]
Single Copy (Hsu Che-yu, Taiwan) [s]
Slow Machine (Joe DeNardo and Paul Felten)
Some Kind of Connection (Sophy Romvari and Mike Thorn, Canada) [s]
Spring Blossom (Suzanne Lindon, France)
State Funeral (Sergei Loznitsa, Netherlands / Lithuania)
Story of the Dreaming Water - Chapter One (Brittany Gravely) [s]
Stream (Corriente) (Diana Sánchez) [s]
The Tango of the Widower and Its Distorting Mirror (Raúl Ruiz and Valeria Sarmiento, Chile, 1967/2020) [m]
There Are Not Thirty-Six Ways of Showing a Man Getting on a Horse (Nicolás Zukerfeld, Argentina) [m]
Westinghouse One (Kevin Jerome Everson) [s]
Wild Bill Horsecock (Oliver Shahery) [s]
[4]
Amuletos (Colectivo los Ingrávidos, Mexico) [s]
Around Low Tide (Nick Collins, U.K.) [s]
B4 & After the Studio Pt. 1 (Tony Cokes) [s]
Black Bear (Lawrence Michael Levine)
Camera Trap (Chris Chong Chan Fui, Malaysia / Germany) [s]
Claudette's Star (Ayo Akingbade, U.K.) [s]
Clementine (Lara Gallagher)
Drills (Sarah Friedland) [s]
Ema (Pablo Larraín, Chile)
The End of Suffering (a proposal) (Jacqueline Lettzou, Greece) [s]
The Fall (Jonathan Glazer, U.K.) [s]
Hel City (Gregorio Méndez, Spain) [s]
Horsey (Frédéric Moffet, Canada / U.S.) [s]
I Carry You With Me (Heidi Ewing, U.S. / Mexico)
Il mio corpo (Michele Pennetta, Switzerland / Italy)
Neon Cortex (Bruno Varela, Mexico / Bolivia) [s]
Interbeing (Martina Hoogland Ivanow, Sweden) [s]
Interior (Zack Parrinella) [s]
It Matters What (Francisca Duran, Canada) [s]
Jojo Rabbit (Taika Waititi, U.S. / New Zealand / Czech Republic)
Let's Take a Walk (Moira Lacowicz, Brazil) [s]
liminal poem (Susan Deleo) [s]
The Losing Battle (Jean Sousa) [s]
Malembe (Luis Arnías, Venezuela / U.S.) [s]
Microcassette - The Smallest Cassette I've Ever Seen (Igor Bezinović and Ivana Pipal, Croatia / Serbia) [s]
Minari (Lee Isaac Chung)
My Favorite Object (Meredith Moore) [s]
On a Clear Day You Can See the Revolution From Here (Emma Charles & Ben Evans James, U.K. / Kazakhstan) [m]
Once Removed (Lawrence Abu Hamdan, Lebanon) [s]
Phineas and Ferb The Movie: Candace Against the World (Bob Bowen)
Plants Are Like People (Charlotte Clermont, Canada) [s]
Prayer For a Lost Mitten (Jean-François Lesage, Canada)
Sacred Geometry (Anna Cecelia Seaward) [s]
The Seismic Form (Antoinette Zwirchmayr, Austria) [s]
Through a Field (Faith Arazi and Madeleine Mori) [s]
Tragic Jungle (Yulene Olaizola, Mexico / France / Colombia)
The Trouble with Being Born (Sandra Wollner, Austria / Germany)
tulips are my father's favourite flower (Nisha Platzer, Canada) [s]
Uncle Frank (Alan Ball)
The Unseen River (Phạm Ngọc Lân, Vietnam / Laos) [s]
Untitled (Janet Lilo, New Zealand) [s]
[3]
Amaryllis: a Study (Jayne Parker, U.K.) [s]
Global Industries (Phillip Andrew Lewis) [s]
In The Air Tonight (Andrew Norman Wilson) [s]
Matthias & Maxime (Xavier Dolan, Canada)
La Notte Salva (Giuseppe Boccassini, Italy / Germany) [s]
Pencicle of Praise (Martha Rosler) [s]
See You In My Dreams (Shun Ikezoe, Japan) [s]
Sympathetic Bodies (Margaret Rorison) [s]
Universal Leader (Orit Ben-Shitrit, Israel / U.S.) [s]
where i don't meet you (Charlotte Clermont, Canada) [s]
A Winter Song (Jon Behrens) [s]
[2]
Angular Momentum (Michael Betancourt) [s]
New Order (Michel Franco, Mexico / France)
[1]
[W/O]
Accidental Luxuriance of the Translucent Watery Rebus (Dalibor Barić, Croatia) (0:29)
The Annotated Field Guide of Ulysses S. Grant (Jim Finn) [m] (0:20)
The Assistant (Kitty Green) (0:44) [later finished]
The History of the Seattle Mariners (Jon Bois) (1:03)
Hopper/Welles (Orson Welles) (0:52)
The Lighthouse (Robert Eggers) (1:03)
The Midnight Sky (George Clooney) (1:02)
Orphea (Alexander Kluge and Khavn, Germany / Philippines) (0:22) [later finished]
Redoubt (Matthew Barney) (0:36)
The Viewing Booth (Ra'anan Alexandrowicz, Israel / U.S.) (0:37)