NEW RELEASES SEEN, 2024

([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)

 

[everything, everything, everything, everything]

 

 

[a lost god]

It's Not Me (Leos Carax, France) [m]

 

[(I forget)]

Archipelago of Earthen Bones - To Bunya (Malena Szlam, Australia / Canada / Chile) [s]

Carroll Gardens (Ernie Gehr, U.S.) [s]

Challengers (Luca Guadagnino, U.S. / Italy)

Caught by the Tides (Jia Zhangke, China)

Our Body (Claire Simon, France)

A Sense of Nothing (Francisco Rojas, Chile) [s]

The Shrouds (David Cronenberg, Canada / France)

 

[n-n-n-n-no tomorrow]

Adrift Potentials (Leonardo Pirondi, U.S. / Brazil) [s]

AGGRO DR1FT (Harmony Korine, U.S. / France)

All We Imagine as Light (Payal Kapadia, India / France / Luxembourg / Netherlands / U.S.)

Anora (Sean Baker, U.S.)

Anselm (Wim Wenders, Germany / France)

Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret. (Kelly Fremon Craig, U.S.)

Arthur&Diana (Sara Summa, Germany)

Banging on Their Bars in Rhythm (Kevin Jerome Everson, U.S.) [s]

barrunto (Emilia Beatriz, Puerto Rico / U.K.)

The Beast (Bertrand Bonello, France/ Canada)

Beautiful Dead Woman (Jan Soldat, Germany) [s]

Being John Smith (John Smith, U.K.) [s]

Bisagras (Luis Arnías, Brazil / Senegal / U.S.) [s]

A Black Screen Too (Rhayne Vermette, Canada) [s]

Blind Date 3.0 (Jan Soldat, Austria) [s]

Bogancloch (Ben Rivers, U.K. / Germany / Iceland)

Boundary Exercise (On Perambulation) (Elizabeth Webb, U.S.) [s]

Bounded Intimacy (Ayanna Dozier, U.S.) [s]

The Boy and the Heron (Hayao Miyazaki, Japan)

b/w (Christopher Harris, U.S.) [s]

Chime (Kiyoshi Kurosawa, Japan) [m]

Cloud Film (Tristen Ives, U.S.) [s]

Dahomey (Mati Diop, France / Senegal)

Days Before the Death of Nicky (Denis Côté, Canada) [s]

Death Mask (John Greyson, Canada) [s]

Deep Dreaming Flowers to Alt Air V.2 (Les LeVeque, U.S.) [s]

Efforts of Nature (Morgan Quaintance, U.K.) [s]*

8 Encounters (Laida Lertxundi, Spain) [s]

Eight Postcards From Utopia (Radu Jude and Christian Ferencz-Flatz, Romania) [m]

The Empire (Bruno Dumont, France / Belgium / Germany / Italy / Portugal)

Entrance Wounds (Calum Walter, U.S.) [s]

ESP (Laura Kraning, U.S.) [s]

Eureka (Lisandro Alonso, Argentina / France / Germany / Mexico / Portugal)

Farsi seme (Anna Marziano, Italy / Switzerland) [s]

The Feeling That the Time for Doing Something Has Passed (Joanna Arnow, U.S.)

Five Days Till Tomorrow (Lewis Klahr, U.S.) [s]

for here am i sitting in a tin can far above the world (Gala Hernández López, France) [s]

Friedl (Christiana Perschon, Austria) [s]

The Garden Cadences (Dane Komljen, Germany) [m]

Good One (India Donaldson, U.S.)

Grand Tour (Miguel Gomes, Portugal / China / France / Germany / Italy / Japan)

Grandmamauntsistercat (Zuza Banasinska, Poland / Netherlands) [s]

Gwetto (Michaël Andrianaly, Madagascar / France) [m]

Half Light (Ryan Marino, U.S.) [s]

Hard Truths (Mike Leigh, U.K. / Spain)

High-Wire Act (Ernie Gehr, U.S.) [s]

His Three Daughters (Azazel Jacobs, U.S.)

Hit Man (Richard Linklater, U.S.)

Holographic Will (Mike Stoltz, U.S.) [s]

Hundreds of Beavers (Mike Cheslik, U.S.)

I Don't Want to Be Just a Memory (Sarnt Utamachote, Germany) [s]

The Invisible Worm (Rosalind Nashashibi, U.K.) [s]

Janet Planet (Annie Baker, U.S. / U.K.)

Jim's Story (Arnaud and Jean-Marie Larrieu, France)

Last Summer (Catherine Breillat, France)

Labores en curso (Bruno Delgado Ramo, Spain) [m]

Life Story (Jessica Dunn Rovinelli, U.S.) [s]

Like Horses Standing in the Rain (Nicolaas Schmidt, Germany) [s]

Lisbon Views (Ernie Gehr, U.S.) [s]

Man Number Four (Miranda Pennell, U.K.) [s]

Megalopolis (Francis Ford Coppola, U.S.)

Mimang (Kim Taeyang, South Korea)

Misericordia (Alain Guiraudie, France / Spain / Portugal)

Notes of a Crocodile (Daphne Xu, Canada / Cambodia) [s]

On the Battlefield (Little Egypt Collective, U.S.) [s]

Otherhood (Deborah Stratman, U.S.) [s]

Our Cave (Heehyun Choi, U.S. / South Korea) [s]

Pepe (Nelson Carlos de los Santos Arias, Dominical Republic / France / Germany / Namibia)

ping pong ping pong ping pong ping pong ping pong (Daphne Xu, U.S.) [s]

Poem of E.L. (Maya Gurantz, U.S.) [s]

Practice, Practice, Practice (Kevin Jerome Everson, U.S.) [s]

Red Rooms (Pascal Plante, Canada)

Revolving Rounds (Christina Jauernik and Johan Lurf, Austria) [s]

Ritual (Colectivo Los Ingrávados, Mexico) [s]

Rumours (Guy Maddin, Evan Johnson, and Galen Johnson, Canada / Germany / Hungary / U.S.)

A Running Woman (Anja Dornieden and Juan David González Monroy, Germany) [s]

Scorched Earth (Thomas Arslan, Germany)

Seasonal Concerns (Maximilien Luc Proctor, Germany) [s]

The Settlers (Felipe Gálvez, Chile / Argentina / Denmark / France / Germany / Sweden / Taiwan / U.K.)

Sinking Feeling (Zachary Epcar, U.S.) [s]

Someplace in Your Mouth (Beatrice Gibson and Nick Gordon, U.K. / Italy) [s]

Song of Frozen Lake (Linnea Nugent, U.S.) [s]

The Suit (Heinz Emigholz, Germany / Argentina / Mexico / U.S.)

Sunprints 1, 2, 3 (Barbara Sternberg, Canada) [s]

sunspots, burnt into my heart (Craig Scheihing, U.S.) [s]

T-Blockers (Alice Maio Mackay, Australia)

Teeth (Ville Koskinen, Finland) [s]

Terrestrial Verses (Ali Asgari and Alireza Khatami, Iran)

Through the Graves the Wind Is Blowing (Travis Wilkerson, U.S.)

to open a window (Craig Scheihing, U.S.) [s]

The Tuba Thieves (Alison O'Daniel, U.S.)

ULÍA #1 (Laura Moreno Bueno, Spain / U.S.) [s]

ULÍA #3 (Laura Moreno Bueno, Spain / U.S.) [s]

Việt and Nam (Trủỏng Minh Quy, Vietnam / France / Germany / Italy / Netherlands / Philippines / Singapore / U.S.)

What's Up! (Ernie Gehr, U.S.) [s]

You Burn Me (Matías Piñeiro, Argentina / Spain) [m]

 

[my sorrow]

Among the Palms the Bomb or: Looking for reflections in the toxic field of plenty (Lukas Marxt and Vanja Smiljanić, Austria / Germany)

Arcadia (Yorgos Zois, Greece / Bulgaria / U.S.)

autumn hymn: from the clouds (Joshua Peinado, Canada) [s]

Banel & Adama (Ramata-Toulaye Sy, Senegal / Mali / France)

Blackbird Blackbird Blackberry (Elene Naveriani, Georgia / Switzerland)

A Brighter Tomorrow (Nanni Moretti, Italy / France)

The Brutalist (Brady Corbet, U.K. / U.S.)

By the Stream (Hong Sangsoo, South Korea)

Collective Monologue (Jessica Sarah Rinland, Argentina / U.K.)

Colmillos (Colectivo Los Ingrávados, Mexico) [s]

The Damned (Roberto Minervini, U.S. / Italy / Belgium)

The Day I Met You (André Novais Oliveira, Brazil)

Days of Happiness (Chloé Robichaud, Canada)

Death Will Come (Christoph Hochhäusler, Germany / Belgium / Luxembourg)

detours while speaking of monsters (Deniz Şimşek, Turkey / Germany) [s]

The Diary of a Sky (Lawrence Abu Hamdan, Lebanon) [m]

A Different Man (Aaron Schimberg, U.S.)

The Echo (Tatiana Huezo, Mexico / Germany)

Explanation for Everything (Gábor Reisz, Hungary / Slovakia)

A Fidai Film (Kamal Aljafari, Palestine / Brazil / France / Germany / Qatar)

Ferrari (Michael Mann, U.S. / U.K. / Italy / China)

Flying Lessons (Elizabeth Nichols, U.S.)

Foot to Ground (Christopher Thompson, U.S.) [s]

For Jina (TT Takemoto, U.S.) [s]

Foremost by Night (Victor Iriarte, Spain / Portugal / France)

Gasoline Rainbow (Bill Ross IV and Turner Ross, U.S. / U.K.)

Glitter for Girls (Federica Foglia, Canada) [s]

Go Between (Chris Kennedy, Canada / Australia) [s]

Golden Voice (Mars Verrone, Cambodia / U.S.) [s]

Green Border (Agnieszka Holland, Poland / Belgium / Czechia / France)

Henry James' Drive-Away Dykes (Ethan Coen, U.S.)

Heritage Architecture (Lily Jue Sheng, U.S. / Hong Kong) [s]

Hydra: Prologue (Alexey Smolin, Russia) [s]

Inside the Yellow Cocoon Shell (Phạm Thiên Ân, Vietnam / France / Singapore / Spain)

I Saw the TV Glow (Jane Schoenbrun, U.S.)

Intercontinent (Peter Rose, U.S.) [s]

The Invasion (Sergei Loznitsa, Ukraine / France / Netherlands / Czechia / U.S.)

The Invisible Worm (Rosalind Nashashibi, U.K.) [s]

Jelena (Friedl vom Gröller, Austria) [s]

Kinds of Kindness (Yorgos Lanthimos, U.K. / U.S. / Ireland)

The Land at Night (Richard Tuowy and Dianna Barrie, Australia) [s]

Leisure, Utopic (Beatrice Gibson, U.K. / Italy) [s]

Machine Boys (Karimah Ashadu, Germany / Italy / Nigeria) [s]

Matt and Mara (Kazik Radwanski, Canada)

Medicine Cabinet (Ernie Gehr, U.S.) [s]

Lázaro at Night (Nicolás Pereda, Mexico / Canada)

Longlegs (Osgood Perkins, U.S. / Canada)

Love Lies Bleeding (Rose Glass, U.K. / U.S.)

Mistress Dispeller (Elizabeth Lo, China / U.S.)

Nightbitch (Marielle Heller, U.S.)

Notes of a Crocodile (Daphne Xu, Cambodia / China / Canada) [s]

Normandy (Vadim Kostrov, France / Russia)

Oh, Canada (Paul Schrader, U.S.)

On Becoming a Guinea Fowl (Rungano Nyoni, Ireland/ U.K. / U.S. / Zambia)

On The Adamant (Nicolas Philibert, France)

Où sont tous mes amants? (Jean-Claude Rousseau, France) [s]

Pedestrian Activities (Ernie Gehr, U.S.) [s]

The Plains (David Easteal, Australia)

Room of Shadows (Camilo Restrepo, France / Spain) [m]

The Seed of the Sacred Fig (Mohammad Rasoulof, Germany / France)

Seeds (Colectivo Los Ingrávados, Mexico) [s]

Single File (Simon Liu, U.S. / Hong Kong) [s]

Slow (Marija Kavtaradzė, Lithuania / Spain / Sweden)

Stone, Hat, Ribbon and Rose (Eva Giolo, Belgium / U.K. / Italy) [s]

Trágame nube (el cuerpo establece el ritmo) [single channel edit] (Esperanza Collado, Spain) [s]

A Traveler's Needs (Hong Sangsoo, South Korea)

Twilight of the Warriors: Walled In (Soi Cheang, Hong Kong / China)

ULÍA #2 (Laura Moreno Bueno, Spain / U.S.) [s]

Undr (Kamal Aljafari, Palestine) [s]

Viennale Trailer 2024 (Radu Jude, Romania / Austria) [s]

why i never became a driver (Yuula Benivolski, Canada / U.S.) [s]

Wind (Mike Hoolboom, Canada) [s]

 

[my lonely]

Ababooned (André Forcier, Canada)

Air (Ben Affleck, U.S.)

Bird (Andrea Arnold, U.K. / U.S.)

Brief History of a Family (Lin Jianjie, China / Denmark / France / Qatar)

Cloud (Kiyoshi Kurosawa, Japan)

Confession (Nobuhiro Yamashita, Japan)

Coup de Chance (Woody Allen, France / U.K. / U.S.)

Creatures of the Night (Ernie Gehr, U.S.) [s]

Denials, Decoys (Micah Weber, U.S.) [s]

Elementary (Claire Simon, France)

emergence (Margaret Rorison, U.S.) [s]

Evil Does Not Exist (Ryusuke Hamaguchi, Japan)

Fancy Dance (Erica Tremblay, U.S.)

Flamenco (Jean-Claude Rousseau, France) [s]

Hemel (Danielle Dean, U.K.) [s]

Here We Are (Chanasorn Chaikitiporn, Thailand) [s]

Hey Sweet Pea (Alee Peoples, U.S.) [s]

How to Have Sex (Molly Manning Walker, U.K.)

In a Violent Nature (Chris Nash, U.S. / Canada)

Interlude (Deborah S. Phillips, Germany / U.S.) [s]

Invention (Courtney Stephens, U.S.)

The Invisible Zoo (Romuald Karmakar, Germany)

Iris (Sheri Wills, U.S.) [s]

Lake Idlewild (Kevin Jerome Everson, U.S.) [s]

Land Without Words (Antoinette Zwirchmayr, Austria) [m]

Lázaro at Night (Nicolás Pereda, Mexico / Canada)

The Legend of the Vagabond Queen of Lagos (The Agbajowo Collective, Nigeria / Germany / South Africa / U.S.)

Marbled Golden Eyes (Kevin Jerome Everson, U.S.) [s]

Mare Imbrium (Siegfried A. Fruhauf, Austria) [s]

Monster (Kore-eda Hirokazu, Japan)

My Sunshine (Hiroshi Okuyama, Japan / France)

October Noon (Francisco Rodríguez Teare, Chile / France) [s]

Omen (Baloji, Dem. Rep. of Congo / Belgium / France / Netherlands / Saudi Arabia / South Africa / U.S.)

Origin (Ava DuVernay, U.S.)

Past Lives (Celine Song, South Korea / U.S.)

The Permanent Picture (Laura Ferrés, Spain / France)

Priscilla (Sofia Coppola, U.S. / Italy)

Ripple Effect (Niyaz Saghari, U.S. / Iran) [s]

Sasquatch Sunset (David and Nathan Zellner, U.S.)

A Sisters' Tale (Leila Amini, Iran / France / Switzerland)

The Sojourn (Tiffany Sia, U.S.) [m]

Terminal Island (Sam Drake, U.S.) [s]

Till the End of the Night (Christoph Hochhäusler, Germany)

Time to Change (Pocas Pascoal, Angola / Portugal) [s]

to be with you (grotto) (Sarah Ballard, U.S.) [s]

Touch the Water (Yusuf Demirörs, Turkey / U.S.) [s]

West Lounge (Kevin Jerome Everson, U.S.) [s]

Who By Fire (Philippe Lesage, Canada / France)

Yannick (Quentin Dupieux, France) [m]

 

[my headache]

Achilles (Fahrad Delaram, Iran / France / Germany)

The Archive is on Fire (Anna Hogg, U.S.) [s]

Asphalt City (Jean-Stéphane Sauvaire, U.S. / U.K.)

The Ballad of Suzanne Césaire (Madeleine Hunt-Ehrlich, U.S.)

Capacitors (Frances Arpaia, U.S.) [s]

Captain Elliott's Circle (Jake Barningham, China)

Elephant's Foot (Ellie Vanderlip, U.S.) [s]

Firebrand (Karim Aïnouz, U.K. / U.S.)

Good Grief (Daniel Levy, U.K. / U.S.)

how to make magic (Blanca García, Spain) [s]

How to Run a Trotline (Carl Elsaesser, U.S.) [s]

I Have Something to Get Off My Chest (Cedar O'Dowd, U.S.) [s]

In Retreat (Maisam Ali, India / France)

It's Just Business, Baby (Ayanna Dozier, U.S.) [s]

The Million Dollar Bet (Thomas Woschitz, Austria)

The Perfect Square (Gernot Wieland, Belgium / Germany) [s]

Perfumed With Mint (Muhammad Hamdy, Egypt / France / Qatar / Tunisia)

Prearranged Signal (Alina Taalman, U.S.) [s]

The San Francisco Art Institute (A Ghost Story) (Dominic Angerame, U.S.) [s]

The Shameless (Konstantin Bojanov, India / Bulgaria / France / Switzerland / Taiwan)

So Many Love Stories (Camille Simon Baudry, France) [s]

The Sparrow in the Chimney (Ramon Zürcher, Switzerland)

The Spirit of the Spider (Antonia Rossi, Chile) [m]

The Substance (Coralie Fargeat, U.K.)

Terre rouge Terre noire (Agnès Perrais, France) [s]

Tramologies (Hommage à Pierre Druesnes, 1956-2022) (Olivier Fouchard, France) [s]

The Universe in a Grain of Sand (Mark A. Levinson, U.S.)

Vignette: Legs (Janelle Vanderkellen, U.S.) [s]

 

[my heartache]

Club Zero (Jessica Hausner, U.K. / Austria / Denmark / France / Germany / Qatar / Turkey / U.S.)

Front Row (Merzak Allouache, Algeria / Saudi Arabia / France)

 

[my family]

Cade: The Tortured Crossing (Neil Breen, U.S.)

 

['cause you left me]

 

 

[W/O: kiss off]

The Angry Black Girl and Her Monster (Bomani J. Story, U.S.) (0:40)

Disco Boy (Giacomo Abbruzzese, France / Belgium / Italy / Poland / U.S.) (0:36)

Eileen (William Oldroyd, U.K. / U.S.) (0:31)

The Five Devils (Léa Mysius, France / U.S.) (0:41)

The Life Apart (Marco Tullio Giordana, Italy) (0:41)

Lost Chapters (Lorena Alvarado, Venezuela / U.S.) (0:30)

Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One (Christopher McQuarrie, U.S.) (0:33)

Riddle of Fire (Weston Razooli, U.S. / France) (0:30)

Sleep with Your Eyes Open (Nele Wohlatz, Argentina / Brazil / Germany / Taiwan) (0:31)

Stress Positions (Theda Hammel, U.S.) (1:07)

Tendaberry (Haley Elizabeth Anderson, U.S.) (0:41)

Wham! (Chris Smith, U.S.) (0:30)

 

[briefly sampled - I do it all the time]

The Bikeriders (Jeff Nichols, U.S.)

The Caine Mutiny Court Martial (William Friedkin, U.S.)

Cosmic Miniatures (Alexander Kluge, Germany)

Dearest Fiona (Fiona Tan, Netherlands)

Kouté Vwa (Listen to the Voices) (Maxime Jean-Baptiste, Belgium / France / French Guiana / Guyana)

Mongrel (Chiang Wei-Liang and You Quao-Yin, Taiwan / France / Singapore)

Monkey Man (Dev Patel, Canada / Singapore / U.S.)

Problemista (Julio Torres, U.S.)

Red Path (Lotfi Achour, Tunisia / Belgium / France / Poland)

Resonance Spiral (Filipa César and Marinho de Pina, Portugal / Guinea-Bissau / Germany)

She Is Conann (Bertrand Mandico, France / Belgium / Luxembourg)

So Long (Guillaume Brac, France) [m]

Sweet Angel Baby (Melanie Oates, Canada)

The Sweet East (Sean Price Williams, U.S.)

Telepathic Letters (Edgar Pêra, Portugal)

This Closeness (Kit Zauhar, U.S.)

Toxic (Saulė Bliuvaitė, Lithuania)

Under a Blue Sun (Daniel Mann, France / Israel)

Why War (Amos Gitai, France / Israel / Italy / Switzerland)

You Are Not Alone (Marianne Fortier and Phillipe Lupien, Canada)