NEW RELEASES SEEN, 2025
([v] video piece; [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]
My Undesirable Friends: Part 1 - Last Air in Moscow (Julia Loktev, U.S. / Russia)
[8]
Morgenkreis (Morning Circle) (Basma Alsharif, Canada / U.A.E.) [s]
Sinners (Ryan Coogler, U.S.)
Sirāt (Oliver Laxe, Spain / France)
[7]
Afternoons of Solitude (Albert Serra, Spain / France / Portugal)
Below the Clouds (Gianfranco Rosi, Italy)
Black Bag (Steven Soderbergh, U.S.)
BLKNWS®: Terms & Conditions (Kahlil Joseph, U.S.)
Blue Heron (Sophy Romvari, Canada / Hungary)
The Chronology of Water (Kristen Stewart, U.S. / France / Latvia)
CONFERENCE (Björn Kämmerer, Austria) [s]
Daria's Night Flowers (Maryam Tafakory, Iran / U.K.) [s]
Desert of Namibia (Yoko Yamanaka, Japan)
Dreams (Sex Love) (Dag Johan Haugerud, Norway)
Ecce Mole (Heinz Emigholz, Germany / Italy) [s]
En traversée (Vadim Kostrov, France) [s]
Escape (Masao Adachi, Japan)
Girl (Shu Qi, Taiwan / China)
Half Halt (Sofia Theodore-Pierce, U.S.) [s]
Happyend (Neo Sora, Japan / U.S. / U.K. / Singapore)
Highest 2 Lowest (Spike Lee, U.S.)
I Only Rest in the Storm (Pedro Pinho, Portugal / France / Brazil / Romania, 2025)
Kontinental '25 (Radu Jude, Romania / Brazil / Switzerland / U.K. / Luxembourg)
Le Lac (Fabrice Aragno, Switzerland)
Mickey 17 (Bong Joon-ho, U.S. / U.K.)
Miroirs No. 3 (Christian Petzold, Germany)
Monikondee (Lonnie van Brummelen, Siebren de Haan, and Tolin Alexander, Suriname / Netherlands)
nearer to thee in a triptych (Matt Whitman, U.S.) [s]
Nova '78 (Rodrigo Areias and Aaron Brookner, U.K. / Portugal)
Olmo (Fernando Eimbcke, U.S. / Mexico)
One Battle After Another (Paul Thomas Anderson, U.S.)
Paul (Denis Côté, Canada)
Pavements (Alex Ross Perry, U.S. / Germany)
The Phoenician Scheme (Wes Anderson, U.S. / Germany)
Powwow People (Sky Hopinka, U.S.)
Seven Veils (Atom Egoyan, Canada / U.S. / Finland)
Shapeless Variations (Francisco Rojas, Chile) [s]
Sorry, Baby (Eva Victor, U.S. / France / Spain)
The Story of "Scénario" (Jean-Luc Godard, Jean-Paul Battaggia, Fabrice Aragno, and Nicole Brenez, France / Japan / Germany) [m]
The Things You Kill (Alireza Khatami, Canada / France / Iran / Poland / Turkey)
This Side of Salina (Lynne Sachs, U.S.) [s]
To Brasil (Ute Aurand, Germany / Brazil) [s]
Twinless (James Sweeney, U.S.)
What Does That Nature Say to You (Hong Sang-soo, South Korea)
When Fall is Coming (François Ozon, France)
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Alfred Edel's Attack on Himself (Jan Soldat, Austria) [s]
Ancestral Visions of the Future (Lemohang Mosese, Lesotho / France / Germany / Qatar / Saudi Arabia)
April (Dea Kulumbegashvili, Georgia / France / Germany / Italy)
Awakening (Joanna Hogg, Austria / U.K.) [s]
Conditio Humana (Friedl vom Gröller, Austria) [s]
D is for Distance (Christopher Petit and Emma Matthews, Finland / France)
Emergency Exit (Friedl vom Gröller, Austra) [s]
Evidence (Lee Anne Schmidt, U.S.)
The Fishing Place (Rob Tregenza, Norway)
Forastera (Lucía Aleñar Iglesias, Spain / Sweden)
The Friend (Scott McGehee and David Siegel, U.S.)
Green Light (Pavel Cuzuioc, Austria)
Hen (György Pálfi, Greece / Hungary / Germany)
Henry Johnson (David Mamet, U.S.)
I Saw the Face of God in the Jet Wash (Mark Jenkin, U.K.) [s]
John Lilly and the Earth Coincidence Control Office (Michael Almereyda and Courtney Stephens, U.S.)
Julie Keeps Quiet (Leonardo Van Dijl, Belgium / Sweden)
Levers (Rhayne Vermette, Canada)
Lilith Fair: Building a Mystery (Ally Pankiw, Canada / U.S. / Australia)
Love (Dag Johan Haugerud, Norway)
Marcello mio (Christophe Honoré, France / Italy)
Materialists (Celine Song, U.S.)
Melt (Nikolaus Geyrhalter, Austria / Germany)
Memory is an Animal, It Barks with Many Mouths (Eva Giolo, Belgium / Italy) [s]
Organized Forgetting (J.M. Martínez, U.S.) [s]
Orwell: 2+2=5 (Raoul Peck, U.S. / France)
The origin of the world (Jazmín López, Argentina) [s]
Perpetual Disorder (João Carlos Pinto, Portugal / Spain) [s]
Santosh (Sandhya Suri, France / Germany / U.K.)
The Seasons (Maureen Fazendeiro, Portugal / France / Spain / Austria)
The Sun Rises On Us All (Cai Shangjun, China)
Vulcanizadora (Joel Potrykus, U.S.)
Weapons (Zach Cregger, U.S.)
With Hasan in Gaza (Kamal Aljafari, Palestine / Germany / France / Qatar)
Your Touch Makes Others Invisible (Rajee Samarasinghe, Sri Lanka / U.S.) [m]
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And the Rest Will Follow (Pelin Esmer, Turkey / Bulgaria / Romania)
Ashes to ashes (Sidney Gordon, Canada) [s]
Baby Invasion (Harmony Korine, U.S.)
Back to the Family (Sharunas Bartas, Lithuania / France / Latvia / Poland)
Copper (Nicolás Pereda, Mexico / Canada)
de natura tenebrarum (about the nature of darkness) (Manuel Knapp, Austria) [s]
The End (Joshua Oppenheimer, U.K. / Denmark / Germany / Ireland / Italy / Sweden)
Friendship (Andrew DeYoung, U.S.)
The History of Sound (Oliver Hermanus, U.K. / U.S. / Sweden)
A House of Dynamite (Kathryn Bigelow, U.S.)
I'm Not Your Monster (Karen Yasinsky, U.S.) [s]
I'm Still Here (Walter Salles, Brazil / France)
In the stranglehold of ivy (Antoinette Zwirchmayr, Austria) [s]
Mama (Or Sinai, Israel / Poland / Italy)
The Perfect Neighbor (Geeta Gandbhir, U.S.)
Presence (Steven Soderbergh, U.S.)
Refuse 2 (Alex Broadwell, U.S.) [s]
Remake (Ross McElwee, U.S.)
Sex (Dag Johan Haugerud, Norway)
Splitsville (Michael Angelo Covino, U.S.)
The Wedding Banquet (Andrew Ahn, U.S.)
The Woman in the Yard (Jaume Collet-Serra, U.S.)
Wrong Husband (Zacharias Kunuk, Canada)
Young Mothers (Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne, Belgium / France)
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The Blue Trail (Gabriel Mascaro, Brazil / Mexico / Chile / Netherlands)
Director's Diary (Aleksandr Sokurov, Russia / Italy)
Fountain of Youth (Guy Ritchie, U.S. / U.K.)
Franz (Agnieszka Holland, Czechia / Poland / Germany)
Heretic (Scott Beck and Bryan Woods, U.S.)
Last Night I Conquered the City of Thebes (Gabriel Azorín, Spain / Portugal)
The Life List (Adam Brooks, U.S.)
little boy (James Benning, U.S.)
Lucky Lu (Lloyd Lee Choi, U.S. / Canada
A Metamorphosis (Lin Htet Aung, Myanmar) [s]
Motel Destino (Karim Aïnouz, Brazil / France / Germany)
Opus (Mark Anthony Green, U.S.)
Parthenope (Paolo Sorrentino, Italy / France)
Primitive Diversity (Alexander Kluge, Germany)
Sanctuary Station (Brigid McCaffrey, U.S.) [m]
September 5 (Tim Fehlbaum, U.S. / Germany)
A Want in Her (Myrid Carten, Ireland / Netherlands / U.K.)
Wild Diamond (Agathe Riedinger, France)
[3]
The Most Precious of Cargoes (Michel Hazanavicius, France / Belgium)
[2]
Echo Valley (Michael Pearce, U.S.)
[1]
[W/O]
Blazing Fists (Takashi Miike, Japan)
The Thursday Murder Club (Chris Columbus, U.K. / U.S.)
briefly sampled
B for Bartleby (Angela Summereder, Austria)
Blue Giant (Yuzuru Tachikawa, Japan)
A Body to Live In (Angelo Madsen Minax, U.S.)
Debut, or Objects of the Field of Debris as Currently Catalogued (Julian Castronovo, U.S.)
Girls Will Be Girls (Shuchi Talati, India / France / U.K. / Norway)
Holland (Mimi Cave, U.S. / U.K.)
Honey Don't! (Ethan Coen, U.S. / U.K.)
Kill the Jockey (Luis Ortega, Argentina / Denmark / Mexico / Spain / U.K. / U.S.)
Kneecap (Rich Peppiatt, Ireland / U.K.)
Magic Farm (Amalia Ulman, U.S. / U.K. / Argentina)
Mexico Will No Longer Exist! (Annalisa Quagliata Blanco, Mexico)
Next Life (Tenzin Phuntsog, Mexico / U.S.)
Olivia and the Clouds (Tomás Pichardo-Espaillat, Dominican Republic)
One of Them Days (Lawrence Lamont, U.S.)
Palliative Care Unit (Philipp Döring, Germany)
The Soldier's Lagoon (Pablo Alvarez Mesa, Colombia / Canada)
A South-Facing House in Gyeonggi Province (Park Jin-yong, South Korea)
Summer of 69 (Jillian Bell, U.S.)
To a Land Unknown (Mahdi Fleifel, Germany / Saudi Arabia / Qatar / France / Greece / Netherlands / U.K. / Palestine)
The Tree of Authenticity (Sammy Baloji, Belgium / Democratic Republic of the Congo)
A Whisper in the Dabbas (Garin Nugroho, Indonesia)