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.)
Norm (Max Hattler, Germany) [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)
Bugonia (Yorgos Lanthimos, U.S. / Canada / Ireland / South Korea)
Castration Movie Anthology ii. The Best of Both Worlds (Louise Weard, Canada)
The Chronology of Water (Kristen Stewart, U.S. / France / Latvia)
CONFERENCE (Björn Kämmerer, Austria) [s]
The Currents (Milagros Mumenthaler, Argentina / Switzerland)
Daria's Night Flowers (Maryam Tafakory, Iran / U.K.) [s]
Desert of Namibia (Yoko Yamanaka, Japan)
Die My Love (Lynne Ramsay, U.S.)
Dreams (Sex Love) (Dag Johan Haugerud, Norway)
Ecce Mole (Heinz Emigholz, Germany / Italy) [s]
En traversée (Vadim Kostrov, France) [s]
Escape (Masao Adachi, Japan)
Father Mother Sister Brother (Jim Jarmusch, U.S. / France / Ireland / Italy / Germany / U.K.)
FELT (Blake Williams, Canada / U.S.) [s]
Gangsterism (Isiah Medina, Canada)
Gavagai (Ulrich Köhler, Germany / France)
Girl (Shu Qi, Taiwan / China)
La Grazia (Paolo Sorrentino, Italy)
Half Halt (Sofia Theodore-Pierce, U.S.) [s]
Happyend (Neo Sora, Japan / U.S. / U.K. / Singapore)
Harvest (Athina Rachel Tsangari, Cyprus / Germany / Greece / U.S. / U.K. / France)
Highest 2 Lowest (Spike Lee, U.S.)
I Only Rest in the Storm (Pedro Pinho, Portugal / France / Brazil / Romania, 2025)
in thin air (Rushnan Jaleel, India) [s]
Kontinental '25 (Radu Jude, Romania / Brazil / Switzerland / U.K. / Luxembourg)
Le Lac (Fabrice Aragno, Switzerland)
The Mastermind (Kelly Reichardt, U.S. / U.K.)
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]
No Other Choice (Park Chan-wook, South Korea / France)
Nouvelle Vague (Richard Linklater, France / U.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)
Peter Hujar's Day (Ira Sachs, U.S. / Germany / U.K. / Argentina / Spain)
The Phoenician Scheme (Wes Anderson, U.S. / Germany)
[pink noise] (Clint Enns, Canada) [s]
Powwow People (Sky Hopinka, U.S.)
pressing (Stephanie Barber, U.S.) [s]
Reflection in a Dead Diamond (Hélène Cattet and Bruno Forzani, Belgium / France / Italy / Luxembourg)
Seven Veils (Atom Egoyan, Canada / U.S. / Finland)
Shapeless Variations (Francisco Rojas, Chile) [s]
Sorry, Baby (Eva Victor, U.S. / France / Spain)
Sound of Falling (Mascha Schilinski, Germany)
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)
[6]
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]
Barking in the Dark (Marie Losier, France) [m]
Conditio Humana (Friedl vom Gröller, Austria) [s]
Cover-Up (Laura Poitras and Mark Obenhaus, U.S.)
D is for Distance (Christopher Petit and Emma Matthews, Finland / France)
The Dithering Veil (Rushnan Jaleel, India) [s]
Dry Leaf (Alexandre Koberidze, Georgia / Germany)
Dust Bunny (Bryan Fuller, U.S. / Canada / Hungary)
Emergency Exit (Friedl vom Gröller, Austra) [s]
Evidence (Lee Anne Schmidt, U.S.)
Familiar Touch (Sara Friedland, 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]
If I Had Legs I'd Kick You (Mary Bronstein, U.S.)
It Was Just an Accident (Jafar Panahi, Iran / France / Luxembourg)
John Lilly and the Earth Coincidence Control Office (Michael Almereyda and Courtney Stephens, U.S.)
Julie Keeps Quiet (Leonardo Van Dijl, Belgium / Sweden)
Landmarks (Nuestra Tierra) (Lucrecia Martel, Argentina / Denmark / Mexico / U.S. / Netherlands / France)
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]
The Plague (Charlie Polinger, U.S. / U.A.E.)
Predators (David Osit, U.S.)
Santosh (Sandhya Suri, France / Germany / U.K.)
The Seasons (Maureen Fazendeiro, Portugal / France / Spain / Austria)
The Secret Agent (Kleber Mendonça Filho, Brazil / France / Germany / Netherlands)
Sentimental Value (Joachim Trier, Norway / France / Denmark / Sweden / Germany / Turkey / U.K.)
The Sun Rises On Us All (Cai Shangjun, China)
To the Victory! (Valentyn Vasyanovych, Ukraine / Lithunia)
Toward a Fundamental Theory of Physics (Victor Van Rossem, Belgium) [s]
Vulcanizadora (Joel Potrykus, U.S.)
Wake Up Dead Man (Rian Johnson, U.S.)
Weapons (Zach Cregger, U.S.)
Where to Land (Hal Hartley, U.S.)
With Hasan in Gaza (Kamal Aljafari, Palestine / Germany / France / Qatar)
Your Touch Makes Others Invisible (Rajee Samarasinghe, Sri Lanka / U.S.) [m]
[5]
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)
Blue Moon (Richard Linklater, U.S. / Ireland)
Come See Me in the Good Light (Ryan White, U.S.)
Copper (Nicolás Pereda, Mexico / Canada)
de natura tenebrarum (about the nature of darkness) (Manuel Knapp, Austria) [s]
Dracula (Radu Jude, Romania / Austria / Switzerland / Luxembourg / Brazil / U.K.)
The End (Joshua Oppenheimer, U.K. / Denmark / Germany / Ireland / Italy / Sweden)
Frankenstein (Guillermo del Toro, U.S. / Canada)
Friendship (Andrew DeYoung, U.S.)
Good Boy (Ben Leonberg, U.S.)
Good Fortune (Aziz Ansari, 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]
The Last One for the Road (Francesco Sossai, Italy / Germany)
Mama (Or Sinai, Israel / Poland / Italy)
Mare's Nest (Ben Rivers, U.K. / France / Canada)
The Perfect Neighbor (Geeta Gandbhir, U.S.)
Presence (Steven Soderbergh, U.S.)
A Private Life (Rebecca Zlotowski, France)
Refuse 2 (Alex Broadwell, U.S.) [s]
Remake (Ross McElwee, U.S.)
Sex (Dag Johan Haugerud, Norway)
Splitsville (Michael Angelo Covino, U.S.)
Train Dreams (Clint Bentley, U.S.)
The Visible Material (Ryan Marino, U.S.) [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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After The Hunt (Luca Guadagnino, U.S. / Italy)
The Blue Trail (Gabriel Mascaro, Brazil / Mexico / Chile / Netherlands)
Dead Man's Wire (Gus Van Sant, U.S.)
Director's Diary (Aleksandr Sokurov, Russia / Italy)
Eddington (Ari Aster, U.S. / Finland)
Fountain of Youth (Guy Ritchie, U.S. / U.K.)
Franz (Agnieszka Holland, Czechia / Poland / Germany)
Greyscale (Simon Payne, U.K.) [s]
Heretic (Scott Beck and Bryan Woods, U.S.)
Is This Thing On? (Bradley Cooper, U.S.)
Jay Kelly (Noah Baumbach, U.S. / U.K.)
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)
Renoir (Chie Hayakawa, Japan / France / Philippines / Singapore / Indonesia)
River Nocturne (meditation on noise) (Francesco Zanatta, Italy) [s]
Sanctuary Station (Brigid McCaffrey, U.S.) [m]
September 5 (Tim Fehlbaum, U.S. / Germany)
Tooborac (Richard Tuohy and Dianna Barrie, Australia) [s]
A Want in Her (Myrid Carten, Ireland / Netherlands / U.K.)
Wild Diamond (Agathe Riedinger, France)
[3]
Marty Supreme (Josh Safdie, U.S.)
The Most Precious of Cargoes (Michel Hazanavicius, France / Belgium)
[2]
Echo Valley (Michael Pearce, U.S.)
[1]
[W/O]
Blazing Fists (Takashi Miike, Japan)
Goodbye June (Kate Winslet, U.K.)
The Thursday Murder Club (Chris Columbus, U.K. / U.S.)
briefly sampled
B for Bartleby (Angela Summereder, Austria)
The Baltimorons (Jay Duplass, U.S.)
Blue Giant (Yuzuru Tachikawa, Japan)
A Body to Live In (Angelo Madsen Minax, U.S.)
Caught Stealing (Darren Aronofsky, 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)
Hedda (Nia DaCosta, U.S.)
Henry Fonda for President (Alexander Horwath, Austria)
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.)
Left-Handed Girl (Shih-Ching Tsou, Taiwan / France / Singapore / U.S. / U.K.)
Magic Farm (Amalia Ulman, U.S. / U.K. / Argentina)
A Magnificent Life (Sylvain Chomet, France / Belgium / Luxembourg)
Mexico Will No Longer Exist! (Annalisa Quagliata Blanco, Mexico)
The Mysterious Gaze of the Flamingo (Diego Céspedes, Chile / France / Belgium / Spain / Germany)
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)
Pin de Fartie (Alejo Moguillansky, Argentina)
The President's Cake (Hasan Hadi, Iraq / U.S.)
Sermon to the Void (Hilal Baydarov, Azerbaijan / Mexico / Turkey)
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)
28 Years Later (Danny Boyle, U.K. / U.S.)
A Whisper in the Dabbas (Garin Nugroho, Indonesia)