2021 First Watches

Renewed Appreciation: Oxhide II, Morocco, Journey to the Shore, The Red Shoes, Oxhide, The Human Surge, By the Time It Gets Dark, Dishonored, Barbara, A Brighter Summer Day, Yourself and Yours, Phantom Thread, La Chinoise, The Master, The Tree of Life, Hanagatami

Shorts: “Allures,” “Cosmic Ray,” “Black Ice,” “The Nail Clippers,” “Cityscape,” “If you could go back, I would see her.,” “The Skywalk Is Gone,” “Pescherecci,” “Surfarara,” “( ),” “The Big Trim,” “Lu tempu di li pisci spata,” “607,” “Rose Gold,” “Textism,” “Autoficción,” “Parabola d’oro,” “Artifices #1,” “Occidente,” “I dimenticati,” “Un giorno in Barbagia,” “Alfred,” “Billy,” “‘The red filter is withdrawn.,'” “Pastori di Orgosolo,” “Never Rest/Unrest,” “New York Story,” “The Big Shave,” “Isole di fuoco,” “The Capacity for Adequate Anger,” “Contadini del mare,” “Subject to Review,” “I Shot Antoine Doinel,” “Dear Chantal,” “I Wish You Would,” “Inner Outer Space,” “Pasqua in Sicilia,” “Cuba Scalds His Hand,” “Halpate,” “Untitled Sequence of Gaps”

  1. Shanghai Express (1932, Josef von Sternberg) [November]
  2. Comrades: Almost a Love Story (1996, Peter Chan) [August]
  3. Drive My Car (2021, Hamaguchi Ryūsuke) [November]
  4. Shanghai Blues (1984, Tsui Hark) [July]
  5. Can’t Get You Out of My Head: An Emotional History of the Modern World (2021, Adam Curtis) [February]
  6. PTU (2003, Johnnie To) [February]
  7. Tih-Minh (1918, Louis Feuillade) [June]
  8. Memoria (2021, Apichatpong Weerasethakul) [September]
  9. The Aviator’s Wife (1981, Éric Rohmer) [August]
  10. Canyon Passage (1946, Jacques Tourneur) [October]
  11. Kagemusha (1980, Kurosawa Akira) [June]
  12. Rosa la rose, fille publique (1986, Paul Vecchiali) [July]
  13. The Hand (2004, Wong Kar-wai) [May]
  14. Tokyo Sonata (2008, Kurosawa Kiyoshi) [September]
  15. Disorder (2009, Huang Weikai) [January]
  16. Once Upon a Time in the West (1968, Sergio Leone) [June]
  17. La France (2007, Serge Bozon) [January]
  18. The Works and Days (of Tayoko Shiojiri in the Shiotani Basin) (2020, C.W. Winter & Anders Edström) [July]
  19. What Do We See When We Look at the Sky? (2021, Alexandre Koberidze) [November]
  20. The Color of Pomegranates (1969, Sergei Parajanov) [June]
  21. Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy (2021, Hamaguchi Ryūsuke) [October]
  22. Present.Perfect. (2019, Zhu Shengze) [February]
  23. Sons of the Good Earth (1965, King Hu) [March]
  24. Short Vacation (2020, Kwon Min-pyo & Seo Han-sol) [May]
  25. The Story of a Cheat (1936, Sacha Guitry) [March]
  26. Contact (1985, Alan Clarke) [January]
  27. Aragane (2015, Oda Kaori) [February]
  28. Hercules Conquers Atlantis (1961, Vittorio Cottafavi) [March]
  29. 4 Adventures of Reinette and Mirabelle (1987, Éric Rohmer) [August]
  30. West Side Story (2021, Steven Spielberg) [November]
  31. Tirez la langue, mademoiselle (2013, Axelle Ropert) [August]
  32. Wife of a Spy (2020, Kurosawa Kiyoshi) [March]
  33. Every Man for Himself (1980, Jean-Luc Godard) [June]
  34. Not My Type (2014, Lucas Belvaux) [February]
  35. Grosse Freiheit Nr. 7 (1944, Helmut Käutner) [March]
  36. Liz and the Blue Bird (2018, Yamada Naoko) [April]
  37. The Exiles (1961, Kent Mackenzie) [September]
  38. A River Runs, Turns, Erases, Replaces (2021, Zhu Shengze) [February]
  39. Le bonheur (1965, Agnès Varda) [March]
  40. Deep End (1970, Jerzy Skolimowski) [August]
  41. Just Don’t Think I’ll Scream (2019, Frank Beauvais) [January]
  42. Evangelion: 3.0+1.0 Thrice Upon a Time (2021, Anno Hideaki) [December]
  43. The Leopard Man (1943, Jacques Tourneur) [October]
  44. The Story of Sue San (1964, King Hu) [January]
  45. Deep Cover (1992, Bill Duke) [January]
  46. Hannah Takes the Stairs (2007, Joe Swanberg) [January]
  47. In Front of Your Face (2021, Hong Sang-soo) [September]
  48. Annette (2021, Leos Carax) [August]
  49. Cenote (2019, Oda Kaori) [February]
  50. Loulou (1980, Maurice Pialat) [June]
  51. Ten Skies (2004, James Benning) [July]
  52. Evangelion: 2.0 You Can (Not) Advance (2009, Anno Hideaki) [December]
  53. Licorice Pizza (2021, Paul Thomas Anderson) [November]
  54. The Tragedy of Macbeth (2021, Joel Coen) [November]
  55. Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn (2021, Radu Jude) [November]
  56. Procession (2021, Robert Greene) [November]
  57. The Velvet Underground (2021, Todd Haynes) [October]
  58. Topology of Sirens (2021, Jonathan Davies) [July]
  59. A World Without Women (2011, Guillaume Brac) [March]
  60. Round Midnight (1986, Bertrand Tavernier) [November]
  61. Introduction (2021, Hong Sang-soo) [September]
  62. Eight Hours of Terror (1957, Suzuki Seijun) [January]
  63. New Rose Hotel (1998, Abel Ferrara) [December]
  64. Low Life (2011, Nicolas Klotz) [March]
  65. France (2021, Bruno Dumont) [December]
  66. The Power of the Dog (2021, Jane Campion) [December]
  67. Europa ’51 (1952, Roberto Rossellini) [June]
  68. Casting Blossoms to the Sky (2012, Ōbayashi Nobuhiko) [September]
  69. Evangelion: 3.0 You Can (Not) Redo (2012, Anno Hideaki) [December]
  70. Breaking News (2004, Johnnie To) [May]
  71. Fabian, or Going to the Dogs (2021, Dominik Graf) [October]
  72. Mundane History (2009, Anocha Suwichakornpong) [February]
  73. The Piano (1993, Jane Campion) [December]
  74. Ahed’s Knee (2021, Nadav Lapid) [November]
  75. Belly (1998, Hype Williams) [October]
  76. The Pettifogger (2011, Lewis Klahr) [February]
  77. The French Dispatch of the Liberty, Kansas Evening Sun (2021, Wes Anderson) [October]
  78. A Fine Day (2001, Thomas Arslan) [February]
  79. The Souvenir: Part II (2021, Joanna Hogg) [November]
  80. The Metamorphosis of Birds (2020, Catarina Vasconcelos) [January]
  81. Better Days (2019, Derek Tsang) [April]
  82. Benedetta (2021, Paul Verhoeven) [December]
  83. Parallel Mothers (2021, Pedro Almodóvar) [December]
  84. Evangelion: 1.0 You Are (Not) Alone (2007, Anno Hideaki) [July]
  85. The State I Am In (2000, Christian Petzold) [May]
  86. Pebbles (2021, PS Vinothraj) [April]
  87. The Last Metro (1980, François Truffaut) [July]
  88. The Inheritance (2020, Ephraim Asili) [April]
  89. The Conductor (1980, Andrzej Wajda) [May]
  90. Melvin and Howard (1980, Jonathan Demme) [April]
  91. Motorway (2012, Soi Cheang) [March]
  92. Hit the Road (2021, Panâh Panâhi) [October]
  93. Monster Hunter (2020, Paul W.S. Anderson) [February]
  94. Cry Macho (2021, Clint Eastwood) [November]
  95. Confidence (1980, Szabó István) [June]
  96. El Planeta (2021, Amalia Ulman) [December]
  97. Mischka (2002, Jean-François Stévenin) [July]
  98. El Gran Movimiento (2021, Kiro Russo) [September]
  99. The Witches of the Orient (2021, Julien Faraut) [December]
  100. Bye Bye Brazil (1979, Carlos Diegues) [May]
  101. And Quiet Rolls the Dawn (1979, Mrinal Sen) [June]
  102. A Better Tomorrow II (1987, John Woo) [April]
  103. Petite Solange (2021, Axelle Ropert) [August]
  104. Petite Maman (2021, Céline Sciamma) [December]
  105. Film Catastrophe (2018, Paul Grivas) [January]
  106. Camera Buff (1979, Krzysztof Kieślowski) [June]
  107. małni — towards the ocean, towards the shore (2020, Sky Hopinka) [December]
  108. Nomadland (2020, Chloé Zhao) [March]
  109. Special Treatment (1980, Goran Paskaljević) [June]
  110. Walkabout (1971, Nicolas Roeg) [November]
  111. Come Here (2021, Anocha Suwichakornpong) [March]
  112. The Card Counter (2021, Paul Schrader) [December]
  113. Zeros and Ones (2021, Abel Ferrara) [December]
  114. All the Light We Can See (2020, Pablo Escoto Luna) [May]
  115. The Worst Person in the World (2021, Joachim Trier) [December]
  116. Nobody (2021, Ilya Naishuller) [May]
  117. Looking for Tsai (2002, Patrik Eriksson & Erik Hemmendorff) [March]
  118. Master Z: The Ip Man Legacy (2018, Yuen Woo-ping) [March]
  119. Cliff Walkers (2021, Zhang Yimou) [June]
  120. Bergman Island (2021, Mia Hansen-Løve) [December]
  121. Terra Femme (2021, Courtney Stephens) [October]
  122. The Mask of Fu Manchu (1932, Charles Brabin) [April]
  123. Dark Skull (2016, Kiro Russo) [September]
  124. The Matrix Resurrections (2021, Lana Wachowski) [December]
  125. No Sudden Move (2021, Steven Soderbergh) [July]
  126. The Constant Factor (1980, Krzysztof Zanussi) [June]
  127. Titane (2021, Julia Ducournau) [October]
  128. 21 Bridges (2019, Brian Kirk) [January]
  129. Dear Ex (2018, Mag Hsu & Hsu Chih-yen) [June]
  130. Here’s looking at you, kid. (1980, William Edgar Cohen) [June]
  131. I Was a Simple Man (2021, Christopher Makoto Yogi) [October]
  132. Preparations to Be Together for an Unknown Period of Time (2020, Horvát Lili) [January]
  133. Seven Weeks (2014, Ōbayashi Nobuhiko) [September]
  134. Radiograph of a Family (2020, Firouzeh Khosrovani) [April]
  135. Fantômas (1932, Fejős Pál) [August]
  136. Dune: Part One (2021, Denis Villeneuve) [October]
  137. Let Them All Talk a.k.a. The Fall of 2019 (2020, Steven Soderbergh) [July]
  138. Krabi, 2562 (2019, Ben Rivers & Anocha Suwichakornpong) [February]
  139. Sunday Daughters (1980, Rózsa Janós) [June]
  140. Helios (2015, Longman Leung & Sunny Luk) [May]
  141. Happening (2021, Audrey Diwan) [November]
  142. Nights at O’Rear’s (1980, Robert Mandel) [June]
  143. The Life and Times of Rosie the Riveter (1980, Connie Field) [April]
  144. Eternals (2021, Chloé Zhao) [November]
  145. Wrath of Man (2021, Guy Ritchie) [June]
  146. The Midnight Sky (2020, George Clooney) [January]
  147. Lingua Franca (2019, Isabel Sandoval) [March]
  148. Mank (2020, David Fincher) [April]
  149. Old (2021, M. Night Shyamalan) [July]
  150. Tom Clancy’s Without Remorse (2021, Stefano Sollima) [April]
  151. The Woman in the Window (2021, Joe Wright) [May]
  152. Vanya on 42nd Street (1994, Louis Malle) [November]
  153. Sound of Metal (2019, Darius Marder) [April]
  154. The Soul (2021, Cheng Wei-hao) [May]
  155. One Second (2020, Zhang Yimou) [June]
  156. The Courier (2020, Dominic Cooke) [April]
  157. Tenet (2020, Christopher Nolan) [January]
  158. The Green Knight (2021, David Lowery) [August]
  159. The Last Vermeer (2019, Dan Friedkin) [May]
  160. Minari (2020, Lee Isaac Chung) [April]
  161. Home Sweet Home (2021, Leste Chen) [June]
  162. Ong-Bak (2003, Prachya Pinkaew) [January]
  163. Pig (2021, Michael Sarnoski) [December]
  164. The Trial of the Chicago 7 (2020, Aaron Sorkin) [April]
  165. WW84 (2020, Patty Jenkins) [January]
  166. Life in a Day 2020 (2021, Kevin Macdonald) [January]