January
Amanda (2018, Mikhaël Hers) – 8.0
+What Time Is It There? (2001, Tsai Ming-liang) – 7.9 [same]
Get Lost! Little Doggy (1964, Sid Marcus) 35mm
+In the Mood for Love (2000, Wong Kar-wai) 35mm – 9.5 [up from 9.4]
Gummo (1997, Harmony Korine) 35mm – 7.0
Single Stream (2014, Paweł Wojtasik & Toby Kim Lee & Ernst Karel) DP
Expedition Content (2020, Ernst Karel & Veronika Kusumaryati) DP – 6.9
Malcolm X (1992, Spike Lee) 70mm – 7.7
Miracle Mile (1988, Steve De Jarnatt) 35mm – 7.3
Arrebato (1979, Iván Zulueta) 35mm – 6.9
+Videodrome (1983, David Cronenberg) 35mm – 7.7 [up from 6.8]
+Lincoln (2012, Steven Spielberg) 35mm – 7.8 [up from 5.4]
The Exiles (2022, Violet Columbus & Ben Klein) Sundance – 4.9
Call Jane (2022, Phyllis Nagy) Sundance – 6.3
Red Rocket (2021, Sean Baker) 35mm – 7.1
A Love Song (2022, Max Walker-Silverman) Sundance – 5.3
The Mission (2022, Tania Anderson) Sundance – 4.9
Riotsville, U.S.A. (2022, Sierra Pettengill) Sundance – 7.1
Free Chol Soo Lee (2022, Eugene Yi & Julie Ha) Sundance – 6.2
Mija (2022, Isabel Castro) Sundance – 5.9
The Cathedral (2021, Ricky D’Ambrose) Sundance – 7.2
Framing Agnes (2022, Chase Joynt) Sundance – 4.7
Something in the Dirt (2022, Justin Benson & Aaron Moorhead) Sundance – 5.5
Soft Animals (2021, Renee Zhan) Sundance
Starfuckers (2022, Antonio Marziale) Sundance
Kicking the Clouds (2021, Sky Hopinka) Sundance
The Headhunter’s Daughter (2022, Don Josephus Raphael Eblahan) Sundance
A wild patience has taken me here (2021, Érica Sarmet) Sundance
Every Day in Kaimukī (2022, Alika Tengan) Sundance – 6.1
The Conversation (1974, Francis Ford Coppola) 35mm – 7.7
A Corny Concerto (1943, Bob Clampett) 35mm
+Sign “O” the Times (1987, Prince) 35mm – 7.1 [up from 6.9]
Letter From an Unknown Woman (1948, Max Ophuls) 35mm – 9.0
A Human Position (2022, Anders Emblem) – 6.3
Erection (1981, Guido Manuli) 35mm
Equation to an Unknown (1980, Dietrich de Velsa) 35mm – 7.5
February
The August Virgin (2019, Jonás Trueba) – 7.3
Benediction (2021, Terence Davies) – 7.1
Haruhara-san’s Recorder (2021, Sugita Kyoshi) – 7.2
Spencer (2021, Pablo Larraín) – 4.6
Onoda (2021, Arthur Harari) – 7.1
Who’s Stopping Us (2021, Jonás Trueba) – 7.8
+Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000, Ang Lee) 35mm – 9.0 [up from 8.8]
Die Katze (1988, Dominik Graf) – 7.3
+Only Yesterday (1991, Takahata Isao) 35mm – 7.8 [up from 6.2]
The Invincibles (1994, Dominik Graf) – 7.1
Tatort: Frau Bu lacht (1995, Dominik Graf) – 7.7
The Friends of the Friends (2002, Dominik Graf) – 7.2
Dreileben: Beats Being Dead (2011, Christian Petzold) – 7.6
Beloved Sisters (2014, Dominik Graf) – 7.3
Dreileben: Don’t Follow Me Around (2011, Dominik Graf) – 7.4
Polizeiruf 110: Smoke on the Water (2014, Dominik Graf) – 7.0
+Fabian, or Going to the Dogs (2021, Dominik Graf) – 7.1 [same]
The City Below (2010, Christoph Hochhäusler) – 7.7
Dreileben: One Minute of Darkness (2011, Christoph Hochhäusler) – 5.6
My Neighbors the Yamadas (1999, Takahata Isao) 35mm – 7.7
True Romance (1993, Tony Scott) 35mm – 6.7
+Wild at Heart (1990, David Lynch) 35mm – 7.8 [up from 7.7]
Werewolf (2016, Ashley McKenzie) – 5.7
Queens of the Qing Dynasty (2022, Ashley McKenzie) – 7.2
A Night of Knowing Nothing (2021, Payal Kapadia) DP – 7.0
Tree of Knowledge (1981, Nils Malmros) DP – 8.2
The Gospel According to St. Matthew (1964, Pier Paolo Pasolini) 35mm – 8.6
Avanti! (1972, Billy Wilder) 35mm – 8.0
Once Upon a Time in China (1991, Tsui Hark) – 8.6
Once Upon a Time in China II (1992, Tsui Hark) – 8.1
+The Last of the Mohicans (1992, Michael Mann) 35mm – 7.6 [up from 7.3]
Pancho’s Hideaway (1964, Friz Freleng) 35mm
Point Blank (1967, John Boorman) 35mm – 7.4
Prime Cut (1972, Michael Ritchie) 35mm – 6.1
★ [Version 2022] (2017, Johann Lurf) DP – 7.5
March
+Destroy, She Said (1969, Marguerite Duras) 35mm – 7.4 [up from 7.2]
Dear Mr. Brody (2021, Keith Maitland) – 5.5
La Vie des morts (1991, Arnaud Desplechin) DP – 7.3
Petite conversation familiale (2000, Hélène Lapiower) DP – 6.5
Deception (2021, Arnaud Desplechin) DP – 6.7
+Spirited Away (2001, Miyazaki Hayao) 35mm – 8.9 [up from ~8.1]
The United States of America (2022, James Benning) DP – 7.4
+The Day a Pig Fell Into the Well (1996, Hong Sang-soo) – 7.1 [same]
The Crunch Bird (1971, Ted Petok) 35mm
Bad Girls Go to Hell (1965, Doris Wishman) 35mm – 6.6
+Le Camion (1977, Marguerite Duras) 35mm – 7.3 [up from 7.2]
+The Power of Kangwon Province (1998, Hong Sang-soo) – 7.2 [same]
+My Blueberry Nights (2007, Wong Kar-wai) 35mm – 7.2 [same]
+Last Year at Marienbad (1961, Alain Resnais) – 9.1 [same]
Pom Poko (1994, Takahata Isao) 35mm – 8.0
The Tom and Jerry Cartoon Kit (1962, Gene Deitch) 35mm
Tai-Chi Master (1993, Yuen Woo-ping) 35mm – 7.0
Wing Chun (1994, Yuen Woo-ping) 35mm – 7.3
Rock Bottom Riser (2021, Fern Silva) 35mm – 6.4
+Mulholland Dr. (2001, David Lynch) 35mm – 9.8 [same]
+Sunset Blvd. (1950, Billy Wilder) 35mm – 7.2 [down from 8.3]
Le Navire Night (1979, Marguerite Duras) 35mm – 7.1
+Jeanne Dielman, 23, Quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles (1975, Chantal Akerman) 35mm – 8.8 [same]
Vengeance Is Mine, All Others Pay Cash (2021, Edwin) Locarno in Los Angeles, DP – 6.9
Virgin Blue (2021, Niu Xiaoyu) – 7.1
FIRST TIME [The Time for All But Sunset – VIOLET] (2021, Nicolaas Schmidt) Locarno in Los Angeles, DP – 7.0
+Virgin Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors (2000, Hong Sang-soo) – 7.4 [up from 7.2]
Our Eternal Summer (2021, Émilie Aussel) Locarno in Los Angeles, DP – 6.6
From the Planet of the Humans (2021, Giovanni Cioni) Locarno in Los Angeles, DP – 5.8
A New Old Play (2021, Qiu Jiongjiong) Locarno in Los Angeles, DP – 7.7
The Sacred Spirit (2021, Chema García Ibarra) Locarno in Los Angeles, DP – 7.2
Rampart (2021, Marko Grba Singh) Locarno in Los Angeles, DP – 6.6
Wet Sand (2021, Elene Naveriani) Locarno in Los Angeles, DP – 6.1
Medea (2021, Alexander Zeldovich) Locarno in Los Angeles, DP – 7.2
Belle (2021, Hosoda Mamoru) Locarno in Los Angeles, DP – 6.4
+On the Occasion of Remembering the Turning Gate (2002, Hong Sang-soo) – 7.7 [up from 7.3]
+India Song (1975, Marguerite Duras) 35mm – 8.8 [up from 8.7]
+Nathalie Granger (1972, Marguerite Duras) 16mm – 7.4 [same]
RRR (2022, S. S. Rajamouli) DP – 7.6
The Docks of New York (1928, Josef von Sternberg) 35mm – 8.6
Thunderbolt (1929, Josef von Sternberg) 35mm – 6.9
French Rarebit (1951, Robert McKimson) 35mm
Marie Antoinette (2006, Sofia Coppola) 35mm – 7.7
The Bling Ring (2013, Sofia Coppola) 35mm – 6.5
Drunken Angel (1948, Kurosawa Akira) 35mm – 7.1
+The Big Sleep (1946, Howard Hawks) 35mm – 8.6 [up from 8.2]
Ode to Seekers 2012 (2016, Andrew Norman Wilson) DP
The Unthinkable Bygone (2016, Andrew Norman Wilson) DP
Z = |Z/Z•Z-1 mod 2|-1: Lavender Town Syndrome (2019, Andrew Norman Wilson) DP
+In the Air Tonight (2020, Andrew Norman Wilson) DP
Impersonator (2021, Andrew Norman Wilson) DP
April
The Women (1939, George Cukor) 35mm – 7.0
Hush! (2001, Hashiguchi Ryōsuke) 35mm – 7.5
The Heiress (1949, William Wyler) 35mm – 8.8
Carnival of Souls (1962, Herk Harvey) 35mm – 7.2
Z = |Z/Z•Z-1 mod 2|-1: The Old Victrola (2019, Andrew Norman Wilson)
+Indefinite Pitch (2016, James N. Kienitz Wilkins)
+Goodbye, Dragon Inn (2003, Tsai Ming-liang) DP – 9.2 [same]
+Rio Bravo (1959, Howard Hawks) 35mm – 9.0 [up from 8.8]
Assault on Precinct 13 (1976, John Carpenter) 35mm – 8.2
+Woman Is the Future of Man (2004, Hong Sang-soo) – 7.1 [same]
+Hard-Boiled (1992, John Woo) 35mm – 8.7 [up from 8.4]
+Seven Samurai (1954, Kurosawa Akira) 35mm – 9.4 [up from 9.2]
+Tale of Cinema (2005, Hong Sang-soo) – 7.9 [up from 7.7]
The Girl and the Spider (2021, Ramon and Silvan Zürcher) DP – 7.4
The City and the City (2022, Christos Passalis & Syllas Tzoumerkas) – 5.7
+My Neighbor Totoro (1988, Miyazaki Hayao) 35mm – 8.7 [same]
+Woman on the Beach (2006, Hong Sang-soo) – 7.6 [same]
Wood and Water (2021, Jonas Bak) – 7.1
Ambulance (2022, Michael Bay) DP – 6.4
+Memoria (2021, Apichatpong Weerasethakul) 35mm – 8.4 [same]
Everything Everywhere All at Once (2022, Daniel Kwan & Daniel Scheinert) DP – 4.7
+Blissfully Yours (2002, Apichatpong Weerasethakul) DP – 7.8 [up from 7.3]
Singing in the Wilderness (2021, Chen Dongnan) – 6.2
China Girls (2006, Michelle Silva) 16mm
+Standard Gauge (1984, Morgan Fisher) 16mm
Ein Bild (1983, Harun Farocki) DP
Releasing Human Energies (2012, Mark Toscano) 16mm
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953, Howard Hawks) 35mm – 9.1
+Tropical Malady (2004, Apichatpong Weerasethakul) 35mm – 8.7 [up from 8.1]
+Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives (2010, Apichatpong Weerasethakul) 35mm – 8.6 [up from 8.4]
+Night and Day (2008, Hong Sang-soo) – 8.7 [up from 8.6]
+Like You Know It All (2009, Hong Sang-soo) – 7.7 [up from 7.5]
+Lost in the Mountains (2009, Hong Sang-soo)
+Hahaha (2010, Hong Sang-soo) – 8.0 [up from 7.7]
+Oki’s Movie (2010, Hong Sang-soo) – 7.8 [up from 7.6]
May
+The Day He Arrives (2011, Hong Sang-soo) – 8.8 [up from 8.6]
+List (2011, Hong Sang-soo)
Jane Brakhage (1975, Barbara Hammer) 16mm
+Prelude: Dog Star Man (1962, Stan Brakhage) 16mm
Dog Star Man: Part I (1963, Stan Brakhage) 16mm
Dog Star Man: Part II (1964, Stan Brakhage) 16mm
Dog Star Man: Part III (1964, Stan Brakhage) 16mm
Dog Star Man: Part IV (1964, Stan Brakhage) 16mm
+In Another Country (2012, Hong Sang-soo) – 7.9 [up from 7.3]
JG (2013, Tacita Dean) 35mm
Spectrum Reverse Spectrum (2014, Margaret Honda) 70mm
earthearthearth (2021, Saïto Daïchi) 35mm
+Nobody’s Daughter Haewon (2013, Hong Sang-soo) – 7.9 [up from 7.6]
+Our Sunhi (2013, Hong Sang-soo) – 7.6 [up from 7.4]
+50:50 (2013, Hong Sang-soo)
+Hill of Freedom (2014, Hong Sang-soo) – 8.0 [up from 7.7]
+Right Now, Wrong Then (2015, Hong Sang-soo) – 8.6 [up from 7.8]
+Yourself and Yours (2016, Hong Sang-soo) – 9.1 [up from 8.8]
+Kiki’s Delivery Service (1989, Miyazaki Hayao) 35mm – 7.8 [up from 7.3]
+On the Beach at Night Alone (2017, Hong Sang-soo) – 7.8 [same]
+Claire’s Camera (2017, Hong Sang-soo) – 7.5 [up from 7.3]
+The Day After (2017, Hong Sang-soo) – 7.8 [up from 7.6]
+Grass (2018, Hong Sang-soo) – 8.4 [up from 8.0]
Los Conductos (2020, Camilo Restrepo) DP – 7.1
+Hotel by the River (2018, Hong Sang-soo) – 7.4 [same]
+Yourself and Yours (2016, Hong Sang-soo) DP – 9.1 [same]
+The Woman Who Ran (2020, Hong Sang-soo) – 7.8 [up from 7.5]
+Inland Empire (2006, David Lynch) DP – 8.8 [same]
+Sans soleil (1983, Chris Marker) 35mm – 9.7 [same]
+A.I. Artificial Intelligence (2001, Steven Spielberg) 35mm – 8.9 [same]
Don Juan (2022, Serge Bozon) – 7.0
+The Day He Arrives (2011, Hong Sang-soo) 35mm – 8.8 [same]
+Claire’s Camera (2017, Hong Sang-soo) DP – 7.5 [same]
Il buco (2021, Michelangelo Frammartino) DP – 7.8
Bamboozled (2000, Spike Lee) 35mm – 7.7
Wild and Woody! (1948, Dick Lundy) 35mm
+No Country for Old Men (2007, Joel & Ethan Coen) 35mm – 6.8 [same]
Will-o’-the-Wisp (2022, João Pedro Rodrigues) – 6.5
June
+An Elephant Sitting Still (2018, Hu Bo) DP – 7.7 [up from 7.5]
Crimes of the Future (2022, David Cronenberg) DP – 7.3
Flowers of Shanghai (1998, Hou Hsiao-hsien) 35mm – 8.7
The Seventh Victim (1943, Mark Robson) 35mm – 8.1
+The Sweet Hereafter (1997, Atom Egoyan) 35mm – 7.7
+Morocco (1930, Josef von Sternberg) 35mm – 8.0 [same]
Blonde Venus (1932, Josef von Sternberg) 35mm – 7.2
Top Gun: Maverick (2022, Joseph Kosinski) DP – 6.3
+Happy Together (1997, Wong Kar-wai) 35mm – 8.0 [same]
+Days of Being Wild (1990, Wong Kar-wai) 35mm – 8.8
+Lolita (1962, Stanley Kubrick) – 7.5 [down from 8.3]
+Cilaos (2016, Camilo Restrepo)
La bouche (2017, Camilo Restrepo)
+Remember My Name (1978, Alan Rudolph) 35mm – 7.6 [up from 6.8]
Play It As It Lays (1972, Frank Perry) 35mm – 5.9
World on a Wire (1973, Rainer Werner Fassbinder) 35mm – 7.7
Section 1 (2022, Jon Bois) – 7.8
+Irma Vep (1996, Olivier Assayas) – 7.9 [up from 7.3]
July
Dirty Harry (1971, Don Siegel) 35mm – 7.5
Gangs of New York (2002, Martin Scorsese) 35mm – 6.5
Ruggles of Red Gap (1935, Leo McCarey) 35mm – 9.0
Social Hygiene (2021, Denis Côté) DP – 6.9
Bill of Hare (1962, Robert McKimson) 35mm
+Woman in the Dunes (1964, Teshigahara Hiroshi) 35mm – 8.6 [up from 8.1]
Face/Off (1997, John Woo) 35mm – 7.8
+Out 1: Noli me tangere (1971, Jacques Rivette) – 9.3 [up from 8.4]
Nope (2022, Jordan Peele) DP – 7.2
August
Seconds (1966, John Frankenheimer) 35mm – 7.5
Three Minutes: A Lengthening (2021, Bianca Stigter) – 4.9
Three Thousand Years of Longing (2022, George Miller) DP – 6.1
Relative (2022, Michael Glover Smith) – 6.5
+El Gran Movimiento (2021, Kiro Russo) DP – 7.2 [up from 6.5]
September
+Diary of a Country Priest (1951, Robert Bresson) 35mm – 8.6 [up from 7.7]
+A Man Escaped (1956, Robert Bresson) 35mm – 8.7 [up from 7.7]
+The Walk (2015, Robert Zemeckis) – 6.5 [up from 5.5]
Roy’s World: Barry Gifford’s Chicago (2020, Rob Christopher) DP – 5.9
La libertad (2001, Lisandro Alonso) – 7.9
+The Killer (1989, John Woo) 35mm – 8.9 [up from 8.2]
+Au hasard Balthazar (1966, Robert Bresson) 35mm – 8.6 [up from 7.6]
+Mouchette (1967, Robert Bresson) 35mm – 7.8 [up from 7.3]
Casablanca Beats (2021, Nabil Ayouch) – 4.9
L’Argent (1983, Robert Bresson) 35mm – 8.9
Fastest With the Mostest (1960, Chuck Jones) 35mm
Car Wash (1976, Michael Schultz) 35mm – 6.5
Amsterdam (2022, David O. Russell) DP – 6.6
EVENTIDE (2022, Sharon Lockhart) DP
Choose Me (1984, Alan Rudolph) 35mm – 7.9
+Les Dames du Bois de Boulogne (1945, Robert Bresson) 35mm – 7.4 [up from 7.2]
+The Devil, Probably (1977, Robert Bresson) 35mm – 8.7 [up from 8.0]
Triangle of Sadness (2022, Ruben Östlund) DP – 6.2
Jujutsu Kaisen 0 (2022, Park Sung-hoo) – 5.5
October
God’s Creatures (2022, Saela Davis & Anna Rose Holmer) – 5.6
The Novelist’s Film (2022, Hong Sang-soo) – 7.9
Decision to Leave (2022, Park Chan-wook) DP – 7.5
Walk Up (2022, Hong Sang-soo) – 8.2
Diary of a Fleeting Affair (2022, Emmanuel Mouret) DP – 7.6
Divertimento (2022, Marie-Castille Mention-Schaar) DP – 4.7
+Relative (2022, Michael Glover Smith) DP – 6.5 [same]
Nobody’s Hero (2022, Alain Guiraudie) – 6.7
Athena (2022, Romain Gavras) – 4.7
Basic Instinct (1992, Paul Verhoeven) 35mm – 7.2
+The Calming (2020, Song Fang) DP – 7.0 [up from 6.5]
Armageddon Time (2022, James Gray) DP – 7.1
TÁR (2022, Todd Field) DP – 7.3
Dangerous Game (1988, Stephen Hopkins) – 5.3
A Nightmare on Elm Street 5: The Dream Child (1989, Stephen Hopkins) – 5.7
November
Bones and All (2022, Luca Guadagnino) DP – 5.6
Daisy Miller (1974, Peter Bogdanovich) 35mm – 7.1
Dry Ground Burning (2022, Joana Pimenta & Adirley Queirós) AFI Fest, DP – 7.0
All the Beauty and the Bloodshed (2022, Laura Poitras) DP – 7.1
Pacifiction (2022, Albert Serra) AFI Fest, DP – 8.1
Human Flowers of Flesh (2022, Helena Wittmann) AFI Fest, DP – 7.0
EO (2022, Jerzy Skolimowski) AFI Fest, DP – 7.9
Trenque Lauquen (2022, Laura Citarella) AFI Fest, DP – 7.8
The People You’re Paying to Be in Shorts (2022, Jon Bois) – 7.6
The Fabelmans (2022, Steven Spielberg) DP – 7.7
Babylon (2022, Damien Chazelle) DP – 1.2
+Greed (1924, Erich von Stroheim) – 8.7 [up from 7.9]
+Jauja (2014, Lisandro Alonso) – 8.6 [up from 7.8]
Bardo: False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths (2022, Alejandro González Iñárritu) DP – 4.0
The Whale (2022, Darren Aronofsky) DP – 2.7
+Chungking Express (1994, Wong Kar-wai) – 9.3 [up from 9.0]
Deja Vu (2006, Tony Scott) 35mm – 7.9
December
+Yi Yi (2000, Edward Yang) – 10
Avatar: The Way of Water (2022, James Cameron) 3D – 8
Close (2022, Lukas Dhont) DP – 5
White Noise (2022, Noah Baumbach) DP – 8
The Banshees of Inisherin (2022, Martin McDonagh) – 6
One Fine Morning (2022, Mia Hansen-Løve) – 8
Return to Seoul (2022, Davy Chou) – 8
Aftersun (2022, Charlotte Wells) – 7
Saint Omer (2022, Alice Diop) – 8
Les trois désastres (2013, Jean-Luc Godard) 3D
The Traveling Players (1975, Theodoros Angelopoulos) 35mm – 8
+The Fabelmans (2022, Steven Spielberg) – 9
+Decision to Leave (2022, Park Chan-wook) – 8