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The Searchers [Top 10 of 2025]

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As at least some have already noted, 2025 was a strange film year. By the most objective standards—the best example, of course, being my entirely rigorous and entirely non-subjective color-coding system that I stole from Dan Sallitt—this was a slightly weaker year than the riches of the past few years: I barely had ten films I considered genuinely great films, and it’s the first year where I haven’t had a single Hong Sang-soo film on my top 10 when there was an eligible title. But at the same time, with both Hong and many others (to be listed in the honorable mentions below), plenty of the big films of the year were terrific, considered and interesting works that I didn’t embrace quite as closely as some yet full of intriguing sharp angles that I found to be welcome. Of course, there were a number as always that didn’t come close to that threshold, whether I liked them or not: Sentimental Value, The Voice of Hind Rajab, A House of Dynamite, Eddington, Hamnet, Bugonia, The Testament of Ann Lee, Die My Love, Frankenstein, Sorry, Baby, Wake Up Dead Man, Honey, Don’t!, Train Dreams, On Becoming a Guinea Fowl, and plenty of others.

That in-between quality of many of those honorable mentions can also be found in my top 10, and indeed many of this year’s major films: the quality of searching. The many comparisons of my #5 to John Ford’s The Searchers had a substantial impact on this realization, but that sense of searching is inherently a part of the narratives of many key texts, whether it be for a lover (#1, #3) or a family member (#2, #5). But even more crucially, it is encoded in a more ineffable form, where characters search for truth and morality in tandem with their directors, who also search for how to best represent the worlds they inhabit and the perspectives they hold. Even if I preferred some quests for discovery more than others, I found much to admire through the course of this year.

As always, this list is merely meant to capture my feelings about the films I was able to see at this moment in time, strictly limited to the films that were theatrically released in New York City this year.

1. Caught by the Tides. For me, the indisputable greatest film of the year, at once summing up and completely blowing open Jia Zhangke’s monumental project up to this point. A year later, the mysteries of the interplay between its strands of footage, the raucous beauty of its use of music, the eternal dynamism of Zhao Tao’s face have only deepened, and few other recent films have contained as much second-to-second surprise as this one does. Jia, among his many gifts, is a master of capturing the feeling of abandonment and finding solace in that, and this brought that forth with astounding vividness.

2. Sirāt. I don’t ever recall seeing a film that was more immediately divisive within my critical circles than this one, which itself could be considered commendable. But Óliver Laxe’s tour de force wouldn’t be so potent were it not for the intensity of its mixed emotions, recognizing the folly and shortsightedness of its protagonists from the jump but nevertheless treating their journey with such meditative grandeur that it feels like an entire world unto itself. The release that’s present at the end of this film, a fatalism that’s despairing and loving at the same time, was as cathartic as anything I experienced from a film this year.

3. Grand Tour. Not a dissimilar film from Sirāt—or, as many noted last year, Caught by the Tides—but Miguel Gomes is keyed into a particular form of cinematic pleasure, hearkening (for the first but not the last time on this list) back to the silent era in a way nevertheless largely different from the radical experimentation of Tabu. The twin voyages that its characters embark upon couldn’t be more removed from the reality of their places, and that’s the point: what makes Gomes’s accomplishment so great is how he acknowledges the gap between past and present, native people and colonists, and summons all the colors of the world to illustrate their attempts to bridge that chasm.

4. Misericordia. One of those films whose total commitment to what it means to struggle with faith and one’s own place on this planet has only grown for me. It doesn’t hurt that Alain Guiraudie’s ability to meld a murder investigation with a growing web of interactions is as strong as ever, and the evasiveness of his main character is sustained in order to highlight the ruptures of violence and self-consciousness. While this is one of the funnier films of the year, the priest’s willingness to lay himself bare bringing forth the iniquities of himself and humanity at large—especially in tandem with the ambiguity of the final scenes—is what sticks with me the most.

5. One Battle After Another. I’ve come to appreciate Paul Thomas Anderson a lot more even in the relatively scant few years between his previous film and now, but it doesn’t escape notice that easily my two favorite films of his are both Pynchon adaptations. Though I’ve only read (and quite enjoyed) one of the venerable author’s works, there’s something about the source material that activates yet another level of achievement. Here, the increase in scale also brings about an ever-greater attunement to people’s faces, to the way vivid forces move through space, all the way arguing for a vital hope in the future. Even as its cultural embrace was all but pre-ordained, the dexterity and visceral precision of such a film was a total balm.

6. Resurrection. I have no clue if this would be an easy #1 were it composed of nothing but the first segment’s silent film tribute, but I give more and more credit to Bi Gan for recognizing the value of his juxtaposition of these five (or six) styles and time periods. Less a celebration of Cinema than an examination of why it does what it does and how that’s accomplished, he offers few answers but near-infinite evocations, which aligns almost exactly with my own preferences. In its own way, probably a great piece of filmmaking-as-criticism, though what conclusions may be drawn will take much longer to parse, for the better.

7. Henry Fonda for President. One of the most wonderful acts of homage this year, though what separates Alexander Horwath’s debut directorial feat(ure) from Los Angeles Plays Itself lies in the distinct exactitude of his chronological approach, trusting in the implications that may be formed from how a family and an iconic American developed alongside his nation. Just as in Andersen’s film, the contemporary footage can be overlooked, but its own willingness to experiment alongside the voiceover (including a sensational avant-garde inspired sequence) bring forth much of the vitality of the text.

8. The Shrouds. Possibly the film that’s most blossomed for me post-viewing this year, as David Cronenberg’s deliberately odd excavation of grief was even more revelatory to me than his past work. There’s something in the cold surfaces and the density of performance and doppelgangers which feels particularly invigorating, bound to Cassel’s truly uncanny performance and the deliberate lack of narrative progression. That this just stops, recognizing that an emotional terminus is much more satisfying than a purely narrative one, is only the final in a series of brazen, lovely risks.

9. Afternoons of Solitude. Leave it to Albert Serra to make his most provocative statement yet in the guise of his first documentary. That the carnage on display is actually real is only part of it, as his hypnotic focus on one man’s figure, both grotesquely telegraphed and strangely placid, brings forth all the spectacle and brutality inherent in this tradition. The film would not work without a performer like Roca Rey, or a cinematographer as skilled as Tort, and the attention to “pure” sensation is frightening and seductive in equal measure.

10. Blue Moon. Another film about being trapped in a public space with a bull, which is meant entirely as a compliment to one of Richard Linklater’s finest films and potentially Hawke’s best performance. The gravity of the hero’s presence, his ability to draw the attention of everyone he interacts with even as he’s visibly decaying on screen, is as immense as the amusement of Kaplow’s script, and there’s a delicacy of sentiment that feels just right when placed against the totality of its feelings about art and beauty. In many ways, this embodies Melville’s line in Breathless (“To become immortal, and then die.”) even better than Linklater’s other film this year.

Though I do think that these ten films are on a higher plane than the other films I’ve seen that were released this year, that shouldn’t discount by any means the brilliance of Hong Sang-soo’s By the Stream (one of his greatest ever sequences and plenty to love around it), Philippe Lesage’s Who by Fire (some of the best long takes of the year), Jafar Panahi’s It Was Just an Accident (direct and scorching for the better), Josh Safdie’s Marty Supreme (a gauntlet of cynical grinding), Pierre Creton & Vincent Barré’s 7 Walks With Mark Brown (imagemaking as a private and collective act of discovery), Julia Loktev’s My Undesirable Friends: Part I—Last Air in Moscow (secretly one of the finest hangout films of the year), Kleber Mendonça Filho’s The Secret Agent (superb in its rendering of a city’s memory), Jim Jarmusch’s Father Mother Sister Brother (probably the best major American film that’s gotten lost in the cracks in a long time), Kelly Reichardt’s The Mastermind (failed sad-sack ambitions captured with great precision), Wes Anderson’s The Phoenician Scheme (one of the most magisterial and one of the most daffy performances of the decade), Guillaume Cailleau & Ben Russell’s DIRECT ACTION (fascinating attention to the rhythms of a different way of life), Linklater’s Nouvelle Vague (a total delight of craft and impersonation), Carson Lund’s Eephus (a lovely rendering of the routines we all try to hang onto), Yamada Naoko’s The Colors Within (the magic of creative collaboration and expression), Kurosawa Kiyoshi’s Cloud (the literal hellscape of modern living), Radu Jude’s Dracula (artistic alibi as statement of intent), Alex Ross Perry’s Pavements (piss-taking taken to sublime levels), Mary Bronstein’s If I Had Legs I’d Kick You (three brilliant performances and one fantastic formal conceit), and David Osit’s Predators (astoundingly self-questioning). May 2026 bring both just as many strong films and better results in the things and places that matter.

2025 Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards Ballot

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Career Achievement
(3) Sammo Hung
(2) Yuen Woo-ping
(1) Nathaniel Dorsky

The Douglas Edwards Experimental/Independent Film/Video Award
(3) Afternoons of Solitude
(2) Henry Fonda for President
(1) 7 Walks With Mark Brown

Douglas Edwards Special Award
(3) Nathaniel Dorsky
(2) Thom Andersen
(1) Robert Beavers

Best Cinematography
(3) Grand Tour
(2) Resurrection
(1) Sirāt

Best Music/Score
(3) Sirāt
(2) The Mastermind
(1) The Smashing Machine

Best Production Design
(3) Resurrection
(2) Grand Tour
(1) The Shrouds

Best Editing
(3) Caught by the Tides
(2) Marty Supreme
(1) My Undesirable Friends: Part I—Last Air in Moscow

Best Animation
(3) The Colors Within
(2) Scarlet
(1) Little Amélie or the Character of Rain

Best Lead Performance
(5) Zhao Tao, Caught by the Tides
(4) Ethan Hawke, Blue Moon
(3) Wagner Moura, The Secret Agent
(2) Guillaume Marbeck, Nouvelle Vague
(1) Rose Byrne, If I Had Legs I’d Kick You

Best Supporting Performance
(5) Jacques Develay, Misericordia
(4) Michael Cera, The Phoenician Scheme
(3) Andrew Scott, Blue Moon
(2) Diane Kruger, The Shrouds
(1) Tom Waits, Father Mother Sister Brother

Best Screenplay
(3) Blue Moon
(2) By the Stream
(1) It Was Just an Accident

Best Documentary/Non-Fiction Film
(3) Henry Fonda for President
(2) My Undesirable Friends: Part I—Last Air in Moscow
(1) 7 Walks With Mark Brown

Best Director
(3) Óliver Laxe, Sirāt
(2) Bi Gan, Resurrection
(1) Paul Thomas Anderson, One Battle After Another

Best Picture
(3) Sirāt
(2) Caught by the Tides
(1) Grand Tour

Best Film Not in the English Language
(3) Sirāt
(2) Caught by the Tides
(1) Grand Tour

New Generation
(3) Philippe Lesage, Who by Fire
(2) Carson Lund, Eephus
(1) Sora Neo, Happyend

2025 First Watches

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Renewed Appreciation: Devil in a Blue Dress, Reservoir Dogs, Ugetsu Monogatari, Pickpocket, L for Leisure, Hermia & Helena, Viola, What You Gonna Do When the World’s on Fire?, The Other Side, Pulp Fiction, Taste of Cherry, The Thin Blue Line, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Kill Bill, Journey to the West, Boogie Nights, Minority Report, A Man Escaped, Isabella, Frances Ha, The Terminator, Memoria, Stranger Eyes, Goodbye CP, The Master, Melancholia, The Incredibles, Slow Action, Punishment Park, RoboCop, Inglourious Basterds, Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade

Shorts: Ten Mornings Ten Evenings and One Horizon, sound of a million insects, light of a thousand stars, Scénarios, Shibuya – Tokyo, Tokyo – Ebisu, Being John Smith, 45 7 Broadway, Market Street, Walking on Water, Venice Pier, A Portrait of Ga, UFOs, Diamond Sutra, 16-18-4, No Form, Sketch Film #1, The Night, Samadhi, Apollo, Incident, Sleepwalk, Lumphini 2552, Amusement Ride, When the Sun Is Eaten (Chi’bal K’iin), Light, Noise, Smoke and Light, Noise, Smoke, I Forgot!, The Tony Longo Trilogy, Exposé du film annonce du film “Scénario,” Sketch Film #2, Trafic, Manhattan One Two Three Four, In the Mood for Love 2001, Single Belief, New York Eye and Ear Control, Phenomena, Side Phase Drift, Olympiad, Sketch Film #4, That I’m Falling?, Momentum, D. M. T., Sketch Film #5, Into the Mass, Sketch Film #3, Sycorax, Clear Blue Sky, Hotel Chevalier, I Wasn’t There, False Expectations, A Letter to Uncle Boonmee, The Whirled, Magnetic Point, Grandma’s Scissors, Urth, Luminous Veil, Equinox, Madam Butterfly, Polly Two, It follows It passes on, Senseless, Hua yang de nian hua, Hand Held Day, Lapis, Fur Film vol.2: mirror mirror, birthday song (single channel), À propos de Nice, The Chicken, — ——-, Matrix III, A Short History, Preface to the Little Dialogue, transcript, off (I don’t know when to stop), Taris, Melting, Poemfield 7, Byjina Flores, Castello Cavalcanti, Binary Bit Patterns

  1. Ordet (1955, Carl Th. Dreyer) [June]
  2. To Have and Have Not (1944, Howard Hawks) [March]
  3. Day of Wrath (1943, Carl Th. Dreyer) [June]
  4. Sirāt (2025, Óliver Laxe) [September]
  5. Fat Girl (2001, Catherine Breillat) [April]
  6. Misericordia (2024, Alain Guiraudie) [February]
  7. The Emperor’s Naked Army Marches On (1987, Hara Kazuo) [April]
  8. One Battle After Another (2025, Paul Thomas Anderson) [September]
  9. Stranger Than Paradise (1984, Jim Jarmusch) [May]
  10. Resurrection (2025, Bi Gan) [October]
  11. The Thing From Another World (1951, Christian Nyby and Howard Hawks) [December]
  12. Anatomy of a Murder (1959, Otto Preminger) [March]
  13. Henry Fonda for President (2024, Alexander Horwath) [April]
  14. Love Affair(s) (2020, Emmanuel Mouret) [June]
  15. Extreme Private Eros: Love Song 1974 (1974, Hara Kazuo) [April]
  16. Last Chants for a Slow Dance (1977, Jon Jost) [June]
  17. No Bears (2022, Jafar Panahi) [June]
  18. Water and Power (1989, Pat O’Neill) [June]
  19. Modern Romance (1981, Albert Brooks) [July]
  20. Afternoons of Solitude (2024, Albert Serra) [June]
  21. Blue Moon (2025, Richard Linklater) [August]
  22. Se7en (1995, David Fincher) [June]
  23. The Plains (2022, David Easteal) [June]
  24. Tempting Heart (1999, Sylvia Chang) [October]
  25. Blue Collar (1978, Paul Schrader) [April]
  26. The Abyss (1989, James Cameron) [July]
  27. Kontinental ’25 (2025, Radu Jude) [October]
  28. A Silent Voice (2016, Yamada Naoko) [January]
  29. Unrest (2022, Cyril Schäublin) [June]
  30. Neighboring Sounds (2012, Kleber Mendonça Filho) [August]
  31. The Currents (2025, Milagros Mumenthaler) [October]
  32. What Does That Nature Say to You (2025, Hong Sang-soo) [October]
  33. It Was Just an Accident (2025, Jafar Panahi) [September]
  34. Minamata Mandala (2020, Hara Kazuo) [April]
  35. The Black Cat (1934, Edgar G. Ulmer) [August]
  36. Marty Supreme (2025, Josh Safdie) [November]
  37. 7 Walks With Mark Brown (2024, Pierre Creton & Vincent Barré) [September]
  38. Gremlins 2: The New Batch (1990, Joe Dante) [December]
  39. Escape From New York (1981, John Carpenter) [December]
  40. My Undesirable Friends: Part I—Last Air in Moscow (2024, Julia Loktev) [October]
  41. Saturday Night Fever (1977, John Badham) [May]
  42. The Sugarland Express (1974, Steven Spielberg) [April]
  43. Pump Up the Volume (1990, Allan Moyle) [March]
  44. Tongues Untied (1989, Marlon Riggs) [May]
  45. A Lake (2008, Philippe Grandrieux) [June]
  46. The Secret Agent (2025, Kleber Mendonça Filho) [September]
  47. Sand (2018, Tsai Ming-liang) [August]
  48. Father Mother Sister Brother (2025, Jim Jarmusch) [October]
  49. Lost in America (1985, Albert Brooks) [July]
  50. Below the Clouds (2025, Gianfranco Rosi) [September]
  51. Parking (2008, Chung Mong-hong) [May]
  52. Point Break (1991, Kathryn Bigelow) [July]
  53. The Mastermind (2025, Kelly Reichardt) [September]
  54. The Phoenician Scheme (2025, Wes Anderson) [May]
  55. Bitter Money (2016, Wang Bing) [October]
  56. DIRECT ACTION (2024, Guillaume Cailleau & Ben Russell) [May]
  57. Nouvelle Vague (2025, Richard Linklater) [November]
  58. Love Hotel (1985, Somai Shinji) [April]
  59. Easy Living (1937, Mitchell Leisen) [February]
  60. Nadja (1994, Michael Almereyda) [April]
  61. Night of the Demon (1957, Jacques Tourneur) [October]
  62. Those That, at a Distance, Resemble Another (2019, Jessica Sarah Rinland) [July]
  63. Broken Rage (2024, Kitano Takeshi) [February]
  64. Miroirs No. 3 (2025, Christian Petzold) [September]
  65. Pin de fartie (2025, Alejo Moguillansky) [October]
  66. Abiding Nowhere (2024, Tsai Ming-liang) [August]
  67. Debut, or, Objects of the Field of Debris as Currently Catalogued (2025, Julian Castronovo) [April]
  68. Dracula (2025, Radu Jude) [September]
  69. Nightshift (1981, Robina Rose) [April]
  70. Hail the Conquering Hero (1944, Preston Sturges) [May]
  71. The Missing (2003, Lee Kang-sheng) [September]
  72. The Eternal Daughter (2022, Joanna Hogg) [June]
  73. If I Had Legs I’d Kick You (2025, Mary Bronstein) [September]
  74. Despite the Night (2015, Philippe Grandrieux) [June]
  75. One False Move (1992, Carl Franklin) [May]
  76. Predators (2025, David Osit) [April]
  77. Egg and Stone (2012, Huang Ji) [August]
  78. Magellan (2025, Lav Diaz) [September]
  79. Mission: Impossible—The Final Reckoning (2025, Christopher McQuarrie) [May]
  80. An Evening Song (for three voices) (2023, Graham Swon) [May]
  81. Invention (2024, Courtney Stephens) [April]
  82. Yes (2025, Nadav Lapid) [October]
  83. Familiar Touch (2024, Sarah Friedland) [June]
  84. A Prince (2023, Pierre Creton) [September]
  85. Sinners (2025, Ryan Coogler) [April]
  86. Happyend (2024, Sora Neo) [April]
  87. Suburban Fury (2024, Robinson Devor) [October]
  88. Ed Wood (1994, Tim Burton) [October]
  89. Fire of Wind (2024, Marta Mateus) [April]
  90. Fast, Cheap & Out of Control (1997, Errol Morris) [April]
  91. The Damned (2024, Roberto Minervini) [June]
  92. Peter Hujar’s Day (2025, Ira Sachs) [September]
  93. Videoheaven (2025, Alex Ross Perry) [August]
  94. Christmas, Again (2014, Charles Poekel) [December]
  95. The Fence (2025, Claire Denis) [November]
  96. The Breaking Point (1950, Michael Curtiz) [June]
  97. It Happened One Night (1934, Frank Capra) [May]
  98. Last Days (2005, Gus Van Sant) [June]
  99. Coming to Terms (2013, Jon Jost) [April]
  100. A Land Imagined (2018, Yeo Siew Hua) [September]
  101. Eadweard Muybridge, Zoopraxographer (1975, Thom Andersen) [September]
  102. Help Me Eros (2007, Lee Kang-sheng) [September]
  103. Monkey Business (1931, Norman Z. McLeod) [August]
  104. Rich and Famous (1981, George Cukor) [May]
  105. The Smashing Machine (2025, Benny Safdie) [September]
  106. Late Fame (2025, Kent Jones) [September]
  107. Is This Thing On? (2025, Bradley Cooper) [October]
  108. No Sleep Till (2024, Alexandra Simpson) [April]
  109. I Only Rest in the Storm (2025, Pedro Pinho) [September]
  110. Jay Kelly (2025, Noah Baumbach) [October]
  111. Short Stay (2016, Ted Fendt) [January]
  112. The Heroic Trio (1993, Johnnie To) [May]
  113. Sound of Falling (2025, Mascha Schilinski) [November]
  114. The Passage (2011, Roberto Minervini) [June]
  115. Escape From L.A. (1996, John Carpenter) [December]
  116. Go, Toto! (2017, Pierre Creton) [September]
  117. The Love That Remains (2025, Hlynur Pálmason) [November]
  118. Duel (1971, Steven Spielberg) [April]
  119. John Lilly and the Earth Coincidence Control Office (2025, Michael Almereyda & Courtney Stephens) [April]
  120. A New Life (2002, Philippe Grandrieux) [June]
  121. Brand New Landscape (2025, Danzuka Yuiga) [November]
  122. No Other Choice (2025, Park Chan-wook) [September]
  123. L.A. Confidential (1997, Curtis Hanson) [August]
  124. My Stinking Kid (2004, Lee Kang-sheng & Tsai Ming-liang) [September]
  125. Rose of Nevada (2025, Mark Jenkin) [September]
  126. Avatar: Fire and Ash (2025, James Cameron) [December]
  127. Black Bag (2025, Steven Soderbergh) [March]
  128. Cent mille milliards (2024, Virgil Vernier) [April]
  129. Bogancloch (2024, Ben Rivers) [September]
  130. Collective Monologue (2024, Jessica Sarah Rinland) [July]
  131. Measures for a Funeral (2024, Sofia Bohdanowicz) [June]
  132. American Gigolo (1980, Paul Schrader) [April]
  133. Blue Strait (2015, Jon Jost) [April]
  134. After the Hunt (2025, Luca Guadagnino) [September]
  135. Your Touch Makes Others Invisible (2025, Rajee Samarasinghe) [December]
  136. The Ballad of Suzanne Césaire (2024, Madeleine Hunt-Ehrlich) [July]
  137. Mr. 3000 (2004, Charles Stone III) [May]
  138. We Are the Fruits of the Forest (2025, Panh Rithy) [October]
  139. The Foolish Bird (2017, Huang Ji & Otsuka Ryuji) [August]
  140. Kokuho (2025, Lee Sang-il) [September]
  141. Amiko (2017, Yamanaka Yoko) [May]
  142. Last Life in the Universe (2003, Pen-ek Ratanaruang) [July]
  143. Blue Sun Palace (2024, Constance Tsang) [May]
  144. After the Rain (2021, Fan Jian) [March]
  145. In the Lost Lands (2025, Paul W. S. Anderson) [March]
  146. Times Square (1980, Allan Moyle) [March]
  147. Sombre (1998, Philippe Grandrieux) [June]
  148. Permanent Green Light (2018, Dennis Cooper & Zac Farley) [April]
  149. April (2024, Dea Kulumbegashvili) [April]
  150. Left-Handed Girl (2025, Tsou Shih-ching) [October]
  151. The Little Sister (2025, Hafsia Herzi) [November]
  152. Den of Thieves: Pantera (2025, Christian Gudegast) [January]
  153. Wild Foxes (2025, Valéry Carnoy) [November]
  154. Pillion (2025, Harry Lighton) [November]
  155. Escape From the 21st Century (2024, Li Yang) [June]
  156. Breathless (2024, James Benning) [February]
  157. They All Lie (2009, Matías Piñeiro) [March]
  158. Sleep #2 (2024, Radu Jude) [April]
  159. Eight Postcards From Utopia (2024, Radu Jude & Christian Ferencz-Flatz) [April]
  160. The Iron Giant (1999, Brad Bird) [March]
  161. DeadEndz (2023, Jon Jost) [June]
  162. Mickey 17 (2025, Bong Joon-ho) [March]
  163. Romería (2025, Carla Simón) [September]
  164. Wake Up Dead Man (2025, Rian Johnson) [December]
  165. The Things You Kill (2025, Alireza Khatami) [November]
  166. Dead Man’s Wire (2025, Gus Van Sant) [October]
  167. A Private Life (2025, Rebecca Zlotowski) [October]
  168. Highest 2 Lowest (2025, Spike Lee) [August]
  169. Magic Farm (2025, Amalia Ulman) [April]
  170. Her Will Be Done (2025, Julia Kowalski) [November]
  171. Dracula (1931, Tod Browning) [October]
  172. 12 Angry Men (1957, Sidney Lumet) [April]
  173. The World to Come (2020, Mona Fastvold) [June]
  174. Bugonia (2025, Yorgos Lanthimos) [October]
  175. Norma Rae (1979, Martin Ritt) [August]
  176. Gaucho Gaucho (2024, Michael Dweck & Gregory Kershaw) [February]
  177. Urchin (2025, Harris Dickinson) [October]
  178. Hummingbirds (2023, Silvia Del Carmen Castaños & Estefanía “Beba” Contreras) [February]
  179. Room Temperature (2025, Dennis Cooper & Zac Farley) [April]
  180. Daughter’s Daughter (2024, Huang Xi) [October]
  181. The Testament of Ann Lee (2025, Mona Fastvold) [November]
  182. The Girls We Want (2025, Prïncia Car) [November]
  183. A Brief History of Time (1991, Errol Morris) [April]
  184. Zodiac Killer Project (2025, Charlie Shackleton) [April]
  185. Sentimental Value (2025, Joachim Trier) [September]
  186. Sorry, Baby (2025, Eva Victor) [March]
  187. Anemone (2025, Ronan Day-Lewis) [October]
  188. Hamnet (2025, Chloé Zhao) [October]
  189. Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere (2025, Scott Cooper) [October]
  190. F1 (2025, Joseph Kosinski) [November]
  191. Ballerina (2025, Len Wiseman) [June]
  192. Key Largo (1948, John Huston) [March]
  193. Materialists (2025, Celine Song) [June]
  194. The Wild Robot (2024, Chris Sanders) [March]
  195. Vox Lux (2018, Brady Corbet) [June]
  196. Eddington (2025, Ari Aster) [July]
  197. Frankenstein (2025, Guillermo del Toro) [October]
  198. Double Happiness (2025, Joseph Hsu) [October]
  199. The History of Sound (2025, Oliver Hermanus) [August]
  200. Beau Is Afraid (2023, Ari Aster) [May]
  201. The Apprentice (2024, Ali Abbasi) [March]
  202. The Actor (2025, Duke Johnson) [February]
  203. Mongrel (2024, Chiang Wei-liang & Yin You-qiao) [April]
  204. Train Dreams (2025, Clint Bentley) [November]
  205. Preparation for the Next Life (2025, Liu Bing) [August]
  206. Patrice: The Movie (2024, Ted Passon) [February]
  207. A House of Dynamite (2025, Kathryn Bigelow) [September]
  208. Ballad of a Small Player (2025, Edward Berger) [October]
  209. Die My Love (2025, Lynne Ramsay) [October]
  210. Saturday Night (2024, Jason Reitman) [January]
  211. Honey Don’t! (2025, Ethan Coen) [August]
  212. The Voice of Hind Rajab (2025, Kaouther Ben Hania) [October]

Old

  1. Ordet (1955, Carl Th. Dreyer)
  2. To Have and Have Not (1944, Howard Hawks)
  3. Day of Wrath (1943, Carl Th. Dreyer)
  4. Fat Girl (2001, Catherine Breillat)
  5. The Emperor’s Naked Army Marches On (1987, Hara Kazuo)
  6. Stranger Than Paradise (1984, Jim Jarmusch)
  7. The Thing From Another World (1951, Christian Nyby and Howard Hawks)
  8. Anatomy of a Murder (1959, Otto Preminger)
  9. Love Affair(s) (2020, Emmanuel Mouret)
  10. Extreme Private Eros: Love Song 1974 (1974, Hara Kazuo)
  11. Last Chants for a Slow Dance (1977, Jon Jost)
  12. No Bears (2022, Jafar Panahi)
  13. Water and Power (1989, Pat O’Neill)
  14. Modern Romance (1981, Albert Brooks)
  15. Se7en (1995, David Fincher)
  16. The Plains (2022, David Easteal)
  17. Tempting Heart (1999, Sylvia Chang)
  18. Blue Collar (1978, Paul Schrader)
  19. The Abyss (1989, James Cameron)
  20. A Silent Voice (2016, Yamada Naoko)
  21. Unrest (2022, Cyril Schäublin)
  22. Neighboring Sounds (2012, Kleber Mendonça Filho)
  23. Minamata Mandala (2020, Hara Kazuo)
  24. The Black Cat (1934, Edgar G. Ulmer)
  25. Gremlins 2: The New Batch (1990, Joe Dante)
  26. Escape From New York (1981, John Carpenter)
  27. Saturday Night Fever (1977, John Badham)
  28. The Sugarland Express (1974, Steven Spielberg)
  29. Pump Up the Volume (1990, Allan Moyle)
  30. Tongues Untied (1989, Marlon Riggs)
  31. A Lake (2008, Philippe Grandrieux)
  32. Sand (2018, Tsai Ming-liang)
  33. Lost in America (1985, Albert Brooks)
  34. Parking (2008, Chung Mong-hong)
  35. Point Break (1991, Kathryn Bigelow)
  36. Bitter Money (2016, Wang Bing)
  37. Love Hotel (1985, Somai Shinji)
  38. Easy Living (1937, Mitchell Leisen)
  39. Nadja (1994, Michael Almereyda)
  40. Night of the Demon (1957, Jacques Tourneur)
  41. Those That, at a Distance, Resemble Another (2019, Jessica Sarah Rinland)
  42. Nightshift (1981, Robina Rose)
  43. Hail the Conquering Hero (1944, Preston Sturges)
  44. The Missing (2003, Lee Kang-sheng)
  45. The Eternal Daughter (2022, Joanna Hogg)
  46. Despite the Night (2015, Philippe Grandrieux)
  47. One False Move (1992, Carl Franklin)
  48. Egg and Stone (2012, Huang Ji)
  49. Ed Wood (1994, Tim Burton)
  50. Fast, Cheap & Out of Control (1997, Errol Morris)
  51. Christmas, Again (2014, Charles Poekel)
  52. The Breaking Point (1950, Michael Curtiz)
  53. It Happened One Night (1934, Frank Capra)
  54. Last Days (2005, Gus Van Sant)
  55. Coming to Terms (2013, Jon Jost)
  56. A Land Imagined (2018, Yeo Siew Hua)
  57. Eadweard Muybridge, Zoopraxographer (1975, Thom Andersen)
  58. Help Me Eros (2007, Lee Kang-sheng)
  59. Monkey Business (1931, Norman Z. McLeod)
  60. Rich and Famous (1981, George Cukor)
  61. Short Stay (2016, Ted Fendt)
  62. The Heroic Trio (1993, Johnnie To)
  63. The Passage (2011, Roberto Minervini)
  64. Escape From L.A. (1996, John Carpenter)
  65. Go, Toto! (2017, Pierre Creton)
  66. Duel (1971, Steven Spielberg)
  67. A New Life (2002, Philippe Grandrieux)
  68. L.A. Confidential (1997, Curtis Hanson)
  69. My Stinking Kid (2004, Lee Kang-sheng & Tsai Ming-liang)
  70. American Gigolo (1980, Paul Schrader)
  71. Blue Strait (2015, Jon Jost)
  72. Mr. 3000 (2004, Charles Stone III)
  73. The Foolish Bird (2017, Huang Ji & Otsuka Ryuji)
  74. Amiko (2017, Yamanaka Yoko)
  75. Last Life in the Universe (2003, Pen-ek Ratanaruang)
  76. After the Rain (2021, Fan Jian)
  77. Times Square (1980, Allan Moyle)
  78. Sombre (1998, Philippe Grandrieux)
  79. Permanent Green Light (2018, Dennis Cooper & Zac Farley)
  80. They All Lie (2009, Matías Piñeiro)
  81. The Iron Giant (1999, Brad Bird)
  82. Dracula (1931, Tod Browning)
  83. 12 Angry Men (1957, Sidney Lumet)
  84. The World to Come (2020, Mona Fastvold)
  85. Norma Rae (1979, Martin Ritt)
  86. A Brief History of Time (1991, Errol Morris)
  87. Key Largo (1948, John Huston)
  88. Vox Lux (2018, Brady Corbet)

New

  1. Sirāt (Óliver Laxe)
  2. Misericordia (Alain Guiraudie)
  3. One Battle After Another (Paul Thomas Anderson)
  4. Resurrection (Bi Gan)
  5. Henry Fonda for President (Alexander Horwath)
  6. Afternoons of Solitude (Albert Serra)
  7. Blue Moon (Richard Linklater)
  8. Kontinental ’25 (Radu Jude)
  9. The Currents (Milagros Mumenthaler)
  10. What Does That Nature Say to You (Hong Sang-soo)
  11. It Was Just an Accident (Jafar Panahi)
  12. Marty Supreme (Josh Safdie)
  13. 7 Walks With Mark Brown (Pierre Creton & Vincent Barré)
  14. My Undesirable Friends: Part I—Last Air in Moscow (Julia Loktev)
  15. The Secret Agent (Kleber Mendonça Filho)
  16. Father Mother Sister Brother (Jim Jarmusch)
  17. Below the Clouds (Gianfranco Rosi)
  18. The Mastermind (Kelly Reichardt)
  19. The Phoenician Scheme (Wes Anderson)
  20. DIRECT ACTION (Guillaume Cailleau & Ben Russell)
  21. Nouvelle Vague (Richard Linklater)
  22. Broken Rage (Kitano Takeshi)
  23. Miroirs No. 3 (Christian Petzold)
  24. Pin de fartie (Alejo Moguillansky)
  25. Abiding Nowhere (Tsai Ming-liang)
  26. Debut, or, Objects of the Field of Debris as Currently Catalogued (Julian Castronovo)
  27. Dracula (Radu Jude)
  28. If I Had Legs I’d Kick You (Mary Bronstein)
  29. Predators (David Osit)
  30. Magellan (Lav Diaz)
  31. Mission: Impossible—The Final Reckoning (Christopher McQuarrie)
  32. An Evening Song (for three voices) (Graham Swon)
  33. Invention (Courtney Stephens)
  34. Yes (Nadav Lapid)
  35. Familiar Touch (Sarah Friedland)
  36. A Prince (Pierre Creton)
  37. Sinners (Ryan Coogler)
  38. Happyend (Sora Neo)
  39. Suburban Fury (Robinson Devor)
  40. Fire of Wind (Marta Mateus)
  41. The Damned (Roberto Minervini)
  42. Peter Hujar’s Day (Ira Sachs)
  43. Videoheaven (Alex Ross Perry)
  44. The Fence (Claire Denis)
  45. The Smashing Machine (Benny Safdie)
  46. Late Fame (Kent Jones)
  47. Is This Thing On? (Bradley Cooper)
  48. No Sleep Till (Alexandra Simpson)
  49. I Only Rest in the Storm (Pedro Pinho)
  50. Jay Kelly (Noah Baumbach)
  51. Sound of Falling (Mascha Schilinski)
  52. The Love That Remains (Hlynur Pálmason)
  53. John Lilly and the Earth Coincidence Control Office (Michael Almereyda & Courtney Stephens)
  54. Brand New Landscape (Danzuka Yuiga)
  55. No Other Choice (Park Chan-wook)
  56. Rose of Nevada (Mark Jenkin)
  57. Avatar: Fire and Ash (James Cameron)
  58. Black Bag (Steven Soderbergh)
  59. Cent mille milliards (Virgil Vernier)
  60. Bogancloch (Ben Rivers)
  61. Collective Monologue (Jessica Sarah Rinland)
  62. Measures for a Funeral (Sofia Bohdanowicz)
  63. After the Hunt (Luca Guadagnino)
  64. Your Touch Makes Others Invisible (Rajee Samarasinghe)
  65. The Ballad of Suzanne Césaire (Madeleine Hunt-Ehrlich)
  66. We Are the Fruits of the Forest (Panh Rithy)
  67. Kokuho (Lee Sang-il)
  68. Blue Sun Palace (Constance Tsang)
  69. In the Lost Lands (Paul W. S. Anderson)
  70. April (Dea Kulumbegashvili)
  71. Left-Handed Girl (Tsou Shih-ching)
  72. The Little Sister (Hafsia Herzi)
  73. Den of Thieves: Pantera (Christian Gudegast)
  74. Wild Foxes (Valéry Carnoy)
  75. Pillion (Harry Lighton)
  76. Escape From the 21st Century (Li Yang)
  77. Breathless (James Benning)
  78. Sleep #2 (Radu Jude)
  79. Eight Postcards From Utopia (Radu Jude & Christian Ferencz-Flatz)
  80. DeadEndz (Jon Jost)
  81. Mickey 17 (Bong Joon-ho)
  82. Romería (Carla Simón)
  83. Wake Up Dead Man (Rian Johnson)
  84. The Things You Kill (Alireza Khatami)
  85. Dead Man’s Wire (Gus Van Sant)
  86. A Private Life (Rebecca Zlotowski)
  87. Highest 2 Lowest (Spike Lee)
  88. Magic Farm (Amalia Ulman)
  89. Her Will Be Done (Julia Kowalski)
  90. Bugonia (Yorgos Lanthimos)
  91. Gaucho Gaucho (Michael Dweck & Gregory Kershaw)
  92. Urchin (Harris Dickinson)
  93. Hummingbirds (Silvia Del Carmen Castaños & Estefanía “Beba” Contreras)
  94. Room Temperature (Dennis Cooper & Zac Farley)
  95. Daughter’s Daughter (Huang Xi)
  96. The Testament of Ann Lee (Mona Fastvold)
  97. The Girls We Want (Prïncia Car)
  98. Zodiac Killer Project (Charlie Shackleton)
  99. Sentimental Value (Joachim Trier)
  100. Sorry, Baby (Eva Victor)
  101. Anemone (Ronan Day-Lewis)
  102. Hamnet (Chloé Zhao)
  103. Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere (Scott Cooper)
  104. F1 (Joseph Kosinski)
  105. Ballerina (Len Wiseman)
  106. Materialists (Celine Song)
  107. The Wild Robot (Chris Sanders)
  108. Eddington (Ari Aster)
  109. Frankenstein (Guillermo del Toro)
  110. Double Happiness (Joseph Hsu)
  111. The History of Sound (Oliver Hermanus)
  112. Beau Is Afraid (Ari Aster)
  113. The Apprentice (Ali Abbasi)
  114. The Actor (Duke Johnson)
  115. Mongrel (Chiang Wei-liang & Yin You-qiao)
  116. Train Dreams (Clint Bentley)
  117. Preparation for the Next Life (Liu Bing)
  118. Patrice: The Movie (Ted Passon)
  119. A House of Dynamite (Kathryn Bigelow)
  120. Ballad of a Small Player (Edward Berger)
  121. Die My Love (Lynne Ramsay)
  122. Saturday Night (Jason Reitman)
  123. Honey Don’t! (Ethan Coen)
  124. The Voice of Hind Rajab (Kaouther Ben Hania)

2025 Omnibus Log

Ryan Swen Lists Tags: ,

s001. Sycorax (2021, Lois Patiño & Matías Piñeiro) Television, Blu-ray 07 Jan – 8
s002. À propos de Nice (1930, Jean Vigo & Boris Kaufman) Television, Blu-ray 13 Jan – 7
s003. Taris (1931, Jean Vigo) Television, Blu-ray 13 Jan – 7
s004. A Letter to Uncle Boonmee (2009, Apichatpong Weerasethakul) Television, Blu-ray 13 Jan – 7
s005. The Second (2024, Taylor Ramos & Tony Zhou) Laptop, YouTube 14 Jan – 4
s006. +Fantasy Sentences (2017, Dane Komljen) Laptop, File 14 Jan – 8 [up from 6]
001. Short Stay (2016, Ted Fendt) Monitor, File 14 Jan – 7
t001. +Pilot (1990, Twin Peaks) Monitor, File 16 Jan
002. Saturday Night (2024, Jason Reitman) Television, File (Father) 18 Jan – 4
s007. Incident (2023, Bill Morrison) Monitor, File 19 Jan – 8
s008. Being John Smith (2024, John Smith) Monitor, File 19 Jan – 8
003. A Silent Voice (2016, Yamada Naoko) Monitor, File 21 Jan – 8
004. Den of Thieves: Pantera (2025, Christian Gudegast) Television, File (Father) 29 Jan – 7
s009. That I’m Falling? (2013, Eduardo Williams) Television, File 06 Feb – 8
s010. I Forgot! (2014, Eduardo Williams) Television, File 07 Feb – 8
005. +Breathless (1960, Jean-Luc Godard) Television, Blu-ray 07 Feb – 10
s011. A Portrait of Ga (1952, Margaret Tait) Monitor, File 08 Feb – 8
s012. Bottle Rocket (1993, Wes Anderson) Monitor, File 11 Feb – 6
s013. Hotel Chevalier (2007, Wes Anderson) Monitor, File 11 Feb – 8
s014. Castello Cavalcanti (2013, Wes Anderson) Monitor, YouTube 11 Feb – 7
006. +A Real Pain (2024, Jesse Eisenberg) Television, File (Father) 11 Feb – 7
007. Breathless (2024, James Benning†) Monitor, File 16 Feb – 7
008. Hummingbirds (2023, Silvia Del Carmen Castaños^ & Estefanía “Beba” Contreras^) Monitor, Screener 17 Feb – 6
009. Broken Rage (2024, Kitano Takeshi) Television, File (Father) 18 Feb – 8
010. Patrice: The Movie (2024, Ted Passon^) Television, Hulu 22 Feb – 5
011. Gaucho Gaucho (2024, Michael Dweck^ & Gregory Kershaw^) Television, File 22 Feb – 6 [delay]
012. Misericordia (2024, Alain Guiraudie†) Sepulveda Screening Room, DCP (Friends) 26 Feb – 9
013. The Actor (2025, Duke Johnson) Sepulveda Screening Room, DCP (Friend) 27 Feb – 5
s015. +Nine Behind (2016, Sophy Romvari) Television, Criterion Channel 28 Feb – 6 [down from 7]
s016. It’s Him (2017, Sophy Romvari) Television, Criterion Channel 28 Feb – 6
s017. +Pumpkin Movie (2017, Sophy Romvari) Television, Criterion Channel 28 Feb – 6 [down from 7]
s018. Grandma’s House (2018, Sophy Romvari) Television, Criterion Channel 28 Feb – 6
s019. Norman Norman (2018, Sophy Romvari) Television, Criterion Channel 28 Feb – 6
s020. In Dog Years (2019, Sophy Romvari) Television, Criterion Channel 28 Feb – 6
s021. Remembrance of József Romvári (2020, Sophy Romvari) Television, Criterion Channel 28 Feb – 6
s022. It’s Pink, But Is It Mink? (1975, Robert McKimson) New Beverly, 35mm 28 Feb – 6
014. Easy Living (1937, Mitchell Leisen^) New Beverly, 35mm 28 Feb – 8
s023. +Still Processing (2020, Sophy Romvari) Television, Criterion Channel 28 Feb – 6
015. The Apprentice (2024, Ali Abbasi^) Television, File 01 Mar – 5 [delay]
s024. Teeny Weeny Meany (1966, Sid Marcus) New Beverly, 35mm 01 Mar – 6
016. +Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981, Steven Spielberg) New Beverly, 35mm 01 Mar – 10 [up from 9]
017. To Have and Have Not (1944, Howard Hawks) New Beverly, 35mm 01 Mar – 10
018. Key Largo (1948, John Huston) New Beverly, 35mm 01 Mar – 6
019. The Wild Robot (2024, Chris Sanders) Television, File 01 Mar – 6
020. Pump Up the Volume (1990, Allan Moyle^) AC Aero Theatre, 35mm (Director Q&A) 07 Mar – 8 [late]
021. Times Square (1980, Allan Moyle) AC Aero Theatre, DCP (Director Q&A) 07 Mar – 7
022. Mickey 17 (2025, Bong Joon-ho) AMC The Grove, DCP 08 Mar – 7
023. In the Lost Lands (2025, Paul W. S. Anderson) AMC The Grove, DCP 08 Mar – 7 [late]
024. +Isabella (2020, Matías Piñeiro) AC Aero Theatre, DCP (Friends, Director Q&A) 14 Mar – 8 [slight; up from 7]
025. +Viola (2012, Matías Piñeiro) AC Aero Theatre, DCP (Friends, Director Q&A) 14 Mar – 8 [late; up from 7]
026. +Hermia & Helena (2016, Matías Piñeiro) AC Los Feliz 3, DCP (Friend, Moderator) 15 Mar – 9 [up from 8]
027. They All Lie (2009, Matías Piñeiro) AC Los Feliz 3, DCP (Friends, Director Introduction) 15 Mar – 7 [slight]
s025. Preface to the Little Dialogue (2025, Matías Piñeiro) AC Egyptian Theatre, DCP (Friend, Director Q&A) 15 Mar – 7
028. +You Burn Me (2024, Matías Piñeiro) AC Egyptian Theatre, DCP (Friend, Director Q&A) 15 Mar – 7 [fragments]
029. After the Rain (2021, Fan Jian^) Culver Theater, LED (Director Q&A) 16 Mar – 7
030. Black Bag (2025, Steven Soderbergh) Culver Theater, LED 16 Mar – 7
s026. A Short History (2017, Erica Sheu) 2220 Arts + Archives/Acropolis Cinema, 16mm Dual Projection (Volunteer, Friends, Director Q&A) 18 Mar – 7
s027. the way home (2018, Erica Sheu) 2220 Arts + Archives/Acropolis Cinema, File (Volunteer, Friends, Director Q&A) 18 Mar – 6
s028. transcript (2019, Erica Sheu) 2220 Arts + Archives/Acropolis Cinema, File (Volunteer, Friends, Director Q&A) 18 Mar – 7
s029. pài-lak ē-poo (2020, Erica Sheu) 2220 Arts + Archives/Acropolis Cinema, 16mm (Volunteer, Friends, Director Q&A) 18 Mar – 6
s030. birthday song (single channel) (2021, Erica Sheu) 2220 Arts + Archives/Acropolis Cinema, 16mm (Volunteer, Friends, Director Q&A) 18 Mar – 7
s031. off (I don’t know when to stop) (2021, Erica Sheu) 2220 Arts + Archives/Acropolis Cinema, File (Volunteer, Friends, Director Q&A) 18 Mar – 7
s032. Grandma’s Scissors (2021, Erica Sheu) 2220 Arts + Archives/Acropolis Cinema, File (Volunteer, Friends, Director Q&A) 18 Mar – 7
s033. Fur Film vol.2: mirror mirror (2022, ЯeaRflex) 2220 Arts + Archives/Acropolis Cinema, File (Volunteer, Friends, Director Q&A) 18 Mar – 7
s034. It follows It passes on (2022, Erica Sheu) 2220 Arts + Archives/Acropolis Cinema, File (Volunteer, Friends, Director Q&A) 18 Mar – 7
s035. False Expectations (2023, Erica Sheu) 2220 Arts + Archives/Acropolis Cinema, 16mm Triple Projection (Live Score, Volunteer, Friends, Director Q&A) 18 Mar – 8
031. Anatomy of a Murder (1959, Otto Preminger) Vista Theater, 35mm 21 Mar – 9
032. +A Man Escaped (1956, Robert Bresson) New Beverly, 35mm 23 Mar – 10
033. +Pickpocket (1959, Robert Bresson) New Beverly, 35mm (Friend) 23 Mar – 9 [up from 8]
034. The Iron Giant (1999, Brad Bird) Egyptian Theatre, DCP (Friends, Director Q&A) 26 Mar – 7
035. +The Incredibles (2004, Brad Bird) Egyptian Theatre, DCP (Director Q&A) 26 Mar – 8
036. Sorry, Baby (2025, Eva Victor^†) CAA Ray Kurtzman Theater, DCP (Director Q&A) 28 Mar – 6
037. +Ugetsu Monogatari (1953, Mizoguchi Kenji) AC Los Feliz 3, 35mm 30 Mar – 10 [late; up from 8]
s036. Woolen Under Where (1963, Phil Monroe & Richard Thompson) New Beverly, 35mm 01 Apr – 6
038. Blue Collar (1978, Paul Schrader) New Beverly, 35mm 01 Apr – 9
039. American Gigolo (1980, Paul Schrader) New Beverly, 35mm 01 Apr – 7
040. Magic Farm (2025, Amalia Ulman) Vidiots Eagle Theatre, DCP (Friends, Director/Cast Q&A) [LAFM] 03 Apr – 6
041. Invention (2024, Courtney Stephens) 2220 Arts + Archives, DCP (Friend, Director/Actor Q&A) [LAFM] 04 Apr – 8 [slight]
042. Cent mille milliards (2024, Virgil Vernier) 2220 Arts + Archives, DCP (Director/Producer Q&A) [LAFM] 04 Apr – 7 [slight]
043. Nightshift (1981, Robina Rose^) 2220 Arts + Archives, DCP (Friend, Cooper Introduction) [LAFM] 05 Apr – 8 [intermittent]
044. Permanent Green Light (2018, Dennis Cooper^ & Zac Farley^) Television, File 05 Apr – 7 [delay]
045. Debut, or, Objects of the Field of Debris as Currently Catalogued (2025, Julian Catronovo^) 2220 Arts + Archives, DCP (Friends, Director Q&A) [LAFM] 05 Apr – 8
046. Room Temperature (2025, Dennis Cooper & Zac Farley) 2220 Arts + Archives, DCP (Directors/Cast Q&A) [LAFM] 05 Apr – 6 [slight]
047. Zodiac Killer Project (2025, Charlie Shackleton^) 2220 Arts + Archives, DCP (Friend, Director Q&A) [LAFM] 06 Apr – 6 [slight]
048. No Sleep Till (2024, Alexandra Simpson^) 2220 Arts + Archives, DCP (Friend, Director/Crew Q&A) [LAFM] 06 Apr – 7 [slight]
049. Happyend (2024, Sora Neo) Vidiots Eagle Theatre, DCP (Friend, Director/Producers Q&A) [LAFM] 06 Apr – 8
050. Mongrel (2024, Chiang Wei-liang^ & Yin You-qiao^†) Television, Screener 09 Apr – 5
051. 12 Angry Men (1957, Sidney Lumet) Television, File 09 Apr – 6 [delay]
052. Henry Fonda for President (2024, Alexander Horwath^) 2220 Arts + Archives/Acropolis Cinema, File (Volunteer, Director/Crew Q&A) 09 Apr – 9 [slight]
053. Eight Postcards From Utopia (2024, Radu Jude & Christian Ferencz-Flatz^) AC Los Feliz 3, DCP 10 Apr – 7 [late; slight]
054. Sleep #2 (2024, Radu Jude) AC Los Feliz 3, DCP 10 Apr – 7 [slight]
055. Fire of Wind (2024, Marta Mateus^) AC Los Feliz 3, DCP 11 Apr – 8 [late; intermittent]
056. Fast, Cheap & Out of Control (1997, Errol Morris) AC Los Feliz 3, 35mm (Director Q&A) 12 Apr – 8 [intermittent]
057. The Emperor’s Naked Army Marches On (1987, Hara Kazuo) AC Egyptian, DCP (Hader Introduction, Director Q&A) 12 Apr – 9
058. +The Thin Blue Line (1988, Errol Morris) AC Egyptian, 35mm (Director Q&A) 12 Apr – 8 [intermittent]
059. A Brief History of Time (1991, Errol Morris) AC Egyptian, 35mm (Director Q&A) 12 Apr – 6
060. Minamata Mandala (2020, Hara Kazuo) Television, File 13 Apr – 8 [delay]
061. +Goodbye CP (1972, Hara Kazuo) AC Los Feliz 3, DCP (Friend, Director Q&A) 14 Apr – 8 [late; intermittent]
062. Extreme Private Eros: Love Song 1974 (1974, Hara Kazuo) AC Los Feliz 3, DCP (Friend, Director Q&A) 15 Apr – 9 [slight]
063. Predators (2025, David Osit^) AC Los Feliz 3, DCP (Director Q&A) 16 Apr – 8
064. April (2024, Dea Kulumbegashvili†) Laemmle Glendale, DCP (Friend) 17 Apr – 7 [slight]
065. John Lilly and the Earth Coincidence Control Office (2025, Michael Almereyda & Courtney Stephens) AC Los Feliz 3, DCP (Directors Q&A) 17 Apr – 7 [slight]
066. Nadja (1994, Michael Almereyda) AC Los Feliz 3, 35mm (Friends, Director/Cinematographer Q&A) 20 Apr – 8
067. Duel (1971, Steven Spielberg) New Beverly, 35mm 21 Apr – 7 [slight]
068. The Sugarland Express (1974, Steven Spielberg) New Beverly, 35mm 21 Apr – 8
069. +Devil in a Blue Dress (1995, Carl Franklin) Egyptian Theatre, DCP (Director Q&A) 22 Apr – 8 [up from 6]
070. Love Hotel (1985, Somai Shinji) 2220 Arts + Archives/Acropolis Cinema, File (Volunteer, Friends) 23 Apr – 8
071. +In the Mood for Love (2000, Wong Kar-wai) Academy Museum, 35mm (Yang Introduction) 24 Apr – 10
072. Sinners (2025, Ryan Coogler) Regal Irvine Spectrum, IMAX 70mm 26 Apr – 8
073. Coming to Terms (2013, Jon Jost^) Television, Screener 30 Apr – 8
074. Blue Strait (2015, Jon Jost) Television, Screener 30 Apr – 7
075. Fat Girl (2001, Catherine Breillat) New Beverly, 35mm 30 Apr – 9 [slight]
076. +36 Fillette (1988, Catherine Breillat) New Beverly, 35mm 30 Apr – 8
077. DIRECT ACTION (2024, Guillaume Cailleau^ & Ben Russell^) 2220 Arts + Archives/Acropolis Cinema, File (Volunteer, Friend) 03 May – 8 [intermittent]
078. +Dog Day Afternoon (1975, Sidney Lumet) Egyptian Theatre, 35mm (Strauss Introduction) 05 May – 7 [up from 6]
079. +Dersu Uzala (1975, Kurosawa Akira) Egyptian Theatre, 35mm (Speaker) 07 May – 9 [up from 8]
080. Amiko (2017, Yamanaka Yoko) Television, File 10 May – 7
081. Beau Is Afraid (2023, Ari Aster) Television, File 16 May – 5
082. Parking (2008, Chung Mong-hong^) AC Los Feliz 3, 35mm (Director Q&A) 16 May – 8
083. Stranger Than Paradise (1984, Jim Jarmusch) AC Los Feliz 3, 35mm 18 May – 9 [late]
084. +Minority Report (2002, Steven Spielberg) AC Egyptian Theatre, 35mm (Friends) 18 May – 8 [slight; up from 7]
085. +RoboCop (1987, Paul Verhoeven) New Beverly, 35mm (Screenwriter Q&A) 21 May – 9
086. +The Terminator (1984, James Cameron) New Beverly, 35mm 21 May – 9 [up from 8]
087. Mission: Impossible—The Final Reckoning (2025, Christopher McQuarrie) AMC The Grove, DCP 22 May – 8 [late]
088. +Invention (2024, Courtney Stephens) Now Instant, DCP (Friend, Director/Actor Q&A) 23 May – 8
s037. Surf-Bored Cat (1967, Abe Levitow) New Beverly, 35mm 24 May – 6
089. +Jaws (1975, Steven Spielberg) New Beverly, 35mm 24 May – 9
090. It Happened One Night (1934, Frank Capra) Vista Theater, 35mm 25 May – 8
091. Hail the Conquering Hero (1944, Preston Sturges) AC Los Feliz 3, 35mm (Friend) 25 May – 8
092. Blue Sun Palace (2024, Constance Tsang^) AC Los Feliz 3, DCP (Friend, Producers Introduction) 25 May – 7
093. +The Master (2012, Paul Thomas Anderson) Academy Museum, 70mm 25 May – 9 [late; up from 8]
s038. Apollo (2003, Nishikawa Tomonari) Television, Vimeo 26 May – 8
s039. Sketch Film #1 (2005, Nishikawa Tomonari) Television, Vimeo 26 May – 8
s040. Sketch Film #2 (2005, Nishikawa Tomonari) Television, Vimeo 26 May – 8
s041. Market Street (2005, Nishikawa Tomonari) Television, Vimeo 26 May – 8
s042. Sketch Film #3 (2006, Nishikawa Tomonari) Television, Vimeo 26 May – 8
s043. Clear Blue Sky (2006, Nishikawa Tomonari) Television, Vimeo 26 May – 8
s044. Sketch Film #4 (2007, Nishikawa Tomonari) Television, Vimeo 26 May – 8
s045. Sketch Film #5 (2007, Nishikawa Tomonari) Television, Vimeo 26 May – 8
s046. Into the Mass (2007, Nishikawa Tomonari) Television, Vimeo 26 May – 8
s047. 16-18-4 (2008, Nishikawa Tomonari) Television, Vimeo 26 May – 8
s048. Lumphini 2552 (2009, Nishikawa Tomonari) Television, Vimeo 26 May – 8
s049. Tokyo – Ebisu (2010, Nishikawa Tomonari) Television, Vimeo 26 May – 9
s050. Shibuya – Tokyo (2010, Nishikawa Tomonari) Television, Vimeo 26 May – 9
s051. 45 7 Broadway (2013, Nishikawa Tomonari) Television, Vimeo 26 May – 8
s052. sound of a million insects, light of a thousand stars (2014, Nishikawa Tomonari) Television, Vimeo 26 May – 9
s053. Manhattan One Two Three Four (2014, Nishikawa Tomonari) Television, Vimeo 26 May – 8
s054. Luminous Veil (2016, Nishikawa Tomonari) Television, Vimeo 26 May – 7
s055. Ten Mornings Ten Evenings and One Horizon (2016, Nishikawa Tomonari) Television, Vimeo 26 May – 9
s056. Amusement Ride (2019, Nishikawa Tomonari) Television, Vimeo 26 May – 8
s057. Trafic (2021, Nishikawa Tomonari) Television, Vimeo 26 May – 8
s058. Magnetic Point (2023, Nishikawa Tomonari) Television, Vimeo 26 May – 7
s059. Light, Noise, Smoke and Light, Noise, Smoke (2023, Nishikawa Tomonari) Television, Vimeo 26 May – 8
094. Rich and Famous (1981, George Cukor) AC Los Feliz 3, 35mm (Longworth Introduction) 27 May – 8
095. One False Move (1992, Carl Franklin) New Beverly, 35mm (Friends) 27 May – 8
096. The Heroic Trio (1993, Johnnie To) Television, Blu-ray 28 May – 7
097. Tongues Untied (1989, Marlon Riggs^) Television, Blu-ray 28 May – 8
098. Mr. 3000 (2004, Charles Stone III^) Television, File 29 May – 7 [delay]
099. The Phoenician Scheme (2025, Wes Anderson) AMC The Grove, DCP 29 May – 8
100. An Evening Song (for three voices) (2023, Graham Swon) 2220 Arts + Archives/Acropolis Cinema, File (Volunteer, Friends, Director Q&A) 29 May – 8 [intermittent]
101. +Rope (1948, Alfred Hitchcock) Academy Museum, 35mm Nitrate (Koresky/Aster Introduction) 30 May – 8
s060. Fractured Friendship (1965, Sid Marcus) New Beverly, 35mm 31 May – 6
102. +Frances Ha (2012, Noah Baumbach) New Beverly, 35mm 31 May – 9
103. Saturday Night Fever (1977, John Badham^) AC Los Feliz 3, 35mm 31 May – 8 [late]
104. The Breaking Point (1950, Michael Curtiz) AC Los Feliz 3, 35mm (Connor Introduction) 01 Jun – 8
105. Last Chants for a Slow Dance (1977, Jon Jost) AC Los Feliz 3, DCP (Director Q&A) 01 Jun – 9 [late; slight]
106. DeadEndz (2023, Jon Jost) AC Los Feliz 3, DCP (Director Q&A) 01 Jun – 7 [late]
107. Despite the Night (2015, Philippe Grandrieux^) AC Los Feliz 3, DCP (Director Zoom Q&A) 01 Jun – 8 [slight]
108. Sombre (1998, Philippe Grandrieux) AC Aero Theatre, 35mm (Director Zoom Q&A) 02 Jun – 7 [late; technical]
109. A New Life (2002, Philippe Grandrieux) AC Aero Theatre, 35mm (Friend, Director Zoom Q&A) 02 Jun – 7 [slight]
110. A Lake (2008, Philippe Grandrieux) AC Los Feliz 3, 35mm (Director Zoom Q&A) 03 Jun – 8 [late; intermittent]
111. +Melancholia (2011, Lars von Trier) AC Egyptian Theatre, 35mm (Actor Q&A) 04 Jun – 8
112. The World to Come (2020, Mona Fastvold^) AC Los Feliz 3, 35mm (Director/Actor Q&A) 05 Jun – 6
113. Vox Lux (2018, Brady Corbet) AC Los Feliz 3, 35mm (Friend, Director/Screenwriter/Cinematographer Introduction) 05 Jun – 5
114. +Taste of Cherry (1997, Abbas Kiarostami) AC Los Feliz 3, 35mm (Speaker, Friends) 06 Jun – 10 [late; up from 9]
115. Last Days (2005, Gus Van Sant) AC Los Feliz 3, 35mm (Director Q&A) 06 Jun – 8 [late; intermittent]
116. Ordet (1955, Carl Th. Dreyer) Television, File 07 Jun – [delay]
117. Day of Wrath (1943, Carl. Th. Dreyer) AC Egyptian Theatre, 35mm Nitrate (Friends, Stoiber Introduction) 07 Jun – 10
118. +Clueless (1995, Amy Heckerling) Academy Museum, 35mm (Director/Cast/Crew Q&A) 07 Jun – 9
119. +Limbo (2021, Soi Cheang) AC Los Feliz 3, DCP (Speaker, Friends) 08 Jun – 9
120. Escape From the 21st Century (2024, Li Yang^) AMC Atlantic Times Square, DCP (Friends) 09 Jun – 7 [late]
121. The Damned (2024, Roberto Minervini) 2220 Arts + Archives/Acropolis Cinema, File (Volunteer, Director/Cinematographer/Actor Q&A) 13 Jun – 8 [slight]
122. The Passage (2011, Roberto Minervini) Brain Dead Studios/Acropolis Cinema, DCP (Volunteer, Friends, Director Q&A) 14 Jun – 7 [slight]
123. +The Other Side (2015, Roberto Minervini) 2220 Arts + Archives/Acropolis Cinema, File (Volunteer, Friend, Director Q&A) 15 Jun – 8 [slight]
124. Water and Power (1989, Pat O’Neill^) Philosophical Research Society/Los Angeles Filmforum, 16mm 15 Jun – 9 [intermittent; technical]
s061. Venice Pier (1976, Gary Beydler) Philosophical Research Society/Los Angeles Filmforum, 16mm 15 Jun – 8
s062. +Pasadena Freeway Stills (1974, Gary Beydler) Monitor, File 16 Jun – 8 [up from 7]
125. Ballerina (2025, Len Wiseman) AMC The Grove, DCP 17 Jun – 6
126. Materialists (2025, Celine Song) AMC The Grove, DCP 17 Jun – 6
127. Se7en (1995, David Fincher) Vista Theater, 35mm 22 Jun – 9 [late]
128. +What You Gonna Do When the World’s on Fire? (2018, Roberto Minervini) Brain Dead Studios/Acropolis Cinema, DCP (Volunteer, Friends) 23 Jun – 8 [slight]
s063. Hand Held Day (1975, Gary Beydler) Television, File 25 Jun – 7
s064. Scénarios (2024, Jean-Luc Godard) Television, File 25 Jun – 9
s065. Exposé du film annonce du film “Scénario” (2024, Jean-Luc Godard) Television, File 25 Jun – 8
129. Love Affair(s) (2020, Emmanuel Mouret) Television, File 25 Jun – 9 [delay]
130. The Plains (2022, David Easteal^) Television, File 25 Jun – 9 [delay]
131. No Bears (2022, Jafar Panahi) Television, File 25 Jun – 9 [delay]
132. Unrest (2022, Cyril Schäublin^) Television, File 25 Jun – 8 [delay]
133. The Eternal Daughter (2022, Joanna Hogg) Television, File 25 Jun – 8 [delay]
s066. Experiments in Motion Graphics (1968, John Whitney Sr.) 2220 Arts + Archives/Lightstruck, 16mm 26 Jun – 6
s067. Poemfield 7 (1968, Stan VanDerBeek & Ken Knowlton) 2220 Arts + Archives/Lightstruck, 16mm 26 Jun – 7
s068. Olympiad (1971, Lillian Schwartz & Ken Knowlton) 2220 Arts + Archives/Lightstruck, 16mm 26 Jun – 8
s069. UFOs (1971, Lillian Schwartz & Ken Knowlton) 2220 Arts + Archives/Lightstruck, 16mm 26 Jun – 8
s070. Byjina Flores (1966, John Whitney Jr.) 2220 Arts + Archives/Lightstruck, 16mm 26 Jun – 7
s071. Binary Bit Patterns (1969, Michael Whitney) 2220 Arts + Archives/Lightstruck, 16mm 26 Jun – 7
s072. Matrix III (1972, John Whitney Sr.) 2220 Arts + Archives/Lightstruck, 16mm 26 Jun – 7
s073. Lapis (1966, James Whitney) 2220 Arts + Archives/Lightstruck, 16mm 26 Jun – 7
s074. Phenomena (1965, Jordan Belson) 2220 Arts + Archives/Lightstruck, 16mm 26 Jun – 8
s075. Samadhi (1967, Jordan Belson) 2220 Arts + Archives/Lightstruck, 16mm 26 Jun – 8
s076. Momentum (1969, Jordan Belson) 2220 Arts + Archives/Lightstruck, 16mm 26 Jun – 8
s077. Side Phase Drift (1969, John Whitney Jr.) 2220 Arts + Archives/Lightstruck, 16mm Triple Projection 26 Jun – 8
134. Familiar Touch (2024, Sarah Friedland^) Laemmle Royal, DCP (Director/Actor Q&A) 28 Jun – 8
135. Measures for a Funeral (2024, Sofia Bohdanowicz) 2220 Arts + Archives/Acropolis Cinema, File (Volunteer, Friend, Director Q&A) 29 Jun – 7 [slight]
136. Afternoons of Solitude (2024, Albert Serra) AC Los Feliz 3, DCP (Friend) 30 Jun – 9 [slight]
137. +Reservoir Dogs (1992, Quentin Tarantino) Vista Theater, 35mm 08 Jul – 8 [up from 6]
138. +Pulp Fiction (1994, Quentin Tarantino) Vista Theater, 35mm 08 Jul – 9 [up from 8]
139. Those That, at a Distance, Resemble Another (2019, Jessica Sarah Rinland^) Television, File 08 Jul – 8 [delay]
140. Collective Monologue (2024, Jessica Sarah Rinland) 2220 Arts + Archives/Acropolis Cinema, File (Volunteer, Friend, Director Q&A) 08 Jul – 7 [intermittent]
141. The Abyss (1989, James Cameron) Academy Museum, 70mm (Producer, Crew Introduction) 09 Jul – 9
142. +Inglourious Basterds (2009, Quentin Tarantino) New Beverly, 35mm 11 Jul – 9 [up from 8]
143. +Moonrise Kingdom (2012, Wes Anderson) New Beverly, 35mm 12 Jul – 9
144. +Drive (2011, Nicolas Winding Refn) Academy Museum, 35mm (Composer Introduction) 12 Jul – 6
145. +Les Vampires (1915, Louis Feuillade) Academy Museum, DCP (Friend) 13 Jul – 10 [slight]
s078. In the Mood for Love 2001 (2001, Wong Kar-wai) Laemmle Glendale, DCP 17 Jul – 8
146. Point Break (1991, Kathryn Bigelow) New Beverly, 35mm 17 Jul – 8
147. +Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989, Steven Spielberg) New Beverly, 35mm 19 Jul – 8 [up from 7]
148. Last Life in the Universe (2003, Pen-ek Ratanaruang^) AC Los Feliz 3, 35mm 19 Jul – 7
149. +PlayTime (1967, Jacques Tati) AC Egyptian Theatre, 70mm 20 Jul – 10 [late]
150. +Boogie Nights (1997, Paul Thomas Anderson) AC Egyptian Theatre, 70mm 20 Jul – 8
151. Eddington (2025, Ari Aster) AMC The Grove, DCP 22 Jul – 5 [late]
152. Lost in America (1985, Albert Brooks^) New Beverly, 35mm 22 Jul – 8
153. Modern Romance (1981, Albert Brooks) New Beverly, 35mm 22 Jul – 9
154. The Ballad of Suzanne Césaire (2024, Madeleine Hunt-Ehrlich^) 2220 Arts + Archives/Acropolis Cinema, File (Volunteer, Friend) 23 Jul – 7 [slight]
155. +Kill Bill (2004, Quentin Tarantino) Vista Theater, 35mm (Friend) 24 Jul – 9 [up from 8]
156. +The Little Mermaid (1989, John Musker & Ron Clements) Egyptian Theatre, DCP (Directors Q&A) 24 Jul – 6
s079. +Spectrum Reverse Spectrum (2014, Margaret Honda) AC Aero Theatre, 70mm (Director Q&A) 26 Jul – 8
s080. Equinox (2019, Margaret Honda) AC Aero Theatre, 70mm (Director Q&A) 26 Jul – 7
t002. A Fair Murderer (2006, Furuhata Ninzaburo) Monitor, File 27 Jul
157. +The Clock (1945, Vincente Minnelli) Television, File 01 Aug – 10
158. Neighboring Sounds (2012, Kleber Mendonça Filho) Television, Blu-ray 01 Aug – 8 [delay]
p001. Wild Man Blues (1997, Barbara Kopple) Television, File (Friend) 01 Aug
159. Abiding Nowhere (2024, Tsai Ming-liang) Television, File 06 Aug – 8
s081. No Form (2012, Tsai Ming-liang) AC Los Feliz 3, DCP 06 Aug – 8
s082. Hua yang de nian hua (2000, Wong Kar-wai) Television, Blu-ray 08 Aug – 7
160. Egg and Stone (2012, Huang Ji) Television, File 08 Aug – 8
161. Videoheaven (2025, Alex Ross Perry) AC Los Feliz 3, DCP (Friend) 08 Aug – 8
s083. Single Belief (2016, Lee Kang-sheng) Television, File 09 Aug – 8
162. The Foolish Bird (2017, Huang Ji & Otsuka Ryuji) Television, File 09 Aug – 7
163. +Stonewalling (2022, Huang Ji & Otsuka Ryuji) Television, File 09 Aug – 8 [delay]
s084. +No Form (2012, Tsai Ming-liang) AC Aero Theatre, DCP (Friends, Director/Actor Q&A) 10 Aug – 8
s085. +Walker (2012, Tsai Ming-liang) AC Aero Theatre, DCP (Friends, Director/Actor Q&A) 10 Aug – 8
s086. Walking on Water (2013, Tsai Ming-liang) AC Aero Theatre, DCP (Friends, Director/Actor Q&A) 10 Aug – 8
164. +Journey to the West (2014, Tsai Ming-liang) AC Aero Theatre, DCP (Friends, Director/Actor Q&A) 10 Aug – 9 [slight; up from 8]
s087. +No No Sleep (2015, Tsai Ming-liang) AC Aero Theatre, DCP (Friends, Director/Actor Q&A) 10 Aug – 9
165. Sand (2018, Tsai Ming-liang) AC Aero Theatre, DCP (Friend, Director/Actor Q&A) 10 Aug – 8 [slight]
s088. Sleepwalk (2012, Tsai Ming-liang) AC Aero Theatre, DCP (Friend, Director/Actor Q&A) 10 Aug – 8
s089. Diamond Sutra (2012, Tsai Ming-liang) AC Aero Theatre, DCP (Friend, Director/Actor Q&A) 10 Aug – 8
166. +Where (2022, Tsai Ming-liang) AC Aero Theatre, DCP (Friend, Director/Actor Q&A) 10 Aug – 8 [slight]
167. +Abiding Nowhere (2024, Tsai Ming-liang) AC Aero Theatre, DCP (Friend, Director/Actor Q&A) 10 Aug – 8 [slight]
168. Norma Rae (1979, Martin Ritt^) Egyptian Theatre, DCP (Friends, Actor Q&A) 13 Aug – 6
169. Highest 2 Lowest (2025, Spike Lee) Regal L.A. Live, DCP 19 Aug – 6
170. L.A. Confidential (1997, Curtis Hanson^) Academy Museum, 35mm 20 Aug – 7 [late]
171. +L for Leisure (2014, Lev Kalman & Whitney Horn) Coaxial Arts/Shadow Kitchen, File (Director Q&A) 21 Aug – 9 [up from 8]
172. The History of Sound (2025, Oliver Hermanus^†) Wilshire Screening Room, DCP 22 Aug – 5 [late]
173. Monkey Business (1931, Norman Z. McLeod^) UCLA Billy Wilder Theater, DCP (Historian Introduction) 22 Aug – 8
174. The Black Cat (1934, Edgar G. Ulmer) UCLA Billy Wilder Theater, 35mm 22 Aug – 8
175. Preparation for the Next Life (2025, Liu Bing†) Culver Theater, LED (Director/Actor Q&A) 25 Aug – 5
176. Honey Don’t! (2025, Ethan Coen) AMC The Grove, DCP 27 Aug – 4 [late]
177. Blue Moon (2025, Richard Linklater†) Crescent Theater, DCP (Friends) 27 Aug – 9
178. A Land Imagined (2018, Yeo Siew Hua) Television, File 02 Sep – 8
179. +Stranger Eyes (2024, Yeo Siew Hua) Television, File 02 Sep – 8 [up from 7]
180. The Missing (2003, Lee Kang-sheng^) Television, File 03 Sep – 8
181. My Stinking Kid (2004, Lee Kang-sheng & Tsai Ming-liang) Television, File 03 Sep – 7
182. Help Me Eros (2007, Lee Kang-sheng) Television, File 03 Sep – 8
183. It Was Just an Accident (2025, Jafar Panahi) Crescent Theater, DCP (Director Q&A) 04 Sep – 8 [late]
184. After the Hunt (2025, Luca Guadagnino†) Culver Theater, DCP (Friend) 10 Sep – 7
185. +Pierrot le Fou (1965, Jean-Luc Godard) New Beverly, 35mm 10 Sep – 10 [slight]
s090. The Chicken (2020, Sora Neo) Television, Blu-ray 11 Sep – 7
s091. Melting (1965, Thom Andersen) Television, File 11 Sep – 7
s092. — ——- (1967, Thom Andersen & Malcolm Brodwick) Television, File 11 Sep – 7
186. The Smashing Machine (2025, Benny Safdie) DGA Theater, DCP (Director/Cast/Subject Q&A) 11 Sep – 8
187. A Prince (2023, Pierre Creton^) Television, File 13 Sep – 8
188. Eadweard Muybridge, Zoopraxographer (1975, Thom Andersen) Television, File 13 Sep – 8
189. 7 Walks With Mark Brown (2024, Pierre Creton & Vincent Barré^) 2220 Arts + Archives/Acropolis Cinema, File (Volunteer, Friends) 13 Sep – 8
190. Go, Toto! (2017, Pierre Creton) 2220 Arts + Archives/Acropolis Cinema, File (Volunteer, Friends) 13 Sep – 7
191. +Los Angeles Plays Itself (2003, Thom Andersen) Television, Blu-ray 13 Sep – 10
192. One Battle After Another (2025, Paul Thomas Anderson†) Warner Bros. Steven J. Ross Theater, VistaVision 35mm (Friends) 15 Sep – 9
s093. The Tony Longo Trilogy (2014, Thom Andersen) Television, Blu-ray 15 Sep – 8
193. Miroirs No. 3 (2025, Christian Petzold†) FLC Walter Reade Theater, DCP (Friends) [NYFF] 17 Sep – 8
194. The Mastermind (2025, Kelly Reichardt†) FLC Walter Reade Theater, DCP (Friends) [NYFF] 17 Sep – 8
195. Late Fame (2025, Kent Jones†) FLC Walter Reade Theater, DCP (Friends) [NYFF] 17 Sep – 7
196. No Other Choice (2025, Park Chan-wook†) FLC Walter Reade Theater, DCP (Friends) [NYFF] 17 Sep – 7
197. I Only Rest in the Storm (2025, Pedro Pinho^†) FLC Walter Reade Theater, DCP (Friend) [NYFF] 18 Sep – 7
198. Peter Hujar’s Day (2025, Ira Sachs†) FLC Walter Reade Theater, DCP (Friends) [NYFF] 18 Sep – 8
199. The Secret Agent (2025, Kleber Mendonça Filho†) FLC Walter Reade Theater, DCP (Friend) [NYFF] 18 Sep – 8
200. Sirāt (2025, Óliver Laxe†) FLC Walter Reade Theater, DCP (Friends) [NYFF] 18 Sep – 9
201. Magellan (2025, Lav Diaz†) FLC Walter Reade Theater, DCP (Friends) [NYFF] 19 Sep – 8
202. Below the Clouds (2025, Gianfranco Rosi†) FLC Walter Reade Theater, DCP (Friends) [NYFF] 19 Sep – 8
203. Rose of Nevada (2025, Mark Jenkin†) FLC Walter Reade Theater, DCP (Friends) [NYFF] 19 Sep – 7
204. Romería (2025, Carla Simón^†) FLC Walter Reade Theater, DCP (Friends) [NYFF] 19 Sep – 6
205. Kokuho (2025, Lee Sang-il^†) Television, Screener 21 Sep – 7
s094. The Whirled (1961, Ken Jacobs) 2220 Arts + Archives/Acropolis Cinema, 16mm (Volunteer, Friends, Hoberman Q&A) 25 Sep – 7
s095. Senseless (1962, Ron Rice) 2220 Arts + Archives/Acropolis Cinema, 16mm (Volunteer, Friends, Hoberman Q&A) 25 Sep – 7
s096. New York Eye and Ear Control (1964, Michael Snow) 2220 Arts + Archives/Acropolis Cinema, 16mm (Volunteer, Friends, Hoberman Q&A) 25 Sep – 8
s097. D. M. T. (1966, Jud Yalkut) 2220 Arts + Archives/Acropolis Cinema, 16mm (Volunteer, Friends, Hoberman Q&A) 25 Sep – 8
206. Sentimental Value (2025, Joachim Trier†) Rodeo Screening Room, DCP (Friend) 26 Sep – 6
207. If I Had Legs I’d Kick You (2025, Mary Bronstein^) AC Aero Theatre, DCP (Friend, Director/Cast Q&A) [Beyond Fest] 26 Sep – 8
208. Dracula (2025, Radu Jude) AC Aero Theatre, DCP (Friends) [Beyond Fest] 27 Sep – 8
209. +Slow Action (2010, Ben Rivers) 2220 Arts + Archives/Acropolis Cinema, File (Volunteer, Friends, Director Q&A) 28 Sep – 8 [up from 7]
s098. Urth (2016, Ben Rivers) 2220 Arts + Archives/Acropolis Cinema, File (Volunteer, Friends, Director Q&A) 28 Sep – 7
s099. +Look Then Below (2019, Ben Rivers) 2220 Arts + Archives/Acropolis Cinema, File (Volunteer, Friends, Director Q&A) 28 Sep – 7
210. A House of Dynamite (2025, Kathryn Bigelow†) Dolby Burbank, DCP (Friend) 29 Sep – 4
211. Bogancloch (2024, Ben Rivers) 2220 Arts + Archives/Acropolis Cinema, File (Volunteer, Friends, Director Q&A) 30 Sep – 7
212. Ed Wood (1994, Tim Burton) Academy Museum, 35mm 01 Oct – 8
213. Resurrection (2025, Bi Gan) AC Aero Theatre, DCP (Friends, Director Q&A) [Beyond Fest] 02 Oct – 9
214. Dracula (1931, Tod Browning^) New Beverly, 35mm 03 Oct – 6
215. +Sirāt (2025, Óliver Laxe) AC Aero Theatre, DCP (Friend, Director/Actor Q&A) [Beyond Fest] 03 Oct – 9
216. Hamnet (2025, Chloé Zhao†) Harmony Gold Preview House, DCP (Friends, Director/Actor Q&A) 05 Oct – 6
217. Die My Love (2025, Lynne Ramsay†) Wilshire Screening Room, DCP 06 Oct – 4 [late]
218. Anemone (2025, Ronan Day-Lewis^) DGA Theater, DCP (Friend, Director/Actor/Producer Q&A) 06 Oct – 6 [slight]
219. +One Battle After Another (2025, Paul Thomas Anderson) AMC Universal CityWalk, IMAX 70mm 07 Oct – 9 [late]
220. Left-Handed Girl (2025, Tsou Shih-ching^†) Netflix Icon Home Theater, DCP (Friend) 08 Oct – 7
221. Suburban Fury (2024, Robinson Devor^†) Television, Screener 09 Oct – 8
222. My Undesirable Friends: Part I—Last Air in Moscow (2024, Julia Loktev) Television, Screener 09 Oct – 8 [delay]
223. Bugonia (2025, Yorgos Lanthimos†) Rodeo Screening Room, DCP 10 Oct – 6 [late]
224. Is This Thing On? (2025, Bradley Cooper†) DGA Theater, DCP 10 Oct – 7
225. Urchin (2025, Harris Dickinson^) Television, Screener 11 Oct – 6
226. Ballad of a Small Player (2025, Edward Berger†) Egyptian Theatre, DCP (Director/Producer/Cast Introduction) 14 Oct – 4
227. Frankenstein (2025, Guillermo del Toro†) Netflix Epic Roma Theater, DCP (Friends) 15 Oct – 5
228. A Private Life (2025, Rebecca Zlotowski^†) Crescent Theater, DCP (Friend) 16 Oct – 6
229. +A City of Sadness (1989, Hou Hsiao-hsien) Culver Theater, LED (Moderator) [Alula Film Festival] 16 Oct – 10 [slight]
230. Bitter Money (2016, Wang Bing) Television, File 19 Oct – 8
231. Jay Kelly (2025, Noah Baumbach†) Netflix Epic Roma Theater, DCP (Friends) 20 Oct – 7 [late]
s100. Polly Two (2018, Kevin Jerome Everson) 2220 Arts + Archives/Acropolis Cinema, File (Volunteer, Friend, Director/Composer Q&A) 20 Oct – 7
s101. When the Sun Is Eaten (Chi’bal K’iin) (2025, Kevin Jerome Everson) 2220 Arts + Archives/Acropolis Cinema, File (Volunteer, Friend, Director/Composer Q&A) 20 Oct – 8
232. Daughter’s Daughter (2024, Huang Xi^†) Television, Screener 22 Oct – 6
233. Tempting Heart (1999, Sylvia Chang^) Television, File 23 Oct – 9
234. Pin de fartie (2025, Alejo Moguillansky^) TCL Chinese 6, DCP (Friends, Director Introduction) [AFI Fest] 23 Oct – 8
235. Yes (2025, Nadav Lapid) TCL Chinese 6, DCP (Director/Actor Q&A) [AFI Fest] 23 Oct – 8
236. The Currents (2025, Milagros Mumenthaler^) TCL Chinese 6, DCP (Friends) [AFI Fest] 23 Oct – 8
237. Father Mother Sister Brother (2025, Jim Jarmusch) TCL Chinese 6, DCP [AFI Fest] 24 Oct – 8
238. Dead Man’s Wire (2025, Gus Van Sant) TCL Chinese Theatre, DCP (Director Q&A) [AFI Fest] 25 Oct – 6 [late]
239. The Voice of Hind Rajab (2025, Kaouther Ben Hania^) TCL Chinese 6, DCP (Friend, Producer Introduction) [AFI Fest] 25 Oct – 3
240. Kontinental ’25 (2025, Radu Jude) TCL Chinese 6, DCP [AFI Fest] 25 Oct – 8 [slight]
241. What Does That Nature Say to You (2025, Hong Sang-soo) TCL Chinese 6, DCP (Friends) [AFI Fest] 26 Oct – 8 [slight]
242. Night of the Demon (1957, Jacques Tourneur) New Beverly, 35mm (Friend) 27 Oct – 8
243. Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere (2025, Scott Cooper) AMC Universal CityWalk, DCP 28 Oct – 6
244. We Are the Fruits of the Forest (2025, Panh Rithy†) Television, Screener 28 Oct – 7
245. Double Happiness (2025, Joseph Hsu^†) Monitor, Screener 31 Oct – 5
246. The Little Sister (2025, Hafsia Herzi^) DGA Theater, DCP (Actor Q&A) [TAFFF] 01 Nov – 7
247. The Fence (2025, Claire Denis) DGA Theater, DCP (Friends) [TAFFF] 03 Nov – 8
248. The Testament of Ann Lee (2025, Mona Fastvold) AC Aero Theatre, 70mm 03 Nov – 6
249. Train Dreams (2025, Clint Bentley^†) Ross House, DCP (Waititi Introduction, Director/Cast/Crew Q&A) 05 Nov – 5
250. Her Will Be Done (2025, Julia Kowalski^) DGA Theater, DCP (Volunteer, Friends) [Directors’ Fortnight Extended] 08 Nov – 6
251. Brand New Landscape (2025, Danzuka Yuiga^) DGA Theater, DCP (Volunteer, Friend, Director Q&A) [Directors’ Fortnight Extended] 08 Nov – 7 [slight]
252. The Girls We Want (2025, Prïncia Car^) DGA Theater, DCP (Volunteer, Friends) [Directors’ Fortnight Extended] 09 Nov – 6
253. Wild Foxes (2025, Valéry Carnoy^) DGA Theater, DCP (Volunteer, Friend) [Directors’ Fortnight Extended] 09 Nov – 7
254. Nouvelle Vague (2025, Richard Linklater) Vista Theater, 35mm 10 Nov – 8 [late]
255. Sound of Falling (2025, Mascha Schilinski^†) Soho House West Hollywood, DCP (Director/Cinematographer Q&A) 11 Nov – 7 [late]
256. Marty Supreme (2025, Josh Safdie†) DGA Theater, DCP (Friend, Director/Cast Q&A) 13 Nov – 8
257. +Breathless (1960, Jean-Luc Godard) Vista Theater, 35mm 14 Nov – 10
258. Pillion (2025, Harry Lighton^†) CAA Ray Kurtzman Theater, DCP (Director/Cast Q&A) 16 Nov – 7
259. The Things You Kill (2025, Alireza Khatami^) Lumiere Music Hall, DCP (Friend, Director Q&A) 21 Nov – 6 [slight]
260. The Love That Remains (2025, Hlynur Pálmason^†) Four Seasons, DCP (Friends) 22 Nov – 7
s102. Madam Butterfly (2009, Tsai Ming-liang) Television, Blu-ray 24 Nov – 7
s103. The Night (2021, Tsai Ming-liang) Television, File 24 Nov – 8
t003. 7:00 A.M. (2025, The Pitt) Television, File (Family) 25 Nov
261. F1 (2025, Joseph Kosinski) Television, File (Family) 25 Nov – 6
t004. Where the Sun Rises (2025, Physical: Asia) Television, Netflix (Family) 26 Nov
t005. On the Brink (2025, Physical: Asia) Television, Netflix (Family) 26 Nov
t006. Shipwreck (2025, Physical: Asia) Television, Netflix (Sister) 26 Nov
262. Your Touch Makes Others Invisible (2025, Rajee Samarasinghe^†) Monitor, Screener 01 Dec – 7 [delay]
263. Avatar: Fire and Ash (2025, James Cameron†) Disney Studios Main Theater, 3D DCP (Friend) 01 Dec – 7
264. Escape From New York (1981, John Carpenter) Television, File 04 Dec – 8
265. Escape From L.A. (1996, John Carpenter) Egyptian Theatre, 35mm (Friends, Director Q&A) 04 Dec – 7
s104. I Wasn’t There (2014, Sky Hirschkron) Television, Vimeo (Friends) 05 Dec – 8
266. Wake Up Dead Man (2025, Rian Johnson) Landmark Sunset, DCP 05 Dec – 6
267. BLKNWS: Terms & Conditions (2025, Khalil Joseph^) Television, Screener 06 Dec – 7 [delay]
268. Arco (2025, Ugo Bienvenu^) Television, Screener 06 Dec – 6
269. Scarlet (2025, Hosoda Mamoru†) Television, Screener 06 Dec – 7 [delay]
270. Hedda (2025, Nia DaCosta^) Television, File 07 Dec – 6 [delay]
271. Little Amélie or the Character of Rain (2025, Maïlys Vallade^ & Han Liane-cho^) Television, Screener 07 Dec – 7 [delay]
272. KPop Demon Hunters (2025, Maggie Kang^ & Chris Appelhans^) Television, File 07 Dec – 5 [delay]
273. +Christmas Eve in Miller’s Point (2024, Tyler Taormina) New Beverly, 35mm (Director Q&A) 09 Dec – 8
274. Christmas, Again (2014, Charles Poekel^) New Beverly, 35mm (Friends, Director Introduction) 09 Dec – 8
275. The Thing From Another World (1951, Christian Nyby^ and Howard Hawks) Aero Theatre, 35mm (Scholar Introduction) 18 Dec – 9
276. Gremlins 2: The New Batch (1990, Joe Dante) New Beverly, 35mm 18 Dec – 8
277. +Punishment Park (1971, Peter Watkins) UCLA Billy Wilder Theater, 35mm (Friends, Cartoonist Introduction) 19 Dec – 9
278. +Memoria (2021, Apichatpong Weerasethakul) Lumiere Music Hall, DCP (Friend) 31 Jan – 10 [late, slight; up from 9]

2025 Viewing Log

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January
Sycorax (2021, Lois Patiño & Matías Piñeiro)
À propos de Nice (1930, Jean Vigo & Boris Kaufman)
Taris (1931, Jean Vigo)
A Letter to Uncle Boonmee (2009, Apichatpong Weerasethakul)
The Second (2024, Taylor Ramos & Tony Zhou)
+Fantasy Sentences (2017, Dane Komljen)
Short Stay (2016, Ted Fendt) – 7
Saturday Night (2024, Jason Reitman) – 4
Incident (2023, Bill Morrison)
Being John Smith (2024, John Smith)
A Silent Voice (2016, Yamada Naoko) – 8
Den of Thieves: Pantera (2025, Christian Gudegast) – 7

February
That I’m Falling? (2013, Eduardo Williams)
I Forgot! (2014, Eduardo Williams)
+Breathless (1960, Jean-Luc Godard) – 10
A Portrait of Ga (1952, Margaret Tait)
Bottle Rocket (1993, Wes Anderson)
Hotel Chevalier (2007, Wes Anderson)
Castello Cavalcanti (2013, Wes Anderson)
+A Real Pain (2024, Jesse Eisenberg) – 7
Breathless (2024, James Benning) – 7
Hummingbirds (2023, Silvia Del Carmen Castaños & Estefanía “Beba” Contreras) – 6
Broken Rage (2024, Kitano Takeshi) – 8
Patrice: The Movie (2024, Ted Passon) – 5
Gaucho Gaucho (2024, Michael Dweck & Gregory Kershaw) – 6
Misericordia (2024, Alain Guiraudie) DP – 9
The Actor (2025, Duke Johnson) DP – 5
+Nine Behind (2016, Sophy Romvari)
It’s Him (2017, Sophy Romvari)
+Pumpkin Movie (2017, Sophy Romvari)
Grandma’s House (2018, Sophy Romvari)
Norman Norman (2018, Sophy Romvari)
In Dog Years (2019, Sophy Romvari)
Remembrance of József Romvári (2020, Sophy Romvari)
It’s Pink, But Is It Mink? (1975, Robert McKimson) 35mm
Easy Living (1937, Mitchell Leisen) 35mm – 8
+Still Processing (2020, Sophy Romvari)

March
The Apprentice (2024, Ali Abbasi) – 5
+Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981, Steven Spielberg) 35mm – 10 [up from 9]
Teeny Weeny Meany (1966, Sid Marcus) 35mm
To Have and Have Not (1944, Howard Hawks) 35mm – 10
Key Largo (1948, John Huston) 35mm – 6
The Wild Robot (2024, Chris Sanders) – 6
Pump Up the Volume (1990, Allan Moyle) 35mm – 8
Times Square (1980, Allan Moyle) DP – 7
Mickey 17 (2025, Bong Joon-ho) DP – 7
In the Lost Lands (2025, Paul W. S. Anderson) DP – 7
+Isabella (2020, Matías Piñeiro) DP – 8 [up from 7]
+Viola (2012, Matías Piñeiro) DP – 8 [up from 7]
+Hermia & Helena (2016, Matías Piñeiro) DP – 9 [up from 8]
They All Lie (2009, Matías Piñeiro) DP – 7
Preface to the Little Dialogue (2025, Matías Piñeiro) DP
+You Burn Me (2024, Matías Piñeiro) DP – 7
After the Rain (2021, Fan Jian) LED – 7
Black Bag (2025, Steven Soderbergh) LED – 7
A Short History (2017, Erica Sheu) 16mm
the way home (2018, Erica Sheu) DP
transcript (2019, Erica Sheu) DP
pài-lak ē-poo (2020, Erica Sheu) 16mm
birthday song (single channel) (2021, Erica Sheu) 16mm
off (I don’t know when to stop) (2021, Erica Sheu) DP
Grandma’s Scissors (2021, Erica Sheu) DP
Fur Film vol.2: mirror mirror (2022, ЯeaRflex) DP
It follows It passes on (2022, Erica Sheu) DP
False Expectations (2023, Erica Sheu) 16mm
Anatomy of a Murder (1959, Otto Preminger) 35mm – 9
+A Man Escaped (1956, Robert Bresson) 35mm – 10
+Pickpocket (1959, Robert Bresson) 35mm – 9 [up from 8]
The Iron Giant (1999, Brad Bird) DP – 7
+The Incredibles (2004, Brad Bird) DP – 8
Sorry, Baby (2025, Eva Victor) DP – 6
+Ugetsu Monogatari (1953, Mizoguchi Kenji) 35mm – 10 [up from 8]

April
Woolen Under Where (1963, Phil Monroe & Richard Thompson) 35mm
Blue Collar (1978, Paul Schrader) 35mm – 9
American Gigolo (1980, Paul Schrader) 35mm – 7
Magic Farm (2025, Amalia Ulman) LAFM, DP – 6
Invention (2024, Courtney Stephens) LAFM, DP – 8
Cent mille milliards (2024, Virgil Vernier) LAFM, DP – 7
Nightshift (1981, Robina Rose) LAFM, DP – 8
Permanent Green Light (2018, Dennis Cooper & Zac Farley) – 7
Debut, or, Objects of the Field of Debris as Currently Catalogued (2025, Julian Castronovo) LAFM, DP – 8
Room Temperature (2025, Dennis Cooper & Zac Farley) LAFM, DP – 6
Zodiac Killer Project (2025, Charlie Shackleton) LAFM, DP – 6
No Sleep Till (2024, Alexandra Simpson) LAFM, DP – 7
Happyend (2024, Sora Neo) LAFM, DP – 8
Mongrel (2024, Chiang Wei-liang & Yin You-qiao) – 5
12 Angry Men (1957, Sidney Lumet) – 6
Henry Fonda for President (2024, Alexander Horwath) DP – 9
Eight Postcards From Utopia (2024, Radu Jude & Christian Ferencz-Flatz) DP – 7
Sleep #2 (2024, Radu Jude) DP – 7
Fire of Wind (2024, Marta Mateus) DP – 8
Fast, Cheap & Out of Control (1997, Errol Morris) 35mm – 8
The Emperor’s Naked Army Marches On (1987, Hara Kazuo) DP – 9
+The Thin Blue Line (1988, Errol Morris) 35mm – 8
A Brief History of Time (1991, Errol Morris) 35mm – 6
Minamata Mandala (2020, Hara Kazuo) – 8
+Goodbye CP (1972, Hara Kazuo) DP – 8
Extreme Private Eros: Love Song 1974 (1974, Hara Kazuo) DP – 9
Predators (2025, David Osit) DP – 8
April (2024, Dea Kulumbegashvili) DP – 7
John Lilly and the Earth Coincidence Control Office (2025, Michael Almereyda & Courtney Stephens) DP – 7
Nadja (1994, Michael Almereyda) 35mm – 8
Duel (1971, Steven Spielberg) 35mm – 7
The Sugarland Express (1974, Steven Spielberg) 35mm – 8
+Devil in a Blue Dress (1995, Carl Franklin) DP – 8
Love Hotel (1985, Somai Shinji) DP – 8
+In the Mood for Love (2000, Wong Kar-wai) 35mm – 10
Sinners (2025, Ryan Coogler) 70mm – 8
Coming to Terms (2013, Jon Jost) – 8
Blue Strait (2015, Jon Jost) – 7
Fat Girl (2001, Catherine Breillat) 35mm – 9
+36 Fillette (1988, Catherine Breillat) 35mm – 8

May
DIRECT ACTION (2024, Guillaume Cailleau & Ben Russell) DP – 8
+Dog Day Afternoon (1975, Sidney Lumet) 35mm – 7 [up from 6]
+Dersu Uzala (1975, Kurosawa Akira) 35mm – 9 [up from 8]
Amiko (2017, Yamanaka Yoko) – 7
Beau Is Afraid (2023, Ari Aster) – 5
Parking (2008, Chung Mong-hong) 35mm – 8
Stranger Than Paradise (1984, Jim Jarmusch) 35mm – 9
+Minority Report (2002, Steven Spielberg) 35mm – 8 [up from 7]
+RoboCop (1987, Paul Verhoeven) 35mm – 9
+The Terminator (1984, James Cameron) 35mm – 9 [up from 8]
Mission: Impossible—The Final Reckoning (2025, Christopher McQuarrie) DP – 8
+Invention (2024, Courtney Stephens) DP – 8
Surf-Bored Cat (1967, Abe Levitow) 35mm
+Jaws (1975, Steven Spielberg) 35mm – 9
It Happened One Night (1934, Frank Capra) 35mm – 8
Hail the Conquering Hero (1944, Preston Sturges) 35mm – 8
Blue Sun Palace (2024, Constance Tsang) DP – 7
+The Master (2012, Paul Thomas Anderson) 70mm – 9 [up from 8]
Apollo (2003, Nishikawa Tomonari)
Sketch Film #1 (2005, Nishikawa Tomonari)
Sketch Film #2 (2005, Nishikawa Tomonari)
Market Street (2005, Nishikawa Tomonari)
Sketch Film #3 (2006, Nishikawa Tomonari)
Clear Blue Sky (2006, Nishikawa Tomonari)
Sketch Film #4 (2007, Nishikawa Tomonari)
Sketch Film #5 (2007, Nishikawa Tomonari)
Into the Mass (2007, Nishikawa Tomonari)
16-18-4 (2008, Nishikawa Tomonari)
Lumphini 2552 (2009, Nishikawa Tomonari)
Tokyo – Ebisu (2010, Nishikawa Tomonari)
Shibuya – Tokyo (2010, Nishikawa Tomonari)
45 7 Broadway (2013, Nishikawa Tomonari)
sound of a million insects, light of a thousand stars (2014, Nishikawa Tomonari)
Manhattan One Two Three Four (2014, Nishikawa Tomonari)
Luminous Veil (2016, Nishikawa Tomonari)
Ten Mornings Ten Evenings and One Horizon (2016, Nishikawa Tomonari)
Amusement Ride (2019, Nishikawa Tomonari)
Trafic (2021, Nishikawa Tomonari)
Magnetic Point (2023, Nishikawa Tomonari)
Light, Noise, Smoke and Light, Noise, Smoke (2023, Nishikawa Tomonari)
Rich and Famous (1981, George Cukor) 35mm – 8
One False Move (1992, Carl Franklin) 35mm – 8
The Heroic Trio (1993, Johnnie To) – 7
Tongues Untied (1989, Marlon Riggs) – 8
Mr. 3000 (2004, Charles Stone III) – 7
The Phoenician Scheme (2025, Wes Anderson) DP – 8
An Evening Song (for three voices) (2023, Graham Swon) DP – 8
+Rope (1948, Alfred Hitchcock) 35mm – 8
Fractured Friendship (1965, Sid Marcus) 35mm
+Frances Ha (2012, Noah Baumbach) 35mm – 9
Saturday Night Fever (1977, John Badham) 35mm – 8

June
The Breaking Point (1950, Michael Curtiz) 35mm – 8
Last Chants for a Slow Dance (1977, Jon Jost) DP – 9
DeadEndz (2023, Jon Jost) DP – 7
Despite the Night (2015, Philippe Grandrieux) DP – 8
Sombre (1998, Philippe Grandrieux) 35mm – 7
A New Life (2002, Philippe Grandrieux) 35mm – 7
A Lake (2008, Philippe Grandrieux) 35mm – 8
+Melancholia (2011, Lars von Trier) 35mm – 8
The World to Come (2020, Mona Fastvold) 35mm – 6
Vox Lux (2018, Brady Corbet) 35mm – 5
+Taste of Cherry (1997, Abbas Kiarostami) 35mm – 10 [up from 9]
Last Days (2005, Gus Van Sant) 35mm – 8
Ordet (1955, Carl Th. Dreyer) – 10
Day of Wrath (1943, Carl Th. Dreyer) 35mm – 10
+Clueless (1995, Amy Heckerling) 35mm – 9
+Limbo (2021, Soi Cheang) DP – 9
Escape From the 21st Century (2024, Li Yang) DP – 7
The Damned (2024, Roberto Minervini) DP – 8
The Passage (2011, Roberto Minervini) DP – 7
+The Other Side (2015, Roberto Minervini) DP – 8
Water and Power (1989, Pat O’Neill) 16mm – 9
Venice Pier (1976, Gary Beydler) 16mm
+Pasadena Freeway Stills (1974, Gary Beydler)
Ballerina (2025, Len Wiseman) DP – 6
Materialists (2025, Celine Song) DP – 6
Se7en (1995, David Fincher) DP – 9
+What You Gonna Do When the World’s on Fire? (2018, Roberto Minervini) DP – 8
Hand Held Day (1975, Gary Beydler)
Scénarios (2024, Jean-Luc Godard)
Exposé du film annonce du film “Scénario” (2024, Jean-Luc Godard)
Love Affair(s) (2020, Emmanuel Mouret) – 9
The Plains (2022, David Easteal) – 9
No Bears (2022, Jafar Panahi) – 9
Unrest (2022, Cyril Schäublin) – 8
The Eternal Daughter (2022, Joanna Hogg) – 8
Experiments in Motion Graphics (1968, John Whitney Sr.) 16mm
Poemfield 7 (1968, Stan VanDerBeek & Ken Knowlton) 16mm
Olympiad (1971, Lillian Schwartz & Ken Knowlton) 16mm
UFOs (1971, Lillian Schwartz & Ken Knowlton) 16mm
Byjina Flores (1966, John Whitney Jr.) 16mm
Binary Bit Patterns (1969, Michael Whitney) 16mm
Matrix III (1972, John Whitney Sr.) 16mm
Lapis (1966, James Whitney) 16mm
Phenomena (1965, Jordan Belson) 16mm
Samadhi (1967, Jordan Belson) 16mm
Momentum (1969, Jordan Belson) 16mm
Side Phase Drift (1969, John Whitney Jr.) 16mm
Familiar Touch (2024, Sarah Friedland) DP – 8
Measures for a Funeral (2024, Sofia Bohdanowicz) DP – 7
Afternoons of Solitude (2024, Albert Serra) DP – 9

July
+Reservoir Dogs (1992, Quentin Tarantino) 35mm – 8 [up from 6]
+Pulp Fiction (1994, Quentin Tarantino) 35mm – 9 [up from 8]
Those That, at a Distance, Resemble Another (2019, Jessica Sarah Rinland) – 8
Collective Monologue (2024, Jessica Sarah Rinland) 35mm – 7
The Abyss (1989, James Cameron) 70mm – 9
+Inglourious Basterds (2009, Quentin Tarantino) 35mm – 9 [up from 8]
+Moonrise Kingdom (2012, Wes Anderson) 35mm – 9
+Drive (2011, Nicolas Winding Refn) 35mm – 6
+Les Vampires (1915, Louis Feuillade) DP – 10
In the Mood for Love 2001 (2001, Wong Kar-wai) DP
Point Break (1991, Kathryn Bigelow) 35mm – 8
+Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989, Steven Spielberg) 35mm – 8 [up from 7]
Last Life in the Universe (2003, Pen-ek Ratanaruang) 35mm – 7
+PlayTime (1967, Jacques Tati) 70mm – 10
+Boogie Nights (1997, Paul Thomas Anderson) 70mm – 8
Eddington (2025, Ari Aster) DP – 5
Lost in America (1985, Albert Brooks) 35mm – 8
Modern Romance (1981, Albert Brooks) 35mm – 9
The Ballad of Suzanne Césaire (2024, Madeleine Hunt-Ehrlich) DP – 7
+Kill Bill (2004, Quentin Tarantino) 35mm – 9 [up from 8]
+The Little Mermaid (1989, John Musker & Ron Clements) DP – 6
+Spectrum Reverse Spectrum (2014, Margaret Honda) 70mm
Equinox (2019, Margaret Honda) 70mm

August
+The Clock (1945, Vincente Minnelli) – 10
Neighboring Sounds (2012, Kleber Mendonça Filho) – 8
Abiding Nowhere (2024, Tsai Ming-liang) – 8
No Form (2012, Tsai Ming-liang) DP
Hua yang de nian hua (2000, Wong Kar-wai)
Egg and Stone (2012, Huang Ji) – 8
Videoheaven (2025, Alex Ross Perry) DP – 8
Single Belief (2016, Lee Kang-sheng)
The Foolish Bird (2017, Huang Ji & Otsuka Ryuji) – 7
+Stonewalling (2022, Huang Ji & Otsuka Ryuji) – 8
+No Form (2012, Tsai Ming-liang) DP
+Walker (2012, Tsai Ming-liang) DP
Walking on Water (2013, Tsai Ming-liang) DP
+Journey to the West (2014, Tsai Ming-liang) DP – 9 [up from 8]
+No No Sleep (2015, Tsai Ming-liang) DP
Sand (2018, Tsai Ming-liang) DP – 8
Sleepwalk (2012, Tsai Ming-liang) DP
Diamond Sutra (2012, Tsai Ming-liang) DP
+Where (2022, Tsai Ming-liang) DP – 8
+Abiding Nowhere (2024, Tsai Ming-liang) DP – 8
Norma Rae (1979, Martin Ritt) DP – 6
Highest 2 Lowest (2025, Spike Lee) DP – 6
L.A. Confidential (1997, Curtis Hanson) 35mm – 7
+L for Leisure (2014, Lev Kalman & Whitney Horn) DP – 9 [up from 8]
The History of Sound (2025, Oliver Hermanus) DP – 5
Monkey Business (1931, Norman Z. McLeod) DP – 8
The Black Cat (1934, Edgar G. Ulmer) 35mm – 8
Preparation for the Next Life (2025, Liu Bing) LED – 5
Honey Don’t! (2025, Ethan Coen) DP – 4
Blue Moon (2025, Richard Linklater) DP – 9

September
A Land Imagined (2018, Yeo Siew Hua) – 8
+Stranger Eyes (2024, Yeo Siew Hua) – 8 [up from 7]
The Missing (2003, Lee Kang-sheng) – 8
My Stinking Kid (2004, Lee Kang-sheng & Tsai Ming-liang) – 7
Help Me Eros (2007, Lee Kang-sheng) – 8
It Was Just an Accident (2025, Jafar Panahi) DP – 8
After the Hunt (2025, Luca Guadagnino) DP – 7
+Pierrot le Fou (1965, Jean-Luc Godard) 35mm – 10
The Chicken (2020, Sora Neo)
Melting (1965, Thom Andersen)
— ——- (1967, Thom Andersen & Malcolm Brodwick)
The Smashing Machine (2025, Benny Safdie) DP – 8
A Prince (2023, Pierre Creton) – 8
Eadweard Muybridge, Zoopraxographer (1975, Thom Andersen) – 8
7 Walks With Mark Brown (2024, Pierre Creton & Vincent Barré) DP – 8
Go, Toto! (2017, Pierre Creton) DP – 7
+Los Angeles Plays Itself (2003, Thom Andersen) – 10
One Battle After Another (2025, Paul Thomas Anderson) 35mm – 9
The Tony Longo Trilogy (2014, Thom Andersen)
Miroirs No. 3 (2025, Christian Petzold) NYFF, DP – 8
The Mastermind (2025, Kelly Reichardt) NYFF, DP – 8
Late Fame (2025, Kent Jones) NYFF, DP – 7
No Other Choice (2025, Park Chan-wook) NYFF, DP – 7
I Only Rest in the Storm (2025, Pedro Pinho) NYFF, DP – 7
Peter Hujar’s Day (2025, Ira Sachs) NYFF, DP – 8
The Secret Agent (2025, Kleber Mendonça Filho) NYFF, DP – 8
Sirāt (2025, Óliver Laxe) NYFF, DP – 9
Magellan (2025, Lav Diaz) NYFF, DP – 8
Below the Clouds (2025, Gianfranco Rosi) NYFF, DP – 8
Rose of Nevada (2025, Mark Jenkin) NYFF, DP – 7
Romería (2025, Carla Simón) NYFF, DP – 6
Kokuho (2025, Lee Sang-il) – 7
The Whirled (1961, Ken Jacobs) 16mm
Senseless (1962, Ron Rice) 16mm
New York Eye and Ear Control (1964, Michael Snow) 16mm
D. M. T. (1966, Jud Yalkut) 16mm
Sentimental Value (2025, Joachim Trier) DP – 6
If I Had Legs I’d Kick You (2025, Mary Bronstein) Beyond Fest, DP – 8
Dracula (2025, Radu Jude) Beyond Fest, DP – 8
+Slow Action (2010, Ben Rivers) DP – 8 [up from 7]
Urth (2016, Ben Rivers) DP
+Look Then Below (2019, Ben Rivers) DP
A House of Dynamite (2025, Kathryn Bigelow) DP – 4
Bogancloch (2024, Ben Rivers) DP – 7

October
Ed Wood (1994, Tim Burton) 35mm – 8
Resurrection (2025, Bi Gan) Beyond Fest, DP – 9
Dracula (1931, Tod Browning) 35mm – 6
+Sirāt (2025, Óliver Laxe) Beyond Fest, DP – 9
Hamnet (2025, Chloé Zhao) DP – 6
Die My Love (2025, Lynne Ramsay) DP – 4
Anemone (2025, Ronan Day-Lewis) DP – 6
+One Battle After Another (2025, Paul Thomas Anderson) DP – 9
Left-Handed Girl (2025, Tsou Shih-ching) DP – 7
Suburban Fury (2024, Robinson Devor) – 8
My Undesirable Friends: Part I—Last Air in Moscow (2024, Julia Loktev) – 8
Bugonia (2025, Yorgos Lanthimos) DP – 6
Is This Thing On? (2025, Bradley Cooper) DP – 7
Urchin (2025, Harris Dickinson) – 6
Ballad of a Small Player (2025, Edward Berger) DP – 4
Frankenstein (2025, Guillermo del Toro) DP – 5
A Private Life (2025, Rebecca Zlotowski) DP – 6
+A City of Sadness (1989, Hou Hsiao-hsien) LED – 10
Bitter Money (2016, Wang Bing) – 8
Jay Kelly (2025, Noah Baumbach) – 7
Polly Two (2018, Kevin Jerome Everson) DP
When the Sun Is Eaten (Chi’bal K’iin) (2025, Kevin Jerome Everson) DP
Daughter’s Daughter (2024, Huang Xi) – 6
Tempting Heart (1999, Sylvia Chang) – 9
Pin de fartie (2025, Alejo Moguillansky) AFI Fest, DP – 8
Yes (2025, Nadav Lapid) AFI Fest, DP – 8
The Currents (2025, Milagros Mumenthaler) AFI Fest, DP – 8
Father Mother Sister Brother (2025, Jim Jarmusch) AFI Fest, DP – 8
Dead Man’s Wire (2025, Gus Van Sant) AFI Fest, DP – 6
The Voice of Hind Rajab (2025, Kaouther Ben Hania) AFI Fest, DP – 3
Kontinental ’25 (2025, Radu Jude) AFI Fest, DP – 8
What Does That Nature Say to You (2025, Hong Sang-soo) AFI Fest, DP – 8
Night of the Demon (1957, Jacques Tourneur) 35mm – 8
Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere (2025, Scott Cooper) DP – 6
We Are the Fruits of the Forest (2025, Panh Rithy) – 7
Double Happiness (2025, Joseph Hsu) – 5

November
The Little Sister (2025, Hafsia Herzi) TAFFF, DP – 7
The Fence (2025, Claire Denis) TAFFF, DP – 8
The Testament of Ann Lee (2025, Mona Fastvold) 70mm – 6
Train Dreams (2025, Clint Bentley) DP – 5
Her Will Be Done (2025, Julia Kowalski) Fortnight Extended, DP – 6
Brand New Landscape (2025, Danzuka Yuiga) Fortnight Extended, DP – 7
The Girls We Want (2025, Prïncia Car) Fortnight Extended, DP – 6
Wild Foxes (2025, Valéry Carnoy) Fortnight Extended, DP – 7
Nouvelle Vague (2025, Richard Linklater) 35mm – 8
Sound of Falling (2025, Mascha Schilinski) DP – 7
Marty Supreme (2025, Josh Safdie) DP – 8
+Breathless (1960, Jean-Luc Godard) 35mm – 10
Pillion (2025, Harry Lighton) DP – 7
The Things You Kill (2025, Alireza Khatami) DP – 6
The Love That Remains (2025, Hlynur Pálmason) DP – 7
Madam Butterfly (2009, Tsai Ming-liang)
The Night (2021, Tsai Ming-liang)
F1 (2025, Joseph Kosinski) – 6

December
Your Touch Makes Others Invisible (2025, Rajee Samarasinghe) – 7
Avatar: Fire and Ash (2025, James Cameron) 3D – 7
Escape From New York (1981, John Carpenter) – 8
Escape From L.A. (1996, John Carpenter) 35mm – 7
I Wasn’t There (2014, Sky Hirschkron)
Wake Up Dead Man (2025, Rian Johnson) DP – 6
BLKNWS: Terms & Conditions (2025, Khalil Joseph) – 7
Arco (2025, Ugo Bienvenu) – 6
Scarlet (2025, Hosoda Mamoru) – 7
Hedda (2025, Nia DaCosta) – 6
Little Amélie or the Character of Rain (2025, Maïlys Vallade & Han Liane-cho) – 7
KPop Demon Hunters (2025, Maggie Kang & Chris Appelhans) – 5
+Christmas Eve in Miller’s Point (2024, Tyler Taormina) 35mm – 8
Christmas, Again (2014, Charles Poekel) 35mm – 8
The Thing From Another World (1951, Christian Nyby and Howard Hawks) 35mm – 9
Gremlins 2: The New Batch (1990, Joe Dante) 35mm – 8
+Punishment Park (1971, Peter Watkins) 35mm – 9
+Memoria (2021, Apichatpong Weerasethakul) DP – 10 [up from 9]

Ghosts of Pictures [Top 10 of 2024]

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As usual, I perhaps spoke a bit prematurely about a great deal in my wrap-up last year. For the first time I can remember, I switched to a different #1 within the following year; while I still adore Walk Up and look forward to revisiting it soon, it’s probably not a greater, more mysterious achievement than Pacifiction. More importantly however, I genuinely believe that as strong as 2023 was as a release year, 2024 was even better, albeit in a harder to define way. Though many do consider this a banner year for film—plenty don’t, which could be influenced by what appears to be an unusually weak premiere year—it’s refreshingly difficult to find a uniform consensus on what exactly constitutes the year’s highlights. The less charitable will argue that there’s still much more agreement than there should be, and indeed at least one of my top three can be found in nearly any respectable list, but the picture is far more murky than the past few years. For a variety of reasons, I watched a far larger number of films than I have in a long time, including many of the most obvious contenders for critics’ lists or awards consideration, which nevertheless had a largely negligible effect on my top 10. Correspondingly, there are many causes célèbres which, whether I liked them or not, didn’t really come close to even being an honorable mention: some in no particular order, Red Rooms, Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga, Good One, I Saw the TV Glow, Hundreds of Beavers, Challengers, The People’s Joker, The Substance, The Seed of the Sacred Fig, Juror #2, No Other Land, Trap, Janet Planet, and many more.

To invert the title of one of the many great films this year, many of the best films of 2024 felt like ghosts of pictures, will-o’-the-wisps whose impact was enormous even as their precise import was elusive. Of course, that describes many of the films that I naturally gravitate towards, but it felt especially notable that so many of them embraced a certain irresoluteness that aimed towards a minor key. For all their ambiguity, films like Anatomy of a Fall, Afire, and even Showing Up felt more forceful in their aims, clear highlights in their filmmakers’s oeuvres that even these following films don’t. This might just be my inherent defensiveness, even given the relative lack of consensus this year, but it was a trend that felt welcome. (This is definitely a less polemical/voluble introduction/list than last year, but that’s not meant to reflect my lack of enthusiasm for these films or this year at large, far from it.)

As always, this list is merely meant to capture my feelings about the films I was able to see at this moment in time, strictly limited to the films that were theatrically released in New York City this year.

1. The Beast. The boldest, most heart-wrenching film of the year, and the fact that it coincided with the distended development of my Nocturama Reverse Shot piece felt like divine providence. I’ve probably spoken too much about how much its tonal variance across the three parts perfectly maps onto the spirit (certainly not the letter) of its putative source, but suffice it to say that Bertrand Bonello and his brilliantly volatile lead actors burrowed into the heart of a doomed romanticism, feeling more deeply and dangerously than anyone else this year.

2. Do Not Expect Too Much From the End of the World. This, unlike a film just a few spots down this list, is the film that best sums up what it means to be alive this decade, probably for the worse. But Radu Jude’s dazzling admixture of sources, his daring willingness to not only make crass light of the workaholic hellscape we live in but to pay genuine, unflinching tribute to those it has spit out, is its own sort of tonic.

3. Evil Does Not Exist. The rare film where virtually every aspect seems to get more mysterious: its place in Hamaguchi Ryusuke’s body of work; its shifting stance on humanity and nature, town and country; its own relationship with Gift, which I had the good fortune of seeing twice this year as well. It was probably destined to be received a little more coolly than Drive My Car (little notice from critics’ groups, not making the Film Comment top 5) and I’m still not exactly sure how much I adore it. But its unerring focus, its ability to metamorphose and unsettle, is still one of the great achievements in filmmaking this year, and that’s more than enough.

4. Music. Somehow the earliest film I saw on this list (thanks to the Taipei Film Festival), but it’s still the one that confounds me the most, particularly in the way it handles its narrative. While it was perhaps too much to expect that Angela Schanelec’s recognition would continue to build upon the mild breakthrough of I Was at Home, But…, her decision to make things ever more abstruse simultaneously further developed her sense for ineffable emotions, yoked to a startling engagement with myth that enhances it as much as the plaintiveness of the songs at its core.

5. The Human Surge 3. Ironically, I actually don’t think this surpassed its predecessor in one crucial respect: while The Human Surge remains the key document of life in the 2010s, I sense a certain remove, caused both by the 360-degree camera and the deliberate murkiness of its narratives. But in every other respect, Eduardo Williams doubles down on what made that such a fascinating, generative work. It definitely doesn’t hurt to see Taiwan in the mix, and its use here, first only glimpsed briefly and then serving as the focus in what does rank for me as the greatest sequence of this decade, feels like a perfect encapsulation of the playful, unpredictable spirit.

6. A tie between Wang Bing’s Youth (Homecoming) and Youth (Hard Times). As obvious as this tie is, it’s a bit of a necessary cop-out for reasons I’ll get into below. I’ve written about the third prong of Wang Bing’s monumental trilogy multiple times already as the culmination and the greatest entry, but it’s true that the two are perhaps more interchangeable for me than that would suggest. Watching them on back-to-back days, they each possessed their own strengths: Hard Times was the most purely engaging, the most concentrated from scene-to-scene, and the interview with the worker towards the end might be the pinnacle of the project. But Homecoming, while it maybe grabbed me slightly less while I was watching it, seems to stand for something greater for itself: not only Youth as a whole, but also the experiences of these people which, by dint of its expansion in setting and personal relationships, this seems to fully capture the best. Obviously, they’re both among the essential films of the year.

7. In Our Day. One of those perfect “minor major” Hong Sang-soo’s which invariably makes it onto my lists, which doesn’t make them any less exciting or surprising to experience. Here, the interwoven narratives and the connections that they allow for is, in its own way, as exciting as Walk Up‘s, and the joy present in the simple scenes of communal eating and drinking games goes a great deal towards illuminating the strengths of his recent work.

8. Last Summer. Still haven’t seen nearly as many of Catherine Breillat’s films as I should have, but it was nevertheless gratifying to watch something so delectably in tune with its protagonist, turning every decision into something equally monstrous and sensible, even justified in the moral schema of the film. The fact that the film ends where it does, not exactly condemning its characters to their lies but also suggesting the extents to which they can bury each other, is a total wonder.

9. I’ts Not Me. Technically, Leos Carax’s immense 40-minute work shouldn’t be on this list, for the simple fact of its unusual simultaneous theatrical and streaming release. For that reason, it only played a single day in general release in New York City, and won’t feature on my top 10 release year lists by the strictest standards. But I couldn’t imagine a list of this sort without it, and because pairing it and the following entry would make less sense than placing the Youths together, it gets its own richly deserving spot here. I could say a great deal about its mischievous yet loving relationship to late Godard, the astonishing insight it provides into taboo and thorny subject matter, the beauty of its aphorisms on looking and storytelling. But what sticks with me most is the wondrous, unfairly maligned post-credits scene, an amalgam of Carax’s past work that finds the perfect balance between embodiment and artifice, the beauty of motion and the awareness of what must go into its creation.

10. A Traveler’s Needs. This Hong gets into this list on a technicality, which isn’t to downplay its brilliance whatsoever. Just as much as the other Hong on this list, this feels so much bigger than the single day that it seems to span, a series of intimate interactions that refuses to let on more about its central figure than absolutely necessary. The emotional range that Huppert’s “French lessons” engender, and how she in turn interprets them, is still one of the most mysterious things in his recent body of work, and a fascinating turn in their ongoing collaboration.

Even when expanding to eleven, that still leaves out the beautiful reflection on character and place in Zhang Lu’s The Shadowless Tower, the elegiac meta-cinematic texts of Víctor Erice’s Close Your Eyes, Lisandro Alonso’s confounding and mystical Eureka, the city/forest rhapsody of Bas Devos’s Here, and Sean Baker’s wildly heartbreaking Anora. Some other amazing, appropriately elusive works that won’t even finish off my green color-coded films: RaMell Ross’s Nickel Boys (genuinely radical image-making tied to its characters), Phạm Thiên Ân’s Inside the Yellow Cocoon Shell (the most purely beautiful film of the year), Bonello’s Coma (as strange a pandemic film as any), Jonás Trueba’s You Have to Come and See It (so wise and playful in its portrait of relationships), Mike Leigh’s Hard Truths (a tragicomedic force of nature), Payal Kapadia’s All We Imagine as Light (one of the most delightful and deserving consensus picks in recent memory), Pedro Almodóvar’s The Room Next Door (quietly the cinephile film of the year), Brady Corbet’s The Brutalist (more complex and pleasurable than even its proponents typically recognize), Mati Diop’s Dahomey (perfectly balanced and mutable), Soi Cheang’s Twilight of the Warriors: Walled In (completely rousing and textured), Joanna Arnow’s The Feeling That the Time for Doing Something Has Passed (hilariously piercing in its insights on modern arrangements), Richard Linklater’s Hit Man (best Vertigo riff of the year), Aaron Schimberg’s A Different Man (such a treat to see an American independent film with this much complexity and scale), Kleber Mendonça Filho’s Pictures of Ghosts (captures a city and its cinemas with welcome deftness), and Nathan Silver’s Between the Temples (so many of the funniest and best modulated performances of the year). May 2025 bring both just as many strong films and better results in the things and places that matter.

2024 Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards Ballot

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Career Achievement
(3) Sammo Hung
(2) Víctor Erice
(1) Nathaniel Dorsky

The Douglas Edwards Experimental/Independent Film/Video Award
(3) The Human Surge 3
(2) It’s Not Me
(1) We Don’t Talk Like We Used To

Best Cinematography
(3) Inside the Yellow Cocoon Shell
(2) Here
(1) Nickel Boys

Best Music/Score
(3) Evil Does Not Exist
(2) The Beast
(1) The Brutalist

Best Production Design
(3) Twilight of the Warriors: Walled In
(2) The Room Next Door
(1) Blitz

Best Editing
(3) Do Not Expect Too Much From the End of the World
(2) It’s Not Me
(1) Coma

Best Animation
(3) The Colors Within

Best Lead Performance
(5) Léa Seydoux, The Beast
(4) Ilinca Manolache, Do Not Expect Too Much From the End of the World
(3) Jason Schwartzman, Between the Temples
(2) Marianne Jean-Baptiste, Hard Truths
(1) Léa Drucker, Last Summer

Best Supporting Performance
(5) Adam Pearson, A Different Man
(4) Adria Arjona, Hit Man
(3) Matt Johnson, Matt and Mara
(2) Yura Borisov, Anora
(1) Sadie LaPointe, Eureka

Best Screenplay
(3) Do Not Expect Too Much From the End of the World
(2) A Traveler’s Needs
(1) The Shadowless Tower

Best Documentary/Non-Fiction Film
(3) Dahomey
(2) Pictures of Ghosts
(1) No Other Land

Best Director
(3) Bertrand Bonello, The Beast
(2) Ryusuke Hamaguchi, Evil Does Not Exist
(1) Angela Schanelec, Music

Best Picture
(3) The Beast
(2) Do Not Expect Too Much From the End of the World
(1) Evil Does Not Exist

Best Film Not in the English Language
(3) Do Not Expect Too Much From the End of the World
(2) Close Your Eyes
(1) All We Imagine as Light

New Generation
(3) Phạm Thiên Ân, Inside the Yellow Cocoon Shell
(2) Bas Devos, Here
(1) Tyler Taormina, Christmas Eve in Miller’s Point