2023 First Watches

Renewed Appreciation: PlayTime, GoodFellas, Millennium Mambo, The River, Mildred Pierce, The Host

Shorts: A Short Story, Could see a puma., The Sower of Stars, By Halves, Fire Belly, Last Screening, Oh Supreme Light, This Is My Kingdom, Newt Leaders, Three Atlas, Ginko Yellow, Birds in the Window

  1. La Cérémonie (1995, Claude Chabrol) [January]
  2. Imitation of Life (1959, Douglas Sirk) [May]
  3. L’Enfant (2005, Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne) [March]
  4. That Old Dream That Moves (2001, Alain Guiraudie) [January]
  5. Full Contact (1992, Ringo Lam) [May]
  6. The Kid With a Bike (2011, Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne) [March]
  7. Tokyo Drifter (1966, Suzuki Seijun) [February]
  8. Showing Up (2022, Kelly Reichardt) [April]
  9. Kagero-za (1981, Suzuki Seijun) [February]
  10. De Humani Corporis Fabrica (2022, Véréna Paravel & Lucien Castaing-Taylor) [January]
  11. in water (2023, Hong Sang-soo) [February]
  12. Mother (2009, Bong Joon-ho) [February]
  13. Targets (1968, Peter Bogdanovich) [March]
  14. Tales of the Purple House (2022, Abbas Fahdel) [March]
  15. Stars at Noon (2022, Claire Denis) [January]
  16. Rewind & Play (2022, Alain Gomis) [April]
  17. Stonewalling (2022, Huang Ji & Otsuka Ryuji) [March]
  18. Rosetta (1999, Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne) [March]
  19. John Wick: Chapter 4 (2023, Chad Stahelski) [April]
  20. The Blue Rose of Forgetfulness (2022, Lewis Klahr) [February]
  21. Saturn Bowling (2022, Patricia Mazuy) [March]
  22. Matter Out of Place (2022, Nikolaus Geyrhalter) [March]
  23. Both Sides of the Blade (2022, Claire Denis) [January]
  24. Where Is This Street? or With No Before or After (2022, João Pedro Rodrigues & João Rui Guerra da Mata) [March]
  25. The Adventures of Gigi the Law (2022, Alessandro Comodin) [March]
  26. Knock at the Cabin (2023, M. Night Shyamalan) [February]
  27. Full River Red (2023, Zhang Yimou) [January]
  28. Shin Ultraman (2022, Higuchi Shinji) [May]
  29. Glass Onion (2022, Rian Johnson) [January]
  30. Passages (2023, Ira Sachs) [January]
  31. Astrakan (2022, David Depesseville) [March]
  32. Kimi (2022, Steven Soderbergh) [January]
  33. Fremont (2023, Babak Jalali) [January]
  34. Safe Place (2022, Juraj Lerotić) [March]
  35. It Is Night in America (2022, Ana Vaz) [March]
  36. Titanic (1997, James Cameron) [March]
  37. Nemesis (1992, Albert Pyun) [May]
  38. Last Things (2023, Deborah Stratman) [January]
  39. A Common Sequence (2023, Mary Helena Clark & Mike Gibisser) [January]
  40. Skinamarink (2022, Kyle Edward Ball) [January]
  41. The Tuba Thieves (2023, Alison O’Daniel) [January]
  42. Warriors of Future (2022, Ng Yuen-fai) [May]
  43. Gush (2023, Fox Maxy) [January]
  44. Sister, What Grows Where Land Is Sick? (2022, Franciska Eliassen) [March]
  45. Fairytale (2022, Alexander Sokurov) [March]
  46. The Batman (2022, Matt Reeves) [January]
  47. Cette maison (2022, Miryam Charles) [January]
  48. Flash Point (2007, Wilson Yip) [January]
  49. Elvis (2022, Baz Luhrmann) [January]

2022 First Watches

Renewed Appreciation: Lincoln, Only Yesterday, Videodrome, The Killer, Right Now, Wrong Then, Spirited Away, Tropical Malady, Au hasard Balthazar, Remember My Name, Kiki’s Delivery Service, The Devil, Probably, The Last of the Mohicans, Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives, In Another Country, Irma Vep, Yourself and Yours, Rio Bravo, Oki’s Movie, Grass, On the Occasion of Remembering the Turning Gate, Mouchette, Blissfully Yours, Like You Know It All, Greed, Jauja, The Calming, The Big Sleep, Hard-Boiled, Woman in the Dunes, Nobody’s Daughter Haewon, The Woman Who Ran, The Walk, Wild at Heart, The Day After, An Elephant Sitting Still, El Gran Movimiento, Hahaha, Destroy, She Said, A Man Escaped, Diary of a Country Priest, Virgin Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, Out 1: Noli me tangere, Night and Day, The Day He Arrives, Seven Samurai, In the Mood for Love, A.I. Artificial Intelligence, Our Sunhi, Tale of Cinema, Hill of Freedom, Les Dames du Bois de Boulogne, Claire’s Camera, Sign “O” the Times, Chungking Express

Shorts: “Les trois désastres,” Dog Star Man, “earthearthearth,” “EVENTIDE,” “Z = |Z/Z•Z-1 mod 2|-1: Lavender Town Syndrome,” “Ein Bild,” “Spectrum Reverse Spectrum,” “La bouche,” “Single Stream,” “Ode to Seekers 2012,” “Kicking the Clouds,” “Impersonator,” “Z = |Z/Z•Z-1 mod 2|-1: The Old Victrola,” “China Girls,” “A wild patience has taken me here,” “Releasing Human Energies,” “Soft Animals,” “JG,” “Starfuckers,” “The Headhunter’s Daughter”

  1. Ruggles of Red Gap (1935, Leo McCarey) [July]
  2. L’Argent (1983, Robert Bresson) [September]
  3. Letter From an Unknown Woman (1948, Max Ophuls) [January]
  4. Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953, Howard Hawks) [April]
  5. The Heiress (1949, William Wyler) [April]
  6. Flowers of Shanghai (1998, Hou Hsiao-hsien) [June]
  7. Once Upon a Time in China (1991, Tsui Hark) [February]
  8. The Docks of New York (1928, Josef von Sternberg) [March]
  9. The Gospel According to St. Matthew (1964, Pier Paolo Pasolini) [February]
  10. Walk Up (2022, Hong Sang-soo) [October]
  11. Tree of Knowledge (1981, Nils Malmros) [February]
  12. Assault on Precinct 13 (1976, John Carpenter) [April]
  13. Pacifiction (2022, Albert Serra) [November]
  14. The Seventh Victim (1943, Mark Robson) [June]
  15. Once Upon a Time in China II (1992, Tsui Hark) [February]
  16. Avanti! (1972, Billy Wilder) [February]
  17. Amanda (2018, Mikhaël Hers) [January]
  18. Pom Poko (1994, Takahata Isao) [March]
  19. La libertad (2001, Lisandro Alonso) [September]
  20. The Novelist’s Film (2022, Hong Sang-soo) [October]
  21. EO (2022, Jerzy Skolimowski) [November]
  22. Deja Vu (2006, Tony Scott) [November]
  23. The Fabelmans (2022, Steven Spielberg) [November]
  24. Choose Me (1984, Alan Rudolph) [September]
  25. Face/Off (1997, John Woo) [July]
  26. Il buco (2021, Michelangelo Frammartino) [May]
  27. Trenque Lauquen (2022, Laura Citarella) [November]
  28. Who’s Stopping Us (2021, Jonás Trueba) [February]
  29. My Neighbors the Yamadas (1999, Takahata Isao) [February]
  30. Bamboozled (2000, Spike Lee) [May]
  31. World on a Wire (1973, Rainer Werner Fassbinder) [June]
  32. Malcolm X (1992, Spike Lee) [January]
  33. The City Below (2010, Christoph Hochhäusler) [February]
  34. Marie Antoinette (2006, Sofia Coppola) [March]
  35. The Conversation (1974, Francis Ford Coppola) [January]
  36. Section 1 (2022, Jon Bois) [June]
  37. Tatort: Frau Bu lacht (1995, Dominik Graf) [February]
  38. A New Old Play (2021, Qiu Jiongjiong) [March]
  39. One Fine Morning (2022, Mia Hansen-Løve) [December]
  40. Dreileben: Beats Being Dead (2011, Christian Petzold) [February]
  41. Diary of a Fleeting Affair (2022, Emmanuel Mouret) [October]
  42. Crimes of the Future (2022, David Cronenberg) [June]
  43. Hush! (2002, Hashiguchi Ryōsuke) [April]
  44. RRR (2022, S. S. Rajamouli) [March]
  45. Dirty Harry (1971, Don Siegel) [July]
  46. The People You’re Paying to Be in Shorts (2022, Jon Bois) [November]
  47. Seconds (1966, John Frankenheimer) [August]
  48. Equation to an Unknown (1980, Dietrich de Velsa) [January]
  49. ★ (2017, Johann Lurf) [February]
  50. Dreileben: Don’t Follow Me Around (2011, Dominik Graf) [February]
  51. Decision to Leave (2022, Park Chan-wook) [October]
  52. The Girl and the Spider (2021, Ramon and Silvan Zürcher) [April]
  53. Point Blank (1967, John Boorman) [February]
  54. The United States of America (2022, James Benning) [March]
  55. Wing Chun (1994, Yuen Woo-ping) [March]
  56. Miracle Mile (1988, Steve De Jarnatt) [January]
  57. La Vie des morts (1991, Arnaud Desplechin) [March]
  58. TÁR (2022, Todd Field) [October]
  59. Beloved Sisters (2014, Dominik Graf) [February]
  60. Die Katze (1988, Dominik Graf) [February]
  61. White Noise (2022, Noah Baumbach) [December]
  62. The August Virgin (2019, Jonás Trueba) [February]
  63. Carnival of Souls (1962, Herk Harvey) [April]
  64. Saint Omer (2022, Alice Diop) [December]
  65. Avatar: The Way of Water (2022, James Cameron) [December]
  66. Basic Instinct (1992, Paul Verhoeven) [October]
  67. The Traveling Players (1975, Theodoros Angelopoulos) [December]
  68. Medea (2021, Alexander Zeldovich) [March]
  69. The Friends of the Friends (2002, Dominik Graf) [February]
  70. The Cathedral (2021, Ricky D’Ambrose) [January]
  71. Queens of the Qing Dynasty (2022, Ashley McKenzie) [February]
  72. Nope (2022, Jordan Peele) [July]
  73. Blonde Venus (1932, Josef von Sternberg) [June]
  74. The Sacred Spirit (2021, Chema García Ibarra) [March]
  75. Haruhara-san’s Recorder (2021, Sugita Kyoshi) [February]
  76. The Invincibles (1994, Dominik Graf) [February]
  77. Benediction (2021, Terence Davies) [February]
  78. Red Rocket (2021, Sean Baker) [January]
  79. Armageddon Time (2022, James Gray) [October]
  80. Los Conductos (2020, Camilo Restrepo) [May]
  81. Wood and Water (2021, Jonas Bak) [April]
  82. Onoda (2021, Arthur Harari) [February]
  83. All the Beauty and the Bloodshed (2022, Laura Poitras) [November]
  84. Le Navire Night (1979, Marguerite Duras) [March]
  85. Riotsville, U.S.A. (2022, Sierra Pettengill) [January]
  86. Daisy Miller (1974, Peter Bogdanovich) [November]
  87. Drunken Angel (1948, Kurosawa Akira) [March]
  88. FIRST TIME [The Time for All But Sunset – VIOLET] (2021, Nicolaas Schmidt) [March]
  89. Return to Seoul (2022, Davy Chou) [December]
  90. Tai-Chi Master (1993, Yuen Woo-ping) [March]
  91. Polizeiruf 110: Smoke on the Water (2014, Dominik Graf) [February]
  92. Gummo (1997, Harmony Korine) [January]
  93. A Night of Knowing Nothing (2021, Payal Kapadia) [February]
  94. Expedition Content (2020, Ernst Karel & Veronika Kusumaryati) [January]
  95. Arrebato (1979, Iván Zulueta) [January]
  96. Nobody’s Hero (2022, Alain Guiraudie) [October]
  97. Human Flowers of Flesh (2022, Helena Wittmann) [November]
  98. Dry Ground Burning (2022, Joana Pimenta & Adirley Queirós) [November]
  99. Don Juan (2022, Serge Bozon) [May]
  100. The Women (1939, George Cukor) [April]
  101. Social Hygiene (2021, Denis Côté) [July]
  102. Thunderbolt (1929, Josef von Sternberg) [March]
  103. Virgin Blue (2021, Niu Xiaoyu) [March]
  104. Vengeance Is Mine, All Others Pay Cash (2021, Edwin) [March]
  105. Deception (2021, Arnaud Desplechin) [March]
  106. True Romance (1993, Tony Scott) [February]
  107. Rampart (2021, Marko Grba Singh) [March]
  108. Amsterdam (2022, David O. Russell) [September]
  109. Our Eternal Summer (2021, Émilie Aussel) [March]
  110. Relative (2022, Michael Glover Smith) [August]
  111. Aftersun (2022, Charlotte Wells) [December]
  112. Bad Girls Go to Hell (1965, Doris Wishman) [March]
  113. Petite conversation familiale (2000, Hélène Lapiower) [March]
  114. The Bling Ring (2013, Sofia Coppola) [March]
  115. Gangs of New York (2002, Martin Scorsese) [July]
  116. Will-o’-the-Wisp (2022, João Pedro Rodrigues) [May]
  117. Car Wash (1976, Michael Schultz) [September]
  118. Belle (2021, Hosoda Mamoru) [March]
  119. Ambulance (2022, Michael Bay) [April]
  120. Rock Bottom Riser (2021, Fern Silva) [March]
  121. Top Gun: Maverick (2022, Joseph Kosinski) [June]
  122. A Human Position (2022, Anders Emblem) [January]
  123. Free Chol Soo Lee (2022, Eugene Yi & Julie Ha) [January]
  124. Call Jane (2022, Phyllis Nagy) [January]
  125. Singing in the Wilderness (2021, Chen Dongnan) [April]
  126. Every Day in Kaimukī (2022, Alika Tengan) [January]
  127. Mija (2022, Isabel Castro) [January]
  128. Triangle of Sadness (2022, Ruben Östlund) [September]
  129. Three Thousand Years of Longing (2022, George Miller) [August]
  130. Wet Sand (2021, Elene Naveriani) [March]
  131. Prime Cut (1972, Michael Ritchie) [February]
  132. Play It As It Lays (1972, Frank Perry) [June]
  133. Roy’s World: Barry Gifford’s Chicago (2020, Rob Christopher) [September]
  134. From the Planet of the Humans (2021, Giovanni Cioni) [March]
  135. Werewolf (2016, Ashley McKenzie) [February]
  136. A Nightmare on Elm Street 5: The Dream Child (1989, Stephen Hopkins) [October]
  137. The Banshees of Inisherin (2022, Martin McDonagh) [December]
  138. The City and the City (2022, Christos Passalis & Syllas Tzoumerkas) [April]
  139. Bones and All (2022, Luca Guadagnino) [November]
  140. Dreileben: One Minute of Darkness (2011, Christoph Hochhäusler) [February]
  141. God’s Creatures (2022, Saela Davis & Anna Rose Holmer) [October]
  142. Jujutsu Kaisen 0 (2022, Park Sung-hoo) [September]
  143. Something in the Dirt (2022, Justin Benson & Aaron Moorhead) [January]
  144. Dear Mr. Brody (2021, Keith Maitland) [March]
  145. A Love Song (2022, Max Walker-Silverman) [January]
  146. Dangerous Game (1988, Stephen Hopkins) [October]
  147. Three Minutes: A Lengthening (2021, Bianca Stigter) [August]
  148. The Mission (2022, Tania Anderson) [January]
  149. Casablanca Beats (2021, Nabil Ayouch) [September]
  150. The Exiles (2022, Violet Columbus & Ben Klein) [January]
  151. Divertimento (2022, Marie-Castille Mention-Schaar) [October]
  152. Close (2022, Lukas Dhont) [December]
  153. Athena (2022, Romain Gavras) [October]
  154. Framing Agnes (2022, Chase Joynt) [January]
  155. Everything Everywhere All at Once (2022, Daniel Kwan & Daniel Scheinert) [April]
  156. Spencer (2021, Pablo Larraín) [February]
  157. Bardo: False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths (2022, Alejandro González Iñárritu) [November]
  158. The Whale (2022, Darren Aronofsky) [November]
  159. Babylon (2022, Damien Chazelle) [November]

2021 First Watches

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

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

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

2020 First Watches

Renewed Appreciation: In the Heat of the Sun, E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, Cemetery of Splendour, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, Certain Women, What Time Is It There?, Los Angeles Plays Itself, Two English Girls, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Spione, Transit, Phoenix, Green Snake, SPL II: A Time for Consequences, Daughter of the Nile, Legend of the Mountain, Goodbye, Dragon Inn, The Matrix, There Will Be Blood, Vive L’Amour, L’Eclisse, Nothing But a Man, The Unspeakable Act, Catch Me If You Can, The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, Once Upon a Time…in Hollywood, Meek’s Cutoff, Dragon Inn, Claire’s Camera, Bound for the Fields, the Mountains, and the Seacoast

Shorts: “All My Life,” “Le Chant du styrène,” “No No Sleep,” “Transformers: The Premake,” “Asparagus,” “Redemption,” “Night Without Distance,” “Am Meer,” “Origins of the 21st Century,” “Foreign Powers,” “The Follow,” “Labor of Love,” “Walker,” “Parsi,” “Toute la mémoire du monde,” “Point and Line to Plane,” “Joy Street,” “Vassourinha: The Voice and the Void,” “Cry When It Happens,” “The Sky Is Clear and Blue Today,” “Visit,” “Statues Also Die,” “Caterina,” “Watching the Detectives,” “Dans le noir du temps,” “While Cursed by Specters,” “Fainting Spells,” “Yudie,” “Stump the Guesser,” “Pinball,” “Temple of Torment,” “What Did Jack Do?,” “Cattle Mutilations,” “El Doctor,” “Possibly in Michigan,” “The Stranger in Apartment 9F,” “Visitations,” “Fit Model,” “La France contre les Robots,” “Jefferson Circus Songs,” “Nightwalk”

  1. Perceval le Gallois (1978, Eric Rohmer) [June]
  2. Femmes Femmes (1974, Paul Vecchiali) [April]
  3. High and Low (1963, Akira Kurosawa) [March]
  4. Mysteries of Lisbon (2010, Raúl Ruiz) [January]
  5. Beijing Watermelon (1989, Nobuhiko Obayashi) [May]
  6. His Girl Friday (1940, Howard Hawks) [March]
  7. Like Someone in Love (2012, Abbas Kiarostami) [January]
  8. The Love Eterne (1963, Li Han-hsiang) [March]
  9. Peking Opera Blues (1986, Tsui Hark) [April]
  10. The Trap: What Happened to Our Dream of Freedom (2007, Adam Curtis) [June]
  11. Yearning (1964, Mikio Naruse) [July]
  12. The Rocking Horsemen (1992, Nobuhiko Obayashi) [July]
  13. Dirty Ho (1979, Lau Kar-leung) [August]
  14. The General (1926, Buster Keaton & Clyde Bruckman) [October]
  15. Sparrow (2008, Johnnie To) [April]
  16. Pyaasa (1957, Guru Dutt) [April]
  17. Pedicab Driver (1989, Sammo Hung) [May]
  18. The Marriage of Maria Braun (1979, Rainer Werner Fassbinder) [December]
  19. Election 2 (2006, Johnnie To) [May]
  20. Fantômas (1913, Louis Feuillade) [March]
  21. Wheels on Meals (1984, Sammo Hung) [June]
  22. Throw Down (2004, Johnnie To) [May]
  23. Spring in a Small Town (1948, Fei Mu) [August]
  24. The Clock (1945, Vincente Minnelli) [March]
  25. The Wind Rises (2013, Hayao Miyazaki) [January]
  26. Drug War (2012, Johnnie To) [January]
  27. It Felt Like a Kiss (2009, Adam Curtis) [June]
  28. Zodiac (2007, David Fincher) [October]
  29. HyperNormalisation (2016, Adam Curtis) [August]
  30. Faubourg St. Martin (1986, Jean-Claude Guiguet) [April]
  31. Romancing in Thin Air (2012, Johnnie To) [January]
  32. My Left Eye Sees Ghosts (2002, Johnnie To & Wai Ka-fai) [May]
  33. Simone Barbès or Virtue (1980, Marie-Claude Treilhou) [March]
  34. The Power of Nightmares: The Rise of the Politics of Fear (2004, Adam Curtis) [May]
  35. Providence (1977, Alain Resnais) [April]
  36. Eastern Condors (1987, Sammo Hung) [May]
  37. Too Many Ways to Be No. 1 (1997, Wai Ka-fai) [May]
  38. Safe (1995, Todd Haynes) [February]
  39. Running on Karma (2003, Johnnie To & Wai Ka-fai) [July]
  40. The Golden Coach (1952, Jean Renoir) [November]
  41. Fury (1936, Fritz Lang) [July]
  42. Fourteen (2019, Dan Sallitt) [May]
  43. Dawn of the Dead (1978, George A. Romero) [February]
  44. Tabu (2012, Miguel Gomes) [January]
  45. Afternoon (2015, Tsai Ming-liang) [April]
  46. In a Year With 13 Moons (1978, Rainer Werner Fassbinder) [December]
  47. My Young Auntie (1981, Lau Kar-leung) [June]
  48. Days (2020, Tsai Ming-liang) [September]
  49. The Hypothesis of the Stolen Painting (1978, Raúl Ruiz) [October]
  50. Poltergeist (1982, Tobe Hooper) [October]
  51. Hanagatami (2017, Nobuhiko Obayashi) [January]
  52. Get Out Your Handkerchiefs (1978, Bertrand Blier) [May]
  53. Accident (2009, Soi Cheang) [April]
  54. Peeping Tom (1960, Michael Powell) [December]
  55. Chinese Odyssey 2002 (2002, Jeffrey Lau) [July]
  56. Total Recall (1990, Paul Verhoeven) [October]
  57. Beginning (2020, Dea Kulumbegashvili) [October]
  58. Lola (1961, Jacques Demy) [August]
  59. Golden Swallow (1968, Chang Cheh) [June]
  60. A Simple Event (1974, Sohrab Shahid-Saless) [December]
  61. Bitter Lake (2015, Adam Curtis) [July]
  62. The Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Movie (1979, Chuck Jones) [November]
  63. The Valiant Ones (1975, King Hu) [April]
  64. The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly (1966, Sergio Leone) [October]
  65. Starship Troopers (1997, Paul Verhoeven) [March]
  66. The Tale of the Princess Kaguya (2013, Isao Takahata) [January]
  67. Double messieurs (1986, Jean-François Stévenin) [February]
  68. Through the Forest (2005, Jean-Paul Civeyrac) [April]
  69. The Century of the Self (2002, Adam Curtis) [May]
  70. Film Socialisme (2010, Jean-Luc Godard) [April]
  71. Love in a Puff (2010, Pang Ho-cheung) [June]
  72. Where Now Are the Dreams of Youth? (1932, Yasujiro Ozu) [May]
  73. A Voluntary Year (2019, Ulrich Köhler & Henner Winckler) [February]
  74. The Bench of Desolation (1974, Claude Chabrol) [November]
  75. The Woman Who Ran (2020, Hong Sang-soo) [October]
  76. The Mouth Agape (1974, Maurice Pialat) [May]
  77. Malmkrog (2020, Cristi Puiu) [September]
  78. La Chamade (1968, Alain Cavalier) [December]
  79. All the President’s Men (1976, Alan J. Pakula) [November]
  80. Wise Blood (1979, John Huston) [November]
  81. At This Late Date, the Charleston (1981, Kihachi Okamoto) [March]
  82. Pauline at the Beach (1983, Eric Rohmer) [March]
  83. The Green Room (1978, François Truffaut) [May]
  84. Le Beau Serge (1958, Claude Chabrol) [June]
  85. Journey to the West (2014, Tsai Ming-liang) [January]
  86. The Wolf of Wall Street (2013, Martin Scorsese) [January]
  87. Metropolis (1927, Fritz Lang) [March]
  88. That Obscure Object of Desire (1977, Luis Buñuel) [January]
  89. 36 Fillette (1988, Catherine Breillat) [February]
  90. differently, Molussia (2012, Nicolas Rey) [January]
  91. Synonyms (2019, Nadav Lapid) [January]
  92. Garoto (2015, Júlio Bressane) [January]
  93. Heimat Is a Space in Time (2019, Thomas Heise) [December]
  94. Noroît (une vengeance) (1976, Jacques Rivette) [March]
  95. L’Idiot (2008, Pierre Léon) [July]
  96. Roger la Honte (1966, Riccardo Freda) [August]
  97. Michael Clayton (2007, Tony Gilroy) [June]
  98. Viva Erotica (1996, Derek Yee & Lo Chi-leung) [November]
  99. First Cow (2019, Kelly Reichardt) [August]
  100. Streetscapes [Dialogue] (2017, Heinz Emigholz) [August]
  101. Day of the Dead (1985, George A. Romero) [February]
  102. The Big Trail (1930, Raoul Walsh) [September]
  103. Blind Detective (2013, Johnnie To) [January]
  104. All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace (2011, Adam Curtis) [July]
  105. Dossier 51 (1978, Michel Deville) [May]
  106. Rosemary’s Baby (1968, Roman Polanski) [April]
  107. The Blue Angel (1930, Josef von Sternberg) [March]
  108. West Side Story (1961, Robert Wise & Jerome Robbins) [February]
  109. Uma Pedra no Bolso (1988, Joaquim Pinto) [August]
  110. Shadows (1959, John Cassavetes) [January]
  111. The Black Stallion (1979, Carroll Ballard) [December]
  112. The Strange Case of Angelica (2010, Manoel de Oliveira) [August]
  113. Vitalina Varela (2019, Pedro Costa) [February]
  114. Goodbye CP (1972, Kazuo Hara) [December]
  115. Lovers Rock (2020, Steve McQueen) [December]
  116. Monrovia, Indiana (2018, Frederick Wiseman) [September]
  117. Swimming Out Till the Sea Turns Blue (2020, Jia Zhangke) [October]
  118. Ghost Tropic (2019, Bas Devos) [September]
  119. A Geisha (1953, Kenji Mizoguchi) [August]
  120. Unstoppable (2010, Tony Scott) [January]
  121. Love on a Diet (2001, Johnnie To & Wai Ka-fai) [June]
  122. Bay of Angels (1963, Jacques Demy) [September]
  123. Viridiana (1961, Luis Buñuel) [November]
  124. A Hero Never Dies (1998, Johnnie To) [July]
  125. Labyrinth of Cinema (2019, Nobuhiko Obayashi) [July]
  126. Beduino (2016, Júlio Bressane) [July]
  127. Short Memory (1979, Eduardo de Gregorio) [November]
  128. Election (2005, Johnnie To) [May]
  129. Shaolin Soccer (2001, Stephen Chow) [June]
  130. Vénus et Fleur (2004, Emmanuel Mouret) [December]
  131. The Disciple (2020, Chaitanya Tamhane) [October]
  132. Experimenter: The Stanley Milgram Story (2015, Michael Almereyda) [July]
  133. Merry-Go-Round (1981, Jacques Rivette) [May]
  134. Tesla (2020, Michael Almereyda) [December]
  135. Bacurau (2019, Kleber Mendonça Filho & Juliano Dornelles) [April]
  136. Les Sièges de l’Alcazar (1989, Luc Moullet) [November]
  137. Other People’s Money (1978, Christian de Chalonge) [December]
  138. Women of the Night (1948, Kenji Mizoguchi) [November]
  139. Scarface (1932, Howard Hawks) [November]
  140. A Hidden Life (2019, Terrence Malick) [January]
  141. The Left-Handed Woman (1978, Peter Handke) [May]
  142. Alexandria… Why? (1979, Youssef Chahine) [December]
  143. Notturno (2020, Gianfranco Rosi) [October]
  144. The Wild Goose Lake (2019, Diao Yinan) [April]
  145. The Cool World (1963, Shirley Clarke) [January]
  146. The Boston Strangler (1968, Richard Fleischer) [May]
  147. City Hall (2020, Frederick Wiseman) [October]
  148. Bless Their Little Hearts (1983, Billy Woodberry) [June]
  149. Sibyl (2019, Justine Triet) [December]
  150. Red, White and Blue (2020, Steve McQueen) [December]
  151. Fauna (2020, Nicolás Pereda) [September]
  152. Education (2020, Steve McQueen) [December]
  153. Bloody Nose, Empty Pockets (2020, Bill & Turner Ross) [July]
  154. Perhaps Love (2005, Peter Chan) [September]
  155. Violette Nozière (1978, Claude Chabrol) [June]
  156. An American in Paris (1951, Vincente Minnelli) [September]
  157. The Last City (2020, Heinz Emigholz) [October]
  158. There are not thirty-six ways of showing a man getting on a horse. (2020, Nicolás Zukerfeld) [September]
  159. Nosferatu the Vampyre (1979, Werner Herzog) [November]
  160. McCabe & Mrs. Miller (1971, Robert Altman) [February]
  161. Grand Illusion (1937, Jean Renoir) [March]
  162. Brokeback Mountain (2005, Ang Lee) [April]
  163. An Autumn’s Tale (1987, Mabel Cheung) [June]
  164. Bound (1996, Lana & Lilly Wachowski) [June]
  165. The Arbor (2010, Clio Barnard) [January]
  166. Chasing Dream (2019, Johnnie To) [May]
  167. Mangrove (2020, Steve McQueen) [December]
  168. Klute (1971, Alan J. Pakula) [April]
  169. Like a Turtle on Its Back (1978, Luc Béraud) [June]
  170. Zombi Child (2019, Bertrand Bonello) [February]
  171. The Lobby (2020, Heinz Emigholz) [October]
  172. The Sin of Harold Diddlebock (1947, Preston Sturges) [November]
  173. Paris Is Burning (1990, Jennie Livingston) [June]
  174. A Girl Is a Gun (1971, Luc Moullet) [June]
  175. Victoria (2016, Justine Triet) [June]
  176. The Year of the Discovery (2020, Luis López Carrasco) [October]
  177. Sentimental Education (2013, Júlio Bressane) [January]
  178. The World Is Full of Secrets (2018, Graham Swon) [January]
  179. Despair (1978, Rainer Werner Fassbinder) [May]
  180. Duplicity (2009, Tony Gilroy) [October]
  181. Young Ahmed (2019, Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne) [December]
  182. Atlantics (2019, Mati Diop) [January]
  183. Gates of Heaven (1978, Errol Morris) [June]
  184. The Matrix Reloaded (2003, Lana & Lilly Wachowski) [April]
  185. Isabella (2020, Matías Piñeiro) [September]
  186. A Scream From Silence (1979, Anne Claire Poirier) [December]
  187. The Shout (1978, Jerzy Skolimowski) [June]
  188. A Girl Missing (2019, Koji Fukada) [February]
  189. Your Face (2018, Tsai Ming-liang) [May]
  190. Winter Light (1963, Ingmar Bergman) [May]
  191. Under the Skin (2013, Jonathan Glazer) [January]
  192. Fire Will Come (2019, Oliver Laxe) [November]
  193. Time (2020, Garrett Bradley) [December]
  194. The Calming (2020, Song Fang) [September]
  195. Meeting a Milestone (1989, Goutam Ghose) [March]
  196. Fear of Fear (1975, Rainer Werner Fassbinder) [March]
  197. Slow Action (2011, Ben Rivers) [October]
  198. Den of Thieves (2018, Christian Gudegast) [May]
  199. The Sign of Leo (1962, Eric Rohmer) [April]
  200. Camouflage (1977, Krzysztof Zanussi) [May]
  201. The Salt of Tears (2020, Philippe Garrel) [October]
  202. Gyopo (2019, Samuel Kiehoon Lee) [October]
  203. Her Socialist Smile (2020, John Gianvito) [September]
  204. Tonsler Park (2017, Kevin Jerome Everson) [November]
  205. Eros (2004, Omnibus) [November]
  206. Without Anesthesia (1978, Andrzej Wajda) [December]
  207. Alex Wheatle (2020, Steve McQueen) [December]
  208. Collective (2019, Alexander Nanau) [December]
  209. Da 5 Bloods (2020, Spike Lee) [June]
  210. American Boy: A Portrait of Steven Prince (1978, Martin Scorsese) [June]
  211. Ham on Rye (2019, Tyler Taormina) [February]
  212. Infernal Affairs (2002, Andrew Lau & Alan Mak) [June]
  213. A Faithful Man (2018, Louis Garrel) [February]
  214. Ikiru (1952, Akira Kurosawa) [April]
  215. Atarrabi and Mikelats (2020, Eugène Green) [October]
  216. Lust, Caution (2007, Ang Lee) [May]
  217. The Muppet Movie (1979, James Frawley) [October]
  218. Zero Dark Thirty (2012, Kathryn Bigelow) [April]
  219. In Transit (2015, Albert Maysles & Lynn True & David Usui & Nelson Walker & Ben Wu) [April]
  220. Life Without Principle (2011, Johnnie To) [January]
  221. The Human Condition I: No Greater Love (1959, Masaki Kobayashi) [February]
  222. Safety Last! (1923, Fred C. Newmeyer & Sam Taylor) [April]
  223. Undine (2020, Christian Petzold) [October]
  224. The American Sector (2020, Courtney Stephens & Pacho Velez) [February]
  225. Le Samouraï (1967, Jean-Pierre Melville) [April]
  226. SPL: Paradox (2017, Wilson Yip) [April]
  227. Some Divine Wind (1991, Roddy Bogawa) [May]
  228. Molière (1978, Ariane Mnouchkine) [December]
  229. Candyman (1992, Bernard Rose) [March]
  230. Dick Johnson Is Dead (2020, Kirsten Johnson) [December]
  231. Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker (2019, J.J. Abrams) [January]
  232. La Luna (1979, Bernardo Bertolucci) [November]
  233. Black Jack (1979, Ken Loach) [November]
  234. With Babies and Banners: Story of the Women’s Emergency Brigade (1978, Lorraine Gray) [May]
  235. The Hurt Locker (2008, Kathryn Bigelow) [April]
  236. My Brilliant Career (1979, Gillian Armstrong) [December]
  237. The Wobblies (1979, Stewart Bird & Deborah Shaffer) [December]
  238. Oroslan (2019, Matjaz Ivanisin) [February]
  239. The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3 (2009, Tony Scott) [September]
  240. Angi Vera (1978, Pál Gabór) [November]
  241. Wasp Network (2019, Olivier Assayas) [June]
  242. The Matrix Revolutions (2003, Lana & Lilly Wachowski) [April]
  243. Rosalinda (2011, Matías Piñeiro) [November]
  244. Skip Tracer (1977, Zale Dalen) [May]
  245. Alita: Battle Angel (2019, Robert Rodriguez) [June]
  246. The Maids of Wilko (1979, Andrzej Wajda) [December]
  247. The Mask of Zorro (1998, Martin Campbell) [May]
  248. Hit 2 Pass (2014, Kurt Walker) [May]
  249. s01e03 (2020, Kurt Walker) [May]
  250. Sunrise/Sunset (2019, Jong Ougie Pak) [April]
  251. Newsfront (1978, Phillip Noyce) [May]
  252. A Wedding (1978, Robert Altman) [May]
  253. Mekong Hotel (2012, Apichatpong Weerasthakul) [January]
  254. Wild Strawberries (1957, Ingmar Bergman) [April]
  255. But I’m a Cheerleader (1999, Jamie Babbit) [June]
  256. SPL: Kill Zone (2005, Wilson Yip) [April]
  257. Batang West Side (2001, Lav Diaz) [March]
  258. Never Rarely Sometimes Always (2020, Eliza Hittman) [April]
  259. Locke (2013, Steven Knight) [March]
  260. Langlois (1970, Eila Hershon & Roberto Guerra) [May]
  261. Best Boy (1979, Ira Wohl) [December]
  262. Daisies (1966, Vera Chytilová) [February]
  263. Enter the Dragon (1973, Robert Clouse) [May]
  264. Elevator to the Gallows (1958, Louis Malle) [May]
  265. The Eight Hundred (2020, Guan Hu) [October]
  266. 3 Idiots (2009, Rajkumar Hirani) [September]
  267. They Are Their Own Gifts (1978, Lucille Rhodes & Margaret Murphy) [May]
  268. Ema (2019, Pablo Larraín) [May]
  269. The Body Remembers When the World Broke Open (2019, Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers & Kathleen Hepburn) [June]
  270. The Miracle of the Wolves (1924, Raymond Bernard) [June]
  271. American Psycho (2000, Mary Harron) [March]
  272. The Europeans (1979, James Ivory) [December]
  273. Fight Club (1999, David Fincher) [March]
  274. 6 Underground (2019, Michael Bay) [July]
  275. Greenland (2020, Ric Roman Waugh) [November]
  276. Gamer (2009, Mark Neveldine & Brian Taylor) [March]
  277. The Apple Game (1977, Vera Chytilová) [May]
  278. The Way of the Dragon (1972, Bruce Lee) [June]
  279. To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before (2018, Susan Johnson) [February]
  280. I’m Thinking of Ending Things (2020, Charlie Kaufman) [December]
  281. Bloodbrothers (1978, Robert Mulligan) [May]
  282. My First Film (2018, Zia Anger) [May]
  283. Hamilton (2020, Thomas Kail) [July]
  284. Mulan (2020, Niki Caro) [September]

2019 First Watches

Renewed Appreciation: The Assassin, Blue Velvet, Blackhat, Death by Hanging, Last Year at Marienbad, Hiroshima mon amour, The Fate of Lee Khan, Days of Being Wild, The American Friend, Breathless, The Grand Budapest Hotel, Eyes Wide Shut, Muriel, or the Time of Return, Do the Right Thing, Badlands, The Heartbreak Kid, Frances Ha, Mountains May Depart, Xala, A Woman Under the Influence, As Tears Go By, Happy Hour, Office, The Rules of the Game, In the Realm of the Senses, Cruel Story of Youth, Chocolat, Nanook of the North, Inherent Vice, Carol, Late Spring, Happy Together

Shorts: “Serene Velocity,” “The Musketeers of Pig Alley,” “When It Rains,” “Shakti,” “Fireworks,” “Arnulf Rainer,” “The Hedonists,” “Rose Hobart,” “Castro Street,” “Prelude: Dog Star Man,” “The Mammals of Victoria,” “Hold Me While I’m Naked,” “Secret Goldfish,” “Cry Me a River,” “Rain,” “The Birth of Magellan: Cadenza I,” “The Bakery Girl of Monceau,” “Borom Sarret,” “Something Good – Negro Kiss,” “Ménilmontant,” “Reflections on Black”, “Radio Dynamics,” “Machorka-Muff,” “Ears, Nose and Throat,” “Comingled Containers,” “The Poet and Singer,” “Yggdrasill: Whose Roots Are Stars in the Human Mind,” “Ballet mécanique”, “Liberty,” “Introduction to Arnold Schoenberg’s ‘Accompaniment to a Cinematographic Scene'”, “Round Seven,” “Twelve Tales Told,” “Infinite Doors,” “From These Roots,” “The Trembling Giant,” “Oscar at 8903 Empire,” “Antoine and Colette,” “The Unchanging Sea,” “Tokyo March,” “Wong Sinsaang,” “Veslemøy’s Song,” “Rams 23 Blue Bears 21,” “La Soufrière,” “Pasadena Freeway Stills,” “Ada Kaleh,” “Taprobana,” “The Life and Death of 9413, a Hollywood Extra,” “Brumes d’automne,” “Film perduto,” “Kid Auto Races at Venice,” “The Bridegroom, the Actress, and the Pimp”

  1. Céline and Julie Go Boating (1974, Jacques Rivette) [February]
  2. La Flor (2018, Mariano Llinás) [June]
  3. Stray Dogs (2013, Tsai Ming-liang) [October]
  4. The Testament of Dr. Mabuse (1933, Fritz Lang) [July]
  5. The Awful Truth (1937, Leo McCarey) [June]
  6. The Mother and the Whore (1973, Jean Eustache) [January]
  7. Mahjong (1996, Edward Yang) [October]
  8. A City of Sadness (1989, Hou Hsiao-hsien) [October]
  9. The End of Evangelion (1997, Hideaki Anno) [July]
  10. Syndromes and a Century (2006, Apichatpong Weerasethakul) [July]
  11. India Song (1975, Marguerite Duras) [April]
  12. Asako I & II (2018, Ryusuke Hamaguchi) [August]
  13. Out 1: Spectre (1972, Jacques Rivette) [February]
  14. A Confucian Confusion (1994, Edward Yang) [August]
  15. Martin Eden (2019, Pietro Marcello) [November]
  16. La Collectionneuse (1967, Eric Rohmer) [August]
  17. Certified Copy (2010, Abbas Kiarostami) [September]
  18. I Heard You Paint Houses (2019, Martin Scorsese) [November]
  19. Night and Day (2008, Hong Sang-soo) [October]
  20. Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives (2010, Apichatpong Weerasethakul) [September]
  21. Moses und Aron (1975, Jean-Marie Straub & Danièle Huillet) [March]
  22. Don’t Go Breaking My Heart (2011, Johnnie To) [July]
  23. Pulse (2001, Kiyoshi Kurosawa) [October]
  24. Don’t Go Breaking My Heart 2 (2014, Johnnie To) [August]
  25. Dr. Mabuse, the Gambler (1922, Fritz Lang) [January]
  26. Fort Apache (1948, John Ford) [March]
  27. Bullet in the Head (1990, John Woo) [October]
  28. A Day in the Country (1936, Jean Renoir) [June]
  29. Lancelot du Lac (1974, Robert Bresson) [February]
  30. Goodbye to Language (2014, Jean-Luc Godard) [March]
  31. Naked (1993, Mike Leigh) [April]
  32. To the Ends of the Earth (2019, Kiyoshi Kurosawa) [November]
  33. Duelle (une quarantaine) (1976, Jacques Rivette) [May]
  34. The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant (1972, Rainer Werner Fassbinder) [January]
  35. Bound for the Fields, the Mountains, and the Seacoast (1986, Nobuhiko Obayashi) [February]
  36. Transit (2018, Christian Petzold) [March]
  37. The Marquise of O… (1976, Eric Rohmer) [May]
  38. 35 Shots of Rum (2008, Claire Denis) [April]
  39. I Walked With a Zombie (1943, Jacques Tourneur) [September]
  40. Claire’s Knee (1970, Eric Rohmer) [August]
  41. Sátántangó (1994, Béla Tarr) [October]
  42. The Devil, Probably (1977, Robert Bresson) [December]
  43. Strange Days (1995, Kathryn Bigelow) [May]
  44. Grass (2018, Hong Sang-soo) [April]
  45. Gone Girl (2014, David Fincher) [August]
  46. Man With a Movie Camera (1929, Dziga Vertov) [January]
  47. Greed (1924, Erich von Stroheim) [September]
  48. The Quiet Man (1952, John Ford) [March]
  49. Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom (1975, Pier Paolo Pasolini) [December]
  50. The 1000 Eyes of Dr. Mabuse (1960, Fritz Lang) [December]
  51. Parasite (2019, Bong Joon-ho) [October]
  52. Diary of a Country Priest (1951, Robert Bresson) [August]
  53. The Princess of France (2014, Matías Piñeiro) [July]
  54. Listen Up Philip (2014, Alex Ross Perry) [April]
  55. High Life (2018, Claire Denis) [April]
  56. Gohatto (1999, Nagisa Oshima) [March]
  57. His Motorbike, Her Island (1986, Nobuhiko Obayashi) [August]
  58. Speed Racer (2008, Lana & Lilly Wachowski) [July]
  59. Police Story (1985, Jackie Chan) [February]
  60. Jauja (2014, Lisandro Alonso) [November]
  61. Nomad (1982, Patrick Tam) [August]
  62. Earth (1930, Alexander Dovzhenko) [October]
  63. Tale of Cinema (2005, Hong Sang-soo) [August]
  64. The Sweet Hereafter (1997, Atom Egoyan) [January]
  65. Bastards (2013, Claire Denis) [April]
  66. This Is Not a Film (2011, Jafar Panahi & Mojtaba Mirtahmasb) [September]
  67. Dangerous Encounters – First Kind (1980, Tsui Hark) [April]
  68. Uncut Gems (2019, Josh & Benny Safdie) [December]
  69. Raining in the Mountain (1979, King Hu) [October]
  70. Secrets & Lies (1996, Mike Leigh) [April]
  71. Her Smell (2018, Alex Ross Perry) [April]
  72. Woman on the Beach (2006, Hong Sang-soo) [August]
  73. Oki’s Movie (2010, Hong Sang-soo) [March]
  74. La Rupture (1970, Claude Chabrol) [January]
  75. In My Room (2018, Ulrich Köhler) [September]
  76. I Was at Home, But… (2019, Angela Schanelec) [November]
  77. School on Fire (1988, Ringo Lam) [April]
  78. Vera Drake (2004, Mike Leigh) [April]
  79. Cléo From 5 to 7 (1962, Agnès Varda) [March]
  80. I Don’t Want to Sleep Alone (2006, Tsai Ming-liang) [July]
  81. Underground (1995, Emir Kusturica) [February]
  82. Paris Belongs to Us (1961, Jacques Rivette) [February]
  83. Dersu Uzala (1975, Akira Kurosawa) [May]
  84. Just Before Nightfall (1971, Claude Chabrol) [January]
  85. Too Early/Too Late (1982, Jean-Marie Straub & Danièle Huillet) [August]
  86. The Strange Little Cat (2013, Ramon Zürcher) [July]
  87. All That Heaven Allows (1955, Douglas Sirk) [February]
  88. An Elephant Sitting Still (2018, Hu Bo) [April]
  89. Two Shots Fired (2014, Martín Rejtman) [November]
  90. Killer of Sheep (1977, Charles Burnett) [March]
  91. Stavisky… (1974, Alain Resnais) [February]
  92. The Image Book (2018, Jean-Luc Godard) [February]
  93. Marriage Story (2019, Noah Baumbach) [November]
  94. Make Way for Tomorrow (1937, Leo McCarey) [August]
  95. The Ghost Writer (2010, Roman Polanski) [August]
  96. Stagecoach (1939, John Ford) [September]
  97. Like You Know It All (2009, Hong Sang-soo) [June]
  98. Friday Night (2002, Claire Denis) [April]
  99. Simple Men (1992, Hal Hartley) [April]
  100. The Ceremony (1971, Nagisa Oshima) [May]
  101. The Color Wheel (2011, Alex Ross Perry) [April]
  102. House (1977, Nobuhiko Obayashi) [October]
  103. The Wayward Cloud (2005, Tsai Ming-liang) [May]
  104. Memories of Murder (2003, Bong Joon-ho) [October]
  105. La Chienne (1931, Jean Renoir) [March]
  106. Mean Streets (1973, Martin Scorsese) [January]
  107. Testament (1983, Lynne Littman) [February]
  108. Female Trouble (1974, John Waters) [June]
  109. Goodbye South, Goodbye (1996, Hou Hsiao-hsien) [June]
  110. Fox and His Friends (1975, Rainer Werner Fassbinder) [March]
  111. The Traitor (2019, Marco Bellocchio) [November]
  112. Face (2009, Tsai Ming-liang) [August]
  113. You Ain’t Seen Nothin’ Yet (2012, Alain Resnais) [November]
  114. Berlin Express (1948, Jacques Tourneur) [July]
  115. Born in Flames (1983, Lizzie Borden) [May]
  116. Only Yesterday (1933, John M. Stahl) [April]
  117. Dragnet Girl (1933, Yasujiro Ozu) [March]
  118. The Loneliest Planet (2011, Julia Loktev) [August]
  119. Cruising (1980, William Friedkin) [June]
  120. Once Upon a Time…in Hollywood (2019, Quentin Tarantino) [July]
  121. Coherence (2013, James Ward Byrkit) [August]
  122. Day for Night (1973, François Truffaut) [January]
  123. Yojimbo (1961, Akira Kuorsawa) [September]
  124. The Dreamed Path (2016, Angela Schanelec) [April]
  125. From the Clouds to the Resistance (1979, Jean-Marie Straub & Danièle Huillet) [August]
  126. Sérail (1976, Eduardo de Gregorio) [May]
  127. The Whistlers (2019, Corneliu Porumboiu) [November]
  128. Pink Flamingos (1972, John Waters) [June]
  129. Little Women (2019, Greta Gerwig) [December]
  130. Pola X (1999, Leos Carax) [June]
  131. Harlan County, U.S.A. (1976, Barbara Kopple) [May]
  132. Liebelei (1933, Max Ophuls) [February]
  133. One Sings, the Other Doesn’t (1977, Agnès Varda) [November]
  134. Andrei Rublev (1966, Andrei Tarkovsky) [January]
  135. Pickpocket (1959, Robert Bresson) [September]
  136. Liberté (2019, Albert Serra) [November]
  137. Belle de Jour (1967, Luis Buñuel) [May]
  138. The Midnight After (2014, Fruit Chan) [December]
  139. Barbara (2012, Christian Petzold) [August]
  140. Le Camion (1977, Marguerite Duras) [December]
  141. Les Dames du Bois de Boulogne (1945, Robert Bresson) [July]
  142. The Phantom of Liberty (1974, Luis Buñuel) [February]
  143. Golden Exits (2017, Alex Ross Perry) [April]
  144. Day Night Day Night (2006, Julia Loktev) [July]
  145. Small Change (1976, François Truffaut) [May]
  146. What You Gonna Do When the World’s on Fire? (2018, Roberto Minervini) [September]
  147. History Lessons (1972, Jean-Marie Straub & Danièle Huillet) [January]
  148. The Power of Kangwon Province (1998, Hong Sang-soo) [January]
  149. Silvia Prieto (1999, Martín Rejtman) [October]
  150. Girlfriends (1978, Claudia Weill) [May]
  151. Profit motive and the whispering wind (2007, John Gianvito) [April]
  152. The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser (1974, Werner Herzog) [March]
  153. The Mule (2018, Clint Eastwood) [January]
  154. Unfriended: Dark Web (2018, Stephen Susco) [January]
  155. Mrs. Hyde (2017, Serge Bozon) [January]
  156. Belonging (2019, Burak Çevik) [March]
  157. Pain and Glory (2019, Pedro Almodóvar) [November]
  158. Class Relations (1984, Jean-Marie Straub & Danièle Huillet) [September]
  159. Far From Heaven (2002, Todd Haynes) [December]
  160. The Day a Pig Fell Into the Well (1996, Hong Sang-soo) [April]
  161. The Revenge: A Visit From Fate (1997, Kiyoshi Kurosawa) [May]
  162. Between the Lines (1977, Joan Micklin Silver) [May]
  163. Grey Gardens (1974, Albert Maysles & David Maysles & Ellen Hovde & Muffie Meyer) [March]
  164. Alice in the Cities (1974, Wim Wenders) [February]
  165. Padre Padrone (1977, Paolo & Vittorio Taviani) [December]
  166. The Story of Adèle H. (1975, François Truffaut) [April]
  167. White Material (2009, Claire Denis) [April]
  168. Hyenas (1992, Djibril Diop Mambéty) [October]
  169. The Man Who Loved Women (1977, François Truffaut) [December]
  170. Knives Out (2019, Rian Johnson) [December]
  171. Welcome to Marwen (2018, Robert Zemeckis) [January]
  172. 3 Faces (2018, Jafar Panahi) [July]
  173. Ad Astra (2019, James Gray) [September]
  174. Bernice Bobs Her Hair (1976, Joan Micklin Silver) [May]
  175. Richard Jewell (2019, Clint Eastwood) [December]
  176. Rome, Open City (1945, Roberto Minervini) [September]
  177. Suzanne’s Career (1963, Eric Rohmer) [July]
  178. The Middle of the World (1974, Alain Tanner) [February]
  179. Omar Gatlato (1977, Merzak Allouache) [December]
  180. L’Intrus (2004, Claire Denis) [April]
  181. Brick and Mirror (1964, Ebrahim Golestan) [May]
  182. Lucía (1968, Humberto Solás) [October]
  183. Electra, My Love (1974, Miklós Jancsó) [March]
  184. The Middleman (1976, Satyajit Ray) [May]
  185. Angels of Sin (1943, Robert Bresson) [July]
  186. Fortini/Cani (1976, Jean-Marie Straub & Danièle Huillet) [July]
  187. Ossessione (1943, Luchino Visconti) [May]
  188. Infinite Football (2018, Corneliu Porumboiu) [January]
  189. John Wick: Chapter 3 – Parabellum (2019, Chad Stahelski) [May]
  190. The House That Jack Built (2018, Lars von Trier) [January]
  191. The Nasty Girl (1990, Michael Verhoeven) [January]
  192. I Wish I Knew (2010, Jia Zhangke) [April]
  193. P’tit Quinquin (2014, Bruno Dumont) [June]
  194. Buzzard (2014, Joel Potrykus) [July]
  195. The Night of the Scarecrow (1974, Sérgio Ricardo) [February]
  196. The Memory of Justice (1976, Marcel Ophuls) [May]
  197. The Death of Empedocles (1987, Jean-Marie Straub & Danièle Huillet) [October]
  198. Dark Waters (2019, Todd Haynes) [December]
  199. The Souvenir (2019, Joanna Hogg) [June]
  200. Coincoin and the Extra-Humans (2018, Bruno Dumont) [June]
  201. Us (2019, Jordan Peele) [March]
  202. Classical Period (2018, Ted Fendt) [January]
  203. Italianamerican (1974, Martin Scorsese) [February]
  204. Ulzana’s Raid (1972, Robert Aldrich) [March]
  205. Israel, Why (1973, Claude Lanzmann) [January]
  206. The Competition (2016, Claire Simon) [February]
  207. Jonah Who Will Be 25 in the Year 2000 (1976, Alain Tanner) [May]
  208. Police Story 2 (1988, Jackie Chan) [February]
  209. Tent of Miracles (1977, Nelson Pereira dos Santos) [November]
  210. The Load (2018, Ognjen Glavonic) [October]
  211. Exhibition (2013, Joanna Hogg) [June]
  212. Witness (1985, Peter Weir) [January]
  213. Trash Humpers (2009, Harmony Korine) [March]
  214. Fire at Sea (2016, Gianfranco Rosi) [August]
  215. Drift (2017, Helena Wittmann) [March]
  216. The Dead Don’t Die (2019, Jim Jarmusch) [July]
  217. Short Eyes (1977, Robert M. Young) [December]
  218. The Illumination (1973, Krzysztof Zanussi) [January]
  219. Dong (2006, Jia Zhangke) [April]
  220. El Valley Centro (1999, James Benning) [March]
  221. The Rider (2017, Chloé Zhao) [January]
  222. Tarnation (2003, Jonathan Caouette) [June]
  223. The White Storm 2: Drug Lords (2019, Herman Yau) [December]
  224. I Shot Jesse James (1949, Samuel Fuller) [July]
  225. Roseland (1977, James Ivory) [December]
  226. Enamorada (1946, Emilio Fernández) [February]
  227. Les Enfants Terribles (1950, Jean-Pierre Melville) [February]
  228. Land of Silence and Darkness (1971, Werner Herzog) [January]
  229. High Flying Bird (2019, Steven Soderbergh) [April]
  230. A Doll’s House (1973, Joseph Losey) [January]
  231. The Wandering Soap Opera (2017, Raúl Ruiz & Valeria Sarmiento) [June]
  232. Belmonte (2018, Federico Veiroj) [July]
  233. Snowpiercer (2013, Bong Joon-ho) [October]
  234. 1900 (1976, Bernardo Bertolucci) [December]
  235. Conjuring the Rolling Thunder Re-vue (2019, Martin Scorsese) [September]
  236. My Name Is Julia Ross (1945, Joseph H. Lewis) [June]
  237. Sophia Antipolis (2018, Virgil Vernier) [June]
  238. Zero for Conduct (1933, Jean Vigo) [August]
  239. Memento (2000, Christopher Nolan) [January]
  240. La Paloma (1974, Daniel Schmid) [February]
  241. Cosmopolis (2012, David Cronenberg) [September]
  242. The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum (1975, Volker Schlöndorff & Margarethe von Trotta) [March]
  243. Lost and Beautiful (2015, Pietro Marcello) [July]
  244. The Plagiarists (2019, Peter Parlow) [August]
  245. Conversation Piece (1974, Luchino Visconti) [March]
  246. Field Niggas (2015, Khalik Allah) [March]
  247. Mimosas (2016, Oliver Laxe) [September]
  248. Motherless Brooklyn (2019, Edward Norton) [November]
  249. Domino (2019, Brian De Palma) [June]
  250. The Lacemaker (1977, Claude Goretta) [December]
  251. Distant Thunder (1973, Satyajit Ray) [January]
  252. Kings of the Road (1976, Wim Wenders) [May]
  253. Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (2018, Bob Persichetti & Peter Ramsey & Rodney Rothman) [January]
  254. Unbreakable (2000, M. Night Shyamalan) [January]
  255. Minding the Gap (2018, Bing Liu) [January]
  256. Smile (1975, Michael Ritchie) [April]
  257. Citizens Band (1977, Jonathan Demme) [December]
  258. Relaxer (2018, Joel Potrykus) [July]
  259. The Giants of Thessaly (1960, Riccardo Freda) [May]
  260. Diane (2018, Kent Jones) [November]
  261. Impolex (2009, Alex Ross Perry) [April]
  262. Pan’s Labyrinth (2006, Guillermo del Toro) [March]
  263. Women (1977, Márta Mészarós) [December]
  264. Anne at 13,000 Feet. (2019, Kazik Radwanski) [November]
  265. A Separation (2011, Asghar Farhadi) [September]
  266. Stolen Kisses (1968, François Truffaut) [June]
  267. Gemini Man (2019, Ang Lee) [October]
  268. Mercury in Retrograde (2017, Michael Glover Smith) [August]
  269. Archipelago (2010, Joanna Hogg) [June]
  270. Ready or Not (2019, Matt Bettinelli-Olpin & Tyler Gillett) [August]
  271. Happy Death Day 2U (2019, Christopher Landon) [January]
  272. Hedy (1966, Andy Warhol) [February]
  273. Milla (2017, Valérie Massadian) [January]
  274. A Bigger Splash (1973, Jack Hazan) [February]
  275. Model Shop (1969, Jacques Demy) [June]
  276. Lessons of Darkness (1992, Werner Herzog) [April]
  277. Glass (2019, M. Night Shyamalan) [February]
  278. The Wonderful Crook (1975, Claude Goretta) [March]
  279. Climax (2018, Gaspar Noé) [September]
  280. Lacombe Lucien (1974, Louis Malle) [February]
  281. Did You Wonder Who Fired the Gun? (2017, Travis Wilkerson) [January]
  282. Part-Time Work of a Domestic Slave (1973, Alexander Kluge) [February]
  283. MS Slavic 7 (2019, Sofia Bohdanowicz and Deragh Campbell) [November]
  284. Bed and Board (1970, François Truffaut) [July]
  285. Honeyland (2019, Tamara Kotevska & Ljubomir Stefanov) [March]
  286. The Watermelon Woman (1996, Cheryl Dunye) [January]
  287. Knife + Heart (2018, Yann Gonzalez) [June]
  288. Love on the Run (1979, François Truffaut) [July]
  289. Toy Story 4 (2019, Josh Cooley) [July]
  290. Long Way Home (2018, André Novais Oliveira) [March]
  291. Unrelated (2007, Joanna Hogg) [June]
  292. Fausto (2018, Andrea Bussmann) [June]
  293. Riddles of the Sphinx (1977, Laura Mulvey & Peter Wollen) [March]
  294. L’Enfant de Paris (1913, Léonce Perret) [November]
  295. Kid Blue (1973, James Frawley) [January]
  296. Avengers: Endgame (2019, Anthony & Joe Russo) [May]
  297. The Assassination of Trotsky (1972, Joseph Losey) [January]
  298. The Sign of the Cross (1932, Cecil B. DeMille) [April]
  299. Allá en el Rancho Grande (1936, Fernando de Fuentes) [November]
  300. It’s My Turn (1980, Claudia Weill) [May]
  301. Réjeanne Padovani (1973, Denys Arcand) [January]
  302. Illustrious Corpses (1976, Francesco Rosi) [May]
  303. My Grandmother (1929, Kote Mikaberidze) [December]
  304. Hearts of the West (1975, Howard Zieff) [March]
  305. Silence (1926, Rupert Julian) [March]
  306. Spring Breakers (2012, Harmony Korine) [March]
  307. Crawl (2019, Alexandre Aja) [July]
  308. Autobiography of a Princess (1975, James Ivory) [April]
  309. Portrait of a Lady on Fire (2019, Céline Sciamma) [December]
  310. Old-Fashioned Woman (1974, Martha Coolidge) [February]
  311. River’s Edge (1986, Tim Hunter) [June]
  312. Heart of Glass (1976, Werner Herzog) [December]
  313. Keep It for Yourself (1991, Claire Denis) [June]
  314. The Lighthouse (2019, Robert Eggers) [November]
  315. The Land of Steady Habits (2018, Nicole Holofcener) [January]
  316. Compañero: Victor Jara of Chile (1975, Stanley Forman & Martin Smith) [April]
  317. Shirkers (2018, Sandi Tan) [June]
  318. Hot Tomorrows (1977, Martin Brest) [December]
  319. Mickey (1918, F. Richard Jones & James Young) [September]
  320. Baraka (1992, Ron Fricke) [June]
  321. What We Do in the Shadows (2014, Jemaine Clement & Taika Waititi) [September]
  322. The Farewell (2019, Lulu Wang) [July]
  323. Joker (2019, Todd Phillips) [October]
  324. Shadow (2018, Zhang Yimou) [July]
  325. Saving Brinton (2017, Tommy Haines & John Richard & Andrew Sherburne) [August]
  326. Hereditary (2018, Ari Aster) [June]
  327. Pafnucio Santo (1977, Rafael Corkidi) [December]
  328. The Last Days of Pompeii (1913, Mario Caserini & Eleuterio Rodolfi) [September]
  329. A City Called Macau (2019, Li Shaohong) [August]
  330. People’s Republic of Desire (2018, Hao Wu) [June]
  331. Roam Sweet Home (1996, Ellen Spiro) [April]
  332. Me @ the Zoo (2012, Chris Moukarbel & Valerie Veatch) [July]
  333. Hustlers (2019, Lorene Scafaria) [September]
  334. Midsommar (2019, Ari Aster) [July]
  335. Searching (2018, Aneesh Chaganty) [July]
  336. Rabbit-Proof Fence (2002, Phillip Noyce) [February]
  337. Layer Cake (2004, Matthew Vaughn) [March]
  338. In Fabric (2018, Peter Strickland) [May]
  339. Black Moon (1975, Louis Malle) [March]
  340. Booksmart (2019, Olivia Wilde) [May]
  341. Southland Tales (2006, Richard Kelly) [May]
  342. Jojo Rabbit (2019, Taika Waititi) [November]

2018 First Watches

Renewed Appreciation: Vertigo, The Grandmaster, Dragon Inn, Yourself and Yours, Pierrot le fou, Alphaville, L’Avventura, Touch of Evil, North by Northwest, Au hasard Balthazar, Jeanne Dielman, Nashville, Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation, Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol, The Last Picture Show, Jules et Jim, A Woman Is a Woman, Kaili Blues, Ali: Fear Eats the Soul, The Incredibles, The Florida Project, Collateral, Mission: Impossible, Fantastic Mr. Fox, The Day After, Masculin féminin, Mission: Impossible II, Mission: Impossible III, Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice, Goodbye, Dragon Inn

Shorts: “(nostalgia),” “Je vous salue, Sarajevo,” Arboretum Cycle, “Poetic Justice,” “Critical Mass,” “List,” “Orderly or Disorderly,” “Brouillard: Passage #14,” “A Movie,” “Standard Gauge,” “Lost in the Mountains,” “Lemon,” “Heaven Is Still Far Away,” “Listening to the Space in My Room,” “Another Movie,” “Associations,” “Six Cents in the Pocket,” “Surface Tension,” “Spiral Jetty,” “Projection Instructions,” “Tunneling the English Channel,” “Dyketactics,” “Calyx,” “Production Stills,” “AMOR,” “Der Klang, die Welt…,” “Among the Eucalyptuses,” “The Grandmother,” “Colophon,” “The Second Line,” “Autumn,” “Blue,” “Bagatelle II,” “The Suppliant,” “…A Valparaiso,” “Cyclops Observes the Celestial Bodies,” “Joseph Kilian,” “Record 957,” “Something Horizontal,” “Rodeo,” “Nine Behind”

  1. The Magnificent Ambersons (1942, Orson Welles) [October]
  2. Meet Me in St. Louis (1944, Vincente Minnelli) [February]
  3. Only Angels Have Wings (1939, Howard Hawks) [May]
  4. Late Spring (1949, Yasujiro Ozu) [July]
  5. Napoléon (1927, Abel Gance) [June]
  6. A Star Is Born (1954, George Cukor) [October]
  7. Sansho the Bailiff (1954, Kenji Mizoguchi) [January]
  8. Taipei Story (1985, Edward Yang) [January]
  9. Gertrud (1964, Carl Theodor Dreyer) [April]
  10. That Day, on the Beach (1983, Edward Yang) [June]
  11. My Neighbor Totoro (1988, Hayao Miyazaki) [February]
  12. The Hole (1998, Tsai Ming-liang) [January]
  13. Notorious (1946, Alfred Hitchcock) [September]
  14. 2046 (2004, Wong Kar-wai) [March]
  15. Weekend (1968, Jean-Luc Godard) [July]
  16. Cure (1997, Kiyoshi Kurosawa) [March]
  17. Long Day’s Journey Into Night (2018, Bi Gan) [October]
  18. The 36th Chamber of Shaolin (1978, Lau Kar-leung) [July]
  19. The Birds (1963, Alfred Hitchcock) [November]
  20. Les Vampires (1915, Louis Feuillade) [March]
  21. Seven Chances (1925, Buster Keaton) [March]
  22. F for Fake (1973, Orson Welles) [October]
  23. Hard-Boiled (1992, John Woo) [August]
  24. Tropical Malady (2004, Apichatpong Weerasethakul) [June]
  25. My Night at Maud’s (1969, Eric Rohmer) [August]
  26. Floating Clouds (1955, Mikio Naruse) [November]
  27. Out of the Past (1947, Jacques Tourneur) [July]
  28. Psycho (1960, Alfred Hitchcock) [November]
  29. Zorns Lemma (1970, Hollis Frampton) [September]
  30. First Reformed (2017, Paul Schrader) [May]
  31. Woman in the Dunes (1964, Hiroshi Teshigahara) [February]
  32. Millennium Mambo (2001, Hou Hsiao-hsien) [January]
  33. Beau Travail (1999, Claire Denis) [July]
  34. The Long Day Closes (1992, Terence Davies) [July]
  35. Marnie (1964, Alfred Hitchcock) [September]
  36. Spione (1928, Fritz Lang) [April]
  37. The Wrong Man (1956, Alfred Hitchcock) [October]
  38. Ishtar (1987, Elaine May) [June]
  39. The Bridges of Madison County (1995, Clint Eastwood) [July]
  40. Still Life (2006, Jia Zhangke) [May]
  41. Fallen Angels (1995, Wong Kar-wai) [February]
  42. A Man Escaped (1956, Robert Bresson) [January]
  43. Othon (1970, Jean-Marie Straub & Danièle Huillet) [September]
  44. Punishment Park (1971, Peter Watkins) [October]
  45. The Headless Woman (2008, Lucrecia Martel) [October]
  46. Unforgiven (1992, Clint Eastwood) [February]
  47. Happy Together (1997, Wong Kar-wai) [February]
  48. The Taking of Power by Louis XIV (1966, Roberto Rossellini) [June]
  49. L’Amour fou (1969, Jacques Rivette) [December]
  50. Je t’aime, je t’aime (1968, Alain Resnais) [September]
  51. Daisy Kenyon (1947, Otto Preminger) [July]
  52. The Other Side of the Wind (2018, Orson Welles) [October]
  53. Lola Montès (1955, Max Ophuls) [July]
  54. Sabotage (1936, Alfred Hitchcock) [August]
  55. The Lusty Men (1952, Nicholas Ray) [March]
  56. Legend of the Mountain (1979, King Hu) [January]
  57. Two English Girls (1971, François Truffaut) [December]
  58. Charulata (1964, Satyajit Ray) [March]
  59. Ash Is Purest White (2018, Jia Zhangke) [November]
  60. Hahaha (2010, Hong Sang-soo) [September]
  61. The Long Gray Line (1955, John Ford) [July]
  62. The Apartment (1960, Billy Wilder) [December]
  63. Tokyo Olympiad (1965, Kon Ichikawa) [February]
  64. Oxhide II (2009, Liu Jiayin) [April]
  65. The Grand Bizarre (2018, Jodie Mack) [November]
  66. All About Lily Chou-Chou (2001, Shunji Iwai) [July]
  67. The Lady Vanishes (1938, Alfred Hitchcock) [August]
  68. Come Drink With Me (1966, King Hu) [May]
  69. Insiang (1976, Lino Brocka) [January]
  70. Love in the Afternoon (1972, Eric Rohmer) [November]
  71. Nobody’s Daughter Haewon (2013, Hong Sang-soo) [January]
  72. Red Beard (1965, Akira Kurosawa) [April]
  73. The Immortal Story (1968, Orson Welles) [June]
  74. Moonfleet (1955, Fritz Lang) [July]
  75. We Won’t Grow Old Together (1972, Maurice Pialat) [December]
  76. Ugetsu (1953, Kenji Mizoguchi) [September]
  77. Les Rendez-vous d’Anna (1978, Chantal Akerman) [November]
  78. The World (2004, Jia Zhangke) [February]
  79. Los Angeles Plays Itself (2003, Thom Andersen) [July]
  80. Simon of the Desert (1965, Luis Buñuel) [April]
  81. Blissfully Yours (2002, Apichatpong Weerasethakul) [February]
  82. Le Boucher (1970, Claude Chabrol) [September]
  83. The Crucified Lovers (1954, Kenji Mizoguchi) [September]
  84. The Conformist (1970, Bernardo Bertolucci) [September]
  85. The 39 Steps (1935, Alfred Hitchcock) [August]
  86. One-Armed Swordsman (1967, Chang Cheh) [August]
  87. Mission: Impossible – Fallout (2018, Christopher McQuarrie) [July]
  88. The Red and the White (1967, Miklós Jancsó) [July]
  89. Applause (1929, Rouben Mamoulian) [June]
  90. What Time Is It There? (2001, Tsai Ming-liang) [June]
  91. Une femme mariée (1964, Jean-Luc Godard) [December]
  92. Hamlet (2000, Michael Almereyda) [February]
  93. Memories of Underdevelopment (1968, Tomás Gutiérrez Alea) [February]
  94. The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie (1972, Luis Buñuel) [December]
  95. Boy (1969, Nagisa Oshima) [August]
  96. Oxhide (2005, Liu Jiayin) [April]
  97. The Servant (1963, Joseph Losey) [January]
  98. 24 City (2008, Jia Zhangke) [November]
  99. Days and Nights in the Forest (1970, Satyajit Ray) [September]
  100. The Wild Child (1970, François Truffaut) [September]
  101. La Ronde (1950, Max Ophuls) [August]
  102. The Nun (1966, Jacques Rivette) [July]
  103. The Passenger (1975, Michelangelo Antonioni) [September]
  104. Trouble Every Day (2001, Claire Denis) [October]
  105. Mr. Arkadin (1955, Orson Welles) [October]
  106. Four Nights of a Dreamer (1971, Robert Bresson) [October]
  107. The Ballad of Buster Scruggs (2018, Joel & Ethan Coen) [November]
  108. Nathalie Granger (1972, Marguerite Duras) [December]
  109. Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors (1965, Sergei Parajanov) [April]
  110. Hotel by the River (2018, Hong Sang-soo) [November]
  111. Tout va bien (1972, Jean-Luc Godard & Jean-Pierre Gorin) [December]
  112. The Odd One Dies (1997, Patrick Yau and Johnnie To) [December]
  113. The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956, Alfred Hitchcock) [October]
  114. Bisbee ’17 (2018, Robert Greene) [September]
  115. Mikey and Nicky (1976, Elaine May) [February]
  116. City on Fire (1987, Ringo Lam) [December]
  117. The Fate of Lee Khan (1973, King Hu) [January]
  118. Chronicle of Anna Magdalena Bach (1968, Jean-Marie Straub & Danièle Huillet) [May]
  119. U.S. Go Home (1994, Claire Denis) [March]
  120. A Touch of Sin (2013, Jia Zhangke) [November]
  121. Kiki’s Delivery Service (1989, Hayao Miyazaki) [June]
  122. The Merchant of Four Seasons (1971, Rainer Werner Fassbinder) [December]
  123. The Koumiko Mystery (1965, Chris Marker) [April]
  124. The War Is Over (1966, Alain Resnais) [May]
  125. 2 or 3 Things I Know About Her (1967, Jean-Luc Godard) [April]
  126. The Sorrow and the Pity (1969, Marcel Ophuls) [October]
  127. Mouchette (1967, Robert Bresson) [July]
  128. Burning (2018, Lee Chang-dong) [November]
  129. Suspiria (1977, Dario Argento) [October]
  130. Zama (2017, Lucrecia Martel) [February]
  131. The Exterminating Angel (1962, Luis Buñuel) [January]
  132. Blowup (1966, Michelangelo Antonioni) [June]
  133. A Better Tomorrow (1986, John Woo) [July]
  134. Red Desert (1964, Michelangelo Antonioni) [September]
  135. “I Do Not Care If We Go Down in History as Barbarians” (2018, Radu Jude) [November]
  136. Shadow of a Doubt (1943, Alfred Hitchcock) [September]
  137. Un beau soleil intérieur (2017, Claire Denis) [May]
  138. The Crime of Monsieur Lange (1936, Jean Renoir) [September]
  139. The Wedding March (1928, Erich von Stroheim) [April]
  140. Three Colors: Blue (1993, Krzysztof Kieslowski) [April]
  141. I Am Cuba (1964, Mikhail Kalatozov) [February]
  142. The Brig (1964, Jonas Mekas) [March]
  143. My Blueberry Nights (2007, Wong Kar-wai) [June]
  144. Une femme douce (1969, Robert Bresson) [August]
  145. All About Eve (1950, Joseph L. Mankiewicz) [July]
  146. Cold Water (1994, Olivier Assayas) [June]
  147. Heaven Can Wait (1943, Ernst Lubitsch) [August]
  148. Virgin Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors (2000, Hong Sang-soo) [June]
  149. If Beale Street Could Talk (2018, Barry Jenkins) [December]
  150. Triple Agent (2004, Eric Rohmer) [April]
  151. Portrait of Jason (1967, Shirley Clarke) [June]
  152. Too Late to Die Young (2018, Dominga Sotomayor) [November]
  153. Computer Chess (2013, Andrew Bujalski) [August]
  154. Awaara (1951, Raj Kapoor) [April]
  155. Before We Vanish (2017, Kiyoshi Kurosawa) [March]
  156. The Graduate (1967, Mike Nichols) [July]
  157. Harakiri (1962, Masaki Kobayashi) [January]
  158. A Letter to Three Wives (1949, Joseph L. Mankiewicz) [December]
  159. Kung Fu Hustle (2004, Stephen Chow) [August]
  160. Magnificent Obsession (1954, Douglas Sirk) [February]
  161. Rebecca (1940, Alfred Hitchcock) [September]
  162. Isle of Dogs (2018, Wes Anderson) [March]
  163. At the Top of the Stairs (1983, Paul Vecchiali) [May]
  164. Not Reconciled (1965, Jean-Marie Straub & Danièle Huillet) [March]
  165. Destroy, She Said (1969, Marguerite Duras) [August]
  166. Unknown Pleasures (2002, Jia Zhangke) [January]
  167. Far From Vietnam (1967, Jean-Luc Godard & Joris Ivens & William Klein & Claude Lelouch & Chris Marker & Alain Resnais & Agnès Varda) [June]
  168. Nothing But a Man (1964, Michael Roemer) [February]
  169. Tristana (1970, Luis Buñuel) [September]
  170. One Plus One (1968, Jean-Luc Godard) [July]
  171. Reminiscences of a Journey to Lithuania (1972, Jonas Mekas) [December]
  172. Chung Kuo – Cina (1972, Michelangelo Antonioni) [September]
  173. Toni (1935, Jean Renoir) [July]
  174. Red Psalm (1972, Miklós Jancsó) [December]
  175. Nitrate Kisses (1992, Barbara Hammer) [November]
  176. Cowboy Bebop: The Movie (2001, Shinichiro Watanabe) [June]
  177. A Star Is Born (2018, Bradley Cooper) [October]
  178. The Round-Up (1966, Miklós Jancsó) [May]
  179. The Trial of Joan of Arc (1962, Robert Bresson) [January]
  180. Le Départ (1967, Jerzy Skolimowski) [June]
  181. Happy as Lazzaro (2018, Alice Rohrwacher) [December]
  182. Junior Bonner (1972, Sam Peckinpah) [March]
  183. Pioneers in Ingolstadt (1971, Rainer Werner Fassbinder) [October]
  184. The Seashell and the Clergyman (1927, Germaine Dulac) [September]
  185. Support the Girls (2018, Andrew Bujalski) [August]
  186. Les Carabiniers (1963, Jean-Luc Godard) [June]
  187. Dishonored (1931, Josef von Sternberg) [April]
  188. Samurai Rebellion (1967, Masaki Kobayashi) [June]
  189. eXistenZ (1999, David Cronenberg) [August]
  190. The Great Silence (1968, Sergio Corbucci) [May]
  191. Pasazerka (1963, Andrzej Munk) [March]
  192. The Burmese Harp (1956, Kon Ichikawa) [May]
  193. The Big City (1963, Satyajit Ray) [March]
  194. Children of Men (2006, Alfonso Cuarón) [July]
  195. L’Enfance nue (1968, Maurice Pialat) [July]
  196. Wanda (1970, Barbara Loden) [August]
  197. Non-Fiction (2018, Olivier Assayas) [November]
  198. Useless (2007, Jia Zhangke) [November]
  199. Wind From the East (1970, Groupe Dziga Vertov and Jean-Luc Godard and Jean-Pierre Gorin) [September]
  200. Fata Morgana (1971, Werner Herzog) [October]
  201. Shoot the Piano Player (1960, François Truffaut) [October]
  202. The Locket (1946, John Brahm) [October]
  203. Rope (1948, Alfred Hitchcock) [September]
  204. HE Who Gets Slapped (1924, Victor Sjöström) [August]
  205. The Beaches of Agnès (2008, Agnès Varda) [April]
  206. The Rise and Fall of a Small Film Company (1986, Jean-Luc Godard) [August]
  207. Liza With a Z (1972, Bob Fosse) [August]
  208. The Decameron (1971, Pier Paolo Pasolini) [October]
  209. Love (1971, Károly Makk) [November]
  210. W.R.: Mysteries of the Organism (1971, Dusan Makavejev) [October]
  211. Dil Se.. (1998, Mani Ratnam) [March]
  212. Good Manners (2017, Juliana Rojas & Marco Dutra) [June]
  213. Western (2017, Valeska Grisebach) [January]
  214. Ismael’s Ghosts (2017, Arnaud Desplechin) [May]
  215. Le Petit Soldat (1960, Jean-Luc Godard) [April]
  216. A Grin Without a Cat (1977, Chris Marker) [October]
  217. The Commuter (2018, Jaume Collet-Serra) [January]
  218. I Confess (1953, Alfred Hitchcock) [September]
  219. Three (2016, Johnnie To) [August]
  220. Adalen 31 (1969, Bo Widerberg) [August]
  221. A Family Tour (2018, Ying Liang) [October]
  222. Murmur of the Heart (1971, Louis Malle) [October]
  223. The Inner Scar (1972, Philippe Garrel) [December]
  224. The Five Obstructions (2003, Jørgen Leth & Lars von Trier) [August]
  225. Les Biches (1968, Claude Chabrol) [July]
  226. Made in U.S.A (1966, Jean-Luc Godard) [June]
  227. Mysterious Object at Noon (2000, Apichatpong Weerasethakul) [January]
  228. Design for Living (1933, Ernst Lubitsch) [August]
  229. Strangers on a Train (1951, Alfred Hitchcock) [September]
  230. Repo Man (1984, Alex Cox) [February]
  231. Band of Outsiders (1964, Jean-Luc Godard) [February]
  232. Mandabi (1968, Ousmane Sembène) [August]
  233. Notes on an Appearance (2018, Ricky D’Ambrose) [August]
  234. BlacKkKlansman (2018, Spike Lee) [December]
  235. A Sense of Loss (1972, Marcel Ophuls) [December]
  236. Nénette et Boni (1996, Claire Denis) [June]
  237. The Firemen’s Ball (1967, Milos Forman) [July]
  238. Ray & Liz (2018, Richard Billingham) [November]
  239. Cabaret (1972, Bob Fosse) [August]
  240. Love Affair, or the Case of the Missing Switchboard Operator (1967, Dusan Makavejev) [May]
  241. The Debut (1970, Gleb Panfilov) [October]
  242. Ocean’s Eleven (2001, Steven Soderbergh) [June]
  243. Roma (2018, Alfonso Cuarón) [December]
  244. Il Mare (1962, Giuseppe Patroni Griffi) [January]
  245. Diamantino (2018, Gabriel Abrantes & Daniel Schmidt) [November]
  246. The Adversary (1970, Satyajit Ray) [December]
  247. Bicycle Thieves (1948, Vittorio De Sica) [April]
  248. In Our Time (1982, Omnibus) [March]
  249. Hamlet (1964, Grigori Kozintsev) [February]
  250. Shoot the Moon Right Between the Eyes (2018, Graham L. Carter) [September]
  251. La Musica (1967, Marguerite Duras & Paul Seban) [September]
  252. The Guests (2013, Ken Jacobs) [October]
  253. The Merry Widow (1925, Erich von Stroheim) [August]
  254. Lover for a Day (2017, Philippe Garrel) [April]
  255. Suspiria (2018, Luca Guadagnino) [November]
  256. Hale County This Morning, This Evening (2018, RaMell Ross) [July]
  257. sex, lies, and videotape (1989, Steven Soderbergh) [February]
  258. I fidanzati (1963, Ermanno Olmi) [January]
  259. Results (2015, Andrew Bujalski) [August]
  260. Dodes’ka-den (1970, Akira Kurosawa) [October]
  261. The Great Pretender (2018, Nathan Silver) [November]
  262. A Star Is Born (1937, William A. Wellman) [September]
  263. Une simple histoire (1959, Marcel Hanoun) [September]
  264. Xiao Shan Going Home (1995, Jia Zhangke) [November]
  265. To Catch a Thief (1955, Alfred Hitchcock) [October]
  266. Trouble in Mind (1985, Alan Rudolph) [July]
  267. The Lady Without Camelias (1953, Michelangelo Antonioni) [April]
  268. Two Plains & a Fancy (2018, Lev Kalman & Whitney Horn) [June]
  269. Loves of a Blonde (1965, Milos Forman) [April]
  270. Shin Heike Monogatari (1955, Kenji Mizoguchi) [March]
  271. Walkover (1965, Jerzy Skolimowski) [March]
  272. Oh! What a Lovely War (1969, Richard Attenborough) [August]
  273. Shoplifters (2018, Hirokazu Kore-eda) [December]
  274. 24 Hours in the Life of a Woman (1968, Dominique Delouche) [July]
  275. Troublemakers (1966, Norman Fruchter & Robert Machover) [May]
  276. Feast of the Epiphany (2018, Michael Koresky & Jeff Reichert & Farihah Zaman) [June]
  277. Faces (1968, John Cassavetes) [July]
  278. The Favourite (2018, Yorgos Lanthimos) [December]
  279. Even Dwarfs Started Small (1970, Werner Herzog) [September]
  280. One Fine Day (1968, Ermanno Olmi) [September]
  281. Logan Lucky (2017, Steven Soderbergh) [August]
  282. Family Life (1971, Krzysztof Zanussi) [October]
  283. Show People (1928, King Vidor) [June]
  284. The Green Fog (2017, Guy Maddin & Evan Johnson & Galen Johnson) [April]
  285. Game Night (2018, John Francis Daley & Jonathan Goldstein) [March]
  286. Life Upside Down (1964, Alain Jessua) [March]
  287. Kes (1969, Ken Loach) [September]
  288. Enjo (1958, Kon Ichikawa) [February]
  289. Yesterday Girl (1966, Alexander Kluge) [May]
  290. Shakespeare Wallah (1965, James Ivory) [March]
  291. Images (1972, Robert Altman) [December]
  292. Cold War (2018, Pawel Pawlikowski) [December]
  293. Directed by John Ford (1971, Peter Bogdanovich) [October]
  294. American Dreams (Lost and Found) (1984, James Benning) [April]
  295. The Shameless Old Lady (1965, René Allio) [May]
  296. The Great Buddha+ (2017, Huang Hsin-yao) [December]
  297. The Joke (1969, Jaromil Jires) [August]
  298. Black Panther (2018, Ryan Coogler) [February]
  299. In the Midst of Life (1963, Robert Enrico) [January]
  300. The 15:17 to Paris (2018, Clint Eastwood) [February]
  301. Artists Under the Big Top: Perplexed (1968, Alexander Kluge) [July]
  302. Lions Love (1969, Agnès Varda) [August]
  303. Suspicion (1941, Alfred Hitchcock) [October]
  304. Sorry to Bother You (2018, Boots Riley) [July]
  305. Partner. (1968, Bernardo Bertolucci) [July]
  306. Elvira Madigan (1967, Bo Widerberg) [June]
  307. Accattone (1961, Pier Paolo Pasolini) [May]
  308. Funny Ha Ha (2002, Andrew Bujalski) [August]
  309. L’Argent (1928, Marcel L’Herbier) [July]
  310. King & Country (1964, Joseph Losey) [February]
  311. Gemini (2017, Aaron Katz) [December]
  312. Félicité (2017, Alain Gomis) [January]
  313. Let the Corpses Tan (2017, Hélène Cattet & Bruno Forzani) [September]
  314. Unsane (2018, Steven Soderbergh) [December]
  315. Six in Paris (1965, Omnibus) [March]
  316. The King of Marvin Gardens (1972, Bob Rafelson) [December]
  317. Duet for Cannibals (1969, Susan Sontag) [August]
  318. Sweet Sweetback’s Baadasssss Song (1971, Melvin Van Peebles) [June]
  319. Dogtooth (2009, Yorgos Lanthimos) [September]
  320. The Hunt (1966, Carlos Saura) [May]
  321. Glory Sky (1962, Takis Kanellopoulos) [January]
  322. Yara (2018, Abbas Fahdel) [November]
  323. Identification Marks: None (1964, Jerzy Skolimowski) [March]
  324. In the Name of the Father (1971, Marco Bellocchio) [October]
  325. Raven’s End (1963, Bo Widerberg) [May]
  326. Diary of a Chambermaid (1964, Luis Buñuel) [February]
  327. Dead Horse Nebula (2018, Tarik Aktas) [November]
  328. Ready Player One (2018, Steven Spielberg) [April]
  329. Last Tango in Paris (1972, Bernardo Bertolucci) [December]
  330. The Hawks and the Sparrows (1966, Pier Paolo Pasolini) [April]
  331. Ro.Go.Pa.G. (1963, Omnibus) [January]
  332. She and He (1963, Susumu Hani) [March]
  333. Before the Revolution (1964, Bernardo Bertolucci) [March]
  334. The Wild Boys (2017, Bertrand Mandico) [August]
  335. The Scavengers (1970, Ermanno Olmi) [September]
  336. 24 Frames (2017, Abbas Kiarostami) [April]
  337. Sandra (1965, Luchino Visconti) [April]
  338. Winter’s Bone (2010, Debra Granik) [June]
  339. Signs of Life (1968, Werner Herzog) [July]
  340. Ant-Man and the Wasp (2018, Peyton Reed) [June]
  341. The Spider’s Stratagem (1970, Bernardo Bertolucci) [September]
  342. Incredibles 2 (2018, Brad Bird) [December]
  343. Cam (2018, Daniel Goldhaber) [November]
  344. Solo: A Star Wars Story (2018, Ron Howard) [May]
  345. Three (1965, Aleksandar Petrovic) [May]
  346. Fists in the Pocket (1965, Marco Bellocchio) [March]
  347. Jamaica Inn (1939, Alfred Hitchcock) [January]
  348. Acid Forest (2018, Rugile Barzdziukaite) [November]
  349. Qui trop embrasse… (1986, Jacques Davila) [May]
  350. The Epic That Never Was (1965, Bill Duncalf) [August]
  351. Heat (1972, Paul Morrissey) [December]
  352. Mickey One (1965, Arthur Penn) [March]
  353. Barrier (1966, Jerzy Skolimowski) [June]
  354. Three Colors: White (1994, Krzysztof Kieslowski) [April]
  355. The Guilty (2018, Gustav Möller) [May]
  356. Fail to Appear (2017, Antoine Bourges) [April]
  357. Last Men in Aleppo (2017, Feras Fayyad) [January]
  358. Widows (2018, Steve McQueen) [December]
  359. Father (1966, István Szabó) [June]
  360. The Man Who Had His Hair Cut Short (1966, André Delvaux) [May]
  361. The Garden of Delights (1970, Carlos Saura) [September]
  362. The Rite (1969, Ingmar Bergman) [August]
  363. Barravento (1962, Glauber Rocha) [January]
  364. The Old Man & the Gun (2018, David Lowery) [December]
  365. Ava (2017, Sadaf Foroughi) [June]
  366. Hallelujah the Hills (1963, Adolfas Mekas) [January]
  367. All the Money in the World (2017, Ridley Scott) [January]
  368. Hands Over the City (1963, Francesco Rosi) [February]
  369. Quiet Please, Murder (1942, John Larkin) [February]
  370. Happiness (1935, Aleksandr Medvedkin) [August]
  371. Hunger (1966, Henning Carlsen) [May]
  372. Fail-Safe (1964, Sidney Lumet) [February]
  373. A Safe Place (1971, Henry Jaglom) [October]
  374. Les Créatures (1966, Agnès Varda) [April]
  375. Alone Across the Pacific (1963, Kon Ichikawa) [March]
  376. Memoir of War (2017, Emmanuel Finkiel) [October]
  377. Young Törless (1966, Volker Schlöndorff) [June]
  378. Porcile (1969, Pier Paolo Pasolini) [August]
  379. L’Âge d’Or (1930, Luis Buñuel) [February]
  380. Family Life (1971, Ken Loach) [December]
  381. The Cannibals (1970, Liliana Cavani) [September]
  382. A Taste of Killing and Romance (1994, Veronica Chan) [December]
  383. Avengers: Infinity War (2018, Anthony & Joe Russo) [April]
  384. The Miseducation of Cameron Post (2018, Desiree Akhavan) [May]
  385. Capricious Summer (1968, Jiri Menzel) [June]
  386. Leave No Trace (2018, Debra Granik) [June]
  387. Hugo and Josephine (1967, Kjell Grede) [July]
  388. Zabriskie Point (1970, Michelangelo Antonioni) [September]
  389. Under the Silver Lake (2018, David Robert Mitchell) [November]
  390. The Lion Hunters (1965, Jean Rouch) [June]
  391. First Man (2018, Damien Chazelle) [October]
  392. La commare secca (1962, Bernardo Bertolucci) [April]
  393. Knave of Hearts (1954, René Clément) [April]
  394. Going Home (1972, Adolfas Mekas) [December]
  395. Bad Company (1972, Robert Benton) [December]
  396. Goto, Island of Love (1969, Walerian Borowczyk) [August]
  397. When Harry Met Sally… (1989, Rob Reiner) [February]
  398. Summer Soldiers (1972, Hiroshi Teshigahara) [December]
  399. Nobody Waved Good-bye (1964, Don Owen) [February]
  400. Intimate Lighting (1965, Ivan Passer) [May]
  401. Lilith (1964, Robert Rossen) [February]
  402. The Virgin Spring (1960, Ingmar Bergman) [February]
  403. Orders (2017, Eric Marsh & Andrew Stasiulis) [January]
  404. On Her Shoulders (2018, Alexandria Bombach) [November]
  405. Tonite Let’s All Make Love in London (1967, Peter Whitehead) [June]
  406. Memorandum (1965, Donald Brittain & John Spotton) [June]
  407. All the Way Home (1963, Alex Segal) [January]
  408. A Bread Factory – Part Two: Walk With Me a While (2018, Patrick Wang) [November]
  409. The Last Clean Shirt (1964, Alfred Leslie) [March]
  410. Comrades (1970, Marin Karmitz) [September]
  411. Looking at the Stars (2016, Alexandre Peralta) [March]
  412. Siberian Lady Macbeth (1962, Andrzej Wajda) [March]
  413. Magnet of Doom (1963, Jean-Pierre Melville) [January]
  414. Atomic Blonde (2017, David Leitch) [March]
  415. Love, Cecil (2017, Lisa Immordino Vreeland) [July]
  416. A Bread Factory – Part One: For the Sake of Gold (2018, Patrick Wang) [November]
  417. 12 Days (2017, Raymond Depardon) [January]
  418. Pearls of the Deep (1966, Omnibus) [May]
  419. Madeline’s Madeline (2018, Josephine Decker) [November]
  420. Harry Munter (1969, Kjell Grede) [September]
  421. Black Peter (1964, Milos Forman) [March]
  422. Ingrid Goes West (2017, Matt Spicer) [April]
  423. Bronson (2008, Nicolas Winding Refn) [November]
  424. A Report on the Party and the Guests (1966, Jan Nemec) [July]
  425. Eighth Grade (2018, Bo Burnham) [July]
  426. Jeannette: The Childhood of Joan of Arc (2017, Bruno Dumont) [April]
  427. Born to Win (1971, Ivan Passer) [October]
  428. Love Sex Aur Dhokha (2010, Dibakar Banerjee) [June]
  429. A Star Is Born (1976, Frank Pierson) [October]
  430. Sunset (2018, László Nemes) [November]
  431. Phone Booth (2002, Joel Schumacher) [May]
  432. Salvatore Giuliano (1962, Francesco Rosi) [February]
  433. Forever Young (2018, Li Fangfang) [July]
  434. Almost a Man (1966, Vittorio De Seta) [May]
  435. You Were Never Really Here (2017, Lynne Ramsay) [November]
  436. Vice (2018, Adam McKay) [December]
  437. Crazy Rich Asians (2018, Jon M. Chu) [August]
  438. Le Redoutable (2017, Michel Hazanavicius) [May]
  439. Battlefield Earth (2000, Roger Christian) [May]

2017 First Watches

Renewed Appreciation: Lost Highway, The Day He Arrives, Citizen Kane, Hero, Kill Bill Vol. 1, Kill Bill Vol. 2, The Wizard of Oz, Clouds of Sils Maria, Dune, The Rules of the Game, The Thin Red Line, Days of Heaven, The Emperor’s New Groove, Moonrise Kingdom, M, In Another Country, Badlands, Knight of Cups, The Devil Wears Prada, The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari

Shorts: “The House is Black,” “Meshes of the Afternoon,” “Ambition,” “Trees of Syntax, Leaves of Axis,” “Green Fuse,” “Bad at Dancing,” “Theory of Achievement,” “En rachâchant,” “Intimations,” “Engram of Returning,” “Window Water Baby Moving,” “January,” “Let Your Heart Be Light,” “50:50,” “Cave of Sighs,” “The Dreamer,” “Wherever You Go, There We Are,” “Scaffold,” “Wasteland No. 1: Ardent, Verdant,” “The Algerian War!”

  1. Twin Peaks: The Return (2017, David Lynch) [September]
  2. A Touch of Zen (1971, King Hu) [December]
  3. The Terrorizers (1986, Edward Yang) [February]
  4. Rear Window (1954, Alfred Hitchcock) [July]
  5. Platform (2000, Jia Zhangke) [October]
  6. Rio Bravo (1959, Howard Hawks) [August]
  7. Goodbye, Dragon Inn (2003, Tsai Ming-liang) [April]
  8. A New Leaf (1971, Elaine May) [March]
  9. Ashes of Time (1994, Wong Kar-wai) [October]
  10. The Tree of Life (2011, Terrence Malick) [April]
  11. Silence (2016, Martin Scorsese) [January]
  12. The New World (2005, Terrence Malick) [April]
  13. Before Sunset (2004, Richard Linklater) [March]
  14. Surviving Desire (1991, Hal Hartley) [October]
  15. Do the Right Thing (1989, Spike Lee) [September]
  16. The Unbelievable Truth (1989, Hal Hartley) [June]
  17. Before Midnight (2013, Richard Linklater) [March]
  18. The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974, Tobe Hooper) [October]
  19. The Big Sleep (1946, Howard Hawks) [September]
  20. The River (1997, Tsai Ming-liang) [October]
  21. Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977, Steven Spielberg) [November]
  22. Brief Encounter (1945, David Lean) [September]
  23. Rebel Without a Cause (1955, Nicholas Ray) [March]
  24. Taste of Cherry (1997, Abbas Kiarostami) [June]
  25. Toni Erdmann (2016, Maren Ade) [February]
  26. Manakamana (2013, Stephanie Spray & Pacho Velez) [August]
  27. Clueless (1995, Amy Heckerling) [September]
  28. Cat People (1942, Jacques Tourneur) [October]
  29. Stalker (1979, Andrei Tarkovsky) [June]
  30. The Green Ray (1986, Eric Rohmer) [August]
  31. An Autumn Afternoon (1962, Yasujiro Ozu) [May]
  32. Yourself and Yours (2016, Hong Sang-soo) [May]
  33. Muriel, or the Time of Return (1963, Alain Resnais) [December]
  34. On the Beach at Night Alone (2017, Hong Sang-soo) [October]
  35. Hill of Freedom (2014, Hong Sang-soo) [February]
  36. Sherlock Jr. (1924, Buster Keaton) [October]
  37. The Thing (1982, John Carpenter) [October]
  38. Trouble in Paradise (1932, Ernst Lubitsch) [March]
  39. Tabu (1931, F.W. Murnau) [June]
  40. The War Game (1965, Peter Watkins) [November]
  41. Happy Hour (2015, Ryusuke Hamaguchi) [January]
  42. Something Wild (1986, Jonathan Demme) [May]
  43. Anatahan (1953, Josef von Sternberg) [March]
  44. Holiday (1938, George Cukor) [September]
  45. Two Lovers (2008, James Gray) [April]
  46. Detour (1945, Edgar G. Ulmer) [May]
  47. Vive L’Amour (1994, Tsai Ming-liang) [July]
  48. Historias extraordinarias (2008, Mariano Llinás) [September]
  49. Exiled (2006, Johnnie To) [November]
  50. Night of the Living Dead (1968, George A. Romero) [October]
  51. The Goddess (1934, Wu Yonggang) [April]
  52. To the Wonder (2012, Terrence Malick) [June]
  53. La Ciénaga (2001, Lucrecia Martel) [November]
  54. The Death of Mr. Lazarescu (2005, Cristi Puiu) [November]
  55. The Work (2017, Jairus McLeary and Gethin Aldous) [December]
  56. Green Snake (1993, Tsui Hark) [July]
  57. The Thief of Bagdad (1924, Raoul Walsh) [May]
  58. Caché (2005, Michael Haneke) [December]
  59. Faces Places (2017, Agnès Varda) [October]
  60. Our Sunhi (2013, Hong Sang-soo) [April]
  61. Black Girl (1966, Ousmane Sembène) [January]
  62. Resident Evil: Retribution (2012, Paul W.S. Anderson) [January]
  63. To Live (1994, Zhang Yimou) [February]
  64. Irma Vep (1996, Olivier Assayas) [December]
  65. Rebels of the Neon God (1992, Tsai Ming-liang) [April]
  66. Hiroshima mon amour (1959, Alain Resnais) [July]
  67. The Heartbreak Kid (1972, Elaine May) [May]
  68. On the Occasion of Remembering the Turning Gate (2002, Hong Sang-soo) [March]
  69. Sweetgrass (2009, Ilisa Barbash & Lucien Castaing-Taylor) [August]
  70. Princess Cyd (2017, Stephen Cone) [December]
  71. In the Realm of the Senses (1976, Nagisa Oshima) [November]
  72. Good Time (2017, Josh & Benny Safdie) [August]
  73. Frankenstein (1931, James Whale) [October]
  74. To Sleep With Anger (1990, Charles Burnett) [September]
  75. Baahubali 2: The Conclusion (2017, S. S. Rajamouli) [December]
  76. The Immigrant (2013, James Gray) [April]
  77. Artists and Models (1955, Frank Tashlin) [September]
  78. Sieranevada (2016, Cristi Puiu) [November]
  79. Steamboat Bill, Jr. (1928, Charles Reisner and Buster Keaton) [April]
  80. Raise the Red Lantern (1991, Zhang Yimou) [January]
  81. The Act of Killing (2012, Joshua Oppenheimer) [May]
  82. Contempt (1963, Jean-Luc Godard) [March]
  83. Leviathan (2012, Lucien Castaing-Taylor & Véréna Paravel) [August]
  84. The Day After (2017, Hong Sang-soo) [June]
  85. Le Joli Mai (1963, Chris Marker) [December]
  86. The Post (2017, Steven Spielberg) [November]
  87. Resident Evil: The Final Chapter (2016, Paul W.S. Anderson) [January]
  88. Daughter of the Nile (1987, Hou Hsiao-hsien) [June]
  89. Paterson (2016, Jim Jarmusch) [January]
  90. 120 BPM (Beats Per Minute) (2017, Robin Campillo) [October]
  91. Star Wars: The Last Jedi (2017, Rian Johnson) [December]
  92. The Mission (1999, Johnnie To) [February]
  93. Throne of Blood (1957, Akira Kurosawa) [January]
  94. House of Flying Daggers (2004, Zhang Yimou) [March]
  95. I Am Not Your Negro (2016, Raoul Peck) [February]
  96. The Unspeakable Act (2012, Dan Sallitt) [February]
  97. After Hours (1985, Martin Scorsese) [April]
  98. Xiao Wu (1997, Jia Zhangke) [August]
  99. The Big Heat (1953, Fritz Lang) [May]
  100. 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days (2007, Cristian Mungiu) [April]
  101. Stranger by the Lake (2013, Alain Guiraudie) [June]
  102. Night and Fog in Japan (1960, Nagisa Oshima) [October]
  103. The Tall Target (1951, Anthony Mann) [August]
  104. Double Suicide (1969, Masahiro Shinoda) [October]
  105. Othello (1951, Orson Welles) [December]
  106. Claire’s Camera (2017, Hong Sang-soo) [June]
  107. Lady Bird (2017, Greta Gerwig) [October]
  108. Phantom Thread (2017, Paul Thomas Anderson) [November]
  109. The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected) (2017, Noah Baumbach) [November]
  110. The Son of Joseph (2016, Eugène Green) [February]
  111. Woman Is the Future of Man (2004, Hong Sang-soo) [November]
  112. The Mend (2014, John Magary) [February]
  113. The Host (2006, Bong Joon-ho) [July]
  114. Laura (1944, Otto Preminger) [April]
  115. Kiss Me Deadly (1955, Robert Aldrich) [May]
  116. The Other Side (2015, Roberto Minervini) [January]
  117. The Bellboy (1960, Jerry Lewis) [September]
  118. The Enchanted Desna (1964, Yuliya Solntseva) [August]
  119. Call Me by Your Name (2017, Luca Guadagnino) [December]
  120. The Squid and the Whale (2005, Noah Baumbach) [November]
  121. Ex Libris: The New York Public Library (2017, Frederick Wiseman) [October]
  122. S21: The Khmer Rouge Killing Machine (2003, Rithy Panh) [November]
  123. Death by Hanging (1968, Nagisa Oshima) [November]
  124. Ju Dou (1990, Zhang Yimou & Yang Fengliang) [January]
  125. 20th Century Women (2016, Mike Mills) [January]
  126. Kaili Blues (2015, Bi Gan) [February]
  127. The Lost City of Z (2016, James Gray) [April]
  128. Personal Shopper (2016, Olivier Assayas) [March]
  129. Sign “O” the Times (1987, Prince) [October]
  130. Nocturama (2016, Bertrand Bonello) [June]
  131. Song to Song (2017, Terrence Malick) [April]
  132. Gremlins (1984, Joe Dante) [November]
  133. John Wick: Chapter 2 (2017, Chad Stahelski) [February]
  134. The Bad Sleep Well (1960, Akira Kurosawa) [January]
  135. As Tears Go By (1988, Wong Kar-wai) [August]
  136. Marjorie Prime (2017, Michael Almereyda) [September]
  137. Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice (1969, Paul Mazursky) [December]
  138. The Ornithologist (2016, João Pedro Rodrigues) [July]
  139. Jackass: The Movie (2002, Jeff Tremaine) [August]
  140. Violence at Noon (1966, Nagisa Oshima) [October]
  141. Another Year (2016, Shengze Zhu) [May]
  142. Resident Evil: Afterlife (2010, Paul W.S. Anderson) [January]
  143. Chronicle of a Summer (1961, Jean Rouch & Edgar Morin) [January]
  144. The Wise Kids (2011, Stephen Cone) [March]
  145. Wonderstruck (2017, Todd Haynes) [October]
  146. Starless Dreams (2016, Mehrdad Oskouei) [October]
  147. Brawl in Cell Block 99 (2017, S. Craig Zahler) [December]
  148. House of Tolerance (2011, Bertrand Bonello) [March]
  149. Big Trouble in Little China (1986, John Carpenter) [April]
  150. Primer (2004, Shane Carruth) [March]
  151. Hermia & Helena (2016, Matías Piñeiro) [December]
  152. Akira (1988, Katsuhiro Otomo) [February]
  153. Branded to Kill (1967, Seijun Suzuki) [May]
  154. Downsizing (2017, Alexander Payne) [December]
  155. Heaven Knows What (2014, Josh & Benny Safdie) [May]
  156. Los Olvidados (1950, Luis Buñuel) [December]
  157. Caniba (2017, Lucien Castaing-Taylor & Véréna Paravel) [October]
  158. PROTOTYPE (2017, Blake Williams) [September]
  159. The School of Rock (2003, Richard Linklater) [September]
  160. Remember My Name (1978, Alan Rudolph) [August]
  161. Videodrome (1983, David Cronenberg) [October]
  162. The Red Shoes (1948, Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger) [March]
  163. A Chinese Ghost Story (1987, Ching Siu-tung) [November]
  164. Unfriended (2014, Leo Gabriadze) [October]
  165. Cruel Story of Youth (1960, Nagisa Oshima) [October]
  166. Chocolat (1988, Claire Denis) [February]
  167. The Illinois Parables (2016, Deborah Stratman) [November]
  168. La Chinoise (1967, Jean-Luc Godard) [December]
  169. Knife in the Water (1962, Roman Polanski) [December]
  170. Persepolis (2007, Marjane Satrapi & Vincent Paronnaud) [November]
  171. My Beautiful Laundrette (1985, Stephen Frears) [November]
  172. Baahubali: The Beginning (2015, S. S. Rajamouli) [December]
  173. Person to Person (2017, Dustin Guy Defa) [May]
  174. A Quiet Passion (2016, Terence Davies) [May]
  175. Resident Evil: Extinction (2007, Russell Mulcahy) [January]
  176. Get Out (2017, Jordan Peele) [February]
  177. Cloud Atlas (2012, Lana & Lilly Wachowski & Tom Tykwer) [March]
  178. Three Resurrected Drunkards (1968, Nagisa Oshima) [November]
  179. The Human Surge (2016, Eduardo Williams) [November]
  180. A Month in Thailand (2012, Paul Negoescu) [September]
  181. Viola (2012, Matías Piñeiro) [November]
  182. Le Gai Savoir (1969, Jean-Luc Godard) [December]
  183. Suffer Little Children (1983, Alan Briggs) [October]
  184. Julieta (2016, Pedro Almodóvar) [January]
  185. John From (2015, João Nicolau) [June]
  186. No Fear, No Die (1990, Claire Denis) [November]
  187. Escapes (2017, Michael Almereyda) [September]
  188. The Beguiled (2017, Sofia Coppola) [June]
  189. In the Heat of the Sun (1994, Jiang Wen) [April]
  190. Your Name. (2016, Makoto Shinkai) [May]
  191. Charley Varrick (1973, Don Siegel) [February]
  192. Last Flag Flying (2017, Richard Linklater) [November]
  193. The Story of the Flaming Years (1961, Yuliya Solntseva) [August]
  194. Two Lottery Tickets (2016, Paul Negoescu) [November]
  195. The Man Who Left His Will on Film (1970, Nagisa Oshima) [December]
  196. Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence (1983, Nagisa Oshima) [December]
  197. Solaris (1972, Andrei Tarkovsky) [May]
  198. Nanook of the North (1922, Robert J. Flaherty) [May]
  199. The Unknown Girl (2016, Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne) [May]
  200. Staying Vertical (2016, Alain Guiraudie) [June]
  201. The Florida Project (2017, Sean Baker) [September]
  202. Resident Evil (2002, Paul W.S. Anderson) [January]
  203. Morocco (1930, Josef von Sternberg) [March]
  204. Marius (1931, Alexander Korda) [May]
  205. Thirst Street (2017, Nathan Silver) [November]
  206. Alien: Covenant (2017, Ridley Scott) [May]
  207. Baby Driver (2017, Edgar Wright) [July]
  208. Rat Film (2016, Theo Anthony) [November]
  209. By the Time It Gets Dark (2016, Anocha Suwichakornpong) [May]
  210. Kékszakállú (2016, Gastón Solnicki) [November]
  211. Girls Trip (2017, Malcolm D. Lee) [December]
  212. The Opening of Misty Beethoven (1976, Radley Metzger) [August]
  213. Mudbound (2017, Dee Rees) [December]
  214. The Taking of Pelham One Two Three (1974, Joseph Sargent) [February]
  215. Dawson City: Frozen Time (2016, Bill Morrison) [May]
  216. Poem of an Inland Sea (1958, Yuliya Solntseva) [August]
  217. The Death of Louis XIV (2016, Albert Serra) [December]
  218. The Circus (1928, Charles Chaplin) [November]
  219. Upstream Color (2013, Shane Carruth) [March]
  220. The Birth of a Nation (1915, D.W. Griffith) [April]
  221. Split (2016, M. Night Shyamalan) [January]
  222. A Cure for Wellness (2016, Gore Verbinski) [February]
  223. Prometheus (2012, Ridley Scott) [May]
  224. Okja (2017, Bong Joon-ho) [July]
  225. The Future Perfect (2016, Nele Wohlatz) [October]
  226. Bronx Gothic (2017, Andrew Rossi) [July]
  227. Daughters of the Dust (1991, Julie Dash) [February]
  228. Red Sorghum (1987, Zhang Yimou) [January]
  229. The Other Side of Hope (2017, Aki Kaurismäki) [December]
  230. Japanese Summer: Double Suicide (1967, Nagisa Oshima) [October]
  231. Scarred Hearts (2016, Radu Jude) [November]
  232. I Can’t Sleep (1994, Claire Denis) [December]
  233. Desert Hearts (1985, Donna Deitch) [October]
  234. Forest Movie (2017, Matthew Taylor Blais) [September]
  235. Bad Black (2016, Nabwana IGG) [May]
  236. The Wedding Banquet (1993, Ang Lee) [August]
  237. Silvered Water, Syria Self-Portrait (2014, Ossama Mohammed & Wiam Simav Bedirxan) [April]
  238. Maison du bonheur (2017, Sofia Bohdanowicz) [October]
  239. The Square (2017, Ruben Östlund) [December]
  240. A Skin So Soft (2017, Denis Côté) [September]
  241. The Maltese Falcon (1941, John Huston) [April]
  242. Stories We Tell (2012, Sarah Polley) [October]
  243. 4 Days in France (2016, Jérôme Reybaud) [October]
  244. Sexy Beast (2000, Jonathan Glazer) [February]
  245. Tampopo (1985, Juzo Itami) [January]
  246. Always Shine (2016, Sophia Takal) [January]
  247. Mysterious Skin (2004, Gregg Araki) [October]
  248. My Entire High School Sinking Into the Sea (2016, Dash Shaw) [December]
  249. Wonder Wheel (2017, Woody Allen) [December]
  250. Cave of Forgotten Dreams (2010, Werner Herzog) [October]
  251. En el Séptimo Día (2017, Jim McKay) [June]
  252. Lumumba (2000, Raoul Peck) [February]
  253. Valley of Love (2015, Guillaume Nicloux) [January]
  254. Diary of a Shinjuku Thief (1969, Nagisa Oshima) [November]
  255. The Mermaid (2016, Stephen Chow) [January]
  256. Electro-Pythagoras: A Portrait of Martin Bartlett (2016, Luke Fowler) [November]
  257. Harmonium (2016, Kôji Fukada) [June]
  258. Garrincha: Hero of the Jungle (1962, Joaquim Pedro de Andrade) [August]
  259. Graduation (2016, Cristian Mungiu) [April]
  260. Saint Laurent (2014, Bertrand Bonello) [March]
  261. Indignation (2016, James Schamus) [January]
  262. Xala (1975, Ousmane Sembène) [February]
  263. Fire (1996, Deepa Mehta) [November]
  264. Joy (2015, David O. Russell) [December]
  265. Blade Runner 2049 (2017, Denis Villeneuve) [October]
  266. Maurice (1987, James Ivory) [May]
  267. Thelma (2017, Joachim Trier) [December]
  268. Grotesque (1988, Joe Tornatore) [October]
  269. 100 Years of Japanese Cinema (1994, Nagisa Oshima) [September]
  270. Dunkirk (2017, Christopher Nolan) [December]
  271. Jane (2017, Brett Morgen) [December]
  272. Exit Through the Gift Shop (2010, Banksy) [November]
  273. Devil in a Blue Dress (1995, Carl Franklin) [May]
  274. Gilda (1946, Charles Vidor) [April]
  275. Ajantrik (1958, Ritwik Ghatak) [August]
  276. I, Daniel Blake (2016, Ken Loach) [June]
  277. Radio Mary (2017, Gary Walkow) [December]
  278. After the Storm (2016, Hirokazu Kore-eda) [May]
  279. Columbus (2017, Kogonada) [November]
  280. Close Relations (2016, Vitaly Mansky) [September]
  281. Spettacolo (2017, Jeff Malmberg & Chris Shellen) [September]
  282. The Happiest Day in the Life of Olli Mäki (2016, Juho Kuosmanen) [May]
  283. The Marriage Circle (1924, Ernst Lubitsch) [May]
  284. Stranger on the Third Floor (1940, Boris Ingster) [April]
  285. The Great Wall (2016, Zhang Yimou) [June]
  286. A Ghost Story (2017, David Lowery) [June]
  287. Happy Death Day (2017, Christopher B. Landon) [November]
  288. Coco (2017, Lee Unkrich) [December]
  289. Gook (2017, Justin Chon) [June]
  290. Casting JonBenet (2017, Kitty Green) [April]
  291. 88:88 (2015, Isiah Medina) [July]
  292. The Fate of the Furious (2017, F. Gary Gray) [April]
  293. Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 (2017, James Gunn) [May]
  294. From Nine to Nine (2017, Neil Bahadur) [August]
  295. T-Men (1947, Anthony Mann) [May]
  296. Dog Day Afternoon (1975, Sidney Lumet) [January]
  297. Act of Violence (1949, Fred Zinnemann) [May]
  298. Beach Rats (2017, Eliza Hittman) [May]
  299. The Lego Batman Movie (2017, Chris McKay) [February]
  300. Fabulous! The Story of Queer Cinema (2006, Lisa Ades & Lesli Klainberg) [October]
  301. Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (2017, Martin McDonagh) [October]
  302. Hedwig and the Angry Inch (2001, John Cameron Mitchell) [November]
  303. Go Fish (1994, Rose Troche) [October]
  304. Pariah (2011, Dee Rees) [October]
  305. Raw (2016, Julia Ducournau) [December]
  306. Resident Evil: Apocalypse (2004, Alexander Witt) [January]
  307. The Shape of Water (2017, Guillermo del Toro) [November]
  308. Theatre of Blood (1973, Douglas Hickox) [July]
  309. Wonder Woman (2017, Patty Jenkins) [July]
  310. Logan (2017, James Mangold) [March]
  311. The Story of Qiu Ju (1992, Zhang Yimou) [February]
  312. ANPO: Art X War (2010, Linda Hoaglund) [October]
  313. The Big Sick (2017, Michael Showalter) [May]
  314. Elegy to the Visitor from the Revolution (2011, Lav Diaz) [February]
  315. Pushing Hands (1991, Ang Lee) [July]
  316. Cézanne et moi (2016, Danièle Thompson) [March]
  317. Desperado Square (2001, Benny Toraty) [March]
  318. The Rules of Film Noir (2009, Elaine Donnelly Pieper) [March]
  319. Hunt for the Wilderpeople (2016, Taika Waititi) [January]
  320. It (1927, Clarence Badger) [May]
  321. The Void (2016, Jeremy Gillespie & Steven Kostanski) [April]
  322. Happy Times (2000, Zhang Yimou) [March]
  323. The Road Home (1999, Zhang Yimou) [March]
  324. Wind River (2017, Taylor Sheridan) [June]
  325. Nerve (2016, Henry Joost & Ariel Schulman) [June]
  326. Sisters in the Struggle (1991, Dionne Brand & Ginny Stikeman) [October]
  327. National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation (1989, Jeremiah Chechik) [December]
  328. The Christine Jorgensen Story (1970, Irving Rapper) [October]
  329. The Dreamers (2003, Bernardo Bertolucci) [May]
  330. Deidra & Laney Rob a Train (2017, Sydney Freeland) [March]
  331. Kanehsatake: 270 Years of Resistance (1993, Alanis Obomsawin) [February]
  332. A Monster Calls (2016, J.A. Bayona) [January]
  333. The Disaster Artist (2017, James Franco) [December]
  334. Ma’ Rosa (2016, Brillante Mendoza) [June]
  335. Kong: Skull Island (2017, Jordan Vogt-Roberts) [December]
  336. The Boys in the Band (1970, William Friedkin) [October]
  337. C.R.A.Z.Y. (2005, Jean-Marc Vallée) [March]
  338. The Wolfpack (2015, Crystal Moselle) [June]
  339. Up in the Air (2009, Jason Reitman) [March]
  340. Life in a Day (2011, Kevin Macdonald) [December]
  341. The Final Cut (2004, Omar Naim) [May]
  342. As You Are (2016, Miles Joris-Peyrafitte) [February]
  343. Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy (2004, Adam McKay) [September]
  344. Game of Death (1978, Robert Clouse) [June]
  345. Christine (2016, Antonio Campos) [January]
  346. Live by Night (2016, Ben Affleck) [January]
  347. Empire of the Dark (1990, Steve Barkett) [October]
  348. The Killing of a Sacred Deer (2017, Yorgos Lanthimos) [December]
  349. Pride Divide (1997, Paris Poirier) [October]
  350. I, Tonya (2017, Craig Gillespie) [December]
  351. Hidden Figures (2016, Theodore Melfi) [January]
  352. The Hanging Garden (1997, Thom Fitzgerald) [November]
  353. Falling Down (1993, Joel Schumacher) [November]
  354. Don’t Think Twice (2016, Mike Birbiglia) [January]
  355. Swiss Army Man (2016, Daniel Scheinert & Daniel Kwan) [January]
  356. Troll 2 (1990, Claudio Fragasso) [June]
  357. Léolo (1992, Jean-Claude Lauzon) [February]
  358. mother! (2017, Darren Aronofsky) [September]
  359. Lars and the Real Girl (2007, Craig Gillespie) [March]
  360. The Room (2003, Tommy Wiseau) [November]

2016 First Watches

Renewed Appreciation: The Social Network, Casablanca, True Grit, Easy Rider, Pina, Unknown, Mission: Impossible, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon

Shorts: “The Heart of the World,” “Let Your Light Shine,” “Lady Blue Shanghai,” “Amuse-guele #1: Digital Destinies,” “Duck Dodgers in the 24½th Century,” “Foyer,” “Rabbit Seasoning,” “Something Between Us,” “Sailing With Bushnell Keeler,” “In Absentia,” “Mad Ladders,” “Cat Listening to Music,” “Broadway by Light,” “Cilaos,” “The Comb,” “Indefinite Pitch,” “Fe26,” “A Train Arrives at the Station,” “Screw”

  1. A Brighter Summer Day (1991, Edward Yang) [July]
  2. Chungking Express (1994, Wong Kar-wai) [September]
  3. Trust (1990, Hal Hartley) [August]
  4. Wavelength (1967, Michael Snow) [December]
  5. Manhunter (1986, Michael Mann) [May]
  6. Passion (2012, Brian De Palma) [September]
  7. The Devils (1971, Ken Russell) [February]
  8. Miami Vice (2006, Michael Mann) [May]
  9. Carlito’s Way (1993, Brian De Palma) [September]
  10. Carol (2015, Todd Haynes) [January]
  11. Public Enemies (2009, Michael Mann) [May]
  12. Out 1: Noli me tangere (1971, Jacques Rivette) [January]
  13. Margaret (2011, Kenneth Lonergan) [November]
  14. Meek’s Cutoff (2010, Kelly Reichardt) [August]
  15. Ran (1985, Akira Kurosawa) [March]
  16. Mistress America (2015, Noah Baumbach) [January]
  17. Days of Being Wild (1990, Wong Kar-wai) [September]
  18. Manchester by the Sea (2016, Kenneth Lonergan) [December]
  19. Possession (1981, Andrzej Zulawski) [October]
  20. Cameraperson (2016, Kirsten Johnson) [June]
  21. Femme Fatale (2002, Brian De Palma) [September]
  22. Thief (1981, Michael Mann) [May]
  23. The Forbidden Room (2015, Guy Maddin) [January]
  24. My Golden Days (2015, Arnaud Desplechin) [April]
  25. Death Proof (2007, Quentin Tarantino) [January]
  26. The Handmaiden (2016, Park Chan-wook) [October]
  27. The Insider (1999, Michael Mann) [May]
  28. O.J.: Made in America (2016, Ezra Edelman) [October]
  29. Inherent Vice (2014, Paul Thomas Anderson) [February]
  30. Blow Out (1981, Brian De Palma) [August]
  31. Nosferatu (1922, F.W. Murnau) [March]
  32. The Gang’s All Here (1943, Busby Berkeley) [July]
  33. Two Days, One Night (2014, Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne) [November]
  34. Ali (2001, Michael Mann) [May]
  35. Wendy and Lucy (2008, Kelly Reichardt) [August]
  36. Mountains May Depart (2015, Jia Zhangke) [June]
  37. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004, Michel Gondry) [January]
  38. Inglourious Basterds (2009, Quentin Tarantino) [January]
  39. Casualties of War (1989, Brian De Palma) [September]
  40. Godzilla (1954, Ishiro Honda) [March]
  41. Right Now, Wrong Then (2015, Hong Sang-soo) [October]
  42. Blackhat (2015, Michael Mann) [January]
  43. Holy Motors (2012, Leos Carax) [July]
  44. The Master (2012, Paul Thomas Anderson) [February]
  45. Body Double (1984, Brian De Palma) [September]
  46. When Marnie Was There (2014, Hiromasa Yonebayashi) [January]
  47. Raising Arizona (1987, Joel & Ethan Coen) [February]
  48. Carrie (1976, Brian De Palma) [July]
  49. The Man Who Wasn’t There (2001, Joel & Ethan Coen) [February]
  50. Beauty and the Beast (1946, Jean Cocteau) [February]
  51. Magic Mike XXL (2015, Gregory Jacobs) [January]
  52. Elle (2016, Paul Verhoeven) [December]
  53. Cemetery of Splendour (2015, Apichatpong Weerasethakul) [March]
  54. Old Joy (2006, Kelly Reichardt) [August]
  55. The Day He Arrives (2011, Hong Sang-soo) [October]
  56. The Last of the Mohicans (1992, Michael Mann) [May]
  57. Non-Stop (2014, Jaume Collet-Serra) [June]
  58. The World’s End (2013, Edgar Wright) [May]
  59. Collateral (2004, Michael Mann) [May]
  60. Mildred Pierce (1945, Michael Curtiz) [May]
  61. D’Est (1993, Chantal Akerman) [May]
  62. Dragon Inn (1967, King Hu) [June]
  63. You Can Count on Me (2000, Kenneth Lonergan) [November]
  64. Kate Plays Christine (2016, Robert Greene) [July]
  65. John Wick (2014, Chad Stahelski) [June]
  66. Certain Women (2016, Kelly Reichardt) [October]
  67. Things to Come (2016, Mia Hansen-Løve) [December]
  68. Phantom of the Paradise (1974, Brian De Palma) [July]
  69. Oldboy (2003, Park Chan-wook) [October]
  70. Sunset Song (2015, Terence Davies) [May]
  71. Sully (2016, Clint Eastwood) [September]
  72. L for Leisure (2014, Lev Kalman & Whitney Horn) [June]
  73. Orphan (2009, Jaume Collet-Serra) [June]
  74. Lady Vengeance (2005, Park Chan-wook) [October]
  75. SPL II: A Time for Consequences (2015, Soi Cheang) [September]
  76. Creepy (2016, Kiyoshi Kurosawa) [November]
  77. Aquarius (2016, Kleber Mendonça Filho) [December]
  78. Henry Gamble’s Birthday Party (2015, Stephen Cone) [July]
  79. The Edge of Seventeen (2016, Kelly Fremon Craig) [December]
  80. Justin Timberlake + the Tennessee Kids (2016, Jonathan Demme) [October]
  81. Intolerable Cruelty (2003, Joel & Ethan Coen) [February]
  82. Dressed to Kill (1980, Brian De Palma) [August]
  83. The Hateful Eight (2015, Quentin Tarantino) [January]
  84. Hot Fuzz (2007, Edgar Wright) [May]
  85. The Shallows (2016, Jaume Collet-Serra) [October]
  86. River of Grass (1994, Kelly Reichardt) [August]
  87. Shin Godzilla (2016, Hideaki Anno) [October]
  88. Scarface (1983, Brian De Palma) [August]
  89. From the Other Side (2002, Chantal Akerman) [August]
  90. Burn After Reading (2008, Joel & Ethan Coen) [February]
  91. To Lavoisier, Who Died in the Reign of Terror (1991, Michael Snow) [December]
  92. Everybody Wants Some!! (2016, Richard Linklater) [April]
  93. Love & Friendship (2016, Whit Stillman) [June]
  94. Shaun of the Dead (2004, Edgar Wright) [May]
  95. Chimes at Midnight (1965, Orson Welles) [May]
  96. Aloha (2015, Cameron Crowe) [March]
  97. Afterschool (2008, Antonio Campos) [October]
  98. The Silence of the Lambs (1991, Jonathan Demme) [June]
  99. Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice (2016, Zack Snyder) [April]
  100. Snake Eyes (1998, Brian De Palma) [September]
  101. Looper (2012, Rian Johnson) [August]
  102. Raising Cain (1992, Brian De Palma) [September]
  103. Sisters (1972, Brian De Palma) [July]
  104. A Serious Man (2009, Joel & Ethan Coen) [February]
  105. 45 Years (2015, Andrew Haigh) [January]
  106. Night Moves (2013, Kelly Reichardt) [September]
  107. Jackie Brown (1997, Quentin Tarantino) [Januyar]
  108. Russian Ark (2002, Alexander Sokurov) [April]
  109. Bridge of Spies (2015, Steven Spielberg) [January]
  110. Boogie Nights (1997, Paul Thomas Anderson) [February]
  111. In Another Country (2012, Hong Sang-soo) [October]
  112. The Keep (1983, Michael Mann) [May]
  113. Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956, Don Siegel) [October]
  114. Until the End of the World (1991, Wim Wenders) [March]
  115. Frances Ha (2012, Noah Baumbach) [January]
  116. In the Shadow of Women (2015, Philippe Garrel) [December]
  117. Belladonna of Sadness (1973, Eiichi Yamamoto) [May]
  118. The Glass Shield (1994, Charles Burnett) [September]
  119. Tower (2016, Keith Maitland) [November]
  120. Kubo and the Two Strings (2016, Travis Knight) [September]
  121. Hail, Caesar! (2016, Joel & Ethan Coen) [February]
  122. The American Friend (1977, Wim Wenders) [March]
  123. Moonlight (2016, Barry Jenkins) [November]
  124. Blondes in the Jungle (2009, Lev Kalman & Whitney Horn) [June]
  125. Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance (2002, Park Chan-wook) [October]
  126. The Black Dahlia (2006, Brian De Palma) [September]
  127. Zatoichi (2003, Takeshi Kitano) [August]
  128. Allied (2016, Robert Zemeckis) [November]
  129. Kill Bill: Volume 1 (2003, Quentin Tarantino) [January]
  130. Kill Bill: Volume 2 (2004, Quentin Tarantino) [January]
  131. Rogue One: A Star Wars Story (2016, Gareth Edwards) [December]
  132. Weiner (2016, Josh Kriegman & Elyse Steinberg) [December]
  133. De Palma (2015, Noah Baumbach & Jake Paltrow) [September]
  134. Clouds of Sils Maria (2014, Olivier Assayas) [January]
  135. Mustang (2015, Deniz Gamze Ergüven) [March]
  136. I Am Not Madame Bovary (2016, Feng Xiaogang) [November]
  137. Our Little Sister (2015, Hirokazu Kore-eda) [September]
  138. The Treasure (2015, Corneliu Porumboiu) [December]
  139. South (1999, Chantal Akerman) [August]
  140. Run All Night (2015, Jaume Collet-Serra) [June]
  141. Office (2015, Johnnie To) [February]
  142. James White (2015, Josh Mond) [January]
  143. Only Yesterday (1991, Isao Takahata) [March]
  144. Actress (2014, Robert Greene) [July]
  145. Greetings (1968, Brian De Palma) [July]
  146. House of Wax (2005, Jaume Collet-Serra) [June]
  147. Rules Don’t Apply (2016, Warren Beatty) [November]
  148. The Academy of Muses (2015, José Luis Guerin) [December]
  149. Arrival (2016, Denis Villeneuve) [November]
  150. Güeros (2014, Alonso Ruizpalacios) [April]
  151. High School (1968, Frederick Wiseman) [November]
  152. Hell or High Water (2016, David Mackenzie) [September]
  153. Journey to the Shore (2015, Kiyoshi Kurosawa) [September]
  154. Aferim! (2015, Radu Jude) [December]
  155. The Love Witch (2016, Anna Biller) [November]
  156. Neruda (2016, Pablo Larraín) [December]
  157. Dead Slow Ahead (2015, Mauro Herce) [November]
  158. Knight of Cups (2015, Terrence Malick) [December]
  159. Hospital (1970, Frederick Wiseman) [November]
  160. The Fury (1978, Brian De Palma) [September]
  161. Obsession (1976, Brian De Palma) [August]
  162. Don’t Breathe (2016, Fede Alvarez) [September]
  163. Joint Security Area (2000, Park Chan-wook) [August]
  164. Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping (2016, Akiva Schaffer & Jorma Taccone) [December]
  165. Voyage of Time: The IMAX Experience (2016, Terrence Malick) [November]
  166. Home Movies (1979, Brian De Palma) [August]
  167. The Untouchables (1987, Brian De Palma) [July]
  168. Hard Eight (1996, Paul Thomas Anderson) [February]
  169. Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939, Frank Capra) [April]
  170. Lemonade (2016, Khalil Joseph and Beyoncé Knowles Carter) [October]
  171. Buena Vista Social Club (1999, Wim Wenders) [March]
  172. The Diary of a Teenage Girl (2015, Marielle Heller) [January]
  173. A Bigger Splash (2015, Luca Guadagnino) [May]
  174. Miller’s Crossing (1990, Joel & Ethan Coen) [February]
  175. Chantal Akerman: From Here (2010, Gustavo Beck & Leonardo Ferreira) [April]
  176. Titicut Follies (1967, Frederick Wiseman) [November]
  177. Demolition (2015, Jean-Marc Vallée) [April]
  178. Das Boot (1981, Wolfgang Petersen) [June]
  179. O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000, Joel & Ethan Coen) [February]
  180. Boy & the World (2013, Alê Abreu) [February]
  181. The Nice Guys (2016, Shane Black) [May]
  182. Django Unchained (2012, Quentin Tarantino) [January]
  183. Blood Simple (1984, Joel & Ethan Coen) [February]
  184. Green Room (2015, Jeremy Saulnier) [April]
  185. The Invitation (2015, Karyn Kusama) [September]
  186. The Lobster (2015, Yorgos Lanthimos) [June]
  187. 42nd Street (1933, Lloyd Bacon) [April]
  188. Moana (2016, John Musker & Ron Clements) [December]
  189. The Fits (2015, Anna Rose Holmer) [December]
  190. Là-bas (2006, Chantal Akerman) [May]
  191. Los Sures (1984, Diego Echeverria) [September]
  192. 10 Cloverfield Lane (2016, Dan Trachtenberg) [March]
  193. Avengers: Age of Ultron (2015, Joss Whedon) [March]
  194. Easy Rider (2012, James Benning) [March]
  195. Hacksaw Ridge (2016, Mel Gibson) [November]
  196. X-Men: Apocalypse (2016, Bryan Singer) [May]
  197. Steve Jobs (2015, Danny Boyle) [January]
  198. I Don’t Belong Anywhere: The Cinema of Chantal Akerman (2015, Marianne Lambert) [April]
  199. Blue Ruin (2013, Jeremy Saulnier) [August]
  200. Captain America: Civil War (2016, Anthony & Joe Russo) [May]
  201. Doctor Strange (2016, Scott Derrickson) [November]
  202. True Lies (1994, James Cameron) [July]
  203. April and the Extraordinary World (2015, Christian Desmares & Franck Ekinci) [April]
  204. Café Society (2016, Woody Allen) [May]
  205. Fences (2016, Denzel Washington) [December]
  206. Viva (2007, Anna Biller) [November]
  207. Midnight Special (2016, Jeff Nichols) [April]
  208. Mission to Mars (2000, Brian De Palma) [September]
  209. Cloverfield (2008, Matt Reeves) [March]
  210. Ant-Man (2015, Peyton Reed) [March]
  211. Dionysus in ’69 (1970, Brian De Palma) [July]
  212. Bad Seed (1934, Billy Wilder & Alexandre Esway) [September]
  213. Minotaur (2015, Nicolás Pereda) [October]
  214. The Fighter (2010, David O. Russell) [November]
  215. Purple Rain (1984, Albert Magnoli) [May]
  216. Fish Tank (2009, Andrea Arnold) [September]
  217. Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them (2016, David Yates) [December]
  218. Francofonia (2015, Alexander Sokurov) [April]
  219. No Way Out (1950, Joseph L. Mankiewicz) [May]
  220. Sing Street (2016, John Carney) [August]
  221. Neighbors 2: Sorority Rising (2016, Nicholas Stoller) [June]
  222. No Home Movie (2015, Chantal Akerman) [April]
  223. Deepwater Horizon (2016, Peter Berg) [October]
  224. High-Rise (2015, Ben Wheatley) [May]
  225. Zootopia (2016, Byron Howard & Rich Moore) [April]
  226. Bataan (1943, Tay Garnett) [May]
  227. The Jungle Book (2016, Jon Favreau) [April]
  228. Krivina (2012, Igor Drljaca) [October]
  229. American Honey (2016, Andrea Arnold) [September]
  230. Coraline (2009, Henry Selick) [January]
  231. The Magnificent Seven (2016, Antoine Fuqua) [October]
  232. Jason Bourne (2016, Paul Greengrass) [September]
  233. Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk (2016, Ang Lee) [November]
  234. La La Land (2016, Damien Chazelle) [November]
  235. Eye in the Sky (2015, Gavin Hood) [August]
  236. Hi, Mom! (1970, Brian De Palma) [July]
  237. The Cheat (1915, Cecil B. DeMille) [March]
  238. The Sky Trembles and the Earth Is Afraid and the Two Eyes Are Not Brothers (2015, Ben Rivers) [October]
  239. The Battle of Brazil: A Video History (1996, Jack Matthews) [January]
  240. High Noon (1952, Fred Zinnemann) [May]
  241. Murder à la Mod (1968, Brian De Palma) [July]
  242. Harold and Maude (1971, Hal Ashby) [February]
  243. The Witch (2015, Robert Eggers) [February]
  244. The Public Enemy (1931, William A. Wellman) [April]
  245. The Ladykillers (2004, Joel & Ethan Coen) [February]
  246. The Hudsucker Proxy (1994, Joel & Ethan Coen) [February]
  247. The Blues Brothers (1980, John Landis) [February]
  248. Passengers (2016, Morten Tyldum) [December]
  249. The Bonfire of the Vanities (1990, Brian De Palma) [September]
  250. Simon Killer (2012, Antonio Campos) [October]
  251. Embrace of the Serpent (2015, Ciro Guerra) [March]
  252. The Huntsman: Winter’s War (2016, Cedric Nicolas-Troyan) [April]
  253. Money Monster (2016, Jodie Foster) [June]
  254. Keanu (2016, Peter Atencio) [June]
  255. Nocturnal Animals (2016, Tom Ford) [December]
  256. 13th (2016, Ava DuVernay) [November]
  257. House of Little Deaths (2016, Scout Tafoya) [September]
  258. Lion (2016, Garth Davis) [December]
  259. Room (2015, Lenny Abrahamson) [January]
  260. Groundhog Day (1993, Harold Ramis) [January]
  261. Anomalisa (2015, Charlie Kaufman & Duke Johnson) [January]
  262. Meet the Patels (2014, Ravi Patel & Geeta Patel) [November]
  263. The Distance (2014, Sergio Caballero) [October]
  264. Song of Lahore (2015, Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy & Andy Schocken) [May]
  265. Redacted (2007, Brian De Palma) [September]
  266. Jackie (2016, Pablo Larraín) [December]
  267. Synecdoche, New York (2008, Charlie Kaufman) [January]
  268. Son of Saul (2015, László Nemes) [February]
  269. Cosmos (2015, Andrzej Zulawski) [December]
  270. Assassin’s Creed (2016, Justin Kurzel) [December]
  271. On the Silver Globe (1988, Andrzej Zulawski) [October]
  272. Get to Know Your Rabbit (1972, Brian De Palma) [August]
  273. Deadpool (2016, Tim Miller) [February]
  274. The Revenant (2015, Alejandro González Iñárritu) [January]
  275. The Wedding Party (1969, Brian De Palma & Wilford Leach & Cynthia Munroe) [July]
  276. The Neon Demon (2016, Nicolas Winding Refn) [November]
  277. Now You See Me 2 (2016, Jon M. Chu) [June]
  278. Beasts of No Nation (2015, Cary Joji Fukunaga) [January]
  279. Game Change (2012, Jay Roach) [February]
  280. The Big Short (2015, Adam McKay) [January]
  281. Only God Forgives (2013, Nicolas Winding Refn) [June]
  282. Wise Guys (1986, Brian De Palma) [September]
  283. Suicide Squad (2016, David Ayer) [September]