Top Tens, etc

2024

new
23 this (Tolin 2024 7s)
22 I Am Propaganda (Liatskaia 2023 3m)
19
May December (Haynes 2023 117m)
18 Dune Part Two (Villeneuve 2024 165m), Puan (Alché & Naishtat 2023 111m)

old (first time)
24 Raining in the Mountain (Hu 1979 120m) ↑
23 Betty (Stavrakas 1979 33m)
20 Legend of the Mountain (Hu 1979 192m), The Fate of Lee Khan (Hu 1973 105m), Distance-Landscape: Football Field (Patiño 2011 1m)
19
Cloak and Dagger (Lang 1946 106m), The Fabulous Baker Boys (Kloves 1989 114m), Prater (Ottinger 2007 105m), Short Term 12 (Cretton 2013 96m)
18 Short Term 12 (Cretton 2008 21m)

old (rewatch)
25
GoodFellas (Scorsese 1990 146m)
24
The Yards (Gray 2000 115m), City of God (Lund & Meirelles 2002 130m)
23
The New World (Malick 2005 136m), Spotlight (McCarthy 2015 129m)
22 An Angel at My Table (Campion 1990 158m), Barton Fink (Coen 1991 116m), In the Shadows (Arslan 2010 86m)
21 Enemy (Villeneuve 2013 90m)
20 Fargo (Coen 1996 98m) 
19
Le Samouraï (Melville 1967 105m), Se7en (Fincher 1995 127m)



2023

world premieres, 50m+
1. Samsara (Lois Patiño)     ↑↑↑
2. The Human Surge 3 (Eduardo Williams)
-. “The Resurrection of Dave” (Shane Meadows) [TV: The Gallows Pole: This Valley Will Rise, episode 1]
3. National Anarchist: Lino Brocka (‘Khavn’)
4. La Chimera (Alice Rohrwacher)

5. Bottlemen (Nemanja Vojinović)
6. Afire (Christian Petzold)
7. Landshaft (Daniel Kötter)
8. Fallen Leaves (Aki Kaurismäki)
9. Natura (Matti Harju)
10. Gran Turismo (Neill Blomkamp)
then: Do Not Expect Too Much from the End of the World (Radu Jude), Zinzindurrunkarratz (Oskar Alegria).
and: Allensworth (James Benning), Living Bad (Joao Canijo), May December (Todd Haynes), One Last Evening (Lukas Nathrath), Godzilla Minus One (Yamazaki Takashi), Saltburn (Emerald Fennell)

“new” all lengths (2022/2023)
1. Samsara (Spain 2023 Patiño 113m)  26/28 {9/10}
2. Riders (Slovenia etc 2022 Mencej 107m) 25 {9/10} [rewatch]
3. Crow (UK 2022 “Ubu Kung” 3m) 25 {9/10}  ↑↑↑
4. The Human Surge 3 (Argentina etc 2023 Williams 121m) 25 {9/10}
5. Before Dark (Croatia 2022 Šuljak 7m) 24 {9/10}
-. The Gallows Pole: This Valley Will Rise [ep1 “The Resurrection of Dave”] (UK 2023 TV Meadows 66m) 24 {9/10}
6. Jill, Uncredited (UK/Canada 2022 Ing 18m) 24 {9/10}
7. Snow Crystals (France 2023 Perriquet 9m) 24 {9/10}
8. Capsules / Portraits #3 (France 2022 Bourbon 3.5m) 23 {8/10}
9. Mørke (France 2023 Ries 38m) 23 {8/10}
10. A Once Lonely Man (USA 2023 Jannone 6m)  23 {8/10}
then
YUL20A
 (Canada 2023 MacKenzie 6m) 23 {8/10}

22 {8/10}
Between Here and There (Australia 2023 Sant 3m)
BOOKOLORBAR: Action (USA 2022 Kim 2m)
DJINN PROFÉRER SCRAPER (France 2023 Feytis 13m)
I Am Propaganda (Austria 2023 Liatskaia 3m)
National Anarchist: Lino Brocka (Philippines 2023 ‘Khavn’ 70m)  22 {8/10}
OilMoonNight (Germany 2022 Malina 6m)
Ommatidia (Iceland/USA 2022 Chung 7m)
Rule No.5: Shadow Your Man Closely (Croatia 2023 Manojlović 10m)
The Temptation of the Coconut Clock (Germany 2023 Schmid 6m)
Thin Ice (aka Dünnes Eis. Germany 2023 Dallaserra 13m)

21 {8/10}
Bye Bye, Bowser (Austria 2023 Baumgartner 20m)
La Chimera (Italy/Switzerland/France 2023 Rohrwacher 133m)
Nightshifter (Haiti/Norway 2022 Johansen 7m)
Ptitsa (Poland 2022 Maksimenko 30m)

20 {7/10}
Bottlemen (Serbia/Slovenia 2023 Vojinović 83m)
Coming Soon (Austria 2023 Lapin 13m)
Embers from Yesterday, Aflame (UK 2022 Wei 10m)
The Gallows Pole: This Valley Will Rise [ep2 “Thy Had a Dream”] (UK 2023 TV Meadows 54m)
The Gallows Pole: This Valley Will Rise [ep3 “The Anti-Heist”] (UK 2023 TV Meadows 64m)
Greetings from Crîngasi! (Romania 2023 Jude 3m)
How To Blow Up a Pipeline (USA 2022 Goldhaber 104m)
Kultama (Finland 2023 Räsänen 7m)
Never Come Back (Austria/Germany 2023 Gruber 17m)
Rejection
(Estonia 2022 Kuftseryn 1m)
Saving Lot (Hungary 2022 “Blanche the Vidiot” 8m)
Tár (USA/Ger 2022 Field 158m)
This is How I Felt (USA 2022 Weissbach 2m)
Thomas Tank (UK 2023 Millard 1m)
White Ant (India/UK 2023 Adnani 15m)

19 {7/10}
Afire (Germany 2023 Petzold 103m)
Ballet anémic (Austria 2022 Fruhauf 6m)
Baltic Shea [sic] (Germany 2023 Hoefs 5m)
Before Iftar (Morocco/France 2022 Halazy 2m)
Bernoullistraße 1 (Austria 2022 Bettinger, Mann, Zenleser 7m)
Cave Painting
(Austria 2023 Fruhauf 15m)
Do Not Expect Too Much From the End of the World (Romania 2023 Jude 163m)
Dreaming Bodies (Austria/Germany 2022 Bausch/Knorz 4m)
Fallen Leaves (Finland 2023 Kaurismäki 81m)
Godzilla Minus One (Japan 2023 Yamazaki 125m)
Gran Turismo (USA 2023 Blomkamp 134m)
Hardly Working (Austria 2022, ‘Total Refusal,’ 21m)
The Hill
(France/Belgium 2022 Gheerbrant & Tsrimova 78m)
Holy Spider (Sweden etc 2022 Abbasi 117m)
Landshaft (Germany/Armenia 2023 Kötter 96m)
May December (USA 2023 Haynes 117m)
Natura (Finland 2023 Harju 69m)
NYC RGB (Austria/USA 2023 Schmid 7m)
A Performance of Valour (UAE 2022 Mezaina 4m)
Pixels of the Orient (Canada 2022 Chan 9m)
Présages
(France 2023 Hogg 11m)
Saltburn (UK/US 2023 Fennell 131m)
Silent Chirping of Invisible Digits (Austria/Germany 2023 Sebert 10m)
Still Life with Woman, Tea and Letter (Netherlands 2022 Martin 2m)
The Eternal Daughter (UK/USA 2022 Hogg 96m)”
Wow (Canada 2022 Jafri 1m)
Zinzindurrunkarratz (Spain 2023 Alegria 89m)

18 {7/10}
Allensworth
(USA 2023 Benning 65m)
The Banshees of Inisherin
 (USA/UK/Ire 2022 McDonagh 114m)
CUT! (Czech Republic 2023 Kastner 1min)
Dream On, Léon (Canada 2022 Gariépy 8m)
Earth Water Motor II (Austria 2023 Grosser & Maicher 3m)
Eat Your Carrots (Canada 2022 Stewart 3m)
Flame Gazing (Taiwan/Netherlands 2023 Yen 4min)
FFWD Fast Forward
(Austria 2022 Schlägel 11m)
The Frog is the Pond’s Witness (India 2022 Malhotra 3m)
Go West (Austria 2022 Zizenbacher 20.5m)
Happy Doom (Austria 2023 Roisz 3m)
Living Bad (Mal viver; Portugal 2023 Canijo 127m)
Luxembourg, Luxembourg (Ukraine 2022 Lukich 105m)
Microbiome
(Greece 2022 Petropoulos 27m)
Mondays at the Cube Factory (Austria 2022 Freudenschuss 2.5m)
NAT: A Post Singularity and Apocalypse Combat Girl (Taiwan 2023 Kang Le 6min)
The Night is Drunk When We Suffer
(Philippines 2022 Magtaan 6m)
One Last Evening (Germany 2023 Nathrath 91m)
Phantom Aspect (Ukraine 2023 Isaienko 5m)
Prelude (Austria 2022 Kanter 3m)
Puan (Argentina etc 2023 Alché & Naishtat 111m)
A Room of My Own (Georgia 2022 Bliadze 107m) [rewatch]
R M N (Romania/Fr/Bel 2022 Mungiu 125m)
Tavukschnitzel (Austria 2023 Kovačič 4m)
Tell Me Something Nice (Germany 2022 Anwar & Krami 30m)
30 Percent (Argentina 2023 Acosta 7m)
Thread (USA 2022 Smith 2m)
Vamos apenas ser irritantes (Brazil 2022 Rebelo 3m)
Women Talking (USA 2022 Polley 104m)

 

“old” (pre-2022)

28/28 {10/10}

Gerdy, the Wicked Witch (Yugoslavia 1976 Šimunić 10m)”
13
(Japan 2020 Isobe 11m)”
27 {10}
The Gratinated Brains of Pupilija Ferkeverk (Yugoslavia 1970 Godina 12m)”
Thorax (Austria 2019 Fruhauf 8m)”
What Happens to the Mountain, or, Laramie (USA 2017 Turner 12m)”
The Wrestler (USA 2008 Aronofsky 109m)”
26 {9}
Harlan County, USA (USA 1976 Kopple 103m)”
The Hole (Le Trou, France 1960 Becker 122m)*
The Territory (Portugal 1981 Ruiz 100m)*    ↑↑↑
25 {9}
The American Friend (WGer 1977 Wenders 128m)”
The French Connection (US 1971 Friedkin 104m)”
Gede Vizyon (Brazil/Haiti 2018 Kielwagen, Serafim & Simeon 14m)”
The Present (Switzerland 1996 Frank 24m)”
Tradition is the Handing On of Fire, Not the Worship of Ashes (Austria 1999 Deutsch 1m)*
24 {9}
The Exquisite Corpus (Austria 2015 Tscherkassky 19m)”
Strangers on a Train (US 1951 Hitchcock 101m)”
– – –
23 {8/10}
Cavalcade (Austria 2019 Lurf 5m)”
Paris
(Austria 2017 Roisz 4m)”
The Promise (Belgium etc 1996 Dardenne & Dardenne 90m)*
Van Gogh
(France 1991 Pialat 158m)*

We’ll Go To Neuilly, Inshallah (On ira à Neuilly, inch’Allah. France 2015 Ahoudig & Salzberg 20m)”

22 {8}
Autumn (aka Herbst. Austria 2016 Rauchensteiner 3m)”
Insiang
(Philippines 1976 Brocka 94m)”
Karpotrotter (aka Karpopotnik. Slovenia 2013 Ivanišin 49/50m)”
L A Confidential
 (USA 1997 Hanson 138m)”
Medea (Denmark 1988 TV von Trier 77m)*
No Olvidar (Chile 1982 Agüero 30m)*
Pression (Yugoslavia 1975 Šimunić 15m)*
Reign of Silence (Austria 2014 Marxt 7m)”
The Rite (Sweden 1969 TV Bergman)”
Rushmore
(USA 1998 Anderson 93m)”
Three Crowns of the Sailor (France 1983 Ruiz 117m)”
The Time of Crisis (Yugoslavia 1981 Slak 89m)*
The Vanishing (Netherlands 1988 Sluizer 107m)”
The Wall (Latvia 1991 Pjatkins 10m)*
Where Danger Lives (USA 1950 Farrow 76m)”
White Star (W.Germany 1983 Klick 92m)*
We Own the Night (USA 2007 Gray 117m)”
Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders From Mars (UK 1979/2003 Pennebaker 102m version)*

21 {8}

Barn
 (UK 1974 Sherwin 3m)*
Bonnie and Clyde (USA 1967 Penn 111m)”
Cain and Abel (Philippines 1982 Brocka 112m)*
Capsules / Portraits #1 (France 2021 Bourbon 2m)*
Exit (aka Escape) Poland 1989/1990/2009 TV? Bieńkowska-Buehlmann 29m)*
Ginza Strip
(Australia 2014 Tuohy 9m)”
Hand Grenade I (UK 1971 Eatherley 8m)*
Happy New Year (Yugoslavia 1983 Petrović 4m)*
Leviathan
(USA 2012 Castaing-Taylor & Paravel 87m)”
A Married Couple (Canada 1969 King 97m)*
Passe ton bac d’abord (aka Graduate First) (France 1978 Pialat 86m)*
We Won’t Grow Old Together (France 1972 Pialat 110m)*
Wishing Well (Germany 2018 Schedelbauer 13m)”
The Woman on the Beach (USA 1947 Renoir 71m)*
– – –
20 {7/10}
Beat the Devil (US/UK/Ity 1953 Huston 94m)*
Breathless
(USA 1983 McBride 97m)”
Capsules / portraits #2 (France 2021 Bourbon 2m)*
Cría Cuervos
(Spain 1976 Saura 107m)*
DECODING the IPhone Xs: A Techno-Magical Portal (Austria/Indonesia 2018 Ferrari 13m)”
Derby Fever USA (W.Germany 1979 TVM Klick 87m)*
Duvidha (India 1973 Kaul 84m)*
The Devil, Probably (France 1977 Bresson 92m)”
Dune (USA 1984 Lynch 137m)”
Frailty (USA 2001 Paxton 100m)”
Il Grido (Italy 1957 Antonioni 116m)*
Inception (USA/UK 2010 Nolan 148m)”
Marathon Man (USA 1976 Schlesinger 125m)”
A Most Violent Year (USA 1981 Chandor 125m)*
New Rose Hotel (USA 1998 Ferrara 93m)*
The Offence (UK 1973 Lumet 112m)*
The Orange Alternative (Poland 1988 Dembiński 24m)*
Prélude 06 (Greece 2009 Kourkouta 2m)*
Robin and Marian (UK/US 1976 Lester 106m)”
Shack Out on 101 (US 1955 Dein 80m)*
The Sting (USA 1973 Hill 129m)”
20160815 (Austria 2016 Frank 3m)*
Wild Things (USA 1998 McNaughton 108m)”
Xiao Wu (aka Pickpocket) (China 1997 Jia 111m)*
Year of the Dragon (USSR 1988 Sööt 59m)*
Zelig (USA 1983 Allen 79m)”

19 {7}

Alternating Current
(Austria/Serbia 2015 Kreuzinger 13m)”
The Autopsy of Jane Doe (UK/USA 2016 Øvredal 86m)*
Il Bell’Antonio
(Italy 1960 Bolognini 105m)*
The Cathedral (Latvia 1991 Pakalniņa 19m)*
Chronopolis (Kamler 1982 France 52m version)*
Classical Period (Fendt 2017 USA 62m)*
A Crowd (Yeonu Ju, South Korea 2020 15m)”
Female (USA 1933 Curtiz 60m)*
Hallelujah: Leonard Cohen, A Journey, A Song (USA 2021 Geller & Goldfine 118m)*
The Heroic Trio (HK 1993 To 83m)*
Life of a Shock Force Worker (Yugoslavia 1972 Čengić 78m)*
The Misfits (USA 1961 Huston 125m)*
One Hundred Children Waiting for a Train (Chile 1988 Agüero 55m)*
Paradise Lost: History in the Un-making (UK 2021 Howlett 84m)*
Rift (Norway 2017 Gijle 2017 6m)*
Rio Bravo (USA 1959 Hawks 141m)”
Rosetta (Bel/Fr 1999 Dardenne & Dardenne 95m)*
The Silence of the Lambs (USA 1991 Demme 118m)”
A Song for Europe (UK etc 1985 Goldschmidt TV 100m)”
Splendor in the Grass (USA 1961 Kazan 124m)*
The Star Chamber (USA 1983 Hyams 108m)*
Stavisky… (Italy/France 1974 Resnais 120m)*
The Talented Mr Ripley (USA 1999 Minghella 135m)”
Two-Lane Blacktop (USA 1971 Hellman 102m)”
Vampyros Lesbos (Spain/WGer 1971 Franco c89m)*
We Summon You (Poland 1981 Kosinski 8m)
Zoo (USA 2007 Devor 80m)*

18 {7}

The Baltic Way (Lithuania 1990 Matelis & Stonys 10m)*
Chronotope
(Taiwan 2020 Kang 3m)*
Excursion (Greece 1966 Kanellopoulos 85m)*
The Face Behind the Mask (USA 1941 Florey 69m)*?
Kiss Kiss Bang Bang (USA 2005 Black 103m)”
Metronome (UK 1974 Sherwin 3m)*
Mind the Steps! (Hungary 1989 Orosz 6m)*
The Mosquito Coast (USA 1986 Weir 117m)*
La Notte Brava (Italy/France 1959 Bolognini 95m)*
One On Top of the Other [aka Perversion Story] (Italy 1969 108m)*
The Raft of the Medusa (Yugoslavia 1980 Godina 100m)*
Šeki’s Filming, Watch Out! (Yugoslavia 1962 Vajda 101m)*
Undefeated aka Unbeaten (Drążewski 1984 75m)*
Zoo (USA 1993 Wiseman 130m)*

* = first view   ” = rewatch

 

ARCHIVE


. 2022 .


. 2021 .



. 2020 .


2019: THORAX (Fruhauf)
. 2019 .


2018: GEDE VIZYON (Simeon, Kielwagen, Serafim)
. 2018 .


2017: ARABY (Dumans & Uchôa)
. 2017 .


2016: HERBST (Rauchensteiner)
. 2016 .


2015: TOPONYMY (Perel)
. 2015 .


2014: PSYCHIC DRIVING (Jones)
. 2014 .


2013: STRAY DOGS (Tsai)
. 2013 .


2012: THE ACTION (Matarasso)
. 2012 .


2011: INNOCENT SATURDAY (Mindadze)
. 2011 .


2010: ARCHIPELAGO (Hogg)
. 2010 .


SHINBORU
. 2009 and earlier .



The Wolf's Mouth

23+/28 since 2005   (50m+)
2023: Samsara [26]; The Human Surge 3 [25]
2022: Riders [25]
2021: –
2020: –
2019:  The Beach Bum [23]; I Was At Home, But… [23]
2018: –
2017:  Araby [28]; Twin Peaks S3E8 ‘Gotta Light?’ {TV} [25]; Western [23]
2016:  Miss Kiet’s Children [24]; One Hundred and Fifty Years of Life [23]
2015:  Toponymy [27]; Chappie [26]; Lost and Beautiful [23]
– – –
2014 : It Follows [23]; Li’l Quinquin {TV} [23]
2013 : Stray Dogs [28]; On the Edge of the World [24]; Hard To Be A God [23]; The Joycean Society [23; mid]
2012 : Frances Ha [27]; Me Too [25]; The Act of Killing [25].
2011 : Innocent Saturday [25]; Elena [25]; Rango [23]; Sawdust City [23]; small roads [23].
2010 : Archipelago [25]; The Christening [23]; Finisterrae [23]; The Lord’s Ride [23].
– – –
2009 : Symbol [26]; District 9 [24]; The Wolf’s Mouth [23], Green Waters [23], A Serious Man [23].
2008 : The Wrestler [27]; Two Lovers [25]; René [24]; Revolutionary Road [24]; Wall-E [24]; Stella [23], Import Export [23].
2007 : casting a glance [28]; The Call of the Wild [26]; With a Girl of Black Soil [24]; Cargo 200 [24]; Blind Mountain [24]; Control [24]; Go Go Tales [23]; Zodiac [23].
2006: United 93 [27]; Fantasma [24]; Volver [24]; Children of Men [23]; The Other Half [23]; How Is Your Fish Today? [23]; Bellavista [23]; Pan’s Labyrinth [23]; Yella [23].
2005: A History of Violence [27]; Who is Bozo Texino? [26]; King Kong [24].
– – – – –

“shorts”: 24+ since 2013 (49m or less)
2023: Snow Crystals [24]
2022: Crow [25], Before Dark [24], Jill, Uncredited [24], The Human Torch [24]
2021: (third study for) Swedge of Heaven [25]; In Shallow Water [25]; Train Again [24]
2020: 13 [28]; Nenad [24]
2019: Thorax [27]; Mitski: A Pearl [26]
2018: Gede Vizyon [25]; Lost & Found [24]
2017: What Happens To the Mountain, or, Laramie [27]; Ruins Rider [24]
2016: The French Road, Detroit MI [25]; No’i [24]
2015: Isabella Morra [25]; Veruda, a Film About Bojan [25]; The Exquisite Corpus [24]; The Reflection of Power [24,?]; Pure Virtual Function [24?]
2014: Psychic Driving [28]; Vous voulez une histoire? [27]; Seventh Submarine [27]; Sun Stop [25]; Colterrain [24?]; The Claustrum [24?]; V~ [24?]
2013: brouillard – passage #14 [26]; The Queen [25]; The Three Disasters [25] Buffalo Death Mask [24?]
– – –

#1 of any length
2010 Archipelago [25] Joanna Hogg — feature-length
2011 Innocent Saturday [25] Aleksandr Mindadze — feature-length
2012 The Action [27] David Matarasso — “short”
2013 Stray Dogs [28] TSAI Ming-Liang — feature-length
2014 Psychic Driving [28] William E Jones — “short”
2015 Toponymy [27] Jonathan Perel — feature-length
2016 The French Road, Detroit MI [25] Arthur Summereder — “short”
2017 Araby [28] Dumans/Uchôa — “feature-length”
2018 Gede Vizyon [25] Kielwagen/Simeon/Serafim — “short”
2019 Thorax [27] Siegfried A Fruhauf — “short”
2020 13 [28] Shinya Isobe — “short”
2021 (third study for) Swedge of Heaven [25] Richard Forbes-Hamilton — “short”
2022 Riders [25] Dominik Mencej — “feature-length”
2023 Samsara [26] Lois Patiño — “feature-length”