2024 Poll: The Ballots
Raw data for raw cinephiles
Welcome back to our 2024 poll. Yesterday we revealed the winner, Bertand Bonello’s The Beast. When informed of this great honour, I am told that Mr Bonello merely blew vape smoke in the face of his assistant by way of expressing his displeasure.
Bellow, you will find the individual ballots for the poll, including ‘discoveries’ - best films new to us. This is a veritable feast of films to add to your watchlist. Our thanks to everyone who contributed.
Our thanks, too, to everyone who signed up in the first 24 hours of the Substack going live! If you haven’t subscribed yet, there’s still time. We will be back next week with a very exciting interview that you won’t want to miss. Until then, enjoy the ballots.
Kirsty Asher
I Saw the TV Glow (Jane Schoenbrun)
La Chimera (Alice Rohrwacher)
Hard Truths (Mike Leigh)
On Becoming a Guinea Fowl (Elene Naveriani)
Seeking Mavis Beacon (Jazmin Jones)
Avebury:Twenty-First Century Folk (Ben Edge)
The Beast (Bertrand Bonello)
Conclave (Mike Cheslik)
Grand Theft Hamlet (Sam Crane, Pinny Grylls)
Hundreds of Beavers (Edward Berger)
Discoveries
Gosford Park (Robert Altman, 2001)
Goodbye, Dragon Inn (Tsai Ming-liang, 2003)
The Proud Valley (Pen Tennyson, 1940)
Starship Troopers (Paul Verhoeven, 1997)
The Night of the Hunter (Charles Laughton, 1955)
The Bitter Tears of Petra Von Kant (Rainer Werner Fassbinder, 1972)
House of Tolerance (Bertrand Bonello, 2011)
Ghostwatch (Lesley Manning, 1992)
Death Becomes Her (Robert Zemeckis, 1992)
Daughters of the Dust (Julie Dash, 1991)
Häxan (Benjamin Christensen, 1922)
Ben Flanagan
Direct Action (Ben Russell, Guillaume Cailleau)
Hard Truths (Mike Leigh)
Drive-Away Dolls (Ethan Coen)
Grand Tour (Miguel Gomes)
The Taste of Things (Trần Anh Hùng)
Megalopolis (Francis Ford Coppola)
The Beast (Bertrand Bonello)
Sanatorium Under the Sign of the Hourglass (Stephen Quay, Timothy Quay)
Juror #2 (Clint Eastwood)
The People's Joker (Vera Drew) + Hundreds of Beavers (Mike Cheslik)
Discoveries
Films by Russ Meyer
Bona (Lino Brocka, 1980)
The Annihilation of Fish (Charles Burnett, 1999)
Main Hoon Na (Farah Khan, 2004)
Walker (Alex Cox, 1987)
Nope (Jordan Peele, 2022) [a rewatch, but this was the year i 'discovered' that this is the best American film of the 2020s]
Tokyo Sonata (Kiyoshi Kurosawa, 2008)
Films by Matt Johnson
Nothing But Trouble (Akroyd, 1991); Jiminy Glick in Lalawood (Vadim Jean, 2004) Bob The Butler (Gary Sinyor, 2005); RoboGeisha (Noboru Iguchi, 2009); Guess Who (Kevin Rodney Sullivan, 2005); Malpertuis (Harry Kümel, 1971)
India Song (Marguerite Duras, 1975)
Esmé Holden
Janet Planet (Annie Baker)
100,000,000,000,000 (Virgil Vernier)
By the Stream (Hong Sang-soo)
The Beast (Bertrand Bonello)
Hard Truths (Mike Leigh)
Stress Positions (Theda Hammel)
Youth (Hard Times) (Wang Bing)
I Saw the TV Glow (Jane Schoenbrun)
Drive-Away Dolls (Ethan Coen)
Here (Robert Zemeckis)
Discoveries
Something Wild
Peggy Sue Got Married
Safe & Dottie Gets Spanked
i hate myself :)
In Praise of Love
On the Rocks
A New Leaf
U.S. Go Home
M. Butterfly
Pickup
Blaise Radley
1. Grand Tour (Gomes)
2. The Beast (Bonello)
3. La Chimera (Rohrwacher)
4. Chime (Kurosawa)
5. Nickel Boys (Ross)
6. Aggro Dr1ft (Korine)
7. Eephus (Lund)
8. Twilight of the Warriors: Walled In (Cheang)
9. Broken Rage (Kitano)
10. Last Summer (Breillat)
Discoveries
A Confucian Confusion (Yang, 1994)
Crank (Taylor, Neveldine, 2006)
Chimes at Midnight (Welles, 1965)
He Got Game (Lee, 1998)
Husbands (Cassavetes, 1970)
I, the Executioner (Kato, 1968)
Judex (Feuillade, 1916)
Remains to Be Seen (Solomon, 1989)
The Age of Swordfish (De Seta, 1955)
Uncle Yanco (Varda, 1967)
Alonso Aguilar
Caught by the Tides, Jia Zhangke
Le chemin du serpent, Kiyoshi Kurosawa
- Trap, M Night. Shyamalan
Chime, Kiyoshi Kurosawa
Soundtrack to a Coup D'état
Juror #2, Clint Eastwood
Terrifier 3, Damien Leone
All We Imagine As Light, Payal Kapadia
The Periphery of the Base, Zhou Tao
Eat The Night, Caroline Poggi & Jonathan Vinel
Discoveries
Los campeones justicieros, Federico Curiel, México (1971)
Come Drink With Me, King Hu, Hong Kong (1966)
Zu: Warriors of the Magic Mountain, Tsui Hark, Hong Kong (1983)
Vivir en Sevilla, Gonzalo García-Pelayo, España (1978)
Etnocidio: Notas sobre El Mezquital, Paul Leduc, México (1977)
Jeremy Arblaster
The Brutalist
La Chimera
Aggro Drift
Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat
The Beast
Furiosa
The Holdovers
Red Rooms
Sometimes I Think About Dying
The Taste of Things
Discoveries
A Scene at Sea (91)
Master & Commander (03)
Memories of Murder (03)
Raise the Red Lantern (91)
Remains of the Day (93)
Rosa la Rose (86)
The Insider (99) + Thief (81)
The Mission (99)
The Red Shoes (48)
The Swimmer (68)
Thomas Atkinson
1. Eat the Night (Poggi and Vinel)
2. Favoriten (Beckermann)
3. Fire of Wind (Mateus)
4. Meiyazhagan (Kumar)
5. Presence (Soderbergh)
6. Exposé du film annonce du film "Scénario" (Godard)
7. Running Fields I-IV (Mavy)
8. Soundtrack to a Coup d'Etat (Grimonprez)
9. Trap (Shyamalan)
10. A Traveler's Needs (Hong)
11. Twilight of the Warriors: Walled In (Cheang)
Discoveries
1. Fantômas (Feuillade, 1913)
2. Deep Red (Argento, 1975)
3. Simone Barbès or Virtue (Treilhou, 1980)
4. The Cat (Graf, 1988)
5. Up, Down, Fragile (Rivette, 1995)
6. God's Comedy (Monteiro, 1995)
7. Event Horizon (Anderson, 1997)
8. Life on Earth (Sissako, 1998)
9. Miss and the Doctors (Ropert, 2013)
10. SPL2: A Time for Consequences (Cheang, 2015)
11. Yourself and Yours (Hong, 2016)
12. Oh Mercy (Desplechin, 2019)
Nadira Begum
To a Land Unknown (dir. Mahdi Fleifel)
Bye Bye Tiberias (dir. Lina Soualem)
Thank You for Banking with Us! (dir. Laila Abbas)
Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat (dir. Johan Grimonprez)
Hard Truths (dir. Mike Leigh)
La Chimera (dir. Alice Rohrwacher)
The Ballad of Suzanne Césaire (dir. Madeleine Hunt-Ehrlich)
An Urban Allegory (dir. Alice Rohrwacher, JR)
Bird (dir. Andrea Arnold)
The Bikeriders (dir. Jeff Nichols)
Discoveries
The Godfather (1972)
The Hours (2002)
Paris Blues (1961)
Le Pupille (2022)
The Shop Around the Corner (1940)
Petite Maman (2021)
Little Women (1933)
Hook (1991)
The Firm (1993)
Top Gun: Maverick (2022)
Anna Devereux
Hard Truths (Mike Leigh)
Matt and Mara (Kazik Radwanski)
Juror #2 (Clint Eastwood)
Small Things Like These (Tim Mielants)
Thelma (Josh Margolin)
Megalopolis (Francis Ford Coppola)
Kneecap (Rich Peppiatt)
Drive-Away Dolls (Ethan Coen)
Wallace and Gromit: a Vengeance Most Fowl (Nick Park & Merlin Crossingham)
La Chimera (Alice Rohrwacher)
Rap World (Conner O'Malley & Danny Scharar)
Special mention to Jim Carrey's glorious return to form in Sonic the Hedgehog 3 (Jeff Fowler)
Discoveries
The work of Matt Johnson - The Dirties (2013), Operation Avalanche (2016)
Bona (1980, Lino Brocka)
Pink Flamingos (1972, John Waters)
Paper Moon (1973, Peter Bogdanovich)
The Talk of the Town (1942, George Stevens)
Clean (2004, Olivier Assayas)
Thief (1981, Michael Mann)
Where is the Friend's House (1987, Abbas Kiarostami)
Dawn of the Dead (1978, George A. Romero)
Main Hoon Na (2004, Farah Khan)
Tereza Dodoková
The Beast (Bertrand Russel)
Janet planet (Annie Baker)
Dahomey (Mati Diop)
Cent Mille Milliards (Virgil Vernier)
La habitación de al lado (Pedro Almodóvar)
No other land (Yuval Abraham, Basel Adra, Rachel Szor, Hamdan Ballal)
Youth (Hard Times) (Wang Bing)
A Fidai Film (Kamal Aljafari)
Suyucheon (Hong-Sang-soo)
El realismo socialista (Raúl Ruiz, Valeria Sarmiento)
Discoveries
Le Genou d’Artemide (Jean-Marie Straub)
Einleitung zu Arnold Schönbergs Begleitmusik zu einer Lichtspielscene (Danièle Huillet, Jean-Marie Straub)
Dalla nube alla resistenza (Danièle Huillet, Jean-Marie Straub)
Milestones (Robert Kramer)
Guns (Robert Kramer)
Détruire, dit-elle (Marguerite Duras)
Cent Mille Milliards (Virgil Vernier)
Maeve (Pat Murphy, John Davies)
The Killing of a Chinese Bookie (John Cassavetes)
Rose Dymock
Kneecap
Conclave
Eight Postcards from Utopia
No Other Land
The Beekeeper
Challengers
Nickel Boys
The Brutalist
La Chimera
Wallace and Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl
(Honourable mention, the Gavin and Stacy Christmas special)
Discoveries
Young Girls of Rochefort
Heartbreak Kid
Mickey and Nicky
Fiddler on the Roof
Malcolm X
Eyes Wide Shut
JFK
Company: A Musical Comedy (2008)
The Draughtsman's Contract
After Hours
Paul Farrell
The Human Surge 3 (Williams)
Trap Shyamalan
Chime (Kurosawa)
The Beast (Bonello)
Discoveries
Aventurera (Gout, 1950)
The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser (Herzog, 1974)
Penda's Fen (Clarke, 1974)
A Camel (Shaddad, 1981)
Wênd Kûuni (Kaboré, 1982)
Hey Mister, You're in the Girls' Room (Burtt, 1998)
Phantom Beirut (Salhab, 1998)
Wendigo (Fessenden, 2001)
Fat Choi Spirit (Wai & To, 2002)
Funny Ha Ha (Bujalski, 2002)
Ju-on: The Grudge (Shimizu, 2002)
Harold and Kumar Go to White Castle (Leiner, 2004)
Smiley Face (Araki, 2007)
Rab Ni Bana Di Jodi (Chopra, 2008)
Home Movies Gaza (al-Sharif, 2013)
wawa (Hopkina, 2014)
Blood Quantum (Barnaby, 2019)
Soham Gadre
1. Samsara (Lois Patiño)
2. Nickel Boys (RaMell Ross)
3. Youth - Hard Times & Homecoming (Wang Bing)
4. A Stone's Throw (Razan AlSalah)
5. Kubi (Takeshi Kitano)
6. The Old Oak (Ken Loach)
7. Vermiglio (Maura Delpero)
8. Music (Angela Shanelec)
9. All We Imagine as Light (Payal Kapadia)
10. Cuckoo (Tilman Singer)
Discoveries
American Movie (Chris Smith, 1999)
An Autumn Afternoon (Yasujiro Ozu, 1967)
Bloody Nose Empty Pockets (The Ross Brothers, 2019)
Fat Girl (Catherine Breillat, 2001)
The Hustler (Robert Rossen, 1961)
La Marge (Walerian Borowczyk, 1976)
The Legend of the Holy Drinker (Ermanno Olmi, 1988)
Naked Lunch (David Cronenberg, 1991)
Polyester (John Waters, 1981)
Reflections of Evil (Damon Packard, 2002)
Dan Wilkinson
6TILL6 (Arran Ashan & Mustafa Mohamoud)
If someone tells you British film is dead, put this on to shut them up. The concept of filming around London for 24 hours straight to explore the stories of everyday people combats the myopic reality we're often fed about the city.
Unfrosted (Jerry Seinfeld)
Lost in the shadow of Seinfeld's current turn as a political puppet. It's not just his politics that place him out of step in the world; his honed comedic instincts lean into the rapid-fire gags, so frequent they almost become verbal tics. A world away from 'vibes' comedy of late, this film is determined to make you laugh with the whiff of American exceptionalism just being a bonus.
www.RachelOrmont.com (Peter Vack)
A journey into the modern lust for attention. Is it dystopian or merely reflective of our own inner id becoming conjoined to the hellscape of the internet?
In Water (Hong Sang-soo)
The truest paen to no-budget indie filmmakers capturing the beautiful in the mundane
film01 ( angelicism01)
A film for editors. Captures the frenetic energy of the online world, starting as dual tik toks it reaches a mantra and becomes transcendental.
I Saw the TV Glow 2024 (Jane Schoenbrun)
Subtle and sad, Schoebrun’s film has planted a seed that will bloom for the next generation.
Rap World (Conner O’Malley, Danny Scharar)
A film for the bois. All those who've lived it will watch from between their fingers and mouthing every white boi rap verse.
"She Is Conann (Bertrand Mandico)
Odd in the way films need to be allowed to be, mixing epic fantasy lore with Berlin art satire. I could watch hours of this.
The All Golden (Nate Wilson)
Wilson sees visions that I don't know if the world is ready for, if you're daring to indulge in a new cinematic language then the All Golden will truly speak to you.
Samsara (Lois Patiño)
A breath of serenity. Samsara delivers a visual bath of wonders and recenters the filmmaking, giving breath in every frame.
Discoveries
The Work 2017 (Jairus McLeary, Gethin Aldous)
A man's emotions can live inside his head all his life, this documentary captures what happens when he reaches the crossroad between turmoil and salvation. "
Revolution+1 (Masao Adachi)
The audacity of filming and then releasing a biopic of the Shinzo Abe assassin within a year of his death! The film's urgency puts to rest any complaints of amateurism, which only service the stark reality of the world it captures.
Letters to the Postman (Felix Dembinski)
One of the UK's emerging directors, you have to message Felix directly to see this masterful take on the ghost story. But it's definitely worth it.
Macabre Metrics (William North)
Another one to watch. The London based director is on a Korean jaunt, bringing us a freewheeling satire on tik tok influencers mixed with his limitless visual imagination running wild. There's a section with Ai that made me a convert, drooling at the possibilities."
Vidocq 2001 (Pitof)
This pulpy French romp is a vulgar auteur gem, giving Pitof free rein to visually throw everything into the mix, it may not always be pretty but you'll never forget the experience.
Punctured Sky (Jon Rafman)
Rafman speaks to an unexpressed loneliness we all feel, though this lives on a creepypasta foundation, he elevates the medium to a deeper resonance."
Pierre or The Ambiguities (Leos Carax)
Pola X as it's meant to be seen. Gives so much more meat to the bones we initially got. Brings a novelistic depth with the twists of a serial.
Feeling My Way (Jonathan Hodgson)
Proof that England made contemplative experimental cinema. Wherever Hodgson is right now, we need you back!
Torque (Joseph Kahn)
How this slipped through the net, I'll never know. A self aware biker movie that drenches you in the most hyper action that ever was. One minute of this film would blow everything else out of the water.
Love ’47 (Wolfgang Liebeneiner)
A nation struggling to make sense of its recent past, forces two strangers together. It's a classic tale through a new perspective. A film to make you feel.
Rhys Handley
Afire (Christian Petzold)
Bird (Andrea Arnold)
Dahomey (Mati Diop)
Hoard (Luna Carmoon)
The Holdovers (Alexander Payne)
I Saw the TV Glow (Jane Schoenbrun)
La Chimera (Alice Rohrwacher)
Love Lies Bleeding (Rose Glass)
Monster (Hirokazu Kore-eda)
Perfect Days (Wim Wenders)
Discoveries
12 Angry Men / Before the Devil Knows You're Dead (1957/2007, Sidney Lumet)
The Arbor / The Selfish Giant (2010/2013, Clio Barnard)
Eraserhead (1977, David Lynch)
Manakamana (2013, Stephanie Spray & Pacho Velez)
Modern Times (1936, Charlie Chaplin)
Pale Flower (1964, Masahiro Shinoda)
Stalker (1979, Andrei Tarkovsky)
Tampopo / The Funeral (1985/1984, Juzo Itami)
Ugetsu (1953, Kenji Mizoguchi)
Where is the Friend's House? (1987, Abbas Kiarostami)
Digby Houghton
1. The Room Next Door (Pedro Almodóvar, 2024)
2. Viet and Nam (Minh Quy Truong, 2024)
3. Misericordia (Alain Guiraudie, 2024)
4. Caught by the Tides (Jia Zhangke, 2024)
5. Challengers (Luca Guadagnino, 2024)
6. Poor Things (Yorgos Lanthimos, 2023)
7. Do Not Expect Too Much From the End of the World (Radu Jude, 2023)
8. Fallen Leaves (Aki Kaurismäki, 2023)
9. Last Summer (Catherine Breillat, 2023)
10. Grape Steak (André Shannon & Jen Atherton, 2023)
Discoveries
1. Touch of Evil (Orson Welles, 1958)
2. The Piano (Jane Campion, 1993)
3. Jacques Rivette, the Watchmen (Claire Denis & Serge Daney, 1990)
4. Hollywood Ten, Melbourne One (Daryl Dellora, 1985)
5. La Maman et la Putain (Jean Eustaches, 1973) - thanks to the Melbourne Cinematheque!
6. Days of Heaven (Terrence Malick, 1978)
7. Love and Other Catastrophes (Emma-Kate Croghan, 1996)
8. Dalmas (Bert Deling, 1973)
9. Dr. Caligari (Stephen Sayadian, 1989) - thanks Thornbury Picture House and Daniel Bird
10. Sunshine City (Albie Thoms, 1973) - thanks Artist Film Workshop for screening this rare 16mm print!
Oliver Hunt
Aggro Dr1ft (2023), Dir: Harmony Korine
I’ve never had so much fun in a GTA V online lobby.
The All Golden (2023), Dir: Nate Wilson
Throw out your copy of Walter Murch's snore-fest In the Blink of an Eye and take a page out of Nate Wilson’s book of editing.
Better Man (2024), Dir: Michael Gracey
🙈🙉🙊
film01 (2023), Dir: angelicism01
About an hour and a half in I went blind… and saw the face of God
In a Violent Nature (2024), Dir: Chris Nash
Stomp stomp. Kill kill
In Water (2023), 물안에서 Dir: Hong Sang-soo
For a guy who is losing his sight, this film looked pretty good. Consistently finding much inspiration in Hong Sang-soo’s one-man-band productions. Kill the catering.
It’s Not Me (C'est pas moi, 2024), Dir: Leos Carax
No, of course not. It’s a riff of Godard. However, Leos is channelling Godard as if he had a Gold membership on 4chan.
Megalopolis (2024), Dir: Francis Ford Coppola
Cementing my belief in the importance of the artist’s vision in society.
www.RachelOrmont.com (2024), Dir: Peter Vack
You’ll hate it and that’s why I love it.
Secondary (2023), Dir: Matthew Barney
Stepping into a Barney video has never been more fun. Go Raiders.
Discoveries
Cipher 1989, Dir: Tsuneo Tominaga
If Nabokov adapted a naff Disney Channel show into an OVA, it wouldn’t be too far off this. Mysterious and beguiling.
Fe (はがね, 1994), Dir: Kanji Nakajima
A contemplative post-kaiju disaster movie in the spirit of Tarkovsky. Quiet, poetic, and subtly epic.
Kill Me Softly (Ubij me nežno, 1979) Dir: Boštjan Hladnik
Genuinely mad and FUN. Eccentric sexual politics. Oh, and don’t step on the turtles 🐢
Kuichisan (2011) Dir: Maiko Endo
Transcendental in a way that few films can achieve and cooler than most movies can conceive.
Oriental Elegy (Восточная элегия 1996) Dir: Aleksandr Sokurov
Пожалуй, мой фаворит года. Его жуткая атмосфера завораживает. Александр Сокуров – лучший представитель своего поколения.
Topic I et II (1989) Dir: Pascal Baes
I wanna smoke a cigarette with Pascal Baes.
Trailer of a Film That Will Never Exist: Phony Wars 2023 Dir: Jean-Luc Godard
RIP King.
Sasha’s Hell (2019) Dir: Nikita Lavretski
If you don’t know who Nikita Lavretski is, do yourself a favour and familiarise yourself with his immense and easily accessible output. An acolyte of Aleksandr Sokurov, Lavretski is one of my favourite contemporary visionaries.
"St. John’s Wort (弟切草 2001) Dir: Ten Shimoyama
This is one of my favourite discoveries of last year. A creative riff on video game aesthetics and tropes.
Ellisha Izumi
1. Dune: Part Two (Villeneuve)
2. The Beast (Bonello)
3. Chime (Kurosawa)
4. A Different Man (Schimberg)
5. Do Not Expect Too Much from the End of the World (Jude)
6. Monster (Kore-eda)
7. Better Man (Gracey)
8. Bed Behaviour (Englert)
9. The Zone of Interest (Glazer)
10. Hoard (Carmoon)
Discoveries
1. Hakuchi: The Innocent (1999, Makoto Tezuka)
2. Koyaanisqatsi (1982, Godfrey Reggio)
3. The White Ribbon (2009, Michael Haneke)
4. Blow-Up (1966, Michelangelo Antonioni)
5. Searchers (2021, Pacho Velez)
6. Antenna (2003, Kazuyoshi Kumakiri)
7. Häxan (1922, Benjamin Christensen)
8. My First Suit (1985, Stewart Main)
9. Sense and Sensibility (1995, Ang Lee)
10. The Cruise (1998, Bennett Miller)
Maximilien Luc Proctor
Room of Shadows (Camilo Restrepo)
Us and the Night (Audrey Lam)
Unstable Rocks (Ewelina Rosinska + Nuno Barroso)
Invention (Courtney Stephens)
Desire Path (Sofia Theodore-Pierce)
Being John Smith (John Smith)
How to Make Magic (blanca garcía) + Bees in the Hills (james devine)
Juror #2 (Clint Eastwood)
No Other Land (Rachel Szor, Hamdan Ballal, Yuval Abraham, Basel Adra )
The Ballad of Suzanne Césaire (Madeleine Hunt-Ehrlich)
‘With special thanks to phili for getting the groceries so I had time to make these lists’
Discoveries
Change 变 (2016, Lily Jue Sheng)
Maternal Filigree (1980, Sandra Davis)
Galaxie (1966, Gregory J. Maropoulos) + Portrait (1973, Georges Rey)
Cultural Nationalism (1968, Skip Norman)
Hreash House (2004, Rosalind Nashashib)
Andy Warhol: Portrait of the Artist as A Young Man (1965, Gerard Malanga)
The X-Files (1998, Rob Bowman)
Spaguetti Tornado (2010, João Maria Gusmão + Pedro Paiva)
Raindance (1972, Standish Lawder)
Le Zoo (1992, Teo Hernandez)
Padaí Ó Maolchalann
Misericordia (Alain Guiraudie)
To a Land Unknown (Mahdi Fleifel)
Revolving Rounds (Christina Jauernik and Johann Lurf)
By the Stream (Hong Sang Soo)
Chime (Kurosawa Kiyoshi)
The Brutalist (Brady Corbet)
Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga (George Miller)
The Room Next Door (Pedro Almodovar)
Youth (Homecoming) (Wang Bing)
Pain (Ivan Faktor)
Ioanna Micha
Ann-Julie Vervaeke's A Gentle Gesture
Zacharias Mavroeidis' The Summer with Carmen
Andrew Haigh's All of Us Strangers
Danica Arias Kleinknecht's Backwash
Hyoil Ahn's Hwangtae
Kristopher Roller's First Light
Wooje Chang's Bring me the Head of a Smiling Pig
Oleksandr Shuklin's Why the North?
Júlia Faria's Edges
Sandrine Collard's Chez Joanna
Discoveries
Ahmad Alyaseer's Our Males and Females (2022)
Lloyd Lee Choi Closing Dynasty (2022)
Enrika Panero's Concrete Heart (2022)
Alexandros Pissourios' A full life I suppose (2023)
Alfred Hitchcock's Rope (1948)
Alex Mooney
1. By the Stream
2. Juror #2
3. I Saw the TV Glow
4. Trap
5. Nickel Boys
6. The Shrouds
7. Grand Tour
8. Chime
9. On Becoming a Guinea Fowl
10. A Traveler's Needs
Discoveries
Black Narcissus
Every Man for Himself
F for Fake
He Got Game
Losing Ground
Sam Moore
The Seed of the Sacred Fig
Queer
Anora
Challengers
Hard Truths
I Saw the TV Glow
Dune: Part Two
A Real Pain
Conclave
Viet and Nam
Discoveries
High and Low
Beau Travail
Angel's Egg
Distant Voices, Still Lives
Vanya on 42nd Street
Under the Silver Lake
Pee Wee's Big Adventure
Santa Sangre
The Long Goodbye
Bad Day at Black Rock
Kenny Nixon
Juror No. 2 (dir. Clint Eastwood)
Revolution+1 (dir. Masao Adachi)
Maestro (dir. Bradley Cooper)
Here (dir. Robert Zemeckis)
Megalopolis (dir. Francis Ford Coppola)
Discoveries
The Eric Roberts Triptych: Star 80 (dir. Bob Fosse, 1983), The Coca-Cola Kid (dir. Dušan Makaveyev, 1985), The Ambulance (dir. Larry Cohen, 1990)
A Bucket of Blood (dir. Roger Corman, 1959)
Youth Without Youth (dir. Francis Ford Coppola, 2007)
Acto Da Primavera (dir. Manoel De Oliveira, 1963)
Best Seller (dir. John Flynn, 1990)
That's Life! (dir. Blake Edwards, 1986)
Dwan's 50's Westerns: Woman They Almost Lynched, Cattle Queen of Montana, Tennessee's Partner, The Restless Breed
Eight Hours Don't Make A Day (dir. Rainer Werner Fassbinder, 1972)
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mrs. Osborne (dir. Walerian Borowczyk, 1981)
The Human Factor (dir. Otto Preminger)
Joseph Owen
Nickel Boys | RaMell Ross | 2024 | 2h 20m (Ritzy, Brixton)
The Brutalist | Brady Corbet | 2024 | 3h 35m (Picturehouse Central, Piccadilly)
Janet Planet | Annie Baker | 2023 | 1h 53m (Ritzy, Brixton)
The Beast | Bertrand Bonello | 2023 | 2h 26m (Ritzy, Brixton)
Youth (Hard Times) | Wang Bing | 2024 | 3h 47m (Teatro Kursaal, Locarno)
Eight Postcards from Utopia | Radu Jude | 2024 | 1h 11m (Rialto, Locarno)
By the Stream | Hong Sangsoo | 2024 | 1h 51m (Teatro Kursaal, Locarno)
The Delinquents | Rodrigo Moreno | 2023 | 3h 10m (Virgin Atlantic, Heathrow > JFK)
Evil Does Not Exist | Ryusuke Hamaguchi | 2023 | 1h 46m (Garden Cinema, Holborn)
Ferrari | Michael Mann | 2023 | 2h 10m (Addington Square)
Discoveries
Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me | David Lynch | 1992 | 2h 14m
Hale County This Morning, This Evening | RaMell Ross | 2018 | 1h 16m
Midnight | Mitchell Leisen | 1939 | 1h 34m
Eyes Wide Shut | Stanley Kubrick | 1999 | 2h 39m
Memoria | Apichatpong Weerasethakul | 2021 | 2h 16m
Carmen Paddock
Nickel Boys (RaMell Ross)
La Chimera (dir. Alice Rohrwacher)
The Iron Claw (dir. Sean Durkin)
Hundreds of Beavers (dir. Mike Cheslik)
Grand Theft Hamlet (dir. Pinny Grylls, Sam Crane)
Do Not Expect Too Much from the End of the World (dir. Radu Jude) - sorry, it's true
Love Lies Bleeding (dir. Rose Glass)
A Different Man (dir. Aaron Schimberg)
Sing Sing (dir. Greg Kwedar)
The People's Joker (dir. Vera Drew)
Theo Rollason
The Beast (Bertrand Bonello, 2023)
La Chimera (Alice Rohrwacher, 2023)
Do Not Expect Too Much from the End of the World (Radu Jude, 2023)
Exposé du film annonce du film “Scénario” / Scénarios (Jean-Luc Godard, 2024)
Grand Tour (Miguel Gomes, 2024)
I Saw the TV Glow (Jane Schoenbrun, 2024)
Israel Palestine on Swedish TV 1958-1989 (Göran Hugo Olsson, 2024)
Megalopolis (Francis Ford Coppola, 2024)
Red Rooms (Pascal Plante, 2023)
Việt and Nam (Minh Quý Trương, 2024)
Discoveries
Girlfriends (Claudia Weill, 1978)
Hellzapoppin’ (H. C. Potter, 1941)
He Who Gets Slapped (Victor Sjöström, 1924)
The Hourglass Sanatorium (Wojciech Has, 1973)
Kiss Me Deadly (Robert Aldrich, 1955)
Alistair Ryder
I Saw The TV Glow
Challengers
Red Rooms
No Other Land
Hard Truths
Pictures of Ghosts
All We Imagine As Light
Sing Sing
Trap
Misericordia
Discoveries
West Indies
Linda Linda Linda
Monsieur Verdoux
Mrs Miniver
One False Move
Anand Sudha
Do Not Expect Too Much from the end of the world (Radu Jude)
Soundtrack to a Coup d'etat (Johan Grimonprez)
Rhythm of a Flower (Amit Dutta)
La Chimera (Alice Rohrwacher)
Close Your Eyes (Victor Erice)
Janet Planet (Annie Baker)
Chime (Kiyoshi Kurosawa)
Last Summer (Catherine Breillat)
All We Imagine as Light (Payal Kapadia)
No Other Land (Basil Adra and Yuval Abraham)
Discoveries
Celine and Julie Go Boating (Jacques Rivette, 1974)
Springtime in a Small Town (Fei Mu, 1948)
Mysteries of Lisbon ( TV Version, Raul Ruiz, 2010)
Man in a White Suit (Alexander Mackendrick, 1951)
Flowers of Shanghai (Hou Hsiao-Hsien, 1998)
Itinerary of Jean Bricard (Jean Marie Straub and Danielle Huillet, 2008)
Siddheshwari (Mani Kaul, 1990)
Peking Opera Blues ( Tsui Hark, 1986)
By the Bluest of Seas (Boris Barnet, 1936)
The Hole (Tsai Ming Laing, 1998)
Orla Smith
The Beast (Bertrand Bonello)
Janet Planet (Annie Baker)
Hard Truths (Mike Leigh)
Evil Does Not Exist (Ryusuke Hamaguchi)
Dahomey (Mati Diop)
Do Not Expect Too Much From the End of the World (Radu Jude)
A Different Man (Aaron Schimberg)
The Taste of Mango (Chloe Abrahams)
The Feeling That the Time for Doing Something Has Passed (Joanna Arnow)
Red Rooms (Pascal Plante)
Discoveries
Rainbow Dance (Len Lye, 1936)
Aventurera (Alberto Gout, 1950)
The Tale of Tsar Saltan (Aleksandr Pushkin, 1967)
The Boy Friend (Ken Russell, 1971)
The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser + My Best Fiend (Werner Herzog, 1974 + 1999)
I Don’t Hate Las Vegas Anymore (Caveh Zahedi, 1994)
Chasing Amy (Kevin Smith, 1997)
The Annihilation of Fish (Charles Burnett, 1999)
Tape (Richard Linklater, 2001)
On the Beach at Night Alone (Hong Sangsoo, 2017)
Fedor Tot
Do Not Expect Too Much from the End of the World (Radu Jude)
About Dry Grasses (Nuri Bilge Ceylan)
Juror #2 (Clint Eastwood)
I'm Still Here (Walter Salles)
La Chimera (Alice Rohrwacher)
Dahomey (Mati Diop)
A Different Man (Aaron Schimberg)
All the Long Nights (Shō Miyake)
Rebel Ridge (Jermy Saulnier)
Kinds of Kindness (Yorgos Lanthimos)
Discoveries
Night of the Wolf (France Štiglic, 1955, Yugoslavia)
Pavle Pavlović (Puriša Ðorđević, 1975, Yugoslavia)
Something in Between (Srđan Karanović, 1982, Yugoslavia)
Ran (Akira Kurosawa, 1985, Japan)
City Girl (FW Murnau, 1931, USA)
Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors (Sergei Parajanov, 1965, USSR)
Werckmeister Harmonies (Bela Tarr, 2000, Hungary)
The Last Laugh (FW Murnau, 1924, Germany)
After Hours (Martin Scorsese, 1985, USA)
The Unknown (Tod Browning, 1927, USA)
Owen Vince
L'empire – Bruno Dumont
Untitled – by redactedcut
Caught by the Tides – Jia Zhangke
Scenario(s)/ Exposé du film annonce du film “Scénario” – Jean-Luc Godard
By the Stream – Hong Sang-soo
About Dry Grasses – Nuri Bilge Ceylan
Cosmic Miniatures – Alexander Kluge
Revolving Rounds – Johann Lurf & Christiana Jaurnik
Anora – Sean Baker
Megalopolis – Francis Ford Coppola
Discoveries
Hôtel du Nord – Marcel Carné
Demonlover – Oliver Assayas
King Lear – John-Luc Godard
Five Year Diary – Anne Charlotte Robertson
The Servant – Joseph Losey
Blicklust – Dietmar Brehm
Umbracale – Pere Portabella
Lenny – Bos Fosse
Eight Deadly Shots – Mikko Niskanen
Day for Night – Truffaut