2025 Poll: The Ballots

Yesterday we published our top 10 films of the year 2025.

Votes were cast for 221 new releases, which shows a segmented distribution cycle splitting the critical consensus. While our top three all recieved around a fifth of the total votes cast, no one film stood out as the favourite as in past years.

Below are the full ballots, cast by past contributors, colleagues, and personal heroes of the Cinema Year Zero team.

Alongside 2025 films, as ususal we asked for voters’ discoveries of the year. From sacred cows to instagram personalities gone wild, there’s enough gems from the history of the moving image to pore over until the next one.

Finally, a reminder that NOT BY LYNCH kicks off next Friday, January 16th with Fritz Lang’s The Secret Behind the Door (1947).

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Alistair Ryder (Occasional Critic)

1. One Battle After Another (Paul Thomas Anderson)

2. Sirāt (Oliver Laxe)

3. Resurrection (Bi Gan)

4. Marty Supreme (Josh Safdie)

5. No Other Choice (Park Chan-wook)

6. Sinners (Ryan Coogler)

7. Kontinental ‘25 (Radu Jude)

8. Happyend (Neo Sora)

9. Blue Moon (Richard Linklater)

10. The Mastermind (Kelly Reichardt)

Discoveries

• Matewan (1987, John Sayles)

• 10 Rillington Place (1971, Richard Fleischer)

• Variety (1983, Bette Gordon)

• Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker’s Apocalypse (1991, Eleanor Coppola et al)

• The Beaches of Agnes (2008, Agnes Varda)

• Dick Tracy (1990, Warren Beatty)

• Tokyo Sonata (2008, Kiyoshi Kurosawa)

• Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge (1995, Aditya Chopra)

• Dick (1999, Andrew Fleming)

• Mississippi Mermaid (1969, François Truffaut)

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Alonso Aguilar (Film critic, audiovisual producer and programmer from San José, Costa Rica)

1. Deathstalker (Steven Kostanski)

2. dedonde son los cantantes (Bruno Varela)

3. Dry Leaf (Alexandre Koberidze)

4. Havoc (Gareth Evans)

5. Homme-Sick (Julian Konuk)

6. In The Lost Lands (Paul W.S. Anderson)

7. L’Aventura (Sophie Letourneur)

8. La Corazonada (Diego Soto)

9. Mad Bills to Pay (or Destiny, dile que no soy malo) (Joel Alfonso Vargas)

10. With Hasan in Gaza (Kamal Aljafari)

Discoveries

• Bacchanale (1970, John & Lem Amero)

• Sonnensucher (1972, Konrad Wolf)

• Hallelujah, I’m a Bum (1933, Lewis Milestone)

• Ignacio (1956, Ángel F. Rivera)

• Hallelujah, I’m a Bum (1933, Lewis Milestone)

• La légende du fantôme (1908, Segundo de Chomón)

• Merry-Go-Round (1980, Jacques Rivette)

• Nie wieder schlafen - Nie mehr zurück (1992, Pia Frankenberg)

• Passport to Pimlico (1949, Henry Cornelius)

• Park Lanes (2015, Kevin Jerome Everson)

• The Terror and the Time (1978, The Victor Jara Collective)

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Anand Sudha (PhD in Applied Physics, fledgling film critic)

1. Misericordia (Alain Guiraudie)

2. The Story of Scenarios (Jean-Luc Godard, Fabrice Aragno, Jean-Paul Battaggia, Nicole Brenez)

3. Henry Fonda for President (Alexander Horwath)

4. The Mastermind (Kelly Reichardt)

5. A Traveler’s Needs (Hong Sang Soo)

6. Caught By the Tides (Jia Zhangke)

7. Eephus (Carlson Lund)

8. The Shrouds (David Cronenberg)

9. Broken Rage (Takeshi Kitano)

10. Pepe (Nelson Carlos de los Santos Arias)

Discoveries

• A Camel (1981, Ibrahim Shaddad)

• Maine-Ocean Express (1986, Jacques Rozier)

• The Hypothesis of Stolen Painting (1978, Raul Ruiz)

• New Rose Hotel (1998, Abel Ferrara)

• At Land (1944, Maya Deren)

• The Fall of the House of Usher (1928, Jean Epstein)

• Cure (1997, Kiyoshi Kurosawa)

• L’Enfant Secret (1982, Phillipe Garrel)

• Toute une Nuit (1982, Chantal Akerman)

• Syndromes and a Century (2006, Apichatpong Weerasethakul)

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Anna Devereux (PhD Researcher at the University of East Anglia and the Harry Ransom Center, UT Austin)

1. Tube Film (Orla Smith, Kimia Ipakchi)

2. One Battle After Another (Paul Thomas Anderson)

3. Friendship (Andrew DeYoung)

4. The Naked Gun (Akiva Schaffer)

5. Jay Kelly (Noah Baumbach)

6. Weapons (Zach Cregger)

7. The Brutalist (Brady Corbet)

8. The Day the Earth Blew Up: a Looney Tunes Movie (Peter Browngardt)

9. Ella McCay (James L. Brooks)

10. The Shrouds (David Cronenberg)

Discoveries

• Belfast, Maine (1999, Frederick Wiseman)

• Secret Honor (1984, Robert Altmann)

• Trust (1990, Hall Ashby)

• Hud (1963, Martin Ritt)

• The Naked Gun 2½: The Smell of Fear (1991, David Zucker)

• Shared Resources (2020, Jordan Lord)

• The Annihilation of Fish (1999, Sydney Burnett)

• Crimes of Passion (1984, Ken Russell)

• The Haunting of Julia (1977, Richard Longcraine)

• The Ladykillers (1955, Alexander Mackendrick)

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Arta Barzanji (Critic, curator, filmmaker)

1. The Shrouds (David Cronenberg)

2. Dry Leaf (Alexandre Koberidze)

3. With Hasan in Gaza (Kamal Aljafari)

4. Afternoons of Solitude (Albert Serra)

5. Dracula (Radu Jude)

6. The Mastermind (Kelly Reichardt)

7. Landmarks (Lucrecia Martel)

8. Lover, Lovers, Loving, Love (Jodie Mack)

9. Fiume o Morte (Igor Bezinović)

10. Where to Land (Hal Hartley)

Discoveries

• Va Savoir + (2001, Jacques Rivette)

• Cheyenne Autumn (1964, John Ford)

• Man of the West (1958, Anthony Mann)

• Near Orouët (1971, Jacques Rozier)

• Gentleman Jim (1942, Raoul Walsh)

• The Damned (1969, Luchino Visconti)

• The House of Mirth (2000, Terence Davies)

• Moonfleet (1955, Fritz Lang)

• Till We Meet Again (1944, Frank Borzage)

• So Is This (1982, Michael Snow)

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Ben Flanagan (Editor, Cinema Year Zero)

1. Castration Anthology i + ii (Louise Weard)

2. Resurrection (Bi Gan)

3. One Battle After Another (Paul Thomas Anderson)

4. Rose of Nevada (Mark Jenkin)

5. Debut, or, Objects of the Field of Debris as Currently Catalogued (Julian Castronovo)

6. The Day the Earth Blew Up: A Looney Tunes Movie (Peter Browngardt)

7. Afternoons of Solitude (Albert Serra)

8. The Fence (Claire Denis)

9. Dry Leaf (Alexandre Koberidze)

10. Weapons (Zach Cregger)

Discoveries:

• Belfast, Maine (1999, Fred Wiseman)

• Va Savoir (Who Knows?) (2001, Jacques Rivette)

• Cutter’s Way (1981, Ivan Passer)

• UFO Abduction (1989, Dean Alioto)

• Wendigo (2001, Larry Fessenden)

• Sex Is Crazy (1981, Jesús Franco)

• Hud (1963, Martin Ritt)

• Maine-Ocean Express (1986, Jacques Rozier)

• It Always Rains on Sunday (1947, Robert Hamer)

• Seed of Chucky (2004, Don Mancini)

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Blaise Radley (Reviews Editor, Cinema Year Zero)

1. Cloud (Kiyoshi Kurosawa)

2. Magellan (Lav Diaz)

3. Resurrection (Bi Gan)

4. I Only Rest in the Storm (Pedro Pinho)

5. The Shrouds (David Cronenberg)

6. Afternoons of Solitude (Albert Serra)

7. One Battle After Another (Paul Thomas Anderson)

8. Dry Leaf (Alexandre Koberidze)

9. The Mastermind (Kelly Reichardt)

10. Bogancloch (Ben Rivers)

Discoveries:

• Judex (1916, Louis Feuillade)

• The Innocents (1961, Jack Clayton)

• Rosa la rose, fille publique (1986, Paul Vecchiali)

• Black Panthers (1968, Agnès Varda)

• Public Housing (1997, Frederick Wiseman)

• The Other Side of the Wind (2018, Orson Welles)

• The Ceremony (1971, Nagisa Ōshima)

• Night and Day (1991, Chantal Akerman)

• Totally Fucked Up (1993, Gregg Araki)

• Night and Fog (1956, Alain Resnais)

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Carmen Paddock (Fan of musicals, maximalism, and adaptations)

1. One Battle After Another (Paul Thomas Anderson)

2. Nickel Boys (RaMell Ross)

3. 28 Years Later (Danny Boyle)

4. Hedda (Nia DaCosta)

5. The Mastermind (Kelly Reichardt)

6. The People’s Joker (Vera Drew)

7. Friendship (Andrew DeYoung)

8. Blue Moon (Richard Linklater)

9. The Phonecian Scheme (Wes Anderson)

10. The Naked Gun (Akiva Schaffer)

Discoveries:

• Lisztomania (1975, Ken Russell)

• The House of Yes (1997, Mark Waters)

• Cane Toads: An Unnatural History (1988, Mark Lewis)

• Grey Gardens (1975, Muffie Meyer / David Maysles / Ellen Giffard / Albert Maysles)

• Far From Heaven (2002, Todd Haynes)

• The Pirate (1948, Vincente Minnelli)

• All About My Mother (1999, Pedro Almodóvar)

• Harlan County USA (1976, Barbara Kopple)

• Malcolm X (1992, Spike Lee)

• Picnic at Hanging Rock (1975, Peter Weir)

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Dan Wilkinson (Screening the sublime and underseen, I also direct and produce on the side. The next DW to look out for is the 24 hour cinematic marathon I’m putting on April 10th-11th)

1. The Pee Pee Poo Poo Man (Braden Sitter Sr.)

2. Parthenope (Paolo Sorrentino)

3. 28 Years Later (Danny Boyle)

4. Fackham Hall (Jim O’Hanlon)

5. Imperial Green (Zachary Lacosse)

6. Marching Powder (Nick Love)

7. Jail Saga (Peter McIndoe)

8. Blondi (Jack Salvadori)

9. Megadoc (Mike Figgis)

10. The Code (Eugene Kotlyarenko)

Discoveries:

• Up! (1976, Russ Meyer)

• Travolta and Me (1993, Patricia Mazuy)

• Dr. Caligari (1989, Stephen Sayadian)

• Take Out (2004, Shih-Ching Tsou, Sean Baker)

• Nightshift (1981, Robina Rose)

• A New Life (2002, Philippe Grandrieux)

• Dream Journal 2016–2019 (2019, Jon Rafman)

• The Brick and the Mirror (1966, Ebrahim Golestan)

• Hard Truths (2025, Mike Leigh)

• Sound Barrier (2005, Amir Naderi)

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Daniel Turner (Film programmer at ICA)

1. One Battle After Another (Paul Thomas Anderson)

2. Gangsterism (Isiah Medina)

3. MACDO (Racornelia)

4. I Only Rest in the Storm (Pedro Pinho)

5. Notes of a Crocodile (Daphne Xu)

6. What Does That Nature Say to You (Hong Sangsoo)

7. Fiume o morte! (Igor Bezinović)

8. Fire of Wind (Marta Mateus)

9. Phantoms of July (Julian Radlmaier)

10. Dry Leaf (Alexander Koberidze)

Discoveries:

• Amor de Perdição (1978, Manoel de Oliveira)

• The Razor’s Edge (1985, Jocelynne Saab)

• The Wild Palms (1967/2025, Jean-Luc Godard)

• Van Gogh (1991, Maurice Pialat)

• Sauve la vie (qui peut) (1981, Jean-Luc Godard — Assembled by Michael Witt)

• From the Clouds to the Resistance (1979, Danièle Huillet & Jean-Marie Straub)

• After Manet, After Giorgione – Le Dejeuner sur l’Herbe or Fete Champetre (1975, Malcolm Le Grice)

• The Crimson Curtain (1953, Alexandre Astruc)

• City of Pirates (1983, Raúl Ruiz)

• Red River (1948, Howard Hawks)

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Digby Houghton (Film critic based in the antipodes (Melbourne, Australia) currently completing a Masters by Research comparing the cinema of France of Australia)

1. Die My Love (Lynne Ramsay)

2. If I Had Legs I’d Kick You (Mary Bronstein)

3. What Does That Nature Say To You (Hong Sang-soo)

4. Kontinental ‘25 (Radu Jude)

5. Bugonia (Yorgos Lanthimos)

6. The Ice Tower (Lucile Hadžihalilović)

7. The Eviction (Rebecca Metcalf)

8. One Battle After Another (Paul Thomas Anderson)

9. Sentimental Value (Joachim Trier)

10. Edington (Ari Aster)

Discoveries:

• A Real Young Girl (Catherine Breillat)

• The Bakery Girl of Monceau (Eric Rohmer)

• I’m Hungry, I’m Cold (Chantal Akerman)

• The Headless Woman (Lucrecia Martel)

• Dirty Harry (Don Seigel)

• The Hangover (Todd Phillips)

• The Long Goodbye (Robert Altman)

• Animal Kingdom (David Michôd)

• Snowtown (Justin Kurzel)

• Hannah Montana: The Movie (Peter Chelsom)

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Ellisha Izumi (Ellisha Izumi is a freelance film historian based in London. She specialises in Frank & Eleanor Perry and ‘denpa’, a little-known genre of Japanese Y2K cinema and anime)

1. Twinless (James Sweeney)

2. Edhi Alice: REVERSE (Il-ran Kim)

3. It Was Just an Accident (Jafar Panahi)

4. Sorry, Baby (Eva Victor)

5. Bel Ami (Geng Jun)

6. One Battle After Another (Paul Thomas Anderson)

7. Misericordia (Alain Guiraudie)

8. My Sunshine (Hiroshi Okuyama)

9. The Brutalist (Brady Corbet)

10. Black Bag (Steven Soderbergh)

Discoveries:

• Deep End (1970, Jerzy Skolimowski)

• The Gorge (1968, Christopher Morahan)

• Double Suicide (1969, Masahiro Shinoda)

• D.E.B.S (2004, Angela Robinson)

• Camp Hollywood (2004, Steve Markle)

• The Barber of Stamford Hill (1963, Casper Wrede)

• The Fall of Otrar (1991, Ardak Amirkulov)

• A Tale of Springtime (1990, Éric Rohmer)

• The Steamroller and the Violin (1961, Andrei Tarkovsky)

• Letter to Brezhnev (1985, Chris Bernard)

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Emily Jisoo Bowles (British-Korean film critic and a programmer at Queer East festival)

1. Afternoons of Solitude (Albert Serra)

2. I Only Rest in the Storm (Pedro Pinho)

3. Misericordia (Alain Guiraudie)

4. Kontinental ‘25 (Radu Jude)

5. The Shrouds (David Cronenberg)

6. By the Stream (Hong Sangsoo)

7. No Other Choice (Park Chanwook)

8. Debut, or, Objects of the Field of Debris as Currently Catalogued (Julian Castronovo)

9. Underground (Kaori Oda)

10. What Does That Nature Say to You (Hong Sangsoo)

Discoveries:

• The Devil Probably (1977, Robert Bresson)

• Romance (1999, Catherine Breillat)

• Sanrizuka - Peasants of the Second Fortress (1971, Ogawa Productions)

• Duelle (1976, Jacques Rivette)

• La Ronde (1950, Max Ophüls)

• Why Has Bodhi-Dharma Left for the East? (1989, Bae Yong-kyun)

• Turang (1957, Bachtiar Siagian)

• Marseille (2004, Angela Schanelec)

• The Wicked Lady (1945, Leslie Arliss)

• Spacked Out (2000, Lawrence Ah Mon)

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Farzad Azimbeik (cultural worker)

• What Does That Nature Say to You (Hong Sang-soo)

• Afternoons of Solitude (Albert Serra)

• Viet and Nam (Truong Minh Quy)

• Fiume o morte! (Igor Bezinović)

• Blue Moon (Richard Linklater)

• The Mastermind (Kelly Reichardt)

• Invention (Courtney Stephens)

• Ariel (Lois Patiño, Matías Piñeiro)

• Caught by the Tide (Jia Zhangke)

• Peter Hujar’s Day (Ira Sachs)

Discoveries:

• Marble Ass (1995, Želimir Žilnik)

• Oh Canada (2024, Paul Schrader)

• Loss of Sensation aka. Robot of Jim Ripple (1935, Alexandr Andriyevsky)

• Vampire Hunter D (1985, Toyoo Ashida)

• The Glass Harmonica (1968, Andrey Khrzhanovsky)

• The Monastery of Sendomir (1920, Victor Sjöström)

• The Inner Scar (1972, Philippe Garrel)

• Mati Manas (1984, Mani Kaul)

• The Written Face (1995, Daniel Schmid)

• The Flowers Stand Silently, Witnessing (2024, Theo Panagopoulos)

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Fedor Tot (Critic)

1. The Secret Agent (Kleber Mendonça Filho)

2. War of the Worlds (Rich Lee)

3. It Was Just an Accident (Jafar Panahi)

4. A Traveller’s Needs (Hong Sang-soo)

5. The Mastermind (Kelly Reichardt)

6. TRON: Ares (Joachim Rønning)

7. Dracula (Radu Jude)

8. Peacemaker (Ivan Ramljak)

9. Hysterical Fits of Laughter (Dušan Zorić, Matija Glušćević)

10. The Divided City of Mitrovica (Marko Grba Singh)

Discoveries:

• Dislocated Third Eye Series III: Bismillah / In Four Movements (1984, Sulejman Ferenčak / OM Produkcije)

• The Return (1966, Živojin Pavlović)

• Monday or Tuesday (1966, Vatroslav Mimica)

• Don’t Cry, Peter (1964, France Štiglic)

• Resident Evil (2002, Paul WS Anderson)

• Man Marked for Death, Twenty Years Later (1984, Eduardo Coutinho)

• Shanghai Blues (1984, Tsui Hark)

• Camera Buff (1979, Krzysztof Kieślowski)

• The Far Country (1954, Anthony Mann)

• High Plains Drifter (1973, Clint Eastwood)

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Georgia Hunter (Siren Screen film programmer)

1. Happyend (Neo Sora)

2. Die My Love (Lynne Ramsay)

3. The Ice Tower (Lucile Hadžihalilović)

4. Sorry, Baby (Eva Victor)

5. Motel Destino (Karim Aïnouz)

6. Frankenstein (Guillermo del Toro)

7. Bugonia (Yorgos Lanthimos)

8. Mickey 17 (Bong Joon-ho)

9. Pillion (Harry Lighton)

10. Ocean with David Attenborough (Toby Nowlan, Keith Scholey, Colin Butfield)

Discoveries:

• Scarecrow in a Garden of Cucumbers (1972, Robert J. Kaplan)

• The Wiz (1978, Sidney Lumet)

• What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (1962, Robert Aldrich)

• Moonstruck (1987, Norman Jewison)

• A Kind of Testament (2023, Stephen Vuillemin)

• Before Sunrise (1995, Richard Linklater)

• Microcosmos (1996, Claude Nuridsany & Marie Pérennou)

• Coming Out (2020, Cressa Maeve Áine)

• Humanist Vampire Seeking Consenting Suicidal Person (2023, Ariane Louis-Seize)

• Femme (2023, Sam H. Freeman & Ng Choon Ping)

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Ian Mantgani (Filmmaker)

1. Hard Truths (Mike Leigh)

2. Here (Robert Zemeckis)

3. Highest 2 Lowest (Spike Lee)

4. A House of Dynamite (Kathryn Bigelow)

5. Marty Supreme (Josh Safdie)

6. The Mastermind (Kelly Reichardt)

7. The Naked Gun (Akiva Schaffer)

8. Nickel Boys (RaMell Ross)

9. No Other Choice (Park Chan-wook)

10. Sinners (Ryan Coogler)

Discoveries:

• The Arch (Tang Shu Shuen)

• Bona (Lino Brocka)

• Central Park (Frederick Wiseman)

• Combat Shock (Buddy Giovinazzo)

• D’amore si vive (Silvano Agosti)

• It’s Alive 3: Island of the Alive (Larry Cohen)

• The Last Horror Film (David Winters)

• Leo the Last (John Boorman)

• The Liberation of LB Jones (William Wyler)

• Strongroom (Vernon Sewell)

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Jeremy Arblaster (Designer, CYZ)

1. Nickel Boys (RaMell Ross)

2. The Brutalist (Brady Corbet)

3. Cloud (Kiyoshi Kurosawa)

4. Afternoons of Solitude (Albert Serra)

5. 28 Years Later (Danny Boyle)

6. Grand Tour (Miguel Gomes)

7. One Battle After Another (Paul Thomas Anderson)

8. The End (Joshua Oppenheimer)

9. Eddington (Ari Aster)

10. The Phoenician Scheme (Wes Anderson)

Discoveries:

• Amadeus (1984, Miloš Forman)

• Life and Nothing More (1992, Abbas Kiarostami)

• Ucho (1970, Karel Kachyňa)

• Green Snake (1993, Tsui Hark)

• The Assassin (2015, Hou Hsiao-hsien)

• M. Butterfly (1993, David Cronenberg)

• Beauty & the Beast (1978, Juraj Herz)

• Gattaca (1997, David Niccol)

• Altered States (1980, Ken Russell)

• The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (1964, Jacques Demy)

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Joe Andreyev (Jellied Reels programmer)

1. Megadoc (Mike Figgis)

2. Perfumed By Mint (Muhammad Hamdy)

3. Flow (Gints Zilbalodis)

4. Holy Cow (Louise Courvoisier)

5. Black Bag (Steven Soderbergh)

6. The Summer with Carmen (Zacharías Mavroidís)

7. The Other Way Around (Jonas Trueba)

8. Blue Moon (Richard Linklater)

9. Vermiglio (Maura Delpero)

10. Olso Stories Trilogy: Dreams Love Sex (Dag Johan Haugerud)

Discoveries:

• Better Go Mad In The Wild (2025, Miro Reno)

• Lady (2025, Samuel Abrahams)

• Rolling Papers (2024, Meel Paliale)

• Kill the Jockey (2024, Luis Ortega)

• The Visitor (2025, Vytautas Katkus)

• Celine and Julie Go Boating (1974, Jacques Rivette)

• L’Uomo in Più (2001, Paolo Sorrentino)

• No Rest For The Brave (2003, Alain Guiraudie)

• Zootopia (2016, Byron Howard & Rich Moore)

• My Dinner with Andre (1981, Louis Malle)

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Joel Whitaker (Curator of Anti-Reality Image Network, co-curator of Fumetti Funnies)

1. Dry Leaf (Alexandre Koberidze)

2. Landmarks (Lucrecia Martel)

3. Resurrection (Bi Gan)

4. The End (Joshua Oppenheimer)

5. Scorigami (Jon Bois)

6. The Memory of Butterflies (Tatiana Fuentes Sadowski)

7. What Does That Nature Say To You? (Hong Sang-soo)

8. Cloud (Kiyoshi Kurosawa)

9. Father Mother Sister Brother (Jim Jarmusch)

10. Afterlives (Kevin B. Lee)

Discoveries:

• Give Us Air (1923, Dziga Vertov)

• Side/Walk/Shuttle (1992, Ernie Gehr)

• You Hide Me (1970, Nii Kwate Owoo)

• Vampires in Havana (1985, Juan Padron)

• Leo es pardo (1976, Ivan Zulueta)

• The Plaint of Steve Kreines as Recorded by His Younger Brother Jeff (1974, Jeff Kreines)

• Orochi Strikes Again (1985, Takami Akai)

• Lacrima Christi (1980, Teo Hernandez)

• La peinture cubiste (1981, Phillipe Grandrieux & Thierry Kuntzel)

• Aspen 1970 (1970, Eliot Noyes, Claudia Weill)

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Joseph Owen (Writer and researcher)

1. Caught by the Tides (Jia Zhangke)

2. Easy Girl (Hille Norden)

3. Dry Leaf (Alexandre Koberidze)

4. With Hasan in Gaza (Kamal Aljafari)

5. Misericordia (Alain Guiraudie)

6. Two Seasons, Two Strangers (Sho Miyake)

7. One Battle After Another (Paul Thomas Anderson)

8. Sorella di Clausura (Ivana Mladenović)

9. The Mastermind (Kelly Reichardt)

10. Black Bag (Steven Soderbergh)

Discoveries:

• Year One (Roberto Rossellini)

• Midnight (Mitchell Leisen)

• Poetry (Lee Chang-dong)

• Shampoo (Hal Ashby)

• The Piano Teacher (Michael Haneke)

• The Bridges of Madison County (Clint Eastwood)

• The Bakery Girl of Monceau (Éric Rohmer)

• Nashville (Robert Altman)

• Public Housing (Frederick Wiseman)

• Demonlover (Olivier Assayas)

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Justine Smith (Film Critic)

1. One Battle After Another

2. The Secret Agent

3. Magellan

4. The Mastermind

5. A Poet

6. Dry Leaf

7. Miroirs No. 3

8. Left-Handed Girl

9. Fucktoys

10. The Phoenician Scheme

Discoveries:

• The Brick and the Mirror (1966, Ebrahim Golestan)

• Yi Yi (2000, Edward Yang)

• When a Woman Ascends the Stairs (1960, Mikio Naruse)

• Homework (Abbas Kiarostami, 1989)

• Léon Morin, Priest (1961, Jean-Pierre Melville)

• Pickpocket (1959, Robert Bresson)

• Silvestre (1981, João César Monteiro)

• Ace of Violence (1949, Fred Zinnemann)

• Shoeshine (1946, Vittorio De Sica)

• The Straight Story (1999, David Lynch)

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Kirsty Asher (Associate Editor, Cinema Year Zero)

1. Fucktoys (Annapurna Sriram)

2. The Testament of Ann Lee (Mona Fastvold)

3. One Battle After Another (Paul Thomas Anderson)

4. Pillion (Harry Lighton)

5. Fiume O Morte! (Igor Bezinović)

6. Rose of Nevada (Mark Jenkin)

7. It Was Just An Accident (Jafar Panahi)

8. 28 Years Later (Danny Boyle)

9. Holy Cow (Louise Courvoisier)

10. Sinners (Ryan Coogler)

Discoveries:

• Crimes of Passion (1984, Ken Russell)

• Sugar Cane Alley (1983, Euzhan Palcy)

• Crash (1996, David Cronenberg)

• Barry Lyndon (1975, Stanley Kubrick)

• O’r Ddaear Hen (1981, Wil Aaron)

• Orlando (1992, Sally Potter)

• Perfect Blue (1997, Satoshi Kon)

• Sid and Nancy (1986, Alex Cox)

• The Holy Mountain (1973, Alejandro Jodorowsky)

• Far From the Madding Crowd (1967, John Schlesinger)

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Kit Ramsay (Distribution clown at the circus)

1. The Ice Tower (Lucile Hadžihalilović)

2. Debut, or, Objects of the Field of Debris as Currently Catalogued (Julian Castronovo)

3. 28 Years Later (Danny Boyle)

4. Resurrection (Bi Gan)

5. If I Had Legs I’d Kick You (Mary Bronstein)

6. Engines (Charlie Jimenez)

7. Tube Film (Orla Smith, Kimia Ipakchi)

8. Castration Movie Anthology i. Traps (Louise Weard)

9. Twinless (James Sweeney)

10. Videoheaven (Alex Ross Perry)

Discoveries:

• Out 1 (1971, Jacques Rivette)

• The Draughtsmen Clash (1996, Balufu Bakupa-Kanyinda)

• Café Müller (1985, Pina Bausch)

• Billy the Kid and the Green Baize Vampire (1985, Alan Clarke)

• The Unknown (1927, Tod Browning)

• The Mangler (1995, Tobe Hooper)

• The Book of Mary (1985, Anne-Marie Miéville)

• Sentimental Romance (1930, Sergei Eisenstein, Grigori Aleksandrov)

• Turbulence 3: Heavy Metal (2001, Jorge Montesi)

• Green Snake (1993, Tsui Hark)

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Max Lewis-Clarke (Semi-pro post-screening yapper)

1. Dry Leaf (Alexandre Koberidze)

2. The World of Love (Yoon Ga-eun)

3. Left-Handed Girl (Shih-Ching Tsou)

4. Sirāt (Oliver Laxe)

5. Nickel Boys (RaMell Ross)

6. Levers (Rhayne Vermette)

7. Invention (Courtney Stephens)

8. Reflection in a Dead Diamond (Hélène Cattet, Bruno Forzani)

9. Redoubt (John Skoog)

10. Ariel (Lois Patiño)

Discoveries:

• Tomorrow We Move (2004, Chantal Akerman)

• Zorn’s Lemma (1970, Hollis Frampton)

• Processo per stupro (1979, Loredana Dordi / Rony Daopulo / Paola De Martis / Annabella Miscuglio / Maria Grazia Belmonti / Anna Carini)

• La Région Centrale (1971, Michael Snow)

• Riso Amaro (1949, Giuseppe De Santis)

• Sylvia Scarlett (1935, George Cukor)

• Public Housing (1997, Frederick Wiseman)

• Riddles of the Sphinx (1977, Laura Mulvey / Peter Wollen)

• Hanagatami (2017, Nobuhiko Obayashi)

• Love in the Time of Twilight (1995, Tsui Hark)

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MLP (MAXIMILIEN LUC PROCTOR)

1. The Phoenician Scheme (Wesley Wales Anderson)

2. Morning Circle (Basma Alsharif)

3. Full Out (Sarah Ballard)

4. Half Halt (Sofia Theodore-Pierce)

5. The Ballad of Suzanne Césaire (Madeleine Hunt-Ehrlich)

6. Levers (Rhayne Vermette)

7. The City & Her Stones (Maximilien Luc Proctor)

8. view of Ines and the Castle of Klein Glienicke (Liam Kenny)

9. Lingua Ignota (Larissa Krampert & Björn Schmitt)

10. Twenty Three (Wasima Farah & Kamyar Mohsenin)

Discoveries:

• Strange Fruit (1969, Skip Norman)

• FFFTCM (1967, Will “William Mayo” Hindle)

• Maternal Filigree (1980, Sandra Davis)

• Desert Hearts (1985, Donna Deitch)

• Raindance (1972, Standish Dyer Lawder)

• In Titan’s Goblet (1991, Peter Barrington Hutton)

• For rest (2017, Shinya Isobe)

• Madrid Études (2023, Jimmy Schaus)

• Generations (1969, Barry Gerson)

• Gloucester Skipper (19??, Peter Bundy)

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Nadira Begum (Film critic and culture writer)

1. Sorry, Baby (Eva Victor)

2. Palestine 36 (Annemarie Jacir)

3. The Mastermind (Kelly Reichardt)

4. Nickel Boys (RaMell Ross)

5. Bad Apples (Jonatan Etzler)

6. Rose of Nevada (Mark Jenkin)

7. Roofman (Derek Cianfrance)

8. Sinners (Ryan Coogler)

9. Frankenstein (Guillermo del Toro)

10. Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy (Michael Morris)

Discoveries:

• The Wizard of Oz (1939, Victor Fleming)

• 12 Angry Men (1957, Sidney Lumet)

• My Brilliant Career (1979, Gillian Armstrong)

• Yeelen (1987, Souleymane Cissé)

• A Few Good Men (1992, Rob Reiner)

• Jerry Maguire (1996, Cameron Crowe)

• About a Boy (2002, Chris Weitz, Paul Weitz)

• Punch-Drunk Love (2002, Paul Thomas Anderson)

• Happy as Lazzaro (2018, Alice Rohrwacher)

• Sing Sing (2023, Greg Kwedar)

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Oliver James Hunt (Film programmer & video artist)

1. Baby Invasion (Harmony Korine)

2. A Ladder (Scott Barley)

3. 28 Years Later (Danny Boyle)

4. The Code (Eugene Kotlyarenko)

5. Engines (Charlie Jimenez)

6. Shifty (Adam Curtis)

7. Hard Truths (Mike Leigh)

8. Exit 8 (Genki Kawamura)

9. Marching Powder (Nick Love)

10. Putin (Patryk Vega)

Discoveries:

• Book of Days (Meredith Monk)

• Sound Barrier (Amir Naderi)

• The Thirsty Flower: Four by Four Equals One (Masatoshi Nagase)

• The Veldt (Nazim Tulakhodzhayev)

• People I Could Have Been and Maybe Am (Boris Gerrets)

• Interface (Justin Tomchuk)

• Mermaid (Aleksandr Petrov)

• Dragonfly Eyes (Xu Bing)

• The Rough River, the Placid Sea (Marat Sarulu)

• In Youth, Beside the Lonely Sea (n/a)

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Orla Smith (Orla Smith is a filmmaker, curator, and co-director of The Creative Nonfiction Film Weekend)

1. Sex (Dag Johan Haugerud)

2. 28 Years Later (Danny Boyle)

3. By the Stream (Hong Sang-soo)

4. What Does That Nature Say to You? (Hong Sang-soo)

5. Being John Smith (John Smith)

6. The Mastermind (Kelly Reichardt)

7. Sentimental Value (Joachim Trier)

8. The Shrouds (David Cronenberg)

9. Debut, or, Objects of the Field of Debris as Currently Catalogued (Julian Castronovo)

10. Sinners (Ryan Coogler)

Discoveries:

• One Lives by Love (1984, Silvano Agosti)

• So Is This (1982, Michael Snow)

• Salaam Cinema (1995, Mohsen Makhmalbaf)

• The Black Tower (1987, John Smith)

• Drylongso (1998, Cauleen Smith)

• The Lacey Rituals (1973, The Lacey family)

• Within Our Gates (1920, Oscar Micheaux)

• The Emperor’s Naked Army Marches On (1987, Kazuo Hara)

• A Better Man (2017, Attiya Khan & Lawrence Jackman)

• Running Fields I-IV (2024, Flo Mavy)

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Owen Vince (Is a writer and filmmaker living in London)

1. No Other Choice – Park-chan Wook

2. Kontinental ’25 – Radu Jude

3. Miroirs No. 3 – Christian Petzold

4. Cloud – Kiyoshi Kurosawa

5. Afternoons of Solitude – Albert Serra

6. Debut, or, Objects of the Field of Debris as Currently Catalogued – Julian Castronovo

7. Sentimental Value –– Joachim Trier

8. What Does That Nature Say to You –– Hong Sang-soo

9. Being John Smith –– John Smith

10. Dry Leaf –– Alexandre Koberidze

Discoveries:

• Winstanley – Kevin Brownlow & Andrew Mollo (1975)

• Wide Angle Saxon – Owen Land (1975)

• Out 1 – Jacques Rivette & Suzanne Schiffman (1971)

• The Catch –– Nagisa Oshima (1961)

• In Danger and Deep Distress, the Middleway Spells Certain Death –– Alexander Kluge (1974)

• Crazed Fruit –– Kō Nakahira (1956)

• City of Pirates –– Raúl Ruiz (1984)

• While the City Sleeps –– Fritz Lang (1956)

• Stray Dog –– Akira Kurosawa (1949)

• The Servant –– Joseph Losey (1963)

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Patrick Preziosi (Patrick Preziosi is a Brooklyn, NY born and based writer. He’s written about literature, film and music for Cleveland Review of Books, Commonweal, We Jazz, Reverse Shot, The Quietus, and more. He is the small press curator and buyer for McNally Jackson bookstores.)

1. The Shrouds (David Cronenberg)

2. 28 Years Later (Danny Boyle)

Discoveries:

• Before the Devil Knows You’re Dead (Sidney Lumet)

• Rising Tones Cross (Ebba Jahn)

• Mingus (Thomas Reichman)

• Big Ben: Ben Webster in Europe (Johan van der Keuken)

• Stop for Bud! (Ole John, Jørgen Leth, Jens Jørgen Thorsen)

• Jackie McLean on Mars (Kenneth Levis)

• Speaking in Tongues (Doug Harris)

• Imagine the Sound (Ron Mann)

• Tony Williams in Africa (Willie Ruff)

• The Offence (Sidney Lumet)

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Paul Farrell (Film Curator)

1. Happyend (Neo Sora)

2. Hard Truths (Mike Leigh)

3. What Does That Nature Say to You (Hong Sang-soo)

4. Black Bag (Steven Soderbergh)

5. The People’s Joker (Vera Drew)

6. The Shrouds (David Cronenberg)

7. Presence (Steven Soderbergh)

8. 28 Years Later (Danny Boyle)

9. Materialists (Celine Song)

10. The Phoenician Scheme (Wes Anderson)

Discoveries:

• Lightning Over Braddock: A Rustbowl Fantasy (1988, Tony Buba)

• Bigger Than Life (1956, Nicholas Ray)

• Chimes at Midnight (1965, Orson Welles)

• Litan (1982, Jean-Pierre Mocky)

• Evil Dead Trap (1988, Toshiharu Ikeda)

• Night Moves (2013, Kelly Reichardt)

• Dhoom 2 (2006, Sanjay Gadhvi)

• Duck Amuck (1953, Chuck Jones)

• The Fabulous Baron Munchausen (1962, Karel Zeman)

• The Last Days of Disco (1998, Whit Stillman)

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Rhys Handley (Rhys Handley is a PhD researcher at Royal Holloway UoL)

1. The Ceremony (Jack King)

2. Hard Truths (Mike Leigh)

3. Nickel Boys (RaMell Ross)

4. On Falling (Laura Carreira)

5. Lollipop (Daisy-May Hudson)

6. To A Land Unknown (Mahdi Fleifel)

7. It Was Just An Accident (Jafar Pahani)

8. Hundreds of Beavers (Mike Cheslik)

9. The Encampments (Michael T Workman, Kei Pritsker)

10. The Mastermind (Kelly Reichardt)

Discoveries:

• Taste of Cherries (1997, Abbas Kiarostami)

• Harakiri (1962, Masaki Kobayashi)

• The Last Waltz (1978, Martin Scorsese)

• The Wages of Fear (1953, Henri-George Clouzot)

• The Flowers Stand Silently, Witnessing (2024, Theo Panagopolous)

• Return to Haifa (1982, dir. Kassem Hawal)

• Mildred Pierce (2011, Todd Haynes)

• Paranoia Agent (2004, Satoshi Kon)

• Family Life (1971, Ken Loach)

• Road (1987, dir. Alan Clarke)

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Rino Lu (Filmmaker, Critic, Curator)

1. Nouvelle Vague (Richard Linkerlater)

2. Frankenstein (Guillermo del Toro)

3. Enzo (Robin Campillo)

4. Highest 2 Lowest (Spike Lee)

5. Miroirs No. 3 (Christian Petzold)

6. Plainclothes (Carmen Emmi)

7. Yes! (Nadav Lapid)

8. 100 Nights of Hero (Julia Jackman)

9. Orphan (Laszlo Nemes)

10. Ariel (Lois Patiño)

Discoveries:

• Rome 11:00 (1952, Giuseppe De Santis)

• Odd Obsession (1959, Kon Ichikawa)

• Young Hearts (2024, Anthony Schatteman)

• Tangerine (2015, Sean Baker)

• In the House (2012, François Ozon)

• A Summer’s Tale (1996, Éric Rohmer)

• The Beaches of Agnès (2008, Agnès Varda)

• A Traveler’s Needs (2024, Hong Sang-soo)

• His Motorbike, Her Island (1986, Ôbayashi Nobuhiko)

• To Sleep So As To Dream (1986, Kaizo Hayashi)

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Rory Doherty (Freelance critic and writer)

1. The Secret Agent (Kleber Mendonça Filho)

2. The Mastermind (Kelly Reichardt)

3. Nickel Boys (RaMell Ross)

4. Cloud (Kiyoshi Kurosawa)

5. One Battle After Another (Paul Thomas Anderson)

6. Marty Supreme (Josh Safdie)

7. Blue Heron (Sophy Romvari)

8. Magellan (Lav Diaz)

9. Seven Veils (Atom Egoyan)

10. Black Bag (Steven Soderbergh)

Discoveries:

• The Trial (1962, Orson Welles)

• Point Blank (1967, John Boorman)

• Wendy & Lucy (2008, Kelly Reichardt)

• Bamboozled (2000, Spike Lee)

• In the Dark (2000, Clifton Holmes)

• The Passion of Joan of Arc (1928, Carl Theodor Dreyer)

• Investigation of a Citizen above Suspicion (1970, Elio Petri)

• Penda’s Fen (1974, Alan Clarke)

• The Quiet Man (1952, John Ford)

• God Told Me To (1976, Larry Cohen)

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Rose Dymock (Occasional writer/film critic, fan of multilingual cinema)

1. Nickel Boys (RaMell Ross)

2. Sing Sing (Greg Kwedar)

3. Pillion (Harry Lighton)

4. It Was Just An Accident (Jafar Panahi)

5. The Ice Tower (Lucile Hadžihalilović)

6. Sorry, Baby (Eva Victor)

7. Black Bag (Steven Soderbergh)

8. April (Dea Kulumbegashvili)

9. I Only Rest In The Storm (Pedro Pinho)

10. The Brutalist (Brady Corbert)

Discoveries:

• Neighboring Sounds (2012, Kleber Mendonça Filho)

• Bicycle Theives (1948, Vittorio De Sica)

• Brief Encounter (1945, David Lean)

• Carmen Jones (1954, Otto Preminger)

• Network (1976, Sidney Lumet)

• Lawrence of Arabia (1962, David Lean)

• Le Bonheur (1965, Agnès Varda)

• Frenzy (1972, Alfred Hitchcock)

• Jeanne Dielman, 23 Commerce Quay, 1080 Brussels (1975, Chantel Akerman)

• The Royal Tenenbaums (2001, Wes Anderson)

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Ruairí McCann (Film critic, programmer, musician and illustrator from Ireland. Co-editor of Ultra Dogme.)

1. Desert of Namibia (Yamanaka Yoko)

2. Exposé du film annonce du film “Scénario” (Jean-Luc)

3. Gangsterism (Isiah Medina)

4. Go Ye Afar (Frank Sweeney)

5. hole in the stone (Holly Márie Parnell)

6. Kontinental ‘25 (Rade Jude)

7. Levers (Rhayne Vermette)

8. Morgenkreis (Basma Al Sharif)

9. Next Life (Tenzin Phuntsog)

10. What Does That Nature Say To You? (Hong Sang-soo)

Discoveries:

• Alabama Departure (1978, Peter Bundy & Bryan Elsom)

• Avetik (1992, Don Askarian)

• Bloody Spear on Mount Fuji (1955, Uchida Tomu)

• Dying (1976, Michael Roemer)

• The Inheritance (1970, Ozualdo Ribeiro Candeias)

• Listen (1978, Bob Quinn)

• Maternal Filigree (1980, Sandra Davis)

• Scrap Vessel (2009, Jason Byrne)

• Trás-os-Montes (1976, Margarida Cordeiro & António Reis)

• The Zerda or the Songs of Forgetting (1983, Assia Djebar)

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Sam Moore (Writer, editor, and curator based in London)

1. One Battle After Another

2. Sentimental Value

3. It Was Just An Accident

4. No Other Choice

5. Marty Supreme

6. Sinners

7. Rose of Nevada

8. Hamnet

9. Black Bag

10. Reflections in a Dead Diamond

Discoveries:

• All the President’s Men (1976, Alan J. Pakula)

• The Draughtsman’s Contract (1982, Peter Greenaway)

• Kiss Me Deadly (1955, Robert Aldrich)

• Last And First Men (2020, Jóhan Jóhannson)

• McCabe and Mrs. Miller (1971, Robert Altman)

• My Dinner With Andre (1981, Louis Malle)

• Night Moves (1975, Arthur Penn)

• Phoenix (2014, Christian Petzold)

• Rolling Thunder (1977, John Flynn)

• The Young Girls of Rochefort (1967, Jacques Demy)

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Sam Warren Miell (Editorial board of the film magazine Narrow Margin)

1. The Wild Palms (Jean-Luc Godard)

2. Fuck the Polis (Rita Azevedo Gomes)

3. Songs Overheard in the Shadows (James Edmonds)

4. Golden Chains (Flo Mavy)

Discoveries:

• The Thief’s Wife (Allan Dwan, 1912)

• Orphans of the Storm (D. W. Griffith, 1921)

• Club Havana (Edgar G. Ulmer, 1945)

• Moonrise (Frank Borzage, 1948)

• I’d Climb the Highest Mountain (Henry King, 1951)

• Most Dangerous Man Alive (Allan Dwan, 1961)

• The Night of the Hunted (Jean Rollin, 1980)

• Extérieur, nuit (Jacques Bral, 1980)

• Berlin Chamissoplatz (Rudolf Thome, 1980)

• Le Complexe de Toulon (Jean-Claude Biette, 1995)

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Shaghayegh Raoufi (Film curator and Programmer)

1. I Only Rest in the Storm (Pedro Pinho)

2. Under the Flags, the Sun (Juanjo Pereira)

3. Living the Land (Meng Huo)

4. Below the Clouds (Gianfranco Rosi)

5. Fiume o morte! (Igor Bezinović)

6. Two Prosecutors (Sergei Loznitsa)

7. Landmarks (Lucrecia Martel)

8. Cover-Up (Laura Poitras, Mark Obenhaus)

9. L’Arbre de l’authenticité (Sammy Baloji)

10. Sound of Falling (Mascha Schilinski)

Discoveries:

• The Seats Of The Alcazar Cinema (Luc Moullet)

• To Sleep So as to Dream (Kaizo Hayashi)

• Hans - Ein Junge in Deuch Grabbe’s Last Summer (Sohrab Shahid Saless)

• The Truth About the Imaginary Passion of an Unknown (Marcel Hanoun)

• Robert Wilson and the Civil Wars (Howard Brookner)

• Regrouping (Lizzie Borden)

• Shades of Silk (Mary Stephen)

• Der var engang (Carl Theodor Dreyer)

• La Rosiere de Pessac (Jean Eustache)

• Speaking of Bunuel (José Luis López-Linares, Javier Rioyo)

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Shelby Cooke (Shelby Cooke is an internationally known film curator and critic, focusing on British cinema and identity. Her complete writing portfolio can be found at shelbycooke.com.)

1. One Battle After Another (Paul Thomas Anderson)

2. It Was Just An Accident (Jafar Panahi)

3. Sentimental Value (Joachim Trier)

4. Hamnet (Chloe Zhao)

5. Bugonia (Yorgos Lanthimos)

6. Marty Supreme (Josh Safdie)

7. After the Hunt (Luca Guadagnino)

8. Eddington (Ari Aster)

9. The Mastermind (Kelly Reichardt)

10. Sinners (Ryan Coogler)

Discoveries:

• Daisies (1966, Vera Chytilova)

• David Holzman’s Diary (1967, Jim McBride)

• Chungking Express (1994, Wong Kar-Wai)

• Erupcja (2025, Pete Ohs)

• Nowhere (1997, Gregg Araki)

• Donnie Darko (2001, Richard Kelly)

• No Bears (2022, Jafar Panahi)

• Jane B By Agnes V (1988, Agnes Varda)

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Sick Girl Films (Sick girl films are two disabled queer people who love horror. We host London-based regular horror film screenings, and are creating a community for disabled and chronically ill horror lovers everywhere.)

1. Sinners

2. Ugly Stepsister

3. Frankenstein

4. The Shrouds

5. Together

6. Bring Her Back

7. Bugonia

8. Die My Love

9. Pillion

10. wake up dead man

Discoveries:

• Black Christmas (1974, Bob Clark)

• Blood and Black Lace (1964, Mario Bava)

• Possession (1981, Andrzej Zulawski)

• The Lure (2015, Agnieszka Smoczynska)

• Frankenhooker (1990, Frank Henenlotter)

• Bound (1996, The Wachowski Sisters)

• The Severed Sun (2024, Dean Puckett)

• Candyman (1992, Bernard Rose)

• The Love Witch (2016, Anna Biller)

• Ghostwatch (1992, Lesley Manning)

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Simon Ball (Filmmaker and festival organiser, currently trying to crack the East of England.)

1. Fuck My Son (Todd Rohal)

2. Reveries the Mind Prison (Graham Mason)

3. About a Hero (Piotr Winiewicz)

4. Invention (Courtney Stephens)

5. Tornado (John MacLean)

6. One Battle After Another (PTA) (would be lower if I had seen more films)

7. End of History (Jacob Gregor)

8. John Lilly and the Earth Coincidence Control Office (Michael Almereyda, Courtney Stephens)

9. Grand Theft Hamlet (Sam Crane, Pinny Grylls) (this was actually pretty bad tbh)

10. F*cktoys (Annapurna Sriram) (most disappointing film of the year)

Discoveries:

• Reveries the Mind Prison

• Pimple (Fernando Alle)

• Anything by Juboraj Shamim

• The Reinvention of Marker (Rory Carroll) shout out the best boy mag

• Potato Potato (Josh Locy)

• The Man Without Qualities (Blake James Reid) playing east London early 2026

• Mysterious Purple House (Joshua Yates)

• The punk of natashquan (Nicholas Lachapelle)

• Goddam gorilla (Valentin Costs)

• Yellow MashiMashi Rhapsody (Masahiro Saito) actually my fav of the year

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Theo Rollason (NFT2 mouse befriender)

1. One Battle After Another (Paul Thomas Anderson)

2. No Other Choice (Park Chan-wook)

3. Sentimental Value (Joachim Trier)

4. Dry Leaf (Alexandre Koberidze)

5. Resurrection (Bi Gan)

6. The Secret Agent (Kleber Mendonça Filho)

7. Vacances (Victoria Hely-Hutchinson)

8. Fiume o morte! (Igor Bezinović)

9. Silent Friend (Ildikó Enyedi)

10. Predators (David Osit)

Discoveries:

• Bitter Rice (1949, Giuseppe De Santis)

• Café Flesh (1982, Stephen Sayadian)

• Friday Night (2002, Claire Denis)

• The Jerk (1979, Carl Reiner)

• The Hole (1998, Tsai Ming-liang)

• A Moment of Innocence (1996, Mohsen Makhmalbaf)

• Summertime (1955, David Lean)

• They Have Changed Their Face (1971, Corrado Farina)

• Tomorrow We Move (2004, Chantal Akerman)

• Victor/Victoria (1982, Blake Edwards)

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Tom Barnard (Freelance writer. Former editor of WeLoveCinema. Editor of Big Smoke, Big Screen.)

1. Marty Supreme

2. It Was Just An Accident

3. A House of Dynamite

4. Weapons

5. Sentimental Value

6. One Battle After Another

7. Sorry, Baby

8. Bugonia

9. Sanatorium

10. Warfare

Discoveries:

• Kill Bill: The Whole Bloody Affair (2006, Quentin Tarantino)

• Boyfriends and Girlfriends (1987, Eric Rohmer)

• Notorious (1946, Alfred Hitchcock)

• The Roaring Twenties (1939, Raoul Walsh)

• La Promesse (1996, Dardenne Brothers)

• Marked Woman (1937, Lloyd Bacon)

• Code Unknown (2000, Michael Haneke)

• When the Wind Blows (1986, Jimmy T. Murakami)

• Straight Time (1978, Ulu Grosbard)

• A Shock to the System (1990, Jan Egleson)

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Tom de Lancy Green (Film teacher)

1. Tulsa (Scott Stark)

2. Levers (Rhayne Vermette)

3. Debut… (Julian Castronovo)

4. All These Summers (Therese Henningsen)

5. Green Leaves (Flo Mavy)

Discoveries:

• <—> (1969, Michael Snow)

• Belfast, Maine (1999, Frederick Wiseman)

• Bouquets 1-10 (1995, Rose Lowder)

• Gang of Four (1989, Jacques Rivette)

• Other Men’s Women (1931, William Wellman)

• Raindance (1972, Standish Lawder)

• Tetsuo II: Body Hammer (1992, Shinya Tsukamoto)

• Warm Broth (1988, Luther Price)

• Words of Mercury (2011, Jerome Hiler)

• Zipping Along (1953, Chuck Jones)

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Tom Jowett (Cinema film programmer)

1. One Battle After Another (Paul Thomas Anderson)

2. Bogancloch (Ben Rivers)

3. April (Dea Kulumbegashvili)

4. Zodiac Killer Project (Charlie Shackleton)

5. The Seed of the Sacred Fig (Mohammad Rasoulof)

6. Nickel Boys (RaMell Ross)

7. Little Trouble Girls (Urska Djukic)

8. Pavements (Alex Ross Perry)

9. Good One (India Donaldson)

10. The Mastermind (Kelly Reichardt)

Discoveries:

• Hardcore (1979, Paul Schrader)

• The Sadist (1963, James Landis)

• The Hourglass Sanatorium (1973, Wojciech Has)

• Uzak (2002, Nuri Bilge Ceylan)

• Q (1982, Larry Cohen)

• Wendy And Lucy (2008, Kelly Reichardt)

• Deprisa, Deprisa (1981, Carlos Saura)

• Crumb (1994, Terry Zwigoff)

• Still Life (2006, Jia Zhangke)

• Dogville (2003, Lars Von Trier)

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William North (Filmmaker/Animator)

1. What Does That Nature Say to You (Hong Sang-soo)

2. Debut, or, Objects of the Field of Debris as Currently Catalogued (Julian Castronovo)

3. Chainsaw Man - The Movie: Reze Arc (Tatsuya Yoshihara)

4. Esper’s Light (Jung Jae-hoon)

5. In the Glow of Darkness (Tucker Bennett)

6. Ariel (Lois Patiño)

7. The Shrouds (David Cronenberg)

8. @dannyboy83.83.83.83.83 on Instagram

9. Happyend (Neo Sora)

10. Welcome To Jankspace, Babes (Daniel Felstead, Jenn Leung)

Discoveries:

• No Is Yes (1997, Laura Parnes)

• On the Far Side of Twilight (1994, Kohei Ando)

• Squish (2021, Tulapop Saenjaroen)

• Full Moon in Paris (1984, Eric Rohmer)

• Black Long Skirt (2010, Hoji Tsuchiya)

• Kingyo (2009, Edmund Yeo)

• After School Knife Fight (2017, Caroline Poggi, Jonathan Vinel)

• Mirror Products Catalog (2024, Annapurna Kumar)

• Pale Cocoon (2005, Yasuhiro Yoshiura)

• A Matter of Facts (1982, Eric Mitchell)

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Yui Antinomy (Film writer)

1. In The Lost Lands (Paul W.S. Anderson)

2. Red Sonja (M.J. Bassett)

3. No Other Choice (Park Chan-wook)

4. Black Bag (Steven Soderbegh)

5. Shifty (Adam Curtis)

6. The Mastermind (Kelly Reichardt)

7. 2025.03.17 (Taylor Turgeon)

8. Magellan (Lav Diaz)

9. Ella McCay (James L. Brooks)

10. Death of a Tiny Hat Man (Xavier Gamache)

Discoveries:

• The Arizona Ranger (1948, John Rawlins)

• Flowing (1956, Mikio Naruse)

• The Narrow Margin (1952, Richard Fleischer)

• Moonfleet (1955, Fritz Lang)

• Phantasm (1979, Don Coscarelli)

• The Wings of Eagles (1957, John Ford)

• Unrelated (2007, Joanna Hogg)

• Bonjour Tristesse (1959, Otto Preminger)

• God’s Little Acre (1958, Anthony Mann)

• Alias Nick Beal (1949, John Farrow)

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