Bird (Andrea Arnold)
Challengers (Luca Guadagnino)
Civil War (Alex Garland)
Joker: Folie à Deux (Todd Phillips)
Megalopolis (Francis Ford Coppola)
Rumours (Guy Maddin, Evan Johnson and Galen Johnson)
The Seed of the Sacred Fig (Mohammad Rasoulof)
The Substance (Coralie Fargeat)

- January / February - Bird (Andrea Arnold, 2024) Light Sleeper (Paul Schrader, 1992) Manila in the Claws of Light (Lino Brocka, 1975) Nosferatu (Robert Eggers, 2024) The End (Joshua Oppenheimer, 2024) Duck Soup (Leo McCarey, 1933) 8½ (Federico Fellini, 1963)* Queer (Luca Guadagnino, 2024) The Bruta...

Finally read The Goldfinch. I have no qualms at all in considering it to be the Great American Children's Novel.

- November / December - Last Year at Marienbad (Alain Resnais, 1961)* A Moment of Romance (Benny Chan, 1990) Mad God (Phil Tippett, 2021) Emilia Pérez (Jacques Audiard, 2024) The Soft Skin (François Truffaut, 1964) Claudine (John Berry, 1974) Hundreds of Beavers (Mike Cheslik, 2022) Anora (Sean Bake...

Showing Up (Kelly Reichardt, 2022) Perfect Days (Wim Wenders, 2023) Zu: Warriors from the Magic Mountain (Tsui Hark, 1983) About Dry Grasses (Nuri Bilge Ceylan, 2023) The Taste of Things (Tran Anh Hung, 2023) Working Girls (Lizzie Borden, 1986) The Miracle of Morgan's Creek (Preston Sturges, 1943) T...

The Room Next Door - a pretty remarkable feature-length imitation of those fake movies-within-a-movie that serve as arthouse parodies or cheap re-enactments within actual movies. Would make a great double bill with Emilia Perez as another bafflingly middlebrow misfire from 2024. (^ Not that Almodova...

The Belly of an Architect (Peter Greenaway) China Girl (Abel Ferrara) Full Metal Jacket (Stanley Kubrick) Opera (Dario Argento) Shy People (Andrei Konchalovsky) Woman Demon Human (Huang Shuqin) Yeelen (Souleymanne Cisse) Want to watch: Epidemic (Lars von Trier) Extreme Prejudice (Walter Hill) Hope a...

The Ballad of Buster Scruggs (Joel and Ethan Coen) Capernaum (Nadine Labaki) Cold War (Paweł Pawlikowski) An Elephant Sitting Still (Hu Bo) First Man (Damian Chazelle) Halloween (David Gordon Green) Hereditary (Ari Aster) High Life (Claire Denis) The House That Jack Built (Lars von Trier) Incredible...

- September / October - Nothing But a Man (Michael Roemer, 1964) Lost Highway (David Lynch, 1997)* ♥♥ Female Trouble (John Waters, 1974) Bad Timing (Nicolas Roeg, 1980) Haru (Yoshimitsu Morita, 1996) Megalopolis (Francis Ford Coppola, 2024) Cléo from 5 to 7 (Agnès Varda, 1962) We’re All Going to the...

Brother (Takeshi Kitano) Dancer in the Dark (Lars von Trier) Devils on the Doorstep (Jiang Wen) Dr. T & the Women (Robert Altman) Eureka (Shinji Aoyama) George Washington (David Gordon Green) In the Mood for Love (Wong Kar-wai) In Vanda's Room (Pedro Costa) Mission to Mars (Brian De Palma) O Bro...

- July / August - The Beast (Bertrand Bonello, 2023) 2046 (Wong Kar-wai, 2004)* The Terrorizers (Edward Yang, 1986)* Deadpool & Wolverine (Shawn Levy, 2024) Civil War (Alex Garland, 2024) The Empire (Bruno Dumont, 2024) Love on Delivery (Lee Lik-chi, 1994) Nanook of the North (Robert Flaherty, 1...

- May / June - Pestonjee (Vijaya Mehta, 1988) Blast of Silence (Allen Baron, 1961) Shirkers (Sandi Tan, 2018) The Miracle of Morgan's Creek (Preston Sturges, 1943) Port of Shadows (Marcel Carné, 1938) The Fly (David Cronenberg, 1986)* Kinds of Kindness (Yorgos Lanthimos, 2024) Dahomey (Mati Diop, 20...

- March / April - Dune: Part Two (Denis Villeneuve, 2024) Perfect Days (Wim Wenders, 2023) Ashes of Time Redux (Wong Kar-wai, 1994)* Zu: Warriors from the Magic Mountain (Tsui Hark, 1983) ♥ About Dry Grasses (Nuri Bilge Ceylan, 2023) The Taste of Things (Tran Anh Hung, 2023) ♥ 11 Minutes (Jerzy Skol...

- January / February - Ratcatcher (Lynne Ramsay, 1999) Ferrari (Michael Mann, 2023) The Graceful Brute (Yuzo Kawashima, 1962) Showing Up (Kelly Reichardt, 2022) Priscilla (Sofia Coppola, 2023) Hardcore (Paul Schrader, 1979) Blade Runner (Ridley Scott, 1982)* Fallen Leaves (Aki Kaurismäki, 2023) Mons...

Welcome back all! For posterity: About Dry Grasses (Nuri Bilge Ceylan) Afire (Christian Petzold) Anatomy of a Fall (Justine Triet) Do Not Expect Too Much of the End of the World (Radu Jude) The Killer (David Fincher) Oppenheimer (Christopher Nolan) Perfect Days (Wim Wenders) Poor Things (Yorgos Lant...

The Beguiled (Sofia Coppola) BPM (Beats Per Minute) (Robin Campillo) Caniba (Lucien Castaing-Taylor and Véréna Paravel) First Reformed (Paul Schrader) Foxtrot (Samuel Maoz) Good Time (Josh and Benny Safdie) The Killing of a Sacred Deer (Yorgos Lanthimos) Phantom Thread (Paul Thomas Anderson) The Rid...

Babylon (Damien Chazelle, 2022) Woman in Chains (Henri-Georges Clouzot, 1968) Bloody Nose, Empty Pockets (Turner Ross and Bill Ross IV, 2020) Wendy (Benh Zeitlin, 2020) Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse (Joaquim Dos Santos, Kemp Powers and Justin K. Thompson, 2023) 20,000 Species of Bees (Estíbali...

- November / December - Satan's Brew (Rainer Werner Fassbinder, 1976) Happy Here and Now (Michael Almereyda, 2002) The Killer (David Fincher, 2023) Le Plaisir (Max Ophüls, 1952) Woman They Almost Lynched (Allan Dwan, 1953) ♥ May December (Todd Haynes, 2023) Lovers Rock (Steve McQueen, 2020) The Sorr...

Nope, it was pretty much the entirety of The Miseducation, plus the singles from The Score.

Listened to it today. Pretty great! https://i.discogs.com/mkx6fAy7lbNNiPRVxXlVpxf_l7795etES97rlLE666w/rs:fit/g:sm/q:40/h:300/w:300/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTg2MzIz/MTktMTY2MTI4ODAw/Ny03NTA1LmpwZWc.jpeg Saw her live a few months ago on the 25th anniversary tour. The sound mixing an...

A.I. Artificial Intelligence (Steven Spielberg) All About Lily Chou-Chou (Shunji Iwai) Avalon (Mamoru Oshii) Gosford Park (Robert Altman) The Happiness of the Katakuris (Takashi Miike) Harmful Insect (Akihiko Shiota) The Man Who Wasn't There (Joel and Ethan Coen) Millennium Mambo (Hou Hsiao-Hsien) M...

- September / October - Wanda (Barbara Loden, 1970) Afire (Christian Petzold, 2023) ♥ Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia (Sam Peckinpah, 1974) Angels in America (Mike Nichols, 2003) The Seventh Continent (Michael Haneke, 1989) Anatomy of a Fall (Justine Triet, 2023) Killers of the Flower Moon (Mart...

- July / August - Tony Takitani (Jun Ichikawa, 2004) 20,000 Species of Bees (Estíbaliz Urresola, 2023) Oppenheimer (Christopher Nolan, 2023) ♥ Journey to Italy (Roberto Rossellini, 1954) The Flash (Andy Muschietti, 2023) Bitter Moon (Roman Polanski, 1992) Rouge (Stanley Kwan, 1987) BlackBerry (Matt ...

Besieged (Bernardo Bertolucci) The Big Lebowski (Joel and Ethan Coen) Black Cat, White Cat (Emir Kusturica) Dance Me to My Song (Rolf de Heer) Flowers of Shanghai (Hou Hsiao-Hsien) The Last Days of Disco (Whit Stillman) Secret Defense (Jacques Rivette) Snake Eyes (Brian De Palma) Sombre (Philippe Gr...

- May / June -

Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 (James Gunn, 2023)
Wendy (Benh Zeitlin, 2020) ♥
Simple Men (Hal Hartley, 1992)
My Little Loves (Jean Eustache, 1974)
Asteroid City (Wes Anderson, 2023)
Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse (Joaquim Dos Santos, Kemp Powers and Justin K. Thompson, 2023)

- March / April - All the Beauty and Bloodshed (Laura Poitras, 2022) Woman in Chains (Henri-Georges Clouzot, 1968) Enter the Dragon (Robert Clouse, 1973) Bloody Nose, Empty Pockets (Turner Ross and Bill Ross IV, 2020) Ichi the Killer (Takashi Miike, 2001) The Super Mario Bros. Movie (Aaron Horvath a...

Carmen (Carlos Saura) The Dead Zone (David Cronenberg) El Sur (Victor Erice) Holy Flame of the Martial World (Tony Lou Chun-Ku) The Hunger (Tony Scott) L’argent (Robert Bresson) The Makioka Sisters (Kon Ichikawa) Man of Flowers (Paul Cox) The Millennial Bee (Juraj Jakubisko) Monty Python’s The Meani...

Before, Now & Then (Kamila Andini)
Holy Spider (Ali Abbasi)
Doctor Strange and the Multiverse of Madness (Sam Raimi)
Armageddon Time (James Gray)
One Fine Morning (Mia Hansen-Love)

flip wrote: ↑Sun Mar 12, 2023 12:54 pm

DT. wrote: ↑Sat Mar 11, 2023 6:27 am Athena (Romain Gavras)

thanks for the ballot! am i correct to assume that the ballot is not meant to be in order?

Yes

Athena (Romain Gavras) Babylon (Damian Chazelle) The Banshees of Inisherin (Martin McDonagh) Bones and All (Luca Guadagnino) Crimes of the Future (David Cronenberg) The Eight Mountains (Charlotte Vandermeersch and Felix van Groeningen) Everything Everywhere All At Once (Dan Kwan and Daniel Scheinert...