Titles will be added when they fall off “the last 10 films I’ve seen.” Slashes indicate repeat viewings. Titles prefaced by a plus sign were seen in a movie theater or press screening. The new release section includes  films  released in 2023 theatrically or on streaming formats in the U.S. or undistributed films from 2022-3  that I caught up with this year.  Films under 40 minutes will be labelled {S} and those between 40 and 70 minutes {M}. Shorts aren’t are rated.

NEW FILMS

+ABOUT DRY GRASSES (Nuri Bilge Ceylan) ***

AMAR SINGH CHAMKILA (Imtiaz Ali) **1/2

BAD GIRL BOOGEY (Alice Maio Mackay, 2022) **1/2

+THE BEAST (Bertrand Bonello) **1/2

BREAKING THE NEWS (Heather Courtney, Princess A. Hairston and Chelsea Hernandez) ***

+CHALLENGERS (Luca Guadagnino) ***

+CIVIL WAR (Alex Garland) *

A COMPASSIONATE SPY (Steve James) **1/2

COUP DE CHANCE (Woody Allen) **

CRITICAL ZONE (Ali Ahmadzadeh) ***1/2

DARIO ARGENTO PANICO (Simone Scafidi) **

DO NOT EXPECT TOO MUCH FROM THE END OF THE WORLD (Radu Jude) ***1/2

+DRIVE-AWAY DOLLS (Ethan Coen) ***

+DUNE: PART TWO (Denis Villeneuve) **1/2

+EVIL DOES NOT EXIST (Ryusuke Hamaguchi) ***

THE FEELING THAT THE TIME FOR DOING SOMETHING HAS PASSED (Joanna Arnow) ***1/2

FEMME (Sam H. Freeman & Ng Choon Ping) **

+FERRARI (Michael Mann) ***

+THE FIRST OMEN (Arkasha Stevenson) ***1/2

FOUR DAUGHTERS (Kaouther Ben Hania) **1/2

GIRLS STATE (Amanda McBaine & Jesse Moss) **1/2

GODLESS: THE EASTFIELD EXORCISM (Nick Kozakis) **

GOOD ONE (India Donaldson) ***

HOMETOWN PRISON (Richard Linklater) ***

+HOW TO HAVE SEX (Molly Manning Walker) ***

HUNDREDS OF BEAVERS (Matt Cheskil) **1/2

+I DID IT MY WAY (Jason Kwan) **

I KNOW WHAT YOU NEED (Julia Marchese) {M} ***

+IMMACULATE (Michael Mohan) **

INSIDE THE YELLOW COCOON SHELL (Pham Thien An) **1/2

/in water/ (Hong Sangsoo) {M} ***

+I SAW THE TV GLOW (Jane Schoenbrun) ***1/2

+I.S.S. (Gabriela Cowperthwaite) *

+LAST THINGS (Deborah Stratman) {M} ***

+LATE NIGHT WITH THE DEVIL (Cameron Cairnes & Colin Cairnes) **1/2

+LOVE LIES BLEEDING (Rose Glass) ***

+MAMBAR PIERRETTE (Rosine Mbakam) **1/2

+MEEHAN (Shahab Mihandoust) **1/2

+MONOLITH (Matt Vesely) **1/2

+THE MOVIE EMPEROR (Ning Hao) **1/2

MUCH ADO ABOUT DYING (Simon Chambers) ***

OF LIVING WITHOUT ILLUSION (Katharina Lüdin) ***1/2

OLD NARCISSUS (Tsuoyoshi Shoji) ***

THE OLD OAK (Ken Loach) ***

ONLOOKERS (Kimi Takesue) ***

+ORIGIN (Ava DuVernay) *

THE PALACE (Roman Polanski) *

THE PEOPLE’S JOKER (Vera Drew) ***

+PERFECT DAYS (Wim Wenders) ***

+PROBLEMISTA (Julio Torres) **

+THE PROMISED LAND (Nikolaj Arcel) **1/2

RED ROOMS (Pascal Plante) ***1/2

THE RIM (Alberto Gracia) ***

+SASQUATCH SUNSET (David & Nathan Zellner) ***

SATANIC HISPANICS (Mike Mendez, Demian Rugna, Eduardo Sanchez, Gigi Saul Guerrero, Alejandro Brugues) **

+THE SETTLERS (Felipe Galvez) **1/2

+SHAYDA (Noora Niasari) **1/2

+SHE IS CONANN (Bertrand Mandico) **1/2

+SKIN DEEP (Alex Schaad) ***

SPACEMAN (Johan Renck) *

STRESS POSITIONS (Theda Hammell) **

+THE TASTE OF THINGS (Tran Anh Hung) ***

+TERRESTRIAL VERSES (Ali Asgari and Alireza Khatami) ***

THE TRUTH VS. ALEX JONES (Dan Reed) ***

+VESELKA (Michael Fiore) *

WALK UP (Hong Sangsoo) **

YANNICK (Quentin Dupieux) {M} ***

YOU’LL NEVER FIND ME (Indianna Bell & Josiah Allen) **1/2

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OLDER FILMS

ABUSE (Arthur Bressan, Jr., 1982)

ANGAMALY DIARIES (Lijo Jose Pellissery, 2017)

+THE ANGEL (Patrick Bokanowski, 1982)

ANIMA NERA (Roberto Rossellini, 1963)

ANTHROPOPHAGOUS (Joe D’Amato, 1980)

+APPOINTMENT AT BRAY (Andre Delvaux, 1971)

AU CLAIR DE LA LUNE (André Forcier, 1982)

BALNEARIOS (Mariano Llinas, 2002)

/BIRTH/ (Jonathan Glazer, 2004)

+THE BIRTH OF A NATION (Klaus Wyborny, 1973)

BLACK LIGHT (Med Hondo, 1994)

BLED NUMBER ONE (Rabah Ameur-Zaimeche, 2006)

BLOOD QUANTUM (Jeff Barnaby, 2019)

THE BRAIN (Ed Hunt, 1988)

BRAWL IN CELL BLOCK 99 (S. Craig Zahler, 2017)

THE ‘BURBS (Joe Dante, 1989)

CAGED MEN (Ed Forsyth, 1971)

CAMILA (Maria Luisa Bemberg, 1984)

CANNIBAL MAN (Eloy de la Iglesia, 1972)

LE CENTRE GEORGES POMPIDOU (Roberto Rossellini, 1977) {M}

THE CHANGELING (Peter Medak, 1980)

CHOPPING MALL (Jim Wynorski, 1986)

THE CIGARETTE (Germaine Dulac, 1919) {M}

THE CITY BELOW (Christoph Hochhausler, 2010)

CLOSE-UP LONG SHOT (Moslem Mansouri & Mahmoud Chokrollahi, 1996) {M}

CONFESSIONS OF A EX-DOOFUS-ITCHYFOOTED MUTHA (Melvin Van Peebles, 2008)

DALLAS DOLL (Ann Turner, 1996)

DERNIER MAQUIS (Rabah Ameur-Zaimeche, 2008)

DETENTION (Joseph Kahn, 2011)

THE DEVIL’S HONEY (Lucio Fulci, 1986)

DEVIL’S PASS (Renny Harlin, 2013)

+DIRTY MONEY (Denys Arcand, 1972)

+DISHONORED (Josef von Sternberg, 1931)

DOOR (Banmei Takahashi, 1988)

DOOR III (Kiyoshi Kurosawa, 1996)

DUNE (Denis Villeneuve, 2021)

DUST OF EMPIRE (Lam Le, 1983)

EDGE OF TOMORROW (Doug Liman, 2014)

EVERYBODY IN OUR FAMILY (Radu Jude, 2012)

EYES OF THE SPIDER (Kiyoshi Kurosawa, 1998)

THE FALCONER (Chris Petit & Iain Sinclair, 1998) {M}

FINAL CUT (Ross Dimsley, 1980)

FLATLINERS (Joel Schumacher, 1990)

FLESH ON GLASS (Ann Turner, 1981) {M}

THE FLYING LUNA CLIPPER (Ikko Ono, 1987) {M}

FOREVER A WOMAN (Kinuyo Tanaka, 1955)

FOR THE MONEY (Alejo Moguillansky, 2017)

FRANKENHOOKER (Frank Henenlotter, 1990)

/FREDDY GOT FINGERED/ (Tom Green, 2001)

THE FRONT PAGE (Billy Wilder, 1974)

THE GHOST AND MRS. MUIR (Joseph L. Mankiwiecz, 1947)

GHOST STORIES (Jeremy Dyson & Andy Nyman, 2017)

GOLEM (Piotr Szulkin, 1980)

THE GREEN, GREEN GRASS OF HOME (Hou Hsiao-hsien, 1982)

THE HAPPIEST GIRL IN THE WORLD (Radu Jude, 2009)

HAVRE (Juliet Berto, 1986)

HIGHWAY (Imtiaz Ali, 2014)

HOME (Richard Curson Smith, 2003) {M}

I HEARD IT THROUGH THE GRAPEVINE (Dick Fontaine & Pat Hartley, 1982)

IREZUMI (Yasuzo Masumura, 1966)

IT’S ALL ABOUT LOVE (Thomas Vinterberg, 2003)

JURASSIC PARK (Steven Spielberg, 1993)

KEN (Kenji Misumi, 1964)

/KILL LIST/ (Ben Wheatley, 2011)

KOTOKO (Shinya Tsukamoto, 2011)

THE LAST ISLAND (Marleen Gorris, 1990)

THE LIES OF THE VICTORS (Christoph Hochhausler, 2014)

LIFE ON THE CAPS (Meriem Bennani, 2018-2021) {M}

LOVE AAJ KAL (Imtiaz Ali, 2009)

THE LURE (Agnieszka Smoczynska, 2015)

MADE IN HEAVEN (Alan Rudolph, 1987)

MAKING OF ‘DREAMS’ (Nobuhiko Obayashi, 1990)

THE MAN FROM MAJORCA (Bo Widerberg, 1984)

MAN OF FLOWERS (Paul Cox, 1983)

+THE MAN WHO WATCHED WINDOWS (Merzak Allouache, 1985)

MK ULTRA (Joseph Sorrentino, 2022)

/THE MODEL COUPLE/ (William Klein, 1977)

MY HEART IS THAT ETERNAL ROSE (Patrick Tam, 1989)

NIGHT ZOO (Jean-Claude Lauzon, 1987)

1990: THE BRONX WARRIORS (Enzo G. Castellari, 1990)

ONE FALSE MOVE (Carl Franklin, 1992)

ORDINARY PEOPLE (Robert Redford, 1980)

+A PAGE OF MADNESS (Teinosuke Kinugasa, 1926)

PARANORMAL ACTIVITY: THE MARKED ONES (Christopher Landon, 2014)

RAT (Mark Lewis, 1998) {M}

/RING/ (Hideo Nakata, 1998)

RITUAL (Joko Anwar, 2012)

ROJA (Mani Ratman, 1992)

SAIKO! THE LARGE FAMILY (Toshikazu Nagae, 2009)

SCARE ME (Josh Ruben, 2020)

SHINOBUGAWA (Nobuhiko Obayashi, 2000) {M}

SIMON OF THE DESERT (Luis Buñuel, 1965) {M}

SLEEPING SICKNESS (Ulrich Kohler, 2011)

SLEEPLESS (Dario Argento, 2001)

+SMALL SCALE SADNESS (Robert Morin, 1987)

THE SMILING MADAME BEUDET (Germaine Dulac, 1923) {M}

SMUGGLERS’ SONGS (Rabah Ameur-Zaimache, 2011)

SOLEIL O (Med Hondo, 1970)

SOLO TRANS (Hal Ashby, 1984) {M}

SOMETHING ORGANIC (Bertrand Bonello, 1998)

SOUTH TERMINAL (Rabah Ameur-Zaimeche, 2019)

SO VAM (Alice Maio Mackay, 2021)

SWEPT AWAY (Guy Ritchie, 2002)

TAMASHA (Imtiaz Ali, 2015)

10+4 (Mania Sakbari, 2007)

TESTAMENT (Lynne Littman, 1983)

30/30 VISION: 3 DECADES OF STRAND RELEASING (various directors, 2019)

TIME OF LOVE (Mohsen Makhmalbaf, 1990)

/TRUST/ (Hal Hartley, 1990)

TURNING POINT (Nobuhiko Obayashi, 1994)

A VERY BRITISH PSYCHO (Chris Rodley, 1997) {M}

WAITING FOR APRIL (Olivier Godin, 2018)

+WATANI: A WORLD WITHOUT EVIL (Med Hondo, 1998)

/WAX, OR THE DISCOVERY OF TELEVISION AMONG THE BEES/ (David Blair, 1991)

/WEST INDIES/ (Med Hondo, 1979)

WHISTLE AND I’LL COME TO YOU (Jonathan Miller, 1968) {M}

WHO ARE YOU, POLLY MAGGOO? (William Klein, 1966)

/WHO WAS EDGAR ALLAN?/ (Michael Haneke, 1984)

THE WICKER MAN (Neil LaBute, 2006)

+THE WINTER OF 1905 (Yu Wai Cheng, 1982)

ZEDER (Pupi Avati, 1983)

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SHORTS

AFRICANS WITH MAINFRAMES (Kima Hibbert)

ALL ABOUT A GIRL (Cecelia Condit, 2004)

BENEATH THE SKIN (Cecelia Condit, 1981)

THE BICYCLIST WHO FELL INTO A TIME CONE (Raqs Media Collective)

CATTLE MUTILATION (George Kuchar, 1983)

CINDY, THE DOLL IS MINE (Bertrand Bonello, 2005)

CRAWLIES (Emanuel Koch)

DILATING FOR MAXIMUM RESULTS (Nyala Moon)

FIORUCCI MADE ME HARDCORE (Mark Leckey, 1999)

LARISA (Elem Klimov, 1980)

LESS AND LESS (Luc Moullet, 2011)

LETTER TO AMERICA (Kira Muratova, 1999)

THE LOTTERY (Larry Yust, 1969)

MIDNIGHT (Takashi Miike)

MY MORNING WITH MAGIC MIKE (John Wilson)

+THE MYSTERIOUS PAUL (Robert Morin & Lorraine Dufour, 1983)

NIAYE (Ousmane Sembene, 1964)

NOT A JEALOUS BONE (Cecelia Condit, 1987)

PIER PAOLO PASOLINI – AGNES VARDA – NEW YORK – 1967 (Agnes Varda, 2022)

A PLOT, A SCANDAL (Ligia Lewis)

RAINER, A VICIOUS DOG IN SKULL VALLEY (Bertrand Mandico)

SHADOW OF A CLOUD (Radu Jude, 2013)

+/SLOW SHIFT/ (Shambhavi Kaul)

+SONGS FOR EARTH AND FOLK (Cauleen Smith, 2013)

SPIRIT EMULSION (Siku Allooloo)

SUBURBS OF EDEN (Cecelia Condit, 1992)

TRAY TRAY KO (Seba Calfuqueo)

+WHERE I AM IS HERE (Margaret Tait, 1964)