As usual: here are thirty films, that I liked or thought were good, that I watched for the first time this year. In no particular order.

  • Éric Rohmer: Six in Paris, 1965
  • Angela Schanelec: I Was at Home, But…, 2019
  • Geneviève Dulude-De Celles: A Colony, 2018
  • Pedro Costa: Vitalina Varela, 2019
  • Jackie Chan: Police Story, 1985
  • Sean Baker: Starlet, 2012
  • Robert Altman: California Split, 1974
  • Éric Rohmer: Rendezvous in Paris, 1995
  • Spike Lee: Bamboozled, 2000
  • Thomas Vinterberg: Another Round, 2020
  • Éric Rohmer: Sign of the Lion, 1962
  • Juzo Itami: Tampopo, 1985
  • Stanley Kubrick: Eyes Wide Shut, 1999
  • Pietro Marcello: Martin Eden, 2019
  • Nicolas Winding Refn: Fear X, 2003
  • Solange Knowles: When I Get Home, 2019
  • Kevin Jerome Everson: Park Lanes, 2015
  • The Wachowskis: Bound, 1996
  • Wes Craven: Scream, 1996
  • Spike Lee: Da 5 Bloods, 2020
  • Apichatpong Weerasethakul: Blue, 2017
  • Tony Kaye: American History X, 1998
  • Tsai Ming-liang: Afternoon, 2015
  • Robin Hardy: The Wicker Man, 1973
  • Leos Carax: Annette, 2021
  • James Wan: Malignant, 2021
  • Jean-Luc Godard: First Name: Carmen, 1983
  • Corneliu Porumboiu: Infinite Football, 2018
  • John Maringouin: Ghostbox Cowboy, 2018
  • Dasha Nekrasova: The Scary of Sixty-First, 2021