In 2022 I watched some movies for the first time, as I do every year. And these are the thirty1 that were the best, most interesting, etc.:

  • Tsai Ming-liang: Vive L’Amour, 1994
  • Amalia Ulman: El Planeta, 2021
  • Pier Paolo Pasolini: Teorema, 1968
  • Spike Lee: Jungle Fever, 1991
  • Pier Paolo Pasolini, Vittorio De Sica, Luchino Visconti, Franco Rossi, Mauro Bolognini: The Witches, 1967
  • Mariano Llinás: La Flor, 20181
  • David Cronenberg: Crimes of the Future, 2022
  • Radu Jude: Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn, 2021
  • Akira Kurosawa: Seven Samurai, 1954
  • Sophy Romvari: Grandma’s House, 2018
  • Paul Thomas Anderson: Licorice Pizza, 2021
  • William Friedkin: The French Connection, 1971
  • S. S. Rajamouli: RRR, 2022
  • Shirley Clarke: Portrait of Jason, 1967
  • Joachim Trier: The Worst Person in the World, 2021
  • Rhayne Vermette: Ste. Anne, 2021
  • Sofia Bohdanowicz: Never Eat Alone, 2016
  • Edgar Morin, Jean Rouch: Chronicle of a Summer, 1961
  • Jane Schoenbrun: We’re All Going to the World’s Fair, 2021
  • Steven Soderbergh: Schizopolis, 1996
  • Wendell B. Harris, Jr.: Chameleon Street, 1989
  • J. Lee Thompson: Conquest of the Planet of the Apes, 1972
  • Ti West: Pearl, 2022
  • Derek Jarman: Blue, 1993
  • Sofia Bohdanowicz: Maison du Bonheur, 2017

  1. I’m counting La Flor as five movies because it’s 808 minutes long. Each year I try to get to a list of thirty, and some years it’s hard to. And this is one of those years. ↩ ↩2