Favorite Theatrical Releases
Favorite films that had a one-week run in NYC during 2015. In order of preference.
- Carol (Todd Haynes)
- Horse Money (Pedro Costa)
- The Mend (John Magary)
- Phoenix (Christian Petzold)
- The Assassin (Hou Hsiao-hsien)
- Timbuktu (Abderrahmane Sissako)
- Li’l Quinquin (Bruno Dumont)
- Amour Fou (Jessica Hausner)
- Beloved Sisters (Dominik Graf)
- Tu dors Nicole (Stéphane Lafleur)
Favorite As-Yet Undistributed Features
In order of preference.
- No Home Movie (Chantal Akerman)
- In the Shadow of Women (Philippe Garrel)
- Right Now, Wrong Then (Hong Sang-soo)
- Cemetery of Splendor (Apitchatpong Weerasethakul)
- The Sky Trembles and the Earth Is Afraid and the Two Eyes Are Not Brothers (Ben Rivers)
- Santa Teresa and Other Stories (Nelson Carlo de los Santos Arias)
- The Academy of Muses (José Luis Guerin)
- Campo Grande (Sandra Kogut)
- The Other Side (Roberto Minervini)
- Minotaur (Nicolás Pereda)
Favorite New Experimental Shorts
In alphabetical order.
- Cathode Garden (Janie Geiser)
- Faux Départ (Yto Barrada)
- Mad Ladders (Michael Robinson)
- Mars Garden (Lewis Klahr)
- Navigator (Björn Kämmerer)
- Prima Materia (Charlotte Pryce)
- Scales in the Spectrum of Space (Fern Silva)
- Something Between Us (Jodie Mack)
- Something Horizontal (Blake Williams)
- Traces/Legacy (Scott Stark)
Favorite Discoveries
Older films I saw for the first time this year, limited to one film per director. In chronological order.
- Stark Love (Karl Brown, 1927)
- Heroes for Sale (William A. Wellman, 1933)
- The Thin Man (W.S. Van Dyke, 1934)
- History is Made at Night (Frank Borzage, 1937)
- Adieu Philippine (Jacques Rozier, 1963)
- Cheyenne Autumn (John Ford, 1964)
- The Soft Skin (François Truffaut, 1964)
- The Inner Scar (Philippe Garrel, 1972)
- Something to Remind Me (Christian Petzold, 2001)
- Augustine (Alice Winocour, 2012)