Film

Not everything ends up recorded here. Only what I’d watch again, or perhaps recommend. A more detailed overview of what I’ve watched can be found on letterboxd.

I find it hard to rate movies. Of the films that have a certain quality, there are ones that are great fun in the moment, but then quickly forgotten about—low impact. And then there some that I may not have even particularly enjoyed watching, but then months later I still replay these scenes over in my head. Some I rewatch then—movies misunderstood. Perhaps I wasn’t ready to understand at the time.

The items highlighted are what I may have enjoyed more than the rest.

2025 ¶

• Иди и смотри (1985) - Elem Klimov
• Biffy Clyro: Cultural Sons of Scotland (2022) - Jack Lowe

2024 ¶

• tick, tick. . . BOOM! (2021) - Lin-Manuel Miranda
• Das Boot (1981) - Wolfgang Petersen
• Suspiria (2018) - Luca Guadagnino
• The Consequences of Love (2004) - Paolo Sorrentino
• Incendies (2010) - Denis Villeneuve
• Past Lives (2023) - Celine Song
• Climax (2018) - Gaspar Noé
• The Hustler (1961) - Robert Rossen
• Dune: Part Two (2024) - Denis Villeneuve
• Call Me by Your Name (2017) - Luca Guadagnino
• November (2017) - Rainer Sarnet
• Rear Window (1954) - Alfred Hitchcock
• National Gallery (2014) - Frederick Wiseman
• Millennium Mambo (2001) - Hou Hsiao-hsien
• The Graduate (1967) - Mike Nichols
• Civilisations series (2018) - Simon Schama, Mary Beard, David Olusoga
• Shōgun series (2024) - Rachel Kondo, Justin Marks
• Le Rayon vert (1986) - Éric Rohmer
• Anatomy of a Murder (1959) - Otto Preminger
• Days of Heaven (1978) - Terrence Malick
• Sound of Metal (2019) - Darius Marder
• Me and Earl and the Dying Girl (2015) - Alfonso Gomez-Rejon

2023 ¶

• Jeanne Dielman, 23 quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles (1975) - Chantal Akerman
• Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) (2014) - Alejandro González Iñárritu
• All Quiet on the Western Front (2022) - Edward Berger
• The Tree of Life (2011) - Terrence Malick
• TÁR (2022) - Todd Field
• Roman Holiday (1953) - William Wyler
• The Conversation (1974) - Francis Ford Coppola
• The Big Sleep (1946) - Howard Hawks
• Asteroid City (2023) - Wes Anderson
• Falcon Lake (2022) - Charlotte Le Bon
• Cinema Paradiso (1988) - Giuseppe Tornatore
• Lawrence of Arabia (1962) - David Lean
• Cool Hand Luke (1967) - Stuart Rosenberg
• Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969) - George Roy Hill
• The Thin Red Line (1998) - Terrence Malick
• Her (2013) - Spike Jonze
• Fitzcarraldo (1982) - Werner Herzog
• Burden of Dreams (1982) - Les Blank
• Jiro Dreams of Sushi (2011) - David Gelb
• The Undersea World of Jacques Cousteau series (1968) - Philippe Cousteau, Jacques-Yves Cousteau
• Cléo from 5 to 7 (1962) - Agnès Varda
• The Hand of God (2021) - Paolo Sorrentino
• The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948) - John Huston
• Barbie (2023) - Greta Gerwig
• The Beatles: Get Back series (2021) - Peter Jackson
• The Great Beauty (2013) - Paolo Sorrentino

2022 ¶

• Interstellar (2014) - Cristopher Nolan
• The French Dispatch (2021) - Wes Anderson
• Atomic Blonde (2017) - David Leitch
• Dead Poets Society (1989) - Peter Weir
• Platoon (1986) - Platoon
• The Novice (2021) - Lauren Hadaway
• Kurt Vonnegut: Unstuck in Time (2021) - Robert B. Weide
• Lost in Translation (2003) - Sofia Coppola
• The Endless Summer (1966) - Bruce Brown
• Drive My Car (2021) - Ryūsuke Hamaguchi
• There Will Be Blood (2007) - Paul Thomas Anderson
• Inherent Vice (2014) - Paul Thomas Anderson
• Phantom Thread (2017) - Paul Thomas Anderson
• Licorice Pizza (2021) - Paul Thomas Anderson
• Chungking Express (1994) - Wong Kar-wai
• The Batman (2022) - Matt Reeves
• Rebel Without a Cause (1955) - Nicholar Ray
• Casablanca (1942) - Michael Curtiz
• 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) - Stanley Kubrick
• Memento (2000) - Christopher Nolan
• Top Gun (1986) - Tony Scott
• Roma (2018) - Alfonso Cuarón
• Before Sunrise (1995) - Richard Linklater
• Heat (1995) - Michael Mann
• Point Break (1991) - Kathryn Bigelow
• Barry Lyndon (1975) - Stanley Kubrick

2021 ¶

• Drive (2011) - Nicolas Winding Refn
• Apocalypse Now (1979) - Francis Ford Coppola
• Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker’s Apocalypse (1991) - Fax Bahr, George Hickenlooper, Eleanor Coppola
• Donnie Darko (2001) - Richard Kelly
• Rams (2018) - Gary Hustwit
• Rushmore (1998) - Wes Anderson
• The Green Knight (2021) - David Lowery
• The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014) - Wes Anderson
• Blade Runner (1982) - Ridley Scott
• Blade Runner 2049 (2017) - Denis Villeneuve
• The Place Beyond the Pines (2012) - Derek Cianfrance
• Edge of Tomorrow (2014) - Doug Liman
• Portrait de la jeune fille en feu (2019) - Celine Sciamma
• Lady Bird (2017) - Greta Gerwig
• Carol (2015) - Todd Haynes
• The Handmaiden (2016) - Park Chan-wook
• Dune (2021) - Denis Villeneuve

Elsewhere: Best of 2024, Raigo Jerva