A catalog of my favorite movies by release year. Sticking to world premiere dates and am basically structuring it like this one from Michael Sicinski.
2024:
1. Afternoons of Solitude (Albert Serra)
2. The Shrouds (David Cronenberg)
3. Baby Blue Benzo (Sara Cwynar)
4. It’s Not Me (Leos Carax)
5. The Periphery of the Base (Zhou Tao)
6. Christmas Eve in Miller’s Point (Tyler Taormina)
7. Misericordia (Alain Guiraudie)
8. Buseok (Park Kyujae)
9. Pepe (Nelson Carlos De Los Santos Arias)
10. Adrift Potentials (Leonardo Pirondi)
2023:
1. The Beast (Bertrand Bonello)
2. May December (Todd Haynes)
3. This Closeness (Kit Zauhar)
4. Occupied City (Steve McQueen)
5. Menus Plaisirs Les Troisgros (Frederick Wiseman)
6. Laberint Sequences (Blake Williams)
7. Janet Planet (Annie Baker)
8. The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar and Three More (Wes Anderson)
9. in water (Hong Sang-Soo)
10. Samsara (Lois Patiño)
2022:
1. Waiting for the Light to Change (Linh Tran)
2. Unrest (Cyril Schäublin)
3. Coma (Bertrand Bonello)
4. Crimes of the Future (David Cronenberg)
5. De Humani Corporis Fabrica (Lucien Castaing-Taylor, Verena Paravel)
6. Tár (Todd Field)
7. All the Beauty and the Bloodshed (Laura Poitras)
8. Against Time (Ben Rivers, Céline Condorelli)
9. Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery (Rian Johnson)
10. No Bears (Jafar Panahi)
2021:
1. Memoria (Apichatpong Weerasethakul)
2. Polycephaly in D (Michael Robinson)
3. The Girl and the Spider (Ramon and Silvan Zürcher)
4. The Cathedral (Ricky D’Ambrose)
5. Benediction (Terence Davies)
6. Annette (Leos Carax)
7. Introduction (Hong Sang-Soo)
8. The Power of the Dog (Jane Campion)
9. Neptune Frost (Saul Williams, Anisia Uzeyman)
10. Glass Life (Sara Cwynar)
2020:
1. Point and Line to Plane (Sofia Bohdanowicz)
2. Figure Minus Fact (Mary Helena Clark)
3. Still Processing (Sophy Romvari)
4. Circumstantial Pleasures (Lewis Klahr)
5. Beginning (Dea Kulumbegashvili)
6. Lovers Rock (Steve McQueen)
7. Undine (Christian Petzold)
8. Days (Tsai Ming Liang)
9. Tesla (Michael Almereyda)
10. Short Vacation (Kwon Min-pyo, Seo Han-sol)
2019:
1. I Was At Home But… (Angela Schanelec)
2. Apricity (Nathaniel Dorsky)
3. Fourteen (Dan Sallitt)
4. Uncut Gems (Josh and Benny Safdie)
5. First Cow (Kelly Reichardt)
6. Lux Æterna (Gaspar Noe)
7. Liberté (Albert Serra
8. Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (Quentin Tarantino)
9. End of the Century (Lucio Castro)
10. Pelourinho, They Don’t Really Care About Us (Akosua Adoma Owusu)
2018:
1. Fainting Spells (Sky Hopinka)
2. Colophon (For the Arboretum Cycle) (Nathaniel Dorsky)
3. The House that Jack Built (Lars Von Trier)
4. Mission Impossible: Fallout (Christopher McQuarrie)
5. Notes on an Appearance (Ricky D’Ambrose)
6. Veslemøy’s Song (Sofia Bohdanowicz)
7. Burning (Lee Chang-Dong)
8. The Grand Bizarre (Jodie Mack)
9. If Beale Street Could Talk (Barry Jenkins)
10. Under the Silver Lake (David Robert Mitchell)
2017:
1. Zama (Lucrecia Martel)
2. Phantom Thread (Paul Thomas Anderson)
3. Call Me By Your Name (Luca Guadagnino)
4. Love is the Message, the Message is Death (Arthur Jafa)
5. Paddington 2 (Paul King)
6. On the Beach at Night Alone (Hong Sang-Soo)
7. Jeannette: The Childhood of Joan of Arc (Bruno Dumont)
8. Onward Lossless Follows (Michael Robinson)
9. Get Out (Jordan Peele)
10. Scaffold (Kazik Radwanski)
2016:
1. Nocturama (Bertrand Bonello)
2. The Human Surge (Eduardo Williams)
3. Cameraperson (Kirsten Johnson)
4. La La Land (Damien Chazelle)
5. Staying Vertical (Alain Guiraudie)
6. Popstar: Never Stop, Never Stopping (Jorma Taccone, Akiva Schaffer)
7. Live to Live (Laida Lertxundi)
8. Manchester by the Sea (Kenneth Lonergan)
9. The Death of Louis XIV(Albert Serra)
10. 10 Mornings Ten Evenings and One Horizon (Tomonari Nishikawa)
2015:
1. Engram of Returning (Daichi Saito)
2. Carol (Todd Haynes)
3. No No Sleep (Tsai Ming-Liang)
4. Cemetery of Splendour (Apichatpong Weerasethakul)
5. Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation (Christopher McQuarrie)
6. Tangerine (Sean Baker)
7. Arabian Nights: Volume Three, The Enchanted One (Miguel Gomes)
8. Something Between Us (Jodie Mack)
9. Night Without Distance (Lois Patiño)
10. The Lobster (Yorgos Lanthimos)
2014:
1. The Duke of Burgundy (Peter Strickland)
2. Horse Money (Pedro Costa)
3. The Dragon is the Frame (Mary Helena Clark)
4. Gone Girl (David Fincher)
5. Welcome to New York (Abel Ferrara)
6. Cubalibre (Albert Serra)
7. The Clouds of Sils Maria (Olivier Assayas)
8. Jauja (Lisandro Alonso)
9. Unfriended (Levan Gabriadze)
10. Saint Laurent (Bertrand Bonello)
2013:
1. Inside Llewyn Davis (Joel Coen, Ethan Coen)
2. Stranger by the Lake (Alain Guiraudie)
3. Before Midnight (Richard Linklater)
4. Glistening Thrills (Jodie Mack)
5. The Strange Little Cat (Ramon Zürcher)
6. Only Lovers Left Alive (Jim Jarmusch)
7. Nymphomaniac: Volume 1 (Lars Von Trier)
8. What Places of Heaven, What Planets Directed, How Long the Effects? or, The General Accidents of the World (David Gatten)
9. The Hunger Games: Catching Fire (Francis Lawrence)
10. The Wolf of Wall Street (Martin Scorsese)
2012:
1. Stemple Pass (James Benning)
2. Tabu (Miguel Gomes)
3. In the Stone House/New Shores (Jerome Hiler)
4. Holy Motors (Leos Carax)
5. Orpheus (Outtakes) (Mary Helena Clark)
6. Skyfall (Sam Mendes)
7. The Woolworths Choir of 1979 (Elizabeth Price)
8. Neighboring Sounds (Kleber Mendonça Filho)
9. August and After (nathaniel Dorsky)
10. Leviathan (Lucien Castaing-Taylor, Verena Paravel)
2011:
1. House of Tolerance (Bertrand Bonello)
2. Margaret (Kenneth Lonergan)
3. The Tree of Life (Terence Malick)
4. Weekend (Andrew Haigh)
5. Words of Mercury (Jerome Hiler)
6. Mildred Pierce (Todd Haynes)
7. Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol (Brad Bird)
8. Melancholia (Lars Von Trier)
9. The Deep Blue Sea (Terence Davies)
10. 4:44: Last Day on Earth (Abel Ferrara)
