Saturday, December 31, 2022

2022 IN FILM

Of the 800+ titles I saw this year, these were my most favourite. A Top 30 & many many honorables. Also, my 2022 film ballot at the Wandering Image, highlighting the year's best in film by category.







30.                      X








             THREE THOUSAND 
29. YEARS OF LONGING





-tie-29.
     THE ETERNAL DAUGHTER







28.        RETURN TO SEOUL
[ALL THE PEOPLE I'LL NEVER BE]






27.            THE SEA BEAST







26.                 EARWIG







                  APOLLO 10½:
25.  A SPACE AGE CHILDHOOD







                      MARCEL
24. THE SHELL WITH SHOES ON





23.                 VORTEX





22.                 VESPER






21.     STRAWBERRY MANSION





20.              EO





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19.    IN FRONT OF YOUR FACE







18.       ROCK BOTTOM RISER






17.              SAINT OMER





16.           THE CATHEDRAL





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15.                    TÁR





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14.           MARX CAN WAIT





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13. 
  THE BANSHEES OF INISHERIN








12.                    COW







                 
11.               NO BEARS





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10.    CRIMES OF THE FUTURE





9.         DECISION TO LEAVE







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8.              PETITE MAMAN







                 
7.               FUNNY PAGES





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6.            THE NORTHMAN






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5.                    PEARL





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4.                  MAD GOD
[feature film version]




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3.                   IL BUCO






              ALL THE BEAUTY 
2.AND THE BLOODSHED







1.                     NOPE
*****











ALSO ESSENTIAL. NOT RANKED.
(the other titles of 2022 I loved that could've placed)



SATURDAY FICTION





ONE FINE MORNING




FREE CHOL SOO LEE





THE CURSED
[EIGHT FOR SILVER]




 
PREY





THE QUIET GIRL
[AN CAILÍN CIÚIN]





THE RISE OF THE TEENAGE MUTANT 
NINJA TURTLES: THE MOVIE





PETROV'S FLU



SALOUM




AFTERSUN




STARS AT NOON






FIRE OF LOVE






BENEDICTION






THE NOVELIST'S FILM





HIT THE ROAD








THIS MUCH I KNOW TO BE TRUE





ALL THAT BREATHES






BROKER




THE HEADHUNTER'S DAUGHTER





THE FABELMANS





SOMETHING IN THE DIRT



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THE FLYING SAILOR





SWEETIE,
YOU WON'T BELIEVE IT





BEWARE OF TRAINS



MY FATHER'S DRAGON





OFFICIAL COMPETITION





5-25-77







THE HOUSE










ARMAGEDDON TIME





THE WOMAN KING





MEDUSA





BEYOND 
THE INFINITE TWO MINUTES






A MAN OF INTEGRITY





BARBARIAN





MURINA





WE'RE ALL
 GOING TO THE WORLD'S FAIR






WYRMWOOD: APOCALYPSE






INCREDIBLE BUT TRUE





WEIRD: 
THE AL YANKOVIC STORY






RRR





FACING NOLAN






MOONAGE DAYDREAM






BLACK SLIDE






ALI & AVA






KIMI





SKINNED [ÉCORCHÉE]




WENDELL & WILD









CHILDREN OF THE MIST




HIDEOUS






THE SKATEBOOK




GUILLERMO DEL TORO’S 
PINOCCHIO





ARGENTINA, 1985






DECK OF CARDS






DARK GLASSES





LE PUPILLE




SHE WILL






GOOD NIGHT OPPY

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recap
2022
  1. NOPE (Peele)
  2. ALL THE BEAUTY & THE BLOODSHED (Poitras)
  3. THE HOLE (Frammartino)
  4. MAD GOD [feature version] (Tippett)
  5. PEARL (Ti West)
  6. THE NORTHMAN (Eggers)
  7. FUNNY PAGES (O.Kline)
  8. PETITE MAMAN (Sciamma)
  9. DECISION TO LEAVE (Park chan-wook)
  10. CRIMES OF THE FUTURE (Cronenberg)
  11. NO BEARS (Panahi)
  12. COW (Andrea Arnold)
  13. BANSHEES OF INISHERIN (McDonagh)
  14. MARX CAN WAIT (Bellocchio)
  15. TÁR (Field)
  16. THE CATHEDRAL (D’Ambrose)
  17. SAINT OMER (A.Diop)
  18. ROCK BOTTOM RISER (Fern Silva)
  19. IN FRONT OF YOUR FACE (Hong sang-soo)
  20. EO (Skolimowski)
  21. STRAWBERRY MANSION (Audley/Birney)
  22. VESPER (Buozyte/Samper)
  23. VORTEX (Noé)
  24. MARCEL SHELL W/ SHOES ON (Fleischer-Camp)
  25. APOLLO 10 1/2 (Linklater)
  26. EARWIG (Hadzihalilovic)
  27. THE SEA BEAST (Chris Williams)
  28. RETURN TO SEOUL (Davy Chou)
  29. 3,000 YEARS OF LONGING (Miller)                            -tie- THE ETERNAL DAUGHTER (Hogg)
  30. X (Ti West)


RUNNER-UP:
SATURDAY FICTION (Lou Ye), ONE FINE MORNING (Hansen-Løve), FREE CHOL SOO LEE (Ha/Yi), THE CURSED (S.Ellis), PREY (Trachtenberg), THE QUIET GIRL (Bairéad), RISE OF THE TMNT: THE MOVIE (Suriano/Ward), PETROV'S FLU 
(Serebrennikov), SALOUM (Herbulot), AFTERSUN (Charlotte Wells), STARS AT NOON (Denis), FIRE OF LOVE (Dosa), BENEDICTION (Davies), NOVELIST'S FILM (Hong sang-soo), HIT THE ROAD (P.Panahi), THIS MUCH I KNOW TO BE TRUE (Dominik), ALL THAT BREATHES (Sen), BROKER (Koreeda), HEADHUNTER'S DAUGHTER (Eblahan), THE FABELMANS (Spielberg), SOMETHING IN THE DIRT (Benson/Moorhead), THE FLYING SAILOR (Tilby/Forbis), SWEETIE YOU WON’T BELIEVE IT (Nurgaliyev), BEWARE OF TRAINS (Calder), MY FATHER’S DRAGON (Twomey), COMPETENCIA OFICIAL (Cohn/Duprat), 5-25-77 (Read Johnson), THE HOUSE (De Swaef), ARMAGEDDON TIME (Gray), THE WOMAN KING (Prince-Bythewood), MEDUSA (A.R. da Silveira), BEYOND THE INFINITE TWO MINUTES (J.Yamaguchi), A MAN OF INTEGRITY (Rasoulof), BARBARIAN (Cregger), MURINA (Kusijanović), WE’RE ALL GOING TO THE WORLD’S FAIR (Schoenbrun), 
WYRMWOOD: APOCALYPSE (Roache-Turner), INCROYABLE MAIS VRAI (Dupieux), WEIRD: THE AL YANKOVIC STORY (Appel), RISE ROAR REVOLT (S.S. Rajamouli), FACING NOLAN (Groves), MOONAGE DAYDREAM (Morgen), BLACK SLIDE (Lotan), ALI & AVA (Clio Barnard), KIMI (Soderbergh), ÉCORCHÉE (Hérissé), WENDELL & WILD (Selick), CHILDREN OF THE MIST (Ha Le Diem), HIDEOUS (Yann Gonzalez), THE SKATEBOOK (Negri), PINOCCHIO (Del Toro/Gustafson), ARGENTINA 1985 (Mitre), DECK OF CARDS (Notarnicola), OCCHIALI NERI (Argento), LE PUPILLE (Rohrwacher), SHE WILL (C.Colbert), GOOD NIGHT OPPY (Ryan White)













THE DAM -
AL-SADD 
(Cherri) TBA release
UNICORN WARS (Vázquez) 2023 release
SKINAMARINK (Ball) 2023 release
BUTTERFLY IN THE SKY 
           (Thomason/Whitcomb) 2024 release
MY LOVE AFFAIR WITH MARRIAGE 
                       (Baumane2023 release
I DIDN'T SEE U THERE (Davenport) TBA
THE SEVERING (Pellington) 2023 release
DETECTIVE VS. SLEUTHS (Wai Ka-faiTBA
(festival films I loved that got no 2022 theatrical release & no distribution)










3 MINUTES A LENGTHENING (Stigter), GERDA ГЕРДА (Kudryashova), WOUNDED FAWN (T.Stevens), OUT THERE HALLOWEEN MEGA TAPE (LaMartina), ONCE & FUTURE SMASH (Cacciola/MJ Epstein), THE BALCONY MOVIE (Lozinski)THE STRANGER (T.Wright), NITRAM (Kurzel), PALE BLUE EYE (Cooper)PARIS 13TH DISTRICT (Audiard)NANNY (Nikyatu Jusu), THE INSPECTION (Bratton), DEAD FOR A DOLLAR (Hill), PUSS IN BOOTS: THE LAST WISH (Crawford)PLEASE BABY PLEASE (A.Kramer), FRESH (Cave), ATHENA (R.Gavras), 
WOMEN TALKING (Polley)THE WONDER (Lelio), AMSTERDAM (O.Russell), 
BROKER (Koreeda)LADY CHATTERLEY’S LOVER (Clermont-Tonnerre), DEEP WATER (Lyne), THE PRINCESS (Kiet)PIGGY (Martínez-Pereda)EMPIRE OF LIGHT (Mendes)ALL JACKED UP AND FULL OF WORMS (Alex Phillips), RUN SWEETHEART RUN (Feste), THE SURVIVOR (Levinson), LUCK (Peggy Holmes), COMPARTMENT NO. 6 (Kuosmanen), LOU (Foerster), LUCY AND DESI (Poehler), FRIENDS AND STRANGERS (James Vaughan), CLOSE (Dhont)RIOTSVILLE USA (Pettengill), HOLY SPIDER (Abbasi), DESCENDANT (Margaret Brown), FABIAN: GOING TO THE DOGS (Graf), BABI YAR. CONTEXT (Loznitsa), SAINT OMER (Alice Diop)MR. BACHMANN AND HIS CLASS (Speth), MANIFEST WEST (Dietsch/Gibson), SPIRITED (Sean Anders), SPIN ME ROUND (Baena), MISS KIET'S CHILDREN (Lataster/Czisch), GREAT FREEDOM (Meise), AFTER YANG (Kogonada), I LOVE MY DAD (Morosini), PETER VON KANT (Ozon), THE FORGIVEN (JM McDonagh), POKER FACE (R.Crowe), MY BEST FRIEND'S EXORCISM (Blackinton), ESCAPE THE FIELD (Emerson Moore), A CHIARA (Carpignano), THE HIDDEN FOX (Lei Qiao)PALM TREES AND POWER LINES (Dack), BAD AXE (Siev), INTRODUCTION (hong sang-soo), APPLES (Nikou), THE AFRICAN DESPERATE (Syms), SPEAK NO EVIL (Tafdrup), LIVING (Hermanus)THE DROVER'S WIFE: THE LEGEND OF MOLLY JOHNSON (Purcell), ALL QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT (Berger), FIRE ISLAND (Ahn), BATTLEGROUND (Lowen), POLY STYRENE: I AM A CLICHÉ (Bell/Sng), THE TWIN (Mustonen), BLACK CRAB (Adam Berg), AFTER BLUE PARADISE SALE (Mandico), FROM WHERE THEY STOOD (Cognet), NOT OKAY (Q.Shephard), SISSY (Barlow/Senes), THE SWIMMERS (El Hosaini), SLUMBERLAND (Lawrence), ALICE (Ver Linden), SHARP STICK (Dunham), SPOILER ALERT (Showalter), DOS ESTACIONES (J.Pablo González), NOBODY'S HERO (Guiraudie, TSUGUA DIARIES (Gomes), ONE FINE MORNING (Hansen-Løve), ALIENOID (Choi Dong-hoon), TRAVELING LIGHT (Rose), YOU ARE NOT MY MOTHER (Dolan), HERE BEFORE (S.Gregg), I CAME BY (Anvari), AGAINST TIME (Ben Russell), VIKRAM (Kanagaraj), TROMPERIE (Desplechin), ONE SECOND (Zhang Yimou), FIRST LOVE (A.J. Edwards), HANSAN RISING DRAGON (Kim Han-min), THE PIRATES LAST ROYAL TREASURE (Kim Joung-hoon), GLADBECK: DAS GEISELDRAMA (Heise), SIRENS سايرنز (Baghdadi), LOST BULLET 2 (Pierret), TANTURA (Schwarz), EIFFEL (Bourboulon), UTAMA (Grisi)

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