Cookie Fever Forever

Personal icon and international should-be legend Cookie Mueller is best known for her roles in several John Waters films, but she was so much more than Concetta with a knife in her pocketbook in Female Trouble -- after working with Waters she went on to have an estimable writing career, being a proto-hipster (that term would probably make her skin crawl) and writing superb and funny Downtown NYC scenester essays for the East Village Eye and art criticism for early Details magazine all through the 1980s. Her work was collected into a couple of books that have since been out-of-print and hard-as-fuck to find, but the fine people at Semiotext(e) have today rectified that situation, at least when it comes to her best known work, and reprinted the fabulous posthumous 1990 collection Walking Through Clear Water in a Pool Painted Black -- you can buy a copy today right at this link! 

I recommend you read that and you also pick up a copy of the Cookie biography called Edgewise from a few years back if you haven't read that (see my previous posts about that one here) -- of course, as with the earlier books, Edgewise appears to be out of print right now and is already super-expensive. Oh, the price of being hip! Just go steal a copy from some asshole -- that's what Cookie would have recommended. Anyway in related news -- and how wonderful to have more Cookie info to share than just one thing! -- the Metrograph movie theater here in NYC is doing a Cookie film series! She wasn't only a Dreamlander for John Waters -- she was in several other movies as well, and they're screening a bunch! I don't have a direct link for tickets yet or a full schedule, but the series begins on May 6th and here's their press release:

Stumbling Onto Wildness: Cookie Mueller On Film

Dorothy “Cookie” Mueller was born in Baltimore in 1949, and she died 40 years later in New York City; in the short time that she spent on this planet, she unfailingly sniffed out where the action was, and got herself involved with whatever was worth being involved with. A founding member of fellow Charm City native John Waters’s Dreamlanders ensemble, once Cookie made it to New York she became a muse and key collaborator to artists including Nan Goldin, Gary Indiana, and Bette Gordon—and she also became an extraordinary writer, developing a jocular, unsentimental, and hilariously brazen voice. You can encounter that voice in Semiotext(e)’s reprinting of Cookie’s posthumously published 1990 memoir, the riotous Walking Through Clear Water in a Pool Painted Black, which we’ll be celebrating the reappearance of at the Metrograph Bookstore, and in this series of films featuring Mueller, which just happens to include some of the wildest stuff American independent cinema had to offer over the course of two decades.

Titles include A Coupla White Faggots Sitting Around Talking, Subway Riders, Desperate Living, Multiple Maniacs, Polyester, Variety, and more.

Free Cookie

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Dan got me a VINCENT PRICE signed Gas Company check from 1973 for Christmas -- literally the BEST CHRISTMAS GIFT EVER!!!!! #vincentprice

A photo posted by Jason Adams (@jasonaadams) on Dec 25, 2016 at 10:41am PST

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My boyfriend deserves a shout-out for giving me some fine Xmas presents this year - that Vincent Price signed check seen above would be enough to buy my love for maybe even several months even (I ain't cheap) but he went above and beyond and also got me a book by Miss Cookie Mueller that I have been clamoring for for ages and ages. It's a collection of her writings called Ask Dr. Meuller that was published in 1996, seven years after she had died of AIDS.

Mueller, if you don't know - and you should know! - was an actress and bon vivant; I know her from several of John Waters movies, but her life was A LIFE beyond that. A fantastic biography of her called Edgewise from the people who knew her best was recently released that I pushed on you people at the time - it is highly recommended.

Anyway after I read that I wanted to read some of her writing - she did columns for a bunch of downtown papers and magazines in the 80s while living her nutty life - but a lot of it is hard to come by. Ask Dr. Mueller collects the best of it, but the book is out of print and goes for upwards of 90 bucks on Amazon. So I probably never would have spent that on myself, but as a gift I will gobble it right up.

I do have a point here besides rubbing in how good I have it, though - this morning I was reading the book on the train on my way to work and there was a chapter titled "A Last Letter" that moved me to tears (especially knowing that AIDS would take her several years after she wrote down this piece) and I thought to myself that the internet needs to have this, and with the book being so prohibitively expensive it's a shame not a lot of people will get to read it. So I have it for you! It's only three pages but I'm too lazy to transcribe the whole damn thing so I took pictures, click 'em to embiggen.

"A Last Letter" by Cookie Mueller

There's No Containing Armie Hammer

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I'm happy to report some happy Armie news after I wrote that negative review of his horror flicks Wounds last week -- he's heading back to Broadway, and not just for any ol' pile of whatever either. He's co-starring in the new show from August Osage County playwright (not to mention Greta Gerwig's favorite sparkly-eyed curmudgeon) Tracy Letts called The Minutes. The show almost won a Pulitzer when it premiered in Chicago in 2017 -- it's been set to transfer to Broadway ever since but got delayed until now. Here's how Steppenwolf's website describes the show as of then:

"In The Minutes, Tracy Letts’s scathing new comedy about small-town politics and real-world power, the writer who brought you August: Osage County exposes the ugliness behind some of our most closely-held American narratives while asking each of us what we would do to keep from becoming history’s losers."

Starring opposite Armie will be Tony winner Jessie Mueller from Waitress, Fringe and Altered States actress Blair Brown, plus a bunch of other theater actors whose names I don't recognize since I'm not a theater nerd. (Hey I know who Mueller is, that's a lot for me.) This follows Armie's well-enough-received stint on Broadway in Straight White Men, which I saw and even got him to sign my Playbill after, but I can't for the life of me find that picture. You try searching my Twitter account with the word "Armie" and see how much that narrows shit down......

ETA I did some hard digging and found the video:

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LOOK AT ARMIE HAMMER AND PAUL SCHNEIDER BEING ADORABLE - and yes I talked to Armie and we made eye contact and his eyes are so so blue #straightwhitemen #armiehammer #paulschneider #broadway #theater #callmebyyourname

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Everything You Ever Need To Know About Life...

... you can learn from:

Female Trouble (1974)

Concetta: Just get your hair done. 

That's what I always do when I get depressed. 

It's strange that IMDb has Cookie Mueller's birthday as August 1st while Wikipedia has it as today (they both say 1949 is the year) but I'm gonna believe it's today, March 2nd, since the Facebook page for Edgewise, the book about Cookie's life is celebrating today and I feel like they're the experts. Did I mention the book about Cookie? Once again I repeat for the 50th time, you should read the book about Cookie Mueller. It's a fabulous and engrossing read about a fabulous and engrossing person.

They Tried To Make Us See

I will admit that this is a dark way to follow my earlier post saying that we should look for light in dark days, but this one demands our attention -- on the same morning that there's a really fucking upsetting article in the NYT about how our not-esteemed President's healthcare cuts are mucking up the imminent cure for HIV I stumbled upon this video of Russell Tovey doing a reading of a famous letter by John Waters' star and downtown goddess Cookie Mueller. In it she talks about the devastation of AIDS, which would later claim her life as well. If you need a more succinct rundown on the background of Cookie than the many I've given over the years, read this wonderful piece. I think this is really the only note we can end Pride on in 2025. Be furious. We need to be furious. We need to summon the rage of those we lost, and those we will lose. They're coming for every one of us and throwing trans people under the bus isn't going to stop them from shipping a white homosexual like me to a gulag. We're in this together y'all. Make art, make violence, just scream. Scream in the motherfuckers face. Make them uncomfortable. Fucking fight y'all. Things are not okay. So dark days, yes, but we can be the light. Bright violent light if need be -- the sort of light that snuffs out the darkness in a explosion of itself. 

In Remembrance of Cookie

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It took me ages because my reading habits have gone to hell ever since I got an iPad (why read a book when you can flip through Instagram that hour before you fall asleep instead?) but I finally finished Edgewise, the biography of Cookie Mueller I told y'all about awhile back, and I just wanna say - READ THIS BOOK, you guys. Have any of you read it yet? It's wonderful, absolutely wonderful - I don't think I expected, after all the funny weird stories that it tells about this funny weird woman, for the end to pack such an emotional whallop, but man does it - the weight of those years, which were before my time but not enough before not to haunt all the same, is there in full force; this is hardly "an AIDS book" (my scare quotes) but in showing us the singularity of this bright lady, the sense of all we lost, all the creative minds that AIDS tore away from us, sneaks up and smacks you something hard.

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10 Off My Head: Deep in the Dreamlanders

Tis a high holy -- or if you prefer, a down and dirty -- holiday today, as it marks the 75th birthday of his fetid holiness, his princely puke, the polluted Sultan of Sleaze himself, Mr. John Waters. We are fans, in case that wasn't clear already! I consider JW part of my Unholy Trinity, alongside Vincent Price and Paul Reubens -- the be-all end-alls on who I hope to be -- and it's only right we take a big ol' bite out of this Thursday in celebration of my Mother Mary. I'm not even Catholic but John makes me wish I was an ex-one! 

First things first The Film Experience is doing a week-long-ish John Waters retrospective, and last night my piece on my favorite JW flick of them all, 1974's Female Trouble, went live -- grab some chips, lady, and read it here! It's also John's favorite of his films! And he is correct, per usual. Thing is, the piece I wrote came out more serious than I expected -- it's a lot about the film's debts and indignities with regards to Andy Warhol. 

And I think every word I say there is true! But I also just sorta wanna have some fun with Female Trouble, as long as we're here. It's the single most quoted-by-me movie of all-time -- there isn't a week that passes without one of this script's many outrageous bon-mots passing my lips. Back in 2009 I already did a list of five favorite exchanges from the movie, but I feel as if I can continue on in that vein, given I don't think there's a single unfunny line in the entire movie. But I'll broaden the scope a little, and give you...

10 Favorite Supporting Characters in Female Trouble

Margie Skidmore as School Snitch

"Now they're threatening me, these awful cheap girls. 

My mother told me to report this kind of thing. 

I'm trying to get an education."

Susan Walsh as Chicklette

"It's just a skirt and sweater."

Roland Hertz as Mr. Davenport

"Is it a fishing rod???"

Bob Adams as Ernie

"I'm sure, Miss Thing, I'm sure.

 Pretzels give you plaque."

George Figgs and Sally Albaugh as Dribbles and Sally 

Dribbles : How's your little girl? 

Why don't you bring her in here more often?

Sally : Why? So you can undress her with your eyes? 

For Christ's sake she's only six years old. 

Dribbles : I know, but I just like to play with her. 

I wish I was a little girl. 

Sally: Well throw a goddamn penny in a fountain and 

make a goddamn wish and maybe it'll come true.

Cookie Mueller as Concetta

"Just cuz we're pretty everybody's jealous."

Michael Potter as Gater

"She has a face of an old woman."

Divine as Earl Peterson

"Just cuz you got them big udders 

don't mean you're somethin' special."

Ed Peranio as Wink

Wink: I'm getting a hard-on! Beauty always gives me a hard-on! 

Donna Dasher : Aim it the other way then, Wink. You know how I detest organs. Beauty has absolutely nothing to do with that word, that thing you have hanging there like an 

obscene pickle. Spare me your anatomy.

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As made patently clear by that last exchange, not including quotes from the characters I consider more than "Supporting" in Female Trouble -- Divine as Dawn Davenport obviously, along with her daughter Taffy (Mink Stole), her neighbor Aunt Ida (Edith Massey), and her benefactors Donald and Donna Dasher (David Lochary and Mary Vivien Pierce) -- proved a challenge! But one this movie proved more than up to. That said when it comes to the Major Characters I could do a list of ten favorite lines from each and every single one of them, individually. 

"Krishna is love, Mother."

But I won't, because I want y'all to scream your faves at me in the comments! There's nothing I like better than being told to come suck your daddy's dick, hearing one extol the horrors of the heterosexual lifestyle, or rarely eating any form of noodle. So please have at it in the comments, and Happy 75, John Waters!

Pink Flamingos is 50 & Hitting Criterion!

Big day for John Waters fanatics -- a sordid crew amongst which your host most assuredly counts his sordid ass -- as today marks the 50th anniversary of Pink Flamingos! Waters made movies before Flamingos and he made movies after but this one's the one that will be in the RIP headlines alongside his name (if he even needs that at this point), so legendary was its shit-grinning impact. It's the film that John made right after this one, Female Trouble, that's my personal favorite and his actual masterpiece if you ask me (you didn't), but Flamingos deserves every ounce of its notoriety -- I am one jaded motherfucker and I still have to cover my eyes several times while watching this movie today! But it's not just revulsion -- what keeps us coming back is John Waters' amazing way with dialogue and his motley crew of outcasts who spit out every morsel as if their lives depend upon it. But wait, I have more to say -- lots more it turns out, over at Pajiba, where I have properly marked the occasion with a retrospective glance back at Flamingos here at 50. Click on over and check it out! 

I'm not the only person marking the moment by making a fresh stain on the carpet though -- the fine folks over at Criterion put off their monthly blu-ray announcement for two full days just so they could announce that they're finally putting Pink Flamingos onto blu-ray in June! Pride Month indeed! June 28th, to be exact -- we knew this was coming because it was mentioned in an interview Waters gave last month (see that here) so I have spent the past few weeks trying to picture what Criterion would do for their cover and I absolutely fucking adore what they did come up with, even if it didn't occur to me in the slightest -- they made it look like the wrapped package of poop that the Marble send to Babs in the mail! It also gives the movie that "pass that thing under the video-store counter" dirty quality that it so demands. The set is loaded with special features, too:

DIRECTOR-APPROVED BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES

New 4K digital restoration, supervised and approved by director John Waters, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack
Two audio commentaries featuring Waters, from the 1997 Criterion laserdisc and the 2001 DVD release
New conversation between Waters and filmmaker Jim Jarmusch
Tour of the film’s Baltimore locations, led by Waters
Deleted scenes, alternate takes, and on-set footage
And more!
PLUS: An essay by critic Howard Hampton and a piece by actor and author Cookie Mueller about the making of the film, from her 1990 book Walking Through Clear Water in a Pool Painted Black

Love that they've included some of Cookie's writing -- if you've never read any of her books (which are admittedly tough to find these days) you're in for a treat. She was an amazing woman. But my favorite special feature here already is the video walking tour of the movie's locations that Waters will give -- when I met him a couple of years back at a reading of his last book the only thing my star-struck brain could think to say was that I'd been to Baltimore recently and I couldn't find the exact location of where Divine ate that dog shit, and I was so out of it, being in JW's presence, that I retained exactly 0% of what he said. So basically yes I am telling you he included this location tour because of me. I am calling dibs on this one.

Good lord that photo still makes all the hairs on my body stand on end. Anyway since I brought up the Criterion news I should mention the rest of the line-up for the month of June 2022 -- it's one hell of an amazing line-up even besides. Second and second-most they are dropping Joachim Trier's most recent masterpiece The Worst Person in the World, which was one of my favorite movies of 2021 -- read about that one here. And they're upgrading their out-of-print DVD of Powell & Pressburger's gloriously bizarre technicolor anthology movie The Tales of Hoffmann to blu-ray, a 4K restoration -- read about that one here. But there's even more -- three more actually! Click on over to Criterion to see the word on Shaft, on Stanley Kwan's 1987 ghost melodrama Rouge (which sounds utterly fabulous), and on Ekwa Msangi's 2020 film Farewell Amor, which I have only heard amazing things about. What a month.

All About Cookie

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I'm only about a third of the way through Edgewise: A Picture of Cookie Mueller, the just-released biography of the actress best known for her work with John Waters, and I know I've pushed it on you a couple of times already, but man you guys this book is awesome. If you're at all interested in the back-story of the Dreamlanders so far this is reading like an oral history of the scene from an angle on it that hasn't been told before, and Cookie couldn't be more fascinating a character. Read it!

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I Am Link

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--- Silvestre's Sense of Smell - Towleroad talked to our longstanding Spanish boyfriend Miguel Angel Silvestre (click his name to fall down a rabbit hole of great gratuity) about hie role on the Wachowskis Netflix series Sense8 (maybe you've heard us mention it), you can read the whole interview here. Choice bit about his love-scenes with also-hottie Alfonso Herrera:

"It wasn’t a big challenge, to be honest. Me and the guy playing Hernando, we spoke from the beginning, and we knew that was going to be one of the things that we really needed to portray. An issue that is happening in Mexico, every two days, [a person is murdered in a homophobic crime], even though it was one of the first Latin American countries to get marriage for homosexuals … We had to treat this with the care and the love and as sincere as possible. So we have to be very relaxed with each other. I don’t like when you see the actors, they play a character, and they say “Hey, hey, I’m not really like this.” We became good friends, and we enjoyed all those moments. I really admire the guy playing Hernando. I believe admiration is love, and from the first minute, I admired this guy. Also, he smelled super good. That helped a lot ..."

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--- Cookie Crumbs - I wrote about the biography of John Waters' actress and downtown NYC icon Cookie Mueller a bunch when I was reading it and told y'all how good it is - well now Richard Hell (of the band Television) has done the same, and he knew Cookie personally so you should believe him. Such a fun book.
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--- Sex Sells - The teaser trailer and a poster for the third season of Masters of Sex dropped yesterday and it looks like they've plunged head-long into the '60s (which I vaguely remember from last year's finale - these seasons are happening too far apart) and hey oh there's a make-out between Lizzy Caplan & Caitlin Fitzgerald. Where's my make-out session between Nicholas D'Agosto & Teddy Sears dammit?
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--- Gone In A Flash - I'm beginning to get a little bit impatient with Michael Haneke - it's been almost three years since Amour came out and I'm feeling the need in my insides for his patented brand of miserablism. Supposedly he'd been waiting around for an "unnamed actress" to make his cyber-drama Flashmob (it was probably Binoche or Huppert, I'm guessing) but The Playlist is reporting he's now moved on from that project, and he'll be making something elsee. Per usual, no word on what the something else is, since he keeps shit close to his vest. But at least he's working.
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--- Boomerang Babe - It's good to know that Jai Courtney also groaned when he read that his Aussie character in Suicide Squad is named "Captain Boomerang" because good grief. But he says we need to get over that because director David Ayer has got a great angle on it, and he won't be embarrassing his homeland this time around. Although Jai does use the words "dark and gritty" and god DC needs to learn to loosen up a bit.
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--- Missed Mark - Sigh, so apparently the word leaking out that Jason Statham was in talks with Marvel to play the villain Bullseye for the second season of Daredevil was enough to ruin everything, and now Statham will not be doing it. Damn damn damn, that sucks, I was very very much into the thought of him and Charlie Cox rasslin' with each other a bunch.
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--- Tastes Like Burning - My pal Jarett's been on fire the past week at Buzzfeed - last week he did an amazing oral history of cult 80s comedy Don't Tell Mom The Babysitter's Dead on the eve of its 25th anniversary, and then yesterday he gave us quotes from 51 television writers, folks like Bryan Fuller and Rob Thomas and Chris Carter oh my, on the favorite thing they've written for their shows. Weirdly my favorite thing was the line from The Simpsons that Andrew Kreisberg wrote for Ralphie that git cut. (Ralphie is so much win.)
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.--- Girl Power - Some of these stories are several days old, sorry, I haven't gotten around to one of these link round-ups in a bit, but maybe you missed the word on director Jennifer Kent's follow-up to The Babadook? It will be an adaptation of the non-fiction book Alice + Freda Forever, which tells the story of two girls in 1892 Tennessee who fell in love and yadda yadda murder leads to yadda yadda a great big sensational trial. I can imagine, it being 1892 Tennessee. Anyway Jennifer Kent making her own Heavenly Creatures? Sign me the fuck up! Has anybody read the book? It sounds interesting.
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A Gorgeous Haul

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Now this is the sort of two-fer you want to greet you when the mail-man shows up! I've known for awhile (and posted thus) that the remastered blu-ray of The Texas Chain Saw Massacre was coming out today, but the Cookie Mueller biography was a surprise - I didn't think it was out until the end of this month. What a pair these two make! Leatherface and Concetta, together forever! She does have a knife in her pocky-book...

And to top it off I've got a copy of Charles Burns' new book, the third in his X'd Out trilogy called Sugar Skull, waiting for me in my mailbox at home. It's like Christmas! (I better get them cha-cha heels.)

Lust AND Caution? In This Economy?

Lust Caution Hive, unite! It is finally our time! Okay I don't actually know if I have a full Hive to celebrate this with me, but if there is make yourselves known! Ang Lee's gloriously underrated 2007 erotic-thriller, which stars Tony Leung and Tang Wei (who should have won all the awards that year) as a pair of lie-tellers with hard-ons for one another during WWII, is getting a fancy blu-ray edition at last. It's one of Ang Lee's best films and did not get the proper attention it deserved at the time at all. Hitting on March 30th -- pre-order it right here! -- the fine folks at Kino Lorber have put together what looks like a premiere U.S. edition, loaded with extras, which I'll share right on after the jump...

Rainer's Three Ladies

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Earlier this week Criterion announced their next batch of as-always-awesome releases and amongst them was another Fassbinder set to drool your drool all over -- they're re-releasing RWF's BRD Trilogy now onto blu-ray, which consists of his 1978 film The Marriage of Maria Braun, his 1981 film Lola, and his 1982 film Veronika Voss. As you might maybe expect me to say these are all goddamned masterpieces, every single one, and I recommend them all. If I had to rank them (and I don't, but I will!) I'd rank them...

3. The Marriage of Maria Braun -- This tends to be most people's favorite; a lot of people put it in their top tier of Fassbinder films period. I'm less enamored of it than most since I'm less enamored of Hanna Schygulla whenever she's his lead -- I prefer her playing the pretty girl the movie hates a la The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant. Fassbinder movies weren't meant for pretty leads. But it's a gorgeous film and I need to re-watch it, it's been a very long time.

2. Lola -- As sickeningly technicolor as Querelle, but not nearly as actively off-putting as that flick (of course I consider "actively off-putting" a compliment, so your mileage may vary). Barbara Sukowa (just seen in Gloria Bell earlier this year!) always feels like Fassbinder's Tippi Hedren to me -- a cipher and novice who the director can mold into whatever he wants her to be - but my god, what a mold.

1. Veronika Voss -- One of my own personal top tier Fassbinder films, among my very faves. Calling it simply black-and-white does it a disservice -- it makes black-and-white feel like an entire spectrum of color. It's absolutely dazzling. Rosel Zech is dazzling herself in the lead, and it's one of my favorite of his stories. Kinda needless to say when we're talking Rainer but it's tremendously depressing though. Although "sad" might be a better word for what it's serving. It is very very sad.

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Have you seen all three? How would you rank them, if so?

And you can pre-order your copy of the blu-ray today.
Hit the jump to see all of the special features...

MNPP's "Reviews" A-Z

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+1 (Iliadis, 2013)

1BR (Marmor, 2019)

10 Cloverfield Lane (Trachtenberg, 2016)

12 Years a Slave (McQueen, 2013)

127 Hours (Boyle, 2010)

13 Assassins (Miike, 2011)

1985 (Yen Ten, 2018)

20 Feet From Stardom (Neville, 2013)

22 Jump Street (Lord & Miller, 2014)

300: Rise of an Empire (Murro, 2014)

3:10 To Yuma (Mangold, 2007)

4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days (Mungiu, 2007)

The 4th Man (Verhoeven, 1983)

50/50 (Levine, 2011)

(500) Days of Summer (2009, Webb)

5000 Fingers of Dr. T, The (Rowland, 1953)

'71 (Demange, 2014)

8 1/2 (Fellini, 1963)
 

Abacus: Small Enough To Jail (Steve James, 2016)

About Endlessness (Roy Andersson, 2021)

About Time (Curtis, 2013)

Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter (Bekmambetov, 2012)

Absence of Malice (Pollock, 1981)

Abuse of Weakness (Breillet, 2014)

The Adam Project (Shawn Levy, 2022)

Ad Astra (James Gray, 2019)

Addiction, The (Ferrera, 1995)

The Adventures of Baron Munchausen (Gilliam, 1988)

AEon Flux (Kusama, 2005)

After Blue: Dirty Paradise (Bertrand Mandico, 2021)

Aftershock (Lopez, 2013)

After Hours (Scorsese, 1985)

Agora (Amenabar, 2009)

Ain't Them Bodies Saints (Lowery, 2013)

Alexander: The Ultimate Cut (Stone, 2004)

Alice (Krystin Ver Linden, 2022)

Alice in Wonderland (Burton, 2010)

Alien on Stage (Lucy Harvey, 2021)

Alien Covenant (Ridley Scott, 2017)

All About Nina (Eva Vives, 2018)

All Cheerleaders Die (McKee/Sivertson, 2014)

Allied (Zemeckis, 2016)

All That Jazz (Fosse, 1979)

All the President's Men (Pakula, 1976)

All Is Lost (Chandor, 2013)

All the Light in the Sky (Swanberg, 2013)

All the Moons (Igor Legarreta, 2021)  

Alps (Lanthimos, 2012)

Always Shine (Takal, 2016)

The Amazing Spider-Man (Webb, 2012)

The American (Corbijn, 2010)

American Animals (Bart Layton, 2018)

American Honey (Arnold, 2016)

American Hustle (Russell, 2013)

The American Scream (Stephenson, 2012)

Ammonite (Francis Lee, 2020)

Amour (Haneke, 2012)

Amulet (Romola Garai, 2020)

The Amusement Park (George Romero, 1973)

Anaconda III (FauntLeRoy, 2008)

Anatomy of Hell (Breillat, 2004)

And Soon the Darkness (Fuest, 1970)

And Then We Danced (Levan Akin, 2019)

Animal Kingdom (Michôd, 2010)

Animals (Zglinski, 2017)

An Education (Scherfig, 2009)

Annabelle (Leonetti, 2014)

Anna Karenina (Wright, 2012)

Annette (Carax, 2021)

Annihilation (Garland, 2018)

Anomolisa (Kaufman, 2015)

Another Earth (Cahill, 2011)

Antiviral (B. Cronenberg, 2013)

Apollo 18 (Lopez-Gallago, 2011)

Apostle (Gareth Evans, 2018)

Applesauce (Tukel, 2015)

Aquarius (Filho, 2016)

Argo (Affleck, 2012)

Arrival (Villeneuve, 2016)

Artist, The (Hazanavicius, 2011)

As Above So Below (Dowdle Bros, 2014)

Ask Dr. Ruth (White, 2019)

The Assassin (Hsiao-Hsien Hou, 2015)

The Assignment (Walter Hill, 2016)

The Assistant (Kitty Green, 2020)

At Eternity's Gate (Schnabel, 2018)

ATM (Brooks, 2012)

Atomic Blonde (Leitch, 2017)

Attack the Block (Cornish, 2011)

Atonement (Wright, 2007)

Audrey Rose (Wise, 1977)

August: Osage County (Wells, 2013)

The Autopsy of Jane Doe (André Øvredal, 2016)

Avatar (Cameron, 2009)

Avengers: Age of Ultron (Whedon, 2015)

Away We Go (Mendes, 2009)


The Babadook (Kent, 2014)

Babel (Iñárritu, 2006)

Baby Face (Alfred E. Green, 1933)

Baby Driver (Wright, 2017)

Babysitter (Monia Chokri)

Bacurau (Dornelles & Filho, 2019)

Backcountry (Macdonald, 2015)

Backtrack (Petroni, 2015)

The Bad Batch (Amirpour, 2017)

Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans (Herzog, 2009)

Bad Milo (Vaughan, 2013)

Bad Teacher (Kasdan, 2011)

Bait 3D (Rendall, 2012)

The Ballad of Buster Scruggs (Coens, 2018)

Barb and Star Go to Vista Del Mar (Josh Greenbaum, 2021)  

Barry Munday (D'Arienzo, 2010)

Baskin (Evrenol, 2015)

The Batman (Matt Reeves, 2022)

Battle of the Sexes (Dayton & Faris, 2017)

Battle: Los Angeles (Liebesman, 2011)

The Baxter (Showalter, 2005)

The Bay (Levinson, 2012)

The Beach House (Brown, 2020)

Beasts of the Southern Wild (Zeitlan, 2012)

Beatriz at Dinner (Arteta, 2017)

Beautiful Boy (Felix Van Groeningen, 2018)

Beautiful Creatures (LaGravenese, 2013)

A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood (Heller, 2019)

Becoming Jane (Jarrold, 2007)

Bedevilled (Chul-soo Jang, 2010)

Before I Wake (Flanagan, 2016)

Before Midnight (Linklater, 2013)

Before We Vanish (Kiyoshi Kurosawa, 2017)

Begin Again (Carney, 2014)

Beginners (Mills, 2011)

Beginning (Dea Kulumbegashvili, 2020)

Beguiled (Coppola, 2017)

Behind the Candelabra (Soderbegh, 2013)

Behind the Mask: The Rise of Leslie Vernon (2006, Glosserman)

Belfast (Branagh, 2021)

The Belko Experiment (Greg McLean, 2017)

Bellflower (Glodell, 2011)

Benediction (Terence Davies, 2021)

Ben is Back (Peter Hedges, 2018)

Beneath (Fessenden, 2013)

Berlin Alexanderplatz (Fassbinder, 1980)

Best Exotic Marigold Hotel (Madden, 2012)

Best Worst Movie (Stephenson, 2009)

Beyond the Black Rainbow (Cosmatos, 2010)

Beyond the Infinite Two Minutes (Junta Yamaguchi, 2021)

Big Bad Wolves (Keshales & Papushado, 2013)

The Big Clock (Farrow, 1948)

The Big Short (McKay, 2015)

A Bigger Splash (Hazan, 1973)

A Bigger Splash (Guadagnino, 2016)

Bill Cunningham New York (Press, 2010)

Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk (Ang Lee, 2016)

Bird Box (Susanne Bier, 2018)

Birdman (Iñárritu, 2014)

Birds of Prey (Cathy Yan, 2020)

Bisbee '17 (Robert Greene, 2018)

Black Devil Doll From Hell (1984)

Black Magic For White Boys (Tukel, 2019)

Black Rock (Aselton, 2013)

Black Sheep (2007, King)

Black Snake Moan (2007, Brewer)

Black Swan (Aronofsky, 2010)

Black Xmas (Morgan, 2006)

Blade of the Immortal (Miike, 2017)

Blade Runner 2049 (Scott, 2017)

Blade: Trinity (Goyer, 2004)

Blair Witch (Wingard, 2016)

The Blazing World (Calrson Young, 2021)

The Bling Ring (Sofia Coppola, 2013)

Blood Glacier (Kren, 2013)

Bloodsucking Bastards (O'Connell, 2015)

Bloody Hell (Alister Grierson, 2020)

Blue Jasmine (Allen, 2013)

Blue is the Warmest Color (Kechiche, 2013)

Blue My Mind (Lisa Brühlmann, 2018)

The Blue Room (Amalric, 2014)

Blue Ruin (Saulnier, 2104)

Blue Valentine (Cianfrance, 2010)

Body Snatcher, The (Wise, 1945)

Bohemian Rhapsody (Singer, 2018)

Bombshell: The Hedy Lamarr Story (Dean, 2017)

Bone Tomahawk (Zahler, 2015)

Boo! (Jaden, 2018)

Book Club (Holderman, 2018)

The Booksellers (DW Young, 2019)

Boom For Real: The Late Teenage Years of... Basquiat (Driver, 2017)

Border (Abassi, 2018)

Bound (Wachowskis, 1996)

The Box (Kelly, 2009)

The Boy (Bell, 2016)

Boy Erased (Edgerton, 2018)

Boyhood (Linklater, 2014)

The Boys in the Band (Joe Mantello, 2020)

B.P.M. (Campillo, 2017)

Brad's Status (Mike White, 2017)

Brave (Andrews/Chapman/Purcell, 2012)

Brave One, The (Jordon, 2007)

Brawl in Cell Block 99 (Zahler, 2017)

Brian and Charles (Jim Archer, 2022)

Bridge of Spies (Spielberg, 2015)

Bridgend (Ronde, 2015)

Brillo Box (3 ¢ off) (Skyler, 2016)

Brittany Runs a Marathon (Paul Downs Colaizzo, 2019)

Broadcast Signal Intrusion (Jacob Gentry, 2021)

Brokeback Mountain (Lee, 2005)

The Broken (Ellis, 2008)

Broken Embraces (Almodóvar, 2009)

Broken Flowers (Jarmusch, 2005)

Brooklyn (Crowley, 2015)

Brothers By Blood (Jérémie Guez, 2021)

Bubble (Soderbergh, 2005)

Buffaloed (Wexler, 2019)

Bullhead (Roskam, 2011)

Bunny Lake is Missing (Preminger, 1965)

Burke and Hare (Landis, 2011)

The Butler (Lee Daniels, 2013)

Butter (Smith, 2012)

Byzantium (Jordan, 2013)


Cabaret (Fosse, 1072)

Cabin Fever (Travis Z, 2016)

The Cabin in the Woods (Goddard, 2012)

The Call (Brad Anderson, 2013)

Call Me By Your Name (Guadagnino, 2017):
Initial Reaction HERE
Next Day Second Take HERE
Much Longer Piece HERE
On Amira Casar & More HERE
On the meaning of its title HERE

Cam (Daniel Goldhaber, 2018)

The Canal (Kavanagh, 2014)

The Canyons (Schrader, 2013)

Can You Ever Forgive Me? (Heller, 2018)

Captain America: The First Avenger (Johnston, 2011)

Captain America: The Winter Soldier (Russo, 2014)

Captain Phillips (Greengrass, 2013)

Carnage (Polanski, 2011)

Carnage Park (Keating, 2016)

Carol (Haynes, 2015)

Carrie (Pierce, 2013)

Cars (Lasseter, 2006)

Castle, The/Who Was Edgar Allan? (Haneke, 1997/1984)

Casting JonBenet (Kitty Green, 2017)

Catfight (Tukel, 2017)

Catfish (Joost/Schulman, 2010)

Cat People (Tourneur, 1942)

Cave of Forgotten Dreams (Herzog, 2011)

Cell (Tod Williams, 2016)

Cemetery of Splendor (Weerasethakul, 2015)

Censor (Prano Bailey-Bond, 2021)

Centurion (Marshall, 2010)

Certain Women (Reichardt, 2016)

Chained For Life (Aaron Schimberg, 2018)

Charlie & The Chocolate Factory (Burton, 2005)

Chappaquiddick (Curran, 2018)

Cheap Thrills (Katz, 2013)

The Children (Shankland, 2008)

Children of Men (2006, Cuaron)

Child's Play (Lars Klevberg, 2019)

Chinese Roulette (Fassbinder, 1978)

Choke (Gregg, 2008)

Choose or Die (Toby Meakins, 2022)

Christine (Campos, 2016)

Chronicle (Trank, 2012)

The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion,
The Witch and The Wardrobe (Adamson, 2005)

The Circle (Ponsoldt, 2017)

Circus of Books (Rachel Mason, 2019)

Citadel (Foy, 2012)

Claire's Camera (Sang-soo, 2018)

The Clinic (Rabbits, 2010)

Closet Monster (Dunn, 2016)

Cloud Atlas (Tykwer/Wachowskis, 2012)

Clouds of Sils Maria (Assayas, 2014)

The Clovehitch Killer (Skiles, 2018)

Cloverfield (Reeves, 2008)

The Cloverfield Paradox (Onah, 2018)

Clown (Watts, 2014)

Clownhouse (Salva, 1989)

C'mon C'mon (Mike Mills, 2021)

Colassal (Vigalando, 2017)

Cold in July (Mickle, 2014)

Cold Souls (Barthes, 2009)

Cold War (Pawlikowski, 2018)

The Collector (Dunstan, 2009)

Color Out of Space (Richard Stanley, 2020)

Columbus (Kogonada, 2017)

Come and See (Klimov, 1985)

Come to Daddy (Ant Timpson, 2019)

Coming 2 America (Craig Brewer, 2021)

The Command (aka Kursk) (Vinterberg, 2019)

The Commuter (Collet-Serra, 2018)

Compliance (Zobel, 2012)

Confessions of a Shopaholic (Hogan, 2009)

The Congress (Folman, 2013)

The Conjuring (Wan, 2013)

The Conjuring 2 (Wan, 2016)

The Constant Gardener (Meirelles, 2005)

Contagion (Soderbergh, 2011)

Contemporary Color (Ross, 2016)

Contempt (Godard, 1963)

The Convent (Mendez, 2000)

Cooties (Millet, 2015)

Coriolanus (Fiennes, 2011)

Corpus Christi (Jan Komasa, 2020)

Cosmopolis (Cronenberg, 2012)

The Counselor (Scott, 2013)

Cowboys & Aliens (Favreau, 2011)

Crank: High Voltage (Neveldine & Taylor, 2009)

Crash (Haggis, 2005)

Creep (Brice, 2015)

Creep 2 (Brice, 2017)

Crawl (Aja, 2019)

Crawlspace (Schmoeller, 1986)

The Crazies (Eisner, 2010)

Crazy Rich Asians (John M. Chu, 2018)

Crazy Stupid Love (Ficarra / Requa, 2011)

Creed (Coogler, 2015)

Crimson Peak (Del Toro, 2015)

The Croods (Micco & Sanders, 2013)

Culture Shock (Guerrero, 2019)

Cured (Singer & Sammon, 2020)

A Cure For Wellness (Verbinski, 2017)

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (Fincher, 2008)

Curse of the Cat People, The (Firtsch, 1944)

Cursed (Craven, 2005)

Custody (Xavier Legrand, 2018)

Custody (Lapine, 2016)


Dahmer (Jacobson, 2002)

Daguerrotype (Kiyoshi Kurosama, 2017)

Dallas Buyers Club (Vallee, 2013)

Damsel (Zellner Bros, 2018)

Damsels In Distress (Stillman, 2012)

The Danish Girl (Hooper, 2015)

Dark Horse (Solondz, 2012)

Dark Knight, The (Nolan, 2008)

Dark Knight Rises, The (Nolan, 2012)

The Dark (Justin P. Lange, 2018)

The Darkness (McLean, 2016)

Dark Shadows (Burton, 2012)

Dark Waters (Haynes, 2019)

Darkest Hour (Wright, 2017)

Darkest Hour, The (Gorak, 2011)

DASHCAM (Rob Savage, 2021)

Dating & New York (Jonah Feingold, 2021)

Day of Wrath (Dreyer, 1943)

Dead Birds (Turner, 2004)

The Dead Don't Die (Jarmusch, 2019)

Dead End (Andrea, 2003)

Dead Snow (Wirkola, 2009)

Dear Evan Hansen (Stephen Chbosky, 2021)

The Death and Life of John F. Donovan (Dolan, 2019)

Deaths of Ian Stone, The (Piana, 2007)

Dedication (Theroux, 2007)

The Deep Blue Sea (Davies, 2012)

Deerskin (Quentin Dupieux, 2020)

Deliver Us From Evil (Derrickson, 2014)

Demon (Wrona, 2015)

Demonic (Blomkamp, 2021)

Demons 2 (Lamberto Bava, 1986)

The Den (Donohue, 2014)

De Palma (Baumbach / Paltrow, 2015)

The Departed (Scorsese, 2006)

The Descendants (Payne, 2011)

The Descent (Marshall, 2005)

The Descent: Part 2 (Harris, 2009)

Despicable Me 2 (2013)

Detour (Smith, 2016)

Devil (Dowdle, 2010)

The Devil All the Time (Campos, 2020)

The Devil Inside (William Brent Bell, 2012)

The Devil's Candy (Byrne, 2015)

The Devil Wears Prada (Frankel, 2006)

The Devil's Double (Tanahori, 2011)

The Devils (Russell, 1971)

Diane (Kent Jones, 2018)

The Diary of a Teenage Girl (Heller, 2015)

Dick (Fleming, 1999)

Disobedience (Lelio, 2018)

Disorder (Winocour, 2016)

District 9 (Blomkamp, 2009)

District B13 (Morel, 2004)

Disturbia (Caruso, 2007)

The Divide (Gens, 2012)

The Divine Fury (Kim Joo-hwan, 2019)

Django Unchained (Tarantino, 2012)

The Djinn (David Charbonier & Justin Powell, 2021)

Doctor Sleep (Flanagan, 2019)

Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness (Raimi, 2022)

Dog (Tatum, 2022)

Dog Soldiers (Marshall, 2002)

Dogtooth (Lanthimos, 2010)

Dog Years (Rifkin, 2017)

Dolly Parton's Christmas on the Square (Allen, 2020)

Domino (De Palma, 2019)

Don Jon (Joseph Gordon-Levitt, 2013)

Don't Be Afraid of the Dark (Nixey, 2011)

Don't Breathe (Alvarez, 2016)

Don't Breathe 2 (Rodo Sayagues, 2021)

Doomsday (Marshall, 2008)

Door Lock (Lee, 2019)

The Double (Ayoade, 2104)

Double Lover (Ozon, 2018)

Double Take (Grimonprez, 2009)

Downhill (Faxon & Rash, 2020)

Drag Me To Hell (Raimi, 2009)

Dream Horse (Euros Lyn, 2021)

Dreamscape (Ruben, 1984)

Drive (Refn, 2011)

Drive My Car (Ryusuke Hamaguchi, 2021)

Driveways (Ahn, 2020)

Dual (Riley Stearns, 2022)  

Dug Dug (Ritwik Pareek, 2021)

The Duke of Burgundy (Strickland, 2015)

Dunkirk (Nolan, 2017)


Eagle Eye (Caruso, 2008)

The East (Batmanglij, 2013)

Eden Lake (Watkins, 2008)

Eight For Silver (Sean Ellis, 2021)

Eighth Grade (Bo Burnham, 2018)

Elena (Zvyagintsev, 2012)

Elle (Verhoeven, 2016)

Elvis & Nixon (Johnson, 2016)

Elysium (Blomkamp, 2013)

Ema (Pablo Larrain, 2020)

Embrace of the Serpent (Guerra, 2016)

Emma. (Autumn de Wilde, 2020)

Empathy Inc (Yedidya Gorsetman, 2018)

The Empty Man (David Prior, 2020)

The End (Torregrossa, 2012)

End of the Century (Castro, 2019)

End of Watch (Ayer, 2012)

The Endless (Benson & Morehead, 2017)

Enemy (Villeneuve, 2014)

Entrance (Hallam/Horvath, 2012)

Equals (Doremus, 2016)

Escort in Love (Bruno, 2012)

Evening (Koltai, 2007)

Everest (Baltasar Kormákur, 2015)

Everything Everywhere All at Once (Kwan & Scheinart, 2022)

Evil Dead (Alvarez, 2013)

Exam (Hazeldine, 2009)

The Exception (Leveaux, 2017)

Executive Suite (Wise, 1954)

Exit Through the Gift Shop (Banksy, 2010)

The Expendables (Stallone, 2010)

Extra Ordinary (Enda Loughman & Mike Ahern, 2019)

Extraterrestrial (Vicious, 2014)

The Eyes of My Mother (Pesce, 2016)


Fanboys (Newman, 2008)
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Fantastic Mr. Fox (Wes Anderson, 2009)

A Fantastic Woman (Leilo, 2017)

Far From the Madding Crowd (Vinterberg, 2015)

The Father (Florian Zeller, 2021)

Fauna (Nicolás Pereda, 2020)

Faust (Murnau, 1926)

The Favourite (Lanthimos, 2018)

Fear Inc (Masciale, 2016)

The Feast (Lee Haven Jones, 2021)

Femme Fatale (DePalma, 2002)

Fences (Denzel Washington, 2016)

A Field in England (Wheatley, 2013)

The Fighter (David O. Russell, 2010)

The Final Destination (Ellis, 2009)

Final Destination 5 (Quale, 2011)

The Final Member (Bekhor/Math 2014)

Final Portrait (Tucci, 2018)

First Cow (Kelly Reichardt, 2019)

Fish Story (Nakamura, 2009)

Fish Tank (Arnold, 2010)

The Fixer (aka Burn Country) (Ian Olds, 2016)

Fleuve Noir (Erick Zonca 2018)

Flight (Zemeckis, 2012)

Flight of the Living Dead (Thomas, 2007)

The Florida Project (Sean Baker, 2017)

For a Good Time, Call (Travis, 2012)

The Forbidden Room (Maddin, 2015)

Force Majeure (Ostlund, 2014)

The Forgiveness of Blood (Marston, 2012)

The Fountain (Aronofsky, 2006)

Foxcatcher (Miller, 2014)

Frances Ha (Baumbach, 2012)

Frank (Abrahamson, 2014)

Frankenstein (Bernard Rose, 2015)

Frankenstein's Army (Rhaaporst, 2013)

Frankenweenie (Burton, 2012)

Frankie (Ira Sachs, 2019)

Frantz (Ozon, 2017)

Free Fire (Wheatley, 2017)

French Exit (Azazel Jacobs, 2020)

Fresh (Mimi Cave, 2022)

Fresh Meat (Mulheron, 2013)

Friday the 13th (Nispel, 2009)

Friends With Money (Holofcener, 2006)

Frost/Nixon (Howard, 2008)

Frozen (Green, 2010)

Frozen (Buck & Lee, 2013)

Frozen II (Buck & Lee, 2019)

Fruitvale Station (Coogler, 2013)

Funny Games U.S. (Haneke, 2008)

Funny People (Apatow, 2009)

Fury (Ayer, 2014)

The Future (July, 2011)


Game of Death (Landry, 2017)

Gamer (Neveldine / Taylor, 2009)

Gangster Squad (Fleischer, 2013)

Gerald's Game (Flanagan, 2017)

Gerontophilia (Bruce la Bruce, 2015)

Ghostbusters: Afterlife (Jason Reitman, 2021)

A Ghost Story (Lowery, 2017)

The Ghost Writer (Polanski, 2010)

Ghostwatch (Manning, 1992)

G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra (Sommers, 2009)

Giallo (Argento, 2009)

The Gift (Edgerton, 2015)

Girl on the Third Floor (Travis Stevens, 2019)

A Girl Walks Home Alone At Night (Amirpour, 2014)

The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo (Fincher, 2011)

The Girlfriend Experience (Soderbergh, 2009)

Glass (Shyamalan, 2019)

A Glitch in the Matrix (Rodney Ascher, 2021)

Gloria (Lelio, 2013)

Gloria Bell (Lelio, 2019)

The Godfather (Coppola, 1972)

God's Own Country (Francis Lee, 2017)

Godzilla (Edwards, 2014)

Gozilla vs Kong (Adam Wingard, 2021)

Gone Girl (Fincher, 2014)

Goodbye To All That (Maclachlan, 2014)

Good Kill (Niccol, 2015)

Good Madam (Jenna Cato Bass, 2021)

A Good Marriage (Askin, 2014)

Good Time (Safdies, 2017)

Goodnight Mommy (Fiala, 2015)

Gozdilla: Final Wars (Kitamura, 2005)

Gothic (Russell, 1986)

Grabbers (Jon Wright, 2013)

Grace Jones: Bloodlight and Bami (Fiennes, 2018)

The Grand Budapest Hotel (Wes Anderson, 2014)

Grand Piano (Mira, 2014)

The Grandmaster (Wong Kar-wai, 2013)

Grave of the Fireflies (Takahata, 1988)

Gravity (Cuaron, 2013)

The Greasy Strangler (Hosking, 2016)

The Great Beauty (Sorrentino, 2013)

Great Freedom (Sebastian Meise, 2022)

The Great Gatsby (Luhrmann, 2013)

Greenberg (Baumbach, 2010)

Green Book (Farrelly, 2018)

The Green Inferno (Eli Roth, 2015)

The Green Knight (Lowery, 2021)

The Green Room (Saulnier, 2016)

Greetings From Tim Buckley (Algrant, 2013)

Greta (Jordan, 2019)

Gretel & Hansel (Osgood Perkins, 2020)

The Grey (Carnahan, 2012)

Grizzly Man (Herzog, 2005)

Guardians of the Galaxy (Gunn, 2014)

Guardians of the Galaxy 2 (Gunn, 2017)

The Guest (Wingard, 2014)

The Guilty (Möller, 2018)

The Guilty (Fuqua, 2021)


Hacksaw Ridge (Mel Gibson, 2016)

Hairspray (Shankman, 2007)

Halloween (David Gordon Green, 2018)

Halloween Kills (Green, 2021)

Hancock (Berg, 2008)

The Handmaiden (Park Chan-wook, 2016)

The Handmaid's Tale (Schlöndorff, 1990)

The Hand of God (Paolo Sorrentino, 2021)

Hanna (Wright, 2011)

Happening, The (Shyamalan, 2008)

Happiest Season (Clea DuVall, 2020)

The Happiness of the Katakuris (Miike, 2001)

Happy as Lazzaro (Rohrwacher, 2018)

Happy Christmas (Swanberg, 2014)

Happy Death Day (Landon, 2017)

Happy End (Haneke, 2017)

Hard Candy (Slade, 2005)

Hardcore Henry (Naishuller, 2016)

The Harder They Fall (Jeymes Samuel, 2021)

Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (Newell, 2005)

Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (Yates, 2009)

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (2007, Yates)

The Harvest (McNaughton, 2014)

Hatchet II (Green, 2010)

Hatchet III (McDonnell, 2013)

Haywire (Soderbergh, 2012)

The Headless Woman (Martel, 2008)

Heartbeat Detector (Klotz, 2007)

Heartbeats (Dolan, 2010)

Heleno (Fonseca, 2011)

Hello I Must Be Going (Louiso, 2012)

Hell or High Water (Mackenzie, 2016)

Her (Jonze, 2013)

A Hero (Asghar Farhadi, 2022)

Her Smell (Alex Ross Perry, 2018)

Here Alone (Blackhurst, 2016)

Here Comes the Devil (Bogliano, 2013)

Hereditary (Ari Aster, 2018)

High Flying Bird (Soderbergh, 2019)

High Life (Denis, 2018)

High-Rise (Wheatley, 2016)

His House (Remi Weekes, 2020)

Hitchcock (Gerasi, 2012)

Hitchcock / Truffaut (Kent Jones, 2015)

Hitman (Gens, 2007)

The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug (Jackson, 2013)

Hold the Dark (Saulnier, 2018)

The Hole 3D (Joe Dante, 2010)

The Hole in the Ground (Cronin, 2019)

Holiday (Cukor, 1938)

Holidays (Kevin Smith etc, 2016)

Hologram For the King (Tykwer, 2016)

Holy Motors (Carax, 2012)

The Homesman (Tommy Lee Jones, 2014)

The Honor Farm (Skloss, 2017)

Hopper / Welles (Welles, 2020)

Horns (Aja, 2014)

Hostel Part II (Roth, 2007)

Host (Rob Savage, 2020)

Host, The (Gwoemul) (2006, Joon-ho Bong)

Hotel Mumbai (Maras, 2019)

Hotel Poseidon (Stefan Lernous, 2021)

Hounds of Love (Young, 2017)

House Bunny, The (Wolf, 2008)

The Housemaid (Nguyen, 2018)

The House of the Devil (Ti West, 2009)

The House That Jack Built (Lars von Trier, 2018)

The House With a Clock in its Walls (Eli Roth, 2018)

How Much Wood Would A Woodchuck Chuck? (Herzog,1976)

How To Survive a Plague (France, 2012)

How To Talk To Girls At Parties (John Cameron Mitchell, 2018)

Howl (Epstein /Friedman, 2010)

Hugo (2011, Scorsese)

The Human Centipede: First Sequence (Six, 2009)

Human Factors (Ronny Trocker, 2021)

The Human Voice (Almodovar, 2020)

The Humans (Stephan Karam, 2021)

Hunger (McQueen, 2009)

The Hunger Games (Gary Ross, 2012)

The Hunger Games: Catching Fire (Lawrence, 2013)

The Hunt (Vinterberg, 2013) 

Hunted (Vincent Paronnaud, 2020)

Hunt for the Wilderpeople (Waititi, 2016)

Hustlers (Lorene Scafaria, 2019)


I Am Divine (Schwartz, 2013)

Ibrahim (Samir Guesmi, 2021)  
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I Can See You (2008, Reznick)

The Ides of March (Clooney, 2011)

I, Daniel Blake (Loach, 2016)

I Didn't Come Here To Die (Sullivan, 2010)

If Beale Street Could Talk (Jenkins, 2018)

I Give It a Year (Mazer, 2013)

I Love You, Man (Hamburg, 2009)

I Think We're Alone Now (Donnelly, 2008)

I'm A Cyborg But That's OK (2006, Park Chan-wook)

I'm Here (Jonze, 2010)

I'm So Excited (Almodovar, 2013)

I'm Thinking of Ending Things (Kaufman, 2020)

Images (Altman, 1972)

The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus (Gilliam, 2009)

Imaginary Heroes (Harris, 2004)

The Imitation Game (Tyldum, 2014)

The Immigrant (Gray, 2013)

Immortals (Tarsem, 2011)

The Impossible (Bayona, 2012)

In a Glass Cage (Villaronga, 1987)

Inception (Nolan, 2010)

Incredible Shrinking Wkend, The (Caballero, 2019)

Indigenous (Orr, 2014)

Inherent Vice (Paul Thomas Anderson, 2014)

The Innkeepers (Ti West, 2011)

Insidious (Wan, 2011)

Inside Llweyn Davis (Coens, 2013)

Insidious: Chapter 2 (Wan, 2013)

Indiana Jones 4 (Spielberg, 2008)

In Fabric (Strickland, 2019)

Infamous (2006, McGrath)

The Informant! (Soderbergh, 2009)

Ingrid Goes West (Spicer, 2017)

Întregalde (Radu Muntean, 2021)

Interior. Leather Bar. (Franco/Mathews, 2013)

International, The (Tykwer, 2009)

Interstellar (Nolan, 2014)

The Interview (Rogen, 2014)

In the Earth (Ben Wheatley, 2021)

In the Heights (Jon M. Chu, 2021)

In the House (Ozon, 2013)

In the Realms of the Unreal (Yu, 2004)

In the Tall Grass (Natali, 2019)

The Invisible Man (Whannell, 2020)

In Your Eyes (Hill, 2014)

Intruders (Fresnadillo, 2012)

The Invitation (Kusama, 2016)

The Irishman (Scorsese, 2019)

Iron Man (Jon Favreau, 2008)

Iron Man Three (Shane Black, 2013)

I Saw the Light (Abraham, 2015)

The Island (Bay, 2005)

I Stand Alone (Noé, 1998)

It (Muschietti, 2017)

Italian Studies (Adam Leon, 2021)

It: Chapter Two (Muschietti, 2019)

It Comes at Night (Schults, 2017)

It Follows (Mitchell, 2015)

I, Tonya (Gillespie, 2017)

I Trapped the Devil (Lobo, 2019)

I Walked With A Zombie (Tourneur, 1943)

Izo (Miike, 2004)

Izzy Gets the Fuck Across Town (Papierniek, 2018)


Jakob's Wife (Travis Stevens, 2021)

Jamie Marks is Dead (Carter Smith, 2014)

Jane Eyre (Fukunaga, 2011)

Jeff Who Lives At Home (Duplass, 2012)

Jennifer's Body (Kusama, 2009)

Joan Didion: The Center Will Not Hold (Dunne, 2017)

Joe (David Gordon Green, 2014)

John and the Hole (Pascual Sisto, 2021)

John Carter (Stanton, 2012)

John Dies at the End (Coscarelli, 2012)

Joker (Todd Phillips, 2019)

Jonah Hex (Hayward, 2010)

Juan of the Dead (Brugués, 2011)

Julia (Zonca, 2008)

Julie & Julia (Ephron, 2009)

Juno (Reitman, 2007)

Junun (PTA, 2015)

Jurassic World (Trevorrow, 2015)

Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom (JA Bayona, 2018)

The Justice of Bunny King (Gaysorn Thavat, 2021)


Kaboom (Araki, 2011)

Kairo (Kurosawa, 2001)

Kajillionaire (Miranda July, 2020)

Keane (Kerrigan, 2004)

The Keep (Mann, 1983)

Keep an Eye Out! (Dupieux, 2019)

Keep the Lights On (Sachs, 2012)

Kick Ass (Vaughn, 2010)

Kick Ass 2 (Wadlow, 2013)

Kicking Blood (Blaine Thurier, 2021)  

The Kids Are All Right (Cholodenko, 2010)

Kill List (Wheatley, 2011)

Kill Me Please (Anita Rocha da Silveira, 2015)

Killer Joe (Friedkin, 2012)

The Killing of a Sacred Deer (Lanthimos, 2017)

Killing Patient Zero (Laurie Lynd, 2020)

Killing The Softly (Dominik, 2012)

A Kind of Murder (Goddard, 2016)

The King (David Michod, 2019)

King Car (Renata Pinheiro, 2021)

King Cobra (Justin Kelly, 2016)

King Jack (Johnson, 2015)

The King's Speech (Hooper, 2010)

Kiss of the Damned (Cassavetes, 2013)

Knife + Heart (Yann Gonzalez, 2018)

Knives and Skin (Reeder, 2019)

Knock Knock (Eli Roth, 2015)

Knocking (Frida Kempff, 2021)

Knowing (Proyas, 2009)

Knuckleball (Michael Peterson, 2018)

Koko-Di Koko-Da (Johannes Nyholm, 2019)

Krampus (Dougherty, 2015)

Krisha (Shults, 2016)

Kubo and the Two Strings (Knight, 2016)

Kwik Stop (Gilio, 2001)


The Lady From Shanghai (Welles, 1947)

Labor Day (Reitman, 2013)

Lady Bird (Gerwig, 2017)

Lady of Burlesque (Wellman, 1943)

Laid to Rest (Hall, 2009)

Lake Mungo (Anderson, 2008)

La La Land (Chazelle, 2016)

La llorona (Jayro Bustamante, 2020)

Landline (Robespierre, 2017)

Land of the Dead (Romero, 2005)

Lapsis (Noah Hutton, 2020)

The Last Black Man in San Francisco (Joe Talbot, 2019)

The Last Exorcism (Stamm, 2010)

Last Ferry (Jaki Bradley, 2019)

Last House on the Left, The (Iliadis, 2009)

The Last Laugh (Perlstein, 2016)

Last Night in Soho (Edgar Wright, 2021)

The Last Resort (Scholl & Tabsch, 2018)

Last Stand, The (Kim Jee-woon, 2013)

Late Phases (Bogliano, 2014)

Laurence Anyways (Dolan, 2013)

Lawless (Hillcoat, 2012)

La Vie en rose (Dahan, 2007)

Lean On Pete (Haigh, 2018)

Leap of Faith: William Friedkin on The Exorcist (2020)

Leave No Trace (Debra Granik, 2018)

Legend (Helgeland, 2015)

The Legend of Boggy Creek (Pierce, 1972)

Lemon (Bravo, 2017)

Leonard Soloway's Broadway (Jeff Wolk, 2019)

Les Cowboys (Bidegain, 2015)

Les Misérables (Hooper, 2012)

Less Than Zero (Kanievska, 1987)

Lesson of the Evil (Miike, 2013)

Let's Kill Ward's Wife (Foley, 2014)

Let Me In (Reeves, 2010)

Let the Corpses Tan (Cattet & Forzani, 2018)

Let Them All Talk (Soderbergh, 2020)

Let the Right One In (Alfredson, 2008)

Liberte (Serra, 2019)

Licorice Pizza (Paul Thomas Anderson, 2021)

The Light Between Oceans (Cianfrance, 2016)

The Lighthouse (Robert Eggers, 2019)

Life, Animated (Williams, 2016)

Life During Wartime (Solondz, 2009)

Life Itself (Steve James, 2014)

Life of Pi (Ang Lee, 2012)

Life Partners (Fogel, 2014)

The Lifeguard (Garcia, 2013)

Lincoln (Spielberg 2012)

Lion (Garth Davis, 2016)

Listen Up Phillip (Alex Ross Perry, 2014)

The Little Hours (Baena, 2017)

Little Men (Ira Sachs, 2016)

Little Monsters (Abe Forsythe, 2019)

The Little Stranger (Abrahamson, 2018)

Live Free or Die Hard (Wiseman, 2007)

Living (Oliver Hermanus, 2022)

Lizzie (Macneill, 2018)

The Lobster (Lanthimos, 2015)

The Lodge (Franz & Fiala, 2020)

The Lone Ranger (Verbinski, 2013)

Lone Survivor (Berg, 2013)

The Loneliest Planet (Loktev, 2012)

Long Day's Journey Into Night (Bi Gan, 2018)

The Look of Silence (Oppenheimer, 2014)

The Lords of Salem (Zombie, 2013)

Lorelei (Sabrina Doyle, 2021)

The Lost City (Aaron & Adam Nee, 2022)

The Lost City of Z (Gray, 2016)

Lost In Translation (Coppola, 2003)

Love (Noe, 2015)

Love and Other Drugs (Zwick, 2010)

Love is Strange (Sachs, 2014)

Love is the Devil (Maybury, 1998)

Love Object (Parigi, 2003)

Love, Simon (Berlanti, 2018)

The Loved Ones (Byrne, 2009)

Lovelace (Epstein/Friedman, 2013)

The Lovely Bones (Jackson, 2009)

The Lovers (Jacobs, 2017)

Loving (Nichols, 2016)

Luca (Enrico Casarosa, 2021)

Luce (Onah, 2019)

Lucky (Natasha Kermani, 2020)

Lucky Grandma (Sealy, 2019)

The Lure (Agnieszka Smoczynska, 2015)

Lust, Caution (Lee, 2007)

Luz (Tilman Singer, 2019)

Luzifer (Peter Brunner, 2022)

Lyle (Thorndike, 2014)


Ma (Tate Taylor, 2019)

The Machinist (Anderson, 2005)

Madeline's Madeline (Josephine Decker, 2018)

Madly (Bernal etc, 2016)

Magic in the Moonlight (Allen, 2014)

Magic Mike (Soderbergh, 2012)

Magic Mike XXL (Jacobs, 2015)

Magnificent Obsession (Sirk, 1954)

Make-Out With Violence (Deagol Bros, 2008)

Making Montgomery Clift (Clift, 2018)

Making of a Male Model (Moore, 1983)

Malmkrog (Cristi Puiu, 2020)

Mama (Muschietti, 2013)

Man Bites Dog (Belvaux, 1992)

Manchester-by-the-Sea (Lonergan, 2016)

The Man From UNCLE (Ritchie, 2015)

Manglehorn (Green, 2015)

Mank (David Fincher, 2020)

Man of Steel (Snyder, 2013)

The Man Who Fell To Earth (Roeg, 1976)

Maniac (Khalfoun, 2012)

The Manor (Axelle Carolyn, 2021)

The Many Saints of Newark (Alan Taylor, 2021)

Mapplethorpe: Director's Cut (Ondi Timoner, 2021)

Marathon Man (Schlesinger, 1976)

Maps to the Stars (Cronenberg, 2014)

Margaret (Longeran, 2011)

Mario (Gisler, 2018)

Marriage Story (Baumbach, 2019)

Marrowbone (Sánchez, 2018)

Martha Marcy May Marlene (Durkin, 2011)

The Martian (Ridley Scott, 2015)

Martyrs (Laugier, 2008)

Martyrs (Goetz, 2016)

Mary Poppins Returns (Marshall, 2018)

Mary Shelley (Haifaa al-Mansour, 2018)

Materna (David Gutnik, 2021)

The Mating Season (Leisen, 1951)

Maurizio Cattelan: Be Right Back (Axelrod, 2016)

Maya (Hansen-Løve, 2019)

Mayday (Karen Cinorre, 2021)

Meadowland (Moreno, 2015)

Me and You and Everyone We Know (July, 2005)

The Meg (Jon Turteltaub, 2018)

Melancholia (Von Trier, 2011)

Memoria (Apichatpong Weerasethakul, 2021)

Men In Black 3 (Sonnenfeld, 2012)

Miami Vice (Mann, 2006)

Michael (Schleinzer, 2011)

Michael Clayton (Gilroy, 2007)

Michael Jackson's This Is It (Ortega, 2009)

Micmacs a tire-larigot (Jeunot, 2009)

Midnight Kiss (Carter Smith, 2019)

The Midnight Meat Train (Kitamura, 2008)

The Midnight Sky (Clooney, 2020)

Midsommar (Aster, 2019)

Mirror Mirror (Tarsem, 2012)

Misandrists, The (Bruce la Bruce, 2018)

Missing Link (Chris Butler, 2019)

Mist, The (Darabont, 2007)

Mistress America (Baumbach, 2015)

Mistaken For Strangers (Berninger, 2013)

Mississippi Grind (Bowden & Fleck, 2015)

Mister Lonely (Korine, 2008)

Mockingbird (Bertino, 2014)

Moffie (Oliver Hermanus, 2021)

Molly's Game (Sorkin, 2017)

A Moment in the Reeds (Mikko Makela, 2018)

Mommy (Dolan, 2014)

Monday (Argyris Papadimitropoulos, 2021)

Moneyball (Miller, 2011)

A Monster Calls (Bayona, 2016)

Monster Squad (Dekker, 1987)

Monsters (Garth Edwards, 2010)

Monsterz (Nakata, 2014)

Monument (Jagoda Szelc, 2019)

Mood Indigo (Gondry, 2014)

Moonfall (Emmerich, 2022)

Moonrise Kingdom (Wes Anderson, 2012)

Mosquito State (Filip Jan Rymsza, 2021)

The Most Beautiful Boy in the World (Kristina Lindström, 2021)

Most Beautiful Island (Anensio, 2017)

A Most Violent Year (Chandor, 2014)

mother! (Aronofsky, 2017)

Mother (Bong Joon-ho, 2010)

Mother (Kadri Kõusaar, 2016)

Mothering Sunday (Eva Husson, 2021)

Mother of Tears (Argento, 2007)

Mountains May Depart (Zhangke Jia, 2015)

Mr. & Mrs. Smith (Liman, 2005)

Mrs. Hyde (Bozon, 2017)

Mr. Turner (Leigh, 2014)

Mud (Nichols, 2013)

The Muppets (Bobin, 2011)

Muppets Most Wanted (Bobin, 2014)

Murder Party (Saulnier, 2007)

The Mustang (Laure de Clermont-Tonnerre, 2019)

My Bloody Valentine 3D (Lussier, 2009)

My Entire High School Sinking Into the Sea (Shaw, 2017)

My Friend Dahmer (Meyers, 2017)

My Heart Can’t Beat Unless You Tell It To (Jonathan Cuartas, 2021)

My Name is Julia Ross (Lewis, 1945)

My Son My Son What Have Ye Done (Herzog, 2009)

My Soul To Take (Craven, 2010)

Mysterious Skin (Araki, 2005)

My Donkey My Lover and I (Caroline Vignal, 2021)

My Week With Marilyn (Curtis, 2011)


Nailed (Russell, 2015)

Name Above Title (Carlos Conceição, 2021)

Nancy (Choe, 2018)

The Nanny (Holt, 1965)
.
The Narrow Margin (Fleischer, 1952)

Nasty Baby (Silva, 2015)

Nebraska (Payne, 2013)

The Neon Demon (Refn, 2016)

The Nest (Durkin, 2020)

Never Let Me Go (Romanek, 2010)

Never Rarely Sometimes Always (Hittman, 2020)

Never Sleep Again: The Elm Street Legacy (Farrands & Kasch, 2010)

The New Radical (Lough, 2017)

New Year, New You (Takal, 2018)

Next Time I'll Aim For the Heart (Anger, 2015)

Nico 1988 (Susanna Nicchiarelli, 2018)

Nigerian Prince (Okoru, 2018)

Nightcrawler (Gilroy, 2014)

The Nightingale (Kent, 2019)

The Nightmare (Ascher, 2015)

A Night of Horror: Nightmare Radio (Various, 2019)

The Night That Eats the World (Rocher, 2018)

A Nightmare on Elm Street (Bayer, 2010)

Nine (Marshall, 2009)

No (Larraín, 2012)

Nobody's Watching (Solomonoff, 2017)

No Country For Old Men (Coens, 2007)

Nocturnal Animals (Tom Ford, 2016)

No Good Deed (Miller, 2014)

No Man of God (Amber Sealey, 2021)

Non-Fiction (Assayas, 2018)

Non-Stop (Collet-Serra, 2014)

The Northman (Eggers, 2022)

Notes on a Scandal (Eyre, 2006)

No Time To Die (Fukunaga, 2021)

November (Sarnet, 2017)

The Novice (Lauren Hadaway, 2021)

Now You See Me (Leterrier, 2013)

The Nun (Hardy, 2018)


Obey (Jamie Jones, 2018)

Oblivion (Kosinski, 2013)

Obsession (De Palma, 1976)

Observe and Report (Hill, 2009)

Obvious Child (Gillian Robespierre, 2014)

Oculus (Flanagan, 2014)

Ode to Nothing (Dwein Ruedas Baltaza, 2019)

Oh Lucy! (Hirayanagi, 2018)

Old (Shyamalan, 2021)

Oldboy (Spike Lee, 2013)

Once (Carney, 2006)

Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood (Tarantino, 2019)

On the Road (Salles, 2012)

The One I Love (McDowell, 2014)

The Ones Below (Farr, 2016)

One Cut of the Dead (Shin'ichirô Ueda, 2019)

One Second (Zhang Yimou, 2021)

Only God Forgives (Refn, 2013)

Only Lovers Left Alive (Jarmusch, 2013) 

On the Rocks (Sofia Coppola, 2020)

Open Grave (Lopez-Gallego, 2013)

Orlando (Potter, 1992)

Orphan (Collet-Serra, 2009)

The Orphanage (Bayona, 2007)

The Other Woman (Cassavetes, 2014)

Otto; or Up With Dead People (Bruce La Bruce, 2008)

Ouija: Origin of Evil (Flanagan, 2017)

Our Brand Is Crisis (Green, 2015)

Our Father (Bradley Grant Smith, 2021)

Overlord (Avery, 2018)

Oz the Great and Powerful (Raimi, 2013)


Pacific Rim (Del Toro, 2013)
.
The Pack (Richard, 2010)

Pain & Gain (Bay, 2013)

Pain and Glory (Pedro Almodovar, 2019)

Pandorum (Alvart, 2009)

Pan's Labyrinth (Del Toro, 2006)

Paprika (Kon, 2006)

Paranormal Activity (Peli, 2007)

Paranormal Activity 2 (Williams, 2010)

Paranormal Activity 3 (Joost & Schulman, 2011)

Paranormal Activity 4 (Joost & Schulman, 2012)

ParaNorman (Butler/Fell, 2012)

Parasite (Bong Joon-ho, 2019)

Parents (Tafdrup, 2016)

Paris, je t'aime (Various, 2007)

Paris, Texas (Wim Wenders, 1984)

Papillon (Noer, 2018)

Pasolini (Ferrara, 2014)

Passing (Rebecca Hall, 2021)

Passion (DePalma, 2012)

The Past (Farhadi, 2013)

Patrick (Hartley, 2013)

Patti Cake$ (Jasper, 2017)

Pee-wee's Big Holiday (John Lee, 2016)

Peppermint (Morel, 2018)

The Perfection (Shepard, 2019)

Perfect Nanny (Lucie Borleteau, 2020)

The Perks of Being a Wallflower (Chbosky, 2012)

Permission (Crano, 2017)

Petite Maman (Sciamma, 2021)

Personal Shopper (Assayas, 2016)

Petite Maman (Celine Sciamma, 2021)

Pet Sematary (Kölsch & Widmyer, 2019)

Phantom Thread (Paul Thomas Anderson, 2017)

Philomena (Frears 2013)

Piercing (Pesce, 2019)

Pilgrimage (Muldowney, 2017)

Pin (Sandor Stern, 1988)

Piranha 3D (Aja, 2010)

Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End (Verbinski, 2007)

Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest (Verbinski, 2006)

The Place Beyond the Pines (Cianfrance, 2013)

The Place of No Words (Webber, 2019)

Play Time (Tati, 1967)

Poltergeist (Kenan, 2015)

Pompeii (Paul WS Anderson, 2014)

Pontypool (McDonald, 2009)

The Pool (Ping Lumpraploeng, 2019)

Porno (Racela, 2019)

Portrait of a Lady on Fire (Sciamma, 2019)

Poser (Noah Dixon & Ori Segev, 2021)

Possession (Zulawski, 1981)

Possessor (Brandon Cronenberg, 2020)

Potato Dreams of America (Wes Hurley, 2021)

Predators (Antal, 2010)

Predestination (Speirig, 2014)

Premium Rush (Koepp, 2012)

Preservation (Denham, 2014)

The Prestige (Nolan, 2006)

Prevenge (Lowe, 2017)

The Prince and the Dybbuk (Niewiera / Rosolowski, 2018)

Prince of Darkness (Carpenter, 1987)

Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time (Leigh, 2010)

Prisoners (Villeneuve, 2013)

Prisoners of the Ghostland (Sion Sono, 2021)

Private Life (Tamara Jenkins, 2018)

Procession (Robert Greene, 2021)

The Projectionist (Ferrera, 2019)

Prometheus (Ridley Scott, 2012)

The Proposal (Fletcher, 2009)

Proxima (Alice Winocour, 2020)

Proxy (Parker, 2013)

Psychopaths (Keating, 2017)

Pulse (Sonzero, 2006)

Punished (Wing-cheong Law, 2011)

The Purge (DeMonaco, 2013)

Purple Noon (Clement, 1960)

Push (McGuigan, 2009)


Quarantine (Dowdle, 2008)

Quarantine 2: Terminal (Pogue, 2011)

Queen & Slim (Melina Matsoukas, 2019)

The Queen of Black Magic (Kimo Stamboel, 2020)

Queen of Earth (Perry, 2015)

Queen of the Desert (Herzog, 2015)

Queer Japan (Graham Kolbeins, 2019)

A Quiet Passion (Davies, 2017)

A Quiet Place (Krasinski, 2018)

A Quiet Place Part II (Krasinski, 2021)


Rachel Getting Married (Demme, 2008)

The Raid: Redemption (Evans, 2012)

Rango (Verbinski, 2011)

Rare Exports: A Christmas Tale (Helander, 2010)

Raw (Decournau, 2017)

Raze (Waller, 2014)

Ready or Not (Bettinelli-Olpin & Gillett, 2019)

Rebecca (Wheatley, 2020)

Rebel Without a Cause (Ray, 1955)

Rebirth (Mueller, 2016)

[REC] (Balagueró and Plaza, 2007)

[REC]2 (Balagueró and Plaza, 2009)

[REC]3: Genesis (Plaza, 2012)

Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project (Wolf, 2019)

Red Eye (Craven, 2005)

Red Hook Summer (Spike Lee, 2012)

Red Rocket (Sean Baker, 2021)

Red Soil (Farid Bentoumi, 2021)

Red Sparrow (Lawrence 2018)

Red White and Blue (Steve McQueen, 2020)

Reds (Beatty, 1981)

The Reef (Traucki, 2010)

Relic (Natalie Erika James, 2020)

Reminiscence (Lisa Joy, 2021)

Rendition (Hood, 2007)

Reprise (Trier, 2006)

Reservoir Dogs (Tarantino, 1992)

Reset (Demaizière, 2016)

Resurrection (Andrew Semans, 2022)

Return (Liza Johnson, 2012)

The Revenant (Prior, 2012)

The Revenant (Iñárritu, 2015)

Revenge (Fargeat, 2018)

Revolutionary Road (Mendes, 2008)

Riddick (Twohy, 2013)

RIPD (Schwentke, 2013)

Rise of the Guardians (Ramsey, 2012)

The Rite (Håfström, 2011)

The Ritual (Bruckner, 2018)

The Road (Hillcoat, 2009)

Robin Hood (Bathurst, 2018)

Rocketman (Fletcher, 2019)

Rock'n Roll (Canet, 2017)

Rojo (Benjamín Naishtat, 2019)

ROMA (Cuaron, 2018)

Roman J Israel Esq. (Gilroy, 2017)

Ronin (Frankenheimer, 1998)

Room (Abrahamson, 2015)

Room 237 (Ascher, 2012)

Rose Plays Julie (Lawlor & Malloy, 2020)

Rosemary's Baby: The Miniseries (2014)

Rough Night (Aniello, 2017)

The Rover (Michôd, 2014)

Ruins, The (Smith, 2008)

Run Fatboy Run (Schwimmer, 2007)

The Runaways (Sigismondi, 2010)

Running With Scissors (2006, Murphy)

  Rush (Howard, 2013)
.
Rust and Bone (Audiard, 2012)


The Sacrament (Ti West, 2014)
.
S&Man (JT Petty, 2006)

Sadako (Nakata, 2019)

The Sadness (Rob Jabbaz, 2021)

Safety Not Guaranteed (Trevorrow, 2012)

Saint Laurent (Bonello, 2014)

The Salesman (Farhadi, 2017)

Salmon Fishing in the Yemen (Hollstrom, 2012)

Salt (Noyce, 2010)

Santa Sangre (Jodorowsky, 1989)

Satanic Panic (Chelsea Stardust, 2019)

Sauvage / Wild (Camille Vidal-Naquet, 2019)

Saving Mr. Banks (Hancock, 2013)

Saw III (2006, Bousman)

Scary Stories To Tell in the Dark (Overdal, 2019)

Scatter My Ashes At Bergdorf's (Miele, 2013)

School's Out (Sébastien Marnier's, 2019)

Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World (Wright, 2010)

Scream (Radio Silence, 2022)

Scream 4 (Craven, 2011)

Sea Fever (Neasa Hardiman, 2019)

Seagull, The (Mayer, 2018)

The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (Stiller, 2013)

See For Me (Randall Okita, 2021)

See No Evil (Fleischer, 1971)

Seed of Chucky (Mancini, 2004)

A Separation (Farhadi, 2011)

Sequence Break (Skipper, 2017)

A Serbian Film (Spasojevic, 2010)

Serenity (Knight, 2019)

Seven Psychopaths (McDonagh, 2012)

Severance (2006, Smith)

The Shallows (Collet-Serra, 2016)

Shame (McQueen, 2011)

The Shape of Water (Del Toro, 2017)

Shark Attack 3: Megalodon (Worth, 2002)

She Dies Tomorrow (Amy Seimetz, 2020)

Shirley (Decker, 2020)

Shiva Baby (Emma Seligman, 2020)

Shoot 'Em Up (Davis, 2007)

Short Term 12 (Cretton, 2013)

Shotgun Stories (Nichols, 2007)

Show of Shows (2016)

Showgirls 2: Penny's From Heaven (Riffel, 2011)

Shutter Island (Scorsese, 2010)

Sibyl (Justine Triet, 2019)

Sicario (Villeneuve, 2015)

Sick Sick Sick (Alice Furtado, 2019)

Side Effects (Soderbergh, 2013)

Sightseers (Wheatley, 2013)

Silence (Scorsese, 2016)

Silent House (Kentis / Lau, 2012)

Silent Night (Miller, 2012)

The Silver Cliff (Ainouz, 2011)

Silver Linings Playbook (Russell, 2012)

Simon Killer (Campos, 2013)

A Single Man (Ford, 2009)

Singin' In The Rain (Donen, 1952)

Sinister (Derrickson, 2012)

Sin Nombre (Fukunaga, 2009)

The Sisters Brothers (Audiard, 2018)

The Skeleton Twins (Craig Johnson, 2014)

The Skin of the Teeth (Wollin, 2018)

Skull & Bones (Slaughter, 2006)

Skyfall (Mendes, 2012)

Slaves of New York (Ivory, 1989)

Slaughter High (Dugdale, 1986)

Sleep Tight (Balagueró, 2012)

Sleeping With Other People (Headland, 2015)

Slice (2018)

Slow West (Mclean, 2015)

Slugs (Simon, 1988)

The Slumber Party Massacre (Jones, 1982)

Slumdog Millionaire (Boyle, 2008)

"Small Axe" series by Steve McQueen (2020)

Part 1 -- Mangrove

Part 2 -- Lovers Rock

Part 3 -- Red White and Blue 

Smart People (Murro, 2008)

Smiley Face (Araki, 2007)

Snatched (Levine, 2017)

The Snowman (Alfredson, 2017)

Snowpiercer (Bong Joon-ho, 2014)

Snowtown Murders, The (Kurzel, 2011)

The Social Network (Fincher, 2010)

Soldier of Orange (Verhoeven, 1977)

Somewhere (Sofia Coppola, 2010)

Something Must Break (Bergsmark, 2014)

Son (Ivan Kavanaugh, 2021)  

Son of Saul (Nemes, 2015)

Sorry Angel (Honoré, 2018)

Sorry to Bother You (Boots Riley, 2018)

Sorry, Wrong Number (Litvac, 1948)

Sound of My Voice (Batmanglij, 2011)

Source Code (Jones, 2011)

Southland Tales (Kelly, 2007)

Southpaw (Fuqua, 2015)

Speak No Evil (Christian Tafdrup, 2022)

Special Correspondents (Gervais, 2016)

The Spectacular Now (Ponsoldt, 2013)

Spectre (Mendes, 2015)

Speed Racer (Wachowskis, 2008)

Spencer (Larrain, 2021)

Spider-Man: No Way Home (Jon Watts 2021)

Spielberg (Lacy, 2017)

Spiral (Kurtis David Harder, 2020)

Spirits of the Dead (Vadim/Malle/Fellini, 1968)

Splice (Natali, 2010)

Spotlight (McCarthy, 2015)

Spring Breakers (Korine, 2013)

Sputnik (Egor Abramenko, 2020)

Spy (Feig, 2015)

The Square (Nash Edgerton, 2008)

Stage Fright (Hitchcock, 1950)

Stage Fright (Sable, 2014)

Stanleyville (Maxwell McCabe-Lokos, 2021)

A Star is Born (Cukor, 1954)

A Star is Born (Cooper, 2018)

Stardust (2007, Vaughn)

Stare (Adachi, 2019)

Starfish (A.T. White, 2019)

Starlet (Baker, 2012)

Star Trek (Abrams, 2009)

Starry Eyes (Kolsch & Widmyer, 2014)

Star Wars: The Force Awakens (Abrams, 2015)

Staying Vertical (Alain Guiraudie, 2016)

Stella (Erman, 1990)

Step Brothers (McKay, 2008)

The Stepfather (McCormick, 2009)

Steve Jobs (Boyle, 2015)

Strait Jacket (Castle, 1964)

The Strange Ones (Radcliff / Wolkstein, 2018)

Stranger by the Lake (Guiraudie, 2013)

Strangers, The (Bertino, 2008)

Strangers, The: Prey At Night (Roberts, 2018)

Strange Weather (Deickmann, 2017)

Strawberry Mansion (Audley & Birney, 2021)

Street Gang: How We Got To Sesame Street (Marilyn Agrelo, 2021)

Strong Island (Ford, 2017)

Stronger (David Gordon Green, 2017)

Stung (Diez, 2015)

Sucker Punch (Snyder, 2011)

Suicide Squad (Ayer, 2016)

Summer 1993 (Simon, 2018)

Summer of '84 (Simard, 2018)

Summer of '85 (Ozon, 2020)

Summer of Blood (Turkel, 2014)

Super 8 (Abrams, 2011)

Super Dark Times (Phillips, 2017)

Superman Returns (Singer, 2006)

Superstar: The Karen Carpenter Story (Haynes, 1987)

Superstition (Roberson, 1982)

Support the Girls (Bujalski, 2018)

The Survivalist (Fingleton, 2015)

Susanne Bartsch: On Top (Caronna, 2017)

Suspiria (Guadagnino, 2018)

Swallow (Carlo Mirabella-Davis, 2019)

Swan Song (Todd Stephens, 2021)

Sweeney Todd (Burton, 2007)

Sweetheart (Dillard, 2019)

The Swerve (Dean Kapsalis, 2019)

Synecdoche, New York (Kaufman, 2008)


Take Me Home Tonight (Dowse, 2011)

Taking Woodstock (Lee, 2009)

Tales of the Grim Sleeper (Broomfield, 2014)

The Tall Man (Laugier, 2012)

Tammy (Falcone, 2014)

Targets (Bogdonavich, 1968)

Taxidermia (Pálfi, 2006)

Ted (MacFarlane, 2012)

Tenderness of the Wolves (Lommel, 1973)

Terminator Salvation (McG, 2009)

Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning, The (2006, Liebesman)

Thelma (Joaquim Trier, 2017)

They Remain (Gelatt, 2018)

The Thing (Matthijs van Heijningen Jr, 2011)

Things to Come (Mia Hansen-Love, 2016)

Thirst (Park Chan-wook, 2009)

Thirst Street (Silver, 2017)

This is 40 (Apatow, 2012)

This is Not Berlin (Sama, 2019)

This is the End (Goldberg, 2013)

Three (Tykwer, 2011)

Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (McDonagh, 2017)

The Ticket (Flik, 2016)

Tickled (Ferrier, 2016)

Tick, Tick... Boom! (Lin-Manuel Miranda, 2021)

Tiger Raid (Dixon, 2016)

Tigers Are Not Afraid (Lopez, 2019)

Timecrimes (Vigalondo, 2007)

Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (Alfredson, 2011)

Tiny Furniture (Dunham, 2010)

Titane (Julia Ducournau, 2021)

To Dust (Shawn Snyder, 2018)
-- Tribeca Review --
-- Essay on Death & Grief --

Tokyo Gore Police (Nishimura, 2008)

Tom at the Farm (Dolan, 2014)

Toni Erdmann (Hüller, 2016)

Total Recall (Wiseman, 2012)

Touch of Evil (Welles, 1958)

Tower. A Bright Day. (Szelc, 2018)

Toy Story 3 (Unkrich, 2010)

The Town That Dreaded Sundown (Pierce, 1976)

Tragedy Girls (MacIntyre, 2017)

Tragic Jungle (Yulene Olaizola, 2020)

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Tropic Thunder (Stiller, 2008)

True Grit (Coens, 2010)

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