My favorite theatrical releases of 2016:
1. Everybody Wants Some!! (Richard Linklater)
2. Happy Hour (Ryusuke Hamaguchi)
3. Right Now, Wrong Then (Hong Sang-soo)
4. Knight of Cups (Terrence Malick)
5. Cemetery of Splendor (Apichatpong Weerasethakul)
6. Things to Come (Mia Hansen-Løve)
7. Manchester by the Sea (Kenneth Lonergan)
8. Elle (Paul Verhoeven)
9. Toni Erdmann (Maren Ade)
10. Certain Women (Kelly Reichardt)
11. Cameraperson (Kirsten Johnson)
12. Silence (Martin Scorsese)
13. My Golden Days (Arnaud Desplechin)
14. Short Stay (Ted Fendt)
15. The Illinois Parables (Deborah Stratman)
US festival premieres:
1. Despite the Night (Philippe Grandrieux)
2. The Rehearsal (Alison Maclean)
3. Personal Shopper (Olivier Assayas)
4. Nocturama (Bertrand Bonello)
5. Yourself and Yours (Hong Sang-soo)
TV shows:
1. The Girlfriend Experience (Amy Seimetz & Lodge Kerrigan)
2. Horace and Pete (Louis C.K.) [still finishing this!]
3. Insecure (Issa Rae & Larry Wilmore)
4. Veep (David Mandel)
5. High Maintenance (Ben Sinclair & Katja Blichfeld)
Best old movies I watched for the first time:
All About Lily Chou-Chou (Shunji Iwai, 2001)
Angst (Gerald Kargl, 1983)
The Ballad of Sexual Dependency (Nan Goldin, 1985)
Berlin Alexanderplatz (Rainer Werner Fassbinder, 1980)
Black Caesar (Larry Cohen, 1973)
Born in Flames (Lizzie Borden, 1983) + Regrouping (Lizzie Borden, 1976)
The Blade (Tsui Hark, 1995)
Blue Collar (Paul Schrader, 1978)
The Boy Friend (Ken Russell, 1971)
Burst City (Sōgo Ishii, 1982)
Cockfighter (Monte Hellman, 1974)
The Crying Game (Neil Jordan, 1992)
Day Tripper (Étienne O’Leary, 1966)
The Death of Empedocles (Danièle Huillet & Jean-Marie Straub, 1987) + Too Early Too Late
Frantic (Roman Polanski, 1988)
Freddy Got Fingered (Tom Green, 2001)
Geneviève (Michel Brault, 1964)
Golden Eighties (Chantal Akerman, 1986) + Toute une nuit (Chantal Akerman, 1982) + Histoires d’Amerique (Chantal Akerman, 1989)
The House of Mirth (Terence Davies, 2000)
It Changed My Life + rushes (Lucy Thames, 1993)
Matinee (Joe Dante, 1993)
My Sex Life...Or How I Got Into an Argument (Arnaud Desplechin, 1996)
Only Yesterday (John M. Stahl, 1933)
Only Yesterday (Isao Takahata, 1991)
Pressure (Horace Ové, 1976)
Ruggles of Red Gap (Leo McCarey, 1935)
Smorgasboard (Jerry Lewis, 1983)
The Thief and the Cobbler (Richard Williams, 1993 workprint)
The Travelling Players (Theo Angelopoulos, 1975)
Treasure Island (Raul Ruiz, 1985)
Wonder Boys (Curtis Hanson, 2000)
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