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December 2015.

Never Before: Mustang (Deniz Gamze Ergüven, Turkey/France/Qatar/Germany, 2015) Shaun The Sheep Movie (Mark Burton & Richard Starzak, UK, 2015) The Cabinet of Jan Svankmajer (Quay Brothers, UK, 1984) This Unnameable Little Broom (Quay Brothers, UK, 1985) Street of Crocodiles (Quay Brothers, UK, 1986) Carol (Todd Haynes, US, 2015) Rehearsals for Extinct Anatomies (Quay Brothers, UK, 1988) Stille Nacht I - Dramolet (Quay Brothers, UK, 1988) The Comb (Quay Brothers, UK, 1990) Anamoprhosis (Quay Brothers, UK, 1991) Stille Nacht II (Are We Still Married?) (Quay Brothers, UK, 1992) Stille Nacht III (Tales from Vienna Woods) (Quay Brothers, UK, 1993) Stille Nacht IV (Can't Go Wrong Without You) (Quay Brothers, UK, 1994) In Absentia (Quay Brothers, UK, 2000) The Phantom Museum (Quay Brothers, UK, 2003) Maska (Quay Brothers, UK, 2010) Through the Weeping Glass (Quay Brothers, UK, 2011) Unmistaken Hands (Quay Brothers, UK, 2013) Quay (Christopher Nolan, UK, 2015) I Was Born, But... (Yasujirô Ozu, Japan, 1932) Spotlight (Tom McCarthy, US, 2015) Racing Extinction (Louie Psihoyos, US, 2015) Burroughs: The Movie (Howard Brookner, US, 1983) The Pirate (Vincente Minnelli, US, 1948) Eric & "Anna" (Kelly Duane de la Vega & Katie Galloway, US, 2015) Star Wars: The Force Awakens (J.J. Abrams, US, 2015) The Square (Jehane Noujaim, Egypt/US/UK, 2013) A Very Murray Christmas (Sofia Coppola, US, 2015) Christmas, Again (Charles Poekel, US, 2014) Mickey's Once Upon a Christmas (Jun Falkenstein, Alex Mann, Bradley Raymond, Toby Shelton & Bill Speers, US, 1999) Mychael Clayton (Tony Gilroy, US, 2007) The Insect Woman (Shôhei Imamura, Japan, 1963) Superstar: The Karen Carpenter Story (Todd Haynes, US, 1988) Platform (Jia Zhang-ke, China, 2000) The Hateful Eight (Quentin Tarantino, US, 2015) Manhatta (Charles Sheeler & Paul Strand, US, 1920-21) Ballet Mechanique (Fernand Léger & Dudley Murphy, US, 1923-24) Anémic cinéma (Rrose Sélavy a.k.a. Marcel Duchamp, US, 1926) The Life and Death of 9413–A Hollywood Extra (Robert Florey & Slavko Vorkapich, US, 1927) Skyscraper Symphony (Robert Florey, US, 1929) Making A Murderer (Moira Demos & Laura Ricciardi, US, 2015) The Color of Noise (Eric Robel, US, 2015)

Rewatched: The Lady From Shanghai (Orson Welles, US, 1947) Touch of Evil (Orson Welles, US, 1958) Aladdin (Ron Clements & John Musker, US, 1992) Elf (Jon Favreau, US, 2003) Star Wars (George Lucas, US, 1977) Santa Claus Is Comin' to Town (Jules Bass & Arthur Rankin Jr., US, 1970) The Muppets Christmas Carol (Brian Henson, US, 1992) The Sound of Music (Robert Wise, US, 1965)

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November 2015.

Never Before: Du côté de la côte (Agnès Varda, France, 1958) Le Bonheur (Agnès Varda, France, 1965) Alice in the Cities (Wim Wenders, West Germany, 1974) Peace in the Valley (Michael Palmieri & Donal Mosher, US, 2015) Steve Jobs: The Man in the Machine (Alex Gibney, US, 2015) Listen To Me Marlon (Stevan Riley, UK, 2015) Waitress (Adrienne Shelly, US, 2007) Barge (Ben Powell, US, 2015) The Anthropologist (Seth Kramer, Daniel A. Miller & Jeremy Newberger, US, 2015) Once And For All (Michael Epstein & Dyllan McGee, US, 2015) Pickpocket (Jia Zhangke, China, 1997) A Good American (Friedrich Moser, Austria, 2015) Bluespace (Ian Cheney, US, 2015) Missing People (David Shapiro, US, 2015) He Named Me Malala (Davis Guggenheim, United Arab Emirates/USA, 2015) Women He’s Undressed (Gillian Armstrong, Australia, 2015) Walden (Jonas Mekas, US, 1969) Animated Heavy Metal Parking Lot (Leslie Supnet, Canada, 2008) Hand Tinting (Joyce Wieland, Canada, 1967) Tabula Rasa (Vincent Grenier, Canada, 1993-2004) Pepper’s Ghost (Stephen Broomer, Canada, 2013) Dan Carter (Alison Kobayashi, Canada, 2006) Being Fucked Up (Emily Vey Duke & Cooper Battersby, Canada, 2001) The Wonders (Alice Rohrwacher, Italy, 2014) Miriam: Home Delivery (Juliet Jordan, US, 2015) The Jazz Loft According to W. Eugene Smith (Sara Fishko, US, 2015) OXD: One Extraordinary Day (Craig Lowy, US, 2015) Newman (Jon Fox, US, 2015) Motley’s Law (Nicole N. Horanyi, Denmark, 2015) The Surrender (Stephen Maing, US, 2015) Lost, Lost, Lost (Jonas Mekas, US, 1976) Southpaw (Antoine Fuqua, US, 2015) The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution (Stanley Nelson, US, 2015) Foreign Correspondent (Alfred Hitchcock, US, 1940) Class Divide (Marc Levin, US, 2015) Sicario (Denis Villeneuve, US, 2015) Cassis (Jonas Mekas, US, 1964) Hare Krishna (Jonas Mekas, US, 1966) Notes on the Circus (Jonas Mekas, US, 1966) Report From Millbrook (Jonas Mekas, US, 1965 - 1966) Travel Songs (Jonas Mekas, US, 1967 - 1981) Williamsburg (Jonas Mekas, US, 1949 - 2002) Brooklyn (John Crowley, Ireland/UK/Canada, 2015) Don’t Look Back (D.A. Pennebaker, US/UK, 1967) Daybreak Express (D.A. Pennebaker, US, 1953) 65 Revisited (D.A. Pennebaker, US/UK, 2007) Room (Lenny Abrahamson, Ireland/Canada, 2015) The Danish Girl (Tom Hooper, UK/Germany/US, 2015) Meru (Jimmy Chin & Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi, US/India, 2015)

Rewatched: The Beaches of Agnès (Agnès Varda, France, 2008) Me and Earl and the Dying Girl (Alfonso Gomez-Rejon, US, 2015) The Gleaners and I (Agnès Varda, France, 2000) The Look of Silence (Joshua Oppenheimer, Denmark/Indonesia, 2014)

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October 2015.

Never Before: Still Life (Jia Zhangke, China, 2006) God Is An Artist (Dustin Guy Defa, US, 2015) Notes From The Border (Iva Radivojevic, Greece, 2015) In Another Country (Hong Sang-soo, South Korea, 2012) Chimes at Midnight (Orson Welles, France/Spain/Switzerland, 1965) The Vanishing (George Sluizer, Netherlands, 1988) Junun (Paul Thomas Anderson, US/India, 2015) The Yards (James Gray, US, 2000) The Above (Kirsten Johnson, Afghanistan, 2015) Winter on Fire: Ukraine's Fight For Freedom (Evgeny Afineevsky, UK/Ukraine/US, 2015) The Elephant Man (David Lynch, US/UK, 1980) Dressed To Kill (Brian De Palma, US, 1980) Vagabond (Agnès Varda, France, 1985) Osaka Elegy (Kenji Mizoguchi, Japan, 1936) Something to Remind Me (Christian Petzold, Germany, 2001) The Third Man (Carol Reed, UK, 1949) The Maltese Falcon (John Huston, US, 1941) The Black Cat (Lucio Fulci, Italy, 1981) Apur Sansar (Satyajit Ray, India, 1959) Your Vice Is A Locked Room And Only I Have The Key (Sergio Martino, Italy, 1972) Birdie (Heloisa Passos, Brazil, 2015) Five Dolls for an August Moon (Mario Bava, Italy, 1970) Karollyne (Heloisa Passos, Brazil, 2015) Steve Jobs (Danny Boyle, US, 2015) The Beaches of Agnès (Agnès Varda, France, 2008) Le lion volatil (Agnès Varda, France, 2003)

Rewatched: When Harry Met Sally... (Rob Reiner, US, 1989) My Own Private Idaho (Gus Van Sant, US, 1991) Mur Murs (Agnès Varda, France, 1981) The 39 Steps (Alfred Hitchcock, UK, 1935) Vagabond (Agnès Varda, France, 1985) Day of Wrath (Carl Theodor Dreyer, Denmark, 1943) Corpse Bride (Tim Burton & Mike Johnson, US, 2005)

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September 2015.

Never Before: Three Times (Hou Hsiao-Hsien, Taiwan, 2005) Les 3 boutons (Agnès Varda, France, 2015) Je tu il elle (Chantal Akerman, France/Belgium, 1975) L’opéra Mouffe (Agnès Varda, France, 1958) La Pointe Courte (Agnès Varda, France, 1956) Aparajito (Satyajit Ray, India, 1956) The Young Girls of Rocheford (Jacques Demy, France, 1967) The Conformist (Bernardo Bertolucci, Italy, 1970) The Thing (John Carpenter, US, 1982) I Am Tom Moody (Ainslie Henderson, UK, 2012)

Rewatched: The Grand Budapest Hotel (Wes Anderson, US, 2014) Heaven Knows What (Benny & Joshua Safdie, US, 2014) Cléo From 5 to 7 (Agnès Varda, France, 1962) City Lights (Charles Chaplin, US, 1931)

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TIFF 2015.

Cemetery of Splendor (Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Thailand, 2015) Dark Horse (Louise Osmond, UK, 2015) The Pearl Button (Patricio Guzmán, Chile, 2015) Welcome to F.L. (Geneviève Dulude-De Celles, Canada, 2015) The Forbidden Room (Guy Maddin, Canada, 2015) Where To Invade Next (Michael Moore, US, 2015) Green Room (Jeremy Saulnier, US, 2015) The Chickening (Davy Force & Nick DenBoer, Canada, 2015) Hitchcock/Truffaut (Kent Jones, US, 2015) Right Now, Wrong Then (Hong Sangsoo, South Korea, 2015) Bang Gang (A Modern Love Story) (Eva Husson, France, 2015) The Sky Trembles and The Earth Is Afraid and The Two Eyes Are Not Brothers (Ben Rivers, UK, 2015) Heart of a Dog (Laurie Anderson, US, 2015) Rocco and His Brothers (Luchino Visconti, Italy, 1960) A Distant Episode (Ben Rivers, UK, 2015) An Old Dog's Diary (Shai Heredia & Shumona Goel, India, 2015) The Reminder (Behrouz Rae, US, 2015) Solo For Rich Man (Beatrice Gibson, UK, 2015) YOLO (Ben Russell, US/South Africa, 2015) Analysis of Emotions and Vexations (Wojciech Bakowski, Poland, 2015) Bunte Kuh (Parastoo Anoushahpour, Ryan Ferko & Faraz Anoushahpour, Canada/Germany, 2015) Actua 1 (Philippe Garrel, France, 1968) Time For Outrage! (Friedl vom Gröller, Austria, 2015) Untitled (Behrouz Rae, US, 2015) Many Thousands Gone (Ephraim Asili, Brazil/US, 2015) Neither God Nor Santa Maria (Samuel M. Delgado & Helena Girón, Spain, 2015) Psychic Driving (William E. Jones, US, 2015) UNcirCling (John Creson & Adam Rosen, Canada, 2015) Engram of Returning (Daïchi Saïto, Canada, 2015) Francofonia (Alexander Sokurov, France/​​Germany/​​Netherlands, 2015) James White (Josh Mond, US, 2015) Sunset Song (Terence Davies, United Kingdom/​​Luxembourg, 2015) The Reflektor Tapes (Kahlil Joseph, UK, 2015) The Assassin (Hou Hsiao-Hsien, Taiwan, 2015) The Program (Stephen Frears, UK, 2015) The Music of Strangers (Morgan Neville, US, 2015) No Men Beyond This Point (Mark Sawers, Canada, 2015) Janis: Little Girl Blue (Amy Berg, US, 2015) Maggie’s Plan (Rebecca Miller, US, 2015) Mountains May Depart (Jia Zhangke, China, 2015) Heat (Michael Mann, US, 1995) Anomalisa (Charlie Kaufman & Duke Johnson, US, 2015) The Martian (Ridley Scott, US, 2015) Sector IX B (Mathieu Kleyebe Abonnenc, France/​​Senegal, 2015) Faux Départ (Yto Barrada, Morocco, 2015) Hong Kong Trilogy (Christopher Doyle, Hong Kong, 2015) High-Rise (Ben Wheatley, UK, 2015) Miss Sharon Jones! (Barbara Kopple, US, 2015) Arabian Nights (Miguel Gomes, Portugal, 2015) Blood of my Blood (Marco Bellocchio, Italy, 2015) The Treasure (Corneliu Porumboiu, Romania/France, 2015) The Other Side (Roberto Minervini, France/Italy, 2015) Vertigo (Alfred Hitchcock, US, 1958)

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August 2015.

Never before: The Only Thing (Jack Conway, US, 1925) Devil’s Doorway (Anthony Mann, US, 1950) The Shakedown (William Wyler, US, 1929) So Ends Our Night (John Cromwell, US, 1941) Stark Love (Karl Brown, US, 1927) Track of the Cat (William A. Wellman, US, 1954) Wife Wanted (Phil Karlson, US, 1946) The Colleen Bawn (Sidney Olcott, US, 1911) The Man Without a Country (Crane Wilbur, US, 1937) Wife! Be Like a Rose! (Mikio Naruse , Japan, 1935) The Godless Girl (Cecil B. DeMille, US, 1929) Black Oxen (Frank Lloyd, US, 1923) Mur Murs (Agnès Varda, France/US, 1981) Irrational Man (Woody Allen, US, 2015) Documenteur (Agnès Varda, France/US, 1981) Mission Impossible: Rouge Nation (Christopher McQuarrie, US, 2015) True Detective: Season 2 (various, US, 2015) Uncle Yanco (Agnès Varda, France/US, 1967) Black Panthers (Agnès Varda, France/US, 1968) Lions Love (...and Lies) (Agnès Varda, France/US, 1969) Atomic, Living in Dread and Promise (Mark Cousins, UK, 2015) Two Lovers (James Gray, US, 2008) Close-Up (Abbas Kiarostami, Iran, 1990) Untitled (Letter to Serra) (Lisandro Alonso, Argentina, 2011) Far From Heaven (Todd Haynes, US, 2002) Vive L'amour (Tsai Ming-liang, Taiwan, 1994) The End of the Tour (James Ponsoldt, US, 2015) Christ Church - Saint James (Stephen Broomer, Canada, 2011) Brébeuf (Stephen Broomer, Canada, 2012) Memory Worked by Mirrors (Stephen Broomer, Canada, 2011) Queen’s Quay (Stephen Broomer, Canada, 2012) Balinese Rebar (Stephen Broomer, Canada, 2011) Wastewater (Stephen Broomer, Canada, 2014) Snakegrass (Stephen Broomer, Canada, 2012) Serena Gundy (Stephen Broomer, Canada, 2014) Landform 1 (Stephen Broomer, Canada, 2015) Bridge 1C (Stephen Broomer, Canada, 2015) Order of Ideas at the Leslie Street Spit (Stephen Broomer, Canada, 2012) Gulls at Gibraltar (Stephen Broomer, Canada, 2015) Contempt (Jean-Luc Godard, France, 1963) Days of Being Wild (Wong Kar-Wai, Hong Kong, 1990) The Wayward Cloud (Tsai Ming-Liang, Taiwan, 2005) The Diary of a Teenage Girl (Marielle Heller, US, 2015) Young Mr. Lincoln (John Ford, US, 1939)

Rewatched: Jauja (Lisandro Alonso, Argentina, 2014) Kurt Cobain: Montage of Heck (Brett Morgen, US, 2015) Brébeuf (Stephen Broomer, Canada, 2012) Spirits in Season (Stephen Broomer, Canada, 2013) Manor Road (Stephen Broomer, Canada, 2010) Conservatory (Stephen Broomer, Canada, 2013) Bridge 1A (Stephen Broomer, Canada, 2015) Wild Currents (Stephen Broomer, Canada, 2015) Phoenix (Christian Petzold, Germany, 2014) Citizenfour (Laura Poitras, US/Germany, 2014)

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July 2015.

Never Before: Stray Dog (Debra Granik, US, 2014) Magician: The Astonishing Life and Work of Orson Welles (Chuck Workman, US, 2014) Spellbound (Alfred Hitchcock, US, 1945) Cartel Land (Matthew Heineman, Mexico/US, 2015) Fogo (Yulene Olaizola, Mexico, 2012) Limelight (Charles Chaplin, US, 1952) Desistfilm (Stan Brakhage, US, 1954) Wedlock House: An Intercourse (Stan Brakhage, US, 1959) Cat’s Cradle (Stan Brakhage, US, 1959) Window Water Baby Moving (Stan Brakhage, US, 1959) Mothlight (Stan Brakhage, US, 1963) Amy (Asif Kapadia, US, 2015) Bridge 1A (Stephen Broomer, Canada, 2015) Conservatory (Stephen Broomer, Canada, 2013) Wild Currents (Stephen Broomer, Canada, 2015) Go! Go! Go! (Marie Menken, US, 1964) Meshes of the Afternoon (Maya Deren & Alexander Hammid, US, 1943) Rain (Joris Ivens, The Netherlands, 1928) Fireworks (Kenneth Anger, US, 1947) Odds & Ends (Jane Conger Belson Shimane, US, 1959) Eyewash (Robert Breer, US, 1959) Alone. Life Wastes Andy Hardy (Martin Arnold, Austria, 1998) The Sea Horse (Jean Painlevé, France, 1933) Girlhood (Céline Sciamma, France, 2014) Mistress America (Noah Baumbach, US, 2015) Best of Enemies (Robert Gordon & Morgan Neville, US, 2015) Stray Cat Rock: Delinquent Girl Boss (Yasuharu Hasebe, Japan, 1970) The Unfaithful Wife (Claude Chabrol, France, 1969) Something, Anything (Paul Harrill, US, 2014) For All Mankind (Al Reinert, US, 1989) Stray Cat Rock: Wild Jumbo (Toshiya Fujita, Japan, 1970) Stray Cat Rock: Sex Hunter (Yasuharu Hasebe, Japan, 1970) Ashes (Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Thailand, 2012) The Downtown Project (Morgan Spurlock, US, 2015) Counting (Jem Cohen, US, 2015) Stray Cat Rock: Machine Animal (Yasuharu Hasebe, Japan, 1970) Stray Cat Rock: Beat ‘71 (Toshiya Fujita, Japan, 1971) Bikes Vs Cars (Fredrik Gertten, Sweden, 2015) Carlito’s Way (Brian De Palma, US, 1993)

Rewatch: Mulholland Dr. (David Lynch, US, 2001) Gimme Shelter (Albert Maysles, David Maysles & Charlotte Zwerin, US, 1970) The Terminator (James Cameron, US, 1984) Spirits in Season (Stephen Broomer, Canada, 2013) Mommy (Xavier Dolan, Canada, 2014) 112 Weddings (Doug Block, US, 2014)

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June 2015.

Never Before: Mississippi Burning (Alan Parker, US, 1988) The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (Jacques Demy, France, 1964) Saint Laurent (Bertrand Bonello, France, 2014) The River (Jean Renoir, France/India/UK/US, 1951) No No Sleep (Tsai Ming-liang, China, 2015) The Story of Adèle H. (François Truffaut, France, 1975) Jurassic World (Colin Trevorrow, US, 2015) Flowers of Shanghai (Hou Hsiao-Hsien, Taiwan/Japan, 1998) Me and Earl and the Dying Girl (Alfonso Gomez-Rejon, US, 2015) When Marnie Was There (Hiromasa Yonebayashi, Japan, 2014) The Heart of the World (Guy Maddin, Canada, 2000) Polytechnique (Denis Villeneuve, Canada, 2009) Cléo from 5 to 7 (Agnès Varda, France, 1962) The Art of Dissent (Laura Poitras, US, 2015) The Blue Bird (Maurice Tourneur, US, 1918) Inside Out (Pete Docter & Ronaldo Del Carmen, US, 2015) Easy Street (Charles Chaplin, US, 1917) Lost River (Ryan Gosling, US, 2014) Chocolat (Claire Denis, France/West Germany/Cameroon, 1988) Pather Panchali (Satyajit Ray, India, 1955) The Magnificent Ambersons (Orson Welles, US, 1942) Hot Girls Wanted (Jill Bauer & Ronna Gradus, US, 2015) Goto, Isle of Love (Walerian Borowczyk, France, 1969) Rope (Alfred Hitchcock, US, 1948) Hard to Be a God (Aleksei German, Russia, 2013) What Happened, Miss Simone (Liz Garbus, US, 2015) Mississippi Mermaid (François Truffaut, France, 1969)

Rewatched: Yearbook (Bernardo Britto, US, 2014) Spirited Away (Hayao Miyazaki, Japan, 2001) The Happiness of the Katakuris (Takashi Miike, Japan, 2001)

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May 2015.

Never Before: This Film Is Dangerous (Ronald Haines, UK, 1948) Captain Celluloid vs. the Film Pirates (Louis McMahon, US, 1969) Samson and Delilah (Cecil B. DeMille, US, 1949) Les Maudits (René Clément, France, 1947) Nothing Sacred (William A. Wellman, US, 1937) Portrait of Jennie (William Dieterle, US, 1948) A Most Violent Year (J.C. Chandor, US, 2014) The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Miss Osbourne (Walerian Borowczyk, France, 1981) The Big City (Satyajit Ray, India, 1963) Winter Sleep (Nuri Bilge Ceylan, Turkey, 2014) Ex Machina (Alex Garland, US, 2015) Ich möchte kein Mann sein (Ernst Lubitsch, Germany, 1918) Die Puppe. (Ernst Lubitsch, Germany, 1919) Mad Max: Fury Road (George Miller, Australia/US, 2015) Day of Wrath (Carl Theodor Dreyer, Denmark, 1943) Retaliation (Yasuharu Hasebe, Japan, 1968) Macbeth (Orson Welles, US, 1948) Ordet (Carl Theodor Dreyer, Denmark, 1955) Mood Indigo (Michel Gondry, France, 2013) Café Lumière (Hou Hsiao-hsien, Japan/Taiwan, 2003) The One I Love (Charlie McDowell, US, 2014)

Rewatched: Casablanca (Michael Curtiz, US, 1942) The Man Who Knew Too Much (Alfred Hitchcock, UK, 1934) Black Narcissus (Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger, UK, 1947) Inherent Vice (Paul Thomas Anderson, US, 2014) Red Lights (Rodrigo Cortés, US, 2012)

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April 2015.

Never Before: Manny (Leon Gast & Ryan Moore, US, 2014) ’71 (Yann Demange, UK, 2014) Standard Operating Procedure (Errol Morris, US, 2008) The Humbling (Barry Levinson, US, 2014) Rebels of the Neon God (Tsai Ming-Liang, Taiwan, 1992) What We Do In The Shadows (Jemaine Clement & Taika Waititi, New Zealand, 2014) Sunset Boulevard (Billy Wilder, US, 1950) Cinderella (Kenneth Branagh, US, 2015) It Follows (David Robert Mitchell, US, 2014) Ace in the Hole (Billy Wilder, US, 1951) Crocodile Gennadiy (Steve Hoover, US, 2015) The Pirates! Band of Misfits (Peter Lord & Jeff Newitt, UK, 2012) Iris (Albert Maysles, US, 2014) Chameleon (Ryan Mullins, US/Canada, 2015) Around the World in 50 Concerts (Heddy Honigmann, Netherlands, 2014) Robinson Crusoe Island (Patricio Guzmán, Chile, 1999) My Jules Verne (Patricio Guzmán, Chile, 2005) Welcome to Leith (Michael Beach Nichols & Christopher K. Walker, US, 2015) Fake Fruit Factory (Chick Strand, US/Mexico, 1986) How to Smell a Rose: A Visit with Ricky Leacock in Normandy (Les Blank & Gina Leibrecht, US, 2014) The Arms Drop (Andreas Koefoed, Denmark, 2014) Positive (Polina Kelm, Ukraine, 2014) Lanzmann (Adam Benzine, UK/Canada, 2015) Committed (Howie Mandel, Reed Grinsell & Steve Sunshine, US, 2014) Attacking the Devil: Harold Evans and the Last Nazi War Crime (Jacqui Morris & David Morris, UK/Canada, 2014) The Wolfpack (Crystal Moselle, US, 2015) Above and Below (Nicolas Steiner, Switzerland/Germany, 2015) Avengers: Age of Ultron (Joss Whedon, US, 2015)

Rewatched: The Sound of Music (Robert Wise, US, 1965) Hoop Dreams (Steve James, US, 1994) Blind Woman’s Curse (Teruo Ishii, Japan, 1970)

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March 2015.

Never Before: Still Alice (Richard Glatzer & Wash Westmoreland, US, 2014) Stray Dogs (Tsai Ming Liang, Taiwan, 2013) The Subterranean Stadium (Errol Morris, US, 2015) The Heist (Errol Morris, US, 2015) The Streaker (Errol Morris, US, 2015) Being Mr. Met (Errol Morris, US, 2015) Most Valuable Whatever (Errol Morris, US, 2015) Chrome (Errol Morris, US, 2015) Vernon, Florida (Errol Morris, US, 1981) The Big Heat (Fritz Lang, US, 1953) The Apartment (Billy Wilder, US, 1960)

Rewatched: The Wind Rises (Hayao Miyazaki, Japan, 2013) Journey To The West (Tsai Ming Liang, Taiwan, 2014) Up (Pete Docter & Bob Peterson, US, 2009)

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True/False Fest 2015

(favorite to least favorite) Secret Screening: Orange Century of the Self (Adam Curtis, UK, 2002) Secret Screening: Green Montage of Heck (Brett Morgen, US, 2015) The Rat Catcher (Andrzej Czarnecki, Poland, 1986) (T)ERROR (Lyric R. Cabral & David Felix Sutcliffe, US, 2015) Going Clear (Alex Gibney, US, 2015) How To Change The World (Jerry Rothwell, UK, 2015) Hear My Cry (Maciej J. Drygas, Poland, 1991) Those Who Feel the Fire Burning (Morgan Knibbe, Netherlands, 2014) Secret Screening: Blue Through and Through (Grzegorz Królikiewicz, Poland, 1973) Finders Keepers (Bryan Carberry & J. Clay Tweel, US, 2015) Something Better to Come (Hanna Polak, Poland/Russia, 2015) Carpenter (Wojciech Wiszniewski, Poland, 1976) Wanda Gościmska. ... A Weaver (Wojciech Wiszniewski, Poland, 1975)

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February 2015.

Never Before: Gates of Heaven (Errol Morris, US, 1978) Western (Bill & Turner Ross, US, 2015) Last Days In Vietnam (Rory Kennedy, US, 2014) Bitter Lake (Adam Curtis, UK, 2015) Our Curse (Tomasz Śliwiński, Poland, 2013) The Lady From Shanghai (Orson Welles, US, 1947) Transformers: The Premake (Kevin B. Lee, US, 2014) Mr. Dynamite: The Rise of James Brown (Alex Gibney, US, 2014) Nostalghia (Andrei Tarkovsky, Italy, 1983) Say Anything... (Cameron Crowe, US, 1989) Fellini Satyricon (Federico Fellini, Italy, 1969) The Jinx: The Life and Deaths of Robert Durst (Andrew Jarecki, US, 2015) Vincent & Theo (Robert Altman, Netherlands, 1990) Lech Walesa: The Shipyard (Errol Morris, US, 2014)

Rewatched: Koran By Heart (Greg Barker, US/UK, 2011)

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January 2015.

Never Before: Inherit The Wind (Stanley Kramer, US, 1960) M. Hulot's Holiday (Jacques Tati, France, 1953) Foxcatcher (Bennett Miller, US, 2014) The Fisher King (Terry Gilliam, US, 1991) Into The Woods (Rob Marshall, US, 2014) Rosetta: Audio/Visual (Justin J. Jackson, US, 2014) Au Hasard Balthazar (Robert Bresson, 1966, France) Latter Days (C. Jay Cox, US, 2003) The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser (Werner Herzog, West Germany, 1974) Tom at the Farm (Xavier Dolan, Canada, 2013) The Prime of Miss Jean Brody (Ronald Neame, West Germany, 1969) The Royal Road (Jenni Olson, US, 2015) Appropriate Behavior (Desiree Akhavan, 2014) Radio Bikini (Robert Stone, US, 1988) Red Desert (Michelangelo Antonioni, Italy, 1964) Selma (Ava DuVernay, US, 2014) The Russian Woodpecker (Chad Gracia, US/UK/Ukraine, 2014) Dreamcatcher (Kim Longinotto, UK/US, 2015) Cronies (Michael J. Larnell, US, 2015) City of Gold (Laura Gabbert, US, 2015) The Purple Rose of Cairo (Woody Allen, US, 1985) Chuck Norris vs Communism (Ilinca Calugareanu, UK/Romania, 2015) Middle of Nowhere (Ava DuVernay, US, 2012)

Rewatched: The Strange Little Cat (Ramon Zürcher, Germany, 2013) Magnolia (Paul Thomas Anderson, US, 1999) Summer Hours (Olivier Assayas, France, 2008) Pierrot le Fou (Jean-Luc Godard, France, 1965) Boyhood (Richard Linklater, US, 2014)

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December 2014.

Another year come and gone, this one particularly fruitful, both professionally and personally. Here's to a year full of recognition for hard work and hope for extremely positive things coming in the future. 

Never Before: L'avventura (Michelangelo Antonioni, Italy, 1960) Wetlands (David Wnendt, Germany, 2013) The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies (Peter Jackson, New Zealand, 2014) Jimmy Murakami: Non-Alien (Sé Merry Doyle, US/Ireland, 2010) Time Bandits (Terry Gilliam, UK, 1981) La Notte (Michelangelo Antonioni, Italy, 1961) Inherent Vice (Paul Thomas Anderson, US, 2014) Land of Silence and Darkness (Werner Herzog, West Germany, 1971) The Navigator: A Medieval Odyssey (Vincent Ward, Australia, 1988) Forest of Bliss (Robert Gardner, US, 1986) The Case Against 8 (Ben Cotner & Ryan White, US, 2014) Art and Craft (Sam Cullman, Jennifer Grausman & Mark Becker, US, 2014) The Rover (David Michôd, Australia, 2014) The Long Day Closes (Terence Davies, UK, 1992) Get On Up (Tate Taylor, US, 2014) Unbroken (Angelina Jolie, US, 2014) The Imitation Game (Morten Tyldum, UK/US, 2014) Palo Alto (Gia Coppola, US, 2013) All About Eve (Joseph L. Mankiewicz, US, 1950)

Rewatched: Nightcrawler (Dan Gilroy, US, 2014) The Central Park Five (Ken Burns, Sarah Burns & David McMahon, US, 2012) Elf (Jon Favreau, US, 2003) It's a Wonderful Life (Frank Capra, US, 1946) Kumaré (Vikram Gandhi, US, 2011) How To Train Your Dragon 2 (Dean DeBlois, US, 2014)

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November 2014.

Never Before: Amsterdam Global Village (Johan van der Keuken, Netherlands, 1996) Ornette: Made in America (Shirley Clarke, US, 1985) Double Indemnity (Billy Wilder, US, 1944) Bus Stop (Joshua Logan, US, 1956) L'eclisse (Michelangelo Antonioni, Italy, 1962) Love Streams (John Cassavetes, US, 1984) Interstellar (Christopher Nolan, US, 2014) Into Great Silence (Philip Gröning, France/Germany, 2005) Under Fire (Roger Spottiswoode, US, 1983) 1,000 Times Good Night (Erik Poppe, Norway/Ireland, 2013) F for Fake (Orson Welles, France, 1973) We Are The Best! (Lukas Moodysson, Sweden, 2013) Orson Welles: The One-Man Band (Vassili Silovic & Oja Kodar, France, 1995) The Battle of Midway (John Ford, US, 1942) Whiplash (Damien Chazelle, US, 2014) The Babadook (Jennifer Kent, Australia, 2014) Blithe Spirit (David Lean, UK, 1945) Two Days, One Night (Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne, Belgium, 2014) The Blues Accordin' to Lightnin' Hopkins (Les Blank, US, 1970) The Sun's Gonna Shine (Les Blank, US, 1969) God Respects Us When We Work, But Loves Us When We Dance (Les Blank, US, 1968) Spend It All (Les Blank, US, 1971) Buffalo Juggalos (Scott Cummings, US, 2014) Fitzcarraldo (Werner Herzog, West Germany/Peru, 1982) A Well-Spent Life (Les Blank, US, 1971) Dry Wood (Les Blank, US, 1973) Los Angeles Plays Itself (Thom Anderson, US, 2003) Hot Pepper (Les Blank, US, 1973) Always for Pleasure (Les Blank, US, 1978) More Fess (Les Blank, US, 1978) Garlic Is as Good as Ten Mothers (Les Blank, US, 1980) Sprout Wings and Fly (Les Blank, US, 1983) Julie: Old Time Tales of the Blue Ridge (Les Blank, US, 1991) My Old Fiddle: A Visit with Tommy Jarrell in the Blue Ridge (Les Blank, US, 1994) The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1 (Francis Lawrence, US, 2014) In Heaven There Is No Beer? (Les Blank, US, 1984) Gap-Toothed Women (Les Blank, US, 1987) A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night (Ana Lily Amirpour, US, 2014) Citizenfour (Laura Poitras, Germany/US, 2014) Yum, Yum, Yum! A Taste of Cajun and Creole Cooking (Les Blank, US, 1990) The Maestro: King of the Cowboy Artists (Les Blank, US, 1994) The Maestro Rides Again (Les Blank, US, 2005) Sworn to the Drum: A Tribute to Francisco Aguabella (Les Blank, US, 1995) The Theory of Everything (James Marsh, UK, 2014) Red Hollywood (Thom Anderson, US, 1996) Land Without Bread (Luis Buñuel, Spain, 1933) Landscape Suicide (James Benning, US, 1986) Housing Problems (Edgar Anstey & Arthur Elton, UK, 1935) In The Year Of The Pig (Emile de Antonio, US, 1968) Wild (Jean-Marc Vallée, US, 2014) American Dreams: Lost and Found (James Benning, US, 1984) When The Wind Blows (Jimmy T. Murakami, UK, 1986)

Rewatched: Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) (Alejandro González Iñárritu, US, 2014) The Passion of Joan of Arc (Carl Theodor Dreyer, France, 1928) Interstellar (Christopher Nolan, US, 2014) Home Alone (Chris Columbus, US, 1990) The Red Shoes (Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger, UK, 1948) Kiki's Delivery Service (Hayao Miyazaki, Japan, 1989) Psycho (Alfred Hitchcock, US, 1960)

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October 2014.

Never Before: Gone Girl (David Fincher, US, 2014) City Lights (Charles Chaplin, US, 1931) The Gold Rush (Charles Chaplin, US, 1925) Kings of Pastry (Chris Hegedus & D.A. Pennebaker, France/US, 2009) The Seven Year Itch (Billy Wilder, US, 1955) Birdman (or The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) (Alejandro González Iñárritu, US, 2014) Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (Nicholas Meyer, US, 1982) The Fort (Andrew Renzi, US, 2011) El Valley Centro (James Benning, US, 1999) Histoire(s) du cinéma (Jean-Luc Godard, France, 1988-1998) Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (Howard Hawks, US, 1953) Fading Gigolo (John Turturro, US, 2013) Red River (Howard Hawks & Arthur Rosson, US, 1948) Flag Wars (Linda Goode Bryant & Laura Poitras, US, 2003) Sightseers (Ben Wheatley, UK, 2012) The Program (Laura Poitras, US, 2012) Portrait of Jason (Shirley Clarke, US, 1967) 21 Years: Richard Linklater (Michael Dunaway & Tara Wood, US, 2014) Sinister (Scott Derrickson, US, 2012) An American Werewolf In London (John Landis, UK/US, 1981) Diabolique (Henri-Georges Clouzot, France, 1955) Los (James Benning, US, 2001) The Quince Tree Sun (Víctor Erice, Spain, 1992) Sogobi (James Benning, US, 2002) My Country, My Country (Laura Poitras, US, 2006) John Wick (David Leitch & Chad Stahelski, US, 2014)

Rewatched: The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (David Fincher, US, 2008) Shake!: Otis at Monterey (D.A. Pennebaker, US, 1989) Ernest & Celestine (Stéphane Aubier, Vincent Patar & Benjamin Renner, France, 2012) Snowpiercer (Bong Joon-Ho, South Korea, 2014) La Dolce Vita (Federico Fellini, Italy, 1960) Scream (Wes Craven, US, 1996) The House of the Devil (Ti West, US, 2009) The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (Tobe Hooper, US, 1974) Eraserhead (David Lynch, US, 1977)