Chained to the Cinémathèque

Pavements (Alex Ross Perry, 2024) Mother Vera (Cécile Embleton & Alys Tomlinson, 2024) Vertigo Sea (John Akomfrah, 2015) Spirited Away (...

The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger, 1943) I Know Where I’m Going! (Michael Powell and Emeric Pressbu...

My Neighbor Totoro (Hayao Miyazaki, 1988) Avatar: The Way of Water (James Cameron, 2022) Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (Tomas Alfredson, 2011) T...

Battleship Potemkin (Sergei Eisenstein, 1925) (Бронено́сец «Потёмкин») Pauline at the Beach (Éric Rohmer, 1983) The Green Ray (Éric Rohmer, ...

Portrait of a Lady on Fire (Céline Sciamma, 2019) Volver (Pedro Almodóvar, 2006) Moscow Does Not Believe in Tears (Vladimir Menshov, 1980) (...

My annual chronicle of my own year in cinema. This isn't so much of a ranked list as a list in three tiers: A single film that joins ...

Drake - Nice for What  (Karena Evans, 2018) Hommage à Jean-Marie Straub (Valérie Massadian, 2018) The Image Book (Jean-Luc Godard, 2018) ...

Moonlight (Barry Jenkins, 2016) Toni Erdmann (Maren Ade, 2016) A nos amours (Maurice Pialat, 1983) Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle (Jake K...

Adieu au langage (Jean-Luc Godard, 2014) À propos de Venise (Jean-Marie Straub, 2014) Inside Out (Pete Docter and Ronaldo Del Carmen, 201...

The Lobster (Yorgos Lanthimos, 2015) Carol (Todd Haynes, 2014) Les Demoiselles de Rochefort (Jacques Demy, 1967) Arrival (Denis Ville...

Interstellar (Christopher Nolan, 2014) It's a Wonderful Life (Frank Capra, 1946) The Grand Budapest Hotel (Wes Anderson, 2014) Beyonc...

        I. She walks in Beauty, like the night   Of cloudless climes and starry skies; And all that's best of dark and bright   ...