January
Private Eyes (Michael Hui, 1976) ****1/2
Santa Claus is a Stinker (Jean-Michael Poire, 1982) 1/2*
February
Sad Movie (Kwong Jong-Kwan, 2005) ***
Fan-chan (Vitcha Gojiew & Songyos Sugmakanan, 2003) ***1/2
El Aura (Fabian Bielinsky, 2005) ****
Appelkriget (Tage Danielsson, 1971) ***
In This Corner of the World (Sunao Katabuchi, 2016) ***1/2
March
The Time Masters (Rene Laloux, 1982) ****
I as in Icarus (Henry Verneuil, 1979) ***1/2
Passenger Side (Matthew Bissonette, 2006) **
Parasite (Bong Joon-ho, 2019) *****
Baby Driver (Edgar Wright, 2017) ***
What Have I Done to Deserve This? (Pedro Almodovar, 1984) ***1/2
Burn After Reading (Joel Coen/Ethan Coen, 2008) ***1/2
Beck (Yukihiko Tsutsumi, 2010) ***
The Brothers Bloom (Rian Johnson, 2009) **
Public Toilet (Fruit Chan, 2002) *1/2
Charley Varrick (Don Siegel, 1977 ) ***1/2
Babette’s Feast (Gabriel Axel, 1987) ****
Love Letter (Shunji Iwai, 1995) ****1/2
The Unsuspected (Michael Curtiz, 1947) ****
Adrift In Tokyo (Miki Satoshi, 2007) ****1/2
April
Seven Something (Jira Maligool etc., 2007) ***1/2
May God Save Us (Rodrigo Sorogoyen, 2016) ****1/2
Angel (Ernst Lubitsch, 1937) ****
Go (isao Yukisada, 2001) ***
The Bitter Tea of General Yen (Frank Capra) ***1/2
Amarcord (Federico Fellini, 1973) ****
Osaka Elegy (Kenji Mizoguchi, 1936) ****
The Phantom of Liberty (Luis Bunuel, 1974) ****1/2
Leave Her To Heaven (John M. Stahl, 1945) ***1/2
Jeni, Juno (Hoo-joon Kim, 2005) ***1/2
Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (Stephen Daldry, 2011) **1/2
Shaolin Drunkard (Woo-Ping Yuen, 1983) ***1/2
Ga-ga: Glory to the Heroes (Piotr Szulkin, 1986) ****
Fateful Findings (Neil Breen, 2012) ∞
X: Night of Vengeance (Jon Hewitt, 2011) *1/2
Holy Motors (Leos Carax, 2012) ****
La Haine (Mathieu Kassovitz, 1981) ****
Brother From Another Planet (John Sayles, 1984) **1/2
Gas Pump Girls (Joel Bender, 1979) *
The Excluded (Franz Novotny, 1982) ***1/2
Shoplifters (Hirokazu Koreeda, 2018) ****
The Gangster, The Cop, and the Devil (Won-Tae Lee, 2019) ***1/2
Canola (Yoon-Hong Seung, 2016) ***1/2
Heat (Michael Mann, 1995) ****
The Good Boys (Gene Stupnitsky, 2019) **
The Snow White Murder Case (Yoshihiro Nakamura, 2014) ****1/2
May
The Last Circus (Alex De Iglesias, 2010) **1/2
Capote (Bennett Miller, 2005) ***1/2
Hanyo (Ki-Young Kim, 1960) ****
I’m Gonna Git You Sucka (Keenen Ivory Wayans, 1988) **
Variola Vera (Goran Markovic, 1982) ***
Interstellar (Christopher Nolan, 2014) ****
Bakuman (Hitoshi One, 2015) ***1/2
Forgotten (Hang-Jun Jang, 2017) ****
50/50 (Jonathan Levine, 2011) ***
Insane (Cheol-ha Lee, 2016) ***1/2
Orpheus (Jean Cocteau, 1950) ****
Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives (Apichatpong Weerasethakul) ****1/2
Elephant (Gus Van Sant, 2003) ****1/2
M (Joseph Losey, 1951) ***1/2
The Quiet Earth (Geoff Murphy, 1985) ***1/2
The Classic (Jae-young Kwak, 2003) ***1/2
Cria Cuervos (Carlos Saura, 1976) ****
Fedora (Billy Wilder, 1978) ****1/2
Welcome Back, Mr. McDonald (Koki Mitani, 1997) ****
Master (Ui-seok Jo, 2016) **1/2
Interstate 60 (Bob Gale, 2002) **
Mr. Zoo: The Missing VIP (Tae-Yun Kim, 2020) **
Wonderful Nightmare (Hyo-Jin Kang, 2015) ***1/2
Secretly, Greatly (Chul-Soo Jang, 2013) ***1/2
The Noah (Daniel Bouria, 1975) ***
Hope (Joo-ik Lee, 2013) ***1/2
Horror Stories (Beom-sik Jeong etc, 2012) **1/2
June
Exit (Sang-geun Lee, 2019) **1/2
The Advocate: A Missing Body (Jong-ho Huh) ****
This Man Must Die (Claude Chabrol, 1969) ****1/2
On The Silver Globe (Andrzej Zulawski, 1988) *1/2
Chingoo (Kyung-Taek Kwak, 2001) ***1/2
The Last Recipe: Memory of Giraffe’s Tongue (Yojiro Takita, 2017) **1/2
Her (Spike Jonze, 2013) ****1/2
The Negotiation (Sung-Hyun Choi, 2018) **
Nazarin (Luis Bunuel, 1959) *****
Los Olvidados (Luis Bunuel, 1950) *****
Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie (Luis Bunuel, 1972) ****1/2
Castaway on the Moon (Hye Joon-Lee, 2009) *****
Luck Key (Lee Gae-byok, 2016) ***1/2
L’Argent (Robert Bresson, 1983) ****1/2
The Right Stuff (Philip Kaufmann, 1983) ***1/2
Neomanila (Mikhail Red, 2017) ****
Gallants (Derek Kwok, Clement Cheng, 2010) ***
The Golder Fern (Jiri Weiss, 1963) ****
Eating Raoul (Paul Bartel, 1982)***1/2
The Ballad of Narayama (Keisuke Kinoshita, 1958) *****
The Adjustment Bureau (George Nolfi, 2011) *1/2
Cyrano De Bergerac (Jean-Paul Rappeneau, 1990) ****1/2
The Dog Who Stopped the War (Andre Melancon, 1984) *
Source Code (Duncan Jones, 2011) ****
The Flavor of Green Tea Over Rice (Yasujiro Ozu, 1952) ****
July
Babam Ve Oglum (Cagan Irmak, 2005) ***
A Stranger of Mine (Kenji Uchida, 2005) *****
The Unbelievable Truth (Hal Hartley, 1989) ***1/2
The Mouse That Roared (Jack Arnold, 1959) ***1/2
Blueprint for Murder (Kihachi Okamoto, 1961) ****
A Royal Affair (Nikolaj Arcel, 2012) ****
Smaller and Smaller Circles (Raya Martin, 2017) ***
Kahaani (Sujoy Ghosh, 2012) **
Fear Over the City (Henry Verneuil, 1975) ****
Close-up (Abbas Kiarostami, 1990) ****1/2
El Cuerpo (Oriol Paulo, 2012) **1/2
Munafik (Syamsul Yusof, 2016) ***1/2
Paris Je T’aime (Various, 2006) ***1/2
Carnage (Roman Polanski, 2011) ***
Panique (Julien Duvivier, 1946) ****
The Face of Another (Hiroshi Teshigahara, 1966) ***1/2
52 Pick-up (John Frankenheimer, 1986) **1/2
Seven Beauties (Lina Wertmuller, 1975) ****1/2
Traxx (Jerome Gary, 1988) *
The Attorney (Yang Woo-suk, 2013) ***1/2
Burning (Lee Chang-dong, 2018) ****1/2
The Death of Mr. Lazarescu (Cristi Puiu, 2005) ****1/2
The Deal (Son Yong-ho, 2015) **1/2
The Butcher Boy (Neil Jordan, 1997) **
You are the Apple of my Eye (Giddens Ko, 2011) ****
August
Hanamizuki (Nobuhiro Doi, 2010) **1/2
The Night Strangler (Dan Curtis, 1973) ***1/2
Suburbia (Richard Linklater, 1996) ***1/2
Kansas City Confidential (Phil Karlson, 1952) ***1/2
You, the Living (Roy Andersson, 2007) ****
End of Watch (David Ayer, 2012) ***1/2
Colorful (Keiichi Hara, 2010) ***1/2
Daisy (Andrew Lau, 2006) *
Sitcom (Francois Ozon, 1998) ****
Visible Secret (Ann Hui, 2001) ***
Memories of Matsuko (Tetsuya Nakashima, 2006) ****
Short Cuts (Robert Altman, 1993) ****1/2
Seventeen (Shinichiro Sawai, 2003) **
September
The Adventures of Mark Twain (Will Vinton, 1985) **1/2
Kontroll (Nimrod Antal, 2003) ***1/2
Alive (Il Cho, 2020) ***
October
Jail Breakers (Sang Jin-Kim, 2002) ***1/2
House on Haunted Hill (Jack Hill, 1959) ***1/2
Last Supper No. 3 (Veronica Velasco, 2009) ***1/2
Inland Empire (David Lynch, 2006) ****
Mon Mon Mon Monsters (Giddens Ko, 2017) **1/2
Opera (Dario Argento, 1987)***
Grim Prairie Tales (Wayne Coe. 1990) ***
Pee Mak (Banjong Pisangthanakun, 2005) ***1/2
Santa Sangre (Alejandro Jodorowsky. 1989) ****
The Babadook (Jennifer Kent, 2014 ) ***1/2
Bad Taste (Peter Jackson, 1987) ***1/2
Noroi (Koji Shiraishi, 2004) ****
La Casa De Las Siete Tumbas (Pedro Stocki, 1982) ***1/2
Melodrama Negra (Maribel Legarda, 2012) **
The Close Encounters of Vampire (Woo Ping-Yuen, 1986) ***1/2
Don’t Look Now (Nicolas Roeg, 1973) ****1/2
November
Architecture 101 (Lee Yong-Ju, 2012) ***1/2
Senior Year (Jerold Tarrog, 2010) ***
What Have They Done to Your Daughters (Massimo Dallamano, 1974) ***
Green Card (Peter Weir, 1990) ***1/2
Communion (Phillippe Mora,1989) **1/2
Supermarket Woman (Juzo Itami, 1996) ***
Cold Eyes (Cho Ui-Seok & Kim Byung-Seo, 2013) ****
Blind Man’s Bluff (Manoel De Oliveira, 1994) **1/2
The Frame (Satoshi Isaka,1999) ***1/2
Turtles Swim Faster Than Expected (Miki Satoshi, 2005) ***1/2
Detective Story (Kichitaro Negishi, 1983) ***1/2
December
The Two in Tracksuits (Yoshihiro Nakamura, 2008) ***
The Polar Express (Robert Zemeckis, 2004) ***
Adrenaline Drive (Shinobu Yaguchi, 1999) ****
See You Tomorrow, Everyone (Yoshihiro Nakamura, 2013) ****
Under the Skin (Jonathan Glazer, 2013) ***1/2
Down the Drain (Shinobu Yaguchi, 1993) ***
Killer Constable (Chih-Hung Kwei, 1980) ***1/2