January
Repeat Performance (Alfred L. Werker, 1947) ***
Galax, Omul Papuse (Ion Poppescu-Gopo, 1984) **
Giants and Toys (Yasuzo Masumura, 1958) ****
In the White City (Alain Tanner, 1983) **1/2
Goodbye, Dragon Inn (Tsai Ming-Liang, 2003) ***1/2
Everything, Everywhere All at Once (Daniels, 2022) ***1/2
Baron Against the Demons (Ricardo Rebelles, 2006) **
University of Laughs(Mamoru Hoshii, 2004) ****
Roadgames (Richard Franklin, 1981) ****
Men in Hope (Jiri Vejdelek, 2011) **1/2
Horse Thief (Tian Zhuangzhuang, 1986) ***
Miracle on 1st Street (Yoon Je-Kyun, 2007) ***1/2
To Live and Die in LA (William Friedkin, 1985) ***1/2
Samurai Cop (Amir Shervan, 1991) **
A Taxing Woman (Juzo Itami, 1987) ****
The White Ribbon (Michael Haneke, 2009) *****
Boy (Taika Waititi, 2010) ***
13 Tzameti (Gela Babluani, 2005) ***1/2
Intrepidos Punks (Francisco Guerrero, 1980) **
Beyond the Infinite Two Minutes (Junta Yamaguchi, 2021) ****
Confess, Fletch (Greg Mottola, 2022) **
Touchez Paz Au Grisbi (Jacques Becker, 1954) ****
February
The Band’s Visit (Eran Kolirin, 2007) ***1/2
The Magnificent Seven (John Sturges, 1960) ***1/2
Garde a Vue (Claude Miller, 1981) ****
A Story of Yonosuke (Shuichi Okita, 2013) ****1/2
Tropical Fish (Chen Yu-Shun, 1995) ****1/2
Glass Onion (Rian Johnson, 2022) ****
Hard to be a God (Aleksei German, 2013) ***1/2
The Tale of Princess Kaguya (Isao Takahata, 2013) ****
The Year My Voice Broke (John Duigan, 1987) ***1/2
Three Lives and Only One Death (Raoul Ruiz, 1996) ****
Crybaby Pierrot’s Wedding (Osamu Minorikawa, 2016) **
The Realm (Rodrigo Sorogoyen, 2018) ****
House of the Disappeared (Dae-Wung Lin, 2017) **
An Angel at my Table (Jane Campion, 1990) ****
March
Get to the Punchline (Non, 2019) ***
Prisoners (Denis Villeneuve, 2013) ***1/2
Oasis (Lee Chang-Dong, 2002) ****1/2
Giliap (Roy Andersson, 1975) **
The Grifters (Stephen Frears, 1990) **1/2
Casshern (Kazuaki Kiriya, 2004) **
Miss Bulalacao (Ara Chawdhury, 2015) ***1/2
An Autumn Afternoon (Yasujiro Ozu, 1962) ****
Tape (Richard Linklater, 2001) ***
Plata Quemada (Marcelo Pyneiro, 2000) **1/2
All Things Fair (Bo Widerberg, 1995) **1/2
Cutie Honey (Hideaki Anno, ) ***
Picasso Trigger (Andy Sidaris, 1988) *
Bound for the Fields, the Mountains, and the Seacoast (Nobuhiko Obayashi, 1986) ****
April
Fortress of the Dead (Ferde Grofe Jr.) **1/2
A Pure Formality (Giuseppe Tornatore, 1994) ***1/2
Body Parts (Eric Red, 1991) ***
The Foreign Duck… (Yoshihiro Nakamura, 2007) ****
The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent (Tom Gormican, 2022) ***
Love Massacre (Patrick Tam, 1981) **
World on a Wire (Rainer Werner Fassbinder, 1973) ****
Black Caesar (Larry Cohen, 1973) **1/2
Steak (Quentin Dupieux, 2007) ***
Five Graves to Cairo (Billy Wilder, 1943) ***1/2
Twilight Samurai (Yoji Yamada, 2002) ****
Loves of a Blonde (Milos Forman, 1965) ***1/2
Columbus (Kogonada, 2017) ***
May
Foxcatcher (Bennett Miller, 2007) **
Killer Tatoo (Yuthlert Sipapak, 2001) ***
Katalin Varga (Peter Strickland, 2009) ***1/2
Triangle of Sadness (Ruben Ostlund, 2022) ****
Suzume (Makoto Shinkai, 2022) ****
Entre les Murs (Laurent Cantet, 2008) ****1/2
Lady for a Day (Frank Capra 1933) ***1/2
The Independent (Stephen Kessler, 2000) ***
Once Upon A Time in Anatolia (Nuri Bilge Ceylan, 2011) ****
Innocent Witness (Han Lee, 2019) ***
Troubled Water (Erik Poppe, 2008) ****
Charisma (Kiyoshi Kurosawa, 1999) ****
Last Night in Soho (Edgar Wright, 2021) ***
The Brest Fortress (Aleksandr Kott, 2010) ***1/2
Stranger on the Third Floor (Boris Ingster, 1940) ***
Baby and I (Kim Jin-Yeong, 2008) **
The Dirties (Matt Johnson, 2013) ***
Sound of the Mountain (Mikio Naruse, 1954) ****
June
Deathtrap (Sydney Lumet, 1982) ***1/2
Kosmos (Reha Erdem, 2010) ****1/2
The Virgin Spring (Ingmar Bergman, 1960) ****
New World (Park Hoon-Jung, 2013) ****1/2
Bullet Train (David Leitch, 2022) ***1/2
Morfiy (Alexsei Balabanov, 2008) ***1/2
Hanzo the Razor: Who’s Got the Gold (Yoshio Inoue, 1974) ****
The Marathon Family (Slobodan Sijan, 1982) ***1/2
Crossroads (Walter Hill, 1986) ***
Kekexili: Mountain Patrol (Lu Chuan, 2004) ****
Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter (Timur Bekmambetov, 2012) **1/2
The Key of Life (Kenji Uchida, 2012) ****1/2
The Thrill Killers (Ray Dennis Steckler, 1964) **1/2
I Knew Her Well (Antonio Pietrangeli, 1966) ***1/2
July
Slow Video (Kim Young-Tak, 2014) ***
Nightmare Alley (Edmund Goulding, 1947) ****
Robo Ji (Shinobu Yaguchi, 2012) ****
O-bi, O-ba, The End of Civilization (Piotr Szulkin, 1984) ***1/2
The Visitor (Tom McCarthy, 2007) ***
3-Iron (Kim Ki-Duk, 2004) ****
Mute Witness (Anthony Waller, 1995) ***1/2
Hobo with a Shotgun (Jason Eisener, 2011) *
Cleopatra (Ozamu Tezuka & Eichi Yamamoto, 1970) ****
The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus (Terry Gilliam, 2009) **1/2
Traffickers (Kim Hong-Sun, 2012) **
Hustlers (Lorene Scafaria, 2019) **
Zebraman (Takashi Miike, 2004) **1/2
One Nite in Mongkok (Derek Yee, 2004) ****1/2
Celine and Julie go Boating (Jacques Rivette) ****1/2
August
In Those Days (Rikiya Imaizumi, 2021) ***1/2
Cha Cha Real Smooth (Cooper Raiff, 2022) ***
Bruna Surfistinha (Marcus Baldini, 2011) ***
Masquerade (Choo Chang-min, 2012) ****1/2
Beasts of the Southern Wild (Benh Zeitlin, 2012) **1/2
Sara (Maciej Slesicki, 1997) *1/2
Shine (Scott Hicks, 1996) ***1/2
Zigeunerweisen (Seijun Suzuki, 1980) ***1/2
Perdita Durango (Alex de la Iglesia, 1997) *1/2
A Love (Kwak Kyung-taek, 2007) **1/2
Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy (Ryusuke Hamaguchi, 2021) ****1/2
Ekstra (Jeffrey Jeturian, 2013) ***1/2
The Late Show (Robert Benton, 1977) **
Morvern Callar (Lynne Ramsay, 2002) ***
Lady Terminator (Jalil Jackson, 1988) ***
Il Generale Della Rovere (Roberto Rosellini, 1959) ****1/2
Hold me Back (Akiko Ohku, 2020) ***1/2
Hapkido (Feng Huang, 1972) ***
Ex-Machina (Alex Garland, 2015) ****
The Left Hand Side of the Fridge (Philippe Falardeau, 2000) ***1/2
Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans (Werner Herzog, 2009) ***1/2
Typhoon Club (Shinji Somai, 1985) ***
History is Made at Night (Frank Borzage, 1937) ***
Vengeance (B.J. Novak, 2022) **
September
Why Don’t you Play in Hell? (Sion Sono, 2013) ***1/2
Hitler Dead or Alive (Nick Grinde, 1942) ***
Picnic (Shunji Iwai, 1996) ****
Friend Zone (Chayanop Boonprakob, 2019) ****
The Mission (Roland Joffe, 1986) ***1/2
In the House (Francois Ozon, 2012) ****
Chicken and Duck Talk (Clifton Ko, 1988) ***1/2
One For the Road (Baz Poonpiriya, 2021) ***1/2
Decision to Leave (Park Chan-Wook, 2022) ****
The Eyes, The Mouth (Marco Bellochio, 1982) ***1/2
The Shadow (George A. Cooper, 1933) ***
The Promised Neverland (Yuichiro Hirakawa, 2020) ***
Tickled (David Farrier and Dylan Reeve, 2016) ***1/2
The Horse’s Mouth (Ronald Neame, 1958) ***
On Your Wedding Day (Lee Seok-Geun, 2018) ***
Birds Without Names (Kazuya Shiraishi, 2017) ***1/2
Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors (Sergei Parajanov, 1965) ****
Beware Spooks! (Edward Sedgwick, 1939) ***
The Guilty (Gustav Moller, 2018) ***1/2
I’m Not There (Todd Haynes, 2007) ****