15 that remain with me after a dense and various year of films, most viewed in a theater. Some were late 2021 releases that lacked found single night or festival screenings in LA this year (six at 2220 Arts & Archives).
- A New Old Play – Qiu Jiongjiong
- A Night of Knowing Nothing – Payal Kapadia
- Aleph – Iva Radivojevic
- Decision to Leave – Park Chan-wook
- EO – Jerzy Skolimowski
- Fire of Love – Sara Dosa
- From the Planet of the Humans – Giovanni Cioni
- Geographies of Solitude – Jacquelyn Mills
- Incroyable mais vrai – Quentin Dupieux
- Memoria – Apichatpong Weerasethakul
- Men – Alex Garland
- Murina – Antoneta Alamat Kusijanovic
- Neptune Frost – Saul Williams, Anisia Uzeyman
- Riotsville, USA – Sierra Pettengill
- The Girl and the Spider – Ramon & Silvan Zürcher
A few more I think about: The Sacred Spirit (Chema García Ibarra), Watcher (Chloe Okuno), Tár (Todd Field), El Lado Quieto (Miko Revereza, Carolina Fusilier), The Cathedral (Ricky D’Ambrose), Aftersun (Charlotte Wells)
Best good-bad film: RRR
Peeping Mot 