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2023 was a remarkable time for cinema, with amazing titles released almost monthly throughout the year. Here are some theatrical and festival favorites that pushed the boundaries of cinema and absoultely inspired, astonished, and impressed us – films that haven’t left our mind since we first viewed them. 1. Hello Dankness (Soda Jerk)  2. Therapy Dogs (Ethan Eng)  3. Fallen Leaves (Aki Kaurismäki) 4. The Zone of Interest (Jonathan Glazer) 5. Killers of the flower Moon (Martin Scorsese) 6. Anselm (Wim Wenders) 7. Pacifiction (Albert Serra) 8. Open Doom Crescendo (Terry Chiu) 9. Free Time (Ryan Martin Brown)  10. All Dirt Roads Taste of Salt (Raven Jackson) 11. Playland (Georden West) 12. My Animal (Jacqueline Castel) 13. Waiting For the Light to Change (Linh Tran) 14. Cash Cow (Matt Barats) 15. Poor Things (Yorgos Lanthimos) 16. Walk Up (Hong Sang-soo) 17. Birth/Rebirth (Laura Moss)  18. Squaring the Circle: The Story of Hipgnosis (Anton Corbijn)  19. Priscilla (Sofia Coppola)  20. Passages (Ira Sachs) 21. Hannah Ha Ha (Joshua Pikovsky & Jordan Tetewsky) 22. The Boy and the Heron (Hayao Miyazaki) 23. May December (Todd Haynes) 24. Dad & Step-Dad (Tynan DeLong) 25. Mississippi River Styx (Tim Grant & Andy McMillan) 26. Nam June Paik: Moon is the Oldest TV (Amanda Kim)  27. How to Blow Up a Pipeline (Daniel Goldhaber) 28. The Horse Tail (Justyna Luczaj) 29. Onlookers (Kimi Takesue) 30. Divinity (Eddie Alcazar)  31. Enys Men (Mark Jenkin) 32. Cette Maison (Miryam Charles)  33. Sick of Myself (Kristoffer Borgli) 34. A Thousand and One (A.V. Rockwell) 35. Sweetheart Deal (Elisa Levine & Gabriel Miller) 36. De Humani Corporis Fabrica (Lucien Castaing-Taylor & Verena Paravel)

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2022 (the year of “Soylent Green”) began with festival cancellations and general malaise, but ended with an outpouring of great cinema. Here are the favorite films we were lucky enough to catch (mostly) in-person. Seek these out at your local theater or at your earliest convenience. 1. The Novelist’s Film (Hong Sangsoo) 2. All the Beauty and the Bloodshed (Laura Poitras) 3. The Civil Dead (Clay Tatum) 4. The Eternal Daughter (Joanna Hogg) 5. Butterfly in the Sky (Bradford Thomason, Brett Whitcomb) 6. Return to Seoul (Davy Chou) 7. The Super 8 Years (Annie Ernaux, David Ernaux-Briot) 8. Crimes of the Future (David Cronenberg) 9. Showing Up (Kelly Reichardt) 10. Ghost Amber (Tim Grabham) 11. The Banshees of Inisherin (Martin McDonagh) 12. Learn to Swim (Thyrone Tommy) 13. Decision to Leave (Park Chan-wook) 14. Vortex (Gaspar Noé) 15. Actual People (Kit Zauhar) 16. Aftersun (Charlotte Wells) 17. Funny Pages (Owen Kline) 18. Tár (Todd Field) 19. Cane Fire (Anthony Banua-Simon) 20. Quantum Cowboys (Geoff Marslett) 21. Happer’s Comet (Tyler Taormina) 22. Sr. (Chris Smith) 23. Fire of Love (Sara Dosa) 24. The Tsugua Diaries (Maureen Fazendeiro, Miguel Gomes) 25. Neptune Frost (Saul Williams, Anisia Uzeyman) 26. Descendant (Margaret Brown) 27. The Cathedral (Ricky D'Ambrose) 28. Eternal Spring (Jason Loftus) 29. Sam Now (Reed Harkness) 

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R.I.P. to the legendary Monica Vitti (November 3, 1931 – February 2, 2022), one of the most iconic faces in all of cinema. 🥀 Her performances in the films of Michelangelo Antonioni are forever seared in our memory, including one of our all-time favorite shots from L'Avventura (1960). The "Queen of Italian cinema" indeed.

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2021 was unremarkable for most people but proved to be another decent year for cinema. Of course there wasn't enough time to see all we wanted or all there was, so these are just the highlights. Hope you get to check them out. 1. Memoria (d. Apitchatpong Weerasethakul

2. Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy (d. Ryusuke Hamaguchi)

3. Mad God (d. Phil Tippett) 

4. About Endlessness (d. Roy Andersson)

5. The Village Detective: a song cycle (d. Bill Morrison)

6. Drive My Car (d. Ryusuke Hamaguchi)

7. Taipei Suicide Story (d. KEFF)

8. Annette (d. Leos Carax)

9. North By Current (d. Madsen Minax)

10. We're All Going to the World's Fair (d. Jane Schoenbrun)

11. A Black Rift Begins to Yawn (d. Matthew Wade)

12. All Light, Everywhere (d. Theo Anthony)

13. Licorice Pizza (d. Paul Thomas Anderson)

14. Titane (d. Julia Ducournau);

15. The Souvenir Part II (d. Joanna Hogg)

16. Athanor: The Alchemical Furnace (dirs. Jan Danhel & Adam Olha)

17. Ravaged by the Sun <American Cannibalism> (d. embryoroom)

18. I Was a Simple Man (d. Christopher Makoto Yogi)

19. Woodlands Dark And Days Bewitched: A History Of Folk Horror (d. Kier-La Janisse)

20. The Awakening of Lilith (d. Steven Adam Renkovish)

21. Barber Westchester (d. Jonni Phillips)

22. Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn (d. Radu Jude)

23. The Tragedy of Macbeth (d. Joel Coen)

24. Short Vacation (d. Han-Sol Seo, Kwon Min-pyo)

25. Benedetta (d. Paul Verhoeven)

26. The Card Counter (d. Paul Schrader)

27. Summer of Soul (d. Questlove)

28. Apples (d. Christos Nikou)

29. Ste. Anne (d. Rhayne Vermette).

 #embryoroom #iwasasimpleman #woodlands #jonniphillips #badluckbanging #macbeth #summerofsoul #apples #steanne #nonfilms

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A few recent films that have not left my mind: The Souvenir Part II (d. Joanna Hogg); Satoshi Kon: The Illusionist (d. Pascal-Alex Vincent); This Is Not a Burial, It's a Resurrection (d. Lemohang Jeremiah Mosese); Drive My Car (d. Ryusuke Hamaguchi); Accidental Luxuriance of the Translucent Watery Rebus (d. Dalibor Barić); Licorice Pizza (d. Paul Thomas Anderson). 📽 Recommended!

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Throughout the month of December, Non Films has been invited to an online residency with Lateral Geographies, a program in supported by 1883 Magazine. “The Architecture of Time: Healing Landscapes” is a multi-part online residency shot on a Sony Hi-8 video camera during lockdown in Brooklyn: https://www.lateralgeographies.org

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So many of these new films we adore seem to be flying under the radar. The first one is on @povdocs right now! Hope you can check them out: North by Current (d. Angelo Madsen Minax); The Sleeping Negro (d. Skinner Myers); The Velvet Underground (d. Todd Haynes); Other, Like Me: The Coum Transmission and Throbbing Gristle Story (dirs. Marcus Werner Hed & Daniel Fox); Topology of Sirens (d. Jonathan Davies); Slow Machine (d. Joe DeNardo, Paul Felten).

#2021 #feature #films #northbycurrent #doc #pbs #family #thesleepingnegro #drama #thevelvetunderground #toddhaynes #popart #rockdoc #otherlikeme #throbbinggristle #coum #psychictv #genesis #sleazy #chrisandcosey #sex #topologyofsirens #music #sound #slowmachine #chloesevigny #movies #independent #pop #art

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Death Archives No. 6

Chapter 6: A slow descent into another dark year. Original music "CONFINE" by Ootheca: https://ootheca.bandcamp.com Directed by Ratigan. Produced by Non…

Here is the full version of our recent work “DEATH ARCHIVES No. 6,” with original music by Ootheca. All images are in-camera double exposures, shot on 8mm film in Brooklyn. 💀 Please enjoy.

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Another small run of handmade collage postcards.

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Happy Birthday Werner Herzog, the absolute madman of cinema!

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A few more recent favorites: The Sparks Brothers (d. Edgar Wright); ALL LIGHT, EVERYWHERE (d. Theo Anthony); I Was a Simple Man (d. Chris Makoto Yogi); No. 7 Cherry Lane (d. Yonfan); The Awakening of Lilith (d. Steven Adam Renkovish); Preparations to Be Together for an Unknown Period of Time (d. Lili Horvát). See these films! 🎬

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July 30, 2007:

It is forever perplexing that Michelangelo Antonioni and Ingmar Bergman died on the same day.

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Fourteen years ago today 😞

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On May 11, 1931, Fritz Lang’s masterpiece M premiered in Berlin, Germany. Starring an unforgettable Peter Lorre as the title character, M was his first sound picture after having directed a dozen silent films. Lang himself considered it to be his greatest work.

It would be almost two years before the film reached the US, and this song in particular will never be heard the same way again.

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Released 90 years ago TODAY!

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Title card for one of our all-time favorite films, Blast of Silence - 1961 (directed and starring Allen Baron)

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Late night work soundtrack: Music from the film Sátántangó by actor and musician Mihály Vig. This first ever limited edition vinyl release is still available from @arbelosfilms. Lovely. 💀

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A few favorite images from Tsai Ming-liang (蔡明亮)’s 2012 short film “Walker.” From @mubi: “With his head shaved and dressed in scarlet red monk robes, he walks in super, super slo-mo, practicing a form of the Buddhist walking meditation kinhin that demands extraordinary concentration and poise, lifting and eventually resting his foot at an incantatory, otherworldly pace.”

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Our monthly column exploring film soundtracks looks at the second feature film by French New Wave director Agnès Varda.

celebrating Michel Legrand’S contributions to Cleo from 5 to 7 (1961, d. Agnès Varda)