My twenty favorite films of 2024
New releases defined here simply as newish films that became available for me to see for the first time.
Periphery of the Base (Zhou Tao)
Caught by the Tides (Jia Zhangke)
Adrift Potentials (Leonardo Pirondi)
Poem of E.L. (Maya Gurantz)
Carroll Gardens (Ernie Gehr)
A Sense of Nothing (Francisco Rojas)
Msaytbeh, The Elevated Place (Rawane Nassif)
In Place of a Hollow Tree (Eislow Johnson)
Archipelago of Earthen Bones - To Bunya (Malena Szlam)
Buseok (Park Kyujae)
Us and the Night (Audrey Lam)
Unstable Rocks (Nuno Barroso and Ewelina Rosinska)
Cloud Film (Tristan Ives)
On the Battlefield (Little Egypt Collective)
Normandie (Vadim Kostrov)
UNDR (Kamal Aljafari)
Careless Passage (Jerome Hiler)
Orlando, My Political Autobiography (Paul B. Preciado)
Chime (Kiyoshi Kurosawa)
The World Drops Dead (Brandon Colvin)
Quite a list. Sad I've seen so few.
Alex, if you ever get chance, shoot me a DM. I believe we're both Knoxville natives and missed each other at Film Fest Knox this year, but I'd love to chat sometime.