Wednesday, December 31, 2025

Senses of Cinema World Poll 2025: my favourites

In viewing order.

SENSES OF CINEMA SHORTLIST (TOP TEN NEW FILMS)
L'Histoire de Souleymane (Souleymane's Story, Boris Lojkine, 2024) Cinéma Saint André des Arts, Paris
Juror #2 (Clint Eastwood, 2024) Cinéma Saint André des Arts, Paris
Straume (Flow, Gints Zilbalodis, 2024) 
A Real Pain (Jesse Eisenberg, 2024)
Ainda Estou Aqui (I'm Still Here, Walter Salles, 2024)
One to One: John & Yoko (Kevin McDonald & Sam Rice-Edwards, 2024)
Shahed (The Witness, Nader Saeivar, 2024)
Highway 99 A Double Album (Ethan Hawke, 2025)
Nouvelle Vague (Richard Linklater, 2025)
Dva prokurora (Two Prosecutors, Sergei Loznitsa, 2025)
Antti Alanen, film historian, teacher, critic, blogger, advisor.

IN EXTENSO
I NEW
L'Histoire de Souleymane (Souleymane's Story, Boris Lojkine, FR 2024) Cinéma Saint André des Arts, Paris 6e
Juror #2 (Clint Eastwood, US 2024) Cinéma Saint André des Arts, Paris 6e
The Room Next Door (Pedro Almodóvar, ES 2024) Cinéma Saint André des Arts, Paris 6e
A Complete Unknown (James Mangold, US 2024) MK2 Bastille Côté Beaumarchais, Paris 11e
The Brutalist (Brady Corbet, US/GB/HU 2024) MK2 Bastille Côté Beaumarchais, Paris 11e
Straume (Flow, Gints Zilbalodis, LV/BE/FR 2024) Luminor Hôtel de Ville, Paris 4e
Conclave (Edward Berger, US/GB 2024) Cinéma Saint André des Arts, Paris 6e
A Real Pain (Jesse Eisenberg, US/PL 2024) UGC Ciné Cité Les Halles, Paris 1er
Ainda Estou Aqui (I'm Still Here, Walter Salles, BR/FR 2024) MK2 Bastille Côté Fg Saint-Antoine, Paris 11e
Lumière, l'aventure continue! (120 Lumière views, Thierry Frémaux, FR 2024) UGC Ciné Cité Les Halles, Paris 1er
One to One: John & Yoko (Kevin McDonald & Sam Rice-Edwards, 2024) Gilda, Helsinki
Levoton Tuhkimo / My Name Is Dingo (Mari Rantasila, FI 2024) Kinopalatsi, Helsinki
The Helsinki Effect (Arthur Franck, FI 2025) Kinopalatsi, Helsinki
Drømmer / Dreams (Dag Johan Haugerud, NO 2024) Iso Teltta, Midnight Sun Film Festival, Sodankylä
Dominique Sanda morning discussion. Koulu, Midnight Sun Film Festival, Sodankylä
Shahed (The Witness, Nader Saeivar, DE/AT 2024) Punainen Teltta, Midnight Sun Film Festival, Sodankylä
Molly Haskell: Katherine Hepburn: A Woman of the Years - discussion with Imogen Sara Smith * Auditorium DAMSLab, Bologna
The American Revolution (Ken Burns, Sarah Botstein, David Schmidt, US 2025) Telluride * in person: Ken Burns
Highway 99 a Double Album (Ethan Hawke, US 2025) Telluride * in person: Ethan Hawke
Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere (Scott Cooper, US 2025) Telluride * in person: Scott Cooper, Jeremy Allen White, Jeremy Strong, Bruce Springsteen, Jon Landau
Man on the Run (Morgan Neville, US 2025) Telluride * in person: Morgan Neville
Jay Kelly (Noah Baumbach, IT/GB/US 2025) Telluride * in person: Noah Baumbach, Laura Dern, Adam Sandler
O Agente Secreto / The Secret Agent (BR/FR/NL/DE 2025) Telluride * in person: Kleber Mendonça Filho, Wagner Moura
Cover-Up (Laura Poitras & Mark Obenhaus, US 2025) Telluride * in person: Laura Poitras, Mark Obenhaus, Seymour Hersh
Yek tasadof-e sadeh / It Was Just an Accident (Jafar Panahi, IR/FR/LU 2025) Telluride * in person: Jafar Panahi
Affeksjonsverdi / Sentimental Value (Joachim Trier, NO/DE/DK/SE/FR/TK/GB 2025) Love & Anarchy Helsinki Film Festival
Put Your Soul on Your Hand and Walk / Dae rudak fi yadayk w-amshi (Sepideh Farsi PS/FR/IR 2025)
Allly baqi mink / All That's Left of You (Cherien Dabis, DE/CY/PS/JO/GR/QA/QA/SA 2025) Love & Anarchy Helsinki Film Festival
Nouvelle Vague (Richard Linklater, US/FR 2025)  Love & Anarchy Helsinki Film Festival
Dva prokurora (Two Prosecutors, Sergei Loznitsa, FR/DE/NL/LV/RO/LT 2025)  Love & Anarchy Helsinki Film Festival
Avaz-e bughalamum / Une langue universelle / Universal Language (Matthew Rankin, CA 2024) Love & Anarchy Helsinki Film Festival
The End (Joshua Oppenheimer, DK/SE/IE/DE/IT/GB 2024) Love & Anarchy Helsinki Film Festival
Kjærlighet / Love (Dag Johan Haugerud, NO 2024) Love & Anarchy Helsinki Film Festival
Vi dör i natt / We Die Tonight (Richard Holm, SE 2025) Love & Anarchy Helsinki Film Festival
Wake Up Dead Man (Rian Johnson, US 2025) Netflix
A House of Dynamite (Kathryn Bigelow, US 2025) Netflix
One Battle After Another (Paul Thomas Anderson, US 2025) Kinopalatsi, Helsinki
Avatar: Fire and Ash (James Cameron, US 2025) Tennispalatsi, Helsinki

II OLD
Édouard et Caroline (Edward and Caroline, FR 1951) * brilliant Gaumont DCP * La Cinémathèque française, Paris 12e
Seven Days in May (John Frankenheimer, US 1964) * 35 mm * La Cinémathèque française, Paris 12e
Un condamné à mort s'est échappé (A Man Escaped, FR 1956) DCP * ELKE * 2018 Gaumont digital restoration * Kino Regina, Film and Psyche Symposium, Helsinki 
Colorado Territory (Raoul Walsh, US 1949) 35 mm * La Cinémathèque française, Paris 12e
The Naked Spur (Anthony Mann, US 1952) 35 mm * La Cinémathèque française, Paris 12e
3:10 to Yuma (Delmer Daves, US 1957) DCP * 2013 Sony 4K restoration * La Cinémathèque française, Paris 12e
Yellow Sky (William A. Wellman, US 1948) DCP * La Cinémathèque française, Paris 12e
Laurel & Hardy: Year Two: The Newly Restored 1928 Silents * 2-blu-ray * Flicker Alley 2024
The Filth and the Fury (Julien Temple, GB 2000) Punainen Teltta, Midnight Sun Film Festival, Sodankylä - in person: Julien Temple
Les Sièges de l'Alcazar (Luc Moullet, FR 1989) Koulu, Midnight Sun Film Festival, Sodankylä - Olaf Möller masterclass
Ghazl el-banat / The Razor's Edge (Jocelyne Saab, LB/FR 1985) Cinema Jolly, Bologna * 2025 resturation Association Jocelyne Saab
Nyonin aishu / A Woman's Sorrows (Mikio Naruse, JP 1937) good 35 mm print * National Film Archive of Japan * Cinema Jolly, Bologna
La finestra sul Luna Park / The Window to Luna Park (Luigi Comencini, IT/FR 1957) DCP * 2025 restoration Cineteca di Bologna & Surf Film * Modernissimo, Bologna
Gehenu lamai / Girls (Sumitra Peries, LK 1978) * 2024 restoration Film Heritage Foundation * Cinema Jolly, Bologna
The Racket (Lewis Milestone, US 1928) 2016 restoration Academy Film Archive * Cinema Jolly, Bologna
Safar / The Journey (Bahram Beyzaie, IR 1972) 2024 restoration MK2 Films / Kanoon * Cinema Jolly, Bologna
Incompreso / Misunderstood (Luigi Comencini, IT 1966) in person: Cristina Comencini
O regreso de Amilcar Cabral / The Return of Amílcar Cabral (Sana Na N'Hada, GW/CH 1976) 2025 restoration The Film Foundation's World Cinema Project / Cineteca di Bologna * in person: Sana Na N'Hada * Cinema Jolly, Bologna
Mortu Nega / Those Whom Death Refused (Flora Gomes, GW 1988) 2025 restoration The Film Foundation's World Cinema Project / Cineteca di Bologna * in person: Sana Na N'Hada * Cinema Jolly, Bologna
La ragazza di Bube / Bebo's Girl (Luigi Comencini, IT/FR 1963) 2022 restoration Cinecittà / Cristaldifilm * Cinema Modernissimo, Bologna 
Of Mice and Men (Lewis Milestone, US 1939) 35 mm sepiatone print from UCLA Film & Television Library * Cinema Jolly, Bologna 
Voltati Eugenio / Eugenio (Luigi Comencini,m IT/FR 1980) Cinema Modernissimo, Bologna
A Walk in the Sun (Lewis Milestone, US 1945) 117 min version * 2010 restoration UCLA / BFI / Schawn Belston / The Film Foundation * Cinema Jolly, Bologna
Riḥ es-sed / Man of Ashes (Nouri Bouzid, TN 1986) 2025 restoration Cineteca di Bologna / Cinétéléfilms * Cinema Jolly, Bologna
Summertime (David Lean, GB/IT/US 1955) 35 mm * 2003 restoration Academy Film Archive / BFI * Cinema Jolly, Bologna
The Biograph Project - more restorations of D. W. Griffith films from 1908 / Film Preservation Society * Pordenone
Cirano di Bergerac (Augusto Genina, IT 1922) 2023 restoration Lobster Films * Pordenone
Japanese Paper Films * 2025 restoration Toy Film Museum, Kyoto * Pordenone
Krylya kholopa / The Wings of a Serf (Yuri Tarich, SU 1926) 35 mm print from Pacific Film Archive * Pordenone
Shoulder Arms (Charles Chaplin, US 1918) 2025 restoration MoMA * Pordenone
The Scarlet Drop (John Ford, US 1918) 2024 digital transfer Cineteca Nacional de Chile, Santiago / Cinemateca del Pacífico * Pordenone
L'ombra (Mario Almirante, IT 1923) 2023 restoration Museo Nazionale del Cinema in Turin & Cinémathèque Royale de Belgique * Pordenone
Paracelsus (G. W. Pabst, DE 1943) 2015 Kino Lorber blu-ray
Die weisse Hölle vom Piz Palü / The White Hell of Piz Palü (Arnold Fanck & G. W. Pabst, DE 1929) 1997 restoration Bundesarchiv Filmarchiv / Stiftung Deutsche Kinemathek / Taurus-Film
Don Quichotte (version française) (G. W. Pabst, FR/GB 1933)
Kill List (Ben Wheatley, GB/DE/SE/AU 2011) 2025 restoration * Night Visions, Helsinki * in person: Ben Wheatley, Andy Starke

EXHIBITIONS OF THE YEAR
L'Art "dégénéré" , Musée Picasso, Paris
Alfred Dreyfus. Truth and Justice. Musée d'art et d'histoire du Judaïsme, Paris
David Hockney 25. Fondation Louis Vuitton, Paris
Wes Anderson. La Cinémathèque française, Paris
Gallen-Kallela, Klimt & Wien. Ateneum, Helsinki

BOOK OF THE YEAR
Sarah Wynn-Williams: Careless People

OTHER BOOKS OF THE YEAR
Phillips P. O'Brien: War and Power
Tim Weiner: The Mission: The CIA in the 21st Century
Tim Berners-Lee: This Is for Everyone
Jimmy Wales: The Seven Rules of Trust
Cory Doctorow: Enshittification

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