It is the truth universally acknowledged that April 2020 flew by at the speed of light. March seemed interminably long, but I don’t even know where April went. I definitely watched less films in April, but I did watch some truly stunning ones. As always you can find the whole list, a breakdown by decade, and a few of my favorites after the cut.

1. Coffee & Kareem
2. Never Rarely Sometimes Always
3. Blow The Man Down
4. Tigertail
5. Love Wedding Repeat
6. LA Originals
7. Hausu (House)
8. Shitoyakana kedamono (The Graceful Brute)
9. Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ
10. Ochazuke no aji (The Flavor of Green Tea Over Rice)
11. Konyaku yubiwa (Wedding Ring)
12. Sergio (2020)
13. Ukigumo (Floating Clouds)
14. Eyes of Laura Mars
15. Big Night
16. Ugetsu monogatari
17. Circus of Books
18. Sanyangeui sigan (Time to Hunt)
19. Extraction
20. Ôsaka no yado (An Inn at Osaka)
21. A Secret Love
22. Maqbool
23. Dangerous Lies

1880s: 0
1890s: 0
1900s: 0
1910s: 0
1920s: 1
1930s: 0
1940s: 0
1950s: 5
1960s: 1
1970s: 2
1980s: 0
1990s: 1
2000s: 1
2010s: 0
2020s: 12

Never Rarely Sometimes Always, 2020 (dir. Eliza Hittman)

Hausu (House), 1977 (dir. Nobuhiko Obayashi)

Shitoyakana kedamono (The Graceful Brute), 1962 (dir. Yûzô Kawashima)

Ochazuke no aji (The Flavor of Green Tea Over Rice), 1952 (dir. Yasujirō Ozu)

Ukigumo (Floating Clouds), 1955 (dir. Mikio Naruse)