2021 in Films: 365 Days, 883 Films, and a Year Full of Cinema!

Having spent all of this year working as a freelance writer, I was privileged enough to have a lot more time on my hands again plus I attended several film festivals (in person and virtually), which in turn led towards watching an absurd amount of new-to-me films. Those interested in my rewatching habits: mind your own business! As always after the cut you’ll find all 883 new-to-me films I watched, a separate list of all the films directed by women I watched this year, and then my 24 favorite new-to-me watches of the year. Enjoy!

Boys
Old Boyfriends
Matewan
The Inland Sea
Claudine
Ô saisons, ô châteaux
Les dites cariatides
Les dites cariatides bis
T’as de beaux escaliers, tu sais
Yanks
Moscow on the Hudson
Daguerreotypes
Rue Daguerre en 2005
Le lion volatil
Hilda Crane
Melvin and Howard
Pieces of a Woman
Absolute Beginners
Cinderella Liberty
Rollerball (1975)
Les créatures
Elsa la rose
Proof (1991)
Housekeeping
The Happy Ending
Coming Home
Magokoro (Sincere Heart)
The Truffle Hunters
Promising Young Woman
Nine Days
One Night In Miami
Twist
Poetry in Motion
Harry and Walter Go to New York
Dishonored
John Lewis: Good Trouble
All In: The Fight for Democracy
MLK/FBI
Downton Abbey
La voce della luna (The Voice of the Moon)
The Wiz
Hell’s Heroes
Moulin Rouge (1952)
The White Tiger
The Cobweb
The Girl on a Motorcycle
La nuit des rois (Night of the Kings)
The Milkmaid
The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith
Babenco: Alguém Tem que Ouvir o Coração e Dizer Parou (Babenco: Tell Me When I Die)
The High Note
Next Stop, Greenwich Village
Kong: Skull Island
Réponse de femmes: Notre corps, notre sexe
Plaisir d’amour en Iran
Nausicaa
დასაწყისი (Beginning)
Pressure Point
The Underneath
CODA
Felkészülés meghatározatlan ideig tartó együttlétre (Preparations to be Together for an Unknown Period of Time)
The Dig
How It Ends (2021)
Strawberry Mansion
Superior (2015)
Valeria
Evil Grows in the Dark
Passing
Superior (2021)
Girl Night Stand
Pleasure (2013)
Land
Pleasure (2021)
(February) WolfWalkers
Jockey
Meeting the Man: James Baldwin in Paris
Integration Report I
A Tribute To Malcolm X
I Am Somebody
Deux (Two of Us)
Malcolm & Marie
Wild Mountain Thyme
Supernova
Girl Night Stand: Chapter 2
The Little Things
Dear Venus, Where Does Your Heart Lie?
Danzón
Blue Diary
The Joy of Life
575 Castro St.
The Royal Road
In nomine Patris
Compensation
Ziegfeld Girl
Judas and the Black Messiah
A Powerful Thang
Crocodile Conspiracy
Jazz on a Summer’s Day
Cycles
Back Street
Man Wanted
Ginza keshô (Ginza Cosmetics)
Subete ga kurutteru (Everything Goes Wrong)
To All the Boys: Always and Forever
Golden Eighties
Minari
Western (2014)
Mother of the River
7p., cuis., s. de b., … (à saisir)
Fresh Horses
The Toll of the Sea
John Was Trying to Contact Aliens
Test Pattern
Indiscreet
News of the World
Ajube Kete
Tea 4 Two
Intermittent Delight
Boyant
Black Prom
Shangri-La
The Trip to Bountiful (1985)
Koi no katamichi kippu (One-Way Ticket To Love)
Kate Plays Christine
Actress
Belle of the Nineties
Goin’ to Town
Go West Young Man
Klondike Annie
Every Day’s a Holiday
My Little Chickadee
The Grass Is Greener
Father Goose
Bisbee ’17
Tabu: A Story of the South Seas
Tabu (2012)
The Loveless
Standing Above the Clouds
(March) Always Shine
When I Get Home
Godzilla: King of the Monsters
Moxie
Lucky (2021)
The Mauritanian
A Guide to Breathing Underwater
Nettles
Asa ga Kuru (True Mothers)
Imitation Girl
Me broni ba
Drexciya
Split Ends, I Feel Wonderful
The Affairs of Martha
Own The Room
Barbarella
Frontières (Borders)
Western (2017)
The Morning After
The United States vs. Billie Holiday
Fun with Dick and Jane (1977)
The Father
American Dream
Slaxx
Bombay Rose
Phobias
Función de noche
La antena (The Aerial)
When Tomorrow Comes
D.O.A. (1988)
Proof of Life
The Women (2008)
I.Q.
Flesh and Bone (1993)
Armed and Dangerous
Against The Ropes
Prelude To A Kiss
Amityville 3-D
Hurlyburly
The Deal
Promised Land (1987)
My Mom’s New Boyfriend
The Doors
Fan Girl
As Above, So Below (1973)
Island in the Sun
Skin Game
Kirikou et la sorcière (Kirikou and the Sorceress)
Posse
The Chase (1966)
Never Let Go
Riot in Cell Block 11
Godzilla vs. Kong
(April) Final Analysis
Shiva Baby
MacGruber
A Walk Among the Tombstones
In the Air Tonight
Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping
What the Constitution Means to Me
Agnes Joy
Odol Gorri
Cooley High
Waiting to Exhale
Slalom
Sidste omgang (Last Round)
Festen (The Celebration)
Jagten (The Hunt)
Nobody Likes You As Much As I Do
Kollektivet (The Commune)
El camino
When You Sleep
I basilischi
Our Towns
St. Louis Blues
Lovers and Lollipops
Rosewood
The Plastic Dome of Norma Jean
The Tall Target
Accident
Bamboozled
Uptight
Take a Giant Step
In the Soup (1992)
Die Angst des Tormanns beim Elfmeter (The Goalie’s Anxiety at the Penalty Kick)
An Oversimplification of Her Beauty
Vers Mathilde (Toward Mathilde)
Dark Days
I’ve Been Afraid
Letter From Your Far-Off Country
Cinema Rex
Crab
Just a Guy
Just a Small
Bosquecito (Little Forest)
Misery Loves Company
Seepferdchen (Seahorse)
Girl and Body
How To Raise A Black Boy
Lucky Feet 2000
Mogul Mowgli
Nuevo Rico
o28
Pilar
Portrait en Pied de Suzanne
Right Now, I Am
Tiger and Ox
Monangambé
Un dessert pour Constance (Dessert for Constance)
Tiny Tim: King For A Day
Street Gang: How We Got to Sesame Street
Heurtebise
I Don’t Like the Wind, I Like the Sun
À la recherche d’Aline (Seeking Aline)
Simone: A Survivor’s Story
Snowy
Ten Leaves Dilated
Imperdonable (Unforgivable)
I Am Afraid to Forget Your Face
In the Dusk
Inheritance (2021 short)
Just the Two of Us
A Cure for All Things
David
Peach
The Other Morgan
Sales Per Hour
The Price of Cheap Rent
Five Tiger
Armadila
African Violet
Americanized
Black Goat
Rideshare
Swipe Up, Vivian!
Angie (2021)
Champ de bosses (Bumpy Field)
S’temi (Shut Up)
Twice As Good
Sukienka (The Dress)
Anita (2020)
Les mots croisés (Rose Hotel)
Solució per a la tristesa (Solution For Sadness)
Traverser La Nuit (Now, Daphne)
On My Way
Témoin (Witness)
Alive (2020)
Comme la neige au printemps (As Spring Comes)
Inabitável (Unliveable)
Born Again
Bambirak
Heading South
Spotted Yellow
Cet autre hiver (This Other Winter)
Cotton Comes to Harlem
L’autre (The Other)
bustitOpen
Negra
Marvelous and the Black Hole
See You Then
Ma Belle, My Beauty
The Falconer
The Legend of Black Charley
Ludi
Off The Road
We’re All Going to the World’s Fair
Al-mummia (The Night of Counting the Years)
El-Fallâh el-fasîh (The Eloquent Peasant)
Split: Portrait of a Drag Queen
Things Heard & Seen
Le roi et l’oiseau (The King and the Mockingbird)
Rita Moreno: Just a Girl Who Decided to Go For It
S’en fout la mort (No Fear, No Die)
Aleph
35 Rhums (35 Shots of Rum)
The Mark
(May) The Human Voice
The Sleeping Negro
Moon Manor
En man som heter Ove (A Man Called Ove)
Solo el mar nos separa / فقط البحر بيننا (Only the Ocean Between Us)
Carterland
Jimmy Carter: Rock and Roll President
Na Cidade Vazia (Hollow City)
The Last Angel of History
Cassandro, The Exotico!
Valerie
I Don’t Know
Gone! Up in Smoke
Behind Every Good Man
Transsexuals
Le crime de Monsieur Lange
And Nothing Happened
A Touch of Class
Christmas in July
The Sweetest Sound
Embrace of the Vampire
Blood & Donuts
Waiting For Godot (filmed stage production)
Mainstream
Silo
Tale Of A Vampire
Dance of the Damned
You Will Die At Twenty
The Family Album
New York City Ballet Spring Gala
Voices of the Sea
El cuarto reino. El reino de los plásticos (The Fourth Kingdom: The Kingdom of Plastics)
Home Movie (1973)
Dear Mom,
The Body Beautiful
Black Mother
Italianamerican
Okaasan (Mother)
Akibiyori (Late Autumn)
Vamps
A New Leaf
Shiva Baby (2018)
Looking for Mr. Goodbar
La caduta degli dei / Götterdämmerung (The Damned)
Spook Sport
Synchromy No. 4: Escape
Tarantella
So This Is Paris
Verbena trágica
Sergeant Rutledge
Her Man
Rockfield The Studio on the Farm
The Perfect Candidate
Those Who Wish Me Dead
Oxygène
Quattro strade (Four Roads)
Medicine For Melancholy
The Ballad of Genesis and Lady Jaye
Unpregnant
Die bleierne Zeit (Marianne and Juliane)
Duel at Diablo
Shu’our akbar min el hob (A Feeling Greater Than Love)
Yeelen
The In-Laws (1979)
The Mothman of Point Pleasant
Nobody’s Business
Watermelon Man
Supa Modo
Carbon Copy
Rosa Luxemburg
Thomasine & Bushrod
Plan B
Port Authority
Una Corriente Salvaje (A Wild Stream)
Vision – Aus dem Leben der Hildegard von Bingen
August at Akiko’s
The Woman in the Window (2021)
Main Street After Dark
The Flirting Widow
Hannah Arendt
The Silent Partner
So Fine
The Reflecting Skin
Intimate Stranger (1991)
The Railway Children
Out of State
Branco Sai, Preto Fica (White Out, Black In)
Era uma Vez Brasília (Once There Was Brasilia)
Crumbs
(June) Kevin Beasley’s Raw Materials
The Marx Brothers Home Movies Collection
Let’s Go Crazy
Go West (1940)
Tell Me That You Love Me, Junie Moon
Tove
The Sterile Cuckoo
11’e 10 kala
Les saignantes
Love Jones
The Booksellers
Queens at Heart
Ouanga
Älskande par (Loving Couples)
Skater Girl
In the Heights
Die Höhle des gelben Hundes (The Cave of the Yellow Dog)
Le roi des aulnes (The Erl King)
Trans
Changes (1970)
Hats Off to Hollywood
At Least You Know You Exist
No Ordinary Life
Mùi du du xanh (The Scent of Green Papaya)
Good On Paper
Te Llevo Conmigo (I Carry You with Me)
The Female Closet
Bad Girls Go To Hell
Le peuple migrateur (Winged Migration)
Zola
(July) Till Death
Fear Street Part 1: 1994
C’était un rendez-vous
Two-Lane Blacktop
Cockfighter
Airheads
Faisons un rêve… (Let’s Make A Dream)
Working Girls
The Great Sadness of Zohara
Moments Without Proper Names
Madeinusa
Fear Street Part 2: 1978
Scales
Eat the Document
Stop-Loss
The Green-Eyed Blonde
Hard to Handle: Bob Dylan in Concert
Barb and Star Go to Vista Del Mar
The Other Side of the Mirror: Bob Dylan at the Newport Folk Festival
Phantom Love
Year of the Horse
Square Times
Sodom and Gomorrah, New York 10036 Abe Beame Mayor
…A Valparaíso
The Vestal Theatre
The Case Against Lincoln Center
Fjols til fjells (Fools in the Mountains)
Su
Foreign Letters
Cowards Bend the Knee or The Blue Hands
La daronne (Mama Weed)
Can You Bring It: Bill T. Jones and D-Man in the Waters
Fear Street Part 3: 1666
Occupation: Mill Worker
Roadrunner: A Film About Anthony Bourdain
Backtrack
Pig
Il peccato di Anna (Anna’s Sin)
The Last Letter from Your Lover
Hearts of Fire
Shadow Kingdom
Masked and Anonymous
Renaldo and Clara
The VelociPastor
Tau ban no hoi (Boat People)
Hitparkut (Dissolution)
Hands Across The Table
Abouna (Our Father)
Daratt (Dry Season)
Un homme qui crie (A Screaming Man)
Grigris
Une saison en France (A Season in France)
Alama (2019)
Murder at the Vanities
Enemies of the State
The Green Knight
Tempest (1982)
The Balcony
Solomon Northup’s Odyssey
Lilith
Célébration
Archangel
Careful
Dracula: Pages from a Virgin’s Diary
The Forbidden Room
Minnie and Moskowitz
(August) Sheng Si Jie (Stolen Life)
Rachida
The Photograph (2007)
The Day I Will Never Forget
Dirt Music
Le chaudron infernal (The Infernal Cauldron)
La colonne de feu (The Pillar of Fire)
Le Dirigeable fantastique (Inventor Crazybrains and His Wonderful Airship)
Les illusions fantaisistes (Whimsical Illusions)
Le Locataire diabolique (The Diabolic Tenant)
La Fée Carabosse ou le Poignard fatal (The Witch)
La légende de Rip Van Winkle (Rip’s Dream)
Le royaume des fées (The Kingdom of the Fairies)
Le voleur de crimes (Crime Thief)
The Teckman Mystery
Le Voyage à travers l’impossible (The Impossible Voyage)
Les quatre cents farces du diable (The Merry Frolics of Satan)
The Count
Behind The Screen (1916)
The Rink
The War Widow
La nuit de la vérité (The Night of Truth)
Bring Your Own Brigade
Roozi ke zan shodam (The Day I Became a Woman)
Sunlight Jr.
The Adventurer
The Cure (1917)
The Fireman
The Pawnshop (1916)
Histórias que Só Existem Quando Lembradas (Found Memories)
The Floorwalker
One A.M.
Don’t Blink – Robert Frank
Lourdes
Full of Life
Game 6
Sweet Bean
Vigil in the Night
True Confession
Beckett (2021)
This Is The Sea
La fiancée du pirate (A Very Curious Girl)
27 Missing Kisses
Papa, les petits bateaux (Papa The Little Boats)
The Solid Gold Cadillac
Le cerf-volant (The Kite)
Charles and Lucie
The Learning Tree
Last Days in Vietnam
Plaisir d’amour (The Pleasure of Love)
La pelle (The Skin)
Under The Volcano (2021)
O Ébrio (The Drunkard)
Very Annie Mary
La cigarette
The Sea Shall Not Have Them
Cast a Dark Shadow
Rare Beasts
Confetti
The Hot Rock
Cruising
Blanche comme neige (White As Snow)
Reminiscence
The Revolt of Mamie Stover
La visita (The Visitor)
499
Al morir la matinée (The Last Matinee)
Song of Freedom
Vision Portraits
Black Rodeo
Field of Dreams
The Night House
Candyman (2021)
No Man of God
Dementia
The Song of the Butterflies
Intersection
(September) Petite Maman
Violet
Dear Evan Hansen
Queenpins
Kate
Dating & New York
Becoming Cousteau
Matar a la Bestia (To Kill The Beast)
The Power of the Dog
Titane
Neptune Frost
Last Night In Soho
Mlungu Wam
Lingui, The Sacred Bonds
Beba
Ali & Ava
You Are Not My Mother
Quickening
Lakewood
The Humans
The Starling
Les bal des folles (The Mad Women’s Ball)
Julia (2021)
Costa Brava, Lebanon
Saloum
Astel
The Gravedigger’s Wife
The One and Only Ivan
Medusa
Les oiseaux ivres (Drunken Birds)
Ich bin dein Mensch (I’m Your Man)
Charlotte (2021)
Three Minutes – A Lengthening
Zalava
Kun Maupay Man It Panahon (Whether the Weather Is Fine)
Silent Night
The Good House
Diários de Otsoga (The Tsugua Diaries)
Flee
Întregalde
Re dai wang shi (Are You Lonesome Tonight?)
Best Sellers
Ste. Anne
After Blue (Paradis Sale)
Long Train Running: The Story of the Oakland Blues
Affirmations
Anthem
Yi miao zhong (One Second)
Ethnic Notions
Tongues Untied
Color Adjustment
Non, Je Ne Regrette Rien (No Regret)
Black Is . . . Black Ain’t
I Shall Not Be Removed: The Life of Marlon Riggs
Señorita
Aparisyon (Apparition)
Did You Wonder Who Fired the Gun?
Martyrs Lane
In Balanchine’s Classroom
The Tragedy of Macbeth (2021)
The Souvenir: Part II
Midnight Alibi
Parachute Jumper
Blondie Johnson
Another Dawn
Street of Women
My Bill
(October) Mayday
Witch Hunt
Bingo Hell
Black As Night
The Many Saints of Newark
Venom: Let There Be Carnage
Stranded
The Goose and the Gander
King of the Underworld
Jokeren
Pepi, Luci, Bom y otras chicas del montón (Pepi, Luci, Bom and Other Girls Like Mom)
Laberinto de pasiones (Labyrinth of Passion)
Le bolle di sapone
Cenerentola
Bigorno fume l’opium
La mosca e il ragno
Il Giglio Nero
The Man from Kangaroo
Entre tinieblas (Dark Habits)
An Old Fashioned Boy
Guilty Hands
British Agent
I Found Stella Parish
Give Me Your Heart
Fool’s Paradise (1921)
The White Angel
Confession
Allotment Wives
Kika
Carne trémula (Live Flesh)
Geomsa-wa yeoseonsaeng (A Public Prosecutor and a Teacher)
Moon Over Miami
The Haunting of Rosalind
Le ménage Dranem
Phil-for-Short
Knackningar (Knocking)
Ghostbusters: Afterlife
Moral
¿Qué he hecho yo para merecer esto? (What Have I Done to Deserve This?!)
Love of Chrysanthemum
Ito, the Beggar Boy
Hako’s Sacrifice
Maciste all’inferno (Maciste in Hell)
Tacones lejanos (High Heels)
La Concejala Antropófaga (The Cannibalistic Councillor)
Down Argentine Way
Gold Dust Gertie
Central Park (1932)
The Case of the Black Cat
Chatterbox (1936)
The Hidden Hand
Track of the Cat
Mystery Date
The Hypnotic Eye
Strange Affair (1944)
Flames
Hooligan Sparrow
Japanese Schoolchildren (1901)
Japanese Funeral (1904)
Japanese State Procession (1904)
Japanese Dancers and Japanese Stave Duel (1905)
Picturesque Japan (1907)
Les Rapides de la rivière Ozu (Shooting the rapids on the River Ozu) (1907)
Grand Fête du cinquantenaire de Yokohama (Japanese Festival) (1909)
Récolte du riz en Japon (Rice industry in Japan) (1910)
Rice Festival in Kyoto (1910)
Fishing with Cormorants. Isle of Yeso, Japan (1911)
Quelques types Japonais (Japanese Types) (1911)
Apres midi d’une Japonaise (Among the Japanese) (1911)
London: Late Emperor of Japan (1912)
A travers les temples de Kyoto (Some Japanese Temples) (1912)
The Ainus of Japan (1913)
Distancia de rescate (Fever Dream)
Chameleon Street
Comanche Station
Decision at Sundown
Trick Or Treat (1986)
Office Killer
Bones
Buchanan Rides Alone
Waterfront
The Personality Kid
Journal of a Crime
Secret of the Chateau
Secret of the Blue Room (1933)
Murder in the Blue Room
The 9th Guest
The Thirteenth Guest
Maniac (1934)
A Passport to Hell
Man of the World
Lonely Wives
The Man Who Would Be King
Deep Cover
La bestia debe morir
The Thing Called Love
Wedding Rehearsal
In the Best Interests of the Children
The Dead
A Walk with Love and Death
An Algorithm
William Eggleston in the Real World
Possession (1981)
(Noirvember) The Devil Thumbs A Ride (1947)
Madres paralelas (Parallel Mothers)
Strange Bargain
Roadblock
The French Dispatch
Chicago Deadline
A Lady Without Passport
Red Notice
Mark, Mary & Some Other People
Hive
Spencer
Eternals
The Guilty (1947)
I Wouldn’t Be in Your Shoes
No Sudden Move
Clifford the Big Red Dog
Cats Don’t Dance
A Rage in Harlem
The 13th Letter
The Velvet Underground
The Web
The Garment Jungle
Night Raiders
All Too Well
Hell’s Half Acre (1954)
The Fall of the House of Usher (1942)
Fragment of Seeking
Picnic (1948)
On The Edge
The Assignation
The Wormwood Star
The Four Elements
Usher
Night Has a Thousand Eyes
The Crooked Way
Summer of Soul (…Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised)
Black Art: In the Absence of Light
The Electrical Life of Louis Wain
Highway 301
Really Love
The Outside Story
Swan Song
Noche de fuego (Prayers for the Stolen)
Shakedown (1950)
Sex Bowl
Ifé
Matzo Maidels
After the Break
Tomboy (1997)
Greta’s Girls
Wicked Woman
Om det oändliga (About Endlessness)
Kurt Vonnegut: Unstuck in Time
Doraibu mai kâ (Drive My Car)
King Richard
Danger Signal
Bluebeard’s Eighth Wife (1938)
Whiplash (1948)
Retfærdighedens ryttere (Riders of Justice)
Violent Saturday
Red Rocket
The Well (1951)
Mädchen in Uniform (1931)
Nightmare (1956)
C’mon C’mon
Across 110th Street
Baby Boy
The Velvet Touch
Licorice Pizza
Count the Hours!
A Castle For Christmas
Lightning Strikes Twice
This Is Not a Burial, It’s a Resurrection
Her Kind of Man
Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle
Aya de Yopougon (Aya of Yop City)
The Beta Test
Wild Indian
Les contes de la nuit (Tales of the Night)
The Devil and Daniel Johnston
Desert Fury
My Name is Pauli Murray
(December) El prófugo (The Intruder)
Nightmare Alley (2021)
The Lost Daughter
Procession
Adrienne
Mixtape
Val
Playing with Sharks: The Valerie Taylor Story
È stata la mano di Dio (The Hand of God)
New Year’s Eve
Attica
Limbo (2020)
Let It Be Morning
Les criminels (The Criminals)
Souad
Deserto Particular (Private Desert)
Captains of Za’atari
Off The Rails
National Champions
Verdens verste menneske (The Worst Person in the World)
Dýrið (Lamb)
Babardeala cu bucluc sau porno balamuc (Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn)
Respect
Faya Dayi
Single All the Way
House of Gucci
The Eyes of Tammy Faye
Ailey
Truman & Tennessee: An Intimate Conversation
The Unforgivable
Något att minnas (Something To Remember)
The Grand Bizarre
The Novice
Memoria
Inventário de Natal (Christmas Inventory)
Vánocní sen (A Christmas Dream)
The Amusement Park
Ulysse
Hommage à Zgougou (Tribute to Zgougou)
Les 3 boutons
Diary of a Mad Housewife
Mass
Boxing Day (2021)
It’s Such a Beautiful Day
Le Chat du rabbin (The Rabbi’s Cat)
Chico & Rita
Eat A Bowl of Tea
Holler
The Matrix Resurrections
Sin señas particulares (Identifying Features)
Gūzen to sōzō (Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy)
Le Sommet des dieux (The Summit of the Gods)
The Disciple
Cyrano
Ghahreman (A Hero)

I didn’t quite keep up with a 50/50 ratio of films directed by women, but I did watch several hundred this year and truly every year I discover more and more older films directed by women and brings me such joy. Streaming services like Criterion Channel and programmers at places like UCLA have really done a great job of bringing a lot of forgotten filmmakers to the foreground. Forever grateful.

Boys
Old Boyfriends
The Inland Sea
Ô saisons, ô châteaux
Les dites cariatides
Les dites cariatides bis
T’as de beaux escaliers, tu sais
Daguerreotypes
Rue Daguerre en 2005
Le lion volatil
Les créatures
Elsa la rose
Proof (1991)
Promising Young Woman
One Night In Miami
John Lewis: Good Trouble
All In: The Fight for Democracy
Babenco: Alguém Tem que Ouvir o Coração e Dizer Parou (Babenco: Tell Me When I Die)
The High Note
Réponse de femmes: Notre corps, notre sexe
Plaisir d’amour en Iran
Nausicaa
დასაწყისი (Beginning)
Girl Night Stand
Valeria
Evil Grows in the Dark
Passing
Superior (2021)
Pleasure (2013)
Land
Pleasure (2021)
Integration Report I
A Tribute To Malcolm X
I Am Somebody
Girl Night Stand: Chapter 2
Dear Venus, Where Does Your Heart Lie?
Danzón
Blue Diary
The Joy of Life
575 Castro St.
The Royal Road
In nomine Patris
Compensation
A Powerful Thang
Crocodile Conspiracy
Cycles
Golden Eighties
Mother of the River
7p., cuis., s. de b., … (à saisir)
Test Pattern
Ajube Kete
Tea 4 Two
Intermittent Delight
Boyant
Black Prom
Shangri-La
The Loveless
Standing Above the Clouds
Always Shine
When I Get Home
Moxie
Lucky (2021)
A Guide to Breathing Underwater
Nettles
Asa ga Kuru (True Mothers)
Imitation Girl
Me broni ba
Drexciya
Split Ends, I Feel Wonderful
Own The Room
Frontières (Borders)
Western (2017)
American Dream
Slaxx
Bombay Rose
Phobias
Función de noche
D.O.A. (1988)
The Women (2008)
Shiva Baby
What the Constitution Means to Me
Agnes Joy
Odol Gorri
Slalom
El camino
When You Sleep
I basilischi
Our Towns
Lovers and Lollipops
The Plastic Dome of Norma Jean
Vers Mathilde (Toward Mathilde)
I’ve Been Afraid
Cinema Rex
Crab
Just a Guy
Just a Small
Bosquecito (Little Forest)
Misery Loves Company
Seepferdchen (Seahorse)
Girl and Body
Lucky Feet 2000
o28
Pilar
Portrait en Pied de Suzanne
Right Now, I Am
Tiger and Ox
Monangambé
Un dessert pour Constance (Dessert for Constance)
Street Gang: How We Got to Sesame Street
Heurtebise
I Don’t Like the Wind, I Like the Sun
À la recherche d’Aline (Seeking Aline)
Simone: A Survivor’s Story
Snowy
Ten Leaves Dilated
Imperdonable (Unforgivable)
In the Dusk
Inheritance
Just the Two of Us
A Cure for All Things
Peach
The Other Morgan
Sales Per Hour
The Price of Cheap Rent
Five Tiger
Armadila
African Violet
Americanized
Black Goat
Rideshare
Swipe Up, Vivian!
Angie (2021)
Champ de bosses (Bumpy Field)
S’temi (Shut Up)
Twice As Good
Anita (2020)
Solució per a la tristesa (Solution For Sadness)
Comme la neige au printemps (As Spring Comes)
Born Again
Bambirak
Heading South
Spotted Yellow
Cet autre hiver (This Other Winter)
L’autre (The Other)
bustitOpen
Negra
Marvelous and the Black Hole
See You Then
Ma Belle, My Beauty
The Falconer
We’re All Going to the World’s Fair
Split: Portrait of a Drag Queen
Things Heard & Seen
Rita Moreno: Just a Girl Who Decided to Go For It
S’en fout la mort (No Fear, No Die)
Aleph
35 Rhums (35 Shots of Rum)
Moon Manor
Solo el mar nos separa / فقط البحر بيننا (Only the Ocean Between Us)
Jimmy Carter: Rock and Roll President
Na Cidade Vazia (Hollow City)
Cassandro, The Exotico!
I Don’t Know
Transsexuals
And Nothing Happened
Embrace of the Vampire
Blood & Donuts
Mainstream
Tale Of A Vampire
Dance of the Damned
New York City Ballet Spring Gala
Voices of the Sea
Home Movie (1973)
Dear Mom,
The Body Beautiful
Vamps
A New Leaf
Shiva Baby (2018)
Spook Sport
Synchromy No. 4: Escape
Tarantella
Rockfield The Studio on the Farm
The Perfect Candidate
Quattro strade (Four Roads)
The Ballad of Genesis and Lady Jaye
Unpregnant
Die bleierne Zeit (Marianne and Juliane)
Shu’our akbar min el hob (A Feeling Greater Than Love)
Rosa Luxemburg
Plan B
Port Authority
Una Corriente Salvaje (A Wild Stream)
Vision – Aus dem Leben der Hildegard von Bingen
Hannah Arendt
Out of State
Kevin Beasley’s Raw Materials
Tove
11’e 10 kala
Älskande par (Loving Couples)
Skater Girl
Die Höhle des gelben Hundes (The Cave of the Yellow Dog)
Le roi des aulnes (The Erl King)
Trans (1994)
Hats Off to Hollywood
At Least You Know You Exist
No Ordinary Life
Good On Paper
Te Llevo Conmigo (I Carry You with Me)
The Female Closet
Bad Girls Go To Hell
Zola (6/30)
Fear Street Part 1: 1994
Working Girls
The Great Sadness of Zohara
Fear Street Part 2: 1978
Scales
Stop-Loss
Hard to Handle: Bob Dylan in Concert
Phantom Love
The Vestal Theatre
The Case Against Lincoln Center
Fjols til fjells (Fools in the Mountains)
Su
Foreign Letters
Can You Bring It: Bill T. Jones and D-Man in the Waters
Fear Street Part 3: 1666
The Last Letter from Your Lover
Shadow Kingdom
Tau ban no hoi (Boat People)
Hitparkut (Dissolution)
Enemies of the State
Sheng Si Jie (Stolen Life)
Rachida
The Photograph (2007)
The Day I Will Never Forget
Le voleur de crimes (Crime Thief)
The Teckman Mystery
La nuit de la vérité (The Night of Truth)
Bring Your Own Brigade
Roozi ke zan shodam (The Day I Became a Woman)
Sunlight Jr.
Histórias que Só Existem Quando Lembradas (Found Memories)
Don’t Blink – Robert Frank
Lourdes
Sweet Bean
This Is The Sea
La fiancée du pirate (A Very Curious Girl)
27 Missing Kisses
Papa, les petits bateaux (Papa The Little Boats)
Le cerf-volant (The Kite)
Charles and Lucie
Last Days in Vietnam
Plaisir d’amour (The Pleasure of Love)
La pelle (The Skin)
Under The Volcano (2021)
O Ébrio (The Drunkard)
Very Annie Mary
La cigarette
Rare Beasts
Confetti
Blanche comme neige (White As Snow)
Reminiscence
Candyman (2021)
No Man of God
The Song of the Butterflies
Petite Maman
Violet
Queenpins
Becoming Cousteau
Matar a la Bestia (To Kill The Beast)
The Power of the Dog
Titane
Neptune Frost
Beba
You Are Not My Mother
Quickening
The Mad Women’s Ball
Julia (2021)
Costa Brava, Lebanon
Astel
The One and Only Ivan
Medusa
Ich bin dein Mensch (I’m Your Man)
Three Minutes – A Lengthening
Silent Night
The Good House
Diários de Otsoga (The Tsugua Diaries)
Best Sellers
Ste. Anne
I Shall Not Be Removed: The Life of Marlon Riggs
Señorita
Aparisyon (Apparition)
Martyrs Lane
In Balanchine’s Classroom
The Souvenir: Part II
Mayday
Witch Hunt
Bingo Hell
Black As Night
The Haunting of Rosalind
Knackningar (Knocking)
Flames
Hooligan Sparrow
Distancia de rescate (Fever Dream)
Office Killer
In the Best Interests of the Children
An Algorithm
Hive
Mark, Mary & Some Other People
Eternals
Night Raiders
All Too Well
Really Love
Noche de fuego (Prayers for the Stolen)
Sex Bowl
Ifé
Matzo Maidels
After the Break
Tomboy (1997)
Greta’s Girls
Mädchen in Uniform (1931)
A Castle For Christmas
Aya de Yopougon (Aya of Yop City)
My Name is Pauli Murray
El prófugo (The Intruder)
The Lost Daughter
Mixtape
Playing with Sharks: The Valerie Taylor Story
Attica
Souad
Off The Rails
Respect
Faya Dayi
Truman & Tennessee: An Intimate Conversation
The Unforgivable
Något att minnas (Something To Remember)
The Grand Bizarre
The Novice
Ulysse
Hommage à Zgougou (Tribute to Zgougou)
Les 3 boutons
Holler
The Matrix Resurrections
Sin señas particulares (Identifying Features)

Lastly, here are my favorite first time watches (not counting “new” releases) that I watched in 2021. Most of these I already wrote about in my monthly wrap-ups, but just wanted to shout these out one last time.

Matewan, 1987 (dir. John Sayles)

Moscow on the Hudson, 1984 (dir. Paul Mazursky)

The Cobweb, 1955 (dir. Vincente Minnelli)

Danzón, 1991 (dir. María Novaro)

Compensation, 1999 (dir. Zeinabu irene Davis)

Jazz on a Summer’s Day, 1959 (dir. Aram Avakian & Bert Stern)

Golden Eighties, 1986 (dir. Chantal Akerman)

Indiscreet, 1958 (dir. Stanley Donen)

7p., cuis., s. de b., … à saisir, 1984 (dir. Agnès Varda)

The Trip to Bountiful, 1985 (dir. Peter Masterson)

The Loveless, 1981 (dir. Kathryn Bigelow & Monty Montgomery)

Lovers and Lollipops, 1956 (dir. Morris Engel & Ruth Orkin)

The Plastic Dome of Norma Jean, 1966 (dir. Juleen Compton)

Bamboozled, 2000 (dir. Spike Lee)

Looking for Mr. Goodbar, 1977 (dir. Richard Brooks)

Bad Girls Go to Hell, 1965 (dir. Doris Wishman)

Working Girls, 1986 (dir. Lizzie Borden)

The Solid Gold Cadillac, 1956 (dir. Richard Quine)

Black Is … Black Ain’t, 1994 (dir. Marlon Riggs)

Chameleon Street, 1989 (dir. Wendell B. Harris Jr.)

Deep Cover, 1992 (dir. Bill Duke)

Possession, 1981 (dir. Andrzej Żuławski)

The Assignation, 1953 (dir. Curtis Harrington)

Diary of a Mad Housewife, 1970 (dir. Frank Perry)

In the coming days I will be posting my Favorite Fifteen Films of 2021 so keep an eye out for that. Also, again if you want to keep up with my writing in 2022 please sign up for my newsletter! And if you want to keep up with my movie consumption Letterboxd is really the best place.