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one in America as more worthy of debate than
the act itself and depicting teenage girls’ friendship
and ability to fi gure out their lives’ options
with a patient, steady determination.
“First Cow” (Kelly Reichardt): I can’t improve
on critic John Semley’s words — “an epic told
with archetypes we can only faintly perceive, an
origin story of a thing that doesn’t exist” — except
to suggest that this is where both American
capitalism and gayness before the notion of
sexual orientation came into medical parlance
began.
“Time” (Garrett Bradley): Based around a
complex montage of decades’ worth of footage
showing Fox Rich’s struggle to live her life while
trying to free her husband (jailed for armed
robbery), “Time” is far more ambitious than a
simple character portrait or activist documentary.
It critiques the carceral state by showing
the collateral damage it does to the people who
love a person in jail (even when no one questions
their guilt). The title hits hard, as Bradley
shows how jail warps time for everyone in
touches.
“Fourteen” (Dan Sallitt): Spanning a decade
in their life of two young women’s friendship,
“Fourteen” embraces mystery and uncertainty.
Both as a director and screenwriter, Sallitt’s
style is reticent to say too much. “Fourteen”
shows how two people can start from a place of
NEON
Kate Lyn Sheil in Amy Seimetz’s “She Dies Tomorrow.”
close intimacy and gradually drift apart, questioning
our mutual responsibility.
Runners-up: “The Assistant” (Kitty Green),
“The Grand Bizarre” (Jodie Mack), “I May Destroy
You” (Michaela Coel), “I Was At Home, But…”
(Angela Schanelec), “In Search of a Flat Earth”
(Dan Olson), “Labyrinth of Cinema” (Nobuhiko
Obayashi), “Mayor” (David Osit), “The Nest” (Sean
Durkin), “Notes From a Journey” (Daniel & Clara),
“On the Record’ (Amy Ziering & Kirby Dick).
Best Shorts: “AI” (Lucrecia Martel), “Daddy”
(Christian Coppola), “-force-“ and “Happy Valley”
(Simon Liu), “France Against the Robots”
(Jean-Marie Straub), “The Giverny Document”
(Ja’Tovia Gary), “Hudson Yards Video Game”
(created by Conner O’Malley and Cole Kush,
but no director credited), “I Know the End”
(Alissa Torvinen; music video by Phoebe Bridgers),
“Kerosene!,” (SSION’s Cody Critcheloe;
music video by Yves Tumor), “Knee Jerk” (Kelly
Laitala), “Sad Day” (Hiro Murai; music video by
FKA Twigs), “Sanfi eld” (Kevin Jerome Everson),
“Some Other Connection” (Sophy Romvari &
Mike Thorn).
Twelve Best Older Films Seen for the First
Time This Year: “Bless Their Little Hearts” (Billy
Woodberry, 1983), “Emma Mae” (Jamaa Fanaka,
1976), “The End of Evangelion” (Hideaki Anno &
Kazuya Tsurumaki, 1997), “Girlfriends” (Claudia
Weill, 1978), “Lake Mungo” (Joel Anderson,
2008), “Morgiana” (Juraj Herz, 1972), “Penda’s
Fen” (Alan Clarke, 1974), “A Question of Silence”
(Marleen Gorris, 1982), “Route One/ USA” (Robert
Kramer, 1989), “The Runner” (Amir Naderi,
1985), “The Seashell and the Clergyman” (Germaine
Dulac, 1928), “Top of the Heap” (Christopher
St. John, 1972).
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