Favourite films of 2022 (some of these fell on the 2021/2022 cusp and I’m admitting them based on when they became broadly available to audiences):
Crimes of The Future (David Cronenberg)
Blonde (Andrew Dominik)
Memoria (Apichatpong Weerasethakul)
Nothing Compares (Kathryn Ferguson)
Benedetta (Paul Verhoeven)
The Batman (Matt Reeves)
Bones & All (Luca Guadagnino)
The Masturbator’s Heart (Michael Salerno)
Ennio (Giuseppe Tornatore)
Occhiali Neri (Dario Argento)
Hellraiser (David Bruckner)
This Much I Know To Be True (Andrew Dominik)
The Northman (Robert Eggers)
Escape To The Silver Globe (Kuba Mikurda)
Roadrunner: A Film About Anthony Bourdain (Morgan Neville)
Films I saw for the first time this year and loved:
Mommy (Xavier Dolan, 2014)
Beach Rats (Eliza Hittman, 2017)
The Assassination Of Jesse James By The Coward Robert Ford (Andrew Dominik, 2007)
Wojnarowicz (Chris McKim, 2020)
The Card Counter (Paul Schrader, 2021)
The Wailing (Na Hong-Jin, 2016)
Titus (Julie Taymor, 2000)
Eyes Of Laura Mars (Irvin Kershner, 1978)
Black Book (Paul Verhoeven, 2006)
L’Eclisse (Michelangelo Antonioni, 1962)
The Hawks And The Sparrows (Pier Paolo Pasolini, 1966)
The Canyons (Paul Schrader, 2013)
Bad Lieutenant: Port Of Call New Orleans (Werner Herzog, 2009)
Arabesques On The Pirosmani Theme (Sergei Paradjanov, 1985)
Red Desert (Michelangelo Antonioni, 1964)
Favourite Albums of 2022:
Diamanda Galás - Broken Gargoyles
Grave Lines - Communion
Dead Cross - Dead Cross II
Björk - Fossora
Sairie - The Cinder Sheet
Robin Carolan & Sebastian Gainsborough - The Northman OST
Tanya Tagaq - Tongues
Arnaud Rebotini - Ochialli Neri OST
Deadhead - Bad Dog
Books I read in 2022 and loved:
Blackstar Theory - Leah Kardos
Faith, Hope & Carnage - Nick Cave & Seán O’Hagan
Children Of The New Flesh - Ed. Chris Kelso & David Leo Rice
Artaud The Moma - Jacques Derrida
White - Bret Easton Ellis
Jesus Of Nazareth - Paul Verhoeven
Dario Argento Turin Exhibition Catalogue - Ed. Domenico De Gaetano & Marcello Garofalo
Tori Amos: In The Studio - Jake Brown
Who Said The Race Was Over - Anno Birkin
Dugin Against Dugin: A Traditionalist Critique Of The Fourth Political Theory - Charles Upton