Mubi only accepted one this year, so here were some from the reject pile:
NEW: The Bikeriders (Jeff Nichols, US) + OLD: Lenin: The Train (Damiano Damiani, 1988)
"The whole point of these guys is that they can’t follow rules, you know. You put ’em together, and they get in this club, and all of a sudden, oh, they start makin’ up all these rules for everybody to follow."
NEW: Hard Truths (Mike Leigh, UK) + OLD: Graveyard of Honor (Takashi Miike, 2002)
The hole in the soul.
NEW: The Order (Justin Kurzel, Canada) + OLD: Dirty Like an Angel (Catherine Breillat, 1991)
Cops who don't need robbers.
NEW: The Feeling That The Time For Doing Something Has Passed (Joanna Arnow, US) + OLD: Slaves of New York (James Ivory, 1989)
The heart and the brain bypassed; just trying to get through the day.
NEW: Napoleon: Director’s Cut (Ridley Scott, USA/UK) + OLD: The Raft of the Medusa (Iradj Azimi, 1990)
Slashed wrists, dead horses, stately canvases unasked for.
NEW: Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare (Guy Ritchie, US/UK) + OLD: Morituri (Bernhard Wicki, 1965)
Wartime capers just before the film industry explodes like one more target. You can feel it, can’t you? The end?
NEW: Rumors (Guy Maddin, Evan & Galen Johnson, Canada/Germany) + OLD: Appointment in Honduras (Jacques Tourneur, 1953)
7 came back. Misadventures in revolution.
NEW: A Quiet Place: Day One (Michael Sarnoski, US) + OLD: Ice Cold In Alex (J. Lee Thompson, 1958)
Dying for one last breath of life. Without pizza and beer, it all suddenly seems a lot longer.
NEW: Megalopolis (Francis Ford Coppola, US) + OLD: Edmond (Stuart Gordon, 2005)
The man as a city.
NEW: We Were Dangerous (Josephine Stewart-Tewhiu, New Zealand/US) + OLD: The Getting of Wisdom (Bruce Beresford, 1977)
Whose narrative breaks free?
NEW: Juror #2 (Clint Eastwood, US) + OLD: House by the River (Fritz Lang, 1950)
One life for a million. Christian parables as puzzle boxes and performances.
NEW: Smile 2 (Parker Finn, US) + OLD: Puzzle of a Downfall Child (Jerry Schatzberg, 1970)
It's always easier not to believe their version of events.
NEW: I Saw The TV Glow (Jane Schoenbrun, USA) + OLD: You will never ever be a woman, you must live the rest of your days as a man… (Zackary Drucker, Van Barnes, A.L. Steiner, Mariah Garnett, 2007)
When you can tell your own story, they lose, you win…
NEW: Vermines (Sébastien Vaniček, France) + OLD: House of the Living Dead (Ray Austin, 1974)
…though they still decide who lives and dies
