All We Imagine as Light (2024) is the greatest ode to municipal cockblocking committed to film; an octave to the left and it could have been a tremendous farce. 

A List of Films Most Essential to Me

A list employed as a marker of one's inclinations as of this day; of this month; of this year - ordered through ancient divination texts,

1. Gerdy, the Wicked Witch (1976) / Ljubomir Simunic
2. Kuroneko (1968) / Kaneto Shindo
3. Antoni Gaudi (1984) / Hiroshi Teshigahara
4. Eyes Without a Face (1960) / Georges Franju
5. Aurore (1989) / Marc Hurtado
6. A Page of Madness (1926) / Teinosuke Kinugasa
7. Limite (1931) / Mário Peixoto
8. News From Home (1977) / Chantal Akerman
9. Vampyr (1932) / Carl Th. Dreyer
10. Night and Fog (1954) / Alain Resnais
    

Essential Filmographies: Vjekoslav Nakic, Cecilia Mangini, F.W. Murnau, Amit Dutta, Margaret Tait, Jacques Tourneur, Sriwhana Spong

P.S.: A friend pointed out to me that I had made a similar list more than a decade ago; an evidence of how we alter and transform, and how taste is in perpetual transit, with our body merely being the present site of its deposit.