a priority watchlist for spring

for the vernal months

April showers abound — can we wait for blossoms to emerge, tempering the gloom? Some films for this most impatient time:

• Moments Without Proper Names (1987) — Gordon Parks

• Youth (Spring) (2023)— Wang Bing

• L’Eclisse (1962) — Michelangelo Antonioni

• Art College 1994 (2023) — Liu Jian

• At Eternity’s Gate (2018) — Julian Schnabel

• Zazie dans le Metro (1960) — Louis Malle

• The Tales of Hoffman (1951) — Powell & Pressburger

• Nostalgia (1983) — Andrei Tarkovsky

• Poetry (2010) — Lee Chang-dong

• Sagan (2008) — Diane Kurys

• Louise (2021) — Constance Bertoux, Camille Bozec, et al.

• Theorem (1968) — Pier Paolo Pasolini

• National Gallery (2014) — Frederick Wiseman