2025 film discoveries

older films I saw for the first time and rated with five stars

Einstein on the Beach

Philip Glass’s deconstructed postmodernist opera barreled into my world in January, 2025, immediately taking the top spot on my list of Top 200 Films—for the first time ever! After a decades-long reign, Fargo was replaced as my favorite film by this proshot four-and-a-half-hour opera with lyrics written by an autistic teen and balle…