2026 Blind Spot Series Announcement

 

2025 is coming to end with George Cukor's version of A Star is Born from 1954 starring Judy Garland being the final Blind Spot for the year. With that film set to be watched this month. The time has come to look ahead for the next Blind Spot Series as making the selection for the 2026 edition was not easy. I was hoping to do films that I have heard about for years but some of them are not available for streaming while wanting to purchase the films in a physical form is also too expensive or too hard to find. Instead, my selection is based on films that are available to watch digitally and physically as including films I currently own on Blu-Ray including a few I hope to get in 2026. My selection once again is largely films that have been released from the 2nd half of the 20th Century with one film being released in the 21st Century. 2 of these films are films by women as I felt that women are underrepresented as I chose 2 different filmmakers for this Blind Spot Series as they are from different continents yet are films from the 1990s. Another reason for the selection with this list is to choose films from different countries and continent including by revered filmmakers whose films I had seen before. Here are the 12 films in chronological order that I will watch for the 2026 Blind Spot Series:

Cairo Station by Youseff Chahine

It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World by Stanley Kramer

The Gospel According to St. Matthew by Pier Paolo Passolini

7 Women by John Ford

Network by Sidney Lumet

That Obscure Object of Desire by Luis Bunuel

Altered States by Ken Russell

A Confucian Confusion by Edward Yang

One Hundred and One Nights by Agnes Varda

The Watermelon Woman by Cheryl Dunne

The Wind Will Carry Us by Abbas Kiarostami

Lilya 4-ever by Lukas Moodyson

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