Force of Evil (Abraham Polonsky, 1948): 3/5

A Town Called Panic (Stephane Aubier, 2009): 3/5

Everyone Else (Maren Ade, 2009) : 3/5

Make Way for Tomorrow (Leo McCarey, 1937): 2/5

Eccentricities of a Blonde-haired Girl (Manoel de Oliveira, 2009): 2/5

Easy Street (Charles Chaplin, 1917): 3/5

The Immigrant (Charles Chaplin, 1917): 3/5

One Week (Edward F. Cline, Buster Keaton, 1920): 5/5

Neighbors (Edward F. Cline, Buster Keaton, 1920): 4/5

The Boat (Edward F. Cline, Buster Keaton, 1921): 3/5

Two Men in Manhattan (Jean-Pierre Melville, 1958): 4/5

The Asphalt Jungle (John Huston, 1950): 4/5

B.S. (Darren Aronofsky, 2010): 3/5

Sans Soleil (Chris Marker, 1983): 5/5

La Jetee (Chris Marker, 1962): 5/5

Alex in Wonderland (Paul Mazursky, 1970): 4/5

Wild Strawberries (Ingmar Bergman, 1957): 3/5

The Go-Between (Joseph Losey, 1970): 2/5

Jeanne Dielman (Chantal Akerman, 1975): 4, 1, 3, 5, 2, 4, 1, 3, 5, 2, 4, 1, 3/5

Closer (Mike Nichols, 2004) -- 5/5

The Other Guys (Adam McKay, 2010): 1/5

Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World (Edgar Wright, 2010): 1/5

The Kids Are All Right (Lisa Cholodenko, 2010): 4/5

Diary of a Chambermaid (Luis Bunuel, 1964): 3/5

Le Dieuxeme Souffle (Jean-Pierre Melville, 1966) -- 4/5

L'Eclisse (Antonioni , 1962) -- 1/5

Billy Liar (John Schlesinger, 1963) -- 2/5

Training Day (Antoine Fuqua, 2001) -- 5/5

Brother (Aleksey Balabanov, 1997): 4/5

Cargo 200 (Aleksey Balabanov, 2007): 3/5

The Inner Circle (Andrei Konchalovsky, 1991): 2/5

Police Beat (Robinson Devor, 2005): 3/5

The Bitter Tears of Petra Von Kant (Fassbinder, 1972) -- 2/5

Gentlemen Prefer Blondes ( Hawks, 1953) -- 2/5

Fanny and Alexander (Bergman, 1982) -- 2/5

Sweetgrass (Ilisa Barbash, Lucien Castaing-Taylor, 2009): 5/5

Exit Through the Gift Shop (Banksy, 2010): 5/5

The Pilgrim (Charles Chaplin, 1923): 3/5

The Docks of New York (Josef von Sternberg, 1928): 4/5

The Opposite of Sex (Don Roos, 1998): 3/5

Restrepo (Tim Hetherington, Sebastian Junger, 2010): 3/5

Fantastic Mr. Fox (Wes Anderson, 2009): 5/5

Black Swan (Darren Aronofsky, 2010): 3/5

All That Heaven Allows (Douglas Sirk, 1955): 5/5

Paisan (Roberto Rossellini, 1946): 2/5

Essential Killing (Jerzy Skolimowski, 2010): 4/5

Drifting Clouds (Aki Kaurismaki, 1996): 3/5

Zoo (Robinson Devor, 2007): 5/5

My Blueberry Nights (Wong Kar-wai, 2007) -- 1/5

Little Dieter Needs to Fly (Werner Herzog, 1998) -- 3/5

Scenes From a Marriage (Ingmar Bergman, 1973) -- 2/5

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Pt. 1 ( David Yates, 2010): 2/5

Did You Hear About the Morgans? (Marc Lawrence, 2009): 2/5

Grey Gardens (Michael Sucsy, 2009): 1/5
The HBO movie with Drew Barrymore. Sigh.

Bop-Scotch (Jordan Belson, 1952): 3/5
Allures (Jordan Belson, 1961): 3/5
Phenomena (Jordan Belson, 1965): 5/5
Samadhi (Jordan Belson, 1967): 5/5

Miles Davis: Live in Copenhagen, 1969, DVD: 5/5
Possibly this shouldn't be here, but wow.
http://deccard.blogspot.com/2010/07/bitches-brew.html

Reds (Warren Beatty, 1981): 4/5

Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World (Peter Weir, 2003): 5/5


Best Terrence Malick film not made by Terrence Malick:

The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
(Andrew Dominik, 2007): 5/5

Maya Deren: Experimental Films (Maya Deren, 1943-1948): 3/5
(Meshes of the Afternoon: 5/5; the rest: 2/5)

Taking Woodstock (Ang Lee, 2009): 3/5

Monsieur Hire (Patrice LeConte, 1989) -- 2/5

The Fog of War (Errol Morris, 2003) -- 2/5

Destricted (Larry Clark, Gaspar Noe, Matthew Barney, et al, 2006) -- 1/5

The Human Centipede: First Sequence (Tom Six, 2009) -- 3/5

Black Swan -- (Darren Aronofsky, 2010)-- 4/5

White Material -- (Claire Denis, 2010) -- 2/5

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Pt. 1 ( David Yates, 2010) -- 2/5

Birth of a Nation (D.W. Griffith, 1915): 4/5

The Big Parade (King Vidor, 1925): 3/5

East of Eden (Elia Kazan, 1955): 4/5

Rocky Horror Picture Show (Jim Sharman, 1975): 3/5

Fame (Alan Parker, 1980): 3/4

A Room with a View (James Ivory, 1985): 4/5

Monsieur Hire (Patrice Leconte, 1989): 3/5

Please Give (Nicole Holofcener, 2010): 3/5

Police, Adjective (Corneliu Porumboiu, 2009): 4/5

The Paper Will Be Blue (Radu Muntean, 2006): 4/5

A Girl Cut in Two (Claude Chabrol, 2007): 2/5

The Art of the Steal (Don Argott, 2009): 4/5

Dial M for Murder (Alfred Hitchcock, 1954): 3/5

Frenzy (Alfred Hitchcock, 1972): 3/5

Shampoo (Hal Ashby, 1975): 4/5

Heaven Can Wait (Warren Beatty, 1978): 2/5

Dick Tracy (Warren Beatty, 1990): 2/5

Bulworth (Warren Beatty, 1998): 2/5

Get Him to the Greek (Nicholas Stoller, 2010): 3/5

Downhill Racer (Michael Ritchie, 1969): 4/5

Everyone Else (Maren Ade, 2009): 3/5

Wings (Larisa Shepitko, 1966): 3/5

Roman Holiday (William Wyler, 1953): 4/5

Carrie (William Wyler, 1952): 4/5

The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus (Terry Gilliam, 2009): 2/5

Aliens (James Cameron, 1986): 4/5

The Films of Georges Melies (1896 - 1912): 5/5
(favorites: A Kingdom of Fairies, 1903; The Infernal Boiling Pot, 1903)

Pandora and the Flying Dutchman (Albert Lewin, 1951): 3/5

Catfish (Henry Joost & Ariel Schulman, 2010): 2/5

Sicko (Michael Moore, 2007): 3/5

Taxi to the Dark Side (Alex Gibney, 2007): 4/5

Films of Thomas Edison (Edwin S. Porter, etc, 1894-1915): 5/5

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (Michel Gondry, 2004): 5/5

Capitalism: A Love Story (Michael Moore, 2009): 4/5

Louie Bluie (Terry Zwigoff, 1985): 4/5

The Great Escape (John Sturges, 1963): 3/5

Forgetting Sarah Marshall (Nicholas Stoller, 2008) :)

Get Him to the Greek (Nicholas Stoller, 2010) :)

Jaws (Steven Spielberg, 1975): 5/5
Winter's Bone (Debra Granik, 2010): 2/5

Alice Adams (George Stevens, 1935): 3/5

Standard Operating Procedure (Errol Morris, 2008): 1/5

Milk (Gus Van Sant, 2008): 3/5

Into the Wild (Sean Penn, 2007): 4/5

High and Low (Akira Kurosawa, 1963): 4/5

The Loveless ( Katheryn Bigelow, 1982) -- 1/5

Hunger (Steve McQueen, 2008) -- 5/5

Monterey Pop (D.A. Pennebaker, 1968): 4/5
Dazed and Confused (Richard Linklater, 1993): 4/5
Picasso and Braque Go to the Movies (Arne Glimcher, 2008): 4/5

I Am Love (Luca Guadagnino, 2009): 4/5

District 9 (Neill Blomkamp, 2009): 2/5

Marie Antoinette (Sofia Coppola, 2006): 2/5 (locations and music video montages: 5; script/dialogue: 1)

Calendar (Atom Egoyan, 1993): 2/5

Violette (Claude Chabrol, 1978): 2/5

Notorious (Alfred Hitchcock, 1946): 3/5

The Shop Around the Corner (Ernst Lubitsch, 1940) -- 4/5

Gigi (Vincente Minnelli, 1958) -- 1/5

Picnic at Hanging Rock (Peter Weir, 1975) -- 3/5

In the Year of the Pig (Emile de Antonio, 1968) -- 4/5

David Holzam's Diary (Jim McBride, 1967) -- 3/5

I Am Love (Luca Guadagnino, 2009): 5/5

Grey Gardens (Albert Maysles & David Maysles, 1975): 4/5

Return of the middlebrow:

The Candidate (Michael Ritchie, 1972): 4/5

Field of Dreams (Phil Alden Robinson, 1989): 2/5

Q & A (Sidney Lumet, 1990): 2/5

Un Coeur en hiver (Claude Sautet, 1992): 3/5

Eat Drink Man Woman (Ang Lee, 1994): 3/5

Friends with Money (Nicole Holofcener, 2006): 3/5

Revolutionary Road (Sam Mendes, 2008): 3/5.
[But 1:20 - 1:35, 5/5]

Just to bring you semi up to speed

Oldboy (Chan-wook Park, 2003) - 3/5

Funny Face (Stanley Donen, 1957) - 3/5

Underworld (Josef Von Sternberg, 1927) - 4/5

Nights of Cabiria (Fellini, 1957) - 2/5

Three...Extremes: Dumplings (Fruit Chan, 2005) - 3/5

Emmanuelle (Just Jaeckin, 1974) - 1/5

Cafe au lait (Matthew Kassovitz, 1994) - 3/5

Boarding Gate (Olivier Assayas, 2007) - 2/5

My Beautiful Laundrette (Stephen Frears, 1986) - 2/5

Dog Day Afternoon ( Sidney Lumet, 1975) - 3/5

To Have and Have Not - (Howard Hawks, 1944) - 2/5

New Theatrical Releases:

The Social Network (David Fincher, 2010) - 4/5

Never Let Me Go (Mark Romanek, 2010) - 2/5

Enter The Void (Gaspar Noe, 2010) - 4/5

Magnificent Obsession (Douglas Sirk, 1954): 5/5

Splendor in the Grass (Elia Kazan, 1961) 5/5

Hannah and Her Sisters (Woody Allen, 1986) 4/5

Temple Grandin (Mick Jackson, 2010): 4/5
[But 0:00 - 1:20, 5/5]

Valentine's Day (Garry Marshall, 2010): 2/5

The Secret of the Grain (Abdellatif Kechiche, 2007): 3/5

The Town (Ben Affleck, 2010): 2/5

Some recent French:

Enter the Void (Gaspar Noe, 2010): 4/5

A Prophet (Jacques Audiard, 2009): 3/5

Joyeux Noel (Christian Carion, 2005): 3/5


Some recent Germans:

Jargo (Maria Solrun, 2004): 2/5

I Am Guilty (Christoph Hochhausler, 2005): 2/5
(Note: Sicinski gave a score of 9 to this director's new film, The City Below)


Others:

The Ghost Writer (Roman Polanski, 2009): 3/5

The Son's Room (Nanni Moretti, 2001): 2/5

Atonement (Joe Wright, 2007): 2/5

Triage (Danis Tanovic, 2009): 3/5

Ararat (Atom Egoyan, 2001): 3/5
(Note: Charles Aznavour as painter Arshile Gorky)

ODDSAC (Danny Perez, 2010): 4/5
[But 0:00 - 0:40, 5/5]

Welcome

Welcome to Netflix Friends. This is where we'll post our ratings of movies using the patented five-star Netflix system.

For example:

Enter the Void (Gaspar Noe, 2010): 4/5
[But 0:00 - 0:40, 5/5]