Tuesday, November 30, 2010

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

Monday, November 29, 2010

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

Sunday, November 28, 2010

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

Wednesday, November 24, 2010

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

Thursday, November 18, 2010

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

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

Saturday, November 13, 2010

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

Friday, November 12, 2010

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

Sunday, November 7, 2010

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

Sicko (Michael Moore, 2007): 3/5

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

Thursday, November 4, 2010

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) :)

Monday, November 1, 2010

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