Thursday, December 30, 2010

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

Tuesday, December 28, 2010

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

Monday, December 27, 2010

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

Wednesday, December 22, 2010

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

Tuesday, December 21, 2010

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

Friday, December 17, 2010

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

Thursday, December 16, 2010

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

Wednesday, December 15, 2010

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

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

Tuesday, December 14, 2010

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


Monday, December 13, 2010

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

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

Sunday, December 12, 2010

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

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

Paisan (Roberto Rossellini, 1946): 2/5

Friday, December 10, 2010

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

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

Zoo (Robinson Devor, 2007): 5/5

Wednesday, December 8, 2010

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

Monday, December 6, 2010

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

Saturday, December 4, 2010

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