Fear and Desire (Stanley Kubrick, 1953): 3/5

Weekend (Andrew Haigh, 2011): 3/5

Cedar Rapids (Miguel Arteta, 2011): 2/5

If a Tree Falls: A Story of the Earth Liberation Front (Marshall Curry, 2011): 2/5

Ossos (Pedro Costa, 1997): 3/5

Tuesday, After Christmas (Radu Muntean, 2010): 2/5

Attack the Block (Joe Cornish, 2011): 2/5

The Help (Tate Taylor, 2011)-- 2/5

Birth (Jonathan Glazer, 2004)-- 5/5

Blindness (Fernando Meirelles, 2008)-- 1/5

Wagon Master (John Ford, 1950): 3/5

L'Atalante (Jean Vigo, 1934): 4/5

The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (Robert Wiene, 1920): 3/5

Frankenstein, rw (James Whale, 1931): 4/5

The Old Dark House, rw (James Whale, 1932): 4/5

The Invisible Man, rw (James Whale, 1933): 3/5

The Shining, rw (Stanley Kubrick, 1980): 5/5

The Wave (Dennis Gansel, 2008): 2/5

The Future (Miranda July, 2011): 5/5

"Have you ever been outside? I mean, not temporarily. I mean born outside, never been inside, never been petted, not even once. Yes? Then you know about the darkness that is not appropriate to talk about."

-Paw Paw

Beginners (Mike Mills, 2010): 4/5

Taking Woodstock (Ang Lee, 2009): 2/5

After the Wedding (Susanne Bier, 2006): 2/5

The Edge of Heaven, rw (Fatih Akin, 2007): 4/5

Bad Education, rw (Pedro Almodovar, 2004): 3/5

The Unknown (Tod Browning, 1927): 3/5

And Everything is Going Fine (Steven Soderbergh, 2010): 3/5

The Future (Miranda July, 2011): 2/5

Hugo 3D (Martin Scorsese, 2011): 1/5

À Propos de Nice, 25 min (Jean Vigo, 1930): 3/5

Dirty Money/Un Flic (Jean-Pierre Melville, 1972): 3/5

Straight Time (Ulu Grosbard, 1978): 4/5

The Black Power Mixtape 1967-1975 (Göran Olsson, 2011): 3/5

The Descendents (Alexander Payne, 2011): 4/5

Breaking Bad: Season 3 (Vince Gilligan, 2010): 4/5

Jack Goes Boating (Philip Seymour Hoffman, 2010): 3/5

Objectified (Gary Hustwit, 2009): 3/5

The Coca-Cola Kid (Dusan Makavejev, 1985): 2/5

A Dangerous Method (David Cronenberg, 2011): 3/5

Harvest Time (Marina Razbezhkina, 2004): 4/5

Fight Club, rw (David Fincher, 1999): 2/5 [orig: 4/5]

Control, rw (Anton Corbijn, 2007): 4/5

Zero de Conduite (Jean Vigo, 1933): 4/5

Taris, 10m (Jean Vigo, 1931): 3/5

Election, rw (Alexander Payne, 1999): 5/5

Foxy Brown, rw (Jack Hill, 1974): 3/5

Jackass 3D (Jeff Tremaine, 2010): 3/5

A Dangerous Method (David Cronenberg, 2011): 3/5

Beginners (Mike Mills, 2011): 4/5

The Muppets (James Bobin, 2011): 3/5

Breaking Bad, Season 1 (Vince Gilligan, 2008): 4/5

Reservoir Dogs, rw (Quentin Tarantino, 1992): 5/5

Raging Bull, rw (Martin Scorsese, 1980): 6/5

Europa Europa (Agniezska Holland, 1990)-- 3/5

The Vanishing (George Sluizer, 1988)-- 4/5

The Lover (Jean-Jacques Annaud, 1992)-- 2/5

Querelle (Fassbinder, 1982)-- 1/5

Southland Tales (Richard Kelly, 2006)-- holy fucking shit.

Easy Riders, Raging Bulls (Kenneth Bowser, 2003)-- 3/5

The Grapes of Wrath (John Ford, 1940)-- 5/5

Let It Be (Michael Lindsay-Hogg, 1970)-- 5/5

Nanook of the North (Robert J. Flaherty, 1922): 4/5

Louisiana Story (Robert J. Flaherty, 1948): 5/5

Both poetic and authentic, Flaherty's movies express not the cruelty of the environment, but the joy of being "in place." The people in his movies are shaped by -- are the same material as -- their environment.

Breaking Bad: Season 2 (Vince Gilligan, 2009): 5/5

Antichrist (Lars von Trier, 2009): 2/5

Cargo 200, rw (Alexsey Balabanov, 2007): 4/5

Burnt by the Sun, rw (Nikita Mikhalkov, 1994): 1/5

Dillinger, rw (John Milius, 1973): 4/5

The Unbearable Lightness of Being (Philip Kaufmann, 1988)-- 2/5

THX 1138 (George Lucas, 1971)-- 2/5

All About Lily Chou-Chou (Shunji Iwai, 2001)-- 2/5

A Dangerous Method (Cronenberg, 2011)-- 5/5, except for Kiera Knightly (a fundamental case of miscasting)

L'Auberge Espagnole (Cedric Klapisch, 2002)-- 3/5 (Original rating: 2/5)

Don't Look Now (Roeg, 1973)-- 3/5

Man of Aran (Robert J. Flaherty, 1934): 5/5

Repulsion (Roman Polanski, 1965): 5/5

Bill Cunningham New York (Richard Press, 2010)-- 3/5

Bill Cunningham New York (Richard Press, 2010)-- 4/5

Taste of Cherry (Kiarostami, 1997)-- 5/5

Europa (Von Trier, 1991)-- 3/5

Melancholia (Lars von Trier, 2011): 5/5

The Loneliness of a Long Distance Runner (Tony Richardson, 1962): 5/5

50/50 (Jonathan Levine, 2011): 4/5

The Taking of Pelham One Two Three, rw (Joseph Sargent, 1974): 4/5

Shoeshine (Vittorio De Sica, 1946): 4/5

Scream, rw (Wes Craven, 1996): 3/5

Submarine (Richard Ayoade, 2010): 3/5

Breaking Bad: Season 1 (Vince Gilligan, 2008): 5/5

Inside Man (Spike Lee, 2006): 3/5

Melancholia (Lars von Trier, 2011): 5/5

Freaks (Tod Browning, 1932): 3/5

The Thief, rw (Pavel Chukhrai, 1997): 3/5

The Prince is Back, rw (Marina Goldovskya, 1999): 2/5

Moscow Freestyle (Julia Ivanova, 2006): 2/5

Of Freaks and Men (Aleksey Balabanov, 1998): 3/5

Mr. Arkadin (Orson Welles, 1955): 2/5

Horrible Bosses (Seth Gordon, 2011): 2/5

Don't Torture a Ducking (Lucio Fulci, 1972): 2/5

Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia (Peckinpah, 1974)-- 2/5

Pirates of Silicon Valley (Martyn Burke, 1999)-- 2/5

Last Exit to Brooklyn (Uli Edel, 1989)--- 2/5

A Taste of Cherry, rw (Abbas Kiarostami, 1997): 5/5

Aguirre, Wrath of God, rw (Werner Herzog, 1972): 5/5

Attack the Block (Joe Cornish, 2011): 4/5

Risky Business, rw (Paul Brickman, 1983): 4/5

Detour, rw (Edgar G. Ulmer, 1945): 4/5

The Curse of Frankenstein (Terence Fisher, 1957): 3/5

X-Men: First Class (Matthew Vaughn, 2011): 3/5

How to Marry a Millionaire (Jean Negulesco, 1953): 3/5

The Perfect Host (Nick Tomnay, 2010): 1/5

The Devil and Daniel Webster ( William Dieterle, 1941)-- 3/5

Tabloid (Errol Morris, 2010)-- 4/5

Crazy, Stupid, Love ( Glenn Ficarra, 2011)-- 2/5

Melancholia (Von Trier, 2011)-- 3.5/5

Coming Apart (Milton Moses Ginsburg, 1969)-- 2/5

Nine Lives (Rodrigo Garcia, 2005)-- 2/5

The Bed You Sleep In ( Jon Jost, 2000)-- 2/5

Mademoiselle (Tony Richardson, 1966)-- 5/5

Montenegro (Dusan Makavejev, 1981): 3/5

Solovki Power (Marina Goldovskya, 1988): 3/5

Putty Hill (Matthew Porterfield, 2010): 2/5

Martha Marcy May Marlene (Sean Durkin, 2011): 3/5

Ace in the Hole, rw (Billy Wilder, 1951): 5/5

The Collectionneuse (Eric Rohmer, 1967): 3/5

Une étudiante d'aujourd'hui, 13 min (Eric Rohmer, 1966): 2/5

Road to Nowhere (Monte Hellman, 2011): 2/5

End games:

Salo (Pier Paolo Pasolini, 1975): 2/5

Heaven's Gate (Michael Cimino, 1980): 3/5

Nothing Sacred (William Wellman, 1937): 4/5

Meek's Cutoff (Kelly Reichardt, 2011): 3/5

George Harrison: Living in the Material World (Scorsese, 2011): 2/5

Ride the High Country (Sam Peckinpah, 1962): 4/5

Tabloid (Errol Morris, 2010): 2/5

Le Havre (Aki Kaurismaki, 2011): 3/5

Enchanted April (Mike Newell, 1992): 3/5

The Bad Seed (Mervyn LeRoy, 1956): 3/5

Martha Marcy May Marlene (Sean Durkin, 2011): 4/5

The Railroad Man (Pietro Germi, 1956): 3/5

Vive le tour (Louis Malle, 1962): 4/5

The Ballad of Cable Hogue (Sam Peckinpah, 1970): 2/5

The Robber (Benjamin Heisenberg, 2010): 2/5

An Autumn Afternoon, rw (Yashiro Ozu, 1962): 3/5

Mademoiselle, rw (Tony Richardson, 1966): 5/5

Cross of Iron (Sam Peckinpah, 1977): 3/5

Ronin (John Frankenheimer, 1998): 2/5 (final car chase: 5/5)

Sink or Swim (Su Friedrich, 1990)-- 4/5

re-watched Y Tu Mama Tambien (Alfonso Cuaron, 2001)-- 2/5 (Original Rating-- 4/5)

re-watched The Great Dictator (Charlie Chaplin, 1940)-- 5/5

Mademoiselle, rw (Tony Richardson, 1966): 5/5

Bad Company (Robert Benton, 1972): 4/5

Cosmic Ray, 4 min., (Bruce Conner, 1962): 4/5

9 Variations on a Dance Theme, 9 min., (Hilary Harris, 1967): 3/5

Superstar - The Karen Carpenter Story, 43 min., (Todd Haynes, 1988): 5/5

Jane Eyre (Cary Fukunaga, 2011): 3/5

The Thing, rw (John Carpenter, 1982): 5/5

The Shining, rw (Stanley Kubrick, 1980): 5/5

Le Plaisir ( Max Ophuls, 1952)-- 4/5

To Be or Not To Be ( Ernst Lubitsch, 1942)-- 4/5

Touchez Pas Au Grisbi ( Jacques Becker, 1946) -- 3/5

On Dangerous Ground, rw (Nicholas Ray, 1952): 2/5

Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid, rw (Sam Peckinpah, 1973): 2/5

Nadja, rw (Michael Almereyda, 1994): 3/5

re-watched Raging Bull (Scorcese, 1980)-- 5/5 (original rating--2/5)

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

re-watched To Kill A Mockingbird (Robert Mulligan, 1962)-- 5/5

The Skin I Live In (Pedro Almodovar, 2011)-- 5/5

Damned If You Don't ( Su Friedrich, 1987)-- 2/5

Lovers and Lollipops (Morris Engel, 1956)-- 3/5

Weddings and Babies (Morris Engel, 1960)-- 2/5

Drugstore Cowboy, rw (Gus Van Sant, 1989): 5/5

The Set-Up, rw (Robert Wise, 1949): 5/5

Bad Day at Black Rock, rw (John Sturges, 1954): 3/5

Moog (Hans Fjellestad, 2004): 2/5

Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia (Sam Peckinpah, 1974): 5/5

Moscow Does Not Believe in Tears (Vladimir Menshov, 1980): 2/5

The Notorious Bettie Page (Mary Harron, 2005): 2/5

The Ides of March (George Clooney, 2011): 2/5

Day of Wrath ( Dreyer, 1943)-- 2/5

The Puffy Chair (Jay Duplass, 2005)-- 1/5

Made In Britain (Alan Clarke, 1982)-- 2/5

Cyrus (Jay & Mark Duplass, 2010): 1/5

Hanna (Joe Wright, 2011): 2/5

Bullitt (Peter Yates, 1968): 4/5

An Autumn Afternoon (Yasujirô Ozu, 1962): 5/5

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

The Human Centipede II: Full Sequence (Tom Six, 2011)-- No Rating

Forks Over Knives (Lee Fulkerson, 2011)-- 3/5

Shotgun Freeway: Drives Through Lost L.A. (Morgan Neville & Harry Pallenberg, 1995)-- 4/5

Burn! (Gillo Pontecorvo, 1969; 112 min.): 4/5

Drive (Nicolas Winding Refn, 2011): 1/5

Faces (Cassavetes, 1968)-- 2/5

Opening Night (Cassavetes, 1977)-- 2/5

Gloria (Cassavetes, 1980)-- 1/5

rewatched Chungking Express (Wong kar-wai, 1994)-- 5/5

Stalingrad (Joseph Vilsmaier, 1993): 3/5

The Kids Are All Right (Lisa Cholodenko, 2010): 3/5

Death Proof (Quentin Tarantino, 2007): 1/5

Gran Torino (Clint Eastwood, 2008): 1/5

The Circus (Charles Chaplin, 1928): 4/5

Burn! (Gillo Pontecorvo, 1969): 5/5

The Verdict (Sidney Lumet, 1982): 3/5

The Spirit of the Beehive (Víctor Erice, 1973): 3/5

The Naked City (Jules Dassin, 1948): 3/5

Late Spring (Yasujirô Ozu, 1949): 4/5

J'accuse! (Abel Gance, 1919): 3/5

Win Win (Thomas McCarthy, 2011): 3/5

Le Quattro Volte (Michelangelo Frammartino, 2010): 5/5

Father of My Children (Mia Hansen-Love, 2009): 2/5

Excellent Cadavers (Marco Turco, 2005): 3/5

Poisoned by Polonium: The Litivinenko File (Andrei Nekrasov, 2007): 2/5

Lost Horizon (Frank Capra, 1937)-- 2/5

Meet John Doe (Capra, 1941)-- 2/5

Big Trouble (Cassavetes, 1986)-- 2/5

Take Shelter (Jeff Nichols, 2011)-- 3/5

Anna (Pierre Koralnick, 1967)--4/5

Gasland (Josh Fox, 2010)-- 3/5

Los Olvidados (Bunuel, 1950)-- 3/5 (Dream scene-- 5/5)

Spellbound (Hitchcock, 1945)-- 4/5

Tokyo Twilight (Yasujirô Ozu, 1957): 5/5

Out of Sight, rw (Steven Soderbergh, 1998): 3/5

Source Code (Duncan Jones, 2011): 3/5

Strange Cargo (Frank Borzage, 1940): 2/5

Gervaise (Rene Clement, 1956): 2/5

Circo (Aaron Schock, 2010): 3/5

Scarlet Street (Fritz Lang, 1945): 4/5

Valhalla Rising (Nicolas Winding Refn, 2009): 2/5

Drive (Nicolas Winding Refn, 2011): 2/5

Up and Down (Jan Hrebejk, 2004): 2/5

Perfume: The Story of a Murderer (Tom Twyker, 2006): 1/5

Last Train Home (Lixin Fan, 2009): 3/5

Repo Man, rw in class (Alex Cox, 1984): 5/5

The Thing From Another World (Christian Nyby/Howard Hawks, 1951): 3/5

Limitless (Neil Burger, 2011): 3/5

Le Quattro Volte (Michelangelo Frammartino, 2010): 5/5

Waste Land (Lucy Walker, 2010)-- 3/5

Waiting For Superman (Davis Guggenheim, 2010)-- 3/5

Blue Valentine (Derek Cianfrance, 2010)-- 3/5

I Am Love (Luca Guadagnino, 2009)-- 3/5

Mutual Appreciation (Andrew Bujalski, 2005)-- 2/5

Funny Ha Ha (Andrew Bujalski, 2003)-- 3/5

You, the Living (Roy Andersson, 2007)-- 2/5

The Earrings of Madame de... (Max Ophuls, 1953)-- 5/5

Lola Montes (Max Ophuls, 1955)-- 4/5

Bridesmaids (Paul Feig, 2011)-- 4/5

The Idiots (Lars Von Trier, 2000)-- 1/5

The Wind (Victor Sjostrom, 1928)-- 4/5

Poison (Todd Haynes, 1991)-- 5/5

The Misfits (John Huston, 1961)-- 2/5

The Short Films of David Lynch (2002)-- 2/5

The Straight Story (David Lynch, 1999)-- 2/5

Of Time and the City (Terence Davies, 2008): 2/5

Army of Crime (Robert Guediguian, 2009): 3/5

The Man Who Wasn't There, rw (Coen Bros, 2001): 4/5

Room 666 (Wim Wenders, 1982)-- 2/5

Downfall (Oscar Hirschbiegel, 2004)-- 3/5

Eadweard Muybridge, Zoopraxographer (Thom Andersen, 1975): 5/5

The Long Goodbye (Robert Altman, 1973): 5/5

Classe Tous Risques (Claude Sautet, 1959): 4/5

Stardust Memories (Woody Allen, 1980)-- 3/5

A Zed & Two Noughts (Peter Greenaway, 1985)-- Fuck this asshole/5

Spirits of the Dead: Three Tales of the Macabre by Edgar Allan Poe (1968)

Metzengerstein (Roger Vadim)-- 2/5

William Wilson (Louis Malle) -- 3/5

Toby Dammit (Fellini)-- 2/5

Sweet and Lowdown (Woody Allen, 1999)-- 3/5

Miami Blues (George Armitage, 1990)-- 2/5

Safe (T0dd Haynes, 1995)-- 4/5

In A Lonely Place (Nicholas Ray, 1950)-- 4/5

Les Dames du Bois de Boulogne (Bresson, 1945)-- 3/5

Crimes and Misdemeanors (Woody Allen, 1989)-- 4/5

The Arbor (Clio Barnard, 2010): 3/5

Samaritan Girl (Kim Ki-duk, 2004): 2/5

Downfall, rw (Oliver Hirschbiegel, 2004): 5/5

Taxi Driver, rw (Martin Scorsese, 1976): Duh

Shivers (David Cronenberg, 1975): 4/5

Midnight in Paris (Woody Allen, 2011): 4/5

Le Deuxième Souffle (Jean-Pierre Melville, 1966): 5/5

The Fifth Cord (Luigi Bazzoni, 1971): 4/5
(amazing cinematography by Vittorio Storaro)

The Iron Giant, rw (Brad Bird, 1999): 4/5

Vincent and Theo (Robert Altman, 1990): 4/5

Idiocracy (Mike Judge, 2006): 2/5

Rewatched:

The Last Detail (Hal Ashby, 1973): 5/5

Eyes Wide Shut (Stanley Kubrick, 1999): 2/5

Oasis (Lee Chang-dong, 2002): 5/5

The Lady From Shanghai (Orson Welles, 1948)-- 2/5

The Bad and the Beautiful (Vincente Minnelli, 1952)-- 4/5

The Strange Love of Martha Ivers (Lewis Milestone, 1946)-- 2/5

Le Trou (Jacques Becker, 1960)-- 5/5

Tomorrow We Move (Chantal Ackerman, 2004)-- 2/5

re-watched Psycho (Hitchcock, 1960)-- 5/5

Fail-Safe (Lumet, 1964)-- 5/5

Shadow of a Doubt (Hitchcock, 1943)-- 3/5

Last Night (Don McKellar, 1998)-- 2/5

Pushover (Richard Quine, 1954): 2/5

Drugstore Cowboy, rw (Gus Van Sant, 1989): 5/5

Psycho (Gus Van Sant, 1998): 2/5

Vincere, rw (Marco Bellocchio, 2009): 4/5

Dames (Ray Enright, Busby Berkeley, 1934): Enright, 2/5; Berkeley, 5/5

The French Lieutenant's Woman (Karel Reisz, 1981): 4/5

The Way Back (Peter Weir, 2010): 2/5

Hardcore (Paul Schrader, 1979)-- 4/5

200 Cigarettes (Risa Bramon Garcia, 1999)-- 1/5

Out of the Blue (Dennis Hopper, 1980)-- 2/5

Memories of Underdevelopment (Tomas Gutierrez Alea, 1968)-- 3/5

Trainspotting rw (Danny Boyle, 1996): 3/5

Junior Bonner (Sam Peckinpah, 1972): 3/5

Fear and Desire (Kubrick, 1953)-- 2/5

re-watched Paths of Glory (Kubrick, 1957)-- 5/5

re-watched 2001: A Space Odyssey (Kubrick, 1968)-- 5/5

Barry Lyndon (Kubrick, 1975)-- 4/5

re-watched The Shining (Kubrick, 1980)-- 5/5

re-watched Full Metal Jacket (Kubrick, 1987)-- 4/5

America, America (Elia Kazan, 1963): 2/5

Johnny Got His Gun (Dalton Trumbo, 1971): 1/5

Mr. Klein, rw (Joseph Losey, 1976): 4/5

Leon Morin, Priest (Jean-Pierre Melville, 1961): 5/5

Tangled (Nathan Greno, 2010): 3/5

13 Assassins (Takashi Miike, 2010): 2/5

Boogie Woogie (Duncan Ward, 2009)-- 1/5

Being There (Hal Ashby, 1979)-- 2/5

My Brilliant Career (Gillian Armstrong, 1979)-- 2/5

La Ceremonie (Chabrol, 1996) -- 3/5

It Happened One Night, rw (Frank Capra, 1934): 3/5

Cul-de-sac (Roman Polanski, 1966): 2/5

La Bandera (Julien Duvivier, 1935): 3/5

Wild Strawberries rw (Ingmar Bergman, 1957): 4/5

Camera Buff rw (Krzysztof Kieslowski, 1979): 4/5

Strike (Volker Schlondorff, 2006): 2/5

Act of God (Jennifer Baichwal, 2009): 3/5

Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown, rw (Pedro Almodovar, 1988): 4/5

Killer's Kiss, rw (Stanley Kubrick, 1955): 4/5

re-watched Dr. Strangelove (Kubrick, 1964)-- 5/5

re-watched Eyes Wide Shut (Kubrick, 1999)-- 5/5

Stanley Kubrick: A Life in Pictures (Jan Harlan, 2001)-- 4/5

Il Generale Della Rovere (Roberto Rossellini, 1959): 4/5

Origins of a Meal (Luc Moullet, 1978): 3/5

One Hour Photo (Mark Romanek, 2002): 1/5

Sarah's Key (Gilles Paquet-Brenner, 2010): 2/5

Who'll Stop the Rain (Karel Reisz, 1978): 3/5

Moby Dick (John Huston, 1956): 4/5

Kanal (Andrzej Wajda, 1957): 4/5

The Killing (Kubrick, 1956 )-- 5/5

Killer's Kiss (Kubrick, 1955 )-- 4/5

Spartacus (Kubrick, 1960)-- 4/5

Hiroshima, Mon Amour rw (Alain Resnais, 1959): 2/5

The 400 Blows rw (Francois Truffaut, 1959): 4/5

Antoine et Collette (Truffaut, 1962): 4/5

Stolen Kisses (Truffaut, 1968): 2/5

Dusty and Sweets McGee rw (Floyd Mutrux, 1971): 3/5


Thom Andersen on Dusty and Sweets McGee:

http://filmlinccom.siteprotect.net/wrt/fcs/dustyandwax.html

Les Bonnes Femmes (Chabrol, 1960)-- 2/5

Freakanomics (Ewing, Gibney, et al, 2010)-- 3/5

The Bridge (Eric Steel, 2006)-- 3/5

Splice (Vicenzo Natali, 2009)-- 2/5

The Other Woman ( Don Roos, 2010)-- 1/5

re-watched A Clockwork Orange (Kubrick, 1971)-- 5/5

Leon Morin, Priest (Jean-Pierre Melville, 1961): 5/5

Hell in the Pacific (John Boorman, 1968): 2/5

Capturing Reality: The Art of Documentary (Pepita Ferrari, 2009): 3/5

Two in the Wave (Emmanuel Laurent, 2010): 3/5

The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes (Billy Wilder, 1970): 2/5

Un Chien Andalou (Luis Bunuel, 1929): 4/5

Six Feet Under, pilot episode (Alan Ball, 2001): 5/5

The Lost Weekend (Wilder, 1945)-- 4/5

The Postman Always Rings Twice (Tay Garnett, 1946)-- 4/5

Le Petit Soldat (Godard, 1960)-- 2/5

The Clock (Christian Marclay, 2010) (11:45pm-1:30am): 5/5

Violent Summer (Valerio Zurlini, 1959): 2/5

La Truite (Joseph Losey, 1982): 1/5

The Verdict rw (Sidney Lumet, 1982): 4/5

Flame and Citron (Ole Christian Madsen, 2008): 3/5

The Story of the Weeping Camel (Daava, Farlorni, 2008)-- 3/5

Fando & Lis (Jodorowsky, 1994)-- 1/5

What's Eating Gilbert Grape (Hallstrom, 1993)-- 3/5

The Clock (Christian Marclay, 2010): 5/5

Simple Men (Hal Hartley, 1992): 4/5

Rubber (Quentin Dupieux, 2010): 3/5

Cat People (Paul Schrader, 1982): 3/5

The Adjustment Bureau (George Nolfi, 2011): 3/5

Gertrude (Carl Theodore Dreyer, 1964): 2/5

Stanley Kubrick's Boxes (Jon Ronson, 2008) --4/5

Outrage (Kirby Dick, 2009)-- 2/5

Diary of a Country Priest (Bresson, 1951)-- 3/5

Waxworks (Paul Leni, 1924): 2/5

Le Combat Dans Iile (Alain Cavalier, 1962): 3/5

Bay of Angels rw (Jacques Demy, 1963): 4/5

The Conformist rw (Bernardo Bertolucci, 1970): 4/5

A Self-Made Hero rw (Jacques Audiard, 1996): 4/5

Diary of a Chambermaid (Bunuel, 1964)-- 2/5

Ordet (Dreyer, 1955)-- 3/5

Waiting for Guffman (Guest, 1996)-- 4/5

Man of Iron (Wajda, 1981)-- 2/5

Rosetta (Dardenne brothers, 1999)-- 3/5

Vampyr (Dreyer, 1932): 4/5

Three Monkeys (Ceylan, 2008): 3/5

The Rink/The Floorwalker (Chaplin, 1916): 3/5

Wild at Heart (David Lynch, 1990)-- 2/5

Murderous Maids (Jean-Pierre Denis, 2000)-- 3/5

Good Men, Good Women (Hsiao-Hsien Hou, 1995)-- 2/5

Crimson Gold (Jafar Panahi, 2004)-- 4/5

The Elephant Man (David Lynch, 1980) -- 5/5

Six in Paris (Godard et al, 1965)-- 1/5

The Passion of Joan of Arc rw (Carl Th. Dreyer, 1928): 5/5

Vampyr (Dreyer, 1932): 4/5

Ordet (Dreyer, 1955): 3/5

Port of Shadows rw (Marcel Carne, 1938): 4/5

Children of Paradise (Carne, 1945): 4/5

Therese Raquin (Carne, 1953): 3/5

An Angel at My Table (Jane Campion, 1990): 3/5

The Music Box (James Parrott, 1932): 5/5

Monsters (Gareth Edwards, 2010): 2/5

Straw Dogs (Peckinpah, 1971)-- 2/5

The Circle (Jafar Panahi, 2000)-- 3/5

The War Room (D.A. Pennebaker, 1993)-- 3/5

Good Dick (Marianna Palka, 2008)-- 1/5

Mysterious Object at Noon (Apichatpong Weerasethakul, 2001)-- 2/5

Il Posto (Ermmano Olmi, 1961)-- 4/5

American Psycho (Mary Harron, 2000)-- 5/5

3-Iron (Ki-duk Kim, 2004)-- 3/5

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part 2 (David Yates, 2011): 2/5
(not sure whether this counts as a movie)

Odd Man Out (Carol Reed, 1947): 4/5

El Topo (Alejandro Jodorowsky, 1970): 4/5

Jean-Michel Basquiat: The Radiant Child (Tamra Davis, 2009): 4/5

Le Plaisir (Max Ophuls, 1951): 2/5

Possession (Zulawski, 1981)-- 1/5

The Decameron (Pasolini, 1971)-- 2/5

Play It Again, Sam (Woody Allen, 1972)-- 4/5

Paranormal Activity 2 (Tod Williams, 2010)-- 1/5

Man Ray: Prophet of the Avant-Garde (PBS American Master Series, 1990)-- 3/5

The Big Parade rw (King Vidor, 1925): 2/5

Cria Cuervos (Carlos Saura, 1976): 2/5

The Tree of Wooden Clogs rw (Ermanno Olmi, 1978): 4/5

Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter... and Spring (Kim Ki-duk, 2003): 4/5

After Life (Hirokazu Koreeda, 1999)-- 3/5

L'Argent (Robert Bresson, 1983)-- 3/5

Fireworks (Takeshi Kitano, 1998)-- 4/5

The Lusty Men rw (Nicholas Ray, 1952): 3/5

Spare Parts (Damjan Kozole, 2003): 2/5

Tyson (James Toback, 2008): 2/5

Artistically innovative but painful to watch:

In a Year With Thirteen Moons rw (RW Fassbinder, 1978)

Clean, Shaven (Lodge Kerrigan, 1997)

Jackie Brown (Tarantino, 1997)-- 4/5

East of Eden (Kazan, 1955)-- 2/5

Paranoid Park (Gus Van Sant, 2007)-- 2/5

I Saw the Devil (Jee-Woon Kim, 2010): 1/5

The Windmill Movie (Alexander Olch, 2008): 2/5

Tess (Roman Polanski, 1979): 4/5

Ashes and Diamonds (Andrzej Wajda, 1958): 4/5

Stage Fright (Alfred Hitchcock, 1950): 4/5

La Promesse (Luc and Jean-Pierre Dardenne, 1996)-- 4/5

Puppetmaster (Hsiao-Hsien Hou, 1993)-- 2/5

James Dean (Mark Rydell, 2001)-- 2/5

Frankenhooker (Frank Henenlotter, 1990)-- 4/5

Martyrs (Pascal Laugier, 2008)-- 1/5

Diary of a Country Priest (Robert Bresson, 1951): 5/5

Maitresse (Barbet Schroeder, 1976): 3/5

Tricheurs (Barbet Schroeder, 1984): 3/5

Songs From the Second Floor (Roy Andersson, 2000)-- 2/5

Benny's Video (Haneke, 1992)-- 3/5

Dark Passage (Delmer Daves, 1947)-- 4/5

The Cat's Meow (Peter Bogdanovich, 2001): 2/5

Mountain Patrol: Kekexili (Chuan Lu, 2004): 2/5

Indigenes (aka Days of Glory) (Rachid Bouchareb, 2006): 3/5

La Vie en Rose (Olivier Dahan, 2007): 2/5

Szamanka (Andrzej Zulawski, 1996) -- 1/5

L'amour Braque (Andrzej Zulawski, 1985)-- 1/5

They Live (John Carpenter, 1988): 1/5

Dead Man (Jim Jarmusch, 1995): 3/5

Wet Hot American Summer (David Wain, 2001): 4/5

Out of the Past (Jacques Tourneur, 1947): 4/5

Mysterious Skin (Gregg Araki, 2004): 2/5

Secret Sunshine (Lee Chang Dong, 2007)-- 4/5

Peppermint Candy (Lee Chang Dong, 1999)-- 3/5

1776 (Peter H. Hunt, 1972)-- 3/5

Nowhere Boy ( Sam Taylor Wood, 2009)-- 2/5

Backbeat (Iain Softely, 1994)-- 2/5

Sunflower (Vittorio De Sica, 1970)-- 3/5

Eternity and a Day (Theo Angelopoulos, 1998)-- 3/5

Mo' Better Blues (Spike Lee, 1990)-- 4/5

The English Patient (Minghella, 1996)-- 2/5

A Woman in Berlin (Farberbock, 2008) -- 2/5

Dangerous Liasons (Frears, 1988)-- 2/5

Tenure (Mike Million, 2009)-- 5/5

The Big Lebowski (Joel Cohen, 1998)-- 5/5

Kids (Larry Clark, 1995)-- 1/5

Chapelle's Show Season One (Dave Chapelle, 2003)-- 5/5

Dracula (Tod Browning, 1931): 3/5

Duel in the Sun (David O. Selznick, et al, 1946): wtf/5

El (Luis Bunuel, 1953): 3/5

The Criminal Life of Archibaldo de la Cruz (Luis Bunuel, 1955): 3/5

Monty Python and the Holy Grail (Gilliam-Jones, 1975): 3/5

Of Mice and Men (Lewis Milestone, 1939): 2/5

The Man in the White Suit (Alexander Mackendrick, 1951): 4/5

L'Enfance Nue (Maurice Pialat, 1968): 3/5

The Hired Hand (Peter Fonda, 1971): 3/5

The Windmill Movie (Alexander Olch, 2008): 2/5

Mother (Bong Joon-ho, 2009): 2/5

Conan O'Brien Can't Stop (Rodman Flender, 2011) -- 5/5

Je Tu Il Elle (Chantal Ackerman, 1974)-- 1/5

Student Services (Emanuelle Bercot, 2010)-- 1/5

The Snake Pit (Anatole Litvak, 1948)-- 3/5

Stevie (Steve James, 2003)-- 5/5

Daft Punk's Electroma (Daft Punk, 2006)-- 3/5

Wavelength (Michael Snow, 1967)-- 3/5

So Is This (Snow, 1982)-- 2/5

To Lavoisier, Who Died in the Reign of Terror (Snow, 1991)-- 3/5

Breakfast (Snow, 1976)-- 2/5

I Love You Phillip Morris (Glenn Ficarra, John Requa, 2009): 2/5

Bridesmaids (Paul Feig, 2011): 3/5

All Quiet on the Western Front (Lewis Milestone, 1930): 4/5

Heroes for Sale (William Wellman, 1933): 2/5

Wild Boys of the Road (William Wellman, 1933): 3/5

Van Gogh (Maurice Pialat, 1991): 4/5

The Host (Bong Joon-ho, 2006): 3/5

A Serbian Film (Srdjan Spasojevic, 2009)-- 1/5

Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown (Almodovar, 1988)-- 3/5

Close Encounters of the Third Kind (Spielberg, 1977)-- 2/5

The Wild and Wonderful Whites (Julien Nitzberg, 2009)-- 2/5

Happy-End (Peter Tscherkassky, 1996): 4/5

Hotel des Invalides (Georges Franju, 1952): 2/5

The Book of Eli (Albert & Allen Hughes, 2010): 2/5

Jerichow (Christian Petzold, 2008): 3/5

Charade (Stanley Donen, 1963): 3/5

Blue Valentine (Derek Cianfrance, 2010): 5/5

The Cook, The Thief, His Wife, and Her Lover (Peter Greenaway, 1989)-- 1/5

Napoleon (Abel Gance, 1927)-- 5/5

Everyone Says I Love You (Woody Allen, 1996)-- 4/5

The Beautiful Person (Christophe Honoré, 2008)-- 3/5

Green Fish (Lee Chang Dong, 1997)-- 2/5

The Seventh Continent (Haneke, 1989)-- 3/5

To Be or Not to Be (Ernst Lubitsch, 1942): 4/5

Tess rw (Roman Polanski, 1979): 4/5

Blind Chance (Krzysztof Kieslowski, 1981): 2/5

Minority Report (Steven Spielberg, 2002): 2/5

Munich (Steven Spielberg, 2005): 2/5

Blow Out (Brian DePalma, 1981): 4/5

You Can't Take it With You (Frank Capra, 1938): 4/5

Tim & Eric Awesome Show: Season One (2007): 4/5

Somewhere (Sofia Coppola, 2010): 4/5

Midnight in Paris (Woody Allen, 2011)-- 3/5

Good Hair (Jeff Stilson, 2009)-- 4/5

A State of Mind (Daniel Gordon, 2004)-- 5/5

Waterloo Bridge (Mervyn LeRoy, 1940)-- 4/5

Trouble in the Image (Pat O'Neill, 1996): 5/5

Home Stories (Matthias Muller, 1990): 4.5/5

Get Ready (Peter Tscherkassky, 1999): 5/5

Motion Picture (Peter Tscherkassky, 1984): 3/5

Live Flesh (Pedro Almodovar, 1997): 3/5

Wendy and Lucy (Kelly Reichardt, 2008): 3.5/5

Private Hell 36 (Don Siegel, 1954): 3/5

The Tree of Life (Terrence Malick, 2011): 4/5

Picasso and Braque Go to the Movies (Arne Glimcher, 2008): 5/5

The Fifth Element (Luc Besson, 1997): 1/5

The Seventh Seal (Ingmar Bergman, 1957): 2/5

Cave of Forgotten Dreams 3D (Werner Herzog, 2010): 5/5

Solaris (Steven Soderbergh, 2002): 4/5

The Reader (Stephen Daldry, 2008): 3/5

Frozen River (Courtney Hunt, 2008): 3/5

Winter's Bone (Debra Granik, 2010): 3/5

Step Brothers (Adam McKay, 2008): 1/5

To Live (Zhang Yimou, 1994)-- 3/5

The Five Obstructions (Lars Von Trier, 2003)-- 3/5

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

Tree of Life (Terrence Malick, 2011)-- 5/5

Gallipoli rw (Peter Weir, 1981): 2/5

The Thin Red Line rw (Terrence Malick, 1998): 3/5

Leon: The Professional (Luc Besson, 1994): 1/5

Tree of Life (Terrence Malick, 2011): 5/5

Vivre Sa Vie (Jean-Luc Godard, 1962): 4/5

The Hired Hand (Peter Fonda, 1971): 4/5

Film Socialisme (Godard, 2010)-- 1/5

Small Change (Truffaut, 1976)-- 5/5

Mad Men Season 4--5/5

Combat Shock (Buddy Giovinazzo, 1986): 3/5

Get Shorty (Barry Sonnenfeld, 1995): 3/5

Pauline at the Beach (Eric Rohmer, 1983): 4/5

The Cinemascope Trilogy (Peter Tscherkassky, 1997-2001): 5/5

Through a Glass Darkly (Bergman, 1961)-- 2/5

The African Queen (John Huston, 1951)-- 4/5

Mr. Klein (Joseph Losey, 1976)-- 4/5

Near Dark (Kathryn Bigelow, 1987): 3/5

Mondays in the Sun (Fernando Leon de Aronoa, 2002): 2/5

A Little Bit of Freedom (Yuksel Yavuz, 2003): 2/5

The Devil's Miner (Kief Davidson, 2005): 3/5

The Cinemascope Trilogy (Peter Tscherkassky, 1997-2001): 5/5

Poetry (Lee Chang-dong, 2010): 4/5

Sweet Movie (Dusan Makavejev, 1974): 1/5

White Material (Claire Denis, 2009): 2/5

Michael Jackson's This is It (Kenny Ortega, 2009)-- 3/5

Strange Days (Kathryn Bigelow, 1995)-- 3/5

The Fifth Element (Luc Besson, 1997) -- 2/5

The Clock (Christian Marclay, 2010)-- 5/5

Beau Travail (Claire Denis, 1999)-- 5/5

Trainspotting (Danny Boyle, 1996): 3/5

I Love You Phillip Morris (Glenn Ficarra, John Requa, 2009): 4/5

Blue Valentine (Derek Cianfrance, 2010): 2/5

The Decalogue (Kieslowski, 1989)-- 3/5

Hereafter (Clint Eastwood, 2010): 3/5

Rabbit Hole (John Cameron Mitchell, 2010): 3/5

Marwencol (Jeff Malmberg, 2010): 4/5

Kiss Me Deadly (Robert Aldrich, 1955): 5/5

Poetry (Lee Chang-dong, 2010): 5/5

Cave of Forgotten Dreams 3-D (Werner Herzog, 2010) -- 5/5

Julien Donkey Boy (Harmony Korine, 1999)-- 1/5

Intolerance (D.W. Griffith, 1916)-- 2/5

Flight of the Red Balloon (Hsiao-hsien hou, 2007)-- 5/5

Withnail and I (Bruce Robinson, 1987): 4/5

Poetry (Lee Chang-dong, 2010): 5/5

Source Code (Duncan Jones, 2011)-- 2/5

The New World (Terrence Malick, 2005)-- 5/5

The Thin Red Line (Malick, 1998)-- 4/5

Casablanca (Michael Curtiz, 1942)-- 5/5

Germany, Pale Mother (Helma Sanders-Brahms, 1980): 3/5

Dark City (Alex Proyas, 1998): 2/5

Brick (Rian Johnson, 2005): 2/5

Hadewijch (Bruno Dumont, 2009): 3/5

The Scarlet Empress (Josef von Sternberg, 1934): 5/5

Nostalgia for the Light (Patricio Guzman, 2010): 4/5

The King's Speech (Tom Hooper, 2010): 2/5

Fort Apache, The Bronx (Daniel Petrie, 1981): 1/5

Blow Out (Brian De Palma, 1981): 2/5

Bound (Wachowski Bros, 1996): 3/5

Fish Tank (Andrea Arnold, 2009): 3/5

Nostalgia for the Light (Patricio Guzman, 2010): 4/5

Shadows (Cassavetes, 1959)-- 2/5

Everything Put Together (Marc Forster, 2001)-- 2/5

I Heart Huckabees (David O. Russell, 2004)-- 3/5

The Talented Mr. Ripley (Anthony Minghella, 1999)-- 5/5

The Seventh Seal (Bergman, 1957)-- 3/5

True Confessions (Ulu Grosbard, 1981): 3/5

The Black Dahlia (Brian De Palma, 2006): 1/5

Sonatine (Takeshi Kitano, 1993): 2/5

Wild Combination: A Portrait of Arthur Russell (Matt Wolf, 2008): 4/5

Dogville (von Trier, 2004)-- 3/5

Intimacy (Patrice Chereau, 2001)-- 1/5

Manderlay (von Trier, 2005)-- 2/5

City Lights (Charles Chaplin, 1931): 5/5

Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (Steven Spielberg, 2008): 4/5

Assault on Precinct 13 (John Carpenter, 1976): 3/5

Vivre Sa Vie (Godard, 1962)-- 5/5

Nosferatu--The Gothic Industrial Mix (Murnau, 1922)-- 4/5

Dancer in the Dark (von Trier, 2000)-- 4/5

Mildred Pierce (Todd Haynes, 2011): 3/5

Knife in the Water (Roman Polanski, 1962): 5/5

Mildred Pierce (Todd Haynes, 2011): 3/5

What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (Aldrich, 1962)-- 5/5

Quiz Show (Redford, 1994)-- 4/5

Film Noir Collection: D.O.A. (Maté, 1950)-- 5/5

Arsenal (Alexander Dovzhenko, 1929): 3/5

Bird (Clint Eastwood, 1988): 4/5

Morning Glory (Roger Michell, 2010): 3/5

The Films of Kenneth Anger: Vol. 2 (Scorpio Rising, 1964; Kustom Kar Kommandos, 1965; Invocation of My Demon Brother, 1969; Rabbit's Moon: 1979 version, Lucifer Rising, 1981): 5/5

Les nuits electriques (Eugene Deslaw, 1927): 5/5

Broadway by Light (William Klein, 1958): 5/5

The Graduate (Mike Nichols, 1967): 5/5

Get Low (Aaron Schneider, 2009): 3/5

Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior (George Miller, 1981): 3/5

RoboCop (Paul Verhoeven, 1987): 4/5

The Virgin Suicides (Sofie Coppola, 1999): 3/5

Saigon Electric (Stephane Gauger, 2011)-- 2/5

A Woman Under the Influence (John Cassavetes, 1974) -- 3/5

The Heiress (William Wyler, 1949)-- 5/5

A Serious Man (Joel and Ethan Cohen, 2009)-- 3/5

District B13 (Pierre Morel, 2004)-- 3/5

Les nuits electriques (Eugene Deslaw, 1927): 4/5

Broadway by Light (William Klein, 1958): 5/5

Jane Eyre (Robert Stevenson, 1944): 3/5

Dogtooth (Giorgos Lanthimos, 2009): 1/5

Miral (Julian Schnabel, 2010)-- 1/5

Films of Kenneth Anger, Vol. 1 (Fireworks, 1947; Puce Moment, 1949; Rabbit's Moon, 1950; Eaux d'Artifice, 1953; Inauguration of the Pleasure Dome, 1954): 5/5

Earth (Aleksandr Dovzhenko, 1930): 5/5

Superbad (Greg Mottola, 2007): 5/5

Trash Humpers (Harmony Korine, 2009): 1/5

Show Me Love (Lukas Moodysson, 1999) -- 3/5

All Over Me (Alex Sichel, 1997) -- 1/5

American Movie (Chris Smith, 1999)-- 5/5

The Servant (Joseph Losey, 1963) -- 4/5

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

You Only Live Once (Fritz Lang, 1937): 4/5

Rashomon (Akira Kurosawa, 1950): 5/5

The Man Who Fell to Earth (Nicolas Roeg, 1976): 3/5

Dead Man (Jim Jarmusch, 1996): 5/5

Jordan Belson: 5 Essential Films (Allures; Samadhi; Light; Fountain of Dreams; Epilogue; 1961-2005): 5/5

The Fighter (David O. Russel, 2010): 3/5

Wings of Desire (Wim Wenders , 1987): 3/5

Jack Goes Boating (Philip Seymour Hoffman, 2010): 4/5

Code Unknown (Michael Haneke, 2000)-- 5/5

Trouble Every Day (Claire Denis, 2001)-- 2/5

Blissfully Yours (Apichatpong Weerasathekul, 2001)-- 2/5

Encounters at the End of the World (Werner Herzog, 2007)-- 5/5

Starship Troopers (Paul Verhoeven, 1997)-- 4/5

Robocop (Paul Verhoeven, 1987)-- 3/5

Showgirls (Paul Verhoeven, 1995)-- 1/5

The Manchurian Candidate (Jonathan Demme, 2004): 2/5

No One Knows About Persian Cats (Bahman Ghobadi, 2009): 2/5

Certified Copy (Abbas Kiarostami, 2010): 2/5

Certified Copy (Abbas Kiarostami, 2011): 4/5

Rango (Gore Verbinski, 2011): 3/5

Born to Win (Ivan Passer, 1971): 3/5

Mondo Cane (Jacopetti & Cavara, 1962) -- 3/5

Myra Breckinridge (Michael Sarne, 1970) -- 1/5

Fallen Angels (Wong kar-wai, 1995) -- 3/5

Certified Copy (Abbas Kiarostami, 2010)-- 5/5

Time Code (Mike Figgis, 2000) -- 1/5

I Know Where I'm Going! (Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger, 1941)-- 2/5

Payday (Daryl Duke, 1973): 4/5

Way Down East (D. W. Griffith, 1920): 4/5

Starship Troopers (Paul Verhoeven, 1997): 3/5

Beverly Hills Cop (Martin Brest, 1984): 3/5

The Heiress (William Wyler, 1949): 4/5

Love and Other Drugs (Edward Zwick, 2010): 1/5

Stanley Kubrick: A Life in Pictures (Jan Harlan, 2001): 4/5

Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives (Apichatpong Weerasethakul, 2010): 4/5

Twilight of a Woman's Soul (Evgeni Bauer, 1913): 3/5

After Death (Evgeni Bauer, 1915): 3/5

The Dying Swan (Evgeni Bauer, 1916): 4/5

Act of Violence (Fred Zinnemann, 1948): 4/5

Men in War (Anthony Mann, 1957): 3/5

Matador (Pedro Almodovar, 1986): 3/5

Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans (Werner Herzog, 2009): 4/5

Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives (Apichatpong Weerasethakul, 2010): 4/5

The Edge of Heaven (Fatih Akin, 2007)-- 5/5

Journey to the Sun (Gunese Yolculuk, 1999)-- 2/5

Mamma Roma (Pier Paolo Pasolini, 1962)-- 3/5

Accatone (Pier Paolo Pasolini, 1961) -- 2/5

Teorema (Pier Paolo Pasolini, 1968)-- 2/5

Oedipus Rex (Pier Paolo Pasolini, 1967)-- 2/5

Salo, or 120 Days of Sodom (Pier Paolo Pasolini, 1975)-- 1/5

Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives (Apitchapong Weerasethakul, 2010) -- 4/5

High Fidelity (Stephen Frears, 2000) -- 4/5

Kiss of the Spider Woman ( Hector Babenco, 1985) -- 1/5

The Cow ( Dariush Mehrjui, 1969) -- 3/5

The Wind Will Carry Us (Abbas Kiarostami, 2000)-- 1/5

Sorry, Haters (Jeff Stanzler, 2005) -- 4/5

Matador (Pedro Almodovar, 1986) -- 4/5

Persepolis (Marjane Satrapi, 2007) -- 5/5

Kandahar (Mosen Makhmalbaf, 2001) -- 5/5

American Grindhouse (Elijah Drenner, 2010): 3/5

Hour of the Wolf (Ingmar Bergman, 1968): 2/5

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

Jennifer's Body (Karyn Kusama, 2009): 2/5

2001: A Space Odyssey (Stanley Kubrick, 1968): 5/5

Crossfire (Edward Dmytryk, 1947): 2/5

Shockproof (Douglas Sirk, 1949): 2/5

Les Doulos (Jean-Pierre Melville, 1962): 5/5

The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (Ronald Neame, 1969): 3/5

Sorcerer (William Friedkin, 1977): 3/5

American Heart (Martin Bell, 1992): 4/5

Dark Victory (Edmund Goulding, 1939): 4/5

How To Train Your Dragon (Dean DeBlois, Chris Sanders, 2010): 3/5

Murder By Contract (Irving Lerner, 1958): 4/5

Taking Off (Milos Forman, 1971): 3/5

The Killing of a Chinese Bookie (John Cassavetes, 1976; 135 min.): 3/5

Maria's Lovers (Andrei Konchalovsky, 1984): 3/5

Dogtooth (Giorgos Lanthimos, 2010): 3/5

Macao (Josef von Sternberg, Mel Ferrer, Nicholas Ray, Robert Stevenson, 1952): 2/5

Lemon Tree (Eran Riklis, 2008) -- 5/5

Kippur (Amos Gitai, 2000) -- 3/5

Wild Grass (Alain Resnais. 2009): 2/5

Salt (Philip Noyce, 2010): 2/5

Frozen (Adam Green, 2010): 2/5

Zizek: The Reality of the Virtual (Ben Wright, 2004): 3/5

American Boy: A Profile of Steven Prince (Martin Scorsese, 1978): 4/5

Hedwig and the Angry Inch (John Cameron Mitchell, 2001) -- 3/5

Revanche (Gotz Spielmann, 2008): 3/5

Fela: Music is the Weapon (Jean-Jacques Flori, 1982): 5/5

Moguls and Movie Stars (TCM, 7-part series, 2010): 3/5

The Night Porter (Liliana Cavani, 1974) -- 1/5

Walk on Water (Etyan Fox, 2004) -- 3/5

Day Night Day Night (Julia Loktev, 2006) -- 4/5

The Wrong Man (Alfred Hitchcock, 1956): 3/5

Gumshoe (Stephen Frears, 1971): 3/5

Bad Company (Robert Benton, 1972): 4/5

Daisy Miller (Peter Bogdanovich, 1974): 2/5

American Boy (Martin Scorsese, 1978): 5/5

The Emperor's Naked Army Marches On (Kazuo Hara, 1987): 5/5

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

The American (Anton Corbijn, 2010): 3/5

A Woman, a Gun and a Noodle Shop (Yimou Zhang, 2009): 2/5

A Brighter Summer Day (Edward Yang, 1991) --5/5

Last Life in the Universe (Pen-Ek Ratanaruang, 2003) -- 2/5

Reconstruction (Christoffer Boe, 2004) -- 2/5

Paradise Now (Hany Abu-Assad, 2005) -- 4/5

Scarlet Street (Fritz Lang, 1945): 3/5

In a Lonely Place (Nicholas Ray, 1950): 5/5

Klute (Alan J. Pakula, 1971): 3/5

Hickey and Boggs (Robert Culp, 1972): 2/5

The Late Show (Robert Benton, 1977): 2/5

The Glass Shield (Charles Burnett, 1994): 1/5

Schizo (Gulshat Omarova, 2004): 3/5

Winnebago Man (Ben Steinbauer, 2009): 2/5

The American (Anton Corbijn, 2010): 2/5

Duel (Steven Spielberg, 1971): 4/5

Police, Adjective (Corneliu Porumboiu, 2009): 3/5

Animal Crackers (Victor Heerman, 1930): 4/5

Who is Harry Nilsson? (John Scheinfeld, 2006): 2/5

Imitation of Life (Douglas Sirk, 1959) -- 5/5

Magnificent Obsession (Douglas Sirk, 1954) -- 3/4

Contact (Robert Zemeckis, 1997) -- 5/5

Laila's Birthday (Rashid Mashawari, 2008) -- 4/5

Yi Yi (Edward Yang, 2000) -- 5/5

Rebels of the Neon God (Tsai Ming Liang, 1992) -- 4/5

Goodbye, Dragon Inn (Tsai Ming Liang, 2003) -- 1/5

The Skywalk is Gone (Tsai Ming Liang, 2002) -- 3/5

Easy A (Will Gluck, 2010): 2/5

I'm Still Here (Casey Alfleck, 2010): 4/5

There's Always Tomorrow (Douglas Sirk, 1956) -- 5/5

Alice in the Cities (Wim Wenders, 1974): 3/5

The State of Things (Wim Wenders, 1982): 3/5

Paris, Texas (Wim Wenders, 1984): 4/5

Nosferatu Phantom der Nacht (Werner Herzog, 1979): 5/5

Brother 2 (Aleksey Balabanov, 2000): 3/5

Cyrus (Jay & Mark Duplass, 2010): 2/5

Mother (Joon-ho Bong, 2010): 3/5

Morocco (Josef von Sternberg, 1930): 3/5

Candy (Neil Armfield, 2005) -- 1/5

Tideland (Terry Gilliam, 2005) -- 1/5

True Romance (Tony Scott, 1993) -- 2/5

Alamar (Pedro Gonzalez-Rubio, 2009): 5/5

Busting (Peter Hyams, 1974): 4/5

The Town (Ben Affflex, 2010): 1/5

The Shanghai Express (Josef Von Sternberg, 1932): 4/5

A Prophet (Jacques Audiard, 2010): 3/5

Desert Fury (Lewis Allen, 1947): 3/5

Payday (Daryl Duke, 1973): 4/5

I Stand Alone (Gaspar Noe, 1998): 1/5

Of Freaks and Men (Aleksey Balabanov, 1998): 5/5

Morphia (Aleksey Balabanov, 2008): 5/5

Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang (Shane Black, 2006): 2/5

The Social Network (David Fincher, 2010): 3/5

Le Mort Qui Tue (Louis Feuillade, 1913) -- 4/5

Precious (Lee Daniels, 2009) -- 2/5

La Moustache (Emmanuel Carrere, 2005) -- 5/5

Syriana (Steven Gaghan, 2005) -- 1/5

Dogtooth (Lanthimos, 2009) -- 4/5

Charade (Stanley Donen, 1963) -- 3/5

In a Year with 13 Moons (Fassbinder, 1978) -- 2/5

Coup de Torchon (Bertrand Tavenier, 1981) -- 4/5

Amblin' (Steven Spielberg, 1968): 3/5

Duel (Steven Spielberg, 1971): 5/5

Thief (Michael Mann, 1981): 2/5

True Grit (Ethan Coen, Joel Coen, 2010): 3/5

Berlin: Symphony of a Great City (Walter Ruttmann, 1927): 3/5

Days of Being Wild (Wong Kar-wai, 1990): 3/5

I Shot Jesse James (Samuel Fuller, 1949): 2/5

The Sugarland Express (Steven Spielberg, 1974): 2/5

Agony: The Life and Death of Rasputin (Elem Klimov, 1975): 3/5

Ashes of Time (Wong Kar-Wai, 1994): 2/5

Soul Kitchen (Fatih Akin, 2009): 2/5