Monday, January 31, 2011

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

Sunday, January 30, 2011

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

Friday, January 28, 2011

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






Thursday, January 27, 2011

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

Friday, January 21, 2011

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

Wednesday, January 19, 2011

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

Saturday, January 15, 2011

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

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

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

Friday, January 14, 2011

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

Thursday, January 13, 2011

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

Saturday, January 8, 2011

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

Wednesday, January 5, 2011

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

Duel (Steven Spielberg, 1971): 5/5

Thief (Michael Mann, 1981): 2/5

Tuesday, January 4, 2011

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

Sunday, January 2, 2011

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