Thursday, February 24, 2011

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

Monday, February 21, 2011

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

Sunday, February 20, 2011

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

Wednesday, February 16, 2011

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

Monday, February 14, 2011

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

Saturday, February 12, 2011

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

Thursday, February 10, 2011

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

Wednesday, February 9, 2011

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

Sunday, February 6, 2011

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

Wednesday, February 2, 2011

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