Sunday, July 31, 2011

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

Thursday, July 28, 2011

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

Wednesday, July 27, 2011

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

Monday, July 25, 2011

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

Sunday, July 24, 2011

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

Friday, July 22, 2011

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

Thursday, July 21, 2011

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

Wednesday, July 20, 2011

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

Tuesday, July 19, 2011

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

Monday, July 18, 2011

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

Saturday, July 16, 2011

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

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

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

Friday, July 15, 2011

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)

Thursday, July 14, 2011

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

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

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

Tuesday, July 12, 2011

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

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

Monday, July 11, 2011

Tess (Roman Polanski, 1979): 4/5

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

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

Sunday, July 10, 2011

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

Saturday, July 9, 2011

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

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

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

Wednesday, July 6, 2011

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

Tuesday, July 5, 2011

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

Monday, July 4, 2011

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

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

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

Sunday, July 3, 2011

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

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

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

Saturday, July 2, 2011

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