Sunday, August 28, 2011

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

Saturday, August 27, 2011

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

Friday, August 26, 2011

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

Wednesday, August 24, 2011

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

Tuesday, August 23, 2011

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

Sunday, August 21, 2011

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

Saturday, August 20, 2011

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

Wednesday, August 17, 2011

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

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

Tuesday, August 16, 2011

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

Sunday, August 14, 2011

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

Thursday, August 11, 2011

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

Monday, August 8, 2011

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

Saturday, August 6, 2011

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

Wednesday, August 3, 2011

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

Tuesday, August 2, 2011

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