Friday, September 30, 2011

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

Tuesday, September 27, 2011

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

Sunday, September 25, 2011

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

Gervaise (Rene Clement, 1956): 2/5

Circo (Aaron Schock, 2010): 3/5

Saturday, September 24, 2011

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

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

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

Thursday, September 22, 2011

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

Tuesday, September 20, 2011

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

Monday, September 19, 2011

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

Sunday, September 18, 2011

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

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

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

Friday, September 16, 2011

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

Tuesday, September 13, 2011

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


Sunday, September 11, 2011

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

Saturday, September 10, 2011

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

Friday, September 9, 2011

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

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

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

Thursday, September 8, 2011

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

Shivers (David Cronenberg, 1975): 4/5

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

Monday, September 5, 2011

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

Friday, September 2, 2011

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