Sunday, October 30, 2011

Enchanted April (Mike Newell, 1992): 3/5

The Bad Seed (Mervyn LeRoy, 1956): 3/5

Martha Marcy May Marlene (Sean Durkin, 2011): 4/5

Saturday, October 29, 2011

The Railroad Man (Pietro Germi, 1956): 3/5

Vive le tour (Louis Malle, 1962): 4/5

The Ballad of Cable Hogue (Sam Peckinpah, 1970): 2/5

The Robber (Benjamin Heisenberg, 2010): 2/5

Wednesday, October 26, 2011

An Autumn Afternoon, rw (Yashiro Ozu, 1962): 3/5

Mademoiselle, rw (Tony Richardson, 1966): 5/5

Cross of Iron (Sam Peckinpah, 1977): 3/5

Ronin (John Frankenheimer, 1998): 2/5 (final car chase: 5/5)

Tuesday, October 25, 2011

Sink or Swim (Su Friedrich, 1990)-- 4/5

re-watched Y Tu Mama Tambien (Alfonso Cuaron, 2001)-- 2/5 (Original Rating-- 4/5)

re-watched The Great Dictator (Charlie Chaplin, 1940)-- 5/5

Monday, October 24, 2011

Mademoiselle, rw (Tony Richardson, 1966): 5/5

Bad Company (Robert Benton, 1972): 4/5

Cosmic Ray, 4 min., (Bruce Conner, 1962): 4/5

9 Variations on a Dance Theme, 9 min., (Hilary Harris, 1967): 3/5

Superstar - The Karen Carpenter Story, 43 min., (Todd Haynes, 1988): 5/5

Saturday, October 22, 2011

Jane Eyre (Cary Fukunaga, 2011): 3/5

The Thing, rw (John Carpenter, 1982): 5/5

The Shining, rw (Stanley Kubrick, 1980): 5/5

Thursday, October 20, 2011

Le Plaisir ( Max Ophuls, 1952)-- 4/5

To Be or Not To Be ( Ernst Lubitsch, 1942)-- 4/5

Touchez Pas Au Grisbi ( Jacques Becker, 1946) -- 3/5


Monday, October 17, 2011

On Dangerous Ground, rw (Nicholas Ray, 1952): 2/5

Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid, rw (Sam Peckinpah, 1973): 2/5

Nadja, rw (Michael Almereyda, 1994): 3/5

Saturday, October 15, 2011

re-watched Raging Bull (Scorcese, 1980)-- 5/5 (original rating--2/5)

The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (Andrew Dominik, 2007)-- 5/5

re-watched To Kill A Mockingbird (Robert Mulligan, 1962)-- 5/5
The Skin I Live In (Pedro Almodovar, 2011)-- 5/5

Damned If You Don't ( Su Friedrich, 1987)-- 2/5

Lovers and Lollipops (Morris Engel, 1956)-- 3/5

Weddings and Babies (Morris Engel, 1960)-- 2/5

Friday, October 14, 2011

Drugstore Cowboy, rw (Gus Van Sant, 1989): 5/5

The Set-Up, rw (Robert Wise, 1949): 5/5

Bad Day at Black Rock, rw (John Sturges, 1954): 3/5

Moog (Hans Fjellestad, 2004): 2/5

Thursday, October 13, 2011

Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia (Sam Peckinpah, 1974): 5/5

Moscow Does Not Believe in Tears (Vladimir Menshov, 1980): 2/5

The Notorious Bettie Page (Mary Harron, 2005): 2/5

The Ides of March (George Clooney, 2011): 2/5

Tuesday, October 11, 2011

Day of Wrath ( Dreyer, 1943)-- 2/5

The Puffy Chair (Jay Duplass, 2005)-- 1/5

Made In Britain (Alan Clarke, 1982)-- 2/5

Monday, October 10, 2011

Cyrus (Jay & Mark Duplass, 2010): 1/5

Hanna (Joe Wright, 2011): 2/5

Sunday, October 9, 2011

Bullitt (Peter Yates, 1968): 4/5

An Autumn Afternoon (YasujirĂ´ Ozu, 1962): 5/5
rewatched Fantastic Mr. Fox (Wes Anderson, 2009)-- 5/5

The Human Centipede II: Full Sequence (Tom Six, 2011)-- No Rating

Forks Over Knives (Lee Fulkerson, 2011)-- 3/5

Shotgun Freeway: Drives Through Lost L.A. (Morgan Neville & Harry Pallenberg, 1995)-- 4/5

Saturday, October 8, 2011

Burn! (Gillo Pontecorvo, 1969; 112 min.): 4/5

Drive (Nicolas Winding Refn, 2011): 1/5

Thursday, October 6, 2011

Faces (Cassavetes, 1968)-- 2/5

Opening Night (Cassavetes, 1977)-- 2/5

Gloria (Cassavetes, 1980)-- 1/5

rewatched Chungking Express (Wong kar-wai, 1994)-- 5/5
Stalingrad (Joseph Vilsmaier, 1993): 3/5

The Kids Are All Right (Lisa Cholodenko, 2010): 3/5

Death Proof (Quentin Tarantino, 2007): 1/5

Gran Torino (Clint Eastwood, 2008): 1/5

Wednesday, October 5, 2011

The Circus (Charles Chaplin, 1928): 4/5

Burn! (Gillo Pontecorvo, 1969): 5/5

Tuesday, October 4, 2011

The Verdict (Sidney Lumet, 1982): 3/5

The Spirit of the Beehive (VĂ­ctor Erice, 1973): 3/5

The Naked City (Jules Dassin, 1948): 3/5

Sunday, October 2, 2011

Late Spring (YasujirĂ´ Ozu, 1949): 4/5

J'accuse! (Abel Gance, 1919): 3/5

Win Win (Thomas McCarthy, 2011): 3/5
Le Quattro Volte (Michelangelo Frammartino, 2010): 5/5

Father of My Children (Mia Hansen-Love, 2009): 2/5

Excellent Cadavers (Marco Turco, 2005): 3/5

Poisoned by Polonium: The Litivinenko File (Andrei Nekrasov, 2007): 2/5