Sunday, January 29, 2012

Bruno (Larry Charles, 2009)-- 4/5

Maxed Out (James D. Scurlock, 2006)-- 3/5

Insomnia (Erick Skjoldbjaerg, 1997)-- 3/5

Seven Samurai (Kurosawa, 1954)-- 4/5

Les Destinees (Assayas, 2000)-- 2/5

Another Earth (Mike Cahill, 2011)-- 2/5

Gap-Toothed Women (Les Blank, 1987)-- 4/5

Garlic is as Good As Ten Mothers (Les Blank, 1980)-- 4/5

Saturday, January 28, 2012

An evening with Vincent Gallo:

Essential Killing, rw (Jerzy Skolimowski, 2010): 4/5

The Brown Bunny (Vincent Gallo, 2003): 2/5

Friday, January 27, 2012

Ravenous (Antonia Bird, 1999): 4/5

Invasion of the Body Snatchers (Don Siegel, 1956): 2/5

Invasion of the Body Snatchers (Philip Kaufman, 1978): 3/5

The Grace Lee Project (Grace Lee, 2005): 3/5

L'Enfant, rw (Dardenne Bros, 2005): 4/5

Thursday, January 26, 2012

Water for Elephants (Francis Lawrence, 2011): 2/5

The Ladies Man (Jerry Lewis, 1961): 4/5

A Story of Floating Weeds (YasujirĂ´ Ozu, 1934): 4/5

Friday, January 20, 2012

The Descendants (Alexander Payne, 2011): 2/5

Anvil! The Story of Anvil (Sacha Gervasi, 2008): 3/5

Cat People (Paul Schrader, 1982): 2/5

Melody (Jean-Christophe Averty, 1971; 28 min.): 5/5

Spencer Tracy series at UCLA:

Quick Millions (Rowland Brown, 1931): 2/5

Now I'll Tell (Edwin Burke, 1934): 2/5

Thursday, January 19, 2012

In Treatment Season 2 (2009)-- 5/5

In Treatment Season 3 (2010)-- 4/5 (episodes w/ Amy Ryan-- 5)

Monday, January 16, 2012

The Kid with a Bike (Dardenne Bros, 2011): 4/5

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

A Separation (Asghar Farhadi, 2011): 4/5

Moneyball (Bennett Miller, 2011): 4/5

(an amazingly good run of movies)

Saturday, January 14, 2012

Friday, January 13, 2012

The Kid with a Bike (Dardenne Bros, 2011): 4/5

Buck (Cindy Meehl, 2011): 3/5

Trouble Every Day (Claire Denis, 2001): 2/5

Thursday, January 12, 2012

Incendies (Denis Villeneuve, 2010): 2/5

Lovers on the Bridge, rw (Leos Carax, 1991): 5/5

Monday, January 9, 2012

Super 8 (J.J. Abrams, 2011): 2/5

The Killers, rw (Robert Siodmak, 1946): 5/5

Arrested Development, Season 1 (2003): 4/5

Downton Abbey, Season 1 (Creator: Julian Fellowes, 2010): 4/5

Sunday, January 8, 2012

The Most Dangerous Game (Schoedsack & Pichel, 1932): 2/5

Theodora Goes Wild (Richard Boleslawski, 1936): 3/5

Together Again (Charles Vidor, 1944): 3/5

The Innocents (Jack Clayton, 1961): 2/5

Halloween (John Carpenter, 1978): 2/5

Vampire's Kiss (Robert Bierman, 1988): 5/5

Beau Travail, rw (Claire Denis, 1999): 5/5

Julia (Erick Zonca, 2008): 2/5

Saturday, January 7, 2012

Shame (Steve McQueen, 2011)-- 4/5

Claire's Knees (Rohmer, 1970) -- 2/5

You Were Never Lovelier (William A. Sieter, 1942) -- 4/5

Demonlover (Olivier Assayas, 2002) -- 1/5

Distant (Nuri Bilge Ceylan., 2002) -- 2/5

Rififi (Jules Dassin, 1955)-- 4/5

Still Life (Sohrah Shahid Saless, 1974)-- 2/5

In Treatment Season 1 (2008)-- 4/5
(onscreen performances between Gabriel Byrne & Dianne Wiest = 5)

Tuesday, January 3, 2012

The Mummy (Karl Freund, 1932): 2/5

King Kong (Cooper & Schoedsack, 1933): 2/5

The Haunting (Robert Wise, 1963): 2/5

Rabid (David Cronenberg, 1977): 2/5
Rise of the Planet of the Apes (Rupert Wyatt, 2011): 2/5

Cold Weather (Aaron Katz, 2011): 3/5