Sunday, April 22, 2012

The Great Gatsby (Elliott Nugent, 1949): 2/5

Red Desert, rw (Michelangelo Antonioni, 1964): 3/5

Edvard Munch (Peter Watkins, 1974): 4/5

Night Moves (Arthur Penn, 1975): 3/5

Dead Presidents (Hughes Bros, 1995): 1/5

Once Upon a Time in Anatolia (Nuri Bilge Ceylan, 2011): 2/5

Tuesday, April 17, 2012

Bombay Beach (Alma Har'el, 2011): 5/5

Pandora's Box (Georg Wilhelm Pabst, 1929): 5/5
Shoah (Claude Lanzmann, 1985): 5/5

Sunday, April 15, 2012

Dusty and Sweets McGee (Floyd Mutrux, 1971): 4/5

Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines, rw (Jonathan Mostow, 2003): 3/5

A Dog's Life (33 min, Charles Chaplin, 1918): 3/5

The Cabin in the Woods (Drew Goddard, 2012): 3/5

Metropolitan (Whit Stillman, 1990): 3/5

Our Idiot Brother (Jesse Peretz, 2011): 2/5

Saturday, April 14, 2012

The Corporation (Mark Achbar, 2003, U.S.)-- 2/5

Man On Wire (James Marsh, 2008, U.S.)-- 5/5

Man Bites Dog (Remy Belveaux, 1992, Belgium)-- 3/5

Onibaba (Kaneto Shindo, 1964, Japan)-- 3.5/5

Woman in the Dunes (Hiroshi Teshagahara, 1964, Japan)-- 4/5

Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters (Paul Schrader, 1980, U.S./Japan)-- 3.5/5

I Am Cuba (Mikhail Kalatozov, 1964, Cuba/USSR)-- 3/5

Loved this number/scene though:





Thursday, April 12, 2012

Bombay Beach (Alma Har'el, 2011): 4/5

Into the Abyss (Werner Herzog, 2011): 3/5

American Gigolo, rw (Paul Schrader, 1980): 2/5

Kill Me Again (John Dahl, 1989): 2/5

Rounders (John Dahl, 1998): 2/5

Menace II Society (Hughes Bros, 1993): 2/5

The Holy Modal Rounders: Bound to Lose (Douglas & Lovelace, 2006): 2/5

Monday, April 9, 2012

Take Shelter (Jeff Nichols, 2011): 4/5

The Holy Modal Rounders: Bound to Lose (Sam Wainwright Douglas, 2006): 1/5

The Diary of a Lost Girl (Georg Pabst, 1929): 4/5

The Lost Weekend, rw (Billy Wilder, 1945): 3/5

The Myth of the American Sleepover (David Robert Mitchell, 2011): 2/5

Finding Nemo, rw (Andrew Stanton, 2003): 4/5

Heathers, rw (Michael Lehmann, 1988): 3/5

Sunday, April 8, 2012

Aventurera (Alberto Gout, 1950, Mexico)-- 5/5

Manhattan Murder Mystery (Woody Allen, 1993, U.S.)-- 3/5

Husbands and Wives (Woody Allen, 1992, U.S.)-- 4/5

Out of the Past (Jacques Tourneur, 1947, U.S.)-- 3/5

The Night of the Hunter (Charles Laughton, 1955, U.S.)-- 5/5

Quai des Orfevres (Henri-Georges Clouzot, 1947, France)-- 3/5

Before the Devil Knows You're Dead (Sidney Lumet, 2007, U.S.)-- 5/5

The Third Man (Carol Reed, 1949, U.K.)-- 4/5

When the Levees Broke (Spike Lee, 2006, U.S.)-- 4/5

re-watched Irreversible (Gaspar Noe, 2002, France)-- 3/5 (original rating: 4/5)

The Sopranos seasons 1 &2 (David Chase, 1999-2000, U.S.)-- 5/5

Thursday, April 5, 2012

The Comedian (TV) (John Frankenheimer, 1957): 3/5

Days of Wine and Roses (TV) (John Frankenheimer, 1958): 2/5

Days of Wine and Roses, rw (Blake Edwards, 1962): 2/5

The Desert Rats (Robert Wise, 1953): 2/5

Patton, rw (Franklin Schaffner, 1970): 5/5

The Big Bounce (Alex March, 1969): 2/5

Elizabethtown (Cameron Crowe, 2005): 2/5

Candy (Neil Armfield, 2006): 3/5

Wednesday, April 4, 2012

Andrei Rublev, rw (Andrey Tarkovskiy, 1966): 5/5

Terms of Endearment, rw (James L. Brooks, 1983): 5/5

Pulp Fiction, rw (Quentin Tarantino, 1994): 5/5

Grapes of Wrath, rw (John Ford, 1940): 5/5

Young Adult (Jason Reitman, 2011): 3/5

Bully (Lee Hirsch, 2012): 2/5

The Hunger Games (Gary Ross, 2012): 3/5