Wednesday, May 30, 2012

Pola X (Leos Carax, 2000, France) -- 2/5

re-watched The Lovers on the Bridge (Leos Carax, 1991, France)-- 4/5

Boy Meets Girl (Leos Carax, 1984, France)-- 2/5

Madame Bovary (Vincente Minelli, 1945, U.S.)-- 3/5

Following (Christopher Nolan, 1998, U.K.)-- 2/5

The Double Life of Veronique (Kieslowski, 1991, France)-- 3/5

Days of Being Wild (Wong Kar Wai, 1990, Hong Kong)-- 2/5

Savage Grace (Tom Kalin, 2007, U.S.)-- 1/5

Chronicle of Anna Magdalena Bach ( Huillet & Straub, 1968, Germany)-- 4/5

I Stand Alone (Gaspar Noe, 1998, France)-- 2.5/5

Tuesday, May 29, 2012

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (David Fincher, 2011): 2/5

Switchblade Sisters, rw (Jack Hill, 1975): 2/5

The Italian Connection (Fernando Di Leo, 1972): 3/5

The Fabulous Baker Boys, rw (Steve Kloves, 1989): 3/5

Monday, May 28, 2012

The Pornographer (Bertrand Bonello, 2001): 2/5

Tiresia (Bertrand Bonello, 2003): 3/5

 A Prairie Home Companion (Robert Altman, 2006): 2/5

Miss Bala (Gerardo Naranjo, 2011): 3/5

Daisies, rw (Vera Chytilova, 1966): 3/5

High Fidelity, rw (Stephen Frears, 2000): 3/5

Japon, rw (Carlos Reygadas, 2002): 5/5

Wednesday, May 23, 2012

A Day in the Country, 40 min. (Jean Renoir, 1936): 4/5

Tristana (Luis Bunuel, 1970): 2/5

Death Race 2000 (Paul Bartel, 1975): 2/5

Sunday, May 20, 2012

Salo, or the 120 Days of Sodom (Pier Paolo Pasolini, 1975): 3/5

The Woman  (Lucky McGee, 2011): 3/5

Period of Adjustment (George Roy Hill, 1962): 2/5

The Electric House, 19m (Edward Cline, Buster Keaton, 1922): 3/5

Gainsbourg: A Heroic Life (Joann Sfar, 2010): 2/5
Day For Night, rw (Francois Truffaut, 1973): 2/5

The Bear (Jean-Jacques Annaud, 1988): 4/5

Heat (Michael Mann, 1995): 3/5

Kundun (Martin Scorsese, 1997): 2/5

House of Flying Daggers (Zhang Yimou, 2004): 2/5

J. Edgar (Clint Eastwood, 2011): 2/5

Friday, May 18, 2012

To Each His Own (Mitchell Leisen, 1946, U.S.)-- 4/5

The Apple (Samira Makhmalbaf, 1998, Iran)-- 4/5

Anatomy of a Murder (Otto Preminger, 1959, U.S.)-- 3/5

Viridiana (Bunuel, 1961, Spain)-- 3/5

Wednesday, May 16, 2012

House of Tolerance (Bertrand Bonello, 2011): 5/5

Going Places, rw (Bertrand Blier, 1974): 5/5

Slither (Howard Zieff, 1973): 4/5

Sunday, May 13, 2012

The Sopranos Seasons 2-6 (David Chase, 2000-2007, U.S.) -- 5/5

Sing Faster: The Stagehands' Ring Cycle (Jon Else, 1999, U.S.)-- 5/5

Auto Focus (Paul Schrader, 2002, U.S.)-- 3/5

Seance on a Wet Afternoon ( Bryan Forbes, 1964, U.K.) -- 4/5

Sorry, Wrong Number (Anatole Litvak, 1948, U.S.)-- 5/5

Bigger Than Life (Nicholas Ray, 1956, U.S.)-- 3/5

Grave of the Fireflies (Isao Takahata, 1988, Japan)-- 5/5

re-watched Kiss Me Deadly (Robert Aldrich, 1955, U.S.) -- 4/5 (original rating: 2/5)

Sudden Fear (David Miller, 1952, U.S.)-- 4/5

Millenium Mambo (Hou Hsiao Hsien, 2001, Taiwan)-- 2/5

50/50 (Jonathan Levine, 2011, U.S.)-- 2/5

re-watched Magnolia (P.T. Anderson, 1999, U.S.)-- 3/5 (original rating: 4/5)


Saturday, May 12, 2012

Charley Varrick, rw (Don Siegel, 1973): 4/5

Faust, rw (F.W. Murnau, 1926): 3/5

Thief, rw (Michael Mann, 1981): 4/5

Senso (Luchino Visconti, 1954): 2/5

Charles Mingus: Triumph of the Underdog (Don McGlynn, 1998): 3/5

Monday, May 7, 2012

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

Shoah (Claude Lanzmann, 1985): 5/5

The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone (Jose Quintero, 1961): 2/5

Tiny Furniture (Lena Dunham, 2010): 3/5

Arrested Development, Season 2 (Mitchell Hurwitz, 2005): 4/5

Once Upon a Time in Anatolia (Nuri Bilge Ceylan, 2012): 3/5

Friday, May 4, 2012

House of Tolerance (Bertrand Bonello, 2011): 5/5

Tales From the Golden Age (Cristian Mungiu, et al, 2010): 3/5

Another Year (Mike Leigh, 2010): 2/5

Bridesmaids (Paul Feig, 2011): 3/5

Seventh Heaven (Benoit Jacquot, 1997): 2/5