Tuesday, July 31, 2012

Artists and Models (Frank Tashlin, 1955): 2/5

The Gold Rush, rw (Charlie Chaplin, 1925): 5/5

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

People of the Po Valley, 10 min (Michelangelo Antonioni, 1947): 3/5

N.U., 9 min (Michelangelo Antonioni, 1948): 2/5

Jiro Dreams of Sushi (David Gelb, 2011): 2/5

Monday, July 30, 2012

Walkabout (Nicolas Roeg, 1971): 4/5

Manhattan, rw (Woody Allen, 1979): 5/5

Broadway Danny Rose, rw (Woody Allen, 1984): 3/5

Midnight in Paris (Woody Allen, 2011): 3/5

Moon (Duncan Jones, 2009): 2/5

The Deep Blue Sea (Terence Davies, 2011): 2/5

Sunday, July 29, 2012

Ted (Seth MacFarlane, 2012): 2/5

Shakespeare in Love, rw (John Madden, 1998): 4/5

Wanderlust (David Wain, 2012): 3/5

 That Sinking Feeling (Bill Forsyth, 1980): 2/5

She Done Him Wrong (Lowell Sherman, 1933): 2/5

Into the Abyss (Werner Herzog, 2011): 4/5

Wednesday, July 25, 2012

Tabu: A Story of the South Seas (Robert J. Flaherty, F.W. Murnau, 1931): 5/5

Cargo 200 (Aleksey Balabanov, 2007): 3/5

Miss Bala (Gerardo Naranjo, 2011): 2/5

Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy, rw (Adam McKay, 2004): 5/5

Shotgun Stories (Jeff Nichols, 2007): 3/5

Girls Just Want to Have Fun (Alan Metter, 1985): 3/5

No Man of Her Own (Mitchell Leisen, 1950): 3/5

Monday, July 23, 2012

Lost Horizon (Frank Capra, 1937): 2/5

The Ox-Bow Incident (William Wellman, 1943): 4/5

The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, rw (John Huston, 1948): 5/5

Seven (David Fincher, 1995): 2/5

The White Diamond, rw (Werner Herzog, 2004): 4/5

Innocence (Lucile Hadzihalilovic, 2004): 3/5

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

Sunday, July 22, 2012

Jiro Dreams of Sushi (David Gelb, 2011, US)-- 4.5/5 

Mildred Pierce (Todd Haynes, 2011, US)-- 3/5 

The Descendants (Alexander Payne, 2011, US)-- 3/5

Friday, July 20, 2012

re-watched Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (Michel Gondry, 2004, US) -- 5/5 original rating-- 4/5

Damnation (Bela Tarr, 1988, Hungary)-- 3/5

Three Days of the Condor (Sydney Pollack, 1975, US)-- 2/5

Leaves of Grass (Tim Blake Nelson, 2010, US)-- 2/5

The Wire Season 1 (David Simon, 2002, US)-- 4/5

Celebrity (Woody Allen, 1998, US)-- 3/5

re-watched Morvern Callar (Lynn Ramsey, 2002, UK)-- 3/5 original rating-- 1/5

Dream of Light (Victor Erice, 1992, Spain)-- 2/5

Monday, July 16, 2012

Beasts of the Southern Wild (Benh Zeitlin, 2012): 3/5

Highball (Noah Baumbach, 1997): 2/5

World's Greatest Dad (Bobcat Goldthwait, 2009): 2/5

Story of a Love Affair (Michelangelo Antonioni, 1950): 3/5

Haywire (Steven Soderbergh, 2011): 3/5

Friday, July 13, 2012

Broken Flowers (Jim Jarmusch, 2005): 2/5

The Secret World of Arrietty (Hiromasa Yonebayashi, 2010): 3/5

The Help (Tate Taylor, 2011): 2/5

Resurrect Dead: The Mystery of the Toynbee Tiles (Jon Foy, 2011): 2/5

I Was Born, But... (Yasujiro Ozu, 1932): 4/5

Thursday, July 12, 2012

The Stranger, rw (Orson Welles, 1946): 2/5

Summer With Monika (Ingmar Bergman, 1953): 4/5

High Anxiety (Mel Brooks, 1977): 2/5

Shadows and Fog (Woody Allen, 1991): 2/5  [cinematography: 5/5]

Shallow Grave (Danny Boyle, 1994): 2/5

Haywire (Steven Soderbergh, 2011): 3/5  [fight scenes: 5/5]

The Artist (Michel Hazanavicius, 2011): 2/5

Monday, July 9, 2012


Mad Men Season 5 (Matt Weiner, 2012): 5/5

Star Wars: Return of the Jedi, rw (Richard Marquand, 1983): 3/5

Chronicle (Josh Trank, 2012): 4/5

Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol (Brad Bird, 2011): 3/5

The Others (Alejandro Amenabar, 2011): 3/5

Margot at the Wedding, rw (Noah Baumbach, 2007): 5/5

Tim & Eric's Billion Dollar Movie (Heidecker & Wareheim, 2012): 3/5

Ginger Baker in Africa (Tony Palmer, 1971): 4/5

Saturday, July 7, 2012

Figures in a Landscape (Joseph Losey, 1970, UK)-- 3/5

We Need to Talk About Kevin (Lynn Ramsay, 2011, US)-- 4/5

Machorka-Muff (Straub & Huillet, 1963, West Germany)-- 3/5

Not Reconciled (Straub & Huillet, 1965, West Germany)-- 3/5

Attenberg (Athina Tsangari, 2010, Greece)-- 1/5

La Ronde (Max Ophuls, 1950, Frange)-- 3.5/5

Those Who Love Me Can Take the Train (Patrice Chereau, 1999, France)- 2/5

71 Fragments of a Chronology of Chance (Haneke, 1994, Austria)-- 3/5

Children of Paradise (Marcel Carne, 1945, France)-- 3/5

The Phantom of Liberty (Bunuel, 1974, France)-- 2/5

La Bete Humaine (Renoir, 1938, France)-- 3/5


Thursday, July 5, 2012

Mad Men Season 5 (Matt Weiner, 2012, US)-- 5/5

Curb Your Enthusiasm Season 8 (Larry David, 2011, US)-- 5/5

Time of the Wolf (Haneke, 2003, France)-- 3/5

Live Flesh (Almodovar, 1997, Spain)-- 3.5/5

Moneyball (Bennett Miller, 2011, US)-- 4/5

Beyond the Black Rainbow (Panos Cosmatos, 2010, Canada)-- 2/5
Beasts of the Southern Wild (Benh Zeitlin, 2012): 3/5

Shame (Steve McQueen, 2011): 2/5

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

The Rum Diary (Bruce Robinson, 2011): 2/5

Drive, rw (Nicolas Winding Refn, 2011): 3/5