*Inside Llewyn Davis (Joel & Ethan Coen, 2013): 3.5/5

*The Wolf of Wall Street (Martin Scorsese, 2013): 1/5

Kwaidan (Masaki Kobayashi, 1964; 161 min.): 4/5

The Quiet American (Phillip Noyce, 2002): 2/5

The Last Wave, rw (Peter Weir, 1977): 3.5/5

Going Places, rw (Bertrand Blier, 1974): 4/5

The Hit, rw (Stephen Frears, 1984): 5/5

Georgy Girl, rw (Silvio Narizzano, 1966): 3.5/5

It's a Wonderful Life, rw (Frank Capra, 1947): 5/5

Sullivan's Travels, rw (Preston Sturges, 1941): 4/5

M*A*S*H, rw (Robert Altman, 1970): 4/5

Cloverfield, rw (Matt Reeves, 2008): 4/5

Star Trek Into Darkness (J.J. Abrams, 2013): 1.5/5

Before Midnight (Richard Linklater, 2013): 4/5

Don Jon (Joseph Gordon-Levitt, 2013): 3/5

The Warriors, rw (Walter Hill, 1979): 2/5

The Canyons (Paul Schrader, 2013): 2/5

American Hustle (David O. Russell, 2013): 5/5

Prince Avalanche (David Gordon Greene, 2013): 2/5

Only God Forgives (Nicolas Winding Refn, 2013): 2/5

Onibaba (Kaneto Shindo, 1964): 5/5

Ugetsu Monogatari (Kenji Mizoguchi, 1953): 3/5

Charulata, rw (Satyajit Ray, 1964): 3.5/5

Where is the Friend's Home?, rw (Abbas Kiarostami, 1987): 3.5/5

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

In Bruges, rw (Martin McDonagh, 2008): 5/5

Only God Forgives (Nicolas Winding Refn, 2013): 2/5

My Week with Marilyn (Simon Curtis, 2011): 1.5/5

About a Boy, rw (Chris & Paul Weitz, 1999): 4/5

Etienne!, rw (Jeff Mizushima, 2009): 3.5/5

Big Star: Nothing Can Hurt Me (Drew DeNicola & Olivia Mori, 2012): 3.5/5

The Awful Truth, rw (Leo McCarey, 1937): 5/5

Where is The Friend's Home, rw (Abbas Kiarostami, 1987): 4.5/5

Inside Llewelyn Davis (Ethan Coen, Joel Coen, 2013): 3.5/5

Crystal Fairy and the Magical Cactus (Sebastian Silva, 2013): 3.5/5

Raw Deal (Anthony Mann, 1948): 3/5

Blue is the Warmest Color (Abdellatif Kechiche, 2013, France) -- 5/5

The Kid with a Bike (Dardenne brothers, 2011, France) -- 4/5

Jezebel (William Wyler, 1938, US) -- 3/5

The September Issue (R.J. Cutler, 2009, US) -- 3/5

A Separation (Asghar Farhadi, 2011, Iran) -- 4/5

The Bling Ring (Sofia Coppola, 2013, US) -- 1/5

To the Wonder (Terrence Malick, 2012): 4/5

Cleo from 5 to 7 (Agnes Varda, 1962): 4/5

Alice in the Cities (Wim Wenders, 1974): 3.5/5

Side Effects (Steven Soderbergh, 2013): 2/5

Margin Call (J.C. Chandor, 2011): 3.5/5

Winchester '73, rw (Anthony Mann, 1950): 4/5

Velvet Goldmine, rw (Todd Haynes, 1998): 3/5

Frances Ha (Noah Baumbach, 2013): 4/5

Barbara (Christian Petzold, 2012): 4/5

Leave Her to Heaven, rw (John M. Stahl, 1945): 4/5

*Blue is the Warmest Color (Abdellatif Kechiche, 2013): 5/5

Leviathan (Lucien Castaing-Taylor & Varena Paravel, 2012): 3/5

Frances Ha, rw (Noah Baumbach, 2013): 5/5

Illegal (Olivier Masset-Depasse, 2012): 2/5

Diary of a Chambermaid, rw (Luis Bunuel, 1964): 5/5

Bay of Angels, rw (Jacques Demy, 1963): 5/5

Vivre Sa Vie, rw (Jean-Luc Godard, 1962): 3.5/5

Les Bonnes Femmes, rw (Claude Chabrol, 1960): 5/5

plus: Elevator to the Gallows, Band of Outsiders, Belle de Jour, Bonnie & Clyde (in class)

Network, rw (Sidney Lumet, 1976): 5/5

Tomb of Ligeia (Roger Corman, 1964): 2/5

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

The Last Picture Show, rw (Peter Bogdanovich, 1971): 5/5

12 Years a Slave (Steve McQueen, 2013): 4.5/5

Bully (Larry Clark, 2001, US) -- 2/5

12 Years A Slave (Steve McQueen, 2013, US) -- 2.5/5

Treeless Mountain (So Young Kim, 2008, Korea) -- 4/5

Interiors (Woody Allen, 1978, US) -- 3/5

Behind the Candelabra (Steven Soderbergh, 2013, US) -- 3.5/5

Frenzy (Alfred Hitchcock, 1972): 3/5

The Perks of Being a Wallflower (Stephen Chbosky, 2012): 2/5

There Will Be Blood, rw (Paul Thomas Anderson, 2007): 5/5

The Master, rw (Paul Thomas Anderson, 2012): 5/5

Sisters (Brian De Palma, 1973): 3.5/5

Gravity IMAX 3D (Alfonso Cuaron, 2013): 3.5/5

Something in the Air (Olivier Assayas, 2012): 2.5/5

Arthur Newman (Dante Ariola, 2012): 2/5

The Last Days of Disco, rw (Whit Stillman, 1998): 1/5

Black Moon (Louis Malle, 1975): 2/5

*Cremaster 5, rw (Matthew Barney, 1997): 2.5/5

*Cremaster 2, rw (Matthew Barney, 1999): 5/5

*Cremaster 3 (Matthew Barney, 2002): 3/5

Salinger (Shane Salerno, 2013): 2.5/5

Nosferatu: Phantom der nacht, rw (Werner Herzog, 1979): 5/5

Oasis, rw (Lee Chang-dong, 2002): 5/5

There Will Be Blood, rw (Paul Thomas Anderson, 2007): 5/5

The Ninth Gate, rw (Roman Polanski, 1999): 3/5

Who's Minding the Store (Frank Tashlin, 1963): 3/5

The Life & Music of Ronnie Lane: The Passing Show (Rupert Williams, 2006): 2.5/5

Pocahontas, rw (Mike Gabriel, 1995): 2.5/5

Riki-Oh: The Story of Ricky (Ngai Kai Lam, 1991): 2/5

Room 237 (Rodney Ascher, 2012): 1.5/5

Early Spring (Yasujiro Ozu, 1956): 3/5

Nanook of the North, rw (Robert J. Flaherty, 1922): 4/5

Gravity 3D (Alfonso Cuaron, 2013): 3/5

Crime Wave (Andre de Toth, 1954, US) -- 4/5

Decoy (Jack Bernhard, 1946, US) -- 2/5

Elena (Andrey Zvyagintsev, 2011, Russia) -- 2.5/5

Gravity IMAX 3D (Alfonso Cuaron, 2013, US) -- 4/5

Clear History (Greg Mottola, 2013, US) -- 3/5

*Cremaster 4, rw (Matthew Barney, 1994): 5/5

*Cremaster 1 (Matthew Barney, 1995): 3.5/5

The Place Beyond the Pines (Derek Cianfrance, 2013): 2.5/5

Trance (Danny Boyle, 2013): 1/5

Room 237 (Rodney Ascher, 2012): 1.5/5

The Maid (Sebastian Silva, 2009): 3/5

Zabriskie Point, rw (Michelangelo Antonioni, 1970): 1.5/5

Post Tenebras Lux (Carlos Reygadas, 2012): 5/5

A Story of Water, 18m (Godard, Truffaut, 1961): 3.5/5

Le Havre (Aki Kaurismaki, 2011): 3.5/5

Breaking Bad, season 6 (Vince Gilligan, 2013): 5/5

Mud (Jeff Nichols, 2013): 3.5/5

The Great Gatsby (Baz Luhrmann, 2013): 1/5

The Passenger, rw (Michelangelo Antonioni, 1975): 5/5

Wuthering Heights (William Wyler, 1939): 2/5

Lola Versus (Daryl Wein, 2012, US) -- 2/5

Ruby Sparks (Jonathan Dayton, 2012, US) -- 1/5

Submarine (Richard Ayoade, 2011, UK) -- 3/5

Girls Season Two (Lena Dunham, 2012, US) -- 4/5

The Maid (Sebastian Silva, 2009): 5/5

Magic Magic (Sebastian Silva, 2013): 1.5/5

Stage Door (Gregory La Cava, 1937): 3.5/5

Shine, rw (Scott Hicks, 1996): 2/5

Behind the Candelabra (Steven Soderbergh, 2013): 4/5

The Iceman (Ariel Vroman, 2013): 2/5

Post Tenebras Lux (Carlos Reygadas, 2012): 2.5/5

Reality (Matteo Garrone, 2012): 2/5

Our Idiot Brother (Jesse Peretz, 2012): 2.5/5

Golden Slumbers (Davy Chou, 2011): 3.5/5 [Long Beach Cambodia Town Film Festival]

The Trip (Michael Winterbottom, 2010): 2/5

Matthew Barney: No Restraint (Alison Chernick, 2006): 3/5

Tombstone (George P. Cosmatos, 1993): 2.5/5

The King of Marvin Gardens, rw (Bob Rafelson, 1972): 1.5/5

Barefoot in the Park (Gene Saks, 1967): 2/5

Girls Season One (Lena Dunham, 2012, US) --  4/5

Stoker (Chan-wook Park, 2013, US) -- 2/5

Celeste and Jesse Forever (Lee Toland Krieger, 2012, US)-- 1.5/5

The Asphalt Jungle, rw (John Huston, 1950): 4.5/5

The Bigamist (Ida Lupino, 1953): 1.5/5

The Tall T, rw (Budd Boetticher, 1957): 4.5/5

Dirty Pretty Things, rw (Stephen Frears, 2002): 4/5

Werner Herzog Eats His Shoes, rw, 20 min (Les Blank, 1980: 4.5/5

Orange is the New Black, Season One (Jenji Kohan, 2013): 4/5

La Notte (Michelangelo Antonioni, 1961): 4.5/5

The Night of the Iguana (John Huston, 1964): 4/5

Suddenly, Last Summer, rw (Joseph Mankiewicz, 1959): 2/5

The Cincinnati Kid (Norman Jewison, 1965): 2/5

Drive, He Said (Jack Nicholson, 1971): 1/5

Coco Before Chanel (Anne Fontaine, 2009): 4/5

Picnic (Joshua Logan, 1955, US) -- 2/5

No (Pablo Larrain, 2012, Chile) -- 3/5

Re-watched Toy Story 3 on TV with my mom (Lee Unkrich, 2010, US)-- 5/5

Poltergeist, rw (Tobe Hooper, 1982): 3/5

The Cat and the Canary (Paul Leni, 1927): 3/5

Rebecca, rw (Alfred Hitchcock, 1940): 3/5

Spring Breakers (Harmony Korine, 2012): 3.5/5

Mandabi (Ousmane Sembene, 1968): 4/5

No (Pablo Larrain, 2012): 3.5/5

Top of the Lake (Jane Campion et al, 2013): 2/5

To the Wonder (Terrence Malick, 2012): 2/5

On the Road (Walter Salles, 2012): 2.5/5

Reservoir Dogs, rw (Quentin Tarrantino, 1992): 5/5

Sex, Lies, and Videotape, rw (Steven Soderbergh, 1989): 5/5

On the Beach (Stanley Kramer, 1959): 2/5

Paul Newman:
Somebody Up There Likes Me (Robert Wise, 1956): 1.5/5
The Young Philadelphians (Vincent Sherman, 1958): 1/5
The Left-Handed Gun (Arthur Penn, 1958): 2/5
Torn Curtain (Alfred Hitchcock, 1966): 2/5

Bruce Dern:
Silent Running (Douglas Trumball, 1972): 2/5
Family Plot (Alfred Hitchcock, 1976): 2/5

Charles Bukowski:
Bukowski: Born Into This (John Dullaghan, 2003): 4.5/5
Factotum, rw (Bent Hamer, 2005): 4/5

Pinochet & Escobar:
No (Pablo Lorrain, 2012): 4.5/5
30 for 30: The Two Escobars (Jeff & Michael Zimbalist, 2010): 4/5

Imitation of Life, rw (Douglas Sirk, 1959): 2.5/5

It's a Gift, rw (Norman Z. McLeod. 1934): 4/5

Picnic, rw (Joshua Logan, 1955): 5/5

There's Always Tomorrow (Douglas Sirk, 1956): 5/5

The Good Girl (Miguel Arteta, 2002): 2/5

Seven, rw (David Fincher, 1995): 3/5

Update: I've just downgraded to the one disc out-at-a-time plan.

The Act of Killing (Joshua Oppenheimer, 2012, US) -- 3/5

The Testament of Dr. Mabuse (Fritz Lang, 1933, Germany) -- 4/5

This is 40 If You Are Incredibly Affluent, Attractive People Living On The Westside of L.A. (Judd Apatow,  2012, US) -- 2.5/5

Collision (Darren Doane, 2009, US) -- 3/5

The Hunt (Thomas Vinterberg, 2012, Denmark) -- 3/5

Doubt (John Patrick Shanley, 2008, US) -- 4/5

Upstream Color (Shane Carruth, 2013, US) -- 2/5

Revolucion (Carlos Reygadas, et al., 2009, Mexico) -- 2/5

The Life of Oharu (Kenji Mizoguchi, 1952): 2/5

Halloween, rw (John Carpenter, 1979): 4.5/5

The Green Room (Francois Truffaut, 1978): 1.5/5

Juliet of the Spirits, rw (Frederico Fellini, 1965): 3.5/5

The Century of the Self, Episode 1 (Adam Curtis, 2002): 2/5

It Felt Like a Kiss (Adam Curtis, 2009): 4.5/5

Crystal Fairy (Sebastian Silva, 2013): 3.5/5

Revolutionary Road, rw (Sam Mendes, 2008): 2/5

Smithereens (Susan Seidelman, 1982): 3/5

30 for 30: Winning Time: Reggie Miller vs. New York (Dan Klores, 2010): 5/5

30 for 30: You Don't Know Bo (Michael Bonfiglio, 2012): 4.5/5

30 for 30: The Marinovich Project (John Dorsey & Andrew Stephan, 2011): 4/5

Fill a man full o' lead, stick him in the ground an' then read words on him

Monsters University (Dan Scanlon, 2013): 3.5/5

The Thing (Matthijs van Heigningen Jr., 2011): 2/5

Red River, rw (Howard Hawks, Arthur Rosson, 1946): 5/5

Amer (Helene Cattet, Bruno Forzani, 2009): 2/5

Black Girl, 65 mins (Ousmane Sembene, 1966): 4.5/5

Cloud Atlas (Twyker, Wachowski, Wachowski, 2012): 1.5/5

Boondoggling

W.C. Fields:

Sally of the Sawdust (D.W. Griffith, 1925): 2/5

It's a Gift, rw (Norman Z. McLeod, 1934): 5/5

The Bank Dick, rw (Edward F. Kline, 1940): 3.5/5

W.C. Fields and Me (Arthur Hiller, 1976): 2.5/5

***

Of Human Bondage (John Cromwell, 1934): 3/5

Hoosiers (David Anspaugh, 1986): 1/5

Shotgun Stories (Jeff Nichols, 2007): 3.5/5

Vichy, are they still in the league?

Harper (Jack Smight, 1966): 2/5

Les Miserables (Tom Hooper, 2012): 2/5

Neighboring Sounds (Kleber Mendonca Filho, 2012): 2/5

Wuthering Heights (Andrea Arnold, 2012): 4/5

Woman of the Year (George Stevens, 1942): 4/5

Arrested Development, Season 4 (Mitchell Hurwitz, et al): 3/5

Antoine et Colette, 32 min (Francois Truffaut, 1962): 3/5

Goodnight, Irene

Side Effects (Steven Soderbergh, 2013): 2/5

Traffic, rw (Steven Soderbergh, 2000): 2/5

One From the Heart, rw (Francis Ford Coppola, 1982): 2/5

The Executioner's Song (Lawrence Schiller, 1982): 3.5/5

Brubaker, rw (Stuart Rosenberg, 1980): 3/5

Never Let Go (John Guillermin, 1960): 2/5

Sometimes a Great Notion (Paul Newman, 1971): 2.5/5

Sometimes I live in the country
Sometimes I live in the town
Sometimes I have a great notion
To jump in the river and drown

Irene goodnight, Irene goodnight 

Happy 4th of July

Breaking Bad Season 5 -- 5/5

Frances Ha (Noah Baumbach, 2012, US) -- 5/5

Point Break (Kathryn Bigelow, 1991, US) -- 2/5

re-watched Chungking Express (Wong Kar-wai, 1996, Hong Kong) -- 5/5

Won't Let Me Leave the Fucking Title Field Blank For Some Reason

Port of Shadows (Marcel Carne, 1938): 4/5

400 Blows, rw (Francois Truffaut, 1959): 4/5

Mad Men, season 6 (Matthew Weiner, 2013): 4/5

The Naked Spur, rw (Anthony Mann, 1953): 2/5

The Savages (Tamara Jenkins, 2007): 3.5/5

The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou, rw (Wes Anderson, 2004): 4/5

Elephant, rw (Gus Van Sant): 5/5

The Postman Always Rings Twice, rw (Tay Garnett, 1946): 3/5

This is the End (Seth Rogen & Evan Goldberg, 2013): 3.5/5

A Late Quartet (Yaron Zilberman, 2012): 3/5

This is Not a Film (Jafar Panahi, 2011): 2/5

Greenberg, rw (Noah Baumbach, 2009): 3.5/5

Being There, rw (Hal Ashby, 1979): 4/5

The Story of Adele H. (Francois Truffaut, 1975): 2/5

The Wild Child (Francois Truffaut, 1970): 2.5/5

The Comedians (Peter Glenville, 1967): 1.5/5

Mad Men, season 6 (Matthew Weiner, 2013): 4/5

Curb Your Enthusiasm, season 8 (Larry David, 2011): 3/5

The Imposter (Bart Layton, 2012): 2.5/5

Dumbo, rw (Ben Sharpsteen, 1941): 5/5

Behind the Candelabra (Steven Soderbergh, 2013): 4/5

This is the End (Evan Goldberg, Seth Rogen, 2013): 4/5

The Glass Key (Stuart Heisler, 1942): 3/5

Post Tenebras Lux (Carlos Reygadas, 2012, Mexico) -- 4/5 (opening scene -- 5/5)

30 Rock Season 7 (2013, US) -- 5/5

Arrested Development Season 1  (2003, US) -- 4/5

Crips and Bloods: Made in America (Stacy Peralta, 2008, US) -- 2/5

Frances Ha (Noah Baumbach, 2012): 5/5

High Noon, rw (Fred Zinnemann, 1952): 2.5/5

Our Hospitality, rw (Buster Keaton, 1923): 2.5/5

Docs:

Last Days Here (Don Argott & Demian Fenton, 2011: 3/5

An Unreasonable Man (Henriette Mantel & Steve Skrovan, 2006): 4/5

The Trials of Henry Kissinger (Eugene Jarecki, 2002): 4/5

Rushmore, rw (Wes Anderson, 1998): 5/5

The Battle of Algiers, rw (Gillo Pontecorvo, 1966): 4/5

Witness, rw (Peter Weir, 1985): 4/5

Rosemary's Baby, rw (Roman Polanski, 1968): 5/5

Reprise (Joachim Trier, 2006): 3.5/5

Hyde Park on Hudson (Roger Michell, 2012): 1.5/5

The Sixth Sense (M. Night Shyamalan, 1999): 2.5/5

Unbreakable (M. Night Shyamalan, 2000): 2/5

Masquerade (Bob Swaim, 1988): 1.5/5

Persona, rw (Ingmar Bergman, 1967): 3.5/5

Docs:

Gregory Crewdson: Brief Encounters (Ben Shapiro, 2012): 3/5

Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry (Alison Klayman, 2012): 3/5

Trumbo (Peter Askin, 2007): 2/5

The Fall of Fujimori (Ellen Perry, 2005): 3/5

House of Cards, season 1 (David Fincher, et al, 2012): 3/5

A New Leaf (Elaine May, 1971): 4.5/5

The Public Enemy (William Wellman, 1931): 4/5

Tess (Roman Polanski, 1979, France/UK) -- 5/5

re-watched The Squid and the Whale (Noah Baumbach, 2005, US) -- 3.5/5  (original rating-- 2/5)

Spanking the Monkey (David O. Russell, 1994, US) -- 2.5/5

A Glimpse Inside the Mind of Charles Swan III (Roman Coppola, 2013, US) -- 1/5

re-watched Birth (Jonathan Glazer, 2004, US) -- 5/5

Mud (Jeff Nichols, 2013): 3.5/5

Cosmopolis (David Cronenberg, 2012): 3.5/5

30 for 30: June 17th, 1994 (Brett Morgen, 2010): 3.5/5

The Great Gatsby (Baz Luhrmann, 2013): 3/5

The Great Gatsby (Jack Clayton, 1974): 3/5

Blackmail (Alfred Hitchcock, 1929): 3/5

John Dies at the End (Don Coscarelli, 2012): 2/5

Tchoupitoulas (Turner Ross & Bill Ross IV, 2012): 4.5/5

Upstream Color (Shane Carruth, 2013): 2.5/5

Free Radicals: A History of Experimental Cinema (Pip Chodorov, 2012): 3.5/5

This is 40 (Judd Apatow, 2012): 3/5

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (David Fincher, 2008): 1.5/5

The Island President (Jon Shenk, 2011): 2.5/5

Sketches of Frank Gehry (Sydney Pollack, 2005): 3/5

Raise the Red Lantern, rw (Zhang Yimou, 1991): 5/5

Valmont, rw (Milos Forman, 1989): 3/5

The Great Gatsby, rw (Jack Clayton, 1974): 3.5/5

It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World, rw (Stanley Kramer, 1963): 3/5

Something in the Air (Olivier Assayas, 2012, France) -- 2.5/5

Re-watched Synecdoche, New York (Charlie Kaufman, 2008, US) -- 3/5 (original rating: 2/5)

Happy People: A Year in the Taiga (Herzog, 2010) -- 3/5

Judgment at Nuremberg (Stanley Kramer, 1961, US) -- /5

You Only Live Once (Fritz Lang, 1937): 3.5/5

Rust and Bone (Jacques Audiard, 2012): 2/5

Happy (Roko Belic, 2011): 2/5

Pretty in Pink (Howard Deutch, 1986): 3/5

This is 40 (Judd Apatow, 2012): 3/5

Skyfall (Sam Mendes, 2012): 2.5/5

Life of Pi (Ang Lee, 2012): 2/5

Happy People: A Year in the Taiga (Dmitry Vasyukov & Werner Herzog, 2010): 3/5

The Future, rw (Miranda July, 2011): 4/5

Gerry (Gus Van Sant, 2002): 2/5

Born to Win, rw (Ivan Passer, 1971): 3.5/5

The Cardinal (Otto Preminger, 1963): 2/5

The Astonished Heart (Antony Darnborough & Terence Fisher, 1950): 2/5

Do the Right Thing, rw (Spike Lee, 1989): 4/5

A Fistful of Dollars, rw (Sergio Leoni, 1964): 4/5

Lincoln (Steven Spielberg, 2012): 2/5

Side By Side (Christopher Kenneally): 3.5/5

Lincoln (Steven Spielberg, 2012): 2.5/5

Django Unchained (Quentin Tarantino, 2012): 2/5

Margin Call (J.C. Chandor, 2011): 2/5

Good Will Hunting (Gus Van Sant, 1998): 2/5

Hardcore, rw (Paul Schrader, 1979): 1/5

Tristana (Luis Bunuel, 1970): 2/5

Golden Boy (Rouben Mamoulian, 1939): 2/5

Mad Men seasons 1-5, rw (Matthew Weiner, 2007-2012): 5/5

To The Wonder (Terrence Malick, 2013, US) -- 2.5/5

Neighboring Sounds (Kleber Mendonca Filho, 2012, Brazil) -- 3/5

Spring Breakers (Harmony Korine, 2013, US) -- 1.5/5

Argo (Ben Affleck, 2012, US) -- 1/5

Whores' Glory (Michael Glawogger, 2012, Germany) -- 3/5

Il Posto (Ermanno Olmi, 1961): 4.5/5

Jour de Fete (Jacques Tati, 1949): 3/5

Shaft, rw (Gordon Parks, 1971): 3.5/5

Stoker (Chan-wook Park, 2013): 3.5/5

Killing Them Softly (Andrew Dominik, 2012): 2/5

Smashed (James Ponsoldt, 2012): 2/5

Side by Side (Christopher Kenneally, 2012): 4/5

Another Day in Paradise (Larry Clark, 1998): 1.5/5

U-Turn, rw (Oliver Stone, 1997): 2/5

All Fall Down, rw (John Frankenheimer, 1962): 3.5/5

The Nun's Story (Fred Zinnemann, 1958): 2.5/5

Breaking Bad Seasons 3 & 4 -- 5/5

Silver Linings Playbook (David O' Russell, 2012, US) -- 3.5/5

Spring Breakers (Harmony Korine, 2012): 4/5

Rust and Bone (Jacques Audiard, 2012): 2/5

Argo (Ben Affleck, 2012): 2/5

Searching for Sugarman (Malik Bendjelloul, 2012): 3/5

Tess, rw (Roman Polanski, 1979): 5/5

Inserts, rw (John Byrum, 1974): 4/5

Crime Wave, rw (Andre De Toth, 1954): 5/5

Elephant, rw (Gus Van Sant, 2003): 5/5

The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn, part 2 (Bill Condon, 2012): 2/5

Django Unchained (Quentin Tarantino): 4.5/5

Gerry, rw (Gus Van Sant, 2002): 5/5

Argo (Ben Affleck, 2012): 2/5

House of Cards, season 1 (David Fincher, et al, 2012): 4/5

The Game (David Fincher, 1997): 2/5

Looper (Rian Johnson, 2012): 3/5

The Sessions (Ben Lewin, 2012): 2.5/5

Limitless (Neil Burger, 2011): 2/5

Little Children (Todd Field, 2006): 1.5/5

The Paperboy (Lee Daniels, 2012): 2/5

Project A 2, rw (Jackie Chan, 1987):
     First hour and 20 mins: 2/5
     Last 20 mins: 5/5

Les Enfants Terribles (Jean-Pierre Melville, 1950): 2/5

This Must Be the Place (Paolo Sorrentino, 2011): 1/5

Night Tide (Curtis Harrington, 1961): 3/5

The Proposition (John Hillcoat, 2005): 2.5/5

Shame (Steve McQueen, 2011): 2/5

Hara-Kiri: Death of a Samurai (Takashi Miike, 2011): 2/5

Flight (Robert Zemeckis, 2012): 3/5

Killer Joe (William Friedkin, 2012): 1/5

The King's Speech (Tom Hooper, 2010): 3/5

Hotel Rwanda (Terry George, 2004): 2.5/5

Guncrazy, rw (Tamra Davis, 1992): 2/5

Christmas in July, rw (Preston Sturges, 1940): 4/5

The Lady Eve, rw (Preston Sturges, 1941): 5/5

Rosemary's Baby, rw (Roman Polanski, 1968): 5/5

Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, rw (George Roy Hill, 1969): 2/5

Minnie and Moskowitz (John Cassavetes, 1971): 3/5

Georgia, rw (Ulu Grosbard, 1995): 3/5

Permanent Midnight, rw (David Veloz, 1998): 3/5

Jeff, Who Lives at Home (Jay & Mark Duplass, 2011): 3/5

The Master, rw (Paul Thomas Anderson, 2012): 4/5

Fight Club, rw (David Fincher, 1999): 4/5 (and dropping)

A Straightforward Boy, 14m (Yasujiro Ozu, 1929): 2.5/5

Equinox Flower (Yasujiro Ozu, 1958): 3.5/5

The End of Summer (Yasujiro Ozu, 1961): 3/5

General Orders No. 9 (Robert Persons, 2009): 2/5

Searching for Sugarman (Malik Bendjelloul, 2012): 2/5

Breaking Bad Season 2 -- 5/5

Higher Learning (John Singleton, 1995, US) -- 1/5

Casque d'Or (Jacques Becker, 1952, France) -- 3/5

Friends with Kids (Jennifer Westfeldt, 2011): 3/5

An Inn in Tokyo (Yasujiro Ozu, 1935): 4/5

Ladies and Gentlemen, the Fabulous Stains (Lou Adler, 1982): 3/5

To Rome with Love (Woody Allen, 2012, US) -- 1/5

2 Days in New York (Julie Delpy, 2012, US) -- 2/5

Cruising (William Friedkin, 1980, US) -- 2/5

Hearts of Darkness (Fax Bahr, 1991, US) -- 5/5

Skyfall (Sam Mendes, 2012, US) -- 3/5

Take This Waltz (Sarah Polley, 2011, Canada) -- 2/5

Titus (Julie Taymore, 1999, US) -- 1/5

Seven Psychopaths (Martin McDonagh, 2012, US) -- 2.5/5

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

Gandhi, rw (Richard Attenborough, 1982): 4/5

The Doors, rw (Oliver Stone, 1991): 3/5

Citizen Ruth, rw (Alexander Payne, 1996): 4/5

Love Crime (Alain Corneau, 2010): 2/5

Thomas Hardy adaptations:

Far From the Madding Crowd (John Schlesinger, 1967): 3/5

Jude (Michael Winterbottom, 1996): 4/5

The Claim (Michael Winterbottom, 2000): 2/5

The Woodlanders (Phil Agland, 1997): 2/5

The Maltese Falcon, rw (John Huston, 1941): 5/5

eXistenZ, rw (David Cronenberg, 1999): 4/5

Bellflower (Evan Glodell, 2011): 3.5/5

Early Summer (Yasujiro Ozu, 1951): 4.5/5

La Truite (Joseph Losey, 1982, France) -- 2/5

The Exterminating Angel (Luis Bunuel, 1962, Spain) -- 2.5/5

Come and See (Elem Klimov, 1982, Russia) -- 5/5

Medea (Pasolini, 1970, Italy)-- 1/5

Miles Electric: A Different Kind of Blue (Murray Lerner, 2004): 4/5

Rosetta, rw (Dardenne Bros., 1999): 4/5

Treasure of the Sierra Madre, rw (John Huston, 1948): 4.5/5

Seven Psychopaths (Martin McDonagh, 2012): 2.5/5

The English Patient, rw (Anthony Minghella, 1996): 3.5/5

Tabu (Miguel Gomes, 2012): 5/5

Lawrence of Arabia, rw (David Lean, 1962): 5/5

Picnic, rw (Joshua Logan, 1956): 4/5

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

Tabu (Miguel Gomez, 2012): 5/5

Point Blank, rw (John Boorman, 1967): 5/5

To Rome, With Love (Woody Allen, 2012): 1.5/5

Premium Rush (David Koepp, 2012): 1.5/5

The Imposter (Bart Layton, 2012): 3/5

Oslo, August 31st (Joachim Trier, 2011): 4/5

The Hangover Part II (Todd Philips, 2011): 3/5

The Tree of Life, rw (Terrence Malick, 2011): 5/5

Following (Christopher Nolan, 1998): 3/5

The Killing, rw (Stanley Kubrick, 1956): 5/5

Chinatown, rw (Roman Polanski, 1974): 5/5

Pitch Perfect (Jason Moore, 2012): 3/5

Killer Joe (William Friedkin, 2012): 3/5

Or, My Treasure (Keren Yedaya, 2005, Israel) -- 3/5

Perfect Sense (David Mackenzie, 2011, UK) -- 2/5

Water Lilies (Celine Sciamma, 2007, France) -- 3/5

Tomboy (Celine Sciamma, 2011, France) -- 4/5

The Queen of Versailles (Lauren Greenfield, 2012, US) -- 4/5

Weekend (Andrew Haigh, 2011, UK) -- 3/5

Sidewalls (Gustavo Taretto, 2011, Argentina) -- 5/5

Picasso and Braque Go to the Movies (Arne Glimcher, 2008, US) -- 3/5

Powaqqatsi (Godfrey Reggio, 1988) -- 3/5

Naqoyqatsi (Godfrey Reggio, 2002) -- 2/5

Phantom Lady, rw (Robert Siodmak, 1944): 3/5

Ace in the Hole, rw (Billy Wilder, 1951): 4/5

Monkey Business (Howard Hawks, 1952): 2/5

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

Heartburn (Mike Nichols, 1986): 2/5

Fatal Attraction, rw (Adrian Lyne, 1987): 3/5

Suture (Scott McGehee & David Siegel, 1993): 3/5

Sexy Beast, rw (Jonathan Glazer, 2000): 3/5

The Hours, rw (Stephen Daldry, 2002): 5/5

Wild Grass (Alain Resnais, 2009): 2/5

Compliance (Craig Zobel, 2012): 1/5

Detropia (Heidi Ewing & Rachel Grady, 2012): 2/5

California Split, rw (Robert Altman, 1975): 5/5

The Last Detail, rw (Hal Ashby, 1974): 5/5

Far From the Madding Crowd (John Schlesinger, 1967): 3/5

Looper (Rian Johnson, 2012, US) -- 3/5

Hard Eight (PT Anderson, 1996, US) -- 3/5

Breaking Bad Season One (Vince Gilligan, US) -- 5/5

Barbara (Christian Petzold, 2012, Germany) -- 3/5

Barbara (Christian Petzold, 2012): 3/5

The Ambassador (Mads Brugger, 2011): 3/5

Mammoth (Lukas Moodysson, 2009): 2/5

Reality Bites, rw (Ben Stiller, 1994): 2/5

The Crying Game, rw (Neil Jordan, 1992): 4/5

Harper (Jack Smight, 1966): 2/5

Try and Get Me [aka The Sound of Fury] (Cy Endfield, 1950): 3/5

The Informer (John Ford, 1935): 3/5

The Grey (Joe Carnahan, 2012): 3/5

La Promesse, rw (Dardenne Bros., 1996): 5/5

Island of Despair (Jesus/Jess Franco, 1969): 2/5

Boxcar Bertha (Martin Scorsese, 1972): 3/5

Melvin and Howard (Jonathan Demme, 1980): 3/5

V/H/S (Joe Swanberg, Ti West, etc., 2012): 4/5

Zero Dark Thirty (Kathryn Bigelow, 2012): 3/5 (see comment)

Double Indemnity, rw (Billy Wilder, 1944): 5/5

Lawless (John Hillcoat, 2012): 1/5

The Forgiveness of Blood (Joshua Marston, 2011): 3/5

Caught, rw (Max Ophuls, 1949): 4/5

Vertigo, rw (Alfred Hitchcock, 1958): 5/5

Days of Heaven, rw (Terrence Malick, 1978): 5/5

Jackie Brown, rw (Quentin Tarantino, 1997): 4/5

Collateral, rw (Michael Mann, 2004): 3/5

Brokeback Mountain, rw (Ang Lee, 2005): 5/5

The Queen of Versailles (Lauren Greenfield, 2012): 5/5

The Sting, rw (George Roy Hill, 1973): 3/5

Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, rw (1969): 4/5

The Passion of Joan of Arc, rw (1928): 5/5

Take This Waltz (Sarah Polley, 2011): 2/5