Sunday, March 30, 2014

World War Z (Marc Forster, 2013): 2/5

Dragonslayer (Tristan Patterson, 2011): 1/5

Julie & Julia (Nora Ephron, 2009): 2/5

Junebug (Phil Morrison, 2005): 2/5

The Edukators (Hans Weingartner, 2004): 2/5

The Girl with the Pearl Earring (Peter Webber, 2003): 3.5/5

Donnie Brasco, rw (Mike Newell, 1997): 2.5/5

*Ran, rw (Akira Kurosawa, 1985): 5/5

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

The American Soldier (R.W. Fassbinder, 1970): 1.5/5

Brief Encounter, rw (David Lean, 1945): 5/5

You Only Live Once, rw (Fritz Lang, 1937): 3/5

Thursday, March 27, 2014

The World's End (Edgar Wright, 2013): 1.5/5

Goodfellas, rw (Martin Scorsese, 1990): 5/5

Taxi Driver, rw (Martin Scorsese, 1976): 5/5

The Lodger (Alfred Hitchcock, 1927): 3/5

The Sugarland Express (Steven Spielberg, 1974): 2/5

Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (Richard Brooks, 1958): 4.5/5

Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (Jack Hofsiss, 1984): 3/5

The Lone Ranger (Gore Verbinski, 2013): 2/5

Me, Myself and Irene, rw (Bobby Farrelly, Peter Farrelly, 2000): 2/5

Thursday, March 20, 2014

*The Grand Budapest Hotel (Wes Anderson, 2014): 3.5/5

The Hunt (Thomas Vinterberg, 2012): 1.5/5

Blue Jasmine (Woody Allen, 2013): 3/5

True Detective, Season One (Cary Fukunaga, 2014): 4/5
                             - Episode 4, "Who Goes There": 5/5

Nebraska (Alexander Payne, 2013): 4/5

Enough Said (Nicole Holofcener, 2013): 3/5

The Innkeepers (Ti West, 2011): 2/5

Computer Chess (Andrew Bujalski, 2013): 1.5/5

The Talented Mr. Ripley, rw (Anthony Minghella, 1999): 4.5/5 

Way Down East (D.W. Griffith, 1920): 4/5
                                     - close-ups: 5/5

Unfaithfully Yours (Preston Sturges, 1948): 3.5/5

The Soft Skin (Francois Truffaut, 1964): 4/5

Sunday, March 9, 2014

Agony: The Life and Death of Rasputin (Elem Klimov, 1982, USSR)-- 2/5

Clean, Shaven (Lodge Kerrigan, 1993, US) -- 2/5

Dancing Dreams (Anne Linsel, 2009, Germany) -- 4/5

Hush...Hush, Sweet Charlotte (Robert Aldrich, 1964, US) -- 2/5

Mother & Son (Alexander Sokurov, 2000, Russia) -- 2/5

Bluebeard (Catherine Breillat, 2009, France) -- 2/5

To Die Like A Man (Joao Pedro Rodrigues, 2009, Portugal) -- 2/5

Red Rock West (John Dahl, 1993, US) -- 2/5

Summer With Monika (Ingmar Bergman, 1953, Sweden) -- 3.5/5

Closely Watched Trains (Jiri Menzel, 1966, Czechoslovakia) -- 2/5

The Magician (Ingmar Bergman, 1958, Sweden) -- 1/5

Narco Cultura (Shaul Schwarz, 2013): 4/5

20 Feet From Stardom (Morgan Neville, 2013): 3/5

Nebraska (Alexander Payne, 2013): 2/5

Let's Get Lost (Bruce Weber, 1988): 4/5

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, rw (Michel Gondry, 2004): 2.5/5

The Ice Storm, rw (Ang Lee, 1997): 3/5

Contact, rw (Robert Zemeckis, 1997): 3.5/5

Walking and Talking, rw (Nicole Holofcener, 1996): 3.5/5

*Onibaba, rw (Kaneto Shindo, 1964): 5/5

*Ugetsu monogatari, rw (Kenji Mizoguchi, 1953): 3.5/5

Thursday, March 6, 2014

It's Always Fair Weather (Stanley Donen, Gene Kelly, 1955): 3.5/5

The Conjuring (James Wan, 2013): 4/5

The Thin Man (W.S. Van Dyke, 1934): 3/5

In a World... (Lake Bell, 2013): 3/5

Accattone (Pier Paolo Pasolini, 1961): 3.5/5

Deliverance, rw (John Boorman, 1972): 5/5

Affliction (Paul Schrader, 1997): 2/5