Sunday, January 29, 2012

Bruno (Larry Charles, 2009)-- 4/5

Maxed Out (James D. Scurlock, 2006)-- 3/5

Insomnia (Erick Skjoldbjaerg, 1997)-- 3/5

Seven Samurai (Kurosawa, 1954)-- 4/5

Les Destinees (Assayas, 2000)-- 2/5

Another Earth (Mike Cahill, 2011)-- 2/5

Gap-Toothed Women (Les Blank, 1987)-- 4/5

Garlic is as Good As Ten Mothers (Les Blank, 1980)-- 4/5

Saturday, January 28, 2012

An evening with Vincent Gallo:

Essential Killing, rw (Jerzy Skolimowski, 2010): 4/5

The Brown Bunny (Vincent Gallo, 2003): 2/5

Friday, January 27, 2012

Ravenous (Antonia Bird, 1999): 4/5

Invasion of the Body Snatchers (Don Siegel, 1956): 2/5

Invasion of the Body Snatchers (Philip Kaufman, 1978): 3/5

The Grace Lee Project (Grace Lee, 2005): 3/5

L'Enfant, rw (Dardenne Bros, 2005): 4/5

Thursday, January 26, 2012

Water for Elephants (Francis Lawrence, 2011): 2/5

The Ladies Man (Jerry Lewis, 1961): 4/5

A Story of Floating Weeds (Yasujirô Ozu, 1934): 4/5

Friday, January 20, 2012

The Descendants (Alexander Payne, 2011): 2/5

Anvil! The Story of Anvil (Sacha Gervasi, 2008): 3/5

Cat People (Paul Schrader, 1982): 2/5

Melody (Jean-Christophe Averty, 1971; 28 min.): 5/5

Spencer Tracy series at UCLA:

Quick Millions (Rowland Brown, 1931): 2/5

Now I'll Tell (Edwin Burke, 1934): 2/5

Thursday, January 19, 2012

In Treatment Season 2 (2009)-- 5/5

In Treatment Season 3 (2010)-- 4/5 (episodes w/ Amy Ryan-- 5)

Monday, January 16, 2012

The Kid with a Bike (Dardenne Bros, 2011): 4/5

Secret Sunshine (Chang-dong Lee, 2007): 4/5

A Separation (Asghar Farhadi, 2011): 4/5

Moneyball (Bennett Miller, 2011): 4/5

(an amazingly good run of movies)