Monday, October 26, 2015

re-watched Bowling for Columbine (Michael Moore, 2002) -- 4.5/5

Chaplin: The Movie (Richard Attenborough, 1992) -- 3/5

Equus (Sidney Lumet, 1977) -- 1.5/5

re-watched I Stand Alone (Gaspar Noe, 1998) -- 2/5

Going Clear (Alex Gibney, 2015) -- 4/5

Love & Mercy (Bill Pohlad, 2015) -- 2.5/5

Capturing the Friedmans (Andrew Jarecki, 2003) -- 4/5

Tuesday, October 20, 2015

Masters of Sex, season 1 (Michelle Ashford, 2013): 3/5

Steve Jobs: The Man in the Machine (Alex Gibney, 2015): 4/5

Going Clear: Scientology & the Prison of Belief (Alex Gibney, 2015): 4/5

White Bird in a Blizzard (Gregg Araki, 2014): 2/5

Berberian Sound Studio (Peter Strickland, 2013): 2/5

All Good Things (Andrew Jarecki, 2011): 2/5

Man on Wire, rw (James Marsh, 2008): 5/5

Lianna (John Sayles, 1983): 3/5

Night Nurse (William Wellman, 1931): 2/5

Queen Kelly, rw (Erich von Stroheim, 1929): 5/5

Monday, October 5, 2015

The Duke of Burgundy (Peter Strickland, 2014): 5/5  [Best film of 2015]

Far From the Madding Crowd (Thomas Vinterberg, 2015): 3.5/5

Madame Bovary (Sophie Barthes, 2015): 2.5/5

Heaven Knows What (Ben & Joshua Safdie, 2014): 1.5/5

Beautiful Darling (James Rasin, 2010): 3/5

Anywhere But Here (Wayne Wang, 1999): 3/5

The Man Who Wasn't There, rw (Joel & Ethan Coen, 2001): 3.5/5

Lenny, rw (Bob Fosse, 1974): 3.5/5

Tuesday, September 29, 2015

Raging Bull, rw (Martin Scorsese, 1980): 5/5

A Midsummer Night's Sex Comedy, rw (Woody Allen, 1982): 4/5

2001: A Space Odyssey, rw (Stanley Kubrick, 1968): 5/5

Jurassic World (Colin Trevorrow, 2015): 1.5/5

Snow on Tha Bluff (Damon Russell, 2011): 4/5

Me and Earl and the Dying Girl (Alfonso Gomez-Rejon, 2015): 2.5/5

Mr. Robot, Season One (Sam Esmail, et al, 2015): 3.5/5

Sunday, September 27, 2015

The Jinx (Andrew Jarecki, 2015) -- 5/5

Friday, September 25, 2015

Heaven Knows What (Joshua Safdie, 2015) -- 2.5/5

The White Diamond (Werner Herzog, 2004) -- 2/5

White God (Kornel Mundruczo, 2015) -- Turned it off

Anna Karenina (Julien Duvivier, 1948) -- Turned it off

Ballroom (Patrick Mario Bernard, 2003) -- 1/5

Blind Mountain (Yang Li, 2007) -- Turned it off

The Oath (Laura Poitras, 2010) -- 2.5/5

Carnal Knowledge (Mike Nichols, 1971) -- Turned it off

Late August, Early September (Olivier Assayas, 1999) -- Turned it off

My Country, My Country (Laura Poitras, 2006) -- Turned it off

Thursday, September 10, 2015

*Mistress America (Noah Baumbach, 2015): 2/5

Aloha (Cameron Crowe, 2015): 1.5/5

The Salt of the Earth (Wim Wenders, 2014): 4/5

Up in the Air, rw (Jason Reitman, 2009): 2.5/5

Jesus' Son, rw (Alison Maclean, 1999): 3/5

To Die For, rw (Gus Van Sant, 1995): 4/5