2007: My Year in Movies, From Death to Birth

Submitted by opalfilms on Mon, 10/29/2007 - 11:31
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  1. 12/31- Time (2006, Kim Ki-duk) [8]
  2. 12/31- Regarding Henry (1991, Mike Nichols) [*1/2]
  3. 12/30- /The Host (2006, Bong Joon-ho)/ [9]
  4. 12/29- Russian Dolls (2005, Cedric Klapisch) [6]
  5. 12/29- Exiled (2006, Johnnie To)
  6. 12/29- The Kite Runner (2007, Marc Forster)
  7. 12/28- The Italian (2005, Andrei Kravchuk) [6]
  8. 12/27- The Savages (2007, Tamara Jenkins) [6]
  9. 12/24- /28 Weeks Later (2007, Juan Carlos Fresnadillo)/ [7, up from 5]
  10. 12/24- /The Muppet Christmas Carol (1992, Brian Henson)/ [**1/2]
  11. 12/22- /Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End (2007, Gore Verbinski)/ [5]
  12. 12/21- Charlie Wilson's War (2007, Mike Nichols) [4]
  13. 12/21- Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story (2007, Jake Kasdan) [5]
  14. 12/20- Sweeney Todd (2007, Tim Burton) [8]
  15. 12/19- National Treasure: Book of Secrets (2007, Jon Turteltaub) [5]
  16. 12/19- How to Hook Up Your Home Theatre (2007, Kevin Deters and Steve Wermers)
  17. 12/18- The TV Set (2006, Jake Kasdan) [6]
  18. 12/17- Red Road (2006, Andrea Arnold) [5]
  19. 12/16- /Stuck on You (2003, Farrelly brothers)/ [***1/2]
  20. 12/16- /The Miracle of Morgan's Creek (1944, Preston Sturges)/ [****]
  21. 12/15- Original Cast Album: Company (1970, D.A. Pennebaker) [***1/2]
  22. 12/15- /Kingpin (1996, Farrelly brothers)/ [***]
  23. 12/15- I Am (Listening to) Legend (2007, Francis Lawrence) [6]
  24. 12/14- Margot at the Wedding (2007, Noah Baumbach) [7]
  25. 12/14- Le Doulos (1962, Jean-Pierre Melville) [***1/2]
  26. 12/13- In Between Days (2006, So Yong Kim) [5]
  27. 12/12- Tabu: A Story of the South Seas (1931, F.W. Murnau) [***1/2]
  28. 12/12- The Testament of Dr. Mabuse (1933, Fritz Lang) [***1/2]
  29. 12/9- Sleuth (2007, Kenneth Branagh) [3]
  30. 12/8- /Titanic (1997, James Cameron)/ [***]
  31. 12/8- My Kid Could Paint That (2007, Amir Bar-Lev) [7]
  32. 12/8- Nicole Kidman Spanks Her Monkey (2007, Chris Weitz) [5]
  33. 12/8- /No Country For Old Men/
  34. 12/7- /Pierrot le Fou (1965, Jean-Luc Godard)/ [***1/2]
  35. 12/6- Juno (2007, Jason Reitman) [6]
  36. 12/4- /Back to the Future (1985, Robert Zemeckis)/ [****]
  37. 12/3- /I'm Not There/
  38. 12/2- /Barton Fink (1991, Joel Coen)/ [****]
  39. 12/2- Emmet Otter's Jug Band Christmas (1977, Jim Henson) [***1/2]
  40. 12/2- Kirikou and the Wild Beasts (2005, Michel Ocelot) [6]
  41. 12/1- War and Peace (1965-1968, Sergei Bondarchuk) [****]
  42. 11/30- Flanders (2006, Bruno Dumont) [6]
  43. 11/29- /Offside/ [9, up from 8] {"What will Iran do? Iran will riddle you with goals!" is the best cheer, like, ever.}
  44. 11/28- /Next Week's When Good Directors Go Bad/
  45. 11/27- The Devil Came on Horseback (2007, Annie Sundberg and Ricki Stern) [6]
  46. 11/26- /Everything Will Be Ok/ {The more I watch this, the more I'm convinced it's one of the greatest movies of all time. Go Hertzfeldt go.}
  47. 11/25- The Mist (2007, Frank Darabont) [6]
  48. 11/25- Enchanted (2007, Kevin Lima) [4]
  49. 11/24- /Interkosmos (2006, Jim Finn)/ [9]
  50. 11/24- /Killer of Sheep/
  51. 11/23- I'm Not There (2007, Todd Haynes) [8]
  52. 11/21- Track 29 (1988, Nicolas Roeg) [***1/2]
  53. 11/20- Home Coming (2006, Omer Ugur) [3] {Only of interest to see what Sibel Kekilli's been up to lately- strange to see that even though she hasn't gone all Hollywood after Head-On, she's still playing the same loving, worried wife roles in Turkey that she'd get here. Still, despite the nothing role, she proves that she's the real thing, making us care about a part that really doesn't deserve it, in a movie that really doesn't deserve her.}
  54. 11/19- Saawariya (2007, Sanjay Leela Bhansali) [6]
  55. 11-18- Fay Grim (2006, Hal Hartley) [4] {Hard to argue with what this dude says about the movie, but in a way I think Posey is actually perfect for the film since she doesn't engage with the role and neither, really, does Hartley engage with the movie. He piles twist upon twist as in any spy thriller, but they don't build to anything or have any significance. In addition, I gotta say that I found this quasi-sequel to Henry Fool to be a kind of betrayal of what I loved about the original movie. Yes, by relating Henry's past we find out how he became how he was in that film, but I found that it put too fine a point on the character. What made that film special wasn't that we wondered what made the dude tick, but rather the idea that here's this strange dude who thought he was destined for immortality, only to discover that the closest he'd get to greatness would be recognizing and inspiring it in someone else, while he himself had to hack it on the everyday grind like every other anonymous schmoe. I really didn't care what Henry's confessions really were, and I sort of resent that someone believed I did.}
  56. 11/18- Violette (1978, Claude Chabrol) [***1/2]
  57. 11/17- /Gone Baby Gone/ [raised to 9]
  58. 11/17- Beowulf: The IMAX Experience (2007, Robert Zemeckis) [7]
  59. 11/17- Before the Devil Knows You're Dead (2007, Sidney Lumet) [5]
  60. 11/17- /The Hudsucker Proxy (1994, Joel Coen) [***]
  61. 11/16- Control (2007, Anton Corbijn) [6]
  62. 11/16- Night on Bald Mountain (1933, Alexander Alexieff and Claire Parker)
  63. 11/16- Allegretto (1936-1943, Oskar Fischinger)
  64. 11/16- Blinkety Blank (1954, Norman McLaren)
  65. 11/16- Our Lady of the Sphere (1969, Lawrence Jordan)
  66. 11/16- Valise (2004, Lewis Klahr)
  67. 11/16- Fuji (1974, Robert Breer)
  68. 11/16- Train Landscapes (1974, Jules Engel)
  69. 11/16- Flying Fur (1981, George Griffin)
  70. 11/16- Fast Film (2003, Virgil Wildich)
  71. 11/16- Ryan (2004, Chris Landreth)
  72. 11/16- Madame Tutli-Putli (2007, Chris Lavis and Maciek Szczerbowski)
  73. 11/15- Ottawa International Animation Festival Signal Film (2007, Odell/Mehring/Dahlbeck/Nord/Andersson) {I get the sinking feeling that if I credit this I should start crediting the Wex F/V snipe that MikeO made that plays before every Wexner screening, or the "There are these two gangs, and when they dance, they fight. They DANCE!FIGHT!" ad before screenings at TIFF. But since it's listed on the program, what the heck.}
  74. 11/15- John and Karen (2007, Matthew Walker)
  75. 11/15- L'eau Life (2007, Jeff Scher)
  76. 11/15- t.o.m. (2006, Tom Brown and Daniel Gray)
  77. 11/15- Doxology (2007, Matthew Langan)
  78. 11/15- OOIOO "UMO" (2007, Shoji Goto)
  79. 11/15- Framing (2007, Bert Gottschalk)
  80. 11/15- The Waif of Persephone (2006, Nick Cross)
  81. 11/15- Teat Beat of Sex (2007, Signe Baumane}
  82. 11/15- Milk Teeth (2007, Tibor Banoczki)
  83. 11/15- Golden Age (2007, Aaron Augenblick)
  84. 11/14- No Country for Old Men (2007, Joel and Ethan Coen) [10]
  85. 11/13- Stop-Loss (2008, Kimberly Peirce) [7]
  86. 11/12- La Notte (1961, Michelangelo Antonioni) [***]
  87. 11/11- /Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby (2006, Adam McKay)/ [6] {Still not as consistently inspired as Anchorman, but lots of fun, especially when John C. Reilly or Gary Cole or especially Sacha Baron Cohen are onscreen. "Profiling purposes"... heh heh.}
  88. 11/10- /The Hoax/ [4] {When you're visiting your parents, you're kind of at their mercy re: movies to watch. Could've been worse, I s'pose.}
  89. 11/9- Rock and Slide (2006), Nethergate (2005), and Unnamed Complement (2007, all Bruce McClure)- none of these qualify as films in the traditional sense, but are nonetheless fascinating and wholly cinematic. For the uninitiated, McClure uses between two and four projectors, modified to his specifications, and hooks them up to amplifiers and distortion pedals. His programs- best described as "performances"- involve him projecting specially designed loops of film through these projectors and using the distortion pedals to vary the projector speed and to turn a basic sound pattern into intricate, percussive music. The result is hypnotic- while the varying flicker patterns and plays of light between the different projectors are strangely relaxing, the sound is practically assaultive, sometimes like a cacophany of ringing bells, at other times closer to noise rock (do I have your attention yet Steve?). McClure is the closest thing I've seen to a cinematic DJ, and I can't recommend him more highly to those omnivorous cinematic appetites.
  90. 11/7- Destiny (2006, Zeki Demirkubuz) [5] {"... no escaping that for me/ destiny, destiny..." That's two Turkish movies I've seen that are about how Turkish men are weak-willed jerks. I know I'm probably just watching the wrong ones, but yeesh. Destiny is more successful than Times and Winds because Demirkubuz is a superior filmmaker, as well as the fact that he never invites us to feel sorry for his characters by making them put-upon kids. His protagonist more or less gets himself into his predicament- trouble is, he's not all that interesting. Demirkubuz places too much of a distance between himself and the characters onscreen, so that there's little to do but observe. And in a story like this one, there really should be more interest beyond regarding the characters like animals in the zoo. At least Fassbinder had his scathing sense of humor going for him.}
  91. 11/6- The Tenant (1976, Roman Polanski) [***1/2] {Compared to its counterparts in Polanski's "apartment trilogy"- Repulsion and Rosemary's Baby- this is less effective as a genre film, but is just as fascinating as those movies in its own way. There's something tentative about Polanski's direction here that's off-putting from practically the first frame, well before the weird stuff starts to go down. This is aided by the director's performance in the lead role, off-kilter but milquetoast at the same time. I was reminded of the hiding-out scenes in Polanski's later film The Pianist, and indeed the film can be read as a paranoid nightmare suffered by an outsider who's afraid of being persecuted by those around him. But regardless of what it means, this is an eerie piece of work, with a kind of anti-logic that recalls a bad dream in the way many more self-consciously "dreamlike" filmmakers can't quite manage.}
  92. 11/5- /The Umbrellas of Cherbourg/ (1964, Jacques Demy) [****]
  93. 11/4- /Everything Will Be OK/ {Currently neck and neck with Zodiac for the title of year's best.}
  94. 11/4- /Lola/ (1961, Jacques Demy) [****]
  95. 11/3- American Gangster (2007, Ridley Scott) [6] {Exactly what you'd expect a recent Ridley Scott version of a true crime saga to be- impeccably made, entertaining but respectably so, and sort of uninspired. Might have worked better as a miniseries, or for that matter as a scruffy 90-minute cops'n'robbers thriller. But that kind of movie doesn't get Oscar™ buzz, now does it?}
  96. 11/2- Wristcutters: A Love Story (2006, Goran Dukic) [6] {Went in expecting the hipster Defending Your Life, and while this isn't necessarily a bad description it's much more enjoyable than I thought it would be. Part of it is the morbid sense of humor Dukic brings to the party, less rollicking than Kusturica, less lysergic than Makavejev, but a similarly Eastern European sensibility, drawn to cultural dross and the downtrodden. Got its share of problems, but surprisingly fun, with stunt casting that actually WORKS. And that final scene is perfect. Also, Shannyn Sossamon doesn't usually do it for me, but she really did here. Must be my thing for women who can swear like men, although what that says about me I won't begin to speculate.}
  97. 11/2- The Monster Squad (1987, Fred Dekker) [***] {I somehow missed this during my childhood- mom wasn't a big fan of what she called "yelling kid movies"- but worked like a charm on me twenty years down the line. As full-blooded (and surprisingly violent) as this is, I was most surprised by its innocence. Never today would a movie be made in which kids could wander around like this, or smoke without getting into trouble, or curse. But that's a major part of the charm, as the heroes are just at the age where they're dipping their toes into the ocean of adulthood, becoming more independent and acting grown-up based on their limited knowledge of the subject. Of course the story is all prepubescent wish fulfillment, but there's nothing wrong with that. And thanks to Dekker and screenwriter Shane Black, the self-awareness of the story never comes off as cutesy. Beats the heck outta Van Helsing, that's for sure.}
  98. 11/1- Times and Winds (2006, Reha Edrem) [4] {Certainly more polished and technically show-offy (especially the crane shots and copious use of Steadicam) than I was expecting from a movie set in a small Turkish village. The disconnect between the filmmaking style and the material is interesting but also distracting, which can also be said of the awesome but almost wholly unnecessary Arvo Part score. But no amount of filmmaking chops could disguise the miserablism on display here- bad daddies by the score, violence against children, and so on. Plus the scenes of animal sex made me think that Reygadas found someone else to take over for him now that he's moved on.}
  99. 10/31- Hush... Hush, Sweet Charlotte (1964, Robert Aldrich) [***1/2] {I love how classically-styled yet completely deranged this is. Definitely a keeper.}
  100. 10/31- /Spider (2002, David Cronenberg)/ [***1/2] {An inspired pairing with Charlotte for a Halloween double feature. This is so much better the second time.}
  101. 10/30- /The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford/ [grade raised to 9]
  102. 10/29- Lights in the Dusk (2006, Aki Kaurismäki) [5]
  103. 10/28- /Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978, Philip Kaufman)/ [***1/2]
  104. 10/28- Psycho (1998, Gus Van Sant) [**1/2]
  105. 10/28- The Wicker Man (2006, Neil LaBute) [3]
  106. 10/27- Lars and the Real Girl (2007, Craig Gillespie) [7]
  107. 10/27- Things We Lost in the Fire (2007, Susanne Bier) [5]
  108. 10/27- Dan in Real Life (2007, Peter Hedges) [5]
  109. 10/26- /Nosferatu the Vampyre (1979, Werner Herzog)/ [***1/2]
  110. 10/26- /Cat People (1982, Paul Schrader)/ [***]
  111. 10/25- The Witnesses (2007, André Téchiné) [6]
  112. 10/24- /Audition (1999, Takashi Miike)/ [****]
  113. 10/22- Lust, Caution (2007, Ang Lee) [5]
  114. 10/21- Them [Ils] (2006, David Moreau and Xavier Palud) [4]
  115. 10/21- To the Devil, a Daughter (1976, Peter Sykes) [**1/2]
  116. 10/21- Black Sheep (2006, Jonathan King)
  117. 10/20- The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (2007, Andrew Dominik) [8]
  118. 10/20- Into the Wild (2007, Sean Penn) [7]
  119. 10/20- /Freaks/
  120. 10/19- Santa (1932, Antonio Moreno) [***]
  121. 10/19- The Darjeeling Limited (2007, Wes Anderson) [4]
  122. 10/17- Gone Baby Gone (2007, “Yes, That” Ben Affleck) [8]
  123. 10/16- /The Incredible Shrinking Man (1957, Jack Arnold)/ [***1/2]
  124. 10/14- The Treatment (2006, Oren Rudavsky) [7]
  125. 10/14- /Woodstock (1970, Michael Wadleigh)/ [****]
  126. 10/13- /Dreamcatcher (2003, Lawrence Kasdan)/ [*]
  127. 10/12- Elizabeth: The Golden Age (2007, Shekhar Kapur) [3]
  128. 10/11- A Walk Into the Sea: Danny Williams and the Warhol Factory (2007, Esther Robinson) [5]
  129. 10/10- Michael Clayton (2007, Tony Gilroy) [8]
  130. 10/9- We Own the Night (2007, James Gray) [8]
  131. 10/7- Hotel Chevalier (2007, Wes Anderson)
  132. 10/7- Little Murders (1971, Alan Arkin) [***1/2]
  133. 10/7- /Sonatine (1993, Takeshi Kitano)/ [***1/2]
  134. 10/6- The Heartbreak Kid (2007, Peter and Bobby Farelly) [4]
  135. 10/6- The Kingdom (2007, Peter Berg) [4]
  136. 10/6- Rocket Science (2007, Jeffrey Blitz) [7]
  137. 10/5- Strange Culture (2007, Lynne Hershman Leeson) [7]
  138. 10/4- The Open Road (1926, Claude Friese-Greene)
  139. 10/3- Gun Crazy (1949, Joseph H. Lewis) [***1/2]
  140. 10/2- /Zatoichi (2003, Takeshi Kitano)/ [***1/2]
  141. 10/1- The Great Moment (1944, Preston Sturges) [***1/2]
  142. 9/30- The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters (2007, Seth Gordon) [7]
  143. 9/30- /The Birds (1963, Alfred Hitchcock)/ [***1/2]
  144. 9/29- Across the Universe (2007, Julie Taymor) [4]
  145. 9/29- Feast of Love (2007, Robert Benton) [w/o]
  146. 9/29- Death Proof (2007, Quentin Tarantino) [7] {Cannes cut}
  147. 9/28- /Killer of Sheep/ [now 10]
  148. 9/27- Killer of Sheep (1977, Charles Burnett) [9]
  149. 9/24- /The Taking of Pelham One Two Three (1974, Joseph Sargent)/ [***1/2]
  150. 9/23- /The Matador (2005, Richard Shepard)/ [8]
  151. 9/23- I Confess (1953, Alfred Hitchcock) [*1/2]
  152. 9/23- Inferno (1980, Dario Argento) [***]
  153. 9/23- Phantom Lady (1944, Robert Siodmak) [***1/2]
  154. 9/22- In the Valley of Elah (2007, Paul Haggis) [7]
  155. 9/22- The Hunting Party (2007, Richard Shepard) [8]
  156. 9/21- Eastern Promises (2007, David Cronenberg) [6]
  157. 9/21- Halloween (2007, Rob Zombie) [6]
  158. 9/20- Half Moon (2006, Bahman Ghobadi)/ [5]
  159. 9/18- /Eyes Wide Shut (1999, Stanley Kubrick)/ [***1/2]
  160. 9/17- 2 Days in Paris (2007, Julie Delpy) [6]
  161. 9/16- /The Crying Game (1992, Neil Jordan)/ [***1/2]
  162. 9/16- /Suspiria (1977, Dario Argento)/ [***1/2]
  163. 9/15- 3:10 to Yuma (2007, James Mangold) [6]
  164. 9/15- No End in Sight (2007, Charles Ferguson) [7]
  165. 9/15- Angel-A (2005, Luc Besson) [3]
  166. 9/14- The Italian Job (1969, Peter Collinson) [***]
  167. 9/13- Brand Upon the Brain! (2006, Guy Maddin) [6]
  168. 9/13- Zoo (2007, Robinson Devor) [4]
  169. 9/12- Wojaczek (1999, Lech Majewski) [**1/2]
  170. 9/10- Sad Vacation (2007, Shinji Aoyama) [3] {Wha'happened?}
  171. 9/10- Redacted (2007, Brian DePalma) [7]
  172. 9/10- Atonement (2007, Joe Wright) [6]
  173. 9/10- Stuck (2007, Stuart Gordon) [8]
  174. 9/9- Secret Sunshine (2007, Lee Chang-dong) [7]
  175. 9/9- Chansons d’Amour (2007, Christophe Honoré) [4]
  176. 9/9- Silent Light (2007, Carlos Reygadas) [9]
  177. 9/8- Les Amours d’Astrée et de Céladon (2007, Eric Rohmer) [8]
  178. 9/8- The Man From London (2007, Bela Tarr) [6]
  179. 9/8- Useless (2007, Jia Zhang-ke) [5]
  180. 9/8- Europa 2005- 27 Octobre (2006, Jean-Marie Straub and Daniele Huillet) [short]
  181. 9/8- Capitalism:Slavery (2007, Ken Jacobs) [short]
  182. 9/8- Profit Motive and the Whispering Wind (2007, John Gianvito)
  183. 9/8- George A. Romero’s Diary of the Dead (2007) [6]
  184. 9/7- Ne Touchez Pas la Hache (2007, Jacques Rivette) [9]
  185. 9/7- Pink (2006, Alexander Voulgaris) [3] {This is what they call karmic balance in my opinion}
  186. 9/7- Le Voyage du Ballon Rouge (2007, Hou Hsiao-hsien) [7]
  187. 9/7- The Edge of Heaven (2007, Fatih Akin) [6]
  188. 9/7- The Orphanage (2007, Juan Antonio Bayona) [6]
  189. 9/6- Fados (2007, Carlos Saura) [7]
  190. 9/6- Persepolis (2007, Marjane Satrapi and Vincent Perrenoud) [5]
  191. 9/6- The Mother of Tears (2007, Dario Argento) [6]
  192. 9/5- /Once/
  193. 9/4- Shoot 'Em Up (2007, Michael Davis) [6]
  194. 9/3- /La Jetée/
  195. 9/3- /Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf (1966, Mike Nichols)/ [***1/2]
  196. 8/31- Lonely Hearts (2006, Todd Robinson) [4]
  197. 8/30- Offside (2006, Jafar Panahi) [8]
  198. 8/27- Blue Collar (1978, Paul Schrader) [***]
  199. 8/26- /Stardust Memories (1980, Woody Allen)/ [***1/2]
  200. 8/26- Ball of Fire (1941, Howard Hawks) [***1/2]
  201. 8/25- My Best Friend (2006, Patrice Leconte) [5]
  202. 8/25- The Boss of It All (2006, Lars Von Trier) [7]
  203. 8/25- Exterminating Angels (2006, Jean-Claude Brisseau) [4]
  204. 8/24- She Done Him Wrong (1933, Lowell Sherman) [***]
  205. 8/24- Cobra Woman (1943, Robert Siodmak) [**]
  206. 8/24- Pennies From Heaven (1981, Herbert Ross) [***1/2]
  207. 8/23- /Vengeance Is Mine (1979, Shohei Imamura)/ [***1/2]
  208. 8/22- In the Shadow of the Moon (2006, David Sington) [6]
  209. 8/20- /Dogville (2003, Lars Von Trier)/ [****]
  210. 8/19- /The 'High Sign'/, /Neighbors/, and /The Scarecrow/
  211. 8/19- /The Band Wagon (1953, Vincente Minnelli)/ [****]
  212. 8/18- Regular Lovers (2005, Philippe Garrel) [7]
  213. 8/18- Special Afflictions by Ray Harryhozen (2006, Bonnie Camplin)
  214. 8/18- Lady Chatterley (2006, Pascale Ferran) [8]
  215. 8/17- The Man With Two Brains (1983, Carl Reiner) [***1/2]
  216. 8/16- WR: Mysteries of the Orga[ni]sm (1971, Dusan Makavejev) [***1/2]
  217. 8/16- /The High Sign/
  218. /The General (1927, Buster Keaton and Clyde Bruckman)/ [****]
  219. 8/15- A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors (1987, Chuck Russell) [**1/2]
  220. 8/14- Superbad (2007, Greg Mottola) [7]
  221. 8/13- /Zabriskie Point (1970, Michelangelo Antonioni)/ [**]
  222. 8/12- /The Bird With the Crystal Plumage (1970, Dario Argento)/ [***]
  223. 8/11- Broken Trail (2006, Walter Hill) [8]
  224. 8/10- Bamako (2006, Abderramane Sissako) [7]
  225. 8/9- Cria Cuervos... (1976, Carlos Saura) [***1/2]
  226. 8/9- Death of a Cyclist (1955, Juan Antonio Bardem) [**1/2]
  227. 8/8- gravida (2007, Lucas McNelly)
  228. 8/7- /The Royal Tenenbaums (2001, Wes Anderson)/ [****]
  229. 8/7- Lorna (1964, Russ Meyer) [**]
  230. 8/5- /Kiss Kiss Bang Bang (2005, Shane Black)/
  231. 8/5- Red Desert (1964, Michelangelo Antonioni) [***1/2]
  232. 8/4- Talk to Me (2007, Kasi Lemmons) [7]
  233. 8/4- The Bourne Ultimatum (2007, Paul Greengrass) [7]
  234. 8/4- Les Enfants Terribles (1950, Jean-Pierre Melville) [***1/2]
  235. 8/3- /The Earrings of Madame de... (1953, Max Ophüls)/ [***1/2]
  236. 8/3- /Autumn Sonata (1978, Ingmar Bergman)/ [**1/2]
  237. 8/2- /Zero for Conduct (1933, Jean Vigo)/
  238. 8/2- /The 400 Blows (1959, François Truffaut)/ [****]
  239. 8/1- /Mala Noche (1985, Gus Van Sant)/ [**1/2]
  240. 7/30- /Cries and Whispers (1972, Ingmar Bergman)/ [****]
  241. 7/29- /Zodiac/
  242. 7/28- Rescue Dawn (2006, Werner Herzog) [6]
  243. 7/28- Czech Dream (2004, Vit Klusák and Filip Remunda) [7]
  244. 7/28- he who laughs last laughs longest (2006, "Not That" Phil Collins)
  245. 7/28- /The Doors (1991, Oliver Stone)/ [*1/2]
  246. 7/27- The Simpsons Movie (2007, David Silverman) [6]
  247. 7/27- /Insignificance (1985, Nicolas Roeg)/ [***1/2]
  248. 7/26- /Cléo From 5 to 7 (1962, Agnès Varda)/ [***1/2]
  249. 7/26- /The Cranes Are Flying (1957, Mikhail Kalatozov)/ [***1/2]
  250. 7/25- Sunshine (2007, Danny Boyle) [6]
  251. 7/24- /The Shining (1980, Stanley Kubrick)/ [****]
  252. 7/23- Eureka (1983, Nicolas Roeg) [**1/2]
  253. 7/22- Hairspray (2007, Adam Shankman) [7]
  254. 7/22- /Solaris (1972, Andrei Tarkovsky)/ [****]
  255. 7/21- Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (2007, David Yates) [6]
  256. 7/21- Day Night Day Night (2006, Julia Loktev) [8]
  257. 7/20- Joshua (2007, George Ratliff) [9]
  258. 7/19- /Summer With Monika (1953, Ingmar Bergman)/ [***]
  259. 7/19- Kiss Me, Stupid (1964, Billy Wilder) [***1/2]
  260. 7/16- The Face of Another (1966, Hiroshi Teshigahara) [***1/2]
  261. 7/15- Paprika (2006, Satoshi Kon) [5]
  262. 7/15- /Point Blank (1967, John Boorman)/ [****]
  263. 7/14- /Don't Look Now (1973, Nicolas Roeg)/ [***1/2]
  264. 7/14- Private Fears in Public Places (2006, Alain Resnais) [8]
  265. 7/14- The Cotton Club (1984, Francis Coppola) [**]
  266. 7/13- /Apocalypse Now (1979, Francis Coppola)/ [****]
  267. 7/12- Lola (1981, Rainer Werner Fassbinder) [***1/2]
  268. 7/12- The Flowers of St. Francis (1950, Roberto Rossellini) [***]
  269. 7/11- /The Big Lebowski (1998, Joel Coen)/ [***1/2]
  270. 7/9- /Sherlock Jr. (1924, Buster Keaton)/ [****]
  271. 7/7- Pride (2007, Sunu Gonera) [4]
  272. 7/6- /Rules of the Game (1939, Jean Renoir)/ [****]
  273. 7/5- The Miracle of Morgan's Creek (1944, Preston Sturges) [****]
  274. 7/5- /Our Hospitality (1923, Buster Keaton and Jack Blystone)/ [****]
  275. 7/4- Transformers (2007, Michael Bay) [3]
  276. 7/4- To Be and to Have (2002, Nicholas Philibert) [***]
  277. 7/3- /Jaws (1975, Steven Spielberg)/ [****]
  278. 7/3- /The Incredibles (2004, Brad Bird)/ [***1/2]
  279. 7/2- /One Week (1920, Buster Keaton and Eddie Cline)/
  280. 7/1- /Father and Son (2003, Aleksandr Sokurov)/ [***]
  281. 7/1- /Yi Yi (2000, Edward Yang)/ [****]
  282. 6/30- Sicko (2007, Michael Moore) [7]
  283. 6/30- Live Free or Die Hard (2007, Len Wiseman) [6]
  284. 6/30- /New York, New York (1977, Martin Scorsese)/ [**]
  285. 6/29- /Two or Three Things I Know About Her (1967, Jean-Luc Godard)/ [***1/2]
  286. 6/29- /La Jetée/
  287. 6/29- The Adjuster (1991, Atom Egoyan) [**1/2]
  288. 6/28- Comedy of Power (2006, Claude Chabrol) [6]
  289. 6/27- /Who's That Knocking at My Door? (1968, Martin Scorsese)/ [***1/2]
  290. 6/26- /La Jetée (1962, Chris Marker)/
  291. 6/26- Sacco and Vanzetti (2005, Peter Miller) [6]
  292. 6/25- /Seven Chances (1925, Buster Keaton)/ [****]
  293. 6/25- /Neighbors (1920, Buster Keaton and Eddie Cline)/
  294. 6/24- /Late Spring (1949, Yasujiro Ozu)/ [****]
  295. 6/23- /Ratatouille/ [8, down from 9]
  296. 6/23- /Lifted/
  297. 6/23- Peeping Tom (1960, Michael Powell) [****]
  298. 6/23- I Don't Want to Sleep Alone (2006, Tsai Ming-liang) [5]
  299. 6/22- 1408 (2007, Mikael Håfström) [5]
  300. 6/22- A Mighty Heart (2007, Michael Winterbottom) [4]
  301. 6/21- /The Big Heat (1953, Fritz Lang)/ [***1/2]
  302. 6/20- Mutual Appreciation (2005, Andrew Bujalski) [5]
  303. 6/18- /Punch-Drunk Love (2002, Paul Thomas Anderson)/ [****]
  304. 6/17- Man's Favorite Sport? (1964, Howard Hawks) [***1/2]
  305. 6/17- /The Fugitive (1993, Andrew Davis)/ [***1/2]
  306. 6/16- /Duck, You Sucker (1971, Sergio Leone)/ [***1/2]
  307. 6/16- Ratatouille (2007, Brad Bird) [9]
  308. 6/16- Lifted (2006, Gary Rydstrom)
  309. 6/16- Hostel, Part II (2007, Eli Roth) [4]
  310. 6/15- /Superman (1978, Richard Donner)/ [***1/2]
  311. 6/15- Hostel (2005, Eli Roth) [3]
  312. 6/14- In the Pit (2006, Juan Carlos Rolfo) [6]
  313. 6/13- La Vie en Rose (2007, Olivier Dahan) [4]
  314. 6/12- Once (2006, John Carney) [8]
  315. 6/11- /The Son (2002, Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne) [****]/
  316. 6/10- /Modern Romance (1981, Albert Brooks)/ [***1/2]
  317. 6/10- /Malcolm X (1992, Spike Lee)/ [****]
  318. 6/9- Paris, je t'aime (2006, various) [4]
  319. 6/9- Manufactured Landscapes (2006, Jennifer Baichwal) [6]
  320. 6/9- Moment Musical (2006, Bruce Checefsky)
  321. 6/9- Sex and Fury (1973, Norifumi Suzuki) [***1/2]
  322. 6/8- Ocean's Thirteen (2007, Steven Soderbergh) [6]
  323. 6/8- Surf's Up (2007, Ash Brannon and Chris Buck) [6]
  324. 6/7- Jigoku (1960, Nobuo Makagawa) [**1/2]
  325. 6/6- /Army of Shadows (1969, Jean-Pierre Melville)/ [****]
  326. 6/5- El Topo (1970, Alejandro Jodorowsky) [***1/2]
  327. 6/3- Art School Confidential (2006, Terry Zwigoff) [*1/2]
  328. 6/3- /Band of Outsiders (1964, Jean-Luc Godard)/ [****]
  329. 6/2- Knocked Up (2007, Judd Apatow) [7]
  330. 6/2- The Valet (2006, Francis Veber) [3]
  331. 6/2- Waitress (2007, Adrienne Shelly) [5]
  332. 6/2- Syndromes and a Century (2006, Apichatpong Weerasethakul) [8]
  333. 6/1- # Bug (2006, William Friedkin) [7]
  334. 5/31- /Strange Days (1995, Kathryn Bigelow)/ [***]
  335. 5/30- /To Live and Die in L.A. (1985, William Friedkin)/ [***1/2]
  336. 5/28- Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End (2007, Gore Verbinski) [5]
  337. 5/26- /Vagabond [Sans toit ni loi] (1985, Agnes Varda)/ [***1/2]
  338. 5/24- Blood Money (1933, Rowland Brown) [***1/2]
  339. 5/24- Day of Wrath (1943, Carl Th. Dreyer) [****]
  340. 5/23- The Loneliness of the Long Distance Singer (1974, Chris Marker) [***]
  341. 5/23- The Sixth Face of the Pentagon (1968, Chris Marker and François Reichenbach)
  342. 5/22- The Page Turner (2006, Denis Dercourt) [6]
  343. 5/21- /The Fury (1978, Brian DePalma)/ [***1/2]
  344. 5/20- The Serpent's Egg (1977, Ingmar Bergman) [*]
  345. 5/20- Away From Her (2006, Sarah Polley) [5]
  346. 5/20- /Freaks (1932, Tod Browning) [****]/
  347. 5/19- Indigènes {Days of Glory} (2006, Rachid Bouchareb) [5]
  348. 5/19- Towards Mathilde (2005, Claire Denis) [7]
  349. 5/18- The Wind That Shakes the Barley (2006, Ken Loach) [7]
  350. 5/17- Kings of the Sky (2004, Deborah Stratman) [6]
  351. 5/17- The Magician's House (2007, Deborah Stratman)
  352. 5/16- Hail the Conquering Hero (1944, Preston Sturges) [***1/2]
  353. 5/15- /The Elephant Man (1980, David Lynch)/ [***1/2]
  354. 5/14- Deliver Us From Evil (2006, Amy Berg) [7]
  355. 5/14- Hi, Mom! (1969, Brian DePalma) [***1/2]
  356. 5/12- After the Wedding (2006, Susanne Bier) [6]
  357. 5/12- Requiem (2006, Hans-Christian Schmid) [8]
  358. 5/12- Overlord (1975, Stuart Cooper) [***1/2]
  359. 5/11- 28 Weeks Later (2007, Juan Carlos Fresnadillo) [5] {Though I could very well be wrong...}
  360. 5/11- Vacancy (2007, Nimrod Antal) [6]
  361. 5/10- #$ Blocking (2005, Pablo Morin)
  362. 5/10- #23.2 Book of Mirrors (2002, Joost Rekveld)
  363. 5/10- Black and White Trypps Number Two (2006, Ben Russell)
  364. 5/10- Vom Innen; von aussen (2006, Albert Sacki)
  365. 5/10- Starlings (1991, Karl Keis)
  366. 5/10- Upper Blue Lake (1996, James Otis)
  367. 5/10- The General Returns from One Place to Another (2006, Michael Robinson)
  368. 5/10- Living (1971, Frans Zwartjes)
  369. 5/10- Fourth Watch (2000, Janie Geiser)
  370. 5/10- Dipping Sause (2005, Luther Price)
  371. 5/10- Ingreen (1964, Nathaniel Dorsky)
  372. 5/10- Happy-End (1996, Peter Tscherkassky)
  373. 5/10- Silk (2006, Luther Price)
  374. 5/9- The Holy Mountain (1973, Alejandro Jodorowsky) [***1/2]
  375. 5/7- Muriel (1963, Alain Resnais) [***1/2]
  376. 5/6- /1941 (1979, Steven Spielberg)/ [**]
  377. 5/6- Avenue Montaigne (2006, Daniele Thompson) [4]
  378. 5/6- /Gilles' Wife (2004, Frederic Fonteyne)/ [***1/2]
  379. 5/5- Black Book (2006, Paul Verhoeven) [8]
  380. 5/5- Queen Bee (1955, Ranald MacDougall) [**1/2]
  381. 5/4- The Saragossa Manuscript (1965, Wojciech Has) [***1/2]
  382. 5/3- Spider-Man 3 (2007, Sam Raimi) [4]
  383. 5/2- The Bridesmaid (2004, Claude Chabrol) [7]
  384. 5/1- Prelude- Dog Star Man (1961, Stan Brakhage)
  385. 5/1- Arnulf Rainer (1960, Peter Kubelka)
  386. 5/1- Ray Gun Virus (1966, Paul Sharits)
  387. 5/1- T,O,U,C,H,I,N,G (1968, Paul Sharits)
  388. 5/1- Heterodyne (1967, Hollis Frampton)
  389. 5/1- OFFON (1968, Scott Bartlett)
  390. 5/1- /The Flicker (1966, Tony Conrad)/
  391. 4/29- /The Grifters (1990, Stephen Frears)/ [***1/2]
  392. 4/29- /Georgy Girl (1966, Silvio Narizzano)/ [***1/2]
  393. 4/29- The Long Day Closes (1992, Terence Davies) [***1/2]
  394. 4/28- /Babe: Pig in the City (1998, George Miller) [***1/2]
  395. 4/28- /Hot Fuzz/
  396. 4/28- Manhatta (1921, Paul Strand and Charles Sheeler)
  397. 4/27- More Than Meets the Eye: Remaking Jane Fonda (2001/2006, Scott Stark)
  398. 4/27- /Joan the Maid- Part 2: The Prisons (1994, Jacques Rivette)/ [****]
  399. 4/26- /Joan the Maid- Part 1: The Battles (1994, Jacques Rivette)/ [****]
  400. 4/25- Thieves Like Us (1974, Robert Altman) [***1/2]
  401. 4/25- Puce Moment (1949, Kenneth Anger)
  402. 4/24- Serene Velocity (1970, Ernie Gehr)
  403. 4/24- Rear Window (1991, Ernie Gehr)
  404. 4/24- Glider (2001, Ernie Gehr)
  405. 4/24- Before the Olympics (2006, Ernie Gehr)
  406. 4/22- /Ready to Wear (1994, Robert Altman)/ [*1/2]
  407. 4/22- /The Fisher King (1991, Terry Gilliam)/ [**1/2]
  408. 4/21- La Belle Noiseuse (1991, Jacques Rivette) [****]
  409. 4/20- The Wonder Ring (1955, Stan Brakhage)
  410. 4/20- The Dead (1960, Stan Brakhage)
  411. 4/20- The Riddle of Lumen (1972, Stan Brakhage)
  412. 4/20- Murder Psalm (1980, Stan Brakhage)
  413. 4/20- /The Garden of Earthly Delights (1981, Stan Brakhage)/
  414. 4/20- /The Dante Quartet (1987, Stan Brakhage)/
  415. 4/20- Christ Mass Sex Dance (1991, Stan Brakhage)
  416. 4/20- Chartres Series (1994, Stan Brakhage)
  417. 4/20- Seasons... (2002, Stan Brakhage and Phil Solomon)
  418. 4/19- Hot Fuzz (2007, Edgar Wright) [8]
  419. 4/16- /Mississippi Burning (1988, Alan Parker)/ [**1/2]
  420. 4/15- L'Amour Fou (1968, Jacques Rivette) [****]
  421. 4/15- /Gravity (1976, Michael Nankin and David Wechter)/
  422. 4/15- Automatons (2006, James Felix McKenney) [zzzz]
  423. 4/15- Chopping Mall (1986, Jim Wynorski) [**]
  424. 4/14- /Duck Dodgers in the 24 1/2th Century (1953, Chuck Jones)/
  425. 4/14- /12 Monkeys (1995, Terry Gilliam)/ [***1/2]
  426. 4/14- King Dinosaur (1955, Bert I. Gordon) [*]
  427. 4/14- The Great Yokai War (2005, Takashi Miike) [5]
  428. 4/14- Puzzlehead (2004, James Bai) [7]
  429. 4/14- Spaceboy (2006, Raymond Riggs)
  430. 4/14- Spaceboy (1973, Renate Druks)
  431. 4/14- Frankenstein Meets the Space Monster (1965, Robert Gaffney) [*]
  432. 4/14- Zombie American (2005, Nick Poppy)
  433. 4/14- Fido (2006, Andrew Currie) [6]
  434. 4/13- INLAND EMPIRE (2006, David Lynch) [7]
  435. 4/12- Paris Belongs to Us (1961, Jacques Rivette) [***]
  436. 4/11- The Dead Girl (2006, Karen Moncrieff) [5]
  437. 4/11- Rabbit (2005, Run Wrake)
  438. 4/11- City Paradise (2004, Gaelle Denis)
  439. 4/11- Everything Will Be OK (2006, Don Hertzfeldt)
  440. 4/11- Collision (2005, Max Hattler)
  441. 4/11- Davey and Son of Goliath (1996, Corky Quackenbush)
  442. 4/11- No Room for Gerold (2006, Daniel Nocke)
  443. 4/11- Versus (????)
  444. 4/11- 9 (2005, Shane Acker)
  445. 4/11- Guide Dog (2006, Bill Plympton)
  446. 4/11- Eaux Fortes (2004, Remi Chaye)
  447. 4/11- Overtime (2004, Oury Atlan/Thibault Berland/Damien Ferrie)
  448. 4/11- Dreams and Desires (2006, Joanna Quinn)
  449. 4/11- Game Over (2006, PES)
  450. 4/8- /The Crazies (1973, George A. Romero)/ [***1/2]
  451. 4/7- /Up Down Fragile (1995, Jacques Rivette)/ [***1/2]
  452. 4/7- Grindhouse (2007, Robert Rodriguez/Rob Zombie/Edgar Wright/Eli Roth/Quentin Tarantino) [6]
  453. 4/6- /Celine and Julie Go Boating (1974, Jacques Rivette)/ [****]
  454. 4/5- The Hoax (2007, Lasse Hallstrom) [4]
  455. 4/4- /F for Fake (1975, Orson Welles)/ [***1/2]
  456. 4/2- Quadrophenia (1979, Franc Roddam) [***]
  457. 4/1- /Bus 174/ (2002, Jose Padilha) [***1/2]
  458. 4/1- The Namesake (2006, Mira Nair) [6]
  459. 3/31- /Children of Men/
  460. 3/31- /Seven Brides For Seven Brothers (1954, Stanley Donen)/ [***1/2]
  461. 3/30- Privilege (1967, Peter Watkins) [****]
  462. 3/29- /The Player (1992, Robert Altman)/ [***1/2]
  463. 3/28- pièce touchée (1989, Martin Arnold)
  464. 3/28- passafe à l'acte (1993, Martin Arnold)
  465. 3/28- Alone. Life Wastes Andy Hardy (1998, Martin Arnold)
  466. 3/28- Le retour à la raison (1923, Man Ray)
  467. 3/28- L'Arrivée (1998, Peter Tscherkassky)
  468. 3/28- Outer Space (1999, Peter Tscherkassky)
  469. 3/28- Dream Work (2001, Peter Tscherkassky)
  470. 3/28- Nocturne (2006, Peter Tscherkassky)
  471. 3/28- Instructions For a Light and Sound Machine (2005, Peter Tscherkassky)
  472. 3/27- The Lookout (2007, Scott Frank) [6]
  473. 3/26- /Up! (1976, Russ Meyer)/ [***1/2]
  474. 3/25- /The War Game/
  475. 3/25- One, Two, Three (1961, Billy Wilder) [****]
  476. 3/24- Who Am I This Time? (1981, Jonathan Demme) [***1/2]
  477. 3/24- The Storyteller: The Soldier and Death (1989, Jim Henson)
  478. 3/24- Dog City (1989, Jim Henson) [**1/2]
  479. 3/24- The Dark Crystal (1982, Jim Henson and Frank Oz) [***]
  480. 3/24- Labyrinth (1986, Jim Henson) [**1/2]
  481. 3/23- The Host (2006, Bong Joon-ho) [8]
  482. 3/22- Culloden (1964, Peter Watkins) [***1/2]
  483. 3/21- Flannel Pajamas (2006, Jeff Lipsky) [6]
  484. 3/20- The War Game (1965, Peter Watkins) [****]
  485. 3/18- Breaking and Entering (2006, Anthony Minghella) [7]
  486. 3/18- /Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961, Blake Edwards)/ [**]
  487. 3/18- /Carlito's Way (1993, Brian DePalma)/ [***1/2]
  488. 3/17- Fraggle Rock: Beginnings (1983, Jim Henson)
  489. 3/17- The Song of the Cloud Forest (1989, Jim Henson)
  490. 3/17- Time Piece (1965, Jim Henson)
  491. 3/17- /The Muppet Movie (1979, James Frawley)/ [***]
  492. 3/15- Reign Over Me (2007, Mike Binder) [6]
  493. 3/14- I Think I Love My Wife (2007, Chris Rock) [5]
  494. 3/13- /The Persecution and Assassination of Jean-Paul Marat As Performed by the Inmated of the Asylum of Charenton Under the Direction of the Marquis de Sade (1966, Peter Brook)/ [***1/2]
  495. 3/11- /The Tree of Wooden Clogs (1978, Ermanno Olmi)/ [***1/2]
  496. 3/11- The Astronaut Farmer (2007, Mark and Michael Polish) [6]
  497. 3/11- /Zodiac/
  498. 3/10- Far From the Madding Crowd (1967, John Schlesinger) [***]
  499. 3/10- Breach (2007, Billy Ray) [5]
  500. 3/9- The Lives of Others (2006, Florian Henckel von Donnarsmarck) [7]
  501. 3/8- /Heaven's Gate (1980, Michael Cimino)/ [**]
  502. 3/7- /Starship Troopers (1997, Paul Verhoeven)/ [***1/2]
  503. 3/6- 300 (2007, Zack Snyder) [4]
  504. 3/4- Black Snake Moan (2006, Craig Brewer) [6]
  505. 3/4- /Shampoo (1975, Hal Ashby)/ [***1/2]
  506. 3/4- /Burden of Dreams (1982, Les Blank)/ [***1/2]
  507. 3/3- Caravaggio (1986, Derek Jarman) [***]
  508. 3/3- Wanda (1970, Barbara Loden) [***1/2]
  509. 3/3- 71 Fragments of a Chronology of Chance (1994, Michael Haneke) [***]
  510. 3/2- Zodiac (2007, David Fincher) [10]
  511. 3/1- /Les Amants du Pont-Neuf (1991, Leos Carax)/ [****]
  512. 2/28- Tideland (2005, Terry Gilliam) [6]
  513. 2/26- /Once Upon a Time in America (1969, Sergio Leone)/ [****]
  514. 2/25- Leave Her to Heaven (1945, John M. Stahl) [***]
  515. 2/25- /The French Connection (1971, William Friedkin)/ [****]
  516. 2/24- Worth the Risk? (1948, no director credited)
  517. 2/24- Help Yourself (1950, John Waterhouse)
  518. 2/24- Another Case of Poisoning (1949, John Waterhouse)
  519. 2/24- The People at No. 19 (1948, J.B. Holmes)
  520. 2/24- Your Children's Meals (1947, Alex Strasser)
  521. 2/24- Pool of Contentment (1946, Richard Massingham)
  522. 2/23- The Criminal Life of Archibaldo De La Cruz (1955, Luis Bunuel) [***1/2]
  523. 2/22- /Lolita (1962, Stanley Kubrick)/ [***1/2]
  524. 2/19- /Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991, James Cameron)/ [***]
  525. 2/17- /Monster House (2006, Gil Kenan)/ [7]
  526. 2/16- Zidane: A 21st-Century Portrait (2006, Douglas Gordon and Philippe Parre@@@@@no) [7]
  527. 2/15- /Masculine-Feminine (1965, Jean-Luc Godard)/ [***1/2]
  528. 2/14- /The Departed (2006, Martin Scorsese)/ [9]
  529. 2/13- Simple Men (1991, Hal Hartley) [**1/2]
  530. 2/13- /The Producers (1968, Mel Brooks)/ [****]
  531. 2/12- /Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977, Steven Spielberg)/ [***1/2]
  532. 2/11- The Court Jester (1956, Norman Panama and Melvin Frank) [***1/2]
  533. 2/11- Imitation of Life (1959, Douglas Sirk) [***1/2]
  534. 2/11- Hour of the Wolf (1968, Ingmar Bergman) [***1/2]
  535. 2/10- The Girl Can't Help It (1956, Frank Tashlin) [***1/2]
  536. 2/10- Unfaithfully Yours (1948, Preston Sturges) [***1/2]
  537. 2/10- Jack Smith and the Destruction of Atlantis (2006, Mary Jordan) [7]
  538. 2/10- Flaming Creatures (1963, Jack Smith)
  539. 2/10- /Blonde Cobra (1962, Ken Jacobs and Bob Fleischner)/
  540. 2/10- Little Stabs at Happiness (1963, Ken Jacobs)
  541. 2/9- A Canterbury Tale (1944, Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger) [***]
  542. 2/9- /Performance (1970, Donald Cammell and Nicolas Roeg)/ [***1/2]
  543. 2/7- /The Outlaw Josey Wales (1976, Clint Eastwood)/ [***1/2]
  544. 2/4- La Moustache (2005, Emmanuel Carrère) [4]
  545. 2/4- The Good German (2006, Steven Soderbergh) [6]
  546. 2/4- /Manderlay (2005, Lars Von Trier)/ [7]
  547. 2/3- Let It Be (1970, Michael Lindsay-Hogg) [***1/2]
  548. 2/3- Venus (2006, Roger Michell) [4]
  549. 2/3- Lunacy (2006, Jan Svankmajer) [5]
  550. 2/3- Fateless (2005, Lajos Koltai) [5]
  551. 2/2- /Groundhog Day (1993, Harold Ramis)/ [***1/2] {I mean, duh}
  552. 2/2- /All That Jazz (1979, Bob Fosse)/ [***1/2]
  553. 2/1- /On Her Majesty's Secret Service (1969, Peter Hunt)/ [***1/2]
  554. 1/31- /A Scanner Darkly (2006, Richard Linklater)/ [7, was 6-ish]
  555. 1/30- The Awful Truth (1937, Leo McCarey) [***1/2]
  556. 1/29- /Broadcast News (1987, James L. Brooks)/ [***1/2]
  557. 1/28- /Toy Story (1995, John Lasseter)/ [*@@@@@**1/2]
  558. 1/28- /Toy Story 2 (1999, John Lasseter)/ [***1/2]
  559. 1/28- Minnie and Moskowitz (1971, John Cassavetes) [***1/2]
  560. 1/28- Those Who Love Me Can Take the Train (1998, Patrice Chéreau) [***1/2]
  561. 1/27- Sherrybaby (2006, Laurie Collyer) [5]
  562. 1/27- /Kiss Kiss Bang Bang (2005, Shane Black)/ [8]
  563. 1/27- The Story of the Last Crysanthemums (1939, Kenji Mizoguchi) [***]
  564. 1/26- Jesus Camp (2006, Heidi Ewing and Rachel Grady) [7]
  565. 1/26- C.S.A.: Confederate States of America (2004, Kevin Willmott) [6]
  566. 1/25- I Am a Sex Addict (2005, Caveh Zahedi) [7]
  567. 1/24- Our Daily Bread (2005, Nickolaus Geyrhalter) [6]
  568. 1/23- The Ghost and Mrs. Muir (1947, Joseph L. Mankiewicz) [***1/2]
  569. 1/22- Sweet Land (2005, Ali Selim) [7]
  570. 1/21- Letters From Iwo Jima (2006, Clint Eastwood) [6]
  571. 1/21- /12 Angry Men (1957, Sidney Lumet)/ [****]
  572. 1/20- Pan’s Labyrinth (2006, Guillermo Del Toro) [7]
  573. 1/20- The Life of Oharu (1952, Kenji Mizoguchi) [***1/2]
  574. 1/20- The Cranes Are Flying (1957, Mikhail Kalatozov) [***1/2]
  575. 1/19- The Aura (2005, Fabian Bielinsky) [5]
  576. 1/18- Street of Shame (1956, Kenji Mizoguchi) [***]
  577. 1/17- 8 Bit (2006, Marcin Ramocki and Justin Strawhand) [6]
  578. 1/15- Testament of Orpheus (1960, Jean Cocteau) [**1/2]
  579. 1/15- The Pursuit of Happyness (2006, Gabriele Muccino) [5]
  580. 1/15- /Y Tu Mama Tambien (2001, Alfonso Cuaron)/ [***1/2]
  581. 1/14- When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts (2006, Spike Lee) [9]
  582. 1/14- The Painted Veil (2006, John Curran) [7]
  583. 1/14- Notes on a Scandal (2006, Richard Eyre) [6]
  584. 1/14- Curse of the Golden Flower (2006, Zhang Yimou) [5]
  585. 1/13- /The Searchers (1956, John Ford)/ [***1/2]
  586. 1/13- Dahmer (2002, David Jacobson) [**1/2]
  587. 1/13- /Sansho the Bailiff (1954, Kenji Mizoguchi)/ [****]
  588. 1/12- The Magic Gloves (2003, Martin Rejtman) [6]
  589. 1/12- Silvia Prieto (1999, Martin Rejtman) [**1/2]
  590. 1/11- /Ugetsu Monogatari (1953, Kenji Mizoguchi)/ [***]
  591. 1/11- /Sisters of the Gion (1936, Kenji Mizoguchi)/ [***1/2]
  592. 1/10- /Total Power- Dead Dead Dead (2005, Stephanie Barber)/
  593. 1/10- She Puppet (2001, Peggy Ahwesh)
  594. 1/10- My Trip to Liberty City (2003, Jim Munroe)
  595. 1/10- Yoga Deathmatch (2005, Jim Munroe)
  596. 1/10- Zidane World Cup Headbutt Animation Festival (2006, Anil Dash)
  597. 1/10- Driven (2005, Scott Stark)
  598. 1/10- And We All Shine On (2006, Michael Robinson)
  599. 1/10- Untitled [For David Gatten] (2005, Phil Solomon and Mark Lapore)
  600. 1/10- Rehearsals For Retirement (2007, Phil Solomon)
  601. 1/10- Super Mario Movie (2005, Cory Arcangel and Paper Rad)
  602. 1/9- Idiocracy (2006, Mike Judge) [7]
  603. 1/9- /Week End (1967, Jean-Luc Godard)/ [****] {Pretty much the greatest double feature EVER}
  604. 1/8- /Woman in the Dunes (1964, Hiroishi Teshigahara)/ [****] {141 minute cut}
  605. 1/7- Red Dust (1932, Victor Fleming) [***1/2]
  606. 1/7- The Red and the White (1967, Miklos Jancso) [***1/2]
  607. 1/7- /Battle in Heaven (2005, Carlos Reygadas)/ [5, was 3]
  608. 1/6- Little Children (2006, Todd Field) [4]
  609. 1/6- Perfume: The Story of a Murderer (2006, Tom Tykwer) [6]
  610. 1/6- /Children of Men/
  611. 1/6- Night of the Creeps (1986, Fred Dekker) [**1/2]
  612. 1/6- /The Proposition (2005, John Hillcoat)/ [8]
  613. 1/5- Children of Men (2006, Alfonso Cuaron) [9]
  614. 1/5- The Blob (1988, Chuck Russell) [**]
  615. 1/4- A Talking Picture (2003, Manoel de Oliveira) [7]
  616. 1/3- /Lorenzo’s Oil (1992, George Miller)/ [***1/2]
  617. 1/2- The Great McGinty (1940, Preston Sturges) [***1/2]
  618. 1/1- /The Conformist (1970, Bernardo Bertolucci)/ [***1/2]
  619. 1/1- /The Prestige (2006, Christopher Nolan)/ [10]
  620. 1/1- /The Black Dahlia (2006, Brian DePalma)/ [8]
Author Comments: 

Shorts are listed but not numbered.

Ratings on a 10-point scale for new films, and a **** scale for older films. Don't ask.

lbangs11/01/2007

I haven't had the chance to review any films in quite a spell, but I also loved The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford...

Shalom, y'all!

L. Bangs

Cosgrove11/03/2007

Beats the heck outta Van Helsing, that's for sure.

But then, that's true of your average test pattern... :-)

Cosgrove11/14/2007

So was this McClure thing a Wexner special? 'Cause I admit, the description makes me feel a bit jealous...

Meanwhile, I tried to see No Country on Sunday, not thinking that the fact of its playing in exactly one theater in the Village might lead to sellouts. Evening wasn't a total loss, though -- I walked a few blocks and saw Brakhage's 'Pittsburgh Trilogy' instead.

opalfilms11/15/2007

I believe he's touring with it, but I don't know how to find out for sure. You could probably just Google the name to find out. But I have a feeling it'd be right up your alley.

And I'd imagine that it would be hard to find a better movie out there than No Country, but Brakhage is a fine alternative.

Cosgrove11/15/2007

11/15- OOIOO "UMO" (2007, Shoji Goto) {Um, what?}

Dude, it's OOIOO. Don't ask questions, just roll with it (he says, despite having not seen the film and also having not been terribly thrilled with the last OOIOO album he heard, the meandering Kila Kila Kila).

opalfilms11/16/2007

I didn't necessarily mean the "um, what?" in a negative way, understand. This thing is sort of awesome, although it got immediately upstaged by the sublime Framing (I actually prefer the German title of that short, Bildfenster/Fensterbilder, but whatcha gonna do?).

jfrazier5712/10/2007

I admire your regimen. Mine, for a critic, is pathetic in comparison. The closest I can claim is that I've seen the first five seasons of 24 in marathon day long viewing sesssions!