Thursday, December 30, 2010

2011 Viewing Log

Total Viewed: 132 (11 Short)

90+ (6)
The Tree of Life (Terrence Malick) 97/100
Coriolanus (Ralph Fiennes) 94/100
Once Upon A Time In Anatolia (Bir zamanlar Anadolu'da) (Nuri Bilge Ceylan) 91/100
Memories of a Morning (Recuerdos de una mañana) (José Luis Guerín) 91/100
Carnage (Roman Polanski) 90/100
Melancholia (Lars von Trier) 90/100

80-89 (25, 1)
House of Pleasures (L'Apollonide (Souvenirs de la maison close) (Bertrand Bonello) 89/100
Pina (Wim Wenders) 89/100
Goodbye First Love (Un amour de jeunesse) (Mia Hansen-Løve) 88/100
Mildred Pierce (Todd Haynes) 88/100
Samsara (Ron Fricke) 88/100
Shame (Steve McQueen) 88/100
Self Made (Gillian Wearing) 87/100
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (Tomas Alfredson) 86/100
We Have A Pope (Habemus Papam) (Nanni Moretti) 86/100
Elena (Andrey Zvyagintsev) 84/100
Martha Marcy May Marlene (Sean Durkin) 84/100
We Need to Talk About Kevin (Lynne Ramsay) 84/100
Wuthering Heights (Andrea Arnold) 84/100
Dreileben - Etwas besseres als den Tod (Christian Petzold) 83/100
Drive (Nicolas Winding Refn) 83/100
Hanna (Joe Wright) 83/100
Margaret (Kenneth Lonergan) 83/100
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (David Fincher) 83/100
The Kid With A Bike (Le gamin au vélo) (Jean-Pierre Dardenne, Luc Dardenne) 83/100
Tyrannosaur (Paddy Considine) 83/100
The Day He Arrives (Book chon bang hyang) (Sang-soo Hong) 82/100
Sack Barrow (Ben Rivers) 82/100
Weekend (Andrew Haigh) 82/100
Hugo (Martin Scorsese) 81/100
Your Sister's Sister (Lynn Shelton) 81/100

70-79 (20)
Crazy Horse (Frederick Wiseman) 78/100
Le Havre (Aki Kaurismäki) 78/100
Alps (Alpeis) (Giorgos Lanthimos) 77/100
Jane Eyre (Cary Fukunaga) 77/100
The Future (Miranda July) 77/100
A Separation (Jodaeiye Nader az Simin) (Asghar Farhadi) 76/100
Dreileben - Komm mit nicht nach (Dominik Graf) 74/100
Sleeping Sickness (Schlafkrankheit) (Ulrich Köhler) 74/100
The Deep Blue Sea (Terence Davies) 74/100
Back to Stay (Abrir Puertas y Ventanas) (Milagros Mumenthaler) 72/100
Cedar Rapids (Miguel Arteta) 72/100
Dreileben - Eine Minute dunkel (Christoph Hochhäusler) 72/100
Meanwhile (Hal Hartley) 72/100
The Ides of March (George Clooney) 72/100
Le roman de ma femme (Jamshed Usmonov) 71/100
Sleeping Beauty (Julia Leigh) 71/100
The Descendants (Alexander Payne) 71/100
50/50 (2011) Jonathan Levine 70
A Dangerous Method (David Cronenberg) 70/100
Attack the Block (Joe Cornish) 70/100

60-69 (32, 3)
Thor (Kenneth Branagh) 69/100
Win Win (Thomas McCarthy) 69/100
Contagion (Steven Soderbergh) 68/100
Crazy, Stupid, Love. (Glenn Ficarra, John Requa) 68/100
Damsels in Distress (Whit Stillman) 68/100
The Skin I Live In (La piel que habito) (Pedro Almodóvar) 68/100
Arthur Christmas (2011) Barry Cook, Sarah Smith 67
Rise of the Planet of the Apes (Rupert Wyatt) 67/100
Source Code (Duncan Jones) 67/100
The Guard (John Michael McDonagh) 67/100
Café de Flore (Jean-Marc Vallée) 66/100
Urbanized (Gary Hustwit) 66/100
The Muppets (James Bobin) 65/100
Haywire (Steven Soderbergh) 64/100
Monsieur Lazhar (Philippe Falardeau) 63/100
The Lincoln Lawyer (Brad Furman) 63/100
The Warrior (Gavin O'Connor) 63/100
Dark Horse (2011) Todd Solondz 62
Limitless (Neil Burger) 62/100
Moneyball (Bennett Miller) 62/100
Rampart (Oren Moverman) 62/100
Super 8 (J.J. Abrams) 62/100
The Bouquet (Declan Cassidy) 62/100
The Grey (Joe Carnahan) 62/100
To the Devil (Aller au diable) (Claire Denis) 62/100
Without Snow (Utan snö) (Magnus von Horn) 62/100
Another Earth (Mike Cahill) 61/100
Midnight in Paris (Woody Allen) 61/100
Saya Zamurai (Hitoshi Matsumoto) 61/100
The Artist (Michel Hazanavicius) 61/100
Tomboy (Céline Sciamma) 61/100
Margin Call (J.C. Chandor) 60/100
Mid-August Lunch (Pranzo di ferragosto) (Gianni Di Gregorio) 60/100

50-59 (25, 3)
1395 Days Without Red (1395 dana bez crvene) (Anri Sala) 58/100
J. Edgar (Clint Eastwood) 58/100
I Wish (Kiseki) (Hirokazu Koreeda) 58/100
Into the Abyss (Werner Herzog) 58/100
Rango (Gore Verbinski) 58/100
Romance (Georges Schwizgebel) 58/100
This Must Be The Place (Paolo Sorrentino) 58/100
Tokyo Kouen (Shinji Aoyama) 58/100
We Bought A Zoo (Cameron Crowe) 58/100
The Beaver (Jodie Foster) 57/100
The Help (Tate Taylor) 57/100
The Snows of Kilimandjaro (Les neiges du Kilimandjaro) (Robert Guédiguian) 57/100
This Is Not A Film (In film nist) (Jafar Panahi) 57/100
Chicken with Plums (Poulet aux prunes) (Vincent Paronnaud, Marjane Satrapi) 57/100
War Horse (Steven Spielberg) 57/100
The Inbetweeners Movie (Ben Palmer) 56/100
The Woman in the Fifth (La femme du Vème) (Pawel Pawlikowski) 55/100
Young Adult (Jason Reitman) 55/100
Michael (Markus Schleinzer) 53/100
Take Shelter (Jeff Nichols) 53/100
Perfect Sense (David Mackenzie) 52/100
Bridesmaids (Paul Feig) 51/100
Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol (Brad Bird) 51/100
Neighbours (Josh Levinsky) 51/100
The Cloud of Unknowing (Tzu Nyen Ho) 50/100

40-49 (9, 1)
Page One: Inside the New York Times (Andrew Rossi) 48/100
The Adjustment Bureau (George Nolfi) 48/100
And What If We All Lived Together? (Et si on vivait tous ensemble?) (Stéphane Robelin) 47/100
The Adventures of TinTin (Steven Spielberg) 47/100 
Arthur (Jason Winer) 46/100
Onder ons (Marco van Geffen) 43/100
An heir (Un héritier) (Jean-Marie Straub) 41/100
The Color Wheel (Alex Ross Perry) 41/100
The Eagle (Kevin Macdonald) 41/100

30-39 (6, 1)
Take This Waltz (Sarah Polley) 38/100
Jeff, Who Lives at Home (Jay Duplass, Mark Duplass) 37/100
Dreams of a Life (Carol Morley) 36/100
Project Nim (James Marsh) 36/100
Tahrir (Stefano Savona) 31/100
Do You Have a Story? (Dario Jurican) 30/100

20-29 (5, 1)
Water for Elephants (Francis Lawrence) 28/100
Tower Heist (Brett Ratner) 25/100
Boxing in the Philippine Islands (Raya Martin) 22/100
Crulic - drumul spre dincolo (Anca Damian) 22/100
Buenas noches, España (Raya Martin) 21/100

10-19 (2)
Sucker Punch (Zack Snyder) 17/100
Low Life (Les amants) (Nicolas Klotz) 10/100

0-9 (1, 1)
Respect (Benoit Forgeard) 7/100

To Watch (143)
360 (Fernando Meirelles)
4:44 Last Day on Earth (Abel Ferrara)
The Turin Horse (A Torinói Ió) (Béla Tarr)
Abenland (Nikolaus Geyrhalter)
Agnès de ci de là Varda (Agnès Varda )
All Watched Over By Machines of Loving Grace (Adam Curtis)
Amen (Ki-duk Kim)
Animals Distract Me (Isabella Rossellini)
Arirang (Ki-duk Kim)
Ars colonia (Raya Martin)
Art History (Joe Swanberg)
Autoerotic (Joe Swanberg, Adam Wingard)
Beast (Christoffer Boe)
Bernie (Richard Linklater)
Black Gold (Jean-Jacques Annaud)
Bloodrop (Aleksey Popogrebskiy)
Bobby Fischer Against The World (Liz Garbus)
Caitlin Plays Herself (Joe Swanberg)
California Romanza (Eva Mendes)
Camelia (Marian Crisan)
Catching Hell (Alex Gibney)
Correspondencia Jonas Mekas - J.L. Guerin (José Luis Guerín, Jonas Mekas)
Crystal Palace (Ernie Gehr)
From One Film To Another (D'un film à l'autre) (Claude Lelouch)
Don't Go Breaking My Heart (Daan gyun naam yu) (Johnnie To, Ka-Fai Wai)
Dark Horse (Todd Solondz)
Duch, Master of the Forges of Hell (Duch, le maître des forges de l'enfer) (Rithy Panh)
Life Without Principle(Dyut meng gam) (Johnnie To)
It's The Earth Not The Moon (É Na Terra Nao É Na Lua) (Gonçalo Tocha)
The Cat Vanishes (El gato desaparece) (Carlos Sorin)
Lord Worked Wonders in Me (El senyor ha fet en mi meravelles) (Albert Serra)
Listening to the Judge (Escuchando al juez Garzón) (Isabel Coixet)
Where Do We Go Now? (Et maintenant, on va où?) (Nadine Labaki)
Faust (Aleksandr Sokurov)
From the Sky Down (Davis Guggenheim)
George Harrison: Living in the Material World (Martin Scorsese)
God Bless America (Bobcat Goldthwait)
The Exchange (Hahithalfut) (Eran Kolirin)
Stopped on Track (Halt auf freier Strecke) (Andreas Dresen)
Hanezu (Hanezu no tsuki) (Naomi Kawase)
Headshot (Pen-Ek Ratanaruang)
Footnote (Hearat Shuyalim) (Joseph Cedar)
Higher Ground (Vera Farmiga)
Himizu (Shion Sono)
Outside Satan (Hors Satan) (Bruno Dumont)
I'm Carolyn Parker (Jonathan Demme)
Hara-Kiri: Death of a Samurai (Ichimei) (Takashi Miike)
The Cardboard Village (Il villaggio di cartone) (Ermanno Olmi)
Unforgivable (Impardonnables) (André Téchiné)
In Darkness (Agnieszka Holland)
Inconscio italiano (Luca Guadagnino)
An Unfinished Letter (Iti 'Mrninalini': An Unfinished Letter) (Aparna Sen)
The Flowers of War (Jin líng shí san chai) (Yimou Zhang)
Kevin (Jay Duplass)
Keyhole (Guy Maddin)
Killer Joe (William Friedkin)
Knuckle (Ian Palmer)
Guilty of Romance (Koi no tsumi) (Shion Sono)
Rebellion (L'ordre et la morale) (Mathieu Kassovitz)
The Well Digger's Daughter (La fille du puisatier) (Daniel Auteuil)
Almayer's Folly (La folie Almayer) (Chantal Akerman)
Declaration of War (La guerre est déclarée) (Valérie Donzelli)
La noche de enfrente (Raoul Ruiz)
La regle de trois (Louis Garrel)
The Source (La Source Des Femmes) (Radu Mihaileanu)
Lady Grey London (John Cameron Mitchell)
Late Bloomers (Julie Gavras)
The Monk (Le moine) (Dominik Moll)
Skylab (Le Skylab) (Julie Delpy)
Farewell My Queen (Les adieux à la reine) (Benoît Jacquot)
Beloved (Les bien-aimés) (Christophe Honoré)
Smuggler's Songs (Les chants de Mandrin) (Rabah Ameur-Zaïmeche)
Life In A Day (Kevin Macdonald)
Love and Bruises (Ye Lou)
Loverboy (Catalin Mitulescu)
My Piece of the Pie (Ma part du gâteau) (Cédric Klapisch)
Mama Africa (Mika Kaurismäki)
Miss Bala (Gerardo Naranjo)
My Worst Nightmare (Mon pire cauchemar) (Anne Fontaine)
Muta (Lucrecia Martel)
My Paris Movie (Jonas Mekas)
Neil Young Journeys (Jonathan Demme)
Ninja Kids! (Nintama Rantarô) (Takashi Miike)
One Day (Lone Scherfig)
Oslo, 31. august (Joachim Trier)
Paradise Lost 3: Purgatory (Joe Berlinger, Bruce Sinofsky)
Night Fishing (Paranmanjang) (Chan-kyong Park, Chan-wook Park)
Pater (Alain Cavalier)
Pearl Jam Twenty (Cameron Crowe)
Play (Ruben Östlund)
Playoff (Eran Riklis)
Poliss (Polisse) (Maïwenn)
Quattro Hongkong 2 (Yuhang Ho, Stanley Kwan, Brillante Mendoza, Apichatpong Weerasethakul)
Reagan (Eugene Jarecki)
Restless (Gus Van Sant)
River Rites (Ben Russell)
Century of Birthing (Siglo ng pagluluwal) (Lav Diaz)
Sal (James Franco)
Scenes from the Suburbs (Spike Jonze)
Schakale und Araber (Jean-Marie Straub)
Seeking the Monkey King (Ken Jacobs)Shiiku (Rithy Panh)
Silver Bullets (Joe Swanberg)
Sin Título (Carta Para Serra) (Lisandro Alonso)
Sleepness Nights Stories (Jonas Mekas)
Slow Action (Ben Rivers)
Snowtown (Justin Kurzel)
Mystery (Тайна) (Andrei Zvyagintsev)
A Simple Life (Tao jie) (Ann Hui)
Tatsumi (Eric Khoo)
The 3 Rs (David Lynch)
The Black Power Mixtape 1967-1975 (Göran Olsson)
The Green Hornet (Michel Gondry)
The Interrupters (Steve James)
The Lady (Luc Besson)
The Last Gladiators (Alex Gibney)
The Loneliest Planet (Julia Loktev)
The Mill and the Cross (Lech Majewski)
The Other Side of Sleep (Rebecca Daly)
The Return (Nathaniel Dorsky)
The Rum Diary (Bruce Robinson)
The Story of Film: An Odyssey (Mark Cousins)
The Sunset Limited (Tommy Lee Jones)
The Union (Cameron Crowe)
The Zone (Joe Swanberg)
All Our Desires (Toutes nos envies) (Philippe Lioret)
Twenty Cigarettes (James Benning)
Twixt (Francis Ford Coppola)
Two Years At Sea (Ben Rivers)
UFO in Her Eyes (Xiaolu Guo)
Umshini Wam (Harmony Korine)
A Burning Hot Summer (Un été brûlant) (Philippe Garrel)
Uncle Kent (Joe Swanberg)
A Better Life (Une vie meilleure) (Cédric Kahn)
Village, Silenced (Deborah Stratman)
Violeta Went to Heaven (Violeta se fue a los cielos) (Andrés Wood)
Voir la mer (Patrice Leconte)
See How They Dance (Voyez comme ils dansent) (Claude Miller)
Well Then There Now (Lewis Klahr)
Whores' Glory (Michael Glawogger)
Wilde Salome (Al Pacino)
11 Flowers (Wo 11) (Xiaoshuai Wang)
Yulu (Shi-Zheng Chen, Tao Chen, Zhang Ke Jia, Fang Song, Chui Mui Tan, Zizhao Wang, Tie Wei)

Sunday, December 26, 2010

Cinema Listings Dublin December 2010

* Denotes either a once-off showing, a festival or a reissue.

Blue means watched
Green means hoping to watch
Red means will not watch
Black means I'm on the fence

December 2010:
Of God's and Men (IFI, Lighthouse)
Somewhere (IFI, Lighthouse, Cineworld, Screen)
Catfsh (IFI, Lighthouse)
Loose Cannons (Lighthouse)
Monsters (IFI, Cineworld)
On Tour (IFI)
All Good Children (IFI)
The Way Back (IFI, Cineworld, Lighthouse, Screen)
The Tourist (Cineworld)
Love and Other Drugs (Cineworld)
Miral (Lighthouse, Screen)
Secretariat (Cineworld)
Tron Legacy (Cineworld)
Burlesque (Cineworld)
The Pipe (IFI, Lighthouse)
Rare Exports: A Christmas Tale (Cineworld, Screen)
The Warrior's Way (Cineworld)
The Chronicles of Narnia: Voyage of the Dawn Treader (Cineworld)
No Problem (Cineworld)
War of Love (Cineworld)
Chatroom (Cineworld)
Meet the Parents: Little Fockers (Cineworld)
Fred: The Movie (Cineworld)
Tess Marr Khan (Cineworld)
Gulliver's Travels (Cineworld)
Arthur and His Greatest Adventures (Cineworld)
Toonpur Ka Superhero (Cineworld)
Animals United (Cineworld)


Re-issues and Festivals:
Boudu Saved From Drowning (IFI)
It's A Wonderful Life (IFI, Lighthouse)
Black Narcissus (IFI)
The Red Shoes (IFI)
She, A Chinese (IFI)
Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory (IFI)
Home Alone (Screen)
Pulp Fiction (Screen)
Peeping Tom (IFI)
The Shop Around The Corner (IFI)
The Bitter Tea of General Yen (IFI)
Forbidden (IFI)
Meet John Doe (IFI)
Arsenic and Old Lace (IFI)
Gone to Earth (IFI)
The Tales of Hoffmann (IFI)
Oh ... Rosalinda!! (IFI)
Age of Consent (IFI)
Merci Pour Le Chocolat (IFI)
They Live (Screen)
The Princess Bride (Screen)
Neukolln Unlimited (IFI)
Exile Family Movie (IFI)
Welcome to Shelbyville (IFI)
Return to Hansala (IFI)
The Arrivals (IFI)

Thursday, December 9, 2010

January 2011 UK & Ireland Releases

The following information is from Sight & Sound.

Watched:
Catfish [2010] (Henry Joost, Ariel Schulman) 76/100
Loose Cannons (Mine vaganti) [2010] (Ferzan Ozpetek) 36/100
Love & Other Drugs [2010] (Edward Zwick) 50/100
Mammoth [2010] (Lukas Moodysson) 67/100
Monsters [2010] (Gareth Edwards) 63/100
Of Gods and Men (Des hommes et des dieux) [2010] (Xavier Beauvois) 92/100
On Tour (Tournée) [2010] (Mathieu Amalric) 59/100
Secretariat [2010] (Randall Wallace) 36/100
Somewhere [2010] (Sofia Coppola) 62/100
The Thorn in the Heart (L'épine dans le coeur) [2010] (Michel Gondry) 44/100
Unstoppable [2010] (Tony Scott) 73/100

Eager to Watch:

Will Watch:

Might Possibly Watch:
Aftershock (Tangshan dadizhen) [2010] (Xiaogang Feng)
In Our Name [2010] (Brian Welsh)
Love Life (Liebesleben) [2010] (Maria Schrader)
Miral [2010] (Julian Schnabel)
Slackistan [2010] (Hammad Khan)
Waiting for “Superman” [2010] (Davis Guggenheim)

Have No Interest In Whatsoever:
The Be All and End All [2010] (Bruce Webb)
Broken Sun [2010] (Brad Haynes)
Burke & Hare [2010] (John Landis)
Chatroom [2010] (Hideo Nakata)
Cuckoo [2010] (Richard Bracewell)
Due Date [2010] (Todd Phillips)
Easier with Practice [2010] (Kyle Patrick Alvarez)
Enemies of the People [2010] (Rob Lemkin, Thet Sambath)
Fathers of Girls [2010] (Ethem Cetintas, Karl Howman)
Fezeka’s Voice [2010] (Holly Lubbock)
For Colored Girls [2010] (Tyler Perry)
Fred The Movie [2010] (Clay Weiner)
Megamind [2010] (Tom McGrath)
Outcast [2010] (Colm McCarthy)
Paranormal Activity 2 [2010] (Tod Williams)
Rare Exports A Christmas Tale [2010] (Jalmari Helander)
Saw 3D [2010] (Kevin Greutert)
Skyline [2010] (Colin Strause, Greg Strause)
Spiderhole [2010] (Daniel Simpson)

Edits:
Moved Loose Cannons from Will Watch to Watched 16/12/2010
Moved Unstoppable from Will Watch to Watched 22/12/2010
Moved Somewhere from Eager to Watch to Watched 22/12/2010
Moved Monsters from Eager to Watch to Watched 26/12/2010
Moved On Tour from Eager to Watch to Watched 30/12/2010
Moved Secreteriat from Might Possibly Watch to Watched 20/1/2011
Moved Mammoth from Eager to Watch to Watched 9/3/2011
Moved Love and Other Drugs from Will Watch to Watched 30/9/11*

Monday, November 8, 2010

December 2010 UK & Ireland Releases

The following release information is from Sight and Sound.

Watched:
Another Year (Mike Leigh) 95/100
Chico & Rita (Javier Mariscal, Fernando Trueba) 70/100
Collapse (Chris Smith) 38/100
Leap Year (Año bisiesto) (Michael Rowe) 63/100
Robinson in Ruins (Patrick Keiller) 80/100
The American (Anton Corbijn) 70/100
The First Movie (Mark Cousins) 61/100
Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives (Loong Boonmee raleuk chat) (Apichatpong Weerasethakul) 89/100

Eager to Watch:

Will Watch:
Machete (Ethan Maniquis, Robert Rodriguez)
We Are What We Are (Somos Io que hay) (Jorge Michel Grau)

Might Possibly Watch:
brilliantlove (Ashley Horner)
Into Eternity (Michael Madsen)
Let Me In (Matt Reeves)
My Afternoons with Margueritte (La tête en friche) (Jean Becker)
Out of the Ashes (Tim Albone, Lucy Martens)
The Stoning of Soraya M. (Cyrus Nowrasteh)

Have No Interest In Whatsoever:
Adrift (À Deriva) (Heitor Dhalia)
An Ordinary Execution (Une exécution ordinaire) (Marc Dugain)
Devil (John Erick Dowdle)
Dream Home (Wai dor lei ah yut ho) (Ho-Cheung Pang)
The Edge of Dreaming (Amy Hardie)
Freight (Stuart St. Paul)
The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest (Luftslottet som sprängdes) (Daniel Alfredson)
Jackass 3D (Jeff Tremaine)
Legend of the Guardians The Owls of Ga’Hoole (Zack Snyder)
Life as We Know It (Greg Berlanti)
RED (Robert Schwentke)
Red & White (Merah Putih) (Yadi Sugandi)
This Prison Where I Live (Rex Bloomstein)
You Again (Andy Fickman)

Edits:
Moved Uncle Boonmee Who Remembers His Past Lives from Eager to Watch to Watched 20/11/10
Moved The American from Eager to Watch to Watched 11/12/10
Moved Collapse from Might Possibly Watch to Watched 23/1/11
Moved The First Movie from Will Watch to Watched 20/2/11
Moved Chico & Rita from Might Possibly Watch to Watched 30/6/11

Friday, November 5, 2010

NYFF 2004

Watched:
Kings and Queen (Rois et reine) (Arnaud Desplechin) 92/100
Café Lumière (Kôhî jikô) (Hsiao-hsien Hou) 87/100
Vera Drake (Mike Leigh) 86/100
Woman is the Future of Man (Yeojaneun namjaui miraeda) (Sang-soo Hong) 81/100
Bad Education (La mala educación) (Pedro Almodóvar) 74/100
Sideways (Alexander Payne) 74/100
Keane (2004) (Lodge Kerrigan) 66/100

Eager to Watch:
Look at Me (Comme une image) (Agnès Jaoui)
Triple Agent (Eric Rohmer)
Tropical Malady (Sud pralad) (Apichatpong Weerasethakul)
Undertow (David Gordon Green)
Notre musique (Jean-Luc Godard)
In the Battlefields (Maarek hob) (Danielle Arbid)
Or (My Treasure) (Keren Yedaya)
Tarnation (Jonathan Caouette)
The 10th District Court: Judicial Hearings (10e chambre - Instants d'audience) (Raymond Depardon)
House of Flying Daggers (Shi mian mai fu) (Yimou Zhang)
The Holy Girl (La niña santa) (Lucrecia Martel)
Rolling Family (Familia rodante) (Pablo Trapero)
The World (Shijie) (Zhang Ke Jia)
Moolaadé (Ousmane Sembene)
Saraband (Ingmar Bergman)
Palindromes (Todd Solondz)
The Gate of Sun (Bab el shams) (Yousry Nasrallah)

NYFF 2005

Watched:
Hidden (Caché) (Michael Haneke) 92/100
Three Times (Zui hao de shi guang) (Hsiao-hsien Hou) 83/100
Good Night, and Good Luck (George Clooney) 78/100
The Child (L'enfant) (Jean-Pierre Dardenne, Luc Dardenne) 78/100
Regular Lovers (Les Amants réguliers) (Philippe Garrel) 77/100
The Squid and the Whale (Noah Baumbach) 77/100
Sympathy for Lady Sympathy (Chinjeolhan geumjassi) (Chan-wook Park) 72/100
The Death of Mr. Lazarescu (Moartea domnului Lazarescu) (Cristi Puiu) 72/100
Bubble (Steven Soderbergh) 70/100
Tale of Cinema (Geuk jang jeon) (Sang-soo Hong) 70/100
Breakfast on Pluto (Neil Jordan) 68/100
Capote (Bennett Miller) 63/100
Gabrielle (Patrice Chéreau) 59/100

Eager to Watch:
Avenge But One Of My Two Eyes (Nekam Achat Mishtey Eynay) (Avi Mograbi)
I Am (Jestem) (Dorota Kedzierzawska)
Manderlay (Lars von Trier)
Methadonia (Michel Negroponte)
Paradise Now (Hany Abu-Assad)
The President's Last Bang (Geuddae geusaramdeul) (Sang-soo Im)
Something Like Happiness (Stestí) (Bohdan Sláma)
The Sun (Solntse) (Aleksandr Sokurov)
Through the Forest (À travers la forêt) (Jean-Paul Civeyrac)
A Cock and Bull Story (Michael Winterbottom)
Who's Camus Anyway? (Kamyu nante shiranai) (Mitsuo Yanagimachi)
The Passenger (Le passager) (Eric Caravaca)

Tuesday, November 2, 2010

Cinema Listings Dublin November 2010

* Denotes either a once-off showing, a festival or a reissue.

Blue means watched
Green means hoping to watch
Red means will not watch
Black means I'm on the fence

November 2010:
Another Year (IFI, Cineworld, Lighthouse, Screen)
Leap Year (IFI)
The Arbor (IFI)
The American (Cineworld)
Unstoppable (Cineworld)
Involuntary (IFI)
We Are What We Are (IFI, Lighthouse, Cineworld)
Chico and Rita (Cineworld, Lighthouse)
Uncle Boonmee Who Recalls His Past Lives (IFI)
Mammoth (Screen)
Waiting for Superman (Screen)
The Girl Who Kicked The Hornet's Nest (IFI, Cineworld, Screen)
Jackass 3D (Cineworld)
Action Replayy (Cineworld)
Golmaal 3 (Cineworld)
Skyline (Cineworld)
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Pt 1 (Cineworld)
My Afternoons With Margueritte (Cineworld, Screen)
You Again (Cineworld)
Megamind (Cineworld)
Break Ke Badd (Cineworld)
Guzaarish (Cineworld)
Let Me In (Cineworld)
Machete (Cineworld)
London Boulevard (Cineworld)
Due Date (Cineworld)

Re-issues and Festivals:
Man of Aran (IFI)
American Madness (IFI)
Mr Smith Goes to Washington (IFI)
Battleship Potemkin (IFI)
It Happened One Night (IFI)
Of Gods and Men (IFI)
Heartbeats (IFI)
Film Socialisme (IFI)
The Princess of Montpensier (IFI)
A Matter of Life and Death (IFI)
This Is Spinal Tap (Screen)
The Big Lebowski (Screen)
The Matrix (Screen)
Nine Queens (IFI)
The Edge of the World (IFI)
You Can't Take It With You (IFI)
The Spy In Black (IFI)
Mr Deeds Goes To Town (IFI)
49th Parallel (IFI)
Platinum Blonde (IFI)
A Canterbury Tale (IFI)
I Know Where I'm Going (IFI)
Making Plans for Léna (IFI)
Outside The Law (IFI)
City Island (IFI)
In The Beginning (IFI)
The Silent World (IFI)
The World Without Sun (IFI)
Money (IFI)
The Butcher (IFI)
Sabrina (Screen)
The Big Lebowski (Screen)
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (Screen)
Buffalo 66 (Screen)
Harold and Maude (Screen)
Pink Flamingoes (Screen)
The First Wave (IFI)
Chicks (IFI)
Moments Choisis Des Histoires Du Cinema (IFI)
Who Is Dervla Murphy? (IFI)
The Names of Love (Le Nom Des Gens) (IFI)
My Afternoons with Margueritte (IFI)
Michel Ciment, The Art of Sharing Movies (IFI)
Mammuth (IFI)
John Boorman: A Portrait (IFI)
Hands Up (IFI)
Restless (IFI)
Memory Lane (IFI)
Copacabana (IFI)
Mademoiselle Chambon (IFI)
Happy Few (IFI)
Illegal (IFI)
Babies (IFI)

Thursday, October 28, 2010

Cinema Listings Dublin October 2010

* Denotes either a once-off showing, a festival or a reissue.

Blue means watched
Green means hoping to watch
Red means will not watch
Black means I'm on the fence

October 2010:
Police, Adjective (IFI)
Restrepo (IFI)
The Social Network (IFI, Cineworld, Lighthouse, Screen)
Mr Nice (IFI, Lighthouse, Cineworld, Screen)
Let Me In (Cineworld)
Africa United (Cineworld)
Pyjama Girls (Cineworld)
I'm Still Here (IFI)
Carlos (IFI)
Mary & Max (IFI)
The Hunter (IFI)
The Kids Are All Right (IFI, Lighthouse, Cineworld, Screen)
Easy A (Cineworld)
Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps (Cineworld)
Made in Dagenham (Cineworld)
Paranormal Activity 2 (Cineworld)
Saw 3D (Cineworld)
Red (Cineworld)
Legends of the Guardian: The Owls of Ga'Hoole 3D (Cineworld)
Despicable 3D (Cineworld)
Alpha and Omega 3D (Cineworld)
Burke and Hare (Cineworld)
Ramona and Beezus (Cineworld)
Vampires Suck (Cineworld)
Life As We Know It (Cineworld)
Death and Life of Charlie St. Cloud (Cineworld)
Eat Pray Love (Cineworld)
Robot (Cineworld)
Takers (Cineworld)
Anjaana Anjaani (Cineworld)

Re-issues and Festivals:
Playtime (IFI)
The Gold Rush (IFI)
Ed Wood (IFI)
The Night of the Hunter (IFI)
Back to the Future (Cineworld)
Fight Club (Screen)
Went The Day Well (IFI)
Scarface (Cineworld)
They Made Me A Fugitive (IFI)
London (IFI)
Robinson In Space (IFI)
Robinson In Ruins (IFI)
The Italian Job (IFI)
Wall Street (IFI)
Nine Queens (IFI)
Plan 9 From Outer Space (IFI)
Gremlins 2: The New Batch (IFI)
Phenomena (IFI)
The Innocents (IFI)
Film (IFI)
Dracula (Lighthouse)
Let the Right One In (Screen)
Texas Chain Saw Massacre (Screen)
The Exorcist (Screen)
Halloween (Screen)
Night of the Living Dead (Screen)
Dawn of the Dead (Screen)
Day of the Dead (Screen)
The Shining (Screen)
A Nightmare on Elm Street (Screen)
Evil Dead 2 (Screen)
Commando (Screen)
The Treasure (IFI)
How To Live? (IFI)
O-Bi, O-Ba: The End of Civilisation (IFI)
Zero (IFI, Cineworld)
The Mist (Screen)
Amer (IFI)
Shadow (IFI)
Primal (IFI)
I Spit On Your Grave (IFI)
The Apple (IFI)
Monster House (IFI)
The Pack (IFI)
140 (IFI)
Komornik (Cineworld)
My Flesh My Blood (Cineworld)
Mall Girls (Cineworld)
The Dark House (Cineworld)
Beats of Freedom (Cineworld)
Top Dog (Cineworld)
Snow White and the Red Dragon (Cineworld)
The Human Centipede (Screen)
Pontypool (Screen)

November 2010 UK & Ireland Releases

The following release information is from Sight and Sound.

Watched:
Carlos (Olivier Assayas) 90/100
Easy A (Will Gluck) 63/100
I’m Still Here (Casey Affleck) 20/100
Mary and Max (Adam Elliot) 65/100
New York, I Love You (Fatih Akin, Yvan Attal, Randall Balsmeyer, Allen Hughes, Shunji Iwai, Wen Jiang, Shekhar Kapur, Joshua Marston, Mira Nair, Natalie Portman, Brett Ratner) 53/100
Over Your Cities Grass Will Grow (Sophie Fiennes) 38/100
Restrepo (Tim Hetherington, Sebastian Junger) 70/100
The Arbor (Clio Barnard) 80/100
The Kids Are All Right (Lisa Cholodenko) 81/100
The Secret of Kells (Tomm Moore) 55/100
The Social Network (David Fincher) 81/100
The Town (Ben Affleck) 61/100

Eager to Watch:
The Hunter (Rafi Pitts)

Will Watch:
Involuntary (De ofrivilliga) (Ruben Östlund)
Mr Nice (Bernard Rose)

Might Possibly Watch:
Africa United (Debs Gardner-Paterson)
A Town Called Panic (Panique au village) (Stéphane Aubier, Vincent Patar)

Have No Interest In Whatsoever:
Alpha and Omega (Anthony Bell, Ben Gluck)
Bella (Alejandro Gomez Monteverde)
The Death and Life of Charlie St. Cloud (Burr Steers)
Despicable Me (Pierre Coffin, Chris Renaud)
F (Johannes Roberts)
Going the Distance (Nanette Burstein)
Jackboots on Whitehall (Edward McHenry, Rory McHenry)
Just Wright (Sanaa Hamri)
Life as We Know It (Greg Berlanti)
Little Big Soldier (Da bing xiao jiang) (Sheng Ding)
Night of the Demons (Adam Gierasch)
Piranha (Alexandre Aja)
Ramona and Beezus (Elizabeth Allen)
Resident Evil: Afterlife (Paul W.S. Anderson)
Takers (John Luessenhop)
True Legend (Su Qi-Er) (Woo-ping Yuen)
Vampires Suck (Jason Friedberg, Aaron Seltzer)
Wah Do Dem (Ben Chace, Sam Fleischner)

Edits:
Moved Easy A from Will Watch to Watched 2/11/10
Moved The Kids Are All Right from Eager to Watch to Watched 13/11/10
Moved I'm Still Here from Will Watch to Watched 21/11/10
Moved Carlos from Eager to Watch to Watched 4/12/10
Moved Mary and Max from Eager to Watch to Watched 5/12/10
Moved New York, I Love You from Will Watch to Watched 23/1/11
Moved The Arbor from Will Watch to Watched 19/4/11
Moved Over Your Cities Grass Will Grow from Will Watchh to Watched 30/6/11*

NYFF 2006

Watched:
Pan's Labyrinth (El laberinto del fauno) (Guillermo del Toro) 97/100
Climates (Iklimler) (Nuri Bilge Ceylan) 91/100
Volver (Pedro Almodóvar) 89/100
49 Up (Michael Apted) 87/100
The Host (Gwoemul) (Joon-ho Bong) 84/100
Woman on the Beach (Haebyeonui yeoin) (Sang-soo Hong) 83/100
Syndromes and a Century (Sang sattawat) (Apichatpong Weerasethakul) 78/100
Little Children (Todd Field) 74/100
Marie Antoinette (Sofia Coppola) 71/100
Offside (Jafar Panahi) 59/100
The Queen (Stephen Frears) 57/100
The Go Master (Wu Qingyuan) (Zhuangzhuang Tian) 55/100
Gardens in Autumn (Jardins en automne) (Otar Iosseliani) 53/100

Eager to Watch:
August Days (Dies d'agost) (Marc Recha)
Bamako (Abderrahmane Sissako)
Belle Toujours (Manoel de Oliveira)
Private Fears in Public Places (Coeurs) (Alain Resnais)
Paprika (Papurika) (Satoshi Kon)
The Journals of Knud Rasmussen (Norman Cohn, Zacharias Kunuk)
Inland Empire (David Lynch)
Falling (Fallen) (Barbara Albert)
Triad Election (Hak se wui yi wo wai kwai) (Johnnie To)
Our Daily Bread (Unser täglich Brot) (Nikolaus Geyrhalter)
These Girls (El-banate dol) (Tahani Rached)
Poison Friends (Les amitiés maléfiques) (Emmanuel Bourdieu)

NYFF 2007

Watched:
Silent Light (Stellet licht) (Carlos Reygadas) 94/100
No Country for Old Men (Ethan Coen, Joel Coen) 93/100
Flight of the Red Balloon (Le voyage du ballon rouge) (Hsiao-hsien Hou) 91/100
4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days (4 luni, 3 saptamâni si 2 zile) (Cristian Mungiu) 87/100
Paranoid Park (Gus Van Sant) 86/100
In the City of Sylvia (En la ciudad de Sylvia) (José Luis Guerín) 84/100
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (Le scaphandre et le papillon) (Julian Schnabel) 81/100
The Darjeeling Limited (Wes Anderson) 79/100
Redacted (Brian De Palma) 77/100
The Man From London (A London férfi) (Béla Tarr) 77/100
Aleksandra (Aleksandr Sokurov) 76/100
The Last Mistress (Une vieille maîtresse) (Catherine Breillat) 76/100
Persepolis (Vincent Paronnaud, Marjane Satrapi) 74/100
I'm Not There (Todd Haynes) 73/100
Secret Sunshine (Milyang) (Chang-dong Lee) 73/100
The Girl Cut in Two (La Fille Coupée en deux) (Claude Chabrol) 67/100
Before the Devil Knows You're Dead (Sidney Lumet) 62/100
Married Life (Ira Sachs) 53/100

Eager to Watch:
Actresses (Actrices) (Valeria Bruni Tedeschi)
The Axe in the Attic (Ed Pincus, Lucia Small)
Calle Sante Fe (Carmen Castillo)
Go Go Tales (Abel Ferrara)
I Just Didn't Do It (Soredemo boku wa yattenai) (Masayuki Suo)
Margot at the Wedding (Noah Baumbach)
Mr Warmth, The Don Rickles Project (John Landis)
The Orphanage (El orfanato) (Juan Antonio Bayona)
The Romance of Astreé and Céladon (Les amours d'Astrée et de Céladon) (Eric Rohmer)
Useless (Wuyong) (Zhang Ke Jia)

Wednesday, October 27, 2010

NYFF 2008

Watched:
Waltz with Bashir (Ari Folman) 95/100
Afterschool (Antonio Campos) 94/100
The Class (Entre Les Murs) (Laurent Cantet) 93/100
The Wrestler (Darren Aronofsky) 92/100
Night and Day (Bam guan nat) (Sang-soo Hong) 89/100
A Christmas Tale (Un Conte de Noel Roubaix!) (Arnaud Desplechin) 83/100
Happy-Go-Lucky (Mike Leigh) 83/100
Hunger (Steve McQueen) 83/100
24 City (Er shi si cheng ji) (Zhang Ke Jia) 82/100
Summer Hours (L'heure d'été) (Olivier Assayas) 80/100
Gomorra (Matteo Garrone) 78/100
Ashes of Time Redux (Kar Wai Wong) 74/100
The Headless Woman (La mujer sin cabeza) (Lucrecia Martel) 73/100
Che Part One (Steven Soderbergh) 71/100
Four Nights With Anna (Cztery noce z Anna) (Jerzy Skolimowski) 68/100
Tony Manero (Pablo Larrain) 68/100
Che Part 2 (Steven Soderbergh) 66/100
Let's Talk about the Rain (Parlez-moi de la pluie) (Agnès Jaoui) 64/100
Wendy and Lucy (Kelly Reichardt) 63/100
I'm Gonna Explode (Voy a explotar) (Gerardo Naranjo) 61/100
Tokyo Sonata (Kiyoshi Kurosawa) 61/100
Tulpan (Sergei Dvortsevoy) 60/100
Changeling (Clint Eastwood) 58/100

Eager to Watch:
Bullet in the Head (Tiro en la cabeza) (Jaime Rosales)
Chouga (Shuga) (Darezhan Omirbayev)
The Northern Land (A Corte do Norte) (João Botelho)
Serbis (Brillante Mendoza)
The Windmill Movie (Alexander Olch)

NYFF 2009

Watched:
Police, Adjective (Politist, adjectiv) (Corneliu Porumboiu) 92/100
The White Ribbon (Das weisse Band) (Michael Haneke) 90/100
Lebanon (Samuel Maoz) 88/100
Hadewijch (Bruno Dumont) 86/100
Life During Wartime (Todd Solondz) 83/100
Broken Embraces (Los abrazos rotos) (Pedro Almodóvar) 82/100
Everyone Else (Alle Anderen) (Maren Ade) 78/100
Room and a Half (Poltory komnaty ili sentimentalnoe puteshestvie na rodinu) (Andrey Khrzhanovskiy) 76/100
Mother (Madeo) (Joon-ho Bong) 73/100
Vincere (Marco Bellocchio) 73/100
White Material (Claire Denis) 70/100
Around a Small Mountain (36 vues du Pic Saint-Loup) (Jacques Rivette) 68/100
Bluebeard (Barbe Bleu) (Catherine Breillat) 68/100
The Art of the Steal (Don Argott) 68/100
Henri-Georges Clouzot Inferno (L'enfer d'Henri-Georges Clouzot) (Serge Bromberg, Ruxandra Medrea) 62/100
Precious: Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire (Lee Daniels) 62/100
Eccentricities of a Blond Haired Girl (Singularidades de uma Rapariga Loura) (Manoel de Oliveira) 61/100
Wild Grass (Les Herbes Folles) (Alain Resnais) 60/100
Antichrist (Lars von Trier) 51/100
Sweetgrass (Ilisa Barbash, Lucien Castaing-Taylor) 50/100
Kanikôsen (Hiroyuki Tanaka) 28/100

Eager to Watch:
Ghost Town (Fei cheng) (Zhao Dayong)
Independencia (Raya Martin)
Tell Me Who You Are (Min Ye) (Souleymane Cissé)
Ne change rien (Pedro Costa)
Sweet Rush (Tatarak) (Andrzej Wajda)
To Die Like A Man (Morrer Como Um Homem) (João Pedro Rodrigues)

Friday, October 1, 2010

Berlin School

http://www.cineaste.com/articles/the-berlin-school.htm

Directors include:

Ulrich Köhler
Rakete (1999) 10m
Bungalow (2002) 82/100
Windows on Monday (Montag kommen die Fenster) (2006) 77/100

Christoph Hochhäusler
Fieber (1998) 13m
This Very Moment (Milchwald) (2003) 60/100
I Am Guilty (Falscher Bekenner) (2005) 90m
Deutschland 09 - 13 kurze Filme zur Lage de Nation (Segment - Séance) (2009) (E)
The City Below (Unter dir die Stadt) (2010) 105m

Angela Schanelec
Ich bin den Sommer über in Berlin geblieben
(1994) 47m
Das Glück meiner Schwester
(1995) 84m
Plätze in Städten
(1998) 117m (E)
Passing Summer (Mein langsames Leben) (2001) 88/100
Marseille (2004) 80/100
Afternoon (Nachmittag) (2007) 86/100
Deutschland 09 - 13 kurze Filme zur Lage de Nation (Segment - Erster Tag) (2009) (E)
Orly (2010)

Christian Petzold
Das warme Geld (1992) 31m
Pilotinnen (1995) 65m
Cuba Libre (1996) 92m
Die Beischlafdiebin (1998) 85m
The State I Am (Die innere Sicherheit) (2000) 106m (SMz)
Something To Remind Me (Toter Mann) (2001) 90m
Wolfsburg (2003) 90m (SMz)
Ghosts (Gespenster) (2005) 85m (B)
Yella (2007) 82/100
Jerichow (2008) 74/100

Thomas Arslan
19 Portraits (1990) 20m
Am Rand (1991) 24m
Im Sommer - Die sichtbare Welt (1992) 41m
Mach die Musik leiser (1994) 85m
Geschwister - Kardesler (1997) 82m
Dealer (1999) 74m
A Fine Day (Der schöne Tag) (2001) 89/100
Aus der Ferne (2006) 89m
Vacation (2007) 77/100
In The Shadows (Im Schatten) (2010) 85m

Henner Winckler
Tip Top (1998)
School Trip (Klassenfahrt) (2002) 68/100
Lucy (2006) 93m

Benjamin Heisenberg
Terremoto (1996) 11m
Alles wieder still (1998) 14m
Der Bombenkönig
(2000) 20m
At The Lake (Am See) (2001) 45m
Die Gelengenheit (2004) 21m
Sleeper (Schläfer) (2005) 92/100
The Robber (Der Räuber) (2010) 84/100

Maren Ade
Ebene 9 (2000) 14m
The Forest for the Trees (Der Wald vor lauter Bäumen) (2003) 87/100
Everyone Else (Alle Anderen) (2009) 78/100

Maria Speth
Barfuß
(1999) 20m
The Days Between (In den Tag hinein) (2001) 118m (E)
Madonnas (Madonnen) (2007) 90m

Valeska Grisebach
Be My Star (Mein Stern) (2001) 65m
Longing (Sehnsucht) (2006) 93/100

Aysun Bademsoy
Mädchen am Ball
(1995) 43m
Nach dem Spiel (1997) 60m
Deutsche Polizisten: Viele Kulturen - Eine Truppe
(1999) 60m
Die Hochzeitsfabrik (2005) 65m
On The Outskirts (Am Rand der Städte) (2006) 83m
In The Game (Iche gehe jetzt rein) (2008) 73m

Jan Krüger
Verführung von Engeln (2000)
Stundenhotel (2000)
Freunde (2001) (SMz)
Unterwegs (2004)
Tango apasionado (2006)
Hotel Paradijs (2007)
Rückenwind (2009)

Sylke Enders
Auszeit (1998)
Hund mit t (1998)
Immer mir (2001)
Kroko (2003)
Hab mich lieb! (2004)
Schlitten auf schwarzem Schnee (2005)
Mondkalb (2007)

Ayse Polat
Auslandstournee (2000)
En garde (2004)

Matthias Luthardt
Pingpong (2006) (SMz)
Der Tag, an dem ich meinen toten Mann traf (2008) (SMz)

Monday, September 13, 2010

October 2010 UK & Ireland Releases

The following release information is from Sight and Sound.

Watched:
Alamar (Pedro González-Rubio) 30/100
Buried (Rodrigo Cortés) 68/100
Cyrus (Jay Duplass, Mark Duplass) 43/100
Enter the Void (Gaspar Noé) 93/100
Made in Dagenham (Nigel Cole) 60/100
My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done (Werner Herzog) 62/100
Police, Adjective (Politist, adjectiv) (Corneliu Porumboiu) 92/100
Salt (Phillip Noyce) 62/100
Scott Pilgrim vs. the World (Edgar Wright) 42/100
Tamara Drewe (Stephen Frears) 28/100
Winter's Bone (Debra Granik) 94/100

Eager to Watch:
Perestroika (Sarah Turner)

Will Watch:

Might Possibly Watch:
Frozen (Adam Green)
The Kid (Nick Moran)
The Other Guys (Adam McKay)

Have No Interest In Whatsoever:
Bonded By Blood (Sacha Bennett)
Budrus (Julia Bacha)
Cats & Dogs The Revenge of Kitty Galore (Brad Peyton)
Dinner for Schmucks (Jay Roach)
Eat Pray Love (Ryan Murphy)
The Final (Joey Stewart)
The Hole (Joe Dante)
The Horde (La Horde) (Yannick Dahan, Benjamin Rocher)
The Human Centipede (First Sequence) (Tom Six)
The Last Exorcism (Daniel Stamm)
The Last Seven (Imran Naqvi)
Our Family Wedding (Rick Famuyiwa)
Peepli [Live] (Anusha Rizvi)
Pianomania (Robert Cibis, Lilian Franck)
Release (Darren Flaxstone, Christian Martin)
The Sorcerer's Apprentice (Jon Turteltaub)
Step Up 3D (Jon Chu)
The Switch (Josh Gordon, Will Speck)
Tinker Bell and the Great Fairy Rescue (Bradley Raymond)
22 Bullets (L'immortel) (Richard Berry)
Why Did I Get Married Too? (Tyler Perry)
The Wildest Dream (Anthony Geffen)

Edits:
Moved Winter's Bone from Eager to Watch to Watched 18/9/10
Moved Cyrus from Will Watch to Watched 18/9/10
Moved Alamar from Will Watch to Watched 19/9/10
Moved My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done from Eager to Watch to Watched 29/9/10
Moved Police, Adjective from Eager to Watch to Watched 3/10/10
Moved Scott Pilgrim vs. The World from Will Watch to Watched 10/10/10
Moved Buried from Might Possibly Watch to Watched 7/2/11
Moved Made in Dagenham from Will Watch to Watched 23/3/11

Friday, September 10, 2010

Cinema Listings Dublin September 2010

* Denotes either a once-off showing, a festival or a reissue.

Blue means watched
Green means hoping to watch
Red means will not watch
Black means I'm on the fence

September 2010:
Certified Copy (IFI, Lighthouse)
Enter the Void (IFI)
Cyrus (IFI, Cineworld)
Tamara Drewe (IFI, Cineworld, Lighthouse)
Alamar (IFI)
Winter's Bone (IFI, Cineworld)
The Town (Cineworld)
Bonded By Blood (Cineworld)
The Last Exorcism (Cineworld)
Resident Evil: Afterlife in 3D (Cineworld)
The Switch (Cineworld)
The Runaways (Cineworld, Screen)
Jonah Hex (Cineworld)
We Are Family (Cineworld)
The Other Guys (Cineworld)
Just Wright (Cineworld)
Devil (Cineworld)
Going The Distance (Cineworld)
The Hole in 3D (Cineworld)
Why Did I Get Married Too? (Cineworld)
Worlds Greatest Dad (Cineworld)
Pyjama Girls (Cineworld)
Swansong: Story of Occi Byrne (Lighthouse)
Cherry Tree Lane (IFI)

Buried (IFI)
Debangg (Cineworld)
Going the Distance (Cineworld)
Savage (Screen, Cineworld)
The Kid (Cineworld)
Soul Boy (Screen)
Black Dynamite (Screen)

Re-issues and Festivals:
Metropolis (IFI)
The Matrix (IFI)
Dr. Strangelove (IFI)
Blow Up (IFI)
Week-End (IFI)
Pretty Woman (Cineworld)
Conservations With My Gardener (IFI)
The Godfather (Cineworld)
M (IFI)

From Here To Eternity (IFI)
The Mother and the Whore (IFI)
Brazil (IFI)
Partner (IFI)
Regular Lovers (IFI)
Rocky Road to Dublin (IFI)
Death By Hanging (IFI)
If... (IFI)
The Testament of Dr. Mabuse (IFI)
Terminator 2 (Screen)
The Thousand Eyes of Dr. Mabuse (IFI)
Spione (IFI)
Woman in the Moon (IFI)
Things To Come (IFI)
Alphaville (IFI)
Dark City (IFI)
Dr. Mabuse The Gambler (IFI)

Seaside Stories (IFI)
The Fox and the Child (IFI)

Sunday, August 22, 2010

NYFF 2010

Watched:
Another Year (Mike Leigh) 95/100
Of Gods and Men (Des hommes et des dieux) (Xavier Beauvois) 92/100
Carlos (Olivier Assayas) 90/100
Poetry (Shi) (Chang-dong Lee) 89/100
Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives (Loong Boonmee raleuk chat) (Apichatpong Weerasethakul) 89/100
Le Quattro Volte (Michelangelo Frammartino) 88/100
Meek's Cutoff (Kelly Reichardt) 87/100
The Robber (Der Räuber) (Benjamin Heisenberg) 84/100
Tuesday, After Christmas (Marti, dupa cracium) (Radu Muntean) 84/100
Certified Copy (Copie conforme) (Abbas Kiarostami) 83/100
Oki's Movie (Sang-soo Hong) 82/100
The Social Network (David Fincher) 81/100
Robinson in Ruins (Patrick Keiller) 80/100
My Joy (Schastye moe) (Sergei Loznitsa) 77/100
Post Mortem (Pablo Larraín) 73/100
Mysteries of Lisbon (Mistérios de Lisboa) (Raoul Ruiz) 72/100
Silent Souls (Ovsyanki) (Aleksei Fedorchenko) 64/100
Inside Job (Charles Ferguson) 62/100
Hereafter (Clint Eastwood) 58/100
Revolución (Mariana Chenillo, Fernando Eimbcke, Amat Escalante, Gael García Bernal, Rodrigo García, Diego Luna, Gerardo Naranjo, Rodrigo Plá, Carlos Reygadas, Patricia Riggen) 51/100
The Tempest (Julie Taymor) 30/100
Film Socialisme (Jean-Luc Godard) 18/100

Eager to Watch:
Aurora (Cristi Puiu)
Black Venus (Vénus noire) (Abdellatif Kechiche)
LennonNYC (Michael Epstein)
Old Cats (Pedro Peirano, Sebastián Silva)
The Strange Case of Angelica (O Estranho Caso de Angélica) (Manoel de Oliveira)
We Are What We Are (Somos Io que hay) (Jorge Michel Grau)

Monday, August 16, 2010

September 2010 UK & Ireland Releases

The following release information is from Sight and Sound.

Watched:
Certified Copy (Copie Conforme) (Abbas Kiarostami) 83/100
Chanel Coco & Igor Stravinsky (Jan Kounen) 85/100
Dog Pound (Kim Chapiron) 57/100
Eccentricities of a Blond Haired Girl (Singularidades de uma Rapariga Loura) (Manoel de Oliveira) 61/100
Inception (Christopher Nolan) 86/100
The Illusionist (L'illusionniste) (Sylvain Chomet) 48/100
Le Refuge (François Ozon) 69/100
Mother (Madeo) (Joon-ho Bong) 73/100
Rapt (Lucas Belvaux) 90/100
Rough Aunties (Kim Longinotto) 76/100
The Maid (La nana) (Sebastián Silva) 78/100
The Secret in Their Eyes (El secreto de sus ojos) (Juan José Campanella) 63/100
Undertow (Contracorriente) (Javier Fuentes-León) 22/100

Eager to Watch:
Baarià (Giuseppe Tornatore)
South of the Border (Oliver Stone)

Will Watch:
Black Dynamite (Scott Sanders)

Might Possibly Watch:
Exhibit A (Dom Rotheroe)
The Expendables (Sylvester Stallone)
The Girl Who Played with Fire (Flickan som lekte med elden) (Daniel Alfredson)
Knight and Day (James Mangold)

Have No Interest In Whatsoever:
Cherry Tree Lane (Paul Andrew Williams)
CrimeFighters (Miles Watts)
Diary of a Wimpy Kid (Thor Freudenthal)
Frownland (Ronald Bronstein)
Grown Ups (Dennis Dugan)
Jasper Penguin Explorer (Eckart Fingberg)
Jonah Hex (Jimmy Hayward)
The Last Airbender (M. Night Shyamalan)
Marmaduke (Tom Dey)
No Impact Man (Laura Gabbert, Justin Schein)
Predators (Nimród Antal)
Raavan (Mani Ratnam)
The Runaways (Floria Sigismondi)
The Seventh Dimension (Brad Watson)
SoulBoy (Shimmy Marcus)
Splintered (Simeon Halligan)
The Twilight Saga Eclipse (David Slade)
World’s Greatest Dad (Bobcat Goldthwait)

Edit:
Moved The Secret in Their Eyes from Eager to Watch to Watched 17/8/10
Moved Le Refuge from Eager to Watch to Watched 25/8/10
Moved Mother from Eager to Watch to Watched 27/8/10
Moved The Illusionist from Eager to Watch to Watched 6/9/10
Moved Certified Copy from Eager to Watch to Watched 8/9/10
Moved The Maid from Eager to Watch to Watched 9/9/10
Moved Dog Pound from Have No Interest In Whatsoever to Watched 28/9/10
Moved Rough Aunties from Eager to Watch to Watched 10/2/11

Friday, August 6, 2010

Cannes 2010 Festival

Watched: (17)
Another Year (Mike Leigh) 95/100
Of Gods and Men (Des hommes et des dieux) (Xavier Beauvois) 92/100
Poetry (Shi) (Chang-dong Lee) 89/100
Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives (Loong Boonmee raleuk chat) (Apichatpong Weerasethakul) 89/100
Certified Copy (Copie conforme) (Abbas Kiarostami) 83/100
My Joy (Schastye moe) (Sergei Loznitsa) 77/100
Outside the Law (Hors-la-loi) (Rachid Bouchareb) 73/100
Fair Game (Doug Liman) 71/100
Chongqing Blues (Rizhao Chongqing) (Xiaoshuai Wang) 70/100
Biutiful (Alejandro González Iñárritu) 66/100
Our Life (La nostra vita) (Daniele Luchetti) 62/100
A Screaming Man (Un homme qui crie) (Mahamat-Saleh Haroun) 59/100
On Tour (Tournée) (Mathieu Amalric) 59/100
Outrage (Autoreiji) (Takeshi Kitano) 56/100
The Princess of Montpensier (La princesse de Montpensier) (Bertrand Tavernier) 52/100
The Housemaid (Hanyo) (Sang-soo Im) 51/100
Route Irish (Ken Loach) 42/100

Eager to Watch: (2)
Tender Son - A Frankenstein Project (Szelíd teremtés - A Frankenstein-terv) (Kornél Mundruczó)
The Exodus: Burnt By The Sun 2 (Utomlyonnye solntsem 2) (Nikita Mikhalkov)