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)