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)