Monday, October 5, 2009

2000s Viewing Log

Total Watched:

90+ (54) (1 Short)
There Will Be Blood (Paul Thomas Anderson) 98/100
Pan's Labyrinth (El laberinto del fauno) (Guillermo del Toro) 97/100
La danse - Le ballet de l'Opéra de Paris (2009) (Frederick Wiseman) 96/100
A One and a Two... (Yi yi) (Edward Yang) 95/100
Dogville (Lars von Trier) 95/100
Waltz with Bashir (Ari Folman) 95/100
A Prophet (Un prophète) (2009) (Jacques Audiard) 94/100
A Serious Man (2009) (Ethan Coen, Joel Coen) 94/100
Afterschool (Antonio Campos) 94/100
In The Mood For Love (Fa yeung nin wa) (Kar Wai Wong) 94/100
Songs from the Second Floor (Sånger från andra våningen) (Roy Andersson) 94/100
Silent Light (Stellet licht) (Carlos Reygadas) 94/100
The Dark Knight (Christopher Nolan) 94/100
3-iron (Bin-jip) (Ki-duk Kim) 93/100
City of God (Cidade de Deus) (Fernando Meirelles) 93/100
Enter the Void (2009) (Gaspar Noé) 93/100
In the Bedroom (Todd Field) 93/100
Inglourious Basterds (Quentin Tarantino) 93/100
Longing (Sehnsucht) (Valeska Grisebach) 93/100
No Country for Old Men (Ethan Coen, Joel Coen) 93/100
Of Time and the City (Terence Davies) 93/100
Synecdoche, New York (Charlie Kaufman) 93/100
The Bad Lieutenant Port of Call: New Orleans (Werner Herzog) 93/100
The Class (Entre Les Murs) (Laurent Cantet) 93/100
The Man Who Wasn't There (Joel Coen, Ethan Coen) 93/100
The Piano Teacher (La pianiste) (2001) (Michael Haneke) 93/100
Distant (Uzak) (Nuri Bilge Ceylan) 92/100
Hidden (Caché) (Michael Haneke) 92/100
I am Love (Io sono l'amore) (Luca Guadagnino) 92/100
Irréversible (Gaspar Noé) 92/100
Kings & Queen (Rois et reine) (Arnaud Desplechin) 92/100
Mulholland Drive (David Lynch) 92/100
Police, Adjective (Politist, adjectiv) (Corneliu Porumboiu) 92/100
Sleeper (Schläfer) (2005) (Benjamin Heisenberg) 92/100
The Lives of Others (Das Leben der Anderen) (Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck) 92/100
The Wrestler (Darren Aronofsky) 92/100
25th Hour (2002) (Spike Lee) 91/100
35 Shots (35 rhums) (Claire Denis) 91/100
A Single Man (2009) (Tom Ford) 91/100
Climates (Iklimler) (Nuri Bilge Ceylan) 91/100
Flight of the Red Balloon (Le voyage du ballon rouge) (Hsiao-hsien Hou) 91/100
Plastic Bag (2009) (Ramin Bahrani) 91/100
You, the Living (Du levande) (Roy Andersson) 91/100
2046 (Kar Wai Wong) 90/100
Burma VJ Reporting from a Closed Country (Burma VJ Reporter i et lukket land) (Anders Østergaard) 90/100
Couscous (La graine et le mulet) (Abdel Kechiche) 90/100
Lust, Caution (Se, jie) (Ang Lee) 90/100
Oldboy (Chan-wook Park) 90/100
Ponyo on the Cliffs by the Sea (Gake no ue no Ponyo) (2008) (Hayao Miyazaki) 90/100
Rapt (2009) (Lucas Belvaux) 90/100
Still Walking (Aruitemo aruitemo) (Hirokazu Koreeda) 90/100
The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (Andrew Dominik) 90/100
The Departed (Martin Scorsese) 90/100
The White Ribbon (Das weisse Band) (2009) (Michael Haneke) 90/100

80-89 (165) (1 Short)
A Fine Day (Der schöne Tag) (2001) (Thomas Arslan) 89/100
Elephant (Gus Van Sant) 89/100
Monsters Inc. (Pete Docter) 89/100
Night and Day (Bam guan nat) (2008) (Sang-soo Hong) 89/100
Nobody Knows (Dare mo shiranai) (Hirokazu Koreeda) 89/100
Séraphine (2008) (Martin Provost) 89/100
Song of Sparrows (Avaze gonjeshk-ha) (Majid Majidi) 89/100
The Son (Le fils) (Jean-Pierre Dardenne, Luc Dardenne) 89/100
The Return (Vozvrashcheniye) (Andrei Zvyagintsev) 89/100
Volver (Pedro Almodóvar) 89/100
Army of Crime (L'armée du crime) (Robert Guédiguian) 88/100
Bloody Sunday (Paul Greengrass) 88/100
Fantastic Mr. Fox (Wes Anderson) 88/100
Lebanon (2009) (Samuel Maoz) 88/100
Lion’s Den (Leonera) (Pablo Trapero) 88/100
My Only Sunshine (Hayat var) (Reha Erdem) 88/100
Passing Summer (Mein langsames Leben) (2001) (Angela Schanelec) 88/100
Requiem for a Dream (Darren Aronofsky) 88/100
Sicko (Michael Moore) 88/100
Spring, Summer, Autumn, Winter and... Spring (Bom yeoreum gaeul gyeoul geurigo bom) (Ki-duk Kim) 88/100
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (Peter Jackson) 88/100
This Is England (Shane Meadows) 88/100
4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days (4 luni, 3 saptamâni si 2 zile) (Cristian Mungiu) 87/100
49 Up (Michael Apted) 87/100
Amélie (Le fabuleux destin d'Amélie Poulain) (Jean-Pierre Jeunet) 87/100
Café Lumière (Kôhî jikô) (Hsiao-hsien Hou) 87/100
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (Wo hu cang long) (Ang Lee) 87/100
Il Divo (Paolo Sorrentino) 87/100
Juno (Jason Reitman) 87/100
Kill Bill Vol. 1 (Quentin Tarantino) 87/100
Little Miss Sunshine (Jonathan Dayton) 87/100
Lourdes (2009) (Jessica Hausner) 87/100
Million Dollar Baby (Clint Eastwood) 87/100
Revanche (Götz Spielmann) 87/100
Slumdog Millionaire (Danny Boyle) 87/100
Talk to Her (Hable con ella) (2002) (Pedro Almodóvar) 87/100
The Forest for the Trees (Der Wald vor lauter Bäumen) (2003) (Maren Ade) 87/100
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (Peter Jackson) 87/100
Afternoon (Nachmittag) (2007) (Angela Schanelec) 86/100
Bowling for Columbine (Michael Moore) 86/100
Children of Men (Alfonso Cuarón) 86/100
Hadewijch (Bruno Dumont) 86/100
His & Hers (2009) (Ken Wardrop) 86/100
Lars and the Real Girl (Craig Gillespie) 86/100
Paranoid Park (Gus Van Sant) 86/100
Still Life (Sanxia haoren) (Zhang Ke Jia) 86/100
The Consequences of Love (Le conseguenze dell'amore) (Paolo Sorrentino) 86/100
The Edge of Heaven (Auf der anderen Seite) (Fatih Akin) 86/100
The Royal Tenenbaums (Wes Anderson) 86/100
Tsotsi (Gavin Hood) 86/100
Vera Drake (Mike Leigh) 86/100
Werckmeister Harmonies (Werckmeister harmóniák) (Béla Tarr) 86/100
Chanel Coco & Igor Stravinsky (2009) (Jan Kounen) 85/100
Eastern Promises (David Cronenberg) 85/100
Happy Christmas (Joyeux Noël) (Christian Carion) 85/100
I Am Sam (Jessie Nelson) 85/100
Kill Bill Vol 2 (Quentin Tarantino) 85/100
Memories of Murder (Salinui chueok) (2003) (Joon-ho Bong) 85/100
The Man Without A Head (L'homme sans tête) (Juan Diego Solanas) 85/100
The Reader (Stephen Daldry) 85/100
Air Doll (Kûki ningyô) (2009) (Hirokazu Koreeda) 84/100
An Inconvenient Truth (Davis Guggenheim) 84/100
And Your Mother Too (Y tu mamá también) (Alfonso Cuarón) 84/100
Blissfully Yours (Sud sanaeha) (2002) (Apichatpong Weerasethakul) 84/100
In the City of Sylvia (En la ciudad de Sylvia) (José Luis Guerín) 84/100
In the Loop (Armando Iannucci) 84/100
Let the Right One In (Låt den rätte komma in) (Tomas Alfredson) 84/100
Memento (Christopher Nolan) 84/100
Nightwatching (Peter Greenaway) 84/100
Spirited Away (Sen to Chihiro no kamikakushi) (2001) (Hayao Miyazaki) 84/100
Sweet Sixteen (Ken Loach) 84/100
Tetro (2009) (Francis Ford Coppola) 84/100
The Host (Gwoemul) (2006) (Joon-ho Bong) 84/100
The House of Mirth (Terence Davies) 84/100
The Road (2009) (John Hillcoat) 84/100
The Silence of Lorna (Jean-Pierre Dardenne, Luc Dardenne) 84/100
Wall-E (Andrew Stanton) 84/100
XXY (Lucía Puenzo) 84/100
A Christmas Tale (Un Conte de Noel Roubaix!) (Arnaud Desplechin) 83/100
Batman Begins (Christopher Nolan) 83/100
Beeswax (Andrew Bujalski) 83/100
Burn after Reading (Ethan Coen, Joel Coen) 83/100
Dead Man's Shoes (Shane Meadows) 83/100
Downfall (Der Untergang) (2004) Oliver Hirschbiegel 83
Gladiator (Ridley Scott) 83/100
Infernal Affairs (Mou gaan dou) (2002) Alan Mak, Andrew Lau Wai-Keung 83
Happy-Go-Lucky (Mike Leigh) 83/100
Hunger (Steve McQueen) 83/100
Life During Wartime (2009) (Todd Solondz) 83/100
Michael Clayton (Tony Gilroy) 83/100
Phantoms of Nabua (2009) (Apichatpong Weerasethakul) 83/100
Sexy Beast (Jonathan Glazer) 83/100
Sin City (Frank Miller, Robert Rodriguez) 83/100
Takva (Özer Kiziltan) 83/100
The Hurt Locker (Kathryn Bigelow) 83/100
The Son's Room (La stanza del figlio) (2001) (Nanni Moretti) 83/100
Three Monkeys (Uk Maymun) (Nuri Bilge Ceylan) 83/100
Three Times (Zui hao de shi guang) (Hsiao-hsien Hou) 83/100
Time Out (L'emploi du temps) (Laurent Cantet) 83/100
Woman on the Beach (Haebyeonui yeoin) (2006) (Sang-soo Hong) 83/100
Worldly Desires (2005) (Apichatpong Weerasethakul) 83/100
Black Book (Zwartboek) (Paul Verhoeven) 82/100
Broken Embraces (Los abrazos rotos) (Pedro Almodóvar) 82/100
Buddha Collapsed Out of Shame (Buda as sharm foru rikht) (Hana Makhmalbaf) 82/100
Bungalow (2002) (Ulrich Köhler) 82/100
Capturing the Friedmans (Andrew Jarecki) 82/100
Encounters at the End of the World (Werner Herzog) 82/100
24 City (Er shi si cheng ji) (Zhang Ke Jia) 82/100
In Bruges (Martin McDonagh) 82/100
Lilja 4-Ever (Lukas Moodysson) 82/100
Moon (Duncan Jones) 82/100
Shrek (Andrew Adamson, Vicky Jenson) 82/100
Times and Winds (Bes vakit) (Reha Erdem) 82/100
The Aviator (Martin Scorsese) 82/100
The Beat That My Heart Skipped (De battre mon coeur s'est arrêté) (Jacques Audiard) 82/100
The Heart of the World (2000) (Guy Maddin) 82/100
The Three Burials of Melquiedas Estrada (Tommy Lee Jones) 82/100
Yella (Christian Petzold) 82/100
A History of Violence (David Cronenberg) 81/100
After the Wedding (Efter brylluppet) (Susanne Bier) 81/100
Almost Famous (Cameron Crowe) 81/100
Anvil! The Story of Anvil (Sacha Gervasi) 81/100
Blow (Ted Demme) 81/100
Goodbye Lenin! (Wolfgang Becker) 81/100
Looking for Eric (Ken Loach) 81/100
Machuca (Andrés Wood) 81/100
Platform (Zhantai) (Zhang Ke Jia) 81/100
Taxi to the Dark Side (Alex Gibney) 81/100
The Banishment (Izgnanie) (Andrei Zvyagintsev) 81/100
The Bourne Supremacy (Paul Greengrass) 81/100
The Bourne Ultimatum (Paul Greengrass) 81/100
The Brothers Bloom (Rian Johnson) 81/100
The Corporation (Mark Achbar) 81/100
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (Le scaphandre et le papillon) (Julian Schnabel) 81/100
The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (Peter Jackson) 81/100
The New World (Terrence Malick) 81/100
The Way We Are (Tin shui wai dik yat yu ye) (2008) (Ann Hui) 81/100
We Own the Night (James Gray) 81/100
Woman is the Future of Man (Yeojaneun namjaui miraeda) (2004) (Sang-soo Hong) 81/100
Youth in Revolt (Miguel Arteta) 81/100
Avatar (2009) (James Cameron) 80/100
El violín (Francisco Vargas) 80/100
Fish Tank (Andrea Arnold) 80/100
Grizzly Man (2005) (Werner Herzog) 80/100
I Don't Want to Sleep Alone (Hei yan quan) (Ming-liang Tsai) 80/100
In the Shadow of the Moon (David Sington) 80/100
Inside Man (Spike Lee) 80/100
Invictus (Clint Eastwood) 80/100
Lost in Translation (Sofia Coppola) 80/100
Malena (Giuseppe Tornatore) 80/100
Marseille (2004) (Angela Schanelec) 80/100
My Winnipeg (Guy Maddin) 80/100
Punch-Drunk Love (Paul Thomas Anderson) 80/100
Shrek 2 (Andrew Adamson, Kelly Asbury) 80/100
Summer Hours (L'heure d'été) (Olivier Assayas) 80/100
Tell No One (Ne le dis à personne) (Guillaume Canet) 80/100
The Constant Gardener (Fernando Meirelles) 80/100
The Beaches of Agnes (Les plages d'Agnès) (Agnès Varda) 80/100
The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters (Seth Gordon) 80/100
The Motorcyce Diaries (Diarios de motociclieta) (Walter Salles) 80/100
The Station Agent (Thomas McCarthy) 80/100
Treeless Mountain (2008) (So Yong Kim) 80/100
Trouble the Water (Carl Deal, Tia Lessin) 80/100
Twelve and Holding (Michael Cuesta) 80/100
United 93 (Paul Greengrass) 80/100

70-79 (244) (4 Short)
The Fog of War Eleven Lessons from the Life of Robert S.McNamara (2003) (Errol Morris) 79/100
The Portuguese Nun (A Religiosa Portuguesa) (2009) (Eugène Green) 79/100
Monster's Ball (Marc Forster) 79/100
Minority Report (Steven Spielberg) 79/100
Private Property (Nue propriété) (Joachim Lafosse) 79/100
I Heart Huckabees (David O. Russell) 79/100
Kiss Kiss Bang Bang (Shane Black) 79/100
The Last Mitterrand (Le promeneur du champ de Mars) (Robert Guédiguian) 79/100
The Darjeeling Limited (Wes Anderson) 79/100
Katyn (Andrzej Wajda) 79/100
El somni (Christophe Farnarier) 79/100
Time (Shi gan) (2006) (Ki-duk Kim) 79/100
Hellboy II The Golden Army (Guillermo del Toro) 79/100
The Wind That Shakes The Barley (Ken Loach) 79/100
The Dish (Rob Sitch) 78/100
21 Grams (Alejandro González Iñárritu) 78/100
The Matrix Reloaded (Andy Wachowski, Larry Wachowski) 78/100
Fallen Art (Sztuka spadania) (Tomek Baginski) 78/100
Team America World Police (Trey Parker) 78/100
Brick (Rian Johnson) 78/100
Long Sorrow (2005) (Anri Sala) 78/100
The Child (L'enfant) (Jean-Pierre Dardenne, Luc Dardenne) 78/100
The Maid (La nana) (Sebastián Silva) 78/100
Good Night, and Good Luck (George Clooney) 78/100
Man Push Cart (Ramin Bahrani) 78/100
My Kid Could Paint That (2007) (Amir Bar-Lev) 78/100
Father of My Children (Le père de mes enfants) (Mia Hansen-Løve) 78/100
Lifted (Gary Rydstrom) 78/100
Once (John Carney) 78/100
Boy A (John Crowley) 78/100
The Kite Runner (Marc Forster) 78/100
Everlasting Moments (Maria Larssons eviga ögonblick) (Jan Troell) 78/100
Everyone Else (Alle Anderen) (2009) (Maren Ade) 78/100
Flame & Citron (Flamen e Citrón) (Ole Christian Madsen) 78/100
Gomorra (Matteo Garrone) 78/100
Samaritan Girl (Samaria) (2004) (Ki-duk Kim) 78/100
Shifty (Eran Creevy) 78/100
Syndromes and a Century (Sang sattawat) (Apichatpong Weerasethakul) 78/100
Up (Pete Docter, Bob Peterson) 78/100
For The Birds (Ralph Eggleston) 77/100
In America (Jim Sheridan) 77/100
Intermission (John Crowley) 77/100
A Very Long Engagement (Un long dimanche de fiançailles) (Jean-Pierre Jeunet) 77/100
The Squid and the Whale (Noah Baumbach) 77/100
Jar City (Mýrin) (Baltasar Kormákur) 77/100
Rescue Dawn (Werner Herzog) 77/100
Windows on Monday (Montag kommen die Fenster) (2006) (Ulrich Köhler) 77/100
Don't Touch the Axe (Ne touchez pas la hache) (Jacques Rivette) 77/100
Eagle vs. Shark (Taika Cohen) 77/100
Redacted (2007) (Brian De Palma) 77/100
Regular Lovers (Les Amants réguliers) (Philippe Garrel) 77/100
The Man From London (A London férfi) (Béla Tarr) 77/100
The Visitor (Thomas McCarthy) 77/100
The Yellow Bittern (2009) (Alan Gilsenan) 77/100
Wonderful Town (2007) (Aditya Assarat) 77/100
Helen (Joe Lawlor, Christine Molloy) 77/100
Mesrine: Killer Instinct (L'instinct de mort) (Jean-François Richet) 77/100
The Limits of Control (2009) (Jim Jarmusch) 77/100
Vacation (Ferien) (2007) (Thomas Arslan) 77/100
Valhalla Rising (Nicolas Winding Refn) 77/100
Aleksandra (2007) (Aleksandr Sokurov) 76/100
Ali (Michael Mann) 76/100
Breath (Soom) (Ki-duk Kim) 76/100
Brokeback Mountain (Ang Lee) 76/100
Enemy at the Gates (Jean-Jacques Annaud) 76/100
Farewell (L'affaire Farewell) (2009) (Christian Carion) 76/100
Gerry (Gus Van Sant) 76/100
The Bourne Identity (Doug Liman) 76/100
Nathalie... (Anne Fontaine) 76/100
Fahrenheit 9/11 (Michael Moore) 76/100
The Sea Inside (Mar adentro) (Alejandro Amenábar) 76/100
Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room (Alex Gibney) 76/100
Munich (Steven Spielberg) 76/100
Up In The Air (Jason Reitman) 76/100
V for Vendetta (James McTeigue) 76/100
A Prairie Home Companion (Robert Altman) 76/100
My Best Friend (Mon meilleur ami) (Patrice Leconte) 76/100
The Family Friend (L'amico di famiglia) (Paolo Sorrentino) 76/100
American Gangster (Ridley Scott) 76/100
Morvern Callar (Lynne Ramsay) 76/100
Reign Over Me (Mike Binder) 76/100
Red Cliff (Chi bi) (John Woo) 76/100 (Note Rating for Chinese version of Part 1)
Room and a Half (Poltory komnaty ili sentimentalnoe puteshestvie na rodinu) (Andrey Khrzhanovskiy) 76/100
Rough Aunties (2008) (Kim Longinotto) 76/100
The Execution of P (Kinatay) (2009) (Brillante Mendoza) 76/100
The Last Mistress (Une vieille maîtresse) (Catherine Breillat) 76/100
Kill Daddy Goodnight (Das Vaterspiel) (Michael Glawogger) 76/100
The Butterfly Effect (Eric Bress, J. Mackye Gruber) 75/100
Crash (Paul Haggis) 75/100
Gran Torino (Clint Eastwood) 75/100
Kisses (Lance Daly) 75/100
Mesrine: Public Enemy No. 1 (L'ennemi public n°1) (Jean-François Richet) 75/100
Seven Pounds (Gabriele Muccino) 75/100
She, A Chinese (2009) (Xiaolu Guo) 75/100
The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus (Terry Gilliam) 75/100
O Brother, Where Art Thou? (Joel Coen, Ethan Coen) 74/100
Daratt (Mahamat-Saleh Haroun) 74/100
Donnie Darko (Richard Kelly) 74/100
28 Days Later... (Danny Boyle) 74/100
Koktebel (Boris Khlebnikov, Aleksei Popogrebsky) 74/100
Mystic River (Clint Eastwood) 74/100
Bad Education (La mala educación) (Pedro Almodóvar) 74/100
Jerichow (2008) (Christian Petzold) 74/100
Sideways (Alexander Payne) 74/100
The White Diamond (Werner Herzog) 74/100
Frozen Land (Paha maa) (Aku Louhimies) 74/100
The Last King of Scotland (Kevin Macdonald) 74/100
Little Children (Todd Field) 74/100
The Prestige (Christopher Nolan) 74/100
Red Road (Andrea Arnold) 74/100
Getting Home (Lao ye gui gen) (Yang Zhang) 74/100
Persepolis (Vincent Paronnaud, Marjane Satrapi) 74/100
Son of Rambow (Garth Jennings) 74/100
Zodiac (David Fincher) 74/100
Ashes of Time Redux (Kar Wai Wong) 74/100
Man on Wire (James Marsh) 74/100
Quiet Chaos (Caos Calmo) (Antonio Luigi Grimaldi) 74/100
Sita Sings the Blues (Nina Paley) 74/100
Stardust (2007) (Matthew Vaughn) 74/100
Tales from the Golden Age (Amintiri din epoca de aur) (Hanno Höfer, Razvan Marculescu, Cristian Mungiu, Constantin Popescu, Ioana Uricaru) 74/100
A Brand New Life (Yeo-haeng-ja) (2009) (Ounie Lecomte) 73/100
Snatch (Guy Ritchie) 73/100
Traffic (Steven Soderbergh) 73/100
Beijing Bicycle (Shiqi sui de dan che) (Xiaoshuai Wang) 73/100
Ghost World (Terry Zwigoff) 73/100
I'm Not There. (2007) (Todd Haynes) 73/100
Trouble Every Day (Claire Denis) 73/100
Catch Me If You Can (Steven Spielberg) 73/100
Mother (Madeo) (Joon-ho Bong) 73/100
Mysterious Skin (Gregg Araki) 73/100
Secret Sunshine (Milyang) (2007) (Chang-dong Lee) 73/100
Send Me To The Electric Chair (2009) (Guy Maddin) 73/100
Spellbound (Jeffrey Blitz) 73/100
The Cooler (Wayne Kramer) 73/100
Mean Girls (Mark Waters) 73/100
Sisters (Gamines) (2009) (Éléonore Faucher) 73/100
The Headless Woman (La mujer sin cabeza) (2008) (Lucrecia Martel) 73/100
The March of the Penguins (La marche de l'empereur) (Luc Jacquet) 73/100
Where the Truth Lies (Atom Egoyan) 73/100
Casino Royale (Martin Campbell) 73/100
I Served The King of England (Obsluhoval jsem anglického krále) (Jirí Menzel) 73/100
Adoration (Atom Egoyan) 73/100
Atonement (Joe Wright) 73/100
Flags of Our Fathers (Clint Eastwood) 73/100
Gone Baby Gone (Ben Affleck) 73/100
Just Another Love Story (Kærlighed på film) (Ole Bornedal) 73/100
La vie en rose (La môme) (Olivier Dahan) 73/100
Frozen River (Courtney Hunt) 73/100
Milk (Gus Van Sant) 73/100
Vincere (2009) (Marco Bellocchio) 73/100
Sugar (Anna Boden, Ryan Fleck) 73/100
Star Trek (J.J. Abrams) 73/100
The Mist (2007) (Frank Darabont) 73/100
You Can Count on Me (2000) Kenneth Lonergan 73
Erin Brockovich (Steven Soderbergh) 72/100
A Beautiful Mind (2001) (Ron Howard) 72/100
A.I. Artificial Intelligence (2001) (Steven Spielberg) 72/100
About Schmidt (Alexander Payne) 72/100
Secretary (Steven Shainberg) 72/100
Boundin' (Bud Luckey) 72/100
Chicago (Rob Marshall) 72/100
Finding Nemo (Andrew Stanton) 72/100
Julia (Erick Zonca) 72/100
Kinsey (Bill Condon) 72/100
Lady Vengeance (Chinjeolhan geumjassi) (2005) (Chan-wook Park) 72/100
Thank You for Smoking (Jason Reitman) 72/100
Shanghai Dreams (Qing hong) (Xiaoshuai Wang) 72/100
The Navigators (2001) (Ken Loach) 72/100
Walk the Line (James Mangold) 72/100
Marilena de la P7 (Cristian Nemescu) 72/100
SherryBaby (Laurie Collyer) 72/100
Knocked Up (Judd Apatow) 72/100
The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas (Mark Herman) 72/100
Presto (Doug Sweetland) 72/100
Rachel Getting Married (Jonathan Demme) 72/100
Revolutionary Road (Sam Mendes) 72/100
Ten Minutes Older The Cello (Bernardo Bertolucci, Claire Denis, Mike Figgis, Jean-Luc Godard, Jirí Menzel, Michael Radford, Volker Schlöndorff, István Szabó) 72/100
The Death of Mr. Lazarescu (Moartea domnului Lazarescu) (Cristi Puiu) 72/100
The Girlfriend Experience (Steven Soderbergh) 72/100
The Girl on the Train (La fille du RER) (2009) (André Téchiné) 72/100
A Letter to Uncle Boonmee (2009) (Apichatpong Weerasethakul) 71/100
Accident (Yi ngoi) (2009) (Pou-Soi Cheang) 71/100
American Psycho (Mary Harron) 71/100
Elegy (2008) (Isabel Coixet) 71/100
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (Michel Gondry) 71/100
Heist (David Mamet) 71/100
The Dreamers (Bernardo Bertolucci) 71/100
Love Actually (Richard Curtis) 71/100
Manufactured Landscapes (Jennifer Baichwal) 71/100
Friday Night Lights (Peter Berg, Josh Pate) 71/100
The Bow (Hwal) (2005) (Ki-duk Kim) 71/100
The Forty Year Old Virgin (Judd Apatow) 71/100
Tickets (Abbas Kiarostami, Ken Loach, Ermanno Olmi) 71/100
Half Nelson (Ryan Fleck, ) 71/100
Breach (Billy Ray) 71/100
Departures (Okuribito) (Yôjirô Takita) 71/100
Duck Season (Temporada de patos) (Fernando Eimbcke) 71/100
Garage (Leonard Abrahamson) 71/100
It's a Free World ... (Ken Loach) 71/100
Che Part One (Steven Soderbergh) 71/100
Doubt (John Patrick Shanley) 71/100
Away We Go (Sam Mendes) 71/100
District 9 (Neill Blomkamp) 71/100
Duplicity (Tony Gilroy) 71/100
London River (Rachid Bouchareb) 71/100
Marie Antoinette (Sofia Coppola) 71/100
My Life without Me (2003) (Isabel Coixet) 71/100
Shadow Kill (Nizhalkkuthu) (2002) (Adoor Gopalakrishnan) 71/100
Spring Fever (Chun feng chen zui de ye wan) (Ye Lou) 71/100
Standard Operating Procedure (Errol Morris) 71/100
Storm (Hans-Christian Schmid) 71/100
The Pianist (Roman Polanski) 71/100
Tyson (2008) (James Toback) 71/100
We Live in Public (Ondi Timoner) 71/100
Welcome (Philippe Lioret) 71/100
Appaloosa (Ed Harris) 70/100
Meet The Parents (Jay Roach) 70/100
Black Hawk Down (Ridley Scott) 70/100
Brothers (Jim Sheridan) 70/100
Bubble (2005) (Steven Soderbergh) 70/100
Frida (Julie Taymor) 70/100
The Quiet American (Phillip Noyce) 70/100
Identity (James Mangold) 70/100
The Matrix Revolutions (Andy Wachowski, Larry Wachowski) 70/100
Howl's Moving Castle (Hauru no ugoku shiro) (2004) (Hayao Miyazaki) 70/100
Intimate Strangers (Confidences trop intimes) (Patrice Leconte) 70/100
Johnny Mad Dog (Jean-Stéphane Sauvaire) 70/100
Napoleon Dynamite (Jared Hess) 70/100
Match Point (Woody Allen) 70/100
The White Countess (James Ivory) 70/100
Goya's Ghosts (Milos Forman) 70/100
L.I.E. (2001) (Michael Cuesta) 70/100
Neil Young: Heart of Gold (Jonathan Demme) 70/100
Chacun son cinéma (Theodoros Angelopoulos, Olivier Assayas, Bille August, Jane Campion, Youssef Chahine, Kaige Chen, Michael Cimino, Ethan Coen, Joel Coen, David Cronenberg, Jean-Pierre Dardenne, Luc Dardenne, Manoel de Oliveira, Raymond Depardon, Atom Egoyan, Amos Gitai, Alejandro González Iñárritu, Hsiao-hsien Hou, Aki Kaurismäki, Abbas Kiarostami, Takeshi Kitano, Andrei Konchalovsky, Claude Lelouch, Ken Loach, David Lynch, Nanni Moretti, Roman Polanski, Raoul Ruiz, Walter Salles, Elia Suleiman, Ming-liang Tsai, Gus Van Sant, Lars von Trier, Wim Wenders, Kar Wai Wong, Yimou Zhang) 70/100
Mad Detective (Sun taam) (Johnnie To, Ka-Fai Wai) 70/100
Food Inc. (2008) (Robert Kenner) 70/100
Hot Fuzz (2007) (Edgar Wright) 70/100
Iron Man (Jon Favreau) 70/100
Coraline (Henry Selick) 70/100
Night Mayor (2009) (Guy Maddin) 70/100
Public Enemies (Michael Mann) 70/100
Red Riding: 1980 (2009) (James Marsh) 70/100
Tale of Cinema (Geuk jang jeon) (2005) (Sang-soo Hong) 70/100
The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou (2004) (Wes Anderson) 70/100
The War on Democracy (2007) (Christopher Martin, John Pilger) 71/100
The Wild Blue Yonder (Werner Herzog) 70/100
White Material (2009) (Claire Denis) 70/100

Sunday, October 4, 2009

Cinema Listings Dublin October 2009

* 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 2009:

Regular Programming:
Up 3D (Cineworld)
The Invention of Lying (Cineworld)
Birdwatchers (IFI)
Army of Crime (IFI)
Goodbye Solo (IFI)
Le Donk & Scor-zay-zee (IFI)
Thirst (IFI, Lighthouse)
Katalin Varga (IFI)
An Education (IFI, Cineworld, Lighthouse)
Tales from the Golden Age (IFI, Lighthouse)
Toy Story 3D (Cineworld)
The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus (Cineworld, Screen, Lighthouse)
Fantastic Mr. Fox (Cineworld)
9 (Cineworld, Lighthouse)
Cirque de Freak: The Vampires Assistant (Cineworld)
Driving Aphrodite (Cineworld)
Pandorum (Cineworld)
Zombieland (Cineworld)
Wake Up Sid (Cineworld)
Halloween 2 (Cineworld)
Love Happens (Cineworld)
Couples Retreat (Cineworld)
Blue (Cineworld)
Triangle (Cineworld)
Main Aur Mrs. Khanna (Cineworld)
Ong-Bak: The Beginning (Cineworld)
Saw VI (Cineworld)
The Goods: Live Hard, Sell Hard (Cineworld)
This Is It (Cineworld)
Dead Man Running (Cineworld)
Aladin (Cineworld)
London Dreams (Cineworld)

Re-releases:
Brief Encounter (Lighthouse) *
Some Like It Hot (Lighthouse) *
The Thing (Cineworld, Screen) *
Ghost (Screen) *
The Lost Boys (Screen) *
Night of the Living Dead (Screen) *
The Shining (Screen) *
Evil Dead (Screen) *
Child's Play (Screen) *
An American Werewolf in London (Cineworld) *
Scarface (Cineworld, Screen) *
The Great Escape (Screen) *
Juno and the Paycock (IFI) *
Blackmail (IFI) *
The Lodger (IFI) *
Murder! (IFI) *
Number Seventeen (IFI) *
The Man Who Knew Too Much (IFI) *
Pierrot Le Feu (Lighthouse) *
The 39 Steps (IFI) *
Sabotage (IFI) *
Young & Innocent (IFI) *
The Lady Vanishes (IFI) *
Frenzy (IFI) *
Riders to the Sea (IFI) *
South Pacific (IFI) *
Well of the Saints + To The Western World (IFI) *
Playboy of the Western World (IFI) *
New Irish Film Board Shorts (IFI) *
Mid-August Lunch (IFI) *
Our Wonderful Home (IFI) *
The Cove (IFI, Lighthouse) *
Jennifer's Body (IFI) *
Trick & Treat (IFI) *
The Disturbed (IFI) *
Grace (IFI) *
Black Dynamite (IFI) *
Emmanuelle and the White Slave Trade (IFI) *
Day of the Dead (IFI) *
Zone of the Dead (IFI) *
The House of the Devil (IFI) *
Contamination (IFI) *
Resurrecting the Street Trader (IFI) *
The Hills Run Red (IFI) *
Tony (IFI) *
Black (IFI) *
The Undying (IFI) *
Samurai Cop (IFI) *
At Midnight I Will Take Your Soul (IFI) *
Silent Night, Deadly Night (IFI) *
Nightmares In Red, White and Blue (IFI) *
Salvage (IFI) *
The Horseman (IFI) *
Gremlins
(IFI) *
The Descent 2 (IFI) *
Beyond the Door (IFI) *
Tosca (Screen) *
Copying Beethoven (Cineworld) *
Four Nights With Anna (Cineworld) *
Europa, Europa (Cineworld) *
Total Eclipse (Cineworld) *
Decalogue X (Cineworld) *
Little Moscow (Cineworld) *
33 Scenes from Life (Cineworld) *
Strawberry Wine (Cineworld) *
Foundation (Cineworld) *
South Pacific (Lighthouse) *
Man of Iron (Cineworld) *
300 Miles to Heaven (Cineworld) *
Death as a Slice of Bread (Cineworld) *
Escape from the 'Liberty' Cinema (Cineworld) *

Friday, September 25, 2009

June 2002 UK & Ireland Releases

The following release information is from Sight & Sound.

Watched:
40 Days and 40 Nights (Michael Lehmann) 52/100
Monster's Ball (Marc Forster) 79/100

Eager to Watch:
Blade II (Guillermo del Toro)
Read My Lips (Sur mes lèvres) (Jacques Audiard)

Will Watch:
Divided We Fall (Musíme si pomáhat) (Jan Hrebejk)
Pollock (Ed Harris)
Tape (Richard Linklater)

Might Possibly Watch:
Betty Fisher and Other Stories (Claude Miller)
Biggie and Tupac (Nick Broomfield)
The Way I Killed My Father (Comment j'ai tué mon père) (Anne Fontaine)

Have No Interest In Whatsoever:
Beginner's Luck (James Callis, Nick Cohen)
Chop Suey (Bruce Weber)
Crush (John McKay)
Dragonfly (Tom Shadyac)
Hardball (Brian Robbins)
John Q (Nick Cassavetes)
Living in Hope (John Miller)
Offending Angels (Andrew Rajan)
Queen of the Damned (Michael Rymer)
Resident Evil (Paul W.S. Anderson)
Roberto Succo (Cédric Kahn)
The Scorpion King (Chuck Russell)
Showtime (Tom Dey)
Snow Dogs (Brian Levant)

Thursday, September 24, 2009

July 2002 UK & Ireland Releases

The following release information is from Sight & Sound.

Watched:
Beijing Bicycle (Shiqi sui de dan che) (Xiaoshuai Wang) 73/100
Birthday Girl (Jez Butterworth) 66/100
Kissing Jessica Stein (Charles Herman-Wurmfeld) 65/100
Spiderman (Sam Raimi) 64/100
Star Wars Episode II - Attack of the Clones (George Lucas) 61/100

Eager to Watch:
What Time Is It There? (Ni na bian ji dian) (Ming-liang Tsai)

Will Watch:
Killing Me Softly (Kaige Chen)

Might Possibly Watch:
Dogtown and Z-Boys (Stacy Peralta)
Everything Put Together (Marc Forster)
Murder by Numbers (Barbet Schroeder)

Have No Interest In Whatsoever
The Abduction Club (Stefan Schwartz)
Big Fat Liar (Shawn Levy)
Dancing at the Blue Iguana (Michael Radford)
The Girl from Paris (Une hirondelle a fait le printemps) (Christian Carion)
Grégoire Moulin (Artus de Penguern)
Lawless Heart (Tom Hunsinger, Neil Hunter)
The Musketeer (Peter Hyams)
Novocaine (David Atkins)
Skin of Man, Heart of Beast (Peau d'homme coeur de bête) (Hélène Angel)
The Time Machine (Simon Wells)
Unfaithful (Adrian Lyne)

August 2002 UK & Ireland Releases

The following release information is from Sight & Sound.

Watched:
Minority Report (Steven Spielberg) 79/100
Nine Queens (Nueve reinas) (Fabián Bielinsky) 62/100
Not Another Teen Movie (Joel Gallen) 40/100
Platform (Zhantai) (Zhang Ke Jia) 81/100
Scooby-Doo (Raja Gosnell) 40/100
The Sum of All Fears (Phil Alden Robinson) 65/100

Eager to Watch:
Amen. (Costa-Gavras)
Heaven (Tom Tykwer)

Will Watch:
ivansxtc. (Bernard Rose)
Lost in La Mancha (Keith Fulton, Louis Pepe)
Sunshine State (John Sayles)

Might Possibly Watch:

Have No Interest In Whatsoever:
L'Afrance (Alain Gomis)
Bad Company (Joel Schumacher)
Before You Go (Lewis Gilbert)
Jason X (James Isaac)
Lighthouse (Simon Hunter)
Rollerball (John McTiernan)
La Spagnola (Steve Jacobs)
Spirit Stallion of the Cimarrons (Kelly Asbury, Lorna Cook)
A Walk to Remember (Adam Shankman)
The Wash (DJ Pooh)
What's the Worst That Could Happen? (Sam Weisman)

Edits:
Moved Platform from Eager to Watch to Watched 14/1/10
Moved Nine Queens from Will Watch to Watched 2/11/10

September 2002 UK & Ireland Releases

The following release information is from Sight & Sound.

Watched:
Austin Powers in Goldmember (Jay Roach) 48/100
Insomnia (Christopher Nolan) 64/100
Men in Black II (Barry Sonnenfeld) 45/100
Once upon a Time in the Midlands (Shane Meadows) 48/100
One Hour Photo (Mark Romanek) 67/100
Stuart Little 2 (Rob Minkoff) 46/100
Talk to Her (Hable con ella) (Pedro Almodóvar) 87/100
The Bourne Identity (Doug Liman) 76/100

Eager to Watch:
Dog Days (Hundstage) (Ulrich Seidl)
Happy Times (Xingfu shiguang) (Yimou Zhang)

Will Watch:
Secret Ballot (Raye makhfi) (Babak Payami)

Might Possibly Watch:
Lantana (Ray Lawrence)
Windtalkers (John Woo)

Have No Interest:
Black Knight (Gil Junger)
The Crocodile Hunter Collision Course (John Stainton)
Devdas (Sanjay Leela Bhansali)
Eight Legged Freaks (Ellory Elkayem)
The Importance of Being Earnest (Oliver Parker)
Lovely & Amazing (Nicole Holofcener)
Reign of Fire (Rob Bowman)
Scratch (Doug Pray)
The King Is Dancing (Le roi danse) (Gérard Corbiau)
Time of Favor (Ha-Hesder) (Joseph Cedar)
Tortilla Soup (María Ripoll)

Edits:
Moved Talk to Her from Eager to Watch to Watched. 3/11/09
Moved Once Upon a Time in the Midlands from Will Watch to Watched 3/5/11

October 2002 UK & Ireland Releases

The following release information is from Sight & Sound.

Watched:
Donnie Darko (Richard Kelly) 74/100
The Guru (Daisy von Scherler Mayer) 35/100
Lilo & Stitch (Dean DeBlois, Chris Sanders) 56/100
Sweet Sixteen (Ken Loach) 84/100
The Sweetest Thing (Roger Kumble) 55/100
Van Wilder (Walt Becker) 54/100

Eager to Watch:
10 (Abbas Kiarostami)
Road to Perdition (Sam Mendes)

Will Watch:
Ma femme est une actrice (Yvan Attal)

Might Possibly Watch:
All about Lily Chou-Chou (Riri Shushu no subete) (Shunji Iwai)
Frailty (Bill Paxton)
Minor Mishaps (Små ulykker) (Annette K. Olesen)
Signs (M. Night Shyamalan)

Have No Interest In Whatsoever:
The Bunker (Rob Green)
Christie Malry's Own Double Entry (Paul Tickell)
My Big Fat Greek Wedding (Joel Zwick)
My Kingdom (Don Boyd)
My Little Eye (Marc Evans)
The New Guy (Ed Decter)
The Rookie (John Lee Hancock)
Spy Kids 2: Island of Lost Dreams (Robert Rodriguez)
Super Troopers (Jay Chandrasekhar)
Swimf@n (John Polson)
The Trespasser (O Invasor) (Beto Brant)
Villa des Roses (Frank Van Passel)

Edits:
Moved Sweet Sixteen from Eager to Watch to Watched 17/3/2010