Sunday, March 7, 2010

Twitter "Reviews" for the week ended 7th March 2010

The Roaring Twenties (39, Walsh) 81 Almost documentary in parts, romance better made than tough guy. Bogie role very interesting

Rage (09, Potter) 66 Experimental work analysing the media world through faux interviews with all action offstage. Moments of lucidity.

Micmacs (09, Jeunet) 43 Tati-lite, less inventive than Dr. Parnassus. Humour didn't translate, no empathy with Dany Boon at all.

Bringing Up Baby (38, Hawks) 79 Manic, silly and energetic but they were positives. Grant and Hepburn slightly grating 70 yrs on.

Shaun of the Dead (04, Wright) 68 Enjoyable romp, liked the dry humour particularly from Moran. Wondering what all the fuss is about though.

The Lovely Bones (09, Jackson) 18 Just one scene in the film wasn't an irreedemable failure.Film may be better if you are a Jesus freak.

United 93 (06, Greengrass) 80 The docu approach was the correct one, the confusion, horror and heroism of the day are depicted respectfully

Vera Drake (04, Leigh) 86 Cadence and rhythm of dialogue striking. Real story was class and feminism in postwar Britain. Impressive acting.

11' 09" 01 September 11 (02, Various) 58 Veered from sharp insight to self-indulgence. UK, France and Mexico stood out.Chahine was very odd.

Father of My Children (09,Hansen-Love) 78 Family dynamics explored through presence and absence.Best treatment of work-life balance

Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (53, Hawks) 71 Jane Russell steals the show for me.Irrepressible glitz, glamour and joie de vivre

A Film With Me In It (08, Fitzgibbon) 59 A slow-burner but the dry humour wins you over in the end. Has fun with the farcical format.

Thursday, March 4, 2010

Cinema Listings Dublin March 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

March 2010:

Regular Programming:
Alice in Wonderland 3D (Cineworld)
Chloe (Cineworld)
Exit Through The Gift Shop (Cineworld, Lighthouse)
Green Zone (Cineworld)
I Love You Phillip Morris (Cineworld)
Kick Ass (Cineworld)
Perrier's Bounty (Cineworld)
Shutter Island (Cineworld)
Father of My Children (IFI, Lighthouse)
The Girl With A Dragon Tattoo (Cineworld, IFI)
The Scouting Book For Boys (IFI)
No One Knows About Persian Cats (IFI)
Lion's Den (IFI)
Storm (Screen)
Capitalism: A Love Story (Screen)
Lourdes (IFI)
Legion (Cineworld)
Hachi: A Dog's Tale (Cineworld)
Leap Year (Cineworld)
The Crazies (Cineworld)
The Bounty Hunter (Cineworld)
Old Dogs (Cineworld)
The Spy Next Door (Cineworld)
How To Train Your Dragon (Cineworld)
Nanny McPhee and The Big Bang (Cineworld)
Shank (Cineworld)
Bananas on the Breadboard (Lighthouse)
Ondine (Cineworld)
The Fading Light (IFI)
Zonad (Cineworld)
The Blind Side (Cineworld)

Re-issues & Festival:
The End of The Line (Lighthouse) *
Evangelion 1.11 (IFI) *
5 Centimeters per second (IFI) *
Evangelion 2.0 (IFI) *
The Girl Who Leapt Through Time (IFI) *
Gundam Unicorn (IFI) *
Blood: The Last Vampire (IFI) *
Summer Wars (IFI) *
The Roaring Twenties (IFI) *
The Searchers (IFI) *
Out of the Past (IFI) *
Bonnie and Clyde (IFI) *


Monday, March 1, 2010

March 2010 UK & Ireland Releases

The following information is from Sight & Sound.

Watched:
A Single Man (Tom Ford) 91/100
Avatar [2009] (James Cameron) 80/100
Breathless (Ddongpari) (Yang Ik-Joon) 3/100
Capitalism: A Love Story (Michael Moore) 64/100
Chloe (Atom Egoyan) 61/100
Crazy Heart (Scott Cooper) 68/100
Edge of Darkness (Martin Campbell) 46/100
Father of My Children (Le père de mes enfants) (Mia Hansen-Løve) 78/100
Food Inc. (Robert Kenner) 70/100
Mugabe and the White African (Lucy Bailey, Andrew Thompson) 41/100
Nine [2009] (Rob Marshall) 38/100
Ponyo on the Cliffs by the Sea (Gake no ue no Ponyo) (Hayao Miyazaki) 90/100
She, A Chinese (Xiaolu Guo) 75/100
Takeshis’ (Takeshi Kitano) 65/100
The Headless Woman (La mujer sin cabeza) (Lucrecia Martel) 73/100
The Last Station (Michael Hoffman) 57/100
Youth in Revolt (Miguel Arteta) 81/100

Eager to Watch:

Will Watch:
Everybody’s Fine (Kirk Jones)
The Unloved (Samantha Morton)

Might Possibly Watch:
The Book of Eli (Albert Hughes, Allen Hughes)
Burlesque Undressed (Alison Grist)
It Might Get Loud (Davis Guggenheim)
Winter in Wartime (Oorlogswinter) (Martin Koolhoven)

Have No Interest In Whatsoever:
Armored (Nimród Antal)
Battle for Terra (Aristomenis Tsirbas)
Beyond the Pole (David L. Williams)
Case 39 (Christian Alvart)
Daybreakers (Michael Spierig, Peter Spierig)
Did You Hear about the Morgans? (Marc Lawrence)
Holy Water (Tom Reeve)
Horses (Liz Mermin)
It's Complicated (Nancy Meyers)
Leap Year (Anand Tucker)
Motherhood (Katherine Dieckmann)
No Distance Left to Run (Dylan Southern)
Oil City Confidential (Julien Temple)
St Trinian’s The Legend of Fritton’s Gold (Oliver Parker, Barnaby Thompson)

Edits:
Moved Father of My Children from Eager to Watch to Watched 7/3/10
Moved Crazy Heart from Eager to Watch to Watched 9/3/10
Moved Capitalism: A Love Story from Eager to Watch to Watched 10/3/10
Moved Chloe from Eager to Watch to Watched 18/3/10
Moved Edge of Darkness from Will Watch to Watched 18/5/10
Moved The Last Station from Eager to Watch to Watched 19/8/10
Moved Takeshis' from Eager to Watch to Watched 28/8/10
Moved Food Inc. from Will Watch to Watched 4/1/11

Twitter "Reviews" 18 Feb 10 to 28 Feb 10

Ondine (2009, Jordan) 54 Beautifully shot, cast solid but precocious kid, singposting and need to explain hamper. Too many cliches.

Into The Storm (09, O'Sullivan) 68 Standard biopic but Gleeson is pitch perfect and succeeds in being inspiring without being a hagiography

Farewell (09, Carion) 76 Tense thriller changes point of view and uses unusual camera angles. The sum up is too tidy though.

Enter the Void (09, Noé) 93 The strangest most sensory experience I've had in the cinema.Spellbinding wonderful,Noé is Ophuls on acid

Life During Wartime (09, Solondz) 83 Stylised, grotesque and the most twisted humour you'll see in the movies. A worthy sequel

Tides (Begums) (10, Zviedris) 10 Worthy subject, terrible execution. How can 70 minutes be packed with filler? Zero insight

Bye Bye Now (s) (09, O'Sullivan/Whitaker) 68 Amusing and poignant,a lament to the demise of phoneboxes and the death of a way of life

The Island (Ostrov) (06, Lungin) 59 Methodical approach with striking symbolism. Questionable conclusions and viewpoint detract.

Samson and Delilah (09, Thornton) 52 Misery piled on unrealistically with redemptive cop-out.2 lovely scenes tho (dancing & bathing)

Accident (09, Cheang) 71 Surveillance aspects excellent, set-pieces spectacular but the story was muddled with disappointing climax

Touki Bouki (73, Mambety) 73 Highly expressive almost surreal approach. Soundtrack kept things interesting. Loved the parade scene

Women Without Men (09, Neshat/Azari) 49 Occasional beautiful shots did not make up for the poor narrative. Iran has produced better

Breathless (09, Yang) 3/100 2 people walked out after 5 mins. They did the right thing. Repugnant film, why did people clap?

Please Give (10, Holofcener) 56 Nice acting, nice setting, nice story. No faults to it and no real positives either, just inoffensive

Same Same But Different (09,Buck) 22 If satire then it was very good, if played for real then it was awful. I lean towards the latter

Lourdes (09,Hausner) 87 Ambitous formal exploration. Took an easy target and thoughtfully examined. Testud and cast immense

A Brand New Life (09, Lecomte) 73 Very similar to Treeless Mountain though slightly inferior. Deeper meaning of just what family is.

She, a Chinese (09, Guo) 75 Manages not to turn into melodrama despite the build up of exploitation as she moves from village to city

What You Don't See (09, Fischer) 58 Clever, though one-paced, psychological thriller crossed with Funny Games. Ending inconsistent

Eyes Without A Face (60, Franju) 68 More a thriller than a horror for me.Concept is horrifying but Special FX have dated badly.

Lebanon (09, Maoz) 88 Visceral film that gets into your guts. Soldiers are too sympathetic but brings something new to the war genre

Lemon Tree (08, Riklis) 52 Facile "Why Can't We Just Get Along"? type movie. Every character is a caricature with plodding plot.

La Danse (09,Wiseman) 96 Incredible exhibition of the ballet.The art,rehearsal, audience, business and mundanity all covered.Terrific

I Am Love (09, Guadagnino) 92 Swinton is a force of nature,brilliantly shot, subtle when needed,not afraid to be overblown,ambitious

Sunday, February 21, 2010

2010 Viewing Log

Total Viewed: 180 (12 Short)

90+
Black Swan (Darren Aronofsky) 98/100
Another Year (Mike Leigh) 95/100
Winter's Bone (Debra Granik) 94/100
Nostalgia for the Light (Nostalgia de la luz) (Patricio Guzmán) 93/100
Everything Will Be Fine (Alting bliver godt igen) (Christoffer Boe) 92/100
Of Gods and Men (Des hommes et des dieux) (Xavier Beauvois) 92/100
Carlos (Olivier Assayas) 90/100
Coming Attractions (Peter Tscherkassky) 90/100
Shutter Island (Martin Scorsese) 90/100

80-89
Poetry (Shi) (Chang-dong Lee) 89/100
Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives (Loong Boonmee raleuk chat) (Apichatpong Weerasethakul) 89/100
The Four Times (Le Quattro Volte) (Michelangelo Frammartino) 88/100
Meek's Cut-Off (Kelly Reichardt) 87/100
I Wish I Knew (Hai shang chuan qi) (Zhang Ke Jia) 86/100
Inception (Christopher Nolan) 86/100
The Tillman Story (Amir Bar-Lev) 86/100
Honey (Bal) (Semih Kaplanoglu) 85/100
Archipelago (Joanna Hogg) 84/100
The Robber (Der Räuber) (Benjamin Heisenberg) 84/100
Toy Story 3 (Lee Unkrich) 84/100
Tuesday, After Christmas (Marti, dupa cracium) (Radu Muntean) 84/100
Certified Copy (Copie Conforme) (Abbas Kiarostami) 83/100
De Mouvement (Richard Kerr) 83/100
Exit Through The Gift Shop (Banksy) 83/100
Senna (Asif Kapadia) 83/100
The Fighter (David O. Russell) 83/100
Attenberg (Athina Rachel Tsangari) 82/100
In the Shadows (Im Schatten) (Thomas Arslan) 82/100
Oki's Movie (Ok-hui-ui yeonghwa) (Sang-soo Hong) 82/100
Rabbit Hole (John Cameron Mitchell) 82/100
The Kids Are All Right (Lisa Cholodenko) 81/100
The Social Network (David Fincher) 81/100
Robinson in Ruins (Patrick Keiller) 80/100
Norwegian Wood (Noruqei no mori) (Anh Hung Tran) 80/100
The Arbor (Clio Barnard) 80/100

70-79
Four Lions (Christopher Morris) 78/100
Kindless Villain (Janie Geiser) 78/100
Apart Together (Tuan yuan) (Quan'an Wang) 77/100
My Joy (Schastye moe) (Sergei Loznitsa) 77/100
13 Assassins (Jûsan-nin no shikaku) (Takashi Miike) 76/100
Catfish (Henry Joost, Ariel Schulman) 76/100
Submarino (Thomas Vinterberg) 76/100
Blue Valentine (Derek Cianfrance) 73/100
Cave of Forgotten Dreams (Werner Herzog) 73/100
Gainsbourg (Joann Sfar) 73/100
Kosmos (Reha Erdem) 73/100
Orly (Angela Schanelec) 73/100
Outside the Law (Hors-la-loi) (Rachid Bouchareb) 73/100
Post Mortem (Pablo Larraín) 73/100
Tabloid (Errol Morris) 73/100
Unstoppable (Tony Scott) 73/100
Brune Renault (Neil Beloufa) 72/100
Mysteries of Lisbon (Mistérios de Lisboa) (Raoul Ruiz) 72/100
Never Let Me Go (Mark Romanek) 72/100
The City Below (Unter dur die Stadt) (Christoph Hochhäusler) 72/100
Tiong Bahru (Joe Lawlor, Christine Molloy) 72/100
Blessed Events (Glückliche Fügung) (Isabelle Stever) 71/100
Casino Jack and the United States of Money (Alex Gibney) 71/100
Essential Killing (Jerzy Skolimowski) 71/100
Fair Game (Doug Liman) 71/100
Heartbeats (Les amours imaginaires) (Xavier Dolan) 71/100
Living on Love Alone (D'amour et d'eau fraîche) (Isabelle Czajka) 71/100
Submarine (Richard Ayoade) 71/100
The Way Back (Peter Weir) 71/100
Treacle Jr. (Jamie Thraves) 71/100
True Grit (Ethan Coen, Joel Coen) 71/100
127 Hours (Danny Boyle) 70/100
Chico & Rita (Javier Mariscal, Fernando Trueba) 70/100
Chongqing Blues (Rizhao Chongqing) (Xiaoshuai Wang) 70/100
Restrepo (Tim Hetherington, Sebastian Junger) 70/100
Hahaha (Sang-soo Hong) 70/100
The American (Anton Corbijn) 70/100
The Ghost (Roman Polanski) 70/100

60-69
Animal Kingdom (David Michôd) 68/100
Boxing Gym (Frederick Wiseman) 68/100
Buried (Rodrigo Cortés) 68/100
A Letter to Elia (Kent Jones, Martin Scorsese) 67/100
Beginners (Mike Mills) 67/100
Skeletons (Nick Whitfield) 67/100
Surviving Life (Theory and Practice) (Prezít svuj zivot (teorie a praxe)) (Jan Svankmajer) 67/100
Biutiful (Alejandro González Iñárritu) 66/100
The Killer Inside Me (Michael Winterbottom) 66/100
Greenberg (Noah Baumbach) 65/100
Oranges and Sunshine (Jim Loach) 65/100
Jack Goes Boating (Philip Seymour Hoffman) 64/100
Silent Souls (Ovsyanki) (Aleksei Fedorchenko) 64/100
Capturing Santa (Peter Cattaneo) 63/100
Day & Night (Teddy Newton) 63/100
Easy A (Will Gluck) 63/100
Leap Year (Año bisiesto) (Michael Rowe) 63/100
Monsters (Gareth Edwards) 63/100
At Ellen's Age (Im Alter von Ellen) (Pia Marais) 62/100
Inside Job (Charles Ferguson) 62/100
Love Like Poison (Un poison violent) (Katell Quillévéré) 62/100
Our Life (La nostra vita) (Daniele Luchetti) 62/100
Salt (Phillip Noyce) 62/100
Somewhere (Sofia Coppola) 62/100
Amigo (John Sayles) 61/100
Robin Hood (Ridley Scott) 61/100
The Town (Ben Affleck) 61/100
Cameraman: The Life & Work of Jack Cardiff (Craig McCall) 60/100
Last Night (Massy Tadjedin) 60/100
Made in Dagenham (Nigel Cole) 60/100
Public Speaking (Martin Scorsese) 60/100

50-59
A Screaming Man (Un homme qui crie) (Mahamat-Saleh Haroun) 59/100
On Tour (Tournée) (Mathieu Amalric) 59/100
And Everything Is Going Fine (Steven Soderbergh) 58/100
Hereafter (Clint Eastwood) 58/100
Kick-Ass (Matthew Vaughn) 58/100
Marwencol (Jeff Malmberg) 58/100
Morgen (Marian Crisan) 58/100
Portrait of the Fighter as a Young Man (Portretul luptatorului la tinerete) (Constantin Popescu) 58/100
The Pool (Thomas Hefferon) 58/100
This Is England '86 (Tom Harper, Shane Meadows) 58/100
Dog Pound (Kim Chapiron) 57/100
Iron Man 2 (Jon Favreau) 57/100
Kaboom (Gregg Araki) 57/100
The Tree (Julie Bertucelli) 57/100
Under The Hawthorn Tree (Shan zha shu zhi lian) (Yimou Zhang) 57/100
You Will Meet A Tall Dark Stranger (Woody Allen) 57/100
Outrage (Autoreiji) (Takeshi Kitano) 56/100
Barney's Version (Richard J. Lewis) 56/100
Please Give (Nicole Holofcener) 56/100
Waiting for Superman (Davis Guggenheim) 56/100
The Company Men (John Wells) 54/100
The Conspirator (Robert Redford) 54/100
Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll (Mat Whitecross) 53/100
The King's Speech (Tom Hooper) 53/100
Wild Target (Jonathan Lynn) 53/100
The Princess of Montpensier (La princesse de Montpensier) (Bertrand Tavernier) 52/100
Green Zone (Paul Greengrass) 51/100
It's Kind of a Funny Story (Anna Boden, Ryan Fleck) 51/100
Little White Lies (Les petits mouchoirs) (Guillaume Canet) 51/100
The Housemaid (Hanyo) (Sang-soo Im) 51/100
Revolución (Mariana Chenillo, Fernando Eimbcke, Amat Escalante, Gael García Bernal, Rodrigo García, Diego Luna, Gerardo Naranjo, Rodrigo Plá, Carlos Reygadas, Patricia Riggen) 51/100
Client-9: The Rise and Fall of Eliot Spitzer (Alex Gibney) 50/100
Love & Other Drugs (Edward Zwick) 50/100

40-49
Off the Beaten Track (Dieter Auner) 48/100
The Illusionist (L'illusionniste) (Sylvain Chomet) 48/100
How to Train Your Dragon (Dean DeBlois, Chris Sanders) 47/100
Edge of Darkness (Martin Campbell) 46/100
Hello! How Are You? (Buna! Ce faci?) (Alexandru Maftei) 46/100
SUS (Robert Heath) 46/100
Beyond (Svinalängorna) (Pernilla August) 43/100
Cyrus (Jay Duplass, Mark Duplass) 43/100
Le Clash (Anri Sala) 43/100
A Closed Book (Raoul Ruiz) 42/100
Boy (Taika Waititi) 42/100
Route Irish (Ken Loach) 42/100
Scott Pilgrim vs. the World (Edgar Wright) 42/100
Brownian Movement (Nanouk Leopold) 41/100
Confessions (Kokuhaku) (Tetsuya Nakashima) 41/100
Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps (Oliver Stone) 41/100
Casino Jack (George Hickenlooper) 40/100
Vot (Victor Alimpiev) 40/100

30-39
Over Your Cities Grass Will Grow (Sophie Fiennes) 38/100
Carancho (Pablo Trapero) 37/100
How I Ended This Summer (Kak ya provyol etim letom) (Aleksei Popogrebsky) 37/100
Howl (Rob Epstein, Jeffrey Friedman) 36/100
Loose Cannons (Mine vaganti) (Ferzan Ozpetek) 36/100
Secretariat (Randall Wallace) 36/100
Noreen (Domhnall Gleeson) 32/100
Womb (Benedek Fliegauf) 32/100
Alice in Wonderland (Tim Burton) 31/100
Lily Sometimes (Pieds nus sur les limaces) (Fabienne Berthaud) 31/100
The Extraordinary Adventures of Adèle Blanc-Sec (Les aventures extraordinaires d'Adèle Blanc-Sec) (Luc Besson) 31/100
Cemetery Junction (Ricky Gervais, Stephen Merchant) 30/100
Freakonomics (Heidi Ewing, Alex Gibney, Seth Gordon, Rachel Grady, Eugene Jarecki, Morgan Spurlock) 30/100
The Tempest (Julie Taymor) 30/100

20-29
Tamara Drewe (Stephen Frears) 28/100
Red Hill (Patrick Hughes) 27/100
Shrek Forever After (Mike Mitchell) 27/100
Incendies (Denis Villeneuve) 25/100
Deep in the Woods (Au fond des bois) (Benoît Jacquot) 22/100
The Tourist (Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck) 22/100
Agnosia (Eugenio Mira) 21/100
Small Change (Cathy Brady) 21/100
I’m Still Here (Casey Affleck) 20/100

10-19
Film socialisme (Jean-Luc Godard) 18/100
Tides (Begums) (Ivars Zviedris) 10/100

0-9
Cold Fish (Tsumetai nettaigyo) (Shion Sono) 7/100

To Watch (78):
Detective Dee and the Mystery of the Phantom Flame (Di Renjie) (Hark Tsui)
If I Want to Whistle, I Whistle (Eu cand vreau sa fluier, fluier) (Florin Serban)
Room in Rome (Habitación en Roma) (Julio Medem)
I'm Here (Spike Jonze)
Reign of Assassins (Jianyu) (Chao-Bin Su, John Woo)
Machete (Ethan Maniquis, Robert Rodriguez)
Younger Brother (Otôto) (Yôji Yamada)
The Hunter (Rafi Pitts)

3 (Tom Tykwer)
9 Lives (9 Leben) (Maria Speth)
A Muse (Hal Hartley)
Abel (Diego Luna)
Accomplice (Hal Hartley)
Act Da Fool (Harmony Korine)
Adventure (Hal Hartley)
All Good Things (Andrew Jarecki)
Aurora (Cristi Puiu)
The Autobiography of Nicolae Ceausescu (Autobiografia lui Nicolae Ceausescu) (Andrei Ujica)
The Last Circus (Balada triste de trompeta) (Álex de la Iglesia)
Brothers and Sisters (Dos Hermanos) (Daniel Burman)
Chantrapas (Otar Iosseliani)
Cirkus Columbia (Danis Tanovic)
Cold Weather (Aaron Katz)
The Hairdresser (Die Friseuse) (Doris Dörrie)
All About Love (Duk haan chau faan) (Ann Hui)
Empire (Apichatpong Weerasethakul)
Genpin (Naomi Kawase)
Guest (José Luis Guerín)
In A Better World (Hævnen) (Susanne Bier)
Happy People: A Year in the Taiga (Werner Herzog, Dmitry Vasyukov)
Winter Vacation (Han jia) (Hongqi Li)
Home for Christmas (Hjem til jul) (Bent Hamer)
Man At Bath (Homme au bain) (Christophe Honoré)
Implied Harmonies (Hal Hartley)
In Search of the World (Walter Salles)
Infiltration (Dover Koshashvili)
The Ditch (Jiabiangou) (Bing Wang)
Kooky (Kuky se vrací) (Jan Sverák)
Caterpillar (Kyatapirâ) (Kôji Wakamatsu)
Kyoto Story (Kyoto Uzumasa Koimonogatari) (Yôji Yamada, Tsutomu Abe)
The Sleeping Beauty (La belle endormie) (Catherine Breillat)
The Invisible Eye (La mirada invisible) (Diego Lerman)
Lady Blue Shanghai (David Lynch)
The Clink of Ice (Le bruit des glaçons) (Bertrand Blier)
LennonNYC (Michael Epstein)
Miral (Julian Schnabel)
Missoni (Kenneth Anger)
Neds (Peter Mullan)
Nénette (Nicolas Philibert)
The Strange Case of Angelica (O Estranho Caso de Angélica) (Manoel de Oliveira)
O somma luce (Jean-Marie Straub)
Old Cats (Pedro Peirano, Sebastián Silva)
Panels of Sao Vicente de Fora, Poetic Vision (Painéis de São Vicente de Fora - Visão Poética) (Manoel de Oliveira)
Passion (Passione) (John Turturro)
Pig Iron (James Benning)
Pink Saris (Kim Longinotto)
Potiche (François Ozon)
Promises Written in Water (Vincent Gallo)
Rebecca H. (Return to the Dogs) (Lodge Kerrigan)
Road to Nowhere (Monte Hellman)
Roses à crédit (Amos Gitai)
Sexting (Neil LaBute)
We Are What We Are (Somos Io que hay) (Jorge Michel Grau)
Sorelle mai (Marco Bellocchio)
Sympathy for Delicious (Mark Ruffalo)
Tender Son - A Frankenstein Project (Szelíd teremtés - A Frankenstein-terv) (Kornél Mundruczó)
The Accordion (Jafar Panahi)
The Agent (Vincent Gallo)
The Apologies (Hal Hartley)
The Erotic Man (Jørgen Leth)
The Human Resources Manager (Eran Riklis)
The Two Escobars (Jeff Zimbalist, Michael Zimbalist)
The Ward (John Carpenter)
The Exodus: Burnt By The Sun 2 (Utomlyonnye solntsem 2) (Nikita Mikhalkov)
Black Venus (Vénus noire) (Abdellatif Kechiche)
The High Life (Xun huan zuo le) (Zhao Dayong)
Where The Boys Are (Bertrand Bonello)
Zebraman 2 (Zeburâman: Zebura Shiti no gyakushû) (Takashi Miike)

Tuesday, February 16, 2010

JDIFF 2010

Discovery:
About Elly
Adrift
Ajami
All That I Love (Wszystko co kocham)
Altiplano
The Ape
Applause
Bare Essence of Life
Brotherhood
Burrowing
City of Life and Death
Daniel & Ana
Francesca
Dogtooth
Revanche
Scheherazade, Tell Me A Story
The Silent Army
Samson and Delilah
What You Don't See
Terribly Happy
She, A Chinese
Snow White And Russian Red

First Look:
Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans
Chloe
The Dancer and the Thief
Eccentricities of A Blond Hair Girl
Enter the Void
Shutter Island
Valhalla Rising
Vincere
Whip It!
The Scouting Book for Boys
Everybody's Fine
Women Without Men
Shameless (Nestyda)
Please Give
Lebanon
Same Same But Different
Father Of My Children
Lourdes
The Greatest
Hadewijch
Life During Wartime
I Love You, Phillip Morris
L'affaire Farewell
Ivul

Galas:
Ondine
Cairo Time
I am Love (Io Sono L'Amore)

Irish Cinema:
His & Hers
Promise and Unrest
Begums
One Hundred Mornings
Broken Tail
Meeting Room
Between The Canals
Nothing Personal
The Beholder
Outliving Dracula: Le Fanu's Carmilla
Colony
Jimmy Murakami: Non Alien
Foxes
The Fading Light
Child of the Dead End
Savage
A Prayer for the Wind Horse

Korean Cinema:
Brand New Life
Breathless
Castaway on the Moon
Hansel And Gretel
Mother

Out of the Past:
Eyes Without A Face
La Dolce Vita
Pandora and the Flying Dutchman
Orlando
Russian Ark
Touki Bouki (The Hyena's Story)
Vampyr: Der Traum des Allan Grey

Reel to Real:
Behind the Burly Q
La Danse
When You're Strange
Pianomania
Videocracy
Trimpin: The Sound of Invention
Promise and Unrest

Russian Cinema:
Hipsters
The Island
Mermaid
Morphia
One War
Room and a Half
Ward no 6
Wolfy

Special Presentation:
Accident
Alice in Wonderland 3D
Capitalism: A Love Story
Whatever Works
Retour De Flamme
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

Tuesday, February 2, 2010

Cinema Listings Dublin February 2010

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

JDIFF 2010 occurs during February 2010, see separate post for listing.

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

February 2010:

Regular Programming:
Eamon (IFI, Cineworld)
A Single Man (IFI, Lighthouse, Cineworld)
Crazy Heart (IFI, Lighthouse, Cineworld)
The Last Station (IFI, Cineworld)
Micmacs (IFI, Lighthouse)
The Lovely Bones (Cineworld)
Ponyo (Cineworld)
The Headless Woman (IFI)
Astro Boy (Cineworld)
Battle for Terra (Cineworld)
Percy Jackson & The Lightning Thief (Cineworld)
Solomon Kane (Cineworld)
The Princess and the Frog (Cineworld)
Valentine's Day (Cineworld)
My Name Is Khan (Cineworld)
Extraordinary Measures (Cineworld)
From Paris with Love (Cineworld)
Leap Year (Cineworld)
Karthik Calling Karthik (Cineworld)
The Wolfman (Cineworld)
The Crazies (Cineworld)
Everybody's Fine (Cineworld)
Invictus (Cineworld, Lighthouse)
Youth in Revolt (Cineworld)
Mugabe and the White African (Screen)

Re-issues:
Letter from an Unknown Woman (IFI) *
Easy Rider (IFI) *
The Last Picture Show (IFI) *
Thunderbolt and Lightfoot (IFI) *
Hollywood Cowboy (IFI) *
Tron (IFI) *
The Fabulous Baker Boys (IFI) *
Jagged Edge (IFI) *
Cutter's Way (IFI) *
The Fisher King (IFI) *
The Big Lebowski (IFI) *
Meshes of the Afternoon (IFI) *
The Red Balloon (IFI) *
Blood of The Poet (IFI) *
The Garden (IFI) *
Love is a Treasure (IFI) *
Pretty Woman (Cineworld) *
Breakfast at Tiffany's (Lighthouse) *
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (Lighthouse) *