Thursday, October 28, 2010

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)