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7/18 The Father of My Children (09 Hansen-Løve) B+
7/16 Inception (10 Nolan) A-
7/15 Close-Up (90 Kiarostami) A-
7/14 Weekend (67 Godard) A
7/13 Diary of a Country Priest (50 Bresson) A-
7/12 Winter's Bone (10 Granik) A-
7/11 /Brick/ (05 Johnson) A-
7/11 Symbol (09 Matsumoto) B+
7/10 The Runaways (10 Sigismondi) C
7/10 Life During Wartime (09 Solondz) D+
7/08 Cyrus (10 Duplasses) C+
7/05 Felicia's Journey (99 Egoyan) B
7/03 Pirate Radio (09 Curtis) C
6/21 Toy Story 3 (10 Unkrich) B+
6/17 Mystery Train (89 Jarmusch) B+
6/16 Everyone Else (09 Ade) A-
6/15 Eccentricities of a Blond Hair Girl (09 de Oliveira) B
6/13 Mr. Death (99 Morris) B
6/12 Me and Orson Welles (08 Linklater) C+
6/10 Easy Rider (69 Hopper) C
6/09 /Dogtooth/ (09 Lanthimos) A
6/08 Splice (09 Natali) C+
6/07 All or Nothing (02 Leigh) C+
6/03 Secrets & Lies (96 Leigh) B+
6/01 Survival of the Dead (09 Romero) D+
5/31 /The Heart of the World/ (00 Maddin) short
5/29 I'm Here (10 Jonze) short
5/27 The Human Centipede (10 Six) C-
5/27 Life Is Sweet (90 Leigh) A
5/25 Greenberg (10 Baumbach) B+
5/25 MacGruber (10 Taccone) C+
5/22 /Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives/ (10 Weerasethakul) A
5/22 Exodus: Burnt by the Sun 2 (10 Mikhalkov) C-
5/21 HaHaHa (10 Hong) B
5/21 Tender Son - The Frankenstein Project (10 Mundruczó) C
5/21 Outside the Law (10 Bouchareb) C
5/20 Rebecca H. (Return to the Dogs) (10 Kerrigan) C
5/20 Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives (10 Weerasethakul) A
5/20 Route Irish (10 Loach) C+
5/20 Fair Game (10 Liman) C+
5/19 Our Life (10 Luchetti) C
5/19 Carlos (10 Assayas) B-
5/19 Poetry (10 Lee) B-
5/18 Blue Valentine (10 Cianfrance) C+
5/18 My Joy (10 Loznitsa) B-
5/18 Of Gods and Men (10 Beauvois) C+
5/17 Certified Copy (10 Kiarostami) A
5/17 Film Socialism (10 Godard) n/r
5/17 Tamara Drewe (10 Frears) B-
5/17 Biutiful (10 Iñárritu) C-
5/16 Outrage (10 Kitano) C+
5/16 I Wish I Knew (10 Jia) B
5/16 The Princess of Montpensier (10 Tavernier) C
5/15 Heartbeats (10 Dolan) B+
5/15 A Screaming Man (10 Haroun) C
5/15 Kaboom (10 Araki) B+
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5/15 Another Year (10 Leigh) B
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5/14 Aurora (10 Puiu) C
5/14 Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps (10 Stone) C+
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3/31 Bluebeard (09 Breillat) B
3/25 /Double Indemnity/ (44 Wilder) A
3/24 Orlando (92 Potter) B-
3/24 /The Age of Innocence/ (93 Scorsese) A
3/21 Mother (09 Bong) A-
3/20 Memories of Murder (03 Bong) B+
3/18 Jeanne Dielman, etc. (75 Akerman) A
3/13 The Ghost Writer (10 Polanski) B-
3/12 Alice in Wonderland (10 Burton) C-
3/4 Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore (74 Scorsese) B-
3/1 The Crazies (10 Eisner) B
2/27 /A Serious Man/ (09 Coens) A
2/25 A Question of Silence (82 Gorris) C
2/24 Whip It (09 Barrymore) B+
2/21 Ivan's Childhood (62 Tarkovsky) B+
2/19 Shutter Island (10 Scorsese) A-
2/18 Germany, Pale Mother (80 Sanders-Brahms) B-
2/15 Good Bye, Dragon Inn (03 Tsai) B
2/11 Cléo from 5 to 7 (61 Varda) A-
2/10 Broken Embraces (09 Almodóvar) C+
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Winter's Bone
dir. Debra Granik
"Winter’s Bone" is, largely, a film about an atmosphere and an environment, and about how that environment affects its characters. There’s the lingering sense of a world corrupted by a poverty that has left its denizens willing to do whatever it takes to get by, one in which family is just as often corrupting as supportive.
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