A
The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (Andrew Dominick)
Death Proof (Quentin Tarantino)
I'm Not There (Todd Haynes)
No Country for Old Men (Joel & Ethan Coen)
There Will Be Blood (Paul Thomas Anderson)
Zodiac (David Fincher)
A-
The Darjeeling Limited (Wes Anderson)
Day Night Day Night (Julie Loktev)
Eastern Promises (David Cronenberg)
Gone Baby Gone (Ben Affleck)
The Host (Bong Joon-ho)
Into Great Silence (Philip Groning)
Knocked Up (Judd Apatow)
Regular Lovers (Philippe Garrel)
Superbad (Greg Mottola)
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (Tim Burton)
Syndromes and a Century (Apichatpong Weerasethakul)
28 Weeks Later (Juan Carlos Fresnadillo)
B+
Aqua Teen Hunger Force Colon Movie Film for Theaters (Matt Maiellaro & Dave Willis)
Away From Her (Sarah Polley)
Bamako (Abderrahmane Sissako)
Black Book (Paul Verhoeven)
The Boss of It All (Lars Von Trier)
Grindhouse (various)
Hot Fuzz (Edgar Wright)
Into the Wild (Sean Penn)
Michael Clayton (Tony Gilroy)
Offside (Jafar Panahi)
Once (John Carney)
Ratatouille (Brad Bird)
We Own the Night (James Gray)
B
Black Snake Moan (Craig Brewer)
The Bourne Ultimatum (Paul Greengrass)
Bug (William Friedkin)
Juno (Jason Reitman)
The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters (Seth Gordon)
Lars and the Real Girl (Craig Gillespie)
The Lives of Others (Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck)
My Kid Could Paint That (Amir Bar-Lev)
The Mist (Frank Darabont)
Persepolis (Vincent Paronnaud & Marjane Satrapi)
Private Fears in Public Places (Alain Resnais)
Revolver (Guy Ritchie)
Rescue Dawn (Werner Herzog)
The Simpsons Movie (David Silverman)
Spider-Man 3 (Sam Raimi)
Sunshine (Danny Boyle)
The Ten (David Wain)
La Vie en Rose (Olivier Dahan)
Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story (Jake Kasdan)
B-
Atonement (Joe Wright)
Before the Devil Knows You're Dead (Sidney Lumet)
Breach (Billy Ray)
Enchanted (Kevin Lima)
1408 (Mikael Håfström)
Jindabyne (Ray Lawrence)
Joshua (George Ratliff)
Hairspray (Adam Shankman)
In the Valley of Elah (Paul Haggis)
The Lookout (Scott Frank)
Margot at the Wedding (Noah Baumbach)
Ocean's Thirteen (Steven Soderberg)
Planet Terror (Robert Rodriguez)
Red Road (Andrea Arnold)
Reno 911!: Miami (Robert Ben Garant)
The Savages (Tamara Jenkins)
Sicko (Michael Moore)
[Smiley Face] (Gregg Araki)
Talk to Me (Kasi Lemmons)
This is England (Shane Meadows)
3:10 to Yuma (James Mangold)
The Wind That Shakes the Barley (Ken Loach)
C+
Blades of Glory (Josh Gordon & Will Speck)
Charlie Wilson's War (Mike Nichols)
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (Mike Newell)
I Am Legend (Francis Lawrence)
A Mighty Heart (Michael Winterbottom)
Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End (Gore Verbinski)
Reign Over Me (Mike Binder)
Waitress (Adrienne Shelly)
Youth Without Youth (Francis Ford Coppola)
C
Live Free or Die Hard (Len Wiseman)
Paris je t'aime (various)
C-
American Gangster (Ridley Scott)
Rendition (Gavin Hood)
Year of the Dog (Mike White)
D+
Southland Tales (Richard Kelly)
D
The Brave One (Neil Jordan)
D-
300 (Zack Snyder)
F
An American Crime (Tommy O'Haver)
An American Crime (Tommy O'Haver) F
American Gangster (Ridley Scott) C-
Aqua Teen Hunger Force Colon Movie Film for Theaters (Matt Maiellaro & Dave Willis) B+
The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (Andrew Dominick) A
Atonement (Joe Wright) B-
Away From Her (Sarah Polley) B+
Bamako (Abderrahmane Sissako) B+
Before the Devil Knows You're Dead (Sidney Lumet) B-
Black Book (Paul Verhoeven) B+
Black Snake Moan (Craig Brewer) B
Blades of Glory (Josh Gordon & Will Speck) C+
The Boss of It All (Lars Von Trier) B+
The Bourne Ultimatum (Paul Greengrass) B
The Brave One (Neil Jordan) D
Breach (Billy Ray) B-
Bug (William Friedkin) B
Charlie Wilson's War (Mike Nichols) C+
The Darjeeling Limited (Wes Anderson) A-
Day Night Day Night (Julie Loktev) A-
Death Proof (Quentin Tarantino) A
Eastern Promises (David Cronenberg) A-
Enchanted (Kevin Lima) B-
1408 (Mikael Håfström) B-
Gone Baby Gone (Ben Affleck) A-
Grindhouse (various) B+
Hairspray (Adam Shankman) B-
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (Mike Newell) C+
The Host (Bong Joon-ho) A-
Hot Fuzz (Edgar Wright) B+
I Am Legend (Francis Lawrence) C+
I'm Not There (Todd Haynes) A
In the Valley of Elah (Paul Haggis) B-
Into Great Silence (Philip Groning) A-
Into the Wild (Sean Penn) B+
Jindabyne (Ray Lawrence) B-
Joshua (George Ratliff) B-
Juno (Jason Reitman) B
The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters (Seth Gordon) B
Knocked Up (Judd Apatow) A-
Lars and the Real Girl (Craig Gillespie) B
Live Free or Die Hard (Len Wiseman) C
The Lives of Others (Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck) B
The Lookout (Scott Frank) B-
Margot at the Wedding (Noah Baumbach) B-
Michael Clayton (Tony Gilroy) B+
A Mighty Heart (Michael Winterbottom) C+
The Mist (Frank Darabont) B
My Kid Could Paint That (Amir Bar-Lev) B
No Country for Old Men (Joel & Ethan Coen) A
Ocean's Thirteen (Steven Soderberg) B-
Offside (Jafar Panahi) B+
Once (John Carney) B+
Paris je t'aime (various) C
Persepolis (Vincent Paronnaud & Marjane Satrapi) B
Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End (Gore Verbinski) C+
Planet Terror (Robert Rodriguez) B-
Private Fears in Public Places (Alain Resnais) B
Ratatouille (Brad Bird) B+
Red Road (Andrea Arnold) B-
Regular Lovers (Philippe Garrel) A-
Reign Over Me (Mike Binder) C+
Rendition (Gavin Hood) C-
Reno 911!: Miami (Robert Ben Garant) B-
Rescue Dawn (Werner Herzog) B
Revolver (Guy Ritchie) B
The Savages (Tamara Jenkins) B-
Sicko (Michael Moore) B-
The Simpsons Movie (David Silverman) B
[Smiley Face] (Gregg Araki) B-
Southland Tales (Richard Kelly) D+
Spider-Man 3 (Sam Raimi) B
Sunshine (Danny Boyle) B
Superbad (Greg Mottola) A-
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (Tim Burton) A-
Syndromes and a Century (Apichatpong Weerasethakul) A-
Talk to Me (Kasi Lemmons) B-
The Ten (David Wain) B
There Will Be Blood (Paul Thomas Anderson) A
This is England (Shane Meadows) B-
300 (Zack Snyder) D-
3:10 to Yuma (James Mangold) B-
28 Weeks Later (Juan Carlos Fresnadillo) A-
Waitress (Adrienne Shelly) C+
Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story (Jake Kasdan) B
La Vie en Rose (Olivier Dahan) B
We Own the Night (James Gray) B+
The Wind That Shakes the Barley (Ken Loach) B-
Year of the Dog (Mike White) C-
Youth Without Youth (Francis Ford Coppola) C+
Zodiac (David Fincher) A
"~" after title indicates home viewing
"/" before and after title indicates a repeat viewing
"sXX" in place of number indicates short films (fewer
than 45 minutes long). Three cheers for YouTube.
001. (2 Jan) The Painted Veil (John Curran, 2006) B
002. (5 Jan) Three Times (Hou Hsiao-hsien, 2005)~ B+
003. (6 Jan) Perfume: The Story of a Murderer (Tom Tykwer, 2006) B+
s01. (8 Jan) The Impossible Journey (Georges Méliès, 1904)
004. (14 Jan) Notes on a Scandal (Richard Eyre, 2006) C
005. (16 Jan) /Inside Man/ (Spike Lee, 2006)~ A- [up from B+]
006. (19 Jan) Sympathy for Lady Vengeance (Park Chan-wook, 2005)~ C+
007. (21 Jan) Pan's Labyrinth (Guillermo del Toro, 2006) B-
s02. (22 Jan) Humerous Phases of Funny Faces (J. Stuart Blackton, 1906)
s03. (22 Jan) The Lonely Villa (D.W. Griffith, 1909)
008. (22 Jan) The Cheat (Cecil B. De Mille, 1915) n/r
s04. (22 Jan) Mabel's Dramatic Career (Mack Sennett, 1913)
009. (26 Jan) /The Departed/ (Martin Scorsese, 2006) A
010. (26 Jan) /Volver/ (Pedro Almodóvar, 2006) A-
011. (27 Jan) Letters from Iwo Jima (Clint Eastwood, 2006) B+
012. (27 Jan) The U.S. vs. John Lennon (David Leaf & John Scheinfeld, 2006) C+
013. (28 Jan) /Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby/ (Adam McKay, 2006)~ B-
014. (29 Jan) The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (Robert Wiene, 1920) n/r
015. (2 Feb) /Down in the Valley/ (David Jacobson, 2005)~ B+
016. (3 Feb) Venus (Roger Michell, 2006) C+
017. (5 Feb) Rounders (John Dahl, 1998)~ C
018. (8 Feb) /Blue Velvet/ (David Lynch, 1986)~ A
019. (10 Feb) INLAND EMPIRE (David Lynch, 2006) A
020. (12 Feb) The General (Buster Keaton, 1927) n/r
s05. (12 Feb) The Immigrant (Charles Chaplin, 1917)
021. (14 Feb) /INLAND EMPIRE/ (David Lynch, 2006) A
022. (16 Feb) /Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind/ (Michel Gondry, 2004)~ A
023. (17 Feb) The Talented Mr. Ripley (Anthony Minghella, 1999)~ B+
024. (18 Feb) The Baxter (Michael Showalter, 2005)~ B
s06. (18 Feb) Aisle Six (David Wain, 1991)~
s07. (18 Feb) The Waiters (Ken Webb, 1993)~
025. (19 Feb) Sunrise (F.W. Murnau, 1927) n/r
026. (24 Feb) Breach (Billy Ray, 2007) B-
027. (25 Feb) Reno 911!: Miami (Robert Ben Garant, 2007) B-
028. (26 Feb) Trouble in Paradise (Ernst Lubitsch, 1932) A
029. (27 Feb) Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai (Jim Jarmusch, 1999)~ B+
030. (2 Mar) The Player (Robert Altman, 1992)~ A-
031. (2 Mar) Face/Off (John Woo, 1997)~ B+
032. (3 Mar) Black Snake Moan (Craig Brewer, 2006) B
033. (4 Mar) Zodiac (David Fincher, 2007) A-
034. (5 Mar) I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang (Mervyn LeRoy, 1932) A-
035. (6 Mar) /Zodiac/ (David Fincher, 2007) A [was A-]
s08. (7 Mar) Waiting (Sky Hirschkron, 2004)
s09. (7 Mar) You Called Me (Sky Hirschkron, 2006)
036. (8 Mar) /A Scanner Darkly/ (Richard Linklater, 2006)~ A- [up from B+]
037. (10 Mar) 300 (Zack Snyder, 2007) D-
038. (11 Mar) Mutual Appreciation (Andrew Bujalski, 2005) B
039. (13 Mar) The Host (Bong Joon-ho, 2006) A-
040. (15 Mar) Down By Law (Jim Jarmusch, 1986) A-
041. (16 Mar) The Lives of Others (Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck, 2006) B
042. (22 Mar) Some Like It Hot (Billy Wilder, 1959) A
043. (23 Mar) Laura (Otto Preminger, 1944) A
044. (23 Mar) /The Man Who Would Be King/ (John Huston, 1975) C
045. (23 Mar) Waiting for Guffman (Christopher Guest, 1996) B+
046. (24 Mar) /Election/ (Alexander Payne, 1999) A-
047. (25 Mar) Reign Over Me (Mike Binder, 2007) C+
048. (26 Mar) /The Thin Man/ (W.S. Van Dyke, 1934) A
049. (30 Mar) LolliLove (Jenna Fischer, 2004) B-
050. (30 Mar) /Boogie Nights/ (Paul Thomas Anderson, 1997) A-
051. (1 Apr) The Lookout (Scott Frank, 2007) B-
052. (4 Apr) /The Player/ (Robert Altman, 1992) A-
053. (5 Apr) Iraq in Fragments (James Longley, 2006) B+
054. (6 Apr) /Lost Highway/ (David Lynch, 1997) A
055. (7 Apr) Grindhouse (Robert Rodriguez / Eli Roth / Quentin Tarantino / Edgar Wright / Rob Zombie, 2007) B+ [Planet Terror: B-; Death Proof: A]
056. (9 Apr) The Awful Truth (Leo McCarey, 1937) A
057. (10 Apr) Bullets over Broadway (Woody Allen, 1994)~ B+
058. (13 Apr) Blood Simple (Joel Coen, 1984)~ A-
059. (14 Apr) Blades of Glory (Josh Gordon & Will Speck, 2007) C+
060. (14 Apr) /The 39 Steps/ (Alfred Hitchcock, 1935)~ A
061. (15 Apr) The Wind That Shakes the Barley (Ken Loach, 2006) B-
062. (15 Apr) Stop Making Sense (Jonathan Demme, 1984)~ A
063. (16 Apr) /The Rules of the Game/ (Jean Renoir, 1939) A
064. (17 Apr) The Lost Weekend (Billy Wilder, 1945)~B-
065. (17 Apr) Crash (David Cronenberg, 1996)~ B+
066. (19 Apr) /Double Indemnity/ (Billy Wilder, 1944)~ A
067. (20 Apr) Aqua Teen Hunger Force Colon Movie Film for Theaters (Matt Maiellaro & Dave Willis, 2007) B-
068. (21 Apr) Climates (Nuri Bilge Ceylan, 2006) B-
069. (21 Apr) Away From Her (Sarah Polley, 2007) B+
071. (21 Apr) Cabaret (Bob Fosse, 1972)~ A-
072. (22 Apr) Hot Fuzz (Edgar Wright, 2007) B+
073. (23 Apr) Young Mr. Lincoln (John Ford, 1939) A
074. (25 Apr) /Aqua Teen Hunger Force Colon Movie Film for Theaters/ (Matt Maiellaro & Dave Willis, 2007) B+ [was B-]
075. (25 Apr) Midnight Cowboy (John Schlesinger, 1969)~ A-
076. (27 Apr) Contempt (Jean-Luc Godard, 1963)~ A
077. (30 Apr) Twelve Monkeys (Terry Gilliam, 1995)~ B+
078. (1 May) /Zodiac/ (David Fincher, 2007) A
079. (1 May) Crimes and Misdemeanors (Woody Allen, 1989) A
080. (2 May) The Conversation (Francis Ford Coppola, 1974) A
081. (3 May) Killer of Sheep (Charles Burnett, 1977) A
082. (4 May) Into Great Silence (Philip Gröning, 2005) A-
083. (5 May) Year of the Dog (Mike White, 2007) C-
084. (6 May) Catch Me If You Can (Steven Spielberg, 2002)~ A-
085. (7 May) /A.I. Artificial Intelligence/ (Steven Spielberg, 2001)~ A-
086. (8 May) Jackie Brown (Quentin Tarantino, 1997)~ A
087. (9 May) Spider-Man 3 (Sam Raimi, 2007) B
088. (11 May) /Before Sunset/ (Richard Linklater, 2004) A
089. (12 May) Black Book (Paul Verhoeven, 2006) B+
090. (13 May) /Marie Antoinette/ (Sofia Coppola, 2006)~ A-
091. (14 May) American Psycho (Mary Harron, 2000) B-
092. (16 May) Old Joy (Kelly Reichardt, 2006)~ B+
093. (22 May) Idiocracy (Mike Judge, 2006)~ B-
094. (22 May) Roger Dodger (Dylan Kidd, 2002)~ B+
095. (23 May) Donnie Brasco (Mike Newell, 1997)~ B
096. (24 May) 28 Weeks Later (Juan Carlos Fresnadillo, 2007) A-
097. (25 May) Pirates of the Caribbean: At World End (Gore Verbinski, 2007) C+
098. (26 May) Offside (Jafar Panahi, 2006) B+
099. (26 May) 8 Women (Francois Ozon, 2002)~ A-
100. (27 May) The Science of Sleep (Michel Gondry, 2006)~ C+
101. (27 May) Drugstore Cowboy (Gus Van Sant, 1989)~ A
102. (28 May) Bug (William Friedkin, 2006) B+
103. (28 May) Life of Brian (Terry Jones, 1979)~ A
104. (1 Jun) Knocked Up (Judd Apatow, 2007) B+
105. (2 Jun) /Irreversible/ (Gaspar Noé, 2002)~ A
106. (3 Jun) Regular Lovers (Philippe Garrel, 2005)~ B+
107. (4 Jun) Jindabyne (Ray Lawrence, 2006) B-
108. (5 Jun) /Gerry/ (Gus Van Sant, 2002)~ A
109. (7 Jun) /Knocked Up/ (Judd Apatow, 2007) A- [was B+]
110. (8 Jun) Sleeping Dogs Lie (Bobcat Goldthwait, 2006)~ B+
111. (9 Jun) Ocean's Thirteen (Steven Soderbergh, 2007) B-
112. (10 Jun) /The 400 Blows/ (Francois Truffaut, 1959)~ A
113. (15 Jun) The Night of the Hunter (Charles Laughton, 1955)~ A
114. (17 Jun) Red Road (Andrea Arnold, 2006) B-
115. (19 Jun) The Lady Eve (Preston Sturges, 1941)~ A
116. (21 Jun) /O Brother, Where Art Thou?/ (Joel Coen, 2000)~ A-
117. (22 Jun) A Mighty Heart (Michael Winterbottom, 2007) C+
118. (24 Jun) La Vie en Rose (Olivier Dahan, 2007) B
119. (24 Jun) The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie (Louis Buñuel, 1972)~ A
120. (25 Jun) Blade Runner (Ridley Scott, 1982)~ A-
121. (26 Jun) Brief Encounter (David Lean, 1945)~ A
122. (28 Jun) Paris je t'aime (Various, 2006) C
Worth seeing for a couple of the shorts, but far too scattershot and uneven to be more than hopelessly tedious overall. The shorts, and my highly fragmented thoughts on them:
Montmartre (Bruno Podalydès): C- [Zzzz.... Too whimsical by half, too boring by the other.]
Quais de Seine (Gurinder Chadha): C [Aimless, overly-earnest bit on racial integration through romance. Well-intentioned, but totally flat.]
Le Marais (Gus Van Sant): B- [A single joke film, but the joke's a pretty good one.]
Tuileries (Joel and Ethan Coen): C+ [Twee and annoying. One of the few shorts with a distinctive visual style, and it's always funny to see Buscemi get beat up, but it comes off as more mean-spirited and oppressive than amusing. Basically, this short is everything that the Coens' critics often (falsely) accuse them of being.]
Loin de 16e (Walter Salles & Daniela Thomas): A- [One of the two best films in the set, a simple, moving study of the French underclass. Blue-tinted color scheme and graceful rhyming structure establish it as one of the few films with an identifiable directorial presence. Lovely.]
Porte de Choisy (Christopher Doyle):C- [Torturous. Doyle could shoot an empty white room and make it gorgeous, but this is just a bunch of meaningless noise. Batshit crazy, and not at all in the good way.]
Bastille (Isabell Coixet): C- [Imagine all of Amélie's precious quirks (third-person voice-over, heavily art-directed compositions, etc.) stuffed into four minutes, only with Jeunet's film's fairy-tale cuteness replaced by clichéd romantic homilies. Name-drops Béla Tarr and Haruki Murakami, but there's no reason for it; this film is about as far away from those artists' sensibilities as it's possible to get.]
Place des Victoires (Nobuhiro Suwa): B- [Very pretty, and I could watch Willem Dafoe in anything, but it doesn't really work as a short; Suwa just doesn't have enough time to flesh out his story.]
Tour Eiffel (Sylvain Chomet): C+ [Credit for being one of the few directors to not take his assignment in a serious direction. It plays like a live-action version of The Triplets of Belleville, but I hate The Triplets of Belleville, and many of the aspects I find so unpleasant about that film are present here (mostly, I just find Chomet's drawings sickeningly ugly, and he has transferred them quite faithfully to live action here). Objectively one of the most successful shorts in the bunch; me and Chomet just don't get along.]
Parc Monceau (Alfonso Cuarón): C+ [I'm probably overrating this one, since I don't remember much about it even a day later. Mostly it's just a single, elegant tracking shot following a conversation between Ludivine Sagnier and Nick Nolte as her father. Touching, but very minor.]
Quartier des Enfants Rouges (Olivier Assayas): B+ [Succeeds largely due to its visual style and editing rhythms, which make this film easily the most immediately pleasurable of the bunch. Maggie Gyllenhaal: Awesome, but you knew that already.]
Place des fêtes (Olivier Schmitz): B- [Sweet, but like the Chadha short is simply too self-serious for its own good. Unlike the Chadha, though, this one works as a short.]
Pigalle (Richard LaGravenese): C [Pointless. Bob Hoskins a welcome presence, but it's just a total waste of time.]
Quartier de la Madeleine (Vincenzo Natali): D- [An utter fiasco. A stylized vampire story starring Elijah Wood, it starts out with an iris effect that had me hoping for a Guy Maddin-esque exercise (speaking of which, why the hell wasn't Maddin asked to participate?) but goes downhill immediately. Visually hideous, thematically retarded; just awful, awful, awful.]
Père-Lachaise (Wes Craven): D+ [What the fuck, Wes? Unbearably shrill and stupid, featuring Emily Mortimer as the single most unappealing woman in the history of women.]
Faubourg Saint-Denis (Tom Tykwer): B+ [One of the few films that actually seems to have been designed as a short film rather than just a scene. Over-written and too clever (it is Tykwer, after all), it is nonethess remarkably well-directed and highly energetic (it is Tykwer, after all) and draws some nice comparisons between romance and the acting process. A lot of fun.]
Quartier Latin (Gérard Depardieu & Frédéric Auburtin): C [Rowlands and Gazzarra welcome as always, but the film's a snooze. Poorly written, with zero visual style to speak of.]
14e arrondissement (Alexander Payne): A- [Sorry, haters, but this one isn't remotely condescending, although it certainly risks it. Narrated by a middle-American tourist with no French accent to speak of, it would be easy to accuse Payne of cheap ridicule, but he's got far more in mind. A study of a lonely midde-aged woman finding new life in Paris, Payne's film touchingly explores the
inner struggle of the type of person person all but ignored by the large majority of cinema. A wonderful way for Paris je t'aime to conclude.]
123. (29 Jun) The Boss of It All (Lars Von Trier, 2006) A-
124. (30 Jun) Ratatouille (Brad Bird, 2007) B+
125. (1 Jul) Sicko (Michael Moore, 2007) B-
126. (4 Jul) 1408 (Mikael Håfström, 2007) B-
127. (6 Jul) 3 Women (Robert Altman, 1977)~ A
128. (7 Jul) The Good German (Steven Soderbergh, 2006)~ B
129. (9 Jul) Dressed to Kill (Brian De Palma, 1980)~ A-
130. (11 Jul) Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (David Yates, 2007) C+
131. (12 Jul) Henry Fool (Hal Hartley, 1997)~ A-
132. (13 Jul) Talk to Me (Kasi Lemmons, 2007) B-
133. (18 Jul) Joshua (George Ratliff, 2007) B-
134. (19 Jul) Rescue Dawn (Werner Herzog, 2006) B
135. (20 Jul) Broadway Danny Rose (Woody Allen, 1984)~ B+
136. (20 Jul) Pickpocket (Robert Bresson, 1959)~ A
s10. (21 Jul) La Jetée (Chris Marker, 1962)~ A
137. (22 Jul) Live Free or Die Hard (Len Wiseman, 2007) C
s11. (24 Jul) Absurda (David Lynch, 2007)~
128. (26 Jul) The Simpsons Movie (Ben Silverman, 2007) B
129. (27 Jul) Songs from the Second Floor (Roy Andersson, 2000)~ A-
130. (28 Jul) /Naked Lunch/(David Cronenberg, 1991)~ A [was B]
131. (29 Jul) Sunshine (Danny Boyle, 2007) B
132. (30 Jul) The Shining (Stanley Kubrick, 1980)~ A-
133. (31 Jul) /Sicko/ (Michael Moore, 2007) B-
134. (2 Aug) Nashville (Robert Altman, 1975)~ A
135. (3 Aug) The Bourne Ultimatum (Paul Greengrass, 2007) B
136. (5 Aug) Short Cuts (Robert Altman, 1993)~ A-
137. (6 Aug) My Own Private Idaho (Gus Van Sant, 1991)~ A-
138. (8 Aug) George Washington (David Gordon Green, 2000)~ A-
139. (16 Aug) /Taxi Driver/ (Martin Scorsese, 1976)~ A
140. (17 Aug) Bamako (Abderrahmane Sissako, 2006) B+
141. (18 Aug) The Ten (David Wain, 2007) B
142. (19 Aug) This Is England (Shane Meadows, 2006) B-
143. (20 Aug) F for Fake (Orson Welles, 1974)~ A-
144. (21 Aug) The Lodger (Alfred Hitchcock, 1927) n/r
145. (22 Aug) Superbad (Greg Mottola, 2007) B+
146. (23 Aug) Le Cercle rouge (Jean-Pierre Melville, 1970) A
s11. (24 Aug) Listen to Britain (Humphrey Jennings, 1942)
s12. (24 Aug) The Memphis Belle (William Wyler, 1944)
147. (25 Aug) Private Fears in Public Places (Alain Resnais, 2006)~ B
148. (27 Aug) Tape (Richard Linklater, 2001)~ B
149. (27 Aug) /Almost Famous/ (Cameron Crowe, 2000) B [Untitled director's cut]
150. (28 Aug) /The 39 Steps/ (Alfred Hitchcock, 1935) A
151. (29 Aug) Secret Honor (Robert Altman, 1984)~ A-
152. (31 Aug) /The Bicycle Thief/ (Vittorio De Sica, 1948) A
153. (2 Sep) Pierrot le fou (Jean-Luc Godard, 1965) A
154. (4 Sep) /Shadow of a Doubt/ (Alfred Hitchcock, 1943) A
155. (7 Sep) /Tokyo Story/ (Yasujiro Ozu, 1953) A
156. (9 Sep) 3:10 to Yuma (James Mangold, 2007) B-
157. (11 Sep) Strangers on a Train (Alfred Hitchcock, 1951) A
158. (13 Sep) /Rear Window/ (Alfred Hitchcock, 1954) A
159. (14 Sep) The Man with the Golden Arm (Otto Preminger, 1955) B
160. (14 Sep) The Brave One (Neil Jordan, 2007) D
161. (18 Sep) Syndromes and a Century (Apichatpong Weerasethakul, 2006) A-
162. (20 Sep) Band of Outsiders (Jean-Luc Godard, 1964)~ A-
163. (21 Sep) /The 400 Blows/ (Francois Truffaut, 1954) A
164. (21 Sep) In the Valley of Elah (Paul Haggis, 2007) B-
165. (22 Sep) Eastern Promises (David Cronenberg, 2007) B+
166. (24 Sep) /Eastern Promises/ (David Cronenberg, 2007) A- [was B+]
167. (25 Sep) Vertigo (Alfred Hitchcock, 1958) A
168. (27 Sep) /Spider/ (David Cronenberg, 2002)~ A-
169. (28 Sep) All That Heaven Allows (Douglas Sirk, 1955) A-
170. (29 Sep) Lone Star (John Sayles, 1996)~ B+
171. (30 Sep) The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (Jacques Demy, 1964)~ A
172. (2 Oct) /Psycho/ (Alfred Hitchcock, 1960) A
173. (5 Oct) /Dr. Strangelove, or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb/ (Stanley Kubrick, 1964) A
s13. (6 Oct) Hotel Chevalier (Wes Anderson, 2007)
174. (7 Oct) Into the Wild (Sean Penn, 2007) B+
175. (11 Oct) /Hot Fuzz/ (Edgar Wright, 2007)~ B+
176. (12 Oct) /The Exorcist/ (William Friedkin, 1973) B
177. (13 Oct) The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (Andrew Dominik, 2007) A-
178. (14 Oct) Michael Clayton (Tony Gilroy, 2007) B+
179. (15 Oct) We Own the Night (James Gray, 2007) B+
180. (16 Oct) /28 Weeks Later/ (Juan Carlos Fresnadillo, 2007)~ A-
181. (19 Oct) Shaolin Challenges Ninja (Chia-Liang Liu, 1979) B-
182. (21 Oct) Lars and the Real Girl (Craig Gillespie, 2007) B
183. (21 Oct) Rendition (Gavin Hood, 2007) C-
184. (24 Oct) Gone Baby Gone (Ben Affleck, 2007) A-
185. (26 Oct) /Away From Her/ (Sarah Polley, 2007)~ B+
s14. (27 Oct) /Hotel Chevalier/ (Wes Anderson, 2007)
186. (27 Oct) The Darjeeling Limited (Wes Anderson, 2007) B+
187. (28 Oct) /Gone Baby Gone/ (Ben Affleck, 2007) A-
188. (29 Oct) The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (Andrew Dominik, 2007) A [was A-]
s15. (29 Oct) Meshes of the Afternoon (Maya Deren, 1943)
189. (29 Oct) /Knocked Up/ (Judd Apatow, 2007)~ A-
190. (30 Oct) /Death Proof/ [stand-alone edition] (Quentin Tarantino, 2007)~ A
s16. (31 Oct) Begone Dull Care (Norman McLaren, 1949)
s17. (31 Oct) Neighbours (Norman McLaren, 1952)
s18. (31 Oct) Lovesong (Stan Brakhage, 2001)
s19. (31 Oct) H Is for House (Peter Greenaway, 1976)
[Also excerpts from: Wavelength (Michael Snow, 1967) and Serene Velocity (Ernie Gehr, 1970). Why isn't this stuff available on DVD in my opinion.]
191. (2 Nov) /The King of Comedy/ (Martin Scorsese, 1983) A
192. (3 Nov) American Gangster (Ridley Scott, 2007) C-
193. (3 Nov) /Safe/ (Todd Haynes, 1995)~ A
194. (4 Nov) /American Psycho/ (Mary Harron, 2000)~ B-
195. (5 Nov) /Fight Club/ (David Fincher, 1999)~ A-
196. (5 Nov) Stranger Than Paradise (Jim Jarmusch, 1984)~ A-
197. (9 Nov) The Thin Blue Line (Errol Morris, 1988) A
198. (11 Nov) Before the Devil Knows You're Dead (Sidney Lumet, 2007) B
199. (14 Nov) /Into the Wild/ (Sean Penn, 2007) B+
200. (16 Nov) /The Celebration/ (Thomas Vinterberg, 1998) B+
201. (20 Nov) No Country for Old Men (Joel & Ethan Coen, 2007) A
202. (21 Nov) /House of Games/ (David Mamet, 1987)~ A
203. (22 Nov) Woman in the Dunes (Hiroshi Teshigahara, 1964)~ A
204. (24 Nov) /No Country for Old Men/ (Joel & Ethan Coen, 2007) A
205. (24 Nov) I'm Not There (Todd Haynes, 2007) A
206. (26 Nov) /I'm Not There/ (Todd Haynes, 2007) A
207. (26 Nov) Enchanted (Kevin Lima, 2007) B-
208. (28 Nov) Futurama: Bender's Big Score (Dwayne Carey-Hill, 2007)~ B
209. (30 Nov) /Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon/ (Ang Lee, 2000) B+
210. (2 Dec) Margot at the Wedding (Noah Baumbach, 2007) B-
s20. (2 Dec) The Key to Reserva (Martin Scorsese, 2007)~
211. (2 Dec) The Mist (Frank Darabont, 2007) B
212. (3 Dec) Hairspray (Adam Shankman, 2007)~ B-
213. (3 Dec) /Zodiac/ (David Fincher, 2007)~ A
214. (3 Dec) /No Country for Old Men/ (Joel & Ethan Coen, 2007) A
215. (4 Dec) Oldboy (Park Chan-wook, 2003) C-
216. (4 Dec) /Tape/ (Richard Linklater, 2001)~ B+ [was B]
217. (6 Dec) Do the Right Thing (Spike Lee, 1989)~ A
218. (9 Dec) Atonement (Joe Wright, 2007) B-
219. (10 Dec) /Before the Devil Knows You're Dead/ (Sidney Lumet, 2007) B- [was B]
220. (11 Dec) /No Country for Old Men/ (Joel & Ethan Coen, 2007) A
221. (14 Dec) /Superbad/ (Greg Mottola, 2007)~ A- [was B+]
222. (15 Dec) Velvet Goldmine (Todd Haynes, 1998)~ B+
223. (17 Dec) I Am Legend (Francis Lawrence, 2007) C+
224. (19 Dec) Waitress (Adrienne Shelly, 2007)~ C+
225. (21 Dec) Charlie Wilson's War (Mike Nichols, 2007) C+
226. (21 Dec) /Miller's Crossing/ (Joel Coen, 1990)~ A
227. (22 Dec) Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (Tim Burton, 2007) B+
228. (23 Dec) Juno (Jason Reitman, 2007) B
229. (23 Dec) Day Night Day Night (Julia Loktev, 2006)~ A-
230. (25 Dec) Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story (Jake Kasdan, 2007) B
231. (26 Dec) Code Unknown (Michael Haneke, 2000)~ A-
234. (28 Dec) 4 Months, 3 Weeks, and 2 Days (Cristian Mungiu, 2007)~ A