(Theatrical viewing="*"; Repeat viewing="/ /"; Shorts [shorter, em, than 45 mins]="sXX"; past first hundred shorts: t, signifying one in the hundreds digit)
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001. (04 Jan) The Painted Veil (John Curran, 2006)* 47
002. (05 Jan) Children of Men (Alfonso Cuaron, 2006)* 63
003. (10 Jan) Deja Vu (Tony Scott, 2006)* 60
004. (11 Jan) Letters From Iwo Jima (Clint Eastwood, 2006)* 48
005. (11 Jan) Pan's Labyrinth (Guillermo del Toro, 2006)* 27
006. (16 Jan) The Color of Lies (Claude Chabrol, 1999) 66
007. (18 Jan) L'Amour Fou (Jacques Rivette, 1969)* 64
[I'd already forgotten how to watch Rivette. I need to remember to mentally note beforehand that Rivette, like Chantal Akerman, isn't someone I'm necessarily on the same page as, but from whom I receive an acceptable brand of pain. If a friend does nothing but offer contemptuous barbs, I'm going to reconsider the friendship now and then, but if the barbs are sufficiently witty or latently good-natured, the friend is still a worthy friend. Right? (Not a rhetorical question.) This is a loose analogy, though, because Rivette isn't insulting me; he's violently shaking me loose of my preconceptions. Boredom is something I've recently become more concerned with arming myself against, after having a week or so where I thought about nothing but my impending death. (This was after watching Hamaca Paraguaya.) Boredom lulls us into inactivity, making us less conscious of death and more dead. But of course, activity only has meaning because of these moments. Nonetheless, inactivity is something to be feared. So when Rivette insists on grappling with boredom, it's like he's using my deepest weakness to expand my consciousness. (This is why I used to dislike Freud: being exposed was too painful to endure even if it meant expansion. But I like Freud now.) The characters in L'Amour Fou aren't Bored; Rivette isn't Antonioni. But boredom is a driving force in their activity. It's the impetus behind not only the production of Andromache but the vagina Sebastien incises on the wall, not only his relationship with Claire but his impetuous fling with tomboyish Puck. The same thing that drives him to pursue beauty allows him to settle for less. Boredom isn't the film's subject. It's the film's center, its moral equalizer. Despite this revelation, I can't bring myself to love this. The most memorable passages of absurdity and poetry are too salient, a sign that the surrounding material is lacking. But I get the impression Rivette would be okay with that. The Art needs to stand out as Art. Most of these four hours are Life.]
008. (20 Jan) TheGoodTimesKid (Azazel Jacobs, 2005)* 46
009. (23 Jan) /Office Space/ (Mike Judge, 1999) 65
010. (28 Jan) The Passion of Martin (Alexander Payne, 1991) 62
s01. (29 Jan) Kitchen (Alice Winocour, 2005) 57
011. (01 Feb) 71 Fragments of a Chronology of Chance (Michael Haneke, 1994) 67
012. (02 Feb) O Fantasma (Joao Pedro Rodrigues, 2000) 52
013. (15 Feb) Lured (Douglas Sirk, 1947) 42
014. (20 Feb) /Beavis and Butthead Do America/ (Mike Judge, 1996) 62
015. (22 Feb) Leave Her to Heaven (John Stahl, 1945) 84
016. (24 Feb) 13 Lakes (James Benning, 2004)* 56
017. (24 Feb) Ten Skies (James Benning, 2004)* 64
018. (25 Feb) Twilight's Last Gleaming (Robert Aldrich, 1977)* 65
019. (25 Feb) These Encounters of Ours (Jean-Marie Straub and Daničle Huillet, 2006)* 68
020. (01 Mar) Immortal Sergeant (John Stahl, 1943) 64
021. (04 Mar) Zodiac (David Fincher, 2007)* 61
022. (05 Mar) The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (Sergio Leone, 1966) 36
023. (08 Mar) 300 (Zack Snyder, 2006)* 7
024. (13 Mar) Keys of the Kingdom (John Stahl, 1944) 47
025. (15 Mar) Letter of Introduction (John Stahl, 1938) 68
026. (16 Mar) The Profound Desire of the Gods (Shohei Imamura, 1968)* 61
027. (19 Mar) Imitation of Life (John Stahl, 1934) 67
028. (21 Mar) Imitation of Life (Douglas Sirk, 1959) 59
029. (27 Mar) Chronicle of a Summer (Jean Rouch and Edgar Morin, 1961)* 77
030. (04 Apr) The Lookout (Scott Frank, 2007)* 45
031. (06 Apr) Grindhouse (Robert Rodriguez / Eli Roth / Quentin Tarantino / Edgar Wright / Rob Zombie, 2007)* 63 [Planet Terror: 44; Death Proof: 82]
032. (07 Apr) Jailbait (Rainer Werner Fassbinder, 1972)* 79
033. (08 Apr) Whole New Thing (Amnon Buchbinder, 2005)* 63
s02. (08 Apr) Bedtime Story (Ester Shatavsky, 1981)* 43
s03. (08 Apr) Exchanges (Bette Gordon, 1979)* 58
s04. (08 Apr) Edges (Jim Jennings, 1972)* 45
s05. (08 Apr) Frames and Cages and Speeches (Martha Haslanger, 1976)* 37
s06. (08 Apr) Mission to Mongo (J. Hoberman, 1977)* 44
s07. (08 Apr) Sorted Details (Charles Wright, 1979)* 28
s08. (08 Apr) Tremors (Vincent Grenier, 1984)* 33
s09. (08 Apr) Prefaces Is This What You Were Born For? (Part 1) (Abigail Child, 1981)* 23
034. (26 Apr) Congorama (Phillippe Falardeau, 2006)* 60
s10. (26 Apr) The Saddest Boy in the World (Jamie Travis, 2006)* 52
035. (26 Apr) Gretchen (Steve Collins, 2006)* 33
036. (27 Apr) Quiet City (Aaron Katz, 2007)* 71
s11. (27 Apr) By Modern Measure (Matthew Lessner, 2007)* 50
037. (27 Apr) Monkey Warfare (Reginald Harkema, 2006)* 64
W/O. (28 Apr) Great World of Sound (Craig Zobel, 2006)*
038. (28 Apr) Zoo (Robinson Devor, 2007)* 70
039. (29 Apr) Hannah Takes the Stairs (Joe Swanberg, 2007)* 53
W/O. (30 Apr) Pretty in the Face (Nate Meyer, 2007)*
040. (01 May) /All I Desire/ (Douglas Sirk, 1953)* 72
041. (02 May) Normal Adolescent Behavior (Beth Schacter, 2007)* 52
042. (02 May) This Is England (Shane Meadows, 2006)* 67
043. (02 May) Two in One (Kira Muratova, 2007)* 49
W/O. (04 May) The Pelican (Gerard Blain, 1973)*
044. (04 May) The Letter That Was Never Sent (Mikheil Kalatozishvili, 1959)* 57
W/O. (04 May) The Forty-First (Grigori Chukhrai, 1956)*
045. (04 May) A Dirty Carnival (Ha Yu, 2006)* 43
046. (05 May) Shotgun Stories (Jeff Nichols, 2007)* 65
047. (05 May) Fireworks Wednesday (Asghar Farhadi, 2006)* 66
048. (06 May) Tuya's Marriage (Quanan Wang, 2006)* 29
049. (11 May) /Or/ (Keren Yedaya, 2004) 73
050. (11 May) Dans Paris (Christophe Honore, 2006)* 56
051. (19 May) Seven Men From Now (Budd Boetticher, 1956)* 62
052. (20 May) Opera Jawa (Garin Nugroho, 2006)* 45
053. (22 May) Life Is a Bed of Roses (Alain Resnais, 1983)* 60
054. (25 May) Bug (William Friedkin, 2006)* 66
055. (28 May) Animal Love (Ulrich Seidl, 1995)* 61
056. (01 Jun) Snow Angels (David Gordon Green, 2007)* 72
057. (01 Jun) Rocket Science (Jeffrey Blitz, 2007)* 41
058. (02 Jun) Chelsea Girls (Andy Warhol and Paul Morrissey, 1966)* 54
059. (03 Jun) The Mortal Storm (Frank Borzage, 1940) 78
060. (06 Jun) The Spy in Black (Michael Powell, 1939)* 74
061. (09 Jun) Daisy Kenyon (Otto Preminger, 1947)* 95
062. (09 Jun) The Big Parade (King Vidor, 1925)* 62
W/O. (10 Jun) The Family Friend (Paolo Sorrentino, 2006)*
063. (10 Jun) Schopenhauer (Giovanni Davide Maderna, 2006)* 70
064. (12 Jun) Shara (Naomi Kawase, 2003) 56
065. (16 Jun) One-Way Boogie Woogie (James Benning, 1977)* 47
066. (16 Jun) 27 Years Later (James Benning, 2005)* 47
067. (21 Jun) Scum (Alan Clarke, 1977) 64
068. (22 Jun) /L'Avventura/ (Michaelangelo Antonioni, 1960) 91
069. (06 Jul) Traces of Love (Kim Dae-Seung, 2006) 57
070. (07 Jul) Once (John Carney, 2006)* 42
071. (12 Jul) Transformers (Michael Bay, 2007)* 30
072. (18 Jul) Boy (Nagisa Oshima, 1969) 69
073. (20 Jul) Joshua (George Ratliff, 2007)* 65
074. (25 Jul) /Idiocracy/ (Mike Judge, 2006) 72
075. (25 Jul) Another Day in Paradise (Larry Clark, 1998) 80
076. (28 Jul) The Simpsons Movie (David Silverman, 2007)* 53
077. (01 Aug) Lady Chatterley (Pascale Ferran, 2006)* 83
078. (03 Aug) Talk to Me (Kasi Lemmons, 2007)* 40
079. (15 Aug) /The Thing From Another World/ (Christian Nyby & Howard Hawks, 1951) 92
080. (25 Aug) /Gentlemen Prefer Blondes/ (Howard Hawks, 1953) 83
081. (26 Aug) Only Angels Have Wings (Howard Hawks, 1939) 94
082. (29 Aug) Lucky Number Slevin (Paul McGuigan, 2006) 41
083. (31 Aug) /Ruggles of Red Gap/ (Leo McCarey, 1935)* 96
084. (01 Sep) Delirious (Tom DiCillo, 2007)* 59
085. (01 Sep) Vanaja (Rajnesh Domalpalli, 2006)* 64
086. (05 Sep) Drama/Mex (Gerardo Naranjo, 2006) 69
087. (06 Sep) Eastern Promises (David Cronenberg, 2007)* 44
W/O. (06 Sep) Persepolis (Vincent Paronnaud and Marjane Satrapi, 2007)*
088. (07 Sep) The Romance of Astrea and Celadon (Eric Rohmer, 2007)* 75
089. (07 Sep) The Mourning Forest (Naomi Kawase, 2007)* 80
090. (07 Sep) Le Voyage du Ballon Rouge (Hou Hsiao-hsien, 2007)* 57
091. (07 Sep) The Edge of Heaven (Fatih Akin, 2007)* 61
092. (07 Sep) Secret Sunshine (Lee Chang-dong, 2007)* 63
093. (08 Sep) The Banishment (Andrei Zvyaginstev, 2007)* 62
094. (08 Sep) My Kid Could Paint That (Amir Bar-lev, 2007)* 49
095. (08 Sep) 4 Months, 3 Weeks, and 2 Days (Cristian Mungiu, 2007)* 60
096. (08 Sep) Ploy (Pen-ek Ratanaruang, 2007)* 47
097. (08 Sep) Happiness (Hur Jin-ho, 2007)* 67
098. (08 Sep) Diary of the Dead (George A. Romero, 2007)* 73
099. (09 Sep) Lust, Caution (Ang Lee, 2007)* 25
100. (09 Sep) Love Songs (Christophe Honore, 2007)* 50
s12. (09 Sep) Quartet (Nicky Hamlyn, 2007)* 28
s13. (09 Sep) Erzahlung (Hannes Schupbach, 2007)* 18
s14. (09 Sep) Gone (Karen Goldt, 2007)* 24
101. (09 Sep) Silent Light (Carlos Reygadas, 2007)* 82
102. (10 Sep) The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (Andrew Dominik, 2007)* 74
W/O. (10 Sep) Sad Vacation (Shinji Aoyama, 2007)*
103. (10 Sep) The Last Mistress (Catherine Breillat, 2007)* 68
104. (11 Sep) Sous les toits de Paris (Hiner Saleem, 2007)* 45
105. (11 Sep) Summit Circle (Bernard Emond, 2007)* 64
106. (11 Sep) Water Lilies (Celine Sciamma, 2007)* 77
W/O. (12 Sep) Cleaner (Renny Harlin, 2007)*
107. (12 Sep) Atonement (Joe Wright, 2007)* 65
108. (12 Sep) Corroboree (Ben Hackworth, 2007)* rating withheld
109. (12 Sep) The Tracey Fragments (Bruce McDonald, 2007)* rating withheld
110. (13 Sep) Paranoid Park (Gus Van Sant, 2007)* 40
111. (13 Sep) Margot at the Wedding (Noah Baumbach, 2007)* 42
112. (13 Sep) Help Me Eros (Lee Kang-sheng, 2007)* 63
113. (13 Sep) Wolfsbergen (Nanouk Leopold, 2007)* 59
114. (14 Sep) Glory to the Filmmaker! (Takeshi Kitano, 2007)* 54
115. (14 Sep) I'm Not There (Todd Haynes, 2007)* 36
116. (14 Sep) I Am From Titov Veles (Teona Strugar Mitevska, 2007)* 55
117. (14 Sep) Good Riddance (Francis Mankiewicz, 1980)* 69
118. (15 Sep) Alexandra (Alexander Sokurov, 2007)* 60
119. (15 Sep) Before I Forget (Jacques Nolot, 2007)* 68
120. (15 Sep) Mutum (Sandra Kogut, 2007)* 71
121. (15 Sep) And Along Came Tourists (Robert Thalheim, 2007)* 45
122. (15 Sep) Lou Reed's Berlin (Julian Schnabel, 2007)* 61
123. (21 Sep) /The Love Parade/ (Ernst Lubitsch, 1929)* 81
124. (22 Sep) Love Affair, or the Case of the Missing Switchboard Operator (Dusan Makavejev, 1967)* 58
125. (22 Sep) The Landlord (Hal Ashby, 1970)* 63
126. (23 Sep) Man Is Not a Bird (Dusan Makavejev, 1965)* 56
s15. (26 Sep) Hotel Chevalier (Wes Anderson, 2007) 66
127. (28 Sep) Casa de Lava (Pedro Costa, 1994)* 39
128. (30 Sep) Sicilia! (Jean-Marie Straub and Daniele Huillet, 1999)* 48
129. (02 Oct) Hitman Hart: Wrestling With Shadows (Paul Jay, 1998) 47
s16. (02 Oct) C Block Story (Cristian Nemescu, 2003) 51
130. (03 Oct) Superstar: The Karen Carpenter Story (Todd Haynes, 1987) 64
131. (05 Oct) The Paper Will Be Blue (Radu Muntean, 2006)* 62
132. (05 Oct) The Darjeeling Limited (Wes Anderson, 2007)* 66
133. (06 Oct) In the City of Sylvia (Jose Luis Guerin, 2007)* 43
s17. (07 Oct) Coffee and Cigarettes (Cristi Puiu, 2004)* 68
134. (07 Oct) Stuff and Dough (Cristi Puiu, 2001)* 86
s18. (07 Oct) The Tube With a Hat (Radu Jude, 2006) 69
135. (08 Oct) At Sea (Peter Hutton, 2007)* 55
136. (12 Oct) Drums Along the Mohawk (John Ford, 1939)* 77
s19. (12 Oct) Saturday's Shadow (Nick Gordon, 2007)* 60
137. (12 Oct) A Girl Cut in Two (Claude Chabrol, 2007)* 70
s20. (13 Oct) Franz Kafka's A Country Doctor (Koji Yamamura, 2007)* 13
138. (13 Oct) Useless (Jia Zhang-ke, 2007)* 38
139. (13 Oct) We Own the Night (James Gray, 2007)* 61
140. (13 Oct) La Chinoise (Jean-Luc Godard, 1967)* 64
141. (14 Oct) La Sentinelle (Arnaud Desplechin, 1992)* 60
142. (14 Oct) Je t'aime, je t'aime (Alain Resnais, 1968)* 79
143. (15 Oct) La Vie des Morts (Arnaud Desplechin, 1991)* 67
144. (20 Oct) When Tomorrow Comes (John M. Stahl, 1939) 85
s21. (21 Oct) The Hunger Artist (John Strysik, 1982) 65
145. (22 Oct) No Country for Old Men (Joel Coen & Ethan Coen, 2007)* 48
146. (03 Nov) Cesar (Marcel Pagnol, 1936) 68
147. (03 Nov) Gone Baby Gone (Ben Affleck, 2007)* 25
s22. (03 Nov) Outer and Inner Space (Andy Warhol, 1966)* 51
148. (03 Nov) Madonnas (Maria Speth, 2007)* 73
149. (03 Nov) Seduced and Abandoned (Pietro Germi, 1964)* 67
150. (04 Nov) Poachers (Jose Luis Borau, 1975)* 63
151. (04 Nov) The Nude Restaurant (Andy Warhol, 1967)* 69
152. (05 Nov) Yella (Christian Petzold, 2007)* 35
153. (05 Nov) Last Year at Marienbad (Alain Resnais, 1961) 70
154. (08 Nov) My Beautiful Laundrette (Stephen Frears, 1985) 66
155. (08 Nov) Beaufort (Joseph Cedar, 2007)* 60
156. (09 Nov) The Taste of Tea (Katsuhito Ishii, 2004) 52
W/O. (10 Nov) The Human Question (Nicolas Klotz, 2007)*
157. (11 Nov) Rosa la rose, fille publique (Paul Vecchiali, 1986) 77
158. (12 Nov) Smiley Face (Gregg Araki, 2007) 56
159. (13 Nov) /To Have and Have Not/ (Howard Hawks, 1944) 97
160. (15 Nov) Southland Tales (Richard Kelly, 2006)* 62
161. (17 Nov) Pickpocket (Robert Bresson, 1959) 69
162. (19 Nov) Why Worry? (Fred C. Newmeyer and Sam Taylor, 1923) 54
163. (20 Nov) /Diary of a Country Priest/ (Robert Bresson, 1950) 89
164. (20 Nov) Between the Lines (Joan Micklin Silver, 1977)* 77
165. (21 Nov) Les dames du bois de boulogne (Robert Bresson, 1945) 73
166. (21 Nov) Steamboat Bill, Jr. (Charles Reisner, 1928) 85
167. (22 Nov) Battling Butler (Buster Keaton, 1924) 75
168. (23 Nov) Vengeance Is Mine (Shohei Imamura, 1979)* 76
169. (24 Nov) /The Ballad of Narayama/ (Shohei Imamura, 1982)* 59
170. (26 Nov) The Navigator (Buster Keaton and Donald Crisp, 1924) 61
171. (03 Dec) Titicut Follies (Frederick Wiseman, 1967) 63
172. (08 Dec) The Insect Woman (Shohei Imamura, 1963)* 62
173. (11 Dec) Paprika (Satoshi Kon, 2006) 25
174. (13 Dec) Girl Shy (Fred C. Newmeyer and Sam Taylor, 1924) 71
175. (13 Dec) /The Wayward Cloud/ (Tsai Ming-Liang, 2005) 82
176. (14 Dec) Solitary Fragments (Jaime Rosales, 2007)* 58
177. (15 Dec) Parlour, Bedroom and Bath (Edward Sedgwick, 1931) 63
178. (24 Dec) Starting Out in the Evening (Andrew Wagner, 2007)* 37
179. (25 Dec) Go West (Buster Keaton, 1925) 62
180. (26 Dec) Charlie Wilson's War (Mike Nichols, 2007)* 64
181. (29 Dec) The Saphead (Herbert Blache, 1920) 57