FILMS SEEN, 2002
All films from
U.S.A. unless otherwise specified.
(- seen on video; /
repeat viewing; [v] video piece; [p] paracinema (installation, etc.), [s]
short, under 30 minutes; [m] medium length, 30-69 min; * grade changed upon
repeat viewing)
JANUARY
The Business of
Strangers (Patrick Stettner) [6]
-Sobibor, October
14, 1943, 4 PM (Claude Lanzmann, France) [8]
Impostor (Gary
Fleder) [5]
Kandahar (Mohsen
Makhmalbaf, Iran) [7]
Princesa (Henrique
Goldman, Brazil / Italy / Germany) [3]
/Intimacy (Patrice
Chéreau, France / U.K.) [6]
Little Otik
(Otesánek) (Jan Švankmajer, Czech Republic) [8]
Gosford Park (Robert
Altman) [7]
[The following
thirteen entries were experimental films I viewed while serving as a juror for
the SFIFF. As you can see, some of the submissions are by avant-luminaries, and
others will clearly never see the light of day.]
-H (Filippo Riva,
Spain) [s] [4]
-france vs. spain
(Stephanie Barber) [s] [5]
-Camouflage
(Jonathan Hodgson, U.K.) [s] [5]
-Fight the Cinema!
(Gerd Gochell and Ute Heuer, Germany) [s] [3]
-Fear of Blushing
(Jennifer Reeves) [s] [7]
-I My Bike (Ken Paul
Rosenthal) [s] [3]
-The Girl From
Marseilles (Cathy Lee Crane) [s] [7]
-Explicit (Robert
Lyons) [s] [2]
-How to Name the
Bigger Light (Tara Knight) [s] [6]
-Clip (4000f)
(Robert Todd) [s] [6]
-The Ape of God, or How to Expunge a
Malignant Cerebral Melanoma Through Strict Meditation and a Dry Wit (Ryan
Schubert) [s] [4]
-36-365 (Joan
Nidzyn) [s] [7]
-Dark Dark (Abigail
Child) [s] [6]
[end]
-As I Was Moving
Ahead Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty (Jonas Mekas) [7]
-In July (Fatih
Akin, Germany) [6]
-Petits freres
(Jacques Doillon, France, 1999)
Dark Blue World (Jan
Sverák, Czech Republic) [4]
[Jury duty, part two
– five entries]
-dear XXX (Daniel
Cavey) [s] [4]
-Vessel Wrestling
(Lisa Yu) [s] [8]
-Time Piece (Tamara
Trace, U.K. / U.S.A.) [s] [4]
-Technical Aids (X
Kasumi) [v/s] [2]
-Pharmacy (Bruce
Checefsky, Hungary) [s] [8]
[end]
The Funeral (Abel
Ferrara, 1996)
Everything Put
Together (Marc Forster, 1999)
Aberdeen (Hans
Petter Moland, Finland / U.K.) [7]
[Jury duty, third
act – sixteen entries]
-Laquiem (Andrée
Greenwell, Australia) [s] [5]
-Man! (John Palmer)
[s] [6]
-Life (Audrey
Schebat, France) [s] [4]
-A Longer Journey
(Merlyn M. Bilas) [s] [4]
-Psycho Shower
(Chun-hui Wu, Taiwan) [s] [6]
-Sea Concrete Human
(Michael Palm, Austria) [s] [6]
-Exposed (Siegfried
A. Fruhauf, Austria) [s] [5]
-Dream Work (For Man Ray) (Peter Tscherkassky, Austria) [s] [8]
-Copy Shop (Virgil
Widrich, Austria) [s] [7]
-Mit mir (With Me)
(Kerstin Cmelka, Austria) [s] [5]
-Et In Arcadia Ego
(Kerstin Cmelka, Austria) [s] [4]
-Sharkie (Francien
van Everdingen, Germany) [s] [3]
-That’s That (Aaron
Sharp) [s] [3]
-Funkstille (Boris
Dornbusch, Germany) [s] [5]
-Decasia (Bill
Morrison) [m] [6]
-What These Ashes
Wanted (Philip Hoffman, Canada) [s] [7]
[end]
-Voyages (Emmanuel
Finkiel, France / Poland, 1999)
Lantana (Ray
Lawrence, Australia) [7]
/-Exotica (Atom
Egoyan, Canada, 1994)
The Wide Blue Road
(Gillo Pontecorvo, Italy, 1957)
Brotherhood of the
Wolf (Christophe Gans, France) [3]
The Mothman
Prophecies (Mark Pellington) [6]
-Brigham City
(Richard Dutcher) [6]
-Bad Company
(Jean-Pierre Améris, France, 1999)
The Kiss (Thomas
Edison, 1896) [s]
Kiss (Andy Warhol,
1963) [m]
Christmas on Earth
(Barbara Rubin, 1963) [m]
The Long Goodbye
(Robert Altman, 1973)
I Am Sam (Jessie
Nelson) [4]
-Ms. 45 (Abel
Ferrara, 1981)
FEBRUARY
Metropolis (Rintaro,
Japan) [7]
What Time Is It
There? (Tsai Ming-liang, Taiwan / France) [8]
-Opening Night (John
Cassavetes, 1977)
Birthday Girl (Jez
Butterworth, U.K.) [6]
Aria (Yervant
Gianikian / Angela Ricci Lucchi, Italy, 1994) [s]
From the Pole to the
Equator (Yervant Gianikian / Angela Ricci Lucchi, Italy, 1986)
Nice Guys Finish
Last (Robert B. Martin, Jr.) [s] [3]
Party 7 (Katsuhito
Ishii, Japan) [8]
/Werckmeister
Harmonies (Béla Tarr, Hungary) [9]
Beijing Bicycle
(Wang Xiaoshuai, China) [6]
Cops (Edward F.
Cline / Buster Keaton, 1922) [s]
/Duck Soup (Leo
McCarey, 1933)
Corruption of the
Damned (George Kuchar, 1965) [m]
Circus Girls (Walter
Gutman, 1971) [m]
Color Me Shameless
(George Kuchar, 1967) [m]
T,O,U,C,H,I,N,G
(Paul Sharits, 1968) [s]
Storytelling (Todd
Solondz) [3]
Monster’s Ball (Marc
Forster) [7]
Super Troopers (Jay
Chandrasekhar) [7]
Black Hawk Down
(Ridley Scott) [4]
MARCH
-Don’t Say a Word
(Gary Fleder) [3]
Last Orders (Fred
Schepisi, U.K.) [4]
Time of Favor
(Jospeh Cedar, Israel) [4]
-Kick the Moon (Kim
Sang-Jin, South Korea) [6]
Obaachan’s Garden
(Linda Ohama, Canada) [6]
Scratch (Doug Pray)
[8]
The Son’s Room (Nanni Moretti, Italy) [7]
Harmful Insect
(Akihiko Shiota, Japan) [9]
Conjugation (Emily
Tang, China) [6]
Flesh (Paul
Morrissey, 1968)
Monsoon Wedding
(Mira Nair, India) [7]
Italian for
Beginners (Lone Scherfig, Denmark) [6]
Garden Path (Stan Brakhage
and Mary Beth Reed) [s] [5]
Micro-Garden (Stan
Brakhage) [s] [6]
/The Earth Song of
the Cricket (Stan Brakhage, 1999) [s]
/Cricket Requiem
(Stan Brakhage, 1999) [s]
Cannot Exist (Stan
Brakhage, 1994) [s]
Cannot Not Exist
(Stan Brakhage, 1994) [s]
/Autumnal (Stan
Brakhage, 1993) [s]
Spring Cycle (Stan
Brakhage, 1995) [s]
Lovesong 3 (Stan
Brakhage) [s] [6]
Lovesong 4 (Stan
Brakhage) [s] [7]
Betelnut Beauty (Lin
Cheng-sheng, Taiwan) [5]
Kissing Jessica
Stein (Charles Herman-Wurmfeld) [3]
The Blue Angel (Josef
von Sternberg, Germany, 1930)
N.Y.N.Y. (Francis
Thompson, 1957) [s]
Here I Am (Bruce
Baillie, 1962) [s]
Angel Blue Sweet
Wings (Chick Strand, 1966) [s]
FFFTCM (Will Hindle,
1967) [s]
Schmeerguntz (Gunvor
Nelson and Dorothy Wiley, 1966) [s]
Third Eye Butterfly
(Storm de Hirsch, 1968) [s]
Arnulf Rainer (Peter
Kubelka, Austria, 1958-60) [s]
/The White Rose
(Bruce Conner, 1967) [s]
July ‘71 in San Francisco, Living at Beach
Street, Working at Canyon Cinema, Swimming in the Valley of the Moon (Peter
Hutton, 1971) [m]
Night Movie #1
(Self-Portrait) (Diana Barrie, 1974) [s]
The Bladderwort
Document (Janis Crystal Lipzin, 1978) [s]
Flight of Shadows
(Michael Mideke, 1973) [s]
The Riddle of Lumen
(Stan Brakhage, 1972) [s]
/Fuji (Robert Breer,
1974) [s]
/Shift (Ernie Gehr,
1972-74) [s]
31/75: Asyl (Kurt
Kren, Austria, 1975) [s]
Masquerade (Lawrence
Jordan, 1981) [s]
The Gardener of Eden
(James Broughton and Joel Singer, 1981) [s]
Gloria! (Hollis
Frampton, 1979) [s]
-The Sid Saga (Sid
Laverents, 1985)
Multiple SIDosis
(Sid Laverents, 1970) [s]
IWWF (Stan Smith and
Kathy Maas) [v/s] [4]
Fifty / Fifty
(Peninsula Movie Makers) [v/s] [6]
The Lord of the
Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (Peter Jackson, U.S.A. / New Zealand) [5]
Resident Evil (Paul
W. S. Anderson) [2]
Slow Gin Soul
Stallion (Animal Charm, 1995) [v/s]
Lightfoot Fever
(Animal Charm, 1996) [v/s]
Whitney: Mama’s
Little Baby (Lawrence Elbert) [v/s] [3]
The Little Big
(Pierre Yves Clouin, 1999) [v/s]
The 100th
Undone (Jacqueline Goss) [v/s] [7]
Getting Stronger
Every Day (Miranda July) [v/s] [8]
Das Zauberglas (The
Magic Glass) (Bjørn Melhus, Germany, 1991) [v/s]
Industrial Synth
(Seth Price) [v/s] [5]
-Secret Défense
(Jacques Rivette, France, 1997)
Escaflowne (Kazuki
Akane, Japan) [3]
Arabic Numeral
Series (Stan Brakhage, 1980-81)
-Peppermint Candy
(Lee Chang-dong, South Korea) [7]
A Song For Martin
(Bille August, Denmark / Germany / Sweden) [6]
A Taxi For Three
(Orlando Lübbert, Chile) [5]
Musa the Warrior
(Kim Sung-Su, South Korea) [5]
Blade II (Guillermo
del Toro) [7]
Panic Room (David
Fincher) [6]
Death to Smoochy
(Danny DeVito) [6]
Thirty-Two Short
Films About Glenn Gould (François Girard, Canada, 1993)
-Wild Reeds (André
Téchiné, France, 1994)
-I Stand Alone
(Gaspar Noe, France, 1998)
-Pulse (Kiyoshi Kurosawa,
Japan) [7]
No Such Thing (Hal
Hartley, U.S. / Iceland) [8]
APRIL
Nights of
Constantinople (Orlando Rojas, Cuba) [7]
/Decasia (Bill
Morrison) [6]
Failan (Song
Sye-sung, South Korea) [7]
Big Bad Love (Arliss
Howard) [2]
Fulltime Killer
(Johnnie To and Wai Ka-fai, Hong Kong) [8]
Bay of Angels
(Jacques Demy, France, 1963)
-The Apartment
(Billy Wilder, 1960)
Go for Broke (Wang
Guangli, China) [7]
Rivers and Tides
(Thomas Riedelsheimer, Germany) [4]
/Free Radicals (Len
Lye, New Zealand / U.K., 1958 / revised 1979) [s]
Voodoo (Fred Worden,
1976) [s]
Automatic Writing 2
(Fred Worden) [s] [6]
The Or Cloud (Fred
Worden) [s] [9]
One (Fred Worden,
1998) [s]
Journey to the Sun
(Yesim Ustaoglu, Turkey / Germany, 1999)
Trouble Every Day
(Claire Denis, France) [9]
What’s Wrong With
This Picture? parts 1 and 2 (Owen Land [George Landow], 1972) [s]
Breath (Andrej
Zdravic, 1976) [s]
Bicycle (Chuck
Hudina, 1975) [s]
Goats (Michael
Mideke, 1977) [s]
Cargo of Lure (Jim
Hoberman, 1974) [s]
/Gulls & Buoys
(Robert Breer, 1972) [s]
/Barn Rushes (Larry
Gottheim, 1971) [m]
Picture and Sound
Rushes (Morgan Fisher, 1973) [s]
Y tu mamá también
(Alfonso Cuarón, Mexico) [9]
Last Wedding (Bruce
Sweeney, Canada) [5]
Read My Lips
(Jacques Audiard, France) [3]
The Inner Tour
(Ra’anan Alexandrowicz, Israel) [5]
El Bola (Achero
Mañas, Spain) [4]
Veloma (Marie de
Laubier, France) [3]
/Trouble Every Day
(Claire Denis, France) [9]
/Couch (Andy Warhol,
1964) [m]
Cet amour-lá (Josée
Dayan, France) [3]
-Splitting (Gordon
Matta-Clark, 1974) [s]
Up and Out
(Christian Marclay, 1998) [v]
/Y tu mamá también
(Alfonso Cuarón, Mexico) [9]
The Chelsea Girls
(Andy Warhol, 1966)
Harvard Man (James
Toback) [8]
-A Petal (Jang
Sun-woo, South Korea, 1995)
[The following 15
entries were student films at Berkeley. As per custom, I have not rated them,
except for the two included works by professional media-makers.]
Love Picture (Ian
Kibbey) [v/s]
Dreams of Wingless
Flight (Maryam Gharavi) [v/s]
/My Window (Franck
Rey-Herme) [v/s]
K.I.P. (Nguyen Tan
Hoang) [v/s] [6]
Do a Little Dance
(Keren Albala) [v/s]
Sometimes I
Wonder... (Vince Navarro) [v/s]
‘Traveling’ (Erick
Fefferman) [v/s]
Simple (NM) [v/s]
Counterfeit Film
(Brett Simon) [v/s] [3]
/Dream a Life-Like
Dream Like Life (Keith Telfeyan) [v/s]
Sweat Pants (John O’Malley)
[v/s]
/Before the Pale
People (Juan A. Gómez-Quiñones) [v/s]
“Untitled” (Rich
Tate) [v/s]
Hair Cut (Matt
Constantine) [v/s]
I © GWB (Brenda Jean Grell) [p/v/s]
[end]
Human Nature (Michel
Gondry, U.S. / France) [4]
Frailty (Bill
Paxton) [5]
/Crash (David
Cronenberg, Canada, 1996)
Lola (Jacques Demy,
France, 1961)
The Pinochet Case
(Patricio Guzmán, France) [7]
The Last Waltz (Martin
Scorsese, 1978)
Go (Isao Yukisada,
Japan / South Korea) [5]
Truly Human (Åke
Sandgren, Denmark) [5]
Millennium Mambo
(Hou Hsiao-hsien, Taiwan / France) [7] (a very tentative grade)
Pietà (Bruce
Baillie, 1998) [s]
/Dream Work (for Man
Ray) (Peter Tscherkassky, Austria) [s] [8]
Black Vision (Stan
Brakhage, 1962) [s]
Micromoth (Julie
Murray) [s] [5]
Photograph of Wind
(Lynne Sachs) [s] [4]
Calling All Cars
(Alfonso Alvarez) [s] [3]
The Man We Want to
Hang (Kenneth Anger) [s] [4]
Hand Eye
Coordination (Naomi Uman) [s] [3]
To Re-edit The World
(David Sherman) [v/m] [7]
Inch’Allah Sunday
(Yamina Benguigui, France) [W/O] (1:15)
Distance (Hirokazu
Kore-eda, Japan) [8]
Spirited Away (Hayao
Miyazaki, Japan) [Japanese w/ English subs] [8]
One Fine Spring Day
(Hur Jin-Ho, South Korea) [8]
-Derrida (Kirby Dick
and Amy Ziering Kofman, U.S. / France) [v] [7]
Far Away (André
Téchiné, France / Spain) [8]
-Trash (Paul
Morrissey, 1970)
I Love Beijing (Ning
Ying, China) [6]
/I’m Going Home
(Manoel de Oliveira, Portugal / France) [9]
Le Grand Tango
(Pieter Jan Smit, The Netherlands) [s] [7]
Oporto of My
Childhood (Manoel de Oliveria, Portugal / France) [m] [7]
-Sick: The Life and
Death of Bob Flanagan, Supermasochist (Kirby Dick, 1997)
Waterboys (Shinobu
Yaguchi, Japan) [5]
Late Marriage (Dover
Kosashvili, Israel / France) [8]
Vivante (Sandrine
Ray, France) [4]
-A Chronicle of
Corpses (Andrew Repasky McElhinney) [4]
25 Watts (Juan Pablo
Rebella and Pablo Stoll, Uruguay) [7]
In Praise of Love
(Jean-Luc Godard, Switzerland / France) [8]
The Ruination of Men
(Arturo Ripstein, Mexico / Spain) [5]
/Derrida (Kirby Dick
and Amy Ziering Kofman, U. S. / France) [v] [7]
-Pistol Opera
(Seijun Suzuki, Japan) [9]
/Derrida (Kirby Dick
and Amy Ziering Kofman, U. S. / France) [v] [7]
May (Lucky McKee)
[8]
Rain (Christine
Jeffs, New Zealand) [4]
July Rhapsody (Ann
Hui, Hong Kong) [4]
/-Uzumaki
(Higuchinsky, Japan) [7]*
Daughter From Danang
(Gail Dolgin and Vicente Franco) [6]
The Son of the Bride
(Juan José Campanella, Argentina) [5]
/Counterfeit Film
(Brett Simon) [s] [3]
Cotton Candy (Ernie
Gehr) [v/m] [7]
Switch Center
(Ericka Beckman / Balazs Bela Studio) [s] [7]
Crepescule: Pond and
Chair (Sandra Davis) [s] [2]
This Side of
Paradise: fragments of an unfinished biography (Jonas Mekas, 1999) [m]
Going Back Home
(Louise Bourque) [s] [6]
Karmen Geï (Jospeh
Gaï Ramaka, Senegal / France / Canada) [7]
MAY
The Milk of Human
Kindness (Dominique Cabréra, France / Belgium) [7]
The Rookie (John Lee
Hancock) [6]
Delbaran (Abolfazl
Jalili, Iran / Japan) [7]
Dear Fidel: Marita’s
Story (Wilfried Huismann, Germany) [8]
The Piano Teacher
(Michael Haneke, France / Austria) [6]
Very Annie-Mary
(Sara Sugarman, U.K.) [4]
Vulgar (Bryan
Johnson) [1]
Dogtown and Z-Boys
(Stacy Peralta) [5]
Spider-Man (Sam
Raimi) [7]
The Scorpion King
(Chuck Russell) [6]
The Salton Sea (D.
J. Caruso) [5]
Her Glacial Speed
(Eve Heller) [s] [4]
Water Seeking Its
Level (Leighton Pierce) [v/s] [4]
Shudder (top and
bottom) (Michael Gitlin) [s] [4]
The Subconscious Art
of Graffiti Removal (Matt McCormick) [v/s] [3]
/The Or Cloud (Fred
Worden) [s] [9]
Train (Masako
Miyazaki) [s] [5]
Pleasures of Urban
Decay (Sam Ball) [s] [7]
Impossible Love (Jim
Jennings) [s] [6]
The Velvet Tigress
(Jen Sachs) [s] [5]
/Fear of Blushing
(Jennifer Reeves) [s] [7]
/Copy Shop (Virgil
Widrich, Austria) [s] [7]
The Music Room
(Satyajit Ray, India, 1958)
Time Out [L’emploi
du temps] (Laurent Cantet, France) [8]
Video Quartet
(Christian Marclay) [v/s] [5]
Confessions of a
Sociopath (Joe Gibbons) [v/m] [8]
On Our Own 2: Toxic
Detox (Joe Gibbons and Tony Oursler, 1992) [v/m]
/-Multiple SIDosis
(Sid Laverents, 1970) [s]
-Pie In The Sky: The
Brigid Berlin Story (Vincent Fremont and Shelly Dunn Fremont) [6]
Nine Queens (Fabián
Bielinsky, Argentina) [W/O] (1:14)
The New Guy (Ed
Decter) [5]
-Revolution OS
(J.T.S. Moore) [2]
-Tart (Christina
Wayne) [4]
The Triumph of Love
(Clare Peploe, Italy / U.K.) [7]
-Wicked (Michael
Steinberg, 1998)
The Cat’s Meow
(Peter Bogdanovich) [4]
-The God of Cookery
(Stephen Chiau / Lee Lik-Chi, Hong Kong, 1996)
-Tales from the
Gimli Hospital (Guy Maddin, Canada, 1988) [m]
-The Dead Father
(Guy Maddin, Canada, 1986) [s]
/-Hospital Fragment
(Guy Maddin, Canada, 1999) [s]
-Lost Highway (David
Lynch, 1997)
Growth (James
Fotopoulos, 1999) [s]
Drowning (James
Fotopoulous) [s] [8]
Back Against the
Wall (James Fotopoulos) [8]
The Cockettes (Bill
Weber and David Weissman) [5]
About a Boy (Paul
Weitz and Chris Weitz) [4]
/-Not Reconciled, or
Only Violence Helps Where Violence Rules (Jean-Marie Straub, West Germany,
1965) [m]
-Drifting Clouds
(Aki Kaurismäki, Finland, 1996)
/Time Out [L’emploi
du temps] (Laurent Cantet, France) [8]
One Sixth of the
World (Dziga Vertov, U.S.S.R., 1926) [m]
Enthusiasm: Symphony
of the Don Basin (Dziga Vertov, U.S.S.R., 1931) [m]
Insomnia
(Christopher Nolan) [8]
The Lady and the
Duke (Eric Rohmer, France) [6]
Some Body (Henry
Barrial) [5]
Star Wars: Episode
II – Attack of the Clones (George Lucas) [3]
She Puppet (Peggy
Ahwesh) [v/s] [7]
Film Ist. 7-12
(Gustav Deutsch, Austria) [7]
A Humble Life
(Alexander Sokurov, Russia, 1997) [v]
CQ (Roman Coppola)
[4]
-Evening Sacrifice
(Alexander Sokurov, U.S.S.R., 1987) [s]
-Simple Elegy
(Alexander Sokurov, Russia, 1990) [s]
Days of Eclipse
(Alexander Sokurov, U.S.S.R., 1988)
JUNE
Undercover Brother
(Malcolm D. Lee) [7]
Murderous Maids [Les
Blessures Assassines] (Jean-Pierre Denis, France) [6]
-The City (Ralph
Steiner and Willard Van Dyke, 1939) [m]
The Bridge (Joris
Ivens, The Netherlands, 1928) [s]
Rain (Joris Ivens,
The Netherlands, 1929) [s]
Borinage (Joris
Ivens and Henri Storck, Belgium, 1934) [m]
Philips Radio (Joris
Ivens, The Netherlands, 1931) [m]
New Earth (Joris
Ivens, The Netherlands, 1933) [m]
/Las Hurdes
[alternate English version] (Luis Buñuel, 1933 / 1937) [s]
L’Arrivée (Peter Tscherkassky,
Austria, 1997) [s]
Hello Skinny (Graeme
Whifler, 1980) [s]
Eli’s Moon (Michael
Rosas-Walsh) [s] [8]
World Trade Alphabet
(Donna Cameron) [s] [7]
L’Ange (Patrick
Bokanowski, France, 1982) [W/O] (0:19)
/-The Heart Of The
World (Guy Maddin, Canada) [s] [10]
-The Architecture of
Reassurance (Mike Mills, 1999) [s]
-Paperboys (Mike
Mills) [m] [7]
The City of Lost
Souls (Takashi Miike, Japan) [7]
Wendigo (Larry
Fessenden) [7]
-Gertrud (Carl Th.
Dreyer, Denmark, 1964)
Bartleby (Jonathan
Parker) [6]
-Every Day (Hans
Richter, U.K., 1969) [s]
-Standard Time
(Michael Snow, Canada, 1967) [s]
/-Film in Which
There Appear Spocket Holes, Edge Lettering, Dirt Particles, Etc. (George
Landow, 1965-66) [s]
-3/60: Bäume im
Herbst (Kurt Kren, Austria, 1960) [s]
-Artificial Light
(Hollis Frampton, 1969) [s]
Maryam (Ramin Serry)
[7]
Cherish (Finn
Taylor) [4]
The Sleepy Time Gal
(Christopher Münch) [5]
-Portrait of Jason
(Shirley Clarke, 1967)
Les Destinées
Sentimentales (Olivier Assayas, France) [8]
-The Spanish Earth
(Joris Ivens, 1937) [m]
Group (Marilyn
Freeman) [7]
CIRCLING ZERO Part
One: We See Absence (Ken Jacobs) [v] [8]
-Soft and Hard
(Jean-Luc Godard and Anne-Marie Miéville, Switzerland, 1986) [v/m]
/Heavy Metal Parking
Lot (John Heyn, 1986) [s]
Home Movie (Chris
Smith) [m] [7]
/Late Marriage
(Dover Kosashvili, Israel / France) [8]
-Freeze Me (Takashi
Ishii, Japan) [2]
/Sans Soleil (Chris
Marker, France, 1982)
Minority Report
(Steven Spielberg) [7]
-Cobra Woman (Robert
Siodmak, 1944)
-Bontoc Eulogy (Marlon
Fuentes, 1995) [m]
/-What Farocki
Taught (Jill Godmilow, 1998) [m]
An Image (Harun
Farocki, West Germany, 1983) [s]
Guardian of the
Frontier (Maja Weiss, Slovenia) [7]
-Chronicle of a
Summer (Jean Rouch and Edgar Morin, France, 1960)
Confession: From the
Commander’s Diary (Alexander Sokurov, Russia, 1998) [v] [W/O] (2:10)
Lilo & Stitch
(Chris Sanders & Dean Deblois) [4]
JULY
-In Search of Our
Fathers (Marco Williams, 1995) [m]
Elling (Petter Næss,
Norway) [7]
/-Daughter From
Danang (Gail Dolgin and Vicente Franco) [5]*
Chronically
Unfeasible (Sergio Bianchi, Brazil) [7]
Green Dragon
(Timothy Linh Bui) [5]
The Dangerous Lives
of Altar Boys (Peter Care) [5]
Lan Yu (Stanley
Kwan, Hong Kong) [7]
-Gummo (Harmony
Korine, 1997)
-I Don’t Hate Las
Vegas Anymore (Caveh Zahedi, 1994)
-Twin Peaks: Fire
Walk With Me (David Lynch, 1992)
Lovely & Amazing
(Nicole Holofcener) [7]
Dahmer (David
Jacobson) [4]
Teenage Caveman
(Larry Clark) [v] [9]
Atanarjuat: The Fast
Runner (Zacharias Kunuk, Canada) [7]
The Palm Beach Story
(Preston Sturges, 1942)
The Lady Eve
(Preston Sturges, 1941)
-Another Girl,
Another Planet (Michael Almereyda, 1992) [v/m]
Road to Perdition
(Sam Mendes) [8]
-Sopyonje (Im
Kwon-taek, South Korea, 1993)
Romance (Sergio
Bianchi, Brazil, 1987)
Umberto D. (Vittorio
De Sica, Italy, 1952)
Devdas (Sanjay Leela
Bhansali, India) [6]
Dagon (Stuart
Gordon, Spain) [3]
The Believer (Henry
Bean) [7]
-Dark City (Alex
Proyas, 1998)
Master of the Flying
Guillotine: Ultimate Edition (Jimmy Wang Yu, Taiwan, 1975 / 2002)
Baran (Majid Majidi,
Iran) [4]
-The Life of Jesus
(Bruno Dumont, France, 1997)
Sex and Lucía (Julio
Medem, Spain) [W/O] (0:58)
Kiss Me Kate [in
3-D] (George Sidney, 1953) [W/O] (0:55)
Gangster No. 1 (Paul
McGuigan, U.K.) [5]
Tadpole (Gary
Winick) [4]
Unfair Competition
(Ettore Scola, Italy) [W/O] (0:38)
AUGUST
-My Sex Life . . .
or How I Got Into an Argument (Arnaud Desplechin, France, 1996)
Full Frontal (Steven
Soderbergh) [7]
Me Without You
(Sandra Goldbacher, U.K.) [4]
Girls Can’t Swim
(Anne-Sophie Birot, France) [4] (although honestly, it was a 6 or 7 until the
final seven minutes)
Signs (M. Night
Shyamalan) [3]
Esther Kahn (Arnaud
Desplechin, France / U.K.) [U.S. distributor edit] [8]
/-Teenage Caveman
(Larry Clark) [v] [8]*
K-19: The Widowmaker
(Kathryn Bigelow) [5]
-Klute (Alan J.
Pakula, 1971)
Mademoiselle (Tony
Richardson, France / U.K., 1966)
XXX (Rob Cohen) [6]
-All About My Mother
(Pedro Almodóvar, Spain, 1999)
Blood Work (Clint
Eastwood) [4]
/Irma Vep (Olivier
Assayas, France, 1996)
The Good Girl
(Miguel Arteta) [3]
Spy Kids 2: The
Island of Lost Dreams (Robert Rodriguez) [5]
-Green Snake (Tsui
Hark, Hong Kong, 1993)
The Kid Stays in the
Picture (Brett Morgen & Nanette Burstein) [7]
-L’ennui (Cédric
Kahn, France, 1998)
My Wife is an Actress
(Yvan Attal, France) [2]
Possession (Neil
LaBute, U.K. / U.S.A.) [6]
ivans xtc. (Bernard
Rose) [6]
-New Best Friend
(Zoe Clarke-Williams) [4]
Blue Crush (John
Stockwell) [5]
Undisputed (Walter
Hill) [6]
/Soft and Hard
(Jean-Luc Godard and Anne-Marie Miéville, U.K. / France, 1985) [v/m]
Après la
réconcilliation (Anne-Marie Miéville, France / Switzerland) [7]
24 Hour Party People
(Michael Winterbottom, U.K.) [7]
Secret Ballot (Babak
Payami, Iran / Italy) [5]
2 x 50 Years of
French Cinema (Jean-Luc Godard and Anne-Marie Miéville, France, 1995) [v/m]
The Old Place
(Jean-Luc Godard and Anne-Marie Miéville, U.S. / Switzerland, 1999) [v/m]
SEPTEMBER
Swimming (Robert J.
Siegel) [W/O] (0:42)
/Cellular Crime
(Brett Simon and Lily Prillinger) [v/s] [7]
untitled (Brett
Simon) [v/s] [5]
The Flickerflash
(Brett Simon) [v/s] [6]
The Girl Who Would
Do Anything (Brett Simon, 2000) [v/s]
/Counterfeit Film
(Brett Simon) [v/s] [5]*
Good Friday (Brett
Simon) [v/s] [3]
The New Step (Brett
Simon) [v/s] [6]
A Film for My Unborn
Supermodel (Brett Simon, 2000) [v/s]
Switch Fish (Brett
Simon, 2000) [v/s]
The End (Brett
Simon) [v/s] [6]
Tosca (Benoît
Jacquot, France / Germany) [7]
/Metropolis (Fritz
Lang, Germany, 1926)
A Public Prosecutor
and a Teacher (Yoon Dae-Ryong, Korea, 1948) [m] [w/ byunsa perf. by Shin
Chul]
Take Care of My Cat
(Jeong Jae-Eun, South Korea) [6]
-To Die (or Not)
(Ventura Pons, Spain, 1999)
Waikiki Brothers
(Yim Soon-rye, South Korea) [W/O] (1:13)
Swimfan (John
Polson) [2]
Bad Guy (Kim Ki-duk,
South Korea) [5]
/-NOEMA (Scott
Stark, 1998) [v/s]
A Quiet Place in the
Country (Elio Petri, Italy, 1968)
Barbershop (Tim
Story) [7]
The Business of
Fancydancing (Sherman Alexie) [4]
-The Apple (Samira
Makhmalbaf, Iran, 1999)
One Hour Photo (Mark
Romanek) [7]
Satin Rouge (Raja
Amari, France / Tunisia) [6]
Biggie and Tupac
(Nick Broomfield, U.K.) [4]
/-Citizen Kane
(Orson Welles, 1941)
-The Power of
Kangwon Province (Hong Sang-soo, South Korea, 1998)
*Corpus Callosum
(Michael Snow, Canada) [7]
His Secret Life [Le
Fate ignoranti] (Ferzan Ozpetek, Italy) [5]
Das Experiment
(Oliver Hirschbiegel, Germany) [5]
Punch-Drunk Love
(Paul Thomas Anderson) [6]
/-Monsters, Inc.
(Pete Docter) [7]*
Secretary (Steven
Shainberg) [6]
Quitting (Zhang
Yang, China) [6]
OCTOBER
How I Killed My
Father (Anne Fontaine, France / Spain) [5]
/In Praise of Love
(Jean-Luc Godard, Switzerland / France) [9]*
Lilya 4-Ever (Lukas
Moodysson, Sweden) [3]
Morvern Callar
(Lynne Ramsay, U.K.) [8]
Spider (David
Cronenberg, Canada / U.K.) [6]
Shadowy Encounters
(Gariné Torossian, Canada) [v/s] [1]
London Orbital (Iain
Sinclair and Chris Petit, U.K.) [v] [7]
Silence . . . We’re
Rolling (Youssef Chahine, Egypt / France) [9]
Ararat (Atom Egoyan,
Canada) [6]
Shangri-La (Takashi
Miike, Japan) [v] [7]
Oasis (Lee
Chang-dong, South Korea) [7]
The Best of Times
(Chang Tso-Chi, Taiwan) [5]
Unknown Pleasures
(Jia ZhangKe, China / Japan / South Korea) [7]
Blissfully Yours
(Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Thailand) [9]
Japón (Carlos
Reygadas, Mexico) [7]
Paradox Lake
(Przemyslaw Reut, U.S. / Poland / Germany) [W/O] (0:25)
The Uncertainty
Principle (Manoel de Oliveira, Portugal) [8]
Cry-Woman (Liu
Bingjian, Canada / China / France / South Korea) [6]
Pilgrimage (G. R.
Kannan, India) [W/O] (0:46)
Between Strangers
(Edoardo Ponti, Italy / Canada) [W/O] (0:32)
Kedma (Amos Gitai,
Israel) [4]
Brief Crossing
(Catherine Breillat, France) [4]
Doing Time (Sai
Yoichi, Japan) [8]
10 (Abbas
Kiarostami, Iran) [7]
Dolls (Takeshi
Kitano, Japan) [5]
The Skywalk Is Gone
(Tsai Ming-liang, Taiwan) [s] [5]
The Trigger (Alex
Yang, Taiwan) [4]
demonlover (Olivier
Assayas, France) [4]
Railroad of Hope
(Ning Ying, China) [v/m] [3]
Dance With Farm
Workers (Wu Wenguang, China) [v/m] [1]
Blue Skies (Ann
Marie Fleming, Canada) [s] [4]
Saint Monica (Terrence
Odette, Canada) [3]
Invincible (Werner
Herzog, Germany / U.K.) [6]
Bloody Sunday (Paul
Greengrass, U.K.) [5]
The Rules of
Attraction (Roger Avary) [7]
Family Fundamentals
(Arthur Dong) [3]
-Ted Bundy (Matthew
Bright) [4]
/Seconds (John
Frankenheimer, 1966)
-My Colombian Cousin
(Catalina Hoyos Restrepo, U.S. / Colombia) [v/s] [7]
Bowling for
Columbine (Michael Moore, U.S. / Canada) [7]
Yojimbo (Akira
Kurosawa, Japan, 1961)
-Lift (Demane Davis
and Khari Streeter) [4]
Intacto (Juan Carlos
Fresnadillo, Spain) [7]
/Spirited Away
(Hayao Miyazaki, Japan) [English version] [8]
The Hidden Fortress
(Akira Kurosawa, Japan, 1958)
The Ring (Gore
Verbinski) [5]
Hell House (George
Ratliff) [8]
-The Count of Monte
Cristo (Kevin Reynolds) [7]
/Punch-Drunk Love
(Paul Thomas Anderson) [6]
Merci pour le
chocolat (Claude Chabrol, France / Switzerland) [7]
Ikiru (Akira
Kurosawa, Japan, 1952)
The Happiness of the
Katakuris (Takashi Miike, Japan) [7]
8 Women (François
Ozon, France) [9]
Abandon (Stephen
Gaghan) [4]
-Family Dinner
(Skander Halim, Canada) [s] [7]
-This is Not a
Photograph (Steve Erickson) [v/s] [7]
Auto Focus (Paul
Schrader) [3]
Heaven (Tom Tykwer,
Germany / Italy / U.K.) [8]
/-Medium Cool
(Haskell Wexler, 1969)
NOVEMBER
The Truth About
Charlie (Jonathan Demme) [7]
All or Nothing (Mike
Leigh, U.K.) [5]
/Trade Tattoo (Len
Lye, U.K., 1937) [s]
Eyewash (Robert
Breer, 1959) [s]
/Straight and Narrow
(Tony and Beverly Conrad, 1970) [s]
Les Tournesols (Rose
Lowder, France, 1983) [s]
Fake Fruit Factory
(Chick Strand, 1986) [s]
Alpsee (Matthias
Müller, Germany, 1994) [s]
Dream Displacement
(Paul Sharits, 1976) [s]
The Weight of Water
(Kathryn Bigelow) [W/O] (0:27)
Femme Fatale (Brian
De Palma) [5]
Jackass The Movie
(Jeff Tremaine) [5]
-Andy Warhol’s Silver
Flotations (Willard Maas, 1966) [s]
-Andy Warhol (Marie
Menken, 1965) [s]
Roger Dodger (Dylan
Kidd) [8]
Divine Intervention:
A Chronicle of Love and Pain (Elia Suleiman, Palestine / France) [8]
/-Superstar: The
Karen Carpenter Story (Todd Haynes, 1987) [m]
Alias Betty [Betty
Fisher et autres histoires] (Claude Miller, France / Canada) [4]
-Written on the Wind
(Douglas Sirk, 1956)
/Weekend (Jean-Luc
Godard, France, 1967) [crappy 16mm print with at least ten minutes missing]
-King of New York
(Abel Ferrara, 1990)
Far From Heaven
(Todd Haynes) [7]
/-Harvard Man (James
Toback) [8]
All About Lily
Chou-Chou (Shunji Iwai, Japan) [4]
-The Odds of
Recovery (Su Friedrich) [m] [4]
The Visitation
(Nathaniel Dorsky) [s] [6]
Yellow-Red &
Blue-Violet (Luis Recoder) [s] [4]
Fall (Leighton
Pierce) [v/s] [5]
Looking at the Sea
(Peter Hutton) [s] [9]
Hojas de Maís (Eric
S. Theise) [s] [3]
Song of the Firefly
(Izabella Pruska-Oldenhof, Canada) [s] [4]
Patina (Peter
Herwitz) [s] [7]
Very (Stan Brakhage)
[s] [8]
Night Mulch (Stan
Brakhage) [s] [7]
Maya (Digvijay
Singh, India) [7]
-In the Bathtub of
the World (Caveh Zahedi) [v] [7]
/The Devil, Probably
(Robert Bresson, France, 1977)
/-Our Lady of the
Sphere (Larry Jordan, 1969) [s]
/-Midweekend
(Caroline Avery, 1985) [s]
-The Bats (Jim
Trainor, 1997) [s]
8 Mile (Curtis
Hanson) [5]
-Chasing Butterflies
(Otar Iosseliani, France, 1992)
-A.B.C Africa (Abbas
Kiarostami, Iran / Uganda) [v] [3]
Seven Samurai (Akira
Kurosawa, Japan, 1957)
-Murder by Numbers
(Barbet Schroeder) [3]
-Novocaine (David
Atkins) [5]
Harry Potter and the
Chamber of Secrets (Chris Columbus) [4]
Solaris (Steven
Soderbergh) [7]
-Joe Versus the
Volcano (John Patrick Shanley, 1990)
DECEMBER
-‘R Xmas (Abel
Ferrara) [6]
Bollywood / Hollywood
(Deepa Mehta, Canada) [3]
-Hey, Happy! (Noam
Gonick, Canada) [4]
/Far From Heaven
(Todd Haynes) [8]*
/-Cannery Rodent
(Chuck Jones, 1967) [s]
Pépé le Moko (Julian
Duvivier, France, 1937)
War Photographer
(Christian Frei, Switzerland) [5]
-Men with Brooms
(Paul Gross, Canada) [5]
/-Josie and the
Pussycats (Harry Elfont & Deborah Kaplan) [5]
The Way Home (Lee
Jeong-hyang, South Korea) [5]
High and Low (Akira
Kurosawa, Japan, 1963)
Drumline (Charles
Stone III) [4]
-Russian Ark
(Alexander Sokurov, Russia) [7]
/-Spider-Man (Sam
Raimi) [7]
-Gravity (Rhett
Martinezz) [v]
-waydowntown (Gary
Burns, Canada) [4]
Gangs of New York
(Martin Scorsese) [5]
/Morvern Callar
(Lynne Ramsay, U.K.) [8]
Sacha and Mum
(Gillian Wearing, U.K., 1996) [v/s]
Passage (Shirin
Neshat w/ Philip Glass) [v/s] [3]
The Third Memory
(Pierre Huyghe, France, 1999) [v/s]
Talk To Her (Pedro
Almodóvar, Spain) [7]
Adaptation. (Spike
Jonze) [7]
the end.