FILMS SEEN, 2007
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; \ repeat viewing of something I walked out of or fell asleep during)
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JANUARY
Deja Vu (Tony Scott) [7]
The Prestige (Christopher Nolan, U.S. / U.K.) [7]
-Jackass Number Two (Jeff Tremaine) [7]
-Little Children (Todd Field) [2] [later changed to 3 after cooling-off period]
/-Gabrielle (Patrice Chéreau, France / Italy) [7]
-Windows on Monday (Ulrich Köhler, Germany) [6]
-Family Law (Daniel Burman, Argentina / Italy / Spain / France) [5]
/-The Royal Tenenbaums (Wes Anderson, 2001)
-Betelnut (Yang Heng, China) [7]
-The Case of the Grinning Cat (Chris Marker, France) [v/m] [8]
Pan's Labyrinth (Guillermo Del Toro, Mexico / Spain / U.S.) [5]
\-Sheitan (Kim Chapiron, France) [6]
-Flags of Our Fathers (Clint Eastwood) [5]
/-Pickpocket (Robert Bresson, France, 1959)
Curse of the Golden Flower (Zhang Yimou, Hong Kong / China) [7]
Perfume: The Story of a Murderer (Tom Tykwer, Germany / France / Spain) [3]
-Longing (Valeska Grisebach, Germany) [7]
FEBRUARY
Children of Men (Alfonso Cuarón, U.K. / U.S.) [7]
-Dong (Jia Zhang-ke, Hong Kong / China) [v/m] [5]
-Gardens in Autumn (Otar Iosseliani, France / Italy / Russia) [4]
-Who's Camus Anyway? (Mitsuo Yanagimachi, Japan) [7]
-Destiny Manifesto (Martha Colburn) [s] [7]
-Light Work I (Jennifer Reeves) [v/s] [7]
/-Destiny Manifesto (Martha Colburn) [s] [7]
-L'Arrivée (Peter Tscherkassky, Austria, 1998) [s]
-Happy-End (Peter Tscherkassky, Austria, 1996) [s]
-Parallel Space: Inter-View (Peter Tscherkassky, Austria, 1992) [s]
/-Gerry (Gus Van Sant, 2002)
Casino Royale (Martin Campbell, U.K. / U.S. / Czech Republic) [6]
-The Science of Sleep (Michel Gondry, France / Italy) [7]
-Untitled (for David Gatten) (Mark LaPore and Phil Solomon) [v/s] [7]
-Rehearsals For Retirement (Phil Solomon) [v/s] [8]
/-Untitled (for David Gatten) (Mark LaPore and Phil Solomon) [v/s] [7]
/-Rehearsals For Retirement (Phil Solomon) [v/s] [8]
/-Code Unknown (Michael Haneke, France / Germany / Romania, 2001)
MARCH
-Wild Tigers I Have Known (Cam Archer) [6]
-The Forest For the Trees (Maren Ade, Germany, 2004)
-And We All Shine On (Michael Robinson) [s] [x2] [6]
-Light Is Waiting (Michael Robinson) [v/s] [7]
/-The Brown Bunny (Vincent Gallo, 2003)
Black Snake Moan (Craig Brewer) [5]
-Black and White Trypps Number Three (Ben Russell) [s] [7] [tentative grade]
/-The General Returns from One Place to Another (Michael Robinson) [v/s] [7]
-Birds of North America (Michael Robinson, 2004) [v/s]
-Chiquitta and the Soft Escape (Michael Robinson, 2003) [s]
-Routine Pleasures (Jean-Pierre Gorin, West Germany / France / U.K., 1986)
Zodiac (David Fincher) [6]
/-The Holy Girl (Lucrecia Martel, Argentina / Spain / Italy, 2004)
-Exterminating Angels (Jean-Claude Brisseau, France) [5]
-Ghosts (Christian Petzold, Germany) [6]
I Think I Love My Wife (Chris Rock) [5]
APRIL
-Jack Smith and the Destruction of Atlantis (Mary Jordan) [6]
/-California Split (Robert Altman, 1974)
-Valery's Ankle (Brett Kashmere, Canada / U.S.) [v/m] [7]
The Lives of Others (Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck, Germany) [5]
-Profit motive and the whispering wind (John Gianvito) [v/m] [8]
-Vanished (Naoto Kumazawa, Japan) [4]
\Dyn Amo (Stephen Dwoskin, U.K., 1972)
-Stranger Than Fiction (Marc Forster) [5]
-Butterflymole (Suh Myung-soo, South Korea) [v] [4]
-51 Birch Street (Doug Block, Germany / U.S.) [v] [6]
-All the Ships at Sea (Dan Sallitt, 2004) [m]
/-Beau Travail (Claire Denis, France, 1999)
-This Is My Cheesesteak (Ben Daniels) [v/m] [workprint]
The Bird Savior, Clouds and Wind (Istvan Szaladjak, Hungary) [W/O] (0:33)
-Where Has Your Hidden Smile Gone? (Pedro Costa, France / Portugal, 2001)
Vanaja (Rajnesh Domalpalli, India / U.S.) [7]
-Honor de cavalleria (Albert Serra, Spain) [8] [tentative grade -- pretty sure it'd hit 9 if seen on film in a theatre]
\-A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints (Dito Montiel) [6]
Some Pleasure on the Level of the Source (Sharon Greytak, 1982) [s]
Inland Empire (David Lynch, U.S. / Poland / France) [6]
Grindhouse (Robert Rodriguez / Rob Zombie / Edgar Wright / Eli Roth / Quentin Tarantino) [6]
MAY
-Or (My Treasure) (Keren Yedaya, Israel / France, 2004)
-Sleeping Dogs Lie. (Bobcat Goldthwait) [6]
-Bashing (Masahiro Kobayashi, Japan) [5]
-The Optimists (Goran Paskaljevic, Serbia) [4]
-Catch and Release (Susannah Grant) [4]
-The Fall of Communism . . . as Seen in Gay Pornography (William E. Jones, 1998) [v/s]
-Day Night Day Night (Julia Loktev) [7]
-Finished (William E. Jones, 1996)
-Let's Go to Prison (Bob Odenkirk) [5]
-Massillon (William E. Jones, 1991)
-Is It Really So Strange? (William E. Jones, 2004) [v]
-Mansfield 1962 (William E. Jones, 2006) [v/s] [no grade / review; in essence a condensed version of Tearoom]
/-Commingled Containers (Stan Brakhage, 1996) [s]
/-Lovesong (Stan Brakhage, 2001) [s]
/-v. o. (William E. Jones) [v/m] [7]*
-The Boss of It All (Lars von Trier, Denmark / Sweden / Iceland / Italy / France / Norway / Finland / Germany) [7]
-The Wind that Shakes the Barley (Ken Loach, Germany / Italy / Spain / France / Ireland / U.K.) [6]
-Marseille (Angela Schanelec, Germany, 2004)
-King and the Clown (Lee Jun-ik, South Korea) [5]
JUNE
/-Film Montages (for Peter Roehr) (William E. Jones) [v/s] [7]
Ocean's Thirteen (Steven Soderbergh) [6]
Knocked Up (Judd Apatow) [6]
-Election 2 [Triad Election] (Johnnie To, Hong Kong) [6]
-I'm a Cyborg, But That's OK (Park Chan-wook, South Korea) [5]
-Dans Paris (Christophe Honoré, France / Portugal) [5]
-Lady Chatterley (Pascale Ferran, France / Belgium) [6]
Paris je t'aime (various, Liechtenstein / Switzerland / Germany / France) [4]
JULY
/-Eyes Wide Shut (Stanley Kubrick, U.S. / U.K., 1999)
/-Full Metal Jacket (Stanley Kubrick, 1987)
-Hannah Takes the Stairs (Joe Swanberg) [3]
-Casa de Lava (Pedro Costa, Portugal / France / Germany, 1995)
-The Experimental Film (Arthur Lipsett, Canada, 1963) [s]
[which included]
/-A Man and His Dog Out for Air (Robert Breer, 1957) [s]
/-Very Nice Very Nice (Arthur Lipsett, Canada, 1961) [s]
-Sorbet 3 (Frans Zwartjes, The Netherlands, 1968) [s]
-Birds (Frans Zwartjes, The Netherlands, 1968) [s]
-Spectator (Frans Zwartjes, The Netherlands, 1970) [s]
-Visual Training (Frans Zwartjes, The Netherlands, 1969) [s]
-The Shining (Stanley Kubrick, U.S. / U.K., 1980)
-Living (Frans Zwartjes, The Netherlands, 1971) [s]
-Notes on Marie Menken (Martina Kudlácek, Austria / U.S.) [v] [2]
/-A Clockwork Orange (Stanley Kubrick, U.K., 1971)
/-Profit motive and the whispering wind (John Gianvito) [v/m] [8]
La Vie en Rose [La Môme] (Olivier Dahan, France / U.K. / Czech Republic) [4]
-Music and Lyrics (Marc Lawrence) [6]
-Tiger Shark (Howard Hawks, 1932)
/-2001: A Space Odyssey (Stanley Kubrick, U.S. / U.K., 1968)
-Ten Canoes (Rolf de Heer and Peter Djigirr, Australia) [7]
/-Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (Stanley Kubrick, U.S. / U.K., 1964)
-Drama/Mex (Gerardo Naranjo, Mexico) [6]
-Forty Guns (Samuel Fuller, 1957)
-State Legislature (Frederick Wiseman) [7]
/-Paths of Glory (Stanley Kubrick, 1957)
/-The Killing (Stanley Kubrick, 1956)
AUGUST
/-Killer's Kiss (Stanley Kubrick, 1955) [m]
Sunshine (Danny Boyle, U.K.) [6]
-En construcción (Work in Progress) (José Luis Guerín, Spain / France, 2001)
/-Barry Lyndon (Stanley Kubrick, U.K., 1975)
-Guru (Mani Ratnam, India) [4]
-Borom Sarret (Ousmane Sembène, Senegal, 1966) [s]
Rescue Dawn (Werner Herzog) [6]
-This Is England (Shane Meadows, U.K.) [5]
Sicko (Michael Moore) [7]
Paprika (Satoshi Kon, Japan) [7]
-Broken English (Zoe Cassavetes) [6]
-Strange Culture (Lynn Hershman Leeson) [7]
-Energie! (Thorsten Fleisch, Germany) [v/s] [x2] [4]
-Kosmos (Thorsten Fleisch, Germany, 2004) [s]
/Profit motive and the whispering wind (John Gianvito) [v/m] [8]
-Europa 2005, 27 Octobre (Jean-Marie Straub and Danièle Huillet, Italy) [v/s] [8]
-Falling (Barbara Albert, Austria / Germany) [5]
SEPTEMBER
-Zoo (Robinson Devor) [v] [6]
/-Energie! (Thorsten Fleisch, Germany) [v/s] [5]*
-Poison Friends (Emmanuel Bourdieu, France) [2]
/-Energie! (Thorsten Fleisch, Germany) [v/s] [5]
-I Want Someone to Eat Cheese With (Jeff Garlin) [3]
-To Each His Own Cinema (various, France) [5]
-Beyond the Years (Im Kwon-taek, South Korea) [4]
Tape Film (Chris Kennedy, U.S. / Canada) [s] [5]
epc 2D: sun (John Price, Canada) [s] [4]
Discoveries on the Forest Floor 1-3 (Charlotte Pryce) [s] [7]
Papillon (Olivier Fouchard, France) [s] [6]
Evertwo Circumflicksrent . . . Page 298 (Bruce McClure) [p/s] [5]
-The Walker (Paul Schrader, U.S. / U.K.) [6]
/-The Lonely Villa (D.W. Griffith, 1909) [s]
/-Corner In Wheat (D. W. Griffith, 1909) [s]
-The Free Will (Matthias Glasner, Germany) [8]
-Superbad (Greg Mottola) [5]
/-Report (Bruce Conner, 1967) [s]
/-passage á l'acte (Martin Arnold, Austria, 1993) [s]
/Dance No. 1 (Raphael Montañez Ortíz, 1985) [v/s]
My Fathers Dead (Raphael Montañez Ortíz, 1992) [v/s]
/Light Is Waiting (Michael Robinson) [v/s] [9]*
/NOEMA (Scott Stark, 1998) [v/s]
-Taxidermia (György Pálfi, Hungary / Austria / France) [4]
-Death Proof (Quentin Tarantino) [114 minute international edit] [7]
-Hotel Chevalier (Wes Anderson, U.S. / France) [s] [5]
-Angel (François Ozon, U.K. / Belgium / France) [7]
/-News from home (Chantal Akerman, Belgium / U.S., 1976)
OCTOBER
/-Meshes of the Afternoon (Maya Deren and Alexander Hammid, 1943) [s]
/-Sink or Swim (Su Friedrich, 1990) [m]
Armoire (Vincent Grenier) [v/s] [7]
-Respite (Harun Farocki, Germany / South Korea) [v/m] [6]
-Observando el Cielo (Jeanne Liotta) [s] [workprint]
Surging Sea of Humanity (Ken Jacobs) [v/s] [7]
North Shore (Fred Worden) [v/s] [7]
The Text of Light (Stan Brakhage, 1974)
-Time's Arrow (Fred Worden) [v/s] [6]
Capitalism: Child Labor (Ken Jacobs) [v/s] [9]
Dreams That Money Can't Buy (Ken Jacobs w/ Rick Reed) [p/m] [6]
Warm Objects (Peggy Ahwesh) [v/s] [4]
Notes from A Bastard Child (Fern Silva, U.S. / Portugal) [s] [6]
The Mongrel Sister (Luther Price) [s] [7]
Victory Over the Sun (Michael Robinson) [s] [7] [tentative grade]
Stranger Comes to Town (Jacqeline Goss) [v/s] [5]
/Light Is Waiting (Michael Robinson) [v/s] [9]
SpaceDisco One (Damon Packard) [v/m] [7]
Old Dark House (Ben Rivers, U.K., 2004) [s]
We the People (Ben Rivers, U.K., 2003) [s]
Detroit Block (Julie Murray) [v/s] [3]
Frontier Step (Gretchen Skogerson) [v/s] [5]
Dedication (Peggy Ahwesh) [v/s] [7]
House (Ben Rivers, U.K.) [s] [7] [tentative grade]
Footnotes to a House of Love (Laida Lertxundi) [s] [6]
Office Suite (Robert Todd) [s] [2]
Prague Winter (Jim Jennings) [s] [6]
Electricity (Henry Hills) [v/s] [7]
Recordando El Ayer (Alexandra Cuesta, U.S. / Ecuador) [s] [5]
Tahousse (Olivier Fouchard and Mahine Rohue, France) [m] [4]
Shadow (Ernie Gehr) [v/s] [7]
Cinematic Fertilizer 1 (Ernie Gehr) [v/s] [5]
Cinematic Fertilizer 2 (Ernie Gehr) [v/s] [5]
10th Avenue (aka Work In Progress) (Ernie Gehr) [v/m] [5]
Eyewash (Robert Breer, 1959) [s]
Antigenic Drift (Lewis Klahr) [v/s] [7]
Hide (Matthias Müller and Christophe Giradet) [v/s] [6]
The Counter Girl Trilogy (Courtney Hoskins) [s] [no rating - the dim projector bulb essentially ate this film]
Volto Sorpresso al buio (Face Caught in the Dark) (Paolo Gioli, Italy, 1995) [s]
Beirut Outtakes (Peggy Ahwesh) [v/s] [6]
For Them (Jonathan Schwartz) [s] [4]
For A Winter (Jonathan Schwartz) [s] [no grade - ditto above]
Sunbeam Hunter (Jonathan Schwartz) [s] [4]
A Logic Sore (Jonathan Schwartz) [s] [3]
The Wedding Present (Jonathan Schwartz) [s] [5]
40 Years (Jonathan Schwartz) [s] [2]
The Film of A Thousand and One Nights and A Night (Volume 2) (Scott Puccio) [s] [5]
Hanky Panky January 1902 (Ken Jacobs) [v/s] [5]
Eyewash [version two] (Robert Breer, 1959) [s]
/Recreation (Robert Breer, 1956) [s]
/-Cat's Cradle (Stan Brakhage, 1959) [s]
/-Window Water Baby Moving (Stan Brakhage, 1959) [s]
/-Sirius Remembered (Stan Brakhage, 1959) [s]
/-Mothlight (Stan Brakhage, 1963) [s]
/-Dog Star Man Part 2 (Stan Brakhage, 1961-64) [s]
/-Eye Myth (Stan Brakhage, 1972) [s]
/-Black Ice (Stan Brakhage, 1994) [s]
/-Commingled Containers (Stan Brakhage, 1997) [s]
/-Glass (Leighton Pierce, 1998) [s]
The Bourne Ultimatum (Paul Greengrass) [6]
-Secret Sunshine (Lee Chang-dong, South Korea) [6]
/-Victory Over the Sun (Michael Robinson) [8]*
-House [two-screen version] (Ben Rivers, U.K.) [s] [6]
-The Hyrcynium Wood (Ben Rivers, U.K.) [s] [7]
Eastern Promises (David Cronenberg, Canada / U.K. / U.S.) [7]
/-House (Ben Rivers, U.K.) [s] [7]
-The Coming Race (Ben Rivers, U.K.) [s] [7]
/-Puce Moment (Kenneth Anger, 1949) [s]
-Ploy (Pen-Ek Ratanaruang, Thailand) [5]
How to Conduct a Love Affair (David Gatten) [s] [7]
What the Water Said, nos. 4-6 (David Gatten) [s] [x2] [10]
-The Ex (Jesse Peretz) [5]
-Interieur Interiors (To AK) (Vincent Grenier, 1978) [s]
-While Revolved (Vincent Grenier, 1976) [s]
-Surface tension #2 (Vincent Grenier, 1995-2005) [s]
/-Kino Da! (Henry Hills, 1981) [s]
-Money (Henry Hills, 1985) [s]
-Radio Adios (Henry Hills, 1982) [s]
Observando El Cielo (Jeanne Liotta) [s] [x2] [9]
-Smiley Face (Gregg Araki) [5]
-Blades of Glory (Josh Gordon and Will Speck) [5]
-Klimt (Raoul Ruiz, Austria / France / Germany / U.K.) [5]
/Wavelength (Michael Snow, Canada / U.S., 1967) [m]
/Hanky Panky January 1902 (Ken Jacobs) [v/s] [6]*
Nymph (Ken Jacobs) [v/s] [8]
/-site specific_LAS VEGAS 05 (Olivo Barbieri, Italy / Canada) [s] [6]
-Sevilla --> (∞) 06 (Olivo Barbieri, Italy / Spain) [s] [5]
-site specific_SHANGHAI 04 (Olivo Barbieri, Italy / China, 2004) [s]
-The Shock Doctrine (Alfonso Cuarón / Jonás Cuarón / Naomi Klein, U.S. / U.K. / Canada) [s] [7]
S:TREAM:S:S:ECTION:S:ECTION:S:S:ECTIONED (Paul Sharits, 1971) [m]
NOVEMBER
-1408 (Mikael Håfström) [7]
/-Hanky Panky January 1902 (Ken Jacobs) [v/s] [6]
/-Nymph (Ken Jacobs) [v/s] [8]
-Capitalism: Slavery (Ken Jacobs) [v/s] [7]
/-Capitalism: Child Labor (Ken Jacobs) [v/s] [8]*
Gone Baby Gone (Ben Affleck) [8]
The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (Andrew Dominik) [7]
-You, the Living (Roy Andersson, Sweden / Germany / France / Denmark / Norway) [7]
/-Hold Me While I'm Naked (George Kuchar, 1964) [s]
/-Little Stabs at Happiness (Ken Jacobs, 1959-63) [s]
-Redacted (Brian De Palma) [5]
Michael Clayton (Tony Gilroy) [6]
\-I Don't Want To Sleep Alone (Tsai Ming-liang, Malaysia / China / Taiwan / France / Austria) [7]
-Paranoid Park (Gus Van Sant, U.S. / France) [7]
-The Life of Reilly (Barry Poltermann and Frank Anderson) [8]
-12:08 East of Bucharest (Corneliu Porumboiu, Romania) [7]
/-Tribulation 99: Alien Anomalies Under America (Craig Baldwin, 1992) [m]
The Darjeeling Limited (Wes Anderson) [6]
-Bug (William Friedkin) [6]
/-The Hole (Tsai Ming-liang, Taiwan / France, 1997)
/-you don't bring me flowers (Michael Robinson) [s] [7]
/-The General Returns From One Place to Another (Michael Robinson) [v/s] [7]
-Tidal (Michael Robinson, 2001) [s]
/-And We All Shine On (Michael Robinson) [s] [6]
/-Chiquitita and the Soft Eclipse (Michael Robinson, 2003) [s]
/-Victory Over the Sun (Michael Robinson) [s] [8]
Last Days In A Lonely Place (Phil Solomon) [v/s] [9}
/Capitalism: Slavery (Ken Jacobs) [v/s] [7]
DECEMBER
/-Meshes of the Afternoon (Maya Deren and Alexander Hammid, 1943) [s]
/-Daisies (Vera Chytilová, Czechoslovakia, 1966)
/-Wide Angle Saxon (George Landow [Owen Land], 1975) [s]
/-Blissfully Yours (Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Thailand / France, 2002)
/-Capitalism: Slavery (Ken Jacobs) [v/s] [7]
/-Last Days In A Lonely Place (Phil Solomon) [v/s] [9]
/-Paranoid Park (Gus Van Sant, U.S. / France) [7]
-The Band's Visit (Eran Kolirin, Israel / France / U.S.) [7]
-Southland Tales (Richard Kelly) [3]
-We Own the Night (James Gray) [7]
No Country For Old Men (Joel and Ethan Coen) [6]
-The Savages (Tamara Jenkins) [6]
-The Banishment (Andrei Zvyagintsev, Russia) [6]
-XXY (Lucía Puenzo, Argentina / France / Spain) [7]
-It's a Free World . . . (Ken Loach, U.K. / Italy / Germany / Spain) [6]
-I'm Not There (Todd Haynes) [8]
-Black Book (Paul Verhoeven, The Netherlands / Germany / Belgium) [7]
-The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (Julien Schnabel, France / U.S.) [5]
-Exodus (Pang Ho-cheung, Hong Kong) [7]
-Quiet City (Aaron Katz) [7]
-My Kid Could Paint That (Amir Bar-Lev, U.S. / U.K.) [5]
/I'm Not There (Todd Haynes) [8]
-Ratatouille (Brad Bird) [7]
-Schindler's Houses (Heinz Emigholz, Germany / Austria) [6]
and that was the year that was.
(the bottom)