FILMS SEEN, 2008

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

-Prosperity for 2008 (Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Thailand) [v/s] [7]

-Breaking and Entering (Anthony Minghella, U.K.) [4]

-In the City of Sylvia (José Luis Guerín, Spain / France) [7] [tentative grade]

Juno (Jason Reitman) [6]

/-Prosperity for 2008 (Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Thailand) [v/s] [7]

Into the Wild (Sean Penn) [4]

-Exiled (Johnnie To, Hong Kong) [8]

-4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days (Cristian Mungiu, Romania) [6]

-Margot at the Wedding (Noah Baumbach) [5]

/-Werckmeister Harmonies (Béla Tarr and Ágnes Hranitzky, Hungary / Italy / Germany / France, 2000)

-Vacancy (Nimród Antal) [5]

-Useless (Jia Zhang-ke, China / Hong Kong) [v] [5]

-Into Great Silence (Philip Gröning, Germany) [4]

-Once (John Carney, Ireland) [4]

-Glory to the Filmmaker! (Takeshi Kitano, Japan) [3]

-Big Man Japan [Dai-Nipponjin] (Hitoshi Matsumoto, Japan) [5]

-Joshua (George Ratliff) [2]

/-Flowers of Shanghai (Hou Hsiao-hsien, Taiwan, 1998)

-Persepolis (Vincent Paronnaud and Marjane Satrapi, France / U.S.) [6]

Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (Tim Burton, U.S. / U.K.) [6]

-The Bothersome Man (Jens Lien, Norway / Iceland) [7]

-Lust, Caution (Ang Lee, Taiwan / U.S.) [4]

-Before the Devil Knows You're Dead (Sidney Lumet) [7]

-Radiant City (Jim Brown and Gary Burns, Canada) [7]

\-Daratt (Mahamat-Saleh Haroun, Chad / France / Belgium / Austria) [6]

FEBRUARY

-The King of Kong (Seth Gordon) [6]

-Atonement (Joe Wright, U.K. / France) [5]

There Will Be Blood (Paul Thomas Anderson) [8]

/-Day Night Day Night (Julia Loktev) [7]

-Alexandra (Alexander Sokurov, Russia / France) [6]

-The Sun Also Rises (Jiang Wen, China / Hong Kong) [8]

-In Memory of Me (Saverio Costanzo, Italy) [4]

-Sonata For Hitler (Alexander Sokurov, U.S.S.R., 1989) [s]

/-In the City of Sylvia (José Luis Guerín, Spain / France) [8]*

/-Tomorrow We Move (Chantal Akerman, France / Belgium, 2004)

-Import Export (Ulrich Seidl, Austria) [8]

-Lost In Beijing (Li Yu, China) [5]

-Mad Detective (Johnnie To and Wai Ka Fai, Hong Kong) [7]

-Ex Drummer (Koen Mortier, Belgium) [5]

-No End In Sight (Charles Ferguson) [7]

-The Counterfeiters (Stefan Ruzowitzky, Austria / Germany) [4]

-Laaga Chunari Mein Daag: Journey of a Woman (Pradeep Sarkar, India) [7]

-A Gentle Breeze in the Village (Nobuhiro Yamashita, Japan) [6]

-Elite Squad (José Padilha, Brazil) [6]

-The Duchess of Langeais [Ne touchez pas la hache] (Jacques Rivette, France / Italy) [8]

/Still Life (Jia Zhangke, China / Hong Kong) [v] [9]*

/-Los Muertos (Lisandro Alonso, Argentina / France / The Netherlands / Switzerland, 2004)

-The Last Mistress [Une vieille maîtresse] (Catherine Breillat, France / Italy) [7]

-Yella (Christian Petzold, Germany) [5]

-The Man From London (Béla Tarr and Ágnes Hranitzky, France / Germany / Hungary) [6]

-Quiet As Kept (Charles Burnett) [v/s] [4]

MARCH

/-In the City of Sylvia (José Luis Guerín, Spain / France) [8]

/-Paranoid Park (Gus Van Sant, U.S. / France) [7]

-My Winnipeg (Guy Maddin, Canada) [8]

-Blind Mountain (Li Yang, China / Germany / Hong Kong) [3]

-Chop Shop (Ramin Bahrani) [6]

-Before I Forget (Jacques Nolot, France) [6]

-Cochochi (Israel Cárdenas and Laura Amelia Guzmán, Mexico / U.K. / Canada) [4]

-The Unknown Woman [La Sconosciuta] (Giuseppe Tornatore, Italy / France) [6]

-The Brothers Solomon (Bob Odenkirk) [5]

Funny Games [U.S.] (Michael Haneke, U.S. / U.K. / France / Austria) [5]

-The Witnesses (André Téchiné, France) [7]

-The Tracey Fragments (Bruce McDonald, Canada) [7]

-Jar City (Baltasar Kormákur, Iceland / Germany / Denmark) [6]

/-My Winnipeg (Guy Maddin, Canada) [7]*

/-Zodiac (David Fincher) [8]*

-Frownland (Ronald Bronstein) [5]

-Boarding Gate (Olivier Assayas, France) [7]

-Breaktime (Abbas Kiarostami, Iran, 1972) [s]

/-Syndromes and a Century (Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Thailand / France / Austria) [8]

/-The Duchess of Langeais [Ne touchez pas la hache] (Jacques Rivette, France / Italy) [8]

-Love Songs (Christophe Honoré, France) [5]

/-I Think I Love My Wife (Chris Rock) [5]

/-Curious George (Matthew O'Callaghan) [6]

Married Life (Ira Sachs) [5]

-The Namesake (Mira Nair, India / U.S.) [7]

-Eat, For This Is My Body (Michelange Quay, France / Haiti) [7]

APRIL

-Breath (Kim Ki-duk, South Korea) [4]

/-Eat, For This Is My Body (Michelange Quay, France / Haiti) [7]

-Flight of the Red Balloon (Hou Hsiao-hsien, France) [9] [tentative grade]

-The Mourning Forest (Naomi Kawase, Japan / France) [4]

-Silent Light (Carlos Reygadas, Mexico / France / The Netherlands) [Spanish-subtitled workprint]

-Delicacies of Molten Horror Synapse (Stan Brakhage, 1991) [s]

/-Secret Sunshine (Lee Chang-dong, South Korea) [7]*

-My Blueberry Nights (Wong Kar Wai, Hong Kong / China / France) [7]

/Mansfield 1963 (William E. Jones) [v/s]

/Film Montages (For Peter Roehr) (William E. Jones) [v/s] [7]

/v.o. (William E. Jones) [v/m] [7]

-My Brother Is an Only Child (Daniele Luchetti, Italy / France) [6]

At Sea (Peter Hutton) [7]

-The Mosquito Problem & Other Stories (Andrey Paounov, Bulgaria / U.S. / Germany / U.K. / The Netherlands / Finland) [4]

-Maxwell's Demon (Hollis Frampton, 1968) [s]

-Princess (Anders Morgenthaler, Denmark / Germany) [5]

-Dan in Real Life (Peter Hedges) [7]

-CJ7 (Stephen Chow, Hong Kong) [6]

-The Romance of Astreé and Céladon (Eric Rohmer, France / Italy / Spain) [7]

-Ballast (Lance Hammer) [7]

-O' Horten (Bent Hamer, Norway / Sweden / Germany) [5]

-Water Lilies (Céline Sciamma, France) [4]

-Mister Lonely (Harmony Korine, France / Ireland / U.K. / U.S.) [4]

MAY

-A Flower in Hell (Shin Sang-ok, South Korea, 1958)

-Sita Sings the Blues (Nina Paley) [7]

-La France (Serge Bozon, France) [?] [I just need to watch it again.]

-Mock Up on Mu (Craig Baldwin) [v] [8]

/-Prosperity for 2008 (Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Thailand) [v/s] [7]

/-Spectres of the Spectrum (Craig Baldwin, 1999)

/-RocketKitKongoKit (Craig Baldwin, 1985) [m]

/-Wild Gunman (Craig Baldwin, 1978) [s]

/-Sonic Outlaws (Craig Baldwin, 1995)

/-Mock Up on Mu (Craig Baldwin) [v] [7]*

/-La France (Serge Bozon, France) [8]

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