FILMS SEEN, 2010
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)
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JANUARY
-Fish Tank (Andrea Arnold, U.K.) [4]
-Every Little Step (James D. Stern and Adam Del Deo) [4]
/For Them Ending (Jonathan Schwartz, 2007) [s]
/For A Winter (Jonathan Schwartz, 2007) [s]
/A Logic Sore (Jonathan Schwartz, 2007) [s]
in a years with 13 deaths (Jonathan Schwartz) [s] [8]
/40 Years (Jonathan Schwartz, 2007) [s]
90 Year (Jonathan Schwartz) [s]
/The Wedding Present (Jonathan Schwartz, 2007) [s]
Nothing is Over Nothing (Jonathan Schwartz) [s] [6] [tentative grade]
/-Nathan Phillips Square, A Winter's Night, Skating (Mark Lewis, Canada / U.K.) [s] [7]*
-If There Be Thorns (Michael Robinson) [x2] [s] [7]
excerpt from THE SKY SOCIALIST stratified (Ken Jacobs) [x2] [v/s] [5]
My Way 1 (Amie Siegel) [v/s] [5]
I Miss (Annie Dorsen) [v/s] [3] [although actually, when I read more about the piece, it dropped down to about 2, but let's be fair]
-My Tears Are Dry (Laida Lertxundi, Spain / U.S.) [s] [6]
(If I Can Sing a Song About) Ligatures (Abigail Child) [v/s] [7]
-The Road (John Hillcoat) [5]
-Thirst (Park Chan-wook, South Korea) [6]
-Broken Embraces (Pedro Almodóvar, Spain) [5]
/-If There Be Thorns (Michael Robinson) [s] [7]
-Home (Ursula Meier, Switzerland / France / Belgium) [7]
/Scene 32 (Shambhavi Kaul, U.S. / India) [v/s] [7]
-Parallax (Christopher Becks, Canada / France / Yemen / Bangladesh) [x2] [s] [6]
/Wound Footage (Thorsten Fleisch, Germany) [v/s] [7]
/-I Love You, Man (John Hamburg) [5]
The Three Ravens (Bobby Abate) [v/s] [4]
Contre-jour (Christophe Girardet & Matthias Müller, Germany) [v/s] [4]
-Postcard #3: Niagara Rises (Carolyn Faber) [x3] [7]
-Postcard #2: Weather, Channel (Carolyn Faber, 2004) [s]
-Postcard #1: North Sea Harbor (Carolyn Faber, 2005) [s]
-For The Record (Carolyn Faber, 2003) [s]
/-Dogville (Lars von Trier, Denmark / Sweden / Norway / Finland / U.K. / France / Germany / The Netherlands, 2003)
-False Friends (Sylvia Schedelbauer, Germany) [s] [7]
-way fare (Sylvia Schedelbauer, Germany) [s] [7]
The Visit and the Play (Stephanie Barber) [v/s] [6]
the inversion, transcription, evening track and attractor (Stephanie Barber) [x2] [v/s] [7]
dwarfs the sea (Stephanie Barber) [x2] [v/s] [7]
War Story (Stephanie Barber) [v/s] [5]
/The Visit and the Play (Stephanie Barber) [v/s] [6]
-Sarah Ann (Pim Zwier, The Netherlands) [s] [7]
-Sphinx on the Seine (Paul Clipson) [s] [6]
/-The Diamond (Descartes' Daughter) (Emily Wardill, U.K.) [s] [7]
-Whip It (Drew Barrymore) [7]
/-Watchmen (Zack Snyder) [4]
/-The Man With the Movie Camera (Dziga Vertov, U.S.S.R., 1929)
-House (Nobuhiko Obayashi, Japan, 1977)
/-Coraline (Henry Selick) [8]*
-Treeless Mountain (So Yong Kim, U.S. / South Korea) [5]
-A Town Called Panic [Panique au village] (Stéphane Aubier and Vincent Patar, Belgium / Luxembourg / France) [6]
-Everyone Else (Maren Ade, Germany) [7]
-Big Eyes (Uri Zohar, Israel, 1974) [W/O] (0:20)
FEBRUARY
/-Night and Fog (Alain Resnais, France, 1955) [m]
-Night and Day (Hong Sang-soo, South Korea / France) [7]
/-Getting Stronger Every Day (Miranda July, 2001) [v/s]
-Wüstenspringmaus (Jim Finn, 2001) [s]
/-Oona's Veil (Brian Frye, 2001) [s]
-Stuffing (Animal Charm, 1998) [v/s]
/-Removed (Naomi Uman, 1999) [s]
-Election Collectibles (Bryan Boyce, 2000) [v/s]
-N Judah 5:30 (Sam Green, 2003) [s]
-Crowdog (Vanessa Renwick, 1998) [s]
-Buffalo Common (Bill Brown, 2001) [s] [W/O] (0:09)
/-The Subconscious Art of Graffiti Removal (Matt McCormick, 2001) [v/s]
-Life According to Agfa (Assi Dayan, Israel, 1992)
-The Greatest (Shana Feste) [4]
-Videocracy (Erik Gandini, Sweden / Denmark / U.K. / Finland) [W/O] (0:14)
-In the Attic, or Who Has a Birthday Today? (Jirí Barta, Czech Republic / Slovakia / Japan) [W/O] (0:10)
-Harmony and Me (Bob Byington) [W/O] (0:11)
/-The Battle of Algiers (Gillo Pontecorvo, Algeria / Italy, 1966)
-La Danse: The Paris Opera Ballet (Frederick Wiseman, U.S. / France) [6]
-H(i)J (Guillaume Cailleau, Germany) [x2] [s] [6]
-I volti dell'Anonomo / Faces by a Person Unknown (Paolo Gioli, Italy) [x2] [s] [7]
/-Moolaadé (Ousmane Sembene, Senegal / France / Burkina Faso / Cameroon / Morocco / Tunisia, 2004)
MARCH
/-Land In Anguish (Glauber Rocha, Brazil, 1967)
/-Punishment Park (Peter Watkins, 1971)
-Alice in Wonderland (Tim Burton) [5]
-The Secret of Kells (Tomm Moore & Nora Twomey, France / Belgium / Ireland) [7]
The Art of the Steal (Don Argott) [7]
/-Superstar: The Karen Carpenter Story (Todd Haynes, 1987) [m]
/-Polytechnique (Denis Villeneuve, Canada) [8]
-The Iron Giant (BRad Bird, 1999)
-Chaos Theory (Marcos Siega) [6]
-Arrière Saison (Dimitri Kirsanoff, France, 1950) [s]
/-Monsters, Inc. (Pete Docter, 2001)
-Venom and Eternity (Jean-Isadore Isou, France, 1951)
-Danse Macabre (Dudley Murphy, 1922) [s]
/-The Petrified Dog (Sidney Peterson, 1946) [s]
-Tarantella (Mary Ellen Bute / Ted Nemeth, 1940) [s]
/-Elephant (Gus Van Sant, 2003)
-Shutter Island (Martin Scorsese) [6]
-I, An Actress (George Kuchar, 1977) [s]
-Chumlum (Ron Rice, 1964) [s]
-Joachim Gatti (Jean-Marie Straub, France / Italy) [s] [7]
-RR (James Benning, 2007)
/-Joachim Gatti (Jean-Marie Straub, France / Italy) [x2] [s] [7]
APRIL
/-Do The Right Thing (Spike Lee, 1989)
-Clear Blue Tuesday (Elizabeth Lucas) [3]
-Father Vs. Son (Joe Ballarini) [6]
-Maya (Michal Bat-Adam, Israel) [6]
-Symbol (Hitoshi Matsumoto, Japan) [8]
-It Came From Kuchar (Jennifer M. Kroot) [6]
/-Peppermint Candy (Lee Chang-dong, South Korea, 1999)
-Only Angels Have Wings (Howard Hawks, 1939)
/-Bamako (Abderrahmane Sissako, Mali / France / U.S., 2006)
/-The Bad Lieutenant -- Port of Call: New Orleans (Werner Herzog) [7]*
-Sepet (Yasmin Ahmad, Malaysia, 2004)
-Gubra (Yasmin Ahmad, Malaysia, 2006)
-The Human Centipede (First Sequence) (Tom Six, The Netherlands) [3]
-Talentime (Yasmin Ahmad, Malaysia) [7]
MAY
Cutter's Way (Ivan Passer, 1981)
-Dogtooth (Yorgos Lanthimos, Greece) [7]
/-Old Dark House (Ben Rivers, U.K., 2003) [s]
-Greenhouse (Ben Rivers, U.K., 2007) [s]
/-I Know Where I'm Going (Ben Rivers, U.K.) [m] [8]*
-Astika (Ben Rivers, U.K. / Denmark, 2006) [s]
/-The Coming Race (Ben Rivers, U.K., 2006) [s]
/We The People (Ben Rivers, U.K., 2004) [s]
/-The Hyrcynium Wood (Ben Rivers, U.K., 2005) [s]
/-House (Ben Rivers, U.K., 2007) [s]
-This Is My Land (Ben Rivers, U.K., 2006) [s]
/-May Tomorrow Shine the Brightest of All Your Many Days As It Will Be Your Last (Ben Rivers, U.K.) [s] [7]*
Shrek Forever After (Mike Mitchell) [W/O] (0:14)
-Losing You (Ian Clay) [v] [4]
Exit Through the Gift Shop (Banksy, U.S. / U.K.) [5]
-To Die Like a Man (João Pedro Rodrigues, Portugal / France) [6]
-Bluebeard (Catherine Breillat, France) [6]
JUNE
/-Fog Line (Larry Gottheim, 1970) [s]
/Profit motive and the whispering wind (John Gianvito, 2007) [v/m]
-Capitalism: A Love Story (Michael Moore) [W/O] (1:15)
/-El Valley Centro (James Benning, 2000)
/-way fare (Sylvia Schedebauer, Germany) [s] [7]
/-Rose Hobart (Joseph Cornell, 1936) [s]
/-A Movie (Bruce Conner, 1958) [s]
/-Very Nice, Very Nice (Arthur Lipsett, Canada, 1961) [s]
/-passage á l’acte (Martin Arnold, Austria, 1993) [s]
/Wound Footage (Thorsten Fleisch, Germany) [v/s] [7]
/When Worlds Collude (Fred Worden) [v/s] [7]
/-way fare (Sylvia Schedebauer, Germany) [s] [7]
/-Valse Triste (Bruce Conner, 1977) [s]
-Murder Psalm (Stan Brakhage, 1981) [s]
/-Instructions for a Light and Sound Machine (Peter Tscherkassky, Austria, 2005) [s]
/Hanky Panky Januray 1902 (Ken Jacobs, 2007) [v/s]
/Nymph (Ken Jacobs, 2007) [v/s]
/NOEMA (Scott Stark, 1998) [v/s]
/-Police, Adjective (Corneliu Porumboiu, Romania) [8]
-Ondine (Neil Jordan, Ireland / U.S.) [6]
-MacGruber (Jorma Taccone) [6]
/-Tribulation 99: Alien Anomalies Under America (Craig Baldwin, 1992) [m]
Whispering Pines 9 (Shana Moulton) [v/s] [5]
/-Duck Amuck (Charles M. Jones, 1953) [s]
-Free Fall (Arthur Lipsett, Canada, 1964) [s]
/-Unsere Afrikareise (Peter Kubelka, Austria, 1966) [s]
/-My Name Is Oona (Gunvor Nelson, U.S. / Sweden, 1967) [s]
/-Time Piece (Jim Henson, 1965) [s]
/-(nostalgia) (Hollis Frampton, 1971) [m]
/Light Is Waiting (Michael Robinson, 2007) [v/s]
/-Mothlight (Stan Brakhage, 1963) [s]
/-Dog Star Man: Part Two (Stan Brakhage, 1962) [s]
/-Study in Color and Black and White (Stan Brakhage, 1993) [s]
/-Puce Moment (Kenneth Anger, 1949) [s]
/-Kustom Kar Kommandos (Kenneth Anger, 1965) [s]
/-New York Portrait, Part 2 (Peter Hutton, 1980) [s]
/-The End (Christopher Maclaine, 1953) [m]
/-Meshes of the Afternoon (Maya Deren and Alexander Hammid, 1943) [s]
/-Window Water Baby Moving (Stan Brakhage, 1961) [s]
/-I, An Actress (George Kuchar, 1977) [s]
/-Black and White Trypps Number Three (Ben Russell, 2007) [s]
-The Oath (Laura Poitras) [8]
-Toy Story 3 (Lee Unkrich) [7]
-June 17, 1994 (Brett Morgen) [v/m] [6]
-Shirin (Abbas Kiarostami, Iran) [7]
-Women Without Men (Shirin Neshat, Germany / Austria / France) [4]
/-Sink or Swim (Su Friedrich, 1990)
/-I Know Where I'm Going (Ben Rivers, U.K.) [m] [8]
/Golden Gate Bridge Exposure: Poised For Parabolas (Lynn Marie Kirby, 2003) [v/s]
The Twilight Saga: Eclipse (David Slade) [4]
/Horizon Line (Katherin McInnis) [v/s] [7]
-Erie (Kevin J. Everson) [6]
/Phantoms of Nabua (Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Thailand / Germany / U.K.) [v/s] [10]
JULY
-Soy Tu Madre (Phil Collins, U.S. / U.K.) [s] [4]
-Podwórka (Sharon Lockhart, U.S. / Poland) [s] [7]
-Baghead (Jay Duplass and Mark Duplass) [5]
-After Writing (Mary Helena Clark, 2007) [s]
And the Sun Flowers (Mary Helena Clark) [v/s] [5]
-Sound Over Water (Mary Helena Clark) [s] [6]
The Same Problem (Alessa Cohene and Benny Nemerofsky Ramsay, Canada) [v/s] [3]
-Greenberg (Noah Baumbach) [7]
/-High and Low (Akira Kurosawa, Japan, 1963)
-The Big Sleep (Howard Hawks, 1946) [x2]
-Face (Tsai Ming-liang, France / Taiwan / Belgium / The Netherlands) [6]
-Life During Wartime (Todd Solondz) [5]
-The Wrong Trousers (Nick Park, U.K., 1993) [m]
/-Toy Story 3 (Lee Unkrich) [first half 3D / second half 2D] [6]*
-Robinson In Space (Patrick Keiller, U.K., 1997)
-In The Shadows (Thomas Arslan, Germany) [7]
Wild Grass (Alain Resnais, France / Italy) [7]