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

-2010 (Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Thailand) [x2] [v/s] [6]

/Scene 32 (Shambhavi Kaul, U.S. / India) [v/s] [7]

-Nook and Cranny (Francien von Everdingen, The Netherlands) [s] [7]

trendfollower (Didi Bruckmayr, Austria) [v/s] [4]

-Police, Adjective (Corneliu Porumboiu, Romania) [8]

-Collapse (Chris Smith) [7]

-Alvin and the Chipmunks 2 (Betty Thomas) [5]

-What Part of the Earth Is Inhabited (After Pliny the Elder) (Erin Espelie) [x2] [s] [7]

-night side (Rebecca Meyers) [x2] [s] [6]

-Vineland (Laura Kraning) [s] [5]

-Trees of Syntax, Leaves of Axis (Daïchi Saïto, Canada) [x2] [s] [8]

-Cinematographie (Philipp Fleischmann, Austria) [x2] [s] [8]

-I Know Where I'm Going (Ben Rivers, U.K.) [m] [7] [tentative grade]

-May Tomorrow Shine the Brightest of All Your Many Days As It Will Be Your Last (Ben Rivers, U.K.) [s] [5]

-The Bad Lieutenant -- Port of Call: New Orleans (Werner Herzog) [8]

/-Fire and Rain (James Benning, U.S. / Austria) [v/s] [6]
-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] [7]

/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)

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