FILMS SEEN, 2013
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
-Killer Joe (William Friedkin) [6]
-Arraianos (Eloy Enciso, Spain / Portugal) [7]
-Skyfall (Sam Mendes, U.K. / U.S.) [7]
-The Paperboy (Lee Daniels) [3]
/-Zero Dark Thirty (Kathryn Bigelow) [5]*
-Not Fade Away (David Chase) [4]
-Vulgaria (Pang Ho-Cheung, Hong Kong) [7]
No (Pablo Larraín, Chile / France / U.S.) [7]
-Silver Linings Playbook (David O. Russell) [5]
-7 Up (Paul Almond and Michael Apted, U.K., 1964) [s]
-7 Plus 7 (Michael Apted, U.K., 1971) [m]
-21 Up (Michael Apted, U.K., 1979)
/-selection of four actualities (Louis and Auguste Lumiére, France, 1895) [s]
/-Electricuting an Elephant (Thomas Edison, 1903) [s]
/-Window Water Baby Moving (Stan Brakhage, 1962) [s]
/-Lessons of Darkness (Werner Herzog, U.S. / Germany / Kuwait, 1992) [m]
-28 Up (Michael Apted, U.K., 1986)
-56 Up (Michael Apted, U.K.) [6]
-35 Up (Michael Apted, U.K., 1993)
-Django Unchained (Quentin Tarantino) [7]
-Catnip: Egress to Oblivion? (Jason Willis) [s] [6]
/-Nanook of the North (Robert Flaherty, U.S. / Canada, 1922)
-Bronies: The Extremely Unexpected Adult Fans of My Little Pony (Laurent Malaquais) [4]
-Upstream Color (Shane Carruth) [7]
FEBRUARY
Circle in the Sand (Michael Robinson) [v/m] [7]
-Mama (Andrés Muschietti, Spain / Canada) [4]
/-The Man With the Movie Camera (Dziga Vertov, U.S.S.R., 1929)
-A Glimpse Inside the Mind of Charles Swan III (Roman Coppola) [W/O] (0:38)
/-Bloom (Scott Stark) [v/s] [7]
-Marriage Material (Joe Swanberg) [v/m] [5]
/-Granton Trawler (John Grierson and Edgar Anstey, U.K., 1934) [s]
/-Sogobi (James Benning, 2002)
/-The Plow That Broke the Plains (Pare Lorentz, 1936) [s]
-Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry (Alison Klayman) [6]
-Vic + Flo Saw a Bear (Denis Côté, Canada) [7]
/-Las Hurdes [Land Without Bread] (Luis Buñuel, Spain, 1933) [s]
/-Granton Trawler (John Grierson and Edgar Anstey, U.K., 1934) [s]
-The Freethinker (Peter Watkins, Sweden, 1994) [v]
-The Hedge Theater (Robert Beavers, 1986-90/2002) [s]
/-Night and Fog (Alain Resnais, France, 1955) [s]
-In Titan's Goblet (Peter Hutton, 1991) [s]
/-Study of a River (Peter Hutton, 1997) [s]
/-Vic + Flo Saw a Bear (Denis Côté, Canada) [7]
-Moi, un Noir (Jean Rouch, France / Ivory Coast, 1958)
MARCH
-Smashed (James Ponsoldt) [4]
-Yossi (Eytan Fox, Israel) [5]
/-Titicut Follies (Frederick Wiseman, 1967)
Before Midnight (Richard Linklater, U.S. / Greece) [7]
-It's a Disaster (Todd Berger) [5]
-Dusty Stacks of Mom: The Poster Project (Jodie Mack) [m] [near complete edit] [7]
-Antiviral (Brandon Cronenberg, Canada) [4]
-Future Weather (Jenny Deller) [5]
-The We and The I (Michel Gondry, U.S. / France) [5]
-Wrong (Quentin Dupieux, France) [W/O] (0:32)
-Oz the Great and Powerful (Sam Raimi) [5]
-The Comedy (Rick Alverson) [7]
/-Sans Soleil (Chris Marker, France, 1982)
/-Citizen Kane (Orson Welles, 1941)
-The Land Before Time V: The Mysterious Island (Charles Grosvenor, 1997)
/-The Thin Blue Line (Errol Morris, 1988)
The Host (Andrew Niccol) [5]
-Somebody Up There Likes Me (Bob Byington) [7]
The Place Beyond The Pines (Derek Cianfrance) [7]
-Dr. Mabuse, The Gambler (Fritz Lang, Germany, 1922)
-Stagecoach (John Ford, 1939)
The Realist (Scott Stark) [v/m] [7] [tentative grade]
-Sightseers (Ben Wheatley, U.K.) [5]
/-No (Pablo Larraín, Chile / France / U.S.) [8]*
APRIL
-casting a glance (James Benning, 2007)
-The Incredible Burt Wonderstone (Don Scardino) [5]
-Hotel Room (Bernd Oppl, Austria) [v/s] [6]
-Deep Red (Esther Urlus, The Netherlands) [s] [6]
-Division (Johan Rijpma, The Netherlands) [s] [4]
-Brad's Book (Bradly Dever Treadway) [v/s] [4]
-Bishopric (Robert Todd) [5]
/-Reconnaissance (Johann Lurf, Austria) [s] [6]*
-Rauch und Spiegel [Smoke and Mirrors] (Nick Moore, Australia) [v/s] [3]
-Mountain in Shadow (Lois Patiño, Spain) [s] [7]
-Workers Leaving the Factory (Again) (Katharina Gruzei, Austria) [v/s] [7]
/The Realist (Scott Stark) [v/m] [8]*
-Reality (Matteo Garrone, Italy / France) [6]
/-Ballet mécanique (Fernand Léger and Dudley Murphy, France, 1924) [s]
/-Surname Viet Given Name Nam (Trinh T. Minh-ha, U.S. / Vietnam, 1989)
/-Close Up (Abbas Kiarostami, Iran, 1990)
/-Dog Star Man: Part 2 (Stan Brakhage, 1963) [s]
/-Stellar (Stan Brakhage, 1993) [s]
/-The Wind Will Carry Us (Abbas Kiarostami, 1999)
-Suitcase of Love and Shame (Jane Gillooly) [v] [5]
not afraid to die (Althea Thauberger, Canada, 2001) [s]
Oh Canada (Althea Thauberger, Canada, 2001) [v/s]
A Memory Lasts Forever (Althea Thauberger, Canada, 2004) [v/m]
Northern (Althea Thauberger, Canada, 2005) [s]
Zivildienst ≠ Kunstproject (Althea Thauberger, Germany, 2006) [v/s]
Msaskok (Althea Thauberger, U.S. / Canada) [v/s] [work in progress]
/Leviathan (Lucien Castaing-Taylor and Véréna Paravel, France / U.K. / U.S.) [9]
liminal disturbance (Greg Staats, Canada) [v/s/p] [8]
fire (Greg Staats, Canada) [v/s] [6]
body of shadow (Greg Staats, Canada, 2010) [v/s/p]
fog vortex (Christina Battle, Canada) [p] [7]
The Reader (Alejandro Cesarco, U.S. / Uruguay) [p/s] [7]
The Chorus (Jean-François Côté, Canada) [v/p] [5]
Currents (Patty Chang and Noah Klersfeld) [v/p] [6]
Sound Giving Will Feeling (Andrea Geyer) [v/p] [W/O] (0:12)
Un film inédit (Gordon Webber, Canada, c. 1945-50) [s]
Museum of the Imagination (Amit Dutta, India) [v/s] [6]
Quartet for the End of Time (Deanna Erdmann) [v/s] [3]
A Third Version of the Imaginary (Benjamin Tiven, U.S. / Kenya) [v/s] [7]
48 Heads From the Merkurov Museum (After Kurt Kren) (Anna Artaker, Austria) [4]
In My Room (Chance Taylor, Canada) [v/s] [4]
The Invisible World (Jesse McLean) [6]
-You Are Here (Leslie Supnet, Canada) [v/s] [4]
-Shadow Puppet (Yi Cui, Canada) [s] [4]
Oracle (Mani Mazinani, Canada) [v/s] [7]
Half Way There (Karen Henderson, Canada) [v/s] [3]
The Timeslide (Ariana Andrei, Canada) [v/s] [4]
Christ Church - Saint James (Stephen Broomer, Canada) [s] [5]
Days of Future Past (Joe Hambleton, Canada) [v/s] [5]
Separate Vacations (Cameron Moneo, Canada) [v/s] [4]
The Pool (Christine Lucy Latimer, Canada) [v/s] [6]
Ten Skies (Clint Enns, Canada) [v/s] [5]
rapidTransfer (John Creson and Adam Rosen, Canada) [v/s] [?] [don't remember it at all...]
Summer Solstice, 11 pm, Jordaan (Albert Wisco, Canada) [v/s] [5]
-Torque (Björn Kämmerer, Austria) [s] [5]
-Ten Minutiae (Peter Miller, Austria) [s] [7]
-Early Figure (Brian Virostek, Canada) [s] [4]
/-Passage Upon the Plume (Fern Silva, U.S. / Turkey / Egypt) [s] [8]
-Sugar Beach (Mark Loeser, Canada) [s] [4]
-Stone (Kevin Jerome Everson) [v/s] [5]
-Maître-Vent (Simon Quéhiellard, France) [v/s] [6]
-Addy Choo (JB Mabe) [s] [5]
-Pastoral (JB Mabe) [s] [6]
-Dad's Stick (John Smith, U.K.) [v/s] [6]
-Charlie's Proof (Kevin Jerome Everson) [v/s] [6]
-The Woolworths Choir of 1979 (Elizabeth Price, U.K.) [v/s] [7]
-Sight (Thirza Cuthand, Canada) [s] [7]
-This Town of Toronto... (Izabella Pruska-Oldenhof, Canada) [s] [4]
-Strata of Natural History (Jeannette Muñoz, Switzerland / Chile) [s] [5]
/-The Gleaners and I (Agnès Varda, France, 2000)
-Oblivion (Joseph Kosinski) [4]
-The Silence (Baran bo Odar, Germany, 2010)
/-SkateBang (Damon Packard, U.S. / U.K., 2007) [v/s]
-Filmic Sculpture No. 3 (Alberto Cabrera Bernal, Spain) [x2] [s] [7]
-Poppy Fields Forever (John Warren) [s] [5]
-Harbour's Puddle (Lucie Mercadal, Germany) [v/s] [4]
-9214 (Takahiro Suzuki) [v/s] [4]
-The Angels' Share (Ken Loach, U.K. / Belgium / France / Italy) [5]
/Disorder (Huang Weikai, China, 2009) [v/m]
-Me and You (Bernardo Bertolucci, Italy) [5]
-The Hunt (Thomas Vinterberg, Denmark) [4]
-The Lords of Salem (Rob Zombie, U.S. / U.K. / Canada) [6]
-Fragments of Kubelka (Martina Kudláček, Austria) [7]
/-Catnip: Egress to Oblivion? (Jason Willis) [s] [6]
-I Give It a Year (Dan Mazer, U.K.) [5]
MAY
-The Amputee (Version 1) (David Lynch, 1974) [s]
-The Alphabet (David Lynch, 1968) [s]
-The Amputee (Version 2) (David Lynch, 1974) [s]
-Six Figures Getting Sick (David Lynch, 1966) [p/s]
-Interior. Leather Bar. (James Franco and Travis Mathews) [m] [4]
-Simon Killer (Antonio Campos, U.S. / France) [6]
-For Marx... (Svetlana Baskova, Russia) [5]
/-Hotel Room (Bernd Oppl, Austria) [v/s] [6]
/-Deep Red (Esther Urlus, The Netherlands) [s] [7]*
-Journey to the West: Conquering the Demons (Stephen Chow and Derek Kwok, China) [7]
-The Strange Little Cat (Ramon Zürcher, Germany) [7]
-Everyday Objects (Nicolas Wackerbarth, Germany / France) [7]
-I Saw The Devil (Kim Jee-woon, South Korea, 2010)
/-The 40 Year Old Virgin (Judd Apatow, 2005)
/-Role Models (David Wain, 2008)
-A World Without Women (Guillaume Brac, France) [m] [7]
-Iron Man Three (Shane Black) [6]
-The Birth of a Nation (D.W. Griffith, 1915) [I'd seen most of it in clips, but this was my first front-to-back, sit-down viewing.]
-Beyond The Hills (Cristian Mungiu, Romania / France / Belgium) [6]
/-Clue (Jonathan Lynn, 1985)
/-The Strange Little Cat (Ramon Zürcher, Germany) [8]*
\-Lawless (John Hillcoat) [5]
JUNE
-I Used To Be Darker (Matt Porterfield) [7]
The Purge (James DeMonaco) [5]
The Last Unicorn (Arthur Rankin, Jr. and Jules Bass, 1982)
-We Steal Secrets: The Story of WikiLeaks (Alex Gibney) [6]
-The Grandmaster (Wong Kar-wai, Hong Kong / China / U.S.) [8]
-Sangre (Amat Escalante, Mexico / France, 2005)
-Stoker (Park Chan-wook, U.K. / U.S.) [6]
/-Passion (Brian De Palma, Germany / France) [6]
/-13 Going On 30 (Gary Winick, 2004)
-Behind The Candelabra (Steven Soderbergh) [6]