FILMS SEEN, 2014
All films from U.S.A. unless
otherwise specified.
(- seen on video; / repeat viewing; [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
-Anal Masturbation and Object Loss (Steve Reinke, Canada, 2002) [v/s]
-About Time (Richard Curtis, U.K.) [7]
-Alan Partridge: Alpha Papa (Declan Lowney, U.K. / France) [5]
-The Past (Asghar Farhadi, France / Italy) [8]
-Blue Jasmine (Woody Allen) [5]
-Dallas Buyers Club (Jean-Marc Vallée) [4]
-The Wolf of Wall Street (Martin Scorsese) [7]
-Homage to the Lumière Brothers (Chris Marker, France, n.d.) [v/s]
-Palmes d'Or (Siegfried A. Fruhauf, Austria, 1999) [v/s]
-The Lead Shoes (Sidney Peterson, 1947) [s]
/-Report (Bruce Conner, 1967) [s]
/-Necrology (Standish Lawder, 1970) [s]
/-Fog Line (Larry Gottheim, 1970) [s]
-Colorfilm (Standish Lawder, 1971) [s]
-First Cousin Once Removed (Alan Berliner) [7]
-Beyond Outrage (Takeshi Kitano, Japan) [5]
-The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (Ben Stiller) [4]
-The Pervert's Guide to Ideology (Sophie Fiennes, U.K. / Ireland) [6]
-The Punk Singer (Sini Anderson) [6]
-Shield of Straw (Takashi Miike, Japan) [7]
-Something in the Air [Après mai] (Olivier Assayas, France) [5]
/-The Melomaniac (George Méliès, France, 1903) [s]
/-The Enchanted Well (George Méliès, France, 1903) [s]
/-passage á l'acte (Martin Arnold, Austria, 1993) [s]
/NOEMA (Scott Stark, 1998) [v/s]
/-Pony Glass (Lewis Klahr, 1998) [s]
/-Psalm III: "Night of the Meek" (Phil Solomon, 2002) [s]
-Yard Work is Hard Work (Jodie Mack, 2008) [m]
-Persian Pickles (Jodie Mack) [s] [x2] [7] [tentative grade]
/At Berkeley (Frederick Wiseman) [screening halted] (1:35)
-All The Light In The Sky (Joe Swanberg) [7]
FEBRUARY
-This Is Martin Bonner (Chad Hartigan) [6]
-Is the Man Who Is Tall Happy? (Michel Gondry, France) [5]
-Charlie Victor Romeo (Robert Berger, Patrick Daniels and Karlyn Michelson) [8]
/-The Man With the Movie Camera (Dziga Vertov, U.S.S.R., 1929)
-The Unknown Known (Errol Morris) [4]
-Center Jenny (Ryan Trecartin) [v/m] [7]
-How to Disappear Completely (Raya Martin, The Philippines) [7]
-Nebraska (Alexander Payne) [7]
-Phantom Limb (Jay Rosenblatt, 2005) [x2] [s]
/-Ballet Méchanique (Fernand Léger and Dudley Murphy, France, 1924) [s]
/-Le retour à la raison (Man Ray, France, 1923) [s]
/-Un chien andalou (Luis Buñuel, France / Spain, 1929)
/-Rose Hobart (Joseph Cornell, 1936) [s]
/-Meshes of the Afternoon (Maya Deren and Alexander Hammid, 1943) [s]
-The Broken Circle Breakdown (Felix Van Groeningen, Belgium / The Netherlands) [5]
-The Consequences of Love (Paolo Sorrentino, Italy, 2004)
-The Family Friend (Paolo Sorrentino, Italy / France, 2006)
-The Smell of Burning Ants (Jay Rosenblatt, 1994) [s]
-Afraid So (Jay Rosenblatt, 2006) [v/s]
-Inquire Within (Jay Rosenblatt) [v/s] [6]
-One Man Up (Paolo Sorrentino, Italy, 2001)
/-The Great Beauty (Paolo Sorrentino, Italy / France) [4]
/-Time and Tide: Study of a River (Peter Hutton, 2000) [m]
/-Kiss (Andy Warhol, 1963) [m]
/-Surface Tension #2 (Vincent Grenier, U.S. / Canada, 1995) [s]
/-Interieur Interiors (To AK) (Vincent Grenier, U.S. / Canada, 1978) [s]
The Grand Budapest Hotel (Wes Anderson, U.K. / Germany) [7]
-Sin Peso (Cao Guimarães, Brazil / Mexico, 2007) [s]
-Mitt (Greg Whiteley) [5]
/Les Chaises (Vincent Grenier, U.S. / Canada, 2008) [v/s]
/-Interieur Interiors (For AK) (Vincent Grenier, U.S. / Canada, 1978) [s]
/Tabula Rasa (Vincent Grenier, U.S. / Canada, 2004) [v/s]
/Color Study (Vincent Grenier, U.S. / Canada, 2000) [v/s]
/-While Revolved (Vincent Grenier, U.S. / Canada, 1976) [s]
/Armoire (Vincent Grenier, U.S. / Canada, 2007-09) [v/s]
/-Surface Tension #2 (Vincent Grenier, U.S. / Canada, 1995) [s]
Watercolor (Vincent Grenier, U.S. / Canada) [v/s] [revised version] [7]
-Private Violence (Cynthia Hill) [6]
-National Archive Vol. 1 (Travis Wilkerson, 2001) [s]
-Accelerated Under-Development: In the Idiom of Santiago Alvarez (Travis Wilkerson, 2003) [v/m]
-The Square (Jehane Noujaim, Egypt / U.S.) [6]
-Distinguished Flying Cross (Travis Wilkerson, 2011) [v/m]
-Now (Santiago Álvarez, Cuba, 1964) [s]
-L.B.J. (Santiago Álvarez, Cuba, 1968) [s]
-The Crash Reel (Lucy Walker) [6]
-Who Killed Cock Robin? (Travis Wilkerson, 2005)
/-Cat's Cradle (Stan Brakhage, 1959) [s]
/-Window Water Baby Moving (Stan Brakhage, 1959) [s]
/-Mothlight (Stan Brakhage, 1963) [s]
/-Eye Myth (Stan Brakhage, 1972) [s] [x2]
/-The Riddle of Lumen (Stan Brakhage, 1972) [s]
/-The Hedge Theater (Robert Beavers, 1986-90 / 2002) [s]
Approaching the Elephant (Amanda Rose Wilder) [6]
Actress (Robert Greene) [8]
Concerning Violence (Göran Hugo Olsson, Sweden / Denmark / Norway / U.S.) [6]
E-Team (Ross Kauffman and Katy Chevigny) [4]
Big Men (Rachel Boynton, U.K. / Denmark / U.S.) [5]
The Overnighters (Jesse Moss) [5]
The Green Prince (Nadav Schirman, Israel / U.K. / Germany) [fell asleep]
MARCH
Hacked Circuit (Deborah Stratman) [s] [7]
The Joycean Society (Dora Garcia, Belgium / Spain) [m] [7]
Stand Clear of the Closing Doors (Sam Fleischner) [6]
The Vanquishing of the Witch Baba Yaga (Jessica Oreck, U.S. / Poland / Russia / Ukraine) [8]
[Secret Screening Burgundy] [7]
/Dusty Stacks of Mom: The Poster Project (Jodie Mack) [8]*
Stop-Over (Kaveh Bakhtiari, Switzerland / France) [7]
Rich Hill (Tracy Droz Tragos and Andrew Droz Palermo) [5]
Vegas (Lukasz Konopa, U.K. / U.S.) [s] [6]
\A Thousand Suns (Mati Diop, France) [m] [7]
The Lego Movie (Phil Lord and Christopher Miller, U.S. / Australia / Denmark) [7]
-Only Lovers Left Alive (Jim Jarmusch, U.K. / Germany / France / Cyprus / U.S.) [7]
-Cairo Drive (Sherief Elkatsha, Egypt / U.S.) [7]
-Nymphomaniac Vols. 1 & 2 (Lars Von Trier, Denmark / Germany / France / Belgium / U.K.) [7]
/-Back To The Future (Robert Zemeckis, 1985)
-Inauguration of the Pleasure Dome (Kenneth Anger, 1954) [m]
/-Castro Street (Bruce Baillie, 1966) [s]
/-Little Stabs at Happiness (Ken Jacobs, 1959-63) [s]
/-New Improved Institutional Quality: In the Environment of Liquids and Nasals a Parasitic Vowel Sometimes Develops (Owen Land [George Landow], 1976) [s]
/-Valse Trise (Bruce Conner, 1978) [s]
/-Very Nice, Very Nice (Arthur Lipsett, Canada, 1961) [s]
-Flower, the Boy, the Librarian (Stephanie Barber, 1996) [s]
-A Little Present (For My Friend...) (Stephanie Barber, 1997) [s]
-They Invented Machines (Stephanie Barber, 1997) [s]
/Daredevils (Stephanie Barber) [8]
-Veronica Mars (Rob Thomas) [5]
-Blazes (Robert Breer, 1961) [s]
/-My Name Is Oona (Gunvor Nelson, 1969) [s]
/-Unsere Afrikareise (Peter Kubelka, Austria, 1965) [s]
-Mayhem (Abigail Child, 1987) [s]
/-Observando El Cielo (Jeanne Liotta, 2007) [s]
/-SkateBang (Damon Packard, 2008) [s]
-Le Week-End (Roger Michell, U.K. / France) [W/O] (0:55)
-Jimmy P.: Psychotherapy of a Plains Indian (Arnaud Desplechin, France / U.S.) [7]
-The Lonely Life of Debby Adams (Karen Yasinsky) [v/s] [7] [tentative grade]
-Drain (Bettina Hoffman, Canada) [v/s] [4]
-Borgman (Alex Van Warmerdam, The Netherlands / Belgium) [3]
-Heli (Amat Escalante, Mexico / France / Germany / The Netherlands) [5]
/Vertical Roll (Joan Jonas, 1972) [v/s]
/-Serene Velocity (Ernie Gehr, 1970) [s]
/-(nostalgia) (Hollis Frampton, 1971) [m]
APRIL
-Bad Words (Jason Bateman) [5]
-Le Conque (Jesse Malmed) [v/s] [6]
-HedonHeathen2 (Lana Z. Caplan) [s] [4]
-Goth Movie (Chemirocha) (Jesse Malmed) [s] [4]
-Reveries (Karissa Hahn) [s] [5]
-Peacock (Alexander Stewart) [s] [6]
-Glistening Thrills (Jodie Mack) [s] [7]
-Fort Morgan (Alexander Stewart) [s] [7]
-My Heart, Overreaches (Malic Amalya) [v/s] [5]
-Difficult Loves (Paul Clipson) [s] [4]
-PULL/DRIFT (Margaret Rorison) [s] [6]
-That Dizzying Crest (Jeremy Moss) [s] [7]
-California Picture Book (Zach Iannazzi) [s] [5]
-With Pluses and Minuses (Mike Stoltz) [s] [6]
-Jane's Birthday (Christine Lucy Latimer, Canada) [v/s] [5]
-Visual Pleasure (Catie Eller) [v/s] [7]
-The Blue Record (Jeremy Moss) [s] [7]
-Rati Chakravyuh (Ashish Avikunthak, India) [7]
/Rati Chakravyuh (Ashish Avikunthak, India) [7]
-til I see my way back home (Thad Povey) [s] [5]
/The Lonely Life of Debby Adams (Karen Yasinsky) [v/s] [7]
-Friction of the Inner and Outer Consciousness (Isaac Sherman) [s] [5]
-A Noisy Delivery (Charles Chadwick) [v/s] [3]
-Half Life (April Simmons) [v/s] [6]
-Nocturnal Symmetries (Scott Stark) [v/s] [6]
-Through Tunnels (Talia Feder) [v/s] [4]
/-Sailboat (Joyce Wieland, Canada, 1967) [s]
/-Wavelength (Michael Snow, Canada, 1967) [m]
-We Had the Experience but Missed the Meaning (Laida Lertxundi) [s] [x2] [7]
-Cheap Thrills (E.L. Katz) [5]
-Thou Wast Mild and Lovely (Josephine Decker) [4]
-Butter on the Latch (Josephine Decker) [4]
-Dancing Othello (Ashish Avikunthak, India, 2002) [s]
-Vakratunda Swaha (Ashish Avikunthak, India, 2010) [s]
/Dancing Othello (Ashish Avikunthak, India, 2002) [s]
End Note (Ashish Avikunthak, India, 2005) [s]
/Vakratunda Swaha (Ashish Avikunthak, India, 2010) [s]
Kalighat Fetish (Ashish Avikunthak, India, 1999) [s]
-From Left to Right and Top to Bottom (Flora Watzal, Austria) [v/s] [5]
-Minimal Vandalism (Kay Walkowiak, Austria) [s] [5]
-Picture Perfect Pyramid (Johann Lurf, Austria) [s] [7]
-Confessions With an Open Curtain (Eli Cortiñas, Germany) [v/s] [4]
-Reign of Silence (Lukas Marxt, Austria / Germany) [s] [6]
/-This Side of Paradise: Fragments of an Unfinished Biography (Jonas Mekas, 1999) [s]
/-Sink or Swim (Su Friedrich, 1990) [m]
-Jumanji (Joe Johnston, 1995)
-Nice Biscotts #2 (Luther Price, 2006) [s]
A Place Called Lovely (Sadie Benning, 1991) [v/s]
/-Puce Moment (Kenneth Anger, 1949) [s]
/-Scorpio Rising (Kenneth Anger, 1964) [s]
/-I, An Actress (George Kuchar, 1977) [s]
/-( ) (Morgan Fisher, 2003) [s]
-Venus In Fur (Roman Polanski, France / Poland) [7]
-Proxy (Zack Parker) [4]
-Creme 21 (Eve Heller, Austria / U.S.) [s] [7]
-Cells and Stalks (Herb Theriault, Canada) [v/s] [4]
-Explosion No. 6 (Julie Tremble, Canada) [v/s] [3]
-Devil's Knot (Atom Egoyan, U.S. / Canada) [5]
-Joe (David Gordon Green) [7]
/-The Secret World of Arrietty (Yonebayashi Hiromasa, Japan, 2010)
/-The Wrong Trousers (Nick Park, U.K., 1993) [s]
-Towheads (Shannon Plumb) [7]
MAY
-Young & Beautiful (Francois Ozon, France) [5]
/-The River (Tsai Ming-liang, Taiwan, 1997)
-Through the Olive Trees (Abbas Kiarostami, Iran, 1994)
-Trust Me (Clark Gregg) [4]
-Down Wind (Pat O'Neill, 1973) [s]
-Go For Sisters (John Sayles) [6]
-Artists at the Top of the Big Top: Disoriented (Alexander Kluge, West Germany, 1968)
-Child of God (James Franco) [4]
-The Immigrant (James Gray) [6]
-Like Father, Like Son (Hirokazu Kore-eda, Japan) [6]
-Story of My Death (Albert Serra, Spain / France) [8]
-Mr. Peabody & Sherman (Rob Minkoff) [5]
-When Evening Falls on Bucharest or Metabolism (Corneliu Porumboiu, Romania / France) [5]
-Tom at the Farm (Xavier Dolan, Canada / France) [7]
-Lucky Them (Megan Griffiths) [6]
-Burning Bush (Agnieszka Holland, Czech Republic) [TV] [7]
JUNE
/-A Minimal Difference (Jean-Paul Kelly, Canada) [s] [7]
/-Movement in Squares (Jean-Paul Kelly, Canada) [s] [6]
/-Figure-ground (Jean-Paul Kelly, Canada) [x2] [s] [7]
-Ida (Pawel Pawlikowski, Poland / Denmark) [7]
The Woods (Candice Breitz, U.S. / India / Nigeria) [p/v] [7]
-Anna [aka Mindscape] (Jorge Dorado, U.S. / Spain / France) [3]
-Jauja (Lisandro Alonso, Argentina / Denmark / France / Mexico / U.S. / Germany / Brazil) [7]
-Roy Cohn / Jack Smith (Jill Godmilow, 1994)
/-The Grand Budapest Hotel (Wes Anderson, U.K. / Germany) [7]
-World War Z (Marc Forster, U.S. / U.K.) [4]
-Coherence (James Ward Byrkit) [6]
-Journey to the West (Tsai Ming-liang, Taiwan / France) [m] [7]
-Khan Khanne: A Letter to Gilles Jacob and Thierry Fremaux (Jean-Luc Godard, Switzerland) [v/s] [7] [tentative grade]
-Jackie Brown (Quentin Tarantino, 1997)
-[Bad] Neighbors (Nicholas Stoller) [W/O] (0:30)
-Unforgiven (Clint Eastwood, 1992)
-Eat Your Bones (Jean-Charles Hue, France) [7]
-Khroustaliov, My Car! (Aleksei German, Russia / France, 1998)
-Happy Christmas (Joe Swanberg) [6]
-Exhibition (Joanna Hogg, U.K.) [5]
/-Picture Perfect Pyramid (Johann Lurf, Austria) [s] [7]
-Pyramid Flare (Johann Lurf, Austria) [s] [6]
-Ellie Lumme (Ignatiy Vishnevetsky) [m] [8] [tentative grade / disclosure: I know the guy...]
-They Came Together (David Wain) [6]
/-Ellie Lumme (Ignatiy Vishnevetsky) [m] [7]*
Tammy (Ben Falcone) [6]
JULY
-Carrots and Peas (Hollis Frampton, 1969) [s]
-Process Red (Hollis Frampton, 1966) [s]
-Under The Skin (Jonathan Glazer, U.K. / U.S. / Switzerland) [6]
Snowpiercer (Bong Joon-ho, South Korea / U.S. / France / Czech Republic) [8]
-Michael Kohlhaas (Arnaud des Pallières, Germany / France) [5]
-Life Itself (Steve James) [6]
-Locke (Stephen Knight, U.K. / U.S.) [4]
/-The Incredible Shrinking Woman (Joel Schumacher, 1981)
-A Fresh Start (Jang Woojin, South Korea) [5]
-Hill of Freedom (Hong Sang-soo, South Korea) [m] [7]
-The Journals of Musan (Park Jung-bum, South Korea, 2010)
-The Stuart Hall Project (John Akomfrah, U.K.) [7]
-A Hard Day (Kim Seong-hoon, South Korea) [5]
-Legends of Oz: Dorothy's Return (Will Finn & Dan St. Pierre, U.S. / India) [2]
-Coming To Terms (Jon Jost) [5]
/-shipfilm (Stephanie Barber, 1998) [s]
-Coming Home (Zhang Yimou, China) [5]
/-Dogs (Stephanie Barber, 2000) [s]
-Clouds of Sils Maria (Olivier Assayas, France / Germany / Switzerland) [7]
-The Tribe (Myroslav Slaboshpytskiy, Ukraine) [5]
Golden Calf (Dale Cooper) [v/s] [5]
The Dark, Krystle (Michael Robinson) [v/s] [4]
You and the Night [Les rencontres d'après minuit] (Yann Gonzalez, France) [7]
-R.P.M. 2 (Ryan Fox) [v/s] [x2] [6]
-The Innocents (Jean-Paul Kelly, Canada) [s] [8]
-Healing (Stephanie Barber, 2012) [v/s] [5]
-Mood Indigo [L'écume des jours] (Michel Gondry, France / Belgium) [5]
-Alive (Park Jung-bum, South Korea) [7]
-Palo Alto (Gia Coppola) [5]
-I Can No Longer Hear the Guitar (Philippe Garrel, France, 1991)
AUGUST
-A Way (Harun Farocki, Germany, 2005) [v/s]
-Blue Ruin (Jeremy Saulnier) [6]
-We Are The Best! (Lukas Moodysson, Sweden / Denmark) [7]
-War Story (Mark Jackson) [5]
-Chop Off (M.M. Serra, 2009) [s]
-Boyhood (Richard Linklater) [6]
-Canopy (Ken Jacobs) [v/s] [8]
-Lunar Almanac (Malena Szlam, Canada) [s] [6]
-horizon (Stephanie Barber) [v/s] [7]
-Hook (Steven Spielberg, 1991)
/-National Treasure (Jon Turteltaub, 2004)
-Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events (Brad Silberling, U.S. / Germany, 2004)
-Maleficent (Robert Stromberg, U.S. / U.K.) [5]
-A Dream of Iron (Kelvin Kyung Kun Park, South Korea / U.S.) [4]
-Gyeongju (Zhang Lu, South Korea) [5]
-Songs From The North (Soon-Mi Yoo, U.S. / South Korea) [m] [6]
-A Girl At My Door (July Jung, South Korea) [6]
-Revivre (Im Kwon-taek, South Korea) [7]
-United States Wins the World Cup (Vincent Gallo) [s] [7]
-Shoot (Gaspar Noé, France / U.S.) [s] [x2] [8]
-Saved (Emnet Mulugeta, Eritrea / U.S.) [s] [5]
/Performer, Audience, Mirror (Dan Graham, 1975) [v/s]
/Vertical Roll (Joan Jonas, 1972) [v/s]
/-Hand Catching Lead (Richard Serra, 1972) [s]
/Switch! Monitor! Drift! (Steina Vasulka, 1976) [v/s]
The Equalizer (Antoine Fuqua) [4]
-Some Graphic Sex, Heavy Drinking, Bloody Violence, and Dirty Language: Seven One-minute Feature-like Films About Seoul (Young-hae Chang Heavy Industries, U.S. / South Korea) [p] [6]
-The Owners (Adilkhan Yerzhanov, Kazakhstan) [5]
-Still The Water (Naomi Kawase, Japan) [5]
-Le beau danger (René Frölke, Germany) [7]
-OBRA (Gregorio Graziosi, Brazil) [4]
-Confession (Lee Do-yun, South Korea) [7]
-The Valley Below (Kyle Thomas, Canada) [5]
-Out of Nature (Ole Giæver, Norway) [4]
-Secrets of War (Dennis Bots, Belgium / The Netherlands / Luxembourg) [4]
-Maidan (Sergei Loznitza, Ukraine / The Netherlands) [7]
-Taprobana (Gabriel Abrantes, Portugal / Sri Lanka / Denmark) [s] [6]
-Under the Atmosphere (Mike Stoltz) [s] [4]
-Relief (Calum Walker) [s] [4]
-Episode of the Sea (Lonnie van Brummelen, Siebren de Haan, and the inhabitants of Urk, The Netherlands) [m] [9]
-brouillard - passage #14 (Alexandre Larose, Canada) [s] [3, but apparently I completely misinterpreted it, so I need to look again...]
-Twelve Tales Told (Johann Lurf, Austria) [v/s] [7]
-The Policeman's House (Mich'ael Zupraner, Israel / Palestine) [v/m] [5]
-Deep Sleep (Basma Alsharif, Malta / Greece / France / Palestine) [v/s] [7]
-Catalogue (Dana Berman Duff) [s] [4]
-Against Landscape (Josh Gen Solondz) [v/s] [4]
-San Siro (Yuri Ancarani, Italy) [v/s] [7]
-The Figures Carved into the Knife by the Sap of the Banana Trees (Joana Pimenta, U.S. / Portugal) [v/s] [6]
-The Dragon is the Frame (Mary Helena Clark) [v/s] [5?]
-Under a Changing Sky (Jean-Claude Rousseau, France) [v/s] [7]
-Red Cappricio (Blake Williams, Canada) [v/s] [7]
-the pimp and his trophies (Antoinette Zwirchmayr, Austria) [v/m] [5]
-Sea of Vapors (Sylvia Schedelbauer, Germany) [v/s] [tentative 7]
-Night Noon (Shambhavi Kaul, U.S. / Mexico) [s] [6]
SEPTEMBER
-Theeb (Naji Abu Nowar, Jordan / Qatar / U.A.E. / U.K.) [6]
-Who Is Dayani Cristal? (Mark Silver, U.K. / Mexico) [5]
-La Sapience (Eugène Green, France / Italy) [tentative 7]
-The Princess of France (Matías Piñeiro, Argentina) [x2] [6]
-Seymour: An Introduction (Ethan Hawke) [6]
-The Captive (Atom Egoyan, Canada) [4]
-Foreign Body (Krzysztof Zanussi, Poland / Italy / Russia) [4]
/-The Dragon is the Frame (Mary Helena Clark) [v/s] [7] [It's just...weird.]
/Site Recite (A Prologue) (Gary Hill, 1989) [v/s]
/The Passing (Bill Viola, 1991) [v/m]
/-Tony Takitani (Jun Ichikawa, Japan, 2004)
-Juneteenth Columbus, Mississippi (Kevin Jerome Everson) [v/s] [7]
/-Stone (Kevin Jerome Everson) [v/s] [7]
/-The Shining (Stanley Kubrick, 1980)
-I Am Not Lorena (Isadora Marras, Chile / Argentina) [4]
-Félix and Meira (Maxime Giroux, Canada) [W/O] (0:35)
-Villa Touma (Suha Arraf, no national affiliation due to funding dispute and Gaza War) [4]
Workers Leaving the Job Site (Kevin Jerome Everson) [v/s] [7]
Sound That (Kevin Jerome Everson) [v/s] [8]
/Charlie's Proof (Kevin Jerome Everson) [v/s] [6]
Century (Kevin Jerome Everson) [s] [7]
/-The Pritchard (Kevin Jerome Everson, 2011) [s]
Mansfield Product Co. (Kevin Jerome Everson) [v/s] [6]
Tygers (Kevin Jerome Everson) [v/s] [7]
Fe 26 (Kevin Jerome Everson) [v/s] [7]
/Juneteenth Columbus, Mississippi (Kevin Jerome Everson) [v/s] [7]
/Stone (Kevin Jerome Everson) [v/s] [7]
The Island of Saint Matthews (Kevin Jerome Everson) [6]
/-brouillard - passage #14 (Alexandre Larose, Canada) [s] [5]*
-The Old Man of Belém (Manoel de Oliveira, Portugal / France) [s] [5]
/Boomerang (Richard Serra and Nancy Holt, 1974) [v/s]
/If Every Girl Had a Diary (Sadie Benning, 1990) [v/s]
/Draft 9 (Dani Leventhal, 2003) [v/s]
-The Zero Theorem (Terry Gilliam, U.K. / Romania / France / U.S.) [5]
-The One I Love (Charlie McDowell) [4]
-Color Neutral (Jenn Reeves) [s] [x2] [7]
-Picture Particles (Thorsten Fleisch, Germany) [s] [6]
-Detour de Force (Rebecca Baron, U.S. / Austria) [s] [5]
The Skeleton Twins (Craig Johnson) [6]
-Obvious Child (Gillian Robespierre) [7]
-Heaven Knows What (Josh and Benny Safdie) [7] [tentative grade]
-Maps To The Stars (David Cronenberg, Canada / U.S. / Germany / France) [6]
/Now (Lynda Benglis, 1973) [v/s]
/Incidence of Catastrophe (Gary Hill, 1987) [v/m]
/Television Delivers People (Richard Serra and Carlotta Fay Schoolman, 1973) [v/s]
-Beau Travail (Claire Denis, France / Djibouti, 1999)
/Open Book (Vito Acconci, 1974) [v/s]
/Vital Statistics of a Citizen, Simply Obtained (Martha Rosler, 1977) [v/m]
-Bird People (Pascale Ferran, France) [7]
OCTOBER
-SIDA (Gaspar Noé, France, 2008) [s]
-Fires On The Plain (Shinya Tsukamoto, Japan) [4]
-Beep (Kim Kyung-man, South Korea) [s] [7]
Harlequin and Lace (Jodie Mack, 2006-09) [s]
/Posthaste Perennial Pattern (Jodie Mack, 2010) [s]
Rad Plaid (Jodie Mack, 2010) [s]
/Point de Gaze (Jodie Mack, 2012) [s] [8]
/Persian Pickles (Jodie Mack, 2012) [s] [7]
/Blanket Statement #1: Home is Where the Heart Is (Jodie Mack, 2012) [s] [6]*
Blanket Statement #2: It's All or Nothing (Jodie Mack) [s] [8]
Hace Frio en la Sombra (Jodie Mack) [work in progress]
/-Black Ice (Stan Brakhage, 1994) [s]
/-Glistening Thrills (Jodie Mack) [s] [7]
/-Blanket Statement #2: It's All or Nothing (Jodie Mack) [s] [8]
-Razzle Dazzle (Jodie Mack) [s] [7]
-Seven Signs that Mean Silence (Sara Magenheimer) [v/s] [6]
-This Is Where I Leave You (Shawn Levy) [5]
-Babash (Lisa Truttmann & Behrouz Rae, U.S. / Austria / Iran) [s] [5]
-Old Growth (Ryan Marino) [s] [5]
-Theoretical Architrctures (Josh Gibson) [v/s] [4]
-Under the Heat Lamp an Opening (Zachary Epcar) [v/s] [7]
-a certain worry (Jonathan Schwartz) [s] [7]
-The Hummingbird Wars (Janie Geiser) [v/s] [7]
-Pan (Anton Ginzburg, Russia) [s] [7]
-White Bird in a Blizzard (Gregg Araki, U.S. / France) [6]
/North Southernly (Vincent Grenier, U.S. / Canada, 2005) [v/s]
/When Worlds Collude (Fred Worden, 2008) [v/s]
/Pressures of the Text (Peter Rose, 1983) [v/s]
/NOEMA (Scott Stark, 1998) [v/s]
/Canopy (Ken Jacobs) [v/s] [7]*
-Sauerbruch Hutton Architects (Harun Farocki, Germany) [6]
-Voila L'enchainement (Claire Denis, France) [v/m] [7]
/-Brokeback Mountain (Ang Lee, U.S. / Canada, 2005)
Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) (Alejandro G. Iñárritu) [5]
-Listen Up Philip (Alex Ross Perry) [7]
/-Moneyball (Bennett Miller, 2011)
/Whispering Pines 6-8 (Shana Moulton, 2006) [v/s]
Whispering Pines 9 (Shana Moulton, 2009) [v/s]
I'm Not the Girl Who Misses Much (Pipilotti Rist, Switzerland, 1986) [v/s]
-The Girl Chewing Gum (John Smith, U.K., 1976) [s]
-Intransit (Jakrawal Nilthamrong, Thailand) [s] [6]
-Jealousy (Philippe Garrel, France) [6]
/-Viola (Matías Piñeiro, Argentina / U.S.) [m] [7]
Citizenfour (Laura Poitras, U.S. / Germany) [6]
NOVEMBER
-Li'l Quinquin (Bruno Dumont, France) [7]
-Spirits In Season (Stephen Broomer, Canada) [s] [7]
-Brébeuf (Stephen Broomer, Canada) [s] [6]
/St. Ignacius Church Exposure: Lenten Light Conversions (Lynn Marie Kirby, 2003) [v/s]
/Last Days in a Lonely Place (Phil Solomon, 2007) [v/s]
/Mount Song (Shambhavi Kaul, U.S. / India) [v/s] [7]
/Light Is Waiting (Michael Robinson, 2007) [v/s]
-Too Many Cooks (Casper Kelly) [x2] [v/s] [7]
/-About Time (Richard Curtis, U.K.) [7]
/-Meshes of the Afternoon (Maya Deren and Alexander Hammid, 1943) [s]
/-Ballet méchanique (Fernand Léger and Dudley Murphy, France, 1924) [s]
/Technolgy / Transformation: Wonder Woman (Dara Birnbaum, 1978) [v/m]
/Mansfield 1963 (William E. Jones, 2007) [v/s]
/The Casting (Omer Fast, Israel, 2007) [v/m]
/Dirty Pictures (Hotel Diaries 7) (John Smith, Palestine, 2007)
-Force Majeure (Ruben Östlund, Sweden / France / Norway) [5]
-Genesis: Sum of the Parts (John Edginton, U.K.) [W/O] (0:40) [I checked out at Duke]
/Capitalism: Slavery (Ken Jacobs, 2006) [v/s]
/Capitalism: Child Labor (Ken Jacobs, 2006) [v/s]
Blankets For Indians (Ken Jacobs) [m/3D] [8]
-The Book of Life (Jorge R. Gutierrez) [5]
-Panchromes I, II, III (T. Marie) [v/s] [7]
-Two Days, One Night (Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne, Belgium / France / Italy) [9]
-Stations of the Elevated (Manfred Kirchheimer, 1981) [s]
-Colossus on the River (Manfred Kirchheimer, 1963) [s]
/Television Spots and Monodramas (Stan Douglas, Canada, 1987-91) [v/s]
/Whose Utopia (Cao Fei, China, 2006) [v/s]
/An Injury To One (Travis Wilkerson, 2002) [v/m]
-Just Like Us (Jesse McLean) [v/s] [7]
-Poetry For Sale (Freidl vom Gröller, Austria) [s] [7]
-Kojak / Wang (Dara Birnbaum, 1980) [v/s]
American Sniper (Clint Eastwood) [6]
-It Felt Like Love (Eliza Hittman) [5]
-Whiplash (Damien Chazelle) [6]
/-The Skeleton Twins (Craig Johnson) [6]
-Calvary (John Michael McDonagh, Ireland / U.K.) [W/O] (0:28)
-Foxcatcher (Bennett Miller) [5]
-Annie (Will Gluck) [6]
-St. Vincent (Theodore Melfi) [5]
-natural history (James Benning, U.S. / Austria) [6]
DECEMBER
/-A Scanner Darkly (Richard Linklater, 2006)
-Inherent Vice (Paul Thomas Anderson) [7]
Exodus: Gods and Kings (Ridley Scott, U.S. / U.K. / Spain) [4]
-Zero Motivation (Talya Lavie, Israel / France) [7]
-Elena (Petra Costa, U.S. / Brazil) [4]
Selma (Ava DuVernay, U.S. / U.K.) [6]
-Gone Girl (David Fincher) [7]
-Mr. Turner (Mike Leigh, U.K.) [5]
-Leviathan (Andrey Zvyagintsev, Russia) [7]
-Love Is Strange (Ira Sachs) [5]
-The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby: Them (Ned Benson) [X] (1:08)
-Second Sight (Deborah Stratman) [v/s] [7]
-Two Museums (Heinz Emigholz, Germany) [s] [7]
-Ginza Strip (Richard Tuohy, Australia) [s] [5]
-Wild (Jean-Marc Vallée) [6]
-Goodbye To Language (Jean-Luc Godard, Switzerland) [no subtitles] [m/2D] [tentative 7, almost guaranteed to go higher]
-Lucy (Luc Besson, France) [5]
-Into The Woods (Rob Marshall) [6]
-The Babadook (Jennifer Kent, Australia) [6]
-Still Alice (Richard Glatzer and Wash Westmoreland) [6]
-Nightcrawler (Dan Gilroy) [4]
-Things (Ben Rivers, U.K.) [s] [8]
-Men, Women & Children (Jason Reitman) [3]
-If You Don't, I Will (Sophie Fillières, France) [7]
-The Homesman (Tommy Lee Jones, U.S. / France) [5]
/-Goodbye To Language (Jean-Luc Godard, Switzerland) [m/3D] [9]
-A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night (Ana Lily Amirpour) [6]
-Life of Riley [Aimer, boire et chanter] (Alain Resnais, France) [6]
-Interstellar (Christopher Nolan, U.S. / U.K.) [4]
-Winter Sleep (Nuri Bilge Ceylan, Turkey / France / Germany) [7]
-Horse Money (Pedro Costa, Portugal) [8]
and dem's tha films seen in twenty fourteen! [mic drop]