NEW RELEASES SEEN,
2001
All films from
U.S.A. unless otherwise specified.
(- seen on video;
[v] video piece; [s] short, under 30 minutes; [m] medium length, 30-69 min; *
grade changed upon repeat viewing; > scheduled for 2002 commercial release)
[10]
God’s Wedding (João
César Monteiro, Portugal, 1999)
The Heart of the
World (Guy Maddin, Canada) [s]
In the Mood For Love
(Wong Kar-Wai, Hong Kong)*
The Jesus Trilogy
and Coda (Stan Brakhage) [s]
The Soho Eckstein
Cycle (William Kentridge, South Africa, 1989-1999) [v/m]
Yi Yi (A One and a
Two...) (Edward Yang, Taiwan)
[9]
Audition (Takashi
Miike, Japan)
-Camera (David
Cronenberg, Canada) [s]*
Devils on the
Doorstep (Jiang Wen, People’s Republic of China)
Donnie Darko
(Richard Kelly)
The God of Day Had
Gone Down Upon Him (Stan Brakhage) [m]
The House of Mirth
(Terence Davies, U.K. / U.S.A.)*
I’m Going Home
(Manoel de Oliveira, France / Portugal) >
The Long Holiday
(Johan van der Keuken, The Netherlands)
Memento Mori (Kim
Tae-yong & Min Kyu-dong, South Korea)
Porter Springs Four
(Henry Hills) [s]*
Ratcatcher (Lynne
Ramsay, Scotland)
SLOW (Scott Stark)
[v/s]
Smell of Camphor,
Fragrance of Jasmine (Bahman Farmanara, Iran)
The Stranger in
Apartment 9F (Mike Kuchar) [v/s]
Surface Noise
(Abigail Child) [s]
Tuvalu (Viet Helmer,
Germany)
Water for Maya (Stan
Brakhage) [s]
Werckmeister
Harmonies (Béla Tarr, Hungary)
The Widow of
Saint-Pierre (Patrice Leconte, France / Canada)
With a Friend Like
Harry. . . (Dominik Moll, France)
[8]
Arbor Vitae
(Nathaniel Dorsky) [s]
-Claire Dolan (Lodge
Kerrigan)
The Day I Became a
Woman (Marziyah Meshkini, Iran)
Dead Or Alive
(Takashi Miike, Japan)
Domestic Vigilencia
(Kathy High) [v/s]
Dora-heita (Kon
Ichikawa, Japan)
Enlightenment
Guaranteed (Doris Dörrie, Germany)
Eureka (Shinji
Aoyama, Japan)
-Faat-Kiné (Ousmane
Sembène, Senegal)
Faithless (Liv
Ullmann, Sweden)
O Fantasma (João
Pedro Rodrigues, Portugal)
-The Gleaners and I
(Agnés Varda, France)*
I Face the Night
(Mike Kuchar) [v/s]
In Absentia (The
Quay Brothers, U.K. / U.S.A.) [s]
Jiang Hu – The Triad
Zone (Dante Lam, Hong Kong)
The Living Room
(Michael Snow, Canada) [s]
Love Song 2 (Stan
Brakhage) [s]
Love’s Refrain
(Nathaniel Dorsky) [s]
Monsters, Inc. (Pete
Docter)
Moon Streams (Mary
Beth Reed) [s]
Moulin Rouge (Baz
Luhrmann, Australia / U.S.A.)
Mulholland Drive
(David Lynch)*
Mysterious Object at
Noon (Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Thailand)*
New Rose Hotel (Abel
Ferrara, 1999)
No Man’s Land (Danis
Tanovic, Belgium / Bosnia-Herzegovina / France / Italy / Slovenia / U.K.)
O Brother, Where Art
Thou? (Joel Coen)
Origin of the 21st
Century (Jean-Luc Godard, France) [v/s]
The Orphan of Anyang
(Wang Chao, China)
Outer Space (Peter
Tscherkassky, Austria, 1999) [s]
-Prelude (Michael
Snow, Canada) [s]
Round About Midnight
(Makoto Wada, Japan)
Series 7: The
Contenders (Daniel Minahan)
Spring Forward (Tom
Gilroy)
Suite for VCRs:
Mutable Commute (Scott Stark) [p/s]
Thomas In Love
(Pierre-Paul Renders, Belgium)
Under The Sand
(François Ozon, France)
-Uzumaki (Higuchinsky,
Japan)
The Vertical Ray of
the Sun (Tran Anh Hung, Vietnam / France)
Warm Water Under a
Red Bridge (Shohei Imamura, Japan) >
-We Just Tellin’
Stories (Lawrence Andrews) [v/m]
Wet Hot American
Summer (David Wain)
A Widow’s Web (Mike
Kuchar) [v/s]
Word and Utopia
(Manoel de Oliveira, Portugal / France)
Worm and Web Love
(Stan Brakhage, 1999) [s]*
Wot the Ancient Sod
(Diane Kitchen) [s]*
[7]
Ali (Michael Mann)
Angel Beach (Scott
Stark) [s]
Bangkok Dangerous
(Oxide Pang and Danny Pang, Thailand)
-A Boy Named Sue
(Julie Wyman) [v/m]
Bread & Tulips
(Silvio Soldini, Italy)
Bully (Larry Clark)
-Chop Suey (Bruce
Weber)
Chopper (Andrew
Dominik, Australia)
Chunhyang (Im
Kwon-taek, South Korea)
Code Unknown:
Incomplete Tales of Several Journeys (Michael Haneke, France)
-Consolation Service
(Eija Liisa Ahtila, Finland) [s]
Death Poses (Kathy
High) [v/s]
The Deep End (Scott
McGehee & David Siegel)
Desi (Maria Ramos,
The Netherlands)
The Endurance:
Shackleton’s Legendary Antarctic Expedition (George Butler, U.S.A. / U.K. /
Germany / Sweden)
Fanny’s Wedding
(Oliver Brunet, France) [s]
The Fast and the
Furious (Rob Cohen)
Fat Girl [À ma
soeur!] (Catherine Breillat, France)
Fighter (Amir
Bar-Lev)
Ginger Snaps (John
Fawcett, Canada)
Happy Accidents
(Brad Anderson)
Harry Potter and the
Sorcerer’s Stone (Chris Columbus)
Hybrid (Monteith
McCollum)
Into the Arms of
Strangers: Stories of the Kindertransports (Mark Jonathan Harris)
John Carpenter’s
Ghosts of Mars (John Carpenter)
Just Do It (Park
Dae-Young, South Korea)
Khabi Khushi Khabie
Gham... (Karan Johar, India)
Lagaan (Ashutosh
Gowariker, India) >
The Left Side of the
Fridge (Philippe Falardeau, Canada)
Legally Blonde
(Robert Luketic)
The Legend[s] of
Rita (Volker Schlöndorff, Germany)
The Letter (Manoel
de Oliveira, Portugal / France, 1999)
Lies (Jang Sun-woo,
South Korea) *
Light Lick: Get It
While You Can (Saul Levine) [s]
Like A Dream That
Vanishes (Barbara Sternberg, Canada) [m]
-Maelström (Denis
Villeneuve, Canada) >
Memento (Christopher
Nolan)
More Than Meets the
Eye: Remaking Jane Fonda (Scott Stark) [v/s]
Nico and Dani
(“Krámpack”) (Cesc Gay, Spain)
101 Reykjavik
(Baltasar Kormákur, Iceland / Norway / Denmark / France)
One Day In the Life
of Andrei Arsenevich (Chris Marker, France) [v/m]
Our Song (Jim McKay)
Pootie Tang (Louis
C.K.)
-Promises (Justine
Shapiro, B. Z. Goldberg, Carlos Bolada) [v] >
Rounds (Stan
Brakhage) [s]
Sans Titre (Maïa
Cybelle Carpenter) [s]*
Saudade do Futuro
(César Paes, Brazil / France)
Seafood (Zhu Wen,
China / Hong Kong)
-See You In Toronto
(Jean Pierre Lefebvre, Canada) [s]
Shadow Procession
(William Kentridge, South Africa, 1999) [v/s]
Signs & Wonders
(Jonathan Nossiter)
Startup.com (Jehane
Noujaim & Chris Hegedus)
Strange Fits of
Passion (Elise McCredie, Australia)
Time and Tide (Tsui
Hark, Hong Kong)
-Top of the Food
Chain (John Paizs, Canada)
Traffic (Steven
Soderbergh)
Training Day
(Antoine Fuqua)
Va savoir (Jacques
Rivette, France)
Virgin Stripped Bare
By Her Bachelors [Oh! Soo-jung] (Hong Sang-soo, South Korea)
Visitor Q (Takashi
Miike, Japan) [v]
[6]
The American
Astronaut (Cory McAbee)
Angel Eyes (Luis
Mandoki)
Animal Attraction
(Kathy High) [v/m]
Asoka (Santosh
Sivan, India)
Baise-moi (Virginie
Despentes / Coralie Trinh Thi, France)
Bardo (Jordan
Belson) [v/s]
Before Night Falls
(Julian Schnabel)
Bridget Jones’s
Diary (Sharon Maguire, U.K. / U.S.A.)
Brother (Takeshi
Kitano, Japan / U.S.A.)
Bum Series (Konrad
Steiner) [s]
Burnt Money [Plata
quemada] (Marcelo Piñeyro, Argentina / France / Spain / Uruguay)
Chimp for Normal
Short (Leslie Thornton, 1999) [v/s]
The Circle (Jafar
Panahi, Iran)
The Claim (Michael
Winterbottom, U.K. / Canada)
The Closed Doors
(Atef Hetata, Egypt)
Deep in the Woods
(Lionel Delplanque, France)
The Dish (Rob Sitch,
Australia)
-Divided Loyalties
(Sophia Constantinou, Cyprus / U.S.A.) [v/m]
La Faute à Voltaire
(Abdellatif Kechiche, France)
Freddy Got Fingered
(Tom Green)
George Washington
(David Gordon Green)
Ghost World (Terry
Zwigoff)
Hedwig and the Angry
Inch (John Cameron Mitchell)
Ichi the Killer
(Takashi Miike, Japan / Hong Kong / South Korea)
In the Bedroom (Todd
Field)
Interview (Byun
Hyuk, South Korea)
Intimacy (Patrice
Chéreau, France / U.K.)
Jackpot (Michael
Polish)
The King is Alive
(Kristian Levring, Denmark)
La Ciénaga (Lucrecia
Martel, Argentina)
Los (James Benning)
Lost and Delirious
(Léa Pool, Canada)
Love Song (Stan
Brakhage) [s]
Lumumba (Raoul Peck,
Belgium / France / Germany / Haiti)
The Mad Songs of
Fernanda Hussein (John Gianvito)
The Man Who Wasn’t
There (Joel Coen)
The Natural History
of the Chicken (Mark Lewis) [v/m]
-New Waterford Girl
(Allan Moyle, Canada)
Nowhere To Hide (Lee
Myung-se, South Korea)
O (Tim Blake Nelson)
Ocean’s Eleven
(Steven Soderbergh)
Our Lady of the
Assassins (Barbet Schroeder, Colombia / France)
Paragraph 175 (Rob
Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman, U.S.A. / Germany)
Platform (Jia Zhang
Ke, People’s Republic of China)
The Royal Tenenbaums
(Wes Anderson)
Séance (Kiyoshi
Kurosawa, Japan)
-The Season of Men
(Moufida Tlatli, Tunisia / France)
Sexy Beast (Jonathan
Glazer, U.K.)
Songs From the
Second Floor (Roy Andersson, Sweden / Denmark / Norway)* >
Spy Kids (Robert
Rodriguez)
Taboo (Gohatto)
(Nagisa Oshima, Japan)
[5]
A.I. (Steven
Spielberg)
Adventures of Felix
(Olivier Ducastel & Jacques Martineau, France)
Amélie [Le Fabuleux
Destin d’Amélie Poulain] (Jean-Pierre Jeunet, France)
Amores Perros
(Alejandro González Iñárritu, Mexico)
-Animal Factory
(Steve Buscemi)
The Anniversary
Party (Jennifer Jason Leigh & Alan Cumming)
-Battle Royale
(Kinji Fukusaku, Japan)
A Beautiful Mind
(Ron Howard)
Bread and Roses (Ken
Loach, France / Germany / Italy / Spain / Switzerland / U.K.)
-Chain Camera (Kirby
Dick)
The Crimson Rivers
(Mathieu Kassovitz, France)
Dance (Stan
Brakhage) [s]
The Dark Room
(Minyong Yang, U.S. / South Korea) [s]
The Debut (Gene
Cajayon) >
-Down From The
Mountain (Nick Doob & Chris Hegedus & D.A. Pennebaker)
Ellipses (Frédérique
Devaux, France) [s]
Face (Junji
Sakamoto, Japan)
Goat’s Lover (Shin
Han-Sol, South Korea) [s]
Haiku Tunnel (Jacob
Kornbluth and Josh Kornbluth)
Hannibal (Ridley
Scott)
Happy Times (Zhang
Yimou, People’s Republic of China) >
Have a Nice Day
Alone (Leslie Thornton) [v/s]
Heist (David Mamet)
Josie and the
Pussycats (Deborah Kaplan & Harry Elfont)
Kestrel's Eye
(Mikael Kristersson, Sweden)
Last Resort (Pawel
Pawlikowski, U.K.)
-Legs Apart (Anne
Wheeler, Canada) [s]
La Libertad
(Lisandro Alonso, Argentina)
The Lord of the
Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (Peter Jackson, U.S.A. / New Zealand)
A Matter of Taste
(Bernard Rapp, France)
Me You Them
(Andrucha Waddington, Brazil)
The Mexican (Gore
Verbinski)
The Million Dollar
Hotel (Wim Wenders)
-Monkeybone (Henry
Selick)
Nebel (Mist)
(Matthias Mueller, Germany / Austria / Luxembourg) [s]
Nocturne (The
Untitled Film) (Sheri Wills) [s]
North Circular (Mark
Lewis, Canada) [v/s]
Osmosis Jones (Peter
Farrelly and Bobby Farrelly)
Pink Film (Mary Beth
Reed) [s]
The Pledge (Sean
Penn)
Pollock (Ed Harris)
The Price of Milk
(Henry Sinclair, New Zealand)
Return to Pontianak
(Djinn, Singapore)
The Score (Frank Oz)
Serious Battle (Boo
Sung-Chul, South Korea) [s]
-Seven Sisters: A
Kentucky Portrait (Patrick Donohew) [v]
Shallow Hal (Bobby
Farrelly & Peter Farrelly)
Snatch (Guy Ritchie,
U.K.)
-Store Wars: When
Wal-Mart Comes to Town (Micha X. Peled) [v/m]
Suddenly Naked (Anne
Wheeler, Canada)
-Swordfish (Dominic
Sena)
Tigerland (Joel
Schumacher)
Together (Lukas
Moodysson, Sweden)
-Unconquering the
Last Frontier (Robert Lundahl)
Waking Life (Richard
Linklater)
[4]
-After (Made for TV)
(Mark Lewis, Canada) [s]
Another Worldly
(Leslie Thornton, 1999) [v/s]
ATOZ (Robert Breer)
[s]
Baby Boy (John
Singleton)
The Big Animal
(Jerzy Stuhr, Poland)
Blow (Ted Demme)
Bones (Ernest
Dickerson)
Come Undone [Presque
Rien] (Sébastien Lifshitz, France / Belgium)
-Congratulations
(Michael Jones, Canada) [s]
crazy/beautiful
(John Stockwell)
The Curse of the
Jade Scorpion (Woody Allen)
The Devil’s Backbone
(Guillermo del Toro, Spain)
Divided We Fall (Jan
Hrebejk, Czech Republic)
-dresden (Ben Speth)
Entrecroisées
(Frédérique Devaux, France) [s]
Final Fantasy: The
Spirits Within (Hironobu Sakaguchi, Japan / U.S.A.)
For the Birds (Ralph
Eggleston) [s]
The Fourth Dimension
(Trinh T. Minh-ha) [v]
The Gift (Sam Raimi)
The Girl (Sande
Zeig, France / U.S.A.)
-The Golden Bowl
(James Ivory, U.K.)
High Heels and Low
Lifes (Mel Smith, U.K.)
Jin-Roh: The Wolf
Brigade (Hiroyuki Okiura, Japan)
Keep the River On
Your Right: A Modern Cannibal Tale (David Shapiro & Laurie Gwen Shapiro)
A Knight’s Tale
(Brian Helgeland)
La Bûche (Danièle
Thompson, France)
-The Line (Atom
Egoyan, Canada) [s]*
Maze (Rob Morrow)
-Nora (Pat Murphy,
Ireland)
The Others
(Alejandro Amenábar, France / Spain / U.S.A.)
The Princess and the
Warrior (Tom Tykwer, Germany)
Private Movie (Naomi
Uman) [s]
-Routemaster:
Theatre of the Motor (Ilppo Pohjola, Finland) [s]
-Scout’s Honor (Tom
Shepard) [v/m]
Session 9 (Brad
Anderson)
Sound and Fury (Josh
Aronson)
State and Main
(David Mamet)
Tape (Richard
Linklater)
The Taste of Others
(Agnés Jaoui, France)
terra incognita
(Stephanie Maxwell) [v/s]
-Things You Can Tell
Just By Looking At Her (Rodrigo García)
Thirteen Days (Roger
Donaldson)
Tortilla Soup (María
Ripoll)
-The Town is Quiet
(Robert Guédiguian, France)
The Wash (D. J.
Pooh)
-A Word From the
Management (Don McKellar, Canada) [s]
[3]
American Pie 2 (J.B.
Rogers)
Butterfly (Doug
Wolens)
The Caveman’s
Valentine (Kasi Lemmons)
The Center of the
World (Wayne Wang)
The Closet [Le
Placard] (Francis Veber, France)
Dude, Where’s My
Car? (Danny Leiner)
From Hell (The
Hughes Brothers)
-Guest House
Paradiso (Adrian Edmondson, U.K.)
The Hankook Trilogy
(Jeremy Coleman) [s]
Happy Funeral
Director (Chang Moon-Il, South Korea)
-Haunted Houses
(Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Thailand) [v/m]
I Loved You . . .
(Three Romances) (Victor Kossakovsky, Russia / Germany) [v]
The Invisible Circus
(Adam Brooks)
L.I.E. (Michael
Cuesta)
L’outil n’est pas
toujours un marteau (Sylvie Laliberté, Canada, 1999) [v/s]
The Man Who Cried
(Sally Potter, France / U.K. / U.S.A.)
The New God (Yutaka
Tsuchiya, Japan) [v]
Not Forgotten
(Makoto Shinozaki, Japan)
-Otomo (Frieder
Schlaich, Germany)
Panic (Henry
Bromell)
Pauline and Paulette
(Lieven Debrauwer, Belgium) >
Posers (Scott Stark)
[v/s]
The Road Home (Zhang
Yimou, People’s Republic of China)
Shadow Magic (Ann
Hu, China / Germany / Taiwan / U.S.A.)
Shadow of the
Vampire (E. Elias Merhige)
Shrek (Andrew
Adamson & Vicky Jenson)
Soundings (Sandra
Gibson) [s]
The Tailor of Panama
(John Boorman, U.S.A. / Ireland)
Teenage Hooker
Became Killing Machine in Daehakno (Nam Gee-Woong, South Korea) [v/m]
-Tell Me Something
(Chang Yoon-hyun, South Korea)
-Things Behind the
Sun (Allison Anders)
-This Could Be Good
(Patricia Rozema, Canada) [s]
-24fps (Jeremy
Podeswa, Canada) [s]
Vanilla Sky (Cameron
Crowe)
-Vengo (Tony Gatlif,
France / Germany / Japan / Spain)
-Wadd: The Life
& Times of John C. Holmes (Cass Paley) [v]
[2]
-Cherry Falls
(Geoffrey Wright)
-Fuckland (Jose Luis
Marques, Argentina)
Himalaya (Eric
Valli, France / Nepal)
Hit and Runway
(Christopher Livingston)
Jump Tomorrow (Joel
Hopkins, U.K. / U.S.A.)
Simon Magus (Ben
Hopkins, U.K.)
Sugar & Spice
(Francine McDougall)
Too Much Sleep
(David Maquiling)
-Worm (Jay
Rosenblatt and Caveh Zahedi) [s]
[1]
Megacities (Michael
Glowogger, Austria)
The Monkey’s Mask
(Samantha Lang, Australia)
-The New Math(s)
(Hal Hartley) [v/s]
[W/O]
The Beaver Trilogy
(Trent Harris) [v] (1:05)
Jan Dara (Nonzee
Nimibutr, Thailand / Hong Kong) (1:45)
Sex, Shame and Tears
(Antonio Serrano, Mexico, 1999) (0:58)
Songcatcher (Maggie
Greenwald) (0:17)