NEW RELEASES SEEN, 2002

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)

 

[10]

 

[9]

Blissfully Yours (Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Thailand)

8 Women (François Ozon, France)

Harmful Insect (Akihiko Shiota, Japan)

In Praise of Love (Jean-Luc Godard, Switzerland / France)

Looking at the Sea (Peter Hutton) [s]

The Or Cloud (Fred Worden) [s]

-Pistol Opera (Seijun Suzuki, Japan)

Silence . . . We’re Rolling (Youssef Chahine, Egypt / France)

Trouble Every Day (Claire Denis, France)

Y tu mamá también (Alfonso Cuarón, Mexico)

 

[8]

Back Against the Wall (James Fotopoulos)

CIRCLING ZERO Part One: We See Absence (Ken Jacobs) [v]

Confessions of a Sociopath (Joe Gibbons) [v/m]

Dear Fidel: Marita’s Story (Wilfried Huismann, Germany)

Les Destinées Sentimentales (Olivier Assayas, France)

Distance (Hirokazu Kore-eda, Japan)

Divine Intervention (Elia Suleiman, Palestine / France)

Doing Time (Sai Yoichi, Japan)

Dream Work (For Man Ray) (Peter Tscherkassky, Austria) [s]

Drowning (James Fotopoulos) [s]

Eli’s Moon (Michael Rosas-Walsh) [s]

Esther Kahn (Arnaud Desplechin, France / U.K.) [U.S. distributor edit]

Far Away (André Téchiné, France)

Far From Heaven (Todd Haynes) *

Fulltime Killer (Johnnie To and Wai Ka-fai, Hong Kong)

Getting Stronger Every Day (Miranda July) [v/s]

Harvard Man (James Toback)

Heaven (Tom Tykwer, Germany / Italy / U.K.)

Hell House (George Ratliff)

Insomnia (Christopher Nolan)

Late Marriage (Dover Kosashvili, Israel / France)

Little Otik (Otesánek) (Jan Švankmajer, Czech Republic)

May (Lucky McKee)

Morvern Callar (Lynne Ramsay, U.K.)

No Such Thing (Hal Hartley, U.S. / Iceland)

One Fine Spring Day (Hur Jin-Ho, South Korea)

Party 7 (Katsuhito Ishii, Japan)

-Pharmacy (Bruce Checefsky, Hungary) [s]

Road to Perdition (Sam Mendes)

Roger Dodger (Dylan Kidd)

Scratch (Doug Pray)

-Sobibor, October 14, 1943, 4 PM (Claude Lanzmann, France)

Spirited Away (Hayao Miyazaki, Japan)

Teenage Caveman (Larry Clark) [v]

Time Out [L’Emploi du temps] (Laurent Cantet, France)

The Uncertainty Principle (Manoel de Oliveira, Portugal)

Very (Stan Brakhage) [s]

-Vessel Wrestling (Lisa Yu) [s]

What Time Is It There? (Tsai Ming-liang, Taiwan / France)

 

[7]

Aberdeen (Hans Petter Moland, Finland / U.K.)

Adaptation. (Spike Jonze)

Après la réconcilliation (Anne-Marie Miéville, France / Switzerland)

Atanarjuat: The Fast Runner (Zacharias Kunuk, Canada)

Barbershop (Tim Story)

The Believer (Henry Bean)

Blade II (Guillermo del Toro)

Bowling for Columbine (Michael Moore, U.S. / Canada)

-Brigham City (Richard Dutcher)

Cellular Crime (Brett Simon and Lily Prillinger) [v/s]

Chronically Unfeasible (Sergio Bianchi, Brazil)


The City of Lost Souls (Takashi Miike, Japan)

*Corpus Callosum (Michael Snow, Canada)

Copy Shop (Virgil Widrich, Austria) [s]

Cotton Candy (Ernie Gehr) [v/m]

-The Count of Monte Cristo (Kevin Reynolds)

Delbaran (Abolfazl Jalili, Iran / Japan)

Derrida (Kirby Dick and Amy Ziering Kofman, U.S. / France) [v]

Elling (Petter Næss, Norway)

Failan (Song Sye-sung, South Korea)

-Family Dinner (Skander Halim, Canada) [s]

Fear of Blushing (Jennifer Reeves) [s]

Film Ist. 7-12 (Gustav Deutsch, Austria)

Full Frontal (Steven Soderbergh)

-The Girl From Marseilles (Cathy Lee Crane) [s]

Go for Broke (Wang Guangli, China)

Gosford Park (Robert Altman)

Le Grand Tango (Pieter Jan Smit, The Netherlands) [s]

Group (Marilyn Freeman)

Guardian of the Frontier (Maja Weiss, Slovenia)

The Happiness of the Katakuris (Takashi Miike, Japan)

Home Movie (Chris Smith) [m]

The 100th Undone (Jacqueline Goss) [v/s]

-In the Bathtub of the World (Caveh Zahedi) [v]

Intacto (Juan Carlos Fresnadillo, Spain)

Japón (Carlos Reygadas, Mexico)

Kandahar (Mohsen Makhmalbaf, Iran)

Karmen Geï (Jospeh Gaï Ramaka, Senegal / France / Canada)

The Kid Stays in the Picture (Brett Morgen and Nanette Burstein)

Lan Yu (Stanley Kwan, Hong Kong)

Lantana (Ray Lawrence, Australia)

London Orbital (Iain Sinclair and Chris Petit, U.K.) [v]

Lovely & Amazing (Nicole Holofcener)

Lovesong 4 (Stan Brakhage) [s]

Maryam (Ramin Serry)

Maya (Digvijay Singh, India)

Merci pour le chocolat (Claude Chabrol, France / Switzerland)

Metropolis (Rintaro, Japan)

The Milk of Human Kindness (Dominique Cabréra, France / Belgium)

Millennium Mambo (Hou Hsiao-hsien, Taiwan / France)

Minority Report (Steven Spielberg)

Monsoon Wedding (Mira Nair, India)

Monster’s Ball (Marc Forster)

-My Colombian Cousin (Catalina Hoyos Restrepo, U.S. / Colombia) [v/s]

Night Mulch (Stan Brakhage) [s]

Nights of Constantinople (Orlando Rojas, Cuba)

Oasis (Lee Chang-dong, South Korea)

One Hour Photo (Mark Romanek)

Oporto of My Childhood (Manoel de Oliveira, Portugal / France) [m]

-Paperboys (Mike Mills) [m]

Patina (Peter Herwitz) [s]

The Pinochet Case (Patricio Guzmán, France)

Pleasures of Urban Decay (Sam Ball) [s]

-Pulse (Kiyoshi Kurosawa, Japan)

The Rules of Attraction (Roger Avary) [7]

-Russian Ark (Alexander Sokurov, Russia)

Shangri-La (Takashi Miike, Japan) [v]

She Puppet (Peggy Ahwesh) [v/s]

Solaris (Steven Soderbergh)

The Son’s Room (Nanni Moretti, Italy)

Spider-Man (Sam Raimi)

Super Troopers (Jay Chandrasekhar)

Switch Center (Ericka Beckman / Balazs Bela Studio) [s]

Talk To Her (Pedro Almodóvar, Spain)

10 (Abbas Kiarostami, Iran)

-36-365 (Joan Nidzyn) [s]

-This is Not a Photograph (Steve Erickson) [v/s]

To Re-edit The World (David Sherman) [v/m]

Tosca (Benoît Jacquot, France / Germany)

The Triumph of Love (Clare Peploe, Italy / U.K.)

The Truth About Charlie (Jonathan Demme)

25 Watts (Juan Pablo Rebella and Pablo Stoll, Uruguay)

24 Hour Party People (Michael Winterbottom, U.K.)

Undercover Brother (Malcolm D. Lee)

Unknown Pleasures (Jia ZhangKe, China / Japan / South Korea)

Wendigo (Larry Fessenden)

-What These Ashes Wanted (Philip Hoffman, Canada) [s]

World Trade Alphabet (Donna Cameron) [s]

 

[6]

Ararat (Atom Egoyan, Canada)

Automatic Writing 2 (Fred Worden) [s]

Bartleby (Jonathan Parker)


Beijing Bicycle (Wang Xiaoshuai, China)

Birthday Girl (Jez Butterworth, U.K.)

The Business of Strangers (Patrick Stettner)

-Clip (4000f) (Robert Todd) [s]

Conjugation (Emily Tang, China)

Cry-Woman (Liu Bingjian, Canada / China / France / South Korea)

-Dark Dark (Abigail Child) [s]

Death to Smoochy (Danny DeVito)

Decasia (Bill Morrison)

Devdas (Sanjay Leela Bhansali, India)

The End (Brett Simon) [v/s]

Fifty / Fifty (Peninsula Movie Makers) [v/s]

The Flickerflash (Brett Simon) [v/s]

Going Back Home (Louise Bourque) [s]

-How to Name the Bigger Light (Tara Knight) [s]

I Love Beijing (Ning Ying, China)

Impossible Love (Jim Jennings) [s]

-In July (Fatih Akin, Germany)

Invincible (Werner Herzog, Germany / U.K.)

Italian for Beginners (Lone Scherfig, Denmark)

ivans xtc. (Bernard Rose)

K.I.P. (Nguyen Tan Hoang) [v/s]

-Kick the Moon (Kim Sang-Jin, South Korea)

The Lady and the Duke (Eric Rohmer, France)

Lovesong 3 (Stan Brakhage) [s]

-Man! (John Palmer) [s]

Micro-Garden (Stan Brakhage) [s]

The Mothman Prophecies (Mark Pellington)

Murderous Maids [Les Blessures Assassines] (Jean-Pierre Denis, France)

The New Step (Brett Simon) [v/s]

Obaachan’s Garden (Linda Ohama, Canada)

Panic Room (David Fincher)

The Piano Teacher (Michael Haneke, France / Austria)

-Pie In The Sky: The Brigid Berlin Story (Vincent Fremont and Shelly Dunn Fremont)

Possession (Neil LaBute, U.K. / U.S.A.)

-Psycho Shower (Chun-hui Wu, Taiwan) [s]

Punch-Drunk Love (Paul Thomas Anderson)

Quitting (Zhang Yang, China)

-‘R Xmas (Abel Ferrara)

The Rookie (John Lee Hancock)

Satin Rouge (Raja Amari, France / Tunisia)

The Scorpion King (Chuck Russell)

-Sea Concrete Human (Michael Palm, Austria) [s]

Secretary (Steven Shainberg)

A Song For Martin (Bille August, Denmark / Germany / Sweden)

Spider (David Cronenberg, Canada / U.K.)

Take Care of My Cat (Jeong Jae-Eun, South Korea)

Undisputed (Walter Hill)

The Visitation (Nathaniel Dorsky) [s]

XXX (Rob Cohen)

 

[5]

All or Nothing (Mike Leigh, U.K.)

-The Ape of God, or How to Expunge a Malignant Cerebral Melanoma Through Strict Meditation and a Dry Wit (Ryan Schubert) [s]

Bad Guy (Kim Ki-duk, South Korea)

The Best of Times (Chang Tso-Chi, Taiwan)

Betelnut Beauty (Lin Cheng-sheng, Taiwan)

Bloody Sunday (Paul Greengrass, U.K.)

Blue Crush (John Stockwell)

-Camouflage (Jonathan Hodgson, U.K.) [s]

The Cockettes (Bill Weber and David Weissman)

Counterfeit Film (Brett Simon) [s] *

The Dangerous Lives of Altar Boys (Peter Care)

Daughter From Danang (Gail Dolgin and Vicente Franco)*

Dogtown and Z-Boys (Stacy Peralta)

Dolls (Takeshi Kitano, Japan)

8 Mile (Curtis Hanson)

Das Experiment (Oliver Hirschbiegel, Germany)

-Exposed (Siegfried A. Fruhauf, Austria) [s]

Fall (Leighton Pierce) [v/s]

Femme Fatale (Brian De Palma)

Frailty (Bill Paxton)

-france vs. spain (Stephanie Barber) [s]

-Funkstille (Boris Dornbusch, Germany) [s]

Gangs of New York (Martin Scorsese)

Gangster No. 1 (Paul McGuigan, U.K.)

Garden Path (Stan Brakhage and Mary Beth Reed) [s]

Go (Isao Yukisada, Japan)

Green Dragon (Timothy Linh Bui)

His Secret Life [Le Fate ignoranti] (Ferzan Ozpetek, Italy)

How I Killed My Father (Anne Fontaine, France / Spain)

Impostor (Gary Fleder)

Industrial Synth (Seth Price) [v/s]

The Inner Tour (Ra’anan Alexandrowicz, Israel)

Jackass The Movie (Jeff Tremaine)

K-19: The Widowmaker (Kathryn Bigelow)

-Laquiem (Andrée Greenwell, Australia) [s]


Last Wedding (Bruce Sweeney, Canada)

-Men with Brooms (Paul Gross, Canada)

Micromoth (Julie Murray) [s]

-Mit mir (With Me) (Kerstin Cmelka, Austria) [s]

Musa the Warrior (Kim Sung-Su, South Korea)

The New Guy (Ed Decter)

The Ring (Gore Verbinski)

The Ruination of Men (Arturo Ripstein, Mexico / Spain)

The Salton Sea (D. J. Caruso)

Secret Ballot (Babak Payami, Iran / Italy)

The Skywalk Is Gone (Tsai Ming-liang, Taiwan) [s]

The Sleepy Time Gal (Christopher Münch)

Some Body (Henry Barrial)

The Son of the Bride (Juan José Campanella, Argentina)

A Taxi For Three (Orlando Lübbert, Chile)

Train (Masako Miyazaki) [s]

Truly Human (Åke Sandgren, Denmark)

The Velvet Tigress (Jen Sachs) [s]

Video Quartet (Christian Marclay) [v/s]

War Photographer (Christian Frei, Switzerland)

Waterboys (Shinobu Yaguchi, Japan)

The Way Home (Lee Jeong-hyang, South Korea)

 

[4]

Abandon (Stephen Gaghan)

About a Boy (Paul Weitz and Chris Weitz)

Alias Betty [Betty Fisher et autres histoires] (Claude Miller, France / Canada)

All About Lily Chou-Chou (Shunji Iwai, Japan)

Baran (Majid Majidi, Iran)

Biggie and Tupac (Nick Broomfield, U.K.)

Black Hawk Down (Ridley Scott)

Blue Skies (Ann Marie Fleming, Canada) [s]

El Bola (Achero Mañas, Spain)

Brief Crossing (Catherine Breillat, France)

The Business of Fancydancing (Sherman Alexie)

CQ (Roman Coppola)

The Cat’s Meow (Peter Bogdanovich)

Cherish (Finn Taylor)

-A Chronicle of Corpses (Andrew Repasky McElhinney)

Dahmer (David Jacobson)

Dark Blue World (Jan Sverák, Czech Republic)

-dear XXX (Daniel Cavey) [s]

demonlover (Olivier Assayas, France)

Drumline (Charles Stone III)

-Et In Arcadia Ego (Kerstin Cmelka, Austria) [s]

-Fight the Cinema! (Gerd Gochell and Ute Heuer, Germany) [s]

Girls Can’t Swim (Anne-Sophie Birot, France)

-H (Filippo Riva, Spain) [s]

Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (Chris Columbus)

Her Glacial Speed (Eve Heller) [s]

-Hey, Happy! (Noam Gonick, Canada)

Human Nature (Michel Gondry, U.S. / France)

IWWF (Stan Smith and Kathy Maas) [v/s]

I Am Sam (Jessie Nelson)

July Rhapsody (Ann Hui, Hong Kong)

Kedma (Amos Gitai, Israel)

Last Orders (Fred Schepisi, U.K.)

-Life (Audrey Schebat, France) [s]

-Lift (Demane Davis and Khari Streeter)

Lilo & Stitch (Chris Sanders & Dean Deblois)

-A Longer Journey (Merlyn M. Bilas) [s]

The Man We Want to Hang (Kenneth Anger) [s]

Me Without You (Sandra Goldbacher, U.K.)

-New Best Friend (Zoe Clarke-Williams)

-The Odds of Recovery (Su Friedrich) [m]

Photograph of Wind (Lynne Sachs) [s]

Rain (Christine Jeffs, New Zealand)

Rivers and Tides (Thomas Riedelsheimer, Germany)

Shudder (top and bottom) (Michael Gitlin) [s]

Song of the Firefly (Izabella Pruska-Oldenhof, Canada) [s]

Tadpole (Gary Winick)

-Tart (Christina Wayne)

-Ted Bundy (Matthew Bright)

Time of Favor (Jospeh Cedar, Israel)

-Time Piece (Tamara Trace, U.K. / U.S.A.) [s]

The Trigger (Alex Yang, Taiwan)

Very Annie-Mary (Sara Sugarman, U.K.)

Vivante (Sandrine Ray, France)

Water Seeking Its Level (Leighton Pierce) [v/s]

-waydowntown (Gary Burns, Canada)

Yellow-Red & Blue-Violet (Luis Recoder) [s]

 


[3]

-A.B.C Africa (Abbas Kiarostami, Iran / Uganda) [v]

Auto Focus (Paul Schrader)

Bollywood / Hollywood (Deepa Mehta, Canada)

Brotherhood of the Wolf (Christophe Gans, France)

Calling All Cars (Alfonso Alvarez) [s]

Cet amour-lá (Josée Dayan, France)

Dagon (Stuart Gordon, Spain)

Escaflowne (Kazuki Akane, Japan)

Family Fundamentals (Arthur Dong)

Good Friday (Brett Simon) [v/s]

The Good Girl (Miguel Arteta)

Hand Eye Coordination (Naomi Uman) [s]

Hojas de Maís (Eric S. Theise) [s]

-I My Bike (Ken Paul Rosenthal) [s]

Kissing Jessica Stein (Charles Herman-Wurmfeld)

Lilya 4-Ever (Lukas Moodysson, Sweden)

-Murder by Numbers (Barbet Schroeder)

Nice Guys Finish Last (Robert B. Martin, Jr.) [s]

Passage (Shirin Neshat w/ Philip Glass) [v/s]

Princesa (Henrique Goldman, Brazil / Italy / Germany)

Railroad of Hope (Ning Ying, China) [v/m]

Read My Lips (Jacques Audiard, France)

Saint Monica (Terrence Odette, Canada)

-Sharkie (Francien van Everdingen, Germany) [s]

Signs (M. Night Shyamalan)

Spy Kids 2: The Island of Lost Dreams (Robert Rodriguez)*

Star Wars: Episode II – Attack of the Clones (George Lucas)

Storytelling (Todd Solondz)

-That’s That (Aaron Sharp) [s]

Veloma (Marie de Laubier, France)

Whitney: Mama’s Little Baby (Lawrence Elbert) [v/s]

 

[2]

Big Bad Love (Arliss Howard)

Crepescule: Pond and Chair (Sandra Davis) [s]

-Explicit (Robert Lyons) [s]

-Freeze Me (Takashi Ishii, Japan)

My Wife is an Actress (Yvan Attal, France)

Resident Evil (Paul W. S. Anderson)

-Revolution OS (J.T.S. Moore)

Swimfan (John Polson)

-Technical Aids (X Kasumi) [v/s]

 

[1]

Dance With Farm Workers (Wu Wenguang, China) [v/m]

Shadowy Encounters (Gariné Torossian, Canada) [v/s]

Vulgar (Bryan Johnson)

 

[W/O]

Between Strangers (Edoardo Ponti, Italy / Canada) (0:32)

Inch’Allah Sunday (Yamina Benguigui, France) (1:15)

Nine Queens (Fabián Bielinsky, Argentina) (1:14)

Paradox Lake (Przemyslaw Reut, U.S. / Poland / Germany) (0:25)

Pilgrimage (G. R. Kannan, India) (0:46)

Sex and Lucía (Julio Medem, Spain) (0:58)

Swimming (Robert J. Siegel) (0:42)

Unfair Competition (Ettore Scola, Italy) (0:38)

The Weight of Water (Kathryn Bigelow) (0:28)