NEW RELEASES SEEN, 2003

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]

The Brown Bunny (Vincent Gallo)

Irreversible (Gaspar Noé, France)

The Son (Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne, Belgium)*

Stan’s Window (Stan Brakhage, Canada) [s]

 

[8]

American Splendor (Robert Pulcini & Shari Springer Berman)

Blue Gate Crossing (Yee Chin-yen, Taiwan)

Bus 174 (José Padilha, Brazil)

City (Ernie Gehr) [v/s]

Come and Go (João César Monteiro, Portugal / France)

Un crabe dans le tête (André Turpin, Canada)

The Decay of Fiction (Pat O’Neill)

Gerry (Gus Van Sant)

In My Skin (Marina de Van, France)

Lost in La Mancha (Keith Fulton and Louis Pepe)

The Man Without a Past (Aki Kaurismäki, Finland)

Panels for the Walls of Heaven (Stan Brakhage) [m]

Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (Gore Verbinski)

-Roberto Succo (Cedric Kahn, France)

Safe Conduct [Laissez-passer] (Bertrand Tavernier, France)

The School of Rock (Richard Linklater)

The Secret Lives of Dentists (Alan Rudolph)*

Sleepers (Abbas Kiarostami, Iran) [v/p]

System of Transitions (Johannes Hammel, Austria) [v/s]

28 Days Later (Danny Boyle, U.K.)

Virgin of Lust (Arturo Ripstein, Mexico / Spain / Portugal)

X2 (Bryan Singer)

-Zero Day (Ben Coccio)

 

[7]

All the Real Girls (David Gordon Green)

At Five in the Afternoon (Samira Makhmalbaf, Iran / France) 

Bad Santa (Terry Zwigoff)

Better Luck Tomorrow (Justin Lin)

Blind Spot: Hitler’s Secretary (André Heller & Othmar Schmiderer, Germany)

Capturing the Friedmans (Andrew Jarecki)

Chaos (Coline Serreau, France)

Down With Love (Peyton Reed)

-The Embalmer (Matteo Garrone, Italy)

Fear and Trembling (Alain Corneau, France)

The Five Obstructions (Jørgen Leth and Lars von Trier, Denmark / Switzerland / Belgium / France)

Guest Room (Skander Halim, Canada) [v/s]

Home Movie: a diary for my American-born son (Mišo Suchý, U.S. / Slovakia) [v/m]

Interior (Jim Jennings) [s]

Looney Tunes: Back In Action (Joe Dante)

Lost In Translation (Sofia Coppola)*

Madame Satã (Karim Ainouz, Brazil)

Masked and Anonymous (Larry Charles)

Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World (Peter Weir)

Matchstick Men (Ridley Scott)

My Architect (Nathaniel Kahn)

Narc (Joe Carnahan)

Northfork (Michael Polish)

Once Upon a Time in Mexico (Robert Rodriguez, U.S. / Mexico)

Open Range (Kevin Costner)

-The Slaughter Rule (Andrew & Alex Smith)

Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter . . . and Spring (Kim Ki-duk, South Korea / Germany)

A Talking Picture (Manoel de Oliveira, Portugal / France / Italy)

The Trilogy II: An Amazing Couple (Lucas Belvaux, France / Belgium)

Turning Gate (Hong Sang-soo, South Korea)

25th Hour (Spike Lee)

-untitled (Ira Sachs) [v/s]

Waiting For Happiness (Abderrahmane Sissako, Mauritania / France)

Willard (Glen Morgan)

 

[6]

About Schmidt (Alexander Payne)

American Wedding (Jesse Dylan)

Catch Me If You Can (Steven Spielberg)

Chi-hwa-seon (Im Kwon-taek, South Korea)

The Chinese Series (Stan Brakhage, Canada) [s]

City of God (Fernando Meirelles / Katia Lund, Brazil)

The Core (Jon Amiel)

Cremaster 3 (Matthew Barney)

Dark Blue (Ron Shelton)

-Finding Nemo (Andrew Stanton)

Friday Night (Claire Denis, France)

From the Other Side (Chantal Akerman, France / Belgium) [v]

The Good Thief (Neil Jordan, U.K. / France / Canada / Ireland)

Histoire de Marie et Julien (Jacques Rivette, France)

A House Built on Water (Bahman Farmanara, Iran)

In the Cut (Jane Campion, U.S. / France)

Kill Bill, Vol. 1 (Quentin Tarantino)

Manic (Jordan Melamed)

Manito (Eric Eason)

Marooned in Iraq (Bahman Ghobadi, Iran [Kurdistan])

New Guy (Bilge Ebiri) [v]

Nō (Sharon Lockhart) [m]

Nowhere in Africa (Caroline Link, Germany)

A Peck on the Cheek (Mani Ratnam, India)

The Pianist (Roman Polanski, U.K. / France / Germany / Poland / The Netherlands)

Respiro (Emanuele Crialese, Italy)

The Revolution Will Not Be Televised (Kim Bartley & Donnacha O’Briain, Ireland) [v]

The Saddest Music in the World (Guy Maddin, Canada)

Sweet Sixteen (Ken Loach, U.K. / France / Spain)

Transmitting Baba (Mišo Suchý, U.S. / Slovakia) [v/s]

Twentynine Palms (Bruno Dumont, France)

 

[5]

-Bolivia (Israel Adrián Caetano, Argentina)

Charlotte Sometimes (Eric Byler)

Cocteau Centro (Dan Boord / Luis Valdovino) [v/s]

Confessions of a Dangerous Mind (George Clooney)

-Dog Days (Ulrich Seidl, Austria)

Dirty Pretty Things (Stephen Frears, U.K.)

-Double Vision (Chen Kuo-fu, Taiwan)

Dracula: Pages From a Virgin’s Diary (Guy Maddin, Canada)

Elephant (Gus Van Sant)

-11’09’01: September 11 (various directors)

-É Minha Cara / That’s My Face (Thomas Allen Harris) [v/m]

Final Destination 2 (David R. Ellis)

The Final Flight of the Osiris (Andy Jones) [s]

Glider (Ernie Gehr) [v/m]

Good bye, dragon inn (Tsai Ming-liang, Taiwan)

Gozu (Takashi Miike, Japan)

Hukkle (György Pálfi, Hungary)

Hulk (Ang Lee)

Marion Bridge (Wiebke von Carolsfeld, Canada)

-Meal (Cathy Lee Crane and Sarah Lewison) [v/s]

A Mighty Wind (Christopher Guest)

-Mondays in the Sun (Fernando León de Aranoa, Spain)

My Father and I (Xu Jinglei, China)

Mystic River (Clint Eastwood)

Nathalie . . . (Anne Fontaine, France)

Personal Velocity (Rebecca Miller)

Pictograph (Lida and Mišo Suchý, U.S. / Ukraine) [v/s]

The Present (Eija-Liisa Ahtila, Finland) [s/v/p]

Proxy (Mark Hejnar) [v/s]

PTU (Johnnie To, Hong Kong)

The Quiet American (Phillip Noyce)

Regarding Penelope’s Wake (Michele Smith) [v]

-Ripley’s Game (Liliana Cavani, Italy / U.K.)

Shattered Glass (Billy Ray)

-Stevie (Steve James)

Stone Reader (Mark Moskowitz)

Suddenly (Tan de repente) (Diego Lerman, Argentina)

Time of the Wolf (Michael Haneke, France / Austria / Germany)

The Trilogy I: On the Run (Lucas Belvaux, France / Belgium)

-21 (Laura Plotkin) [v/s]

Zatoichi (Takeshi Kitano, Japan)

 

[4]

Bubba Ho-tep (Dan Coscarelli)

-Bungee Jumping of Their Own (Kim Dae-Seung, South Korea)

Carnages (Delphine Gleize, France / Spain / Belgium / Switzerland)

Good Morning, Night (Marco Bellocchio, Italy)

He Loves Me...He Loves Me Not [À la folie...pas du tout] (Laetitia Colombani, France)

I-San Special (Mingmongkol Sonakul, Thailand)

The Last Letter (Frederick Wiseman) [m]

Man On the Train (Patrice Leconte, France)

The Matrix Reloaded (The Wachowski Brothers)

Noor (Deborah Phillips, Germany) [s]

-Old School (Todd Phillips)

Owning Mahowny (Richard Kwietniowski, Canada / U.K.)

Rabbit-Proof Fence (Phillip Noyce, Australia)

Raising Victor Vargas (Peter Sollett)

-Run Ronnie Run (Troy Miller)

-So Close (Cory Yuen, Hong Kong)

Spellbound (Jeffrey Blitz)

Spun (Jonas Åkerlund)

Swimming Pool (François Ozon, France / U.K.)

The Trilogy III: After Life (Lucas Belvaux, France / Belgium)

21 Grams (Alejandro González Iñárritu)

-The World is a Classroom (Caveh Zahedi) [v/s]

 

[3]

Alix (Robert Saxon) [v/s]

Bemani (Dariush Mehrjui, Iran)

Charlie’s Angels: Full Throttle (McG)

-The Cuckoo (Alexander Rogozhkin, Russia)

Feathers in My Head (Thomas de Thier, France / Belgium)

The Hours (Stephen Daldry)

-Igby Goes Down (Burr Steers)

The Magdalene Sisters (Peter Mullan, U.K.)

-Prayer (Jay Rosenblatt) [s]

Sogobi (James Benning)

Undead (Peter and Michael Spierig, Australia)

Wrong Turn (Rob Schmidt)

 

[2]

Rolling in My Ears (Barry Gerson) [s]

The Shape of Things (Neil LaBute)

The Tesseract (Oxide Pang, Thailand / U.K. / Japan)

-The Voice of the Prophet (Robert Edwards) [s]

 

[1]

Animal Nightmares (Peter Lynch, Canada) [v/s]

 

[W/O]

Alexandra’s Project (Rolf de Heer, Australia) (0:32)

Close (Atom Egoyan and Juliao Sarmento, Canada / Portugal) [s/v/p] (0:12)

Dreamcatcher (Lawrence Kasdan) (0:58)

Eliana, Eliana (Riri Riza, Indonesia) (0:35)

Greendale (Bernard Shakey) (0:38)