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)