NEW RELEASES SEEN, 2005

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; (-) began viewing theatrically and completed on video)

[10]

Close Quarters (Jim Jennings) [s]

[9]

Greene Street (Ernie Gehr) [v/s]

Interstellar Lower East Side Ramble (Ken Jacobs) [p]

Regular Lovers (Philippe Garrel, France)

[8]

Black Belt Test Exposure (Lynn Marie Kirby) [v/s]

Essex Street Market (Ernie Gehr) [v/s]

A Hole in My Heart (Lukas Moodysson, Sweden)

/-The Holy Girl (Lucrecia Martel, Argentina / Spain / Italy)*

Land of the Dead (George A. Romero, Canada / France / U.S.)

-Monologue Exterieur (Francien van Everdingen, The Netherlands) [s]

Pyramid Lake Piaute Reservation Exposure (Lynn Marie Kirby) [v/s]

She's One of Us (Siegrid Alnoy, France)

The Sun (Alexander Sokurov, Russia / Italy / France / Switzerland)

Takeshis' (Takeshi Kitano, Japan)

-Tale of Cinema (Hong Sang-soo, South Korea / France)

Workers Leaving the Factory (After Lumière) (Ernie Gehr) [v/s]

[7]

Aspect (Emily Richardson, U.K.) [s]

Bad Education (Pedro Almodóvar, Spain)

Battle in Heaven (Carlos Reygadas, Mexico / France / Germany / Belgium)

-Brokeback Mountain (Ang Lee)

Broken Flowers (Jim Jarmusch)

-Cinévardaphoto (Agnès Varda, France)

Czech Dream (Vit Klusák and Filip Remunda, Czech Republic) [v]

The Devil's Rejects (Rob Zombie, U.S. / Germany)

The 40 Year Old Virgin (Judd Apatow)

Gabrielle (Patrice Chéreau, France / Italy)

Grizzly Man (Werner Herzog)

-The Heart is Deceitful Above All Things (Asia Argento, U.K.)

Hidden (Caché) (Michael Haneke, France / Austria / Germany / Italy)

A History of Violence (David Cronenberg)

-Innocence (Lucile Hadzihalilovic, France)

Kiss Kiss Bang Bang (Shane Black)

-Memories of Murder (Bong Joon-ho, South Korea)

-Midnight Movies: From the Margin to the Mainstream (Stuart Samuels, Canada / U.S.)

Mini Cine Tupy (Sérgio Block, Argentina) [v/s]

-The Missing (Lee Kang-sheng, Taiwan)

Ocean's Twelve (Steven Soderbergh)

The President's Last Bang (Im Sang-soo, South Korea)

Pretty Persuasion (Marcos Siega)

Ruby Skin (Eve Heller) [s]

-Seven Swords (Tsui Hark, China / Hong Kong / South Korea)

Shape Shift (Scott Stark) [v/s]

SSHTOORRTY (Michael Snow, Canada) [v/s]

13 Lakes (James Benning)

Three Times (Hou Hsiao-hsien, Taiwan)

-Tokyo Magic Hour (Amir Muhammad, Malaysia / Japan) [v/m]

Tony Takitani (Jun Ichikawa, Japan)

-A Trip to the Orphanage (Guy Maddin, Canada) [s]

-The Tulse Luper Suitcases, Episodes 1-3 (Peter Greenaway, U.K. / The Netherlands)

2046 (Wong Kar-Wai, Hong Kong)*

A Very Long Engagement (Jean-Pierre Jeunet, France / U.S.)

Wassup Rockers (Larry Clark)

The Wayward Cloud (Tsai Ming-liang, Taiwan)

The Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill (Judy Irving)

-Wimbledon (Richard Loncraine, U.K. / France)

-The Year of Living Vicariously (Amir Muhammad, Malaysia / Indonesia) [v/m]

[6]

-Basis pH (Dietmar Brehm, Austria) [s]

Batman Begins (Christopher Nolan)

Corpse Bride (Mike Johnson and Tim Burton)

-The Big Durian (Amir Muhammad, Malaysia) [v]

The Forsaken Land (Vimukthi Jayasundara, Sri Lanka / France)

-Funny Ha Ha (Andrew Bujalski)

Good Night, And Good Luck. (George Clooney)

Half-Moon for Margaret (Ute Aurand, Germany) [s]

Head-On (Fatih Akin, Germany / Turkey)

In Good Company (Paul Weitz)

Instructions for a Light and Sound Machine (Peter Tscherkassky, Austria) [s]

The Jacket (John Maybury, U.K. / Canada)

-Last Life in the Universe (Pen-ek Ratanaruang, Thailand)

Layer Cake (Matthew Vaughn, U.K.)

Look at Me [Comme une image] (Agnès Jaoui, France)

Lost Embrace (Daniel Burman, Argentina / France / Italy / Spain)

-Magic Mirror (Manoel de Oliveira, Portugal)

Manderlay (Lars von Trier, Denmark)

Me and You and Everyone We Know (Miranda July)

Million Dollar Baby (Clint Eastwood)

Millions (Danny Boyle, U.K.)

Mysterious Skin (Gregg Araki)

Niki and Flo (Lucian Pintilie, Romania / France)

Noon Time Activities (Ernie Gehr) [v/s]

-Not on the Lips (Alain Resnais, France) [tentative grade]

-La petite Lili (Claude Miller, France / Canada)

Primo Amore (Matteo Garrone, Italy)

Quick's Thicket (Diane Kitchen) [s]

Something Like Happiness (Bohdan Sláma, Czech Republic)

Swades (Ashutosh Gowariker, India)

Through the Forest (Jean Paul Civeyrac, France) [m]

Tideland (Terry Gilliam, U.K. / Canada)

-Waiting Room (Zeki Demirkubuz, Turkey)

-When Will I Be Loved (James Toback)

Where the Truth Lies (Atom Egoyan, Canada / U.K.)

The World (Jia Zhangke, China / Japan / France)

-Zizek! (Astra Taylor, U.S. / Canada) [v]

[5]

-Are You the Favorite Person of Anybody? (Miguel Arteta) [s]

The Aristocrats (Paul Provenza)

Backstage (Emmanuelle Bercot, France)

-The Baxter (Michael Showalter)

The Beat That My Heart Skipped (Jacques Audiard, France)

-Bright Leaves (Ross McElwee)

Brothers (Susanne Bier, Denmark)

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (Tim Burton)

Cigarettes and Coffee (Cristi Puiu, Romania) [s]

-Cinderella Man (Ron Howard)

-Common Ground (Adolfo Aristarain, Argentina / Spain)

The Death of Mr. Lazarescu (Cristi Puiu, Romania)

-A Dirty Shame (John Waters)

The District! (Áron Gauder, Hungary)

-District 13 (Pierre Morel, France)

Drawing Restraint 9 (Matthew Barney)

Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room (Alex Gibney)

-Far Side of the Moon (Robert Lepage, Canada)

-The Fearless Freaks (Bradley Beesley)

Fever Pitch (Peter Farrelly and Bobby Farrelly)

5x2 (Cinq fois deux) (François Ozon, France)

-The Girl From Monday (Hal Hartley)

/-Good Morning, Night (Marco Bellocchio, Italy)*

-Harry + Max (Christopher Munch)

Hustle & Flow (Craig Brewer)

-In Your Hands (Annette K. Olesen, Denmark)

Iron Island (Mohammad Rasoulof, Iran)

-It's All About Love (Thomas Vinterberg, Denmark / Sweden / U.K. / U.S. / Japan / Germany / The Netherlands)

-Jericho's Echo: Punk Rock in the Holy Land (Liz Nord, Israel / U.S.) [v]

-Jours en fleurs (Louise Bourque) [s]

Junebug (Phil Morrison)

King Kong (Peter Jackson, U.S. / New Zealand)

-Last Days (Gus Van Sant)

Lawn (Monteith McCollum) [v/s]

The Living World (Eugène Green, France)

-A Lot Like Love (Nigel Cole)

Mary (Abel Ferrara, France / Italy)

Memories in the Mist (Buddhadeb Dasgupta, India)

-Methadonia (Michel Negroponte) [v]

My Summer of Love (Pawel Pawlikowski, U.K)

-National Treasure (Jon Turteltaub)

-Night Watch (Timur Bekmambetov, Russia)

Ong-bak (Prachya Pinkaew, Thailand)

Paradise Now (Hany Abu-Assad, Palestine / The Netherlands / Germany / France)

-The Power of Nightmares: The Rise of the Politics of Fear (Adam Curtis, U.K.) [v]

-Raincoat (Rituparno Ghosh, India)

Sa-kwa (Kang Yi-kwan, South Korea)

-Samaritan Girl (Kim Ki-duk, South Korea)

-Save the Green Planet! (Jang Jun-hwan, South Korea)

site specific_ROMA 04 (Olivo Barbieri, Italy) [s]

The Squid and the Whale (Noah Baumbach)

-Vodka Lemon (Hiner Saleem, France / Italy / Switzerland / Armenia)

Winchester (Jeremy Blake) [v/p/s]

The Woodsman (Nicole Kassell)

[4]

Assault on Precinct 13 (Jean-François Richet)

Bunty and Babli (Shaad Ali Sahgal, India)

Capote (Bennett Miller)

-Downfall (Oliver Hirschbiegel, Germany)

The Dying Gaul (Craig Lucas)

-Echo Echo (Dietmar Brehm, Austria) [s]

(-)The Edukators [Die fetten Jahre sind vorbei!] (Hans Weingartner, Germany / Austria)

Eros (Wong Kar-Wai, Hong Kong / Steven Soderbergh, U.S. / Michelangelo Antonioni, Italy)

Fallen (Fred Y. Kelemen, Germany / Latvia)

fugitive l(i)ght (Izabella Pruska-Oldenhof, Canada) [s]

-Gilles' Wife (Frédéric Fonteyne, Belgium / France / Luxembourg / Italy / Switzerland)

Gunner Palace (Petra Epperlein and Michael Tucker)

Happy Endings (Don Roos)

-Jesus, You Know (Ulrich Seidl, Austria) [v]

Lapse Lose All (Kathryn MacKay and Alexi Manis, Canada) [v/s]

-Paheli (Amol Palekar, India)

Red Eye (Wes Craven)

-Rize (David La Chapelle)

Sin City (Frank Miller and Robert Rodriguez)

-Sombra dolorosa (Guy Maddin, Canada) [s]

The Spectator (Paolo Franchi, Italy)

-The Talent Given Us (Andrew Wagner)

-30.40 (James Fotopoulos) [v/s]

-Three . . . Extremes (Takashi Miike, Japan / Fruit Chan, Hong Kong / Park Chanwook, South Korea)

-The Time We Killed (Jennifer Reeves)

-Undertow (David Gordon Green)

-Walk on Water (Eytan Fox, Israel)

-Who Killed Bambi? (Gilles Marchand, France)

-Wild Side (Sébastien Lifshitz, France / Belgium / U.K.)

[3]

The Colonial Misunderstanding (Jean-Marie Teno, Cameroon / France / Germany) [v]

Elizabethtown (Cameron Crowe)

-A Hole in the Ground (Eveline Ketterings, The Netherlands) [s]

India (Ute Aurand, Germany) [m]

-Meet the Fockers (Jay Roach)

The Piano Tuner of Earthquakes (Timothy and Stephen Quay, U.K. / Germany / France)

Sympathy for Lady Vengeance (Park Chan-wook, South Korea)

-Take My Eyes (Icíar Bollaín, Spain)

-10 on Ten (Abbas Kiarostami, Iran / France) [v]

Vaterland: A Hunting Journal (David Jarab, Czech Republic)

[2]

Crash (Paul Haggis)

My Most Important Self-Portrait (James Barany) [v/s]

[1]

[W/O]

Bangkok Loco (Pornchai Honggrattanporn, Thailand) (0:18)

A Child Love Story (Ben Diogaye Beye, Senegal) (0:27)

Cold Showers (Douches froids) (Antony Cordier, France) (0:35)

Familia (Louise Archambault, Canada) (0:32)

Hank Williams First Nation (Aaron James Sorensen, Canada) (0:25)

Melinda and Melinda (Woody Allen) (0:30)

Thumbsucker (Mike Mills) (0:30)

Time Off (Paréntesis) (Francisca Schweitzer and Pablo Solís, Chile) (0:32)