NEW RELEASES SEEN,
2006
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]
Bamako (Abderrahmane Sissako, France / Mali / U.S.)
Song and Solitude (Nathaniel Dorsky) [s]
[8]
Climates (Nuri Bilge Ceylan, Turkey / France)
Colossal Youth (Pedro Costa, Portugal / France / Switzerland)
The Host (Bong Joon-ho, South Korea)
I Am A Sex Addict (Caveh Zahedi) [v]*
Inside Man (Spike Lee)
Kekexili: Mountain Patrol (Lu Chuan, China)
North Southernly (Vincent Grenier) [v/s]
Princess Raccoon (Seijun Suzuki, Japan)
-The Proposition (John Hillcoat, Australia / U.K.)
A Scanner Darkly (Richard Linklater)
Still Life (Jia Zhang-ke, China) [v]
Syndromes and a Century (Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Thailand / France / Austria)
-Tearoom (William E. Jones) [v/m]
-Worldly Desires (Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Thailand) [v/m]
[7]
Before the Olympics (Ernie Gehr) [v/s]
Big Bang Love, Juvenile A (Takashi Miike, Japan)
Brick (Rian Johnson)
Circa 1960 (Chris Curreri, Canada) [s]
Congorama (Philippe Falardeau, Canada)
Crossings (Robert Fenz) [s]
Dave Chappelle's Block Party (Michel Gondry)
The Departed (Martin Scorsese)
The Devil and Daniel Johnston (Jeff Feuerzeig)
The Dike of Transience (Gulya Nemes, Hungary) [s]
-Election (Johnnie To, Hong Kong)
L'Enfant (The Child) (Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne, Belgium / France)
Everyday Bad Dream (Fred Worden) [v/s]
Fay Grim (Hal Hartley, U.S. / Germany) [v]
Film for Invisible Ink case no. 71: Base-Plus-Fog (David Gatten) [s]
-Film Montages (For Peter Roehr) (William E. Jones) [v/s]
-4 (Ilya Khrzhanovsky, Russia)
The General Returns from One Place to Another (Michael Robinson) [v/s]
In Between Days (So Yong Kim) [v]
Indigènes [Days of Glory] (Rachid Bouchareb, France / Morocco / Algeria / Belgium)
/-Instructions for a Light and Sound Machine (Peter Tscherkassky, Austria) [s]*
-Interkosmos (Jim Finn) [v]
-The Ister (David Barison and Daniel Ross, Australia) [v]
-Jonestown: The Life and Death of Peoples Temple (Stanley Nelson)
-The Last Communist (Amir Muhammad, Malaysia) [v]
Manufactured Landscapes (Jennifer Baichwal, Canada)
-Masters of Horror: "Homecoming" (Joe Dante, Canada / U.S.) [v/m]
More Than Meets the Eye: Remaking Jane Fonda (Scott Stark) [v/s] [revised version]
The Morse Code Operator (or, The Monkey Wrench) (Ernie Gehr) [v/s]
-La Moustache (Emmanuel Carrère, France)
Munich (Steven Spielberg)
-My Dad is 100 Years Old (Guy Maddin, Canada) [s]
The New World (Terrence Malick)
-Odete [Two Drifters] (João Pedro Rodrigues, Portugal)
Offside (Jafar Panahi, Iran)
-Old Joy (Kelly Reichardt)*
Rang De Basanti (Rakesh Omprakash Mehra, India)
Silk Ties (Jim Jennings) [s]
Summer '04 (Stefan Krohmer, Germany)
This, and This (Vincent Grenier) [v/s]
Tristram Shandy: A Cock and Bull Story (Michael Winterbottom, U.K.)
Turbulant Blue (Luther Price) [s]
-Volver (Pedro Almodóvar, Spain)*
What is it? (Crispin Hellion Glover)
-When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts (Spike Lee) [v]
Woman on the Beach (Hong Sang-soo, South Korea)
You Don't Bring Me Flowers (Michael Robinson) [s]
[6]
-Alice Sees The Light (Ariana Gerstein) [s]
-The Aura (Fabián Bielinsky, Argentina / France / Spain)
Block (Emily Richardson, U.K.) [s]
-The Break-Up (Peyton Reed)
-Bubble (Steven Soderbergh)
-Changing Times (André Téchiné, France)
Coeurs [Private Fears in Public Places] (Alain Resnais, France / Italy)
-Crossing the Bridge: The Sound of Istanbul (Fatih Akin, Germany / Turkey)
Dangerous Supplement (Soon-Mi Yoo, South Korea / U.S.) [v/s]
The Descent (Neil Marshall, U.K.)
Friends With Money (Nicole Holofcener)
-Half Nelson (Ryan Fleck)
Hamaca Paraguaya (Paz Encina, Paraguay / Argentina / The Netherlands / France / Austria / Germany)
Here (Fred Worden) [v/s]
His Eye on the Sparrow (Bruce Conner) [v/s]
Idiocracy (Mike Judge)
-Lie with Me (Clement Virgo, Canada)
-The Lost Domain (Raoul Ruiz, France / Italy / Romania / Spain)
-Lunacy (Jan Svankmajer, Czech Republic / Slovakia)
Marie Antoinette (Sofia Coppola)
Match Point (Woody Allen, U.S. / U.K.)
Miami Vice (Michael Mann)
-More British Sounds (William E. Jones) [v/s]
The Notorious Bettie Page (Mary Harron)
Opera Jawa (Garin Nugroho, Indonesia / Austria)
-Our Daily Bread (Nikolaus Geyrhalter, Austria / Germany)
Le Petit Lieutenant (Xavier Beauvois, France)
-Police Beat (Robinson Devor)
A Prairie Home Companion (Robert Altman)
The Queen (Stephen Frears, U.K. / France / Italy)
Rain Dogs (Ho Yuhang, Malaysia)
-Reckless Eyeballing (Christopher Harris) [s]
Reprise (Joachim Trier, Norway)
-Ryna (Ruxandra Zenide, Romania / Switzerland)
-SPL (Wilson Yip, Hong Kong)
-Shanghai Dreams [Qinghong] (Wang Xiaoshuai, China)
site specific_LAS VEGAS 05 (Olivo Barbieri, Italy / Canada) [s]
-United 93 (Paul Greengrass)
-v. o. (William E. Jones) [v/m]*
Views from Home (Guy Sherwin, U.K.) [v/s]
-Wedding Crashers (David Dobkin)
-Yang Ban Xi: The 8 Model Works (Yan-ting Yuen, The Netherlands)
[5]
0778 man.road.river (Marcellvs 1, Brazil) [v/s]
-Abeni (Tunde Kelani, Nigeria / Benin) [v]
-Ae Fond Kiss . . . (Ken Loach, U.K. / Belgium / Germany / Italy / Spain)
August Days (Marc Recha, Spain)
Belle toujours (Manoel de Oliveira, France / Portugal)
Bliss (Sheng Zhimin, China)
-Brothers of the Head (Keith Fulton and Louis Pepe, U.K.)
The Caiman (Nanni Moretti, Italy / France)
-Chain (Jem Cohen, U.S. / Germany)
Chronicle of an Escape (Israel Adrián Caetano, Argentina)
Clear Blue Sky (Tomonari Nishikawa) [v/s]
-Dallas 362 (Scott Caan)
-Down in the Valley (David Jacobson)
Fast Food Nation (Richard Linklater)
-Fateless (Lajos Koltai, Hungary / Germany / U.K.)
Flanders (Bruno Dumont, France)
-Free Zone (Amos Gitai, Israel / France / Spain / Belgium)
Grand Luncheonette (Peter Sillen) [v/s]
-Haze (Shinja Tsukamoto, Japan) [v/s]
-Imagine Me & You (Ol Parker, U.K. / Germany)
-In Her Shoes (Curtis Hanson)
-Lemming (Dominik Moll, France)
Lights in the Dusk (Aki Kaurismäki, Finland / Germany / France)
-Little Miss Sunshine (Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris)
Lot 63, Grave C (Sam Green) [v/s]
-Magicians (Song Il-gon, South Korea) [v/m]
-Mardi Gras: Made in China (David Redmon) [v]
-Mirror Mechanics (Siegfried A. Fruhauf, Austria) [s]
-Mutual Appreciation (Andrew Bujalski)
My Person in the Water (Leighton Pierce) [v/s]
The Opening (Larry Gottheim) [v/s] [tentative grade]
Pushcarts of Eternity Street (Ken Jacobs) [v/s]
-Princesas (Fernando León de Aranoa, Spain)
The Promise (Chen Kaige, China / Hong Kong / Japan / South Korea)
-Requiem (Hans-Christian Schmid, Germany)
Schuss! (Nicolas Rey, France)
Severance (Christopher Smith, U.K.)
Sisters in Law (Florence Ayisi and Kim Longinotto, U.K. / Cameroon) [v]
T.S.H. (Jesse Lerner) [s]
Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby (Adam McKay)
Thank You for Smoking (Jason Reitman)
-The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada (Tommy Lee Jones, U.S. / France)
-Vanishing Points (Nana Swiczinsky, Austria) [s]
-Who Killed the Electric Car? (Chris Paine)
The Zone of Total Eclipse (Mika Taanila, Finland)
[4]
Art School Confidential (Terry Zwigoff)
As the Shadow (Marina Spada, Italy)
The Black Dahlia (Brian De Palma)
Brand Upon the Brain! (Guy Maddin, Canada / U.S.) [p/v]
-The Caretakers (Elisabeth Subrin) [s]
-Close To Home (Vidi Bilu and Dalia Hagar, Israel)
Drive-Thru (Gretchen Skogerson) [v/s]
-The Family Stone (Thomas Bezucha)
-Flow (Scott Nyerges) [v/s]
-Havoc (Barbara Kopple)
-The King (James Marsh, U.K. / U.S.)
Kinshasa Palace (Zeka Laplaine, Democratic Republic of the Congo / France) [v]
Mirror World (Abigail Child) [v/s]
-Monster House (Gil Renan)
Mouse Heaven (Kenneth Anger) [v/s]
-Nightlight (Chris Messina) [v/s]
The Night Listener (Patrick Stettner)
-Quiet Please (Robbie Cramer) [v/s]
Seascape #1 Night, China Shenzhen 05 (Olivo Barbieri, Italy) [v/s]
-Sherrybaby (Laurie Collyer)
Shortbus (John Cameron Mitchell)
-Sketches of Frank Gehry (Sydney Pollack)
This Is my Heart (Edson Barrus, Brazil / France) [v/s]
-Trailer for a Remake of Gore Vidal's "Caligula" (Francesco Vezzoli, Italy / U.S.) [v/s]
-Time (Kim Ki-duk, South Korea)
-20 Fingers (Mania Akbari, Iran) [v]
-V for Vendetta (James McTeigue, U.S. / Germany)
-Why We Fight (Eugene Jarecki)
-Zinc Garden (Michael van Baken, The Netherlands) [v/s]
[3]
Between Two Deaths (Wago Kreider) [v/s]
Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan (Larry Charles)
-Careless Reef -- 2. Abu Kifan (Gerard Holthuis, The Netherlands) [v/s]
-Facechasers (Gabriel Judet-Weinshel) [v/s]
Fantasma (Lisandro Alonso, Argentina) [m]
The Fountain (Darren Aronofsky)
Hostel (Eli Roth)
How I Killed a Saint (Teona Strugar Mitevska, Macedonia / Slovenia / France)
-I Love You So (Kees Brienen, The Netherlands) [s]
-It Will All End in Tears (Jesper Just, Denmark) [p/s]
-The Life of an Agent (Zsigmond Gábor, Hungary)
Looking for Comedy in the Muslim World (Albert Brooks)
Mohave Sahara (Leslie Thornton) [v/s]
[2]
Octave (Emily Hubley) [v/s]
[1]
[W/O]
Babel (Alejandro González Iñárritu, U.S. / Mexico) (1:32)
Dans les villes (Catherine Martin, Canada) (0:28)
Daratt (Mahamet-Saleh Haroun, France / Belgium / Chad / Austria) (0:46)
[later finished]
Falkenberg Farewell (Jesper Ganslandt, Sweden / Denmark) (0:33)
A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints (Dito Montiel) (1:20)
I Don't Want To Sleep Alone (Tsai Ming-liang, Taiwan / France / Austria) (0:23)
[later finished]
Lower City (Sérgio Machado, Brazil) (1:08)
Pride & Prejudice (Joe Wright, U.K.) (1:23)
Transylvania (Tony Gatlif, France) (0:35)
Zidane, a 21st Century Portrait (Douglas Gordon and Philippe Parreno, France / Iceland) (0:40)