NEW RELEASES SEEN, 2009

All films from U.S.A. unless otherwise specified.

([v] video piece; [s] short, under 30 minutes; [m] medium length, 30-69 min; * grade changed upon repeat viewing; \ repeat viewing of something I walked out of or fell asleep during)

[10]

Phantoms of Nabua (Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Thailand / Germany) [v/s]*

[9]

Hunger (Steve McQueen, U.K. / Ireland)*

A Letter to Uncle Boonmee (Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Thailand / Germany / U.K.) [v/s]

[8]

Duplicity (Tony Gilroy)

Eccentricities of a Blond Hair Girl (Manoel de Oliveira, Portugal / France / Spain) [m]

Failed States (Henry Hills) [v/s]

Fantastic Mr. Fox (Wes Anderson, U.S. / U.K.)

Hotel Roccalba (Josef Dabernig, Austria) [s]

Lake Tahoe (Fernando Eimbcke, Mexico / U.S. / Japan)

Let Each One Go Where He May (Ben Russell, U.S. / Suriname)

The Limits of Control (Jim Jarmusch, Spain / U.S. / Japan)

Mount Shasta (Oliver Husain, Canada) [s]

Nathan Phillips Square, A Winter's Night, Skating (Mark Lewis, Canada) [s/p]

Night Mayor (Guy Maddin, Canada) [s]

Something Better (Aleesa Cohene, Canada) [v/m/p]

Still Raining, Still Dreaming (Phil Solomon) [v/s]

Sutro (Jeanne Liotta) [v/s]*

Trypps #6 (Malobi) (Ben Russell, U.S. / Suriname) [s]*

[7]

010101 (T. Marie) [v/s]

Account (Jan Peacock, Canada) [p]

Afternoon (Angela Schanelec, Germany)

Afterschool (Antonio Campos)

aliquot light (grained time vol. 2) (Kazuhiro Goshima, Japan) [v/s]

All Fall Down (Philip Hoffman, Canada) [v]*

American Venus (Bruce Sweeney, Canada)

Antichrist (Lars von Trier, Denmark / Germany / France / Sweden / Italy / Poland)

The Beaches of Agnès (Agnès Varda, France) [v]

Beeswax (Andrew Bujalski)

Bernadette (Duncan Campbell, U.K.) [v/m]

Black and White Trypps Number Four (Ben Russell) [s]

Burma VJ: Reporting From a Closed Country (Anders Østergaard, Denmark)

California Company Town (Lee Anne Schmitt)

Canary (Alejandro Adams) [v]

City of Ember (Gil Kenan)

Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs (Phil Lord / Chris Miller)

Cold Morning (Mark Lewis, Canada) [v/s/p]

Côte Jardin (Rose Lowder, France) [s]

Covered (John Greyson, Canada / Bosnia) [v/s]

Crank: High Voltage (Neveldine / Taylor)

The Diamond (Descartes' Daughter) (Eily Wardill, U.K.) [s]

Falling (Richard Dutcher)

False Aging (Lewis Klahr) [v/s]

Fish Eyes (Zheng Wei, China / South Korea) [v]

575 Castro St. (Jenni Olson) [s]

Forbidden Lie$ (Anna Broinowski, Australia)

Four Nights With Anna (Jerzy Skolimowski, Poland / France)

Frontier of Dawn (Philippe Garrel, France)

The Girlfriend Experience (Steven Soderbergh)

Glorious (Guy Maddin, Canada / The Netherlands) [s]

A History of Israeli Cinema (Parts One and Two) (Raphaël Nadjari, Israel / France) [v]

Holy Woods (Cécile Fontaine, France) [s]

Horizon Line (Katherin McInnis) [v/s]

In The Loop (Armando Iannucci, U.K.)*

The Informant! (Steven Soderbergh)

Inglourious Basterds (Quentin Tarantino, U.S. / Germany)

The International (Tom Tykwer, U.S. / Germany / U.K.)

Julia (Erick Zonca, France / U.S. / Mexico / Belgium)

Kalendar (Naomi Uman, U.S. / Ukraine) [s]

a little prayer (H-E-L-P) (Louise Bourque, U.S. / Canada) [v/s]

The Little White Cloud That Cried! (Guy Maddin, Canada / Germany) [s]

Lorna's Silence (Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne, Belgium / France)

Lumphini 2552 (Tomonari Nishikawa, U.S. / Thailand) [s]

Migrating Forms 2009 Festival Trailer (Michael Robinson) [v/s]

Mother (Bong Joon-ho, South Korea)

My Dear Enemy (Lee Yoon-ki, South Korea)

My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done (Werner Herzog, U.S. / Germany)

Paques (Slab) (Shahryar Nashat, Switzerland) [v/s]

Phoebe in Wonderland (Daniel Barnz)

Polytechnique (Denis Villeneuve, Canada)

Pro Agri (Nicky Hamlyn, U.K.) [s]

The Promotion (Steve Conrad)

Quartet (Nicky Hamlyn, U.K.) [s]

Scene 32 (Shambhavi Kaul, U.S. / India) [v/s]

Scott Walker: 30 Century Man (Stephen Kijak, U.K.)

The Secret of the Grain (Abdellatif Kechiche, France)

A Serious Man (Joel Coen & Etham Coen, U.S. / U.K. / France)

Snowing Chestnut Blossoms (Ute Aurand, Germany) [s]

Star Trek (J.J. Abrams)

Straight Lines (Vincent Grenier) [v/s]

Synecdoche, New York (Charlie Kaufman)

Tamalpais (Chris Kennedy, U.S. / Canada) [s]

The Time Traveler's Wife (Robert Schwentke)

there there (Jan Peacock, Canada) [v/s/p]

Tjúba Tén / The Wet Season (Brigid McCaffrey and Ben Russell, U.S. / Suriname) [m]

Tony Manero (Pablo Larrain, Chile / Brazil)

Trash Humpers (Harmony Korine, U.S. / U.K.)

Two Lovers (James Gray)

Two Projects by Frederick Kiesler (Heinz Emigholz, Austria / Germany) [v/s]

uncertain camera (grained time vol. 1) (Kazuhiro Goshima, Japan) [v/s]

Vincere (Marco Bellocchio, Italy)

Where the Wild Things Are (Spike Jonze)

Workers Leaving the Factory (Dubai) (Ben Russell, U.S. / United Arab Emirates) [s]

World Cinema (Joel and Ethan Coen, U.S. / France) [s]

World's Greatest Dad (Bobcat Goldthwait)

Wound Footage (Thorsten Fleisch, Germany) [v/s]

Zoo (Katherin McInnis) [v/s]

[6]

All Is Forgiven (Mia Hansen-Løve, France)

Anvil: The Story of Anvil (Sacha Gervais)

Around The Bay (Alejandro Adams) [v]

Bolt (Byron Howard & Chris Williams)

The Brothers Bloom (Rian Johnson)

Bullet in the Head (Jaime Rosales, Spain / France)

California Dreamin' (Endless) (Cristian Nemescu, Romania)

Cape No. 7 (Wei Te-sheng, Taiwan)

Carcasses (Denis Côté, Canada)

Cargo 200 (Alexei Balabanov, Russia)

The Chaser (Na Hong-jin, South Korea)

Citizen: The Wolf and Nanny (Cliff Evans) [v/s]

City of Life and Death [Nanking! Nanking!] (Lu Chuan, China / Hong Kong)

Cleopatra's Teeth (Mika Kiburz) [s]

Coraline (Henry Selick)

Drag Me to Hell (Sam Raimi)

/Enchanted (Kevin Lima)

Finder (Jan Peacock, Canada) [v/s/p]

Fire and Rain (James Benning, U.S. / Austria) [v/s]

Funny People (Judd Apatow)

Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (David Yates, U.K. / U.S.)

I Could Never Be Your Woman (Amy Heckerling)

In Comparison (Harun Farocki, Germany / Austria) [m]

just beyond the screen - the universe - as we know it - is ending (Christine Lucy Latimer, Canada) [v/s]

Lion's Den (Pablo Trapero, Argentina / South Korea / Brazil)

Mary-Koszmary (Yael Bartana, Israel) [v/s]

Moon (Duncan Jones, U.K.)

Nollywood Babylon (Ben Addelman & Samir Mallal, Canada) [v]

Oblivion (Heddy Honigmann, Peru / The Netherlands / Germany)

Of Time and the City (Terence Davies, U.K.) [v]

On the Logic of Dubious Historical Accounts, 1969-1972 (Peter Miller and Alexander Stewart, U.S. / Germany) [s]

Outrage (Kirby Dick)

A Perfect Getaway (David Twohy)

Picasso and Braque Go To the Movies (Arne Glimcher) [v/m]

The Pitch (Isabell Spengler, Germany) [v/s]

Puccini Conservato (Michael Snow, Italy / Canada) [v/s]

Sacred Places (Jean-Marie Teno, Cameroon / France)

Sequences & Interruptions (Nicky Hamlyn, U.K.) [s]

Speak City [excerpt] (Lisa Steele and Kim Tomczak, Canada) [v/s/p]

The Strangers (Bryan Bertino)

Stuck (Stuart Gordon, Canada / U.S. / U.K. / Germany)

TD Centre, 54th Floor (Mark Lewis, Canada) [s/p]

Three Monkeys (Nuri Bilge Ceylan, Turkey / France / Italy)

Tokyo! (Michel Gondry / Leos Carax / Bong Joon-ho, France / Japan / Germany / South Korea)

Tropic Thunder (Ben Stiller)

The Unloved (Samantha Morton, U.K.)

Up (Pete Docter) [2D version]*

Up in the Air (Jason Reitman)

[5]

Adventureland (Greg Mottola)

Away We Go (Sam Mendes, U.S. / U.K.)

Bright Star (Jane Campion, U.K. / Australia)

Brüno (Larry Charles)

Changeling (Clint Eastwood)

Civilization (Marco Brambilla, U.S. / Italy) [v/s/p]

The Class [Entre les murs] (Laurent Cantet, France)

The Damned United (Tom Hooper, U.K.)

Doubt (John Patrick Shanley)

Examined Life (Astra Taylor, Canada)

Fados (Carlos Saura, Spain / Portugal)

The Fight (Mark Lewis, Canada) [v/s]

Genova (Michael Winterbottom, U.K.)

The Great Buck Howard (Sean McGinly)

Hotel for Dogs (Thor Freudenthal)

Humpday (Lynn Shelton)

The Hurt Locker (Kathryn Bigelow)

I Deeply Regret (Karø Goldt, Austria / Germany) [v/s]

I Love You, Man (John Hamburg)

The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus (Terry Gilliam, Canada / U.K.)

Impolex (Alex Ross Perry)

The Invention of Lying (Ricky Gervais and Matthew Robinson)

Kempinski (Neil Beloufa, France) [v/s]

Kings Ransom (Peter Berg) [v/m]

Medicine for Melancholy (Barry Jenkins)

My Magic (Eric Khoo, Singapore)

Nature Morte (Akram Zaatari, Lebanon) [v/s]

Nora (Alla Kovgan / David Hinton, U.S. / U.K. / Mozambique) [v/m]

Nursery University (Marc H. Simon)

The Presentation Theme (Jim Trainor) [s]

Public Enemies (Michael Mann)

Razzle Dazzle: The Lost World (Ken Jacobs) [v]

Retrato Oficial (Official Portrait) (Francisca Duran, Canada) [v/s]

Red Riding: 1974 (Julian Jerrold, U.K.)

Rudo y Cursi (Carlos Cuarón, Mexico)

Sex and the City (Michael Patrick King)

A Single Man (Tom Ford)

Sunshine Cleaning (Christine Jeffs)

Taken (Pierre Morel, France)

Toronto-EMAKI (Takashi Ishida, Japan) [v/p]

Tyson (James Toback)

The Visitor (Tom McCarthy)

Waltz With Bashir (Ari Folman, Israel / France / Germany / U.S.)

Written by (Wai Ka Fai, Hong Kong)

The Yes Men Fix The World (Andy Bichlbaum, Mike Bobanno and Kurt Engfehr, France / U.S.)

The Young Victoria (Jean-Marc Vallée, U.K.)

[4]

Adoration (Atom Egoyan, Canada)

The Birth of RMB City (Cao Fei, China) [v/s]

Blindness (Fernando Meirelles, Canada / Brazil / Japan)

The Box (Richard Kelly)

Boy/Analysis: An Abridgement of Melanie Klein's "Narrative of a Child Analysis" (Steve Reinke, Canada) [v/s]

Bronson (Nicolas Winding Refn, U.K.)

Cinema Museum (Mark Lewis, Canada) [m]

Cordão Verde [Green Belt] (Hiroatsu Suzuki and Rossana Torres, Portugal) [v/m]

Double Take (Johan Grimonprez, Belgium / Germany / The Netherlands)

An Education (Lone Scherfig, U.K.)

Extract (Mike Judge)

(500) Days of Summer (Marc Webb)

The Hills Above Hollywood (B. Kite) [v/s]

Jellyfish (Shira Geffen / Etkar Keret, France / Israel)

Käfig [Cage] (Karl Kels, Germany) [s]

Lemon Tree (Eran Riklis, Israel / Germany / France)

Made of Honor (Paul Weiland, U.S. / U.K.)

The Mysteries of Pittsburgh (Rawson Marshall Thurber)

Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist (Peter Sollett)

O'er the Land (Deborah Stratman) [m]

Open Score (Su-Mei Tse, Luxembourg) [v/s]

1-9 (Mary Billyou) [v/s]

Péribole (Marc Plas, France) [v/s]

Precious: Based on the Novel 'Push' by Sapphire (Lee Daniels)

The Private Lives of Pippa Lee (Rebecca Miller)

Somers Town (Shane Meadows, U.K.) [m]

Taking Woodstock (Ang Lee)

This Transition Will Never End #2 (Jeremy Shaw, Canada) [v/s/p]

(Untitled) (Jonathan Parker)

Wanted (Timur Bekmambetov, U.S. / Germany)

Watchmen (Zack Snyder)

Whatever Works (Woody Allen, U.S. / France)

The White Ribbon (Michael Haneke, Austria / Germany / France / Italy)

The Windmill Movie (Alexander Olch)

[3]

Adrift (Julika Rudelius, The Netherlands) [v/s]

Fone Fur Follies (Vivian Ostrovsky, France) [v/s]

The Lovely Bones (Peter Jackson, U.S. / U.K. / New Zealand)

Megane (Glasses) (Naoko Ogigami, Japan)

Paranormal Activity (Oren Peli)

Partly Cloudy (Peter Sohn) [s]

The Shape of Things (Oliver Pietsch, Germany) [v/s/p]

12 x 26 (Andrew James Paterson, Canada) [v/s]

[2]

Guest of Cindy Sherman (Paul H-O & Tom Donohue) [v]

[1]

[W/O]

Amreeka (Cherien Dabis, U.S. / Canada) (0:47)

Chinese is a Plus (Sylvie Boisseau & Frank Westermeyer, Switzerland / Germany) [v/m] (0:18)

Gigante (Adrián Beniez, Uruguay / Argentina / Germany / Spain) (0:46)

Julie & Julia (Nora Ephron) (0:40)

Max Manus (Espen Sandberg / Joachim Roenning, Norway / Denmark / Germany) (0:33)

Observe and Report (Jody Hill) (1:01)

Passing Strange (Spike Lee) [v] (0:20)

Uncertainty (Scott McGehee and David Siegel) (0:33)

[?]

Film Noir (100% Black Film 1) (Jorge Lorenzo, Mexico) [s]