NEW RELEASES SEEN, 2010

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]

[9]

[8]

Cinematographie (Philipp Fleischmann, Austria) [s]

Coraline (Henry Selick)*

I Know Where I'm Going (Ben Rivers, U.K.) [m]*

in a year with 13 deaths (Jonathan Schwartz) [s]

The Oath (Laura Poitras)

Police, Adjective (Corneliu Porumboiu, Romania)

Symbol (Hitoshi Matsumoto, Japan)

Trees of Syntax, Leaves of Axis (Daïchi Saïto, Canada) [s]

[7]

The Art of the Steal (Don Argott)

The Bad Lieutenant -- Port of Call: New Orleans (Werner Herzog)*

Collapse (Chris Smith)

Dogtooth (Yorgos Lanthimos, Greece)

dwarfs the sea (Stephanie Barber) [v/s]

Everyone Else (Maren Ade, Germany)

False Friends (Sylvia Schedelbauer, Germany) [s]

Home (Ursula Meier, Switzerland / France / Belgium)

(If I Can Sing a Song About) Ligatures (Abigail Child) [v/s]

If There Be Thorns (Michael Robinson) [s]

In The Shadows (Thomas Arslan, Germany)

the inversion, transcription, evening track and attractor (Stephanie Barber) [v/s]

Joachim Gatti (Jean-Marie Straub, France / Italy) [s]

May Tomorrow Shine the Brightest of All Your Many Days As It Will Be Your Last (Ben Rivers, U.K.) [s]*

Nathan Phillips Square, A Winter's Night, Skating (Mark Lewis, Canada / U.K.) [s]*

Night and Day (Hong Sang-soo, South Korea / France)

Nook and Cranny (Francien von Everdingen, The Netherlands) [s]

Podwórka (Sharon Lockhart, U.S. / Poland) [s]

Postcard #3: Niagara Rises (Carolyn Faber) [s]

Sarah Ann (Pim Zwier, The Netherlands) [s]

The Secret of Kells (Tomm Moore & Nora Twomey, France / Belgium / Ireland)

Shirin (Abbas Kiarostami, Iran)

Talentime (Yasmin Ahmad, Malaysia)

Toy Story 3 (Lee Unkrich)

I volti dell'Anonimo / Faces by a Person Unknown (Paolo Gioli, Italy) [s]

way fare (Sylvia Schedelbauer, Germany) [s]

What Part of the Earth Is Inhabited (After Pliny the Elder) (Erin Espelie) [s]
Whip It (Drew Barrymore)

Wild Grass (Alain Resnais, France / Italy)

[6]

2010 (Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Thailand) [v/s]

Bluebeard (Catherine Breillat, France)

La Danse: The Paris Opera Ballet (Frederick Wiseman, U.S. / France)

Erie (Kevin J. Everson)

Face (Tsai Ming-liang, France / Taiwan / Belgium / The Netherlands)

Father Vs. Son (Joe Ballarini)

H(i)J (Guillaume Cailleau, Germany) [s]

It Came From Kuchar (Jennifer M. Kroot)

June 17, 1994 (Brett Morgen) [v/m]

MacGruber (Jorma Taccone)

Maya (Michal Bat-Adam, Israel)

My Tears Are Dry (Laida Lertxundi, Spain / U.S.) [s]

night side (Rebecca Meyers) [s]

Nothing is Over Nothing (Jonathan Schwartz) [s]

Parallax (Christopher Becks, Canada / France / Yemen / Bangladesh) [s]

Ondine (Neil Jordan, Ireland / U.S.)

Shutter Island (Martin Scorsese)

Sphinx on the Seine (Paul Clipson) [s]

Thirst (Park Chan-wook, South Korea)

To Die Like a Man (João Pedro Rodrigues, Portugal / France)

A Town Called Panic [Panique au village] (Stéphane Aubier and Vincent Patar, Belgium / Luxembourg / France)

The Visit and the Play (Stephanie Barber) [v/s]

[5]

Alice in Wonderland (Tim Burton)

Alvin and the Chipmunks 2 (Betty Thomas)

Broken Embraces (Pedro Almodóvar, Spain)

excerpt from THE SKY SOCIALIST stratified (Ken Jacobs) [v/s]

Exit Through the Gift Shop (Banksy, U.S. / U.K.)

Life During Wartime (Todd Solondz)

My Way 1 (Amie Siegel) [v/s]

The Road (John Hillcoat)

Treeless Mountain (So Yong Kim, U.S. / South Korea)

Vineland (Laura Kraning) [s]

War Story (Stephanie Barber) [v/s]

Whispering Pines 9 (Shana Moulton) [v/s]

[4]

Contre-jour (Christophe Girardet & Matthias Müller, Germany) [v/s]

Every Little Step (James D. Stern & Adam Del Deo)

Fish Tank (Andrea Arnold, U.K.)

The Greatest (Shana Feste)

Losing You (Ian Clay) [v]

Soy Tu Madre (Phil Collins, U.S. / U.K.) [s]

The Three Ravens (Bobby Abate) [v/s]

trendfollower (Didi Bruckmayr, Austria) [v/s]

The Twilight Saga: Eclipse (David Slade)

Women Without Men (Shirin Neshat, Germany / Austria / France)

[3]

Clear Blue Tuesday (Elizabeth Lucas)

The Human Centipede (First Sequence) (Tom Six, The Netherlands)

I Miss (Annie Dorsen) [v/s]

[2]

[1]

[W/O]

Shrek Forever After (Mike Mitchell) (0:14)