NEW RELEASES SEEN,
2014
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]
Episode of the Sea (Lonnie van Brummelen, Siebren de Haan, and the inhabitants of Urk, The Netherlands) [m]
Goodbye To Language (Jean-Luc Godard, Switzerland) [m/3D]
Two Days, One Night (Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne, Belgium / France / Italy)
[8]
Actress (Robert Greene)
Blanket Statement #2: It's All or Nothing (Jodie Mack) [s]
Blankets For Indians (Ken Jacobs) [m/3D]
Canopy (Ken Jacobs) [v/s]
Charlie Victor Romeo (Robert Berger, Patrick Daniels and Karlyn Michelson)
Dusty Stacks of Mom: The Poster Project (Jodie Mack) [p/m]*
Horse Money (Pedro Costa, Portugal)
The Innocents (Jean-Paul Kelly, Canada) [s]
Shoot (Gaspar Noé, France / U.S.) [s]
Snowpiercer (Bong Joon-ho, South Korea / U.S. / France / Czech Republic)
Sound That (Kevin Jerome Everson) [v/s]
Story of My Death (Albert Serra, Spain / France)
Things (Ben Rivers, U.K.) [s]
The Vanquishing of the Witch Baba Yaga (Jessica Oreck, U.S. / Poland / Russia / Ukraine)
[7]
Alive (Park Jung-bum, South Korea)
All The Light In The Sky (Joe Swanberg)
Art and Craft (Sam Cullman, Jennifer Grausman and Mark Becker)
Le beau danger (René Frölke, Germany)
Beep (Kim Kyung-man, South Korea) [s]
Bird People (Pascale Ferran, France)
The Blue Record (Jeremy Moss) [s]
Burning Bush (Agnieszka Holland, Czech Republic) [TV]
Cairo Drive (Sherief Elkatsha, Egypt / U.S.)
Center Jenny (Ryan Trecartin) [v/m]
Century (Kevin Jerome Everson) [s]
a certain worry (Jonathan Schwartz) [s]
Clouds of Sils Maria (Olivier Assayas, France / Germany / Switzerland)
Color Neutral (Jenn Reeves) [s]
Confession (Lee Do-yun, South Korea)
Creme 21 (Eve Heller, Austria / U.S.) [v/s]
Deep Sleep (Basma Alsharif, Malta / Greece / France / Palestine) [v/s]
The Dragon is the Frame (Mary Helena Clark) [v/s]
Eat Your Bones (Jean-Charles Hue, France)
Ellie Lumme (Ignatiy Vishnevetsky) [m]*
Fe 26 (Kevin Jerome Everson) [v/s]
First Cousin Once Removed (Alan Berliner)
Fort Morgan (Alexander Stewart) [s]
Glistening Thrills (Jodie Mack) [s]
Gone Girl (David Fincher)
The Grand Budapest Hotel (Wes Anderson, U.K. / Germany)
Hacked Circuit (Deborah Stratman, U.K. / Germany / U.S.) [s]
Heaven Knows What (Josh and Bennie Safdie)
Hill of Freedom (Hong Sang-soo, South Korea) [m]
horizon (Stephanie Barber) [v/s]
How to Disappear Completely (Raya Martin, The Philippines)
The Hummingbird Wars (Janie Geiser) [v/s]
Ida (Pawel Pawlikowski, Poland / Denmark)
If You Don't, I Will (Sophie Fillières, France)
Inherent Vice (Paul Thomas Anderson)
Jauja (Lisandro Alonso, Argentina / Denmark / France / Mexico / U.S. / Germany / Brazil)
Jimmy P.: Psychotherapy of a Plains Indian (Arnaud Desplechin, France / U.S.)
Journey to the West (Tsai Ming-liang, Taiwan / France) [m]
The Joycean Society (Dora Garcia, Belgium / Spain) [m]
Juneteenth Columbus, Mississippi (Kevin Jerome Everson) [v/s]
Khan Khanne: A Letter to Gilles Jacob and Thierry Fremaux (Jean-Luc Godard, Switzerland) [v/s]
The Lego Movie (Phil Lord and Christopher Miller, U.S. / Australia / Denmark)
Leviathan (Andrey Zvyagintsev, Russia)
Li'l Quinquin (Bruno Dumont, France)
Listen Up Philip (Alex Ross Perry)
The Lonely Life of Debby Adams (Karen Yasinsky) [v/s]
Maidan (Sergei Loznitza, Ukraine / The Netherlands)
Nebraska (Alexander Payne)
Nymphomaniac Vols. 1 & 2 (Lars Von Trier, Denmark / Germany / France / Belgium / U.K.)
Obvious Child (Gillian Robespierre)
Only Lovers Left Alive (Jim Jarmusch, U.K. / Germany / France / Cyprus / U.S.)
Pan (Anton Ginzburg, Russia) [s]
Panchromes I, II, III (T. Marie) [v/s]
Persian Pickles (Jodie Mack) [s]
Picture Perfect Pyramid (Johann Lurf, Austria) [s]
Rati Chakravyuh (Ashish Avikunthak, India)
Razzle Dazzle (Jodie Mack) [s]
Red Cappricio (Blake Williams, Canada) [v/s]
Revivre (Im Kwon-taek, South Korea)
San Siro (Yuri Ancarani, Italy) [v/s]
La Sapience (Eugène Green, France / Italy)
Sea of Vapors (Sylvia Schedelbauer, Germany) [v/s]
Second Sight (Deborah Stratman) [v/s]
Shield of Straw (Takashi Miike, Japan)
Spirits In Season (Stephen Broomer, Canada) [s]
Stop-Over (Kaveh Bakhtiari, Switzerland / France)
The Stuart Hall Project (John Akomfrah, U.K.)
That Dizzying Crest (Jeremy Moss) [s]
\A Thousand Suns (Mati Diop, France) [m]
Tom at the Farm (Xavier Dolan, Canada / France)
Too Many Cooks (Casper Kelly) [v/s]
Towheads (Shannon Plumb)
Twelve Tales Told (Johann Lurf, Austria) [v/s]
Two Museums (Heinz Emigholz, Germany) [s]
Tygers (Kevin Jerome Everson) [v/s]
Under a Changing Sky (Jean-Claude Rousseau, France) [v/s]
Under the Heat Lamp an Opening (Zachary Epcar) [v/s]
United States Wins the World Cup (Vincent Gallo) [s]
Venus In Fur (Roman Polanski, France / Poland)
Visual Pleasure (Catie Eller) [v/s]
Watercolor (Vincent Grenier, U.S. / Canada) [v/s] [revised version]
We Are The Best! (Lukas Moodysson, Sweden / Denmark)
We Had the Experience but Missed the Meaning (Laida Lertxundi) [s]
Winter Sleep (Nuri Bilge Ceylan, Turkey / France / Germany)
The Wolf of Wall Street (Martin Scorsese)
Workers Leaving the Job Site (Kevin Jerome Everson) [v/s]
You and the Night [Les rencontres d'après minuit] (Yann Gonzalez, France)
Zero Motivation (Talya Lavie, Israel / France)
[6]
American Sniper (Clint Eastwood)
Annie (Will Gluck)
Approaching the Elephant (Amanda Rose Wilder)
The Babadook (Jennifer Kent, Australia)
Blue Ruin (Jeremy Saulnier)
Boyhood (Richard Linklater)
Brébeuf (Stephen Broomer, Canada) [s]
Citizenfour (Laura Poitras, U.S. / Germany)
Coherence (James Ward Byrkit)
Concerning Violence (Göran Hugh Olsson, Sweden / Norway / Denmark / U.S.)
Le Conque (Jesse Malmed) [v/s]
The Crash Reel (Lucy Walker)
The Figures Carved into the Knife by the Sap of the Banana Trees (Joana Pimenta, U.S. / Portugal) [v/s]
A Girl At My Door (July Jung, South Korea)
A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night (Ana Lily Amirpour)
Go For Sisters (John Sayles)
Jealousy (Philippe Garrel, France)
Half Life (April Simmons) [v/s]
Happy Christmas (Joe Swanberg)
The Immigrant (James Gray)
Inquire Within (Jay Rosenblatt) [v/s]
Into The Woods (Rob Marshall)
Intransit (Jakrawal Nilthamrong, Thailand) [s]
The Island of Saint Matthews (Kevin Jerome Everson)
Life Itself (Steve James)
Life of Riley [Aimer, boire et chanter] (Alain Resnais, France)
Like Father, Like Son (Hirokazu Kore-eda, Japan)
Lucky Them (Megan Griffiths)
Lunar Almanac (Malena Szlam, Canada) [s]
Mansfield Product Co. (Kevin Jerome Everson) [v/s]
Maps To The Stars (David Cronenberg, Canada / U.S. / Germany / France)
natural history (James Benning, U.S. / Austria)
Night Noon (Shambhavi Kaul, U.S. / Mexico) [s]
Nocturnal Symmetries (Scott Stark) [v/s]
Peacock (Alexander Stewart) [s]
The Pervert's Guide to Ideology (Sophie Fiennes, U.K. / Ireland)
Picture Particle (Thorsten Fleisch, Germany) [s]
The Princess of France (Matías Piñeiro, Argentina)
Private Violence (Cynthia Hill)
PULL/DRIFT (Margaret Rorison) [s]
The Punk Singer (Sini Anderson)
Pyramid Flares (Johann Lurf, Austria) [s]
R.P.M.2 (Ryan Fox) [v/s]
Reign of Silence (Lukas Marxt, Austria / Germany) [s]
Selma (Ava DuVernay, U.S. / U.K.)
Seven Signs that Mean Silence (Sara Magenheimer) [v/s]
Seymour: An Introduction (Ethan Hawke)
The Skeleton Twins (Craig Johnson)
Some Graphic Sex, Heavy Drinking, Bloody Violence, and Dirty Language: Seven One-minute Feature-like Films About Seoul (Young-hae Chang Heavy Industries, U.S. / South Korea) [p]
Songs From The North (Soon-Mi Yoo, U.S. / South Korea) [m]
The Square (Jehane Noujaim, Egypt / U.S.)
Stand Clear of the Closing Doors (Sam Fleischner)
Still Alice (Richard Glatzer and Wash Westmoreland)
Taprobana (Gabriel Abrantes, Portugal / Sri Lanka / Denmark) [s]
Theeb (Naji Abu Nowar, Jordan / Qatar / U.A.E. / U.K.)
They Came Together (David Wain)
This Is Martin Bonner (Chad Hartigan)
Under The Skin (Jonathan Glazer, U.K. / U.S. / Switzerland)
Vegas (Lukasz Konopa, U.S. / U.K.) [s]
Whiplash (Damien Chazelle)
White Bird in a Blizzard (Gregg Araki, U.S. / France)
Wild (Jean-Marc Vallée)
With Pluses and Minuses (Mike Stoltz) [s]
[5]
Babash (Lisa Truttmann & Behrouz Rae, U.S. / Austria / Iran) [s]
Bad Words (Jason Bateman)
Beyond Outrage (Takeshi Kitano, Japan)
Big Men (Rachel Boynton, U.K. / Denmark / U.S.)
Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) (Alejandro G. Iñárritu)
Blue Jasmine (Woody Allen)
The Book of Life (Jorge R. Gutierrez)
The Broken Circle Breakdown (Felix Van Groeningen, Belgium / The Netherlands)
A Brony Tale (Brent Hodge, Canada / U.S. . New Zealand)
brouillard - passage #14 (Alexandre Larose, Canada) [s]
California Picture Book (Zach Iannazzi) [s]
Cheap Thrills (E.L. Katz)
Coming Home (Zhang Yimou, China)
Coming To Terms (Jon Jost)
Detour de Force (Rebecca Baron, U.S. / Austria) [s]
Devil's Knot (Atom Egoyan, U.S. / Canada)
Exhibition (Joanna Hogg, U.K.)
Force Majeure (Ruben Östlund, Sweden / France / Norway)
Foxcatcher (Bennett Miller)
A Fresh Start (Jang Woojin, South Korea)
Friction of the Inner and Outer Consciousness (Isaac Sherman) [s]
From Left to Right and Top to Bottom (Flora Watzal, Austria) [v/s]
Ginza Strip (Richard Tuohy, Australia) [s]
Golden Calf (Dale Cooper) [v/s]
Gyeongju (Zhang Lu, South Korea)
A Hard Day (Kim Seong-hoon, South Korea)
Healing (Stephanie Barber) [v/s]
Heli (Amat Escalante, Mexico / France / Germany / The Netherlands)
The Homesman (Tommy Lee Jones, U.S. / France)
Is the Man Who Is Tall Happy? (Michel Gondry, France)
It Felt Like Love (Eliza Hittman)
Jane's Birthday (Christine Lucy Latimer, Canada) [v/s]
Love Is Strange (Ira Sachs)
Lucy (Luc Besson, France)
Maleficent (Robert Stromberg, U.S. / U.K.)
Michael Kohlhaas (Arnaud des Pallières, Germany / France)
Minimal Vandalism (Kay Walkowiak, Austria) [s]
Mr. Peabody & Sherman (Rob Minkoff)
Mr. Turner (Mike Leigh, U.K.)
Mitt (Greg Whiteley)
Mood Indigo [L'écume des jours] (Michel Gondry, France / Belgium)
My Heart, Overreaches (Malic Amalya) [v/s]
Old Growth (Ryan Marino) [s]
The Old Man of Belém (Manoel de Oliveira, Portugal / France) [s]
The Overnighters (Jesse Moss)
The Owners (Adilkhan Yerzhanov, Kazakhstan)
Palo Alto (Gia Coppola)
the pimp and his trophies (Antoinette Zwirchmayr, Austria) [v/m]
The Policeman's House (Mich'ael Zupraner, Israel / Palestine) [v/m]
Reveries (Karissa Hahn) [s]
Rich Hill (Tracy Droz Tragos and Andrew Droz Palermo)
St. Vincent (Theodore Melfi)
Saved (Emnet Mulugeta, Eritrea / U.S.) [s]
Something in the Air [Après mai] (Olivier Assayas, France)
Still The Water (Naomi Kawase, Japan)
This Is Where I Leave You (Shawn Levy)
til I see my way back home (Thad Povey) [s]
The Tribe (Myroslav Slaboshpytskiy, Ukraine)
The Valley Below (Kyle Thomas, Canada)
Veronica Mars (Rob Thomas)
When Evening Falls on Bucharest or Metabolism (Corneliu Porumboiu, Romania / France)
Who Is Dayani Cristal? (Mark Silver, U.K. / Mexico)
Young & Beautiful (Francois Ozon, France)
The Zero Theorem (Terry Gilliam, U.K. / Romania / France / U.S.
[4]
Against Landscape (Josh Gen Solondz) [v/s]
Butter on the Latch (Josephine Decker)
The Captive (Atom Egoyan, Canada)
Catalogue (Dana Berman Duff) [s]
Cells and Stalks (Herb Theriault, Canada) [v/s]
Child of God (James Franco)
Confessions With an Open Curtain (Eli Cortiñas, Germany) [v/s]
Dallas Buyers Club (Jean-Marc Vallée)
The Dark, Krystle (Michael Robinson) [v/s]
Difficult Loves (Paul Clipson) [s]
Drain (Bettina Hoffman, Canada) [v/s]
A Dream of Iron (Kelvin Kyung Kun Park, South Korea / U.S.)
E-Team (Ross Kauffman and Katy Chevigny)
Elena (Petra Costa, U.S. / Brazil)
Exodus: Gods and Kings (Ridley Scott, U.S. / U.K. / Spain)
Fires On The Plain (Shinya Tsukamoto, Japan)
Foreign Body (Krzysztof Zanussi, Poland / Italy / Russia)
Goth Movie (Chemirocha) (Jesse Malmed) [s]
HedonHeathen2 (Lana Z. Caplan) [s]
I Am Not Lorena (Isadora Marras, Chile / Argentina)
Interstellar (Christopher Nolan, U.S. / U.K.)
Locke (Stephen Knight, U.K. / U.S.)
Nightcrawler (Dan Gilroy)
OBRA (Gregorio Graziosi, Brazil)
The One I Love (Charlie McDowell)
Proxy (Zack Parker)
Relief (Calum Walker) [s]
The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (Ben Stiller)
Secrets of War (Dennis Bots, Belgium / The Netherlands / Luxembourg)
Theoretical Architectures (Josh Gibson) [v/s]
Thou Wast Mild and Lovely (Josephine Decker)
Through Tunnels (Talia Feder) [v/s]
Trust Me (Clark Gregg)
Under the Atmosphere (Mike Stoltz) [s]
The Unknown Known (Errol Morris)
Villa Touma (Suha Arraf, no national affiliation)
World War Z (Marc Forster, U.S. / U.K.)
[3]
Anna [aka Mindscape] (Jorge Dorado, U.S. / Spain / France)
Borgman (Alex Van Warmerdam, The Netherlands / Belgium)
Explosion No. 6 (Julie Tremble, Canada) [v/s]
Men, Women & Children (Jason Reitman)
A Noisy Delivery (Charles Chadwick) [v/s]
[2]
Legends of Oz: Dorothy's Return (Will Finn & Dan St. Pierre, U.S. / India)
[1]
[W/O]
Afternoon Delight (Jill Soloway) (0:28)
[Bad] Neighbors (Nicholas Stoller) (0:30)
Calvary (John Michael McDonagh, Ireland / U.K.) (0:28)
The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby: Them (Ned Benson) (1:08)
The Double (Richard Ayoade, U.K.) (0:20)
Enemy (Denis Villeneuve, Canada) (0:22)
Félix and Meira (Maxime Giroux, Canada) (0:35)
Genesis: Sum of the Parts (John Edginton, U.K.) (0:40)
Hellion (Kat Candler) (0:17)
A Long Way Down (Pascal Chaumeil, U.K. / Germany) (0:22)
A Million Ways to Die in the West (Seth MacFarlane) (0:23)
Run & Jump (Steph Green, Ireland) (0:22)
Le Week-End (Roger Michell, U.K. / France) (0:55)
[ZZZ]
The Green Prince (Nadav Shirman, Israel / U.K. / Germany)