YMDB Part Deux

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2008
- January '08 -
An Inn in Tokyo (Yasujiro Ozu, 1935) - 9/10 - January 11th
The Twilight Samurai (Yoji Yamada, 2002) - 7.5/10 - January 10th
Visible Secret (Ann Hui, 2001) - 8.25/10 - January 9th
Linda Linda Linda (Nobuhiro Yamashita, 2005) - 9/10 - January 8th
Spring in a Small Town (Fei Mu, 1948) - 7.75/10 - January 5th
Harakiri (Masaki Kobayashi, 1962) - 8/10 - January 5th
Tokyo-Ga (Wim Wenders, 1985) - 7.5/10 - January 5th
Take Care of My Cat (Jeong Jae-eun, 2001) - 10/10 - January 5th
The Lower Depths (Akira Kurosawa, 1957) - 6/10 - January 4th
Fires on the Plain (Kon Ichikawa, 1959) - 10/10 - January 4th
The Man Who Left His Will on Film (Nagisa Oshima, 1970) - 4.75/10 - January 3rd
Late Chrysanthemums (Mikio Naruse, 1954) - 9/10 - January 2nd
Goddess of Mercy (Ann Hui, 2003) - 8/10 - January 2nd
A West Lake Moment (Yi Zhang and Ho Yim, 2004) - 7.5/10 - January 1st

2007
- December '07 -
Humanity and Paper Balloons (Sadao Yamanka, 1937) - 9/10 - December 31st
Flavor of Green Tea Over Rice (Yasujiro Ozu, 1952) - 9.25/10 - December 29th
Ginza Cosmetics (Mikio Naruse, 1951) - 8/10 - Decemeber 25th
Away with Words (Christopher Doyle, 1997) - 8/10 - December 25th
Syndromes and a Century (Apichatpong Weerasethakul, 2006) - 8.5/10 - December 24th
Daughter of the Nile (Hou Hsiao-Hsien, 1987) - 8.75/10 - December 21st
July Rhapsody (Ann Hui, 2002) - 10/10 - December 21st
L'Argent (Robert Bresson, 1983) - 9/10 - December 20th
A Bloody Spear at Mount Fuji (Tomu Uchida, 1955) - 8.25/10 - December 20th
This Charming Girl (Lee Yoon-Ki, 2004) - 8/10 - December 15th
Lancelot of the Lake (Robert Bresson, 1974) - 7/10 - December 15th
Good Morning (Yasujiro Ozu, 1959) - 8.5/10 - December 14th
Tokyo.Sora (Hiroshi Ishikawa, 2001) - 9.25/10 - December 8th
To Each His Cinema (Various, 2007) - December 8th
Tokyo Twilight (Yasujiro Ozu, 1957) - 8.5/10 - December 5th
Early Spring (Yasujiro Ozu, 1956) - 9.25/10 - December 1st

- November '07 -
A Hen in the Wind (Yasujiro Ozu, 1948) - 8/10 - November 30th
Sex and Lucia (Julio Medem, 2001) - 6.5/10 - November 27th
Before the Revolution (Bernardo Bertolucci, 1964) - 9.5/10 - November 23rd
Mother (Mikio Naruse, 1952) - 7.75/10 - November 22nd
Scattered Clouds (Mikio Naruse, 1967) - 8.25/10 - November 22nd
The End of Summer (Yasujiro Ozu, 1961) - 8.75/10 - November 21st
Equinox Flower (Yasujiro Ozu, 1958) - 9.25/10 - November 21st
The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum (Volker Schlöndorff & Margarethe von Trotta, 1975) - 5.5/10 - November 21st
Drifters (Xiaoshuai Wang, 2003) - 8.5/10 - November 21st
Nowhere (Gregg Araki, 1997) - 8.75/10 - November 21st
The Puffy Chair (Jay Duplass, 2005) - 7.75/10 - November 21st
All About Lily Chou Chou (Shunji Iwai, 2001) - 9.25/10 - November 18th
Late Autumn (Yasujiro Ozu, 1960) - 9.5/10 - November 17th
Ad Lib Night (Lee Yoon-ki, 2006) - 8.5/10 - November 16th
The Record of a Tenement Gentleman (Yasujiro Ozu, 1947) - 8.25/10 - November 11th
Be With Me (Eric Khoo, 2005) - 6/10 - November 10th
Sweetie (Jane Campion, 1989) - 9/10 - November 10th
The Darjeeling Limited (Wes Anderson, 2007) - 8.75/10 - November 10th
A Whole Night (Chantal Akerman, 1982) - 8/10 - November 10th
An Autumn Afternoon (Yasujiro Ozu, 1962) - 9.25/10 - November 9th
I Don't Want to Sleep Alone (Tsai Ming-liang, 2006) - 9/10 - November 6th
Daughters, Wives and a Mother (Mikio Naruse, 1960) - 9/10 - November 5th
Floating Clouds (Mikio Naruse, 1955) - 8.5/10 - November 4th
A Man Escaped (Robert Bresson, 1956) - 9.25/10 - November 3rd
Solaris (Andrei Tarkovsky, 1972) - 8.75/10 - November 3rd
Tokyo Story (Yasujiro Ozu, 1953) - 8.5/10 - November 2nd
The Second Circle (Aleksandr Sokurov, 1990) - 7/10 - November 2nd
Today and Tomorrow (Alejandro Chomski, 2003) - 8/10 - November 1st

- October '07 -
Su-ki-da (Hiroshi Ishikawa, 2005) - 10/10 - October 29th
Isabella (Pang Ho-Cheung, 2006) - 9.25/10 - October 28th
Suzhou River (Ye Lou, 2000) - 9/10 - October 27th
Into the Wild (Sean Penn, 2007) - 8/10 - October 27th
Wild Innocence (Philippe Garrel, 2001) - 8.25/10 - October 25th
Early Summer (Yasujiro Ozu, 1951) - 7.75/10 - October 24th
Tale of Cinema (Hong Sang-soo, 2005) - 9.75/10 - October 23rd
Late Spring (Yasujiro Ozu, 1949) - 8/10 - October 23rd
Trial of Joan of Arc (Robert Bresson, 1962) - 8.75/10 - October 22nd
Flowing (Mikio Naruse, 1956) - 9/10 - October 22nd
Still Life (Jia Zhang-ke, 2006) - 8.75/10 - October 20th
Women of the Night (Kenji Mizoguchi, 1948) - 8.25/10 - October 20th
Virgin Stripped Bare By Her Bachelors (Hong Sang-soo, 2000) - 8/10 - October 19th
Kings and Queen (Arnaud Desplechin, 2004) - 9.5/10 - October 18th
Zerkalo (Andrei Tarkovsky, 1975) - 8.75/10 - October 16th
The Power of Kangwon Province (Hong Sang-soo, 1998) - 9/10 - October 16th
Repast (Mikio Naruse, 1951) - 8/10 - October 13th
Heading South (Laurent Cantet, 2005) - 7.5/10 - October 13th
A Gentle Woman (Robert Bresson, 1969) - 9/10 - October 11th
The Piano Teacher (Michael Haneke, 2001) - 9/10 - October 11th
Red Psalm (Miklós Jancsó, 1972) - 8/10 - October 11th
The Burmese Harp (Kon Ichikawa, 1956) - 7.75/10 - October 10th
The River (Tsai Ming-Liang, 1997) - 8.5/10 - October 9th
Damnation (Béla Tarr, 1988) - 7/10 - October 7th
Goodbye Dragon Inn (Tsai Ming-Liang, 2003) - 8.75/10 - October 7th
Time of the Wolf (Michael Haneke, 2003) - 8/10 - October 6th
Three Times (Hou Hsiao-Hsien, 2005) - 9.25/10 - October 6th
A City of Sadness (Hou Hsiao-Hsien, 1989) - 9.75/10 - October 4th
Hollywood Hong Kong (Fruit Chan, 2001) - 7.5/10 - October 3rd

- September '07 -
Les Amants (Louis Malle, 1958) - 7/10 - September 29th
Sans Soleil (Chris Marker, 1983) - 9/10 - September 29th
71 Fragments of a Chronology of Chance (Michael Haneke, 1994) - 9.75/10 - September 28th
Stolen Life (Shaohong Li, 2005) - 7.5/10 - September 28th
The Puppetmaster (Hou Hsiao-Hsien, 1993) - 6/10 - September 28th
The Seventh Continent (Michael Haneke, 1989) - 9/10 - September 25th
The Flowers of Shanghai (Hou Hsiao-Hsien, 1998) - 8.75/10 - September 24th
The Devil, Probably (Robert Bresson, 1977) - 8.5/10 - September 22nd
Goodbye South, Goodbye (Hou Hsiao-Hsien, 1996) - 8.75/10 - September 19th
Good Men, Good Women (Hou Hsiao-Hsien, 1995) - 9/10 - September 16th
Spacked Out (Lawrence Ah Mon, 2000) - 9.25/10 - September 15th
The Time to Live and The Time to Die (Hou Hsiao-Hsien, 1985) - 8.25/10 - September 15th
Summer at Grandpa's (Hou Hsiao-hsien, 1984) - 8.5/10 - September 14th
Sound of the Mountain (Mikio Naruse, 1954) - 8/10 - September 14th
Guernsey (Nanouk Leopold, 2005) - 7.5/10 - September 14th
The Wayward Cloud (Tsai Ming-Liang, 2005) - 10/10 - September 7th
Woman on the Beach (Hong Sang-soo, 2006) - 8.5/10 - September 7th
Sonja (Kirsi Liimatainen, 2006) - 7.75/10 - September 4th
Dust in the Wind (Hou Hsiao-hsien, 1986) - 10/10 - September 3rd
Vive L'Amour (Tsai Ming-liang, 1994) - 8.5/10 - September 3rd
12:08 East of Bucharest (Corneliu Porumboiu, 2006) - 6.75/10 - September 2nd
Death by Hanging (Nagisa Oshima, 1968) - 5/10 - September 2nd
The Great Ecstasy of Robert Carmichael (Thomas Clay, 2005) - 7.5/10 - September 1st
Gespenster (Christian Petzold, 2005) - 9/10 - September 1st
The Boys from Fengkuei (Hou Hsiao-hsien, 1983) - 7.75/10 - September 1st

- August '07 -
Criá cuervos (Carlos Saura, 1976) - 5/10 - August 27th
Camera Buff (Krzysztof Kieslowski, 1979) - 9.25/10 - August 25th
Dumplings (Fruit Chan, 2004) - 9/10 - August 25th
Made in Hong Kong (Fruit Chan, 1997) - 8.25/10 - August 24th
The Vertical Ray of the Sun (Anh Hung Tran, 2000) - 7/10 - August 20th
Landscape in the Mist (Theo Angelopoulos, 1988) - 8.75/10 - August 20th
Floating Weeds (Yasujiro Ozu, 1959) - 7.5/10 - August 20th
The Hole (Tsai Ming-liang, 1998) - 8.75/10 - August 20th
Story of Floating Weeds (Yasujiro Ozu, 1934) - 7/10 - August 19th
Shinjuku Mad (Koji Wakamatsu, 1970) - 5.5/10 - August 19th
Made in Britain (Alan Clarke, 1982) - 8/10 - August 18th
Three Days (Sharunas Bartas, 1991) - 7/10 - August 18th
Bliss (Zhimin Sheng, 2006) - 10/10 - August 17th
Cockfighter (Monte Hellman, 1974) - 7.5/10 - August 16th
Brewster McCloud (Robert Altman, 1970) - 8.75/10 - August 12th
Rebels of the Neon God (Tsai Ming-liang, 1992) - 10/10 - August 12th
Story of a Love Affair (Michelangelo Antonioni, 1950) - 5.5/10 - August 11th
Violent Summer (Valerio Zurlini, 1959) - 6/10 - August 11th
Partner (Bernardo Bertolucci, 1968) - 5/10 - August 11th
Yesterday Girl (Alexander Kluge, 1966) - 8.25/10 - August 10th
A Swedish Love Story (Roy Andersson, 1970) - 8/10 - August 9th
All the Vermeers in New York (Jon Jost, 1991) - 6.75/10 - August 9th
Unknown Pleasures (Zhang Ke Jia, 2002) - 10/10 - August 8th
Signs of Life (Werner Herzog, 1968) - 7.5/10 - August 8th
My Night at Maud's (Eric Rohmer, 1969) - 3.5/10 - August 8th
Three Colors: Red (Krzysztof Kieslowski, 1994) - 9/10 - August 7th
A Married Woman (Jean-Luc Godard, 1964) - 7/10 - August 6th
Boy (Nagisa Oshima, 1969) - 9/10 - August 6th
Artists Under the Big Top: Perplexed (Alexander Kluge, 1968) - 7.5/10 - August 5th
Le Lit de la vierge (Philippe Garrel, 1969) - 7/10 - August 4th
Youth of the Beast (Seijun Suzuki, 1963) - 7.75/10 - August 4th
Veronika Voss (Rainer Werner Fassbinder, 1982) - 8/10 - August 4th
Je t'aime moi non plus (Serge Gainsbourg, 1976) - 9.5/10 - August 3rd
Werckmeister Harmonies (Béla Tarr, 2000) - 5.5+/10 - August 2nd
Days of Being Wild (Wong Kar-Wai, 1991) - 8/10 - August 2nd
Martin (George Romero, 1977) - 7/10 - August 1st
Mixed Blood (Paul Morrissey, 1985) - 9/10 - August 1st

- July '07 -
Diary of a Shinjuku Thief (Nagisa Oshima, 1968) - 10/10 - July 31st
Tokyo Drifter (Seijun Suzuki, 1966) - 7/10 - July 31st
The Fearless Vampire Killers (Roman Polanski, 1967) - 8/10 - July 30th
Loves of a Blonde (Milos Forman, 1965) - 7/10 - July 29th
Get Out Your Handkerchiefs (Bertrand Blier, 1978) - 5/10 - July 29th
Bob le Flambeur (Jean-Pierre Melville, 1956) - 6.5/10 - July 29th
Playtime (Jacques Tati, 1967) - 9+/10 - July 29th
Beau Travail (Claire Denis, 1999) - 10/10 - July 28th
Story of a Prostitute (Seijun Suzuki, 1965) - 9.5/10 - July 28th
Fists in the Pocket (Marco Bellocchio, 1965) - 9/10 - July 28th
Jesus Camp (Heidi Ewing / Rachel Grady, 2006) - 7.5/10 - July 27th
Seduced and Abandoned (Pietro Germi, 1964) - 8/10 - July 26th
Little Cheung (Fruit Chan, 1999) - 8.5/10 - July 26th
Trans-Europ-Express (Alain Robbe-Grillet, 1966) - 8/10 - July 25th
In the Realm of the Senses (Nagisa Oshima, 1976) - 7/10 - July 25th
Almanac of the Fall (Béla Tarr, 1985) - 7.5/10 - July 25th
The Birth of Love (Philippe Garrel, 1993) - 8.5/10 - July 24th
Under the Sun of Satan (Maurice Pialat, 1987) - 6/10 - July 24th
Crazed Fruit (Ko Nakahira, 1956) - 7/10 - July 24th
Violence at High Noon (Nagisa Oshima, 1966) - 8/10 - July 23rd
Silence of the Sea (Jean-Pierre Melville, 1949) - 6/10 - July 23rd
Closely Watched Trains (Jirí Menzel, 1966) - 8/10 - July 22nd
Daisies (Vera Chytilová, 1966) - 4/10 - July 22nd
Shoot the Piano Player (François Truffaut, 1960) - 7.5/10 - July 22nd
Elevator to the Gallows (Louis Malle, 1958) - 8/10 - July 21st
Bay of Angels (Jacques Demy, 1963) - 7/10 - July 21st
Two or Three Things I Know About Her (Jean-Luc Godard, 1967) - 7.5/10 - July 21st
Woman in the Dunes (Hiroshi Teshigara, 1964) - 9/10 - July 20th
The Sun's Burial (Nagisa Oshima, 1960) - 10/10 - July 20th
The Inheritance (Per Fly, 2003) - 10/10 - July 19th
Los Olividados (Luis Buñuel, 1950) - 8.5/10 - July 19th
When a Woman Ascends the Stairs (Mikio Naruse, 1960) - 8/10 - July 19th
May Morning (Ugo Liberatore, 1970) - 3.5/10 - July 18th
Fat Girl (Catherine Breillat, 2001) - 7.5/10 - July 18th
Three Colors: White (Krzysztof Kieslowski, 1994) - 9/10 - July 17th
Black Test Car (Yasuzo Masumura, 1962) - 7/10 - July 17th
La Sentinelle (Arnaud Desplechin, 1992) - 6/10 - July 17th
Cruel Story of Youth (Nagisa Oshima, 1960) - 9/10 - July 17th
Strayed (André Téchiné, 2003) - 7/10 - July 16th
Strip Nude For Your Killer (Andrea Bianchi, 1975) - 8/10 - July 15th
We Don't Live Here Anymore (John Curran, 2004) - 7.5/10 - July 14th
Pitfall (Hiroshi Teshigara, 1961) - 7.5/10 - July 13th
Family Nest (Béla Tarr, 1979) - 5.5/10 - July 12th
Loulou (Maurice Pialat, 1980) - 8.5/10 - July 12th
The Naked Island (Kaneto Shindô, 1960) - 5.5/10 - July 11th
W.R.: Mysteries of the Organism (Dusan Makavejev, 1971) - 8/10 - July 11th
Love on the Run (François Truffaut, 1979) - 8.5/10 - July 11th
Daughters of Darkness (Harry Kümel, 1971) - 7/10 - July 10th
The Red and the White (Miklós Jancsó, 1967) - 7.5/10 - July 9th
Teorema (Pier Paolo Pasolini, 1968) - 6.5/10 - July 9th
Knife in the Water (Roman Polanski, 1962) - 8/10 - July 8th
L'Enfer (Claude Chabrol, 1994) - 4/10 - July 8th
The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (Jacques Demy, 1964) - 7.5/10 - July 7th
Seconds (John Frankenheimer, 1966) - 7.5/10 - July 7th
Angst (Gerald Kargl, 1983) - 8/10 - July 6th
Therese and Isabelle (Radley Metzger, 1968) - 6/10 - July 6th
The Smugglers (Luc Moullet, 1967) - 7/10 - July 5th
Sullivan's Travels (Preston Sturges, 1941) - 8/10 - July 5th
Diary of a Country Priest (Robert Bresson, 1951) - 8/10 - July 4th
Violated Angels (Koji Wakamatsu, 1967) - 7.5/10 - July 4th
Over the Edge (Jonathan Kaplan, 1979) - 10/10 - July 3rd
Woyzeck (Werner Herzog, 1979) - 7/10 - July 3rd
Three Colors: Blue (Krzysztof Kieslowski, 1993) - 9/10 - July 2nd
The Naked Kiss (Samuel Fuller, 1964) - 5/10 - July 2nd
Scum (Alan Clarke, 1979) - 7.5+/10 - July 2nd
Ecstacy of the Angels (Koji Wakamatsu, 1972) - 6/10 - July 2nd

- June '07 -
I Fidanzati (Ermanno Olmi, 1963) - 8.5/10 - June 30th
A Prairie Home Companion (Robert Altman, 2006) - 6/10 - June 30th
Down By Law (Jim Jarmusch, 1986) - 9/10 - June 29th
Beyond the Valley of the Dolls (Russ Meyer, 1970) - 9/10 - June 28th
Mamma Roma (Pier Paolo Pasolini, 1962) - 10/10 - June 27th
The Shooting (Monte Hellman, 1966) - 8+/10 - June 27th
In the Realm of Passion (Nagisa Oshima, 1978) - 6/10 - June 26th
Happy Together (Wong Kar-Wai, 1997) - 9.5/10 - June 25th
...And God Created Woman (Roger Vadim, 1956) - 5/10 - June 24th
Lola (Jacques Demy, 1961) - 9+/10 - June 24th
Cleo From 5 to 7 (Agnès Varda, 1961) - 8.5/10 - June 24th
Night Tide (Curtis Harrington, 1961) - 6/10 - June 23rd
Sweet Movie (Dušan Makavejev, 1974) - 10/10 - June 23rd
Simon of the Desert (Luis Buñuel, 1965) - 8/10 - June 23rd
Saw III (Darren Lynn Bousman, 2006) - 2/10 - June 22nd
Notre Musique (Jean-Luc Godard, 2004) - 6/10 - June 22nd
The Mother and the Whore (Jean Eustache, 1973) - 10/10 - June 22nd
Electra, My Love (Miklós Jancsó, 1974) - 5.5/10 - June 21st
Women is the Future of Man (Hong Sang-soo, 2004) - 7.5/10 - June 21th
Naked (Mike Leigh, 1993) - 9/10 - June 20th
Sansho the Bailiff (Kenji Mizoguchi, 1954) - 8/10 - June 19th
Gate of Flesh (Seijun Suzuki, 1964) - 8/10 - June 18th
Waitress (Adrienne Shelly, 2007) - 4.5/10 - June 17th
Hostel: Part Two (Eli Roth, 2007) - 5.5/10 - June 11th
The Shop on Main Street (Ján Kadár / Elmar Klos, 1965) - 6.5/10 - June 11th
Un Flic (Jean-Pierre Melville, 1972) - 7/10 - June 10th
Il Posto (Ermanno Olmi, 1961) - 10/10 - June 10th
Factotum (Bent Hamer, 2005) - 8/10 - June 9th
Overlord (Stuart Cooper, 1975) - 6.5/10 - June 9th
Sex Jack (Koji Wakamatsu, 1970) - 9/10 - June 9th
Hail Mary (Jean-Luc Godard, 1985) - 6/10 - June 6th
Martha (Rainer Werner Fassbinder, 1974) - 8/10 - June 6th
Army of Shadows (Jean-Pierre Melville, 1969) - 8.5/10 - June 6th
Heart of Glass (Werner Herzog, 1976) - 7/10 - June 6th
Fata Morgana (Werner Herzog, 1971) - 5/10 - June 5th
The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser (Werner Herzog, 1974) - 8/10 - June 5th
The Fallen Idol (Carol Reed, 1948) - 6/10 - June 4th
9 Songs (Michael Winterbottom, 2004) - 7.5/10 - June 4th
Clean (Olivier Assayas, 2004) - 9.5/10 - June 3rd
Heat (Paul Morrissey, 1972) - 9/10 - June 3rd
Trash (Paul Morrissey, 1970) - 10/10 - June 2nd
La Belle Captive (Alain Robbe-Grillet, 1983) - 5/10 - June 2nd
Incident at Loch Ness (Zak Penn, 2004) - 6.5/10 - June 2nd
The Embryo Hunts in Secret (Koji Wakamatsu, 1966) - 9/10 - June 1st

- May '07 -
Flesh (Paul Morrissey, 1968) - 9.5/10 - May 30th
Why Does Herr R. Run Amok? (Rainer Werner Fassbinder, 1970) - 9/10 - May 27th
Fox and His Friends (Rainer Werner Fassbinder, 1975) - 8.5+/10 - May 27th
Nosferatu (Werner Herzog, 1979) - 8.5/10 - May 26th
Bug (William Friedkin, 2006) - 7.5/10 - May 26th
A Street of Love and Hope (Nagisa Oshima, 1959) - 7.5/10 - May 24th
Lessons of Darkness (Werner Herzog, 1992) - 8/10 - May 22nd
Fighting Elegy (Seijun Suzuki, 1966) - 8.5/10 - May 20th
Fallen Angels (Wong Kar-Wai, 1995) - 10/10 - May 19th
Branded to Kill (Seijun Suzuki, 1967) - 6/10 - May 19th
Diary of a Chambermaid (Luis Buñuel, 1964) - 9/10 - May 19th
Extreme Private Eros: Love Song 1974 (Kazuo Hara, 1974) - 8.5/10 - May 16th
I Am An S and M Writer (Ryuichi Hiroki, 2000) - 6.5/10 - May 15th
Sayonara CP (Kazuo Hara, 1972) - 7.5/10 - May 14th
Throw Away Your Books, Rally in the Streets (Shuji Terayama, 1971) - 9.5/10 - May 13th
Gishiki (Nagisa Oshima, 1971) - 8.5/10 - May 11th
Seven Deaths in the Cat's Eye (Antonio Margheriti, 1973) - 7.5/10 - May 9th
Bed and Board (François Truffaut, 1970) - 9.5/10 - May 7th
Made in U.S.A. (Jean-Luc Godard, 1966) - 7.5/10 - May 6th
Durian Durian (Fruit Chan, 2000) - 9/10 - May 6th
Last Year at Marienbad (Alain Resnais, 1961) - 7/10 - May 6th
Onibaba (Kaneto Shindô, 1964) - 8.5/10 - May 5th
Last Days (Gus Van Sant, 2005) - 7.5/10 - May 4th
On the Edge (John Carney, 2001) - 8/10 - May 1st

- April '07 -
Blood for Dracula (Paul Morrissey, 1974) - 9.5/10 - April 29th
Viridiana (Luis Buñuel, 1961) - 10/10 - April 29th
Tristana (Luis Buñuel, 1970) - 8/10 - April 27th
Stolen Kisses (François Truffaut, 1968) - 9/10 - April 27th
Millennium Mambo (Hou Hsiao-hsien, 2001) - 8.5/10 - April 26th
Cries and Whispers (Ingmar Bergman, 1972) - 8/10 - April 25th
Code Unknown (Michael Haneke, 2000) - 8.5/10 - April 24th
That Obscure Object of Desire (Luis Buñuel, 1977) - 9/10 - April 23rd
The Spirit of the Beehive (Victor Erice, 1973) - 10/10 - April 22nd
A Man and a Woman (Claude Lelouch, 1966) - 9/10 - April 21st
Picnic at Hanging Rock (Peter Weir, 1975) - 6.5/10 - April 21st
Umberto D. (Vittorio De Sica, 1952) - 4/10 - April 21st
Flesh for Frankenstein (Paul Morrissey, 1974) - 9/10 - April 20th
The Bird with the Crystal Plumage (Dario Argento, 1970) - 9/10 - April 14th
Twentynine Palms (Bruno Dumont, 2003) - 8/10 - April 13th
Track 29 (Nicolas Roeg, 1988) - 4/10 - April 13th
Marie Antoinette (Sofia Coppola, 2006) - 7.5/10 - April 9th
Two-Lane Blacktop (Monte Hellman, 1971) - 8/10 - April 8th
Head-On (Fatih Akin, 2004) - 9/10 - April 8th
Friends with Money (Nicole Holofcener, 2006) - 7/10 - April 7th
Mysterious Skin (Gregg Araki, 2004) - 10/10 - April 7th
The Case of the Scorpion's Tail (Sergio Martino, 1971) - 8.5/10 - April 6th
The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant (Rainer Werner Fassbinder, 1972) - 7/10 - April 6th
Le Petit Soldat (Jean-Luc Godard, 1960) - 8/10 - April 5th
Mouchette (Robert Bresson, 1967) - 8/10 - April 3rd
La Chinoise (Jean-Luc Godard, 1967) - 5.5/10 - April 1st
Undertow (David Gordon Green, 2004) - 9.5/10 - April 1st

- March '07 -
Last Tango in Paris (Bernardo Bertolucci, 1972) - 7/10 - March 31st
Chungking Express (Wong Kar-Wai, 1994) - 9.5/10 - March 30th
Muriel (Alain Resnais, 1963) - 6.5/10 - March 29th
The Marriage of Maria Braun (Rainer Werner Fassbinder, 1979) - 9/10 - March 28th
Winter Light (Ingmar Bergman, 1962) - 9/10 - March 27th
Vagabond (Agnès Varda, 1985) - 8/10 - March 25th
The Lives of Others (Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck, 2006) - 4.5/10 - March 25th
Chinese Roulette (Rainer Werner Fassbinder, 1976) - 5.5/10 - March 24th
Week End (Jean-Luc Godard, 1967) - 7.5/10 - March 23rd
Solo Con Tu Pareja (Alfonso Cuarón, 1991) - 10/10 - March 22nd
Demonlover (Olivier Assayas, 2002) - 9/10 - March 21st
Go Go Second Time Virgin (Koji Wakamatsu, 1969) - 6/10 - March 20th
Hiroshima Mon Amour (Alain Resnais, 1959) - 7.5/10 - March 19th
Cyclo (Anh Hung Tran, 1995) - 9.5/10 - March 18th
L'Eclisse (Michelangelo Antonioni, 1962) - 8/10 - March 16th
Straw Dogs (Sam Peckinpah, 1971) - 9/10 - March 15th
George Washington (David Gordon Green, 2000) - 9.5/10 - March 14th
What Time is it There? (Tsai Ming-Liang, 2001) - 8.5/10 - March 13th
Ali: Fear Eats the Soul (Rainer Werner Fassbinder, 1974) - 8.5/10 - March 11th
Burden of Dreams (Les Blank, 1982) - 8/10 - March 10th
Man Bites Dog (Rémy Belvaux / André Bonzel) - 9/10 - March 10
À nos amours (Maurice Pialat, 1983) - 10/10 - March 9th
Crash (David Cronenberg, 1996) - 6.5/10 - March 8th
In the Mood for Love (Wong Kar-Wai, 2001) - 7.5/10 - March 7th
Ugetsu (Kenji Mizoguchi, 1953) - 7/10 - March 6th
I am Curious (Yellow) (Vilgot Sjöman, 1967) - 10/10 - March 5th
Café Lumière (Hou Hsiao-Hsien, 2003) - 8/10 - March 4th
Venus in Furs (Jesus Franco, 1969) - 8/10 - March 3rd
The Silence (Ingmar Bergman, 1963) - 7.5/10 - March 2nd
The Strange Vice of Mrs. Wardh (Sergio Martino, 1971) - 9/10 - March 1st

- February '07 -
Happiness (Todd Solondz, 1998) - 8.5/10 - February 28th
Performance (Nicolas Roeg / Donald Cammel, 1970) - 8/10 - February 25th
Julien Donkey-Boy (Harmony Korine, 1999) - 9.5/10 - February 24th
The Painted Veil (John Curran, 2006) - 9/10 - February 24th
L'Avventura (Michelangelo Antonioni, 1960) - 9.5/10 - February 23rd
Lilja 4-ever (Lukas Moodysson, 2002) - 10/10 - February 19th
The 400 Blows (François Truffaut, 1959) - 10/10 - February 18th
Band of Outsiders (Jean-Luc Godard, 1964) - 9.5/10 - February 17th
Your Vice is a Locked Room and Only I Have the Key (Sergio Martino, 1972) - 10/10 - February 16th
Baron Blood (Mario Bava, 1972) - 9/10 - February 15th
My Life to Live (Jean-Luc Godard, 1962) - 9.5/10 - February 14th
Pierrot Le Fou (Jean-Luc Godard, 1965) - 7.5/10 - February 12th
Last Life in the Universe (Pen-Ek Ratanaruang, 2003) - 9.5/10 - February 11th
Gummo (Harmony Korine, 1997) - 10/10 - February 10th
Nights of Cabiria (Federico Fellini, 1957) - 8/10 - February 10th
Fucking Åmål (Lukas Moodysson, 1998) - 10/10 - February 8th
Marseille (Angela Schanelec, 2004) - 8/10 - February 7th
The Lovers on the Bridge (Léos Carax, 1991) - 9.5/10 - February 5th
Little Children (Todd Field, 2006) - 9/10 - February 3rd
Trouble Every Day (Claire Denis, 2001) - 9/10 - February 2nd
The Killing of a Chinese Bookie (John Cassavetes, 1976) - 8.5/10 - February 1st

- January '07 -
Morvern Callar (Lynne Ramsay, 2002) - 10/10 - January 31st
Stroszek (Werner Herzog, 1977) - 9/10 - January 30th
Grizzly Man (Werner Herzog, 2005) - 8/10 - January 27th
The Conformist (Bernardo Bertolucci, 1970) - 8/10 - January 23rd
Ratcatcher (Lynne Ramsay, 1999) - 10/10 - January 21st
Breathless (Jean-Luc Godard, 1960) - 9.5/10 - January 21st
The Prestige (Christopher Nolan, 2006) - 6/10 - January 18th
The Black Dahlia (Brian De Palma, 2006) - 2/10 - January 18th
Punch-Drunk Love (Paul Thomas Anderson, 2002) - 9.5/10 - January 7th
Children of Men (Alfonso Cuarón, 2006) - 10/10 - January 6th
Bright Future (Kiyoshi Kurosawa, 2003) - 9/10 - January 5th
Belle De Jour (Luis Buñuel, 1967) - 7.5/10 - January 4th
The Virgin Spring (Ingmar Bergman, 1960) - 10/10 - January 3rd
Le Mépris AKA Contempt (Jean-Luc Godard, 1963) - 10/10 - January 3rd
Even Dwarfs Started Small (Werner Herzog, 1970) - 10/10 - January 2nd
Blue Velvet (David Lynch, 1986) - 10/10 - January 2nd
Smultronstället (Ingmar Bergman, 1957) - 6.5/10 - January 1st
A Woman is a Woman (Jean-Luc Godard, 1961) - 7/10 - January 1st

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The Silence (Ingmar Bergman, 1963) - 7.5/10 - March 2nd

A huge disappointment. I really liked Bergman's Through a Glass Darkly and thought it was one of his more interesting films. This, however, despite it's many inspired moments, feels sort of like a psuedo-Antonioni film. Bergman has expressed his respect for him, and there's some influence shown in Hour of the Wolf and Persona but it almost felt like Bergman was purposely dragging out every scene to it's longest possible length. Most of my respect for him comes from the actual interaction of humans that he conducts but this film is sort of cold and driven by the exact opposite. Still, like I said earlier, there are a lot of inspired moments that I particularly liked.

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Venus in Furs (Jesus Franco, 1969) - 8/10 - March 3rd

Such an incredibly frustrating film. I realize that a lot of people love Franco for the campy elements that he tosses into his films, but I really don't. This film isn't really built around those things at all, but it is rather annoying when they pop up from time to time. I honestly think, had Franco taken a serious tone with this film that he could have made a much better version of Vertigo and he sort of does, but he pulls back any time the film tries to learn it's characters. Still, I do think he does some interesting things with the camera and of course the film is incredibly entertaining.

[AllisonAlmodovar]

you only have 11 in your netflix queue? I had about 100. i knew some people who have like 400 and will never recover. anyway i still haven't watched those 100 movies they are in a folder on imdb and I will have to find some other way to watch it, because I'm impatient w/netflix. never coming fast enough.

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Hahaha, no. I have about 400 movies in my queue. I'm just not going to post them all. Though, if you're that curious here is the RSS feed.

[AllisonAlmodovar]

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Café Lumière (Hou Hsiao-Hsien, 2003) - 8/10 - March 4th

Wonderfully photographed film. In terms of pacing and style, it really reminded me a lot of Angela Schanelec's Marseille but less dependent on dialogue. Both films have lots of long takes and lots of very precise jump-cuts but as much as I love similar things about the two, I also had similar problems. I do like long takes when the camera is being moved around a lot (see Children of Men) but when it just laying there I get sort of ..."bored" for lack of a better word. Still, a very nice, quiet and subtle film.

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I Am Curious (Yellow) (Vilgot Sjöman, 1967) - 10/10 - March 5th

Wow, quite a surprise here. I was expecting something more along the lines of Bergman since Vilgot Sjöman is a big admirer of him but I got the exact opposite. The first 30 minutes definitely feel like something Godard would do not just in terms of technique but also in terms of content and pacing. There is a point where the whole documentary stuff seems a little annoying and you'd just wish Sjöman would begin to develop the characters more but that's exactly what he does. The final result is something very much in the same vein as John Cassavetes, perhaps not as intense but definitely still a remarkable film.

[Sean P]

I already really wanted to see I am Curious, but now after reading your review I'm that much more excited to see it! Sounds excellent, the documentary part of it turns me off a bit, but if it's anything like a Godard film I think I'll love it.

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Ugetsu (Kenji Mizoguchi, 1953) - 7/10 - March 6th

I knew going in that I really wouldn't like this film that much. Perhaps I only wanted to watch it so I could have an opinion on it since it's so canonized. The film really is unremarkable and very much of it's time. Camera movement and acting is pretty typical of any Japanese film made in this time. In other words, the camera man should be checked for a pulse (less obvious later in the film) and the acting makes the film, at times, unbearable. These elements are definitely a bit more polished than they are in Seven Samurai, in fact I'd say that this is the movie that Seven Samurai wanted to be. However, the monologues here and pretty corny and stupid but that might be because monologues tend to be stupid and corny 90% of the time. The film also contains many moments that I particularly liked, the scenes on the boat, even though the setting is obviously fake, are very beautiful. I do think the films does have a lot of nice visuals, just really filmed in incredibly uninteresting ways. All in all, it exceeded my incredibly limited expectations and it actually may require a reviewing since I feel I was being a bit too critical when I watching it.

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In the Mood for Love (Wong Kar-Wai, 2001) - 7.5/10 - March 7th

Damn, quite an emotionally draining film. Still trying to collect my thoughts. First and foremost, the cinematography is done by Christopher Doyle so of course it's incredibly beautiful. The images and their power really is just undeniable especially in the context of this film which is intended to be intimate. The performances themselves are quite good though nothing quite amazing. Maggie Cheung is quite amazing, but Tony Leung almost comes off as being a "cool, film noir kind of guy" and perhaps some of the isolation that he experiences adds to the overall coldness I felt for the character. I'd like to say that Wong Kar-Wai has been somewhat of a disappointment to me. People often praise him for being an improviser but between this and 2046 everything seems so obviously planned out. Perhaps this is a testament to how talented he is, but it still makes the film feel incredibly mechanical and the few moments of spontaneity seem incredibly out of place.

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Crash (David Cronenberg, 1996) - 6.5/10 - March 8th

I've never thought of Cronenberg as a director with a particular style, or a director with any style at all for that matter. However, I do think he sort of developed one in the 90s with this and Naked Lunch, but then that is sort of refuted with eXistenZ but I still think he still knew sort of what he was doing with the sooner. As a result, I think this, along with Naked Lunch are probably his two best films. Still, this one has a lot of problems. To begin, there's a lot of problems with the performances. I think James Spader was pretty good, and Holly Hunter was alright, but damn, Elias Koteas was pretty bad. Some of his dialogue, along with his delivery is just laughable. The movie also just feels incredibly empty and I hate to say but it doesn't go anywhere. I'm not saying there's enough plot, because a lack of a plot is never a crime but I just didn't care? Yeah, I like how I put it. I also think there's so many different and more interesting ways in which Cronenberg could have filmed the sex scenes, but oh well whatever. It's a good movie and I was entertained.

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À nos amours (Maurice Pialat, 1983) - 10/10 - March 9th

Absolutely one of the most perfect movies I've ever seen. Pialat takes such care in to crafting each character in this movie and developing them in to much more than just people who are there for plot points. He's often compared to Cassavetes, and that seems pretty dead-on to me but unlike Cassavetes, he focuses his attention mostly on one single character and the result is a much more emotionally strong response, at least from me. Perhaps that just comes from my love of narratives that focus on just one person (Morvern Callar, The Man Who Fell to Earth, I Stand Alone, etc.) but it still is just so incredibly effective. Regardless of what it is it still certainly helps that Sandrine Bonnaire delivers a performance that really is perfect. I would go in to more about what I love with the technique such as long takes as well as certain, perhaps out of nowhere jump cuts but I'd feel tedious and repetitive because I already recognize those things as aspects I love about certain films. I'll just simply say that this film has everything that I look for in a film, and probably more.

[AllisonAlmodovar]

You liked À nos amours? I think it's great you gave it a 10/10. I may have give it 7/10. You're right. Great acting. Sandrine Bonnaire is one of my favorites.

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Man Bites Dog (Rémy Belvaux / André Bonzel) - 9/10 - March 10

To describe this film as a comedy would be underestimating the humanity of it and how incredibly heartbreaking it is. Of course, how everything is filmed is wonderful but for most of the film I was overwhelmed by how unlikable the protagonist was. It seems sort of impossible that my personal opinion of him can be changed by just the character himself being humbled. The move actually is quite funny, but I can't help feeling that I would have been more sympathetic to the character had the filmmakers taken the narrative in a more dramatic tone, but I think the ending, as in the last 15 minutes, is really just some powerful stuff. A lot of people have told me that this reminds me them a lot of something Tarantino would do and it's easy to see why, but I really disagree. Tarantino takes the actually humor from the violence, and ultimately dehumanizes the characters into pawns for his punchline, where as the humor here comes from the characters involved in the violence, sort of like a Todd Solondz movie but with guns...or something.