FILMS SEEN IN 2013:
Titles
will be added when they fall off "the last 10 films I've seen." Slashes
indicate repeat viewings. Titles prefaced by a plus sign were seen on
home video. The new release section includes 2012 releases
that I caught up with this year. All titles are American unless
otherwise indicated. Films under 30 minutes will be labelled {S} and
those between 30 and 70 minutes {M}. Only films over 30 minutes are
rated.
WHAT THE RATINGS MEAN
**** Masterpiece
***1/2 Excellent
*** Pretty good but highly flawed
**1/2 Mediocre but not without merit
** Pretty bad
*1/2 Awful
* A superhuman amount of patience was required to sit through it
0 Walked out
NEW RELEASES
+THE ACT OF KILLING (Joshua Oppenheimer, Denmark) ***1/2
THE ANGELS' SHARE (Ken Loach, UK/France) ***
ANTIVIRAL (Brandon Cronenberg, Canada) **
AT ANY PRICE (Ramin Bahrani) **
BEYOND THE HILLS (Cristian Mungiu, Romania) ***
BULLET TO THE HEAD (Walter Hill) **
+CAESAR MUST DIE (Paolo and Vittorio Taviani, Italy) ***
DECEPTIVE PRACTICE: THE MYSTERIES AND MENTORS OF RICKY JAY (Molly Bernstein/Alan Edelstein) **1/2
EASY RIDER (James Benning) ***
EVERYBODY HAS A PLAN (Ana Piterbarg, Argentina) **
FRANCES HA (Noah Baumbach) ***
FROM UP ON POPPY HILL (Goro Miyazaki, Japan) ***
GEBO AND THE SHADOW (Manoel de Oliveira, France/Portugal) ***1/2
A GLIMPSE INSIDE THE MIND OF CHARLES SWAN III (Roman Coppola) **1/2
HAPPY PEOPLE: A YEAR IN THE TAIGA (Werner Herzog/Dmitry Vasyukov, Germany, 2010) **1/2
+HORS SATAN (Bruno Dumont, France) ***
THE HUNT (Thomas Vinterberg, Denmark) *1/2
I'M SO EXCITED! (Pedro Almodovar, Spain) **1/2
INESCAPABLE (Ruba Nadda, Canada) **
IN THE FOG (Sergei Loznitsa, Ukraine/Germany) ***
JOHN DIES AT THE END (Don Coscarelli) ***
KUF (Ali Aydin, Turkey/Germany) **1/2
/LEVIATHAN/ (Véréna Paravel/Lucien Castaing-Taylor, USA/UK/France) ****
LORE (Cate Shortland, Australia/Germany) ***
MAMA (Andy Muschietti, Spain/Canada) **1/2
LES MISERABLES (Tom Hooper) **1/2
MOTORWAY (Soi Cheang, Hong Kong) **1/2
MUD (Jeff Nichols) ***
+MY BROTHER THE DEVIL (Sally El Hosiani, UK) **1/2
NANA (Valerie Massadian, France) {M} ***
+NEIGHBORING SOUNDS (Kleber Mendonça Filho, Brazil) ***
NIGHT ACROSS THE STREET (Raul Ruiz, Chile/France) ***
NO (Pablo Larrain, Chile) ***
NOT FADE AWAY (David Chase) **1/2
OLD DOG (Pema Tseden, Tibet) ***1/2
+ONCE EVERY DAY (Richard Foreman) {M} ***
+ONCE UPON A TIME IN BROOKLYN (Paul Borghese) **
OUT-TAKES FROM THE LIFE OF A HAPPY MAN (Jonas Mekas) {M} ***
PAIN & GAIN (Michael Bay) **1/2
PARADISE: LOVE (Ulrich Seidl, Austria) **1/2
PEOPLE'S PARK (Libbie Dina Cohn/J. P. Sniadecki, USA/China) ***
THE PLACE BEYOND THE PINES (Derek Cianfrance) ***
PORFIRIO (Alejandro Landes, Colombia) **
POST TENEBRAS LUX (Carlos Reygadas, Mexico) ***
PROMISED LAND (Gus van Sant) **1/2
QUARTET (Dustin Hoffman, USA/UK) **1/2
REALITY (Matteo Garrone, Italy) **
+/ROOM 237/ (Rodney Ascher) ***1/2
THE SAPPHIRES (Wayne Blair, Australia) **
SIDE EFFECTS (Steven Soderbergh) **
SIGHTSEERS (Ben Wheatley, UK) **
SIMON KILLER (Antonio Campos) **1/2
/SOMETHING IN THE AIR/ (Olivier Assayas, France) ***1/2
SPRING BREAKERS (Harmony Korine) ****
STOKER (Park Chan-wook) **1/2
STORIES WE TELL (Sarah Polley, Canada) ***
THREE SISTERS (Wang Bing, China) ***
TO THE WONDER (Terrence Malick) **1/2
TRANCE (Danny Boyle, UK) ***
/THE UNSPEAKABLE ACT/ (Dan Sallitt) ***1/2
UPSTREAM COLOR (Shane Carruth) ***1/2
WAR WITCH (Kim Nguyen, Canada) **1/2
WELCOME TO THE PUNCH (Eran Creevy, UK) **
YOSSI (Eytan Fox, Israel) ***
OLD FILMS
ALIBI (Roland West, 1929)
+/BADLANDS/ (Terrence Malick, 1973)
BEHINDERT (Stephen Dwoskin, West Germany, 1974)
+BLEAK NIGHT (Yoon Sung-hyun, South Korea, 2010)
THE CHANT OF JIMMIE BLACKSMITH (Fred Schepisi, Australia, 1978)
+/CHRONICLE OF A SUMMER/ (Jean Rouch/Edgar Morin, France, 1961)
THE COOL WORLD (Shirley Clarke, 1963)
CRADLE SONG (Mitchell Leisen, 1933)
DARK WATERS (Andre de Toth, 1944)
FROM THE LIFE OF THE MARIONETTES (Ingmar Bergman, West Germany, 1980)
+GENOCIDE (Kazui Nihonmatsu, Japan, 1968)
HI, MOM! (Brian DePalma, 1970)
+THE HUNGER (Tony Scott, 1983)
I WANNA HOLD YOUR HAND (Robert Zemeckis, 1978)
ISLAND OF LOST SOULS (Erle C. Kenton, 1933)
THE MANUAL OF NINJA ARTS (Nagisa Oshima, Japan, 1967)
MY NAME IS JULIA ROSS (Joseph H. Lewis, 1945) {M}
NAKED BULLET (Koji Wakamatsu, Japan, 1969)
+/NATURAL BORN KILLERS/ (Oliver Stone, 1994)
NO MORE FLEEING (Herbert Vesely, West Germany, 1955) {M}
THE OPPRESSION OF WOMEN IS ESPECIALLY SEEN IN THE ATTITUDE OF WOMEN THEMSELVES (Hellmuth Costard, West Germany, 1969) {M}
/PORTRAIT OF JASON/ (Shirley Clarke, 1967)
+THE REPORT (Abbas Kiarostami, Iran, 1977)
+THE SEARCH (Pema Tseden, Tibet, 2009)
SHAOLIN AND WU-TANG (Gordon Liu, Hong Kong, 1983)
THE SUITOR (Pierre Etaix, France, 1962)
SYMBIOPSYCHOTAXIPLASM: TAKE ONE (William Greaves, 1968)
TURUMBA (Kidlat Tahimik, the Philippines, 1981)
TWO FOR THE ROAD (Stanley Donen, 1967)
VIOLATED ANGELS (Koji Wakamatsu, Japan, 1967) {M}
A WALK WITH LOVE AND DEATH (John Huston, 1969)
/WE WON'T GROW OLD TOGETHER/ (Maurice Pialat, France, 1974)
/WILL SUCCESS SPOIL ROCK HUNTER?/ (Frank Tashlin, 1957)
+THE X FROM OUTER SPACE (Kazui Nihonmatsu, Japan, 1967)
SHORTS
BUTTERFLY (Shirley & Wendy Clarke, 1967)
C FOR CIAS (Stom Sogo, 2008)
EMPEROR TOMATO KETCHUP (Shuji Terayama, Japan, 1970)
I SMELL YOU (Stom Sogo, 2000)
LIVING IN A REVERSED WORLD (Ivo Kohler/Theodor Wrismann, Austria, 1955)
THE MAD DOCTOR (Walt Disney, 1933)
+THE MAD MASTERS (Jean Rouch, 1955)
MONKEY 2 (Stom Sogo, 1995)
REPEAT (Stom Sogo, 2005)
RUPTURE (Pierre Etaix/Jean-Claude Carriere, France, 1961)
TAKE THESE TABLETS (Stom Sogo, 2004)
TRI (Stom Sogo, 2004)