Thursday, February 2, 2012

(*) Drive (8/10)

USA: Nicolas Winding Refn, 2011; IMDB

 

Anything for Her (7/10)

Original title: POUR ELLE
France/Spain: Fred Cavayé, 2008; IMDB

 

Wednesday, February 1, 2012

Donnie Brasco (7/10)

USA: Mike Newell, 1997; IMDB

 

Tuesday, January 31, 2012

(*) Four Flies on Grey Velvet (8/10)

Original title: 4 MOSCHE DI VELLUTO GRIGIO
Italy/France: Dario Argento, 1971; IMDB

 

Monday, January 30, 2012

Melancholia (4/10)

Denmark/Sweden/France/Germany: Lars von Trier, 2011; IMDB

Self-important, dull and turgid piece of flimflam, about on par with von Trier's previous waltz down Pretentious Street, ANTICHRIST.

 

Sunday, January 29, 2012

(*) Zodiac (10/10)

USA: David Fincher, 2007; IMDB

Arguably still Fincher's best film since SE7EN, this is an extremely effective study of obsession, at times almost overwhelming in terms of its scope. Despite a running time of nearly three hours it never feels over-long, and despite offering no definitive conclusion it remains satisfying. More like this please, Mr. Fincher, and less pointless remakes of perfectly good Swedish films.

 

Thursday, January 26, 2012

The Duellists (6/10)

UK: Ridley Scott, 1977; IMDB

Interesting if repetitive feature debut by Ridley Scott. Much of the skill for directing action is already apparent here, although admittedly in a somewhat less refined form.

 

Wednesday, January 25, 2012

(*) Three Colours: Blue (8/10)

Original title: TROIS COULEURS: BLEU
France/Poland/Switzerland: Krzysztof Kieslowski, 1993; IMDB

 

Monday, January 23, 2012

Pi (2/10)

USA: Darren Aronofsky, 1998; IMDB

 

Sunday, January 22, 2012

Jurassic Park III (6/10)

USA: Joe Johnston, 2001; IMDB

 

Saturday, January 21, 2012

50/50 (7/10)

USA: Jonathan Levine, 2011; IMDB

 

Thursday, January 19, 2012

Attack the Block (6/10)

UK/France: Joe Cornish, 2011; IMDB

 

Wednesday, January 18, 2012

Julia's Eyes (7/10)

Original title: LOS OJOS DE JULIA
Spain: Guillem Morales, 2010; IMDB

 

Monday, January 16, 2012

(*) Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (8/10)

France/UK/Germany: Tomas Alfredson, 2011; IMDB

 

Sunday, January 15, 2012

Angels of Evil (8/10)

Original title: VALLANZASCA - GLI ANGELI DEL MALE
Italy/France/Romania: Michele Placido, 2010; IMDB

 

Arrietty (7/10)

Original title: KARI-GURASHI NO ARIETTI
Japan: Hiromasa Yonebayashi, 2010; IMDB

 

Sleeping Beauty (5/10)

Australia: Julia Leigh, 2011; IMDB

 

Friday, January 13, 2012

Colombiana (7/10)

USA/France: Olivier Megaton, 2011; IMDB

 

Thursday, January 12, 2012

Troll Hunter (7/10)

Original title: TROLLJEGEREN
Norway: André Øvredal, 2010; IMDB

 

Wednesday, January 11, 2012

(*) The Naked Gun (8/10)

USA: David Zucker, 1988; IMDB

 
More movies

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Introduction

This section lists every movie I've seen from January 2005 onwards. I include a rating out of 10 for each film, and do my best to include a brief 1-2 paragraph review of each one I see for the first time. Films I have already seen, marked with an asterisk (*), tend not to be reviewed.

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