Here is a list of movies I saw since taking a break in June. I’ll start doing write-ups for films I see again beginning with the Toronto Film Festival in September. Most of the write-ups for films I see in the festival will be short due to how little spare time I’ll have, but I’ll try to communicate the gist of my thoughts on each one; ‘brilliant brevity,’ as Ms. Ballard would say.
June
Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me (Lynch)
Tulpan (Dvortsevoy)
The 13th Letter (Preminger)
The Man With the Golden Arm (Preminger)
Advise and Consent (Preminger)
Chloe (Egoyan)
Exodus (Preminger)
Bunny Lake Is Missing (Preminger)
Blow-Up (Antonioni)
Last Year at Marienbad (Resnais)
Forever Amber (Preminger)
Amarcord (Fellini)
Eraserhead (Lynch)
July
Margin For Error (Preminger)
Such Good Friends (Preminger)
A Woman is a Woman (Godard)
Sex is Comedy (Breillat)
Alphaville (Godard)
Jules and Jim (Truffaut)
The Nun (Rivette)
Act of God (Baichwal)
Sign of Leo (Rohmer)
Duplicity (Gilroy)
Pierrot le fou (Godard)
Down by Law (Jarmusch)
Vivre sa vie (Godard)
Cache (Haneke)
INLAND EMPIRE (Lynch)
Judex (Franju)
Simon of the Desert (Bunuel)
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (Yates)
Melinda & Melinda (Allen)
Bruno (Charles)
Shadows (Cassavetes)
Faces (Cassavetes)
Public Enemies (Mann)
A Woman Under the Influence (Cassavetes)
For All Mankind (Reinert)
Killing of a Chinese Bookie (Cassavetes)
Days of Heaven (Malick)
The Hurt Locker (Bigelow)
Lola (Demy)
Paris nous appartient (Rivette)
The Third Man (Reed)
Cria Cuervos (Saura)
Divine Intervention (Suleiman)
August
Where Lies Your Hidden Smile? (Costa)
Playtime (Tati)
The Piano Teacher (Haneke)
Turning Gate (Hong)
Gloria (Cassavetes)
The Forsaken Land (Jayasundara)
Le Beau Serge (Chabrol)
Husbands (Cassavetes)
L’enfance-nue (Pialat)
Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Take One (Greaves)
Suzanne’s Career (Rohmer)
My Night at Maud’s (Rohmer)
Parade (Tati)
Landscape in the Mist (Angelopoulos)
The Garden of Delights (Saura)
Tetro (Coppola)
The Romance of Astrea and Celadon (Rohmer)
Eyes Without a Face (Franju)
Woyzeck (Herzog)
Bad Company (Eustache)
Santa Claus Has Blue Eyes (Eustache)
La Collectioneuse (Rohmer)
Les Enfants Terribles (Melville)
Before Sunrise (Linklater)
Before Sunset (Linklater)
The Leopard (Visconti)
Adieu Philippine (Rozier)
Repulsion (Polanksi)
Duelle [une quarantaine] (Rivette)
Head-On (Akin)
Inglourious Basterds (Tarantino)
Tomorrow, the last of the film festival line-up will be unveiled, so I’ll have updates to my spreadsheet. After August 25, when the schedule is announced, I’ll post the films I’ll be seeing and on what days.
Take care.