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*8mm/16mm/35mm/70mm denotes that what I saw was a film print.
*DP denotes that what I saw was a Digital Projection in a theatre, either because the film doesn’t exist on celluloid, or the theatre where I saw it is run by incompetent penny pinchers.
*3D denotes that I saw it in 3D, obvi.
*All others were either from DVDs, downloads, or television.
*Only films that are at least 40 minutes long (the Academy’s minimum for a feature film) are logged.
*A grade of “Inc.” denotes that I don’t think that this screening was an accurate enough presentation of the film for me to make a value judgment, either because their weren’t English subtitles for a foreign language film, or the projector broke/sound cut out/the print burned, or an ass in the theatre distracted me with too much talking/popcorn eating, or, like the incident with 2001: A Space Odyssey at the Coolidge Corner Theatre in Brookline, MA, the reels are shown out of order.
*Regarding W/Os, I almost always finish what I start, and what I don’t, I don’t log.
*A ‘+’ at the beginning of a line means that I had seen this film before.
And that translates to:
A+ 9.4 - 10.0 [Top 10 of All Time consideration] A 8.6 - 9.3 [Masterpiece] A- 7.8 - 8.5 [Near-masterpiece] B+ 7.0 - 7.7 [Great] B 6.2 - 6.9 [Something special] B- 5.4 - 6.1 [Admirable, at least] C+ 4.6 - 5.3 [Decent, but nothing special] C 3.8 - 4.5 [Forgettable mediocrity] C- 3.0 - 3.7 [What a failure] D+ 2.2 - 2.9 [What-a-failure with cheese] D 1.4 - 2.1 [How did I get duped into seeing this?] D- 0.6 - 1.3 [You have got to be kidding me] F 0.0 - 0.5 [Worst of All Time consideration]
January
127 Hours (2010, Danny Boyle) – 6.0
It’s a Wonderful Life (1946, Frank Capra) – 7.2
The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo (2011, David Fincher) DP – 4.9
Monsieur Lazhar (2011, Philippe Falardeau) DP – 5.0
Young Adult (2011, Jason Reitman) DP – 5.3
+Keyhole (2011, Guy Maddin) 35mm – 6.1 [up from 5.9]
Carnage (2011, Roman Polanski) DP – 4.0
Hobo with a Shotgun (2011, Jason Eisener) 35mm – 4.5
Yol (1982, Serif Gören & Yilmaz Güney) 35mm – 5.6
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (2011, Tomas Alfredson) DP – 4.7
Starbuck (2011, Ken Scott) DP – 3.8
Life During Wartime (2009, Todd Solondz) – 4.4
Wetlands (2011, Guy Édoin) 35mm – 5.7
+A Dangerous Method (2011, David Cronenberg) DP – 5.9 [up from 5.5]
Lula, Son of Brazil (2009, Fábio Barreto & Marcelo Santiago) – 3.2
Scream 4 (2011, Wes Craven) – 5.6
+Café de flore (2011, Jean-Marc Vallée) DP – 5.0 [same]
The Salesman (2011, Sébastien Pilote) DP – 6.2
Paranormal Activity 3 (2011, Henry Joost & Ariel Schulman) – 6.0
Print Generation (1974, J.J. Murphy) 16mm – 7.0
+By the Law [Franz Reisecker score] (1926, Lev Kuleshov) – 8.8 [up from 7.0]
The Time That Remains (2009, Elia Suleiman) – 5.3
Daïnah la métisse (1932, Jean Grémillon) – 8.0
Walkover (1965, Jerzy Skolimowski) 35mm – 4.4
+Santa Claus Has Blue Eyes (1969, Jean Eustache) 35mm – 6.8 [up from ~4.5]
In the Dust of the Stars (1976, Gottfried Kolditz) 35mm – 3.1
Living Together (1973, Anna Karina) 35mm – 5.7
The Dead Mountaineer’s Hotel (1979, Grigori Kromanov) 35mm – 3.4
An Oversimplification of Her Beauty (2012, Terence Nance) – 3.0
Pilot Pirx’s Inquest (1979, Marek Piestrak) 35mm – 4.5
Senna (2010, Asif Kapadia) – 6.2
Dancing in the Dark (1986, Leon Marr) 35mm – 6.1
Hope (1970, Yilmaz Güney) 35mm – 6.2
Moscow-Cassiopeia (1975, Richard Viktorov) DP – 5.2
Teens in the Universe (1974, Richard Viktorov) DP – 5.4
Father (2010, José María de Orbe) – 4.4
The Herd (1979, Zeki Ökten) 35mm – 4.9
Ferat Vampire (1982, Juraj Herz) 35mm – 3.9
Solaris (1972, Andrei Tarkovsky) 35mm – 7.8
The Poor (1975, Yilmaz Güney & Atif Yilmaz) 35mm – 4.5
+Aurora (2010, Cristi Puiu) – 4.7 [same]
The Big Space Travel (1974, Valentin Selivanov) DP – 3.8
February
Elegy (1972, Yilmaz Güney) 35mm – 4.1
The Innkeepers (2011, Ti West) DP – 4.8
Bride of the Earth (1968, Yilmaz Güney) 35mm – 6.5
Who Wants to Kill Jessie? (1966, Václav Vorlícek) 35mm – 6.0
The Hungry Wolves (1969, Yilmaz Güney) 35mm – 5.1
Johnny Guitar (1954, Nicholas Ray) 35mm – 7.6
Better Mus’ Come (2010, Storm Saulter) DP – 3.3
Friend (1975, Yilmaz Güney) 35mm – 4.2
L (2012, Babis Makridis) – 2.5
Clip (2012, Maja Miloš) – 5.0
Felicia’s Journey (1999, Atom Egoyan) 35mm – 5.3
+Sans Soleil (1983, Chris Marker) – 5.6 [up from ~3.5]
Harvest (2011, Benjamin Cantu) – 5.5
Babette’s Feast (1987, Gabriel Axel) 35mm – 4.9
Thursday till Sunday (2012, Dominga Sotomayor Castillo) – 5.7
+Black Venus (2010, Abdellatif Kechiche) – 6.4 [down from 6.8]
Pursuit of Loneliness (2012, Laurence Thrush) – 5.1
+A Man Escaped (1956, Robert Bresson) 35mm – 8.1 [up from ~7.5]
+Stalker (1979, Andrei Tarkovsky) 35mm – 6.2 [down from ~9.5]
+Mouchette (1967, Robert Bresson) 35mm – 5.6 [up from ~4.0]
+Wild at Heart (1990, David Lynch) 35mm – 5.8 [down from ~6.5]
The True Story of Jesse James (1957, Nicholas Ray) 35mm – 4.3
Diary of a Country Priest (1951, Robert Bresson) 35mm – 5.0
Angels of the Streets (1943, Robert Bresson) 35mm – 4.4
The Legend Of Kaspar Hauser (2012, Davide Manuli) – 4.7
Zero for Conduct (1933, Jean Vigo) – 7.3
King of Kings (1961, Nicholas Ray) 35mm – 3.5
Buenas noches, España (2011, Raya Martin) – 7.5
Bestiaire (2012, Denis Côté) – 6.3
Coeur fidèle (1923, Jean Epstein) – 4.8
Les dames du Bois de Boulogne (1945, Robert Bresson) 35mm – 5.2
Gerhard Richter Painting (2011, Corinna Belz) Reel Artists, DP – 6.7
Thomas Ruff (2011, Ralph Goertz) Reel Artists, DP – 3.2
Mark Lewis: Nowhere Land (2011, Reinhard Wulf) Reel Artists, DP – 5.9
+Raising Arizona (1987, Joel Coen) 35mm – 6.9 [up from ~5.5]
Marina Abramovic: The Artist Is Present (2012, Matthew Akers) Reel Artists, DP – 5.1
Affliction (1997, Paul Schrader) 35mm – 4.4
March
Beyond the Hill (2012, Emin Alper) – 4.2
+Au Hasard Balthazar (1966, Robert Bresson) 35mm – 6.2 [up from ~4.5]
+Pickpocket (1959, Robert Bresson) 35mm – 5.7 [down from 5.9]
The Trial of Joan of Arc (1962, Robert Bresson) 35mm – 5.0
Modern Times (1936, Charles Chaplin) – 6.5
It’s the Earth Not the Moon (2011, Gonçalo Tocha) – 6.4
Neighboring Sounds (2012, Kleber Mendonça Filho) – 6.4
+Once Upon a Time in Anatolia (2011, Nuri Bilge Ceylan) 35mm – 7.7 [down from 7.9]
Knock on Any Door (1949, Nicholas Ray) 35mm – 5.8
Lancelot of the Lake (1974, Robert Bresson) 35mm – Inc. (~4.7) [frequent disruptions from drunk man]
The Young Girls of Rochefort (1967, Jacques Demy) 35mm – 6.6
A Gentle Woman (1969, Robert Bresson) 35mm – 6.8
A Woman’s Secret (1949, Nicholas Ray) 35mm – 4.9
Four Nights of a Dreamer (1971, Robert Bresson) 35mm – 7.1
Only Yesterday (1991, Isao Takahata) 35mm – 6.1
Tim and Eric’s Billion Dollar Movie (2012, Tim Heidecker & Eric Wareheim) – 3.6
+Kinatay (2009, Brillante Mendoza) – 5.7 [same]
+About Elly (2009, Asghar Farhadi) – 7.0 [same]
Whisper of the Heart (1995, Yoshifumi Kondô) 35mm – 5.8
The Grey (2011, Joe Carnahan) – 4.5
My Neighbor Totoro (1988, Hayao Miyazaki) 35mm – 5.2
Atomic Age (2012, Héléna Klotz) – 6.1
The Devil, Probably (1977, Robert Bresson) 35mm – 3.9
Woman in the Dunes (1964, Hiroshi Teshigahara) 35mm – 8.9
The Savage Innocents (1960, Nicholas Ray) 35mm – 6.9
L’Argent (1983, Robert Bresson) 35mm – 6.3
Porco Rosso (1992, Hayao Miyazaki) 35mm – 4.3
Detropia (2012, Heidi Ewing & Rachel Grady) – 5.5
The Lusty Men (1952, Nicholas Ray) 35mm – 6.8
Nana (2011, Valérie Massadian) – 5.4
Jane Eyre (2011, Cary Fukunaga) 35mm – 5.1
Our Dancing Daughters (1928, Harry Beaumont) Toronto Silent, 16mm – 5.0
Blood and Sand (1922, Fred Niblo) Toronto Silent, 16mm – 3.6
The Last Picture Show (1971, Peter Bogdanovich) DP – 7.9
April
Flying Leathernecks (1951, Nicholas Ray) 35mm – 5.0
Edward II (1991, Derek Jarman) 35mm – 3.1
+House of Tolerance (2011, Bertrand Bonello) – 8.5 [same]
Variety [US Cut] (1925, Ewald André Dupont) Toronto Silent, 16mm – 5.2
+Four Nights of a Dreamer (1971, Robert Bresson) 35mm – 8.3 [up from 7.1]
Lilies (1996, John Greyson) 35mm – 5.5
Princess Mononoke (1997, Hayao Miyazaki) 35mm – 5.6
Fireworks Wednesday (2006, Asghar Farhadi) 35mm – 4.8
The South (1983, Victor Erice) 35mm – Inc. (~6.0) [sound problem]
Ruggles of Red Gap (1935, Leo McCarey) 35mm – 7.3
+Killer of Sheep (1979, Charles Burnett) 35mm – 8.6 [up from ~6.0]
+The Pettifogger (2011, Lewis Klahr) Images, DP – 9.1 [up from 7.3]
Planet of Snail (2011, Seung-jun Yi) – 4.6
The Observers (2011, Jacqueline Goss) Images, DP – 5.1
What Is It? (2005, Crispin Glover) 35mm – 5.0
+Two Years at Sea (2011, Ben Rivers) Images, 35mm – 5.1 [same]
Death in Venice (1971, Luchino Visconti) 35mm – 7.0
The Queen of Versailles (2012, Lauren Greenfield) DP – 6.1
Wildness (2012, Wu Tsang) DP – 3.4
No, I am Not a Toad, I am a Turtle! (2012, Elke Marhöfer) Images, DP – 4.7
Happy People: A Year in the Taiga (2010, Dmitry Vasyukov & Werner Herzog) DP – 4.5
The Strawberry Tree (2011, Simone Rapisarda Casanova) Images, DP – 5.3
Florentina Hubaldo, CTE (2012, Lav Diaz) Images, DP – 5.8
Bottle Rocket (1996, Wes Anderson) – 6.3
A Town Called Panic (2009, Stéphane Aubier & Vincent Patar) – 5.8
Daniel & Ana (2009, Michel Franco) – 3.9
Chronicle (2012, Josh Trank) – 4.8
Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry (2012, Alison Klayman) Hot Docs, DP – 3.7
Ethel (2012, Rory Kennedy) Hot Docs, DP – 3.5
A.K. (1985, Chris Marker) Hot Docs, DP – 5.1
The Imposter (2012, Bart Layton) Hot Docs, DP – 6.6
All Divided Selves (2011, Luke Fowler) Hot Docs, DP – 4.2
There Is No Sexual Rapport (2011, Raphaël Siboni) Hot Docs, DP – 5.2
Jeff (2012, Chris James Thompson) Hot Docs, DP – 4.9
Soldier/Citizen (2012, Silvina Landesman) Hot Docs, DP – 5.5
Summer of Giacomo (2011, Alessandro Comodin) Hot Docs, DP – 6.2
May
Only The Young (2012, Elizabeth Mims & Jason Tippet) Hot Docs, DP – 6.3
Marley (2012, Kevin McDonald) Hot Docs, DP – 4.9
For Those Who Will Follow (1963, Michel Brault & Pierre Perrault) Hot Docs, DP – 4.7
Papirosen (2011, Gastón Solnicki) – 4.6
¡Vivan las Antipodas! (2011, Victor Kossakovsky) Hot Docs, DP – 4.5
The Law in These Parts (2011, Ra’anan Alexandrowicz) Hot Docs, DP – 2.3
Shut Up and Play the Hits (2012, Will Lovelace & Dylan Southern) Hot Docs, DP – 4.8
Tchoupitoulas (2012, Bill Ross IV & Turner Ross) Hot Docs, DP – 7.0
The Lovers on the Bridge (1991, Leos Carax) – 5.2
That Has Been (1984, Nicky Hamlyn) 16mm – 5.6
Frenzy (1972, Alfred Hitchcock) 35mm – 6.0
Moonrise Kingdom (2012, Wes Anderson) Cannes, DP – 4.8
After the Battle (2012, Yousry Nasrallah) Cannes, DP – 3.3
Rust and Bone (2012, Jacques Audiard) Cannes, DP – 4.4
Mystery (2012, Lou Ye) Cannes, DP – 5.3
Sister (2012, Ursula Meier) Cannes Marché du Film, DP – 6.7
Paradise: Love (2012, Ulrich Seidl) Cannes, DP – 5.6
The We and the I (2012, Michel Gondry) Cannes, DP – 4.9
Student (2012, Darezhan Omirbaev) Cannes, 35mm – 4.7
Reality (2012, Matteo Garrone) Cannes, 35mm – 6.0
Tabu (2012, Miguel Gomes) Cannes Marché du Film, DP – 6.5
Mekong Hotel (2012, Apichatpong Weerasethakul) Cannes, DP – 2.6
Beyond the Hills (2012, Cristian Mungiu) Cannes, DP – 8.2
Laurence Anyways (2012, Xavier Dolan) Cannes, 35mm – 6.9
Lawless (2012, John Hillcoat) Cannes, DP – 4.3
Antiviral (2012, Brandon Cronenberg) Cannes, DP – 3.9
38 Witnesses (2012, Lucas Belvaux) Cannes Marché du Film, DP – 6.0
Night Across the Street (2012, Raúl Ruiz) Cannes, DP – 5.4
Amour (2012, Michael Haneke) Cannes, DP – 6.6
In Another Country (2012, Hong Sang-soo) Cannes, 35mm – 6.3
The Invisible Ones (2012, Sébastien Lifshitz) Cannes, DP – 5.0
Like Someone in Love (2012, Abbas Kiarostami) Cannes, DP – 7.9
Confession of a Child of the Century (2012, Sylvie Verheyde) Cannes, DP – 4.8
You Ain’t Seen Nothin’ Yet! (2012, Alain Resnais) Cannes, DP – 5.3
The Pirogue (2012, Moussa Toure) Cannes, DP – 5.1
The Hunt (2012, Thomas Vinterberg) Cannes, DP – 5.8
The Angels’ Share (2012, Ken Loach) Cannes, 35mm – 6.1
Room 237 (2012, Rodney Ascher) Cannes, DP – 6.7
Killing Them Softly (2012, Andrew Dominik) Cannes, DP – 6.6
Journal de France (2012, Claudine Nougaret & Raymond Depardon) Cannes, DP – 4.9
Everybody in Our Family (2012, Radu Jude) Cannes Marché du Film, 35mm – 5.7
Holy Motors (2012, Leos Carax) Cannes, DP – 8.5
Our Children (2012, Joachim Lafosse) Cannes, DP – 4.7
Caesar Must Die (2012, Paolo & Vittorio Taviani) Cannes Marché du Film, DP – 5.5
The Dream and the Silence (2012, Jaime Rosales) Cannes, 35mm – 2.3
Children of Sarajevo (2012, Aida Begic) Cannes, 35mm – 4.1
Post Tenebras Lux (2012, Carlos Reygadas) Cannes, DP – 3.5
7 Days in Havana (2012, Benicio del Toro, Pablo Trapero, Julio Medem, Elia Suleiman, Juan Carlos Tabio, Gaspar Noé, & Laurent Cantet) Cannes, DP – 3.4
The Paperboy (2012, Lee Daniels) Cannes, DP – 4.5
Dangerous Liaisons (2012, Hur Jin-Ho) Cannes, DP – 3.1
Three Worlds (2012, Catherine Corsini) Cannes, DP – 4.6
In the Fog (2012, Sergei Loznitsa) Cannes, 35mm – 4.7
Sightseers (2012, Ben Wheatley) Cannes, DP – 6.5
Cosmopolis (2012, David Cronenberg) Cannes, DP – 7.1
Miss Lovely (2012, Ashim Ahluwalia) Cannes, DP – 4.9
After Lucía (2012, Michel Franco) Cannes, DP – 1.7
Aquí y allá (2012, Antonio Méndez Esparza) Cannes, DP – 4.3
+Holy Motors (2012, Leos Carax) Cannes, DP – 8.5 [same]
Mud (2012, Jeff Nichols) Cannes, DP – 5.2
Final Cut – Ladies & Gentlemen (2012, György Pálfi) Cannes, DP – 5.0
Gimme the Loot (2012, Adam Leon) Cannes, DP – 5.5
No (2012, Pablo Larraín) Cannes, DP – 6.4
On the Road (2012, Walter Salles) Cannes, DP – 4.6
+You Ain’t Seen Nothin’ Yet! (2012, Alain Resnais) Cannes, DP – 7.1 [up from 5.3]
+Amour (2012, Michael Haneke) Cannes, DP – 7.0 [up from 6.6]
+In Another Country (2012, Hong Sang-soo) Cannes, 35mm – 6.7 [up from 6.3]
The Taste of Money (2012, Im Sang-soo) Cannes, DP – 2.0
Quixote (1965, Bruce Baillie) 16mm – 6.8
June
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953, Howard Hawks) 35mm – 5.8
Tokyo! (2008, Michel Gondry, Leos Carax, & Bong Joon-ho) – 5.2
In the Family (2011, Patrick Wang) 35mm – 4.7
Flaming Creatures (1963, Jack Smith) Luminato, 16mm – 4.9
+Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter? (1957, Frank Tashlin) 35mm – 6.1 [up from 5.7]
Le Confessional (1995, Robert Lepage) Luminato, 35mm – 4.8
Some Like it Hot (1959, Billy Wilder) DP – 8.1
Wanderlust (2012, David Wain) – 5.6
Kiss Me Deadly (1955, Robert Aldrich) – 7.4
River of No Return (1954, Otto Preminger) 35mm – 4.8
Howards End (1992, James Ivory) 70mm – 5.9
The Remains of the Day (1993, James Ivory) 35mm – 6.8
+Rebecca (1940, Alfred Hitchcock) 35mm – 6.9 [up from ~5.0]
+Tabloid (2010, Errol Morris) – 6.5 [down from 7.1]
+Daïnah la métisse (1932, Jean Grémillon) – 7.6 [down from 8.0]
+Superstar: The Karen Carpenter Story (1988, Todd Haynes) – 7.8 [down from 8.3]
Nanook of the North [live score by Tanya Tagaq] (1922, Robert J. Flaherty) 35mm – 5.0
Polytechnique [French version] (2009, Denis Villeneuve) – 4.3
Atanarjuat: The Fast Runner (2001, Zacharias Kunuk) 35mm – 5.3
Port of Shadows (1938, Marcel Carné) DP – 5.7
+Cosmopolis (2012, David Cronenberg) DP – 7.2 [up from 7.1]
The Militant Suffragette (1913, Urban Gad) – 6.2
The ABC of Love (1916, Magnus Stifter) – 5.4
The Eskimo Baby (1918, Heinz Schall) – 4.3
The Queen of the Stock Exchange (1918, Edmund Edel) – 4.9
+Two Lovers (2008, James Gray) – 7.0 [up from ~5.5]
July
How to Marry a Millionaire (1953, Jean Negulesco) 35mm – 5.5
Bombay Talkie (1970, James Ivory) 35mm – 3.9
Project X (2012, Nima Nourizadeh) – 5.1
Out of Sight (1998, Steven Soderbergh) – 6.4
Dances with Wolves (1990, Kevin Costner) 35mm – 4.6
+Jaws (1975, Steven Spielberg) DP – 6.5 [~same]
Brave (2012, Mark Andrews & Brenda Chapman) 3D – 5.3
Your Sister’s Sister (2011, Lynn Shelton) DP – 4.9
Magic Mike (2012, Steven Soderbergh) 35mm – 5.4
The Exiles (1961, Kent Mackenzie) 35mm – 6.3
Picnic (1955, Joshua Logan) 35mm – 6.9
Shakespeare Wallah (1965, James Ivory) 35mm – 4.9
Charulata: The Lonely Wife (1964, Satyajit Ray) 35mm – 6.0
+Margaret [Extended Cut] (2011, Kenneth Lonergan) – 8.8 [Theatrical Cut: 7.5]
Danube Hospital (2012, Nikolaus Geyrhalter) – 5.4
Beasts of the Southern Wild (2012, Benh Zeitlin) DP – 3.8
Grand Illusion (1937, Jean Renoir) DP – 5.8
+The Rules of the Game (1939, Jean Renoir) 35mm – 7.4 [up from 6.9]
French Cancan (1954, Jean Renoir) DP – 4.4
+Tchoupitoulas (2012, Bill Ross IV & Turner Ross) – 7.0 [same]
Touch of Evil [Reconstructed Version] (1958, Orson Welles) 35mm – 7.9
+’Rameau’s Nephew’ by Diderot (Thanx to Dennis Young) by Wilma Schoen (1974, Michael Snow) – 8.2 [same]
Army of Shadows (1969, Jean-Pierre Melville) 35mm – 5.5
Stormy Waters (1941, Jean Grémillon) 35mm – 8.1
Lumière d’été (1943, Jean Grémillon) 35mm – 5.3
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 (2010, David Yates) – 5.2
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 (2011, David Yates) – 5.0
The Dark Knight Rises (2012, Christopher Nolan) 70mm – 5.5
Savages (2012, Oliver Stone) DP – 5.2
August
Bernie (2011, Richard Linklater) DP – 6.0
The Unfaithful Wife (1969, Claude Chabrol) – 6.2
Imitation of Life (1959, Douglas Sirk) 35mm – 7.0
+Celine and Julie Go Boating (1974, Jacques Rivette) 35mm – 8.3 [~same]
Inori (2012, Pedro González-Rubio) – 4.2
+Breathless (1960, Jean-Luc Godard) 35mm – 5.9 [~same]
Compliance (2012, Craig Zobel) DP – 5.8
2 or 3 Things I Know About Her (1967, Jean-Luc Godard) 35mm – 6.6
The Europeans (1979, James Ivory) 35mm – 3.7
The Age of Innocence (1993, Martin Scorsese) 35mm – 6.0
The Perks of Being a Wallflower (2012, Stephen Chbosky) DP – 4.0
All That You Possess (2012, Bernard Émond) DP – 5.1
Tower (2012, Kazik Radwanski) – 6.8
A Liar’s Autobiography – The Untrue Story of Monty Python’s Graham Chapman (2012, Bill Jones, Jeff Simpson, & Ben Timlett) 3D – 5.3
+Weekend (1967, Jean-Luc Godard) 35mm – 6.5 [up from 5.8]
Memories Look at Me (2012, Fang Song) – 5.5
+Muriel, or The Time of Return (1963, Alain Resnais) 35mm – 5.6 [same]
The Inner Scar (1972, Philippe Garrel) – 6.9
When Night Falls (2012, Ying Liang) – 6.2
Cleo from 5 to 7 (1962, Agnès Varda) 35mm – 7.0
Anna Karenina (2012, Joe Wright) DP – 5.0
Looper (2012, Rian Johnson) DP – 6.4
Pusher (2012, Luis Prieto) DP – 3.9
In the House (2012, François Ozon) DP – 4.4
Hyde Park on Hudson (2012, Roger Michell) DP – 3.4
+All is Forgiven (2007, Mia Hansen-Løve) 35mm – 6.7 [up from ~5.5]
West of Memphis (2012, Amy Berg) DP – 5.9
The Cloud-Capped Star (1960, Ritwik Ghatak) DP – 4.7
+The Father of My Children (2009, Mia Hansen-Løve) 35mm – 6.2 [up from 5.5]
A Child in the Crowd (1976, Gérard Blain) 35mm – 6.1
Van Gogh (1991, Maurice Pialat) 35mm – 6.6
Motorway (2012, Soi Cheang) – 4.3
The Green Ray (1986, Eric Rohmer) 35mm – 7.5
The Mother and the Whore (1973, Jean Eustache) 35mm – 7.6
Jackie (2012, Antoinette Beumer) DP – 5.1
Leviathan (2012, Lucien Castaing-Taylor & Véréna Paravel) DP – 8.1
The Secret Disco Revolution (2012, Jamie Kastner) 35mm – 4.2
Foxfire: Confessions of a Girl Gang (2012, Laurent Cantet) DP – 4.0
Jump (2012, Kieron J. Walsh) DP – 2.4
I Declare War (2012, Jason Lapeyre & Robert Wilson) DP – 5.3
Imagine (2012, Andrzej Jakimowski) 35mm – 4.3
Berberian Sound Studio (2012, Peter Strickland) 35mm – 6.3
Blackbird (2012, Jason Buxton) DP – 4.9
London – The Modern Babylon (2012, Julien Temple) DP – 2.9
At Any Price (2012, Ramin Bahrani) DP – 2.6
Lore (2012, Cate Shortland) DP – 4.8
Gone Fishing (2012, Carlos Sorin) DP – 5.4
Thomas the Imposter (1965, Georges Franju) 35mm – 4.9
Mademoiselle (1966, Tony Richardson) 35mm – 5.8
The Gatekeepers (2012, Dror Moreh) DP – 5.2
Ship of Theseus (2012, Anand Gandhi) DP – 4.8
The Central Park Five (2012, Ken Burns, David McMahon & Sarah Burns) DP – 5.6
+Play Time (1967, Jacques Tati) 70mm – 9.5 [same]
September
Therese (1962, Georges Franju) 35mm – 4.7
Elevator to the Gallows (1958, Louis Malle) 35mm – 6.5
The Iceman (2012, Ariel Vromen) DP – 5.0
The Company You Keep (2012, Robert Redford) DP – 4.5
Silver Linings Playbook (2012, David O. Russell) DP – 5.7
+In Another Country (2012, Hong Sang-soo) TIFF, 35mm – 6.7 [same]
Kinshasa Kids (2012, Marc-Henri Wajnberg) TIFF, DP – 2.3
+Like Someone in Love (2012, Abbas Kiarostami) TIFF, DP – 7.9 [same]
Pieta (2012, Kim Ki-duk) TIFF, DP – 4.1
The End of Time (2012, Peter Mettler) TIFF, DP – 3.6
Spring Breakers (2012, Harmony Korine) TIFF, DP – 6.9
Ernest & Celestine (2012, Benjamin Renner, Vincent Patar, & Stéphane Aubier) TIFF, DP – 4.9
Something in the Air (2012, Olivier Assayas) TIFF, DP – 4.5
The Place Beyond the Pines (2012, Derek Cianfrance) TIFF, DP – 2.8
Lines of Wellington (2012, Valeria Sarmiento) TIFF, DP – 3.6
differently, Molussia (2012, Nicolas Rey) TIFF, 16mm – 6.0
The Lebanese Rocket Society (2012, Joana Hadji Thomas & Khalil Joreige) TIFF, DP – 4.6
Much Ado About Nothing (2012, Joss Whedon) TIFF, DP – 5.8
The Act of Killing (2012, Joshua Oppenheimer, Christine Cynn, & Anonymous) TIFF, DP – 5.0
Passion (2012, Brian De Palma) TIFF, DP – 4.7
Museum Hours (2012, Jem Cohen) TIFF, DP – 5.2
The Master (2012, Paul Thomas Anderson) TIFF, 70mm – 6.1
Once Upon a Time Was I, Verônica (2012, Marcelo Gomes) TIFF, 35mm – 4.8
Viola (2012, Matías Piñeiro) TIFF, DP – 5.9
Capital (2012, Costa-Gavras) TIFF, DP – 4.3
Blancanieves (2012, Pablo Berger) TIFF, DP – 4.9
Ginger and Rosa (2012, Sally Potter) TIFF, DP – 4.9
The Last Time I Saw Macao (2012, João Pedro Rodrigues & João Rui Guerra da Mata) TIFF, DP – 6.1
Augustine (2012, Alice Winocour) TIFF, DP – 6.5
To the Wonder (2012, Terrence Malick) TIFF, DP – 7.1
The Pervert’s Guide to Ideology (2012, Sophie Fiennes) TIFF, DP – 5.8
Three Sisters (2012, Wang Bing) TIFF, DP – 4.0
+Beyond the Hills (2012, Cristian Mungiu) TIFF, DP – 7.4 [down from 8.2]
+Leviathan (2012, Lucien Castaing-Taylor & Véréna Paravel) TIFF, DP – 8.1 [same]
Fill the Void (2012, Rama Burshtein) TIFF, DP – 4.8
A Hijacking (2012, Tobias Lindholm) TIFF, DP – 6.6
Dormant Beauty (2012, Marco Bellocchio) TIFF, DP – 4.8
+Student (2012, Darezhan Omirbayev) TIFF, DP – 5.4 [up from 4.7]
Fly With the Crane (2012, Li Ruijun) TIFF, DP – 5.3
Barbara (2012, Christian Petzold) TIFF, 35mm – 6.4
Blondie (2012, Jesper Ganslandt) TIFF, DP – 4.5
La Sirga (2012, William Vega) TIFF, DP – 4.4
3 (2012, Pablo Stoll Ward) TIFF, 35mm – 5.6
Jayne Mansfield’s Car (2012, Billy Bob Thornton) TIFF, DP – 5.7
Eat Sleep Die (2012, Gabriela Pichler) TIFF, DP – 6.8
Frances Ha (2012, Noah Baumbach) TIFF, DP – 7.0
The Cremator (2012, Peng Tao) TIFF, DP – 3.9
Just the Wind (2012, Bence Fliegauf) TIFF, 35mm – 5.5
Nights with Theodore (2012, Sébastien Betbeder) TIFF, DP – 4.6
Yellow (2012, Nick Cassavetes) TIFF, DP – 3.4
+Post Tenebras Lux [TIFF cut] (2012, Carlos Reygadas) TIFF, DP – 6.1 [Cannes cut: 3.5]
Gebo and the Shadow (2012, Manoel de Oliveira) TIFF, DP – 6.2
+Viola (2012, Matías Piñeiro) – 7.2 [up from 5.9]
+Laurence Anyways (2012, Xavier Dolan) DP – 6.9 [same]
+Tabu (2012, Miguel Gomes) DP – 6.5 [same]
The Dead Man and Being Happy (2012, Javier Rebollo) – 5.9
The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog (1927, Alfred Hitchcock) – 6.8
War Witch (2012, Kim Nguyen) DP – 4.6
Lifeboat (1944, Alfred Hitchcock) – 6.6
Meet Me in St. Louis (1944, Vincente Minnelli) – 8.5
The Unknown (1927, Tod Browning) 35mm – 6.0
Somebody Up There Likes Me (2012, Bob Byington) – 6.9
+A.I. Artificial Intelligence (2001, Steven Spielberg) – 8.4 [~same]
Our Hospitality (1923, John G. Blystone & Buster Keaton) – 8.0
October
+The Elephant Man (1980, David Lynch) – 7.3 [~same]
Nobody Walks (2012, Ry Russo-Young) DP – 2.7
+The Master (2012, Paul Thomas Anderson) 70mm – 7.6 [up from 6.1]
John Cassavetes (1969, Hubert Knapp & André S. Labarthe) NYFF, 35mm – 5.6
Araf – Somewhere in Between (2012, Yeşim Ustaoğlu) NYFF, DP – 5.0
Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion (1970, Elio Petri) DP – 5.4
“EMPIRE” (2008, Phil Solomon) NYFF, DP – 6.5
Age Is… (2012, Stephen Dwoskin) NYFF, DP – 4.6
The Blind Owl (1990, Raúl Ruiz) NYFF, 16mm – 7.1
Circle in the Sand (2012, Michael Robinson) NYFF, DP – 5.5
The Extravagant Shadows (2012, David Gatten) NYFF, DP – 6.3
+Passion (2012, Brian De Palma) NYFF, DP – 5.7 [up from 4.7]
+Mekong Hotel (2012, Apichatpong Weerasethakul) NYFF, DP – 2.6 [same]
Once Every Day (2012, Richard Foreman) NYFF, DP – 4.7
small roads (2011, James Benning) NYFF, DP – 7.5
Bwakaw (2012, Jun Robles Lana) NYFF, DP – 3.0
Fragments of Kubelka (2012, Martina Kudlácek) NYFF, DP – 6.1
Chantal Akerman by Chantal Akerman (1997, Chantal Akerman) NYFF, DP – 4.4
Philippe Garrel, Artist (1999, Françoise Etchegaray) NYFF, DP – 3.5
+Eraserhead (1977, David Lynch) 35mm – 9.0 [up from ~8.0]
The Forgiveness of Blood (2011, Joshua Marston) – 5.3
Letter from an Unknown Woman (1948, Max Ophüls) – 6.8
+Dial M for Murder (1954, Alfred Hitchcock) 3D – 8.1 [down from 8.4]
Marvel’s The Avengers (2012, Joss Whedon) – 4.1
La Promesse (1996, Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne) – 7.3
Cloud Atlas (2012, Andy & Lana Wachowski & Tom Tykwer) DP – 4.4
Lonesome (1928, Paul Fejos) – 5.5
+The Mist (2007, Frank Darabont) – 5.2 [~same]
November
Broadway (1929, Paul Fejos) – 4.3
The Last Performance (1929, Paul Fejos) – 5.1
The Game (1997, David Fincher) – 7.8
Flight (2012, Robert Zemeckis) DP – 4.5
Vamps (2012, Amy Heckerling) – 6.2
It May Be That Beauty Has Strengthened Our Resolve: Masao Adachi (2011, Philippe Grandrieux) DP – 4.0
The Three Stooges (2012, Peter & Bobby Farrelly) – 5.4
Greatest Hits (2012, Nicolás Pereda) DP – 6.1
The Rose King (1986, Werner Schroeter) 35mm – 6.4
Malina (1991, Werner Schroeter) 35mm – 4.7
+Holy Motors (2012, Leos Carax) – 8.5 [same]
Eika Katappa (1969, Werner Schroeter) 35mm – 5.6
+Vertigo (1958, Alfred Hitchcock) – 8.8 [same]
Titicut Follies (1967, Frederick Wiseman) 16mm – 7.7
+Dogtooth (2009, Giorgos Lanthimos) – 8.2 [same]
Palermo or Wolfsburg (1980, Werner Schroeter) 35mm – 5.8
The Light of Asia (1925, Franz Osten) 35mm – 3.6
The Blue Angel (1930, Josef von Sternberg) 35mm – 6.5
+Gummo (1997, Harmony Korine) – 6.3 [~same]
Julien Donkey-Boy (1999, Harmony Korine) – 5.9
the war (2012, James Benning) – 6.0
Dress Rehearsal (1980, Werner Schroeter) DP – 5.2
Carriage Trade (1971, Warren Sonbert) 16mm – 5.7
+Trash Humpers (2009, Harmony Korine) – 4.6 [up from 2.5]
Where the Boys Are (1960, Henry Levin) – 4.9
The Ipcress File (1965, Sidney J. Furie) 35mm – 5.4
All Things Were Now Overtaken by Silence (2010, Nicolás Pereda) DP – 3.3
The Corridor (1995, Sharunas Bartas) 35mm – 6.5
The Death of Maria Malibran (1972, Werner Schroeter) 35mm – 5.5
Great Expectations (1946, David Lean) 35mm – 5.9
+La moustache (2005, Emmanuel Carrère) – 7.6 [up from 7.5]
Day of the Idiots (1981, Werner Schroeter) DP – 2.8
The Great Cinema Party (2012, Raya Martin) – 5.6
December
The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974, Tobe Hooper) DP – 7.4
Goldflocken (1976, Werner Schroeter) DP – 4.3
Promised Land (2012, Gus Van Sant) DP – 4.2
Lincoln (2012, Steven Spielberg) DP – 4.6
It’s Such a Beautiful Day (2012, Don Hertzfeldt) – 6.6
Blood of My Blood [Extended Cut] (2011, João Canijo) – 5.1
Audrey the Trainwreck (2010, Frank V. Ross) – 5.7
Goon (2011, Michael Dowse) – 5.5
Generation P (2011, Victor Ginzburg) – 4.6
Django (1966, Sergio Corbucci) DP – Inc. (~4.4) [‘Accidentally’ projected w/English dub track at press screening]
Life of Pi (2012, Ang Lee) 3D – 6.3
Willow Springs (1973, Werner Schroeter) DP – 5.0
The Suicide Shop (2012, Patrice Leconte) 3D – 3.2
Django Unchained (2012, Quentin Tarantino) DP – 6.4
The Cabin in the Woods (2011, Drew Goddard) – 4.7
Zero Dark Thirty (2012, Kathryn Bigelow) DP – 5.7
The Sheik and I (2012, Caveh Zahedi) – 5.5
+The Loneliest Planet (2011, Julia Loktev) – 6.6 [down from 7.2]
Haywire (2011, Steven Soderbergh) – 5.8
+Elena (2011, Andrey Zvyagintsev) – 7.1 [same]
+This is Not a Film (2011, Jafar Panahi & Mojtaba Mirtahmasb) – 6.9 [same]
+The Imposter (2012, Bart Layton) – 7.0 [up from 6.6]
Red Hook Summer (2012, Spike Lee) – 5.9
+The Day He Arrives (2011, Hong Sang-soo) – 6.5 [down from 7.0]
+Cinderella (1950, Clyde Geronimi, Wilfred Jackson, & Hamilton Luske) – 4.4 [down ~6.5]
El Valley Centro (1999, James Benning) – 6.8
+Los (2001, James Benning) – 6.3 [same]
Sogobi (2002, James Benning) – 5.8