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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 [or – more likely now – that’s the only “print” the studio was willing to send out].
*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 contender] A 8.6 - 9.3 [Masterpiece] A- 7.8 - 8.5 [Great; Near-masterpiece] B+ 7.0 - 7.7 [Near-great; Contender for Top 10 of its year] B 6.2 - 6.9 [Has a special something] B- 5.4 - 6.1 [Solid] C+ 4.6 - 5.3 [Decent, but flawed] C 3.8 - 4.5 [Forgettable; Mediocre] C- 3.0 - 3.7 [What a failure] D+ 2.2 - 2.9 [What-a-failure with cheese] D 1.4 - 2.1 [Grating] D- 0.6 - 1.3 [Offensively horrific; Horrifically offensive] F 0.0 - 0.5 [Worst of All Time consideration]
January
American Hustle (2013, David O. Russell) DP – 4.8
Enough Said (2013, Nicole Holofcener) – 6.3
+City Lights (1931, Charles Chaplin) – 6.9 [down from ~8.5]
The Conjuring (2013, James Wan) – 4.0
Ossessione (1943, Luchino Visconti) – 5.1
+Contempt (1963, Jean-Luc Godard) DP – 6.6 [same]
Cocksucker Blues (1972, Robert Frank) DP – 6.9
Candyman (1992, Bernard Rose) – 3.4
+Inside Llewyn Davis (2013, Joel & Ethan Coen) DP – 6.5 [same]
The Minister (2011, Pierre Schöller) – 4.9
White Reindeer (2013, Zach Clark) – 4.8
The Rocket (2013, Kim Mordaunt) – 3.8
Ain’t Them Bodies Saints (2013, David Lowery) – 4.5
Pépé le Moko (1937, Julien Duvivier) – 5.4
Old Dog (2011, Pema Tseden) – 5.4
About Time (2013, Richard Curtis) – 4.9
Paradise: Faith (2012, Ulrich Seidl) – 6.0
Paradise: Hope (2013, Ulrich Seidl) – 5.5
First Cousin Once Removed (2012, Alan Berliner) – 6.1
The Dallas Buyers Club (2013, Jean-Marc Vallée) – 5.2
eXistenZ (1999, David Cronenberg) 35mm – 6.7
Scanners (1981, David Cronenberg) 35mm – 5.3
Sheep (2013, Gilles Deroo & Marianne Pistone) – 7.1
Double Play: James Benning and Richard Linklater (2013, Gabe Klinger) – 6.3
+Frances Ha (2012, Noah Baumbach) – 7.4 [up from 7.0]
The Bandit (1946, Alberto Lattuada) – 4.7
Frankenstein (1931, James Whale) 16mm – 5.8
The Bride of Frankenstein (1935, James Whale) 16mm – 7.0
+Friday Night (2002, Claire Denis) – 6.4 [same]
Le Petit soldat (1963, Jean-Luc Godard) 35mm – 5.6
Business is Business (1971, Paul Verhoeven) 35mm – Inc. [awful English dub]
+A Woman is a Woman (1961, Jean-Luc Godard) 35mm – 5.1 [down from ~7.5]
Story of a Love Affair (1950, Michelangelo Antonioni) – 4.3
+The Counselor [Unrated Extended Cut] (2013, Ridley Scott) – 6.9 [Theatrical Cut: 6.4]
Sentimental Education (2013, Júlio Bressane) – 6.7
The Carabineers (1963, Jean-Luc Godard) 35mm – 4.7
Charlie Victor Romeo (2013, Robert Berger, Patrick Daniels, & Karlyn Michelson) – 5.3
Katie Tippel (1975, Paul Verhoeven) 35mm – 4.9
February
Band of Outsiders (1964, Jean-Luc Godard) 35mm – 5.7
Body and Soul (1925, Oscar Micheaux) 35mm – 5.4
Funny Ha Ha (2002, Andrew Bujalski) 35mm – 6.2
Mr. Arkadin [Comprehensive Version] (1955, Orson Welles) – 4.5
Mutual Appreciation (2005, Andrew Bujalski) 35mm – 4.8
+The Counselor [Unrated Extended Cut] (2013, Ridley Scott) – 6.9 [same]
Masculin Féminin (1966, Jean-Luc Godard) 35mm – 6.0
+Berlin: Symphony of a Great City (1927, Walter Ruttmann) – 5.7 [up from 5.2]
Made in U.S.A. (1966, Jean-Luc Godard) 35mm – 4.9
+The Talented Mr. Ripley (1999, Anthony Minghella) – 5.9 [~same]
Far from Vietnam (1967, Alain Resnais, William Klein, Joris Ivens, Agnès Varda, Claude Lelouch, Jean-Luc Godard, & Chris Marker) DP – 7.2
+In the City of Sylvia (2007, José Luis Guerín) – 8.7 [~same]
Purple Noon (1960, René Clément) – 6.1
We Are the Best! (2013, Lukas Moodysson) – 5.8
La Chinoise (1967, Jean-Luc Godard) 35mm – 5.0
Six in Paris (1965, Jean Douchet, Jean Rouch, Jean-Daniel Pollet, Eric Rohmer, Jean-Luc Godard, & Claude Chabrol) – 5.9
+M (1931, Fritz Lang) – 7.8 [same]
+Birth (2004, Jonathan Glazer) – 7.1 [down from 7.5]
Sexy Beast (2000, Jonathan Glazer) – 5.1
The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014, Wes Anderson) DP – 7.3
Age of Panic (2013, Justine Triet) – 5.5
The Lady from Shanghai (1947, Orson Welles) DP – 6.1
+Only Lovers Left Alive (2013, Jim Jarmusch) – 7.0 [up from 6.4]
The Great Dictator (1940, Charles Chaplin) 35mm – 6.2
The Fourth Man (1983, Paul Verhoeven) 35mm – 5.8
Two Rode Together (1961, John Ford) 35mm – 5.9
45365 (2009, Bill Ross IV & Turner Ross) – 6.5
Destiny (1921, Fritz Lang) 16mm – 5.2
+Upstream Color (2013, Shane Carruth) – 6.9 [same]
The Grim Reaper (1962, Bernardo Bertolucci) – 6.3
Moonfleet (1955, Fritz Lang) 35mm – 5.4
Journey to the West (2014, Tsai Ming-liang) – 7.2
+The Bride of Frankenstein (1935, James Whale) 16mm – Inc. [awful sound on print; still ~7.0]
March
+A Prophet (2009, Jacques Audiard) – 4.8 [same]
The Lego Movie (2014, Phil Lord. & Christopher Miller) 3D – 5.4
+Disorder (2009, Huang Weikai) – 7.1 [up from 6.7]
Nymphomaniac: Volume I (2013, Lars von Trier) DP – 5.6
Nymphomaniac: Volume II (2013, Lars von Trier) DP – 7.4 [Rating for the combined film]
Stemple Pass (2012, James Benning) DP – 6.0
+Make Way for Tomorrow (1937, Leo McCarey) – 7.8 [same]
+Bad Education (2004, Pedro Almodóvar) – 5.5 [down from ~7.0]
Life of Riley (2014, Alain Resnais) – 6.2
The Second Game (2014, Corneliu Porumboiu) – 5.3
A Month in Thailand (2012, Paul Negoescu) – 6.6
Showgirls (1995, Paul Verhoeven) 35mm – 5.9
+Once Upon a Time in Anatolia (2011, Nuri Bilge Ceylan) – 7.7 [same]
The Hawks and the Sparrows (1966, Pier Paolo Pasolini) 35mm – 4.2
+Dogtooth (2009, Yorgos Lanthimos) – 8.2 [same]
+Disorder (2009, Huang Weikai) – 7.1 [same]
The Decameron (1971, Pier Paolo Pasolini) 35mm – 6.1
The Canterbury Tales (1972, Pier Paolo Pasolini) 35mm – 3.3
Arabian Nights (1974, Pier Paolo Pasolini) 35mm – 4.9
Snowpiercer (2013, Bong Joon-ho) – 6.6
+Ajami (2009, Scandar Copti & Yaron Shani) – 3.8 [~same]
Love Meetings (1964, Pier Paolo Pasolini) 35mm – 5.3
The Overnighters (2014, Jesse Moss) – 5.7
+Chungking Express (1994, Wong Kar-wai) – 7.0 [~same]
+Journey to the West (2014, Tsai Ming-liang) – 7.2 [same]
Nô (1998, Robert Lepage) 35mm – 5.5
April
Kasbah (2000, Mariano Barroso) – 2.9
Noah (2014, Darren Aronofsky) DP – 6.3
The Wind (1928, Victor Sjöström) Toronto Silent, 16mm – 5.8
The Stolen Man (2007, Matías Piñeiro) DP – 5.9
Porcile (1969, Pier Paolo Pasolini) 35mm – 4.6
Rosalinda (2011, Matías Piñeiro) DP – 6.0
+Viola (2012, Matías Piñeiro) DP – 7.2 [same]
Actress (2014, Robert Greene) – 6.0
Joy of Man’s Desiring (2014, Denis Côté) – 5.6
The Vanquishing of the Witch Baba Yaga (2014, Jessica Oreck) – 5.6
Guidelines (2014, Jean-François Caissy) – 5.0
The Possibilities Are Endless (2014, James Hall & Edward Lovelace) – 5.9
The Immortalists (2014, David Alvarado & Jason Sussberg) – 4.7
+Beetlejuice (1988, Tim Burton) – 6.4 [down from ~7.4]
Concerning Violence (2014, Göran Olsson) – 3.9
Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom (1975, Pier Paolo Pasolini) 35mm – 5.0
The Songs of Rice (2014, Uruphong Raksasad) – 5.3
Sorcerer (1977, William Friedkin) DP – 7.6
A Dirty Story (1977, Jean Eustache) Images, 35mm – 6.8
Acadia Acadia?!? (1971, Michel Brault) DP – 6.7
+Julia (2008, Erick Zonca) – 7.3 [down from ~7.5]
Lucía (1968, Humberto Solás) 35mm – 6.4
+Dusty Stacks of Mom: The Poster Project (2013, Jodie Mack) – 8.6 [up from 8.3]
Miraculous Tales (2013, Daniel Vernon) – 4.9
Proxy (2013, Zack Parker) – 5.8
Enemy (2013, Denis Villeneuve) – 4.7
Portrait of Jason (1967, Shirley Clarke) Hot Docs, 35mm – 5.5
Happy Valley (2014, Amir Bar-Lev) Hot Docs, DP – 5.6
May
Art and Craft (2014, Jennifer Grausman & Sam Cullman) Hot Docs, DP – 5.4
Ida (2013, Pawel Pawlikowski) – 5.2
See No Evil (2014, Jos de Putter) – 5.9
Rich Hill (2014, Andrew Droz Palermo & Tracy Droz Tragos) – 5.8
The Great Escape (1963, John Sturges) DP – 6.2
Je t’aime je t’aime (1968, Alain Resnais) 35mm – 7.5
+A Month in Thailand (2012, Paul Negoescu) DP – 7.2 [up from 6.6]
M (1951, Joseph Losey) 35mm – 5.1
Too Much Johnson (1938, Orson Welles) 35mm – 6.9
The Magnificent Ambersons (1942, Orson Welles) 35mm – 7.8
Grace of Monaco (2014, Olivier Dahan) Cannes, DP – 2.9
Timbuktu (2014, Abderrahmane Sissako) Cannes, DP – 6.0
Mr. Turner (2014, Mike Leigh) Cannes, DP – 5.5
Party Girl (2014, Marie Amachoukeli, Claire Burger, & Samuel Theis) Cannes, DP – 5.1
Darker Than Midnight (2014, Sebastiano Riso) Cannes, DP – 4.3
Girlhood (2014, Celine Sciamma) Cannes, DP – 4.5
The Captive (2014, Atom Egoyan) Cannes, DP – 4.7
The Blue Room (2014, Mathieu Amalric) Cannes, DP – 5.3
Winter Sleep (2014, Nuri Bilge Ceylan) Cannes, DP – 6.4
Wild Tales (2014, Damián Szifron) Cannes, DP – 5.3
Amour fou (2014, Jessica Hausner) Cannes, DP – 7.1
Saint Laurent (2014, Bertrand Bonello) Cannes, DP – 6.3
National Gallery (2014, Frederick Wiseman) Cannes, DP – 7.5
Welcome to New York (2014, Abel Ferrara) Cannes Marché du Film, DP – 6.6
It Follows (2014, David Robert Mitchell) Cannes, DP – 5.9
Force Majeure (2014, Ruben Östlund) Cannes, DP – 6.0
Beautiful Youth (2014, Jaime Rosales) Cannes, DP – 4.8
Jauja (2014, Lisandro Alonso) Cannes, DP – 5.6
Maps to the Stars (2014, David Cronenberg) Cannes, DP – 4.0
Eat Your Bones (2014, Jean-Charles Hue) Cannes, DP – 6.1
A Girl at My Door (2014, July Jung) Cannes, DP – 4.6
The Wonders (2014, Alice Rohrwacher) Cannes, DP – 6.2
Bird People (2014, Pascale Ferran) Cannes, DP – 4.8
Still the Water (2014, Naomi Kawase) Cannes, DP – 3.6
When Animals Dream (2014, Jonas Alexander Arnby) Cannes, DP – 4.1
Two Days, One Night (2014, Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne) Cannes, DP – 6.8
Foxcatcher (2014, Bennett Miller) Cannes, DP – 4.9
The Kindergarten Teacher (2014, Nadav Lapid) Cannes, DP – 6.5
Queen and Country (2014, John Boorman) Cannes, DP – 5.5
The Girl and the River (2014, Aurélia Georges) Cannes, DP – 3.0
Lost River (2014, Ryan Gosling) Cannes, DP – 3.9
The Search (2014, Michel Hazanavicius) Cannes, DP – 4.2
Maïdan (2014, Sergei Loznitsa) Cannes, DP – 5.9
Goodbye to Language (2014, Jean-Luc Godard) Cannes, 3D – 9.9
Mommy (2014, Xavier Dolan) Cannes, DP – 4.8
Snow in Paradise (2014, Andrew Hulme) Cannes, DP – 4.4
Jimmy’s Hall (2014, Ken Loach) Cannes, DP – 5.1
Alleluia (2014, Fabrice Du Welz) Cannes, DP – 6.9
+Goodbye to Language (2014, Jean-Luc Godard) Cannes, 3D – 9.9 [same]
Leviathan (2014, Andrei Zvyagintsev) Cannes, DP – 4.0
Misunderstood (2014, Asia Argento) Cannes, DP – 5.3
Clouds of Sils Maria (2014, Olivier Assayas) Cannes, DP – 6.4
The Tribe (2014, Myroslav Slaboshpytskiy) Cannes, DP – 5.4
Hippocrates (2014, Thomas Lilti) Cannes, DP – 3.6
White God (2014, Kornél Mundruczó) Cannes, DP – 3.2
Li’l Quinquin (2014, Bruno Dumont) Cannes, DP – 6.5
Run (2014, Philippe Lacôte) Cannes, DP – 4.9
The Salvation (2014, Kristian Levring) Cannes, DP – 5.2
Red Army (2014, Polsky Gabe) Cannes, DP – 4.2
The Homesman (2014, Tommy Lee Jones) Cannes, DP – 5.8
+Goodbye to Language (2014, Jean-Luc Godard) Cannes, 3D – 9.9 [same]
The Salt of the Earth (2014, Wim Wenders & Juliano Ribeiro Salgado) Cannes, DP – 4.3
Coming Home (2014, Zhang Yimou) Cannes, DP – 3.5
In the Name of My Daughter (2014, André Téchiné) Cannes, DP – 6.2
+12 Angry Men (1957, Sidney Lumet) – 8.3 [~same]
Silvered Water, Syria Self-Portrait (2014, Ossama Mohammed) – 6.1
The Lord’s Ride (2010, Jean-Charles Hue) – 5.4
Futuro Beach (2014, Karim Aïnouz) Inside Out, DP – 5.2
Lucky Them (2013, Megan Griffiths) – 5.7
June
+Film Socialisme (2010, Jean-Luc Godard) – 6.3 [down from 7.1]
+The Kid with a Bike (2011, Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne) – 6.5 [same]
Locke (2013, Steven Knight) DP – 4.5
+Sheep (2013, Gilles Deroo & Marianne Pistone) – 7.1 [same]
Illumination (1973, Krzysztof Zanussi) DP – 5.9
Camouflage (1977, Krzysztof Zanussi) DP – 5.3
Mercuriales (2014, Virgil Vernier) – 5.0
L for Leisure (2014, Lev Kalman & Whitney Horn) – 5.5
+Nashville (1975, Robert Altman) – 9.4 [same]
What Now? Remind Me (2013, Joaquim Pinto) – 5.2
Cremaster 4 (1995, Matthew Barney) 35mm – 4.4
Cremaster 5 (1997, Matthew Barney) 35mm – 5.4
Ashes and Diamonds (1958, Andrzej Wajda) DP – 4.1
Opening Night (1977, John Cassavetes) – 7.0
The Marquise of O (1976, Eric Rohmer) – 8.1
Man of Iron (1981, Andrzej Wajda) DP – 3.3
Coherence (2013, James Ward Byrkit) – 6.4
+The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014, Wes Anderson) – 6.3 [down from 7.3]
+Rosetta (1999, Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne) – 6.1 [down from ~7.8]
Boyhood (2014, Richard Linklater) NXNE, DP – 7.7
Non-Stop (2014, Jaume Collet-Serra) – 5.0
Rendezvous in Paris (1995, Eric Rohmer) – 6.2
Pauline at the Beach (1983, Eric Rohmer) – 6.8
The Hourglass Sanatorium (1973, Wojciech Has) DP – 3.5
+The Green Ray (1986, Eric Rohmer) – 7.5 [same]
The Last of England (1988, Derek Jarman) 35mm – 5.7
A Summer’s Tale (1996, Eric Rohmer) – 6.4
From the Notebook of… (2000, Robert Beavers) 16mm – 7.3
The Last Day of Summer (1958, Tadeusz Konwicki) DP – 4.9
+Only Lovers Left Alive (2013, Jim Jarmusch) – 7.0 [same]
Exhibition (2013, Joanna Hogg) – 5.3
i hate myself :) (2013, Joanna Arnow) DP – 6.0
Blue (1993, Derek Jarman) 35mm – 5.9
The Aviator’s Wife (1981, Eric Rohmer) – 6.8
It Felt Like Love (2013, Eliza Hittman) – 4.8
The Saragossa Manuscript (1965, Wojciech Has) DP – 3.4
Wittgenstein (1993, Derek Jarman) DP – 5.4
+Syndromes and a Century (2006, Apichatpong Weerasethakul) – 9.6 [same]
July
A Good Marriage (1982, Eric Rohmer) – 5.7
Four Adventures of Reinette and Mirabelle (1987, Eric Rohmer) – 6.6
+Pather Panchali (1955, Satyajit Ray) 35mm – 5.8 [up from 5.5]
Aparajito (1956, Satyajit Ray) 35mm – 5.2
The River (1951, Jean Renoir) 35mm – 5.0
The World of Apu (1959, Satyajit Ray) 35mm – 5.9
Days and Nights in the Forest (1970, Satyajit Ray) 35mm – 4.8
The Tiger of Eschnapur (1959, Fritz Lang) 35mm – 5.5
The Indian Tomb (1959, Fritz Lang) 35mm – 5.2
Life Itself (2014, Steve James) – 6.1
Gradual Speed (2013, Els Van Riel) Media City, 16mm – 4.6
Rivers of Sand (1974, Robert Gardner) 16mm – 6.0
All That Heaven Allows (1955, Douglas Sirk) – 7.3
Every Night (2001, Eugène Green) – 5.4
The Living World (2003, Eugène Green) – 6.5
+Le Pont des Arts (2004, Eugène Green) – 6.6 [down from 7.6]
Three Daughters [Two Daughters + Monihara] (1961, Satyajit Ray) 35mm – 4.6
The Portuguese Nun (2009, Eugène Green) – 5.4
India: Matri Bhumi (1959, Roberto Rossellini) DP – 5.2
+Hard to Be a God (2013, Alexei German) – 6.2 [same]
India Song (1975, Marguerite Duras) 35mm – 7.1
La Sapienza (2014, Eugène Green) – 5.6
You Are Not I (1981, Sara Driver) DP – 6.6
+Clouds of Sils Maria (2014, Olivier Assayas) – 6.2 [down from 6.4]
Lucy (2014, Luc Besson) DP – 6.8
+Spring Breakers (2012, Harmony Korine) – 7.5 [up from 6.9]
Orlando (1992, Sally Potter) 35mm – 5.7
Thief (1981, Michael Mann) – 5.3
They Came Together (2014, David Wain) – 4.1
+The Living World (2003, Eugène Green) – 6.5 [same]
August
Barry Lyndon (1975, Stanley Kubrick) 35mm – 6.7
+Boyhood (2014, Richard Linklater) DP – 8.0 [up from 7.7]
MASH (1970, Robert Altman) DP – 5.8
+McCabe & Mrs. Miller (1971, Robert Altman) 35mm – 5.1 [down from 6.0]
That Cold Day in the Park (1969, Robert Altman) 35mm – 6.1
+Le Pont des Arts (2004, Eugène Green) – 6.6 [same]
Whiplash (2014, Damien Chazelle) DP – 5.5
The Coward (1965, Satyajit Ray) 35mm – 5.9
The Holy Man (1965, Satyajit Ray) 35mm – 4.4
Year of the Horse (1997, Jim Jarmusch) 35mm – 4.7
Don’t Go Breaking My Heart (2011, Johnnie To) – 5.9
Yojimbo (1961, Akira Kurosawa) 35mm – 5.1
The Long Goodbye (1973, Robert Altman) 35mm – 6.9
An Eye for Beauty (2014, Denys Arcand) DP – 3.8
+Maps to the Stars (2014, David Cronenberg) DP – 6.7 [up from 4.0]
Tu dors Nicole (2014, Stéphane Lafleur) DP – 6.3
Thieves Like Us (1974, Robert Altman) 35mm – 6.2
Images (1972, Robert Altman) 35mm – 3.7
California Split (1974, Robert Altman) 35mm – 5.8
Le beau danger (2014, René Frölke) – 2.9
Señoritas (2013, Lina Rodriguez) DP – 5.5
Hill of Freedom (2014, Hong Sang-soo) – 6.9
Come Back to the 5 & Dime Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean (1982, Robert Altman) 35mm – 4.8
+Double Play: James Benning and Richard Linklater (2013, Gabe Klinger) DP – 6.0 [down from 6.3]
+American Dreams: Lost and Found (1984, James Benning) 35mm – 6.4 [up from 5.8]
The Princess of France (2014, Matías Piñeiro) – 4.9
Los Hongos (2014, Oscar Ruiz Navia) – 4.8
Elephant Song (2014, Charles Binamé) DP – 4.4
1001 Grams (2014, Bent Hamer) DP – 5.2
+Short Cuts (1993, Robert Altman) 35mm – 8.2 [up from ~6.1]
Two Shots Fired (2014, Martín Rejtman) DP – 5.0
A Hard Day (2014, Kim Seong-hun) DP – 4.9
The Theory of Everything (2014, James Marsh) DP – 4.7
Flapping in the Middle of Nowhere (2014, Diep Hoang Nguyen) DP – 4.7
Not My Type (2014, Lucas Belvaux) DP – 7.1
The Company (2003, Robert Altman) 35mm – 6.5
September
Henry Fool (1997, Hal Hartley) – 6.6
The Cobbler (2014, Thomas McCarthy) DP – 2.7
Fay Grim (2006, Hal Hartley) – 5.4
The Tale of Princess Kaguya (2013, Isao Takahata) TIFF, DP – 5.2
Gett, the Trial of Viviane Amsalem (2014, Ronit Elkabetz & Shlomi Elkabetz) TIFF, DP – 6.0
’71 (2014, Yann Demange) TIFF, DP – 4.9
+Alleluia (2014, Fabrice Du Welz) TIFF, DP – 6.1 [down from 6.9]
Far from Men (2014, David Oelhoffen) TIFF, DP – 4.6
A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence (2014, Roy Andersson) TIFF, DP – 6.8
+Goodbye to Language (2014, Jean-Luc Godard) TIFF, 3D – 9.9 [same]
+Amour fou (2014, Jessica Hausner) TIFF, DP – 7.1 [same]
Phoenix (2014, Christian Petzold) TIFF, DP – 7.6
Letters to Max (2014, Eric Baudelaire) TIFF, DP – 5.0
Episode of the Sea (2014, Lonnie van Brummelen, Siebren de Haan, & the inhabitants of Urk) TIFF, DP – 5.8
Pasolini (2014, Abel Ferrara) TIFF, DP – 5.3
Tales of the Grim Sleeper (2014, Nick Broomfield) TIFF, DP – 6.1
While We’re Young (2014, Noah Baumbach) TIFF, DP – 5.5
Eden (2014, Mia Hansen-Løve) TIFF, DP – 6.9
Heaven Knows What (2014, Joshua & Benny Safdie) TIFF, DP – 6.6
Manglehorn (2014, David Gordon Green) TIFF, DP – 5.7
The Duke of Burgundy (2014, Peter Strickland) TIFF, DP – 3.5
Horse Money (2014, Pedro Costa) TIFF, DP – 7.7
Fires on the Plain (2014, Shinya Tsukamoto) TIFF, DP – 3.1
Wild (2014, Jean-Marc Vallée) TIFF, DP – 5.4
The Look of Silence (2014, Joshua Oppenheimer) TIFF, DP – 5.1
Time Out of Mind (2014, Oren Moverman) TIFF, DP – 4.2
Sand Dollars (2014, Laura Amelia Guzmán & Israel Cárdenas) TIFF, DP – 5.5
The Color of Pomegranates (1968, Sergei Parajanov) TIFF, DP – 3.4
Return to Ithaca (2014, Laurent Cantet) TIFF, DP – 3.0
+La Sapienza (2014, Eugène Green) TIFF, DP – 6.1 [up from 5.6]
Ned Rifle (2014, Hal Hartley) TIFF – 5.8
The Emperor’s Naked Army Marches On (1987, Kazuo Hara) – 5.3
The New Girlfriend (2014, François Ozon) TIFF, DP – 3.2
+Journey to the West (2014, Tsai Ming-liang) TIFF, DP – 7.9 [up from 7.2]
Breathe (2014, Mélanie Laurent) TIFF, DP – 5.3
+Horse Money (2014, Pedro Costa) TIFF, DP – 7.7 [same]
From What is Before (2014, Lav Diaz) TIFF, DP – 4.9
+Jauja (2014, Lisandro Alonso) TIFF, DP – 6.6 [up from 5.6]
+Li’l Quinquin (2014, Bruno Dumont) TIFF, DP – 7.3 [up from 6.5]
Tokyo Tribe (2014, Sion Sono) TIFF, DP – 5.0
Don’t Go Breaking My Heart 2 (2014, Johnnie To) TIFF, DP – 5.5
+Eden (2014, Mia Hansen-Løve) TIFF, DP – 6.6 [down from 6.9]
Every Man for Himself (1980, Jean-Luc Godard) 35mm – 5.6
Listen Up Philip (2014, Alex Ross Perry) DP – 5.8
Love is Strange (2014, Ira Sachs) DP – 6.2
Edge of Tomorrow (2014, Doug Liman) – 6.4
+Stormy Waters (1941, Jean Grémillon) – 6.5 [down from 8.1]
+The Marquise of O (1976, Eric Rohmer) – 8.1 [same]
+Saint Laurent (2014, Bertrand Bonello) NYFF, DP – 6.4 [up from 6.3]
October
The Fugitive Kind (1960, Sidney Lumet) 35mm – 5.9
The Man from Laramie (1955, Anthony Mann) NYFF, DP – 5.5
The Clock (1945, Vincente Minnelli) 35mm – 7.2
Iris (2014, Albert Maysles) NYFF, DP – 4.8
People Will Talk (1951, Joseph L. Mankiewicz) NYFF, 35mm – 5.1
Don’t Grieve (1969, Giorgi Danelia) 35mm – 3.6
Gone Girl (2014, David Fincher) DP – 7.0
Ming of Harlem: Twenty One Storeys in the Air (2014, Phillip Warnell) NYFF, DP – 5.8
Inherent Vice (2014, Paul Thomas Anderson) NYFF, DP – 6.2
Sauerbruch Hutton Architects (2013, Harun Farocki) NYFF, DP – 5.5
El Futuro (2013, Luis Lopez Carrasco) NYFF, DP – 5.0
A Film Like Any Other (1968, Jean-Luc Godard) 16mm – 4.3
Obvious Child (2014, Gillian Robespierre) – 6.3
White Bird in a Blizzard (2014, Gregg Araki) – 4.9
+Modern Times (1936, Charles Chaplin) – 6.5 [same]
First Name: Carmen (1983, Jean-Luc Godard) 35mm – 6.5
The Wrong Man (1956, Alfred Hitchcock) 35mm – 5.9
Hail Mary (1985, Jean-Luc Godard) 35mm – 6.4
Détective (1985, Jean-Luc Godard) 35mm – 5.6
Angels of Revolution (2014, Aleksei Fedorchenko) – 5.5
The Lies of the Victors (2014, Christoph Hochhäusler) – 5.9
My Twentieth Century (1989, Ildikó Enyedi) – 5.1
Rancho Notorious (1952, Fritz Lang) 35mm – 5.7
Pravda (1970, Dziga Vertov Group) [Jean-Luc Godard, Paul Burron, & Jean-Henri Roger] DP – 3.6
British Sounds (1970, Jean-Luc Godard & Jean-Henri Roger) 16mm – 4.9
+Two Days, One Night (2014, Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne) – 6.8 [same]
Wind from the East (1970, Dziga Vertov Group) [Jean-Luc Godard, Jean-Pierre Gorin, & Gérard Martin] 16mm – 2.5
Struggle in Italy (1971, Dziga Vertov Group) [Jean-Luc Godard & Jean-Pierre Gorin] 16mm – 4.5
The Extra Girl (1923, F. Richard Jones) – 5.8
The Iron Ministry (2014, J.P. Sniadecki) – 5.8
+Goodbye to Language (2014, Jean-Luc Godard) 3D – 9.9 [same]
King Lear (1987, Jean-Luc Godard) 35mm – 7.3
One P.M./One Pennebaker Movie (1971, Jean-Luc Godard, Richard Leacock, & D.A. Pennebaker) DP – 5.6
Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) (2014, Alejandro G. Iñárritu) DP – 5.1
+24 City (2008, Jia Zhang-ke) – 5.7 [~same]
November
Blackmail [Silent Version] (1929, Alfred Hitchcock) DP – 6.3
Downhill (1927, Alfred Hitchcock) DP – 4.0
+Welcome to New York (2014, Abel Ferrara) – 7.0 [up from 6.6]
Keep Your Right Up (1987, Jean-Luc Godard) 35mm – 5.9
Killer’s Kiss (1955, Stanley Kubrick) 35mm – 3.3
Interstellar (2014, Christopher Nolan) 70mm – 5.0
Madame DuBarry (1919, Ernst Lubitsch) 16mm – 4.7
Rouge (1987, Stanley Kwan) – 4.9
CITIZENFOUR (2014, Laura Poitras) DP – 6.0
Criss Cross (1949, Robert Siodmak) 35mm – 5.3
Nouvelle vague (1990, Jean-Luc Godard) 35mm – 6.1
The Big Sleep (1946, Howard Hawks) 35mm – 7.5
Tout va bien (1972, Jean-Luc Godard & Jean-Pierre Gorin) 35mm – 5.5
Letter to Jane: An Investigation About a Still (1972, Jean-Luc Godard & Jean-Pierre Gorin) 16mm – 4.8
Paths of Glory (1957, Stanley Kubrick) DP – 5.6
Hit 2 Pass (2014, Kurt Walker) – 5.6
A Midsummer’s Fantasia (2014, Jang Kun-jae) – 7.2
+Superstar: The Karen Carpenter Story (1988, Todd Haynes) – 7.8 [same]
Germany Year 90 Nine Zero (1991, Jean-Luc Godard) 35mm – 4.4
JLG/JLG – Self-Portrait in December (1994, Jean-Luc Godard) 35mm – 6.4
The Babadook (2014, Jennifer Kent) – 4.1
+Wavelength (1967, Michael Snow) 16mm – 9.7 [up from 9.3]
Oh, Woe Is Me (1993, Jean-Luc Godard) 35mm – 6.9
Numéro deux (1975, Jean-Luc Godard) 35mm – 5.9
For Ever Mozart (1996, Jean-Luc Godard) DP – 4.7
Level Five (1997, Chris Marker) – 5.7
Still Alice (2014, Richard Glatzer & Wash Westmoreland) – 5.2
Soft and Hard (1985, Jean-Luc Godard & Anne-Marie Miéville) DP – 4.6
The Children Play Russian (1993, Jean-Luc Godard) DP – 6.3
2 x 50 Years of French Cinema (1995, Jean-Luc Godard & Anne-Marie Miéville) DP – 6.7
December
+In Praise of Love (2001, Jean-Luc Godard) 35mm – 5.5 [same]
Nightcrawler (2014, Dan Gilroy) – 5.1
Le rapport Darty (1989, Jean-Luc Godard & Anne-Marie Miéville) DP – 5.2
+Do the Right Thing (1989, Spike Lee) – 8.7 [~same]
Ellie Lumme (2014, Ignatiy Vishnevetsky) – 5.9
+Eyes Wide Shut (1999, Stanley Kubrick) 35mm – 7.9 [down from ~8.5]
The Old Place (2000, Jean-Luc Godard & Anne-Marie Miéville) DP – 6.4
Always for Pleasure (1978, Les Blank) – 6.7
Starred Up (2013, David Mackenzie) – 5.8
+Goodbye to Language [Anaglyph] (2014, Jean-Luc Godard) – 9.9 [same]
+The Inner Scar (1972, Philippe Garrel) – 8.0 [same]
My Darling Clementine (1946, John Ford) – 7.3
+3x3D (2013, Jean-Luc Godard, Peter Greenaway, & Edgar Pêra) 3D – 6.1 [Greenaway: [7]; Pêra: [1]; Godard: [9]] [down from 7.0]
Calvary (2014, John Michael McDonagh) – 3.3
+Gone Girl (2014, David Fincher) – 7.0 [same]
The Interview (2014, Evan Goldberg & Seth Rogen) – 5.3
+Under the Skin (2013, Jonathan Glazer) – 6.2 [down from 7.3]
Living Stars (2014, Mariano Cohn & Gastón Duprat) – 4.1
+The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974, Tobe Hooper) – 7.4 [same]
22 Jump Street (2014, Phil Lord & Christopher Miller) – 4.5
A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night (2014, Ana Lily Amirpour) – 3.4
Happy Christmas (2014, Joe Swanberg) – 6.0
Dumb and Dumber To (2014, Bobby & Peter Farrelly) – 5.0
Guardians of the Galaxy (2014, James Gunn) – 5.4
Bird People (2014, Pascale Ferran) – 6.7 [up from 4.8]