Author name: Blake Williams

Tier 0 (A / A+)
Goodbye to Language (Jean-Luc Godard) – 9.9

Tier 1 (A-)
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Tier 2 (B+)
National Gallery (Frederick Wiseman) – 7.5
Amour fou (Jessica Hausner) – 7.1

Tier 3 (B)
Alleluia (Fabrice Du Welz) – 6.9
Two Days, One Night (Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne) – 6.8
Welcome to New York (Abel Ferrara) – 6.6
Li’l Quinquin (Bruno Dumont) – 6.5
The Kindergarten Teacher (Nadav Lapid) – 6.5
Winter Sleep (Nuri Bilge Ceylan) – 6.4
Saint Laurent (Bertrand Bonello) – 6.3
Clouds of Sils Maria (Olivier Assayas) – 6.2
In the Name of My Daughter (André Téchiné) – 6.2
The Wonders (Alice Rohrwacher) – 6.2

Tier 4 (B-)
Silvered Water, Syria Self-Portrait (Ossama Mohammed) – 6.1
Eat Your Bones (Jean-Charles Hue) – 6.1
Force Majeure (Ruben Östlund) – 6.0
Timbuktu (Abderrahmane Sissako) – 6.0
Maïdan (Sergei Loznitsa) – 5.9
It Follows (David Robert Mitchell) – 5.9
The Homesman (Tommy Lee Jones) – 5.8
Jauja (Lisandro Alonso) – 5.6
Mr. Turner (Mike Leigh) – 5.5
Queen and Country (John Boorman) – 5.5
The Tribe (Myroslav Slaboshpytskiy) – 5.4

Tier 5 (C+)
The Blue Room (Mathieu Amalric) – 5.3
Wild Tales (Damián Szifron) – 5.3
Misunderstood (Asia Argento) – 5.3
The Salvation (Kristian Levring) – 5.2
Jimmy’s Hall (Ken Loach) – 5.1
Party Girl (Marie Amachoukeli, Claire Burger, & Samuel Theis) – 5.1
Mercuriales (Virgil Vernier) – 5.0
Foxcatcher (Bennett Miller) – 4.9
Run (Philippe Lacôte) – 4.9
Bird People (Pascale Ferran) – 4.8
Mommy (Xavier Dolan) – 4.8
Beautiful Youth (Jaime Rosales) – 4.8
The Captive (Atom Egoyan) – 4.7
A Girl at My Door (July Jung) – 4.6

Tier 6 (C)
Girlhood (Celine Sciamma) – 4.5
Snow in Paradise (Andrew Hulme) – 4.4
Darker Than Midnight (Sebastiano Riso) – 4.3
The Salt of the Earth (Wim Wenders & Juliano Ribeiro Salgado) – 4.3
The Search (Michel Hazanavicius) – 4.2
Red Army (Polsky Gabe) – 4.2
When Animals Dream (Jonas Alexander Arnby) – 4.1
Maps to the Stars (David Cronenberg) – 4.0
Leviathan (Andrei Zvyagintsev) – 4.0
Lost River (Ryan Gosling) – 3.9

Tier 7 (C-)
Still the Water (Naomi Kawase) – 3.6
Hippocrates (Thomas Lilti) – 3.6
Coming Home (Zhang Yimou) – 3.5
White God (Kornél Mundruczó) – 3.2
The Girl and the River (Aurélia Georges) – 3.0

Tier 8 (D+)
Grace of Monaco (Olivier Dahan) – 2.9

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“Like a tiny drop of dew, or a bubble floating in a stream,
Like a flash of lightning in a summer cloud,
Or a flickering lamp, an illusion, a phantom, or a dream.
So is all conditioned existence to be seen.”

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Past Logs

2013 Film Log
2012 Film Log
2011 Film Log
2010 Film Log
2009 Film Log
2007 Film Log

*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]

*Click on the ‘Lists & Logs’ tab to see lists from previous years.

This is a dynamic list, so it’ll be updated each time I see a film which had its world premiere in 2013 that is better than at least one of the films already on the list.

1. The Strange Little Cat (Ramon Zürcher)
2. Dusty Stacks of Mom: The Poster Project (Jodie Mack)
3. Computer Chess (Andrew Bujalski)
4. MANAKAMANA (Stephanie Spray & Pacho Velez)
5. Norte, the End of History (Lav Diaz)
6. Stranger by the Lake (Alain Guiraudie)
7. Stray Dogs (Tsai Ming-liang)
8. Bastards (Claire Denis)
9. Nymphomaniac: Volume II (Lars von Trier)
10. Sheep (Gilles Deroo & Marianne Pistone)

Polls Top 10 (eligible titles appear here)

1. Leviathan (2012, Lucien Castaing-Taylor & Verena Paravel)
2. Computer Chess (2013, Andrew Bujalski)
3. Like Someone In Love (2012, Abbas Kiarostami)
4. Bastards (2013, Claire Denis)
5. Frances Ha (2012, Noah Baumbach)
6. Beyond the Hills (2012, Cristian Mungiu)
7. Viola (2012, Matías Piñeiro)
8. You Ain’t Seen Nothin’ Yet! (2012, Alain Resnais)
9. To the Wonder (2012, Terrence Malick)
10. Nebraska (2013, Alexander Payne)

My Top 10 Discoveries During 2013 (only first-time viewings of films made before 2000 are eligible)

1. Boy Meets Girl (1984, Leos Carax)
2. High and Low (1963, Akira Kurosawa)
3. Brief Encounter (1945, David Lean)
4. Zorns Lemma (1970, Hollis Frampton)
5. U.S. Go Home (1994, Claire Denis)
6. Yoyo (1965, Pierre Étaix)
7. Léon Morin, Priest (1961, Jean-Pierre Melville)
8. Slacker (1991, Richard Linklater)
9. Un Coeur en Hiver (1992, Claude Sautet)
10. Z (1969, Costa-Gavras)

Other 2013 films I’ve seen

• Nebraska (Alexander Payne) – 7.0
• Only Lovers Left Alive (Jim Jarmusch) – 7.0
• The Counselor [Unrated Extended Cut] (Ridley Scott) – 6.9
• Upstream Color (Shane Carruth) – 6.9
• Stop the Pounding Heart (Roberto Minervini) – 6.8
• Charlie Victor Romeo (Robert Berger, Patrick Daniels, & Karlyn Michelson) – 6.8
• A Touch of Sin (Jia Zhang-ke) – 6.8
• The Manor (Shawney Cohen) – 6.8
• Sentimental Education (Júlio Bressane) – 6.7
• River (Bill Ross IV) – 6.7
• A Thousand Suns (Mati Diop) – 6.6
• Gravity (Alfonso Cuarón) – 6.6
• The Dirties (Matt Johnson) – 6.6
• Love is the Perfect Crime (Arnaud & Jean-Marie Larrieu) – 6.6
• Snowpiercer (Bong Joon-ho) – 6.6
• Jealousy (Philippe Garrel) – 6.6
• Inside Llewyn Davis (Joel & Ethan Coen) – 6.5
• When Evening Falls on Bucharest or Metabolism (Corneliu Porumboiu) – 6.5
• La última película (Raya Martin & Mark Peranson) – 6.5
• Coherence (James Ward Byrkit) – 6.4
• Moebius (Kim Ki-duk) – 6.4
• Night Moves (Kelly Reichardt) – 6.3
• Double Play: James Benning and Richard Linklater (Gabe Klinger) – 6.3
• Enough Said (Nicole Holofcener) – 6.3
• Behind the Candelabra (Steven Soderbergh) – 6.3
• Blue Jasmine (Woody Allen) – 6.3
• Let the Fire Burn (Jason Osder) – 6.3
• Hard to Be a God (Alexei German) – 6.2
• Under the Skin (Jonathan Glazer) – 6.2
• These Birds Walk (Omar Mullick & Bassam Tariq) – 6.2
• Blood (Alina Rudnitskaya) – 6.2
• Club Sandwich (Fernando Eimbcke) – 6.2
• Before Midnight (Richard Linklater) – 6.1
• Three Interpretation Exercises (Cristi Puiu) – 6.1
• 3x3D (Peter Greenaway, Jean-Luc Godard, & Edgar Pêra) – 6.1
• Captain Phillips (Paul Greengrass) – 6.1
• William and the Windmill (Ben Nabors) – 6.1
• Tip Top (Serge Bozon) – 6.0
• i hate myself :) (Joanna Arnow) – 6.0
• Camille Claudel 1915 (Bruno Dumont) – 6.0
• I Used to Be Darker (Matt Porterfield) – 6.0
• All is Lost (J.C. Chandor) – 6.0
• Northern Light (Nick Bentgen) – 5.9
• Closed Curtain (Jafar Panahi & Kambuzia Partovi) – 5.9
• Our Sunhi (Hong Sang-soo) – 5.9
• Blue is the Warmest Color (Abdellatif Kechiche) – 5.9
• Caucus (AJ Schnack) – 5.9
• The World’s End (Edgar Wright) – 5.9
• What Now? Remind Me (Joaquim Pinto) – 5.9
• Three Landscapes (Peter Hutton) – 5.9
• Venus In Fur (Roman Polanski) – 5.9
• We Are the Best! (Lukas Moodysson) – 5.8
• Proxy (Zack Parker) – 5.8
• The Naked Room (Nuria Ibáñez) – 5.8
• Starred Up (David Mackenzie) – 5.8
• The Great Beauty (Paolo Sorrentino) – 5.8
• This is the End (Evan Goldberg & Seth Rogen) – 5.8
• The Selfish Giant (Clio Barnard) – 5.8
• Her (Spike Jonze) – 5.8
• 12 O’Clock Boys (Lotfy Nathan) – 5.8
• TPB AFK: The Pirate Bay Away from Keyboard (Simon Klose) – 5.8
• Abuse of Weakness (Catherine Breillat) – 5.7
• Lucky Them (Megan Griffiths) – 5.7
• Alan Partridge: Alpha Papa (Declan Lowney) – 5.7
• Side Effects (Steven Soderbergh) – 5.7
• Joe (David Gordon Green) – 5.7
• Nymphomaniac: Volume I (Lars von Trier)– 5.6
• A Spell to Ward Off the Darkness (Ben Rivers & Ben Russell) – 5.6
• This is Martin Bonner (Chad Hartigan) – 5.6
• Like Father, Like Son (Hirokazu Kore-eda) – 5.6
• American Promise (Joe Brewster & Michèle Stephenson) – 5.6
• R100 (Hitoshi Matsumoto) – 5.6
• Salvation Army (Abdellah Taïa) – 5.6
• Pussy Riot – A Punk Prayer (Maxim Pozdorovkin) – 5.6
• Our Nixon (Penny Lane) – 5.6
• Story of My Death (Albert Serra) – 5.5
• Paradise: Hope (Ulrich Seidl) – 5.5
• Señoritas (Lina Rodriguez) – 5.5
• Age of Panic (Justine Triet) – 5.5
• Love Battles (Jacques Doillon) – 5.5
• Eastern Boys (Robin Campillo) – 5.5
• Gerontophilia (Bruce LaBruce) – 5.5
• Anita (Freida Lee Mock) – 5.5
• After Hours (Basil Da Cunha) – 5.5
• Monsters University (Dan Scanlon) – 5.5
• The Immigrant (James Gray) – 5.4
• October November (Götz Spielmann) – 5.4
• The Spectacular Now (James Ponsoldt) – 5.4
• Blind Detective (Johnnie To) – 5.3
• Exhibition (Joanna Hogg) – 5.3
• The Wolf of Wall Street (Martin Scorsese) – 5.3
• The Amazing Catfish (Claudia Sainte-Luce) – 5.3
• Bright Days Ahead (Marion Vernoux) – 5.3
• Lacrau (João Vladimiro) – 5.3
• The Congress (Ari Folman) – 5.2
• How to Disappear Completely (Raya Martin) – 5.2
• Doomsdays (Eddie Mullins) – 5.2
• Ida (Pawel Pawlikowski) – 5.2
• Liahona (Talena Sanders) – 5.2
• The Lunchbox (Ritesh Batr) – 5.2
• Stoker (Park Chan-wook) – 5.2
• Vic + Flo Saw a Bear (Denis Côté) – 5.2
• The Summer of Flying Fish (Marcela Said) – 5.2
• Lukas the Strange (John Torres) – 5.2
• Downloaded (Alex Winter) – 5.2
• The Dallas Buyers Club (Jean-Marc Vallée) – 5.2
• Blood Ties (Guillaume Canet) – 5.1
• Valentine Road (Marta Cunningham) – 5.1
• We Always Lie To Strangers (AJ Schnack & David Boone Wilson) – 5.1
• The Kill Team (Dan Krauss) – 5.1
• Shield of Straw (Takashi Miike) – 5.1
• Salvo (Fabio Grassadonia & Antonio Piazza) – 5.1
• Bends (Flora Lau) – 5.1
• Young & Beautiful (François Ozon) – 5.0
• Oldboy (Spike Lee) – 5.0
• Blue Ruin (Jeremy Saulnier) – 5.0
• Jodorowsky’s Dune (Frank Pavich) – 5.0
• Tom at the Farm (Xavier Dolan) – 5.0
• The Oxbow Cure (Yonah Lewis & Calvin Thomas) – 5.0
• Black Box (Stephen Cone) – 5.0
• At Berkeley (Frederick Wiseman) – 4.9
• The Great Gatsby (Baz Luhrmann) – 4.9
• Miraculous Tales (Daniel Vernon) – 4.9
• The Rendez-Vous of Déjà-Vu (Antonin Peretjatko) – 4.9
• A Field in England (Ben Wheatley) – 4.9
• Nobody’s Daughter Haewon (Hong Sang-soo) – 4.9
• Chimeras (Mika Mattila) – 4.9
• Borgman (Alex Van Warmerdam) – 4.9
• About Time (Richard Curtis) – 4.9
• Sacro GRA (Gianfranco Rosi) – 4.9
• Michael Kohlhaas (Arnaud des Pallieres) – 4.9
• The Canyons (Paul Schrader) – 4.8
• American Hustle (David O. Russell) – 4.8
• Crystal Fairy (Sebastián Silva) – 4.8
• White Reindeer (Zach Clark) – 4.8
• It Felt Like Love (Eliza Hittman) – 4.8
• On My Way (Emmanuelle Bercot) – 4.8
• Ilo Ilo (Anthony Chen) – 4.8
• The Strange Colour of Your Body’s Tears (Helene Cattet & Bruno Forzani) – 4.8
• Gabrielle (Louise Archambault) – 4.8
• Which Way is the Front Line from Here? The Life and Time of Tim Hetherington (Sebastian Junger) – 4.8
• Gold (Thomas Arslan) – 4.7
• Enemy (Denis Villeneuve) – 4.7
• A Master Builder (Jonathan Demme) – 4.7
• The Square (Jehane Noujaim) – 4.7
• White House Down (Roland Emmerich) – 4.7
• Heli (Amat Escalante) – 4.7
• Killing Strangers (Nicolás Pereda & Jacob Secher Schulsinger) – 4.7
• The Invisible Woman (Ralph Fiennes) – 4.7
• Blackfish (Gabriela Cowperthwaite) – 4.7
• I’m So Excited (Pedro Almodóvar) – 4.6
• Gradual Speed (Els Van Riel) – 4.6
• We Cause Scenes (Matt Adams) – 4.6
• The Last Black Sea Pirates (Svetoslav Stoyanov) – 4.6
• Me Myself and Mum (Guillaume Gallienne) – 4.6
• A Castle in Italy (Valeria Bruni-Tedeschi) – 4.6
• The Island of St. Matthews (Kevin Jerome Everson) – 4.6
• Sarah Prefers to Run (Chloé Robichaud) – 4.6
• Pacific Rim (Guillermo del Toro) – 4.6
• Bà Nội (Khoa Lê) – 4.6
• You and the Night (Yann Gonzalez) – 4.5
• Coast of Death (Lois Patiño) – 4.5
• Ain’t Them Bodies Saints (David Lowery) – 4.5
• 12 Years a Slave (Steve McQueen) – 4.5
• Locke (Steven Knight) – 4.5
• Short Term 12 (Destin Cretton) – 4.5
• Siddharth (Richie Mehta) – 4.5
• Bambi (Sébastien Lifshitz) – 4.5
• The Bling Ring (Sofia Coppola) – 4.4
• Gloria (Sebastián Lelio) – 4.4
• The Unknown Known (Errol Morris) – 4.4
• Mary Queen of Scots (Thomas Imbach) – 4.4
• Le Week-End (Roger Mitchell) – 4.4
• Grand Central (Rebecca Zlotowski) – 4.4
• Teenage (Matt Wolf) – 4.4
• The Missing Picture (Rithy Panh) – 4.3
• Apaches (Thierry de Peretti) – 4.3
• Only God Forgives (Nicolas Winding Refn) – 4.3
• The Grandmaster (Wong Kar-wai) – 4.3
• The Last Days on Mars (Ruairi Robinson) – 4.3
• Furious 6 (Justin Lin) – 4.2
• Pain & Gain (Michael Bay) – 4.2
• Pays Barbare (Yervant Gianikian & Angela Ricci Lucchi) – 4.2
• Touchy Feely (Lynn Shelton) – 4.2
• Burt’s Buzz (Jody Shapiro) – 4.2
• The Wind Rises (Hayao Miyazaki) – 4.1
• Leaf in the Wind (Jean-Marie Teno) – 4.1
• Cold Eyes (Cho Ui-seok and Kim Byung-seo) – 4.1
• Manuscripts Don’t Burn (Mohammad Rasoulof) – 4.0
• Burning Bush (Agnieszka Holland) – 4.0
• The Conjuring (James Wan) – 4.0
• Fruitvale Station (Ryan Coogler) – 4.0
• Child’s Pose (Calin Peter Netzer) – 3.9
• Omar (Hany Abu-Assad) – 3.9
• Stop-Over (Kaveh Bakhtiari) – 3.9
• My Sweet Pepper Land (Hiner Saleem) – 3.9
• Muscle Shoals (Greg ‘Freddy’ Camalier) – 3.9
• The Past (Asghar Farhadi) – 3.8
• Grisgris (Mahamat Saleh Haroun) – 3.8
• The Rocket (Kim Mordaunt) – 3.8
• Star Trek Into Darkness (J.J. Abrams) – 3.8
• Expedition to the End of the World (Daniel Dencik) – 3.8
• The German Doctor (Lucía Puenzo) – 3.7
• World War Z (Marc Forster) – 3.6
• Thou Gild’st the Even (Onur Ünlü) – 3.6
• The Last of the Unjust (Claude Lanzmann) – 3.5
• Daredevils (Stephanie Barber) – 3.5
• Felix Austria! (Christine Beebe) – 3.5
• Texas Chainsaw (John Luessenhop) – 3.5
• 15 Reasons to Live (Alan Zweig) – 3.4
• The Dance of Reality (Alejandro Jodorowsky) – 3.4
• Suzanne (Katell Quillévéré) – 3.3
• My Name Is Hmmm… (Agnès Troublé) – 3.3
• The Auction (Sébastien Pilote) – 3.2
• The Lone Ranger (Gore Verbinski) – 3.2
• Oblivion (Joseph Kosinski) – 3.1
• Interior. Leather Bar. (James Franco & Travis Mathews) – 3.1
• Blood Brother (Steve Hoover) – 3.0
• Jimmy P.: Psychotherapy of a Plains Indian (Arnaud Desplechin) – 3.0
• The Art of the Steal (Jonathan Sobol) – 3.0
• Real (Kiyoshi Kurosawa) – 2.8
• Jellyfish Eyes (Takashi Murakami) – 2.7
• The Battle of Tabatô (Joao Viana) – 2.2
• Child of God (James Franco) – 1.8
• Nothing Bad Can Happen (Katrin Gebbe) – 0.6

October 3

3PM – PROGRAM 15: Voices perish (coloring the darkening glow)
– Strawberries in the Summertime (Jennifer Reeves, USA, 2013, 15m)
– Luna (Snow) (Leslie Thornton, USA, 2013, 2:21m)
– Onomatopoeic Alphabet (Aura Satz, UK, 2010, 7m)
– Doorway for Nathalie Kalmus (Aura Satz, UK, 2013, 9m)
– Paisaje-Duración Trigal (Duration Landscape Cornfield) (Lois Patiño, Spain, 2010, 2:57m)
– Psalm IV: Valley of the Shadow (Phil Solomon, USA, 2013, 7:31m)
– All or Nothing (Fred Worden, USA, 2013, 8m)
– Half Life (April Simmons, USA, 2013, 6:04m)
– Luna (Heaven) (Leslie Thornton, USA, 2013, 12m)
– Remanence IV (Josh Bonnetta, USA, 2013, 54s)
– Bedtime Story (Esther Shatavsky, USA, 1981, 5.5m)
– Weissfilm (Wilhelm and Brigit Hein, Germany, 1977, 5m)
– Splice 181 to Splice 243 of Spicefilm, 2013, Homage to Brigit and Wilhelm Hein’s Weissfilm, 1977 (Florian Zeyfang, Germany, 2013, 5m)
– Creme 21 (Eve Heller, Austria, 2013, 11m)
– Ten Notes on A Summer Day (Mike Stoltz, USA, 2012, 4.5m)
– The Sea Seeks Its Own Level (Erin Espelie, USA, 2013, 5:04m)

6PM – MAIN SLATE: Jealousy (2013, Philippe Garrel)

9PM – PROGRAM 3: Coast of Death (2013, Lois Patiño)

Key
– Saw at TIFF Proper (between Sept. 5-15)
– Saw at Cannes
– Saw at TIFF pre-festival press screening
– Saw a screener of some kind

Tier 0
The Strange Little Cat (Ramon Zürcher) – 8.9

Tier 1
MANAKAMANA (Stephanie Spray & Pacho Velez) – 7.8
Norte, the End of History (Lav Diaz) – 7.8

Tier 2
Stranger by the Lake (Alain Guiraudie) – 7.7
Stray Dogs (Tsai Ming-liang) – 7.6
Bastards (Claire Denis) – 7.5
Under the Skin (Jonathan Glazer) – 7.3

Tier 3
A Touch of Sin (Jia Zhang-ke) – 6.8
Love is the Perfect Crime (Arnaud & Jean-Marie Larrieu) – 6.6
When Evening Falls on Bucharest or Metabolism (Corneliu Porumboiu) – 6.5
La última película (Raya Martin & Mark Peranson) – 6.5
Moebius (Kim Ki-duk) – 6.4
Only Lovers Left Alive (Jim Jarmusch) – 6.4
Night Moves (Kelly Reichardt) – 6.3
Club Sandwich (Fernando Eimbcke) – 6.2
A Thousand Suns (Mati Diop) – 6.2

Tier 4
Three Interpretation Exercises (Cristi Puiu) – 6.1
Gravity (Alfonso Cuarón) – 6.0
Closed Curtain (Jafar Panahi & Kamboziya Partovi) – 5.9
Blue is the Warmest Color (Abdellatif Kechiche) – 5.9
Three Landscapes (Peter Hutton) – 5.9
Our Sunhi (Hong Sang-soo) – 5.9
The Selfish Giant (Clio Barnard) – 5.8
The Great Beauty (Paolo Sorrentino) – 5.8
Abuse of Weakness (Catherine Breillat) – 5.7
Joe (David Gordon Green) – 5.7
A Spell to Ward Off the Darkness (Ben Rivers & Ben Russell) – 5.6
R100 (Hitoshi Matsumoto) – 5.6
Salvation Army (Abdellah Taïa) – 5.6
Like Father, Like Son (Hirokazu Kore-eda) – 5.6
Story of My Death (Albert Serra) – 5.5
Gerontophilia (Bruce LaBruce) – 5.5
Celestial Wives of the Meadow Mari (Aleksei Fedorchenko) – 5.4
October November (Götz Spielmann) – 5.4

Tier 5
Blind Detective (Johnnie To) – 5.3
The Amazing Catfish (Claudia Sainte-Luce) – 5.3
Bright Days Ahead (Marion Vernoux) – 5.3
The Lunchbox (Ritesh Batra) – 5.2
The Summer of Flying Fish (Marcela Said) – 5.2
Blood Ties (Guillaume Canet) – 5.1
Bends (Flora Lau) – 5.1
Tom at the Farm (Xavier Dolan) – 5.0
Young & Beautiful (François Ozon) – 5.0
Blue Ruin (Jeremy Saulnier) – 5.0
Jodorowsky’s Dune (Frank Pavich) – 5.0
At Berkeley (Frederick Wiseman) – 4.9
A Field in England (Ben Wheatley) – 4.9
Borgman (Alex van Warmerdam) – 4.9
Ilo Ilo (Anthony Chen) – 4.8
The Strange Colour of Your Body’s Tears (Helene Cattet & Bruno Forzani) – 4.8
Gabrielle (Louise Archambault) – 4.8
The Square (Jehane Noujaim) – 4.7
The Invisible Woman (Ralph Fiennes) – 4.7
Sarah Prefers to Run (Chloé Robichaud) – 4.6

Tier 6
12 Years a Slave (Steve McQueen) – 4.5
Siddharth (Richie Mehta) – 4.5
The Unknown Known (Errol Morris) – 4.4
Gloria (Sebastián Lelio) – 4.4
Le Week-End (Roger Mitchell) – 4.4
Mary Queen of Scots (Thomas Imbach) – 4.4
The Missing Image (Rithy Panh) – 4.3
Pays Barbare (Yervant Gianikian & Angela Ricci Lucchi) – 4.2
Burt’s Buzz (Jody Shapiro) – 4.2
The Wind Rises (Hayao Miyazaki) – 4.1
Cold Eyes (Cho Ui-seok & Kim Byung-seo) – 4.1
Manuscripts Don’t Burn (Mohammad Rasoulof) – 4.0
Burning Bush (Agnieszka Holland) – 4.0
Child’s Pose (Calin Peter Netzer) – 3.9
Omar (Hany Abu-Assad) – 3.9
The Past (Asghar Farhadi) – 3.8

Tier 7
Thou Gild’st the Even (Onur Ünlü) – 3.6
The Last of the Unjust (Claude Lanzmann) – 3.5
The Dismantling (Sébastien Pilote) – 3.2
The Art of the Steal (Jonathan Sobol) – 3.0

Tier 8
Real (Kiyoshi Kurosawa) – 2.8
The Battle of Tabatô (Joao Viana) – 2.2

Tier 9
Child of God (James Franco) – 1.8

September 5
6:30PM – Blood Ties (Guillaume Canet) – Gray matter. // 5.1
9:30PM – Story of My Death (Albert Serra) – May be my most anticipated of the festival. // 5.5

September 6
11AM – Omar (Hany Abu-Assad) – NYFF, but also decent word from Cannes, and an Un Certain Regard Jury Prize. // 3.9
2PM – Tom at the Farm (Xavier Dolan) – Now if this one is good, that’s called a “winning streak.” // 5.0
4:45PM – Club Sandwich (Fernando Eimbcke) – Had never heard of this guy but D’Angelo is weirdly excited for this. // 6.2
6:30PM – Wavelengths 1: Variations On…

September 7
9:15AM – Salvation Army (Abdellah Taïa) – Agnès. // 5.6
11:15AM – Love is the Perfect Crime (Arnaud & Jean-Marie Larrieu) – Happy End made my 2009 Top 10. // 6.6
2:15PM – Gravity (Alfonso Cuarón) – Not like I’ll have time to see it in theatres anyway. // 6.0
8:30PM – Wavelengths 2: Now & Then

September 8
1PM – Three Landscapes preceded by Song and Spring – Dorsky and Hutton. Hutton and Dorsky. // 5.9 [grade for the Hutton only]
7PM – Wavelengths 3: Farther Than the Eye Can See
10PM – Child of God (James Franco) – NYFF // 1.8

September 9
7:30PM – Wavelengths 4: Elysium

September 10
2PM – Le Week-End (Roger Mitchell) – NYFF. // 4.4
9:45PM – +Stranger by the Lake (Alain Guiraudie) – It’s aged very well. // 7.7 [up from 7.2]

September 11
4:15PM – Night Moves (Kelly Reichardt) – Funny how the // 6.3
7PM – Un Conte de Michel de Montaigne and The King’s Body and Redemption – Might bail after the Straub (have seen the other two).
9PM – Stray Dogs – Master Shots. // 7.6 [up from 7.5]

September 12
9AM – Joe (David Gordon Green) – Is Nicholas Cage wearing a stick-on beard in this movie? // 5.7
11:30AM – Under the Skin (Jonathan Glazer) – Birth. // 7.3
2:45PM – The Square (Jehane Noujaim) – NYFF // 4.7
5:45PM – The Wind Rises (Hayao Miyazaki) – NYFF // 4.1
9:30PM – The Strange Colour of Your Body’s Tears (Helene Cattet & Bruno Forzani) – -ica. // 4.8

September 13
10AM – The Amazing Catfish (Claudia Sainte-Luce) – Godard. // 5.3
11:45AM – Our Sunhi (Hong Sang-soo) – Feels like I’ve already seen it. // 5.9
2:30PM – Moebius (Kim Ki-duk) – My audience had better vomit or I’m not going to be happy. // 6.4
5:15PM – Three Interpretation Exercises (Cristi Puiu) – Rohmer-esque, eh? // 6.1

September 14
9:45AM – Abuse of Weakness (Catherine Breillat) – All signs point to this not being one of her fairy tale movies, so ugh. // 5.7
11:45AM – Real (Kiyoshi Kurosawa) – NYFF. Only seen Tokyo Sonata (unimpressed). // 2.8
2:15PM – October November (Götz Spielmann) – Revanche. // 5.4
9PM – 12 Years a Slave (Steve McQueen) – Shame. Please let this be nothing like Shame. // 4.5

September 15
6:30PM – A Spell to Ward Off the Darkness (Ben Rivers & Ben Russell) – Gonna be honest. Not looking forward to this at all. // 5.6
9:30PM – When Evening Falls on Bucharest or Metabolism (Corneliu Porumboiu) – I’m a Porumboiu fan but this title annoys me. // 6.5

Films that would be priorities for me if I hadn’t already seen them:
The Strange Little Cat (Ramon Zürcher) – 8.9
MANAKAMANA (Stephanie Spray & Pacho Velez) – 7.8
Norte, the End of History (Lav Diaz) – 7.8
Stray Dogs (Tsai Ming-liang) – 7.5
Bastards (Claire Denis) – 7.5
Stranger by the Lake (Alain Guiraudie) – 7.2
A Touch of Sin (Jia Zhang-ke) – 6.8
La última película (Raya Martin & Mark Peranson) – 6.5
Only Lovers Left Alive (Jim Jarmusch) – 6.4
A Thousand Suns (Mati Diop) – 6.2
Closed Curtain (Jafar Panahi & Kamboziya Partovi) – 5.9
Blue is the Warmest Color (Abdellatif Kechiche) – 5.9
The Selfish Giant (Clio Barnard) – 5.8
The Great Beauty (Paolo Sorrentino) – 5.8
The King’s Body (Joao Pedro Rodrigues)
Like Father, Like Son (Hirokazu Kore-eda) – 5.6
R100 (Hitoshi Matsumoto) – 5.6
Gerontophilia (Bruce LaBruce) – 5.5
Celestial Wives of the Meadow Mari (Aleksei Fedorchenko) – 5.4
Blind Detective (Johnnie To) – 5.3
Young & Beautiful (François Ozon) – 5.0
At Berkeley (Frederick Wiseman) – 4.9
A Field in England (Ben Wheatley) – 4.9
Borgman (Alex van Warmerdam) – 4.9
Ilo Ilo (Anthony Chen) – 4.8
The Invisible Woman (Ralph Fiennes) – 4.7
The Unknown Known (Errol Morris) – 4.4
Gloria (Sebastián Lelio) – 4.4
The Missing Image (Rithy Panh) – 4.3
Redemption (Miguel Gomes)
Burning Bush (Agnieszka Holland) – 4.0
The Past (Asghar Farhadi) – 3.8
The Last of the Unjust (Claude Lanzmann) – 3.5

Other TIFF13 films I have already seen:
Bright Days Ahead (Marion Vernoux) – 5.3
The Lunchbox (Ritesh Batra) – 5.2
The Summer of Flying Fish (Marcela Said) – 5.2
Bends (Flora Lau) – 5.1
Blue Ruin (Jeremy Saulnier) – 5.0
Jodorowsky’s Dune (Frank Pavich) – 5.0
Gabrielle (Louise Archambault) – 4.8
Sarah Prefers to Run (Chloé Robichaud) – 4.6
Siddharth (Richie Mehta) – 4.5
Mary Queen of Scots (Thomas Imbach) – 4.4
Pays Barbare (Yervant Gianikian & Angela Ricci Lucchi) – 4.2
Burt’s Buzz (Jody Shapiro) – 4.2
Cold Eyes (Cho Ui-seok & Kim Byung-seo) – 4.1
Manuscripts Don’t Burn (Mohammad Rasoulof) – 4.0
Thou Gild’st the Even (Onur Ünlü) – 3.6
The Dismantling (Sébastien Pilote) – 3.2
The Art of the Steal (Jonathan Sobol) – 3.0
The Battle of Tabatô (Joao Viana) – 2.2

16mm, 35mm, 70mm - this movie will be screened from a film print (as per the festival website programme guide)
Features (40min. and up) are bold.
Shorts are in italics.
⚫ - I have seen this film.
★ - I have seen this film and heartily recommend it (6.2 and higher).
○ - I am seriously considering making an attempt to see this film.
C - this film is Canadian. If it's any good, Torontonians can catch it in Canada's Top Ten in January, or at the Royal.
FS - this film is available for me to watch on Festival Scope.
® - This film has a Canadian Distributor*

[*This used to be a one of the colour options below. When that was the case, it also included films that had only US distribution, and was limited to films with firm release dates in the three months following the festival. It's become too difficult to keep track of all that, and in the end it just isn't very useful for me if a film is greyed out and I can't tell if it'll be released in Toronto or if it's just a stateside opening. This new application of the ® indicator will still be useful, I think, for Americans who are trying to see films that won't get released, since most films open in both countries around the same time anyway.]

The following colors trump each other hierarchically, so e.g. a film that plays both Berlin and Cannes will be Red, unless e.g. it is in the NYFF Main Slate in which case it will be purple.

NYFF - Titles from the Main Selection only (sans Opening, Closing, Centerpiece films, because Hereafter).
SUNDANCE - The good ones have already been released.
BERLINALE - They had The Strange Little Cat, and some other movies that look all right I guess.
CANNES - The Strange Little Cat played here, too.
LOCARNO - MANAKAMANA looks to be as close to Leviathan as we're going to get this year.
VENICE - Le Tsai...
BIGGIES - Films by name directors that I'm anticipating, perhaps ill-advisedly; also, films with raves from the other major festivals (Rotterdam, BAFICI, SxSW, Tribeca, etc.).

Special Presentations (81; last year: 70)
All Is By My Side (John Ridley)
The Armstrong Lie (Alex Gibney) ®
Attila Marcel (Sylvain Chomet) ○
Bad Words (Jason Bateman)
Belle (Amma Asante)
Blind Detective (Johnnie To) ⚫
Blue Is the Warmest Color (Abdellatif Kechiche) ⚫ ®
Burning Bush (Agnieszka Holland) ⚫
Can a Song Save Your Life? (John Carney)
Cannibal (Manuel Martín Cuenca)
Child of God (James Franco) ○
Dallas Buyers Club (Jean-Marc Vallée) C ®
Devil’s Knot (Atom Egoyan) C ®
The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby: Him and Her (Ned Benson)
Dom Hemingway (Richard Shepard)
Don Jon (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) ®
The Double (Richard Ayoade) ®
Enemy (Denis Villeneuve) C ®
Enough Said (Nicole Holofcener)
Exit Marrakech (Caroline Link)
The F Word (Michael Dowse) C ®
The Face of Love (Arie Posin) ®
Fading Gigolo (John Turturro)
Felony (Matthew Saville)
The Finishers (Nils Tavernier)
For Those Who Can Tell No Tales (Jasmila Žbanić)
Gabrielle (Louise Archambault) ⚫ C ®
Gloria (Sebastián Lelio) ⚫ ®
Going Away (Nicole Garcia)
Gravity (Alfonso Cuarón) ○ ®
The Great Beauty (Paolo Sorrentino) ⚫ ®
Half of a Yellow Sun (Biyi Bandele)
Hateship Loveship (Liza Johnson)
How I Live Now (Kevin Macdonald) ®
The Husband (Bruce McDonald) C
Ida (Pawel Pawlikowski) ○
The Invisible Woman (Ralph Fiennes) ⚫ ®
Joe (David Gordon Green)
Labor Day (Jason Reitman) ®
The Last of Robin Hood (Richard Glatzer & Wash Westmoreland)
Le Week-End (Roger Michell) ○ ®
The Liberator (Alberto Arvelo)
Like Father, Like Son (Hirokazu Kore-eda) ⚫ ®
L’intrepido (Gianni Amelio)
Love is the Perfect Crime (Arnaud & Jean-Marie Larrieu) ○
Lucky Them (Megan Griffiths)
Man of Tai Chi (Keanu Reeves) ®
Mary, Queen of Scots (Thomas Imbach) ⚫
Mystery Road (Ivan Sen)
Night Moves (Kelly Reichardt) ○
Omar (Hany Abu-Assad) ○
One Chance (David Frankel) ®
Only Lovers Left Alive (Jim Jarmusch) ★ ®
The Past (Asghar Farhadi) ⚫ ®
Philomena (Stephen Frears) ®
Pioneer (Erik Skjoldbjærg)
Prisoners (Denis Villeneuve) C ®
A Promise (Patrice Leconte)
Quai d’Orsay (Bertrand Tavernier)
Real (Kiyoshi Kurosawa) ○
Rock the Casbah (Laïla Marrakchi)
Singing Women (Reha Erdem)
Starred Up (David Mackenzie)
Southcliffe (Sean Durkin)
Sunshine on Leith (Dexter Fletcher)
Therese (Charlie Stratton)
Third Person (Paul Haggis) ®
Those Happy Years (Daniele Luchetti)
Tom at the Farm (Xavier Dolan) ○ C ®
Tracks (John Curran) ®
12 Years a Slave (Steve McQueen) ○ ®
Under the Skin (Jonathan Glazer) ○
Unforgiven (Lee Sang-il)
Violette (Martin Provost)
Visitors (Godfrey Reggio) ®
Walesa. Man of Hope. (Andrzej Wajda)
Watermark (Jennifer Baichwal & Edward Burtynsky) C ®
We are the Best! (Lukas Moodysson) ○
The Wind Rises (Hayao Miyazaki) ○
You Are Here (Matthew Weiner) ®
Young & Beautiful (François Ozon) ⚫ ®

Contemporary World Cinema (59, including the shorts programme; last year: 61)
The Animal Project (Ingrid Veninger) C ®
Bad Hair (Mariana Rondón)
Bastardo (Nejib Belkadhi)
The Bit Player (Jeffrey Jeturian)
Blind Dates (Levan Koguashvili)
Brazilian Western (René Sampaio)
Break Loose (Alexey Uchitel)
Child’s Pose (Calin Peter Netzer) ⚫
Cinemanovels (Terry Miles) C
Club Sandwich (Fernando Eimbcke)
Cristo Rey (Leticia Tonos Paniagua)
The Dick Knost Show (Bruce Sweeney) C
The Dinner (Menno Meyjes)
The Dismantling (Sébastien Pilote) ⚫ C ®
Eastern Boys (Robin Campillo)
El Mudo (Diego & Daniel Vega) FS
Empire of Dirt (Peter Stebbings) C ®
An Episode in the Life of an Iron Picker (Danis Tanović)
Friends from France (Philippe Kotlarski & Anne Weil) ®
Giselle (Toa Fraser)
Heart of a Lion (Dome Karukoski)
Honeymoon (Jan Hrebejk)
Hotell (Lisa Langseth)
The Immoral (Lars Daniel Krutzkoff Jacobsen)
Intruders (Noh Young-Seok)
iNumber Number (Donovan Marsh)
A Journey (Catherine Martin) C ®
The Kids from the Port (Alberto Morais)
Ladder to Damascus (Mohamad Malas)
Le Grand Cahier (János Szász)
Life’s a Breeze (Lance Daly)
Little Feet (Alexandre Rockwell)
The Major (Yuri Bykov) FS
Manuscripts Don’t Burn (Mohammad Rasoulof) ⚫
McCanick (Josh C. Waller) ®
Metalhead (Ragnar Bragason)
Ningen (Guillaume Giovanetti & Çagla Zencirci)
October November (Götz Spielmann) ○
Old Moon (Raisa Bonnet)
Palestine Stereo (Rashid Masharawi)
Paradise: Hope (Ulrich Seidl) ○
A Place in Heaven (Yossi Madmony)
Qissa (Anup Singh)
Rags and Tatters (Ahmad Abdalla)
The Sea (Stephen Brown)
The Selfish Giant (Clio Barnard) ⚫ ®
Siddharth (Richie Mehta) ⚫ C
Something Necessary (Judy Kibinge)
Stay (Wiebke von Carolsfeld) C ®
Stop the Pounding Heart (Roberto Minervini) FS
Stranger by the Lake (Alain Guiraudie) ★
This is Sanlitun (Róbert I. Douglas)
Unbeatable (Dante Lam)
Under the Starry Sky (Dyana Gaye)
When Evening Falls on Bucharest or Metabolism (Corneliu Porumboiu) ○
White Lies (Dana Rotberg)
A Wolf at the Door (Fernando Coimbra)
The Wonders (Avi Nesher)

To Repel Ghosts: Urban Tales from the African Continent:
  – Homecoming (Jim Chuchu)
  – Berea (Vincent Moloi)
  – To Repel Ghosts (Philippe Lacôte)
  – Kwaku Ananse (Akosua Adoma Owusu)
  – Noah’s Flood (Mark Dornford-May)

Discovery (28; last year: 27)
All About the Feathers (Neto Villalobos)
All the Wrong Reasons (Gia Milani) C ®
The Amazing Catfish (Claudia Sainte-Luce)
Around the Block (Sarah Spillane)
Bends (Flora Lau) ⚫
Beneath the Harvest Sky (Aron Gaudet & Gita Pullapilly)
Bethlehem (Yuval Adler)
Bobô (Inês Oliveira)
Border (Alessio Cremonini)
Canopy (Aaron Wilson)
Fat (Mark Phinney)
Giraffada (Rani Massalha)
I Am Yours (Iram Haq)
Ilo Ilo (Anthony Chen) ⚫
The Militant (Manolo Nieto)
Miracle (Juraj Lehotsky) 35mm
My Love Awaits Me by the Sea (Mais Darwazah)
Of Good Report (Jahmil X.T. Qubeka)
Palo Alto (Gia Coppola)
Paradise (Mariana Chenillo)
1982 (Tommy Oliver)
Rhymes for Young Ghouls (Jeff Barnaby) C ®
Salvation Army (Abdellah Taia) ○
Sarah Prefers to Run (Chloé Robichaud) ⚫ C FS ®
South is Nothing (Fabio Mollo)
The Stag (John Butler)
The Summer of Flying Fish (Marcela Said) ⚫ FS
Trap Street (Vivian Qu)

TIFF Docs (22; last year: 29)
Ain’t Misbehavin’ (Marcel Ophüls)
At Berkeley (Frederick Wiseman) ○ ®
Beyond the Edge (Leanne Pooley)
Burt’s Buzz (Jody Shapiro) ⚫ C
The Dark Matter of Love (Sarah McCarthy)
The Dog (Allison Berg & Frank Keraudren)
Faith Connections (Pan Nalin)
Filthy Gorgeous: The Bob Guccione Story (Barry Avrich) C ®
Finding Vivian Maier (John Maloof & Charlie Siskel) ®
Hi-Ho Mistahey! (Alanis Obomsawin) C ®
Ignasi M. (Ventura Pons)
Jodorowsky’s Dune (Frank Pavich) ⚫ ®
The Last of the Unjust (Claude Lanzmann) ⚫ FS
The Mayor (Emiliano Altuna Fistolera)
Midway (Chris Jordan)
Mission Congo (David Turner & Lara Zizic)
The Square (Jehane Noujaim) ○
A Story of Children and Film (Mark Cousins) FS
Tim’s Vermeer (Teller) ®
The Unknown Known (Errol Morris) ○ ®
Unstable Elements (Madeleine Sackler)
When Jews Were Funny (Alan Zweig) C

Wavelengths (21, including shorts programmes; last year: 19)
The Battle of Tabatô (Joao Viana) [+ The Disquiet (Ali Cherri)] ⚫ FS
A Field in England (Ben Wheatley) ⚫ FS ®
La última película (Raya Martin & Mark Peranson) [+ RP31 (Lucy Raven)] ★ 35mm ®
I’m the same, I’m an other (Caroline Strubbe)
MANAKAMANA (Stephanie Spray & Pacho Velez) ★ FS
The Missing Image (Rithy Panh) ⚫ ®
Pays Barbare (Yervant Gianikian & Angela Ricci Lucchi) ⚫ FS
The Police Officer’s Wife (Philip Gröning) ○
A Spell to Ward Off the Darkness (Ben Rivers & Ben Russell) ○
Story of My Death (Albert Serra) ○
The Strange Little Cat (Ramon Zürcher) ★ FS
Stray Dogs (Tsai Ming-liang) ★
Three Interpretation Exercises (Cristi Puiu) ○
‘Til Madness Do Us Part (Wang Bing) ○

A Thousand Suns And Letter To A Refusing Pilot
  – A Thousand Suns (Mati Diop) ★
  – Letter to a Refusing Pilot (Akram Zaatari)

Three Landscapes Preceded By Song And Spring ○
  – Song (Nathaniel Dorsky) 16mm
  – Spring (Nathaniel Dorsky) 16mm
  – Three Landscapes (Peter Hutton)

Un Conte De Michel De Montaigne And The King’s Body And Redemption
  – Un Conte de Michel de Montaigne (Jean-Marie Straub)
  – The King’s Body (Joao Pedro Rodrigues) ⚫
  – Redemption (Miguel Gomes) ⚫

Wavelengths 1: Variations On… ○
  – Variations of a Cellophane Wrapper (David Rimmer) 16mm
  – Pop Takes (Luther Price) 16mm
  – Airship (Kenneth Anger)
  – El Adios Largos (Andrew Lampert)
  – The Realist (Scott Stark)

Wavelengths 2: Now & Then ○
  – Instants (Hannes Schüpbach) 16mm
  – Pepper’s Ghost (Stephen Broomer)
  – Man in Motion, 2012 (Ruben Glamer) 16mm
  – Flower (Naoko Tasaka)
  – Constellations (Helga Fanderl) 16mm

Wavelengths 3: Farther Than the Eye Can See ○
  – Farther Than the Eye Can See (Basma Alsharif)
  – Main Hall (Philipp Fleischmann) 35mm
  – 457 Broadway (Tomonari Nishikawa) 16mm
  – Bann (Nina Könnemann)
  – Suchy Pion (Wojckech Bakowski)
  – Gowanus Canal (Sarah J. Christman) 16mm
  – Nefandus (Carlos Motta)

Wavelengths 4: Elysium ○
  – Trissákia 3 (Nick Collins) 16mm
  – Brimstone Line (Chris Kennedy) 16mm
  – Listening to the Space in My Room (Robert Beavers) 16mm
  – Mount Song (Shambhavi Kaul)
  – Natpwe, the feast of the spirits (Jean Dubrel)

Gala Presentations (20; last year: 20)
American Dreams in China (Peter Ho-Sun Chan)
The Art of the Steal (Jonathan Sobol) ⚫ C ®
August: Osage County (John Wells) ®
Blood Ties (Guillaume Canet) ○
Bright Days Ahead (Marion Vernoux) ⚫ ®
Cold Eyes (Cho Ui-seok & Kim Byung-seo) ⚫
The Fifth Estate (Bill Condon) ®
The Grand Seduction (Don McKellar) C ®
Kill Your Darlings (John Krokidas) ®
Life of Crime (Daniel Schechter)
The Love Punch (Joel Hopkins) ®
The Lunchbox (Ritesh Batra) ⚫ ®
Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom (Justin Chadwick) ®
Parkland (Peter Landesman) ○ ®
The Railway Man (Jonathan Teplitzky)
A Random Desi Romance (Maneesh Sharma) ®
The Right Kind of Wrong (Jeremiah Chechik) C ®
Rush (Ron Howard) ®
Supermensch The Legend of Shep Gordon (Mike Myers)
Words and Pictures (Fred Schepisi)

Vanguard (16; last year: 15)
Asphalt Watches (Seth Scriver & Shayne Ehman) C
Blue Ruin (Jeremy Saulnier) ⚫ ®
Borgman (Alex van Warmerdam) ⚫ ®
Celestial Wives of the Meadow Mari (Aleksei Fedorchenko) ⚫ FS
The Fake (Yeon Sang-ho)
Gerontophilia (Bruce LaBruce) ⚫ C ®
Horns (Alexandre Aja) ®
People In Places (Juan Cavestany)
Proxy (Zack Parker)
The Sacrament (Ti West)
Sapi (Brillante Mendoza)
Sex, Drugs & Taxation (Christoffer Boe)
Soul (Chung Mong-Hong)
The Strange Color of Your Body’s Tears (Hélène Cattet & Bruno Forzani) ○
Thou Gild’st the Even (Onur Ünlü) ⚫ FS
We Gotta Get Out of This Place (Simon Hawkins & Zeke Hawkins)

Masters (11; last year: 14)
Abuse of Weakness (Catherine Breillat) ○
Bastards (Claire Denis) ★ ®
Closed Curtain (Jafar Panahi & Kamboziya Partovi) ⚫
Concrete Night (Pirjo Honkasalo)
Home From Home – Chronicle of a Vision (Edgar Reitz)
How Strange to be Named Federico: Scola Narrates Fellini (Ettore Scola)
Moebius (Kim Ki-duk)
Norte, the End of History (Lav Diaz) ★
Our Sunhi (Hong Sang-soo) ○
A Touch of Sin (Jia Zhang-ke) ★ ®
Triptych (Robert Lepage & Pedro Pires) C ®

City to City: Athens (10; last year: 10)
The Daughter (Thanos Anastopoulos) FS
The Eternal Return of Antonis Paraskevas (Elina Psykou) FS
J.A.C.E. – Just Another Confused Elephant (Menelaos Karamaghiolis)
Miss Violence (Alexandros Avranas)
September (Penny Panayotopoulou)
Standing Aside, Watching (Yorgos Servetas)
To the Wolf (Aran Hughes & Christina Koutsospyrou) FS
Unfair World (Filippos Tsitos)
Wasted Youth (2011, Argyris Papadimitropoulos & Jan Vogel) FS
Wild Duck (Yannis Sakaridis)

Midnight Madness (10; last year: 10)
Afflicted (Derek Lee & Clif Prowse) C ®
All Cheerleaders Die (Lucky McKee & Chris Sivertson)
Almost Human (Joe Begos)
The Green Inferno (Eli Roth) ®
Oculus (Mike Flanagan)
R100 (Hitoshi Matsumoto) ⚫
Rigor Mortis (Juno Mak)
The Station (Marvin Kren)
Why Don’t You Play in Hell? (Sion Sono)
Witching & Bitching (Alex de la Iglesia)

Future Projections (9; last year: 8)
1. Camille Henrot: Grosse Fatigue (2013) – September 5 to 15
2. Ralph Steadman: Ralph Steadman For No Good Reason (1970-2013) – September 5 to 15
3. Radical Friend: Sweat (2012) – September 5 to 15
4. Candice Breitz: Treatment (2013) – September 5 to December 29
5. Marcel Dzama: Une Danse des Bouffons (or A Jester’s Dance) (2013) – September 5 to December 29
6. James Coupe: Swarm (2013) – September 5 to December 29
7. Jeremy Shaw: Introduction to the Memory Personality (2012/2013) – September 5 to December 29
8. Jamie Shovlin: Rough Cut (Hiker Meat) (2012-13) – September 5 to December 29
9. Laurel Woodcock: walkthrough (2013) – September 5 to December 29

Mavericks (9; last year: 7)
For No Good Reason (Charlie Paul)
In Conversation With…Irrfan Khan
In Conversation With…Spike Jonze
InRealLife (Beeban Kidron)
Made in America (Ron Howard)
Our Man In Tehran (Larry Weinstein & Drew Taylor)
12.12.12. (no director?)
What is Cinema? (Chuck Workman)
Women & Film 40th Anniversary – I Am Somebody (Madeline Anderson)

TIFF Cinematheque (7; last year: 7)
An Autumn Afternoon (1962, Yasujiro Ozu) ○
Gun Crazy (1950, Joseph H. Lewis) ○ 35mm
Hiroshima mon amour (1959, Alain Resnais) ★
Le joli mai (1963, Chris Marker & Pierre Lhomme) ○
Manila in the Claws of Light (1975, Lino Brocka) ○
Rome, Open City (1945, Roberto Rossellini) ★
Shivers (1975, David Cronenberg) ⚫

TIFF Kids (5; last year: 5)
Amazonia (Luc Marescot & Thierry Ragobert) ®
Antboy (Ask Hasselbalch)
Khumba (Anthony Silverston)
The World of Goopi and Bagha (Shilpa Ranade)
Zip and Zap and the Marble Gang (Oskar Santos)

Short Cuts Canada
Go to the festival website if you want to know what’s playing in this section.

Tier 0
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Tier 1
The Strange Little Cat (Ramon Zürcher)
Norte, the End of History (Lav Diaz)

Tier 2
Bastards (Claire Denis)
Stranger by the Lake (Alain Guiraudie)
Nebraska (Alexander Payne)
3x3D (Peter Greenaway, Jean-Luc Godard, & Edgar Pêra)

Tier 3
A Touch of Sin (Jia Zhang-ke)
Inside Llewyn Davis (Joel & Ethan Coen)
Only Lovers Left Alive (Jim Jarmusch)
Behind the Candelabra (Steven Soderbergh)

Tier 4
Tip Top (Serge Bozon)
Blue is the Warmest Color (Abdellatif Kechiche)
Venus In Fur (Roman Polanski)
The Selfish Giant (Clio Barnard)
The Great Beauty (Paolo Sorrentino)
Like Father, Like Son (Hirokazu Kore-eda)
Até ver a luz (Basil Da Cunha)
The Immigrant (James Gray)

Tier 5
Blind Detective (Johnnie To)
The Congress (Ari Folman)
The Summer of Flying Fish (Marcela Said)
Shield of Straw (Takashi Miike)
Salvo (Fabio Grassadonia & Antonio Piazza)
Bends (Flora Lau)
Young & Beautiful (François Ozon)
Jodorowsky’s Dune (Frank Pavich)
Blue Ruin (Jeremy Saulnier)
Borgman (Alex Van Warmerdam)
The Rendez-Vous of Déjà-Vu (Antonin Peretjatko)
Michael Kohlhaas (Arnaud des Pallieres)
Crystal Fairy (Sebastián Silva)
Gold (Thomas Arslan)
Heli (Amat Escalante)
Me Myself and Mum (Guillaume Gallienne)
A Castle in Italy (Valeria Bruni-Tedeschi)

Tier 6
You and the Night (Yann Gonzalez)
The Bling Ring (Sofia Coppola)
Grand Central (Rebecca Zlotowski)
Gloria (Sebastián Lelio)
The Missing Picture (Rithy Panh)
Only God Forgives (Nicolas Winding Refn)
Apaches (Thierry de Peretti)
The Last Days on Mars (Ruairi Robinson)
Touchy Feely (Lynn Shelton)
Manuscripts Don’t Burn (Mohammad Rasoulof)
Fruitvale Station (Ryan Coogler)
Child’s Pose (Calin Peter Netzer)
Stop-Over (Kaveh Bakhtiari)
My Sweet Pepper Land (Hiner Saleem)
The Past (Asghar Farhadi)
Grisgris (Mahamat Saleh Haroun)

Tier 7
Walkolda (Lucía Puenzo)
The Last of the Unjust (Claude Lanzmann)
The Dance of Reality (Alejandro Jodorowsky)
Suzanne (Katell Quillévéré)
The Dismantling (Sébastien Pilote)
Jimmy P. (Psychotherapy of a Plains Indian) (Arnaud Desplechin)

Tier 10
Nothing Bad Can Happen (Katrin Gebbe)

Past Logs

2012 Film Log
2011 Film Log
2010 Film Log
2009 Film Log
2007 Film Log

*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]