Tuesday, August 6, 2013

Out of the Past: The Month In Film, July 2013


Top 10:


10. Songs From the Second Floor (2000) Dir. Roy Andersson – Sweden
9. A Swedish Love Story (1977) Dir. Roy Andersson – Sweden
8. Vanishing Waves (2012) Dir. Kristina Buozyte – Lithuania
7. The Hairdresser (2010) Dir. Doris Dorrie – Germany
6. Once Upon a Time in America (1984) Dir. Sergio Leone – US
5. Life of Jesus (1997) Dir. Bruno Dumont - France
4. Pitfall (1962) Dir. Hiroshi Teshigahara – Japan
3. Eureka (2000) Dir. Shinji Aoyama – Japan
2. The Seed of Man (1969) Dir. Marco Ferrerri – Italy
1. The Life of Oharu (1952) Dir. Kenji Mizoguchi – Japan

Of Interest:
Merci La Vie (1991) Dir. Bertrand Blier – France
Movie 43 (2013) Dir. Various – US
Another Country (1984) Dir. Marek Kanievska – UK
Carrie (1952) Dir. William Wyler – US
The War at Home (1996) Dir. Emilio Estevez – US

Banal:
Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story (2004) Dir. Rawson Marshall Thurber – US
Orca (1977) Dir. Michael Anderson – US
Star Trek: The Motion Picture (1979) Dir. Robert Wise – US
I Saw What You Did (1965) Dir. William Castle – US
The Collectress (2008) Dir. Kristina Buozyte – Lithuania
21 & Over (2013) Dir. Jon Lucas & Scott Moore – US

Theatrical Screenings:
Blue Jasmine (2013) Dir. Woody Allen – US 10/10
Blackfish (2013) Dir. Gabriela Cowperthwaite – US 10/10
Pacific Rim (2013) Dir. Guillermo Del Toro – US 9/10
Child’s Pose (2013) Dir. Calin Peter Netzer – Romania 8/10
The Frozen Ground (2012) Dir. Scott Walker – US 8/10
Beneath (2013) Dir. Larry Fessenden – US 8/10
Computer Chess (2013) Dir. Andrew Bujalski – US 8/10
Viola (2012) Dir. Matias Pineiro – Argentina 7/10
The Colony (2013) Dir. Jeff Renfroe – Canada 7/10
Drinking Buddies (2013) Dir. Joe Swanberg – US 7/10
Insidious: Chapter 2 (2013) Dir. James Wan – US 7/10
Jug Face (2013) Dir. Chad Crawford Kinkle – US 6/10
Broken (2012) Dir. Rufus Norris – UK 6/10
The Artist and the Model (2013) Dir. Fernando Trueba – France/Spain 5/10
The Purge (2013) Dir. James DeMonaco – US 4/10
The Complex (2013) Dir. Hideo Nakata – Japan 4/10
Still Mine (2012) Dir. Michael McGowan – Canada 4/10
The Time Being (2012) Dir. Nenad Cicin-Sain – US 3/10
Girl Most Likely (2012) Dir. Shari Springer Berman & Robert Pulcini – US 3/10
I Give It a Year (2013) Dir. Dan Mazer – 2/10
Killing Season (2012) Dir. Mark Steven Johnson – US 1/10
Ritual: A Psychomagic Story (2012) Dir. Giulia Brazzale & Luca Immesi – Italy 1/10

Rewatched:
Jawbreaker (1999) Dir. Darren Stein – US
Pieta (2012) Dir. Kim Ki-duk – South Korea
Oldboy (2003) Dir. Park Chan-wook – South Korea
Female on the Beach (1955) Dir. Joseph Pevney – US
Border Run (2013) Dir. Gabriela Tagliavini – US
Drug War (2012) Dir. Johnnie To – Japan

Cess Pool:
The Lonely Lady (1983) Dir. Peter Sasdy – US
Temptation: Confessions of a Marriage Counselor (2013) Dir. Tyler Perry – US
Liz and Dick (2013) Dir. Lloyd Kramer – US
G.I. Joe: Retaliation (2013) Dir. Jon Chu – US
Butterfly (1982) Dir. Matt Cimber – US
The Cloth (2013) Dir. Justin Price – US