(Films seen by yours truly are in blue. Films walked out of after two reels by yours truly are in red. Films yours truly is currently on the fence about possibly seeing are in green.)



Week of 3 Jul

The Beaches of Agnès (Agnès Varda) [Venice 08 Out of Comp]
The Girl From Monaco (Anne Fontaine) [Locarno 08 Piazza Grande]
I Hate Valentine's Day (Nia Vardalos) [L.A. Greek 09]
Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs (Carlos Saldanha)
Kambakkht ishq (Sabbir Khan)
Lion's Den (Pablo Trapero) [Cannes 08 Comp]
Nollywood Babylon (Ben Addelman & Samir Mallal) [Sundance 09 World Cinema]
Public Enemies (Michael Mann) [LAFF 09 Centerpiece]
Tony Manero (Pablo Larraín) [Cannes 08 Fortnight]


Week of 26 Jun

Afghan Star (Havana Marking)
Chéri (Stephen Frears)
The Hurt Locker (Kathryn Bigelow)
Local Color (George Gallo) [2006]
My Sister's Keeper (Nick Cassavetes)
New York (Kabir Khan)
Quiet Chaos (Antonello Grimaldi)
Rebirth of a Nation (DJ Spooky)
The Stoning of Soraya M. (Cyrus Nowrasteh)
Surveillance (Jennifer Lynch)
Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (Michael Bay)


Week of 19 Jun

Dead Snow (Tommy Wirkola)
The End of the Line (Rupert Murray)
The Narrows (François Velle)
$9.99 (Tatia Rosenthal)-
The Proposal (Anne Fletcher)
Street Dreams (Chris Zamoscianyk)
Under Our Skin (Andy Abrahams Wilson)
Whatever Works (Woody Allen)
The Windmill Movie (Alexander Olch)
Year One (Harold Ramis)


Week of 12 Jun

Blast! (Paul Devlin)
Food, Inc. (Robert Kenner)-
Imagine That (Karey Kirkpatrick)
The Last International Playboy (Steve Clark)
Moon (Duncan Jones)
Sex Positive (Daryl Wein)
The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3 (Tony Scott)
Tetro (Francis Ford Coppola)
Youssou Ndour: I Bring What I Love (Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi)


Week of 5 Jun

The Art of Being Straight (Jesse Rosen)
Autumn Ball (Veiko Ounpuu)
Away We Go (Sam Mendes)
Cayman Went (Bobby Sheehan)
Downloading Nancy (Johan Renck)
The Hangover (Todd Phillips)
Herb & Dorothy (Megumi Sasaki)
Kassim the Dream (Kief Davidson)
Land of the Lost (Brad Silberling)
My Life in Ruins (Donald Petrie)
Séraphine (Martin Provost)-
Tennessee (Aaron Woodley)
24 City (Jia Zhangke)
Unmistaken Child (Nati Baratz)


Week of 29 May

Departures (Yôjirô Takita)
Drag Me to Hell (Sam Raimi)
Laila's Birthday (Rashid Masharawi)-
Munyurangabo (Lee Isaac Chung)
Owl and the Sparrow (Stephane Gauger)
Pontypool (Bruce McDonald)
Pressure Cooker (Mark Becker & Jennifer Grausman)
Up (Pete Docter)
What Goes Up (Jonathan Glatzer)


Week of 22 May

The Boys: The Sherman Brothers' Story (Gregory V. Sherman & Jeff Sherman)
Burma VJ (Anders Ostergaard)-
Dance Flick (Damien Dante Wayans)
Easy Virtue (Stephan Elliott)
Ghosts of the Heartland (Allen Blumberg)
The Girlfriend Experience (Steven Soderbergh)
Kabei: Our Mother (Yôji Yamada)
Milton Glaser: To Inform and Delight (Wendy Keys)
New World Order (Luke Meyer & Andrew Neel)
Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian (Shawn Levy)
O'Horten (Bent Hamer)
Terminator Salvation (McG)


Week of 15 May

Anaglyph Tom (Tom With Puffy Cheeks) (Ken Jacobs)
Angels & Demons (Ron Howard)
Being Jewish in France (Yves Jeuland)
Big Man Japan (Hitoshi Matsumoto)
The Big Shot-Caller (Marlene Rhein)
The Brothers Bloom (Rian Johnson)
Jerichow (Christian Petzold)
Management (Stephen Belber)
99 (Raj Nidimoru & Krishna DK)
Revue (Sergei Loznitsa)
Summer Hours (Olivier Assayas)


Week of 8 May

Adoration (Atom Egoyan)
Audience of One (Mike Jacobs)
Brothers at War (Jake Rademacher)
Flower in the Pocket (Liew Seng Tat)
The Garden (Scott Hamilton Kennedy)
Julia (Erick Zonca)
Little Ashes (Paul Morrison)
Next Day Air (Benny Boom)
Objectified (Gary Hustwit)
Outrage (Kirby Dick)
Rudo y Cursi (Carlos Cuarón)
Star Trek (J.J. Abrams)
The Window (Carlos Sorin)


Week of 1 May

Battle for Terra (Aristomenis Tsirbas)
Cody: The First Step (Chris Schueler)
Eldorado (Bouli Lanners)
Ghosts of Girlfriends Past (Mark Waters)
Home (Mary Haverstick)*
I Can See You (Graham Reznick)
Ice People (Anne Aghion)
Jazz in the Diamond District (Lindsey Christian)
The Limits of Control (Jim Jarmusch)
The Merry Gentleman (Michael Keaton)
Revanche (Götz Spielmann)
The Skeptic (Tennyson Bardwell)
Three Monkeys (Nuri Bilge Ceylan)
A Wink and a Smile (Deirdre Allen Timmons)
X-Men Origins: Wolverine (Gavin Hood)

* IMPORTANT: This is not the Home that recently landed on my 2008 top ten list.


Week of 24 Apr

Earth (Alastair Fothergill & Mark Linfield)
Empty Nest (Daniel Burman)
Fighting (Dito Montiel)
Il Divo (Paolo Sorrentino)
The Informers (Gregor Jordan)
Mutant Chronicles (Simon Hunter)
Nursery University (Marc H. Simon)
Obsessed (Steve Shill)
The Soloist (Joe Wright)
Throw Down Your Heart (Sascha Paladino)
A Touch of Spice (Tassos Boulmetis) [2003]
Treeless Mountain (So Yong Kim)
Tyson (James Toback)


Week of 17 Apr

American Violet (Tim Disney)
Crank 2: High Voltage (Mark Neveldine & Brian Taylor)
Desert Dream (Zhang Lu)
Every Little Step (James D. Stern & Adam Del Deo)
The Golden Boys (Daniel Adams)
Is Anybody There? (John Crowley)
Lemon Tree (Eran Riklis)-
Oblivion (Heddy Honigmann)-
Perestroika (Slava Tsukerman)
17 Again (Burr Steers)
Sleep Dealer (Alex Rivera)
State of Play (Kevin Macdonald)


Week of 10 Apr

Anvil: The Story of Anvil (Sacha Gervasi)
Dragonball Evolution (James Wong)
Hannah Montana: The Movie (Peter Chelsom)
In a Dream (Jeremiah Zagar)
Lymelife (Derick Martini)
The Mysteries of Pittsburgh (Rawson Marshall Thurber)
Observe and Report (Jody Hill)
The Pope's Toilet (César Charlone & Enrique Fernández)
An Unlikely Weapon (Susan Morgan)


Week of 3 Apr

Adventureland (Greg Mottola)
Alien Trespass (R.W. Goodwin)
Bart Got a Room (Brian Hecker)
Enlighten Up! (Kate Churchill)
The Escapist (Rupert Wyatt)
Fast & Furious (Justin Lin)
Forbidden Lie$ (Anna Broinowski)
Gigantic (Matt Aselton)
Lifelines (Rob Margolies)
Paris 36 (Christophe Barratier)
The Song of Sparrows (Majid Majidi)
Sugar (Anna Boden & Ryan Fleck)
Tulpan (Sergey Dvortsevoy)


Week of 27 Mar

American Swing (Jon Hart & Matthew Kaufman)
The Country Teacher (Bohdan Sláma)
The Cross (Matthew Crouch)
The Education of Charlie Banks (Fred Durst)
Goodbye Solo (Ramin Bahrani)
Guest of Cindy Sherman (Paul H-O & Tom Donahue)
The Haunting in Connecticut (Peter Cornwell)
Monsters vs. Aliens (Rob Letterman & Conrad Vernon)
The Perfect Sleep (Jeremy Alter)
Shall We Kiss? (Emmanuel Mouret)
Spinning Into Butter (Mark Brokaw)
12 Rounds (Renny Harlin)


Week of 20 Mar

Bob Funk (Craig Carlisle)
C.R.A.Z.Y. (Jean-Marc Vallée) [2005]
Duplicity (Tony Gilroy)
The Edge of Love (John Maybury)
The Feature (Michel Auder & Andrew Neel)
The Great Buck Howard (Sean McGinly)
Hunger (Steve McQueen)
I Love You, Man (John Hamburg)
Knowing (Alex Proyas)
The New Twenty (Chris Mason Johnson)
Sin Nombre (Cary Joji Fukunaga)
Skills Like This (Monty Miranda)
Steam (Kyle Schickner)
Super Capers (Ray Griggs)
Valentino: The Last Emperor (Matt Tyrnauer)
We Pedal Uphill (Roland Tec)


Week of 13 Mar

The Cake Eaters (Mary Stuart Masterson)
Carmen & Geoffrey (Linda Atkinson) [2005]
The Last House on the Left (Dennis Iliadis)
Megane (Naoko Ogigami)
Miss March (Zach Cregger & Trevor Moore)
Race to Witch Mountain (Andy Fickman)
Severed Ways: The Norse Discovery of America (Tony Stone)
Sunshine Cleaning (Christine Jeffs)
Tokyo Sonata (Kiyoshi Kurosawa)
Waiting for Dublin (Roger Tucker)


Week of 6 Mar

Everlasting Moments (Jan Troell)
Explicit Ills (Mark Webber)
Fados (Carlos Saura)
Frontier of Dawn (Philippe Garrel)
La Belle personne (Christophe Honoré)
New York City Serenade (Frank Whaley)
Phoebe in Wonderland (Daniel Barnz)
Reunion (Alan Hruska)
Sherman's Way (Craig M. Saavedra)
13B (Vikram K. Kumar)
Tokyo! (Michel Gondry/Leos Carax/Bong Joon-ho)
12 (Nikita Mikhalkov)
Watchmen (Zack Snyder)


Week of 27 Feb

An American Affair (William Olsson)
Birdsong (Albert Serra)
Crossing Over (Wayne Kramer)
Echelon Conspiracy (Greg Marcks)
Examined Life (Astra Taylor)
Jonas Brothers: The 3D Concert Experience (Bruce Hendricks)
Robert Blecker Wants Me Dead (Ted Schillinger)
Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li (Andrzej Bartkowiak)
The Trouble With Romance (Gene Rhee)


Week of 20 Feb

Delhi 6 (Rakesh Omprakash Mehra)
Eleven Minutes (Michael Selditch & Robert Tate)
Fired Up (Will Gluck)
Katyn (Andrzej Wajda)
Must Read After My Death (Morgan Dews)
Tyler Perry's Medea Goes to Jail (Tyler Perry)


Week of 13 Feb

The Caller (Richard Ledes)
Confessions of a Shopaholic (P.J. Hogan)
Friday the 13th (Marcus Nispel)
Gomorrah (Matteo Garrone)
Great Speeches From a Dying World (Linas Phillips)
The International (Tom Tykwer)
Two Lovers (James Gray)


Week of 6 Feb

Coraline (Henry Selick)
Fanboys (Kyle Newman)
He's Just Not That Into You (Ken Kwapis)
Life. Support. Music. (Eric Daniel Metzgar)
Lithuania and the Collapse of the USSR (Jonas Mekas)
Memorial Day (Josh Fox)
Our City Dreams (Chiara Clemente)
The Pink Panther 2 (Harald Zwart)
Push (Paul McGuigan)
2009 Academy Award Nominated Short Films (Various)


Week of 30 Jan

Between Love & Goodbye (Casper Andreas)
Blessed Is the Match: The Life and Death of Hannah Senesh (Roberta Grossman)
The Color of Magic (Vadim Jean)
Luck by Chance (Zoya Akhtar)
Medicine for Melancholy (Barry Jenkins)
New in Town (Jonas Elmer)
Serbis (Brilliante Ma. Mendoza, DGPI)
Shadows (Milcho Manchevski)
Taken (Pierre Morel)
The Toe Tactic (Emily Hubley)
The Uninvited (Charles Guard & Thomas Guard)


Week of 23 Jan

California Dreamin' (Cristian Nemescu)
Crips and Bloods: Made in America (Stacy Peralta)
Dealing and Wheeling in Small Arms (Sander Francken) [2006]
Donkey Punch (Oliver Blackburn)
Glorious Exit (Kevin Merz)
Inkheart (Iain Softley)
The Lodger (David Ondaatje)
The Photograph (Nan Triveni Achnas)
Underworld: Rise of the Lycans (Patrick Tatopoulos)


Week of 16 Jan

Ballerina (Bertrand Normand) [2006]
Chandni Chowk to China (Nikhil Advani)
Cherry Blossoms (Doris Dörrie)
Hotel for Dogs (Thor Freudenthal)
Mock Up on Mu (Craig Baldwin)
My Bloody Valentine (Patrick Lussier)
Notorious (George Tillman, Jr.)
Paul Blart: Mall Cop (Steve Carr)
Sleepwalking Land (Teresa Prata)
The Sublet (Georgiana Nestor)


Week of 9 Jan

Bride Wars (Gary Winick)
Just Another Love Story (Ole Bornedal)
Not Easily Broken (Bill Duke)
The Unborn (David S. Goyer)
Yonkers Joe (Robert Celestino)


Week of 2 Jan

Cargo 200 (Alexei Balabanov)