New York City 2013 Commercial Releases
(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 24 May
Before Midnight (Richard Linklater) [Sundance '13 Premieres]
Doin' It in the Park: Pick-Up Basketball, NYC (Kevin Couliau & Robert Garcia) [S.F. Black '12]
The English Teacher (Craig Zisk) [Tribeca '13]
Epic (Chris Wedge)
Fast & Furious 6 (Justin Lin)
Fill the Void (Rama Burshtein) [Jerusalem '12]
A Green Story (Nika Agiashvili) [L.A. Greek '12]
The Hangover Part III (Todd Phillips)
Kid-Thing (David Zellner) [Sundance '12 NEXT]
Nancy, Please (Andrew Semans) [Tribeca '12]
Penguins ([no director credited])
Plimpton! Starring George Plimpton as Himself (Tom Bean & Luke Poling) [Silverdocs' 12]
3 Geezers! (Michelle Schumacher)
We Steal Secrets: The Story of WikiLeaks (Alex Gibney) [Sundance '13 Premieres]
Week of 17 May
Augustine (Alice Winocour)
Aurangzeb (Atul Sabharwal)
Becoming Traviata (Philippe Béziat)
Bidder 70 (Beth Gage & George Gage)
Black Rock (Katie Aselton)
Cape Spin! An American Power Struggle (Robbie Gemmel & John Kirby)
Elemental (Gayatri Roshan & Emmanuel Vaughan-Lee)
Erased (Philipp Stölzl)
Frances Ha (Noah Baumbach)
Hating Breitbart (Andrew Marcus)
Old Dog (Pema Tseden)
Pieta (Kim Ki Duk)
Re-emerging: The Jews of Nigeria (Jeff L. Lieberman)
Star Trek Into Darkness (J.J. Abrams)
State 194 (Dan Setton)
33 Postcards (Pauline Chan)
Valentino's Ghost (Michael Singh)
Week of 10 May
Aftershock (Nicolás López)
And Now a Word From Our Sponsor (Zack Bernbaum)
The Girls in the Band (Judy Chaikin)
Go Goa Gone (Krishna D.K. & Raj Nidimoru)
The Great Gatsby (Baz Luhrmann)
He's Way More Famous Than You (Michael Urie)
How Sweet It Is (Brian Herzlinger)
Java Heat (Conor Allyn)
No One Lives (Ryûhei Kitamura)
One Track Heart: The Story of Krishna Das (Jeremy Frindel)
The Painting (Jean-François Laguionie)
Peeples (Tina Gordon Chism)
Pilgrim Song (Martha Stephens)
Released (David Rothenberg)
The Second Meeting (Zeljko Mirkovic)
Sightseers (Ben Wheatley)
Stories We Tell (Sarah Polley)
Three Sisters (Wang Bing)
Venus and Serena (Maiken Baird & Michelle Major)
What Richard Did (Lenny Abrahamson)
Week of 3 May
Aroused (Deborah Anderson)
Caroline and Jackie (Adam Christian Clark)
Dead Man's Burden (Jared Moshé)
Desperate Acts of Magic (Tammy Caplan & Joe Tyler Gold)
1st Night (Christopher Menaul) [2010]
Fragments of Kubelka (Martina Kudlácek)
Free the Mind (Phie Ambo)
Generation Um... (Mark Mann)
Greetings From Tim Buckley (Daniel Algrant)
The Happy House (D.W. Young)
The Iceman (Ariel Vromen)
Iron Man Three (Shane Black)
Kiss of the Damned (Xan Cassavetes)
Love Is All You Need (Susanne Bier)
Memories Look at Me (Song Fang)
Occupy Love (Velcrow Ripper)
Once Upon a Time in Brooklyn (Paul Borghese)
Post tenebras lux (Carlos Reygadas)
Scatter My Ashes at Bergdorf's (Matthew Miele)
Shootout at Wadala (Sanjay Gupta)
Something in the Air (Olivier Assayas)
The Source Family (Maria Demopoulos & Jodi Wille)
Turtle Hill, Brooklyn (Ryan Gielen)
Unmade in China (Tanner King Barklow & Gil Kofman)
What Maisie Knew (Scott McGehee & David Siegel)
Wuss (Clay Liford)
Week of 26 Apr
Arthur Newman (Dante Ariola)
At Any Price (Ramin Bahrani)
The Big Wedding (Justin Zackham)
Filly Brown (Youssef Delara & Michael D. Olmos)
Graceland (Ron Morales)
Hamesima X (Prosper Malka & Yuval Ovadia & Or Yashar) [2010]
Highway (Deepak Rauniyar)
Holla II (H.M. Coakley)
It Takes a Man and a Woman (Cathy Garcia-Molina)
Kon-Tiki (Joachim Rønning & Espen Sandberg)
Married & Counting (Allan Piper)
Midnight's Children (Deepa Mehta)
Mortem (Eric Atlan) [2010]
Mud (Jeff Nichols)
The Numbers Station (Kasper Barfoed)
One Night Stand (Trish Dalton & Elisabeth Sperling)
Out-takes From the Life of a Happy Man (Jonas Mekas)
An Oversimplification of Her Beauty (Terence Nance)
Pain & Gain (Michael Bay)
Paradise: Love (Ulrich Seidl)
The Reluctant Fundamentalist (Mira Nair)
Sun Don't Shine (Amy Seimetz)
Tai Chi Hero (Stephen Fung)
Trash Dance (Andrew Garrison)
Week of 19 Apr
Ain't in It for My Health: A Film About Levon Helm (Jacob Hatley) [2010]
Deceptive Practive: The Mysteries and Mentors of Ricky Jay (Molly Bernstein)
Errors of the Human Body (Eron Sheean)
Herman's House (Angad Singh Bhalla)
In the House (François Ozon)
The Lords of Salem (Rob Zombie)
Love Sick Love (Christian Charles)
Oblivion (Joseph Kosinski)
Oconomowoc (Andy Gillies)
War on Whistleblowers: Free Press and the National Security State (Robert Greenwald)
Week of 12 Apr
American Meat (Graham Meriweather)
The Angels' Share (Ken Loach)
Antiviral (Brandon Cronenberg)
Arcadia (Olivia Silver)
Disconnect (Henry-Alex Rubin)
Fists of Legend (Kang Woo-suk)
42 (Brian Helgeland)
It's a Disaster (Todd Berger)
Paris-Manhattan (Sophie Lellouche)
The Revolutionary (Irv Drasnin)
Scary Movie 5 (Malcolm D. Lee)
This Ain't California (Marten Persiel)
To the Wonder (Terrence Malick)
Which Way Is the Front Line From Here?: The Life and Time of Tim Hetherington (Sebastian Junger)
Week of 5 Apr
André Gregory: Before and After Dinner (Cindy Kleine)
Bert Stern: Original Madman (Shannah Laumeister)
The Brass Teapot (Ramaa Mosley)
Chashme Baddoor (David Dhawan)
The Company You Keep (Robert Redford)
Down the Shore (Harold Guskin)
Eddie (Boris Rodriguez)
Evil Dead (Fede Alvarez)
Free Angela & All Political Prisoners (Shola Lynch)
Lotus Eaters (Alexandra McGuinness)
No Place on Earth (Janet Tobias)
Simon Killer (Antonio Campos)
6 Souls (Måns Mårlind & Björn Stein) [2010]
Smyrna: The Destruction of a Cosmopolitan City, 1900-1922 (Maria Ilioú)
The Story of Luke (Alonso Mayo)
Stranger Things (Eleanor Burke & Ron Eyal) [2010]
Tattoo Nation (Eric Schwartz)
Trance (Danny Boyle)
Upstream Color (Shane Carruth)
Wings of Life (Louis Schwartzberg)
Week of 29 Mar
Blancanieves (Pablo Berger)
Code of the West (Rebecca Richman Cohen)
Detour (William Dickerson)
Dog Pound (Kim Chapiron) [2010]
Family Weekend (Benjamin Epps)
G.I. Joe: Retaliation (Jon M. Chu)
Himmatwala (Sajid Khan)
The Host (Andrew Niccol)
Mental (P.J. Hogan)
The Place Beyond the Pines (Derek Cianfrance)
Renoir (Gilles Bourdos)
Rescue in the Philippines: Refuge From the Holocaust (Russ Hodge & Cyndi Scott)
The Revolutionary Optimists (Maren R. Monsen & Nicole Newnham)
Somebody Up There Likes Me (Bob Byington)
Tyler Perry's Temptation (Tyler Perry)
Violeta Went to Heaven (Andrés Wood)
Welcome to the Punch (Eran Creevy)
Wrong (Quentin Dupieux)
Week of 22 Mar
Admission (Paul Weitz)
Come Out and Play (Makinov)
The Croods (Kirk De Micco & Chris Sanders)
Dorfman in Love (Brad Leong)
Eden (Megan Griffiths)
Everybody Has a Plan (Ana Piterbarg)
Gimme the Loot (Adam Leon)
Hunky Dory (Marc Evans)
InAPPropriate Comedy (Vince Offer)
Leonie (Hisako Matsui) [2010]
Love and Honor (Danny Mooney)
Murph: The Protector (Scott Mactavish)
My Brother the Devil (Sally El Hosaini)
New World (Park Hoon-jung)
Olympus Has Fallen (Antoine Fuqua)
108 (Renate Costa) [2010]
The Sapphires (Wayne Blair)
Silver Circle (Pasha Roberts)
Starbuck (Ken Scott)
You Don't Need Feet to Dance (Alan Govenar)
Week of 15 Mar
Better Mus' Come (Storm Saulter) [2010]
The Call (Brad Anderson)
Clip (Maja Milos)
Crazy and Thief (Cory McAbee)
From up on Poppy Hill (Goro Miyazaki)
Ginger and Rosa (Sally Potter)
I Killed My Mother (Xavier Dolan) [2009]
If I Were You (Joan Carr-Wiggin)
The Incredible Burt Wonderstone (Don Scardino)
K-11 (Jules Stewart)
The Kill Hole (Mischa Webley)
Mariachi Gringo (Tom Gustafson)
Mindless Behavior: All Around the World (Steven Goldfried)
My Amityville Horror (Eric Walter)
Philip Roth: Unmasked (William Karel & Livia Manera)
Reality (Matteo Garrone)
Reincarnated (Andy Capper)
Spring Breakers (Harmony Korine)
Upside Down (Juan Solanas)
Vanishing Waves (Kristina Buozyte)
Week of 8 Mar
The ABCs of Death (Various)
The Attacks of 26/11 (Ram Gopal Varma)
Beyond the Hills (Cristian Mungiu)
The Bitter Buddha (Steven Feinartz)
Dead Man Down (Niels Arden Oplev)
Don't Stop Believin': Everyman's Journey (Ramona S. Diaz)
Downeast (David Redmon & Ashley Sabin)
Electrick Children (Rebecca Thomas)
Emperor (Peter Webber)
Girl Rising (Richard Robbins)
Greedy Lying Bastards (Craig Scott Rosebraugh)
Gut Renovation (Su Friedrich)
Language of a Broken Heart (Rocky Powell)
The Monk (Dominik Moll)
The Other Side of the Ice (Sprague Theobald)
Oz the Great and Powerful (Sam Raimi)
The Silence (Baran bo Odar) [2010]
The We and the I (Michel Gondry)
Week of 1 Mar
The Battle of Pussy Willow Creek (Wendy Jo Cohen) [2010]
The Condemned (Roberto Busó García)
Day of the Falcon (Jean-Jacques Annaud)
The End of Love (Mark Webber)
A Fierce Green Fire: The Battle for a Living Planet (Mark Kitchell)
Future Weather (Jenny Deller)
Genius on Hold (Gregory Marquette)
Hava Nagila (The Movie) (Roberta Grossman)
I, Me aur Main (Kapil Sharma)
Jack the Giant Slayer (Bryan Singer)
The Last Exorcism Part II (Ed Gass-Donnelly)
Leviathan (Lucien Castaing-Taylor & Véréna Paravel)
Molly's Theory of Relativity (Jeff Lipsky)
Pavilion (Tim Sutton)
Phantom (Todd Robinson)
A Place at the Table (Kristi Jacobson & Lori Silverbush)
Stoker (Park Chan-wook)
The Sweeney (Nick Love)
Thinly Veiled (Adolfo Doring) [2009]
21 and Over (Jon Lucas & Scott Moore)
The Unspeakable Act (Dan Sallitt)
War Witch (Kim Nguyen)
Welcome to Pine Hill (Keith Miller)
Week of 22 Feb
Dark Skies (Scott Stewart)
Doctor Bello (Tony Abulu)
11 Flowers (Wang Xiaoshuai)
Inescapable (Ruba Nadda)
Kai po che! (Abhishek Kapoor)
Northeast (Gregory Kohn)
One Life (Michael Gunton & Martha Holmes)
Red Flag (Alex Karpovsky)
Rubberneck (Alex Karpovsky)
Snitch (Ric Roman Waugh)
Stuck (Thaddaeus Scheel)
White T (Lance Frank)
Week of 15 Feb
Almost in Love (Sam Neave)
Beautiful Creatures (Richard LaGravenese)
The Berlin File (Ryoo Seung-wan)
Escape From Planet Earth (Cal Brunker)
A Good Day to Die Hard (John Moore)
The Jeffrey Dahmer Files (Chris James Thompson)
Like Someone in Love (Abbas Kiarostami)
Murder 3 (Vishesh Bhatt)
NO (Pablo Larraín)
Safe Haven (Lasse Hallström)
Saving Lincoln (Salvador Litvak)
Shanghai Calling (Daniel Hsia)
Week of 8 Feb
Caesar Must Die (Paolo & Vittorio Taviani)
Ferlinghetti: A Rebirth of Wonder (Christopher Felver) [2009]
A Glimpse Inside the Mind of Charles Swan III (Roman Coppola)
Identity Thief (Seth Gordon)
Lore (Cate Shortland)
Lost in Thailand (Xu Zheng)
Night Across the Street (Raúl Ruiz)
Once Every Day (Richard Foreman)
The Playroom (Julia Dyer)
Porfirio (Alejandro Landes)
A Rubberband Is an Unlikely Instrument (Matt Boyd)
Side Effects (Steven Soderbergh)
Special 26 (Neeraj Pandey)
Would You Rather (David Guy Levy)
Week of 1 Feb
As Luck Would Have It (Alex de la Iglesia)
Bullet to the Head (Walter Hill)
David (Bejoy Nambiar)
Girls Against Boys (Austin Chick)
The Haunting in Connecticut 2: Ghosts of Georgia (Tom Elkins)
John Dies at the End (Don Coscarelli)
Koch (Neil Barsky)
The Last Gladiators (Alex Gibney)
Mumia: Long Distance Revolutionary (Stephen Vittoria)
Sound City (Dave Grohl)
Sushi Girl (Kern Saxton)
2013 Academy-Award-Nominated Animated Short Films (Various)
2013 Academy-Award-Nominated Documentary Short Films (Various)
2013 Academy-Award-Nominated Live-Action Short Films (Various)
Warm Bodies (Jonathan Levine)
Week of 25 Jan
Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters (Tommy Wirkola)
Happy People: A Year in the Taiga (Dmitry Vasyukov & Werner Herzog) [2010]
Knife Fight (Bill Guttentag)
Movie 43 (Various)
Nana (Valérie Massadian)
Parker (Taylor Hackford)
The Pirogue (Moussa Touré)
Race 2 (Abbas-Mustan)
San Diego Surf (Andy Warhol) [1968]
Supporting Characters (Daniel Schechter)
The Taste of Money (Im Sangsoo)
Yossi (Eytan Fox)
Week of 18 Jan
Birders: The Central Park Effect (Jeffrey Kimball)
Birth Story: Ina May Gaskin and the Farm Midwives (Sara Lamm & Mary Wigmore)
Brief Reunion (John Daschbach)
Broken City (Allen Hughes)
Greenwich Village: Music That Defined a Generation (Laura Archibald)
The Last Stand (Kim Jee-woon)
Luv (Sheldon Candis)
Mama (Andy Muschietti)
Our School (Mona Nicoara)
Outside Satan (Bruno Dumont)
Southwest (Eduardo Nunes)
Stolen Seas (Thymaya Payne)
Week of 11 Jan
The Baytown Outlaws (Barry Battles)
Beijing Flickers (Zhang Yuan)
Clandestine Childhood (Benjamín Avila)
Fairhaven (Tom O'Brien)
FrackNation (Ann McElhinney & Phelim McAleer & Magdalena Segieda)
Freeloaders (Dan Rosen)
Gangster Squad (Ruben Fleischer)
A Haunted House (Michael Tiddes)
High Tech, Low Life (Stephen T. Maing)
Horrid Henry: The Movie (Nick Moore)
Let My People Go! (Mikael Buch)
Matru Ki Bijlee Ka Mandola (Vishal Bhardwaj)
My Best Enemy (Wolfgang Murnberger)
Quartet (Dustin Hoffman)
$ellebrity (Kevin Mazur)
Struck by Lightning (Brian Dannelly)
The Tower (Kim Ji-hoon)
Uprising (Fredrik Stanton)
Welcome to the Machine (Avi Weider)
Week of 4 Jan
A Bottle in the Gaza Sea (Thierry Binisti)
Crawlspace (Justin Dix)
A Dark Truth (Damian Lee)
56 Up (Michael Apted)
My Brooklyn (Kelly Anderson)
Texas Chainsaw 3D (John Luessenhop)