Wednesday, March 21, 2007

A+ Pantheon

A Masterpieces

A- Great

The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (Dominik)

No Country for Old Men (Coen Bros.)

A-/B+ Near Great

There Will Be Blood (Anderson)

Syndromes and a Century
 (Apichatpong)

4 Months, 3 Weeks, and 2 Days (Mungiu) [TIFF]

In the City of Sylvia (Guerin)

Michael Clayton (Gilroy)

B+ Must See


Offside (Panahi)

The Bourne Ultimatum (Greengrass)

Regular Lovers
(Garrell)

Superbad (Mattola)

Brand Upon the Brain! (Maddin)

I'm Not There (Haynes)

Time
(Kim)

Silent Light (Reygadas) [TIFF]

The Wayward Cloud
(Tsai)

The Duchess of Langeais (Rivette) [TIFF]

Atonement (Wright)

The Darjeeling Limited (Anderson)


Gone Baby Gone (Affleck)

My Kid Could Paint That (Bar-Lev)

Margot at the Wedding (Baumbach)

Ocean's Thirteen (Soderbergh)

The Wind That Shakes the Barley (Loach)

B+/B Strongly Recommended

My Winnipeg (Maddin) [TIFF]

Deathproof [Extended Cut] (Tarantino)

Woman on the Beach (Hong)

Into the Wild (Penn)

The Boss of It All (von Trier)

The Host (Bong)

Secret Sunshine (Lee) [TIFF]

Music and Lyrics (Lawrence)

Day Night Day Night (Loktev)

Lust, Caution (Lee)

In Between Days (Kim)

The Romance of Astree and Celadon (Rohmer) [TIFF]

B Recommended

Black Book (Verhoeven)

Eastern Promises (Cronenberg)

The Edge of Heaven
(Akin) [TIFF]

Our Daily Bread (Geyrhalter)

Private Fears in Public Places (Resnais)

Ratatouille (Bird)

B/B- Recommended with minor reservations

Flight of the Red Balloon (Hou)

Juno (Reitman)

Lady Chatterley (Farran)

The Lives of Others (von Donnersmarck)

Zodiac (Fincher)

B- Recommended with major reservations

Happiness (Hur) [TIFF]

I Don't Want to Sleep Alone (Tsai)

Redacted (DePalma) [TIFF]

Rescue Dawn (Herzog)

Shooter (Fuqua)

Stardust (Vaughn)

Triple Agent (Rohmer)

C+ Not Recommended but with redeeming values

Les Chansons d'amours (Honore) [TIFF]

It's a Free World... (Loach) [TIFF]

Knocked Up (Apatow)

The Man From London
(Tarr) [TIFF]

The Mourning Forest (Kawase) [TIFF]

We Own the Night (Gray)

C Poor

Ploy (Pen-Ek) [TIFF]

C- Crap

D+ Utter crap

Sad Vacation (Aoyama) [TIFF]

D Foul, disgusting crap

F Burn the negative

DVD Catchup

Grindhouse

American Gangster
Persepolis
Before the Devil Knows You're Dead
Control

3:10 to Yuma
The Savages
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly

Joshua
Hot Fuzz
Spider-Man 3
Paprika
28 Weeks Later
12:08 East of Bucharest
Bamako
Flanders
The Exterminating Angels
Black Snake Moan
Breaking and Entering

The Lookout
Breach
I Think I Love My Wife