FILMS SEEN, 2012
All films from U.S.A. unless
otherwise specified.
(/ repeat viewing; [v] video piece; [p] paracinema (installation, etc.); [s] short, under 30 minutes; [m] medium length, 30-69 min; * grade changed upon repeat viewing; \ repeat viewing of something I walked out of or fell asleep during)
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JANUARY
-Turn Me On, Goddammit! (Jannicke Systad Jacobsen, Norway) [7]
Tin Pressed (Dani Leventhal) [v/s] [x2] [7]
Shayne's Rectangle (Dani Leventhal) [v/s] [x2] [5]
-Being Elmo: A Puppeteer's Journey (Constance Marks) [5]
-The Muppets (James Bobin) [5]
-Young Adult (Jason Reitman) [4]
/-Elena (Andrei Zvyagintsev, Russia) [8]
/-The City Below (Christoph Hochhäusler, Germany) [9]
-Dreileben: Beats Being Dead (Christian Petzold, Germany) [7]
-Rapt (Lucas Belvaux, France / Belgium) [7]
-Dreileben: One Minute of Darkness (Christoph Hochhäusler, Germany) [5]
-Crazy Horse (Frederick Wiseman, U.S. / France) [7]
The Adventures of Tintin (Steven Spielberg, U.S. / New Zealand) [6]
-The Hunter (Rafi Pitts, Iran / Germany) [6]
/-The Descendants (Alexander Payne) [5]
-Medianeras (Sidewalls) (Gustavo Taretto, Argentina / Spain / Germany) [5]
-Our Life (La Nostra Vita) (Daniele Luchetti, Italy) [W/O] (0:34)
-Nuit #1 (Anne Émond, Canada) [W/O] (0:35)
/-Arrival of a Train at La Ciotat (Louis and August Lumière, France, 1895) [s]
/-Demolition of a Wall (Louis and August Lumière, France, 1895) [s]
/-A Trip to the Moon (Georges Méliès, France, 1902) [s]
/Un Chien andalou (Luis Buñuel, France, 1929) [s]
/-La Jetée (Chris Marker, France, 1962) [s]
/-(nostalgia) (Hollis Frampton, 1971) [s]
-Bullhead (Michael R. Roskam, Belgium) [W/O] (1:10)
-Jackass 3D (Jeff Tremaine) [6]
/-Meshes of the Afternoon (Maya Deren and Alexander Hammid, 1943) [s]
-Kill List (Ben Wheatley, U.K.) [4]
/-Rose Hobart (Joseph Cornell, 1936) [s]
/-Report (Bruce Conner, 1967) [s]
/-passage á l'acte (Martin Arnold, Austria, 1993) [s]
/NOEMA (Scott Stark, 1998) [v/s]
-Ghost Algebra (Janie Geiser) [s] [7]
/-Ulysse (Agnès Varda, France, 1982) [s]
/Capitalism: Slavery (Ken Jacobs, 2007) [v/s]
FEBRUARY
/-The Man With the Movie Camera (Dziga Vertov, U.S.S.R., 1929)
/-The Conjuror (Georges Méliès, France, 1899) [s]
/-The Haunted Castle (Georges Méliès, France, 1897) [s]
/-The Man With the Rubber Head (Georges Méliès, France, 1901) [s]
/-Arrival of a Train at La Ciotat (Louis and August Lumière, France, 1895) [s]
/-Arrival by Train at Perrache (Louis and August Lumière, France, 1898) [s]
/-The Georgetown Loop (Louis and August Lumière, France / U.S., 1903) [s]
/-The Georgetown Loop (Ken Jacobs, 1996) [s]
-New Brooklyn to New York via Brooklyn Bridge (Edison Company, 1899) [s]
-New York City Trolley (unk., c. 1902) [s]
/-How It Feels to Be Run Over (Cecil Hepworth, U.K., 1900) [s]
/-Explosion of a Motor Car (Cecil Hepworth, U.K., 1900) [s]
-Habemus Papam (Nanni Moretti, Italy / France) [4]
-The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo (David Fincher, U.S. / Sweden / U.K. / Germany) [although I zipped through the middle hour] [4]
Arcana (Henry Hills) [v/s] [5]
-In The Open (Albert Sackl, Austria) [s] [8]
/-The Deep Blue Sea (Terence Davies, U.K.) [7]
/-In The City of Sylvia (José Luis Guerín, Spain / France, 2007)
/Ydressa, The Bears, & Etc. (Agnès Varda, France / Canada, 2004) [v/m]
A Loft (Ken Jacobs) [v/s] [7]
-Bestiaire (Denis Côté, Canada / France) [6]
/-Ballet Méchanique (Fernand Léger and Dudley Murphy, France, 1924) [s]
/-Go! Go! Go! (Marie Menken, 1964) [s]
/-Prefaces (Abigail Child, 1981)
/-Porter Springs 4 (Henry Hills, 1999) [s]
-Self Control (Martin Arnold, Austria) [s] [7]
-Soft Palate (Martin Arnold, Austria) [s] [7]
-Pater (Alain Cavalier, France) [7]
-Shadow Cuts (Martin Arnold, Austria) [s] [5]
-Keyhole (Guy Maddin, Canada) [8] [tentative grade]
-Pixilation (Lillian Schwartz, 1970) [s]
-UFOs (Lillian Schwartz and Ken Knowlton, 1971) [s]
-Variations on a Cellophane Wrapper (David Rimmer, Canada, 1970) [s]
-Surfacing on the Thames (David Rimmer, Canada, 1970) [s]
-Caravaggio (Derek Jarman, U.K., 1986)
By foot-candle light (Mary Helena Clark) [v/s] [7]
-Judy Moody and the Not-Bummer Summer (John Schultz) [5]
-Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close (Stephen Daldry) [3]
-The Woman in Black (James Watkins, U.K. / Canada / Sweden) [5]
/-Rhythmus 21 (Han Richter, Germany, 1923) [s]
/-At Land (Maya Deren, 1944) [s]