25 Friday Oct 2013
Tags
A Better Tomorrow, A Better Tomorrow II, Bullet in the Head, Face/Off, Hard Boiled, Mission: Impossible II, Red Cliff, The Killer
* * * * (Out of * * * *)
1. A Better Tomorrow/A Better Tomorrow II (1986/1987)
2. The Killer (1989)
3. Bullet in the Head (1990)
4. Hard Boiled (1992)
5. Red Cliff (2008)
6. Face/Off (1997)
* * * 1/2 (Out of * * * *
1. Mission: Impossible II (2000)
23 Wednesday Oct 2013
Tags
Bluebeard, Detour, People on Sunday, Ruthless, The Black Cat, The Man from Planet X, The Naked Dawn
* * * * (Out of * * * *)
1. The Black Cat (1934)
2. Detour (1945)
3. Bluebeard (1944)
4. Ruthless (1948)
5. The Naked Dawn (1955)
* * * 1/2 (Out of * * * *)
1. The Man from Planet X (1951)
2. People on Sunday (1930) (co-directed with Curt and Robert Siodmak)
18 Friday Oct 2013
Tags
Blaise Pascal, Cartesius, Europa '51, Germany Year Zero, Journey to Italy, Open City, Paisan, Stromboli, The Age of the Medici, The Flowers of St. Francis, The Taking of Power by Louis XIV
* * * * (Out of * * * *)
1. Journey to Italy (1954)
2. The Flowers of St. Francis (1950)
3. Germany Year Zero (1948)
* * * * (Out of * * * *) (TV Films)
1. The Taking of Power by Louis XIV (1966)
* * * 1/2 (Out of * * * *)
1. Open City (1945)
2. Stromboli (1950)
3. Paisan (1946)
4. Europa ’51 (1952)
* * * 1/2 (Out of * * * *) (TV Films)
1. Blaise Pascal (1972)
2. The Age of the Medici (1973)
3. Cartesius (1974)
17 Thursday Oct 2013
Tags
Autumn Tale, Chloe in the Afternoon, Claire's Knee, La Collectionneuse, Le Rayon vert, My Night at Maud's, Pauline at the Beach
* * * * (Out of * * * *)
1. Autumn Tale (1998)
2. Claire’s Knee (1970)
3. My Night at Maud’s (1969)
* * * 1/2 (Out of * * * *)
1. Chloe in the Afternoon (1972)
2. La Collectionneuse (1967)
3. Le Rayon vert (1986)
4. Pauline at the Beach (1983)
16 Wednesday Oct 2013
Tags
Hiroshima mon amour, Last Year at Marienbad, Melo, Mon Oncle d'Amerique, Muriel, Night and Fog, Private Fears in Public Places, Same Old Song, Wild Grass, You Ain't Seen Nothin' Yet
* * * * (Out of * * * *)
1. Last Year at Marienbad (1961)
2. Private Fears in Public Places (2006)
3. Melo (1986)
* * * * (Out of * * * *) (Documentary Shorts)
1. Night and Fog (1955)
* * * 1/2 (Out of * * * *)
1. Hiroshima mon amour (1959)
2. Mon Oncle d’Amerique (1980)
3. Muriel (1963)
4. You Ain’t Seen Nothin’ Yet (2012)
5. Same Old Song (1997)
6. Wild Grass (2009)
16 Wednesday Oct 2013
Tags
A Day in the Country, Boudu Saved from Drowning, Elena and Her Men, French Cancan, Grand Illusion, La Bete humaine, La Chienne, The Crime of Monsieur Lange, The Golden Coach, The Little Theatre of Jean Renoir, The River, The Rules of the Game, The Southerner
* * * * (Out of * * * *)
1. The Rules of the Game (1939)
2. La Chienne (1931)
3. Grand Illusion (1937)
4. The Crime of Monsieur Lange (1936)
5. The Southerner (1945)
* * * * (Out of * * * *) (Short Films)
1. A Day in the Country (1936)
* * * * (Out of * * * *) (TV Films)
1. The Little Theatre of Jean Renoir (1970)
* * * 1/2 (Out of * * * *)
1. Boudu Saved from Drowning (1932)
2. The Golden Coach (1952)
3. The River (1951)
4. French Cancan (1954)
5. La Bete Humaine (1938)
6. Elena and Her Men (1956)
13 Sunday Oct 2013
* * * * (Out of * * * *)
1. The Circle (2000)
2. Crimson Gold (2003)
3. The White Balloon (1995)
4. Offside (2006)
* * * * (Out of * * * *) (Documentaries)
1. This Is Not a Film (2011) (co-directed with Mojtaba Mirtahmasb)
* * * 1/2 (Out of * * * *)
1. The Mirror (1997)
12 Saturday Oct 2013
Tags
A Story of Floating Weeds, An Autumn Afternoon, Early Spring, Early Summer, Equinox Flower, Floating Weeds, Good Morning, I Was Born But..., Late Autumn, Late Spring, Passing Fancy, The End of Summer, The Only Son, There Was a Father, Tokyo Chorus, Tokyo Story, Tokyo Twilight
* * * * (Out of * * * *)
1. Tokyo Story (1953)
2. Late Spring (1949)
3. I Was Born, But… (1932)
4. Early Summer (1951)
5. A Story of Floating Weeds (1934)/Floating Weeds (1959)
6. The End of Summer (1961)
7. Good Morning (1959)
8. An Autumn Afternoon (1962)
* * * 1/2 (Out of * * * *)
1. Late Autumn (1960)
2. Tokyo Chorus (1931)
3. Tokyo Twilight (1957)
4. Equinox Flower (1958)
5. Early Spring (1956)
6. The Only Son (1936)/There Was a Father (1942)
7. Passing Fancy (1933)
11 Friday Oct 2013
10 Thursday Oct 2013
Tags
A Geisha, Osaka Elegy, Sansho the Bailiff, Sisters of the Gion, The Life of Oharu, The Story of the Last Chrysanthemums, Ugetsu
* * * * (Out of * * * *)
1. Ugetsu (1953)
2. Sansho the Bailiff (1954)
3. The Life of Oharu (1952)
4. The Story of the Last Chrysanthemums (1939)
* * * 1/2 (Out of * * * *)
1. Sisters of the Gion (1936)
2. A Geisha (1953)
3. Osaka Elegy (1936)
