Film Log – Alphabetical

All the film commentary on this site, neatly organized for you, you picky person. I don’t comment on every film I see, but when I’m compelled to, I drop some knowledge on you. For a full list of viewings, click here.

Rating is on a 5-point scale. Because that’s how Vishnu likes it.

A

• Abe Lincoln in Illinois (John Cromwell, 1940) ~ 3.5
• Adventureland (Greg Mottola, 2009) ~ 3.5
• Aeon Flux (Karyn Kusama, 2005) ~ 1.5
• After the Thin Man (W.S. Van Dyke, 1936) ~ 3.5
• Age of Consent (Michael Powell, 1969) ~ 1.5
• Anatomy of a Murder (Otto Preminger, 1959) ~ 4.0
• Around the Bay (Alejandro Adams, 2008) ~ 3.0
• Auntie Mame (Morton DeCosta, 1958) ~ 3.0

B

• Babbitt (William Keighley, 1934) ~ 2.0
• Baby Doll (Elia Kazan, 1956) ~ 2.5
• Bananas (Woody Allen, 1971) ~ 3.5
• The Bank Job (Roger Donaldson, 2008) ~ 2.5
• Before the Devil Knows You’re Dead (Sidney Lumet, 2007) ~ 2.5
• Be Kind Rewind (Michel Gondry, 2008) ~ 2.0
• Berlin Express (Jacques Tourneur, 1948) ~ 3.5
• Birthday Girl (Jez Butterworth, 2001) ~ 2.0
• Black Book (Paul Verhoeven, 2007) ~ 2.5
• Black Sheep (Jonathan King, 2006) ~ 1.5
• Bluebeard’s Eighth Wife (Ernst Lubitsch, 1938) ~ 2.5
• Blue Velvet (David Lynch, 1986) ~ 3.5
• Bomb It (Jon Reiss, 2007) ~ 3.0
• The Boy with Green Hair (Joseph Losey, 1948) ~ 3.0
• Broken Blossoms (D.W. Griffith, 1919) ~ 3.5
• Bug (William Friedkin, 2006) ~ 2.0
• Burden of Dreams (Les Blank, 1982) ~ 3.0

C

• Canary (Alejandro Adams, 2009) ~ 2.5
• The Car (Elliot Silverstein, 1977) ~ 2.5
• Casablanca (Michael Curtiz, 1942) ~ 5.0
• Chan Is Missing (Wayne Wang, 1982) ~ 4.0
• Chicken Run (Peter Lord, Nick Park, 2000) ~ 4.5
• Chop Shop (Ramin Bahrani) ~ 4.5
• Cloverfield (Matt Reeves, 2008) ~ 2.5
• Control (Anton Corbijn, 2007) ~ 3.5
• Coraline (Henry Selick, 2009) ~ 3.0
• Crimewave (Sam Raimi, 1985) ~ 2.0

 

D

• The Darjeeling Limited (Wes Anderson, 2007) ~ 3.0
• Date Night (Shawn Levy, 2010) ~ 3.0
• Death Race 2000 (Paul Bartel, 1975) ~ 2.0
• The Devil and Miss Jones (Sam Wood, 1941) ~ 2.5
• Doomsday (Neil Marshall, 2008) ~ 2.0
• Dot the I (Matthew Parkhill, 2005) ~ 1.0
• Duel (Steven Spielberg, 1971) ~ 3.5
• Duplicity (Tony Gilroy, 2009) ~ 3.5

E

• Eagle vs. Shark (Taika Cohen, 2007) ~ 2.5
• Earth (Alastair Fothergill, Mark Linfield, 2007) ~ 3.5
• Easy Living (Mitchell Leisen, 1937) ~ 2.5
• Escape from New York (John Carpenter, 1981) ~ 2.0
• Elevator to the Gallows (Louis Malle, 1958) ~ 4.0

F

• Film Geek (James Westby, 2005) ~ 2.0
• A Fistful of Dollars (Sergio Leone, 1964) ~ 3.5
• Fitzcarraldo (Werner Herzog, 1982) ~ 4.5
• Fool’s Gold (Andy Tennant, 2008) ~ 1.0
• 42nd Street (Lloyd Bacon, 1933) ~ 3.5
• The 400 Blows (François Truffaut, 1959) ~ 5.0
• 1408 (Mikael Håfström, 2007) ~ 2.0
• Funny Games (Michael Haneke, 1997) ~ 3.0
• Fury (Fritz Lang, 1936) ~ 4.0

G

• Gates of Heaven (Errol Morris, 1980) ~ 2.5
• The Girl on the Train (André Téchiné, 2009) ~ 3.5
• The Gold Rush (Charles Chaplin, 1925) ~ 5.0
• The Gold Rush (Charles Chaplin, 1942 re-release) ~ 4.5
• Good Night and Good Luck (George Clooney, 2005) ~ 4.0
• Great World of Sound (Craig Zobel, 2007) ~ 3.5
• Grizzly Man (Werner Herzog, 2005) ~ 4.0
• Gun Crazy (Joseph H. Lewis, 1950) ~ 3.5

 

H

• Harlan County, U.S.A. (Barbara Kopple, 1976) ~ 4.5
• Harold and Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay (Jon Hurwitz, Hayden Schlossberg, 2008) ~ 1.0
• Harvey (Henry Koster, 1950) ~ 4.0
• Hell Is for Heroes (Donald Siegel, 1962) ~ 3.0
• Helvetica (Gary Hustwit, 2007) ~ 3.0

I

• I Married a Witch (René Clair, 1942) ~ 2.5
• Imitation of Life (Douglas Sirk, 1959) ~ 3.0
• In Bruges (Martin McDonagh, 2008) ~ 4.0
• Inherit the Wind (Stanley Kramer, 1960) ~ 3.0
• Inland Empire (David Lynch, 2006) ~ 1.5
• In the Mood for Love (Wong Kar-Wai, 2000) ~ 3.5
• The Invisible Man (James Whale, 1933) ~ 4.0
• The Italian Job (Peter Collinson, 1969) ~ 2.5
• I Walked with a Zombie (Jacques Tourneur, 1943) ~ 3.0

J

• Jimmy Carter: Man from Plains (Jonathan Demme, 2007) ~ 3.0

K

• Kes (Ken Loach, 1969) ~ 3.5
• Kick-Ass (Matthew Vaughn, 2010) ~ 3.5
• The Killer Inside Me (Michael Winterbottom, 2010) ~ 2.5
• The King of Kong (Seth Gordon, 2007) ~ 3.0
• Kiss Kiss Bang Bang (Shane Black, 2005) ~ 2.0

L

• La Dolce Vita (Federico Fellini, 1960) ~ 5.0
• L’enfant sauvage/The Wild Child (François Truffaut, 1970) ~ 4.0
• Lifeforce (Tobe Hooper, 1985) ~ 2.5
• Life of Brian (Terry Jones, 1979) ~ 4.0
• Little Miss Sunshine (Jonathan Dayton, Valerie Faris, 2006) ~ 3.5

M

• Manhattan (Woody Allen, 1979) ~ 5.0
• Michael Clayton (Tony Gilroy, 2007) ~ 4.0
• The Mist (Frank Darabont, 2007) ~ 1.5
• Murder, My Sweet (Edward Dmytryk, 1944) ~ 4.0
• My Best Fiend (Werner Herzog, 1999) ~ 2.0
• My Blueberry Nights (Wong Kar-Wai, 2007) ~ 2.0
• My Sister Eileen (Alexander Hall, 1942) ~ 2.5

 

N

• Near Dark (Kathryn Bigelow, 1987) ~ 3.0
• Neil Young: Heart of Gold (Jonathan Demme, 2006) ~ 4.5
• Nosferatu the Vampyre (Werner Herzog, 1979) ~ 3.5

O

• Once in a Lifetime: The Extraordinary Story of the New York Cosmos (Paul Crowder, John Dower, 2006) ~ 3.0
• Once Upon a Time in the West (Sergio Leone, 1968) ~ 3.5
• 101 Dalmations (Clyde Geronimi, Hamilton Luske, Wolfgang Reitherman, 1961) ~ 3.0
• The Orphanage/El Orfanto (Juan Antonio Bayona, 2007) ~ 3.5
• Our Hospitality (John Blystone, Buster Keaton, 1923) ~ 3.5

P

• Palindromes (Todd Solondz, 2004) ~ 3.0
• The Parallax View (Alan J. Pakula, 1974) ~ 3.5
• Pierrot le fou (Jean-Luc Godard, 1965) ~ 4.5
• The President’s Analyst (Theodore J. Flicker, 1967) ~ 3.0
• Poor Pretty Eddie (Richard Robinson, 1975) ~ 2.0
• Pretty Persuasion (Marcos Siega, 2005) ~ 2.0
• The Public Enemy (William Wellman, 1931) ~ 4.0

Q

• The Quiet Man (John Ford, 1952) ~ 3.5

R

• Raiders of the Lost Ark (Steven Spielberg, 1981) ~ 4.0
• Ratatouille (Brad Bird, 2007) ~ 3.0
• Red River (Howard Hawks, 1948) ~ 4.5
• The Red Shoes (Michael Powell, Emeric Pressberger, 1948) ~ 5.0
• Rocket Science (Jeffrey Blitz, 2007) ~ 2.5

S

• Sarah Silverman: Jesus is Magic (Liam Lynch, 2005) ~ 2.5
• The Savages (Tamara Jenkins, 2007) ~ 3.0
• Scandal (Michael Caton-Jones, 1989) ~ 3.0
• Scarface (Howard Hawks, 1932) ~ 4.0
• Scoop (Woody Allen, 2006) ~ 1.0
• Semi-Pro (Kent Alterman, 2008) ~ 1.5
• She Done Him Wrong (Lowell Sherman, 1933) ~ 1.5
• Sherlock Jr. (Buster Keaton, 1924) ~ 4.0
• Shoot ‘Em Up (Michael Davis, 2007) ~ 0.5
• A Slight Case of Murder (Lloyd Bacon, 1938) ~ 2.5
• Smart People (Noam Murro, 2008) ~ 1.5
• Son of Rambow (Garth Jennings, 2007) ~ 3.0
• Spymate (Robert Vince, 2006) ~ 2.0
• Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (F.W. Murnau, 1927) ~ 5.0
• Superbad (Greg Mottola, 2007) ~ 2.0
• Superman Returns (Bryan Singer, 2006) ~ 2.5
  

T

• Tell No One (Guillaume Canet, 2006) ~ 3.5
• The Ten (David Wain, 2007) ~ 1.0
• The Terminator (James Cameron, 1984) ~ 4.0
• 3:10 to Yuma (Delmer Daves, 1957) ~ 3.5
• 3:10 to Yuma (James Mangold, 2007) ~ 3.0
• To Be or Not to Be (Ernst Lubitsch, 1942) ~ 4.5
• Tokyo! (Michel Gondry, Leon Carax, Joon-ho Bong, 2008) ~ 2.0
• The Tracey Fragments (Bruce McDonald, 2007) ~ 1.5
• Tristram Shandy: A Cock and Bull Story (Michael Winterbottom, 2006) ~ 4.5

U

• United 93 (Paul Greengrass, 2006) ~ 4.5
• Used Cars (Robert Zemeckis, 1980) ~ 2.5

V

• Videodrome (David Cronenberg, 1983) ~ 3.0

W

• Waitress (Adrienne Shelly, 2007) ~ 3.0
• Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story (Jake Kasdan, 2007) ~ 1.5
• We Jam Econo: The Story of the Minutemen (Tim Irwin, 2005) ~ 3.5
• Welcome Home, Soldier Boys (Richard Compton, 1972) ~ 2.5
• Woyzeck (Werner Herzog, 1979) ~ 2.5

X

Y

Z

• Zardoz (John Boorman, 1974) ~ 2.5
• Zodiac (David Fincher, 2007) ~ 4.0