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FILMS SEEN 2010

New | New Docs | Unreleased | Unreleased Docs2009 | Recent | Revivals | Old


2010 NEW RELEASES
(*=seen last year)

A PROPHET (Jacques Audiard, France, 2009)
HOT TUB TIME MACHINE (Steve Pink, USA, 2010)
THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO (Niels Arden Oplev, Sweden, 2009)
GREENBERG (Noah Baumbach, USA, 2010)
MID-AUGUST LUNCH (Gianni di Gregorio, Italy, 2008)
GREEN ZONE (Paul Greengrass, USA, 2010)
AJAMI (Scandar Copti & Yaron Shani, Israel/Palestine, 2009)
THE DUEL (Dover Koshavili, UK, 2010)
THE GHOST WRITER (Roman Polanski, UK, 2010)
SHUTTER ISLAND (Martin Scorsese, USA, 2010)
FISH TANK (Andrea Arnold, UK, 2009)
EVERYONE ELSE (Maren Ade, Germany, 2009) *
THE EXPLODING GIRL (Bradley Rust Gray, USA, 2009) *
BLUEBEARD (Catherine Breillat, France, 2009) *


2010 NEW RELEASES – DOCUMENTARIES
(*=seen last year)

EXIT THROUGH THE GIFT SHOP (Banksy, UK/USA, 2010)
THE WHITE STRIPES: UNDER GREAT WHITE NORTHERN LIGHTS
(Emmett Malloy, USA/Canada, 2009)
OCTOBER COUNTRY (Michael Palmieri and Donal Mosher, USA, 2009)
LEONARD COHEN LIVE AT THE ISLE OF WIGHT 1970 (Murray Lerner, USA, 1970/2009)
HARLAN-IN THE SHADOW OF “JEW SÜSS” (Felix Moeller, Germany, 2009) *
PRODIGAL SONS (Kimberly Reed, USA, 2008) *


UNRELEASED NEW FEATURES (*=opening later in 2010)

WHITE MEADOWS (Mohammad Rasoulof, Iran, 2009)
VISION (Margarethe von Trotta, Germany, 2009) *
DOWN TERRACE (Ben Wheatley, UK, 2009) *
REGRETS (Cedric Kahn, France, 2009)
ORLY (Angela Schanelec, Germany/France, 2010)
A LITTLE DEATH (Gina Telaroli, USA, 2009)
EL CALAMBRE (Matias Meyer, Mexico/France, 2009)
BETWEEN TWO WORLDS (Vimukthi Jayasundara, Sri Lanka, 2009)
R (Michael Noer & Tobias Lindholm, Denmark, 2010)
VITAL SIGNS (Sophie Deraspe, Canada, 2009)
TRASH HUMPERS (Harmony Korine, USA, 2009) *
AURORA (Adolfo B. Alix Jr., Philippines, 2009)
WOMEN WITHOUT MEN (Shirin Neshat, Ger/Aus/Fra, 2009)
PEPPERMINTA (Pipilotti Rist, Switzerland/Austria, 2009)
SYMBOL (Matsumoto Hitoshi, Japan, 2009)
RED, WHITE AND BLUE (Simon Rumley, USA/UK, 2010)
RAPT (Lucas Belvaux, France, 2009)
ZARTE PARITSEN (Christian Becker & Oliver Schwabe, Germany, 2009)


UNRELEASED NEW DOCS (*=opening later in 2010)

THE ARBOR (Clio Barnard, UK, 2010)
THE WOODMANS (C. Scott Willis, USA, 2010)
LAST TRAIN HOME (Lixin Fan, Canada/China, 2009) *
GASLAND (Josh Fox, USA, 2010)
RUHR (James Benning, USA/Germany, 2009)
TWO IN THE WAVE (Emmanuel Laurent, France, 2009) *
GOD NO SAY SO (Brigitte Uttar Konetsky, Switzerland/Sierra Leone, 2010)
DO IT AGAIN (Robert Patton-Spruill, USA, 2010)


NEW SHORT FILMS

Wednesday Morning Two A.M. (Lewis Klahr, USA, 2009)
Massage the History (Cameron Jamie, USA, 2010)
Madame Butterfly <(Tsai Ming-liang, Taiwan/Malaya, 2009)
Letting Off <(Chang Heng-ju, Taiwan, 2010)
Remembrance (Lee Kang-sheng, Taiwan, 2009)
Lumphini 2552 (Tomonari Nishikawa, Thailand/Japan, 2009)
Parties visible et invisible d’un ensemble sous tension
(Emmanuel Lefrant, France, 2009)
Ghost Algebra (Janie Geiser, USA, 2010)
I Know Where I’m Going (Ben Rivers, UK, 2009)
La Boheme (Werner Herzog, UK/Ethiopia, 2009)


2009 RELEASES CAUGHT UP WITH

BROKEN EMBRACES (Pedro Almodovar, Spain, 2009)
BANDSLAM (Todd Graff, USA, 2009)
SERBIS (Brillante Mendoza, Philippines, 2008)
HUMPDAY (Lynn Shelton, USA, 2008)
BIG MAN JAPAN (Matsumoto Hitoshi, Japan, 2007)
RICKY (François Ozon, France, 2009)
THE BOYS ARE BACK (Scott Hicks, Australia/UK, 2009)
PARANORMAL ACTIVITY (Oren Peli, USA, 2007)
AWAY WE GO (Sam Mendes, USA, 2009)
AVATAR (James Cameron, USA, 2009)
TAKEN (Pierre Morel, USA/France, 2008)
INVICTUS (Clint Eastwood, USA, 2009)
DRAG ME TO HELL (Sam Raimi, USA, 2009)
EDEN LAKE (James Watkins, UK, 2008)
JULIA (Erick Zonca, USA/France, 2008)
A WOMAN IN BERLIN (Max Farberbock, Germany, 2008)


2009 DOCUMENTARY RELEASES CAUGHT UP WITH

NO IMPACT MAN (Laura Gabbert & Justin Schein, USA, 2009)
WE LIVE IN PUBLIC (Ondi Timoner, USA, 2009)
THE SEPTEMBER ISSUE (R.J. Cutler, USA, 2009)
DIED YOUNG STAYED PRETTY (Eileen Yaghoobian, USA, 2008)
LOOT (Darius Marder, USA, 2008)


RECENT-ISH FILMS CAUGHT UP WITH

PLANET OF THE APES (Tim Burton, USA, 2001)
ESTHER KAHN (Arnaud Desplechin, France/UK, 2000)
THE WAYWARD CLOUD (Tsai Ming-liang, Taiwan, 2005)


REVIVALS ON SCREEN
(*=seen previously)

A BRIGHTER SUMMER DAY (Edward Yang, Taiwan, 1991) *
HOUSEKEEPING (Bill Forsyth, UK, 1987)
BLIND (Frederick Wiseman, USA, 1986)
WORLD ON A WIRE (R.W. Fassbinder, W. Germany, 1973)
COUP D’ETAT (Yoshida Kiju, USA, 1973)
BASIC TRAINING (Frederick Wiseman, USA, 1970) *
THE PROWLER (Joseph Losey, USA, 1951)
WOMAN OF TOKYO (Yasujiro Ozu, Japan, 1933) *


OLD FILMS SEEN ON DVD/TV
(*=seen previously)

OSSOS (Pedro Costa, Portugal, 1997)
KINDERGARTEN COP (Ivan Reitman, USA, 1990)
STYLE WARS (Henry Chalfant & Tony Silver, USA, 1983)
ICE CASTLES (Donald Wrye, USA, 1978)
SHOWGIRLS (Paul Verhoeven, USA, 1995)
LABYRINTH (Jim Henson, USA, 1986)
KES (Kenneth Loach, UK, 1969)

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