films seen 2012 (most to least recent)

  • The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger, 1943)
  • Night on the Galactic Railroad (Gisaburo Sugii, 1985) ★★½ [down from ★★★]
  • The Tragedy of Macbeth (Roman Polanski, 1971) ★★★
  • An Injury to One (Travis Wilkerson, 2002) ★★★
  • Animal Crackers (Victor Heerman, 1930) ★★★ [down from ★★★½]
  • X-Men: First Class (Matthew Vaughn, 2011)
  • Amer (Hélène Cattet & Bruno Forzani, 2009) ★★½
  • The Bitter Tea of General Yen (Frank Capra, 1933)
  • The New World (Terrence Malick, 2005) ★★½ [Extended Cut]
  • Coup de Torchon (Bertrand Tavernier, 1981)
  • The Naked City (Jules Dassin, 1948)
  • Every-Night Dreams (Mikio Naruse, 1933)
  • Beetle Juice (Tim Burton, 1988) ★★★½ [up from ★★★]
  • The Misfits (John Huston, 1961) ★★
  • The Marriage of Maria Braun (Rainer Werner Fassbinder, 1979)
  • A Page of Madness (Teinosuke Kinugasa, 1926) ★★
  • The Black Cat (Edgar G. Ulmer, 1934) ★★
  • Carrie (William Wyler, 1952)
  • The Letter Never Sent (Mikhail Kalatozov, 1960) ★★½
  • Army of Shadows (Jean-Pierre Melville, 1969) ★★½
  • The Woman Chaser (Robinson Devor, 1999) ★★
  • Goyokin (Hideo Gosha, 1969) ★½
  • Paranormal Activity 3 (Henry Joost & Ariel Schulman, 2011) ★½
  • The Laughing Policeman (Stuart Rosenberg, 1973) ★½
  • The Roaring Twenties (Raoul Walsh, 1939) ★★½
  • Tabloid (Errol Morris, 2010) ★★
  • Naked (Mike Leigh, 1993) ★★★ [up from ★★½]
  • Beeswax (Andrew Bujalski, 2009) ★★★½
  • Angel Face (Otto Preminger, 1952) ★★½
  • Island of Lost Souls (Erle C. Kenton, 1933) ★★★ [up from ★★]
  • The Conformist (Bernardo Bertolucci, 1970)
  • Bend of the River (Anthony Mann, 1952)
  • The Mirror (Andrei Tarkovsky, 1975) ★★★ [up from ★★½]
  • The Trip (Michael Winterbottom, 2010)
  • The Hudsucker Proxy (Joel Coen, 1994) ★★★½ [down from ★★★★]
  • Torn Curtain (Alfred Hitchcock, 1966) ★½
  • Kill, Baby…Kill! (Mario Bava, 1966)
  • A Separation (Asghar Farhadi, 2011) ★★★
  • The Frozen Dead (Herbert J. Leder, 1966) ★½
  • The Browning Version (Anthony Asquith, 1951) ★★
  • Exit Through the Gift Shop (Banksy, 2010) ★½
  • 52 Pick-Up (John Frankenheimer, 1986) ★★
  • The Razor’s Edge (Edmund Goulding, 1946)
  • Family Plot (Alfred Hitchcock, 1976)
  • Contagion (Steven Soderbergh, 2011) ★★★
  • Kings & Queen (Arnaud Desplechin, 2004) ★½
  • I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang (Mervyn LeRoy, 1932)
  • Cemetery Man (Michele Soavi, 1994)
  • Deep Crimson (Arturo Ripstein, 1996)
  • World on a Wire (Rainer Werner Fassbinder, 1973) ★★
  • L’Avventura (Michelangelo Antonioni, 1960)
  • Heaven Can Wait (Ernst Lubitsch, 1943) ★★★
  • The Man from Laramie (Anthony Mann, 1955) ★½
  • Hellzapoppin’ (H.C. Potter, 1941) ★★½
  • The Future (Miranda July, 2011) ★★½
  • Tuesday, After Christmas (Radu Muntean, 2010)
  • The Innkeepers (Ti West, 2011) ★★
  • Love Exposure (Shion Sono, 2008) ★★
  • Sorry, Wrong Number (Anatole Litvak, 1948)
  • Gun Crazy (Joseph H. Lewis, 1950)
  • Modern Romance (Albert Brooks, 1981) ★★½
  • Essential Killing (Jerzy Skolimowski, 2010) ★★
  • The Last Wave (Peter Weir, 1977)
  • Citizen Kane (Orson Welles, 1941) ★★★ [down from ★★★★]
  • Attack the Block (Joe Cornish, 2011) ★★★
  • Secrets of the Tribe (José Padilha, 2010) ★★★
  • Daisies (Vera Chytilová, 1966)
  • The 39 Steps (Alfred Hitchcock, 1935) ★★½ [down from ★★★]
  • Ticket to Heaven (Ralph L. Thomas, 1981)
  • Unzipped (Douglas Keeve, 1995) ★★
  • The Lady Vanishes (Alfred Hitchcock, 1938) ★★½
  • All That Jazz (Bob Fosse, 1979) ★★★½ [up from ★★★]
  • Underground (Emir Kusturica, 1995)
  • The Neon Bible (Terence Davies, 1995)
  • The Death of a Bureaucrat (Tomás Gutiérrez Alea, 1966)
  • Bruce Lee Fights Back from the Grave (Lee Doo-yong, 1976) ★★
  • The Hill (Sidney Lumet, 1965) ★★★
  • Village of the Damned (Wolf Rilla, 1960)
  • This Gun for Hire (Frank Tuttle, 1942) ★★
  • All the Vermeers in New York (Jon Jost, 1990)
  • Veronika Voss (Rainer Werner Fassbinder, 1982)
  • Encounter at Raven’s Gate (Rolf de Heer, 1988) ★★
  • Man of the West (Anthony Mann, 1958) ★★
  • Raw Deal (Anthony Mann, 1948)
  • Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 (David Yates, 2011) ★½
  • Häxan (Benjamin Christensen, 1922) ★★★ [down from ★★★½]
  • Tim and Eric’s Billion Dollar Movie (Tim Heidecker & Eric Wareheim, 2012) ★★
  • Road House (Jean Negulesco, 1948) ★½
  • The Lives of a Bengal Lancer (Henry Hathaway, 1935)
  • Oasis (Lee Chang-dong, 2002)
  • Sans Soleil (Chris Marker, 1983)
  • Captain Blood (Michael Curtiz, 1935) ★★★
  • The Racket (John Cromwell, 1951)
  • The Incredible Shrinking Man (Jack Arnold, 1957) ★★★ [down from ★★★½]
  • A Night at the Opera (Sam Wood, 1935) ★★★ [down from ★★★½]
  • Bellflower (Evan Glodell, 2011) ★★½
  • Movie Movie (Stanley Donen, 1978)
  • Black Widow (Nunnally Johnson, 1954) ★
  • The Black Cat (Albert S. Rogell, 1941) ★★
  • Little Man, What Now? (Frank Borzage, 1934)
  • Mantrap (Victor Fleming, 1926)
  • Lovers and Other Strangers (Cy Howard, 1970)
  • The Magnificent Ambersons (Orson Welles, 1942) ★★ [down from ★★★]
  • Salt of the Earth (Herbert J. Biberman, 1954)
  • Cave of Forgotten Dreams (Werner Herzog, 2010) ★★
  • Me and My Gal (Raoul Walsh, 1932) ★★
  • The Reckless Moment (Max Ophüls, 1949) ★★
  • The Last of Sheila (Herbert Ross, 1973)
  • Alice in Wonderland (Clyde Geronimi, Wilfred Jackson, & Hamilton Luske, 1951) ★★ [down from ★★★]
  • Metropolis (Fritz Lang, 1927) ★★★ ["Complete" version]
  • Thief (Michael Mann, 1981) ★½
  • Border Incident (Anthony Mann, 1949)
  • Alias Betty (Claude Miller, 2001)

films seen 2011

  • Ratings key

    ★★★★ = I loved it unconditionally. Highly recommended.
    ★★★½ = I loved it, conditionally. Highly recommended.
    ★★★ = I liked it. Recommended.
    ★★½ = I almost liked it. Recommended.
    ★★ = I mildly disliked it. Not recommended.
    ★½ = I moderately disliked it. Not recommended.
    ★ = I strongly disliked it. Beware.
    ∅ = I loathed it. Beware.
    title = I didn't finish it & probably never will. Not interesting to me.