Sunday, January 14, 2007

organizing via grades is stoopid

[newest additions in bold]

A
Regular Lovers
(Philippe Garrel, France)
Zodiac (David Fincher, USA)

A-
Aqua Teen Hunger Force Colon Movie Film For Theaters (Matt Maiellaro & Dave Willis, USA)
The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (Andrew Dominik, USA)
Black Book (Paul Verhoeven, Netherlands/Belgium/UK/Germany)
The Bourne Ultimatum (Paul Greengrass, USA)
Death Proof (Quentin Tarantino, USA)
Grindhouse (Robert Rodriguez, Rob Zombie, Edgar Wright, Eli Roth & Quentin Tarantino, USA)
The Host (Bong Joon-ho, South Korea)
I'm Not There (Todd Haynes, USA/Germany) [bumped up from a B]
My Kid Could Paint That (Amir Bar-Lev, USA)
No Country For Old Men (Joel & Ethan Coen, USA)
Offside (Jafar Panahi, Iran)
Silent Light [Toronto cut] (Carlos Reygadas, Mexico/France/Netherlands/Germany)
Syndromes and a Century (Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Thailand/France/Austria)
There Will Be Blood (Paul Thomas Anderson, USA)


B+
Bamako (Abderrahmane Sissako, Mali/USA/France)
Black Snake Moan (Craig Brewer, USA)
The Boss Of It All (Lars Von Trier, Denmark/Sweden/Iceland/Italy/France/Norway/Finland/Germany)
Colossal Youth (Pedro Costa, France/Portugal/Switzerland)
Day Night Day Night (Julia Loktev, USA/Germany/France)
Exiled (Johnnie To, Hong Kong)
Golden Door (Emanuele Crialese, Italy/France)

Hot Fuzz (Edgar Wright, UK)
I Don't Want to Sleep Alone (Tsai Ming-liang, Taiwan/France/Austria)
In Between Days (Yo Song Kim, USA/Canada/South Korea)
Into Great Silence (Philip Gröning, France/Switzerland/Germany)
Into the Wild (Sean Penn, USA)
Joe Strummer: The Future is Unwritten (Julien Temple, UK)
Joshua (George Ratliff, USA)
Knocked Up (Judd Apatow, USA)
Margot at the Wedding (Noah Baumbach, USA)
The Savages (Tamara Jenkins, USA)
Sunshine (Danny Boyle, UK)
Superbad (Greg Mottola, USA)
The Trap: What Happened to Our Dream of Freedom (Adam Curtis, UK)
12:08 East of Bucharest (Corneliu Porumboiu, Romania)
28 Weeks Later... (Juan Carlos Fresnadillo, UK)
The Wayward Cloud (Tsai Ming-liang, Taiwan/France)
You the Living (Roy Andersson, Sweden)

B
Afghan Muscles (Andreas Dalsgaard, Denmark)
Atonement (Joe Wright, UK)
Billy the Kid (Jennifer Venditti, USA)
Brand Upon the Brain! (Guy Maddin, USA/Canada)
Bug (William Friedkin, USA)
Dans Paris (Christophe Honoré, France/Portugal)
The Devil Came on Horseback (Ricki Stern & Anne Sundberg, USA)
Fay Grim (Hal Hartley, USA/Germany)
Gone Baby Gone (Ben Affleck, USA)
Gypsy Caravan (Jasmine Dellal, USA)
Halloween (Rob Zombie, USA)
I Just Didn't Do It (Masayuki Suo, Japan)
In the Shadow of the Moon
(Christopher Riley & David Sington, USA)
Join Us (Ondi Timoner, USA)
Lady Chatterley (Pascale Ferran, France/Belgium)
Lake of Fire (Tony Kaye, USA)
The Last Winter (Larry Fessenden, USA/Iceland)
La Léon (Santiago Otheguy, Argentina)
The Lives of Others (Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck, Germany)
Lucky Miles (Michael James Rowland, Australia)
Manufactured Landscapes (Jennifer Baichwal, Canada)
Michael Clayton (Tony Gilroy, USA)
The Mugger (Pablo Fendrik, Argentina)
The Namesake (Mira Nair, India/USA)
Night Train (Yinan Dao, China)
The Other Boy (Volker Einrauch, Germany)

Paprika (Satoshi Kon, Japan)
Polymath, or the Life and Opinions of Samuel R. Delany, Gentleman (Fred Barney Taylor, USA)
The Rape of Europa (Richard Berge, Bonni Cohen & Nicole Newnha, USA)
Ratatouille (Brad Bird, USA)
The Screwfly Solution (Joe Dante, USA) [tv]
Sleeping Dogs Lie (Bobcat Goldthwait, USA)
Spine Tingler! The William Castle Story (Jeffrey Schwarz, USA)
Stardust (Matthew Vaughn, UK/USA)
Strange Culture (Lynn Hershman-Leeson, USA)
Summer '04 (Stefan Krohmer, Germany)
The Sun Also Rises (Jiang Wen, China)
Tick Tock Lullaby (Lisa Gornick, UK)
The Town That Was (Chris Perkel & Georgie Roland, USA)
An Unreasonable Man (Henriette Mantel/Steve Skrovan, USA)
Vacancy (Nimród Antal, USA)
A Walk Into the Sea: Danny Williams and the Warhol Factory (Esther Robinson, USA)
White Light/Black Rain: The Destruction of Hiroshima and Nagasaki (Steven Okazaki, USA)

The Wind That Shakes the Barley (Ken Loach, UK/Germany/Italy/Spain/France)

B-
After the Wedding (Susanne Bier, Denmark/Germany)
American Gangster (Ridley Scott, USA)
Away From Her (Sarah Polley, Canada)
Behind Forgotten Eyes (Anthony Gilmore, USA)
Breach (Billy Ray, USA)
Broken English (Zoe R. Cassavetes, USA)
The Bubble (Eytan Fox, Israel)
Charlie Wilson's War (Mike Nichols, USA)
Citizen Nawi (Nissim Mozzek, Israel)
A Comedy of Power (Claude Chabrol, France/Germany)
Control (Anton Corbijn, UK)
The Darjeeling Limited (Wes Anderson, USA)
Déficit (Garl Garcia Bernal, Mexico)
Dharm (Bhavna Talwar, India)

The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (Julian Schnabel, France/USA)
Drama/Mex (Gerardo Naranjo, Mexico)
Dust (Hartmut Bitomsky, Germany/Switzerland)
Eastern Promises (David Cronenberg, UK/Canada)
Eye in the Sky (Yau Nai Hoi, Hong Kong)
1408 (
Mikael Håfström, USA)
God Grew Tired of Us (Christopher Dillon Quinn, USA)
Honeydripper (John Sayles, USA)
I Am Legend (Francis Lawrence, USA)
I Could Never Be Your Woman (Amy Hecklering, USA)
In the Pit (Juan Carlos Rulfo, Mexico)
Juno (Jason Reitman, USA)
King of California (Mike Cahill, USA)
King of Kong (Seth Gordon, USA)
Lars and the Real Girl (Craig Gillespie, USA)
L'Iceberg (Dominique Abel, Fiona Gordon & Bruno Romy, Belgium)
The Lookout (Scott Frank, USA)
Lust, Caution (Ang Lee, USA/China/Taiwan)
The Man From London (Béla Tarr, France/Germany/Hungary)
A Mighty Heart (Michael Winterbottom, USA/UK)
The Mist (Frank Darabont, USA)
Mr. Brooks (Bruce A. Evans, USA)
New Home Movies From the Lower Ninth Ward (Jonathan Demme, USA)
Notes on Marie Menken (Martina Kudlacek, USA)
Once (John Carney, Ireland)
Persepolis (Marjane Satrapi & Vincent Parannoud, France/USA)
Private Fears in Public Places (Alain Resnais, France/Italy)
Puujee (Kazuya Yamada, Japan)
Rescue Dawn (Werner Herzog, USA)
Saturn in Opposition (Ferzan Ozpetek, Italy/France/Turkey)
Seraphim Falls (David Von Ancken, USA)
[Smiley Face] (Gregg Araki, USA)
Spielberg on Spielberg (Richard Schickel, USA)
Spinnin' (Eusebio Pastrana, Spain)
Summer Scars (Julian Richards, UK)

Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (Tim Burton, USA)
This is England (Shane Meadows, UK)
3:10 to Yuma (James Mangold, USA)
Ten Canoes (Rolf de Heer, Australia)
Terror's Advocate (Barbet Schroeder, France)
The Treatment (Oren Rudavsky, USA)
2 Days in Paris (Julie Delpy, France/Germany)
Waitress (Adrienne Shelley, USA)
Walk Hard (Jake Kasdan, USA)
We Own the Night (James Gray, USA)
Year of the Nail (Jonás Cuarón, Mexico)
You Kill Me (John Dahl, USA)

C+
Amazing Grace (Michael Apted, UK/USA)
Angel-A (Luc Besson, France)
Bangkok Love Story (Pok Anon, Thailand)
Bears (Marc Klasfeld, USA)
Before the Devil Knows You're Dead (Sidney Lumet, USA)
Beowulf (Robert Zemeckis, USA)
Blood Brothers (Alexi Tan, Taiwan/Hong Kong)
Blood Car (Alex Orr, USA)
Buddha Collapsed Out of Shame (Hana Makhmalbaf, Iran)
California Dreamin' (Cristian Nemescu, Romania)
Choose Connor (Luke Eberl, USA)

Darfur Now (Ted Braun, USA)
Death Sentence (James Wan, USA)
Enchanted (Kevin Lima, USA)
Fata Morgana (Simon Gross, Germany)

Feast of Love (Robert Benton, USA)
First Snow (Mark Fergus, USA)
Flanders (Bruno Dumont, France)
The Flying Scotsman (Douglas Mackinnon, UK)
For the Unknown Dog (Benjamin Reding & Dominik Reding, Germany)
The Golden Compass (Paul Weitz, USA/UK)
Hairspray (Adam Shankman, USA)
Hannah Takes the Stairs (Joe Swanberg, USA)
The Hip Hop Project (Matt Ruskin, USA)
Hollywood Dreams (Henry Jaglom, USA)
Hostel Part II (Eli Roth, USA)
I Know Who Killed Me (Chris Siverton, USA)
I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry (Dennis Dugan, USA)
Interview (Steve Buscemi, USA)
The Kingdom (Peter Berg, USA)
Kurt Cobain About a Son (AJ Schnack, USA)
Lights in the Dusk (Aki Kaurismäki, Finland/Germany/France)
Live Free or Die Hard (Len Wiseman, USA)
Mrs. Ratclife's Revolution (Bille Eltringham, UK)
Ocean's Thirteen (Steven Soderbergh, USA)
Pistoleros (Shaky González, Denmark)
The Pope's Toilet (Enrique Fernández & César Charlone, Uruguay/Brazil/France)
Pride (Sunu Gonera, USA)
Redacted (Brian De Palma, USA)
Severance (Christopher Smith, UK)
Shelter (Jonah Markovich, USA)
Shoot 'Em Up (Michael Davis, USA)
Sicko (Michael Moore, USA)
The Simpsons Movie (David Silverman, USA)
Smokin' Aces (Joe Carnahan, USA)
The Sperm (Taweewat Wantha, Thailand)
Spider-Man 3 (Sam Raimi, USA)
Starter For Ten (Tom Vaughn, USA)
Surf's Up (Ash Brannon & Chris Buck, USA)
That Day (Jacob Berger, Switzerland)

Transformers (Michael Bay, USA)
Triangle (Tsui Hark, Ringo Lam & Johnnie To, Hong Kong)
The TV Set (Jake Kasdan, USA)
The Victim (Monthon Arayangkoon, Thailand)
War Dance (Sean Fine & Andrea Nix, USA)
Youth Without Youth (Francis Ford Coppola, USA)
Zoo (Robinson Devor, USA)

C
Breaking and Entering (Anthony Minghella, UK/USA)
Death at a Funeral (Franz Oz, UK/Germany/USA)
Epitaph (Jeong Beom-sik & Jeong Sik, South Korea)
Exodus (Penny Woolcock, UK)

The Invasion (Oliver Hirschbiegel, USA)
Jesus, the Spirit of God (Nader Talebzadeh, Iran)
The Kite Runner (Marc Forster, USA)
La Vie En Rose (Olivier Dahan, France/UK/Czech Republic)
Lovely by Surprise (Kirt Gunn, USA)
Lucky You (Curtis Hanson, USA)
Magicians (Andrew O'Connor, UK)
O Jerusalem (Elie Chouraqui, France/Italy/UK/Greece/Israel/USA)
Paris, je t'aime (Many, many, many, Lichtenstein/Switzerland/Germany/France)
Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End (Gore Verbinski, USA)
Puccini For Beginners (Maria Meggenti, USA)
Reign Over Me (Mike Binder, USA)
Reservation Road (Terry George, USA)
Right At Your Door (Chris Gorak, USA)
Southland Tales (Richard Kelly, Germany/USA)
Starting Out in the Evening (Andrew Wagner, USA)
300 (Zach Snyder, USA)
Trade (Marco Kreuzpaintner, Germany/USA)
Vanaja (Rajnesh Dompalpalli, India/USA)
Year of the Dog (Mike White, USA)

C-
Across the Universe (Julie Taymor, USA)
Alpha Dog (Nick Cassavetes, USA)
Bella (Alejandro Gomez Monteverde, Mexico/USA)
Deadly Daughters (Pavel Ruminov, Russia)
Elizabeth: The Golden Age (Shekhar Kapur, UK/France/Germany)
Finishing the Game (Justin Lin, USA)
Fracture (Gregory Hoblit, USA)
Help Me Eros (Lee Kang-sheng, Taiwan)
Illegal Tender (Franc. Reyes, USA)
In the Valley of Elah (Paul Haggis, USA)
Norbit (Brian Robbins, USA)
The Picture of Dorian Gray (Duncan Roy, USA)
Rendition (Gavin Hood, USA/South Africa)
Resurrecting the Champ (Rod Lurie, USA)
Romance & Cigarettes (John Tuturro, USA)
Sisters (Douglas Block, USA)
The Ten (David Wain, USA)

D+

The Valet (Francis Veber, France)

D
The Brave One (Neil Jordan, USA)
Factory Girl (George Hickenlooper, USA)

Lions for Lambs (Robert Redford, USA)

Perfect Stranger(James Foley, USA)

D-
[pending]

F
[pending]

1 comment:

Unknown said...

Michael Clayton only a B? Best movie I've seen this year, though I'm sure Anderson/Coens/Haynes/Kelly will change that soon. The kind of movie Soderbergh should spend his time making: classy entertainment.