How Do You Like Your Hero?: A 2011 Film and Book Log

By: Judicial Joe

IT IS FINISHED.

Best book of the year:

Best film of the year:

Books read
Letters on Cezanne (Rilke, 1907) – C
Atheism: A Very Short Introduction (Baggini, 2003) – B+
They Called Her Styrene (Ruscha, 2000) – C+
Reptiles, Lizards & Prehistoric Beasts (Zimmerman, 1993) – D+
Introduction to the American Underground Film (Renan, 1967) – A+
Siddhartha (Hesse, 1922) – B-
The French Revolution (SparkNotes, 2005) – C-
Steppenwolf (SparkNotes, 2002) – B+
Acts of Worship: Seven Stories (Mishima, 1965) – B
Adulterers Anonymous (Lunch/Cervenka, 1982) – B-
Face to Face: A Film (Bergman, 1976) – C+
The Ruba’iyat (Khayyam, c. 1100) – B-
The Drowned and the Saved (Levi, 1986) – A+

Films made

Films seen
Little Dieter Needs to Fly (Herzog, 1997) – B+
Heart of Glass (Herzog, 1976) – A
The City of Lost Children (Jeunet/Caro, 1995) – C+
Lessons of Darkness (Herzog, 1992) – B
The Social Network (Fincher, 2010) – A
Lady Blue Shanghai (Lynch, 2010) – F
Shakespeare in Love (Madden, 1998) – D
The Decline of Western Civilization: Part III (Spheeris, 1998) – A-
The Mirror (Tarkovsky, 1975) – A-
Black Swan (Aronofsky, 2010) – C+
The Human Centipede: First Sequence (Six, 2009) – F+
Amelie (Jeunet, 2001) – B+
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (Gilliam, 1998) – B*
Eyes Wide Shut (Kubrick, 1999) – B*
La Chambre (Akerman, 1972) – C
Hotel Monterey (Akerman, 1972) – F
News from Home (Akerman, 1976) – C-
Love in the Afternoon (Rohmer, 1972) – A-
Stranger than Paradise (Jarmusch, 1984) – C
Fata Morgana (Herzog, 1971) – C
Stroszek (Herzog, 1977) – A-
The Town (Affleck, 2010) – C-
The Magician (Bergman, 1958) – B-
Smiles of a Summer Night (Bergman, 1955) – C-
The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser (Herzog, 1975) – B
Metropolis [2010 restoration] (Lang, 1927) – A
Sweet Sweetback’s Baadasssss Song (Van Peebles, 1971) – A
The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert (Elliott, 1994) – B
Bhowani Junction (Cukor, 1956) – C
My Left Foot (Sheridan, 1989) – B
The Sixth Side of the Pentagon (Marker/Reichenbach, 1968) – B
The Embassy (Marker, 1973) – C
McCabe & Mrs. Miller (Altman, 1971) – C-
Ghostbusters (Reitman, 1984) – A-*
Last Tango in Paris (Bertolucci, 1972) – A+
From Hell (Hughes Brothers, 2001) – C
The White Ribbon (Haneke, 2009) – D+
Enter the Void (Noé, 2009) – B-
Get Him to the Greek (Stoller, 2010) – C+
Bleu de Chanel (Scorsese, 2010) – A*
Biutiful (Iñárritu, 2010) – A
Remembrance of Things to Come (Bellon/Marker, 2001) – C-
Colette (Bellon, 1951) – D-
Art School Confidential (Zwigoff, 2006) – A-
Second Bad Vilbel (Cunningham, 1995) – C
Come to Daddy (Cunningham, 1997) – B-
Only You (Cunningham, 1998) – B
Frozen (Cunningham, 1998) – D
Afrika Shox (Cunningham, 1999) – D+
Come On My Selector (Cunningham, 1999) – B
Windowlicker (Cunningham, 1999) – A
All Is Full of Love (Cunningham, 1999) – B*
Closer (Romanek, 1994) – A*

Fanny and Alexander [theatrical version] (Bergman, 1982) – B
Dr. Mabuse (Corbijn, 1984) – D+
Red Guitar (Corbijn, 1984) – F
Seven Seas (Corbijn, 1984) – B-
Quiet Eyes (Corbijn, 1986) – D+
The Game (Corbijn, 1987) – C+
Behind the Wheel (Corbijn, 1987) – B-
Atmosphere (Corbijn, 1988) – C+
My Secret Place (Corbijn, 1988) – F-
Enjoy the Silence (Corbijn, 1990) – B
One [director’s cut] (Corbijn, 1992) – B-*
Straight to You (Corbijn, 1992) – A-
Walking in My Shoes (Corbijn, 1993) – F+
Heart Shaped Box (Corbijn, 1993) – A-*
Troll 2 (Fragasso, 1990) – A-
Casino (Scorsese, 1995) – B
Liar (Corbijn, 1994) – B-
Hero of the Day (Corbijn, 1996) – C
Mama Said (Corbijn, 1996) – F
Barrel of a Gun (Corbijn, 1996) – D
It’s No Good (Corbijn, 1997) – B+
Bleibt Alles Anders (Corbijn, 1998) – D-
Opus 40 (Corbijn, 1999) – B+
Goddess on a Hiway (Corbijn, 1999) – A-
In the Sun (Corbijn, 2000) – D-
Mensch (Corbijn, 2002) – F-
Electrical Storm (Corbijn, 2002) – C-
Re-Offender (Corbijn, 2003) – D-
All These Things That I’ve Done (Corbijn, 2005) – A-*
Bad Romance (Lawrence, 2009) – A-*
The Sacrifice (Tarkovsky, 1986) – B+
La Femme Nikita (Besson, 1990) – B
La Strada (Fellini, 1954) – A-
Jules and Jim (Truffaut, 1962) – A-
The Virgin Spring (Bergman, 1960) – F
The Holy Mountain (Jodorowsky, 1973) – A+
Kicking and Screaming (Baumbach, 1995) – D+
Lola Montés (Ophüls, 1955) – C+
The Lion in Winter (Harvey, 1968) – A
F for Fake (Welles, 1973) – C
Empire of Passion (Ôshima, 1978) – B-
My Name Is Bill W. (Petrie, 1989) – C-
The Testament of Dr. Mabuse (Lang, 1933) – C+
The Night of the Hunter (Laughton, 1955) – C+
Le Cercle Rouge (Melville, 1970) – C+
Walk the Line (Mangold, 2005) – B-
Late Spring (Ozu, 1949) – C-
Vivre sa Vie (Godard, 1962) – B-
Murmur of the Heart (Malle, 1971) – A-
Jeanne Dielman, 23, Quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles (Akerman, 1975) – A+
Woman in the Dunes (Teshigahara, 1964) – B+
The Unbearable Lightness of Being (Kaufman, 1988) – C-
Shoot the Piano Player (Truffaut, 1960) – C
Ballad of a Soldier (Chukhrai, 1959) – B+
Ali: Fear Eats the Soul (Fassbinder, 1974) – B
House (Obayashi, 1977) – B-
Simon of the Desert (Buñuel, 1965) – D
Catalog (Whitney, 1961) – A+
Variations on a Circle (Whitney, 1941-42) – C
Blazes (Breer, 1961) – C+
OffOn (Bartlett, 1967) – A+
Cat’s Cradle (Brakhage, 1959) – D*
Now! (Alvarez, 1965) – B-
Ariel (Kaurismäki, 1988) – B+
Shadows in Paradise (Kaurismäki, 1986) – C+
Boogie-Doodle (McLaren, 1948) – C
Hot Rod (Schaeffer, 2007) – B-*
The Fighter (Russell, 2010) – B
Scott Pilgrim vs. the World (Wright, 2010) – C-
The Kids Are All Right (Cholodenko, 2010) – B-
127 Hours (Boyle, 2010) – C+
Umshini Wam (Korine, 2011) – B+
Tell Them Anything You Want: A Portrait of Maurice Sendak (Bangs/Jonze, 2009) – B-
Punch-Drunk Love (Anderson, 2002) – B
Sex, Lies and Videotape (Soderbergh, 1989) – B
A Prairie Home Companion (Altman, 2006) – C
Rendezvous (Lelouch, 1976) – B
L’Âge D’or (Buñuel, 1930) – B-
My Breakfast with Blassie (Lautrec/Legend/Shepard, 1983) – D-

Cockfighter (Hellman, 1974) – B
Good Morning (Ozu, 1959) – C+
M (Lang, 1931) – A+
Black Sunday (Bava, 1960) – B+
The World of Apu (Ray, 1959) – A
The Shooting (Hellman, 1967) – D
The Cannonball Run (Needham, 1981) – B-
Ride in the Whirlwind (Hellman, 1965) – F+
The Yes Men (Ollman/Price/Smith, 2003) – C-
Salesman (Maysles/Maysles/Zwerin, 1968) – D+
Written on the Wind (Sirk, 1956) – A-
The Ladies Man (Lewis, 1961) – B-
Mildred Pierce (Curtiz, 1945) – A-
Wyatt Earp (Kasdan, 1994) – C-
Bad Girls Go to Hell (Wishman, 1965) – B
Another Day, Another Man (Wishman, 1966) – C
You Can’t Cheat an Honest Man (Marshall/Cline, 1939) – F+
Hannah Takes the Stairs (Swanberg, 2007) – F-
Serious Moonlight (Hines, 2009) – C-
A Game with Stones (Svankmajer, 1965) – C+
Punch and Judy (Svankmajer, 1966) – A-
Et Cetera (Svankmajer, 1966) – B+
Picnic with Weissmann (Svankmajer, 1968) – A-
The Flat (Svankmajer, 1968) – A-
A Quiet Week in the House (Svankmajer, 1969) – D
The Fall of the House of Usher (Svankmajer, 1981) – D-
The Invisible Boy (Hoffman, 1957) – B
Dimensions of Dialogue (Svankmajer, 1982) – A
Down to the Cellar (Svankmajer, 1983) – C+
The Pendulum, The Pit, and Hope (Svankmajer, 1983) – A
Meat Love (Svankmajer, 1989) – A
Flora (Svankmajer, 1989) – B
The Death of Stalinism in Bohemia (Svankmajer, 1990) – A-
Food (Svankmajer, 1992) – B
Irreversible (Noe, 2002) – C-
Zombie (Fulci, 1979) – C+
The King’s Speech (Hooper, 2010) – B-
Rabbit Hole (Mitchell, 2010) – B
A Zed & Two Noughts (Greenaway, 1985) – A
The Rock (Bay, 1996) – A-*
Forbidden Planet (Wilcox, 1956) – C+
Solaris (Soderbergh, 2002) – B-
Doctor Zhivago (Lean, 1965) – D+
Kid (Alvarez, 2007) – C-
Boyz N the Hood (Singleton, 1991) – B-
Clockers (Lee, 1995) – B
Rappaccini’s Daughter (Magyar, 1980) – D-
Kisses (Daly, 2008) – C-
The Exploding Girl (Gray, 2009) – D
Excelsior! Prince of Magicians (Melies, 1901) – B
Arrival of a Train (Lumiere Brothers, 1896) – C
Card Party (Fregoli, 1897) – A-
Alice in Wonderland (Hepworth/Stow, 1903) – B-

Fantasmagorie (Cohl, 1908) – B
Cartoon Factory (Fleischer Brothers, 1924) – A
Ain’t She Sweet (Fleischer, 1933) – A
Boudu Saved from Drowning (Renoir, 1932) – D
Ratcatcher (Ramsay, 1999) – B
Small Deaths (Ramsay, 1995) – D
Never Let Me Go (Romanek, 2010) – A
Kill the Day (Ramsay, 1996) – B-
Gasman (Ramsay, 1997) – B+
A1 (Peacock, 2011) – A
Le Samouraï (Melville, 1967) – A+*
Call Northside 777 (Hathaway, 1948) – C
Body Heat (Kasdan, 1981) – B
Last Night at the Alamo (Pennell, 1983) – B
Once Upon a Time in America (Leone, 1984) – D+
Porcile (Pasolini, 1969) – C-
Burden of Dreams (Blank, 1982) – A-
Knife in the Water (Polanski, 1962) – B
Grey Gardens (Maysles/Maysles/Hovde/Meyer, 1976) – F-
Bed and Board (Truffaut, 1970) – B+
Return to Reason (Ray, 1923) – B-
L’Etoile de Mer (Ray, 1928) – C-
Today (Sednaoui, 1993) – A
Emak-Bakia (Ray, 1926) – C-
The Mysteries of the Chateau of Dice (Ray, 1929) – F-
Cornered! (Maze, 2010) – C
The Running Jumping & Standing Still Film (Lester/Sellars, 1960) – C+
Un Drame Chez Les Fantoches (Cohl, 1908) – A
Clair de Lune Espagnol (Arnaud/Cohl, 1909) – B-
Bambi Meets Godzilla (Newland, 1969) – A-*
Scrap Happy Daffy (Tashlin, 1943) – B
eXistenZ (Cronenberg, 1999) – A-
The Unprecedented Defense of the Fortress Deutschkreuz (Herzog, 1967) – B-
Un Chant D’Amour (Genet, 1950) – B
Antoine et Colette (Truffaut, 1962) – C+
Get Up (July, 1999) – D+
Fitzcarraldo (Herzog, 1982) – A-
Pearls of the Deep (Menzel/Nemec/Schorm/Chytilova/Jires, 1965) – A-
The Cabinet of Jan Svankmajer (Griffiths/Brothers Quay, 1987) – B
The Epic of Gilgamesh (Griffiths/Brothers Quay, 1985) – B
Street of Crocodiles (Brothers Quay, 1986) – D
Rehearsals for Extinct Anatomies (Brothers Quay, 1987) – F+
Dramolet (Brothers Quay, 1988) – B-
Kustom Kar Kommandos (Anger, 1965) – B-
Rhythmus 21 (Richter, 1921) – B
Are We Still Married (Brothers Quay, 1992) – C-
Tales form the Vienna Woods (Brothers Quay, 1993) – D
Can’t Go Wrong Without You (Brothers Quay, 1993) – A+
A Study in Choreography for Camera (Deren, 1945) – A-
Leila Attacks (Marker, 2006) – A
Sound Test for Blackmail (Hithccock, 1929) – C+
Une Catastrophe (Godard, 2008) – C+

Audition I (Maddin, 2005) – C
Audition II (Maddin, 2005) – D+
Je Vous Salue Sarajevo (Godard, 1993) – A-
A Murderer (Polanski, 1957) – B+
Nude Caboose (Maddin, 2008) – A+
Teeth Smile (Polanski, 1957) – B
Bois Ton Cafe (Rohmer, 1986) – A+
Cat Listening to Music (Marker, 1988) – C
Feelings (Solondz, 1984) – B+
Fuseboy (Maddin, 2005) – B
Glaze of Cathexis (Brakhage, 1990) – C-
Hospital Fragment (Maddin, 1999) – B-
Hua Yang De Nian Hua (Kar-Wai, 2000) – D
It’s a Wonderful Life (Maddin, 2001) – D
Stolen Apples for Karen Blixen (Jarman, 1973) – F
Zookeeper Workbook (Maddin, 1997) – A
Ballad of the Skeletons (Van Sant, 1997) – F
Deadpan (McQueen, 1997) – F-
Six Days (Kar-Wai, 2002) – A
Sombra Dolorosa (Maddin, 2004) – A+
Spanky: To the Pier and Back (Maddin, 2008) – C
A Trip to the Orphanage (Maddin, 2004) – C
Water for Maya (Brakhage, 2000) – D+
An Airman’s Letter to His Mother (Powell, 1941) – B
Commingled Containers (Brakhage, 1997) – C+
Daybreak Express (Pennebaker, 1953) – C-
Express Yourself (Fincher, 1989) – B+
Glumov’s Diary (Eisenstein, 1923) – C
Meshes of the Afternoon (Deren/Hammid, 1943) – A+
At Land (Deren, 1944) – A+
10 Feet (Maciunas, 1966) – C
Anemic Cinema (Duchamp, 1926) – D
Symphonie Diagonale (Eggeling, 1924) – B
The Hearts of Age (Welles/Vance, 1934) – C+
Le Vampire (Painleve, 1945) – B
Ghosts Before Breakfast (Richter, 1928) – A-
Ritual in Transfigured Time (Deren. 1946) – B+
Meditation on Violence (Deren, 1948) – C-
The Very Eye of Night (Deren, 1958) – B+
The Private Life of a Cat (Hammid, 1944) – B
Scorpio Rising (Anger, 1964) – A+
Invocation of My Demon Brother (Anger, 1969) – D
Rabbit’s Moon (Anger, 1950) – B-
Lucifer Rising (Anger, 1972) – C
The Man We Want to Hang (Anger, 2002) – D
Anamorphosis (Brothers Quay, 1991) – C
The Comb (Brothers Quay, 1990) – D+
Nocturna Artificialia (Brothers Quay, 1979) – F
Biloxi Blues (Nichols, 1988) – B
The Match Factory Girl (Kaurismaki, 1990) – A-

Midnight in Paris (Allen, 2011) – B+
Cat People (Tourneur, 1942) – B
A Trip to the Moon (Melies, 1902) – C+
The Great Train Robbery (Porter, 1903) – B
True Grit (Coen Brothers, 2010) – A-
Wild Grass (Resnais, 2009) – B-
Chloe (Egoyan, 2009) – B+
L’Atalante (Vigo, 1934) – A+
Hold Me While I’m Naked (Kuchar, 1966) – C
The House Is Black (Farrokhzad, 1963) – B-
The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus (Gilliam, 2009) – B
The Limits of Control (Jarmusch, 2009) – A+
X-Men: First Class (Vaughn, 2011) – B
Blazing Saddles (Brooks, 1974) – B-
Report (Conner, 1967) – B-
The Jerk (Reiner, 1979) – D+
Airplane! (Abrahams/Zucker/Zucker, 1980) – B
The Battle of San Pietro (Huston, 1945) – D+
Blonde Cobra (Jacobs, 1963) – A+
Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore (Scorsese, 1974) – B+
White Material (Denis, 2009) – A-
Scarface (De Palma, 1983) – C+
Blow Job (Warhol, 1963) – A-
Born This Way (Knight, 2011) – C
Fiend Without a Face (Crabtree, 1958) – C
The Old Lady and the Pidgeons (Chomet, 1998) – D
1000 Frames (Maciunas, 1966) – D+
26/71: Zeichenfilm – Balzac und das Auge Gottes (Kren, 1971) – A-
Accordion Player (Le Prince, 1888) – D-
Annie Oakley (Dickson, 1894) – B+
Between Calais and Dover (Melies, 1897) – B-
Blacksmithing Scene (Dickson, 1893) – C
Boxing Kangaroo (Skladanowsky, 1895) – D+
Buffalo Dance (Dickson, 1894) – D
Cake Countdown (PES, 2009) – C-
The Calligrapher (Brothers Quay, 1991) – A-
Sherlock Jr. (Keaton, 1924) – B
Fellini: A Director’s Notebook (Fellini, 1969) – C+
The Curse of the Cat People (Wise/Von Fritsch, 1944) – D
The Road (Hillcoat, 2009) – C
The Big Lebowski (Coen Brothers, 1998) – A*
Making ‘The Shining’ (Kubrick, 1980) – B-
It’s Impossible to Learn to Plow by Reading Books (Linklater, 1988) – B-
Lethal Weapon (Donner, 1987) – B+
Deliverance (Boorman, 1972) – A
The 36th Chamber of Shaolin (Chia-Liang, 1978) – B
Beeswax (Bujalski, 2009) – C
Underworld (Wiseman, 2003) – D
Zodiac (Fincher, 2007) – A
Outer Space (Tscherkassky, 1999) – A-

Tuning the Sleeping Machine (Sherman, 1996) – C+
The Life and Death of 9413, A Hollywood Extra (Florey/Vorkapich, 1928) – B-
Menilmontant (Kirsanoff, 1926) – C
Autumn Mists (Kirsanoff, 1929) – F-
The Flower of Evil (Chabrol, 2003) – B-
Scanners (Cronenberg, 1981) – C
Exit Through the Gift Shop (Banksy, 2010) – A-
The Song of the Styrene (Resnais, 1958) – B
Flunky, Work Hard! (Naruse, 1931) – B-
Night Journey (Hammid, 1960) – A-
Clerks (Smith, 1994) – A+
The Black Devil (Melies, 1904) – B+
Les Fiances du Pont Mac Donald (Varda, 1961) – D+
The Heart of the World (Maddin, 2000) – A
The Eclipse: Courtship of the Sun and Moon (Melies, 1907) – F-
Alejandro (Klein, 2010) – B-
A Hell of a Note (Pennell, 1977) – A
Jean Taris, Swimming Champion (Vigo, 1931) – C-
The Brave Engineer (Kinney, 1950) – C
Eva (Noe, 2005) – C-
Intoxication (Noe, 1998) – B+
Mobile Men (Weerasethakul, 2008) – B
The Spirit of Christmas (Parker/Stone, 1992) – B
Rejected (Hertzfeldt, 2000) – A-
Billy’s Balloon (Hertzfeldt, 1998) – B-
Swinging the Lambeth Walk (Lye, 1940) – C
Life (Peleshian,1993) – C
Tale of Tales (Norshteyn, 1979) – A-
Elegia (Huszarik, 1965) – B
Mediterranee (Pollet/Schlondorff, 1963) – F+
Being John Makovich (Jonze, 1999) – A-
Hands Over the City (Rosi, 1963) – B
A Prophet (Audiard, 2009) – B-
The Garbage Pail Kids Movie (Amateau, 1987) – F-
Children of a Lesser God (Haines, 1986) – B
Close-Up (Kiarostami, 1990) – B-
The Longest Yard (Aldrich, 1974) – B
Fall 1 (Ader, 1970) – D+
I’m Too Sad to Tell You… (Ader, 1971) – C
Focus (Mommartz, 1987) – B-
Trademark Eggs (Mommartz, 1967) – C+
Self Shots (Mommartz, 1967) – A
Sirenes (Degelin, 1961) – D+
The Hat (Miletec, 1937) – C+
By Night with Torch and Spear (Cornell, 1942) – C+
Judas (Gaga/Gibson, 2011) – C+
Sweet Lullaby (Singh, 1993) – C
Black and White Trypps Number Three (Russell, 2007) – C+
S/T (Alonso, 2009) – B+
The Waif and the Wizard (Booth, 1901) – B-

Undressing Extraordinary (Booth, 1901) – A
Upside Down; or, The Human Flies (Booth, 1899) – A-
My Wrongs 8245-8249 and 117 (Morris, 2002) – B+
The Fat and the Lean (Polanski, 1961) – A+
The Musicians (Karabasz, 1960) – C
Mammals (Polanski, 1963) – B-
The Eye and the Ear (Themerson/Themerson, 1945) – B-
A Journey to Avebury (Jarman, 1971) – C-
Darling, Do You Love Me? (Sharp, 1968) – B
After the Ball (Melies, 1897) – B
Living (Zwartjes, 1971) – C
Heat (Mann, 1995) – B+
The Killing Fields (Joffe, 1984) – B-
Renaissance (Borowczyk, 1963) – A
Cigarettes and Coffee (Puiu, 2004) – C+
John MacFadyen (Tait, 1970) – A
Hobo with a Shotgun (Eisener, 2011) – A-
Halloween (Carpenter, 1978) – C
Downfall (Hirschbiegel, 2004) – A+
How to Train Your Dragon (DeBlois/Sanders, 2010) – B-
The Virgin Suicides (Coppola, 1999) – A-
Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (Bay, 2009) – F-
In the Name of the Father (Sheridan, 1993) – B
Three Times (Hou, 2005) – C
El Cid (Mann, 1961) – B
Brazil (Gilliam, 1985) – A+*
Mesrine: Killer Instinct (Richet, 2008) – C+
The Thing (Carpenter, 1982) – A
Hitch Hike (Campanile, 1977) – C+
My Winnipeg (Maddin, 2007) – C+
Victim (Dearden, 1961) – A-
Bibliotheque Pascal (Hajdu, 2010) – A
Manos: The Hands of Fate (Warren, 1966) – D+
Senso (Visconti, 1954) – A-
New York: Broadway at Union Square (Promio, 1896) – C+
From Show Girl to Burlesque Queen (Weed, 1905) – C
The Golden Beetle (de Chomon, 1907) – B
Rescued by Rover (Hepworth/Fitzhamon, 1905) – A-
That Fatal Sneeze (Fitzhamon, 1907) – C
Showgirls (Verhoeven, 1995) – B
Fireworks (Kitano, 1997) – A
Before the Rain (Mancevski, 1994) – C
Repulsion (Polanski, 1965) – C+
Employees Leaving the Lumiere Factory (Lumiere, 1895) – C
L’Arroseur Arrose (Lumiere, 1895) – B-
Manhatta (Strand/Sheeler, 1921) – D-
H2O (Steiner, 1929) – D-
Even: As You and I (Barlow/Hay/Robbins, 1937) – C+
Rain (Ivens/Franken, 1929) – F
Intolerance: Love’s Struggle Throughout the Ages (Griffith, 1916) – A-

Autumn Fire (Weinberg, 1931) – B-
Sentimental Romance (Eisenstein/Aleksandrov, 1930) – C+
Night and Fog (Resnais, 1955) – A*
Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves (Lubin, 1944) – B
The Battle of Algiers (Pontecorvo, 1966) – B*
Billie Jean (Barron, 1982) – A
Nosferatu (Murnau, 1922) – C-
The Color of Pomegranates (Parajanov, 1968) – B-
Hakob Hovnatanyan (Parajanov, 1967) – D+
The Music Lovers (Russell, 1970) – A-
The Gold Rush (Chaplin, 1925) – A+
Stagecoach (Ford, 1939) – A-*
Hot Tub Time Machine (Pink, 2010) – B+
A Woman Under the Influence (Cassavetes, 1974) – D
Everlong (Gondry, 1997) – A*
Dillinger Is Dead (Ferreri, 1969) – C+
Darling (Schlesinger, 1965) – B-
Millennium Mambo (Hou, 2001) – B
The Magic Mountain (Geissendorfer, 1982) – A-
Ossos (Costa, 1997) – B+
Pixels (Jean, 2010) – A
Partitura 001 (Abstract Birds/Quayola, 2011) – B-
Sweet Movie (Makavejev, 1974) – A-
Robots of Brixton (Tavares, 2011) – B-
Alone (Sheaffer, 2010) – B-
Para Mover o Domingo… (Ratts, 2011) – D+
My New Song Is Coming Along Great (Hidalgo, 2010) – C+
Fuckbuddies (Carrillo, 2011) – B-
Solar Sinter (Kayser, 2011) – C
Allegory of Mrs. Triangle (Okaku, 2011) – C+
The Game Kiss (Agusta, 2011) – A
Satantango (Tarr, 1994) – A+
The 3 Rs (Lynch, 2011) – A-
Missoni (Anger, 2010) – A+
Take Aim at the Police Van (Suzuki, 1960) – D+
Irma Vep (Assayas, 1996) – B-
Eccentricities of a Blonde-Haired Girl (De Oliveira, 2009) – D+
Overnight (Marker, 2011) – C-
His Wooden Wedding (McCarey, 1925) – A
Un Chien Andalou (Buñuel, 1929) – A+*
Blonde Venus (Von Sternberg, 1932) – C-
Destricted (Barney/Prince/Tunga/Minter/D’Orazio/Clark/Brown/Noé. 2006) – C
El Infierno (Estrada, 2010) – B
Dazed and Confused (Linklater, 1993) – B-
Peeping Tom (Powell, 1960) – B
Serial Rabbit 3: Splitting Hares (Mauser, 2009) – F-
Star Wars (Lucas, 1977) – A+*
The Expendables (Stallone, 2010) – B
Light Spill: Black-White-Gray (Moholy-Nagy, 1930) – C+
Sullivan’s Travels (Sturges, 1942) – A

1984 (Scott, 1983) – A+*
The Lady Eve (Sturges, 1941) – C-
Emotion (Obayashi, 1966) – D-
Pauline at the Beach (Rohmer, 1983) – D
The General (Boorman, 1998) – C+
Earth (Dovzhenko, 1930) – C-
The Lion Has Wings (Powell/Hurst/Brunel, 1939) – B+
Je Tu Il Elle (Akerman, 1975) – C
The Usual Suspects (Singer, 1995) – B
Kid’s Auto Race (Lehrman, 1914) – D
Away We Go (Mendes, 2009) – C-
Easy Street (Chaplin, 1917) – C-
Paul Robeson: Tribute to an Artist (Turell, 1979) – B+
Big Time (Blum, 1988) – D
Life of an American Fireman (Porter/Fleming, 1903) – D
Casablanca (Curtiz, 1942) – A+*
Reagan (Jarecki, 2011) – B-
Real Steel (Levy, 2011) – C-
The Great Dictator (Chaplin, 1940) – B*
Fred Ott’s Sneeze (Dickson, 1894) – B-*
Monkeyshines, No. 1 (Dickson/Heise, 1889) – C-
Delmer Builds a Machine (Zakheim, 2010) – C
Detour (Ulmer, 1945) – C+
Pull My Daisy (Frank/Leslie, 1959) – D
The Searchers (Ford, 1956) – A+*
The Dirty Dozen (Aldrich, 1967) – A-
The Wild Bunch (Peckinpah, 1969) – A*
Solaris (Tarkovsky, 1972) – B
Salo, or the 120 Days of Sodom (Pasolini, 1975) – A+*
The Evil Dead (Raimi, 1981) – C+
A Clockwork Orange (Kubrick, 1971) – F+*
Fantastic Mr. Fox (Anderson, 2009) – B*
Inception (Nolan, 2010) – A*
Tron (Lisberger, 1982) – C+*
Wild Strawberries (Bergman, 1957) – B-*
Bonnie and Clyde (Penn, 1967) – B+*
The Red Shoes (Powell/Pressburger, 1948) – A-*
Topsy-Turvy (Leigh, 1999) – A-
A Sense of History (Leigh, 1992) – B+
Cinnamon Cakes and Wine (Peacock, 2011) – A+
Mad Max (Miller, 1979) – D
London Can Take It! (Jennings/Watt, 1940) – B
Butterflies Have No Memories (Diaz, 2009) – A-
Life Is Beautiful (Benigni, 1997) – D*
Escape from New York (Carpenter, 1981) – B
Bucking Broadway (Ford, 1918) – C
Factory (Kieslowski, 1971) – B
The Getaway (Peckinpah, 1972) – B
Hospital (Kieslowski, 1976) – C
Railway Station (Kieslowski, 1980) – D+
Identification of a Woman (Antonioni, 1982) – D+

National Lampoon’s Animal House (Landis, 1978) – D-
The Makioka Sisters (Ichikawa, 1983) – C+
The Dirty Dozen: Next Mission (McLagen, 1985) – D
The Killer (Woo, 1989) – A+*
Emperor Tomato Ketchup (Terayama, 1971) – F+
The Whole Shootin’ Match (Pennell, 1978) – A+*
It’s a Wonderful Life (Capra, 1946) – A+
Wavelength (Snow, 1967) – C
The Double Life of Veronique (Kieslowski, 1991) – D-
Near Dark (Bigelow, 1987) – C+
The Tree of Life (Malick, 2011) – A+
The Vagabond (Chaplin, 1916) – C+
Lost in the Mountains (Hong, 2009) – C-
Captain America: The First Avenger (Johnston, 2011) – B
The Tramp (Chaplin, 1915) – B-
The Champion (Chaplin, 1915) – D+
Work (Chaplin, 1915) – B-
Shoulder Arms (Chaplin, 1918) – B
Looking for Fidel (Stone, 2004) – C
The White Gorilla (Fraser, 1945) – D
The Ape Man (Beaudine, 1943) – F-
Vertigo (Hitchcock, 1958) – A-*
Horrible Bosses (Gordon, 2011) – C
Design for Living (Lubitsch, 1933) – B
Tiny Furniture (Dunham, 2010) – B
The Clowns (Fellini, 1970) – A
The Decameron (Pasolini, 1971) – B+
The Canterbury Tales (Pasolini, 1972) – C
Arabian Nights (Pasolini, 1974) – B-
Tokyo Twilight (Ozu, 1957) – B
Cronos (Del Toro, 1993) – B-
Uncle Kent (Swanberg, 2011) – B+
The Pleasure of Being Robbed (Safdie, 2008) – B+
Alexander the Last (Swanberg, 2009) – C
Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows (Ritchie, 2011) – C+
The Adventures of Tintin (Spielberg, 2011) – C
Love Affair, or the Case of the Missing Switchboard Operator (Makavejev, 1967) – C
The Cameraman (Sedgwick/Keaton, 1928) – A-