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Highlights 2011 (in viewing order)

first-timers:

Desert Fury (Lewis Allen / USA / 1947)
Wohnhaft (Bernhard Marsch / Germany / 2004)
À nos amours “To Our Loves” (Maurice Pialat / France / 1983)
Posse (Kirk Douglas / USA / 1975)
Seraphim Falls (David Von Ancken / USA / 2006)
Kolberg “Burning Hearts” (Veit Harlan, Wolfgang Liebeneiner (uncredited) / Germany / 1945)
Die Geier – Wally “Wally of the Vultures” (Ewald André Dupont / Germany / 1921)
Szerelem “Love” (Károly Makk / Hungary / 1970)
Jön az öcsém “My Brother is Coming” (Michael Curtiz / Hungary / 1919)
Um 8 Uhr kommen die Schweine wieder “The Pigs Will Return At 8 A.M.” (Hansjürgen Pohland / West Germany / 1959)
Hateshinaki yokubo “Endless Desire” (Shôhei Imamura / Japan / 1958)
Maniac (William Lustig / USA / 1980)
Körhinta “Merry-Go-Round” (Zoltán Fábri / Hungary / 1955)
(Maruhi) shikijô mesu ichiba “Secret Chronicle: She Beast Market” (Noboru Tanaka / Japan / 1974)
Superman II (Richard Donner / USA, UK / 2006)
Les raisins de la mort “The Grapes of Death” (Jean Rollin / France / 1978)
Ging chat goo si “Police Story” (Jackie Chan / Hong Kong / 1985)
Japan, Tokyo in 1962 (Michael Rogge [editor?] / Japan / ?? )
10:15 Saturday Night (Grey Daisies / Austria / 2010)
In the Cut (Jane Campion / USA, UK, Australia / 2003)
Mädchen – Mädchen “Girls, Girls” (Roger Fritz / West Germany / 1966)
Thief (Michael Mann / USA / 1981)
Gothic (Ken Russell / UK / 1986)
Der Besen (Klaus Schneider / Germany / 2010)
Der Mond (Klaus Schneider / Germany / 2010)
Foutaises “Things I Like, Things I Don’t Like” (Jean-Pierre Jeunet / France / 1989)
Unsichtbare Tage (Eva Hiller / Germany / 1991)
Supertramp Portrait 1970 (Haro Senft / West Germany / 1970)
Das Nürnberger Bett (Alexander Titus Benda / West Germany / 1983)
Ginevra “Guinevere” (Ingemo Engström / Germany / 1991)
Se ying diu sau “Snake in the Eagle’s Shadow” (Woo-ping Yuen / Hong Kong / 1978)
The Other Guys (Adam McKay / USA / 2010)
Le juiff errant “The Wandering Jew” (Georges Méliès / France / 1904)
La semana del asesino “Cannibal Man” (Eloy de la Iglesia / Spain / 1972)
Pomeriggio caldo “Afternoon” (Joe D’Amato / Itlay / 1987)
Tong nien wang shi “A Time to Live, a Time to Die” (Hsiao-hsien Hou / Taiwan / 1985)
Liebe kann wie Gift sein (Veit Harlan / West Germany / 1958)
Die Sieger “The Invincibles” (Dominik Graf / Germany / 1994)
John MacFadyen (Margaret Tait / UK / 1970)
Der scharlachrote Engel (Dominik Graf / Germany / 2005)
Tian xia di yi quan “King Boxer” (Chang-hwa Jeong / Hong Kong / 1972)
Hidden Agenda (Ken Loach / UK / 1990)
Le passager de la pluie “Rider on the Rain” (René Clément / France, Italy / 1970)
Okraina “Outskirts” (Boris Barnet / Soviet Union / 1933)
Suspense (Phillips Smalley, Lois Weber / USA / 1913)
Die Stimme des Herzens “The Voice of the Heart” (Karl Heinz Martin / Germany / 1937)
Tsumetai nettaigyo “Cold Fish” (Sion Sono / Japan / 2010)
Chelovek s kino-apparatom “Man with a Movie Camera” (Dziga Vertov / Soviet Union / 1929)
Das zweite Gesicht “The Second Face” (Dominik Graf / West Germany / 1982)
Muriel ou Le temps d’un retour “Muriel, or The Time of Return” (Alain Resnais / France, Italy / 1963)
Metropolis (Giorgio Moroder / USA / 1984)
Kirmes “The Fair” (Wolfgang Staudte / West Germany, France / 1960)
20,000 Years in Sing Sing (Michael Curtiz / USA / 1932)
Taxi! (Roy Del Ruth / USA / 1932)
Safe in Hell (William A. Wellman / USA / 1931)
Act of Violence (Fred Zinnemann / USA / 1948)
The Door in the Wall (Glenn H. Alvey Jr. / UK / 1956)
Fatal Attraction (Adrian Lyne / USA / 1987)
Pursued (Raoul Walsh / USA / 1947)
Spetters (Paul Verhoeven / Netherlands / 1979)
Slow Torture Puke Chamber (Lucifer Valentine / Canada / 2010)
Flesh+Blood (Paul Verhoeven / USA, Spain, Netherlands / 1985)
Phenomena (Dario Argento / Italy / 1984)
Streets of Fire (Walter Hill / USA / 1984)
Nayak “The Hero” (Satyajit Ray / India / 1965)
Nu lan wu hao “Woman Basketball Player No. 5” (Jin Xie / China / 1957)
Ragtime (Milos Forman / USA / 1981)
Moderato cantabile (Peter Brook / France, Italy / 1960)
Shi di chu ma “The Young Master” (Jackie Chan / Hong Kong / 1980)
Vtackovia, siroty a blazni “Birds, Orphans and Fools” (Juraj Jakubisko / Czechoslovakia, France / 1969)
Dressed to Kill (Brian De Palma / USA / 1980)
Sylvia (Ernst Crantzler / East Germany / 1983)
Údolí vcel “Valley of the Bees” (Frantisek Vlácil / Czechoslovakia / 1967)
Marketa Lazarová (Frantisek Vlácil / Czechoslovakia / 1967)
Sud sanaeha “Blissfully Yours” (Apichatpong Weerasethakul / Thailand, France / 2002)
Mobile Men (Apichatpong Weerasethakul / Thailand / 2008)
Persona (Ingmar Bergman / Sweden / 1966)
The Criminal (Joseph Losey / UK / 1960)
The Prowler (Joseph Losey / USA / 1950)
Powaqqatsi (Godfrey Reggio / USA / 1987)
3-4 x jûgatsu “Boiling Point” (Takeshi Kitano / Japan / 1990)
Intrigo d’amore “Love Web” (Mario Gariazzo / Italy / 1988)
Rolf “The Last Mercenary” (Mario Siciliano / Italy / 1983)
Narrow Margin (Peter Hyams / USA / 1990)
Kalter Frühling (Dominik Graf / Germany / 2003)
Paroxismus “Venus in Furs” (Jesus Franco / UK, West Germany, Italy / 1970)
The Long Riders (Walter Hill / USA)
Morocco (Josef von Sternberg / USA / 1930)
Regine (Erich Waschneck / Germany / 1934)
Großstadtmelodie “Melody of a Great City” (Wolfgang Liebeneiner / Germany / 1943)
Cassandras Warnung (Dominik Graf / Germany / 2011)
Hell Drivers (Cy Endfield / UK / 1957)
American Translation (Pascal Arnold, Jean-Marc Barr / France / 2011)
The Honeymoon Killers (Leonard Kastle / USA / 1969)
Hwanghae “The Yellow Sea” (Hong-jin Na / South Korea / 2010)
The Collector (William Wyler / USA, UK / 1965)
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (Rouben Mamoulian / USA / 1931)
Yellow Sky (William A. Wellman / USA / 1948)
Hîrtia va fi albastrã “The Paper Will Be Blue” (Radu Muntean / Romania / 2006)
Whores’ Glory (Michael Glawogger / Austria, Germany / 2011)
Alouminion tis Ellados “Aluminum of Greece” (Roussos Koundouros / Greece / 1965)
Führung “Guided Tour” (René Frölke / Germany / 2010)
El Mocito “The Young Butler” (Marcela Said, Jean de Certeau / Chile / 2010)
Bela (Stanislav Rostotsky / Soviet Union / 1966)
The Bat Whispers (Roland West / USA / 1930)
L’homme multiplié “Multiple Man” (Georges Dufaux, Claude Godbout / Canada / 1969)
Kelly’s Heroes (Brian G. Hutton / USA, Yugoslavia / 1970)
The Rainbow (Ken Russell / UK, USA / 1988)
Ancora dollari per i MacGregor “More Dollars for the MacGregors” (José Luis Merino / Italy, Spain / 1970)
Jorinde und Joringel (Wolfgang Hübner / East Germany / 1986)
Where Danger Lives (John Farrow / USA / 1950)
The Tin Star (Anthony Mann / USA / 1957)
The Woman Accused (Paul Sloane / USA / 1933)
The Liberation of L.B. Jones (William Wyler / USA / 1969)
Heinrich (Helma Sanders-Brahms / West Germany / 1977)
Der Findling (George Moorse / West Germany / 1967)
Bus, jeong ryu-jang “Bus Stop” (Mi-yeon Lee / South Korea / 2002)
Racing with the Moon (Richard Benjamin / USA / 1984)
La ragazza della salina “Sand, Love and Salt” (Frantisek Cáp / West Germany, Italy, Yugoslavia / 1957)
Die Katze “The Cat” (Dominik Graf / West Germany / 1988)
The Practical Pig (Dick Rickard (uncredited) / USA / 1938)
La prisonnière “Female Prisoner” (Henri-Georges Clouzot / France, Italy / 1968)
Madeleine und der Legionär “Escape from Sahara” (Wolfgang Staudte / West Germany / 1957)
Menschen im Netz “People in the Net” (Franz Peter Wirth / West Germany / 1959)
Le corps de mon ennemi “The Body of my Enemy” (Henri Verneuil / France / 1976)
Non coupable “Not Guilty” (Henri Decoin / France / 1947)
Busting (Peter Hyams / USA / 1973)
Run, Angel, Run! (Jack Starrett / USA / 1969)
Manon (Henri-Georges Clouzot / France / 1949)
Dominion: Prequel to the Exorcist (Paul Schrader / USA / 2005)
Phantom of the Opera (Arthur Lubin / USA / 1943)
The Crowd (King Vidor / USA/ 1928)
Equalizer 2000 (Cirio H. Santiago / USA, Philippines / 1987)
Baby Face (Alfred E. Green / USA / 1933)
L’homme de nulle part “Man from Nowhere” (Pierre Chenal / France / 1937)
Ad ogni costo “Grand Slam” (Giuliano Montaldo / Italy, Spain, West Germany / 1967)
Ognuno per sé “Every Man for Himself” (Giorgio Capitani / Italy, West Germany / 1968)
Dawn of the Dead [139 min. version] (George A. Romero / USA, Italy / 1978)
L’avventura “The Adventure” (Michelangelo Antonioni / Italy, France / 1960)
Farfale “Butterflies” (?? / Italy / 1907)
The Verdict (Sidney Lumet / USA / 1982)
Revolución (Jorge Sanjinés, Óscar Soria (co-director) / Bolivia / 1963)
Le roi des dollars “King of Dollars” (Segundo de Chomón / France / 1905)
Alenkiy tsvetochek “The Scarlet Flower” (Irina Povolotskaya / Soviet Union / 1977)
Labirynt “Labyrinth” (Jan Lenica / Poland / 1963)
Ekti Nadir Naam “The Name of a River” (Anup Singh / India, Bangladesh, UK / 2001)
Die Marquise von O… “The Marquise of O” (Eric Rohmer / West Germany, France / 1976)
Quan ji “Duel of Fists” (Cheh Chang / Hong Kong / 1971)
Kin-dza-dza! (Georgi Daneliya / Soviet Union / 1986)
Film is a Battleground (Petra Seeger / Germany / 1998)
Very Nice, Very Nice (Arthur Lipsett / Canada / 1961)
YUL 871 “Montreal Flight 871” (Jacques Godbout / Canada / 1966)
Tengoku to jigoku “High and Low” (Akira Kurosawa / Japan / 1963)
Death of a Gunfighter (Robert Totten, Don Siegel / USA / 1969)
The Hunchback of Notre Dame (William Dieterle / USA / 1939)

seen again:

Signs (M. Night Shyamalan / USA / 2002) – Desert Fury (Lewis Allen / USA / 1947)
The Last of the Mohicans (Michael Mann / USA / 1992)
Taiyô no hakaba “The Sun’s Burial” (Nagisa Ôshima / Japan / 1960)
Notre musique “Our Music” (Jean-Luc Godard / France, Switzerland / 2004)
Khaneh siah ast “The House is Black” (Forugh Farrokhzad / Iran / 1962)
A View to a Kill (John Glen / UK, USA / 1985)
La Habanera (Detlef Sierck / Germany / 1937)
Topio stin omichli “Landscape in the Mist” (Theodoros Angelopoulos / Greece, Italy, France / 1988)
The Shock (Lambert Hillyer / USA / 1923)
The Thin Red Line (Terrence Malick / USA / 1998)
Der Felsen “A Map of the Heart” (Dominik Graf / Germany / 2001)
Jigoku no banken: akai megane “The Red Spectacles” (Mamoru Oshii / Japan / 1987)
The Big Sleep (Howard Hawks / USA / 1946)
First Knight (Jerry Zucker / USA / 1995)
C’era una volta il West “Once Upon a Time in the West” (Sergio Leone / Italy, USA / 1968)
Cliffhanger (Renny Harlin / USA, France, Italy / 1993)
Macho Man (Alexander Titus Benda / West Germany / 1984)
Fa yeung nin wa “In the Mood for Love” (Kar Wai Wong / Hong Kong, France / 2000)
Cassandras Warnung (Dominik Graf / Germany / 2011)
Tsumetai nettaigyo “Cold Fish” (Sion Sono / Japan / 2010)
…continuavano a chiamarlo trinitá “Trinity Is STILL My Name!” (Enzo Barboni / Italy / 1971)
Alles ist die Noppe (Kilian Helmbrecht, Lukas Helmbrecht, Hendrik Denkhaus, Christian Denkhaus / Germany / 2009)
Arlington Road (Mark Pellington / USA / 1998)
The Shining (Stanley Kubrick / USA, UK / 1980)
Black Ice (Stan Brakhage, Sam Bush / USA / 1994)

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  • Auteur-driven
  • Inspired collaboration
  • Melancholy
  • Zip, whiz, and energetic!
  • Serene & subtle
  • Wildly romantic
  • Deliriously surreal
  • Rebellion!
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herbie s

10Feb12

What is the top image in your About Me section?

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    WBA

    10Feb12

    The image is a scene from Rashid Nugmanov's invigorating social satire "Igla" (1988) with its protagonist played by russian icon Viktor Tsoy on the left faced by his diegetic (ex-)lover Dina portrayed by Marina Smirnova in her sole screen role.

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    herbie s

    10Feb12

    Added to my watch list. Thanks!

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Dan Bayer

7Feb12

Thanks for your kind comments about my Written on the Wind review! I do try to make my criticism as entertaining as it is informative/interesting.

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    WBA

    7Feb12

    No prob. Just liked it best out of the 4 presented. ;-)

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David Semblance

16Jan12

Hi, thanks for fanning the writers list....

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Kenji

4Jan12

Short Films poll results now on forum and List