Film and TV Viewing Log - June 2015
Tokyo Story (Dir: Yasujirō Ozu, 1953)
Films directed by Hirokazu Kore-eda
Still Walking (2008, Japan) ★★★★★
Like Father, Like Son (2014, Japan) ★★★★★
Films directed by Pere Portabella
Nocturno 29 (1968) ★★★★★
Vampir (1970) ★★★★
Films starring Elisabeth Moss
Listen Up Philip (Alex Ross Perry, 2014) ★★★★★
The One I Love (Charlie McDowell, 2014) ★★★★
Five Star Films ★★★★★
Othello (Orson Welles, 1952)
Tokyo Story (Yasujirō Ozu, 1953, Japan)
The Apartment (Billy Wilder, 1960)
Al Ard / The Land (Youssef Chahine, 1969, Egypt)
A New Leaf (Elaine May, 1971)
Harold and Maude (Hal Ashby, 1971)
Enemy (Denis Villeneuve, 2014)
Inherent Vice (Paul Thomas Anderson, 2014)
Four Star Films ★★★★
Sunrise: Song of Two Humans (F. W. Murnau, 1927)
Cross-Roads (John Fitchen, 1955)
Rocco and his Brothers (Luchino Visconti, 1960, Italy)
Very Nice, Very Nice (Arthur Lipsett, 1961)
Cul-de-Sac (Roman Polanski, 1966)
The Round Up (Miklós Jancsó, 1966, Hungary)
Grey Gardens ( Albert Maysles, Muffie Meyer, Ellen Hovde, David Maysles, 1975)
Vagabond (Agnès Varda , 1985, France)
Cinemania (Stephen Kijak, Angela Christlieb, 2002)
Primer (Shane Carruth, 2004)
Derek Jarman: Life as Art (Andy Kimpton-Nye 2004)
The Wayward Cloud (Tsai Ming-liang, 2005, Taiwan)
Coming Attractions (Peter Tscherkassky, 2010)
Volcano (Rúnar Rúnarsson, 2011, Iceland)
Dawn (Rose McGowan, 2014) [I recently wrote about it here.]
Altman (Ron Mann, 2014)
Electric Boogaloo: The Wild, Untold Story of Cannon (Mark Hartley, 2014)
Station to Station (Doug Aitken, 2015)
Three Star Films ★★★
Night Tide (Chris Harrington, 1961)
Ladies and Gentlemen...Mr Cohen (Donald Brittain, Don Owen, 1965)
Al-Mutamarridun / The Rebels (Tawfiq Saleh, 1966, Egypt)
Punishment Park (Peter Watkins, 1971)
Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day (Bharat Narulli, 2008)
Our Beloved Month of August (Miguel Gomes, 2008)
Mammoth (Lukas Moodysson, 2009)
Ashes (Apichatpong Weerasethakul, 2012, Thailand)
White Bird in a Blizzard (Gregg Araki, 2014)
Unfriended (Levan Gabriadze, 2015)
Jurassic World (Colin Trevorrow, 2015)
Two Star Films ★★
Mesrine: Killer Instinct (Jean-François Richet, 2008)
Mesrine: Public Enemy No. 1 (Jean-François Richet, 2008)
Wa Fee Al Layl Yarkusn / At Night, They Dance at Night (Isabelle Lavigne, 2010)
7 Days in Havana (Benicio del Toro, Gaspar Noé, Elia Suleiman, Laurent Cantet, Julio Medem, Pablo Trapero, Juan Carlos Tabío, 2012)
★
A Day In The Life Of Karima: A Henna Girl (Hassan Hajjaj, 2015)
TV
How to be Bohemian, Episodes 1-3 (BBC, 2015) ★★★★
Humans, Episodes 1-3 (Channel 4, 2015) ★★★★
True Detective, Season 2, Episodes 1-2 (2015) ★★
Links to previous film and TV viewing log:
January 2015
February 2015
March 2015
April 2015
May 2015