Category: Cinema

Films I saw this semes­ter:

• Super Troop­ers (Jay Chan­drasekhar, 2001) — B+
• Zoolan­der (Ben Stiller, 2001) — C
• Cin­e­ma Par­adiso (Giuseppe Tor­na­tore, 1988) — A-
• Objec­tive Bur­ma (Raoul Walsh, 1945) — B-
• Full Met­al Jack­et (Stan­ley Kubrick, 1987) — B+
• The Bridge on the Riv­er Kwai (David Lean, 1957) — B
• The Searchers (John Ford, 1956) — C-
• The Wild Bunch (Sam Peck­in­pah, 1969) — B
• It’s a Won­der­ful Life (Frank Capra, 1946) — C- (I abhor Capra)
• Meet John Doe (Frank Capra, 1941)- C+ (see above)
• A Place in the Sun (George Stevens, 1951) — D
• Roman Hol­i­day (William Wyler, 1953) — B+ (Audrey Hep­burn was HOT!)
• An Affair to Remem­ber (Leo McCarey, 1957) — C+
• Do the Right Thing (Spike Lee, 1989) — B
• Remem­ber the Titans (Boaz Yakin, 2000) — D
• The Killers (Robert Siod­mak, 1946) — B
• Out of the Past (Jacques Tourneur, 1947) — B
• Dou­ble Indem­ni­ty (Bil­ly Wilder, 1944) — B
• The Big Sleep (Howard Hawks, 1946) — B+
• Detour (Edgar G. Ulmer, 1945) — C
• Raw Deal (Antho­ny Mann, 1948) — C
• The Lady From Shang­hai (Orson Welles, 1948) — B
• Touch of Evil (Orson Welles, 1958) — A
• The Big Heat (Fritz Lang, 1953) — B+
• Gil­da (Charles Vidor, 1946) — B+
• Pick­up on South Street (Samuel Fuller, 1953) — A-
• Kiss Me Dead­ly (Robert Aldrich, 1955) — B+
• Shoot the Piano Play­er (François Truf­faut, 1960) — B+
• Chi­na­town (Roman Polan­s­ki, 1974) — A-
• The Long Good­bye (Robert Alt­man, 1973)
• Dev­il in a Blue Dress (Carl Franklin, 1995) — B+
• The Man Who Was­n’t There (Joel Coen, 2001) — B
• Hed­wig and the Angry Inch (John Cameron Mitchell, 2001) — A
• Freaks (Tod Brown­ing, 1932) — D
• Nor­ma Rae (Mar­tin Ritt, 1979) — B
• Match Fac­to­ry Girl (Aki Kuras­ma­ki, 1989) — A-
• Hoop Dreams (James, Gilbert, Marx, 1994) — B+
• To Sleep With Anger (Charles Bur­nett, 1990) — A-
• The Piano (Jane Cam­pi­on, 1993) — A-
• A Ques­tion of Silence (Mar­leen Goris, 1983) — B-
• Philadel­phia (Jonathan Demme, 1993) — B
• Go Fish (Rose Troche, 1994) — B+
• Dances With Wolves (Kevin Cost­ner, 1990) — B+
• Dead Man (Jim Jar­musch, 1996) — A
• Schindler’s List (Steven Spiel­berg, 1994) — B-
• Hiroshi­ma Mon Amour (Alain Resnais, 1959) — A-
• Com­ing Home (Hal Ash­by, 1978)
• The Killing Fields (Roland Jof­fé, 1984)
• The Gospel Accord­ing to Matthew (Pier Pao­lo Pasoli­ni, 1964) — C-
• Gos­ford Park (Robert Alt­man, 2001) — B+
• Lawrence of Ara­bia (David Lean, 1962) — A
• Week End (Jean-Luc Godard,) — B+
• Live From Bagh­dad (Mick Jack­son, 2002) — D