Tag: film
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