FILMS SEEN, 2006
Out of 10 / repeat viewings in italics / *denotes theater viewing / short films (under 1/2 hour)
DECEMBER
Pusher (Nicholas Winding Refn, 1996) - 7
The Jerk (Carl Reiner, 1979) - 7
*Wet Hot American Summer (David Wain, 2001) - 5
Crimewave (Sam Raimi, 1985) - 7
The Woman on the Beach (Jean Renoir, 1947) - 6
Dressed to Kill (Brian De Palma, 1980) - 8
The Big Combo (Joseph H. Lewis, 1955) - 8
In a Year of 13 Moons (Rainer Werner Fassbinder, 1978) - 9
*The Queen (Stephen Frears, 2006) - 6
Gremlins (Joe Dante, 1984) - 8
Wrong Turn (Rob Schmidt, 2003) - 7
The Battle of Algiers (Gillo Pontecorvo, 1968) - 9
Supersilent 7 (Kim Hiorthøy, 2005) - 9
*The Seventh Victim (Mark Robson, 1943) - 8
*Lucifer Rising (Kenneth Anger, 1972) - 7
*Invocation of My Demon Brother (Kenneth Anger, 1969) - 5
Army of Shadows (Jean-Pierre Melville, 1969) - 9
Neil Young: Heart of Gold (Jonathan Demme, 2006) - 7
*Shortbus (John Cameron Mitchell, 2006) - 8
An Autumn Afternoon (Yasujiro Ozu, 1962) - 9
*The Prestige (Christopher Nolan, 2006) - 8
*The Descent (Neil Marshall, 2005) - 7
Sami Sänpäkkilä: Early Filmworks (Sami Sänpäkkilä, 1996-2006) - 7
A Moment of Innocence (Mohsen Mahkmalbaf, 1996) - 8
*Black Christmas (Bob Clark, 1974) - 6
*Christmas Evil (Lewis Jackson, 1980) - 5
The Short and Curlies (Mike Leigh, 1987) - 7
*Babel (Alejandro Gonzalez Innaritu, 2006) - 5
Time to Leave (Francois Ozon, 2005) - 7
Metal: A Headbanger's Journey (Steve Dunn, 2005) - 4
Scoop (Woody Allen, 2006) - 6
*Inland Empire (David Lynch, 2006) - 9
Werckmeister Harmonies (Bela Tarr, 2000) - 8
3 Women (Robert Altman, 1977) - 9
Let's Scare Jessica to Death (John P. Hancock, 1971) - 6
L'Humanite (Bruno Dumont, 1999) - 6
Trouble in Paradise (Ernst Lubitsch, 1932) - 9
Kings and Queen (Arnaud Desplechin, 2004) - 8
All That Heaven Allows (Douglas Sirk, 1955) - 8
Tropical Malady (Apichatpong Weerasethakul, 2004) - 9
*Casino Royale (Martin Campbell, 2006) - 6
*Tenacious D in The Pick of Destiny (Liam Lynch, 2006) - 4
*Stranger Than Fiction (Marc Foster, 2006) - 7
*Rules of the Game (Jean Renoir, 1939) - 8
NOVEMBER
*Cleo From 5 to 7 (Agnes Varda, 1961) - 8
*The Fountain (Darren Aronofsky, 2006) - 7
My Life to Live (Jean-Luc Godard, 1962) - 10
*Choking Man (Steve Barron, 2006) - 6
*Volver (Pedro Almodovar, 2006) - 5
*The Flowers of St. Francis (Roberto Rosselini, 1950) - 8
*The Science of Sleep (Michel Gondry, 2006) - 8
*Blaise Pascal (Roberto Rosselini, 1971) - 7
Sunrise (F.W. Murnau, 1927) - 10
*In Between Days (Yong Kim So, 2006) - 7
*Borat (Larry Charles, 2006) - 7
*Marie-Antoinette (Sofia Coppola, 2006) - 6
*2 or 3 Things I Know About Her (Jean-Luc Godard, 1967) - 8
*51 Birch St. (Doug Block, 2005) - 8
Ordet (Carl Dreyer, 1955) - 10
Play it Again, Sam (Herbert Ross, 1972) - 7
*Climates (Nuri Bilge Ceylan, 2006) - 6
Pulse (Kiyoshi Kurosawa, 2001) - 8
*Noroît (Jacques Rivette, 1976) - 7
*Little Children (Todd Field, 2006) - 4
The Devil Wears Prada (David Frankel, 2006) - 3
Rumble Fish (Francis Ford Coppola, 1983) - 7
Oasis (Chang-dong Lee, 2002) - 9
Rosemary's Baby (Roman Polanski, 1968) - 10
*L'Eclisse (Michelangelo Antonioni, 1962) - 8
Halloween (John Carpenter, 1978) - 9
Los Olvidados (Luis Bunuel, 1950) - 9
*Exiled (Johnny To, 2006) - 7
Last Life in the Universe (Pen-Ek Ratanaruang, 2003) - 7
The Warriors (Walter Hill, 1979) - 8
L'Intrus (Claire Denis, 2004) - 9
OCTOBER
*I Walked With a Zombie (Jacques Tourneur, 1943) - 7
*Goodfellas (Martin Scorsese, 1990) - 9
Z Channel: A Magnificent Obsession (Xan Cassavetes, 2004) - 7
Slither (James Gunn, 2006) - 6
Election (Johnnie To, 2005) - 5
Raining Stones (Ken Loach, 1993) - 8
The Red Desert (Michelangelo Antonioni, 1964) - 6
*Children of Men (Alfonso Cuarón, 2006) - 9
Shadows (John Cassavetes, 1959) - 6
*The Wizard of Oz (Victor Fleming, 1939) - 9
Possession (Andrzej Zulawski, 1981) - 8
Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown (Pedro Almodovar, 1988) - 5
The Good Thief (Neil Jordan, 2002) - 6
*Dumplings (Fruit Chan, 2004) - 8
Who's That Knocking At My Door? (Martin Scorsese, 1967) - 7
Viridiana (Luis Bunuel, 1961) - 8
Elevator to the Gallows (Louis Malle, 1957) - 6
The Slaughter Rule (Andrew and Alex Smith, 2002) - 7
*The Departed (Martin Scorsese, 2006) - 8
Master of the Flying Guillotine (Wang Yu, 1975) - 7
*Kenny (Clayton Jacobson, 2006) - 8
*The Red Balloon (Albert Lamorisse, 1956) - 6
*La Jetee (Chris Marker, 1962) - 9
*The Golden Fish (Edmond Séchan, 1959) - 7
Overnight (Tony Montana & Mark Brian Smith, 2003) - 4
Where the Truth Lies (Atom Egoyan, 2005) - 4
Melvin and Howard (Jonathan Demme, 1980) - 8
*Offside (Jafar Panahi, 2006) - 8
Lady Vengeance (Chan-Wook Park, 2005) - 4
Dallas 362 (Scott Caan, 2003) - 7
*Dead Man's Shoes (Shane Meadows, 2004) - 8
Topsy-Turvy (Mike Leigh, 1999) - 8
SEPTEMBER
The Reflecting Skin (Philip Ridley, 1990) - 8
*The Book of Revelation (Ana Kokkinos, 2006) - 3
Early Summer (Yasujiro Ozu, 1951) - 8
*Drawing Restraint 9 (Matthew Barney, 2005) - 5
Distant (Nuri Bilge Ceylan, 2002) - 8
The Fury (Brian De Palma, 1978) - 8
Chocolat (Claire Denis, 1988) - 8
Milennium Actress (Satashi Kon, 2001) - 9
Broadcast News (James L. Brooks, 1987) - 7
*Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby (Adam McKay, 2006) - 7
Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind (Hayao Miyazaki, 1984) - 7
Deconstructing Harry (Woody Allen, 1997) - 6
The Company of Wolves (Neil Jordan, 1984) - 7
*Sympathy for the Devil (Jean-Luc Godard, 1968) - 6
Faces (John Cassavetes, 1968) - 8
Irma Vep (Olivier Assayas, 1996) - 7
*Monster House (Gil Kenan, 2006) - 7
Rosetta (Jean-Pierre Dardenne & Luc Dardenne, 1999) - 9
*The Hangman (Les Goldman & Paul Julian, 1963) - 4
*Fireworks (Kenneth Anger, 1947) - 7
*Pigs (Carroll Ballard, 1967) - 5
*The Blood of the Beasts (Georges Franju, 1949) - 8
*Don't (Robin Lehman, 1974) - 6
*A Divided World (Arne Sucksdorff, 1954) - 6
Umberto D. (Vittorio de Sica, 1952) - 8
The Isle (Kim Ki-Duk, 2000) - 3
*The Matador (Richard Shepard, 2005) - 6
*Breakfast on Pluto (Neil Jordan, 2005) - 8
Sweet and Lowdown (Woody Allen, 1999) - 7
*Thank You For Smoking (Jason Reitman, 2005) - 5
Beau Travail (Claire Denis, 1999) - 10
*This is America Part 2 (Romano Vanderbes, 1977) - 5
Lessons of Darkness (Werner Herzog, 1992) - 9
Hi, Mom! (Brian De Palma, 1970) - 8
Up! (Russ Meyer, 1976) - 6
AUGUST
*Miami Vice (Michael Mann, 2006) - 6
Sherman's March (Ross McElwee, 1986) - 9
*Brakhage (Jim Shedden, 1998) - 7
Purple Rain (Albert Magnoli, 1984) - 8
The Exterminating Angel (Luis Bunuel, 1962) - 10
Ichi the Killer (Takashi Miike, 2001) - 6
Crimson Gold (Jafar Panahi, 2003) - 8
*Snakes on a Plane (David R. Ellis, 2006) - 6
Cane Toads (Mark Lewis, 1988) - 8
*The Host (Joon-Ho Bong, 2006) - 8
The Ice Harvest (Harold Ramis, 2005) - 7
*23 Skidoo (Julian Biggs, 1964) - 8
*Mindscape (Jacques Drouin, 1976) - 7
*Toys (Grant Munro, 1966) - 7
*Nahanni (Donald Wilder, 1962) - 7
*21:87 (Arthur Lipsett, 1964) - 7
*Ryan (Chris Landreth, 2004) - 8
*The Eye Hears, The Eye Sees (Gavin Millar, 1970) - 7
Stardust Memories (Woody Allen, 1980) - 8
To Sleep With Anger (Charles Burnett, 1990) - 7
Kill, Baby... Kill! (Mario Bava, 1966) - 6
The Marriage of Maria Braun (Rainer Werner Fassbinder, 1979) - 8
*United 93 (Paul Greengrass, 2006) - 8
The Sentimental Bloke (Raymond Longford, 1919) - 8
*Number 14: Late Superimpositions (Harry Smith, 1965) - 7
*Heaven and Earth Magic (Harry Smith, 1962) - 9
*Early Abstractions (Harry Smith, 1987) - 5
School For Postmen (Jacques Tati, 1947) - 8
The Shooting (Monte Hellman, 1967) - 5
The Crime of Monsieur Lange (Jean Renoir, 1936) - 7
Tenebre (Dario Argento, 1982) - 8
High Hopes (Mike Leigh, 1988) - 8
*3-Iron (Ki-Duk Kim, 2004) - 5
Something Wild (Jonathan Demme, 1986) - 8
*Wax, or the Discovery of Television Among the Bees (David Blair, 1991) - 4
The Piano (Jane Campion, 1993) - 7
Sympathy For Mr. Vengeance (Chan-Wook Park, 2002) - 8
A Woman is a Woman (Jean-Luc Godard, 1961) - 7
The Limey (Steven Soderbergh, 1999) - 8
*The Devil and Daniel Johnston (Jeff Feuerzeig, 2005) - 7
JULY
*Alice (Jan Svankmajer, 1988) - 8
*Darkness/Light/Darkness (Jan Svankmajer, 1989) - 9
*Jabberwocky (Jan Svankmajer, 1971) - 7
*The Cabinet of Jan Svankmajer (Brothers Quay, 1974) - 6
La Belle Noiseuse (Jacques Rivette, 1991) - 9
Mysterious Object at Noon (Apitchatpong Weerasethakul, 2000) - 8
*The Passenger (Michaelangelo Antonioni, 1975) - 9
Millenium Mambo (Hou Hsiao-Hsien, 2001) - 7
Room (Kyle Henry, 2005) - 4
News From Home (Chantal Akerman, 1977) - 10
Gabbeh (Mohsen Makhmalbaf, 1996) - 7
*Sophie Scholl: The Final Days (Marc Rothemund, 2005) - 7
Dracula: Pages From a Virgin's Diary (Guy Maddin, 2002) - 7
*Jindabyne (Ray Lawrence, 2006) - 7
*Separate Lies (Julian Fellowes, 2005) - 4
Naked (Mike Leigh, 1993) - 10
Whisper of the Heart (Yoshifumi Kondo, 1995) - 10
Ghosts... of the Civil Dead (John Hillcoat, 1988) - 8
The Innocents (Jack Clayton, 1961) - 7
Showgirls (Paul Verhoeven, 1995) - 8
The House of Mirth (Terence Davies, 2000) - 9
*Pirates of the Carribean 2: Dead Man's Chest (Gore Verbinski, 2006) - 5
Through a Glass Darkly (Ingmar Bergman, 1961) - 7
Stage Door (George LaCava, 1937) - 8
Elizabeth (Shekhar Kapur, 1998) - 6
*Ten Canoes (Rolf De Heer, 2006) - 7
The Hot Spot (Dennis Hopper, 1990) - 5
My Voyage to Italy (Martin Scorsese, 1999) - 8
*Junebug (Phil Morrison, 2005) - 8
JUNE
Peel (Jane Campion, 1982) - 7
A Girl's Own Story (Jane Campion, 1984) - 6
Passionless Moments (Jane Campion, 1984) - 7
Yes (Sally Potter, 2004) - 3
*Tristram Shandy: A Cock and Bull Story (Michael Winterbottom, 2005) - 6
Jacob's Ladder (Adrian Lyne, 1990) - 6
Funny Ha Ha (Andrew Bujalski, 2002) - 7
*Hard Candy (David Slade, 2005) - 2
*The Wind That Shakes The Barley (Ken Loach, 2006) - 6
*A Prairie Home Companion (Robert Altman, 2006) - 8
Mysterious Skin (Gregg Araki, 2004) - 9
*C.R.A.Z.Y. (Jean-Marc Vallée, 2005) - 7
*The Sun (Alexander Sokurov, 2005) - 9
*Brick (Rian Johnson, 2005) - 7
Amadeus (Milos Forman, 1984) - 8
Glengarry Glen Ross (James Foley, 1992) - 6
Under the Sand (Francois Ozon, 2000) - 8
Meantime (Mike Leigh, 1984) - 7
*Mutual Appreciation (Andrew Bujalski, 2005) - 9
*Bob Le Flambeur (Jean-Pierre Melville, 1955) - 7
*Le Doulos (Jean-Pierre Melville, 1962) - 7
*Little Miss Sunshine (Jonathan Dayton & Valerie Faris, 2006) - 5
*Three Times (Hou Hsiao-Hsien, 2005) - 7
*Old Joy (Kelly Reichardt, 2006) - 8
*Nascent (Helvécio Marins Jr., 2005) - 5
La Bete Humaine (Jean Renoir, 1938) - 9
Tesis (Alejandro Amenabar, 1996) - 5
*Color Me Kubrick (Brian W. Cook, 2005) - 4
*Block Party (Michel Gondry, 2005) - 8
The Hitch-Hiker (Ida Lupino, 1953) - 5
The Man Without a Past (Aki Kaurismaki, 2002) - 8
MAY
Magnolia (Paul Thomas Anderson, 1999) - 8
The Manchurian Candidate (Jonathan Demme, 2004) - 6
*The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada (Tommy Lee Jones, 2005) - 7
The Sweet Hereafter (Atom Egoyan, 1997) - 9
Ferpect Crime (Álex de la Iglesia, 2004) - 7
Tokyo Drifter (Seijun Suzuki, 1966) - 7
*Candy (Neil Armfield, 2006) - 3
Before Sunset (Richard Linklater, 2004) - 9
Hukkle (György Pálfi, 2002) - 7
Les Rendezvous D'Anna (Chantal Akerman, 1978) - 9
Lovely & Amazing (Nicole Holofcener, 2001) - 6
Night on Earth (Jim Jarmusch, 1991) - 7
Last Days (Gus Van Sant, 2005) - 9
*Cache (Michael Haneke, 2005) - 9
*The New World (Terrence Malick, 2005) - 10
The Long Good Friday (John Mackenzie, 1980) - 6
APRIL
Pretty Persuasion (Marcos Siega, 2005) - 5
You Can Count on Me (Kenneth Lonergan, 2000) - 8
Sorry, Wrong Number (Anatole Litvak, 1948) - 6
Zero Day (Ben Cuccio, 2003) - 7
Fat City (John Huston, 1972) - 8
*Tsotsi (Gavin Hood, 2005) - 4
Bukowski: Born Into This (John Dullaghan, 2004) - 8
*V For Vendetta (James McTeigue, 2006) - 5
Benny's Video (Michael Haneke, 1992) - 7
La Soufrière (Werner Herzog, 1977) - 9
Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit (Nick Park, 2005) - 8
Twentynine Palms (Bruno Dumont, 2003) - 8
*The Squid and the Whale (Noah Baumbach, 2005) - 8
MARCH
Ten (Abbas Kiarostami, 2002) - 7
Bad Boy Bubby (Rolf De Heer, 1993) - 9
Masculin/Feminin (Jean-Luc Godard, 1966) - 8
*The Weather Man (Gore Verbinski, 2005) - 5
Punch-Drunk Love (Paul Thomas Anderson, 2002) - 9
*Inside Man (Spike Lee, 2006) - 7
Look at Me (Agnès Jaoui, 2005) - 5
*L'Enfant (Jean Pierre & Luc Dardenne, 2005) - 8
Bullets Over Broadway (Woody Allen, 1994) - 7
The Piano Teacher (Michael Haneke, 2002) - 8
Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang (Shane Black, 2005) - 7
Double Indemnity (Billy Wilder, 1944) - 10
*A History of Violence (David Cronenberg, 2005) - 8
*Hostel (Eli Roth, 2006) - 3
Vera Drake (Mike Leigh, 2004) - 8
The Five Obstructions (Lars von Trier, 2004) - 6
The Beat That My Heart Skipped (Jacques Audiard, 2005) - 7
*Transamerica (Duncan Tucker, 2005) - 4
FEBRUARY
High Tension (Alexandre Aja, 2005) - 2
Turtles Can Fly (Bahman Ghobad, 2005) - 6
*Capote (Bennett Miller, 2005) - 6
Dark Water (Walter Salles, 2005) - 3
*Match Point (Woody Allen, 2005) - 8
*Syriana (Stephen Gaghan, 2005) - 5
*Keane (Lodge Kerrigan, 2004) - 7
Angels with Dirty Faces (Michael Curtiz, 1938) - 8
All About My Mother (Pedro Almodovar, 1999) - 6
The Naked Kiss (Samuel Fuller, 1964) - 6
Young Adam (David Mackenzie, 2004) - 4
Stolen Kisses (Francois Truffaut, 1968) - 7
*Jarhead (Sam Mendes, 2005) - 7
Barton Fink (Joel Coen, 1991) - 8
Serenity (Joss Whedon, 2005) - 5
Palindromes (Todd Solondz, 2005) - 3
*The Aristocrats (Paul Provenza, 2005) - 6
Kiss Me Deadly (Robert Aldrich, 1955) - 8
Three Extremes (Friut Chan, Chan-wook Park, Takashi Miike, 2004) - 6
*Walk the Line (James Mangold, 2005) - 4
Memories of Murder (Jong-ho Bong, 2003) - 9
Bill Hicks Live: Satirist, Social Critic, Stand Up Comedian (-, 2004) - 7
JANUARY
*Brokeback Mountain (Ang Lee, 2005) - 7
Sweet Smell of Success (Alexander Mackendrick, 1957) - 8
Forty Guns (Samuel Fuller, 1957) - 7
The Saddest Music in the World (Guy Maddin, 2004) - 5
*Munich (Steven Spielberg, 2005) - 8
Trouble Every Day (Claire Denis, 2002) - 7
Love Streams (John Cassavetes, 1984) - 10
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (Sergio Leone, 1966) - 9
City of God (Fernando Mereilles, 2003) - 8
The Wrong Man (Alfred Hitchcock, 1956) - 9
*Russian Dolls (Cédric Klapisch, 2006) - 5
*The Family Stone (Thomas Bezucha, 2005) - 5
Branded to Kill (Seijun Suzuki, 1967) - 7
Barfly (Barbet Schroeder, 1987) - 8
George Washington (David Gordon Green, 2000) - 9
DECEMBER
Pusher (Nicholas Winding Refn, 1996) - 7
The Jerk (Carl Reiner, 1979) - 7
*Wet Hot American Summer (David Wain, 2001) - 5
Crimewave (Sam Raimi, 1985) - 7
The Woman on the Beach (Jean Renoir, 1947) - 6
Dressed to Kill (Brian De Palma, 1980) - 8
The Big Combo (Joseph H. Lewis, 1955) - 8
In a Year of 13 Moons (Rainer Werner Fassbinder, 1978) - 9
*The Queen (Stephen Frears, 2006) - 6
Gremlins (Joe Dante, 1984) - 8
Wrong Turn (Rob Schmidt, 2003) - 7
The Battle of Algiers (Gillo Pontecorvo, 1968) - 9
Supersilent 7 (Kim Hiorthøy, 2005) - 9
*The Seventh Victim (Mark Robson, 1943) - 8
*Lucifer Rising (Kenneth Anger, 1972) - 7
*Invocation of My Demon Brother (Kenneth Anger, 1969) - 5
Army of Shadows (Jean-Pierre Melville, 1969) - 9
Neil Young: Heart of Gold (Jonathan Demme, 2006) - 7
*Shortbus (John Cameron Mitchell, 2006) - 8
An Autumn Afternoon (Yasujiro Ozu, 1962) - 9
*The Prestige (Christopher Nolan, 2006) - 8
*The Descent (Neil Marshall, 2005) - 7
Sami Sänpäkkilä: Early Filmworks (Sami Sänpäkkilä, 1996-2006) - 7
A Moment of Innocence (Mohsen Mahkmalbaf, 1996) - 8
*Black Christmas (Bob Clark, 1974) - 6
*Christmas Evil (Lewis Jackson, 1980) - 5
The Short and Curlies (Mike Leigh, 1987) - 7
*Babel (Alejandro Gonzalez Innaritu, 2006) - 5
Time to Leave (Francois Ozon, 2005) - 7
Metal: A Headbanger's Journey (Steve Dunn, 2005) - 4
Scoop (Woody Allen, 2006) - 6
*Inland Empire (David Lynch, 2006) - 9
Werckmeister Harmonies (Bela Tarr, 2000) - 8
3 Women (Robert Altman, 1977) - 9
Let's Scare Jessica to Death (John P. Hancock, 1971) - 6
L'Humanite (Bruno Dumont, 1999) - 6
Trouble in Paradise (Ernst Lubitsch, 1932) - 9
Kings and Queen (Arnaud Desplechin, 2004) - 8
All That Heaven Allows (Douglas Sirk, 1955) - 8
Tropical Malady (Apichatpong Weerasethakul, 2004) - 9
*Casino Royale (Martin Campbell, 2006) - 6
*Tenacious D in The Pick of Destiny (Liam Lynch, 2006) - 4
*Stranger Than Fiction (Marc Foster, 2006) - 7
*Rules of the Game (Jean Renoir, 1939) - 8
NOVEMBER
*Cleo From 5 to 7 (Agnes Varda, 1961) - 8
*The Fountain (Darren Aronofsky, 2006) - 7
My Life to Live (Jean-Luc Godard, 1962) - 10
*Choking Man (Steve Barron, 2006) - 6
*Volver (Pedro Almodovar, 2006) - 5
*The Flowers of St. Francis (Roberto Rosselini, 1950) - 8
*The Science of Sleep (Michel Gondry, 2006) - 8
*Blaise Pascal (Roberto Rosselini, 1971) - 7
Sunrise (F.W. Murnau, 1927) - 10
*In Between Days (Yong Kim So, 2006) - 7
*Borat (Larry Charles, 2006) - 7
*Marie-Antoinette (Sofia Coppola, 2006) - 6
*2 or 3 Things I Know About Her (Jean-Luc Godard, 1967) - 8
*51 Birch St. (Doug Block, 2005) - 8
Ordet (Carl Dreyer, 1955) - 10
Play it Again, Sam (Herbert Ross, 1972) - 7
*Climates (Nuri Bilge Ceylan, 2006) - 6
Pulse (Kiyoshi Kurosawa, 2001) - 8
*Noroît (Jacques Rivette, 1976) - 7
*Little Children (Todd Field, 2006) - 4
The Devil Wears Prada (David Frankel, 2006) - 3
Rumble Fish (Francis Ford Coppola, 1983) - 7
Oasis (Chang-dong Lee, 2002) - 9
Rosemary's Baby (Roman Polanski, 1968) - 10
*L'Eclisse (Michelangelo Antonioni, 1962) - 8
Halloween (John Carpenter, 1978) - 9
Los Olvidados (Luis Bunuel, 1950) - 9
*Exiled (Johnny To, 2006) - 7
Last Life in the Universe (Pen-Ek Ratanaruang, 2003) - 7
The Warriors (Walter Hill, 1979) - 8
L'Intrus (Claire Denis, 2004) - 9
OCTOBER
*I Walked With a Zombie (Jacques Tourneur, 1943) - 7
*Goodfellas (Martin Scorsese, 1990) - 9
Z Channel: A Magnificent Obsession (Xan Cassavetes, 2004) - 7
Slither (James Gunn, 2006) - 6
Election (Johnnie To, 2005) - 5
Raining Stones (Ken Loach, 1993) - 8
The Red Desert (Michelangelo Antonioni, 1964) - 6
*Children of Men (Alfonso Cuarón, 2006) - 9
Shadows (John Cassavetes, 1959) - 6
*The Wizard of Oz (Victor Fleming, 1939) - 9
Possession (Andrzej Zulawski, 1981) - 8
Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown (Pedro Almodovar, 1988) - 5
The Good Thief (Neil Jordan, 2002) - 6
*Dumplings (Fruit Chan, 2004) - 8
Who's That Knocking At My Door? (Martin Scorsese, 1967) - 7
Viridiana (Luis Bunuel, 1961) - 8
Elevator to the Gallows (Louis Malle, 1957) - 6
The Slaughter Rule (Andrew and Alex Smith, 2002) - 7
*The Departed (Martin Scorsese, 2006) - 8
Master of the Flying Guillotine (Wang Yu, 1975) - 7
*Kenny (Clayton Jacobson, 2006) - 8
*The Red Balloon (Albert Lamorisse, 1956) - 6
*La Jetee (Chris Marker, 1962) - 9
*The Golden Fish (Edmond Séchan, 1959) - 7
Overnight (Tony Montana & Mark Brian Smith, 2003) - 4
Where the Truth Lies (Atom Egoyan, 2005) - 4
Melvin and Howard (Jonathan Demme, 1980) - 8
*Offside (Jafar Panahi, 2006) - 8
Lady Vengeance (Chan-Wook Park, 2005) - 4
Dallas 362 (Scott Caan, 2003) - 7
*Dead Man's Shoes (Shane Meadows, 2004) - 8
Topsy-Turvy (Mike Leigh, 1999) - 8
SEPTEMBER
The Reflecting Skin (Philip Ridley, 1990) - 8
*The Book of Revelation (Ana Kokkinos, 2006) - 3
Early Summer (Yasujiro Ozu, 1951) - 8
*Drawing Restraint 9 (Matthew Barney, 2005) - 5
Distant (Nuri Bilge Ceylan, 2002) - 8
The Fury (Brian De Palma, 1978) - 8
Chocolat (Claire Denis, 1988) - 8
Milennium Actress (Satashi Kon, 2001) - 9
Broadcast News (James L. Brooks, 1987) - 7
*Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby (Adam McKay, 2006) - 7
Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind (Hayao Miyazaki, 1984) - 7
Deconstructing Harry (Woody Allen, 1997) - 6
The Company of Wolves (Neil Jordan, 1984) - 7
*Sympathy for the Devil (Jean-Luc Godard, 1968) - 6
Faces (John Cassavetes, 1968) - 8
Irma Vep (Olivier Assayas, 1996) - 7
*Monster House (Gil Kenan, 2006) - 7
Rosetta (Jean-Pierre Dardenne & Luc Dardenne, 1999) - 9
*The Hangman (Les Goldman & Paul Julian, 1963) - 4
*Fireworks (Kenneth Anger, 1947) - 7
*Pigs (Carroll Ballard, 1967) - 5
*The Blood of the Beasts (Georges Franju, 1949) - 8
*Don't (Robin Lehman, 1974) - 6
*A Divided World (Arne Sucksdorff, 1954) - 6
Umberto D. (Vittorio de Sica, 1952) - 8
The Isle (Kim Ki-Duk, 2000) - 3
*The Matador (Richard Shepard, 2005) - 6
*Breakfast on Pluto (Neil Jordan, 2005) - 8
Sweet and Lowdown (Woody Allen, 1999) - 7
*Thank You For Smoking (Jason Reitman, 2005) - 5
Beau Travail (Claire Denis, 1999) - 10
*This is America Part 2 (Romano Vanderbes, 1977) - 5
Lessons of Darkness (Werner Herzog, 1992) - 9
Hi, Mom! (Brian De Palma, 1970) - 8
Up! (Russ Meyer, 1976) - 6
AUGUST
*Miami Vice (Michael Mann, 2006) - 6
Sherman's March (Ross McElwee, 1986) - 9
*Brakhage (Jim Shedden, 1998) - 7
Purple Rain (Albert Magnoli, 1984) - 8
The Exterminating Angel (Luis Bunuel, 1962) - 10
Ichi the Killer (Takashi Miike, 2001) - 6
Crimson Gold (Jafar Panahi, 2003) - 8
*Snakes on a Plane (David R. Ellis, 2006) - 6
Cane Toads (Mark Lewis, 1988) - 8
*The Host (Joon-Ho Bong, 2006) - 8
The Ice Harvest (Harold Ramis, 2005) - 7
*23 Skidoo (Julian Biggs, 1964) - 8
*Mindscape (Jacques Drouin, 1976) - 7
*Toys (Grant Munro, 1966) - 7
*Nahanni (Donald Wilder, 1962) - 7
*21:87 (Arthur Lipsett, 1964) - 7
*Ryan (Chris Landreth, 2004) - 8
*The Eye Hears, The Eye Sees (Gavin Millar, 1970) - 7
Stardust Memories (Woody Allen, 1980) - 8
To Sleep With Anger (Charles Burnett, 1990) - 7
Kill, Baby... Kill! (Mario Bava, 1966) - 6
The Marriage of Maria Braun (Rainer Werner Fassbinder, 1979) - 8
*United 93 (Paul Greengrass, 2006) - 8
The Sentimental Bloke (Raymond Longford, 1919) - 8
*Number 14: Late Superimpositions (Harry Smith, 1965) - 7
*Heaven and Earth Magic (Harry Smith, 1962) - 9
*Early Abstractions (Harry Smith, 1987) - 5
School For Postmen (Jacques Tati, 1947) - 8
The Shooting (Monte Hellman, 1967) - 5
The Crime of Monsieur Lange (Jean Renoir, 1936) - 7
Tenebre (Dario Argento, 1982) - 8
High Hopes (Mike Leigh, 1988) - 8
*3-Iron (Ki-Duk Kim, 2004) - 5
Something Wild (Jonathan Demme, 1986) - 8
*Wax, or the Discovery of Television Among the Bees (David Blair, 1991) - 4
The Piano (Jane Campion, 1993) - 7
Sympathy For Mr. Vengeance (Chan-Wook Park, 2002) - 8
A Woman is a Woman (Jean-Luc Godard, 1961) - 7
The Limey (Steven Soderbergh, 1999) - 8
*The Devil and Daniel Johnston (Jeff Feuerzeig, 2005) - 7
JULY
*Alice (Jan Svankmajer, 1988) - 8
*Darkness/Light/Darkness (Jan Svankmajer, 1989) - 9
*Jabberwocky (Jan Svankmajer, 1971) - 7
*The Cabinet of Jan Svankmajer (Brothers Quay, 1974) - 6
La Belle Noiseuse (Jacques Rivette, 1991) - 9
Mysterious Object at Noon (Apitchatpong Weerasethakul, 2000) - 8
*The Passenger (Michaelangelo Antonioni, 1975) - 9
Millenium Mambo (Hou Hsiao-Hsien, 2001) - 7
Room (Kyle Henry, 2005) - 4
News From Home (Chantal Akerman, 1977) - 10
Gabbeh (Mohsen Makhmalbaf, 1996) - 7
*Sophie Scholl: The Final Days (Marc Rothemund, 2005) - 7
Dracula: Pages From a Virgin's Diary (Guy Maddin, 2002) - 7
*Jindabyne (Ray Lawrence, 2006) - 7
*Separate Lies (Julian Fellowes, 2005) - 4
Naked (Mike Leigh, 1993) - 10
Whisper of the Heart (Yoshifumi Kondo, 1995) - 10
Ghosts... of the Civil Dead (John Hillcoat, 1988) - 8
The Innocents (Jack Clayton, 1961) - 7
Showgirls (Paul Verhoeven, 1995) - 8
The House of Mirth (Terence Davies, 2000) - 9
*Pirates of the Carribean 2: Dead Man's Chest (Gore Verbinski, 2006) - 5
Through a Glass Darkly (Ingmar Bergman, 1961) - 7
Stage Door (George LaCava, 1937) - 8
Elizabeth (Shekhar Kapur, 1998) - 6
*Ten Canoes (Rolf De Heer, 2006) - 7
The Hot Spot (Dennis Hopper, 1990) - 5
My Voyage to Italy (Martin Scorsese, 1999) - 8
*Junebug (Phil Morrison, 2005) - 8
JUNE
Peel (Jane Campion, 1982) - 7
A Girl's Own Story (Jane Campion, 1984) - 6
Passionless Moments (Jane Campion, 1984) - 7
Yes (Sally Potter, 2004) - 3
*Tristram Shandy: A Cock and Bull Story (Michael Winterbottom, 2005) - 6
Jacob's Ladder (Adrian Lyne, 1990) - 6
Funny Ha Ha (Andrew Bujalski, 2002) - 7
*Hard Candy (David Slade, 2005) - 2
*The Wind That Shakes The Barley (Ken Loach, 2006) - 6
*A Prairie Home Companion (Robert Altman, 2006) - 8
Mysterious Skin (Gregg Araki, 2004) - 9
*C.R.A.Z.Y. (Jean-Marc Vallée, 2005) - 7
*The Sun (Alexander Sokurov, 2005) - 9
*Brick (Rian Johnson, 2005) - 7
Amadeus (Milos Forman, 1984) - 8
Glengarry Glen Ross (James Foley, 1992) - 6
Under the Sand (Francois Ozon, 2000) - 8
Meantime (Mike Leigh, 1984) - 7
*Mutual Appreciation (Andrew Bujalski, 2005) - 9
*Bob Le Flambeur (Jean-Pierre Melville, 1955) - 7
*Le Doulos (Jean-Pierre Melville, 1962) - 7
*Little Miss Sunshine (Jonathan Dayton & Valerie Faris, 2006) - 5
*Three Times (Hou Hsiao-Hsien, 2005) - 7
*Old Joy (Kelly Reichardt, 2006) - 8
*Nascent (Helvécio Marins Jr., 2005) - 5
La Bete Humaine (Jean Renoir, 1938) - 9
Tesis (Alejandro Amenabar, 1996) - 5
*Color Me Kubrick (Brian W. Cook, 2005) - 4
*Block Party (Michel Gondry, 2005) - 8
The Hitch-Hiker (Ida Lupino, 1953) - 5
The Man Without a Past (Aki Kaurismaki, 2002) - 8
MAY
Magnolia (Paul Thomas Anderson, 1999) - 8
The Manchurian Candidate (Jonathan Demme, 2004) - 6
*The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada (Tommy Lee Jones, 2005) - 7
The Sweet Hereafter (Atom Egoyan, 1997) - 9
Ferpect Crime (Álex de la Iglesia, 2004) - 7
Tokyo Drifter (Seijun Suzuki, 1966) - 7
*Candy (Neil Armfield, 2006) - 3
Before Sunset (Richard Linklater, 2004) - 9
Hukkle (György Pálfi, 2002) - 7
Les Rendezvous D'Anna (Chantal Akerman, 1978) - 9
Lovely & Amazing (Nicole Holofcener, 2001) - 6
Night on Earth (Jim Jarmusch, 1991) - 7
Last Days (Gus Van Sant, 2005) - 9
*Cache (Michael Haneke, 2005) - 9
*The New World (Terrence Malick, 2005) - 10
The Long Good Friday (John Mackenzie, 1980) - 6
APRIL
Pretty Persuasion (Marcos Siega, 2005) - 5
You Can Count on Me (Kenneth Lonergan, 2000) - 8
Sorry, Wrong Number (Anatole Litvak, 1948) - 6
Zero Day (Ben Cuccio, 2003) - 7
Fat City (John Huston, 1972) - 8
*Tsotsi (Gavin Hood, 2005) - 4
Bukowski: Born Into This (John Dullaghan, 2004) - 8
*V For Vendetta (James McTeigue, 2006) - 5
Benny's Video (Michael Haneke, 1992) - 7
La Soufrière (Werner Herzog, 1977) - 9
Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit (Nick Park, 2005) - 8
Twentynine Palms (Bruno Dumont, 2003) - 8
*The Squid and the Whale (Noah Baumbach, 2005) - 8
MARCH
Ten (Abbas Kiarostami, 2002) - 7
Bad Boy Bubby (Rolf De Heer, 1993) - 9
Masculin/Feminin (Jean-Luc Godard, 1966) - 8
*The Weather Man (Gore Verbinski, 2005) - 5
Punch-Drunk Love (Paul Thomas Anderson, 2002) - 9
*Inside Man (Spike Lee, 2006) - 7
Look at Me (Agnès Jaoui, 2005) - 5
*L'Enfant (Jean Pierre & Luc Dardenne, 2005) - 8
Bullets Over Broadway (Woody Allen, 1994) - 7
The Piano Teacher (Michael Haneke, 2002) - 8
Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang (Shane Black, 2005) - 7
Double Indemnity (Billy Wilder, 1944) - 10
*A History of Violence (David Cronenberg, 2005) - 8
*Hostel (Eli Roth, 2006) - 3
Vera Drake (Mike Leigh, 2004) - 8
The Five Obstructions (Lars von Trier, 2004) - 6
The Beat That My Heart Skipped (Jacques Audiard, 2005) - 7
*Transamerica (Duncan Tucker, 2005) - 4
FEBRUARY
High Tension (Alexandre Aja, 2005) - 2
Turtles Can Fly (Bahman Ghobad, 2005) - 6
*Capote (Bennett Miller, 2005) - 6
Dark Water (Walter Salles, 2005) - 3
*Match Point (Woody Allen, 2005) - 8
*Syriana (Stephen Gaghan, 2005) - 5
*Keane (Lodge Kerrigan, 2004) - 7
Angels with Dirty Faces (Michael Curtiz, 1938) - 8
All About My Mother (Pedro Almodovar, 1999) - 6
The Naked Kiss (Samuel Fuller, 1964) - 6
Young Adam (David Mackenzie, 2004) - 4
Stolen Kisses (Francois Truffaut, 1968) - 7
*Jarhead (Sam Mendes, 2005) - 7
Barton Fink (Joel Coen, 1991) - 8
Serenity (Joss Whedon, 2005) - 5
Palindromes (Todd Solondz, 2005) - 3
*The Aristocrats (Paul Provenza, 2005) - 6
Kiss Me Deadly (Robert Aldrich, 1955) - 8
Three Extremes (Friut Chan, Chan-wook Park, Takashi Miike, 2004) - 6
*Walk the Line (James Mangold, 2005) - 4
Memories of Murder (Jong-ho Bong, 2003) - 9
Bill Hicks Live: Satirist, Social Critic, Stand Up Comedian (-, 2004) - 7
JANUARY
*Brokeback Mountain (Ang Lee, 2005) - 7
Sweet Smell of Success (Alexander Mackendrick, 1957) - 8
Forty Guns (Samuel Fuller, 1957) - 7
The Saddest Music in the World (Guy Maddin, 2004) - 5
*Munich (Steven Spielberg, 2005) - 8
Trouble Every Day (Claire Denis, 2002) - 7
Love Streams (John Cassavetes, 1984) - 10
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (Sergio Leone, 1966) - 9
City of God (Fernando Mereilles, 2003) - 8
The Wrong Man (Alfred Hitchcock, 1956) - 9
*Russian Dolls (Cédric Klapisch, 2006) - 5
*The Family Stone (Thomas Bezucha, 2005) - 5
Branded to Kill (Seijun Suzuki, 1967) - 7
Barfly (Barbet Schroeder, 1987) - 8
George Washington (David Gordon Green, 2000) - 9