In the past 10 days I’ve seen 30 movies and interviewed a slew of directors and actors. Here’s a quick graded guide to the films I’ve screened.
1) Lemming (Dominik Moll) C
2) Kilometre Zero ((Hiner Saleem) C
3)
Midnight Movies: From The Margin To The Mainstream (Stuart Samuels) A-4) Match Point (Woody Allen) A-
5) Kiss Kiss Bang Bang (Shane Black) B
6) Shadowing The Third Man A-
7) Last Days (Gus Van Sant) D
8) Where The Truth Lies (Atom Egoyan) B
9) The Power Of Nightmares (Adam Curtis) A
10) Come (Mike Figgis) C
11) Hidden (Michael Haneke) C+
12) Murderball B-
13) Punk: Attitude B
14) I Know Where I’m Going (Restored Classic by Michael Powell, 1945) B
15) King Boxer (1973 Kung Fu Classic From Run Run Shaw Studios) B
16) Down In The Valley (David Jacobson, Starring Ed Norton) C+
17) A History Of Violence (David Cronenberg) B-
18) The King (James Marsh, Starring Gael Garcia Bernal) C
19) Manderlay (Lars Von Trier) B+
20) Hard Candy (David Slade) A
21) Broken Flowers (Jim Jarmusch) B-
22)
Wolf Creek (Greg Mclean) C23) To Paint Or Make Love (Arnaud and Jean-Marie Larrieu) C+
24) The Three Burials Of Melquiades Estrada (Tommy Lee Jones) B-
25) James Dean: Forever Young (Michael J. Sheridan) (B)
26) Avenge But One Of My Two Eyes (Avi Mograbi) B-
27) Free Zone (Amos Gitai, Starring Natalie Portman) C-
28) Don’t Come Knocking (Wim Wenders, Starring Sam Shepard and Jessica Lange) B
29) Junebug (Phil Morrison) B+
30) Chromophobia (Martha Fiennes) C-
