Sunday, December 28, 2008

Index of Reviews, Sorted by Director's Last Name

(Disclaimer: This index includes almost every review published on this site since its inception in 2008, also the point at which I began writing film criticism. Ever since, I've thought of writing as a natural extension of viewing, and therefore this blog has been a convenient catalogue of my responses to films. My earliest entries – which, in hindsight, look slapdash and ignorant – nonetheless constitute a part of my collective memory of cinema and trace my developing cinephilia over the years. Please proceed accordingly. Only truly abominable pieces are removed from the site.)

A

ABRAMS, J.J.

Super 8


ADLON, Percy

Bagdad Cafe


AKERMAN, Chantal

Jeanne Dielman, 23 Quai du Commerce 1080 Bruxelles


Jeanne Dielman: Analysis


AKIN, Fatih

The Edge of Heaven


ALFREDSON, Tomas

Let the Right One In


Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy


ALLEN, Woody

Love and Death


Midnight in Paris


Sleeper


Stardust Memories


ALONSO, Lisandro

Liverpool


Los Muertos


ALTMAN, Robert

The Player


ANDERSON, Lindsay

If....


ANDERSON, Paul Thomas

Punch-Drunk Love


The Master


There Will Be Blood


ANDERSON, Wes

(see Peter Bradley Show)


Bottle Rocket


Fantastic Mr. Fox


The Grand Budapest Hotel


The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou


Rushmore


ANDERSSON, Roy

World of Glory


You, The Living


ANGELOPOULOS, Theodoros

Landscape in the Mist


Ulysses' Gaze


ANGER, Kenneth

SHORTS: Scorpio Rising, Kustom Kar Kommandos, Invocation of My Demon Brother, and Lucifer Rising


ANTONIONI, Michelangelo

L'Eclisse


Red Desert


ARONOFSKY, Darren

Black Swan


The Wrestler


ARRIAGA, Guillermo

The Burning Plain


ARNOLD, Andrea

Wuthering Heights


ASSAYAS, Olivier

Summer Hours


B

BAICHWAL, Jennifer

Manufactured Landscapes


BAUMBACH, Noah

Frances Ha


Greenberg


BAVA, Mario

Black Sunday (or the Mask of Satan)


BERGMAN, Ingmar

Cries and Whispers


Fanny and Alexander


Sawdust and Tinsel


Scenes from a Marriage (TV, Episodes 1, 2, and 3, and Episodes 4, 5, and 6)


The Seventh Seal


The Silence


Through a Glass Darkly


Winter Light


BERTOLUCCI, Bernardo

The Sheltering Sky


BIGELOW, Kathryn

The Hurt Locker


Zero Dark Thirty


BOGDANOVICH, Peter

The Last Picture Show


What's Up, Doc?


BOYLE, Danny

Slumdog Millionaire


BREILLAT, Catherine

Bluebeard


The Last Mistress


The Sleeping Beauty


BRESSON, Robert

Diary of a Country Priest


L'Argent


Pickpocket


BROSENS, Peter

State of Dogs (w/ Dorjkhandyn Turmunkh)


BUNUEL, Luis

Age of Gold


The Great Madcap


BURNETT, Charles

Killer of Sheep


C

CAPRA, Frank

It Happened One Night


CARAX, Leos

Boy Meets Girl


CARNAHAN, Joe

The Grey


CARPENTER, John

The Thing


CEYLAN, Nuri Bilge

Distant


Three Monkeys


CHABROL, Claude

A Girl Cut in Two


CHARLES, Larry and BARON COHEN, Sacha

Bruno


CIANFRANCE, Derek

Blue Valentine


CIMINO, Michael

The Deer Hunter


COEN, Joel and Ethan

No Country For Old Men


True Grit


COOK, Brian

Color Me Kubrick


COPPOLA, Francis Ford

The Conversation


CORBIJN, Anton

The American


CORMAN, Roger

A Bucket of Blood


COSTA, Pedro

In Vanda's Room


Ne Change Rien


Ossos


CRONENBERG, David

The Brood


Camera


Eastern Promises


D

DASSIN, Jules

The Naked City


DE SICA, Vittorio

Umberto D.


DEITCH, Gene

Zlateh the Goat (Short Film)


DENIS, Claire

35 Shots of Rum


Beau Travail


The Intruder


White Material


DOCTER, Pete

Up


DOLAN, Xavier

Heartbeats


DOMINIK, Andrew

The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford


DöRRIE, Doris

Cherry Blossoms


DREYER, Carl

Ordet


Vampyr


DUMONT, Bruno

Outside Satan


DUPLASS, Mark and Jay

Cyrus


The Puffy Chair


DURKIN, Sean

Martha Marcy May Marlene



E

EASTWOOD, Clint

Changeling


ECKMAN, Dan

Mystery Team


ENGLUND, George

The Ugly American


ERDEM, Reha

Times and Winds


F

FEDORCHENKO, Aleksei

Silent Souls


FELLINI, Federico

Amarcord


And the Ship Sails On


La Strada


FINCHER, David

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button


The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo


The Social Network


Zodiac


FRAMMARTINO, Michelangelo

Le Quattro Volte


FRAMPTON, Hollis

Zorn's Lemma


FRICKE, Ron

Samsara


FULLER, Samuel

China Gate


G

GATTEN, David

Secret History of the Dividing Line (First Four Films)


GIRARD, Elise

Belleville Tokyo


GLAWOGGER, Michael

Whores' Glory


GLAZER, Jonathon

Birth


GODARD, Jean-Luc

Contempt


Film Socialisme


Made in U.S.A


Pierrot Le Fou


Two or Three Things I Know About Her


GOEI, Glen

That's The Way I Like It


GONDRY, Michel

Be Kind Rewind


La Lettre (Short Film)


The Science of Sleep


GRANIK, Debra

Winter's Bone


GREEN, David Gordon

Snow Angels


GREENAWAY, Peter

The Cook, The Thief, His Wife, and Her Lover


GUERIN, Jose Luis

In the City of Sylvia


H

HADZIHALILOVIC, Lucile

Innocence


HANEKE, Michael

The White Ribbon


HAWKS, Howard

Bringing Up Baby


HAYNES, Todd

I'm Not There


Safe


HELLMAN, Monte

Two-Lane Blacktop


HERZOG, Werner

Fitzcarraldo


Heart of Glass


My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done?


HILLCOAT, John

The Road


HIROZAKU, Kore-Eda

Still Walking


HITCHCOCK, Alfred

Vertigo


HOU, Hsiao-Hsien

Flight of the Red Balloon


ESSAY: Millennium Mambo, Café Lumiere, Three Times, Flight of the Red Balloon


HUSTON, John

Reflections in a Golden Eye


Under the Volcano


HYAMS, John

Universal Soldier: Day of Reckoning


I

IANNUCCI, Armando

In the Loop


J

JIA, Zhang-ke

Still Life


JODOROWSKY, Alexandro

Fando Y Lis


The Holy Mountain


Santa Sangre


JONES, Duncan

Moon


JONES, Tommy Lee

The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada


JONZE, Spike

Where the Wild Things Are


K
KATZ, Aaron

Dance Party, USA


Quiet City


KARI, Dagur

Nói albínói


KAUFMAN, Charlie

Synecdoche, New York


KAZAN, Elia

On the Waterfront


KECHICHE, Abdellatif

Blue is the Warmest Color


KIAROSTAMI, Abbas

Certified Copy


Close-Up


Like Someone in Love


KIESLOWSKI, Krzysztof

The Double Life of Véronique


Three Colors: Blue


KIM, Ki-Duk

Samaritan Girl


KORINE, Harmony

Spring Breakers


KOSINSKI, Joseph

Tron Legacy


KUBRICK, Stanley

2001: A Space Odyssey


Barry Lyndon


Eyes Wide Shut


KUROSAWA, Akira

Rashomon


L

LAMORISSE, Albert

White Mane


LANTHIMOS, Giorgos

Alps


Dogtooth


LECONTE, Patrice

My Best Friend


LEE, Ang

The Ice Storm


LEIGH, Mike

Naked


LINKLATER, Richard

Before Sunrise


Before Sunset


Bernie


Dazed and Confused


It's Impossible to Learn to Plow by Reading Books


LYNCH, David

Blue Velvet


The Cowboy and the Frenchman (Short Film)


Dune


Early David Lynch Shorts: Six Men Getting Sick, The Alphabet, and The Grandmother


The Elephant Man


Eraserhead


INLAND EMPIRE


Lady Blue Shanghai (Short Film)


Lost Highway


Mulholland Drive


Mulholland Drive: Informal Discussion


Premonition Following an Evil Deed (Short Film)


The Straight Story


Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me


Twin Peaks (TV)


Wild at Heart


M

MADDIN, Guy

Brand Upon the Brain!


My Winnipeg


The Saddest Music in the World


MAJEWSKI, Lech

The Mill and the Cross


MAKAVEJEV, Dusan

WR: Mysteries of the Organism


MALICK, Terrence

Badlands


Days of Heaven


The New World


The Thin Red Line


To the Wonder


The Tree of Life


MALLE, Louis

My Dinner With Andre


MANN, Michael

Collateral


The Insider


The Last of the Mohicans


Public Enemies


MARKER, Chris

The Case of the Grinning Cat


La Jetee


MARSHALL, Neil

The Descent


MARSHALL, Rob

Memoirs of a Geisha


MARTEL, Lucrecia

The Headless Woman


The Holy Girl


MCCAREY, Leo

The Awful Truth


MCQUEEN, Steve

12 Years a Slave


Hunger


Shame


MIYAZAKI, Hayao

Ponyo


MIZOGUCHI, Kenji

Ugetsu


MOSTOW, Jonathan

Breakdown


N

NARUSE, Mikio

Late Chysanthemums


NELSON, Gunvor

My Name is Oona


NGAI, Kai Lam

Riki-Oh: The Story of Ricky


NOE, Gaspar

Enter the Void


Irreversible


NOLAN, Christopher

The Dark Knight


Inception


The Prestige


O

OLIVEIRA, Manoel de

The Strange Case of Angelica


OPLEV, Niels Arden

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo


OSHIMA, Nagisa

Empire of Passion


OZU, Yasujiro

An Autumn Afternoon


Late Spring


Tokyo Story


P

PASOLINI, Pier Paolo

Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom


PECKINPAH, Sam

The Wild Bunch


PELI, Oren

Paranormal Activity


PENN, Sean

Into the Wild


PIALAT, Maurice

L'Enfance Nue


We Won't Grow Old Together


POLANSKI, Roman

Repulsion


POROMBOIU, Corneliu

Police, Adjective


PORTERFIELD, Matthew

I Used to be Darker



Putty Hill

Q

R

RAMSAY, Lynne

Morvern Callar


RAY, Nicholas

Bigger Than Life



Rebel Without a Cause



REED, Carol

The Third Man


REFN, Nicholas Winding

Valhalla Rising


Drive


REICHARDT, Kelly

Meek's Cutoff


Wendy and Lucy


RESNAIS, Alain

Hiroshima Mon Amour


Last Year at Marienbad


REY, Nicolas

Schuss! and Differently, Molussia


REYGADAS, Carlos

Post Tenebras Lux



Silent Light


RIVERS, Ben

Two Years at Sea


ROHMER, Eric

Claire's Knee


La Collectionneuse


Love in the Afternoon


My Night at Maud's


ROMANEK, Mark

Never Let Me Go


S

SAFDIE, Josh and Benny

Daddy Longlegs (Go Get Some Rosemary)


SATRAPI, Marjane and PARRONAUD, Vincent

Persepolis


SAURA, Carlos

Cria Cuervos


SCHERFIG, Lone

An Education


SCHNABEL, Julien

The Diving Bell and the Butterfly


SCORSESE, Martin

After Hours


Hugo


Shutter Island


Taxi Driver


SCOTT, Ridley

Alien


Prometheus


SIRK, Douglas

All That Heaven Allows


SKOLIMOWSKI, Jerzy

The Shout


SLUIZER, George

The Vanishing (1988 version)


SNOW, Michael

Wavelength


SODERBERGH, Steven

Contagion


The Girlfriend Experience


The Informant!


The Limey


Magic Mike


Out of Sight


Sex, Lies, and Videotape


SOKUROV, Aleksandr

Alexandra


Father and Son


SPIELBERG, Steven

A.I. Artificial Intelligence


Lincoln


Minority Report


SPIELMANN, Götz

Revanche


STILLMAN, Whit

Metropolitan


STONE, Oliver

W.


T

TARANTINO, Quentin

Inglourious Basterds


Pulp Fiction


TARKOVSKY, Andrei

Andrei Rublev


Ivan's Childhood


Mirror


The Sacrifice


TARR, Bela

Almanac of Fall


The Man From London


Prologue (Short Film)


Satantango


Satantango: Take 2


The Turin Horse


Werckmeister Harmonies


Werckmeister Harmonies (Analysis)


TATI, Jacques

Play Time


TESHIGAHARA, Hiroshi

Antonio Gaudí


Pitfall


Woman in the Dunes


TODD, Robert

Selection of 2012 Shorts


TOURNEUR, Jacques

I Walked with a Zombie


Stranger on Horseback


TRAN, Anh Hung

Cyclo


TSAI, Ming-Liang

I Don't Want to Sleep Alone


The River


What Time is it There?


TSCHERKASSKY, Peter

Essay on Motion Picture, L'Arrivée, Outer Space, Dream Work, and Instructions for a Light and Sound Machine


TURMUNKH, Dorjkhandyn

State of Dogs (w/ Peter Brosens)


U

V

VAN PEEBLES, Melvin

The Watermelon Man


VAN SANT, Gus

Last Days


Paranoid Park


VARDA, Agnes

La Pointe Courte


VINTERBURG, Thomas

The Celebration


VON STROHEIM, Erich

The Wedding March


VON TRIER, Lars

Antichrist


Dogville


Europa


Melancholia


W

WATKINS, Peter

Edvard Munch


The Freethinker


WEERASETHAKUL, Apichatpong

A Letter to Uncle Boonmee


Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives


WELLES, Orson

Citizen Kane


The Lady from Shanghai


WENDERS, Wim

Paris, Texas


Wings of Desire


WILDER, Billy

Sunset Boulevard


WINTER, C.W. and EDSTROM, Anders

The Anchorage


WONG, Kar-Wai

Happy Together


In the Mood for Love


WRIGHT, Joe

Anna Karenina


X

Y

Z

ZEMECKIS, Robert

Beowulf


Flight

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