Adebisi Shank
Allo Darlin'
A Hawk and a Hacksaw
Akron/Family
Andrew Bird
Animal Collective
The Antlers (3x)
The Apples in Stereo
Arcade Fire
The Avett Brothers
Beach House
Ben Folds
Ben Kweller (2x)
Best Coast (2x)
Black Keys
Black Moth Super Rainbow (3x)
Blue Giant
Bowerbirds (5x)
Calexico
Camera Obscura (2x)
Cloud Nothings
Coldplay (2x)
Common
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Date Film Year Rating
1/1/2012 A Serious Man 2009 8.6
1/1/2012 Monsters 2010 3.7
1/2/2012 The Adventures of Tintin 2011 5.9
1/3/2012 The Artist 2011 7.1
1/4/2012 War Horse 2011 6.1
1/14/2012 Kill List 2011 8.9
1/15/2012 Super 8 2011 7
1/17/2012 The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo 2011 6.5
1/24/2012 A Dangerous Method 2011 4.1
1/30/2012 Le Havre 2011 9.1
2/4/2012 ( Read more... )

I used to keep a journal of every film I watched with a little blurb of my thoughts. I figured I should do it again. Hopefully it will also encourage me to watch some more films. Ratings are out of 10 (a change I've made in attempting to start afresh in my classification of the quality of films, and to allow more unnecessary subtlety in my grading ( Read more... )

 These are some movies I've watched in the past oh however long... let me know if you have any thoughts on any of these (or movies you've seen recently).

THE ELEMENT OF CRIME (1984) ***
Definitely a mood piece rather than a coherent narrative film. The visuals are striking, and the mood is stifling and overwhelming. A hyper-stylized noir where the ( Read more... )

Haven't done one of this in a long time. Oops. Here's all the movies I've watched since the last time I did one of these.

THE PUBLIC ENEMY (1931) ****
This one's aged pretty well, mostly because it's pre-Code. Some very innovative camera work here, and some very indelible moments.

THE GRAND ILLUSION (1937) *****
A beautiful, subtle, humane, enormously ( Read more... )

Lots of movies for this go 'round because I've been forgetting to update. Let me know what you think about any of these movies (or other movies you've seen recently ( Read more... )

RESTREPO (2010) ****1/2 ( Read more... )

BLUE VALENTINE (2010 ( Read more... )

TRUE GRIT (2010) ****1/2 ( Read more... )

You can find my review of the very fine film BLACK SWAN at my website here: http://zoetropia.tumblr.com/ And here are the other movies ( Read more... )