grades 2006

Monday, January 09, 2006

arbitrary organization

[newest additions in bold]

A
[pending]

A-
Children of Men (Alfonso Cuarón, UK/USA)
Dave Chappelle's Block Party (Michel Gondry, USA) [note: link reflects original, dumber grade]
The Death of Mr. Lazarescu (Cristi Puiu, Romania)
The Departed (Martin Scorsese, USA)
Gabrielle (Patrice Chéreau, France/Germany/Italy)
Inland Empire (David Lynch, USA/Poland/France)
Inside Man (Spike Lee, USA)
Jackass Number Two (Jeff Tremaine, USA)
L'Enfant (Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne, Belgium/France)
Old Joy (Kelly Reichardt, USA)
The Prestige (Christopher Nolan, UK/USA)
The Sun (Alexander Sokurov, Russia/Italy/France/Switzerland/Japan)
United 93 (Paul Greengrass, USA/UK/France)

B+
A Bittersweet Life (Kim Ji-woon, South Korea)
Borat: Cultural Learnings of America For Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan (Larry Charles, USA)
Brick (Rian Johnson, USA)
Bubble (Steven Soderbergh, USA)
Clean (Olivier Assayas, France/UK/Canada)
Climates (Nuri Bilge Ceylan, Turkey/France)
The Devil and Daniel Johnston (Jeff Feuerzig, USA)
Down in the Valley (David Jacobson, USA)
Flags of Our Fathers (Clint Eastwood, USA)
Flushed Away (David Bowers/Sam Fell, UK/USA)
The Free Will (Mattias Glasner, Germany)
Half Nelson (Ryan Fleck, USA)
I Am a Sex Addict (Caveh Zahedi, USA)
Idiocracy (Mike Judge, USA)
Imprint [from "Masters of Horror"] (Takashi Miike, USA/Japan)

Interkosmos (Jim Finn, USA)
Iraq in Fragments (James Longley, USA/Iraq)
Jonestown: The Life and Death of Peoples Temple (Stanley Nelson, USA)
Kekexili: Mountain Patrol (Lu Chuan, China/Hong Kong)
La Moustache (Emmanuel Carrère, France)
Letters From Iwo Jima (Clint Eastwood, USA)
A Lion in the House (Steven Bognar & Julia Reichart, USA)
Manderlay (Lars Von Trier, Denmark/Sweden/Netherlands/France/Germany/UK)
Marie Antoinette (Sofia Coppola, USA/Japan/France)
Mutual Appreciation (Andrew Bujalski, USA)
The Notorious Bettie Page (Mary Harron, USA)
Perfume: The Story of a Murderer (Tom Tykwer, Germany/France/Spain)
A Prairie Home Companion (Robert Altman, USA)
The Puffy Chair (Jay Duplass, USA)
The Queen (Stephen Frears, UK)
A Scanner Darkly (Richard Linklater, USA) [bumped up from B-]
Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby (Adam McKay, USA)
Them (David Moreau & Xavier Palud, France)
Three Times (Hou Hsiao-hsien, France/Taiwan)
When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts (Spike Lee, USA) [tv]
Workingman's Death (Michael Glawogger, Austria)

B
Akeelah and the Bee (Doug Atchison, USA)
Apocalypto (Mel Gibson, USA)
The Beauty Academy of Kabul (Liz Mermin, USA)
Brothers of the Head (Keith Fulton & Louis Pepe, UK)
Building a Broken Mousetrap (Jem Cohen, USA)
Casino Royale (Martin Campbell, UK/USA/Czech Republic)
Comrades in Dreams (Uli Gaulke, Germany)
Daft Punk's Electroma (Thomas Bangalter & Guy-Manuel de Homen-Christo, France/USA)
Déja Vu (Tony Scott, USA)
District B13 (Pierre Morel, France)
Duck Season (Fernando Eimbcke, Mexico)
Edmond (Stuart Gordon, USA)
Enemies of Happiness (Eva Mulvad, Denmark)
Excellent Cadavers (Marco Turco, Italy)

51 Birch St. (Doug Block, USA)
The Forest for the Trees (Bernadine Mellis, USA)
4 (Ikya Khrjanovsky, Russia)
Fuck (Steve Anderson, USA)
The Good German (Steven Soderbergh, USA)
The Heart is Deceitful Above All Things (Asia Argento, USA/UK/France/Japan)
Home (Matt Zoller Seitz, USA)
House of Sand (Andrucha Waddington, Brazil)
How to Eat Your Watermelon in White Company (And Enjoy It) (Joe Angio, USA)
Isolation (Billy O'Brien, UK)
It's Only Talk (Ryuichi Hiroki, Japan)
Jack Smith and the Destruction of Atlantis (Mary Jordan, USA)
Kenny (Clayton Jacobson, Australia)
The Killer Within (Macky Alston, USA)
Life Can Be So Wonderful (Osamu Minorikawa, Japan)
Lunacy (Jan Svankmajer, Czech Republic/Slovakia)
Me (Rafa Cortés, Spain)
Midnight, My Love (Kongdej Jaturanrassamee, Thailand)
Mission: Impossible III (J.J. Abrams, USA)
Monster House (Gil Kenan, USA)
Neil Young: Heart of Gold (Jonathan Demme, USA)
The Other Side (Bill Brown, USA) [s]
Pan's Labyrinth (Guillermo del Toro, Mexico/Spain/USA)
The Proposition (John Hillcoat, Australia)
The Protector (Prachya Pinkaew, Thailand)
The Pursuit of Happyness (Gabriele Muccino, USA)

The Science of Sleep (Michel Gondry, France)
Sisters in Law (Florence Ayisi & Kim Longinotto, Cameroon/UK)
Sophie Scholl: The Final Days (Marc Rothemud, Germany)
Shup Up & Sing (Barbara Kopple & Cecilia Peck, USA)
Sounds of Sand (Marion Hänsel, Belgium/France)
State of Fear (Pamela Yates, USA/Perú)
Still Life (Jia Zhang-ke, China/Hong Kong)
Street Fight (Marshall Curry, USA)
Texture of Skin (Lee Sung-gang, South Korea)
13 Tzameti (Géla Babluani, France/Georgia)
Tristram Shandy: A Cock and Bull Story (Michael Winterbottom, USA)
Two Drifters (João Pedro Rodrigues, Portugal)
The Untouchable (Benoit Jacquot, France)
VHS: Kahloucha (Nejib Belkadhi, Tunisia)
Volver (Pedro Almodóvar, Spain)
Wassup Rockers (Larry Clark, USA)
Wild Blue Yonder (Werner Herzog, UK/USA/France/Germany)
Woman is the Future of Man (Hong Sang-soo, South Korea)
Wordplay (Patrick Creadon, USA)

B-
Battle in Heaven (Carlos Reygadas, Mexico/Belgium/France/Germany)
Beneath the Same Moon (Carlo Luglio, Italy)
Big Bang Love: Juvenile A (Takashi Miike, Japan)
The Black Dahlia (Brian De Palma, USA/Germany)
Born Again (Markie Hancock, USA)
The Bothersome Man (Jens Lien, Norway)
The Break-Up (Peyton Reed, USA)
The Camden 28 (Anthony Ghiacchino, USA)
Carla's List (Marcel Shupbach, Switzerland)
Cars (John Lasseter & Joe Ranft, USA)
Changing Times (André Téchiné, France)
City of Photographers (Sebastian Moreno Mardones, Chile)
Cold Showers (Antony Cordier, France)
Confession of Pain (Andrew Lau & Alan Mak, Hong Kong)
Congorama (Philippe Falardeau, Belgium/France/Canada)
Crank (Mark Neveldine & Brian Taylor, USA)
CSA: Confederate States of America (Kevin Willmott, USA)
Curse of the Golden Flower (Zhang Yimou, China/Hong Kong)
Days of Glory [Indigènes] (Rachib Bouchareb, France/Morocco/Algeria/Belgium)
Dear Pyongyang (Yonghi Yang, Japan)
The Descent (Neil Marshall, UK)
A Dirty Carnival (You Ha, South Korea)
Dong (Jia Zhang-ke, China/Hong Kong)
Fair Play (Lionel Bailliu, France)
Family Law (Daniel Burman, Argentina)
Fast Food Nation (Richard Linklater, USA)
Fearless (Ronny Yu, China/Hong Kong/USA)
Find Me Guilty (Sidney Lumet, USA)
The Guatemalan Handshake (Todd Rohal, USA)
Happy Feet (George Miller, Australia/USA)
Head Trauma (Lance Weiler, USA)
An Inconvenient Truth (Davis Guggenheim, USA)
Innocent (Simon Chung, Canada/Hong Kong)
La Petite Jérusalem (Karin Albou, France)
Lady in the Water (M. Night Shyamalan, USA)
Lady Vengeance (Park Chan-wook, South Korea)
Last House in the Woods (Gabriele Albanesi, Italy)
Life of Reilly (Frank L. Anderson & Barry Polterman, USA)
Looking For Comedy in the Muslim World (Albert Brooks, USA)
The Lost World of Tibet (Emma Hindley, UK)
Meatball Machine (Yudai Yamaguchi, Japan)
Miami Vice (Michael Mann, USA)
Musical Brotherhoods From the Trans-Siberian Highway (Hisham Mayet, Morroco/USA)
Next Door (Pål Sletaune, Norway)
Our Daily Bread (Nikolaus Geyrhalter, Germany)

Over the Hedge (Tim Johnson & Karey Kirkpatrick, USA)
The Painted Veil (John Curran, USA)
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest (Gore Verbinski, USA)
Poseidon (Wolfgang Petersen, USA)
Retribution (Kiyoshi Kurosawa, Japan)
The Road to Guantanamo (Michael Winterbottom & Mat Whitecross, UK)
Saint of 9/11 (Glenn Holsten, USA) [note: not really a review, more like an article that avoids talking about it as a not-very-good movie]
Shortbus (John Cameron Mitchell, USA)
Slumming (Michael Glawogger, Austria/Switzerland)
Suffering and Smiling (Dan Ollman, Nigeria/USA)
Ten Canoes (Rolf de Heer, Australia)
Thank You For Smoking (Jason Reitman, USA)
Tokyo Zombie (Sakichi Sato, Japan)
Unholy Women (Keisuke Toyoshima, Keita Amemiya & Takuji Suzuk, Japan)
Waiting (Rashid Masharawi, France/Palestine)
Who Gets to Call It Art? (Peter Rosen, USA)
Wild Country (Craigh Stracham, UK)

C+
American Blackout (Ian Inaba, USA)
Black Gold (Nick & Marc Francis, UK)
Boy Culture (Q. Allan Brocka, USA)
Cages (Olivier Masset-Depasse, Belgium)
Cruel Winter Blues (Lee Jeong-beom, South Korea)

The Dead Girl (Karen Moncrieff, USA)
The Devil Wears Prada (David Frankel, USA)
Eternal Summer (Leste Chen, Taiwan)
Failure to Launch (Tom Dey, USA)
For Your Consideration (Christopher Guest, USA)
Harsh Times (David Ayer, USA)
The History Boys (Nicholas Hytner, UK)
Idlewild (Bryan Barber, USA)
Jailbait (Brett C. Leonard, USA)
Janem Janem (Haim Bouzalgo, Israel)
Jesus Camp (Heidi Ewing & Rachel Grady, USA)
Little Miss Sunshine (Jonathan Dayton & Valerie Faris, USA)
Lonesome Jim (Steve Buscemi, USA)
Love Sick (Tudor Girgiu, Romania)
Low Profile (Christoph Hochhaüsler, Germany)
Miles From Home (Ty Hodges, USA)
Nacho Libre (Jared Hess, USA)
Night Watch (Timur Bekmambetov, Russia)
Notes on a Scandal (Richard Eyre, UK)
The Pact (Andrea Kalin, USA)
Porcelain Doll (Péter Gárdos, Hungary)
Quinceañera (Richard Glatzer/Wash Westmoreland, USA)
Riding Alone For Thousands of Miles (Zhang Yimou, Hong Kong/China/Japan)
Rocky Balboa (Sylvester Stallone, USA)
Scab (Thomas Jason Davis, USA)
Sherrybaby (Laurie Collyer, USA)
Snakes on a Plane (David R. Ellis, USA)
Something New (Sanaa Hamri, USA)
Stranger Than Fiction (Marc Forster, USA)
Superman Returns (Bryan Singer, USA)
Taxidermia (György Pálfi, Hungary/Austria)
This Film is Not Yet Rated (Kirby Dick, USA)
Tideland (Terry Gilliam, Canada/UK)
Time (Kim Ki-Duk, South Korea)
Time Off (Francisca Schweitzer & Pablo Solís, Chile)
Time to Leave (François Ozon, France)
The Unwanted Woman (Tahmineh Milani, Iran)
V For Vendetta (James McTeigue, USA/Germany)
We Are Marshall (McG, USA)
World Trade Center (Oliver Stone, USA)

C
Before the Music Dies (Andrew Shapter, USA)
Catch a Fire (Philip Noyce, UK/South Africa/USA)
Creatures From the Pink Lagoon (Chris Diani, USA)
Disturbing Images: The Story of Helmut K. (Sean McKnight, USA)
Evil (Yorgos Noussias, Greece)
The Great New Wonderful (Danny Leiner, USA)
Grimm Love (Martin Weisz, Germany)
Gypo (Jan Junn, UK)
Hanging Garden (Toshiaki Toyoda, Japan)
Hard Candy (David Slade, USA)
Hell (Teekhayu Thammanittayakul & Sathit Pratitsahn, Thailand)
The Hills Have Eyes (Alexandre Aja, USA)
Hostel (Eli Roth, USA)
Imagine Me & You (Ol Parker, UK/Germany)
In Bed (Matias Bize, Chile/Germany)
Invincible (Ericson Core, USA)
Invisible Waves (Pen-ek Ratanaruang, The Netherlands/Thailand/Hong Kong/China/South Korea)
The Last King of Scotland (Kevin Macdonald, UK)
Let's Go to Prison (Bob Odenkirk, USA)
Nanny McPhee (Kirk Jones, UK)
The Night Listener (Patrick Stettner, USA)
On a Clear Day (Gaby Dellal, UK)
Scoop (Woody Allen, UK/USA)
Spider Lillies (Zero Chou, Taiwan)
Trapped Ashes (Joe Dante, Ken Russell, Monte Hellman, John Gaeta & Sean S. Cunningham, USA)
Twelve and Holding (Michael Cuesta, USA)
Typhoon (Kwak Kyung-Taek, South Korea)
Venus (Roger Michell, USA)
Water (Deep Mehta, India/Canada)

C-
All the King's Men (Stephen Zaillian, USA)
American Dreamz (Paul Weitz, USA)
Art School Confidential (Terry Zwigoff, USA)
Blood Diamond (Edward Zwick, USA)
The Conrad Boys (Justin Lo, USA)
The Da Vinci Code (Ron Howard, USA)
Dreamgirls (Bill Condon, USA)
Flirting With Anthony (Christian Calson, USA)
The Fountain (Darren Aronofsky, USA)
The Greatest Love of All (Carlos Diegues, Brazil)
Heading South (Laurence Cantet, France/Canada)
Hell (Danis Tanovic, France/Italy/Belgium/Japan)
The Illusionist (Neil Burger, USA/Czech Republic)
Little Children (Todd Field, USA)
Love Life (Damion Dietz, USA)
The Piano Tuner of Earthquakes (The Brothers Quay, UK/Germany/France)
Pulse (Jim Sonzero, USA)
Running Scared (Wayne Kramer, USA)
10th and Wolf (Robert Moresco, USA)
Tsotsi (Gavin Hood, South Africa/UK)
A Very Serious Person (Charles Busch, USA)
The Wicker Man (Neil LaBute, USA)
Winter Passing (Andy Rapp, USA)
X-Men: The Last Stand (Brett Rattner, USA)

D+
Babel (Alejandro González Iñarritu, USA/Mexico)
Basic Instinct (Michael Caton Jones, USA)
Self Medicated (Monty Lapika, USA) [note: blurb buried towards the bottom in Trenton FF coverage]
She's the Man (Andy Fickman, USA)
Ultraviolet (Kurt Wimmer, USA)
Valley of the Wolves: Iraq (Serdar Akar, Turkey)
Wah-Wah (Richard E. Grant, UK)

D
End of the Spear (Jim Hanon, USA)
The Lost City (Andy Garcia, USA)
Shadowboxer (Lee Daniels, USA)

D-
[pending]

F
[pending]