Drive (Refn, 2011)|||||7
Valuable, artful meditation on the consequences of battle-filled, masculine lives. Unabashedly romantic and mythopoeic, with its avenging hand taking in vast criminality in a beautiful, neon LA purgatory. Very much the same strengths and weaknesses and attributes of Valhalla Rising.
Abduction (Singleton, 2011)|||||3
A Corner in Wheat (Griffith, 1909) (short)|||||++
Littlerock (Ott, 2010)|||||7.5
A pointed and unyielding tapestry of really useless people, who then go on to represent greater national frameworks and their dissolubility, their clashes, their inadequacy.
Eros Plus Massacre (Yoshida, 1969)|||||8
* Marie Antoinette (Coppola, 2006)|||||7
Afterschool (Campos, 2008)|||||6.5
Mouchette (Bresson, 1967)|||||8
The Heart of the World (Maddin, 2000) (short)|||||++
Road to Nowhere (Hellman, 2010)|||||6
Paisan (Rossellini, 1946)|||||7
* Seconds (Frankenheimer, 1966)|||||7
The Diary of a Chambermaid (Renoir, 1946)|||||8
Gigi (Minnelli, 1958)|||||6.5
My Darling Clementine (Ford, 1946)|||||7
* The Shooting (Hellman, 1966)|||||7.5
The Beaver Trilogy (Harris, 2000)|||||8
* Some Like It Hot (Wilder, 1959)|||||7
* The Lady Eve (Sturges, 1941)|||||8
Crawlspace (Schmoeller, 1986)|||||4.5
White Material (Denis, 2009)|||||7
Benny's Video (Haneke, 1992)|||||6.5
The Ward (Carpenter, 2010)|||||5
