December 2008
Green denotes
"seen it before" status
Blue signifies
a "first timer"
The Parallex View(A)
(12/1)
Alan J. Pakula, 1974.
The Draughtsmen's
Contract (B+)(12/3)
Peter Greenaway, 1982.
Burn After
Reading (B)(12/6)
Joel and Ethan Coen, 2008.
Love Actually (B+)
(12/11)
Richard Curtis, 2003.
Le Doulos (A-)
(12/12)
Jean-Pierre Melville, 1962.
Belmondo turning off suspenseful music revealed
to be on the radio later in the scene; the cold cruelty; 180' spin when
all is revealed; the fatalism - see it from a long way off, just like Maurice
and Silean's long walk to the house in Tropierry. Melville's characters
are just simultaneously fascinating and execrable. These are men you just
can't read: The filmmakers POV is only heightened by this.
WALL•E (B+)
(12/27)
Andrew Stanton, 2008.
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