Another busy month of seeing (mostly) new movies. I’m trying to make use of that Netflix account, trying to watch and re-watch more older films. It is strangely difficult when you’re in my line of work. When you have downtime, the last thing you want to do is pop in DVD. Going to rep houses is another thing. God bless Museum of Moving Image. God bless Film Forum. God bless Anthology Film Archives and MoMA Film. And Lincoln Center and even BAM even though I never go to BAM because it is far away from me.
Anyway, of the new movies listed below, 95% of them were reviewed either on Guardian Film or New York Daily News.
Butter on the Latch (2014), Josephine Decker, B+
A Girl Walks Home Alone At Night (2014), Ana Lily Amirpour, B+
Wrong is Right (1982), Richard Brooks, C
Overlord (1978), Stuart Cooper, A-
Applause (1929), Rouben Mamoulian, B+
Dr. Jekyll and Mr Hyde (1931), Rouben Mamoulian, A-
Actress (2014), Robert Greene, B-
They Came Together (2014), David Wain, D
Dumb and Dumber To (2014), Peter and Bobby Farrelly, B-
Beyond the Lights (2014), Gina Prince-Bythewood, B+
Extraterrestrial (2014), Colin Minihan, D
Spawn (1997), Mark A.Z. Dippé, C-
Mysterious Object at Noon (2000), Apichatpong Weerasethakul, B
The Sleepwalker (2014), Mona Lerche, B
V/H/S Viral (2014), Multiple Directors, C-
The Gambler (2014), Rupert Wyatt, B+
The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 1 (2014), Francis Lawrence, C
The Gambler (1974), Karel Reisz, B+
Life Partners (2014), Susanna Fogel, C-
Cloud Atlas (2012), Andy Wachowski, Lana Wachowski, Tom Tykwer, B
Big Eyes (2014), Tim Burton, B+
Into the Woods (2014), Rob Marshall, C+
Penguins of Madagascar (2014), Simon J. Smith and Eric Darnell, B
Comet (2014), Sam Esmail, C-
Citizenfour (2014), Laura Poitras, B-
Zero Motivation (2014), Talya Lavie, B+
Unbroken (2014), Angelina Jolie, C+
Pioneer (2014), Erik Skjoldbœrg, C-
Exodus: Gods and Kings (2014), Ridley Scott, C-
