December Film Journal

Boyfriends and Girlfriends* (Eric Rohmer, 1987)
No Country for Old Men (Ethan Coen and Joel Coen, 2007)
Grey Gardens* (Ellen Hovde, Albert Maysles, David Maysles, and Muffie Meyer, 1975)
Juliet of the Spirits (Federico Fellini, 1965)
Day for Night (François Truffaut, 1973)
Killer of Sheep (Charles Burnett, 1977)
White Christmas* (Michael Curtiz, 1954)
Salaam Bombay!* (Mira Nair, 1988)
Meet Me in St. Louis* (Vincente Minnelli, 1944)
It's a Wonderful Life* (Frank Capra, 1946)
Away from Her (Sarah Polley, 2006)
Streetwise (Martin Bell, 1884)
The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone (José Quintero, 1961)
Love in the Afternoon* (Eric Rohmer, 1972)
The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane (Nicolas Gessner, 1976)
All the King's Men (Steven Zaillian, 2006)
3 Women* (Robert Altman, 1977)
Rebecca* (Alfred Hitchcock, 1940)
Anastasia (Anatole Litvak, 1956)
Lolita (Stanley Kubrick, 1962)
Heaven Can Wait (Ernst Lubitsch, 1943)
Harvey (Henry Koster, 1950)

*rewatch
theater

October Film Journal

A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum (Richard Lester, 1966)
The Departed (Martin Scorsese, 2006)
Eyes Without a Face (Georges Franju, 1960)
Vernon, Florida (Errol Morris, 1982)
A Letter to Three Wives (Joseph L. Mankiewicz, 1949)
If.... (Lindsay Anderson, 1968)
Jules and Jim* (François Truffaut, 1962)
Throne of Blood (Akira Kurosawa, 1957)
Donnie Brasco (Mike Newell, 1997)
The Phantom of the Opera (Rupert Julian, 1925)
Splendor in the Grass* (Elia Kazan, 1961)
Punch-Drunk Love* (Paul Thomas Anderson, 2002)

*repeat viewing
theater

September Film Journal

The Shining (Stanley Kubrick, 1980)
Junebug (Phil Morrison, 2005)
Volver* (Pedro Almodóvar, 2006)
Claire's Knee* (Eric Rohmer, 1970)
The Mayor of Casterbridge (David Thacker, 2003)
The Innocents* (Jack Clayton, 1961)
Pickup on South Street (Samuel Fuller, 1953)
Old Joy (Kelly Reichardt, 2006)
Lifeboat* (Alfred Hitchcock, 1944)
Petulia (Richard Lester, 1968)
Contempt (Lean-Luc Godard, 1963)
Kingdom of Crooked Mirrors (Aleksandr Rou, 1964)
Roman Holiday* (William Wyler, 1953)
The New World* (Terrence Malick, 2005)
The Knack...and How to Get It (Richard Lester, 1965)
Insomnia (Erik Skjoldbjærg, 1997)
Fast, Cheap & Out of Control (Errol Morris, 1997)
Ballad of a Soldier (Grigori Chukhrai, 1959)
The Marrying Kind (George Cukor, 1952)
Gimme Shelter (Albert Maysles, David Maysles, and Charlotte Zwerin, 1970)
Notes on a Scandal (Richard Eyre, 2006)

Sidewalk Motion Picture Festival:
Deconfliction (Edward Tyndall, 2007) (short)
I Always Do My Collars First: A Film about Ironing (Allison Bohl and Conni Castille, 2007) (short)
Fish Kill Flea (Brian Cassidy, Aaron Hillis, and Jennifer Loeber, 2007)
All Day Long (Andrew Semans, 2007) (short)
Hannah Takes the Stairs (Joe Swanberg, 2007)
From the Files of a Very Concerned Psychologist (Sam Frazier, Jr., 2007) (short)
Lunch (James Brown, 2007) (short)
Shrinks (Carey Rayburn, 2007) (short)
Cutting Teeth* (Jonathan Barnette, 2007) (short)
Reunion Days (Christopher Haber, 2007) (short)
All Angels Have Rat Tails* (Jason LaRay Keener and Jeremiah Ledbetter, 2006) (short)
Cup of Joe (Christopher Hilleke, 2007) (short)
Asclepius Fandango (Sam McDavid, 2007) (short)
Mr. Extion (Griffin Hood and Barry Battles, 2007) (short)
The Jesus Guy (Sean Tracey, 2007)

*repeat viewing
theater

August Film Journal

Nights of Cabiria* (Federico Fellini, 1957)
North by Northwest* (Alfred Hitchcock, 1959)
The Ten Commandments* (Cecil B. DeMille, 1956)
Hiroshima mon amour* (Alain Resnais, 1959)
Dial M for Murder* (Alfred Hitchcock, 1954)
Zodiac (David Fincher, 2007)
The Beales of Grey Gardens (Albert Maysles and David Maysles, 2006)
Vertigo* (Alfred Hitchcock, 1958)
Sweet Charity (Bob Fosse, 1969)
Gone with the Wind* (Victor Fleming, 1939)
Notorious* (Alfred Hitchcock, 1946)
I, Claudius (Herbert Wise, 1976)
The Puffy Chair (Jay Duplass, 2005)
Rear Window* (Alfred Hitchcock, 1954)
L'Enfant* (Jean-Pierre Dardenne and Luc Dardenne, 2005)


*repeat viewing
theater viewing

July Film Journal

Sans Soleil (Chris Marker, 1983)
Time Indefinite (Ross McElwee, 1993)
The Godfather* (Francis Ford Coppola, 1972)
A Star Is Born (George Cukor, 1954)
Climates (Nuri Bilge Ceylan, 2006)
Lawrence of Arabia (David Lean, 1962)
Brief Encounter* (David Lean, 1945)
Forbidden Games (René Clément, 1952)
Picnic at Hanging Rock* (Peter Weir, 1975)
The Godfather: Part II* (Francis Ford Coppola, 1974)
Little Children (Todd Field, 2006)
The Devil and Daniel Johnston (Jeff Feuerzeig, 2005)
Ballerina Furnace (Jason LaRay Keener and Jeremiah Ledbetter, 2007) [short]
Paths of Glory (Stanley Kubrick, 1957)
Dans l'Obscurité (Jean-Pierre Dardenne and Luc Dardenne, 2007) [short]
Barry Lyndon* (Stanley Kubrick, 1975)
Ivan's Childhood (Andrei Tarkovsky, 1962)
Ballerina Furnace* (Jason LaRay Keener and Jeremiah Ledbetter, 2007) [Saw this with 20-something other shorts; don't have the info for those, but all were part of a 48-hour film contest.]
Mary Poppins* (Robert Stevenson, 1964)
The 39 Steps (Alfred Hitchcock, 1935)

*repeat viewing
theater viewing

June Film Journal

Shansho the Bailiff (Kenji Mizoguchi, 1954)
Mrs. Miniver (William Wyler, 1942)
The Young Girls of Rochefort (Jacques Demy and Agnès Varda, 1967)
The Cranes Are Flying* (Mikheil Kalatozishvili, 1957)
Vanilla Sky (Cameron Crowe, 2001)
Can't You Hear the Wind Howl?: The Life & Music of Robert Johnson (Peter Meyer, 1998)
The Spirit of the Beehive* (Víctor Erice, 1973)
Shopgirl (Anand Tucker, 2005)
Bedazzled (Stanley Donen, 1967)
Sherman's March: A Mediation to the Possibility of Romantic Love in the South During an Era of Nuclear Weapons Proliferation (Ross McElwee, 1986)
Vagabond (Agnès Varda, 1985)
La Jetée* (Chris Marker, 1962)
Goodfellas* (Martin Scorsese, 1990)


*repeat viewing

May Film Journal

Baby Doll (Elia Kazan, 1956)
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (John Ford, 1962)
Nosferatu: Phantom der Nacht (Werner Herzog, 1979)
Through Fire, Water and...Brass Pipes (Aleksandr Rou, 1968)
The Rules of the Game (Jean Renoir, 1939)
Talk to Her (Pedro Almodóvar, 2002)
Stroszek (Werner Herzog, 1977)
Some Like It Hot (Billy Wilder, 1959)
They Shoot Horses, Don't They? (Sydney Pollack, 1969)
The Devil Wears Prada (David Frankel, 2006)
L'Eclisse (Michelangelo Antonioni, 1962)
La Belle et La Bête* (Jean Cocteau, 1946)
The Europeans (James Ivory, 1979)

Not a film, but also watched: Sister Wendy's Story of Painting (1997)


*rewatch

April Film Journal

The Fallen Idol (Carol Reed, 1948)
Carrie (William Wyler, 1952)
The Letter (William Wyler, 1940)
Marty (Delbert Mann, 1955)
Counsellor at Law (William Wyler, 1933)
A Moment of Innocence (Mohsen Makhmalbaf, 1996)
Marie Antoinette (W.S. Van Dyke, 1938)
Volver (Pedro Almodóvar, 2006)
Seconds (John Frankenheimer, 1966)
All About My Mother (Pedro Almodóvar, 1999)
Nashville (Robert Altman, 1975)

March Film Journal

The Marquise of O* (Eric Rohmer, 1976)
The Collector (William Wyler, 1965)
Naked (Mike Leigh, 1993)
These Three (William Wyler, 1936)
The Children's Hour (William Wyler, 1961)
Holiday (George Cukor, 1938)
Cape Fear (J. Lee Thompson, 1962)
Marie Antoinette (Sofia Coppola, 2006)
Monsieur Verdoux (Charles Chaplin, 1947)
The Killers (Marika Beiku, Aleksandr Gordon, and Andrei Tarkovsky, 1958)
The Killers (Robert Siodmak, 1946)
Young Mr. Lincoln (John Ford, 1939)
A History of Violence (David Cronenberg, 2005)
Requiem (Hans-Christian Schmid, 2006)
When a Woman Ascends the Stairs (Mikio Naruse, 1960)
Cléo from 5 to 7 (Agnès Varda, 1961)
Muriel (Alain Resnais, 1963)
A Face in the Crowd (Elia Kazan, 1957)
Aguirre, the Wrath of God (Werner Herzog, 1972)
Badlands* (Terrence Malick, 1973)
The Royal Tenenbaums (Wes Anderson, 2001)
Fitzcarraldo (Werner Herzog, 1982)

* repeat viewing
italics - theater viewing

February Film Journal

The Naked Spur (Anthony Mann, 1953)
Tape (Richard Linklater, 2001)
Jezebel (William Wyler, 1938)
The Best Years of Our Lives* (William Wyler, 1946)
Black Narcissus (Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger, 1947)
Small Change (François Truffaut, 1976)
Aliens (James Cameron, 1986)
The Lady and the Duke* (Eric Rohmer, 2001)
Targets (Peter Bogdanovich, 1968)
La Cérémonie (Claude Chabrol, 1995)
The Heiress (William Wyler, 1949)
Four Adventures of Reinette and Mirabelle (Eric Rohmer, 1987)
The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger, 1943)
Stella Dallas (King Vidor, 1937)
Secrets & Lies (Mike Leigh, 1996)
Story of a Love Affair (Michelangelo Antonioni, 1950)
Rendezvous in Paris (Eric Rohmer, 1995)
The Unfaithful Wife (Claude Chabrol, 1969)
All or Nothing (Mike Leigh, 2002)
My Man Godfrey (Gregory La Cava, 1936)


*repeat viewing

January Film Journal

One Day in the Life of Andrei Arsenevitch (Chris Marker, 2000)
La Jetée (Chris Marker, 1962)
I Vitelloni (Federico Fellini, 1953)
Repulsion (Roman Polanski, 1965)
The Machinist (Brad Anderson, 2004)
A Scanner Darkly (Richard Linklater, 2006)
Now, Voyager (Irving Rapper, 1942)
Pride and Prejudice (Joe Wright, 2005)
The Razor's Edge (Edmund Goulding, 1946)
Beloved (Jonathan Demme, 1998)
Sullivan's Travels (Preston Sturges, 1941)
The Devil's Backbone (Guillermo del Toro, 2001)
The Thin Man (W.S. Van Dyke, 1934)
The Tenant (Roman Polanski, 1976)
Dark Days (Marc Singer, 2000)
Mouchette (Robert Bresson, 1967)
The Old Maid (Edmund Goulding, 1939)
An Autumn Tale (Eric Rohmer, 1998)
The Butcher (Claude Chabrol, 1970)
The Story of Adèle H. (François Truffaut, 1975)
The Marriage of Maria Braun (Rainer Werner Fassbinder, 1979)
Winchester '73 (Anthony Mann, 1950)