Month In Review: February 2014

1. Lancelot du Lac (Dir. Robert Bresson, 1974) [Rewatch]

2. Woman in the Dunes (Dir. Hiroshi Teshigahara, 1964) [Rewatch]

3. Day of Wrath (Dir. Carl Theodor Dreyer, 1943) [Rewatch]

4. Kaiba/The Tatami Galaxy (Dir. Masaaki Yuasa, 2008-10/Anime Series) [Rewatch for The Tatami Galaxy]

5. Assassination (Dir. Masahiro Shinoda, 1964)

6. Oedipus Rex/Arabian Nights (Dir. Pier Paolo Pasolini, 1967-1974) 

7. Flesh (Dir. Paul Morrissey, 1968) [Rewatch]

8. Horrors of Malformed Men (Dir. Teruo Ishii, 1969) [Rewatch]

9. A Chinese Ghost Story (Dir. Siu-Tung Ching, 1987) [Rewatch]

10. Employees Leaving the Lumière Factory /L' Arroseur arrosé/Arrival of a Train at La Ciotat (Dir. Louis Lumière, 1895) [Rewatch]

11. Stranger by the Lake (Dir. Alain Guiraudie, 2013)

12. Pierrot le fou (Dir. Jean-Luc Godard, 1965)

13. 4:44 Last Day on Earth (Dir. Abel Ferrara, 2011)

14. Paradise: Love/Paradise: Faith  (Dir. Ulrich Seidl, 2012)

15. Crimson Gold (Dir. Jafar Panahi, 2003)

16. Yojimbo (Dir. Akira Kurosawa, 1961)

17. Drums Along the Mohawk (Dir. John Ford, 1939)

18. À nos amours (Dir. Maurice Pialat, 1983)

19. Anatomy of Hell (Dir. Catherine Breillat, 2004) [Rewatch]

20. The Impossible Voyage (Dir. Georges Melies, 1904) [Rewatch]

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Honorable Mentions (In order of preference):

The '?' Motorist (Dir. Walter R. Booth, 1906/Short) [Rewatch] 

Duck Season (Dir. Fernando Eimbcke, 2004)

47 Ronin (Dir. Kon Ichikawa, 1994)

Breaking the Waves (Dir. Lars von Trier, 1996) 

The Strange Vice of Mrs. Wardh (Dir. Sergio Martino, 1971) 

Orguss 02 (Dir. Fumihiko Takayama, 1993-1995/Anime OVA)

The Manson Family (Dir. Jim Van Bebber 2003) [Rewatch]

Tokyo Psycho (Dir. Ataru Oikawa, 2004)

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Images laid bare from the following sources...

Main List:
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Honourable Mentions:
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January 2014

The first month of the new year has passed. During it I decided to improve my cinematic diet immensely. A couple of ill-advised choices were chosen, but the quality is a drastic improvement. I realised I couldn't watch everything and that it may have not been worth the time to see everything, which is a good thing to learn now rather than when I'm old. It'll hopefully have a greater effect on this year with this in mind.

1. 8½ (Dir. Federico Fellini, 1963/France-Italy) [Rewatch]

2. Late Kenji Mizogychi Films [Some Rewatches]

3. Peeping Tom (Dir. Michael Powell, 1960/UK) [Rewatch]

4. The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance & Donovan’s Reef (Dir. John Ford, 1962-3/USA) 

5. Neighbouring Sounds (Dir. Kleber Mendonça Filho, 2012/Brazil)

6. Upstream Color (Shane Carruth, 2013/USA)

7. Taxi Zum Klo (Dir. Frank Ripploh, 1980/West Germany) [Rewatch]

8. Bullet Ballet (Dir. Shinya Tsukamoto, 1998/Japan)  [Rewatch]

9. Walerian Borowczyk Shorts

10. The Wall (Dir. Julian Pölsler, 2012/Austria-Germany)

11. This Land Is Mine (Dir. Jean Renoir, 1943/USA)

12. Walter Ruttmann

13. She Killed In Ecstasy (Dir. Jesus Franco, 1971/Spain-West Germany)

14. Let There Be Light (Dir. John Huston, 1946/USA) 

15. Black Sunday (Dir. Mario Bava, 1960/Italy)

16. The Blade (Dir. Tsui Hawk, 1995/Hong Kong) [Rewatch]

17. The Night of the Hunted (Dir. Jean Rollin, 1980/France)

18. Viridiana (Dir. Luis Buñuel, 1961/Mexico-Spain) [Rewatch]

19. Confidential: Secret Market aka. (Maruhi) shikijô mesu ichiba (Dir. Noboru Tanaka, 1974/Japan) 

20. The Wolf of Wall Street (Dir. Martin Scorsese, 2013/USA)

Honourable Mentions (In Order of Preference): Pentimento (Dir. Frans Zwartjes, 1979/Netherlands); American Hustle (Dir. David O. Russell, 2013/USA); Gyo: Tokyo Fish Attack (Dir. Takayuki Hirao, 2012/Japan); Touch of Evil (Dir. Orson Welles, 1958/USA) [Rewatch]; Inside Llewyn Davis (Dirs, Joel Coen and Ethan Coen, 2013/France-USA); The Glass Shield (Dir. Charles Burnett, 1994/France-USA); Baise-moi (Dirs. Coralie and Virginie Despentes, 2000/France) [Rewatch]; Midori (Dir. Hiroshi Harada, 1992/Japan); The Devil Came From Akasava (Dir. Jess Franco, 1971/Spain-West Germany); Call Me Tonight (Dir. Tatsuya Okamoto, 1986/Anime OVA/Japan)