February 2015

FILMS AND TV SHOWS


2/1- Mon Oncle (1958, Jacques Tati) (A)

2/2- The Grey (2011, Joe Carnahan) (A-)

        The Crossing Guard (1995, Sean Penn) (D)

        Killing of A Chinese Bookie (1976, John Cassavetes) (B)

        L'Age D'Or (1930, Luis Bunuel) (A-)

2/3- Grand Hotel (1932, Edmund Goulding) (B)
       Last Days In Vietnam (2014, Rory Kennedy) (B-)
       Pariah (2011, Dee Rees) (B+)

2/4- A Most Violent Year (2014, J.C. Chandor) (B)
       4 Little Girls (1996, Spike Lee) (B+)
       A Man Escaped (1956, Robert Bresson) (A+)

2/5- The Rain People (1969, Francis Ford Coppola) (B+)
       Black Sunday (1977, John Frankenheimer) (A-)
       I Remember Mama (1948, George Stevens) (B+)

2/6- Throne of Blood (1957, Akira Kurosawa) (A)
       You Can't Take It With You (1938, Frank Capra) (A-)
       Naqoyqatsi (2002, Godfrey Reggio) (C-)
       Meshes of the Afternoon (short) (1943, Maya Daren) (B+)

2/7- Possession (1981, Andrzej Zulawski) (A+)
       Louis CK: Live At the Comedy Store (2015) (B)
       Daisies (1966, Vera Chytilova) (A-)
       Coraline (2009, Henry Selick) (B)

2/8- The Ref (1994, Ted Demme) (B+)
        Last Week Tonight with John Oliver
        Jinx: The Life and Deaths of Robert Durst

2/9- Richard Pryor: Omit the Logic (2013, Marina Zenovich) (B-)
       Better Call Saul (2 episodes)
       Army of Shadows (1969, Jean-Pierre Melville) (A+)
       Husbands and Wives (1992, Woody Allen) (B)

2/10- The Best Years of Our Lives (1946, William Wyler) (A)
          The Mack (1973, Michael Campus) (B+)        

2/11- Raging Bull (1980, Martin Scorsese) (A+)
         Petulia (1968, Richard Laster) (A+)

2/12- The Heiress (1949, William Wyler) (B+)
          The Fallen Idol (1948, Carol Reed) (B+)

2/13- Zodiac (2007, David Fincher) (A+)
         Beauty and the Beast (1946, Jean Cocteau) (A)
         Casablanca (1942, Michael Curtiz) (A+)

2/15- The Silence of the Lambs (1991, Jonathan Demme) (A+)
          Foxy Brown (1974, Jack Hill) (B+)
          Boyhood (2014, Richard Linklater) (A+)
          Last Week Tonight With John Oliver

2/16- Jinx: The Life and Deaths of Robert Durst
         The Fall
         Burnt Offerings (1976, Dan Curtis) (C+)
         Stalker (1979, Andrei Tarkovsky) (B+)

2/17- Opening Night (1977, John Cassavetes) (A)
         Birdman (2014, Alejandro G. Innaritu) (A+)

2/18- The Great Silence (1968, Sergio Corbucci) (A-)
          The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (1943, Powell and Pressburger) (A+)

2/19- The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T (1953, Roy Rowland) (B-)
         Judgment At Nuremberg (1961, Stanley Kramer) (A-)

2/20- Don't Look Now (1973, Nicolas Roeg) (A+)
         Mr. Death (1999, Errol Morris) (B)
         Life Itself (2014, Steve James) (A-)
         Jackie Brown (1997, Quentin Tarantino) (A+)

2/21- Three Women (1977, Robert Altman) (B+)
         Saturday Night Live: 40th Anniversary Special

2/22- The Night of the Hunter (1955, Charles Laughton) (A+)
          The 87th Annual Academy Awards

2/23- Malcolm X (1992, Spike Lee) (A)
         Last Week Tonight with John Oliver

2/24- Abby (1974, William Girdler) (C)
         Better Call Saul
         Citizenfour (2014, Laura Poitras) (A-)
         The Thief of Baghdad (1940, Ludwig Berger, Michael Powell, Tim Whelan) (B)

2/25- The Tale of the Princess Kaguya (Isao Takahata) (B+)
         All That Jazz (1979, Bob Fosse) (A)

2/26- Killer of Sheep (1977, Charles Burnett) (B+)
         The Steel Helmet (1951, Sam Fuller) (A)
         The Searchers (1956, John Ford) (D+)

2/27- The Piano Teacher (2001, Michael Haneke) (B+)
          House of Cards (3 episodes)





BOOKS

2/8- The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt (A+)

2/13- Silver Screen Fiend by Patton Oswalt (B+)