grades for 2004

4.05.2004

A

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (Michel Gondry, USA)

A-

Before Sunset (Richard Linklater, USA)
The Brown Bunny (Vincent Gallo, USA)
Cowards Bend the Knee (Guy Maddin, Canada)
Distant (Nuri Bilge Ceylan, Turkey)
Dogville (Lars von Trier, Denmark, et al.)
Hero (Zhang Yimou, China)
I ♥ Huckabees (David O. Russell, USA)
Kill Bill, Vol. 2 (Quentin Tarantino, USA)
Primer (Shane Carruth, USA)
Red Lights (Cédric Kahn, France)
Shaun of the Dead (Edgar Wright, UK)
Sideways (Alexander Payne, USA)
Spartan (David Mamet, USA)
Spider-Man 2 (Sam Raimi,USA)
Star Spangled to Death (Ken Jacobs, USA)
Tarnation (John Caouette, USA)


B+


Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy (Adam McKay, USA)
Bad Education (Pedro Almodovar, Spain)
Birth (Jonathan Glazer, USA)
The Bourne Supremacy (Paul Greengrass, USA/Germany)
Bright Leaves (Ross McElwee, USA)
The Case of the Grinning Cat (Chris Marker, France)
Cinevardaphoto (Agnès Varda, France)
Control Room (Jehane Noujaim, USA)
The Five Obstructions (Jørgen Leth & Lars von Trier, Denmark/Switzerland/Belgium/France)
A Good Lawyer's Wife (Im Sang-soo, South Korea)
In Good Conscience: Sister Jeannine Gramick’s Journey of Faith (Barbara Rick, USA)
House of Flying Daggers (Zhang Yimou, China)
The Incredibles (Brad Bird, USA)
The Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou (Wes Anderson, USA)
The Manchurian Candidate (Jonathan Demme, USA)
The Return (Andrei Zvyagintsev, Russia)
Shaolin Soccer (Stephen Chow, China/Hong Kong)
Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter...and Spring (Kim Ki-Duk, South Korea)
A Tale of Two Sisters (Kim Ji-woon, South Korea)
The Trilogy: An Amazing Couple (Lucas Belvaux, France/Belgium)
The Trilogy: On the Run (Lucas Belvaux, France/Belgium)
Vera Drake (Mike Leigh, UK)
What's the Time in Vyborg? (Liisa Roberts, Russia/Finland)


B


Aileen: Life and Death of a Serial Killer (Nick Broomfield & Joan Churchill, UK/USA)
Asshak, Tales From the Sahara (Ulrike Koch, Algeria/Switzerland/Germany/The Netherlands)
The Aviator (Martin Scorsese, USA)

Baadasssss! (Mario Van Peebles, USA)

Bear Club (Miguel Albaladejo, Spain)
Bright Future (Kiyoshi Kurosawa, Japan)
Bright Young Things (Stephen Fry, UK)
Cellular (David R. Ellis, USA)
Clay Bird (Tareque Masud, Bangladesh)
Coffee and Cigarettes (Jim Jarmusch, USA)
Collateral (Michael Mann, USA)
The Concrete Revolution (Xiaolu Guo, China/UK)
Dawn of the Dead (Zack Snyder, USA)
Deadline (Katy Chevigny & Kirsten Johnson, USA)
Dig! (Ondi Timoner, USA)
A Dirty Shame (John Waters, USA)
Discordia (Ben Addelman & Samir Mallal, Canada)
Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story (Rawson Marshall Thurber, USA)
Doppelgänger (Kiyoshi Kurosawa, Japan)
End of the Century: The Story of the Ramones (Jim Fields & Michael Gramaglia, USA)
Festival Express (Bob Smeaton, USA)
A Few Good Dykes (Mocha Jean Herrup, USA)
Friday Night Lights (Peter Berg, USA)
Good Bye, Dragon Inn (Tsai Ming-Liang, Taiwan)
Gozu (Takashi Miike, Japan)
The Grudge (Takashi Shimizu, USA/Japan)
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (Alfonso Cuaron, USA)
Hellboy (Guillermo del Toro, USA)
I'll Sleep When I'm Dead (Mike Hodges, UK)
Infernal Affairs (Andrew Lau & Alan Mak, Hong Kong)
Inventos: Hip Hop Cubano (Eli Jacobs-Fantauzzi, Cuba)
Justice (Maria Ramos, The Netherlands)
Keep Not Silent (Ilil Alexander, Israel)
The Ladykillers (Joel & Ethan Coen, USA)
Letter to the President (Thomas Gibson, USA)
Lost Boys of Sudan (Megan Mylan & Joe Shenk, USA)
Maria Full of Grace (Joshua Marston, USA/Colombia)
Metallica: Some Kind of Monster (Joe Berlinger & Bruce Sinofsky, USA)
Moolaadé (Ousmane Sembene, Senegal/France)
Napoleon Dynamite (Jared Hess, USA)
No More Tears Sister (Helene Klodawsky, Canada)
Notre Musique (Jean-Luc Godard, France/Switzerland)
Ocean's Twelve (Steven Soderbergh, USA)
Popaganda: The Art and Crimes of Ron English (Pedro Carvajal, USA)
Proteus (David Lebrun, USA)
The Road of Women: Voices of Irish Women Political Prisoners (Melissa Thompson, USA/UK)
The Saddest Music in the World (Guy Maddin, Canada)
Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow (Kerry Conran, USA)
Starsky & Hutch (Todd Phillips, USA)
Sympathy For Mr. Vengeance (Park Chan-wook, South Korea)
A Talking Picture (Manoel de Oliveira, Portugal/France/Italy)
Team America: World Police (Trey Parker, USA)
Time of the Wolf (Michael Haneke, France/Austria/Germany)
Touching the Void (Kevin Macdonald, UK)
The Trilogy: After the Life (Lucas Belvaux, France/Belgium)
Troy (Wolfgang Petersen, USA)
until when... (Dahna Abourahme, Palestine/USA)
Women in Struggle (Buthina Canaan Khoury, Palestine)
Zatoichi (Takeshi Kitano, Japan)


B-


The Agronomist (Jonathan Demme, USA)
Anatomy of Hell (Catherine Breillat, France)
Antonio Negir: A Revolt That Never Ends (Alexandra Weltz & Andreas Pichler, Germany)
Being Julia (István Szabó, Canada/USA/UK/Hungary)
Bukowski: Born Into This (John Dullaghan, USA)
Closer (Mike Nichols, USA)
The Cordon (Goran Markovic, Serbia)
The Dreamers (Bernardo Bertolucci, France/Italy)
Harold and Kumar Go to White Castle (Danny Lenier, USA)
In Good Company (Paul Weitz, USA)
The Kite (Randa Chahal Sabbig, Lebanon)
The Lost Generation (Jack Walsh, USA)
Love in Thoughts (Achim von Borries, Germany)
Million Dollar Baby (Clint Eastwood, USA)
No Rest for the Brave (Alain Guiraudie, France)
Oasis (Lee Chang-dong, South Korea)
Only Human (Dominic Harari & Teresa Pelegri, Spain/Argentina/Portugal/UK)
Riding Giants (Stacy Peralta, USA)
Saimir (Francesco Munzi, Italy)
Samaritan Girl (Kim Ki-Duk, South Korea)
Secret Things (Jean-Cluade Brisseau, France)
Seven Days, Seven Nights (Joel Cano, Cuba/France/Italy)
Since Otar Left (Julie Bertuccelli, France/Belgium)
Straight Out: Stories From Iceland (Hrafnhildur Gunnarsdóttir/Thorvaldur Kristinsson, Iceland)
Strayed (André Téchiné, France)
Twentynine Palms (Bruno Dumont, France/Germany/USA)
Tying the Knot (Jim de Sève, USA)
The Village (M. Night Shyamalan, USA)
We Don't Live Here Anymore (John Curran, USA)
Woman Thou Art Loosed (Michael Schultz, USA)


C+


Dumplings (Fruit Chan, Hong Kong)
Enduring Love (Roger Michell, UK)
Fahrenheit 9/11 (Michael Moore, USA)
Farmingville (Carlos Sandoval/Christine Tambini, USA)
The Forgotten (Joseph Ruben, USA)
Fronterz (Courtney Jones, USA)
Good Bye Lenin! (Wolfgang Becker, Germany)
Hotel Rwanda (Terry George, Canada/UK/Italy/South Africa)
I, Robot (Alex Proyas, USA)
Jailbait (Brett C. Leonard, USA)
James' Journey to Jerusalem (Ra'anan Alexandrowicz, Israel)
Kinsey (Bill Condon, USA)
Moon Child (Takahisa Zeze, Japan)
The Polar Express (Robert Zemeckis, USA)
p.s. (Dylan Kidd, USA)
Ray (Taylor Hackford, USA)
Remember Me, My Love (Gabriele Muccino, Italy)
Rosenstrasse (Margarethe von Trotta, Germany/The Netherlands)
The Silence of Skylark (David Ballerini, Italy)
The Tulse Luper Suitcases: The Moab Story (Peter Greenaway, UK)
Two Brothers (Jean-Jacques Annaud, France/UK)
Undertow (David Gordon Green, USA)
Wimbledon (Richard Loncraine, USA/UK)


C


The Alamo (John Lee Hancock, USA)
Breakin' All the Rules (Daniel Taplitz, USA)
Cowboys & Angels (David Gleeson, UK)
Distant Lights (Hans-Christian Schmid, Germany)
Eurotrip (Jeff Schaffer, USA)
Facing Windows (Ferzan Ozpetek, Italy/UK/Turkey/Portugal)
King Arthur (Antoine Fuqua, USA/UK)
Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events (Brad Silberling, USA)
The Machinist (Brad Anderson, Spain)
The Mayor of the Sunset Strip (George Hickenlooper, USA)
Nine Souls (Tokiashi Toyoda, Japan)
Paper Clips (Elliot Berlin & Joe Fab, USA)
Please Teach Me English (Kim Sung-so, South Korea)
The Raspberry Reich (Bruce LaBruce, Canada)
The Reckoning (Paul McGuigan, UK)
She Hate Me (Spike Lee, USA)
Shwaas (Sandeep Sawant, India)
Spanglish (James L. Brooks, USA)
Stander (Bronwen Hughes, Canada/Germany/South Africa/UK)
The Story of the Weeping Camel (Byambasuren Davaa & Luigi Falorna, Mongolia/Germany)
Super Size Me (Morgan Spurlock, USA)
The Terminal (Steven Spielgerg, USA)


C-


The Aryan Couple (John Daly, USA/UK)
The Best Thief in the World (Jacob Kornbluth, USA)
Danny Deckchair (Jeff Balsmeyer, Australia)
Fat Albert (Joel Zwick, USA)
Garden State (Zach Braff, USA)
A Hanging Offense (Guillaume Nicloux, France)
Hijacking Conspiracy: 9/11, Fear & the Selling of American Empire (Jeremy Earp & Sut Jhally, USA)
The Hillside Strangler (Chuck Parello, USA)
Meet the Fockers (Jay Roach, USA)
The Passion of the Christ (Mel Gibson, USA)
Saw (James Wan, USA)
Shark Tale (Vicky Jensen, Bibi Bergeron & Rob Letterman, USA)
200 American (Richard LaMay, USA)
Young Adam (David Mackenzie, UK)


D+


Callas Forever (Franco Zeffirelli, Italy/France/Spain/UK/Romania)
Inescapable (Helen Lesnick, USA)
Man on Fire (Tony Scott, USA)
The Phantom of the Opera (Joel Schumacher, USA)
Shade (Damian Nieman, USA)


D


Catch That Kid (Bart Freundlich, USA)
Raise Your Voice (Sean McNamara, USA)
(looks like I'm going after feeble kid's movies this year)


D-


[none]

F


[none]

W/O


Buddy (Morten Tyldum, Norway)