I am quite curious to know how many films I see in a year, so I am going to list here what I've watched. I might include TV series, and may comment or rate them if I feel like it...
Started 28/09/2007
Last update 25/04/2008

La question humaine (Nicolas Klotz)
Excellent au début, ça devient un peu lourdeau à la fin je trouve, dommage. 8/10

Ningen gokaku (Kiyoshi Kurosawa)
Not his best, but nice. 7/10

Vanishing point (Richard C. Sarafian)
Not only cult, but also pretty good. 7/10

Death proof (Quentin Tarantino)
La frime pour la frime. I love it. 9/10

The office (Ricky Gervais / Stephen Merchant)
8/10

Lady Chatterley (Pascale Ferran)
Excellent. 8/10

Mei man ren sheng (Colin Goh / Yen Yen Woo)
6/10

Old joy (Kelly Reichardt)
The kind of american indie-films I like. 8/10

Sakebi (Kiyoshi Kurosawa)
À un moment j'ai eu la chair de poule! Très très beau. 8/10

Das Leben der Anderen (Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck)
Nice, although not the announced masterpiece. 7/10

15: the movie (Royston Tan)
Ça arrache... 7/10

Moloch (Aleksandr Sokurov)
7/10

Milyang (Chang-dong Lee)
8/10

Waking life (Richard Linklater)
Mixed feelings about this one, but for sure I had never seen anything like it before.

Rocky Balboa (Sylvester Stallone)
I don't want to go too hard on that one. Some good intentions, but not a good film. 3/10

The departed (Martin Scorsese)
I thought the original was alright. This one is slightly better, especially with the dry and cold end, very much appreciated. 8/10

Halloween (John Carpenter)
Some great stuff in there. 8/10

Catch me if you can (Steven Spielberg)
Pour une fois un Speilberg qui ne m'a pas trop agacé. C'est déjà pas mal. 5/10

Live free or die hard (Len Wiseman)
Watchable. Especially when you are bored on a red-eye flight. 5/10

Se, jie (Ang Lee)
Sorry Ang, despite certain qualities, there are too many things I don't like in your film. 4/10. But it makes me think of how impressed I was by the cinematography in "Zi hudie", similar in many ways, but Ye Lou seems to be a much greater film maker. So thank you for indirectly reminding me to follow his work.

Mor suit nam (Adam Wong)
Pas un grand film, mais assez charmant avec de bonnes idées. 7/10

The kingdom (Peter Berg)
0/10. Even -100.000/10
I deeply hate this piece of crap. The first 5 or 10 minutes are good, the rest makes me sick. Beurk.

Wu Qingyuan (Tian Zhuangzhuang)
All I know is I wanted to stay awake, and with this one I had quite a hard time...

La captive (Chantal Akerman)
I try and watch her films, but I am not an Akerman fan. However, this was the second viewing, and as I am meanwhile much more familiar with Marcel P.'s litterature masterpiece, I really was into it this time. 7/10

Slacker (Richard Linklater)
Le petit truc indie américain un peu culte. C'est de la pose et y a pas de quoi s'exciter. Pas détestable non plus, certes. La fin est très bien, cela dit. 6/10.

Changement d'adresse (Emmanuel Mouret)
Au début j'ai pensé "c'est quoi cette connerie?" mais finalement c'est bien sympathique. Allez un petit 7/10 pour Manu.

Le temps retrouvé (Raoul Ruiz)
Je ne pense pas que le film tienne tout seul, mais c'est tout à fait génial. 9/10.

A scanner darkly (Richard Linklater)
Not as surprised as the first time with "waking life". It is nice. 7/10. However, I should now stop viewing Linklater's work for some time.

Un amour de Swann (Volker Schlöndorff)
I should also stop watching Proust's adaptations! Volker completely mixed stories and situations... His film is completely pointless. À la poubelle! 1/10

Hua jai tor ra nong (Apichatpong Weerasethakul)
I say yes, you say no but you will change your mind! 8/10. Apichatpong is probably my fave film maker these days. This one isn't typical of his work, and it's completely crazy, but it's great!

Mary (Abel Ferrara)
Y a de l'abus comme souvent chez lui, mais il est quand même sacrément fort ce Ferrara.

Inland empire (David Lynch)
Quel film!! 10/10

Heima (Dean DeBlois)
Love'em.
I am just wondering what they mean by "unannounced concerts", when you see the audience sometimes... Also some shots are a bit too much, and make you think of Pink Floyd at Pompeii, but it's fun.

Ukigumo (Mikio Naruse)
Clearly, I am going to watch lots of Naruse very soon. Odd stuff: I had an english subtitle file which obviously was computer translated from spanish (I can prove it). Hard to say whether it disturbed a lot my appreciation of the film, but that was bloody weird...

Los lunes al sol (Fernando León de Aranoa)
It makes you think of a spanish Ken Loach. It's got weaknesses, but it's overall quite ok.

Die fetten Jahre sind vorbei (Hans Weingartner)
Du bon et du pourri là-dedans.

Amando a Maradona (Javier Vázquez)
Rather bad documentary about Diego. 3/10

Eastern promises (David Cronenberg)
I liked it, but his last masterpiece remains Spider.

Little Odessa (James Gray)
Noir. Et bon.

Saibogujiman kwenchana (Chan-wook Park)
En partie assez merveilleux, sans en faire un grand film.

Steak (Quentin Dupieux)
Chivers!! Un film ovni, forcément précieux.

I am legend (Francis Lawrence)
C'est plutôt pas mal, ce truc.

Cops (Buster Keaton)
It still works!

Rocco e i suoi fratelli (Luchino Visconti)
Visconti est grand. He even spices up the film with two minutes of Claudia Cardinale on screen. How nice of him!

Nagareru (Mikio Naruse)
Le Mikio ne rigolait pas. Mais c'est la classe. And Mariko Okada...

Vérités et mensonges (Orson Welles)
Genius.

A countess from Hong Kong (Charles Chaplin)
Bon c'est pas un grand film, mais pas indigne non plus.

Lost, stock and two smoking barrels (Guy Ritchie)
Ce film est pas mal, mais Guy se la joue un peu trop.

Vienna (Orson Welles)
Une petite gourmandise.

Speedy (Ted Wilde)
La scène de baston est trop bien. Sinon ça ne vaut quand même pas les Buster.

La fidélité (Andrzej Zulawski)
Bon alors là... il y a quelques trucs assez ridicules dedans - même pas mal en fait - et pourtant au final c'est passionnant, et même grand. Et tout ça avec une improbable Sophie Marceau... vraiment, c'est quelque chose!

Na srebrnym globie (Andrzej Zulawski)
C'est quand même un peu long et dur à suivre. Un peu prétentieux sans doute, ceci dit il y a des plans qui déchirrent l'univers. Et c'est déjà beaucoup.

Control (Anton Corbijn)
It's OK, sometimes even brilliant, although partly superficial.

The immortal story (Orson Welles)
Des plans extraordinaires...

André Markowicz, la voix d'un traducteur (Anne-Marie Rocher)
Je me suis bien battu pour le trouver celui-ci... Ce mec est infernal.

Les temps qui changent (André Téchiné)
9/10

Bug (William Friedkin)
Complètement génial. 9/10

Seung sing (Wai-keung Lau / Siu Fai Mak)
Pas terrible. Nice to see Hong Kong, though.

Ivan Groznyy 1 (Sergei M. Eisenstein)
Stalin liked it. I liked it.

Ivan Groznyy 2: Boyarsky zagovor (Sergei M. Eisenstein)
Stalin didn't like it. I liked it.

Hotel Chevalier (Wes Anderson)
Un petit amuse-gueule avant la suite...

The Darjeeling Limited (Wes Anderson)
I love that guy...

Our hospitality (John G. Blystone / Buster Keaton)
Nicht schlecht der Film.

The lady from Shanghai (Orson Welles)
He tells stories like no one else.

Ni tsutsumarete (Naomi Kawase)
I loved Shara so much I've got to watch more of her. This one won't be the last.

Falscher bekenner (Christoph Hochhäusler)
I prefer Milchwald, but this is not bad either. Avec en prime une ellipse qui soulage un peu!

Fear and loathing in Las Vegas (Terry Gilliam)
Hallucinant en effet. Du beau travail!

Dark star (John Carpenter)
Du délire ce truc. Entre le petit monstre gonflable et la bombe qui discute philosophie...

Safety last! (Fred C. Newmeyer / Sam Taylor)
Avec la si fameuse scène de l'horloge!

The yards (James Gray)
Excellent. And now I am ready for his new film, released tomorrow.

Cloverfield (Matt Reeves)
It's good entertainment. The monster is slighly too big, but it does not matter very much.

Ching se (Tsui Hark)
Tout simplement magnifique.

We own the night (James Gray)
C'est bien le chef d'oeuvre annoncé...

Klassenfahrt (Henner Winckler)
This is a lovely little film, fine and subtle.

Die innere Sicherheit (Christian Petzold)
Bon film! Et l'allusion à Brian Wilson est fine et savoureuse.

Sommer vorm Balkon (Andreas Dresen)
Pas du niveau de Halbe Treppe, mais c'est sympa.

Yella (Christian Petzold)
Il est bon aussi le Christian... J'aime le mélande de réalisme et d'irréel.

Tsuioku no dansu (Naomi Kawase)
Naomi doesn't know how to handle it, but she does it well.

Gespenster (Christian Petzold)
It is great, and Julia Hummer telling her dream is simply fantastic. I will never forget it.

No country for old men (Ethan Cohen / Joel Cohen)
Tout à fait excellent.

Redacted (Brian De Palma)
Another masterpiece by Mister De Palma. This man is my hero.

The bonfire of the vanities (Brian De Palma)
Something is missing, but I am not sure what it is. Ça reste bien sûr très fort, avec le plan séquence qui tue pour démarrer, et l'habituel split-screen de Brian au milieu...

Orae-doen jeongwon (Im Sang-soo)
9/10. As it seems, being called 'Sang-soo' is a great asset to become an excellent director!

Zodiac (David Fincher)
Good film.

Full metal village (Sung Hyung Cho)
Génial!

La sindrome di Stendhal (Dario Argento)
Bien sûr il y a Asia, mais ça ne tient pas trop debout, malgré quelques plans magnifiques. Et ça fait longtemps que je n'avais pas vu un film doublé, quel horreur.

Denk ich an Deutschland - Herr Wichmann von der CDU (Andreas Dresen)
Impeccable!

From hell (Albert Hugues / Allen Hugues)
Saw it only because I had just read the graphic novel. Typical screenplay trick of wrapping several characters into one to save time, etc. Well, it's not a great film, but it could have been worse. 5/10 or so.

Tenkû no shiro Rapyuta (Hayao Miyazaki)
J'adore. 9/10

Fahrenheit 9/11 (Michael Moore)
Le début est pas mal, ensuite c'est assez mauvais. Bon, dans le cadre d'un message pour béotiens, il faut se mettre à niveau je suppose...

Catch-22 (Mike Nichols)
It is possibly a great film, it seems experimental and witty, but I wasn't into it this time.

Torrente 2: misión en Marbella (Santiago Segura)
C'est n'importe quoi. Esthétique cheap et blagues à la con. Mais tellement sur le fil que c'en est parfois effectivement drôle...

Planet of the apes (Tim Burton)
C'est vraiment très mauvais.

El camino de San Diego (Carlos Sorin)
Finalement Carlos Sorin fait toujours un peu le même film. Tout ne va pas pour le mieux, mais tout le monde est bien gentil. Tout cela est ma foi bien sympathique. 7/10

Moe no suzaku (Naomi Kawase)
Très très grand film. Allez je lui mets un 10/10.

Pâku ando rabuhoteru (Izuru Kumasaka)
Sans grande ampleur, mais sympathique.

Mogari no mori (Naomi Kawase)
This is not her best, but it is marvelous. Which says it all about how great Naomi is. She will be a giant.

Byôsoku 5 senchimêtoru (Makoto Shinkai)
One of the most beautiful things you can see on a screen. Histoire un poil gnan gnan, mais on lui pardonne (même la dernière séquence, carrément exagérée!)

7 vidas - 1a temporada
It's ok to watch this while eating, to practice your spanish. And it's quite fun to recognise some of these actors in Almodovar films, like Blanca Portillo and my favorite, Javier Cámara.

Montag kommen die Fenster (Ulrich Köhler)
I remember Rocheteau playing for Pialat, now it's Nastase playing for Köhler. Excellent film, by the way.

Szamanka (Andrzej Zulawski)
C'est n'importe quoi. Confus. Et l'utilisation de la bande-son est souvent assez ridicule et cheap. Malgré tout ça, il y a des passages où on se dit "putain man, ça arrache bien!!"

Hoshi no koe (Makoto Shinkai)
This is very similar to byôsoku 5 senchimêtoru in many ways. Great.

South Park - season 1 (Trey Parker)
I've read they've put everything online, so I'm watching it. It's good.

Yama no oto (Mikio Naruse)
Ouh là... alors là, chef d'œuvre, tout simplement!
By the way, it is quite satisfying to see this kind of film has got such high ratings at imdb.com. I suppose you do not watch this by accident, so those who did were likely to like it. But anyway, 185 voters and we get a 8.5. Significantly higher than, let's say, Star wars Episode I, that gets a 6.4 with... 148,930 voters!! Stop wasting your time and go watch good movies, you idiots!

Willenbrock (Andreas Dresen)
Pas mal du tout.

Tarachime (Naomi Kawase)
How can someone do this?? Only Naomi...

On the air (David Lynch)
It's quite obvious why it wasn't much on the air... My favorites are the pilot and episode 5.

The short films of David Lynch (David Lynch)
That's pretty cool. So you get 'six men getting sick', 'the alphabet', 'the grandmother' (excellent!), 'the amputee', 'the cowboy and the frenchman', 'premonition following an evil deed', plus commentary by the man himself.

Paranoid park (Gus Van Sant)
That's a very impressive work, especially on the narrative and the sound. We also hear great Elliott Smith' songs, that Gus already used for his Good Will Hunting. Witty.

Three days of the condor (Sydney Pollack)
Well... I guess it's OK, but that love thing is so f-ing ridiculous, I just can't stand this kind of crap.

South Park - season 2 (Trey Parker)
I'm still watching it... It's still good!