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Your Consolidated Effete Cinema Snob Review Database

In the extended entry, you'll find the most updated list of film mini-reviews I've done over the last 18 months (Format: Title, Criterion # if applicable, director, year, rating out of 10). To access the full review, use the "Search" function to your right or just scroll down the many posts in the Cinema Purgatorio category. I've preserved some of the comments from its last incarnation in December to make it look like there's some sort of interest.

Any questions about any of these? Any leftover kvetching with my rating? Any movies you'd like to see reviewed? In the words of Dionne Warwick and Elton John, that's what comments are for!

-- 2046 (d. Wong Kar-Wai, 2004) 7.5
-- 3 Women (Criterion #230, d. Robert Altman, 1977) 8.5
-- 8½ (Criterion 140, d. Federico Fellini, 1963) 10
-- Amarcord (Criterion 4, d. Federico Fellini, 1972) 6
-- Andrei Rublev (Criterion 34, d: Andrei Tarvosky, 1966) 8.5
-- Au Hasard Balthazar (Criterion #297, d. Robert Bresson, 1966) [not rated]
-- L'Avventura (Criterion 98, d: Michelangelo Antonioni, 1960) 9.5
-- Bad Timing (Criterion 303, d. Nicolas Roeg, 1980) 6
-- Band of Outsiders (Criterion 174, d. Jean-Luc Godard, 1964) 5.5
-- The Battle of Algiers (Criterion #249, d. Gillo Pontecorvo, 1966) 9
-- Billy Liar (Criterion 121, d: John Schlesinger, 1963) 9
-- Blow-Up (d. Michelangelo Antonioni, 1966) 8
-- Bob le Flambeur (Criterion 150, d. Jean-Pierre Melville, 1956) 8
-- Black Narcissus (Criterion 93, d. Powell/Pressburger, 1947) 8.5
-- Brazil (Criterion 51, d. Terry Gilliam, 1985) 8.5
-- The Bride Wore Black (d. Francois Truffaut, 1968) 6
-- Burden of Dreams (Criterion #287, d. Les Blank, 1982) 7
-- Burnt by the Sun (d. Nikita Mikhalkov, 1994) 6.5
-- Le Cercle Rouge (Criterion 218, d. Jean-Pierre Melville, 1970) 9
-- Chushingura (non-Criterion, d: Hiroshi Inagaki, 1962): 7
-- A Constant Forge (Criterion #256, d. Charles Kiselyak, 2000) [documentary on Cassavetes, not rated]
-- Contempt (Criterion 171, d: Jean-Luc Godard, 1963) 3
-- Le Corbeau (Criterion 227, d: Henri-Georges Clouzot, 1943) 7
-- Crazed Fruit (Criterion #295, d. Ko Nakahiri, 1956) 7.5
-- Croupier (d. Mike Hodges, 1998) 6
-- Dead Ringers (Criterion 21, d. David Cronenberg, 1988) 8.5
-- The Deer Hunter (Legacy Edition, d. Michael Cimino, 1978) 9 [movie], 3 [extras]
-- Diabolique (Criterion 35, d. Henri-Georges Clouzot, 1954) 7
-- Diary of a Chambermaid (Criterion 117, d. Luis Buñuel, 1964) 8
-- The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie (Criterion 102, d. Luis Buñuel, 1972) 9
-- The Dreamers (non-Criterion, d. Bernardo Bertolucci, 2003) 2
-- L'eclisse (Criterion 278, d. Michelangelo Antonioni, 1963) 5.5
-- Eyes Without a Face (Criterion 260, d: Georges Franju, 1960) 7.5
-- Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (Criterion #175, d. Terry Gilliam, 1998) 8
-- For All Mankind (Criterion 49, d: Al Reinert, 1989) 7.5
-- George Washington (Criterion 152, d. David Gordon Green, 2000) 6
-- The Godfather, Pts. I and II (d. Francis Ford Coppola, 1972/1974) 10
-- Harakiri (Criterion 302, d. Masaki Kobayashi, 1962) 10
-- Hearts and Minds (Criterion 156, d. Peter Davis, 1974) 7.5
-- High and Low (Criterion 24, d: Akira Kurosawa, 1963) 8
-- Hoop Dreams (Criterion 289, three directors, 1994) 9
-- Hotel Rwanda (non-Criterion) d. Terry Lloyd, 2003) 7.5
-- Images (d. Robert Altman, 1972) 8
-- In the Mood for Love (Criterion #147, d. Wong Kar-Wai, 2000) 9 and 6
-- Insomnia (Criterion 47, d: Eric Skjoldbaerg, 1997) 7
-- Jules and Jim (Criterion 281, d. François Truffaut, 1962) 9
-- Kagemusha (Criterion 267, 2-discs, d: Akira Kurosawa, 1980): 9.5
-- Knife in the Water (Criterion #215, d. Roman Polanski, 1962) 7
-- Kung Fu Hustle (d. Stephen Chow, 2004) 3
-- The Lady Eve (Criterion 103, d: Preston Sturgis, 1941) 7.5
-- The Last Temptation of Christ (Criterion 70, d: Martin Scorsese, 1988) 7.5
-- The Leopard (Criterion 236, Lucino Visconti, 1963) 8 [revised downward]
-- The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (Criterion 173, d: Michael Powell/Emeric Pressburger, 1943) 6
-- Lilya 4-Ever (d. Lukas Moodyson, 2003) 7
-- The Lower Depths (Criterion #239, d. Akira Kurosawa, 1957) 6.5
-- M (Criterion 30, d: Fritz Lang, 1931) 10
-- March of the Penguins (d. Luc Jacquet, 2005) 6
-- The Mirror (d. Andrei Tarkovsky, 1974) 6
-- Mona Lisa (Criterion 107, d. Neil Jordan, 1986) 7
-- Naked Lunch (Criterion 220, d. David Cronenberg, 1991) 7.5
-- Night and the City (Criterion 274, d. Jules Dassin, 1950) 8
-- Ordet (Criterion #126, d. Carl Dreyer, 1955) 8.5
-- The Phantom of Liberty (Criterion 290, d. Luis Bunuel, 1974) 7.5
-- Pickpocket (Criterion #314, d. Robert Bresson, 1959) [not rated]
-- Pickup on South Street (Criterion 223, d. Samuel Fuller, 1953) 6
-- Point Blank (non-Criterion, d. John Boorman, 1967) 8.5
-- The Pornographers (Criterion 207, d. Shohei Imamura, 1966) 8
-- Ran (Criterion #316, d. Akira Kurosawa, 1985) 10
-- Red Beard (Criterion 159, d: Akira Kurosawa, 1965) 9.5
-- The Red Shoes (Criterion 44, d. Michael Powell, 1948) 4
-- Repulsion (d. Roman Polanski, 1965) 7.5
-- Richard III (Criterion 213, d: Laurence Olivier, 1955) 9
-- Rififi (Criterion 115, d. Jules Dassin, 1955) 8
-- Rules of the Game (Criterion 216, d. Jean Renoir 1939) 9.5
-- The Ruling Class (Criterion 132, d. Peter Medak, 1972) 5
-- Salvatore Giuliano (Criterion 228, d: Francesco Rosi, 1961) 9
-- Le Samourai (Criterion 306, d. Jean-Pierre Melville, 1967) 8
-- Shoot the Piano Player (Criterion #315, d. François Truffaut, 1960) [didn't like]
-- Short Cuts (Criterion 265, d. Robert Altman, 1993) 7
-- Slacker (Criterion 247, d. Richard Linklater, 1991) 5 [non-Austinite], 9 [Austinite]
-- Solaris (Criterion 164, d. Andrei Tarkovsky, 1972) 8
-- The Sword of Doom (Criterion 280, d. Kihachi Okamoto, 1966) 5
-- Tanner '88 (Criterion 258, d. Robert Altman, 1988) 8
-- The Testament of Dr Mabuse (Criterion 231, d. Fritz Lang, 1933) 9
-- That Obscure Object of Desire (Criterion 143, d. Luis Buñuel, 1977) 3.5
-- Thieves' Highway (Criterion 273, d: Jules Dassin, 1949) 7.5 [revised downward]
-- Throne of Blood (Criterion 190, d. Akira Kurosawa, 1957) 9
-- To Live (non-Criterion, d. Yimou Zhang, 1994) 9
-- Tokyo Story (Criterion 217, d. Yasujiro Ozu, 1953) 9
-- Ugetsu (Criterion #309, d. Kenji Mizoguchi, 1953) 8.5
-- The Unbearable Lightness of Being (Criterion #55, d. Philip Kaufman, 1988) 7.5
-- The Wages of Fear (Criterion #36, d. Henri-Georges Clouzot, 1953) 9
-- Wild Strawberries (Criterion 139, d. Ingmar Bergman, 1957) 8.5
-- Women in Love (non-Criterion, d. Ken Russell, 1969) 7
-- Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown (d. Pedro Almodóvar, 1988) 6.5
-- Z (non-Criterion d. Costa-Gavras, 1969) 9