10 years of film Companion, wow. Thanks for doing this again, SJ. May more people participate in 2016!
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JANUARY
1.Sangue blu (Blue Blood, 1914) - Nino Oxilia. 10/10
2.Carnevalesca (1918) - Amleto Palermi. 9/10
3.Paris qui dort (The Crazy Ray, 1924) - René Clair. 10/10 (2nd viewing)
4.Le fantôme du Moulin-Rouge (The Phantom of the Moulin-Rouge, 1925) - René Clair. 8/10
5.La proie du vent (The Prey of the Wind, 1927) - René Clair. 8/10
6.Flesh Gordon (1974) - Howard Ziehm and Michael Benveniste. 8/10 (2nd viewing)
7.Ballet Down the High Way (1975) - Jack Deveau. 10/10
8.Both Ways (1975) - Jerry Douglas. 8/10
9.Babyface (1977) - Alex de Renzy. 7/10
10.Star Virgin (1979) - Howard Ziehm. 8/10
11.Killing Me Softly (1979) - John Amero and Lem Amero. 7/10
12.Heatstroke (1982) - Tim Kincaid. 9/10
13.Star suburb: La banlieue des étoiles (1983) - Stéphane Drouot. 8/10
14.Alger la blanche (1986) - Cyril Collard. 9/10
15.Flesh Gordon Meets the Cosmic Cheerleaders (1990) - Howard Ziehm. 5/10
16.Abendland (Nightfall, 1999) - Fred Kelemen. 10/10
17.Oi! Warning (1999) - Ben Reding and Dominik Reding. 8/10
18.Dealer (1999) - Thomas Arslan. 8/10
19.Au coeur du mensonge (The Color of Lies, 1999) - Claude Chabrol. 8/10
20.Le petit voleur (The Little Thief, 1999) - Erick Zonca. 9/10
21.Promène-toi donc tout nu! (Go Naked Then!, 1999) - Emmanuel Mouret. 8/10
22.Leçons de ténèbres (Tenebrae Lessons, 1999) - Vincent Dieutre. 10/10
23.Shôjo jigoku ichi kyû kyû kyû (Girl Hell 1999, 1999) - Daisuke Yamanouchi. 7/10
24.Muzan-e: AV gyaru satsujin bideo wa sonzai shita! (Celluloid Nightmares, 1999) - Daisuke Yamanouchi. 8/10
25.Akai misshitsu (heya): Kindan no ôsama geemu (Red Room, 1999) - Daisuke Yamanouchi. 7/10
26.Tûka to Kinpatsu (Blonde Currrency, 1999) - Rokuro Mochizuki. 7/10
27.Gushonure hitozuma kyôshi - Seifuku de idaite (Despite All That, 1999) - Shinji Imaoka. 8/10
28.Anâkî in Japansuke: Mirarete iku onna (Anarchy in [Ja]Panty, 1999) - Takahisa Zeze. 8/10
29.Ôinaru gen'ei (Barren Illusions, 1999) - Kiyoshi Kurosawa. 8/10
30.Gekkô no sasayaki (Moonlight Whispers, 1999) - Akihiko Shiota. 9/10
31.Kaizokuban Bootleg Film (Bootleg Film, 1999) - Masahiro Kobayashi. 8/10
32.Jigoku (Japanese Hell, 1999) - Teruo Ishii. 6/10
33.Habakari tenshi (Angel in the Toilet, 1999) - Kôichi Imaizumi. 7/10
34.Diva Dolorosa (1999) - Peter Delpeut. 10/10 (2nd viewing)
35.In Their Room: San Francisco (2009) - Travis Mathews. 7/10
36.Sound Over Water (2009) - Mary Helena Clark. 7/10
37.In Their Room: Berlin (2011) - Travis Mathews. 8/10
38.L’image manquante (The Missing Picture, 2013) - Rithy Panh. 8/10
39.Omar (2013) - Hany Abu-Assad. 7/10
40.The Immigrant (2013) - James Gray. 9/10
41.In Their Room: London (2013) - Travis Mathews. 7/10
42.Le paradis (Paradise, 2014) - Alain Cavalier. 10/10
43.Das Sommerhaus (The Summer House, 2014) - Curtis Burz. 7/10
44.Tokyo Tribe (2014) - Shion Sono. 6/10
45.Torneranno i prati (Greenery Will Bloom Again, 2014) - Ermanno Olmi. 10/10
46.Szabadesés (Free Fall, 2014) - György Pálfi. 7/10
47.The Smell of Us (2014) - Larry Clark. 9/10
48.Natural History (2014) - James Benning. 9/10
49.Mula sa kung ano ang noon (From What Is Before, 2014) - Lav Diaz. 10/10
50.It Follows (2014) - David Robert Mitchell. 8/10
51.Kommunisten (2014) - Jean-Marie Straub. 9/10
52.Une nouvelle amie (The New Girlfriend, 2014) - François Ozon. 7/10
53.P’tit Quinquin (Li’l Quinquin, 2014) - Bruno Dumont. 8/10
54.Jauja (2014) - Lisandro Alonso. 10/10
55.Pusong wasak: Isa na namang kwento ng pag-ibig sa pagitan ng kriminal at puta (Ruined Heart: Another Lovestory Between a Criminal & a Whore, 2014) - Khavn. 8/10
56.Na yeh ling san, ngo joa seung liu Wong Gok hoi wong dai bou dik hung Van (The Midnight After, 2014) - Fruit Chan. 7/10
57.Timbuktu (2014) - Abderrahmane Sissako. 9/10
58.Plemya (The Tribe, 2014) - Miroslav Slaboshpitsky. 8/10
59.Zhì qu weihu shan (The Taking of Tiger Mountain, 2014) - Tsui Hark. 8/10
60.Au fil d’Ariane (Ariane’s Thread, 2014) - Robert Guédiguian. 7/10
61.Phoenix (2014) - Christian Petzold. 9/10
62.Diplomatie (Diplomacy, 2014) - Volker Schlöndorff. 7/10
63.Fort Buchanan (2014) - Benjamin Crotty. 9/10
64.She’s Funny That Way (2014) - Peter Bogdanovich. 7/10
65.Amour fou (Mad Love, 2014) - Jessica Hausner. 9/10
66.Im Keller (In the Basement, 2014) - Ulrich Seidl. 6/10
67.Sayonara kabukichô (Kabukichô Love Hotel, 2014) - Ryuichi Hiroki. 8/10
68.Die geliebten Schwestern (Beloved Sisters, 2014) - Dominik Graf. 8/10
69.The Dragon Is the Frame (2014) - Mary Helena Clark. 7/10
70.Ex Machina (2015) - Alex Garland. 8/10
71.Mad Max: Fury Road (2015) - George Miller. 8/10
72.Lichtes meer (Radiant Sea, 2015) - Stefan Butzmühlen. 8/10
73.An (Sweet Red Bean Paste, 2015) - Naomi Kawase. 9/10
74.Il racconto dei racconti (Tale of Tales, 2015) - Matteo Garrone. 7/10
75.The Lobster (2015) - Yorgos Lanthimos. 7/10
76.Bizarrre (Brooklyn Bizarre, 2015) - Étienne Faure. 7/10
77.Trois souvenirs de ma jeunesse (My Golden Days, 2015) - Arnaud Desplechin. 9/10
78.Hua li shang ban zu (Office, 2015) - Johnnie To. 8/10
79.Saat po long 2 (SPL 2: A Time for Consequences, 2015) - Soi Cheang. 8/10
80.The Visit (2015) - M. Night Shyamalan. 8/10
81.La tête haute (Standing Tall, 2015) - Emmanuelle Bercot. 8/10
82.L’ombre des femmes (In the Shadow of Women, 2015) - Philippe Garrel. 10/10
83.Taxi (2015) - Jafar Panahi. 9/10
84.Love (2015) - Gaspar Noé. 5/10
85.Nie yin niang (The Assassin, 2015) - Hou Hsiao-Hsien. 10/10
86.Blackhat (2015) - Michael Mann. 8/10
87.Aferim! (2015) - Radu Jude. 8/10
88.Amnesia (2015) - Barbet Schroeder. 7/10
89.Ji-geum-eun-mat-go-geu-ddae-neun-teul-li-da (Right Now, Wrong Then, 2015) - Hong Sang-soo. 9/10
90.The Good Dinosaur (2015) - Peter Sohn. 7/10
91.Sanjay’s Super Team (2015) - Sanjay Patel. 6/10
92.Palms (2015) - Mary Helena Clark. 8/10
93.World of Tomorrow (2015) - Don Hertzfeldt. 9/10
Total: 93 films (11 shorts); 28 horror (and related) films (5 shorts)
FEBRUARY
1.South (1920) - Frank Hurley. 8/10
2.Die Stadt der Millionen (City of Millions, 1925) - Adolf Trotz. 8/10
3.Als de halmen buigen (When the Stalks Bend, 1929) - Johan van Canstein. 8/10
4.Portrait of a Young Man in Three Movements (1931) - Henwar Rodakiewicz. 10/10
5.Travel Notes (1932) - Walker Evans. 8/10
6.Misère au Borinage (Misery in the Borinage, 1933) - Joris Ivens and Henri Storck. 9/10
7.Oil: A Symphony in Motion (1933) - M.G. MacPherson. 7/10
8.The Face of Britain (1935) - Paul Rotha. 9/10
9.The Black Legion (1937) - Ralph Steiner, Willard Van Dyke and Irving Lerner. 8/10
10.Tatakau heitai (Fighting Soldiers, 1939) - Fumio Kamei. 10/10
11.Object Lesson (1941) - Christopher Young. 8/10
12.Native Land (1942) - Leo Hurwitz and Paul Strand. 10/10
13.Storm (1943) - Paul Burnford. 7/10
14.Farrebique ou Les quatre saisons (Farrebique, or the Four Seasons, 1946) - Georges Rouquier. 9/10
15.Les feux de la mer (Sea Lights, 1948) - Jean Epstein. 8/10
16.Navajo (1952) - Norman Foster. 8/10
17.Duende y misterio del flamenco (Flamenco, 1952) - Edgar Neville. 9/10
18.Le mystère Picasso (The Mystery of Picasso, 1956) - Henri-Georges Clouzot. 9/10
19.Mars and Beyond (1957) - Ward Kimball. 10/10
20.Doroga k zvezdam (Road to the Stars, 1958) - Pavel Klushantsev. 8/10
21.India: Matri Bhumi (1959) - Roberto Rossellini. 9/10
22.Cigányok (Gypsies, 1962) - Sándor Sára. 9/10
23.Tomorrow’s Saturday (1962) - Michael Grigsby. 9/10
24.Kiss (1963) - Andy Warhol. 9/10
25.Le joli mai (The Lovely Month of May, 1963) - Chris Marker and Pierre Lhomme. 10/10
26.Snow (1963) - Geoffrey Jones. 9/10
27.Nosotros, la música (We Are the Music, 1964) - Rogelio Paris. 10/10
28.Point of Order! (1964) - Emile de Antonio. 9/10
29.I Think They Call Him John (1964) - John Krish. 9/10
30.Good Times, Wonderful Times (1966) - Lionel Rogosin. 9/10
31.Der lachende Mann - Bekenntnisse eines Mörders (The Laughing Man, 1966) - Walter Heynowski and Gerhard Scheumann. 8/10
32.Ohnivé rieky (Fire River, 1966) - Ctibor Kovác. 10/10
33.Opus (1967) - Don Levy. 9/10
34.Det kære legetøj (Sex and the Law, 1968) - Gabriel Axel. 8/10
35.God Respects Us When We Work, But Loves Us When We Dance (1968) - Les Blank. 8/10
36.Besonders wertvoll (Of Special Merit, 1968) - Hellmuth Costard. 7/10
37.The Fall (1969) - Peter Whitehead. 10/10
38.Freiheit für die Liebe (Freedom to Love, 1969) - Eberhardt Kronhausen and Phyllis Kronhausen. 9/10
39.Das Millionenspiel (The Millions Game, 1970) - Tom Toelle. 9/10
40.Immagini disturbate da un intenso parassita (Images Disturbed by an Intense Parasite, 1970) - Paolo Gioli. 8/10
41.Haytabo (1971) - Ulli Lommel and Peter Moland. 7/10
42.Ein großer graublauer Vogel (A Big Grey-Blue Bird, 1971) - Thomas Schamoni. 8/10
43.Minamata: Kanja-san to sono sekai (Minamata: The Victims and Their World, 1971) - Noriaki Tsuchimoto. 10/10
44.Sanrizuka: Dainitoride no hitobito (Narita: The Peasants of the Second Fortress, 1971) - Shinsuke Ogawa. 10/10
45.Interviews with My Lai Veterans (1971) - Joseph Strick. 9/10
46.Ra (The Ra Expeditions, 1972) - Thor Heyerdahl and Lennart Ehrenberg. 9/10
47.Hôtel Monterey (1972) - Chantal Akerman. 9/10
48.Erotikus: A History of the Gay Movie (1973) - Tom DeSimone. 8/10
49.Shikijô ryokô: Hong Kong bojô (Erotic Journey: Love Affair in Hong Kong, 1973) - Masaru Konuma. 9/10
50.Rivers of Sand (1974) - Robert Gardner. 9/10
51.Det gode og det onde (Good and Evil, 1975) - Jørgen Leth. 9/10
52.Vem var Dracula? (In Search of Dracula, 1975) - Calvin Floyd. 7/10
53.Im Staub der Sterne (In the Dust of the Stars, 1976) - Gottfried Kolditz. 7/10
54.Les pornocrates (The Pornocrats, 1976) - Jean-François Davy. 8/10
55.Take the 5:10 to Dreamland (1976) - Bruce Conner. 8/10
56.Stolarz (A Joiner, 1976) - Wojciech Wiszniewski. 10/10
57.Operation Ganymed (1977) - Rainer Erler. 9/10
58.Analogies: Studies in the Movement of Time (1977) - Peter Rose. 9/10
59.Mysterious Castles of Clay (1978) - Alan Root and Joan Root. 9/10
60.Gradiva Esquisse I (Gradiva Sketch I, 1978) - Raymonde Carasco. 10/10
61.Vivre est une solution (Living Is a Solution, 1980) - Gérard Courant. 8/10
62.Mur murs (Mural Murals, 1981) - Agnès Varda. 9/10
63.Kamikaze 1989 (1982) - Wolf Gremm. 7/10
64.San Clemente (1982) - Raymond Depardon and Sophie Ristelhueber. 10/10
65.Trop tôt/Trop tard (Too Early/Too Late, 1982) - Jean-Marie Straub and Danièle Huillet. 9/10
66.Buruu rein Ôsaka (Blue Rain Osaka, 1983) - Masaru Konuma. 8/10
67.Das Arche Noah Prinzip (The Noah’s Ark Principle, 1984) - Roland Emmerich. 5/10
68.Alpha City (1985) - Eckhart Schmidt. 7/10
69.Hamara Shahar - Bombay, Our City (1985) - Anand Patwardhan. 10/10
70.Antonio Gaudí (1985) - Hiroshi Teshigahara. 8/10
71.Ornette: Made in America (1985) - Shirley Clarke. 8/10
72.Momo (1986) - Johannes Schaaf. 7/10
73.Hail the New Puritan (1987) - Charles Atlas. 9/10
74.Falkenau, vision de l’impossible/Falkenau, the Impossible (1988) - Emil Weiss. 9/10
75.Cane Toads: An Unnatural History (1988) - Mark Lewis. 8/10
76.Bilder der Welt und Inschrift des Krieges (Images of the World and the Inscription of War, 1989) - Harun Farocki. 10/10
77.Winter adé (After Winter Comes Spring, 1989) - Helke Misselwitz. 10/10
78.Siddeshwari (1990) - Mani Kaul. 10/10
79.Das Kino und der Tod (Cinema and Death, 1991) - Hartmut Bitomsky. 8/10
80.Taiga (1992) - Ulrike Ottinger. 10/10
81.Starting Place/Point de départ (1994) - Robert Kramer. 10/10
82.The Silver Screen: Color Me Lavender (1997) - Mark Rappaport. 8/10
83.Gallivant (1997) - Andrew Kotting. 9/10
84.The Fall of Communism as Seen in Gay Pornography (1998) - William E. Jones. 8/10
85.Highway (1999) - Sergei Dvortsevoy. 9/10
86.Su tutte le vette è pace (On the Heights All Is Peace, 1999) - Yervant Gianikian and Angela Ricci Lucchi. 9/10
87.Out of the Present (1999) - Andrei Ujica. 9/10
88.Bibione Bye Bye One (1999) - Alessandro Rossetto. 10/10
89.Un vivant qui passe (A Visitor from the Living, 1999) - Claude Lanzmann. 9/10
90.Belfast, Maine (1999) - Frederick Wiseman. 10/10
91.Mr. Death: The Rise and Fall of Fred A. Leuchter, Jr. (1999) - Errol Morris. 8/10
92.Pripyat (1999) - Nikolaus Geyrhalter. 9/10
93.Le Messie/Messiah (1999) - William Klein. 8/10
94.Balkan baroque (1999) - Pierre Coulibeuf. 9/10
95.Atarashî kamisama (The New God, 1999) - Yutaka Tsuchiya. 9/10
96.Genet à Chatila (Genet in Chatila, 1999) - Richard Dindo. 9/10
97.Zhizn, osin (Life, Autumn, 1999) - Sergey Loznitsa and Marat Magambetov. 9/10
98.Grand Central (1999) - Jeffrey Noyes Scher. 9/10
99.This Side of Paradise (1999) - Jonas Mekas. 8/10
100.Muktikara (1999) - Jeanne Liotta. 8/10
101.Sound Mirrors (1999) - Tacita Dean. 8/10
102.Another Worldy (1999) - Leslie Thornton. 9/10
103.Teatro Amazonas (1999) - Sharon Lockhart. 8/10
104.Robert. Schastlivaya zhizn (Robert. A Fortunate Life, 1999) - Aleksandr Sokurov. 9/10
105.Fedia. Trys minutes po Didziojo sprogimo (Fedia. Three Minutes After the Big Bang, 1999) - Audrius Stonys. 8/10
106.Ya vas lyubil... (Tri romansa)/I Loved You... (Three Romances) (2000) - Victor Kossakovsky. 9/10
107.Sadistic and Masochistic (2000) - Hideo Nakata. 8/10
108.Balnearios (Beach Resorts, 2002) - Mariano Llinás. 8/10
109.Les vamps fantastiques (The Fantastic Vamps, 2003) - Jean-Pierre Bouyxou and Jean-Yves Bochet. 8/10
110.Hat Wolff von Amerongen Konkursdelikte begangen? (Wolff von Amerongen: Did He Commit Bankruptcy Offences?, 2004) - Gerhard Benedikt Friedl. 9/10
111.Gay Sex in the 70s (2005) - Joseph F. Lovett. 7/10
112.The Story of Native Land (2007) - Abbey Lustgarten. 8/10
113.Ruhr (2009) - James Benning. 10/10
114.Fei cheng (Ghost Town, 2009) - Zhao Dayong. 10/10
115.Studien zum Untergang des Abendlands (Studies for the Decay of the West, 2010) - Klaus Wyborny. 10/10
116.Samsara (2011) - Ron Fricke. 7/10
117.Corman’s World: Exploits of a Hollywood Rebel (2011) - Alex Stapleton. 7/10
118.A Spell to Ward Off the Darkness (2013) - Ben Rivers and Ben Russell. 9/10
119.Atlas (2013) - Antoine d’Agata. 7/10
120.Eurociné 33 Champs-Élysées (2013) - Christophe Bier. 7/10
121.Bis an den Himmel und noch viel mehr (Up to the Sky and Much Much More, 2015) - Barbara Meter. 8/10
Total: 121 films (34 shorts); 27 horror (and related) films (4 shorts)
To be continued...
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