Film and TV Viewing Log - December 2015
Still from Hard to be a God (Director: Alexei German)
★★★★★
Hard to be a God (Alexei German, 2014)
The Lobster (Yorgos Lanthimos, 2015) - 2nd viewing
Mistress America (Noah Baumbach, 2015)
★★★★
Behind the Veil (Eve Arnold, 1970)
All That Jazz (Bob Fosse, 1979)
Fast Film (Virgil Widrich, 2003)
About Elly (Asghar Farhadi, 2009)
Tangerines (Zaza Urushadze, 2013)
Amour Fou ( Jessica Hausner, 2014)
Eden (Mia Hansen-Løve, 2014)
Welcome to New York (Abel Ferrara, 2014)
The Big Short (Adam McKay, 2015)
Bone Tomahawk (S. Craig Zahler, 2015)
Creed (Ryan Coogler, 2015)
Magic Mike XXL (Gregory Jacobs, 2015)
Joy (David O. Russell, 2015)
Star Wars: The Force Awakens (J.J. Abrams, 2015)
★★★
Night and Day (Chantal Akermann, 1991)
Mr Bean's Holiday (Steve Bendelack, 2007)
Kumiko, The Treasure Hunter (David Zellner, 2014)
The Mend (John Magary, 2014)
Chappie (Neill Blomkamp, 2015)
When Marnie Was There (Hiromasa Yonebayashi, 2015)
The Wolfpack (Crystal Moselle, 2015)
★★
Last Tango in Paris (Bernardo Bertolucci, 1972)
Films starring James Stewart
It's a Wonderful Life (Frank Capra, 1946) ★★★★★
Anatomy of a Murderer (Otto Preminger, 1959) ★★★★★
Dubai International Film Festival 2015 film log
★★★★★
The Assassin (Hsiao-Hsien Hou)
Mustang (Deniz Gamze Ergüven)
★★★★
As I Open My Eyes (Leyla Bouzid)
Cemetery of Splendour (Apichatpong Weerasethakul)
The Clan (Pablo Trapero)
Embrace of the Serpent (Ciro Guerra)
The High Sun (Dalibor Matanic)
Paulina (Santiago Mitre)
Rams (Grímur Hákonarson)
Room (Lenny Abrahamson)
★★★
Francophonia (Alexander Sokurov)
Home Care (Slávek Horák)
The Man Who Became a Horse (Amir Hossein Saghafi)
Mountain Cry (Larry Yang)
Song of Lahore (Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy, Andy Schocken)
Yallah! Undergound (Farid Eslam)
Zinzana (Majid Al Ansari)
★★
Blind Sun (Joyce A. Nashawati)
Recollection (Kamal Aljafari)
Starve Your Dog (Hicham Lasri)
Twilight of Shadow (Mohammed Lakhdar-Hamina)
Youth (Paolo Sorrentino)
Short Films:
★★★★
Ave Maria (Basil Khalil)
Aya Goes to the Beach (Maryam Touzani)
Hajwalah (Rana Jarbou)
★★★
Beshkara (Abdulrahman Al Madani)
In The Future, They Ate from the Finest Porcelain (Larissa Sansour, Søren Lind)
Waves 98 (Ely Dagher)
TV
Survivor, Season 31 (2015) - Episodes 11-14 ★★★
Downton Abbey, Season Six - Episodes 1-8 plus Chirstmas Special (2015) ★★★★
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