Films Seen 1997

Titles of 1997 Canadian releases are in CAPITALS (except for subUrbia, but you knew that). Short films (under one hour) are in blue.


4 LITTLE GIRLS (Spike Lee) **1/2
2001: A Space Odyssey (Stanley Kubrick, 1968)
The 400 Blows (François Truffaut, 1959)

AIR FORCE ONE (Wolfgang Petersen) **1/2
ALIEN RESURRECTION (Jean-Pierre Jeunet) **
AMISTAD (Steven Spielberg) **1/2
And Life Goes On
(Abbas Kiarostami, 1992)
Aparajito (Satyajit Ray, 1957)
Arsenal (Alexander Dovzhenko, 1929)
ARTEMISIA (Agnes Merlet, 1998) **
AS GOOD AS IT GETS (James Brooks) ***
L'Atalante (Jean Vigo, 1934)
AUSTIN POWERS: INTERNATIONAL MAN OF MYSTERY (M. Jay Roach) ***

The Ballad of Narayama (Shohei Imamura, 1983)
The Bicycle Thief (Vittorio de Sica, 1948)
BLISS (Lance Young) **1/2
BLOOD AND WINE (Bob Rafelson) **
Blood of the Beasts (Georges Franju, 1949)
THE BLOOD ORANGES (Philip Haas, 1998) ***
BODY WITHOUT SOUL (Wiktor Grodecki, 1996) **1/2
BOOGIE NIGHTS (Paul Thomas Anderson) **1/2
DAS BOOT (Director's Cut Restoration) (Wolfgang Petersen) ****
THE BOXER (Jim Sheridan) ***
Breathless (Jean-Luc Godard, 1959)
BOYFRIENDS (Neil Hunter and Tom Hunsinger, 1996) **

Café au Lait (Mathieu Kassovitz)
CAREER GIRLS (Mike Leigh) ***
Charmides (Gregory Markopoulos, 1947-8)
CHASING AMY (Kevin Smith) **1/2
La Chienne (Jean Renoir, 1931)
Children of Paradise (Marcel Carné, 1945)
CHINESE BOX (Wayne Wang, 1998) **
CHUNGKING EXPRESS (Wong Kar-wai, 1994) ***
CITIZEN RUTH (Alexander Payne) ***
CON AIR (Simon West) **1/2
CONSPIRATORS OF PLEASURE (Jan Svankmajer) (1996) **
CONTACT (Robert Zemeckis) **1/2
Contempt (Jean-Luc Godard, 1963)
CRASH (David Cronenberg) ***1/2
The Crying Game (Neil Jordan, 1992)

Days of the Eclipse (Alexandr Sokurov, 1988)
The Dead Ones (Gregory Markopoulos, 1949)
DECONSTRUCTING HARRY (Woody Allen) ***
DEVIL'S ISLAND (Fridrik Thor Fridriksson) **
Diabolique (Henri-Georges Clouzot, 1955)
DOING TIME FOR PATSY CLINE (Chris Kennedy) **1/2
DONNIE BRASCO (Mike Newell) ***
DREAM WITH THE FISHES (Finn Taylor) **1/2
DRIFTING CLOUDS (Aki Kaurismäki, 1996) ***

Eaux d'Artifice (Kenneth Anger, 1953)
THE EEL (Shohei Imamura) ***
The Element of Crime (Lars von Trier, 1984)
THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK: SPECIAL EDITION (Irvin Kershner) ***1/2
Eros, O Basilieus (Gregory Markopoulos, 1967)
L'ESCORTE (Denis Langlois) **
Europa, Europa (Agnieszka Holland)
EVERYONE SAYS I LOVE YOU (Woody Allen) ***
Eyes Without a Face (Georges Franju, 1960)

FACE (Antonia Bird, 1998) ***
FACE/OFF (John Woo) ***1/2
FIERCE CREATURES (Fred Schepisi and Robert Young III) ***
THE FIFTH ELEMENT (Luc Besson) **1/2
Fireworks (Kenneth Anger, 1947)
Flowers of Asphalt (Gregory Markopoulos, 1951)
FRIEND OF THE DECEASED (Vyacheslav Krishtofovich) ***
THE FULL MONTY (Peter Cattaneo) **1/2

G.I. JANE (Ridley Scott) **1/2
GABBEH (Mohsen Makhmalbaf, 1996) ***
THE GAME (David Fincher) **1/2
GATTACA (Andrew Niccol) ***
The Garden of the Finzi-Continis (Vittorio de Sica)
Gertrud (Carl-Theodor Dreyer, 1964)
A GIRL ALONE (Benoit Jacquot) ***
The Godfather (Francis Ford Coppola)
The Golden Coach (Jean Renoir, 1952)
Grin Without a Cat / Le Fond de l'Air est Rouge (Chris Marker, 1977)
GROSSE POINTE BLANK (George Armitage) ***
GUMMO (Harmony Korine) *1/2

The Hairdresser's Husband (Patrice Leconte)
THE HANGING GARDEN (Thom Fitzgerald) ***
HAPPY TOGETHER (Wong Kar-wai) **
HENRY FOOL (Hal Hartley, 1998) ***1/2
HERCULES (Ron Clements and John Musker) **1/2
Hiroshima, Mon Amour (Alain Resnais, 1959)

I THINK I DO (Brian Sloan) *1/2
IN THE COMPANY OF MEN (Neil LaBute) ***
THE ICE STORM (Ang Lee) ***1/2
Images of a Relief (Lars von Trier)
The Insect Woman (Shohei Imamura, 1963)
The Illiac Passion (Gregory Markopoulos, 1964-7)
Inauguration of the Pleasure Dome (Kenneth Anger, 1954)
INSIDE/OUT (Rob Tregenza) *1/2
INSPIRED BY BACH: CELLO SUITE NO.1 THE MUSIC GARDEN (Kevin McMahon)
INSPIRED BY BACH: CELLO SUITE NO.2 THE SOUND OF THE CARCERI (François Girard)
INSPIRED BY BACH: CELLO SUITE NO.3 FALLING DOWN STAIRS (Barbara Willis Sweete)
INSPIRED BY BACH: CELLO SUITE NO.4 SARABANDE (Atom Egoyan)
INTIMATE RELATIONS (Philip Goodhew) **1/2
INSPIRATIONS (Michael Apted) **
IRMA VEP (Olivier Assayas) ***1/2

JACKIE BROWN (Quentin Tarantino) ***
THE JAMES GANG (Mike Barker, 1998) **1/2
La Jetée (Chris Marker, 1964)
JOHNS (Scott Silver) **
Judex (Georges Franju, 1949)

KAMA SUTRA: A TALE OF LOVE (Mira Nair) **
KEEP COOL (Zhang Yimou) ***
KEEP THE ASPIDISTRA FLYING (Robert Bierman) ***
The Kingdom (Lars von Trier)
KISSED (Lynne Stopkewich) **
KOLYA (Jan Sverak) ***

L.A. CONFIDENTIAL (Curtis Hanson) ***1/2
The Last Seduction (John Dahl, 1994)
LEO TOLSTOY'S ANNA KARENINA (Bernard Rose) **1/2
LOST HIGHWAY (David Lynch) **
LOVE GOD (Frank Grow) *
LOVE SERENADE (Shirley Barrett) **1/2
Lysis (Gregory Markopoulos, 1947-8)

M (Fritz Lang)
MABOROSI (Hirokazu Kore-eda) (1995) ***1/2
MADAGASCAR SKIN (Chris Newby, 1995) **1/2
A Man Vanishes (Shohei Imamura)
MARGARET'S MUSEUM (Mort Ransen, 1996) ***
Marianne (Benoit Jacquot)
MARQUISE (Véra Belmont, 1998) **
Medea (Lars von Trier, 1988)
MEN IN BLACK (Barry Sonnenfeld) **1/2
Metropolis (Archival Print) (Fritz Lang, 1926)
MIDNIGHT IN THE GARDEN OF GOOD AND EVIL (Clint Eastwood) **1/2
Ming Green (Gregory Markopoulos, 1966)
THE MIRROR (Jafar Panahi) ***
A MOMENT OF INNOCENCE (Mohsen Makhmalbaf, 1996) ****
Monsieur Hire (Patrice Leconte)
Monsieur Hulot's Holiday (Jacques Tati, 1953)
MOTHER AND SON (Alexandr Sokurov) ***1/2
MRS. BROWN (John Madden) **1/2
MRS. DALLOWAY (Marleen Gorris, 1998) **1/2
MY BEST FRIEND'S WEDDING (P.J. Hogan) ***

NELLY ET M. ARNAUD (Claude Sautet) ***1/2
Nosferatu - A Symphony of Horror (F.W. Murnau, 1921)
Nosferatu The Vampyre (Werner Herzog, 1978)

OFFICE KILLER (Cindy Sherman) *
ONE NIGHT STAND (Mike Figgis) **
ORGAZMO (Trey Parker, 1998) ***
Orpheus (Jean Cocteau, 1950)
THE OTHER SIDE OF SUNDAY (Berit Nesheim, 1996) ***1/2

PARADISE LOST: CHILD MURDERS AT ROBIN HOOD HILLS (Joe Berlinger & Bruce Sinofsky,1996) ****
PARIS WAS A WOMAN (Greta Schiller, 1995) **
The Passion of Joan of Arc (Carl-Theodor Dreyer)
Pather Panchali (Satyajit Ray, 1955)
THE PILLOW BOOK (Peter Greenaway, 1996) **1/2
Pigs and Battleships (Shohei Imamura, 1961)
LE POLYGRAPHE (Robert Lepage, 1996) **
PONETTE (Jacques Doillon) ***1/2
The Pornographers (Shohei Imamura, 1966)
THE PORTRAIT OF A LADY (Jane Campion) **1/2
PRETTY VILLAGE, PRETTY FLAME (Srdjan Dragojevic) ***1/2
The Princess Bride (Rob Reiner, 1987)
Princess Yang Kwei Fei (Kenji Mizoguchi, 1955)
PRISONER OF THE MOUNTAINS (Sergei Bodrov) ***1/2
Psyche (Gregory Markopoulos, 1947-8)
Puce Moment (Kenneth Anger, 1949)

Querelle (Rainer Werner Fassbinder, 1983)

REGENERATION (Gillies MacKinnon, 1998) ***
RETURN OF THE JEDI: SPECIAL EDITION (Richard Marquand, 1983) ***
The Rules of the Game (Jean Renoir, 1939)

Sátántangó (Béla Tarr, 1994)
SCARS (James Herbert) *
SCREAM 2 (Wes Craven) **1/2
SCREAM TEEN SCREAM (Joshua Rozensweig, 1995) ***
SEVENTH HEAVEN (Benoit Jacquot) ***
SHALL WE DANCE? (Masayuki Suo) **
SICK: THE LIFE AND DEATH OF BOB FLANAGAN, SUPERMASOCHIST (Kirby Dick) ***1/2
THE SILENCES OF THE PALACE (Moufida Tlatli, 1994) ***
SLING BLADE (Billy Bob Thornton) ***1/2
SMILLA'S SENSE OF SNOW (Bille August) **
THE SPANISH PRISONER (David Mamet) ***
Spetters (Paul Verhoeven, 1980)
STAR WARS: SPECIAL EDITION (George Lucas, 1977) ***1/2
STARSHIP TROOPERS (Paul Verhoeven) *
Statues Also Die (Chris Marker and Alain Resnais, 1953)
subUrbia (Richard Linklater) **1/2
Sunrise (F.W. Murnau, 1927)
Swain (Gregory Markopoulos, 1950)
THE SWEET HEREAFTER (Atom Egoyan) ***1/2
SWEPT FROM THE SEA (Beeban Kidron, 1998) **

Tabu (F.W. Murnau and Robert Flaherty, 1931)
Tampopo (Juzo Itami, 1986)
THE TANGO LESSON (Sally Potter) **1/2
TASTE OF CHERRY
(Abbas Kiarostami) ***
TEMPTRESS MOON (Chen Kaige) **
THE TEMPTATION (Barbary Sass, 1995) **
THIEVES (Andre Téchiné) ****
Through a Lens Brightly: Mark Turbyfill (Gregory Markopoulos, 1967)
TITANIC (James Cameron) ***
Twice a Man (Gregory Markopoulos, 1963)

Ugetsu (Kenji Mizoguchi, 1953)
UNCUT (John Greyson) **1/2
UNDERGROUND (Emir Kusturica) ****

VISITING DESIRE (Beth B.) **1/2

WAITING FOR GUFFMAN (Christopher Guest) ***
Walkabout (Restored Director's Cut) (Nicolas Roeg, 1971)
WASHINGTON SQUARE (Agnieszka Holland) ***
WELCOME TO SARAJEVO (Michael Winterbottom) **
WHEN WE WERE KINGS (Leon Gast) ***
Where is the Friend's Home?
(Abbas Kiarostami, 1987)
THE WINGS OF THE DOVE (Iain Softley) ***1/2
WINTERSLEEPERS (Tom Twyker) **1/2
The World of Apu (Satyajit Ray, 1959)

Yeelen (Souleymane Cissé, 1987)

Zentropa (Lars von Trier, 1991)
Zéro de Conduite (Jean Vigo, 1946)
ZEROo KELVIN (Hans Petter Moland, 1995) ***


 

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