October 2015 Viewing Tally

22 October 2015

Last updated: 1 November.

39 features, 59 shorts/medium-lengths,
95 at the cinema, nine rewatches
+ one television series (one season)

Cinema viewings are italicised
06. Coloured dates are celluloid projections
Rewatches are marked #
The top five first-time viewings of the month are marked
          Shorts are indented
For an explanation of ratings, see below

06.     Prelude. David Fidalgo Omil 2015 6/10
06.     Cruz Piñón. Xisela Franco 2015 7/10
06.     Hyohakusha Caminante Sin…. Xisela Franco and
          Anxela Caramés 2015 7/10
06.     Unary. Luis Avilés 2015 6/10
06.     Hotel Straussberg. Jan Soldat 2014 4/10
06.     Teenland. Marie Grahtø Sørensen 2014 4/10
06.     Kacey Mottet Klein, Birth of an Actor.
          Ursula Meier 2015 7/10
06.     Rorschach #1: Points of Authority.
          Marcos Nine 2015 7/10
06.     Volontè. Marcos Flórez, Elena Girón, Rafa Mallo,
          Roberto Mallo, Miguel Prado, Lucas Vásquez de la Rubia
          and Lucía Vilela 2015 6/10
06.     The Sunne Always Shineth Upon Me.
          Álvaro Fernández-Pulpeiro 2015 7/10 #
06.     Discovery of Americo. Miguel Mariño 2015 7/10
06.     Brain Story. Borja Santomé 2015 6/10
06.     Agility Test. Jaione Camborda 2015 6/10
07. Vanishing Sail. Alexis Andrews 2015 6/10
07. The Sky Trembles and the Earth Is Afraid and the Two
          Eyes Are Not Brothers. Ben Rivers 2015 6/10
07.     The. Billy Roisz and Dieter Kovačič 2015 6/10
07.     Embargo. Johann Lurf 2015 8/10 #
07.     Liquid Casket / Wilderness of Mirrors.
          Paul Clipson 2014 7/10
07.     Resistfilm. Pablo Marín 2014 7/10
07.     sound of a million insects, light of a thousand stars.
          Tomonari Nishikawa 2014 7/10 #
07.     Moon Blink. Rainer Kohlberger 2015 7/10
07.     Landscape With Broken Dog. Orazio Leogrande 2014 6/10
07.     Swimming In Your Skin Again. Terence Nance 2015 3/10
07.     Sin Dios ni Santa Maria. Helena Girón Vásquez 2015 5/10
07.     Atlantis. Ben Russell 2014 4/10 #
09. Men and Chicken. Anders Thomas Jensen 2015 5/10
10. The Apostate. Federico Veiroj 2015 6/10
10. Neon Bull. Gabriel Mascaro 2015 6/10
11. Banat. Adriano Valerio 2015 5/10
11. New World. Elżbieta Benkowska, Łukasz Ostalski and
          Michał Wawrzecki 6/10
12. Hel. Katia Priwieziencew and Paweł Tarasiewicz 5/10
12. Kings of Nowhere. Betzabé García 2015 7/10
13. Corpse Collector. Dimitar Dimitov 2015 3/10
14. Night Shift. Niki Karimi 2015 3/10
22.     Raumzeithund. Nikolaus Eckhard 2010 7/10
22.     Déjeuner du chat. Cinématographe Lumière 1896 n/a
22.     Famille de jeunes chiens. Gaumont 1912 n/a
22.     Les chiens savants. Pathé Frères 1907 n/a
22.     Dog Factory. Edwin S. Porter 1904 n/a
22.     A Little Hero. George Nichols 1913 7/10
22.     King-Size Canary. Tex Avery 1947 7/10
22.     Cat's Cradle. Stan Brakhage 1959 7/10
22.     Spelling Lesson. William Wegman 1974 7/10
22.     Dog Duet. William Wegman 1976 7/10
22.     Dog Baseball. William Wegman 1986 7/10
22.     A Close Shave. Nick Park 1995 7/10
22.     Nine Lives: The Eternal Moment of Now.
          Jay Rosenblatt 2001 7/10
22.     Chat écoutant la musique. Chris Marker 1990 6/10
22.     Trash Cat. Kelsey Goldych 2015 6/10
22.     L'Hippocampe, ou 'Cheval marin'.
          Jean Painlevé 1934 7/10
22. Mon Oncle D'Amerique. Alain Resnais 1980 7/10
23. A Most Violent Year. JC Chandor 2014 6/10
23.     Dark Forests. Stéphane Breton 2014 6/10
23.     Claude Lanzmann: Spectres of the Shoah.
          Adam Benzine 2015 5/10 #
23. A Useful Life. Federico Veiroj 2010 6/10
23. And When I Die, I Won't Stay Dead: Bob Kaufman, Poet.
          Billy Woodberry 2015 6/10
23.     In, Over and Out. Sebastian Brameshuber 2015 7/10
23. 88:88. Isaiah Medina 2015 3/10
24.     Xiao Kang. Tsai Ming-liang 2015 5/10
24. Carol. Todd Haynes 2015 5/10
24.     Going to Work. Anne Charlotte Robertson 1981 6/10
24.     Locomotion. Anne Charlotte Robertson 1981 6/10
24.     Apologies. Anne Charlotte Robertson 1986 8/10
24.     My Cat, My Garden, 9/11. Anne Charlotte Robertson
          2001 7/10
24. The Treasure. Corneliu Porumboiu 2015 8/10 #
24.     Le Chenille de la Carotte. Pathé Frères 1910 n/a
24.     La Peine du tallon. Gaston Velle 1906 n/a
24. Phase IV. Saul Bass 1974 7/10
25. Acne. Federico Veiroj 2008 7/10
25.     Mysteries of the Deep. Ben Sharpsteen 1959 8/10
25. Godzilla. Ishiro Honda 6/10
26. Mountains May Depart. Jia Zhang-ke 2015 6/10
26.     Une fée... pas comme les autres. Jean Taurane 1957 7/10
26.     Cane Toads: An Unnatural History.
          Mark Lewis 1988 8/10
26.     Cheese Mites. Charles Urban 1903 n/a
26.     The Unclean World. Perct Stow 1903 n/a
26.     The Strength and Agility of Insects. Percy Smith 1911 n/a
26.     Les Mouches. Eclipse-Urbanora 1913 n/a
26. The Fly. David Cronenberg 1986 10/10 #
27. Spotlight. Tom McCarthy 2015 9/10
27. The Defiant Ones. Stanley Kramer 1958 8/10
27. Los actos cotidianos. Raúl Perrone 2010 5/10
27. The Lobster. Yorgos Lanthimos 2015 3/10
27. The Event. Sergei Loznitsa 2015 7/10
27. Tangerine. Sean Baker 2014 6/10
28. Samuray-S. Raúl Perrone 2015 3/10
29. In Jackson Heights. Frederick Wiseman 2015 7/10
29. Graciadó. Raúl Perrone 1997 5/10
29.     Last Lost. Eve Heller 1996 6/10
29. Koko, the Talking Gorilla. Barbet Schroeder 1978 7/10
29. The Hitch-Hiker. Ida Lupino 1953 7/10
30. Spectre. Sam Mendes 2015 4/10
30.     Tiere ohne Feind und Furcht. Michael Grzimek 1954 8/10
30. A Zed and Two Noughts. Peter Greenaway 1985 5/10 #
30.     Glimpses of Bird Life. Oliver Pike 1910 n/a
30. The Birds. Alfred Hitchcock 1963 9/10 #
31. Babe: Pig in the City. George Miller 1998 7/10
31.     Rat Life and Diet in North America.
          Joyce Wieland 1968 7/10
31. Planet of the Apes. Franklin J. Schaffner 1968 6/10

Also seen:
True Detective Season Two (6/10).

RATINGS
Grades are designed to have a level of flexibility and fluidity. A 7/10 grade, for example, means that at worst I like the film, at best I really like it. A 6/10 means that I liked the film at best, and at worst I had major qualms, but wouldn't say I disliked it. Etc.

10/9 Among best seen; 9/8 Loved it; 8/7 Really liked it; 7/6 Liked it; 6/5 Major qualms, but didn't dislike; 5/4 Disliked it; 4/3 Strongly disliked it; 3/2 Hated it; 2/1 Among worst seen.