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Mayerling 7
Amour (Haneke) What a dissapointment! 6 (so there is tension, but so what)
Before midnight 6 (tired of these dialogues, where are our film language)
Playtime (Tati) 6 (not sure if I like these sound designs)
Orpheus (Jean Cocteau) 8 (masterpiece)
The unbelievable truth (selected by sundance? 1989) 2
The tale of Hoffman (Powell & Pressburger 1951) didn't finish
The browning version (Anthony Asquith, written by Ratigan) 8 Need watch again and again
Murmur of the heart (Malle)
Diabolique (Clouzot) 8 (great intriguing story)
Five easy pieces 8 (great movie need to watch again)
The learning tree
The misfits 7(not bad, better than most hollywood movies - what I mean most is 99.9%)
The conformist
Dark water 7 (horror so what)
Tender mercies 7 (great clean shots all over)
Diva
Giant 7
The silence (bergman) 9 (need to watch once per year, at least)
Through a glass darkly (revisit) (bergman) 7 (lacking things to become masterpiece)
Psycho (Hitchcock) 8
Lenny 8 (better than most hollywood movies)
God bless America 6 (an okay comedy)
Le Corbeau (The raven)7
The last circus 5 (not be able to finish)
Mind of a rampage killer (Dateline show)6
Falling down 7 (masterpiece beginning sequence from 8.5 afterwards just ok)
Bob Hoskins - the lonely passion of Ms. ...6
Ironweed 5 (seriously, Jack and Merryl nominated for best actors?)
Observe and report (okay comedy)
Quai des orfevres 7
To play or to die (spelen of sterven) 7 (50 minutes movie, ends abruptly, need to be a feature length)
look back in anger (screenplay 3 points, directing: 8 points) 5
Il Bidone (Fellini) 7 One of the worst Fellini's works
Intervista (Fellini) 8
Billy liar 7
To the wonder (Malick) 4 Worst Malick movie so far
Lust for life (Vicente) 6 so so

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Taking off (Milos Forman) 7 Milos is great!
The damned (Rene Clement)
City light (choplin) 8
Variety (E. A. Dupont) 8 Need watch again
Maya Deren's experiment shorts 7 need watch again
Pieta (Kim Ki Don?) 7
Gervaise (Rene Clement) 8 (great white black movie)

Jean Renoir's collection:
Whirlpool of fate
Nana
Charleston Parade
The little match girl 6 (so so, some montages are nice)
La Marseillaise
The doctor's horrible experiment
The elusive Corporal

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The crowd (king vidor) 8 (need watch again, masterpiece)
Berlin, a symphony of a great city 8 (great shots)
The arsenal (dovzhenko) 8 (great shots)
A hijacking 5 (very so so)
The apartment
From here to eternity 8 (one of top hollywood movies)
Osaka Elegy (Kenji Mizoguchi) 7 (great shots)
The blood of a poet (Cocteau) 7 (great shots)

Stagecoach (John Ford) 7 - one of better works of way over-valued John ford
Dog day afternoon (Sidney Lumet) 7
Bringing up baby (Howard Hawk) 8 (surprisingly funny!)
All quiet on the western front
Anatomy of a murder

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Upstream color (not be able to finish)
Big deal at modonna st
Mickey one (Penn) 7
Portrait of Jennie 8 (need watch again) very un-hollywood
Luis bunnuel 2 movies (one is good, the other is terrible)
Gate of hell (7) not crazy about the story)
birds (7)
39 steps (7)
Essential Killing (6, one of the worst polish movies)
The battle of the rail 7
Kind hearts and coronets 7
Senso 7
Richard III (not be able to finish)
Pepe Le Moko 8 MASTERPIECE!
The kids with a bike 6 (Worst film from Darlene brothers)
Hate 8 (tension, intriguing and realistic)
Harold Lloyd Collections (many are very very good!)8
Stalker
The rules of the game 8 (true classic)

City of God 8
Vidas Secas 8 MASTERPIECE!!!
La Roue (the wheel) 8 MASTERPIECE
Michael Powell's films:
A matter of life and death
Age of consent
Alexander Korda's four films:
The private life of Henry III
The rise of Cathrine the great
Rembrandt 8 Really good!
The private life of Don Juan
Double Indemnity 8
Love me tonight (Douben Mamoulien) (Surprisingly good) (8)
The phantom of Carriage 8
Port of shadows(MASTERPIECE!!!!) 9 (a movie that needs to be watched every year like 8 1/2)

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Killer of sheep
Ratcatcher 7
Whisky (Juan Pablo Rebella, Pablo Stoll) 7
Kingdom of children
Le Trou (Jacques Becker) 8
Performance 6 (not intriguing) Maybe need watch again

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Struggling these days.... but still watching movies:

America, America (Elia Kazan) 8 (masterpiece)
Baby Doll (Elia Kazan) 8 (masterpiece)
My perestroika (Robin Hessman) 6
Bronson (Nicholas Winding Refn) 5
And sails goes on (Fellini) 7
On the waterfront (Elia Kazan) 7
East of Eden (Elia Kazan) 7
Gentleman's agreement (Elia Kazan) 7
Sophie Scholl  6
Samsara (Ron Fricke) 7 (Same guy who made Baraka)
Control (Anton Corbjin) 6
Battle in heaven (Carlos Reygadas) 6
Cavalcade (Frank Lloyd)
Sterne (stars) (Conrad Wolf) 7 (there is a reason this didn't win palm odor)
The day the earth stood still (Robert Wise) 6
The firemen's ball (Milos Forman) 8 (oh Milos)
Beau Travail (Clarie Denis) 5

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The wild bunch 7 (a western made in 1996?)
Bloody wedding (Carlos Saura) 6
Kes (ken Roach) 8 (Master piece)
Death of a Cyclist (Juan Antonio Bardem) 7 (the great white black film)
Love (Karoly Makk) 8 (great movie need watch again)
Last year in Marienbad (Alain Resnais) Revisit 7
Maborosi (Hirokazu Koreeda)7
Pickup on South Street 6
This must be the place (paulo sorentino)7
Long weekend in pest and buda (Karoly Makk) 6
Antonieta (Carlos Sauna) 6
Werchmeister Harmonies (Bela Tarr) 7
Lost in Beijing (LI Yu) 7
Pandora's box (Georg Wilhelm Pabst) 7
L'ATALANTE (Jean Vigo) 8
Simon of the desert (Luis Bunuel) 7
The milky way (Luis Bunuel) 7
An american in Paris 6
The exterminating angel (Luis Bunuel) 8 (masterpiece)
Chungking express (Wong Kar Wai) 7
Days of being wild (Wong Kar Wai) 7
To live (Kurosawa) 8 (MASTERPIECE!)
A clockwork orange (kubrick) (revisit) 7
Another way (Karoly Makk) 6
Long day's journey into night (Sidney Lumet)7
The pawnbroker (Sidney Lumet) 8 close to masterpiece)
The history of Adele H (Truffaut) 6

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The wounds (Srdjan Dragojevic) 7
The spirit of the beehive (Victor Erice) 8 Masterpiece!
Loves of a blonde (Milos Forman) 7 
Goodbye Dragon inn (Cai ming liang) 6
Venus Noire (Keniche) 6
The secrets of the grain (Keniche) 7
La Jetee (Chris Marker) 8 (need watch again)
Sans Soleil (Chris Marker) 7
eyes wide open (Haim Tabakman) 6

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Pina (Wim Wenders) 6
Blue (Kieslowski) (revisit) 8
A short film about killing (Kieslowski) 7
The merchant of four seasons (Fassbinder)
The wrong man (Hitchcock) 7
The elephant man (David Lynch) 7
Pather Panchali (Satyajit Ray)
The fire within (Louis Malle) 8  (masterpiece)
Hands over the city (Francesco Rosi)
Vivie L'amour (Cai Mingliang)
My life to live (Godard) 7

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Holy motors (leos Carax) 7
Three colors: White (Kieslowski) 8
Taxi Driver (Scorsese) 8
Argo (ben) 7
Lincoln (Spielberg) 7
Cloud Atlas (Tykwer, wachoski) 7
Skyfall (Sam Mendes) 5 What a junk! Can you believe he made american beauty ? talking about falling!

The mystery (Lou Ye) (Chinese name: fuchengmishi) 7
神探亨特张 （高群书）7

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Sunrise (F.W. Murnau)
Nostalghia (Andrei Tarkovski) 8
The Master (Paul Thomos Anderson) 7
Bad boy bubby 5
Rebel without a cause (Nicholas Ray) 5
Pola X (Leos Carax) 7

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The night of the hunter 7

The mirror (Tarkovski) 8

Mouchette (Bresson) 8
Children of paradise 8
Dog days 8
The skin I lived in (Almodovar) 3
what a terrible movie! And it's from Pedro!

Ordering through request it denver library:

Faust

Twenty nine palms

La Dentelliere (not coming, cancelled by the library)

Triumph over violence

Sunrise: a song of two humans

Nostalghia (Tarkovski) 

Mother Joan of the angels

only got these two

Nostalghia (Tarkovski)  7 

Mother Joan of the angels 7

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I hope I can finish all these plus a lot of more of previous due by the end of February!

Late Spring (Ozu)
The circle
Padre Padrone (Paolo and Vittorio Taviani)
Children of heaven (Majid)
Heimat, a chronicle of Germany (Disk 1-3)
The wind will carry us (Abbas) 8
My mother's smile (Marco Bellocchio)
Babette's feast (Gabriel Axel)
Mishima, a life in four chapters (Paul Schrader)
Perfume, the story of a murderer (Tom Tykwer) This movie is unbearably bad, I can't finish.
Army of shadows (Jean Pierre Melville) 8
In the mood for love (revisit) (Wang Jiawei) 8 Masterpiece is masterpiece.
French lieutenant's woman (Karel Reitz) 6 Doesn't struck me as much as before.
Quest for fire
Manufactured landscapes
Indochine 7 The second half is better than first half
Subway 8 Seriously? it's better than Leon!
Heaven (Tom Tykwer) 7
In the realm of senses 7
War witch 7
Amarcord
Ballad of a soldier
Red circle
Ossessione (Lucino Visconti) 7
Fame
Autumn afternoon
Seppuku
Dersu Uzala 7 (Kurosawa)

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All that heaven allows (Douglas Sirk) 8
Hugo (Scorsese)  6
Scrarecrow (revisit)
Network (revisit) 7
The Vanishing (1988? first version) 7
Brief encounter (revisit) 7
The wind that shakes the barley (revisit)
Sunday bloody Sunday 8 (surprised! and impressed)
25 Firemans Street 6
Mephisto 8
Merry christmas, Mr. Lawrence (Nagisa Oshima) 6
The turin horse (7)
L'Atalante 8 WOW it is made in 1930!
The searchers (John Ford) 3 - I give it 3 points only because it was shot in monument valley. Otherwise 0 point.
Thin red line (revisit) 6 - doesn't strike me as before
Elepant (gus van cant) (revisit) 8 (still a masterpiece)
Paths of glory (Kubrick) 8
Empire of passion (Nagisa Oshima) 8 so far it's his best work

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The Denver library "request it" system got 30% of the 60 DVDs George and I requested. The other 70% was cancelled.

We got the following:
The return (Andrey Zvyagintsev ) 7
Man of Iron (Andzjei Wajda) 8
First name: Carmen
Minnie and Moskowitz 7 (one of casavettes's weaker movies)
The Marquise of O
Electra, my love
Little fugitive (7)
The stolen children
Gloria (John Casavettes) 7
The knack and how to get it
Johnny got his gun 7
Faraway, so close!
Fantastic planet 7
Ashes and Diamonds 8 Masterpiece!
Vagabond (Agnès Varda) 7
A world apart
Three complete classic of the soviet avant-garde (earth, chess fever, the end of St. peterburg)
The red and the white 7 (an interesting movie)
Artists under the big top: perplexed (another title: The artist in the circus dome: confused)
Wanda 7
Urga
Red Psalm (DVD not working)
Dust in the wind (lian lian feng chen) (Hou Xiao Xian) (in a VHS tape!) Couldn't play in correct aspect ratio.
Rosetta (Dardenne brothers) 8
Greed in the sun (finally the library bought it since there are other requests)

(They also sent Sergei Parajanov's The shadow of our ancestors and Wim Wenders's The state of things" in VHS format)