July 2015
My viewing log. All the films (listed at IMDb) I've seen during this month.
Also, films NOT listed at IMDb (as of yet):
..Ko naju več ne bo... (Florijan Skubic, 2006, sh) - 7/10 (FF)
Vlomilci delajo poleti (Roman Končar, 2010, TV) - 5/10 (FF)
Bayreuth: From Myth to Modernity (Michael Kloft, 2008, doc) - 7/10 (FF)
Verdi's Backyard (Sergej Grguric, 2012, doc) - 7/10 (FF)
Notes:
TV = TV viewing
OL = online viewing
R = Recommended (8-10/10)
FF = For Fanatics Only (5-7/10)
P = Pass (1-4/10)
Also, films NOT listed at IMDb (as of yet):
..Ko naju več ne bo... (Florijan Skubic, 2006, sh) - 7/10 (FF)
Vlomilci delajo poleti (Roman Končar, 2010, TV) - 5/10 (FF)
Bayreuth: From Myth to Modernity (Michael Kloft, 2008, doc) - 7/10 (FF)
Verdi's Backyard (Sergej Grguric, 2012, doc) - 7/10 (FF)
Notes:
TV = TV viewing
OL = online viewing
R = Recommended (8-10/10)
FF = For Fanatics Only (5-7/10)
P = Pass (1-4/10)
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- DirectorRaúl RuizStarsJean RougeulChantal PaleyJean RaynaudTwo narrators, one seen and one unseen, discuss possible connections between a series of paintings. The on-screen narrator walks through three-dimensional reproductions of each painting, featuring real people, sometimes moving, in an effort to explain the series' significance.OL, 7/1/15. 9/10 (R).
- DirectorChuck JonesStarsMel BlancJohn T. SmithThis adventure takes Bugs into the world of professional wrestling.OL, 7/1/15. 8/10 (R).
- DirectorKåre BergstrømRados NovakovicStarsMilan MilosevicMilivoje ZivanovicAntun NalisYugoslav Partisans, captured by Germans, are sent to concentration camps in distant Norway. The local population helps some Partisans survive or flee to neutral Sweden.OL, 7/1/15. 6/10 (FF).
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Saw it under the title 'Blodveien' (a Norwegian 'version' of this international co-production, I guess). - DirectorByamba SakhyaStarsYondonjamts Bayan OchirSodbileg BayarsanaaGanbaatar ChagnaadorjA runaway living on a rooftop in Ulaanbaatar, Tsog survives by selling milk and retreating into his vivid imaginary world. When he notices a lonely woman living in the building next door, he imagines he has found a kindred spirit and embarks on a mission to intertwine their fates.TV, 7/1/15. 7/10 (FF).
- DirectorJosh BooneStarsGreg KinnearJennifer ConnellyLily CollinsAn acclaimed writer, his ex-wife, and their teenaged children come to terms with the complexities of love in all its forms over the course of one tumultuous year.TV, 7/1/15. 6.5/10 (FF).
- DirectorGábor BódyStarsSándor CsutorosGyörgy CserhalmiAndrás FeketeThe film commemorates the Hungarian emigration of the forties. Its history takes place in the last days of the American Civil War and shows the different fates of three different characters, the rationalist, the fatalist and the romantic.OL, 7/2/15. 8.5/10 (R).
- DirectorChristoph SchaubStarsAlexandra Maria LaraSebastian BlombergGeorg FriedrichLife could be wonderful for Livia and Marco: they are good-looking, young, and the parents of Tim. He is nine months old and his high-pitched wailing is wearing their patience thinner by the night. And this when he was actually supposed to be repairing his parents' troubled relationship. Instead of sleep, or sleeping with each other, Livia and Marco now get up every night, get dressed, and climb into their rattling old Golf, the motor noise of which is the only thing that calms Tim. One night the inconceivable occurs. A petty criminal rocker and his date pinch the car - and with it the child. Tim may be able to sleep on in peace but his parents are racked by fear and anxiety. This is the start of a mad hunt through the night marked by screams, silence, high speeds, sharp braking and changes of direction. Will the day indeed bring about a new direction for Livia, Marco and Tim?TV, 7/2/15. 8/10 (R).
- DirectorCecil B. DeMilleStarsElliott DexterGloria SwansonLew CodyLeila Porter comes to dislike her husband James, a glue king who is always eating onions and looking sloppy. But after she divorces him and marries two-timing playboy Schuyler Van Sutphen the now-reformed James looks pretty good.OL, 7/3/15. 8/10 (R).
- DirectorFred WolfStarsAnna FarisColin HanksEmma StoneAfter Playboy bunny Shelley is kicked out of the Playboy Mansion, she finds a job as the house mother for a sorority full of socially awkward girls.TV, 7/3/15. 5/10 (FF).
- DirectorNeal BrennanStarsMikey DayDominique SwainChris KattanA spoof of 1980s teen movies.TV, 7/3/15. 5.5/10 (FF).
- DirectorAsh ChristianStarsTobias SegalThora BirchChristine LahtiThe story of a family whose growth is stunted... a family that learns how to love themselves while loving each other (a little too much).TV, 7/4/15. 6.5/10 (FF).
- DirectorJohn SchultzStarsJordana BeattyHeather GrahamParris MostellerThird grader Judy Moody sets out to have the most thrilling summer of her life.TV, 7/4/15. 6/10 (FF).
- DirectorPeter HyamsStarsGregory HinesBilly CrystalSteven BauerTwo street-wise Chicago cops have to shake off some rust after returning from a Key West vacation to pursue a drug dealer who nearly killed them in the past.TV, 7/4/15. 6/10 (FF).
- DirectorMikko KuparinenStarsMikko NousiainenJarkko NiemiKari SorvaliStigu and Ella have a just-sex relationship. Stigu is secretly in love but settles for what he can get because Ella wants nothing more. Until they find themselves in a same work project: designing an advertisement for the Family Federation on sustainable relationships. It seems like mission impossible since Ella doesn't believe in the whole concept and Stigu knows nothing about it.TV, 7/4/15. 7/10 (FF).
- DirectorJoe WrightStarsSaoirse RonanCate BlanchettEric BanaA sixteen-year-old girl who was raised by her father to be the perfect assassin is dispatched on a mission across Europe, tracked by a ruthless intelligence agent and her operatives.TV, 7/4/15. 7.5/10 (R).
- DirectorReginald HudlinStarsEddie MurphyRobin GivensHalle BerryA successful executive and womanizer finds his lifestyle choices have turned back on him when his new female boss turns out to be an even bigger deviant than he is.TV, 7/5/15. 5/10 (FF).
- DirectorJohn BoultingStarsRobert DonatMaria SchellRenée AshersonA chronicle of the life of William Friese-Greene, a British inventor and early pioneer in cinema.TV, 7/5/15. 7/10 (FF).
- DirectorElizabeth BanksSteven BrillSteve CarrStarsEmma StoneStephen MerchantRichard GereA series of interconnected short films follows a washed-up producer as he pitches insane story lines featuring some of the biggest stars in Hollywood.TV, 7/5/15. 6.5/10 (FF).
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(from IMDb Trivia) "The framing device was initially supposed to involve three teenagers going on a treasure hunt to find the mysterious Movie 43 of the plot and the rest of the segments would be featured as what the characters thought was it but wasn't. The version of the film released in the UK retains this device instead of the 'movie producer' version."
I saw this 'version'. - DirectorJeff LowellStarsEva LongoriaPaul RuddLake BellA ghost tries to sabotage her former boyfriend's current relationship with a psychic.TV, 7/6/15. 5/10 (FF).
- DirectorAntonio TibaldiStarsMatthew FergusonJudy DavisDavid McIlwraithSimon Henderson is at boarding school in Canada while his father works in Hong Kong, and his mother lives in England. When his parents visit him in the holidays, Simon discovers that his mother has schizophrenia.TV, 7/6/15. 6.5/10 (FF).
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Shown under the title 'On My Own' in Croatia (on HRT 1). - DirectorYasujirô OzuStarsTokihiko OkadaEmiko YagumoHideo SugawaraA married Tokyo man faces unemployment after standing up for an older colleague.OL, 7/7/15. 9/10 (R).
- DirectorVelimir StojanovicStarsRade MarkovicRadomir 'Rasa' PlaovicVaso PerisicAn historical film based on the struggle of the Montenegrians for their independence.Orig. title: Lažni car.
OL, 7/7/15. 8/10 (R). - DirectorColin StrauseGreg StrauseStarsReiko AylesworthSteven PasqualeShareeka EppsWarring Alien and Predator races descend on a rural Colorado town, where unsuspecting residents must band together for any chance of survival.TV, 7/7/15. 5/10 (FF).
- DirectorZach BraffStarsZach BraffPeter SarsgaardNatalie PortmanA quietly troubled young man returns home for his mother's funeral after being estranged from his family for a decade.TV, 7/7/15. 6.5/10 (FF).
- DirectorKároly MakkGyörgy HintschStarsJános GörbeIrén PsotaMargit BaraA returned prisoner of war, his pretty new wife and his first wife's hunchbacked sister live together in a small isolated house, but none of them can find happiness.OL, 7/8/15. 8/10 (R).