Movie Journal - 2012

Color guide:
Theatrical screening
Non-theatrical screening (DVD, etc.)
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Bill Cunningham New York (Richard Press, 84 m) - 1/4
Conan O'Brien Can't Stop (Rodman Flender, 89 m) - 1/5
A Separation (Asghar Farhadi, 123 m) - 1/11
Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol (Brad Bird, 133 m) - 1/12
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (Tomas Alfredson, 127 m) - 1/13
Melancholia (Lars von Trier, 136 m) - 1/18
Carnage (Roman Polanski, 79 m) - 1/19
Certified Copy (Abbas Kiarostami, 106 m) - 1/19
Rise of the Planet of the Apes (Rupert Wyatt, 105 m) - 1/20
The Adventures of Tintin (Steven Spielberg, 107 m) - 1/21
Fright Night (Craig Gillespie, 106 m) - 1/21
The Arbor (Clio Barnard, 94 m) - 1/23
War Horse (Steven Spielberg, 146 m) - 1/24
Tuesday, After Christmas (Radu Muntean, 99 m) - 1/28
Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives (Apichatpong Weerasethakul,114 m) - 1/28
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (David Fincher, 158 m) - 1/30

Poetry (Chang-dong Lee, 139 m) - 2/2
The Woman in Black (James Watkins, 95 m) - 2/13
Another Earth (Mike Cahill, 92 m) - 2/21
Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close (Stephen Daldry, 129 m) - 2/22
Iron Lady (Phyllida Lloyd, 105 m) - 2/24
Albert Nobbs (Rodrigo García, 113 m) - 2/25

Pina 3D (Wim Wenders, 103 m) - 3/8
Shame (Steve McQueen, 101 m) - 3/8
Jeff, Who Lives at Home (Jay & Mark Duplass, 83 m) - 3/19
Casablanca (Michael Curtiz, 102 m) - 3/21
The Hunger Games (Gary Ross, 142 m) - 3/24
The Hunger Games (Gary Ross, 142 m) - 3/30
21 Jump Street (Phil Lord & Chris Miller, 109 m) - 3/31

Mine (Geralyn Pezanoski, 80 m) - 4/1
Justin Bieber: Never Say Never - Director's Fan Cut (Jon M. Chu, 115 m) - 4/6
Today's Special (David Kaplan, 99 m) - 4/7

Calendar Girls (Nigel Cole, 108 m) - 4/11
Stuffed (Arwen Curry & Cerissa Tanner, 21 m) - 4/11

FFF Shorts Program #1: It Takes Two - 4/14
-High Maintenance (Shawn Wines, 17 m)
-L Train (Anna Musso, 11 m)
-Christmas is Ruined (Andrew Putschoegl, 8.5 m)
-The Other Side (Khen Shalem, 22 m)
-Jim & Frank (Tony Borden, 4 m)
-Mouthful (Robert G. Putka, 10.5 m)
-Queen (Adam Rose, 22.5 m)

FFF Shorts Program #2: Ain't That Peculiar - 4/14
-Narcocorrido (Ryan Prows, 23 m)
-A Son Like You (Jason Kohl, 8 m)
-Glue Man (Joe Pickett, 7 m)
-Say Goodnight (Carlos Marques-Marcet, 4 m)
-I Am John Wayne (Christina Choe, 17.5 m)
-Burials (Zachary Volker, 5 m)
-What Is This Night! (Ben Matthew Empey, 8.5 m)
-Nani (Justin Tipping, 21 m)

See Girl Run (Nate Meyer, 89 m) - 4/14
The Op Shop (Lee Rogers, 7 m) - 4/14
Turn Me On, Dammit! (Jannicke Systad Jacobsen, 76 m) - 4/14

FFF Midnight Shorts - 4/14
-Lazarov (Nietov, 5 m)
-One Minute Puberty (Alexander Gellner, 1.5 m)
-Curtain (Dennis Widmyer, 13 m)
-A Short Film (Rick Williamson, 2.5 m)
-Made You Cringe (Danny and Simone Dresden, 1.5 m)
-All Men Are Called Robert (Marc-Henri Boulier, 6 m)
-Moxie (Stephen Irwin, 6 m)
-Laser Blasters (T. Arthur Cottam, 1.5 m)
-Pickle (Oliver Clark & Blair MacDonald, 13 m)
-Vacuum Attraction (Morgan Miller, 4 m)
-The Virgin Herod (Xander Robin, 8 m)
-Machines of the Worlking Class (James Dastoli & Robert Dastoli, 2 m)
-The Coldest Caller (Joe Tucker, 4 m)
-Dickface (Thomas Seeberg Torjussen & Eric Vogel, 1.5 m)
-Brutal Relax (Adrian Cardona, Rafa Dengra, & David Munoz, 15 m)

The Joseph Szabo Project (David Khachatorian & George P. Pozderec, 15 m) - 4/15
Salaam Dunk (David Fine, 82 m) - 4/15
Dog Years (Warren Sroka & Brent Willis, 84 m) - 4/16
The Salt of Life (Gianni Di Gregorio, 90 m) - 4/17
The Brooklyn Brothers Beat the Best (Ryan O'Nan, 97 m) - 4/17
Kid-Thing (David Zellner, 83 m) - 4/18
The Lady (Luc Besson, 132 m) - 4/18
Girl Model (David Redmon & Ashley Sabin, 78 m) - 4/19
Your Sister's Sister (Lynn Shelton, 90 m) - 4/19
Think of Me (Bryan Wizemann, 103 m) - 4/20
I Wish (Hirokazu Koreeda, 128 m) - 4/20

FFF International Animated Shorts - 4/21
-Things You'd Better Not Mix Up (Joost Lieuwma, 2 m)
-The Last Norwegian Troll (Pjotr Sapegin, 13 m)
-Abiogenesis (Richard Mans, 5 m)
-Luminaris (Juan Pablo Zaramella, 6.5 m)
-Espantapájaros (Blanca Esteve, 1.5 m)
-A Morning Stroll (Grant Orchard, 7 m)
-Bride Can (Ronak Taher, 7 m)
-The Maker (Christopher Kezelos, 5 m)
-The Holy Chicken of Life and Music (Nomint, 3 m)
-Venus (Tor Fruergaard, 8 m)
-Prita Noire (Sofia Carrillo, 8 m)
-Robots of Brixton (Kibwe Tavares, 5.5 m)
-The Goat and The Well (Ben Cady, 5 m)
-The Gloaming (Nobrain, 14 m)

FFF Shorts Program #5: Animated Shorts - 4/21
-Fresh Guacamole (PES, 1.5 m)
-The Flying House (Winsor McCay & Bill Plympton, 8.5 m)
-(notes on) biology (Ornana, 6 m)
-38–39°C (Kangmin Kim, 8 m)
-Another Dress, Another Button (Lyn Elliot, 3 m)
-Miss Devine (Mike Rauch & Tim Rauch, 3.5 m)
-Cadaver (Jonah D. Ansell, 8 m)
-Flowers for Jupiter (Chris Mars, 6 m)
-Summer Bummer (Bill Plympton, 2 m)
-Dr. Breakfast (Stephen Neary, 7 m)
-Tales of Mere Existence: "Random Observations About Sex" & "Sick of This" (Lev Yilmaz, 6 m)
-Floyd the Android - "Dim Bulb" (Jonathan Lyons, 2 m)
-Reddish Brown and Blueish Green (Samantha Gurry, 3 m)
-Bedtime for Timmy (Thomas Nicol & Becky Griesheimer, 3 m)
-It's Such a Beautiful Day (Don Hertzfeldt, 23 m)

First Position (Bess Kargman, 90 m) - 4/22
Up There (Zam Salim, 80 m) - 4/22
The Daytrippers (Greg Mottola, 87 m) - 4/24
Band of Outsiders (Jean-Luc Godard, 95 m) - 4/25
Grey Gardens (Ellen Hovde, Alberts Maysles, David Maysles, & Muffie Meyer, 100 m) - 4/25
Dragnet (Tom Mankiewicz, 106 m) - 4/26
Casablanca (Michael Curtiz, 102 m) - 4/26
The Five-Year Engagement (Nicholas Stoller, 124 m) - 4/28
Dogtown and Z-Boys (Stacy Peralta, 91 m) - 4/28

Guy and Madeline on a Park Bench (Damien Chazelle, 82 m) - 5/2
The Avengers (Joss Whedon, 143 m) - 5/5
The Cabin in the Woods (Drew Goddard, 95 m) - 5/7
Damsels in Distress (Whit Stillman, 99 m) - 5/8
Dark Shadows (Tim Burton, 113 m) - 5/12
The Kid With a Bike (Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne, 87 m) - 5/14
Footloose (Craig Brewer, 113 m) - 5/18
My Dinner with Andre (Louis Malle, 110 m) - 5/29

Snow White and the Huntsman (Rupert Sanders, 127 m) - 6/4
The U.S. vs John Lennon (David Leaf & John Scheinfeld, 99 m) - 6/9
Prometheus (Ridley Scott, 124 m) - 6/11
Prometheus 3D (Ridley Scott, 124 m) - 6/15
Bernie (Richard Linklater, 104 m) - 6/16
Rock of Ages (Adam Shankman, 123 m) - 6/18
Battle Royale (Kinji Fukasaku, 114 m) - 6/22
Brave (Mark Andrews, 100 m) - 6/25
Moonrise Kingdom (Wes Anderson, 94 m) - 6/28
Magic Mike (Steven Soderbergh, 110 m) - 6/30

Barcelona (Whit Stillman, 101 m) - 7/4 
The Amazing Spider-Man 3D (Marc Webb, 136 m) - 7/6
To Rome With Love (Woody Allen, 102 m) - 7/8
The Amazing Spider-Man (Marc Webb, 136 m) - 7/11
Ted (Seth MacFarlane, 106 m) - 7/11
Ordinary People (Robert Redford, 124 m) - 7/16
The Queen of Versailles - (Lauren Greenfield, 100 m) - 7/20
The Dark Knight Rises - (Christopher Nolan, 165 m) - 7/23
The Dark Knight Rises - IMAX (Christopher Nolan, 165 m) - 7/26

Your Sister's Sister (Lynn Shelton, 90 m) - 8/8
Beasts of the Southern Wild (Benh Zeitlin, 93 m) - 8/14
The Bourne Legacy (Tony Gilroy, 135 m) - 8/16
Robot & Frank (Jake Schreier, 90 m) - 8/17
Coal Miner's Daughter (Michael Apted, 125 m) - 8/17 
Pearl Jam Twenty (Cameron Crowe, 109 m) - 8/21
Word Wars (Eric Chaikin & Julian Petrillo, 80 m) - 8/21 
Freakonomics (Heidi Ewing, Alex Gibney, Seth Gordon, Rachel Grady, Eugene Jarecki, & Morgan Spurlock, 133 m) - 8/23 
The Botany of Desire (Michael Schwartz & Edward Gray, 120 m) - 8/23 
The Doors: When You're Strange (Tom DiCillo, 86 m) - 8/23 
Premium Rush (David Koepp, 91 m) - 8/24
Newlyweds (Edward Burns, 95 m) - 8/25
Give Me the Banjo (Marc Fields, 90 m) - 8/27
Tess (Roman Polanski, 186 m) - 8/28
Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired (Marina Zenovich, 99 m) - 8/29 
The Merry Widow (Ernst Lubitsch, 99 m) - 8/30
Ruby Sparks (Jonathan Dayton & Valerie Faris, 104 m) - 8/30 

ParaNorman 3D (Chris Butler & Sam Fell, 92 m) - 9/1 
Celeste & Jesse Forever (Lee Toland Krieger, 92 m) - 9/5
Lawless (John Hillcoat, 116 m) - 9/6
This Film Is Not Yet Rated (Kirby Dick, 97 m) - 9/7
American Grindhouse (Elijah Drenner, 80 m) - 9/8
Raiders of the Lost Ark - IMAX (Steven Spielberg, 115 m) - 9/10
9 to 5 (Colin Higgins, 110 m) - 9/15
How to Beat the High Cost of Living (Robert Scheerer, 105 m) - 9/15 
The Brothers Bloom (Rian Johnson, 114 m) - 9/18
Friday the 13th (Sean S. Cunningham, 95 m) - 9/19
From Russia With Love (Terence Young, 115 m) - 9/20
The Master (Paul Thomas Anderson, 137 m) - 9/21
Hopscotch (Ronald Neame, 106 m) - 9/22
Goldfinger (Guy Hamilton, 110 m) - 9/25
Return of the Secaucus 7 (John Sayles, 104 m) - 9/26
Premature Burial (Roger Corman, 81 m) - 9/26
The Comedy of Terrors (Jacques Tourneur, 84 m) - 9/27
Looper (Rian Johnson, 118 m) - 9/28
Ghost Ship (Steve Beck, 91 m) - 9/30

Lawrence of Arabia (David Lean, 216 m) - 10/4
Thunderball (Terence Young, 130 m) - 10/11
Breaker Morant (Bruce Beresford, 107 m) - 10/12
Argo (Ben Affleck, 120 m) - 10/13
Melvin and Howard (Jonathan Demme, 95 m) - 10/15
You Only Live Twice (Lewis Gilbert, 117 m) - 10/18
Indie Game: The Movie (Lisane Pajot & James Swirsky, 94 m) - 10/19
Objectified (Gary Hustwit, 75 m) - 10/20
Mad Max (George Miller, 88 m) - 10/22
Lincoln (Steven Spielberg, 150 m) - 10/23
Silver Linings Playbook (David O. Russell, 120 m) - 10/24
On Her Majesty's Secret Service (Peter Hunt, 142 m) - 10/25
Diamonds Are Forever (Guy Hamilton, 120 m) - 10/26
Used Cars (Robert Zemeckis, 113 m) - 10/26

Live and Let Die (Guy Hamilton, 121 m) - 11/5
Skyfall (Sam Mendes, 143 m) - 11/9
Mirror Mirror (Tarsem Singh, 106 m) - 11/10
Pitch Perfect (Jason Moore, 112 m) - 11/11
Haywire (Steven Soderbergh, 93 m) - 11/24
Lincoln (Steven Spielberg, 150 m) - 11/26
Smashed (James Ponsoldt, 81 m) - 11/28

Miracle on 34th Street (George Seaton, 96 m) - 12/2
Support Your Local Sheriff! (Burt Kennedy, 92 m) - 12/3
The Man with the Golden Gun (Guy Hamilton, 125 m) - 12/4
Life of Pi (Ang Lee, 127 m) - 12/5
Support Your Local Gunfighter (Burt Kennedy, 91 m) - 12/5
Take This Waltz (Sarah Polley, 116 m) - 12/6
Flight (Robert Zemeckis, 138 m) - 12/6
An American Christmas Carol (Eric Till, 98 m) - 12/7
Oslo, August 31st (Joachim Trier, 95 m) - 12/10
Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry (Alison Klayman, 91 m) - 12/11
The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel (John Madden, 124 m) - 12/11
The Spy Who Loved Me (Lewis Gilbert, 125 m) - 12/12
Scrooge (Ronald Neame, 113 m) - 12/16
A Christmas Carol (Brian Desmond Hurst, 86 m) - 12/17
Wuthering Heights (Andrea Arnold, 129 m) - 12/22
Les Misérables (Tom Hooper, 157 m) - 12/25
Chronicle (Josh Trank, 84 m) - 12/27
Head Games (Steve James, 95 m) - 12/27
The Invisible War (Kirby Dick, 93 m) - 12/29
Chernobyl Diaries (Bradley Parker, 88 m) - 12/29
2 Days in New York (Julie Delpy, 96 m) - 12/31

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