2002 Many Films Watched

25th HOUR (d. Spike Lee) *** 1/2

40 DAYS AND 40 NIGHTS (d. Michael Lehmann) ***

8 MILE (d. Curtis Hanson) ***

8 WOMEN (d. François Ozon) ** 1/2

ABANDON (d. Stephen Gaghan) ***

ABOUT A BOY (d. Chris & Paul Weitz) ***

ABOUT SCHMIDT (d. Alexander Payne) *** 1/4

ABOUT THE LIVING (d. Jorge Aquilera) **

ADAPTATION (d. Spike Jonze) *** 1/2

AGITATOR (d. Miike Takashi) ** 3/4

ALIAS BETTY (d. Claude Miller) ***

ALL ABOUT LILY CHOU CHOU (d. Shunji Iwai) **

ALL OR NOTHING (d. Mike Leigh) ** 3/4

AMERICAN GUN (d. Alan Jacobs) ** 3/4

ANALYZE THAT (d. Harold Rntwamis) **

ANARCHIST COOKBOOK, THE (d. Jorday Susman) ***

ANTWONE FISHER (d. Denzel Washington) ** 3/4

ARARAT (d. Atom Egoyan) ***

ASH WEDNESDAY (d. Edward Burns) ** 3/4

ASOKA (d. Santosh Sivan) ***

AUTO FOCUS (d. Paul Schrader) * 1/2

BANG BANG YOU'RE DEAD (d. Guy Ferland) *** 3/4

BANGER SISTERS, THE (d. Bob Dolman) ** 1/2

BARBERSHOP (d. Tim Story) ** 1/2

BELIEVER, THE (d. Henry Bean) *** 1/2

BIGGIE AND TUPAC (d. Nick Broomfield) ***

BIRTHDAY GIRL (d. Jez Butterworth) ** 1/2

BLOOD WORK (d. Clint Eastwood) ** 3/4

BLOODY SUNDAY (d. Paul Greengrass) *** 1;4

BLUE CRUSH (d. John Stockwell) ***

BLUE GATE CROSSING (d. Chih-yen Yi) ** 1/2

BOURNE IDENTITY, THE (d. Doug Liman) ***

BOWLING FOR COLUMBINE (d. Michael Moore) *** 1/2

BRITNEY BABY, ONE MORE TIME! (d. Ludi Boeken) ** 3/4

BROTHER (d. Yan Yan Mak)

BUNGALOW (dir: Ulrich Kohler) ***

BUTTERFLY SMILE (d. He Jianjun) * 1/2

CATCH ME IF YOU CAN (d. Steven Spielberg) ***

CHANGING LANES (d. Roger Michell) ** 1/2

CHAOS AND DESIRE (d. Manon Briand) ** 3/4

CHÂTEAU, THE (d. Jesse Peretz) **

CHELSEA WALLS (d. Ethan Hawke) **

CHERISH (d. Finn Taylor) ** 1/2

CHICAGO hicago (d. Rob Marshall) *** 3/4

CHIHWASEON (d. Im Kwon-taek) *** 1/4

CHILDREN OF THE CENTURY (d. Diane Kurys) [1999] ***

CIRCUIT (d. Dirk Shafer) **

CITY BY THE SEA (d. Michael Caton-Jones) *** 1/2

CITY OF GOD (d. Fernando Meirelles) ***

CITY OF NO LIMITS (d. Antonio Hernandez) *** 1/4

CLOCKSTOPPERS (d. Jonathan Frakes) ** 3/4

COCKETTES, THE (dir: Bill Weber and David Weissman) ** 3/4

CONFESSIONS OF A DANGEROUS MIND (d. George Clooney) ***

COUNT OF MONTE CRISTO, THE (d. Kevin Reynolds) ***

CQ (d. Roman Coppola) *

CRUSH (d. John McKay) **

CUCKOO, THE (d. Alexander Rogozhkin) ***

DADDY & PAPA (d. Johnny Symons) *** 1/2

DANCER UPSTAIRS, THE (d. John Malkovich) ** 3/4

DANGEROUS LIVES OF ALTAR BOYS, THE (d. Peter Care) **

DARK WATER (d. Hideo Nakata) ***

DEATH TO SMOOCHY (d. Danny De Vito) ** 1/2

DEUCES WILD (d. Scott Kalvert) **

DEVDAS (d. Sanjay Leela Bhansali) **

DIVING SECRETS OF THE YA-YA SISTERHOOD (d. Callie Khouri) **

DOOR TO DOOR (d. Stephen Schachter) ***

DRUMLINE (d. Charles Stone III) *** 1/4

EBAN AND CHARLIE (d. James Bolton) ** 3/4

EL BOLA (d. Achero Mañas) *** 1/2

EMPEROR'S CLUB, THE (d. Michael Hoffman) ** 1/2

EMPEROR'S NEW CLOTHES, THE (d. Alan Taylor) ** 1/4

EMPIRE (d. Franc Reyes) ** 1/2

ENIGMA (d. Michael Apted) ** 3/4

ESTHER KAHN (d. Arnaud Desplechin) *** 1/2

EVELYN (d. Bruce Beresford) ** 3/4

EVERY STEWARDESS GOES TO HEAVEN (d. Daniel Burman) ** 3/4

EXTREME OPS (d. Christian Duguay) ** 1/2

FAR FROM HEAVEN (d. Todd Haynes) *** 1/2

FEMME FATALE (d. Brian De Palma) *** 1/4

FINE DEAD GIRLS (d. Dalibor Matanic) *** 1/2

FIREDANCER (d. Jawed Wassel) 1/2*

FIREFLY DREAMS (d. John Williams) **

FIRST $20 MILLION IS ALWAYS THE HARDEST, THE (d. Mick Jackson) ***

FLATS, THE (d. Kelly and Tyler Requa) *** 1/4

FOOD OF LOVE (d. Ventura Pons) ***

FOUR FEATHERS, THE (d. Shekhar Kapur) **

FRAILTY (d. Bill Paxton) ***

FRIDA (d. Julie Taymor) *** 1/4

FULL FRONTAL (d. Steven Soderbergh) ***

GANGS OF NEW YORK (d. Martin Scorsese) *** 1/2

GETTING MY BROTHER LAID (d. Sven Taddicken) * 1/2

GIRLS CAN'T SWIM (Dir: Anne-Sophie Birot) **

GOD IS GREAT, AND I'M NOT (d. Pascale Bailly) ** 3/4

GOOD GIRL, THE (d. Miguel Arteta) ***

GOOD HANDS (d. Peeter Simm) ***

GREEN DRAGON (d. Timothy Linh Bui) ** 3/4

GREY ZONE, THE (d. Tim Blake Nelson) ****

GRILL POINT (d. Andreas Dresen) **

HAPPINESS OF THE KATAKURIS, THE (d. Takashi Miike) * 1/2

HAPPY TIMES (d. Zhang Yimou) ** 1/2

HARRY POTTER AND THE CHAMBE OF SECRETS (d. Chris Columbus) ***

HART'S WAR (d. Gregory Hoblit) ** 1/2

HARVARD MAN (d. James Toback) ** 1/4

HEAVEN (d. Tom Tykwer) *** 1/2

HELL HOUSE (d. George Ratliff) ***

HER MAJESTY (d. Mark J. Gordon) * 1/2

HERENCIA (d. Paula Hernandez) ***

HI, TERESKA (d. Robert Glinski) ***

HIGH CRIMES (d. Carl Franklin) **

HOLLYWOOD ENDING (d. Woody Allen) ***

HOURS, THE (d. Stephen Daldry) *** 3/4

HOUSE OF FOOLS (d. Andrei Konchalovsky) ** 1/2

HOW I KILLED MY FATHER (d. Anne Fontaine) ***

HUKKLE (d. György Pálfi) ** 3/4

HUMAN NATURE (d. Michel Gondry) *

HUSH! (d. Ryosuke Hashiguchi) ** 1/2

HYPNOTIZED & HYSTERICAL (HAIRSTYLIST WANTED) (d. Claude Duty) ** 1/2

IGBY GOES DOWN (d. Burr Steers) ***

I'M GOING HOME (d. Manoel de Oliveira) ***

I'M WITH LUCY (d. Jon Serman II) * 1/2

IMPORTANCE OF BEING EARNEST, THE (d. Oliver Parker) ** 1/2

INHERITANCE, THE (d. Daniel Filho) **

INSOMNIA (d. Christopher Nolan) *** 1/4

INTACTO (d. Juan Carlos Fresnadillo) ***

INVINCIBLE (d. Werner Herzog) ***

JUST A KISS (d. Fisher Stevens) **

K-19: THE WIDOWMAKER (d. Kathryn Bigelow) ***

KHALED (d. Asghar Massombagi) ** 1/2

KID STAYS IN THE PICTURE, THE (d. Brett Morgen & Nanette Burstein) *** 1/2

LADY AND THE DUKE, THE (d. Eric Rohmer) ***

LAN YU (d. Stanley Kwan) *** 1/2

LAST CALL (dir: Henry Bromell) **

LAST KISS, THE (d. Gabriele Muccino) *** 1/4

LAST ORDERS (d. Fred Schepisi) ** 3/4

LAST WEDDING (d. Bruce Sweeney) ***

LAWLESS HEART (d. Tom Hunsinger) *** 1/2

LIBERTY STANDS STILL (d. Kari Skogland) ** 1/4

LIFE OR SOMETHING LIKE IT (d. Stephen Herek) ** 1/2

LILO & STICH (d. Chris Sanders & Dean Deblois) ***

LITTLE SECRETS (d. Blair Treu) ***

LJUBLJANA (d. Igor Sterk) ***

LORD OF THE RINGS: THE TWO TOWERS (d. Peter Jackson) *** 1/2

LOVE IN THE TIME OF MONEY (d. Peter Mattei) *** 1/4

LOVE LIZA (d. Todd Louiso) **

LOVE THE HARD WAY (d. Peter Sehr) ***

LOVELY AND AMAZING (d. Nicole Holofcener) ** 3/4

LUCKY BREAK (d. Peter Cattaneo) ** 1/2

LUCKY DAY, A (d. Sandra Gugliotta) *

MAELSTROM (d. Denis Villeneuve) ***

MAID IN MANHATTAN (d. Wayne Wang) * 1/4

MALUNDE (d. Stefanie Sychott) ** 3/4

MAN FROM ELYSIAN FIELDS, THE (d. George Hickenlooper) *** 1/2

MAN ON THE TRAIN (d. Patrice Leconte) *** 1/4

MAP OF SEX AND LOVE (d. Evans Chan) ***

MAP OF THE HEART, A (d. Dominik Graf) *** 1/2

MARIAGES (d. Catherine Martin) ** 1/2

MAX (d. Menno Meyjes) * 1/4

ME WITHOUT YOU (d. Sandra Goldbacher) *** 3/4

MEN WITH BROOMS (d. Paul Gross) ** 3/4

MERCI POUR LE CHOCOLAT (d. Claude Chabrol) *** 1/4

MINORITY REPORT (d. Steven Spielberg) ***

MON RAK TRANSISTOR (d. Pen-Ek Ratanaruang) **

MONKEY LOVE (d. Mark Stratton) ** 3/4

MONSOON WEDDING (d. Mira Nair) ***

MOONLIGHT MILE (d. Brad Silberling) ** 1/2

MORVERN CALLAR (d. Lynne Ramsay) *** 1/4

MOSTLY MARTHA (d. Sandra Nettelbeck) *** 1/2

MOTHMAN PROPHECIES,THE (d. Mark Pellington) *

MURDER BY NUMBERS (d. Barbet Schroeder) ***

MY BIG FAT GREEK WEDDING (d. Joel Zwick) **

MY WIFE IS AN ACTRESS (d. Yvan Attal) ***

NARC (d. Joe Carnahan) ** 1/4

NICHOLAS NICKLEBY (d. Douglas McGrath) ***

NO NEWS FROM GOD (d. Agustin Diaz-Yanes) * 1/2

NO REGRETS (d. Benjamin Quabeck) ** 3/4

NO SUCH THING (d. Hal Hartley) * 1/4

NOTHING MORE (d. Juan Carlos Malberti) *

OASIS (d. Lee Chang-dong) *** 3/4

OKAY (d. Jesper W. Nielsen) *** 1/4

ON GUARD (d. Philippe De Broca) [1997] ** 1/2

ONE HOUR PHOTO (d. Mark Romanek) ** 3/4

ONLY JOURNEY OF HIS LIFE, THE (d. Lakis Papasthathis) * 1/2

ORANGE COUNTY (d. Jake Kasdan) ***

ORPHAN, THE (d. Sun-fung Lee) **

OTHER SIDE OF HEAVEN, THE (d. Mitch Davis) ** 1/2

OUT (d. Hideyuki Hirayama) ***

OUTPATIENT (d. Alec Carlin) *** 1/4

PANIC ROOM (d. David Fincher) *** 1/4

PARALLEL WORLDS (dir: Petr Vaclav) **

PASSIONADA (d. Dan Ireland) *** 1/4

PERSONAL VELOCITY (d. Rebecca Miller) *** 1/4

PIANIST, THE (d. Roman Polanski) *** 3/4

PIPE DREAM (d. John C. Walsh) ** 3/4

POSSESSION (d. Neil LaBute) *** 1/2

PROMISES (d. Justine Shapiro & B.Z. Goldberg) *** 1/2

PUMPKIN (d. Adam Larson Broder & Tony R. Abrams) ***

PUNCH-DRUNK LOVE (d. Paul Thomas Anderson) *** 1/4

QUIET AMERICAN, THE (d. Phillip Noyce) *** 1/2

QUITTING (d. Zhang Yang) ** 3/4

RABBIT-PROOF FENCE (d. Phillip Noyce) *** 1/4

RAIN (d. Katherine Lindberg) **

READ MY LIPS (Dir: Jacques Audiard. France) *** 3/4

RED DRAGON (d. Brett Ratner) ***

REIGN OF FIRE (d. Rob Bowman) **

RESPIRO (d. Emanuele Crialese) *** 1/4

REUNION, THE (d. Mans Hemgren) ***

RING, THE (d. Gore Verbinski) ** 3/4

RISOTTO (d. Olga Malea) ** 1/2

ROAD TO PERDITION (d. Sam Mendes) *** 1/2

ROGER DODGER (d. Dylan Kidd) *** 3/4

ROLLERBALL (d. John McTiernan) **

ROOKIE, THE (d. John Lee Hancock) ***

ROUTE, LA (d. Darezhan Omirbaev) W/O

RULE OF THE GAME, THE (d. Ho Ping) * 1/2

RULES OF ATTRACTION, THE (d. Roger Avary) *** 1/4

S1M0NE (d. Andrew Niccol) ** 3/4

SADE (d. Benoît Jacquot) ***

SAFE CONDUCT (d. Bertrand Tavernier) ** 3/4

SAFETY OF OBJECTS, THE (d. Rose Troche) ***

SALTON SEA, THE (d. D.J. Caruso) ***

SAMSARA (d. Pan Nalin) ****

SCOOBY-DOO (d. Raja Gosnell) * 3/4

SCOTLAND, PA (d. Billy Morrissette) ** 1/2

SECRET BALLOT (d. Babak Payami) **

SECRET FESTIVAL #1 (2002) ***

SECRET FESTIVAL #2 (2002) ***

SECRET FESTIVAL #3 (2002) *** 1/2

SECRET FESTIVAL #4 (2002) ** 1/4

SECRETARY (d. Steven Shainberg) ** 1/4

SEE YOU OFF TO THE EDGE OF TOWN (d. Ching C. Ip) ** 3/4

SELF-MADE HERO, A (dir: Jacques Audiard) ****

SEX AND LUCIA (d. Julio Medem) *** 1/2

SEX AND LUCIA (d. Julio Medem) + ****

SHATTERED GLASS (d. Chris Kraus) *** 1/2

SHOT IN THE HEART (d. Agnieszka Holland) ** 1/2

SIGNS (d. M. Night Shyamalan) ***

SLAUGHTER RULE, THE (d. Alex & Andrew Smith) *** 1/2

SLEEPING ROUGH (d. Eugene Jansen) **

SlLEEPY TIME GAL, THE (d. Christopher Münch) *** 3/4

SMITH FAMILY, THE (d. Tasha Oldham) ****

SNAKESKIN (d. Gillian Ashurst) *** 1/4

SOLARIS (d. Steven Soderbergh) ** 3/4

SOLITUDE (d. Susan Kraker, Pi Ware) *** 1/4

SONGS FROM THE SECOND FLOOR (d. Roy Andersson) ***

SONNY (d. Nicolas Cage) ***

SPIDER-MAN (d. Sam Raimi) ** 1/2

SPIRITED AWAY (d. Hayao Miyazaki) *** 1/4

SPOOKY HOUSE (d. William Sachs) **

SPY KIDS 2: THE ISLAND OF LOST DREAMS (d. Robert Rodriguez) ***

STANDING IN THE SHADOWS OF MOTOWN (d. Paul Justman) *** 1/4

STEALING HARVARD (d. Bruce McCulloch) * 1/4

STORYTELLING (d. Todd Solondz) *** 1/2

SUM OF ALL FEARS, THE (d. Phil Alden Robinson) ***

SUNSHINE STATE (d. John Sayles) *** 1/2

SUPPLEMENT (d. Krzysztof Zanussi) ***

SWEET 16 (d. Ken Loach) *** 1/2

SWEET DREAMS ARE MADE OF THIS (dir: Saso Podgorsek) ***

SWEET HOME ALABAMA (d. Andy Tennant) ** 1/2

SWEETEST THING, THE (d. Roger Kumble) *

SWEPT AWAY (d. Guy Ritchie) * 3/4

SWIMFAN (d. John Polson) **

SYMPATHY FOR MR. VENGEANCE (d. Park Chan-wook) *** 1/2

TADPOLE (d. Gary Winick) *** 1/4

TAKE CARE OF MY CAT (d. Jeong Jae-eun) **

TALK TO HER (d. Pedro Almodóvar) ***

TATTOO (d. Robert Schwentke) ***

TEKNOLUST (d. Lynn Hershman-Leeson)

TEMPTATIONS (d. Zoltan Kamondi) * 1/2

THEY (d. Robert Harmon) ** 1/2

THIS IS NOT A LOVE SONG (d. Bille Eltringham) ** 3/4

TIME MACHINE, THE (d. Simon Wells) * 1/2

TIME OF FAVOR (d. Joseph Cedar) ** 1/4

TIME OUT (d. Laurent Cantet) *** 1/4

TOKYO NOISE (d. Petri, Roed, Soderberg) **

TRANSPORTER, THE (d. Cory Yuen) ** 1/2

TRIP, THE (d. Miles Swain) ** 3/4

TRIUMPH OF LOVE (d. Clare Peploe) **

TROUBLE EVERY DAY (d. Claire Denis) ** 1/4

TRUTH ABOUT CHARLIE, THE (d. Jonathan Demme) * 1/4

TUCK EVERLASTING (d. Jay Russell) ** 1/2

TULLY (d. Hillary Birmingham) *** 1/2

TURNING PAIGE (d. Robert Cuffley) **

TUXEDO, THE (d. Kevin Donovan) *

TWO TOWNS OF JASPER (d. Whitney Dow, Marco Williams) ** 1/2

TWO WEEKS NOTICE (d. Marc Lawrence) **

UNFAITHFUL (d. Adrian Lyne) ***

VAYA CON DIOS (d. Zoltan Spirandelli) ***

VERY ANNIE MARY (d. Sara Sugarman) *

WALKING ON WATER (d. Tony Ayres) ****

WAR PHOTOGRAPHER (d. Christian Frei) ** 3/4

WARM WATER UNDER A RED BRIDGE (d. Shohei Imamura) **

WAY WE LAUGHED, THE (d. Gianni Amelio) ** 1/2

WAYDOWNTOWN (d. Gary Burns) ***

WE WERE SOLDIERS (d. Randall Wallace) ** 1/2

WELCOME TO COLLINWOOD (d. Anthony & Joe Russo) **

WHITE OLEANDER (d. Peter Kosminsky) ***

WHO THE HELL IS BOBBY ROOS (d. John Feldman) *** 1/2

WILD BEES (d. Bohdan Slama) ** 3/4

WILD FLOWERS (d. F. A. Brabec) ** 1/2

WINDTALKERS (d. John Woo) ** 3/4

WORLD TRAVELER (d. Bart Freundlich) **

WRITTEN ON THE BODY OF THE NIGHT (d. Jaime Humberto Hermosillo) ** 3/4

XX/XY (d. Austin Chick) *** 1/4

XXX (d. Rob Cohen) ** 1/2

Y TU MAMÁ TAMBIÉN (d. Alfonso Cuarón) *** 3/4

YELLOW ASPHALT (d. Dan Verete) *** 1/4

ZOOKEEPER, THE (d. Ralph Zian) ***