january 1–january 8

Books

Films

  • White Material, directed by Claire Denis
  • Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle, dir. Danny Leiner
  • Dark Star, dir. John Carpenter
  • Raging Bull, dir. Martin Scorsese
  • Oh, Doctor!, dir. Fatty Arbuckle
  • The Bell Boy, dir. Fatty Arbuckle
  • Moonshine, dir. Fatty Arbuckle
  • Le Salaire de la Peur (The Wages of Fear), dir. Henri-Georges Clouzot
  • The Lost World, dir. Harry Hoyt
  • Le Mort qui tue (The Murderous Corpse), dir. Louis Feuillade
  • Fantômas contre Fantômas (Fantômas vs. Fantômas), dir. Louis Feuillade
  • Le faux magistrat (The False Magistrate), dir. Louis Feuillade

my year in books, 2010

Here’s 2010; not as many as in 2009, but this was supposed to be a year of slow reading. This excludes things read for work & a couple of things that I’m in the process of writing up elsewhere. I’ve put up a directory of links to what I wrote here; I wish I hadn’t called these write-ups “reviews” in the first place, as they’re not really intended to be that, but oh well. 

my year in exhibits, 2010

See My Year in Exhibits, 2009.

  • “Adolph Dietrich/Richard Phillips: Painting and Misappropriation,” Swiss Institute
  • “Adrian Piper: Past Time: Selected Works 1973–1995,” Elizabeth Dee
  • “Alias Man Ray: The Art of Reinvention,” Jewish Museum
  • “Allen Ruppersberg,” Greene Naftali
  • “American Falls: Phil Solomon,” Corcoran Gallery
  • “An Italian Journey: Drawings from the Tobey Collection, Correggio to Tiepolo,” Met
  • “Ana Medieta: Documentation and Artwork, 1972–1985,” Galerie LeLong
  • “Andy Goldsworthy: New York Dirt Water Light,” Galerie Lelong
  • “Angelina Guadlini: Shadows Slipping,” Asya Geisberg Gallery
  • “Anish Kapoor: Memory,” Guggenheim
  • “Anne Truitt: Sculpture 1962–2004,” Matthew Marks Gallery
  • “Anselm Kiefer: Next Year in Jerusalem,” Gagosian
  • “Banks Violette,” Barbara Gladstone
  • “Bauhaus 1919–1933: Workshops for Modernity,” MoMA
  • “Ben Gocker: There Is Really No Single Poem,” PPOW
  • “Beyond Color: Color in American Photography 1950–1970″, Bruce Silverstein Gallery
  • “Beyond Participation: Hélio Oiticica and Neville D’Almeida in New York ,” Bertha and Karl Leubsdorf Art Gallery at Hunter College
  • “Bill Albertini: Space Frame Redux,” Martos Gallery
  • “Blinky Palermo: Retrospective 1964–1977,” LACMA
  • “Bloodflames III,” Alex Zachary
  • “Body and Soul: Masterpieces of Renaissance and Baroque Sculpture,” Moretti Fine Art
  • “Brasilia,” 1500 Gallery
  • “Brian Alfred: It’s Already the End of the World,” Haunch of Venison
  • “Brion Gysin: Dream Machine,” New Museum
  • “Bruce Nauman: Days,” MoMA
  • “Carlos Ginzburg: Fractalizations and Other Works,” Susan Berko-Conde Gallery
  • “Carsten Nicolai: Moiré,” Pace Gallery
  • “Chaos and Classicism: Art in France, Italy, and Germany, 1918–1936,” Guggenheim
  • “Charles Burchfield: Fifty Years as a Painter,” D. C. Moore Gallery
  • “Charlotte Posenenske,” Artists Space
  • “Christian Boltanski: No Man’s Land,” Park Avenue Armory
  • “Christian Marclay: Festival,” Whitney Museum
  • “Christian Marclay: Festival,” Whitney Museum
  • “Claude Monet: Late Work,” Gagosian
  • “Claudia Wieser: Poems of the Right Angle,” The Drawing Center
  • “Collection: MOCA’s First Thirty Years,” Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
  • “ColorForms,” Hirshhorn Museum
  • “Contemporary Art from the Collection,” MoMA
  • “Dalla tradizione gotica al primo Rinascimento,” Moretti Art Gallery
  • “David Lieske: Imperium in Imperio,” Alex Zachary
  • “David Maisel: Library of Dust,” Von Lintel Gallery”
  • “Defining Beauty: Albrecht Dürer at the Morgan,” Morgan Library
  • “Demons and Devotion: The Hours of Catherine of Cleves,” Morgan Library
  • “Dieter Roth, Björn Roth: Work Tables & Tischmatten,” Hauser & Wirth
  • “Do Not Abandon Me: Louise Bourgeois & Tracey Emin,” Carolina Nitsch Project Room
  • “Donald Judd and 101 Spring Street,” Nicholas Robinson Gallery
  • “Doug + Mike Starn, Big Bambú,” Met
  • “The Drawings of Bronzino,” Met
  • “Egon Schiele As Printmaker,” Gallerie St. Etienne
  • “Emily Dickinson’s Garden: The Poetry of Flowers,” New York Botanical Garden
  • “Erwin Wurm: Gulp,” Lehmann Maupin
  • “Eva Hesse Spectres 1960,” Hammer Museum, Los Angeles
  • “Eva Hesse,” Hauser & Wirth
  • “Eye for the Sensual: Selections from the Resnick Collection,” LACMA
  • “Facing the Artist: Portraits by John Jonas Gruen,” Whitney Museum
  • “Fairfield Porter,” Michael Rosenfeld Gallery
  • “Franz Erhard Walther,” Peter Freeman, Inc.
  • “Fred Otnes: A Retrospective,” Kouros Gallery
  • “Frederick Kiesler: Endless,” Jason McCoy Gallery
  • “Félix Vallotton: Paintings,” Michael Werner Gallery
  • “Gerhard Richter: Lines which do not exist,” The Drawing Center
  • “Greater New York,” PS1
  • “Greetings from Daddaland: Fluxus, Mail Art and Rubber Stamps,” Maya Stendhal
  • “Guillermo Kuitca: Paintings 2008–2010 & Le Sacre 1992,” Sperone Westwater
  • “Heat Waves in a Swamp: The Paintings of Charles Burchfield,” Whitney Museum
  • “Helios: Eadweard Muybridge in a Time of Change,” Corcoran Gallery
  • “Helmar Lerski: Transformations Through Light,” Ubu Gallery
  • “Henri Cartier-Bresson: The Modern Century,” MoMA
  • “Henry Darger,” Andrew Edlin Gallery
  • “Heroes: Mortals and Myths in Ancient Greece,” Onassis Cultural Center
  • “Hungarian Modernism,” Shepherd & Derom
  • “Hélio Oiticica: Drawings 1954–58,” Galerie Lelong
  • “I will cut thrU: Pochoirs, Carvings, and Other Cuttings,” Center for Book Arts
  • “In the Tower: Mark Rothko,” National Gallery of Art
  • “Italy Observed: Views and Souvenirs, 1706–1899,” Met Museum
  • “Item,” Mitchell-Innes & Nash
  • “Jack Tworkov: True and False: Paintings 1960–1975,” Mitchell-Innes & Nash
  • “James Case-Leal: Radical Spirit,” Church of the Messiah, Greenpoint
  • “Janet Cardiff and George Bures Miller,” Luhring Augustine
  • “Jill Magid: A Reasonable Man in a Box,” Whitney Museum
  • “Joan Jonas: Reading Dante III,” Yvon Lambert
  • “John Baldessari: Pure Beauty,” Met
  • “John Bock,” Anton Kern Gallery
  • “John Wesley: May I Cut In? Important Paintings from the 1970s,” Fredericks & Freiser
  • “Josef Albers/Ken Price,” Brooke Alexander Gallery
  • “Josef Albers: Formulation : Articulation, 1972,” Peter Blum Gallery
  • “Joseph Beuys: Make the Secrets Productive,” Pace Gallery
  • “Julian Montague: Secondary Occupants Collected & Observed,” Black & White Project Space
  • “Justine Kurland/Francesca Woodman,” BravinLee Programs
  • “Kandinsky,” Guggenheim
  • “Kate Gilmore: Walk the Walk,” Bryant Park
  • “Katrin Sigurðardóttir at the Met,” Met
  • “Koo Jeong-a: Koo Jeong A ~ Z,” Yvon Lambert
  • “Le Tableau: Curated by Joe Fyfe,” Cheim & Read
  • “Lee Bontecou: All Freedom in Every Sense,” MoMA
  • “Leonardo’s Last Supper: A Vision by Peter Greenaway,” Park Avenue Armory
  • “Liao Yibai: Real Fake,” Mike Weiss Gallery
  • “Lucio Fontana: Paintings 1956–1968,” Marianne Boesky
  • “Man, Myth, and Sensual Pleasures: Jan Gossart’s Renaissance,” Met Museum
  • “Marcel Broodthaers: Major Works,” Michael Werner
  • “Marguerite Duras by Hélène Bamberger,” Cultural Services of the French Embassy
  • “Marina Abramović: Personal Archaeology,” Sean Kelly Gallery
  • “Marina Abramović: The Artist is Present,” MoMA
  • “Markus Schinwald,” Yvon Lambert
  • “Masterpieces of European Painting from Dulwich Picture Gallery,” Frick
  • “Matisse: Radical Invention, 1913–1917,” MoMA
  • Mead Art Museum, Amherst, Massachusetts
  • “Memories of the Future,” Sean Kelly Gallery
  • “Metamorphosis Victorianus: Modern Collage, Victorian Engravings & Nostalgia,” Ubu Gallery
  • “Mind and Matter: Alternative Abstractions, 1940s to Now,” MoMA
  • “Minima Moralia,” Marvelli Gallery
  • “Miró: The Dutch Interiors,” Met Museum
  • “The Mourners: Medieval Tomb Sculptures from the Court of Burgundy,” Metropolitan Museum
  • “Mr. Fluxus,” Maya Stendhal Gallery
  • “Nicholas Knight/Kat Tomka,” Hewitt Gallery, Marymount College
  • Nicholas Roerich Museum, New York
  • “Nina Yuen: White Blindness,” Lombard-Freid Projects
  • “Off the Wall: Part 1—Thirty Performative Actions,” Whitney Museum
  • “Olmec: Colossal Masterworks of Ancient Mexico,” LACMA
  • “The Original Copy: Photography of Sculpture, 1839 to Today,” MoMA
  • “Otto Piene: Light Ballet and Fire Paintings, 1957–1967,” Sperone Westwater
  • “Pablo Picasso: Celebrating the Muse: Women in Picasso’s Prints from 1905–1968,” Marlborough Gallery
  • “Palladio and His Legacy: A Transatlantic Journey,” Morgan Library
  • “Paul Strand in Mexico,” Aperture Gallery
  • “Paul Thek: Cityscapes and Other Ideas / Peter Hujar: Thek’s Studio 1967,” Alexander & Bonin
  • “Paul Thek: Diver, A Retrospective,” Whitney Museum
  • “Picasso in The Metropolitan Museum of Art,” Met Museum
  • “Picasso: Themes and Variations,” MoMA
  • “Pictures by Women: A History of Modern Photography,” MoMA
  • “Pipilotti Rist: Heroes of Birth,” Luhring Augustine
  • “Poems & Pictures: A Renaissance in the Art of the Book (1946–1981),” Center for Book Arts
  • “Primary Atmospheres: Works from California 1960–1970,” David Zwirner
  • “Provocateurs of Japanese Photography,” Kathleen Cullen Fine Arts
  • “R. Crumb: The Book of Genesis Illustrated,” David Zwirner
  • “Ragnar Kjartansson,” Luhring Augustine
  • “Reflection,” Peter Blum Soho
  • “Ressurectine,” Ronald Feldman Fine Arts
  • “Richard Diebenkorn in Context: 1949–1952,” Leslie Feely Fine Art
  • “Richard Diebenkorn: Paintings and Drawings 1949–1955,” Greenberg Van Doren
  • “Richard Hamilton: Selected Prints from the Collection, 1970–2005,” Met Museum
  • “Richard Tuttle: “Village V”, 2004,” Sperone Westwater
  • “Rivane Neuenschwander: A Day Like Any Other,” New Museum
  • “Robert Beck and Donald Moffett: Range,” Marianne Boesky
  • “Robert Morris: Untitled (Scatter Piece) 1968–69,” Leo Castelli
  • “Robert Rauschenberg,” Gagosian
  • “The Roman Mosaic from Lod, Israel,” Met Museum
  • “Roman Opalka: Passages,” Yvon Lambert
  • “Rome After Raphael,” Morgan Library
  • “Roy Lichtenstein: Mostly Men,” Leo Castelli
  • “Roy Lichtenstein: Reflected,” Mitchell-Innes & Nash
  • “Roy Lichtenstein: Still Lives,” Gagosian
  • “Sandow Birk: American Qur’an,” PPOW
  • “Sara Vanderbeek: To Think of Time,” Whitney Museum
  • “Seeing Intimacy: Richard Tuttle on Paper,” Craig F. Starr Gallery
  • “Shifting the Gaze: Painting and Feminism,” Jewish Museum
  • “Side by Side: Oberlin’s Masterworks at the Met,” Metropolitan Museum
  • “Sol LeWitt: The Complex Form,” Dorfman Projects
  • “The Spanish Manner: Drawings from Ribera to Goya,” Frick
  • “Star Black: The Collaged Accordian,” Center for Book Arts
  • “Stefan Brüggemann: Headlines & Last Line in the Movies,” Yvon Lambert
  • “Suprasensorial: Experiments in Light, Color, and Space,” The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA, Los Angeles
  • “Tadanori Yokoo: The Aesthetics of End: Early Silkscreens from 1965–1971,” Friedman Benda
  • “Tanguy/Calder: Between Surrealism and Abstraction,” L & M Arts
  • “The Artist’s Museum,” The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA, Los Angeles
  • “Tino Sehgal,” Guggenheim
  • “To John J. O’Connor from Nam June Paik,” Curatorial Research Lab at Winkleman Gallery
  • “Toledo/Borges: Fantastic Zoology,” Instituto Cervantes
  • “Tracing Proust,” Krannert Art Museum, Urbana, Illinois
  • “Unconscious Unbound: Surrealism in America,” Michael Rosenfeld Gallery
  • “Ursula von Rydingsvard: Errātus,” Galerie Lelong
  • “Vija Celmins: New Paintings, Objects, and Prints,” McKey Gallery
  • “The Visible Vagina,” Francis M. Naumann Fine Art
  • “We Between the Lines,” Morgan Lehman Gallery
  • “Whitney Biennial 2010,” Whitney Museum
  • “William Blake’s World: ‘A New Heaven Is Begun’,” Morgan Library
  • “A Woman’s Wit: Jane Austen’s Life and Legacy,” Morgan Library
  • “Yves Klein: With the Void, Full Power,” Hirshhorn Museum
  • “Zilvinas Kempinas: Ballroom,” Yvon Lambert

my year in film, 2010

Things I watched in 2010; see also 2009.

  • The Pajama Game, dir. George Abbott & Stanley Donen
  • La captive, dir. Chantal Akerman
  • Auf der anderen Seite (The Edge of Heaven), dir. Fatih Akin
  • Kiss Me Deadly, dir. Robert Aldrich
  • Laberinto de pasiones, dir. Pedro Almodóvar
  • Matador, dir. Pedro Almodóvar
  • Tacones Lejanos, dir. Pedro Almodóvar
  • Salomé, dir. Pedro Almodóvar
  • Entre tinieblas (Dark Habits), dir. Pedro Almodóvar
  • Pepi, Luci, Bom y otras chicas del montón, dir. Pedro Almodóvar
  • If . . . ., dir. Lindsay Anderson
  • Out West, dir. Roscoe Arbuckle
  • The Cook, dir. Roscoe Arbuckle
  • His Wedding Night, dir. Roscoe Arbuckle
  • The Butcher Boy, dir. Roscoe Arbuckle
  • The Rough House, dir. Roscoe Arbuckle & Buster Keaton
  • Good Night Nurse, dir. Roscoe Arbuckle
  • Backstage, dir. Roscoe Arbuckle
  • Coney Island, dir. Roscoe Arbuckle
  • Fatty’s Magic Pants, dir. Roscoe Arbuckle
  • Mabel, Fatty and the Law, dir. Roscoe Arbuckle
  • Suspiria, dir. Dario Argento
  • Youth in Revolt, dir. Miguel Arteta
  • Shampoo, dir. Hal Ashby
  • Carlos, dir. Olivier Assayas
  • Panique au village (A Town Called Panic), dir. Stéphane Aubier & Vincent Patar
  • WarGames, dir. John Badham
  • The Bingo Long Traveling All-Stars & Motor Kings, dir. John Badham
  • Cremaster 1, dir. Matthew Barney
  • Cremaster 2, dir. Matthew Barney
  • Cremaster 3, dir. Matthew Barney
  • Kicking and Screaming, dir. Noah Baumbach
  • The Thief of Bagdad, dir. Ludwig Berger, Michael Powell & Tim Whelan
  • American Splendor, dir. Shari Springer Berman & Robert Pulcini
  • The Saphead, dir. Herbert Blaché & Winchell Smith
  • Barbe Bleue (Bluebeard), dir. Catherine Breillat
  • L’enfer d’Henri-Georges Clouzot, dir. Serge Bromberg & Ruxandra Medrea
  • Killer of Sheep, dir. Charles Burnett
  • Several Friends, dir. Charles Burnett
  • The Horse, dir. Charles Burnett
  • When It Rains, dir. Charles Burnett
  • Aliens, dir. James Cameron
  • Guy and Madeline on a Park Bench, dir. Damien Chazelle
  • The Flame of New Orleans, dir. René Clair
  • Burn after Reading, dir. Joel Coen & Ethan Coen
  • True Grit, dir. Joel Coen & Ethan Coen
  • A Serious Man, dir. Joel Coen & Ethan Coen
  • King Kong, dir. Merian C. Cooper & Ernest B. Schoedsack
  • The American, dir. Anton Corbijn
  • Ne change rien dir. Pedro Costa
  • eXistenZ, dir. David Cronenberg
  • A History of Violence, dir. David Cronenberg
  • Female, dir. Michael Curtiz
  • The September Issue, dir. R. J. Cutler
  • The Hours, dir. Stephen Daldry
  • L’enfant, dir. Luc & Jean-Pierre Dardenne
  • Rififi, dir. Jules Dassin
  • Cronos, dir. Guillermo del Toro
  • On the Town, dir. Stanley Donen & Gene Kelly
  • Anémic Cinéma, dir. Marcel Duchamp
  • Symphonie diagonale, dir. Viking Eggeling
  • Le nain, dir. Louis Feuillade
  • La nativité, dir. Louis Feuillade
  • Fantômas – à l’ombre de la guillotine (Fantômas: In the Shadow of the Guillotine), dir. Louis Feuillade
  • Juve contre Fantômas (Juve against Fantômas), dir. Louis Feuillade
  • Alien 3, dir. David Fincher
  • Nothing Ventured, dir. Harun Farocki
  • Serious Games, dir. Harun Farocki
  • Welt am Draft (World on a Wire), dir. Rainer Werner Fassbinder
  • A Single Man, dir. Tom Ford
  • Time Bandits, dir. Terry Gilliam
  • Alphaville, dir. Jean-Luc Godard
  • JLG/JLG – autoportrait de décembre, dir. Jean-Luc Godard
  • The Old Place, dir. Jean-Luc Godard
  • Sympathy for the Devil, dir. Jean-Luc Godard
  • Sauve qui peut (la vie) (Every Man for Himself), dir. Jean-Luc Godard
  • Tout va bien, dir. Jean-Luc Godard & Jean-Pierre Gorin
  • Letter to Jane, dir. Jean-Luc Godard & Jean-Pierre Gorin
  • Poto and Cabengo, dir. Jean-Pierre Gorin
  • Io sonno l’amore (I Am Love), dir. Luca Guadagnino
  • Drei Wege zum See (Three Paths to the Lake), dir. Michael Haneke
  • The Designated Mourner, dir. David Hare
  • Simple Men, dir. Hal Hartley
  • The Unbelievable Truth, dir. Hal Hartley
  • Amateur, dir. Hal Hartley
  • Trust, dir. Hal Hartley
  • Ball of Fire, dir. Howard Hawks
  • Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, dir. Howard Hawks
  • Cockfighter, dir. Monte Hellman
  • Grizzly Man, dir. Werner Herzog
  • Guernica, dir. Robert Hessens & Alain Resnais
  • The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, dir. John Huston
  • In the Loop, dir. Armando Iannucci
  • Alien Resurrection, dir. Jean-Pierre Jeunet
  • Moon, dir. Duncan Jones
  • Over the Edge, dir. Jonathan Kaplan
  • Invasion of the Body Snatchers, dir. Philip Kaufman
  • Max-Out, dir. Robert Kaylor
  • Derby, dir. Robert Kaylor
  • Go West, dir. Buster Keaton
  • Battling Butler, dir. Buster Keaton
  • Sherlock, Jr., dir. Buster Keaton
  • The Paleface, dir. Buster Keaton
  • Our Hospitality, dir. Buster Keaton & John G. Blystone
  • One Week, dir. Buster Keaton & Edward F. Cline
  • The Balloonatic, dir. Buster Keaton & Edward F. Cline
  • The Boat, dir. Buster Keaton & Edward F. Cline
  • The Scarecrow, dir. Buster Keaton & Edward F. Cline
  • The Haunted House, dir. Buster Keaton & Edward F. Cline
  • The Frozen North, dir. Buster Keaton & Edward F. Cline
  • The Playhouse, dir. Buster Keaton & Edward F. Cline
  • The Love Nest, dir. Buster Keaton & Edward F. Cline
  • Neighbors, dir. Buster Keaton & Edward F. Cline
  • Cops, dir. Buster Keaton & Edward F. Cline
  • Convict 13, dir. Buster Keaton & Edward F. Cline
  • Daydreams, dir. Buster Keaton & Edward F. Cline
  • Hard Luck, dir. Buster Keaton & Edward F. Cline
  • My Wife’s Relations, dir. Buster Keaton & Edward F. Cline
  • The High Sign, dir. Buster Keaton & Edward F. Cline
  • The Navigator, dir. Buster Keaton & Donald Crisp
  • The Goat, dir. Buster Keaton & Malcolm St. Clair
  • The Blacksmith, dir. Buster Keaton & Malcolm St. Clair
  • Dekalog (The Decalogue), dir. Krzysztof Kieślowski
  • Big Top Pee-Wee, dir. Randal Kleiser
  • Планета бурь (Planet of Storms), dir. Pavel Klushantsev
  • Im Staub der Sterne (In the Dust of the Stars), dir. Gottfried Kolditz
  • North Dallas Forty, dir. Ted Kotcheff
  • The Human Voice, dir. Ted Kotcheff
  • The Devil’s Cleavage, dir. George Kuchar
  • 蜘蛛巣城 (Throne of Blood), dir. Akira Kurosawa
  • My Man Godfrey, dir. Gregory La Cava
  • The Kentucky Fried Movie, dir. John Landis
  • Frau im Mond (Woman in the Moon) , dir. Fritz Lang
  • Dr. Mabuse, der Spieler (Dr. Mabuse: The Gambler), dir. Fritz Lang
  • Das Testament des Dr. Mabuse (The Testament of Dr. Mabuse), dir. Fritz Lang
  • Shoah, dir. Claude Lanzmann
  • Brief Encounter, dir. David Lean
  • Ballet mécanique, dir. Fernand Léger
  • Dude, Where’s My Car?, dir. Danny Leiner
  • The Man Who Laughs, dir. Paul Leni
  • The Cat and the Canary, dir. Paul Leni
  • Das Wachsfigurenkabinett (Waxworks), dir. Paul Leni
  • Rebus Film Nr. 1, dir. Paul Leni
  • Three on a Match, dir. Mervyn LeRoy
  • Tron, dir. Steven Lisberger
  • Paris Is Burning, dir. Jennie Livingston
  • Trouble in Paradise, dir. Ernst Lubitsch
  • Design for Living, dir. Ernst Lubitsch
  • My Winnipeg, dir. Guy Maddin
  • Night Mayor, dir. Guy Maddin
  • Der schweigende Stern (The Silent Star), dir. Karl Maetzig
  • Sweet Movie, dir. Dušan Makavejev
  • All About Eve, dir. Joseph L. Mankiewicz
  • Man on Wire, dir. James Marsh
  • Le mystère Koumiko, dir. Chris Marker
  • 2084, dir. Chris Marker
  • Le Train en marche, dir. Chris Marker
  • Junkopia, dir. Chris Marker, Frank Simeone & John Chapman
  • La niña santa (The Holy Girl), dir. Lucrecia Martel
  • I soliti ignoti (Big Deal on Madonna Street), dir. Mario Monicelli
  • Il giorno della prima di Close Up, dir. Nanni Moretti
  • Белое солнце пустыни (White Sun of the Desert), dir. Vladimir Motyl
  • Sun Ra: A Joyful Noise, dir. Robert Mugge
  • Splice, dir. Vincenzo Natali
  • Fatty Joins the Force, dir. George Nichols
  • Nico Icon, dir. Susanne Ofteringer
  • Miss Mend, dir. Fedor Ozep & Boris Barnet
  • Le Vampire, dir. Jean Painlevé
  • All the President’s Men, dir. Alan J. Pakula
  • Dont Look Back, dir. D. A. Pennebaker
  • Depeche Mode 101, dir. D. A. Pennebaker, Chris Hegedus & David Dawkins
  • The Lead Shoes, dir. Sidney Peterson
  • The Tenant, dir. Roman Polanski
  • The Great Train Robbery, dir. Edwin S. Porter
  • Thomas Bernhard. Drei Tage (Thomas Bernhard – Three Days), dir. Ferry Radax
  • La retour à la raison, dir. Man Ray
  • Bigger Than Life, dir. Nicholas Ray
  • The Jerk, dir. Carl Reiner
  • Die Abenteuer des Prinzen Achmed (The Adventures of Prince Achmed), dir. Lotte Reiniger
  • Steamboat Bill, Jr., dir. Charles Reisner & Buster Keaton
  • Stripes, dir. Ivan Reitman
  • Rhythmus 21, dir. Hans Richter
  • Vormittagsspuk (Ghosts Before Breakfast), dir. Hans Richter
  • Traficante de sueños (Sleep Dealer), dir. Alex Rivera
  • L’ère industrielle: Métamorphoses du paysage, dir. Éric Rohmer
  • Entretien sur Pascal, dir. Éric Rohmer
  • Le genou de Claire (Claire’s Knee), dir. Éric Rohmer
  • L’amour l’après-midi (Love in the Afternoon), dir. Éric Rohmer
  • Véronique et son cancre, dir. Éric Rohmer
  • Pauline à la plage, dir. Éric Rohmer
  • La carrière de Suzanne (Suzanne’s Career), dir. Éric Rohmer
  • Nadja à Paris (Nadja in Paris), dir. Éric Rohmer
  • Ma nuit chez Maud (My Night at Maud’s), dir. Éric Rohmer
  • Une étudiante d’aujourd’hui (A Modern Coed), dir. Éric Rohmer
  • La collectionneuse, dir. Éric Rohmer
  • La boulangère de Monceau (The Bakery Girl of Monceau), dir. Éric Rohmer
  • Présentation ou Charlotte et son steak (Presentation, or Charlotte and Her Steak), dir. Éric Rohmer
  • Le rayon vert (Summer), dir. Éric Rohmer
  • Conte d’hiver (A Winter’s Tale), dir. Éric Rohmer
  • Louis Lumière, dir. Éric Rohmer
  • Viaggio in Italia, dir. Roberto Rossellini
  • Laviamoci il Cervello (RoGoPaG), dir. Roberto Rossellini, Jean-Luc Godard, Pier Paolo Passolini & Ugo Gregoretti
  • Mistérios de Lisboa (Mysteries of Lisbon), dir. Raúl Ruiz
  • Colloque de chiens, dir. Raúl Ruiz
  • Flirting with Disaster, dir. David O. Russell
  • The Fighter, dir. David O. Russell
  • Wind in Our Hair/Con viento en el pelo, dir. Lynne Sacks
  • The Last Happy Day, dir. Lynne Sacks
  • The Task of the Translator, dir. Lynne Sacks
  • Planet of the Apes, dir. Franklin J. Schaffner
  • Ins blaue hinein (Into the Blue), dir. Eugen Schüfftan
  • Alien, dir. Ridley Scott
  • The Cameraman, dir. Edward Sedgwick
  • Free and Easy, dir. Edward Sedgwick
  • Speak Easily, dir. Edward Sedgwick
  • Spite Marriage, dir. Edward Sedgwick & Buster Keaton
  • Tierische Liebe (Animal Love), dir. Ulrich Seidl
  • Mabel’s Dramatic Career, dir. Mack Sennett
  • La cambrure, dir. Edwige Shaki
  • Bathing Beauty, dir. George Sidney
  • DDR/DDR, dir. Amie Siegel
  • Der Mann, der seinen Mörder sucht (Looking for His Murderer) dir. Robert Siodmak
  • He Who Gets Slapped, dir. Victor Sjöström
  • Bubble, dir. Steven Soderbergh
  • The Decline of Western Civilization, dir. Penelope Spheeris
  • The Decline of Western Civilization, Part II: The Metal Years, dir. Penelope Spheeris
  • The Last Days of Disco, dir. Whit Stillman
  • Barcelona, dir. Whit Stillman
  • Metropolitan, dir. Whit Stillman
  • Hail the Conquering Hero, dir. Preston Sturges
  • Disco Dancer, dir. Babbar Subhash
  • The Polymath: The Life and Opinions of Samuel R. Delany, Gentleman, dir. Fred Barney Taylor
  • Jackass 3D, dir. Jeff Tremaine
  • The Thin Man, dir. W. M. Van Dyke
  • The Young Victoria, dir. Jean-Marc Vallée
  • After the Thin Man, dir. W. S. Van Dyke
  • L’opéra-mouffe, dir. Agnès Varda
  • Réponse de femmes, dir. Agnès Varda
  • Plaisir d’amour en Iran, dir. Agnès Varda
  • Starship Troopers, dir. Paul Verhoeven
  • Человек с киноаппаратом (Man with a Movie Camera), dir. Dziga Vertov
  • À propos de Nice, dir. Jean Vigo
  • Zéro de conduite, dir. Jean Vigo
  • Taris, roi de l’eau, dir. Jean Vigo
  • Underworld, dir. Joseph von Sternberg
  • Shanghai Express, dir. Joseph von Sternberg
  • The Scarlet Empress, dir. Josef von Sternberg
  • The Docks of New York, dir. Josef von Sternberg
  • Blonde Venus, dir. Josef von Sternberg
  • The Last Command, dir. Josef von Sternberg
  • The Devil Is a Woman, dir. Josef von Sternberg
  • Morocco, dir. Josef von Sternberg
  • Der blaue Engel (The Blue Angel), dir. Josef von Sternberg
  • Greed, dir. Erich von Stroheim
  • The Thief of Bagdad, dir. Raoul Walsh
  • Cecil B. Demented, dir. John Waters
  • Punishment Park, dir. Peter Watkins
  • สุดเสน่หา (Blissfully Yours), dir. Apichatpong Weerasethakul
  • แสงศตวรรษ (Syndromes and a Century), dir. Apichatpong Weerasethakul
  • สัตว์ประหลาด (Tropical Malady), dir. Apichatpong Weerashethakul
  • Phantoms of Nabua, dir. Apichatpong Weerashethakul
  • A Letter to Uncle Boonmee, dir. Apichatpong Weerashethakul
  • ลุงบุญมีระลึกชาติ (Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives), dir. Apichatpong Weerashethakul
  • Macbeth, dir. Orson Welles
  • The Hearts of Age, dir. Orson Welles & William Vance
  • Bis ans Ende der Welt (Until the End of the World) (long version), dir. Wim Wenders
  • Orlacs Hände (The Hands of Orlac), dir. Robert Wiene
  • The Lost Weekend, dir. Billy Wilder
  • Ace in the Hole, dir. Billy Wilder
  • The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes, dir. Billy Wilder
  • Forbidden Planet, dir. Fred McLeod Wilcox
  • Titicut Follies, dir. Frederick Wiseman
  • High School, dir. Frederick Wiseman
  • Primate, dir. Frederick Wiseman
  • Boxing Gym, dir. Frederick Wiseman
  • Possession, dir. Andrzej Żuławski
  • Na srebrnym globie (On the Silver Globe), dir. Andrzej Żuławski

december 22–december 31

Books

Films

  • True Grit, directed by Joel Coen & Ethan Coen
  • Anémic Cinéma, dir. Marcel Duchamp
  • Ballet mécanique, dir. Fernand Léger
  • Symphonie diagonale, dir. Viking Eggeling
  • Le Vampire, dir. Jean Painlevé
  • The Hearts of Age, dir. Orson Welles & William Vance
  • Rhythmus 21, dir. Hans Richter
  • Vormittagsspuk (Ghosts Before Breakfast), dir. Hans Richter
  • La retour à la raison, dir. Man Ray
  • The Designated Mourner, dir. David Hare
  • eXistenZ, dir. David Cronenberg

december 11–december 21

Books

Films

  • Alien Resurrection, directed by Jean-Pierre Jeunet
  • Shoah, dir. Claude Lanzmann
  • A Serious Man, dir. Joel Coen & Ethan Coen
  • The Fighter, dir. David O. Russell
  • L’enfer d’Henri-Georges Clouzot, dir. Serge Bromberg & Ruxandra Medrea

Exhibits

  • “Suprasensorial: Experiments in Light, Color, and Space,” The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA, Los Angeles
  • “The Artist’s Museum,” The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA, Los Angeles

december 1–december 10

Books

Films

  • แสงศตวรรษ (Syndromes and a Century), directed by Apichatpong Weerasethakul
  • Aliens, dir. James Cameron
  • The Cat and the Canary, dir. Paul Leni
  • The Last Command, dir. Josef von Sternberg
  • The Last Command, dir. Josef von Sternberg
  • Tron, dir. Steven Lisberger
  • Panique au village (A Town Called Panic), dir. Stéphane Aubier & Vincent Patar
  • Frau im Mond (Woman in the Moon) , dir. Fritz Lang
  • Alien 3, dir. David Fincher

Exhibits

  • “Leonardo’s Last Supper: A Vision by Peter Greenaway,” Park Avenue Armory

november 16–november 24

Books

Films

  • The Devil Is a Woman, directed by Josef von Sternberg
  • Three on a Match, dir. Mervyn LeRoy
  • Female, dir. Michael Curtiz
  • Ins blaue hinein (Into the Blue), dir. Eugen Schüfftan
  • Der Mann, der seinen Mörder sucht (Looking for His Murderer) dir. Robert Siodmak
  • The Flame of New Orleans, dir. René Clair
  • Nico Icon, dir. Susanne Ofteringer
  • Sauve qui peut (la vie) (Every Man for Himself), dir. Jean-Luc Godard

Exhibits

  • “Body and Soul: Masterpieces of Renaissance and Baroque Sculpture,” Moretti Fine Art
  • “Fred Otnes: A Retrospective,” Kouros Gallery

november 6–november 15

Books

Exhibits

  • “Blinky Palermo: Retrospective 1964–1977,” LACMA
  • “Olmec: Colossal Masterworks of Ancient Mexico,” LACMA
  • “Eye for the Sensual: Selections from the Resnick Collection,” LACMA
  • “Eva Hesse Spectres 1960,” Hammer Museum, Los Angeles
  • “Erwin Wurm: Gulp,” Lehmann Maupin
  • “Ana Medieta: Documentation and Artwork, 1972–1985,” Galerie LeLong
  • “To John J. O’Connor from Nam June Paik,” Curatorial Research Lab at Winkleman Gallery
  • “Do Not Abandon Me: Louise Bourgeois & Tracey Emin,” Carolina Nitsch Project Room
  • “Paul Thek: Cityscapes and Other Ideas / Peter Hujar: Thek’s Studio 1967,” Alexander & Bonin
  • “Adrian Piper: Past Time: Selected Works 1973–1995,” Elizabeth Dee
  • “Anselm Kiefer: Next Year in Jerusalem,” Gagosian
  • “Robert Rauschenberg,” Gagosian
  • “Shifting the Gaze: Painting and Feminism,” Jewish Museum

Films

  • Die Abenteuer des Prinzen Achmed (The Adventures of Prince Achmed), dir. Lotte Reiniger
  • Bathing Beauty, dir. George Sidney
  • Nothing Ventured, dir. Harun Farocki
  • Serious Games, dir. Harun Farocki
  • Das Testament des Dr. Mabuse (The Testament of Dr. Mabuse), dir. Fritz Lang
  • Guy and Madeline on a Park Bench, dir. Damien Chazelle
  • Max-Out, dir. Robert Kaylor
  • Derby, dir. Robert Kaylor
  • Hail the Conquering Hero, dir. Preston Sturges