February '13 Screening Log

A log of the best films I saw in February of 2013. Inspired by Peter Labuza's log. Tiered by colors. Red is 5 stars, orange is 4 1/2 stars, green is 4 stars, blue is 3 1/2 stars, purple is 3 stars (out of a maximum of 5 stars).

First Viewings
1. Modern Romance (Albert Brooks, USA, 1981)
2. Heat (Michael Mann, USA, 1995)
3. Die Hard (John McTiernan, USA, 1988)
4. Distant Voices, Still Lives (Terence Davies, United Kingdom, 1988)
5. Life, and Nothing More... (Abbas Kiarostami, Iran, 1991)
6. The Traveler (Abbas Kiarostami, Iran, 1974)
7. Night Across the Street (Raúl Ruiz, Chile, 2012)
8. Where is the Friend's Home? (Abbas Kiarostami, Iran, 1987)
9. Homework (Abbas Kiarostami, Iran, 1989)
10. Two Solutions for One Problem (Abbas Kiarostami, Iran, 1975)

Also Notable: Lost in America (Albert Brooks, USA, 1985), Gebo and the Shadow (Manoel de Oliveira, Portugal/France, 2012), In Another Country (Hong Sang-soo, South Korea/France, 2012), Side Effects (Steven Soderbergh, USA, 2013), eXistenZ (David Cronenberg, Canada/United Kingdom, 1999), Detective Dee and the Mystery of the Phantom Flame (Tsui Hark, Hong Kong/China, 2010), Amuse-gueule #1: "Digital Destinies" (Gina Telaroli, USA, 2012), Penance (Kiyoshi Kurosawa, Japan, 2012), Jonathan Rosenbaum, Present (Ignatiy Vishnevetsky, USA, 2013), The Bread and Alley (Abbas Kiarostami, Iran, 1970), The Report (Abbas Kiarostami, Iran, 1977), The Breaktime (Abbas Kiarostami, Iran, 1972), Solution (Abbas Kiarostami, Iran, 1978)

Revisited
1. Public Enemies (Michael Mann, USA, 2009)