Deep Focus: 2007

ON DVD/BLU-RAY

28 Weeks Later
The opening sequence of 28 Weeks Later -- call it an opening salvo -- is utterly ferocious. Proceedings start quietly, but this is a sequel to the apocalyptic 28 Days Later, and, as in any zombie movie, peace is only the prelude to a storm of blood and viscera. It starts with a woman trying to cook a meal,...
IN THEATERS

4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days
Formally precise, thematically incisive, and altogether unnerving, 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days is a bravura piece.
IN THEATERS

Silent Light
Silent Light, an unhurried, largely unmodulated story of faith and unfaithfulness in a Mexican Mennonite farming community, is fundamentally a study in opposites by director Carlos Reygadas and cinematographer Alexis Zabé.
IN THEATERS

Stuck
The story was strangely fascinating: a woman driving at night had struck a homeless pedestrian with such force that he tumbled headlong over the hood of the car and straight through the windshield so that his body slumped across the dashboard, impaled on the shattered glass underneath it.

Screening Log

Computer Chess (Andrew Bujalski, 2013) 73/100
Mud (Jeff Nichols, 2012) 56/100
her (Spike Jonze, 2013) 46/100
Frances Ha (Noah Baumbach, 2013) 85/100
The Wolf of Wall Street (Martin Scorsese, 2013) 92/100
American Hustle (David O. Russell, 2013) 44/100
The Hunger Games: Catching Fire (Francis Lawrence, 2013) 19/100
Journey to the West: Conquering the Demons (Stephen Chow, 2013) 71/100
Why Don't You Play in Hell? (Sion Sono, 2013) 62/100
Inside Llewyn Davis (Joel Coen and Ethan Coen, 2013) 88/100
Blue is the Warmest Color (Abdellatif Kechiche, 2013) 70/100
The Counselor (Ridley Scott, 2013) 77/100
Bad Grandpa (Jeff Tremaine, 2013) 48/100
All Is Lost (J.C. Chandor, 2013) 71/100
Captain Phillips (Paul Greengrass, 2013) 57/100
John Carpenter's Prince of Darkness * (John Carpenter, 1987) 85/100
Autumn Sonata (Ingmar Bergman, 2009) 91/100
Riddick (David Twohy, 2013) 53/100
After Tiller (Martha Shane and Lana Wilson, 2013) 54/100
Short Term 12 (Destin Cretton, 2013) 61/100
Blue Jasmine (Woody Allen, 2013) 63/100
You're Next (Adam Wingard, 2011) 64/100
Q * (Larry Cohen, 1982) 65/100
The World's End (Edgar Wright, 2013) 68/100
The Grandmaster (Wong Kar-Wai, 2013) 67/100
The Act of Killing (Joshua Oppenheimer, 2012) 66/100
Passion (Brian De Palma, 2012) 53/100
Swamp Thing (Wes Craven, 2009) 60/100
Sound City (Dave Grohl, 2013) 55/100
Exotica * (Atom Egoyan, 1994) 98/100

An asterisk (*) indicates a repeat viewing.

Top Ten List (by IMDB date: first public screening)

4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days (Cristian Mungiu, 2007)
Ratatouille (Brad Bird, 2007)
There Will Be Blood (P.T. Anderson, 2007)
Silent Light (Carlos Reygadas, 2007)
28 Weeks Later (Juan Carlos Fresnadillo, 2007)
Zodiac (David Fincher, 2007)
Encounters at the End of the World (Werner Herzog, 2007)
The Bourne Ultimatum (Paul Greengrass, 2007)
Eastern Promises (David Cronenberg, 2007)
Stuck (Stuart Gordon, 2007)

2007 U.S. Releases by Grade

Joshua (George Ratliff, 2007) B+
Southland Tales (Richard Kelly, 2006) D
No Country for Old Men (Joel Coen and Ethan Coen, 2007) A-
Eastern Promises (David Cronenberg, 2007) B+
There Will Be Blood (P.T. Anderson, 2007) A
Margot at the Wedding (Noah Baumbach, 2007) B+
Beowulf (Robert Zemeckis, 2007) C+
Atonement (Joe Wright, 2007) B-
Redacted (Brian De Palma, 2007) C
Before the Devil Knows You're Dead (Sidney Lumet, 2007) C+
Michael Clayton (Tony Gilroy, 2007) A-
Dan in Real Life (Peter Hedges, 2007) B-
Feast of Love (Robert Benton, 2007) B-
Halloween (Rob Zombie, 2007) C+
Georgia Rule (Garry Marshall, 2007) C+
The Bourne Ultimatum (Paul Greengrass, 2007) A-
Lucky You (Curtis Hanson, 2007) C-
Waitress (Adrienne Shelly, 2007) B-
Knocked Up (Judd Apatow, 2007) B+
Ocean's Thirteen (Steven Soderbergh, 2007) B
Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer (Tim Story, 2007) C
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (David Yates, 2007) B
Sunshine (Danny Boyle, 2007) B
Ratatouille (Brad Bird, 2007) A
Ghosts of Cité Soleil (Asger Leth, 2006) B
28 Weeks Later (Juan Carlos Fresnadillo, 2007) A-
Vacancy (Nimrod Antal, 2007) C+
The Wind That Shakes the Barley (Ken Loach, 2006) B
Zodiac (David Fincher, 2007) A-
300 (Zack Snyder, 2006) D
The Host (Bong Joon-ho, 2006) B+
Severance (Christopher Smith, 2006) B-
Black Book (Paul Verhoeven, 2006) B+
Exterminating Angels (Jean-Claude Brisseau, 2006) C+
The Messengers (Danny Pang and Oxide Pang, 2007) F

2007 U.S. Releases by Title

Southland Tales (Richard Kelly, 2006) D
No Country for Old Men (Joel Coen and Ethan Coen, 2007) A-
Atonement (Joe Wright, 2007) B-
Redacted (Brian De Palma, 2007) C
Before the Devil Knows You're Dead (Sidney Lumet, 2007) C+
Michael Clayton (Tony Gilroy, 2007) A-
Georgia Rule (Garry Marshall, 2007) C+
Lucky You (Curtis Hanson, 2007) C-
Waitress (Adrienne Shelly, 2007) B-
Knocked Up (Judd Apatow, 2007) B+
Ocean's Thirteen (Steven Soderbergh, 2007) B
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (David Yates, 2007) B
Ratatouille (Brad Bird, 2007) A
Ghosts of Cité Soleil (Asger Leth, 2006) B
Vacancy (Nimrod Antal, 2007) C+
Black Book (Paul Verhoeven, 2006) B+
28 Weeks Later (Juan Carlos Fresnadillo, 2007) A-
300 (Zack Snyder, 2006) D
Beowulf (Robert Zemeckis, 2007) C+
The Bourne Ultimatum (Paul Greengrass, 2007) A-
Dan in Real Life (Peter Hedges, 2007) B-
Eastern Promises (David Cronenberg, 2007) B+
Exterminating Angels (Jean-Claude Brisseau, 2006) C+
Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer (Tim Story, 2007) C
Feast of Love (Robert Benton, 2007) B-
Halloween (Rob Zombie, 2007) C+
The Host (Bong Joon-ho, 2006) B+
Joshua (George Ratliff, 2007) B+
Margot at the Wedding (Noah Baumbach, 2007) B+
The Messengers (Danny Pang and Oxide Pang, 2007) F
Severance (Christopher Smith, 2006) B-
Sunshine (Danny Boyle, 2007) B
There Will Be Blood (P.T. Anderson, 2007) A
The Wind That Shakes the Barley (Ken Loach, 2006) B
Zodiac (David Fincher, 2007) A-

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