Films Seen In 2011

Submitted by AJDaGreat on Mon, 01/03/2011 - 23:13
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  1. La Notte (1961)
  2. Planet of the Apes (1968)
  3. Another Year (2010)
  4. Barney's Version (2010)
  5. Biutiful (2010)
  6. Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind (1984)
  7. Faces (1968)
  8. King Kong (2005)
  9. Walkabout (1971)
  10. Blue Valentine (2010)
  11. The Seventh Seal (1957)*
  12. The Talented Mr. Ripley (1999)
  13. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2009)
  14. Please Give (2010)
  15. Local Hero (1983)
  16. Dear Zachary: A Letter to a Son About His Father (2008)
  17. Mary and Max (2009)
  18. Harvie Krumpet (2003) (short)
  19. Week End (1967)
  20. Dead Man (1995)
  21. Throne of Blood (1957)*
  22. Fitzcarraldo (1982)
  23. Limelight (1952)
  24. The Red Balloon (1956) (short)
  25. Cat People (1942)
  26. The Lady Eve (1941)*
  27. Metropolis (1927)*
  28. Beautiful Girls (1996)
  29. The Royal Tenenbaums (2001)*
  30. Make Way for Tomorrow (1937)
  31. Now, Voyager (1942)
  32. Cedar Rapids (2011)
  33. Gaslight (1944)
  34. El Norte (1983)
  35. Animal Kingdom (2010)
  36. Dirty Harry (1971)
  37. Winchester '73 (1950)
  38. Superman II (1980)
  39. The Red Violin (1998)
  40. Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter... and Spring (2003)
  41. Eating Raoul (1982)*
  42. Stroszek (1977)
  43. Woman in the Dunes (1964)
  44. Modern Times (1936)*
  45. East of Eden (1955)
  46. Source Code (2011)
  47. Win Win (2011)
  48. The Virgin Spring (1960)
  49. On the Waterfront (1954)*
  50. Bringing Up Baby (1938)*
  51. The Pride of the Yankees (1942)
  52. Becket (1964)
  53. What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (1962)
  54. Rango (2011)
  55. Beau Travail (1999)
  56. The Long Goodbye (1973)*
  57. The Informer (1935)
  58. Rear Window (1954)*
  59. Bridesmaids (2011)
  60. The Tree of Life (2011)
  61. Midnight in Paris (2011)
  62. Thelma and Louise (1991)
  63. All About My Mother (1999)
  64. Annie Hall (1977)*
  65. Super 8 (2011)
  66. X-Men: First Class (2011)
  67. Mon Oncle D'Amerique (1980)
  68. Safe (1995)
  69. Salvatore Giuliano (1962)
  70. A Canterbury Tale (1944)
  71. Rebecca (1940)*
  72. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part II (2011)
  73. The Thin Red Line (1998)
  74. The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974)
  75. Death in Venice (1971)
  76. Sunset Boulevard (1950)*
  77. Claire's Knee (1970)
  78. Crumb (1994)
  79. The Future (2011)
  80. Paisan (1946)
  81. Crazy, Stupid, Love (2011)
  82. Rio (2011)
  83. The Defiant Ones (1958)
  84. Beginners (2010)
  85. Forbidden Games (1952)
  86. An Autumn Afternoon (1962)
  87. The Guard (2011)
  88. Drive (2011)
  89. Moneyball (2011)
  90. Earth (1930)
  91. Hot Coffee (2011)
  92. The Great Muppet Caper (1981)
  93. The Ides of March (2011)
  94. 50/50 (2011)
  95. The Help (2011)
  96. Margin Call (2011)
  97. Take Shelter (2011)
  98. Face/Off (1997)
  99. The Descendants (2011)
  100. Martha Marcy May Marlene (2011)
  101. The Muppets (2011)
  102. Shame (2011)
  103. The Artist (2011)
  104. Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (2011)
  105. My Week with Marilyn (2011)
  106. Young Adult (2011)
  107. War Horse (2011)
  108. The Adventures of Tintin (2011)
  109. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2011)
  110. Arthur Christmas (2011)
  111. Melancholia (2011)
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* = rewatch

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Films Seen In 2010
AfterHours05/05/2011

What did you think of What Ever Happened To Baby Jane?

AJDaGreat06/13/2011

AfterHours - I'm sorry to have ignored you for so long. At the time, I was hoping that I'd get around to updating my "Damn" review list soon enough to satisfy your question, but I've been slacking off on that one and I'm afraid I just don't think I'll feel motivated to keep updating it. Part of that, surely, is knowing I'm starting law school in late August and I'll have precious little free time to review films then.

Anyway, to me What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? played like the insane, campy version of Sunset Boulevard, which is one of my all-time favorite movies. It's grotesquely weird, darkly comical, and intensely creepy, and I enjoyed every pulpy minute of it.

AfterHours06/14/2011

Nice, we totally agree ( : I recommend Hush...Hush Sweet Charlotte if you haven't seen it already - in the words of a reviewer from TV Guide: "makes Jane look like masterpiece theater."

I just saw Tree of Life on Sunday night and was blown away. You?

AJDaGreat06/16/2011

I thought Tree of Life was a great film, albeit one bogged down by a few complete WTF moments. The dinosaurs struck me as incredibly silly; some of the narration falls flat (I felt that even more strongly about The New World); and what is Sean Penn doing in that movie, exactly? Still, for the most part it was a gorgeous and thought-provoking film. I love movies that deal with childhood but don't romanticize it, that deal with strict fathers but don't demonize them. Phenomenal acting throughout.

And I should check out Hush... Hush Sweet Charlotte. It sounds wonderfully nutty.

AfterHours06/19/2011

Re: Sean Penn... he definitely had a small "on-screen" part. His character did have a clear purpose though and that was simply to show the young boy as a middle aged adult reflecting back on his life. Much of the film are his own reflections on his childhood--so in that sense he has a huge part in the film. Personally, I don't think Malick's intentions were to make it a film dominated by actors (though the acting was superb)...as I'm sure you'll agree the film was more a subjective experience (a state of mind) than one mired purely in reality. I thought the narration bonded strongly with the characters themselves; sometimes it was confused but I believe this was intentional; Malick likes to communicate lost innocence, searching for the truth, and in my opinion it works beautifully and is very affecting. When you were a child wasn't your "internal dialogue" sometimes confused/naive? Would all your ruminations have been perfect poetry/prose?

Re: the dinosaurs... I was glad they weren't a significant part of the film because it could've gotten away from Malick if they were. Fortunately they were only on-screen for a few minutes, though I differ from you in that I didn't think they detracted from the film (they could've and probably would have without the context). I just thought they served a very minor purpose as a piece of the cosmic puzzle, after the creation of the universe and the beginnings of life on earth, and Malick was simply showing this, no more no less; personally, I thought it was such a brief few moments just like many other brief moments during that particular sequence--had he left it in there or removed it the film would've remained the same, basically.

And yes, Hush...Hush Sweet Charlotte is pretty balls to the wall...Aldrich completely loses it...

I look forward to your thoughts, as well as your next "Damn..." reviews, hopefully coming soon ( :

On a separate note: I am anticipating Von Trier's upcoming Melancholia pretty highly. Hopefully it's as amazing as the trailers suggest. It should at least be very good--Von Trier seems incapable of making a bad film--he is always at least fascinating (if your "worst" film is one of the most extraordinary visual experiences in film history [Medea] than you're doing pretty good... though I say that knowing that I have yet to see all his movies)