Imposter's Movielog - 2009
Submitted by Imposter on Mon, 01/12/2009 - 06:00
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Jan
- [01/03] Be Kind Rewind (2008, dir: Michel Gondry) - ***½
- [01/06] Decision At Sundown (1957, dir: Budd Boetticher) - ****
- [01/07] Taxi To The Dark Side (2007, dir: Alex Gibney) - ****½
- [01/10] The Blue Dahlia (1946, dir: George Marshall) - ****
- [01/11] Seven Men From Now (1956, dir: Budd Boetticher) - ****
- [01/12] Buchanan Rides Alone (1956, dir: Budd Boetticher) - ****
- [01/13] The Crowd (1928, dir: King Vidor) - *****
- [01/14] Ride Lonesome (1959, dir: Budd Boetticher) - ****½
- [01/17] Day Of The Outlaw (1959, dir: Andre De Toth) - ****½
- [01/17] Le Plaisir (1952, dir: Max Ophuls) - ****½
- [01/17] Brighton Rock (1947, dir: John Boulting) - ****
- [01/19] Comanche Station (1960, dir: Budd Boetticher) - ****
- [01/21] The Touch (1971, dir: Ingmar Bergman) - ***
- [01/24] The Beast Within (1982, dir: Phillipe Mora) - **½
- [01/24] [+] Star Trek II: The Wrath Of Khan (1982, dir: Nicholas Meyer) - ****½
- [01/25] Le Doulos (1962, dir: Jean-Pierre Melville) - ****
- [01/31] The Whole Town's Talking (1935, dir: John Ford) - ***½
- [01/31] Eat Drink Man Woman (1994, dir: Ang Lee) - ****½
Feb
- [02/02] The Dark Corner (1946, dir: Henry Hathaway) - ***½
- [02/03] [+] The Buddy Holly Story (1978, dir: Steve Rash) - ****
- [02/04] The Science Of Sleep (2006, dir: Michel Gondry) - ***
- [02/07] Roman Polanski: Wanted And Desired (2008, dir: Marina Zenovich) - ****
- [02/07] Scenes From A Marriage (1973, dir: Ingmar Bergman) - ****½
- [02/08] [+] A Matter Of Life And Death (1946, dir: Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger) - *****
- [02/11] The Shuttered Room (1967, dir: David Greene) - ***
- [02/14] It! (1966, dir: Herbert J. Leder) - ***
- [02/14] The Point (1971, dir: Fred Wolf) - ****
- [02/15] The Little Foxes (1941, dir: William Wyler) - ***½
- [02/15] Faust (1926, dir: F.W. Murnau) - ****
- [02/17] Smart Money (1931, dir: Alfred E. Green) - ***½
- [02/18] Picture Snatcher (1933, dir: Lloyd Bacon) - ***½
- [02/21] Lady Killer (1933, dir: Roy Del Bluth) - ****
- [02/21] The Mayor Of Hell (1933, dir: Archie Mayo) - ***½
- [02/22] Gold Diggers Of 1935 (1935, dir: Busby Berkeley) - ****
- [02/22] Black Legion (1936, dir: Archie L. Mayo) - ***½
- [02/24] The Inglorious Bastards (1978, dir: Enzo G. Castellari) - ****
- [02/25] Day Of Wrath (1943, dir: Carl Theodor Dreyer) - ****½
- [02/28] Hobson's Choice (1954, dir: David Lean) - ****½
- [02/28] The Devil And Daniel Webster (1941, dir: William Dieterle) - ****
Mar
- [03/01] [+] Laura (1944, dir: Otto Preminger) - ****½
- [03/02] Hellzapoppin' (1941, dir: H.C. Potter) - ****
- [03/03] The Dunwich Horror (1970, dir: Daniel Haller) - **½
- [03/04] The Wrestler (2008, dir: Darren Aronovsky) - ****
- [03/04] The Little Giant (1933, dir: Roy Del Bluth) - ***½
- [03/07] Dames (1934, dir: Ray Enright, Busby Berkeley) - ***½
- [03/07] Die, Monster, Die! (1965, dir: Daniel Haller) - **½
- [03/07] Johnny Guitar (1954, dir: Nicholas Ray) - ****½
- [03/08] Ashes Of Time Redux (2008, dir: Wong Kar-Wai) - ****½
- [03/09] City For Conquest (1940, dir: Anatole Litvak) - ****
- [03/10] Gold Diggers Of 1933 (1933, dir: Mervyn LeRoy) - ****½
- [03/11] Footlight Parade (1933, dir: Lloyd Bacon) - ****½
- [03/14] Crazy Mama (1975, dir: Jonathan Demme) - **½
- [03/14] Five (1951, dir: Arch Oboler) - ****
- [03/14] Altered States (1980, dir: Ken Russell) - ***½
- [03/15] The Three Musketeers (1948, dir: George Sidney) - ****
- [03/15] Shack Out On 101 (1955, dir: Edward Dein) - ***½
- [03/17] Watchmen (2009, dir: Zack Snyder) - ****
- [03/18] 20 Million Miles To Earth (1957, dir: Nathan Juran) - ***½
- [03/21] Assault On Precinct 13 (1976, dir: John Carpenter) - ****
- [03/21] The Witches (1966, dir: Cyril Frankel) - ***
- [03/21] Let The Right One In (2008, dir: Tomas Alfredson) - ****½
- [03/22] The Bullfighter And The Lady (1951, dir; Budd Boetticher) - ****
- [03/24] Shake Hands With The Devil (1959, dir: Richard Anderson) - ****
- [03/25] Affair In Trinidad (1952, dir: Vincent Sherman) - ***
- [03/28] The Cincinnati Kid (1965, dir: Norman Jewison) - ****
- [03/28] The Lodger (1944, dir: John Brahm) - ***½
- [03/30] The Dawn Patrol (1938, dir: Edmund Goulding) - ****
Apr
- [04/05] The Adventures Of Don Juan (1948, dir: Vincent Sherman) - ***½
- [04/05] Tell No One (2006, dir: Guillaume Canet) - ****½
- [04/11] The Warriors (1979, dir: Walter Hill) - ****
- [04/11] Synecdoche, New York (2008, dir: Charlie Kaufman) - ***
- [04/12] Michael Collins (1996, dir: Neil Jordan) - ****
- [04/12] Elegy (2008, dir: Isabel Coixet) - ****
- [04/15] Forgetting Sarah Marshall (2008, dir: Nicholas Stoller) - ***½
- [04/18] The Outlaw Josey Wales (1976, dir: Clint Eastwood) - ****½
- [04/18] The World's Greatest Sinner (1962, dir: Timothy Carey) - ***½
- [04/19] Anatomy Of A Murder (1959, dir: Otto Preminger) - ****½
- [04/25] The Wind That Shakes The Barley (2006, dir: Ken Loach) - ****
- [04/25] Milk (2008, dir: Gus Van Sant) - ****½
- [04/26] Gold Diggers Of 1937 (1936, dir: Lloyd Bacon, Busby Berkeley) - ***
- [04/29] [+] Monsieur Hire (1989, dir: Patrice Leconte) - ****½
May
- [05/02] Butch Cassidy And The Sundance Kid (1969, dir: George Roy Hill) - ***½
- [05/03] Hollywood Hotel (1937, dir: Busby Berkeley) - ***½
- [05/06] Colossus: The Forbin Project (1970, dir: Joseph Sargent) - ****
- [05/08] Star Trek (2009, dir: J.J. Abrams) - ****
- [05/09] Frost/Nixon (2008, dir: Ron Howard) - ***½
- [05/09] [+] The Andromeda Strain (1971, dir: Robert Wise) - ****
- [05/13] The Professionals (1966, dir: Richard Brooks) - ****½
- [05/16] High Plains Drifter (1973, dir: Clint Eastwood) - ****
- [05/16] The Visitor (2007, dir: Thomas McCarthy) - ****
- [05/27] Ladies Of Leisure (1930, dir: Frank Capra) - ***
- [05/28] The Dragon Murder Case (1934, dir: H. Bruce Humberstone) - ***
- [05/30] Cool Hand Luke (1967, dir: Stuart Rosenberg) - ****
- [05/30] Slumdog Millionaire (2008, dir: Danny Boyle, Loveleen Tandan) - ****
- [05/31] Johnny Got His Gun (1971, dir: Dalton Trumbo) - ****
Jun
- [06/01] The Anderson Tapes (1971, dir: Sidney Lumet) - ****
- [06/02] Goodbye Again (1961, dir: Anatole Litvak) - ***½
- [06/06] Slaughterhouse-Five (1972, dir: George Roy Hill - ****½
- [06/06] Diner (1982, dir: Barry Levinson) - ****½
- [06/07] Satin Rouge (2002, dir: Raja Amari) - ****
- [06/07] The Cimmaron Kid (1952, dir: Budd Boetticher) - ***
- [06/07] The Man From The Alamo (1953, dir: Budd Boetticher) - ****
- [06/09] Bombshell (1933, dir: Victor Fleming) - ***½
- [06/13] Test Pilot (1938, dir: Victor Fleming) - ****
- [06/13] 47 Ronin (1994, dir: Kon Ichikawa) - ****
- [06/16] Berlin Express (1948, dir: Jacques Tourneur) - ***½
- [06/20] Love Crazy (1941, dir: Jack Conway) - ****
- [06/20] The Good Fairy (1935, dir: William Wyler) - ****
- [06/21] Persepolis (2007, dir: Vincent Paronnaud, Marjane Satrapi) - ****½
- [06/24] [+] Dr. Strangelove: Or, How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love The Bomb (1964, dir: Stanley Kubrick) - *****
- [06/27] Inside Man (2006, dir: Spike Lee) - ***½
- [06/27] The Killer Is Loose (1956, dir: Budd Boetticher) - ***½
- [06/28] Metropolitan (1990, dir: Whit Stillman) - ***
- [06/30] [+] Trafic (1971, dir: Jacques Tati) - ****
Jul
- [07/01] Last Year At Mairenbad (1961, dir: Alain Resnais) - ****½
- [07/03] Public Enemies (2009, dir: Michael Mann) - ***½
- [07/04] The Case Of The Howling Dog (1934, dir: Alan Crosland) - ***
- [07/04] The Case Of The Curious Bride (1935, dir: Michael Curtiz) - ***
- [07/04] The Case Of The Lucky Legs (1935, dir: Archie Mayo) - ***
- [07/04] The Case Of The Velvet Claws (1936, dir: William Clemens) - ***
- [07/04] The International (2009, dir: Tom Twyker) - ***½
- [07/05] [+] Man Of The West (1958, dir: Anthony Mann) - ****½
- [07/11] Each Dawn I Die (1939, dir: William Keighley) - ***½
- [07/11] Tokyo! (2008, dir: Michel Gondry, Leos Carax, Joon-ho Bong) - ***
- [07/11] Zabriskie Point (1970, dir: Michelangelo Antonioni) - ***
- [07/12] Rich And Strange (1931, dir: Alfred Hitchcock) - ***½
- [07/12] My Dinner With Andre (1981, dir: Louis Malle) - ****½
- [07/18] The Day Of The Jackal (1973, dir: Fred Zinneman) - ****
- [07/18] The Reader (2008, dir: Stephen Daldry) - ***½
- [07/19] Varsity Show (1937, dir: William Keighley) - ***½
- [07/19] Gold Diggers In Paris (1938, dir: Roy Enright) - ***
- [07/22] The Last Detail (1973, dir: Hal Ashby) - ****
- [07/25] Marooned (1969, dir: John Sturges) - ****
- [07/25] Of Mice And Men (1939, dir: Lewis Milestone) - ****
- [07/26] The Horn Blows At Midnight (1945, dir: Raoul Walsh) - ***½
- [07/29] The Pit And The Pendulum (1961, dir: Roger Corman) - ****
- [07/31] Funny People (2009, dir: Judd Apatow) - ****
Aug
- [08/01] Shock (1946, dir: Alfred Werker) - ***
- [08/01] The Conformist (1970, dir: Bernardo Bertolucci) - ****½
- [08/02] Osaka Elegy (1936, dir: Kenji Mizoguchi) - ****
- [08/02] Sisters Of The Gion (1936, dir: Kenji Mizoguchi) - ****
- [08/04] Gumshoe (1971, dir: Stephen Frears) - ***
- [08/09] The Americanization Of Emily (1964, dir: Arthur Hiller) - ****½
- [08/09] Doubt (2008, dir: John Patrick Shanley) - ****½
- [08/12] Boccaccio '70 (1962, dir: Vittorio De Sica, Federico Fellini, Mario Monicelli, Luchino Visconti) - ****
- [08/15] Five Guns West (1955, dir: Roger Corman) - **½
- [08/15] Like Water For Chocolate (1992, dir: Alfonso Arau) - ****
- [08/19] Roustabout (1964, dir: John Rich) - ***½
- [08/21] Inglourious Basterds (2009, dir: Quentin Tarantino) - ****
- [08/22] The Bride With White Hair 2 (1993, dir: David Wu) - ***½
- [08/22] Un Femme Mariee (1964, dir: Jean-Luc Godard) - ***½
- [08/23] Chocolat (1988, dir: Claire Denis) - ****
- [08/23] The Saragossa Manuscript (1965, dir: Wojciech Has) - ****
- [08/26] [+] Loving (1970, dir: Irvin Kershner) - ****
- [08/30] Chocolat (2000, dir: Lasse Halstrom) - ***½
Sept
- [09/05] A Kid For Two Farthings (1955, dir: Carol Reed) - ****
- [09/05] Party Wire (1935, dir: Eric C. Kenton) - ***½
- [09/06] Farewell, My Lovely (1975, dir: Dick Richards) - ****
- [09/07] [+] Murder, My Sweet (1944, dir: Edward Dmytryk) - ****½
- [09/08] There's Always A Woman (1938, dir: Alexander Hall) - ***½
- [09/09] The Amazing Mr. Williams (1939, dir: Alexander Hall) - ***
- [09/12] The Night Of The Following Day (1968, dir: Hubert Cornfield) - ***
- [09/12] Sunshine Cleaning (2008, dir: Christine Jeffs) - ****
- [09/22] The Secret Invasion (1964, dir: Roger Corman) - ***½
- [09/23] Lookin' To Get Out (1982, dir: Hal Ashby) - ***½
- [09/26] Made In U.S.A. (1966, dir: Jean-Luc Godard) - ***
- [09/26] [Rec] (2007, dir: Jaume Belaguero, Paco Plaza) - ****
- [09/29] Moon (2009, dir: Duncan Jones) - ****
Oct
- [10/01] The Informant! (2009, dir: Steven Soderbergh) - ****
- [10/03] Hour Of The Gun (1967, dir: John Sturges) - ****½
- [10/03] Mill Of The Stone Women (1960, dir: Giorgio Ferroni) - ****
- [10/06] That Hamilton Woman (1941, dir: Alexander Korda) - ****½
- [10/07] The Invention Of Lying (2009, dir: Ricky Gervais, Matthew Robinson) - ***½
- [10/07] The Whistler (1944, dir: William Castle) - ***½
- [10/08] Zombieland (2009, dir: Ruben Fleischer) - ***½
- [10/10] Taken (2008, dir: Pierre Morel) - ****
- [10/10] Anvil! The Story Of Anvil (2008, dir: Sascha Gervasi) - ****
- [10/13] Husbands (1970, dir: John Cassavetes) - ****
- [10/14] Killer Of Sheep (1977, dir: Charles Burnett) - ****½
- [10/17] Hitch-Hike (1977, dir: Pasquale Festa Campanile) - ***
- [10/17] Lust For A Vampire (1971, dir: Jimmy Sangster) - ***
- [10/17] The Killer Must Kill Again (1975, dir: Luigi Cozzi) - ***½
- [10/23] The Tingler (1959, dir: William Castle) - ***½
- [10/23] The Cat O'Nine Tails (1971, dir: Dario Argento) - ***½
- [10/28] It Might Get Loud (2009, dir: Davis Guggenheim) - ****
- [10/31] Wagon Master (1959, dir: John Ford) - ****
- [10/31] Castle Of Blood (1964, dir: Antonio Margheriti) - ****
Nov
- [11/01] Hallelujah I'm A Bum (1933, dir: Lewis Milestone) - ***½
- [11/03] The Dead (1987, dir: John Huston) - ****
- [11/04] Smile (1975, dir: Michael Ritchie) - ****
- [11/06] The Men Who Stare At Goats (2009, dir: Grant Heslov) - ****
- [11/07] Slam Dance (1987, dir: Wayne Wang) - ***
- [11/10] Six In Paris (1965, dirs: Jean Douchet, Jean Rouch, Jean-Daniel Pollet, Eric Rohmer, Jean-Luc Godard, Claude Chabrol) - ****
- [11/11] [+] The Best Years Of Our Lives (1946, dir: William Wyler) - *****
- [11/13] Pirate Radio (2009, dir: Richard Curtis) - ***½
- [11/14] Hangmen Also Die! (1943, dir: Fritz Lang) - ****
- [11/14] Alucarda (1975, dir: Juan Lopez Moctezuma) - ***
- [11/17] Innocent Sorcerers (1960, dir: Andrzej Wajda) - ****
- [11/21] El Topo (1970, dir: Alejandro Jodorowsky) - **½
- [11/25] The Gay Sisters (1942, dir: Irving Rapper) - ***
- [11/27] Waterloo Bridge (1940, dir: Mervyn LeRoy) - ****
- [11/28] Running Out Of Time 2 (2001, dir: Johnnie To, Law Win-Cheon) - **½
- [11/28] White Dog (1982, dir: Samuel Fuller) - ****
Dec
- [12/01] Blood And Bones (Chi to home) (204, dir: Yoichi Sai) - ***½
- [12/05] [+] Star Trek (2009, dir: J.J. Abrams) - ****
- [12/05] JCVD (2008, dir: Mabrouk El Mechri) - ****
- [12/08] Reflections In A Golden Eye (1967, dir: John Huston) - ***
- [12/09] Marked Woman (1937, dir: Lloyd Bacon) - ****
- [12/12] The Steel Helmet (1951, dir: Samuel Fuller) - ****½
- [12/12] Pineapple Express (2008, dir: David Gordon Green) - ***½
- [12/12] The Mission (1999, dir: Johnnie To) - ****
- [12/15] The Baader Meinhof Complex (2008, dir: Uli Edel) - ***½
- [12/18] [+] Inglourious Basterds (2009, dir: Quentin Tarantino) - ****
- [12/19] Port Of Call (1948, dir: Ingmar Bergman) - ***½
- [12/22] District 9 (2009, dir: Neill Blomkamp) - ****
- [12/23] Up In The Air (2009, dir: Jason Reitman) - ****
- [12/24] Gloria (1980, dir: John Cassavetes) - ***½
- [12/26] Gran Torino (2008, dir: Clint Eastwood) - ***½
- [12/27] The Serpent's Egg (1978, dir: Ingmar Bergman) - ***
- [12/28] A Christmas Carol (1938, dir: Edwin L. Marin) - ****
- [12/29] Sherlock Holmes (2009, dir: Guy Ritchie) - ***
- [12/30] Holiday Affair (1949, dir: Don Hartman) - ***½
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Hey Imposter, it would be great for the Scoreboard if you could number your complete list!
Kaplan, are you not seeing all the numbers? It's showing that I'm at 182 now.