Imposter's Movielog - 2008

Submitted by Imposter on Tue, 01/22/2008 - 02:43
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  1. Jan

  2. [01/05] The Hoax (2007, dir: Lasse Halstrom) - ****
  3. [01/06] Blade Runner (1982, dir: Ridley Scott) - ****½ [~]
  4. [01/09] Ms .45 (1981, dir: Abel Ferrara) - ***½
  5. [01/12] Election (2005, dir: Johnny To) - ****
  6. [01/13] Les Biches (1968, dir: Claude Chabrol) - ****
  7. [01/14] Robocop (1987, dir: Paul Verhoeven) - ****½ [~]
  8. [01/15] Land Of The Pharaohs (1955, dir: Howard Hawks) - ****
  9. [01/19] Captain From Castile (1947, dir: Henry King) - ****
  10. [01/19] Close Encounters Of The Third Kind (1977, dir: Steven Spielberg) - ****½ [~]
  11. [01/20] Little Children (2006, dir: Todd Fiend) - ****
  12. [01/21] Witchfinder General (1968, dir: Michael Reeves) - ****½
  13. [01/22] Waitress (2007, dir: Adrienne Shelly) - ***½
  14. [01/26] Munchhausen (1943, dir: Joseph von Blaky) - ****
  15. [01/26] With A Song In My Heart (1952, dir: Walter Lang) - ***
  16. [01/26] Hanzo The Razor: Who's Got The Gold? (1974, dir: Yoshio Inoue) - ***
  17. [01/27] Body And Soul (1947, dir: Robert Rossen) - ****
  18. [01/27] Woman In The Dunes (1964, dir: Hiroshi Teshigahara) - ****½
  19. [01/30] The Bourne Ultimatum (2007, dir: Paul Greengrass) - ***½

  20. Feb

  21. [02/02] Kansas City Confidential (1952, dir: Phil Karlson) - ****
  22. [02/02] A Slight Case Of Murder (1938, dir: Lloyd Bacon) - ***½
  23. [02/02] The Red Pony (1949, dir: Lewis Milestone) - ***
  24. [02/04] Triad Election (2006, dir: Johnnie To) - ***½
  25. [02/05] The Naked Prey (1966, dir: Cornel Wilde) - ****½
  26. [02/09] The Heart Is A Lonely Hunter (1968, dir: Robert Ellis Miller) - ****
  27. [02/09] Wargames (1983, dir: John Badham) - **** [~]
  28. [02/09] House Of Strangers (1949, dir: Joseph L. Mankiewicz) - ***½
  29. [02/10] Mutiny On The Bounty (1962, dir: Lewis Milestone) - ***½
  30. [02/11] 'Breaker' Morant (1980, dir: Bruce Beresford) - ****½
  31. [02/13] The Face Of Another (1966, dir: Hiroshi Teshigahara) - ****½
  32. [02/16] The Spiral Staircase (1945, dir: Robert Siodmak) - ***½
  33. [02/16] Targets (1968, dir: Peter Bogdanovich) - ****
  34. [02/17] X: The Man With The X-Ray Eyes (1963, dir: Roger Corman) - **** [~]
  35. [02/17] Bunny Lake Is Missing (1965, dir: Otto Preminger) - ***
  36. [02/17] Gallipoli (1981, dir: Peter Wier) - ****½
  37. [02/19] Dirty Mary Crazy Larry (1974, dir: John Hough) - ***
  38. [02/23] 3:10 To Yuma (2007, dir: James Mangold) - ***½
  39. [02/23] Downfall (2004, dir: Oliver Hirschbiegel) - ****½
  40. [02/24] Pocketful Of Miracles (1961, dir: Frank Capra) - ***½
  41. [02/25] Southern Comfort (1981, dir: Walter Hill) - ****
  42. [02/27] Knocked Up (2007, dir: Judd Apatow) - ***½

  43. Mar

  44. [03/01] Judgment At Nuremberg (1961, dir: Stanley Kramer) - ***½
  45. [03/01] Thieves Like Us (1974, dir: Robert Altman) - ****
  46. [03/02] Sophie Scholl: The Final Days (2005, dir: Marc Rothemund) - ****
  47. [03/02] Robinson Crusoe On Mars (1964, dir: Byron Haskin) - ****
  48. [03/03] Gas-s-s-s (1971, dir: Roger Corman) - ***
  49. [03/09] Creation Of The Humanoids (1962, dir: Wesley E. Barry) - ***½
  50. [03/09] Sunshine (2007, dir: Danny Boyle) - ***
  51. [03/09] Reno 911!: Miami (2007, dir: Robert Ben Garant) - ***½
  52. [03/10] The Assassination Of Jesse James By The Coward Robert Ford (2007, dir: Andrew Dominick) - ***½
  53. [03/14] Superbad (2007, dir: Greg Mottola) - ***
  54. [03/15] The Living Dead At Manchester Morgue (1974, dir: Jorge Grau) - ****
  55. [03/15] Panic In Year Zero (1962, dir: Ray Milland) - ***½
  56. [03/15] The Last Man On Earth (1964, dir: Sidney Salkow) - ****
  57. [03/16] Barry Lyndon (1975, dir: Stanley Kubrick) - ****½
  58. [03/17] The Commitments (1991, dir: Alan Parker) - ****½ [~]
  59. [03/19] Pink Flamingos (1972, dir: John Waters) - ****
  60. [03/22] The Cranes Are Flying (1957, dir: Mikhail Kalatozov) - ****½
  61. [03/22] Ballad Of A Soldier (1959, dir: Grigori Chukhraj) - ****½
  62. [03/23] Desperate Living (1977, dir: John Waters) - ***
  63. [03/28] Walker (1987, dir: Alex Cox) - ****
  64. [03/29] The Collector (1965, dir: William Wyler) - ***
  65. [03/29] The 36th Chamber Of Shaolin (1978, dir: Lau Kar-Leung) - ****½
  66. [03/30] Grand Hotel (1932, dir: Edmund Goulding) - ****
  67. [03/31] The Divorcee (1930, dir: Robert Z. Leonard) - ***½

  68. Apr

  69. [04/01] A Free Soul (1931, dir: Clarence Brown) - ***½
  70. [04/02] Three On A Match (1932, dir: Mervyn LeRoy) - ****
  71. [04/05] It Came From Outer Space (1953, dir: Jack Arnold) - ***½
  72. [04/05] Went The Day Well? (1942, dir: Alberto Cavalcanti) - ****½
  73. [04/06] The King Of Kong: A Fistful Of Quarters (2007, dir: Seth Gordon) - ****
  74. [04/06] My Young Auntie (1981, dir: Lau Kar-Leung) - ***½
  75. [04/07] Female (1933, dir: Michael Curtiz) - ***½
  76. [04/08] Night Nurse (1931, dir: William A. Wellman) - ***½ [~]
  77. [04/14] Deception (1946, dir: Irving Rapper) - ***½
  78. [04/15] The Star (1952, dir: Stuart Heisler) - ***½
  79. [04/16] The Big Sleep (1978, dir: Michael Winner) - **½
  80. [04/19] Funny Games (1998, dir: Michael Haneke) - ***½
  81. [04/19] Danger Lights (1930, dir: George B. Seitz) - ***
  82. [04/20] Tortilla Flat (1942, dir: Victor Fleming) - ***½
  83. [04/23] In The Mood For Love (2000, dir: Wong Kar-Wai) - ***** [~]
  84. [04/26] Blast Of Silence (1961, dir: Allen Baron) - ****
  85. [04/26] I Am Curious: Yellow (1967, dir: Vilgot Sjoman) - ***
  86. [04/27] I Am Curious: Blue (1968, dir: Vilgot Sjoman) - ***
  87. [04/27] There Will Be Blood (2007, dir: Paul Thomas Anderson) - ****½

  88. May

  89. [05/03] My Little Chickadee (1940, dir: Edward F. Cline) - ****
  90. [05/03] The Omega Man (1971, dir: Boris Sagal) - ***½
  91. [05/04] When Worlds Collide (1951, dir: Rudolph Mate) - ***½
  92. [05/04] More (1969, dir: Barbet Schroeder) - ***
  93. [05/06] I'm Not There (2007, dir: Todd Haynes) - ****½
  94. [05/07] The Long Goodbye (1973, dir: Robert Altman) - ***** [~]
  95. [05/10] The One Armed Swordsman (1967, dir: Cheh Chang) - ****
  96. [05/11] American Gangster (2007, dir: Ridley Scott) - ****½
  97. [05/12] Sweet Movie (1974, dir: Dusan Makavejev) - ***½
  98. [05/13] Delicatessen (1991, dir: Jean-Pierre Jeunet, Marc Caro) - ****½
  99. [05/15] Iron Man (2008, dir: Jon Favreau) - ****
  100. [05/17] The Day Of The Triffids (1963, dir: Steve Sekeley) - ***½
  101. [05/17] Darkman (1991, dir: Sam Raimi) - ***½
  102. [05/18] 3 Women (1977, dir: Robert Altman) - ****
  103. [05/18] Raiders Of The Lost Ark (1981, dir: Steven Spielberg) - ***** [~]
  104. [05/21] Indiana Jones And The Temple Of Doom (1984, dir: Steven Spielberg) - *** [~]
  105. [05/27] My Blueberry Nights (2007, dir: Wong Kar Wai) - ****½
  106. [05/27] Easy Living (1937, dir: Mitchell Liesen) - ****
  107. [05/28] Flash Gordon (1980, dir: Mike Hodges) - *** [~]
  108. [05/31] The Unforgiven (1960, dir: John Huston) - ****
  109. [05/31] Indiana Jones And The Last Crusade (1989, dir: Steven Spielberg) - **** [~]

  110. Jun

  111. [06/01] Shinobo no mono (1962, dir: Satsuo Yamamoto) - ****
  112. [06/01] A Night To Remember (1958, dir: Roy Ward Baker) - ****½
  113. [06/02] I Was Born, But... (1932, dir: Yasujiro Ozu) - ****½ [~]
  114. [06/03] Mask Of The Avenger (1951, dir: Phil Karlson) - ***
  115. [06/07] Too Late For Tears (1949, dir: Byron Haskin) - ****
  116. [06/07] Scarlet Street (1945, dir: Fritz Lang) - **** [~]
  117. [06/08] Shanghai Express (1932, dir: Josef von Sternberg) - ****
  118. [06/08] The Osterman Weekend (1983, dir: Sam Peckinpah) - **½
  119. [06/09] Indiana Jones And The Kingdom Of The Crystal Skull (2008, dir: Steven Spielberg) - ***½
  120. [06/10] Tokyo Chorus (1931, dir: Yasujiro Ozu) - ****
  121. [06/11] The Quiller Memorandum (1966, dir: Michael Anderson) - ***½
  122. [06/14] Machine Gun McCain (1968, dir: Giuliano Montaldo) - ****
  123. [06/14] The One That Got Away (1957, dir: Roy Ward Baker) - ****
  124. [06/15] Death Of A Cyclist (1955, dir: Juan Antonio Bardem) - ****½
  125. [06/15] King Solomon's Mines (1950, dir: Compton Bennett, Andrew Marton) - ****
  126. [06/17] There Was A Father (1942, dir: Yasujiro Ozu) - ****
  127. [06/18] The Band Wagon (1953, dir: Vincente Minnelli) - ****½ [~]
  128. [06/21] Funeral In Berlin (1966, dir: Guy Hamilton) - ****½
  129. [06/21] Billion Dollar Brain (1967, dir: Ken Russell) - ****
  130. [06/28] It's Always Fair Weather (1955, dir: Gene Kelly, Stanley Donen) - ***½
  131. [06/28] Across The Universe (2007, dir: Julie Taymor) - **½
  132. [06/29] The Furies (1950, dir: Anthony Mann) - ****
  133. [06/29] The Safety Of Objects (2001, dir: Rose Troche) - ***

  134. Jul

  135. [07/01] Boy On A Dolphin (1957, dir: Jean Negulesco) - ***½
  136. [07/02] The Lovers (1958, dir: Louis Malle) - ****½
  137. [07/04] The Sand Pebbles (1966, dir: Robert Wise) - ***
  138. [07/05] Fallen Angel (1945, dir: Otto Preminger) - ****½
  139. [07/05] The Family Game (1983, dir: Yoshimitsu Morita) - ***½
  140. [07/06] Dirty Harry (1971, dir: Don Siegel) - ****½ [~]
  141. [07/06] The Colossus Of Rhodes (1961, dir: Sergio Leone) - ***½
  142. [07/08] The Rabbit Is Me (1965, dir: Kurt Maetzig) - ****
  143. [07/10] Get Smart (2008, dir: Peter Segal) - ***½
  144. [07/12] Village Of The Damned (1960, dir: Wolf Rilla) - ****
  145. [07/12] Children Of The Damned (1963, dir: Anton M. Leader) - ***½
  146. [07/12] Invaders From Mars (1953, dir: William Cameron Menzies) - ****
  147. [07/13] The Mark Of Zorro (1920, dir: Fred Niblo) - ****
  148. [07/13] Billy Liar (1963, dir: John Schlesinger) - ****½
  149. [07/14] Mrs. Miniver (1942, dir: William Wyler) - ****
  150. [07/15] You Belong To Me (1941, dir: Wesley Ruggles) - **½
  151. [07/19] The Edge Of The World (1937, dir: Michael Powell) - ****
  152. [07/19] Wanted For Murder (1946, dir: Lawrence Huntington) - ****
  153. [07/20] Classe tous risques (1960, dir: Claude Sautet) - ****
  154. [07/24] The Dark Knight (2008, dir: Christopher Nolan) - ****
  155. [07/26] On An Island With You (1948, dir: Richard Thorpe) - ***
  156. [07/26] The Thief Of Bagdad (1940, dir: Ludwig Berger, Michael Powell, Tim Whelan) - ****½
  157. [07/26] Indiana Jones And The Kingdom Of The Crystal Skull (2008, dir: Steven Spielberg) - ***½ [~]
  158. [07/27] Angel Face (1952, dir: Otto Preminger) - ****
  159. [07/28] The River (1951, dir: Jean Renoir) - *****

  160. Aug

  161. [08/02] Prince Of Foxes (1949, dir: Henry King} - ***½
  162. [08/02] Confessions Of A Nazi Spy (1939, dir: Anatole Litvak) - ****
  163. [08/03] The Prisoner Of Zenda (1937, dir: John Cromwell) - ****½
  164. [08/03] The Prisoner Of Zenda (1952, dir: Richard Thorpe) - ***½
  165. [08/04] Doctor Zhivago (1965, dir: David Lean) - ****
  166. [08/09] The Scarlet Pimpernel (1934, dir: Harold Young) - ****
  167. [08/09] Privilege (1967, dir: Peter Watkins) - ***
  168. [08/10] Eva (1962, dir: Joseph Losey) - ***
  169. [08/10] Madamoiselle (1966, dir: Tony Richardson) - ***½
  170. [08/11] Two-Faced Woman (1941, dir: George Cukor) - ***
  171. [08/12] Joe Strummer: The Future Is Unwritten (2007, dir: Julien Temple) - ***½
  172. [08/13] Wings (1927, dir: William Wellman) - ****½
  173. [08/16] In Bruges (2008, dir: Martin McDonagh) - ****
  174. [08/16] The Man Who Laughs (1928, dir: Paul Leni) - ****½
  175. [08/17] The Southerner (1945, dir: Jean Renoir) - ****½
  176. [08/17] Pierrot le fou (1965, dir: Jean-Luc Godard) - ***½
  177. [08/18] Shine A Light (2008, dir: Martin Scorsese) - ****
  178. [08/19] The Locked Door (1929, dir: George Fitzmaurice) - ***
  179. [08/20] Ten Cents A Dance (1931, dir: Lionel Barrymore) - ***
  180. [08/23] The Small Back Room (1949, dir: Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger) - ****½
  181. [08/23] The Bribe (1949, dir: Robert Z. Leonard) - ***½
  182. [08/24] Cryano de Bergerac (1950, dir: Michael Gordon) - ****
  183. [08/24] The Gaucho (1927, dir: F. Richard Jones) - ***½
  184. [08/27] Scaramouche (1952, dir: George Sidney) - ****
  185. [08/29] Tropic Thunder (2008, dir: Ben Stiller) - ***
  186. [08/30] 4D Man (1959, dir: Irvin S. Yeaworth, Jr.) - ***½
  187. [08/30] Tout va bien (1972, dir: Jean-Luc Godard) - ***
  188. [08/31] Shopworn (1932, dir: Nick Grinde) - ***
  189. [08/31] The Three Musketeers (1921, dir: Fred Niblo) - ****

  190. Sept

  191. [09/01] The Lady Vanishes (1938, dir: Alfred Hitchcock) - ****½ [~]
  192. [09/01] Ever In My Heart (1933, dir: Archie Mayo) - ***
  193. [09/01] The Heart Of The Matter (1953, dir: George More O'Ferrall) - ****
  194. [09/06] Adventure In Manhattan (1936, dir: Edward Ludwig) - *** [~]
  195. [09/06] More Than A Secretary (1936, dir: Alfred E. Green) - ***½
  196. [09/09] The Three Musketeers (1939, dir: Allan Dwan) - ***½
  197. [09/10] Burden Of Dreams (1982, dir: Les Blank) - ****
  198. [09/13] The Diving Bell And The Butterfly (2007, dir: Julian Schnabel) - ****½
  199. [09/14] Serial (1980, dir: Bill Persky) - ***½
  200. [09/16] The Big Lebowski (1998, dir: Joel and Ethan Coen) - ****½ [~]
  201. [09/17] Burn After Reading (2008, dir: Joel and Ethan Coen) - ***½
  202. [09/19] Ghost Town (2008, dir: David Koepp) - ***½
  203. [09/20] Death Note (2006, dir: Shusuke Kanedo) - ***½
  204. [09/20] The Counterfeiters (2007, dir: Stefan Ruzowitzsky) - ****
  205. [09/23] Starship Troopers (1997, dir: Paul Verhoeven) - ***½ [~]
  206. [09/24] The Tall Target (1951, dir: Anthony Mann) - ****
  207. [09/27] The Spirit Of The Beehive (1973, dir: Victor Erice) - ****½
  208. [09/27] The Glass Key (1942, dir: Stuart Heisler) - ****
  209. [09/30] Joyeux Noel (2005, dir: Christian Carion) - ****½

  210. Oct

  211. [10/01] The Killing Of A Chinese Bookie (1976, dir: John Cassavetes) - ****½
  212. [10/04] Boomerang! (1947, dir: Elia Kazan) - ****
  213. [10/04] Ringu 2 (1999, dir: Hideko Nakata) - ***½
  214. [10/08] The Earrings of Madame de... (1953, dir: Max Ophuls) - ****½
  215. [10/11] Fiend Without A Face (1958, dir: Arthur Crabtree) - **½
  216. [10/11] The Haunted Strangler (1958, dir: Robert Day) - ****
  217. [10/14] Corridors Of Blood (1959, dir: Robert Day) - ***½
  218. [10/15] The Man Who Could Cheat Death (1959, dir: Terence Fisher) - ***
  219. [10/18] House Of Wax (1953, dir: Andre de Toth) - ****
  220. [10/18] Mystery Of The Wax Museum (1933, dir: Michael Curtiz) - ****
  221. [10/18] Venus In Furs (1969, dir: Jesus Franco) - ***
  222. [10/21] Dracula A.D. 1972 (1972, dir: Alan Gibson) - **½
  223. [10/22] The Mummy (1932, dir: Karl Freund) - ****½
  224. [10/25] Knives Of The Avenger (1965, dir: Mario Bava) - ***½
  225. [10/25] Five Dolls For An August Moon (1970, dir: Mario Bava) - ***½
  226. [10/25] Four Times That Night (1972, dir: Mario Bava) - ***½
  227. [10/26] Snake Woman's Curse (1968, dir: Nobuo Nakagawa) - ****
  228. [10/28] Mark Of The Vampire (1935, dir: Tod Browning) - **
  229. [10/29] Satanic Rites Of Dracula (1973, dir: Alan Gibson) - **½

  230. Nov

  231. [11/01] Rabid Dogs / Kidnapped (1974, dir: Mario Bava) - ****
  232. [11/01] Who Saw Her Die? (1972, dir: Aldo Lado) - ***½
  233. [11/02] Glass Dolls (1971, dir: Aldo Lado) - ***½
  234. [11/05] Mother Night (1996, dir: Keith Gordon) - ****
  235. [11/08] Local Hero (1983, dir: Bill Forsyth) - ****
  236. [11/10] Role Models (2008, dir: David Wain) - ***½
  237. [11/11] The Best Years Of Our Lives (1947, dir: William Wyler) - ***** [~]
  238. [11/12] Black Cat (1968, dir: Kaneto Shindo) - ***½
  239. [11/14] Quantum Of Solace (2008, dir: Marc Forster) - ***
  240. [11/15] The Count Of Monte Cristo (2002, dir: Kevin Reynolds) - ***
  241. [11/15] Gregory's Girl (1981, dir: Bill Forsyth) - ****
  242. [11/18] Melvin And Howard (1980, dir: Jonathan Demme) - ****
  243. [11/21] La Ronde (1950, dir: Max Ophuls) - ****½
  244. [11/21] Sweeney Todd (2007, dir: Tim Burton) - ***½
  245. [11/25] Male And Female (1919, dir: Cecil B. DeMille) - ****
  246. [11/29] Used Cars (1980, dir: Robert Zemeckis) - ****
  247. [11/29] Les Carabiniers (1963, dir: Jean-Luc Godard) - ***½

  248. Dec

  249. [12/02] Le deuxieme souffle (1966, dir: Jean-Pierre Melville) - ****½
  250. [12/03] The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993, dir: Henry Selick) - ****
  251. [12/05] Nobel Son (2008, dir: Randall Miller) - ****
  252. [12/06] Hana (2006, dir: Hirokazu Kore-Eda) - ***½
  253. [12/06] Matador (1986, dir: Pedro Almodovar) - ****
  254. [12/09] I Wake Up Screaming (1941, dir: H. Bruce Humberstone) - ***½
  255. [12/10] Chungking Express (1994, dir: Wong Kar-Wai) - ****½ [+]
  256. [12/13] Hancock (2008, dir: Peter Berg) - ***½
  257. [12/13] The Picture Of Dorian Gray (1945, dir: Albert Lewin) - ***½
  258. [12/16] Masculin Feminin (1966, dir: Jean-Luc Godard) - ****
  259. [12/17] WALL-E (2008, dir: Andrew Stanton) - ****½
  260. [12/20] Sunset Blvd. (1950, dir: Billy Wilder) - ***** [+]
  261. [12/20] The Bride With White Hair (1993, dir: Ronny Yu) - ****
  262. [12/27] The Tall T (1957, dir: Budd Boetticher) - ****½
  263. [12/27] Wanted (2008, dir: Timur Bekmambetov) - ***
  264. [12/27] Man Of The West (1958, dir: Anthony Mann) - ****½
  265. [12/30] Love and Honor (2006, dir: Yoji Yamada) - ****
Author Comments: 

[+] - indicates movies previously seen.