Movies Watched 8.01.07 - 8.01.08

Submitted by Slothrop33 on Mon, 08/06/2007 - 04:06
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  1. Auschwitz: The Nazis and the Final Solution- Laurence Rees (an amazing 3 hour epic on the holocaust. one of the best)
  2. Lacombe, Lucien- Louis Malle (great film about Vichy French youth that becomes German police)
  3. Transformers-Michael Bay (oi vey I have kvetched all week about how bad this was!)
  4. The Bourne Ultimatum- Paul Greengrass (quite an amazingly well filmed action movie)
  5. Days of Glory- Rachid Bouchareb (flawed film, but interesting content)
  6. Death Proof- Quinten Tarantino (god awful and boring, he is way too in love with "cool")
  7. Zodiac- David Fincher (pretty good movie, had 70's feel, expansive and quiet at times)
  8. The Kingdom- Peter Berg (interesting, well filmed and entertaining)
  9. 1408- Mikael Hafstrom (mildly entertaining, most s. king adaptations are horrible)
  10. The Lives of Others- Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck (amazing! highly recommend this)
  11. 28 Weeks Later- Juan Carlos Fresnadillo (amazingly well filmed, not as good as the 28 Days later but worth seeing)
  12. The Castle- Michael Haneke (very good adaptation of Kafka's classic)
  13. Shane- George Stevens (classic western, a standard)
  14. No End In Sight- Charles Ferguson (amazing doc on Iraq, concentrates more on insurgency than the same old we were duped into war)
  15. Young Torless- Volker Schlondorff (criterion, amazing adaptation of Musil's dark novel)
  16. Maxed Out: Hard Times, Easy Credit and the Era of Predatory Lenders- James Scurlock (excellent doc about credit disasters of americans)
  17. Young Mr. Lincoln- John Ford (criterion, enjoyable film)
  18. Destry Rides Again- George Marshall (great western, great script and politics)
  19. Heat- Michael Mann (by far his best work)
  20. Veronika Voss- Rainer Werner Fassbinder (criterion, great!!)
  21. Tout Va B!en- Jean-Luc Godard (criterion, from his radical marxist period, not for everyone)
  22. A Mighty Heart- Michael Winterbottom (excellent movie from reliable director)
  23. The Ox-Bow Incident- William Wellman (1943 with Henry Fonda, a bit odd)
  24. Lions for Lambs- Robert Redford ( a solid film with a Brechtian unresolved tension urging you to change as well)
  25. American Gangster- Ridley Scott (amazing movie, really captures the degradation of pre-1990's NYC)
  26. 300- Zack Snyder (entertaining)
  27. Thirst- Ingmar Bergman (1949, criterion/eclipse brilliant!)
  28. Un Chien Andalou- Luis Bunuel (Wow!)
  29. Perfume- Tom Tykwer (lush scenes, really enjoyed this)
  30. Shoot the Piano Player- Francois Truffaut (criterion, loved it!)
  31. The Garden of the Finzi-Continis- Vittori de Sica (descent into the holocaust)
  32. The Good German- Steven Soderbergh (Cate a prostitute in post-war berlin, someone has tapped my puerile fantasies!)
  33. Ashes and Diamonds- Andrzej Wajda (1958, great Polish political turmoil)
  34. Wolf Creek- Greg Mclean (aussie horror film, quite good in the tradition of Blair Witch/The Descent etc...)
  35. Little Dieter Needs To Fly- Werner Herzog (great doc, preceeds Rescue Dawn)
  36. Stray Dog- Akira Kurosawa (criterion, neorealist hard-boiled detective story, features some great scenes in post-war Tokyo)
  37. Rescue Dawn- Werner Herzog (excellent, had a 60's quality to the film; my tenth herzog film)
  38. Fires on the Plain- Kon Ichikawa (criterion, first film by Ichikawa, amazing shots; a dark movie)
  39. A Christmas Carol- Edwin Marin (1939 charming!)
  40. Stagecoach- John Ford (1938 fun movie)
  41. The Grim Reaper- Bernardo Bertolucci (criterion 1962 a multiplicity of viewpoints are explored in the murder of a prostitute)
  42. La Bete Humaine- Jean Renoir (criterion, 1938)
  43. Wild Strawberries- Ingmar Bergman (criterion, 1957 amazing film of redemption and memory)
  44. Stardust- Matthew Vaughn
  45. Le Samourai- Jean-Pierre Melville (1967, criterion, alain delon is amazing as a contract killer!)
  46. L'Argent- Robert Bresson (1983)
  47. Cries and Whispers- Ingmar Bergman (1973 criterion, an amazing movie)
  48. Manhunter- Michael Mann (1986, Red Dragon before Red Dragon, what a crazy feel this movie has)
  49. Circle of Deceit- Volker Schlondorf (1981, An unflinching and hallucinatory look at the civil war in Beirut; an unknown gem!)
  50. Erin Brockovich- Steven Soderbergh (A movie about perseverance and human will, excellent!)
  51. Hollow City- Maria Joao Ganga (Angola, great movie takes place in 1991 in Luanda during the civil war)
  52. Iraq for Sale- Robert Greenwald (doc about privatization of millitary, so so)
  53. L'Avventura- Michelangelo Antonioni (criterion, 1960 slow but amazing cinematography)
  54. In a Year With 13 Moons- Rainer Werner Fassbinder (1978, this movie was brilliantly insane)
  55. Salvatore Giuliano- Francesco Rosi (criterion, 1961, incredible film! reminds me of The Battle of Algiers somewhat)
  56. Forbidden Games- Rene Clement (criterion, 1952 charming)
  57. Fighting Elegy- Seijun Suzuki (criterion, 1966 amazing surreal stomp through millitant Japan of the 1930's)
  58. Mean Streets- Martin Scorsese (1973 i really did not like this movie)
  59. Hiroshima Mon Amour- Alain Resnais (1959, criterion Amazing!)
  60. The Hunting Party- Richard Shepard (2007, a sleeper but very entertaining and smart)
  61. Sunshine- Danny Boyle (have you ever seen a boyle movie you didnt like?)
  62. Distant Journey- Alfred Radock (1950, Czech classic about a jew's slow journey to Theresienstadt)
  63. The Wages of Fear- Henri-Georges Clouzot (criterion, 1953)
  64. Pickup on South Street- Samuel Fuller (criterion, 1953 loved it!)
  65. No Country for Old Men- Ethan and Joel Coen (this movies really gets under your skin. no soundtrack adds to sparsness. captures that depressing America of the early 80's)
  66. Diary of a Country Priest- Robert Bresson (criterion, 1950)
  67. Dances With Wolves- Kevin Costner (1990, an enjoyable film... really in 1865 the midwest was as far as the millitary was? What of the Mexican-American War?)
  68. There Will Be Blood- Paul Thomas Anderson (The best movie of the year!)
  69. 3:10 to Yuma- James Mangold (is this the first time Crowe has been the bad guy?)
  70. La Haine- Mathieu Kassovitz (criterion, 1995, wow this is amazing!)
  71. Sanjuro- Akira Kurosawa (criterion, 1962)
  72. Michael Clayton- Tony Gilroy (excellent film about corruption, reminded me of Syriana in its structure)
  73. Rendition- Gavin Hood (very well done)
  74. Eastern Promises- David Cronenberg (ahh I always walk away underwhelmed by his movies)
  75. The Bitter Tears of Petra Von Kant- Rainer Werner Fassbinder (1972, brilliant exploration of sexual power plays)
  76. The City Tramp- Rainer Werner Fassbinder
  77. The Invasion- Oliver Hirschbiegel
  78. Little Children- Todd Field (Loved this film!)
  79. Dresden- Roland Suso Richter (2006, very high quality made for German TV. one of the first I've seen to portray the suffering of the germans due to allied incendiary bombings)
  80. Man From Plain- Jonathan Demme (great doc on Jimmy Carter)
  81. I Am Legend- Francis Lawrence (ho-hum)
  82. Witnesses- Vinko Bresan (Croatian, very good film about the murder of a Serb)
  83. Little Terrorist- Ashvin Kuman (short film about a pakistani boy that wanders into India)
  84. All Boys Are Called Patrick- Jean-Luc Godard (Criterion, 1957, short film, very enjoyable)
  85. A Woman is a Woman- Jean-Luc Godard (Criterion, 1961, fabulously inventive!)
  86. Overlord- Stuart Cooper (Criterion, 1975 flawed and a bit tedious)
  87. The Mist- Frank Darabont (I loved this film, suprisingly good)
  88. Cloverfield- Matt Reeves (Another great horror film; they are getting so much better these days)
  89. Juno- Jason Reitman (wow more adolescent anecdotal nonsequiters from the "I will paste random photos on your Myspace" generation)
  90. Charlie Wilson's War- Mike Nichols (good film, not great)
  91. Hollow Man- Paul Verhoeven (ok, kinda fun)
  92. Empire of the Sun- Steven Spielberg (liked it, reading book, Spielberg really glossed over some great parts)
  93. Iron Man- Jon Favreau (amazing, as good as last batman or 1st spiderman)
  94. I Stand Alone- Gaspar Noe (1999, powerful and demented film)
  95. Landscape After Battle- Andrzej Wajda (1970, great film about experiences after the camps were liberated)
  96. Peeping Tom- Michael Powell (criterion, 1960 brilliant!)
  97. The Enemy Below- Dick Powell (1958, sophisticated and well-acted movie about a duel between and american destroyer and german u-boat)
  98. Them- David Moreau (2006, French horror set in Romania, effective and fun)
  99. Audition- Takashi Miike (1999, Japanese horror- wow this was sick and demented!)
  100. The Siege- Edward Zwick (1998, great film, not sure how i missed this one!)
  101. La Jetee- Chris Marker (1962, Criterion, short sci-fi told through photo-montage. quite impressive!)
  102. Fanny and Alexander- Ingmar Bergman (1982, Criterion Theatrical A true masterpiece!)
  103. Children From the Abyss- Pavel Chukhraj (great documentary on the holocaust)
  104. Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull- Steven Spielberg (I seem to like this more than most. Cate is absurdly hot.)
  105. Hellboy- Guilermo Del Toro (enjoyable, hellboy himself is a little odd...)
  106. I Remember- Andrzej Wajda
  107. Hell on Earth- Vojtech Jasny
  108. Sympathy for the Devil- Jean-Luc Godard (1968, truly brilliant!)
  109. If....- Lindsay Anderson (criterion, 1968, wow this was great!)
  110. The Kite Runner- Marc Forster- (about what I thought it would be.. reminds me of winterbottom)
  111. Visitor Q- Takashi Miike (2001, strange and uninhibited)
  112. Shanghai Triad- Zhang Yimou (1995, visually stunning)
  113. Before the Devil Knows You're Dead- Sidney Lumet (Bleak!)
  114. The Lost Patrol- John Ford (1934 Certainly worth watching)
  115. Classes Tous Risques- Claude Sautet (criterion, 1960 fun movie, worth watching)
  116. The Body Snatcher- Robert Wise (1945 Karlof and Lugosi)
  117. Terror's Advocate- Barbet Schroeder (amazing documentary, a must see!)
Cosgrove02/04/2008

have you ever seen a boyle movie you didnt like?

All the time, actually. Thanks for asking, though.

Slothrop3302/04/2008

Impossible! Ok maybe The Beach...