Movies Watched 8.01.09 - 8.01.10

Submitted by Slothrop33 on Sun, 08/02/2009 - 13:50
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  1. Elegy- Isabel Coixet (2007)
  2. Miracle at St. Anna- Spike Lee (horrendous, he is an awful director)
  3. JCVD- Mabrouk El Mechri (awesome)
  4. WALL*E- Andrew Stanton (rather cynical for children, i like that!)
  5. Made in America- Stacy Peralta (2008, great film)
  6. American Pimp- Albert & Allen Hughes (hysterical, 3 shots of the street corner where I live of Fillmore Slim)
  7. The Green Mile- Frank Darabont (charming film, yet depressing)
  8. Dead Man's Shoes- Shane Meadows (pretty good)
  9. Inglorious Basterds- Quentin Tarantino (amazing, he's worked his life to get where he is now)
  10. District 9- Neil Blomkamp (surprisingly great film!)
  11. I Served the King of England- Jiri Menzel (one of my fave novels, this movie challenges The Tin Drum for best ever)
  12. Moby Dick- John Huston (1956, dont think I've seen in its entirety, a great film)
  13. Training Day- Antoine Fuqua (2001, surprisingly good!)
  14. The Assasination of Richard Nixon- Niels Mueller (2004, depressing, I work with sales people and Penn really nailed it!)
  15. Wall Street- Oliver Stone (Poor script, Charlie Sheen really cannot act. I see Stone is planning Wall Street 2: Electric Boogaloo)
  16. On the Beach- Stanley Kramer (1959, macabre, well-done)
  17. Boxcar Bertha- Martin Scorsese (1972, impressive, rapid cut editing during action sequences)
  18. Species II- Peter Medak (1998)
  19. Ambush- Olli Saarela (1999, Finnish, really good)
  20. The Iron Giant- Brad Bird (1999, great 70's feel)
  21. The Man from Laramie- Anthony Mann (1955, excellent!)
  22. Pierrot Le Fou- Jean-Luc Godard (criterion, 1965, amazing!)
  23. King of Hearts- Philippe de Broca (1967, playful hallucinatory film)
  24. The Baader Meinhoff Complex- Uli Edel (Amazing! I felt myself flinching and wanting to kick the pigs as well)
  25. The Secret Garden- Agnieszke Holland (1993, charming)
  26. Beau Travail- Claire Denis (1999)
  27. Soldier of Fortune- Edward Dmytryk (1955)
  28. Coraline- Henry Selick (brilliant!)
  29. The Eagle Has Landed- John Sturges (1976, his last film)
  30. Army of Shadows- Jean-Pierre Melville (criterion, 1969, awesome!)
  31. Deadgirl- Marcel Sarmiento (2008, solid effort)
  32. Splinter- Toby Wilkins (2008, great creature feature)
  33. Death Mills- Billy Wilder (1945, documentary on holocaust for Germans)
  34. Midnight Express- Alan Parker (1978)
  35. The Unforgiven- Clint Eastwood (1992)
  36. La Sierra- Scott Dalton (2005, doc about Columbia)
  37. Knife in the Water- Roman Polanski (criterion,1962, amazing!)
  38. The Third Generation- Rainer Werner Fassbinder (1979)
  39. Where the Wild Things Are- Spike Jonze (one of the worst movies since Miracle at St. Anna)
  40. Charade- Stanley Donen (criterion, 1963, pretty good!)
  41. The Darjeeling Limited- Wes Anderson (2007, Wow I'm really starting to hate Anderson)
  42. Besieged- Bernardo Bertolucci (1998)
  43. A Serious Man- Joel and Ethan Coen (solid effort)
  44. Drag Me to Hell- Sam Raimi (Awesome, best horror in awhile!)
  45. Pelts- Dario Argento
  46. Il Divo- Paolo Sorrentio (2008, Italian, quite good!)
  47. Frankenstein- James Whale (1931)
  48. All the King's Men- Julian Jarrold (1999, not bad)
  49. Blue Gold: World Water Wars- Sam Bozzo (2009, disturbing doc)
  50. Jamaica Inn- Alfred Hitchcock (1939, amazing early Hitchcock!)
  51. Boudu Saved from Drowning- Jean Renoir (criterion, 1932)
  52. Funny Games- Micheal Haneke (1998, wow!!)
  53. Apocalypto- Mel Gibson (2006, pretty damn good!)
  54. Les Carabiniers- Jean-Luc Godard (1963, worth watching)
  55. Brubaker- Stuart Rosenberg (1980, Redford was great)