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)
  56. Odd Man Out- Carol Reed (1947, amazing noir!)
  57. Judge Priest- John Ford (1934, meh)
  58. Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call- Werner Herzog (this was great, go see it)
  59. The Sand Pebbles- Robert Wise (1966, classic about Chinese revolution)
  60. The Scarlet and the Black- Jerry London (1983, good considering made for tv)
  61. Hell in the Pacific- John Boorman (1968)
  62. Clear and Present Danger- Phillip Noyce (1994, well-done)
  63. Journey to the End of the Night- Eric Eason (2006, Brendan Fraser really isn't all that good)
  64. Voyage of the Damned- Stuart Rosenberg (1976, great!)
  65. Seaside- Julie Lopes-Curval (2003, French)
  66. Assault on Precinct 13- John Carpenter (1976, pretty good!)
  67. Dream Cruise- Norio Tsuruta (2007)
  68. Ink- Jamin Winans (2009, thought would be much better)
  69. Water Drops On Burning Rocks- Francois Ozon (1999, French, really good!)
  70. Teeth- Mitchell Lichtenstein (2006, ingenius!)
  71. Sleuth- Kenneth Branagh (2007, Harold Pinter wrote screenplay)
  72. Through a Glass Darkly- Ingmar Bergman (criterion, 1961, amazing!)
  73. Power- Sydney Lumet (1986, Lumet is underrated)
  74. Simon of the Desert- Luis Bunuel (criterion, 1965)
  75. Viva Cuba- Juan Carlos Cremata Malberti (2005, Cuban, quite good)
  76. The Sealed Room- D.W. Griffith (1909)
  77. La Soufriere- Werner Herzog (1977, odd)
  78. The Most Dangerous Game- Irving Pichel (criterion, 1932, great!)
  79. The Bow- Ki-duk Kim (S. Korean 2005, strange)
  80. The Left Handed Gun- Arthur Penn (1958, Newman was great!)
  81. PU-239- Scott Burns (2006)
  82. Annie Oakley- George Stevens (1935, enjoyable)
  83. Corner in Wheat- D.W. Griffith (1909, only 533 more griffith films to watch)
  84. The Thomas Crown Affair- Norman Jewison (1968, great cast)
  85. The Old Man and the Sea- John Sturges (1958, had higher hopes)
  86. Julius Ceasar- Joseph Mankiewicz (1953, brando and mason were great!)
  87. The Underneath- Steven Soderbergh (1995, script a bit forced at times)
  88. The Shoes of the Fisherman- Michael Anderson (1968)
  89. Strangers on a Train- Afred Hitchcock (1951, of the 15 H films seen, this is top 5)
  90. Bonnie and Clyde- Arthur Penn (1967, great! damn faye was hot then!)
  91. Encounters at the End of the World- Werner Herzog (2007, if there is a god he will give us 30 more Herzog films)
  92. Che: Part 1- Steven Soderbergh (2008, unbelievable good!)
  93. The International- Tom Tykwer (2009, great!)
  94. Primal Fear- Gregory Holbit (1996, a young Edward Norton, good thriller)
  95. The Hunger- Tony Scott (1983, kitschy goth)
  96. Red River- Howard Hawks (1948, perfectly executed)
  97. The Road- John Hillcoat (2009, a young rising director, Becketian bleakness)
  98. Religulous- Larry Charles (2008, hysterical!)
  99. Quarantine- John Erik Dowdle (bad)
  100. In Old Chicago- Henry King (1937, great film!)
  101. North to Alaska- Henry Hathaway (1960, wayne is awful in this)
  102. Imaginary Witness: Hollywood and the Holocaust- Daniel Anker (2004, alright, some bad commentary at times)
  103. Just Another Love Story- Ole Bornedal (Danish, 2007, really amazing!)
  104. Jakob the Liar- Peter Kassovitz (1999, average)
  105. The Boxer- Jim Sheridan (1997, irish, Excellent!)
  106. Rashomon- Akira Kurosawa (criterion, 1950, intense!)
  107. The Call of the Wild- William Wellman (1935, clark gable, fun!)
  108. 1984- Micahel Radford (1984. chilling, watched after learning if supreme courts ruling on campaign finance)
  109. Che: Part 2- Steven Soderbergh (2008, not as good as part 1, but interesting)
  110. Into the Wild- Sean Penn (2007, interesting structure)
  111. Cavite- Neill Dela Llana (2005, Phillipines, very good!)
  112. Day Watch- Timur Bekmambetov (2006, russian, interesting yet bizarre)
  113. Pearl Harbor- Michael Bay (2001, good battle scenes, too sentimental)
  114. The Hurt Locker- Kathryn Bigelow (should win best director)
  115. La Ronde- Max Ophuls (criterion, 1950, great!)
  116. 9- Shane Acker (not bad)
  117. Avatar- James Cameron (visually stunning, how does he always get everyone to see his films?)
  118. Days of Heaven- Terence Malick (criterion, 1978, something clicked when watching, starting to understand film)
  119. The Mysterious Object at Noon- Apichatpong Weerasthakul (2000, thai, ambitious, beautiful cinematography)
  120. The Class- Laurent Cantet (2008, criterion, great!)
  121. The Odessa File- Ronald Neame (1974, very entertaining)
  122. Gentleman Prefer Blondes- Howard Hawks (1953)
  123. The Death of Mr. Lazarescu- Cristi Puiu (romanian, 2006, dark!)
  124. Clash of the Titans- Desmond Davis (1981)
  125. The Agronomist- Jonathan Demme (2004, informative, Haiti has always had it bad)
  126. The Way We Get By- Aron Gaudet (2009, awful, u think it will be about Iraq, but rather about Maniacs, literally speaking)
  127. God on Trial- Andy DeEmmony (2008, worth watching)
  128. Righteous Kill- Jon Avnet (2008, mediocre thriller)
  129. Tribute to a Bad Man- Robert Wise (1956, not Cagney at his best)
  130. Shutter Island- Martin Scorcese (2010, many good things about movie, except plot)
  131. Missing- Constantine Costas-Grovas (1982, fine political thriller about Chile)
  132. Manderlay- Lars von Trier (2005, he may be the best director)
  133. Someone to Watch Over Me- Ridley Scott (1987, not terrible)
  134. Sin Nombre- Cary Fukunaga (2009, really great!)
  135. Rising Sun- Philip Kaufman (1993, surprisingly good)
  136. The Passion of Joan of Arc- Carl Dreyer (criterion, 1928, amazing!)
  137. Young and Innocent- Alfred Hitchcock (1937, always worth watching hitchcock)
  138. Food, Inc.- Robert Kenner (2008, disturbing doc, Monsanto pure evil)
  139. Katyn- Andrzej Wajda (2007, polish, excellent film)
  140. Cool Hand Luke- Stuart Rosenberg (1967, everyone loves this film, it seemed average)
  141. Death of a Ghost Hunter- Sean Tretta (2007, ok horror film)
  142. Cape Fear- Martin Scorcese (1991, superb thriller)
  143. Summer Hours- Olivier Assayas (criterion, 2008, pretty good, critical acclaim raised expectations)
  144. In the Electric Mist- Bertrand Tavernier (2008)
  145. The Wayward Cloud- Ming-liang Tsai (2005, chinese, commodification... alienation)
  146. Blindness- Fernando Meirelles (2008, exceeds critical response)
  147. Barabbas- Richard Fleischer (1961, underrated)
  148. Battleground- William Wellman (1949, solid effort for 40's war film)
  149. No Impact Man- Laura Gabbert (2009, he might be the biggest douche of 2009)
  150. Scanners- David Cronenberg (1980)
  151. Treeless Mountain- So Yong Kim (2008, S. Korean, very good)
  152. Grand Illusion- Jean Renoir (criterion, 1937, a monkey off my back, amazing film!)
  153. Private Fears in Public Places- Alain Resnais (2006, resnais is still a master!)
  154. The Pit and the Pendulum- Stuart Gordon (1991, fun!)
  155. Adoration- Atom Egoyan (2007, tedious, young actor had that mopey/castrated persona of a Cerra type, hate that)
  156. The Go-Between- Joseph Losey (1970, ok)
  157. Kitchen Stories- Bent Hamer (2004, Norwegian, great black humor)
  158. A Secret- Claude Miller (2007, French, very well done!)
  159. Don't Look for Me- Tilman Zens (2004, German, stylish)
  160. Requiem- Hans-Christian Schmid (2006, German, awesome!)
  161. The Children of Huang Shi- Roger Spottiswoode (2008, mediocre)
  162. Kansas City- Robert Altman (1996, pretty bad)
  163. The Pride of the Yankees- Sam Wood (1942, excellent!)
  164. Fifteen Minutes- John Herzfeld (2001, entertaining)
  165. Gardens of Stone- Francis Ford Coppola (1987, he missed on this one)
  166. Elevator to the Gallows- Louis Malle (criterion, 1957, great!)
  167. Alice in Wonderland- Tim Burton (liked it, very similar to sleepy hollow)
  168. The Informant- Steven Soderbergh (awesome, one of his best!)
  169. Up- Peter Docter (enjoyed, not as much as other perhaps)
  170. Antichrist- Lars von Trier (2009, Danish, most elements of film superb, except muddy plot)
  171. The Dead Zone- David Cronenberg (1983, surprised how much I liked it)
  172. Goya's Ghosts- Milos Forman (2006, liked it)
  173. Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?- Mike Nichols (1966, amazing script and performances!)
  174. I Wake Up Screaming- H. Bruce Humberstone (1941, solid noir)
  175. Gangster No. 1- Paul McGuigan (2000, well-shot and Bettany was great)
  176. How to Steal a Million- William Wyler (1966, a pleasant affair)
  177. Tell No One- Guillaume Canet (2006, really liked, well-plotted, action packed for French)
  178. Une Catostrophe- Jean-luc Godard (2008 short, people raved, i didnt)
  179. The Country Teacher- Bohdan Slama (2008, czech, quite good)
  180. District B13- Pierre Morel (2004, French, awful)
  181. Crude- Joe Berlinger (2009, doc on chevron in ecuador, brutal!)
  182. Julia- Erick Zonca (2008, damn good!)
  183. Alice in Wonderland- Percy Stow (1903, silent, beautiful)
  184. Herakles- Werner Herzog (1962, his first)
  185. Night Mayor- Guy Maddin (amazing!)
  186. Up In the Air- Jason Reitman (Didn't like as much as others, soundtrack was awful)
  187. Solaris- Andrei Tarkovsky (criterion, 1972, interesting but slow)
  188. A Clockwork Orange- Stanley Kubrick (seen many times, 2nd time on big screen)
  189. Unfaithfully Yours- Preston Sturges (criterion, 1948, quite good!)
  190. The Boondock Saints- Troy Duffy (1999, average)
  191. 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea- Michael Anderson (1997, entertaining)
  192. Angry Harvest- Agnieszka Holland (1985, German, brilliant!)
  193. The End of Poverty- Philippe Diaz (2008, sketches history of 3rd world from conquistadors to the present)
  194. Quest for Fire- Jean-Jacques Annaud (1982, wow ron perlman is in this)
  195. The Alligator People- Roy Del Ruth (1959, great!)
  196. Mon Oncle- Jacques Tati (criterion, 1958, unimpressed)
  197. Moon- Duncan Jones (2009, fine film!)
  198. Tyson- James Toback (2008, he's a character)
  199. The Importance of Being Earnest- Anthony Asquith (1952, well acted)
  200. The Snow Walker- Charles Martin Smith (2003, solid!)
  201. To Be or Not To Be- Ernst Lubitsch (1942, Lubitsch really makes a superior film)
  202. The Incredible Hulk- Louis Leterrier (2008, better than I thought!)
  203. Flame and Citron- Ole Christian Madsen (2008, Danish, impressive!)
  204. The Virgin Spring- Ingmar Bergman (criterion, 1960, one of my favorites by bergman)
  205. Jeanne Dielman, 23 Quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles- Chantal Akerman (criterion, 1975, made it through all 3.5 hours!)
  206. Plan Colombia- Gerard Ungerman (2002, doc on colombia, very good)
  207. The Red Shoes- Michael Powell (criterion, 1948, amazing use of color)
  208. As Far as My Feet Will Carry Me- Hardy Martins (2003, German, rarely covered issue following WW2)
  209. Tallhotblond- Barbara Schroeder (2009, bizarre!)
  210. The True Story of Jesse James- Nicholas Ray (1957)
  211. The Street with No Name- William Keighley (1948, awesome noir, love widmark!)
  212. Panic- Henry Bromell (2000, Ritter and Macy, can't go wrong!)
  213. Endgame- Pete Travis (2009, surprisingly good!)
  214. Waiting for Armegeddon- Kate Davis (2009, great doc on evangelicals)
  215. The Vanished Empire- Karen Shakhnazarov (2008, Russian, very good)
  216. Service- Brillante Mendoza (2008, Phillipines, awesome!)
  217. Defamation- Yoav Shamir (2008, doc about Jewish hysteria)
  218. Spring 1941- Yuri Barbash (2008,above average about Jews hiding in WW2)
  219. Platform- Zhangke Jia (2000, Chinese, finally the great Jia)
  220. Armored- Nimrod Antal (2009, good action movie)
  221. Marie Antoinette- Sofia Coppola (2006, better than I thought!)
  222. Edge of Darkness- Martin Campbell (2010, decent political thriller)
  223. Legion- Scott Stewart (2010, passed the time on a plane)
  224. The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus- Terry Gilliam (2009)
  225. Black Panthers- Agnes Varda (1968, pretty good!)
  226. Robin Hood- Ridley Scott (2010, liked it, situates Robin before he became outlaw)
  227. Micmacs- Jean-Pierre Jeunet (2010, amazing, can't understand bad reviews)
  228. Revanche- Gotz Spielmann (criterion, 2008, great!)
  229. Baby Doll- Elia Kazan (1956, Malden was brilliant!)
  230. O'Horten- Bent Hamer (2007, Norway, not as dark as I hoped)
  231. Escape from Sobibor- Jack Gold (1987, surprisingly good)
  232. The Fly- David Cronenberg (1986, wow 2 good movies from the 80's, imagine!)
  233. In the Mood for Love- Kar Wai Wong (criterion, China, 2001 amazing color)
  234. The Don is Dead- Richard Fleischer (1973, not bad)
  235. The Night of the Generals- Anatole Litvak (1967, awesome!)
  236. The Desert Rats- Robert Wise (1953, good 50's war film)
  237. Bait- Antoine Fuqua (2000, solid)
  238. The Girlfriend Experience- Steven Soderbergh (2009)
  239. Waiting for the Clouds- Yeşim Ustaoğlu (2003, turkish very good)
  240. Fall from Grace- K. Ryan Jones (Doc on christians)
  241. The Package- Andrew Davis (1989, decent)
  242. A Talking Picture- Manoel de Oliveira (Portugese, 2004, interesting)
  243. Brother- Aleksey Balabanov (Russian, 1997, great!)
  244. The Omen- Richard Donner (1976, seen many times, always great)
  245. Hell House- George Ratliff (2001, Christians oh my)
  246. The Red Baron- Nikolai Mullerschon (2008, German, fun)
  247. Mr. Smith Goes to Washington- Frank Capra (1939, Capra so much better than I thought!)
  248. Fantasmagorie- Emile Cohl (French, 1908)
  249. Play- Sally Potter (1970, exper short)
  250. Suddenly- Lewis Allen (1954, not bad)
  251. Punch-Drunk Love- Paul Thomas Anderson (2002, amazing!)
  252. The White Ribbon- Michael Haneke (2009, incredible)
  253. Kid's Auto Race- Henry Lehrman (1914, Chaplin's 2nd film)
  254. Valhalla Rising- Nicolas Winding Refn (2009, Danish, awesome!)
  255. The Unprecedented Defense of the Fortress Deutschkreuz (1967, Werner Herzog, great!)
  256. The Cove- Louie Psihoyos (2009, disturbing!)
  257. Cry of the City- Robert Siodmak (1948, excellent noir!)
  258. The Damned United-Tom Hooper (2009, liked it)
  259. Carne- Gaspar Noe (1991, wow!)
  260. Five Easy Pieces- Bob Rafelson (1970, excellent)
  261. River of No Return- Otto Preminger (1954, Mitchum is good)
  262. Les fiances du pont Macdonald ou- Agnes Varda (1961, short)
  263. Hope- Yilmaz Guney (1970, Turkish, excellent!)
  264. Inception- Christopher Nolan (very good, perhaps tried to do too much)
  265. Men in War- Anthony Mann (1957, Korean War, well-done)
  266. Singapore Sling- Nikos Nikolaidis (1990, Greek, very odd)
  267. The Lemon Tree- Eran Riklis (2008, Palestinian)
  268. Genocide- Arnold Schwartzman (1980, great doc on holocaust)
  269. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo- Niels Arden Oplev (2009, good!)
  270. 2012- Roland Emmerich (meh, could have been worse)
  271. A Hell of a Note- Eagle Pennell (1977, superb!)
  272. Surrogates- Jonathan Mostow (2009, sci-fi, not bad)
  273. Auf Wiedersehn, Franziska!- Helmuth Käutner (1942, Nazi era film)
  274. The Goat Horn- Metodi Adronov (1972, Bulgarian very good!)
  275. Gamer- Mark Neveldine (2009, very smart film)
  276. Batman Returns- Tim Burton (1992, wow devito is annoying)
  277. Underground- Emir Kusterica (1995, Serbian, absolutely amazing!)
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