Movies Watched 8.01.10 - 8.01.11

Submitted by Slothrop33 on Mon, 08/02/2010 - 15:22
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  1. Epidemic- Lar Von Trier (1987, Danish)
  2. Dead Snow- Tommy Wirkola (2009, Norway, good B horror)
  3. Duplicity- Tony Gilroy (2009, pretty good, Julia Roberts a little annoying)
  4. Born to Kill- Robert Wise (1947, excellent noir)
  5. Origins of the 21st Century- Jean-luc Godard (2000,amazing!)
  6. The Ghost Writer- Roman Polanski (2010, excellent!)
  7. The Last Train- Joseph Vilsmaier (2006, German, great holocaust film)
  8. The Stranger- Luchino Visconti (1967, Italian, hard to get a hold of, but amazing!)
  9. New Scenes From America- Jorgen Leth (2003, Danish doc)
  10. Henri Langlois: Cinematheque- Jacques Richard (2005,French doc, awesome!)
  11. The Lovely Bones- Peter Jackson (2009, really liked)
  12. Splice- Vincenzo Natali (2010, not bad)
  13. Le Petit Soldat- Jean-Luc Godard (1963, French, amazing!)
  14. A Woman in Berlin- Max Färberböck (2008, German, Absolutely Amazing!)
  15. Orphan- Jaume Collet-Serra (2009, pretty good)
  16. Meeting Woody Allen- Jean-Luc Godard (1986, interesting)
  17. Menilmontant- Dmitri Kirsanoff (Estonian, 1926, amazing silent film)
  18. Premonition- Norio Tsuruta (Japanese, 2004, average)
  19. Corridor No. 8- Boris Despodov (Bulgarian doc, excellent!)
  20. The African Queen- John Huston (1951, happy to finally have seen it!)
  21. Jar City- Baltasar Kormakur (2006, Icelandic, pretty good)
  22. Captain Kidd- Rowland Lee (1945, love Laughton)
  23. British Sounds- Jean-Luc Godard (1970, French, where is the hard left?)
  24. Fuel- Joshua Tickell (2008, good dock)
  25. The Rock- Michael Bay (1996,always such crass patriotism with bay)
  26. City of the Living Dead- Lucio Fulci (1980, meh)
  27. Mother- Joon-ho Bong (Korean, 2009 great!)
  28. Salut les Cubains- Agnes Varda (1963, great film about cuba!)
  29. The Beaches of Agnes- Agnes Varda (2008, incredible!)
  30. Below- David Twohy (2002, not bad)
  31. Ici et Ailleurs- Jean-Luc Godard (1976, Godard is the best)
  32. Flame Over India- J. Lee Thompson (1959, a little pro-empire)
  33. The Wolfman- Joe Johnston (2010, enjoyable)
  34. Bluebeard- Catherine Breillat (2009, French good)
  35. Patterns- Jaimie Travis (Candada, 2005)
  36. On the Beat- Ying Ning (1995, China, black humor, great!)
  37. Mao's Last Dancer- Bruce Beresford (2010, ok politically naive)
  38. Casino Royale- John Huston (1967, rather pointless)
  39. The House of the Devil- Ti West (2009, good in the spirit of Argento)
  40. Foreign Intrigue- Sheldon Reynolds (1956, good)
  41. Burden of Dreams- Les Blank (criterion, 1982 awesome!)
  42. 12:08 East of Bucharest- Corneliu Porumboiu (2007, romanian, quite brilliant!)
  43. Denmark- Daniel Fickel (2009, animated & puppetry)
  44. Lord Jim- Richard Brooks (1965, awesome!)
  45. Triumph of the Spirit- Robert Young (1989, really good)
  46. The Men Who Stare at Goats- Grant Heslov (2009, had some good moments)
  47. Class Action- Michael Apted (1991, meh, ok)
  48. Scarlet Street- Fritz Lang (1945, dark, cynical, great!)
  49. A Summer Dress- Francois Ozon (1996, French, early Ozon)
  50. Anthropo-Cynical-Farce- Kiachiro Kawamoto (Japanese, 1970, good)
  51. The Cruise- Bennett Miller (1998, awesome doc)
  52. Lust, Caution- Ang Lee (Chinese, 2007, quite good)
  53. Opening Night- John Cassavetes (1977, meh)
  54. The End of the Line- Rupert Murray (2009,doc about over fishing)
  55. The Diary of Anne Frank- Jon Jones (2009, not bad)
  56. The Duel at Silver Creek- Don Siegel (1952, good)
  57. Centurion- Neil Marshall (2010, pretty great!)
  58. Import/Export- Ulrich Seidl (German, 2007, awesome)
  59. The Return of Frank James- Fritz Lang (1940, Henry Fonda was great)
  60. The Demon- Kihachiro Kawamoto (Japanese, 1972)
  61. Green for Danger- Sidney Gilliat (Criterion, 1946, very good)
  62. Beyond a Reasonable Doubt- Fritz Lang (1956, awesome, love Lang)
  63. Vampire Lovers- Robert Young (1972, meh)
  64. John Rabe- Florian Gallenberger (German, 2009, great!)
  65. She- Irving Pichel (1935, great expressionist moments)
  66. The Church- Michele Soavi (1989, good horror, argent involved)
  67. Casino Jack and the United States of Money- Alex Gibney (2009, wow if you needed anymore reasons to hate the repubs)
  68. The Night of the Hunter- Charles Laughton (1955, wow!)
  69. The Masque of Red Death- Roger Corman (1964)
  70. My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done- Werner Herzog (2009, not one of his best)
  71. Botany Bay- John Farrow (1953, pretty good!)
  72. La France- Serge Bozon (2007, French)
  73. Lost in Siberia- Aleksandr Mitta (1991, Russian, amazing!)
  74. Moonrise- Frank Borzage (1948, good)
  75. Red Riding: In the Year of Our Lord 1974- Julian Jarrold (2009, British, incredibly good!)
  76. The Headless Woman- Lucricia Martel (2008, Argentine)
  77. Paranormal Activities- Oren Peli (2007, scared the hell out of me!)
  78. On Leave- Asaf Saban (2009, Israeli)
  79. Strips- Félix Dufour-Laperrière (2010, Canada)
  80. You Think You’re the Prettiest, But You Are the Sluttiest- José Manuel Sandoval (2008, Chile, good)
  81. The Girl Who Played with Fire- Daniel Alfredson (2009, Swedish, awesome!)
  82. Kick-Ass- Matthew Vaughn (2010, bearable)
  83. Pride and Glory- Gavin O'Connor (2008, really good!)
  84. Ball of Fire- Howard Hawks (1941, a fines Hawkes production)
  85. Mr. Moto's Last Warning- Norman Foster (1939, love peter lorre!)
  86. Capitalism: Child Labor- Ken Jacobs (2006, awesome!)
  87. The Human Centipede- Tom Six (2009, wow crazy!)
  88. Red Riding: In the Year of Our Lord 1980- James Marsh (2009, these are great!)
  89. Pirhana- Alexandre Aja (2010, not bad!)
  90. Good- Vicente Amorim (2008, sleeper, very good)
  91. Tripoli- Will Price (1950, classic!)
  92. The Picnic at Hanging Rock- Peter Weir (criterion, 1975)
  93. Sherlock Holmes- Guy Ritchie (2009, no karate, god why?)
  94. Confessions of a Boston Blackie- Edward Dmytryk (1941)
  95. Cheyenne Autumn- John Ford (1964, epic!)
  96. The War Game- Peter Watkins (1965, amazing!)
  97. Woman Is the Future of Man- Sang-soo Hong (2004, S. Korean)
  98. Diabolique- Henri-Georges Clouzot (1954, Criterion, awesome!)
  99. 127 Hours- Danny Boyle (2010, is this a joke, terribe!)
  100. Toyko Drifter- Seijun Suzuki (criterion, 1966 good)
  101. The Two Names of a Testimony- Ozan Adam (2007, Turkey)
  102. The Tulse Luper Suitcases, Part 1: The Moab Story- Peter Greenaway (2003, amazing!)
  103. Strange Intruder- Irving Rapper (1956, not bad)
  104. The Hidden Fortress- Akira Kurosawa (criterion, 1958, very good)
  105. Paris Belongs to Us- Jacques Rivette (1961, incredible!)
  106. The Town- Ben Affleck (2010, ok)
  107. Black Swan- Darren Aronofsky (2010, so much I can say about this film)
  108. The Meaning of Life- Don Hertzfeldt (2005, cool)
  109. Play Dirty- Andre De Toth (1968, surprisingly good)
  110. Rise of the Foot Soldier- Julian Gibney (2007, awesome!)
  111. A Personal Journey with Martin Scorsese Through American Movies- Martin Scorsese (1995, absolutely inspiring!)
  112. Inside Rooms: 26 Bathrooms London & Oxfordshire, 1985- Peter Greenaway (1985, interesting OULIPO structure)
  113. The Turning Point- William Dieterle (1952, good noir)
  114. Code 46- Michael Winterbottom (2004)
  115. 1492: Conquest of Paradise- Ridley Scott (1992, disappointing)
  116. The Fighter- David Russell (2010, awesome!)
  117. The Battleship Potemkin- Sergei Eisenstein (1925, wow!)
  118. Cronos- Guilermo del Toro (criterion, 1993)
  119. Serpico- Sidney Lumet (1973, thought I would have liked it more)
  120. The Life of the Dead- Arnaud Desplechin (1991, French)
  121. The Long Way Home- Mark Jonathan Harris (1997, great doc!)
  122. Exit Through the Gift Shop- Banksy (2009, unbelievable!)
  123. Home- Ursula Meier (2008, French, dark!)
  124. I Vitteloni- Federico Fellini (criterion, 1953, amazing!)
  125. The Captive City- Robert Wise (1952, damn good noir!)
  126. Splendor in the Grass- Elia Kazan (1961, wow really great film!)
  127. The Age of Stupid- Franny Armstrong (2009, chilling!)
  128. The Fugitive- Andrew Davis (1993, fun!)
  129. Algiers- John Cromwell (1938, good)
  130. 100 Years of Adolph Hitler- Christoph Schlingensief (1989, German, interesting!)
  131. Highly Dangerous- Roy Ward Baker (1950, fun)
  132. Under Ten Flags- Duilio Coletti (1960, Laughton was great!)
  133. The Good Heart- Dagur Kari (2009)
  134. 2084- Chris Marker (1984, French, long live trade unions)
  135. Somers Town- Shane Meadows (2008, solid, bad soundtrack I hate that upbeat accoustic music)
  136. The Buccaneer- Cecil B. DeMille (1938, incredible!)
  137. The Sorrow and the Pity- Marcel Ophuls (1969, French, fascinating)
  138. Unthinkable- Gregor Jordan (2010, surprisingly good)
  139. The Secret of Kells- Tomm Moore (2009, amazing animation!)
  140. Boogie Nights- Paul Thomas Anderson (1997, wow!)
  141. A Game of Death- Robert Wise (1945, not much different than Pichel version)
  142. Benny's Video- Michael Haneke (1992, German, great!)
  143. The Undomitable Leni Peikert- Alexander Kluge (1970, German)
  144. Children of Hiroshima- Kaneto Shindo (1952, Japanese, sad!)
  145. The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest- Daniel Alfredson (2009, Sweedish, so good!)
  146. Secret of the Incas- Jerry Hopper (1954, Heston!)
  147. Together- Lucas Moodysson (2000, Sweedish, nice)
  148. Guernica- Alan Resnais (1950, French, holy shit, so good!)
  149. Black Water- David Nerlich (2007, Australian, surprisingly good)
  150. The Social Network- David Fincher (2010, doesn't meet the hype)
  151. The Stoning of Soraya M.- Cyrus Nowrasteh (2008, Iran, animals)
  152. Collapse- Chris Smith (2009, interesting documentary)
  153. A Serbian Film- Srdjan Spasojevic (2010, Serbian, whoa not for the kids)
  154. Creation- Jon Amiel (2009, really good)
  155. Blind Spot- Adolpho Doring (2008, good doc)
  156. Salesman- Albert and David Maysles (criterion, 1968, bleak!)
  157. The Red Balloon- Albert Lamorisse (criterion,1956 charming)
  158. Modern Times- Charles Chaplin (criterion, 1936, wow!!)
  159. A Man on His Knees- Damiano Damiani (1980, Italian, amazing and unknown!)
  160. The Inn of the Sixth Happiness- Mark Robson (1958, epic!)
  161. Taxidermia- Gyorgi Palfi (2006, Hungarian, quite brilliant!)
  162. The Gun Runners- Don Siegel (1958, kinda noirish, good!)
  163. Winter's Bone- Debra Granik (2010, movie of the year!)
  164. Daybreakers- Michael & Peter Spierig (2009, fun!)
  165. Walkabout- Nicolas Roeg (criterion, 1971, amazing!)
  166. Aces High- Jack Gold (1976, pretty good!)
  167. The Gleaners and I- Agnes Varda (2000, French, playful and brilliant!)
  168. Trafic- Cătălin Mitulescu (2004, Romanian)
  169. Cyrano de Bergerac- Michael Gordon (1952, good)
  170. Zardoz- John Boorman (1974, weird)
  171. A State of Mind- Daniel Gordon (2004, great doc on N. Korea)
  172. The Bravados- Henry King (1958, damn good! dark!)
  173. The Eclipse- Conor McPherson (2009, Irish, meh)
  174. Androcles and the Lion- Chester Erskine (Criterion, 1952, awesome!)
  175. Foreign Correspondent- Alfred Hitchcock (1940, incredible!)
  176. Following- Christopher Nolan (1998, gritty!)
  177. Mad Detective- Johnny To (2007, Japanese, interesting)
  178. Dream Work- Peter Tscherkassky (2002, Austria, experimental)
  179. The One Percent- Jamie Johnson (2006, workers of the world unite!)
  180. Dorian Gray- Oliver Parker (2009, fun)
  181. The Naked City- Jules Dassin (1949, noir, truly great!)
  182. Bed & Board- Francois Truffaut (criterion, 1970, amazing)
  183. The Strange Affair of Uncle Harry- Robert Siodmak (1945, dark!)
  184. The Magician- Ingmar Bergman (criterion, 1958, incredible!)
  185. Never Let Me Go- Mark Romanek (2010, depressing)
  186. Slovenian Girl- Damjan Kozole (Slovenian, 2009)
  187. Dagon- Stuart Gordon (2001, kinda fun)
  188. One Wonderful Sunday- Akira Kurosawa (criterion, 1947, 1500 movie seen!)
  189. Oceans- Jacques Perrin (2009, really enjoyed)
  190. Howl- Ron Epstein (2010, good)
  191. Love Affair, or the Case of the Missing Switchboard Operator- Dusan Makavejev (criterion, Serbian, 1967, wow!)
  192. Group Portrait with Lady- Aleksandar Petrovic (1977, German, damn good!)
  193. The Tourist- Henckel von Donnersmarck (2010, meh)
  194. Rhodes- Berthold Viertel (1936, great!)
  195. The Sixth Side of the Pentagon- Chris Marker (1968, amazing!)
  196. The Spy in Black- Michael Powell (Criterion, 1939, fantastic!)
  197. Scott Pilgirm vs. the World- Edgar Wright (2010, stylistically fascinating)
  198. Paris- Cedric Klapisch (2009, French)
  199. A Film Unfinished- Yael Hersonski (2010, doc on warsaw ghetto)
  200. The Embassy- Chris Marker (1973, Marker is awesome!)
  201. Jane Eyre- Robert Stevenson (1943)
  202. Pigs and Battleships- Shohei Imamura (criterion, 1961, amazing!)
  203. Green Zone- Paul Greengrass (2009, really good!)
  204. March 9th- Irena Škorić (2010, Croatian)
  205. Uniforms- Marion Desseigne-Ravel (2010, French)
  206. The Howling- Joe Dante (1981)
  207. Red Persimmons- Shinsuke Ogawa (2001, japanese doc, good)
  208. Wild Reeds- Alain Resnais (2009, dark and brilliant!)
  209. Blaise Pascal- Roberto Rossellini (criterion, 1972)
  210. Caves of Forgotten Dreams- Werner Herzog (2011, in 3-D & awesome!)
  211. Blitz- Emmanuel Lefrant (2006, French abstract)
  212. The Parallax View- Alan Pakula (1974, solid thriller)
  213. White Material- Claire Denis (criterion, 2009, amazing!)
  214. Plunkett & Macleane- Jake Scott (1999, good)
  215. Crossing the Line- Daniel Gordon (2006, good doc on N Korea)
  216. A Bestiary- Chris Marker (1990, charming)
  217. Angel on My Shoulder- Archie Mayo (1946, pretty good)
  218. Rembrandt- Alexander Korda (criterion, 1936, Laughton!)
  219. Kapo- Gillo Pontecorvo (criterion, 1961, incredible!)
  220. Salt- Philip Noyce (2010, kinda fun)
  221. Europa- Lars von Trier (criterion, 1991, wow maybe my favorite film!)
  222. War and Peace- Alexander Kluge (1982, german doc)
  223. Imago- Cédric Babouche (2005, Belgian)
  224. Noseratu Tango- Zoltán Horváth (2002, French)
  225. Barton Fink- Joel Coen (1991, pretty good!)
  226. The King's Speech- Tom Hooper (2010, better than I thought)
  227. The Sorcerer’s Apprentice- John Turteltaub (2010)
  228. Apart From You- Mikio Naruse (criterion, 1933, Japanese silent)
  229. Bronson- Nicolas Winding Refn (2008, holy shit that was awesome!)
  230. Beware of Pity- Maurice Elvey (1946, very good)
  231. The Invisible Man- James Whale (1933, awesome!)
  232. The Law and Jake Wade- John Sturges (1958, good sturges)
  233. Times and Winds- Reha Erdem (2006, Turkish, well-done)
  234. Mesrine: Public Enemy #1- Jean-Francois Richet (2008, French, really enjoyed)
  235. Food Matters- James Colquhoun (2008, sobering!)
  236. The Fallen- Ari Taub (2004)
  237. Archangel- Jon Jones (2005, fun!)
  238. Worse Than War- Mike DeWitt (2010, meh Goldhagen doesn't impress me)
  239. Thor- Kenneth Branagh (2011, so awesome!)
  240. Detour- Edgar G. Ulmer (1945, great noir)
  241. The Blue Angel- Josef von Sternberg (1930,german, finally!)
  242. North Face- Phillip Stolz (2008, german, ok)
  243. Therese Raquin- Marcel Carne (1953, good!)
  244. Aral, Fishing In an Invisible Sea- Carlos Casas (2008, doc, Uzbek)
  245. Zero Silence- Javeria Rizvi Kabani (2010, doc)
  246. Black Death- Christopher Smith (2010, fun!)
  247. Women of the Night- Kenji Mizoguchi (criterion, 1948, great!)
  248. Doomsday- Neil Marshall (2008, really fun)
  249. Sonata for Hitler- Aleksandr Sokurov (1989, wow!)
  250. X-Men: First Class- Matthew Vaughn (2011, best xmen by far)
  251. They Do Not Exist- Mustafa Abu Ali (1974, director who started film wing of PLO)
  252. Lichtspiel Opus 1 - 4- Walter Ruttman (1921 - 1924, German abstract)
  253. Congo- Arthur Omar (1972, Brazillian)
  254. World on a Wire- Rainer Werner Fassbinder (criterion, 1973, german)
  255. Le Combat dans L’isle- Alain Cavalier (1962, french, good!)
  256. Two Women- Vittorio De Sica (1960)
  257. Liberty and Homeland- Jean-luc Godard (2002, French, great!)
  258. Fish Tank- Andrea Arnold (criterion, 2009, very Dardenne)
  259. The Abyss Boys- Jan-Hendrik Beetge (2001, South Africa, very good)
  260. Strategic Air Command- Anthony Mann (1955, terrible!)
  261. Emotion- Nobuhiko Obayashi (criterion, japanese, 1966)
  262. On the Passage of a few People through a Rather Brief Moment in Time: The Situationist International 1956-1972- Branka Bogdanov (1989, very good doc)
  263. The Deadman- Peggy Ahwesh (1989, based on Bataille)
  264. High Noon- Fred Zinnemann (1952, awesome!)
  265. A Bear Named Winnie- John Kent Harrison (2004, meh)
  266. Venom and Eternity- Isidore Isou (1952, French, Lettrist-precursor to Situationists)
  267. The Great Sadness of Zohara- Nina Menkes (1983, Israeli, experimental)
  268. House by the River- Fritz Lang (1950, excellent!)
  269. The Piano Tuner of Earthquakes- Stephen Quay (2006, surreal)
  270. Bookstalls- Joseph Cornell (1930's interesting)
  271. Man with the Movie Camera- Dziga Vertov (silent, 1929, wow!)
  272. Terminator Salvation- McG (2009)
  273. Iron Man 2- Jon Faveau (2010)
  274. 9th Company- Fyodor Bondarchuk (russian, 2005, awesome!)
  275. Beach Red- Cornel Wilde (1967)
  276. My Winnipeg- Guy Maddin (2007, incredibly amazing film)
  277. My Dad is 100 Years Old- Guy Maddin (2005, great!)
  278. Let Me In- Matt Reeves (2010, new single year record for films seen yay me!)
  279. The Heart of the World- Guy Maddin (2000)
  280. Jean Gentil- Laura Amelia Guzman (2010, dominican republic, neo-realism)
  281. Detroit Wild City- Florent Tillon (2010, doc on Detroit)
  282. Client 9: The Rise and Fall Eliot Sptizer- Alex Gibney (2010, Great!)
  283. Leonids Story- Rainer Ludwigs (2010, animated on Cherynobl)
Slothrop3308/04/2011

Woo a new record, beating 277!