Movies Watched 8.01.11 - 8.01.12

Submitted by Slothrop33 on Wed, 08/03/2011 - 22:46
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  1. The Way Back- Peter Weir (2010, awesome!)
  2. The Hearts of Age- Orson Welles (1934, first film)
  3. Stone- John Curran (2010, meh)
  4. The Night of the Shooting Stars- Paolo & Vittorio Taviani (1982, Italian, superb!)
  5. Man in the Shadow- Jack Arnold (1958, awesome!)
  6. Passages- Lisl Ponger (1996, Austria)
  7. The Crazies- George Romero (1973)
  8. Cruising- William Friedkin (1980, wow pretty racy for then)
  9. Ydessa, les ours et etc.- Agnes Varda (2004, French)
  10. Ulysse- Agnes Varda (1986, French)
  11. Rise of the Planet of the Apes- Rupert Wyatt (2011, fun! yet trashy)
  12. The Reef- Andrew Traucki (2010, terrifying!)
  13. The Context- Francesco Rosi (Italian, 1976)
  14. Seeking Locations in Palestine for the Film “The Gospel According to Matthew"- Pier Paolo Pasolini (1965)
  15. Overnight- Chris Marker (2011, shot on London riots)
  16. The Fiances- Ermanno Olmi (1963, criterion, italian)
  17. The Boss of it All- Lars Von Trier (2006, Danish, amazing!)
  18. Prey- Antoine Blossier (2010, French, ok)
  19. The Great Sioux Uprising- Lloyd Bacon (1953)
  20. Shut Up Little Man! An Audio Misadventure- Matthew Bate (2011, interesting)
  21. Vincere- Marco Bellocchio (2009, Italian, great!)
  22. Liberation- Yuri Ozerov (1969, 6 hour Russian epic about ww2, amazing!)
  23. The Big Racket- Enzo Castellari (1976, Italian, awesome!)
  24. Waltz with Bashir- Ari Folman (2008, Israel, very good)
  25. Red Desert- Michelangelo Antonioni (criterion, 1964, Italian)
  26. Impressionen vom alten Marseiller Hafen (Vieux Port)-László Moholy-Nagy (1929)
  27. Beginners- Mike Mills (2010, interesting)
  28. Duel of the Titans- Sergio Corbucci (1961, Italian, bad)
  29. Sshtoorrty- Michael Snow (2005, experimental)
  30. Dogtooth- Giorgos Lanthimos(2008, Greek, amazing!)
  31. Master of the World- William Witney (1961, Tarantino's favorite)
  32. Escape by Night- Roberto Rossellini (1959, Italian, great!)
  33. Titicut Follies- Frederick Wiseman (1967, amazing!)
  34. The Life and Death of a Porno Gang- Mladen Djordjevic (2009, Serbia, incredibly great!)
  35. Séraphine- Martin Provost (2008, French, really good)
  36. Contagion- Steven Soderbergh (2011, pretty good)
  37. All These Women- Ingmar Bergman (1964, Sweedish, so amazing!)
  38. Robots of Brixton- Kibwe Tavares (2011, good)
  39. Primate- Frederick Wiseman (1974, good!)
  40. Treasure Island- Victor Fleming (1932, a gem)
  41. Budrus- Julie Bacha (2009, doc about palestine)
  42. The Gold Rush- Charlie Chaplin (criterion, 1925)
  43. True Grit- Joel & Ethan Coen (2010, amazing script!)
  44. True Lies- James Cameron (1994)
  45. Creature from the Black Lagoon- Jack Arnold (1954, so good!)
  46. Bride of Frankenstein- James Whale (1935, great!)
  47. Orb- Larry Jordan (1973, abstract animation)
  48. Salt of the Earth- Herbert Biberman (1954, a fight we will have all over again)
  49. The Servant- Joseph Losey (1963, amazing!)
  50. Saw- James Wan (2004)
  51. Insidious- James Wan (2010, good)
  52. See the Sea- Francois Ozon (1997, French)
  53. Witchfinder General- Michael Reeves (1968, fun)
  54. The Edge- Aleksei Uchitel (2010, Russian, quite good)
  55. Ruthless- Edgar G. Ulmer (1948, great!)
  56. Life During Wartime- Todd Solondz (2009, meh)
  57. Scotch Tape- Jack Smith (1961)
  58. Rio Bravo- Howard Hawks (1959, awesome!)
  59. Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil- Clint Eastwood (1997, bad acting)
  60. Cul-de-sac- Roman Polanski (criterion, 1967, really amazing)
  61. Pleasures of the Flesh- Nagisa Ôshima (criterion, 1965, wow!)
  62. The Death of Good Neighbor- Dong-kook Zhang (s. korean 2011)
  63. The Southerner- Jean Renoir (1945)
  64. Transition Town Totnes- Deborah Koons Garcia (2011, doc)
  65. I Need That Record!- Brendan Toller (2008, great I used to go to Trash all the time)
  66. Brooklyn's Finest- Antoine Fuqua (2009, pretty good)
  67. Casino Jack- George Hickenlooper (2010, unbelievable!)
  68. Case 39- Christian Alvart (2009, scary)
  69. Destiny- Fritz Lang (1921, great!)
  70. Marx For Beginners- Kevin Attew (1979)
  71. Strange Days- Kathryn Bigelow (1995, good but so 90's)
  72. Season of the Witch- Dominic Sena (2011, fun)
  73. The Ides of March- George Clooney (2011, incredibly good)
  74. Svengali- Archie Mayo (1931, odd, expressionist)
  75. Caravaggio- Derek Jarman (1986, amazing)
  76. Vertical Features Remake- Peter Greenaway (1978)
  77. Junkopia- Chris Marker (1981, shot in SF!)
  78. GasHole- Jeremy Wagener (2010, doc, scary)
  79. Melancholia- Lars von Trier (2011, genius)
  80. I’ll Be in Madra Somewhat Later- Adriaan Ditvoorst (1965, Dutch, great)
  81. Anton Chekhov's The Duel- Dover Koshashvili (2010)
  82. The Visit- Bernhard Wicki (1964, a must see)
  83. Windows- Peter Greenaway (1975, brilliant!)
  84. My Voyage to Italy- Martin Scorsese (1999, inspiring)
  85. How They Get There- Spike Jonze (1997)
  86. Things I Like, Things I Don't Like- Jean-Pierre Jeunet (1989, french great!)
  87. Strange Culture- Lynn Hershman-Leeson (2007, god awful)
  88. The Baby of Macon- Peter Greenaway (1993, good)
  89. Les Miserables- Lewis Milestone (1952, awesome!)
  90. The Peacemaker- Mimi Leder (1997, pretty good)
  91. Act of God- Peter Greenaway (1980, so good!!)
  92. War and Peace- King Vidor (1956, amazing!)
  93. Rare Exports: A Christmas Tale- Jalmari Helander (2010, finnish, crazy)
  94. Tom Jones- Tony Richardson (1963, great!)
  95. The Hit- Stephen Frears (criterion, 1984, good)
  96. Blackmail- Alfred Hitchcock (1929, quite good)
  97. Hugo- Martin Scorsese (2011, a beautiful film about cinema)
  98. Exelsior! Prince of Magicians- Georges Méliès (1901, charming)
  99. In the Year of the Pig- Emile de Antonio (1968, doc on vietnam)
  100. Ironclad- Jonathan English (2011, better than I thought)
  101. A Trip to the Moon- George Méliès (1902, great!)
  102. The Woman in the Window- Fritz Lang (1944, excellent!)
  103. Mirage- Svetozar Ristovski (2004, Macedonian, quite good)
  104. Thunder in the East- Charles Vidor (1952)
  105. Restrepo- Sebastian Junger (2010, wow)
  106. Sea Space- William Farley (1973)
  107. WR: Mysteries of the Organism- Dusan Makavejev (criterion, 1971, brilliant)
  108. Carve Her Name with Pride- Lewis Gilbert (1958, rather bleak)
  109. The Box- Richard Kelly (2009, good)
  110. Transatlantic Tunnel- Maurice Elvey (1935, meh)
  111. The War- Ken Burns (2007, amazing)
  112. JLG/JLG- Jean-luc Godard (1994, French)
  113. The Story of a Cheat- Sacha Guitry (criterion, 1936, awesome!)
  114. Nocturne- Lars Von Trier (1980)
  115. The Human Bullet- Kihachi Okamoto (1968, Japanese, a great film!)
  116. Zandra Rhodes- Peter Greenaway (1981)
  117. Source Code- Duncan Jones (2011, pretty good)
  118. All Good Things- Andrew Jarecki (2010, quite good)
  119. Harlan: In the Shadow of Jew Suess- Felix Moeller (2008, german, boring)
  120. Burn, Witch, Burn- Sidney Hayers (1962, great!)
  121. Last Train Home- Lixin Fan (2009, Chinese, good)
  122. Doodlebug- Christopher Nolan (1997, clever)
  123. Super 8- J.J. Abrams (2011, great!)
  124. La Collectionneuse- Eric Rohmer (criterion, 1967)
  125. The Krays- Peter Medak (1990, ok)
  126. The Spirit of St. Louis- Billy Wilder (1957, great!)
  127. The Hudsucker Proxy- Joel & Ethan Coen (1994, good)
  128. Dear Phone- Peter Greenaway (1976, brilliant!)
  129. Tokyo Chorus- Yasujiro Ozu (criterion, 1931, silent)
  130. The Reflecting Pool- Bill Viola (1979, experimental)
  131. Theirs Is the Glory- Brian Desmond Hurst (1946)
  132. The Shock Doctrine- Michael Winterbottom (2009, wow!)
  133. Red State- Kevin Smith (2011)
  134. The Bells of St. Mary's- Leo McCarey (1945, so good!)
  135. The North Star- Lewis Milestone (1943, amazing!)
  136. Jane Eyre- Cary Fukunaga (2011, pretty good)
  137. The Last Bridge- Helmut Kautner (1954, underrated German director)
  138. A Page of Madness- Teinosuke Kinugasa (1926, excellent japanese silent)
  139. The Adventures of Tintin- Steven Spielberg (2011, great!)
  140. Danger Stalks Near- Keisuke Kinoshita (criterion, 1957, Japanese)
  141. Hold Me While I Am Naked- George Kuchar (1966, experimental)
  142. Un Chant d'Amour- Jean Genet (1950)
  143. Heartless- Philip Ridley (2009, good)
  144. A Place of One's Own- Bernard Knowles (1945, james mason!)
  145. Enter the Void- Gaspar Noé (2009, absolutely incredible!)
  146. Intoxication- Gaspar Noé (2002)
  147. The Confession- Constantine Costa- Gavras (criterion, 1970, wow!)
  148. Robert. A Fortunate Life- Aleksandr Sokurov (1999, Russian)
  149. Heterodyne- Hollis Frampton (1967, experimental)
  150. Midnight in Paris- Woody Allen (2011, time to hang it up Woody)
  151. The Next Three Days- Paul Haggis (2010, good!)
  152. Creep- Christopher Smith (2004, yikes!)
  153. The Warped Ones- Koreyoshi Kurahara (criterion, 1960)
  154. The Excluded- Franz Novotny (1982, Austrian, good)
  155. The Black Power Mixtape 1967 - 1975- Göran Olsson (2011, awesome!)
  156. Snow White: A Tale of Terror- Michael Cohn (1997, fun)
  157. Wooden Crosses- Raymond Bernard (criterion, 1932, amazing!)
  158. Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid- Sam Peckinpah (1973, kinda odd)
  159. True Confessions- Ulu Grosbard (1981, ok)
  160. Across the Wide Missouri- William Wellman (1951, good)
  161. Drive- Nicolas Winding Refn (2011, great!)
  162. Monsters- Gareth Edwards (2010, fun)
  163. The Last Continent- Jean Lemire (2007, Doc on Antartica)
  164. The Hunchback of Notre Dame- William Dieterle (1939, wow!)
  165. Moneyball- Bennett Miller (2011, quite good)
  166. Arn: The Knight Templar- Peter Flinch (2007, sweedish, fun)
  167. China Seas- Tay Garnett (1935, good)
  168. Meek's Cutoff- Kelly Reichardt (2010)
  169. Operation Concrete- Jean-Luc Godard (1954, his first)
  170. City of Life and Death- Chuan Lu (2009, Chinese, incredible!!)
  171. Sunday Bloody Sunday- John Schlesinger (1971, meh)
  172. Semiotics of the Kitchen- Martha Rosler (1975, feminist rage)
  173. Measures Against Fanatics- Werner Herzog (1969)
  174. Seminole- Budd Boetticher (1953, fun)
  175. Dear Mr. Gacy- Svetozar Ristovski (2010, chilling)
  176. The Whistleblower- Larysa Kondracki (2010, moral bankruptcy of the west)
  177. Kill the Irishman- Jonathan Hensleigh (2011, fine film)
  178. Ashes of Time Redux- Wong Kar Wai (1994, absolutely incredible)
  179. Moving Pictures: J G Ballard- Christopher Petit (1990)
  180. The Man with the Golden Arm- Otto Preminger (1955, great!)
  181. Je, Tu, Il, Elle- Chantal Akerman (criterion, 1976, amazing)
  182. Zazie in the Metro- Louis Malle (criterion, 1960, a new favorite)
  183. Equus- Sidney Lumet (1977, good)
  184. Dangerous Mission- Louis King (1954, ok)
  185. High Lane- Abel Ferry (2009, ok)
  186. The Tree of Life- Terence Malick (2011, wow!)
  187. Stander- Bronwen Hughes (2003, fun)
  188. J. Edgar- Clint Eastwood (2011, Eastwood is overrated)
  189. Louisiana Story- Robert Flaherty (1948, great)
  190. A Town Like Alice- Jack Lee (1956, very good)
  191. Ride with the Devil- Ang Lee (criterion, 1999, great)
  192. Hell's Half Acre- John Auer (1954, solid noir)
  193. Fever- Phie Ambo (Danish, 2010)
  194. Black Sheep- Alan Dwan (1935, good)
  195. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo- David Fincher (2011, good)
  196. Scarface- Howard Hawks (1932, amazing!)
  197. The Christine Jorgensen Story- Irving Rapper (1970, so bad it's funny)
  198. House- Nobuhiko Obayashi (criterion, 1977)
  199. Early Summer- Yasujiro Ozu (criterion, 1951, really good!)
  200. Puhelinkoppi (1882-2007)- Hope Tucker (2010, Finnish)
  201. Disquiet- S.J. Ramir (2011, New Zealand)
  202. Into the Abyss- Werner Herzog (2011, wow!)
  203. Myshoes- Elisa Resinaro (2011, Italy)
  204. Promised Lands- Susan Sontag (1974)
  205. Cops- Buster Keaton (silent, 1922, great)
  206. A Dangerous Method- David Cronenberg (2011, good)
  207. The Lady and the Monster- George Sherman (1944, fun)
  208. Three Came Home- Jean Negulesco (1950, really good)
  209. Bad Lieutenant- Abel Ferrara (1992, gritty)
  210. Carnival of Sinners- Maurice Tourneur (criterion, 1943, awesome!)
  211. The Most Dangerous Man in America: Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers- Judith Erlich (2009)
  212. Guns, Germs & Steel- Tim Lambert (2005)
  213. Headhunters- Morton Tyldum (2011, Norway, great)
  214. Street Law- Enzo Castellari (1974, Italian, good)
  215. The Rose on His Arm- Keisuke Kinoshita (criterion, 1956, Japanese)
  216. 12/66 Cosinus Alpha- Kurt Kren (1966, Actionist movement)
  217. Prisoner of Paradise- Malcolm Clarke (2002, really good)
  218. I Vinti- Michelangelo Antonioni (1953)
  219. The Terminator- James Cameron (1984, surprised it was good)
  220. Assassination- Masahiro Shinoda (criterion, 1964)
  221. Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy- Tomas Alfredson (2011, good)
  222. Ashes- Apichatpong Weerasethakul (2012, Thai, surreal)
  223. Battle Los Angeles- Jonathan Liebesman (2011, really fun!)
  224. South of the Border- Oliver Stone (2009, Bolivar!)
  225. Metrotopia- Tarik Saleh (2009, good)
  226. Outer Space- Peter Tscherkassky (1999, experimental)
  227. Invictus- Clint Eastwood (2009, Clint, what were you thinking?)
  228. Water Wars- Jim Burroughs (2009, alarming)
  229. We Need to Talk About Kevin- Lynne Ramsay (2011, Whoa!!)
  230. Under Suspicion- Stephen Hopkins (2000)
  231. Sucker Punch- Zach Snyder (2011, bad)
  232. Burning Snow- Gavriil Yegiazarov (1974, USSR)
  233. Prometheus- Ridley Scott (2012, so good!)
  234. Prince of Darkness- John Carpenter (1987, not bad)
  235. The Way I Spent the End of the World- Cătălin Mitulescu (2006, Romanian, good)
  236. Black Gold- Marc & Nick Francis (2006, mediocre)
  237. The Rum Diary- Bruce Robinson (2011, enjoyed)
  238. Escape from Zahrain- Ronald Neame (1962, fun!)
  239. Even Dwarfs Started Small- Werner Herzog (1970, watched as much as I could)
  240. GasLand- Josh Fox (2010, infuriating)
  241. The Disappeared- Johnny Kevorkian (2008)
  242. The Man from London- Bela Tarr (2007, amazing!)
  243. The Omega Man- Boris Sagal (1971, kinda bad)
  244. Tuesday, After Christmas- Radu Muntean (2010, Romanian, fair to middling)
  245. State of Play- Kevin Macdonald (2009, great film!)
  246. Carnage- Roman Polanski (2012, the old man still has it!)
  247. Army of Crime- Robert Guédiguian (2009, French, good)
  248. Leviathan- George Cosmatos (1989, ok)
  249. 4 Months, 3 Weeks, and 2 Days- Christian Mungiu (2007, Romanian)
  250. Moazart's Sister- Rene Feret (2010, French, very good)
Nance09/05/2011

The only movie I watched from your list is Cruising, a pretty awkward film. I like the featurettes on the DVD, you learn more about it, how it was done. Really interesting.

Is the Chris Marker's short good?

What is your favorite movie this year so far? (from this list or the other 2011 one)

Slothrop3309/07/2011

Hi,

Cruising was a great film; I was pleasantly surprised! It was rather racey for the early 80's!
The Marker short film was not all that great really.
The Sixth Side of the Pentagon is my favorite Marker so far, you can see it on Mubi.com (an amazing site)
My favorite by far is Liberation, a seemingly unknown Soviet film (in the West at least)
It's a 6 hour epic about the Russian/German front in WW2. Although, the depiction of the battle
for berlin is brutally dishonest, yet few films deal with this. It's a pirate bay find.