Top 10 Films First Seen During 2009

[Weeping_Guitar]

01. East of Eden (Kazan, 1955)
02. Shaun of the Dead (Wright, 2004)
03. Ordet (Dreyer, 1955)
04. Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (Brooks, 1958)
05. Late August, Early September (Assayas, 1998)
06. I've Loved You So Long (Claudel, 2008)
07. Missing (Costa-Gavras, 1982)
08. Our Man in Havana (Reed, 1959)
09. The Twilight Samurai (Yamada, 2002)
10. Viridiana (Buñuel, 1961)

Out: One, Two, Three (Wilder, 1961)

[Dead & Messed Up]

I'm watching too many movies. New in BOLD.

01. Peeping Tom
02. The Bridge Over the River Kwai
03. Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde '31
04. Vampyr
05. Watchmen
06. Bug
07. Transsiberian
08. Coraline
09. Seance
10. Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde '41

11. The Blind Swordsman: Zatoichi
12. Them!
13. Something Wicked This Way Comes
14. Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story
15. Dementia 13
16. Wolf
17. Speed Racer
18. Corpse Bride
19. A Scanner Darkly
20. Right at Your Door
21. Joshua
22. Blades of Glory
23. Body Snatchers
24. Species
25. The Hunger
26. Nightbreed
27. Shocker
28. Beerfest
29. The Toxic Avenger
30. The Running Man
31. The Dunwich Horror
32. Fanboys
33. 976-Evil
34. Jesus Christ: Vampire Hunter
35. Rabid Grannies
36. Resident Evil: Degeneration

[B-side]

1. Santa Sangre (Jodorowsky, 1989)
2. Harakiri (Kobayashi, 1962)
3. The Wild Bunch (Peckinpah, 1969)
4. Julien Donkey-Boy (Korine, 1999)
5. Red River (Hawks, 1948)
6. Coraline 3D (Selick, 2009)
7. In the Realm of the Senses (Oshima, 1976)
8. Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid (Peckinpah, 1973)
9. The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (Ford, 1962)
10. Ponyo on the Cliff (Miyazaki, 2008)


Dropped Double Indemnity and added the terrific Julien Donkey-Boy to the #4 spot.

[Ezee E]

1. All That Jazz [10]
2. Grave of the Fireflies [10]
3. Dear Zachary [10]
4. The Wrestler [9]
5. The One-Armed Swordsman [9]
6. Lenny [9]
7. Revolutionary Road [8.5]
8. Twilight Zone: The Movie [8]
9. Dial M For Murder [7.5]
10. Breakfast at Tiffani's [7.5]


I've already seen more 10's this year than last year.

Twilight Zone!

[The Mike]

1. A Matter of Life and Death
2. The Unknown
3. Born Yesterday
4. Watchmen
5. Slumdog Millionaire
6. Walkabout
7. Gran Torino
8. The Anniversary
9. Phase IV
10. Ghost Town
------------------------------
11. My Name is Bruce
11. Repo! The Genetic Opera
11. The Wrestler
11. Cold Prey
11. Taken
11. The Masque of the Red Death

Updated.

[Kurious Jorge v3.1]

1. The General (Keaton - 1927) 95
2. The Last Laugh (Murnau - 1924) - 91
3. Peppermint Frappe (Saura - 1977) - 89
4. Trafic (Tati -1971) 84
5. The Earrings of Madame de... (Ophuls - 1953) 82
6. La Ceremonie (Chabrol - 1995) - 81
7. College (Keaton - 1927) - 81
8. The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (Dominik - 2007) - 75
9. Three Ages (Keaton - 1923) 73
10. King Kong (Cooper - 1933) - 71


GONE: Three Monkeys (58), Ballad of Narayama (1958 Version, 60), The Front (63), Blade Runner (67)

[soitgoes...]

1. My Night at Maud's (Rohmer 69)
2. Hamlet (Branagh 96)
3. Let the Right One In (Alfredson 08)
4. Shadows of Our Forgotten Ancestors (Parajanov 64)
5. New Earth (Ivens 34)
6. I'm a Cyborg, But That's OK (Park 06)
7. Every Night Dreams (Naruse 33)
8. Hunger (McQueen 08)
9. Dear Zachary: A Letter to a Son About His Father (Kuenne 08)
10. MarÃ*a Candelaria (Emilio Fernández 44)
1. My Night at Maud's (Rohmer 69)
2. Hamlet (Branagh 96)
3. Let the Right One In (Alfredson 08)
4. Shadows of Our Forgotten Ancestors (Parajanov 64)
5. New Earth (Ivens 34)
6. I'm a Cyborg, But That's OK (Park 06)
7. Every Night Dreams (Naruse 33)
8. Le Samouraï (Melville 67)
9. Hunger (McQueen 08)
10. Dear Zachary: A Letter to a Son About His Father (Kuenne 08)

Melville definitely was hitting his stride in the mid to late 60s. Le Samouraï is his best crime film I've seen, and probably just a shade below Army of Shadows as his best overall film. I don't know why I put off seeing it for so long. Perhaps subconsciously I was leaving myself something great to look forward to watching in Melville's filmography. Only a few left until I've seen all he did.

[Fezzik]

1. Coraline (2009, Selick) - 9
2. Watchmen (2009, Snyder) - 9
3. In Bruges (2008, McDonagh) - 9
4. Burn After Reading (2008, Coen) - 8.5
5. Bolt (2008, Howard, Williams) - 8
6. Slumdog Millionaire (2008, Boyle) - 7
7. Eagle Eye (2008, Caruso) - 6.5
8. Hancock (2008, Berg) - 6



Updated with Watchmen

[eternity]

1. Week End (Jean Luc Godard)
2. Rachel Getting Married (Jonathon Demme)
3. Fanboys (Ryan Newman)
3. Synecdoche, New York (Charlie Kaufman)
4. Au revoir les enfants (Louis Malle)
5. All Quiet on the Western Front (Lewis Milestone)
6. The Hurt Locker (Kathryn Bigelow)
7. The Visitor (Thomas McCarthy)
8. Alfie (Lewis Gilbert)
9. Watchmen (Zack Snyder)
10. Repo! The Genetic Opera (Darren Lynn Bousman)

[Rowland]

1. Flight of the Red Balloon [78]
2. The Road Warrior [76]
3. Still Life [75]
4. King of the Ants [70]
5. Dellamorte Dellamore [69]
6. Dong [69]
7. Kit Kittredge: An American Girl [68]
8. Doubt [68]
9. Exte: Hair Extensions [66]
10. Standard Operating Procedure [65]

[MadMan]

1. Bob Roberts-97
2. Sleeper-97
3. Chimes at Midnight-95
4. Bonnie and Clyde-95
5. Frost/Nixon-95
6. Duck Soup-94
7. Gran Torino-92
8. White Heat-91
9. Pinapple Express-91
10. Watchmen-90*Joins others in adding Watchmen to their list* We'll see if its still there by next month, however.

[EyesWideOpen]

Updated.

1. Coraline (Selick, 2009) A
2. Gone Baby Gone (Affleck, 2007) A
3. The Motel (Kang, 2005) A-
4. Watchmen (Snyder, 2009) A-
5. Rachel Getting Married (Demme, 2008) A-
6. Gran Torino (Eastwood, 2008) B+
7. Ghost Town (Koepp, 2008) B+
8. CJ7 (Chow, 2008) B+
9. Burn After Reading (Coens, 2008) B
10. Conquest of the Planet of the Apes (Thompson, 1972) B

[Winston*]

Let the Right One In
Love and Death
Man on Wire
Election 1 & 2
The Fallen Idol
We Own the Night
Get Carter
The Bank Job
Crank
Reprise

[Boner M]

It's so weird to see Winston* make a list of anything.

[Dukefrukem]

1. Wall-E [98]
2. Gran Torino [96]
3. The Wrestler [91]
4. Eden Lake [90]
5. Red Eye[85]
6. Frost/Nixon [83]
7. Bug [82]
8. Right at Your Door [81]
9. Taken [81]
10. Secret Window [80]



Making adjustments to my ratings.... Yes I dropped Eagle Eye 20 points after a second viewing.



11. Watchmen [73]
12. The Ruins[72]
13. Sunshine [71]
14. Zack and Miri Make a Porno[69]
15. Teeth [67]
16. Quarantine [66]
17. Eagle Eye [65]
18. Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift [60]
19. Babylon A.D. [59]
20. Donnie Darko [55]
21. The Blair Witch Project II - Book of Shadows [54.5]
22. Resident Evil: Degeneration [53]
23. Final Destination 3 [52]
24. Mirrors [40]
25. Cursed [35]

[Yxklyx]

1. Sherman's March (1986, Ross McElwee)
2. Southern Comfort (1981, Walter Hill)
3. The Exterminating Angel (1962, Luis Buñuel)
4. They Live (1988, John Carpenter)
5. Midnight (1939, Mitchell Leisen)
6. Babe: Pig in the City (1998, George Miller)
7. All the Real Girls (2003, David Gordon Green)
8. The Children Are Watching Us (1944, Vittorio De Sica)
9. Castle in the Sky (1986, Hayao Miyazaki)
10. The Weather Underground (2002, Sam Green & Bill Siegel)

[Raiders]

In with Fuller and Garrone, out with Aronofsky...

1. Day of the Outlaw (1959, De Toth)
2. Coraline (2009, Selick)
3. Bright Leaves (2003, McElwee)
4. Voices of a Distant Star (2003, Shinkai)
5. Gran Torino (2008, Eastwood)
6. Che (2008, Soderbergh)
7. Verboten! (1959, Fuller)
8. Dear Zachary (2008, Kuenne)
9. Never Cry Wolf (1983, Ballard)
10. Gomorrah (2008, Garrone)

[balmakboor]

1. Sonic Outlaws
2. The Last Bolshevik
3. Dear Zachary
4. Milk
5. Tribulation 99
6. War of the Gargantuas
7. My Winnipeg
8. Taxi to the Dark Side
9. Man on Wire
10. Trouble the Water

Lost Gran Torino.

Seven out of ten are documentaries -- of sorts. I guess I'm not really surprised. I've always loved them.

[Ezee E]

1. Sonic Outlaws
2. The Last Bolshevik
3. Dear Zachary
4. Milk
5. Tribulation 99
6. War of the Gargantuas
7. My Winnipeg
8. Taxi to the Dark Side
9. Man on Wire
10. Trouble the Water

Lost Gran Torino.

Seven out of ten are documentaries -- of sorts. I guess I'm not really surprised. I've always loved them.
Get that Dear Zachary vote in to Boner!

[balmakboor]

1. Let the Right One In
2. Dear Zachary
3. Sonic Outlaws
4. The Last Bolshevik
5. Milk
6. Tribulation 99
7. War of the Gargantuas
8. My Winnipeg
9. Taxi to the Dark Side
10. Man on Wire

Lost Trouble the Water (that hurts) and rearranged a bit. Great vampire film!

[The Mike]

1. A Matter of Life and Death
2. The Unknown
3. Born Yesterday
4. Slumdog Millionaire
5. Walkabout
6. Gran Torino
7. Watchmen
8. Hobson's Choice
9. The Anniversary
10. Phase IV

Updated.

[Stay Puft]

Ides of March update:


1. Flight of the Red Balloon (2007, dir. Hsiao-hsien Hou)
2. My Blueberry Nights (2007, dir. Kar Wai Wong)
3. Reprise (2006, dir. Joachim Trier)
4. The Edge of Heaven (2007, dir. Fatih Akin)
5. Wings of Desire (1987, dir. Wim Wenders)
6. Mad Detective (2007, dir. Johnny To and Ka-Fai Wai)
7. Cry Me a River (2008, dir. Jia Zhang Ke)
8. The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951, dir. Robert Wise)
9. Coraline (2009, dir. Henry Selick)
10. The Fall (2006, dir. Tarsem Singh)

Coraline and Cry Me a River are new.

[dreamdead]

Cry Me a River (2008, dir. Jia Zhang Ke)

Me want to see. Bad. Any thoughts on this in comparison to his other works?

[Ivan Drago]

1. Eyes Wide Shut (Stanley Kubrick, 1999)
2. Watchmen (Zack Snyder, 2009)
3. Revolutionary Road (Sam Mendes, 2008)
4. Frost/Nixon (Ron Howard, 2008)
5. The Rules of the Game (Jean Renoir, 1939)
6. Last Tango In Paris (Bernardo Bertolucci, 1972)
7. Valkyrie (Bryan Singer, 2008)
8. Milk (Gus Van Sant, 2008)
9. Interstella 5555 (Kazuhisa Takenochi, 2003)
10. Zoolander (Ben Stiller, 2001)

11. The Last House on the Left (Dennis Iliadis, 2009)
12. Taken (Pierre Morel, 2009)
13. Gran Torino (Clint Eastwood, 2008)
14. The Reader (Stephen Daldry, 2008)

[Stay Puft]

Me want to see. Bad. Any thoughts on this in comparison to his other works?

I don't think I can speak much to Jia's works. I have only seen his more recent efforts (Useless, 24 City, Cry Me a River). Which means River is his first work of "fiction" (insofar as we want to think of the first two as documentaries) that I have seen (I'm not going to count the fact that I watched a third of Platform, for example, but never finished it). Certainly, it is as formally accomplished as the other two "docs," and exhibits similar stylistic touches (long, contemplative shots, and a camera that sometimes "drifts" away from a subject to consider more periphery details - this actually being a significant structural and narrative device in Useless). And there's Tao Zhao, of course.

My initial impression is that it is a small, beautiful homage to Spring in a Small Town that, like Tian's remake, dislocates plot elements into a different time period to re-contextualize thematic material. There's something universal but also specifically cyclical that Jia does here with sadness, nostalgia, aging and frailty (I gather this from the juxtaposition of the last two settings, the boat on the river and the house on the lake). Moreso than Tian, he's creating a cinematic dialogue or bridge - like a reflection on Mu Fei's film, a ripple in time, characters who live in a contemporary setting and unknowingly/unconsciously drift through webs of Chinese history, culture, film, etc.

Am I making sense? I'm not sure what to say about it. It left a strong impression, though.

[Dead & Messed Up]

New in BOLD. And for my own amusement, horror in RED.

01. Peeping Tom
02. The Bridge Over the River Kwai
03. Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde '31
04. Vampyr
05. Rashomon
06. Watchmen
07. Bug
08. Transsiberian
09. Coraline
10. Seance

11. Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde '41
12. Stuck
13. The Blind Swordsman: Zatoichi
14. Them!
15. Something Wicked This Way Comes
16. Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story
17. Dementia 13
18. Wolf
19. Speed Racer
20. Repo! The Genetic Opera
21. Corpse Bride
22. A Scanner Darkly
23. God Told Me To
24. Right at Your Door
25. Joshua
26. Blades of Glory
27. Body Snatchers
28. Species
29. The Hunger
30. Nightbreed
31. Shocker
32. Beerfest
33. The Toxic Avenger
34. The Running Man
35. The Dunwich Horror
36. Fanboys
37. 976-Evil
38. Jesus Christ: Vampire Hunter
39. Rabid Grannies
40. Resident Evil: Degeneration

[Sycophant]

I could swear I've seen a couple more than what's listed below, but this is currently every film I've seen for the first time in 2009 that I can account for. Most of what I've watched this year have been rewatches. And I haven't even watched that many of those.

1. Johnny Guitar
2. Milk
3. The Wrestler
4. Gran Torino
5. Revolutionary Road
6. Coraline
7. Snoopy, Come Home!
8. Mad Detective
9. Race to Witch Mountain
10.

[Dukefrukem]

1. Wall-E [98]
2. Gran Torino [96]
3. The Wrestler [91]
4. Eden Lake [90]
5. Speed Racer [89]
6. Red Eye[85]
7. Frost/Nixon [83]
8. Bug [82]
9. Right at Your Door [81]
10. Taken [81]



Speed Racer!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!



11. Secret Window [80]
12. Watchmen [73]
13. The Ruins[72]
14. Sunshine [71]
15. Zack and Miri Make a Porno[69]
16. Teeth [67]
17. Quarantine [66]
18. Eagle Eye [65]
19. Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift [60]
20. Babylon A.D. [59]
21. Donnie Darko [55]
22. The Blair Witch Project II - Book of Shadows [54.5]
23. Resident Evil: Degeneration [53]
24. Final Destination 3 [52]
25. Mirrors [40]
26. Cursed [35]

[Bosco B Thug]

1. Culloden
2. Marnie
3. Vivre se vie
4. Stuck
5. Contempt
6. Serpent's Path
7. License to Live
8. Week End
9. Tokyo Sonata
10. Wendy and Lucy

[Ivan Drago]

1. Eyes Wide Shut (Stanley Kubrick, 1999)
2. Watchmen (Zack Snyder, 2009)
3. Synecdoche, New York (Charlie Kaufman, 2008)
4. Revolutionary Road (Sam Mendes, 2008)
5. Frost/Nixon (Ron Howard, 2008)
6. The Rules of the Game (Jean Renoir, 1939)
7. Last Tango In Paris (Bernardo Bertolucci, 1972)
8. Valkyrie (Bryan Singer, 2008)
9. Milk (Gus Van Sant, 2008)
10. Interstella 5555 (Kazuhisa Takenochi, 2003)


11. Zoolander (Ben Stiller, 2001)
12. The Last House on the Left (Dennis Iliadis, 2009) 7.5
13. Taken (Pierre Morel, 2009) 7
14. Gran Torino (Clint Eastwood, 2008)
15. The Reader (Stephen Daldry, 2008)

Updated.

[Watashi]

1. Au Hasard Balthazar (Robert Bresson, 1966)
2. Some Like It Hot (Billy Wilder, 1959)
3. City of Hope (John Sayles, 1991)
4. Coraline (Henry Selick, 2009)
5. Watchmen (Zack Snyder, 2009)
6. Saturday Night and Sunday Morning (Karel Reisz, 1960)
7. My Kid Could Paint That (Amir Bar-Lev, 2007)
8. Wendy and Lucy (Kelly Reichardt, 2008)
9. Hunger (Steve McQueen, 2008)
10. Justice League: The New Frontier (Dave Bullock, 2008)

Updated.

[The Mike]

1. A Matter of Life and Death
2. The Unknown
3. Born Yesterday
4. Night and the City
5. Walkabout
6. Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai
7. Hobson's Choice
8. The Anniversary
9. Phase IV
10. The Masque of the Red Death


Updated. I decided against using anything from last year or this year, because I'm tracking them elsewhere. So now it looks like this.

[EyesWideOpen]

Updated.

1. Coraline (Selick, 2009) A
2. Gone Baby Gone (Affleck, 2007) A
3. The Motel (Kang, 2005) A-
4. Watchmen (Snyder, 2009) A-
5. Milk (Gus Van Sant, 2008) A-
6. Rachel Getting Married (Demme, 2008) A-
7. Gran Torino (Eastwood, 2008) B+
8. Ghost Town (Koepp, 2008) B+
9. CJ7 (Chow, 2008) B+
10. Azur & Asmar (Ocelot, 2006) B+

[Weeping_Guitar]

01. East of Eden (Kazan, 1955)
02. Shaun of the Dead (Wright, 2004)
03. Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (Brooks, 1958)
04. Jean de Florette / Manon of the Spring (Berri, 1986)
05. The Long Goodbye (Altman, 1973)
06. Ordet (Dreyer, 1955)
07. I've Loved You So Long (Claudel, 2008)
08. Z (Costa-Gavras, 1969)
09. Late August, Early September (Assayas, 1998)
10. Our Man in Havana (Reed, 1959)

Out:
Missing (Costa-Gavras, 1982)
The Twilight Samurai (Yamada, 2002)
Viridiana (Buñuel, 1961)

[Rowland]

1. Black Sabbath [80]
2. Flight of the Red Balloon [78]
3. The Road Warrior [76]
4. Still Life [75]
5. King of the Ants [70]
6. Dellamorte Dellamore [69]
7. Kit Kittredge: An American Girl [68]
8. Doubt [68]
9. Exte: Hair Extensions [66]
10. Dong [66]

[Winston*]

Let the Right One In
Love and Death
Man on Wire
Election 1 & 2
Flight of the Red Balloon
The Red Balloon
The Fallen Idol
Snow Angels
We Own the Night
Once Upon a Time in China


Knocked off two Stathams. Aww.

[balmakboor]

1. Let the Right One In
2. Dear Zachary
3. Sonic Outlaws
4. The Last Bolshevik
5. Milk
6. Tribulation 99
7. The Snow Walker
8. My Winnipeg
9. Taxi to the Dark Side
10. Man on Wire

Dropped War of the Gargantuas

[MadMan]

1. Bob Roberts-97
2. Sleeper-97
3. Chimes at Midnight-95
4. Bonnie and Clyde-95
5. Frost/Nixon-95
6. Duck Soup-94
7. Gran Torino-92
8. White Heat-91
9. Pinapple Express-91
10. Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai-90

I also viewed In Bruges. I'm not sure if it will make the list or not. Right now, its a no.

[Dukefrukem]

1. Wall-E [98]
2. Gran Torino [96]
3. The Wrestler [91]
4. Hot Fuzz [90.5]
5. Eden Lake [90]
6. Speed Racer [89]
7. Red Eye[85]
8. Frost/Nixon [83]
9. Bug [82]
10. Right at Your Door [81]



Hot Fuzz bumped off Taken... also added Alpha Dog



11. Taken [81]
12. Secret Window [80]
13. Watchmen [73]
14. The Ruins [72]
15. Sunshine [71]
16. Alpha Dog [69.5]
17. Zack and Miri Make a Porno[69]
18. Teeth [67]
19. Quarantine [66]
20. Eagle Eye [65]
21. Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift [60]
22. Babylon A.D. [59]
23. Donnie Darko [55]
24. The Blair Witch Project II - Book of Shadows [54.5]
25. Resident Evil: Degeneration [53]
26. Final Destination 3 [52]
27. Mirrors [40]
28. Cursed [35]

[Fezzik]

1. Coraline (2009, Selick) - 9
2. Watchmen (2009, Snyder) - 9
3. In Bruges (2008, McDonagh) - 9
4. Burn After Reading (2008, Coen) - 8.5
5. I Love You, Man (2009, Hamburg) - 8
6. Bolt (2008, Howard, Williams) - 8
7. Slumdog Millionaire (2008, Boyle) - 7
8. Eagle Eye (2008, Caruso) - 6.5
9. Hancock (2008, Berg) - 6



Updated with I Love You, Man

[Dead & Messed Up]

New entries in BOLD. One important change: Stuck is now in the top ten.

01. Peeping Tom
02. The Bridge Over the River Kwai
03. Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1931)
04. Vampyr
05. Rashomon
06. Watchmen
07. Bug
08. Transsiberian
09. Coraline
10. Stuck

11. Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1941)
12. Seance
13. The Blind Swordsman: Zatoichi
14. Them!
15. Something Wicked This Way Comes
16. Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story
17. Dementia 13
18. Wolf
19. Speed Racer
20. Repo! The Genetic Opera
21. Corpse Bride
22. A Scanner Darkly
23. Halloween
24. Pin
25. God Told Me To
26. Right at Your Door
27. Blades of Glory
28. Joshua
29. Body Snatchers
30. Species
31. The Hunger
32. Nightbreed
33. Shocker
34. Beerfest
35. The Toxic Avenger
36. The Running Man
37. The Dunwich Horror
38. Bio-Zombie
39. Fanboys
40. 976-Evil
41. Jesus Christ: Vampire Hunter
42. Rabid Grannies
43. Resident Evil: Degeneration

[The Mike]

1. A Matter of Life and Death
2. Almost Famous
3. The Unknown
4. Born Yesterday
5. Night and the City
6. Walkabout
7. Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai
8. The Anniversaary
9. Journey to the Far Side of the Sun
10. Phase IV
Updated. Four new additions in 9 days. Good times.

[Ezee E]

1. All That Jazz [10]
2. Grave of the Fireflies [10]
3. Dear Zachary [10]
4. The Wrestler [9]
5. The One-Armed Swordsman [9]
6. Lenny [9]
7. Revolutionary Road [8.5]
8. Twilight Zone: The Movie [8]
9. Dial M For Murder [7.5]
10. Breakfast at Tiffani's [7.5]

Hepburn.

[balmakboor]

1. Let the Right One In
2. Dear Zachary
3. Sonic Outlaws
4. The Last Bolshevik
5. Milk
6. Tribulation 99
7. Sick: The Life and Death of Bob Flanagan, Supermasochist
8. My Winnipeg
9. Taxi to the Dark Side
10. Man on Wire

It may go higher after some reflection.

[Philosophe_rouge]

So far...

1. Paris, Texas (Wenders, 1984)
2. The Servant (Losey, 1963)
3. Last Summer (Perry, 1969)
4. The House that Screamed (Serrador, 1969)
5. Entres les murs (Cantet, 2008)
6. Milk (Van Sant, 2008)
7. The Wrestler (Aronofsky, 2008)
8. Mother Joan of the Angels (Kawalerowicz, 1961)
9. Silkwood (Nichols, 1983)
10. Easy Living (Liesen, 1937)

updated.

[soitgoes...]

1. My Night at Maud's (Rohmer 69)
2. Hamlet (Branagh 96)
3. Let the Right One In (Alfredson 08)
4. Shadows of Our Forgotten Ancestors (Parajanov 64)
5. New Earth (Ivens 34)
6. I'm a Cyborg, But That's OK (Park 06)
7. Every Night Dreams (Naruse 33)
8. Le Samouraï (Melville 67)
9. Hunger (McQueen 08)
10. Dear Zachary: A Letter to a Son About His Father (Kuenne 08)
1. My Night at Maud's (Rohmer 69)
2. Mind Game (Yuasa 04)
3. Hamlet (Branagh 96)
4. Let the Right One In (Alfredson 08)
5. Shadows of Our Forgotten Ancestors (Parajanov 64)
6. New Earth (Ivens 34)
7. I'm a Cyborg, But That's OK (Park 06)
8. Every Night Dreams (Naruse 33)
9. Le Samouraï (Melville 67)
10. Hunger (McQueen 08)

Mind Game might float to the top upon further reflection. What a fucking movie! It would definitely make my Top 100 were I to adjust it.

[MadMan]

1. Bob Roberts-97
2. Sleeper-97
3. Chimes at Midnight-95
4. Bonnie and Clyde-95
5. Frost/Nixon-95
6. Duck Soup-94
7. Gran Torino-92
8. White Heat-91
9. Pinapple Express-91
10. The Warriors-90

So far though only the 10 spot seems to be changing at this point. And I have yet to find or view a film worthy of receiving a 100.

[Ivan Drago]

1. Eyes Wide Shut (Stanley Kubrick, 1999)
2. Watchmen (Zack Snyder, 2009)
3. Revolutionary Road (Sam Mendes, 2008)
4. Frost/Nixon (Ron Howard, 2008)
5. The Rules of the Game (Jean Renoir, 1939)
6. Last Tango In Paris (Bernardo Bertolucci, 1972)
7. Valkyrie (Bryan Singer, 2008)
8. Milk (Gus Van Sant, 2008)
9. Interstella 5555 (Kazuhisa Takenochi, 2003)
10. Rachel Getting Married (Jonathan Demme, 2008)

11. Zoolander (Ben Stiller, 2001)
12. The Last House on the Left (Dennis Iliadis, 2009)
13. Taken (Pierre Morel, 2009)
14. Twilight (Catherine Hardwicke, 2008)
15. Gran Torino (Clint Eastwood, 2008)
16. The Reader (Stephen Daldry, 2008)

Updated.

[SirNewt]

1. Culloden

Oh snap! That was on of my top ten seen in 08. Spinal put me onto it for the obscure film swap. I had a great time reviewing it.

[SirNewt]

guess I have enough good stuff now to throw up a list but it's pretty standard stuff.

1. Odd Man Out
2. Man on Wire
3. Do The Right Thing
4. Dear Zachary
5. Get Carter
6. Pickup on South Street
7. The Petrified Forest
8. La Strada
9. Persepolis
10. From Here to Eternity

[Weeping_Guitar]

01. East of Eden (Kazan, 1955)
02. Shaun of the Dead (Wright, 2004)
03. Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (Brooks, 1958)
04. Jean de Florette / Manon of the Spring (Berri, 1986)
05. The Long Goodbye (Altman, 1973)
06. Ordet (Dreyer, 1955)
07. I've Loved You So Long (Claudel, 2008)
08. Z (Costa-Gavras, 1969)
09. Late August, Early September (Assayas, 1998)
10. The Lovers of the Arctic Circle (Medem, 1998)

OUT: Our Man in Havana (Reed, 1959)

[eternity]

1. Week End (Jean Luc Godard)
2. In a Lonely Place (Nicholas Ray)
3. Ken Park (Larry Clark)
4. Rachel Getting Married (Jonathon Demme)
5. Fanboys (Ryan Newman)
6. Synecdoche, New York (Charlie Kaufman)
7. Au revoir les enfants (Louis Malle)
8. All Quiet on the Western Front (Lewis Milestone)
9. Autumn Tale (Eric Rohmer)
10. The Hurt Locker (Kathryn Bigelow)

[Watashi]

1. Au Hasard Balthazar (Robert Bresson, 1966)
2. Some Like It Hot (Billy Wilder, 1959)
3. Two Lovers (James Gray, 2008)
4. City of Hope (John Sayles, 1991)
5. Coraline (Henry Selick, 2009)
6. Watchmen (Zack Snyder, 2009)
7. Saturday Night and Sunday Morning (Karel Reisz, 1960)
8. My Kid Could Paint That (Amir Bar-Lev, 2007)
9. Wendy and Lucy (Kelly Reichardt, 2008)
10. The Piano (Jane Campion, 1993)

Updated.

[MadMan]

1. Bob Roberts-97
2. Sleeper-97
3. Chimes at Midnight-95
4. Bonnie and Clyde-95
5. The Ninth Configuration-95
6. Frost/Nixon-95
7. Duck Soup-94
8. Gran Torino-92
9. White Heat-91
10. Pinapple Express-91

Films receiving a "90" will no longer stand a chance of making the list.

[The Mike]

Big props for The Ninth Configuration, even if the Frost/Nixon score (especially opposed to Gran Torino) gives me shivers.

[MadMan]

Big props for The Ninth Configuration, even if the Frost/Nixon score (especially opposed to Gran Torino) gives me shivers.Thanks in regards to "Configuration." And Frost/Nixon had better acting and a more interesting story than Grano Torino, hence the higher score. I've never really been a Ron Howard hater I guess, although granted I haven't seen a good deal from him and I've put off seeing A Beautiful Mind, which gets a lot of flack around these parts.

[The Mike]

Thanks in regards to "Configuration." And Frost/Nixon had better acting and a more interesting story than Grano Torino, hence the higher score. I've never really been a Ron Howard hater I guess, although granted I haven't seen a good deal from him and I've put off seeing A Beautiful Mind, which gets a lot of flack around these parts.

I'm not a hater (in fact, I'm probably one of the bigger fans of A Beautiful Mind left), I just found the movie pretty uninteresting, and thought it had a bit of a made-for-TV feel. Plus Clint = Better acting than all (Though Langella was good).

[MadMan]

I'm not a hater (in fact, I'm probably one of the bigger fans of A Beautiful Mind left), I just found the movie pretty uninteresting, and thought it had a bit of a made-for-TV feel. Plus Clint = Better acting than all (Though Langella was good).Okay, fair enough. As for Clint, while I can't agree with you that he was better than Sheen or Langella, he was pretty awesome. One of his best performances imo. And I'm just reminded that I actually have a write up for "Torino" that has yet to be posted. Partly because its not very good, partly because, well...I'm notorious procrastinator....

[SirNewt]

Okay, fair enough. As for Clint, while I can't agree with you that he was better than Sheen or Langella, he was pretty awesome. One of his best performances imo. And I'm just reminded that I actually have a write up for "Torino" that has yet to be posted. Partly because its not very good, partly because, well...I'm notorious procrastinator....

Yeah, but most people procrastinate on the work (writing a review) part. Not the getting credit (posting it) part.

[SirNewt]

1. Odd Man Out
2. Man on Wire
3. Paths of Glory
4. Do The Right Thing
5. Dear Zachary
6. Get Carter
7. Pickup on South Street
8. The Petrified Forest
9. La Strada
10. Persepolis


Kubrick at his best and worst in one weekend.

[MadMan]

Yeah, but most people procrastinate on the work (writing a review) part. Not the getting credit (posting it) part.I know. I'm that weird kind of procrastinator. I find it easier to actually write the damn thing down on paper instead of putting it on the computer and editting it, plus re-reading it to see if its actually any good. Perhaps I need my own editor :P

[balmakboor]

Kubrick at his best and worst in one weekend.

Few films have fascinated me to the degree that EWS has. The more I look at them, the more strongly I feel that Kubrick ended his career with two of his finest films.

[Ezee E]

Few films have fascinated me to the degree that EWS has. The more I look at them, the more strongly I feel that Kubrick ended his career with two of his finest films.
Yeah, I forgot where I had it in my Top 100. If I omitted it (think I may have), it's a top 20 for sure. It keeps moving up too.

EDIT: #13 All-Time.

[megladon8]

It's been so long since I updated my list.

Here's the best of what I've seen this year, and I hope to add a few more in the next few weeks...

1.) [REC]
2.) Dirty Harry
3.) Sisters ('73)
4.) Cthulhu ('07)
5.) Watchmen
6.) Gran Torino
7.) Coraline
8.) Wolf
9.) Hunger
10.) Magnum Force

[balmakboor]

1. Let the Right One In
2. Dear Zachary
3. Sonic Outlaws
4. The Last Bolshevik
5. Milk
6. Tribulation 99
7. In the Realms of the Unreal
8. Sick: The Life and Death of Bob Flanagan, Supermasochist
9. My Winnipeg
10. Taxi to the Dark Side

I've been watching a number of documentaries lately. That's what Netflix Instant Play was invented for, I swear. And In The Realms... is one of the most beautiful, fascinating, and entrancing I've seen so far. Imagine cleaning out the room of an eccentric old janitor and discovering an illustrated 15,000+ page fantasy novel -- among other works -- that he'd left behind.

[Dead & Messed Up]

New entries in BOLD.

01. Peeping Tom
02. The Bridge Over the River Kwai
03. Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1931)
04. Vampyr
05. Rashomon
06. Watchmen
07. Bug
08. Let the Right One In
09. Transsiberian
10. Heat

11. Coraline
12. Stuck
13. Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1941)
14. Seance
15. The Blind Swordsman: Zatoichi
16. Them!
17. Something Wicked This Way Comes
18. It's Alive
19. P2
20. Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story
21. Dementia 13
22. Wolf
23. Speed Racer
24. Repo! The Genetic Opera
25. Corpse Bride
26. A Scanner Darkly
27. Pin
--------------------
28. Halloween (2007)
29. God Told Me To
30. Right at Your Door
31. Blades of Glory
32. Joshua
33. Body Snatchers
34. Species
35. The Hunger
36. Nightbreed
37. Shocker
38. Beerfest
39. The Toxic Avenger
40. The Running Man
41. The Dunwich Horror
42. Bio-Zombie
43. Fanboys
44. 976-Evil
45. Jesus Christ: Vampire Hunter
46. Rabid Grannies
47. Resident Evil: Degeneration

[soitgoes...]

1. My Night at Maud's (Rohmer 69)
2. Mind Game (Yuasa 04)
3. Hamlet (Branagh 96)
4. Let the Right One In (Alfredson 08)
5. Shadows of Our Forgotten Ancestors (Parajanov 64)
6. New Earth (Ivens 34)
7. I'm a Cyborg, But That's OK (Park 06)
8. Every Night Dreams (Naruse 33)
9. Le Samouraï (Melville 67)
10. Hunger (McQueen 08)

Mind Game might float to the top upon further reflection. What a fucking movie! It would definitely make my Top 100 were I to adjust it.
1. My Night at Maud's (Rohmer 69)
2. Mind Game (Yuasa 04)
3. Hamlet (Branagh 96)
4. Let the Right One In (Alfredson 08)
5. Shadows of Our Forgotten Ancestors (Parajanov 64)
6. New Earth (Ivens 34)
7. I'm a Cyborg, But That's OK (Park 06)
8. Every Night Dreams (Naruse 33)
9. Sympathy for the Underdog (Fukasaku 71)
10. Le Samouraï (Melville 67)

[B-side]

1. Fando y Lis (Jodorowsky, 1968)
2. Santa Sangre (Jodorowsky, 1989)
3. Harakiri (Kobayashi, 1962)
4. The Wild Bunch (Peckinpah, 1969)
5. Julien Donkey-Boy (Korine, 1999)
6. Red River (Hawks, 1948)
7. Coraline 3D (Selick, 2009)
8. Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid (Peckinpah, 1973)
9. In the Realm of the Senses (Oshima, 1976)
10. The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (Ford, 1962)


Removed Ponyo on the Cliff from the #10 spot and added Fando y Lis to the #1 spot. Welcome to my top 30, Fando y Lis.

[Boner M]

Removed Ponyo on the Cliff from the #10 spot and added Fando y Lis to the #1 spot. Welcome to my top 30, Fando y Lis.
Huh, I find that to be Jodorowsky's weakest film by a large margin.

[B-side]

Huh, I find that to be Jodorowsky's weakest film by a large margin.

Honestly, I can't even say I'm surprised. I wouldn't be surprised to hear anyone say it. I scribbled some messy thoughts in the film discussion thread. Not sure how long it will remain my favorite Jodorowsky, but it's there right now. I think.:P

[Stay Puft]

End of quarter update:

1. Flight of the Red Balloon (2007, dir. Hsiao-hsien Hou)
2. A Touch of Zen (1969, dir. King Hu)
3. My Blueberry Nights (2007, dir. Kar Wai Wong)
4. Reprise (2006, dir. Joachim Trier)
5. The Edge of Heaven (2007, dir. Fatih Akin)
6. Dragon Inn (1966, dir. King Hu)
7. Wings of Desire (1987, dir. Wim Wenders)
8. Mad Detective (2007, dir. Johnny To and Ka-Fai Wai)
9. Cry Me a River (2008, dir. Jia Zhang Ke)
10. The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951, dir. Robert Wise)

The two King Hu films are new. Hopefully I can start shaking this up more in the next month now that the semester is over and I have more free time to actually watch movies.

[EyesWideOpen]

1. Coraline (Selick, 2009) A
2. Kirikou and the Sorceress (Ocelot, 1998) A
3. Religulous (Charles, 2008) A
4. Gone Baby Gone (Affleck, 2007) A
5. The Motel (Kang, 2005) A-
6. Watchmen (Snyder, 2009) A-
7. Milk (Gus Van Sant, 2008) A-
8. Rachel Getting Married (Demme, 2008) A-
9. Gran Torino (Eastwood, 2008) B+
10. Ghost Town (Koepp, 2008) B+

[eternity]

1. Week End (Jean Luc Godard)
2. In a Lonely Place (Nicholas Ray)
3. Adventureland (Greg Motolla)
4. Ken Park (Larry Clark)
5. Rachel Getting Married (Jonathon Demme)
6. Fanboys (Ryan Newman)
7. Synecdoche, New York (Charlie Kaufman)
8. Au revoir les enfants (Louis Malle)
9. All Quiet on the Western Front (Lewis Milestone)
10. Autumn Tale (Eric Rohmer)

[balmakboor]

1. Let the Right One In
2. Dear Zachary
3. Sonic Outlaws
4. The Last Bolshevik
5. Milk
6. Tribulation 99
7. Adventureland
8. In the Realms of the Unreal
9. Sick: The Life and Death of Bob Flanagan, Supermasochist
10. My Winnipeg

Every time I add something now, the loss gets more painful. This time Taxi to the Dark Side fell off. Why did I start this thread? Oh the agony.

[Mysterious Dude]

1. A Cottage on Dartmoor (1929)
2. The Edge of Heaven (2007)
3. The Wrestler (2008)
4. Three Days of the Condor (1975)
5. Bandit Queen (1994)
6. Boats Out of Watermelon Rinds (2004)
7. The Kid (1950)
8. Hypocrites (1915)
9. Che (2008)
10. XXY (2007)
11. Nayagan (1987)

1. The Fall (2006)
2. The Maggie (1954)
3. Border Street (1948)
4. A Cottage on Dartmoor (1929)
5. The Cow (1969)
6. Crazed Fruit (1956)
7. Gomorrah (2008)
8. Death of a Cyclist (1955)
9. Pygmalion (1938)
10. Lola (1961)

Only one movie is still there! I should update this more often.

Waltz with Bashir was on the list for a while, but it really hasn't stuck with me the way I hoped it would.

[dreamdead]

The incredible films that I have seen from this year:

1. Come and See
2. The Boxer from Shantung
3. Monsieur Verdoux
4. Madame de...

[balmakboor]

2. The Boxer from Shantung


This is becoming quite the sensation around here and justifiably so.

[Sycophant]

1. Johnny Guitar
2. Adventureland
3. Milk
4. The Wrestler
5. Gran Torino
6. Revolutionary Road
7. Duplicity
8. Coraline
9. Snoopy, Come Home!
10. Mad Detective

11. Race to Witch Mountain
12. The Big Tease

[Philosophe_rouge]

So far...

1. Paris, Texas (Wenders, 1984)
2. The Servant (Losey, 1963)
3. Last Summer (Perry, 1969)
4. The House that Screamed (Serrador, 1969)
5. Entres les murs (Cantet, 2008)
6. Milk (Van Sant, 2008)
7. The Wrestler (Aronofsky, 2008)
8. Mother Joan of the Angels (Kawalerowicz, 1961)
9. Pontypool (McDonald, 2009)
10. The Sleeping Tiger (Losey, 1954)

Updated :/

[trotchky]

1. The Texas Chain Saw Massacre
2. Rachel Getting Married
3. The Wrestler
4. Funny Games 2008
5. Let the Right One In
6. Yeast
7. Filth and Wisdom
8. Watchmen
9. Wild Tigers I Have Known
10. Visitor Q

Probably somewhat inaccurate because I'm sure I'm forgetting some.

[B-side]

Twentynine Palms - 0 stars

Whoa. Why so much hate?

[soitgoes...]

1. My Night at Maud's (Rohmer 69)
2. Mind Game (Yuasa 04)
3. Hamlet (Branagh 96)
4. Let the Right One In (Alfredson 08)
5. Shadows of Our Forgotten Ancestors (Parajanov 64)
6. New Earth (Ivens 34)
7. I'm a Cyborg, But That's OK (Park 06)
8. Every Night Dreams (Naruse 33)
9. Sympathy for the Underdog (Fukasaku 71)
10. Le Samouraï (Melville 67)
1. My Night at Maud's (Rohmer 69)
2. Mind Game (Yuasa 04)
3. Hamlet (Branagh 96)
4. Let the Right One In (Alfredson 08)
5. Shadows of Our Forgotten Ancestors (Parajanov 64)
6. Intentions of Murder (Imamura 64)
7. New Earth (Ivens 34)
8. I'm a Cyborg, But That's OK (Park 06)
9. Every Night Dreams (Naruse 33)
10. Sympathy for the Underdog (Fukasaku 71)

[balmakboor]

1. Let the Right One In
2. Rachel Getting Married
3. Dear Zachary
4. Sonic Outlaws
5. The Last Bolshevik
6. Milk
7. Tribulation 99
8. Synecdoche, NY
9. Adventureland
10. In the Realms of the Unreal

[Ezee E]

]1. All That Jazz [10]
2. Grave of the Fireflies [10]
3. Dear Zachary [10]
4. Observe and Report [9]
5. The Wrestler [9]
6. The One-Armed Swordsman [9]
7. Lenny [9]
8. Revolutionary Road [8.5]
9. Twilight Zone: The Movie [8]
10. Dial M For Murder [7.5]

[Dead & Messed Up]

New entries in BOLD. Switch-ups in ITALICS.

Special note: don't watch 2000 Maniacs. It sucks.

01. Peeping Tom
02. The Bridge Over the River Kwai
03. Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1931)
04. Vampyr
05. Rashomon
06. Watchmen
07. Let the Right One In
08. Bug
09. Transsiberian
10. Heat

11. Coraline
12. Stuck
13. Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1941)
14. Seance
15. The Blind Swordsman: Zatoichi
16. Them!
17. Something Wicked This Way Comes
18. The Brood
19. It's Alive
20. P2
21. Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story
22. Dementia 13
23. Wolf
24. Speed Racer
25. Repo! The Genetic Opera
26. Corpse Bride
27. A Scanner Darkly
28. Pin
--------------------
29. Halloween (2007)
30. God Told Me To
31. Right at Your Door
32. Blades of Glory
33. Joshua
34. Body Snatchers
35. Species
36. The Hunger
37. Nightbreed
38. Shocker
39. Beerfest
40. The Toxic Avenger
41. The Running Man
42. The Dunwich Horror
43. Fanboys
44. 2000 Maniacs
45. Bio-Zombie
46. 976-Evil
47. Jesus Christ: Vampire Hunter
48. Rabid Grannies
49. Resident Evil: Degeneration

[balmakboor]

1. Let the Right One In
2. Rachel Getting Married
3. Dear Zachary
4. Sonic Outlaws
5. Cloverfield
6. The Last Bolshevik
7. Milk
8. Tribulation 99
9. Synecdoche, NY
10. Adventureland

Wow! When the weakest thing on my top ten is something as terrific as Adventureland, I'm having a great year -- and it's only April.

11. In the Realms of the Unreal
12. Sick: The Life and Death of Bob Flanagan, Supermasochist
13. My Winnipeg
14. Taxi to the Dark Side
15. Man on Wire
16. War of the Gargantuas
17. Gran Torino
18. Trouble the Water
19. The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
20. Spectres of the Spectrum
21. The Wrestler
22. Frost/Nixon
23. Hail, Mary
24. Brand Upon the Brain
25. Slumdog Millionaire
26. Sukiyaki Western Django
27. Frozen River
28. Sunshine Cleaning

[Fezzik]

1. Adventureland (2009, Mottola) - 9.5
2. Coraline (2009, Selick) - 9
3. Watchmen (2009, Snyder) - 9
4. In Bruges (2008, McDonagh) - 9
5. Burn After Reading (2008, Coen) - 8.5
6. I Love You, Man (2009, Hamburg) - 7.5
7. Bolt (2008, Howard, Williams) - 7.5
8. Slumdog Millionaire (2008, Boyle) - 7
9. Eagle Eye (2008, Caruso) - 6.5
10. Hancock (2008, Berg) - 5


Updated with Adventureland

[Sycophant]

Updated:

1. Johnny Guitar
2. Adventureland
3. Milk
4. Observe and Report
5. The Wrestler
6. Gran Torino
7. Revolutionary Road
8. Duplicity
9. Coraline
10. Mother

11. Snoopy, Come Home!
12. Mad Detective
13. Dragonball: Evolution
14. Race to Witch Mountain
15. The Big Tease

[Ezee E]

1. All That Jazz [10]
2. Grave of the Fireflies [10]
3. Dear Zachary [10]
4. The Conformist [9.5]
5. Observe and Report [9]
6. The Wrestler [9]
7. The One-Armed Swordsman [9]
8. Lenny [9]
9. Revolutionary Road [8.5]
10. Twilight Zone: The Movie [8]

BERTOLUCCI

[MadMan]

Finally, a new number one, and a different font. I got tired of the old one.

1. The Wrestler-98
2. Bob Roberts-97
3. Sleeper-97
4. Chimes at Midnight-95
5. Bonnie and Clyde-95
6. The Ninth Configuration-95
7. Frost/Nixon-95
8. Duck Soup-94
9. Gran Torino-92
10. White Heat-91

[balmakboor]

1. Let the Right One In
2. Rachel Getting Married
3. Decasia
4. Dear Zachary
5. Sonic Outlaws
6. Cloverfield
7. The Last Bolshevik
8. Milk
9. Tribulation 99
10. Synecdoche, NY

Almost makes me glad that film deteriorates.

Adventureland
In the Realms of the Unreal
Sick: The Life and Death of Bob Flanagan, Supermasochist
My Winnipeg
Taxi to the Dark Side
Man on Wire
War of the Gargantuas
Gran Torino
Trouble the Water
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Spectres of the Spectrum
The Wrestler
Frost/Nixon
Hail, Mary
Brand Upon the Brain
Slumdog Millionaire
Sukiyaki Western Django
Frozen River
Sunshine Cleaning

[Rowland]

1. Black Sabbath [80]
2. Flight of the Red Balloon [78]
3. The Road Warrior [76]
4. Still Life [75]
5. Vicky Cristina Barcelona [73]
6. City of Ember [70]
7. King of the Ants [70]
8. Dellamorte Dellamore [69]
9. Doubt [69]
10. Kit Kittredge: An American Girl [67]

[eternity]

1. Week End (Jean Luc Godard)
2. In a Lonely Place (Nicholas Ray)
3. Adventureland (Greg Motolla)
4. Ken Park (Larry Clark)
5. Rachel Getting Married (Jonathon Demme)
6. Fanboys (Ryan Newman)
7. Synecdoche, New York (Charlie Kaufman)
8. Au revoir les enfants (Louis Malle)
9. All Quiet on the Western Front (Lewis Milestone)
10. Autumn Tale (Eric Rohmer)
1. Week End (Jean Luc Godard)
2. In a Lonely Place (Nicholas Ray)
3. Adventureland (Greg Motolla)
4. Ken Park (Larry Clark)
5. Rachel Getting Married (Jonathon Demme)
6. Fanboys (Ryan Newman)
7. Synecdoche, New York (Charlie Kaufman)
8. Au revoir les enfants (Louis Malle)
9. All Quiet on the Western Front (Lewis Milestone)
10. Observe and Report (Jody Hill)

[Kurious Jorge v3.1]

1. The General (Keaton - 1927) 95
2. The Last Laugh (Murnau - 1924) - 91
3. Peppermint Frappe (Saura - 1977) - 89
4. Pandora's Box (Pabst - 1929) - 88
5. Trafic (Tati -1971) 84
6. Berlin Alexanderplatz (Fassbinder - 1980) 83
7. The Earrings of Madame de... (Ophuls - 1953) 82
8. College (Keaton - 1927) - 81
9. La Ceremonie (Chabrol - 1995) - 81
10. The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (Dominik - 2007) - 75

GONE: King Kong (71), Three Ages (73)

Despite being wildly melodramatic and stuffy in the beginning, Pandora's Box was a gem and the mix of Animal Collective and Brian Eno songs I watched it to was hypnotic (think of Brian Eno's Ambient 4: At Land with the Jack the Ripper scenes.....mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm mmmmmm...tasty)

Of four high ranking silents I've seen in 2009, I watched them all with homemade scores:

Last Laugh with Birchville Cat Motel
The General with Brian Eno
Pandora's Box with AC/Eno
College with AC - Feels

they all turned out beautiful.

[Watashi]

Update your signature, mofo.

[Kurious Jorge v3.1]

Update your signature, mofo.

Had enough of my Lone Star rating? :)

Well anyway, tis updated.

[Watashi]

Had enough of my Lone Star rating? :)

Well anyway, tis updated.
Now I have to stare at that Tropic Thunder rating.

Change it back.

[Boner M]

Updated:

1. Ms. 45 (Ferrara, 1981)
2. Fallen Angel (Preminger, 1945)
3. Let the Right One In (Alfredson, 2008)
4. La Rupture (Chabrol, 1970)
5. Girl Shy (Newmeyer & Taylor, 1924)
6. Straight Time (Grosbard, 1978)
7. A Touch of Zen (Hu, 1969)
8. Jerichow (Petzold, 2008)
9. The Ascent (Shepitko, 1977)
10. Rolling Thunder (Flynn, 1977)

[Thefilmwall]

1. Synecdoche, NY, Charlie Kaufman, USA
2. In the City of Sylvia, José Luis GuerÃ*n, Spain
3. A Christmas Tale, Arnaud Desplechin, France
4. The Secret of the Grain, Abdel Kechiche, France
5. Funky Forest: The First Contact, Katsuhito Ishii/Hajime Ishimine/Shunichiro Miki, Japan
6. Vicky Cristina Barcelona, Woody Allen, USA
7. Reprise, Joachim Trier, Norway
8. Paranoid Park, Gus Van Sant, USA
9. I Served the King of England, JirÃ* Menzel, Czech Republic
10. Waltz With Bashir, Ari Folman, Israel

[balmakboor]

1. Synecdoche, NY, Charlie Kaufman, USA
2. In the City of Sylvia, José Luis GuerÃ*n, Spain
3. A Christmas Tale, Arnaud Desplechin, France
4. The Secret of the Grain, Abdel Kechiche, France
5. Funky Forest: The First Contact, Katsuhito Ishii/Hajime Ishimine/Shunichiro Miki, Japan
6. Vicky Cristina Barcelona, Woody Allen, USA
7. Reprise, Joachim Trier, Norway
8. Paranoid Park, Gus Van Sant, USA
9. I Served the King of England, JirÃ* Menzel, Czech Republic
10. Waltz With Bashir, Ari Folman, Israel

Definitely :pritch: for Synecdoche, Funky, and Paranoid.

I still don't understand all the love VCB gets though. I was thoroughly, boringly, dumbfoundedly disappointed by it.

[B-side]

1. Fando y Lis (Jodorowsky, 1968)
2. Santa Sangre (Jodorowsky, 1989)
3. Harakiri (Kobayashi, 1962)
4. The Wild Bunch (Peckinpah, 1969)
5. Julien Donkey-Boy (Korine, 1999)
6. Red River (Hawks, 1948)
7. What Happened Was... (Noonan, 1994)
8. Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid (Peckinpah, 1973)
9. Coraline 3D (Selick, 2009)
10. In the Realm of the Senses (Oshima, 1976)


Out with The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance and in with What Happened Was... at #7.

[EyesWideOpen]

1. Coraline (Selick, 2009) A
2. Kirikou and the Sorceress (Ocelot, 1998) A
3. In Bruges (McDonagh, 2008) A
4. Religulous (Charles, 2008) A
5. Gone Baby Gone (Affleck, 2007) A
6. The Motel (Kang, 2005) A-
7. Watchmen (Snyder, 2009) A-
8. Milk (Gus Van Sant, 2008) A-
9. Rachel Getting Married (Demme, 2008) A-
10. Blindness (Meirelles, 2008) B+

Added In Bruges & Blindness

[Dead & Messed Up]

New entries in BOLD.

01. Peeping Tom
02. The Bridge Over the River Kwai
03. Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1931)
04. Vampyr
05. Rashomon
06. Watchmen
07. Let the Right One In
08. Bug
09. Transsiberian
10. Grand Illusion

11. Heat
12. Coraline
13. Stuck
14. Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1941)
15. Seance
16. The Blind Swordsman: Zatoichi
17. Them!
18. Something Wicked This Way Comes
19. The Mummy (1959)
20. The Brood
21. It's Alive
22. P2
23. Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story
24. Dementia 13
25. Wolf
26. Speed Racer
27. Repo! The Genetic Opera
28. Corpse Bride
29. A Scanner Darkly
30. Pin
--------------------
31. Halloween (2007)
32. Spiral
33. God Told Me To
34. Right at Your Door
35. Blades of Glory
36. Joshua
37. Body Snatchers
38. Species
39. The Hunger
40. Nightbreed
41. Shocker
42. Beerfest
43. The Toxic Avenger
44. The Running Man
45. The Dunwich Horror
46. 2000 Maniacs
47. Fanboys
48. Bio-Zombie
49. 976-Evil
50. Jesus Christ: Vampire Hunter
51. Rabid Grannies
52. Resident Evil: Degeneration

[Dukefrukem]

1. Wall-E [98]
2. Gran Torino [96]
3. Let the Right One In [92.5]
4. The Wrestler [91]
5. Hot Fuzz [90.5]
6. Eden Lake [90]
7. Speed Racer [89]
8. Red Eye[85]
9. Frost/Nixon [83]
10. Bug [82]


New in Bold



11. Right at Your Door [81]
12. Taken [81]
13. Secret Window [80]
14. Watchmen [73]
15. The Ruins [72]
16. Sunshine [71]
17. Alpha Dog [69.5]
18. Zack and Miri Make a Porno[69]
19. Teeth [67]
20. Quarantine [66]
21. Midnight Meat Train [65.5]
22. Eagle Eye [65]
23. Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift [60]
24. Babylon A.D. [59]
25. Big Stan [57]
26. Donnie Darko [55]
27. The Blair Witch Project II - Book of Shadows [54.5]
28. Resident Evil: Degeneration [53]
29. Final Destination 3 [52]
30. Mirrors [40]
31. Cursed [35]

[megladon8]

1.) [REC]
2.) Cthulhu ('07)
3.) Sisters ('73)
4.) Dirty Harry
5.) Watchmen
6.) Gran Torino
7.) Coraline
8.) Wolf
9.) Hunger
10.) Magnum Force



Added: Sisters

Removed: Rogue

Switched: Cthulhu and Watchmen; Gran Torino and Coraline.


EDIT: Moved Cthulhu up.

[The Mike]

1. A Matter of Life and Death
2. Almost Famous
3. The Unknown
4. Born Yesterday
5. The Fallen Idol
6. Night and the City
7. Walkabout
8. Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai
9. Journey to the Far Side of the Sun
10. Phase IV
Updated. The three Criterions in the middle make me feel kinda douchey.

[B-side]

1. Fando y Lis (Jodorowsky, 1968)
2. Santa Sangre (Jodorowsky, 1989)
3. Harakiri (Kobayashi, 1962)
4. The Wild Bunch (Peckinpah, 1969)
5. Julien Donkey-Boy (Korine, 1999)
6. Bad Timing (Roeg, 1980)
7. Red River (Hawks, 1948)
8. Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid (Peckinpah, 1973)
9. What Happened Was... (Noonan, 1994)
10. Punishment Park (Watkins, 1971)


Out with Coraline and In the Realm of the Senses and in with Punishment Park at #10 and Bad Timing at #6.

[MadMan]

A change to the #1 spot has happened twice in the past two weeks. Cool. And its the first 100 I've given out in quite a while.

1. All That Jazz(1979)-100
2. The Wrestler(2008)-98
3. Bob Roberts(1992)-97
4. Sleeper(1973)-97
5. Chimes at Midnight(1965)-95
6. Bonnie and Clyde(1967)-95
7. The Ninth Configuration(1980)-95
8. Frost/Nixon(2008)-95
9. Duck Soup(1933)-94
10. Gran Torino(2008)-92

[balmakboor]

1. Let the Right One In
2. Mock Up on Mu
3. Rachel Getting Married
4. Dear Zachary
5. Sonic Outlaws
6. Cloverfield
7. The Last Bolshevik
8. Milk
9. Tribulation 99
10. Decasia

Synecdoche, NY
Adventureland
In the Realms of the Unreal
Sick: The Life and Death of Bob Flanagan, Supermasochist
My Winnipeg
Taxi to the Dark Side
Man on Wire
War of the Gargantuas
Gran Torino
Trouble the Water
Exorcist II: The Heretic
Zardoz
Earth
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Spectres of the Spectrum
The Wrestler
Frost/Nixon
Hail, Mary
Brand Upon the Brain
Slumdog Millionaire
Sukiyaki Western Django
Frozen River
Sunshine Cleaning

[Ivan Drago]

1. Eyes Wide Shut (Stanley Kubrick, 1999)
2. Watchmen (Zack Snyder, 2009)
3. Crank 2: High Voltage (Neveldine/Taylor, 2009)
4. Crank (Neveldine/Taylor, 2009)
5. Revolutionary Road (Sam Mendes, 2008)
6. Frost/Nixon (Ron Howard, 2008)
7. The Rules of the Game (Jean Renoir, 1939)
8. Last Tango In Paris (Bernardo Bertolucci, 1972)
9. Valkyrie (Bryan Singer, 2008)
10. Milk (Gus Van Sant, 2008)


11. Interstella 5555 (Kazuhisa Takenochi, 2003)
12. Zoolander (Ben Stiller, 2001)
13. Adventureland (Greg Mottola, 2009)
14. The Last House on the Left (Dennis Iliadis, 2009)
15. Taken (Pierre Morel, 2009)
16. The Onion Movie (Kuntz/Maguire, 2008)
17. Twilight (Catherine Hardwicke, 2008)
18. Gran Torino (Clint Eastwood, 2008)
19. The Reader (Stephen Daldry, 2008)

Updated.

[Russ]

Updated:

1. Killer of Sheep (Burnett, 1977)
2. Gun Crazy (Lewis, 1950)
3. Let the Right One In (Alfredson, 2008)
4. Crac (Back, 1981)
5. Danger: Diabolik (Bava, 1968)
6. Coraline (Selick, 2009)
7. Blind Beast (Masumura, 1969)
8. Kung Fu Panda (Osborne, Stevenson, 2008)
9. I Shot Jesse James (Fuller, 1949)
10. Repo! The Genetic Opera (Bousman, 2008)

[Rowland]

1. The Dot and the Line: A Romance in Lower Mathematics [85]
2. Black Sabbath [80]
3. Flight of the Red Balloon [78]
4. The Bear That Wasn't [78]
5. The Road Warrior [76]
6. Still Life [75]
7. Let the Right One In [74]
8. Vicky Cristina Barcelona [73]
9. City of Ember [70]
10. King of the Ants [70]

[balmakboor]

1. Excalibur
2. Let the Right One In
3. Mock Up on Mu
4. Rachel Getting Married
5. Dear Zachary
6. Sonic Outlaws
7. Cloverfield
8. The Last Bolshevik
9. Milk
10. Tribulation 99

Decasia
Synecdoche, NY
Adventureland
In the Realms of the Unreal
Sick: The Life and Death of Bob Flanagan, Supermasochist
My Winnipeg
Taxi to the Dark Side
Man on Wire
War of the Gargantuas
Gran Torino
Trouble the Water
Exorcist II: The Heretic
Zardoz
Earth
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Spectres of the Spectrum
The Wrestler
Frost/Nixon
Hail, Mary
Brand Upon the Brain
Slumdog Millionaire
Sukiyaki Western Django
Frozen River
Sunshine Cleaning

[Derek]

1. The Ceremony (Nagisa Oshima, 1971)
2. Death By Hanging (Nagisa Oshima, 1968)
3. Trans-Europ-Express (Alain Robbe-Grillet, 1966)
4. Violence at High Noon (Nagisa Oshima, 1966)
5. Fingers(James Toback, 1978)
6. Cruel Story of Youth (Nagisa Oshima, 1960)
7. Midnight(Mitchell Leisen, 1939)
8. City Girl (F.W. Murnau, 1931)
9. Julia(Erick Zonca, 2009)
10. Wendy & Lucy (Kelly Reichardt, 2008)

[MadMan]

1. All That Jazz(1979)-100
2. The Wrestler(2008)-98
3. Bob Roberts(1992)-97
4. Sleeper(1973)-97
5. Chimes at Midnight(1965)-95
6. Bonnie and Clyde(1967)-95
7. The Ninth Configuration(1980)-95
8. Trainspotting(1996)-95
9. Frost/Nixon(2008)-95
10. Duck Soup(1933)-94

[Stay Puft]

End of April update:

1. Flight of the Red Balloon (2007, dir. Hsiao-hsien Hou)
2. A Touch of Zen (1969, dir. King Hu)
3. Tokyo Fist (1995, dir. Shinya Tsukamoto)
4. Excalibur (1981, dir. John Boorman)
5. Wife! Be Like a Rose! (1935, dir. Mikio Naruse)
6. My Blueberry Nights (2007, dir. Kar Wai Wong)
7. Reprise (2006, dir. Joachim Trier)
8. The Edge of Heaven (2007, dir. Fatih Akin)
9. Haze (2005, dir. Shinya Tsukamoto)
10. Dragon Inn (1966, dir. King Hu)

In: Boorman, Naruse, two by Tsukamoto
Out: other good movies

[balmakboor]

End of April update:

4. Excalibur (1981, dir. John Boorman)

In: Boorman

Yay!

[Philosophe_rouge]

Updated, new additions in Bold

1. Make Way for Tomorrow (McCarey, 1937)
2. Paris, Texas (Wenders, 1984)
3. Legend of Hell House (Hough, 1973)
4. The Servant (Losey, 1963)
5. Last Summer (Perry, 1969)
6. Adventureland (Mottola, 2009)
7. Safe in Hell (Wellman, 1931)
8. Orlando (Potter, 1992)
9. The House that Screamed (Serrador, 1969)
10. Entres les murs (Cantet, 2008)

[The Mike]

3. Legend of Hell House (Hough, 1973)
Rep for this one. One of the best haunted house flicks of all-time.

[balmakboor]

1. Excalibur
2. Let the Right One In
3. Mock Up on Mu
4. "Zoo"
5. Rachel Getting Married
6. Dear Zachary
7. Sonic Outlaws
8. Cloverfield
9. The Last Bolshevik
10. Tribulation 99

I found "Zoo" to be an exceptionally fascinating and beautifully filmed documentary. Critics who complain that they learned nothing about why a person would choose to have sex with a horse have largely missed the point, I think.

Milk
Decasia
Synecdoche, NY
Adventureland
In the Realms of the Unreal
Sick: The Life and Death of Bob Flanagan, Supermasochist
My Winnipeg
Taxi to the Dark Side
Man on Wire
War of the Gargantuas
Gran Torino
Trouble the Water
Exorcist II: The Heretic
Zardoz
Earth
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Spectres of the Spectrum
The Wrestler
Frost/Nixon
Hail, Mary
Brand Upon the Brain
Slumdog Millionaire
Sukiyaki Western Django
Frozen River
Sunshine Cleaning

[Philosophe_rouge]

Rep for this one. One of the best haunted house flicks of all-time.
Definetely, easily my favourite along with the Innocents.

[The Mike]

Definetely, easily my favourite along with the Innocents.

OK, stop being awesome. I can't rep you again right now. ;)

[Dead & Messed Up]

I had to cover The Haunting's ears and tell Dead of Night that you guys didn't mean that.

But yeah, Hell House is pretty awesome. I should rewatch.

[megladon8]

1.) There Will Be Blood
2.) [REC]
3.) Seance on a Wet Afternoon
4.) Cthulhu ('07)
5.) Sisters ('73)
6.) Dirty Harry
7.) Watchmen
8.) Gran Torino
9.) Coraline
10.) Hunger


Added: Seance on a Wet Afternoon

Removed: Magnum Force


EDIT: Added There Will Be Blood.

Removed Wolf.

Moved some stuff around.

[Melville]

1. Titicut Follies
2. Army of Shadows
3. The Goat
4. Oh Dem Watermelons
5. Waltz with Bashir
6. Make Way for Tomorrow
7. Flight of the Red Balloon
8. Jeanne Dielman, 23 Quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles
9. The Class
10. I, an Actress

[MadMan]

Danny Boyle currently holds the distinction of having two movies on this list. I've now seen three of his movies this year. Also this knocks Duck Soup off the list, thus ending its stay and meaning as of now only movies receiving a "95" and up will get a spot.

1. All That Jazz(1979)-100
2. The Wrestler(2008)-98
3. Bob Roberts(1992)-97
4. Sleeper(1973)-97
5. Chimes at Midnight(1965)-95
6. Bonnie and Clyde(1967)-95
7. The Ninth Configuration(1980)-95
8. 28 Days Later(2002)-95
9. Trainspotting(1996)-95
10. Frost/Nixon(2008)-95

[Rowland]

1. The Dot and the Line: A Romance in Lower Mathematics [85]
2. Black Sabbath [80]
3. Howl's Moving Castle [79]
4. Flight of the Red Balloon [78]
5. The Bear That Wasn't [78]
6. The Road Warrior [76]
7. Still Life [75]
8. Let the Right One In [74]
9. Vicky Cristina Barcelona [73]
10. City of Ember [70]

[Fezzik]

1. Adventureland (2009, Mottola) - 9.5
2. Coraline (2009, Selick) - 9
3. Watchmen (2009, Snyder) - 9
4. In Bruges (2008, McDonagh) - 9
5. Burn After Reading (2008, Coen) - 8.5
6. I Love You, Man (2009, Hamburg) - 7.5
7. Bolt (2008, Howard, Williams) - 7.5
8. Slumdog Millionaire (2008, Boyle) - 7
9. Eagle Eye (2008, Caruso) - 6.5
10. X-Men Origins: Wolverine (2009, Hood) - 5.5


Updated with Wolverine

Falling out of the Top 10:

Hancock (2008, Berg) - 5

[dreamdead]

Updated:


The incredible films that I have seen from this year:

1. Come and See
2. The Boxer from Shantung
3. Monsieur Verdoux
4. O Lucky Man!
5. Synecdoche, New York
6. Madame de...

[Rowland]

1. The Dot and the Line: A Romance in Lower Mathematics [85]
2. Black Sabbath [80]
3. Howl's Moving Castle [79]
4. Flight of the Red Balloon [78]
5. The Bear That Wasn't [78]
6. The Road Warrior [76]
7. Funny Games [76]
8. Still Life [75]
9. Let the Right One In [74]
10. Vicky Cristina Barcelona [73]

This list is starting to look very nice.

[Ezee E]

1. All That Jazz [10]
2. Grave of the Fireflies [10]
3. Dear Zachary [10]
4. The Conformist [9.5]
5. Observe and Report [9]
6. The Wrestler [9]
7. 9/11 [9]
8. The One-Armed Swordsman [9]
9. Lenny [9]
10. Revolutionary Road [8.5]

[soitgoes...]

1. My Night at Maud's (Rohmer 69)
2. Mind Game (Yuasa 04)
3. Hamlet (Branagh 96)
4. Let the Right One In (Alfredson 08)
5. Shadows of Our Forgotten Ancestors (Parajanov 64)
6. Intentions of Murder (Imamura 64)
7. New Earth (Ivens 34)
8. I'm a Cyborg, But That's OK (Park 06)
9. Every Night Dreams (Naruse 33)
10. Sympathy for the Underdog (Fukasaku 71)
1. My Night at Maud's (Rohmer 69)
2. Mind Game (Yuasa 04)
3. Hamlet (Branagh 96)
4. Let the Right One In (Alfredson 08)
5. Shadows of Our Forgotten Ancestors (Parajanov 64)
6. Intentions of Murder (Imamura 64)
7. New Earth (Ivens 34)
8. Three Sisters with Maiden Hearts (Naruse 35)
9. I'm a Cyborg, But That's OK (Park 06)
10. Every Night Dreams (Naruse 33)

[MadMan]

1. All That Jazz [10]We have the same #1. High five.

[B-side]

1. Fando y Lis (Jodorowsky, 1968)
2. Santa Sangre (Jodorowsky, 1989)
3. Harakiri (Kobayashi, 1962)
4. The Wild Bunch (Peckinpah, 1969)
5. Julien Donkey-Boy (Korine, 1999)
6. Bad Timing (Roeg, 1980)
7. Street of Crocodiles (Quay, 1986)
8. Red River (Hawks, 1948)
9. Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid (Peckinpah, 1973)
10. What Happened Was... (Noonan, 1994)


Out with: Punishment Park
In with: Street of Crocodiles at #7

[balmakboor]

1. Now, Hanoi Martes 13, L.B.J., 79 Primaveras
2. Let the Right One In
3. Mock Up on Mu
4. Dear Zachary
5. "Zoo"
6. The Last Bolshevik
7. Tribulation 99
8. Sonic Outlaws
9. Cloverfield
10. Rachel Getting Married


Milk
Kids in the Hall: Brain Candy
Decasia
Synecdoche, NY
Adventureland
In the Realms of the Unreal
Sick: The Life and Death of Bob Flanagan, Supermasochist
My Winnipeg
Taxi to the Dark Side
Man on Wire
War of the Gargantuas
Gran Torino
Trouble the Water
Exorcist II: The Heretic
Zardoz
Earth
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Spectres of the Spectrum
The Wrestler
Frost/Nixon
Hail, Mary
Brand Upon the Brain
Slumdog Millionaire
Sukiyaki Western Django
Frozen River
Sunshine Cleaning

[eternity]

1. Week End (Jean Luc Godard)
2. In a Lonely Place (Nicholas Ray)
3. Adventureland (Greg Motolla)
4. Ken Park (Larry Clark)
5. Rachel Getting Married (Jonathon Demme)
6. Fanboys (Ryan Newman)
7. Synecdoche, New York (Charlie Kaufman)
8. Paris, Texas (Wim Wenders)
9. Au revoir les enfants (Louis Malle)
10. All Quiet on the Western Front (Lewis Milestone)

[Sycophant]

1. Johnny Guitar
2. Adventureland
3. Still Walking
4. Milk
5. Observe and Report
6. Revolutionary Road
7. Gran Torino
8. The Wrestler
9. Duplicity
10. Coraline


11. Mother
12. I Just Didn't Do It
13. Snoopy, Come Home!
14. Mad Detective
15. Dragonball: Evolution
16. Race to Witch Mountain
17. The Big Tease

Up in the air:

?. Crank 2: High Voltage

Added some films and moved some around.

[The Mike]

1. A Matter of Life and Death
2. Almost Famous
3. The Unknown
4. Born Yesterday
5. Night and the City
6. The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner
7. The Fallen Idol
8. Walkabout
9. Journey to the Far Side of the Sun
10. Phase IV
Updated. Thinking about putting Midnight Cowboy on, too, but letting it simmer in my head for a while first.

[Kurious Jorge v3.1]

1. The General (Keaton - 1927) 95
2. The Last Laugh (Murnau - 1924) - 91
3. Le Plaisir (Ophuls - 1952) - 90
4. Peppermint Frappe (Saura - 1977) - 89
5. Pandora's Box (Pabst - 1929) - 88
6. Trafic (Tati -1971) 84
7. Berlin Alexanderplatz (Fassbinder - 1980) 83
8. The Earrings of Madame de... (Ophuls - 1953) 82
9. College (Keaton - 1927) - 81
10. La Ceremonie (Chabrol - 1995) - 81

GONE: The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (75)

[trotchky]

Updated.

I can see ranking Crank above Last Tango In Paris, I can even see Watchmen, but Frost/Nixon? Really?

[Ivan Drago]

1. Synecdoche, New York (Charlie Kaufman, 2008)
2. Eyes Wide Shut (Stanley Kubrick, 1999)
3. Watchmen (Zack Snyder, 2009)
4. Crank 2: High Voltage (Neveldine/Taylor, 2009)
5. Crank (Neveldine/Taylor, 2006)
6. Revolutionary Road (Sam Mendes, 2008)
7. Star Trek (J.J. Abrams, 2009)
8. Frost/Nixon (Ron Howard, 2008)
9. The Rules of the Game (Jean Renoir, 1939)
10. Last Tango In Paris (Bernardo Bertolucci, 1972)


11. Valkyrie (Bryan Singer, 2008)
12. Milk (Gus Van Sant, 2008)
13. Interstella 5555 (Kazuhisa Takenochi, 2003)
14. Citizen Ruth (Alexander Payne, 1996)
15. Zoolander (Ben Stiller, 2001)
16. Adventureland (Greg Mottola, 2009)
17. The Last House on the Left (Dennis Iliadis, 2009)
18. Taken (Pierre Morel, 2009)
19. The Onion Movie (Kuntz/Maguire, 2008)
20. Monsters vs. Aliens (Letterman/Vernon, 2009)
21. Twilight (Catherine Hardwicke, 2008)
22. Gran Torino (Clint Eastwood, 2008)
23. Observe and Report (Jody Hill, 2009)
24. X-Men Origins: Wolverine (Gavin Hood, 2009)
25. The Reader (Stephen Daldry, 2008)

Big update.

[Ivan Drago]

I can see ranking Crank above Last Tango In Paris, I can even see Watchmen, but Frost/Nixon? Really?

I don't even remember Frost/Nixon anymore to be honest.

[Dead & Messed Up]

Updated for Dread, My Name is Bruce, The Seventh Victim, and Star Trek.

None cracked the top ten, where Vampyr and Jekyll and Hyde switched spots.

01. Peeping Tom
02. The Bridge Over the River Kwai
03. Vampyr
04. Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1931)
05. Rashomon
06. Watchmen
07. Let the Right One In
08. Bug
09. Transsiberian
10. Grand Illusion

11. Heat
12. Coraline
13. Stuck
14. The Seventh Victim
15. Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1941)
16. Star Trek (2009)
17. Seance
18. The Blind Swordsman: Zatoichi
19. Them!
20. Something Wicked This Way Comes
21. The Mummy (1959)
22. The Brood
23. It's Alive
24. P2
25. Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story
26. Dementia 13
27. Wolf
28. Speed Racer
29. Repo! The Genetic Opera
30. Corpse Bride
31. A Scanner Darkly
32. Pin
-------------------
33. Dread
34. Halloween (2007)
35. Spiral
36. God Told Me To
37. Right at Your Door
38. Blades of Glory
39. Joshua
40. Body Snatchers
41. Species
42. The Hunger
43. Nightbreed
44. My Name is Bruce
45. Shocker
46. Beerfest
47. The Toxic Avenger
48. The Running Man
49. The Dunwich Horror
50. 2000 Maniacs
51. Fanboys
52. Bio-Zombie
53. 976-Evil
54. Jesus Christ: Vampire Hunter
55. Rabid Grannies
56. Resident Evil: Degeneration

[Philosophe_rouge]

1. Make Way for Tomorrow (McCarey, 1937)
2. Paris, Texas (Wenders, 1984)
3. Legend of Hell House (Hough, 1973)
4. Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill! (Meyer, 1965)
5. The Servant (Losey, 1963)
6. Last Summer (Perry, 1969)
7. Adventureland (Mottola, 2009)
8. Safe in Hell (Wellman, 1931)
9. Juliet of the Spirits (Fellini, 1965)
10. Orlando (Potter, 1992)
Updated, new additions in Bold

[Ezee E]

1. All That Jazz [10]
2. Blue Collar [10]
3. Grave of the Fireflies [10]
4. Dear Zachary [10]
5. The Conformist [9.5]
6. An American Werewolf in London [9.5]
7. Observe and Report [9]
8. The Wrestler [9]
9. 9/11 [9]
10. The One-Armed Swordsman [9]

[eternity]

1. Week End (Jean Luc Godard)
2. In a Lonely Place (Nicholas Ray)
3. Adventureland (Greg Motolla)
4. Ken Park (Larry Clark)
5. The Soloist (Joe Wright)
6. Rachel Getting Married (Jonathon Demme)
7. Synecdoche, New York (Charlie Kaufman)
8. Paris, Texas (Wim Wenders)
9. Fanboys (Ryan Newman)
10. Au revoir les enfants (Louis Malle)

[B-side]

1. Fando y Lis (Jodorowsky, 1968)
2. Santa Sangre (Jodorowsky, 1989)
3. Harakiri (Kobayashi, 1962)
4. The Wild Bunch (Peckinpah, 1969)
5. Julien Donkey-Boy (Korine, 1999)
6. Bad Timing (Roeg, 1980)
7. Street of Crocodiles (Quay, 1986)
8. The Idiots (Trier, 1998)
9. Red River (Hawks, 1948)
10. Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid (Peckinpah, 1973)


Out: What Happened Was...
In: The Idiots at #8.

[Raiders]

New:

1. Day of the Outlaw (1959, De Toth)
2. Coraline (2009, Selick)
3. Bright Leaves (2003, McElwee)
4. Voices of a Distant Star (2003, Shinkai)
5. Room (2005, Henry)
6. Distance (2001, Kore-eda)
7. The Driver (1978, Hill)
8. Gran Torino (2008, Eastwood)
9. Che (2008, Soderbergh)
10. Hunger (2008, McQueen)

[origami_mustache]

A Page of Madness
The Burmese Harp
Lessons of Darkness
Simon of the Desert
Onibaba
Los Olvidados
Odin's Shield Maiden
Women of the Night
The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser
Crooklyn

[Dead & Messed Up]

Updated for Drag Me to Hell, Terminator: Salvation, Hot Rod, and Martyrs.

01. Peeping Tom
02. The Bridge Over the River Kwai
03. Vampyr
04. Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1931)
05. Rashomon
06. Drag Me to Hell
07. Watchmen
08. Let the Right One In
09. Bug
10. Transsiberian

11. Grand Illusion
12. Heat
13. Coraline
14. Stuck
15. The Seventh Victim
16. Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1941)
17. Star Trek (2009)
18. Seance
19. The Blind Swordsman: Zatoichi
20. Them!
21. Something Wicked This Way Comes
22. The Mummy (1959)
23. Hot Rod
24. The Brood
25. It's Alive
26. P2
27. Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story
28. Dementia 13
29. Speed Racer
30. Wolf
31. Repo! The Genetic Opera
32. Corpse Bride
33. A Scanner Darkly
34. Terminator: Salvation
35. Pin
-------------------
36. Dread
37. Halloween (2007)
38. Spiral
39. God Told Me To
40. Right at Your Door
41. Blades of Glory
42. Joshua
43. Body Snatchers
44. Species
45. The Hunger
46. Nightbreed
47. My Name is Bruce
48. Shocker
49. Beerfest
50. The Toxic Avenger
51. The Running Man
52. The Dunwich Horror
53. Martyrs
54. 2000 Maniacs
55. Fanboys
56. Bio-Zombie
57. 976-Evil
58. Jesus Christ: Vampire Hunter
59. Rabid Grannies
60. Resident Evil: Degeneration

[Dukefrukem]

1. Wall-E [98]
2. Gran Torino [96]
3. Let the Right One In [92.5]
4. The Wrestler [91]
5. Hot Fuzz [90.5]
6. Martyrs [90.25]
7. Eden Lake [90]
8. Speed Racer [89]
9. Terminator: Salvation [88]
10. Red Eye[85]



New in Bold



11. Angels and Demons [83.75]
12. Splinter [83.5]
13. Frost/Nixon [83]
14. Bug [82]
15. Right at Your Door [81]
16. Taken [81]
17. Secret Window [80]
18. Watchmen [73]
19. The Ruins [72]
20. Sunshine [71]
21. Alpha Dog [69.5]
22. Zack and Miri Make a Porno[69]
23. Last Man Standing [67]
24. Teeth [67]
25. Quarantine [66]
26. Midnight Meat Train[65.5]
27. Eagle Eye [65]
28. Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift [60]
29. Babylon A.D. [59]
30. Big Stan [57]
31. Donnie Darko [55]
32. The Blair Witch Project II - Book of Shadows [54.5]
33. Resident Evil: Degeneration [53]
34. Final Destination 3 [52]
35. Mirrors [40]
36. Cursed [35]
37. Superman III [25]
38. Ghost Rider [22]
39. Superman IV: The Quest for Peace [18]
40. Elektra [15]

[Rowland]

1. The Dot and the Line: A Romance in Lower Mathematics [85]
2. Black Sabbath [80]
3. Wendy and Lucy [79]
4. Howl's Moving Castle [79]
5. Flight of the Red Balloon [78]
6. The Bear That Wasn't [78]
7. The Road Warrior [76]
8. Funny Games [76]
9. Still Life [75]
10. Let the Right One In [74]

[Dead & Messed Up]

Forgot about Splinter. Whoops.

01. Peeping Tom
02. The Bridge Over the River Kwai
03. Vampyr
04. Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1931)
05. Rashomon
06. Drag Me to Hell
07. Watchmen
08. Let the Right One In
09. Bug
10. Transsiberian

11. Grand Illusion
12. Heat
13. Coraline
14. Stuck
15. The Seventh Victim
16. Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1941)
17. Star Trek (2009)
18. Seance
19. The Blind Swordsman: Zatoichi
20. Them!
21. Something Wicked This Way Comes
22. The Mummy (1959)
23. Hot Rod
24. The Brood
25. It's Alive
26. P2
27. Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story
28. Speed Racer
29. Splinter
30. Dementia-13
31. Wolf
32. Repo! The Genetic Opera
33. Corpse Bride
34. A Scanner Darkly
35. Terminator: Salvation
36. Pin
------------------
37. Dread
38. Halloween (2007)
39. Spiral
40. God Told Me To
41. Right at Your Door
42. Blades of Glory
43. Joshua
44. Body Snatchers
45. Species
46. The Hunger
47. Nightbreed
48. My Name is Bruce
49. Beerfest
50. Shocker
51. The Toxic Avenger
52. The Running Man
53. The Dunwich Horror
54. Martyrs
55. 2000 Maniacs
56. Fanboys
57. Bio-Zombie
58. 976-Evil
59. Jesus Christ: Vampire Hunter
60. Rabid Grannies
61. Resident Evil: Degeneration

[balmakboor]

I am so dying to see Drag Me to Hell.

[soitgoes...]

1. My Night at Maud's (Rohmer 69)
2. Mind Game (Yuasa 04)
3. Hamlet (Branagh 96)
4. Let the Right One In (Alfredson 08)
5. Shadows of Our Forgotten Ancestors (Parajanov 64)
6. Intentions of Murder (Imamura 64)
7. New Earth (Ivens 34)
8. Three Sisters with Maiden Hearts (Naruse 35)
9. I'm a Cyborg, But That's OK (Park 06)
10. Every Night Dreams (Naruse 33)
1. My Night at Maud's (Rohmer 69)
2. Mind Game (Yuasa 04)
3. Hamlet (Branagh 96)
4. Let the Right One In (Alfredson 08)
5. Shadows of Our Forgotten Ancestors (Parajanov 64)
6. Intentions of Murder (Imamura 64)
7. Karen's Face (Bergman 84)
8. New Earth (Ivens 34)
9. Three Sisters with Maiden Hearts (Naruse 35)
10. I'm a Cyborg, But That's OK (Park 06)

[Rowland]

1. The Dot and the Line: A Romance in Lower Mathematics [85]
2. Black Sabbath [80]
3. Wendy and Lucy [79]
4. Howl's Moving Castle [79]
5. Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde ('31) [78]
6. Flight of the Red Balloon [78]
7. The Bear That Wasn't [78]
8. The Road Warrior [76]
9. Funny Games U.S. [76]
10. Still Life [75]

[Ivan Drago]

1. Synecdoche, New York (Charlie Kaufman, 2008)
2. Eyes Wide Shut (Stanley Kubrick, 1999)
3. Watchmen (Zack Snyder, 2009)
4. Crank 2: High Voltage (Neveldine/Taylor, 2009)
5. Crank (Neveldine/Taylor, 2006)
6. Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (Nicholas Meyer, 1982)
7. Revolutionary Road (Sam Mendes, 2008)
8. Star Trek (J.J. Abrams, 2009)
9. Frost/Nixon (Ron Howard, 2008)
10. The Rules of the Game (Jean Renoir, 1939)


11. Last Tango In Paris (Bernardo Bertolucci, 1972)
12. Valkyrie (Bryan Singer, 2008)
13. Milk (Gus Van Sant, 2008)
14. Interstella 5555 (Kazuhisa Takenochi, 2003)
15. Citizen Ruth (Alexander Payne, 1996)
16. Terminator: Salvation (McG, 2009)
17. Zoolander (Ben Stiller, 2001)
18. Adventureland (Greg Mottola, 2009)
19. The Last House on the Left (Dennis Iliadis, 2009)
20. Artists and Models (Frank Tashlin, 1955)
21. Taken (Pierre Morel, 2009)
22. The Onion Movie (Kuntz/Maguire, 2008)
23. Monsters vs. Aliens (Letterman/Vernon, 2009)
24. Twilight (Catherine Hardwicke, 2008)
25. Gran Torino (Clint Eastwood, 2008)
26. Observe and Report (Jody Hill, 2009)
27. X-Men Origins: Wolverine (Gavin Hood, 2009)
28. The Reader (Stephen Daldry, 2008)
29. Star Trek: The Motion Picture (Robert Wise, 1979)

Updated.

[Ivan Drago]

1. Irreversible (Gaspar Noe, 2002)
2. Synecdoche, New York (Charlie Kaufman, 2008)
3. Eyes Wide Shut (Stanley Kubrick, 1999)
4. Watchmen (Zack Snyder, 2009)
5. Crank 2: High Voltage (Neveldine/Taylor, 2009)
6. Crank (Neveldine/Taylor, 2006)
7. Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (Nicholas Meyer, 1982)
8. Revolutionary Road (Sam Mendes, 2008)
9. Star Trek (J.J. Abrams, 2009)
10. Frost/Nixon (Ron Howard, 2008)


11. The Rules of the Game (Jean Renoir, 1939)
12. Last Tango In Paris (Bernardo Bertolucci, 1972)
13. Valkyrie (Bryan Singer, 2008)
14. Milk (Gus Van Sant, 2008)
15. Interstella 5555 (Kazuhisa Takenochi, 2003)
16. Citizen Ruth (Alexander Payne, 1996)
17. Terminator: Salvation (McG, 2009)
18. Zoolander (Ben Stiller, 2001)
19. Adventureland (Greg Mottola, 2009)
20. The Last House on the Left (Dennis Iliadis, 2009)
21. Artists and Models (Frank Tashlin, 1955)
22. Taken (Pierre Morel, 2009)
23. The Onion Movie (Kuntz/Maguire, 2008)
24. Monsters vs. Aliens (Letterman/Vernon, 2009)
25. Twilight (Catherine Hardwicke, 2008)
26. Gran Torino (Clint Eastwood, 2008)
27. Observe and Report (Jody Hill, 2009)
28. X-Men Origins: Wolverine (Gavin Hood, 2009)
29. The Reader (Stephen Daldry, 2008)
30. Star Trek: The Motion Picture (Robert Wise, 1979)

Updated...again.

[Mysterious Dude]

1. The Fall (2006)
2. The Maggie (1954)
3. Border Street (1948)
4. A Cottage on Dartmoor (1929)
5. The Cow (1969)
6. Crazed Fruit (1956)
7. Gomorrah (2008)
8. Death of a Cyclist (1955)
9. Pygmalion (1938)
10. Lola (1961)
1. The Fall (2006)
2. The Maggie (1954)
3. Blast of Silence (1961)
4. Poil de Carotte (1925)
5. Border Street (1948)
6. Myriad of Lights (1948)
7. The Cow (1969)
8. A Cottage on Dartmoor (1929)
9. Lovers and Lollipops (1956)
10. Crazed Fruit (1956)

All four-star movies now. A few rearrangements. It's been a good week.

[Rowland]

1. Aguirre: The Wrath of God (Werner Herzog, 1972) [87]
2. The Dot and the Line: A Romance in Lower Mathematics [85]
3. Black Sabbath [80]
4. Wendy and Lucy [79]
5. Howl's Moving Castle [79]
6. Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde ('31) [78]
7. Flight of the Red Balloon [78]
8. The Bear That Wasn't [78]
9. The Road Warrior [76]
10. Funny Games U.S. [76]

[megladon8]

Awesome, Rowland.

It is a great movie.

[Sycophant]

2. The Dot and the Line: A Romance in Lower Mathematics [85]

Rowland, tell me something about this movie that'll make me want to watch it. I know nothing about it, and am both immensely attracted to and repulsed by its title.

[Raiders]

Rowland, tell me something about this movie that'll make me want to watch it. I know nothing about it, and am both immensely attracted to and repulsed by its title.

I know this wasn't directed at me, but it was a cute and interesting little "love" story. It essentially boils down attraction to its most basic degrees using merely a dot, a straight line and a squiggly line. I became a little exhausted with the narration which I guess was necessary to set it up, but I found Jones' animation clear and fantastic enough to do without it, but in general it is pretty terrific.

[Mara]

Does it have something to do with Flatland (the book?) Because I found the book both fascinating and exhausting.

[Raiders]

Does it have something to do with Flatland (the book?) Because I found the book both fascinating and exhausting.

Sort of, I guess. The short is based on an illustrated book of the same name that I believe was influenced by Flatland. I have not read either book so I couldn't say if they were at all similar.

[Rowland]

Rowland, tell me something about this movie that'll make me want to watch it. I know nothing about it, and am both immensely attracted to and repulsed by its title.It's a masterpiece of short animation, employing an exuberantly experimental aesthetic to tell a simple love story in a manner most exhilarating, with a delightful surplus of dry wit (both visual and in its literate narration) and an unabashedly sophisticated sensibility that's never esoteric enough to alienate its target audience, as it stresses the importance of maximizing one's intellectual and creative potential while implicitly revealing the accessibility and ecstatic potential of both mathematics and avante-garde cinema to its impressionable younger viewers. Plus it's just charming as hell, which always helps.

[B-side]

1. Fando y Lis (Jodorowsky, 1968)
2. Santa Sangre (Jodorowsky, 1989)
3. Harakiri (Kobayashi, 1962)
4. The Wild Bunch (Peckinpah, 1969)
5. Julien Donkey-Boy (Korine, 1999)
6. Bad Timing (Roeg, 1980)
7. Street of Crocodiles (Quay, 1986)
8. The Idiots (Trier, 1998)
9. Romance (Breillat, 1999)
10. Red River (Hawks, 1948)


Out: Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid
In: Romance

[Watashi]

1. Up (Pete Docter, 2009)
2. Au Hasard Balthazar (Robert Bresson, 1966)
3. Some Like It Hot (Billy Wilder, 1959)
4. The Wages of Fear (Henri-Georges Clouzot, 1953)
5. City of Hope (John Sayles, 1991)
6. Coraline (Henry Selick, 2009)
7. Two Lovers (James Gray, 2008)
8. Only Angels Have Wings (Howard Hawks, 1939)
9. Watchmen (Zack Snyder, 2009)
10. Saturday Night and Sunday Morning (Karel Reisz, 1960)

Updated with Up.

[The Mike]

1. The Ballad of Cable Hogue
2. A Matter of Life and Death
3. Almost Famous
4. The Unknown
5. Born Yesterday
6. The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner
7. Night and the City
8. The Fallen Idol
9. Walkabout
10. Journey to the Far Side of the Sun

Updated with a new #1.

[Rowland]

1. Aguirre: The Wrath of God (Werner Herzog, 1972) [87]
2. The Dot and the Line: A Romance in Lower Mathematics [85]
3. Black Sabbath [80]
4. Wendy and Lucy [79]
5. Howl's Moving Castle [79]
6. Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde ('31) [78]
7. Flight of the Red Balloon [78]
8. Sita Sings the Blues [77]
9. The Bear That Wasn't [77]
10. The Road Warrior [76]

[balmakboor]

1. The Bed, The Golden Positions, Dreamwood, Testament
2. Now, Hanoi Martes 13, L.B.J., 79 Primaveras
3. Let the Right One In
4. Mock Up on Mu
5. Dear Zachary
6. "Zoo"
7. The Last Bolshevik
8. Tribulation 99
9. Religulous
10. Sonic Outlaws


Cloverfield
Rachel Getting Married
Irreversible
Milk
Tokyo Gore Police
Kids in the Hall: Brain Candy
Decasia
Synecdoche, NY
Adventureland
In the Realms of the Unreal
Sick: The Life and Death of Bob Flanagan, Supermasochist
My Winnipeg
Taxi to the Dark Side
Man on Wire
War of the Gargantuas
Gran Torino
Trouble the Water
Exorcist II: The Heretic
Zardoz
Earth
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Spectres of the Spectrum
The Wrestler
Frost/Nixon
Hail, Mary
Brand Upon the Brain
Slumdog Millionaire
Sukiyaki Western Django
Frozen River
Sunshine Cleaning

[Fezzik]

1. Up (2009, Docter) - 10
2. Adventureland (2009, Mottola) - 9.5
3. Coraline (2009, Selick) - 9
4. Watchmen (2009, Snyder) - 9
5. In Bruges (2008, McDonagh) - 9
6. Burn After Reading (2008, Coen) - 8.5
7. I Love You, Man (2009, Hamburg) - 7.5
8. Bolt (2008, Howard, Williams) - 7.5
9. Slumdog Millionaire (2008, Boyle) - 7
10. Eagle Eye (2008, Caruso) - 6.5



11. X-Men Origins: Wolverine (2009, Hood) - 5.5
12. Terminator Salvation (2009, McG) - 5.5
13. Hancock (Berg, 2008) - 5


Updated with Up and Terminator.

[megladon8]

1.) There Will Be Blood
2.) [REC]
3.) Seance on a Wet Afternoon
4.) Cthulhu ('07)
5.) Sisters ('73)
6.) Dirty Harry
7.) Drag Me To Hell
8.) Coraline
9.) Gran Torino
10.) Watchmen


Removed Hunger.

Added Drag Me To Hell.

[MadMan]

I wonder if any films scoring lower than a 96 will be on this list by the end of the year. We'll see.

1. All That Jazz(1979)-100
2. The Wrestler(2008)-98
3. Bob Roberts(1992)-97
4. Sleeper(1973)-97
5. Up(2009)-97
6. Chimes at Midnight(1965)-95
7. Bonnie and Clyde(1967)-95
8. The Ninth Configuration(1980)-95
9. 28 Days Later(2002)-95
10. Trainspotting(1996)-95

[balmakboor]

1. The Bed, The Golden Positions, Dreamwood, Testament
2. Now, Hanoi Martes 13, L.B.J., 79 Primaveras
3. Let the Right One In
4. Mock Up on Mu
5. Dear Zachary
6. Up
7. "Zoo"
8. The Last Bolshevik
9. Tribulation 99
10. Religulous


The Rest (in no particular order)
Sonic Outlaws
Cloverfield
Rachel Getting Married
Irreversible
Milk
Tokyo Gore Police
Kids in the Hall: Brain Candy
Decasia
Synecdoche, NY
Adventureland
In the Realms of the Unreal
Sick: The Life and Death of Bob Flanagan, Supermasochist
My Winnipeg
Taxi to the Dark Side
Man on Wire
War of the Gargantuas
Gran Torino
Trouble the Water
Exorcist II: The Heretic
Zardoz
Earth
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Spectres of the Spectrum
The Wrestler
Frost/Nixon
Hail, Mary
Brand Upon the Brain
Slumdog Millionaire
Sukiyaki Western Django
Frozen River
Sunshine Cleaning

[soitgoes...]

1. My Night at Maud's (Rohmer 69)
2. Mind Game (Yuasa 04)
3. Hamlet (Branagh 96)
4. Let the Right One In (Alfredson 08)
5. Shadows of Our Forgotten Ancestors (Parajanov 64)
6. Intentions of Murder (Imamura 64)
7. Karen's Face (Bergman 84)
8. New Earth (Ivens 34)
9. Three Sisters with Maiden Hearts (Naruse 35)
10. I'm a Cyborg, But That's OK (Park 06)
1. My Night at Maud's (Rohmer 69)
2. Mind Game (Yuasa 04)
3. Nayak (Ray 66)
4. Hamlet (Branagh 96)
5. Let the Right One In (Alfredson 08)
6. Shadows of Our Forgotten Ancestors (Parajanov 64)
7. Intentions of Murder (Imamura 64)
8. Karen's Face (Bergman 84)
9. New Earth (Ivens 34)
10. Three Sisters with Maiden Hearts (Naruse 35)

[Boner M]

Updated:

1. Ms. 45 (Ferrara, 1981)
2. Husbands (Cassavetes, 1970)
3. Fallen Angel (Preminger, 1945)
4. Let the Right One In (Alfredson, 2008)
5. La Rupture (Chabrol, 1970)
6. Girl Shy (Newmeyer & Taylor, 1924)
7. Straight Time (Grosbard, 1978)
8. A Touch of Zen (Hu, 1969)
9. The Ascent (Shepitko, 1977)
10. Rolling Thunder (Flynn, 1977)

[dreamdead]

Updated the super-duper quality films:

1. Come and See
2. The Boxer from Shantung
3. Monsieur Verdoux
4. The Crying Game
5. The Sting
6. O Lucky Man!
7. L'appartement
8. Synecdoche, New York
9. Madame de...

[Dukefrukem]

1. Wall-E [98]
2. Gran Torino [96.5]
3. Star Trek [96]
4. Drag Me to Hell [95]
5. Let the Right One In [92.5]
6. The Wrestler [91]
7. Hot Fuzz [90.5]
8. Martyrs [90.25]
9. Eden Lake [90]
10. Speed Racer [89]



New in Bold



10. Terminator: Salvation [88]
11. Red Eye[85]
12. Mad Max 2: Road Warrior
13. Angels and Demons [83.75]
14. Splinter [83.5]
15. Frost/Nixon [83]
16. Bug [82]
17. Right at Your Door [81.75]
18. Taken [81.5]
19. Secret Window [80]
20. Watchmen [73]
21. The Ruins [72]
22. Sunshine [71]
23. Mad Max
24. Alpha Dog [69.5]
25. Zack and Miri Make a Porno[69]
26. Last Man Standing [67]
27. Teeth [67]
28. Quarantine [66]
29. Midnight Meat Train[65.5]
30. Eagle Eye [65]
31. Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift [60]
32. Babylon A.D. [59]
33. Big Stan [57]
34. Donnie Darko [55]
35. The Blair Witch Project II - Book of Shadows [54.5]
36. Resident Evil: Degeneration [53]
37. Final Destination 3 [52]
38. Mirrors [40]
39. S. Darko [37]
40. Cursed [35]
41. AvP: Requiem [29]
42. Superman III [25]
43. Ghost Rider [22]
44. Superman IV: The Quest for Peace [18]
45. Elektra [15]

[Ivan Drago]

1. Irreversible (Gaspar Noe, 2002)
2. Synecdoche, New York (Charlie Kaufman, 2008)
3. Eyes Wide Shut (Stanley Kubrick, 1999)
4. Watchmen (Zack Snyder, 2009)
5. Crank 2: High Voltage (Neveldine/Taylor, 2009)
6. Crank (Neveldine/Taylor, 2006)
7. Ferris Bueller's Day Off (John Hughes, 1986)
8. Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (Nicholas Meyer, 1982)
9. Once Upon A Time In America (Sergio Leone, 1984)
10. Revolutionary Road (Sam Mendes, 2008)


11. Star Trek (J.J. Abrams, 2009)
12. The Rules of the Game (Jean Renoir, 1939)
13. Last Tango In Paris (Bernardo Bertolucci, 1972)
14. Valkyrie (Bryan Singer, 2008)
15. Frost/Nixon (Ron Howard, 2008)
16. Up (Pete Docter, 2009)
17. Milk (Gus Van Sant, 2008)
18. Interstella 5555 (Kazuhisa Takenochi, 2003)
19. Citizen Ruth (Alexander Payne, 1996)
20. Terminator: Salvation (McG, 2009)
21. Zoolander (Ben Stiller, 2001)
22. Adventureland (Greg Mottola, 2009)
23. The Last House on the Left (Dennis Iliadis, 2009)
24. Artists and Models (Frank Tashlin, 1955)
25. Taken (Pierre Morel, 2009)
26. The Onion Movie (Kuntz/Maguire, 2008)
27. Monsters vs. Aliens (Letterman/Vernon, 2009)
28. Twilight (Catherine Hardwicke, 2008)
29. Gran Torino (Clint Eastwood, 2008)
30. Observe and Report (Jody Hill, 2009)
31. Pretty In Pink (Howard Deutch, 1986)
32. X-Men Origins: Wolverine (Gavin Hood, 2009)
33. The Reader (Stephen Daldry, 2008)
34. Star Trek: The Motion Picture (Robert Wise, 1979)

Updated.

[Dead & Messed Up]

Whew. Updated for The Hangover, Sleeper, Judgment Night, The Sentinel, and C.H.U.D.

Also, Martyrs really lingers in the mind, enough that I had to bump it up ten spots. I still think it's disappointing, but points for the undercurrents.

01. Peeping Tom
02. The Bridge Over the River Kwai
03. Vampyr
04. Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1931)
05. Rashomon
06. Drag Me to Hell
07. Watchmen
08. Let the Right One In
09. Bug
10. The Hangover

11. Transsiberian
12. Grand Illusion
13. Heat
14. Coraline
15. Stuck
16. The Seventh Victim
17. Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1941)
18. Sleeper
19. Star Trek (2009)
20. Seance
21. The Blind Swordsman: Zatoichi
22. Them!
23. Something Wicked This Way Comes
24. The Mummy (1959)
25. Hot Rod
26. The Brood
27. It's Alive
28. P2
29. Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story
30. Speed Racer
31. Splinter
32. Dementia-13
33. Wolf
34. Repo! The Genetic Opera
35. Judgment Night
36. Corpse Bride
37. A Scanner Darkly
38. Terminator: Salvation
39. Pin
40. The Sentinel
------------------
41. Dread
42. Halloween (2007)
43. Spiral
44. God Told Me To
45. Right at Your Door
46. Blades of Glory
47. Martyrs
48. Joshua
49. Body Snatchers
50. Species
51. The Hunger
52. Nightbreed
53. My Name is Bruce
54. Beerfest
55. Shocker
56. The Toxic Avenger
57. C.H.U.D.
58. The Running Man
59. The Dunwich Horror
60. 2000 Maniacs
61. Fanboys
62. Bio-Zombie
63. 976-Evil
64. Jesus Christ: Vampire Hunter
65. Rabid Grannies
66. Resident Evil: Degeneration

[balmakboor]

1. The Bed, The Golden Positions, Dreamwood, Testament, The Pleasure Garden, Mother's Day
2. Now, Hanoi Martes 13, L.B.J., 79 Primaveras
3. Let the Right One In
4. Mock Up on Mu
5. Dear Zachary
6. The Red and the White
7. "Zoo"
8. The Last Bolshevik
9. Tribulation 99
10. Religulous

The Rest (in no particular order)
Up
Sonic Outlaws
Cloverfield
Rachel Getting Married
Irreversible
Milk
Tokyo Gore Police
Kids in the Hall: Brain Candy
Decasia
Synecdoche, NY
Adventureland
In the Realms of the Unreal
Sick: The Life and Death of Bob Flanagan, Supermasochist
My Winnipeg
Taxi to the Dark Side
Man on Wire
War of the Gargantuas
Gran Torino
Trouble the Water
Exorcist II: The Heretic
Zardoz
Earth
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Spectres of the Spectrum
The Wrestler
Frost/Nixon
Hail, Mary
Brand Upon the Brain
Slumdog Millionaire
Sukiyaki Western Django
Frozen River
Sunshine Cleaning

[balmakboor]

1. The Bed, The Golden Positions, Dreamwood, Testament, The Pleasure Garden, Mother's Day
2. Now, Hanoi Martes 13, L.B.J., 79 Primaveras
3. Let the Right One In
4. Tetsuo: The Iron Man
5. Mock Up on Mu
6. Dear Zachary
7. The Red and the White
8. "Zoo"
9. The Last Bolshevik
10. Tribulation 9

The Rest (in no particular order)
Religulous
Up
Sonic Outlaws
Cloverfield
Rachel Getting Married
Irreversible
Milk
Tokyo Gore Police
Kids in the Hall: Brain Candy
Decasia
Synecdoche, NY
Adventureland
In the Realms of the Unreal
Sick: The Life and Death of Bob Flanagan, Supermasochist
My Winnipeg
Taxi to the Dark Side
Man on Wire
War of the Gargantuas
Gran Torino
Trouble the Water
Exorcist II: The Heretic
Zardoz
Earth
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Spectres of the Spectrum
The Wrestler
Frost/Nixon
Hail, Mary
Brand Upon the Brain
Slumdog Millionaire
Sukiyaki Western Django
Frozen River
Sunshine Cleaning

[Ivan Drago]

1. Irreversible (Gaspar Noe, 2002)
2. Synecdoche, New York (Charlie Kaufman, 2008)
3. Eyes Wide Shut (Stanley Kubrick, 1999)
4. Watchmen (Zack Snyder, 2009)
5. Crank 2: High Voltage (Neveldine/Taylor, 2009)
6. Crank (Neveldine/Taylor, 2006)
7. Ferris Bueller's Day Off (John Hughes, 1986)
8. The Hangover (Todd Phillips, 2009)
9. Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (Nicholas Meyer, 1982)
10. Once Upon A Time In America (Sergio Leone, 1984)


11. Revolutionary Road (Sam Mendes, 2008)
12. Star Trek (J.J. Abrams, 2009)
13. The Rules of the Game (Jean Renoir, 1939)
14. Last Tango In Paris (Bernardo Bertolucci, 1972)
15. Valkyrie (Bryan Singer, 2008)
16. Frost/Nixon (Ron Howard, 2008)
17. Up (Pete Docter, 2009)
18. Milk (Gus Van Sant, 2008)
19. Interstella 5555 (Kazuhisa Takenochi, 2003)
20. Citizen Ruth (Alexander Payne, 1996)
21. Terminator: Salvation (McG, 2009)
22. Zoolander (Ben Stiller, 2001)
23. Adventureland (Greg Mottola, 2009)
24. The Last House on the Left (Dennis Iliadis, 2009)
25. Artists and Models (Frank Tashlin, 1955)
26. Taken (Pierre Morel, 2009)
27. The Onion Movie (Kuntz/Maguire, 2008)
28. Monsters vs. Aliens (Letterman/Vernon, 2009)
29. He's Just Not That Into You (Ken Kwapis, 2009)
30. Twilight (Catherine Hardwicke, 2008)
31. Gran Torino (Clint Eastwood, 2008)
32. Observe and Report (Jody Hill, 2009)
33. Pretty In Pink (Howard Deutch, 1986)
34. X-Men Origins: Wolverine (Gavin Hood, 2009)
35. The Reader (Stephen Daldry, 2008)
36. Star Trek: The Motion Picture (Robert Wise, 1979)

Yep. I'm insane.

[Dead & Messed Up]

Yep. I'm insane.

I put it above Grand Illusion. Welcome to the party.

[eternity]

1. Week End (Jean Luc Godard)
2. In a Lonely Place (Nicholas Ray)
3. The Brothers Bloom (Rian Johnson)
4. Adventureland (Greg Motolla)
5. Ken Park (Larry Clark)
6. The Soloist (Joe Wright)
7. Rachel Getting Married (Jonathon Demme)
8. Synecdoche, New York (Charlie Kaufman)
9. Paris, Texas (Wim Wenders)
10. Au revoir les enfants (Louis Malle)

[balmakboor]

1. Week End (Jean Luc Godard)
2. In a Lonely Place (Nicholas Ray)
3. The Brothers Bloom (Rian Johnson)
4. Adventureland (Greg Motolla)
5. Ken Park (Larry Clark)
6. The Soloist (Joe Wright)
7. Rachel Getting Married (Jonathon Demme)
8. Synecdoche, New York (Charlie Kaufman)
9. Paris, Texas (Wim Wenders)
10. Au revoir les enfants (Louis Malle)

I am very hopeful that this will be a turning point for Rian Johnson with me. I loved the eight films I've seen on your list above (haven't seen Ken Park yet), but I seriously disliked Brick.

[eternity]

I am very hopeful that this will be a turning point for Rian Johnson with me. I loved the eight films I've seen on your list above (haven't seen Ken Park yet), but I seriously disliked Brick.

It's definitely a cut off the same block, for better or worse.

[Eleven]

1. Voyage in Italy (54, Rossellini)
2. Rachel Getting Married (08, Demme)
3. Chan is Missing (82, Wang)
4. Whisper of the Heart (95, Yoshifumi)
5. Thieves Like Us (74, Altman)
6. I Walked with a Zombie (43, Tourneur)
7. Two Lovers (08, Gray)
8. An Actor's Revenge (63, Kon)
9. One of Our Aircraft is Missing (45, Powell and Pressburger)
10. The Plot Against Harry (68, Roemer)

[Rowland]

1. Aguirre: The Wrath of God (Herzog, 1972) [87]
2. The Dot and the Line: A Romance in Lower Mathematics (Jones & Noble) [85]
3. Stagecoach (Ford, 1939) [82]
4. Black Sabbath (Bava, 1963) [80]
5. The Big Heat (Lang, 1953) [79]
6. Wendy and Lucy (Reichardt, 2008) [79]
7. Howl's Moving Castle (Miyazaki, 2005) [79]
8. Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (Mamoulian, 1931) [78]
9. Flight of the Red Balloon (Hou, 2008) [78]
10. Sita Sings the Blues (Paley, 2008) [77]

[Eleven]

3. Stagecoach (Ford, 1939) [82]

First time, huh? Awesome. It's no wonder that Welles said:

"After dinner every night for about a month [during the filming of Citizen Kane], I'd run Stagecoach.... It was like going to school."

[Rowland]

First time, huh? Awesome. It's no wonder that Welles said:

"After dinner every night for about a month [during the filming of Citizen Kane], I'd run Stagecoach.... It was like going to school."It really is a beautiful picture, more rigorously composed than I'd anticipated, since my impression of John Ford had always been as more of a meat-and-potatoes sort of director. Some of it even appeared inspired by German expressionism. Otherwise, it's just a superbly judged piece on virtually every front, so I'm surprised by the middling responses it's received by many prominent posters around here.

[Boner M]

1. Last Chants For a Slow Dance (Jost, 1977)
2. Ms. 45 (Ferrara, 1981)
3. Husbands (Cassavetes, 1970)
4. Fallen Angel (Preminger, 1945)
5. Let the Right One In (Alfredson, 2008)
6. 35 Rhums (Denis, 2008)
7. La Rupture (Chabrol, 1970)
8. Girl Shy (Newmeyer & Taylor, 1924)
9. Straight Time (Grosbard, 1978)
10. A Touch of Zen (Hu, 1969)

[Kurious Jorge v3.1]

1. The General (Keaton - 1927) 95
2. The Last Laugh (Murnau - 1924) - 91
3. Le Plaisir (Ophuls - 1952) - 90
4. Peppermint Frappe (Saura - 1977) - 89
5. 4 Months, 3 Weeks, and 2 Days (Mungiu - 2007) - 88
6. Pandora's Box (Pabst - 1929) - 88
7. Trafic (Tati -1971) 84
8. Berlin Alexanderplatz (Fassbinder - 1980) 83
9. The Earrings of Madame de... (Ophuls - 1953) 82
10. College (Keaton - 1927) - 81

Gone: La Ceremonie (Chabrol - 1995) - 81

[Philosophe_rouge]

1. Love Exposure (Sion Sono, 2009)
2. Make Way for Tomorrow (McCarey, 1937)
3. Paris, Texas (Wenders, 1984)
4. Legend of Hell House (Hough, 1973)
5. Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill! (Meyer, 1965)
6. Claire's Knee (Romer, 1970)
7. The Servant (Losey, 1963)
8. Adventureland (Mottola, 2009)
9. Safe in Hell (Wellman, 1931)
10. Dead Ringers (Cronenberg, 1988)


I don't update this enough :/

[B-side]

1. Fando y Lis (Jodorowsky, 1968)
2. Dream Work (Tscherkassky, 2002)
3. Santa Sangre (Jodorowsky, 1989)
4. Harakiri (Kobayashi, 1962)
5. The Wild Bunch (Peckinpah, 1969)
6. Julien Donkey-Boy (Korine, 1999)
7. Porco Rosso (Miyazaki, 1992)
8. Street of Crocodiles (Quay, 1986)
9. The Idiots (Trier, 1998)
10. Report (Conner, 1967)


Did some adjusting. Romance, Red River and Bad Timing are out. Dream Work, Porco Rosso and Report are in.

[dreamdead]

Edited and rearranged:




1. Come and See
2. The Ballad from Narayama
3. The Boxer from Shantung
4. Monsieur Verdoux
5. The Crying Game
6. The Sting
7. L'appartement
8. O Lucky Man!
9. Synecdoche, New York
10. Madame de...

[Boner M]

1. Last Chants For a Slow Dance (Jost, 1977)
2. Ms. 45 (Ferrara, 1981)
3. Husbands (Cassavetes, 1970)
4. Fallen Angel (Preminger, 1945)
5. Let the Right One In (Alfredson, 2008)
6. I Can No Longer Hear the Guitar (Garrel, 1991)
7. 35 Rhums (Denis, 2008)
8. La Rupture (Chabrol, 1970)
9. Girl Shy (Newmeyer & Taylor, 1924)
10. The Lineup (Siegel, 1958)

[Dukefrukem]

1. Wall-E [98]
2. Gran Torino [96.5]
3. Star Trek [96]
4. Drag Me to Hell [95]
5. Let the Right One In [92.5]
6. The Wrestler [91]
7. Hot Fuzz [90.5]
8. Martyrs [90.25]
9. Eden Lake [90]
10. Speed Racer [89]



New in Bold



11. the Hangover [88]
12. Red Eye[85]
13. Mad Max 2: Road Warrior [84]
14. Angels and Demons [83.75]
15. Splinter [83.5]
16. Frost/Nixon [83]
17. Bug [82]
18. Right at Your Door [81.75]
19. Taken [81.5]
20. Secret Window [80]
21. Mad Max: Beyond Thunderdome [79]
22. Watchmen [73]
23. The Ruins [72]
24. Sunshine [71]
25. Terminator: Salvation [70.5]
26. Mad Max [70]
27. Alpha Dog [69.5]
28. Zack and Miri Make a Porno[69]
29. Last Man Standing [67]
30. Teeth [67]
31. Quarantine [66]
32. Midnight Meat Train[65.5]
33. Eagle Eye [65]
34. Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift [60]
35. Babylon A.D. [59]
36. Big Stan [57]
37. Donnie Darko [55]
38. The Blair Witch Project II - Book of Shadows [54.5]
39. Resident Evil: Degeneration [53]
40. Final Destination 3 [52]
41. Mirrors [40]
42. S. Darko [37]
43. Cursed [35]
44. AvP: Requiem [29]
45. Superman III [25]
46. Ghost Rider [22]
47. Superman IV: The Quest for Peace [18]
48. Elektra [15]

[Dead & Messed Up]

Updated for Babel, Baraka, and Silent Running. Also, some revamping.

01. Peeping Tom
02. The Bridge Over the River Kwai
03. Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde ('31)
04. Baraka
05. Vampyr
06. Rashomon
07. Watchmen
08. Silent Running
09. Drag Me to Hell
10. Let the Right One In

11. Bug
12. The Hangover
13. Transsiberian
14. Grand Illusion
15. Heat
16. Coraline
17. Stuck
18. The Seventh Victim
19. Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1941)
20. Sleeper
21. Star Trek (2009)
22. Seance
23. The Blind Swordsman: Zatoichi
24. Them!
25. Something Wicked This Way Comes
26. The Mummy (1959)
27. Hot Rod
28. The Brood
29. It's Alive
30. P2
31. Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story
32. Speed Racer
33. Babel
34. Splinter
35. Dementia-13
36. Wolf
37. Repo! The Genetic Opera
38. Judgment Night
39. Corpse Bride
40. A Scanner Darkly
41. Terminator: Salvation
42. Pin
43. The Sentinel
44. Dread
------------------
45. Halloween (2007)
46. Spiral
47. God Told Me To
48. Right at Your Door
49. Blades of Glory
50. Joshua
51. Martyrs
52. Body Snatchers
53. Species
54. The Hunger
55. Nightbreed
56. My Name is Bruce
57. Beerfest
58. Shocker
59. The Toxic Avenger
60. The Running Man
61. C.H.U.D.
62. The Dunwich Horror
63. 2000 Maniacs
64. Fanboys
65. Bio-Zombie
66. 976-Evil
67. Jesus Christ: Vampire Hunter
68. Rabid Grannies
69. Resident Evil: Degeneration

[B-side]

1. Fando y Lis (Jodorowsky, 1968)
2. Dream Work (Tscherkassky, 2002)
3. Santa Sangre (Jodorowsky, 1989)
4. Harakiri (Kobayashi, 1962)
5. The Wild Bunch (Peckinpah, 1969)
6. Julien Donkey-Boy (Korine, 1999)
7. Baraka (Fricke, 1992)
8. Porco Rosso (Miyazaki, 1992)
9. Street of Crocodiles (Quay, 1986)
10. Bad Timing (Roeg, 1980)

[Rowland]

1. Aguirre: The Wrath of God (Herzog, 1972) [87]
2. The Dot and the Line: A Romance in Lower Mathematics (Jones & Noble) [85]
3. Stagecoach (Ford, 1939) [82]
4. Synecdoche, New York (Kaufman, 2008) [80]
4. Black Sabbath (Bava, 1963) [80]
5. The Big Heat (Lang, 1953) [79]
6. Wendy and Lucy (Reichardt, 2008) [79]
7. Howl's Moving Castle (Miyazaki, 2005) [79]
8. Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (Mamoulian, 1931) [78]
9. Flight of the Red Balloon (Hou, 2008) [78]
10. Sita Sings the Blues (Paley, 2008) [77]

Alright, I surrender.

[B-side]

Another fan? Nice.

[B-side]

1. Fando y Lis (Jodorowsky, 1968)
2. Dream Work (Tscherkassky, 2002)
3. Santa Sangre (Jodorowsky, 1989)
4. Harakiri (Kobayashi, 1962)
5. The Wild Bunch (Peckinpah, 1969)
6. Last Year at Marienbad (Resnais, 1961)
7. Baraka (Fricke, 1992)
8. Julien Donkey-Boy (Korine, 1999)
9. Porco Rosso (Miyazaki, 1992)
10. Street of Crocodiles (Quay, 1986)

[Raiders]

Updated:

1. Perceval (1978, Rohmer)
2. Day of the Outlaw (1959, De Toth)
3. Coraline (2009, Selick)
4. Bright Leaves (2003, McElwee)
5. Voices of a Distant Star (2003, Shinkai)
6. Room (2005, Henry)
7. Outer Space (1999, Tscherkassky)
8. Distance (2001, Kore-eda)
9. The Driver (1978, Hill)
10. Gran Torino (2008, Eastwood)

Out:

Che (2008, Soderbergh)
Hunger (2008, McQueen)

[B-side]

1. Fando y Lis (Jodorowsky, 1968)
2. Dream Work (Tscherkassky, 2002)
3. Santa Sangre (Jodorowsky, 1989)
4. Harakiri (Kobayashi, 1962)
5. The Wild Bunch (Peckinpah, 1969)
6. Happy Together (Kar-Wai, 1997)
7. Last Year at Marienbad (Resnais, 1961)
8. Baraka (Fricke, 1992)
9. Julien Donkey-Boy (Korine, 1999)
10. Porco Rosso (Miyazaki, 1992)

[trotchky]

1. The Texas Chain Saw Massacre
2. Persona
3. Sweet Movie
4. Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
5. Tromeo and Juliet
6. Irreversible
7. The Doom Generation
8. The Warriors
9. Pink Floyd: The Wall
10. 71 Fragments of a Chronology of Chance

Updated. First five are masterpieces.

[balmakboor]

1. The Bed, The Golden Positions, Dreamwood, Testament, The Pleasure Garden, Mother's Day
2. Now, Hanoi Martes 13, L.B.J., 79 Primaveras
3. Let the Right One In
4. Munyurangabo
5. Tetsuo: The Iron Man
6. Mock Up on Mu
7. Dear Zachary
8. Treeless Mountain
9. The Red and the White
10. The Last Bolshevik

The Rest (in no particular order)
Tribulation 99
"Zoo"
Religulous
Up
Sonic Outlaws
Cloverfield
Rachel Getting Married
Irreversible
Milk
Tokyo Gore Police
Kids in the Hall: Brain Candy
Decasia
Synecdoche, NY
Adventureland
In the Realms of the Unreal
Sick: The Life and Death of Bob Flanagan, Supermasochist
My Winnipeg
Taxi to the Dark Side
Man on Wire
War of the Gargantuas
Gran Torino
Trouble the Water
Exorcist II: The Heretic
Zardoz
Earth
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Spectres of the Spectrum
The Wrestler
Frost/Nixon
Hail, Mary
Brand Upon the Brain
Slumdog Millionaire
Sukiyaki Western Django
Frozen River
Sunshine Cleaning

[Dead & Messed Up]

Updated for Up, Val Lewton: The Man Behind the Shadows, and Transformers 2.

01. Peeping Tom
02. The Bridge Over the River Kwai
03. Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde ('31)
04. Baraka
05. Vampyr
06. Rashomon
07. Watchmen
08. Silent Running
09. Drag Me to Hell
10. Let the Right One In

11. Bug
12. The Hangover
13. Transsiberian
14. Grand Illusion 1
15. Heat
16. Coraline
17. Up
18. Stuck
19. The Seventh Victim
20. Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde ('41)
21. Sleeper
22. Star Trek ('09)
23. Seance
24. The Blind Swordsman: Zatoichi
25. Them!
26. Something Wicked This Way Comes
27. The Mummy ('59)
28. Val Lewton: The Man Behind the Shadows
29. Hot Rod
30. The Brood
31. It's Alive
32. P2
33. Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story
34. Speed Racer
35. Babel
36. Splinter
37. Dementia-13
38. Wolf
39. Repo! The Genetic Opera
40. Judgment Night
41. Corpse Bride
42. A Scanner Darkly
43. Terminator: Salvation
44. Pin 4
45. The Sentinel
46. Dread
---------
47. Halloween (’07)
48. Spiral
49. God Told Me To 4
50. Right at Your Door
51. Blades of Glory
52. Joshua
53. Martyrs
54. Body Snatchers
55. Species
56. The Hunger
57. Nightbreed
58. My Name is Bruce
59. Beerfest
60. Shocker
61. The Toxic Avenger
62. The Running Man
63. C.H.U.D.
64. Transformers 2
65. The Dunwich Horror
66. 2000 Maniacs
67. Fanboys
68. Bio-Zombie
69. 976-Evil
70. Jesus Christ: Vampire Hunter
71. Rabid Grannies
72. Resident Evil: Degeneration

[balmakboor]

68. Bio-Zombie


I still think this deserves much better.

[Dead & Messed Up]

I still think this deserves much better.

You're not the only one, but my impression of the film was of an unimaginative, shrill shout-fest between irritating characters. There were many times when I wanted to turn off the film.

[ContinentalOp]

I'll play.

1. Che
2. El Norte
3. Star Trek IV
4. Star Trek II
5. Up
6. Star Trek
7. Let the Right One In
8. Watchmen
9. Taken
10. Murder, My Sweet

[Boner M]

Welcome CO and rep for the Shellac av.

[Dukefrukem]

1. Wall-E [98]
2. Gran Torino [96.5]
3. Star Trek [96]
4. Drag Me to Hell [95]
5. Let the Right One In [92.5]
6. The Wrestler [91]
7. Hot Fuzz [90.5]
8. Martyrs [90.25]
9. Eden Lake [90]
10. Speed Racer [89]

50 new films watched this year

New in Bold



11. the Hangover [88]
12. Red Eye[85]
13. Mad Max 2: Road Warrior [84]
14. Angels and Demons [83.75]
15. Splinter [83.5]
16. Frost/Nixon [83]
17. Bug [82]
18. Right at Your Door [81.75]
19. Taken [81.5]
20. Secret Window [80]
21. Mad Max: Beyond Thunderdome [79]
22. Watchmen [73]
23. The Broken [72.5]
24. The Ruins [72]
25. Sunshine [71]
26. Terminator: Salvation [70.5]
27. Mad Max [70]
28. Alpha Dog [69.5]
29. Zack and Miri Make a Porno[69]
30. Last Man Standing [67]
31. Teeth [67]
32. Quarantine [66]
33. Midnight Meat Train[65.5]
34. Eagle Eye [65]
35. Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift [60]
36. Babylon A.D. [59]
37. Big Stan [57]
38. Donnie Darko [55]
39. The Blair Witch Project II - Book of Shadows [54.5]
40. Resident Evil: Degeneration [53]
41. Final Destination 3 [52]
42. Dead Snow [50]
43. Mirrors [40]
44. S. Darko [37]
45. Cursed [35]
46. AvP: Requiem [29]
47. Superman III [25]
48. Ghost Rider [22]
49. Superman IV: The Quest for Peace [18]
50. Elektra [15]

[Eleven]

1. Voyage in Italy (54, Rossellini)
2. Rachel Getting Married (08, Demme)
3. Chan is Missing (82, Wang)
4. Whisper of the Heart (95, Yoshifumi)
5. Thieves Like Us (74, Altman)
6. I Walked with a Zombie (43, Tourneur)
7. Two Lovers (08, Gray)
8. Le Plaisir (52, Ophuls)
9. An Actor's Revenge (63, Kon)
10. One of Our Aircraft is Missing (45, Powell and Pressburger)

Out: The Plot Against Harry (68, Roemer)

[B-side]

1. Fando y Lis (Jodorowsky, 1968)
2. Dream Work (Tscherkassky, 2002)
3. Santa Sangre (Jodorowsky, 1989)
4. Harakiri (Kobayashi, 1962)
5. My Night at Maud's (Rohmer, 1969)
6. The Wild Bunch (Peckinpah, 1969)
7. Happy Together (Kar-Wai, 1997)
8. Last Year at Marienbad (Resnais, 1961)
9. Baraka (Fricke, 1992)
10. Julien Donkey-Boy (Korine, 1999)

[Sycophant]

Revised!

1. Johnny Guitar
2. Adventureland
3. Still Walking
4. Milk
5. Achilles & the Tortoise
6. Observe and Report
7. The Brothers Bloom
8. Gran Torino
9. Deadly Outlaw: Rekka
10. The Hangover


11. Revolutionary Road
12. The Wrestler
13. Dave Chappelle's Block Party
14. Coraline
15. Duplicity
16. Mother
17. Snoopy, Come Home!
18. I Just Didn't Do It
19. Mad Detective
20. Up
21. Dragonball: Evolution
22. Year One
23. Race to Witch Mountain
24. The Big Tease

Up in the air:

?. Crank 2: High Voltage

[trotchky]

1. The Texas Chain Saw Massacre
2. Persona
3. Sweet Movie
4. Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
5. Tromeo and Juliet
6. Irreversible
7. The Doom Generation
8. The Warriors
9. Pink Floyd: The Wall
10. 71 Fragments of a Chronology of Chance

Updated. First five are masterpieces.

Sweet Movie is seriously one of the best movies I've ever seen and probably deserves to be number one on this list.

[balmakboor]

5. Tromeo and Juliet (masterpiece)

Really? I started watching it about 4 weeks ago and shut it off after about 15 minutes. Kind of a mixture of not working for me and not being my cup of tea. Maybe I should finish it.

I found the first 5 minutes of Citizen Toxie to be so offensive I couldn't get past it. The only Troma I've honestly liked (and actually loved) so far has been The Toxic Avenger.

[trotchky]

Really? I started watching it about 4 weeks ago and shut it off after about 15 minutes. Kind of a mixture of not working for me and not being my cup of tea. Maybe I should finish it.

I found the first 5 minutes of Citizen Toxie to be so offensive I couldn't get past it. The only Troma I've honestly liked (and actually loved) so far has been The Toxic Avenger.

I dunno, if I don't like a movie within the first fifteen minutes I typically don't like the rest of it. However, I can't not recommend finishing it, because I found it to be a very clever, very funny post-structuralist work about grand narratives and whatnot. Kind of like Van Sant's Psycho, only, you know, watchable. And it's hilarious, to boot.

But then, I also happen to have a lot of nostalgia for the '90s. That movie made me want to get pierced.

[balmakboor]

I dunno, if I don't like a movie within the first fifteen minutes I typically don't like the rest of it. However, I can't not recommend finishing it, because I found it to be a very clever, very funny post-structuralist work about grand narratives and whatnot. Kind of like Van Sant's Psycho, only, you know, watchable. And it's hilarious, to boot.

But then, I also happen to have a lot of nostalgia for the '90s. That movie made me want to get pierced.

Yeah, maybe it's not worth spending more time. Most of my nostalgia is for the '70s (goddamn I love Dazed and Confused for instance). I also found Van Sant's Psycho very watchable.

Then again, I hate to leave movie's unwatched so I'll probably plug into it on instant watch some evening.

[trotchky]

Yeah, maybe it's not worth spending more time. Most of my nostalgia is for the '70s (goddamn I love Dazed and Confused for instance). I also found Van Sant's Psycho very watchable.

Then again, I hate to leave movie's unwatched so I'll probably plug into it on instant watch some evening.

I did, too. I'm just pandering to the consensus. :X

[transmogrifier]

Yeah, maybe it's not worth spending more time. Most of my nostalgia is for the '70s (goddamn I love Dazed and Confused for instance). I also found Van Sant's Psycho very watchable.

Then again, I hate to leave movie's unwatched so I'll probably plug into it on instant watch some evening.

:pritch:

[ContinentalOp]

Welcome CO and rep for the Shellac av.

I love Shellac. Got into them through Big Black. Saw them play a couple weeks back. Probably one of the best shows I've ever witnessed. Played the perfect balance of more well known stuff and lesser know stuff. They pretty much killed it. Their performance of a song I didn't think much of beforehand, The End of Radio, was a standout.

[Yxklyx]

1. Sherman's March (1986, Ross McElwee)
2. Southern Comfort (1981, Walter Hill)
3. Wendy and Lucy (2008, Kelly Reichardt)
4. The Exterminating Angel (1962, Luis Buñuel)
5. They Live (1988, John Carpenter)
6. Midnight (1939, Mitchell Leisen)
7. Babe: Pig in the City (1998, George Miller)
8. All the Real Girls (2003, David Gordon Green)
9. Pleasantville (1998, Gary Ross)
10. The Children Are Watching Us (1944, Vittorio De Sica)

[dreamdead]

Updated the super-duper quality films:




1. Come and See
2. The Boxer from Shantung
3. Monsieur Verdoux
4. The Crying Game
5. The Sting
6. Mishima
7. L'appartement
8. Bonnie and Clyde
9. Synecdoche, New York
10. O Lucky Man!

[The Mike]

1. The Ballad of Cable Hogue
2. The Baron of Arizona
3. A Matter of Life and Death
4. Almost Famous
5. The Unknown
6. Born Yesterday
7. The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner
8. Night and the City
9. The Fallen Idol
10. Journey to the Far Side of the Sun
Updated.

[ContinentalOp]

I'll play.

1. Gran Torino
2. Che
3. El Norte
4. Star Trek IV
5. Star Trek II
6. Up
7. Star Trek
8. Let the Right One In
9. Watchmen
10. Taken


Updated.

[transmogrifier]

1. Les Diaboliques (86)
2. Code Unknown (81)
3. Pineapple Express (76)
4. Thirst (75)
5. Un Flic (74)
6. Rachel Getting Married (72)
7. Major Dundee (71)
8. The Fall (71)
9. Revolutionary Road (71)
10. Tropic Thunder (70)

[Sycophant]

Revised!

Now seen 30 new movies this year! The top 4 seem like they could well hold onto their positions.

1. Johnny Guitar
2. Adventureland
3. Still Walking
4. The Hurt Locker
5. Milk
6. Achilles & the Tortoise
7. Observe and Report
8. The Brothers Bloom
9. Gran Torino
10. Star Trek


11. Deadly Outlaw: Rekka
12. The Hangover
13. Revolutionary Road
14. Repo! The Genetic Opera
15. The Wrestler
16. Dave Chappelle's Block Party
17. Cheeky!
18. Public Enemies
19. Coraline
20. Duplicity
21. Mother
22. The Proposal
23. Snoopy, Come Home!
24. I Just Didn't Do It
25. Mad Detective
26. Up
27. Dragonball: Evolution
28. Year One
29. Race to Witch Mountain
30. The Big Tease

Up in the air:

?. Crank 2: High Voltage

[Dead & Messed Up]

Updated for The Phantom of the Opera, Eyes Without a Face, Repulsion, and Blood the Last Vampire.

01. Peeping Tom
02. The Bridge Over the River Kwai
03. Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde ('31)
04. Baraka
05. Vampyr
06. Rashomon
07. Watchmen
08. Silent Running
09. Drag Me to Hell
10. The Phantom of the Opera

11. Let the Right One In
12. Bug
13. The Hangover
14. Transsiberian
15. Grand Illusion
16. Heat
17. Coraline
18. Up
19. Creature from the Black Lagoon
20. Stuck
21. The Seventh Victim
22. Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1941)
23. Sleeper
24. Star Trek (2009)
25. Seance
26. The Blind Swordsman: Zatoichi
27. Them!
28. Something Wicked This Way Comes
29. The Mummy (1959)
30. Eyes Without a Face
31. Val Lewton: The Man Behind the Shadows
32. Hot Rod
33. The Brood
34. It's Alive
35. P2
36. Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story
37. Speed Racer
38. Repulsion
39. Babel
40. Splinter
41. Dementia-13
42. Wolf
43. Repo! The Genetic Opera
44. Judgment Night
45. Corpse Bride
46. A Scanner Darkly
47. Terminator: Salvation
48. Pin
49. Blood: the Last Vampire
50. The Sentinel
51. Dread
------
52. Halloween (’07)
53. Spiral
54. God Told Me To
55. Right at Your Door
56. Blades of Glory
57. Joshua
58. Martyrs
59. Body Snatchers
60. Species
61. The Hunger
62. Nightbreed
63. My Name is Bruce
64. Beerfest
65. Shocker
66. The Toxic Avenger
67. The Running Man
68. Transformers 2
69. C.H.U.D.
70. The Dunwich Horror
71. 2000 Maniacs
72. Fanboys
73. Bio-Zombie
74. 976-Evil
75. Jesus Christ: Vampire Hunter
76. Rabid Grannies
77. Resident Evil: Degeneration

[B-side]

1. Fando y Lis (Jodorowsky, 1968)
2. Dream Work (Tscherkassky, 2002)
3. Santa Sangre (Jodorowsky, 1989)
4. Harakiri (Kobayashi, 1962)
5. My Night at Maud's (Rohmer, 1969)
6. The Wild Bunch (Peckinpah, 1969)
7. Last Year at Marienbad (Resnais, 1961)
8. The Beekeeper (Angelopoulos, 1986)
9. Happy Together (Kar-Wai, 1997)
10. Baraka (Fricke, 1992)

[Fezzik]

1. Up (2009, Docter) - 10
2. Adventureland (2009, Mottola) - 9.5
3. Coraline (2009, Selick) - 9
4. Watchmen (2009, Snyder) - 9
5. In Bruges (2008, McDonagh) - 9
6. Burn After Reading (2008, Coen) - 8.5
7. The Hangover (2009, Phillips) - 8
8. I Love You, Man (2009, Hamburg) - 7.5
9. Bolt (2008, Howard, Williams) - 7.5
10. Slumdog Millionaire (2008, Boyle) - 7



11. Eagle Eye (2008, Caruso) - 6.5
12. Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (2009, Bay) - 5.5
13. X-Men Origins: Wolverine (2009, Hood) - 5.5
14. Terminator Salvation (2009, McG) - 5.5
15. Hancock (Berg, 2008) - 5


Updated With Transformers and The Hangover

[megladon8]

1.) Up!
2.) There Will Be Blood
3.) [REC]
4.) Seance on a Wet Afternoon
5.) Cthulhu ('07)
6.) Dirty Harry
7.) Public Enemies
8.) Coraline
9.) Sisters ('73)
10.) Gran Torino


Removed: Drag Me to Hell, Watchmen.

[The Mike]

1. Lonely are the Brave
2. The Ballad of Cable Hogue
3. The Baron of Arizona
4. A Matter of Life and Death
5. Almost Famous
6. The Unknown
7. Born Yesterday
8. The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner
9. Night and the City
10. Journey to the Far Side of the SunUpdated with a new #1.

I'm not really sure what those top three say about my psyche this year.

[balmakboor]

1. The Bed, The Golden Positions, Dreamwood, Testament
2. Now, Hanoi Martes 13, L.B.J., 79 Primaveras
3. Let the Right One In
4. Munyurangabo
5. A Grin Without a Cat
6. Tetsuo: The Iron Man
7. Mock Up on Mu
8. Dear Zachary
9. Crazy Love
10. Treeless Mountain

The Rest (in no particular order)
The Red and the White
The Last Bolshevik
A Hole in My Heart
Tribulation 99
"Zoo"
Religulous
Up
Sonic Outlaws
Cloverfield
Rachel Getting Married
Irreversible
Milk
Tokyo Gore Police
Kids in the Hall: Brain Candy
Decasia
Synecdoche, NY
Adventureland
In the Realms of the Unreal
Sick: The Life and Death of Bob Flanagan, Supermasochist
My Winnipeg
Taxi to the Dark Side
Man on Wire
War of the Gargantuas
Gran Torino
Trouble the Water
Exorcist II: The Heretic
Zardoz
Earth
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Spectres of the Spectrum
The Wrestler
Frost/Nixon
Hail, Mary
Brand Upon the Brain
Slumdog Millionaire
Sukiyaki Western Django
Frozen River
Sunshine Cleaning

[Stay Puft]

3. The Baron of Arizona


:cool:

[Stay Puft]

I haven't updated my list in a while. I need to start finding some new movies to blow my mind.

[Ezee E]

1. All That Jazz [10]
2. Blue Collar [10]
3. Grave of the Fireflies [10]
4. Dear Zachary [10]
5. The Conformist [9.5]
6. An American Werewolf in London [9.5]
7. Observe and Report [9]
8. [REC] [9]
9. The Wrestler [9]
10. 9/11 [9]

[REC]

[ContinentalOp]

1. Gran Torino
2. Che
3. El Norte
4. Star Trek IV
5. Paradise Lost: The Child Murders at Robin Hood Hills
6. Star Trek II
7. Up
8. Star Trek
9. Let the Right One In
10. Watchmen

Updated.

Not used to seeing such an unbiased (but not totally) documentary. Can't wait to see the sequel.

[Russ]

Updated:

1. Killer of Sheep (Burnett, 1977)
2. El Sur (Erice, 1983)
3. Gun Crazy (Lewis, 1950)
4. Let the Right One In (Alfredson, 2008)
5. Lost in Translation (Coppola, 2003)
6. Crac (Back, 1981)
7. Danger: Diabolik (Bava, 1968)
8. Coraline (Selick, 2009)
9. [Rec] (Balagueró, Plaza, 2007)
10. Blind Beast (Masumura, 1969)

[Melville]

updated:

1. Serene Velocity
2. Titicut Follies
3. The Double Life of Veronique
4. Army of Shadows
5. The Goat
6. Whisper of the Heart
7. Oh Dem Watermelons
8. Waltz with Bashir
9. Juliet of the Spirits
10. Make Way for Tomorrow

[Raiders]

Updated:

1. Crime Wave (1985, Paizs)
2. Perceval (1978, Rohmer)
3. Day of the Outlaw (1959, De Toth)
4. Coraline (2009, Selick)
5. Bright Leaves (2003, McElwee)
6. Voices of a Distant Star (2003, Shinkai)
7. Room (2005, Henry)
8. Outer Space (1999, Tscherkassky)
9. Distance (2001, Kore-eda)
10. The Driver (1978, Hill)


Out:

Gran Torino (2008, Eastwood)

[Dukefrukem]

1. Wall-E [98]
2. Gran Torino [96.5]
3. Star Trek [96]
4. Drag Me to Hell [95]
5. Let the Right One In [92.5]
6. The Wrestler [91]
7. Hot Fuzz [90.5]
8. Martyrs [90.25]
9. Eden Lake [90]
10. Speed Racer [89]

4 new in my bottom

New in Bold



11. the Hangover [88]
12. Red Eye[85]
13. Mad Max 2: Road Warrior [84]
14. Angels and Demons [83.75]
15. Splinter [83.5]
16. Frost/Nixon [83]
17. Bug [82]
18. Right at Your Door [81.75]
19. Taken [81.5]
20. Secret Window [80]
21. Mad Max: Beyond Thunderdome [79]
22. Vacancy [76]
23. Watchmen [73]
24. The Broken [72.5]
25. The Ruins [72]
26. Sunshine [71]
27. Terminator: Salvation [70.5]
28. Mad Max [70]
29. Quarantine [70]
30. Alpha Dog [69.5]
31. Zack and Miri Make a Porno[69]
32. Last Man Standing [67]
33. Teeth [67]
34. the Strangers [66]
35. Midnight Meat Train[65.5]
36. Eagle Eye [65]
37. Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift [60]
38. Babylon A.D. [59]
39. Public Enemies [58]
40. Big Stan [57]
41. Donnie Darko [55]
42. The Blair Witch Project II - Book of Shadows [54.5]
43. Resident Evil: Degeneration [53]
44. Final Destination 3 [52]
45. Dead Snow [50]
46. Shutter [45]
47. Mirrors [40]
48. S. Darko [37]
49. Cursed [35]
50. AvP: Requiem [29]
51. Superman III [25]
52. Ghost Rider [22]
53. Superman IV: The Quest for Peace [18]
54. Elektra [15]

[Sycophant]

R'VISED
1. Johnny Guitar
2. The Thin Man
3. Moon
4. Adventureland
5. Still Walking
6. The Hurt Locker
7. Milk
8. Achilles & the Tortoise
9. Observe and Report
10. The Brothers Bloom


11. Gran Torino
12. Star Trek
13. Deadly Outlaw: Rekka
14. The Hangover
15. Revolutionary Road
16. The Wrestler
17. Whatever Works
18. Cheeky!
19. Repo! The Genetic Opera
20. Dave Chappelle's Block Party
21. Public Enemies
22. Coraline
23. Duplicity
24. Max Payne
25. Mother
26. The Proposal
27. Snoopy, Come Home!
28. I Just Didn't Do It
29. Mad Detective
30. Up
31. Dragonball: Evolution
32. Race to Witch Mountain
33. Year One
34. The Big Tease

Up in the air:

?. Crank 2: High Voltage

[Dukefrukem]

Bah, I gotta see Moon.

[transmogrifier]

1. Les Diaboliques (86)
2. Code Unknown (81)
3. Pineapple Express (76)
4. Thirst (75)
5. Un Flic (74)
6. Rachel Getting Married (72)
7. Major Dundee (71)
8. The Fall (71)
9. Revolutionary Road (71)
10. Tropic Thunder (70)

1. Les Diaboliques (86)
2. Code Unknown (81)
3. Daytime Drinking (77)
4. Pineapple Express (76)
5. Thirst (75)
6. Un Flic (74)
7. Rachel Getting Married (72)
8. Major Dundee (71)
9. The Fall (71)
10. Revolutionary Road (71)

[Amnesiac]

updated:

1. Serene Velocity

I saw this a few years ago. Why is it your #1?

[Ivan Drago]

1. Irreversible (Gaspar Noe, 2002)
2. Synecdoche, New York (Charlie Kaufman, 2008)
3. Crank (Neveldine/Taylor, 2006)
4. Straw Dogs (Sam Peckinpah, 1971)
5. Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (Nicholas Meyer, 1982)
6. Eyes Wide Shut (Stanley Kubrick, 1999)
7. Watchmen (Zack Snyder, 2009)
8. Crank 2: High Voltage (Neveldine/Taylor, 2009)
9. Chasing Amy (Kevin Smith, 1997)
10. Ferris Bueller's Day Off (John Hughes, 1986)


11. Once Upon A Time In America (Sergio Leone, 1984)
12. Star Trek (J.J. Abrams, 2009)
13. Revolutionary Road (Sam Mendes, 2008)
14. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (David Yates, 2009)
15. The Hangover (Todd Phillips, 2009)
16. The Rules of the Game (Jean Renoir, 1939)
17. Last Tango In Paris (Bernardo Bertolucci, 1972)
18. I Stand Alone (Gaspar Noe, 1998)
19. Valkyrie (Bryan Singer, 2008)
20. Frost/Nixon (Ron Howard, 2008)
21. Up (Pete Docter, 2009)
22. Milk (Gus Van Sant, 2008)
23. Interstella 5555 (Kazuhisa Takenochi, 2003)
24. Alphaville (Jean-Luc Godard, 1965)
25. The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (Robert Wiene, 1919)
26. Citizen Ruth (Alexander Payne, 1996)
27. Terminator: Salvation (McG, 2009)
28. Zoolander (Ben Stiller, 2001)
29. The Last House on the Left (Dennis Iliadis, 2009)
30. Bruno (Larry Charles, 2009)
31. Twilight (Catherine Hardwicke, 2008)
32. Artists and Models (Frank Tashlin, 1955)
33. Taken (Pierre Morel, 2009)
34. Public Enemies (Michael Mann, 2009)
35. The Onion Movie (Kuntz/Maguire, 2008)
36. Land of the Lost (Silberling, 2009)
37. Monsters vs. Aliens (Letterman/Vernon, 2009)
38. Adventureland (Greg Mottola, 2009)
39. Me and You and Everyone We Know (Miranda July, 2005)
40. He's Just Not That Into You (Ken Kwapis, 2009)
41. Gran Torino (Clint Eastwood, 2008)
42. Observe and Report (Jody Hill, 2009)
43. Pretty In Pink (Howard Deutch, 1986)
44. X-Men Origins: Wolverine (Gavin Hood, 2009)
45. The Reader (Stephen Daldry, 2008)
46. Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (Michael Bay, 2009)
47. Star Trek: The Motion Picture (Robert Wise, 1979)

Updated.

[Melville]

I saw this a few years ago. Why is it your #1?
I wrote a bit about it in my "Other People's Favorite Movies" thread:

http://www.match-cut.org/showthread.php?p=168611#post16 8611
http://www.match-cut.org/showthread.php?p=173499#post17 3499