Top 10 Films First Seen During 2009

[balmakboor]

When the similar thread for 2008 came up, I was saddened to realize that I couldn't remember many things I'd watched. This thread is my idea to make it easy for me to answer that question come next January.

The purpose of this thread is to post your top ten films that you've seen for the first time this year, re-posting it as often as you wish throughout the year.

[balmakboor]

1. Tribulation 99 - Craig Baldwin
2. The Curious Case of Benjamin Button - David Fincher
3. Hail Mary - Jean-Luc Godard
4. Spectres of the Spectrum - Craig Baldwin
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8.
9.
10. Bride Wars

[Stay Puft]

1. A Touch of Zen (1969, dir. King Hu)
2. Flight of the Red Balloon (2007, dir. Hsiao-hsien Hou)
3. Tokyo Fist (1995, dir. Shinya Tsukamoto)
4. Excalibur (1981, dir. John Boorman)
5. Wife! Be Like a Rose! (1935, dir. Mikio Naruse)
6. The Life of Oharu (1952, dir. Kenji Mizoguchi)
7. Army of Shadows (1969, dir. Jean-Pierre Melville)
8. Dragon Inn (1966, dir. King Hu)
9. Summer Hours (2008, dir. Olivier Assayas)
10. Haze (2005, dir. Shinya Tsukamoto)

[Duncan]

1. Damnation
2. Wendy and Lucy
3. My Winnipeg
4. The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
5. The Unfaithful Wife
6. The Strangers
7.
8.
9.
10.

[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. Hard Boiled (John Woo, 1992)
7. Eyes Wide Shut (Stanley Kubrick, 1999)
8. Inglourious Basterds (Quentin Tarantino, 2009)
9. Watchmen (Zack Snyder, 2009)
10. Braindead/Dead Alive (Peter Jackson, 1994)


11. Crank 2: High Voltage (Neveldine/Taylor, 2009)
12. Chasing Amy (Kevin Smith, 1997)
13. Ferris Bueller's Day Off (John Hughes, 1986)
14. After Hours (Martin Scorsese, 1985)
15. The Box (Richard Kelly, 2009)
16. Once Upon A Time In America (Sergio Leone, 1984)
17. The Informant! (Steven Soderbergh, 2009)
18. Star Trek (J.J. Abrams, 2009)
19. Paranormal Activity (Oren Peli, 2009)
20. Two Lovers (James Gray, 2009)
21. Revolutionary Road (Sam Mendes, 2008)
22. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (David Yates, 2009)
23. The Hangover (Todd Phillips, 2009)
24. The Rules of the Game (Jean Renoir, 1939)
25. District 9 (Neill Blomkamp, 2009)
26. Last Tango In Paris (Bernardo Bertolucci, 1972)
27. I Stand Alone (Gaspar Noe, 1998)
28. I Love You, Man (John Hamburg, 2009)
29. Whatever Works (Woody Allen, 2009)
30. The Princess and the Frog (Musker/Clements, 2009)
31. Valkyrie (Bryan Singer, 2008)
32. Frost/Nixon (Ron Howard, 2008)
33. Up (Pete Docter, 2009)
34. Milk (Gus Van Sant, 2008)
35. Interstella 5555 (Kazuhisa Takenochi, 2003)
36. M*A*S*H (Robert Altman, 1970)
37. Gamer (Neveldine/Taylor, 2009)
38. Where The Wild Things Are (Spike Jonze, 2009)
39. The Virgin Suicides (Sofia Coppola, 1999)
40. Moon (Duncan Jones, 2009)
41. Alphaville (Jean-Luc Godard, 1965)
42. The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (Robert Wiene, 1919)
43. Citizen Ruth (Alexander Payne, 1996)
44. Terminator: Salvation (McG, 2009)
45. Zoolander (Ben Stiller, 2001)
46. The Last House on the Left (Dennis Iliadis, 2009)
47. Bruno (Larry Charles, 2009)
48. Twilight (Catherine Hardwicke, 2008)
49. (500) Days of Summer (Marc Webb, 2009)
50. Tales of the Black Freighter (Delpurgatorio/Smith, 2009)
51. A Christmas Carol (Robert Zemeckis, 2009)
52. Artists and Models (Frank Tashlin, 1955)
53. Taken (Pierre Morel, 2009)
54. Harlem Nights (Eddie Murphy, 1989)
55. Aaltra (Kervern/Delepine, 2004)
56. Pillow Talk (Michael Gordon, 1959)
57. Public Enemies (Michael Mann, 2009)
58. The Rage in Placid Lake (Tony McNamara, 2003)
59. The Onion Movie (Kuntz/Maguire, 2008)
60. Zombieland (Ruben Fleischer, 2009)
61. Land of the Lost (Silberling, 2009)
62. Monsters vs. Aliens (Letterman/Vernon, 2009)
63. Adventureland (Greg Mottola, 2009)
64. Me and You and Everyone We Know (Miranda July, 2005)
65. He's Just Not That Into You (Ken Kwapis, 2009)
66. Gran Torino (Clint Eastwood, 2008)
67. Observe and Report (Jody Hill, 2009)
68. Pretty In Pink (Howard Deutch, 1986)
69. X-Men Origins: Wolverine (Gavin Hood, 2009)
70. The Reader (Stephen Daldry, 2008)
71. Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (Michael Bay, 2009)
72. Fantastic Mr. Fox (Wes Anderson, 2009)
73. The Boondock Saints (Troy Duffy, 2000)
74. Star Trek: The Motion Picture (Robert Wise, 1979)

??. The Room (Tommy Wiseau, 2003)

[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. Moon (Duncan Jones, 2009)
6. City of Hope (John Sayles, 1991)
7. Coraline (Henry Selick, 2009)
8. Two Lovers (James Gray, 2008)
9. Only Angels Have Wings (Howard Hawks, 1939)
10. Watchmen (Zack Snyder, 2009)

[Ezee E]

1. The One-Armed Swordsman [9]
2. Dial M For Murder [7.5]
3. Gran Torino [7]
4. To Live in Die in L.A. [6.5]
5. The Last Wave [6]
6. Cruising [6]
7. Repo! The Genetic Opera [4]
8. Appaloosa [3.5]
9. Righteous Kill [3]
10. Towelhead [0]

Poor start to the year.

[NickGlass]

1. Bigger Than Life (Ray, 1956)
2. The Secret of the Grain (Kechiche, 2008)
3. Pee Wee's Big Adventure (Burton, 1985)
4. The Toe Tactic (Hubley, 2008)
5. Made in U.S.A. (Godard, 1967)
6. Gran Torino (Eastwood, 2008)
7.
8.
9. Waltz with Bashir (Forman, 2008)
10. Revolutionary Road (Mendes, 2008)

[Kurious Jorge v3.1]

1. Trafic (Tati -1971) 84
2. The Earrings of Madame de... (Ophuls - 1953) 82
3. Blade Runner (Scott - 1982) 67
4. The Front (Ritt - 1976) 63
5. Ballad of Narayama (Kinoshita - 1958) 60
6. Three Monkeys (Ceylan - 2008) 58
7. Torn Curtain (Hitchcock - 1965) 47
8. The Postmodern Life of My Aunt (Hui - 2006) 45
9.
10.

[Pop Trash]

I'll play:

1. The Wrestler
2. The Tenant
3. Gran Torino
4. Baghead
5. The Wackness
6.
7.
8.
9.
10.

[Rowland]

1. Flight of the Red Balloon [78]
2. Exte: Hair Extensions [66]
3. Pineapple Express [64]
4. Planes, Trains, and Automobiles [52]
5. Taxi to the Dark Side [51]
6. Burn After Reading [49]
7. Yours, Mine, and Ours ('68) [41]
8.
9.
10.

[ledfloyd]

1. Paris, Texas
2. My Dinner With Andre
3. Friday Night
4. Brand Upon the Brain!
5. Alan Zweig's Mirror Trilogy
6. In a Lonely Place
7. Decalogue
8. 4 Months, 3 Weeks, 2 Days
9. Miami Vice
10. The Thin Blue Line

[soitgoes...]

1. New Earth (Ivens 34)
2. Dear Zachary: A Letter to a Son About His Father (Kuenne 08)
3. A Christmas Tale (Desplechin 08)
4. Hallelujah! (Vidor 29)
5. Charley Varrick (Siegel 73)
6. The Masseurs and a Woman (Shimizu 38)
7. Vicky Cristina Barcelona (Allen 08)
8. City of Ember (Kenan 08)
9. Vengeance (Chang 70)
10. Wife (Naruse 53)

[eternity]

1. Week End (Jean-Luc Godard, 1967)- 98
2. Alfie (Lewis Gilbert, 1966)- 79
3. The Visitor (Thomas McCarthy, 2008)- 79
4. Repo! The Genetic Opera (Darren Lynn Bousman, 2008)- 75
5. Sweet and Lowdown (Woody Allen, 1999)- 64
6. Valkyrie (Bryan Singer, 2008)- 63
7. Starter for 10 (Tom Vaughan, 2006)- 61
8. Married Life (Ira Sachs, 2008)- 54
9. Smother (Vince Di Meglio, 2008)- 52
10. The House Bunny (Fred Wolf, 2008)- 33

[transmogrifier]

1. Les Diaboliques (1955)
2. Code Unknown (2000)
3. Pineapple Express (2008)
4. Un Flic (1972)
5. Major Dundee (1964)

[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)

[Boner M]

1. Ms. 45
2. Let the Right One In
3. La Rupture
4. Girl Shy
5. Straight Time
6. Touch of Zen
7. The Ascent
8. Rolling Thunder
9. Wrong Move
10. Wendy & Lucy

[The Mike]

1. Lonely are the Brave
2. The Ballad of Cable Hogue
3. Beware! The Blob
4. The Baron of Arizona
5. A Matter of Life and Death
6. Almost Famous
7. The Unknown
8. The Last Starfighter
9. Born Yesterday
10. The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner


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11. Phase IV/Journey to the Far Side of the Sun
12. Hobson's Choice
13. The Masque of the Red Death
14. Cold Prey
15. The Anniversary
16. Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai
17. Walkabout
18. The Fallen Idol
19. Night and the City
20. Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia

[Weeping_Guitar]

01. Ordet (Dreyer, 1955)
02. Late August, Early September (Assayas, 1998)
03. The Life of Oharu (Mizoguchi, 1952)
04. Viridiana (Buñuel, 1961)
05. The Woman Next Door (Truffaut, 1981)
06. One, Two, Three (Wilder, 1961)
07. Les Biches (Chabrol, 1968)
08. Meet Me in St. Louis (Minnelli, 1944)
09. Cluny Brown (Lubitsch, 1946)
10. Dodsworth (Wyler, 1936)

[BirdsAteMyFace]

1. Ugetsu (Mizoguchi, 1953)
2. The Lady from Shanghai (Welles, 1947)
3. The Magnificent Ambersons (Welles, 1942)
4. Diary of a Country Priest (Bresson, 1951)
5. Au hasard Balthazar (Bresson, 1966)
6. M. Hulot's Holiday (Tati, 1953)
7. My Man Godfrey (La Cava, 1936)
8.
9.
10.

[MadMan]

1. Pinapple Express-91
2. Chicken Run-90
3. The Wackness-85
4. Above the Rim-81
5. Bangkok Dangerous-74
6.
7.
8.
9. Marley and Me-55
10. Blown Away-43

[SirNewt]

The Petrified Forest - 8
The Postman Always Rings Twice - 7
Outsourced - 5
The Life and Work of Dr. Hunter S. Thompson - 4

[Ivan Drago]

10. Bride Wars

WHY did you see that?

[megladon8]

1. Ugetsu (Mizoguchi, 1953)

Jen gave me this one for Christmas a few years back, and we STILL haven't watched it.

We really should get on that, I guess.



7. My Man Godfrey (La Cava, 1936)


This one is wonderful, I'm glad you loved it.

Have you ever seen any of the Thin Man movies?

[BirdsAteMyFace]

Jen gave me this one for Christmas a few years back, and we STILL haven't watched it.

We really should get on that, I guess.Funny, I owned it for a few years before watching it as well. I particularly appreciated how Mizoguchi created a world that I felt was playing out before my eyes, instead of just being a film; and it really captured the spirit mythology found in classic Japanese literature.
This one is wonderful, I'm glad you loved it.

Have you ever seen any of the Thin Man movies?I haven't. I believe I saw a copy at the local library, so I'll try to check it out at some point.

[megladon8]

I haven't. I believe I saw a copy at the local library, so I'll try to check it out at some point.


The first one is great, the second one (After the Thin Man) is brilliant, and then I feel the series gets stale.

[SirNewt]

Jen gave me this one for Christmas a few years back, and we STILL haven't watched it.

We really should get on that, I guess.



I think it's the prettiest black and white film I've ever seen.

[Dead & Messed Up]

01. Bug
02. Them!
03. Dementia 13
04. Body Snatchers
05. The Hunger
06. Species
07. Shocker
08. 976-Evil

Only the top three are worth much of anything.

[Rowland]

1. Flight of the Red Balloon [79]
2. The Road Warrior [76]
3. Exte: Hair Extensions [66]
4. Pineapple Express [64]
5. Planes, Trains, and Automobiles [52]
6. Taxi to the Dark Side [51]
7. Burn After Reading [49]
8. Yours, Mine, and Ours ('68) [41]
9.
10.

[balmakboor]

WHY did you see that?

My wife's birthday. Her choice.

Question: How would this thread work best? Post a new version of a list each time or edit the original post? I dunno. The whole thing's kinda experimental.

[Kurosawa Fan]

New list. I don't want to go searching for someone's list every time they post the word 'Updated.'

[balmakboor]

New list. I don't want to go searching for someone's list every time they post the word 'Updated.'

Works for me.

[Dukefrukem]

1. Gran Torino
2. Quarantine
3. Final Destination 3
4.
5.
6.
7.
8.
9.
10.

[soitgoes...]

1. New Earth (Ivens 34)
2. Dear Zachary: A Letter to a Son About His Father (Kuenne 08)
3. A Christmas Tale (Desplechin 08)
4. Hallelujah! (Vidor 29)
5. Charley Varrick (Siegel 73)
6. The Masseurs and a Woman (Shimizu 38)
7. Vicky Cristina Barcelona (Allen 08)
8. City of Ember (Kenan 08)
9. Vengeance (Chang 70)
10. Wife (Naruse 53)

1. New Earth (Ivens 34)
2. Dear Zachary: A Letter to a Son About His Father (Kuenne 08)
3. A Christmas Tale (Desplechin 08)
4. Hallelujah! (Vidor 29)
5. Charley Varrick (Siegel 73)
6. J'accuse! (Gance 19)
7. The Masseurs and a Woman (Shimizu 38)
8. Vicky Cristina Barcelona (Allen 08)
9. City of Ember (Kenan 08)
10. Philips-Radio (Ivens 31)


Two films with exclamation points in their title!! My list will probably change weekly for the next month or so.

[B-side]

Works for me.

That'd be a lot of posts simply for the sake of an update. Maybe just quote the new list?

[balmakboor]

That'd be a lot of posts simply for the sake of an update. Maybe just quote the new list?

Maybe I'm not following, but wouldn't that also create a bunch of posts? The next time you update your list, post it as you are suggesting as an example.

[Dukefrukem]

1. Gran Torino
2. Right at Your Door
3. Quarantine
4. Final Destination 3
5.
6.
7.
8.
9.
10.

Right at Your Door was awesome!

[dreamdead]

Only gonna post the first viewings I truly find special so that it doesn't become needless updating...

1. The Boxer from Shantung
2. Monsieur Verdoux
3. Madame de...

[B-side]

Maybe I'm not following, but wouldn't that also create a bunch of posts? The next time you update your list, post it as you are suggesting as an example.

Nah, you're right. Perhaps I was thinking less space because you wouldn't be quoting the new one and posting the new list in addition to that? Perhaps I'm retarded? Both are distinct possibilities.

[balmakboor]

1. Tribulation 99 - Craig Baldwin
2. The Curious Case of Benjamin Button - David Fincher
3. Hail Mary - Jean-Luc Godard
4. Spectres of the Spectrum - Craig Baldwin
5. Brand Upon the Brain - Guy Maddin
6.
7.
8.
9.
10.

I enjoyed Brand Upon the Brain and watched it twice with the canned Isabella Rossilini and live Crispin Glover narrations. The whole thing seemed just too personal to Maddin to be fully engaging or understandable though. Still, gotta admire the Guy for his vision.

[Rowland]

1. Flight of the Red Balloon [79]
2. The Road Warrior [76]
3. Doubt [68]
4. Exte: Hair Extensions [66]
5. Pineapple Express [64]
6. Planes, Trains, and Automobiles [52]
7. Red [51]
8. Taxi to the Dark Side [51]
9. Burn After Reading [49]
10 Yours, Mine, and Ours ('68) [41]

[Ezee E]

Almost to 10. The One-Armed Swordsman is the first great movie I've seen this year.

[Dukefrukem]

ooOo i didn't rate my viewings..


1. Gran Torino [96]
2. Right at Your Door [81]
3. Quarantine [70]
4. Final Destination 3 [55]
5.
6.
7.
8.
9.
10.

[Milky Joe]

1. The Wrestler (Aronofsky, 2008)
2. Five Easy Pieces (Rafelson, 1970)
3. Searching For Bobby Fischer (Zaillian, 1993)
4.
5.
6.
7.
8.
9.
10.

[Dukefrukem]

1. Gran Torino [96]
2. Right at Your Door [81]
3. Quarantine [70]
4. Babylon A.D. [69]
5. Final Destination 3 [55]
6.
7.
8.
9.
10.

Babylon A.D. was a disappointment.

[Dead & Messed Up]

Bump for Brad Anderson, who's officially one of my favorite current directors.

01. Bug
02. Transsiberian
03. Them!
04. Wolf
05. Dementia 13
06. Body Snatchers
07. The Hunger
08. Species
09. Shocker
10. 976-Evil

11. Resident Evil: Degeneration

[Dukefrukem]

Updated. It's seems there's a trend in my viewing this year...

I like it!

[balmakboor]

1. The Last Bolshevik - A+ - Chris Marker
2. Tribulation 99 - A+ - Craig Baldwin
3. The Curious Case of Benjamin Button - A - David Fincher
4. Spectres of the Spectrum - A- - Craig Baldwin
5. Hail Mary - B+ - Jean-Luc Godard
6. Brand Upon the Brain - B - Guy Maddin
7.
8.
9.
10.

Chris Marker continues to amaze me.

[Dukefrukem]

1. Gran Torino [96]
2. Eden Lake [90]
3. Right at Your Door [81]
4. Quarantine [70]
5. Babylon A.D. [69]
6. Final Destination 3 [55]
7.
8.
9.
10.

Eden Lake was awesome!!!! Watch it!

[EyesWideOpen]

I'll play (i'm not gonna add movies i didn't at least give a B- score to):

1. Gone Baby Gone (Affleck, 2007) A
2. Gran Torino (Eastwood, 2008) B+
3. Ghost Town (Koepp, 2008) B+
4. Conquest of the Planet of the Apes (Thompson, 1972) B
5.
6.
7.
8.
9.
10.

[NickGlass]

1. Bigger Than Life (Ray, 1956)
2. The Secret of the Grain (Kechiche, 2008)
3. Pee Wee's Big Adventure (Burton, 1985)
4. The Toe Tactic (Hubley, 2008)
5. Made in U.S.A. (Godard, 1967)
6. Gran Torino (Eastwood, 2008)
7.
8.
9. Waltz with Bashir (Forman, 2008)
10. Revolutionary Road (Mendes, 2008)

Finally have 10.

1. Bigger Than Life (Ray, 1956)
2. The Secret of the Grain (Kechiche, 2008)
3. The Doom Generation (Araki, 1995)
4. Pee Wee's Big Adventure (Burton, 1985)
5. Trick (Fall, 1999)
6. The Toe Tactic (Hubley, 2008)
7. Made in U.S.A. (Godard, 1967)
8. Gran Torino (Eastwood, 2008)
9. Waltz with Bashir (Forlan, 2008)
10. Tropic Thunder (Stiller, 2008)

[megladon8]

Ugh...I hate, hate hate The Doom Generation.

[EyesWideOpen]

Ugh...I hate, hate hate The Doom Generation.

Yep, i watched it about a year ago and it was terrible.

[Boner M]

The Doom Generation is the best Gen-X satire ever made and I repped Nick for his rating.

[transmogrifier]

The Doom Generation is the best Gen-X satire ever made and I repped Nick for his rating.

Repping for ratings is a dangerous precedent to set; I expect rep from you every time a rating of mine is + or - 15% from your rating.

Un Flic for example.

*taps foot impatiently*

[Dukefrukem]

1. Gran Torino [96]
2. Eden Lake [90]
3. Right at Your Door [81]
4. Quarantine [70]
5. Babylon A.D. [69]
6. Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift [68]
7. Final Destination 3 [55]
8.
9.
10.

Number8 was right. Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift is the best in the series. Loved the ending.

[Dukefrukem]

1. Wall-E [98]
2. Gran Torino [96]
3. Eden Lake [90]
4. Right at Your Door [81]
5. Quarantine [70]
6. Babylon A.D. [69]
7. Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift [68]
8. Final Destination 3 [55]
9.
10.

Wall-E is the best animated film I've ever seen.

[The Mike]

1. Slumdog Millionaire
2. Gran Torino
3. The Masque of the Red Death
4. Frost/Nixon
5. La Noche del Walpurgis
6. The Spirit
7. 4D Man
8. My Bloody Valentine (1981)
9. Wild at Heart
10. Frightmare

Updated. The first three were excellent, the middle three were solid for what they were, and the last four were mediocre at best.

[Ivan Drago]

1. The Rules of the Game (Renoir, 1939)
2. Valkyrie (Bryan Singer, 2008)
3. Interstella 5555 - (Kazuhisa Takenochi, 2003)
4. Zoolander (Ben Stiller, 2001)
5. Gran Torino (Clint Eastwood, 2008)
6.
7.
8.
9.
10.

The Rules of the Game was great while Gran Torino was a disappointment.

[Dukefrukem]

1. Wall-E [98]
2. Gran Torino [96]
3. Eden Lake [90]
4. Right at Your Door [81]
5. Quarantine [70]
6. Babylon A.D. [69]
7. Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift [68]
8. Final Destination 3 [55]
9. Mirrors [40]
10.

Mirrors is bad.

[BirdsAteMyFace]

1. Ugetsu (Mizoguchi, 1953)
2. The Lady from Shanghai (Welles, 1947)
3. Eyes Without a Face (Franju, 1960)
4. The Magnificent Ambersons (Welles, 1942)
5. Diary of a Country Priest (Bresson, 1951)
6. Au hasard Balthazar (Bresson, 1966)
7. M. Hulot's Holiday (Tati, 1953)
8. My Man Godfrey (La Cava, 1936)
9.
10.Work in progress.

[Boner M]

Nice to see you liking movies for a change, BAMF. :)

[soitgoes...]

1. New Earth (Ivens 34)
2. Dear Zachary: A Letter to a Son About His Father (Kuenne 08)
3. A Christmas Tale (Desplechin 08)
4. Hallelujah! (Vidor 29)
5. Charley Varrick (Siegel 73)
6. J'accuse! (Gance 19)
7. The Masseurs and a Woman (Shimizu 38)
8. Vicky Cristina Barcelona (Allen 08)
9. City of Ember (Kenan 08)
10. Philips-Radio (Ivens 31)

1. Let the Right One In (Alfredson 08)
2. New Earth (Ivens 34)
3. Every Night Dreams (Naruse 33)
4. Dear Zachary: A Letter to a Son About His Father (Kuenne 08)
5. Wendy and Lucy (Reichardt 08)
6. A Christmas Tale (Desplechin 08)
7. Hallelujah! (Vidor 29)
8. Charley Varrick (Siegel 73)
9. J'accuse! (Gance 19)
10. The Masseurs and a Woman (Shimizu 38)

[Dukefrukem]

1. Let the Right One In (Alfredson 08)
2. New Earth (Ivens 34)
3. Every Night Dreams (Naruse 33)
4. Dear Zachary: A Letter to a Son About His Father (Kuenne 08)
5. Wendy and Lucy (Reichardt 08)
6. A Christmas Tale (Desplechin 08)
7. Hallelujah! (Vidor 29)
8. Charley Varrick (Siegel 73)
9. J'accuse! (Gance 19)
10. The Masseurs and a Woman (Shimizu 38)

Awesome! Now I need to see Let the Right One In.

[Ivan Drago]

I'm still trying to figure out how you guys are seeing Let The Right One In. I'm assuming this has been released in NY/LA?

[EyesWideOpen]

I'm still trying to figure out how you guys are seeing Let The Right One In. I'm assuming this has been released in NY/LA?

I saw it at my local indie theater in scottsdale, az about a month ago.

[balmakboor]

I'm still trying to figure out how you guys are seeing Let The Right One In. I'm assuming this has been released in NY/LA?

It was already at the bargain theater in Santa Barbara when I was there for Christmas. But, alas, I missed it.

[Spinal]

I'm still trying to figure out how you guys are seeing Let The Right One In. I'm assuming this has been released in NY/LA?

Here's a list of where it's playing and where it will be playing. (http://www.magpictures.com/dates.aspx?id=3f16c245-97bb-4978-bbb8-f754d4f32785)

[The Mike]

Here's a list of where it's playing and where it will be playing. (http://www.magpictures.com/dates.aspx?id=3f16c245-97bb-4978-bbb8-f754d4f32785)Nice. I'll see it for Valentine's. :cool:

[soitgoes...]

Here's a list of where it's playing and where it will be playing. (http://www.magpictures.com/dates.aspx?id=3f16c245-97bb-4978-bbb8-f754d4f32785)
The fact that Ukiah, CA is getting this and Eugene isn't is a tad bit upsetting.

[Mysterious Dude]

I'm still trying to figure out how you guys are seeing Let The Right One In. I'm assuming this has been released in NY/LA?
I saw it in a movie theater in Minneapolis in November.

[Dukefrukem]

1. Wall-E [98]
2. Gran Torino [96]
3. Eden Lake [90]
4. Right at Your Door [81]
5. Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift [75]
6. Quarantine [70]
7. Babylon A.D. [69]
8. Resident Evil: Degeneration [56]
9. Final Destination 3 [55]
10. Mirrors [40]

Resident Evil: Degeneration. Finally have 10.

[MadMan]

1. Pinapple Express-91
2. Chicken Run-90
3. The Wackness-85
4. Above the Rim-81
5. Made-75
6. Bangkok Dangerous-74
7. Notorious-71
8. Chasers-60
9. Marley and Me-55
10. Blown Away-43

This month has mostly sucked. I blame a lack of TCM and not having time to swing by the public library.

[Kurious Jorge v3.1]

1. Trafic (Tati -1971) 84
2. The Earrings of Madame de... (Ophuls - 1953) 82
3. The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (Dominik - 2007) - 75
4. Blade Runner (Scott - 1982) 67
5. The Front (Ritt - 1976) 63
6. Ballad of Narayama (Kinoshita - 1958) 60
7. Three Monkeys (Ceylan - 2008) 58
8. Topaz (Hitchcock - 1968) - 50
9. Torn Curtain (Hitchcock - 1965) 47
10. The Postmodern Life of My Aunt (Hui - 2006) 45


added a Hitchcock and Jesse James. A full 10 now, although I doubt any of these will be here at the end of the year.

[NickGlass]

This thread let's me get away with being lazy and not posting thoughts. Shame on me for taking advantage of this opportunity.

1. Bigger Than Life (Ray, 1956)
2. The Secret of the Grain (Kechiche, 2008)
3. The Doom Generation (Araki, 1995)
4. The Panic in Needle Park (Shatzberg, 1971)
5. Pee Wee's Big Adventure (Burton, 1985)
6. Trick (Fall, 1999)
7. Silent Light (Reygadas, 2008)
8. The Toe Tactic (Hubley, 2008)
9. Made in U.S.A. (Godard, 1967)
10. Gran Torino (Eastwood, 2008)

[balmakboor]

1. The Last Bolshevik - A+ - Chris Marker
2. Tribulation 99 - A+ - Craig Baldwin
3. The Curious Case of Benjamin Button - A - David Fincher
4. Spectres of the Spectrum - A- - Craig Baldwin
5. Hail Mary - B+ - Jean-Luc Godard
6. Brand Upon the Brain - B - Guy Maddin
7.
8.
9.
10.


1. The Last Bolshevik - A+ - Chris Marker
2. Tribulation 99 - A+ - Craig Baldwin
3. Gran Torino - A - Clint Eastwood
4. The Curious Case of Benjamin Button - A - David Fincher
5. Spectres of the Spectrum - A- - Craig Baldwin
6. Hail Mary - B+ - Jean-Luc Godard
7. Brand Upon the Brain - B - Guy Maddin
8.
9.
10.

I thoroughly enjoyed Gran Torino. It surprised me actually. It took little thought to rank it above Benjamin Button.

[eternity]

1. Week End (Jean-Luc Godard, 1967)- 98
2. Alfie (Lewis Gilbert, 1966)- 79
3. The Visitor (Thomas McCarthy, 2008)- 79
4. Repo! The Genetic Opera (Darren Lynn Bousman, 2008)- 75
5. Waltz with Bashir (Ari Folman, 2008)- 69
6. Sweet and Lowdown (Woody Allen, 1999)- 64
7. Valkyrie (Bryan Singer, 2008)- 63
8. Starter for 10 (Tom Vaughan, 2006)- 61
9. Married Life (Ira Sachs, 2008)- 54
10. Smother (Vince Di Meglio, 2008)- 52

[Raiders]

1. Week End (Jean-Luc Godard, 1967)- 98


To carry over the the FDT, I believe Match-Cut is split about 50/50 in their love/hate with Godard's film. I am firmly in the "love" category.

[Ezee E]

1. The One-Armed Swordsman [9]
2. Dial M For Murder [7.5]
3. Gran Torino [7]
4. Charley Varrick [7]
5. To Live in Die in L.A. [6.5]
6. The Last Wave [6]
7. Cruising [6]
8. Repo! The Genetic Opera [4]
9. Appaloosa [3.5]
10. Righteous Kill [3]

11 new movies in all.


And ten.

[Weeping_Guitar]

01. Ordet (Dreyer, 1955)
02. Late August, Early September (Assayas, 1998)
03. The Life of Oharu (Mizoguchi, 1952)
04. Viridiana (Buñuel, 1961)
05. The Woman Next Door (Truffaut, 1981)
06. One, Two, Three (Wilder, 1961)
07. Les Biches (Chabrol, 1968)
08. Meet Me in St. Louis (Minnelli, 1944)
09. Cluny Brown (Lubitsch, 1946)
10. Dodsworth (Wyler, 1936)


01. East of Eden (Kazan, 1955)
02. Ordet (Dreyer, 1955)
03. Late August, Early September (Assayas, 1998)
04. Viridiana (Buñuel, 1961)
05. The Life of Oharu (Mizoguchi, 1952)
06. One, Two, Three (Wilder, 1961)
07. The Woman Next Door (Truffaut, 1981)
08. The Burmese Harp (Ichikawa, 1956)
09. Les Biches (Chabrol, 1968)
10. Cluny Brown (Lubitsch, 1946)

[Mysterious Dude]

I'll post a top 11, because that's every movie I've seen so far this year.

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)

[Dead & Messed Up]

Bump for Brad Anderson, who's officially one of my favorite current directors.

01. Bug
02. Transsiberian
03. Them!
04. Wolf
05. Dementia 13
06. Body Snatchers
07. The Hunger
08. Species
09. Shocker
10. 976-Evil

11. Resident Evil: Degeneration

[Spun Lepton]

Dang, I have a lot of catching up to do.

1. The Incredible Hulk (7/10)
2. Night of the Creeps (7/10)
3. Step Brothers (1/10)
4.
5.
6.
7.
8.
9.
10.

[The Mike]

Bump for Brad Anderson, who's officially one of my favorite current directors.

Glad you dug that one. I like it more the more I think about it.

[MadMan]

1. Pinapple Express-91
2. Chicken Run-90
3. Bad Santa-90
4. Confidence-87
5. The Wackness-85
6. Above the Rim-81
7. Made-75
8. Bangkok Dangerous-74
9. Notorious-71
10. Chasers-60

Finally I knocked Blown Away and Marley and Me off the list.

[Dukefrukem]

1. Wall-E [98]
2. Gran Torino [96]
3. Eden Lake [90]
4. Right at Your Door [81]
5. Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift [75]
6. Quarantine [70]
7. Babylon A.D. [69]
8. Resident Evil: Degeneration [56]
9. The Blair Witch Project II - Book of Shadows 56.5
10. Final Destination 3 [55]

The Blair Witch Project II - Book of Shadows... 56.5 bumps Mirrors off my list.

[B-side]

1. Santa Sangre (Jodorowsky, 1989)
2. Harakiri (Kobayashi, 1962)
3. The Wild Bunch (Peckinpah, 1969)
4. Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid (Peckinpah, 1973)
5. Youth Without Youth (Coppola, 2007)
6. Performance (Roeg/Cammell, 1970)
7. La Cravate (Jodorowsky, 1957) [Short]
8. Before the Devil Knows You're Dead (Lumet, 2007)
9. Young Mr. Lincoln (Ford, 1939)
10. Monsieur Verdoux (Chaplin, 1947)


I haven't been quoting this, only editing the post I'm quoting.:P

[Ezee E]

1. The Wrestler [9]
2. The One-Armed Swordsman [9]
3. Revolutionary Road [8.5]
4. Dial M For Murder [7.5]
5. Gran Torino [7]
6. Charley Varrick [7]
7. To Live in Die in L.A. [6.5]
8. The Last Wave [6]
9. Cruising [6]
10. Repo! The Genetic Opera [4]

16 movies.

[soitgoes...]

1. Let the Right One In (Alfredson 08)
2. New Earth (Ivens 34)
3. Every Night Dreams (Naruse 33)
4. Dear Zachary: A Letter to a Son About His Father (Kuenne 08)
5. Wendy and Lucy (Reichardt 08)
6. A Christmas Tale (Desplechin 08)
7. Hallelujah! (Vidor 29)
8. Charley Varrick (Siegel 73)
9. J'accuse! (Gance 19)
10. The Masseurs and a Woman (Shimizu 38)
1. Hamlet (Branagh 96)
2. Let the Right One In (Alfredson 08)
3. New Earth (Ivens 34)
4. Every Night Dreams (Naruse 33)
5. Dear Zachary: A Letter to a Son About His Father (Kuenne 08)
6. Wendy and Lucy (Reichardt 08)
7. A Christmas Tale (Desplechin 08)
8. Hallelujah! (Vidor 29)
9. Charley Varrick (Siegel 73)
10. J'accuse! (Gance 19)

[EyesWideOpen]

I'll play (i'm not gonna add movies i didn't at least give a B- score to):

1. Gone Baby Gone (Affleck, 2007) A
2. Rachel Getting Married (Demme, 2008) A-
3. Gran Torino (Eastwood, 2008) B+
4. Ghost Town (Koepp, 2008) B+
5. Conquest of the Planet of the Apes (Thompson, 1972) B
6.
7.
8.
9.
10.

updated

[eternity]

1. Week End (Jean-Luc Godard, 1967)- 98
2. Alfie (Lewis Gilbert, 1966)- 79
3. The Visitor (Thomas McCarthy, 2008)- 79
4. Repo! The Genetic Opera (Darren Lynn Bousman, 2008)- 75
5. Waltz with Bashir (Ari Folman, 2008)- 69
6. Sweet and Lowdown (Woody Allen, 1999)- 64
7. Valkyrie (Bryan Singer, 2008)- 63
8. Starter for 10 (Tom Vaughan, 2006)- 61
9. Married Life (Ira Sachs, 2008)- 54
10. Smother (Vince Di Meglio, 2008)- 52

Updated.

[Dukefrukem]

1. Wall-E [98]
2. Gran Torino [96]
3. Eden Lake [90]
4. Right at Your Door [81]
5. Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift [75]
6. Quarantine [70]
7. Babylon A.D. [69]
8. Donnie Darko - [68]
9. Resident Evil: Degeneration [56]
10. The Blair Witch Project II - Book of Shadows [56.5]

Donnie Darko - [68], knocked off Final Destination 3.

[Dukefrukem]

1. Wall-E [98]
2. Gran Torino [96]
3. Eden Lake [90]
4. Right at Your Door [81]
5. Secret Window [81]
6. Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift [75]
7. Quarantine [70]
8. Babylon A.D. [69]
9. Donnie Darko - [68]
10. Resident Evil: Degeneration [56]


Secret Window [81], knocked off The Blair Witch Project II - Book of Shadows

[Russ]

1. Gun Crazy (1950)
2. Danger: Diabolik (1968)
3. Kung Fu Panda (2008)
4. I Shot Jesse James (1949)
.
.
.
5. Forgetting Sarah Marshall (2007)
6. The Darjeeling Limited (2008)

..so far


I also saw San Soleil, didn't care much for it.

[Raiders]

I also saw San Soleil, didn't care much for it.

I really am getting closer to calling this site "Bizarro World."

[Russ]

I really am getting closer to calling this site "Bizarro World."
Don't get me wrong -- I found La Jetée intellectually stimulating and cleverly put together. Marker's voice is a unique one in cinema. It's not warm and personal, nor is it cold and impersonal: it's cold and personal; which is an approach I think lends itself more appropriately to the sci-fi oriented material of La Jetée rather than the philosophical photo-diary observations of Sans Soleil.

[Dead & Messed Up]

Update for Jesus Christ Vampire Hunter and Toxic Avenger:


01. Bug
02. Transsiberian
03. Them!
04. Wolf
05. Dementia 13
06. Body Snatchers
07. The Hunger
08. Species
09. Shocker
10. The Toxic Avenger

11. 976-Evil
12. Jesus Christ: Vampire Hunter
13. Resident Evil: Degeneration

[Ivan Drago]

This next update might make people mad:


1. The Rules of the Game (Renoir, 1939)
2. Valkyrie (Bryan Singer, 2008)
3. Interstella 5555 - (Kazuhisa Takenochi, 2003)
4. Zoolander (Ben Stiller, 2001)
5. Gran Torino (Clint Eastwood, 2008)
6.
7.
8.
9.
10.

1. Frost/Nixon (Ron Howard, 2008)
2. The Rules of the Game (Jean Renoir, 1939)
3. Valkyrie (Bryan Singer, 2008)
4. Milk (Gus Van Sant, 2008)
5. Interstella 5555 (Kazuhisa Takenochi, 2003)
6. Zoolander (Ben Stiller, 2001)
7. Gran Torino (Clint Eastwood, 2008)
8.
9.
10.

[soitgoes...]

This next update might make people mad:
1. Frost/Nixon (Ron Howard, 2008)
2. The Rules of the Game (Jean Renoir, 1939)

I don't know about mad, but I'm intrigued at how any Ron Howard film could be better than one of the best films ever.

[Ivan Drago]

I don't know about mad, but I'm intrigued at how any Ron Howard film could be better than one of the best films ever.

I don't know. I personally believe that there is no way of comparing the two films. They're different movies in different eras...it's really hard to explain.

Hell, I didn't go into Frost/Nixon to compare it to Rules of the Game, which I liked a lot by the way. I do want to rewatch it though.

EDIT: I echo Raiders's thoughts. Rename General Film Discussion "Bizarro World".

[megladon8]

01. Bug
02. Transsiberian
03. Them!
04. Wolf
05. Dementia 13
06. Body Snatchers
07. The Hunger
08. Species
09. Shocker
10. The Toxic Avenger


Jeez it's weird how many films we saw for the first time around the same time.

Transsiberian I was pretty disappointed with, because it just seemed so...average. It had some decent acting and Brad Anderson certainly knows how to compose a taut thriller, but I just felt like it was very colour-by-number.

Wolf was great, yes. I saw this a few weeks ago and it could possibly make my list as well. Its message is a little on the nose, but the dialogue is wonderful and I thought it was a great twist on our long-time notions of what makes a werewolf.

Body Snatchers I have not seen, but in December I saw Invasion of the Body Snatchers (the '78 version) and it may have been the best film I saw from all of last year.

[balmakboor]

1. The Last Bolshevik - A+ - Chris Marker
2. Tribulation 99 - A+ - Craig Baldwin
3. Gran Torino - A - Clint Eastwood
4. Slumdog Millionaire - A - Danny Boyle
5. The Curious Case of Benjamin Button - A - David Fincher
6. Spectres of the Spectrum - A- - Craig Baldwin
7. Hail Mary - B+ - Jean-Luc Godard
8. Brand Upon the Brain - B - Guy Maddin
9.
10.

Loved Slumdog. Maybe I'm nuts though, but I'm still saddened that Gran Torino didn't get Oscar sanctified.

After Trainspotting, 28 Days Later, Millions, Sunshine, and this; I think Boyle can make just about any kind of film well. I haven't seen A Life Less Ordinary or The Beach though...

[Dukefrukem]

Loved Slumdog. Maybe I'm nuts though, but I'm still saddened that Gran Torino didn't get Oscar sanctified.


No you're not nuts. Its the biggest sham since Tom Hanks not winning Best Supporting actor in 1998.

[Ezee E]

Loved Slumdog. Maybe I'm nuts though, but I'm still saddened that Gran Torino didn't get Oscar sanctified.

After Trainspotting, 28 Days Later, Millions, Sunshine, and this; I think Boyle can make just about any kind of film well. I haven't seen A Life Less Ordinary or The Beach though...
Both have interesting moments, but end up being pretty lousy in the end.

[Raiders]

After Trainspotting, 28 Days Later, Millions, Sunshine, and this; I think Boyle can make just about any kind of film well.

Jack of all trades, master of none.

[megladon8]

Jack of all trades, master of none.


I thought you really loved Sunshine?

[Dead & Messed Up]

Transsiberian I was pretty disappointed with, because it just seemed so...average. It had some decent acting and Brad Anderson certainly knows how to compose a taut thriller, but I just felt like it was very colour-by-number.

I thought the drug trafficking stuff wasn't terribly interesting, but Jessie's guilt over the whole Carlos situation was compelling and involving. Emily Mortimer did a hell of a good job.

Interestingly, my top two films are films that would otherwise be "good" were it not for the excellent performances by the female leads, which really elevate the material.


Wolf was great, yes. I saw this a few weeks ago and it could possibly make my list as well. Its message is a little on the nose, but the dialogue is wonderful and I thought it was a great twist on our long-time notions of what makes a werewolf.

I didn't think it great by any stretch; I'm just filling out my top ten until I eventually see better movies.


Body Snatchers I have not seen, but in December I saw Invasion of the Body Snatchers (the '78 version) and it may have been the best film I saw from all of last year.

I really dug the remake, but I thought that whole plantation sequence at the end was contrived action for its own sake. It seemed tangential to the story. But it otherwise matched the original version.

[megladon8]

I didn't think it great by any stretch; I'm just filling out my top ten until I eventually see better movies.


Ah, well, then at least you know I thought it was great :lol:

[Dead & Messed Up]

Ah, well, then at least you know I thought it was great :lol:

I liked it, though!

:)

[chrisnu]

Jack of all trades, master of none.
Both he and Michael Winterbottom.

[Dukefrukem]

1. Wall-E [98]
2. Gran Torino [96]
3. Eden Lake [90]
4. Red Eye[85]
5. Right at Your Door [81]
6. Secret Window [81]
7. Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift [75]
8. Quarantine [70]
9. Babylon A.D. [69]
10. Donnie Darko - [68]


Red Eye[85], knocked off Resident Evil: Degeneration [56]

[Dukefrukem]

1. Wall-E [98]
2. Gran Torino [96]
3. Eden Lake [90]
4. Red Eye[85]
5. Right at Your Door [81]
6. Secret Window [81]
7. The Ruins[79]
8. Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift [75]
9. Quarantine [70]
10. Babylon A.D. [69]


The Ruins[79], knocked off Donnie Darko. I loved the gore!

[Ivan Drago]

5. Bandit Queen (1994)


Thoughts on this?

[MadMan]

1. Pinapple Express-91
2. Chicken Run-90
3. Bad Santa-90
4. Confidence-87
5. The Wackness-85
6. Above the Rim-81
7. Appaloosa-80
8. Criminal-80
9. Made-75
10. Bangkok Dangerous-74

Okay things are starting to get somewhat better, especially after a few trips to the video store. If I start hitting the school library and the public library this list may not so many average/decent/solid films on there.

[Ivan Drago]

1. Frost/Nixon (Ron Howard, 2008)
2. The Rules of the Game (Jean Renoir, 1939)
3. Valkyrie (Bryan Singer, 2008)
4. Milk (Gus Van Sant, 2008)
5. Interstella 5555 - (Kazuhisa Takenochi, 2003)
6. Zoolander (Ben Stiller, 2001)
7. Gran Torino (Clint Eastwood, 2008)
8.
9.
10.

1. Eyes Wide Shut (Stanley Kubrick, 1999)
2. Frost/Nixon (Ron Howard, 2008)
3. The Rules of the Game (Jean Renoir, 1939)
4. Valkyrie (Bryan Singer, 2008)
5. Milk (Gus Van Sant, 2008)
6. Interstella 5555 (Kazuhisa Takenochi, 2003)
7. Zoolander (Ben Stiller, 2001)
8. Gran Torino (Clint Eastwood, 2008)
9.
10.

Wow...just wow.

[B-side]

1. Santa Sangre (Jodorowsky, 1989)
2. Harakiri (Kobayashi, 1962)
3. The Wild Bunch (Peckinpah, 1969)
4. The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (Ford, 1962)
5. Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid (Peckinpah, 1973)
6. Youth Without Youth (Coppola, 2007)
7. Performance (Roeg/Cammell, 1970)
8. La Cravate (Jodorowsky, 1957) [Short]
9. Before the Devil Knows You're Dead (Lumet, 2007)
10. Young Mr. Lincoln (Ford, 1939)


Monsieur Verdoux gets booted off and The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance takes the #4 slot.

[MadMan]

1. Bob Roberts-97
2. Chimes at Midnight-95
3. Duck Soup-94
4. Pinapple Express-91
5. Chicken Run-90
6. W.-90
7. Bad Santa-90
8. Confidence-87
9. The Wackness-85
10. Above the Rim-81Thanks to this week's viewings I've now seen 20 movies.

[Weeping_Guitar]

01. East of Eden (Kazan, 1955)
02. Ordet (Dreyer, 1955)
03. Late August, Early September (Assayas, 1998)
04. The Set-Up (Wise, 1949)
05. Viridiana (Buñuel, 1961)
06. One, Two, Three (Wilder, 1961)
07. Life of Oharu (Mizoguchi, 1952)
08. The Woman Next Door (Truffaut, 1981)
09. The Burmese Harp (Ichikawa, 1956)
10. Les Biches (Chabrol, 1968)

OUT:
Cluny Brown (Lubitsch, 1946)

[soitgoes...]

1. Hamlet (Branagh 96)
2. Let the Right One In (Alfredson 08)
3. New Earth (Ivens 34)
4. Every Night Dreams (Naruse 33)
5. Dear Zachary: A Letter to a Son About His Father (Kuenne 08)
6. Wendy and Lucy (Reichardt 08)
7. A Christmas Tale (Desplechin 08)
8. Hallelujah! (Vidor 29)
9. Charley Varrick (Siegel 73)
10. J'accuse! (Gance 19)
1. Hamlet (Branagh 96)
2. Let the Right One In (Alfredson 08)
3. New Earth (Ivens 34)
4. Every Night Dreams (Naruse 33)
5. Hunger (McQueen 08)
6. Dear Zachary: A Letter to a Son About His Father (Kuenne 08)
7. Wendy and Lucy (Reichardt 08)
8. Gomorrah (Garrone 08)
9. A Christmas Tale (Desplechin 08)
10. Hallelujah! (Vidor 29)

[megladon8]

I guess I should do my list...


1.) Wolf
2.) I, Robot
3.) Rosemary's Baby
4.) The Amityville Horror
5.) ...


I really need to get my ass in gear.

[Dead & Messed Up]

2.) I, Robot
3.) Rosemary's Baby

I'm not going to judge you, but I am going to sit quietly, ponder this, shake my head, and then move on with my day.

[balmakboor]

1. The Last Bolshevik - A+ - Chris Marker
2. Tribulation 99 - A+ - Craig Baldwin
3. Sonic Outlaws - A - Craig Baldwin
4. Gran Torino - A - Clint Eastwood
5. Slumdog Millionaire - A - Danny Boyle
6. The Curious Case of Benjamin Button - A - David Fincher
7. Spectres of the Spectrum - A- - Craig Baldwin
8. Hail Mary - B+ - Jean-Luc Godard
9. Brand Upon the Brain - B - Guy Maddin
10.

The way things are going, this will definitely be the year of discovering Craig Baldwin for me. I just feel so totally in tune with his cut/paste aesthetic. It's like the film equivalent of hip-hop and Paul's Boutique. It's as if the JFK nut from Slacker had decided to make films instead of writing Conspiracy-a-Go-Go.

[megladon8]

I'm not going to judge you, but I am going to sit quietly, ponder this, shake my head, and then move on with my day.


:lol:

I, Robot entertained me thoroughly, featured fantastic special effects work and a charming-as-usual performance from Will Smith.

Rosemary's Baby was an interesting film that ultimately failed to evoke fear due to some serious problems including an anticlimactic misfire of an ending.

[Ezee E]

1. The Wrestler [9]
2. The One-Armed Swordsman [9]
3. Revolutionary Road [8.5]
4. Dial M For Murder [7.5]
5. Gran Torino [7]
6. Charley Varrick [7]
7. American Teen [6.5]
8. To Live in Die in L.A. [6.5]
9. The Last Wave [6]
10. Cruising [6]

20 movies.

[Dead & Messed Up]

Update for Walk Hard:


01. Bug
02. Transsiberian
03. Them!
04. Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story
05. Wolf
06. Dementia 13
07. Body Snatchers
08. The Hunger
09. Species
10. Shocker

11. The Toxic Avenger
12. 976-Evil
13. Jesus Christ: Vampire Hunter
14. Resident Evil: Degeneration

[MadMan]

I meant to post this here, not accidently edit it into my previous post.


1. Bob Roberts-97
2. Chimes at Midnight-95
3. Duck Soup-94
4. Pinapple Express-91
5. Chicken Run-90
6. W.-90
7. Bad Santa-90
8. Confidence-87
9. The Wackness-85
10. Above the Rim-81Thanks to this week's viewings I've now seen 20 movies.

[megladon8]

1.) Dirty Harry
2.) Wolf
3.) I, Robot
4.) Rosemary's Baby
5.) The Amityville Horror
6.) ...



Added Dirty Harry.

[Ivan Drago]

1. Eyes Wide Shut (Stanley Kubrick, 1999)
2. Revolutionary Road (Sam Mendes, 2008)
3. Frost/Nixon (Ron Howard, 2008)
4. The Rules of the Game (Jean Renoir, 1939)
5. Valkyrie (Bryan Singer, 2008)
6. Milk (Gus Van Sant, 2008)
7. Interstella 5555 (Kazuhisa Takenochi, 2003)
8. Zoolander (Ben Stiller, 2001)
9. Gran Torino (Clint Eastwood, 2008)
10. The Reader (Stephen Daldry, 2008)


Updated.

[B-side]

1. Santa Sangre (Jodorowsky, 1989)
2. Harakiri (Kobayashi, 1962)
3. The Wild Bunch (Peckinpah, 1969)
4. The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (Ford, 1962)
5. Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid (Peckinpah, 1973)
6. Pitfall (Teshigahara, 1962)
7. Youth Without Youth (Coppola, 2007)
8. La Cravate (Jodorowsky, 1957) [Short]
9. Performance (Roeg/Cammell, 1970)
10. Before the Devil Knows You're Dead (Lumet, 2007)


Young Mr. Lincoln got booted and Pitfall was added to the #6 spot.

[Stay Puft]

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. Mad Detective (2007, dir. Johnny To and Ka-Fai Wai)
6. The Fall (2006, dir. Tarsem Singh)
7. The Last Mistress (2007, dir. Catherine Breillat)
8. 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days (2007, dir. Cristian Mungiu)
9. Chop Shop (2007, dir. Ramin Bahrani)
10. Man on Wire (2008, dir. James Marsh)

And now I have ten. Basically looks like a "Best of 08" list at this point as I've spent the whole month catching up on 08 releases. Here's to February.

[The Mike]

1. Slumdog Millionaire
2. Walkabout
3. Gran Torino
4. The Masque of the Red Death
5. The Wrestler
6. Repo! The Genetic Opera
7. Phase IV
8. Frost/Nixon
9. La Noche del Walpurgis
10. The Spirit
Updated. I have some things lined up that will hopefully knock the bottom three from the list.

[Kurious Jorge v3.1]

1. The General (Keaton - 1927) 95
2. Trafic (Tati -1971) 84
3. The Earrings of Madame de... (Ophuls - 1953) 82
4. The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (Dominik - 2007) - 75
5. Three Ages (Keaton - 1923) 73
6. Blade Runner (Scott - 1982) 67
7. The Front (Ritt - 1976) 63
8. Ballad of Narayama (Kinoshita - 1958) 60
9. Three Monkeys (Ceylan - 2008) 58
10. Topaz (Hitchcock - 1968) - 50


also in the midst of watching Berlin Alexanderplatz, it will rate high.

[EyesWideOpen]

1. Gone Baby Gone (Affleck, 2007) A
2. The Motel (Kang, 2005) A-
3. Rachel Getting Married (Demme, 2008) A-
4. Gran Torino (Eastwood, 2008) B+
5. Ghost Town (Koepp, 2008) B+
6. Conquest of the Planet of the Apes (Thompson, 1972) B
7. Spider Baby (Hill, 1968) B-
8.
9.
10.





updated

[EvilShoe]

Umberto D.
Naked
Pom Poko
The X-Files: I Want to Believe
Flushed Away

[Dukefrukem]

1. Wall-E [98]
2. Gran Torino [96]
3. Eden Lake [90]
4. Red Eye[85]
5. Right at Your Door [81]
6. Secret Window [81]
7. The Ruins[79]
8. Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift [75]
9. Teeth[75]
10. Quarantine [70]



Teeth[75], knocked off Babylon A.D.

[MadMan]

1. Bob Roberts-97
2. Chimes at Midnight-95
3. Duck Soup-94
4. Gran Torino-92
5. Pinapple Express-91
6. Chicken Run-90
7. W.-90
8. Bad Santa-90
9. Confidence-87
10. The Wackness-85Things have greatly improved here over last month.

[Spinal]

1. Bob Roberts-97

Yes!

[Dukefrukem]

1. Wall-E [98]
2. Gran Torino [96]
3. The Wrestler [91]
4. Eden Lake [90]
5. Red Eye[85]
6. Right at Your Door [81]
7. Secret Window [81]
8. The Ruins[79]
9. Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift [75]
10. Teeth[75]




The Wrestler [91], knocked off Quarantine

[NickGlass]

This thread let's me get away with being lazy and not posting thoughts. Shame on me for taking advantage of this opportunity.

1. Bigger Than Life (Ray, 1956)
2. The Secret of the Grain (Kechiche, 2008)
3. The Doom Generation (Araki, 1995)
4. The Panic in Needle Park (Shatzberg, 1971)
5. Pee Wee's Big Adventure (Burton, 1985)
6. Trick (Fall, 1999)
7. Silent Light (Reygadas, 2008)
8. The Toe Tactic (Hubley, 2008)
9. Made in U.S.A. (Godard, 1967)
10. Gran Torino (Eastwood, 2008)

1. Bigger Than Life (Ray, 1956)
2. The Secret of the Grain (Kechiche, 2008)
3. The Doom Generation (Araki, 1995)
4. The Panic in Needle Park (Shatzberg, 1971)
5. Pee Wee's Big Adventure (Burton, 1985)
6. Trick (Fall, 1999)
7. Silent Light (Reygadas, 2008)
8. Chop Shop (Bahrami, 2008)
9. Medicine for Melancholy (Jenkins, 2008)
10. Our City Dreams (Clemente, 2009)

Wheeee, 23.

[MadMan]

Yes!You just now noticed. I will eventually get a review for it up soon. School's in the way as well as my procrastinating ways. I didn't know if too many people had seen it or not, and I have no idea if the film is out on DVD. I rented it via VHS.

[Dukefrukem]

1. Wall-E [98]
2. Gran Torino [96]
3. The Wrestler [91]
4. Eden Lake [90]
5. Red Eye[85]
6. Right at Your Door [81]
7. Secret Window [81]
8. Taken [81]
9. The Ruins[79]
10. Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift [75]




Taken [81], knocked off Teeth

[soitgoes...]

1. Hamlet (Branagh 96)
2. Let the Right One In (Alfredson 08)
3. New Earth (Ivens 34)
4. Every Night Dreams (Naruse 33)
5. Hunger (McQueen 08)
6. Dear Zachary: A Letter to a Son About His Father (Kuenne 08)
7. Wendy and Lucy (Reichardt 08)
8. Gomorrah (Garrone 08)
9. A Christmas Tale (Desplechin 08)
10. Hallelujah! (Vidor 29)
1. Hamlet (Branagh 96)
2. Let the Right One In (Alfredson 08)
3. New Earth (Ivens 34)
4. Every Night Dreams (Naruse 33)
5. Hunger (McQueen 08)
6. Dear Zachary: A Letter to a Son About His Father (Kuenne 08)
7. Wendy and Lucy (Reichardt 08)
8. The Docks of New York (von Sternberg 28)
9. Gomorrah (Garrone 08)
10. A Christmas Tale (Desplechin 08)

[Derek]

and I have no idea if the film is out on DVD.

Only for the past 7 1/2 years, so I haven't gotten around to it yet. I want to rent it, but I'm still saving up for one of those sweet Zach Morris-style cellular telephones.

http://i121.photobucket.com/albums/o232/dinodressed/phone.jpg

No more rotary for me, bitches!

[EvilShoe]

Umberto D.
Naked
The Innocents
Pom Poko
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
The X-Files: I Want to Believe
Flushed Away
updated

[balmakboor]

1. The Last Bolshevik - Chris Marker
2. Tribulation 99 - Craig Baldwin
3. Sonic Outlaws - Craig Baldwin
4. Gran Torino - Clint Eastwood
5. The Curious Case of Benjamin Button - David Fincher
6. Slumdog Millionaire - Danny Boyle
7. Spectres of the Spectrum - Craig Baldwin
8. Frost/Nixon - Ron Howard
9. Hail Mary - Jean-Luc Godard
10. Brand Upon the Brain - Guy Maddin

Not quite sure how good I think Frost/Nixon really is yet. I enjoyed the heck out of it though. The only thing for sure is if it wins Best Picture I won't be upset like the last time a Ron Howard picture did so.

I guess, warts and all, Button is my personal fave out of the contenders so far. I haven't seen The Reader (don't have much interest) or Milk (not in my town yet).

[EvilShoe]

http://match-cut.org/images/buttons/viewpost.gif (http://match-cut.org/showthread.php?p=135335#post13 5335)
Umberto D.
Naked
The Innocents
Harry, un ami qui vous veut du bien

Pom Poko
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
The X-Files: I Want to Believe
Flushed Away

Updated again!

[MadMan]

Only for the past 7 1/2 years, so I haven't gotten around to it yet. I want to rent it, but I'm still saving up for one of those sweet Zach Morris-style cellular telephones.

http://i121.photobucket.com/albums/o232/dinodressed/phone.jpg

No more rotary for me, bitches!Pretty sweet cell phone you got there, man. Do you get free calls on nights and weekends? :P

[Dead & Messed Up]

Updated for Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Joshua, and Rabid Grannies.


01. Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde ('31)
02. Bug
03. Transsiberian
04. Them!
05. Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story
06. Wolf
07. Dementia 13
08. Joshua
09. Body Snatchers
10. Species


11. The Hunger
12. Shocker
13. The Toxic Avenger
14. 976-Evil
15. Jesus Christ: Vampire Hunter
16. Rabid Grannies
17. Resident Evil: Degeneration

[Winston*]

The Bank Job
We Own the Night
Crank
Horton Hears a Who
Enchanted
Thunderbolt and Lightfoot
Detour
Slumdog Millionaire
Lars and the Real Girl
13 Tzameti


Not the highbrowest of years so far.

[Derek]

Pretty sweet cell phone you got there, man. Do you get free calls on nights and weekends? :P

No, I keep it in my Middle School locker, since I'm stuck in a time people wore slap bracelets and jelly sandals and rented VHS tapes of widely released films. ;)

[Dukefrukem]

Updated for Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Joshua, and Rabid Grannies.

hehe, Species is your #10.

[MadMan]

No, I keep it in my Middle School locker, since I'm stuck in a time people wore slap bracelets and jelly sandals and rented VHS tapes of widely released films. ;)Hey man the rental was free. Don't knock it :P

[Dead & Messed Up]

hehe, Species is your #10.

Naked Natasha Henstridge, dude.

[Kurosawa Fan]

Naked Natasha Henstridge, dude.

IN. DEED.

[Weeping_Guitar]

01. East of Eden (Kazan, 1955)
02. Ordet (Dreyer, 1955)
03. Late August, Early September (Assayas, 1998)
04. The Twilight Samurai (Yamada, 2002)
05. The Set-Up (Wise, 1949)
06. Viridiana (Buñuel, 1961)
07. One, Two, Three (Wilder, 1961)
08. Life of Oharu (Mizoguchi, 1952)
09. The Woman Next Door (Truffaut, 1981)
10. The Burmese Harp (Ichikawa, 1956)

Out: Les Biches (Chabrol, 1968)

[Kurious Jorge v3.1]

1. The General (Keaton - 1927) 95
2. Peppermint Frappe (Saura - 1977) - 89
3. Trafic (Tati -1971) 84
4. The Earrings of Madame de... (Ophuls - 1953) 82
5. The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (Dominik - 2007) - 75
6. Three Ages (Keaton - 1923) 73
7. Blade Runner (Scott - 1982) 67
8. The Front (Ritt - 1976) 63
9. Ballad of Narayama (Kinoshita - 1958) 60
10. Three Monkeys (Ceylan - 2008) 58


OUT: Topaz

[Dukefrukem]

Naked Natasha Henstridge, dude.

she gets naked in every movie she's in. By the way, where's she been?

[ledfloyd]

1. Brand Upon the Brain!
2. The Merry Widow
3. 4 Months, 3 Weeks, 2 Days
4. Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice
5. Gran Torino
6. My Winnipeg
7. Safe
8. Six Shooter
9. The Love Parade
10. The Edge of Heaven
updated

[Dead & Messed Up]

she gets naked in every movie she's in. By the way, where's she been?

Enjoying a relatively successful television career, having significant roles in Commander in Chief, Eli Stone, and She Spies, the latter of which is an underrated satire.

[Raiders]

she gets naked in every movie she's in. By the way, where's she been?

I love the way these sentences flow together. Because really, after reading the first sentence, who wouldn't wonder the second?

[megladon8]

EDIT

Added two, and re-arranged some of them...

1.) Dirty Harry
2.) Wolf
3.) Magnum Force
4.) I, Robot
5.) The Super 8 Ultra Brothers
6.) Rosemary's Baby
7.) Zeiram
8.) The Amityville Horror
9.) ...


DOUBLE EDIT: Also added Magnum Force.

[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)

[The Mike]

1. A Matter of Life and Death
2. Slumdog Millionaire
3. Walkabout
4. Gran Torino
5. The Masque of the Red Death
6. The Wrestler
7. Repo! The Genetic Opera
8. Phase IV
9. Frost/Nixon
10. La Noche del WalpurgisUpdated.

[B-side]

1. Santa Sangre (Jodorowsky, 1989)
2. Harakiri (Kobayashi, 1962)
3. The Wild Bunch (Peckinpah, 1969)
4. Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid (Peckinpah, 1973)
5. The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (Ford, 1962)
6. Samurai Rebellion (Kobayashi, 1967)
7. Pitfall (Teshigahara, 1962)
8. Youth Without Youth (Coppola, 2007)
9. La Cravate (Jodorowsky, 1957) [Short]
10. Performance (Roeg/Cammell, 1970)


Switched Pat Garrett and Liberty Valance, kicked off Before the Devil Knows You're Dead and put Samurai Rebellion in the #6 spot.

[EvilShoe]

Umberto D.
Naked
Der Himmel über Berlin
The Innocents
Harry, un ami qui vous veut du bien
Pom Poko
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
The X-Files: I Want to Believe
Flushed Away

Updated

[balmakboor]

1. The Last Bolshevik - Chris Marker
2. Tribulation 99 - Craig Baldwin
3. Sonic Outlaws - Craig Baldwin
4. Gran Torino - Clint Eastwood
5. The Curious Case of Benjamin Button - David Fincher
6. Slumdog Millionaire - Danny Boyle
7. Spectres of the Spectrum - Craig Baldwin
8. The Wrestler - Darren Aronofsky
9. Frost/Nixon - Ron Howard
10. Hail Mary - Jean-Luc Godard

Added The Wrestler. Lost Brand Upon the Brain.

[Ezee E]

1. Grave of the Fireflies [10]
2. The Wrestler [9]
3. The One-Armed Swordsman [9]
4. Revolutionary Road [8.5]
5. Dial M For Murder [7.5]
6. Gran Torino [7]
7. Charley Varrick [7]
8. American Teen [6.5]
9. To Live in Die in L.A. [6.5]
10. The Last Wave [6]

21 movies.

New #1.

[MadMan]

1. Bob Roberts-97
2. Chimes at Midnight-95
3. Duck Soup-94
4. Gran Torino-92
5. Pinapple Express-91
6. Chicken Run-90
7. W.-90
8. Bad Santa-90
9. Confidence-87
10. Repo: The Genetic Opera-86I've slowed down a bit. But I'm just taking this year in stride.

[Dead & Messed Up]

From now on, new entries in Bold.

01) Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde ('31)
02) Vampyr
03) Bug
04) Transsiberian
05) Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde ('41)
06) Them!
07) Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story
08) Wolf
09) Dementia 13
10) Joshua

11) Body Snatchers
12) Species
13) The Hunger
14) Shocker
15) The Toxic Avenger
16) 976-Evil
17) Jesus Christ: Vampire Hunter
18) Rabid Grannies
19) Resident Evil: Degeneration

[Raiders]

I guess:

1. Day of the Outlaw (1959, De Toth)
2. Bright Leaves (2003, McElwee)
3. Voices of a Distant Star (2003, Shinkai)
4. Gran Torino (2008, Eastwood)
5. Che (2008, Soderbergh)
6. Dear Zachary (2008, Kuenne)
7. The Wrestler (2008, Aronofsky)

Nothing else is worth mentioning.

[Boner M]

My updated list:

1. Ms. 45 (Ferrara, 1981)
2. Girl Shy (Newmeyer & Taylor, 1924)
3. Let the Right One In (Andersson, 2008)
4. Wrong Move (Wenders, 1975)
5. Wendy & Lucy (Reichardt, 2008)
6. L'Enfer (Chabrol, 1994)
7. L'Amour Existe (Pialat, 1960)
8. Platform (Jia, 2000)
9. Take Care of Your Scarf, Tatjana (Kaurismaki, 1994)
10. Safety Last! (Newmeyer & Taylor, 1923)

[Dukefrukem]

1. Wall-E [98]
2. Gran Torino [96]
3. The Wrestler [91]
4. Eden Lake [90]
5. Red Eye[85]
6. Right at Your Door [81]
7. Secret Window [81]
8. Taken [81]
9. The Ruins[79]
10. Zack and Miri Make a Porno[76]




Zack and Miri Make a Porno[76], knocked off Tokyo Drift

[B-side]

1. Santa Sangre (Jodorowsky, 1989)
2. Harakiri (Kobayashi, 1962)
3. The Wild Bunch (Peckinpah, 1969)
4. Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid (Peckinpah, 1973)
5. The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (Ford, 1962)
6. Samurai Rebellion (Kobayashi, 1967)
7. Pitfall (Teshigahara, 1962)
8. The Furies (A. Mann, 1950)
9. Youth Without Youth (Coppola, 2007)
10. La Cravate (Jodorowsky, 1957) [Short]


Dropped Performance, put The Furies in the #8 spot.

[Boner M]

Dropped Performance, put The Furies in the #8 spot.
Booo.

[The Mike]

1. Day of the Outlaw (1959, De Toth)This would probably be on my list from last year.

*high fives*

[B-side]

Booo.

If it's any consolation, I rate them both an 8.:lol:

[MadMan]

1. Bob Roberts-97
2. Chimes at Midnight-95
3. Bonnie and Clyde-95
4. Frost/Nixon-95
5. Duck Soup-94
6. Gran Torino-92
7. Pinapple Express-91
8. Chicken Run-90
9. W.-90
10. Bad Santa-90A decent amount of movie watching over the weekend. Not all of them made the list.

[Dead & Messed Up]

01) Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde ('31)
02) Vampyr
03) Bug
04) Transsiberian
05) Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde ('41)
06) Them!
07) Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story
08) Wolf
09) Dementia 13
10) A Scanner Darkly

11) Joshua
12) Body Snatchers
13) Species
14) The Hunger
15) Shocker
16) Beerfest
17) Fanboys
18) The Toxic Avenger
19) 976-Evil
20) Jesus Christ: Vampire Hunter
21) Rabid Grannies
22) Resident Evil: Degeneration

[Dukefrukem]

01) Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde ('31)
02) Vampyr
03) Bug
04) Transsiberian
05) Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde ('41)
06) Them!
07) Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story
08) Wolf
09) Dementia 13
10) A Scanner Darkly

11) Joshua
12) Body Snatchers
13) Species
14) The Hunger
15) Shocker
16) Beerfest
17) Fanboys
18) The Toxic Avenger
19) 976-Evil
20) Jesus Christ: Vampire Hunter
21) Rabid Grannies
22) Resident Evil: Degeneration

I love RDJ in Scanner Darkly.

[EvilShoe]

Umberto D.
Naked
Der Himmel über Berlin
The Innocents
Harry, un ami qui vous veut du bien
Direktøren for det hele
Pom Poko
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
The X-Files: I Want to Believe
Flushed Away

[Kurosawa Fan]

Leave your pretentious foreign speak in Belgium. Type it so we can read it.

[Watashi]

1. City of Hope
2. Coraline
3. My Kid Could Paint That
4. Wendy and Lucy
5. Hunger
6. Men with Guns
7. Encounters at the End of the World
8. Taken
9. The Reader
10.


Almost at 10 films.

[soitgoes...]

1. Hamlet (Branagh 96)
2. Let the Right One In (Alfredson 08)
3. New Earth (Ivens 34)
4. Every Night Dreams (Naruse 33)
5. Hunger (McQueen 08)
6. Dear Zachary: A Letter to a Son About His Father (Kuenne 08)
7. Wendy and Lucy (Reichardt 08)
8. The Docks of New York (von Sternberg 28)
9. Gomorrah (Garrone 08)
10. A Christmas Tale (Desplechin 08)

1. Hamlet (Branagh 96)
2. Let the Right One In (Alfredson 08)
3. Shadows of Our Forgotten Ancestors (Parajanov 64)
4. New Earth (Ivens 34)
5. Every Night Dreams (Naruse 33)
6. Hunger (McQueen 08)
7. Dear Zachary: A Letter to a Son About His Father (Kuenne 08)
8. Wendy and Lucy (Reichardt 08)
9. The Docks of New York (von Sternberg 28)
10. Wings (Shepitko 66)

[EvilShoe]

Leave your pretentious foreign speak in Belgium. Type it so we can read it.
There are other languages! Give the Danish a break.

Updated:

Umberto D.
Naked
Der Himmel über Berlin
The Innocents
Harry, un ami qui vous veut du bien
Direktøren for det hele
Pom Poko
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
The X-Files: I Want to Believe
Revolutionary RoadGoodbye, Flushed Away.

[Dukefrukem]

1. Wall-E [98]
2. Gran Torino [96]
3. The Wrestler [91]
4. Eden Lake [90]
5. Red Eye[85]
6. Bug [82]
7. Right at Your Door [81]
8. Secret Window [81]
9. Taken [81]
10. The Ruins[79]





Bug [82], knocked off Zack and Miri Make a Porno

[Rowland]

1. Flight of the Red Balloon [78]
2. The Road Warrior [76]
3. Doubt [68]
4. Exte: Hair Extensions [66]
5. Pineapple Express [64]
6. Mother of Tears [60]
7. Burn After Reading [56]
8. Paranoid Park [55]
9. Austin Powers in Goldmember [55]
10. Red [51]

[Weeping_Guitar]

01. East of Eden (Kazan, 1955)
02. Shaun of the Dead (Wright, 2004)
03. Ordet (Dreyer, 1955)
04. Late August, Early September (Assayas, 1998)
05. Viridiana (Buñuel, 1961)
06. The Twilight Samurai (Yamada, 2002)
07. One, Two, Three (Wilder, 1961)
08. The Set-Up (Wise, 1949)
09. Life of Oharu (Mizoguchi, 1952)
10. The Woman Next Door (Truffaut, 1981)

Out: The Burmese Harp (Ichikawa, 1956)

[B-side]

1. Santa Sangre (Jodorowsky, 1989)
2. Harakiri (Kobayashi, 1962)
3. The Wild Bunch (Peckinpah, 1969)
4. In the Realm of the Senses (Oshima, 1976)
5. Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid (Peckinpah, 1973)
6. The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (Ford, 1962)
7. Samurai Rebellion (Kobayashi, 1967)
8. Pitfall (Teshigahara, 1962)
9. The Furies (A. Mann, 1950)
10. Youth Without Youth (Coppola, 2007)


Dropped La Cravate and added In the Realm of the Senses to the #4 spot.

[balmakboor]

Out: The Burmese Harp (Ichikawa, 1956)

Boo

[Dead & Messed Up]

01) Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde ('31)
02) Vampyr
03) Bug
04) Transsiberian
05) Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde ('41)
06) Them!
07) Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story
08) Wolf
09) Dementia 13
10) Corpse Bride

11) A Scanner Darkly
12) Joshua
13) Body Snatchers
14) Species
15) The Hunger
16) Shocker
17) Beerfest
18) Fanboys
19) The Toxic Avenger
20) 976-Evil
21) Jesus Christ: Vampire Hunter
22) Rabid Grannies
23) Resident Evil: Degeneration

[Ivan Drago]

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

11. The Reader (Stephen Daldry, 2008)

Last Tango in Paris knocks off The Reader.

[EyesWideOpen]

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

[The Mike]

1. A Matter of Life and Death
2. The Unknown
3. Slumdog Millionaire
4. Walkabout
5. Gran Torino
6. The Masque of the Red Death
7. My Name is Bruce
8. The Wrestler
9. Repo! The Genetic Opera
10. Phase IV

Updated. Chaney in at #2, Campbell in at #7 (which is way too high, but I don't mind).

[MadMan]

Updated. Chaney in at #2, Campbell in at #7 (which is way too high, but I don't mind).In regards to #7: Awesome. That movie exceeded my rather low expectations, and was funny and entertaining as well.

[B-side]

1. Santa Sangre (Jodorowsky, 1989)
2. Harakiri (Kobayashi, 1962)
3. The Wild Bunch (Peckinpah, 1969)
4. Coraline 3D (Selick, 2009)
5. In the Realm of the Senses (Oshima, 1976)
6. Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid (Peckinpah, 1973)
7. The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (Ford, 1962)
8. Ponyo on the Cliff (Miyazaki, 2008)
9. Samurai Rebellion (Kobayashi, 1967)
10. Pitfall (Teshigahara, 1962)


Dropped Youth Without Youth and The Furies and put Ponyo on the Cliff in the #7 spot and Coraline in the #4 spot.

[EvilShoe]

Umberto D.
Naked
Der Himmel über Berlin
4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days
The Innocents
Harry, un ami qui vous veut du bien
Direktøren for det hele
Pom Poko
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
The X-Files: I Want to BelieveUpdated, in a way that K_Fan can understand. So long, Revolutionary Road.

[Fezzik]

I'll play. This promises to be interesting:

1. In Bruges (2008, McDonagh) - 91
2. Burn After Reading (2008, Coen) - 86
3. Bolt (2008, Howard, Williams) - 80
4. Slumdog Millionaire (2008, Boyle) - 73
5. Eagle Eye (2008, Caruso) - 67
6. Hancock (2008, Berg) - 61


I too have some catching up to do.

[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. Secret Window [81]
10. Taken [81]



Watched Sunshine, but it didn't make the cut.


11. The Ruins[79]
12. Sunshine [77]
13. Zack and Miri Make a Porno[76]
14. Teeth [75]
15. Quarantine [70]
16. Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift [69]
17. Babylon A.D. [68]
18. Donnie Darko [68]
19. The Blair Witch Project II - Book of Shadows [56.5]
20. Resident Evil: Degeneration [56]
21. Final Destination 3 [55]
22. Mirrors [40]

[balmakboor]

1. The Last Bolshevik - Chris Marker
2. Tribulation 99 - Craig Baldwin
3. Sonic Outlaws - Craig Baldwin
4. Gran Torino - Clint Eastwood
5. War of the Gargantuas - Ishiro Honda
6. The Curious Case of Benjamin Button - David Fincher
7. Slumdog Millionaire - Danny Boyle
8. Sukiyaki Western Django - Takashi Miike
9. Spectres of the Spectrum - Craig Baldwin
10. The Wrestler - Darren Aronofsky

Lost Hail, Mary and Frost/Nixon

I was into every minute of SWD. Gorgeous movie that knew what it was doing. But, the big surprise was Gargantuas. It's easily the best Japanese giant monster movie I've seen. And I thought from the posters and stuff that it was going to be the cheesiest.

[Derek]

1. Wendy & Lucy (Reichardt, 2008)
2. Tell No One (Canet, 2008)
3. The Witnesses (Techine, 2008)
4. Nathalie Granger (Duras, 1972)
5. The Golden Coach (Renoir, 1954)
6. Waltz with Bashir (Folman, 2008)
7. Alice in the Cities (Wenders, 1974)
8. Che, Part I: The Argentine (Soderbergh, 2008)
9. Hellboy II: The Golden Army (Del Toro, 2008)
10. The Pervert's Guide to Cinema (Fiennes, 2008)

[balmakboor]

1. The Last Bolshevik - Chris Marker
2. Tribulation 99 - Craig Baldwin
3. Sonic Outlaws - Craig Baldwin
4. Gran Torino - Clint Eastwood
5. Trouble the Water - Carl Deal/Tia Lessin
6. War of the Gargantuas - Ishiro Honda
7. The Curious Case of Benjamin Button - David Fincher
8. Slumdog Millionaire - Danny Boyle
9. Sukiyaki Western Django - Takashi Miike
10. The Wrestler - Darren Aronofsky

GB: Spectres of the Spectrum

Had to make a tough decision between losing Spectres of the Spectrum and The Wrestler. Everything on here is a solid B+ or better now. So I've initiated a "GB" or "got bumped" list so I can reconsider things from time to time.

[Raiders]

Update adding Ballard's curious but gorgeous movie...

1. Day of the Outlaw (1959, De Toth)
2. Bright Leaves (2003, McElwee)
3. Voices of a Distant Star (2003, Shinkai)
4. Gran Torino (2008, Eastwood)
5. Che (2008, Soderbergh)
6. Dear Zachary (2008, Kuenne)
7. Never Cry Wolf (1983, Ballard)
8. The Wrestler (2008, Aronofsky)

[EvilShoe]

Umberto D.
Naked
Der Himmel über Berlin
4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days
Tell No One (Ne Le Dis Ã* Personne)
The Innocents
Harry, un ami qui vous veut du bien
Direktøren for det hele
Pom Poko
Lust, CautionUpdated: X-Files 2 and Benjamin Button are gone. Expected a lot more from the latter...

[Weeping_Guitar]

01. East of Eden (Kazan, 1955)
02. Shaun of the Dead (Wright, 2004)
03. Ordet (Dreyer, 1955)
04. Late August, Early September (Assayas, 1998)
05. Missing (Costa-Gavras, 1982)
06. Our Man in Havana (Reed, 1959)
07. Viridiana (Buñuel, 1961)
08. The Twilight Samurai (Yamada, 2002)
09. One, Two, Three (Wilder, 1961)
10. The Set-Up (Wise, 1949)

Out:
The Woman Next Door (Truffaut, 1981)
Life of Oharu (Mizoguchi, 1952)

[D_Davis]

1. Red Cliff
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
8. Tokyo Gore Police
9.
10.

[Dukefrukem]

1. Red Cliff
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
8. Tokyo Gore Police
9.
10.

playing too many video games are we? ;)

[Dead & Messed Up]

Updated for Seance and Blades of Glory.

01) Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde ('31)
02) Vampyr
03) Bug
04) Transsiberian
05) Seance
06) Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde ('41)
07) Them!
08) Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story
09) Wolf
10) Dementia 13

11) Corpse Bride
12) A Scanner Darkly
13) Joshua
14) Blades of Glory
15) Body Snatchers
16) Species
17) The Hunger
18) Shocker
19) Beerfest
20) The Toxic Avenger
21) Fanboys
22) 976-Evil
23) Jesus Christ: Vampire Hunter
24) Rabid Grannies
25) Resident Evil: Degeneration

[Dukefrukem]

Updated for Seance and Blades of Glory.

01) Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde ('31)
02) Vampyr
03) Bug
04) Transsiberian
05) Seance
06) Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde ('41)
07) Them!
08) Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story
09) Wolf
10) Dementia 13

11) Corpse Bride
12) A Scanner Darkly
13) Joshua
14) Blades of Glory
15) Body Snatchers
16) Species
17) The Hunger
18) Shocker
19) Beerfest
20) The Toxic Avenger
21) Fanboys
22) 976-Evil
23) Jesus Christ: Vampire Hunter
24) Rabid Grannies
25) Resident Evil: Degeneration

Wow. That's an awfully generous placement for Blades of Glory.

[Raiders]

Adding Henry Selick's masterpiece...

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. Dear Zachary (2008, Kuenne)
8. Never Cry Wolf (1983, Ballard)
9. The Wrestler (2008, Aronofsky)[/quote]

[B-side]

Adding Henry Selick's masterpiece...

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. Dear Zachary (2008, Kuenne)
8. Never Cry Wolf (1983, Ballard)
9. The Wrestler (2008, Aronofsky)

Masterpiece? Honestly, I can see it. I don't hold it in such high regard myself, but I can definitely see it. I'm certain it'll be in my top 10 of '09. Top 5, likely.

[Derek]

1. Trans-Europ-Express (Robbe-Grillet, 1966)
2. Cruel Story of Youth (Oshima, 1960)
3. Wendy & Lucy (Reichardt, 2008)
4. Tell No One (Canet, 2008)
5. The Witnesses (Techine, 2008)
6. Nathalie Granger (Duras, 1972)
7. The Golden Coach (Renoir, 1954)
8. Waltz with Bashir (Folman, 2008)
9. The House of Mirth (Davies, 2000)
10. Alice in the Cities (Wenders, 1974)

The weekend was good.

[Boner M]

1. Ms. 45
2. Girl Shy
3. Let the Right One In
4. Straight Time
5. Wrong Move
6. Wendy & Lucy
7. L'Enfer
8. L'Amour Existe
9. Platform
10. Take Care of Your Scarf, Tatjana
Updated; didn't except the new addition to be so good.

[balmakboor]

1. The Last Bolshevik - Chris Marker
2. Milk - Gus Van Sant
3. Tribulation 99 - Craig Baldwin
4. Sonic Outlaws - Craig Baldwin
5. Gran Torino - Clint Eastwood
6. Trouble the Water - Carl Deal/Tia Lessin
7. War of the Gargantuas - Ishiro Honda
8. The Curious Case of Benjamin Button - David Fincher
9. Spectres of the Spectrum - Craig Baldwin
10. The Wrestler - Darren Aronofsky

Brought it up to date: added Milk, rewatched Sukiyaki Western Django and dropped it, couldn't shake Spectres out of my head and re-added it, dropped Slumdog.

[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. Eagle Eye [81]
10. Taken [81]



Watched Eagle Eye...


11. Secret Window [80]
12. The Ruins[79]
13. Sunshine [77]
14. Zack and Miri Make a Porno[76]
15. Teeth [75]
16. Quarantine [70]
17. Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift [69]
18. Babylon A.D. [68]
19. Donnie Darko [68]
20. The Blair Witch Project II - Book of Shadows [56.5]
21. Resident Evil: Degeneration [56]
22. Final Destination 3 [55]
23. Mirrors [40]

[Watashi]

1. City of Hope
2. Coraline
3. My Kid Could Paint That
4. Wendy and Lucy
5. Hunger
6. Men with Guns
7. Encounters at the End of the World
8. Taken
9. The Reader
10.

Yay. Finally at 10 films for the year.

1. City of Hope
2. Coraline
3. Saturday Night and Sunday Morning
4. My Kid Could Paint That
5. Wendy and Lucy
6. Hunger
7. Men with Guns
8. Encounters at the End of the World
9. Taken
10. The Reader

[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. Missing (Costa-Gavras, 1982)
07. Our Man in Havana (Reed, 1959)
08. Viridiana (Buñuel, 1961)
09. The Twilight Samurai (Yamada, 2002)
10. One, Two, Three (Wilder, 1961)

Out: The Set-Up (Wise, 1949)

[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. Chicken Run-90A few recent updates.

[Dead & Messed Up]

Updated for The Bridge Over the River Kwai.

01) The Bridge Over the River Kwai
02) Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde ('31)
02) Vampyr
04) Bug
05) Transsiberian
06) Seance
07) Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde ('41)
08) Them!
09) Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story
10) Dementia 13

11) Wolf
12) Corpse Bride
13) A Scanner Darkly
14) Joshua
15) Blades of Glory
16) Body Snatchers
17) Species
18) The Hunger
19) Shocker
20) Beerfest
21) The Toxic Avenger
22) Fanboys
23) 976-Evil
24) Jesus Christ: Vampire Hunter
25) Rabid Grannies
26) Resident Evil: Degeneration

[soitgoes...]

1. Hamlet (Branagh 96)
2. Let the Right One In (Alfredson 08)
3. Shadows of Our Forgotten Ancestors (Parajanov 64)
4. New Earth (Ivens 34)
5. Every Night Dreams (Naruse 33)
6. Hunger (McQueen 08)
7. Dear Zachary: A Letter to a Son About His Father (Kuenne 08)
8. Wendy and Lucy (Reichardt 08)
9. The Docks of New York (von Sternberg 28)
10. Wings (Shepitko 66)
1. Hamlet (Branagh 96)
2. Let the Right One In (Alfredson 08)
3. Shadows of Our Forgotten Ancestors (Parajanov 64)
4. New Earth (Ivens 34)
5. I'm a Cyborg, But That's OK (Park 06)
6. Every Night Dreams (Naruse 33)
7. Hunger (McQueen 08)
8. Dear Zachary: A Letter to a Son About His Father (Kuenne 08)
9. Wendy and Lucy (Reichardt 08)
10. The Docks of New York (von Sternberg 28)

Park's second best film is so imaginative and sweet. Definitely a departure with what he left us with his Vengeance Trilogy. It really has me excited for what else he'll give us in the future.

[eternity]

Watched Eagle Eye...


11. Secret Window [80]
12. The Ruins[79]
13. Sunshine [77]
14. Zack and Miri Make a Porno[76]
15. Teeth [75]
16. Quarantine [70]
17. Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift [69]
18. Babylon A.D. [68]
19. Donnie Darko [68]
20. The Blair Witch Project II - Book of Shadows [56.5]
21. Resident Evil: Degeneration [56]
22. Final Destination 3 [55]
23. Mirrors [40]


Eagle Eye...an 81? I mean...how?

[balmakboor]

1. The Last Bolshevik - Chris Marker
2. Milk - Gus Van Sant
3. Tribulation 99 - Craig Baldwin
4. My Winnipeg - Guy Maddin
5. Sonic Outlaws - Craig Baldwin
6. Gran Torino - Clint Eastwood
7. Trouble the Water - Carl Deal/Tia Lessin
8. War of the Gargantuas - Ishiro Honda
9. The Curious Case of Benjamin Button - David Fincher
10. Spectres of the Spectrum - Craig Baldwin

Saw My Winnipeg last night and loved it. It's easily my favorite Maddin so far. Bumped The Wrestler off the list -- something I'm bummed about.

[Fezzik]

I'll play. This promises to be interesting:

1. Coraline (2009, Selick) - 10
2. In Bruges (2008, McDonagh) - 9
3. Burn After Reading (2008, Coen) - 8.5
4. Bolt (2008, Howard, Williams) - 8
5. Slumdog Millionaire (2008, Boyle) - 7
6. Eagle Eye (2008, Caruso) - 6.5
7. Hancock (2008, Berg) - 6


Updated with Coraline

[Ezee E]

1. Grave of the Fireflies [10]
2. The Wrestler [9]
3. The One-Armed Swordsman [9]
4. Revolutionary Road [8.5]
5. Dial M For Murder [7.5]
6. We Own The Night [7]
7. Gran Torino [7]
8. Vicky Cristina Barcelona [7]
9. Charley Varrick [7]
10. American Teen [6.5]

New #6 and #8

[B-side]

1. Santa Sangre (Jodorowsky, 1989)
2. Harakiri (Kobayashi, 1962)
3. The Wild Bunch (Peckinpah, 1969)
4. Red River (Hawks, 1948)
5. Coraline 3D (Selick, 2009)
6. In the Realm of the Senses (Oshima, 1976)
7. Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid (Peckinpah, 1973)
8. The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (Ford, 1962)
9. Ponyo on the Cliff (Miyazaki, 2008)
10. Samurai Rebellion (Kobayashi, 1967)


Dropped Pitfall. Added Red River to the #4 spot.

[B-side]

Park's second best film is so imaginative and sweet. Definitely a departure with what he left us with his Vengeance Trilogy. It really has me excited for what else he'll give us in the future.

I'm a big fan myself. Definitely an underrated gem.

[Watashi]

1. City of Hope
2. Coraline
3. Saturday Night and Sunday Morning
4. My Kid Could Paint That
5. Wendy and Lucy
6. Hunger
7. Men with Guns
8. Rain Man
8. Encounters at the End of the World
9. Taken
10. Youth Without Youth

Updated.

[EvilShoe]

Die Hard
Naked
Umberto D.
Der Himmel über Berlin
4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days
Tell No One (Ne Le Dis Ã* Personne)
The Innocents
Harry, un ami qui vous veut du bien
Direktøren for det hele
Pom PokoUpdated: Dropped Lust Caution, added Die Hard, moved Naked one place up.

[EvilShoe]

Il Conformista
Die Hard
Naked
Umberto D.
Der Himmel über Berlin
4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days
Tell No One (Ne Le Dis Ã* Personne)
The Innocents
Harry, un ami qui vous veut du bien
Direktøren for det heleUpdated: Dropped Pom Poko, new n. 1.

[Ezee E]

1. All That Jazz [10]
2. Grave of the Fireflies [10]
3. The Wrestler [9]
4. The One-Armed Swordsman [9]
5. Revolutionary Road [8.5]
6. Dial M For Murder [7.5]
7. Coraline [7.5]
8. We Own The Night [7]
9. Gran Torino [7]
10. Vicky Cristina Barcelona [7]



CORALINE!

[BirdsAteMyFace]

1. Ugetsu (Mizoguchi, 1953)
2. The Lady from Shanghai (Welles, 1947)
3. Eyes Without a Face (Franju, 1960)
4. The Magnificent Ambersons (Welles, 1942)
5. Diary of a Country Priest (Bresson, 1951)
6. Au hasard Balthazar (Bresson, 1966)
7. M. Hulot's Holiday (Tati, 1953)
8. Rachel Getting Married (Demme, 2008)
9. My Man Godfrey (La Cava, 1936)
10. Thumbsucker (Mills, 2005)Updated. Finally have 10 films. I don't foresee too many changes occurring, aside from 7-10.

[Dead & Messed Up]

Updated for Coraline, Speed Racer, The Running Man, and Something Wicked This Way Comes.

01. The Bridge Over the River Kwai
02. Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde '31
03. Vampyr
04. Bug
05. Transsiberian
06. Coraline
07. Seance
08. Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde '41
09. Them!
10. Something Wicked This Way Comes

11. Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story
12. Dementia 13
13. Wolf
14. Speed Racer
15. Corpse Bride
16. A Scanner Darkly
17. Joshua
18. Blades of Glory
19. Body Snatchers
20. Species
21. The Hunger
22. Shocker
23. Beerfest
24. The Toxic Avenger
25. The Running Man
26. Fanboys
27. 976-Evil
28. Jesus Christ: Vampire Hunter
29. Rabid Grannies
30. Resident Evil: Degeneration

[Watashi]

1. Au Hasard Balthazar
2. City of Hope
3. Coraline
4. Saturday Night and Sunday Morning
5. My Kid Could Paint That
6. Wendy and Lucy
7. Hunger
8. Men with Guns
9. Rain Man
10. Encounters at the End of the World

Updated. What an incredible film.

[soitgoes...]

1. Hamlet (Branagh 96)
2. Let the Right One In (Alfredson 08)
3. Shadows of Our Forgotten Ancestors (Parajanov 64)
4. New Earth (Ivens 34)
5. I'm a Cyborg, But That's OK (Park 06)
6. Every Night Dreams (Naruse 33)
7. Hunger (McQueen 08)
8. Dear Zachary: A Letter to a Son About His Father (Kuenne 08)
9. Wendy and Lucy (Reichardt 08)
10. The Docks of New York (von Sternberg 28)

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)

[balmakboor]

Best
1. The Last Bolshevik - Chris Marker
2. Milk - Gus Van Sant
3. Tribulation 99 - Craig Baldwin
4. My Winnipeg - Guy Maddin
5. Taxi to the Dark Side - Alex Gibney
6. Sonic Outlaws - Craig Baldwin
7. Gran Torino - Clint Eastwood
8. Trouble the Water - Carl Deal/Tia Lessin
9. War of the Gargantuas - Ishiro Honda
10. Spectres of the Spectrum - Craig Baldwin

Added Taxi to the Dark Side. Lost Benjamin Button.

Worst
1. Remarkable Power!

The Carmike is starting an independent film series and Remarkable Power! is the opener. The local paper asked me to review it. It felt good to get to really rip into something.

http://independentfilmseries.com/movies.html

[ledfloyd]

1. Brand Upon the Brain!
2. Still Walking
3. Ashes of Time Redux
4. 4 Months, 3 Weeks, 2 Days
5. The Merry Widow
6. Gran Torino
7. Rachel Getting Married
8. My Winnipeg
9. Love Songs
10. The Edge of Heaven
updated.

[Rowland]

1. Flight of the Red Balloon [78]
2. The Road Warrior [76]
3. Kit Kittredge: An American Girl [68]
4. Doubt [68]
5. Exte: Hair Extensions [66]
6. Standard Operating Procedure [65]
7. Pineapple Express [64]
8. Mother of Tears [60]
9. Savage Grace [58]
10. Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa [56]

[eternity]

Haven't updated for a while:
1. Week End (Jean Luc Godard) 98
2. Rachel Getting Married (Jonathon Demme) 93
3. Au revoir les enfants (Louis Malle) 88
4. All Quiet on the Western Front (Lewis Milestone) 87
5. The Visitor (Thomas McCarthy) 79
6. Alfie (Lewis Gilbert) 78
7. Repo! The Genetic Opera (Darren Lynn Bousman) 75
8. Gallipoli (Peter Weir) 71
9. Waltz with Bashir (Ari Folman) 68
10. Sweet and Lowdown (Woody Allen) 64

[B-side]

1. Santa Sangre (Jodorowsky, 1989)
2. Harakiri (Kobayashi, 1962)
3. The Wild Bunch (Peckinpah, 1969)
4. Red River (Hawks, 1948)
5. Coraline 3D (Selick, 2009)
6. In the Realm of the Senses (Oshima, 1976)
7. Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid (Peckinpah, 1973)
8. The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (Ford, 1962)
9. Ponyo on the Cliff (Miyazaki, 2008)
10. Double Indemnity (Wilder, 1944)


Dropped Samurai Rebellion. Added Double Indemnity to the #10 spot.

[The Mike]

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

[eternity]

1. Week End (Jean Luc Godard) 98
2. Rachel Getting Married (Jonathon Demme) 93
3. Synecdoche, New York (Charlie Kaufman) 89
4. Au revoir les enfants (Louis Malle) 88
5. All Quiet on the Western Front (Lewis Milestone) 87
6. The Hurt Locker (Kathryn Bigelow) 80
7. The Visitor (Thomas McCarthy) 79
8. Alfie (Lewis Gilbert) 78
9. Repo! The Genetic Opera (Darren Lynn Bousman) 75
10. Gallipoli (Peter Weir) 71

[balmakboor]

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

Worst
1. Remarkable Power!

Added Man on Wire. Lost Spectres of the Spectrum.

[Stay Puft]

End of February 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. The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951, dir. Robert Wise)
8. The Fall (2006, dir. Tarsem Singh)
9. The Last Mistress (2007, dir. Catherine Breillat)
10. 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days (2007, dir. Cristian Mungiu)

Not much happened this month. Only the Wenders and Wise are new.

[Dead & Messed Up]

New in BOLD.

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

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

[balmakboor]

New in BOLD.

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

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

It pleases me greatly that a lot of people have been catching up with Peeping Tom lately. Amazing movie. Really a shame that it pretty much ended Powell's career.

[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. Dial M For Murder [7.5]
9. Coraline [7.5]
10. We Own The Night [7]


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

[Rowland]

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

[Watashi]

1. Au Hasard Balthazar (Robert Bresson, 1966)
2. City of Hope (John Sayles, 1991)
3. Coraline (Henry Selick, 2009)
4. Watchmen (Zack Snyder, 2009)
5. Saturday Night and Sunday Morning (Karel Reisz, 1960)
6. My Kid Could Paint That (Amir Bar-Lev, 2007)
7. Wendy and Lucy (Kelly Reichardt, 2008)
8. Hunger (Steve McQueen, 2008)
9. Men with Guns (John Sayles, 1998)
10. Rain Man (Barry Levinson, 1988)

Edited in for the Synder flick.

[balmakboor]

Edited in for the Synder flick.

Seriously? You've seen it and it's good? That's a relief. I've been frantically reading the graphic novel and getting kind of excited about seeing it on Friday.

[Watashi]

Seriously? You've seen it and it's good? That's a relief. I've been frantically reading the graphic novel and getting kind of excited about seeing it on Friday.
Yeah, it's great. Snyder jumbles a lot of dialogue together and sometimes films it out of order, but it's pretty damn faithful. It's just a cool ambitious project that is likely to fly way over the general public's head.

[EvilShoe]

Il Conformista
Die Hard
Naked
Stray Dog
Umberto D.
Peeping Tom
Der Himmel über Berlin
4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days
Dear Zachary
Tell No One (Ne Le Dis Ã* Personne)Added Stray Dog, Dear Zachary and Peeping Tom. Dropped The Innocents, Harry un ami qui vous veut du bien and Boss of it All.