Top 10 Films First Seen During 2010

[Russ]

1. Au hasard Balthazar (Bresson, 1966)
2. Possession (Zulawski, 1981)
3. Ruggles of Red Gap (McCarey, 1935)
4. Spring Awakens (Naruse, 1947
5. Floating Clouds (Naruse, 1955)
6. A Serious Man (Coen, 2009)
7. Coonskin (Bakshi, 1975)
8. The Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call - New Orleans (Herzog, 2009)
9. A Wanderer's Notebook (Naruse, 1962)
10. India Song (Duras, 1975)

[soitgoes...]

2010 thus far (no changes this month):


Dekalog (Kieslowski 89)
Still Walking (Koreeda 08)
A Time to Live and a Time to Die (Hou 85)
Muddy River (Oguri 81)
A Summer at Grandpa's (Hou 84)
Night Train (Kawalerowicz 59)
Fat City (Huston 72)
The Story of the Late Chrysanthemums (Mizoguchi 39)
Swing Time (Stevens 36)
A Serious Man (Coen 09)


Dekalog (Kieslowski 89)
Still Walking (Koreeda 08)
The Naked Island (Shindô 60)
A Time to Live and a Time to Die (Hou 85)
Muddy River (Oguri 81)
A Summer at Grandpa's (Hou 84)
Night Train (Kawalerowicz 59)
Fat City (Huston 72)
The Story of the Late Chrysanthemums (Mizoguchi 39)
Swing Time (Stevens 36)

[B-side]

1. The Shooting (Hellman, 1967)
2. The Wind (Sjöström, 1928)
3. Las soledades (Ruiz, 1992)
4. Nor'west (Rivette, 1976)
5. Scorpio Rising (Anger, 1964)
6. Bringing Up Baby (Hawks, 1938)
7. He Who Gets Slapped (Sjöström, 1924)
8. Slow Moves (Jost, 1983)
9. Angel City (Jost, 1977)
10. Dogtooth (Lanthimos, 2009)

1. The Shooting (Hellman, 1967)
2. Invitation to the Dance (Kelly, 1956)
3. The Wind (Sjöström, 1928)
4. Las soledades (Ruiz, 1992)
5. Rumble Fish (Coppola, 1983)
6. Nor'west (Rivette, 1976)
7. Slow Moves (Jost, 1983)
8. Scorpio Rising (Anger, 1964)
9. Bringing Up Baby (Hawks, 1938)
10. He Who Gets Slapped (Sjöström, 1924)

[Ivan Drago]

I'm not quite sure what to think of this...but my favorite films I saw for the first time last year and this year so far are respectively Irreversible and Antichrist. :eek:

[StanleyK]

Storytelling (Todd Solondz, 2001)
Werckmeister Harmonies (Béla Tarr, 2000)
A Serious Man (Ethan Coen & Joel Coen, 2009)
Fucking Åmål (Lukas Moodysson, 1998)
Eyes without a Face (Georges Franju, 1960)
The Descent (Neil Marshall, 2005)
Scenes from a Marriage (Ingmar Bergman, 1973)
Dr. Mabuse: The Gambler (Fritz Lang, 1922)
The Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans (Werner Herzog, 2009)
In the Company of Men (Neil LaBute, 1997)

Still Life (Jia Zhangke, 2006)
To Joy (Ingmar Bergman, 1950)
The White Ribbon (Michael Haneke, 2009)
Intolerance: Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages (D.W. Griffith, 1916)
Hard Eight (Paul Thomas Anderson, 1996)
Primer (Shane Carruth, 2004)
Wendy and Lucy (Kelly Reichardt, 2008)
A Ship Bound for India (Ingmar Bergman, 1947)
Sans Soleil (Chris Marker, 1983)
Rebel without a Cause (Nicholas Ray, 1955)
Thirst (Ingmar Bergman, 1949)
Old Joy (Kelly Reichardt, 2006)
The Orphanage (Juan Antonio Bayona, 2007)
We Own the Night (James Gray, 2007)
Welcome to the Dollhouse (Todd Solondz, 1995)
Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me (David Lynch, 1992)
Where the Wild Things Are (Spike Jonze, 2009)
The Devil's Rejects (Rob Zombie, 2005)
Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome (George Miller, 1985)
The Iron Giant (Brad Bird, 1999)
Distant Voices, Still Lives (Terence Davies, 1988)
Your Friends & Neighbors (Neil LaBute, 1998)
District 9 (Neill Blomkamp, 2009)
Dog Soldiers (Neil Marshall, 2002)
Mo' Better Blues (Spike Lee, 1990)
Frailty (Bill Paxton, 2001)
Palindromes (Todd Solondz, 2004)
From Dusk Till Dawn (Robert Rodriguez, 1996)
Crisis (Ingmar Bergman, 1946)
The Book of Eli (Albert Hughes & Allen Hughes, 2010)
Boyz N the Hood (John Singleton, 1991)
Prison (Ingmar Bergman, 1949)
Violent Cop (Takeshi Kitano, 1989)
Nurse Betty (Neil LaBute, 2000)
Midnight Express (Alan Parker, 1978)
The Hurt Locker (Kathryn Bigelow, 2008)
Mighty Aphrodite (Woody Allen, 1995)
True Crime (Clint Eastwood, 1999)
Sherlock Holmes (Guy Ritchie, 2009)
Shallow Grave (Danny Boyle, 1994)
Up (Bob Peterson & Pete Docter, 2009)
Poltergeist (Tobe Hooper, 1982)
Play Time (Jacques Tati, 1967)
Shutter Island (Martin Scorsese, 2010)
Escape from Alcatraz (Don Siegel, 1979)
Batman: Mask of the Phantasm (Eric Radomski & Bruce W. Timm, 1993)
May (Lucky McKee, 2002)
Desperado (Robert Rodriguez, 1995)
The Spirit of the Beehive (VÃ*ctor Erice, 1973)
Music in Darkness (Ingmar Bergman, 1948)
Take the Money and Run (Woody Allen, 1969)
The Man Without a Face (Mel Gibson, 1993)
Happiness (Todd Solondz, 1998)
Star Trek: First Contact (Jonathan Frakes, 1996)
Doomsday (Neil Marshall, 2008)
Near Dark (Kathryn Bigelow, 1987)
The Rite (Ingmar Bergman, 1969)
Bloody Sunday (Paul Greengrass, 2002)
Chasing Amy (Kevin Smith, 1997)
It Rains on Our Love (Ingmar Bergman, 1946)
Port of Call (Ingmar Bergman, 1948)
The Devil's Backbone (Guillermo del Toro, 2001)
The Mask of Zorro (Martin Campbell, 1998)
Hancock (Peter Berg, 2008)
The Secret of Their Eyes (Juan José Campanella, 2009)
[REC] (Jaume Balagueró & Paco Plaza, 2007)
RocknRolla (Guy Ritchie, 2008)
Up in the Air (Jason Reitman, 2009)
Play Misty for Me (Clint Eastwood, 1971)
The Butterfly Effect (Eric Bress & J. Mackye Gruber, 2004)
Halloween (Rob Zombie, 2007)
The Abyss (James Cameron, 1989)
Piranha (Joe Dante, 1978)
A Single Man (Tom Ford, 2009)
She's Gotta Have It (Spike Lee, 1986)
Clerks (Kevin Smith, 1994)
Very Bad Things (Peter Berg, 1998)
Quarantine (John Erick Dowdle, 2008)
Tea with Mussolini (Franco Zeffirelli, 1999)
Fracture (Gregory Hoblit, 2007)
Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (Stanley Kramer, 1967)
Slither (James Gunn, 2006)
The Faculty (Robert Rodriguez, 1998)
A Bridge Too Far (Richard Attenborough, 1977)
Alien: Resurrection (Jean-Pierre Jeunet, 1997)
El Mariachi (Robert Rodriguez, 1992)
Alien³ (David Fincher, 1992)
Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines (Jonathan Mostow, 2003)
Paranormal Activity (Oren Peli, 2007)
Wendigo (Larry Fessenden, 2001)
Dogma (Kevin Smith, 1999)
Star Trek: Generations (David Carson, 1994)
Crooklyn (Spike Lee, 1994)
Lilo & Stitch (Dean DeBlois & Chris Sanders, 2002)
Bad Boys II (Michael Bay, 2003)
Blue Steel (Kathryn Bigelow, 1989)
Once Upon a Time in Mexico (Robert Rodriguez, 2003)
Aliens of the Deep (James Cameron & Steven Quale, 2005)
The Rock (Michael Bay, 1996)
Mallrats (Kevin Smith, 1995)
Cinderella (Clyde Geromini, Wilfred Jackson & Hamilton Luske, 1950)
Stargate (Roland Emmerich, 1994)
Star Trek: Insurrection (Jonathan Frakes, 1996)
The Pink Panther (Blake Edwards, 1963)
The Curse of the Jade Scorpion (Woody Allen, 2001)
True Lies (James Cameron, 1994)
Final Destination 2 (David R. Ellis, 2003)
Jersey Girl (Kevin Smith, 2004)
Star Trek: Nemesis (Stuart Baird, 2002)
The Negotiator (F. Gary Gray, 1998)
Revolver (Guy Ritchie, 2005)
Ghosts of the Abyss (James Cameron, 2003)
Yellow Submarine (George Dunning, 1968)
Bananas (Woody Allen, 1971)
Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs (Carlos Saldanha & Mike Thurmeier, 2009)
AVP: Alien vs. Predator (Paul W.S. Anderson, 2004)
Old School (Todd Phillips, 2003)
Piranha II: The Spawning (James Cameron, 1981)
Final Destination (James Wong, 2000)
The Mummy Returns (Stephen Sommers, 2001)
School for Scoundrels (Todd Phillips, 2006)
The Birth of a Nation (D.W. Griffith, 1915)
Swept Away (Guy Ritchie, 2002)
Clerks II (Kevin Smith, 2006)
Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (Michael Bay, 2009)
Spy Kids (Robert Rodriguez, 2001)
Road Trip (Todd Phillips, 2000)
House of 1000 Corpses (Rob Zombie, 2003)
Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back (Kevin Smith, 2001)
The Adventures of Sharkboy and Lavagirl 3-D (Robert Rodriguez, 2005)

[kopello]

1. Wings of Desire (Wenders, 1987)
2. Rachel Getting Married (Demme, 2008)
3. Tokyo Sonata (Kurosawa, 2008)
4. Pulse (Kurosawa, 2001)
5. A Serious Man (Coen, 2009)
6. Veronika Voss (Fassbinder, 1982)
7. Wild at Heart (Lynch, 1990)
8. Viridiana (Bunuel, 1961)
9. Harakiri (Kobayashi, 1962)
10. Belle de Jour (Bunuel, 1967)

[B-side]

1. The Shooting (Hellman, 1967)
2. Invitation to the Dance (Kelly, 1956)
3. The Wind (Sjöström, 1928)
4. Las soledades (Ruiz, 1992)
5. Rumble Fish (Coppola, 1983)
6. Nor'west (Rivette, 1976)
7. Slow Moves (Jost, 1983)
8. Scorpio Rising (Anger, 1964)
9. Bringing Up Baby (Hawks, 1938)
10. He Who Gets Slapped (Sjöström, 1924)

1. The Shooting (Hellman, 1967)
2. Invitation to the Dance (Kelly, 1956)
3. Las soledades (Ruiz, 1992)
4. Claire's Knee (Rohmer, 1970)
5. The Wind (Sjöström, 1928)
6. Rumble Fish (Coppola, 1983)
7. Nor'west (Rivette, 1976)
8. Slow Moves (Jost, 1983)
9. Scorpio Rising (Anger, 1964)
10. Bringing Up Baby (Hawks, 1938)

[Stay Puft]

When was the last time I updated?

1. La moustache (Carrère '05)
2. Duel of the Century (Chor '81)
3. Bright Star (Campion '09)
4. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (Gilliam '98)
5. The White Ribbon (Haneke '09)
6. In a Lonely Place (Ray '50)
7. A Serious Man (Coens '09)
8. The Five Venoms (Chang '78)
9. Two Lovers (Gray '08)
10. The Super Inframan (Hua '75)

New number one, that's it. I haven't been watching movies lately. In the last couple months I've gone to the theatres on a couple occassions, when invited by a friend, but that's it.

[soitgoes...]

Dekalog (Kieslowski 89)
Still Walking (Koreeda 08)
The Naked Island (Shindô 60)
A Time to Live and a Time to Die (Hou 85)
Muddy River (Oguri 81)
A Summer at Grandpa's (Hou 84)
Night Train (Kawalerowicz 59)
Fat City (Huston 72)
The Story of the Late Chrysanthemums (Mizoguchi 39)
Swing Time (Stevens 36)



Dekalog (Kieslowski 89)
Still Walking (Koreeda 08)
The Naked Island (Shindô 60)
A Time to Live and a Time to Die (Hou 85)
Be Sure to Share (Sono 09)
Muddy River (Oguri 81)
A Summer at Grandpa's (Hou 84)
Night Train (Kawalerowicz 59)
Fat City (Huston 72)
The Story of the Late Chrysanthemums (Mizoguchi 39)

[B-side]

1. The Shooting (Hellman, 1967)
2. Invitation to the Dance (Kelly, 1956)
3. Las soledades (Ruiz, 1992)
4. Claire's Knee (Rohmer, 1970)
5. The Wind (Sjöström, 1928)
6. Rumble Fish (Coppola, 1983)
7. Nor'west (Rivette, 1976)
8. Slow Moves (Jost, 1983)
9. Scorpio Rising (Anger, 1964)
10. Bringing Up Baby (Hawks, 1938)

1. The Shooting (Hellman, 1967)
2. Invitation to the Dance (Kelly, 1956)
3. Las soledades (Ruiz, 1992)
4. The Suspended Step of the Stork (Angelopoulos, 1991)
5. Claire's Knee (Rohmer, 1970)
6. The Wind (Sjöström, 1928)
7. Rumble Fish (Coppola, 1983)
8. Nor'west (Rivette, 1976)
9. Slow Moves (Jost, 1983)
10. Scorpio Rising (Anger, 1964)

[Boner M]

Good week.

1. Make Way For Tomorrow (Leo McCarey, 1937)
2. Dillinger is Dead (Marco Ferreri, 1969)
3. He Who Gets Slapped (Sjostrom, 1924)
4. Wild Grass (Alain Resnais, 2009)
5. Man of the West (Anthony Mann, 1958)
6. Street of Shame (Kenji Mizoguchi, 1955)
7. Graduate First (Maurice Pialat, 1979)
8. Hausu (Nobuhiko Obayashi, 1977)
9. Side Street (Anthony Mann, 1949)
10. A Day in the Country (Renoir, 1936)

[B-side]

1. The Shooting (Hellman, 1967)
2. Invitation to the Dance (Kelly, 1956)
3. Las soledades (Ruiz, 1992)
4. The Suspended Step of the Stork (Angelopoulos, 1991)
5. Claire's Knee (Rohmer, 1970)
6. The Wind (Sjöström, 1928)
7. Rumble Fish (Coppola, 1983)
8. Nor'west (Rivette, 1976)
9. Slow Moves (Jost, 1983)
10. Scorpio Rising (Anger, 1964)

1. The Shooting (Hellman, 1967)
2. Invitation to the Dance (Kelly, 1956)
3. Las soledades (Ruiz, 1992)
4. The Suspended Step of the Stork (Angelopoulos, 1991)
5. Claire's Knee (Rohmer, 1970)
6. The Wind (Sjöström, 1928)
7. Rumble Fish (Coppola, 1983)
8. Nor'west (Rivette, 1976)
9. Slow Moves (Jost, 1983)
10. All That Heaven Allows (Sirk, 1955)

[Yxklyx]

1. Woodstock (1970, Michael Wadleigh)
2. Leila (1996, Dariush Mehrjui)
3. The Hangover (2009, Todd Phillips)
4. Slacker (1991, Richard Linklater)
5. El Norte (1983, Gregory Nava)
6. Time Out (2001, Laurent Cantet)
7. Funny Ha Ha (2002, Andrew Bujalski)
8. Beat the Devil (1953, John Huston)
9. Scandal Sheet (1952, Phil Karlson)
10. I Like It Like That (1994, Darnell Martin)

[soitgoes...]

Dekalog (Kieslowski 89)
Still Walking (Koreeda 08)
The Naked Island (Shindô 60)
A Time to Live and a Time to Die (Hou 85)
Be Sure to Share (Sono 09)
Muddy River (Oguri 81)
A Summer at Grandpa's (Hou 84)
Night Train (Kawalerowicz 59)
Fat City (Huston 72)
The Story of the Late Chrysanthemums (Mizoguchi 39)

Best of May:


The Naked Island (Shindô 60)
Be Sure to Share (Sono 09)
Equinox Flower (Ozu 58)
Marty (Mann 55)
Gate of Flesh (Suzuki 64)
Madadayo (Kurosawa 93)
Noriko's Dinner Table (Sono 05)
The Snake Pit (Litvak 48)
Bringing Out the Dead (Scorsese 99)
Story of a Prostitute (Suzuki 65)


2009 thus far:


Dekalog (Kieslowski 89)
Still Walking (Koreeda 08)
The Naked Island (Shindô 60)
A Time to Live and a Time to Die (Hou 85)
Be Sure to Share (Sono 09)
Muddy River (Oguri 81)
A Summer at Grandpa's (Hou 84)
Night Train (Kawalerowicz 59)
Fat City (Huston 72)
The Story of the Late Chrysanthemums (Mizoguchi 39)

[kopello]

1. Wings of Desire (Wenders, 1987)
2. Rachel Getting Married (Demme, 2008)
3. The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus (Gilliam, 2009)
4. Tokyo Sonata (Kurosawa, 2008)
5. Pulse (Kurosawa, 2001)
6. A Serious Man (Coen, 2009)
7. Veronika Voss (Fassbinder, 1982)
8. Wild at Heart (Lynch, 1990)
9. Viridiana (Bunuel, 1961)
10. Harakiri (Kobayashi, 1962)

[Ivan Drago]

1. Antichrist (Lars von Trier, 2009)
2. The Heiress (William Wyler, 1949)
3. The Fly (David Cronenberg, 1986)
4. The Hurt Locker (Kathryn Bigelow, 2009)
5. Gimme Shelter (Albert & David Maysles, 1970)
6. Dogville (Lars von Trier, 2003)
7. MacGruber (Jorma Taccone, 2010)
8. Sullivan's Travels (Preston Sturges, 1941)
9. Ichi The Killer (Takashi Miike, 2001)
10. Orson Welles: One-Man Band (Silovic/Kodar, 1995)

11. Iron Man 2 (Jon Favreau, 2010)
12. The Princess Bride (Rob Reiner, 1987)
13. Double Indemnity (Billy Wilder, 1944)
14. The Holy Mountain (Alejandro Jodorowsky, 1973)
15. Shutter Island (Martin Scorsese, 2010)
16. The Breakfast Club (John Hughes, 1985)
17. My Man Godfrey (Gregory La Cava, 1936)
18. The Lady From Shanghai (Orson Welles, 1948)
19. Kick-Ass (Matthew Vaughn, 2010)
20. Alice in Wonderland (Tim Burton, 2010)
21. Up In The Air (Jason Reitman, 2009)
22. Splice (Vincenzo Natali, 2010)
23. Queen Christina (Rouben Mamoulian, 1933)
24. G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra (Stephen Sommers, 2009)
25. Suspicion (Alfred Hitchcock, 1941)
26. The Lovely Bones (Peter Jackson, 2009)
27. The Girlfriend Experience (Steven Soderbergh, 2009)
28. Clash of the Titans (Louis Letterier, 2010)
29. Heavy Metal (Potterton, 1981)

Big update. It's been a while.

[MadMan]

Its been two months since the last update, which means my movie watching has been slow, featuring very few truly great movies.

1. The Long Good Friday(1980)-100
2. Double Indemnity(1944)-100
3. Ed Wood(1994)-100
4. A Serious Man(2009)-100
5. Wings of Desire(1987)-98
6. Dazed and Confused(1993)-98
7. Donnie Brasco(1997)-98
8. Persepolis(2007)-96
9. Raising Arizona(1987)-95
10. The Killer(1989)-95

Oh and hey I dropped two 2009 movies from my list. Good, I guess.

[Dead & Messed Up]

Eight new updates. I really wish THX could crack the top ten, but I've seen too many good flicks.

01. The Thief of Bagdad (1942)
02. College (1927)
03. Aguirre, the Wrath of God (1972)
04. A Serious Man (2009)
05. The Adventures of Prince Achmed (1926)
06. A Clockwork Orange (1971)
07. Into the Wild (2007)
08. Gattaca (1997)
09. Clash of the Titans (1981)
10. Moon (2009)

11. Wings of Desire (1987)
12. THX-1138 (1971)
13. The Hurt Locker (2009)
14. The First Men in the Moon (1964)
15. The Valley of Gwangi (1969)
16. Monsters Inc. (2001)
17. A Bug's Life (1998)
18. MacGruber (2010)
19. Shutter Island (2010)
20. The Golden Voyage of Sinbad (1975)
21. Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (1982)
22. The Seventh Voyage of Sinbad (1958)
23. King of the Ants (2003)
24. Avatar (2009)
25. Little Shop of Horrors (1960)
26. The Three Worlds of Gulliver (1960)
27. Mysterious Island (1961)
28. Beetlejuice (1988)
29. Hot Tub Time Machine (2010)
30. Hellboy: Sword of Storms (2007)
31. Paranormal Activity (2009)
32. Dolan's Cadillac (2009)
33. Logan's Run (1976)
34. 20 Million Miles to Earth (1957)
35. It Came From Beneath the Sea (1956)
36. Sinbad and the Eye of the Tiger (1977)
37. The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms (1953)
38. Earth vs. the Flying Saucers (1956)
39. Dead Snow (2009)
40. One Million Years B. C. (1966)
41. Sleepwalkers (1992)
42. The Shape of Things to Come (1979)

[B-side]

1. The Shooting (Hellman, 1967)
2. Invitation to the Dance (Kelly, 1956)
3. Las soledades (Ruiz, 1992)
4. The Suspended Step of the Stork (Angelopoulos, 1991)
5. Claire's Knee (Rohmer, 1970)
6. The Wind (Sjöström, 1928)
7. Rumble Fish (Coppola, 1983)
8. Nor'west (Rivette, 1976)
9. Slow Moves (Jost, 1983)
10. All That Heaven Allows (Sirk, 1955)

1. The Shooting (Hellman, 1967)
2. Invitation to the Dance (Kelly, 1956)
3. Las soledades (Ruiz, 1992)
4. The Suspended Step of the Stork (Angelopoulos, 1991)
5. Claire's Knee (Rohmer, 1970)
6. The Wind (Sjöström, 1928)
7. Rumble Fish (Coppola, 1983)
8. Nor'west (Rivette, 1976)
9. How Green Was My Valley (Ford, 1941)
10. Slow Moves (Jost, 1983)

[Fezzik]

1. Modern Times
2. Grave of the Fireflies
3. Chungking Express
4. How to Train Your Dragon
5. The Hurt Locker
6. Shutter Island
7. Rashomon
8. It Happened One Night
9. Chocolate
10. Kiki's Delivery Service



11. Sunshine
12. Fantastic Mr. Fox
13. A Single Man
14. Iron Man 2
15. Velvet Goldmine
16. My Blueberry Nights
17. Alice in Wonderland
18. Sherlock Holmes
19. The Blind Side
20. The Book of Eli

Added a few to make up for the fact that I haven't done this in a while :)

[dreamdead]

1. Housemaid - 9
2. The Beaches of Agnes - 8.5
3. The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance - 8.5
4. The Long Goodbye - 8.5
5. Everyone Else - 8.5
6. Bright Star - 8
7. Where the Wild Things Are - 8
8. Summer Hours - 8
9. Swing Time - 8
10. Tokyo Sonata - 8


Baby Doll - 8
Stagecoach - 8
The Testament of Dr. Mabuse - 8
Mon Oncle - 8
Hunger - 8
Public Enemies - 7.5
The Romance of Astrea and Celadon - 7.5
The Lady and the Duke - 7.5
Crumb - 7.5
The Killers (Siegel) -7.5
Waltz with Bashir - 7.5
The House of the Devil - 7.5
Anatomy of a Murder - 7.5
The Last Seduction - 7.5
The Hudsucker Proxy - 7.5
Get Carter (1971) -7.5
Dirty Pretty Things - 7.5
Midnight Cowboy - 7.5
I'm Not There - 7.5
Elephant (Clarke) -7.5
The Killers (Siodmak) - 7
Life of Brian - 7
The Thin Man - 7
The Tempest (Jarman) - 7
A Serious Man - 7
Inception - 7
Of Time and the City - 7
Romance - 7
Cat People (Tourneur) - 6.5
Made in Britain - 6.5
Somer's Town - 6.5
Variety - 6.5
Adventureland - 6.5
Beloved - 6.5
Angels in America - 6.5
The Last Mistress - 6.5
The Stranger - 6.5
Bride of Frankenstein - 6.5
Shutter Island - 6.5
An Education - 6.5
The Firm (Clarke) - 6.5
Paris Je T’Aime - 6
Rio Grande - 6
Halloween 2 (Zombie) - 6
Song of the South - 6
Animal Crackers - 6
Night of the Demon - 6
Antichrist - 6
Toy Story 3 - 6
Grimm - 6
District 9 - 5.5
The Road - 5.5
Broadway Danny Rose - 5.5
Carla's Song - 5.5
9 - 5.5
The Day of the Locust - 5.5
Ferris Bueller's Day Off - 5.5
The Last Wave - 5
Watcher in the Attic - 5
Iron Man 2 - 5
World Trade Center - 5
The Masque of the Red Death - 5
MacGruber - 4.5
Anatomy of Hell - 4
Alice in Wonderland - 4
Near Dark - 3.5
The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen - 3.5
MacBeth (Wright) - 3.5
Leap Year - 3

Kurosawa's film is the only new entry to break the list, but the top ten feels darn respectable now.

[MadMan]

Well, the 100s are starting to pile up all of a sudden. Two are of them are actually from 2009, and now the cutoff to make the list is 96 or higher.

1. The Long Good Friday(1980)-100
2. Double Indemnity(1944)-100
3. Ed Wood(1994)-100
4. A Serious Man(2009)-100
5. Stop Making Sense(1984)-100
6. In The Loop(2009)-100
7. Wings of Desire(1987)-98
8. Dazed and Confused(1993)-98
9. Donnie Brasco(1997)-98
10. Persepolis(2007)-96

Way too many modern movies listed here. I need to see some older films.

[endingcredits]

1. Divided We Fall (Jan Hrebejk, 2000)
2. Irreversible (Noe, 2002)
3. The White Ribbon (Haneke, 2009)
4. Last Exit To Brooklyn (Edel, 1989)
5. Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans (Herzog, 2008)
6. Visitor Q (Miike, 2001)
7. Punch Drunk Love (Anderson, 2002)
8. Oldboy (Park, 2003)
9. The Experiment (Hirschbiegel, 2001)
10. Flame and Citron (Madsen, 2008)

[balmakboor]

1. 23rd Psalm Branch
2. Walkabout
3. Empire of Passion
4. Syndromes and a Century
5. Tony Manero
6. Moon
7. Prime Cut
8. Dillinger is Dead
9. A Serious Man
10. In the Realm of the Senses

[Dead & Messed Up]

Seriously guys, Things to Come is rad...

01. The Thief of Bagdad (1942)
02. College (1927)
03. Aguirre, the Wrath of God (1972)
04. A Serious Man (2009)
05. The Adventures of Prince Achmed (1926)
06. A Clockwork Orange (1971)
07. Things to Come (1936)
08. Gattaca (1997)
09. Into the Wild (2007)
10. Clash of the Titans (1981)

11. Moon (2009)
12. Wings of Desire (1987)
13. THX-1138 (1971)
14. Klute (1971)
15. The Hurt Locker (2009)
16. The First Men in the Moon (1964)
17. The Valley of Gwangi (1969)
18. Monsters Inc. (2001)
19. A Bug's Life (1998)
20. MacGruber (2010)
21. Shutter Island (2010)
22. The Golden Voyage of Sinbad (1975)
23. Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (1982)
24. The Seventh Voyage of Sinbad (1958)
25. King of the Ants (2003)
26. Avatar (2009)
27. Little Shop of Horrors (1960)
28. The Three Worlds of Gulliver (1960)
29. Mysterious Island (1961)
30. Beetlejuice (1988)
31. Hot Tub Time Machine (2010)
32. Hellboy: Sword of Storms (2007)
33. Paranormal Activity (2009)
34. Dolan's Cadillac (2009)
35. 20 Million Miles to Earth (1957)
36. Killer Klowns From Outer Space (1988)
37. Logan's Run (1976)
38. It Came From Beneath the Sea (1956)
39. Kick-Ass (2010)
40. Sinbad and the Eye of the Tiger (1977)
41. The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms (1953)
42. Earth vs. the Flying Saucers (1956)
43. Dead Snow (2009)
44. One Million Years B. C. (1966)
45. Sleepwalkers (1992)
46. The Shape of Things to Come (1979)

[soitgoes...]

Best of May:


The Naked Island (Shindô 60)
Be Sure to Share (Sono 09)
Equinox Flower (Ozu 58)
Marty (Mann 55)
Gate of Flesh (Suzuki 64)
Madadayo (Kurosawa 93)
Noriko's Dinner Table (Sono 05)
The Snake Pit (Litvak 48)
Bringing Out the Dead (Scorsese 99)
Story of a Prostitute (Suzuki 65)


2009 thus far:


Dekalog (Kieslowski 89)
Still Walking (Koreeda 08)
The Naked Island (Shindô 60)
A Time to Live and a Time to Die (Hou 85)
Be Sure to Share (Sono 09)
Muddy River (Oguri 81)
A Summer at Grandpa's (Hou 84)
Night Train (Kawalerowicz 59)
Fat City (Huston 72)
The Story of the Late Chrysanthemums (Mizoguchi 39)


Dekalog (Kieslowski 89)
Still Walking (Koreeda 08)
The Naked Island (Shindô 60)
A Time to Live and a Time to Die (Hou 85)
Be Sure to Share (Sono 09)
Muddy River (Oguri 81)
A Summer at Grandpa's (Hou 84)
Night Train (Kawalerowicz 59)
The Exterminating Angel (Buñuel 62)
Fat City (Huston 72)

[Yxklyx]

1. Woodstock (1970, Michael Wadleigh)
2. Leila (1996, Dariush Mehrjui)
3. The Hangover (2009, Todd Phillips)
4. Slacker (1991, Richard Linklater)
5. Casino (1995, Martin Scorsese)
6. El Norte (1983, Gregory Nava)
7. Time Out (2001, Laurent Cantet)
8. Funny Ha Ha (2002, Andrew Bujalski)
9. Beat the Devil (1953, John Huston)
10. Scandal Sheet (1952, Phil Karlson)

[Fezzik]

Modern Times
Grave of the Fireflies
Chungking Express
Toy Story 3
How to Train Your Dragon
The Hurt Locker
Shutter Island
Rashomon
It Happened One Night
Chocolate



11. Kiki's Delivery Service
12. Sunshine
13. Fantastic Mr. Fox
14. A Single Man
15. Iron Man 2
16. Velvet Goldmine
17. Fright Night
18. My Blueberry Nights
19. Alice in Wonderland
20. Sherlock Holmes
21. The Blind Side
22. The Book of Eli
23. Josie and the Pussycats

[soitgoes...]

Dekalog (Kieslowski 89)
Still Walking (Koreeda 08)
The Naked Island (Shindô 60)
A Time to Live and a Time to Die (Hou 85)
Be Sure to Share (Sono 09)
Muddy River (Oguri 81)
A Summer at Grandpa's (Hou 84)
Night Train (Kawalerowicz 59)
The Exterminating Angel (Buñuel 62)
Fat City (Huston 72)

Top 10 of June:

The Exterminating Angel (Buñuel 62)
Calamari Union (Kaurismäki 85)
Satan's Tango (Tarr 94)
A Single Man (Ford 09)
Week End (Godard 67)
The Kingdom (Trier 94)
The Cook the Thief His Wife & Her Lover (Greenaway 89)
Au hasard Balthazar (Bresson 66)
The Quiet Earth (Murphy 85)
Ariel (Kaurismäki 88)


YTD:

Dekalog (Kieslowski 89)
Still Walking (Koreeda 08)
The Naked Island (Shindô 60)
A Time to Live and a Time to Die (Hou 85)
Be Sure to Share (Sono 09)
Muddy River (Oguri 81)
A Summer at Grandpa's (Hou 84)
Night Train (Kawalerowicz 59)
The Exterminating Angel (Buñuel 62)
Fat City (Huston 72)

[Russ]

1. Yearning (Naruse, 1964)
2. Au hasard Balthazar (Bresson, 1966)
3. Possession (Zulawski, 1981)
4. Ruggles of Red Gap (McCarey, 1935)
5. Spring Awakens (Naruse, 1947
6. Floating Clouds (Naruse, 1955)
7. The Beaver Trilogy (Harris, 2000)
8. A Serious Man (Coen, 2009)
9. Divine (Ophuls, 1935)
10. Coonskin (Bakshi, 1975)

[B-side]

9. Divine (Ophuls, 1935)

You're the only other person I know that has seen this. It's probably my favorite Ophuls.

[Russ]

You're the only other person I know that has seen this. It's probably my favorite Ophuls.

It's really good, isn't it? My first Ophuls, btw. Here's some thoughts I posted elsewhere:

It's a rather simple tale of virtue winning out over vice, set against the backdrop of a backstage music hall. The exploitation of women in show business is illustrated through the tale of a no-nonsense girl (given the stage name, Divine) who has no interest in making a career in show business, despite (or rather because of) the temptations and advances of shady characters. Not really a great film for the ages, but certainly a winner by almost any standard. My first Ophuls and I was slightly surprised by the degree of sophistication he displays in telling this simple story (examples are a couple of cleverly set-up bits of subterfuge that have the viewer expecting the worst, only to have the rug pulled out from under them). Also noteworthy was some really elegant camerwork, especially a rather stunning tracking shot when Divine first arrives at the music hall to look for work. There's also a romance introduced midway that could have easily been a throwaway plot device, but Ophuls infused it with genuine emotion and whimsy, such that it makes the final resolution both deserved and believable. Overall, a very nice jewel of a film.

[B-side]

It's really good, isn't it? My first Ophuls, btw. Here's some thoughts I posted elsewhere:

It's a rather simple tale of virtue winning out over vice, set against the backdrop of a backstage music hall. The exploitation of women in show business is illustrated through the tale of a no-nonsense girl (given the stage name, Divine) who has no interest in making a career in show business, despite (or rather because of) the temptations and advances of shady characters. Not really a great film for the ages, but certainly a winner by almost any standard. My first Ophuls and I was slightly surprised by the degree of sophistication he displays in telling this simple story (examples are a couple of cleverly set-up bits of subterfuge that have the viewer expecting the worst, only to have the rug pulled out from under them). Also noteworthy was some really elegant camerwork, especially a rather stunning tracking shot when Divine first arrives at the music hall to look for work. There's also a romance introduced midway that could have easily been a throwaway plot device, but Ophuls infused it with genuine emotion and whimsy, such that it makes the final resolution both deserved and believable. Overall, a very nice jewel of a film.

Nice. Glad you enjoyed it. First Ophuls, eh? You're in for a treat. Without Tomorrow is another underseen gem of his. I'd kill for a decent print of Divine.

[Mysterious Dude]

1. The White Ribbon (2009)
2. Deep End (1971)
3. Ballast (2008)
4. Two Lovers (2008)
5. Oasis (2002)
6. Trucker (2008)
7. Import/Export (2007)
8. Goodbye Solo (2008)
9. Cavite (2005)
10. Audience of One (2007)

1. The White Ribbon (2009)
2. The Lathe of Heaven (1980)
3. Deep End (1971)
4. Home (2008)
5. Ballast (2008)
6. Revanche (2008)
7. Pretty Village, Pretty Flame (1996)
8. The Go-Between (1970)
9. The Family Game (1983)
10. Oasis (2002)

[MacGuffin]

1. Vengeance Is Mine (Imamura, 1979)
2. Tokyo Sonata (Kiyoshi Kurosawa, 2008)
3. House (Obayashi, 1977)
4. Nostalgia (Tarkovsky, 1983)
5. Le trou (Becker, 1960)
6. A Prophet (Audiard, 2009)
7. Winter's Bone (Granik, 2010)
8. Slow Motion (Godard, 1980)
9. The White Ribbon (Haneke, 2009)
10. Funeral Parade of Roses (Matsumoto, 1969)

With honorable mention to: Hôtel Monterey (Akerman, 1972)

[B-side]

Nostalghia love pleases me. I have Funeral Parade of Roses.

[endingcredits]

1. Divided We Fall (Jan Hrebejk, 2000)
2. Irreversible (Noe, 2002)
3. The White Ribbon (Haneke, 2009)
4. Last Exit To Brooklyn (Edel, 1989)
5. Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans (Herzog, 2008)
6. Visitor Q (Miike, 2001)
7. Punch Drunk Love (Anderson, 2002)
8. Oldboy (Park, 2003)
9. The Experiment (Hirschbiegel, 2001)
10. Flame and Citron (Madsen, 2008)

1. The Devil (Zulawski, 1972)
2. Divided We Fall (Jan Hrebejk, 2000)
3. Irreversible (Noe, 2002)
4. The White Ribbon (Haneke, 2009)
5. In The White City (Tanner, 1983)
6. Last Exit To Brooklyn (Edel, 1989)
7. Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans (Herzog, 2008)
8. Visitor Q (Miike, 2001)
9. Punch Drunk Love (Anderson, 2002)
10. Happiness (Solondz, 1998)

[Melville]

1. The Devil (Zulawski, 1972)
3. Irreversible (Noe, 2002)
4. The White Ribbon (Haneke, 2009)
7. Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans (Herzog, 2008)
9. Punch Drunk Love (Anderson, 2002)

Nice.

[right_for_the_moment]

1. Eyes Wide Shut
2. Two Lovers
3. Lone Star
4. Eccentricities of a Blonde-haired Girl
5. Metropolitan
6. Spartan
7. The White Ribbon
8. Gigantic
9. The Spook Who Sat by the Door
10. My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done?

[MacGuffin]

1. Vengeance Is Mine (Imamura, 1979)
2. Tokyo Sonata (Kiyoshi Kurosawa, 2008)
3. Diva (Beineix, 1981)
4. House (Obayashi, 1977)
5. Nostalgia (Tarkovsky, 1983)
6. Le trou (Becker, 1960)
7. A Prophet (Audiard, 2009)
8. Winter's Bone (Granik, 2010)
9. Slow Motion (Godard, 1980)
10. The White Ribbon (Haneke, 2009)

[StanleyK]

1. Werckmeister Harmonies (�gnes Hranitzky, Béla Tarr)
2. Rosetta (Jean-Pierre Dardenne, Luc Dardenne)
3. Eraserhead (David Lynch)
4. Scenes from a Marriage (Ingmar Bergman)
5. Fucking Åmål (Lukas Moodysson)
6. A Serious Man (Ethan Coen, Joel Coen)
7. In the Company of Men (Neil LaBute)
8. Gates of Heaven (Errol Morris)
9. Big Deal on Madonna Street (Mario Monicelli)
10. The Descent (Neil Marshall)

And the other feature-length films I'd give 4 stars to (as of my newest rating system):

The Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans (Werner Herzog)
The Devil's Rejects (Rob Zombie)
Dr. Mabuse: The Gambler (Fritz Lang)
Eyes without a Face (Georges Franju)
Lost Highway (David Lynch)
Our Hospitality (John G. Blystone, Buster Keaton)
Primer (Shane Carruth)
Sans Soleil (Chris Marker)
The Secret of NIMH (Don Bluth)
Seven Chances (Buster Keaton)
Sonatine (Takeshi Kitano)
Still Life (Jia Zhangke)
Storytelling (Todd Solondz)
Summer with Monika (Ingmar Bergman)
Wendy and Lucy (Kelly Reichardt)
Welcome to the Dollhouse (Todd Solondz)
We Own the Night (James Gray)
The White Ribbon (Michael Haneke)

[ContinentalOp]

1. The Thing- *** 1/2
2. Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans- *** 1/2
3. Black Dynamite- *** 1/2
4. Goodbye Solo- *** 12
5. Lessons of Darkness- *** 1/2
6. Le Deuxième Souffle- ***
7. World's Greatest Dad- ***
8. A Christmas Tale- ***
9. A Town Called Panic- ***
10. Hot Tub Time Machine- ***

1. The Thing- *** 1/2
2. Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans- *** 1/2
3. Black Dynamite- *** 1/2
4. Goodbye Solo- *** 1/2
5. Toy Story 3- *** 1/2
6. Lessons of Darkness- *** 1/2
7. eXistenZ- *** 1/2
8. Shutter Island- *** 1/2
9. Le Deuxieme Souffle- ***
10. World's Greatest Dad- ***

[Fezzik]

Modern Times
Grave of the Fireflies
Chungking Express
Inception
Toy Story 3
In the Loop
How to Train Your Dragon
Black Dynamite
Despicable Me
Shutter Island



11. Rashomon
12. It Happened One Night
13. Chocolate
14. The Hurt Locker
15. Kiki's Delivery Service
16. Sunshine
17. Fantastic Mr. Fox
18. A Single Man
19. District B13
20. Iron Man 2
21. Velvet Goldmine
22. Fright Night
23. Knight and Day
24. My Blueberry Nights
25. Alice in Wonderland
26. Sherlock Holmes
27. The Blind Side
28. The Book of Eli
29. Josie and the Pussycats

[balmakboor]

1. 23rd Psalm Branch
2. The Only Son
3. Walkabout
4. Empire of Passion
5. Syndromes and a Century
6. Tony Manero
7. Moon
8. Prime Cut
9. Dillinger is Dead
10. A Serious Man

[Dead & Messed Up]

01. The Thief of Bagdad (1942)
02. College (1927)
03. Aguirre, the Wrath of God (1972)
04. My Neighbor Totoro (1988)
05. A Serious Man (2009)
06. The Adventures of Prince Achmed (1926)
07. A Clockwork Orange (1971)
08. Things to Come (1936)
09. Gattaca (1997)
10. Inception (2010)

11. Into the Wild (2007)
12. Clash of the Titans (1981)
13. Moon (2009)
14. Wings of Desire (1987)
15. THX-1138 (1971)
16. Klute (1971)
17. The House of the Devil (2009)
18. The Hurt Locker (2009)
19. The First Men in the Moon (1964)
20. The Valley of Gwangi (1969)
21. Monsters Inc. (2001)
22. A Bug's Life (1998)
23. MacGruber (2010)
24. Shutter Island (2010)
25. The Golden Voyage of Sinbad (1975)
26. Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (1982)
27. The Seventh Voyage of Sinbad (1958)
28. King of the Ants (2003)
29. Cyrus (2010)
30. Avatar (2009)
31. Little Shop of Horrors (1960)
32. The Three Worlds of Gulliver (1960)
33. Mysterious Island (1961)
34. Beetlejuice (1988)
35. Hot Tub Time Machine (2010)
36. Hellboy: Sword of Storms (2007)
37. Paranormal Activity (2009)
38. Dolan's Cadillac (2009)
39. 20 Million Miles to Earth (1957)
40. Killer Klowns From Outer Space (1988)
41. Logan's Run (1976)
42. It Came From Beneath the Sea (1956)
43. Kick-Ass (2010)
44. Sinbad and the Eye of the Tiger (1977)
45. The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms (1953)
46. Earth vs. the Flying Saucers (1956)
47. Dead Snow (2009)
48. One Million Years B. C. (1966)
49. Sleepwalkers (1992)
50. The Shape of Things to Come (1979)

[Boner M]

1. Make Way For Tomorrow (Leo McCarey, 1937)
2. Dillinger is Dead (Marco Ferreri, 1969)
3. He Who Gets Slapped (Sjostrom, 1924)
4. Wild Grass (Alain Resnais, 2009)
5. To Parfisal (Bruce Baillie, 1963)
6. Man of the West (Anthony Mann, 1958)
7. Street of Shame (Kenji Mizoguchi, 1955)
8. Graduate First (Maurice Pialat, 1979)
9. Hausu (Nobuhiko Obayashi, 1977)
10. Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives (Weerasethakul, 2010)

[balmakboor]

1. 23rd Psalm Branch
2. The Only Son
3. Walkabout
4. Empire of Passion
5. Syndromes and a Century
6. Tony Manero
7. Moon
8. Two-Lane Blacktop
9. Prime Cut
10. Dillinger is Dead

[endingcredits]

1. The Devil (Zulawski, 1972)
2. Divided We Fall (Jan Hrebejk, 2000)
3. Irreversible (Noe, 2002)
4. The White Ribbon (Haneke, 2009)
5. In The White City (Tanner, 1983)
6. Last Exit To Brooklyn (Edel, 1989)
7. Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans (Herzog, 2008)
8. Visitor Q (Miike, 2001)
9. Punch Drunk Love (Anderson, 2002)
10. Happiness (Solondz, 1998)



1. Possession (Zulawski, 1981)
2. The Devil (Zulawski, 1972)
3. Divided We Fall (Jan Hrebejk, 2000)
4. Irreversible (Noe, 2002)
5. Week End (Godard, 1967)
6. The White Ribbon (Haneke, 2009)
7. Stroszek (Herzog, 1977)
8. In The White City (Tanner, 1983)
9. Last Exit To Brooklyn (Edel, 1989)
10. Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans (Herzog, 2008)

[RoadtoPerdition]

1. The Hurt Lucker
2. Inception
3. Moon
4. After the Wedding
5. (500) Days of Summer
6. My Left Foot
7. Zombieland
8. Star Trek
9. Tyson
10. Osama

Haven't really watched many older movies yet this year...

[Fezzik]

Modern Times
Grave of the Fireflies
Chungking Express
Inception
Toy Story 3
In the Loop
How to Train Your Dragon
Black Dynamite
Despicable Me
Shutter Island



11. Rashomon
12. It Happened One Night
13. Chocolate
14. Witness for the Prosecution
15. The Hurt Locker
16. Kiki's Delivery Service
17. Sunshine
18. Fantastic Mr. Fox
19. A Single Man
20. District B13
21. Iron Man 2
22. Velvet Goldmine
23. Fright Night
24. Knight and Day
25. My Blueberry Nights
26. Alice in Wonderland
27. Sherlock Holmes
28. The Blind Side
29. The Book of Eli
30. Josie and the Pussycats

[megladon8]

Inception knocked Inglourious Basterds out...

1.) Make Way for Tomorrow
2.) The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
3.) 12 Angry Men
4.) Inception
5.) Moon
6.) Two Lovers
7.) Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans
8.) Charley Varrick
9.) Night Moves
10.) The House of the Devil


11.)Inglourious Basterds...

[MacGuffin]

1. Vengeance Is Mine (Imamura, 1979)
2. Tokyo Sonata (Kiyoshi Kurosawa, 2008)
3. Diva (Beineix, 1981)
4. House (Obayashi, 1977)
5. Nostalgia (Tarkovsky, 1983)
6. Le trou (Becker, 1960)
7. Angel Face (Preminger, 1952)
8. The Bridesmaid (Chabrol, 2004)
9. A Prophet (Audiard, 2009)
10. Winter's Bone (Granik, 2010)

[Ivan Drago]

1. The Heiress (William Wyler, 1949)
1. Antichrist (Lars von Trier, 2009)
3. The Fly (David Cronenberg, 1986)
4. Toy Story 3 (Lee Unkrich, 2010)
5. Inception (Christopher Nolan, 2010)
6. The Hurt Locker (Kathryn Bigelow, 2009)
7. Gimme Shelter (Albert & David Maysles, 1970)
8. Kiss Me Deadly (Robert Aldrich, 1955)
9. Dogville (Lars von Trier, 2003)
10. Crossfire (Edward Dmytryk, 1947)


11. The Dirty Dozen (Robert Aldrich, 1967)
12. MacGruber (Jorma Taccone, 2010)
13. Sullivan's Travels (Preston Sturges, 1941)
14. Ichi The Killer (Takashi Miike, 2001)
15. Orson Welles: One-Man Band (Silovic/Kodar, 1995)
16. Too Late The Hero (Robert Aldrich, 1969)
17. Rashomon (Akira Kurosawa, 1950)
18. Iron Man 2 (Jon Favreau, 2010)
19. The Princess Bride (Rob Reiner, 1987)
20. American Psycho (Mary Harron, 2000)
21. Despicable Me (Coffin/Renaud, 2010)
22. Double Indemnity (Billy Wilder, 1944)
23. Emperor of the North (Robert Aldrich, 1973)
24. The Holy Mountain (Alejandro Jodorowsky, 1973)
25. Shutter Island (Martin Scorsese, 2010)
26. The Breakfast Club (John Hughes, 1985)
27. The Longest Yard (Robert Aldrich, 1974)
28. Flight of the Phoenix (Robert Aldrich, 1966)
29. Force of Evil (Abraham Polonsky, 1948)
30. Body and Soul (Robert Rossen, 1947)
31. My Man Godfrey (Gregory La Cava, 1936)
32. The Lady From Shanghai (Orson Welles, 1948)
33. Attack! (Robert Aldrich, 1956)
34. Kick-Ass (Matthew Vaughn, 2010)
35. The Big Knife (Robert Aldrich, 1955)
36. Alice in Wonderland (Tim Burton, 2010)
37. Up In The Air (Jason Reitman, 2009)
38. Ulzana's Raid (Robert Aldrich, 1972)
39. Splice (Vincenzo Natali, 2010)
40. Queen Christina (Rouben Mamoulian, 1933)
41. Get Him To The Greek (Nicholas Stoller, 2010)
42. G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra (Stephen Sommers, 2009)
43. Suspicion (Alfred Hitchcock, 1941)
44. Eclipse (David Slade, 2010)
45. The Lovely Bones (Peter Jackson, 2009)
46. The Girlfriend Experience (Steven Soderbergh, 2009)
47. Clash of the Titans (Louis Letterier, 2010)
48. Grown Ups (Dennis Dugan, 2010)
49. Heavy Metal (Gerald Potterton, 1981)

Another big update. I really need to update more often.

[Bosco B Thug]

2. Tokyo Sonata (Kiyoshi Kurosawa, 2008) Did you ever post any thoughts on this? Out of curiosity, how would you rank it in his filmography?


1. Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde ('31)
2. The House of Mirth
3. Make Way For Tomorrow
4. All that Jazz
5. The Prowler
6. Eva
7. Showgirls
8. Stalker
9. Boom
10. The Sleeping Tiger / King and Country

[MacGuffin]

Did you ever post any thoughts on this? Out of curiosity, how would you rank it in his filmography?


I don't think I ever did, but it's right up there with Bright Future and Doppelganger as some of his best work. Few films in the last decade have reflected the state of the world in such a subtle, powerful way as this one.

[Bosco B Thug]

I don't think I ever did, but it's right up there with Bright Future and Doppelganger as some of his best work. Few films in the last decade have reflected the state of the world in such a subtle, powerful way as this one. I find it his most flawed film, and probably my least favorite of his I've seen ( :) ), but I do think/agree it nevertheless has to be an important benchmark in his work, for the reason you describe. It's a clear and powerful message picture, refreshing in its warmth and genuine hopefulness.

[Rowland]

1. Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde ('31)
Awesome. This movie is really underrated.

[Bosco B Thug]

Awesome. This movie is really underrated. Yep, masterpiece status for me.

Really need to see more obscured pre-Code classic Hollywood films if they're as raw and inspired as this was.

[Dukefrukem]

Haven't updated this thread in a while. Im so far behind from last year.


1. Inception Nolan [100]
2. Coraline Selick, Henry [89]
3. The Crazies Eisner, [75]
4. Book of Eli Hughes Brothers [71]
5. Predators Antal, [69]
6. Food Inc Kenner, [67]
7. The Fourth Kind Osunsanmi, [66]
8. Daybreakers Spierig Brothers [65]
9. Gone Baby Gone Affleck [61]
10. The Wolfman Johnston [55]


11. Kick-Ass [50]
12. Law Abiding Citizen [46]
13. Edge of Darkness [45]
14. Iron Man 2 [43]
15. Clash of the Titans [42]
16. Vampires [40]
17. Legion [25]
18. Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time [21]

[MacGuffin]

1. Vengeance Is Mine (Imamura, 1979)
2. Tokyo Sonata (Kiyoshi Kurosawa, 2008)
3. Diva (Beineix, 1981)
4. House (Obayashi, 1977)
5. Nostalgia (Tarkovsky, 1983)
6. Le trou (Becker, 1960)
7. Angel Face (Preminger, 1952)
8. The Bridesmaid (Chabrol, 2004)
9. Bonjour tristesse (Preminger, 1958)
10. A Prophet (Audiard, 2009)

[Yxklyx]

1. Woodstock (1970, Michael Wadleigh)
2. Leila (1996, Dariush Mehrjui)
3. The Hangover (2009, Todd Phillips)
4. Slacker (1991, Richard Linklater)
5. Captains Courageous (1937, Victor Fleming)
6. Casino (1995, Martin Scorsese)
7. El Norte (1983, Gregory Nava)
8. Time Out (2001, Laurent Cantet)
9. Funny Ha Ha (2002, Andrew Bujalski)
10. Beat the Devil (1953, John Huston)

[StanleyK]

Werckmeister Harmonies (�gnes Hranitzky, Béla Tarr)
Rosetta (Jean-Pierre Dardenne, Luc Dardenne)
Eraserhead (David Lynch)
Scenes from a Marriage (Ingmar Bergman)
Fucking Åmål (Lukas Moodysson)
A Serious Man (Ethan Coen, Joel Coen)
Hana-Bi (Takeshi Kitano)
In the Company of Men (Neil LaBute)
Gates of Heaven (Errol Morris)
The Descent (Neil Marshall)


Other **** films:


The Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans (Werner Herzog)
Big Deal on Madonna Street (Mario Monicelli)
Castle in the Sky (Hayao Miyazaki)
The Devil's Rejects (Rob Zombie)
Dr. Mabuse: The Gambler (Fritz Lang)
Eyes without a Face (Georges Franju)
Lost Highway (David Lynch)
Our Hospitality (John G. Blystone, Buster Keaton)
Primer (Shane Carruth)
Sans Soleil (Chris Marker)
The Secret of NIMH (Don Bluth)
Seven Chances (Buster Keaton)
Sonatine (Takeshi Kitano)
Still Life (Jia Zhangke)
Storytelling (Todd Solondz)
Summer with Monika (Ingmar Bergman)
Vernon, Florida (Errol Morris)
Wendy and Lucy (Kelly Reichardt)
Welcome to the Dollhouse (Todd Solondz)
We Own the Night (James Gray)
The White Balloon (Jafer Panahi)
The White Ribbon (Michael Haneke)

I'm not sure why, but I felt kind of bad kicking out The Descent; I'm keeping it for now.

[soitgoes...]

YTD:

Dekalog (Kieslowski 89)
Still Walking (Koreeda 08)
The Naked Island (Shindô 60)
A Time to Live and a Time to Die (Hou 85)
Be Sure to Share (Sono 09)
Muddy River (Oguri 81)
A Summer at Grandpa's (Hou 84)
Night Train (Kawalerowicz 59)
The Exterminating Angel (Buñuel 62)
Fat City (Huston 72)

Best of July 2010:

Los Angeles Plays Itself (Andersen 03)
I Stand Alone (Noé 98)
Eraserhead (Lynch 76)
Thirty Two Short Films About Glenn Gould (Girard 93)
Inception (Nolan 10)
Wild Reeds (Téchiné 94)
Crumb (Zwigoff 94)
Anzukko (Naruse 58)
Johnny Guitar (Ray 54)
The Asphalt Jungle (Huston 50)

YTD 2010:

Dekalog (Kieslowski 89)
Still Walking (Koreeda 08)
The Naked Island (Shindô 60)
A Time to Live and a Time to Die (Hou 85)
Be Sure to Share (Sono 09)
Muddy River (Oguri 81)
A Summer at Grandpa's (Hou 84)
Night Train (Kawalerowicz 59)
Los Angeles Plays Itself (Andersen 03)
I Stand Alone (Noé 98)


An awesome month of movie watching for me. There's at least a half a dozen other films that I'd rate a ***½.

[Fezzik]

Modern Times
Grave of the Fireflies
Chungking Express
Inception
Toy Story 3
In the Loop
How to Train Your Dragon
Black Dynamite
Despicable Me
Shutter Island



11. Rashomon
12. It Happened One Night
13. Chocolate
14. Death Note (Parts 1 & 2)
15. Witness for the Prosecution
16. The Hurt Locker
17. Kiki's Delivery Service
18. Sunshine
19. Fantastic Mr. Fox
20. A Single Man
21. Om Shanti Om
22. District B13
23. Night Watch
24. Iron Man 2
25. Velvet Goldmine
26. Fright Night
27. Knight and Day
28. My Blueberry Nights
29. Day Watch: The Chalk of Fate
30. Alice in Wonderland
31. Sherlock Holmes
32. The Blind Side
33. The Book of Eli
34. Josie and the Pussycats

[Dukefrukem]

Bold is new


1. Inception [100*]
2. Coraline [89]
3. Shutter Island [85]
4. Toy Story 3 [84]
5. Green Zone [76]
6. The Crazies [75]
7. Centurion [72]
8. Book of Eli [71]
9. Predators [69]
10. The Bourne Ultimatum [65]



11. Food Inc [67]
12. The Fourth Kind [66]
13. Daybreakers [65]
14. Gone Baby Gone [61]
15. The Wolfman [55]
16. Session 9 [59]
17. Kick-Ass [50]
18. Ice Age: The Meltdown [49]
19. Law Abiding Citizen [46]
20. Edge of Darkness [45]
21. Iron Man 2 [43]
22. Clash of the Titans [42]
23. Vampires [40]
24. Legion [25]
25. Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time [21]

[EyesWideOpen]

1. Thirst (Chan Wook-Park) 2008
2. Antichrist (Lars von Trier) 2009
3. Bright Star (Jane Campion) 2009
4. Toy Story 3 (Lee Unkrich) 2010
5. Inception (Christopher Nolan) 2010
6. Broken Embraces (Pedro Almodovar) 2009
7. Goodbye Solo (Ramin Bahrani) 2009
8. Two Lovers (James Gray) 2009
9. Doubt (John Patrick Shanley) 2008
10. The Hurt Locker (Kathryn Bigelow) 2009

Everything else:


In Cold Blood (Richard Brooks) A-
The Princess and the Frog (Ron Clements & John Musker) A-
Summer Hours (Olivier Assayas) A-
Man on Wire (James Marsh) A-
In the Loop (Armando Iannucci) A-
Vicky Cristina Barcelona (Woody Allen) A-
Batman: Under the Red Hood (Brandon Vietti) A-
Mother (Joon-ho Bong) B+
The Kids Are All Right (Lisa Cholodenko) B+
Get Him to the Greek (Nicholas Stoller) B+
Tokyo! (Michel Gondry, Leos Carax, Joon-ho Bong) B+
An Education (Lone Scherfig) B+
Precious (Lee Daniels) B+
The Birth of a Nation (D.W. Griffith) B+
Man Bites Dog (various) B+
The House of the Devil (Ti West) B+
Avatar (James Cameron) B+
Kick-Ass (Matthew Vaughn) B
A Town Called Panic (Stephane Aubier & Vincent Patar) B
Black Dynamite (Scott Sanders) B
The Book of Eli (The Hughes Brothers) B
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (Niels Arden Oplev) B
Vertigo (Alfred Hitchcock) B
Paranormal Activity (Oren Peli) B
Cyrus (Jay and Mark Duplass) B
Alice in Wonderland (Tim Burton) B
The Twilight Saga: Eclipse (David Slade) B
Barking Dogs Never Bite (Joon-ho Bong) B
Whatever Works (Woody Allen) B
Elevator to the Gallows (Louis Malle) B
Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs (Lord & Miller) B
9 (Shane Acker) B
The Runaways (Floria Sigismondi) B-
Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call - New Orleans (Werner Herzog) B-
The Box (Richard Kelly) B-
Sita Sings the Blues (Nina Paley) B-
Hot Tub Time Machine (Steve Pink) C+
Big Fan (Robert D. Siegel) C
Date Night (Shawn Levy) C
World's Greatest Dad (Bobcat Goldthwait) C
Synecdoche, New York (Charlie Kaufman) C
Daybreakers (The Spierig Bros) C-
Penelope (Mark Palansky) C-
Observe and Report (Jody Hill) C-
Sherlock Holmes (Guy Ritchie) C-
Of Time and the City (Terence Davies) C-
St. Elmo's Fire (Joel Schumacher) D+
The Lovely Bones (Peter Jackson) D


It's been a long time, updated.

[Dukefrukem]

Just watched Citizen Kane for the first time...

[Sycophant]

DID YOU LIKE IT?

??

[Dukefrukem]

Si. Just another one of those, "I can't believe it took me this long to watch it" deals.

Next up for "I can't believe it took me this long to watch it" is Casablanca

Didn't we have a thread where we post our confessions on movies, what we have/haven't seen?

[megladon8]

1.) Make Way for Tomorrow
2.) The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
3.) 12 Angry Men
4.) Inception
5.) Moon
6.) Angels With Dirty Faces
7.) Two Lovers
8.) Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans
9.) Charley Varrick
10.) Night Moves



11.)House of the Devil
12.) Inglourious Basterds...

[Fezzik]

Modern Times
Grave of the Fireflies
Chungking Express
Inception
Memento
Toy Story 3
In the Loop
Scott Pilgrim vs. the World
How to Train Your Dragon
Black Dynamite




11. Shutter Island
12. Despicable Me
13. Rashomon
14. It Happened One Night
15. Chocolate
16. Death Note (Parts 1 & 2)
17. Witness for the Prosecution
18. The Hurt Locker
19. Kiki's Delivery Service
20. Sunshine
21. Fantastic Mr. Fox
22. A Single Man
23. Om Shanti Om
24. District B13
25. Night Watch
26. Iron Man 2
27. Velvet Goldmine
28. Fright Night
29. Knight and Day
30. My Blueberry Nights
31. Day Watch: The Chalk of Fate
32. Alice in Wonderland
33. Sherlock Holmes
34. The Blind Side
35. The Book of Eli
36. Josie and the Pussycats
37. Were the World Mine

[MadMan]

I hate to update for only one movie, but its a 100 so it makes sense. Also, I'll eventually fashion out the second half of the list to be featured in spoilers.

1. The Long Good Friday(1980)-100
2. Mulholland Dr.(2001)-100
3. Double Indemnity(1944)-100
4. Ed Wood(1994)-100
5. A Serious Man(2009)-100
6. Stop Making Sense(1984)-100
7. In The Loop(2009)-100
8. Wings of Desire(1987)-98
9. Dazed and Confused(1993)-98
10. Donnie Brasco(1997)-98

The cutoff rating is getting even higher. Eventually this list will only feature 100s. Maybe. Either I'm getting rather lazy in my grading or I'm seeing awesome movies. I prefer to think its the latter.

[Dukefrukem]

Bold is new


1. Inception [100*]
2. Mulholland Dr [99]
3. Ratatouille [95]
4. Up [95]
5. Citizen Kane [92]
6. Onibaba [92]
7. Coraline [89]
8. Shutter Island [85]
9. Toy Story 3 [84]
10. Peeping Tom [77]



11. Green Zone [76]
12. The Crazies [75]
13. Centurion [72]
14. Book of Eli [71]
15. Sherlock Holmes [70]
16. Predators [69]
17. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix [68]
18. The Bourne Ultimatum [67]
19. Food Inc [66]
20. The Fourth Kind [66]
21. Daybreakers [65]
22. Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs [63]
23. Gone Baby Gone [61]
24. Session 9 [59]
25. The Da Vinci Code [56]
26. The Wolfman [55]
27. Shrek The Third [53]
28. Dracula [51]
29. Kick-Ass [50]
30. Ice Age: The Meltdown [49]
31. Lord of War [48]
32. Law Abiding Citizen [46]
33. Edge of Darkness [45]
34. Iron Man 2 [43]
35. The Other Guys [42]
36. Twilight [40]
37. Clash of the Titans [38]
38. Vampires [38]
39. Alice in Wonderland [30]
40. Legion [20]
41. Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time [19]

[MacGuffin]

1. The Vanishing (Sluizer, 1988)
2. Daisy Kenyon (Preminger, 1947)
3. Vengeance Is Mine (Imamura, 1979)
4. Tokyo Sonata (Kiyoshi Kurosawa, 2008)
5. Diva (Beineix, 1981)
6. House (Obayashi, 1977)
7. Nostalgia (Tarkovsky, 1983)
8. Le trou (Becker, 1960)
9. Angel Face (Preminger, 1952)
10. The Bridesmaid (Chabrol, 2004)

[Stay Puft]

1. The Scent of Green Papaya (Tran '93)
2. La moustache (Carrère '05)
3. Duel of the Century (Chor '81)
4. Winter's Bone (Granik '10)
5. Bright Star (Campion '09)
6. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (Gilliam '98)
7. The White Ribbon (Haneke '09)
8. Easy Rider (Hopper '69)
9. In a Lonely Place (Ray '50)
10. A Serious Man (Coens '09)

This is me not watching many movies at all this year.

[Boner M]

8. Easy Rider (Hopper '69)
9. In a Lonely Place (Ray '50)

This is me failing at movies this year.
Fixed.

[dmk]

1. The House of Mirth (2000, Davies)
2. Ratcatcher (1999, Ramsay)
3. Morvern Callar (2002, Ramsay)
4. Autumn Tale (1998, Rohmer)
5. Friday Night (2002, Denis)
6. The Smiling Lieutenant (1931, Lubitsch)
7. Homecoming (2004, Jost)
8. Sombre (1998)
9. Secrets & Lies (1996, Leigh)
10. Johnny Guitar (1954, Ray)

1. The House of Mirth (2000, Davies)
2 . The Belly of an Architect (1987, Greenaway)
3 . Ratcatcher (1999, Ramsay)
4 . Morvern Callar (2002, Ramsay)
5 . Un Lac (2008, Grandrieux)
6 . La séparation (1994, Vincent)
7 . Nosferatu: Phantom der Nacht (1979, Herzog)
8 . Autumn Tale (1998, Rohmer)
9 . Friday Night (2002, Denis)
10 . A Scene at the Sea (1991, Kitano)

[Dukefrukem]

Bold is new


1. Inception [100*]
2. Mulholland Dr [99]
3. Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb [96]
4. Ratatouille [95]
5. Up[95]
6. Citizen Kane [92]
7. Onibaba [92]
8. Coraline [89]
9. Shutter Island [85]
10. Toy Story 3 [84]





11. Peeping Tom [77]
12. Green Zone [76]
13. The Crazies [75]
14. Centurion [72]
15. Book of Eli [71]
16. Sherlock Holmes [70]
17. Predators [69]
18. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix [68]
19. The Bourne Ultimatum [67]
20. Food Inc [66]
21. The Fourth Kind [66]
22. Daybreakers [65]
23. Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs [63]
24. The Horde [62]
25. Gone Baby Gone [61]
26. Session 9 [59]
27. Rain Man [57]
28. The Da Vinci Code [56]
29. The Wolfman [55]
30. Shrek The Third [53]
31. Dracula [51]
32. Kick-Ass [50]
33. Ice Age: The Meltdown [49]
34. Lord of War [48]
35. Law Abiding Citizen [46]
36. Edge of Darkness [45]
37. Iron Man 2 [43]
38. The Other Guys [42]
39. Twilight [40]
40. Clash of the Titans [38]
41. Vampires [38]
42. Alice in Wonderland [30]
43. Legion [20]
44. Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time [19]

[Yxklyx]

1. Woodstock (1970, Michael Wadleigh)
2. Leila (1996, Dariush Mehrjui)
3. The Hangover (2009, Todd Phillips)
4. Slacker (1991, Richard Linklater)
5. Scenes from a Marriage (1973, Ingmar Bergman)
6. Captains Courageous (1937, Victor Fleming)
7. A Sunday in the Country (1984, Bertrand Tavernier)
8. Casino (1995, Martin Scorsese)
9. El Norte (1983, Gregory Nava)
10. Time Out (2001, Laurent Cantet)

[kopello]

1. Wings of Desire (Wenders, 1987)
2. Rachel Getting Married (Demme, 2008)
3. The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus (Gilliam, 2009)
4. Tokyo Sonata (Kurosawa, 2008)
5. Pauline at the Beach (Rohmer, 1983)
6. Pulse (Kurosawa, 2001)
7. Inception (Nolan, 2010)
8. An American Werewolf in London (Landis, 1981)
9. Flight of the Red Balloon (Hou, 2007)
10. Veronika Voss (Fassbinder, 1982)

Have a few more entries and bumped up Werewolf into the top 10 again.

[Boner M]

1. Make Way For Tomorrow (Leo McCarey, 1937)
2. Dillinger is Dead (Marco Ferreri, 1969)
3. He Who Gets Slapped (Sjostrom, 1924)
4. Wild Grass (Alain Resnais, 2009)
5. To Parfisal (Bruce Baillie, 1963)
6. Man of the West (Anthony Mann, 1958)
7. The Land of Silence and Darkness (Werner Herzog, 1971)
8. Street of Shame (Kenji Mizoguchi, 1955)
9. Graduate First (Maurice Pialat, 1979)
10. Hausu (Nobuhiko Obayashi, 1977)

[origami_mustache]

in no particular order:

The Traveling Players (Theodoros Angelopoulos, 1975)
City of Pirates (Raoul Ruiz, 1983)
Funeral Parade of Roses (Toshio Matsumoto, 1969)
Few of Us (Sharunas Bartas, 1996)
Trans-Europe-Express (Alain Robbe-Grillet, 1966)
Zidane: A 21st Century Portrait (Douglas Gordon, Philippe Parreno, 2006)
Farewell To the Ark (Shuji Terayama, 1984)
Cleo From 5 To 7 (Agnès Varda, 1962)
A Tale of the Wind (Joris Ivens, 1988)
Marketa Lazarová (Frantisek Vlácil, 1967)

[StanleyK]

My Neighbor Totoro (Hayao Miyazaki, 1988)
Werckmeister Harmonies (�gnes Hranitsky & Béla Tarr, 2000)
Rosetta (Jean-Pierre Dardenne & Luc Dardenne, 1999)
Fucking Åmål (Lukas Moodysson, 1998)
Hana-Bi (Takeshi Kitano, 1997)
Eraserhead (David Lynch, 1976)
Scenes from a Marriage (Ingmar Bergman, 1973)
A Serious Man (Ethan Coen & Joel Coen, 2009)
In the Company of Men (Neil LaBute, 1997)
Gates of Heaven (Errol Morris, 1978)

Other **** films:

The Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans (Werner Herzog, 2009)
Big Deal on Madonna Street (Mario Monicelli, 1958)
Castle in the Sky (Hayao Miyazaki, 1986)
Cat People (Jacques Tourneur, 1942)
The Descent (Neil Marshall, 2005)
The Devil's Rejects (Rob Zombie, 2005)
Dr. Mabuse: The Gambler (Fritz Lang, 1922)
Eyes without a Face (Georges Franju, 1960)
I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang (Mervyn LeRoy, 1932)
Kikujiro (Takeshi Kitano, 1999)
Lost Highway (David Lynch, 1997)
The Magician (Ingmar Bergman, 1958)
Our Hospitality (John G. Blystone & Buster Keaton, 1923)
Primer (Shane Carruth, 2004)
Sans Soleil (Chris Marker, 1983)
The Secret of NIMH (Don Bluth, 1982)
Seven Chances (Buster Keaton, 1925)
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (David Hand, 1937)
Sonatine (Takeshi Kitano, 1993)
Still Life (Jia Zhangke, 2006)
Storytelling (Todd Solondz, 2001)
Summer with Monika (Ingmar Bergman, 1953)
Vernon, Florida (Errol Morris, 1981)
Wendy and Lucy (Kelly Reichardt, 2008)
Welcome to the Dollhouse (Todd Solondz, 1995)
We Own the Night (James Gray, 2007)
Woman in the Dunes (Hiroshi Teshigahara, 1964)
The White Balloon (Jafer Panahi, 1995)
The White Ribbon (Michael Haneke, 2009)

[soitgoes...]

YTD 2010:

Dekalog (Kieslowski 89)
Still Walking (Koreeda 08)
The Naked Island (Shindô 60)
A Time to Live and a Time to Die (Hou 86)
Be Sure to Share (Sono 09)
Muddy River (Oguri 81)
A Summer at Grandpa's (Hou 84)
Night Train (Kawalerowicz 59)
Los Angeles Plays Itself (Andersen 03)
I Stand Alone (Noé 98)
Best of August 2010:

A Cottage on Dartmoor (Asquith 29)
Mother (Bong 09)
Brand Upon the Brain! (Maddin 06)
Simon of the Desert (Buñuel 65)
Carlos (Assayas 10)
Four Lions (Morris 10)
Everyone Else (Ade 09)
Daydreams (Bauer 15)
I Flunked But... (Ozu 30)
Little Lise (Grémillon 30)

YTD 2010:

Dekalog (Kieslowski 89)
Still Walking (Koreeda 08)
The Naked Island (Shindô 60)
A Time to Live and a Time to Die (Hou 86)
Be Sure to Share (Sono 09)
Muddy River (Oguri 81)
A Summer at Grandpa's (Hou 84)
Night Train (Kawalerowicz 59)
Los Angeles Plays Itself (Andersen 03)
I Stand Alone (Noé 98)

[endingcredits]

1. Au Hasard Balthazar (Bresson, 1966)
2. Possession (Zulawski, 1981)
3. Pierrot le Fou (Goddard, 1968)
4. The Devil (Zulawski, 1972)
5. Diary of a Country Priest (Bresson, 1950)
6. Divided We Fall (Jan Hrebejk, 2000)
7. Irreversible (Noe, 2002)
8. Week End (Godard, 1967)
9. Stroszek (Herzog, 1977)
10. I Stand Alone (Noe, 1998)

[Russ]

1. Au Hasard Balthazar (Bresson, 1966)
2. Possession (Zulawski, 1981)
3. Pierrot le Fou (Goddard, 1968)
4. The Devil (Zulawski, 1972)
5. Diary of a Country Priest (Bresson, 1950)
6. Divided We Fall (Jan Hrebejk, 2000)
7. Irreversible (Noe, 2002)
8. Week End (Godard, 1967)
9. Stroszek (Herzog, 1977)
10. I Stand Alone (Noe, 1998)


1. Yearning (Naruse, 1964)
2. Au hasard Balthazar (Bresson, 1966)
3. Possession (Zulawski, 1981)
4. Ruggles of Red Gap (McCarey, 1935)
5. Spring Awakens (Naruse, 1947
6. Floating Clouds (Naruse, 1955)
7. The Beaver Trilogy (Harris, 2000)
8. A Serious Man (Coen, 2009)
9. Divine (Ophuls, 1935)
10. Coonskin (Bakshi, 1975)

Well now, you definitely need to see Yearning. :)

[Stay Puft]

1. The Scent of Green Papaya (Tran '93)
2. In the City of Sylvia (GuerÃ*n '07)
3. La moustache (Carrère '05)
4. Duel of the Century (Chor '81)
5. Winter's Bone (Granik '10)
6. Bright Star (Campion '09)
7. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (Gilliam '98)
8. The White Ribbon (Haneke '09)
9. Easy Rider (Hopper '69)
10. In a Lonely Place (Ray '50)

[Stay Puft]

Fixed.

Ha, what's this about? Not a fan of Easy Rider? The Ray is too low?

I have failed at movies this year, though, it's true.

[Boner M]

Ha, what's this about? Not a fan of Easy Rider? The Ray is too low?
Both. Easy Rider blows.

[endingcredits]

Both. Easy Rider blows.

Totally. It's a steamy pile.

[Derek]

1. Au Hasard Balthazar (Bresson, 1966)
2. Possession (Zulawski, 1981)
3.Pierrot le Fou (Goddard, 1968)
4. The Devil (Zulawski, 1972)
5. Diary of a Country Priest (Bresson, 1950)
6. Divided We Fall (Jan Hrebejk, 2000)
7. Irreversible (Noe, 2002)
8. Week End (Godard, 1967)
9. Stroszek (Herzog, 1977)
10. I Stand Alone (Noe, 1998)

Those are some pretty fantastic additions, especially since this place is sadly lacking in Pierrot, and Godard, fans. The Bresson has been my all-time favorite for years. What else have you seen by him?

[endingcredits]

Those are some pretty fantastic additions, especially since this place is sadly lacking in Pierrot, and Godard, fans. The Bresson has been my all-time favorite for years. What else have you seen by him?

I have to give copious credit to Melville for recommending or letting me borrow a fair chunk of those films and promulgating the supreme awesomeness of Zulawski. In regards to Bresson, I've seen, in addition to what's been posted, Mouchette and Pickpocket, with Balthazar being my favourite of the lot. I've noticed that Bresson, like Tarkovsky, has a certain spiritual perspicaciousness in what to show and what to leave out.

[dmk]

the supreme awesomeness of Zulawski.
Hear, hear.

[MacGuffin]

I'm gonna have to check out The Devil.

[soitgoes...]

Best of August 2010:

A Cottage on Dartmoor (Asquith 29)
Mother (Bong 09)
Brand Upon the Brain! (Maddin 06)
Simon of the Desert (Buñuel 65)
Carlos (Assayas 10)
Four Lions (Morris 10)
Everyone Else (Ade 09)
Daydreams (Bauer 15)
I Flunked But... (Ozu 30)
Little Lise (Grémillon 30)

YTD 2010:

Dekalog (Kieslowski 89)
Still Walking (Koreeda 08)
The Naked Island (Shindô 60)
A Time to Live and a Time to Die (Hou 86)
Be Sure to Share (Sono 09)
Muddy River (Oguri 81)
A Summer at Grandpa's (Hou 84)
Night Train (Kawalerowicz 59)
Los Angeles Plays Itself (Andersen 03)
I Stand Alone (Noé 98)


Dekalog (Kieslowski 89)
Still Walking (Koreeda 08)
The Naked Island (Shindô 60)
A Time to Live and a Time to Die (Hou 86)
Be Sure to Share (Sono 09)
The Patsy (Vidor 28)
Muddy River (Oguri 81)
A Summer at Grandpa's (Hou 84)
Night Train (Kawalerowicz 59)
Los Angeles Plays Itself (Andersen 03)

[Philosophe_rouge]

Dekalog (Kieslowski 89)
Still Walking (Koreeda 08)
The Naked Island (Shindô 60)
A Time to Live and a Time to Die (Hou 86)
Be Sure to Share (Sono 09)
The Patsy (Vidor 28)
Muddy River (Oguri 81)
A Summer at Grandpa's (Hou 84)
Night Train (Kawalerowicz 59)
Los Angeles Plays Itself (Andersen 03)

I just watched the Patsy! I probably wouldn't rank it among the ten best films i've seen this year, but it is utterly charming. This is my second Marion Davies comedy, and I have to say, she is completely undervalued as a compelling comedienne. Her impressions are dead on, her talents for physical comedy almost unrivalled (at least among women, she ranks among the greats like Lucille Ball and Mabel Normand) and she somehow injects a lot of pathos in her comedy as well. I'm excited to visit more of her work, as well as the rest of Vidor's silent oeuvre. So far he's made three great silents as far as I'm concerned, this, Show People and The Big Parade. I have very high expectations for The Crowd.

[soitgoes...]

I just watched the Patsy! I probably wouldn't rank it among the ten best films i've seen this year, but it is utterly charming. This is my second Marion Davies comedy, and I have to say, she is completely undervalued as a compelling comedienne. Her impressions are dead on, her talents for physical comedy almost unrivalled (at least among women, she ranks among the greats like Lucille Ball and Mabel Normand) and she somehow injects a lot of pathos in her comedy as well. I'm excited to visit more of her work, as well as the rest of Vidor's silent oeuvre. So far he's made three great silents as far as I'm concerned, this, Show People and The Big Parade. I have very high expectations for The Crowd.The Crowd is amazing as well. I don't think there's a director who made three films the same year as awesome as Vidor in 1928. Most would be happy to have three films of that quality over their entire careers.

With The Patsy, it had me cracking up from the get go. Davies and her entire "family" were perfect. You're right about her impressions. The best part of the film was when she went from Lillian Gish to Gloria Swanson, even to the point of penciling the dark lock of hair on her forehead. A must see for sure. I just watched Show People, and while still really good, it makes me appreciate The Patsy all the more.

[MacGuffin]

1. The Passenger (Antonioni, 1975)
2. The Vanishing (Sluizer, 1988)
3. Daisy Kenyon (Preminger, 1947)
4. Kikujiro (Kitano, 1999)
5. Vengeance Is Mine (Imamura, 1979)
6. Tokyo Sonata (Kiyoshi Kurosawa, 2008)
7. House (Obayashi, 1977)
8. Nostalgia (Tarkovsky, 1983)
9. Le trou (Becker, 1960)
10. Diva (Beineix, 1981)

Added two; decided to move Diva below Le trou because memory has been very kind to the latter.

[Philosophe_rouge]

The Crowd is amazing as well. I don't think there's a director who made three films the same year as awesome as Vidor in 1928. Most would be happy to have three films of that quality over their entire careers.

With The Patsy, it had me cracking up from the get go. Davies and her entire "family" were perfect. You're right about her impressions. The best part of the film was when she went from Lillian Gish to Gloria Swanson, even to the point of penciling the dark lock of hair on her forehead. A must see for sure. I just watched Show People, and while still really good, it makes me appreciate The Patsy all the more.
I can think of a few directors who managed 2 brilliant films in a single year, but Vidor might take the prize. I have to agree that The Patsy trumps Show People, but they are both lovely. I want to see more of Davies.

[soitgoes...]

I can think of a few directors who managed 2 brilliant films in a single year, but Vidor might take the prize. I have to agree that The Patsy trumps Show People, but they are both lovely. I want to see more of Davies.
Vidor and Davies got together to make one other comedy, Not So Dumb in 1930. It's interesting that Vidor only made a handful (4?) of comedies over his career, and three quarters of them were with Davies. I guess he knew a good thing when he saw it.

Quality Street, The Fair Co-ed, and The Cardboard Lover are all silent Davies comedies rated over 8.0 on IMDb. Have you seen (or heard anything of) any of them by chance?

[Philosophe_rouge]

Vidor and Davies got together to make one other comedy, Not So Dumb in 1930. It's interesting that Vidor only made a handful (4?) of comedies over his career, and three quarters of them were with Davies. I guess he knew a good thing when he saw it.

Quality Street, The Fair Co-ed, and The Cardboard Lover are all silent Davies comedies rated over 8.0 on IMDb. Have you seen (or heard anything of) any of them by chance?
No not yet, I'll definitely make them a priority.

[Raiders]

I will chime in and agree The Crowd is awesome. I recently re-watched The Big Parade however and have determined it is one of the best films like, ever.

[Beau]

Man, I don't even know anymore. Let's try to do this.


1. 24 City
2. Andrei Rublev
3. A Letter to Uncle Boonmee
4. Nostalghia
5. In the City of Sylvia
6. The White Ribbon
7. Khrustalyov, My Car!
8. The Castle
9. Colloque de chiens
10. The Burmese Harp

Fantasma (Alonso)
Chronicle of a Lonely Child (Favio)
Angel's Egg (Oshii)
Visitor to a Museum (Lopushansky)
La Vie Nouvelle (Grandrieux)

Diabel (Zulawski)
Andrei Rublev (Tarkovsky)
Khrustalyov, My Car! (German)
Chimes at Midnight (Welles)
Manoel on the Island of Marvels (Ruiz)

No idea about the order. None. They're all the best film I've seen all year. I give them a generalized 1st place.

[soitgoes...]

I recently re-watched The Big Parade however and have determined it is one of the best films like, ever.Great for sure, but it'd probably be my second or third favorite Vidor film, vying hard with The Crowd. He's fast becoming one of my favorite directors. More people here need to check him out and silent films in general.


The Dying Swan (1917) ***First Bauer film? I'd probably rate it a touch higher than you. If you're looking to delve deeper into his films, After Death and Daydreams are also good stuff with the latter being my favorite of his.

[Philosophe_rouge]

The Big Parade is one of my very favourite films. Everything about it speaks to my sensibilities. I love the the way he constructs the romance between Gilbert and the French girl and when that is disrupted by war, and we are shown some of the most incredible and terrifying war scenes I've seen committed to screen... well, you know you have a spectacular film. That scene with the soldiers moving forward through the moods as one by one they slowly get picked off... few scenes in cinematic history match that. Though I generally prefer his silents (though I LOVE Stella Dallas and am very fond of The Champ), he also made the transition to sound better than most major filmmakers. Though slightly clunky and a little racist, Hallelujah is probably the most interesting and vibrant sound film pre-1930 I've seen.

I too want to really delve into his work, starting with The Crowd. Others high on the priority list would probably be, Beyond the Forest, Bardelys the Magnificent, Wild Oranges, H.M. Pulsam, Esq. and La Boheme.

Though Vidor is hardly a stock filmmaker, I think him, alongside William A. Wellman are really gaining in favour these days and with reason. Neither really emerged as important figures when auteurists were re-examining the American studio system, though both made many spectacularly vibrant pictures, they are no finally gaining the prestige they deserve.

[soitgoes...]

King Vidor rated out of 10:

The Patsy (1928) - 10
The Crowd (1928) - 9.0
The Big Parade (1925) - 9.0
Hallelujah! (1929) - 8.5
Our Daily Bread (1934) - 8.0
Stella Dallas (1937) - 7.5
Show People (1928) - 7.5
The Champ (1931) - 6.0
Northwest Passage (1940) - 6.0

I have La Boheme, Bardelys the Magnificent and Not So Dumb lined up to see soon. I also want to see The Citadel badly.

[MadMan]

I hate to update for only one movie, but its a 100 so it makes sense. Also, I'll eventually fashion out the second half of the list to be featured in spoilers.

1. The Long Good Friday(1980)-100
2. Mulholland Dr.(2001)-100
3. A Clockwork Orange(1971)-100
4. Double Indemnity(1944)-100
5. Ed Wood(1994)-100
6. A Serious Man(2009)-100
7. Stop Making Sense(1984)-100
8. In The Loop(2009)-100
9. Wings of Desire(1987)-98
10. Dazed and Confused(1993)-98

My list from last year and this year's list are incredibly different. There are a lot of movies I've seen this year that would have made the list in 2009, but are being left off this year's list. Interesting.

[Yxklyx]

1. Woodstock (1970, Michael Wadleigh)
2. Leila (1996, Dariush Mehrjui)
3. The Hangover (2009, Todd Phillips)
4. Slacker (1991, Richard Linklater)
5. Scenes from a Marriage (1973, Ingmar Bergman)
6. The Last Command (1928, Josef von Sternberg)
7. Captains Courageous (1937, Victor Fleming)
8. A Sunday in the Country (1984, Bertrand Tavernier)
9. The Kids are Alright (2010, Lisa Cholodenko)
10. Casino (1995, Martin Scorsese)

[megladon8]

1.) Make Way for Tomorrow
2.) The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
3.) 12 Angry Men
4.) Inception
5.) Moon
6.) Angels With Dirty Faces
7.) Two Lovers
8.) Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans
9.) The Town
10.) Charley Varrick




11.) Night Moves
12.)House of the Devil
13.) Inglourious Basterds...

[MacGuffin]

1. The Passenger (Antonioni, 1975) [10]
2. Kikujiro (Kitano, 1999) [9.5]
3. Enter the Void (Noé, 2010) [9 or 9.5]
4. Daisy Kenyon (Preminger, 1947) [9]
5. Vengeance Is Mine (Imamura, 1979) [9]
6. House (Obayashi, 1977) [9]
7. Nostalgia (Tarkovsky, 1983) [9]
8. Tokyo Sonata (Kiyoshi Kurosawa, 2008) [9]
9. Le trou (Becker, 1960) [9]
10. The Vanishing (Sluizer, 1988) [9]

I want to leave Diva [9] at honorable mention, though I could easily put it at 10. I decided to move The Vanishing down a number of spots because while I still like it a lot, it feels a bit less colossal and monumentally epic compared to the movies above it, but even as the best Hitchcock movie Hitchcock never made, it's still a masterpiece like all of these films. Added Enter the Void and I'm going to give it a spot toward the top of the list just because it's exactly what I want to see when I go to the movies. It's a unique experience in that it is compelling as a narrative as well as (and in a way, because of) its intense visual style. Went ahead and added some ratings also.

[B-side]

MacG's top 10

As long as Nostalghia stays in there, I'm pleased.:D

[MacGuffin]

As long as Nostalghia stays in there, I'm pleased.:D

It should. At least for a while. I want to see it again, but I was lucky to see it on the big screen in the first place. Really something Criterion/Janus should get a hold of.

As for the list itself, it's starting to seem really arbitrary. I mean, I like all of these movies to varying degrees, but the actual rankings are really kinda difficult (everything on the list is a masterpiece at this point anyway with probably The Passenger being the closest to perfection).

[B-side]

It should. At least for a while. I want to see it again, but I was lucky to see it on the big screen in the first place. Really something Criterion/Janus should get a hold of.

As for the list itself, it's starting to seem really arbitrary. I mean, I like all of these movies to varying degrees, but the actual rankings are really kinda difficult (everything on the list is a masterpiece at this point anyway with probably The Passenger being the closest to perfection).

Yeah, I always have trouble with ratings/rankings. I'm probably just going to drop the rankings and keep them as just a group of 10.

[Izzy Black]

Man, I don't even know anymore. Let's try to do this.



Fantasma (Alonso)
Chronicle of a Lonely Child (Favio)
Angel's Egg (Oshii)
Visitor to a Museum (Lopushansky)
La Vie Nouvelle (Grandrieux)

Diabel (Zulawski)
Andrei Rublev (Tarkovsky)
Khrustalyov, My Car! (German)
Chimes at Midnight (Welles)
Manoel on the Island of Marvels (Ruiz)

No idea about the order. None. They're all the best film I've seen all year. I give them a generalized 1st place.

Nice, nice. The Ruiz and Grandrieux are good. You just saw Rublev? Thoughts? Khrustalyov is nice too. Haven't seen the Lopushansky....

[B-side]

Yay, Izzy's back!

[Beau]

Nice, nice. The Ruiz and Grandrieux are good. You just saw Rublev? Thoughts? Khrustalyov is nice too. Haven't seen the Lopushansky....

I've seen three Lopushanskies, and Museum is the only one I really love. Letters from a Dead Man I found oppressive, and not necessarily in a good way. There are good ways of being oppressive, evocatively so, like Tarkovsky's Nostalghia, which was a rather uncomfortable viewing experience, but ultimately rewarding. Letters from a Dead Man obviously intends to be oppressive, due to the subject matter, but what I found most oppressive in it was the flatness, the dullness, the stuffiness, and not the apocalyptic imagery. Nostalghia is also oppressive, and intentionally so, or successfully so, because it's oppressive in the way it seems to want to be oppressive, that is, it's a more poetic kind of oppression, like a million Sunday afternoons stacked one on top of the other, a very deep sort of melancholy, which Tarkovsky says was an almost accidental product of his state of mind at the time, but which I think also has to do with the fortuitous coming together of three parallel exiles: the writer, the composer he's researching, and Tarkovsky himself. It's an exile making a film about an exile who is researching another exile. Alright, so some of them weren't technically exiles, or at least I don't think the writer was, and Tarkovksy didn't know he'd be one while making the film, but what matters is their shared pain of being uprooted from their country or home, which is something I'm personally acquainted with. And so you have three levels of uprooted longing, and these levels of coincidence seem intertwined inside the film to great effect. It's like having three instruments playing the same notes, but their combination makes the sound different than if it were just one instrument playing alone. So I think this is much more interesting oppression than the stuffy library atmosphere I got from Letters from a Dead Man. As for more Lopushansky, I thought The Ugly Swans played a bit like a television movie. But the Lopushansky I love, Museum, it has a special intensity. It makes mistakes Tarkovsky would never make, certain kitsch elements, but it's going for a sort of existential spectacle, a grand nightmare. It works on a very visceral level for me. Andrei Rublev: I oddly don't have as much to say about it. At least right now. It's one of those experiences where I got exactly what I thought I was going to get, a nearly perfect film, Tarkovsky doing an epic. La Vie Nouvelle, by comparison, that came out of nowhere. It was my first Grandrieux and, now having seen his other two movies, and that awful music video, I can't say he surpassed La Vie Nouvelle for me, though Un Lac came really close, and unlike Lopushansky, I more or less love everything Grandrieux did, except for that video. Which means I also liked Sombre. But La Vie Nouvelle. I was prepared for something depressing, but not for Grandrieux's visual experimentation. I realized early on that I was going to be surprised: already in the first scene, we have that effect Grandrieux does, that quivering camera, looking on at the savaged faces. I think that, sort of like Nostalghia, with La Vie Nouvelle I felt like I was stuck in a hermetic universe, as if the whole world were contained in the bubble of the characters' state of mind, so the world in these films is always unreal, somehow intangible, and in La Vie Nouvelle the world is fragile, as if it could shatter, and in Nostalghia the world seems like it could disappear behind a shadow, or collapse into a puddle, into a pool, or dissipate into humid air, so you have that fragility, the same fragility of the characters, reflected in these cinematic worlds that look like they're five seconds away from exploding.

[Izzy Black]

I've seen three Lopushanskies, and Museum is the only one I really love. Letters from a Dead Man I found oppressive, and not necessarily in a good way. There are good ways of being oppressive, evocatively so, like Tarkovsky's Nostalghia, which was a rather uncomfortable viewing experience, but ultimately rewarding. Letters from a Dead Man obviously intends to be oppressive, due to the subject matter, but what I found most oppressive in it was the flatness, the dullness, the stuffiness, and not the apocalyptic imagery. Nostalghia is also oppressive, and intentionally so, or successfully so, because it's oppressive in the way it seems to want to be oppressive, that is, it's a more poetic kind of oppression, like a million Sunday afternoons stacked one on top of the other, a very deep sort of melancholy, which Tarkovsky says was an almost accidental product of his state of mind at the time, but which I think also has to do with the fortuitous coming together of three parallel exiles: the writer, the composer he's researching, and Tarkovsky himself. It's an exile making a film about an exile who is researching another exile. Alright, so some of them weren't technically exiles, or at least I don't think the writer was, and Tarkovksy didn't know he'd be one while making the film, but what matters is their shared pain of being uprooted from their country or home, which is something I'm personally acquainted with. And so you have three levels of uprooted longing, and these levels of coincidence seem intertwined inside the film to great effect. It's like having three instruments playing the same notes, but their combination makes the sound different than if it were just one instrument playing alone. So I think this is much more interesting oppression than the stuffy library atmosphere I got from Letters from a Dead Man.

Interesting! I'd like to see this one.


As for more Lopushansky, I thought The Ugly Swans played a bit like a television movie. But the Lopushansky I love, Museum, it has a special intensity. It makes mistakes Tarkovsky would never make, certain kitsch elements, but it's going for a sort of existential spectacle, a grand nightmare. It works on a very visceral level for me. Andrei Rublev: I oddly don't have as much to say about it. At least right now. It's one of those experiences where I got exactly what I thought I was going to get, a nearly perfect film, Tarkovsky doing an epic.

It's quite great and still, in my view, his best film. Stalker comes very close, though. There's something ageless about Andrei Rublev. It might benefit from being a period piece. There's also a less cerebral, more emotional exhaustion to it. The exhaustion of Stalker comes across far more cerebral, and I would say much of his later work is in this way as well. There's a visceral element to Andrei Rublev - the restlessness, anxiety, uncertainty, and crisis that conflicts not only its protagonist but others, is almost a matter-of-fact; it's a haunting presence that accompanies the characters as they trek the confusing, tumultuous medieval landscape. There's a more immediate sense of an ontological crisis at this level - perhaps due to the existential problems seeming to exist beyond the personal level and at the social, even though it's primarily captured through the lens of the personal. It benefits from its silence and the expansiveness of its images and cinematic scope.

Of course, all of this sounds awfully familiar and similar to another filmmaker I admire, but what's different here is that the conflict isn't one of alienation, moral bankruptcy, and vacancy. If there's an alienation, it's collective rather than personal; an alienation from something deeper, or from God, but not necessarily from each other (the ending even might suggest that the latter is as all we have); a communal disconnect or identity crisis where the sense of self is lost or uncertain, but a sentiment nonetheless shared by everyone. The advantage, in Tarkovsky's case, of capturing this through images is the effect seems to be more an emotional one than a cognitive one. Despite our lead's self-reflection and searching, there's a sense in which it's never in grasp what exactly is missing from human experience. In contrast to The Seventh Seal, the problem isn't merely evil. It's less defined than that; the observance of pagan rituals, the animalism of man, and the freedom of the will are not captured evaluatively. Rather, there seems to just exist this struggle to reconcile the beauty in life with the ugly (hence the art-themed premise - both as analogy and as a real component), and the seeming inability to ascertain why, or how, these things, and thus life, ought to be understood. In Andrei's particular case, we might say he's never quite able to grasp why God feels absent or distant - he just does.

In contrast, Tarkovsky's later work, whether through expository dialogue or clear behavioral patterns-of-action, his characters seem to know just what is amidst, and in some cases, what needs to be done about it, even if they fall short. This is why Andrei Rublev is quite special, I think. It's despair is more restless and mysterious, expressed by silence and wonder. Stalker, on the hand, is much too forceful, verbose, and expressive in its misery and mystery, and thus, I think, pales a bit in both these categories by comparison.


La Vie Nouvelle, by comparison, that came out of nowhere. It was my first Grandrieux and, now having seen his other two movies, and that awful music video, I can't say he surpassed La Vie Nouvelle for me, though Un Lac came really close, and unlike Lopushansky, I more or less love everything Grandrieux did, except for that video. Which means I also liked Sombre. But La Vie Nouvelle. I was prepared for something depressing, but not for Grandrieux's visual experimentation. I realized early on that I was going to be surprised: already in the first scene, we have that effect Grandrieux does, that quivering camera, looking on at the savaged faces. I think that, sort of like Nostalghia, with La Vie Nouvelle I felt like I was stuck in a hermetic universe, as if the whole world were contained in the bubble of the characters' state of mind, so the world in these films is always unreal, somehow intangible, and in La Vie Nouvelle the world is fragile, as if it could shatter, and in Nostalghia the world seems like it could disappear behind a shadow, or collapse into a puddle, into a pool, or dissipate into humid air, so you have that fragility, the same fragility of the characters, reflected in these cinematic worlds that look like they're five seconds away from exploding.

Grandrieux is important. We need to keep watching him.

[Mysterious Dude]

1. The White Ribbon (2009)
2. The Lathe of Heaven (1980)
3. Deep End (1971)
4. Home (2008)
5. Ballast (2008)
6. Revanche (2008)
7. Pretty Village, Pretty Flame (1996)
8. The Go-Between (1970)
9. The Family Game (1983)
10. Oasis (2002)

1. The White Ribbon (2009)
2. The Lathe of Heaven (1980)
3. Deep End (1971)
4. Home (2008)
5. Clean, Shaven (1993)
6. Ballast (2008)
7. The Go-Between (1970)
8. Revanche (2008)
9. Poil de carotte (1932)
10. Intentions of Murder (1964)

[transmogrifier]

1. Where Eagles Dare 77
2. Dressed to Kill 76
3. Mean Creek 76
4. Laura 75
5. In the Loop 74
6. Shutter Island 73
7. El Dorado 72
8. Fantastic Mr. Fox 72
9. A Serious Man 71
10. Where the Wild Things Are 71

[endingcredits]

1. Au Hasard Balthazar (Bresson, 1966)
2. Possession (Zulawski, 1981)
3. Le passion de Jeanne d'Arc (Dreyer, 1928)
4. Edvard Munch (Watkins, 1974)
5. The Son (Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne, 2002)
6. Pierrot le Fou (Goddard, 1968)
7. Hour of the Wolf (Bergman, 1968)
8. The Devil (Zulawski, 1972)
9. Diary of a Country Priest (Bresson, 1950)
10. Fanny and Alexander (Bergman, 1982)

Entries with rank index >10:

The Sacrifice (Tarkovsky, 1986)
Cries and Whispers (Bergman, 1972)
Divided We Fall (Jan Hrebejk, 2000)
Irreversible (Noe, 2002)
Woyzeck (Herzog, 1979)
Week End (Godard, 1967)
Stroszek (Herzog, 1977)
A Zed & Two Noughts (Greenaway, 1990)
I Stand Alone (Noe, 1998)
L' Eclisse (Antonioni, 1962)

[Melville]

1. Au Hasard Balthazar (Bresson, 1966)
2. Possession (Zulawski, 1981)
3. Le passion de Jeanne d'Arc (Dreyer, 1928)
4. Edvard Munch (Watkins, 1974)
5. The Son (Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne, 2002)
6. Pierrot le Fou (Goddard, 1968)
7. Hour of the Wolf (Bergman, 1968)
8. The Devil (Zulawski, 1972)
9. Diary of a Country Priest (Bresson, 1950)
10. Fanny and Alexander (Bergman, 1982)

Entries with rank index >10:

The Sacrifice (Tarkovsky, 1986)
Cries and Whispers (Bergman, 1972)
Divided We Fall (Jan Hrebejk, 2000)
Irreversible (Noe, 2002)
Woyzeck (Herzog, 1979)
Week End (Godard, 1967)
Stroszek (Herzog, 1977)
A Zed & Two Noughts (Greenaway, 1990)
I Stand Alone (Noe, 1998)
L' Eclisse (Antonioni, 1962)

Best list ever. But where are all the other Tarkovsky movies? Surprised you put L'Eclisse on there.

[StanleyK]

My Neighbor Totoro (Hayao Miyazaki, 1988)
Werckmeister Harmonies (�gnes Hranitsky & Béla Tarr, 2000)
Rosetta (Jean-Pierre Dardenne & Luc Dardenne, 1999)
Fucking Åmål (Lukas Moodysson, 1998)
Hana-Bi (Takeshi Kitano, 1997)
Land of Silence and Darkness (Werner Herzog, 1971)
Eraserhead (David Lynch, 1976)
Scenes from a Marriage (Ingmar Bergman, 1973)
Gates of Heaven (Errol Morris, 1978)
Tropical Malady (Apichatpong Weerasethakul, 2004)

Other **** films:

The Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans (Werner Herzog, 2009)
La Bête Humaine (Jean Renoir, 1938)
Big Deal on Madonna Street (Mario Monicelli, 1958)
Castle in the Sky (Hayao Miyazaki, 1986)
Cat People (Jacques Tourneur, 1942)
The Descent (Neil Marshall, 2005)
The Devil's Rejects (Rob Zombie, 2005)
Dr. Mabuse: The Gambler (Fritz Lang, 1922)
Eyes without a Face (Georges Franju, 1960)
Fast, Cheap & Out of Control (Errol Morris, 1997)
I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang (Mervyn LeRoy, 1932)
Kiki's Delivery Service (Hayao Miyazaki, 1989)
Kikujiro (Takeshi Kitano, 1999)
Life, and Nothing More... (Abbas Kiarostami, 1991)
Lost Highway (David Lynch, 1997)
The Magician (Ingmar Bergman, 1958)
Our Hospitality (John G. Blystone & Buster Keaton, 1923)
Porco Rosso (Hayao Miyazaki, 1992)
Primer (Shane Carruth, 2004)
Sans Soleil (Chris Marker, 1983)
The Secret of NIMH (Don Bluth, 1982)
A Serious Man (Ethan Coen & Joel Coen, 2009)
Seven Chances (Buster Keaton, 1925)
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (David Hand, 1937)
Sonatine (Takeshi Kitano, 1993)
Songs from the Second Floor (Roy Andersson, 2000)
Still Life (Jia Zhangke, 2006)
Storytelling (Todd Solondz, 2001)
Summer with Monika (Ingmar Bergman, 1953)
Up (Pete Docter & Bob Peterson, 2009)
Vernon, Florida (Errol Morris, 1981)
Wendy and Lucy (Kelly Reichardt, 2008)
Welcome to the Dollhouse (Todd Solondz, 1995)
We Own the Night (James Gray, 2007)
Woman in the Dunes (Hiroshi Teshigahara, 1964)
The White Balloon (Jafer Panahi, 1995)
The White Ribbon (Michael Haneke, 2009)

[Dead & Messed Up]

Updated for fourteen movies.

01. Aguirre, the Wrath of God (1972)
02. College (1927)
03. My Neighbor Totoro (1988)
04. A Serious Man (2009)
05. The Adventures of Prince Achmed (1926)
06. A Clockwork Orange (1971)
07. The Thief of Bagdad (1942)
08. Things to Come (1936)
09. Gattaca (1997)
10. Lady Vengeance (2005)

11. Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance (2002)
12. Inception (2010)
13. The Sugarland Express (1974)
14. Into the Wild (2007)
15. Three Colors: Blue (1993)
16. Clash of the Titans (1981)
17. Moon (2009)
18. Wings of Desire (1987)
19. THX-1138 (1971)
20. The Game (1997)
21. Klute (1971)
22. The House of the Devil (2009)
23. The Hurt Locker (2009)
24. The First Men in the Moon (1964)
25. The Valley of Gwangi (1969)
26. Monsters Inc. (2001)
27. Where the Wild Things Are (2009)
28. District 9 (2009)
29. A Bug's Life (1998)
30. MacGruber (2010)
31. Shutter Island (2010)
32. The Golden Voyage of Sinbad (1975)
33. Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (1982)
34. The Seventh Voyage of Sinbad (1958)
35. The Other Guys (2010)
36. King of the Ants (2003)
37. Doppelganger (2003)
38. The Three Worlds of Gulliver (1960)
39. Cyrus (2010)
40. Avatar (2009)
41. Little Shop of Horrors (1960)
42. Mysterious Island (1961)
43. Beetlejuice (1988)
44. Hot Tub Time Machine (2010)
45. Hellboy: Sword of Storms (2007)
46. Paranormal Activity (2009)
47. Fear and Desire (1953)
48. Werewolf of London (1935)
49. Dolan's Cadillac (2009)
50. The Kids Are All Right (2010)
51. 20 Million Miles to Earth (1957)
52. I Sell the Dead (2008)
53. Killer Klowns From Outer Space (1988)
54. Parasomnia (2008)
55. Logan's Run (1976)
56. It Came From Beneath the Sea (1956)
57. Kick-Ass (2010)
58. Sinbad and the Eye of the Tiger (1977)
59. The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms (1953)
60. Earth vs. the Flying Saucers (1956)
61. Dead Snow (2009)
62. One Million Years B. C. (1966)
63. Sleepwalkers (1992)
64. The Shape of Things to Come (1979)

Note to self: add Piranha 3-D on next revision.

[Ivan Drago]

1. The Heiress (William Wyler, 1949)
1. Antichrist (Lars von Trier, 2009)
3. The Fly (David Cronenberg, 1986)
4. Let The Right One In (Tomas Alfredson, 2008)
5. Inception (Christopher Nolan, 2010)
6. The Hurt Locker (Kathryn Bigelow, 2009)
7. Sunset Boulevard (Billy Wilder, 1950)
8. The Social Network (David Fincher, 2010)
9. Scott Pilgrim vs. The World (Edgar Wright, 2010)
10. Gimme Shelter (Albert & David Maysles, 1970)



11. Kiss Me Deadly (Robert Aldrich, 1955)
12. Dogville (Lars von Trier, 2003)
13. Toy Story 3 (Lee Unkrich, 2010)
14. Crossfire (Edward Dmytryk, 1947)
15. The Blues Brothers (John Landis, 1980)
16. The American (Anton Corbijn, 2010)
17. The Dirty Dozen (Robert Aldrich, 1967)
18. MacGruber (Jorma Taccone, 2010)
19. Sullivan's Travels (Preston Sturges, 1941)
20. Ichi The Killer (Takashi Miike, 2001)
21. Orson Welles: One-Man Band (Silovic/Kodar, 1995)
22. Too Late The Hero (Robert Aldrich, 1969)
23. Rashomon (Akira Kurosawa, 1950)
24. The Expendables (Sylvester Stallone, 2010)
25. Piranha 3D (Alexandre Aja, 2010)
26. Bodysong (Simon Pummell, 2003)
27. Iron Man 2 (Jon Favreau, 2010)
28. Twilight's Last Gleaming (Robert Aldrich, 1977)
29. The Princess Bride (Rob Reiner, 1987)
30. American Psycho (Mary Harron, 2000)
31. Despicable Me (Coffin/Renaud, 2010)
32. Double Indemnity (Billy Wilder, 1944)
33. Emperor of the North (Robert Aldrich, 1973)
34. Ulzana's Raid (Robert Aldrich, 1972)
35. The Holy Mountain (Alejandro Jodorowsky, 1973)
36. Shutter Island (Martin Scorsese, 2010)
37. The Breakfast Club (John Hughes, 1985)
38. The Longest Yard (Robert Aldrich, 1974)
39. Body and Soul (Robert Rossen, 1947)
40. Easy A (Will Gluck, 2010)
41. Blazing Saddles (Mel Brooks, 1974)
42. The Town (Ben Affleck, 2010)
43. Flight of the Phoenix (Robert Aldrich, 1966)
44. Force of Evil (Abraham Polonsky, 1948)
45. My Man Godfrey (Gregory La Cava, 1936)
46. The Lady From Shanghai (Orson Welles, 1948)
47. Attack! (Robert Aldrich, 1956)
48. Kick-Ass (Matthew Vaughn, 2010)
49. The Big Knife (Robert Aldrich, 1955)
50. Alice in Wonderland (Tim Burton, 2010)
51. Up In The Air (Jason Reitman, 2009)
52. Machete (Rodriguez/Maniquis, 2010)
53. Predators (Nimrod Antal, 2010)
54. Splice (Vincenzo Natali, 2010)
55. Queen Christina (Rouben Mamoulian, 1933)
56. Get Him To The Greek (Nicholas Stoller, 2010)
57. Suspicion (Alfred Hitchcock, 1941)
58. Eclipse (David Slade, 2010)
59. The Lovely Bones (Peter Jackson, 2009)
60. The Girlfriend Experience (Steven Soderbergh, 2009)
61. Clash of the Titans (Louis Letterier, 2010)
62. Grown Ups (Dennis Dugan, 2010)
63. Heavy Metal (Gerald Potterton, 1981)
64. Titanic II (Shane Van Dyke, 2010)

Big update.

[B-side]

Best list ever.

I was gonna say. That's a lot of great cinema to be ingesting in the same year for the first time.

[MadMan]

Goddamnit I think I'm too much of an easy grader. But the latest addition to my list surprised me in how amazing it really was. I'll give you a hint: it was made this year....


1. The Long Good Friday(1980)-100
2. Mulholland Dr.(2001)-100
3. A Clockwork Orange(1971)-100
4. Double Indemnity(1944)-100
5. Ed Wood(1994)-100
6. A Serious Man(2009)-100
7. The Social Network(2010)-100
8. Stop Making Sense(1984)-100
9. In The Loop(2009)-100
10. Wings of Desire(1987)-98

Regardless of too many modern movies being included here, I think this list is better than last year's.

[transmogrifier]

1. The Informant! 79
2. Where Eagles Dare 77
3. Dressed to Kill 76
4. Mean Creek 76
5. Laura 75
6. In the Loop 74
7. Shutter Island 73
8. El Dorado 72
9. Fantastic Mr. Fox 72
10. A Serious Man 71

[B-side]

1. The Shooting (Hellman, 1967)
2. Invitation to the Dance (Kelly, 1956)
3. Las soledades (Ruiz, 1992)
4. The Suspended Step of the Stork (Angelopoulos, 1991)
5. Claire's Knee (Rohmer, 1970)
6. The Wind (Sjöström, 1928)
7. Rumble Fish (Coppola, 1983)
8. Nor'west (Rivette, 1976)
9. How Green Was My Valley (Ford, 1941)
10. Slow Moves (Jost, 1983)

1. The Shooting (Hellman, 1967)
2. Invitation to the Dance (Kelly, 1956)
3. Las soledades (Ruiz, 1992)
4. The Suspended Step of the Stork (Angelopoulos, 1991)
5. Claire's Knee (Rohmer, 1970)
6. The Wind (Sjöström, 1928)
7. Nor'west (Rivette, 1976)
8. A Spring for the Thirsty (Ilyenko, 1965)
9. How Green Was My Valley (Ford, 1941)
10. Slow Moves (Jost, 1983)

[Boner M]

1. Make Way For Tomorrow (Leo McCarey, 1937)
2. Dillinger is Dead (Marco Ferreri, 1969)
3. Los Angeles Plays Itself (Thom Andersen, 2003)
4. He Who Gets Slapped (Sjostrom, 1924)
5. Meek's Cutoff (Kelly Reichardt, 2010)
6. Wild Grass (Alain Resnais, 2009)
7. To Parfisal (Bruce Baillie, 1963)
8. Man of the West (Anthony Mann, 1958)
9. The Land of Silence and Darkness (Werner Herzog, 1971)
10. Tokyo Twilight (Yasujiro Ozu, 1957)

[B-side]

Nice to see that Sjöström still holding strong in your top 5, Boner. Definitely seek out The Wind if you haven't seen it yet.

[Boner M]

Nice to see that Sjöström still holding strong in your top 5, Boner. Definitely seek out The Wind if you haven't seen it yet.
Will do.

[Stay Puft]

1. The Scent of Green Papaya (Tran '93)
2. In the City of Sylvia (GuerÃ*n '07)
3. Ballad of a Soldier (Chukhrai '59)
4. The Anthem (Weerasethakul '06)
5. La moustache (Carrère '05)
6. Duel of the Century (Chor '81)
7. Winter's Bone (Granik '10)
8. Bright Star (Campion '09)
9. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (Gilliam '98)
10. The White Ribbon (Haneke '09)

[soitgoes...]

3. Los Angeles Plays Itself (Thom Andersen, 2003)
10. Tokyo Twilight (Yasujiro Ozu, 1957)

Awesome. The first film needs to be seen by more.

[Russ]

1. Yearning (Naruse, 1964)
2. Au hasard Balthazar (Bresson, 1966)
3. Possession (Zulawski, 1981)
4. Ruggles of Red Gap (McCarey, 1935)
5. Spring Awakens (Naruse, 1947
6. Floating Clouds (Naruse, 1955)
7. When a Woman Ascends the Stairs (Naruse, 1960)
8. The Beaver Trilogy (Harris, 2000)
9. A Serbian Film (Spasojevic, 2010)
10. A Serious Man (Coen, 2009)

[soitgoes...]

Dekalog (Kieslowski 89)
Still Walking (Koreeda 08)
The Naked Island (Shindô 60)
A Time to Live and a Time to Die (Hou 86)
Be Sure to Share (Sono 09)
The Patsy (Vidor 28)
Muddy River (Oguri 81)
A Summer at Grandpa's (Hou 84)
Night Train (Kawalerowicz 59)
Los Angeles Plays Itself (Andersen 03)


Dekalog (Kieslowski 89)
I'm Still Here (Affleck 10)
Still Walking (Koreeda 08)
The Naked Island (Shindô 60)
A Time to Live and a Time to Die (Hou 86)
Be Sure to Share (Sono 09)
El Verdugo (Berlanga 63)
The Patsy (Vidor 28)
Muddy River (Oguri 81)
A Summer at Grandpa's (Hou 84)

[Spaceman Spiff]

2. Possession (Zulawski, 1981)
8. The Devil (Zulawski, 1972)

Ha! Did you watch these becase of my aggressive pimping of them? Good stuff. I also prefer Possession of the two.

Anyways, I ended up staying in tonight and watching Come and See. My list is as follows:

1. Come and See
2 - 10. Movies that aren't Come and See.

[endingcredits]

Ha! Did you watch these becase of my aggressive pimping of them?

All credit for my exposure to Zulawski goes to Melville.

[dmk]

1. The House of Mirth (2000, Davies)
2 . The Belly of an Architect (1987, Greenaway)
3 . Ratcatcher (1999, Ramsay)
4 . Morvern Callar (2002, Ramsay)
5 . Un Lac (2008, Grandrieux)
6 . La séparation (1994, Vincent)
7 . Nosferatu: Phantom der Nacht (1979, Herzog)
8 . Autumn Tale (1998, Rohmer)
9 . Friday Night (2002, Denis)
10 . A Scene at the Sea (1991, Kitano)


1. The House of Mirth (2000, Davies)
2 . Va savoir (2001, Rivette)
3 . The Belly of an Architect (1987, Greenaway)
4 . Ratcatcher (1999, Ramsay)
5 . Morvern Callar (2002, Ramsay)
6 . Un Lac (2008, Grandrieux)
7 . La séparation (1994, Vincent)
8 . Nosferatu: Phantom der Nacht (1979, Herzog)
9 . Autumn Tale (1998, Rohmer)
10 .Friday Night (2002, Denis)

[Spaceman Spiff]

All credit for my exposure to Zulawski goes to Melville.

What is this. I don't even...

[baby doll]

Make Way for Tomorrow (Leo McCarrey, 1937)
Daisy Kenyon (Otto Preminger, 1947)
The War Game (Peter Watkins, 1965)
The Killing of a Chinese Bookie (John Cassavetes, 1976)
The American Friend (Wim Wenders, 1977)
Blind Chance (Krzyzstof Kieslowski, 1981)
In Vanda's Room (Pedro Costa, 2000)
The Headless Woman (Lucrecia Martel, 2008)
Fantastic Mr. Fox (Wes Anderson, 2009)
The White Ribbon: A German Children's Story (Michael Haneke, 2009)

That doesn't include new commercial releases (i.e., Vincere) or premieres (Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives).

[soitgoes...]

Dekalog (Kieslowski 89)
I'm Still Here (Affleck 10)
Still Walking (Koreeda 08)
The Naked Island (Shindô 60)
A Time to Live and a Time to Die (Hou 86)
Be Sure to Share (Sono 09)
El Verdugo (GarcÃ*a 63)
The Patsy (Vidor 28)
Muddy River (Oguri 81)
A Summer at Grandpa's (Hou 84)

Dekalog (Kieslowski 89)
Il posto (Olmi 61)
I'm Still Here (Affleck 10)
Still Walking (Koreeda 08)
The Naked Island (Shindô 60)
A Time to Live and a Time to Die (Hou 86)
Be Sure to Share (Sono 09)
El Verdugo (GarcÃ*a 63)
The Patsy (Vidor 28)
Muddy River (Oguri 81)

[dreamdead]

Updated:

1. Housemaid - 9
2. The Beaches of Agnes - 8.5
3. The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance - 8.5
4. The Long Goodbye - 8.5
5. Secret Sunshine - 8.5
6. Everyone Else - 8.5
7. The Fog of War - 8.5
8. Koyaanisqatsi - 8.5
9. I Live in Fear - 8.5
10. Bright Star - 8


Where the Wild Things Are - 8
Summer Hours - 8
Swing Time - 8
Tokyo Sonata - 8
Baby Doll - 8
Stagecoach - 8
The Testament of Dr. Mabuse - 8
Mon Oncle - 8
Hunger - 8
Public Enemies - 7.5
The Romance of Astrea and Celadon - 7.5
The Lady and the Duke - 7.5
Crumb - 7.5
The Killers (Siegel) -7.5
Waltz with Bashir - 7.5
The Chess Players - 7.5
The House of the Devil - 7.5
Anatomy of a Murder - 7.5
The Last Seduction - 7.5
The Hudsucker Proxy - 7.5
Get Carter (1971) -7.5
Dirty Pretty Things - 7.5
Midnight Cowboy - 7.5
I'm Not There - 7.5
Elephant (Clarke) -7.5
The Killers (Siodmak) - 7
Zombieland - 7
Life of Brian - 7
The Thin Man - 7
The Tempest (Jarman) - 7
September 11th (omnibus) - 7
A Serious Man - 7
Inception - 7
Of Time and the City - 7
The Hurt Locker - 7
Romance - 7
Cat People (Tourneur) - 6.5
Made in Britain - 6.5
Somer's Town - 6.5
Variety - 6.5
Adventureland - 6.5
Beloved - 6.5
Angels in America - 6.5
The Last Mistress - 6.5
The Stranger - 6.5
Bride of Frankenstein - 6.5
Shutter Island - 6.5
An Education - 6.5
The Firm (Clarke) - 6.5
Date Night - 6
After the Thin Man - 6
Paris Je T’Aime - 6
Rio Grande - 6
Halloween 2 (Zombie) - 6
Song of the South - 6
Animal Crackers - 6
Night of the Demon - 6
Antichrist - 6
Toy Story 3 - 6
Grimm - 6
Reign Over Me - 5.5
District 9 - 5.5
The Road - 5.5
Carla's Song - 5.5
9 - 5.5
The Day of the Locust - 5.5
Ferris Bueller's Day Off - 5.5
The Last Wave - 5
Watcher in the Attic - 5
Broadway Danny Rose - 5
Iron Man 2 - 5
World Trade Center - 5
The Masque of the Red Death - 5
MacGruber - 4.5
Due Date - 4
Anatomy of Hell - 4
Alice in Wonderland - 4
Near Dark - 3.5
The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen - 3.5
MacBeth (Wright) - 3.5
Leap Year - 3
I'm No Angel - 2

[Stay Puft]

1. The Scent of Green Papaya (Tran '93)
2. In the City of Sylvia (GuerÃ*n '07)
3. Ballad of a Soldier (Chukhrai '59)
4. The Anthem (Weerasethakul '06)
5. La moustache (Carrère '05)
6. Duel of the Century (Chor '81)
7. Gates of Heaven (Morris '78)
8. The White Ribbon (Haneke '09)
9. Bright Star (Campion '09)
10. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (Gilliam '98)

[Killed_by_Smalls]

1. Man with the Movie Camera (Vertov, 1929)
2. Where the Wild Things Are (Jonze, 2009)
3. The Red Shoes (Powell & Pressburger, 1948)
4. Days of Heaven (Malick, 1978)
5. All About My Mother (Almodóvar, 1999)
6. The Double Life of Veronique (Kieslowski, 1991)
7. The White Ribbon (Haneke, 2009)
8. The Innocents (Clayton, 1961)
9. Inglourious Basterds (Tarantino, 2009)
10. Inception (Nolan, 2010)

[Boner M]

4. The Anthem (Weerasethakul '06)
Heh, neat choice. AW certainly is the master of the throwaway doodle.

[Boner M]

1. Make Way For Tomorrow (Leo McCarey, 1937)
2. Dillinger is Dead (Marco Ferreri, 1969)
3. Fury (Fritz Lang, 1936)
4. Los Angeles Plays Itself (Thom Andersen, 2003)
5. He Who Gets Slapped (Sjostrom, 1924)
6. Meek's Cutoff (Kelly Reichardt, 2010)
7. Wild Grass (Alain Resnais, 2009)
8. To Parfisal (Bruce Baillie, 1963)
9. Man of the West (Anthony Mann, 1958)
10. The Land of Silence and Darkness (Werner Herzog, 1971)

[balmakboor]

2. Dillinger is Dead (Marco Ferreri, 1969)


Glad you liked it. It was one of my most pleasant surprises last year.

Check out La Grande Bouffe for more Ferreri goodness.

[B-side]

Glad you liked it. It was one of my most pleasant surprises last year.

Check out La Grande Bouffe for more Ferreri goodness.

Speaking of him, I have The Audience to watch. Ferreri seems like a really interesting director. Surprised it took me until I saw Dillinger is Dead a year or so ago until I had really known about him.

[Boner M]

Glad you liked it. It was one of my most pleasant surprises last year.

Check out La Grande Bouffe for more Ferreri goodness.
Yeah, saw it a few years ago. Liked it a lot, though it gets a bit one note. Still, hard to not like any film where Michel Piccoli dies in a puddle of his own diarrhea.

This Ferreri I really wanna see is Tales of Ordinary Madness. It has a middling rep, but a Bukowski adaptation starring Ben Gazzara as Chinaski!!

[Stay Puft]

1. The Scent of Green Papaya (Tran '93)
2. Sans soleil (Marker '83)
3. In the City of Sylvia (GuerÃ*n '07)
4. The Anthem (Weerasethakul '06)
5. La moustache (Carrère '05)
6. The Thin Blue Line (Morris '89)
7. Duel of the Century (Chor '81)
8. Gates of Heaven (Morris '78)
9. The White Ribbon (Haneke '09)
10. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (Gilliam '98)

[soitgoes...]

Dekalog (Kieslowski 89)
Il posto (Olmi 61)
I'm Still Here (Affleck 10)
Still Walking (Koreeda 08)
The Naked Island (Shindô 60)
A Time to Live and a Time to Die (Hou 86)
Be Sure to Share (Sono 09)
El Verdugo (GarcÃ*a 63)
The Patsy (Vidor 28)
Muddy River (Oguri 81)



Dekalog (Kieslowski 89)
Il posto (Olmi 61)
I'm Still Here (Affleck 10)
Still Walking (Koreeda 08)
The Naked Island (Shindô 60)
A Time to Live and a Time to Die (Hou 86)
Be Sure to Share (Sono 09)
El Verdugo (GarcÃ*a 63)
The Red and the White (Jancsó 67)
The Patsy (Vidor 28)


I can't shake it from my mind. It might continue to inch up this list.

[Eleven]

2. Il posto (Olmi 61)


Oh my yes.

[soitgoes...]

Dekalog (Kieslowski 89)
Il posto (Olmi 61)
I'm Still Here (Affleck 10)
Still Walking (Koreeda 08)
The Naked Island (Shindô 60)
A Time to Live and a Time to Die (Hou 86)
Be Sure to Share (Sono 09)
El Verdugo (GarcÃ*a 63)
The Red and the White (Jancsó 67)
The Patsy (Vidor 28)


I can't shake it from my mind. It might continue to inch up this list.

Dekalog (Kieslowski 89)
Il posto (Olmi 61)
Stalker (Tarkovsky 79)
Still Walking (Koreeda 08)
The Naked Island (Shindô 60)
I'm Still Here (Affleck 10)
A Time to Live and a Time to Die (Hou 86)
The Red and the White (Jancsó 67)
El Verdugo (GarcÃ*a 63)
Be Sure to Share (Sono 09)


I did some reordering. Stalker will probably continue to move, but that's my initial feeling. Jancsó's film is still on the rise. The only thing I am sure of, besides all these films being great, is that Dekalog is hands down the best thing I've seen all year. While the top bunch would probably find there way onto a Top 100, Kieslowski's film is Top 10.

[endingcredits]

1. Au Hasard Balthazar (Bresson, 1966)
2. Possession (Zulawski, 1981)
3. Le passion de Jeanne d'Arc (Dreyer, 1928)
4. Edvard Munch (Watkins, 1974)
5. The Son (Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne, 2002)
6. Woman In the Dunes (Teshigahara, 1964)
7. Pierrot le Fou (Goddard, 1968)
8. Hour of the Wolf (Bergman, 1968)
9. The Devil (Zulawski, 1972)
10. Diary of a Country Priest (Bresson, 1950)

[megladon8]

1.) Make Way for Tomorrow
2.) The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
3.) 12 Angry Men
4.) Inception
5.) Moon
6.) Angels With Dirty Faces
7.) Two Lovers
8.) Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans
9.) In the Loop
10.) The Town




11.) Charley Varrick
12.) Night Moves
13.) House of the Devil
14.) Inglourious Basterds...

[MadMan]

Well the list is finally 100 scores only. Interesting.

1. The Long Good Friday(1980)-100
2. Mulholland Dr.(2001)-100
3. A Clockwork Orange(1971)-100
4. Double Indemnity(1944)-100
5. Ed Wood(1994)-100
6. A Serious Man(2009)-100
7. The Social Network(2010)-100
8. The Exorcist: The Version You've Never Seen(2000)-100
9. Stop Making Sense(1984)-100
10. In The Loop(2009)-100

[Raiders]

Rather remarkable how many perfect films you see.

[MadMan]

Rather remarkable how many perfect films you see.This year, sure. Last year's list didn't have this many. And not of all them are perfect, although that doesn't necessarily figure into the rating.

[Yxklyx]

1. Woodstock (1970, Michael Wadleigh)
2. Leila (1996, Dariush Mehrjui)
3. The Hangover (2009, Todd Phillips)
4. Slacker (1991, Richard Linklater)
5. Scenes from a Marriage (1973, Ingmar Bergman)
6. The Last Command (1928, Josef von Sternberg)
7. The Sacrifice (1986, Andrei Tarkovsky)
8. Captains Courageous (1937, Victor Fleming)
9. A Sunday in the Country (1984, Bertrand Tavernier)
10. The Kids are Alright (2010, Lisa Cholodenko)

[balmakboor]

1. A Married Couple
2. 23rd Psalm Branch
3. The Only Son
4. Warrendale
5. Walkabout
6. Syndromes and a Century
7. Tony Manero
8. Moon
9. Come on Children
10. Dillinger is Dead

A Married Couple has been an especially transformative experience.

[Boner M]

A Married Couple has been an especially transformative experience.
Can't wait; my King set should arrive soon. I liked Warrendale plenty, and a lot of people from this year's TIFF thought the restored print of AMC was the best thing they saw there.

[balmakboor]

1. Dying at Grace
2. A Married Couple
3. 23rd Psalm Branch
4. The Only Son
5. Warrendale
6. Walkabout
7. Come on Children
8. Syndromes and a Century
9. Tony Manero
10. Moon

I just posted my thoughts on Dying at Grace in the "We Need a Bigger Discussion Thread" thread.

I also re-watched Come on Children and it is going to be one of those movies that I can watch over and over. I just love to hang out with it.

[Raiders]

So what you're telling me is, I should prioritize watching some Allan King films?

[Mysterious Dude]

1. The White Ribbon (2009)
2. The Lathe of Heaven (1980)
3. Deep End (1971)
4. Home (2008)
5. Clean, Shaven (1993)
6. Ballast (2008)
7. The Go-Between (1970)
8. Revanche (2008)
9. Poil de carotte (1932)
10. Intentions of Murder (1964)

1. The White Ribbon (2009)
2. The Lathe of Heaven (1980)
3. Clean, Shaven (1993)
4. House (1977)
5. Deep End (1971)
6. Home (2008)
7. The Duellists (1977)
8. Ballast (2008)
9. The Go-Between (1970)
10. Revanche (2008)

I've decided that House is four-star material (and I'm still fairly convinced it's a satire).

It's also weird looking at the list, this late in the year. I feel like I saw The Lathe of Heaven forever ago (it was only June).

[balmakboor]

So what you're telling me is, I should prioritize watching some Allan King films?

I've been waiting to see his work for many years and I haven't been let down.

Well, there has been one let down. The image quality of the Dying at Grace DVD is poor -- it's been documented in many reviews -- but this didn't diminish the power of the film. I'll watch the last film in the set today. I couldn't do dying of cancer and alzheimers dimentia without a break in between. I watch the new Blu-ray of Apocalypse Now Redux last night instead.

I do think about A Married Couple a lot. It's so tight and dramatic and perfectly structured that it could be a long lost Albee play. King diverged from the usual Direct Cinema ideas at the time. He'd film in the form's usual fly-on-the-wall approach, trying to be as unobtrusive as possible. But in the editing he'd rearrange freely to build a dramatic structure. The climax of Warrendale was actually one of the first things filmed. There is a case in AMC where the couple have a nasty fight followed by a scene of them sitting at a table having dinner. They seem oddly calm and yet filled with underlying tensions. They're quite like a few couples I've known where fighting was part of daily life like something they needed to keep things going. They could be at each other's throats one minute and head to the bedroom the next. But then I remind myself that these two scenes were probably shot weeks apart and maybe not even in the same order.

The couple were perfectly selected for a film. They are such extroverted, verbally expressive people. They also seem to love being filmed. There's never any doubt that when the cameras turn on they turn on as well. It's like an extreme case of the well known fact that a camera changes the behavior of those being filmed. It turns them into actors.

[MacGuffin]

1. Ossos (Costa, 1997)
2. The Passenger (Antonioni, 1975)
3. Kikujiro (Kitano, 1999)
4. Enter the Void (Noé, 2010)
5. Daisy Kenyon (Preminger, 1947)
6. Vengeance Is Mine (Imamura, 1979)
7. House (Obayashi, 1977)
8. Nostalghia (Tarkovsky, 1983)
9. Le trou (Becker, 1960)
10. Tokyo Sonata (Kiyoshi Kurosawa, 2008)

[balmakboor]

1. Dying at Grace
2. A Married Couple
3. 23rd Psalm Branch
4. Memory for Max, Claire, Ida and Company
5. The Only Son
6. Warrendale
7. Walkabout
8. Come on Children
9. Syndromes and a Century
10. Moon

I just went through the experience of watching both of my wife's parents go through alzheimers. Memory is a very truthful look at eight such characters shot and edited with King's characteristic mastery. It has a sequence that recalls the famous one from Warrendale where the children are told that their cook has died. The similarities of reaction of the kids and these elderly persons is revealing. In its look at the relationships between elderly parents and their adult children, Memory also plays like a companion to Make Way for Tomorrow and Tokyo Story.

[B-side]

1. The Shooting (Hellman, 1967)
2. Invitation to the Dance (Kelly, 1956)
3. Las soledades (Ruiz, 1992)
4. The Suspended Step of the Stork (Angelopoulos, 1991)
5. Claire's Knee (Rohmer, 1970)
6. The Wind (Sjöström, 1928)
7. Nor'west (Rivette, 1976)
8. A Spring for the Thirsty (Ilyenko, 1965)
9. How Green Was My Valley (Ford, 1941)
10. Slow Moves (Jost, 1983)

1. The Shooting (Hellman, 1967)
2. Invitation to the Dance (Kelly, 1956)
3. Las soledades (Ruiz, 1992)
4. The Suspended Step of the Stork (Angelopoulos, 1991)
5. Claire's Knee (Rohmer, 1970)
6. The Wind (Sjöström, 1928)
7. Nor'west (Rivette, 1976)
8. The Edge of the World (Powell, 1937)
9. How Green Was My Valley (Ford, 1941)
10. A Spring for the Thirsty (Ilyenko, 1965)

[dreamdead]

Updated:

1. Housemaid - 9
2. The Beaches of Agnes - 8.5
3. The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance - 8.5
4. The Long Goodbye - 8.5
5. Secret Sunshine - 8.5
6. Everyone Else - 8.5
7. The Fog of War - 8.5
8. Koyaanisqatsi - 8.5
9. I Live in Fear - 8.5
10. Bright Star - 8


Where the Wild Things Are - 8
Summer Hours - 8
Swing Time - 8
Tokyo Sonata - 8
Baby Doll - 8
Stagecoach - 8
The Testament of Dr. Mabuse - 8
Mon Oncle - 8
Hunger - 8
Mother - 7.5
Public Enemies - 7.5
The Romance of Astrea and Celadon - 7.5
The Lady and the Duke - 7.5
Crumb - 7.5
The Killers (Siegel) -7.5
Waltz with Bashir - 7.5
The Chess Players - 7.5
The House of the Devil - 7.5
Anatomy of a Murder - 7.5
The Last Seduction - 7.5
The Hudsucker Proxy - 7.5
Get Carter (1971) -7.5
Dirty Pretty Things - 7.5
Midnight Cowboy - 7.5
I'm Not There - 7.5
Elephant (Clarke) -7.5
The Killers (Siodmak) - 7
Zombieland - 7
Life of Brian - 7
The Thin Man - 7
The Tempest (Jarman) - 7
September 11th (omnibus) - 7
A Serious Man - 7
Inception - 7
Of Time and the City - 7
The Hurt Locker - 7
Romance - 7
Cat People (Tourneur) - 6.5
Made in Britain - 6.5
Somer's Town - 6.5
Variety - 6.5
Adventureland - 6.5
Beloved - 6.5
Angels in America - 6.5
The Last Mistress - 6.5
The Stranger - 6.5
Bride of Frankenstein - 6.5
Shutter Island - 6.5
An Education - 6.5
The Firm (Clarke) - 6.5
RED - 6
Date Night - 6
The Summer of Love - 6
After the Thin Man - 6
Paris Je T’Aime - 6
Rio Grande - 6
Halloween 2 (Zombie) - 6
Song of the South - 6
Until the Light Takes Us - 6
Animal Crackers - 6
Night of the Demon - 6
Antichrist - 6
Toy Story 3 - 6
Grimm - 6
Reign Over Me - 5.5
District 9 - 5.5
The Road - 5.5
Carla's Song - 5.5
9 - 5.5
The Day of the Locust - 5.5
I Love You Man - 5.5
Ferris Bueller's Day Off - 5.5
The Last Wave - 5
Watcher in the Attic - 5
Broadway Danny Rose - 5
Iron Man 2 - 5
World Trade Center - 5
Two Friends - 5
The Masque of the Red Death - 5
MacGruber - 4.5
Due Date - 4
Baby Mama - 4
Anatomy of Hell - 4
Alice in Wonderland - 4
Near Dark - 3.5
The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen - 3.5
MacBeth (Wright) - 3.5
Leap Year - 3
I'm No Angel - 2
The Ugly Truth - 1.5

[Megiddo]

1. Persona (Bergman, 1966)
2. Possession (Zulawski, 1981)
3. Andrei Rublev (Tarkovsky, 1966)
4. Aguirre, the Wrath of God (Herzog, 1972)
5. Au Hasard Balthazar (Bresson, 1966)
6. The Devil (Zulawski, 1972)
7. The Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call - New Orleans (Herzog, 2009)
8. The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (Huston, 1948)
9. Hour of the Wolf (Bergman, 1968)
10. Fitzcarraldo (Herzog, 1982)

The last one was a toss up between Fitz, Annie Hall and Visitor Q and I'm sure I'll change my mind before the end of the year. I suppose I should also thank endingcredits since most of these either came from his direct recommendations or his enthusiasm for the film launching it to the top of my to-watch list, especially his enthusiasm for Zulawski: "Why am I even friends with you guys? You haven't even seen Possession!"

[endingcredits]

I suppose I should also thank endingcredits since most of these either came from his direct recommendations or his enthusiasm for the film launching it to the top of my to-watch list, especially his enthusiasm for Zulawski: "Why am I even friends with you guys? You haven't even seen Possession!"


My Zulawski addiction is all Melville's fault. At some point we had a plan to create joint Tarkovsky/Zulawski bandwagon complete with flotillas and parade it through the streets of Match-Cut. Unfortunately, we lacked the drugs to work it out.

[Idioteque Stalker]

1. Come and See
2. A Nos Amours
3. Old Joy
4. Mystery Train
5. Deconstructing Harry
6. Adventures of Prince Achmed
7. Morvern Callar
8. Woman In the Dunes
9. Dick Tracy
10. Kicking and Screaming

[Yxklyx]

1. Woodstock (1970, Michael Wadleigh)
2. Leila (1996, Dariush Mehrjui)
3. Mon oncle d'Amérique (1980, Alain Resnais)
4. The Hangover (2009, Todd Phillips)
5. Slacker (1991, Richard Linklater)
6. Scenes from a Marriage (1973, Ingmar Bergman)
7. The Last Command (1928, Josef von Sternberg)
8. The Sacrifice (1986, Andrei Tarkovsky)
9. Captains Courageous (1937, Victor Fleming)
10. A Sunday in the Country (1984, Bertrand Tavernier)

[dmk]

1. The House of Mirth (2000, Davies)
2 . Va savoir (2001, Rivette)
3 . The Belly of an Architect (1987, Greenaway)
4 . Ratcatcher (1999, Ramsay)
5 . Morvern Callar (2002, Ramsay)
6 . Un Lac (2008, Grandrieux)
7 . La séparation (1994, Vincent)
8 . Nosferatu: Phantom der Nacht (1979, Herzog)
9 . Autumn Tale (1998, Rohmer)
10 .Friday Night (2002, Denis)
1. The House of Mirth (2000, Davies)
2 . Va savoir (2001, Rivette)
3 . The Belly of an Architect (1987, Greenaway)
4 . Ratcatcher (1999, Ramsay)
5 . Morvern Callar (2002, Ramsay)
6 . Un Lac (2008, Grandrieux)
7 . La séparation (1994, Vincent)
8 . Nosferatu: Phantom der Nacht (1979, Herzog)
9 . River's Edge (1986, Hunter)
10 . Autumn Tale (1998, Rohmer)

i don't think i'll be seeing anything else better, so i should give up.

[TripZone]

Ione Skye is purdy.

[transmogrifier]

1. The Informant! 79
2. Where Eagles Dare 77
3. Dressed to Kill 76
4. Mean Creek 765. Laura 75
6. In the Loop 73
7. Shutter Island 73
8. Fantastic Mr. Fox 72
9. El Dorado 72
10. A Serious Man 71

Not the best year for new viewings. Nothing has really amazed me.

[endingcredits]

1. Au Hasard Balthazar (Bresson, 1966)
2. Possession (Zulawski, 1981)
3. Le passion de Jeanne d'Arc (Dreyer, 1928)
4. Edvard Munch (Watkins, 1974)
5. The Son (Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne, 2002)
6. Woman In the Dunes (Teshigahara, 1964)
7. Pierrot le Fou (Goddard, 1968)
8. Hour of the Wolf (Bergman, 1968)
9. The Devil (Zulawski, 1972)
10. Diary of a Country Priest (Bresson, 1950)

1. Au Hasard Balthazar (Bresson, 1966)
2. Possession (Zulawski, 1981)
3. King Lear (Kozintsev, 1971)
4. Le passion de Jeanne d'Arc (Dreyer, 1928)
5. Edvard Munch (Watkins, 1974)
6. The Son (Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne, 2002)
7. Woman In the Dunes (Teshigahara, 1964)
8. Pierrot le Fou (Goddard, 1968)
9. Hour of the Wolf (Bergman, 1968)
10. The Devil (Zulawski, 1972)

[Russ]

1. Star Spangled to Death (Jacobs, 2004)
2. Yearning (Naruse, 1964)
3. Au hasard Balthazar (Bresson, 1966)
4. Possession (Zulawski, 1981)
5. Ruggles of Red Gap (McCarey, 1935)
6. Spring Awakens (Naruse, 1947
7. Floating Clouds (Naruse, 1955)
8. Remember My Name (Rudolph, 1978)
8. When a Woman Ascends the Stairs (Naruse, 1960)
9. The Beaver Trilogy (Harris, 2000)
10. Rubin & Ed (Harris, 1991)

[Boner M]

Fuck I wanna see Star Spangled to Death.

[Russ]

Fuck I wanna see Star Spangled to Death.
I really hope you get to see it. I would have liked to have shared some thoughts (I'm still trying to compose some), but really, how does one begin to evaluate a lifetime masterwork, a dyamic, evolving 6 hour and 45 minute film that was almost 50 years in the making (and may yet still be unfinished)? To say that it's a trancendent work of art is a major understatement.

[baby doll]

Make Way for Tomorrow (Leo McCarrey, 1937)
Daisy Kenyon (Otto Preminger, 1947)
The War Game (Peter Watkins, 1965)
The Killing of a Chinese Bookie (John Cassavetes, 1976)
The American Friend (Wim Wenders, 1977)
Blind Chance (Krzyzstof Kieslowski, 1981)
In Vanda's Room (Pedro Costa, 2000)
The Headless Woman (Lucrecia Martel, 2008)
Fantastic Mr. Fox (Wes Anderson, 2009)
The White Ribbon: A German Children's Story (Michael Haneke, 2009)

That doesn't include new commercial releases (i.e., Vincere) or premieres (Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives).These, plus:

The Kid (Charles Chaplin, 1921)
The Clock (Vincente Minnelli, 1945)
One, Two, Three (Billy Wilder, 1961)
Punishment Park (Peter Watkins, 1971)
L'amour, l'aprés midi (Eric Rohmer, 1972)
The Great Ecstasy of the Woodcarver Steiner (Werner Herzog, 1974)
Les Rendez-vous d'Anna (Chantal Akerman, 1978)
King Lear (Jean-Luc Godard, 1987)
White Hunter, Black Heart (Clint Eastwood, 1990)
The Long Day Closes (Terence Davies, 1992)

[TripZone]

The Clock mmmm. Lovely.

[baby doll]

The Clock mmmm. Lovely.Yeah, it's easily my favorite of the three Minnelli-Garland films (although Meet Me in St. Louis and The Pirate are nothing to sneeze at), in part because it's the least Minnelli-esque in that certain scenes have a documentary-like quality.

[TripZone]

Yeah, it's easily my favorite of the three Minnelli-Garland films (although Meet Me in St. Louis and The Pirate are nothing to sneeze at), in part because it's the least Minnelli-esque in that certain scenes have a documentary-like quality.

I'm with you there. The way he shoots her face in those close-ups, they glow so beautifully. I just loved the crane shots, the sheer amount of people populating the background, the concentrated time frame, etc. It's nice.

[Stay Puft]

1. The Scent of Green Papaya (Tran '93)
2. Sans soleil (Marker '83)
3. In the City of Sylvia (GuerÃ*n '07)
4. The Thin Red Line (Malick '98)
5. The Anthem (Weerasethakul '06)
6. The Four Times (Frammartino '10)
7. The Thin Blue Line (Morris '89)
8. The White Ribbon (Haneke '09)
9. La moustache (Carrère '05)
10. Duel of the Century (Chor '81)

I'm still reeling from my viewing of The Thin Red Line. I've also added Frammartino's film to my list, even though I saw it a few months ago, as I find it lingering more than most other films I've seen this year.

[Yum-Yum]

1. Skatetown, U.S.A. (William A. Levey, 1979)
2. Street Trash (J. Michael Muro, 1987)
3. Killer Workout (David A. Prior, 1987)
4. The Devil in Miss Jones 3: A New Beginning (Gregory Dark, 1986)
5. Crime Wave (John Paizs, 1985)
6. The Vals (James Polakof, 1982)
7. Eugénie de Sade (Jess Franco, 1970)
8. Rubin and Ed (Trent Harris, 1991)
9. Private Parts (Paul Bartel, 1972)
10. Eyes of Laura Mars (Irvin Kershner, 1979)

[B-side]

Now that's a unique list. I've not seen a single film on it, but it's fascinating to look at.

[dmk]

1. Skatetown, U.S.A. (William A. Levey, 1979)
2. Street Trash (J. Michael Muro, 1987)
3. Killer Workout (David A. Prior, 1987)
4. The Devil in Miss Jones 3: A New Beginning (Gregory Dark, 1986)
5. Crime Wave (John Paizs, 1985)
6. The Vals (James Polakof, 1982)
7. Eugénie de Sade (Jess Franco, 1970)
8. Rubin and Ed (Trent Harris, 1991)
9. Private Parts (Paul Bartel, 1972)
10. Eyes of Laura Mars (Irvin Kershner, 1979)
Awesome.

I love your blog too. One of my favourites.

[TripZone]

I love your blog too. One of my favourites.

The sheer number of (mostly stunned/scared) faces populating that blog...

[Yum-Yum]

Scared and stunned faces are my bread and butter.

[B-side]

1. The Shooting (Hellman, 1967)
2. Invitation to the Dance (Kelly, 1956)
3. Las soledades (Ruiz, 1992)
4. The Suspended Step of the Stork (Angelopoulos, 1991)
5. Claire's Knee (Rohmer, 1970)
6. The Wind (Sjöström, 1928)
7. Nor'west (Rivette, 1976)
8. The Edge of the World (Powell, 1937)
9. How Green Was My Valley (Ford, 1941)
10. A Spring for the Thirsty (Ilyenko, 1965)

1. The Shooting (Hellman, 1967)
2. Invitation to the Dance (Kelly, 1956)
3. Las soledades (Ruiz, 1992)
4. The Suspended Step of the Stork (Angelopoulos, 1991)
5. Claire's Knee (Rohmer, 1970)
6. Mary (Ferrara, 2005)
7. The Wind (Sjöström, 1928)
8. Nor'west (Rivette, 1976)
9. The Edge of the World (Powell, 1937)
10. How Green Was My Valley (Ford, 1941)

[Pop Trash]

1. Skatetown, U.S.A. (William A. Levey, 1979)


Oh, wowzers. I saw this at a midnight screening. HILARIOUS! I especially loved leather daddy, roller skating, and young Patrick Swayze.

[dmk]

Oh, wowzers. I saw this at a midnight screening. HILARIOUS! I especially loved leather daddy, roller skating, and young Patrick Swayze.
The albino afro-wearing DJ with the magic fingers is the greatest.

“Hey, you know, are your lips parched? Are you legs weary? Is your stomach empty; do you need to have more energy? Then why not skate over to the snack bar, we have delicious food over there. We have tuna fish malts and buffalo lips on toast smiling.�

[RoadtoPerdition]

1. Black Swan
2. The Hurt Locker
3. Inception
4. The Social Network
5. Moon
6. The Fighter
7. After the Wedding
8. The Road
9. 127 Hours
10. (500) Days of Summer

1. The Hurt Locker
2. Inception
3. Moon
4. After the Wedding
5. (500) Days of Summer
6. My Left Foot
7. Zombieland
8. Star Trek
9. Tyson
10. Osama

[Weeping_Guitar]

Top 10:

01. Yearning [Midareru] (Naruse, 1964)
02. Bright Star (Campion, 2009)
03. The Lion in Winter (Harvey, 1968)
04. Apur Sansar (Ray, 1959)
05. Far from Heaven (Haynes, 2002)
06. The Circus (Chaplin, 1928)
07. Fort Apache (Ford, 1948)
08. Inception (Nolan, 2010)
09. Still Walking (Koreeda, 2008)
10. Toy Story 3 (Unkrich, 2010)

HMS:
A Serious Man (Coen, 2009)
The War Game (Watkins, 1965)
The Social Network (Fincher, 2010)
When Harry Met Sally (Reiner, 1989)
Mahanagar (Ray, 1963)
The Garden of the Finzi-Continis (De Sica, 1970)
My Winnipeg (Maddin, 2007)
35 Rhums (Denis, 2008)
Day of Wrath (Dreyer, 1943)
A Man for All Seasons (Zinnemann, 1966)
The American President (Reiner, 1995)
The Law (Dassin, 1959)

[Russ]

01. Yearning [Midareru] (Naruse, 1964)
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[Mysterious Dude]

1. The White Ribbon (2009)
2. The Lathe of Heaven (1980)
3. Clean, Shaven (1993)
4. House (1977)
5. Deep End (1971)
6. Home (2008)
7. The Duellists (1977)
8. Ballast (2008)
9. The Go-Between (1970)
10. Revanche (2008)
1. The White Ribbon (2009)
2. The Lathe of Heaven (1980)
3. Clean, Shaven (1993)
4. House (1977)
5. Deep End (1971)
6. Home (2008)
7. Make Way for Tomorrow (1937)
8. The Duellists (1977)
9. Ballast (2008)
10. The Go-Between (1970)

11. Poil de carotte (1932)
12. Out of the Blue (2006)
13. Revanche (2008)
14. Stray Bullet (1960)
15. Winter’s Bone (2010)
16. Intentions of Murder (1964)
17. Mother (2009)
18. Targets (1968)
19. Traces of Stones (1966)
20. Pretty Village, Pretty Flame (1996)

21. Black Swan (2010)
22. Underworld (1927)
23. The Family Game (1983)
24. Oasis (2002)
25. Inception (2010)
26. Welcome, or No Trespassing (1964)
27. Hardcore (1979)
28. A Prophet (2009)
29. Trafic (1971)
30. Bolivia (2001)

[kopello]

My Top 30

1. Amarcord (Fellini, 1973)
2. Wings of Desire (Wenders, 1987)
3. Rachel Getting Married (Demme, 2008)
4. Stop Making Sense (Demme, 1984)
5. Tokyo Sonata (Kurosawa, 2008)
6. Pauline at the Beach (Rohmer, 1983)
7. Flight of the Red Balloon (Hou, 2007)
8. Gosford Park (Altman, 2001)
9. Belle de Jour (Bunuel, 1967)
10. The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus (Gilliam, 2009)

11. An American Werewolf in London (Landis, 1981)
12. Dead Ringers (Cronenberg, 1988)
13. A Fish Called Wanda (Crichton, 1988)
14. Pulse (Kurosawa, 2001)
15. Nosferatu the Vampyre (Herzog, 1979)
16. Inception (Nolan, 2010)
17. Mystery Train (Jarmusch, 1989)
18. Rosemary’s Baby (Polanski, 1968)
19. Dressed to Kill (De Palma, 1980)
20. That Day (Ruiz, 2003)

21. The White Ribbon (Haneke, 2009)
22. Tetro (Coppola, 2009)
23. Veronika Voss (Fassbinder, 1982)
24. Duck Soup (McCarey, 1933)
25. Viridiana (Bunuel, 1961)
26. Wild at Heart (Lynch, 1990)
27. Harakiri (Kobayashi, 1962)
28. Blackboards (Makhmalbaf, 2000)
29. Election (Payne, 1999)
30. O Sangue (Costa, 1989

[Stay Puft]

Final list:

1. The Scent of Green Papaya (Tran '93)
2. Sans soleil (Marker '83)
3. In the City of Sylvia (GuerÃ*n '07)
4. The Thin Red Line (Malick '98)
5. The Anthem (Weerasethakul '06)
6. The Four Times (Frammartino '10)
7. The Thin Blue Line (Morris '89)
8. The White Ribbon (Haneke '09)
9. La moustache (Carrère '05)
10. Duel of the Century (Chor '81)

Some honorable mentions I'll add at the spur of the moment:

Gates of Heaven (Morris '78)
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (Gilliam '98)
Life of Brian (Jones '79)
The Headless Woman (Martel '08)
Norwegian Wood (Tran '10)

I wasn't really keeping track beyond the top ten. I took a quick scroll through some of my earlier updates but none of the films resonate as much as these so I'll leave it at that.

[Boner M]

I accidentally deleted my film log for this year, so I'm really just using this thread to recall good shit I saw. Final list, excluding new films (ie Wild Grass and Meek's Cutoff).

1. Make Way For Tomorrow (Leo McCarey, 1937)
2. Dillinger is Dead (Marco Ferreri, 1969)
3. Fury (Fritz Lang, 1936)
4. Los Angeles Plays Itself (Thom Andersen, 2003)
5. La Libertad (Lisandro Alonso, 2001)
6. He Who Gets Slapped (Sjostrom, 1924)
7. To Parfisal (Bruce Baillie, 1963)
8. Man of the West (Anthony Mann, 1958)
9. Graduate First (Maurice Pialat, 1979)
10. Hausu (Nobuhiko Obayashi, 1977

RU's: 23rd Psalm Branch (Brakhage), California Split (Altman), The Land of Silence and Darkness (Herzog), Street of Shame (Mizoguchi), The Verdict (Lumet), A Real Young Girl (Breillat), Side Street (A. Mann), Hospital (Wiseman), Welfare (Wiseman), The French Connection II (Frankenheimer), A Day in the Country (Renoir), Pure Shit (Deling)

If you remember me gushing about something you don't see here, let me know.

[Melville]

Two thirds of the hundred or so movies I saw this year were watched before I posted my list in February, so it hasn't changed all that much.

1. Alone. Life Wastes Andy Hardy (Arnold, 1998)
2. The Wicker Man (Hardy, 1973)
3. The Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call - New Orleans (Herzog, 2009)
4. The Third Part of the Night (Zulawski, 1971)
5. Vertical Ray of the Sun (Tran, 2000)
6. Hausu (Ôbayashi, 1978)
7. Greenberg (Baumbach, 2010)
8. 2 or 3 Things I Know about Her (Godard, 1967)
9. Ashes and Diamonds (Wajda, 1958)
10. Kustom Kar Kommandos (Anger, 1965)

HMs: Invocation of My Demon Brother (Anger), Dream Work (Tscherkassky), Two Penny Magic (Richter), Man of the West (Mann), The Browning Version (Asquith)

[Ivan Drago]

Final list. 1-17 were great, 18-50 were really good, 51-74 were enjoyable, 75-79 were OK, 80-89 sucked, and the unrankable film is just that.

1. The Heiress (William Wyler, 1949)
2. Black Swan (Darren Aronofsky, 2010)
3. Antichrist (Lars von Trier, 2009)
4. The Fly (David Cronenberg, 1986)
5. The Exorcist (William Fredkin, 1973)
6. Let Me In (Matt Reeves, 2010)
7. Let The Right One In (Tomas Alfredson, 2008)
8. Apocalypse Now (Francis Ford Coppola, 1979)
9. Inception (Christopher Nolan, 2010)
10. The Hurt Locker (Kathryn Bigelow, 2009)

11. One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest (Milos Forman, 1975)
12. Sunset Boulevard (Billy Wilder, 1950)
13. The Social Network (David Fincher, 2010)
14. TRON: Legacy (Joseph Kosinski, 2010)
15. Insomnia (Christopher Nolan, 2002)
16. Greenberg (Noah Baumbach, 2010)
17. Scott Pilgrim vs. The World (Edgar Wright, 2010)


18. Gimme Shelter (Albert & David Maysles, 1970)
19. Kiss Me Deadly (Robert Aldrich, 1955)
20. Eraserhead (David Lynch, 1976)
21. Dogville (Lars von Trier, 2003)
22. TRON (Steve Lisberger, 1982)
23. Toy Story 3 (Lee Unkrich, 2010)
24. Crossfire (Edward Dmytryk, 1947)
25. The Blues Brothers (John Landis, 1980)
26. The American (Anton Corbijn, 2010)
27. The Dirty Dozen (Robert Aldrich, 1967)
28. MacGruber (Jorma Taccone, 2010)
29. Sullivan's Travels (Preston Sturges, 1941)
30. Following (Christopher Nolan, 1998)
31. Exit Through The Gift Shop (Banksy, 2010)
32. Ichi The Killer (Takashi Miike, 2001)
33. Orson Welles: One-Man Band (Silovic/Kodar, 1995)
34. Too Late The Hero (Robert Aldrich, 1969)
35. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 (David Yates, 2010)
36. True Grit (Henry Hathaway, 1969)
37. The Deer Hunter (Michael Cimino, 1978)
38. Rashomon (Akira Kurosawa, 1950)
39. Tangled (Greno/Howard, 2010)
40. The Expendables (Sylvester Stallone, 2010)
41. Piranha 3D (Alexandre Aja, 2010)
42. Bodysong (Simon Pummell, 2003)
43. Jackass 3D (Jeff Tremaine, 2010)
44. Batman: Under The Red Hood (Brandon Vietti, 2010)
45. Iron Man 2 (Jon Favreau, 2010)
46. Twilight's Last Gleaming (Robert Aldrich, 1977)
47. The Princess Bride (Rob Reiner, 1987)
48. American Psycho (Mary Harron, 2000)
49. Despicable Me (Coffin/Renaud, 2010)
50. Double Indemnity (Billy Wilder, 1944)
51. Hard Eight (Paul Thomas Anderson, 1996)
52. Emperor of the North (Robert Aldrich, 1973)
53. Ulzana's Raid (Robert Aldrich, 1972)
54. The Holy Mountain (Alejandro Jodorowsky, 1973)
55. Shutter Island (Martin Scorsese, 2010)
56. The Breakfast Club (John Hughes, 1985)
57. The Longest Yard (Robert Aldrich, 1974)
58. Body and Soul (Robert Rossen, 1947)
59. Easy A (Will Gluck, 2010)
60. Blazing Saddles (Mel Brooks, 1974)
61. The Town (Ben Affleck, 2010)
62. Flight of the Phoenix (Robert Aldrich, 1966)
63. Force of Evil (Abraham Polonsky, 1948)
64. The Day The Earth Stood Still (Robert Wise, 1951)
65. My Man Godfrey (Gregory La Cava, 1936)
66. The Lady From Shanghai (Orson Welles, 1948)
67. Attack! (Robert Aldrich, 1956)
68. You Will Meet A Tall Dark Stranger (Woody Allen, 2010)
69. True Grit (Joel & Ethan Coen, 2010)
70. Kick-Ass (Matthew Vaughn, 2010)
71. The Big Knife (Robert Aldrich, 1955)
72. Alice in Wonderland (Tim Burton, 2010)
73. Up In The Air (Jason Reitman, 2009)
74. Queen Christina (Rouben Mamoulian, 1933)
75. Machete (Rodriguez/Maniquis, 2010)
76. Predators (Nimrod Antal, 2010)
77. Splice (Vincenzo Natali, 2010)
78. Get Him To The Greek (Nicholas Stoller, 2010)
79. Paranormal Activity 2 (Tod Williams, 2010)
80. Runaway (Kanye West, 2010)
81. Suspicion (Alfred Hitchcock, 1941)
82. Eclipse (David Slade, 2010)
83. The Lovely Bones (Peter Jackson, 2009)
84. The Girlfriend Experience (Steven Soderbergh, 2009)
85. Clash of the Titans (Louis Letterier, 2010)
86. The Human Centipede (Tom Six, 2010)
87. Grown Ups (Dennis Dugan, 2010)
88. Heavy Metal (Gerald Potterton, 1981)
89. Titanic II (Shane Van Dyke, 2010)

Unrankable: Troll 2 (Claudio Fragasso, 1990)

[Qrazy]

Hrm, I enjoyed The Heiress but I didn't like it that much. What about it tickled your fancy?

[MacGuffin]

Final list:

1. O Sangue (Costa, 1989)
2. Ossos (Costa, 1997)
3. The Passenger (Antonioni, 1975)
4. Kikujiro (Kitano, 1999)
5. Enter the Void (Noé, 2010)
6. Daisy Kenyon (Preminger, 1947)
7. Vengeance Is Mine (Imamura, 1979)
8. House (Obayashi, 1977)
9. Nostalghia (Tarkovsky, 1983)
10. Le trou (Becker, 1960)

Sorry: Tokyo Sonata (Kiyoshi Kurosawa, 2008)

[Ivan Drago]

Hrm, I enjoyed The Heiress but I didn't like it that much. What about it tickled your fancy?

I loved the performances and the cinematography. Also thought it captured the feeling of disappointment very well, particularly when Townsend never picks up Catherine. The sadness on her face as she walks up the stairs, as well as the ending, floored me.

[Dead & Messed Up]

Top Ten Worthy, Excellent, Very Good, Good, Disappointing, Bad, Awful

01. Aguirre, the Wrath of God (1972)
02. College (1927)
03. My Neighbor Totoro (1988)
04. A Serious Man (2009)
05. The Adventures of Prince Achmed (1926)
06. A Clockwork Orange (1971)
07. The Thief of Bagdad (1942)
08. Blow Out (1981)
09. Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance (2002)
10. Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966)

11. Things to Come (1936)
12. Gattaca (1997)
13. Lady Vengeance (2005)
14. Shaolin Soccer (2001)
15. Inception (2010)
16. The Sugarland Express (1974)
17. Into the Wild (2007)
18. The Social Network (2010)
19. Three Colors: Blue (1993)
20. Moon (2009)
21. Exit Through the Gift Shop (2010)
22. Clash of the Titans (1981)
23. Wings of Desire (1987)
24. THX-1138 (1971)
25. The Game (1997)
26. Klute (1971)
27. Tokyo Sonata (2008)
28. The House of the Devil (2009)
29. The Hurt Locker (2009)
30. Shutter Island (2010)
31. Scott Pilgrim vs. the World (2010)
32. The First Men in the Moon (1964)
33. The Valley of Gwangi (1969)
34. Monsters Inc. (2001)
35. MacGruber (2010)
36. Where the Wild Things Are (2009)
37. Toy Story 3 (2010)
38. District 9 (2009)
39. A Bug's Life (1998)
40. The Golden Voyage of Sinbad (1975)
41. Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (1982)
42. The Seventh Voyage of Sinbad (1958)
43. The Prophecy (1995)
44. The Other Guys (2010)
45. Piranha 3-D (2010)
46. Gojira (1956)
47. King of the Ants (2003)
48. Hot Tub Time Machine (2010)
49. Doppelganger (2003)
50. The Crazies (2010)
51. The Three Worlds of Gulliver (1960)
52. Cyrus (2010)
53. Avatar (2009)
54. Little Shop of Horrors (1960)
55. Beetlejuice (1988)
56. Paranormal Activity (2009)
57. The Expendables (2010)
58. The Kids Are All Right (2010)
59. Hellboy: Sword of Storms (2007)
60. Mysterious Island (1961)
61. Fear and Desire (1953)
62. Werewolf of London (1935)
63. Dolan's Cadillac (2009)
64. 20 Million Miles to Earth (1957)
65. I Sell the Dead (2008)
66. Killer Klowns From Outer Space (1988)
67. Parasomnia (2008)
68. Logan's Run (1976)
69. It Came From Beneath the Sea (1956)
70. Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein (1994)
71. Kick-Ass (2010)
72. Sinbad and the Eye of the Tiger (1977)
73. The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms (1953)
74. Earth vs. the Flying Saucers (1956)
75. Survival of the Dead (2009)
76. Alice in Wonderland (2010)
77. Dead Snow (2009)
78. One Million Years B. C. (1966)
79. Sleepwalkers (1992)
80. Legion (2010)
81. The Shape of Things to Come (1979)

[B-side]

1. The Shooting (Hellman, 1967)
2. Invitation to the Dance (Kelly, 1956)
3. Las soledades (Ruiz, 1992)
4. The Suspended Step of the Stork (Angelopoulos, 1991)
5. Claire's Knee (Rohmer, 1970)
6. Mary (Ferrara, 2005)
7. The Wind (Sjöström, 1928)
8. Nor'west (Rivette, 1976)
9. The Edge of the World (Powell, 1937)
10. How Green Was My Valley (Ford, 1941)

The final list is as seen not too long ago.

[soitgoes...]

My final list:


Dekalog (Kieslowski 89)
Il posto (Olmi 61)
Stalker (Tarkovsky 79)
Still Walking (Koreeda 08)
The Naked Island (Shindô 60)
A Time to Live and a Time to Die (Hou 86)
The Red and the White (Jancsó 67)
Be Sure to Share (Sono 09)
El Verdugo (Berlanga 63)
The Dead (Huston 87)

[TripZone]

Hausu
Pure Shit

wat

[Boner M]

wat
Uhh, they're both awesome?

[Dukefrukem]

Never got a chance to post my final list. Ended up watching 76 movies in 2010. Down from 86 in 2009.


1 Inception Nolan, Chris 2010 100
2 Mulholland Dr Lynch, David 2001 99
3 Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb Kubrick, Stanley 1964 96
4 A Clockwork Orange Kubrick, Stanley 1971 96
5 Citizen Kane Welles, Orson 1941 95
6 Up Docter, Pete 2009 95
7 Moon Jones, Duncan 2009 94
8 Ratatouille Bird, Brad 2007 94
9 Sunset Blvd Wilder, Billy 1950 93
10 Onibaba Shindô, Kaneto 1964 90
11 House of the Devil West, Ti 2009 89
12 True Grit Hathaway, Henry 1969 89
13 Coraline Selick, Henry 2009 89
14 Ghost Zucker, Jerry 1990 88
15 Shutter Island Scorsese, Martin 2010 86
16 They Live Carpenter, John 1988 86
17 In the Mouth of Madness Carpenter, John 1988 86
18 Someone's Watching Me Carpenter, John 1978 85
19 Toy Story 3 Unkrich, Lee 2010 84
20 The Blob Russell, Chuck 1988 81
21 Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban Cuarón, Alfonso 2004 79
22 Peeping Tom Powell, Michael 1960 77
23 Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire Newell, Mike 2005 77
24 Green Zone Greengrass, Paul 2010 76
25 The Crazies Eisner, Breck 2010 75
26 Pandorum Alvart, Christian 2009 74
27 The Town Affleck, Ben 2010 73
28 Centurion Marshal, Niel 2010 72
29 Book of Eli Hughes Brothers 2010 71
30 Sherlock Holmes Ritchie, Guy 2009 70
31 Carriers Pastor Brothers 2009 70
32 Predators Antal, Nimród 2010 69
33 Salt Noyce, Phillip 2010 69
34 Session 9 Anderson, Brad 2001 59
35 Tron Lisberger, Steven 1982 69
36 Dark Star Carpenter, John 1974 68
37 Food Inc Kenner, Robert 2008 67
38 The Fourth Kind Osunsanmi, Olatunde 2009 66
39 The Borune Ultimatum Greengrass, Paul 2007 65
40 Daybreakers Spierig Brothers 2010 65
41 Observe and Report Hill, Jody 2009 64
42 Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs Saldanha, Carlos 2009 63
43 The Horde Dahan, Yannick 2009 62
44 Gone Baby Gone Affleck, Ben 2009 61
45 Jackass 3D Tremaine, Jeff 2010 60
46 Devil Dowdle, John Erick 2010 58
47 Starman Carpenter, John 1985 58
48 Rain Man Levinson, Barry 1988 57
49 The Da Vinci Code Howard, Ron 2006 56
50 Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire Newell, Mike 2005 55
51 The Wolfman Johnston, Joe 2010 55
52 Shrek The Third Miller, Chris 2007 53
53 Prince of Darkness Carpenter, John 1987 52
54 Dracula Browning, Tod 1931 51
55 Kick-Ass Vaughn, Matthew 2010 50
56 Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix Yates, David 2007 49
57 Ice Age: The Meltdown Saldanha, Carlos 2006 49
58 Lord of War Niccol, Andrew 2005 48
59 Knight and Day Mangold, James 2010 47
60 Law Abiding Citizen Gray, F. Gary 2009 46
61 Edge of Darkness Campbell, Martin 2010 45
62 Iron Man 2 Favreau, Jon 2010 43
63 The Other Guys McKay, Adam 2010 42
64 Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone Columbus, Chris 2001 41
65 Twilight Hardwicke, Catherine 2008 40
66 Blood: The Last Vampire Nahon, Chris 2009 40
67 Monsters vs Aliens Letterman, Rob 2009 39
68 Clash of the Titans Leterrier, Louis 2010 38
69 Vampires Carpenter, John 1998 38
70 Laid to Rest Hall, Robert 2009 37
71 Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets Columbus, Chris 2002 35
72 Alice in Wonderland Burton, Tim 2010 30
73 The Ghost of Mars Carpenter, John 2001 27
74 Legion Stewart, Scott 2010 20
75 Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time Newell, Mike 2010 19
76 The Boondock Saints II: All Saints Day Duffy, Troy 2009 17

[D_Davis]

10. Duel of the Century (Chor '81)


Pretty good flick. I like the silly remake as well.