A Serious Man, Shutter Island, The Tree of Life, & The White Ribbon off the top of my head. The latter two particulary ‘cause I haven’t seen anything by those directors yet. ;)
You have not seen Haneke? Malick is overrated. He had one flawless masterpiece, Badlands. I suppose having done Badlands makes you a master in your own right. I have not seen New World however.
THE TREE OF LIFE
the rest:
Miral (Julian Schnabel)
My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done (Werner Herzog)
The Ghost (Roman Polanski)
Black Swan (Darren Aronofsky)
Toy Story 3 (Lee Unkrich)
The Rum Diary (Bruce Robinson)
THE PRINCESS AND THE FROG
The Tree of Life
The Lovely Bones
Toy Story 3
A Serious Man, Shutter Island, The Tree of Life, Black Swan, Rum Diary, Lovely Bones, Lady from Shanghai, Washington, The Brothers Bloom, The Informant!, Where the Wild Things are, Fantastic Mr. Fox, Nine, Socialisme, Bitch Slap, Ninja Assassin
2009: An Education, Somers Town, Where the Wild Things Are, Precious, In the Loop (Need to see this badly)
2010: Miral, Shutter Island, Toy Story 3, The Tree of Life, Inception
Oh yeah, forgot about Socialisme! [smacks forehead]
Jodorowsky’s King Shot, it doesn’t get any better than Jodorowsky doing a metaphysical Gangster movie
Just heard Shutter Island has been moved from October to a February 2010 opening. Bummer!
Tree of Life
Avatar
I’m looking forward to the Princess and the Frog because it’s been a long time since Disney went back to it’s roots of traditionally animated fairy tales.
Also, Avatar because when the guy who made the top grossing movie of all time spends 14 years making a movie, it deserves alittle attention.
My name is Khan (india) – Karan Johar
Avatar (u.s.) – James Cameron
My Japanese Wife (india/japan) – Aparna Sen
Wake Up Sid (india) – Ayaan Mukherjee
The White Ribbon
Where the Wild Things Are
Fantastic Mr. Fox
Police, Adjective
Shutter Island
Alice In Wonderland
Jean-Luc Godard’s Socialisme
Jacques Rivette’s 36 vues du Pic Saint-Loup
Jean-Marie Straub’s Le Streghe, femmes entre elles
Guy Maddin’s Night Mayor (A short, but Maddin nonetheless)
Bruno Dumont’s Hadewijch
Atom Egoyan’s Chloe
Alain Resnais’ Les Herbes folles
Mika Kaurismäki’s The House of Branching Love
Todd Solondz’ Life During Wartime
Michael Snow’s Puccini Conservato
Ken Loach’s Looking for Eric
I can’t believe so many people are looking forward to Shutter Island. It looks like a pile of rubbish. And Toy Story 3???? What? Why would anyone over the age of ten be so eagerly anticipating this?
‘It looks like a pile a rubbish.’
Well, most trailers usually do.
‘What? Why would anyone over the age of ten be so eagerly anticipating this?’
Maybe ’cause they loved the first and second movies?
I’ve seen “The White Ribbon” and it’s really great. One of Hanke’s very best. An incisive panorama of small town pettiness and psychosis
How wide of a release do you think The White Ribbon will get in the states?
where the wild things are
the lovely bones
somewhere
fantastic mr fox
the cove
avatar (Cameron & Shyamalan)
bright star
ponyo
alice in wonderland
where the wild things are, alice in wonderland, and the invention of lying. (ghost town was so unexpectedly funny, so i’m hoping for the same on this one.)
Tree of Life, Bad Lieutenant, My Son My Son What Have Ye Done, The White Ribbon, Where the Wild Things Are, The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus, A Serious Man, The Ghost, Black Swan, The Informant!
Todd Solondz’ Life During Wartime – YES
the Herzog films, extract, the informant, cold souls, shutter island, a serious man, whip it, precious, boat that rocked, broken embraces, white ribbon, it’s complicated, life during wartime
HIGHLIGHTS: WHERE THE WILD THINGS ARE (my obsession), FANTASTIC MR. FOX, the Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus, the Lovely Bones
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Still waiting for Donald Kaufman’s debut.
Inception
The Last Station
The Ghost
The Green Zone
Shutter Island
Sherlock Holmes (it’s a Mark Strong thing)
Where the Wild Things Are
Precious
Invictus
The Princess and the Frog
Life During Wartime ftw
SHUTTER ISLAND I will grant you the trailer looks terrible, and being pushed back to February is not a good sign, but c’mon, it’s the new Scorcese. Why wouldn’t I be excited?
And Corduroy, that list yours, aside from the Rivette and the Loach, looks like my idea no fun. But enjoy. Someone has to go see the new Egoyan. Glad it won’t have to be me.
also:
The Green Zone (Greengrass)
The Lovely Bones (Jackson)
The Imaginarium of Dr. Parnassus (Gilliam)
36 vues du Pic St-Loup (Rivette)
Toy Story 3
The Ghost (Polanski)
Miral (Schnabel)
I usually don’t watch films for “fun,” I prefer to be challenged by the cinema. Yes I will see the new Egoyan and hopefully enjoy it. He rarely lets me down.
Polanski has something new coming out? Didn’t know that.
“And Toy Story 3???? What? Why would anyone over the age of ten be so eagerly anticipating this?”
Why shouldn’t we be eagerly anticipating it? The first one was really good and the second showed that Pixar know how to do a sequel properly so the chances are this will be really good as well. The notion that animated movies are only for kids is absolute nonsense.
Dalton R.
Which films are you most looking forward to? There seems to be alot of promising pictures in the near future.