Jul. 10: The Ballad of Narayama (Shōhei Imamura, 1983) – 8/10
Jul. 12: Snatch. (Guy Ritchie, 2000) – 5.5/10
Jul. 24: Beeswax (Andrew Bujalski, 2009) Rewatch – 9/10
Jul. 30: Balls of Fury (Robert Ben Garant, 2007) – 6/10
Jul. 31: The Madness of King George (Nicholas Hytner, 1994) – 7/10
Aug. 10: Cold Weather (Aaron Katz, 2010) – 9/10
Aug. 11: The Puffy Chair (Jay & Mark Duplass, 2005) – 9/10
Aug. 13: Cold Weather (Aaron Katz, 2010) Rewatch – 9/10
Aug. 15: The Phantom of the Opera (Rupert Julian, 1925) Rewatch – 7/10
Aug. 23: La Bête Humaine (Jean Renoir, 1938) – 8/10
August 1st to 31st, I didn’t bother to take dates but I plan to next year. Quite a few of these are shorts, but I’ve still been pouring on the cinema….
Life (Peleshian,1993) – C
Tale of Tales (Norshteyn, 1979) – A-
Elegia (Huszarik, 1965) – B
Mediterranee (Pollet/Schlondorff, 1963) – F+
Being John Makovich (Jonze, 1999) – A-
Hands Over the City (Rosi, 1963) – B
A Prophet (Audiard, 2009) – B-
The Garbage Pail Kids Movie (Amateau, 1987) – F-
Children of a Lesser God (Haines, 1986) – B
Close-Up (Kiarostami, 1990) – B-
The Longest Yard (Aldrich, 1974) – B
Fall 1 (Ader, 1970) – D+
I’m Too Sad to Tell You… (Ader, 1971) – C
Focus (Mommartz, 1987) – B-
Trademark Eggs (Mommartz, 1967) – C+
Self Shots (Mommartz, 1967) – A
Sirenes (Degelin, 1961) – D+
The Hat (Miletec, 1937) – C+
By Night with Torch and Spear (Cornell, 1942) – C+
Judas (Gaga/Gibson, 2011) – C+
Sweet Lullaby (Singh, 1993) – C
Black and White Trypps Number Three (Russell, 2007) – C+
S/T (Alonso, 2009) – B+
The Waif and the Wizard (Booth, 1901) – B-
Undressing Extraordinary (Booth, 1901) – A
Upside Down; or, The Human Flies (Booth, 1899) – A-
My Wrongs 8245-8249 and 117 (Morris, 2002) – B+
The Fat and the Lean (Polanski, 1961) – A+
The Musicians (Karabasz, 1960) – C
Mammals (Polanski, 1963) – B-
The Eye and the Ear (Themerson/Themerson, 1945) – B-
A Journey to Avebury (Jarman, 1971) – C-
Darling, Do You Love Me? (Sharp, 1968) – B
After the Ball (Melies, 1897) – B
Living (Zwartjes, 1971) – C
Heat (Mann, 1995) – B+
The Killing Fields (Joffe, 1984) – B-
Renaissance (Borowczyk, 1963) – A
Cigarettes and Coffee (Puiu, 2004) – C+
John MacFadyen (Tait, 1970) – A
Hobo with a Shotgun (Eisener, 2011) – A-
Halloween (Carpenter, 1978) – C
Downfall (Hirschbiegel, 2004) – A+
How to Train Your Dragon (DeBlois/Sanders, 2010) – B-
The Virgin Suicides (Coppola, 1999) – A-
Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (Bay, 2009) – F-
In the Name of the Father (Sheridan, 1993) – B
Three Times (Hou, 2005) – C
El Cid (Mann, 1961) – B
Brazil (Gilliam, 1985) – A+*
Mesrine: Killer Instinct (Richet, 2008) – C+
The Thing (Carpenter, 1982) – A
Hitch Hike (Campanile, 1977) – C+
My Winnipeg (Maddin, 2007) – C+
Victim (Dearden, 1961) – B+
Bibliotheque Pascal (Hajdu, 2010) – A
Manos: The Hands of Fate (Warren, 1966) – D+
Senso (Visconti, 1954) – B+
From Show Girl to Burlesque Queen (Weed, 1905) – C
The Golden Beetle (de Chomon, 1907) – B
Rescued by Rover (Hepworth/Fitzhamon, 1905) – A-
Showgirls (Verhoeven, 1995) – B
Fireworks (Kitano, 1997) – A
Before the Rain (Mancevski, 1994) – C
Repulsion (Polanski, 1965) – C+
Employees Leaving the Lumiere Factory (Lumiere, 1895) – C
L’Arroseur Arrose (Lumiere, 1895) – B-
Manhatta (Strand/Sheeler, 1921) – D-
H2O (Steiner, 1929) – D-
Even: As You and I (Barlow/Hay/Robbins, 1937) – C+
Rain (Ivens/Franken, 1929) – F
Intolerance: Love’s Struggle Throughout the Ages (Griffith, 1916) – A-
Horrible Bosses (2011) 7/10
Rango (2011) 5/10
White Material (2009) 7/10
Minority Report (2002) 5/10 rewatch, last seen 2002
Santo en la frontera del terror (1969) 7/10
The American (2010) 3/10
Bedazzled (1967) 7/10
Rio (2011) 5/10
Streetwalkin’ (1985) 8.5/10
Pocket Money (1972) 7/10
Rise of the Planet of the Apes (2011) 6/10
September 2011: good month Little Cigars was the highlight. Pure Country 2 was the low point. I was quite busy this month, working on project about the Ritz Brothers and holding hold a full time and very part time job, plus trying to buy a house, some days I did not watch a movie at all.
9/01: Green Lantern (Martin Cambell) 1/5
9/02: Queen to Play (Caroline Bottaro) 3/5
9/03: Vampir (Pere Portabella) 1/5
9/03: Killer (Darezhan Omirbaev) 1/5
9/03: Apollo 18 (Gonzalo López-Gallego) 3.3/5
9/03: Hello Dolly (Gene Kelly) 4/5
9/04: Forks Over Knives (Lee Fulkerson) 3.3/5
9/04: Blue Bird (George Cukor) 1/5
9/05; Water for Elephants (Francis Lawrence) 1.7/5
9/05: The Presence (Tom Provost) 1/5
9/05: The Ward (John Carpenter) 5/5
9/06: Children of the Corn Genesis (Joel Soisson) 2.5/5
9/08: Road to Nowhere (Monte Hellman) 2.4/5
9/09: Creature (Fred Andrews) 3.2/5
9/10: Fragments Alms-Film (JC Monteiro) 3.8/5
9/10: Everything Must Go (Dan Rush) 4/5
9/10: Arthur (Jason Weiner) 2.4/5
9/11: Prom (Joe Nussbaum) 2/5
9/11: Little Cigars (Chris Christenberry) 5/5
9/13: Hesher (Spencer Susser) 3.5/5
9/15: Thor (Kenneth Brannagh) 1/5
9/16: BloodRayne Third Reich (Uwe Boll) 2.9/5
9/17: Cedar Rapids (Miguel Arteta) 2/5
9/17: Vidal Sasson The Movie (Craig Teper) 3.3/5
9/17: Peep World (Barry W. Blaustein) 1/5
9/17: Robinson Crusoe (Luis Buñuel) 2/5
9/18: Comandante (Oliver Stone) 5/5
9/18: Looking for Fidel (Leonardo Corbucci) 3/5
9/18: Looking for Fidel (Oliver Stone) 5/5
9/20: ChromeSkull: Laid to Rest 2 (Robert Hall) 2.5/5
9/23 Spooky Buddies (Robert Vince) 1/5
9/23: Pure Country 2: The Gift (Chris Cain) 1/5
9/23: macgruber (Jorma Taccone) 3/5
9/24: Hatchet 2 (Adam Green) 2/5
9/25: Edge of Darkness (Martin Campbell) 5/5
9/25: Sunset Limited (Tommy Lee Jones) 4/5
9/25: Hereafter (Clint Eastwood) 1.7/5
9/25: A River Called Titash (Ritwik Ghatak) 3/5
9/25: Man With a Movie Camera (Dziga Vertov) 5/5
9/26: Blues Brothers 2000 (John Landis) 1.5/5
9/26: Womb (Fligauf) 1.8/5
9/27: The Silence Before Bach (Pere Portabella) 2.5/5
9/27: Season of the Witch (Dominic Sena) 3/5
9/29: Drive Angry (Patrick Lussier) 4.4/5
9/30: Autobiography of a Princess (James Ivory) 5/5
SEPTEMBER, 2011
Forbidden Planet – 7/10
A Generation – 6/10
Kanal – 8/10
Ashes and Diamonds – 7/10
The Wild Child – 6/10
The Immortal Story – 6/10
Sallah Shabati – 6/10
Fright Night (’11) – 5/10
Wanda – 6/10
Seven Days in May – 8/10
The Searchers – 10/10
The Green Ray – 8/10
Man’s Castle – 6/10
The Wonderful, Horrible Life of Leni Riefenstahl – 7/10
35 Shots of Rum – 7/10
White Material – 5/10
Singin’ in the Rain – 8/10
The Hitch-Hiker – 7/10
Ydessa, the Bears and Ect. (short) – 9/10
Ulysse (short) – 7/10
Battleship Potemkin – 8/10
The Muppet Movie – 10/10
Hunger – 6/10
Under the Volcano – 6/10
The Girlfriend Experience – 7/10
Bold = Repeat Viewing
Sept. 1 – 2: Kissing on the Mouth (Joe Swanberg, 2005) – 6.5-7/10
Sept. 3: Les Trois Couronnes du Matelot (Raúl Ruiz, 1983) – 7/10
Sept. 4: It Happened One Night (Frank Capra, 1934) – 9/10
Sept. 11 – 12: Un Cœur en Hiver (Claude Sautet, 1992) – 9/10
Sept. 14: 5×2 (François Ozon, 2004) – 8/10
Sept. 17: The Second Circle (Aleksandr Sokurov, 1990) – 8.5/10
Sept. 19: I, An Actress (George Kuchar, 1977) – 9/10
Sept. 20: Eclipse Of The Sun Virgin (George Kuchar, 1967) – 7.5/10
Sept. 20: Ascension Of The Demoniods (George Kuchar, 1985) – 7.5/10
Sept. 20: Corruption Of The Damned (George Kuchar, 1965) – 8.5/10
Sept. 20: The Cage Of Nicholas (George Kuchar, 1994) – 7/10
Sept. 20: Wild Night In El Reno (George Kuchar, 1977) – 8.5/10
Sept. 20: Dynasty Of Depravity (George Kuchar, 2005) – 5/10
Sept. 21: Overnight (Chris Marker, 2011) – 6/10
Sept. 21: Pictures at an Exhibition (Chris Marker, 2008) – 9/10
Sept. 21: Metrotopia (Chris Marker, 2008) – 8.5/10
Sept. 22: A Room with a View (James Ivory, 1986) – 8.5/10
Un Cœur en Hiver ♥♥♥
I’m Gonna Git You Sucka (1988) 4/10
Bedazzled (2000) 6.5/10
Atacan las brujas (1968) 5/10
The Conspirator (2010) 7/10
Damnation Alley (1977) 6/10
Planet of the Apes (2001) 5/10 rw
Boogie Woogie (2009) 3/10
Executive Suite (1954) 8/10
Jonah Hex (2010) 5/10
The One and Only (1978) 5/10
Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day (2008) 7.5/10
The Stepford Wives (1975) 7/10
Beautiful Dreamer: Brian Wilson and the Story of ‘Smile’ (2004) 5/10
Annie Oakley (1935) 8/10
Sex Drive (2008) 5/10
Porky’s (1982) 6/10 rw
Spaceballs (1987) 7/10 rw
Burlesque (2010) 4/10
Meek’s Cutoff (2010) 8/10
North (1994) 5/10 (I didnt hate, hate, hate, hate, hate this movie)
Summer School (1987) 5.5/10
She-Devil (1989) 6/10
Oct. 1: Oriental Elegy (Aleksandr Sokurov, 1996) – 8.5/10
Oct. 2: The General (Keaton/Bruckman, 1926) – 8.5/10
Oct. 2: Cops (Keaton/Cline, 1922) – 7.5/10
Oct. 2: Our Hospitality (Keaton/Blystone, 1923) – 8/10
Oct. 3: The Red and the White (Miklós Jancsó, 1967) – 9/10
Oct. 4: Dolce . . . (Aleksandr Sokurov, 1999) – 6.5/10
Oct. 7: The Old Dark House (James Whale, 1932) Rewatch – 9/10
Oct. 10: Sherlock, Jr. (Buster Keaton, 1924) Rewatch – 9/10
Oct. 10: Good Night, Nurse! (Roscoe Arbuckle, 1918) – 6.5/10
Oct. 10: Steamboat Bill Jr. (Keaton/Reisner, 1928) – 8/10
Oct. 10: The Cameraman (Keaton/Sedgwick, 1928) – 9.5/10
Oct. 11: Sonata for Viola. Dmitri Shostakovich (Sokurov/Aranovich, 1981) – 8/10
Oct. 13: The Electric House (Keaton/Cline, 1922) – 8/10
Oct. 13: The Boat (Keaton/Cline, 1921) – 9/10
Oct. 13: The Haunted House (Keaton/Cline, 1921) – 8.5/10
Oct. 13: Allez Oop (Keaton/Lamont, 1934) – 6.5/10
Oct. 13: The Playhouse (Keaton/Cline, 1921) – 8.5/10
Oct. 13: Hard Luck (Keaton/Cline, 1921) – 7/10
Oct. 14: Convict 13 (Keaton/Cline, 1920) – 8/10
Oct. 14: The Scarecrow (Keaton/Cline, 1920) – 8.5/10
Oct. 14: The Balloonatic (Keaton/Cline, 1923) – 8/10
Oct. 14: The Paleface (Keaton/Cline, 1922) – 7/10
Oct. 15: Mutual Appreciation (Andrew Bujalski, 2005) Rewatch – 8.5/10
Oct. 16: Seven Chances (Buster Keaton, 1925) Rewatch – 9/10
Oct. 16: One Week (Keaton/Cline, 1920) – 9/10
Oct. 16: Three Ages (Keaton/Cline, 1923) – 7/10
Oct. 17 – 18: Buster Keaton: A Hard Act to Follow (Brownlow/Gill, 1987) – 9/10
Oct. 19: South (Frank Hurley, 1919) – 8/10
Oct. 20: Buster Keaton Rides Again (John Spotton, 1965) – 8.5/10
Oct. 20: The Southerner (Jean Renoir, 1945) – 9/10
Oct. 22: L’Histoire d’Adèle H. (François Truffaut, 1975) Rewatch – 9/10
Oct. 23: College (Keaton/Horne, 1927) – 7/10
Oct. 23: The High Sign (Keaton/Cline, 1921) – 8/10
Oct. 23: Go West (Buster Keaton, 1925) – 9.5/10
Oct. 23: The Frozen North (Keaton/Cline, 1922) – 8.5/10
Oct. 24: Weekend (Andrew Haigh, 2011) – 8.5/10
Oct. 25: Battling Butler (Buster Keaton, 1926) – 8/10
Oct. 25: The Frozen North (Keaton/Cline, 1922) Rewatch – 8.5/10
Oct. 25: We Can’t Go Home Again (Nicholas Ray, 1973) – 8/10
Oct. 26: The Haunted House (Keaton/Cline, 1921) Rewatch – 9/10
Oct. 26: The Boat (Keaton/Cline, 1921) Rewatch – 10/10
Oct. 26: One Week (Keaton/Cline, 1920) Rewatch – 9/10
Oct. 26: The Scarecrow (Keaton/Cline, 1920) Rewatch – 9/10
Oct. 26: Convict 13 (Keaton/Cline, 1920) Rewatch – 8/10
Oct. 26: The Electric House (Keaton/Cline, 1922) Rewatch – 8.5/10
Oct. 27: My Wife’s Relations (Buster Keaton, 1922) – 6.5/10
Oct. 30: The Goat (Keaton/St. Clair, 1921) – 9/10
OCTOBER, 2011
Let Me In – 6/10
The Man with a Movie Camera – 6/10
Ball of Fire – 8/10
Paranormal Activity – 8/10
The Fugitive Kind – 4/10
They Went That-A-Way and That-A-Way – 3/10
A Night to Remember – 6/10
Sansho the Bailiff – 8/10
American Translation – 5/10
The Ides of March – 9/10
They Came Back – 6/10
The Tree of Wooden Clogs – 6/10
The Sun Shines Bright – 8/10
Crazy Horse – 8/10
The Turin Horse – 7/10
I Walked with a Zombie – 9/10
Kiss Me Deadly – 9/10
Distant – 5/10
The Adventures of Robinson Crusoe – 5/10
Bananas – 5/10
Broadway Danny Rose – 6/10
Deconstructing Harry – 8/10
The Killer – 8/10
Hard Boiled – 7/10
Dawn of the Dead (’78) – 9/10
Phantasm – 8/10
Phantasm II – 6/10
Phantasm III – 6/10
Phantasm IV: Oblivion – 7/10
The Devil’s Rain – 3/10
Bold = Repeat Viewing
all this and two jobs + I finished a most of a script
The highlight of the month was Bathory, Chicken Ranch, Human Centipede 2 and Satan Hates You.
The lowlight was Red State or Wrong Turn 4
10/01: Short Eyes (Robert M Young) 5/5
10/01: War Party (Franc Roddam) 5/5
10/01: Chicken Ranch (Nick Broomfield) 5/5
10/01: Too White For Me (Nick Broomfield) 3/5
10/01: Tattooed Tears (Nick Broomfield) 5/5
10/01: Soldier Girls (Nick Broomfield) 3/5
10/02: The Leader, The Driver… (Nick Broomfield) 3/5
10/02: His Big White Self (Nick Broomfield) 4/5
10/02: Driving Me Crazy (Nick Broomfield) 2/5
10/02: Silvestre (João César Monteiro) 3.5/5
10/02: Way…Way Out (Gordon Douglas) 3/5
10/02: Land of the Dead (George Romero) 4/5
10/04: Living Will (Matthew Lauyer) 3/5
10/05: Red (Robert Schwentke) 3/5
10/06: Chatroom (Hideo Nakata) 4/5
10/07: Soul’s Midnight (Harry Basil) 2/5
10/08: Tough Guys (Jeff Kanew) 5/5
10/08: Indiana Jones Crystal Skulls (Steven Spielberg) 2.5/5
10/08: The Caine Mutiny (Edward Dmytryk) 2/5
10/08: Date Night (Shawn Levy) 2/5
10/09: Blubberella (Uwe Boll) 2.5/5
10/09: My Life in Turnaround (Eric Schaeffer) 4/5
10/10: Lydia Lunch Willing Victim (Unlisted) 5/5
10/10: DIY Or Die (Michael W. Dean) 2/5
10/10: Hisss (Jennifer Chambers Lynch) 3/5
10/11: Septien (Michael Tully) 5/5
10/12: Olhos azuis (José Joffily) 4/5
10/13: Doctor Detroit (Michael Pressman) 4/5
10/13: Tree of Life (Terrence Malick) 3.3/5
10/14: Legend of the Lost (Henry Hathaway) 3/5
10/14: The Kids Are All Right (Lisa Cholodenko) 2/5
10/14: Trespass (Joel Schumacker) 4/5
10/16: More American Graffiti (Bill Norton) 3/5
10/18: Hellraiser Revelations (Víctor García) 2/5
10/18: Johnny English Reborn (Oliver Parker) 2.4/5
10/19: Whore (Ken Russell) 3/5
10/20: Burke and Hare (John Landis) 2.4/5
10/21: Star Trek Generations (David Carson) 3.8/5
10/21: On Stranger Tides (Rob Marshall) 1/5
10/21: Red State (Kevin Smith) 1/5
10/22: Mars Needs Moms (Simon Wells) 2.8/5
10/22: Zookeeper (Frank Coraci) 1/5
10/22: A Better Life (Chris Weitz) 2.8/5
10/22: Hop (Tim Hill) 2/5
10/23: The 5th Quarter (Rick Bieber) 1/5
10/26: Faces in the Crowd (Julien Magnat) 3.3/5
10/27: Wrong Turn 4 (Declan O’Brien) 1/5
10/27: The Countess (Julie Delpy) 4/5
10/28: Human Centipede 2 (Tom Six) 5/5
10/29: Satan Hates You (James McKenney) 5/5
10/29: Capt America (Joe Johnston) 2.3/5
10/30: Bathory (Juraj Jakubisko) 5/5
Freaks (1932) 8.5/10
The Steel Helmet (1951) 8/10
Prohibition (2011) 8/10
The Private Life of Henry VIII (1933) 7.5/10
Helen of Troy (1956) 7/10
Choke (2008) 7/10
Come and Get It (1936) 7/10
Attack of the 50 Foot Woman (1958) 6/10
Next Day Air (2009) 5.5/10
Up the Sandbox (1972) 5.5/10
Morning Glory (2010) 5/10
Wonder Man (1945) 5/10
Zathura (2005) 5/10
Porky’s Revenge (1985) 5/10
The GoodTimesKid (2005) 4/10
Porky’s II: The Next Day (1983) 4/10
Mac and Me (1988) 4/10
That Old Feeling (1997) 4/10
Dogora (2004) 4/10
Little Hercules (2009) 3/10
all this and I havent seen anything in the past 10 days or so. SWAGGIN’ ON YA
pretty good month all in all (best discovery: Jurassic Park for the first time worst: The Dilemma or Attack the Block)
11/01: Nutcracker 3D (Andrei Konchalovsky) 2.5/5
11/01: Crazy Stupid Love (G. Ficarra, John Requa) 3/5
11/02: Trash Humpers (Harmony Korine) 2/5
11/03: Attack the Block (Joe Cornish) 1/5
11/04: Scarlet Street (Fritz Lang) 2/5
11/05: Us Without Mom (María Eugenia Sueiro) 2/5
11/05: Autoerotic (Joe Swanberg, Adam Wingard) 2/5
11/06: Jurassic Park (Steven Spielberg) 5/5
11/06: The Lost World: Jurassic Park (Steven Spielberg) 2/5
11/06 Jurassic Park 3 (Joe Johnston) 1/5
11/08: Atlas Shrugged Pt 1 (Paul Johansson) 5/5
11/10: Sarah Palin You Betcha (Nick Broomfield) 2.7/5
11/11: Kino Eye (Dziga Vertov ) 1.8/5
11/11: Pure Luck (Nadia Tass) 3.8/5
11/11: The Straits of Love and Hate (Mizoguchi) 2/5
11/12: Jack and Jill (Dennis Dugan) 2.7/5
11/12: Puss in Boots (Chris Miller) 3.8/5
11/13: Catch Me If You Can (Steven Spielberg) 3/5
11/13: Fall (Eric Schaeffer) 5/5
11/15: Larry Crowne (Tom Hanks) 4.2/5
11/17: Rio Sex Comedy (Jonathan Nossiter) 1/5
11/19: J. Edgar (Clint Eastwood) 2.6/5
11/19: The Dilemma (Ron Howard) 1/5
11/24: Get Low (Aaron Schneider) 2.4/5
11/24: Super 8 (J.J. Abrams) 1/5
11/24: The Roommate (Christian E. Christiansen) 1/5
11/24: Nejasná zpráva o konci sveta (Juraj Jakubiski) 3.3/5
11/25: You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stanger (Woody Allen) 5/5
11/25: The Man Who Cried (Sally Potter) 1/5
11/26: The Muppets (James Bobin) 2.4/5
11/27: Big Mommas: Like Father… (John Whitesell) 2/5
11/27: 18 Again (Paul Flaherty) 2.8/5
11/30: The Special Relationship (Richard Loncraine) 2.2/5
“Atlas Shrugged Pt 1 (Paul Johansson) 5/5”
Really, Den?? You never cease to amaze me. You like that crypto-fascist stuff? I thought even the most ardent Randians were turned off by that embarrassing adaptation.
I just can’t believe Den has never seen Jurassic Park. How the hell did that happen!?
Actually, I was more surprised that Den liked Jurassic Park!
I haven’t seen Jurassic Park since it came out in theaters but don’t the CGI effects look painfully dated by now?
Do you people having film viewing logs or something? I really don’t keep track of the films I see chronologically like that.
I haven’t seen Jurassic Park since it came out in theaters but don’t the CGI effects look painfully dated by now?
Me too, and I’m curious about this, because I thought this was the best part of the film. For me, I thought the balance betweeen cgi and “real” props, etc. really made the film work. Maybe the cgi, itself, looks too fake now, though.
Do you people having film viewing logs or something? I really don’t keep track of the films I see chronologically like that.
I do. The chronological part is not so crucial, but I like writing down the films I see. It’s essential for helping me remember the films I’ve seen.
I started to keep a record of my viewing in January of ‘10. Helps put some perspective on exactly what I’ve been devoting my viewing time toward. I don’t see the need to specify dates. A month overview with ratings works for me.
http://mubi.com/lists/seen-from-112010
(November not yet added)
Jazz, how about adding your lists to this thread! Ari and Santino too, since you’re three members who’s tastes I respect and would like to see what you’re up to viewing wise.
Yeah, a film log isn’t a bad idea. I used to keep one back in the day. Good idea for a thread.
Nov. 1: The General (Keaton/Bruckman, 1926) Rewatch – 9/10
Nov. 2: Blind Husbands (Erich von Stroheim, 1919) – 8/10
Nov. 4: Bear Feat (Charles M. Jones, 1949) – 8.5/10
Nov. 4: My Little Duckaroo (Charles M. Jones, 1954) – 9/10
Nov. 4: Hare Conditioned (Charles M. Jones, 1945) Rewatch – 8.5/10
Nov. 4: The Draft Horse (Charles M. Jones, 1942) – 8/10
Nov. 4: My Favorite Duck (Charles M. Jones, 1942) Rewatch – 9/10
Nov. 4: The Invisible Man (James Whale, 1933) Rewatch – 9.5/10
Nov. 5: Rocket-Bye Baby (Charles M. Jones, 1956) Rewatch – 8/10
Nov. 5: The Weakly Reporter (Charles M. Jones, 1944) Rewatch – 8/10
Nov. 5: Foolish Wives (Erich von Stroheim, 1922) – 8.5/10
Nov. 6: Hare Tonic (Charles M. Jones, 1945) Rewatch – 9/10
Nov. 9: Le Million (René Clair, 1931) Rewatch – 8/10
Nov. 13: Kaboom (Gregg Araki, 2010) – 8/10
Nov. 14: Shanghai Express (Josef von Sternberg, 1932) Rewatch – 8.5/10
Nov. 16: Trois Couleurs: Bleu (Krzysztof Kieślowski, 1993) Rewatch – 9/10
Nov. 19: Trois Couleurs: Blanc (Krzysztof Kieślowski, 1994) – 8/10
Nov. 21: Railway Station (Krzysztof Kieślowski, 1980) – 8.5/10
Nov. 21: Hospital (Krzysztof Kieślowski, 1976) – 8/10
Nov. 21: Tramwaj (Krzysztof Kieślowski, 1966) – 8.5/10
Nov. 21: The Office (Krzysztof Kieślowski, 1966) – 8.5/10
Nov. 22: Klaps (Krzysztof Kieślowski, 1976) – 7.5/10
Nov. 22: Factory (Krzysztof Kieślowski, 1970) – 8.5/10
Nov. 25: Bez Końca (Krzysztof Kieślowski, 1985) – 8/10
Nov. 26: The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (Powellburger, 1943) – 8.5/10
Nov. 29: Trois Couleurs: Rouge (Krzysztof Kieślowski, 1994) – 9/10
I think Jurassic Park stands up. In fact, a lot of the special effects in that film look better than some of the films released today.
I keep track of the films I see in the theater (I’ve currently seen 113 new films in the theater this year). I like to know how many new movies I’ve seen in any given year and like Jazz, it helps me remember all the films I’ve seen (which is good when I make my top ten list at the end of the year). I can’t imagine keeping a log of all the films I see though. Stuff I watch on TV or DVD are not important records that I need to keep.
Jeez, I haven’t seen over 100 films in theaters since I lived in a city with a decent film selection. I think I average about 50 now.
@ Brad – I could post the films I’ve seen this year but I’ll have to do it when I get home tonight.
My theater viewing list is the most important to me because I honestly don’t see many new movies at home (and I only care about what new movies I watch). If I miss it in the theater, I rarely will rent it. But I’m lucky enough to have access to most theatrical releases because I’m in LA (it’s honestly the only good thing about living in SoCal).
@ Ari – I think it’s time for you to reconsider urban living! Yeah, we got lots of people and even more smog but the movies are great! lol
And btw, I would say approx half of the films I see in theaters I am seeing for free (test screenings, theater hopping, studio screenings, etc.). So it’s not like I’m spending thousands of dollars at the theater (although the other half, where I do have to pay, usually include higher-than-average ticket prices since it’s LA, which averages roughly $15 a ticket).
For me, whether I’ve seen the film at home or in the theater isn’t so relevant, but we’ve all got our particular priorities.
@Brad
OK. I’ll try to post my list later.
(Btw, I noticed you didn’t care for Xala and White Material. Makes me feel a little less alone on those two—although I liked Xala a little more than you did.)
@Ari
I think I average about 50 now.
If you have children, it’ll get less than that, so be grateful. :)
“I think it’s time for you to reconsider urban living!”
Yeah, I feel I’m in cinematic exile… It’s supposedly urban but mostly a cultural wasteland. The places you go for jobs. When I first visited L.A., I thought I would hate it (the idea of it and everything) but the cinema culture there is really phenomenal (plus the restaurants are fantastic).
“If you have children, it’ll get less than that, so be grateful. :)”
I thought you just have to start going to more horrible children’s films…. Getting older, I have deeper appreciation for what my father suffered through in theaters when I was a child.
Brad S.
AUGUST, 2011
Blue Velvet – 8/10
Wild at Heart – 6/10
Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Take One – 5/10
The Mirror (’97) – 7/10
The House of Mirth – 7/10
The Flower of my Secret – 5/10
Xala – 4/10
Spirited Away – 9/10
Humoresque – 8/10
The Manitou – 3/10
The Fire Within – 8/10
Django – 4/10
The Secret Glory – 4/10
Haxan – 7/10
Harlan County USA – 7/10
The Lady from Shanghai – 8/10
Jezebel – 5/10
Now, Voyager – 6/10
The Killers (’46) – 7/10
Le Doulos – 7/10
The Rules of the Game – 9/10
La Bete Humaine – 6/10
Song of the South – 4/10
The Unknown – 7/10
Whatever Happened to Baby Jane? – 7/10
Mildred Pierce – 7/10
Possessed (’31) – 6/10
All about Eve – 8/10
Rise of the Planet of the Apes – 6/10
Flesh – 6/10
Trash – 7/10
Heat (’72) – 5/10
Bold = Repeat Viewing