Yesterday's Hits

Titanic (James Cameron)
Love Story (Arthur Hiller)
The Blair Witch Project (Eduardo Sanchez and Daniel Myrick)
Chariots of Fire (Hugh Hudson)
Smokey and the Bandit (Hal Needham)
The Bells of St. Mary's (Leo McCarey)
It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World (Stanley Kramer)
Every Which Way But Loose (James Fargo)
9 to 5 (Colin Higgins)
Billy Jack (T.C. Frank)
The Towering Inferno (John Guillermin)
Fatal Attraction (Adrian Lyne)
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (Steven Spielberg)
The Way We Were (Sydney Pollack)
The Robe (Henry Koster)
The Sixth Sense (M. Night Shyamalan)
Top Gun (Tony Scott)
Independence Day (Roland Emmerich)
Summer of '42 (Robert Mulligan)
Crocodile Dundee (Peter Faiman)
Forrest Gump (Robert Zemeckis)
Around the World in 80 Days (Michael Anderson)
Romeo and Juliet (Franco Zeffirelli)
The Jazz Singer (Alan Crosland)
The Passion of the Christ (Mel Gibson)
The Longest Day (Ken Annakin/Andrew Marton/Bernard Wicki)
Kramer vs. Kramer (Robert Benton)
City Slickers (Ron Underwood)
The Carpetbaggers (Edward Dmytryk)
Exodus (Otto Preminger)
The Karate Kid (John G. Avildsen)
Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves (Kevin Reynolds)
Duel in the Sun (King Vidor)
The Exorcist (William Friedkin)
The Best Years of Our Lives (William Wyler)
Thunderball AND Moonraker (Terence Young/Lewis Gilbert)
The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer (Irving Reis)
The Santa Clause (John Pasquin)
Home Alone (Chris Columbus)

When Good Directors Go Bad

Ready to Wear (Robert Altman)
Exorcist II: The Heretic (John Boorman) [written by Faisal A. Qureshi]
1941 (Steven Spielberg)
The Serpent's Egg (Ingmar Bergman)
Art School Confidential (Terry Zwigoff)
New York, New York (Martin Scorsese)
The Cotton Club (Francis Ford Coppola)
The Doors (Oliver Stone)
Zabriskie Point (Michelangelo Antonioni)
Exterminating Angels (Jean-Claude Brisseau)
Stardust Memories (Woody Allen) [not what you'd think]
I Confess (Alfred Hitchcock)
Dreamcatcher (Lawrence Kasdan)
The Wicker Man (Neil LaBute)
The Hudsucker Proxy (Joel Coen) [?]
1492: Conquest of Paradise (Ridley Scott)
Regarding Henry (Mike Nichols)
Ishtar (Elaine May)
Book of Shadows: Blair Witch 2 (Joe Berlinger)
The Brothers Grimm (Terry Gilliam)
She Hate Me (Spike Lee)
Texasville (Peter Bogdanovich)
The Dark Wind (Errol Morris)
Year of the Horse (Jim Jarmusch)
For Love of the Game (Sam Raimi)
The Darjeeling Limited (Wes Anderson)
Rising Sun (Philip Kaufman)
Elizabethtown (Cameron Crowe) [?]
Hulk (Ang Lee)
The Frighteners (Peter Jackson) [?]
Goya's Ghosts (Milos Forman)
Ryan's Daughter (David Lean)
Planet of the Apes (Tim Burton)
Death Becomes Her (Robert Zemeckis)
Insomnia (Christopher Nolan) [?]
The Road Home (Zhang Yimou)
Cruising (William Friedkin)
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil (Clint Eastwood)
Great Expectations (Alfonso Cuaron) [?]
The Bonfire of the Vanities (Brian DePalma)
Waterloo (Sergei Bondarchuk)
A Life Less Ordinary (Danny Boyle)

Reviews By Request

Baxter (Jerome Boivin)
Zulu (Cy Endfield)
Lone Wolf and Cub: Sword of Vengeance (Kenji Misumi)
The New Kids (Sean S. Cunningham)
Faithless (Liv Ullmann)
3 on a Meathook (William Girdler)
The Atomic Cafe (Pierce Rafferty, Jayne Loader, Kevin Rafferty)
Camera Buff (Krzystzof Kieslowski)
The Hot Rock (Peter Yates)
Knightriders (George A. Romero)
The Wizard of Gore (Herschell Gordon Lewis)
War of the Gargantuas (Ishiro Honda)
Cockfighter (Monte Hellman)
Tenebrae (Dario Argento)
Let Sleeping Corpses Lie (Jorge Grau)
Chelsea Girls (Andy Warhol)
The Times of Harvey Milk (Rob Epstein)
Mister Lonely (Harmony Korine)
Bigger Stronger Faster* (Chris Bell)
Poultrygeist: Night of the Chicken Dead (Lloyd Kaufman)
Sukiyaki Western Django (Takashi Miike)
The Foot Fist Way (Jody Hill)
Double Feature Review: Reprise (Joachim Trier) and Son of Rambow (Garth Jennings)
Shotgun Stories (Jeff Nichols)
Yankee Doodle Dandy (Michael Curtiz)
How Green Was My Valley (John Ford)

Movie Moment Posts

The Girl Can't Help It (Frank Tashlin)
The Tree of Wooden Clogs (Ermanno Olmi)
8 Women (Francois Ozon)
A Fish Called Wanda (Charles Crichton)
Nashville (Robert Altman)
Belle de Jour (Luis Buñuel)
Bus 174 (Jose Padilha)
Lolita (Stanley Kubrick)
Phantom of the Paradise (Brian DePalma)
La Belle Noiseuse (Jacques Rivette)
Babe: Pig in the City (George Miller)
Gilles' Wife (Frederic Fonteyne)
The Elephant Man (David Lynch)
Freaks (Tod Browning)
To Live and Die in L.A. (William Friedkin)
Band of Outsiders (Jean-Luc Godard)
The Son (Luc and Jean-Pierre Dardenne)
Duck, You Sucker (Sergio Leone)
Late Spring (Yasujiro Ozu)
Father and Son (Aleksandr Sokurov)
Don't Look Now (Nicolas Roeg)
Solaris (Andrei Tarkovsky)
Cries and Whispers (Ingmar Bergman)
Kiss Kiss Bang Bang (Shane Black)
Films by Buster Keaton- Neighbors, The Scarecrow, The High Sign, and Our Hospitality
La Jetée (Chris Marker)
Silent Light (Carlos Reygadas)
The Taking of Pelham One Two Three (Joseph Sargent)
Audition (Takashi Miike)
The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (Jacques Demy)
Killer of Sheep (Charles Burnett)
The Miracle of Morgan's Creek (Preston Sturges)
Notable Moments of 2007: Part 1 and Part 2 (various)
High School (Frederick Wiseman)
The Holy Mountain (Alejandro Jodorowsky)
Do the Right Thing (Spike Lee)
Make Way For Tomorrow (Leo McCarey)
Taxi Driver (Martin Scorsese)
The Wind Will Carry Us (Abbas Kiarostami)
My Favorite Movie Moments of 2008 (Various)

Screengrab Lists

Top 10: The Best Nude Scenes of 2006
Top 10: The Most Dangerous Films of All Time
Top 14: The Kinkiest Films Ever Made
Top 10: The Worst Accents in Movie History
Top 10: The Most Important Nude Scenes of All Time
Top 10: Chicks With Guns
Top 10: Cinema's Great No-Sex Sex Scenes
Top 10: The Most Historically Inaccurate Films Ever Made
Top 10: Nude Scenes We Really Could Have Done Without
Top 10: The Greatest Remakes
Top 10: The Worst Mothers in Movie History
Top 10: Cinema's Greatest Offscreen Feuds
Top 20: The Greatest Death Scenes of All Time
Top 10: Great Fight Scenes
Top 10: The Greatest Twists of All Time
Top 10: The Most Unnecessary Sequels of All Time
Top 10: The Greatest Disses in Cinema History
Top 10: Songs That Were Redefined by Movies
Top 10: The Grossest Onscreen Kisses
Top 10: The Greatest Running Scenes in Movie History
Top 10: The Most Notable Product Placements in Movie History
Top 15: Great Cameos in Film History
Top 15: Worst Literary Adaptations
Top 20: Revisionist Westerns
Top 16: Cinema's Worst Musical Misfires
Top 15: The All Time Worst Athletes Turned Actors
Top 11: Worst Scenes in Great Movies
Top 22: The Most Evil Corporations in Movie History
Top 10: Instances of Religious Propaganda Where We Least Expected It
Top 13: Greatest Fictional Movie Presidents
Top 12: Bodily Transformations on Film
Top 10: Greatest Prosthetics in Movie History
Top 13: Greatest Long-Ass Movies of All Time
Top 10: Worst Cinematic Hairdos
Top 10: Worst Cinematic Medical Breakthroughs
Top 10: Greatest Cinematic Psychiatrists
Top 12: Great Opening Credits
Top 10: Best Murderous Duos
Top 10: Great Cinematic Mentors
Top 10: Baseball Movie All-Stars
Top 10: Sexiest Big-Screen Guy Geeks
Top 5: Hits of Summer 2008
Top 5: Bombs of Summer 2008
Top 12: Great Movies Based on TV Shows
Top 16: Films That Make Us Nervous
Top 10: Great Final Films
Top 10: Great Scenes From Not So Great Movies
Top 15: Films That (Almost) Could've Been Directed by Someone Else
The World’s Greatest Animated Shorts
A Screengrab Salute to Movie Trailers
Top 25: War Movies
Top 10: Paul Newman movies
Greatest Leading Men
Greatest Leading Ladies
Greatest Horror movies
Most Memorable Cinematic Utopias and Dystopias
Best and Worst Bond Movies
Top Biopics

Other notable Screengrab posts

Oscar Predictions 2007- my very first post. Kindly keep the laughter to a minimum.
Live-Blogging (Sorta) the Oscars- OK, not really. But I took notes, so shouldn't that be enough for you?
Of Genre Pics and Oscar Winners- The French Connection and The Departed
Boycotting The Departed? Say It Ain't So, J.Ro- Who knows? Maybe he even read it!
Heaven's Gate: A Reassessment- Giving a much-maligned flop a second chance to suck
Angelina the Irritating?- Please stop adopting kids and acting respectable all the time so you can devote your energy to giving good performances in good movies. Thank you very much.
A Stroll Through Jim Henson's Legacy- Bilge vetoed my original title, "Good Grief! The Comedian's a Bear!"
Forgotten Films: Privilege (1967, Peter Watkins)- I'm still pretty proud of this one, if you don't mind me saying so
In Praise of the Mass Experience: The Ohio Science Fiction Marathon- yet another attempt on my part to make Columbus look like the hotbed of cinephilia it deserves to be
Ten More Great British Directors: An Alternate List- no published list is ever good enough for us not to try to improve upon it.
Half Measures '07- My favorite films of the first half of 2007
Laszlo Kovacs (1933-2007)- this guy rocked.
Marking Time: The Photography of Chris Marker- I wonder if my co-writer ever got paid for this...
Women in Film- awesome YouTube thingy
Toronto Roundups- a brief recounting of my first TIFF
Seagalogy: A Life in Badass Cinema- thanks, Vern!
Face/Off: Breaking the Waves- or, to be precise, the final shot.
Movies We Missed: Interkosmos (2006, Jim Finn)- this movie rules, plus it's short!
Not Just for Kids: The Columbus International Children's Film Festival- thanks, Chris!
Farewell, J.Ro... But Not Really- We'll always have Toronto...
Top 10 of 2007- Before I'd seen There Will Be Blood or Lake of Fire, that is.
Oscars 2008- The Nomination Predictions, The Nominees, The Predicted Winners, The Animated and Live Action Shorts, The Liveblogging, and Other Related Stories
Movies We Missed: Les Revenants (2004, Robin Campillo)- thanks, Jason!
Anthony Minghella (1954-2008)- in memoriam
Forgotten Films: Les Anges du Péché (1943, Robert Bresson)- thanks, Steve!
White Elephant Blogathon- My entry, plus an interview with blogathon guru Benjamin Lim
Charlton Heston (1924-2008)- Farewell to one of the great movie stars
Yes, I'm Serious: Paul Clark Defends Uwe Boll- honestly folks, he's no worse than Simon West!
Being For the Benefit of Mr. Holm- helping out a respected former colleague
Cannes Previews: The Competition Lineup, The Star-Studded Jury, The Last-Minute Additions (including the eventual Palme winner!)
Watching "The Watchman": An Interview With Kent M. Beeson- exactly what the title says
See Bardot's Ass, Bowie's Junk in Blu-Ray- Nothing special, I just dig the title
EW Makes Great Movies List; Screengrab Points, Laughs- my reaction to EW's "New Classics"
Half Measures '08- my favorites of the first half of 2008
Taking the Midnight Meat Train- Lionsgate buried the Barker/Kitamura thriller
My most- and least-anticipated movies of Fall 2008
In lieu of actually going to Toronto this year, here’s my TIFF ’08 Preview
“Other Voices, Other Rooms: Warhol at the Wex
I don’t usually link to Trailer Reviews here, but I was amused by what I came up with for Ed Zwick’s Defiance
Wow! A review of a new release! And Gus Van Sant’s Milk, no less!
Thanksgiving Special: Cinematic Stuff I’m Thankful For
My Favorites of 2008 (as of New Year's Eve): #1 through 5, 6 through 10, and the Honorable Mentions.
Screengrab 2009 Preview: My Most- and Least-Anticipated Movies of 2009.
A "Watch It For Free" column on the cult-ready indie animated epic Sita Sings the Blues. Once the hipsters and the YouTube set get their paws on this, it's gonna be huge. And you can mark it, Dude.
A special DVD Digest column on the great Treasures IV DVD set. Buy it, like, now.
Hey, cool! Another review of a new release! Here's my take on Watchmen.

Directors ranked by average rating

The number in parentheses is the number of films I've seen from the corresponding director. I've only included directors here by whom I've seen five or more films. The list of directors I've only seen four films by can be found right here.

Buster Keaton- 3.917 (6)
Carl Theodor Dreyer- 3.8 (5)
Howard Hawks- 3.75 (12)
Jean-Pierre Melville- 3.75 (6)
Robert Bresson- 3.731 (13)
Fritz Lang- 3.7 (5)
Ernst Lubitsch- 3.7 (5)
F.W. Murnau- 3.7 (5)
Peter Watkins- 3.667 (6)
Michael Powell- 3.65 (10)

Charlie Chaplin- 3.643 (7)
Krzystzof Kieslowski- 3.643 (7)
Andrei Tarkovsky- 3.643 (7)
Orson Welles- 3.636 (11)
Luis Bunuel- 3.625 (12)
Preston Sturges- 3.625 (8)
Paul Thomas Anderson- 3.6 (5)
Josef Von Sternberg- 3.6 (5)
Jacques Rivette- 3.591 (11)
Stanley Kubrick- 3.577 (13)

Henri-Georges Clouzot- 3.583 (6)
Jacques Demy- 3.583 (6)
Sergio Leone- 3.583 (6)
Jean Renoir- 3.583 (6)
Yasujiro Ozu- 3.571 (7)
John Cassavetes- 3.556 (9)
Jean-Luc Godard- 3.542 (12)
Akira Kurosawa- 3.5 (16)
Billy Wilder- 3.5 (14)
John Ford- 3.5 (11)

Todd Haynes- 3.5 (6)
Nicholas Ray- 3.5 (5)
Quentin Tarantino- 3.5 (6)
Nicolas Roeg- 3.444 (9)
Ingmar Bergman- 3.429 (21)
Kenji Mizoguchi- 3.429 (7)
Sam Peckinpah- 3.429 (7)
Peter Jackson- 3.389 (9)
Alfred Hitchcock- 3.381 (21)
Eric Rohmer- 3.357 (14)

Alain Resnais- 3.357 (7)
Francois Truffaut- 3.33 (18)
Abbas Kiarostami- 3.33 (6)
Roman Polanski- 3.308 (13)
Stanley Donen- 3.3 (10)
Federico Fellini- 3.3 (10)
Wes Anderson- 3.3 (5)
Michael Curtiz- 3.3 (5)
Sam Fuller- 3.3 (5)
Don Siegel- 3.3 (5)

Terence Young- 3.3 (5)
David Cronenberg- 3.285 (14)
Michelangelo Antonioni- 3.286 (7)
Arnaud Desplechin- 3.286 (7)
Mike Leigh- 3.286 (7)
Elia Kazan- 3.278 (9)
Michael Haneke- 3.25 (8)
Vincente Minnelli- 3.25 (8)
Hal Ashby- 3.25 (6)
David Lynch- 3.25 (10)

Russ Meyer- 3.25 (6)
Martin Scorsese- 3.239 (23)
Joel Coen- 3.231 (13)
John Huston- 3.219 (16)
Rainer Werner Fassbinder- 3.208 (12)
Terence Davies- 3.2 (5)
Bob Fosse- 3.2 (5)
Shohei Imamura- 3.2 (5)
Leo McCarey- 3.2 (5)
Arthur Penn- 3.2 (5)

Agnes Varda- 3.2 (5)
Patrice Leconte- 3.188 (8)
Otto Preminger- 3.188 (8)
Claire Denis- 3.182 (11)
Wong Kar-Wai- 3.167 (6)
Claude Chabrol- 3.179 (14)
Werner Herzog- 3.156 (16)
Richard Linklater- 3.153 (13)
Hayao Miyazaki- 3.143 (7)
Brian DePalma- 3.136 (22)

Errol Morris- 3.125 (8)
Maurice Pialat- 3.11 (9)
William Wyler- 3.11 (9)
Jim Jarmusch- 3.1 (10)
Richard Lester- 3.1 (10)
Louis Malle- 3.1 (10)
Christopher Nolan- 3.1 (5)
Bertrand Tavernier- 3.1 (5)
Franklin J. Schaffner- 3.083 (6)
Robert Altman- 3.08 (25)

George Miller- 3.071 (7)
Fred Zinnemann- 3.071 (7)
George Cukor- 3.063 (8)
David Lean- 3.063 (8)
Lars Von Trier- 3.038 (13)
Woody Allen- 3 (37)
Aki Kaurismaki- 3 (11)
Robert Wise- 3 (11)
Olivier Assayas- 3 (9)
Michael Mann- 3 (9)

Martin Ritt- 3 (9)
Terry Gilliam- 3 (8)
Philip Kaufman- 3 (8)
Joseph L. Mankiewicz- 3 (7)
Dario Argento- 3 (6)
James Cameron- 3 (6)
Alfonso Cuaron- 3 (5)
David Gordon Green- 3 (5)
Jonathan Demme- 2.962 (13)
Spike Lee-2.955 (22)

David Fincher- 2.929 (7)
Hou Hsiao-hsien- 2.929 (7)
Tsai Ming-liang- 2.929 (7)
Albert Brooks- 2.917 (6)
Curtis Hanson- 2.917 (6)
Andre Techine- 2.917 (6)
George A. Romero- 2.9 (10)
Ken Loach- 2.9 (5)
George Stevens- 2.9 (5)
Terry Zwigoff- 2.9 (5)

Bernardo Bertolucci- 2.889 (9)
David Mamet- 2.889 (9)
Atom Egoyan- 2.875 (8)
Paul Verhoeven- 2.875 (8)
John Frankenheimer- 2.864 (11)
Guy Maddin- 2.857 (7)
Alan J. Pakula- 2.857 (7)
Peter Yates- 2.857 (7)
Pedro Almodovar- 2.85 (10)
Peter Weir- 2.85 (10)

Milos Forman- 2.833 (12)
Wim Wenders- 2.833 (9)
Tim Burton- 2.808 (13)
Peter Bogdanovich- 2.8 (10)
Richard Brooks- 2.8 (5)
Bill Forsyth- 2.8 (5)
Christopher Guest- 2.8 (5)
Jean-Pierre Jeunet- 2.8 (5)
Seijun Suzuki- 2.8 (5)
Takeshi Kitano- 2.786 (7)

Rob Reiner- 2.778 (9)
Steven Soderbergh- 2.765 (17)
Francis Ford Coppola- 2.75 (14)
Michael Moore- 2.75 (6)
Alan Rudolph- 2.75 (6)
John Sayles- 2.731 (13)
John Boorman- 2.727 (11)
Sidney Lumet- 2.725 (20)
Ang Lee- 2.722 (9)
Clint Eastwood- 2.714 (21)

Stanley Kramer- 2.714 (7)
Steven Spielberg- 2.708 (24)
James L. Brooks- 2.7 (5)
Paul Greengrass- 2.7 (5)
Robert Zemeckis- 2.692 (13)
Francois Ozon- 2.688 (8)
John Schlesinger- 2.667 (12)
Guy Hamilton- 2.667 (6)
David Zucker- 2.667 (6)
Joe Dante- 2.65 (10)

Robert Benton- 2.643 (7)
Guillermo Del Toro- 2.643 (7)
Tony Richardson- 2.643 (7)
Sam Raimi- 2.636 (11)
Stephen Frears- 2.6 (15)
Brad Anderson- 2.6 (5)
Gillian Armstrong- 2.6 (5)
Richard Flesicher- 2.6 (5)
Lewis Gilbert- 2.6 (5)
Michel Gondry- 2.6 (5)

Walter Hill- 2.591 (11)
Paul Schrader- 2.591 (11)
Herbert Ross- 2.583 (12)
Takashi Miike- 2.583 (6)
Harold Becker- 2.583 (6)
Mike Nichols- 2.579 (19)
Kenneth Branagh- 2.571 (7)
Peter and Bobby Farelly- 2.571 (7)
Bob Rafaelson- 2.571 (7)
Zhang Yimou- 2.571 (7)

Carl Reiner- 2.557 (7)
Michael Winterbottom- 2.55 (10)
Sydney Pollack- 2.542 (12)
John Carpenter- 2.5 (16)
John Hughes- 2.5 (8)
Cameron Crowe- 2.5 (6)
Peter Berg- 2.5 (5)
Joe Berlinger- 2.5 (5)
Kathryn Bigelow- 2.5 (5)
Jim Sheridan- 2.5 (5)

Istvan Szabo- 2.5 (5)
Tom Tykwer- 2.5 (5)
William Friedkin- 2.458 (12)
Gus Van Sant- 2.458 (12)
Neil Jordan- 2.455 (11)
Michael Ritchie- 2.45 (10)
Fred Schepisi- 2.45 (10)
Ridley Scott- 2.438 (16)
Norman Jewison- 2.433 (15)
Michael Apted- 2.429 (14)

John Dahl- 2.417 (6)
Hal Hartley- 2.417 (6)
Roger Michell- 2.417 (6)
Anthony Minghella- 2.417 (6)
Harold Ramis- 2.417 (6)
Alan Parker- 2.4 (15)
Richard Donner- 2.4 (10)
Martin Campbell- 2.4 (5)
Constantin Costa-Gavras- 2.4 (5)
Carl Franklin- 2.4 (5)

Neil LaBute- 2.4 (5)
George Lucas- 2.4 (5)
Lee Tamahori- 2.4 (5)
Taylor Hackford- 2.375 (8)
Lasse Hallstrom- 2.375 (8)
Mel Brooks- 2.364 (11)
Bob Clark- 2.357 (7)
Ron Shelton- 2.357 (7)
Lawrence Kasdan- 2.35 (10)
Jane Campion- 2.33 (6)

James Foley- 2.33 (6)
Bryan Singer- 2.33 (6)
Danny Boyle- 2.313 (8)
Mike Newell- 2.313 (8)
Barbet Schroeder- 2.313 (8)
John Waters- 2.313 (8)
Oliver Stone- 2.3 (15)
John Woo- 2.3 (10)
Jon Amiel- 2.3 (5)
Bille August- 2.3 (5)

Ron Clements and John Musker- 2.3 (5)
F. Gary Gray- 2.3 (5)
Michael Lehmann- 2.3 (5)
Robert Redford- 2.3 (5)
Volker Schlondorff- 2.3 (5)
Ron Underwood- 2.3 (5)
James Ivory- 2.25 (10)
Jim Abrahams- 2.25 (8)
Mike Figgis- 2.25 (8)
Wolfgang Petersen- 2.25 (8)

Franco Zeffirelli- 2.25 (8)
John Landis- 2.227 (11)
Paul Mazursky- 2.222 (9)
Andrew Davis- 2.214 (7)
Tony Scott- 2.208 (12)
Agnieszka Holland- 2.2 (5)
M. Night Shyamalan- 2.2 (5)
Wayne Wang- 2.2 (5)
Blake Edwards- 2.194 (18)
Luc Besson- 2.167 (6)

Gore Verbinski- 2.167 (6)
Wes Craven- 2.15 (10)
John McTiernan- 2.15 (10)
Richard Attenborough- 2.143 (7)
Michael Caton-Jones- 2.143 (7)
Mira Nair- 2.143 (7)
Frank Oz- 2.136 (10)
John G. Avildsen- 2.125 (8)
Ivan Reitman- 2.1 (10)
Robert Rodriguez- 2.1 (10)

Peter Chelsom- 2.1 (5)
Tobe Hooper- 2.1 (5)
Nicholas Hytner- 2.1 (5)
Marc Forster- 2.083 (6)
Renny Harlin- 2.083 (6)
Ron Howard- 2.063 (16)
Bruce Beresford- 2 (10)
John Badham- 2 (8)
Jean-Jacques Annaud- 2 (6)
Kevin Smith- 2 (6)

Amy Heckerling- 2 (6)
Roland Joffe- 2 (6)
Penny Marshall- 2 (5)
Barry Levinson- 1.972 (18)
Roger Donaldson- 1.95 (10)
Adrian Lyne- 1.929 (7)
James Mangold- 1.929 (7)
Philip Noyce- 1.929 (7)
Danny DeVito- 1.917 (6)
Jerry Zucker- 1.917 (6)

Antoine Fuqua- 1.9 (5)
Kevin Reynolds- 1.9 (5)
Sylvester Stallone- 1.9 (5)
Joe Johnston- 1.833 (6)
Charles Shyer- 1.833 (6)
Michael Hoffman- 1.8 (5)
Jay Roach- 1.8 (5)
Barry Sonnenfeld- 1.786 (7)
Chris Columbus- 1.75 (8)
Larry and Andy Wachowski- 1.75 (5)

Ed Zwick- 1.75 (6)
Roger Spottiswoode- 1.714 (7)
Roland Emmerich- 1.667 (6)
Brett Ratner- 1.667 (6)
Joel Schumacher- 1.647 (17)
Luis Mandoki- 1.6 (5)
Stephen Sommers- 1.6 (5)
Peter Segal- 1.583 (6)
Michael Bay- 1.571 (7)
Jon Turteltaub- 1.563 (8)

Richard Benjamin- 1.5 (9)
Jeremiah Chechik- 1.5 (5)
Stephen Hopkins- 1.5 (6)
Donald Petrie- 1.5 (6)
Nora Ephron- 1.5 (5)
Reginald Hudlin- 1.417 (6)
Irwin Winkler- 1.417 (6)
Simon Wincer- 1.4 (5)
Peter Hyams- 1.375 (8)
Jonathan Lynn- 1.333 (6)

Paul W.S. Anderson- 1.3 (5)
Rob Cohen- 1.3 (5)
Tom Shadyac- 1.3 (5)
Sam Weisman- 1.3 (5)
Garry Marshall- 1.25 (10)
Stephen Herek- 1.222 (9)
Dennis Dugan- 1.2 (5)

The On-Deck Circle, only for, uh, directors

This is the list of all directors for whom I've seen four films. All I need to do is see one more and they'll be able to sit at the grown-ups' table. As you can see, there are some serious top 10 contenders near the top.

D.W. Griffith- 3.75
Terence Malick- 3.75
Wes Anderson- 3.625
Sergei Eisenstein- 3.625
Max Ophüls- 3.625
Jacques Tati- 3.625
Lindsay Anderson- 3.5
Hirokazu Kore-eda- 3.5
Rene Clair- 3.375
Terry Jones- 3.375

David O. Russell- 3.375
Claude Sautet- 3.375
Apichatpong Weerasethakul- 3.75
Chantal Akerman- 3.25
Aleksandr Sokurov- 3.25
Luchino Visconti- 3.25
Terry Zwigoff- 3.25
Darren Aronofsky- 3.125
Warren Beatty- 3.125
James Gray- 3.125

Hong Sang-soo- 3.125
Jafar Panahi- 3.125
Alexander Payne- 3.125
William Wellman- 3.125
Barbara Kopple- 3
Victor Fleming- 3
John Lasseter- 3
Elaine May- 3
Mike Hodges- 2.875
Dennis Hopper- 2.875

Irvin Kershner- 2.875
Hector Babenco- 2.75
Patrice Chereau- 2.75
Lukas Moodysson- 2.75
Henry Selick- 2.75
Allison Anderson- 2.625
Chen Kaige- 2.625
Michel Gondry- 2.625
John McNaughton- 2.625
Bernard Rose- 2.625

Ken Russell- 2.625
Julien Temple- 2.625
Keith Gordon- 2.5
Jake Kasdan- 2.5
Park Chan-wook- 2.5
Ben Stiller- 2.5
Julien Temple- 2.5
Jon Favreau- 2.375
Doug Liman- 2.375
Mark and Michael Polish- 2.375

Giuseppe Tornatore- 2.375
John Madden- 2.25
Sam Mendes- 2.25
Leonard Nimoy- 2 25
Michael Radford- 2.25
Walter Salles- 2.25
Paul Weitz- 2.25
Martin Brest- 2.125
Andrew Fleming- 2.125
Shekhar Kapur- 2.125

Chuck Russell- 2.125
John Singleton- 2.125
Ian Softley- 2.125
Frank Darabont- 2
Mel Gibson- 2
Randal Kleiser- 2
Paul McGuigan- 2
Joseph Ruben- 2
Brad Silberling- 2
Todd Solondz- 2

Gary Fleder- 1.875
Sylvester Stallone- 1.875
Boaz Yakin- 1.875
Nick Cassavetes- 1.75
Marleen Gorris- 1.625
Rowdy Herrington- 1.625
Keenen Ivory Wayans- 1.25

My favorite filmmakers (comments to come, maybe)

My top 25:
Robert Altman
Ingmar Bergman
Robert Bresson
Luis Bunuel
John Cassavetes
Jean Cocteau
Jacques Demy
Brian DePalma
Jean-Luc Godard
Alfred Hitchcock
Buster Keaton
Krzystzof Kieslowski
Stanley Kubrick
Akira Kurosawa
Sergio Leone
David Lynch
Terrence Malick
F.W. Murnau
Michael Powell
Jacques Rivette
Martin Scorsese
Andrei Tarkovsky
Jacques Tati
Peter Watkins
Orson Welles

Long Single-Film Reviews

Favorites of 2004
Favorites of 2003
Favorites of 2002
Favorites of 2001

Top 10 of the 1990s
Top 10 of the 1980s

The 40-Year-Old Virgin (2005)
8 Women (2002)
After Life (1998)
All the Real Girls (2003)
Au Hasard Balthasar (1966)
Les Bonnes Femmes (1960)
Bowling For Columbine (2002)
Cherish (2002)
Faces (1968)
Herbie: Fully Loaded (2005)
ixans xtc. (2000)
Jurassic Park (1993)
Last Days (2005)
Lilya 4-Ever (2002)
Lost in La Mancha (2002)
Madagascar (2005)
Me and You and Everyone We Know (2005)
The Mother and the Whore (1973)
The New World (2005)
Nobody Knows (2004)
Rushmore (1998)
The Singing Detective (1986)
Spellbound (2002)
Standing in the Shadows of Motown (2002)
Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith (2005)
Talk to Her (2002)
Things Behind the Sun (2001)
Walkabout (1971)

2005 in Review

Introduction
1. The New World / The Intruder
2. Kings and Queen / Gilles' Wife
3. Innocence / Pride & Prejudice
4. Caché / Memories of Murder
5. A History of Violence / Oldboy
6. Tropical Malady / Brokeback Mountain
7. Keane / Tony Takitani
8. Domino / Head-On
9. Grizzly Man / The World
10. King Kong / 2046
11. Kiss Kiss Bang Bang / Kung Fu Hustle
12. Nobody Knows / L'Esquive
13. The Story of Marie and Julien / Not on the Lips
Other notable films
Worst of the year

Single-film posts

13 Going on 30 (2004)
2 Days in Paris (2007)
21 Grams (2003)
3:10 to Yuma (2007)
The 4th Man (1983)
50 First Dates (2004)
The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T (1953)

Across the Universe (2007)
After the Wedding (2006)
The Age of Innocence (1993)
Alien (1979) ["director's cut"]
Alien vs. Predator (2004)
American Gangster (2007)
American Splendor (2003)
L'Amour Fou (1968)
Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy (2004)
Andrew Lloyd Webber's The Phantom of the Opera (2004)
Angel-A (2005)
Angels in America (2003)
The Animation Show 4 (2008)
Anything Else (2003)
Ararat (2002)
Around the Bend (2004)
Assault on Precinct 13 (2005)
The Aviator (2004)

Bad Santa (2003)
Bamako (2006)
The Band's Visit (2007)
The Barbarian Invasions (2003)
Barbershop 2: Back in Business (2004)
The Battle of Shaker Heights (2003)
Beetlejuice (1988)
Before the Devil Knows You're Dead (2007)
Beowulf: The IMAX Experience (2007)
A Better Tomorrow (1986)
Beyond the Sea (2004)
The Big Bounce (2004)
Big Fish (2003)
The Big Lebowski (1998)
Bird (1988)
Blackboards (2000)
Black Book (2006)
Blind Shaft (2003)
Blood Brothers (1973)
Blood Money (1933)
Blue Car (2003)
Blue Collar (1978)
Bobby Jones: Stroke of Genius (2004)
Body Double (1984)
Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan (2006)
The Boss of It All (2006)
The Bourne Ultimatum (2007)
Bowling for Columbine (2002) [viewing #4]
Boy A (2007)
Brand Upon the Brain! (2006)
Breakin' All the Rules (2004)
The Bridesmaid (2004)
Bright Leaves (2003)
Broken Trail (2006)
Bubba Ho-Tep (2003)
Bucktown (1975)
Buffalo Soldiers (2003)
Bug (2006)
Bus 174 (2002)
The Butterfly Effect (2004)

Cabin Fever (2002)
Caché (2005)
Calamari Union (1984)
Carnal Knowledge (1971)
Casa de los Babys (2003)
Casino Royale (2006)
Celine and Julie Go Boating (1974)
Cellular (2004)
Le Cercle Rouge (1970)
Charlie Wilson's War (2007)
Chasing Liberty (2004)
Chinese Odyssey 2002
Chop Shop (2007)
A Cinderella Story (2004)
Close-Up (1990)
Cloverfield (2008)
Coffee and Cigarettes (2003)
Cold Creek Manor (2003)
Cold Mountain (2003)
Cold Water (1994)
Collateral (2004)
Comedy of Power (2006)
La Commune [Paris, 1871] (2000)
The Company (2003)
Control (2007)
The Cookout (2004)
The Cooler (2003)
The Corporation (2003)
The Counterfeiters (2007)
Cowards Bend the Knee (2003)
Cure (1997)
Czech Dream (2004)

Dan in Real Life (2007)
The Dark Knight (2008)
Dawn of the Dead (2004)
Day Night Day Night (2006)
Day of Wrath (1943)
Deathdream (1972)
De-Lovely (2004)
demonlover (2002)
The Departed (2006)
Dersu Uzala (1974)
Devdas (2002)
DiG! (2004)
Dirty Pretty Things (2002)
A Dirty Shame (2004)
Disney's Teacher's Pet (2004)
Disorder (1986)
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (2007)
Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story (2004)
Dogville (2003) [short thoughts on viewing #1- more detailed comments lost forever to time]
Don (1978)
Doomsday (2008)
The Door in the Floor (2004)
The Dreamers (2003)
Drifting Clouds (1996)
Duplex (2003)

The Earrings of Madame De... (1953)
Eastern Promises (2007)
Elephant (2003)
Elf (2003)
Enchated (2007)
End of the Century: The Story of the Ramones (2003)
Les Enfants Terribles (1950)
Envy (2004)
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004)
Eureka (1983)
Eureka (2000)
The Eye (2002)

The Face of Another (1966)
Fahrenheit 9/11 (2004)
Father and Son (2003)
La Femme Infidèle (1969)
Festival Express (2003)
Finding Neverland (2004)
The Five Obstructions (2003)
The Flower of Evil (2003)
The Fog of War (2003)
Forty Guns (1957)
"Freaks and Geeks" TV series (1999-2000)
Friday Night Lights (2004)
Frozen River (2008)
Funny Games USA (2007)

Garden State (2004)
Get Smart (2008)
The Girl From Monday (2004)
The Girl Next Door (2004)
Girl With a Pearl Earring (2003)
Going Upriver: The Long War of John Kerry (2004)
The Golden Compass (2007)
Gone Baby Gone (2007)
Goodbye, Lenin! (2003)
good bye dragon inn (2003)
Greendale (2003)
Grindhouse (2007)

Hairspray (2007)
Half Moon (2006)
Halloween (2007)
Hancock (2008)
Harold and Kumar Go to White Castle (2004)
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (2007)
Hellboy (2004)
Hellboy II: The Golden Army (2008)
Hero (2002)
Hidalgo (2004)
A Home at the End of the World (2004)
Honey (2003)
Hostel (2006)
Hostel, Part II (2007)
Hotel Rwanda (2004)
House of Flying Daggers (2004)
House of Sand and Fog (2003)
Hud (1963)
The Human Stain (2003)

I Am Legend (2007)
I Have Found It! (2000)
I Heart Huckabees (2004)
Imitation of Life (1959)
In America (2002)
Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (2008)
Infernal Affairs (2002)
In Good Company (2004)
INLAND EMPIRE (2006)
Innocence (2004)
Inside Deep Throat (2005)
Insignificance (1985)
InterMission (2003)
In the Cut (2003)
In the Realm of the Senses (1976)
In the Shadow of the Moon (2006)
In the Valley of Elah (2007)
Intimate Confessions of a Chinese Courtesan (1972)
Intimate Strangers (2004)
Intolerable Cruelty (2003)
I, Robot (2004)
Iron Man (2008)
Itty Bitty Titty Committee (2007)

jackass number two (2006)
Jandek on Corwood (2003)
Jesus, You Know (2003)
Jiyan (2002)
Joan the Maid (1994) [2-part TV cut]
Juha (1999)

Killer of Sheep (1977)
KiLL BiLL: vol. 1 (2003)
King Arthur (2004)
The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters (2007)
Kings and Queen (2004)
Kinsey (2004)
Kiss Me, Stupid (1964)
Kitchen Stories (2003)
The Kite Runner (2007)
Knocked Up (2007)
"K Street" TV series (2003)
Kung Fu Panda (2008)

Lady Chatterley (2006)
The Ladykillers (2004)
Lady Snowblood (1973)
Lake of Fire (2006)
Lars and the Real Girl (2007)
The Last Boy Scout (1991)
The Last Kiss (2006)
Last Life in the Universe (2003)
The Last Mistress (2007)
The Last Samurai (2003)
Late Spring (1949) [first viewing]
Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events (2004)
Leningrad Cowboys Go America (1989)
Leonard Cohen: I'm Your Man (2006)
The Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou (2004)
Lights in the Dusk (2006)
Little Black Book (2004)
Live Free or Die Hard (2007)
Live From Shiva's Dance Floor (2002)
Lola Montes (1955)
Look At Me (2004)
Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003)
Los Angeles Plays Itself (2003)
Lost in Translation (2003)
Love Actually (2003)
Love Don't Cost a Thing (2003)

The Magdalene Sisters (2002)
Malcolm X (1992)
Man on Fire (2004)
Man on Wire (2008)
The Man Who Laughs (1928)
The Man Without a Past (2002) [viewing #1]
The Man Without a Past (2002) [viewing #2]
The Man With Two Brains (1983)
Margot at the Wedding (2007)
Maria Full of Grace (2004)
The Marriage of Maria Braun (1979)
Married Life (2007)
Martin (1978) [for Nathaniel R's Vampire Blog-a-thon]
Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World (2003)
The Matador (2005)
The Match Factory Girl (1990)
Matchstick Men (2003)
The Matrix Revolutions (2003)
Mean Girls (2004)
Melvin and Howard (1980)
Metallica: Some Kind of Monster (2004)
Miami Blues (1990)
Michael Clayton (2007)
A Mighty Heart (2007)
Mikey and Nicky (1976)
Millennium Mambo (2001)
Million Dollar Baby (2004)
Miracle (2004)
The Missing (2003)
The Mist (2007)
Mona Lisa Smile (2003)
Monsieur Ibrahim (2003)
Monster (2003)
Morvern Callar (2002)
The Mother (2003)
The Motorcycle Diaries (2004)
The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor (2008)
Murderous Maids (2002)
My Best Friend (2006)
My Blueberry Nights (2007)
My Kid Could Paint That (2007)
Mystic River (2003)
My Winnipeg (2007)

Napoleon Dynamite (2004)
National Treasure: Book of Secrets (2007)
Never Die Alone (2004)
A New Life (1993)
New York Minute (2004)
A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors (1986)
No Country for Old Men (2007)
No End (1984)
Note by Note: The Making of Steinway L1037 (2006)

Ocean's 12 (2004)
Ocean's 13 (2007)
Offside (2006)
Oldboy (2003)
Once Upon a Time in Mexico (2003)
Once Upon a Time in the Midlands (2003)
One From the Heart (1982)
Ong-Bak: Muay-Thai Warrior (2003)
Osama (2003)
Out of Time (2003)
Overlord (1975)
Overnight (2004)
Owning Mahowny (2003)

The Page Turner (2006)
Paper Moon (1973)
Paranoid Park (2007)
Paris Awakens (1991)
Paris, je t'aime (2006)
The Passion of the Christ (2004)
Peter Pan (2003)
Phantom of the Paradise (1974)
Pieces of April (2003)
Pineapple Express (2008)
Play Time (1967)
The Prince & Me (2004)
The Producers (1968)
The Punisher (2004)

Le Quai des Brumes (1938)
A Question of Silence (1982)

Radio (2003)
Raising Helen (2004)
The Reckoning (2004)
Red Betsy (2003)
Red Desert (1964)
Regular Lovers (2005)
Requiem (2006)
The Return (2003)
The Revolution Will Not Be Televised (2002)
Runaway Jury (2003)
The Rundown (2003)
Run Ronnie Run (2002)

S21: The Khmer Rouge Killing Machine (2003)
The Saddest Music in the World (2003)
The Same River Twice (2003)
Satantango (1994)
The Savages (2007)
Scarface (1983)
School of Rock (2003)
The Science of Sleep (2006)
The Seagull's Laughter (2002)
The Sea Inside (2004)
Secondhand Lions (2003)
Secret Defense (1998)
Secret Things (2002) [viewing #1]
Secret Things (2002) [viewing #2]
Secret Window (2004)
Sexual Dependency (2003)
Shallow Hal (2001)
Shark Tale (2004)
Shattered Glass (2003)
Shaun of the Dead (2004)
Shine a Light (2008)
The Shooting (1967)
Sicko (2007)
Silver City (2004)
The Simpsons Movie (2007)
Sin City (2005)
The Singing Detective (2003)
Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow (2004)
Sleuth (2007)
Snakes on a Plane (2006)
Snow Angels (2007)
Something's Gotta Give (2003)
Spanglish (2004)
Spartan (2004)
Speed Racer (2008)
Spider-Man 2 (2004) [viewing #1]
Spider-Man 2 (2004) [viewing #2]
Spider-Man 3 (2007)
Stage Beauty (2004)
Starsky and Hutch (2004)
Star Wars: The Clone Wars (2008)
The Station Agent (2003)
Stevie (2003)
Stuck on You (2003)
A Summer's Tale (1996)
Summer With Monika (1952) [MONIKA: STORY OF A BAD GIRL cut]
Sunshine (2007)
Superbad (2007)
Superman (1978)
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (2007)
Sweet Sixteen (2002)
Sylvia (2003)
Syndromes and a Century (2006)

Take Care of Your Scarf, Tatjana (1994)
Taking Lives (2004)
Talk to Me (2007)
Tamala 2010: A Punk Cat in Space (2002)
Tarnation (2003)
The Texas Lamesaw Massacre (2003)
They Live (1988)
Things We Lost in the Fire (2007)
Thirteen (2003)
Tokyo Godfathers (2003)
Tokyo Story (1953)
To Live and Die in L.A. (1985)
Tomorrow We Move (2004)
Torque (2004)
Touchez Pas Au Grisbi (1954)
Touching the Void (2003)
Transformers (2007)
The Triplets of Belleville (2003)
Tron (1982)
Tropic Thunder (2008)
Troy (2004)
The Truth (1960)
Twilight Samurai (2002)
Twisted (2004)
Two or Three Things I Know About Her (1967)

Under the Tuscan Sun (2003)
Undertow (2004)
The United States of Leland (2003)

Vagabond [Sans toit ni loi] (1985)
The Valet (2006)
Van Helsing (2004)
Vanity Fair (2004)
Vera Drake (2004)
Veronica Guerin (2003)
Veronika Voss (1982)
A Very Long Engagement (2004)
Vicky Cristina Barcelona (2008)
La Vie Promise (2002)

Waiting for Happiness (2003)
Waitress (2007)
Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story (2007)
Walking Tall (2004)
WALL*E (2008)
The Weather Underground (2003)
We Don't Live Here Anymore (2004)
Welcome to Mooseport (2004)
We Own the Night (2007)
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966)
Who's That Knocking at My Door? (1968)
Wicker Park (2004)
Win a Date With Tad Hamilton! (2004)
The Wind and the Lion (1975)
Wisconsin Death Trip (1999)
Without a Paddle (2004)
A Woman Is a Woman (1961)
Wonderland (2003)
The Woodsman (2004)
World Trade Center (2006)

You Got Served (2004)
Youth Without Youth (2007)

Zatôichi: The Blind Swordsman (2003)
Zero Day (2003)
Zoo (2007)

Multi-film blog posts

3 Women / In My Skin / Escape From New York / Carlito's Way

Alexander / Lost in Translation [viewing #2]

Altered States / The Color of Money / Saturday Night Fever

The Amityville Horror / King's Ransom / The Interpreter

The Aristrocrats / Moolaadé / Brothers / One Missed Call

Batman Begins / Mr and Mrs Smith / Shark Boy and Lava Girl / The Perfect Man / Walk on Water

Battle in Heaven [first viewing] / When a Woman Ascends the Stairs / The Syrian Bride

Be Cool / The Jacket / The River

The Beguiled / Twentynine Palms

Being Julia / The Brown Bunny / National Treasure / I'll Sleep When I'm Dead

The Best of Youth / Serenity

Brick / Why We Fight / The Ringer / Nathalie...

Bride and Prejudice / Born Into Brothels

Broken Flowers / Grizzly Man / Murderball / Turning Gate / The Immortal Story / more

Broken Lizard's Club Dread / Dirty Dancing: Havana Nights

Bubble / Every Man For Himself / The Conformist / Z Channel / Match Point [first viewing]

Bukowski: Born Into This / She Hate Me / Absolute Beginners

Buñuel Double Feature: The Phantom of Liberty / The Milky Way

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory / Craptastic Quatre / Wedding Crashers / The Island / Marie and Julien / Werckmeister Harmonies / more

The Child / A Prairie Home Companion / Down in the Valley / The Proposition / Everything Is Illuminated / The President's Last Bang

Cinderella Man / Unleashed / Enron / Head-On / JSA / In the Realms of the Unreal

Closer / Enduring Love / The Spongebob Squarepants Movie / Nightjohn / Small Change / The Butterfly / Makdee: Web of the Witch

Constantine / Because of Winn-Dixie

Dave Chappelle's Block Party / The Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill

The Devil's Rejects / Bad News Bears '05 / Hustle and Flow / Donkey Skin / Diary of a Lost Girl / Martin [first viewing] / Prince of Darkness

Donnie Darko: The Director's Cut / Ray / Ju-On / Birth

Effi Briest / The American Soldier

Fever Pitch / Sahara / The Upside of Anger / The Merchant of Venice / Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

Forty Shades of Blue / 9 Songs / Eros

For Your Consideration / The Fountain / Tenacious D in the Pick of Destiny

Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence / Persons of Interest / The Clay Bird

Gilles' Wife / X-Men 3 / The Da Vinci Code / more

Gremlins Double Feature: Gremlins / Gremlins 2: The New Batch

Hard Candy / The Notorious Bettie Page / Don't Come Knocking / Mirrormask / A Perfect Couple

Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy / xXx: State of the Union / Dallas 362

Hostage / The Work and the Glory / Man of the House / Meet the Fockers / Dolls

How to Draw a Bunny / My Architect / Rivers and Tides

The Incredibles / Mean Creek / Alfie / Okraina / California Split / Zhou Yu's Train

The Indiana Jones trilogy

In Her Shoes / La Petite Lili

Inside Man [first viewing] / Wolf Creek / Paradise Now

The Intruder / Memoirs of a Geisha / Find Me Guilty / Duma / Ellie Parker

Irma Vep / Beware of a Holy Whore

Jarhead / Where the Truth Lies / Running Scared (plus gay marriage-related ranting)

Kaurismäki Four Pack: Ariel / Shadows in Paradise / Hamlet Goes Business / I Hired a Contract Killer

Kicking and Screaming / Monster in Law / Crash

KiLL BiLL vol. 2 / Scenes From a Marriage [miniseries cut] / Duck, You Sucker

Kingdom of Heaven / Schultze Gets the Blues / F for Fake / STAR 80

Land of the Dead / Bewitched / Howl's Moving Castle / High Tension / The Mirror / It's All Gone Peter Tork

Linklater Double Feature: Slacker / It's Impossible to Learn to Plow by Reading Books

Malle/Moreau Double Feature: Elevator to the Gallows / Les Amants

The Manchurian Candidate '04 / Catwoman / The Bourne Supremacy

Marie-Antoinette / Flags of Our Fathers / The Prestige [first viewing] / Shortbus

Millions / Kung Fu Hustle / Downfall

Miss Congeniality 2 / Guerrilla / Remorques / La Nuit Fantastique / Something Wild

My Own Private Idaho / American Splendor [viewing #2] / The Kid Stays in the Picture [viewing #2]

NYFF '05 Films seen / 2046 / many more

Off the Map / Mondovino / Chain / Baby Face / Thirteen Hours By Air / Advise and Consent

Othello / Filming 'Othello' / Fingers / The Beat That My Heart Skipped / Constant Gardener / Saraband / Junebug / more

Palindromes / Animation Show '05 / Longest Yard / Lords of Dogtown / Ballad of Jack and Rose / Layer Cake

Proteus / Notre Musique / The Raspberry Reich

Quinceañera / The Illusionist

Red Lights / Not on the Lips

Repeat viewing extravaganza #1: Beyond Re-Animator / GoodFellas / Spellbound / The Secret Lives of Dentists

Repeat viewing extravaganza #2: Magnolia / Swimming Pool

Repeat viewing extravaganza #3: 25th Hour / In Cold Blood / La Strada

The Ring Two / After Dark, My Sweet / Bad Education / Model Shop

Robots / Beauty Shop

Sci-Fi Marathon '06 / United 93 / Friends With Money

Secret Honor / Early Summer

Shaolin Double Feature: 36th Chamber of Shaolin / Return to the 36th Chamber

Sideways / The Polar Express / Since Otar Left... / The Extraordinary Adventures of Mr. West in the Land of the Bolsheviks / The Set-Up

Slither / The Edukators / Vixen! / SuperVixens (plus Cannes '06 musings)

Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter... and Spring / Baadasssss! / Danny Deckchair / Strayed / Open Water

Suddenly / Myra Breckinridge

Tell Them Who You Are / The Matador / No Direction Home / Good Morning, Night / Sex Is Comedy

Thank You For Smoking / The Baxter / Keane [second viewing] (plus fundie-related bitching)

Three Times / Zathura / The War Within / Ushpizin / Up!

Tristram Shandy / Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada / Neil Young / Nine Lives / Trial of Joan of Arc / Lady of Musashino

Tuvalu / Malcolm X / Oasis / Bright Young Things

V For Vendetta / Turtles Can Fly / Three... Extremes / A New Leaf

War of the Worlds / Underground / Ivan the Terrible / My Summer of Love

Miscellaneous posts

11 Key Films in My Life
2003 Oscar nominations- predictions
2005 Oscar nominations- predicted and actual
The Animation Show 2003
"CRASH wins. We lose." (bitching about CRASH's Oscar win)
DAZED AND CONFUSED: The Litigation Years- my response to the lame D&C lawsuit of 2004
Films by Apichatpong Weerasethakul
Films by Arnaud Desplechin
Films by Babak Payami
Films by Claire Denis
Films by Lars Von Trier
Films by Lewis Klahr
Films by Maurice Pialat
Films by Morgan Fisher
Films by Peter Lynch
Films by Sadie Benning- Program 1 and Program 2
Global Lens Series #1
"Grab bag" (an ode to good used DVD stores)
"The Great Trade-Off" (my thoughts on fearmongering and health insurance)
Halfway point 2006
Horror Marathon 2004 (abbreviated)
"Hurts so bad, it gets me down, down down" (Altman obit)
"I Snooze, You Lose" (on falling asleep during movies)
"I Swallowed a Bug" (Brando obit)
Jason's Questions Answered
"Melting Down the Canon" (my response to Paul Schrader's film canon piece in the Nov/Dec 2006 FILM COMMENT)
My favorite filmmakers (originally done for The Film Journal)
Salute to actor-directors
Sci-Fi Marathon 2005 in review
Sci-Fi Marathon 2004 in review
Summer '06 in Review
Top Classic Movies of 2004 (that I saw for the first time, anyway)
UPA Cartoons Program- featuring such favorites as GERALD McBOING-BOING and THE OOMPAHS, and non-favorites like Mr. Magoo
"What?????" (reactions to the 2003 AMPAS screener debacle)

My top 100-ish list

Recent additions are Italicized.

Introduction

1. Belle de Jour
2. 2001: A Space Odyssey
3. The Passion of Joan of Arc
4. Jeanne Dielman, 23 Quai de Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles
5. Once Upon a Time in the West
6. Orpheus
7. Citizen Kane
8. Decalogue
9. Play Time
10. The General

11. Gates of Heaven
12. The 400 Blows
13. The Third Man
14. Woman in the Dunes
15. Nashville
16. The New World
17. L’Atalante
18. Annie Hall
19. Celine and Julie Go Boating
20. The Seven Samurai

21. Week End
22. Notorious
23. The Mother and the Whore
24. The Lady Eve
25. The Red Shoes
26. M
27. Satantango
28. M. Hulot’s Holiday
29. Double Indemnity
30. 8 ½

31. Rules of the Game
32. Vertigo
33. Come and See
34. Children of Paradise
35. The Singing Detective
36. Les Bonnes Femmes
37. Shame
38. Chinatown
39. Sweet Smell of Success
40. Dead Man

41. Sans Soleil
42. Do the Right Thing
43. Three Colors trilogy
44. Duck Soup
45. The Spirit of the Beehive
46. The Age of Innocence
47. Dodsworth
48. Sunrise
49. A Hard Day’s Night!
50. Waking Life

51. Lawrence of Arabia
52. Army of Shadows
53. Band of Outsiders
54. Singin’ in the Rain
55. Eraserhead
56. Hiroshima Mon Amour
57. Heavenly Creatures
58. Dawn of the Dead
59. Seconds
60. Walkabout

61. Peeping Tom
62. The Producers
63. Smiles of a Summer Night
64. Freaks
65. McCabe & Mrs. Miller
66. Gimme Shelter
67. Casablanca
68. Stroszek
69. The Apu trilogy
70. The Big Sleep

71. Barry Lyndon
72. Two English Girls
73. Taxi Driver
74. The Wild Bunch
75. Grand Illusion
76. 8 Women
77. Late Spring
78. Once Upon a Time in America
79. Bride of Frankenstein
80. Joan the Maid

81. Blowup
82. Blow Out
83. O Lucky Man!
84. Pandora’s Box
85. Last Tango in Paris
86. Faces
87. The Sacrifice
88. Monty Python’s Life of Brian
89. Stagecoach
90. Glengarry Glen Ross

91. West Side Story
92. My Night at Maud’s
93. The Trial
94. L’Argent
95. Apocalypse Now
96. The Umbrellas of Cherbourg
97. After Life
98. The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie
99. This Is Spinal Tap
100. Monsieur Verdoux

101. Alien
102. Wings of Desire
103. Jaws
104. Rififi
105. Broken Blossoms
106. On the Waterfront
107. High and Low
108. The Hustler
109. Two for the Road
110. My Dinner With Andre

111. Detour