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.
Friday, October 19, 2007
Thursday, May 24, 2007
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 [3.9167 / 6]
Carl Th. Dreyer [3.8 / 5]
Terrence Malick [3.8 / 5]
Howard Hawks [3.75 / 11]
Jean-Pierre Melville [3.75 / 6]
Robert Bresson [3.7308 / 12]
Fritz Lang [3.7 / 5]
Ernst Lubitsch [3.7 / 5]
F.W. Murnau [3.7 / 5]
Peter Watkins [3.667 / 5]
Michael Powell [3.65 / 9]
Charlie Chaplin [3.6429 / 6]
Krzystzof Kieslowski [3.6429 / 6]
Andrei Tarkovsky [3.6429 / 6]
Orson Welles [3.6363 / 10]
Luis Bunuel [3.625 / 11]
Preston Sturges [3.611 / 9]
Paul Thomas Anderson [3.6 / 5]
Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne [3.6 / 5]
Josef von Sternberg [3.6 / 5]
Henri-Georges Clouzot [3.5833 / 6]
Jacques Demy [3.5833 / 6]
Sergio Leone [3.5833 / 6]
Jean Renoir [3.5833 / 6]
Stanley Kubrick [3.5769 / 13]
Yasujiro Ozu [3.5714 / 7]
John Cassavetes [3.556 / 9]
Jean-Luc Godard [3.5417 / 12]
Jacques Rivette [3.5417 / 12]
Akira Kurosawa [3.5 / 16]
Billy Wilder [3.5 / 14]
John Ford [3.5 / 11]
Nicholas Ray [3.5 / 8]
Quentin Tarantino [3.5 / 7]
Todd Haynes [3.5 / 6]
Hirokazu Kore-eda [3.5 / 5]
Jacques Tati [3.5 / 5]
Nicolas Roeg [3.44 / 9]
Ingmar Bergman [3.4286 / 21]
Kenji Mizoguchi [3.4286 / 7]
Sam Peckinpah [3.4286 / 7]
Apichatpong Weerasethakul [3.4 / 5]
Peter Jackson [3.3889 / 9]
Alfred Hitchcock [3.3810 / 21]
Eric Rohmer [3.3571 / 14]
Francois Truffaut [3.33 / 18]
Wes Anderson [3.33 / 6]
Sam Fuller [3.33 / 6]
Abbas Kiarostami [3.33 / 6]
Christopher Nolan [3.33 / 6]
Roman Polanski [3.3214 / 14]
Stanley Donen [3.33 / 10]
Federico Fellini [3.33 / 10]
Michael Curtiz [3.3 / 5]
David O. Russell [3.3 / 5]
Don Siegel [3.3 / 5]
Terence Young [3.3 / 5]
David Cronenberg [3.2857 / 14]
Michelangelo Antonioni [3.2857 / 7]
Arnaud Desplechin [3.2857 / 7]
Elia Kazan [3.2778 / 9]
Vincente Minnelli [3.2778 / 9]
Alain Resnais [3.3125 / 8]
David Lynch [3.25 / 10]
Hal Ashby [3.25 / 6]
Shohei Imamura [3.25 / 6]
Russ Meyer [3.25 / 6]
Martin Scorsese [3.2292 / 24]
Mike Leigh [3.22 / 9]
Rainer Werner Fassbinder [3.2803 / 12]
John Huston [3.2059 / 17]
Terence Davies [3.2 / 5]
Bob Fosse [3.2 / 5]
Leo McCarey [3.2 / 5]
Arthur Penn [3.2 / 5]
Claire Denis [3.1923 / 13]
Patrice Leconte [3.1875 / 8]
Otto Preminger [3.1875 / 8]
Richard Linklater [3.1876 / 14]
Joel Coen [3.1667 / 15]
Errol Morris [3.1667 / 9]
Agnes Varda [3.1667 / 6]
Werner Herzog [3.1579 / 19]
Brian DePalma [3.1364 / 22]
Claude Chabrol [3.133 / 15]
Hayao Miyazaki [3.125 / 8]
Michael Haneke [3.11 / 9]
Maurice Pialat [3.11 / 9]
William Wyler [3.11 / 9]
Richard Lester [3.1 / 10]
Louis Malle [3.1 / 10]
Robert Aldrich [3.1 / 5]
Darren Aronofsky [3.1 / 5]
Bertrand Tavernier [3.1 / 5]
Hong Sang-soo [3.0833 / 6]
Franklin J. Schaffner [3.0833 / 6]
Robert Altman [3.08 / 25]
Lars Von Trier [3.0714 / 14]
George Miller [3.0714 / 7]
Fred Zinnermann [3.0714 / 7]
George Cukor [3.0625 / 8]
David Lean [3.0625 / 8]
Jim Jarmusch [3.0455 / 11]
Olivier Assayas [3 / 12]
Robert Wise [3 / 11]
Martin Ritt [3 / 9]
David Fincher [3 / 8]
James Cameron [3 / 7]
Joseph L. Mankiewicz [3 / 7]
Dario Argento [3 / 6]
Alfonso Cuaron [3 / 5]
David Gordon Green [3 / 5]
Spike Lee [2.9783 / 23]
Woody Allen [2.9739 / 38]
Jonathan Demme [2.9615 / 13]
Aki Kaurismaki [2.9583 / 12]
Michael Mann [2.95 / 10]
Terry Gilliam [2.944 / 9]
Philip Kaufman [2.9375 / 8]
Hou Hsiao-hsien [2.9286 / 7]
Tsai Ming-liang [2.9286 / 7]
Albert Brooks [2.9167 / 6]
Ethan Coen [2.9167 / 6]
Curtis Hanson [2.9167 / 6]
Andre Techine [2.9167 / 6]
George A. Romero [2.9 / 10]
John Lasseter [2.9 / 5]
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]
Paul Verhoeven [2.875 / 8]
Wong Kar-Wai [2.875 / 8]
John Frankeheimer [2.8636 / 11]
Guy Maddin [2.8571 / 7]
Alan J. Pakula [2.8571 / 7]
Peter Yates [2.8571 / 7]
Milos Forman [2.833 / 12]
Wim Wenders [2.833 / 9]
James L. Brooks [2.833 / 6]
Peter Weir [2.8182 / 11]
Francis Coppola [2.8 / 15]
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 [2.7857 / 7]
Rob Reiner [2.778 / 9]
Pedro Almodovar [2.7727 / 11]
Steven Soderbergh [2.7632 / 19]
Tim Burton [2.75 / 14]
Alan Rudolph [2.75 / 6]
John Sayles [2.7308 / 13]
John Boorman [2.7272 / 11]
Sidney Lumet [2.725 / 20]
Clint Eastwood [2.7143 / 21]
Robert Zemeckis [2.7143 / 14]
Stanley Kramer [2.7143 / 7]
Steven Spielberg [2.7083 / 24]
Atom Egoyan [2.7 / 10]
Paul Greengrass [2.7 / 5]
John Schlesinger [2.667 / 12]
Kathryn Bigelow [2.667 / 6]
Cameron Crowe [2.667 / 6]
Guy Hamilton [2.667 / 6]
David Zucker [2.667 / 6]
Joe Dante [2.65 / 10]
Francois Ozon [2.65 / 10]
Robert Benton [2.6429 / 7]
Guillermo Del Toro [2.6429 / 7]
Takashi Miike [2.6429 / 7]
Michael Moore [2.6429 / 7]
Tony Richardson [2.6429 / 7]
Sam Raimi [2.6364 / 11]
Paul Schrader [2.6364 / 11]
Stephen Frears [2.6 / 15]
Brad Anderson [2.6 / 5]
Gillian Armstrong [2.6 / 5]
Richard Fleischer [2.6 / 5]
Walter Hill [2.5909 / 11]
Herbert Ross [2.5833 / 12]
Harold Becker [2.5833 / 6]
Mike Nichols [2.5790 / 19]
Kenneth Branagh [2.5714 / 7]
Peter and Bobby Farelly [2.5714 / 7]
Bob Rafaelson [2.5714 / 7]
Zhang Yimou [2.5714 / 7]
Ang Lee [2.55 / 10]
Sydney Pollack [2.5417 / 12]
John Carpenter [2.5 / 16]
John Hughes [2.5 / 8]
Joe Berlinger [2.5 / 5]
Lewis Gilbert [2.5 / 5]
Jim Sheridan [2.5 / 5]
Istvan Szabo [2.5 / 5]
Tom Tykwer [2.5 / 5]
Gus Van Sant [2.4615 / 13]
William Friedkin [2.4583 / 12]
Neil Jordan [2.4583 / 12]
Michael Winterbottom [2.4546 / 11]
Michael Ritchie [2.45 / 10]
Fred Schepisi [2.45 / 10]
Ridley Scott [2.4375 / 16]
Norman Jewison [2.433 / 15]
Michael Apted [2.4286 / 14]
John Dahl [2.4167 / 6]
Hal Hartley [2.4167 / 6]
Jean-Pierre Jeunet [2.4167 / 6]
Roger Michell [2.4167 / 6]
Anthony Minghella [2.4167 / 6]
Harold Ramis [2.4167 / 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]
George Lucas [2.4 / 5]
Lee Tamahori [2.4 / 5]
Taylor Hackford [2.375 / 8]
Lasse Hallstrom [2.375 / 8]
Mel Brooks [2.3637 / 11]
Bob Clark [2.3571 / 7]
Carl Reiner [2.3571 / 7]
Ron Shelton [2.3571 / 7]
Gore Verbinski [2.3571 / 7]
Lawrence Kasdan [2.35 / 10]
Danny Boyle [2.33 / 9]
Jane Campion [2.33 / 6]
James Foley [2.33 / 6]
Michel Gondry [2.33 / 6]
Bryan Singer [2.33 / 6]
Mike Newell [2.3125 / 8]
Barbet Schroeder [2.3125 / 8]
John Waters [2.3125 / 8]
Oliver Stone [2.3 / 15]
John Woo [2.3 / 10]
Jon Amiel [2.3 / 5]
Bille August [2.3 / 5]
Ron Clements [2.3 / 5]
Jon Favreau [2.3 / 5]
F. Gary Gray [2.3 / 5]
Michael Lehmann [2.3 / 5]
Jerome Musker [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]
Neil LaBute [2.25 / 6]
John Landis [2.2273 / 11]
Paul Mazursky [2.22 / 9]
Andrew Davis [2.2143 / 7]
Tony Scott [2.2083 / 12]
Agnieszka Holland [2.2 / 5]
Sam Mendes [2.2 / 5]
Wayne Wang [2.2 / 5]
Blake Edwards [2.1944 / 18]
Luc Besson [2.1667 / 6]
Wes Craven [2.15 / 10]
John McTiernan [2.15 / 10]
Richard Attenborough [2.1429 / 7]
Michael Caton-Jones [2.1429 / 7]
Mira Nair [2.1429 / 7]
Frank Oz [2.1364 / 11]
Ivan Reitman [2.1 / 10]
Peter Berg [2.1 / 5]
Peter Chelsom [2.1 / 5]
Tobe Hooper [2.1 / 5]
Nicholas Hytner [2.1 / 5]
Larry and Andy Wachowski [2.1 / 5]
Robert Rodriguez [2.0909 / 11]
Marc Forster [2.0833 / 6]
Renny Harlin [2.0833 / 6]
M. Night Shyamalan [2.0833 / 6]
Ron Howard [2.0588 / 17]
Bruce Beresford [2 / 10]
John G. Avildsen [2 / 8]
John Badham [2 / 8]
Adrian Lyne [2 / 7]
Jean-Jacques Annaud [2 / 6]
Kevin Smith [2 / 6]
Amy Heckerling [2 / 5]
Roland Joffé [2 / 5]
Penny Marshall [2 / 5]
Barry Levinson [1.9722 / 18]
Roger Donaldson [1.95 / 10]
Joe Johnston [1.9286 / 7]
James Mangold [1.9286 / 7]
Philip Noyce [1.9286 / 7]
Danny DeVito [1.9167 / 6]
Jerry Zucker [1.9167 / 6]
Antoine Fuqua [1.9 / 5]
Kevin Reynolds [1.9 / 5]
Todd Solondz [1.9 / 5]
Sylvester Stallone [1.9 / 5]
Charles Shyer [1.833 / 6]
Michael Hoffman [1.8 / 5]
Jay Roach [1.8 / 5]
Barry Sonnenfeld [1.7857 / 7]
Chris Columbus [1.75 / 8]
Edward Zwick [1.75 / 6]
Roger Spottiswoode [1.7143 / 7]
Roland Emmerich [1.667 / 6]
Brett Ratner [1.667 / 6]
Joel Schumacher [1.6471 / 17]
Luis Mandoki [1.6 / 5]
Stephen Sommers [1.6 / 5]
Jonathan Lynn [1.5833 / 6]
Peter Segal [1.5833 / 6]
Michael Bay [1.5714 / 7]
Jon Turteltaub [1.5625 / 8]
Richard Benjamin [1.5 / 9]
Stephen Hopkins [1.5 / 6]
Donald Petrie [1.5 / 6]
Jeremiah Chechik [1.5 / 5]
Nora Ephron [1.5 / 5]
Rob Cohen [1.4167 / 6]
Irwin Winkler [1.4167 / 6]
Simon Wincer [1.4 / 5]
Peter Hyams [1.375 / 8]
Paul W.S. Anderson [1.3 / 5]
Reginald Hudlin [1.3 / 5]
Tom Shadyac [1.3 / 5]
Sam Weisman [1.3 / 5]
Garry Marshall [1.25 / 10]
Stephen Herek [1.22 / 9]
Dennis Dugan [1.2 / 5]
Buster Keaton [3.9167 / 6]
Carl Th. Dreyer [3.8 / 5]
Terrence Malick [3.8 / 5]
Howard Hawks [3.75 / 11]
Jean-Pierre Melville [3.75 / 6]
Robert Bresson [3.7308 / 12]
Fritz Lang [3.7 / 5]
Ernst Lubitsch [3.7 / 5]
F.W. Murnau [3.7 / 5]
Peter Watkins [3.667 / 5]
Michael Powell [3.65 / 9]
Charlie Chaplin [3.6429 / 6]
Krzystzof Kieslowski [3.6429 / 6]
Andrei Tarkovsky [3.6429 / 6]
Orson Welles [3.6363 / 10]
Luis Bunuel [3.625 / 11]
Preston Sturges [3.611 / 9]
Paul Thomas Anderson [3.6 / 5]
Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne [3.6 / 5]
Josef von Sternberg [3.6 / 5]
Henri-Georges Clouzot [3.5833 / 6]
Jacques Demy [3.5833 / 6]
Sergio Leone [3.5833 / 6]
Jean Renoir [3.5833 / 6]
Stanley Kubrick [3.5769 / 13]
Yasujiro Ozu [3.5714 / 7]
John Cassavetes [3.556 / 9]
Jean-Luc Godard [3.5417 / 12]
Jacques Rivette [3.5417 / 12]
Akira Kurosawa [3.5 / 16]
Billy Wilder [3.5 / 14]
John Ford [3.5 / 11]
Nicholas Ray [3.5 / 8]
Quentin Tarantino [3.5 / 7]
Todd Haynes [3.5 / 6]
Hirokazu Kore-eda [3.5 / 5]
Jacques Tati [3.5 / 5]
Nicolas Roeg [3.44 / 9]
Ingmar Bergman [3.4286 / 21]
Kenji Mizoguchi [3.4286 / 7]
Sam Peckinpah [3.4286 / 7]
Apichatpong Weerasethakul [3.4 / 5]
Peter Jackson [3.3889 / 9]
Alfred Hitchcock [3.3810 / 21]
Eric Rohmer [3.3571 / 14]
Francois Truffaut [3.33 / 18]
Wes Anderson [3.33 / 6]
Sam Fuller [3.33 / 6]
Abbas Kiarostami [3.33 / 6]
Christopher Nolan [3.33 / 6]
Roman Polanski [3.3214 / 14]
Stanley Donen [3.33 / 10]
Federico Fellini [3.33 / 10]
Michael Curtiz [3.3 / 5]
David O. Russell [3.3 / 5]
Don Siegel [3.3 / 5]
Terence Young [3.3 / 5]
David Cronenberg [3.2857 / 14]
Michelangelo Antonioni [3.2857 / 7]
Arnaud Desplechin [3.2857 / 7]
Elia Kazan [3.2778 / 9]
Vincente Minnelli [3.2778 / 9]
Alain Resnais [3.3125 / 8]
David Lynch [3.25 / 10]
Hal Ashby [3.25 / 6]
Shohei Imamura [3.25 / 6]
Russ Meyer [3.25 / 6]
Martin Scorsese [3.2292 / 24]
Mike Leigh [3.22 / 9]
Rainer Werner Fassbinder [3.2803 / 12]
John Huston [3.2059 / 17]
Terence Davies [3.2 / 5]
Bob Fosse [3.2 / 5]
Leo McCarey [3.2 / 5]
Arthur Penn [3.2 / 5]
Claire Denis [3.1923 / 13]
Patrice Leconte [3.1875 / 8]
Otto Preminger [3.1875 / 8]
Richard Linklater [3.1876 / 14]
Joel Coen [3.1667 / 15]
Errol Morris [3.1667 / 9]
Agnes Varda [3.1667 / 6]
Werner Herzog [3.1579 / 19]
Brian DePalma [3.1364 / 22]
Claude Chabrol [3.133 / 15]
Hayao Miyazaki [3.125 / 8]
Michael Haneke [3.11 / 9]
Maurice Pialat [3.11 / 9]
William Wyler [3.11 / 9]
Richard Lester [3.1 / 10]
Louis Malle [3.1 / 10]
Robert Aldrich [3.1 / 5]
Darren Aronofsky [3.1 / 5]
Bertrand Tavernier [3.1 / 5]
Hong Sang-soo [3.0833 / 6]
Franklin J. Schaffner [3.0833 / 6]
Robert Altman [3.08 / 25]
Lars Von Trier [3.0714 / 14]
George Miller [3.0714 / 7]
Fred Zinnermann [3.0714 / 7]
George Cukor [3.0625 / 8]
David Lean [3.0625 / 8]
Jim Jarmusch [3.0455 / 11]
Olivier Assayas [3 / 12]
Robert Wise [3 / 11]
Martin Ritt [3 / 9]
David Fincher [3 / 8]
James Cameron [3 / 7]
Joseph L. Mankiewicz [3 / 7]
Dario Argento [3 / 6]
Alfonso Cuaron [3 / 5]
David Gordon Green [3 / 5]
Spike Lee [2.9783 / 23]
Woody Allen [2.9739 / 38]
Jonathan Demme [2.9615 / 13]
Aki Kaurismaki [2.9583 / 12]
Michael Mann [2.95 / 10]
Terry Gilliam [2.944 / 9]
Philip Kaufman [2.9375 / 8]
Hou Hsiao-hsien [2.9286 / 7]
Tsai Ming-liang [2.9286 / 7]
Albert Brooks [2.9167 / 6]
Ethan Coen [2.9167 / 6]
Curtis Hanson [2.9167 / 6]
Andre Techine [2.9167 / 6]
George A. Romero [2.9 / 10]
John Lasseter [2.9 / 5]
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]
Paul Verhoeven [2.875 / 8]
Wong Kar-Wai [2.875 / 8]
John Frankeheimer [2.8636 / 11]
Guy Maddin [2.8571 / 7]
Alan J. Pakula [2.8571 / 7]
Peter Yates [2.8571 / 7]
Milos Forman [2.833 / 12]
Wim Wenders [2.833 / 9]
James L. Brooks [2.833 / 6]
Peter Weir [2.8182 / 11]
Francis Coppola [2.8 / 15]
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 [2.7857 / 7]
Rob Reiner [2.778 / 9]
Pedro Almodovar [2.7727 / 11]
Steven Soderbergh [2.7632 / 19]
Tim Burton [2.75 / 14]
Alan Rudolph [2.75 / 6]
John Sayles [2.7308 / 13]
John Boorman [2.7272 / 11]
Sidney Lumet [2.725 / 20]
Clint Eastwood [2.7143 / 21]
Robert Zemeckis [2.7143 / 14]
Stanley Kramer [2.7143 / 7]
Steven Spielberg [2.7083 / 24]
Atom Egoyan [2.7 / 10]
Paul Greengrass [2.7 / 5]
John Schlesinger [2.667 / 12]
Kathryn Bigelow [2.667 / 6]
Cameron Crowe [2.667 / 6]
Guy Hamilton [2.667 / 6]
David Zucker [2.667 / 6]
Joe Dante [2.65 / 10]
Francois Ozon [2.65 / 10]
Robert Benton [2.6429 / 7]
Guillermo Del Toro [2.6429 / 7]
Takashi Miike [2.6429 / 7]
Michael Moore [2.6429 / 7]
Tony Richardson [2.6429 / 7]
Sam Raimi [2.6364 / 11]
Paul Schrader [2.6364 / 11]
Stephen Frears [2.6 / 15]
Brad Anderson [2.6 / 5]
Gillian Armstrong [2.6 / 5]
Richard Fleischer [2.6 / 5]
Walter Hill [2.5909 / 11]
Herbert Ross [2.5833 / 12]
Harold Becker [2.5833 / 6]
Mike Nichols [2.5790 / 19]
Kenneth Branagh [2.5714 / 7]
Peter and Bobby Farelly [2.5714 / 7]
Bob Rafaelson [2.5714 / 7]
Zhang Yimou [2.5714 / 7]
Ang Lee [2.55 / 10]
Sydney Pollack [2.5417 / 12]
John Carpenter [2.5 / 16]
John Hughes [2.5 / 8]
Joe Berlinger [2.5 / 5]
Lewis Gilbert [2.5 / 5]
Jim Sheridan [2.5 / 5]
Istvan Szabo [2.5 / 5]
Tom Tykwer [2.5 / 5]
Gus Van Sant [2.4615 / 13]
William Friedkin [2.4583 / 12]
Neil Jordan [2.4583 / 12]
Michael Winterbottom [2.4546 / 11]
Michael Ritchie [2.45 / 10]
Fred Schepisi [2.45 / 10]
Ridley Scott [2.4375 / 16]
Norman Jewison [2.433 / 15]
Michael Apted [2.4286 / 14]
John Dahl [2.4167 / 6]
Hal Hartley [2.4167 / 6]
Jean-Pierre Jeunet [2.4167 / 6]
Roger Michell [2.4167 / 6]
Anthony Minghella [2.4167 / 6]
Harold Ramis [2.4167 / 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]
George Lucas [2.4 / 5]
Lee Tamahori [2.4 / 5]
Taylor Hackford [2.375 / 8]
Lasse Hallstrom [2.375 / 8]
Mel Brooks [2.3637 / 11]
Bob Clark [2.3571 / 7]
Carl Reiner [2.3571 / 7]
Ron Shelton [2.3571 / 7]
Gore Verbinski [2.3571 / 7]
Lawrence Kasdan [2.35 / 10]
Danny Boyle [2.33 / 9]
Jane Campion [2.33 / 6]
James Foley [2.33 / 6]
Michel Gondry [2.33 / 6]
Bryan Singer [2.33 / 6]
Mike Newell [2.3125 / 8]
Barbet Schroeder [2.3125 / 8]
John Waters [2.3125 / 8]
Oliver Stone [2.3 / 15]
John Woo [2.3 / 10]
Jon Amiel [2.3 / 5]
Bille August [2.3 / 5]
Ron Clements [2.3 / 5]
Jon Favreau [2.3 / 5]
F. Gary Gray [2.3 / 5]
Michael Lehmann [2.3 / 5]
Jerome Musker [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]
Neil LaBute [2.25 / 6]
John Landis [2.2273 / 11]
Paul Mazursky [2.22 / 9]
Andrew Davis [2.2143 / 7]
Tony Scott [2.2083 / 12]
Agnieszka Holland [2.2 / 5]
Sam Mendes [2.2 / 5]
Wayne Wang [2.2 / 5]
Blake Edwards [2.1944 / 18]
Luc Besson [2.1667 / 6]
Wes Craven [2.15 / 10]
John McTiernan [2.15 / 10]
Richard Attenborough [2.1429 / 7]
Michael Caton-Jones [2.1429 / 7]
Mira Nair [2.1429 / 7]
Frank Oz [2.1364 / 11]
Ivan Reitman [2.1 / 10]
Peter Berg [2.1 / 5]
Peter Chelsom [2.1 / 5]
Tobe Hooper [2.1 / 5]
Nicholas Hytner [2.1 / 5]
Larry and Andy Wachowski [2.1 / 5]
Robert Rodriguez [2.0909 / 11]
Marc Forster [2.0833 / 6]
Renny Harlin [2.0833 / 6]
M. Night Shyamalan [2.0833 / 6]
Ron Howard [2.0588 / 17]
Bruce Beresford [2 / 10]
John G. Avildsen [2 / 8]
John Badham [2 / 8]
Adrian Lyne [2 / 7]
Jean-Jacques Annaud [2 / 6]
Kevin Smith [2 / 6]
Amy Heckerling [2 / 5]
Roland Joffé [2 / 5]
Penny Marshall [2 / 5]
Barry Levinson [1.9722 / 18]
Roger Donaldson [1.95 / 10]
Joe Johnston [1.9286 / 7]
James Mangold [1.9286 / 7]
Philip Noyce [1.9286 / 7]
Danny DeVito [1.9167 / 6]
Jerry Zucker [1.9167 / 6]
Antoine Fuqua [1.9 / 5]
Kevin Reynolds [1.9 / 5]
Todd Solondz [1.9 / 5]
Sylvester Stallone [1.9 / 5]
Charles Shyer [1.833 / 6]
Michael Hoffman [1.8 / 5]
Jay Roach [1.8 / 5]
Barry Sonnenfeld [1.7857 / 7]
Chris Columbus [1.75 / 8]
Edward Zwick [1.75 / 6]
Roger Spottiswoode [1.7143 / 7]
Roland Emmerich [1.667 / 6]
Brett Ratner [1.667 / 6]
Joel Schumacher [1.6471 / 17]
Luis Mandoki [1.6 / 5]
Stephen Sommers [1.6 / 5]
Jonathan Lynn [1.5833 / 6]
Peter Segal [1.5833 / 6]
Michael Bay [1.5714 / 7]
Jon Turteltaub [1.5625 / 8]
Richard Benjamin [1.5 / 9]
Stephen Hopkins [1.5 / 6]
Donald Petrie [1.5 / 6]
Jeremiah Chechik [1.5 / 5]
Nora Ephron [1.5 / 5]
Rob Cohen [1.4167 / 6]
Irwin Winkler [1.4167 / 6]
Simon Wincer [1.4 / 5]
Peter Hyams [1.375 / 8]
Paul W.S. Anderson [1.3 / 5]
Reginald Hudlin [1.3 / 5]
Tom Shadyac [1.3 / 5]
Sam Weisman [1.3 / 5]
Garry Marshall [1.25 / 10]
Stephen Herek [1.22 / 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.
3.75
D.W. Griffith
3.625
Sergei Eisenstein
Max Ophüls
3.5
Lindsay Anderson
3.375
René Clair
Terry Jones
Claude Sautet
Luchino Visconti
3.25
Chantal Akerman
Aleksandr Sokurov
3.125
Warren Beatty
James Gray
Jafar Panahi
Alexander Payne
William Wellman
3
Victor Fleming
Barbara Kopple
Elaine May
2.875
Bruno Dumont
Mike Hodges
Dennis Hopper
Irvin Kershner
2.75
Hector Babenco
Noah Baumbach
Patrice Chereau
James Marsh
Lukas Moodysson
Henry Selick
2.625
Allison Anders
Chen Kaige
Sofia Coppola
Jia Zhang-ke
John MacNaughton
Manoel de Oliveira
Bernard Rose
Ken Russell
Julien Temple
2.5
Keith Gordon
Mike Judge
Jake Kasdan
Chan-wook Park
Ben Stiller
Tom Tykwer
2.375
Doug Liman
Mark and Michael Polish
Johnnie To
Giuseppe Tornatore
2.25
John Madden
Leonard Nimoy
Michael Radford
Walter Salles
Paul Weitz
David Yates
2.125
Gregg Araki
Catherine Breillat
Martin Brest
Andrew Fleming
Nicole Holofcener
Shekhar Kapur
Chuck Russell
John Singleton
Zack Snyder
Iain Softley
James Toback
2
Frank Darabont
Mel Gibson
Randal Kleiser
Paul McGuigan
Joseph Ruben
Brad Silberling
1.875
Gary Fleder
Boaz Yakin
1.75
Nick Cassavetes
1.625
Marleen Gorris
Rowdy Herrington
1.375
Brian Levant
1.25
Keenen Ivory Wayans
3.75
D.W. Griffith
3.625
Sergei Eisenstein
Max Ophüls
3.5
Lindsay Anderson
3.375
René Clair
Terry Jones
Claude Sautet
Luchino Visconti
3.25
Chantal Akerman
Aleksandr Sokurov
3.125
Warren Beatty
James Gray
Jafar Panahi
Alexander Payne
William Wellman
3
Victor Fleming
Barbara Kopple
Elaine May
2.875
Bruno Dumont
Mike Hodges
Dennis Hopper
Irvin Kershner
2.75
Hector Babenco
Noah Baumbach
Patrice Chereau
James Marsh
Lukas Moodysson
Henry Selick
2.625
Allison Anders
Chen Kaige
Sofia Coppola
Jia Zhang-ke
John MacNaughton
Manoel de Oliveira
Bernard Rose
Ken Russell
Julien Temple
2.5
Keith Gordon
Mike Judge
Jake Kasdan
Chan-wook Park
Ben Stiller
Tom Tykwer
2.375
Doug Liman
Mark and Michael Polish
Johnnie To
Giuseppe Tornatore
2.25
John Madden
Leonard Nimoy
Michael Radford
Walter Salles
Paul Weitz
David Yates
2.125
Gregg Araki
Catherine Breillat
Martin Brest
Andrew Fleming
Nicole Holofcener
Shekhar Kapur
Chuck Russell
John Singleton
Zack Snyder
Iain Softley
James Toback
2
Frank Darabont
Mel Gibson
Randal Kleiser
Paul McGuigan
Joseph Ruben
Brad Silberling
1.875
Gary Fleder
Boaz Yakin
1.75
Nick Cassavetes
1.625
Marleen Gorris
Rowdy Herrington
1.375
Brian Levant
1.25
Keenen Ivory Wayans
Sunday, April 15, 2007
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
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
Saturday, February 17, 2007
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)
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
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)
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
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)
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)
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