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This is a list of films I have fallen asleep during this year. Those underlined I saw at the cinema, which made it a very difficult place to sleep, and in every case I failed.

January
Cammina Cammina
Junebug
Erin Brockovitch
McLibel
Anatomy of a Murder
Story of Ruth
Last King of Scotland
Color of the Cross

A Beautiful Mind
Waking Life
The Shining
Rocky Balboa
The Cross
Thank You for Smoking
It Happened One Night
Napolean Dynamite
The Cross
Thank you for Smoking
Devil Wears Prada

Rebel Without a Cause
Superman Returns
Stage Fright
An Inconvenient Truth
Pan's Labyrinth
You can't take it with you.
Little Miss Sunshine
Vernon Johns Story
23/2/07 - Basquiat
Ghost World
Hot Fuzz
Black Dahlia (failed to sleep for this one)
American Astronaut (had friends around so sleeping was a bit rude - did manage it briefly)
Number 17 (only an hour so I just about made it through this one)
Winged Migration (bailed out halfway through - had already slept by then)

March
The Illusionist
Le Fils (hardly saw any of this at all)
Howl's Moving Castle
Amazing Grace
The Prestige
JCSS

April
300
My Son the Fanatic
Silver Chalice
Into Great Silence
The Wicker Man
Big Sleep
Hombre
Miracle Maker
Scent of Green Papya
The Real Old Testament
The Real Old Testament
The Real Old Testament
Garden State
Sabotage
To Catch a Thief
Pirates of the Caribbean 3
Voyage to Italy
Il Messia
This is England
Jarhead
A Place in the Sun
Ro
Rome Open City
Go
Pa
Purple Rose of Cairo
Purple Rose of Cairo
Palindromes
Noah's Ark (1928)
Moses the Lawgiver (eps 1-4)
Babel
Atti degli apostoli
The Pianist
Noah's Ark (1959)
A Man for all Seasons
Tell no-one
Le Fils
Keltoum's daughter
Pa
The Fountain
Miller's Crossing
St Elmo's Fire

Cyrano de Bergerac
Pa
Noah's Ark (1959)
Noah's Ark (1959)
Science of Sleep
Evan Almighty
Shrek the Third

Last Temptation of Christ (Director's commentary)
Whale Rider
A Lesson in Love
The Simpsons Movie
Bourne Supremacy
Snows of Kilimanjaro
Marie-Antoinette
Mouchette
Greatest Heroes of the Bible: Joshua at Jericho
G
The Milky Way
Blood Simple
Black Gold
Seventh Seal
Life and Passion of Jesus Christ
Psycho
The Skin Game
Foreign Correspondent
God's great - I'm not
Bourne Ultimatum
Joyeux Noel
Les Vacances de M. Hulot
For a fistful of dollars
Girl with a Pearl Earring
Atonement
Beat the Devil (= the average sized sleep)
Witches of Eastwick
Pulp Fiction
Persuasion
Beat the Devil (the bit I missed before)
Narnia - Lion Witch and Wardrobe
How to lose a guy in ten days
Magdelena released from shame
Gosford Park
Rio Grande

totally lost track of what happened here

The Milky Way
Golem Spirit of Exile
Northanger Abbey
Divine Intervention
The King of Kings (extended edition)
Exodus
Becket
Darjeeling Limited
MLeary
1.1 The Illusionist (Burger, 2006)
1.2 The Big Country (Wyler, 1958)
1.3 Shootout at Warlock (Dmytryk, 1958)
1.4 Serenity (Whedon, 2005)
1.5 The Proposition (Cave, 2006)
1.6 Hooligans
1.8 Dark Days (Singer, 2000)

Short Films

1.1 Charlotte et son Jules (J.-L. Godard, 1960)
1.1 3 Glaser (Lutz Mommartz, 1968)
1.1 Ainzehen (Lutz Mommartz, 1985)
1.1 Uben/Onten (Lutz Mommartz, 1967)
1.1 Fokus (Lutz Mommartz, 1985)
stef
Italics = theatre viewing
Asterisk* = First time viewing
Data from IMDb


01/01/07 - Charlotte's Web* (Gary Winick)
01/03/07 - Bad Guy* (Ki-duk Kim)
01/05/07 - Children of Men* (Alfonso Cuarón)
01/06/07 - Perfume: The Story of a Murderer* (Tom Tykwer)
01/07/07 - L.A. Confidential (Curtis Hanson)
01/22/07 - The Deer Hunter* (Michael Cimino)
01/26/07 - Glengarry Glen Ross* (James Foley)
(What do people see in this film? It put me out like a light that's out.)
01/27/07 - Little Miss Sunshine* (Jonathan Dayton & Valerie Faris)
01/29/07 - The Ghost of Mae Nak* (Mark Duffield)
01/30/07 - Sherrybaby* (Laurie Collyer)
01/31/07 - The Tenant* (Roman Polanski)
02/01/07 - Dirty Harry* (Don Siegel)
02/02/07 - Magnum Force* (Ted Post)
02/03/07 - Inland Empire* (David Lynch)
02/03/07 - Babel* (Alejandro González Iñárritu)
02/07/07 - A Bronx Tale* (Robert De Niro)
02/10/07 - Pan's Labyrinth* (Guillermo del Toro)
02/11/07 - The Enforcer* (James Fargo)
02/13/07 - Sudden Impact* (Clint Eastwood)
02/19/07 - The Dead Pool* (Buddy Van Horn)
02/19/07 - Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (Gore Verbinski) [Not even half as bad as the first effort]
02/21/07 - Donnie Brasco (Mike Newell) [Becoming one of my all-time favorite stories and films]
02/24/07 - Running With Scissors* (Ryan Murphy)
02/26/07 - Wild Blue Yonder* (Werner Herzog) [Horrible]
02/27/07 - Rosemary's Baby (Roman Polanski) [Horrifying!]


-s.
Thom(asher)
January
1/02 - You Can't Take It With You (1938 Frank Capra, DP Joseph Walker, Ed. Gene Havlick)
1/04 - The Tenant (1976 Roman Polanski, DP Sven Nykvist, Ed. Françoise Bonnot)
1/09 - America and Lewis Hine (1984 Nina Rosenblum) [Doc]
1/18 - A Scanner Darkly (2006 Richard Linklater)
1/20 - Little Miss Sunshine (2006 Jonathan Dayton)
1/27 - The Big Heat (1953 Frtiz Lang, DP Charles Lang, Ed. Charles Nelson)
1/28 - Kiss Me Deadly (1955 Robert Aldrich, DP Ernest Laszlo, Ed. Michael Luciano)

February
2/03 - Notes on a Scandal (2006 Richard Eyre)
2/04 - Six Men Getting Six (1966), The Alphabet (1968), The Amputee v1/v2 (1974), Lumiere (1995) (David Lynch) [Shorts]
2/06 - Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939 Frank Capra)
2/08 - Billy Strayhorn: Lush Life (2007 Robert S. Levi) [Doc]
2/10 - Philadelphia (1993 Jonathan Demme)
2/12 - Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest (2006 Gore Verbinski)
2/16 - Logan's Run (1976 Michael Anderson)
2/25 - Fanny and Alexander (1982 Ingmar Bergman, DP Sven Nykvist, Ed. Sylvia Ingemarsson)
2/28 - Monsieur Verdoux (1947 Charles Chaplin, DP Roland Totheroh, Ed. Willard Nico)
....... - The Great Dictator (1940 Charles Chaplin, DP Roland Totheroh, Ed. Willard Nico)

March
3/09 - A Short Film ABout Killing (1988 Krzysztof Kieslowski, DP Slawomir Idziak, Ed. Ewa Smal)
....... - Night Porter's Point of View (1978 Krzysztof Kieslowski)
3/10 - Stranger Than Fiction (2006 Marc Forster)
3/13 - The Day I Became A Woman (2000 Marzieh Meshkini)
3/17 - Alone in the Wilderness (2003 presented by Bob Swerer, shot in 1966 Dick Proenneke) [Doc]
3/24 - Happy Feet (2006 George Miller)
3/26 - Seven Up (1964 Paul Almond)[Doc]
3/27 - 7 Plus Seven (1971 Michael Apt)[Doc]

April
4/04 - 21 Up (1977 Michael Apt)[Doc]
4/05 - 28 Up (1985 Michael Apt)[Doc]
4/06 - 35 Up (1991 Michael Apt)[Doc]
4/07 - 42 Up (1998 Michael Apt)[Doc]
4/13 - Invincible (2006 Ericson Core)
4/14 - Charlotte's Web (2006 Gary Winick) [**not worth it**]
4/18 - End of the Spear (2005 Jim Hanon)

May
5/03 - Fast Food Nation (2006 Richard Linkater)
5/04 - Jesus Camp (2006 Heidi Ewing, Rachel Grady) [Doc]

June
Repulsion (1965 Roman Polanski)
The Spirit of the Beehive (1973 Victor Erice)
Pan's Labyrinth (2006 Guillermo del Toro)
The Italian (2005 Andrei Kravchuk)

July
7/01 - Everyone's Hero (2006 Christopher Reeve)
7/06 - Wallace & Gromit in The Curse of the Were-Rabbit (2005 Steve Box and Nick Park)

August
8/03 - Fay Grim (2006 Hal Hartley)
8/04 - Night at the Museum (2006 Shawn Levy)
8/26 - Ratatouille (2006)
8/27 - Vacancy (2007 Nimród Antal)

September
9/06 - Tape (2001 Richard Linklater)
9/12 - Murderball (2005 Henry Alex Rubin, Dana Adam Shapiro)[Doc]
9/19 - An Inconvenient Truth (2006 Davis Guggenheim)[Doc]
9/24 - 49 Up (2006 Michael Apt) [Doc]

October
10/01 - Begging for Grace (2007 Greg Scott)[Doc]
10/02 - Wordplay (2006 Patrick Creadon)[Doc]
10/08 - Cheeks (2003 Daniel Barcelowsky)[Doc]
10/11 - Sound and Fury [Doc] (2000 Josh Aronson)
10/16 - Who Killed the Electric Car [Doc] (2006 Chris Paine)
10/21 - Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory (1971 Mel Stuart)
10/26 - The Holy Ghost People (1967 Peter Adair) [Doc]
10/30 - High School (1968 Frederick Wiseman) [Doc]

November
11/03 - Hell House (2001 George Ratliff) [Doc]
11/05 - Capturing the Friedmans (2003 Andrew Jarecki) [Doc]
11/18 - The Exorcism of Emily Rose (2005 Scott Derrickson)
11/30 - What Would Jesus Buy? (2007 Rob VanAlkemade) [Doc]

December
12/03 - Nanook of the North (1922 Robert J. Flaherty) [Doc]
......... - Man with a Camera (1929 Dziga Vertov) [Doc]
......... - Primary (1960 Robert Drew)[Doc]
......... - Salesman (1968 Albert Maysles/David Maysles) [Doc]
12/04 - Quiet Rage: The Stanford Prison Experiment (1988) [Doc]
......... - Rouch in Reverse (1995 Manthia Diawara) [Doc]
12/05 - Grey Gardens (1975 Albert Maysles/David Maysles) [Doc]
......... - Dark Days (2000 Marc Singer)[Doc]
12/06 - Shermans' March (1986 Ross McElwee)[Doc]
......... - Salt Mine (1990 Susana Aikin)[Doc]
12/07 - The Gleaners and I (2000 Agnès Varda)[Doc]
......... - Manufacturing Consent (1992 Mark Achbar/Peter Wintonick) [Doc]
12/07 - Why Should the Devil Have All the Good Music? (Vickie Hunter/Heather Whinna) [Doc]
12/14 - Grizzly Man (2005 Werner Herzog) [Doc]
12/15 - Grey Gardens (1975 Albert Maysles/David Maysles) [Doc]
12/17 - The Plow That Broke the Plains (1936 Pare Lorentz) [Doc]
12/30 - The Filth and the Fury (2000 Julian Temple) [Doc]
Darrel Manson
Most recent viewings at the top.
All titles are first time viewings unless in italics

favorite of the month represent theatrical, screening, or festival viewings only


2007 Summary:
Total films: 240
shorts:16
reviews: 62


December

12/30 Honeydripper 40stars.gif review to be written
12/29 The Magnificent Seven 50stars.gif
12/28 The Kite Runner 40stars.gif review
12/27 Persepolis 35stars.gif review
12/25 The polar Express 20stars.gif
12/25 Charlie Wilson's War 35stars.gif review
12/23 Hoodwinked 25stars.gif
12/21 The Great Debaters 35stars.gif review
12/21 Stolen Kisses 40stars.gif
12/19 Juno 40stars.gif review
12/15 Margot at the Wedding 25stars.gif review
12/13 Caramel
12/12 Black Narcissus 35stars.gif
12/12 Deliver Us From Evil 45stars.gif
12/11 Wristcutters: A Love Story 35stars.gif review
12/9 Joyeux Noel 45stars.gif
12/9 Atonement 50stars.gif review
12/6 The 400 Blows 40stars.gif
12/5 City of Lost Children 25stars.gif
12/5 Lust, Caution 30stars.gif review
12/1 The Savages 45stars.gif review


November

11/29 This Is England 35stars.gif
11/28 Starting Out in the Evening 35stars.gif review
11/28 The World According to Garp 35stars.gif
11/25 American Gangster 40stars.gif
11/23 Driving Lessons 30stars.gif
11/23 I'm Not There 45stars.gif review
11/22 Out of Africa 50stars.gif
11/21 The Astronaut Farmer 30stars.gif
11/21 No Country for Old Men 45stars.gif
11/18 War Dance 45stars.gif review
11/16 Redacted 25stars.gif review
11/15 The Virgin Spring 45stars.gif
11/13 Enchanted 25stars.gif review
11/11 Martian Child 35stars.gif
11/10 Before the Devil Knows You're Dead 30stars.gif review
11/8 The Station Agent 45stars.gif
11/8 About a Boy 35stars.gif
11/5 Things We Lost in the Fire 40stars.gif review
11/4 The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford 40stars.gif review
11/3 Michael Clayton 40stars.gif
11/1 12:08 East of Bucharest 40stars.gif
11/1 What Would Jesus Buy? 40stars.gif review interview1 interview2

October

10/21 The Burmese Harp 45stars.gif
10/19 4 months, 3 weeks, 2 days /opens in Jan/
10/18 Bella 30stars.gif review
10/17 The Legend of Bagger Vance 35stars.gif
10/16 Dan in Real Life 35stars.gif review
10/15 The Nights of Cabiria 35stars.gif
10/14 City of Hope 30stars.gif
10/10 Suzanne's Career 45stars.gif
10/10 The Girl at the Monceau Bakery 30stars.gif
10/9 Lars and the Real Girl 40stars.gif review
10/5 Into the Wild 45stars.gif
10/4 Terror's Advocate 20stars.gif review
10/3 Palindromes 15stars.gif
10/2 For the Bible Tells Me So 40stars.gif review
10/1 Game 6 20stars.gif

September

9/30 Eastern Promises 30stars.gif
9/29 The Diving Bell and the Butterfly /opens in Dec/
9/27 Sleeper 30stars.gif
9/24 The Deer Hunter 50stars.gif
9/22 In the Valley of Elah 35stars.gif
9/21 Across the Universe 15stars.gif review
9/21 Shame 40stars.gif
9/18 The Nines 40stars.gif review
9/17 The Price of Sugar 30stars.gif review
9/17 Searching for the Wrong Eyed Jesus 45stars.gif
9/16 In the Shadow of the Moon 45stars.gif review
9/15 3:10 to Yuma 40stars.gif
9/14 Barton Fink 35stars.gif
9/13 Who Killed the Electric Car 40stars.gif
9/13 The Gold Rush 40stars.gif
9/13 Blockheads (with short, The Music Box) 35stars.gif
9/10 Vanaja 40stars.gif
9/10 Forgiving Dr. Mengele 40stars.gif
9/7 Hollywoodland 20stars.gif
9/5 Lake of Fire 40stars.gif review
9/4 Paris Trout 45stars.gif
9/3 Three of Hearts: A Post-Modern Family 35stars.gif
9/3 Longford 30stars.gif
9/2 Man of the Year 30stars.gif
9/2 Casanova 35stars.gif
9/1 The Boys of 2nd Street Park 45stars.gif
9/1 Tristan + Isolde 30stars.gif

August

8/31 Shakespeare in Love 40stars.gif
8/31 Operation: Dreamland 40stars.gif
8/30 September Dawn 35stars.gif review
8/29 Spiderman 3 20stars.gif
8/27 Samira Fi Adayaa (Samira's Garden) (viewed w/o Eng. subtitles) 40stars.gif
8/27 Bonne nuit Malik (short) 40stars.gif
8/27 Toi (You) 30stars.gif
8/27 Come Again in Spring (short - animated) 50stars.gif
8/26 Finn's Girl 35stars.gif
8/26 Go-Go Tales 25stars.gif
8/26 Ben X 50stars.gif favorite of the month
8/26 Cleaning Woman's Dream (short) 30stars.gif
8/25 The Fall of Night 35stars.gif
8/25 Kuro-obi (Black Belt) 45stars.gif
8/25 Centigrade (short) 45stars.gif
8/25 Der Andere Junge (The Other Boy) 35stars.gif
8/25 Wunderlich Privat (short - no subtitles)
8/23 Angel-A 35stars.gif
8/21 Eye of the Dolphin 30stars.gif review
8/21 49 Up 35stars.gif
8/17 Stardust 45stars.gif review
8/15 Great World of Sound
8/14 Gunner Palace 30stars.gif
8/13 Iraq in Fragments 35stars.gif
8/11 Bobby 40stars.gif
8/10 Ghosts of Abu Ghraib 45stars.gif
8/10 The Mark of Zorro 35stars.gif
8/8 Akeelah and the Bee 40stars.gif
8/7 Voices of Iraq 30stars.gif
8/6 The Ground Truth 45stars.gif
8/4 The Bourne Ultimatum 40stars.gif
8/3 Sweet Land 50stars.gif
8/2 My Best Friend 40stars.gif review
8/2 The Spirit of the Beehive 30stars.gif
8/1 Over the Hedge 25stars.gif

July

7/31 The Simpsons Movie 40stars.gif
7/29 Absolute Wilson 35stars.gif
7/28 Elizabethtown 30stars.gif
7/27 Ice Age: The Meltdown 20stars.gif
7/27 Golden Door 30stars.gif
7/26 In My Country 20stars.gif
7/25 Rashomon 45stars.gif
7/20 Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix 25stars.gif
7/19 Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby 25stars.gif
7/18 Simple Men 30stars.gif
7/14 Introducing the Dwights 35stars.gif
7/12 Marquise of O 40stars.gif
7/11 No End in Sight 3.5/0 review interview editorial
7/8 Sicko 40stars.gif review
7/7 Amores Perros 40stars.gif
7/6 Live Free or Die Hard 20stars.gif
7/5 La Vie en Rose 40stars.gif review favorite of the month
7/4 Ocean's 13 25stars.gif
7/4 Very Annie Mary 35stars.gif


June

6/29 Fantastic Four: The Rise of the Silver Surfer 25stars.gif
6/28 42 Up 35stars.gif
6/26 David and Layla 30stars.gif review interview
6/25 Ratatouille 45stars.gif review favorite of the month
6/22 Cradle Will Rock 35stars.gif
6/21 A Mighty Heart 35stars.gif review sidebar
6/20 Arctic Tale 35stars.gif review interview
6/16 The Secret of NIMH 35stars.gif
6/15 American Gun 35stars.gif
6/12 Jarhead 40stars.gif
6/10 St. Ralph 40stars.gif
6/6 Ghosts of Cite Soleil 35stars.gif review
6/3 Madagascar 25stars.gif

May

5/30 The Butterfly 35stars.gif
5/27 Black Gold 45stars.gif
5/26 Blood Simple 40stars.gif
5/26 Once 45stars.gif review
5/24 Old Joy 35stars.gif
5/21 Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End 30stars.gif review
5/19 Away from Her 45stars.gif review
5/18 Waitress 50stars.gif review sidebar favorite of the month
5/16 Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest 35stars.gif
5/14 Freedom Writers 35stars.gif
5/13 Fracture 40stars.gif review
5/9 The 39 Steps 35stars.gif
5/9 My Life as a Dog 35stars.gif
5/7 Thieves Like Us 35stars.gif
5/5 Black Book 40stars.gif review
5/4 Coach Carter 30stars.gif
5/2 A Moment of Innocence 25stars.gif

April

4/29 Year of the Dog 30stars.gif review
4/27 Jindabyne 40stars.gif review
4/26 Whale Rider 40stars.gif
4/25 A Lobster Tale 30stars.gif
4/25 Hombre Kabuki (short) 20stars.gif
4/25 Honey and Sting (short) 25stars.gif
4/25 A Neutral Corner (short) 40stars.gif
4/25 Redemption Song (short) 35stars.gif
4/25 ELI (short) 40stars.gif
4/24 Land of Plenty 45stars.gif
4/22 He Was a Quiet Man 30stars.gif
4/20 Separate Lies 35stars.gif
4/20 The Thing About My Folks 25stars.gif
4/19 Other Voices, Other Rooms 15stars.gif
4/18 First Snow 35stars.gif review
4/18 Nazarin 40stars.gif
4/17 Labyrinth 20stars.gif
4/16 Dreamer 25stars.gif
4/13 Paris, je t'aime 40stars.gif interview review
4/6 Shut Up and Sing 40stars.gif
4/4 The Wind that Shakes the Barley 40stars.gif review favorite of the month
4/3 Sacco and Vanzetti 20stars.gif

March

3/29 Spitfire Grill 50stars.gif
3/28 Stranger than Fiction 40stars.gif
3/28 Mr. Holland's Opus 45stars.gif
3/26 Me You Them 25stars.gif
3/25 Open Hearts 45stars.gif
3/21 Into Great Silence 35stars.gif review
3/19 Enigma 25stars.gif
3/17 Friends with Money 30stars.gif
3/17 The Namesake 35stars.gif review
3/16 Zodiac 40stars.gif
3/10 Don't Come Knocking 40stars.gif
3/10 The Lives of Others 45stars.gif
3/8 The Believer 40stars.gif
3/7 Paths of Glory 45stars.gif
3/3 Days of Glory (Indigenes) 40stars.gif review
3/3 Avenue Montaign 35stars.gif review
3/2 After the Wedding 45stars.gif interview exerpts review favorite of the month

February

2/28 Beyond the Gates 45stars.gif Review 1 review 2
2/23 This Film Not Yet Rated 35stars.gif
2/22 Dead Poets Society 50stars.gif
2/19 35 Up 35stars.gif
2/17 Breach 45stars.gif favorite of the month
2/14 Sound and Fury 45stars.gif
2/10 Bridge to Terabithia 40stars.gif review
2/9 Sherrybaby 30stars.gif
2/7 Tears of the Black Tiger 35stars.gif review
2/7 Night of the Hunter 45stars.gif
2/6 Pan's Labyrinth 45stars.gif
2/2 Wait Until Dark 45stars.gif

January

1/31 Grave of the Fireflies 50stars.gif
1/27 Zathura 20stars.gif
1/27 Venus 40stars.gif review favorite of the month
1/26 Water 45stars.gif
1/25 Bruce Almighty 35stars.gif
1/24 Frailty 25stars.gif
1/20 Missing in America 35stars.gif
1/20 The Last King of Scotland 35stars.gif
1/19 Amazing Grace 40stars.gif review
1/17 The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance 50stars.gif
1/13 Sour Death Balls (short) 40stars.gif
1/13 More (short) 30stars.gif
1/13 Building No. 7 (short) 30stars.gif
1/12 United 93 35stars.gif
1/10 Kamataki 40stars.gif
1/10 La Cle des Champs (short) 35stars.gif)
1/9 Rich and Strange 25stars.gif
1/6 We Are Marshall 35stars.gif
1/4 The Sweet Hereafter 45stars.gif
1/1 The Good German 35stars.gif review
BethR
+ theatre viewing
* repeat viewing
Listed in reverse order, more or less. Rating system inconsistent and sporadic.

December
+ CHARLIE WILSON'S WAR
+ P.S. I LOVE YOU
GLORY ROAD
* BRIDE AND PREJUDICE (before giving my copy to my god-daughter)
+ NATIONAL TREASURE: BOOK OF SECRETS
+ LARS AND THE REAL GIRL
HARRY POTTER AND THE ORDER OF THE PHOENIX
+ AUGUST RUSH

November
* WAITRESS
ZATHURA (not a patch on Jumanji)
+ BELLA
* AMAZING GRACE
ELIZABETHTOWN
LA BELLE ET LA BETE (Beauty and the Beast), dir. Jean Cocteau (on TCM. Sure I've seen it before, but most plot details had faded.)

October
SWADES
+ RENDITION
SAINT RALPH
ABOUT ADAM
THE GOOD SHEPHERD
BOLLYWOOD/HOLLYWOOD (does justice to neither)

September
LADY FOR A DAY (1932)
MAHABHARAT (1965)
MISTRESS OF SPICES
KUCH KUCH HOTA HAI
THE BALLAD OF JACK AND ROSE (regrettable)

August
* THE FRENCH LIEUTENANT'S WOMAN
+ THE NANNY DIARIES
MISS POTTER (charming, and inspiring, even more-so backed up by documentary bio. feature)
THE BAXTER (Michelle Williams shines; otherwise forgettable)
+ STARDUST (pretty good, but the book is better)
+ THE BOURNE ULTIMATUM
* SIXTEEN BLOCKS
BREACH

July
+ LIVE FREE OR DIE HARD (aka "Die Hard 4" or maybe "Die Hard on the 4th of July")
+ NO RESERVATIONS (American remake of German Mostly Martha; better than expected)
JUNEBUG
* SWEET LAND (on DVD--well worth repeating)
THE SANDY BOTTOM ORCHESTRA
THE FOUNTAIN
+ FANTASTIC 4: RISE OF THE SILVER SURFER
NINOTCHKA
DIARY OF A COUNTRY PRIEST (Bresson, +commentary by Cowie)

June
+ RATATOUILLE
+* WAITRESS
* BEND IT LIKE BECKHAM (IFC)
AMERICAN WOMEN
+* SERENITY (charity screening)
AN ANGEL AT MY TABLE (IFC)
PAN'S LABYRINTH
THANK YOU FOR SMOKING
+ SWEET LAND
GHOST RIDER (dozed through significant portions...too bad, because I've often admired Nicholas Cage. Not this time.)
* THE BLACK STALLION (on TCM)
* STRICTLY BALLROOM (on TV, thanks to IFC)
+ PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN: AT WORLD'S END (was very long and complicated)
PEAU D'ANE [Donkey Skin] (I was going along with it more or less right up until the helicoper arrived)

May
AMERICAN DESI
+ HOT FUZZ
+ WAITRESS
PRETTY PERSUASION (a lot of grief for a revelation I was already aware of)
+* THE NAMESAKE
* BRIDE AND PREJUDICE (with my parents--they enjoyed it; subtitles helped)
* MY FAVORITE WIFE
+ SPIDERMAN 3
LAND OF PLENTY
HUM DIL DE CHUKE SANAM (nearly all-singing, all-dancing, with Aishwarya Rai)
+ LUCKY YOU (or perhaps, not so lucky...)
NAUSICAA OF THE VALLEY OF THE WIND

April
CAPTAIN BLOOD (1935)
V FOR VENDETTA ("big bangs and primary colors appeal to the young")
* SHAKESPEARE BEHIND BARS
* PROOF
+ THE NAMESAKE
* BEDAZZLED (1967)
+ REIGN OVER ME
COME EARLY MORNING
* HOWARDS END
* WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE'S A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM (dir. Michael Hoffman)
THE TRIPLETS OF BELLEVILLE

March
MR. FIXIT (the only really amusing bit of this pic is here)
* WOMAN OF THE YEAR (still 50stars.gif after all these years)
LADIES IN LAVENDER (I wanted to like this better than I actually did)
BOBBY JONES, STROKE OF GENIUS (meant to be inspiring, but dull...sort of like golf in general)
THE HOLIDAY (too many plots packed into this "trading places" story)
HOUSE OF FLYING DAGGERS
+* AMAZING GRACE
CONSTANTINE
+ THE ASTRONAUT FARMER
+ AMAZING GRACE
+ BRIDGE TO TERABITHIA
DRACULA: PAGES FROM A VIRGIN'S DIARY (well...that was interesting...)
A GOOD YEAR (sloppy plotting, but Russell Crowe is cute)
+ MUSIC AND LYRICS
NACHO LIBRE (we laughed a lot at both the movie and the extra featurettes--what can I say? we're easily amused)
BELLES ON THEIR TOES (no Cheaper by the Dozen, but Myrna Loy is excellent)

February
KEEPING MUM (now that's what I mean by black comedy)
THE LIFE AQUATIC WITH STEVE ZISSOU
ONE NIGHT WITH THE KING (even one hr. & 40 min. was too long, never mind one night; just re-read the book of Esther instead)
PHANTOM OF THE OPERA (should never have left the opera house for the cinema)
THE MERCHANT OF VENICE (2004; thanks to KenMorefield)
THE ILLUSIONIST

January
PYAASA (1957, considered a classic of Bollywood film)
SHAKESPEARE BEHIND BARS (thanks to the Sundance Channel)
LITTLE MISS SUNSHINE
+ CHILDREN OF MEN
* SPIDERMAN
MISS CONGENIALITY 2: ARMED & FABULOUS (nothing fabulous about it; sad waste of Sandra Bullock's time)
* THE INCREDIBLES (still incredibly good!)
+ FREEDOM WRITERS
+ THE PURSUIT OF HAPPYNESS
Crow
Theatrical viewings Unless in Italics
* - Repeat viewing
December
12/1 - Keen Eddie, Season 1, Disc 4 45stars.gif
12/4 - Beowulf 30stars.gif
12/6 - This is England 40stars.gif
12/7 -* Tristam Shandy: A Cock and Bull Story 35stars.gif
12/8 - Mr. Bean's Holiday 40stars.gif
12/8 - August Rush 35stars.gif
12/9 - * The Double Life of Veronique 40stars.gif
12/10 - The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly 50stars.gif
12/11 - MST3K: Santa Claus Conquers the Martians
12/13 - After the Wedding 45stars.gif
12/14 - MST3K: the Mexican Santa Claus movie tv_happy.gif
12/15 - I am Legend 35stars.gif
12/15 - A Fistful of Dollars 40stars.gif
12/16 - What Would Jesus Buy? 40stars.gif
12/17 - For a Few Dollars More 45stars.gif
12/18 - The Polar Express 35stars.gif
12/21 - Juno 45stars.gif
12/23 - Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story 30stars.gif
12/24 - * A Christmas Story 45stars.gif
12/25 - As You Like It 40stars.gif
12/26 - The Devil and Daniel Johnston 40stars.gif
12/28 - The Savages 45stars.gif
12/29 - Sweeney Todd 40stars.gif

November
11/15 - Elizabeth: The Golden Age 25stars.gif
11/20 - American Gangster 40stars.gif
11/21 - No Country for Old Men 45stars.gif
11/22 - * Rear Window 50stars.gif
11/22 - * The Birds 40stars.gif
11/23 - Keen Eddie, Season 1, Disc 3 45stars.gif
11/25 - I'm Not There 45stars.gif
11/26 - Night of the Demon 45stars.gif
11/27 - Year of the Dog 30stars.gif
11/29 - * Paprika 50stars.gif

October
10/6 - In the Realms of the Unreal 25stars.gif
10/7 - Deep Water 40stars.gif
10/8 - Pretty in Pink 30stars.gif
10/9-11 - Wonderfalls, Disc 1 40stars.gif
10/12 - The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford 45stars.gif
10/15 - Michael Clayton 45stars.gif
10/18 - The Kingdom 30stars.gif
10/19 - Gone Baby Gone 45stars.gif
10/20 - That Darn Cat (1965) 30stars.gif
10/21 - Friendly Persuasion 40stars.gif
10/21 - Lust, Caution 40stars.gif
10/22 - The Darjeeling Limited 40stars.gif
10/23 - Into the Wild 50stars.gif
10/24 - Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (1982) 45stars.gif
10/26 - Lars and the Real Girl 45stars.gif
10/27 - Fear Strikes Out 35stars.gif
10/27 - Evan Almighty 25stars.gif
10/28 - Keen Eddie, Season 1, Disc 2 40stars.gif
10/31 - Bella 40stars.gif

September
9/2-3 - Battlestar Galactica, Season 2.5, Disc 2 45stars.gif
9/3 - Good Neighbor Sam 35stars.gif
9/4 - Kiki's Delivery Service 45stars.gif
9/6 - Live Free or Die Hard 40stars.gif
9/7 - 3:10 to Yuma (2007) 35stars.gif
9/8 - Extras, Season 2, Disc 1 45stars.gif
9/13 - Extras, Season 2, Disc 2 45stars.gif
9/14 - * The Seventh Seal 40stars.gif
9/15 - Battlestar Galactica, Season 2.5, Disc 3 45stars.gif
9/17 - * The Natural 45stars.gif
9/17 - Perfect Blue 40stars.gif
9/20 - Babette's Feast 50stars.gif
9/21 - Eastern Promises 40stars.gif
9/23 - Lucky You 30stars.gif
9/25 - Porco Rosso 40stars.gif
9/27 - The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters 45stars.gif
9/28 - The Hunting Party 40stars.gif
9/29 - Withnail and I 35stars.gif

August
8/4 - * The Bourne Supremacy 45stars.gif
8/5 - Madagascar 25stars.gif
8/5 - Battlestar Galactica, Season 2, Disc 2 45stars.gif
8/6 - Millenium Actress 45stars.gif
8/7 - The Bourne Ultimatum 40stars.gif
8/9 - Rescue Dawn 40stars.gif
8/11 - Breaking the Waves 45stars.gif
8/12 - Talk to Me 35stars.gif
8/14 - Battlestar Galactica, Season 2, Disc 2 45stars.gif
8/16 - Slap Shot 2: Breaking the Ice 15stars.gif
8/16 - Renaissance 40stars.gif
8/18 - * The Brady Bunch Movie 25stars.gif
8/18 - Inland Empire 30stars.gif
8/19 - Superbad 30stars.gif
8/21 - Death at a Funeral 40stars.gif
8/23 - Grave of the Fireflies 50stars.gif
8/24 - Stardust 40stars.gif
8/24-25 - Battlestar Galactica, Season 2.5, Disc 1 45stars.gif
8/26 - Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer 30stars.gif
8/28 - Perfume: Story of a Murderer 45stars.gif
8/31 - Rocket Science 45stars.gif

July
7/3 - Crossfire Trail 30stars.gif
7/4 - Reno 911: Miami 25stars.gif
7/5 - Ratatouille 50stars.gif
7/6 - True Stories (Talking Heads) 35stars.gif
7/8 - Transformers 35stars.gif
7/11 - * Fantastic Voyage 35stars.gif
7/12 - Night at the Museum 25stars.gif
7/13 - You Kill Me 40stars.gif
7/14 - Paprika 50stars.gif
7/19 - * Spirited Away 50stars.gif
7/22 - Sweet Land 45stars.gif
7/24 - Eagle vs. Shark 30stars.gif
7/27 - Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix 35stars.gif
7/28 - Sunshine 40stars.gif
7/29-30 - Battlestar Galactica, Season 2, Disc 1 40stars.gif
7/31 - The Simpsons Movie 40stars.gif

June
6/1 - Nausicca of the Valley of the Wind 45stars.gif
6/3 - Knocked Up 40stars.gif
6/2-3 - Freaks and Geeks, Disc 3 50stars.gif
6/4 - Paris Je T'aime 45stars.gif
6/5 - Chalk 40stars.gif
6/6 - Tommy 35stars.gif
6/9 - Once 45stars.gif
6/9-10 - Freaks and Geeks, Disc 4 45stars.gif
6/10 - Ocean's Thirteen 30stars.gif
6/11 - Danielson: A Family Movie 35stars.gif
6/12 - My Neighbor Totoro 50stars.gif
6/14-15 - Freaks and Geeks, Disc 5 45stars.gif
6/16 - The Yearling 40stars.gif
6/16 - The Fabulous Baker Boys 30stars.gif
6/16 - Castle in the Sky 45stars.gif
6/17 - Wired to Win: Surviving the Tour De France (Omnimax) 40stars.gif
6/18 - Jindabyne 40stars.gif
6/22-23 - Freaks and Geeks, Disc 6 45stars.gif
6/23 - Alien Nation 30stars.gif
6/24 - * Princess Mononoke 50stars.gif
6/27 - Train Man: Densha Otoko 45stars.gif
6/27 - Rebel Without a Cause 35stars.gif
6/28 - Kamikaze Girls 45stars.gif
6/28 - Darkon 45stars.gif
6/28 - Bright Future 40stars.gif
6/29 - Linda Linda Linda 40stars.gif
6/30 - Only Yesterday 45stars.gif
6/30 - Czech Dream 40stars.gif
6/30 - * The Host 45stars.gif
6/27-30 - Haibane-Renmei 50stars.gif

May
5/1 - Wattstax 35stars.gif
5/1-2 - Freaks and Geeks, Season 1, Disc 1 50stars.gif
5/4 - Mafioso 40stars.gif
5/5 - Spiderman 3 40stars.gif
5/8 - Black Book 40stars.gif
5/10 - Fever Pitch (1997) 35stars.gif
5/13 - The Piano Tuner of Earthquakes 30stars.gif
5/15 - The 4400, Season 3, Disc 1 45stars.gif
5/16,18 - The 4400, Season 3, Disc 2 40stars.gif
5/19 - Key Largo 40stars.gif
5/19-20 - The 4400, Season 3, Disc 3 40stars.gif
5/22 - Daniel Amos: Instruction Through Film 40stars.gif
5/25 - Pirates of the Carribean: At World's End 30stars.gif
5/26 - Fay Grim 40stars.gif
5/26 - The 4400, Season 3, Disc 4 45stars.gif
5/27-28 - Freaks and Geeks, Season 1, Disc 2 50stars.gif
5/28 - Wild Hogs 20stars.gif
5/31 - The Good German 35stars.gif

April
4/3 - A Good Year 30stars.gif
4/4 - Tears of the Black Tiger 35stars.gif
4/5 - 300 30stars.gif
4/6 - The Lookout 45stars.gif
4/7 - Extras, Season 1, Disc 2 40stars.gif
4/8 - Fast Food Nation 35stars.gif
4/10 - Grindhouse 40stars.gif
4/11 - The Amazing Screw-on Head 40stars.gif
4/13 - Volver 35stars.gif
4/13 - Blades of Glory 25stars.gif
4/14 - Dreamgirls 35stars.gif
4/14 - Delicatessen 40stars.gif
4/15 - Reign Over Me 45stars.gif
4/19 - Slow Food Film Festival 40stars.gif
4/21 - The Hoax 40stars.gif
4/22 - Hot Fuzz 45stars.gif
4/24 - Henry Fool 40stars.gif
4/25 - Into Great Silence 45stars.gif
4/27 - The Wind That Shakes the Barley 40stars.gif
4/28 - Fracture 35stars.gif

March
3/1 - Rocky Balboa 35stars.gif
3/3 - Freedom Writers 40stars.gif
3/3 - Lost in La Mancha 35stars.gif
3/4 - The Lathe of Heaven (1980) 45stars.gif
3/6 - The Lives of Others 45stars.gif
3/8 - Stone Reader 40stars.gif
3/9 - The Seagull's Laughter 25stars.gif
3/9 - Black Snake Moan 40stars.gif
3/10-11 - Battlestar Galactica, Season 1, Disc 2 45stars.gif
3/14 - Tideland 20stars.gif
3/15 - Zodiac 40stars.gif
3/16 - The Number 23 30stars.gif
3/17 - * Casino Royale (2006) 45stars.gif
3/19 - Becket 40stars.gif
3/20 - Keen Eddie, Season 1, Disc 1 45stars.gif
3/21-22 - Battlestar Galactica, Season 1, Disc 3 45stars.gif
3/23 - The Namesake 40stars.gif
3/24 - Masculine Feminine 35stars.gif
3/26 - Battlestar Galactica, Season 1, Disc 4 45stars.gif
3/27 - The Host 45stars.gif
3/31 - Extras, Season 1, Disc 1 40stars.gif

February
2/1 - The 2006 World Series Film 50stars.gif (because the right team won!)
2/2 - God Grew Tired of Us 45stars.gif
2/3 - Little Children 40stars.gif
2/6 - Flicka 30stars.gif
2/7 - The Rutles: All You Need is Cash 40stars.gif
2/8 - The Black Dahlia 30stars.gif
2/9 - Jonestown: The Life and Death of the People's Temple 45stars.gif
2/10 - Smokin' Aces 35stars.gif
2/11 - In the Mood for Love 40stars.gif
2/13 - Hannah and Her Sisters 40stars.gif
2/13 - Ikiru 50stars.gif
2/16 - Factory Girl 25stars.gif
2/17 - Battlestar Galactica, Season 1, Disc 1 45stars.gif
2/17 - No Time for Nuts (short) 40stars.gif
2/17 - The Danish Poet (short) 45stars.gif
2/17 - The Maestro (short) 45stars.gif
2/17 - The Little Matchgirl (short) 40stars.gif
2/17 - Lifted (short) 45stars.gif
2/17 - The Savior (short) 40stars.gif
2/17 - Helmer and Son (short) 40stars.gif
2/17 - One Too Many (short) 40stars.gif
2/17 - Binta and the Great Idea (short) 40stars.gif
2/17 - West Bank Story (short) 45stars.gif
2/18 - Bridge to Terebithia 40stars.gif
2/19 - Breach 45stars.gif
2/22 - McCabe and Mrs. Miller 25stars.gif
2/25 - Amazing Grace 45stars.gif
2/27 - Eragon 25stars.gif
2/27 - Can Mr. Smith Get to Washington Anymore? 35stars.gif

January
1/1 - The Good Shepard 35stars.gif
1/2 - McLintock 40stars.gif
1/3 - Zardoz 40stars.gif
1/5 - Children of Men 45stars.gif
1/8 - We Are Marshall 35stars.gif
1/9 - Idiocracy 35stars.gif
1/12 - * 12 Monkeys 40stars.gif
1/12 - The Battle of Shaker Heights 30stars.gif
1/19 - Curse of the Golden Flower 30stars.gif
1/20 - Pan's Labyrinth 50stars.gif
1/25 - Letters From Iwo Jima 40stars.gif
1/28 - Duck Season 40stars.gif
1/30 - The Descent 30stars.gif
Alan Thomas
Weeell; at least I'll have a space on the first page when I abandon this...

January
35stars.gif Sophie Scholl disc.gif Most of the deleted scenes should have been included in the film
Peter T Chattaway
My year is not off to the most propitious start, but oh well: my journal.
Diane
*repeat viewing
+theater viewing

January:
One Day in the Life of Andrei Arsenevitch (Chris Marker, 2000)
La Jetée (Chris Marker, 1962)
I Vitelloni (Federico Fellini, 1953)
Repulsion (Roman Polanski, 1965)
The Machinist (Brad Anderson, 2004)
A Scanner Darkly (Richard Linklater, 2006)
Now, Voyager (Irving Rapper, 1942)
Pride and Prejudice (Joe Wright, 2005)
The Razor's Edge (Edmund Goulding, 1946)
Beloved (Jonathan Demme, 1998)
Sullivan's Travels (Preston Sturges, 1941)
The Devil's Backbone (Guillermo del Toro, 2001)
The Thin Man (W.S. Van Dyke, 1934)
The Tenant (Roman Polanski, 1976)
Dark Days (Marc Singer, 2000)
Mouchette (Robert Bresson, 1967)
The Old Maid (Edmund Goulding, 1939)
An Autumn Tale (Eric Rohmer, 1998)
The Butcher (Claude Chabrol, 1970)
The Story of Adèle H. (François Truffaut, 1975)
The Marriage of Maria Braun (Rainer Werner Fassbinder, 1979)
Winchester '73 (Anthony Mann, 1950)

February:
The Naked Spur (Anthony Mann, 1953)
Tape (Richard Linklater, 2001)
Jezebel (William Wyler, 1938)
The Best Years of Our Lives* (William Wyler, 1946)
Black Narcissus (Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger, 1947)
Small Change (François Truffaut, 1976)
Aliens (James Cameron, 1986)
The Lady and the Duke* (Eric Rohmer, 2001)
Targets (Peter Bogdanovich, 1968)
La Cérémonie (Claude Chabrol, 1995)
The Heiress (William Wyler, 1949)
Four Adventures of Reinette and Mirabelle (Eric Rohmer, 1987)
The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger, 1943)
Stella Dallas (King Vidor, 1937)
Secrets & Lies (Mike Leigh, 1996)
Story of a Love Affair (Michelangelo Antonioni, 1950)
Rendezvous in Paris (Eric Rohmer, 1995)
The Unfaithful Wife (Claude Chabrol, 1969)
All or Nothing (Mike Leigh, 2002)
My Man Godfrey (Gregory La Cava, 1936)

March:
The Marquise of O* (Eric Rohmer, 1976)
The Collector (William Wyler, 1965)
Naked (Mike Leigh, 1993)
These Three+ (William Wyler, 1936)
The Children's Hour+ (William Wyler, 1961)
Holiday (George Cukor, 1938)
Cape Fear (J. Lee Thompson, 1962)
Marie Antoinette (Sofia Coppola, 2006)
Monsieur Verdoux (Charles Chaplin, 1947)
The Killers (Marika Beiku, Aleksandr Gordon, and Andrei Tarkovsky, 1958)
The Killers (Robert Siodmak, 1946)
Young Mr. Lincoln (John Ford, 1939)
A History of Violence (David Cronenberg, 2005)
Requiem (Hans-Christian Schmid, 2006)
When a Woman Ascends the Stairs (Mikio Naruse, 1960)
Cléo from 5 to 7 (Agnès Varda, 1961)
Muriel (Alain Resnais, 1963)
A Face in the Crowd (Elia Kazan, 1957)
Aguirre, the Wrath of God (Werner Herzog, 1972)
Badlands* (Terrence Malick, 1973)
The Royal Tenenbaums (Wes Anderson, 2001)
Fitzcarraldo (Werner Herzog, 1982)

April:
The Fallen Idol (Carol Reed, 1948)
Carrie (William Wyler, 1952)
The Letter (William Wyler, 1940)
Marty (Delbert Mann, 1955)
Counsellor at Law (William Wyler, 1933)
A Moment of Innocence (Mohsen Makhmalbaf, 1996)
Marie Antoinette (W.S. Van Dyke, 1938)
McCabe & Mrs. Miller (Robert Altman, 1971)
Volver (Pedro Almodóvar, 2006)
Seconds (John Frankenheimer, 1966)
All About My Mother (Pedro Almodóvar, 1999)
Nashville (Robert Altman, 1975)

May:
Baby Doll (Elia Kazan, 1956)
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (John Ford, 1962)
Nosferatu: Phantom der Nacht (Werner Herzog, 1979)
Through Fire, Water and...Brass Pipes (Aleksandr Rou, 1968)
Sister Wendy's Story of Painting (TV Series, 1997)
The Rules of the Game (Jean Renoir, 1939)
Talk to Her (Pedro Almodóvar, 2002)
Stroszek (Werner Herzog, 1977)
Some Like It Hot (Billy Wilder, 1959)
They Shoot Horses, Don't They? (Sydney Pollack, 1969)
The Devil Wears Prada (David Frankel, 2006)
L'Eclisse (Michelangelo Antonioni, 1962)
La Belle et La Bête* (Jean Cocteau, 1946)
The Europeans (James Ivory, 1979)

June:
Shansho the Bailiff (Kenji Mizoguchi, 1954)
Mrs. Miniver (William Wyler, 1942)
The Young Girls of Rochefort (Jacques Demy and Agnès Varda, 1967)
The Cranes Are Flying* (Mikheil Kalatozishvili, 1957)
Vanilla Sky (Cameron Crowe, 2001)
Can't You Hear the Wind Howl?: The Life & Music of Robert Johnson (Peter Meyer, 1998)
The Spirit of the Beehive* (Víctor Erice, 1973)
Shopgirl (Anand Tucker, 2005)
Bedazzled (Stanley Donen, 1967)
Sherman's March: A Mediation to the Possibility of Romantic Love in the South During an Era of Nuclear Weapons Proliferation (Ross McElwee, 1986)
Vagabond (Agnès Varda, 1985)
La Jetée* (Chris Marker, 1962)
Goodfellas* (Martin Scorsese, 1990)

July:
Sans Soleil (Chris Marker, 1983)
Time Indefinite (Ross McElwee, 1993)
The Godfather* (Francis Ford Coppola, 1972)
A Star Is Born (George Cukor, 1954)
Climates (Nuri Bilge Ceylan, 2006)
Lawrence of Arabia+ (David Lean, 1962)
Brief Encounter* (David Lean, 1945)
Forbidden Games (René Clément, 1952)
Picnic at Hanging Rock* (Peter Weir, 1975)
The Godfather: Part II* (Francis Ford Coppola, 1974)
Little Children (Todd Field, 2006)
The Devil and Daniel Johnston (Jeff Feuerzeig, 2005)
Ballerina Furnace (Reining Nails, 2007) (short)
Paths of Glory (Stanley Kubrick, 1957)
Dans l'Obscurité (Jean-Pierre Dardenne and Luc Dardenne, 2007) (short)
Barry Lyndon* (Stanley Kubrick, 1975)
Ivan's Childhood (Andrei Tarkovsky, 1962)
Ballerina Furnace*+ (Reining Nails, 2007) (short)
Mary Poppins*+ (Robert Stevenson, 1964)
The 39 Steps (Alfred Hitchcock, 1935)

August:
Nights of Cabiria* (Federico Fellini, 1957)
North by Northwest* (Alfred Hitchcock, 1959)
The Ten Commandments*+ (Cecil B. DeMille, 1956)
Hiroshima mon amour* (Alain Resnais, 1959)
Dial M for Murder* (Alfred Hitchcock, 1954)
Zodiac (David Fincher, 2007)
The Beales of Grey Gardens (Albert Maysles and David Maysles, 2006)
Vertigo*+ (Alfred Hitchcock, 1958)
Sweet Charity (Bob Fosse, 1969)
Gone with the Wind*+ (Victor Fleming, 1939)
Notorious* (Alfred Hitchcock, 1946)
I, Claudius (Herbert Wise, 1976)
The Puffy Chair (Jay Duplass, 2005)
Rear Window*+ (Alfred Hitchcock, 1954)
L'Enfant* (Jean-Pierre Dardenne and Luc Dardenne, 2005)

September:
The Shining (Stanley Kubrick, 1980)
Junebug (Phil Morrison, 2005)
Volver* (Pedro Almodóvar, 2006)
Claire's Knee* (Eric Rohmer, 1970)
The Mayor of Casterbridge (David Thacker, 2003)
The Innocents* (Jack Clayton, 1961)
Pickup on South Street (Samuel Fuller, 1953)
Old Joy (Kelly Reichardt, 2006)
Lifeboat* (Alfred Hitchcock, 1944)
Petulia (Richard Lester, 1968)
Contempt (Lean-Luc Godard, 1963)
Kingdom of Crooked Mirrors (Aleksandr Rou, 1964)
Roman Holiday* (William Wyler, 1953)
The New World* (Terrence Malick, 2005)
The Knack...and How to Get It (Richard Lester, 1965)
Insomnia (Erik Skjoldbjærg, 1997)
Fast, Cheap & Out of Control (Errol Morris, 1997)
Ballad of a Soldier (Grigori Chukhrai, 1959)
The Marrying Kind (George Cukor, 1952)
Gimme Shelter (Albert Maysles, David Maysles, and Charlotte Zwerin, 1970)
Notes on a Scandal (Richard Eyre, 2006)
Deconfliction+ (Edward Tyndall, 2007) (short)
I Always Do My Collars First: A Film about Ironing+ (Allison Bohl and Conni Castille, 2007) (short)
Fish Kill Flea+ (Brian Cassidy, Aaron Hillis, and Jennifer Loeber, 2007)
All Day Long+ (Andrew Semans, 2007) (short)
Hannah Takes the Stairs+ (Joe Swanberg, 2007)
From the Files of a Very Concerned Psychologist+ (Sam Frazier, Jr., 2007) (short)
Lunch+ (James Brown, 2007) (short)
Shrinks+ (Carey Rayburn, 2007) (short)
Cutting Teeth*+ (Jonathan Barnette, 2007) (short)
Reunion Days+ (Christopher Haber, 2007) (short)
All Angels Have Rat Tails*+ (Jason LaRay Keener and Jeremiah Ledbetter, 2006) (short)
Cup of Joe+ (Christopher Hilleke, 2007) (short)
Asclepius Fandango+ (Sam McDavid, 2007) (short)
Mr. Extion+ (Griffin Hood and Barry Battles, 2007) (short)
The Jesus Guy+ (Sean Tracey, 2007)

October:
A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum (Richard Lester, 1966)
The Departed (Martin Scorsese, 2006)
Eyes Without a Face (Georges Franju, 1960)
Vernon, Florida (Errol Morris, 1982)
A Letter to Three Wives (Joseph L. Mankiewicz, 1949)
If.... (Lindsay Anderson, 1968)
Jules and Jim* (François Truffaut, 1962)
Throne of Blood (Akira Kurosawa, 1957)
Donnie Brasco (Mike Newell, 1997)
The Phantom of the Opera+ (Rupert Julian, 1925)
Splendor in the Grass* (Elia Kazan, 1961)
Punch-Drunk Love* (Paul Thomas Anderson, 2002)

November:
Shadows (John Cassavetes, 1959)
Woman in the Dunes (Hiroshi Teshigahara, 1964)
Marie Antoinette* (Sofia Coppola, 2006)
Il Grido (Michelangelo Antonioni, 1957)
The Bicycle Thief*+ (Vittorio De Sica, 1948)
8 1/2*+ (Federico Fellini, 1963)
Stanley Kubrick: A Life in Pictures (Jan Harlan, 2001)
Lacombe Lucien (Louis Malle, 1974)
The Aviator's Wife* (Eric Rohmer, 1981)
Sybil (Daniel Petrie, 1976)

December:
Boyfriends and Girlfriends* (Eric Rohmer, 1987)
No Country for Old Men+ (Ethan Coen and Joel Coen, 2007)
Grey Gardens* (Ellen Hovde, Albert Maysles, David Maysles, and Muffie Meyer, 1975)
Juliet of the Spirits (Federico Fellini, 1965)
Day for Night (François Truffaut, 1973)
Killer of Sheep (Charles Burnett, 1977)
White Christmas*+ (Michael Curtiz, 1954)
Salaam Bombay!* (Mira Nair, 1988)
Meet Me in St. Louis*+ (Vincente Minnelli, 1944)
It's a Wonderful Life*+ (Frank Capra, 1946)
Away from Her (Sarah Polley, 2006)
Streetwise (Martin Bell, 1884)
The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone (José Quintero, 1961)
Love in the Afternoon* (Eric Rohmer, 1972)
The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane (Nicolas Gessner, 1976)
All the King's Men (Steven Zaillian, 2006)
3 Women* (Robert Altman, 1977)
Rebecca* (Alfred Hitchcock, 1940)
Anastasia (Anatole Litvak, 1956)
Lolita (Stanley Kubrick, 1962)
Heaven Can Wait (Ernst Lubitsch, 1943)
Harvey (Henry Koster, 1950)
opus
I'm trying something a little different this year -- my journal is here.
Ron Reed
bold: favourite
italic: repeat viewing

Little Children (Jan 1, Theatre)
Volver (Jan 1, Theatre)
Akeelah & The Bee (Jan 2, DVD)
United 93 (Jan 3, DVD)
End of the Spear (Jan 3, DVD)
Perfume (Jan 6, Theatre)
Children Of Men (Jan 6, Theatre)
Ushpizin (Jan 7, DVD)
C.S.A.: Confederate States of America (Jan 8, Theatre)
Old Joy (Jan 8, Theatre)
The New World (Jan 9, DVD)
The Proposition (Jan 10, DVD)
Sophie Scholl (Jan 13, DVD)
Joyeux Noel (Jan 16, DVD)
Pan's Labyrinth (Jan 17, Theatre)
The Painted Veil (Jan 19, Theatre)
The Death Of Mr Lazarescu (Jan 20, DVD)
Ushpizin (Jan 24, DVD)
The Spitfire Grill (Jan 24, VHS)
Into Great Silence (Jan 25, Theatre)
Flowers of St Francis (Jan 26, DVD)
Pursuit of Happyness (Jan 27, Theatre)
Miracle Mile (Jan 28, vhs)
Amazing Grace (ND, Theatre)

Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang (Feb 8, DVD)
Brick (Feb 11, DVD)
Dave (Feb 14, DVD)
Spalding Gray: Pleasures Of Terror (Feb 15, DVD)
The Girl In The Cafe (Feb 16, DVD)
Ryan (Feb 17, DVD)
Thank You For Smoking (Feb 19, DVD)
Rumble Fish (Feb 22, VHS)
Sliding Doors (Feb 23, DVD)
Babel (Feb 24, Theatre)
The Last King Of Scotland (Feb 24, Theatre)
With A Friend Like Harry (Feb 28, DVD)

The Ultimate Gift (Mar 2, DVD)
Pan's Labyrinth (Mar 3, Theatre)
Black Dahlia (Mar 6, DVD)
The Day The Earth Stood Still (Mar 8, DVD?) or 2006?
The Notorious Bettie Page (Mar 8, DVD)
Homicide (Mar 13, VHS)
The Woodsman (Mar 15, DVD)
Return To Me (Mar 17, VHS)
Out Of Africa (Mar 23, DVD)
Steel Toes (Mar 25, Theatre)
The Lives Of Others (Mar 27, Theatre)
Sharkwater (Mar 29, Theatre)
Such A Long Journey (Mar 30, DVD)
Open City (ND, DVD)
Saving Grace (ND, VHS)

Fido (Apr 1, Theatre)
Adam's Apples (Apr 5, Theatre)
When The Levees Broke 1 & 2 (Apr 6, DVD)
Sherrybaby (Apr 7/8, DVD)
Mouchette (Apr 12, DVD)
After The Wedding (Apr 14, Theatre)
Stranger Than Fiction (Apr 14, DVD)
The Birds (finished Apr 15, VHS)
Twelve Angry Men (in progress, VHS)
Jeremy (NYC: Apr 26/27, DVD)

Nightmare Alley (finished May 5, DVD)
Fracture (May 6, theatre)
The Player (May 6, DVD)
L.A. Confidential (May 10, VHS)
Black Book (May 19, Theatre)
Fatal Attraction (May 25, VHS)
Best Of Youth Act 1 (May 26, DVD)
Jindabyne (May 27, Theatre)
The Aura (May 27, Theatre)

Matchstick Men (June 2, DVD)
French Kiss (June 3, DVD)
Once (June 6, Theatre)
?
Away From Her (June 13, Theatre)
Day Of Wrath (June 15, Theatre)
FUBAR (June 16, DVD)
Eagle versus Shark (June 20, Theatre)
Mostly Martha (June 24, DVD)

Open Your Eyes (Jul 1, DVD from vhs)
Vanilla Sky (Jul 2, DVD)
About Schmidt (Jul 12/13, DVD)
Black Snake Moan (Jul 16, DVD)
Ten [Kiarostami] (July 20, DVD)
Cry The Beloved Country [1995] (Jul 20, VHS)
The Shining (Jul 21, DVD)