The 2007 journals are here

Favourites in bold
Repeat viewings in italics

Juno (Jan 3, Theatre)
Bobby (Jan 5, DVD)
Knocked Up (Jan 9/10, DVD)
There Will Be Blood (Jan 12, Theatre)
The Diving Bell & The Butterfly (Jan 17, Theatre)
Zodiac (Jan 27, DVD)
6/6

A Man For All Seasons: Scofield (Feb 19, DVD)
A Man For All Seasons: Heston (Feb 19, VHS)
The Wind That Shakes The Barley (Feb 28, DVD)
+1/3 = 7/9

Persepolis (Mar 7, Theatre)
The Darjeeling Limited (Mar 7, DVD)
Across The Universe (Mar 7, DVD)
In Bruges (Mar 11, Theatre)
In Bruges (Mar 18, Theatre)
Margo At The Wedding (Mar 21, DVD)
U2 3D (Mar 23, Theatre)
The Ten (Mar 26, DVD)
In The Valley Of Elah (Mar 27, DVD)
U2 3D (Mar 29, Theatre)
+7/10 = 14/19

August Rush (Apr 2, DVD)
Silk (Apr 3, DVD)
The Brave One (Apr 5, DVD)
4 Months, 3 Weeks, and 2 Days (Apr 8, Theatre)
Serpico (Apr 9, DVD)
Bella (Apr 13, DVD)
Superbad (Apr 15, DVD)
Heima (Apr 18, Theatre)
Zodiac (Apr 17-19, DVD)
Stand By Me (Apr 20, VHS)
Casablanca (Apr 20, VHS)
The Woodsman (Apr 21, DVD)
Ben X (Apr 27, Theatre)
The Sisters (Apr 30, DVD)
+10/14 = 24/33

The Visitor (May 2, Theatre)
So I Married An Axe Murderer (May 10, VHS)
Redbelt (May 19, Theatre)
Waco: The Rules Of Engagement (May 21, VHS)
Shallow Grave (May 22, DVD)
Die Hard With A Vengeance (May 24, DVD)
Son Of Rambow (May 27, Theatre)
Heavenly Creatures (May 30, VHS)
The Band's Visit (May 31, Theatre)
+9/9 = 33/42

You Can't Take It With You (June 3, DVD)
Ordet (June 8, DVD)
Silent Light (June 8, Theatre
Stripes (June 11, DVD)
+3/4 = 36/46

Get Smart (July 9, Theatre)
Titus (July 10, DVD)
Indiana Jones & The Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (July 12, Theatre)
Forrest Gump (Jul 15/16, DVD)
Dark Knight (Theatre)
Wall-E (Theatre)
Pack Of Lies
+4/6 = 40/52

21 (Aug 13, DVD)
In Bruges (Aug 17, DVD)
Manhattan (Aug 24, DVD)
The Awful Truth (Aug 27, DVD)
The Great Debaters (Aug 29, DVD)
Iron Man (Aug 31, Theatre)
+5/6 = 45/58

I Am Sam
Appaloosa (
Married Life (
Mama Mia (Oct 7, Theatre)
Cherry Blossoms (Oct 8, Theatre)
Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist (Oct 28, Theatre)
American Buffalo (Oct 31, VHS)
Hitch (Oct 31, DVD)

Happy-Go-Lucky (Nov 4, Theatre)
Casablanca (Nov 5-7, iPod)
Word Wars (Nov 18, DVD)

*

SOON
Synechdoche, NY

VIDEO
The Bothersome Man
The Apartment

MISSED
Miracle At St Anna

Italics = theatre viewing
Asterisk* = First time viewing
Data from IMDb

Jan/08 - Eternity and a Day* (Theodoros Angelopoulos)
Jan/08 - Sunshine* (Danny Boyle)
Jan/08 - Red Road* (Andrea Arnold)
Jan/08 - Paris, je t'aime* (Tykwer, Van Sant, Coen, Assayas, etc.)
Jan/08 - Sicko* (Michael Moore)
Jan/08 - American Gangster* (Ridley Scott)
Jan/08 - Cloverfield* (Matt Reeves)
Jan/08 - Best of Youth (Marco Tullio Giordana)
Jan/08 - Notes on a Scandal* (Richard Eyre)
Jan/08 - The Haunting* (Robert Wise)
Jan/08 - The Innocents* (Jack Clayton)
Jan/08 - Borat* (Larry Charles)
Jan/08 - Russell Peters: Outsourced (Alan C. Blomquist)
Jan/08 - 3:10 to Yuma* (James Mangold)
Jan/08 - Juno* (Jason Reitman)

Feb/08 - Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace (George Lucas)
Feb/08 - Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones (George Lucas)
Feb/08 - Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith (George Lucas)
Feb/08 - Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope (George Lucas)
Feb/08 - Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back (Irvin Kershner)
Feb/08 - Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi (Richard Marquand)
Feb/08 - The Invasion* (Oliver Hirschbiegel)
Feb/08 - Live Free or Die Hard* (Len Wiseman)
Feb/08 - The Bourne Ultimatum* (Paul Greengrass)
Feb/08 - No End in Sight* (Charles Ferguson)
Feb/08 - Elizabeth* (Shekhar Kapur)
Feb/08 - Elizabeth: The Golden Age* (Shekhar Kapur)

Mar/08 - For the Bible Tells Me So* (Daniel G. Karslake)

Apr/08 - There Will Be Blood* (Paul Thomas Anderson)
Apr/08 - In the Mirror of Maya Deren* (Martina Kudlácek)
Apr/08 - Brakhage* (Jim Shedden)

May/08 - Iron Man* (Jon Favreau)
May/08 - Iron Man (Jon Favreau) [Second viewing even more enjoyable]

June/08 - Retribution* (Kiyoshi Kurosawa)
June/08 - Sister Aimee: The Aimee Semple McPherson Story* (Richard Rossi)
June/08 - The Incredible Hulk* (Louis Leterrier)

July/08 - Funny Games* (2007) (Michael Haneke)
July/08 - Why We Fight* (Eugene Jarecki)
July/08 - 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days* (Cristian Mungiu)
July/08 - Charlie Wilson's War* (Mike Nichols)

Aug/Sept/Oct/08 - 911 Mysteries Part 1: Demolitions* (Sofia Shafquat)
Aug/Sept/Oct/08 - Lake of Fire* (Tony Kaye)
Aug/Sept/Oct/08 - The Business of Being Born* (Abby Epstein)
Aug/Sept/Oct/08 - Man on Wire* (James Marsh)
Aug/Sept/Oct/08 - Appaloosa* (Ed Harris)

Nov/08 - See the Sea* (François Ozon)
Nov/08 - A Summer Dress* (François Ozon)
Nov/08 - Nathalie...* (Anne Fontaine)

January

01/04 - Once, DVD - Just as good the second time around, and I'm glad I got to share the experience with friends. I think -- having seen it again -- that I was able to pick up on a lot more. It went from being "pleasant film with great music" to "pleasant and substantial film with great music."

01/09 - Juno, theater - I did not love it, but I really liked it. Juno's character was a lot more complex than the "clever concentrate" that I assumed she would be going in, and I like how they handled a lot of things. I think I ODed on my yearly intake of twee pop, though.

01/10 - No Country For Old Men, theater - Fantastic, and it's earned the acclaim it has. I still don't think it's the Coens' masterpiece, but it's top tier material. As a McCarthy fan, I thought it did the book well, but a few things they left out would've made it 5-star material.

01/14 - Cloverfield, theater - Well-made, well-executed. I sort of agree that it was as much love story as it was monster film. Lofty ambitions? Not sure, don't care too much. I appreciated it, but didn't feel like it was a 'great' film by any means.

01/26 - Psycho (1960), DVD (repeat viewing) - Hitchcock films, especially the well-made ones, never get old. It's been a few years since I've seen Psycho, but it holds up better than I remember (I would've given it a star or star-and-a-half less then). I have the story memorized and it is still holds buckets of tension.

01/29 - Von Ryan's Express, DVD - I thought this was a three-star film when the credits came up at the end, but a week's worth of reflection made me appreciate it a lot. As far as WWII films go, this falls on the 'entertainment' side of the spectrum (as opposed to 'history!'), but it's pretty solid. Frank Sinatra does a great job as the downed airman, and the supporting cast -- especially the always-riveting Trevor Howard -- rip through the fairly simple plot. There's some great suspense in this, and I was glad to see a sympathetic Italian character that wasn't a buffoon.

February

02/08 - V For Vendetta, DVD - I appreciate the graphic novel more. But I really thought the movie wasn't terrible. Not great, mind you -- especially the very Matrix-y fight scene at the end -- but I liked it overall.

02/09 - There Will Be Blood, theater - LOVED IT. See my comments in the thread for more.

02/09 - À bout de souffle (Breathless), DVD - Maybe I was too tired, but I wasn't too into it when I watched it. And I like French New Wave! It rests well in hindsight, though; some of the references and camera-work were stellar. I'd like to see it again.

January
01/01 - The Brickyard (Greg Scott)
01/11 - Brakhage (1998 Jim Shedden)
01/15 - That Obscure Object of Desire (1977 Luis Bunuel)
01/18 - Once (2006 John Carney)
01/19 - Sunshine (2007 Danny Boyle)
01/24 - Manufacturing Dissent (2007 Rick Caine/Debbie Melnyk)
01/27 - Night and Fog (1955 Alain Resnais)
01/29 - Solaris (1972 Andrei Tarkovsky)

February
02/02 - U23D (2008 Catherine Owens, Mark Pellington)
02/09 - The Thin Blue Line (1988 Errol Morris)
02/14 - The School That Was Blown Away (1996 Mohsen Makhmalbaf)
02/22 - The Bourne Ultimatum (2007 Paul Greengrass)
02/29 - Pickpocket (1959 Robert Bresson)

March
03/14 - Across the Universe (2007 Julie Taymor)
03/17 - Vernon, Florida (1982 Errol Morris)
03/25 - Heima (2007 Dean DeBlois)
03/27 - No Country For Old Men (2007 Ethan Coen, Joel Coen)
03/30 - American Gangster (2007 Ridley Scott)

April
04/11 - There Will Be Blood (2007 Paul Thomas Anderson)
04/18 - Juno (2007 Jason Reitman)
04/24 - Purple State of Mind (2008 Craig Detweiler and John Marks)
04/29 - Into The Wild (2008 Sean Penn)

May
05/13 - War Dance
05/26 - I am Legend
05/31 - The Hottest State

June
06/13 - Mad Money (2008 Callie Khouri)
06/21 - Young @ Heart (2007 Stephen Walker) [Doc]
06/26 - A Pure Formality (1994 Giuseppe Tornatore)

July
07/02 - Allegro
07/26 - The Savages (2007 Tamara Jenkins)
07/27 - Wall-E (2008 Andrew Stanton)
07/31 - The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (2007 Julian Schnabel) [Simply brilliant!]

August
08/24 - Thumbs Down (1968 Gerald Temaner and Gordon Quinn) [Doc]

September
09/01 - My Kid Could Paint That (2007 Amir Bar-Lev)[Doc]
09/03 - Reign Over Me (2007 Mike Binder)

October
10/04 - More Shoes [Doc]
10/05 - Dakota Skye
10/16 - Fallen Angel: The Outlaw Larry Norman (2008 David Di Sabatino) [Doc]
10/18 - Ironman
10/21 - Full Frame Documentary Shorts - Vol.4

November
11/02 - The Visitor
11/09 - The Sensei (2008)
11/10 - Brand Upon the Brain (2006 Guy Maddin) [Brilliant!]
11/16 - Lars and the Real Girl (2007 Craig Gillespie)

6:54am, Ron? you're slipping. (ok, 3:54)

January

1/1 - Dragon Tiger Date - Latest from the team behind Sha Po Lang, one of the best action films to come out of Hong Kong in a long time. This one is considerably cheesier and sillier; the film tries to ratchet up the angst and whatnot, but it just doesn't work. Donnie Yen's choreography is still pretty sweet to watch, though.
1/1 - Stardust - What a wretched adaptation. It's almost as if the filmmakers did their best to get rid of every bit of wit, cleverness, subtlety, and mystery in the original novel just so that they could have a big, bad-ass Hollywood fantasy movie.
1/4 - Juno - At times a little too clever, precocious, witty, and "too cool for school" for it's own good. But at other times, incredibly affecting and heartwarming.
1/5 - Helvetica - At only 80 minutes, it gets a little scant at times, but the design geek in me still found it pretty fascinating.

Second or later viewings in italics
^ Selection screening for Newport Beach FF (no scores given)

December

12/2 ^ Playground

November

11/30 Milk commentary
11/29 Ciao
11/29 ^ The Nature of Existence
11/28 ^ Immolakee, USA
11/26 The History Boys
11/25 Lord of War
11/23 Slumdog Millionaire review
11/22 Happy Holidays
11/22 ^ Cowboy (short)
11/22 ^ The Beautiful Hills of Brooklyn (short)
11/21 ^ The Last of the Silver Screen Cowboys (short)
11/20 ^ Cute Couple (short)
11/20 ^ Distraxion (short)
11/17 No Reservations
11/14 Johnny Got His Gun (2008) review
11/14 ^ The Waitlist (short)
11/13 ^ Land Gewinnen (Gaining Ground) (short)
11/13 ^ But a Dream (short)
11/13 ^ Plain Us (short)
11/12 ^ Princess Alisanne (short)
11/11 Synecdoche, New York review
11/10 Gomorrah
11/10 ^The Cheapest Man in the Room (short)
11/9 ^ Alone About the Universe (short)
11/9 ^ Honey I'm in Love (Le grand depart)
11/8 ^ The Horribly Slow Murderer with an Extremely Inefficient Weapon (short)
11/8 ^ Living Is Winning
11/7 Last Chance Harvey
11/7 ^ The Heart is a Hidden Camera (short)
11/6 Moolaade
11/6 ^ The Bridge [le Pont] (short)
11/6 ^ His Good Will (short)
11/5 ^ Fuel
11/5 ^ Hair of the Sasquatch
11/4 An American Carol review
11/4 ^ Open Your Eyes (short)
11/4 ^ Banditos (short)
11/3 Pray the Devil Back to Hell
11/3 Religulous review
11/2 ^ Bill (short)
11/2 ^ The Map Reader
11/1 Changeling review
11/1 ^ Running for My Father (short)

October

10/31 ^ Last Chance Romance (short)
10/31 ^ Sveener and the Shmiel
10/30 ^ Released (short)
10/30 ^ A Pickle (short)
10/30 Chaplin
10/29 ^ Guest of Cindy Sherman
10/29 ^ Cover Girl Culture
10/27 ^ The Iconographer
10/27 ^ The Hipsters
10/26 The Secret Lives of Bees
10/25 ^ Lucky Charm (short)
10/24 A Christmas Tale (definitely not short) review
10/24 ^ The Lord's Way (short)
10/24 ^ In the Wind (short)
10/24 ^ Clean Freak (short)
10/24 ^ Cane Cutter (short)
10/21 The World We Want review
10/20 The Princess of Nebraska
10/18 The December Boys
10/18 Happy-Go-Lucky
10/16 Sabotage
10/15 Shotgun Stories
10/11 The White Countess
10/11 Tru Loved review
10/10 Rachael Getting Married review
10/9 Henry Fool
10/4 Saving Marriage review
10/3 Loggerheads
10/2 Breakfast with Scot review
10/2 Miracle at St. Anna review

September

9/29 The Family that Preys review
9/28 Boogie Nights
9/26 The Duchess review
9/25 Charlotte's Web (live action)
9/25 Maxed Out
9/23 The Death of Mr. Lazarescu
9/21 Appaloosa review
9/17 Jake's Closet
9/15 At the Death House Door
9/15 A Lobster Tale review
9/13 Then She Found Me
9/12 Street Kings review
9/12 Burn After Reading
9/11 Crooklyn
9/6 Callback: The Unmaking of Bloodstain review
9/6 I Served the King of England review
9/5 Breakfast on Pluto
9/2 I.O.U.S.A. review

August

8/31 Vicky Cristina Barcelona review
8/30 The Beat that My Heart Skipped
8/30 Awake My Soul: The Story of the Sacred Harp
8/29 Bernard & Doris
8/29 Traitor
8/25 Recount
8/25 The Last Hurrah
8/21 Art School Confidential
8/21 The Best Man
8/15 A Thousand Years of Good Prayers review
8/15 Autism: The Musical
8/14 Yodok Stories review
8/14 Moulin Rouge
8/11 Stealing America: Vote by Vote review
8/9 Transsiberian review
8/8 MirrorMask
8/6 Fast, Cheap, and Out of Control
8/2 Frozen River review

July

7/30 Winter Light
7/25 Red review
7/23 Spartacus
7/21 The Dark Knight
7/20 August Rush
7/20 The Grocer's Son review
7/17 Boy A review
7/16 Puccini for Beginners
7/14 Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters
7/13 Brothers of the Head
7/12 Lady in the Water
7/12 Wall-E
7/10 Trumbo review
7/9 The Boy With Green Hair
7/8 The Navigator, The Boat and The Love Nest (Buster Keaton)
7/6 Tell No One
7/6 Grace Is Gone
7/4 Wanted
7/2 When Did You Last See Your Father review
7/1 The Last Mistress review

June

6/28 Love Songs
6/28 Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
6/27 Louisiana Story
6/25 A Short Film About Love
6/21 Edge of Heaven review
6/19 Nanook of the North
6/19 Lifeboat
6/17 Jules et Jim
6/14 Roman de Gare review
6/13 Prince Caspian
6/12 Iron Man
6/11 Au Revoir les Enfants
6/10 Thin Blue Line
6/10 Howard Zinn: You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train
6/7 Sand and Sorrow
6/6 2 Days in Paris

May

5/16 Brothers
5/12 My Kid Could Paint That
5/7 Standard Operating Procedure review
5/6 Reprise review
5/5 Baran
5/4 The Pixar Story
5/1 Timecrimes
5/1 The Caterpillar Wish
5/1 The Board Room (short)
5/1 Fired (short)
5/1 Golden Age (short)
5/1 Rebel Song (short)
5/1 Shuteye Hotel (short)
5/1 Verboten (short)

April

4/30 Osso Buco
4/30 The Other Half
4/30 Red Like the Sky review
4/30 Captain Abu Raed review
4/29 The King of Ping Pong
4/29 Welcome Back (short)
4/29 The Seekers
4/29 The Rest is Silence
4/28 Sun Storm
4/28 The Chosen One
4/28 The Listening Project
4/28 Svani
4/28 Alcatraz Reunion
4/27 The Stone Angel
4/27 American Teen review
4/27 From the 50 Yard Line
4/27 Dalai Lama Renaissance
4/26 The Cake Eaters
4/26 Familiar Strangers
4/26 Apply With Care (short)
4/26 Cup Half Empty (short)
4/26 Lie Detector (short)
4/26 Making the Man (short)
4/26 Mr. Thornton's Change of Heart (short)
4/26 New to Laundry (short)
4/26 Speed Dating (short)
4/26 Original Intent: The Battle for America
4/25 The Village Barbershop
4/25 Mister Foe
4/25 Accuracy of Death
4/24 Young @ Heart review
4/24 Hollywood Dreams
4/23 The Project
4/19 The Visitor my reflection
4/13 Smart People
4/9 Where in the World Is Osama Bin Laden review
4/8 Dark Matter review
4/7 Irina Palm review
4/6 Priceless
4/5 Cowboys and Angels
4/4 Leatherheads
4/2 Raising Arizona

March

3/31 3:10 to Yuma (1957)
3/30 Constantine's Sword review
3/28 Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed review
3/25 Fast Food Nation
3/23 Beaufort review
3/21 Common Threads: Stories from the Quilt
3/19 My Brother Is an Only Child review
3/18 Reign Over Me
3/18 The Bank Job
3/12 Chicago 10 review
3/9 The Unforeseen review
3/7 Adam's Apples
3/7 Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day
3/5 The Human Comedy
3/3 College Road Trip review
3/2 Broken Wings

February

2/26 The Counterfeiters review
2/22 Kiss Kiss Bang Bang
2/21 The Devil Came on Horseback review
2/21 Madame Tutli-Putli (short)
2/21 Even Pigeons Go to Heaven (short)
2/21 My Love (short)
2/21 Peter and the Wolf (short)
2/21 The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters
2/20 The Ice Harvest
2/19 Rory O'Shea Was Here
2/19 Rollerball (Jewison) review
2/16 Helvetica 3.0/3
2/15 Leonard Cohen - I'm Your Man
2/14 Hoop Dreams review
2/13 Gone Baby Gone
2/12 In Bruges
2/10 Man Push Cart
2/10 The Band's Visit review
2/6 Fur:An Imaginary Portrait of Diane Arbus

January (50 not counting shorts - a personal best)

1/31 Goal Dreams review
1/30 Rescue Dawn
1/30 The Golden Compass
1/29 Killer of Sheep
1/27 Manufactured Landscapes
1/26 U2 3D
1/25 The Corpse Bride
1/25 Brick
1/24 We Were Soldiers
1/23 Bucket List
1/23 Insomnia
1/21 Dreams of Dust
1/21 Alphabet Zelda (short)
1/21 Opal Dreams
1/21 Custody (short) 1.5
1/20 Riding Alone for Thousands of Miles
1/20 A Pizza Man (short)
1/20 Armin
1/20 Sundae Sunday (short)
1/20 L'espirit des lieux
1/20 Needle in a Haystack (short)
1/19 Hounds
1/19 Confection (short)
1/19 Witnesses
1/19 Getting My Goat (short)
1/19 Mother of Mine review
1/19 Alphabet Pam (short)
1/18 Tuya's Marriage
1/18 Colorforms (short)
1/18 The Namesake
1/17 Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
1/15 Off the Black
1/14 Schultze gets the blues
1/13 Watermarks
1/12 Tell No One
1/11 Days of Darkness
1/11 Shake Hands with the Devil
1/11 Baptism of Blood mini-review
1/10 Black White + Gray
1/10 Dharma
1/10 Mataharis
1/9 My Father My Lord review
1/9 Times and Winds
1/9 In the Name of God
1/8 Secret Sunshine
1/8 Noodle review
1/8 Frozen
1/7 Children of Glory review
1/7 Kings
1/7 And Along Come Tourists
1/6 Mongol
1/6 The Edge of Heaven
1/6 Takva - A Man's Fear of God
1/5 City of Men review
1/5 Body of War review
1/4 The Year My Parents Went on Vacation review
1/4 The Trap review
1/3 There Will Be Blood
1/1 The Orphanage review

Theatrical viewings unless in Italics
* - Repeat viewing
December
12/2 - Step Brothers

November
11/1 - Cinematic Titanic presents "Santa Claus Conquers the Martians"
11/7 - Get Smart
11/8 - Last Stand at Saber River
11/8 - Monte Walsh
11/8 - The Happening
11/15 - The Towering Inferno
11/16 - The Grocer's Son
11/17 - All For Free
11/17 - Outsourced
11/18 - Let the Wind Blow
11/18 - Opera Jawa
11/21 - Ben X
11/21 - Timecrimes
11/23 - The Wrestler
11/26 - Synedoche, New York
11/27 - Music Within
11/28 - City of Ember
11/28 - Quantum of Solace

October
10/2 - Dating Games People Play
10/5 - Old Joy
10/9 - Old Yeller
10/10 - Brand Upon the Brain
10/10 - Run Fat Boy Run
10/13 - District B13
10/20 - W.
10/25 - Diary of a Country Priest
10/27 - Rachel Getting Married
10/30 - Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed
10/31 - What Just Happened?
10/31 - Happy Go-Lucky


September
9/4 - The End of Evangelion
9/5 - Transsiberian
9/6 - Resurrecting the Champ
9/7 - * United 93
9/11 - Ostrov (The Island)
9/12 - Recount
9/12 - No Direction Home: Bob Dylan
9/14 - Disturbia
9/18 - Burn After Reading
9/19 - Snow Angels
9/19 - * Delicatessen
9/20 - * Wall-E
9/20 - Hancock
9/28 - Choke
9/28 - Balls of Fury

August
8/1-2 - Spaced: Season 2
8/2 - Up the Yangtze
8/4 - My Blueberry Nights
8/7 - Pineapple Express
8/11 - Man on Wire
8/14 - American Teen
8/15 - Tropic Thunder
8/22 - Bottle Shock
8/24 - Can't Stop the Music
8/28 - Henry Poole is Here
8/31 - Cowards Bend the Knee
8/31 - * Shaun of the Dead

July
7/2 - Pretty Village, Pretty Flame
7/2 - * 4 Months, 3 Weeks, and 2 Days
7/3 - * Once
7/4 - Checkpoint
7/5 - Guelwaar
7/5 - The Power of Forgiveness
7/5 - Dracula (Spanish version)
7/6 - Underground
7/8 - The Decalogue: Eight
7/11 - Reprise
7/12 - * Hellboy
7/12 - Ghost Rider
7/12 - * Mirrormask
7/14 - The Decalogue: Nine
7/16 - The Decalogue: Ten
7/18 - My Winnipeg
7/18 - Tell No One
7/19 - Easy Rider
7/20 - The Dark Knight
7/24 - Encounters at the End of the World
7/26 - Hellboy 2: The Golden Army
7/27-28 - Spaced: Season 1
7/29 - The Milagro Beanfield War
7/31 - Long Way Down

June
6/1 - The Flight of the Red Balloon
6/2 - Fast, Cheap, and Out of Control
6/8 - The Fall
6/9 - Lagaan
6/18 - The Other Boleyn Girl
6/19 - The Decalogue: Four
6/20 - The Decalogue: Five
6/21 - * Serenity
6/22 - The Forbidden Kingdom
6/22 - The Decalogue: Six
6/23 - The Decalogue: Seven
6/26 - Roman De Gare
6/27 - Wall-E
6/29 - Shooter

May
5/2 - * Raiders of the Lost Ark
5/3 - Dan in Real Life
5/4 - The Golden Compass
5/5 - Planet B-Boy
5/8 - Clerks 2
5/9 - Redbelt
5/10 - Iron Man
5/11 - Judgement at Nuremberg
5/12 - Frisbee: Life and Death of a Hippie Preacher
5/13 - Speed Racer
5/15 - Mr. Warmth - The Don Rickles Project
5/18 - The Decalogue: One
5/19 - The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian
5/20 - The Decalogue: Two
5/21 - The Decalogue: Three
5/22 - Son of Rambow
5/24 - Leatherheads
5/24 - Air Guitar Nation
5/26 - Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
5/27 - The Great Raid
5/31 - Forgetting Sarah Marshall

April
4/3 - Battlestar Galactica, Season 3, Disc 6
4/6 - Gorillas in the Mist
4/8 - The Counterfeiters
4/8 - The Grand
4/9 - On Her Majesty's Secret Service
4/11 - The Year My Parents Went on Vacation
4/14 - CJ7 -
4/18 - The Reckoning: Remembering the Dutch Resistance
4/20 - Smart People
4/25 - The Visitor
4/26 - Guess Who's Coming to Dinner
4/27 - Shine a Light
4/28 - Battlestar Galactica: Razor

March
3/1 - U2 3D
3/2 - 4 Months, 3 Weeks, and 2 Days
3/3 - Marnie
3/3 - Jamaica Inn (1939)
3/4 - Rashomon
3/7 - * Speed
3/7 - Youth Without Youth
3/8 - Billy the Kid
3/9 - The Bank Job
3/10 - National Treasure: Book of Secrets
3/13 - My Kid Could Paint That
3/14 - Rendition
3/15 - * Oh Heavenly Dog
3/16 - You Only Live Twice
3/17 - The Band's Visit
3/22 - Battlestar Galactica, Season 3, Disc 1
3/22 - Paranoid Park
3/23 - Battlestar Galactica, Season 3, Disc 2
3/26 - Battlestar Galactica, Season 3, Disc 3
3/27-28 - Battlestar Galactica, Season 3, Disc 4
3/29 - Sigur Ros - Heima
3/31 - Battlestar Galactica, Season 3, Disc 5

February
2/1 - Persepolis
2/2 - Exodus
2/5 - Across the Universe
2/7 - Dr. No
2/11 - El Topo
2/12 - * On Golden Pond
2/14 - In the Shadow of the Moon
2/15 - In Bruges
2/16 - The Right Stuff
2/17 - Adam's Apples
2/20 - From Russia With Love
2/21 - Great World of Sound
2/23 - Vantage Point
2/24 - Perriot Le Fou
2/26 - Be Kind Rewind
2/28 - 12:08 East of Bucharest
2/29 - Starting Out in the Evening

January
1/1 - Atonement
1/2 - Charlie Wilson's War
1/3 - The Kite Runner
1/4 - The Great Debaters
1/6 - Offside
1/10 - The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
1/11 - Manufactured Landscapes
1/11 - Golden Door
1/12 - 1408
1/15 - Akira
1/17 - Scoop
1/17 - I am Trying to Break Your Heart: A Film About Wilco
1/18 - There Will Be Blood
1/19 - Cassandra's Dream
1/21 - Cloverfield
1/25 - Time Bandits
1/26 - Thunderball
1/29 - Two Days in Paris

* repeat
+ theater

January:
Psycho* (Alfred Hitchcock, 1960)
Five Easy Pieces (Bob Rafelson, 1970)
My Night at Maud's* (Eric Rohmer, 1969)
We Don't Live Here Anymore (John Curran, 2004)
Sherrybaby (Laurie Collyer, 2006)
The Green Ray* (Eric Rohmer, 1986)
Crazy Love (Dan Klores and Fisher Stevens, 2007)
Cat People* (Jacques Tourneur, 1942)
Isle of the Dead* (Mark Robson, 1945)
The Member of the Wedding (Fred Zinnemann, 1952)
Curse of the Cat People* (Gunther von Fritsch and Robert Wise, 1944)
I Walked with a Zombie* (Jacques Tourneur, 1943)
There Will Be Blood+ (Paul Thomas Anderson, 2007)
Mystic River (Clint Eastwood, 2003)
Imitation of Life (Douglas Sirk, 1959)

February:
Lola (Jacques Demy, 1961)
Charleston Parade (Jean Renoir, 1927)
All That Heaven Allows (Douglas Sirk, 1955)
My Brother's Wedding (Charles Burnett, 1983)
Casablanca*+ (Michael Curtiz, 1942)
The Forest for the Trees (Maren Ade, 2003)
The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (Andrew Dominik, 2007)
Christmas in July (Preston Sturges, 1940)
Funny Ha Ha* (Andrew Bujalski, 2002)
Quiet City (Aaron Katz, 2007)

March:
Persepolis+ (Vincent Paronnau and Marjane Satrapi, 2007)
Sweetie (Jane Campion, 1989)
I'm Not There+ (Todd Haynes, 2007)
There Will Be Blood (Paul Thomas Anderson, 2007)*+

April:
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (Tobe Hooper, 1974)
Waking Life* (Richard Linklater, 2001)
Zodiac* (David Fincher, 2007)

May:
The Seventh Continent (Michael Haneke, 1989)
Knuckleface Jones (Todd Rohal, 1999) (short)
The Guatemalan Handshake (Todd Rohal, 2006)
La Cérémonie* (Claude Chabrol, 1995)
Lola Montès (Max Ophüls, 1995)
Time of the Wolf (Michael Haneke, 2003)
The Ruins+ (Carter Smith, 2008)
A Clockwork Orange (Stanley Kubrick, 1971)
Le Feu follet (Louis Malle, 1963)
Aguirre, the Wrath of God*+ (Werner Herzog, 1972)
The Strangers+ (Bryan Bertino, 2008)

June:
The Lovers (Louis Malle, 1958)
Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me (David Lynch, 1992)
Secrets & Lies* (Mike Leigh, 1996)
Gone with the Wind*+ (Victor Fleming, 1939)
Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice (Paul Mazursky, 1969)
Jaws*+ (Steven Spielberg, 1975)
The Color of Lies (Claude Chabrol, 1999)
Control (Anton Corbijn, 2007)
WALL-E+ (Andrew Stanton, 2008)

July:
Written on the Wind (Douglas Sirk, 1956)
Peter Ibbetson (Henry Hathaway, 1935)
Batman (Leslie H. Martinson, 1966)
Ratatouille (Brad Bird and Jan Pinkava, 2007)
Batman Begins (Christopher Nolan, 2005)
Niagara (Henry Hathaway, 1953)
WALL-E*+ (Andrew Stanton, 2008)
Artificial Intelligence: AI (Steven Spielberg, 2001)
The Dark Knight+ (Christopher Nolan, 2008)
Raiders of the Lost Ark*+ (Steven Spielberg, 1981)
A Woman Under the Influence (John Cassavetes, 1974)

August:
The Dark Knight*+ (Christopher Nolan, 2008) - IMAX
The Misfits (John Huston, 1961)
The Happening (M. Night Shyamalan, 2008)
The Thing (John Carpenter, 1982)
The Last Emperor* (Bernardo Bertolucci, 1987) - TV/director's cut

September:
La Dolce Vita* (Federico Fellini, 1960)
Danielson: A Family Movie (J.L. Aronson, 2006)
In the Company of Men (Neil LaBute, 1997)
The Collector* (William Wyler, 1965)
Hallelujah! Gorilla Revival (Jason LaRay Keener and Jeremiah Ledbetter, 2008)
Safe* (Todd Haynes, 1995)
I Think We're Alone Now+ (Sean Donnelly, 2008)
Wresting in Tijuana+ (Gustavo Vazquez, 2007)
Baghead+ (Jay Duplass and Mark Duplass, 2008)
Present Company+ (Frank V. Ross, 2008)
Nights and Weekends+ (Greta Gerwig and Joe Swanberg, 2008)

October:
Mulholland Dr. (David Lynch, 2001)
Lost Highway (David Lynch, 1997)
Pop Skull (Adam Wingard, 2007)
A Nightmare on Elm Street* (Wes Craven, 1984)
A Nightmare on Elm Street 2: Freddy's Revenge (Jack Sholder, 1985)
Images (Robert Altman, 1972)
Halloween* (John Carpenter, 1978)
[Rec] (Jaume Balagueró and Paco Plaza, 2007)
The Tell-Tale Heart (Ted Parmelee, 1953)
The Evil Dead (Sam Raimi, 1981)
The Evil Dead II (Sam Raimi, 1987)
Wolf Creek (Greg Mclean, 2005)
Tales from the Crypt (Freddie Francis, 1972)
Creepshow (George A. Romero, 1982)

+ theatrical viewings
* repeat viewings

November
+ Australia (now that's a movie)
Leatherheads (should have been funnier; must have been the football...)
+ Twilight (dimmest girl in the world wants to be a vampire=metaphor for ETERNAL TWU LURVE)
Hellboy II: The Golden Army
* The Reckoning
* The Fisher King

October
The Incredible Hulk (starring Edward Norton)
+ Appaloosa (have decided R.B. Parker doesn't really like women much)
The Visitor (perfect portrait of ennui, without being ennuyant)
Iron Man (more heart than The Dark Knight)
The More the Merrier
The Boys of Baraka

September
The Greatest Game Ever Played (as is often the case, one of the world's most boring sports, golf, makes a decent movie)
*+ Trois Couleurs: Bleu (well worth seeing again in any case, but the big screen made it even better)
Smart People (I know I'm not the first to note that this movie is really not particularly smart)
Son of Rambow

August
* Born into Brothels (on IFC)
+ Mamma Mia! (please, never allow Pierce Brosnan to sing again)
La Vie en Rose

July
Marigold (OK, but as Bollywood crossovers go, I prefer Bride and Prejudice)
+ The X Files: I Want to Believe (I'm probably the only person in America who preferred it to TDK)
+ The Dark Knight (whoa--that really was dark)
27 Dresses (awful dresses pretty much the only reason for this one)
A Good Woman (would not have thought it possible to make Oscar Wilde boring)
* I Know Where I'm Going (still charming, and visually striking)
+ Wall-E
+ Journey to the Center of the Earth
The Glass Slipper (TCM)
The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants
Songcatcher
Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason (DVD version with quiz & other special features beats theatrical viewing)

June
Honeydripper
+ Get Smart
The Water Horse: Legend of the Deep
Jane Austen in Manhattan (what was that?)
The Air I Breathe (great cast, interesting premise, not so successful effect)

May
+ Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (wham! boom! whoa! ack! ah!)
Aquamarine (sweet!)
Marilyn Hotchkiss Ballroom Dancing and Charm School
The White Countess
Ushpizin
How to Steal a Million (Peter O'Toole was quite a dish in 1966)
+ Prince Caspian
Match Point (now I remember why I gave up Woody Allen movies...)
+ Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day
The Chess Players (Shatranj Ke Khilari, 1977, dir. Satyajit Ray)
* Raising Arizona
Atonement

April
Mrs. Henderson Presents
Maine Pyar Kiya ("I Love You" or "I Have Loved")
* Millions (on IFC)
Juno
Vera Drake
A History of Violence
* The Dish

March
* My Brilliant Career
Nancy Drew (2007)
Dan in Real Life
3:10 to Yuma (2007)
The Secret Garden (1949, with Margaret Sullivan as Mary, TCM)
*The Boy with Green Hair (thanks to TCM)
Michael Clayton

February
Black Narcissus
* Tsotsi
The Feast of Love (well, that was a waste of time)
* Lagaan
The Jane Austen Book Club (book was better; actual books by Jane Austen better by far)

January
The Sea Hawk
Suburban Girl (no surprise--the book, The Girl's Guide to Hunting and Fishing, was better)
The Legend of Zorro (DH's review: "Banderas made this for his kids, didn't he?")
+ The Bucket List (nowhere to go but up)

Link to my journal.

February

01.02.08 Kill Bill, Vol. 1 (Dir. Quentin Tarantino, 2003) DVD, Repeat viewing,
Kill Bill, Vol. 2 (Dir. Quentin Tarantino, 2004) DVD, Repeat viewing,

03.02.08 Le Scaphandre et le papillon (The Diving Bell and the Butterfly) (Dir. Julian Schnabel, 2007) Theatre, First time viewing,

04.02.08 Love in the Time of Cholera (Dir. Mike Newell, 2007) Theatre, First time viewing,

10.02.08 I'm Not There (Dir. Todd Haynes, 2007) Theatre, First time viewing,

13.02.08 The Assassination of Jesses James By the Coward Robert Ford (Dir. Andrew Dominik, 2007) DVD, First time viewing,

14..02.08 Clueless (Dir. Amy Heckerling, 1995) DVD, Repeat viewing,

16.02.08 Persepolis (Dir. Vincent Paronnaud and Marjane Satrapi, 2007) Theatre, First time viewing,

18.02.08 I'm Not There (Dir. Todd Haynes, 2007) Theatre, Repeat viewing,

20.02.08 Stalag 17 (Dir. Billy Wilder, 1953) TV, First time viewing,

21.02.08 The Kite Runner (Dir. Marc Forster, 2007) Theatre, First time viewing,

22.02.08 Be Kind Rewind (Dir. Michel Gondry, 2008) Theatre, First time viewing,

23.02.08 Terminator 2: Judgement Day (Dir. James Cameron, 1991) DVD, Repeat viewing,

26.02.08 The Savages (Dir. Tamara Jenkins, 2007) Theatre, First time viwing,



January

02.01.08 Before the Devil Knows You're Dead (Dir. Sidney Lumet, 2007) Theatre, First time viewing,

04.01.08 The Court Jester (Dir. Melvin Frank and Norman Panama, 1956) DVD, Repeat viewing,

05.01.08 Juno (Dir. Jason Reitman, 2007) Theatre, First time viewing,

07.01.08 Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (Dir. Steven Spielberg, 1989) DVD, Repeat viewing,

09.01.08 3:10 to Yuma (Dir. James Mangold, 2007) DVD, First time viewing,

11.01.08 Once (Dir. John Carney, 2007) DVD, Repeat viewing,

12.01.08 Atonement (Dir. Joe Wright, 2007) Theatre, First time viewing,
Tape (Dir. Richard Linklater, 2001) DVD, First time viewing,

18.01.08 Cloverfield (Dir. Matt Reeves, 2008) Theatre, First time viewing

27.01.08 There Will Be Blood (Dir. Paul Thomas Anderson, 2007) Theatre, First time viewing,

Hey, last year I almost completely missed the boat! Needed to compensate...