DATE MOVIES
Updated July 15 2008: a couple days filled with pretty obscure flicks, or docs, but... Every day has a movie!
Keep those dates coming: italics indicate additional uses of films already covering another date, and films in yellow are documentaries, and it would be ideal - eventually - for each date to have a different non-documentary movie. But hey - who ever thought we'd get this far?

January 1: Les Miserables du vingtieme siecle, [i]Forrest Gump, Rosewood, The Apartment, The Black Dahlia
January 2: Sullivan's Travels
January 3: The Babe Ruth Story, Babe, Luther
January 4: Motorcycle Diaries
January 5: Rain Man, After The Wedding, The Lives Of Others
January 6: Capote, Game 6
January 7: A Very Long Engagement
January 8: Blade Runner
January 9: The Godfather, The Black Dahlia
January 10: And Along Come Tourists, The Bourne Ultimatum, Shadowlands?
January 11: The Godfather
January 12: 2001, Chocolat, Motorcycle Diaries
January 13: The Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
January 14: The Wrong Man
January 15: The Black Dahlia, Days Of Glory, I'm Not There
January 16: Ivan The Terrible, The Black Dahlia
January 17: Au Revoir Les Enfants, The Black Dahlia, Saint Ralph, The Black Dahlia
January 18: The Boston Strangler?, The Black Dahlia, Wicker Man
January 19: Sometimes In April, The Black Dahlia, Motorcycle Diaries
January 20: The Wannsee Conference, The Black Dahlia
January 21: Patriot Games, The Wicker Man
January 22: Zulu, Zulu Dawn
January 23: Adaptation, American Gangster, Zulu, Zulu Dawn, The Chorus, A Mighty Heart
January 24: A Mighty Heart, Munich
January 25: Monsieur Vincent, A Mighty Heart
January 26: Dead-End Drive In, A Man For All Seasons
January 27: Sophie Scholl, A Mighty Heart, A Man For All Seasons
January 28: The Martian Child, Honeydripper, Sophie Scholl, Saint Ralph
January 29: The Day The Earth Stood Still, Motorcycle Diaries
January 30: Bloody Sunday, Gandhi, The Chorus, A Mighty Heart, Kiss Kiss Bang Bang
January 31: Willy Wonka & The Chocolate Factory, A Mighty Heart, Motorcycle Diaries
February All Dates: Zodiac
February 1: Charlie & The Chocolate Factory, A Mighty Heart
February 2: Groundhog Day, Michael Clayton, Wicker Man
February 3: The Buddy Holly Story, La Bamba, The Good The Bad and The Ugly, Mrs Henderson Presents, The Grass Harp
February 4: Rome, Open City
February 5: Black Book, A Mighty Heart
February 6: Born Into Brothels
February 7: Born Into Brothels
February 8: The Prestige
February 9: I Wanna Hold Your Hand, The Dreamers, Blade Runner
February 10: Deja Vu
February 11: The Song of Bernadette, Quiz Show, Eternal Sunshine
February 12: Holiday Inn, Into The Wild, Game 6
February 13: The Darjeeling Limited, The Verdict, Eternal Sunshine
February 14: Some Like It Hot, The Man With Two Brains, Picnic At Hanging Rock, Blade Runner, La Vie En Rose, Eternal Sunshine
February 15: Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Motorcycle Diaries
February 16: La Vie En Rose, The Manchurian Candidate?
February 17: To End All Wars, The Assassination of Richard Nixon, 2001
February 18: Sophie Scholl, Breach, Motorcycle Diaries
February 19: The Matrix, Sophie Scholl, Motorcycle Diaries, The Verdict, Letters From Iwo Jima, Flags Of Our Fathers, The Assassination of Jesse James
February 20: Breach, Sophie Scholl
February 21: Picnic At Hanging Rock, Malcolm X?, Sophie Scholl, A Mighty Heart
February 22: The Assassination of Richard Nixon, Walk The Line, Miracle, Holiday Inn, Sophie Scholl
February 23: Flags Of Our Fathers, Letters From Iwo Jima, Sophie Scholl
February 24: Twin Peaks, Thank You For Smoking
February 25: The Song Of Bernadette
February 26: Junebug, Motorcycle Diaries
February 27: Black Hawk Down
February 28: The Hiding Place, The Untouchables, Deja Vu, The Grass Harp
February 29: The Pirates of Penzance
February 30: Vanilla Sky
March 1: The Parallax View, Eternal Sunshine
March 2: Kiss Kiss Bang Bang
March 3: The Chorus
March 4: A Study In Scarlet, In The Name Of The Father
March 5: Return of the Secaucus Seven
March 6: The Alamo
March 7: Breach, Motorcycle Diaries, Saint Ralph
March 8: American Gangster
March 9: The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, The Hiding Place, Good Night and Good Luck
March 10: The Lives Of Others
March 11: Romeo + Juliet, Untouchables, Quiz Show, Year of Living Dangerously, Motorcycle Diaries, The Lives Of Others
March 12: Dekalog 7, Breakfast Club, Bird, Grace Is Gone, Untouchables
March 13: Inherit The Wind, Khartoum
March 14: Topsy-Turvy
March 15: Julius Caesar, Hairspray, Motorcycle Diaries
March 16: Dekalog 5
March 17: The Spanish Prisoner, Avenue Montaigne, Dekalog 5
March 18: The Thing About My Folks
March 19: Why We Fight
March 20: Dogville
March 21: Copying Beethoven, Shadowlands, A Man For All Seasons
March 22: About Schmidt, Zodiac, Forrest Gump, Cinderella Man
March 23: Magnolia, September Dawn, Zodiac
March 24: The Woodsman, The Breakfast Club, Romero, Singin' In The Rain, The Insider, Game 6
March 25: Amazing Grace, Hill Number One
March 26: Immortal Beloved, Copying Beethoven, Letters From Iwo Jima
March 27: Das Boot
March 28: The Hours, Frankenstein, Chocolat?
March 29: Chocolat
March 30: Forrest Gump, The Good Shepherd
March 31: Selena
April 1: April Fool's Day
April 2: Motorcycle Diaries, The Assassination of Jesse James
April 3: High Fidelity, After Life, The Insider, Raise The Titanic, The Assassination of Jesse James, The Prestige, The White Diamond
April 4: 1984, My Own Private Idaho, Across The Universe, The Exorcism of Emily Rose
April 5: The Miracle Worker, Motorcycle Diaries, Beyond The Gates / Shooting Dogs, Patriot Games
April 6: Beyond The Gates / Shooting Dogs, Charlie Wilson's War, Hair, Good Night and Good Luck, Hair
April 7: The Devil and Daniel Webster, Night of the Living Dead (1968), Beyond The Gates / Shooting Dogs, Sometimes In April
April 8: Night of the Living Dead (1968 version)
April 9: The Manchurian Candidate , Munich
April 10: Blade Runner, The Day The Earth Stood Still, Redacted
April 11: Dances With Wolves, The Miracle Worker, Apollo 13 (Apr 11-17), Beyond The Gates / Shooting Dogs
April 12: Raising Arizona, Return To Me, Sometimes in April, Motorcycle Diaries, Munich
April 13: Gandhi, Angels In America, The New World, A Man For All Seasons?
April 14: Birth Of A Nation, Prince Of Players, Abraham Lincoln, Charlie Wilson's War, The Lincoln Conspiracy, The Prisoner of Shark Island, Mallrats, Capote
April 15: Titanic, A Night To Remember, The Squid & The Whale, The Manchurian Candidate, Dogma, The Bourne Supermacy/Ultimatum, Junebug, The Good Shepherd
April 16: Thieves Like Us, Song of Bernadette
April 17: Apollo 13, A Man For All Seasons, Cache
April 18: The Good Shepherd
April 19: Oh God! You Devil, Waco: The Rules Of Engagement
April 20: Elephant, Crimes & Misdemeanors, Downfall (Apr 20-30), The Good Shepherd
April 21: The Fog, The Good Shepherd
April 22: Minority Report, The Dam Busters
April 23: April 23, Shadowlands, The Incredibles, The Good Shepherd
April 24: Two Of Us, Notorious, The Seven Percent Solution, Notorious, The Good Shepherd
April 25: Miss Congeniality, Wonder Boys, Zodiac, The Manchurian Candidate
April 26: The Good Shepherd
April 27: Across The Universe, The Downfall?
April 28: Kate & Leopold, The Godfather
April 29: Hours and Times (Apr 8 – May 2), Saint Ralph, Wicker Man
April 30: Zodiac, Wicker Man, Across The Universe, Downfall (Apr 20-30), [i]Pride Of The Yankees, Wicker Man
May 1: The Shining, Shadowlands, Wicker Man, The Queen?, Zodiac
May 2: The Pride Of The Yankees, The Queen, Cinderella Man
May 3: It's A Wonderful Life, Hairspray
May 4: Juno, Walker
May 5: Dracula, The Simpsons Movie, Marilyn Hotchkiss Ballroom Dancing & Charm School, Wicker Man
May 6: As You Like It
May 7: Copying Beethoven, Frankenstein?
May 8: The Big Red One, It's A Wonderful Life, Broken Flowers, La Vie En Rose, Ashes And Diamonds, Death Of A President?
May 9: The Power of One?, Ashes And Diamonds, Sophie Scholl, Game 6
May 10: Amistad, Taxi Driver, Cinderella Man
May 11: The Leopard, The Wicker Man
May 12: Terminator, Day Of Wrath, The Verdict, Bridge On The River Kwai, Motorcycle Diaries
May 13: Bridge On The River Kwai, [The Dreamers, Lawrence Of Arabia, The Chorus
May 14: The Far Horizons
May 15: Paris Je T'Aime (Faubourg Saint-Denis), Forrest Gump, The Shining, Saint Ralph
May 16: Cinderella Man
May 17: Redacted, Half Nelson, The Untouchables
May 18: Don't Come Knocking
May 19: The Dam Busters, Lawrence Of Arabia, House Of Sand
May 20: My Fair Lady, The Chorus, Broken Flowers
May 21: Lawrence Of Arabia
May 22: Saint Ralph
May 23: Heaven, Bonnie & Clyde, The Grass Harp
May 24: Avenue Montaigne
May 25: Redacted, 2001, Motorcycle Diaries
May 26: Taxi Driver, Fever Pitch, The Wicker Man
May 27: Dogma, Bruce Almighty
May 28: Elizabeth: The Golden Age
May 29: A Woman Commands, The Conquest Of Constantinople
May 30: The Passion of Joan of Arc (Dreyer), Joan of Arc (Fleming), The Princess and The Warrior
May 31: Almost Heroes
June 1: Atonement, Pride Of The Yankees, Dogma
June 2: Hairspray, Marat/Sade
June 3: Superbad, 1941, Black Dahlia
June 4: Broken Lance, The Year My Parents Went On Vacation, Game 6
June 5: Bobby, My Left Foot, Forrest Gump (twice), Brokeback Mountain
June 6: The Longest Day, Saving Private Ryan, Pan's Labyrinth, Beaufort, Bobby, Dogma
June 7: Bruce Almighty, The Namesake, Notes On A Scandal, I'm Not There, Taxi Driver
June 8: Andre, The Assassination of Jesse James, Singin' In The Rain, Motorcycle Diaries
June 9: L.A. Confidential, Glory
June 10: Little Children, Wah-Wah (?)
June 11: We Were Soldiers, Since Otar Left, Forrest Gump, Redacted, Avenue Montaigne
June 12: Ghosts Of Mississippi, Lavender Hill Mob, The Death Of Klinghoffer, The Diary of Anne Frank, Blade Runner, Avenue Montaigne, The Good Shepherd
June 13: Cinderella Man, Frida
June 14: The Natural, Twelve Monkeys, Motorcycle Diaries, Cinderella Man, Casablanca, Day Of Wrath
June 15: The Natural, Cinderella Man, Motorcycle Diaries
June 16: Bloom, Before Sunrise, The Untouchables, Munich
June 17: Before Sunrise, Atonement, Forrest Gump
June 18: The Big Lift, Superbad
June 19: The Sacrifice, Zodiac, Game 6, Michael Clayton
June 20: Bugsy, Zodiac
June 21: Year Of The Dog, Dark Matter, Year Of The Dog
June 22: In A Lonely Place, Motorcycle Diaries
June 23: Kalifornia, Nixon
June 24: Andrei Rublev, The Big Lift
June 25: Dad, You Can't Take It With You, Rosemary's Baby, Elizabethtown, Ragtime, The Year Of Living Dangerously, Little Big Man
June 26: Little Big Man, Amistad, Stripes, Redacted
June 27: The Miracle Worker
June 28: The Last King Of Scotland?, Redacted
June 29: Field Of Dreams, Taxi Driver
June 30: Lamumba
July 1: A Man For All Seasons, Gettysburg (Jul 1-3)
July 2: Gettysburg, No Country For Old Men (?)
July 3: The Good German, The Wind That Shakes The Barley
July 4: Independence Day, 1776, The Sandlot, Jaws, Raid On Entebbe, Jaws, Miss Firecracker, Zodiac, The Shining, Pride Of The Yankees, Forrest Gump, Bruce Almighty, Jaws, Hustle & Flow, Dogville, Angels In America
July 5: Bobby, The Quiet Earth, Zodiac
July 6: Casino Royale, A Man For All Seasons, Lawrence Of Arabia
July 7: The Straight Story, Redacted
July 8: Silence of the Lambs, The Manchurian Candidate, Redacted
July 9: The Lake House, Frida, The Wrong Man
July 10: Four Days In July (July 9-12), Inherit The Wind, The Lake House
July 11: The Manchurian Candidate, Gangs Of New York, Avenue Montaigne
July 12: Gangs Of New York, The Manchurian Candidate
July 13: O Brother, Where Art Thou?, Shadowlands, The Manchurian Candidate, Gangs Of New York
July 14: A Tale Of Two Cities, Dark Water (Japan), The Manchurian Candidate
July 15: Don't Tell Anyone, Gallipoli, Redacted
July 16: Earth Vs The Flying Saucers, Don't Tell Anyone, Forrest Gump
July 17: July 17th 1996 (short), The Hills Have Eyes, Napoleon Dynamite, Waking Ned Devine
July 18: Glory, The Day The Earth Stood Still, Cinderella Man
July 19: The Island, Avenue Montaigne
July 20: The Dish, Peggy Sue Got Married, Taxi Driver, High Fidelity, Forrest Gump
July 21: Napoleon Dynamite, O Brother, Where Art Thou? (Jul 17-21)
July 22: Braveheart
July 23: Secrets & Lies, Signs
July 24: Volver, Inherit The Wind, Saint Ralph
July 25: Gangs Of New York
July 26: Grizzly Man, Across The Universe, Zodiac, Motorcycle Diaries
July 27: All The President's Men
July 28: A Man For All Seasons (1988 version)
July 29: Jaws, The Godfather, The Black Dahlia
July 30: Cold Mountain, Macbeth (2006), September Dawn, Joni, Mission of the Shark: The Saga of the U.S.S. Indianapolis
July 31: Harry Potter & The Philosopher's Stone, My Best Friend, Frankenstein?, Mission of the Shark: The Saga of the U.S.S. Indianapolis, Macbeth (2006), Zodiac
August 1: Adam's Apples, Zodiac, August The First, The Diary of Anne Frank, Mission of the Shark: The Saga of the U.S.S. Indianapolis, The Black Dahlia
August 2: Black Hawk Down, Zodiac
August 3: How Green Was My Valley, Mission of the Shark: The Saga of the U.S.S. Indianapolis (Jul 30 – Aug 3)
August 4: Terminator 2: Judgment Day, Freedom Writers, Zodiac
August 5: Frankenstein?, Zodiac
August 6: Hiroshima mon amour, Gallipoli, Zodiac
August 7: Gallipoli, No Country For Old Men, Smoke, I'm Not There, Zodiac
August 8: Hawaii Oslo, Nixon, Hackers, Forrest Gump, Shackleton, Smoke, Motorcycle Diaries
August 9: Rhapsody In August, Kosmicheskiy reys: Fantasticheskaya novella (AKA Space Voyage, AKA Cosmic Voyage), All The President's Men, Third Miracle, Zodiac
August 10: Hackers, FUBAR
August 11: Pollock, Zelig
August 12: Fur: An Imaginary Portrait Of Diane Arbus, Breach
August 13: One Two Three, Zodiac
August 14: Star 80
August 15: New York New York, Cold Heaven, To End All Wars, Little Children
August 16: Little Children, Zodiac, The Last King Of Scotland
August 17: Waking Ned Devine, The Wicker Man
August 18: Into The Wild
August 19: It's A Wonderful Life, Smoke
August 20: Frida, Mother Of Mine (Äideistä parhain), Smoke, The Notorious Bettie Page, Volver
August 21: The Bourne Supremacy, Munich, Game 6
August 22: Michael Collins, Dog Day Afternoon, The Dam Busters, What's Eating Gilbert Grape?, The Insider, Redacted, The Crucible
August 23: Braveheart
August 24: The Last Days Of Pompeii
August 25: The Day Of The Jackal
August 26: Good Bye Lenin!, The Godfather Part III?
August 27: Krakatoa East Of Java
August 28: The Ruling Class
August 29: The Constant Gardener, Terminator 2: Judgment Day
August 30: Shackleton
August 31: The Queen
September 1: Searching For Bobby Fischer, Bird, Smoke, The Death of Mr Lazarescu, Hairspray
September 2: Evil Dead 2, Smoke, The Queen, Redacted
September 3: Hope & Glory, Amelie, The Queen, Zodiac, Redacted
September 4: The Ernest Green Story, Crisis At Central High, Black Book, The Queen
September 5: 21 Hours in Munich, The Assassination of Jesse James, The Queen, The Straight Story, Munich
September 6: Munich, The Queen
September 7: The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford, The Long Riders, The Great Northfield Minnesota Raid
September 8: Forrest Gump, Zodiac
September 9: Driving Lessons, Half Nelson, Forrest Gump, Michael Clayton
September 10: September Dawn, The Passenger?, Michael Clayton?, Breach, Into The Wild
September 11: The Big Lebowski, 11'09"01, The Guys, Frankenstein, Half Nelson, Braveheart, Extreme Measures, September Dawn
September 12: Cry Freedom, Bread and Roses, Return of the Secaucus Seven, The insider
September 13: Smoke, The Bourne Ultimatum, Half Nelson
September 14: Land Of Plenty?, Smoke, Zodiac
September 15: Insignificance, 4 Little Girls, Far And Away, Land Of Plenty
September 16: Timecrimes, Driving Lessons
September 17: Frida, Hairspray
September 18: The Simpsons Movie, We Are Marshall, Land Of Plenty
September 19: The Crucible
September 20: Enemy At The Gates
September 21: Grave of the Fireflies, The Band's Visit, Forrest Gump, The Death Of Mr Lazarescu, Wicker Man
September 22: The Fellowship of the Ring, Syriana, 16 Blocks, Forrest Gump, Vanilla Sky
September 23: Wah-Wah
September 24: Network, Brokeback Mountain
September 25: The Caine Mutiny, The Pursuit of Happyness, Cinderella Man, Cry The Beloved Country, We Are Marshall
September 26: Cry The Beloved Country, Kanal, Zodiac
September 27: The Death of Mr Lazarescu, Zodiac
September 28: The Godfather Part III?, Amelie, The Lives Of Others
September 29: Little Shop of Horrors, Saint Ralph
September 30: Battle Of Algiers, September 30 1955
October 1: Breakfast At Tiffany's, Evil Dead 2, Sex In Chains, Portrait Of Jennie, Breakfast At Tiffany's, The Death of Mr Lazarescu, Game 6
October 2: Donnie Darko, Around The World In 80 Days, Kingdom Of Heaven, Game 6
October 3: The Godfather , Dekalog 7, Black Hawk Down
October 4: Dad, Black Hawk Down, Portrait of Jennie, Norma Rae, Arlington Road
October 5: Arlington Road, Faustyna, Portrait Of Jennie, My Left Foot
October 6: Laramie Project, Across The Universe
October 7: Days Of Heaven, The Death Of Klinghoffer (Oct 7-8), Good Bye Lenin!, A Mighty Heart
October 8: Eight Men Out (Oct 1-9), Cry The Beloved Country, The Straight Story, Wicker Man
October 9: Extreme Measures
October 10: Marathon, Re-Animator
October 11: Hair, Zodiac, The Assassination of Jesse James, The Grass Harp
October 12: The Laramie Project, Smart People, Redacted, The Grass Harp
October 13: What's Eating Gilbert Grape?, Zodiac
October 14: Good Night and Good Luck, Honeydripper
October 15: Game 6, Brothers Of The Head, Thirteen Days, Atonement, The New World, Zodiac, 21
October 16: Pollock, Get On The Bus, To End All Wars, Munich
October 17: Evita, Cache, The New World
October 18: The Untouchables
October 19: Paycheck, Shadowlands?, Good Night and Good Luck, Death Of A President
October 20: I'm Not There, Good Night and Good Luck
October 21: Good Will Hunting, The Leopard, Forrest Gump, Hell House, Back To The Future II
October 22: Thirteen Days (Oct 15-28), Eye Of The Dolphin, The Leopard, Hell House, Back To The Future II, Zodiac
October 23: Billy Bathgate, The Cotton Club, Hoodlum, Children Of Glory
October 24: Reprise
October 25: Henry V, Game 6, Good Night & Good Luck, Thirteen Days, Children Of Glory
October 26: Back To The Future, Tombstone, Wyatt Earp, My Darling Clementine, Gunfight At The OK Corral, Thirteen Days
October 27: The Exorcism of Emily Rose, Zodiac
October 28: The Third Miracle, Thirteen Days, To End All Wars, Saint Ralph
October 29: Death of a President
October 30: In The Valley Of Elah, The Crow, Dekalog 7, The Shining, Zodiac
October 31: To Kill A Mockingbird, Donnie Darko
November 1: Seabiscuit, Luther, Half Nelson, In The Valley of Elah
November 2: Quiz Show
November 3: 21, City Of Men, Game 6
November 4: The Manchurian Candidate
November 5: Gulliver's Travles, V For Vendetta, Back To The Future, Dark City, Brothers Of The Head
November 6: Brokeback Mountain
November 7: Reds, Doctor Zhivago, Brokeback Mountain
November 8: My Big Fat Greek Wedding, The Black Dahlia, Pollock
November 9: Good Bye, Lenin!, , The Lives Of Others, The Insider
November 10: Zelig, The Pianist, Dark City
November 11: Eternal Sunshine, The Big Red One, Munich, The Black Dahlia
November 12: Back To The Future, The Insider
November 13: The Amityville Horror, The Insider, Don't Come Knocking, Wicker Man
November 14: In Cold Blood (Nov 14/15), Capote, We Are Marshall, We Were Soldiers, A Mighty Heart, Dark City, The Black Dahlia
November 15: Gone With The Wind, Capote, In Cold Blood?, The Incredibles, We Were Soldiers
November 16: Children Of Men, Cinderella Man, We Were Soldiers, Other Voices Other Rooms
November 17: Malice
November 18: Zodiac, Guyana Tragedy: The Story of Jim Jones
November 19: About A Boy, Twelve Monkeys, Dark City, The Death of Mr Lazarescu
November 20: Lawrence Of Arabia, Napoleon Dynamite, Michael Collins
November 21: The Nines, Vanilla Sky, Pollock
November 22: JFK, Forrest Gump
November 23: Dark City, Across The Universe
November 24: Familiar Strangers, Brokeback Mountain
November 25: Sansho The Bailiff, Familiar Strangers
November 26: Magnolia, Familiar Strangers
November 27: Rana's Wedding, Dekalog 5
November 28: No Country For Old Men, Pollock
November 29: The Sweet Hereafter, Raising Arizona, Zodiac
November 30: Sweet November?, Cinderella Man
December 1: Mame
December 2: Casablanca, Into The Wild, Game 8
December 3: Agatha (Dec 3-14)
December 4: Shadowlands
December 5: Amadeus, Vanilla Sky, Quiz Show
December 6: The Wind That Shakes The Barley, The Sweet Hereafter, Children Of Glory, The Sweet Hereafter
December 7: From Here To Eternity, Pearl Harbor, A Man Called Peter, The Final Countdown, The Winslow Boy, The Godfather Part II
December 8: Empire Of The Sun, The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, Munich
December 9: 2010: The Year We Make Contact
December 10: Around The Bend, The Winslow Boy, The Black Dahlia, Zodiac
December 11: Psycho, Frankenstein?, Boogie Nights
December 12: Napoleon Dynamite Cinderella Man
December 13: The Truman Show, La Vie En Rose
December 14: Manufactured Landscapes, Agatha, Wicker Man
December 15: Jindabyne, Love Actually? (Dec 14 – 25?)
December 16: Before Sunset, The Proposition (Dec 16-25), Capote, The Hiding Place
December 17: 12:10 East Of Bucharest, The Proposition, The Wicker Man
December 18: The Proposition, Zodiac
December 19: Miracle at St. Anna, The Karate Kid, The Proposition
December 20: Eastern Promises, Zodiac, The Proposition
December 21: Around The World In Eighty Days, 12:10 East of Bucharest, My Night At Maud's, The Proposition
December 22: Reversal Of Fortune, 12:08 East Of Bucharest, Dogma, The Proposition
December 23: Bananas, 12:10 East Of Bucharest, My Night At Maud's, The Proposition
December 24: Dekalog 3, Catch Me If You Can, The Apartment, Return of the Secaucus Seven, The Propostion
December 25: Lord of War, The Apartment, Capote, It's A Wonderful Life, Smoke, My Night At Maud's, The Proposition
December 26: Saint Ralph, Meet John Doe, Vanilla Sky, My Night At Maud's
December 27: My Night At Maud's, Reprise
December 28: Rob Roy
December 29: Becket
December 30: ? Pariah ?
December 31: The Godfather Part II, The Notorious Bettie Page, The Apartment

Superbowl Sunday: Black Sunday
Patriot's Day: Saint Ralph
Passover: Prince of Egypt
Maundy Thursday: The Passion of the Christ, Saint Ralph
Good Friday: The Passion of the Christ, Changing Lanes
Easter Sunday: Ordet
Easter Monday: Dekalog 4
Divine Mercy Sunday (Second Sunday of Easter): Faustyna
Thanksgiving (US): Pieces of April, The Ice Storm, Broadway Danny Rose, Hannah & Her Sisters, Dear God

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FILMS WITH DATES IN THEM TO FIND (you know what I mean...)
AMAZING GRACE
BECKET
BILL & TED'S EXCELLENT ADVENTURE
THE BOURNE ULTIMATUM
CHINATOWN
DIE HARD
DOCTOR ZHIVAGO
FLAGS OF OUR FATHERS
GODS & GENERALS
GONE WITH THE WIND
GOOD MORNING VIETNAM
THE GREEN RAY
HOLIDAY INN
HOUSE OF SAND AND FOG ("the 18th..." of what month?)
INTO THE WILD
THE LAKE HOUSE
LETTERS FROM IWO JIMA
A MAN FOR ALL SEASONS
A MAN ESCAPED
MONSIEUR VINCENT (September 27, if his death is portrayed in the film)
NIXON
OCTOBER SKY
RAINMAN
RAY
REDS
THE SEVEN PERCENT SOLUTION
SPINAL TAP
SUPERMAN RETURNS
TEN DAYS THAT SHOOK THE WORLD
TWIST & SHOUT
THE UNTOUCHABLES
ZELIG

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(Original post:)
Okay, yet another one of my list ideas.

Caught part of a piece on CBC radio today, three film critics talking about war films in general, and D-Day films in particular. I'd already been thinking I might watch SAVING PRIVATE RYAN tonight, but one of them mentioned THE LONGEST DAY and, never having seen that, decided to opt for it instead.

Which got me thinking. It would be interesting to try and come up with a calendar of films that contain events on specific dates. Not just historical films, but also - even especially - fiction. (No documentaries, though - too easy.)

So I'm going to start such a list here, and encourage people to add a post when a specific date comes up in a film they're watching (or think of): I'll add them to the list as they come in. I'm sure many of the films will cluster around dates like the fourth of July, Christmas, Valentines Day, etc, but I wonder how long it might take to fill up the rest of the calendar.

Anyway, here goes....

Also for July 4: 1776

And let's not forget Feb. 2: Groundhog Day

Well let me get in "Its a Wonderful life" before the mother of all clusters takes over.

Also "Changing Lanes" is on Good Friday.

Matt

May 19: Malcolm X
Aug. 6: need to find a good movie on Hiroshima
Jan. 30: Bloody Sunday
July 31: All the Harry Potter movies


I like this game.

Aug. 6: Hiroshima mon amour

June 25th or 26th -- Little Big Man

The dates of the Battle of Little Big Horn. It's a long movie, so you could start it at 10pm the 25th, and it will end around 1am the 26th.


July 30th -- Mission of the Shark: The Saga of the U.S.S. Indianapolis

The date is the torpedoing of the ship. The story is of the sinking of the U.S.S. Indianapolis, the five days that survivors spent in the water, and the Navy's railroading of it's Captain, Charles McVay -- the only captain in the history of the U.S. Navy to be court-martialed for losing his ship. This is a made-for-TV movie available on VHS. Not the greatest of films, but since it looks like adaptations of Dan Kurzman's "Fatal Voyage" and Doug Stanton's "In Harms Way" have stalled, it's the best that's available. And yes, this is the WW2 incident that Quint so vividly details in...


July 4th -- Jaws

December 24-- Decalogue 3
Easter Sunday-- Ordet
Thanksgiving-- Babette's Feast

Sept. 11 - 9/11 (I know it's a TV documentary, but it's the most real one I've seen).

June 27 and April 11: The Miracle Worker
October 22: Thirteen Days

June 27 is Helen Keller's b-day. April 11 is Annie Sullivan's. Keller is better known, but Sullivan is the title character of the story, and a great person to remember. I would expect it would more generally fit at June 27, though. But I also like the April 5 connection.

I remember Oct. 22, because that's when it all became public. And I'm old enough to remember the idea that we were in very deep doodoo.

Ron wrote:
: September 11: 11'09"01, The Guys

Don't know The Guys, but I'm guessing it's all about the September 11 that took place in 2001.

Are there any films about the September 11 that took place in Argentina in 1973? (Actually, I think one of the shorts in 11'09"01 gets into that, if I'm not mistaken.)

Have I mentioned yet that Die Hard is one of my favorite Christmas films ever?

Ron wrote:

: : Have I mentioned yet that Die Hard is one of my favorite Christmas films ever?
:
: It's a Christmas party, right? Is it Christmas Eve? Or does it say which day, exactly?

I'm pretty sure it begins on Christmas Eve and ends on Christmas Day, since the basic premise of the film is that Bruce Willis has just flown to Los Angeles to be with his kids for the holiday. But now I'm wondering if maybe, just maybe, the film takes place a few days BEFORE Christmas Eve.

What day did the Beatles play the Ed Sullivan show? Bob Zemeckis's I Want to Hold Your Hand takes place on that day, no?

Much of the action of Independence Day takes place on July 4th, doesn't it?

I've been thinking about a particular kind of film (or film scene) that's especially fun to fit into this calendar - fictional movies that incorporate historical events. FORREST GUMP brought this to mind, which led me to think of ZELIG. I haven't seen either movie recently enough to remember which specific, dateable events happen in each, but they're a good source, I'm sure.

Some others that have come to mind;

THE SEVEN PERCENT SOLUTION - based on the Nicholas Meyer Sherlock Holmes pastiche, which begins April 24, 1991. (Oops, typo - 1991 should be 1891). I'm thinking there are likely other dates that also come up, as it's one of those books where a chief delight is seeing the author play with history. I don't recall what else happens, but I know Holmes meets us with Sigmund Freud, and I wouldn't be surprised if specific events get played out.

ADAPTATION - ties in with the New Yorker article? And probably other dateable events?

BILL & TED'S EXCELLENT ADVENTURE - don't remember what events they end up part of, but...

CHINATOWN - has a Seabiscuit newspaper headline, though I doubt the date is discernible.

THE DISH

GONE WITH THE WIND - well, I guess it's more in the at-least-quasi-Historical department.

GOOD MORNING VIETNAM - specific events?

INSIGNIFICANCE - the night following the famous photo shoot with the wind lifting Marilyn Monroe's skirt

MY LIFE AS A DOG - ties in with Russian space program?

THE NATURAL - this is a stretch, but one episode is inspired in part byt the Eddie Waitkus shooting

OCTOBER SKY - more space program tie-in? Unless this is actually more of an autobiographical story?

TWIST & SHOUT - doesn't it tie in with the Beatle's Scandinavian tour?

Any others come to mind?

Ron

Judging from your Seven Percent Solution example, are you incorporating films that refer to FUTURE events? Kind of like how 2001: A Space Odyssey and Terminator 2: Judgment Day both tell us the dates of specific events (the creation of HAL and the nuclear annihilation of the world, respectively)? I could try tracking down a few such dates, if you like!

Sept. 5th - One Day in September
Kevin MacDonald's documentary of the hostage tragedy at the 1972 Munich Olympics.

Blade Runner doesn't have a specific date, but it does take place in November, 2019.

Given Ron's no-documentary clause, I'm not sure One Day in September would qualify -- but those Steve Prefontaine movies might (Prefontaine, Without Limits).

Ron wrote:
: (Though how you deduced that from the SEVEN PERCENT SOLUTION example is
: beyond me - it is set in 1891).

Well, what you wrote above was, "THE SEVEN PERCENT SOLUTION - based on the Nicholas Meyer Sherlock Holmes pastiche, which begins April 24, 1991." Typo, I guess?

Arrrrgggghhhhhhh!!!!! I completely glossed over the "no documentaries" clause. Oh well.... forget I mentioned Kevin MacDonald's One Day in September, and instead consider 21 Hours in Munich starring William Holden, which covers the same events on Sept. 5th. I admit, I'm not sure of it's availability other than an occassional showing on cable. Of course, in two years you can add Steven Spielberg's movie on the Munich Olympics to this date.

And while on the subject of hostage movies, here's another for July 4th. Irvin Kershner's Raid on Entebbe recounts the story of Israeli commando's rescuing hostages at the the Entebbe Airport in Uganda, in 1976.

Ron, I see you've already got A Man for All Seasons and Becket on their saint's feast days, so here are a few others....

May 30 (Joan of Arc): The Passion of Joan of Arc (1927, Carl Dreyer); Joan of Arc (1948, Victor Fleming)
April 16 (Bernadette of Lourdes): The Song of Bernadette (1943, Henry King)
July 19 (Vincent de Paul): Monsieur Vincent
October 1 (Thérèse of Lisieux): Thérèse (1986, Alain Cavalier)

Also:

2nd Sunday in Easter (Divine Mercy Sunday): Faustyna (1995, Jerzy Lukaszewicz)

April 7th & 8th -- Night of the Living Dead (1968 version)

An early line in the film refers to a character losing an hours sleep because Daylight Saving Time started that day. In 1968, that would have occured on Sunday April 7th. The events of that movie spill over into the 8th.


August 23rd -- Braveheart

The date of the execution of William Wallace. Depending on your alliances, English or Scottish, you could also watch this on Sept. 11th when the Scots defeated the Brits at Stirling bridge -- or on July 22nd when the Brits defeated the Scots at Falkirk.

This is a VERY loose list, and I'm sure I'll think of more...

• Ash Wednesday or Good Friday (variable) - The Passion of the Christ
• May 5 (cinco de mayo) - something Mexican...not sure yet. Frida is too odd and too risque...
• April 22 - Earth Day - TBD
• Labor Day (variable) - Wall Street, Roger and Me
• Memorial Day (variable) - Saving Private Ryan, The Best Years of our Lives, All Quiet on the Western Front, etc.
• Holocaust Week (early Feb, variable) - Schindler's List or The Pianist or...
• February 14 - Valentine's Day - Marty or Eternal Sunshine or ...
• May 1 - May Day - The Cradle Will Rock ALSO Seabiscuit
• April 1 - April Fools Day - Amelie
• Thanksgiving (variable) - Babette's Feast

Ah. Found good dates for Bernadette and Seabiscuit...

Thanksgiving: Hannah and Her Sisters
17 March: The Spanish Prisoner

Dale

Has anyone yet mentioned the day of Princess Diana's death, which sets things in motion in Amelie?

: What happens on March 17?

St. Patrick's Day.

Does that help?

Dale

Also, like anyone cares, but:

July 9-12: Mike Leigh's Four Days in July

Eric Rohmer's Summer/The Green Ray has numerous dates as intertitles, but I couldn't name any of them offhand.

Dale

June 12: Diary of Anne Frank

Today is Anne's birthday (she'd be 75). On her 13th birthday, she got her diary. I'd have to research to see what day the family went into hiding. August 4 is when they were discovered.

Here's another floating holiday and corresponding movie to add a la Thanksgiving and Easter. Superbowl Sunday (not technically a holiday... yet) and John Frankenheimer's Black Sunday.

Ron wrote:
: December 7: From Here To Eternity, Pearl Harbor

Just thought of some other films that might fit this date.

The Final Countdown -- an American aircraft carrier travels back in time to the days before Pearl Harbour is attacked; the film climaxes with the attack itself.

A Man Called Peter -- Peter Marshall delivers a sermon about death and the afterlife but does not know why he felt the need to do so; then he picks up a hitch-hiking soldier, only to hear on the radio that Pearl Harbour has been attacked; he turns the car around.

The Godfather Part II -- Pearl Harbour is attacked on the day of Don Vito's birthday. One problem: the birthdate on Don Vito's tombstone in the FIRST Godfather movie is NOT December 7. (Speaking of continuity errors, The Godfather Part III includes both the election AND the death of Pope John Paul I, but it erroneously says these things took place in 1979, not 1978.) (Oh, which reminds me, a key event in The Godfather Part II takes place in Cuba on New Year's Eve 1958, when Fidel Castro overthrew the Batista regime.)

Empire of the Sun -- The Japanese attack Shanghai concurrently with their attack on Pearl Harbour. Thing is, because of the International Date Line, the attack on Shanghai technically occurs on December 8, while the attack on Pearl Harbour occurs on December 7.