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[Darrel Manson]

[ADMIN: The 2004 Film Journals & Reviews thread is here.]


Most recent viewings at the top.
All titles are first time viewings unless in italics
favorite of the month represent theatrical viewings only

The Cream: My list of movies I'll consider for best of the year:
Millions
Crash
Brothers
Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill
Me You and Everyone We Know
Murderball
A History of Violence
Capote
Good Night, and Good Luck
Paradise Now
Hustle and Flow
The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
Brokeback Mountain
Munich

December the home stretch

12/23 Princess Mononoke
12/23 Munich review favorite of the month
12/22 King Kong
12/19 Brokeback Mountain review
12/15 Syriana review
12/14 The Wrong Man
12/11 The Day I Became a Woman
12/10 The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe
12/7 Lamumba
12/5 Shopgirl review
12/3 Walk the Line
12/2 The Umbrellas of Cherbourg

November

11/26 Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire favorite of the month
11/25 Bee Season review
11/24 Winter Solstice
11/19 The Chumscrubber review
11/18 Microcosmos
11/16 Pieces of April
11/13 Paradise Now review (my 200th feature of the year)
11/11 Shane
11/5 The King is Alive
11/4 The Curse of the Were-Rabbit
11/3 Bread and Chocolate

October

10/27 The Shawshank Redemption
10/21 The Bridge at San Luis Rey
10/20 Where the Truth Lies review
10/19 The Squid and the Whale
10/18 12 Monkeys
10/17 The Mother
10/17 4 Little Girls
10/16 Good Night, and Good Luck review favorite of the month
10/15 Unforgiven
10/9 Stand By Me
10/8 Capote review
10/6 Assisted Living
10/5 Serenity
10/3 Duma

September

9/30 A History of Violence favorite of the month
9/29 Dear Wendy review
9/29 Snow Falling on Cedars
9/28 Thumbsucker review
9/28 Jerry Maguire
9/24 Elizabethtown review
9/24 Nico and Dani
9/23 The Man Who Knew Too Much (1934)
9/22 Koyaanisqatsi
9/21 Lord of War review
9/18 Intermission
9/14 The Brothers Grimm
9/11 Mondays in the Sun
9/10 Touch the Sound review
9/8 The Constant Gardener
9/7 Oasis
9/6 Since Otar Left
9/5 21 Up
9/4 The Memory of a Killer
9/1 The Greatest Game Ever Played review

August

8/31 Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress review
8/31 White Hunter Black Heart
8/30 Two Brothers
8/29 We Don't Live Here Anymore
8/27 Stone Reader
8/26 Metallica: Some Kind of Monster
8/25 The Incredibles
8/24 2046
8/23 Two Family House
8/22 The Basket
8/20 Broken Flowers
8/19 Junebug review
8/18 Down by Law
8/17 Saint Ralph review
8/16 Three Colors: White
8/15 Closely Watched Trains
8/14 The Apartment
8/13 High Plains Drifter
8/13 Mayor of the Sunset Strip
8/13 Open City
8/12 Play Misty for Me This Eastwood guy may have a future as a director
8/11 Hustle and Flow review favorite of the month
8/10 The Weather Underground
8/6 Happy Endings review
8/6 The Aristrocrats review
8/5 Power and Terror: Noam Chomsky in Our Times
8/4 Medea
8/2 Together (China, 2002)

July

7/30 Chocolat (1988)
7/30 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
7/29 7 Up and 7 Plus Seven
7/18 Aimee Semple McPherson review
7/16 Au Hasard Balthasar
7/16 Murderball review
7/15 A Room for Romeo Brass
7/13 Amistad
7/12 Taste of Cherry
7/9 Stepford Wives (Oz)
7/9 The Beautiful Country review
7/8 Lost Boys of Sudan
7/4 ABCD
7/3 The March of the Penguins
7/2 A Midnight Clear
7/2 Me You and Everyone We Know review favorite of the month
7/1 Behind the Sun
7/1 War of the Worlds

June

6/29 Saving Face
6/29 Charlotte's Web
6/28 Juana la Loca (Mad Love)
6/23 Amy
6/22 Heights review
6/22 Three Colors: Blue
6/21 The Death of Klinghoffer
6/20 Batman Begins
6/19 Noi Albinoi
6/17 Days of Heaven
6/17 Howl's Moving Castle review favorite of the month
6/14 Saltmen of Tibet
6/13 Slipping-Down Life
6/12 Tokyo Godfathers
6/11 The Son
6/10 101 Reykjavik
6/7 Tokyo Story
6/3 Sister Rose's Passion (short)
6/2 The Same River Twice

May

5/31 Wilbur Wants to Kill Himself
5/30 My Life Without Me
5/30 Brothers review
5/29 Cinderella Man
5/27 Star Wars III: Revenge of the Sith
5/21 Veronica Guerin
5/21 Enron: The SmartestGuys in the Room review
5/18 Layer Cake
5/18 61*
5/14 Because of Winn Dixie
5/10 Crash reflection favorite of the month
5/5 Oceans 12
5/3 Envy
5/1 Napoleon Dynamite

April

4/30 Seducing Dr. Lewis
4/29 Bobby Jones: Stroke of Genius
4/28 Places in the Heart
4/27 Fragile (short)
4/27 West Bank Story (short)
4/27 Echostop (short)
4/27 Volare (short)
4/27 Anna und der Soldat (short)
4/26 First Morning (Buoi Sang Dau Nam)
4/24 Frisbee: The Life and Death of a Hippie Preacher sort of a review
4/23 Walking on the Sky
4/23 The Raven (short)
4/23 The Hobart Shakespeareans favorite of the month
4/20 The Upside of Anger review
4/15 Look at Me (Comme une Image)
4/9 The Ballad of Jack and Rose review
4/6 Men with Brooms (not Canadian cinema's finest moment)
4/4 Taxi Driver
4/1 Spartan

March

3/30 Dear Frankie review
3/30 Oldboy review
3/27 In the Cut
3/27 Bon Voyage
3/20 Shaolin Soccer
3/19 The Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill review
3/19 Monsieur N.
3/18 50 First Dates
3/17 AKA
3/14 Robots
3/8 Short Cuts
3/7 Tortilla Soup
3/5 Laws of Attraction
3/5 After Life
3/5 Millions review favorite of the month
3/4 Up and Down review
3/3 Boxcar Bertha
3/2 Alice's Restaurant
3/1 Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
3/1 Ryan (short)


February

2/28 La Grande Illusion
2/27 Clockwatchers
2/27 Gopher Broke (short)
2/26 Nobody Knows
2/23 7:35 in the Morning (short)
2/21 Eat a Bowl of Tea
2/19 Born into Brothels review favorite of the month
2/18 Hitch
2/16 Don Juan Dimarco
2/15 The Truman Show
2/14 Les Triplettes de Belleville
2/7 Ponette
2/5 Paper Clips review
2/5 The Last Wave
2/4 Bad Lieutenant
2/2 The Merchant of Venice review
2/1 Blood Simple

January
A personal best: 44 films, including 10 shorts[/color]

1/31 The Emporer's Club
1/29 Battle of Algiers
1/28 Before Sunset (actually a , but I need to show my preference for sunrise)
1/27 Before Sunrise
1/26 Time of the Wolf [size=1](repeat viewing 1/28)
1/25 Groundhog Day
1/24 Dark Blue
1/23 Ashes and Diamonds
1/22 Touching the Void
1/22 In Good Company
1/21 The Woodsman review
1/20 Crimes and Misdemeanors
1/19 The Avengers
1/17 The Lost Skeleton of Cadavra
1/16 Love Song for Bobby Long (repeat viewing 1/18) review
1/15 The Barbarian Invasions
1/15 Winged Migration
1/15 L'Homme du Train
1/15 Close (short)
1/15 And the Redman Went Green (ultra-short - 100 secs.)
1/15 Recycle (short)
1/14 Maria Full of Grace
1/14 The Return
1/14 My Own Private Idaho
1/14 Talking Catfish Blues (short)
1/14 The Red Balloon (short)
1/14 Cops (short)
1/13 Goodbye Lenin
1/13 In America
1/13 Midnight Cowboy
1/13The Adventurers (short)
1/13 Little Terrorist (short)
1/13 Watching Mrs. Pomerantz (short)
1/12 Ae Fond Kiss
1/12 Corona Station (short)
1/10 Garden State
1/10 Open Water
1/9 The Agronomist
1/8 Million Dollar Baby review
1/7 Closer (Why do I like this so much?)
1/6 Garlic Is as Good as Ten Mothers
1/5 Ikiru
1/2 House of Fools
1/1 Hotel Rwanda review favorite of the month

Edited by Darrel Manson, 01 January 2006 - 06:00 PM.

[Persona]

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

12/31/04 - The Return of the King [Ext DVD*] (peter jackson)
01/07/05 - In America (jim sheridan)
01/07/05 - Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence* (mamoru oshii)
01/08/05 - The Flower of Evil* (claude chabrol)
01/15/05 - A Very Long Engagement* (jean-pierre jeunet)
01/16/05 - Jesus, You Know* (ulrich seidl)
01/19/05 - Love Me If You Dare (yann samuell)
01/20/05 - I'm Not Scared* (gabriele salvatores)
01/21/05 - The Return (andrei zvyagintsev)
01/22/05 - Persona* (Ingmar bergman)
01/24/05 - Days of Being Wild* (kar wai wong)
01/25/05 - Stan Brakhage Shorts: Cat's Cradle, Mothlight,
Window Water Baby Moving, Eye Myth*, The Wold Shadow*, The Garden of Earthly Delights*, The Stars are Beautiful*, Kindering*,
I... Dreaming*
01/26/05 - Raincoat* (rituparno ghosh)
01/27/05 - Million Dollar Baby* (clint eastwood)
01/28/05 - Sideways* (alexander payne)
01/29/05 - Last Life in the Universe* (pen-ek ratanaruang)
01/29/05 - The Assassination of Richard Nixon* (niels mueller)

Favorite 1st viewings (*) from Jan: Persona & any Brakhage short.

02/04/05 - The Aviator* (martin scorsese)
02/05/05 - Lilja 4-ever* (Lukas moodysson)
02/12/05 - Hawaii, Oslo* (erik poppe)
02/14/05 - Vera Drake* (mike leigh)
02/17/05 - Vodka Lemon* (hiner saleem)
02/18/05 - Show Me Love* (Lukas moodysson)
02/18/05 - Cries and Whispers* (Ingmar bergman)
02/19/05 - The Story of the Weeping Camel*
(Byambasuren Davaa & Luigi Falorni)
02/19/05 - On A Sunday*, Wildlands (bevan klassen shorts)
02/19/05 - Last Life in the Universe (pen-ek ratanaruang)
02/24/05 - Bright Future* (kiyoshi kurosawa)
02/26/05 - In The Mood For Love* (kar wai wong)
02/27/05 - Nobody Knows* (hirokazu koreeda)

Favorite 1st viewing (*) from Feb: Cries and Whispers

03/04/05 - The Forgotten* (joseph ruben)
03/11/05 - Garden State (zach braff)
03/18/05 - The Passion of Joan of Arc (carl theodor dreyer)
03/19/05 - The Ring Two* (hideo nakata)
03/20/05 - My Flesh and Blood* (Jonathon Karsh)
03/25/05 - The Passion of the Christ (mel gibson)
03/25/05 - Purple Butterfly* (Ye Lou)
04/02/05 - What the #$*! Do We Know!?*(arntz chasse vicente)
04/05/05 - Un chien andalou* (Luis buñuel)
04/07/05 - Oldboy* (chan-wook park)
04/08/05 - Slacker* (richard Linklater)
04/09/05 - Evil* (mikael håfström)
04/11/05 - Head-On* (fatih akin)
04/17/05 - Guess Who* (kevin rodney sullivan)
04/17/05 - Remember Me, My Love* (gabriele muccino)
04/18/05 - Masculine-Feminine* (jean-Luc godard)
04/23/05 - Good Bye, Dragon Inn* (ming-liang tsai)
04/23/05 - Ae Fond Kiss* (ken Loach)

Favorite 1st viewings (*) from Mar/April: Evil, Un chien andalou and Remember Me, My Love

05/03/05 - Sin City* (miller, rodriguez, tarantino)
05/06/05 - Downfall* (oliver hirschbiegel)
05/08/05 - Kingdom of Heaven* (ridley scott)
05/2,7,9,13/05 - Fanny and Alexander (Ingmar bergman)
05/20/05 - La Ciénaga* (Lucrecia martel)
05/20/05 - Rey muerto * (Lucrecia martel) [12min. short]
05/22/05 - Piccadilly* (ewald andré Dupont)
05/26/05 - Brothers* (susanne bier)
05/27/05 - Minority Report (steven spielberg)
05/29/05 - Star Wars III: Revenge of the Sith* (george Lucas)

Favorite 1st viewing (*) from May: La Ciénaga

06/02/05 - My Mother's Smile* (marco bellochio)
06/05/05 - Hero (yimou zhang)
06/06/05 - Tarnation* (jonathan caouette)
06/07/05 - Mysterious Skin* (gregg araki)
06/10/05 - Memories of Murder* (joon-ho bong)
06/10/05 - Buffalo 66* (vincent gallo)
06/12/05 - L'Âge d'or* (Luis buñuel)
06/24/05 - Batman Begins* (christopher nolan)
06/25/05 - Napolean Dynamite* (jared hess)
06/26/05 - The Holy Girl* (Lucrecia martel)

Favorite 1st viewing (*) from June: Buffalo 66

07/01/05 - Saw* (james wan) [STUPID]
07/02/05 - War of the Worlds* (steven spielberg)
07/02/05 - War of the Worlds (steven spielberg)
07/03/05 - Kill Bill: Vol. 1 (Quentin Tarantino)
07/06/05 - Kill Bill: Vol. 2 (Quentin Tarantino)
07/09/05 - Closer* (mike nichols)
07/14/05 - Marooned in Iraq* (bahman ghobadi)
07/15/05 - Cries and Whispers (Ingmar bergman)
07/18/05 - The Usual Suspects (bryan singer) [On TV, Whoa.]
07/20/05 - Dark Water* (walter salles)
07/23/05 - Crash* (paul haggis) [First Excellent Film This Year]

Favorite 1st viewing (*) from July: Crash

08/02/05 - A Doll House* (george schaefer)
08/04/05 - Birth* (jonathan glazer)
08/05/05 - Autumn Sonata* (Ingmar bergman)
08/16/05 - A Hole in my Heart* (Lukas moodysson)
08/28/05 - March of the Penguins* (Luc jacquet)

Favorite 1st viewing (*) from August: Autumn Sonata

09/02/05 - Open Water* (chris kentis)
09/07/05 - Look at Me* (agnes jaoui)
09/09/05 - Winter Light* (Ingmar bergman)
09/11/05 - Four Shades of Brown* (tomas alfredson)
09/16/05 - Brown Bunny* (vincent gallo)
09/22/05 - Shame* (Ingmar bergman)
09/27/05 - The Isle* (ki-duk kim)
09/29/05 - A History of Violence* (david cronenberg)

Favorite 1st viewing (*) from September: Shame

10/09/05 - The House is Black* (forugh farrokhzad) [short]
10/09/05 - The School That Was Blown Away*
(mohsen makhmalbaf) [short]
10/09/05 - Images From the Qajar Dynasty*
(mohsen makhmalbaf) [short]
10/14/05 - Bang Bang Orangutang* (simon staho)
10/18/05 - The Widow of St. Pierre* (patrice Leconte)
10/22/05 - La Petite Lili* (claude miller)
10/27/05 - High Tension* (alexandre aja)
10/29/05 - Batman Begins (christopher nolan)

Favorite 1st viewing (*) from October: Bang Bang Orangutang

11/01/05 - Night and Fog* (alain resnais)
11/02/05 - The Ice Storm* (ang Lee)
11/10/05 - Good Night, and Good Luck.* (george clooney)
11/11/05 - Jarhead* (sam mendes)
11/25/05 - The World* (zhang ke jia)

From these five films there is no way to pick a favorite, they are all highly recommended.

12/06/05 - Traffic (steven soderbergh)
12/09/05 - Open Hearts* (susanne bier, anders thomas jensen)
12/13/05 - Rosetta* (Jean-Pierre Dardenne, Luc Dardenne)
12/17/05 - King Kong* (peter jackson)
12/20/05 - La Promesse* (Jean-Pierre Dardenne, Luc Dardenne)
12/29/05 - La Promesse (Jean-Pierre Dardenne, Luc Dardenne)
12/30/05 - Kindering* (stan brakhage) [Short]
12/30/05 - Eyemyth* (stan brakhage) [Short]

Edited by stef, 02 January 2006 - 04:58 PM.

[Anders]

theatre viewing
DVD viewing
first time viewing
best of month
Data from IMDb

January

1.01 The Aviator (Martin Scorsese, 2004)
1.02 The Machinist (Brad Anderson, 2004)
1.03 The Muppet Christmas Carol (Brian Henson, 1992)
1.03 Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope (George Lucas, 1977)
1.04 Dekalog, Dwa (Decalogue: Two) (Krzysztof Kieslowski, 1988)
1.04 Dekalog, Trzy (Decalogue: Three) (Krzysztof Kieslowski, 1988)
1.04 The Bridge on the River Kwai (David Lean, 1957)
1.05 After Hours (Martin Scorsese, 1985)
1.06 The Big Sleep (Howard Hawks, 1946)
1.07 Peggy Sue Got Married (Francis Ford Coppola, 1986)
1.07 Closer (Mike Nichols, 2004)
1.10 Something's Gotta Give (Nancy Meyers, 2003)
1.11 Mean Streets (Martin Scorsese, 1973)
1.12 Moulin Rouge! (Baz Luhrmann, 2001)
1.13 Aguirre, Der Zorn Gottes (Aguirre, The Wrath of God) (Werner Herzog, 1972)
1.14 The Fifth Element (Luke Besson, 1997)
1.17 Rain Man (Barry Levinson, 1988)
1.17 Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (Michel Gondry, 2004)
1.18 Andrew Lloyd Webber's The Phantom of the Opera (Joel Schumacher, 2004)
1.20 Ronin (John Frankenheimer, 1998)
1.21 Triumph des Willens (Triumph of the Will) (Leni Riefenstahl, 1935)
1.22 Collateral (Michael Mann, 2004)
1.23 Friday Night Lights (Peter Berg, 2004)
1.24 Brazil with Terry Gilliam commentary (Terry Gilliam, 1985)
1.26 Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow (Kerry Conran, 2004)
1.27 Hamlet (Laurence Olivier, 1948)
1.28 Million Dollar Baby (Clint Eastwood, 2004)
1.29 Better Luck Tomorrow (Justin Lin, 2003)
1.30 Sideways (Alexander Payne, 2004)

February

2.01 Garden State (Zach Braff, 2004)
2.04 Un long dimanche de fiançailles (A Very Long Engagement) (Jean-Pierre Jeunet, 2004)
2.12 Dawn of the Dead (Zack Snyder, 2004)
2.13 Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (Michel Gondry, 2004)
2.14 Eyes Wide Shut (Stanley Kubrick, 1999)
2.17 Shaun of the Dead (Edgar Wright, 2004)
2.19 Platoon (Oliver Stone, 1986)
2.20 Donnie Darko: Director's Cut (Richard Kelly, 2001)
2.21 Hamlet (Michael Almereyda, 2000)
2.22 Hotel Rwanda (Terry George, 2004)
2.23 Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope with George Lucas, Ben Burtt, Dennis Muren and Carrie Fisher commentary
2.24 Heat (Michael Mann, 1995)
2.25 The Godfather (Francis Ford Coppola, 1972)
2.26 Full Metal Jacket (Stanley Kubrick, 1987)
2.28 Kumonosu jô (Throne of Blood) (Akira Kurosawa, 1957)

March

3.01 Shi mian mai fu (House of Flying Daggers) (Yimou Zhang, 2004)
3.02 The SpongeBob Squarepants Movie (Steven Hillenburg, 2004)
3.02 Baadasssss! (Mario Van Peebles, 2003)
3.06 The Tragedy of Othello (Orson Welles, 1952)
3.07 Bambi (David Hand, 1942)
3.08 Groundhog Day (Harold Ramis, 1993)
3.13 The Reckoning (Paul McGuigan, 2004)
3.15 Star Trek: First Contact (Jonathan Frakes, 1996)
3.15 The Incredibles (Brad Bird, 2004)
3.16 A bout de souffle (Breathless) (Jean Luc Godard, 1951)
3.17 M (Fritz Lang, 1931)
3.18 Silence of the Lambs (Jonathan Demme, 1991)
3.20 In America (Jim Sheridan, 2003)
3.22 Star Wars: Clone Wars - Volume 1 (Genndy Tartakovsky, 2003-2004)
3.23 Bringing Up Baby (Howard Hawks, 1938)
3.23 Wu jian dao (Infernal Affairs) (Wai Keung Lau and Siu Fai Mak, 2002)
3.25 Der Himmel über Berlin (Wings of Desire) (Wim Wenders, 1987)
3.27 M*A*S*H (Robert Altman, 1970)
3.28 Babe (Chris Noonan, 1995)
3.29 The Lady Vanishes (Alfred Hitchcock, 1937)
3.30 Sin City (Robert Rodriguez, 2005)

April

4.05 Sin City (Robert Rodriquez, 2005)
4.07 + 4.10 Spartacus (Stanley Kubrick, 1960)
4.10 The Lady From Shanghai (Orson Welles, 1960)
4.12 The Merchant of Venice (Michael Radford, 2004)
4.16 Sideways (Alexander Payne, 2004)
4.18 La Dolce Vita (Frederico Fellini, 1960)

Edited by Anders, 19 April 2005 - 01:05 PM.

[Christian]

TOTAL: 96 films

1/1: The Five Obstructions (second time in three days)
1/3: Autumn Sonata*
1/6: The Manchurian Candidate (John Frankenheimer)
1/8: Million Dollar Baby*+
1/11: I'm Going Home*
1/12: In Good Company*+
1/14: Kill Bill*
1/15: House of Flying Daggers*+
1/21: The Vertical Ray of the Sun*
1/22: Shrek 2*
1/29: Farenheit 9/11*
1/29: Before Sunset*
2/5: Dogville*
2/19: The Cup*
2/28: The Ladykillers*
3/1: My Flesh and Blood*
3/12: About a Boy*
3/18: Spider-man 2*
3/24: Y Tu Mama Tambien*
4/2: The Big Lebowski
4/8: Napoleon Dynamite*
4/9: The Office: Season 1 (BBC)*
4/10: Garden State*
4/20: Hawaii, Oslo*
4/21: Trilogy: The Weeping Meadow*
4/23: Fat Albert*
4/24: Unbreakable*
5/17: Cane Toads*
5/18: Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith*+
5/20: The Return*
5/21: Let the Church Say Amen*
5/22: Chuck and Buck*
5/26: Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room*+
5/27: Friday Night Lights*
5/28: Arrested Development: Season 1, Episodes 7-14*
6/2: Mr. 3000*
6/9: Solaris (Tarkovsky)
6/10: Millennium Mambo*
6/16: Weather Underground*
6/18: Arrested Development* Season 1, Episodes 1-6*
6/19: Vera Drake*
6/22: Kill Bill Vol. 2*
6/25: Winged Migration
6/26: Arrested Development: Season 1, Episodes 15-22*
7/7: Starsky and Hutch*
7/11: Angels in America Pt. 1*
7/14: The Island*+
7/15: The Village*
7/22: The General*
7/23: Maria Full of Grace*
7/28: Saved!*
7/30: Dodgeball*
8/1: The Dukes of Hazzard*
8/9: Zoolander*
8/11: War of the Worlds*
8/11: The Terminal
8/12: Collateral
8/12: Exotica*
8/12: Ocean's Twelve*
8/17: All About Eve*
8/18: Because of Winn-Dixie*
8/21: Together*
8/22: Time of the Wolf*
8/24: Lost in La Mancha*
8/25: The Exorcism of Emily Rose*+
9/1: Bend It Like Beckham*
9/3: Sideways
9/8: Just Like Heaven*+
9/10: Gunner Palace*
9/11: Eyes Wide Shut
9/20: A History of Violence*+
9/28: Oliver Twist*+ (Polanski)
10/2: Oliver!*
10/3: In Her Shoes*+
10/9: A Very Long Engagement*
10/10: Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy*
10/11: Elizabethtown*+
10/18: North Country*+
10/22: Kung Fu Hustle*
10/25: The Weatherman*+
10/26: Jarhead*+
10/30: Me, You, and Everyone We Know*
11/5: Born Into Brothels*
11/10: Pride and Prejudice*+
11/13: Shattered Glass* .0
11/17: Must Love Dogs*+
11/18: Stealth*+
11/19: War of the Worlds+
11/21: Red Eye*+
11/25: Crash*
12/5: The Producers*+
12/6: The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe*+
12/9: Hotel Rwanda*
12/10: Batman Begins*
12/12: King Kong*+
12/20: Memoirs of a Geisha*+
12/23: The Ringer*+
12/26: No Direction Home: Bob Dylan*
12/29: Wallace and Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit*+
12/29: The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants+
12/31: Pride and Prejudice (A&E)* (the whole bloody thing) [size=6][size=4][size=3]

Edited by Christian, 01 January 2006 - 02:52 PM.

[opus]

Hopefully, I'll do a better job of keeping this updated than my 2004 journal, which ran out of steam about halfway through the year.

+ theatre viewing
* first viewing

December
12/31 - Afterlife * -
12/30 - Firefly -
12/30 - The Interview * -
12/29 - My Beautiful Girl Mari * -
12/29 - Otogi Zoshi, Vol. 1 * -
12/28 - For A Few Dollars More * -
12/28 - Ghost In The Shell: Standalone Complex 2nd Gig, Vol. 1 * -
12/27 - Road To Perdition * -
12/26 - All About Lily Chou-Chou * -
12/22 - The Chronicles Of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch, And The Wardrobe + -
12/17 - 800 Bullets * -
12/12 - The Sacrifice * -
12/11 - The Chronicles Of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch, And The Wardrobe +* -
12/4 - Capote +* -
12/3 - Immortal * -
12/2 - Singin' In The Rain * -

November
11/29 - 8 1/2 * -
11/24 - The Incredibles -
11/19 - Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire *+ -
11/16 - Dekalog 4 * -
11/12 - Strings * -
11/10 - Dekalog 3 -
11/5 - Millions -
11/5 - Shop Girl +* -
11/4 - Ghost In The Shell: Standalone Complex - Vol. 7 * -
11/1 - Millions -

October
10/30 - City Lights * -
10/29 - Naked * -
10/28 - Me And You And Everyone We Know * -
10/22 - Dekalog 2 -
10/20 - Dekalog 1 -
10/15 - The American Astronaut * -
10/08 - Cronicas * -
10/08 - Wallace And Gromit: The Curse Of The Were-Rabbit +* -

September
9/30 - Serenity +* -
9/23 - The Corpse Bride +* -
9/14 - The Constant Gardener +* -
9/10 - Wild Life * -
9/10 - Pistol Opera * -
9/6 - Transporter 2 +* -
9/5 - I'll Sleep When I'm Dead * -
9/5 - Autumn Spring * -
9/4 - Crying Fist * -
9/3 - Howl's Moving Castle +* -

August
8/27 - A Bittersweet Life * -
8/21 - Notting Hill * -
8/14 - The Royal Tenebaums -
8/12 - Sky High +* -
8/11 - 3-Iron -
8/10 - The Station Agent * -
8/7 - March Of The Penguins +* -
8/4 - OldBoy -
8/4 - Arahan -

July
7/21 - The Hunt For Red October -
7/15 - Charlie And The Chocolate Factory *+ -
7/10 - The Conversation * -
7/2 - War Of The Worlds *+ -
7/2 - Ghost In The Shell: Standalone Complex, Vol. 6 * -

June
6/25 - Paranoia Agent, Vol. 4 * -
6/25 - Hellovator: The Bottled Fools * -
6/21 - The Place Promised In Our Early Days * -
6/18 - Batman Begins + -
6/15 - Batman Begins +* -
6/13 - Mr. And Mrs. Smith +* -
6/12 - The Nomi Song -
6/04 - National Treasure * -

May
5/30 - Time Of The Wolf * -
5/30 - Gunner Palace * -
5/29 - The Hidden Blade * -
5/29 - The Son * -
5/29 - House Of Fury * -
5/28 - A Tale Of Two Sisters * -
5/28 - Gunga Din * -
5/28 - Born To Fight * -
5/28 - Cutie Honey * -
5/22 - Star Wars: Episode III, Revenge Of The Sith +* -
5/21 - The Cat Returns * -
5/17 - The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy + -
5/15 - Casablanca -
5/14 - Unleashed +* -
5/12 - Whisper Of The Heart -
5/10 - Appleseed * -
5/04 - The Transporter -
5/03 - Full Metal Panic Fumoffu, Vol. 1 * -
5/02 - Gilgamesh, Vol. 1 * -
5/01 - Another Lonely Hitman * -

April
4/30 - Kung Fu Hustle + -
4/29 - The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy *+ -
4/24 - The Nomi Song * -
4/22 - Millions *+ -
4/19 - Primer * -
4/18 - Star Wars -
4/17 - Born Into Brothels *+ -
4/14 - Only Yesterday * -
4/13 - Chungking Express -
4/11 - Sideways * -
4/10 - Bio-Zombie * -
4/10 - Spaced -
4/09 - Hitch +* -
4/07 - Onibaba * -
4/07 - Ghost In The Shell: Standalone Complex Vol. 5 * - (Not as good as the earlier volumes, but the last episode promises good things to come.)
4/06 - Dark City -
4/05 - Sin City *+ -
4/03 - The Story Of The Weeping Camel * -
4/02 - Dodgeball * -

March
3/31 - Finding Neverland * -
3/29 - Bangkok Loco * -
3/27 - The Incredibles - (Still love it, but I really need to give it a rest.)
3/23 - Ong-Bak - (A blast with a bunch of people.)
3/20 - Ninja Scroll, Vol. 1 * - (Surprised how underwhelming this was, considering the Ninja Scroll movie is such a classic.)
3/19 - Reconstruction * - (Very interesting, non-linear, visually stunning take on infidelity.)
3/18 - The Abyss - (A true guilty pleasure of mine.)
3/15 - Paranoia Agent, Vol. 3 * -
3/13 - The Incredibles - (3rd viewing, still just as good.)
3/13 - Logan's Run - * (Yes it's dated but it's so refreshing to watch a sci-fi movie that isn't buried beneath layers of CGI.)
3/13 - Alive - * (I really liked Versus but Azumi bit the big one. Alive leans closer to the latter end of the spectrum.)
3/13 - The Jacket - +*
3/10 - Someday's Dreamers, Vol. 1 - *
3/08 - A Man Escaped - *
3/08 - Porco Rosso - *
3/06 - The Incredibles - + (Even better the second time around.)
3/05 - Cromartie High, Vol. 1 - * (One of the stranger, more absurd and incoherent anime titles I've seen lately.)

February
2/28 - Five Star Stories * -
2/25 - Nausicaa Of The Valley Of The Wind * -
2/24 - Kung Fu Hustle * - (Not nearly as good as Shaolin Soccer, but still fun.)
2/22 - Shaolin Soccer - (Probably one of most enjoyable films I watch, and a great film to watch with a bunch of people. Tons o' fun.)
2/20 - Constantine - +*
2/19 - Ten Things I Hate About You - (So cliched and formulaic, but so much fun.)
2/19 - Ghost In The Shell: Standalone Complex Vol. 4 * - (One of my fave current anime series continues its strong streak.)
2/17 - Along Came Polly * - (Admittedly, I only saw about 1/2 of the movie, but I doubt my opinion would improve if I'd seen any more.)
2/16 - Donnie Darko: The Director's Cut - * (I think I prefer the original version.)
2/16 - Burn Up - * (Ultra-lacklustre anime that tries to be sexy, violent, and funny, and fails miserably.)
2/16 - Sabu - * (A period-piece melodrama by, of all people, Takashi Miike.)
2/15 - The Return - *
2/14 - Shaun Of The Dead - (Ah... the perfect Valentine's Day movie.)
2/13 - A Very Long Engagement +* -
2/11 - Last Life In The Universe - (Just as enthralling and lovely as I remembered it.)
2/10 - The Forgotten * - (Yawn. Interesting premise played out in a very uninteresting way. But as far as the premise goes, I think I'll stick with

Spoiler

Dark City

.)
2/07 - Arahan - (Ultra-slick, ultra-commercial, ultra-fun big budget martial arts comedy.)
2/06 - The Legend Of The Evil Lake * - (Really melodramatic but really shallow horror/supernatural martial arts, a la The Bride With White Hair.)
2/03 - Farscape: The Peacekeeper Wars, Pt 2 * - (It's been awhile since I watched the series, but I still found this fairly enjoyable.)
2/02 - Farscape: The Peacekeeper Wars, Pt 1 * -
2/01 - Sky Captain And The World Of Tomorrow -

January
1/29 - 2046 - (Lavish "sequel" of sorts to In The Mood For Love, but much bleaker and darker.)
1/22 - The Professional - (One of my favorite "guilty pleasures".)
1/22 - Troy * - (A fun little movie to watch, especially if you give it the MST3K treatment, like my roommates and I did this morning. The jokes practically write themselves.)
1/21 - House Of Flying Daggers + - (With a second viewing, the movie's flaws become all the more apparent, and yet I can't help getting caught up by the amazing visuals and style. Still think Hero is better overall, though.)
1/20 - New Police Story * - (Probably Jackie Chan's darkest film, though the melodrama and tragedy were piled on a tad too much, IMHO. Still, it's great to see Chan back in a decent HK production, and even though he's pushing 50, he's still got the moves.)
1/19 - Garden State * - (Fairly charming, but ultimately, it's philosophy/outlook was just too empty and vacuous.)
1/16 - 3-Iron * - (My first Kim Ki-Duk film. I can see how some people loved it, but it felt a little too slight and shallow for me. Maybe with repeated viewings...)
1/14 - Samurai Champloo, Vol. 1 * -
1/14 - Paranoia Agent, Vol. 2 * -
1/13 - Paranoia Agent, Vol. 1 * -
1/10 - Bruce Almighty * -
1/09 - Blue Remains * -
1/08 - Blister * - (Very nice Japanese film about "otaku" - much more solid and dramatic than I was initially expecting, and actually hit quite close to home a couple of times.)
1/08 - Bright Future * - (The only other Kiyoshi Kurosawa film I've seen is Cure, and this makes for a very nice balance to that film.)
1/06 - Casshern -
1/01 - All The Real Girls * -
1/01 - Collateral * -

Edited by opus, 01 January 2006 - 09:48 PM.

[John]

* - first viewing

May

Fight Club (1999, Fincher)
Days of Heaven (1978, Malick)*
Fanny and Alexander (1982, Bergman)
Midnight Cowboy (1969, Schlesinger)*
Not of this World (1999, Piccioni)*
Mutiny on the Bounty (1935, Lloyd)*
The Great Ziegfeld (1936, Leonard)*

Edited by John, 14 May 2005 - 12:31 AM.

[Crow]

I'll give this a try;

All titles are theatrical viewings unless shown in italics:
* - First-time Viewing
December
12/2 - * True Grit
12/3 - Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
12/3 - * Just Friends
12/4 - * The Passenger
12/5 - * Rize
12/6 - MST3K - Cave Dwellers
12/10 - * Diary of a Mad Black Woman
12/10 - * Protocols of Zion
12/11 - * Rent
12/14 - * The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe
12/17 - Raid on Entebbe
12/17 - * King Kong
12/18 - * Syriana
12/20 - * Sahara
12/24 - * Dear Frankie
12/25 - A Christmas Story
12/25 - * To Kill a Mockingbird
12/26 - * Zathura
12/29 - * The Jacket
12/30 - * Memoirs of a Geisha
12/31 - * Rumor Has It

November
11/4 - * The Squid and the Whale
11/5 - * The Weather Man
11/6 - * Jarhead
11/12 - The Big Lebowski
11/12 - * Nothing Lasts Forever
11/12 - * The Fearless Freaks
11/14 - * Wedding Crashers
11/18 - * Tony Takitani
11/19 - * Cape of Good Hope
11/20 - * Walk the Line
11/22 - U2: Rattle and Hum
11/23 - * Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
11/25 - * Bee Season
11/27 - * The Ice Harvest
11/28 - The Nightmare Before Christmas
11/29 - Ocean's Eleven

October
10/2 - * Flightplan
10/2 - * Mirrormask
10/6 - * A History of Violence
10/7 - * Wallace and Gromit: Curse of the Were-Rabbit
10/10 - * Fantastic Four
10/15 - Serenity
10/18 - * War of the Worlds (2005)
10/20 - * Elizabethtown
10/21 - * Harold and Kumar go to White Castle
10/21 - * Everything is Illuminated
10/21 - The Tao of Steve
10/22 - Grosse Pointe Blank
10/22 - * Islands in the Sky
10/22 - * Kingdom of Heaven
10/23 - * Good Night and Good Luck
10/30 - * Capote
10/31 - * La Strada

September
9/2 - Almost Famous
9/5 - * March of the Penguins
9/6 - * The Constant Gardener
9/7 - * The Brothers Grimm
9/8 - * Il Bidone
9/8 - * Nights of Cabria
9/9 - Kill Bill, Vol. 2
9/13 - * The Exorcism of Emily Rose
9/15 - * An Unfinished Life
9/15 - * Junebug
9/18 - * Kontroll
9/21 - * The Transporter
9/24 - * The Twilight Samurai
9/24 - Primer
9/25 - * Just Like Heaven
9/25 - * The Memory of a Killer
9/26 - * The Corpse Bride
9/29 - * Ong Bak: The Thai Warrior
9/30 - * Serenity

August
8/1 - * Swimming With Sharks
8/4 - * The Tunnel
8/6 - * To Catch a Thief
8/7 - * Broken Flowers
8/7 - * Happy Endings
8/13 - Hero
8/13 - Why Should the Devil Have All the Good Music (w/director commentary)
8/14 - Napolean Dynamite
8/15 - Remember the Titans
8/17 - * The Edukators
8/17 - * Murderball
8/20 - * Red Eye
8/20 - * Four Brothers
8/21 - * The 40-Year-Old Virgin
8/24 - * Grizzly Man
8/25 - * Word Wars
8/27 - Kill Bill Vol. 1
8/31 - * 2046

July
7/6 - * Viva Kneivel
7/9 - * A League of Ordinary Gentlemen
7/9 - * Howl's Moving Castle
7/10 - * Dark Water
7/23 - * The High and the Mighty
7/24 - * Me and You and Everyone We Know
7/24 - * The Beat That My Heart Skipped
7/25 - * Au Hazard Balthazar
7/26 - * In the Heat of the Night
7/28 - Au Hazard Balthazar (continues to grow on me)
7/29 - * Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory
7/30 - * Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
7/31 - * Stealth
7/31 - * Kicking and Screaming

Flickerings/Imaginarium 2005
6/30 - * Henri Langlois - The Passion of the Cinemateque
6/30 - * Breathless
6/30 - * Detour
7/1 - * Why Should the Devil Have All the Good Music?
7/1 - * Open City
7/2 - * The Battle of Algiers
7/2 - * Bonhoeffer
7/2 - * The Cow
7/3 - * A Man Escaped
7/3 - * Time of the Wolf
7/3 - * Casablanca

June
6/2 - * Layer Cake
6/4 - The Incredibles
6/5 - The Bourne Supremacy
6/11 - * Cinderella Man
6/12 - Star Wars: Episode III: Revenge of the Sith
6/12 - * Fever Pitch (2005)
6/13 - * Holy Man
6/15 - * Batman Begins
6/22 - * Mr. and Mrs. Smith
6/24 - Batman Begins

May
5/1 - * Kung Fu Hustle
5/6 - * Crash (2005)
5/7 - * Matchstick Men
5/8 - * The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
5/9 - * Brian's Song (1971)
5/13 - * Noi
5/14 - * Unleashed
5/15 - * Three Colors: Blue
5/17 - * The Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill
5/20 - * The Magnificent Seven
5/21 - * Star Wars: Episode III: Revenge of the Sith
5/22 - * The Adventures of Baron Munchausen
5/26 - * Three Colors: White
5/27 - * Three Colors: Red
5/29 - * The Work of Director Michel Gondry
5/30 - Silver Streak

April
4/6 - * Sin City
4/8 - * Millions
4/9 - * On the Waterfront
4/13 - * Off the Map
4/15 - * Mr. 3000
4/16 - Windtalkers
4/17 - * Citizen Kane
4/21 - * Academy Award Nominated Shorts 2005
4/22 - Ocean's Twelve
4/23 - * The Interpreter
4/24 - * The Robe
4/25 - * The Game of Their Lives
4/26 - * Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room
4/28 - * Dust to Glory
4/30 - * Blade

March
3/2 - * Metropolitan
3/5 - * Constantine
3/8 - * Born into Brothels
3/9 - * Downfall
3/11 - * National Treasure
3/13 - * Spanglish
3/15 - * The Animation Show
3/18 - * Shaun of the Dead
3/20 - * The Ring 2
3/20 - Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi
3/22 - The Passion of the Christ
3/25 - * Gunner Palace
3/27 - Slacker
3/31 - * Star Wars - The Empire of Dreams (documentary)

February
2/3 - * Brazil
2/5 - * The Beach
2/10 - * The Third Man
2/12 - * The Big Country
2/13 - * Hitch
2/15 - * Guerilla: The Taking of Patty Hearst
2/16 - * Flight of the Phoenix (2004)
2/21 - * Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events
2/22 - * Touch of Evil
2/23 - * Vera Drake
2/24 - * The Merchant of Venice
2/27 - * Alien

January
1/2 - * The Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou
1/2 - * Beyond the Sea
1/3 - * The Phantom of the Opera
1/4 - * MST3K - The Atomic Brain
1/6 - Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
1/7 - * Wicker Park
1/8 - * The Iron Giant
1/8 - * The Aviator
1/9 - * White Noise
1/11 - * Maria Full of Grace
1/13 - * The Return
1/16 - * In Good Company
1/16 - Star Wars: Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back
1/17 - Meet the Parents
1/18 - * Hotel Rwanda
1/22 - * House of Flying Daggers
1/22 - MST3K - Manos: the Hands of Fate
1/24 - * The Grudge
1/25 - * The Woodsman
1/30 - * Assault on Precinct 13 (1976)
1/30 - * Million-Dollar Baby

Edited by Crow, 02 January 2006 - 12:09 AM.

[Alvy]

January
01 The Sixth Sense (M Night Shyamalan, 1999)
01 Everyone Says I Love You (Woody Allen, 1996)
17 Frankenstein and the Monster from Hell (Terence Fisher, 1974)

Edited by Alvy, 22 January 2005 - 03:45 PM.

[Diane]

italics (theater viewing)
* (first viewing)

1.01 - Scenes from a Marriage* - theatrical version (Ingmar Bergman, 1973)
1.07 - Kill Bill: Vol. 1* (Quentin Tarantino, 2003)
1.08 - Kill Bill: Vol. 2* (Quentin Tarantino, 2004)
1.13 - Pride and Prejudice (Simon Langton, 1995)
1.15 - Wild Strawberries* (Ingmar Bergman, 1957)
1.16 - House of Flying Daggers* (Zhang Yimou, 2004)
1.19 - The Twilight Samurai* (Yoji Yamada, 2002)
1.21 - Through a Glass Darkly* (Ingmar Bergman, 1961)
1.27 - Winter Light* (Ingmar Bergman, 1963)
1.28 - The Silence* (Ingmar Bergman, 1963)
1.29 - M* (Fritz Lang, 1931)
Favorite first-time viewing for January: Winter Light
blog comments

2.03 - Faithless* (Liv Ullmann, 2000)
2.04 - Napoleon Dynamite* (Jared Hess, 2004)
2.05 - The Road Home* (Zhang Yimou, 1999)
2.07 - Peluca* (short) (Jared Hess, 2003)
2.05 - Diary of a Country Priest* (Robert Bresson, 1951)
2.11 - Salaam Bombay!* (Mira Nair, 1988)
2.12 - Cries and Whispers (Ingmar Bergman, 1972)
2.13 - Maria Full of Grace* (Joshua Marston, 2004)
2.18 - The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (extended edition*) (Peter Jackson, 2003) -- finally finished!
2.18 - The White Stripes: Under Blackpool Lights* (Dick Carruthers, 2004)
2.18 - Mean Creek* (Jacob Aaron Estes, 2004)
2.19 - Bridget Jones's Diary* (Sharon Maguire, 2001)
2.19 - Napoleon Dynamite (Jared Hess, 2004)
2.21 - Coal Miner's Daughter* (Michael Apted, 1980)
2.27 - Shame* (Ingmar Bergman, 1968)
Favorite first-time viewings for February: Salaam Bombay! and Napoleon Dynamite
blog comments

3.04 - The Lady from Shanghai* (Orson Welles, 1947)
3.05 - The Circle* (Jafar Panahi, 2000)
2.06 - A Man Escaped* (Robert Bresson, 1956)
3.11 - Vertigo (Alfred Hitchcock, 1958)
3.18 - Bonnie and Clyde* (Arthur Penn, 1967)
3.19 - The Bicycle Thief* (Vittorio De Sica, 1948)
3.27 - The Wrong Man* (Alfred Hitchcock, 1956)
3.29 - Slacker* (Richard Linklater, 1991)
Favorite first-time viewing for March: The Lady from Shanghai
blog comments

4.01 - Fanny and Alexander - Parts 1 and 2 (TV version*) (Ingmar Bergman, 1982)
4.02 - Fanny and Alexander - Part 3 (TV version*) (Ingmar Bergman, 1982)
4.04 - Fanny and Alexander - Part 4 (TV version*) (Ingmar Bergman, 1982)
4.10 - Open City* (Roberto Rossellini, 1945)
4.15 - The Celebration* (Thomas Vinterberg, 1998)
4.22 - The Princess and the Warrior* (Tom Tykwer, 2000)
Favorite first-time viewing for April: The Celebration
blog comments

5.01 - Fanny and Alexander - (TV version) (Ingmar Bergman, 1982)
5.06 - Heavenly Creatures* (Peter Jackson, 1994)
5.09 - F for Fake* (Orson Welles, 1974)
5.16 - Scenes from a Marriage - Parts 1, 2, and 3 (TV version*) (Ingmar Bergman, 1973)
5.21 - In a Lonely Place* (Nicholas Ray, 1950)
5.22 - Moloch* (Aleksandr Sokurov, 1999)
5.27 - Hotel Rwanda* (Terry George, 2004)
Favorite first-time viewing for May: Hotel Rwanda
blog comments

6.04 - Solaris* (Andrei Tarkovsky, 1972)
6.06 - Ponette* (Jacques Doillon, 1996)
6.11 - The Mirror* (Andrei Tarkovsky, 1975)
6.12 - Eraserhead* (David Lynch, 1977)
6.20 - Nosferatu* (F.W. Murnau, 1922)
6.25 - The Return* (Andrei Zvyagintsev, 2003)
6.27 - Buffalo '66* (Vincent Gallo, 1998)
Favorite first-time viewing for June: Solaris
blog comments

7.01 - Devil's Playground* (Lucy Walker, 2002)
7.02 - The Blood of a Poet* (Jean Cocteau, 1930)
7.03 - The Rose Tattoo* (Daniel Mann, 1955)
7.04 - Chinatown* (Roman Polanski, 1974)
7.09 - Vanity Fair* (Mira Nair, 2004)
7.13 - Barry Lyndon* (Stanley Kubrick, 1975)
7.15 - Wings of Desire* (Wim Wenders, 1987)
7.18 - Offret - Sacrificiato* (Andrei Tarkovsky, 1986)
7.22 - Breathless* (Jean-Luc Godard, 1960)
7.23 - Born Into Brothels* (Zana Briski and Ross Kauffman, 2004)
7.30 - Ordet (The Word)* (Carl Theodor Dreyer, 1955)
Favorite first-time viewing for July: Ordet
blog comments

8.05 - Day of Wrath* (Carl Theodor Dreyer, 1943)
8.06 - The Passion of Joan of Arc* (Carl Theodor Dreyer, 1928)
8.07 - March of the Penguins* (Luc Jacquet, 2005)
8.12 - My Life to Live* (Jean-Luc Godard, 1962)
8.14 - Au hasard Balthazar* (Robert Bresson, 1966)
8.17 - Au hasard Balthazar (Robert Bresson, 1966)
8.21 - L'Argent* (Robert Bresson, 1983)
8.25 - L'Argent (Robert Bresson, 1983) - with commentary
8.28 - Stalker* (Andrei Tarkovsky, 1979)
Favorite first-time viewing for August: Stalker
blog comments

9.03 - Last Life in the Universe* (Pen-Ek Ratanaruang, 2003)
9.04 - Rashômon* (Akira Kurosawa, 1950)
9.04 - The Man Who Planted Trees* (Frédéric Back, 1987)
9.19 - La Promesse* (Jean-Pierre Dardenne and Luc Dardenne, 1996)
9.20 - My Night at Maud's* (Eric Rohmer, 1969)
9.26 - Notorious* (Alfred Hitchcock, 1946)
9.27 - Hiroshima, mon amour* (Alain Resnais, 1959)
Favorite first-time viewing for September: Notorious
blog comments

10.01 - Pather Panchali* (Satyajit Ray, 1955)
10.02 - Vampyr* (Carl Theodor Dreyer, 1932)
100.3 - Summer (Le Rayon Vert)* (Eric Rohmer, 1986)
10.04 - Fétiche (The Mascot)* (Wladyslaw Starewicz, 1934)
10.08 - Day of Wrath (Carl Theodor Dreyer, 1943)
10.15 - Les Diaboliques* (Henri-Georges Clouzot, 1955)
10.21 - Aparajito* (Satyajit Ray, 1957)
10.29 - The World of Apu* (Satyajit Ray, 1959)
10.30 - Funny Ha Ha* (Andrew Bujalski, 2003)
Favorite first-time viewings for October: Pather Panchali and Funny Ha Ha
blog comments

11.01 - Ratcatcher* (Lynne Ramsay, 1999)
11.01 - Small Deaths* (Lynne Ramsay, 1996)
11.05 - Ordet (Carl Theodor Dreyer, 1955)
11.05 - Me and You and Everyone We Know* (Miranda July, 2005)
11.06 - L'Atalante* (Jean Vigo, 1934)
11.09 - Funny Ha Ha (Andrew Bujalski, 2003)
11.12 - Dark City* (Alex Proyas, 1998)
11.14 - Waking Life* (Richard Linklater, 2001)
11.18 - Eat Drink Man Woman* (Ang Lee, 1994)
11.19 - Pickpocket* (Robert Bresson, 1959)
11.20 - La Belle noiseuse* (Jacques Rivette, 1991)
11.23 - Gertrud* (Carl Theodor Dreyer, 1964)
11.25 - Ugetsu monogatari* (Kenji Mizoguchi, 1953)
11.26 - A Summer's Tale* (Eric Rohmer, 1996)
11.27 - Nostalghia* (Andrei Tarkovsky, 1983)
11.27 - Mutual Appreciation* (Andrew Bujalski, 2005)
11.30 - Down by Law* (Jim Jarmusch, 1986)
blog comments

12.03 - The Marquise of O* (Eric Rohmer, 1976)
12.05 - Ikiru* (Akira Kurosawa, 1952)
12.09 - Claire's Knee* (Eric Rohmer, 1970)
12.11 - The Aviator's Wife* (Eric Rohmer, 1981)
12.16 - Perceval le Gallois* (Eric Rohmer, 1978)
12.18 - The Blue Angel* (Josef von Sternberg, 1930)
12.23 - Days of Heaven* (Terrence Malick, 1978)
12.23 - La Belle et La Bête* (Jean Cocteau, 1946)
12.24 - The Searchers* (John Ford, 1956)
12.25 - The Shop Around the Corner* (Ernst Lubitsch, 1940)
12.27 - Shattered Glass* (Billy Ray, 2003)
12.28 - The Spiral Staircase* (Robert Siodmak, 1946)
12.30 - 2046* (Wong Kar Wai, 2004)
12.31 - Les Dames du Bois de Boulogne * (Robert Bresson, 1945)

Edited by Diane, 03 January 2006 - 10:28 AM.

[BethR]

+ theatre viewing
* repeat viewing
Listed in reverse order, more or less.

December
BEYOND THE GATES OF SPLENDOR
LUMUMBA
DIL CHAHTA HAI
+* CHRONICLES OF NARNIA: THE LION, THE WITCH, AND THE WARDROBE
ELF
DROP DEAD GORGEOUS
OSAMA
+ PRIDE AND PREJUDICE (2005)
+ CHRONICLES OF NARNIA: THE LION, THE WITCH, AND THE WARDROBE
+ GOOD NIGHT AND GOOD LUCK
* BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER (I was bored)

November
OT: OUR TOWN
* MATCHSTICK MEN
* MILLIONS
+ HARRY POTTER AND THE GOBLET OF FIRE
* CLUELESS (still charming, and surprisingly au courant for a ten-year-old film about teens)
* I KNOW WHERE I'M GOING

October
BORN INTO BROTHELS (three in a row of "children in difficult situations"?)
CASA DE LOS BABYS
* MAD HOT BALLROOM
+* SERENITY (probably last chance to catch it on big screen)
+ NORTH COUNTRY
* BUTCH CASSIDY AND THE SUNDANCE KID (script, Redford & Newman still great; music terribly dated)
+* SERENITY
* MULAN (special features)
* PLACES IN THE HEART
THE MANCHURIAN CANDIDATE (2004)

September
+ SERENITY (Shiny! Most anticipated film of the year so far, and did not disappoint.)
MONA LISA SMILE
+ THE BROTHERS GRIMM
* RAISING ARIZONA
* ASOKA (preparing to show it in World Lit. class again)
* MILLION DOLLAR BABY
VEER-ZAARA

August
THE UPSIDE OF ANGER
BLACK ROBE
* CROSSING DELANCEY
IN AMERICA
MAN ON FIRE
* HEART OF LIGHT
SPANGLISH

July
+ CHARLIE AND THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY (2005, dir. Tim Burton, starring Johnny Depp, etc.)
* BRIDE AND PREJUDICE (even more fun with DVD extras & subtitles)
WELCOME TO COLLINWOOD
THE YEAR OF LIVING DANGEROUSLY (why haven't I seen this before?)
FEVER PITCH (US remake w/ Jimmy Fallon, Drew Barrymore)
* THE INCREDIBLES (yay!)
GUESS WHO
THE PACIFIER
ROBOTS
MILLION DOLLAR BABY (sans soundtrack...maybe better that way?)
+ BEWITCHED
* LOCAL HERO

June
BRIGHT LEAVES
+ HOWL'S MOVING CASTLE
GRACE OF MY HEART
+ MAD HOT BALLROOM
+ BATMAN BEGINS (preceded by Serenity trailer)
WIN A DATE WITH TAD HAMILTON
FEVER PITCH (British version, w/ Colin Firth)
+* MILLIONS

May
* MISSION IMPOSSIBLE 2 (can't imagine why we wanted to see this again)
WIT
* KEEPING THE FAITH
DEKALOG I-III
+ STAR WARS: REVENGE OF THE SITH
CASTLE IN THE SKY
IN GOOD COMPANY
TOKYO GODFATHERS
* THE BROTHER FROM ANOTHER PLANET
STAR TREK: NEMESIS
* HOTEL RWANDA
THE CASTLE
THE MOTORCYCLE DIARIES
ME, MYSELF, I
* WEST SIDE STORY

April
+THE HITCHHIKER'S GUIDE TO THE GALAXY
* FINDING NEVERLAND
* LEMONY SNICKET'S A SERIES OF UNFORTUNATE EVENTS
COUNTRY LIFE
+MILLIONS
PRIMER
MY HOUSE IN UMBRIA
FANNY AND ALEXANDER (theatrical version)
* MONSOON WEDDING
+ICE PRINCESS
STONE READER & special features
ALEX AND EMMA
DEVDAS (2002)
ALL THE REAL GIRLS

March
SLACKER
TEARS OF THE SUN
WELCOME BACK, MR. MacDONALD

Lyricist (Campbell U literary magazine) Film Festival: Doubt/Film, 3/18-19:
* LUTHER
* THE THIRD MAN
KITCHEN STORIES
HERO

GIRL INTERRUPTED
BOONDOCK SAINTS
* INTO THE WEST
GENESIS (La Genese)
WORD WARS
I'LL BE THERE
* A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM (Michael Hoffman, 1999)
* A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM (Peter Hall, 1968)
* TAMPOPO
PIECES OF APRIL
PHIR BHI DIL HAI HINDUSTANI

February
* TOPKAPI
+BRIDE AND PREJUDICE
THE OTHER SIDE OF SUNDAY
+HITCH
* SECONDHAND LIONS
WIMBLEDON
A CHORUS LINE
TUCK EVERLASTING
NAPOLEON DYNAMITE

January
* BABETTE'S FEAST
+ HOTEL RWANDA
* PLACES IN THE HEART
* JOE VS. THE VOLCANO
ANCHORMAN: THE LEGEND OF RON BURGUNDY
+ SIDEWAYS
I KNOW WHERE I'M GOING
HELLBOY
* RUNNING ON EMPTY
ANKUR
+ FINDING NEVERLAND
+ THE POLAR EXPRESS (Imax 3D)
BOWLING FOR COLUMBINE
* MICHAEL
LotR-RETURN OF THE KING-EE (special features)*

Edited by BethR, 30 December 2005 - 03:08 PM.

[M. Leary]

Not counting films I am embarrassed to list, including but not limited to: things I watch with my wife or cheesy films on TV being watched under the pretense of "reading."

1/1 Ratcatcher (Ramsay)
1/2 La Ville Est Tranquille (Guedigulan)
1/3 Atlantic City (Malle)
1/4 Garden State (Braff)
1/5 Super Size Me
1/6 C'etait un Rendezvous (Lelouch)
1/7 The Agronomist (Demme)
1/9 Strike (Eisenstein)
1/10 October 1917 (Eisenstein)
1/11 Storm over Asia (Pudovkin)

1/12 The End of St. Petersburg (Pudovkin)
1/14 The Decline of the American Empire (Arcand)
1/15 En Plein Coeur (Jolivet)
1/16 Million Dollar Baby (Eastwood)
1/17 Closer (Nichols)
1/20 Le Souffle (Odoul)
1/22 L'Age D'or (Bunuel/Dali)
1/23 Un Chien Andalou (Bunuel/Dali)
1/26 Crimson Gold (Panahi)
2/1 Jour de Fete (Tati)

2/2 Monsieur Hulot's Holiday (Tati)
2/12 Inheritance (Fly)
3/1 The Sorrow and the Pity (The Collapse) (Ophuls)
3/2 The Sorrow and the Pity (The Choice) (Ophuls)
3/10 The Bad Lieutenant (Ferrara)
3/11 Dr. Zhivago (Lean)
3/13 A Clockwork Orange (Kubrick)
3/15 Little House on the Prairie (Season 1)
3/17 Vivre sa vie (Godard)
3/18 Breathless (Godard)

3/19 Two or Three Things I Know About Her (Godard)
3/21 Young Frankenstein (Mel Brooks)
3/24 Trouble Every Day (Denis)
3/24 Commes un image (Jaoui)
3/26 Le Gout des autres (Jaoui)
3/28 Hiroshima mon amour (Resnais)
3/29 Hiroshima mon amour (Resnais)
4/5 Rome, Open City (Rossellini)
4/6 Mouchette (Bresson)
4/10 The Office Season 1

4/12 Widow of St. Pierre (Leconte)
4/13 The Girl on the Bridge (Leconte)
4/14 The Hairdresser's Husband (Leconte)
4/15 Tango (Leconte)
4/16 Heart of Glass (Herzog)
4/17 Scream of Stone (Herzog)
4/25 Get Carter
5/9 Where is the Friend's Home? (Kairostami)
5/9 Through the Olive Trees (Kairostami)
5/10 The Apple (Makhmalbaf)

5/10 A Moment of Innocence (Makhmalbaf)
5/11 The Cow (Mehrjui)
5/11 Still Life (Saless)
5/12 20 Fingers (Akbari)
5/12 The Circle (Panahi)
5/20 Napolean Dynamite (Hess)
5/22 American Movie (Smith)
5/24 Revenge of the Sith (Lucas)
6/3 Werckmeister Harmonies (Tarr)

6/5 Vivre sa vie (Godard)
6/6 Frankenfish
6/9 Nosferatu (Herzog)
6/10 Stroszek (Herzog)
6/13 The War of the Worlds (Haskin)
7/1 Jacques Rivette Le veilleur (Denis)
7/1 Le Fond de L’air est Rouge (Marker)
7/2 The Captive (Akerman)
7/2 Melo (Resnais)
7/4 I Want to Go Home (Resnais)

7/10 Mods (Bozon)
7/10 Le Doux amour des hommes (Civeyrac)
7/11 The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (Demy)
7/12 Zazie dans le metro (Malle)
7/14 Bande a part (Godard)
7/15 La Chinoise (Godard)
7/16 Boy Meets Girl (Carax)
7/18 Band a part (Godard)
8/1 La parfum d'Yvonne (Leconte)
8/2 Intimate Strangers (Leconte)

8/10 Histoires de Marie et Julien (Rivette)
8/15 The Office season 2
9/1 Casshern (Kiriya)
9/4 Twenty Nine Palms (Dumont)
9/12 L'Intrus (Denis)
9/13 The Sun (Sokurov)
9/15 49 Up (Apted)
9/20 The Woodsman (Kassell)
9/21 Tarnation (Caouette)
9/24 Notre Musique (Godard)

9/27 5x2 (Ozon)
9/27 Vanishing Point
9/28 The Big Lebowski (Coens)
9/29 Last Days (Van Sant)
10/2 Bread and Roses (Loach)
10/3 The Lady and the Duke (Rohmer)
10/5 A History of Violence (Cronenberg)
10/11 The Boy Whose Skin Fell Off
10/13 En attendent le Deluge (Odoul)
10/14 Peeping Tom (Powell)
10/15 Wild Strawberries (Bergman)

10/17 Faster Pussycat Kill...Kill! (Meyer)
10/19 Who Killed Bambi? (Marchand)
10/22 Okay (Nielsen)
10/24 In Your Hands (Olesen)
10/24 56 Rue Pigalle (Rozier)
10/28 Scenes From a Marriage (Bergman)
10/30 Dear Frankie (Auerbach)
11/1 Head On (Akin)
11/4 Les Choristes (Barratier)
11/5 The Life Aquatic (Anderson)

11/6 Ae Fond Kiss (Loach)
11/7 Strings (Klarlund)
11/9 A Hole in My Heart (Moodysson)
11/13 Show Me Love (Moodysson)
11/19 Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
11/23 Factotum (Hamer)
11/23 Downtime (Nalluri)
11/26 Superfly (Parks Jr.)
11/27 Wiseblood (Huston)
11/28 Beautiful People (Dizdar)

11/29 The Pillow Book (Greenaway)
11/30 Trilogy: The Weeping Meadow (Angelopolous)
12/1 Duma (Ballard)
12/2 Le Rayon Vert (Rohmer)
12/3 Prime Cut (Ritchie)
3 Iron (Kim Ki-Duk)
Kings and Queen (Desplechin)
Prenom Carmen (Godard)

Detective (Godard)
Les amant du Pont Neuf (Carax)
Love (Makk)
The Ear (Kachyna)
Millions
Tape
Taxi Driver




Decent Shorts

L'Herbier "L’inhumanite"
L'Herbier "L’vertige"
Mounir Fatmi "Le Ciseaux"
Mounir Fatmi "Rain making"
Mounir Fatmi "Dieu me pardonne"
Shady El Noshokaty "The Tree of my Grandmother's House"
Godard and Truffaut "Une histoire d’eau"
Claire Denis "Pour Ushari Ahmed Mahmoud"
Resnais "Toute la memoire du monde"

Philippe Dussol "Argent Content"
Chris Marker "Eclipse"
Paul Cons "Iffy"
Denis McArdle "Burning the Bed"
Chris Marker "2084"

Edited by MLeary, 01 January 2006 - 07:12 AM.

[Peter T Chattaway]

As per my 2004 Journal, videos and DVDs are in italics. Films I saw for the first time have an asterisk (*) next to them. Not counting extras and promo items.

Jan 4 -- Bad Education *
Jan 4 -- The World's Best Commercials, 2004 *
Jan 5 -- Fanny and Alexander [theatrical version]
Jan 6 -- Beyond the Sea *
Jan 8 -- Racing Stripes
Jan 8 -- Coach Carter *
Jan 10 -- Million Dollar Baby *
Jan 11 -- The Merchant of Venice [2004] *
Jan 11 -- Friday Night Lights *
Jan 12 -- Elektra *

Jan 13 -- In Good Company *
Jan 14 -- Smiles of a Summer Night *
Jan 15 -- Wild Strawberries *
Jan 16 -- The Return [2003] *
Jan 17 -- The Return of the King [2003; extended edition, w/ cast commentary]
Jan 17 -- Assault on Precinct 13 [2005] *
Jan 18 -- The Return of the King [2003; extended edition, w/ director commentary]
Jan 18 -- Allegro Non Troppo *
Jan 19 -- The Best of Ottawa 2004 International Animation Festival *
Jan 20 -- Les Choristes *

Jan 21 -- Are We There Yet? *
Jan 26 -- Ong-Bak: Muay Thai Warrior *
Jan 27 -- Alone in the Dark *
Jan 28 -- The Wedding Date *
Jan 28 -- The Virgin Spring / Ryan *
Jan 30 -- Quest for Fire [w/ director's commentary]
Jan 31 -- Ryan / Through a Glass Darkly
Feb 4 -- Because of Winn-Dixie *
Feb 8 -- The Sea Inside *
Feb 9 -- Hitch *

Feb 14 -- Babylon 5 [season 1, disc 1] *
Feb 16 -- Babylon 5 [season 1, disc 2] *
Feb 17 -- Babylon 5 [season 1, disc 3] *
Feb 18 -- Constantine *
Feb 19 -- Babylon 5 [season 1, disc 4] *
Feb 23 -- Babylon 5 [season 1, disc 5] *
Feb 26 -- Autumn Sonata *
Feb 28 -- Be Cool *
Mar 1 -- The Italian Job [1969] *
Mar 1 -- The Italian Job [2003]

Mar 2 -- Babylon 5 [season 1, disc 6] *
Mar 3 -- Steamboy *
Mar 3 -- Frisbee: The Life and Death of a Hippie Preacher *
Mar 3 -- Hostage *
Mar 4 -- Bambi [w/ story meeting commentary]
Mar 5 -- Robots *
Mar 5 -- The Decline of the American Empire
Mar 5 -- The Barbarian Invasions
Mar 5 -- Bride and Prejudice *
Mar 6 -- Inside Deep Throat *

Mar 7 -- The Big Red One: The Reconstruction *
Mar 9 -- Downfall *
Mar 9 -- Born into Brothels *
Mar 10 -- Millions *
Mar 11 -- Sex Is Comedy *
Mar 12 -- Million Dollar Baby
Mar 12 -- Kill Bill Vol. 1
Mar 12 -- Kill Bill Vol. 2
Mar 13 -- Man without a Name *
Mar 14 -- The Upside of Anger *

[Clint M]

I moved my list to a blog.

My current (but not finished) top ten includes:

1. Serenity
2. Batman Begins
3. Millions
4. Wallace and Gromitt: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit
5. A History of Violence
6. Star Wars, Episode III: Revenge of the Sith
7. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
8. Crash
9. ?
10. ?

Edited by Clint M, 16 November 2005 - 12:12 AM.

[Andrew]

I'll see if I can keep up with it this year:

January
The Return: - honest, I wanted to love it and rave about it
Spider Man 2: - still quite good, the second go-round
Monsters Inc.:
Supersize Me: - brilliant (excellent DVD extras, too)
To Be and to Have:
Troy:
Black Robe: - wow, first time viewing
Intimate Strangers:
* In Good Company :
The Devil's Playground: - highly worthwhile documentary
Ikiru: - amazing - like an enactment of 'Ecclesiastes' (except it's funnier and in Japanese)
Time of the Wolf:
A Midsummer Night's Sex Comedy: - 3.5 stars for its comedy, 1.5 stars for its moral center (or lack thereof)
O Brother, Where Art Thou?: - nifty to see again, since I'm reading Homer's 'Odyssey' at the moment
The Village:

February
* Sideways: - a letdown, after all of the hullaballoo
The Five Obstructions: - easier to appreciate than love
* Million Dollar Baby:
Mean Creek:
Story of the Weeping Camel:
Thunder Road:
Mr. 3000: - no great shakes, but a fun baseball comedy
Secondhand Lions:
Two Brothers: - beautiful, moral family film
House of Sand and Fog:
The Cat Returns:
Porco Rosso: - both this and the above film seem weaker than those of the prior crop of Miyazaki DVD releases
Cold Mountain: - after reading the novel, this almost seems like an R-rated Hallmark movie
Human Resources: ' after this and 'Time Out,' I'll be looking for new works by Cantet

March
* Hotel Rwanda:
Before Sunrise:
Spirited Away: - what a beautiful film
Amadeus:
* Robots: - a fun family movie
Ladder 49: - surprisingly good
The Shawshank Redemption: - a tad overrated
Before Sunset:
Signs: - quite good, but the weakest of Shyamalan's major films, IMO
Slacker:
* Merchant of Venice:

April
Flight of the Phoenix:
* Hostage:
Shark Tale:
Romeo+Juliet: - amazing film, even after the 4th or 5th viewing
Dead Man Walking:
The Mission:
The Wind Will Carry Us:
Contact:
Danny Deckchair:
Kung Fu Hustle:
Babette's Feast:

May
Fanny and Alexander:
Enduring Love: - great first half, very disappointing conclusion
* Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: - a proud moment: my first zero-star film of the year!
Pieces of April:
Death of Klinghoffer:
Jesus of Montreal:
*Star Wars, Episode III:
National Treasure: - a silly, winsome film
21 Grams:

June
*Madagascar:
*Lords of Dogtown:
Shaolin Soccer:
Tender Mercies:
Coming Home:
Shaolin Soccer:
2010:
Johnny English:
*Batman Begins:
*Millions:

July
The Weather Underground:
The Hairdresser's Husband:
The Graduate:
The Woodsman:

* = big screen viewing

Edited by Andrew, 22 July 2005 - 06:20 PM.

[J.R.]

* - first viewing

1/1 - Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy *
1/2 - Open Water *
1/4 - The Aviator*
1/5 - Harold and Kumar Go to White Castle*
1/7 - Before Sunset*
1/9 - Star Wars
1/10 - The Empire Strikes Back
1/11 - Return of the Jedi
1/15 - Napoleon Dynamite
1/16 - Assault on Precinct 13 (1976) *
1/22 - Finding Neverland *
1/22 - Bottle Rocket
1/25 - The Thing*
1/28 - Audition*
1/29 - There's Something About Mary
1/31 - Million Dollar Baby*
2/1 - Mean Creek*
2/2 - Groundhog Day
Battle Royale*
2/11 Ray*
2/12 Monty Python and the Holy Grail*
2/13 28 Days Later
2/17 Repo Man*
2/18 Life of Brian*
2/20 Lord of the Rings: Return of the King
2/21 Saw *
2/22 Bullit *
2/24 I Heart Huckabees*
2/26 Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
2/28 Die Hard

Edited by J.R., 02 March 2005 - 12:29 AM.

[Ron Reed]

TOP FILMS OF THE YEAR (in very rough order)
Dog Nail Clipper [VIFF Sep 29 2005 - or #1 if I'm utterly subjective]
The Novena [VIFF Oct 3 2005]
The Lion, The Witch & The Wardrobe
Millions (Mar 31 2005)
Merchant Of Venice (Jan 20 2005)
The Woodsman (Jan 20 2005)
Million Dollar Baby (Jan 13 2005)
Capote
Hotel Rwanda (Jan 6 2005)
Good Night & Good Luck
The Squid & The Whale
The Exorcism of Emily Rose (Sep 15 2005)
The Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill
Crash (May 5 2005)
A History of Violence
Dear Frankie (Apr 18 2005)
Constant Gardener
Georgia Straight review dates in brackets

*

FILM JOURNAL 2005
Exceptional favourites are in bold. Repeat viewings are in italics.
2003 2004

Spider-Man 2 (Jan 6, DVD)
Hotel Rwanda (Jan 7, Theatre)
A Very Long Engagement (Jan 7, Theatre)
Sideways (Jan 9, Theatre)
The Merchant of Venice (Jan 11, Theatre)
The Return (Jan 13, DVD)
Million Dollar Baby (Jan 15, Theatre)
The Aviator (Jan 15, Theatre)
The Last Man On Earth (Jan 16, DVD)
Tootsie (Jan 22, VHS)
Only You (Jan 29, VHS)
+ 9/11 (first viewings / total in Jan) = 9/11 (new / total films in 2005)

City Of God (Feb 1, DVD)
The Terminal (Feb 13, DVD)
The Village (Feb 26, DVD)
A Midwinter's Tale (Feb 28, VHS)
+ 4/4 = 13/15

Mean Creek (Mar 1, DVD)
Hitch (Mar 5, Theatre)
The Big Red One (Mar 6, Theatre)
Bagdad Cafe (Mar 12, DVD)
Morvern Callar (Mar 15, DVD)
Behind the Red Door (Mar 17, DVD)
Most (Mar 20, DVD)
Men In Black (Mar 22, VHS)
Ghostbusters (Mar 22, VHS)
The Big Sleep (Mar 24, VHS)
City Slickers (Mar 24, DVD)
Falling Down (Mar 24, DVD)
Mystery Men (Mar 25, VHS)
Clueless (Mar 26, VHS)
Most (Mar 30, DVD)
+ 6/15 = 19/30

Millions (Apr 3, Theatre)
Joni Mitchell: A Life Story (Apr 10, DVD)
Shadowlands BBC (Apr 12, VHS)
Hotel Depot (Apr 15, DVD)
Legends of the Fall (Apr 16, DVD)
What Dreams May Come (Apr 24, DVD)
The Woodsman (Apr 25, Theatre)
+ 6/7 = 25/37

Amelie (May , DVD)
Light Sleeper (May 6, VHS)
Dear Frankie (May 15, Theatre)
+ 2/3 = 27/40

Walk On Water (Jun 5, Theatre)
Touch (Jun 8, VHS)
Au Hasard Balthazar (Jun 9, DVD)
Around The Bend (Jun 11, DVD)
Au Hasard Balthazar (Jun 14, DVD)
Around The Bend (Jun 14, DVD)
Birthday Girl (Jun 16, DVD)
Crash (Jun 17, Theatre)
Garden State (June 18, DVD)
Whale Music (June 19, DVD)
Cinderella Man (June 20, Theatre)
Around The Bend (June 26, DVD)
Shadowlands BBC (June 27, DVD)
Bruce Almighty (June 28, DVD)
Hard Eight (June 29, VHS)
+ 10/15 = 37/55

Dear God (July 1, VHS)
The Translator (July 5, Hotel)
Batman Begins (Theatre)
Dekalog 5 (July 7, DVD)
Dekalog 6 (July 7, DVD)
Dekalog 7 (July 8, DVD)
Dekalog 1 (July 9, DVD)
Crimes & Misdemeanors (Jul 12, DVD)
Heaven [Tykwer] (July 14, VHS)
Fearless (July 16, VHS)
Election (VHS)
The Truman Show (DVD)
The Princess & The Warrior (July 20, DVD)
Run Lola Run (July 21, DVD)
Magnolia (July 21/22, DVD)
Punch-Drunk Love (July 22, DVD)
Signs (July 25, DVD)
Star Wars III
The Last Wave
Gallipoli
+10/20 = 47/75

Hill Number One (DVD)
Saving Grace
Blade Runner (Aug 13, DVD)
The Quarrel (Aug 12, DVD)
Spartan (Aug 18, VHS)
Red Eye (Aug 19, Theatre)
Shawn Of The Dead (Aug 21, DVD)
Andrei Rublev (Aug 31, DVD)
+5/8 = 52/83

Step Into Liquid (Sep 1, Theatre)
Son Of Hercules vs. Venus (Sep 2, VHS)
The Man Who Planted Trees (Sep 8, DVD)
The Man Who Planted Trees (Sep 9, DVD)
Spanglish (Sep 10, DVD)
Amistad (Sep 11/12, VHS)
The Exorcism of Emily Rose (Sep 14, Theatre)
Slumlord (Sep 14, DVD)
Amistad (Sep 16, DVD)
The Constant Gardener (Sep 16, Theatre)
...And God Spoke (Sep 18, DVD)
March of the Penguins (Sep 20, Theatre)
The Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill (Sep 20, Theatre)
The Celebration (Sep 25, VHS)
Dancer In The Dark (Sep 26, DVD)
Dear Wendy (Sep 27, VHS)
Dog Nail Clipper (Sep 29, Theatre)
Dogville (Sep 30, DVD)
Manderlay (Sep 30, Theatre)
+ 16/19 = 68/102

Arvo Part (Oct 2, Theatre)
Toeing The Line [including On A Sunday] (Oct 2, Theatre)
The Novena (Oct 3, Theatre)
3 Needles (Oct 4, Theatre)
Curse of the Were-Rabbit (Oct 5, Theatre)
A Man Escaped (Oct 8/9, DVD)
Everything Is Illuminated (Oct 11, Theatre)
Rosetta (Oct 17, DVD)
La Promesse (Oct 18, DVD)
The Verdict (Oct 19, VHS)
Flight Plan (Oct 20, Theatre)
Lost 1:1-2 (Oct 22, DVD)
Lost 1:3-6 (Oct 23, DVD)
A History of Violence (Oct 25, Theatre)
Lost 1: 7-10 (Oct 30, DVD)
+ 11/13 = 79/115

Lost 1: 11-16 (early Nov, DVD)
Good Night and Good Luck (Nov 8, Theatre)
Jarhead (Nov 10, Theatre)
Lost 1: 17-18 (Nov 13, DVD)
Lost 1: 19-20 (Nov 15, DVD)
Andrei Rublev (Nov 17, DVD)
The Squid & The Whale (Nov 18, Theatre
Stalker
Ripley's Game
Lost 21-End
Capote (Nov 29, Theatre)
+ 6/7 = 85/122

The Insider (Dec 3, DVD)
Protocols of Zion (Dec 5, Theatre)
In A Lonely Place (Dec 5, Theatre)
No Direction Home (DVD)
Super-Size Me (DVD)
Syriana (Dec 13, Theatre)
Out Of The Past (Dec 14/17, DVD)
Secret Lives of Dentists (Dec 17, DVD)
The Lion, The Witch & The Wardrobe (Dec 21, Theatre)
Touching The Void (Dec 21, DVD)
Stone Reader (Dec 21/22, DVD)
Cannes Advertising Festival (Dec 23, Theatre - last showing at the Ridge)
It's A Wonderful LIfe (Dec 25, DVD)
+ 12/12 = 97/134

*

ONLINE FILM REVIEWS
The Addiction
Amistad
Au Hasard Balthazar
The Best Two Years
Bright Leaves
Brother Sun, Sister Moon
Close-Up
Cool & Crazy
Cotton Patch Gospel
Dear Wendy
Dreamlife of Angels (just past Jeffrey's article)
Everything Is Illuminated
The House Of Sand And Fog
Ikiru
A Man Escaped
The Manchurian Candidate
The Merchant Of Venice
Most
Not Of This World
Personal Velocity
The Rookie
The Sea Inside
See Grace Fly
Shadowlands
The Shawshank Redemption
To End All Wars
"Best Of The Bard" Top Ten Shakespeare Films
"Celluloid Christians" Faith portrayals in recent movies
"Moving Pictures" A&F 100: Spiritually Significant Films
"Take Me Out To The Movies!" Top Ten Baseball Films

Edited by Ron, 02 July 2006 - 11:23 PM.

[MattPage]

Top Films of the Year in Rough Order (Cinema viewings unless stated)

Edukators
Hotel Rwanda
The Woodsman
Downfall
The Exorcism of Emily Rose
Vera Drake
Wallace and Gromit: Curse of the Were-Rabbit
Dear Wendy
Cinderella Man
Somersault
Crash
Pride and Prejudice
Sideways
Narnia LWW
Les Choristes
Batman Begins
Wedding Crashers
Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou
The Constant Gardener
Sin City
2046
Kingdom of Heaven
The Aviator
Millions
Revenge of the Sith
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
The Brothers Grimm
Madagascar
King Kong
Alexander


Film Journal (*First Viewing, underlined cinema viewing)

Jan 2005 (32)
01/1/05 - King of Kings (part)
01/1/05 - *Samson and Delilah 1984 (2nd half)
02/1/05 - *Motorcycle Diaries (Br)
02/1/05 - *Strictly Ballroom (Aus)
03/1/05 - *La Dolce Vita (It)
03/1/05 - King of Kings (end)
03/1/05 - *Great Expectations (1946 - Lean)
05/1/05 - *The Next Best Thing
07/1/05 - *Alexander
09/1/05 - *April in Paris
09/1/05 - *Man Dancin' (Sc)
11/1/05 - Son of Man
11/1/05 - Mary, The Mother of Jesus
12/1/05 - *To Have and Have Not
14/1/05 - *Cape Fear
16/1/05 - *Anna Karenina
16/1/05 - *Seven Samurai (Jp)
17/1/05 - *A Fistful of Dollars
20/1/05 - *Shadowlands (Stone)
21/1/05 - *Taxi
23/1/05 - *La Genese (Bambara)
23/1/05 - *Collateral
23/1/05 - *Stage Beauty
25/1/05 - *Intolerable Cruelty
27/1/05 - Inquisition
27/1/05 - *Maltese Falcon
28/1/05 - *The Aviator
28/1/05 - *Supersize me
29/1/05 - *The Fog of War
29/1/05 - *2046 (Ch)
29/1/05 - *Vera Drake
30/1/05 - *Barton Fink
31/1/05 - *Sweet Home Alabahma :shudder


Feb 2005 (14)

03/2/05 - Intolerable Cruelty
05/2/05 - Man Dancin' (Sc)
06/2/05 - *Little Women (1949)
07/2/05 - *Sweet Sixteen (Sc)
07/2/05 - *Cleopatra (Taylor / Burton one)
12/2/05 - *The Station Agent
13/2/05 - *2001: A Space Odyssey
15/2/05 - Jesus of Montreal (Ca)
16/2/05 - *Before Sunset
16/2/05 - *The sea is Watching (first half) (Jp)
17/2/05 - *The sea is Watching (second half)
20/2/05 - *Wimbledon
22/2/05 - *Revelation
22/2/05 - *The Alamo (Wayne)
27/2/05 - *Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou


March 2005 (20)

04/3/05 - *Mona Lisa Smile
05/3/05 - *Sideways
06/3/05 - The Story of the Weeping Camel (Mong/Gr)
08/3/05 - *The King of Comedy
09/3/05 - *Cinema Paradiso (It)
13/3/05 - Jesus of Montreal (Ca)
18/3/05 - *Bride and Prejudice (UK/In)
19/3/05 - *Les Miserables (depardieu version)
20/3/05 - Wayne's World
20/3/05 - *Hell House
21/3/05 - *Marnie
22/3/05 - (*The Devil Made me Do it - short)
22/3/05 - *Hotel Rwanda
22/3/05 - Blackmail (1929)
24/3/05 - *Carlito's Way
28/3/05 - Bladerunner
28/3/05 - *Diary of a Country Priest
28/3/05 - *The Woodsman
29/3/05 - *The Thin Red Line
29/3/05 - *Commandments
31/3/05 - *The Silver Chair (BBC)

April 2005
02/4/05 - *Judas
03/4/05 - *Life is Sweet
08/4/05 - *In America
10/4/05 - *The Englishman who Went up a Hill and Came Down a Mountain
11/4/04 - *Somersault (Aus)
11/4/05 - 10 Things I Hate About You
13/4/05 - *Finding Neverland
15/4/05 - Spiderman
17/4/05 - Vertigo
18/4/05 - *High Noon
19/4/05 - *Lessons of Darkness (Gr)
19/4/05 - *Les Choristes (Fr)
20/4/05 - *Blaze
22/4/05 - *Der Untergang (Gr - Downfall)
24/4/05 - Taxi
24/4/05 - The Birds
24/4/05 - Mona Lisa Smile
26/4/05 - *Addicted to Love (and not a Robert Palmer song in sight)

May 2005 (26)
01/5/05 *Whistle Down the Wind
02/5/05 *The Manchurian Candidate (2004)
03/5/05 *Jean de Florette (Fr)
05/5/05 *Manon des Sources (Fr)
06/5/05 *Kingdom of Heaven
07/5/05 *The Graduate
08/5/05 The Incredibles
09/5/05 *Mr Smith Goes to Washington
11/5/05 *The Elephant Man
13/5/05 *Edukators
16/5/05 *The Return (Rus)
17/5/05 *Paul the Apostle
17/5/05 *Blindspot (mostly) (Gr)
17/5/05 *Saved
18/5/05 *All the President's Men
19/5/05 *Pale Rider
20/5/05 Open Range
21/5/05 *National Lampoon's European Vacation
24/5/05 *Strangers on a Train
24/5/05 *Revenge of the Sith
25/5/05 *Son of Man (1915)
28/5/05 *The Terminator
29/5/05 *Hannah and her Sisters
30/5/05 Back to the Future
30/5/05 Back to the Future II
30/5/05 Back to the Future III

June 2005 (17.5)
02/6/05 *Final Solution
04/6/05 *Millions (UK)
05/6/05 *Harvey
06/6/05 *Falcons (Ic)
07/6/05 *The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956)
11/6/05 *Mean Streets
12/6/05 *Sin City
15/6/05 *Vanity Fair
17/6/05 *Sweet Bird of Youth
18/6/05 *Batman Begins
19/6/05 *Guys and Dolls
22/6/05 *Golgotha (Fr)
24/6/05 *Casshern (1st Half) (Ch)
25/6/05 *Manhattan (1st Half)
26/6/05 *Rushmore
26/6/05 *Out of Africa
27/6/05 Amadeus
28/6/05 *Manhatten (2nd Half)
28/6/05 Saved

July (15)
03/7/05 *The Ladykillers (UK - 1955)
04/7/05 Princess Bride
08/7/05 *Au hasard Balthazar
10/7/05 Life of Jesus: The Revolutionary
10/7/05 Three Kings
17/7/05 *Madagascar
22/7/05 *Wedding Crashers
26/7/05 *Elephant
26/7/05 *The Greatest Commandment
26/7/05 *Luther (1953)
26/7/05 *Hill Number One
29/7/05 *The Village
29/7/05 *A Night at the Opera
31/7/05 Grease
31/7/05 *Shadow of a Doubt


August
01/8/05 *The Trouble With Harry
05/8/05 *Dear Wendy
06/8/05 *His Girl Friday
07/8/05 *Dracula (1931)
07/8/05 *So I Married an Axe Murderer
14/8/05 *The Third Man
16/8/05 Room With a View
18/8/05 *Genesis (Bible collection one)
21/8/05 *Fever Pitch (Football version)
22/8/05 *Once Upon A Time in America
24/8/05 *Esther
27/8/05 O Brother Where Art Thou
27/8/05 *!Hero (The Jesus musical, not the Zhang film)
28/8/05 Man Dancin'


September
01/9/05 *Napolean Dynamite
02/9/05 *Sweeney Todd (Lansbury filmed stage version)
03/9/05 *Vanilla Sky
07/9/05 *Crash
09/9/05 *Dressed to Kill (Rathbone)
11/9/05 *Green Pastures
11/9/05 *Kind Hearts and Coronets
11/9/05 *Cinderella Man
12/9/05 *The Searchers
17/9/05 Pride and Prejudice (Olivier version)
18/9/05 Before Sunrise
18/9/05 Before Sunset
19/9/05 *Pride and Prejudice (Knightley version)
20/9/05 *Je Vous Salue Marie (Hail Mary)
20/9/05 10 Things I hate about you (2nd half)
21/9/05 From the Manger to the Cross
25/9/05 Green Pastures
25/9/05 Charade
26/9/05 *Milwaukee, Minnesota
28/9/05 Life of Brian (end of)
All month - Pride and Prejudice (1977)

October
02/10/05 Punch Drunk Love
03/10/05 *Blossoms and Blood (short)
04/10/05 *Bringing out the Dead
08/10/05 *12 Angry Men
09/10/05 *Wallace and Gromit: Curse of the Were-Rabbit
09/10/05 Genesis: Creation and Flood
10/10/05 *Along Came Polly
15/10/05 (*)Howard's End
16/10/05 *Picking up the Pieces
19/10/05 *The General
23/10/05 *Melinda and Melinda
30/10/05 Chinatown
30/10/05 *The Decline of the American Empire
30/10/05 Spirited Away

November
04/11/05 *City by the Sea
11/11/05 *What's Eating Gilbert Grape?
12/11/05 *The Brothers Grimm
13/11/05 *Saboteur
14/11/05 12 Angry Men
17/11/05 *The Man with the Golden Arm
18/11/05 *The Constant Gardener
20/11/05 *Dodgeball
20/11/05 *The Family Man
20/11/05 Sideways
22/11/05 Miller's Crossing
26/11/05 *The Exorcism of Emily Rose
27/11/05 *Paradise Road
29/11/05 *Day at the Races
29/11/05 Hulk

December
10/12/05 *The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe
11/12/05 *Garden State
13/12/05 *Insomnia
14/12/05 * Mystic River
18/12/05 *Hitchhikers' Guide to the Galaxy
Living Christ Series
King Kong

The Wrong Man
Chronicles of Narnia


Matt

Edited by MattPage, 10 January 2006 - 06:04 AM.

[sally]

+ theater viewing
* first viewing

July
17 -- Duplex *
15 -- Charlie and the Chocolate Factory +*
10 -- The Conversation *
10 -- Princess Diaries 2: Royal Engagement *
7 -- The Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill +*
3 -- War of the Worlds +*
2 -- The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants +*

June
18 -- Batman Begins +*
13 -- Mr. and Mrs. Smith +*
4 -- National Treasure *

May
29 -- The Hidden Blade *
28 -- Hope Springs *
28 -- Gunga Din *
22 -- Star Wars: Episode III, Revenge of the Sith +*
11 -- Whisper of the Heart *
7 -- Fever Pitch +*
4 -- The Transporter *

April
29 -- Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy +*
22 -- Millions +*
19 -- Primer *
18 -- Star Wars: Episode IV
17 -- Born Into Brothels +*
14 -- Only Yesterday *
14 -- Vanity Fair *
13 -- Chungking Express *
11 -- Sideways *
10 -- Bio Zombie *
9 -- Hitch +
6 -- Dark City *
3 -- Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason *
3 -- The Story of the Weeping Camel *
2 -- Dodgeball *

March
31 -- Finding Neverland *
27 -- The Incredibles
19 -- Reconstruction *
18 -- The Abyss *
17 -- Against the Ropes *
15 -- The Incredibles
11 -- Hitch +*
5 -- The Incredibles +

February
25 -- Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind *
19 -- Ten Things I Hate about You
19 -- The Wedding Date +*
16 -- Donnie Darko: The Director's Cut *
14 -- Shaun of the Dead *
13 -- A Very Long Engagement +*
11 -- Last Life in the Universe *
10 -- The Forgotten *
7 -- Emma

January
24 -- Lucky 7 *
22 -- The Professional *
22 -- Luther *
21 -- House of Flying Daggers +*
19 -- Garden State *
17 -- The Wedding Planner
10 -- Bruce Almighty
6 -- Casshern *
4 -- My Best Friend's Wedding
1 -- All the Real Girls *
1 -- Collateral *

Edited by sally, 17 July 2005 - 11:49 PM.

[Darryl A. Armstrong]

My movie journal can be read here.

[Russ]

4/17 Before Sunrise
Before Sunset
4/16 Meet Me in St. Louis
4/13 Contempt
Un Film de SpongeRoberto Squarepants
4/9 Twentynine Palms
4/8 La Strada
Sin City
4/6 The Circle
4/4 Slacker
4/2 Closer
3/30 My Flesh and Blood
3/29 Slacker
3/27 Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory
3/25 Boyfriends and Girlfriends
3/24 Voyage to Italy
The Office 1.1
3/20 Eyes Without a Face
3/19 House of Fools
The Empire Strikes Back
3/14 The Yes Men
3/13 Dekalog #5
3/12 House of Frankenstein
3/11 The Wrong Man
3/10 I Heart Huckabees
3/9 Mean Creek
3/7 Six Feet Under 1.1
3/4 42 Up
3/1 The Village
2/27 Ordet
2/26 Ordet
The Mummy (Karloff)
2/20 Diary of a Country Priest
2/18 35 Up
2/14 Being There
28 Up
2/13 Le Fils
2/12 Le Fils
2/7 Man on Fire
2/6 21 Up
2/5 7 Plus 7
Time Out
2/4 7 Up
2/3 Sideways
1/31 Contact
1/30 Dekalog #1, #2
1/29 Bride of Frankenstein
1/27 Gilmore Girls 2.21, 2.22
1/26 Gilmore Girls 2.18, 2.19, 2.20
1/25 Gilmore Girls 2.17
1/23 The Apostle
Dekalog #2
1/22 The Apostle
1/20 Gilmore Girls 2.16
Open Water
1/19 Gilmore Girls 2.15
1/18 Battle Royale
Gilmore Girls 2.13, 2.14
1/16 O Brother Where Art Thou?
1/14 La Belle et la Bete
1/13 Gilmore Girls 2.12
1/12 Gilmore Girls 2.11
1/11 Gilmore Girls 2.9, 2.10
1/9 Maria Full of Grace
1/7 Gilmore Girls 2.8
1/6 We Don't Live Here Anymore
1/5 Gilmore Girls 2.5, 2.6, 2.7
1/3 I Walked With a Zombie
1/2 Gilmore Girls 2.4
Anchorman
1/1 Gilmore Girls 2.3

Edited by Russ, 18 April 2005 - 04:58 AM.