Films seen: In 2005

Submitted by P Pogo on Mon, 01/10/2005 - 13:50
Tags: 
  • Delicious
  • Digg
  • StumbleUpon
  • Facebook
  • Google
  • Technorati
  1. 12/31: /Network/ (Sidney Lumet, 1976) 4.5
  2. 12/26: Bad News Bears (Richard Linklater, 2005) 2.5
  3. 12/24: /It's a Wonderful Life/ (Frank Capra, 1946) 3.5
  4. 12/14: Happy Endings (Don Roos, 2005) 2.5
  5. 12/10: /Miracle on 34th Street/ (George Seaton, 1947) 3.5
  6. 12/6: The Fury (Brian De Palma, 1978) 2.0 [One-half point added for 2 quality kills.]
  7. 12/5: Ali: Fear Eats the Soul (Rainer Werner Fassbinder, 1974) 3.0
  8. 12/1: Badlands (Terrence Malick, 1973) 4.0
  9. 11/29: Take the Money and Run (Woody Allen, 1969) 3.0
  10. 11/28: Capote (Bennett Miller, 2005) 3.5
  11. 11/26: In the Soup (Alexandre Rockwell, 1992) 3.0
  12. 11/23: Backbeat (Iain Softley, 1994) 2.0
  13. 11/20: Out of the Past (Jacques Tourneur, 1947) 3.5
  14. 11/18: The Awful Truth (Leo McCarey, 1937) 3.5
  15. 11/10: The Saddest Music in the World (Guy Maddin, 2004) 3.5
  16. 11/7: Batman Begins (Christopher Nolan, 2005) 2.5
  17. 11/3: Land of the Dead (George A. Romero, 2005) 3.0
  18. 10/31: That Obscure Object of Desire (Luis Buñuel, 1977) 3.5
  19. 10/27: Chain Camera (Kirby Dick, 2001) 3.0
  20. 10/25: /My Bodyguard/ (Tony Bill, 1980) 2.5
  21. 10/21: /Dr. Strangelove, or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb/ (Stanley Kubrick, 1964) 5.0
  22. 10/17: I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang (Mervyn LeRoy, 1932) 5.0
  23. 10/14: Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy (Adam McKay, 2004) 1.0
  24. 10/10: /Monty Python's The Meaning of Life/ (Terry Jones, Terry Gilliam, 1983) 4.0
  25. 10/8: The 40 Year-Old Virgin (Judd Apatow, 2005) 3.0
  26. 10/7: Eyes Without a Face (Georges Franju, 1959) 4.0
  27. 10/2: Outfoxed: Rupert Murdoch's War on Journalism (Robert Greenwald, 2004) 3.0
  28. 9/30: Head (Bob Rafelson, 1968) 2.5
  29. 9/25: /Sideways/ (Alexander Payne, 2004) 4.5
  30. 9/24: Kung Fu Hustle (Stephen Chow, 2004) 3.0
  31. 9/21: Osama (Siddiq Barmak, 2003) 3.0
  32. 9/16: In Good Company (Paul Weitz, 2004) 2.5
  33. 9/14: The Yes Men (Dan Ollman, Sarah Price, Chris Smith, 2003) 2.0
  34. 9/14: Double Indemnity (Billy Wilder, 1944) 5.0
  35. 9/9: The Palm Beach Story (Preston Sturges, 1942) 3.5
  36. 9/8: Sin City (Robert Rodriguez, Frank Miller, Quentin Tarantino, 2005) 2.5
  37. 8/30: Targets (Peter Bogdanovich, 1968) 3.0
  38. 8/25: DiG! (Ondi Timoner, 2004) 3.0
  39. 8/24: /After Hours/ (Martin Scorsese, 1985) 3.5
  40. 8/16: Shampoo (Hal Ashby, 1975) 2.0
  41. 8/14: /His Girl Friday/ (Howard Hawks, 1940) 5.0
  42. 8/13: Prick Up Your Ears (Stephen Frears, 1987) 3.0
  43. 8/12: Me and You and Everyone We Know (Miranda July, 2005) 2.5
  44. 8/10: Kinsey (Bill Condon, 2004) 2.5
  45. 8/10: L'Âge d'or (Luis Buñuel, 1930) 4.0
  46. 8/6: The Americanization of Emily (Arthur Hiller, 1964) 3.5
  47. 8/4: Gigantic (A Tale of Two Johns) (AJ Schnack, 2002) 2.5
  48. 8/4: Pickup on South Street (Samuel Fuller, 1953) 3.5
  49. 8/1: Two Guys from Milwaukee (David Butler, 1946) 2.0
  50. 7/27: Bad Day at Black Rock (John Sturges, 1955) 4.5
  51. 7/18: Wedding Crashers (David Dobkin, 2005) 2.5
  52. 7/16: This Old Cub (Jeff Santo, 2004) 2.5
  53. 7/9: The Aviator (Martin Scorcese, 2004) 3.0
  54. 7/7: The Assassination of Richard Nixon (Niels Mueller, 2004) 2.5
  55. 7/7: Coffee and Cigarettes (Jim Jarmusch, 2003) 3.0
  56. 7/7: Team America: World Police (Trey Parker, 2004) 2.0
  57. 7/6: Roman Holiday (William Wyler, 1953) 4.0
  58. 6/29: Repulsion (Roman Polanski, 1965) 3.5
  59. 6/25: /Reservoir Dogs/ (Quentin Tarantino, 1992) 3.5
  60. 6/25: Le Corbeau (Henri-Georges Clouzot, 1943) 4.0
  61. 6/20: The Day after Tomorrow (Roland Emmerich, 2004) 2.0
  62. 6/17: Alone in the Dark (Uwe Boll, 2005) 0.0
  63. 6/16: /Hoop Dreams/ (Steve James, 1994) 5.0
  64. 6/15: The Motorcycle Diaries (Walter Salles, 2004) 3.0
  65. 6/12: Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room (Alex Gibney, 2005) 3.0
  66. 6/3: Mean Girls (Mark Waters, 2004) 2.0
  67. 6/2: /The Great Escape/ (John Sturges, 1963) 4.0
  68. 6/1: The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou (Wes Anderson, 2004) 2.0
  69. 5/28: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (Garth Jennings, 2005) 2.5
  70. 5/26: Hotel Rwanda (Terry George, 2004) 3.0
  71. 5/25: Simon of the Desert (Luis Buñuel, 1965) 3.5
  72. 5/17: If I Should Fall from Grace: The Shane MacGowan Story (Sarah Share, 2001) 2.5
  73. 5/13: The Life and Death of Peter Sellers (Stephen Hopkins, 2004) 2.0
  74. 5/12: Ray (Taylor Hackford, 2004) 2.5
  75. 5/10: The Exterminating Angel (Luis Buñuel, 1962) 4.5
  76. 5/8: The Corporation (Jennifer Abbott, Mark Achbar, 2003) 3.0
  77. 5/7: Viridiana (Luis Buñuel, 1961) 4.5
  78. 5/5: Closer (Mike Nichols, 2004) 2.5
  79. 4/30: Bad Education (Pedro Almodóvar, 2004) 3.0
  80. 4/28: The Major and the Minor (Billy Wilder, 1942) 3.0
  81. 4/24: Ocean's Twelve (Steven Soderbergh, 2004) 2.5
  82. 4/14: The Incredibles (Brad Bird, 2004) 4.0
  83. 4/12: Belle de Jour (Luis Buñuel, 1967) 4.5
  84. 4/10: /Running on Empty/ (Sidney Lumet, 1988) 2.5
  85. 4/9: /About Schmidt/ (Alexander Payne, 2002) 4.0
  86. 4/8: Horse Feathers (Norman Z. McLeod, 1932) 3.0
  87. 4/8: Captain Blood (Michael Curtiz, 1935) 3.5
  88. 4/7: Wimbledon (Richard Loncraine, 2004) 1.5
  89. 4/2: Friday Night Lights (Peter Berg, 2004) 2.0
  90. 3/25: Last Life in the Universe (Pen-Ek Ratanaruang, 2003) 2.0
  91. 3/19: The Battle of Algiers (Gillo Pontecorvo, 1965) 4.0
  92. 3/16: Walking Tall (Kevin Bray, 2004) 1.0
  93. 3/15: Miss Pinkerton (Lloyd Bacon, 1932) 1.5
  94. 3/14: The Door in the Floor (Tod Williams, 2004) 2.5
  95. 3/13: /Short Cuts/ (Robert Altman, 1993) 2.5
  96. 3/10: Sweet Smell of Success (Alexander Mackendrick, 1957) 3.5
  97. 3/10: Beach Blanket Bingo (William Asher, 1965) 2.0
  98. 3/7: Party Girl (Daisy von Scherler Mayer, 1995) 1.5
  99. 3/5: /The Miracle of Morgan's Creek/ (Preston Sturges, 1944) 4.5
  100. 3/5: /The Dirty Dozen/ (Robert Aldrich, 1967) 3.0
  101. 3/5: Twentieth Century (Howard Hawks, 1934) 3.5
  102. 3/1: I Heart Huckabees (David O. Russell, 2004) 2.5
  103. 2/25: /The Sting/ (George Roy Hill, 1973) 4.0
  104. 2/24: /Knife in the Water/ (Roman Polanski, 1962) 5.0
  105. 2/24: Brief Encounter (David Lean, 1945) 4.5
  106. 2/18: Cactus Flower (Gene Saks, 1969) 2.0
  107. 2/16: The Stepford Wives (Frank Oz, 2004) 2.0
  108. 2/13: /Swimming to Cambodia/ (Jonathan Demme, 1987) 3.5
  109. 2/12: Kill Bill, Vol. 2 (Quentin Tarantino, 2004) 4.0
  110. 2/12: M (Fritz Lang, 1931) 4.5
  111. 2/11: /The China Syndrome/ (James Bridges, 1979) 3.0
  112. 2/10: /Intolerable Cruelty/ (Joel Coen, 2003) 2.5
  113. 2/10: The Silencers (Phil Karlson, 1966) 2.0
  114. 2/7: Bush's Brain (Joseph Mealey, Michael Shoob, 2004) 2.0
  115. 2/6: Touching the Void (Kevin McDonald, 2003) 3.5
  116. 2/6: /A Fish Called Wanda/ (Charles Crichton, 1988) 3.0
  117. 2/4: /The War Room/ (Chris Hedegus, D.A. Pennebaker, 1993) 3.0
  118. 2/3: Harold and Kumar Go to White Castle (Danny Leiner, 2004) 1.0
  119. 2/2: Catwoman (Pitof, 2004) 0.5
  120. 2/2: The Call of the Wild (William Wellman, 1935) 2.5
  121. 2/1: Maria Full of Grace (Joshua Marston, 2004) 3.0
  122. 1/26: /Napoleon Dynamite/ (Jared Hess, 2004) 3.0
  123. 1/24: The Split (Gordon Flemyng, 1968) 2.0
  124. 1/23: /Glengarry Glen Ross/ (James Foley, 1992) 4.0
  125. 1/22: /Shaun of the Dead/ (Edgar Wright, 2004) 3.0
  126. 1/22: Detour (Edgar G. Ulmer, 1945) 3.0
  127. 1/20: The Lady from Shanghai (Orson Welles, 1947) 3.5
  128. 1/17: Dangerous Female (AKA The Maltese Falcon) (Roy Del Ruth, 1931) 3.5
  129. 1/16: /The Daytrippers/ (Greg Mottola, 1996) 2.5
  130. 1/13: Railroaded! (Anthony Mann, 1947) 2.0
  131. 1/11: The Miracle of Morgan's Creek (Preston Sturges, 1944) 4.5
  132. 1/9: Portrait of Jennie (William Dieterle, 1948) 3.0
  133. 1/7: /The Manchurian Candidate/ (John Frankenheimer, 1962) 4.0
  134. 1/2: The Ruling Class (Peter Medak, 1972) 3.5
Author Comments: 

Rating is on a 5.0 point scale. Read more at One Thumb Sideways. Or don't. Nobody's holding a gun to your head.

/title/ - previously seen.

dayfornight01/12/2005

Oh boy, I can't wait to watch "Miracle of Morgan's Creek." Thank goodness for TiVO!

Kza02/03/2005

Oh, man, Catwoman, huh? Did curiosity kill you?

dayfornight02/03/2005

Yeah, why, man, why?

P Pogo02/04/2005

I've been in a so-bad-it's-delicious mood lately, in light of the Razzie nominations and the latest B-Fest. Hence Catwoman and Harold and Kumar back-to-back.

That said, even I don't think I'd have the stomach for Superbabies: Baby Geniuses 2.

Cosgrove02/05/2005

Oh, pshaw. "Superbabies" is only assembly-line kiddie-flick bad. If you can survive "Catwoman", "Superbabies" should be a walk.

(And what's up with the "Kumar" hate?)

192202/07/2005

SHOCK...HELP...A Fish Called Wanda J-U-S-T 3 out of 5???????

P Pogo02/07/2005

I have a feeling that the "low" rating is a result of repeated viewings. Jamie Lee Curtis' performance has always driven me batty; she's not built for romantic comedy. The rest of the cast give their all in some wonderfully irreverent scenes, but its overall impact has waned over the years. It doesn't bowl me over and never did. I wavered betw 3 and 3.5 for this one, and ultimately "damned" it to the lower rating. However, I still enjoy and recommend it.

192202/07/2005

OK, I'm recovering from my shock. :)
I understand your point. Yet for me it is the other way round: the more I watch it, the more I enjoy it.

192203/20/2005

Luke was right. There seems to be a real Battle of Algiers-enthusiasm on listology in 2005. Fantastic film.

dayfornight05/06/2005

So, you didn't love "Closer," either, I see.

P Pogo05/06/2005

I just thought it was sort of stilted and disjointed, and I didn't like the Usual Suspects ending. It was also not nearly as smart as it pretended to be, and came off as pretentious, cold and calculated. But other than that, it was great. ;)

dayfornight05/06/2005

Yes, I completely agree. And, Ms. Portman was terribly miscast in my opinion.

SA05/07/2005

I actually liked "Closer". Maybe the film was cold because the characters are. :) All four of them are a bunch of you-know-whats. Sometimes, that's life. Their aren't many movies where all lead characters are like that. It intrigued me how easily they played with other people's feelings. I actually liked the dialogue. Especially one line uttered by I believe Jude Law at one moment. "What's so great about the truth? Try lying for a change, it's the currency of the world."

I actually didn't think Portman was miscast. I actually thought all four of them did a splendid job.

I can see why people don't love it though. It's not a film for everyone. But I thought it was a good film.

P Pogo05/07/2005

I believe director Nichols did a correct interpretation of Patrick Marber's script. I just didn't like the script. It wanted to be Carnal Knowledge (also by Nichols) or LaBute's In the Company of Men, but somehow it was just half-hearted and false. It was love = cruelty and sex = sorrow, but the story wasn't strong enough to support it.

And of the actors, I thought Portman was far better cast than Julia Roberts or Jude Law.

dayfornight05/07/2005

I agree about Roberts and Law. Neither of them did justice to the material. Clive Owen, however, did a marvelous job. Someone give him the James Bond and quick!

dayfornight07/10/2005

Three flicks in one day. How did you manage that? :-)

P Pogo07/11/2005

Watching movies in stages... Had the first hour under my belt on 2 of these. Getting two hours in a row to watch something is pretty tricky while chasing around a kid that just started crawling.

dayfornight12/02/2005

I know this is a (very) minority opinion, but I'd take "Take the Money and Run" over "Dr. Strangelove" any day.

auto_matt_ic12/03/2005

I agree with Dale Thomajan's statement that the wit was dated when the movie came out. I love "Take the Money & Run," too, so I'm with you on that (in fact, I think "Dr. Strangelove" belongs with "Fear & Desire" as Stanley K.'s weakest work).

P Pogo12/06/2005

Ouch! Well, I think you'll understand if I disagree. Both of these movies are understandably dated, but if you're going to pick lesser movies by director, TTM&R is definitely inferior to other Allen pics, including several of his "early funny ones" (Annie Hall, Sleeper, Love and Death), while Strangelove is truly one of the best black comedies ever made.

I dunno, maybe I'm swayed by the subversiveness and social impact of Strangelove. Even though I didn't live through the Bay of Pigs, I can appreciate how frightening it would have been. Plus there is the cockeyed notion in Kubrick and Southern's script that men start war because they are deprived of sexual pleasure. Strangelove also takes one of the most frightening catastrophes imaginable - one of mass murder, and flipped it on its ear. It's like if someone would make a farce about the WTC attack on 9/11.

Don't get me wrong, TTM&R is very funny. But it's full of one-liners, and tiny sketches -- not a fully realized film. Allen remains a competent actor at best, and his co-star, Janet Margolin, while beautiful, is not up to the task of transmitting Allen's humor.

Granted, Strangelove comes saddled with a lot of hype, and Kubrick's made a better movie (I like 2001), but I've got to give it the edge over Allen's picture.