Films seen in 2006: Ranked
Submitted by P Pogo on Sun, 01/01/2006 - 11:34
Tags:
5.0
- The 400 Blows (François Truffaut, 1959)
- Frankenstein (James Whale, 1931)
- The General (Clyde Bruckman, Buster Keaton, 1927)
- M*A*S*H (Robert Altman, 1970)
- Murderball (Henry Alex Rubin, Dana Adam Shapiro, 2005)
- Los Olvidados (Luis Buñuel, 1950)
- Nosferatu (F.W. Murnau, 1922)
4.5
- Diabolique (Henri-Georges Clouzot, 1955)
- Fitzcarraldo (Werner Herzog, 1982)
- Harlan County, U.S.A. (Barbara Kopple, 1976)
- In the Bedroom (Todd Field, 2001)
- King Kong (Merian C. Cooper, Ernest B. Schoedsack, 1933)
- Neil Young: Heart of Gold (Jonathan Demme, 2006)
- The Ox-Bow Incident (William A. Wellman, 1943)
- Petulia (Richard Lester, 1968)
- Raw Deal (Anthony Mann, 1948)
- The Seventh Seal (Ingmar Bergman, 1957)
- Tristram Shandy: A Cock and Bull Story (Michael Winterbottom, 2006)
4.0
- Adam's Rib (George Cukor, 1949)
- Aguirre, the Wrath of God (Werner Herzog, 1972)
- Bad News Bears (Michael Ritchie, 1976)
- The Big Lebowski (Joel Coen, 1998)
- Caché (Michael Haneke, 2005)
- Closely Watched Trains (Jirí Menzel, 1966)
- Days of Heaven (Terrence Malick, 1978)
- Elevator to the Gallows (Louis Malle, 1958)
- Foreign Correspondent (Alfred Hitchcock, 1940)
- The Freshman (Fred C. Newmeyer, Sam Taylor, 1925)
- Good Night and Good Luck (George Clooney, 2005)
- Grizzly Man (Werner Herzog, 2005)
- Half Nelson (Ryan Fleck, 2006)
- Hiroshima Mon Amour (Alain Resnais, 1959)
- In a Lonely Place (Nicholas Ray, 1950)
- Junebug (Phil Morrison, 2005)
- The Lady Eve (Preston Sturges, 1941)
- Lady Vengeance (Chan-wook Park, 2005)
- Metropolitan (Whit Stillman, 1990)
- Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (Frank Capra, 1939)
- Mulholland Dr. (David Lynch, 2001)
- Murder, My Sweet (Edward Dmytryk, 1944)
- Raiders of the Lost Ark (Steven Spielberg, 1981)
- Scarface (Howard Hawks, 1932)
- The Squid and the Whale (Noah Baumbach, 2005)
- The Stranger (Orson Welles, 1946)
- Toy Story (John Lasseter, 1995)
- Volver (Pedro Almodóvar, 2006)
- The Wages of Fear (Henri-Georges Clouzot, 1953)
3.5
- Abe Lincoln in Illinois (John Cromwell, 1940)
- After the Thin Man (W.S. Van Dyke, 1936)
- Angels with Dirty Faces (Michael Curtiz, 1938)
- Bananas (Woody Allen, 1971)
- The Beat That My Heart Skipped (Jacques Audiard, 2005)
- Blue Velvet (David Lynch, 1986)
- Born into Brothels (Zana Briski, Ross Kauffman, 2004)
- Broken Flowers (Jim Jarmusch, 2005)
- Capote (Bennett Miller, 2005)
- Cat People (Jacques Tourneur, 1942)
- Duel (Steven Spielberg, 1971)
- He Walked by Night (Alfred L. Werker, Anthony Mann, 1948)
- Hustle & Flow (Craig Brewer, 2005)
- In the Mood for Love (Wong Kar-Wai, 2000)
- Little Miss Sunshine (Jonathan Dayton, Valerie Faris, 2006)
- Match Point (Woody Allen, 2005)
- The Mummy (Karl Freund, 1932)
- Nosferatu the Vampyre (Werner Herzog, 1979)
- Reel Paradise (Steve James, 2005)
- Stardust Memories (Woody Allen, 1980)
- Thank You for Smoking (Jason Reitman, 2005)
- They Drive by Night (Raoul Walsh, 1940)
- Village of the Damned (Wolf Rilla, 1960)
- We Jam Econo: The Story of the Minutemen (Tim Irwin, 2005)
- Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (Mike Nichols, 1966)
- The White Sheik (Federico Fellini, 1952)
3.0
- A Scanner Darkly (Richard Linklater, 2006)
- Arsenic and Old Lace (Frank Capra, 1944)
- Au Hasard Balthazar (Robert Bresson, 1966)
- Blue Car (Karen Moncrieff, 2002)
- The Bourne Identity (Doug Liman, 2002)
- The Break-Up (Peyton Reed, 2006)
- Brewster McCloud (Robert Altman, 1970)
- Brick (Rian Johnson, 2005)
- Burden of Dreams (Les Blank, 1982)
- The Constant Gardener (Fernando Meirelles, 2005)
- Dave Chappelle's Block Party (Michel Gondry, 2005)
- The Descent (Neil Marshall, 2005)
- Don't Look Back (D.A. Pennebaker, 1967)
- Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room (Alex Gibney, 2005)
- The Four Feathers (Zoltan Korda, 1939)
- Hell Is for Heroes (Donald Siegel, 1962)
- A History of Violence (David Cronenberg, 2005)
- I Am Trying to Break Your Heart (Sam Jones, 2002)
- King Kong (Peter Jackson, 2005)
- Little Children (Todd Field, 2006)
- Lord Love a Duck (George Axelrod, 1966)
- loudQUIETloud: A Film about the Pixies (Steven Cantor, Matthew Galkin, 2006)
- March of the Penguins (Luc Jacquet, 2005)
- Mission: Impossible III (J.J. Abrams, 2006)
- Nuovo Cinema Paradiso (Giuseppe Tornatore, 1989)
- Once in a Lifetime: The Extraordinary Story of the New York Cosmos (Paul Crowder, John Dower, 2006)
- Palindromes (Todd Solondz, 2004)
- Primer (Shane Carruth, 2004)
- Scandal (Michael Caton-Jones, 1989)
- The Set-Up (Robert Wise, 1949)
- The Thin Man (W.S. Van Dyke, 1934)
- Wordplay (Patrick Creadon, 2006)
- The World's Fastest Indian (Roger Donaldson, 2005)
2.5
- Baby Doll (Elia Kazan, 1956)
- Bubble (Steven Soderbergh, 2005)
- The Clairvoyant (AKA The Evil Mind) (Maurice Elvey, 1934)
- The Comedians of Comedy (Michael Blieden, 2005)
- Corpse Bride (Tim Burton, Mike Johnson, 2005)
- The Devil and Miss Jones (Sam Wood, 1941)
- Elektra Glide in Blue (James William Guercio, 1973)
- Following (Christopher Nolan, 1998)
- Gates of Heaven (Errol Morris, 1980)
- Genevieve (Henry Cornelius, 1953)
- The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (Garth Jennings, 2005)
- Inside Man (Spike Lee, 2006)
- Kings Row (Sam Wood, 1942)
- Little Caesar (Mervyn LeRoy, 1931)
- Lonesome Jim (Steve Buscemi, 2005)
- The Matador (Richard Shepard, 2005)
- Mysterious Skin (Gregg Araki, 2004)
- Red Eye (Wes Craven, 2005)
- Safety Last! (Fred C. Newmeyer, Sam Taylor, 1923)
- Sarah Silverman: Jesus is Magic (Liam Lynch, 2005)
- Superman Returns (Bryan Singer, 2006)
- V for Vendetta (James McTeigue, 2005)
- Wait Until Dark (Terence Young, 1967)
- Walk the Line (James Mangold, 2005)
- The Wicker Man (Robin Hardy, 1973)
- The Wolf Man (George Waggner, 1941)
- The World of Henry Orient (George Roy Hill, 1964)
- Woyzeck (Werner Herzog, 1979)
2.0
- The Aristocrats (Paul Provenza, 2005)
- Art School Confidential (Terry Zwigoff, 2006)
- Birthday Girl (Jez Butterworth, 2001)
- Breakfast on Pluto (Neil Jordan, 2005)
- The Cuban Love Song (W.S. Van Dyke, 1931)
- The Edukators (Hans Weingartner, 2004)
- House of Usher (Roger Corman, 1960)
- Incident at Loch Ness (Zak Penn, 2004)
- Kiss Kiss Bang Bang (Shane Black, 2005)
- Man Wanted (William Dieterle, 1932)
- Mr. and Mrs. Smith (Doug Liman, 2005)
- My Best Fiend (Werner Herzog, 1999)
- Open Water (Chris Kentis, 2003)
- Pretty Persuasion (Marcos Siega, 2005)
- River's Edge (Tim Hunter, 1987)
- Talledega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby (Adam McKay, 2006)
- Thumbsucker (Mike Mills, 2005)
1.5
- Aeon Flux (Karyn Kusama, 2005)
- Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (Tim Burton, 2005)
- Derailed (Mikael Håfström, 2005)
- Flightplan (Robert Schwentke, 2005)
- The Ice Harvest (Harold Ramis, 2005)
- The Lost World: Jurassic Park (Steven Spielberg, 1997)
- Rumor Has It... (Rob Reiner, 2005)
- She Done Him Wrong (Lowell Sherman, 1933)
1.0
- Dot the I (Matthew Parkhill, 2005)
- The Longest Yard (Peter Segal, 2005)
- Where the Truth Lies (Atom Egoyan, 2005)
0.5
- Beerfest (Jay Chandrasekhar, 2006)
Worse than 0.5
- Dirty Love (John Mallory Asher, 2005)
Cloned From:
A perfect rating for Murderball! I liked it, but not close to that much. It sure was interesting to watch Rubin and Shapiro do a decent job mixing documentary and melodrama together, though. I don't think the film would have been as effective in any other form. Still, there's a part of me that wanted to be manipulated a little bit less...
At some point, I realized my quibbles with the flick were minimal (manipulative, heavy on the aggro-rock, too hard on the tearjerking), but the subjects of the film won me over. It was a transforming experience for me, and I think it would have the same effect on others. So, yeah, if only to inspire people to watch it, why not a perfect rating?
I tend to hold back on the perfect 5.0 rating, but I felt this one I can be satisfied with.