Films seen: In 2007

Submitted by P Pogo on Mon, 01/01/2007 - 12:40
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  1. 12/29: Juno (Jason Reitman, 2007) 3.5
  2. 12/27: The Women (George Cukor, 1939) 4.0
  3. 12/22: The Knack ...and How to Get It (Richard Lester, 1965) 3.0
  4. 12/21: Nothing Sacred (William A. Wellman, 1937) 3.0 [The pacing seems off for a screwball comedy, but Carole Lombard does indeed pack a punch.]
  5. 12/20: Tadpole (Gary Winick, 2002) 3.0
  6. 12/19: The Devil-Doll (Tod Browning, 1936) 3.0 [Lionel Barrymore in drag = good fun.]
  7. 12/17: Spider-Man 3 (Sam Raimi, 2007) 2.5
  8. 12/12: Desperate (Anthony Mann, 1947) 2.5 [Minor noir, but still enjoyable.]
  9. 12/11: The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger, 1943) 4.5
  10. 12/7: No Country for Old Men (Ethan Coen, Joel Coen, 2007) 5.0
  11. 12/3: Deliver Us from Evil (Amy Berg, 2006) 3.5
  12. 11/30: City Lights (Charles Chaplin, 1931) 5.0
  13. 11/29: Friends with Money (Nicole Holofcener, 2006) 3.0
  14. 11/28: Margot at the Wedding (Noah Baumbach, 2007) 3.5 [I've missed JJ Leigh, though I didn't know it until now.]
  15. 11/27: I'm Not There (Todd Haynes, 2007) 2.0 [It's kind of a brilliant mess, which might be more telling about its subject than anything.]
  16. 11/26: The Crowd (King Vidor, 1928) 5.0
  17. 11/24: The Proposition (John Hillcoat, 2005) 3.0
  18. 11/20: Once Upon a Time in the West (Sergio Leone, 1968) 3.5
  19. 11/16: Modern Times (Charles Chaplin, 1936) 5.0
  20. 11/16: /The Jungle Book/ (Wolfgang Reitherman, 1967) 4.0
  21. 11/15: Day of the Dead (George A. Romero, 1985) 2.5
  22. 11/13: Get Carter (Mike Hodges, 1971) 2.5
  23. 11/9: The Host/Gwoemul (Joon-ho Bong, 2006) 4.0
  24. 11/7: Nowhere (Gregg Araki, 1997) 1.0
  25. 11/5: All About Eve (Joseph L. Mankiewicz, 1950) 5.0
  26. 11/4: When a Stranger Calls (Simon West, 2006) 1.0
  27. 11/2: Zazie dans le métro (Louis Malle, 1960) 2.5 [Wow, this one's out there. Not sure what any of it means, but if you like experimental films, it's worth a look.]
  28. 10/28: The Grapes of Wrath (John Ford, 1940) 4.5
  29. 10/28: The Tomb of Ligeia (Roger Corman, 1964) 3.0
  30. 10/27: /The In-Laws/ (Arthur Hiller, 1979) 4.0 [Loses steam at the end, but drop-dead funny.]
  31. 10/25: Black Caesar (Larry Cohen, 1973) 1.5 [Fred Williamson is too good for this movie. The climax is guaranteed to make eyes roll:
    Spoiler: Highlight to view
    seriously, who makes a man shine your shoes before killing him?
    ]
  32. 10/23: Dementia 13 (Francis Ford Coppola, 1963) 1.5 [Good opening dragged down into a dull, moody slasher flick. Features a fun performance by Patrick Magee.]
  33. 10/20: Mark of the Vampire (Tod Browning, 1935) 2.0 [Clever twist endings don't make up for a frustrating picture, but it's a pretty clever twist.]
  34. 10/18: If... (Lindsay Anderson, 1968) 4.0
  35. 10/17: The Thing from Another World (Christian Nyby, Howard Hawks, 1951) 3.0 [30 minutes of this monster movie resemble an Arctic His Girl Friday. Weird.]
  36. 10/14: /Knocked Up/ (Judd Apatow, 2007) 3.5
  37. 10/12: The Asphalt Jungle (John Huston, 1950) 5.0
  38. 10/11: Pat and Mike (George Cukor, 1952) 2.5 [Lesser, dated Hepburn/Tracy pairing.]
  39. 10/9: /The Pit and the Pendulum/ (Roger Corman, 1961) 2.5 [Just watch the last 20 minutes. It's all you need.]
  40. 10/9: Ace in the Hole (Billy Wilder, 1951) 4.0
  41. 10/8: L’Atalante (Jean Vigo, 1934) 3.0
  42. 9/30: The Taking of Pelham One Two Three (Joseph Sargent, 1974) 3.5
  43. 9/28: Eastern Promises (David Cronenberg, 2007) 3.0
  44. 9/19: My Big Fat Greek Wedding (Joel Zwick, 2002) 2.0
  45. 9/12: Kramer vs. Kramer (Robert Benton, 1979) 4.0
  46. 9/11: One, Two, Three (Billy Wilder, 1961) 3.5
  47. 9/9: Infernal Affairs (Wai Keung Lau, Siu Fai Mak, 2002) 4.0
  48. 9/5: The Bourne Ultimatum (Paul Greengrass, 2007) 4.5
  49. 8/28: The Virgin Suicides (Sofia Coppola, 1999) 2.5
  50. 8/14: Piranha (Joe Dante, 1978) 2.5
  51. 8/11: The Simpsons Movie (David Silverman, 2007) 3.0
  52. 8/10: Once (John Carney, 2007) 4.0 [And I'm not a Frames fan.]
  53. 8/7: Barry Lyndon (Stanley Kubrick, 1975) 4.0
  54. 8/1: Tokyo Story (Yasujiro Ozu, 1953) 5.0
  55. 7/26: The Searchers (John Ford, 1956) 3.5
  56. 7/20: /Simon of the Desert/ (Luis Bunuel, 1965) 3.5
  57. 7/16: /The Odd Couple/ (Gene Saks, 1968) 4.0 [What's with all the comedies lately, especially ones I've already seen? Maybe I'm not feeling the need to be challenged these days.]
  58. 7/13: /Monty Python's The Meaning of Life/ (Terry Jones, Terry Gilliam, 1983) 4.0
  59. 7/13: /The 40 Year-Old Virgin/ (Judd Apatow, 2005) 3.5 [Up from 3.0 on a previous viewing.]
  60. 7/12: The Bank Dick (Edward F. Cline, 1940) 2.5
  61. 7/10: Knocked Up (Judd Apatow, 2007) 3.5
  62. 7/10: The Rules of the Game (Jean Renoir, 1939) 4.0
  63. 7/9: Mafioso (Alberto Lattuada, 1962) 4.0
  64. 7/9: Bruce Almighty (Tom Shadyac, 2003) 2.0
  65. 7/1: Climates (Nuri Bilge Ceylan, 2006) 3.5
  66. 6/24: Persona (Ingmar Bergman, 1966) 3.0 [Maybe I'm in a cranky mood from moving this week, but I was stunned by how badly this film came off looking like a student film instead of one from a master.]
  67. 6/18: /Talledega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby/ (Adam McKay, 2006) 2.0
  68. 6/15: The Adventures of Robin Hood (Michael Curtiz, William Keighley, 1938) 5.0
  69. 6/11: The Lives of Others (Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck, 2006) 4.5
  70. 6/9: Casino Royale (Martin Campbell, 2006) 2.5
  71. 6/7: 28 Weeks Later (Juan Carlos Fresnadillo, 2007) 3.5
  72. 6/7: Sorry, Wrong Number (Anatole Litvak, 1948) 3.0
  73. 6/6: Rio Bravo (Howard Hawks, 1959) 4.0
  74. 6/2: An Inconvenient Truth (Davis Guggenheim, 2006) 2.0
  75. 5/29: /The Thing/ (John Carpenter, 1982) 3.0
  76. 5/27: /Hot Fuzz/ (Edgar Wright, 2007) 3.0
  77. 5/24: The Thing (John Carpenter, 1982) 3.0
  78. 5/22: Oldboy (Chan-wook Park, 2003) 4.0 [Good, but disturbing when you think it may have influenced the Virginia Tech killer.]
  79. 5/17: The Killing (Stanley Kubrick, 1956) 3.0
  80. 5/11: Out of Sight (Steven Soderbergh, 1998) 3.0
  81. 5/11: Faster, Pussycat! Kill, Kill! (Russ Meyer, 1965) 2.5 [Enjoyable camp. Just the remedy for The Bridge.]
  82. 5/9: The Bridge (Eric Steel, 2006) 2.5
  83. 5/8: Battleship Potemkin (Sergei Eisenstein, 1925) 4.0 [I think it's got historical value more than actual viewing enjoyment going for it.]
  84. 5/2: The Seven Samurai/Shichinin no samurai (Akira Kurosawa, 1954) 5.0 [It includes the kitchen sink.]
  85. 4/27: Hot Fuzz (Edgar Wright, 2007) 3.0 [Not nearly as revelatory as Shaun of the Dead, but perhaps that's only because I've seen it first.]
  86. 4/26: Vanishing Point (Richard C. Sarafian, 1971) 1.5 [Sorry, Quentin. This is just Smokey and the Bandit w/out the stilted humor or the Jerry Reed songs.]
  87. 4/26: Borat (Larry Charles, 2006) 2.5
  88. 4/24: /The Right Stuff/ (Philip Kaufman, 1983) 3.5
  89. 4/23: /Little Children/ (Todd Field, 2006) 3.5 [Up from 3.0 on first viewing; structure of the film improves with age.]
  90. 4/22: The Conformist (Bernardo Bertolucci, 1970) 4.0
  91. 4/16: The New World (Terrence Malick, 2005) 2.5 [Breathtaking to look at, but just kind of sits there on the screen.]
  92. 4/14: Coffy (Jack Hill, 1973) 1.5
  93. 4/12: The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (John Huston, 1948) 5.0
  94. 4/9: Underworld (Len Wiseman, 2003) 2.0 [And with that, I can finally get my $20 back from this "lost" Netflix disc.]
  95. 4/6: Grindhouse (Robert Rodriguez, Quentin Tarantino, 2007) 3.0 [I heart Zoe Bell and I want a muscle car, and so will anyone who sees this.]
  96. 4/4: Some Like It Hot (Billy Wilder, 1959) 5.0
  97. 3/27: One Day in September (Kevin Macdonald, 1999) 3.5
  98. 3/24: Tsotsi (Gavin Hood, 2005) 4.0
  99. 3/24: La Strada (Federico Fellini, 1954) 5.0
  100. 3/20: The Science of Sleep (Michel Gondry, 2006) 3.0
  101. 3/16: Marie Antoinette (Sofia Coppola, 2006) 2.5
  102. 3/12: 300 (Zach Snyder, 2007) 2.0 [The best video game I've ever seen passed off as a movie.]
  103. 3/10: The Last King of Scotland (Kevin Macdonald, 2006) 4.0
  104. 3/7: West Side Story (Robert Wise, Jerome Robbins, 1961) 4.5
  105. 2/28: Shadow of the Thin Man (W.S. Van Dyke, 1941) 2.5
  106. 2/25: The Departed (Martin Scorsese, 2006) 4.0
  107. 2/23: Trust (Hal Hartley, 1990) 3.0
  108. 2/20: /The Magnificent Ambersons/ (Orson Welles, 1942) 4.5
  109. 2/19: Bukowski: Born into This (John Dullaghan, 2003) 3.0
  110. 2/17: Three Times (Hou Hsiao-hsien, 2006) 2.5
  111. 2/14: The Passenger (Michelangelo Antonioni, 1975) 4.0
  112. 2/10: Night at the Museum (Shawn Levy, 2006) 1.0 [But it improves with a few pints of New Glarus Spotted Cow.]
  113. 2/5: Thirteen (Catherine Hardwicke, 2003) 2.5
  114. 2/3: Touch of Evil (Orson Welles, 1958) 3.0
  115. 2/2: Pan's Labyrinth (Guillermo del Toro, 2006) 3.5
  116. 2/1: The Barbarian Invasions (Denys Arcand, 2003) 4.0 [Probably works best as a companion piece to Decline of the American Empire.]
  117. 1/29: Party Wire (Erle C. Kenton, 1935) 2.5
  118. 1/28: /Shattered Glass/ (Billy Ray, 2003) 3.5 [Down from 4.0.]
  119. 1/22: Brute Force (Jules Dassin, 1947) 4.0
  120. 1/19: Clerks II (Kevin Smith, 2006) 2.0 [If you're a K. Smith fan, you'll like it much more. If only he'd work with a real writer.]
  121. 1/16: Don't Look Now (Nicolas Roeg, 1973) 3.0
  122. 1/12: Wild Strawberries (Ingmar Bergman, 1957) 5.0
  123. 1/11: The Black Dahlia (Brian DePalma, 2006) 0.5
  124. 1/9: Heavenly Creatures (Peter Jackson, 1994) 3.0
  125. 1/8: Jesus Camp (Heidi Ewing, Rachel Grady, 2006) 4.0
  126. 1/8: Blade Runner: The Director's Cut (Ridley Scott, 1982) 1.5 [If the future is set to a score by Vangelis, remind me to off myself.]
  127. 1/4: Layer Cake (Matthew Vaughn, 2004) 2.0
  128. 1/3: The Unbelievable Truth (Hal Hartley, 1989) 2.5
  129. 1/2: Wonderland (James Cox, 2003) 2.0
  130. 1/1: Force of Evil (Abraham Polonsky, 1948) 3.0
Author Comments: 

Rating is on a 5-point scale. Mostly because I'm no longer able to tell the difference between what films were a 1,873,543 and what films were merely a 1,873,542.

Read more at Red Herrings. Or don't. You're old enough to be making your own decisions now.

/title/ - previously seen.

2005: 143 films
2006: 166 films
2007: 130 films

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Films seen: In 2006
dayfornight01/09/2007

Heavenly Creatures (Peter Jackson, 1994) 3.0

Whoa!

1/8: Blade Runner: The Director's Cut (Ridley Scott, 1982) 1.5

WHOA!!

diaskeaus01/10/2007

Blade Runner is one of my favorite movies. I especially liked the weirdly not-centered music.

P Pogo01/11/2007

To be fair, this was my first viewing, and it's 2007, as opposed to 1982.

In 25 years, Scott's vision of the future has become pretty sterile and silly, and the fact stands that once the atmosphere gets stripped away, there's not much meat left.

Also, full disclosure: I'm not a huge sci-fi fan. Rutger Hauer is decent, but Daryl Hannah and Sean Young are laughably bad. I guess I have a tendency to react badly, when I'm expecting to be blown away by a film, and it fails to transport me.

And I'm sorry, I have nothing nice to say about Vangelis as a composer. And my mother told me in that case, it's best to say nothing at all.

dayfornight01/19/2007

Mostly because I'm no longer able to tell the difference between what films were a 1,873,543 and what films were merely a 1,873,542.

Don't you mean a 1,873,543.012 and a 1,873,542.987? ;-)

P Pogo01/20/2007

Well, to be technical, yes. Plpppph.

dayfornight02/04/2007

2/3: Touch of Evil (Orson Welles, 1958) 3.0

Finally, another person who doesn't think "Evil" is all that.

P Pogo02/05/2007

I still think the camerawork is eyepopping. But yeah, this was the "Orson Welles-approved" version too, and it just seemed stagey, improbable and stiff overall. I think I want to go back and watch The Magnificent Ambersons again.

dayfornight04/15/2007

Miss Bell was by far the best thing in "Grindhouse." She stole the show from more accomplished actors like Kurt Russell (who was pretty disappointing IMHO) and Rosario Dawson.

P Pogo04/16/2007

I didn't have a problem with Kurt R., but Freddy Rodriguez (miscast - the mysterious El Wray, really?), Rosario (snore) and Rose McG (beautiful, but dull) really missed for me.

The B-actors featured, like Jeff Fahey and Michael Biehn, know how to pull this type of movie off.

dayfornight04/16/2007

You forgot The Great QT, whose ego seemingly has no bounds. Why, why, why does he continue to believe that he can act?

As for F. Rodriguez, his lack of height was a HUGE distraction for me. Aren't action heroes supposed to be, I don't know, more like Kurt Russell?

greenmind12/28/2007

I don't think an entire bottle of whisky could have saved Night At The Museum. That is one of the worst films ever made. I saw it on an airplane and the thought of crashing actually seemed appealing for brief seconds.