Saturday, August 28, 2010

2010









36 Films Screened

Numbers in bold indicate number of screenings

A

A-
Fish Tank (Andrea Arnold)

B+
Joan Rivers: A Piece of Work (Ricki Stern and Anne Sundberg)
Prodigal Sons (Kimberly Reed)

B
The Ghost Writer (Roman Polanski)
Green Zone (Paul Greengrass)
Mother (Bong Joon-ho)
Un Prophète (Jacques Audiard)
Shutter Island (Martin Scorsese)
Toy Story 3 (Lee Unkrich)

B-
The Crazies (Breck Eisner)
Date Night (Shawn Levy)
Emma (Jim O’Hanlon)

C+
Den Brother (Mark L. Taylor)
Inception (Christopher Nolan)
The Killer Inside Me (Michael Winterbottom)
Please Give (Nicole Holofcener)
Red Riding: 1974 (Julian Jarrold)
The Runaways (Floria Sigismondi)

C
I Am Love (Luca Guadagnino)
The Kids Are All Right (Lisa Cholodenko)
Remember Me (Allen Coulter)
Sex and the City 2 (Michael Patrick King)
Twilight Saga: Eclipse (David Slade)
Valentine’s Day (Garry Marshall)

C-
The Back-Up Plan (Alan Poul)
Chloe (Atom Egoyan)
Clash of the Titans (Louis Leterrier)
Death at a Funeral (Neil LaBute)

D+
Charlie St. Cloud (Burr Steers)
The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo (Niels Arden Oplev)
Greenberg (Noah Baumbach)

D
Dear John (Lasse Hallström)
Kick-Ass (Matthew Vaughn)
StarStruck (Michael Grossman)

D-
16 Wishes (Peter DeLuise)
Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time (Mike Newell)

F

Monday, May 4, 2009

2009











80 Films Screened

Numbers in bold indicate number of screenings

A

A-
District 9 (Neill Blomkamp)
Julia (Erick Zonca)
The Messenger (Oren Moverman)
A Single Man (Tom Ford) 2

B+
(500) Days of Summer (Marc Webb)
Adventureland (Greg Mottola)
The Brothers Bloom (Rian Johnson) 2
Capitalism: A Love Story (Michael Moore)
The Informant! (Steven Soderbergh)
Jennifer's Body (Karyn Kusama)
Julie & Julia (Nora Ephron)
Precious (Lee Daniels)
[Rec] (Jaume Balageró and Paco Plaza)
Summer Hours (Olivier Assayas)
Up (Peter Docter and Bob Peterson)

B
Away We Go (Sam Mendes)
Confessions of a Shopaholic (P.J. Hogan)
Drag Me to Hell (Sam Raimi)
Funny People (Judd Apatow)
The Headless Woman (Lucrecia Martel)
The Hurt Locker (Kathryn Bigelow)
In the Loop (Armanda Iannucci)
Inglourious Basterds (Quentin Tarantino)
A Serious Man (Joel and Ethan Coen)
Star Trek (J.J. Abrams)
Sunshine Cleaning (Christine Jeffs)
Tyler Perry's I Can Do Bad All By Myself (Tyler Perry)

B-

Brüno (Larry Charles)
Coraline (Henry Selick)
The Fantastic Mr. Fox (Wes Anderson)

The Girlfriend Experience (Steven Soderbergh)
Grey Gardens (Michael Sucsy)
State of Play (Kevin Macdonald)
Two Lovers (James Gray)
Whip It! (Drew Barrymore)
You, the Living (Roy Andersson)

C+

Avatar (James Cameron)
The Box (Richard Kelly) 2
Broken Embraces (Pedro Almódovar)
Easy Virtue (Stephan Elliott)
An Education (Lone Scherfig)
The Hangover (Todd Phillips)
Moon (Duncan Jones)
Newcastle (Dan Castle)
Police, Adjective (Corneliu Porumboiu)
Ponyo (Hayao Miyazaki)
The Soloist (Joe Wright)
Twilight Saga: New Moon (Chris Weitz)
Tyler Perry's Madea Goes to Jail (Tyler Perry)

C
17 Again (Burr Steers) 4
Bright Star (Jane Campion)
Death in Love (Boaz Yakin)
Duplicity (Tony Gilroy)
The Last Station (Michael Hoffman)
Public Enemies (Michael Mann)
Rudo y Cursi (Carlos Cuarón)
Spring Breakdown (Greg Shiraki)
Where the Wild Things Are (Spike Jonze)
Zombieland (Ruben Fleischer)

C-
Adam (Max Mayer)
He's Just Not That Into You (Ken Kwapis)
Me and Orson Welles (Richard Linklater)
Nine (Rob Marshall)
The Proposal (Anne Fletcher)
The Ugly Truth (Robert Luketic)
Up in the Air (Jason Reitman)

D+
Antichrist
(Lars von Trier)
Assassination of a High School President (Brett Simon)
The Blind Side (John Lee Hancock)
Fighting (Dito Montiel)
The Informers (Gregor Jordan)
Little Ashes (Paul Morrison)
The Lovely Bones (Peter Jackson)

Obsessed (Steve Shill)

D
La Belle Personne (Christophe Honoré)
Princess Protection Program (Allison Liddi)

D-
Bride Wars (Gary Winnick)
Fame (Kevin Tancharoen)


F
G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra (Stephen Sommers)
Jonas Brothers: The 3D Concert Experience (Bruce Hendricks)

Sunday, February 1, 2009

2008












105 Films Screened

Numbers in bold indicate number of screenings

My Top 10 List

A
A Christmas Tale (Arnaud Desplechin)
In Bruges (Martin McDonagh)
Rachel Getting Married (Jonathan Demme) 2
Reprise (Joachim Trier)

A-
American Teen (Nanette Burstein)
Burn After Reading (Joel and Ethan Coen)
The Class (Laurent Cantet)
The Visitor (Thomas McCarthy)
WALL-E (Andrew Stanton) 2
The Wrestler (Darren Aronofsky) 2


B+
Australia (Baz Luhrmann)
Blindness (Fernando Meirelles)
Boy A (John Crowley)
The Edge of Heaven (Faith Akin)
Frozen River (Courtney Hunt)
Funny Games U.S. (Michael Haneke)
Kung Fu Panda (Mark Osborne and John Stevenson)
Milk (Gus Van Sant) 2

Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist (Peter Sollett)
Pineapple Express (David Gordon Green)
Religulous (Larry Charles) 2
Shelter (Jonah Markowitz) 2

B
Birds of America (Craig Lucas)
Choke (Clark Gregg)
Cloverfield (Matt Reeves)
The Dark Knight (Christopher Nolan) 2
Forgetting Sarah Marshall (Nicholas Stoller)
Happy-Go-Lucky (Mike Leigh)

High School Musical 3: Senior Year (Kenny Ortega) 2
The House Bunny (Fred Wolfe) 2

Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day (Bharat Nalluri)
Otto; or, Up With Dead People (Bruce La Bruce)

Role Models (David Wain)
Savage Grace (Tom Kalin)
Stop-Loss (Kimberly Peirce) 2
The Strangers (Bryan Bertino)
Tropic Thunder (Ben Stiller) 2
W. (Oliver Stone) 2
Wendy and Lucy (Kelly Reichardt)

B-
The Bank Job (Roger Donaldson)
Bolt (Bryon Howard and Chris Williams)
Cassandra's Dream (Woody Allen)
Les Chansons d'Amour [Love Songs] (Christophe Honoré)

Cranford (Simon Curtis and Steve Hudson)
Doubt (John Patrick Shanley)
Finding Amanda (Peter Tolan)
Hamlet 2 (Andrew Fleming)

Horton Hears a Who! (Jimmy Hayward and Steve Martino)
Hunger (Steve McQueen)
Man on Wire (James Marsh)
Miracle at St. Anna (Spike Lee)
Paranoid Park (Gus Van Sant)
Sex and the City: The Movie (Michael Patrick King)
Tyler Perry's The Family That Preys (Tyler Perry)
The Witnesses (André Téchiné)

C+
27 Dresses (Anne Fletcher) 3
Baby Mama (Michael McCullers)
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (David Fincher)

Harold & Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay (Jon Hurwitz and Hayden Schlossberg)
Il y a Longtemps Que Je T'aime [I've Loved You So Long] (Philippe Claudel)
Lakeview Terrace (Neil LaBute)
Leatherheads (George Clooney)
Married Life (Ira Sachs)

The Other Boleyn Girl (Justin Chadwicke)
The Reader (Stephen Daldry) 2
Revolutionary Road (Sam Mendes)
Snow Angels
(David Gordon Green)
Valkyrie (Bryan Singer)

C
Be Kind Rewind (Michel Gondry)
Une Fille Coupée un Deux [A Girl Cut in Two] (Claude Chabrol)
Get Smart (Peter Segal)
Iron Man
(Jon Favreau)
Let the Right One In (Tomas Alfredson)
Never Back Down (Jeff Wadlow)
Penelope (Mark Palansky)
Synecdoche, New York (Charlie Kaufman)
Then She Found Me (Helen Hunt)
Twilight (Catherine Hardwicke)
2
Vicky Cristina Barcelona (Woody Allen)

C-
Defiance (Edward Zwick)
Definitely, Maybe (Adam Brooks)
Elegy (Isabel Coixet)
Picture This! (Stephen Herek)
RocknRolla (Guy Ritchie)
The Secret Life of Bees (Gina Prince-Blythewood)
Step Up 2 the Streets (John Chu)
Semi-Pro (Kent Alterman)
Smart People (Noam Murro)

D+
21 (Robert Luketic)
Charlie Bartlett (Jon Poll)
The Foot Fist Way (Jody Hill)
Frost/Nixon (Ron Howard)
Slumdog Millionaire (Danny Boyle)
Tell No One (Guillaume Canet)
Wanted (Timur Bekmambetov)

D
Changeling (Clint Eastwood)
Mamma Mia! (Phyllida Lloyd)
Righteous Kill (Jon Avnet)
Were the World Mine (Tom Gustafson)

D-
Brideshead Revisited (Julian Jarrold)
Jumper (Doug Liman)
Untraceable (Gregory Hoblit)

F
Camp Rock (Matthew Diamond)
Prom Night (Nelson McCormick)
The Wackness (Jonathan Levine)

Major Diva Cup Award Nominees:

Best Picture

A Christmas Tale
In Bruges
Rachel Getting Married
Reprise
WALL-E

Best Director

Darren Aronofsky, The Wrestler
Arnaud Desplechin, A Christmas Tale
Jonathan Demme, Rachel Getting Married
Andrew Stanton, WALL-E
Joachim Trier, Reprise

Best Actor

Colin Farrell, In Bruges
Andrew Garfield, Boy A
Richard Jenkins, The Visitor
Heath Ledger, The Dark Knight
Mickey Rourke, The Wrestler

Best Actress

Anna Faris, The House Bunny
Anne Hathaway, Rachel Getting Married
Sally Hawkins, Happy-Go-Lucky
Melissa Leo, Frozen River
Brittany Snow, Finding Amanda

Best Supporting Actor

Josh Brolin, Milk
Robert Downey, Jr., Tropic Thunder
Emile Hirsch, Milk
Bill Irwin, Rachel Getting Married
Brad Pitt, Burn After Reading

Best Supporting Actress

Hiam Abbass, The Visitor
Penélope Cruz, Vicky Cristina Barcelona
Rosemarie DeWitt, Rachel Getting Married
Ashley Tisdale, High School Musical 3: Senior Year
Marisa Tomei, The Wrestler

Thursday, January 1, 2009

2007












85 Films Screened

Numbers in bold indicate number of screenings

A

Atonement (Joe Wright) 3
Hairspray (Adam Shankman) 6
No Country for Old Men (Joel and Ethan Coen)

A-

2 Days in Paris (Julie Delpy)
The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (Andrew Dominik) 2
Before the Devil Knows You're Dead (Sidney Lumet)
Joshua (George Ratliff)

Sicko (Michael Moore)
Zodiac (David Fincher) 2

B+

4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days (Cristian Mungiu)
Black Book (Paul Verhoeven)
The Bourne Ultimatum (Paul Greengrass)
Bug (William Friedkin)
Day Night Day Night (Julia Loktev)
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (Julian Schnabel) 2
Grindhouse: Planet Terror (Robert Rodriguez)
Hot Fuzz (Edgar Wright) 2
Juno (Jason Reitman)
The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters (Seth Gordon)
Paprika (Satoshi Kon)
Superbad (Greg Mottola) 2
There Will Be Blood (Paul Thomas Anderson)
We Own the Night (James Gray)

B

Black Snake Moan (Craig Brewer)
Control (Anton Corbijn)
Eastern Promises (David Cronenberg)
Enchanted (Kevin Lima)
Gone Baby Gone (Ben Affleck) 2
Knocked Up (Judd Apatow) 2
The Lives of Others (Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck)
Margot at the Wedding (Noah Baumbach)
Michael Clayton (Tony Gilroy) 2
Rocket Science (Jeffrey Blitz) 2
The Savages (Tamara Jenkins)
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (Tim Burton)
Talk to Me (Kasi Lemmons)

B-

3:10 to Yuma (James Mangold)
Lars and the Real Girl (Craig Gillespie)
Lust, Caution (Ang Lee)
Paris, Je T'Aime (Various Directors)
Persepolis (Vincent Paronnaud and Marjane Satrapi)

C+

American Gangster (Ridley Scott)
Away From Her (Sarah Polley)
Blades of Glory (Josh Gordon and Will Speck) 2
The Brave One (Neil Jordan)
Charlie Wilson's War (Mike Nichols) 2
I'm Not There (Todd Haynes) 2
Ratatouille (Brad Bird)

C
Dans Paris (Christophe Honoré)
Fracture (Gregory Hoblit)
Freedom Writers (Richard Lagravenese)
In the Land of Women (Jonathan Kasdan)
Into the Wild
(Sean Penn)
La Vie en Rose (Olivier Dahan)
A Mighty Heart (Michael Winterbottom)
Mr. Woodcock (Craig Gillespie)
Private Fears in Public Places (Alain Resnais)
Snow Cake (Marc Evans)
Sunshine (Danny Boyle)
Waitress (Adrienne Shelley)
Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story (Jake Kasdan)

C-
300 (Zack Snyder)
Evan Almighty (Tom Shadyac)
Once (John Carney)
Rendition (Gavin Hood)
Reno 911: Miami (Robert Ben Garant)
The Ten (David Wain)

D+
Across the Universe (Julie Taymor)
Elizabeth: The Golden Age (Shekhar Kapur)
The Golden Compass (Chris Weitz)
High School Musical 2 (Kenny Ortega) 3
Premonition (Mennan Yapo)

D
Disturbia (D.J. Caruso)
Hannibal Rising (Peter Webber)
Music and Lyrics (Marc Lawrence)

D-
Becoming Jane (Julian Jarrold)
Eagle vs. Shark (Taikia Waititi)
Fred Claus (David Dobkin)
Lucky You (Chris Hanson)
Reign Over Me (Mike Binder)
Shooter (Antoine Fuqua)

F
Blind Dating (James Keach)
The Bucket List (Rob Reiner)
I Know Who Killed Me (Chris Sivertson)
Wild Hogs (Walt Becker)

Major Diva Cup Award Nominees:

Best Picture

The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
Atonement
Before the Devil Knows You're Dead
Hairspray
No Country for Old Men

Best Director

Paul Thomas Anderson, There Will Be Blood
Joel and Ethan Coen, No Country for Old Men
David Fincher, Zodiac
Sidney Lumet, Before the Devil Knows You're Dead
Joe Wright, Atonement

Best Actor
Casey Affleck, The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
Don Cheadle, Talk to Me
Daniel Day-Lewis, There Will Be Blood
Viggo Mortensen, Eastern Promises
Sam Riley, Control

Best Actress
Marion Cotillard, La Vie en Rose
Jodie Foster, The Brave One
Nicole Kidman, Margot at the Wedding
Ellen Page, Juno
Tang Wei, Lust, Caution

Best Supporting Actor
Javier Bardem, No Country for Old Men
Paul Dano, There Will Be Blood
Ben Foster, 3:10 to Yuma
James Marsden, Enchanted, Hairspray
Tom Wilkinson, Michael Clayton

Best Supporting Actress
Charlotte Gainsbourg, I'm Not There
Romola Garai, Atonement
Jennifer Garner, Juno
Amy Ryan, Before the Devil Knows You're Dead, Gone Baby Gone
Tilda Swinton, Michael Clayton

Monday, December 15, 2008

2006












66 Films Screened

Numbers in bold indicate number of screenings

A
The Departed (Martin Scorsese) 3
Dreamgirls (Bill Condon) 5
Litle Miss Sunshine
(Jonathon Dayton and Valerie Faris)

A-
Borat (Larry Charles)
Children of Men (Alfonso Cuaron)
Notes on a Scandal (Richard Eyre) 3
The Painted Veil (John Curran)
Shortbus (John Cameron Mitchell)

B+
Inside Man (Spike Lee) 2
Jesus Camp (Heidi Ewing and Rachel Grady) 2
The Prestige (Christopher Nolan) 2
The Science of Sleep (Michel Gondry)

Thank You For Smoking (Jason Reitman) 2
Volver (Pedro Almodovar)


B
Bugcrush (Carter Smith, short)
The Devil Wears Prada (David Frinkel)
Fast Food Nation (Richard Linklater)
Friends With Money (Nicole Holofcener)
Imagine Me & You (Ol Parker)
Marie Antoinette (Sofia Coppola)
The Notorious Bettie Page (Mary Harron)
Over the Hedge (Tim Johnson and Karey Kirkpatrick)
Pan's Labyrinth (Guillermo del Toro)
This Film Is Not Yet Rated (Kirby Dick) 2
Tristram Shandy: A Cock and Bull Story (Michael Winterbottom)
V For Vendetta (James McTeigue)

B-
Happy Feet (George Miller)
Little Children (Todd Field)
The Queen (Stephen Frears)
Strangers With Candy (Paul Dinello)
United 93 (Paul Greengrass)

C+
Bobby (Emilio Estevez)
Casino Royale (Martin Campbell)
The History Boys (Nicholas Hytner)
Snakes on a Plane (David R. Ellis)
Summer Storm (Marco Kreuzpaintner)
Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby (Adam McKay)

C
Candy (Neil Armfield)
Flags of Our Fathers (Clint Eastwood)
The Good Shepherd (Robert De Niro)
A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints (Dito Montiel)
Half Nelson (Ryan Fleck)
The Last King of Scotland (Kevin Macdonald)

C-
Brick (Rian Johnson)
The Illusionist (Neil Burger)
Madea's Family Reunion (Tyler Perry)
Running With Scissors (Ryan Murphy)
Stranger Than Fiction (Marc Forster)
Water (Deepa Mehta)

D+
Blood Diamond (Edward Zwick)
Un Dimanche a Kigali (Robert Favreau)
High School Musical (Kenny Ortega) 2
She's the Man (Andy Fickman)


D
Babel (Alejandro Gonzales Inarritu)
Deja Vu (Tony Scott)
John Tucker Must Die (Betty Thomas)
Open Season (Roger Allers and Jill Culton)
Step Up (Anne Fletcher) 3

D-
The Black Dahlia (Brian DePalma)
Night at the Museum (Eugene Levy)
The Pursuit of Happyness (Gabriele Muccino)
Superman Returns (Bryan Singer)
Three Times (Huo Hsiao-Hsien)

F
Grandma's Boy (Nicholaus Goossen)
Man of the Year (Barry Levinson)
Stick It (Jessica Bendinger)

Major Diva Cup Award Nominees:

Best Picture
Children of Men
The Departed
Dreamgirls
Little Miss Sunshine
Notes of a Scandal

Best Director

Bill Condon, Dreamgirls
Alfonso Cuarón, Children of Men
Michel Gondry, The Science of Sleep
Christopher Nolan, The Prestige
Martin Scorsese, The Departed

Best Actor
Matt Damon, The Departed
Leonardo DiCaprio, The Departed
Aaron Eckhart, Thank You For Smoking
Ryan Gosling, Half Nelson
Edward Norton, The Painted Veil

Best Actress
Penélope Cruz, Volver
Dame Judi Dench, Notes on a Scandal
Dame Helen Mirren, The Queen
Gretchen Mol, The Notorious Bettie Page
Meryl Streep, The Devil Wears Prada

Best Supporting Actor
Steve Carell, Little Miss Sunshine
Eddie Murphy, Dreamgirls
Jack Nicholson, The Departed
Michael Sheen, The Queen
Mark Wahlberg, The Departed

Best Supporting Actress
Lindsay Beamish, Shortbus
Abigail Breslin, Little Miss Sunshine
Jennifer Hudson, Dreamgirls
Ashley Johnson, Fast Food Nation
Rinko Kikuchi, Babel

Monday, December 1, 2008

2005












64 Films Screened

Numbers in bold indicate number of screenings

A
Brokeback Mountain (Ang Lee) 6
Monster in Law (Robert Luketic) 7

A-

The 40-Year Old Virgin (Judd Apatow) 2
The Constant Gardener (Fernando Meirelles)
King Kong (Peter Jackson) 2
Kings and Queen (Arnaud Desplechin)
Match Point (Woody Allen) 2
Mysterious Skin (Gregg Araki) 2

B+

Brothers (Susanne Bier)
Good Night, and Good Luck (George Clooney) 2
Grizzly Man (Werner Herzog)
A History of Violence (David Cronenberg)
Junebug (Phil Morrison)

B
The Family Stone (Thomas Bezucha)
In Her Shoes (Curtis Hanson)
Jarhead (Sam Mendes)
Murderball (Henry Alex Rubin and Dana Adam Shapiro)
Red Eye (Wes Craven)

B-
Capote (Bennett Miller)
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (Tim Burton)
Downfall (Oliver Hirschbiegel)
The Edukators (Hans Weingartner)
Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room (Alex Gibney)
Must Love Dogs (Gary David Goldberg)
Pride & Prejudice (Joe Wright)
The Squid and the Whale (Noah Baumbach)
Transamerica (Duncan Tucker) 2
The Upside of Anger (Mike Binder)
Walk the Line (James Mangold)

C+
Diary of a Mad Black Woman (Darren Grant)
Flightplan (Robert Schwentke)
Havoc (Barbara Kopple) 2
Mrs. Henderson Presents (Stephen Frears)
The Producers (Susan Stroman) 2
Wedding Crashers (David Dobkin) 2

C

The Brothers Grimm (Terry Gilliam)
Crash (Paul Haggis) 2
Memoirs of a Geisha (Rob Marshall)
Mr. & Mrs. Smith (Doug Liman) 2
Prime (Ben Younger)
An Unfinished Life (Lasse Hallstrom)
Waiting... (Rob McKittrick)
War of the Worlds (Steven Spielberg)
The World's Fastest Indian (Roger Donaldson)

C-
Derailed (Mikael Hafstrom)
Heights (Chris Terrio)
Kiss Kiss Bang Bang (Shane Black)
Proof (John Madden)
Rumor Has It... (Rob Reiner)

Shopgirl (Anand Tucker)
Sin City (Frank Miller and Robert Rodriguez) 2

D+

Madagascar (Eric Darnell and Tom McGrath)
March of the Penguins (Luc Jacquet)
The New World (Terrence Malick)
North Country (Niki Caro)

D
Bewitched (Nora Ephron)
Saw II (Darren Lynn Bousman)

D-
Me and You and Everyone We Know (Miranda July)
Stay (Marc Forster)
The Ring Two (Hideo Nakata)

F
Bee Season (David Siegel and Scott McGehee)
Hide and Seek (John Polson)
Hitch (Andy Tennant)
Ma Mère (Christophe Honoré)

Major Diva Cup Award Nominees:

Best Picture

The 40-Year Old Virgin
Brokeback Mountain
The Constant Gardener
Monster in Law
Mysterious Skin

Best Director

Woody Allen, Match Point
Judd Apatow, The 40-Year Old Virgin
Gregg Araki, Mysterious Skin
Ang Lee, Brokeback Mountain
Fernando Meirelles, The Constant Gardener

Best Actor

Ralph Fiennes, The Constant Gardener
Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Mysterious Skin
Heath Ledger, Brokeback Mountain
Joaquin Phoenix, Walk the Line
Vince Vaughn, Wedding Crashers

Best Actress
Joan Allen, The Upside of Anger
Dame Judi Dench, Mrs. Henderson Presents
Jane Fonda, Monster in Law
Felicity Huffman, Transamerica
Diane Lane, Must Love Dogs

Best Supporting Actor
Matt Dillon, Crash
Jake Gyllenhaal, Brokeback Mountain
Terrence Howard, Crash
Tyler Perry, Diary of a Mad Black Woman
Andy Serkis, King Kong

Best Supporting Actress
Amy Adams, Junebug
Isla Fisher, Wedding Crashers
Wanda Sykes, Monster in Law
Rachel Weisz, The Constant Gardener
Michelle Williams, Brokeback Mountain

Saturday, November 1, 2008

2004












84 Films Screened

Numbers in bold indicate number of screenings

A
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (Michel Gondry) 2
Fahrenheit 9/11 (Michael Moore)
Kill Bill Volume 2 (Quentin Tarantino) 2
Mean Girls (Mark Waters) 5

A-
Bad Education (Pedro Almodóvar)
Dogville (Lars von Trier)
The Incredibles (Brad Bird)

B+

The Aviator (Martin Scorsese)
Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story
(Rawson Marshall Thurber) 2
Finding Neverland (Marc Forster) 2
Good Bye, Lenin! (Wolfgang Becker)
I Heart Huckabees (David O. Russell)
Million Dollar Baby (Clint Eastwood)

B
Hero (Zhang Yimou)
Hotel Rwanda (Terry George)
Shaun of the Dead (Edgar Wright)
Super Size Me (Morgan Spurlock)
Team America: World Police (Trey Parker)
Vera Drake (Mike Leigh)

B-
Collateral (Michael Mann)
The Chorus/Les Choristes (Christophe Barratier) 2
The Door in the Floor (Tod Williams)
House of Flying Daggers (Zhang Yimou)
In Good Company (Paul Weitz)
Kinsey (Bill Condon)
Maria Full of Grace (Joshua Marston)
Meet the Fockers (Jay Roach)
Saw (James Wan)
Shrek 2 (Andrew Adamson, Kelly Asbury and Conrad Vernon)

C+
Birth
(Jonathan Glazer)
Closer (Mike Nichols)
Dear Frankie (Shona Auerbach)
The Dreamers (Bernardo Bertolucci)
Notre Musique (Jean-Luc Godard)
The Phantom of the Opera (Joel Schumacher)
Ray (Taylor Hackford)
The Sea Inside (Alejandro Amenábar)
Sideway (Alexander Payne)
Suspect Zero (E. Elias Merhige)

C
13 Going on 30 (Gary Winick)
Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy (Adam McKay)
C.S.A.: Confederate States of America (Kevin Willmott)
Eurotrip (Jeff Schafer)
The Machinist (Brad Anderson)
Spanglish (James L. Brooks)
Wimbeldon (Richard Loncraine)

C-
The Assassination of Richard Nixon
(Niels Muller)
Being Julia (István Szabó)
Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen (Sara Sugarman)
Cutie Honey (Hideaki Anno)
De-Lovely (Irwin Winkler)
Garden State (Zach Braff)
Latter Days (C. Jay Cox)
The Motorcycle Diaries (Walter Salles)
The Notebook (Nick Cassavetes)
Open Water (Chris Kentis) 3
Secret Window
(David Koepp)
Starsky and Hutch (Todd Phillips)
Sugar (John Palmer)
Taking Lives (D.J. Caruso)

D+
The Clearing
(Pieter Jan Brugge)
The Manchurian Candidate (Jonathan Demme)
Miracle (Gavin O'Connor)
Ocean's 12 (Steven Soderbergh)
Stage Beauty (Richard Eyre)
The Stepford Wives (Frank Oz)
The Village (M. Night Shyalaman)

D
After the Sunset (Brett Ratner)
Cellular (David R. Ellis)
I'll Sleep When I'm Dead (Mike Hodges)
Napoleon Dynamite (Jared Hess)
National Treasure (Jon Turteltaub)
Silver City (John Sayles)
Twisted (Philip Kaufman)

D-
Primer (Shane Carruth)
Shall We Dance? (Peter Chelsom)

F
Alfie (Charles Shyer)
The Butterfly Effect (Eric Bress and J. Mackye Gruber)
The Day After Tomorrow (Roland Emmerich)
The Forgotten (Joseph Ruben)
The Grudge (Takashi Shimizu)
Sky Captain and the World Tomorrow (Kerry Conran)
Troy (Wolfgang Petersen)
Welcome to Mooseport (Donald Petrie)

Major Diva Cup Award Nominees:

Best Picture

Dogville
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Fahrenheit 9/11
Mean Girls
Kill Bill Volume 2

Best Director

Pedro Almodóvar, Bad Education
Michel Gondry, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Michael Moore, Fahrenheit 9/11
Quentin Tarantino, Kill Bill Volume 2
Lars von Trier, Dogville

Best Actor

Gael Garcia Bernal, Bad Education
Jim Carrey, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

Leonardo DiCaprio, The Aviator
Clint Eastwood, Million Dollar Baby
Steve Sandvoss, Latter Days

Best Actress
Nicole Kidman, Dogville
Natalie Portman, Garden State
Imelda Staunton, Vera Drake

Uma Thurman, Kill Bill Volume 2
Kate Winslet, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

Best Supporting Actor
Paul Bettany, Dogville
David Carradine, Kill Bill Volume 2
Morgan Freeman, Million Dollar Baby
Clive Owen, Closer
Mark Wahlberg, I Heart Huckabees

Best Supporting Actress
Patricia Clarkson, Dogville
Minnie Driver, The Phantom of the Opera
Daryl Hannah, Kill Bill Volume 2
Rachel McAdams, Mean Girls
Natalie Portman, Closer