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