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