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