Films Seen 2006
Submitted by heyrocker on Mon, 01/02/2006 - 12:49
Tags:
- 1/1 - Capote (2005, Bennett Miller) [f] B
- 1/10 - Brokeback Mountain (2005, Ang Lee) [f] B+
- 1/14 - The Squid And The Whale (2005, Noah Baumbach) [f] B
- 1/19 - Munich (2005, Stephen Spielberg) [f] B-
- 1/21 - Match Point (2005, Woody Allen) [f] B
- 1/29 - Cache (2005, Michael Haneke) [f] B+
- 1/30 - The New World (2005, Terenace Malick) [f] A
- 2/4 - Repast (1951, Mikio Naruse) [f] B-
- 2/12 - Breakfast At Tiffany's (1961, Blake Edwards) [f] A-
- 2/25 - /UHF/ (Jay Levey, 1989) [V] C
- 3/5 - Tristram Shandy: A Cock And Bull Story (2006, Michael Winterbottom) [f] B+
- 3/11 - Crash (2005, Paul Haggis) [f] D+
- 3/18 - Unknown White Male (2006, Rupert Murray) [f] B-
- 3/19 - Dave Chappelle's Block Party (2006, Michel Gondry) [f] B+
- 3/30 - Sherlock Jr. (1924, Buster Keaton) [f] A
- 4/9 - L'Intrus (2005, Claire Denis) [f] C+
- 4/16 - Inside Man (2006, Spike Lee) [f] B-
- 4/23 - Brick (2006, Rian Johnson) [f] B
- 4/30 - V For Vendetta (2006, James McTeigue) [f] C+
- 5/5 - /Hard Boiled/ (1992, John Woo) [V] A
- 5/7 - Mission Impossible 3 (2006, JJ Abrams) [f] B+
- 5/8 - /Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon/ (2000, Ang Lee) [V] A-
- 5/26 - Pusher (1996, Nicolas Winding Refn) [f] A-
- 5/26 - Pusher II (2004, Nicolas Winding Refn) [f] B
- 5/27 - Pusher III (2005, Nicolas Winding Refn) [f] C
- 5/27 - Chronicles Of A Professional Eulogist (2005, Sara Jane Lapp) [v] D
- 5/27 - Souvenir (2005, Stephen Rose) [v] C-
- 5/27 - Case Of The Grinning Cat (2004, Chris Marker) [v] C
- 5/27 - This Film Is Not Yet Rated (2005, Kirby Dick) [v] B
- 5/28 - *********************************** (****, ***********) [f] B
- 5/28 - Au Bonheur Des Dames (1930, Julien Duviver) [f] B-
- 5/28 - Wordplay (2006, Patrick Creadon) [v] A
- 5/29 - Princess Raccoon (2005, Seijun Suzuki) [f] C-
- 5/29 - The King (2005, James Marsh) [f] D+
- 5/29 - The Horizon Of Events (2005, Daniele Vicari) [f] C
- 5/30 - Clouds (2005, Mark McConnell) [v] D
- 5/30 - A Darkness Swallowed (2006, Betzy Bromberg) [f] C
- 5/31 - How Little We Know of Our Neighbours (2005, Rebecca Baron) [v] B
- 5/31 - Worldly Desires (2006, Apichatpong Weerasethakul) [v] B
- 5/31 - Everyone Stares: The Police Inside Out (2006, Stewart Copeland) [v] A
- 6/1 - My Dad Is 100 Years Old (2005, Guy Maddin) [f] A-
- 6/1 - The Flowers Of St Francis (1950, Roberto Rossellini) [f] C-
- 6/1 - Rome, Open City (1945, Roberto Rossellini) [f] B+
- 6/2 - A Prairie Home Companion (2006, Robert Altman) [f] B-
- 6/3 - Screaming Masterpieces (2005, Ari Alexander Ergis Magnússon) [f] B+
- 6/3 - Push For Signal (2005, Andrew Allen) [v] B
- 6/3 - Dragon (2006, Troy Morgan) [v] B+
- 6/3 - Dublin 1 (2005, Jason Tammemägi) [v] C
- 6/3 - Cockroach (2005, Paul Jacamon, Thomas Léonard, Guillaume Marques) [v] B+
- 6/3 - Fable (2005, Daniel Sousa) [v] D
- 6/3 - The Gift (2005, Jessica Langford) [v] C
- 6/3 - Home Delivery (2005, Elio Quiroga) [f] B
- 6/3 - I’m Gonna Dance wit the Guy wot Brung Me (2005, Jessica Forer) [v] D
- 6/3 - The Luminary (2005, Nicholas Kallincos) [v] B
- 6/3 - Marvelous, Keen Loony Bin (2005, Lizzi Akana) [v] C
- 6/3 - Ministry Messiah (2005, Gints Apsits) [v] D
- 6/3 - A Painful Glimpse Into My Writing Process (In Less Than 60 Seconds) (2005, Chel White) [v] B
- 6/3 - The Tell Tale Heart (2005 Raul Garcia) [v] B+
- 6/4 - *********** (****, ************) [f] B
- 6/4 - I Am (Not) Van Gogh (2005, David Russo) [f] A-
- 6/4 - The Puffy Chair (2005, Jay Duplass) [v] B+
- 6/4 - Wristcutters: A Love Story (2006, Goran Dukic) [f] B-
- 6/4 - Little Red Flowers (2006, Zhang Yuan) [f] D
- 6/6 - Hell (2005, Danis Tanovic) [f] B+
- 6/6 - Someone Else's Happiness (2005, Fien Troch) [f] C
- 6/9 - Seven Swords (2005, Tsui Hark) [f] B-
- 6/10 - The Gold Rush (1925, Charles Chaplin) [f] B
- 6/10 - The Distant Journey (1950, Alfred Radok) [f] B
- 6/10 - Perhaps Love (2005, Peter Chan) [f] B
- 6/10 - /Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind/ (2004, Michel Gondry) [V] A+
- 6/11 - ******************** (****, **********) [f] B-
- 6/11 - The Man Who Cheated Himself (1950, Felix E Feist) [f] B
- 6/11 - The Window (1949, Ted Tetzlaff) [f] B+
- 6/13 - Three Times (2005, Hou Hsiou-Hsien) [f] C- (or if you like, B- / D / C-)
- 6/13 - The Fish Fall In Love (2005, Ali Raffi) [f] B
- 6/15 - Across The Hall (2005, Alex Merkin) [v] C+
- 6/15 - Brother (2005, Galvin Scott Davis) [f] C-
- 6/15 - Full Disclosure (2005, Douglas Horn) [f] B+
- 6/15 - Mute (2005, Melissa Joan Hart) [f] C-
- 6/15 - Santa Baby (2005, David Widdicombe) [f] C
- 6/15 - The Savior (2005, Peter Templeman) [f] B-
- 6/16 - The Unknown (1927, Todd Browning) [f] A-
- 6/17 - Who Is Harry Nilsson (And Why Is Everyone Talkin' About Him?) (2006, John Scheinfield) [v] C
- 6/17 - You Turned Back And Held My Hand (2005, Gabriela Tollman) [f] B+
- 6/17 - We Go Way Back (2006, Lynn Shelton) [f] C
- 6/17 - Gradually (2006, Maziar Miri) [f] C+
- 6/18 - ************** (****, ****************) [f] C+
- 6/18 - TV Junkie (2006, Michael Cain, Matt Radecki) [v] C+
- 6/18 - The Science Of Sleep (2006, Michel Gondry) [f] B
- 6/18 - So Far, So Close (2005, Reza Mir-Karimi) [f] B-
- 6/26 - /The Muppet Movie/ (1979, James Frawley) [f] B+
- 7/1 - The Future Of Pinball (2006, Greg Maletic) [v]
- 7/4 - /Clean/ (2004, Olivier Assayas) [f] A-
- 7/7 - Thank You For Smoking (2006, Jason Reitman) [v] B
- 7/17 - The Road To Guantanamo (2006, Michael Winterbottom and Mat Whitecross) [f] C+
- 7/23 - A Scanner Darkly (2006, Richard Linklater) [f] B
- 7/30 - Scoop (2006, Woody Allen) [f] C+
- 8/6 - The White Balloon (1995, Jafa Panahi) [f] B+
- 8/11 - /Where Is My Friend's House?/ (1987, Abbas Kiarostami) [f] A-
- 8/24 - Lessons Of Darkness (1992, Werner Herzog) [f] A-
- 8/27 - Army Of Shadown (1969, Jean-Pierre Melville) [f] B
- 9/29 - Offside (2006, Jafar Panahi) [f] A
- 9/30 - The Host (2006, Bong Joon-Ho) [f] B+
- 10/22 - The Departed (2006, Martin Scorsese) [f] B-
- 10/24 - Cobra Verde (1987, Werner Herzog) [V] C
- 11/19 - Stranger Than Fiction (2006, Marc Forster) [f] C-
- 11/24 - Fast Food Nation (2006, Richard Linklater) [f] D
- 12/1 - /Days Of Heaven/ (1978, Terence Malick) [f] A
- 12/3 - Satantango (1994, Bela Tarr) [f] B
- 12/14 - Perfume: The Story Of A Murderer (2006, Tom Tykwer) [f] B+
Author Comments:
/title/ seen before
[f] seen on film in a theater
[v] seen on projected video in a theatre
[F] seen on film at home
[V] seen on video (DVD, VHS, etc.) at home
A-F rating
[italics] Short film (less than 45 min)
Just to make the secret fest game harder, I have begun filling all spaces and punctuation with asterisks. Aditionally, if the film is foreign (and this is by no means a clue that any of the films are) I am using its original language name. Have at it!
PLUS THESE TELEVISION DVD BOX SETS
Curb Your Enthusiasm - Season 5 (A-)
Angel - Season 5 (B+) - And the Whedonverse is ended for me, there is nothing left to see. I am saddened.
Seinfeld - Season 5 (A+)
Home Movies - Season 2 (B)
IN PROGRESS:
Freaks & Geeks - The Complete Series (waiting to award the A+ is just a formality)
South Park - Season 3
ON DECK:
Curb Your Enthusiasm - Season 3
Family Guy - Seasons 1-5
First Person - The Complete Series
Home Movies - Season 3
Buffy The Vampire Slayer - Season 5
Wow, C+ for the Intruder. After all the superlatives I've read, I was expecting more. Guess it's okay I decided to wait for DVD. I'll be interested to see what you think of Brick.
Someone recently said the following to me, which I thought was entirely on the money: "Every time I woke up during The Intruder I saw something magnificent"
You didn't see the 12:30 showing of M:I 3 at the Majestic Bay, did you?
No, 3:30! Just missed you apparently
Damn!
I've gotta know what you and The KZA thought was so great about "M:I:III." Admittedly, the opening flash-forward was pretty intense thanks to P.S. Hoffman, but the rest was just so much sound and fury in my opinion.
I find it hard to be the D'Angelo style absolutist, so when a movie comes along thats not really trying to be much besides a big fucking Hollywood blockbuster, and it does that in spades, then I'm pretty pleased. Lotsa shit blowed up real good, fun gun fights, and the plot holes weren't overly horrendous (although enough with the fucking masks already, that shit is played.) Also PSH was so awesome.
I concur.
Don't forget that MD'A loved Hollywood blockbusters THE SPIDERMAN and THE SPIDERMAN PART DEUX. He also gave a decent B- grade to RENNY HARLIN'S SEA THAT IS DEEP AND BLUE, which was kinda awesome in my opinion.
Okay, that took a little bit of effort, but I figured out the Secret Fest. I thought the director's 10-letter, two five-letter word name was going to be the giveaway, but it wasn't. It did get me unreasonably excited and jealous for a short time, though ("You got to see the new David Lynch?! The new SPIKE JONZE!!??!") Glad you liked it, but it doesn't sound like something that would interest me too much.
Bring on #2! :-)
I realized that last year I asterisked the spaces too, which makes it way harder. Maybe I should go back to that! Hey, there's still three more screenings to go, INLAND EMPIRES could be to come.
That's why it seemed so much harder! I'm pretty sure I figured out all of last years, and now that I think about it, I have no idea how.
5/30 - Princess Raccoon (2005, Seijun Suzuki) [f] C-
NO! No no no no no! I'm not listening! LALALALALALALALA!
Its not like this movie was bad, it was just so all over the place I couldn't get on board with it. I generally agree with all your comments, and actually think it would be a lot better if he pulled half an hour out of it, esp at the end which just goes on forever.
I almost saw the King today but decided against it. Unless you're on crack, I made the right call.
I guarantee you I'm not on crack with this one.
So, I guess not one of you guys is brave enough to see Moodysson's "Container"?
I would have been interested if I had a conveniently placed schedule gap, but not enough to make room for it. I heard a report from Ken Rudolph that it was awful, and my impression was that he is generally sympathetic to Modysson.
It is awful, but there will no doubt be some who call it "genius."
I'll probably take a shot at it when it comes out on DVD -- assuming Mad Eye Moodysson is done with his miserablism phase.
Watching it is a pretty miserable experience, but if you're really interested I can send you a DVD copy.
Hmmm, I'll be interested to read about the Altman on your blog. Any preliminary thoughts?
Its very pleasant and nice, but nothing special. The thoughts of other re: mortality themes in relation to Altman's age and declining health ring true. Also quite a few of the camera moves totally reeked of PTA (although he probably just copped them from Altman in the first place so who knows.)
Wow, it looks like you ended the festival on a wave of mediocrity after The Unknown, which must've been something. I wish I'd gone to that. I ended it on a pretty good note. A lot of solid films, although nothing mind-blowing. Hard to believe it's over.
I wasn't even done yet! Ended with a 4-film day which wasn't bad. Was that Slip Kid I saw you walking with to the movie Sunday morning? I didn't even realize until you were gone.
Dude, I'm green with envy about you seeing the Host. I wonder if it'll make it to a theater in Seattle or if I'll have to rent a Korean DVD at Scarecrow. I should've made plans to go to VIFF (after talking about it back in May/June).
It is getting a release in January from what I hear, and its been getting amazing buzz so I am confident it will get around these parts in early 2007.
You did it! I hope they gave you a button that says "I Survived Satantango at the NW Film Forum" or something like that.
I have to admit my ass kind of hurts today. I will hopefully cineblog on the experience soon.