The Valley Record. A cozy little archive for all my random by-year stuff.
and yes, the shorts noted don't count for the totals.

Sunday, February 15, 2009

2008

100 films seen.

★★★★★
Happy-Go-Lucky (Mike Leigh) [x2]
Milk (Gus Van Sant) [x3]
WALL•E (Andrew Stanton) [x2]

★★★★½
Australia (Baz Luhrmann) [x3]
A Christmas Tale (Arnaud Desplechin) [x2]
The Class (Laurent Cantet)
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (David Fincher) [x2]
The Dark Knight (Christopher Nolan) [x4]
The Fall (Tarsem Singh) [x2]
Hunger (Steve McQueen)
Ponyo (Hayao Miyazaki) [x2]
The Reader (Stephen Daldry) [x2]
Waltz with Bashir (Ari Folman) [x2]
The Wrestler (Darren Aronofsky) [x2]

★★★★
American Teen (Nanette Burstein)
La Belle Personne (Christophe Honoré)
Blindness (Fernando Meirelles) [x2]
Boy A (John Crowley)
Burn After Reading (Joel & Ethan Coen)
Everlasting Moments (Jan Troell)
Flight of the Red Balloon (Hou Hsiao-Hsien)
The Go-Getter (Martin Hynes)
Man on Wire (James Marsh) [x2]
Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist (Peter Sollett) [x2]
Rachel Getting Married (Jonathan Demme) [x2]
Revolutionary Road (Sam Mendes)
Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired (Marina Zenovich)
Speed Racer (Andy & Larry Wachowski) [x4]
Summer Hours (Olivier Assayas)
Synecdoche, New York (Charlie Kaufman)
The Visitor (Thomas McCarthy)
Wanted (Timur Bekmambetov)
Wendy and Lucy (Kelly Reichardt)

★★★½
The Baader Meinhof Complex (Uli Edel)
Be Kind Rewind (Michel Gondry)
Bolt (Byron Howard/Chris Williams)
Charlie Bartlett (Jon Poll)
City of Ember (Gil Kenan)
Cloverfield (Matt Reeves)
The Duchess (Saul Dibb)
Easy Virtue (Stephan Elliott)
Eden Lake (James Watkins)
Elegy (Isabel Coixet)
Encounters at the End of the World (Werner Herzog)
Forgetting Sarah Marshall (Nicholas Stoller)
Frozen River (Courtney Hunt)
Futurama: Bender's Game (Dwayne Carey-Hill) [x5]
Harold and Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay (Jon Hurwitz/Hayden Schlossberg)
Hellboy II: The Golden Army (Guillermo del Toro)
In Bruges (Martin McDonaugh) [x2]
Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (Steven Spielberg)
Iron Man (Jon Favreau)
I've Loved You So Long (Philippe Claudel)
Julia (Erick Zonca)
Last Chance Harvey (Joel Hopkins)
Lemon Tree (Eran Riklis)
Kung Fu Panda (Mark Osborne/John Stevenson)
Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day (Bharat Nalluri)
Mister Lonely (Harmony Korine)
My Winnipeg (Guy Maddin)
Nothing But the Truth (Rod Lurie)
Paris (Cedric Klapisch)
Penelope (Mark Palansky)
Pineapple Express (David Gordon Green)
Role Models (David Wain)
Rudo y Cursi (Carlos Cuarón)
Sleepwalking (William Maher)
Snow Angels (David Gordon Green)
Terribly Happy (Henrik Ruben Genz)
Tropic Thunder (Ben Stiller)
Up the Yangtze (Yung Chang)
Vicky Cristina Barcelona (Woody Allen) [x2]

★★★
Baby Mama (Michael McCullers)
The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian (Andrew Adamson)
Choke (Clark Gregg)
Defiance (Edward Zwick)
Futurama: The Beast with a Billion Backs (Peter Avanzino) [x5]
Get Smart (Peter Segal)
Gonzo: The Life and Work of Dr. Hunter S. Thompson (Alex Gibney)
The House Bunny (Fred Wolf)
Leatherheads (George Clooney)
The Other Boleyn Girl (Justin Chadwick)
Quantum of Solace (Marc Forster)
Redbelt (David Mamet)
Savage Grace (Tom Kalin)
Save Me (Robert Cary)
Sex and the City (Michael Patrick King)
Slumdog Millionaire (Danny Boyle)
Were the World Mine (Tom Gustafson)

★★½
Definitely, Maybe (Adam Brooks)
Doubt (John Patrick Shanley)
Frost/Nixon (Ron Howard)
I Could Never Be Your Woman (Amy Heckerling)
Mamma Mia! (Phyllida Lloyd)

★★
Brideshead Revisited (Julian Jarrold)
Changeling (Clint Eastwood)
Taken (Pierre Morel)

★½
The Life Before Her Eyes (Vadim Perelman)
10,000 BC (Roland Emmerich)

♥♥♥♥♥
High School Musical 3: Senior Year (Kenny Ortega) [x2]

Shorts:
Presto (Doug Sweetland)
Toyland (Jochen Alexander Freydank)

Saturday, February 14, 2009

2007

110 films seen.

★★★★★
Atonement (Joe Wright) [x3]
Paranoid Park (Gus Van Sant) [x2]
There Will Be Blood (Paul Thomas Anderson) [x2]
Youth Without Youth (Francis Ford Coppola)

★★★★½
The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (Andrew Dominick)
Away from Her (Sarah Polley) [x2]
The Bourne Ultimatum (Paul Greengass)
Bug (William Friedkin)
Control (Anton Corbijn)
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (Julian Schnabel)
4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days (Cristian Mungiu)
Hairspray (Adam Shankman) [x2]
Hot Fuzz (Edgar Wright) [x3]
Juno (Jason Reitman) [x2]
Love Songs (Christophe Honoré) [x3]
Michael Clayton (Tony Gilroy) [x3]
No Country for Old Men (Joel & Ethan Coen)
Persepolis (Marjane Satrapi/Vincent Paronnoud)
Ratatouille (Brad Bird) [x3]

★★★★
Across the Universe (Julie Taymor) [x2]
Amazing Grace (Michael Apted)
Aqua Teen Hunger Force Colon Movie Film for Theaters (Matt Maiellaro/Dave Willis) [x4]
The Band's Visit (Eran Kolirin)
Black Snake Moan (Craig Brewer)
Bridge to Terabithia (Gabor Csupo) [x2]
The Edge of Heaven (Fatih Akin)
Futurama: Bender's Big Score (Dwayne Carey-Hill) [x6]
In the Valley of Elah (Paul Haggis)
Lust, Caution (Ang Lee)
A Mighty Heart (Michael Winterbottom)
Mr. Magorium's Wonder Emporium (Zach Helm) [x3]
My Kid Could Paint That (Amir Bar-Lev)
The Orphanage (Juan Antonio Bayona)
Planet Terror (Robert Rodriguez) [x2]
The Rape of Europa (Richard Berge/Bonni Cohen/Nicole Newnham)
Rocket Science (Jeffrey Blitz)
Stephanie Daley (Hilary Brougher)
Sunshine (Danny Boyle)
La Vie en Rose (Olivier Dahan) [x2]
Water Lilies (Céline Sciamma)
XXY (Lucía Puenzo)
Zodiac (David Fincher)

★★★½
Angel (François Ozon)
Après Lui (Gaël Morel)
Becoming Jane (Julian Jarrold)
Ben X (Nic Balthazar)
Breach (Billy Ray)
Caramel (Nadine Labaki)
The Darjeeling Limited (Wes Anderson)
Eastern Promises (David Cronenberg)
Elizabeth: The Golden Age (Shekhar Kapur)
Enchanted (Kevin Lima)
The Golden Compass (Chris Weitz)
Hallam Foe (David Mackenzie)
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (David Yates) [x4]
Hot Rod (Akiva Schaffer)
Interview (Steve Buscemi)
The Kingdom (Peter Berg)
King of California (Mike Cahill)
Knocked Up (Judd Apatow)
The Lookout (Scott Frank)
Meet the Robinsons (Stephen J. Anderson)
My Blueberry Nights (Wong Kar Wai) [x4]
The Namesake (Mira Nair)
The Nanny Diaries (Shari Springer Berman/Robert Pulcini)
Ocean's Thirteen (Steven Soderbergh)
Once (John Carney)
Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End (Gore Verebinski)
The Savages (Tamara Jenkins)
Shoot 'Em Up (Michael Davis)
The Simpsons Movie (David Silverman) [x3]
Starter for 10 (Tom Vaughan)
Superbad (Greg Mottola)
Things We Lost in the Fire (Susanne Bier)
300 (Zack Snyder)
3:10 to Yuma (James Mangold)
2 Days in Paris (Julie Delpy)
Waitress (Adrienne Shelley)
Wristcutters: A Love Story (Goran Dukic)

★★★
Blind Dating (James Keach)
Charlie Wilson's War (Mike Nichols)
Dan in Real Like (Peter Hedges)
A Girl Cut in Two (Claude Chabrol)
Gone Baby Gone (Ben Affleck)
Into the Wild (Sean Penn)
The Invasion (Oliver Hirschbiegel)
It's a Free World... (Ken Loach)
The Jane Austen Book Club (Robin Swicord)
Lars and the Real Girl (Craig Gillespie)
Music and Lyrics (Marc Lawrence)
National Treasure: Book of Secrets (Jon Turteltaub)
The Reaping (Stephen Hopkins)
Rendition (Gavin Hood)
Smiley Face (Gregg Araki)
Stardust (Matthew Vaughn)
Surf's Up (Ash Brannon/Chris Buck)
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (Tim Burton)
The Water Horse: Legend of the Deep (Jay Russell)

★★½
Before the Devil Knows You're Dead (Sidney Lumet)
Hannibal Rising (Peter Webber)
The Invisible (David S. Goyer)
The Last Mistress (Catherine Breillat)
Margot at the Wedding (Noah Baumbach)
Premonition (Mennan Yapo)
Sleuth (Kenneth Branagh)
Year of the Dog (Mike White)

★★
Cassandra's Dream (Woody Allen)
Romance & Cigarettes (Jon Turturro)
Shrek the Third (Chris Miller)

?????
Southland Tales (Richard Kelly)

Shorts:
Even Pigeons Go to Heaven (Samuel Tourneux)

Friday, February 13, 2009

2006

108 films seen.

★★★★★
Children of Men (Alfonso Cuarón) [x7]
The Fountain (Darren Aronofsky) [x4]
The Lives of Others (Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck) [x3]
Marie Antoinette (Sofia Coppola) [x5]
Pan's Labyrinth (Guillermo del Toro) [x3]
Paprika (Satoshi Kon) [x3]

★★★★½
Babel (Alejandro González Iñárritu) [x3]
Black Book (Paul Verhoeven) [x2]
Breaking and Entering (Anthony Minghella) [x2]
The Departed (Martin Scorsese) [x3]
Half Nelson (Ryan Fleck)
The Painted Veil (John Curran) [x3]
The Prestige (Christopher Nolan) [x5]
Reprise (Joachim Trier) [x2]
Requiem (Hans-Christian Schmid)
Shut Up & Sing (Barbara Kopple/Cecilia Peck) [x3]
United 93 (Paul Greengrass) [x2]
Volver (Pedro Almodóvar) [x4]

★★★★
After the Wedding (Susanne Bier)
Akeelah and the Bee (Doug Atchison)
The Banquet (Xiaogang Feng)
Beyond the Gates (Michael Caton-Jones)
Casino Royale (Martin Campbell) [x2]
Conversations with Other Women (Hans Canosa)
The Devil Wears Prada (David Frankel) [x3]
Flushed Away (David Bowers/Sam Fell)
Golden Door (Emanuele Crialese)
I'm a Cyborg But That's OK (Park Chan-wook)
INLAND EMPIRE (David Lynch)
An Inconvenient Truth (David Guggenheim)
Little Children (Todd Field)
Little Miss Sunshine (Jonathan Dayton/Valerie Faris)
Mozart and the Whale (Petter Næss) [x4]
Notes on a Scandal (Richard Erye) [x2]
The Queen (Stephen Frears) [x3]
Stranger Than Fiction (Marc Forster) [x4]
Tekkon Kinkreet (Michael Arias)
Twelve and Holding (Michael Cuesta)
V for Vendetta (James McTeigue) [x6]
Vitus (Fredi M. Murer)
Why We Fight (Eugene Jarecki)
The Wind That Shakes the Barley (Ken Loach)

★★★½
Bobby (Emilio Estevez)
Cars (John Lasseter)
Clerks II (Kevin Smith) [x2]
Curse of the Golden Flower (Zhang Yimou) [x2]
Dans Paris (Christophe Honoré)
Dreamgirls (Bill Condon) [x2]
Flags of Our Fathers (Clint Eastwood)
Fur: An Imaginary Portrait of Diane Arbus (Steven Shainberg)
The Good Shepherd (Robert DeNiro)
A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints (Dito Montiel)
Hard Candy (David Slade)
The Holiday (Nancy Meyers)
I Served the King of England (Jirí Menzel)
Jesus Camp (Heidi Ewing/Rachel Grady)
Jindabyne (Ray Lawrence)
Letters from Iwo Jima (Clint Eastwood)
Monster House (Gil Kenan)
The Nativity Story (Catherine Hardwicke)
The Notorious Bettie Page (Mary Harron)
Over the Hedge (Tim Johnson/Karey Kirkpatrick) [x2]
Paris, Je T'aime (a lot of people)
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest (Gore Verbinski) [x3]
A Prairie Home Companion (Robert Altman) [x2]
Priceless (Pierre Salvadori)
A Scanner Darkly (Richard Linklater)
Scary Movie 4 (David Zucker) [x?]
The Science of Sleep (Michel Gondry)
Thank You for Smoking (Jason Reitman)
Tristram Shandy: A Cock and Bull Story (Michael Winterbottom)
The U.S. vs. John Lennon (David Leaf/John Scheinfeld)
Venus (Roger Michell)
The Year My Parents Went on Vacation (Cao Hamburger)

★★★
American Dreamz (Paul Weitz)
Ask the Dust (Robert Towne)
Brick (Rian Johnson)
Comedy of Power (Claude Chabrol)
The Da Vinci Code (Ron Howard) [x?]
For Your Consideration (Christopher Guest)
The Good German (Steven Soderbergh)
A Good Year (Ridley Scott)
The Host (Joon-ho Bong)
Inside Man (Spike Lee) [x2]
Man of the Year (Barry Levinson)
Old Joy (Kelly Reichardt)
The Omen (John Moore)
Pokémon: Lucario and the Mystery of Mew (Kunihiko Yuyama)
Running with Scissors (Ryan Murphy)
Scoop (Woody Allen)
Strangers with Candy (Paul Dinello)
Tales from Earthsea (Goro Miyazaki)
Tell No One (Guillaume Canet)
Water (Deepa Mehta)
Who Killed the Electric Car? (Chris Paine)
World Trade Center (Oliver Stone)
X-Men: The Last Stand (Brett Ratner) [x2]

★★½
Apocalypto (Mel Gibson)
The Black Dahlia (Brian De Palma)
A Few Days in September (Santiago Amigorena)
Ice Age: The Meltdown (Carlos Saldanha)
The Last King of Scotland (Kevin Macdonald)
Poseidon (Wolfgang Petersen)
The Pursuit of Happyness (Gabriele Muccino)

★★
The Break-Up (Peyton Reed)
Happy Feet (George Miller)
You, Me & Dupree (Anthony Russo/Joe Russo)

N/A
Lady in the Water (M. Night Shyamalan)

Thursday, February 12, 2009

2005

87 films seen.

★★★★★
Pride & Prejudice (Joe Wright) [x6]

★★★★½
Brokeback Mountain (Ang Lee) [x2]
The Constant Gardener (Fernando Meirelles) [x5]
Dear Frankie (Shona Auerbach) [x4]
Good Night, and Good Luck (George Clooney) [x2]
King Kong (Peter Jackson) [x5]
Millions (Danny Boyle) [x3]
Mysterious Skin (Gregg Araki)
The New World (Terrence Malick) [x3]
Paradise Now (Hany Abu-Assad)
The Secret Life of Words (Isabel Coixet)
Sophie Scholl: The Final Days (Marc Rothemund) [x3]
Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit (Steve Box/Nick Park) [x3]

★★★★
Batman Begins (Christopher Nolan)
The Blossoming of Maximo Oliveros (Auraeus Solito)
Capote (Bennett Miller)
The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (Andrew Adamson) [x3]
C.R.A.Z.Y. (Jean-Marc Vallée)
Dear Wendy (Thomas Vinterberg)
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (Garth Jennings) [x3]
The Interpreter (Sydney Pollack) [x4]
March of the Penguins (Luc Jacquet) [x2]
Match Point (Woody Allen) [x4]
Memoirs of a Geisha (Rob Marshall) [x7]
Munich (Steven Spielberg) [x2]
The Squid and the Whale (Noah Baumbach) [x2]
Walk the Line (James Mangold) [x4]

★★★½
The Beat That My Heart Skipped (Jacques Audiard)
Because of Winn-Dixie (Wayne Wang) [x3]
Broken Flowers (Jim Jarmusch)
The Chumscrubber (Arie Posin)
Cinderella Man (Ron Howard)
The Exorcism of Emily Rose (Scott Derekson) [x3]
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (Mike Newell) [x?]
A History of Violence (David Cronenberg) [x2]
Hustle & Flow (Craig Brewer)
Jarhead (Sam Mendes) [x2]
Junebug (Phil Morrison) [x2]
Kingdom of Heaven (Ridley Scott) [x2]
Linda Linda Linda (Nobuhiro Yamashita)
Mr. & Mrs. Smith (Doug Liman)
Nanny McPhee (Kirk Jones)
Princess Raccoon (Seijun Suzuki)
Proof (John Madden)
Rent (Chris Columbus)
Sarah Silverman: Jesus is Magic (Liam Lynch) [x3]
Sin City (Robert Rodriguez/Frank Miller)
Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith (George Lucas) [x4]
Stewie Griffin: The Untold Story (Pete Michels/Peter Shin) [x?]
Transamerica (Felicity Huffman)
War of the Worlds (Steven Spielberg) [x2]
Wedding Crashers (David Dobkin)

★★★
Angel-A (Luc Besson)
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (Tim Burton) [x3]
Chicken Little (Mark Dindal) [x2]
Corpse Bride (Tim Burton/Mike Johnson) [x4]
Fever Pitch (Bobby Farrelly/Peter Farrelly)
Ice Princess (Tim Fywell)
Kicking & Screaming (Jesse Dylan) [x2]
Lilo & Stitch 2: Stitch Has a Glitch (Michael LaBash/Anthony Leondis)
Monster-in-Law (Robert Luketic) [x2]
Mrs. Henderson Presents (Stephen Frears)
Pretty Persuasion (Marcos Siega)
The Producers (Susan Stroman) [x2]
The Promise (Chen Kaige)
Regular Lovers (Philippe Garrel)
Sky High (Mike Mitchell)
Syriana (Stephen Gaghan)
Valiant (Gary Chapman)

★★½
Bad News Bears (Richard Linklater)
Havoc (Barbara Kopple)
Hitch (Andy Tennant)
Madagascar (Eric Darnell/Tom McGrath)
Man of the House (Stephen Herek)
Miss Congeniality 2: Armed & Fabulous (John Pasquin) [x2]
Pokémon: Destiny Deoxys (Kunihiko Yuyama)
Racing Stripes (Frederik Du Chau)
Saw II (Darren Lynn Bousman)

★★
Are We There Yet? (Brian Levant)
Fantastic Four (Tim Story)
Last Days (Gus Van Sant)
Yours, Mine and Ours (Raja Gosnell)


Guess Who (Kevin Rodney Sullivan)

N/A
Caché (Michael Haneke)
Crash (Paul Haggis) [x5]
The 40-Year-Old Virgin (Judd Apatow)
Robots (Chris Wedge)

Shorts:
Jack-Jack Attack (Brad Bird)
One Man Band (Mark Andrews/Andrew Jimenez)

2004

83 films seen.

★★★★★
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (Michel Gondry) [x4]
House of the Flying Daggers (Zhang Yimou) [x5]
The Incredibles (Brad Bird) [x?]
Kill Bill Vol. 2 (Quentin Tarantino) [x5]

★★★★½
Bad Education (Pedro Almodóvar)
Before Sunset (Richard Linklater) [x2]
Downfall (Oliver Hirschbiegel)
The Edukators (Hans Weingartner)
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (Alfonso Cuarón) [x?]
Howl's Moving Castle (Hayao Miyazaki) [x?]
Kings & Queen (Arnaud Desplechin)
Mean Girls (Mark Waters) [x?]
Shaun of the Dead (Edgar Wright) [x7]
2046 (Wong Kar Wai) [x2]

★★★★
The Aviator (Martin Scorsese) [x?]
Bergman Island (Marie Nyreröd)
The Bourne Supremacy (Paul Greengrass)
Clean (Olivier Assayas)
Fahrenheit 9/11 (Michael Moore) [x2]
I Heart Huckabees (David O. Russell)
Mean Creek (Jacob Aaron Estes)
My Summer of Love (Pawel Pawlikowski)
Saved! (Brian Dannelly)
Vera Drake (Mike Leigh)

★★★½
Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy (Adam McKay) [x?]
Being Julia (István Szabó)
Birth (Jonathan Glazer)
The Day After Tomorrow (Roland Emmerich) [x?]
DodgeBall: A True Underdog Story (Rawson Marshall Thurber) [x?]
Ella Enchanted (Tommy O'Haver) [x?]
Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle (Danny Leiner)
Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events (Brad Silberling) [x4]
The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou (Wes Anderson)
Love in Thoughts (Achim von Borries)
Nathalie... (Anne Fontaine)
National Treasure (Jon Turteltaub) [x?]
The Phantom of the Opera (Joel Schumacher) [x?]
Pokémon: Jirachi Wish-Maker (Kunihiko Yuyama) [x?]
Saw (James Wan) [x3]
Shrek 2 (Andrew Adamson/Kelly Asbury/Conrad Vernon) [x?]
Somersault (Cate Shortland)
Spider-Man 2 (Sam Raimi) [x?]
The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie (Stephen Hillenburg) [x?]
Super Size Me (Morgan Spurlock)
The Terminal (Steven Spielberg) [x2]
13 Going on 30 (Gary Winick) [x2]

★★★
EuroTrip (Jeff Schaffer)
50 First Dates (Peter Segal) [x?]
The Forgotten (Joseph Ruben)
The Girl Next Door (Luke Greenfield)
Hellboy (Guillermo del Toro)
I, Robot (Alex Proyas) [x2]
Jersey Girl (Kevin Smith)
Kinsey (Bill Condon)
The Lion King 1½ (Bradley Raymond) [x?]
Meet the Fockers (Jay Roach) [x?]
Paparazzi (Paul Abascal)
Starsky & Hutch (Todd Phillips) [x?]
Teacher's Pet (Timothy Björklund)
Troy (Wolfgang Petersen) [x3]

★★½
Alexander (Oliver Stone)
Ma Mère (Christophe Honoré)
The Princess Diaries 2: Royal Engagement (Garry Marshall) [x?]
Shark Tale (Bibo Bergeron/Vicky Jenson/Rob Letterman) [x2]
Sugar (John Palmer)
Surviving Christmas (Mike Mitchell)
Taking Lives (D.J. Caruso)
Taxi (Tim Story) [x?]
Yu-Gi-Oh!: The Movie (Hatsuki Tsuji) [x?]

★★
Napoleon Dynamite (Jared Hess)
Scooby-Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed (Raja Gosnell)

★½
Broken Lizard's Club Dread (Jay Chandrasekhar)

½
AVP: Alien vs. Predator (Paul W.S. Anderson)

N/A
Agent Cody Banks 2: Destination London (Kevin Allen)
Finding Neverland (Marc Forster) [x3]
Home on the Range (Will Finn/John Sanford)
Million Dollar Baby (Clint Eastwood) [x2]
Miracle (Gavin O'Connor)
The Polar Express (Robert Zemeckis) [x?]
Ray (Taylor Hackford)
Sideways (Alexander Payne)
Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow (Kerry Conran)
The Stepford Wives (Frank Oz)

Wednesday, February 11, 2009

2003

58 films seen.

★★★★★
The Dreamers (Bernardo Bertolucci) [x2]
Elephant (Gus Van Sant) [x2]
Kill Bill Vol. 1 (Quentin Tarantino) [x6]

★★★★½
Dogville (Lars von Trier)
Finding Nemo (Andrew Stanton) [x?]
The Fog of War: Eleven Lessons from the Life of Robert S. McNamara (Errol Morris)
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (Peter Jackson) [x?]
Good Bye Lenin! (Wolfgang Becker)
Lost in Translation (Sofia Coppola) [x3]
The Return (Andrei Zvyagintsev)

★★★★
Bright Young Things (Stephen Fry)
Gerry (Gus Van Sant)
A Mighty Wind (Christopher Guest)
Thirteen (Catherine Hardwicke)
The Triplets of Belleville (Sylvain Chomet)

★★★½
American Splendor (Shari Springer Berman/Robert Pulcini)
Down with Love (Peyton Reed) [x2]
Freaky Friday (Mark Waters) [x?]
Girl with a Pearl Earring (Peter Webber)
Holes (Andrew Davis) [x?]
In America (Jim Sheridan)
Love Actually (Richard Curtis)
My Life Without Me (Isabel Coixet)
Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of Black Pearl (Gore Verbinski) [x2]
Scary Movie 3 (David Zucker) [x?]
School of Rock (Richard Linklater) [x?]
Swimming Pool (François Ozon)
X2: X-Men United (Bryan Singer) [x2]

★★★
Bon Voyage (Jean-Paul Rappeneau)
Bringing Down the House (Adam Shankman) [x?]
Bruce Almighty (Tom Shadyac) [x?]
Camp (Todd Graff)
Head of State (Chris Rock) [x?]
Lara Croft: Tomb Raider - The Cradle of Life (Jan de Bont) [x?]
Love Me If You Dare (Yann Samuell)
Pokémon Heroes (Kunihiko Yuyama) [x?]
What a Girl Wants (Dennie Gordon)

★★½
Agent Cody Banks (Harald Zwart) [x?]
American Wedding (Jesse Dylan) [x3]
Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle (McG) [x?]
Legally Blonde 2: Red, White & Blonde (Charles Herman-Wurmfeld) [x?]
The Lizzie McGuire Movie (Jim Fall) [x?]
Looney Tunes: Back in Action (Joe Dante) [x?]
Phone Booth (Joel Schumacher)
Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines (Jonathan Mostow)

★★
Dickie Roberts: Former Child Star (Sam Weisman) [x?]
Daddy Day Care (Steve Carr)
From Justin to Kelly (who gives a fuck)
The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (Stephen Norrington)

★½
Dr. Seuss' The Cat in the Hat (Bo Welch)
Spy Kids 3D: Game Over (Robert Rodriguez) [x?]

N/A
Anger Management (Peter Segal)
Brother Bear (Aaron Blaise/Robert Walker) [x2]
Good Boy! (John Hoffman)
Kangaroo Jack (David McNally)
Old School (Todd Phillips)
101 Dalmatians II: Patch's London Adventure (J. Kammerud/B. Smith)
Rugrats Go Wild (John Eng/Norton Virgien)

Shorts:
Boundin' (Bud Luckey)
Welcome to the Show/Intermission in the Third Dimension/The End of the Show (Don Hertzfeldt)