The 2008 Rank 'Em As You See 'Em Thread

[Mano]

Probably will need this one too.

[shadowhawk2020]

2008 Theatrical Releases/ Top 10 List (In Progress)

(Loved It)

(Really Liked It)

(Liked It)

(Didn't Like It)

(Hated It)

[Libby]

Movies Seen In Theater
1. Juno 4/5 Jan 4
2. 27 Dresses 3/5 Feb 8
3. Run Fat Boy Run 4/5 March 31
4 Kenny 3.5/5 April 6
5. Bucket List 3/5 May 11
6. Made of Honor 3/5 May 13
7. Indiana Jones Temple of Doom 4/5 May 25
8. Sex and the City 4/5 June 3
9. Baby Mamma 2/5 July 8
10. Batman: The Dark Knight 4/5 July 24
11. Tropic Thunder 3/5 August 19
12. Eagle Eye 3/5 September 27
13. Role Models 3/5 November 16



Dvds Seen:
Jan
Enough (TV) 4/5
But I'm a Cheerleader 4/5 (rented)
The Namesake 4/5 (rented)
There's Something About Mary ( Digital TV) 3/5
Out Cold (owned) 3/5
OC season 3 Disc 1,2,3 4/5 (rented)

Feb

O.C. Season 3 Disc 4,5,6,7 4/5 (rented)
Margeret Cho: Assassin 2/5 (rented)
Junebug 3/5 (rented)
Shortbus 4/5 (rented)
Hot Fuzz 4/5 (rented)
The Guardian 4/5 (rented)
Jane Austin Book Club 4/5 (rented)
The Producers 4/5 (rented)
F**k the Disabled 4/5 (rented)
Miss Potter 3/5 (rented)
Grey Matters 3/5 (rented)
Mozart and the Whale 3/5 (rented)
Surfs Up 4/5 (rented)

March
Green Street Hooligans 4.5/5 (rented)
Freedom Writers (borrowed)
Shut up and Sing 3.5/5 (rented)
Grey's Anatomy Season 3 4/5 (rented)
Hero's Season 1 4/5 (rented)

April
The Brave One 4/5 (Digital TV)
Baseketball 2/5 (rented)
Dude, Wheres my Car 3/5 (owned)
Fever Pitch 4/5 (owned)
M.O.M. 2/5 (rented)
Sicko 4.5/5 (rented)
Men with Brooms 4.5/5 (rented)
Transformers 4/5 (rented)
300 4/5 (rented)
The Rocket 4.5/5 (rented)
Little Children 4/5 (rented)
Death of a President 3/5 (rented)
Sweeny Todd Demon Barber of Fleet Street 4/5 (rented)
Waydowntown 1/5(rented)
The Paper 1/5 (rented)
Candy 3.5/5 (borrowed)
Laurel Canyon 4/5 (rented)
D.E.B.S 3/5 (rented)
A Family Affair 3/5 (rented)
Drop Dead Gorgeous 4/5 (rented)
Wall Mart The High Price of Low Cost 3/5 (rented)
This American Life: Season 1 4/5 (borrowed)
Transporter 2 4/5 (owned)
Bad Boys 2 4/5 (owned)

May
Out of Season 3/5 (rented)
Hairspray 3/5 (rented)
Transamerica
Chutney Popcorn 3/5 (rented)
Do I love you? 2/5 (rented)
Gracie 2/5 (rented)
Transamerica 4/5 (rented)
We Are Marshall 3/5 (rented)
Alias Disc 1 Season 1
August Rush 3/5
Story of Us (rented)
I am Legend (rented)
Suburban Girl 2/5 (rented)
National Treasure 2 3/5 (rented)
Stewie Griffin Untold Story 3/5 (rented)
HP The Order of the Phenoix 4/5 (rented)
Freedom Writers 4/5 (rented)

June
Wild Hogs 3/5 (rented)
Rush Hour 3 3.5/5 (rented)
Man of the Year 4/5 (owned)
Russel Peters 1/5 (rented)
Open Season 3/5 (rented)
Into the Blue 1/5 (rented)
Kinsey 4/5 (rented)
Weeds Season 2 5/5 (rented)
Hottest State 2/5 (rented)
Good Luck Chuck 3/5 (rented)
Aurora Borealis 3/5 (rented)
Shoot 'Em Up 4/5 (rented)
Once 3.5/5 (rented)
The Nanny Diaries 4/5 (rented)
Jumper 2/5 (rented)
P.S. I Love You 4/5 (rented)
Ugly Betty Season 1 Disc 3 4/5 (rented)
Stardust 4/5 (rented)
Hot Rod 3/5 (rented)
The Illusionist 3/5 (rented)
One Tree Hill Discs 1,2,3 4/5 (rented)
Ugly Betty Discs 4, 5, 6 4/5 (rented)


July
Big
Mystic Pizza
Four Weddings and a Funeral 1/5 (borrowed)
One Tree Hill Season 1 Discs 4,5,6 4/5 (rented)
Semi- Pro 3/5 3/5 (rented)
Mrs. Palfry at the Claremont 3/5 (rented)
Martian Child 2/5 (rented)
American Gangster 4/5 (rented)
Surf's Up 4/5 (owned)
Friends Season One 4/5 (owned)

August
Family Guy Blue Harvest 4/5 (rented)
Dead Like Me Season 1 3/5 (rented)
Definitely Maybe 3/5 (rented)
We Own The Night 2/5 (rented)
Drillbit Taylor 2/5 (borrowed)
Parenthood 4/5 (rented)
Lonesome Jim 1/5 (rented)


September

The Simpsons Movie 4/5 (rented)
Friends Season 2 4/5 (owned)
Friends Season 3 4/5 (owned)
Friends Season 4 4/5 (owned)
Friends Season 5 4/5 (owned)
Friends Season 6 4/5 (owned)
Friends Season 7 4/5 (owned)
Eagle VS Shark 3/5 (rented)
Family Guy Season 5 5/5 (borrowed)
Ellen Degeneres 3/5 (rented)
Slums of Beverly Hills
No Reservations 3/5 (rented)

October
Did not keep track

November
Get Smart 3.5/5 (rented)
The Hulk
Felicity Season 1 4/5 (owned)
You've got Mail 3/5 (borrowed)

[visitor Q]

Perfect or near to. (Proud to Own)

02/23 Se, jie (Lust, Caution) (Chi)
02/29 Tekkonkinkreet (Jap)
03/19 Cha no aj (Taste of Tea) (Jap)
04/02 Hauru no ugoku shiro (Howl's Moving Castle) (Jap)
04/23 Tampopo (Jap)
04/25 No Country for Old Men (Eng)
05/01 Gekkô no sasayaki (Moonlight Whispers) (Jap)
06/27 Biyeolhan geori (Dirty Carnival) (Kor)
07/03 C'era una volta il West (Once Upon a Time in the West) (Ita)
07/08 Corri uomo corri (Run, Man, Run) (Ita)
09/04 Gunslinger Girl (Jap)
09/27 Kaze no tani no Naushika (Nausicaa and the Valley of the Wind) (Jap)

Enjoyed. (Will absolutely buy if I haven't already)

01/02 Paran daemun (Birdcage Inn) (Kor)
01/08 Tanin no kao (Face of Another) (Jap)
02/14 Tokyo gomi onna (Tokyo Trash Baby) (Jap)
02/22 Akumu Tantei (Nightmare Detective) (Jap)
03/20 Bushi no ichibun (Love and Honor) (Jap)
05/07 Autostop rosso sangue (Hitch-Hike) (Ita)
05/12 Fido (Eng)
05/14 Django (Ita)
05/17 Gau ngao gau (Dog Bite Dog) (Chi)
05/28 Angel Guts: Red Classroom (Jap)
05/30 Rambo (2008) (Eng)
06/09 The Yakuza (Eng)
06/17 Ai no shinsekai (New Love in Tokyo) (Jap)
06/18 Yeui-eomneun geotdeul (No Mercy for the Rude (Kor)
06/24 Killer Klowns from Outer Space (Eng)
07/13 Vamos a matar, companeros (Companeros) (Ita)
07/18 Dark Knight (Eng)
08/02 Nora-neko rokku: Sekkusu hanta (Stray Cat Rock: Sex Hunter) (Jap)
08/04 Party 7 (Jap)
08/26 Zoku akutokui: Joi-hen (Madame O) (Jap)
09/03 Kikoku (Yakuza Demon) (Jap)
09/14 AD Police Files (Jap)
09/15 Heavy Metal (Can)
09/27 Shussho Iwai (The Wolves) (Jap)
09/28 Savage Streets (Eng)
10/07 Akai hashi no shita no nurui mizu (Warm Water Under the Red Bridge (Jap)
10/11 Neak sre (Rice People) (Cam)
10/20 Raigyo (Jap)


Good but not without flaws. (Would consider owning and in some cases do)

02/01 Raw Summer (Jap)
02/20 Kiseichuu: kiraa pusshii (Killer Pussy) (Jap)
02/27 Hwaryeohan hyuga (May 18) (Kor)
03/15 Appleseed: Ex Machina (Jap)
03/21 Vexille (Jap)
04/26 Cloverfield (Eng)
05/15 Se sei vivo spara (Django Kill .. If you Live, Shoot) (Ita)
05/26 War (Rogue) (Eng)
06/02 Sakebi (Retribution) (Jap)
06/14 Porno jidaigeki: Bohachi Bushido (Jap)
06/21 Bad Lieutenant (Eng)
06/21 Citta violenta (Violent City) (Ita)
06/26 Quattro dell'apocalisse, I (Four of the Apocalypse) (Ita)
07/02 Baramui Fighter (Fighter in the Wind) (Kor)
07/28 3:10 to Yuma (07) (Eng)
08/20 Man, Woman, and the Wall (Jap)
08/24 Uri dongne (Our Town) (Kor)
08/24 Fire and Ice (Eng)
08/25 Enter the Ninja (Eng)
08/30 Redbelt (Eng)
09/02 Assault on Precinct 13 (1976) (Eng)
09/25 Imprint (Jap)
10/03 Parasito Doruzu (Paradise Dolls) (Jap)
10/15 Kohi jiko (Cafe Lumiere) (Jap
10/19 Empty Room (Jap)

Poor. (Rental at most)

01/05 Shoot 'em Up (Eng)
01/12 Resident Evil: Apocalypse (Eng)
04/04 The Mist (Eng)
04/13 Seven Days (Kor)
06/30 Zardoz (Bri)
07/05 28 Weeks Later (Bri/Spa)

Should have never been made.

01/03 Kinpeibei (Notorious Concubines) (Jap)
06/02 Kataude mashin gâru (Machine Girl) (Jap)
08/09 Doomsday (Eng)


Country:
America - 19
Korea - 7
Japan - 34
Other - 14

Total films: 74

[Giles]

2008 Film List

2007: 52
2008: 58
Pre-2007: 107
short films: 202

JANUARY

- I Am Legend / 2007 / USA / Francis Lawrence
- Trolley Troubles / 1927 / USA / Walt Disney / 6min video
- Oh Teacher /1927 / USA / Walt Disney / 6min video
- Great Guns / 1927 / USA / Walt Disney / 7min video
- The Mechanical Cow / 1927 / USA / Walt Disney / 6min video
- The Ocean Hop / 1927 / USA / Walt Disney / 6min video
- All Wet / 1927 / USA / Walt Disney / 7min video
- Rival Romeos / 1928 / USA / Walt Disney / 6min video
- Bright Lights / 1928 / USA / Walt Disney / 8min video
- Ozzie of the Mounted / 1928 / USA / Walt Disney / 5min video
- Oh What a Knight / 1928 / USA / Walt Disney / 6min video
- Sky Scrappers / 1928 / USA / Walt Disney /6min video
- The Fox Chase / 1928 / USA / Walt Disney / 5min video
- Tall Timber / 1928 / USA / Walt Disney / 8min video
- Plane Crazy / 1928 / USA / W. Disney-U. Iwerks / 6min video
- Alice Gets Stung / 1925 / USA / Walt Disney / 8min video
- Alice in The Wooly West / 1926 / USA / Walt Disney / 7min video
- Alice's Balloon Race / 1926 / USA / Walt Disney / 8min video
- The Hand Behind the Mouse: The Ub Iwerks Story / 1999 / USA / Leslie Iwerks video
- Adoration / 1996 / Belgium / Olivier Smolder / 16min video
- Dislandia / 2005 / USA / Viveros + Ressler / 29min video
- Pig / 1999 / USA / Nico B. / 21min video
- Hollywood Babylon / 2000 / USA / Nico B. / 4min video
- La Poeme / 1986 / France / Bogdan Borkowski / 12min video
- Hokusai / 1953 / Japan / Hiroshi Teshigahara video
- Ikebana / 1956 / Japan / Hiroshi Teshigahara video
- Tokyo 1958 / 1958 / Hiroshi Teshigahara video
- Ako / 1965 / Japan / Hiroshi Teshigahara video
- A Hole in the Soul (Rupa u dusi) / 1994 / UK / Dusan Makavejev video
- The Wizard of Oz / 1933 / USA / Ted Eshbaugh / 9min video
- The Wonderful Wizard of Oz / 1910 / USA / Otis Turner / 13min video
- The Magic Cloak / 1914 / USA / J. Farrell MacDonald / 38min video
- His Majesty, the Scarecrow of Oz / 1914 / USA / J. Farrell MacDonald video
- Outing Riley / 2004 / USA / Pete Jones video
- There Will Be Blood / 2007 / USA / Paul Thomas Anderson
- The Entertainer / 1960 / UK / Tony Richardson 35mm
- Fracture / 2007 / USA / Gregory Hoblit video
- Fight for Your Life / 1977 / USA / Robert A. Endelson video
- Syndromes and A Century / 2006 / Thailand / Apichatpong Weerasethakul video
- Cloverfield / 2008 / USA / Matt Reeves
- No Country For Old Men / 2007 / USA / Joel & Ethan Coen
- This Sporting Life / 1963 / UK / Lindsay Anderson 35mm
- Funny Games / 1997 / Austria / Michael Haneke video
- The Graduate / 1967 / USA / Mike Nichols HiDef
- Kramer vs. Kramer / 1979 / USA / Robert Benton HiDef
- The Right Stuff / 1983 / USA / Philip Kaufman HiDef

FEBRUARY

- A Boy Named Charlie Brown / 1969 / USA / Bill Melendez video
- The Burmese Harp / 1956 / Japan / Kon Ichikawa video
- Water Birds / 1952 / USA / Ben Sharpsteen / (short) video
- The Tin Drum / 1979 / W. Germany / Volker Schlöndorff video
- When World's Collide / 1951 / USA / Rudolph Mate video
- Hannah Montana/Miley Cyrus: Best of Both Worlds / 2008 / USA / Bruce Hendricks REAL-D (3D)
- Taxi to the Dark Side / 2007 / USA / Alex Gibney
- Beaver Valley / 1950 / USA / James Algar / (short) video
- Gaslight / 1944 / USA / George Cukor (broadcast) video
- Starting Out in the Evening / 2007 / USA / Andrew Wagner
- Common Threads: Stories from the Quilt / 1989 / USA / Rob Epstein-Jeffrey Friedman video
- One Hour with You / 1932 / USA / George Cukor-Ernst Lubitsch video
- The Producers / 1968 / USA / Mel Brooks HiDef
- Die Fälscher (The Counterfeiters) / 2007 / Austria
- Diary of the Dead / 2007 / USA / George Romero
- Even Pigeons Go To Heaven / 2006 / France / Samuel Tourneux Sony DP
- My Love (Moya Lyubov) / 2006 / Russia / Aleksandr Petrov Sony DP
- Madame Tutli-Putli / 2007 / Canada / C. Lavis + M. Szczerbowski Sony DP
- I Met the Walrus / 2007 / Canada / Josh Raskin Sony DP
- Peter and the Wolf / 2006 / UK-Poland / Suzie Templeton Sony DP
- 12 / 2007 / Russia / Nikita Mikhalkov 35mm
- Beaufort / 2007 / Israel / Joseph Cedar 35mm
- Tanghi Argentini / 2006 / Belgium / Guy Thys Sony DP
- At Night (Om Natten) / 2007 / Christian E. Christiansen Sony DP
- The Substitute (Il Supplente) / 2006 / Italy / Andrea Jublin Sony DP
- The Tonto Woman / 2007 / UK / Daniel Barber Sony DP
- The Mozart of Pickpockets / 2006 / France / Philippe Pollet-Villard Sony DP
- Mongol / 2007 / Kazakhstan./ Sergei Bodrov 35mm
- Katyn / 2007 / Poland / Andrzej Wajda 35mm
- Chip An' Dale / 1947 / USA / Jack Hannah video
- Tea for Two Hundred / 1948 / USA / Jack Hannah video
- Toy Tinkers / 1949 / USA / Jack Hannah video
- The Milky Way / 1940 / USA / Rudolph Ising video
- The Yankee Doodle Mouse / 1943 / USA / Hanna - Barbera video
- Mouse Trouble / 1944 / USA / Hanna - Barbera video
- Quiet Please! / 1945 / USA / Hanna - Barbera video
- The Cat Concerto / 1947 / USA / Hanna - Barbera video
- Tweety Pie / 1947 / USA / Friz Freleng video
- The Little Orphan / 1948 / USA / Hanna - Barbera video
- For Scent-imental Reasons / 1949 / USA / Chuck Jones video
- So Much for So Little / 1949 / USA / Chuck Jones video
- The Two Mouseketeers / 1951 / USA / Hanna - Barbera video
- Johann Mouse / 1952 / USA / Hanna - Barbera video
- Birds Anonymous / 1957 / USA / Friz Freleng video
- The Dot and The Line / 1965 / USA / Chuck Jones video
- Popeye the Sailor Meets Sinbad the Sailor / 1936 / USA / Dave Fleischer video
- Superman / 1941 / USA / Dave Fleischer video
- Peace on Earth / 1939 / USA / Hugh Harman video
- In Bruges / 2007 / UK-Belgium / Martin McDonagh
- Blitz Wolf / 1942 / USA / Tex Avery video
- Pigs in a Polka / 1943 / USA / Friz Freleng video
- Swooner Crooner / 1944 / USA / Frank Tashlin video
- Walky Talky Hawky / 1946 / USA / Robert McKimson video
- Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Mouse / 1947 / USA / J. Barbera + W. Hanna video
- Mouse Wreckers / 1948 / USA / Chuck Jones video
- White Wilderness / 1958 / USA / James Algar video
- Hatch Up Your Troubles / 1949 / USA / J. Barbera + W. Hanna video
- Jerry's Cousin / 1951 / USA / J. Barbera + W. Hanna video
- Little Johnny Jet / 1953 / USA / Tex Avery video
- Touché, Pussy Cat! / 1954 / USA / J. Barbera + W. Hanna video
- From A to Z-Z-Z-Z / 1953 / USA / Chuck Jones video
- Sandy Claws / 1954 / USA / Frez Freleng video
- U2 3D / 2007 / USA / C. Owens + M. Pellington REAL-D 3D
- Jumper / 2008 / USA / Doug Liman
- The Smiling Lieutenant / 1931 / USA / Ernst Lubitsch video
- Woman in the Dunes / 1964 / Japan / Hiroshi Teshigahara video
- Good Will To Men / 1955 / USA / J. Barbera + W. Hanna video
- High Note / 1960 / USA / Chuck Jones video
- Nelly's Folly / 1961 / USA / Chuck Jones video
- Now Hear This / 1962 / USA / Chuck Jones video
- Charlie Bartlett / 2007 / USA / Jon Poll
- The Love Parade / 1929 / USA / Ernst Lubitsch video
- Freeheld / 2007 / USA / Cynthia Wade 35mm
- La Corona (The Crown) / 2008 / USA / A. Micheli + I. Vega 35mm
- Sari’s Mother / 2006 / Iraq-USA / James Longley 35mm
- Salim Baba / 2007 / USA / Tim Sternberg 35mm
- Nanking / 2007 / USA / B. Guttentag + D. Sturman
- City of Men / 2007 / Brazil / Paulo Morelli
- City Lights / 1931 / USA / Charlie Chaplin Baltimore Symphony Orchestra score (Strathmore Hall)

MARCH

- The Other Boleyn Girl / 2007 / UK-USA / Justin Chadwick
- Definately, Maybe / 2008 / UK-USA / Adam Brooks
- Hotel Chevalier / 2007 / USA-France / Wes Anderson / 13min video
- Dinosaurs: Giants of Patagonia / 2007 / Canada / Marc Fafard IMAX 3D
- The Bank Job / 2007 / UK / Roger Donaldson
- Grand Canyonscope /1954 / USA / Charles A. Nichols / 7min video
- Death Proof / 2007 / USA / 114min version / Quentin Tarantino HiDef
- The Candy Snatchers / 1973 / USA / Guerdon Trueblood video
- Dr. Seuss' Horton Hears a Who! / 2008 / USA / J. Hayward + S. Martino DLP
- Aleksandra / 2007 / Russia-France / Aleksandr Sokurov
- The Bubble / 2006 / Israel / Eytan Fox video
- The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters / 2006 / USA / Seth Gordon video
- Chacun son Cinema (To Each His Own Cinema) / 2007 video see below
- Grand Canyon Adventure: River at Risk / 2008 / USA / Greg MacGillivray IMAX 3D
- The Spiderwick Chronicles / 2008 / USA / Mark Waters IMAX
- Paranoid Park / 2007 / USA / Gus Van Sant
- Inferno / 1980 / Italy / Dario Argento video
- Mother of Tears / 2007 / Italy / Dario Argento video
- The Devils / 1971 / UK / Ken Russell / 112 minute version video
- Invasion of Astro-Monster / 1965 / Japan / Ishirô Honda / 94min video
- The Band's Visit / 2007 / Israel-France / Eran Kolirin
- Snow Angels / 2007 / USA / David Gordon Green
- 10,000 BC / 2008 / USA / Roland Emmerich DLP
- Planet B-Boy / 2008 / USA / Benson Lee
- 21 / 2008 / USA / Robert Luketic
- Nightmare Detective / 2006 / Japan / Shinya Tsukamoto video

APRIL

- Hatchet / 2007 / USA / Adam Green video
- Last Year at Marienbad / 1961 / France / Alain Resnais 35mm
- Praying with Lior / 2007 / UK / Ilana Trachtman
- Knocked Up / 2007 / USA / Judd Apatow / 129min 'R' video
- Leatherheads / 2008 / USA / George Clooney DLP
- Lizard in a Woman's Skin / 1971 / Spain-Italy / Lucio Fulci / 103min version video
- Seven Notes in Black / 1977 / Italy / Lucio Fulci video
- Cat in the Brain / 1990 / Italy / Lucio Fulci video
- La Perra / 2002 / Chile / Hugo Maza / 17min video
- We Have Decided Not to Die / 2004 / Australia / Daniel Askill / 11min video
- The Duchess of Langeais / 2007 / France-Italy / Jacques Rivette
- United We Stand / 2002 / Norway / Hans Petter Moland / 9min video
- Antichrist / 2002 / Poland / Adam Guzinski / 22min video
- The Old Woman's Step / 2002 / Brazil / Jane Malaquias / 15min video
- Ring of Fire / 2000 / Germany / Andreas Hykade / 15min video
- Flight of the Red Balloon / 2007 / France / Hsiao-hsien Hou
- Flawless / 2007 / UK-Luxemborg / Michael Radford
- The Singing Revolution / 2006 / USA-Estonia / James & Maureen Castle Tusty
- The Pixar Story / 2007 / USA / Leslie Iwerks HiDef
- Contempt / 1963 / France / Jean-Luc Godard 35mm
- Still Life / 2006 / China / Zhang Ke Jia video
- Nightwatching / 2007 / UK / Peter Greenaway video


[ FilmFest DC:

- AmericanEast / 2007 / USA / Hesham Issawi
- Silent Light / 2007 / Mexico / Carlos Reygadas
- Buddha Collapsed Out of Shame / 2007 / Iran / Hana Makhmalbaf
- The Girl by the Lake / 2007 / Italy / Andrea Molaioli
- The Elite Squad / 2007 / Brazil / José Padilha
- Mister Foe / 2006 / UK / David Mackenzie ]

MAY

- Iron Man / 2008 / USA / Jon Favreau
- Forgetting Sarah Marshall / 2008 / USA / Thomas McCarthy
- The Visitor / 2007 / USA / Thomas McCarthy
- The Forbidden Kingdom / 2008 / USA / Rob Minkoff DLP
- Then She Found Me / 2007 / USA / Helen Hunt
- The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian / 2008 / UK-USA / Andrew Adamson DLP
- Roman de Gare / 2007 / France / Claude Lelouch
- Before the Rains / 2007 / India-UK / Santosh Sivan
- A Battle of Wits / 2006 / Hong Kong / Chi Leung 'Jacob' Cheung
- Useless (Wuyong) / 2007 / Hong Kong / Zhang Ke Jia
~
- The Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Ring (theatrical version) (film with live orchestra and chorus; Ludwig Wicki, conductor / City Choir of Washington, Robert Shafer, Artistic Director / World Children's Choir, Sondra Harnes, Artistic Director) Wolf Trap, Virginia HiDef DLP
~
- A Man Named Pearl / 2006 / USA / Scott Galloway-Brent Pierson
- The Fall / 2006 / India-UK-USA / Tarsem Singh
- Sex and the City / 2008 / USA / Michael Patrick King

JUNE

- Angels in the Outfield / 1951 / USA / Clarence Brown video
- Rabbit / 2005 / UK / Run Wrake / 9min video
- City Paradise / 2004 / UK / Gaelle Denis / 6min video
- Everything Will Be OK / 2006 / USA / Don Hertzfeldt / 17min video
- Collision / 2005 / UK / Max Hattler video
- Astronauts / 2005 / UK / Matthew Walker / 9min video
- Carlitopolis / 2006 / France / Neito / 4min video
- No Room for Gerold / 2006 / Germany / Daniel Nocke / 5min video
- One D / Mike Grimshaw video
- Tyger / 2006 / Brazil / Guilerme Marcondes / 4min video
- Versus / F. Caffiaux-R. Noel-T. Salas video
- Learn Self Defense / 2005 / USA / Chris Harding / 5min video
- Abigail / Tony Comely video
- Shuteye Hotel / 2007 / USA / Bill Plympton / 7min video
- Dreams and Desires / 2006 / UK / Joanna Quinn / 10min video
- Game Over / Pes / 2min video
- Son of Rambow / 2007 / UK-France / Garth Jennings
- Love Songs (Les Chansons d'amour) / 2007 / France / Christophe Honoré
- Kung Fu Panda / 2008 / USA / Mark Osborne-John Stevenson DLP
- The Pickup Artist video
- Un Bisou Pour Le Monde / 2007 / France / Cyril Paris / 10min video
- Inside (À l'intérieur) / 2007 / France / Alexandre Bustillo-Julien Maury video
- Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired / 2008 / USA-UK / Marina Zenovich HiDef
- Frontière(s) / 2007 / France / Xavier Gens video
- Open Season / 2006 / USA / Roger Allers-Jill Culton HiDef
- The Hoax / 2006 / USA / Lasse Hallström HiDef
- Meet the Spartans / 2008 / USA / Jason Friedberg-Aaron Seltzer video

[ The Animation Show 4: Sony DP

- Show Opener / 2008 / Joel Trussell
- Psychotown [3 episodes] / 2007 / Dave Carter
- Burning Safari / 2006 / Gobelins
- Operator / 2007 / Matthew Walker
- Yompi: The Crotch Biting Soup [3 episodes] / 2006 / Corky Quakenbush
- Mr. Schwartz, Mr. Hazen, Mr. Horlocker / 2006 / Stefan Mueller
- Love Sports: Paintballing / 2007 / Grant Orchard
- Angry Unpaid Hooker / 2005 / Steve Dikdarjan
- Blind Spot / 2007 / Gobelins
- Usavich [2 episodes] / 2006 / Satoshi Tomioka
- Prof. Nieto Show / 2007 / Nieto
- Voodoo / 2007 / Gobelins
- John and Karen / 2007 / Matthew Walker
- Cocette Minute / 2005 / Gobelins
- Key Lime Pie / 2007 / Trevor Jiminez
- Raymond / 2006 / BIF
- Forgetfulness / 2007 / Julien Grey
- Hot Dog / 2008 / Bill Plympton
- Spaghetti Western / 2008 / PES
- This Way Up / 2008 / Smith & Foulkes ]

- The Incredible Hulk / 2008 / USA / Louis Leterrier
- Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull / 2008 / USA / Steven Spielberg
- Socket / 2007 / USA / Sean Abley video
- The Happening / 2008 / USA / M. Night Shyamalan

[ AFI/Discovery Channel Silverdocs: (see week #24; all films Digital Projection unless where noted; *: short film):

- All Together Now / 2008 / Canada-USA / Adrian Wills
- The First Day / 2007 / Poland / Marcin Sauter / 20min *
- Kids & Money / 2007 / USA / Lauren Greenfield / 32min *
- Young Arabs / 2007 / USA / Michael Graziano / 18min*
- Head Wind / 2008 / Iran / Mohammad Rasoulof
- Man on Wire / 2007 / USA / James Marsh
- Up the Yangtze / 2008 / Canada / Yung Chang 35mm
- Yidishe Mama / 2008 / Israel / Gennady Kuchuck + Fima Shlick
- Virtual Freedom / 2006 / Australia / Gef Senz / 6min *
- Tongzhi in Love / 2008 / USA / Ruby Yang / 30min *
- One Day / 2007 / Denmark / Ditte Haarløv-Johnsen *
- Hi My Name is Ryan / 2008 / USA / Paul Eagleston + Stephen Rose video
- The Red Race / 2008 / China + Germany / Chao Gan
- The Garden / 2008 / USA / Scott Hamilton Kennedy
- Apology Line / 2007 / UK / James Lees / 10min *
- City of Cranes / 2008 / UK / Eva Weber / 14min *
- Gentle Creatures / 2007 / USA / M. Yong + K. Edwards *
- How to Save A Fish from Drowning / 2007 / Scotland / Kelly Neal / 13min *
- Leave Your Miracles Here / 2007 / Mexico / Mario Vázquez / 10min*
- What Would the Drop Know About That? / 2007 / Germany / Jan Zabeil / 13min * 35mm
- Ground Floor Right / 2007 / UK / Marlene Schiött Rasmussen / 5min *
- My Mother's Garden / 2008 / USA / Cynthia Lester
- Holy Land Hardball / 2008 / USA / Erik Kesten + Brett Rapkin
- Bird's Nest: Herzog and De Meuron in China / 2008 / Switzerland / C. Schaub + M. Schindhelm
- 52 Percent / 2007 / Poland / Rafal Skalski / 20min *
- The Champ / 2008 / USA / Peter Jordan / 6min *
- Smile Pinki / 2008 / India / Megan Mylan / 40min *
- Beginning Filmmaker / 2008 / USA / Jay Rosenblatt / 23min *
- The Ladies / 2007 / USA / Christine Voros / 13min *
- Encounters at the End of the World / 2007 / Germany-USA / Werner Herzog 35mm
- Bi the Way / 2008 / USA / B. Blockman + J. Decker video
- Theatre of War / 2008 / USA / John Walter ]

- Choking Man / 2006 / USA / Steve Barron video
- Resolved / 2008 / USA / George Whiteley HiDef
- The Music Man / 1962 / USA / Morton DaCosta HiDef

JULY

- Hancock / 2008 / USA / Peter Berg
- WALL·E / 2008 / USA / Andrew Stanton
- Presto / 2008 / USA / Doug Sweetland / 5min
- The Land Unknown / 1957 / USA / Virgil W. Vogel video
- Cult of the Cobra / 1955 / USA / Francis D. Lyon video
- Dr. Cyclops / 1940 / USA / Ernest B. Schoedsack video
- The Leech Woman / 1960 / USA / Edward Dein video
- The Deadly Mantis / 1957 / USA / Nathan Juran video
- THX-1138 / 1970-2004 / USA / George Lucas video
- Quatermass and the Pit / 1967 / UK / Roy Ward Baker video
- Pinocchio in Outer Space / 1965 / USA-Belgium / Ray Goossens video
- Next / 2007 / USA / Lee Tamahori HiDef
- La Jetée / 1962 / France / Chris Marker video
- Woman in the Moon / 1929 / Germany / Fritz Lang video
- Hellboy II The Golden Army / 2008 / USA / Guillermo De Toro
- The Earth Dies Screaming / 1965 / UK / Terence Fisher video
- Chosen Survivors / 1974 / USA / Sutton Roley video
- Journey to the Center of the Earth 3D / 2008 / USA / Eric Brevig REAL-D
- At the Earth's Core / 1976 / UK-USA / Kevin Connor video
- The Monster that Challenged the World / 1957 / USA / Arnold Laven video
- War-Gods of the Deep / 1965 / UK / Jacques Tourneur video
- It! The Terror from Beyond Space / 1958 / USA / Edward L. Cahn video
- AVPR Alien vs. Predator: Requiem / 2007 / USA / Brother Strause / 101min. video
- Contamination / 1980 / Italy / Luigi Cozzi video
- Journey to the Seventh Planet / 1962 / USA / Sid Pink video
- Invisible Invaders / 1959 / USA / Edward L. Cahn video
- Empire of the Ants / 1977 / USA / Bert I. Gordon video
- First Man in Space / 1959 / USA / Robert Day video
- The Atomic Submarine / 1959 / USA / Spencer Gordon Bennet video
- The Black Hole / 1979 / USA / Gary Nelson video
- Frankenstein Vs. Baragon / 1965 / Japan / Ishirô Honda / 93min video
- Tentacles / 1977 / Italy-USA / Ovidio G. Assonitis video
- Earth vs. the Flying Saucers / 1956 / USA / Fred F. Sears [Colorized version] video
- Futurama: The Beast with a Billion Backs / 2008 / USA / Peter Avanzino video
- The Phoenix Lights / 2008 / USA / Lynne D. Kitei video
- The Angry Red Planet 1960 / USA / Ib Melchior video
- The X-Files: I Want to Believe / 2008 / USA / Chris Carter
- The Dark Knight / 2008 / USA / Christopher Nolan [IMAX version: 8-16]
- The Great Behemoth /1959 / USA-UK / Eugène Lourié video
- The Valley of Gwangi / 1969 / USA / Jim O'Connolly video
- Destroy All Monsters! / 1968 / Japan / Ishirô Honda video
- Lifeforce / 1985 / UK / Tobe Hooper / 116min video
- The Sixth Day / 2000 / USA / Roger Spottiswoode video
- When Dinosaurs Ruled the Earth / 1970 / UK / Val Guest / 100min video
- My Winnipeg / 2007 / Canada / Guy Maddin
- Mamma Mia! / 2008 / USA / Phyllida Lloyd
- The Wackness / 2007 / USA / Jonathan Levine
- Doomsday / 2008 / UK / Neil Marshall / 'unrated' version video
- I Love Maria / 1988 / Hong Kong / David Chung-Hark Tsui video
[- Dark City (Director's Cut) / 1998 / Australia-USA / Alex Proyas]
- Battle Beneath the Earth / 1967 / UK-USA / Montgomery Tully video
- World Without End / 1956 / USA / Edward Bernds video
- Satellite in the Sky / 1956 / UK / Paul Dickson video
- The Face of Another / 1966 / Japan / Hiroshi Teshigahara video

AUGUST

- The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor / 2008 / USA / Rob Cohen
- Tell No One / 2006 / France / Guillaume Canet
- Superhero Movie / 2008 / USA / Craig Mazin video
- For the Bible Tells Me So / 2007 / USA / Daniel G. Karslake video
- Star Wars: The Clone Wars / 2008 / USA / Dave Filoni
- The Sisterhood of the Travelling Pants 2 / 2008 / USA / Sanaa Hamri
- XXY / 2007 / France-Spain / Lucía Puenzo
- Deathrace / 2008 / USA / Paul W.S. Anderson
- Karin's Face / 1984 / Sweden / Ingmar Bergman / 15min HiDef
- Thirdworld / 1997 / Thailand / Apichatpong Weerasethakul / 17min video
- Silk Stockings / 1957 / USA / Rouben Mamoulian HiDef
- Vicky Cristina Barcelona / 2008 / Spain-USA / Woody Allen
- Tropic Thunder / 2008 / USA / Ben Stiller
- Hamlet 2 / 2008 / USA / Andrew Fleming

SEPTEMBER

- Transiberian / 2007 / UK-Spain-Germany / Brad Anderson
- Rambo / 2007 / USA / Sylvester Stallone video
- Rogue / 2006 / Australia-USA / Greg Mclean video
- It's My Mother's Birthday Today / 2008 / Canada / Guy Maddin / 6min video
- Footsteps / 2008 / Canada / Guy Maddin / 9min video
- Lebenslauf (Course of Life) / 2005 / Germany / T. Ewerss + W. Fast / 4min video
- Tell Us the Truth Josephine / 2006 / Canada / Valerie Buhagiar / 16min video
- Motorcycle / 200 / Thailand / Aditya Assarat / 14min video
- Brand Upon the Brain! / 2006 / Canada / Guy Maddin [w/ Crispin Glover narration] video
- A Jihad for Love / 2007 / USA / Parvez Sharma
- Worldy Desires / 2005 / Thailand / Apichatpong Weerasethakul / 40min video
- Aron / 1986 / UK / Garth Jennings / 11min video
- Cinerama Adventure / 2002 / USA / David Strohmaier video
- The Sixth Side of the Pentagon / 1967 / France / Chris Marker / 26min video
- The Embassy / 1973 / France / Chris Marker / 21min video
- P.S. I Love You / 2007 / USA / Richard LaGravenese video
- Bangkok Dangerous / 2008 / USA / Oxide Pang Chun & Danny Pang
- The Women / 2008 / USA / Diane English
- Burn After Reading / 2008 / USA / Joel & Ethan Coen
- Postal / 2007 / USA / Uwe Boll video
- Tyler Perry's The Family that Preys / 2008 / USA / Tyler Perry
- How the West Was Won / 1962 / USA / J. Ford + H. Hathaway + G. Marshall + Richard Thorpe video
- Rent / 2008 / USA / Michael John Warren DLP
- Eagle Eye 2008 / USA / D.J. Caruso IMAX Digital
- Nights of Rodanthe / 2008 / USA / George C. Wolfe
- Please Vote for Me / 2007 / South Africa / Weijun Chen video
- Red Cliff / 2008 / China / John Woo video


OCTOBER

- Demonia / 1990 / Italy / Lucio Fulci video
- Black Cat, The / 1981 / Italy / Lucio Fulci video
- Sleepaway Camp II: Unhappy Campers / 1988 / US / Michael A. Simpson video
- Sleepaway Camp III: Teenage Wasteland / 1989 / US / Michael A. Simpson video
- [REC] / 2007 / Spain / J. Balagueró + P. Plaza video
- Vampyr / 1932-2008 / France-Germany / Carl Th. Dryer video
- Basket Case 3: The Progeny / 1992 / USA / Frank Henenlotter video
- Prophecy / 1979 / USA / John Frankenheimer video
- Monstroid / 1979 / USA / Kenneth Hartford video
- Rodan /1956 / Japan / Ishirô Honda [82min cut video
- Ghost Town / 2008 / USA / David Koepp
- Onibaba / 1964 / Japan / Kaneto Shindô video
- Don't Look in the Basement / 1973 / USA / S.F. Brownrigg video
- Don't Open the Door / 1975 / USA / S.F. Brownrigg video
- A Bell in Hell / 1973 / Spain / Claudio Guerín Hill video
- Blue Sunshine / 1976 / USA / Jeff Lieberman video
- The Ruins / 2008 / Australia-USA / Carter Smith / 93min video
- Tombs of the Blind Dead / 1971 / Spain / Amando de Ossorio / 97min video
- Return of the Evil Dead / 1973 / Spain / Amando de Ossorio / 91min video
- Night of the Seagulls / 1975 / Spain / Amando de Ossorio video
- Ghost Galleon, The / 1974 / Spain / Amando de Ossorio video
- Color Me Blood Red / 1965 / USA / H.G. Lewis video
- Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street / 1982 / USA / Terry Hughes video
- Quarantine / 2008 / USA / John Erick Dowdle
- Kill Baby... Kill! / 1966 / Italy / Mario Bava video
- Wolfen / 1981 / USA / Michael Wadleigh video
- Fido / 2006 / Canada / Andrew Currie video
- Mummy, The / 1932 / USA / Karl Freund video
- Mummy's Hand, The / 1940 / USA / Christy Cabanne video
- Mummy's Tomb, The / 1942 / USA / Harold Young video
- Mummy's Ghost, The / 1944 / USA / Reginald Le Borg video
- Mummy's Curse, The / 1944 / USA / Leslie Goodwins video
- Sleepless / 2001 / Italy / Dario Argento video
- Bird with the Crystal Plumage, The / 1970 / Italy / Dario Argento video
- Dario Argento: An Eye for Horror / 2000 / UK / Leon Ferguson video
- Watcher in the Wood, The / 1980 / UK-USA / John Hough video
- Children of the Corn / 1984 / USA / Fritz Kiersch video
- Wicker Man, The / 1973 / UK / Robin Hardy / 99min version video
- Ils (Them) / 2006 / France-Romania / David Moreau + Xavier Palud video

Phantom Museums: The Short Films of the Quay Brothers / various dates / UK
- The Cabinet of Jan Svankmajer ('84) / Rehearsals for Extinct Anatomies (16X9) ('87) / The Comb ('90) / Anamorphosis ('91) / In Absentia (16X9) (2000)* / The Phantom Museum ('03) / Nocturna Artificialia ('79) / The Calligrapher ('91) / Street of Crocodiles ('86)* / The Unnameable Little Broom (Epic of Gilgamesh) ('85)* / Stille Nacht I: Dramolet ('88)* II: Are We Still Married? ('92)* III: Tales from the Vienna Woods ('93)* IV: Can't Go Wrong Without You ('94)*
* w/commentary

- Blue Eyes of the Broken Doll / 1973-1997 / Spain / Carlos Aured video
- Hellraiser: Bloodline / 1996 / USA / 'Alan Smithee' (Kevin Yagher) video
- Hellraiser: Hellseeker / 2002 / USA / Rick Bota video
- Cat O'Nine Tails / 1971 / Italy / Dario Argento video
- Four Flies on Black Velvet / 1971 / Italy / Dario Argento video
- Lisa and the Devil / 1973 / Italy / Mario Bava video
- Baron Blood / 1972 / Italy / Mario Bava video
- Mario Bava: Maestro of the Macabre / 2000 / UK / Charles Preece video
- House of Exorcism / 1974 / Italy / 'Mickey Lion' video
- Children of the Corn 666: Isaac's Return / 1999 / USA / Kari Skogland video
- Phantasm III / 1994 / USA / Don Coscarelli video
- Phantasm IV: Oblivion / 1998 / USA / Don Coscarelli video
- Saw V / 2008 / USA / David Hackl
- The Girl Who Knew Too Much / 1963 / Italy / Mario Bava video
- Amityville II: The Possession / 1982 / USA / Damiano Damiani video
- The Bloodsplattered Brides / 1972 / Spain / Vicente Aranda video
- Daughters of Darkness / 1971 / Belgium / Harry Kümel video
- Stagefright / 1987 / Italy / Michele Soavi video
- Scarecrows / 1988 / USA / William Wesley video
- Poultrygeist: Night of the Chicken Dead / 2006 / USA / Lloyd Kaufman video
- Trapped Ashes / 2006 / USA / various directors video
- Killer Klowns from Outer Space / 1988 / USA / Stephen Chiodo video

- The Express / 2008 / USA / Gary Fleder
- Body of Lies / 2008 / USA / Ridley Scott
- Max Payne / 2008 / USA / John Moore
- What Just Happened? / 2008 / USA / Barry Levinson
- Happy Go Lucky /2008 / UK / Mike Leigh
- The Secret Lives of Bees / 2008 / USA / Gina Prince-Bythewood

21st Annual Virginia Film Festival (Oct. 30 - Nov. 2)

- Phoebe in Wonderland / 2008 / USA / iel Barnz
- Slumdog Millionaire / 2008 / UK / Danny Boyle
- The Wrestler / 2008 / USA / Darron Aronofsky
- Sunshine Cleaning / 2008 / USA / Christine Jeffs
- Terra 2007 / USA / Aristomenis Tsirbas
- The Response 2008 / USA / Adam Rodgers / 30min
- Waltz with Bashir / 2008 / Israel / Ari Folman

November

- Another Gay Movie: Gays Gone Wild! / 2008 / USA / Todd Stephens
- Ashes of Time Redux / 2008 / Hong Kong / Kar Wai Wong
- Madagascar: Back 2 Africa / 2008 / USA / Eric Darnell-Tom McGrath
- Let the Right One In 2008 / Sweden / Tomas Alfredson
- Ballast / 2008 / USA / Lance Hammer
- Role Models / 2008 / USA / David Wain
- Synecdoche, New York / 2008 / USA
- No Hunting / 1955 / USA / Jack Hannah / 8min video
- Bearly Asleep / 1955 / USA / Jack Hannah / 8min video
- Beezy Beark / 1955 / USA / Jack Hannah / 7min video
- Up A Tree / 1955 / USA / Jack Hannah / 7min video
- Chips Ahoy / 1956 / USA / Jack Kinney / 6min video
- My Name is Lisa / 2007 / USA / Ben Shelton / 7min video
- One Weekend a Month / 2004 / USA / Eric Escobar video
- Standard Operation Procedure / 2008 / USA / Errol Morris video
- Four Christmases / 2008 / USA / Seth Gordon
- Lola Montes / 1955 / France / Max Ophüls / 115min 35mm
- Twilight / 2008 / USA / Catherine Hardwicke
- Chocolate / 2008 / Thailand / Prachya Pinkaew video
- Fanny and Alexander / 1982 / Sweden / Ingmar Bergman / 312 minute version
- The Magic Flute / 2006 / UK / Kenneth Branagh video


AFI European Union Film Festival (Nov. 6 - 25)

- I Loved You So Long / 2008 / France / Philippe Claudel
- A Christmas Tale / 2008 / France / Arnaud Desplechin
- Eden / 2008 / Ireland / Declan Recks
- Gomorra / 2008 / Italy / Matteo Garrone
- I Was Here / 2008 / Estonia / René Vilbre DLP
- Defenders of Riga / 2008 / Latvia / Aigars Grauba
- The Home of Dark Butterflies / 2008 / Finland / Dome Karukoski
- Baader Meinhoff Complex / 2008 / Germany / Uli Edel
- Eldorado / 2008 / Belgium / Bouli Lanners

December

- Rachel Getting Married / 2008 / USA / Jonathan Demme
- The Boy in the Striped Pajamas / UK-USA / Mark Herman
- Bolt / 2008 / USA / Byron Howard + Chris Williams DLP-3D
- Quantum of Solace / 2008 / UK-USA / Marc Forster
- This Christmas / 2007 / USA / Preston A. Whitmore II HiDef
- Auntie Mame / 1958 / USA / Morton DaCosta video
- Holiday Affair / 1949 / USA / Don Hartman video
- The ChubbChubbs Save X-Mas / 2007 / USA / Cody Cameron / 5min video
- Dear Zachary: A Letter to a Son About His Father / 2008 / USA / Kurt Kuenne video
- The Day the Earth Stood Still / 2008 / USA / Scott Derrickson
- Chop Shop / 2007 / USA / Ramin Bahrani video
- Azur & Asmar: The Prince's Quest / 2006 / Belgium / Michel Ocelot
- Doubt / 2008 / USA / John Patrick Shanley
- Young @ Heart / 2008 / USA / Stephen Walker video
- Boy A / 2007 / UK / John Crowley DLP-3D
- Twenty Four Eyes (Nijushi no hitomi) / 1954 / Japan / Keisuke Kinoshita video
- Christmas on Mars / 2008 / USA / W.Coyne + B. Beesley + G. Salisbury video
- Tale of Despereaux / 2008 / UK-USA / S. Fell + R. Stevenhagen
- Bedtime Stories / 2008 / USA / Adam Shankman
- Valkyrie / 2008 / USA-Germany / Bryan Singer
- Marley & Me / 2008 / USA / David Frankel
- Painted Skin / 2008 / Hong Kong / Gordon Chan video
- The Banishment / 2007 / Russia / Andrei Zvyagintsev video
- Milk / 2008 / USA / Gus Van Sant
- The Edge of Heaven / 2007 / Germany-Turkey / Fatih Akin video
- The Pope's Toilet / 2007 / Uruguay / César Charlone + Enrique Fernández video
- Revolutionary Road / 2008 / USA / Sam Mendes
- The Curious Case of Benjamin Button / 2008 / USA / David Fincher


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- Twenty Four Eyes
- Fanny and Alexander (312 minute version)
- City Lights
- Woman in the Dunes
- Syndromes and A Century
- Last Year at Marienbad
- Still Life
- The Burmese Harp
- My Winnipeg
- Slumdog Millionaire
- Brand Upon the Brain!
- Contempt
- The Right Stuff
- The Devils (uncut 112 minute version)
- Gaslight
- The Graduate
- The Face of Another
- Ashes of Time Redux
- Waltz with Bashir
- Gomorra
- Man on Wire
- Buddha Collapsed Out of Shame
- Encounters at the End of the World
- The Fall
- The Visitor
- The Girl Who Knew Too Much
- [REC]
- Ballast
- Young @ Heart
- The Hand Behind the Mouse: The Ub Iwerks Story
- The Banishment
- The Singing Lieutenant
- This Sporting Life
- I Loved You So Long
- Up the Yangtze




- Phantasm IV: Oblivion
- Kill Baby... Kill!
- Vicky Cristina Barcelona
- Let the Right One In
- The Black Cat (Fulci)
- The Bird with the Crystal Plumage
- Son of Rambow
- Auntie Mame
- Night of the Seagulls
- The Producers (1968)
- Azur & Asmar
- Onibaba
- Silk Stockings
- The Mummy's Tomb
- Lola Montes
- Happy Go Lucky
- The Counterfeiters
- Sunshine Cleaning
- Dear Zachery
- Eldorado
- Love Songs
- The Edge of Heaven
- Vampyr
- XXY
- The Magic Flute (K. Branagh)
- Fido
- Funny Games (1997)
- Aleksandra
- Poultrygeist: Night of the Chicken Dead
- The Mummy (1932)
- Tombs of the Blind Dead
- Rogue
- Lizard in a Woman's Skin
- Chop Shop
- Wolfen
- Destroy All Monsters!
- Praying with Lior
- Quatermass and the Pit
- Angels in the Outfield (1951)
- Standard Operation Procedure
- 12
- Snow Angels
- Forgetting Sarah Marshall
- Cinerama Adventure
- Ghost Town
- The Elite Squad
- Red Cliff
- The Mummy's Ghost (4th film)
- Sleepaway Camp II: Unhappy Campers
- Kung Fu Panda
- The Band's Visit
- Tropic Thunder
- Holy Land Hardball
- Eden
- Common Threads: Stories from the Quilt
- Katyn
- WALL•E
- Death Proof (114 min)
- Seven Notes in Black
- Killer Klowns from Outer Space
- A Boy Named Charlie Brown
- The Valley of Gwangi
- Inferno
- Baron Blood
- Ils (Them)
- Blue Eyes of the Broken Doll
- Sleepaway Camp III: Teenage Wasteland
- Hellraiser: Hellseeker
- The Tin Drum
- The Wrestler
- It! The Terror from Beyond Space
- Paranoid Park
- Tell No One
- Lisa and the Devil
- I Was Here
- Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired
- The Pixar Story
- A Christmas Tale
- A Jihad for Love
- Chocolate (2008)
- Cat O'Nine Tails
- The Entertainer
- The Love Parade
- There Will Be Blood
- The Garden
- First Man in Space
- Resolved
- Taxi to the Dark Side
- The Bubble
- One Hour with You
- Iron Man
- The Girl by the Lake
- Hellboy II: The Golden Army
- Silent Light
- When Dinosaurs Ruled the Earth
- U23D
- Flight of the Red Balloon
- Bi the Way
- The Red Race
- Kramer vs Kramer
- Cloverfield
- Nightmare Detective
- Bird's Nest: Herzog and De Meuron in China
- City of Men
- Dr. Seuss' Horton Hears a Who!
- Useless
- Choking Man


- His Majesty, the Scarecrow of Oz
- Phantasm III
- Mamma Mia!
- Daughters of Darkness
- Four Flies on Black Velvet
- Invasion of Astro-Monster
- Frankenstein vs. Baragon
- Baader Meinhoff Complex
- Rachel Getting Married
- Painted Skin
- The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian
- Mister Foe
- Return of the Evil Dead
- Empire of the Ants
- Hatchet
- The Land Unknown
- Dr. Cyclops
- Boy A
- Yidishe Mama
- Scarecrows
- Holiday Affair
- Nighwatching
- Roman de Gare
- Terra
- The Sixth Day
- War Gods of the Deep
- How the West Was Won
- Hamlet 2
- The Ruins
- Hannah Montana/Miley Cyrus: Best of Both Worlds
- Quarantine
- Sleepless
- Chosen Survivors
- Planet B-Boy
- Tale of Despereaux
- Theatre of War
- Charlie Bartlett
- The Music Man (1962)
- The Express
- The Singing Revolution
- A Battle of Wits
- The Bloodsplattered Brides
- The Earth Dies Screaming
- I Love Maria
- Woman in the Moon
- Blue Sunshine
- Transiberian
- The Monster That Challenged the World
- Starting Out in the Evening
- Knocked Up
- The King of Kong
- Twilight
- A Man Named Pearl
- Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
- All Together Now
- The Spiderwick Chronicles
- Nanking
- The Hoax
- Sex and the City
- Flawless (2007)
- For the Bible Tells Me So
- The Duchess of Langeais
- At the Earth's Core
- THX-1138
- I Am Legend
- The Atomic Submarine



- Deathrace
- Cult of the Cobra
- Burn After Reading
- Phoebe in Wonderland
- Rambo (2008)
- The Black Hole
- The Mummy's Hand
- Basket Case 3: The Progeny
- All Together Now
- Contamination
- Role Models
- The Ghost Galleon
- Eagle Eye
- The Other Boleyn Girl
- The Deadly Mantis
- Another Gay Movie: Gays Gone Wild!
- Christmas on Mars
- Stagefright
- The Watcher in the Wood
- Amityville II: The Possession
- Mother of Tears
- House of Exorcism
- Trapped Ashes
- AmericanEast
- Journey to the Seventh Planet
- The Sisterhood of the Travelling Pants 2
- The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor
- Body of Lies
- What Just Happened
- The Incredible Hulk
- The Secret Lives of Bees
- A Bell in Hell
- Socket
- The Candy Snatchers
- Doubt
- The Wackness
- Leatherheads
- Invisible Invaders
- Doomsday
- Jumper
- Outing Riley
- 21
- Cat in the Brain
- The Leech Woman
- Journey to the Center of the Earth 3D
- Before the Rains
- House of Exorcism
- 21
- Definately, Maybe



- The Forbidden Kingdom
- Hellraiser: Bloodline
- Color Me Blood Red
- Postal
- Superhero Movie
- Frontière(s)
- Next
- Fight For Your Life
- Bolt
- Fracture
- No Country for Old Men
- Beaufort
- Valkyrie
- The Angry Red Planet
- The Boy in the Striped Pajamas
- Bedtime Stories
- Star Wars: The Clone Wars
- Saw V
- Marley & Me
- Hancock
- The Happening
- Mongol
- The Women
- This Christmas
- Then She Found Me
- Prophecy
- When World's Collide (1951)
- Alien Vs. Predator: Requiem
- Children of the Corn
- Don't Open the Door
- Open Season
- Pinocchio in Outer Space
- 10,000 BC
- Quantum of Solace
- Lifeforce
- Four Christmases
- Nights of Rodanthe
- Bangkok Dangerous
- Tyler Perry's The Family that Preys
- The Great Behemoth
- X Files: I Want to Believe





- Children of the Corn 666: Isaac's Return
- Don't Look in the Basement
- Demonia
- Max Payne
- Monstroid
- Battle Beneath the Earth
- P.S. I Love You
- Hi My Name is Ryan
- Meet the Spartans


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Chacun son Cinema (To Each His Own Cinema):

Théo Angelopoulos "Trois Minutes" / Olivier Assayas "Recrudescence" / Bille August "The Last Dating Show" / Jane Campion "The Lady Bug" / Youssef Chahine "47 Ans Après" / Kaige Chen "Zhanxiou Village" / Michael Cimino "No Translation Needed" / David Cronenberg "At the Suicide of the Last Jew in the World in the Last Cinema in the World" / Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne "Dans l'Obscurité" / Manoel de Oliveira "Rencontre Unique" / Raymond Depardon "Cinéma d'Eté" / Atom Egoyan "Artaud Double Bill" / Amos Gitai "Le Dibbouk de Haifa" / Alejandro González Iñárritu "Anna" / Hsiao-hsien Hou "The Electric Princess House" / Aki Kaurismäki "La Fonderie" / Abbas Kiarostami "Where is my Romeo?" / Takeshi Kitano "One Fine Day" / Andrei Konchalovsky "Dans le Noir" / Claude Lelouch "Cinéma de Boulevard" / Ken Loach "Happy Ending" / David Lynch / Nanni Moretti "Diaro di uno Spettatore" / Roman Polanski "Cinéma Erotique" / Raoul Ruiz "Le Don" / Walter Salles "A 8 944 km de Cannes" / Elia Suleiman "Irtebak" / Ming-liang Tsai "It's a Dream" / Gus Van Sant "First Kiss" / Lars von Trier "Occupations" / Wim Wenders "War in Peace" / Kar Wai Wong "I Travelled 9000 km To Give It To You" / Yimou Zhang "En Regardant le Film"


Weekly Diary:
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2nd Annual Academy Award Movie Challenge / Summer Sci-Fi Challenge / 4th Annual Horror Film Challenge

2007 Film List (Part 1) / (Part 2) / (Part 3) / 1st Annual Academy Award Movie Challenge (2007) / 2007 October Horror Film Challenge

Play Diary:
My Fair Lady (Cameron Mackintosh Production / Kennedy Center) 1-9 / November (Broadway) 2-30 / The Seafarer (Broadway) 2-31 / Hairspray (Broadway) 3-1 / The Hostage (Keegan Theatre Production, Church St. Theatre) 3-6 / All That I Will Ever Be (Studio Theatre Production) 3-9 / The Bible: The Complete Word of God (abridged) (RSC - Lansburgh Theatre) 3-14 / Lord of the Flies (Roundhouse Theatre Production) 4-11 / Stuff Happens (Georgetown University Theatre Production) 4-12 / The Price (Theater J production – DCJCC) 4-15 / The History Boys (Studio Theatre Production) 5-2 / The Screwtape Letters (Off Broadway Production/Landsburgh Theater) 5-18 / The Internationalist (Studio Theatre Production) 6-22 / Boeing Boeing (Longacre Theatre, New York City) 6-27 / The Naked Party (The HeartBreak Kids) DC Fringe Festival 7-11 / The Sticking Place (Molotov Theatre Group) + If You See Something Say Something (Woolly Mammoth) DC Fringe Festival) 7-13 / The Lion King (National Touring Production - Kennedy Center) 7-16 / Ethan Now (DC Fringe Festival) 7-19 / The Disappearance of Jonah (DC Fringe Festival) / 4 Rooms Waiting (DC Fringe Festival) 7-27 / The Neverending Story (Imagination Stage Production) 8-3 / Jerry Springer: The Opera (Studio Theater Production) 8-15 / Rabbit Hole (Olney Theater Production) 8-22 / Stones in His Pockets (Keegan Theater) 8-23 / Ace (Signature Theatre) 9-13 / The Road to Mecca (Studio Theater Production) 9-21 / Love Peace & Robbery (Keegan Theatre) 12-6 / Blackbird (Studio Theatre) 12-7 / Altar Boyz (Bethesda Theatre) 12-12 / Gray Gardens (Studio Theatre) 12-19

[xflexxy]

Theatrical

(Really loved it)
No Country for Old Men
There Will Be Blood
The Killing of John Lennon
Speed Racer
Iron Man
The Fall
Wall-E
The Dark Knight
007: Quantum of Solace
Valkyrie

(Really enjoyed it)
The Kite Runner
Horton Hears a Who
The Visitor
Indiana Jones: Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
Kung Fu Panda
Get Smart
Elsa y Fred
Tropic Thunder
Madagascar 2: Escape 2 Africa
Bolt

(Liked it)
Penelope
Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day
Forgetting Sarah Marshall
Son of Rambow
Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian
Hellboy II: The Golden Army
Igor
The Boy in the Striped Pajamas
The Tale of Despereaux

(Didn't care for it much)
The Bucket List
Juno
Be Kind Rewind
Leatherheads

(Really didn't like it)




Seen for the first time

(Really loved it)
3:10 to Yuma (2007)
The Red Balloon
Braveheart
The Man with the Golden Arm
My Left Foot
The Last Emperor
Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
Donnie Brasco
Hero
Jean Cocteau's Beauty and the Beast
Philadelphia
Enchanted
The English Patient
Water
Fargo
The Lady Eve
Forrest Gump
The Good, The Bad and The Ugly
The Patriot
Before the Devil Knows You're Dead
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
House of Flying Daggers
Funny Games (08)
The Other Boleyn Girl
Notorious
Tootsie
Bachelor Mother
In Bruges
The Phantom of the Opera (2004)
Saawariya
The Last Samurai
Kramer vs. Kramer
The Women
It Started in Naples
Goodbye Mr Chips
Little Manhattan
The Greatest Show on Earth
To Be or Not to Be
Sullivan's Travels
Sleuth (1972)
Die Hard
The Palm Beach Story
Woman of the Year
Libeled Lady
Seven Years in Tibet
Lust for Life
A Night in Casablanca
Shall we Dance
12 Angry Men
I Dream Too Much
Boy's Town
Cool Hand Luke
Daddy Long Legs
007: Casino Royale 2006
The Counterfeiters
Before Sunrise
Before Sunset
My Boy Jack
August Rush
A Room with a View
Holiday Inn
2046
Stromboli
Indiscreet
Stage Door

(Really enjoyed it)
Traffic
White Mane
White Heat
Buster Keaton:The Electric House
Buster Keaton: The Boat
Buster Keaton: The Frozen North
Double Indemnity
Across the Universe
Eastern Promises
Sleuth (2007)
Dog Day Afternoon
All About Eve
The Namesake
Bonnie and Clyde
Music Within
Germany Year Zero
If...
Grindhouse: Death Proof
Vitus
Diving Bell and the Butterfly
Mommie Dearest
Network
12 Monkeys
First Blood
Papillon
Frantic
The Good Earth
Dragon Seed
Funny Games (98)
Platoon
Teacher's Pet
The Trouble with Harry
Cassandra's Dream
My Blueberry Nights
American Gangster
On Golden Pond
The Fugitive
The Air I Breathe
The Public Enemy
Father of the Bride (1950)
The Tracey Fragments
Planes, Trains and Automobiles
The Spiral Staircase
Topaze
Pat and Mike
The Whole Truth
Dr. Jekyll and Mr Hyde
She Wore a Yellow Ribbon
The Battle of Algiers
The Ambassador's Daughter
Suspicion
Operation Petticoat
Roughly Speaking
The Citadel
Rocky
Ace in the Hole
The Fifth Element
Roberta
Once Upon a Time in the West
Destination Tokyo
Cabin in the Sky
Hedwig and the Angry Inch
The Cranes are Flying
Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House
The New World
The Postman Always Rings Twice
Love Crazy
A Day at the Races
A Night at the Opera
Monsieur Verdoux
Playtime
Slightly Dangerous
Dinner at Eight
Animal Crackers
Mr. Skeffington
The Prisoner of 2nd Avenue
The Cocoanuts
The Kiss
The Flesh and the Devil
A Woman of Affairs
Serendipity
I Love You Again
The Man Who Knew Too Much
Wife vs Secretary
Take the Money and Run
East Side, West Side
Fatal Attraction
Born Yesterday
Of Human Bondage (1934)
Unforgiven
Illicit
Ten Cents a Dance
Night Nurse
Forbidden
Jezebel
Father's Little Dividend
The Lady from Shanghai
Waterloo Bridge
Red-Headed Woman
Irma La Douce
Flying Down to Rio
Battleship Potemkin
Ziegfeld Follies
Green Street Hooligans
Meet the Robinsons
Flashbacks of a Fool
L.A. Confidential
Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels
Interview with a Vampire
Pay it Forward
P.S. I Love You
Love Me If You Dare
Morning Glory

(Liked it)
Kiss and Make Up
The Letter
Queen Christina
True Romance
Punch Drunk Love
The Ballad of Jack and Rose
Black Irish
Pandora's Box
Bowling for Columbine
Becoming Jane
Silk
Martian Child
Things We Lost in the Fire
I Am Legend
Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon
Michael Clayton
Mean Streets
A Scanner Darkly
Dans Paris
Pleasantville
I'm a Cyborg, but That's OK
Bella
Delicatessen
A Fistful of Dollars
Dr Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
Pierrot Le Fou
Air Force One
For a Few Dollars More
The Station Agent
Moliere
Grace is Gone
Witness
Romulus, My Father
Wings in the Dark
Big Brown Eyes
My Favorite Brunette
Wedding Present
The Man Who Knew Too Much
The Savages
Skirts Ahoy!
The Cell
Five Miles to Midnight
All This and Heaven Too
Dirty Harry
Persepolis
For Me and My Gal
The Flower Drum Song
Clear and Present Danger
Perfume: The Story of a Murderer
Take Me Out To The Ball Game
Zeffirelli's Romeo and Juliet
Escape from New York
Batman: Gotham Knight
Chapter 27
Patriot Games
None but the Lonely Heart
Kiss Kiss Bang Bang
The Professionals
Every Girl Should Be Married
Roxie Hart
Reckless
The Feminine Touch
Hustle and Flow
Lethal Weapon
10 Things I Hate About You
4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days
To Paris with Love
Oklahoma!
Christmas in July
Duck Soup
Craig's Wife
Love is a Many-Splendored Thing
The Miracle of Morgan's Creek
The Phantom of the Opera (1925)
Delirious
Hellboy
MASH
Under the Yum Yum Tree
Batman (1966)
Man Proof
Evelyn Prentice
He Walked by Night
Thousands Cheer
Goodfellas
Sherlock Jr
Die Harder
Woman of Distinction
Live Free or Die Hard
Thelma and Louise
Mon Oncle
We Own the Night
M. Hulot's Holiday
The Bad and the Beautiful
Auntie Mame
Penelope (1966)
The Glenn Miller Story
The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle
Limelight
To Have and Have Not
Let Us Be Gay
The Paradine Case
The Yearling
Reducing
Woman of Paris
Two-Faced Woman
Alias Jesse James
Once Upon a Time in Mexico
Gypsy
The Lady is Willing
Too Many Husbands
Love Me or Leave Me
Pygmalion
Mr and Mrs Smith (original)
Clash by Night
Manhattan
The Thin Man
Rebecca
Let us Live
You'll Never Get Rich
Broadway Melody of 1940
Gilda
Hell's Angels
Les Girls
Expelled: No Intelligience Allowed
Little Annie Rooney
Babes in Arms
X-MEN
X2: X-MEN United
Run, Fatboy, Run
Conversations with Other Women
We Don't Live Here Anymore
The Bells of St. Mary's
Double Wedding
The Hardy's Ride High
The Incredible Hulk
The Courtship of Andy Hardy
The Bishop's Wife
Grand Theft Auto

(Didn't care for it much)
Father Goose
3:10 to Yuma (1957)
The West Point Story
Knocked Up
Le Cercle Rouge
Slipstream
The Big Lebowski
Wristcutters: A Love Story
Youth without Youth
Meeting the Detectives
Jumper
El Topo
Dan in Real Life
Southland Tales
My Brother's Keeper
Dead Heat on a Merry-Go-Round
French Connection
Die Hard with a Vengeance
Kiss Me Stupid
Hook, Line and Sinker
Double Harness
Stagecoach
A King in New York
Operation Madball
Ship Ahoy
Duck
Mamma Mia!
Tape
Definitely Maybe
The Taming of the Shrew (1967)

(Really didn't like it)
The Photographer
X-MEN: The Last Stand

[KillerCannibal]

Bumping. Shouldn't this be a sticky by now?

[visitor Q]

Third that motion.

[Zen Peckinpah]

Out of a **** scale:

Theatrical

Seen for First Time
1/2: 3 Days of the Condor (1975) - ***1/2 DVD
1/14: Cop (1988) - **** DVD
1/15: Once (2007) - **** DVD
1/16: Death Sentence (2007) - * DVD
1/18: The Kingdom (2007) - *** HD DVD
1/20: D.C. Cab (1983) - *** Netflix Instant Watching

[MasterCXtreme]

2008 Theatrical Releases
(Loved It)
(Really Liked It)
(Liked It)
(Wasn't Crazy About It)
(Hated It)

Seen For First Time:
(Loved It)
(1/19/2008) - Young Frankenstein
(1/20/2008) - 3:10 To Yuma
(1/31/2008) - No Country For Old Men
(3/2/2008) - Gone Baby Gone
(3/4/2008) - There Will Be Blood
(Really Liked It)
(1/29/2008) - Seven Years In Tibet
(2/10/2008) - Glengarry Glen Ross
(3/1/2008) - The Darjeeling Limited
(3/2/2008) - The Score
(Liked It)
(1/1/2008) - Rescue Dawn
(1/17/2008) - Saw III
(Wasn't Crazy About It)
(Hated It)

[rkndkn]

Will list films seen theatrically. (Using U.S. non-festival release dates)

Eligible 2008 films seen: 57
All films seen theatrically in 2008: 59

****

***1/2

In Bruges

***

The Bank Job
The Counterfeiter
Street Kings
Snow Angels
The Life Before Her Eyes
Iron Man
The Dark Knight
Hell Boy II: The Golden Army
Henry Poole is Here
Traitor
Frozen River
Burn After Reading
Towelhead
Flash of Genius
The Duchess
RocknRolla
The Boy in the Striped Pajamas
Slumdog Millionaire
Doubt
Frost/Nixon

**1/2

Cassandra's Dream
Not by Chance
Funny Games
L'Âge des ténèbres
Redbelt
Son of Rambow
Get Smart
Mamma Mia!
Vicky Cristina Barcelona
Tropic Thunder
Choke
Transsiberian
Appaloosa
Zack and Miri Make a Porno
W.
Quantum of Solace
Transporter 3
Twilight
Bolt
JCVD
Bedtime Stories
Milk

**

Be Kind Rewind
What Happens in Vegas
The Visitor
Paranoid Park
Wall-E
Wanted
The X-Files: I Want to Believe
Brideshead Revisited
Righteous Kill
Nights in Rodanthe
Sparrow
Changeling
Rachel Getting Married

*1/2

Nobel Son

*

2007 non-festival release films seen in 2008:

El Orfanato (The Orphanage) ***
P.S. I Love You ** 1/2

[Groucho]

2008 Films seen by Groucho
(this list only includes 2008 theatrical releases)

In order from best to worst:
1. U23D
2. Cloverfield

[amplified]

Films are ranked on a scale of 1-10.
Films with a score of 5 are considered average.
Only listing films that were released in the US in 2008.

2008 Ratings

The Visitor- 9/10
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button- 9/10
The Dark Knight- 8.5/10
Slumdog Millionaire- 8/10
Iron Man- 8/10
Wall-E- 7.5/10
The Fall- 7/10
Rachel Getting Married- 7/10
Charlie Bartlett- 7/10
27 Dresses- 7/10
Forgetting Sarah Marshall- 6.5/10
Chaos Theory- 6.5/10
The Incredible Hulk- 6.5/10
The Bucket List- 6.5/10
Burn After Reading- 6/10
Kit Kittredge: An American Girl- 6/10
21- 6/10
Vicky Cristina Barcelona- 6/10
Untraceable- 6/10
The Express- 6/10
Cloverfield-6/10
Hancock- 6/10
The Strangers- 6/10
Speed Racer- 6/10
Snow Angels- 6/10
Australia- 5.5/10
Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull- 5.5/10
Jumper- 5.5/10
Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist- 5.5/10
Then She Found Me- 5.5/10
Funny Games- 5.5/10
The Happening- 5/10
Step Brothers- 5/10
Vantage Point- 5/10
Kung Fu Panda (pre-screening)- 5/10
Transsiberian- 5/10
Eagle Eye- 4.5/10
The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian- 4.5/10
Get Smart- 4.5/10
Bill- 4.5/10
Smart People- 4.5/10
The Bank Job- 4.5/10
Be Kind Rewind- 4.5/10
The Signal- 4.5/10
Definitely, Maybe- 4/10
Redbelt- 4/10
The Promotion- 4/10
In Bruges- 4/10
Numb- 4/10
The Air I Breathe- 4/10
The Spiderwick Chronicles (pre-screening)-4/10
Baby Mama- 3.5/10
Flawless- 3.5/10
Made of Honor- 3.5/10
Deception- 3/10
What Happens in Vegas- 3/10
Sleepwalking- 3/10
The Eye- 3/10
The Ruins- 3/10
Mirrors- 2.5/10
10,000 B.C.- 2/10
My Blueberry Nights- 2/10
Semi-Pro- 1.5/10
Fool's Gold- 1/10


Still working on 2007 list- 2007 Ranked Films

2007 Top Ten
There Will Be Blood- 9.5/10
Gone Baby Gone- 9/10
Dan in Real Life- 8.5/10
Into the Wild- 8.5/10
The Bourne Ultimatum- 8/10
Bella- 7.5/10
28 Weeks Later- 7.5/10
No Country For Old Men- 7.5/10
Michael Clayton- 7.5/10
Juno- 7.5/10

[chris_sc77]

_2008 Releases Only:_

*The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button (A)
*The Dark Knight (A)
*Miracle At St. Anna (A)
*Snow Angels (A)
*Milk (A)
*Funny Games (A)
*The Fall (A-)
*Synecdoche, New York (A-)
*Towelhead (A-)
*Defiance (A-)
*Changeling (A-)
*The Wrestler (A-)
*Iron Man (A-)
*Recount (A-)
*Religulous (A-)
*Red (A-)
*My Name Is Bruce (B+)
*In Bruges (B+)
*The Bank Job (B+)
*Valkyrie (B+)
*Revolutionary Road (B+)
*Let the Right One In (B+)
*Happy-Go-Lucky (B+)
*Gran Torino (B+)
*Doubt (B+)
*Smiley Face (B+)
*Slumdog Millionaire (B+)
*Blue State (B+)
*Burn After Reading (B+)
*Quarantine (B+)
*Incredible Hulk (B+)
*Encounters At The End Of The World (B+)
*Frost/Nixon (B+)
*Man On Wire (B+)
*Appaloosa (B+)
*Elegy (B+)
*The Good Life (B+)
*Role Models (B)
*Zack And Miri Make A Porno (B)
*Tropic Thunder: Unrated Director's Cut (B)
*Step Brothers: Unrated Extended Cut (B)
*Bottle Shock (B)
*Frozen River (B)
*Bangkok Dangerous (B)
*Sex And The City (B)
*Street Kings (B)
*Ghost Town (B)
*Rachel Getting Married (B)
*Wanted (B)
*Forgetting Sarah Marshall : unrated Extended Cut (B)
*Baby Mama (B)
*Hancock (B)
*Australia (B)
*Blindness (B)
*21 (B)
*The Forbidden Kingdom (B)
*The X-Files: I Want To Believe (B)
*Drillbit Taylor (B)
*Death Race (B)
*Righteous Kill (B)
*The Hammer (B)
*Be Kind Rewind (B)
*The Ruins (B)
*Smart People (B)
*Shotgun Stories (B)
*88 Minutes (B)
*Harold And Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay (B-)
*Tropic Thunder (B)
*Forgetting Sarah Marshall (B)
*RockNRolla (B)
*Doomsday (B)
*Death Defying Acts (B)
*Vicky Cristina Barcelona (B-)
*Saw V (B-)
*Pride And Glory (B-)
*Sukiyaki Western Django (B-)
*Definitely, Maybe (B-)
*Shine A Light (B-)
*Hellboy II: The Golden Army (B-)
*The Grand (B-)
*The Duchess (B-)
*The Strangers (B-)
*Indiana Jones and The Kingdom Of The Crystal Skulls (B-)
*Speed Racer (B-)
*You Don't Mess With The Zohan (B-)
*City Of Ember (B-)
*Pineapple Express (B-)
*Rambo (B-)
*Otis (B-)
*The Air I Breathe (B-)
*Vantage Point (B-)
*Leatherheads (B-)
*Punisher: War Zone (C+)
*August (C+)
*The Happening (C+)
*Transsiberian (C+)
*Stop-Loss (C)
*Semi-Pro (C)
*How to Lose Friends and Alienate People (C)
*Untraceable (C-)
*Quantum Of Solace (C)
*Mirrors (C-)
*The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor (C-)
*Jumper (C-)
*Mamma Mia (C-)
*Cloverfield (D+)
*The Love Guru (D-)


Best of 2007:
1. THERE WILL BE BLOOD
2. Grindhouse (Or just the extended Death Proof)
3. Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
4. Southland Tales
5. Stardust
6. Knocked Up (Extended and Unrated Edition)
7. Zodiac
8. Into The Wild
9. Across The Universe
10. Rescue Dawn
(Runners Up: Hot Fuzz)



Worst of 2007:
Ghost Rider, Dead Silence, Hills Have Eyes 2, Transformers, Perfect Stranger, Vacancy, Hitman

[acubfaninmd]

bump

[Trevor]

Originally Posted by acubfaninmd

bump

We're sticked now, no need to bump.

[bluetoast]

Movies Seen 2008

I'll probably add thoughts at a later time.

Theatrical


There Will Be Blood [2007] (1/13)
No Country for Old Men (second viewing) [2007] (1/11)


Michael Clayton [2007] (1/27) - On some level, it reminded me of The Bad Sleep Well. Interesting plot, good acting.

Persepolis [2007] (1/28)


Into the Wild [2007]

Juno [2007]
Charlie Wilson's War [2007]
Cloverfield [2008] (1/19)


Atonement [2007] (1/28)







Home Viewing


The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (DVD) [1964](1/25)
Colossus of Rhodes (DVD) [1961] (1/27)
Breathless (2nd viewing, 1st time with Criterion) (DVD) (1/29)
Ratatouille (1st home viewing, 3rd overall viewing) (Blu-ray) [2007]

Dr. No (DVD) [] (1/30)


Meet the Robinsons (Blu-ray) [2007] - Entertaining movie, better than I thought it would be.

If... (DVD) [1968] (1/26)
Beerfest (Unrated, DVD) [2006]

[Dutin]

Juno

Cloverfield
Once
Rambo
King of Kong

Cashback


Hitman

[Dane Marvin]

Theatrical Releases in 2008




--Iron Man


--The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian
--Kung Fu Panda


--Forgetting Sarah Marshall
--The Incredible Hulk
--Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull


--Be Kind Rewind
--Speed Racer
--Stop-Loss


--Jumper
--Semi-Pro




--10,000 B.C.

[scott1598]

1. "Rambo"
2. "There Will Be Blood"
3. "Cloverfield"

[Giggles]

FILMS OF 2008








Cloverfield
Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
The Happening


Rambo
The Bank Job
Iron Man
Vantage Point
Jumper
The Strangers


Doomsday
The Incredible Hulk


Shutter

[Tarantino]

Note: Rankings are only for movies that I see for the first time in 2008

Rankings as of: 12/26/08
Italics + Date = Newest Addition

Theatrical
HD-DVD
Blu-Ray
DVD

(Loved it, a must own)

Shaun Of The Dead
I wish I'd seen this one earlier. Hilarious!
Gone, Baby, Gone
Fantastic story, great acting, left me thinking for a long time after. What an outstanding flick.
Sweeney Todd: Butcher of Fleet Street
Classic. Much different than I thought it was going to be. In a great way.
The Dark Knight
Two words. Heath Ledger. A little long, but that's my only complaint about this fantastic movie. A must buy.

(Highly recommended, on the list to buy)

Cloverfield
Tense and well done. Best monster movie I've seen in a while.
Rambo
Rambo's back! Prepare for blood and guts.
The Kingdom
Had me engrossed and the action was awesome at the end.
The Assassination Of Jesse James By The Coward Robert Ford
Left me thinking. Had some faults, but a great character study.
We Own The Night
Some very intense parts. One of the best car chases I've seen in a while and a few great action scenes.
30 Days Of Night
Pretty good little vampire movie. I went in with low expectations, and really liked it.
The Darjeeling Limited
Loved the characters, colors, and chemistry. Some lines had me laughing through other lines. Great stuff.
Forgetting Sarah Marshall
Hilarious comedy. I thought it was better than Superbad and Knocked Up. Jason Segal does a great job as the lovable loser.
Iron Man
Love Robert Downey Jr., but I was hoping for a little more action. Still a really good flick based on the comic.
Indiana Jones & The Raiders of The Lost Ark
Funny and action packed. Just an all around good movie. And no, I'd never seen it before.
Before The Devil Knows You're Dead
Definitely not what I expected. Phillip Hoffman is awesome.
Be Kind, Rewind
Very funny. Very predictable, but also very funny.
Step Brothers
Very funny. Can't wait to see the unrated DVD.
Pineapple Express
Hilarious. Just what I had been expecting.
Burn After Reading
Pitt stole the show, but great performances from everyone in the cast. Definitely worth a second viewing.
Tropic Thunder
Exactly what I was expecting...lots of satire and a ton of laughs.
Redbelt
Great script and great performances. Plus that Mamet dialogue...
Hell Ride
Cheesy, violent, and stupid...just like I was expecting, and hoping for.
The Hills Have Eyes
Disturbing. Just what I was looking for on Halloween.
Quantum of Solace
Thin story, but action packed.
A Perfect World (12/26/08)
Could have been on lifetime. Deplorable acting.

(Liked it, but wouldn't own it)

Eastern Promises
I guess I was expecting more. Good movie though.
First Blood (Rambo 1)
Good to see how the Rambo character has evolved.
The King Of Kong - Fistful Of Quarters
Heck of a documentary. Highly recommended.
Conspiracy Theory
A little disjointed at times, but a fun ride nonetheless.
Sunshine
Hated the plot holes, but the visuals were tasty.
Casshern
Despite it's shortcomings, it kept me entertained.
Syriana
Good job of twisting different stories together.
Chaos Theory
A bit darker than I thought it would be. Reynolds was good, but the supporting actor (his friend) couldn't act his way out of a bag.
I Am Legend
Not bad. The first half was really good, then it kind of fizzled out. Bad, bad CGI.
Michael Clayton
Liked the second half more than the first. Just seemed a little uneven to me.
St. Elmo's Fire
I'd always wanted to see the 'other' Brat Pack movie. It carried a good theme, but felt a little empty afterwards. I prefer The Breakfast Club.
Heathers
Much darker than I was expecting. A good social commentary though.
Indiana Jones & The Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
Aliens? Really? Blah. The car chase was pretty awesome, but that's really all I'll remember from this one.
Raising Arizona
Pretty funny Coen gem. Lots of parts that had me rolling.
The Spanish Prisoner
Once it got going, it was pretty good. Very twisty.
The Incredible Hulk
Nice fight scenes, but not something I'd need to ever watch again.
Jumper
Pretty run of the mill stuff here. Some good special effects though. I would have preferred a badass fight scene somewhere in there.
Wanted
A fun, but forgettable action movie. Great special effects from the Russian visionary.
The Signal
Not bad for a low budget horror flick, but it fell apart in the third transmission.
Hancock
Entertaining. Top heavy, but entertaining.
The Dirty Carnival
Good movie, but a bit too padded and overly long.
Raw Deal
Arnold, doing what he does best. Kicking ass, taking names. Just what I expected.
Truth or Consequences, NM
A pretty straight forward crime flick. Nothing I haven't seen a million times before. Not bad, though.
Shotgun Stories
A little slow, but I was interested in what was going to happen to the brothers.
Traitor
Done well, but nothing I haven't seen a million times before. Cheadle tears it up though.
Felon
Better than what I thought it would be. Good performances by Dorff and Kilmer.
Eagle Eye
Eh...exactly what I thought it would be...mindless action.
Exiled
Good asian action flick.
Son of Rambow
Funny...cute...
One False Move
Not a bad little movie from the 90's. And Billy Bob with a pony tail?
Zack & Miri Make A Porno
Some laughs. The exchange between Long & Rogan had me cracking up.
Sukiyaki Western Django
A very, very weird movie...but a visual feast. Liked it overall.
Passenger 57
Standard 90's action fare. Entertaining, but nothing special.


(Rent it)

Rocket Science
Thumbsucker did this plot so, so much better.
Juno
I'll take "characters I could give a shit less about, Alex."
Oceans 12
I was expecting more from this all star cast.
Alpha Dog
A disappointment. I remember seeing this story on America's Most Wanted when I was little.
Chaos
Had me intrigued because Statham and Phillippe were in it. What a disappointment.
Vantage Point
Bad acting and horrid plot twists. Makes you suspend all beliefs. Good car chase keeps it from one star.
Tears of the Sun
A very forgettable movie altogether. Nothing really bad, per se, but nothing that stood out either.
Semi-Pro
One, maybe two laughs. Pretty disappointing.
John Tucker Must Die
I laughed at one part. "Cute" movie. Someone made me watch it.
Sleuth
I didn't know what to expect. The banter between Caine and Law was, at times, amusing, but it just couldn't hold my attention.
The Brothers Solomon
Hey, they made me laugh a few times. I guess that's something.
The French Connection
Classic? Maybe I'm just new school...but this one had me bored out of my mind.
Street Kings
Bad dialogue, cheesy acting. Keanu does fine, Forrest Whitaker...not so much. Bad casting decisions.
What Happens In Vegas
I'm one of the rare people who likes Ashton Kutcher, but I just didn't laugh at this movie. I got one or two, and most of them were from the sidekicks. Oh, and I hate Cameron Diaz.
Don't Mess With The Zohan
My low expectations were definitely met. Bad movie.
Funny Games
Not at all what I was expecting. Tense, but what's with the rewind? Or breaking the fourth wall?
The Take
A very pointless and boring movie.
Firestorm
What more can I say? It's Howie Long.
La Haine
I think I was looking for something different here. I was bored to tears.
Red
Could have been on lifetime. Deplorable acting.
The Mummy 3
Could have been on lifetime. Deplorable acting.

(Avoid!)

There Will Be Blood
Welcome to snore-fest, '08. DD Lewis was great, the movie was boring.
The Brave One
What a horrible piece of shit. So many horrible plot points.
Unstoppable
Hey, it was laying around the house. Horrible acting, bad story.
Southland Tales
Long, boring, confusing. Not even my love for The Rock could save this one. Ugh. Save your time.
Revolver
Confusing. Some good actors talents go to waste in this one. Guy Ritchie may have lost his touch.
Margot At The Wedding
After Squid & The Whale, I was expecting so much from Baumbach. This one fell flat with me...I couldn't even finish it.
Highwaymen
Ugh. Story full of holes the size of Courtney Love, with crappy acting to top it off.
The Take
Not very suspenseful and very boring. I fell asleep.
The Happening
Wow. This is from the same director who made The Sixth Sense?
The Legend of God's Gun
Does it count as watching it if I could only stomach ten minutes before shutting it off?

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Stats

Theatrical - 26
HD-DVD - 6
Blu-Ray -10
DVD - 47

Total = 89 New Films To Date

= J

[Rounder]

Rambo - 4/5 .... Awaiting DVD release.

[fernsita]

I saw Definitely, Maybe last wkend and it was just SO cute. I love Abirgail Breslin and this film made me take Ryan Reynolds more seriously as an actor. It is a cute, light-hearted chick flick. I would def. suggest you catch this one!

[JuCo]

Saw my faves from 2007 in the last two weeks...

Best big movie I saw this year: Michael Clayton
Best small movie I saw this year: Shotgun Stories