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Thursday, January 1, 2015

What I Watched in December


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December

1. They Were Expendable (Ford, 1945)

2. Planes: Fire & Rescue (Gannaway, 2014)

3. Seminary Girls (White, 1897)

4. Toy Story That Time Forgot (Purcell, 2014)

5. The Night of the Hunter (Laughton, 1955)

6. Night Moves (Reichardt, 2013)

7. Notorious (Tillman Jr., 2009)

8. Picnic at Hanging Rock (Weir, 1975)

9. La Dolce Vita (Fellini, 1960)

10. The Pyramid (Levasseur, 2014)

11. It's a Wonderful Life (Capra, 1946)

12. Cat Soup (Satô, 2001)

13. Le déjeuner du chat (Lumière, 1895)

14. The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug (Jackson, 2013)

15. Mickey's Once Upon a Christmas (Falkenstein, Mann, Raymond, Shelton, Speers, 1999)

16. How to Train Your Dragon 2 (DeBiois, 2014)

17. Exodus: Gods and Kings (Scott, 2014)

18. A Million Ways to Die in the West (MacFarlane, 2014)

19. Mickey's Twice Upon a Christmas (Holliday, O'Callaghan, Cullen, 2004)

20. Saída do Pessoal Operário da Fábrica Confiança (Reis, 1896)

21. The Babadook (Kent, 2014)

22. I Spit on Your Grave 2 (Monroe, 2013)

23. Chez le magnétiseur (Guy, 1897)

24. Palo Alto (Coppola, 2013)

25. The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies (Jackson, 2014)

26. Kindering (Brakhage, 1987)

27. Stellar (Brakhage, 1993)

28. Rage Net (Brakhage, 1988)

29. Foxcatcher (Miller, 2014)

30. Top Five (Rock, 2014)

31. Ladies and Gentlemen, My Name Is Paul Heyman (Dunn, 2014)

32. Uncle Josh in a Spooky Hotel (Porter, 1900)

33. The Mystic Swing (Porter, 1900)

34. What If (Dowse, 2013)

35. Barcelona Park at Twilight (Chomón, 1904)

36. Gremlins 2: The New Batch (Dante, 1990)

37. The Temptation of St. Anthony (Méliès, 1898) 

38. The Giver (Noyce, 2014)

39. The Interview (Goldberg, Rogen, 2014)

40. Toy Story (Lasseter, 1995)

41. The Haunted Curiosity Shop (Booth, 1901)

42. Kiwi! (Permedi, 2006)

43. The Woman in Black (Watkins, 2012)

44. Buffalo Dance (Dickson, 1894)

45. The Thin Red Line (Malick, 1998)

Monday, December 1, 2014

What I Watched in November


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November

1. Fitzcarraldo (Herzog, 1982)

2. Vampyr (Dreyer, 1932)

3. Tarzan (Buck, Lima, 1999)

4. Hiroshima mon amour (Resnais, 1959)

5. Leprechaun: Origins (Lipovsky, 2014)

6. People on Sunday (Siodmak, Siodmak, Ulmer, Zinnemann, 1930)

7. A Chess Dispute (Paul, 1903)

8. Night of the Creeps (Dekker, 1986)

9. Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) (Iñárritu, 2014)

10. Ghoulies IV (Wynorski, 1994)

11. Interstellar (Nolan, 2014)

12. Hard Eight (Anderson, 1996)

13. The Little Mermaid 2: Return to the Sea (Kammerud, Smith, 2000)

14. The Sleeping Car (Curtis, 1990)

15. John Carter (Stanton, 2012)

16. Those Awful Hats (Griffith, 1909)

18. Cyrano de Bergerac (Maurice, 1900)

19. Wavelength (Snow, 1967)

20. Alexander Nevsky (Eisenstein, Vasilev, 1938) 

21. In Vanda's Room (Costa, 2000)

22. Big Hero 6 (Hall, Williams, 2014)

23. Safety Last! (Newmeyer, Taylor, 1923)

24. Fishing for Goldfish (Lumière, 1895)

25. Diary of a Country Priest (Bresson, 1951)

26. Dumb and Dumber To (Farrelly, Farrelly, 2014)

27. Shrek (Adamson, Jenson, 2001)

28. Garfield's Halloween Adventure (Roman, 1985)

29. Garfield's Thanksgiving (Roman, Baldwin, Nesler, Sparey, 1989)

30. Low Down (Preiss, 2014)

31. A Garfield Christmas Special (Roman, Singer, 1987)

32. Blackfriars Bridge (Paul, 1896)

33. Le pêcheur dans le torrent (Guy, 1897)

34. Return to Nuke 'Em High Volume 1 (Kaufman, 2013)

35. The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1 (Lawrence, 2014)

36. Hercules (Ratner, 2014)

37. Horribles Bosses 2 (Anders, 2014)

38. The Big Parade (Vidor, 1925)

39. The Kiss (Heise, 1896)

40. The Big Swallow (Williamson, 1901)

41. Dickson Experimental Sound Film (Dickson, 1894)

42. See No Evil 2 (Soska, Soska, 2014)

43. Thanksgiving Family Reunion (Israel, 2003)

44. Sans Soleil (Marker, 1983)

45. Maniac (Khalfoun, 2012)

46. The Theory of Everything (Marsh, 2014)

Total films watched in 2014: 316

Saturday, November 1, 2014

What I Watched in October


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October 

1. To the Wonder (Malick, 2012)

2. Dranem Performs 'The True Jiu-Jitsu' (Guy, 1905)

3. Annabelle (Leonetti, 2014)

4. The Color of Pomegranates (Parajanov, 1968)

5. Comic Costume Race (Paul, 1896)

6. The Muppet Movie (Frawley, 1979)

7. Gone Girl (Fincher, 2014)

8. The Dancing Pig (1907)

9. Spartacus (Kubrick, 1960)

10. The Dreamers (Bertolucci, 2003)

11. Sandow (Dickson, 1896)

12. Man with a Movie Camera (Vertov, 1929)

13. Fury (Ayer, 2014)

14. Mark of the Devil (Armstrong, Hoven, 1970)

15. Pumpkinhead (Winston, 1988)

16. Pumpkinhead II: Blood Wings (Burr, 1993)

17. My Little Pony: A Very Minty Christmas (Chele, 2005)

18. The Magnificent Ambersons (Welles, 1942)

19. St. Vincent (Melfi, 2014)

20. John Wick (Leitch, Stahelski, 2014)

21. Illusions fantasmagoriques (Méliès, 1898)

22. The Long Day Closes (Davies, 1992)

23. Castaway on the Moon (Lee, 2009)

24. Broken Blossoms or The Yellow Man and the Girl (Griffith, 1919)

25. Nightcrawler (Gilroy, 2014)

Total films watched in 2014: 270

Thursday, September 25, 2014

What I Watched in September

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September

1. Arnulf Rainer (Kubelka, 1960)

2. Outer Space (Tscherkassky, 1999)

3. A Trip to the Moon (Méliès, 1902)

4. Unsere Afrikareise (Kubelka, 1966)

5. Tokyo Story (Ozu, 1953)

6. Brave (Andrews, Chapman, Purcell, 2012)

7. This Is Not a Film (Mirtahmasb, Panahi, 2011)

8. The Living Skeleton (Matsuno, 1968)

9. Rose Hobart (Cornell, 1936)

10. Listen to Britain (Jennings, McAllister, 1942)

11. The Sea (Lumière, 1895)

12. The Barbershop (Fickson, Heise, 1894)

13. The Magician (Méliès, 1898)

14. The Countryman's First Sight of the Animated Pictures (Paul, 1901)

15. Kansas Saloon Smashers (Porter, 1901)

16. My Neighbor Totoro (Miyazaki, 1988)

17. Ping Pong Summer (Tully, 2014)

18. The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad (Algar, Geronimi, Kinney, 1949)

19. Compliance (Zobel, 2012)

20. Un Chien Andalou (Buñuel, 1929)

21. The House Is Black (Farrokhzad, 1963)

22. The Drop (Roskam, 2014)

23. The Passion of Joan of Arc (Dreyer, 1928)

24. Le sang des bêtes (Franju, 1949)

25. Land Without Bread (Buñuel, 1933)

26. The Maze Runner (Ball, 2014)

27. Sátántangó (Tarr, 1994)

28. Tusk (Smith, 2014)

29. Giant Coal Dumper (White, 1897)

30. Night and Fog (Resnais, 1955)

31. Book of Shadows: Blair Witch 2 (Berlinger, 2000)

Total films watched in 2014: 245

Saturday, August 30, 2014

What I Watched in August

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August

1. Guardians of the Galaxy (Gunn, 2014)

2. Non-Stop (Collet-Serra, 2014)

3. Battleship Potemkin (Eisenstein, 1925)

4. Enemy (Villeneuve, 2013)

5. Stalingrad (Bondarchuk, 2013)

6. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (Liebesman, 2014)

7. It's Impossible to Learn to Plow by Reading Books (Linklater, 1988)

8. Never Sleep Again: The Elm Street Legacy (Farrands, Kasch, 2010)

9. Boyhood (Linklater, 2014)

10. Grandma's Reading Glass (Smith, 1900)

11. Frozen (Green, 2010) 

12. Scenic Route (Goetz, Goetz, 2013)

13. The Mirror (Tarkovsky, 1975)

14. The Expendables 3 (Hughes, 2014)

15. La Grande Illusion (Renoir, 1937)

16. A Field in England (Wheatley, 2013)

17. Martyrs (Laugier, 2008)

18. Two or Three Things I Know About Her... (Godard, 1967)

19. Sin City: A Dame to Kill For (Miller, Rodriguez, 2014)

20. Sunrise (Murnau, 1927)

21. The 400 Blows (Truffaut, 1959)

22. As Above, So Below (Dowdle, 2014)

23. Ghostbusters (Reitman, 1984)

24. Contempt (Godard, 1963)

Total films watched in 2014: 214

Monday, August 4, 2014

What I Watched in July


July

1. This Is the End (Goldberg, Rogen, 2013)

2. The Lego Movie (Lord, Miller, 2014)

3. Snowpiercer (Bong, 2013)

4. Dawn of the Planet of the Apes (Reeves, 2014)

5. +1 (Iliadis, 2013)

6. 300: Rise of an Empire (Murro, 2014)

7. 24 Exposures (Swanberg, 2013)

8. The Purge: Anarchy (DeMonaco, 2014)

9. Don Peyote (Canzoniero, Fogler, 2014)

10. Repentance (Caland, 2013)

11. Children of Sorrow (McClure, 2012)

12. Life Itself (James, 2014)

13. Road to Nowhere (Hellman, 2010)

14. Stage Fright (Sable, 2014)

15. Lucy (Besson, 2014)

16. Rob the Mob (De Felitta, 2014)

17. Opus I (Ruttmann, 1921)

18. 13 Sins (Stamm, 2014)

17. After the Ball, the Bath (Méliès, 1897)

18. The Inevitable Defeat of Mister & Pete (Tillman Jr., 2013)

19. Rewind This! (Johnson, 2013)

20. Wish I Was Here (Braff, 2014)

Total films watched in 2014: 190