Movie Roundup: Groundhog Day Edition

I plan to have a formal Best of 2008 List up either tonight or tomorrow, depending on how ambitious I am (and I want to read David Bordwell’s essay on Slumdog Millionaire before I make a final decision about it). Until then, here’s the roundup of what I’ve watched in the last few weeks and where they place on their respective years:

Snow Angels: 48, 2007
Gran Torino: 2008
Anchors Aweigh: 16, 1945
Niagara: 20, 1953
Cloverfield: 2008
The Fall: 23, 2006
Che: 2008
Bigger, Stronger, Faster*: 2008
Hellboy II: 2008
Manhatta: 4, 1921
Chop Shop: 10, 2007
The Girl Who Leapt Through Time: 20, 2006
Frost/Nixon: 2008
The Far Horizons: 34, 1955
Slumdog Millionaire: 2008
4 Months, 3 Weeks, and 2 Days: 5, 2007
The Order Of Myths: 2008
Redbelt: 2008
The Mist: 16, 2007
Vicy Cristina Barcelona: 2008
Kung Fu Panda: 2008
Ladies Of Leisure: 9, 1930

Also, we’re getting close to having the next Metro Classics series fully booked. This time we’re doing adaptations, with three films from each of three different media in three different genres: action movies, musicals and science fiction movies based on plays, film/television and books.

Movies Of The 70s

I’m getting close to a Best Of 2008 list, hopefully I’ll have caught up with enough movies by next week to post it. In the meantime, here’s my Top 50 films of the 1970s:

1. Annie Hall
2. Days Of Heaven
3. Manhattan
4. Two-Lane Blacktop
5. Jaws
6. Apocalypse Now
7. F For Fake
8. The Godfather Part II
9. Celine And Julie Go Boating
10. McCabe & Mrs. Miller
11. Chinatown
12. The Godfather
13. Taxi Driver
14. Star Wars
15. Monty Python And The Holy Grail
16. The 36th Chamber Of Shaolin
17. Alien
18. Mean Streets
19. Aguirre: The Wrath Of God
20. The Life Of Brian
21. Patton
22. A Clockwork Orange
23. Nashville
24. The Passenger
25. Sleeper

26. The Last Waltz
27. The Long Goodbye
28. The Outlaw Josey Wales
29. Badlands
30. The Conformist
31. The Texas Chain Saw Massacre
32. Lancelot du Lac
33. Barry Lyndon
34. Close Encounters Of The Third Kind
35. Solaris
36. Woodstock
37. Don’t Look Now
38. Enter The Dragon
39. The Discreet Charm Of The Bourgeoisie
40. American Graffiti
41. Tout va bien
42. New York, New York
43. The Conversation
44. Animal House
45. Love And Death
46. Cabaret
47. MASH
48. Picnic At Hanging Rock
49. Nosferatu, The Vampyre
50. Pat Garrett & Billy The Kid

President Of The Day

RIP Kathleen Byron

RIP Andrew Wyeth

RIP Ricardo Montalban

Hall Of Famer Of The Day

Congratulations to Rickey Henderson on his election to the Hall Of Fame. It’s too bad his induction will be marred by the further cheapening of the Hall with the election of Jim Rice.

Endy Awards Index

This is an index of the second wave of Endy Awards, written starting in 2013 and jumping around through the decades, presented in order of award year:

1932 Endy Awards
1933 Endy Awards
1934 Endy Awards
1939 Endy Awards

1957 Endy Awards
1964 Endy Awards
1984 Endy Awards

1993 Endy Awards
1994 Endy Awards
1995 Endy Awards
1996 Endy Awards
1997 Endy Awards
1998 Endy Awards
1999 Endy Awards

2000 Endy Awards
2001 Endy Awards
2002 Endy Awards
2003 Endy Awards
2004 Endy Awards
2005 Endy Awards
2006 Endy Awards
2007 Endy Awards
2008 Endy Awards
2009 Endy Awards

2010 Endy Awards

2011 Endy Awards

2012 Endy Awards
2013 Endy Awards
2014 Endy Awards

This is an index of all the old Movies of the Year Awards (the Endys) I’ve handed out most of which were written in 2008. They cover all the years for which I wrote Movies of the Year posts. This stuff is old and almost entirely out of date, indexed here because I have an indexing problem.

Movie Roundup: Holiday Hangover Edition

I had planned to return to some kind of normal posting schedule this week, but I’m still too fuzzy-headed from the holidays to form thoughts at even my level of coherence. Instead, I’ll just toss out one of this quick roundups. Most of the films I’ve been watching are from 2008 and 1945, so I’ll be able to go write about them in the next few weeks (my plan is to do 1945 next week). Anyway, here’s what I’ve seen and where they rank for their respective years.

High Society: 18, 1956
Caesar and Cleopatra: 18, 1945
Valkyrie: 2008
Australia: 2008
In Bruges: 2008
Fallen Angel: 9, 1945
That’s Entertainment! Part II: 10, 1976
The Picture Of Dorian Gray: 11, 1945
That’s Dancing!: 21, 1985
The Barkleys Of Broadway: 18, 1949
Million Dollar Mermaid: 22, 1952
Leave Her To Heaven: 6, 1945
Paranoid Park: 8, 2007
Mongol: 46, 2007

One thing I have managed to do is pick up Hilary Hahn tickets for next month. Here’s something to help pass the time until then:

Movies Of The Year: 2008 (Part One)

No, I still haven’t seen any of the big ones from this year (though I hope to watch Australia finally tonight. Instead, here’s the list of the best movies I saw for the first time in 2008. I don’t know how it measures up to previous years (see the 2006 and 2007 lists), but there were a lot of great films regardless. Here’s the Top 70:

1. I Am Cuba
2. Sans soleil
3. Johnny Guitar
4. Early Summer
5. The Gang’s All here
6. The Passenger
7. Lola
8. Tabu: A Story Of The South Seas
9. Park Row
10. Come Drink With Me
11. Unfaithfully Yours
12. Don’t Look Now
13. Shanghai Express
14. The Color Of Pomegranates
15. Tokyo Chorus
16. The Atomic Cafe
17. Howl’s Moving Castle
18. Unbreakable
19. Flight Of The Red Balloon
20. Texas Chain-Saw Massacre
21. Popeye
22. The Wind Will Carry Us
23. Passion
24. A Story Of Floating Weeds
25. Wee Willie Winkie

26. Blissfully Yours
27. Earth
28. The End Of Summer
29. Thieves’ Highway
30. Jason And The Argonauts
31. Advise And Consent
32. I Was Born But . . .
33. Muhammed Ali: The Greatest
34. Passing Fancy
35. Our Daily Bread
36. My Blueberry Nights
37. Yang Kwei-fei
38. Stolen Kisses
39. A Man Escaped
40. All Aboout Lily Chou-Chou
41. The Thing
42. A Letter To Three Wives
43. Heroes Of The East
44. Fantastic Planet
45. Wonderful Town
46. Eagle Shooting Heroes
47. The Naked Prey
48. Bunny Lake Is Missing
49. Russian Ark
50. Signs

51. Steamboat Round The bend
52. Wings
53. Haxan
54. Crossfire
55. Last Hurrah For Chivalry
56. Nightfall
57. Syndromes And A Century
58. The Iron Horse
59. Purple Rain
60. Bob le flambeur
61. The Village
62. Mysterious Island
63. Boarding Gate
64. The Saddest Music In The World
65. The Threepenny Opera
66. Rififi
67. Slap Shot
68. Legendary Weapons Of China
69. Jezebel
70. Encounters At The End Of The World

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