Mr. Thank You - Hiroshi Shimizu
God's Country - Louis Malle
Wagon Master - John Ford
Xiao Wu - Jia Zhang-ke
Werckmeister Harmonies - Bela Tarr
The Green Ray - Eric Rohmer
The Last Holiday - Henry Cass
Uncle Boonmee who can Recall his Past Lives - Apichatpong Weerasthakul
Through the Olive Trees - Abbas Kiarostami
In Vanda's Room - Pedro Costa
Notre Musique - Jean-Luc Godard
The Seahorse - Jean Painleve
The Hole - Tsai Ming-Liang
The Human Condition - Masaki Kobayashi
I'd love to hear some titles from all of you.
Let me think...
ReplyDeleteTake Shelter (new one from 2011)
Tree of Life (new one from 2011)
Sleep Furiously
Warrendale - Allan King
World On A Wire - Fassbinder
Grizzly Man - Herzog
Victim - Basil Dearden
Crumb - Zwigoff
Just to name a few.
This is Nathan by the way.
Woe Dave. What a list!
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At the theater:
Drive - Nicolas Winding Refn
Adventures of Tintin - Steven Spielberg
Midnight in Paris - Woody Allen
A few outstanding scenes in 'Hugo' - Martin Scorsese
on DVD or online (a lot [most] of these are from a couple days with your movie collection, Dave):
The Devil Probably - Robert Bresson
Film Socialisme - Jean Luc Godard
God's Country - Louis Malle
Zidane: A 21st Century Portrait - Philippe Parreno and Daniel Gordon
Xiao Wu - Jia Zhang-ke
The Seahorse - Jean Painleve
A handful of pretty great episodes of 'Mad Men'
Six Men Getting Sick - David Lynch
Allucinazione (preview) - Cosmotropia de Xam
Thunderbolt and Lightfoot - Michael Cimino
Vice Guide to North Korea - Shane Smith (?)
Youtube:
Van Ladder Aerial Equipment Aerial Ladder
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qbtvYLyFis8
LSD Girl
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aB-RxGNklpE
I dunno. I didn't watch much this year. It's all on this list (which I spent far too much time on).
-sSs
oh, one more:
ReplyDeletePetulia - Richard Lester
-sSs
Nathan,
ReplyDeleteI would love to see that World on a Wire movie, as well as Warrendale. Glad to see that Sleep Furiously made the cut.
-sSs,
I actually saw Petulia this year as well. It was strange and sort of great, I think curiosity will drag me to see Tin Tin sometime soon too. I saw another Lester movie called Juggernaut this year that was pretty enjoyable. The Ladder Van! oh yeah.
"strange and sort of great" is the perfect way to describe 'Petulia.' Emphasis on "sort of." It's certainly not full-on great. But there are these little moments where the actors just SHINE (especially George C. Scott), or where a scene appears out of the blue and makes sense in a really intuitive way, and all these little sounds or camera-zooms that feel so RIGHT. I like Lester a lot, because it seems like everything just flows through him; it's all very smooth, and he doesn't constrain the energy he's encountering with his camera. He doesn't constrain at all.
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oh, and Tintin is the most fun I've had in a theater since -maybe ever.
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I don't have much to contribute, except a)I need to be intentional about watching more films these days, goddammit, and b) I did really enjoy Lech Majewski's The Mill and the Cross.
ReplyDeleteI'm excited to use this (collective) list as a reference.
Boyda
ReplyDeleteThe Mill and the Cross looks interesting, looks like it is somewhere between Mother and Son, and Color of Pomegranates.
After re-watching Peepers (Seth W. Owen) last night, I'd like to add it to the collective list. Also, I would like to add Tati's Playtime.
ReplyDeleteOne oddball I'd like to throw in too, with Dave's permission is Up North. I haven't felt so entwined with images for a long time.
Faux
Thanks Faux, It feels good to make the cut.
ReplyDeleteDave: YES! That is what it is! I really enjoyed it. I've always wanted to step inside a really wonderful painting.
ReplyDeleteBest film I watched in the last 3 days: The Myth of the American Sleepover
ReplyDeleteBest day to FINALLY see Birth of a Nation: Tomorrow night in my film history class
Most life-changing movie experience of 2011: Close-Up
Other great movies I saw for the first time in 2011: Drive (2011), Walkabout (1971), A Face in the Crowd (1957), I Live in Fear (1955), The Rules of the Game (1939), Love in the Afternoon (1957), and yes, I kind of have to include the obvious Tree of Life, which was pretty darn awesome.
I was going to include a list of worst films I watched in 2011, but after looking at a list of all the movies I've watched in the last 12 months... a) there were too many bad ones and b) reflecting on how poor my decisions for film-viewings were in 2011 is just too damn depressing.
Best albums of 2011: Kurt Vile- Smoke Ring for My Halo, Bon Iver- Bon Iver, The Go! Team- Rolling Blackouts, Timber Timbre- Creep on Creepin On
Best songs of 2011: Real Estate: Green Aisles, tUnE-yArDs: My Country, The Antlers: No Widows, Adele: Rolling in the Deep, Lana Del Ray: Video Games
Most life-changing experience of 2011: Going to The Met.