My Top 45 (Slightly Altered)

1. "Casablanca" (Michael Curtiz, 1942)

2. "Vertigo" (Alfred Hitchcock, 1958)

3. "Lost in Translation" (Sofia Coppola, 2003)

4. "Heat" (Michael Mann, 1995)

5. "2046" (Wong Kar-Wai, 2004)

6. "Rear Window" (Alfred Hitchcock, 1954)

7. "2001: A Space Odyssey" (Stanley Kubrick, 1968)

8. "Tokyo Story" (Yasujiro Ozu, 1953)

9. "Paris, Texas" (Wim Wenders, 1984)

10. "Once Upon a Time in the West" (Sergio Leone, 1968)






















11. "Brief Encounter" (David Lean, 1945)

12. "The Rules of the Game" (Jean Renoir, 1939)

13. "La Dolce vita" (Federico Fellini, 1960)

14. "Princess Mononoke" (Hayao Miyazaki, 1997)

15. "In the Mood For Love" (Wong Kar-Wai, 2000)

16. "Annie Hall" (Woody Allen, 1977)

17. "North By Northwest" (Alfred Hitchcock, 1959)

18. "Wings of Desire" (Wim Wenders, 1987)

19. "Stranger Than Paradise" (Jim Jarmusch, 1984)

20. "Sunset Blvd." (Billy Wilder, 1950)

























21. "L'Atalante" (Jean Vigo, 1934)

22. "Seven Samurai" (Akira Kurosawa, 1954)

23. "Lawrence of Arabia" (David Lean, 1962)

24. "Blade Runner" (Ridley Scott, 1982)

25. "Raging Bull" (Martin Scorsese, 1980)

26. "Hiroshima mon amour" (Alain Resnais, 1959)

27. "Ugetsu monotagari" (Kenji Mizoguchi, 1953)

28. "A.I. Artificial Intelligence" (Steven Spielberg, 2001)

29. "Fanny och Alexander" (Ingmar Bergman, 1982)

30. "Pather Panchali" (Satyajit Ray, 1955)

31. "Marie Antoinette" (Sofia Coppola, 2006)


32. "Au hasard Balthazar" (Robert Bresson, 1966)


33. "Miami Vice" (Michael Mann, 2006)


34. "Sabrina" (Billy Wilder, 1954)


35. "The Apartment" (Billy Wilder, 1960)


36. "Manhattan" (Woody Allen, 1979)


37. "Raise the Red Lantern" (Zhang Yimou, 1991)


38. "Chungking Express" (Wong Kar-Wai, 1994)


39. "Scenes from a Marriage" (Ingmar Bergman, 1973)


40. "8 1/2" (Federico Fellini, 1963)


































41. "Notorious" (Alfred Hitchcock, 1946)

42. "Rebecca" (Alfred Hitchcock, 1940)

43. "Goodfellas" (Martin Scorsese, 1990)

44. "The Unbearable Lightness of Being" (Philip Kaufman, 1988)

45. "Kiki's Delivery Service" (Hayao Miyazaki, 1989)

Approaching August

I have still yet to see anything remarkable this year, with the exception of the remarkably entertaining Ratatouille (8/10). So far, this year is shaping up to be a pretty awful year, even last year when I was away for half the summer and saw almost all blockbuster before the summer, the two years are about equally mediocre. Still, the weekend of July 27 was the turning point last year for films and may very well be this year as well. (with the release of Sunshine and Rescue Dawn to wider theaters) I might watch either one of those or both this weekend.

My top ten most anticipated films for 07: (changes abound)
1. My Blueberry Nights - ?
2. Lust, Caution - Sept 28 (Limited)
3. The Darjeeling Limited - Sept 28 (Limited)
4. Paprika - Released, but not to a non L.A. or N.Y. audience yet
5. Summer Palace - November (Limited)
6. The Golden Age - Oct 12
7. Le Voyage du ballon rouge - ?
8. The Age of Tattoo - ?
9. Sunshine (this weekend or the next, *oddly not that looking forward to it) - July 27
10. Cassandra's Dream - November 30 (Limited)

2006 Razzies

Keeping in mind that I've only seen 68 films from 2006, and rarely watch bad comedies, horrors, or IQ-less mainstream blockbusters.

Worst Picture
Rampage: The Hillside Strangler Murders
Basic Instinct 2
The Break-Up
Ask the Dust
Art School Confidential

Worst Director
Robert Towne - Ask the Dust
Chris Fisher - Rampage: The Hillside Strangler Murders
Michael Caton-Jones - Basic Instinct 2
Ron Howard - The Da Vinci Code
Brett Ratner - X-Men: X-Men United

Worst Actor
Vince Vaughn - The Break-Up
David Morrissey - Basic Instinct 2
Colin Farrell - Ask the Dust
Hayden Christensen - Factory Girl
Patrick Wilson - Little Children

Worst Actress
Sharon Stone - Basic Instinct 2
Jennifer Aniston - The Break-Up
Natalie Portman - V for Vendetta
Salma Hayek - Ask the Dust
Maria Bello - World Trade Center

No supports.

Worst Original Screenplay
SherryBaby
The Break-Up
Basic Instinct 2
Rampage: The Hillside Stranger Murders
Confetti

Worst Adapted Screenplay
Ask the Dust
Little Children
Hollywoodland
Art School Confidential
Fur: An Imaginary Portrait of Diane Arbus

Worst Cinematography
Ask the Dust
Basic Instinct 2
Rampage: The Hillside Strangler Murders
Hollywoodland
Open Window

Worst Art Direction
The Da Vinci Code
V for Vendetta
Ask the Dust
Rampage: The Hillside Strangler Murders
Basic Instinct 2

I don't know...

I often feel that art (or my cinematic life in general) is 1/4 of my inner being, but I'm so far into my cinematic life that I'm certain that, before I die, I'll see everything. And yet, with so much cinematic experience, I can hardly say I still have the enthusiasm of a begineer's film buff or to not be apathetic to most things cinematically wise, or most things in general, unless it's often projecting myself into the belief that I'm part of a Wenders film or listening to the 2046 soundtrack religiously at 2:00 A.M.

The films I will see in July

July 13 - Interview (because of my recent Sienna Miller love)

July 20 - Sunshine


And I would like to see The Transformers, but Michael Bay is usually irritating beyond words if not mildly entertaining and the film is 2 hours and 30 minutes long, even if does have an addicting appeal to it, mainly in the visual effects and its "cool" robots. Not a Harry Potter or Simpsons fan, so skipping those definitely.



Films seen in June:
Paris, Je t'aime - 7/10
La Mome - 5.5/10
Ratatouille - 8/10