Sunday, December 23, 2007

What movie can I watch more times and not get bored?



















7 times vs. 10 times.

Vain competition, really.

Thursday, December 20, 2007

Top 10 Performances of 2007

Bear with me, I haven't been enthusiastic enough to care about anything recently, but here ya go...., wet your teeth with this piece of juicy artwork.



Sunday, December 09, 2007

2000-2006

2006
1. Marie Antoinette (Sofia Coppola)
2. Miami Vice (Michael Mann)
3. When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts (Spike Lee)
4. Time (Kim Ki-duk)
5. A Scanner Darkly (Richard Linklater)
6. The Fountain (Darren Aronofsky)
7. Paprika (Satoshi Kon)
8. Inland Empire (David Lynch)
9. Renaissance (Christian Volckman)
10. Pan's Labyrinth (Guillermo del Toro)

2005
1. The New World (Terrence Malick)
2. Three Times (Hou Hsiao-hsien)
3. Riding Alone for Thousands of Miles (Zhang Yimou)
4. Brokeback Mountain (Ang Lee)
5. Grizzly Man (Werner Herzog)
6. Match Point (Woody Allen)
7. March of the Penguins (Luc Jacquet)
8. Land of the Dead (George A. Romero)
9. Cache (Michael Haneke)
10. L'Enfant (Jean-Pierre/Luc Dardenne)

2004
1. 2046 (Wong Kar-wai)
2. Collateral (Michael Mann)
3. Paranoia Agent (Satoshi Kon)
4. The World (Jia Zhang Ke)
5. Before Sunset (Richard Linklater)
6. The Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou (Wes Anderson)
7. 3-Iron (Kim Ki-duk)
8. Mysterious Skin (Gregg Araki)
9. Clean (Olivier Assayas)
10. Howl's Moving Castle (Hayao Miyazaki)

2003
1. Lost in Translation (Sofia Coppola)
2. Mystic River (Clint Eastwood)
3. Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter... and Spring (Kim Ki-duk)
4. Elephant (Gus Van Sant)
5. All the Real Girls (David Gordon Green)
6. Last Life in the Universe (Pen-Ek Ratanaruang)
7. Jeux d'enfants (Yann Samuell)
8. Thirteen (Catherine Hardwicke)
9. Purple Butterfly (Lou Ye)
10. Cafe Lumiere (Hou Hsiao-hsien)

2002
1. Far from Heaven (Todd Haynes)
2. Catch Me If You Can (Steven Spielberg)
3. Hero (Zhang Yimou)
4. Lilya 4-ever (Lukas Moodysson)
5. Punch-Drunk Love (Paul Thomas Anderson)
6. The Pianist (Roman Polanski)
7. Russian Ark (Aleksandr Sokurov)
8. Unknown Pleasures (Jia Zhang Ke)
9. Friday Night (Claire Denis)
10. Minority Report (Steven Spielberg)

2001
1. A.I. Artificial Intelligence (Steven Spielberg)
2. Spirited Away (Hayao Miyazaki)
3. Mulholland Dr. (David Lynch)
4. Millenium Mambo (Hou Hsiao-hsien)
5. Y tu mamá también (Alfonso Cuarón)
6. Cowboy Bebop: The Movie (Shinichirô Watanabe)
7. In the Bedroom (Todd Field)
8. Beijing Bicycle (Wang Xiaoshuai)
9. Sex and Lucia (Julio Medem)
10. Nowhere in Africa (Caroline Link)

2000
1. In the Mood for Love (Wong Kar-wai)
2. Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (Ang Lee)
3. Gladiator (Ridley Scott)
4. Vertical Ray of the Sun (Anh Hung Tran)
5. Platform (Jia Zhang Ke)
6. You Can Count on Me (Kenneth Lonergan)
7. Yi yi (Edward Yang)
8. The Goddess of 1967 (Clara Law)
9. Suzhou River (Lou Ye)
10. Traffic (Steven Soderbergh)

Saturday, December 08, 2007

No, these are my favorite movies

1. Casablanca (Michael Curtiz, 1942)
2.
Vertigo (Alfred Hitchcock, 1958)

3.
2046 (Wong Kar-wai, 2004)
4.
Lost in Translation (Sofia Coppola, 2003)
5.
Heat (Michael Mann, 1995)
6.
Rear Window (Alfred Hitchcock, 1954)
7.
Paris, Texas (Wim Wenders, 1984)
8.
L'Atalante (Jean Vigo, 1934)
9.
L'Avventura (Michelangelo Antonioni, 1960)
10.
Cinema Paradiso [full version] (Giuseppe Tornatore, 1988)
11.
2001: A Space Odyssey (Stanley Kubrick, 1968)
12.
Once Upon a Time in the West (Sergio Leone, 1968)
13.
Tokyo Story (Yasujiro Ozu, 1953)
14.
Brief Encounter (David Lean, 1945)
15.
La Dolce vita (Federico Fellini, 1960)
16.
In the Mood for Love (Wong Kar-wai, 2000)
17.
Annie Hall (Woody Allen, 1977)
18.
North by Northwest (Alfred Hitchcock, 1959)
19.
Wings of Desire (Wim Wenders, 1987)
20.
Sunset Blvd. (Billy Wilder, 1950)
21.
The Rules of the Game (Jean Renoir, 1939)
22.
Princess Mononoke (Hayao Miyazaki, 1997)
23.
Stranger Than Paradise (Jim Jarmusch, 1984)
24.
Blade Runner (Ridley Scott, 1982)
25.
Koyaanisqatsi (Godfrey Reggio, 1982)
26.
Sabrina (Billy Wilder, 1954)
27.
A.I. Artificial Intelligence (Steven Spielberg, 2001)
28.
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (Ang Lee, 2000)
29.
Marie Antoinette (Sofia Coppola, 2006)
30.
Miami Vice (Michael Mann, 2006)
31.
Seven Samurai (Akira Kurosawa, 1954)
32.
Lawrence of Arabia (David Lean, 1962)
33.
Ugetsu monotagari (Kenji Mizoguchi, 1953)
34.
Pather Panchali (Satyajit Ray, 1955)
35.
Hiroshima mon amour (Alain Resnais, 1959)
36.
Raging Bull (Martin Scorsese, 1980)
37.
Fanny och Alexander (Ingmar Bergman, 1982)
38.
Raise the Red Lantern (Zhang Yimou, 1991)
39.
Chungking Express (Wong Kar-wai, 1994)
40.
Notorious (Alfred Hitchcock, 1946)
41.
Rebecca (Alfred Hitchcock, 1940)
42.
The Unbearable Lightness of Being (Philip Kaufman, 1988)
43.
Kiki's Delivery Service (Hayao Miyazaki, 1989)
44.
The Empire Strikes Back (Irvin Kershner, 1980)
45.
Do the Right Thing (Spike Lee, 1989)
46. (Federico Fellini, 1963)
47.
The Third Man (Carol Reed, 1949)
48.
Goodfellas (Martin Scorsese, 1990)
49.
Ghost in the Shell (Mamoru Oshii, 1995)
50.
The Insider (Michael Mann, 1999)
51.
The Last of the Mohicans (Michael Mann, 1992)
52.
The New World (Terrence Malick, 2005)
53.
Three Times (Hou Hsiao-hsien, 2005)
54.
Far from Heaven (Todd Haynes, 2002)
55.
Wuthering Heights (William Wyler, 1939)
56.
Dawn of the Dead (George A. Romero, 1978)
57.
Manhattan (Woody Allen, 1979)
58.
Solyaris (Andrei Tarkovsky, 1972)
59.
Apocalypse Now (Francis Ford Coppola, 1979)
60.
Taxi Driver (Martin Scorsese, 1976)
61.
The Thin Red Line (Terrence Malick, 1998)
62.
The Apartment (Billy Wilder, 1960)
63.
Scenes from a Marriage (Ingmar Bergman, 1973)
64.
Late Spring "Banshun" (Yasujiro Ozu, 1949)
65.
Letter from an Unknown Woman (Max Ophüls, 1948)