2012 Media Diet

2012 Media Diet

Only full movie viewings are included.

*Repeat movie viewings

Bold: TV shows/season

Underlined: Novels

1. Dune (Lynch, 1984)

2. DOA (Maté, 1950)

3. The Time of Your Life (Potter, 1948)

4. The Student Prince at Old Hiedelberg (Lubitsch, 1927)

5. L'amour en fuite/Love on the Run (Truffaut, 1979)

6. Annie Get Your Gun (Sidney, 1950)

7. The Bank Dick (Cline, 1940)

8. Ginger Snaps (Fawcett, 2000)

9. 9 (Acker, 2009)

10. Visages d’Enfant/Faces of Children (Feyder, 1925)

11. The Circus (Chaplin, 1928)

12. The Satan Bug (Sturges, 1965)

13. In The Loop (Iannucci, 2009)

14. Get Shorty (Sonnenfeld, 1995)

15. Cry-Baby (Waters, 1990)

16. Stairway to Heaven (Powell, 1946)

17. The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (Powell, 1943)

18. Hausu/House (Ohbayashi, 1977)

19. Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (Alfredson, 2011)

20. Kill List (Wheatley, 2011)

21. The Artist (Hazanavicius, 2011)

22. Contagion (Soderbergh, 2011)

23. Rango (Verbinski, 2011)

24. 13 Assassins (Miike, 2010)

25. Mission Impossible 2 (Woo, 2000)

26. Bridesmaids (Feig, 2011)

27. Hunt for Red October (McTiernan, 1990)

28. Patriot Games (Noyce, 1992)

29. Drive (Winding Refn, 2011)

30. Mystery Team (Eckman, 2009)

31. Monsters (Edwards, 2010)

32. The Help (Taylor, 2011)

33. 50/50 (Levine, 2011)

34. Beginners (Mills, 2010)

35. Sin Nombre (Fukunaga, 2009)

36. Rubber (Dupeiux, 2010)

37. Shame (McQueen, 2011)

38. Midnight Cowboy (Schlesinger, 1969)

39. Chasing Amy (Smith, 1997)

40. A Letter to Three Wives (Mankiewicz, 1949)

41. The World, the Flesh, and the Devil (MacDougall, 1959)

42. Alpeis/Alps (Lanthimos, 2011)

43. Jodaeiye Nader az Simin/A Seperation (Farhadi, 2011)

44. A Better Life (Weitz, 2011)

45. The Man From Earth (Schenkman, 2007)

46. The Crow (Proyas, 1994)

47. The Ward (Carpenter, 2010)

48. Trolljegeren/Trollhunter (Øvredal, 2010)

49. Cul-De-Sac (Polanski, 1966)

50. Les Revenants/They Came Back (Campillo, 2004)

51. The Rocketeer (Johnston, 1991)

52. Kicking and Screaming (Baumbach, 1995)

53. Nuovo Cinema Paradiso/Cinema Paradiso (Tornatore, 1988)

54. Cave of Forgotten Dreams (Herzog, 2010)

*55. Delicatessen (Jeunet, 1991)

56. Dai-Nihonjin/Big Man Japan (Matsumoto, 2007)

57. Perfume: The Story of a Murderer (Tykwer, 2006)

            Cloud Atlas (Mitchell, 2004)

58. Hobo With A Shotgun (Eisener, 2011)

59. Thirteen Days (Donaldson, 2000)

60. Heaven Can Wait (Lubitsch, 1943)

61. Thor (Branagh, 2011)

62. Margin Call (Chandor, 2011)

63. Ssaibogeujiman gwaenchanha/I’m A Cyborg But That’s Okay (Chan-wook, Park, 2006)

64. The Woman in the Window (Lang, 1944)

65. Hairspray (Shankman, 2007)

66. Banlieue 13/District B13 (Morel, 2004)

            Breakfast of Champions (Vonnegut, 1973)

67. Rain Man (Levinson, 1988)

68. Shakespeare In Love (Madden, 1998)

69. In Darkness (Holland, 2011)

70. Visioneers (Drake, 2008)

            Rubicon (Horwitch, 2010)

71. The Invisible Man (Whale, 1933)

72. Larceny, Inc. (Bacon, 1942)

73. The Song of Bernadette (King, 1943)

*74. Lady From Shanghai (Welles, 1947)

75. Devil Dogs of the Air (Bacon, 1935)

76. Blade af Satans bog/Leaves Out of the Book of Satan (Dreyer, 1921)

77. Gold Diggers of 1933 (LeRoy, 1933)

78. My America (Hegedus, 2011)

79. The Way Back (Weir, 2010)

80. A Shot in the Dark (Edwards, 1964)

81. Slacker (Linklater, 1991)

82. I Melt With You (Pellington, 2011)

83. Cabin in the Woods (Goddard, 2011)

84. Sleeping Beauty (Leigh, 2011)

85. Melancholia (von Trier, 2011)

86. Non si sevizia un paperino/Don’t Torture a Duckling (Fulci, 1972)

87. Heaven (Tykwer, 2002)

88. Naked (Leigh, 1993)

89. The Cook, the Thief, His Wife, and Her Lover (Greenaway, 1989)

90. The Girlfriend Experience (Soderbergh, 2009)

*91. The Amateur Monster Movie (Richards, 2011)

92. Dyut meng gam/Life Without Principle (To, 2011)

93. Le diable probablement/The Devil, Probably (Bresson, 1977)

94. Michael (Schleinzer, 2011)

95. The Deep Blue Sea (Davies, 2011)

96. Nuit blanche/Sleepless Night (Jardin, 2011)

97. En terrains connus/Familiar Ground (Lafleur, 2011)

98. The Hunter (Pitts, 2010)

99. Elena (Zvyagintsev, 2011)

100. Sisters (De Palma, 1973)

            Cosmopolis (DeLillo, 2003)

101. Serbuan maut/The Raid: Redemption (Evans, 2011)

102. Die Büchse der Pandora/Pandora’s Box (1929, Wilhelm Pabst)

*103. The Mothman Prophecies (Pellington, 2002)

104. Ace in the Hole (Wilder, 1951)

105. Easy A (Gluck, 2010)

106. Troll (Buechler, 1986)

107. Hearat Shulayim/Footnote (Cedar, 2011)

108. Copie Conforme/Certified Copy (Kiarostami, 2010)

109. Hunger Games (Ross, 2012)

110. The Thirteenth Floor (Rusnak, 1999)

111. Bubble (Soderbergh, 2005)

112. Grip of the Strangler/The Haunted Strangler (Day, 1958)

113. Heathers (Lehmann, 1988)

            Farscape: Season 1 (O’Bannon, 1999)

114. Troll 2 (Fragasso, 1990)

115. Best Worst Movie (Stephenson, 2009)

*116. Dogtooth (Lanthimos, 2009)

117. Metropolitan (Stillman, 1990)

118. Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (Hill, 1969)

119. Mission: Impossible III (Abrams, 2006)

120. The Ruling Class (Medak, 1972)

*121. Alien 3 (Fincher, 1992)

122. The Seven Year Itch (Wilder, 1955)

123. The Green Lantern (Campbell, 2011)

124. Sonatine (Kitano, 1993)

125. Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence (Nagisa Ôshima, 1983)

126. Play Misty For Me (Eastwood, 1971)

127. Primary Colors (Nichols, 1998)

128. Monsieur Lazhar (Falardeau, 2011)

129. Prometheus (Scott, 2012)

130. On Borrowed Time (Bucquet, 1939)

131. The Train (Frankenheimer, 1964)

132. La rose de fer/The Iron Rose (Rollin, 1973)

133. Snow White and the Huntsman (Sanders, 2012)

134. Son of Frankenstein (Lee, 1939)

135. Forbidden Games (Clément, 1952)

136. Abbott and Constello Meet Frankestein (Barton, 1948)

137. Sharon’s Baby/The Devil Within Her (Sasdy, 1975)

138. Training Day (Faqua, 2001)

139. Green For Danger (Gilliat, 1946)

140. Adventures of Tartu (Bucquet, 1943)

141. The Spiral Staircase (Siodmak, 1945)

142. Hopscotch (Neame, 1980)

*143. Oh Brother, Where Art Thou? (Coen, 2000)

144. Mosura/Mothra (Honda, 1961)

145. Bijo to Ekitainingen/The H-Man (Honda, 1958)

146. Nordwand/North Face (Stölzl, 2008)

147. Dark Days (Singer, 2000)

148. Moonrise Kingdom (Anderson, 2012)

149. Tyrannosaur (Considine, 2011)

150. Patton (Schaffner, 1970)

151. Into the Abyss (Herzog, 2011)

152. 21 Jump Street (Lord, 2012)

153. The Grey (Carnahan, 2011)

154. Flandersui gae/Barking Dogs Never Bite (Joon-ho Bong, 2000)

155. Intouchables/The Intouchables (Nakache, 2011)

*156. Dellamorte Dellamore/Cemetery Man (Soavi, 1994)

157. Immortals (Singh, 2011)

            Ender’s Game (Scott Card, 1985)

158. White Dog (Fuller, 1982)

159. These Amazing Shadows (Mariano, 2011)

160. Cropsey (Brancaccio, 2009)

*161. Labyrinth (Henson, 1986)

*162. Blues Brothers (Landis, 1980)

163. Armadillo (Pedersen, 2010)

164. The Devil’s Double (Tamahori, 2011)

*165. The Prestige (Nolan, 2006)

166. Life During Wartime (Solondz, 2009)

167. The Dark Knight Rises (Nolan, 2012)

168. Samaria/Samaritan Girl (Ki-duk Kim, 2004)

169. Furankenshutain no kaijû: Sanda tai GairaThe War of the Gargantuas (Honda, 1968)

170. Devil Doll (Shonteff, 1964)

171. The Front (Ritt, 1976)

172. Bir zamanlar Anadolu'da/Once Upon A Time in Anatolia (Ceylan, 2011)

173. Street Scene (Vidor, 1931)

174. Ai no borei/Empire of Passion (Ôshima, 1978)

175. Beasts of the Southern Wild (Zeitlin, 2012)

176. Rundskop/Bullhead (Roskam, 2011)

177. Candyman (Rose, 1992)

178. The Hunter (Nettheim, 2011)

179. Restrepo (Hetherington, 2010)

180. The Turin Horse (Tarr, 2011)

181. That Evening Sun (Teems, 2009)

182. The Adventures of Robin Hood (Curtiz, 1938)

183. Quel maledetto treno blindato/The Inglorious Bastards  (Castellari, 1978)

184. Sátántangó (Tarr, 1994)

185. A Bridge Too Far (Attenborough, 1977)

186. Black Sunday (Frankenheimer, 1977)

187. Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer (McNaughton, 1986)

188. The Killing of a Chinese Bookie (Cassavetes, 1976)

189. Black Moon (Malle, 1975)

*190. Punishment Park (Watkins, 1971)

191. Crimson Tide (Scott, 1995)

192. The Dark Crystal (Henson, 1982)

193. Bullitt (Yates, 1968)

194. Paranormal Activity 2 (Williams, 2010)

195. Grand Hotel (Goulding, 1932)

196. El Mariachi (Rodriguez, 1992)

*197. Mousehunt (Verbinski, 1997)

*198. Srpski film/A Serbian Film (Spasojevic, 2010)

199. The Three Stooges (Farrelly, 2012)

200. Papillon (Schaffner, 1973)

*201. The Best Years of Our Lives (Wyler, 1946)

202. ParaNorman (Butler, 2012)

Lolita (Nabokov, 1955)

203. Playtime (Tati, 1967)

            Farscape: Season 2 (O’Bannon, 2000)

204. The Master (Anderson, 2012)

205. Philadelphia (Demme, 1993)

206. Prince of Darkness (Carpenter, 1987)

207. The Avengers (Whedon, 2012)

208. Ordinary People (Redford, 1980)

209. Killer Joe (Friedkin, 2011)

210. I Am Omega (Furst, 2007)

211. Dredd 3D (Travis, 2012)

212. The Pirates! Band of Misfits (Lord, 2012)

213. World Without End (Bernds, 1956)

214. The Fugitive (Davis, 1993)

215. The Mummy (Freund, 1932)

216. The Valley of Gwangi (O’Connolly, 1969)

217. The Fortune Cookie (Wilder, 1966)

218. Aurora (Puiu, 2010)

219. Hudson Hawk (Lehmann, 1991)

220. The People Under the Stairs (Craven, 1991)

221. The Imposter (Layton, 2012)

222. Day of Wrath (Dreyer, 1943)

223. On the Beach (Kramer, 1959)

224. Blackmail (Hitchcock, 1929)

225. Shivers (Cronenberg, 1975)

226. Beyond the Black Rainbow (Cosmatos, 2010)

*227. Pet Sematary (Lambert, 1989)

228. The Snowtown Murders (Kurzel, 2011)

*229. Hobo With A Shotgun (Eisener, 2011)

230. Le notti di Cabiria/Nights of Cabiria (Fellini, 1957)

231. The Mummy (Fisher, 1959)

232. Dawn Patrol (Goulding, 1938)

233. I Spit on Your Grave (Zarchi, 1978)

234. I Married A Witch (Clair, 1942)

235. Zots! (Castle, 1962)

*236. Creepshow (Romero, 1982)

*237. [REC] (Plaza, 2007)

*238. Dead Alive/Braindead (Jackson, 1992)

239. Looper (Johnson, 2012)

*240. The Fog (Carpenter, 1980)

*241. Paura nella città dei morti viventi/City of the Living Dead (Fulci, 1980)

242. ...E tu vivrai nel terrore! L'aldilà/The Beyond (Fulci, 1981)

            Mister B. Gone (Barker, 2007)

243. Klovn: The Movie/Klown (Nørgaard, 2010)

244. House (Miner, 1986)

245. Argo (Affleck, 2012)

246. Piranha (Aja, 2010)

*247. Halloween (Carpenter, 1978)

248. Dark Water (Nakata, 2002)

*249. The Cabin in the Woods (Goddard, 2011)

250. Serpent’s Egg (Bergman, 1977)

251. Bellflower (Glodell, 2011)

252. Hodejegerne/Headhunters (Tyldum, 2011)

253. The Face of Another (Teshigahara, 1966)

254. A Fish Called Wanda (Crichton, 1988)

255. Oslo, August 31st (Trier, 2011)

256. Ballada o soldate/Ballad of a Soldier (Chukhray, 1959)

257. Jiro Dreams of Sushi (Gelb, 2011)

258. The International (Tykwer, 2009)

259. Glen or Glenda (Wood Jr., 1953)

*260. Winter’s Bone (Granik, 2010)

261. Skyfall (Mendes, 2012)

262. Sideways (Payne, 2004)

263. Ossos (Costa, 1997)

264. Scarface (Hawks, 1932)

265. Punisher: War Zone (Alexander, 2008)

266. Garden of Evil (Hathaway, 1954)

267. Wreck-It Ralph (Moore, 2012)

268. King of the Zombies (Yarbrough, 1941)

269. The Wrong Box (Forbes, 1966)

*270. The Warriors (Hill, 1979)

*271. The Meaning of Life (Jones, 1983)

272. The Devil’s Advocate (Hackford, 1997)

*273. Fail-Safe (Lumet, 1964)

274. Skammen/Shame (Bergman, 1968)

275. Reign Over Me (Binder, 2007)

276. Sons of the Desert (Seiter, 1933)

277. Lockout (Mather, 2012)

278. The Guns of Navarone (Thompson, 1961)

279. Silent Movie (Brooks, 1976)

280. Shadows (Cassavetes, 1959)

281. The Racket (Cromwell, 1951)

282. Lincoln (Spielberg, 2012)

283. Anna Karenina (Wright, 2012)

284. Forgetting Sarah Marshall (Stoller, 2008)

            Gerald’s Game (King, 1992)

285. In Time (Niccol, 2011)

286. Avanti! (Wilder, 1972)

287. A Night to Remember (Baker, 1958)

288. Abbott and Costello Meet the Mummy (Lamont, 1955)

289. The Wrong Man (Hitchcock, 1956)

290. Cowboys & Aliens (Favreau, 2011)

291. Les Miserables (Hooper, 2012)

292. Django Unchained (Tarantino, 2012)

293. The Story of Mankind (Allen, 1957)

294. Escape from L.A. (Carpenter, 1996)

295. Des homes et des dieux/Of Gods and Men (Beauvois, 2010)

296. Love (Eubank, 2011)

297. Father’s Little Dividend (Minnelli, 1951)

298. The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey (Jackson, 2012)

299. Abbott and Costello Meet Captain Kidd (Lamont, 1952)

Seven Favorites:
 

1. The Imposter (2012) – Orson Welles’ F For Fake is the only other documentary I can name which truly turns the genre 180 degrees back at the audience. In addition to the imaginative recreations and hypnotic storytelling, this twisted exploration of human motives doesn’t exactly answer the real questions, but ultimately throws the whole material of a documentary to the whims of the viewer.

2. The Life and Deathof Colonel Blimp (1943) – I found this film tied with Patton and The Train, but beat them out through its intimate look into the hearts and heads of soldiers. This film follows one man through generations of evolving conflict and foe, facing new realities with romantic ideals.

3. Papillon (1973) – With some of the most brutal make-up I’ve seen, Steve McQueen and Dustin Hoffman’s journey in this film spans continent, civilization, and reality. Passing through a jungle prison, leper colony, solitary confinement, dream sequences, and a surreal tribal village, this is less about the state of imprisonment and more on the state of humanity. 

4. Playtime (1967) – This French film is the epitome of whimsical. Each shot and sequence is so carefully constructed and filled with activity that it’s hard to know which corner of the frame you should be watching. An office building becomes a labyrinth, a traffic jam becomes a carousel, and a renovated restaurant overflows with colorful chaos, all in the delightful aesthetic that only Jacques Tati can concoct.

5. Perfume: The Storyof a Murderer (2006) – For a period piece about someone with extraordinary sense of smell, this film has mesmerizing moments that feel less like a scene and more like a work of art. The content is dark and grotesque, befitting a story that encompasses the genres of horror, romance, comedy, drama, and fantasy.

6. The Ruling Class (1972) – This loony black comedy offers politics, religion, social class, and spontaneous musical numbers. Mischief only adds to mischief and it’s hard to beat this parade of performances when Peter O’Toole plays the schizophrenic lead.

7. Rubber (2010) – This movie aspires to be nothing but entertainment and that is why I love it. Director Quentin Dupieux discards all the rules by taking a silly story about an animate tire and adding violence, black humor, and a whole additional jab at movies and their audiences. The opening sequence alone I find worth bootlegging and sharing with friends.

Seven Least Favorites:

1. Cave of Forgotten Dreams (2010) – I respect Werner Herzog as much as the next cinephile, but the material here is already sparse to work with (this is evident in the ending where we are sidetracked by albino crocodiles). Finally getting into the cave was my first struggle. The endlessly overused 3D technology and RC helicopter cameras were my next. As time crawled along, there was nothing new to absorb.

2. Glen or Glenda (1953) – If you know anything about movies, this should be one. Renowned director Ed Wood Jr.’s depiction of the world’s intolerance of transvestitism is nothing but stock footage, narration, and experimental sequences. As far as bad movies are concerned, at least Plan 9 From Outer Space was entertaining.

3. The Hunter (2010) – I cannot call this a movie. Rather it is two separate movies, chopped up, and then connected with staples. What would have made for a great visual drama turns a ninety degree angle down a different path. Potential themes are cut down and replaced with an unwelcome punch-line. It was one of the most disappointing theatre experiences I’ve ever had.

4. I Am Omega (2007) – When your closing credits are misspelled, you’ve achieved a level of failure beyond comparison. I watched this movie as part of a “zombie collection” DVD and it stars a man who slightly resembles Lou Diamond Phillips. This laughable story is presented as if a group of high school kids shot it over a weekend and offers a smorgasbord of hilarious clichés.

5. I Spit on your Grave (1978) – In the realm of Last House on the Left, this is another “rape and revenge” exploitation flick with nothing else to offer but tasteless, b-horror violence for shock value. For a story that should have been simple, this took forever, leading off in directions that shouldn’t have been an option.

6. Paranormal Activity 2 (2010) – Did this movie even have a script? I found the original to be a pleasant surprise and I had hoped this would offer further creativity with its new perspective. Rather than an expansion on the first film, it offers very little to indulge us. The chills are cheaper, the story is weaker, and the whole thing would have benefited from a ten minute runtime.

7. Zots! (1962) – While William Castle may have innovated the theatre-going experience, this film shows a different side to his creativity. Weak acting, comical visual effects, and a jarring subplot with Cold War spies took a fun fantasy idea and assembled it with broken parts.

Stats:

Movies: 299

Books: 7

TV Shows/season: 3

Most viewed directors:

            John Carpenter: 5

            Billy Wilder: 4

If anyone can find a typo/misspelling, let me know and you’ll get cred.

2011 Media Diet (movies only)

At the end of every year, I post a list of the movies that I watched. It's fun to keep track of what I was watching at what point in time (Halloween season stands out). I also include a list of my favorite/least favorite seven flicks. Why seven? Five is too few and ten is too many.

All listed viewings are first time viewings only. That is because repeat viewings are almost never in full and the boundary between "watched" and "kinda watched" is weak.

Conversation is welcome.
Disputes are encouraged.
Whining is lame.

1. The Amateur Monster Movie (Richards, 2011)
2. Creature from the Black Lagoon (Arnold, 1954)
3. Hwal/The Bow (Kim ki-duk, 2005)
4. Bad Timing: A Sensual Obsession (Roeg, 1980)
5. Entre les murs/The Class (Cantet, 2008)
6. Casshern (Kiriya, 2004)
7. Trois couleurs: Bleu/Three Colors: Blue (Kieslowski, 1993)
8. Shutter Island (Scorsese, 2010)
9. Ong-bak: The Thai Warrior (Pinkaew, 2003)
10. The Social Network (Fincher, 2010)
11. Trzy kolory: Bialy/Three Colors: White (Kieslowski, 1994)
12. The Kids Are All Right (Cholodenko, 2010)
13. Tetro (Coppola, 2009)
14. Despicable Me (Coffin, 2010)
15. The Secret of Kells (Moore, 2009)
16. Exit Through the Gift Shop (Banksy, 2010)
17. Cronos (del Toro, 1993)
18. Gomorrah (Garrone, 2008)
19. Trois couleurs: Rouge/Three Colors Red (Kieslowski, 1994)
20. Un prophète/A Prophet (Audiard, 2009)
21. Ong Bak 2 (Jaa, 2008)
22. The Ghost Writer (Polanski, 2010)
23. Cape Fear (Scorsese, 1991)
24. Lebanon (Maoz, 2009)
25. A Man Called Blade (Martino, 1977)
26. Iron Man 2 (Favreau, 2010)
27. The Crimson Rivers (Kassovitz, 2000)
28. Inferno (Argento, 1980)
29. I Don’t Want To Sleep Alone (Tsai Ming-liang, 2006)
30. Legend of the Fall (Zwick, 1994)
31. Splice (Natali, 2009)
32. I Am Cuba (Kalatozov, 1968)
33. Kamikaze Girls (Nakashima, 2004)
34. Dogtooth (Lanthimos, 2009)
35. Changeling (Eastwood, 2008)
36. Animal Kingdom (Michôd, 2010)
37. Leaving Las Vegas (Figgis, 1995)
38. The Cocoanuts (Florey, 1929)
39. Billy Elliot (Daldry, 2000)
40. A River Runs Through It (Redford, 1992)
41. Irreversible (Noé, 2002)
42. Andrey Rublyov/Andrei Rublev (Tarkovsky, 1966)
43. Hell in the Pacific (Boorman, 1968)
44. Blue Steel (Bigelow, 1989)
45. La mujer sin cabeza/The Headless Woman (Martel, 2008)
46. Robinson Crusoe on Mars (Haskin, 1964)
47. Agora (Amenábar, 2009)
48. Winter’s Bone (Granik, 2010)
49. Enter the Void (Noé, 2009)
50. The Ladykillers (Mackendrick, 1955)
51. The Clearing (Jan Brugge, 2004)
52. The Extra Man (Springer Berman, 2010)
53. Due Date (Phillips, 2010)
54. Il deserto rosso/Red Desert (Antonioni, 1964)
55. When Worlds Collide (Maté, 1951)
56. Potiche (Ozon, 2010)
57. Marwencol (Malmberg, 2010)
58. The Pipe (O’Domhnaill, 2010)
59. Nachtschichten/Night Shifts (Ivette Löcker, 2010)
60. Medalia de onoare/Medal of Honor (Netzer, 2009)
61. And Everything Is Going Fine (Soderbergh, 2010)
62. Det røde kapel/The Red Chapel (Mads Brügger, 2009)
63. A View to Kill (Glen, 1985)
64. The Friends of Eddie Coyle (Yates, 1973)
65. Gattaca (Niccol, 1997)
67. La vita è bella/Life Is Beautiful (Benigni, 1997)
68. Paris, Texas (Wenders, 1984)
69. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 (Yates, 2010)
70. Tystnaden/The Silence (Bergman, 1963)
71. Ye Yan/The Banquet (Feng, 2006)
72. No Highway in the Sky (Koster, 1951)
73. Le quattro giornate di Napoli/Four Days of Naples (Loy, 1962)
74. Vérités et mensonges/ F For Fake (Welles, 1973)
75. La Ronde (Ophüls, 1950)
76. Sex, Lies, and Videotape (Soderbergh, 1989)
77. A Serbian Film (Spasojevic, 2010)
78. The Outlaw Josey Wales (Eastwood, 1976)
79. Loong Boonmee raleuk chat/Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives (Weerasethakul, 2010)
80. Escape to Witch Mountain (Hough, 1975)
81. The Ladykillers (Coen, 2004)
82. Lord of War (Niccol, 2005)
83. Roma, città aperta/Rome, Open City (Rossellini, 1945)
84. 6,000 Enemies (Seitz, 1939)
85. The Golden Voyage of Sinbad (Hessler, 1973)
86. The Gate (Takács, 1987)
87. The 7th Cross (Zinnemann, 1944)
88. One Million Years B.C. (Chaffey, 1966)
89. Buck Privates (Lubin, 1941)
90. 30 Seconds Over Tokyo (LeRoy, 1944)
91. X-Men: First Class (Vaughn, 2011)
92. Incendies (Villeneuve, 2010)
93. Akmareul boatda/I Saw the Devil (Jee-woon Kim, 2010)
94. Gasland (Fox, 2010)
95. The Wild Hunt (Franchi, 2009)
96. Tales from the Script (Hanson, 2009)
97. La Horde/The Horde (Dahan, 2009)
98. Dreams on Spec (Snyder, 2007)
99. Tree of Life (Malick, 2011)
100. Collateral (Mann, 2004)
101. Nochnoy dozor/Night Watch (Bekmambetov, 2004)
102. Europa Europa (Holland, 1990)
103. Transformers: The Dark of the Moon (Bay, 2011)
104. Public Enemies (Mann, 2009)
105. Yip Man/Ip Man (Yip, 2008)
106. Dnevnoy dozor/Day Watch (Bekmambetov, 2006)
107. Manhattan (Allen, 1979)
108. Ajeossi/The Man from Nowhere (Jeong-beom Lee, 2010)
109. Midnight in Paris (Allen, 2011)
110. The Perfect Host (Tomnay, 2010)
111. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 (Yates, 2011)
112. Big Fan (Siegel, 2009)
113. The Tin Drum (Schlöndorff, 1979)
114. Captain America (Johnston, 2011)
115. Skyline (Strause, 2010)
116. Doubt (Shanley, 2008)
117. Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2 (Hooper, 2986)
116. Sssssss (Kowalski, 1973)
117. The Day the Earth Stood Still (Derrickson, 2008)
118. Captain Sinbad (Haskin, 1963)
119. High Tension (Aja, 2003)
120. New Day (Williams, 2009)
121. Point Blank (Cavayé, 2010)
122. Never Let Me Go (Romanek, 2010)
123. In A Better World (Bier, 2010)
124. Outside the Law (Bouchareb, 2010)
125. Barbarella (Vadim, 1968)
126. Battle Los Angeles (Liebseman, 2011)
127. Hanna (Wright, 2011)
128. Last House on the Left (Craven, 1972)
129. Män som hatar kvinnor/The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (Opley, 2009)
130. Luftslottet som sprängdes/The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest (Alfredson, 2009)
131. Catch Me If You Can (Spielberg, 2002)
132. The Funhouse (Hooper, 1981)
133. Hellraiser IV: Bloodline (Yagher, 1996)
134. Natural Selection (Pickering, 2011)
135. The Bengali Detective (Cox, 2011)
136. Autoreiji/Outrage (Kitano, 2010)
137. Think Global, Act Rural (Serreau, 2010)
138. Sound of Noise (Simonsson, 2010)
139. We Need to Talk About Kevin (Ramsay, 2011)
140. Balada triste de trompeta/The Last Circus (Iglasia, 2010)
141. Kongen av Bastøy/King of Devil’s Island (Holst, 2010)
142. Passing the Baton: The Joe Sims Milwaukee Striders Story (Sarnowski, 2011)
143. Into Eternity (Madsen, 2010)
144. Le belle endormie/The Sleeping Beauty (Breillat, 2010)
145. The Pruitt-Igoe Myth (Freidrichs, 2011)
146. Page One: Inside The New York Times (Rossi, 2011)
147. Green (Takal, 2011)
148. Tournée/On Tour (Amalric, 2010)
149. Diary of the Dead (Romero, 2007)
150. Paisà/Paisan (Rossellini, 1946)
151. Tucker & Dale vs. Evil (Craig, 2010)
152. Nabbeun namja/Bad Guy (Ki-duk Kim, 2001)
153. Human Centipede II (Full Sequence) (Six, 2011)
154. Germania anno zero/Germany: Year Zero (Rossellini, 1948)
155. Paperhouse (Rose, 1988)
156. The Thaw (Lewis, 2009)
157. The Beast With Five Fingers (Florey, 1946)
158. Puppetmaster (Schmoeller, 1989)
159. The Masque of the Red Death (Corman, 1964)
160. Paranormal Activity (Peli, 2007)
161. Red State (Smith, 2011)
162. Scre4m (Craven, 2011)
163. Trick ‘r Treat (Dougherty, 2007)
164. The Sentinel (Winner, 1977)
165. Carnival of Souls (Harvey, 1962)
166. Take Shelter (Nichols, 2011)
167. Two-Lane Blacktop (Hellman, 1971)
168. Attack the Block (Cornish, 2011)
169. If a Tree Falls: A Story of the Earth Liberation Front (Curry, 2011)
170. The Killer Inside Me (Winterbottom, 2010)
171. Twilight (Hardwicke, 2008)
172. The Little Shop of Horrors (Corman, 1960)
173. Exam (Hazeldine, 2009)
174. The Man Who Played God (Adolfi, 1932)
175. Orlacs Hände/The Hands of Orlac (Weine, 1924)
176. Black Legion (Mayo, 1937)
177. Parlor, Bedroom, and Bath (Sedgwick, 1931)
178. The Devil Rides Out (Fisher, 1968)
179. Source Code (Jones, 2011)
180. Flickan som lekte med elden/The Girl Who Played with Fire (Alfredson, 2009)
181. Hollywoodland (Coulder, 2006)
182. Little Shop of Horrors (Oz, 1986)
183. La piel que habito/The Skin I Live In (Almodóvar, 2011)
184. Martha Marcy May Marlene (Durkin, 2011)
185. Hugo (Scorsese, 2011)
186. The Fugitive Kind (Lumet, 1959)
187. The Day After (Meyer, 1983)
188. Spade County Massacre (Chapman, 2011)
189. The Browning Version (Asquith, 1951)
190. Biutiful (Iñárritu, 2010)
191. Rise of the Planet of the Apes (Wyatt, 2011)
192. Meek’s Cutoff (Reichardt, 2010)
193. Die Welle/The Wave (Gansel, 2008)
194. Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol (Bird, 2011)
195. Histoires extraordinaires/Spirits of the Dead (Fellini, 1968)
196. Heavy Metal (Potterton, 1981)
197. Pit and the Pendulum (Corman, 1961)
198. Bell Book and Candle (Quine, 1958)
199. Murder, My Sweet (Dmytryk, 1944)
200. Meet John Doe (Capra, 1941)
201. Freaked (Stern, 1993)
202. You Better Watch Out (Jackson, 1980)
203. Miracle on 34th Street (Seaton, 1947)
204. Super 8 (Abrams, 2011)
205. What-No Beer? (Sedgwick, 1933)
206. The Adventures of Tintin (Spielberg, 2011)
207. Lucky Number Slevin (McGuigan, 2006)
208. Going My Way (McCarey, 1944)
209. Escape From New York (Carpenter, 1981)
210. The Tempest (Taymor, 2010)
211. The Scarlet Pimpernel (Young, 1934)
212. The Muppets (Bobin, 2011)
213. Kontroll (Antal, 2003)
214. Fail-Safe (Lumet, 1964)
215. Panic in the Streets (Kazan, 1950)

Seven Favorites
1. Tetro – A modern Greek drama with color, texture, mood, and all forms of aesthetic.
2. I Am Cuba –Internationally constructed propaganda that advances every stage of film making.
3. Enter the Void – Otherworldly and innovative in story and technique.
4. Sound of Noise – Simple and silly fun . . . . with musical terrorists.
5. We Need To Talk About Kevin – Hypnotizing visions of a suspenseful and suffocating trip through catastrophe.
6. Biutiful – A human tale of black market families and the supernatural forces hidden in the corners of your screen.
7. Fail-Safe – Lumet manipulates mind and soul through gripping camerawork and inhuman ideas.

Seven Least Favorites
1. The Ladykillers (2004) – Offensive and abnormally amateur, even for a remake, but especially for the Coens.
2. Splice – Underwhelming scope, approach, and portrayal of a progressively convenient creature and unrealistic humans.
3. New Day – Under-budgeted, under-written, under-shot, under-edited, etc.
4. The Sleeping Beauty – Experimental storytelling with lackluster experimentation and melodramatic storytelling.
5. Exam – Made entirely of filler that keeps one unsatisfied all the way to the ending’s unforgivably impulsive explanation.
6. The Killer Inside Me – Characters and their actions do not make sense and are never explained. This film just made me angry.
7. Spade County Massacre – Overabundance of ideas clashing with spontaneous pacing and sporadic acting.

2010 Media Diet (movies only)

I will never again attempt to cram 365 movie-viewings into a year.

Only first-time viewings are included.

Due to a tragic list-garbage-furnace incident, some additions were lost to time and memory, neither of which are currently reliable.

1. After the Thin Man (Van Dyke, 1936)
2. Beat the Devil (Huston, 1953)
3. Another Thin Man (Van Dyke, 1939)
4. 2010 (Hyams, 1984)
5. The Matrix Revolutions (Wachowski, 2003)
6. A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints (Montiel, 2006)
7. The Hound of the Baskervilles (Fisher, 1959)
8. Lady for a Day (Capra, 1933)
9. It’s a Gift (McLeod, 1934)
10. If I Had a Million (Cruze, 1932)
11. Shadow of the Thin Man (Van Dyke, 1941)
12. The Freshman (Newmeyer, 1925)
13. College (Horne, 1927)
14. Sherlock Holmes and the Spider Woman (William Neill, 1944)
15. Sherlock Holmes in Dressed to Kill (William Neill, 1946)
16. The Thin Man Goes Home (Thorpe, 1945)
17. Song of the Thin Man (Buzzell, 1947)
18. Bad Lieutenant (Ferrara, 1992)
19. The Informer (Ford, 1935)
20. In Which We Serve (Coward, 1942)
21. Top Hat (Sandrich, 1935)
22. The Great Ziegfeld (Leonard, 1936)
23. Death Wish 4: The Crackdown (Thompson, 1987)
24. Death Wish 5: The Face of Death (Goldstein, 1994)
25. The Postman Always Rings Twice (Garnett, 1946)
26. Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner (Kramer, 1967)
27. Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (Capra, 1936)
28. Ratatouille (Bird, 2007)
29. The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (Dominik, 2007)
30. Ninotchka (Lubitsch, 1939)
31. The Stranger (Welles, 1946)
32. Zombie Girl: The Movie (Johnson, 2009)
33. The Shop Around the Corner (Lubitsch, 1940)
34. Ziegfeld Follies (Ayers, 1945)
35. Futureworld (Heffron, 1976)
36. The Shout (Skolimowski, 1978)
37. Daybreakers (Spierig, 2009)
38. Kind Hearts and Coronets (Hamer, 1949)
39. Dragonwyck (Mankiewicz, 1946)
40. Murder She Said (Pollock, 1961)
41. Roxanne (Schepisi, 1987)
42. Cyrano de Bergerac (Gordon, 1950)
43. Battleground (Wellman, 1949)
44. A Single Man (Ford, 2009)
45. The Lovely Bones (Jackson, 2009)
46. The Book of Eli (Hughes, 2010)
47. The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus (Gilliam, 2009)
48. Le testament d'Orphée/The Testement of Orpheus (Cocteau, 1960)
49. Hiroshima Mon Amour/Hiroshima, My Love (Resnais, 1959)
50. Ordet/The Word (Dreyer, 1955)
51. Ostre sledované vlaky/Closely Watching Trains (Menzel, 1966)
52. Kerd ma lui/Born To Fight (Rittikrai, 2004)
53. A Raisin in the Sun (Petrie, 1961)
54. Hung biu hyn sin ji daai tau gwaai ang/Horror Hotline-Big Head Monster (Cheang, 2001)
55. The Hobbit (Bass, 1977)
56. Equinox (Woods, 1970)
57. Antichrist (Von Trier, 2009)
58. La grande illusion/The Grand Illusion (Renoir, 1937)
59. Kimi ga wakamono nara/If You Were Young: Rage (Fukasaku, 1970)
60. The 25th Hour (Lee, 2002)
61. Diva (Beineix, 1981)
62. Sien nui yau wan/A Chinese Ghost Story (Ching, 1987)
63. Sien nui yau wan II yan gaan do/A Chinese Ghost Story II (Ching, 1990)
64. Le Million/The Million (Clair, 1931)
65. Up In the Air (Reitman, 2009)
66. Xianggang qi an/The Criminals (Cheng, 1976)
67. Sans toit ni loi/Vagabond (Varda, 1985)
68. Le combat dans l'île/Fire and Ice (Cavalier, 1962)
69. Point Blank (Boorman, 1967)
70. The Long Goodbye (Altman, 1973)
71. Silent Hill (Gans, 2006)
72. La coquille et le clergyman/The Seashell and the Clergyman (Dulack, 1928)
73. Symbiosis (Arpke, 2008)
74. Logan’s Run (Anderson, 1976)
75. The Yes Men Fix the World (Bichlbaum, 2009)
76. Triumph des Willens/Triump of the Will (Riefenstahl, 1935)
77. The Red Shoes (Powell, 1948)
78. Nanjing! Nanjing!/The City of Life and Death (Lu, 2009)
79. Rekopis znaleziony w Saragossie/The Saragossa Manuscript (Has, 1965)
80. The Shop on Main Street (Kadár, 1965)
81. Judgment at Nuremberg (Kramer, 1961)
82. Forest of Bliss (Gardner, 1986)
83. Pokolenie/A Generation (Wajda, 1955)
84. Promised Lands (Sontag, 1974)
85. Das weisse Band - Eine deutsche Kindergeschichte/The White Ribbon (Haneke, 2009)
86. Popiól i diament/Ashes and Diamonds (Wajda, 1958)
87. The Hurt Locker (Bigelow, 2008)
88. Madame Bovary (Chabrol, 1991)
89. El Alamein – The Line of Fire (Monteleone, 2002)
90. G.I. Joe (Sommers, 2009)
91. Perawan disarang sindikat/Virgins From Hell (Anwari, 1987)
92. Wandâfuru raifu/After Life (Koreeda, 1998)
93. Undertow (Green, 2004)
94. Never Cry Wolf (Ballard, 1983)
95. Yuki Yukite shingun/The Emperor’s Naked Army Marches On (Hara, 1987)
96. The Prophecy (Widen, 1995)
97. Cabin in the Sky (Minnelli, 1943)
98. Our Hospitality (Keaton, 1923)
99. Birdman of Alcatraz (Frankenheimer, 1962)
100. The Shootist (Siegel, 1976)
101. Tora no o wo fumu otokotachi/The Men Who Treat on the Tiger’s Tail (Kurosawa, 1945)
102. Waga seishun ni kuinashi/No Regrets For Our Youth (Kurosawa, 1946)
103. Zoku Sugata Sanshiro (Kurosawa, 1945)
104. Drunken Angel (Kurosawa, 1948)
105. Saburashiki nichiyôbi/One Wonderful Sunday (Kurosawa, 1947)
106. Ichiban utsukushiku/The Most Beautiful (Kurosawa, 1944)
107. A Night at the Opera (Wood, 1935)
108. At the Circus (Buzzell, 1939)
109. The Room (Wiseau, 2003)
110. Fantastic Mr. Fox (Anderson, 2009)
111. Ban jin ba liang/The Private Eyes (Hui, 1976)
112. Samehada otoko to momojiri onna/Shark Skin Man and Peach Hip Girl (Ishii, 1998)
113. Private Parts (Bartel, 1972)
114. A Day at the Races (Wood, 1937)
115. Address Unkown (Kim Ki-duk, 2001)
116. Akahige/Red Beard (Kurosawa, 1965)
117. Tron (Lisenberger, 1982)
118. Bad Education (Almodóvar, 2004)
119. Crude: The Real Price of Oil (Berlinger, 2009)
120. Red Riding: In the Year of Our Lord 1974 (Jarrold, 2009)
121. Red Riding: In the Year of Our Lord 1980 (Marsh, 2009)
122. Red Riding: In the Year of Our Lord 1983 (Tucker, 2009)
123. Politist, adjective/Police, Adjective (Porumboiu, 2009)
124. Waking Sleeping Beauty (Hahn, 2009)
125. Panique au village/A Town Called Panic (Aubier, 2009)
126. The Windmill Movie (Olch, 2008)
127. Celda 211/Cell 211 (Monzón, 2009)
128. Frygtelig lykkelig/Terribly Happy (Genz, 2008)
129. Madeo/Mother (Bong Joon-ho, 2009)
130. Jackie Brown (Tarantino, 1997)
131. Jan Dara (Nimitutr, 2001)
132. Forbidden Zone (Elfman, 1982)
133. Kiss Me Deadly (Aldrich, 1955)
134. Sweetgrass (2009)
135. Baraka (Fricke, 1992)
136. Gunki hatameku motoni/Under The Flag of the Rising Sun (Fukasaku, 1972)
137. Kill Bill Vol. 2 (Tarantino, 2004)
138. Gumnaan/The Unknown (Nawathe, 1965)
139. El secreto de sus ojos/The Secret In Their Eyes (Campanella, 2009)
140. Musa (Sung-su Kim, 2001)
141. The Man Who Fell To Earth (Roeg, 1976)
142. El ángel exterminador/The Exterminating Angel (Buñuel, 1962)
143. Mat i syn/Mother and Son (Sokurov, 1997)
144. Days of Heaven (Malick, 1978)
145. Bandits (Levinson, 2001)
146. The Last Wave (Weir, 1977)
147. Pontypool (McDonald, 2008)
148. The Crazies (Romero, 1973)
149. Masculin féminin: 15 faits précis/Masculine, Feminine: In 15 Acts (Godard, 1966)
150. Jason and the Argonauts (Chaffey, 1963)
151. The Snake Pit (Latvak, 1948)
152. Kingdom of the Spiders (Cardos, 1977)
153. Duck, You Sucker (Leone, 1971)
154. Shake Hands with the Devil (Andersen, 1959)
155. Suddenly (Allen, 1954)
156. The Navigator (Keaton, 1924)
157. Easy Rider (Hopper, 1969)
158. Desperation (Garris, 2006)
159. Les vacances de Monsieur Hulot/Mr. Hulot’s Holiday (Tati, 1953)
160. The Bride Came C.O.D. (Keighley, 1941)
161. Gigi (Minnelli, 1958)
162. License To Kill (Glen, 1989)
163. Crazy Heart (Cooper, 2009)
164. The Road (Hillcoat, 2009)
165. Monkey Business (McLeod, 1931)
166. Die! Die! My Darling! (Narizzano, 1965)
167. The Signal (Bruckner, 2007)
168. The Last Tango in Paris (Bertolucci, 1972)
169. [REC] (Balagueró, 2007)
170. [REC] 2 (Balagueró, 2009)
171. Deadgirl (Sarmiento, 2008)
172. Quarantine (Dowdle, 2008)
173. Benny’s Video (Haneke, 1992)
174. Kids (Clark, 1995)
175. Viridiana (Buñuel, 1961)
176. Time Code (Figgis, 2000)
177. Hell’s Angels (Hughes, 1930)
178. Nanook of the North (Flaherty, 1922)
179. Time of the Wolf (Haneke, 2003)
180. Mon Oncle (Tati, 1958)
181. Inception (Nolan, 2010)
182. Das Schloß/The Castle (Haneke, 1997)
183. Salinui chueok/Memories of Murder (Bong Joon-ho, 2003)
184. War of the Words (Spielberg, 2005)
185. 71 Fragmente einer Chronologie des Zufalls/71 Fragments of a Chronology of Chance (Haneke, 1994)
186. Walkabout (Roeg, 1971)
187. Empire of the Sun (Spielberg, 1987)
188. The Man They Could Not Hang (Grinde, 1939)
189. The River (Renoir, 1951)
190. Sang sattawat/Syndromes and A Century (Weerasethakul, 2006)
191. Network (Lumet, 1976)
192. Bottle Rocket (Anderson, 1996)
193. Mr. & Mrs. Smith (Hitchcock, 1941)
194. Koyaanisqatsi (Reggio, 1982)
195. Ponyo (Miyazaki, 2008)
196. Sud Pralad/Tropical Malady (Weerasethakul, 2004)
197. Wise Blood (Huston, 1979)
198. Wait Until Dark (Young, 1967)
199. Shadow of the Vampire (Merhige, 2000)
200. Swing Time (Stevens, 1936)
201. Kick-Ass (Vaughn, 2010)
202. Raising Arizona (Coen, 1987)
203. Les enfants du paradis/Children of Paradise (Carné, 1945)
204. The General (Keaton, 1926)
205. Die fetten Jahre sind vorbei/ The Edukators (Weingartner, 2004)
206. I Know Where I’m Going! (Powell, 1945)
207. Salesman (Maysles, 1968)
208. The Passion of the Christ (Gibson, 2004)
209. (500) Days of Summer (Webb, 2009)
210. Where the Wild Things Are (Jonze, 2010)
211. Johnny Got His Gun (Trumbo, 1971)
212. Harlan County U.S.A. (Kopple, 1976)
213. Il gattopardo/The Leopard (Visconti, 1963)
214. The Nutty Professor (Lewis, 1963)
215. Kiss Kiss Bang Bang (Black, 2005)
216. It Happened One Night (Capra, 1934)
217. Le samouraï/The Samurai (Melville, 1967)
218. Animatrix (Chung, 2003)
219. San Francisco (Van Dyke, 1936)
220. Stalingrad (Vilsmaier, 1993)
221. The Crazies (Eisner, 2010)
222. The Woods (McKee, 2006)
223. The Million Dollar Hotel (Wenders, 2000)
224. The Rocking Horse Winner (Pelissier, 1949)
225. Doctor X (Curtiz, 1932)
226. The Living Daylights (Glen, 1987)
227. The Abandoned (Cerdà, 2006)
228. He Who Gets Slapped (Sjöström, 1924)
229. Father of the Bride (Minnelli, 1950)
230. The Big Parade (Vidor, 1925)
231. Horse Feathers (McLeod, 1932)
232. Hannah and Her Sisters (Allen, 1986)
233. Fall Time (Warner, 1995)
234. The Cobweb (Minnelli, 1955)
235. Big Red One (Fuller, 1980)
236. Che: Part One (Soderbergh, 2008)
237. Che: Part Two (Soderberge, 2008)
238. Kaijû daisenso/Monster Zero (Honda, 1965)
239. Hearts of Darkness (Bahr, 1991)
240. Nihon no ichiban nagai hi/Japan’s Longest Day (Okamoto, 1967)
241. The Wolfman (Johnston, 2010)
242. Nosferatu: Phantom der Nacht (Herzog, 1979)
243. Sommamattens leende/Smiles of a Summer Night (Bergman, 1955)
244. Survival of the Dead (Romero, 2009)
245. Alice (Svankmajer, 1988)
246. Adam Resurrected (Shrader, 2008)
247. Trash Humpers (Korine, 2009)
248. Friday the 13th: Part III (Miner, 1982)
249. Badlands (Malick, 1973)
250. Howl (Epstein, 2010)
251. Moon (Jones, 2009)
252. Young Mr. Lincoln (Ford, 1939)
253. Gold Rush (Chaplin, 1925)
254. Siu lam juk kau/Shaolin Soccer (Chow, 2001)
255. The Last Picture Show (Bogdanovich, 1971)
256. Il Grido (Antonioni, 1957)
257. In Bruges (McDonagh, 2008)
258. Blue Valentine (Cianfrance, 2010)
259. Winnebago Man (Steinbauer, 2009)
260. Choyonghan kajok/The Quiet Family (Kim Ji-woon, 1998)
261. Faust (Svankmejer, 1994)
262. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (Yates, 2007)
263. American Graffiti (Lucas, 1973)
264. My Bloody Valentine (Mihalka, 1981)
265. Rififi (Dassin, 1955)
266. Buried (Cortés, 2010)
267. Black Narcissus (Powell, 1947)
268. 13 Tzameti (Babluani, 2005)
269. Sullivan’s Travels (Struges, 1941)
270. Otesánek/Little Otik/Greedy Guts (Svankmajer, 2000)
271. Royal Wedding (Donen, 1951)
272. House on Haunted Hill (Castle, 1959)
273. Paint Your Wagon (Logan, 1969)
274. Bug (Friedkin, 2006)
275. Last Year at Marienbad (Resnais, 1961)
276. A Night In Casablanca (Mayo, 1946)
277. The Naked Kiss (Fuller, 1964)
278. Chakushin ari/One Missed Call (Miike, 2003)
279. Harry Brown (Barber, 2009)
280. Buio Omega/Beyond the Darkness (D’Amato, 1979)
281. Speed Racer (Wachowski, 2008)
282. Oedipus Rex (Pasolini, 1967)
283. Saw 5 (Hackl, 2008)
284. Autumn Sonata (Bergman, 1978)
285. Shockwaves (Wiederhorn, 1977)
286. Blood Feast (Herschell Gordon Lewis, 1963)
287. Der Golem, wie er in die Welt kam/Golem (Boese, 1920)
288. Monster House (Kenan, 2006)
289. Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince (Yates, 2009)
290. Dellamorte Dellamore/Cemetery Man (Saovi, 1994)
291. Cape Fear (Thompson, 1962)
292. Spoorloos/The Vanishing (Sluizer, 1988)
293. Saw 6 (Greutert, 2009)
294. House By the Cemetery (Soavi, 1994)
295. The Collector (Dunstan, 2009)
294. Phantasm 2 (Coscarelli, 1988)
295. Toy Story 3 (Unkrich, 2010)
296. The Box (Kelly, 2009)
297. Fearless (Weir, 1993)
298. Das Experiment (Hirschbiegel, 2001)
299. Piano Tuner of Earthquakes (Quay, 2005)
300. Scott Pilgrim vs. The World (Wright, 2010)
301. Ali: Fear Eats the Soul (Fassbinder, 1974)
302. True Grit (Hathaway, 1969)
303. Metropia (Saleh, 2009)
304. Au Hasard Balthazar (Bresson, 1966)
305. Chaplin (Attenborough, 1992)
306. Séance (Kurosawa, 2000)
307. 2012 (Emmerich, 2009)
308. Go West (Keaton, 1925)
309. Valhalla Rising (Winding Refn, 2009)
310. The Cat’s Paw (Taylor, 1934)
311. The Dinner Game (Veber, 1998)
312. The Piano Teacher (Haneke, 2001)
313. The Charge of the Light Brigade (Curtiz, 1936)
314. The Maltese Falcon (Del Ruth, 1931)
315. Earth vs. The Flying Saucers (Sears, 1956)
316. Repo Man (Cox, 1984)
317. Fort Apache (Ford, 1948)
318. Mister Roberts (Ford, 1955)
319. Predators (Antal, 2010)
320. Love Ranch (Hackford, 2010)
321. The Thin Red Line (Malick, 1998)
322. Pickpocket (Bresson, 1959)
323. 127 Hours (Boyle, 2010)
324. Sud sanaeha/Blissfully Yours (Weerasethakul, 2002)
325. The Milky Way (McCarey, 1936)
326. Traffic (Soderbergh, 2000)
327. The Human Centipede (First Sequence) (Six, 2009)
328. The Island (Bay, 2005)
329. Feet First (Bruckman, 1930)
330. Night of the Iguana (Huston, 1964)
331. Dr. Jack (Newmeyer, 1922)
332. Koroshi no rakuin/Branded to Kill (Suzuki, 1967)
333. Before Sunrise (Linklater, 1995)
334. My Own Private Idaho (Van Sant, 1991)
335. Yi Yi (Yang, 2000)
336. My Man Godfrey (La Cava, 1936)
337. Out of the Past (Tourneur, 1947)
338. Micmacs (Jeunet, 2009)
339. Black Swan (Aronofsky, 2010)
340. The Fighter (Russell, 2010)
341. The Town (Affleck, 2010)
342. Lunacy (Svankmajer, 2005)
343. The Honeymoon Killers (Kastle, 1969)
344. A Very Long Engagement (Jeunet, 2004)
345. Alone With Her (Nicholas, 2006)
346. The Quiet Man (Ford, 1952)
347. Mou gaan dou/Infernal Affairs (Lau, 2002)
348. Funny Girl (Wyler, 1968)
349. The Hearse (Bowers, 1980)
350. Limelight (Chaplin, 1952)
351. Hot Tub Time Machine (Pink, 2010)
352. Tom yum goong/The Protector (Pinkaew, 2005)
353. The Flowers of St. Francis (Rossellini, 1950)
354. The Last Metro (Truffaut, 1980)
355. A Midsummer’s Night Dream (Dieterle, 1935)
356. Days of Wine and Roses (Edwards, 1962)
357. Young Dr. Kildare (Bacquet, 1938)
358. Calling Dr. Kildare (Bacquet, 1939)
359. Tron: Legacy (Kosinski, 2010)
360. True Grit (Coen, 2010)
361. The King’s Speech (Hooper, 2010)
362. The Man in the White Suit (Mackendrick, 1951)
363. It’s A Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World (Kramer, 1963)
364. The Yearling (Brown, 1946)
365. Dung fong saam hap/The Heroic Trio (To, 1993)

Seven Favorites:
1. Faust - An equal balance of art and storytelling that stands out from Svankmajer's other work, obligating me to place him in my top three favorite living filmmakers. 
2. Last Year in Marienbad - A slow, dreamy experience that hypnotizes you with longing words and magic in every single shot.
3. The Secret in their Eyes - Manhunt, political corruption, crime thriller, forsaken romance, vengeful souls, and all forms of distorted justice. Also include one of my favorite long-takes ever (fluidly edited together) and a single line of dialogue that will evermore haunt me.
4. Das Experiment - This solid story endlessly twists its characters and shoves you off your sit with tension and suspense. I screamed at my screen at least twice.
5. El Alamein - The Line of Fire - This wartime survival story in the desert combines Kubrick-esque imagery with the Coens' episodic adventures.
6. Cemetary Man - Beneath this comical gothic-horror flick is something I can't quite describe, and its investigation of love's trap and life's meaning are very welcome.
7. The 25th Hour - Say what you will, but Spike Lee actually knew what he was doing here (and his dolly-machine actually worked effectively). After it's +2 hours were up, I was wishing for more.

Seven Least Favorites:
1. Metropia - I saw it in the theatre and found the projection to be very very dark. My interest in the CGI was short-lived and the plot seemed to run in circled searching for an exit.
2. The Collector - Granted my expectations were not high, but I found myself wishing that even the booby-traps (the very selling point of this film) would stop.
3. Empire of the Sun - I return to "expectations" which were justifiably moderate for a film of this magnitude. I found it torn between accurate war depictions and playful bedtime story.
4. Matrix Revolutions - No comment.
5. The Signal - This zombie-esque movie starts out with promise but takes an abrupt detour into awkward [for the audience] comedy, and it never revives.
6. Time Code - This movie was promoted as being "told in real time, without any edits." I found an edit. It was obvious. Finding that edit was the most exciting moment in this viewing.
7. Young Mr. Lincoln - I was hoping this film would hold a little bit more merit, but I found it to be a coming of age/courtroom drama where Fonda played Fonda and "Lincoln" could have been exempt from the title.

2009 Media Diet (movies only)

First of all, this list began on July 8th.

Secondly, movies seen outside of movie theatres are included (DVDs, televised, etc).

Third, all movies listed are first-time viewings (Movies seen prior to the list were not listed in the instance of a repeated viewing).

1. Vozvrashcheniye/The Return (Zvygintsev, 2003)
2. La Strada/The Road (Fellini, 1954)
3. Happiness (Solondz, 1998)
4. Martyrs (Laugier, 2008)
5. À l'intérieur/Inside (Bustillo/Maury, 2007)
6. Stranger Than Paradise (Jarmusch, 1984)
7. Coraline (Selick, 2009)
8. The Last Emperor (Bertolucci, 1987)
9. Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Take One (Greaves, 1968)
10. Seppuku/Harakiri (Kobayashi, 1962)
11. Il y a longtemps que je t'aime/I’ve loved you so long (Claudel, 2008)
12. Lost Horizon (Capra, 1937)
13. The Good Fairy (Wyler, 1935)
14. Monster A Go-Go (Rebane, 1965)
15. Mar adentro/The Sea Inside (Amenábar, 2004)
16. The Aviator (Scorsese, 2004)
17. The Others (Amenábar, 2001)
18. Le Cercle Rouge/The Red Circle (Melville, 1970)
19. Salem’s Lot (Hooper, 1979)
20. American Movie (Smith, 1999)
21. Okuribito/Departures (Takita, 2008)
22. The Most Dangerous Game (Pichel/Schoedsack, 1932)
23. In The Heat of the Night (Jewison, 1967)
24. Mamma Roma (Paolo Pasolini, 1962)
25. Cure (Kurosawa, 1997)
26. Chan Is Missing (Want, 1982)
27. Captured on Film: The True Story of Marion Davies (Neely, 2001)
28. The World’s Greatest Sinner (Carey, 1962)
29. The Giant Spider Invasion (Rebane, 1975)
30. Sugata Sanshiro (Kurosawa, 1943)
31. Born Into Brothels: Calcutta’s Red Light Kids (Briski/Kauffman, 2004)
32. Safety Last (Newmeyer, Taylor, 1923)
33. District 9 (Blomkamp, 2009)
34. Oklahoma! (Zinnemann, 1955)
35. Nóz w wodzie/Knife in the Water (Polanski, 1962)
36. Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow (Conran, 2004)
37. Planes, Trains & Automobiles (Hughes, 1987)
38. Le sang d'un poète/Blood of the Poet (Cocteau,1930)
39. Mean Streets (Scorsese, 1973)
40. The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension (Richter, 1984)
41. Guys and Dolls (Mankiewicz, 1955)
42. Hunger (McQueen, 2009)
43. Blood on the Sun (Lloyd, 1945)
44. Bright Future (Kurosawa, 2003)
45. Ronin-gai (Kuroki, 1990)
46. Gojira (Hashimoto/Kizer, 1984)
47. Offret/The Sacrifice (Tarkovsky, 1986)
48. Sof Shavua B'Tel Aviv/For My Father (Zahavi, 2008)
49. Un baiser s'il vous plait/Shall We Kiss? (Mouret, 2007)
50. Bronson (Refn, 2008)
51. House of the Devil (West, 2009)
52. Afghan Star (Marking, 2009)
53. Chugyeogja/The Chaser (Hong-Jin, 2008)
54. Asur et Asamar (Ocelot, 2006)
55. Reporter (Metzgar, 2009)
56. La lengua de las mariposas/Butterfly (Cuerda, 1999)
57. Il Divo (Sorrentino, 2008)
58. No Impact Man (Gabbert, 2009)
59. We Live In Public (Timoner, 2009)
60. Four Boxes (McGill, 2009)
61. The Abominable Dr. Phibes (Fuest, 1971)
62. Witchfinder General (Reeves, 1968)
63. Munyurangabo (Isaac Chung, 2007)
64. Tokyo Sonata (Kurosawa, 2008)
65. Film ist a Girl & a Gun (Deutsch, 2009)
66. Time (Kim Ki-Duk, 2006)
67. The Mouse That Roared (Arnold, 1959)
68. Murder By Death (Moore, 1976)
69. The Proposition (Hillcoat, 2005)
70. Clash of the Titans (Davis, 1981)
71. Zombieland (Fleischer, 2009)
72. Sayonara Jupiter (Hashimoto, 1984)
73. Kárhozat/Damnation (Tarr, 1987)
74. Død snø/Dead Snow (Wirkola, 2009)
75. The Midnight Meat Train (Kitamura, 2008)
76. Orphée/Orpheus (Cocteau, 1950)
77. Faces of Death (Schwartz, 1978)
78. Dèmoni/Demons (Bava, 1985)
79. Paura nella città dei morti viventi/City of the Living Dead (Fulci, 1980)
80. Aguirre, der Zorn Gottes/Aguirre, The Wrath of God (Herzog, 1972)
81. A Serious Man (Coen, 2009)
82. Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters (Shrader, 1985)
83. Salò (Pasolini, 1975)
84. Purana Mandir/The Old Temple (Ramsay, 1984)
85. La maschera del demonio/Black Sunday (Bava, 1960)
86. Manos: The Hands of Fate (Warren, 1966)
87. The Taking of Pelham 123 (Sargent, 1974)
88. Mari iyagi/My Beautiful Girl, Mari (Seong-kang, 2002)
89. James Cagney: Top of the World (Lindahl, 1992)
90. Torrid Zone (Keighley, 1940)
91. From Hell (Hughes/Hughes, 2001)
92. The Men Who Stare At Goats (Heslov, 2009)
93. Cherry 2000 (Jarnatt, 1987)
94. Stroszek (Herzog, 1977)
95. Food, Inc. (Kenner, 2008)
96. Kairo/Pulse (Kurosawa, 2001)
97. Stellet Lict/Silent Light (Reygadas, 2007)
98. Jigoku no keibîn/The Guard From Underground (Kurosawa, 1992)
99. Modus Operandi (Latina, 2009)
100. Shane (Stevens, 1953)
101. Terrorvision (Nicolaou, 1986)
102. A Christmas Carol (Zemeckis, 2009)
103. Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (Mamoulian, 1931)
104. The Changeling (Medak, 1980)
105. The Thin Man (Van Dyke, 1934)
106. Torn Curtain (Hitchcock, 1966)
107. Pale Rider (Eastwood, 1985)
108. The Picture of Dorian Grey (Lewin, 1945)
109. Precious (Lee Daniels, 2009)
110. Chi bi/Red Cliff (Woo, 2008)
111. Bakjwi/Thirst (Chan-wook Park, 2009)
112. Seom/The Isle (Kim-Ki Duk, 2000)
113. À ma soeur!/Fat Girl (Breillat, 2001)
114. Black Christmas (Clark, 1974)
115. All That Money Can Buy (Dieterle, 1941)
116. Passage to Marseille (Cutiz, 1944)
117. Bogart: The Untold Story (Hunt, 1996)
118. Take the Money and Run (Allen, 1969)
119. They Shoot Horses, Don’t They? (Pollack, 1969)
120. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (Werker, 1939)
121. The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes (Wilder, 1970)
122. The Hound of the Baskervilles (Lanfield, 1939)
123. Sherlock Holmes and the Voice of Terror (Rawlins, 1942)
124. Sherlock Holmes and the Secret Weapon (William Neill, 1943)
125. Sherlock Holmes in Washington (William Neill, 1943)
126. Sherlock Holmes Faces Death (William Neil, 1943)
127. The Sleeping Cardinal (Hiscott, 1931)
128. Meet the Robinsons (Anderson, 2007)
129. Inglorious Basterds (Tarantino, 2009)
130. The New World (Malick, 2005)
131. Day the World Ended (Corman, 1955)
132. One, Two, Three (Wilder, 1961)
133. The Cameraman (Sedgwick, 1928)
134. Mitt liv som hund/My Life As A Dog (Hallström, 1985)
135. The Innocents (Clayton, 1961)
136. Invictus (Eastwood, 2009)
137. The Hangover (Phillips, 2009)
138. The Assassination of Richard Nixon (Mueller, 2004)
139. The Man Who Came to Dinner (Keighley, 1942)
140. Waking Life (Linklater, 2001)

This list was made possible by peer-pressure from friends and enemies alike.

Introduction

Records of my "media diet" began mid-2009. A friend revealed to me his habit of keeping a list of movies he watched every year. With nothing much better to do, I took up this habit, keeping track of every movie I watched throughout the year. This endevor has sparked enlightening discussion and debate.

Not long after that, I was exposed to "Steven Soderbergh's media diet," which inspired me to expanded my movies-only list and to include other forms such as literature and television.

Since that time I've progressed through various trends, such as marking repeat viewings.

I began listing my seven favorite and least favorite films after being asked to. I choose seven each year because five is too few and ten is too many. Only first-viewings are eligible for entry into my favorite/least favorite lists. I cannot currently vouche for the choices that I had made in previous years.

Since past lists were only available through limited social media sites, I am now re-posting past lists.

It becomes difficult to decide on what is a "first viewing." Sometimes I forget I have already seen a movie. Sometimes I have already seen half of a movie beforehand.