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.