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.