Friday, January 16, 2009

Movies I've Seen in Theaters - 2009

Milk (Gus Van Sant, 128 m) - 1/15
Gran Torino (Clint Eastwood, 116 m) - 1/20
Rachel Getting Married (Jonathan Demme, 114 m) - 1/29
Last Chance Harvey (Joel Hopkins, 92 m) - 1/29
Revolutionary Road (Sam Mendes, 119 m) - 1/30

Doubt (John Patrick Shanley, 104 m) - 2/1
Waltz with Bashir (Ari Folman, 90 m) - 2/4
The Wrestler (Darren Aronofsky, 115 m) - 2/8
The Reader (Stephen Daldry, 124 m) - 2/15

Wendy and Lucy (Kelly Reichardt, 80 m) - 3/21
Battle for Terra (Aristomenis Tsirbas, 80 m) - 3/28

FFF Shorts Program #1: Lost in Space (96 m) - 3/28
-Marooned? (Ryan Nagata, 14 m)
-Flat Love (Andres Sanz, 15 m)
-The Response (Adam Rodgers, 19 m)
-Trece AƱos (Topaz Adizes, 7.5 m)
-Happy Birthday (Roberta Marie Munroe, 15 m)
-Glory at Sea (Benh Zeitlin, 25 m)

Not Quite Hollywood (Mark Hartley, 102 m) - 3/28
Electric Revolution (Mark Moorman, 12 m) - 3/29
The Rock-afire Explosion (Brett Whitcomb, 70 m) - 3/29
Idiots and Angels (Bill Plympton, 78 m) - 3/29

FFF Italian Shorts Program (93 m) - 3/30
-Because There Are Things You Never Forget (Lucas Figueroa, 12 m)
-Retreating (Elisabetta Bernardini, 18 m)
-Barefoot on the Stage (Andrea Rovetta, 6 m)
-A Heart Inside the Sea (Claudia La Bianca, 19 m)
-Clacson (Tak Kuroha, 6 m)
-Afterville (Fabio Guaglione & Fabio Resinaro, 32 m)

Treeless Mountain (So Yong Kim, 89 m) - 3/30
Sita Sings the Blues (Nina Paley, 82 m) - 3/31

True Adolescents (Craig Johnson, 88 m) - 4/1

FFF Shorts Program #2: Return to Sender (94 m) - 4/1
-Asshole (Chadd Harbold, 10 m)
-Crossroad (Maziar Lahooti, 8 m)
-The Loneliness of the Short-Order Cook (Marcel Sawicki, 22 m)
-Abbie Cancelled (Jessica Burstein & Robbie Norris, 16 m)
-Official Selection (Brian Crano, 10.5 m)
-Water Pills (Blake Sennett, 27 m)

FFF Shorts Program #5: Animated Shorts (91 m) - 4/1
-Birth (Signe Baumane, 12 m)
-Botnik! (Jacqueline Smessaert Brennan, 11 m)
-From Burger It Came (Dominic Bisignano, 7 m)
-Elephant Girl (David Lobser, 4.5 m)
-Tales of Mere Existence: "Different Kinds of Boyfriends I Have Been," "The Various Kinds of Jobs I Could Get," "How We Managed Not to Really Date Each Other" (Lev Yilmaz, 10 m)
-The Royal Nightmare (Alex Budovsky, 4 m)
-Kaleidoscoptics (Janel Bauer, 6 m)
-Flute Babies (Gretta Johnson, 4.5 m)
-Sebastian's Voodoo (Joaquin Baldin, 4 m)
-Horn Dog (Bill Plympton, 6 m)
-I Am So Proud of You (Don Hertzfeldt, 22 m)

We are the Mods (E.E. Cassidy, 81 m) - 4/1
Pickin' & Trimmin' (Matt Morris, 23 m) - 4/2
Smile 'Til It Hurts: The Up With People Story (Lee Storey, 80 m) - 4/3
Em (Tony Barbieri, 93 m) - 4/3
Sell It To the Hedge Funds (Haven Pell, 4 m) - 4/3
Art + Copy (Doug Pray, 86 m) - 4/3
Deadgirl (Marcel Sarmiento & Gadi Harel, 101 m) - 4/3
How My Dad Killed Dracula (Sky Soleil, 14 m) - 4/4
School Play (Rick Velleu & Eddie Rosenstein, 72 m) -4/4
The Wrecking Crew (Denny Tedesco, 97 m) - 4/4

FFF International Animated Shorts (90 m) - 4/4
-Mite (Milbe) (Karl Tebbe, 6 m)
-1977 (Peque Verela, 8 m)
-Patience of the Memory (Vuk Jevremovich, 6.5 m)
-The Big Store (Lars Arrhenius & Johannes Muntzing, 8 m)
-The Cable Car (Die Sielbahn) (Claudius Gentinetta & Frank Braun, 7 m)
-Lies (Jonas Odell, 13 m)
-The Surprise Demise of Francis Cooper's Mother (Felix Massie, 7.5 m)
-Snowtime (Dana Dorian, 1.5 m)
-The Tourists (Malcolm Sutherland, 3 m)
-Procrastination (Johnny Kelly, 4 m)
-KJFG No. 5 (Alexie Alexeev, 2 m)
-Chainsaw (Dennis Tupicoff, 24 m)

FFF Midnight Shorts Program (88 m) - 4/4
-Sexxxy Lumberjack (Amautalab, 30 sec)
-An Evening with Mike & Jessica at the King's Head Inn (David Tamkin, 5 m)
-U-Turn (Warwick Young, 7.5 m)
-Shit Chronicles IV (Andy & Carolyn London, 2 m)
-The Horribly Slow Murderer with the Extremely Inefficient Weapon (Richard Gale, 10 m)
-Pellet Gunn (Tim Beckhardt, 2.5 m)
-Massage (Ondrej Rudavsky, 8.5 m)
-Fly to Freedom (Amautalab, 30 sec)
-Unbelievable 4 (Sukwon Shin & In Pyo Hong, 4 m)
-The Blindness of the Woods (Martin Jalfen & Javier Lourenco, 12 m)
-Necromance (Kerri Davenport-Burton, 4 m)
-I Live in the Woods (Max Winston, 3.5 m)
-The Creature of the Woods (Amautalab, 30 sec)
-Fuckin' Old Bitch (Jack Truman, 3 m)
-The Lutheran (Brad Bosley, 25 m)

Sugar (Anna Boden & Ryan Fleck, 120 m) - 4/23

Adventureland (Greg Mottola, 107 m) - 5/5
Adventureland (Greg Mottola, 107 m) - 5/13
Star Trek (J.J. Abrams, 127 m) - 5/24
Anvil! The Story of Anvil (Sacha Gervasi, 90 m) - 5/29

The Limits of Control (Jim Jarmusch, 116 m) - 6/6
The Hangover (Todd Phillips, 100 m) - 6/14
Partly Cloudy (Peter Sohn, 6 m) - 6/20
Up (Pete Docter & Bob Peterson, 96 m) - 6/20
Away We Go (Sam Mendes, 98 m) - 6/27

Tyson (James Toback, 90 m) - 7/2
Whatever Works (Woody Allen, 92 m) - 7/3
Whatever Works (Woody Allen, 92 m) - 7/12

The Hurt Locker (Kathryn Bigelow, 131 m) - 8/4

Paper Heart (Nicholas Jasenovec, 88 m) - 9/3
Humpday (Lynn Shelton, 94 m) - 9/5
(500) Days of Summer (Marc Webb, 95 m ) - 9/6
Extract (Mike Judge, 92 m) - 9/7
Thirst (Chan-wook Park, 133 m) - 9/23
Bright Star (Jane Campion, 119 m) - 9/26

Zombieland (Ruben Fleischer, 80 m) - 10/3
Capitalism: A Love Story (Michael Moore, 120 m) - 10/7
The Informant! (Steven Soderbergh, 108 m) - 10/7
Where the Wild Things Are (Spike Jonze, 94 m) - 10/17
A Serious Man (Joel & Ethan Coen, 105 m) - 10/24
Michael Jackson's This Is It (Kenny Ortega, 112 m) - 10/31

An Education (Lone Scherfig, 95 m) - 11/7
Inglourious Basterds (Quentin Tarantino, 153 m) - 11/9
The Damned United (Tom Hooper, 98 m) - 11/19
Precious: Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire (Lee Daniels, 110 m) - 11/21
An Education (Lone Scherfig, 95 m) - 11/23

Coco Before Chanel (Anne Fontaine, 105 m) - 12/5
Fantastic Mr. Fox (Wes Anderson, 87 m) - 12/7
The Road (John Hillcoat, 111 m) - 12/18
Up in the Air (Jason Reitman, 109 m) - 12/21
Sherlock Holmes (Guy Ritchie, 128 m) - 12/25
Me and Orson Welles (Richard Linklater, 114 m) - 12/28

Sunday, January 4, 2009

DVD Journal - 2009

Baby Mama (Michael McCullers, 99 m) - 1/1
Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day (Bharat Nalluri, 92 m) - 1/1
Encounters at the End of the World (Werner Herzog, 99 m) - 1/4
The Bank Job (Roger Donaldson, 111 m) - 1/4
The Edge of Heaven (Fatih Akin, 122 m) - 1/6
Up the Yangtze (Yung Chang, 93 m) - 1/10
Great World of Sound (Craig Zobel, 106 m) - 1/12
4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days (Cristian Mungiu, 113 m) - 1/13
Youth Without Youth (Francis Ford Coppola, 124 m) - 1/14
Still Life (Zhang Ke Jia, 111 m) - 1/27

Frozen River (Courtney Hunt, 97 m) - 2/17
The Duchess (Saul Dibb, 110 m) - 2/18
The Fall (Tarsem Singh, 117 m) - 2/19

The Go-Getter (Martin Hynes, 93 m) - 3/24

I Really Hate My Job (Oliver Parker, 90 m) - 4/2
A Midsummer Night's Sex Comedy (Woody Allen, 88 m) - 4/14
Quiet City (Aaron Katz, 78 m) - 4/15
Hannah Takes the Stairs (Joe Swanberg, 83 m) - 4/18
Broadway Danny Rose (Woody Allen, 84 m) -4/19
I Love Your Work (Adam Goldberg, 111 m) - 4/21
Twilight (Catherine Hardwicke, 122 m) - 4/24
Festival Express (Bob Smeaton & Frank Cvitanovich, 90 m) - 4/26

Interview (Steve Buscemi, 84 m) - 5/1
September (Woody Allen, 82 m) - 5/1
In Between Days (So Yong Kim, 83 m) - 5/2
Mo' Better Blues (Spike Lee, 130 m) - 5/11
Boxcar Bertha (Martin Scorsese, 92 m) - 5/21
Shadows and Fog (Woody Allen, 85 m) - 5/22
Wild at Heart (David Lynch, 124 m) - 5/23
The Girlfriend Experience (Steven Soderberg, 78 m) - 5/23 (HDNet)
Kill Your Idols (Scott Crary, 75 m) - 5/30
Kobe Doin' Work (Spike Lee, 84 m) - 5/30 (ESPN)
Another Woman (Woody Allen, 81 m) - 5/31
Sid and Nancy (Alex Cox, 112 m) - 5/31
Cadillac Records (Darnell Martin, 109 m) - 5/31

Redbelt (David Mamet, 99 m) - 6/1
Westworld (Michael Crichton, 88 m) - 6/5
Easy Rider (Dennis Hopper, 95 m) - 6/6
Invincible (Werner Herzog, 133 m) - 6/7
Bride Wars (Gary Winick, 89 m) - 6/12
How to Lose Friends & Alienate People (Robert Weide, 110 m) - 6/13
Dog Day Afternoon (Sidney Lumet, 125 m) - 6/15
I Know Where I'm Going! (Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger, 91 m) - 6/16

Cassandra's Dream (Woody Allen, 108 m) - 7/5
Tom Dowd & the Language of Music (Mark Moormann, 82 m) - 7/7
Hud (Martin Ritt, 112 m) - 7/26

Colma: The Musical (Richard Wong, 100 m) - 9/14
Sweetie (Jane Campion, 97 m) - 9/29

Crazy Love (Dan Klores, 92 m) - 10/24

My Winnipeg (Guy Maddin, 80 m) - 11/20
Two Lovers (James Gray, 110 m) - 11/22

Goodbye Solo (Ramin Bahrani, 91 m) - 12/6
Julie & Julia (Nora Ephron, 123 m) - 12/17
I Love You, Man (John Hamburg, 105 m) - 12/26
Teeth (Mitchell Lichtenstein, 94 m) - 12/27
Watchmen (Zack Snyder, 162 m) - 12/29