Movie Journal - 2011

This year, to be more streamlined, I will include all of my movie-watching on one tidy list.  In previous years, I separated my get-up-and-get-dressed theater screenings from my lounging-on-my-couch-in-my-underwear DVD screenings.  Now, both will be included here (as well as obviously ones I watch on cable, on demand, Netflix streaming and anything else you can think of).  Like before, if I've already seen a movie and merely pop in a DVD while I'm doing laundry or something, that seems pointless and won't be included here.  Besides, it's embarassing to note how many times I watch The 40-Year-Old Virgin or Casablanca just because I'm bored and have nothing else to do.  But I will include a theater screening of a movie I've previously seen because it seems noteworthy (if to no one else but me) that I would do that.

Neato color-coded guide:
Theatrical screening
Non-theatrical screening (DVD, etc.)

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True Grit (Joel & Ethan Coen, 110 m) - 1/2
Sweetgrass (Ilisa Barbash & Lucien Castaing-Taylor, 101 m) - 1/3
The King's Speech (Tom Hooper, 118 m) - 1/6
My Dog Tulip (Paul & Sandra Fierlinger, 83 m) - 1/6
Somewhere (Sofia Coppola, 97 m) - 1/6

Dogtooth (Giorgos Lanthimos, 94 m) - 1/10

Bluebeard (Catherine Breillat, 80 m) - 1/11

Mother (Joon-ho Bong, 128 m) - 1/14

Made in Dagenham (Nigel Cole, 113 m) - 1/15
I Love You Phillip Morris (Glenn Ficarra & John Requa,  98 m) - 1/17
Carlos - Part I (Olivier Assayas, 101 m) - 1/17
The Fighter (David O. Russell, 115 m) - 1/18
Blue Valentine (Derek Cianfrance, 112 m) - 1/19
Somewhere (Sofia Coppola, 97 m) - 1/27
Blue Valentine (Derek Cianfrance, 112 m) - 1/28
Another Year (Mike Leigh, 129 m) - 1/29

Rabbit Hole (John Cameron Mitchell, 91 m) - 2/5
Biutiful (Alejandro González Iñárritu, 148 m) - 2/9
Hot Tub Time Machine (Steve Pink, 101 m) - 2/13
How to Train Your Dragon (Dan DeBlois & Chris Sanders, 98 m) - 2/15
The Illusionist (Sylvain Chomet, 80 m) - 2/17
Barney's Version (Richard J. Lewis, 134 m) - 2/19
Animal Kingdom (David Michôd, 113 m) - 2/26
Alice in Wonderland (Tim Burton, 108 m) - 2/27 

Catfish (Henry Joost & Ariel Schulman,  87 m) - 3/20

She's Out of My League (Jim Field Smith, 104 m) - 4/3
The Adjustment Bureau (George Nolfi, 106 m) - 4/3
Paul (Greg Mottola, 104 m) - 4/3

FFF Shorts Program #2: Scales of Justice - 4/9
-Inside Out (Jim O'Doherty, 24 m)
-We're Leaving (Zachary Treitz, 12.5 m)
-La Salle De Jeux (The Playroom) (Tim Miller, 5 m)
-Captain Fork (G.J. Echternkamp, 13 m)
-Spider Fang! (Justin Perkinson, 2 m)
-After the Snow (Brooke Sebold, 9 m)
-Thule (Robert Scott Wildes, 27 m)

FFF Shorts Program #4: Loves Me Not - 4/9
-California Romanza (Eva Mendes, 19 m)
-¡Una Carrerita, Doctor! (A Doctor’s Job) (Julio O. Ramos, 10.5 m)
-God of Love (Luke Matheny, 18 m)
-Ex-Sex (Michael Mohan, 9 m)
-The Strange Ones (Christopher Radcliff and Lauren Wolkstein, 14 m)
-The Candidate (David Karlak, 20 m)

Without (Mark Jackson, 88 m) - 4/9
The Happy Poet (Paul Gordon, 85 m) - 4/9
Mutant Girls Squad (Noboru Iguchi, Yoshihiro Nishimura, and Tak Sagaguchi, 90 m) - 4/9

FFF Shorts Program #1: Down and Out - 4/10
-Sexting (Neil Labute, 8 m)
-The Good Neighbor (Jacob Vaughan, 10 m)
-Pillow (Joshua H. Miller and Miles B. Miller, 18.5 m)
-Gaysharktank.com (Guy Shalem, 15 m)
-Hello Caller (Andrew Putschoegl, 6 m)
-The Hunter and the Swan Discuss Their Meeting (Emily Carmichael, 8 m)
-After the Denim (Scott Rosenfelt and Gregory D. Goyins, 26 m)

Dog Sweat (Hossein Keshavarz, 90 m) - 4/10
Silver Tongues (Simon Arthur, 88 m) - 4/11
Amarcord (Federico Fellini, 123 m) - 4/11
The Colors of the Mountain (Carlos César Arbeláez, 88 m) - 4/12
Cut/Chop/Cook (Joe York, 14 m) - 4/12
A Matter of Taste: Serving Up Paul Liebrandt (Sally Rowe, 68 m) - 4/12
Mr. Happy Man (Matt Morris, 10.5 m) - 4/12
Louder Than a Bomb (Greg Jacobs and Jon Siskel, 99 m) - 4/12
The Bowler (Sean Dunne, 14 m) - 4/13
Bobby Fischer Against the World (Liz Garbus, 93 m) - 4/13


FFF Shorts Program #5: Animated Shorts - 4/13
-Guard Dog Global Jam (Bill Plympton, 5 m)
-The Deep (PES, 1.5 m)
-Something Left, Something Taken (Max Porter and Ru Kuwahata, 10 m)
-The Birds Upstairs (Christopher Jarvis, 9 m)
-Always, Only, Ever (Barbara Benas, 3.5 m)
-Danny & Annie (The Rauch Brothers, 6.5 m)
-Accumulonimbus (Andy Kennedy, 4.5 m)
-The Wonder Hospital (Beomsik Shimbe Shim, 11.5 m)
-Tales of Mere Existence: "How to Be a Man" & "How You May Fall for a Girl on Facebook" (Lev Yilmaz, 7 m)
-Fred (Misha Klein, 7 m)
-Nosy Bear (Fran Krause, 1.5 m)
-Bottle (Kirsten Lepore, 5.5 m)
-The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore (William Joyce and Brandon Oldenburg, 16 m)

Potiche (François Ozon, 103 m) - 4/13
Fanny, Annie, & Danny (Chris Brown, 82 m) - 4/14
Flexing Muscles (Charles Fairbanks, 24 m) - 4/14
mindFLUX (Ryan Kerrison, 55 m) - 4/14
Norman (Jonathan Segal, 97 m) - 4/15
The Troll Hunter (André Øvredal, 103 m) - 4/15

FFF Florida Shorts: The Best of Brouhaha - 4/16
-Bad Influences (Kate Emery, 16 m)
-A Coincidence of Shorts (Edgar Jorge, 7 m)
-No Soliciting (Bohdon Sayre, 2 m)
-Flip (Jill Hackett, 2 m)
-City of Murals (Ricky Rose, 13 m)
-A Dog Goes From Here to There (Carl Knickerbocker, 6 m)
-I'm In Love with Kimberly Johnson (Adam Johns, 9 m)
-Dilla (Stanley Moore, Michael Sauls, Michael Klim, and Dominic Pallotta, 3 m)
-Departure of Love (Jennifer Rae Bors, 3 m)
-After: The Kellie Green Story (Lavado Stubbs, 8.5 m)
-Underground (Akil Dupont, 19.5 m)

Square Grouper: The Godfathers of Ganja (Billy Corben, 100 m) - 4/16
Super (James Gunn, 96 m) - 4/16
The People vs George Lucas (Alexandre O. Phillippe, 93 m)


FFF Midnight Shorts - 4/16
-Sasquatch Birth Journal 2 (The Zellner Bros., 4 m)
-Showtajm: "Svante" (Lars Arrhenius and Daniel Westlund, 3 m)
-Enrique Wrecks the World (David Chai, 5 m)
-Deus Irae (Pedro Cristiani, 13.5 m)
-Snot Bubble Boy (John Derevlany, 2.5 m)
-LGFUAD (Kelsey Stark, 4.5 m)
-Cosmic Jungle (Marie Ayme, Martin Brunet, Alexander Cazals, Sébastien de Oliveira Bispo, Fabrice Fiteni, Mathieu Garcia, and Alexandre Vial, 5 m)
-The Legend of Beaver Dam (Jerome Sable, 11.5 m)
-Strindberg and Helium: "At the Beach" (Eun-Ha Paek, 2 m)
-Bunny Boy (Brandon Laganke, 5 m)
-Mouth Babies (Katherine Nolfi and Lisa Duva, 7 m)
-Showtajm: "Rock" (Lars Arrhenius and Daniel Westlund, 3 m)
-Dix (Bif, 7 m)
-Judas & Jesus (Olaf Encke and Claudia Romero, 15 m)

A Beautiful Belly (Andrew Kenneth Gay, 92 m) - 4/17
Meek's Cutoff (Kelly Reichardt, 102 m) - 4/17
Breakfast at Tiffany's (Blake Edwards, 115 m) - 4/17
Win Win (Thomas McCarthy, 106 m) - 4/21
Jane Eyre (Cary Fukunaga, 120 m) - 4/23

Inside Job (Charles Ferguson, 120 m) - 4/30

Date Night (Shawn Levy, 88 m) - 5/1
Youth in Revolt (Miguel Arteta, 90 m) - 5/1

Hanna (Joe Wright, 111 m) - 5/9

Hanna (Joe Wright, 111 m) - 5/15

Bridesmaids (Paul Feig, 125 m) - 5/16 

Tangled (Nathan Greno & Byron Howard, 100 m) - 6/3

Midnight in Paris (Woody Allen, 100 m) - 6/5
Cave of Forgotten Dreams 3-D (Werner Herzog, 90 m) - 6/9 
Duplicity (Tony Gilroy, 125 m) - 6/10
Super 8 (J.J. Abrams, 112 m) - 6/12

Hot Coffee (Susan Saladof, 88 m) - 7/2

Beginners (Mike Mills, 105 m) - 7/3
Beginners (Mike Mills, 105 m) - 7/8
Tree of Life (Terrence Malick, 139 m) - 7/10
Page One: Inside the New York Times (Andrew Rossi, 88 m) - 7/14
Buck (Cindy Meehl, 89 m) - 7/17

Crazy, Stupid, Love. (Glenn Ficara & John Requa, 118 m) - 7/31

Tabloid (Errol Morris, 87 m) - 8/8
Annie Hall (Woody Allen, 93 m) - 8/8
Dinner for Schmucks (Jay Roach, 114 m) - 8/16
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 (David Yates, 130 m) - 8/24
The Help (Tate Taylor, 146 m) - 8/25
30 Minutes or Less (Ruben Fleischer, 83 m) - 8/25
One Day (Lone Scherfig, 107 m) - 8/29

The Future (Miranda July, 91 m) - 9/7
Crazy, Stupid, Love. (Glenn Ficara & John Requa, 118 m) - 9/12

Drive (Nicolas Winding Refn, 100 m) - 10/5
Moneyball (Bennett Miller, 133 m) - 10/13
The Ides of March (George Clooney, 101 m) - 10/14
Contagion (Steven Soderbergh, 106 m) - 10/17
Weekend (Andrew Haigh, 97 m) - 10/23
Martha Marcy May Marlene (Sean Durkin, 120 m) - 10/23
50/50 (Jonathan Levine, 100 m) - 10/29

Take Shelter (Jeff Nichols, 120 m) - 11/5
In Time (Andrew Niccol, 109 m) - 11/8
Cedar Rapids (Miguel Arteta, 87 m) - 11/15
Submarine (Richard Ayoade, 97 m) - 11/16
X Men: First Class (Matthew Vaughn, 132 m) - 11/23
Beats, Rhymes, & Life: The Travels of A Tribe Called Quest (Michael Rapaport, 97 m) - 11/27
Do Not Disturb (Ralph Levy, 102 m) - 11/28
The Descendants (Alexander Payne, 115 m) - 11/29
The Skin I Live In (Pedro Almodóvar, 117 m) - 11/30
Captain America: The First Avenger (Joe Johnson, 124 m) - 11/30


Like Crazy (Drake Doremus, 90 m) - 12/2
The Muppets (James Bobin, 98 m) - 12/2
My Week With Marilyn (Simon Curtis, 99 m) - 12/5
Source Code (Duncan Jones, 93 m) - 12/5
Hugo (Martin Scorsese, 126 m) - 12/6
Into the Abyss (Werner Herzog, 107 m) - 12/8
My Idiot Brother (Jesse Peretz, 90 m) - 12/8
Desk Set (Walter Lang, 103 m) - 12/15
Attack the Block (Joe Cornish, 88 m) - 12/19
Young Adult (Jason Reitman, 94 m) - 12/21
Thor (Kenneth Branagh, 115 m) - 12/23
The Artist (Michel Hazanavicius, 100 m) - 12/27
Warrior (Gavin O'Connor, 140 m) - 12/28