Sycorax Pine's 2010 in film:
[Films from my 1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die Project are in bold]
Week 1 (January 1-7)
1) Vicky Christina Barcelona, dir. Woody Allen (USA/Spain, 2008) **
Week 2 (January 8-14)
2) If..., dir. Lindsay Anderson (UK, 1968) ***1/2
3) Cat Dancers, dir. Harris Fishman (USA, 2008) ***
[In Treatment Season 1]
Week 3 (January 15-21)
None! (For shame...)
Week 4 (January 22-28)
4) Kinsey, dir. Bill Condon (USA, 2004) **1/2
Week 5 (January 29-February 4)
5) The Warrior, dir. Asif Kapadia (UK/India, 2001) ***1/2
6) Spartacus, dir. Stanley Kubrick (USA, 1960) ***1/2
[True Blood Season 1]
Week 6 (February 5-11)
None! (Deepening shame...)
Week 7 (February 12-18)
None! (Into the abyss of regret...)
Week 8 (February 19-25)
8) Shoot the Piano Player, dir. François Truffaut (France, 1960) ***1/2
9) Inglourious Basterds, dir. Quentin Tarantino (USA, 2009) ***1/2
Week 9 (February 26-March 4)
10) Street Fight, dir. Marshall Curry (USA, 2005) ***1/2
12) The Hurt Locker, dir. Kathryn Bigelow (USA, 2008) ***
13) Avatar, dir. James Cameron (USA, 2009) ***
Week 10 (March 5-March 11)
14) Shakespeare in Love, dir. John Madden (USA, 1998) ****1/2
Week 11 (March 12-18)
15) Rescue Dawn, dir. Werner Herzog (Germany/USA, 2006) **1/2
16) Mondo Cane, dir. Paolo Cavara, Gualtiero Jacopetti, and Franco Prosperi(Italy, 1962) ***1/2
Week 12 (March 19-25)
17) New Moon, dir. Chris Weitz (USA, 2009) **1/2
Week 13 (March 26- April 1)
18) Fantastic Mr. Fox, dir. Wes Anderson (USA/UK, 2009) ****
19) Molière, dir. Laurent Tirard (France, 2007) **1/2
Week 14 (April 2-April 8)
20) The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, dir. David Fincher (USA, 2008) ***
21) If..., dir. Lindsay Anderson (UK, 1968) ****
22) Into the Wild, dir. Sean Penn (USA, 2007) ***1/2
Week 15 (April 9-15)
23) Seven Up!, dir. Paul Almond (UK, 1964) ***1/2
24) Seven plus Seven, dir. Michael Apted (UK, 1970) ***1/2
25) Aparajito, dir. Satyajit Ray (India, 1956) ****
26) Jules et Jim, dir. François Truffaut (France, 1962) ****
27) Sunshine Cleaning, dir. Christine Jeffs (USA, 2008) ***
Week 16 (April 16-22)
28) Surrogates, dir. Jonathan Mostow (USA, 2009) **
29) Up in the Air, dir. Jason Reitman (USA, 2009) ****
30) Precious, dir. Lee Daniels (USA, 2009) ***
31) Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, dir. David Yates (USA/UK, 2009) ***1/2
32) A collection of 2009/10 Oscar-nominated shorts, including Logorama (France, dir. François Alaux and Hervé de Crécy), French Roast (France, dir. Fabrice O. Joubert), and Miracle Fish (Australia, dir. Luke Doolan)
Week 17 (April 23-29)
33) Pather Panchali, dir. Satyajit Ray (India, 1955) ****
Week 18 (April 30-May 6)
None! (But let it be said that I did see lots of plays in these filmless weeks in London....)
Week 19 (May 7-13)
None!
Week 20 (May 14-20)
None!
Week 21 (May 21-27)
34) Shutter Island, dir. Martin Scorsese (USA, 2009) ***
35) The Last Station, dir. Michael Hoffman (USA/Germany, 2009) ***1/2
36) Wallace and Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit, dir. Nick Park and Steve Box (UK, 2005) ****
Week 22 (May 28-June 3)
37) Iron Man, dir. Jon Favreau (USA, 2008) **
38) District 9, dir. Neill Blomkamp (South Africa, 2009) ****
Week 23 (June 4-10)
39) Up, dir. Pete Docter (USA, 2009) ****
Week 24 (June 11-17)
40) The Raiders of the Lost Ark, dir. Steven Spielberg (USA, 1981) ***
41) Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, dir. Steven Spielberg (USA, 1984) **
Week 25 (June 18-24)
42) Cleo de 5 à 7 / Cleo from 5 to 7, dir. Agnès Varda (France, 1961) ****
43) Ponyo, dir. Hayao Miyazaki (Japan, 2008) **
Week 26 (June 25- July 1)
None! (I am just racking up a bigger and bigger film debt here.)
Week 27 (July 2-8)
Week 28 (July 9-15)
None!
Week 29 (July 16-22)
46) The Work of Director Anton Corbijn (Netherlands, various years) **
Week 30 (July 23-29)
47) Bigger than Life, dir. Nicholas Ray (USA, 1956) ****
48) The 400 Blows (Les 400 Coups), dir. François Truffaut (France, 1959) ***1/2
49) Dead Like Me: Life After Death, dir. Stephen Harek (USA, 2009) **
50) 9, dir. Shane Acker (USA, 2009) ***1/2
Week 31 (July 30-August 5)
51) Man on Wire, dir. James Marsh (UK, 2008) ****1/2
Week 32 (August 6-12)
52) Super Size Me, dir. Morgan Spurlock (USA, 2004) ***
53) Kiss me, Kate, dir. George Sidney (USA, 1953) ***
Week 33 (August 13-19)
54) It Happened One Night, dir. Frank Capra (USA, 1934) ***
55) Floating Weeds, dir. Yasujiro Ozu (Japan, 1958) ***1/2
[Avatar: The Last Airbender - Complete Series]
Week 34 (August 20-26)
56) The Virgin Spring, dir. Ingmar Bergman (Sweden, 1960) ****
57) From Here to Eternity, dir. Fred Zinneman (USA, 1953) ***
58) The Queen, dir. Stephen Frears (UK, 2006) ****
Week 35 (August 27-Sept 2)
59) Where the Wild Things Are, dir. Spike Jonze (USA, 2009) **1/2
60) Coco avant Chanel, dir. Anne Fontaine (France, 2009) ***1/2
Week 36 (Sept 3-9)
None. (Boo.)
Week 37 (Sept 10-16)
61) Fame, dir. Alan Parker (USA, 1980) ****
62) Julie and Julia, dir. Nora Ephron (USA, 2009) **1/2
63) The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, dir. John Ford (USA, 1962) ***1/2
Week 38 (Sept 17-23)
64) A Woman, a Gun, and a Noodle Shop, dir. Yimou Zhang (China, 2010) ***1/2
65) Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives, dir. Apichatpong Weerasethakul (Thailand, 2010) ***1/2
66) The Illusionist, dir. Sylvain Chomet (France, 2010) ****
67) Centurion, dir. Neil Marshall (UK, 2010) **1/2
68) A Screaming Man / Un Homme qui Cri, dir. Mahamat-Saleh Haroun (Chad, 2010) ***
69) Another Year, dir. Mike Leigh (UK, 2010) ***1/2
Week 39 (Sept 24-30)
70) Noises Off, dir. Peter Bogdanovich (USA, 1992) ****
71) Howl, dir. Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman (USA, 2010) ***1/2
Week 40 (Oct 1-7)
72) In Bruges, dir. Martin McDonagh (UK, 2008) ***1/2
73) Man of the West, dir. Anthony Mann (USA, 1958) ***1/2
74) Horror of Dracula, dir. Terence Fisher (UK, 1958) ***
75) Synecdoche, New York, dir. Charlie Kaufman (USA, 2008) ****
Week 41 (Oct 8-14)
None. (Birthday shenanigans = no time for movie-watching.)
Week 42 (Oct 15-21)
None. (Catching up on work that I ignored during birthday shenanigans = no time for movie-watching)
Week 43 (Oct 22-28)
76) The Social Network, dir. David Fincher (USA, 2010) ****
Week 44 (Oct 29-Nov 4)
77) Monkey Warfare, dir. Reginald Harkema (Canada, 2006) ***1/2
78) Zodiac, dir. David Fincher (USA, 2007) ***
79) Heaven can Wait, dir. Ernst Lubitsch (USA, 1943) ***
Week 45 (Nov 5-11)
80) 3-Iron, dir. Ki-duk Kim (Korea, 2004) ****
81) Hobson's Choice, dir. David Lean (UK, 1954) ****
82) The Browning Version, dir. Anthony Asquith (UK, 1951) ****1/2
Week 46 (Nov 12-18)
83) Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead, dir. Tom Stoppard (UK, 1990) ***1/2
Week I'm not entirely sure, such was my end of semester befuddlement
84) Step Up 3D, dir. Jon Chu (USA, 2010) **
85) Yankee Doodle Dandy, dir. Michael Curtiz (USA, 1942) ** (These last two films of the year formed quite the pair.)
Alas, I fell 15 films short of my goal this year. Maybe because I read 78 books more than I thought I would....
