Top 25 Movies I meant to see:
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Sound and Fury
dir. by Josh Aronson |
(rating: 9.4) Documentary on surgery that lets the deaf hear |
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Yi Yi (A One and a Two)
dir. by Edward Yang |
(rating: 9.4) Taiwanese, won Best Director at Cannes |
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The Wind Will Carry Us [Orig. title "Bad ma ra khahad bord"] (maybe)
dir. by Abbas Kiarostami |
(rating: 8.9) "an abstract plot, which is mostly symbolic" -Yahoo! |
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Mr. Death: The Rise and Fall of Fred A. Leuchter Jr.
dir. by Errol Morris |
(rating: 8.9) About a holocaust denier |
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A Time For Drunken Horses (Zamani barayé masti asbha)
dir. by Bahman Ghobadi |
(rating: 8.6) About Iranian Kurds |
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Dark Days
dir. by Marc Singer |
(rating: 8.5) Documentary on homeless people in the NYC subway tunnels |
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George Washington
dir. by David Gordon Green |
(rating: 8.5) "essentially plotless but lively and inviting nonetheless" - Elvis Mitchell, NYT |
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I'm the One That I Want
dir. by Lionel Coleman |
(rating: 8.4) Margaret Cho talks about herself |
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The Terrorist (Mali)
dir. by Santosh Sivan |
(rating: 8.4) In Hindustani, with subtitles |
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The Ballad of Ramblin' Jack
dir. by Aiyana Elliott |
(rating: 8.3) About Ramblin' Jack Elliott |
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Into the Arms of Strangers: Stories of the Kindertransport
dir. by Mark Jonathan Harris |
(rating: 8.3) |
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Calle 54
dir. by Fernando Trueba |
(rating: 8.2) A tribute to Latin jazz in the US - "shivers of joy" -Elvis Mitchell, NYT |
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Animal Factory (maybe)
dir. by Steve Buscemi |
(rating: 8.2) EW gave it an A- |
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Grass (maybe)
dir. by Ron Mann |
(rating: 8.1) Documentary about the social history of marijuana, by director of Comic Book Confidential |
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Shower [Orig. title "Xizao"] (maybe)
dir. by Zhang Yang |
(rating: 8.1) "sweet but serious comedy" from China -NYT |
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Human Resources [Orig. title "Ressources humaines "] (maybe)
dir. by Laurent Cantet |
(rating: 8.1) About labor unrest in France, I think |
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Girl on the Bridge (La Fille Sur le Pont)
dir. by Patrice Leconte |
(rating: 8.0) By the director of Ridicule and Hairdresser's Husband |
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The Tao of Steve
dir. by Jenniphr Goodman |
(rating: 8.0) I heard some people liked it |
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Croupier
dir. by Mike Hodges |
(rating: 8.0) Might be good |
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The Virgin Suicides
dir. by Sofia Coppola |
(rating: 7.9) Pretty? |
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Aimee and Jaguar
dir. by Max Faberbock |
(rating: 7.7) Jewish lesbians in Nazi Germany |
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Nurse Betty (maybe)
dir. by Neil LaBute |
(rating: 7.7) Probably about misogyny |
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Requiem For a Dream (maybe)
dir. by Darren Aronofsky |
(rating: 6.1) "Pi" in color and about heroin |
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Dancer in the Dark (maybe)
dir. by Lars von Trier |
(rating: 5.5) Probably an unenjoyable film |
Worst ten movies I personally saw, 2000:
The Cell
The Cell
The Cell
The Cell
The Cell
The Cell
The Cell
The Cell
The Cell
...and "Hollow Man"
| Movies disqualified (not released in the first 355 days of 2000) | ||
|---|---|---|
| O Brother, Where Art Thou? | O Movie, Where Art Thou? Dec. 29 is way too late! | The Coen Brothers |
| Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon | will definitely see | Ang Lee |
| Traffic | could be good | Steven Soderbergh |
| Cast Away | could be a stinker | Robert Zemeckis |
| Snatch | should be a stinker | Guy Ritchie |
| Before Night Falls | ad is packed with praises | Julian Schnabel |
| State and Main | preview was hokey | David Mamet |
List of all movies seen, 2000: