Why This Is Hell

Catch up time

( XL: The Andromeda Strain (Robert Wise, 1971) )

( XLI: Jumper (Doug Liman, 2008) )

( XLII: Futureworld (Richard T. Heffron, 1976) )

( XLIII: Network (Sidney Lumet, 1976) )

( XLIV: Casino Royale (Val Guest, Ken Hughes, John Huston, Joseph McGrath, Robert Parrish, 1967) )

( XLV: Murder by Numbers (Barbette Schroeder, 2002) )

( XLVI: Pather Panchali (Song of the Little Road, Satyajit Ray, 1955) )

( XLVII: Coraline (Henry Selick, 2009) )

( XLVIII: In the Loop (Armando Ianucci, 2009) )

Totals: 48 - [Cinema: 14; DVD: 31; Television: 3]

( XXXV: Che Part Two - Guerilla (Steven Soderbergh, 2008) )

( XXXVI: Red Riding - Nighteen Eighty-Three (Anand Tucker, 2009) )

Blakes 7 doesn't count as I don't count tv seasons - but a spoilersome commentary here. I ended up rewatching Get Carter on Sunday night - but I missed a large chunk of the start so it won't count. I suspect it's in the top five British movies ever made - with A Cottage on Dartmoor, The Thirty Nine Steps, The Third Man, Brazil and Confessions of a Milkman.

( XXXVII: THX 1138 (George Lucas, 1971) )

( XXXVIII: Seven Chances (Buster Keaton, 1925) )

Totals: 38 - Cinema: 12; DVD: 23; Television: 3

I am slow this year, or slow so far.

( XXVIII: The Station Agent (Thomas McCarthy, 2003) )

( XXIX: Logan's Run (Michael Anderson, 1976) )

( XXX: Diamonds are Forever (Guy Hamilton, 1971) )


Totals: 30 - Cinema: 8; DVD: 20; Television: 2

I pondered about the first listing here - but it looks like they've had a festival release.

( XXIII: Red Riding - Nineteen Seventy-Four (Julian Jarrold, 2009) )

( XXIV: Watchmen (Zack Snyder, 2009) )

I note the trailer for Lesbian Vampire Killers - that's the strongest language I can recall in a trailer. Will it come out before the Corden/Horne backlash?

Edit - no, this started with the reviews of their tv show.

Totals: 24 - Cinema: 6; DVD: 17; Television: 1

XIX: The Believer (Henry Bean, 2001)

I think I ordered this after having a discussion with KV as to whether it was Ryan Reynolds or Ryan Gosling - you know, that startling young actor, makes a name in indie, has a mainstream hit, and becomes a whatever became of within five years. And, leaving Fracture to one side, and despite (apparently) The Nines I think it's Gosling.

Someone with a better knowledge of Judaism is likely to appreciate this film better than I - or maybe less than I - and it's going to have ( spoilers )

Totals: 19 - Cinema: 5; DVD: 14; Television: 0

I should, of course, be at the cinema today, watching three films. But I'm too behind to do so. Sigh. And a fortnight behind in writing them up.

( IX: Slumdog Millionaire (Danny Boyle and Loveleen Tandan, 2008) )
( X: Vals Im Bashir (Waltzing with Bashir; Ari Folman, 2008) )

( XI: The Quiet Man (John Ford, 1952) )

( XII: Ugetsu monogatari (Mizoguchi Kenji, 1953) )

( XIII: Solaris (Andrei Tarkovsky, 1972) )

( XIII: Invasion of the Body Snatchers (Don Siegel, 1956) )

A spoiler on this, I fear:
( XIV: The Lady Eve (Preston Sturges, 1941) )

( XV: De´tective (Jean-Luc Godard, 1985) )

( XVI: Solaris (Steven Soderbergh, 2002) )

( XVI: Stalker (Andrei Tarkovsky, 1979) )

Projected total: 127.

Totals: 16 - Cinema: 4; DVD: 12; Television: 0