2003 Film List
And here is our 2003 edition of the mighty list!
No rules, update whenever you can, (very important) see lots of films, and have oodles of fun. It's all good. Lemme know if you got any Q's. --JW
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Featured Reviews
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The Phantom of the Opera gets a great showcase on Blu-ray with this performance at the Royal Albert Hall last October, in honor of its 25th anniversary. Like last year’s Blu-ray of Les...
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After scoring as an international sensation and winning six 2011 Emmy Awards, Downton Abbey became last season’s most buzzed about new show (curiously, the first season won no major prizes in...
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Winning the Best Narrative Feature prize at the SXSW Film Festival and being called “the next Woody Allen” must be heady stuff indeed for young filmmaker Lena Dunham. In Tiny Furniture, she...
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When one hears the phrase “Japanese samurai movie,” naturally one’s thoughts immediately go to Akira Kurosawa who directed some of the finest ones ever made. But Hideo Gosha’s Three Outlaw...
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You’ve got to be a little bit suspicious when a movie you’ve never heard of featuring well known stars above and below the title makes an appearance on home video. Such a movie is Bart...
2003 Film List
2003 Film List
By Jason Whyte
Last Updated: January 1st, 2004
Criteria Used: USA/Canada Releases
New Section Added At Bottom: CAP Code Reports -
Films with offending copy protection code will now be reported at the bottom, and the printing lab. Deluxe is the spotty, tetris-shaped patterns, and Technicolor is the more spaced code. I will also post on a scale out of 10 how much this ticked off yours truly while viewing the film. Click HERE for more information. This will be brought into full swing on the 2004 Film List.
Eligible To Date Count: 224
2002 Film List Continued Count: 13 (Add to 224 seen in 2002)
Short Subject Count: 12
Cable/TV Count: 3
No Distribution/Festival Count/Theatrical Reissues: 51
First Time Count: 72
Total To Date Seen: 355
NOTE: Please try to disregard the problems with this list for the time being. I'm working on repairs.
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List By Title
Title/Out of ****/Country/Aspect Ratio/Running Time/Director
Agent Cody Banks / *½ / United States / 2.39:1 / 101 min. / Harald Zwart
Alex & Emma / *½ / United States / 1.85:1 / 97 min. / Rob Reiner
All The Real Girls / **** / United States / 2.39:1 / 108 min. / David Gordon Green
Amandla! A Revolution In Four Part Harmony / *** / South America / 1.85:1 / 104 min. / Lee Hirsch
American Splendor / ***½ / United States / 1.85:1 / 101 min. / Shari Springer Berman & Robert Pulcini
American Wedding / *** / United States / 2.39:1 / 96 min. / Jesse Dylan
Anger Management / ** / United States / 2.39:1 / 106 min. / Peter Segal
Anything But Love (Standard Time) / *** / United States / 1.85:1 / 100 min. / Robert Cary
Anything Else / *** / United States / 2.39:1 / 108 min. / Woody Allen
At Five In The Afternoon (Panj E Asr) / ***½ / Iran / 1.85:1 / 106 min. / Samira Makhmalbaf
L'Auberge espagnole (The Spanish Apartment) / ** / France / 1.85:1 / 122 min. / Cedric Klapisch
Bad Boys 2 / ZERO / United States / 2.39:1 / 147 min. / Michael Bay
Bad Santa / *** / United States / 1.85:1 / 92 min. / Terry Zwigoff
The Barbarian Invasions (Les Invasions barbares) / **** / Canada / 2.39:1 / 98 min. / Denys Arcand
Basic / ** / United States / 2.39:1 / 98 min. / John McTiernan
Bend It Like Beckham / *** / United Kingdom, India / 1.85:1 / 110 min. / Gurinder Chadha
Better Luck Tomorrow / ***½ / United States / 1.85:1 / 99 min. / Justin Lin
Beyond Borders / ** / United States / 2.39:1 / 128 min. / Martin Campbell
Big Fish / *** / United States / 1.85:1 / 124 min. / Tim Burton
Blue Car / *** / United States / 1.85:1 / 87 min. / Karen Moncrieff
Boat Trip / ½ / United States / 1.85:1 / 92 min. / Mort Nathan
Bringing Down The House / *½ / United States / 2.39:1 / 105 min. / Adam Shankman
Broken Wings (Knafayim Shvurot) / *** / Isreal / 1.85:1 / 83 min. / Nir Bergman
Brother Bear / *** / United States / 2.39:1 / 85 min. / Aaron Blaise & Bob Walker
Bruce Almighty / *** / United States / 1.85:1 / 101 min. / Tom Shadyac
Buffalo Soldiers / *** / United States / 2.39:1 / 98 min. / Gregor Jordan
Bug / *** / United States / 1.85:1 / 85 min. / Phil Hay & Matt Manfredi
Bulletproof Monk / **½ / United States / 2.39:1 / 104 min. / Paul Hunter
Bus 174 (Ônibus 174) / ***½ / Brazil / 1.85:1 / 119 min. / Jose Padilha
Cabin Fever / *** / United States / 2.39:1 / 92 min. / Eli Roth
Calendar Girls / *** / United Kingdom / 2.39:1 / 104 min. / Nigel Cole
Camp / ** / United States / 1.85:1 / 110 min. / Todd Graff
Capturing The Friedmans / *** / 1.85:1 / 108 min. / Andrew Jareki
The Cat in the Hat / * / United States / 1.85:1 / 81 min. / Bo Welch
Charlie's Angels - Full Throttle / **½ / United States / 2.39:1 / 106 min. / McG Burger
Charlotte Sometimes / ** / United States / 1.85:1 / 85 min. / Eric Byler
Cheaper By The Dozen / * / United States / 1.85:1 / 97 min. / Shawn Levy
City Of God (Cidade de Deus) / ***½ / Brazil / 1.85:1 / 130 min. / Fernando Meirelles
Cold Mountain / **½ / United States / 2.39:1 / 155 min. / Anthony Minghella
Confidence / ** / United States / 2.39:1 / 97 min. / James Foley
The Cooler / *** / United States / 2.39:1 / 102 min. / Wayne Kramer
The Core / **½ / Center of Earth / 2.39:1 / 132 min. / Jon Amiel
Cowards Bend The Knee / ***½ / Canada / 1.37:1 / 64 min. / Guy Maddin
Cradle 2 Tha Grave / ** / United States / 2.39:1 / 101 min. / Andrej Bartkowiak
The Cuckoo (Kukushka) / *** / Russia / 1.85:1 / 101 min. / Aleksandr Rogozhkin
Daddy Day Care / ½ / United States / 1.85:1 / 93 min. / Steven Carr
The Dancer Upstairs / *** / Spain / 1.85:1 / 133 min. / John Malkovich
Daredevil / *½ / United States / 2.39:1 / 103 min. / Mark Steven Johnson
Dark Blue / ** / United States / 2.39:1 / 118 min. / Ron Shelton
Darkness Falls / * / United States / 2.39:1 / 75 min. / Jonathan Liebesman
A Decade Under The Influence / *** / United States / 1.85:1 / 138 min. / Ted Demme & Richard LaGravenese
Dickie Roberts: Former Child Star / ** / United States / 2.39:1 / 98 min. / Sam Weisman
Dirty Pretty Things / *½ / United Kingdom / 1.85:1 / 97 min. / Stephen Frears
Divine Intervention (Yadon ilaheyya) / *** / Palestine / 1.85:1 / 94 min. / Elia Suleiman
Le Divorce / ** / France / 2.39:1 / 118 min. / James Ivory
Dogville / **** / Denmark / 2.39:1 / 178 min. / Lars von Trier (TBA 2004)
Down With Love / ***½ / United States / 2.39:1 / 102 min. / Peyton Reed
Dracula: Pages From A Virgin's Diary / ***½ / Canada / 1.85:1 / 74 min. / Guy Maddin
Dreamcatcher / ZERO / United States / 2.39:1 / 134 min. / Lawrence Kasdan
Dumb and Dumberer: When Harry Met Lloyd / ½ / United States / 1.85:1 / 84 min. / Troy Miller
Dysfunktional Family / ** / United States / 1.85:1 / 85 min. / George Gallo
Elephant / **** / United States / 1.37:1 / 80 min. / Gus Van Sant
Elf / **½ / United States / 1.85:1 / 96 min. / Jon Favreau
The Event / *** / Canada / 1.85:1 / 109 min. / Thom Fitzgerald
Expecting / ***½ / Canada / 1.85:1 / 92 min. / Deborah Day
The Eye (Jian gui) / *** / Hong Kong / 1.85:1 / 102 min. / Danny and Oxide Pang
Falling Angels / ** / Canada / 1.85:1 / 107 min. / Scott Smith
The Far Side of the Moon / * / Canada / 1.85:1 / 108 min. / Robert LePage
Final Destination 2 / *½ / United States / 1.85:1 / 91 min. / David R. Ellis
Finding Nemo / ***½ / United States / 1.85:1 / 100 min. / Andrew Stanton
Fix: The Story of an Addicted City / ** / Canada / 1.85:1 / 96 min. / Nette Wild
Flower & Garnet / ** / Canada / 1.85:1 / 103 min. / Keith Bernham
The Fog of War / ***½ / United States / 1.85:1 / 106 min. / Errol Morris
Freaky Friday / *** / United States / 1.85:1 / 96 min. / Mark S. Waters
Freddy Vs. Jason / ** / United States / 2.39:1 / 97 min. / Ronny Yu
From Justin To Kelly / ZERO / United States / 1.85:1 / (Bill and I walked out at) 54 min. / Robert Iscove
Garage Days / *** / Australia / 1.85:1 / 106 min. / Alex Proyas
Gerry / **** / United States / 2.39:1 / 104 min. / Gus Van Sant
Gigli / ** / United States / 2.39:1 / 124 min. / Martin Brest
Girl With A Pearl Earring / **½ / United Kingdom / 2.39:1 / 101 min. / Peter Webber
Gods and Generals / * / United States / 2.39:1 / Too Long / Ron Maxwell
The Good Thief / *** / United Kingdom / 1.85:1 / 104 min. / Neil Jordan
Gothika / ** / United States / 1.85:1 / 98 min. / Matthieu Kassovitz
Grind / *½ / United States / 1.85:1 / 103 min. / Casey La Scala
A Guy Thing / ½ / United States / 1.85:1 / 102 min. / Chris Koch
The Guru / * / United States / 1.85:1 / 97 min. / Daisy von Scherler Mayer
Head of State / *½ / United States / 1.85:1 / 92 min. / Chris Rock III
The Heart Of Me / *** / United Kingdom / 1.85:1 / 95 min. / Thaddeus O'Sullivan
He Loves Me... He Loves Me Not (A 'la folie... pas du tout) / *** / France / 1.85:1 / 96 min. / Laetitia Colombani
Hero (Ying xiong) / ***½ / Hong Kong / 2.39:1 / 92 min. / Zhang Yimou
Hollywood Homicide / *½ / United States / 2.39:1 / 117 min. / Ron Shelton
The Housekeeper (Une femme de menage) / *½ / France / 2.39:1 / 91 min. / Claude Berri
House of 1000 Corpses / * / United States / 1.85:1 / 88 min. / Rob Zombie
House of Sand and Fog / *** / United States / 1.85:1 / 126 min. / Vadim Perelman
How To Deal / * / United States / 1.85:1 / 99 min. / Claire Kilner
How To Lose A Guy In 10 Days / ** / United States / 1.85:1 / 111 min. / Donald Petrie
The Hulk / ***½ / United States / 1.85:1 / 138 min. / Ang Lee
The Human Stain / **½ / United States / 2.39:1 / 106 min. / Robert Benton
The Hunted / *½ / United States / 1.85:1 / 94 min. / William Friedkin
I Capture The Castle / **½ / United Kingdom / 2.39:1 / 112 min. / Tim Fywell
Ichi the Killer (Koroshiya 1) / *** / Japan / 1.85:1 / 104 min. / Takashi Miike
Identity / ** / United States / 2.39:1 / 91 min. / James Mangold
In America / *** / United States / 1.85:1 / 104 min. / Jim Sheridan
The In-Laws / ** / United States / 1.85:1 / 96 min. / Andrew Fleming
Intolerable Cruelty / ***½ / United States / 1.85:1 / 100 min. / Joel Coen
Irréversible / **** / France / 2.39:1 / 98 min. / Gaspar Noé
The Italian Job / *** / United States / 2.39:1 / 110 min. / F. Gary Gray
Johnny English / **½ / United Kingdom / 1.85:1 / 87 min. / Peter Howitt
Just Married / * / United States / 1.85:1 / 95 min. / Shawn Levy
Kangaroo Jack / * / United States / 2.39:1 / 89 min. / David McNally
Ken Park / **½ / United States / 1.85:1 / 95 min. / Larry Clark & Ed Lachman
Kill Bill: Volume 1 / **** / United States / 2.39:1 / 109 min. / Quentin Tarantino
The Last Samurai / ***½ / United States / 2.39:1 / 154 min. / Edward Zwick
Laurel Canyon / **½ / United States / 1.85:1 / 102 min. / Lisa Cholodenko
The League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen / * / United States / 2.39:1 / 110 min. / Stephen Norrington
Legally Blonde 2: Red, White and Blonde / *½ / United States / 1.85:1 / 94 min. / Charles Hermann-Wurmfeld
Leo / *** / United States / 2.39:1 / 103 min. / Mehdi Norowzian
The Life of David Gale / * / United States / 2.39:1 / 130 min. / Alan Parker
Lilya 4-Ever (Lilja 4-ever) / *** / Sweden / 1.85:1 / 108 min. / Lukas Moodysson
The Lizzie McGuire Movie / *½ / United States / 2.39:1 / 92 min. / Jim Fall
Looney Tunes: Back in Action / *** / United States / 2.39:1 / 92 min. / Joe Dante
The Lord Of The Rings: The Return Of The King / **** / United States / 2.39:1 / 201 min. / Peter Jackson
Lost in La Mancha / *** / United States / 1.33:1 / 89 min. / Keith Fulton, Louis Pepe
Lost in Translation / **** / United States / 1.85:1 / 102 min. / Sofia Coppola
Love Actually / **** / United Kingdom / 2.39:1 / 132 min. / Richard Curtis
The Magdalene Sisters / *** / Ireland / 1.85:1 / 119 min. / Peter Mulland
Malibu's Most Wanted / * / United States / 2.39:1 / 86 min. / John Whitesell
A Man Apart / *½ / United States / 2.39:1 / 109 min. / F. Gary Gray
The Man on the Train (L'homme du train) / **½ / France / 2.39:1 / 88 min. / Patrice Leconte
The Man Without a Past, The (Mies vailla menneisyytta / ** / Finland / 1.85:1 / 97 min. / Aki Kaurism?i
Marion Bridge / **½ / Canada / 1.85:1 / 91 min. / Wiebke von Carolsfeld
Master and Commander: The Far Side Of The World / **** / United States / 2.39:1 / 139 min. / Peter Weir
Matchstick Men / *** / United States / 2.39:1 / 116 min. / Sir Ridley Scott
The Matrix Reloaded / **½ / United States / 2.39:1 / 138 min. / Andy and Larry Wachowski
The Matrix Revolutions / *½ / United States / 2.39:1 / 130 min. / Andy and Larry Wachowski
May / *** / United States / 1.85:1 / 93 min. / Lucky McKee
The Medallion / ** / Hong Kong / 2.39:1 / 89 min. / Gordon Chan
A Mighty Wind / *** / United States / 1.85:1 / 91 min. / Christopher Guest
The Missing / ** / United States / 2.39:1 / 138 min. / Opie Cunningham
Mona Lisa Smile / *½ / United States / 1.85:1 / 119 min. / Mike Newell
Monster / ** / United States / 1.85:1 / 109 min. / Patty Jenkins
Moving Malcolm / **½ / Canada / 1.85:1 / 84 min. / Benjamin Ratner
My Boss's Daughter / *½ / United States / 1.85:1 / 86 min. / David Zucker
My Life Without Me / **½ / Canada / 1.85:1 / 100 min. / Isabel Coixet
Mystic River / ***½ / United States / 2.39:1 / 138 min. / Clint Eastwood
National Security / **½ / United States / 1.85:1 / 88 min. / Dennis Dugan
Northfork / ***½ / United States / 2.39:1 / 101 min. / Michael Polish
Nowhere in Africa (Nirgendwo in Afrika) / *** / Germany / 2.39:1 / 138 min. / Caroline Link
Old School / *½ / United States / 2.39:1 / 91 min. / Todd Phillips
Once Upon a Time in Mexico / **½ / United States / 2.39:1 / 102 min. / Robert Rodriguez
Open Range / ***½ / United States / 2.39:1 / 139 min. / Kevin Costner
The Order / * / United States / 1.85:1 (from Super 35) / 102 min. / Brian Helgeland
Out Of Time / *** / United States / 2.39:1 / 106 min. / Carl Franklin
Owning Mahowny / ***½ / Canada / 2.39:1 / 104 min. / Richard Kwietniowski
Party Monster / **½ / United States / 1.85:1 / 98 min. / Fenton Bailey & Randy Barbato
People I Know / ** / United States / 1.85:1 / 101 min. / Dan Algrant
Peter Pan / *** / United States / 2.39:1 / 114 min. / P.J. Hogan
Phone Booth / *** / United States / 2.39:1 / 82 min. / Joel Schumacher
Pieces Of April / **½ / United States / 1.85:1 / 81 min. / Peter Hedges
Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl / *** / United States / 2.39:1 / 143 min. / Gore Verbinski
Prisoner of Paradise / *** / Canada / 1.85:1 / 98 min. / Malcolm Clarke & Stuart Sender
A Problem With Fear or: Laurie's Anxiety With Confronting The Escalator / *** / Canada / 2.39:1 / 94 min / Gary Burns
Punch / *½ / Canada / 1.85:1 / 89 min. / Guy Bennett
Raising Victor Vargas / ***½ / United States / 1.85:1 / 88 min. / Peter Sollett
The Real Cancun / * / United States / 1.85:1 / 96 min. / Rick DeOliviera
The Recruit / *½ / United States / 2.39:1 / 115 min. / Roger Donaldson
Rugrats Go Wild / **½ / United States / 2.39:1 / 81 min. / John Eng & Norton Virgien
Runaway Jury / *** / United States / 2.39:1 / 128 min. / Gary Fleder
The Rundown / *** / United States / 2.39:1 / 101 min. / Peter Berg
The Saddest Music in the World / ***½ / Canada / 1.85:1 / 98 min. / Guy Maddin
The Safety Of Objects / **½ / United States / 2.39:1 / 121 min. / Rose Troche
Scary Movie 3 / *½ / United States / 81 min. / David Zucker
The School of Rock / *** / United States / 1.85:1 / 109 min. / Richard Linklater
Seabiscuit / ** / United States / 2.39:1 / 140 min. / Gary Ross
The Secret Lives of Dentists / *** / United States / 1.85:1 / 106 min. / Alan Rudolph
Shanghai Knights / ** / United States / 2.39:1 / 114 min. / David Dobkin
Shaolin Soccer (Siu lam juk kau) / *** / Hong Kong / 1.85:1 / 102 min. / Lee Lik Chi & Stephen Chow
The Shape Of Things / **½ / United States / 2.39:1 / 97 min. / Neil Labute
Shattered Glass / ***½ / United States / 2.39:1 / 95 min. / Billy Ray
Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas / **½ / 1.85:1 / 87 min. / Patrick Gilmore & Tim Johnson
The Singing Detective / *** / United States / 1.85:1 / 110 min. / Keith Gordon
Slap Her, She's French / * / United States / 1.85:1 / 89 min. / Melanie Mayron
The Snow Walker / *** / Canada / 2.39:1 / 106 min. / Charles Martin Smith
Something's Gotta Give / *** / United States / 1.85:1 / 128 min. / Nancy Meyers
The Son (Le Fils) / ***½ / Belgium / 1.85:1 / 104 min. / Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne
Spellbound / ***½ / United States / 1.33:1 / 94 min. / Jeffery Blitz
Spun / ** / United States / 1.85:1 / 101 min. / Jonas Akerlund
Spy Kids 3D: Game Over / * / United States / 1.85:1 / 84 min. / Robert Rodriguez
The Statement / ** / Canada / 1.85:1 / 119 min. / Norman Jewison
The Station Agent / ***½ / United States / 1.85:1 / 88 min. / Tom McCarthy
Steal (Riders) / * / Canada / 2.39:1 / 79 min. / Gerard Pires
Step Into Liquid / *** / United States / 1.85:1 / 88 min. / Dana Brown
Stuck On You / ***½ / United States / 2.39:1 / 119 min. / Bobby and Peter Farelly
S.W.A.T. / *½ / United States / 2.39:1 / 118 min. / Clark Johnson
Sweet Sixteen / *** / United Kingdom / 1.85:1 / 106 min. / Ken Loach
Swimming Pool / *** / France / 1.85:1 / 102 min. / Fran?is Ozon
Sylvia / *** / United Kingdom / 2.39:1 / 114 min. / Christine Jeffs
Tears of the Sun / ** / United States / 2.39:1 / 121 min. / Antoine Fuqua
Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines / *** / United States / 2.39:1 / 109 min. / Jonathan Mostow
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre / * / United States / 1.85:1 / 98 min. / Marcus Nispel
Thirteen / ***½ / United States / 1.85:1 / 98 min. / Catherine Hardwick
Timeline / * / United States / 2.39:1 / 117 min. / Richard Donner
To Be and To Have (Et're et avoir) / ***½ / France / 1.85:1 / 104 min. / Nicolas Philibert
Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life / *** / United States / 2.39:1 / 116 min. / Jan de Bont
The Triplettes of Belleville (Les triplettes de Belleville) / ***½ / France / 1.85:1 / 80 min. / Sylvain Chomet
28 Days Later / ** / United Kingdom / 1.85:1 / 112 min. / Danny Boyle
21 Grams / **** / United States / 1.85:1 / 124 min. / Alejandro González Iñárritu
2 Fast 2 Furious / *** / United States / 2.39:1 / 108 min. / John Singelton
Under The Tuscan Sun / ** / United States / 1.85:1 / 112 min. / Audrey Wells
Underworld / *** / United States / 2.39:1 / 121 min. / Len Wiseman
Uptown Girls / **½ / United States / 1.85:1 / 93 min. / Boaz Yakin
View From The Top / ** / United States / 2.39:1 / 87 min. / Bruno Baretto
Volcano High (Whasango) / *** / South Korea / 1.85:1 / 98 min. / Tae-gyun Kim
Whale Rider / ***½ / New Zealand / 2.39:1 / 102 min. / Niki Caro
What A Girl Wants / *½ / United States / 2.39:1 / 104 min. / Dennie "Op" Gordon
Wilbur Wants To Kill Himself / *** / Denmark / 2.39:1 / 106 min. / Lone Scherfig
Willard / **½ / United States / 2.39:1 / 99 min. / Glen Morgan
Winged Migration (Le peuple migrateur) / *** / France / 1.85:1 / 89 min. / Jacques Perrin
Wonderland / ** / United States / 1.85:1 / 104 min. / James Cox
Wrong Turn / ** / Canada / 1.85:1 / 84 min. / Rob Schmidt
X2 / ***½ / United States / 2.39:1 / 134 min. / Bryan Singer
xx/xy / *** / United States / 1.85:1 / 91 min. / Austin Chick
Zero Day / ***½ / United States / 1.37:1 / 92 min. / Ben Coccio
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List By Rating
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Irréversible (90)
Kill Bill: Volume 1 (92)
The Lord Of The Rings: The Return Of The King (92)
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All The Real Girls (85)
The Barbarian Invasions (Les Invasions barbares) (85)
Elephant (87)
Gerry (84)
Lost in Translation (88)
Love Actually (81)
Master and Commander: The Far Side Of The World (82)
21 Grams(88)
***½
American Splendor (72)
At Five In The Afternoon (Panj E Asr) (70)
Better Luck Tomorrow (71)
Bus 174 (Ônibus 174) (75)
City Of God (Cidade de Deus) (79)
Cowards Bend The Knee (76)
Down With Love (79)
Dracula: Pages From A Virgin's Diary (79)
Expecting (70)
Finding Nemo (70)
The Fog Of War (78)
Hero (Ying xiong) (75)
The Hulk (73)
Intolerable Cruelty (76)
The Last Samurai (77)
Mystic River (74)
Northfork (72)
Open Range (73)
Owning Mahowny (71)
Raising Victor Vargas (74)
The Saddest Music in the World (77)
Shattered Glass (71)
The Son (Le Fils) (75)
Spellbound (77)
The Station Agent (73)
Stuck On You (74)
Thirteen (77)
To Be and To Have (Et're et avoir) (70)
The Triplettes of Belleville (Les triplettes de Belleville) (78)
Whale Rider (77)
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Zero Day(74)
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Amandla! A Revolution In Four Part Harmony
American Wedding
Anything But Love (Standard Time)
Anything Else
Bad Santa
Bend It Like Beckham
Big Fish
Blue Car
Broken Wings (Knafayim Shvurot)
Brother Bear
Bruce Almighty
Buffalo Soldiers
Bug
Cabin Fever
Calendar Girls
Capturing The Friedmans
The Cooler
The Cuckoo (Kukushka)
The Dancer Upstairs
A Deacde Under The Influence
Divine Intervention (Yadon ilaheyya)
The Event
The Eye (Jian gui)
Freaky Friday
Garage Days
The Good Thief
The Heart Of Me
He Loves Me... He Loves Me Not (A la folie... pas du tout)
House of Sand and Fog
Ichi the Killer (Koroshiya 1)
In America
The Italian Job
Leo
Lilya 4-Ever (Lilja 4-ever)
Looney Tunes: Back in Action
Lost in La Mancha
The Magdalene Sisters
Matchstick Men
May
A Mighty Wind
Nowhere in Africa (Nirgendwo in Afrika)
Out Of Time
Peter Pan
Phone Booth
Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl
Prisoner of Paradise
A Problem With Fear or: Laurie's Anxiety With Confronting The Escalator
Runaway Jury
The Rundown
The School of Rock
The Secret Lives of Dentists
Shaolin Soccer (Siu lam juk kau)
The Singing Detective
The Snow Walker
Something's Gotta Give
Step Into Liquid
Sweet Sixteen
Swimming Pool
Sylvia
Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines
Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life
2 Fast 2 Furious
Underworld
Volcano High (Whasango)
Wilbur Wants To Kill Himself
Winged Migration (Le peuple migrateur)
xx/xy
**½
Bulletproof Monk
Charlie's Angels - Full Throttle
I Capture The Castle
Cold Mountain
The Core
Elf
Girl With A Pearl Earring
The Human Stain
Johnny English
Ken Park
Laurel Canyon
The Man on the Train (L'homme du train)
Marion Bridge
The Matrix Reloaded
Moving Malcolm
My Life Without Me
National Security
Once Upon A Time In Mexico
Party Monster
Pieces Of April
Rugrats Go Wild
The Safety Of Objects
The Shape Of Things
Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas
Uptown Girls
Willard
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Anger Management
L'Auberge espagnole (The Spanish Apartment)
Basic
Camp
Charlotte Sometimes
Confidence
Cradle 2 Tha Grave
Dark Blue
Dickie Roberts: Former Child Star
Le Divorce
Dysfunktional Family
Falling Angels
Fix: The Story of an Addicted City
Flower & Garnet
Freddy vs. Jason
Gigli
Gothika
How To Lose A Guy In 10 Days
Identity
The In-Laws
The Man Without a Past (Mies vailla menneisyytta)
The Medallion
The Missing
Monster
People I Know
Seabiscuit
Shanghai Knights
Spun
The Statement
Tears of the Sun
28 Days Later
Under The Tuscan Sun
View From The Top
Wonderland
Wrong Turn
*½
Agent Cody Banks
Alex & Emma
Bringing Down The House
Daredevil
Dirty Pretty Things
Final Destination 2
Grind
Head of State
Hollywood Homicide
The Housekeeper (Une femme de menage)
The Hunted
Legally Blonde 2: Red, White and Blonde
The Lizzie McGuire Movie
A Man Apart
The Matrix Revolutions
Mona Lisa Smile
My Boss's Daughter
Old School
Punch
The Recruit
Scary Movie 3
S.W.A.T.
What A Girl Wants
*
The Cat in the Hat
Cheaper By The Dozen
Darkness Falls
The Far Side of the Moon
Gods and Generals
The Guru
Just Married
House of 1000 Corpses
How To Deal
Kangaroo Jack
The League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen
The Life of David Gale
Malibu's Most Wanted
The Order
The Real Cancun
Slap Her, She's French
Spy Kids 3D: Game Over
Steal (Riders)
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre
Timeline
½
Boat Trip
Daddy Day Care
Dumb and Dumberer: When Harry Met Lloyd
A Guy Thing
ZERO
Bad Boys II
Dreamcatcher
From Justin To Kelly
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Top and Bottom 10 of 2003...The "So Far" Edition.
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Theatrical Reissues & Films With No Distribution As Of Yet: (these do not count towards 2003 Film Count)
Theatrical Reissues:
Alien: The Director's Cut / **** / United States / 2.39:1 / 117 min. / Sir Ridley Scott
The Lord Of The Rings: The Fellowship Of The Ring Extended Edition / **** / United States / 2.39:1 / 208 min. / Peter Jackson
The Lord Of The Rings: The Two Towers Extended Edition / **** / United States / 2.39:1 / 214 min. / Peter Jackson
No Distributor:
Dogville / **** / Denmark / 2.39:1 / 178 min. / Lars von Trier (TBA 2004)
Vancouver Film Festival Titles:
Aileen: Life and Death of a Serial Killer / *** / United States / 1.33:1 / 89 min. / Nick Bloomfield & Joan Churchill
All Tomorrow's Parties (Mingri Tianya) / **½ / Hong Kong / 1.85:1 / 96 min. / Yu Lik Wai
Any Way The Wind Blows / **½ / Belgium / 2.39:1 / 126 min. / Tom Barman
Bastards / ** / Canada / 1.37:1 / 98 min. / Mort Ransen
A Boy's Life / **½ / United States / 1.37:1 / 77 min. / Rory Kennedy
Common Ground (Lugares comunes) / *** / Argentina / 1.85:1 / 109 min. / Adolfo Aristarian
The Day of the Wacko (Dzien swira) / *** / Poland / 1.85:1 / 93 min. / Marek Koterski
The Death of Klinghoffer / *** / United Kingdom / 1.85:1 / 119 min. / Penny Woolcock
Deep Breath (Nafas-e amigh) / ** / Iran / 1.85:1 / 84 min. / Parviz Shahbazi
The Delicate Art of Parking / *** / Canada / 1.85:1 / 87 min. / Trent Carlson
Dissonances / ** / 1.85:1 / 106 min. / Jerome Cornuau
Distant (Uzak) / **** / Turkey / 1.85:1 / 110 min. / Nuri Bilge Ceylan
El Alamein (El Alamein: The Line of Fire) / *** / Italy / 2.39:1 / 118 min. / Enzo Montoleone
Emile / *** / Canada / 1.85:1 / 102 min. / Carl Bessai (TBA 2004)
Evil (Ondskan) / ** / Sweden / 1.85:1 / 114 min. / Mikael Hafstrom
Father and Son (Otets i syn) / *** / Russia / 1.85:1 / 84 min. / Alexander Sokurov
The Fuse (Gori Vatra) / **½ / Bosnia / 1.85:1 / 105 min. / Pjer Zalica
Go Further / *** / United States / 1.85:1 / 80 min. / Ron Mann
Goodbye Dragon Inn (Bu san) / ***½ / Taiwan / 1.85:1 / 81 min. / Tsai-Ming Liang
Gozu (Gokudo Kyofu Daigekijo: Gozu) / *** / Japan / 1.85:1 / 129 min. / Takashi Miike
Grimm / **½ / Netherlands / 1.85:1 / 102 min. / Alex van Warmerdam
1/2 the rent (1/2 Miete) / ** / Germany / 1.85:1 / 89 min. / Marc Ottiker
The Handcuff King (Kahlekuningas) / *** / Finland / 1.85:1 / 93 min. / Arto Koskinen
His Brother (Son frère) / **½ / France / 1.85:1 / 95 min. / Patrice Chereau
Jagoda in the Supermarket (Jagoda u supermarketu) / *** / Serbia / 1.85:1 / 92 min. / Dusan Milic
James' Journey to Jerusalem (Massa'ot James Be'eretz Hakodesh) / **½ / Isreal / 1.85:1 / 87 min. / Ra'anan Alexandrowicz
Japanese Story / **½ / Australia / 2.39:1 / 105 min. / Sue Brooks
Kamchatka / ***½ / Argentina / 2.39:1 / 117 min. / Marcelo Piñeyro
The Life and Times of Count Luchino Visconti / *** / United Kingdom / 1.66:1 / 108 min. / Adam Low
Luck / **½ / Canada / 1.85:1 / 96 min. / Peter Wellington (TBA 2004)
Nothing / ***½ / Canada / 2.39:1 / 92 min. / Vincenzo Natali
On The Corner / **½ / Canada / 1.85:1 / 96 min. / Nathaniel Geary (TBA 2004)
Perfect Strangers / **½ / New Zealand / 2.39:1 / 96 min. / Gaylene Preston
Save The Green Planet! (Jugureul Jikyeora!) / *** / South Korea / 1.85:1 / 118 min. / Jang Jun-Hwan
Science Fiction / *** / Germany / 1.85:1 / 114 min. / Franz Müller
16 Years of Alcohol / *** / Scotland / 2.39:1 / 101 min. / Richard Jobson
The Suit (Shik) / ** / Russia / 1.85:1 / 92 min. / Bakhtiyar Khudoinazarov
A Tale of Two Sisters (Changhwa, Hongryon) / ***½ / South Korea / 1.85:1 / 115 min. / Ji-Woon Kim (TBA 2004)
This Very Moment (Milchwald) / ** / 1.85:1 / 93 min. / Christoph Hochhäusler
To Kill A King / *** / United Kingdom / 2.39:1 / 102 min. / Mike Barker
Twelfth Night / ** / United Kingdom / 1.85:1 / 102 min. / Tim Supple
Twentynine Palms / ½ / France / 2.39:1 / 109 min. / Bruno Dumont
Zatôichi / ***½ / Japan / 1.85:1 / 117 min. / Takeshi Kitano (TBA 2004)
Victoria Festival Titles:
Investigating Sex / *½ / United States / 2.39:1 / 106 min. / Alan Rudolph
Touch & Go / *** / Canada / 1.85:1 / 102 min. / Scott Simpson
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Animated or Live Action Short Subject Films
The Animatrix (All films United States, 2.39:1, approx. 12-14 minutes each):
- Beyond / *** / Koji Morimoto
Decective Story / ***½ Shinichiro Watanabe
The Final Flight Of The Orisis / ***½ / Andy Jones
Matriculated / *** / Peter Chung
Program / *** / Yoshaki Kawajiri
The Second Reniassance Part I / ***½ / Mahiro Maeda
The Second Reniassance Part II / ***½ / Mahiro Maeda
Couch / **½ / United States / 1.33:1 / 2 min. / Paul Thomas Anderson
Honey / **½ / Canada / 1.37:1 / 6 min. / Gail Noonan
Loon Dreaming / ** / Canada / 1.37:1 / 7 min. / Iriz Paabo
The Wormhole / **½ / United States / 1.85:1 / 19 min. / Jessica Sharzer
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Original Cable, Television or Direct-To-Video Films
Angels In America: Part I / **** / United States / 1.85:1 / 167 min. / Mike Nichols
Cheats / ** / United States / 1.85:1 / 86 min. / Andrew Gurland
Fast Food High / *½ / Canada / 1.85:1 / 92 min. / Nisha Ganatra
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2002 Film List...Continued!
A section devoted to the 2002 films I see in 2003. All of these titles will also be updated into my 2002 Film List as well. Redundant, perhaps, but it still works.
Confessions of a Dangerous Mind / *** / United States / 2.39:1 / 114 min. / George Clooney
Evelyn / ** / Ireland / 2.39:1 / 95 min. / Bruce Beresford
The Hours / ***½ / United States / 1.85:1 / 116 min. / Stephen Daldry
In Praise of Love (?oge de l'amour) / ** / France / 1.85:1 / 94 min. / Jean-Luc Godard
The Kid Stays in the Picture / ***½ / United States / 1.85:1 / 94 min. / Nanette Burstein and Brett Morgen
Max / **½ / United Kingdom / 1.85:1 / 109 min. / Menno Meyjes
Morvern Callar / ***½ / United Kingdom / 2.39:1 / 98 min. / Lynne Ramsay
Nicholas Nickleby / *** / United Kingdom / 2.39:1 / 132 min. / Douglas McGrath
Roger Dodger / ***½ / United States / 1.85:1 / 104 min. / Dylan Kidd
Russian Ark (Russkij kovcheg) / **** / Russia / 1.85:1 / 96 min. / Alexander Sokurov
Standing in the Shadows of Motown / **** / United States / 1.85:1 / 108 min. / Paul Justman
Talk To Her (Hable Con Ella) / ***½ / Spain / 2.39:1 / 115 min. / Pedro Almodovar
25th Hour / ***½ / United States / 2.39:1 / 129 min. / Spike Lee
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Films Seen For The First Time in 2003
^ - Added within the last 7 days.
All That Heaven Allows / ***½ / United States / 1.85:1 / 89 min. / Douglas Sirk
^Antoine and Colette (Antoine et Colette); segment from Amour à vingt ans, L') / **** / France / 2.35:1 / 31 min. / François Truffaut
Apt Pupil / **½ / United States / 2.39:1 / 111 min. / Bryan Singer / 1998
Assault on Precinct 13 / **** / United States / 2.39:1 / 91 min. / John Carpenter
Band of Outsiders (Bande à part) / **** / France / 1.37:1 / 96 min. / Jean-Luc Godard / 1964
Barcelona / *** / United States, Spain / 1.85:1 / 101 min. / Whit Stillman
Blowup / **** / United Kingdom / 1.66:1 / 110 min. / Michelangelo Antonioni
Bob le flambeur (Bob the Gambler) / **** / France / 1.37:1 / 103 min. / Jean Pierre Melville / 1955
Broadway Danny Rose / **** / United States / 1.85:1 / 85 min. / Woody Allen
The Color Purple / **** / United States / 1.85:1 / 154 min. / Steven Spielberg
Cries and Whispers (Viskningar och rop) / **** / Sweden / 1.66:1 / 91 min. / Ingmar Bergman / 1972
Day For Night (La Nuit américaine) / **** / France / 1.85:1 / 116 min. / François Truffaut
The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie (Charme discret de la bourgeoisie, Le) / ***½ / France / 1.66:1 / 102 min. / Luis Buñuel
Don't Drink The Water / *** / United States / 1.37:1 / 92 min. / Woody Allen
Fiend Without A Face / *** / United Kingdom / 1.66:1 / 74 min. / Arthur Crabtree
Fucking Åmål (Show Me Love) / **** / Sweden / 1.85:1 / 89 min. / Lukas Moodysson / 1998
Grave of the Fireflies (Hotaru no haka) / **** / Japan / 1.85:1 / 89 min. / Isao Takahata
The Happiness of the Katakuris (Katakuri-ke no kôfuku) / **½ / Japan / 1.85:1 / 112 min. / Takashi Miike
Hard Core Logo / ***½ / Canada / 1.37:1 / 92 min. / Bruce McDonald
Hearts and Minds / **** / United States / 1.85:1 / 112 min. / Peter Davis
Henry: Portrait Of A Serial Killer / ** / United States / 1.85:1 / 83 min. / John McNaughton
I Stand Alone (Seul contre tous) / *½ / France / 2.39:1 / 88 min. / Gaspar Noé
The King Of Comedy / *** / United States / 1.85:1 / 109 min. / Martin Scorcese / 1983
Into The Night / *** / United States / 1.85:1 / 116 min. / John Landis
The Italian Job / *** / United Kingdom / 2.35:1 / 96 min. / Peter Collinson
Laputa: Castle In The Sky (Tenku no shiro Rapyuta) / **** / Japan / 1.85:1 / 124 min. / Hayao Miyazaki
The Last Contract (Sista kontraktet) / *** / Sweden / 2.39:1 / 114 min. / Kjell Sundvall
The Last House on the Left / * / United States / 1.85:1 / 84 min. / Wes Craven
Left Behind / ZERO / Canada / 1.85:1 / 96 min. / Victor Sarin
Logan's Run / *** / United States / 2.39:1 / 119 min. / Michael Anderson / 1976
Lupin III: The Castle of Cagliostro (Rupan sansei: Kariosutoro no shiro) / **** / Japan / 1.85:1 / 102 min. / Hayao Miyazaki
A Man and a Woman (Un homme et une femme) / ***½ / France / 1.66:1 / 103 min. / Claude Lelouch
M*A*S*H / ***½ / United States / 2.39:1 / 117 min. / Robert Altman
Meshes Of The Afternoon / **** / United States / 1.37:1 / 13 min. / Maya Deren
A Midsummer Night's Sex Comedy / ***½ / United States / 1.85:1 / 88 min. / Woody Allen
The Mirror (Zerkalo) / **** / Soviet Union / 1.37:1 / 107 min. / Andrei Tarkovsky
Monterey Pop / ***½ / United States / 1.37:1 / 79 min. / D.A. Pennebaker / 1968
Monty Python's Life of Brian / **** / United Kingdom / 1.85:1 / 94 min. / Terry Jones
Mother and Son (Mat i syn) / **** / Germany / 1.85:1 / 74 min. / Alexander Sokurov
My Life To Live (Vivre sa vie: Film en douze tableaux) / **** / 1.37:1 / France / 84 min. / Jean-Luc Godard
Nanook Of The North / **** / United States / 1.37:1 / 78 min. / Robert J. Flaherty
Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind (Kaze no tani no Naushika) / **** / Japan / 1.85:1 / 117 min. / Hayao Miyazaki
Nostalghia / **** / Italy & Soviet Union / 1.66:1 / 126 min. / Andrei Tarkovsky
Panic / *** / United States / 2.39:1 / 88 min. / Henry Bromell / 2000
Pather Panchali / **** / India / 1.37:1 / 122 min. / Satayjit Ray
Play It Again, Sam / ***½ / United States / 1.85:1 / 85 min. / Herbert Ross
Porco Rosso (Kurenai no Buta; also known as The Crimson Pig) / **** / Japan & France / 1.85:1 / 94 min. / Hayao Miyazaki
The Purple Rose of Cairo / ***½ / United States / 1.85:1 / 82 min. / Woody Allen
Radio Days / **** / United States / 1.85:1 / 88 min. / Woody Allen
Replay (La repetition) / *** / France / 1.85:1 / 96 min. / Catherine Corsini
Roger & Me / ***½ / United States / 1.37:1 / 91 min. / Michael Moore
Rumble In The Bronx (Hong faan kui) / **½ / Hong Kong / 2.39:1 / 104 min. (original Hong Kong version) / Stanley Tong
^Seven Samurai (Shichinin no samurai) / **** / Japan / 1.37:1 / 206 min. / Akira Kurosawa
Shock Corridor / ***½ / United States / 1.85:1 / 101 min. / Samuel Fuller
Solaris (Solyaris) / **** / Soviet Union / 2.39:1 / 167 min. / Andrei Tarkovsky
Stalker / **** / Soviet Union / 1.37:1 / 164 min. / Andrei Tarkovsky
Straw Dogs / *** / United Kingdom / 1.85:1 / 118 min. / Sam Peckinpah
The Tall Guy / **** / United Kingdom / 1.85:1 / 86 min. / Mel Smith
^The Texas Chain Saw Massacre / ***½ / United States / 1.85:1 / 83 min. / Tobe Hooper
There's Something About Mary: Director's Cut / *** / United States / 130 min. / Bobby Farelly & Peter Farelly
The Thing / ***½ / United States / 2.39:1 / 109 min. / John Carpenter
The Third Man / **** / United Kingdom / 1.37:1 / 104 min. / Carol Reed / 1949
Three Colors Blue (Trois Couleurs Bleu) / **** / France / 1.85:1 / 98 min. / Krzysztof Kieslowski
Three Colors Red (Trois Couleurs Rouge) / **** / France / 1.85:1 / 98 min. / Krzysztof Kieslowski
Three Colors White (Trois Couleurs Blanc) / **** / France / 1.85:1 / 92 min. / Krzysztof Kieslowski
Tigerland / *** / United States / 1.85:1 / 101 min. / Joel Schumacher
Le Trou (The Hole) / **** / France / 1.66:1 / 131 min. / Jaques Becker
The Truth About Cats & Dogs / *** / United States / 1.85:1 / 98 min. / Michael Lehmann
Two Evil Eyes (Due occhi diabolici) / ** / USA, Italy / 1.85:1 / 121 min. / George A. Romero, Dario Argento
U2: Rattle and Hum / ***½ / United States / 1.85:1 / 99 min. / Phil Joanou
Wild Strawberries (Smultronstalet) / ***½ / Sweden / 1.37:1 / 91 min. / Ingmar Bergman / 1957
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CAP Code Reports
Title/Offending Reel/Studio/Labratory/Annoyance Factor x/10
Cold Mountain / Reel 3 / Miramax / Deluxe / 7
Notes: Some extremely frustrating deluxe markers all throughout reel 3, flashing subliminally every few minutes.
Kill Bill: Volume 1 / Reel 5 / Miramax / Deluxe / 10
Quite simply, the WORST cap coded film of them all. All throughout reel 5 containing most of the final showdown sequence, there's blatant, ya-can't-miss-it-unless-you-got-up-to-go-to-the-bathroom Deluxe coding over the reel like it's a bloody virus! Coding when The Bride walks into the bathroom and the wall dissolves to see her inside (where our eyes are focusing on, no less!). Block action during the black and white fighting. More block action during the blue-light sequence. Heck there's even a code or two on faces during closeups! Not to get profane or anything, but shameless, fucking shameless.
Master and Commander: The Far Side Of The World / Reel 3 / 20th Century Fox, Miramax, Universal / Deluxe / 8
Comments: Nearly unwatchable in reel 3 during a pivotal storm sequence, with patterned blocks appearing at the first two frames of each shot, as well as throughout bright shots of sky and faces. There's also a bit where a character looks into a telescope, and the first two frames of the POV of his telescope has a bright "H" mark right in the middle of the scope. Blink and you'll NOT miss it!
The Last Samurai / Reel 4 / Warner Bros. / Technicolor / 3
Comments: Not too bad for Technicolor's non-intrusive coding system, but it's more reddish than it used to be. Only a few spots where we can clearly see the code getting in the way of the picture.
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship Of The Ring Extended Edition / Reel 9 / New Line Cinema / Deluxe / 9
Comments: WOWSERS. Anyone who claims they haven't seen Deluxe cap code will be changed forever. Nearly TWENTY instances of blocky coding during a pivotal sequence involving the Fellowship arriving at Lorien and later on in the reel when Galadriel speaks to Sam. Misses out on a "10" due to not being as utterly blatant as "Kill Bill" by flashing code on a cheek during a bright closeup. EGAD!
The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers Extended Edition / Reel 5 / New Line Cinema / Deluxe / 9
The Lord of the Rings: The Return Of The King / Reel 4 / New Line Cinema / Deluxe / 5
Love Actually
Mona Lisa Smile / Reel 4 / Columbia, Revolution / Deluxe / 7
Underworld / Reel 4 / Screen Gems / Deluxe / 8
MORE titles to be added soon...
FIN
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1/2/03 at 12:00pm
2003 Film List
Last Updated: December 31st
Total Eligible (First NY/LA Release): 140
Total Ineligible Festival Titles: 46
Total Older Films Seen: 260
Total Short Films Seen (does not count towards total): 80
Total Seen to Date: 444
Added: Big Fish, Cold Mountain (also, removed Cowards Bend the Knee, The Tracker, and Trilogy 1: On the Run from the main list; they will appear on next years list).
Coming Next: Big Fish, The Girl With a Pearl Earring, Wilbur Wants to Kill Himself, Dog Days, and Pistol Opera.
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ALPHABETICAL LISTING (All ratings out of ****)
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I've added a blue 4-Star rating for those elite films that I think are masterpieces.
All the Real Girls / **** / United States / Dir. David Gordon Green
Amen / ** / France / Dir. Costa-Gavras
American Splendor / **½ / United States / Dir. Shari Springer Berman and Robert Pulcini
Angela / *** / Italy / Dir. Roberta Torre
Anger Management / ** / United States / Dir. Peter Segal
Anything But Love / **½ / United States / Dir. Robert Cary
Anything Else / **½ / United States / Dir. Woody Allen
Auberge espagnole, L' / ** / France / Dir. Cédric Klapisch
Autumn Spring (Babí léto) / *** / Czech Republic / Dir. Vladimír Michálek
Bad Boys II / ZERO / United States / Dir. Michael Bay
Bad Santa / ***½ / United States / Dir. Terry Zwigoff
Bend It Like Beckham / ** / United Kingdom / Dir. Gurinder Chadha
Better Luck Tomorrow / *** / United States / Dir. Justin Lin
Big Fish / *** / United States / Dir. Tim Burton
Blissfully Yours (Sud sanaeha) / *** / Thailand / Dir. Apichatpong Weerasethakul
Blue Car / *** / United States / Dir. Karen Moncrieff
Boys of 2nd Street Park, The / **½ / United States / Dir. Ron Berger and Dan Klores
Cabin Fever / ** / United States / Dir. Eli Roth
Capturing the Friedmans / *** / United States / Dir. Andrew Jarecki
Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle / *½ / United States / Dir. McG
Charlotte Sometimes / **½ / United States / Dir. Eric Byler
Chihwaseon (Strokes of Fire) / *** / South Korea / Dir. Im Kwon-taek
City of God (Cidade de Deus) / *** / Brazil / Dir. Fernando Meirelles
Cold Mountain / *** / United States / Dir. Anthony Minghella
Cooler, The / *½ / United States / Dir. Wayne Kramer
Confidence / ** / United States / Dir. James Foley
Cowboy Bebop: Knockin' On Heaven's Door (Tengoku no tobira) / ** / Japan / Dir. Shinichirô Watanabe
Cuckoo, The (Kukushka) / *** / Russia / Dir. Aleksandr Rogozhkin
Dancer Upstairs, The / **½ / Spain / Dir. John Malkovich
Daredevil / *½ / United States / Dir. Mark Steven Johnson
Dark Blue / **½ / United States / Dir. Ron Shelton
Decade Under the Influence, A: 3-Hour Version / *** / United States / Dir. Ted Demme and Richard LaGravenese
Demonlover / ***½ / France / Dir. Olivier Assayas
Dirty Pretty Things / ** / United Kingdom / Dir. Stephen Frears
Divine Intervention (Yadon ilaheyya) / *** / Palestine / Dir. Elia Suleiman
Don't Tempt Me (Sin noticias de Dios) / *** / Spain / Dir. Agustín Díaz Yanes
Down With Love / ***½ / United States / Dir. Peyton Reed
Dracula: Pages From A Virgin's Diary / **** / Canada / Dir. Guy Maddin
Dreamcatcher / *½ / United States / Dir. Lawrence Kasdan
Dummy / **½ / United States / Dir. Greg Pritkin
Elephant / ***½ / United States / Dir. Gus Van Sant
Elf / ** / United States / Dir. Jon Favreau
Eye, The (Jian gui) / **½ / Hong Kong / Dir. Danny and Oxide Pang
Final Destination 2 / **½ / United States / Dir. David R. Ellis
Finding Nemo / *** / United States / Dir. Andrew Stanton and Lee Unkrich
Flower of Evil, The (La fleur du mal) / ** / France / Dir. Claude Chabrol
Freddy Vs. Jason / **½ / United States / Dir. Ronny Yu
Friday Night (Vendredi soir) / *** / France / Dir. Claire Denis
Gerry / **** / United States / Dir. Gus Van Sant
Gigli / **½ / United States / Dir. Martin Brest
Good Thief, The / **½ / United Kingdom / Dir. Neil Jordan
He Loves Me... He Loves Me Not (À la folie... pas du tout) / *** / France / Dir. Laetitia Colombani
Hero (Ying xiong) / ***½ / Hong Kong / Dir. Zhang Yimou
Herod's Law (La Ley de Herodes) / *** / Mexico / Dir. Luis Estrada
Hollywood Homicide / * / United States / Dir. Ron Shelton
House of Sand and Fog / ** / United States / Dir. James Horner (with occasional aid by Vadim Perelman)
Hulk, The / *** / United States / Dir. Ang Lee
Hunted, The / *** / United States / Dir. William Friedkin
Ichi the Killer (Koroshiya 1) / ***½ / Japan / Dir. Takashi Miike
Identity / ** / United States / Dir. James Mangold
In America / *** / United States / Dir. Jim Sheridan
In This World / **½ / United Kingdom / Dir. Michael Winterbottom
Intolerable Cruelty / *** / United States / Dir. Joel Coen
Irréversible / **** / France / Dir. Gaspar Noé
Italian Job, The / *** / United States / Dir. F. Gary Gray
It's All About Love / ** / United States / Dir. Thomas Vinterberg
Japón (Japan) / *** / Mexico / Dir. Carlos Reygadas
Jeepers Creepers 2 / * / United States / Dir. Victor Salva
Ken Park / *** / United States / Dir. Larry Clark and Edward Lachman
Kill Bill: Volume 1 / **** / United States / Dir. Quentin Tarantino
Last Samurai, The / *** / United States / Dir. Edward Zwick
Leo / ** / United States / Dir. Mehdi Norowzian
Light of My Eyes (Luce dei miei occhi) / *** / Italy / Dir. Giuseppe Piccioni
Lilya 4-Ever (Lilja 4-ever) / *** / Sweden / Dir. Lukas Moodysson
Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King, The / **** / United States / Dir. Peter Jackson
Lost in La Mancha / *** / United States / Dir. Keith Fulton and Louis Pepe
Lost in Translation / *** / United States / Dir. Sofia Coppola
Magdalene Sisters, The / ** / Ireland / Dir. Peter Mulland
Manic / *½ / United States / Dir. Jordan Melamed
Man on the Train, The (L'homme du train) / ** / France / Dir. Patrice Leconte
Man Without a Past, The (Mies vailla menneisyyttä) / **½ / Finland / Dir. Aki Kaurismäki
Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World / ***½ / United States / Dir. Peter Weir
Matchstick Men / *** / United States / Dir. Ridley Scott
Matrix Reloaded, The / *½ / United States / Dir. Andy and Larry Wachowski
Matrix Revolutions, The / ** / United States / Dir. Andy and Larry Wachowski
May / **½ / United States / Dir. Lucky McKee
Mighty Wind, A / **½ / United States / Dir. Christopher Guest
Millennium Actress (Sennen joyu) / ***½ / Japan / Dir. Satoshi Kon
Missing, The / *½ / United States / Dir. Ron Howard
Mondays in the Sun (Los lunes al sol) / **½ / Spain / Dir. Fernando León de Aranoa
Monster / ** / United States / Dir. Patty Jenkins
Mystic River / *** / United States / Dir. Clint Eastwood
Northfork / **½ / United States / Dir. Michael Polish
Nowhere in Africa (Nirgendwo in Afrika) / *** / Germany / Dir. Caroline Link
Open Hearts (Elsker dig for evigt) / ** / Denmark / Dir. Susanne Bier
Open Range / ***½ / United States / Dir. Kevin Costner
Out of Time / *** / United States / Dir. Carl Franklin
Owning Mahowny / *** / United States / Dir. Richard Kwietniowski
People I Know / *½ / United States / Dir. Daniel Algrant
Phone Booth / **½ / United States / Dir. Joel Schumacher
Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl / *** / United States / Dir. Gore Verbinski
Princess Blade, The (Shurayuki-Hime) / **½ / Japan / Dir. Sato Shinsuke
Raising Victor Vargas / ***½ / United States / Dir. Peter Sollett
Respiro / *** / Italy / Dir. Emanuele Crialese
Rivers & Tides / **½ / Germany / Dir. Thomas Riedelsheimer
Robot Stories / ** / United States / Dir. Greg Pak
Samsara / **½ / India / Dir. Pan Nalin
School of Rock, The / *** / United States / Dir. Richard Linklater
Sea, The (Hafið) / ** / Iceland / Dir. Baltasar Kormákur
Seabiscuit / ** / United States / Dir. Gary Ross
Secondhand Lions / * / United States / Dir. Tim McCanlies
Secret Lives of Dentists, The / *** / United States / Dir. Alan Rudolph
Shanghai Knights / ** / United States / Dir. David Dobkin
Shape of Things, The / *** / United States / Dir. Neil LaBute
Shattered Glass / ***½ / United States / Dir. Billy Ray
Slap Her, She's French / * / United States / Dir. Melanie Mayron
Soldier's Girl, A / ** / United States / Dir. Frank Pierson
Son, The (Le fils) / ***½ / Belgium / Dir. Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne
Spellbound / ***½ / United States / Dir. Jeffrey Blitz
Station Agent, The / *** / United States / Dir. Thomas McCarthy
Stevie / ***½ / United States / Dir. Steve James
Stuck on You / *** / United States / Dir. Peter and Bobby Farrelly
S.W.A.T. / * / United States / Dir. Clark Johnson
Sweet Sixteen / *** / United Kingdom / Dir. Ken Loach
Swimming Pool / **½ / France / Dir. François Ozon
Ten / ***½ / Iran / Dir. Abbas Kiarostami
Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines / *** / United States / Dir. Jonathan Mostow
Texas Chainsaw Massacre, The / * / United States / Dir. Marcus Nispel
Thirteen / *** / United States / Dir. Catherine Hardwicke
This Is Not A Love Song / * / United Kingdom / Dir. Bille Eltringham
Tibet: Cry of the Snow Lion / ** / United States / Dir. Tom Peosay
To Be and To Have (Être et avoir) / ***½ / France / Dir. Nicolas Philibert
Triplettes of Belleville, The (Les triplettes de Belleville) / *** / France / Dir. Sylvain Chomet
28 Days Later / **½ / United Kingdom / Dir. Danny Boyle
21 Grams / *** / United States / Dir. Alejandro González Iñárritu
Whale Rider / *** / New Zealand / Dir. Niki Caro
Willard / ** / United States / Dir. Glen Morgan
Winged Migration (Le peuple migrateur) / **½ / France / Dir. Jacques Perrin
X2 / **½ / United States / Dir. Bryan Singer
Zero Day / ***½ / United States / Dir. Ben Coccio
Zus & Zo / ** / Netherlands / Dir. Paula van der Oest
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Alexandra's Project / ** / Australia / Dir. Rolf de Heer
Alive / ½ / Japan / Dir. Ryuhei Kitamura
Avalon / ** / Japan / Dir. Mamoru Oshii
Azumi / ** / Japan / Dir. Ryuhei Kitamura
Best Day of My Life, The (Il più bel giorno della mia vita) / *** / Italy / Dir. Cristina Comencini
Blind Shaft (Mang jing) / *** / China / Dir. Yang Li
Bright Future (Akarui mirai) / **½ / Japan / Dir. Kiyoshi Kurosawa
Carandiru / *½ / Brazil / Dir. Hector Babenco
Cat Returns, The (Neko no ongaeshi) / **½ / Japan / Dir. Hiroyuki Morita
Classic, The / **½ / South Korea / Dir. Kwak Jae-young
Coast Guard, The (Hae anseon) / ** / South Korea / Dir. Kim Ki-duk
Cowards Bend the Knee / ***½ / Canada / Dir. Guy Maddin
Dogville / **** / Denmark / Dir. Lars von Trier
Dogville Confessions / *** / Denmark / Dir. Sami Martin Saif
Domestic Violence 2 / *** / United States / Dir. Frederick Wiseman
Dragonflies (Øyenstikker) / **½ / Norway / Dir. Marius Holst
Gebürtig / ** / Austria / Dir. Robert Schindel and Lukas Stepanik
Go / ***½ / Japan / Dir. Isao Yukisada
Gozu (Gokudô kyôfu dai-gekijô: Gozu) / ***½ / Japan / Dir. Takashi Miike
Graveyard of Honor (Shin jingi no hakaba) / *** / Japan / Dir. Takashi Miike
Harmful Insect (Gaichu) / **** / Japan / Dir. Akihiko Shiota
I'm Not Scared (Io non ho paura) / **½ / Spain / Dir. Gabriele Salvatores
Infernal Affairs (Wu jian dao) / **½ / Hong Kong / Dir. Andrew Lau and Alan Mak
Jealousy Is My Middle Name (Jiltuneun naui him) / *** / South Korea / Dir. Park Chan-ok
Ju-on (The Grudge) / ** / Japan / Dir. Takashi Shimizu
Last Life in the Universe / *** / Thailand / Dir. Pen-Ek Ratanaruang
Magic Box, The (La boîte magique) / ** / Tunisia / Dir. Ridha Behi
Memories of Murder (Salinui chueok) / *** / South Korea / Dir. Bong Joon-ho
Music for Weddings and Funerals (Musikk for bryllup og begravelser) / *½ / Norway / Dir. Unni Straume
Oasis / *** / South Korea / Dir. Lee Chang-dong
PTU / *** / Hong Kong / Dir. Johnny To
Resurrection of the Little Match Girl (Sungnyangpali sonyeoui jaerim) / ** / South Korea / Dir. Jang Sun-woo
Running on Karma / ** / Hong Kong / Dir. Johnny To
Save the Green Planet! (Jigureul jikyeora!) / **½ / South Korea / Dir. Jeong Jun-hwan
Snake of June, A (Rokugatsu no hebi) / *½ / Japan / Dir. Shinya Tsukamoto
Springtime in a Small Town (Xiao cheng zhi chun) / ***½ / China / Dir. Tian Zhuangzhuang
Suicide Circle (Jisatsu circle) / **½ / Japan / Dir. Sono Shion
Switchblade Romance (Haute tension) / **½ / France / Dir. Alexandre Aja
Tale of Two Sisters, A (Janghwa, Hongryeon) / *** / South Korea / Dir. Kim Ji Woon
Tracker, The / *** / Australia / Dir. Rolf de Heer
Trilogy I: On the Run (Trilogie I: Cavale) / *** / France / Dir. Lucas Belvaux
Turning Gate (Saenghwalui balgyeon) / ***½ / South Korea / Dir. Hong Sang-soo
Twilight Samurai (Tasogare seibei) / *** / Japan / Dir. Yoji Yamada
Woman of Water (Mizu no onna) / *** / Japan / Dir. Hidenori Sugimori
Wonderful Days / **½ / South Korea / Dir. Kim Moon-saeng
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BY STAR RATING
****
None Yet
****
All the Real Girls
Dracula: Pages From A Virgin's Diary
Gerry
Irréversible
Kill Bill: Volume 1
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
***½
Bad Santa
Demonlover
Down With Love
Elephant
Hero (Ying xiong)
Ichi the Killer (Koroshiya 1)
Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World
Millennium Actress (Sennen joyu)
Open Range
Raising Victor Vargas
Shattered Glass
The Son (Le fils)
Spellbound
Stevie
Ten
To Be and To Have (Être et avoir)
Zero Day
***
Angela
Autumn Spring (Babí léto)
Better Luck Tomorrow
Big Fish
Blissfully Yours (Sud sanaeha)
Blue Car
Capturing the Friedmans
Chihwaseon (Strokes of Fire)
City of God (Cidade de Deus)
Cold Mountain
The Cuckoo (Kukushka)
A Decade Under the Influence
Divine Intervention (Yadon ilaheyya)
Don't Tempt Me (Sin noticias de Dios)
Finding Nemo
Friday Night (Vendredi soir)
He Loves Me... He Loves Me Not (À la folie... pas du tout)
Herod's Law (La Ley de Herodes)
The Hulk
The Hunted
In America
Intolerable Cruelty
The Italian Job
Japón (Japan)
Ken Park
The Last Samurai
Light of My Eyes (Luce dei miei occhi)
Lilya 4-Ever (Lilja 4-ever)
Lost in La Mancha
Lost in Translation
Matchstick Men
Mystic River
Nowhere in Africa (Nirgendwo in Afrika)
Out of Time
Owning Mahowny
Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl
Respiro
The School of Rock
The Secret Lives of Dentists
The Shape of Things
The Station Agent
Stuck on You
Sweet Sixteen
Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines
Thirteen
The Triplettes of Belleville (Les triplettes de Belleville)
21 Grams
Whale Rider
**½
American Splendor
Anything But Love
Anything Else
The Boys of 2nd Street Park
Charlotte Sometimes
The Dancer Upstairs
Dark Blue
Dummy
The Eye (Jian gui)
Final Destination 2
Freddy Vs. Jason
Gigli
The Good Thief
In This World
The Man Without a Past (Mies vailla menneisyyttä)
May
A Mighty Wind
Mondays in the Sun (Los lunes al sol)
Northfork
Phone Booth
The Princess Blade
Rivers & Tides
Samsara
Swimming Pool
28 Days Later
Winged Migration (Le peuple migrateur)
X2
**
Amen
L'Auberge espagnole
Anger Management
Bend It Like Beckham
Cabin Fever
Confidence
Cowboy Bebop: Knockin' On Heaven's Door (Tengoku no tobira)
Dirty Pretty Things
Elf
The Flower of Evil (La fleur du mal)
House of Sand and Fog
Identity
It's All About Love
Leo
The Magdalene Sisters
The Man on the Train (L'homme du train)
The Matrix Revolutions
Monster
Open Hearts (Elsker dig for evigt)
Robot Stories
The Sea (Hafið)
Seabiscuit
Shanghai Knights
A Soldier's Girl
Tibet: Cry of the Snow Lion
Willard
Zus & Zo
*½
Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle
The Cooler
Daredevil
Dreamcatcher
Manic
The Matrix Reloaded
The Missing
People I Know
*
Hollwood Homicide
Jeepers Creepers 2
Secondhand Lions
Slap Her, She's French
S.W.A.T.
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre
This Is Not A Love Song
½
None Yet
ZERO
Bad Boys II
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TOP TEN LISTS
Top Ten of 2003
1. Kill Bill: Volume 1 (United States, d. Quentin Tarantino)
2. All the Real Girls (United States, d. David Gordon Green)
3. Gerry (United States, d. Gus Van Sant)
4. Dracula: Pages From A Virgin's Diary (Canada, d. Guy Maddin)
5. Irréversible (France, d. Gaspar Noé)
6. The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (United States, d. Peter Jackson)
7. Cowards Bend the Knee (Canada, d. Guy Maddin)
8. Raising Victor Vargas (United States, d. Peter Sollett)
9. Down With Love (United States, d. Peyton Reed)
10. Open Range (United States, d. Kevin Costner))
Top Ten Most Anticipated
1. Gerry - The new film from Gus van Sant – I’ve heard it takes minimalism and existentialism to new cinematic heights. Also, the influence of the great Bela Tarr, the thematic similarities to Samuel Beckett, and the music of Arvo Pärt make this one almost unbearably difficult to wait for. The trailer is fantastic. Completely lived up to my expectations -- see it any way you can. Can't believe people are saying that nothing happens in this movie; everything happens in this movie. Particularly loved the pacing of tone, with the hilarious first half juxtaposed against the eerie, mostly silent shuffling dirge of the latter. The films very first line, upon utterance an incomplete sentence, seems like the most complete, telling one in the entire film once it reaches its ironic end: "The trail, Gerry."
2. The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King - Not really any explanation necessary here. Though I was somewhat underwhelmed by The Two Towers, my disappointment was muted since my expectations weren’t quite as high ("The Two Towers" is my least favorite of the books). "The Return of the King", however, is by far my favorite of the three books and the screen incarnation should be nothing less than an orgasm of dramatic spectacle. A nice finish and a definte rebound from the prior film. Still have problems with this one (especially the continued use of lame humor during the story's most dour moments), but there's little to complain about here.
3. Dogville - New Lars von Trier movie. Can’t be sure this one is coming out this year, but it is a distinct possibility, so I’m leaving it on for now. Doesn't come out officially until next year. Can't wait to witness the Grand Divide it will quickly chisel between the critical community.
4. Kill Bill - Looks really fun, though it’ll be interesting to see if Tarantino’s prowess has diminished or strengthened after such a long hiatus. It has strengthened.
5. Cowards Bend the Knee and The Saddest Music in the World - It would be difficult for me to pick which of these upcoming Guy Maddin films I'm anticipating more given that I know so little about each, but needless to say, I'm itching for another dosage of the directors retro-genius and I'm sure either will function as a good fix. One down, one to go. The nightmare-evoking Cowards Bend the Knee is probably the most feverish Maddin feature I've seen yet (his short Heart of the World is probably the closest in style) and like Dracula, it displays Maddin's preternatural pacing strengths. It runs only 61 minutes, not a second too long and not a second too short. For the majority of its running time, this is even more impressive than his other one this year, but unfortunately, the ending struck me as weak, which is the only reason it doesn't occupy the #1 spot on my years' best list so far.
6. The Matrix Reloaded - I’m a big fan of The Matrix so I’m crossing my fingers that the Bro’s don’t screw up what has the potential to be a fantastic trilogy. As a major fan of both Bound and The Matrix, I honestly didn't think it'd be possible for the Wachowski's to fuck this up so bad, but by god they've accomplished it, unfortunately. Everything that made the original so unique and compelling as a new grade of popcorn cinema (noirish, brooding photography; a balanced intertwining of sci-fi gibberish and philosophical underpinnings; a completely compelling story and fantastic characters) just goes to hell here in a movie that, in its awful first 40 minutes, resembles the worst of the two Star Wars prequels. It heats up a bit after that, but to say it's lacking that certain special element that the first possessed would be a massive understatement. Can't say I'm really anticipating the final installment now, so I've removed it from this list.
7. Ju-on - I just watched the original straight-to-video incarnation of this Japanese film and despite an ugly, low-budget shot-on-video look, it managed to frighten and unease me like few films ever have. Just the fact that this is the large-budget, theatrical continuation of the story would be enough to get me excited, but an even bigger cause for anticipation is that Kiyoshi Kurosawa, the director of the piss-your-pants-scary Pulse, had a major part in the production of this one. Word of mouth out of Japan is extremely strong. Well, I'd hoped that the presence of Kiyoshi Kurosawa would bring an understated creepiness to this, but it's obvious that he wasn't very involved on the creative front. This just isn't very effective, and even at 90-minutes it feels way too long. Go with the straight-to-video series -- they're far better.
8. Intolerable Cruelty - New Coen's. 'Nuff said. A disappointment in some capacities. The dialogue and wit are sharp as ever, but both the story progression and Joel's visuals seemed a bit dead here to me by comparison to the norm that I've come to expect. Great cinematography by Deakins, good performances all around, some very funny parts, but as a Coen's movie, it's probably my least favorite of their entire filmography.
9. The Son - The Dardenne Brother’s Rosetta was grim and powerful with a memorable (if sometimes nauseating) aesthetic. If The Son is anywhere near as good, it’ll be one of the best films of the year. Not quite as good as Rosetta so it qualifies as a minor disappointment, but a damn fine film nonetheless. The Dardennes' rigorously claustrophobic atmosphere is fairly similar to their previous film, but this one contains a catharsis at the end in deep contrast to Rosetta's grim abruption. One of the best of the year so far.
10. All the Real Girls - New DGG. 'Nuff said. Maybe the most honest, accurate portrayal of unsophisticated love I've ever seen. The whole thing operates as a well-oiled paradox machine, alternately blatant and completely subdued, making perfect sense and no sense at the same time -- and such is life. Green's dialogue perfectly illustrates the way people are unable to communicate when beset by such feirce emotions. No way I'm going to say it's perfect, but WOW anyways. I could write for ages on this movie, but this ain't the place, so look for a long review in another thread soon.
Others: Blissfully Yours, Wonderful Days, and any number of the surely dozens of interesting as-yet-unknown films that will premiere at Cannes this year.
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2002 CATCH-UP
2002 films seen for the first time in 2003
Chicago / ** / United States / Dir. Rob Marshall
Confessions of a Dangerous Mind / **½ / United States / Dir. George Cloony
The Hours / **½ / United States / Dir. Stephen Daldry
Intacto / *** / Spain / Dir. Juan Carlos Fresnadillo
Knockaround Guys / ** / United States / Dir. Brian Koppelman and David Levien
Lord of the Rings, The: The Two Towers - Extended Cut / *** / United States / Dir. Peter Jackson
Morvern Callar / *** / United Kingdom / Dir. Lynne Ramsay
Russian Ark (Russkij kovcheg) / ***½ / Russia / Dir. Alexander Sokurov
Safe Conduct (Laissez-passer) / *** / France / Dir. Bertrand Tavernier
Talk To Her (Hable con ella) / *** / Spain / Dir. Pedro Almodóvar
The 25th Hour / ***½ / United States / Dir. Spike Lee
OLDER FILMS SEEN FOR THE FIRST TIME
Added In The Last 3 Days: Something Wild, Angel Dust, Bad Blood, Naked Blood and Electric Dragon 80.000 V.
Accattone / ***½ / Italy, 1961 / Dir. Pier Paolo Pasolini
An Actor's Revenge (Yukinojo henge) / *** / Japan, 1963 / Dir. Kon Ichikawa
An Autumn Afternoon (Sanma no aji) / **** / Japan, 1962 / Dir. Yasujiro Ozu
The Age of Innocence / ***½ / United States, 1993 / Dir. Martin Scorsese
All Night Long (Ooru naito rongu) / *** / Japan, 1992 / Dir. Katsuya Matsumura
All That Jazz / ***½ / United States, 1979 / Dir. Bob Fosse
Anatomy of a Murder / *** / United States, 1959 / Dir. Otto Preminger
Angel Dust (Enjeru dasuto) / *** / Japan, 1994 / Dir. Sogo Ishii
Angel Heart / *** / United States, 1987 / Dir. Alan Parker
Annie Hall / **** / United States, 1977 / Dir. Woody Allen
The Apartment / **** / United States, 1960 / Dir. Billy Wilder
Assault on Precinct 13 / **** / United States, 1976 / Dir. John Carpenter
Baby Doll / ***½ / United States, 1956 / Dir. Elia Kazan
Bad Blood (Mauvais sang) / **** / France, 1986 / Dir. Leos Carax
Badlands / ***½ / United States, 1973 / Dir. Terrence Malick
Barking Dogs Never Bite (Flandersui gae) / *** / South Korea, 2000 / Dir. Bong Joon-ho
Barton Fink / **** / United States, 1991 / Dir. Joel Coen
The Battle of Algiers (La Battaglia di Algeri) / **** / Algeria, 1965 / Dir. Gillo Pontecorvo
The Beautiful Troublemaker (La belle noiseuse) / **** / France, 1991 / Dir. Jacques Rivette
Before Sunrise / **** / United States, 1995 / Dir. Richard Linklater
Bend of the River / ***½ / United States, 1952 / Dir. Anthony Mann
Birth of a Nation / *** / United States, 1915 / Dir. D.W. Griffith
Black Angel, Vol. 1 (Kuro no tenshi Vol. 1) / *** / Japan, 1997 / Dir. Takashi Ishii
Black Angel, Vol. 2 (Kuro no tenshi Vol. 2) / ***½ / Japan, 1999 / Dir. Takashi Ishii
Black Rain (Kuroi ame) / *** / Japan, 1989 / Dir. Shohei Imamura
Black Sunday (La maschera del demonio) / *** / Italy, 1960 / Dir. Mario Bava
The Blue Kite (Lan feng zheng) / *** / China, 1994 / Dir. Tian Zhuangzhuang
Brazil / *** / United Kingdom, 1985 / Dir. Terry Gilliam
Bringing Up Baby / *** / United States, 1938 / Dir. Howard Hawks
Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia / ***½ / United States, 1974 / Dir. Sam Peckinpah
Buffalo '66 / **** / United States, 1998 / Dir. Vincent Gallo
Careful / *** / Canada, 1992 / Dir. Guy Maddin
Carlito's Way / ***½ / United States, 1993 / Dir. Brian De Palma
Charulata / **** / India, 1964 / Dir. Satyajit Ray
Christine / ***½ / United States, 1983 / Dir. John Carpenter
Code Unknown (Code inconnu: Récit incomplet de divers voyages) / ***½ / France, 2000 / Dir. Michael Haneke
Comanche Station / *** / United States, 1960 / Dir. Budd Boetticher
Come Drink With Me (Da zui xia) / **½ / Hong Kong, 1966 / Dir. King Hu
Confessions of an Opium Eater / *** / United States, 1962 / Dir. Albert Zugsmith
Crimes and Misdemeanors / **** / United States, 1989 / Dir. Woody Allen
Crumb / **** / United States, 1995 / Dir. Terry Zwigoff
Curse of the Demon / *** / United Kingdom, 1957 / Dir. Jacques Tourneur
Cutter's Way / *** / United States, 1981 / Dir. Ivan Passer
Daisy Kenyon / ***½ / United States, 1947 / Dir. Otto Preminger
Dark City / *** / United States, 1998 / Dir. Alex Proyas
Dark Waters / **½ / United States, 1944 / Dir. André De Toth
Day of the Dead / ***½ / United States, 1985 / Dir. George A. Romero
Dead or Alive II: Birds (Dead or Alive 2: Tôbôsha) / **½ / Japan, 2000 / Dir. Takashi Miike
The Decameron (Il decameron) / *** / Italy, 1971 / Dir. Pier Paolo Pasolini
Detour / *** / United States, 1945 / Dir. Edgar G. Ulmer
Devi (The Goddess) / *** / India, 1960 / Dir. Satyajit Ray
The Devil & Daniel Webster / ***½ / United States, 1941 / Dir. William Dieterle
Die Nibelungen, Part I: Siegfried / ***½ / Germany, 1924 / Dir. Fritz Lang
Die Nibelungen, Part II: Kriemhild's Revenge / ***½ / Germany, 1924 / Dir. Fritz Lang
Distance / ***½ / Japan, 2001 / Dir. Hirokazu Kore-eda
Distant Voices, Still Lives / **** / United Kingdom, 1989 / Dir. Terence Davies
Don't Look Back / ***½ / United States, 1967 / Dir. D.A. Pennebaker
Double Indemnity / **** / United States, 1944 / Dir. Billy Wilder
Dressed to Kill / ***½ / United States, 1980 / Dir. Brian De Palma
Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb / **** / United States, 1964 / Dir. Stanley Kubrick
Early Summer (Bakushu) / ***½ / Japan, 1951 / Dir. Yasujiro Ozu
Earth (Zemlya) / *** / Russia, 1930 / Dir. Aleksandr Dovzhenko
Electric Dragon 80.000 V / *** / Japan, 2001 / Dir. Sogo Ishii
The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser (Jeder für sich und Gott gegen alle) / ***½ / West Germany, 1974 / Dir. Werner Herzog
Escape From New York / *** / United States, 1981 / Dir. John Carpenter
Eureka / ***½ / Japan, 2000 / Dir. Shinji Aoyama
The Exorcist III: Legion / ***½ / United States, 1990 / Dir. William Peter Blatty
Eyes of the Spider (Kumo no hitomi) / *** / Japan, 1998 / Dir. Kiyoshi Kurosawa
Eyes Without A Face (Les yeux sans visage) / **** / France, 1959 / Dir. Georges Franju
Faces / **** / United States, 1968 / Dir. John Cassavetes
Fanny and Alexander: 5-Hour Version (Fanny och Alexander) / **** / Sweden, 1982 / Dir. Ingmar Bergman
Fast Times at Ridgemont High / *** / United States, 1982 / Dir. Amy Heckerling
The Fearless Vampire Killers / *** / United States, 1967 / Dir. Roman Polanski
Female Convict, Scorpion: Jailhouse 41 (Joshuu sasori: Dai-41 zakkyo-bô) / **½ / Japan, 1972 / Dir. Ito Shunya
F For Fake / **** / France, 1975 / Dir. Orson Welles
I Fidanzati (The Fiances) / ***½ / Italy, 1962 / Dir. Ermanno Olmi
The Fog / **½ / United States, 1980 / Dir. John Carpenter
Force of Evil / *** / United States, 1948 / Dir. Abraham Polonsky
Full Metal Yakuza (Full Metal gokudô) / ** / Japan, 1997 / Dir. Takashi Miike
Fury / **** / United States, 1936 / Dir. Fritz Lang
Gate of Flesh (Nikutai no mon) / ***½ / Japan, 1964 / Dir. Seijun Suzuki
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes / *** / United States, 1953 / Dir. Howard Hawks
A Gentle Woman (Une femme douce) / **½ / France, 1969 / Dir. Robert Bresson
Gertrud / *** / Denmark, 1964 / Dir. Carl Theodor Dreyer
Ghost Actress (Joyû-rei) / ** / Japan, 1996 / Dir. Hideo Nakata
God Told Me To / *** / United States, 1976 / Dir. Larry Cohen
Gojoe (Gojoe senki) / **½ / Japan, 2000 / Dir. Sogo Ishii
Goodbye South, Goodbye (Nanguo zaijan, nanguo) / *** / Taiwan, 1996 / Dir. Hou Hsiao-hsien
The Gospel According to St. Matthew (Il vangelo secondo Matteo) / **** / Italy, 1964 / Dir. Pier Paolo Pasolini
Go West / ***½ / United States, 1925 / Dir. Buster Keaton
The Great Escape / *** / United States, 1963 / Dir. John Sturges
Il Grido (The Cry) / ***½ / Italy, 1957 / Dir. Michelangelo Antonioni
Harakiri (Seppuku) / **** / Japan, 1962 / Dir. Masaki Kobayashi
Hate (La haine) / ***½ / France, 1995 / Dir. Mathieu Kassovitz
Heaven's Gate / *** / United States, 1980 / Dir. Michael Cimino
Hell House / *** / United States, 2001 / Dir. George Ratliff
High Noon / *** / United States, 1952 / Dir. Fred Zinnemann
High School / *** / United States, 1968 / Dir. Frederick Wiseman
Hi, Mom! / *** / United States, 1970 / Dir. Brian De Palma
The Hole (Dong) / ***½ / Taiwan, 1998 / Dir. Tsai Ming-liang
The Honeymoon Killers / **** / United States, 1970 / Dir. Leonard Kastle
Hope and Glory / *** / United States, 1987 / Dir. John Boorman
House of Games / ***½ / United States, 1987 / Dir. David Mamet
The Hudsucker Proxy / *** / United States, 1994 / Dir. Joel Coen
L'humanité / *** / France, 1999 / Dir. Bruno Dumont
Husbands / **** / United States, 1970 / Dir. John Cassavetes
The Hustler / ***½ / United States, 1961 / Dir. Robert Rossen
I Am a Fugitive From a Chain Gang / ***½ / United States, 1932 / Dir. Mervyn LeRoy
I Stand Alone (Seul contre tous) / ** / France, 1998 / Dir. Gaspar Noé
Imitation of Life / **** / United States, 1959 / Dir. Douglas Sirk
In Cold Blood / *** / United States, 1967 / Dir. Richard Brooks
In A Lonely Place / *** / United States, 1950 / Dir. Nicholas Ray
The Innocents / **** / United Kingdom, 1961 / Dir. Jack Clayton
In Praise of Love (Éloge de l'amour) / *** / France, 2001 / Dir. Jean-Luc Godard
JFK / **** / United States, 1991 / Dir. Oliver Stone
Jigoku (Hell) / *** / Japan, 1960 / Dir. Nobuo Nakagawa
Johnny Guitar / ***½ / United States, 1954 / Dir. Nicholas Ray
The Killing of a Chinese Bookie / ***½ / United States, 1976 / Dir. John Cassavetes
The King of New York / **** / United States, 1990 / Dir. Abel Ferrara
Kite / **½ / Japan, 1998 / Dir. Yasuomi Umetsu
Kiss Me Deadly / ***½ / United States, 1955 / Dir. Robert Aldrich
Lady Snowblood (Shurayukihime) / ***½ / Japan, 1973 / Dir. Toshiya Fujita
The Last Laugh (Der Letzte Mann) / **** / Germany, 1924 / Dir. F.W. Murnau
The Last Temptation of Christ / **** / United States, 1988 / Dir. Martin Scorsese
Late Chrysanthemums (Bangiku) / *** / Japan, 1954 / Dir. Mikio Naruse
Laura / **** / United States, 1944 / Dir. Otto Preminger
Lawn Dogs / ***½ / United Kingdom, 1997 / Dir. John Duigan
Leaving Las Vegas / *** / United States, 1995 / Dir. Mike Figgis
The Leopard Man / **½ / United States, 1943 / Dir. Jacques Tourneur
Lessons of Darkness (Lektionen in Finsternis) / **** / Germany, 1992 / Dir. Werner Herzog
Ley Lines (Nihon kuroshakai) / **½ / Japan, 1999 / Dir. Takashi Miike
Little Otik (Otesánek) / ***½ / Czech Republic, 2001 / Dir. Jan Svankmajer
The Long Goodbye / ***½ / United States, 1973 / Dir. Robert Altman
Love Streams / ***½ / United States, 1984 / Dir. John Cassavetes
Loves of a Blonde (Lásky jedné plavovlásky) / **** / Czechoslovakia, 1965 / Dir. Milos Forman
Macbeth / **** / United Kingdom, 1971 / Dir. Roman Polanski
Maelström / ***½ / Canada, 2000 / Dir. Denis Villeneuve
The Magician (Ansiktet) / *** / Sweden, 1958 / Dir. Ingmar Bergman
Make Way for Tomorrow / **** / United States, 1937 / Dir. Leo McCarey
The Man from Laramie / **** / United States, 1955 / Dir. Anthony Mann
The Man With a Movie Camera (Chelovek s kinoapparatom) / **** / Soviet Union, 1929 / Dir. Dziga Vertov
Manhattan / **** / United States, 1979 / Dir. Woody Allen
Man of the West / *** / United States, 1958 / Dir. Anthony Mann
Mean Streets / **** / United States, 1973 / Dir. Martin Scorsese
Medea / *** / Denmark, 1987 / Dir. Lars von Trier
Memories of Underdevelopment (Memorias del subdesarrollo) / ***½ / Cuba, 1968 / Dir. Tomás Gutiérrez Alea
Metropolis: Restored Version / ***½ / Germany, 1927 / Dir. Fritz Lang
Mikey and Nicky / **** / United States, 1976 / Dir. Elaine May
Miller's Crossing / ***½ / United States, 1990 / Dir. Joel Coen
The Miracle of Morgan's Creek / **** / United States, 1944 / Dir. Preston Sturges
The Mission (Cheong feng) / **½ / Hong Kong, 1999 / Dir. Johnny To
M/Other / **** / Japan, 1999 / Dir. Nobuhiro Suwa
Ms. 45 / ***½ / United States, 1981 / Dir. Abel Ferrara
The Music Room (Jalsaghar) / **** / India, 1958 / Dir. Satyajit Ray
My Life as a Dog (Mitt liv som hund) / ***½ / Sweden, 1985 / Dir. Lasse Hallström
Mystery Train / **** / United States, 1989 / Dir. Jim Jarmusch
Naked Blood (Megyaku: Akuma no yorokobi) / * / Japan, 1995 / Dir. Hisayasu Sato
The Naked Spur / ***½ / United States, 1953 / Dir. Anthony Mann
Nanook of the North / **** / United States, 1922 / Dir. Robert J. Flaherty
Nashville / ***½ / United States, 1975 / Dir. Robert Altman
Near Dark / *** / United States, 1987 / Dir. Kathryn Bigelow
Night and the City / ***½ / United States, 1950 / Dir. Jules Dassin
Ninotchka / ***½ / United States, 1939 / Dir. Ernst Lubitsch
The Ninth Configuration / *** / United States, 1980 / Dir. William Peter Blatty
Odd Man Out / ***½ / United Kingdom, 1947 / Dir. Carol Reed
Oedipus Rex (Edipo re) / ***½ / Italy, 1967 / Dir. Pier Paolo Pasolini
Once Upon a Time in the West (C'era una volta il West) / **** / Italy, 1968 / Dir. Sergio Leone
Onibaba (The Hole) / *** / Japan, 1964 / Dir. Kaneto Shindô
Only Angels Have Wings / ***½ / United States, 1939 / Dir. Howard Hawks
Only Yesterday (Omohide poro poro) / **** / Japan, 1991 / Dir. Isao Takahata
Othello / **** / United States, 1952 / Dir. Orson Welles
The Palm Beach Story / *** / United States, 1942 / Dir. Preston Sturges
Paper Moon / ***½ / United States, 1973 / Dir. Peter Bogdanovich
Paradise Lost: The Child Murders at Robin Hood Hills / ***½ / United States, 1996 / Dir. Joe Berlinger and Bruce Sinofsky
Paris, Texas / **** / United States, 1984 / Dir. Wim Wenders
Peking Opera Blues (Do ma daan) / *** / Hong Kong, 1986 / Dir. Tsui Hark
Pickup on South Street / ***½ / United States, 1953 / Dir. Samuel Fuller
Point Blank / ***½ / United States, 1967 / Dir. John Boorman
Ponette / *** / France, 1996 / Dir. Jacques Doillon
Portrait of Jennie / **** / United States, 1948 / Dir. William Dieterle
Il Posto (The Job) / **** / Italy, 1961 / Dir. Ermanno Olmi
Prince of Darkness / *** / United States, 1987 / Dir. John Carpenter
The Prisoner of Zenda / ***½ / United States, 1937 / Dir. John Cromwell
Quai des Orfèvres / ***½ / France, 1947 / Dir. Henri-Georges Clouzot
Rabid Dogs (Cani arrabbiati) / ***½ / Italy, 1974 / Dir. Mario Bava
[b]Rainy Dog (Gokudô kuroshakai
Last Updated: December 31st
Total Eligible (First NY/LA Release): 140
Total Ineligible Festival Titles: 46
Total Older Films Seen: 260
Total Short Films Seen (does not count towards total): 80
Total Seen to Date: 444
Added: Big Fish, Cold Mountain (also, removed Cowards Bend the Knee, The Tracker, and Trilogy 1: On the Run from the main list; they will appear on next years list).
Coming Next: Big Fish, The Girl With a Pearl Earring, Wilbur Wants to Kill Himself, Dog Days, and Pistol Opera.
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ALPHABETICAL LISTING (All ratings out of ****)
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I've added a blue 4-Star rating for those elite films that I think are masterpieces.
All the Real Girls / **** / United States / Dir. David Gordon Green
Amen / ** / France / Dir. Costa-Gavras
American Splendor / **½ / United States / Dir. Shari Springer Berman and Robert Pulcini
Angela / *** / Italy / Dir. Roberta Torre
Anger Management / ** / United States / Dir. Peter Segal
Anything But Love / **½ / United States / Dir. Robert Cary
Anything Else / **½ / United States / Dir. Woody Allen
Auberge espagnole, L' / ** / France / Dir. Cédric Klapisch
Autumn Spring (Babí léto) / *** / Czech Republic / Dir. Vladimír Michálek
Bad Boys II / ZERO / United States / Dir. Michael Bay
Bad Santa / ***½ / United States / Dir. Terry Zwigoff
Bend It Like Beckham / ** / United Kingdom / Dir. Gurinder Chadha
Better Luck Tomorrow / *** / United States / Dir. Justin Lin
Big Fish / *** / United States / Dir. Tim Burton
Blissfully Yours (Sud sanaeha) / *** / Thailand / Dir. Apichatpong Weerasethakul
Blue Car / *** / United States / Dir. Karen Moncrieff
Boys of 2nd Street Park, The / **½ / United States / Dir. Ron Berger and Dan Klores
Cabin Fever / ** / United States / Dir. Eli Roth
Capturing the Friedmans / *** / United States / Dir. Andrew Jarecki
Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle / *½ / United States / Dir. McG
Charlotte Sometimes / **½ / United States / Dir. Eric Byler
Chihwaseon (Strokes of Fire) / *** / South Korea / Dir. Im Kwon-taek
City of God (Cidade de Deus) / *** / Brazil / Dir. Fernando Meirelles
Cold Mountain / *** / United States / Dir. Anthony Minghella
Cooler, The / *½ / United States / Dir. Wayne Kramer
Confidence / ** / United States / Dir. James Foley
Cowboy Bebop: Knockin' On Heaven's Door (Tengoku no tobira) / ** / Japan / Dir. Shinichirô Watanabe
Cuckoo, The (Kukushka) / *** / Russia / Dir. Aleksandr Rogozhkin
Dancer Upstairs, The / **½ / Spain / Dir. John Malkovich
Daredevil / *½ / United States / Dir. Mark Steven Johnson
Dark Blue / **½ / United States / Dir. Ron Shelton
Decade Under the Influence, A: 3-Hour Version / *** / United States / Dir. Ted Demme and Richard LaGravenese
Demonlover / ***½ / France / Dir. Olivier Assayas
Dirty Pretty Things / ** / United Kingdom / Dir. Stephen Frears
Divine Intervention (Yadon ilaheyya) / *** / Palestine / Dir. Elia Suleiman
Don't Tempt Me (Sin noticias de Dios) / *** / Spain / Dir. Agustín Díaz Yanes
Down With Love / ***½ / United States / Dir. Peyton Reed
Dracula: Pages From A Virgin's Diary / **** / Canada / Dir. Guy Maddin
Dreamcatcher / *½ / United States / Dir. Lawrence Kasdan
Dummy / **½ / United States / Dir. Greg Pritkin
Elephant / ***½ / United States / Dir. Gus Van Sant
Elf / ** / United States / Dir. Jon Favreau
Eye, The (Jian gui) / **½ / Hong Kong / Dir. Danny and Oxide Pang
Final Destination 2 / **½ / United States / Dir. David R. Ellis
Finding Nemo / *** / United States / Dir. Andrew Stanton and Lee Unkrich
Flower of Evil, The (La fleur du mal) / ** / France / Dir. Claude Chabrol
Freddy Vs. Jason / **½ / United States / Dir. Ronny Yu
Friday Night (Vendredi soir) / *** / France / Dir. Claire Denis
Gerry / **** / United States / Dir. Gus Van Sant
Gigli / **½ / United States / Dir. Martin Brest
Good Thief, The / **½ / United Kingdom / Dir. Neil Jordan
He Loves Me... He Loves Me Not (À la folie... pas du tout) / *** / France / Dir. Laetitia Colombani
Hero (Ying xiong) / ***½ / Hong Kong / Dir. Zhang Yimou
Herod's Law (La Ley de Herodes) / *** / Mexico / Dir. Luis Estrada
Hollywood Homicide / * / United States / Dir. Ron Shelton
House of Sand and Fog / ** / United States / Dir. James Horner (with occasional aid by Vadim Perelman)
Hulk, The / *** / United States / Dir. Ang Lee
Hunted, The / *** / United States / Dir. William Friedkin
Ichi the Killer (Koroshiya 1) / ***½ / Japan / Dir. Takashi Miike
Identity / ** / United States / Dir. James Mangold
In America / *** / United States / Dir. Jim Sheridan
In This World / **½ / United Kingdom / Dir. Michael Winterbottom
Intolerable Cruelty / *** / United States / Dir. Joel Coen
Irréversible / **** / France / Dir. Gaspar Noé
Italian Job, The / *** / United States / Dir. F. Gary Gray
It's All About Love / ** / United States / Dir. Thomas Vinterberg
Japón (Japan) / *** / Mexico / Dir. Carlos Reygadas
Jeepers Creepers 2 / * / United States / Dir. Victor Salva
Ken Park / *** / United States / Dir. Larry Clark and Edward Lachman
Kill Bill: Volume 1 / **** / United States / Dir. Quentin Tarantino
Last Samurai, The / *** / United States / Dir. Edward Zwick
Leo / ** / United States / Dir. Mehdi Norowzian
Light of My Eyes (Luce dei miei occhi) / *** / Italy / Dir. Giuseppe Piccioni
Lilya 4-Ever (Lilja 4-ever) / *** / Sweden / Dir. Lukas Moodysson
Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King, The / **** / United States / Dir. Peter Jackson
Lost in La Mancha / *** / United States / Dir. Keith Fulton and Louis Pepe
Lost in Translation / *** / United States / Dir. Sofia Coppola
Magdalene Sisters, The / ** / Ireland / Dir. Peter Mulland
Manic / *½ / United States / Dir. Jordan Melamed
Man on the Train, The (L'homme du train) / ** / France / Dir. Patrice Leconte
Man Without a Past, The (Mies vailla menneisyyttä) / **½ / Finland / Dir. Aki Kaurismäki
Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World / ***½ / United States / Dir. Peter Weir
Matchstick Men / *** / United States / Dir. Ridley Scott
Matrix Reloaded, The / *½ / United States / Dir. Andy and Larry Wachowski
Matrix Revolutions, The / ** / United States / Dir. Andy and Larry Wachowski
May / **½ / United States / Dir. Lucky McKee
Mighty Wind, A / **½ / United States / Dir. Christopher Guest
Millennium Actress (Sennen joyu) / ***½ / Japan / Dir. Satoshi Kon
Missing, The / *½ / United States / Dir. Ron Howard
Mondays in the Sun (Los lunes al sol) / **½ / Spain / Dir. Fernando León de Aranoa
Monster / ** / United States / Dir. Patty Jenkins
Mystic River / *** / United States / Dir. Clint Eastwood
Northfork / **½ / United States / Dir. Michael Polish
Nowhere in Africa (Nirgendwo in Afrika) / *** / Germany / Dir. Caroline Link
Open Hearts (Elsker dig for evigt) / ** / Denmark / Dir. Susanne Bier
Open Range / ***½ / United States / Dir. Kevin Costner
Out of Time / *** / United States / Dir. Carl Franklin
Owning Mahowny / *** / United States / Dir. Richard Kwietniowski
People I Know / *½ / United States / Dir. Daniel Algrant
Phone Booth / **½ / United States / Dir. Joel Schumacher
Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl / *** / United States / Dir. Gore Verbinski
Princess Blade, The (Shurayuki-Hime) / **½ / Japan / Dir. Sato Shinsuke
Raising Victor Vargas / ***½ / United States / Dir. Peter Sollett
Respiro / *** / Italy / Dir. Emanuele Crialese
Rivers & Tides / **½ / Germany / Dir. Thomas Riedelsheimer
Robot Stories / ** / United States / Dir. Greg Pak
Samsara / **½ / India / Dir. Pan Nalin
School of Rock, The / *** / United States / Dir. Richard Linklater
Sea, The (Hafið) / ** / Iceland / Dir. Baltasar Kormákur
Seabiscuit / ** / United States / Dir. Gary Ross
Secondhand Lions / * / United States / Dir. Tim McCanlies
Secret Lives of Dentists, The / *** / United States / Dir. Alan Rudolph
Shanghai Knights / ** / United States / Dir. David Dobkin
Shape of Things, The / *** / United States / Dir. Neil LaBute
Shattered Glass / ***½ / United States / Dir. Billy Ray
Slap Her, She's French / * / United States / Dir. Melanie Mayron
Soldier's Girl, A / ** / United States / Dir. Frank Pierson
Son, The (Le fils) / ***½ / Belgium / Dir. Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne
Spellbound / ***½ / United States / Dir. Jeffrey Blitz
Station Agent, The / *** / United States / Dir. Thomas McCarthy
Stevie / ***½ / United States / Dir. Steve James
Stuck on You / *** / United States / Dir. Peter and Bobby Farrelly
S.W.A.T. / * / United States / Dir. Clark Johnson
Sweet Sixteen / *** / United Kingdom / Dir. Ken Loach
Swimming Pool / **½ / France / Dir. François Ozon
Ten / ***½ / Iran / Dir. Abbas Kiarostami
Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines / *** / United States / Dir. Jonathan Mostow
Texas Chainsaw Massacre, The / * / United States / Dir. Marcus Nispel
Thirteen / *** / United States / Dir. Catherine Hardwicke
This Is Not A Love Song / * / United Kingdom / Dir. Bille Eltringham
Tibet: Cry of the Snow Lion / ** / United States / Dir. Tom Peosay
To Be and To Have (Être et avoir) / ***½ / France / Dir. Nicolas Philibert
Triplettes of Belleville, The (Les triplettes de Belleville) / *** / France / Dir. Sylvain Chomet
28 Days Later / **½ / United Kingdom / Dir. Danny Boyle
21 Grams / *** / United States / Dir. Alejandro González Iñárritu
Whale Rider / *** / New Zealand / Dir. Niki Caro
Willard / ** / United States / Dir. Glen Morgan
Winged Migration (Le peuple migrateur) / **½ / France / Dir. Jacques Perrin
X2 / **½ / United States / Dir. Bryan Singer
Zero Day / ***½ / United States / Dir. Ben Coccio
Zus & Zo / ** / Netherlands / Dir. Paula van der Oest
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Alexandra's Project / ** / Australia / Dir. Rolf de Heer
Alive / ½ / Japan / Dir. Ryuhei Kitamura
Avalon / ** / Japan / Dir. Mamoru Oshii
Azumi / ** / Japan / Dir. Ryuhei Kitamura
Best Day of My Life, The (Il più bel giorno della mia vita) / *** / Italy / Dir. Cristina Comencini
Blind Shaft (Mang jing) / *** / China / Dir. Yang Li
Bright Future (Akarui mirai) / **½ / Japan / Dir. Kiyoshi Kurosawa
Carandiru / *½ / Brazil / Dir. Hector Babenco
Cat Returns, The (Neko no ongaeshi) / **½ / Japan / Dir. Hiroyuki Morita
Classic, The / **½ / South Korea / Dir. Kwak Jae-young
Coast Guard, The (Hae anseon) / ** / South Korea / Dir. Kim Ki-duk
Cowards Bend the Knee / ***½ / Canada / Dir. Guy Maddin
Dogville / **** / Denmark / Dir. Lars von Trier
Dogville Confessions / *** / Denmark / Dir. Sami Martin Saif
Domestic Violence 2 / *** / United States / Dir. Frederick Wiseman
Dragonflies (Øyenstikker) / **½ / Norway / Dir. Marius Holst
Gebürtig / ** / Austria / Dir. Robert Schindel and Lukas Stepanik
Go / ***½ / Japan / Dir. Isao Yukisada
Gozu (Gokudô kyôfu dai-gekijô: Gozu) / ***½ / Japan / Dir. Takashi Miike
Graveyard of Honor (Shin jingi no hakaba) / *** / Japan / Dir. Takashi Miike
Harmful Insect (Gaichu) / **** / Japan / Dir. Akihiko Shiota
I'm Not Scared (Io non ho paura) / **½ / Spain / Dir. Gabriele Salvatores
Infernal Affairs (Wu jian dao) / **½ / Hong Kong / Dir. Andrew Lau and Alan Mak
Jealousy Is My Middle Name (Jiltuneun naui him) / *** / South Korea / Dir. Park Chan-ok
Ju-on (The Grudge) / ** / Japan / Dir. Takashi Shimizu
Last Life in the Universe / *** / Thailand / Dir. Pen-Ek Ratanaruang
Magic Box, The (La boîte magique) / ** / Tunisia / Dir. Ridha Behi
Memories of Murder (Salinui chueok) / *** / South Korea / Dir. Bong Joon-ho
Music for Weddings and Funerals (Musikk for bryllup og begravelser) / *½ / Norway / Dir. Unni Straume
Oasis / *** / South Korea / Dir. Lee Chang-dong
PTU / *** / Hong Kong / Dir. Johnny To
Resurrection of the Little Match Girl (Sungnyangpali sonyeoui jaerim) / ** / South Korea / Dir. Jang Sun-woo
Running on Karma / ** / Hong Kong / Dir. Johnny To
Save the Green Planet! (Jigureul jikyeora!) / **½ / South Korea / Dir. Jeong Jun-hwan
Snake of June, A (Rokugatsu no hebi) / *½ / Japan / Dir. Shinya Tsukamoto
Springtime in a Small Town (Xiao cheng zhi chun) / ***½ / China / Dir. Tian Zhuangzhuang
Suicide Circle (Jisatsu circle) / **½ / Japan / Dir. Sono Shion
Switchblade Romance (Haute tension) / **½ / France / Dir. Alexandre Aja
Tale of Two Sisters, A (Janghwa, Hongryeon) / *** / South Korea / Dir. Kim Ji Woon
Tracker, The / *** / Australia / Dir. Rolf de Heer
Trilogy I: On the Run (Trilogie I: Cavale) / *** / France / Dir. Lucas Belvaux
Turning Gate (Saenghwalui balgyeon) / ***½ / South Korea / Dir. Hong Sang-soo
Twilight Samurai (Tasogare seibei) / *** / Japan / Dir. Yoji Yamada
Woman of Water (Mizu no onna) / *** / Japan / Dir. Hidenori Sugimori
Wonderful Days / **½ / South Korea / Dir. Kim Moon-saeng
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BY STAR RATING
****
None Yet
****
All the Real Girls
Dracula: Pages From A Virgin's Diary
Gerry
Irréversible
Kill Bill: Volume 1
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
***½
Bad Santa
Demonlover
Down With Love
Elephant
Hero (Ying xiong)
Ichi the Killer (Koroshiya 1)
Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World
Millennium Actress (Sennen joyu)
Open Range
Raising Victor Vargas
Shattered Glass
The Son (Le fils)
Spellbound
Stevie
Ten
To Be and To Have (Être et avoir)
Zero Day
***
Angela
Autumn Spring (Babí léto)
Better Luck Tomorrow
Big Fish
Blissfully Yours (Sud sanaeha)
Blue Car
Capturing the Friedmans
Chihwaseon (Strokes of Fire)
City of God (Cidade de Deus)
Cold Mountain
The Cuckoo (Kukushka)
A Decade Under the Influence
Divine Intervention (Yadon ilaheyya)
Don't Tempt Me (Sin noticias de Dios)
Finding Nemo
Friday Night (Vendredi soir)
He Loves Me... He Loves Me Not (À la folie... pas du tout)
Herod's Law (La Ley de Herodes)
The Hulk
The Hunted
In America
Intolerable Cruelty
The Italian Job
Japón (Japan)
Ken Park
The Last Samurai
Light of My Eyes (Luce dei miei occhi)
Lilya 4-Ever (Lilja 4-ever)
Lost in La Mancha
Lost in Translation
Matchstick Men
Mystic River
Nowhere in Africa (Nirgendwo in Afrika)
Out of Time
Owning Mahowny
Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl
Respiro
The School of Rock
The Secret Lives of Dentists
The Shape of Things
The Station Agent
Stuck on You
Sweet Sixteen
Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines
Thirteen
The Triplettes of Belleville (Les triplettes de Belleville)
21 Grams
Whale Rider
**½
American Splendor
Anything But Love
Anything Else
The Boys of 2nd Street Park
Charlotte Sometimes
The Dancer Upstairs
Dark Blue
Dummy
The Eye (Jian gui)
Final Destination 2
Freddy Vs. Jason
Gigli
The Good Thief
In This World
The Man Without a Past (Mies vailla menneisyyttä)
May
A Mighty Wind
Mondays in the Sun (Los lunes al sol)
Northfork
Phone Booth
The Princess Blade
Rivers & Tides
Samsara
Swimming Pool
28 Days Later
Winged Migration (Le peuple migrateur)
X2
**
Amen
L'Auberge espagnole
Anger Management
Bend It Like Beckham
Cabin Fever
Confidence
Cowboy Bebop: Knockin' On Heaven's Door (Tengoku no tobira)
Dirty Pretty Things
Elf
The Flower of Evil (La fleur du mal)
House of Sand and Fog
Identity
It's All About Love
Leo
The Magdalene Sisters
The Man on the Train (L'homme du train)
The Matrix Revolutions
Monster
Open Hearts (Elsker dig for evigt)
Robot Stories
The Sea (Hafið)
Seabiscuit
Shanghai Knights
A Soldier's Girl
Tibet: Cry of the Snow Lion
Willard
Zus & Zo
*½
Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle
The Cooler
Daredevil
Dreamcatcher
Manic
The Matrix Reloaded
The Missing
People I Know
*
Hollwood Homicide
Jeepers Creepers 2
Secondhand Lions
Slap Her, She's French
S.W.A.T.
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre
This Is Not A Love Song
½
None Yet
ZERO
Bad Boys II
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TOP TEN LISTS
Top Ten of 2003
1. Kill Bill: Volume 1 (United States, d. Quentin Tarantino)
2. All the Real Girls (United States, d. David Gordon Green)
3. Gerry (United States, d. Gus Van Sant)
4. Dracula: Pages From A Virgin's Diary (Canada, d. Guy Maddin)
5. Irréversible (France, d. Gaspar Noé)
6. The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (United States, d. Peter Jackson)
7. Cowards Bend the Knee (Canada, d. Guy Maddin)
8. Raising Victor Vargas (United States, d. Peter Sollett)
9. Down With Love (United States, d. Peyton Reed)
10. Open Range (United States, d. Kevin Costner))
Top Ten Most Anticipated
1. Gerry - The new film from Gus van Sant – I’ve heard it takes minimalism and existentialism to new cinematic heights. Also, the influence of the great Bela Tarr, the thematic similarities to Samuel Beckett, and the music of Arvo Pärt make this one almost unbearably difficult to wait for. The trailer is fantastic. Completely lived up to my expectations -- see it any way you can. Can't believe people are saying that nothing happens in this movie; everything happens in this movie. Particularly loved the pacing of tone, with the hilarious first half juxtaposed against the eerie, mostly silent shuffling dirge of the latter. The films very first line, upon utterance an incomplete sentence, seems like the most complete, telling one in the entire film once it reaches its ironic end: "The trail, Gerry."
2. The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King - Not really any explanation necessary here. Though I was somewhat underwhelmed by The Two Towers, my disappointment was muted since my expectations weren’t quite as high ("The Two Towers" is my least favorite of the books). "The Return of the King", however, is by far my favorite of the three books and the screen incarnation should be nothing less than an orgasm of dramatic spectacle. A nice finish and a definte rebound from the prior film. Still have problems with this one (especially the continued use of lame humor during the story's most dour moments), but there's little to complain about here.
3. Dogville - New Lars von Trier movie. Can’t be sure this one is coming out this year, but it is a distinct possibility, so I’m leaving it on for now. Doesn't come out officially until next year. Can't wait to witness the Grand Divide it will quickly chisel between the critical community.
4. Kill Bill - Looks really fun, though it’ll be interesting to see if Tarantino’s prowess has diminished or strengthened after such a long hiatus. It has strengthened.
5. Cowards Bend the Knee and The Saddest Music in the World - It would be difficult for me to pick which of these upcoming Guy Maddin films I'm anticipating more given that I know so little about each, but needless to say, I'm itching for another dosage of the directors retro-genius and I'm sure either will function as a good fix. One down, one to go. The nightmare-evoking Cowards Bend the Knee is probably the most feverish Maddin feature I've seen yet (his short Heart of the World is probably the closest in style) and like Dracula, it displays Maddin's preternatural pacing strengths. It runs only 61 minutes, not a second too long and not a second too short. For the majority of its running time, this is even more impressive than his other one this year, but unfortunately, the ending struck me as weak, which is the only reason it doesn't occupy the #1 spot on my years' best list so far.
6. The Matrix Reloaded - I’m a big fan of The Matrix so I’m crossing my fingers that the Bro’s don’t screw up what has the potential to be a fantastic trilogy. As a major fan of both Bound and The Matrix, I honestly didn't think it'd be possible for the Wachowski's to fuck this up so bad, but by god they've accomplished it, unfortunately. Everything that made the original so unique and compelling as a new grade of popcorn cinema (noirish, brooding photography; a balanced intertwining of sci-fi gibberish and philosophical underpinnings; a completely compelling story and fantastic characters) just goes to hell here in a movie that, in its awful first 40 minutes, resembles the worst of the two Star Wars prequels. It heats up a bit after that, but to say it's lacking that certain special element that the first possessed would be a massive understatement. Can't say I'm really anticipating the final installment now, so I've removed it from this list.
7. Ju-on - I just watched the original straight-to-video incarnation of this Japanese film and despite an ugly, low-budget shot-on-video look, it managed to frighten and unease me like few films ever have. Just the fact that this is the large-budget, theatrical continuation of the story would be enough to get me excited, but an even bigger cause for anticipation is that Kiyoshi Kurosawa, the director of the piss-your-pants-scary Pulse, had a major part in the production of this one. Word of mouth out of Japan is extremely strong. Well, I'd hoped that the presence of Kiyoshi Kurosawa would bring an understated creepiness to this, but it's obvious that he wasn't very involved on the creative front. This just isn't very effective, and even at 90-minutes it feels way too long. Go with the straight-to-video series -- they're far better.
8. Intolerable Cruelty - New Coen's. 'Nuff said. A disappointment in some capacities. The dialogue and wit are sharp as ever, but both the story progression and Joel's visuals seemed a bit dead here to me by comparison to the norm that I've come to expect. Great cinematography by Deakins, good performances all around, some very funny parts, but as a Coen's movie, it's probably my least favorite of their entire filmography.
9. The Son - The Dardenne Brother’s Rosetta was grim and powerful with a memorable (if sometimes nauseating) aesthetic. If The Son is anywhere near as good, it’ll be one of the best films of the year. Not quite as good as Rosetta so it qualifies as a minor disappointment, but a damn fine film nonetheless. The Dardennes' rigorously claustrophobic atmosphere is fairly similar to their previous film, but this one contains a catharsis at the end in deep contrast to Rosetta's grim abruption. One of the best of the year so far.
10. All the Real Girls - New DGG. 'Nuff said. Maybe the most honest, accurate portrayal of unsophisticated love I've ever seen. The whole thing operates as a well-oiled paradox machine, alternately blatant and completely subdued, making perfect sense and no sense at the same time -- and such is life. Green's dialogue perfectly illustrates the way people are unable to communicate when beset by such feirce emotions. No way I'm going to say it's perfect, but WOW anyways. I could write for ages on this movie, but this ain't the place, so look for a long review in another thread soon.
Others: Blissfully Yours, Wonderful Days, and any number of the surely dozens of interesting as-yet-unknown films that will premiere at Cannes this year.
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2002 CATCH-UP
2002 films seen for the first time in 2003
Chicago / ** / United States / Dir. Rob Marshall
Confessions of a Dangerous Mind / **½ / United States / Dir. George Cloony
The Hours / **½ / United States / Dir. Stephen Daldry
Intacto / *** / Spain / Dir. Juan Carlos Fresnadillo
Knockaround Guys / ** / United States / Dir. Brian Koppelman and David Levien
Lord of the Rings, The: The Two Towers - Extended Cut / *** / United States / Dir. Peter Jackson
Morvern Callar / *** / United Kingdom / Dir. Lynne Ramsay
Russian Ark (Russkij kovcheg) / ***½ / Russia / Dir. Alexander Sokurov
Safe Conduct (Laissez-passer) / *** / France / Dir. Bertrand Tavernier
Talk To Her (Hable con ella) / *** / Spain / Dir. Pedro Almodóvar
The 25th Hour / ***½ / United States / Dir. Spike Lee
OLDER FILMS SEEN FOR THE FIRST TIME
Added In The Last 3 Days: Something Wild, Angel Dust, Bad Blood, Naked Blood and Electric Dragon 80.000 V.
Accattone / ***½ / Italy, 1961 / Dir. Pier Paolo Pasolini
An Actor's Revenge (Yukinojo henge) / *** / Japan, 1963 / Dir. Kon Ichikawa
An Autumn Afternoon (Sanma no aji) / **** / Japan, 1962 / Dir. Yasujiro Ozu
The Age of Innocence / ***½ / United States, 1993 / Dir. Martin Scorsese
All Night Long (Ooru naito rongu) / *** / Japan, 1992 / Dir. Katsuya Matsumura
All That Jazz / ***½ / United States, 1979 / Dir. Bob Fosse
Anatomy of a Murder / *** / United States, 1959 / Dir. Otto Preminger
Angel Dust (Enjeru dasuto) / *** / Japan, 1994 / Dir. Sogo Ishii
Angel Heart / *** / United States, 1987 / Dir. Alan Parker
Annie Hall / **** / United States, 1977 / Dir. Woody Allen
The Apartment / **** / United States, 1960 / Dir. Billy Wilder
Assault on Precinct 13 / **** / United States, 1976 / Dir. John Carpenter
Baby Doll / ***½ / United States, 1956 / Dir. Elia Kazan
Bad Blood (Mauvais sang) / **** / France, 1986 / Dir. Leos Carax
Badlands / ***½ / United States, 1973 / Dir. Terrence Malick
Barking Dogs Never Bite (Flandersui gae) / *** / South Korea, 2000 / Dir. Bong Joon-ho
Barton Fink / **** / United States, 1991 / Dir. Joel Coen
The Battle of Algiers (La Battaglia di Algeri) / **** / Algeria, 1965 / Dir. Gillo Pontecorvo
The Beautiful Troublemaker (La belle noiseuse) / **** / France, 1991 / Dir. Jacques Rivette
Before Sunrise / **** / United States, 1995 / Dir. Richard Linklater
Bend of the River / ***½ / United States, 1952 / Dir. Anthony Mann
Birth of a Nation / *** / United States, 1915 / Dir. D.W. Griffith
Black Angel, Vol. 1 (Kuro no tenshi Vol. 1) / *** / Japan, 1997 / Dir. Takashi Ishii
Black Angel, Vol. 2 (Kuro no tenshi Vol. 2) / ***½ / Japan, 1999 / Dir. Takashi Ishii
Black Rain (Kuroi ame) / *** / Japan, 1989 / Dir. Shohei Imamura
Black Sunday (La maschera del demonio) / *** / Italy, 1960 / Dir. Mario Bava
The Blue Kite (Lan feng zheng) / *** / China, 1994 / Dir. Tian Zhuangzhuang
Brazil / *** / United Kingdom, 1985 / Dir. Terry Gilliam
Bringing Up Baby / *** / United States, 1938 / Dir. Howard Hawks
Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia / ***½ / United States, 1974 / Dir. Sam Peckinpah
Buffalo '66 / **** / United States, 1998 / Dir. Vincent Gallo
Careful / *** / Canada, 1992 / Dir. Guy Maddin
Carlito's Way / ***½ / United States, 1993 / Dir. Brian De Palma
Charulata / **** / India, 1964 / Dir. Satyajit Ray
Christine / ***½ / United States, 1983 / Dir. John Carpenter
Code Unknown (Code inconnu: Récit incomplet de divers voyages) / ***½ / France, 2000 / Dir. Michael Haneke
Comanche Station / *** / United States, 1960 / Dir. Budd Boetticher
Come Drink With Me (Da zui xia) / **½ / Hong Kong, 1966 / Dir. King Hu
Confessions of an Opium Eater / *** / United States, 1962 / Dir. Albert Zugsmith
Crimes and Misdemeanors / **** / United States, 1989 / Dir. Woody Allen
Crumb / **** / United States, 1995 / Dir. Terry Zwigoff
Curse of the Demon / *** / United Kingdom, 1957 / Dir. Jacques Tourneur
Cutter's Way / *** / United States, 1981 / Dir. Ivan Passer
Daisy Kenyon / ***½ / United States, 1947 / Dir. Otto Preminger
Dark City / *** / United States, 1998 / Dir. Alex Proyas
Dark Waters / **½ / United States, 1944 / Dir. André De Toth
Day of the Dead / ***½ / United States, 1985 / Dir. George A. Romero
Dead or Alive II: Birds (Dead or Alive 2: Tôbôsha) / **½ / Japan, 2000 / Dir. Takashi Miike
The Decameron (Il decameron) / *** / Italy, 1971 / Dir. Pier Paolo Pasolini
Detour / *** / United States, 1945 / Dir. Edgar G. Ulmer
Devi (The Goddess) / *** / India, 1960 / Dir. Satyajit Ray
The Devil & Daniel Webster / ***½ / United States, 1941 / Dir. William Dieterle
Die Nibelungen, Part I: Siegfried / ***½ / Germany, 1924 / Dir. Fritz Lang
Die Nibelungen, Part II: Kriemhild's Revenge / ***½ / Germany, 1924 / Dir. Fritz Lang
Distance / ***½ / Japan, 2001 / Dir. Hirokazu Kore-eda
Distant Voices, Still Lives / **** / United Kingdom, 1989 / Dir. Terence Davies
Don't Look Back / ***½ / United States, 1967 / Dir. D.A. Pennebaker
Double Indemnity / **** / United States, 1944 / Dir. Billy Wilder
Dressed to Kill / ***½ / United States, 1980 / Dir. Brian De Palma
Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb / **** / United States, 1964 / Dir. Stanley Kubrick
Early Summer (Bakushu) / ***½ / Japan, 1951 / Dir. Yasujiro Ozu
Earth (Zemlya) / *** / Russia, 1930 / Dir. Aleksandr Dovzhenko
Electric Dragon 80.000 V / *** / Japan, 2001 / Dir. Sogo Ishii
The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser (Jeder für sich und Gott gegen alle) / ***½ / West Germany, 1974 / Dir. Werner Herzog
Escape From New York / *** / United States, 1981 / Dir. John Carpenter
Eureka / ***½ / Japan, 2000 / Dir. Shinji Aoyama
The Exorcist III: Legion / ***½ / United States, 1990 / Dir. William Peter Blatty
Eyes of the Spider (Kumo no hitomi) / *** / Japan, 1998 / Dir. Kiyoshi Kurosawa
Eyes Without A Face (Les yeux sans visage) / **** / France, 1959 / Dir. Georges Franju
Faces / **** / United States, 1968 / Dir. John Cassavetes
Fanny and Alexander: 5-Hour Version (Fanny och Alexander) / **** / Sweden, 1982 / Dir. Ingmar Bergman
Fast Times at Ridgemont High / *** / United States, 1982 / Dir. Amy Heckerling
The Fearless Vampire Killers / *** / United States, 1967 / Dir. Roman Polanski
Female Convict, Scorpion: Jailhouse 41 (Joshuu sasori: Dai-41 zakkyo-bô) / **½ / Japan, 1972 / Dir. Ito Shunya
F For Fake / **** / France, 1975 / Dir. Orson Welles
I Fidanzati (The Fiances) / ***½ / Italy, 1962 / Dir. Ermanno Olmi
The Fog / **½ / United States, 1980 / Dir. John Carpenter
Force of Evil / *** / United States, 1948 / Dir. Abraham Polonsky
Full Metal Yakuza (Full Metal gokudô) / ** / Japan, 1997 / Dir. Takashi Miike
Fury / **** / United States, 1936 / Dir. Fritz Lang
Gate of Flesh (Nikutai no mon) / ***½ / Japan, 1964 / Dir. Seijun Suzuki
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes / *** / United States, 1953 / Dir. Howard Hawks
A Gentle Woman (Une femme douce) / **½ / France, 1969 / Dir. Robert Bresson
Gertrud / *** / Denmark, 1964 / Dir. Carl Theodor Dreyer
Ghost Actress (Joyû-rei) / ** / Japan, 1996 / Dir. Hideo Nakata
God Told Me To / *** / United States, 1976 / Dir. Larry Cohen
Gojoe (Gojoe senki) / **½ / Japan, 2000 / Dir. Sogo Ishii
Goodbye South, Goodbye (Nanguo zaijan, nanguo) / *** / Taiwan, 1996 / Dir. Hou Hsiao-hsien
The Gospel According to St. Matthew (Il vangelo secondo Matteo) / **** / Italy, 1964 / Dir. Pier Paolo Pasolini
Go West / ***½ / United States, 1925 / Dir. Buster Keaton
The Great Escape / *** / United States, 1963 / Dir. John Sturges
Il Grido (The Cry) / ***½ / Italy, 1957 / Dir. Michelangelo Antonioni
Harakiri (Seppuku) / **** / Japan, 1962 / Dir. Masaki Kobayashi
Hate (La haine) / ***½ / France, 1995 / Dir. Mathieu Kassovitz
Heaven's Gate / *** / United States, 1980 / Dir. Michael Cimino
Hell House / *** / United States, 2001 / Dir. George Ratliff
High Noon / *** / United States, 1952 / Dir. Fred Zinnemann
High School / *** / United States, 1968 / Dir. Frederick Wiseman
Hi, Mom! / *** / United States, 1970 / Dir. Brian De Palma
The Hole (Dong) / ***½ / Taiwan, 1998 / Dir. Tsai Ming-liang
The Honeymoon Killers / **** / United States, 1970 / Dir. Leonard Kastle
Hope and Glory / *** / United States, 1987 / Dir. John Boorman
House of Games / ***½ / United States, 1987 / Dir. David Mamet
The Hudsucker Proxy / *** / United States, 1994 / Dir. Joel Coen
L'humanité / *** / France, 1999 / Dir. Bruno Dumont
Husbands / **** / United States, 1970 / Dir. John Cassavetes
The Hustler / ***½ / United States, 1961 / Dir. Robert Rossen
I Am a Fugitive From a Chain Gang / ***½ / United States, 1932 / Dir. Mervyn LeRoy
I Stand Alone (Seul contre tous) / ** / France, 1998 / Dir. Gaspar Noé
Imitation of Life / **** / United States, 1959 / Dir. Douglas Sirk
In Cold Blood / *** / United States, 1967 / Dir. Richard Brooks
In A Lonely Place / *** / United States, 1950 / Dir. Nicholas Ray
The Innocents / **** / United Kingdom, 1961 / Dir. Jack Clayton
In Praise of Love (Éloge de l'amour) / *** / France, 2001 / Dir. Jean-Luc Godard
JFK / **** / United States, 1991 / Dir. Oliver Stone
Jigoku (Hell) / *** / Japan, 1960 / Dir. Nobuo Nakagawa
Johnny Guitar / ***½ / United States, 1954 / Dir. Nicholas Ray
The Killing of a Chinese Bookie / ***½ / United States, 1976 / Dir. John Cassavetes
The King of New York / **** / United States, 1990 / Dir. Abel Ferrara
Kite / **½ / Japan, 1998 / Dir. Yasuomi Umetsu
Kiss Me Deadly / ***½ / United States, 1955 / Dir. Robert Aldrich
Lady Snowblood (Shurayukihime) / ***½ / Japan, 1973 / Dir. Toshiya Fujita
The Last Laugh (Der Letzte Mann) / **** / Germany, 1924 / Dir. F.W. Murnau
The Last Temptation of Christ / **** / United States, 1988 / Dir. Martin Scorsese
Late Chrysanthemums (Bangiku) / *** / Japan, 1954 / Dir. Mikio Naruse
Laura / **** / United States, 1944 / Dir. Otto Preminger
Lawn Dogs / ***½ / United Kingdom, 1997 / Dir. John Duigan
Leaving Las Vegas / *** / United States, 1995 / Dir. Mike Figgis
The Leopard Man / **½ / United States, 1943 / Dir. Jacques Tourneur
Lessons of Darkness (Lektionen in Finsternis) / **** / Germany, 1992 / Dir. Werner Herzog
Ley Lines (Nihon kuroshakai) / **½ / Japan, 1999 / Dir. Takashi Miike
Little Otik (Otesánek) / ***½ / Czech Republic, 2001 / Dir. Jan Svankmajer
The Long Goodbye / ***½ / United States, 1973 / Dir. Robert Altman
Love Streams / ***½ / United States, 1984 / Dir. John Cassavetes
Loves of a Blonde (Lásky jedné plavovlásky) / **** / Czechoslovakia, 1965 / Dir. Milos Forman
Macbeth / **** / United Kingdom, 1971 / Dir. Roman Polanski
Maelström / ***½ / Canada, 2000 / Dir. Denis Villeneuve
The Magician (Ansiktet) / *** / Sweden, 1958 / Dir. Ingmar Bergman
Make Way for Tomorrow / **** / United States, 1937 / Dir. Leo McCarey
The Man from Laramie / **** / United States, 1955 / Dir. Anthony Mann
The Man With a Movie Camera (Chelovek s kinoapparatom) / **** / Soviet Union, 1929 / Dir. Dziga Vertov
Manhattan / **** / United States, 1979 / Dir. Woody Allen
Man of the West / *** / United States, 1958 / Dir. Anthony Mann
Mean Streets / **** / United States, 1973 / Dir. Martin Scorsese
Medea / *** / Denmark, 1987 / Dir. Lars von Trier
Memories of Underdevelopment (Memorias del subdesarrollo) / ***½ / Cuba, 1968 / Dir. Tomás Gutiérrez Alea
Metropolis: Restored Version / ***½ / Germany, 1927 / Dir. Fritz Lang
Mikey and Nicky / **** / United States, 1976 / Dir. Elaine May
Miller's Crossing / ***½ / United States, 1990 / Dir. Joel Coen
The Miracle of Morgan's Creek / **** / United States, 1944 / Dir. Preston Sturges
The Mission (Cheong feng) / **½ / Hong Kong, 1999 / Dir. Johnny To
M/Other / **** / Japan, 1999 / Dir. Nobuhiro Suwa
Ms. 45 / ***½ / United States, 1981 / Dir. Abel Ferrara
The Music Room (Jalsaghar) / **** / India, 1958 / Dir. Satyajit Ray
My Life as a Dog (Mitt liv som hund) / ***½ / Sweden, 1985 / Dir. Lasse Hallström
Mystery Train / **** / United States, 1989 / Dir. Jim Jarmusch
Naked Blood (Megyaku: Akuma no yorokobi) / * / Japan, 1995 / Dir. Hisayasu Sato
The Naked Spur / ***½ / United States, 1953 / Dir. Anthony Mann
Nanook of the North / **** / United States, 1922 / Dir. Robert J. Flaherty
Nashville / ***½ / United States, 1975 / Dir. Robert Altman
Near Dark / *** / United States, 1987 / Dir. Kathryn Bigelow
Night and the City / ***½ / United States, 1950 / Dir. Jules Dassin
Ninotchka / ***½ / United States, 1939 / Dir. Ernst Lubitsch
The Ninth Configuration / *** / United States, 1980 / Dir. William Peter Blatty
Odd Man Out / ***½ / United Kingdom, 1947 / Dir. Carol Reed
Oedipus Rex (Edipo re) / ***½ / Italy, 1967 / Dir. Pier Paolo Pasolini
Once Upon a Time in the West (C'era una volta il West) / **** / Italy, 1968 / Dir. Sergio Leone
Onibaba (The Hole) / *** / Japan, 1964 / Dir. Kaneto Shindô
Only Angels Have Wings / ***½ / United States, 1939 / Dir. Howard Hawks
Only Yesterday (Omohide poro poro) / **** / Japan, 1991 / Dir. Isao Takahata
Othello / **** / United States, 1952 / Dir. Orson Welles
The Palm Beach Story / *** / United States, 1942 / Dir. Preston Sturges
Paper Moon / ***½ / United States, 1973 / Dir. Peter Bogdanovich
Paradise Lost: The Child Murders at Robin Hood Hills / ***½ / United States, 1996 / Dir. Joe Berlinger and Bruce Sinofsky
Paris, Texas / **** / United States, 1984 / Dir. Wim Wenders
Peking Opera Blues (Do ma daan) / *** / Hong Kong, 1986 / Dir. Tsui Hark
Pickup on South Street / ***½ / United States, 1953 / Dir. Samuel Fuller
Point Blank / ***½ / United States, 1967 / Dir. John Boorman
Ponette / *** / France, 1996 / Dir. Jacques Doillon
Portrait of Jennie / **** / United States, 1948 / Dir. William Dieterle
Il Posto (The Job) / **** / Italy, 1961 / Dir. Ermanno Olmi
Prince of Darkness / *** / United States, 1987 / Dir. John Carpenter
The Prisoner of Zenda / ***½ / United States, 1937 / Dir. John Cromwell
Quai des Orfèvres / ***½ / France, 1947 / Dir. Henri-Georges Clouzot
Rabid Dogs (Cani arrabbiati) / ***½ / Italy, 1974 / Dir. Mario Bava
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1/2/03 at 12:01pm
2003 Film List
Last Updated - January , 14 , 2004
Criteria - NY/LA Academy Rules.
Just Added - The Statement
On Deck - I think thats it for the year
Total Films Seen - 301
Older Films or shorts - 36
A
A Big Girl Like You - 3.5 out of 5 - Dir-Christophe Blanc
A Decade Under The Influence - 4 out of 5 - Dir-Ted Demme and Richard LaGravenese
Agent Cody Banks - 1 out of 5 - Dir-Harald Zwart
Aiki - 4 out of 5 - Dir-Diasuke Tengan
Alex and Emma - 1.5 out of 5 - Dir-Rob Reiner
All The Real Girls - 4 out of 5 - Dir-David Gordon Green
Amandla : A Revolution In Four Part Harmony - 3 out of 5 - Dir-Lee Hirsch
Amen - 3.5 out of 5 - Dir-Costa-Gavras
American Splendor - 4.5 out of 5 - Dir-Shari Berman and Bob Pulcini
American Wedding - 3.5 out of 5 - Dir-Jessie Dylan
Anarchist's Cookbook - 2 out of 5 - Dir-Jordan Susman
Anger Management - 2 out of 5 - Dir-Peter Segal
Any Way the Wind Blows - 3 out of 5 - Dir-Tom Barman
Anything But Love - 3.5 out 5 - Dir-Robert Cary
Anything Else - 3.5 out of 5 - Dir-Woody Allen
Assasination Tango - 3 out of 5 - Dir-Robert DuVall
At Five in the Afternoon - 5 out of 5 - Dir-Samira Makhmalbaf
Avalon - 4 out of 5 - Dir-Mamoru Oshii
B
Bad Boys 2 - ZERO out of 5 - Dir-Michael Bay
Bad Santa - 4 out of 5 - Dir-Terry Zwigoff
The Barbarian Invasions - 5 out of 5 - Dir-Denys Arcand
Basic - 2 out of 5 - Dir-John McTiernan
The Battle of Shaker Heights - 4 out of 5 - Dir-Efram Potelle and Kyle Rankin
Bend it Like Beckham - 1.5 out of 5 - Dir-Gurinder Chadha
Better Luck Tommorow - 4 out of 5 - Dir-Justin Lin
Beyond Borders - 2 out of 5 - Dir-Martin Campbell
Big Fish - 4.5 out of 5 - Dir-Tim Burton
Biker Boyz - 1 out of 5 - Dir-Reggie Bythewood
Blizzard - 1 out of 5 - Dir-Geordie Freaking LaForge
Blue Car - 4 out of 5 - Dir-Karen Moncrieff
Blue Collar Comedy Tour - 1 out of 5 - Dir-C.B Harding
Boat Trip - ZERO out of 5 - Dir-Mort Nathan
Bringing Down The House - 1.5 out of 5 - Dir-Adam Shankman
Brother Bear - 3 out of 5 - Dir-Aaron Blaise and Bob Walker
Bruce Almighty - 3.5 out of 5 - Dir-Tom Shadyac
Brother Bear - 1.5 out of 5 - Dir-Aaron Blaise and Bob Walker
Buffalo Solders - 4 out of 5 - Dir-Gregor Jordan
Bug - 3.5 out of 5 - Dir-Phil Hay , Matt Manfredi
Bulletproof Monk - 2 out of 5 - Dir-Paul Hunter
Bus 174 - 4.5 out of 5 - Dir-Jose Padilha
C
Cabin Fever - 4 out of 5 - Dir-Eli Roth
Calender Girls - 3 out of 5 - Dir-Nigel Cole
Camp - 2.5 out of 5 - Dir-Todd Graff
The Cat in the Hat - 0.5 out of 5 - Dir-Bo Welch
The Cat Returns - 3.5 out of 5 - Dir-Hiroyuki Morita
Chaos and Desire - 3 out of 5 - Dir-Manon Briand
Charlie's Angels : Full Throttle - 3.5 out of 5 - Dir-McG
Charlotte Sometimes - 3 out of 5 - Dir-Eric Byler
Chasing Papi - 2 out of 5 - Dir-Linda Mendoza
Cheaper by the Dozen - 2 out of 5 - Dir-Shawn Levy
Chihwaseon - 3 out of 5 - Dir-Im Kwon Taek
City of God - 5 out of 5 - Dir- Fernando Meirelles
Confidence - 3 out of 5 - Dir-James Foley
The Cuckoo - 4 out of 5 - Dir-Alexander Rogozhkin
Cold Creek Manor - 1 out of 5 - Dir-Mike Figgis!
Cold Mountain - 2.5 out of 5 - Dir-Anthony Minghella
The Cooler - 3.5 out of 5 - Dir-Wayne Kramer
The Core - 3.5 out of 5 - Dir- Jon Amiel
Cowboy Bebop: The Movie - 4.5 out of 5 - Dir-Shinichiro Watanabe
Cradle To The Grave - 1 out of 5 - Dir-Andrzek Bartkowiak
Cube 2: Hypercube - 2 out of 5 - Dir-Andrzej Sekula
D
Daddy Day Care - ZERO out of 5 - Dir-Steven Carr
The Dancer Upstairs - 2.5 out of 5 - Dir-John Malkovich
Daredevil - 2 out of 5 - Dir-Mark Steven Johnson
Dark Blue - 4 out of 5 - Dir-Ron Shelton
Darkness Falls - 0.5 out of 5 - Dir-Johnny Liebesman
The Day of The Wacko - 3.5 out of 5 - Dir-Marek Koterski
Deliver Us From Eva - 1.5 out of 5 - Dir-Gary Hardwick
Demonlover - 4 out of 5 - Dir-Olivier Assayas
Dickie Roberts: Former Child Star - 2.5 out of 5 - Dir-Sam Weisman
Dirty Pretty Things - 2.5 out of 5 - Dir-Stephen Frears
Dissonances - 2 out of 5 - Dir-Jerome Cornuau
Divine Intervention - 3 out of 5 - Dir-Elia Suleiman
Down With Love - 4 out of 5 - Dir-Peyton Reed
Dracula : Pages From a Virgin's Diary - 4 out of 5 - Dir- Guy Maddin
Dreamcatcher - ZERO out of 5 - Dir-Lawrence Kasdan
Dumb and Dumberer : When Harry Met Lloyd - ZERO out of 5 - Dir-Troy Miller
Dummy - 3.5 out of 5 - Dir-Gregory Pritkin
Duplex - 1 out of 5 - Dir-Danny Devito
DysFunktional Family - 1.5 out of 5 - Dir-George Gallo
E
11'9'01 - 2 out of 5 - Dir- Various Directors
El Bonaerense - 3 out of 5 - Dir-Pablo Ragman
Elephant - 5 out of 5 - Dir-Gus Van Sant
Elf - 2 out of 5 - Dir-Jon Favreau
The Embalmer - 4 out of 5 - Dir-Matteo Garrone
The Event - 4.5 out of 5 - Dir-Thom Fitzgerald
Evil - 3.5 out of 5 - Dir-Mikael Hafstrom
Expecting - 4 out of 5 - Dir-Deborah Day
The Eye - 4.5 out of 5 - Dir-The Pang Brothers
F
Falling Angels - 1 out of 5 - Dir-Scott Smith
The Far Side of the Moon - ZERO out of 5 - Dir-Robert LePage
Father and Son - 1 out of 5 - Dir-Alexander Sokurov
The Fighting Temptations - 1.5 out of 5 - Dir-Jonathan Lynn
Final Destination 2 - 2.5 out of 5 - Dir-David Ellis
Finding Nemo - 4 out of 5 - Dir-Andrew Stanton
Fix : The Story of An Addicted City - 2.5 out of 5 - Dir-Nette Wild
Flower and Garnet - 1.5 out of 5 - Dir-Keith Bernham
Flower of Evil - 2.5 out of 5 - Dir-Claude Chabrou
The Fog of War - 4.5 out of 5 - Dir-Errol Morris
Foolproof - 3 out of 5 - Dir-William Phillips
Freaky Friday - 3 out of 5 - Dir-Mark Waters
Freddy VS Jason - 3 out of 5 - Dir-Ronny Yu
Free Radicals - 2 out of 5 - Dir-Barbara Albert
From Justin to Kelly - ZERO out of 5 - Dir-Robert Iscove
G
Garage Days - 3.5 out of 5 - Dir-Alex Proyas
Gerry - 3.5 out of 5 - Dir-Gus Van Sant
Gigli - 0.5 out of 5 - Dir-Martin Brest
Girl with a Pearl Earring - 3 out of 5 - Dir-Peter Webber
Go Further - 4 out of 5 - Dir-Ron Mann
Gods and Generals - 1 out of 5 - Dir-Ron Maxwell
Good Boy - 0.5 out of 5 - Dir-John Hoffman
Gothika - 2 out of 5 - Dir-Matthieu Kassovitz
The Good Thief - 3.5 out of 5 - Dir-Neil Jordan
Gozu - 3.5 out of 5 - Dir-Takashi Miike
Grimm - 2 out of 5 - Dir-Alex Van Warmeldham
Grind - 2 out of 5 - Dir-Casey La Scala
The Guru - 1 out of 5 - Dir- Daisy von Scherler Mayer
A Guy Thing - ZERO out of 5 - Dir-Chris Koch
H
1/2 The Rent - 3.5 out of 5 - Dir-Mark Ottiker
The Haunted Mansion - 1.5 out of 5 - Dir-Rob Minkoff
He Loves Me....He Loves Me Not - 4 out of 5 - Dir-Laetitia Colombani
Head of State - 2 out of 5 - Dir-Chris Rock
Herod's Law - 3 out of 5 - Dir-Luis Estrada
Holes - 3 out of 5 - Dir-Andrew Davis
Hollywood Homicide - 2 out of 5 - Dir-Ron Shelton
Honey - 1.5 out of 5 - Dir-Bille Woodruff
House of a 1000 Corpses - 1 out of 5 - Dir-Robert Zombie
House of Sand and Fog - 5 out of 5 - Dir-Vadim Perelman
House of the Dead - 0.5 out of 5 - Dir-Uwe Boll
The Housekeeper - 2 out of 5 - Dir-Claude Berri
How To Deal - 1 out of 5 - Dir-Clare Kilner
How To Lose A Guy In 10 Days - 3 out of 5 - Dir-Donald Petrie
The Hulk - 4 out of 5 - Dir-Ang Lee
The Human Stain - 4 out of 5 - Dir-Robert Benton
The Hunted - 2 out of 5 - Dir-William Friedkin
I
I Capture the Castle - 3 out of 5 - Dir-Tim Fywell
Ichi the Killer - 4.5 out of 5 - Dir-Takashi Miike
Identity - ZERO out of 5 - Dir-James Mangold
In America - 4 out of 5 - Dir-Jim Sheridan
The In Laws - 2 out of 5 - Dir-Andrew Fleming
In The Cut - 3 out of 5 - Dir-Jane Campion
Inspecting Sex - 1 out of 5 - Dir-Alan Rudolph
Intolerable Cruelty - 4 out of 5 - Dir-Joel Coen
Irreversible - 4.5 out of 5 - Dir-Gaspar Noe
It Runs in the Family - 1 out of 5 - Dir-Fred Schepisi
Its All About Love - 2.5 out of 5 - Dir-Thomas Vinterberg
The Italian Job - 3.5 out of 5 - Dir-F. Gary Grey
J
Japon - 3 out of 5 - Dir-Carlos Reygadas
Jeepers Creepers 2 - 1 out of 5 - Dir-Victor Salva
Johnny English - 3 out of 5 - Dir-Peter Howitt
Julie Walking Home - 4 out of 5 - Dir-Agnieszka Holland
Just Married - 1 out of 5 - Dir-Shawn Levy
K
Kangaroo Jack - 1 out of 5 - Dir-David McNally
Kart Racer - 1.5 out of 5 - Dir-Stuart Gillard
Ken Park - 3 out of 5 - Dir-Larry Clark and Ed Lachman
Kill Bill Volume 1 - 4 out of 5 - Dir-Quentin Tarantino
L
L'Auberge Espagnole - 3.5 out of 5 - Dir-Cedric Klapisch
The Last Samurai - 5 out of 5 - Dir-Edward Zwick
Laurel Canyon - 2.5 out of 5 - Dir-Lisa Cholodenko
Le Divorce - 3 out of 5 - Dir-James Ivory
The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen - ZERO out of 5 - Dir-Stephen Norrington
Legally Blonde 2 : Red , White and Blonde - 1.5 out of 5 - Dir-Charles Herman-Wurmfeld
Leo - 4 out of 5 - Dir-Mehdi Norowzian
Levity - 2.5 out of 5 - Dir-Ed Solomon
The Life and Times of Luchino Visconti - 3.5 out of 5 - Dir-Adam Low
The Life of David Gale - 1 out of 5 - Dir- Alan Parker
Lilya 4-Ever - 4 out of 5 - Dir-Lukas Moodysson
The Lizzie McGuire Movie - 1.5 out of 5 - Dir-Jim Fall
Looney Tunes : Back in Action - 2.5 out of 5 - Dir-Joe Dante
Lord of the Rings : The Return of the King - 5 out of 5 - Dir-Peter Jackson
Lost in La Mancha - 4 out of 5 - Dir-Keith Fulton and Louis Pepe
Lost in Translation - 5 out of 5 - Dir-Sofia Coppola
Love Actually - 4.5 out of 5 - Dir-Richard Curtis
Love Dont Cost a Thing - 2 out of 5 - Dir-Troy Beyer
Lucia Lucia - 3.5 out of 5 - Dir-Antonio Serrano
M
The Magdalene Sisters - 3.5 out of 5 - Dir-Peter Mulland
Malibu's Most Wanted - 2 out of 5 - Dir-John Whitesell
Mambo Italiano - 2 out of 5 - Dir-Emile Gaudreault
A Man Apart - 1 out of 5 - Dir-F Gary Gray
The Man on a Train - 3.5 out of 5 - Dir-Patrice LaConte
The Man Without a Past - 4 out of 5 - Dir-Aki Kaurismaki
Manic - 2.5 out of 5 - Dir-Jordan Malamed
Marci X - 1.5 out of 5 - Dir-Richard Benjamin
Marion Bridge - 3 out of 5 - Dir-Wiebke Von Carolsfeld
Master and Commander : The Far Side of the World - 4.5 out of 5 - Dir-Ridley Scott
Matchstick Men - 3.5 out of 5 - Dir-Ridley Scott
The Matrix Reloaded - 4 out of 5 - Dir- The Wachowski Brothers
The Matrix Revolutions - 3.5 out of 5 - Dir-The Wachowski Brothers
May - 4.5 out of 5 - Dir-Lucky McKee
The Medallion - 1.5 out of 5 - Dir-Gordon Chan
A Mighty Wind - 3 out of 5 - Dir-Christoper Guest
Millenium Actress - 3.5 out of 5 - Dir-Satoshi Kon
The Missing - 2 out of 5 - Dir-Opie Howard
Mona Lisa Smile - 1.5 out of 5 - Dir-Mike Newell
Mondays in the Sun - 3 out of 5 -Dir-Fernando Leon de Aranoa
Monster - 3.5 out of 5 - Dir-Patty Jenkins
Moving Malcolm - 3 out of 5 - Dir-Benjamin Ratner
My Boss's Daughter - 2 out of 5 - Dir-David Zucker
My Life Without Me - 2 out of 5 - Dir-Isabel Coixet
Mystic River - 4 out of 5 - Dir-Clint Eastwood
N
National Security - 3 out of 5 - Dir-Dennis Dugan
Northfork - 4 out of 5 - Dir-Michael Polish
Nowhere in Africa - 3.5 out of 5 - Dir-Caroline Link
O
Old School - 2.5 out of 5 - Dir-Todd Phillips
On-Line - 2 out of 5 - Dir-Jed Weintrob
Once Upon a Time in Mexico - 3.5 out of 5 - Dir-Robert Rodriguez
Open Hearts - 3.5 out of 5 - Dir-Susanne Bier
Open Range - 3.5 out of 5 - Dir-Kevin Costner
The Order - 1 out of 5 - Dir-Brian Helgeland
Out of Time - 3.5 out of 5 - Dir-Carl Franklin
P
Party Monster - 3.5 out of 5 - Dir-Fenton Bailey and Randy Barbato
Paycheck - 2 out of 5 - Dir-John Woo
People I Know - 2 out of 5 - Dir-Daniel Algrant
Perfect Strangers - 2.5 out of 5 - Dir-Gaylene Preston
Peter Pan - 3.5 out of 5 - Dir-P.J Hogan
Phone Booth - 3.5 out of 5 - Dir-Joel Schumacher
Pieces of April - 3.5 out of 5 - Dir-Peter Hedges
Piglets's Big Movie - 2 out of 5 - Dir-Francis Glebas
Pirates of the Caribbean : The Curse of the Black Pearl - 4 out of 5 - Dir-Gore Verbinski
Pistol Opera - 2 out of 5 - Dir-Seijun Suzuki
Poolhall Junkies - 3 out of 5 - Dir-Mars Callahan
The Princess Blade - 3.5 out of 5 - Dir-Shinsuke Sato
Prisoner of Paradise - 4 out of 5 - Dir-Malcolm Clarke and Susan Sender
A Problem with Fear - 4.5 out of 5 - Dir-Gary Burns
Punch - 1.5 out of 5 - Dir-Guy Bennent
R
Radio - 2 out of 5 - Dir-Michael Tollin
Raising Victor Vargas - 4 out of 5 - Dir-Peter Sollett
The Real Cancun - 2.5 out of 5 - Dir-Rick DeOliveira
The Recruit - 2 out of 5 - Dir-Roger Donaldson
Respiro - 3.5 out of 5 - Dir-Emanuele Crialese
Returner - 2 out of 5 - Dir-Takashi Yamazaki
Rub and Tug - 2 out of 5 - Dir-Soo Lyu
Rugrats Go Wild - 2 out of 5 - Dir-Norton Virgien
Runaway Jury - 3.5 out of 5 - Dir-Gary Fleder
The Rundown - 3.5 out of 5 - Dir-Peter Berg
S
The Safety of Objects - 3.5 out of 5 - Dir-Rose Troche
Scary Movie 3 - 0.5 out of 5 - Dir-David Zucker
The School of Rock - 3 out of 5 - Dir-Richard Linklater
Science Fiction - 4 out of 5 - Dir-Franz Muller
The Sea - 3.5 out of 5 - Dir-Baltasar Kormakur
Seabiscuit - 2 out of 5 - Dir-Gary Ross
Secondhand Lions - 1 out of 5 - Dir-Tim McCanlies
Secret Lives of Dentists - 3.5 out of 5 - Dir-Alan Rudolph
Shanghai Knights - 2 out of 5 - Dir-David Dobkin
The Shape of Things - 3.5 out of 5 - Dir-Neil Labute
Shattered Glass - 4.5 out of 5 - Dir-Billy Ray
Sinbad : Legend of The Seven Seas - 3.5 out of 5 - Dir-Tim Johnson
The Singing Detective - 3.5 out of 5 - Dir-Keith Gordon
16 Years of Alcohol - 2 out of 5 - Dir-Richard Jobson
Slap Her , She's French - 1 out of 5 - Dir-Melanie Mayron
Something's Gotta Give - 3.5 out of 5 - Dir-Nancy Meyers
Spellbound - 4 out of 5 - Dir-Jeffrey Blitz
Spun - 3.5 out of 5 - Dir-Jonas Akerlund
Spy Kids 3D : Game Over - 2.5 out of 5 - Dir-Robert Rodriquez
The Statement - 2 out of 5 - Dir-Norman Jewison
The Station Agent - 4 out of 5 - Dir-Tom McCarthy
Steal - 1 out of 5 - Dir-Gerard Pires
Stevie - 4 out of 5 - Dir-Steve James
Stuck on You - 4 out of 5 - Dir-The Farrelly Brothers
The Suit - 1 out of 5 - Dir-Bakhtiyar Khudoinazarov
The Son - 4 out of 5 - Dir-Jean Pierre Dardenne and Luc Dardenne
Sweet Sixteen - 3.5 out of 5 - Dir-Ken Loach
S.W.A.T - 1.5 out of 5 - Dir-Clark Johnson
Swimming Pool - 3 out of 5 - Dir-Francois Ozon
Sylvia - 3.5 out of 5 - Dir-Christine Jeffs
T
Tears of the Sun - 2.5 out of 5 - Dir-Antoine Fuqua
Ten - 3 out of 5 - Dir-Abbas Kiarostami
Terminator 3 : Rise of the Machines - 4 out of 5 - Dir-Jonathon Mostow
Texas Chainsaw Massacre - 0.5 out of 5 - Dir-Marcus Nispel
Thirteen - 4.5 out of 5 - Dir-Catherine Hardwicke
Timeline - 1 out of 5 - Dir-Richard Donner
To Be and To Have - 3.5 out of 5 - Dir-Nicolas Philibert
The Triplets of Belleville - 4 out of 5 - Dir-Sylvain Chomet
The Tunnel - 4.5 out of 5 - Dir-Roland Suso Richter
Tupac Resurrection - 4 out of 5 - Dir-Lauren Lazin
To Kill a King - 4 out of 5 - Dir-Mike Barker
Tomb Raider 2 : The Cradle of Life - 3.5 out of 5 - Dir-Jan DeBont
21 Grams - 5 out of 5 - Dir-Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
28 Days Later - 3.5 out of 5 - Dir-Danny Boyle
2 Fast 2 Furious - 3.5 out of 5 - Dir-John Singleton
Twelfth Night - 1.5 out of 5 - Dir-Tim Supple
U
Undead - 3.5 out of 5 - Dir-The Spierig Brothers
Under the Tuscan Sun - 3 out of 5 - Dir-Audrey Wells
Uptown Girls - 2 out of 5 - Dir-Boaz Yakin
V
Veronica Guerin - 3.5 out of 5 - Dir-Joel Schumacher
Vibrator - 3.5 out of 5 - Dir-Hiroki Ryuichi
View From the Top - 1.5 out of 5 - Dir-Bruno Baretto
Volcano High - 3.5 out of 5 - Dir-Tae-gyun Kim
W
Washington Heights - 3.5 out of 5 - Dir-Alfredo de Villa
Whale Rider - 5 out of 5 - Dir-Niki Caro
What a Girl Wants - 1 out of 5 - Dir-Dennie Gordon
Wilbur Wants To Kill Himself - 4.5 out of 5 - Dir-Lone Scherfig
Willard - 3.5 out of 5 - Dir-Glen Morgan
Winged Migration - 4 out of 5 - Dir-Jacques Perrin
Wonderland - 3 out of 5 - Dir-James Cox
Wrong Turn - 2.5 out of 5 - Dir-Rob Schmidt
X
X2 - 4.5 out of 5 - Dir-Bryan Singer
xx/xy - 4.5 out of 5 - Dir-Austin Chick
Z
Zero Day - 4 out of 5 - Dir-Ben Coccio
Zus and Zo - 2.5 out of 5 - Dir-Paula von der Oest
By Star Rating
5 out of 5
At Five in the Afternoon
The Barbarian Invasions
City of God
Elephant
House of Sand and Fog
The Last Samurai
Lord of the Rings : The Return of the King
Lost in Translation
21 Grams
Whale Rider
4.5 out of 5
American Splendor
Big Fish
Bus 174
Cowboy Bebop: The Movie
The Event
The Eye
The Fog of War
Ichi The Killer
Irreversible
Love Actually
Master and Commander : The Far Side of the World
May
A Problem with Fear
Shattered Glass
Thirteen
The Tunnel
Wilbur Wants to Kill Himself
X2
xx/xy
4 out of 5
A Decade Under The Influence
Aiki
All The Real Girls
Avalon
Bad Santa
Battle of Shaker Heights
Better Luck Tommorow
Blue Car
Buffalo Solders
Cabin Fever
The Cuckoo
Dark Blue
Demonlover
Down With Love
Dracula : Pages From a Virgin's Diary
The Embalmer
Expecting
Finding Nemo
Go Further
He Loves Me...He Loves Me Not
The Hulk
The Human Stain
In America
Intolerable Cruelty
Kill Bill Volume 1
Leo
Lilya 4-Ever
Lost in La Mancha
The Man Without a Past
The Matrix Reloaded
Mystic River
Northfork
Pirates of the Caribbean : The Curse of the Black Pearl
Prisoner of Paradise
Raising Victor Vargas
Science Fiction
The Son
Spellbound
The Station Agent
Stevie
Stuck on You
Terminator 3 : Rise of the Machines
To Kill a King
The Triplets of Belleville
Tupac Resurrection
Winged Migration
Zero Day
3.5 out of 5
A Big Girl Like You
Amen
American Wedding
Anything Else
Bruce Almighty
The Cat Returns
Charlie's Angels : Full Throttle
The Cooler
The Core
The Day of the Wacko
Dummy
Evil
Garage Days
Gerry
The Good Thief
Gozu
1/2 The Rent
The Italian Job
L'Auberge Espagnole
The Life and Times of Luchino Visconti
Lucia Lucia
The Magdalene Sisters
The Man on The Train
Matchstick Men
The Matrix Revolutions
Millenium Actress
Monster
Nowhere in Africa
Once Upon a Time in Mexico
Open Hearts
Open Range
Out of Time
Party Monster
Peter Pan
Phone Booth
Pieces of April
The Princess Blade
Respiro
Runaway Jury
The Safety of Objects
The Sea
Secret Lives of Dentists
The Shape of Things
Sinbad : Legend of the Seven Seas
The Singing Detective
Something's Gotta Give
Spun
Sweet Sixteen
Sylvia
To Be and To Have
Tomb Raider 2 : The Cradle of Life
28 Days Later
2 Fast 2 Furious
Veronica Guerin
Vibrator
Volcano High
Washington Heights
Willard
3 out of 5
Amandla : A Revolution in Four Part Harmony
Any Way the Wind Blows
Assasination Tango
Brother Bear
Calender Girls
Chaos and Desire
Charlotte Sometimes
Chihwaseon
Confidence
Divine Intervention
El Bonaerense
Foolproof
Freaky Friday
Freddy VS Jason
Girl with a Pearl Earring
Herod's Law
Holes
How To Lose A Guy In 10 Days
I Capture the Castle
In The Cut
Japon
Johnny English
Ken Park
Le Divorce
Marion Bridge
A Mighty Wind
Mondays in the Sun
Moving Malcolm
National Security
Poolhall Junkies
The School of Rock
Swimming Pool
Ten
Under the Tuscan Sun
Wonderland
2.5 out of 5
Camp
Cold Mountain
The Dancer Upstairs
Dickie Roberts: Former Child Star
Dirty Pretty Things
Final Destination 2
Fix : The Story of an Addicted City
The Flower of Evil
Its All About Love
Laurel Canyon
Levity
Looney Tunes : Back in Action
Manic
Old School
Paycheck
Perfect Strangers
The Real Cancun
Spy Kids 3D : Game Over
Tears of The Sun
Wrong Turn
Zus and Zo
2 out of 5
Anarchist's Cookbook
Anger Management
Basic
Bulletproof Monk
Beyond Borders
Chasing Papi
Cheaper by the Dozen
Cube 2:Hypercube
Daredevil
Dissonances
11'09'01
Elf
Free Radicals
Gothika
Grimm
Grind
Head of State
Hollywood Homicide
The Hunted
The In Laws
Love Dont Cost a Thing
Malibu's Most Wanted
Mambo Italiano
The Missing
My Boss's Daughter
My Life Without Me
On-Line
People I Know
Piglet's Big Movie
Pistol Opera
Radio
The Recruit
Returner
Rub and Tug
Rugrats Go Wild
Seabiscuit
Shanghai Knights
16 Years of Alcohol
The Statement
Uptown Girls
1.5 out of 5
Alex and Emma
Bend it Like Beckham
Bringing Down The House
Brother Bear
Deliver Us From Eva
DysFunktional Family
The Fighting Temptations
Flower and Garnet
The Haunted Mansion
Honey
Kart Racer
Legally Blonde 2 : Red , White and Blonde
The Lizzie McGuire Movie
Marci X
The Medallion
Mona Lisa Smile
Punch
S.W.A.T
Twelfth Night
View From the Top
1 out of 5
Agent Cody Banks
Biker Boyz
Blizzard
Blue Collar Comedy Tour
Cold Creek Manor
Cradle To The Grave
Duplex
Falling Angels
Father and Son
Gods and Generals
The Guru
House of 1000 Corpses
How To Deal
Inspecting Sex
It Runs in the Family
Jeepers Creepers 2
Just Married
Kangaroo Jack
The Life of David Gale
A Man Apart
The Order
Secondhand Lions
The Suit
Slap Her , She's French
Steal
Timeline
What a Girl Wants
0.5 out of 5
The Cat in the Hat
Darkness Falls
Gigli
Good Boy
House of the Dead
Scary Movie 3
Texas Chainsaw Massacre
ZERO out of 5
Bad Boys 2
Boat Trip
Daddy Day Care
Dreamcatcher
Dumb and Dumberer : When Harry Met Lloyd
The Far Side of the Moon
A Guy Thing
From Justin to Kelly
Identity
The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen
Films Seen for the first time or rewatched in 2003
Ali : Fear Eats the Soul (1974 - Dir-Rainer Werner Fassbinder) - 4 out of 5
Blacksnake (1972 - Dir-Russ Meyer) - 2 out of 5
By Brakhage (Various Dates - Dir-Stan Brakhage) - 4 out of 5
Coup de Grace (1965 - Dir-Jean Cayrol and Claude Durand) - 3.5 out of 5
Cyclo (1995 - Dir-Anh Hung Tran) - 5 out of 5
Eraserhead (1977 - Dir-David Lynch) - 4 out of 5
Grand Slam (1967 - Dir-Giuliano Montaldo) - 3.5 out of 5
Hiroshima Mon Amour (1959 - Dir-Alain Resnais) - 4 out of 5
The Honeymoon Killers (1970 - Dir-Leonard Kastle and Donald Volkman) - 4.5 out of 5
Hopscotch (1980 - Dir-Ronald Neame) - 3.5 out of 5
I Am Curious Yellow (1967 - Dir-Vilgot Sjoman) - 3 out of 5
I Am Trying To Break Your Heart (2002 - Dir-Sam Jones) - 4 out of 5
Jubilee (1978 - Dir-Derek Jarman) - 3.5 out of 5
Le Samourai (1967 - Dir-Jean-Pierre Melville) 5 out of 5
The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (1943 - Dir-Powell and Pressburger) - 4 out of 5
Morvern Callar (2002 - Dir-Lynne Ramsey) - 4 out of 5
Nausicaa of the Valley of Wind (1984 - Dir-Hayao Miyazaki) - 5 out of 5
Once Upon A Time in America - Extended (1984 - Dir-Sergio Leone) - 5 out of 5
Quai des Orfevres (1947 - Dir-Henri-Georges Clouzot) - 4 out of 5
Rosetta (1999 - Dir-Jean-Pirre and Luc Dardenne) - 5 out of 5
Russian Ark (2002 - Dir-Aleksandr Sokurov) - 4 out of 5
Santa Sangre (1989 - Dir-Alejandro Jodorowsky) - 4 out of 5
The Seven Minutes (1971 - Dir-Russ Meyer) - 2 out of 5
Stalker (1979 - Dir-Andrei Tarkovsky) - 5 out of 5
Style Wars (1983 - Dir-Henry Chalfant and Tony Silver) - 4.5 out of 5
Suicide Club (2002 - Dir-Shion Sond) - 3.5 out of 5
Sympathy For Mr Vengence (2002 - Dir-Chan Wook Park) - 5 out of 5
The White Shiek (1952 - Dir-Fredrico Fellini) - 4 out of 5
Animated or Live Action Shorts
The Animatrix : Final Flight of the Osiris - 4 out of 5 - Dir-Andy Jones
The Animatrix : Detective Story - 4 out of 5 - Dir-Shinichiro Watanabe
The Animatrix : The Second Renaissance Parts 1 & 2 - 4.5 out of 5 - Dir-Mahiro Maeda
The Animatrix : Kid's Story - 5 out of 5 - Dir-Shinchiro Watanabe
The Animatrix : World Record - 4 out of 5 - Dir-Takeshi Koike
The Animatrix : Program - 3.5 out of 5 - Dir-Yoshaki Kawajiri
The Animatrix : Beyond - 5 out of 5 - Dir-Koji Morimoto
The Animatrix : Matriculated - 3.5 out of 5 - Dir-Peter Chung
Last Updated - January , 14 , 2004
Criteria - NY/LA Academy Rules.
Just Added - The Statement
On Deck - I think thats it for the year
Total Films Seen - 301
Older Films or shorts - 36
A
A Big Girl Like You - 3.5 out of 5 - Dir-Christophe Blanc
A Decade Under The Influence - 4 out of 5 - Dir-Ted Demme and Richard LaGravenese
Agent Cody Banks - 1 out of 5 - Dir-Harald Zwart
Aiki - 4 out of 5 - Dir-Diasuke Tengan
Alex and Emma - 1.5 out of 5 - Dir-Rob Reiner
All The Real Girls - 4 out of 5 - Dir-David Gordon Green
Amandla : A Revolution In Four Part Harmony - 3 out of 5 - Dir-Lee Hirsch
Amen - 3.5 out of 5 - Dir-Costa-Gavras
American Splendor - 4.5 out of 5 - Dir-Shari Berman and Bob Pulcini
American Wedding - 3.5 out of 5 - Dir-Jessie Dylan
Anarchist's Cookbook - 2 out of 5 - Dir-Jordan Susman
Anger Management - 2 out of 5 - Dir-Peter Segal
Any Way the Wind Blows - 3 out of 5 - Dir-Tom Barman
Anything But Love - 3.5 out 5 - Dir-Robert Cary
Anything Else - 3.5 out of 5 - Dir-Woody Allen
Assasination Tango - 3 out of 5 - Dir-Robert DuVall
At Five in the Afternoon - 5 out of 5 - Dir-Samira Makhmalbaf
Avalon - 4 out of 5 - Dir-Mamoru Oshii
B
Bad Boys 2 - ZERO out of 5 - Dir-Michael Bay
Bad Santa - 4 out of 5 - Dir-Terry Zwigoff
The Barbarian Invasions - 5 out of 5 - Dir-Denys Arcand
Basic - 2 out of 5 - Dir-John McTiernan
The Battle of Shaker Heights - 4 out of 5 - Dir-Efram Potelle and Kyle Rankin
Bend it Like Beckham - 1.5 out of 5 - Dir-Gurinder Chadha
Better Luck Tommorow - 4 out of 5 - Dir-Justin Lin
Beyond Borders - 2 out of 5 - Dir-Martin Campbell
Big Fish - 4.5 out of 5 - Dir-Tim Burton
Biker Boyz - 1 out of 5 - Dir-Reggie Bythewood
Blizzard - 1 out of 5 - Dir-Geordie Freaking LaForge
Blue Car - 4 out of 5 - Dir-Karen Moncrieff
Blue Collar Comedy Tour - 1 out of 5 - Dir-C.B Harding
Boat Trip - ZERO out of 5 - Dir-Mort Nathan
Bringing Down The House - 1.5 out of 5 - Dir-Adam Shankman
Brother Bear - 3 out of 5 - Dir-Aaron Blaise and Bob Walker
Bruce Almighty - 3.5 out of 5 - Dir-Tom Shadyac
Brother Bear - 1.5 out of 5 - Dir-Aaron Blaise and Bob Walker
Buffalo Solders - 4 out of 5 - Dir-Gregor Jordan
Bug - 3.5 out of 5 - Dir-Phil Hay , Matt Manfredi
Bulletproof Monk - 2 out of 5 - Dir-Paul Hunter
Bus 174 - 4.5 out of 5 - Dir-Jose Padilha
C
Cabin Fever - 4 out of 5 - Dir-Eli Roth
Calender Girls - 3 out of 5 - Dir-Nigel Cole
Camp - 2.5 out of 5 - Dir-Todd Graff
The Cat in the Hat - 0.5 out of 5 - Dir-Bo Welch
The Cat Returns - 3.5 out of 5 - Dir-Hiroyuki Morita
Chaos and Desire - 3 out of 5 - Dir-Manon Briand
Charlie's Angels : Full Throttle - 3.5 out of 5 - Dir-McG
Charlotte Sometimes - 3 out of 5 - Dir-Eric Byler
Chasing Papi - 2 out of 5 - Dir-Linda Mendoza
Cheaper by the Dozen - 2 out of 5 - Dir-Shawn Levy
Chihwaseon - 3 out of 5 - Dir-Im Kwon Taek
City of God - 5 out of 5 - Dir- Fernando Meirelles
Confidence - 3 out of 5 - Dir-James Foley
The Cuckoo - 4 out of 5 - Dir-Alexander Rogozhkin
Cold Creek Manor - 1 out of 5 - Dir-Mike Figgis!
Cold Mountain - 2.5 out of 5 - Dir-Anthony Minghella
The Cooler - 3.5 out of 5 - Dir-Wayne Kramer
The Core - 3.5 out of 5 - Dir- Jon Amiel
Cowboy Bebop: The Movie - 4.5 out of 5 - Dir-Shinichiro Watanabe
Cradle To The Grave - 1 out of 5 - Dir-Andrzek Bartkowiak
Cube 2: Hypercube - 2 out of 5 - Dir-Andrzej Sekula
D
Daddy Day Care - ZERO out of 5 - Dir-Steven Carr
The Dancer Upstairs - 2.5 out of 5 - Dir-John Malkovich
Daredevil - 2 out of 5 - Dir-Mark Steven Johnson
Dark Blue - 4 out of 5 - Dir-Ron Shelton
Darkness Falls - 0.5 out of 5 - Dir-Johnny Liebesman
The Day of The Wacko - 3.5 out of 5 - Dir-Marek Koterski
Deliver Us From Eva - 1.5 out of 5 - Dir-Gary Hardwick
Demonlover - 4 out of 5 - Dir-Olivier Assayas
Dickie Roberts: Former Child Star - 2.5 out of 5 - Dir-Sam Weisman
Dirty Pretty Things - 2.5 out of 5 - Dir-Stephen Frears
Dissonances - 2 out of 5 - Dir-Jerome Cornuau
Divine Intervention - 3 out of 5 - Dir-Elia Suleiman
Down With Love - 4 out of 5 - Dir-Peyton Reed
Dracula : Pages From a Virgin's Diary - 4 out of 5 - Dir- Guy Maddin
Dreamcatcher - ZERO out of 5 - Dir-Lawrence Kasdan
Dumb and Dumberer : When Harry Met Lloyd - ZERO out of 5 - Dir-Troy Miller
Dummy - 3.5 out of 5 - Dir-Gregory Pritkin
Duplex - 1 out of 5 - Dir-Danny Devito
DysFunktional Family - 1.5 out of 5 - Dir-George Gallo
E
11'9'01 - 2 out of 5 - Dir- Various Directors
El Bonaerense - 3 out of 5 - Dir-Pablo Ragman
Elephant - 5 out of 5 - Dir-Gus Van Sant
Elf - 2 out of 5 - Dir-Jon Favreau
The Embalmer - 4 out of 5 - Dir-Matteo Garrone
The Event - 4.5 out of 5 - Dir-Thom Fitzgerald
Evil - 3.5 out of 5 - Dir-Mikael Hafstrom
Expecting - 4 out of 5 - Dir-Deborah Day
The Eye - 4.5 out of 5 - Dir-The Pang Brothers
F
Falling Angels - 1 out of 5 - Dir-Scott Smith
The Far Side of the Moon - ZERO out of 5 - Dir-Robert LePage
Father and Son - 1 out of 5 - Dir-Alexander Sokurov
The Fighting Temptations - 1.5 out of 5 - Dir-Jonathan Lynn
Final Destination 2 - 2.5 out of 5 - Dir-David Ellis
Finding Nemo - 4 out of 5 - Dir-Andrew Stanton
Fix : The Story of An Addicted City - 2.5 out of 5 - Dir-Nette Wild
Flower and Garnet - 1.5 out of 5 - Dir-Keith Bernham
Flower of Evil - 2.5 out of 5 - Dir-Claude Chabrou
The Fog of War - 4.5 out of 5 - Dir-Errol Morris
Foolproof - 3 out of 5 - Dir-William Phillips
Freaky Friday - 3 out of 5 - Dir-Mark Waters
Freddy VS Jason - 3 out of 5 - Dir-Ronny Yu
Free Radicals - 2 out of 5 - Dir-Barbara Albert
From Justin to Kelly - ZERO out of 5 - Dir-Robert Iscove
G
Garage Days - 3.5 out of 5 - Dir-Alex Proyas
Gerry - 3.5 out of 5 - Dir-Gus Van Sant
Gigli - 0.5 out of 5 - Dir-Martin Brest
Girl with a Pearl Earring - 3 out of 5 - Dir-Peter Webber
Go Further - 4 out of 5 - Dir-Ron Mann
Gods and Generals - 1 out of 5 - Dir-Ron Maxwell
Good Boy - 0.5 out of 5 - Dir-John Hoffman
Gothika - 2 out of 5 - Dir-Matthieu Kassovitz
The Good Thief - 3.5 out of 5 - Dir-Neil Jordan
Gozu - 3.5 out of 5 - Dir-Takashi Miike
Grimm - 2 out of 5 - Dir-Alex Van Warmeldham
Grind - 2 out of 5 - Dir-Casey La Scala
The Guru - 1 out of 5 - Dir- Daisy von Scherler Mayer
A Guy Thing - ZERO out of 5 - Dir-Chris Koch
H
1/2 The Rent - 3.5 out of 5 - Dir-Mark Ottiker
The Haunted Mansion - 1.5 out of 5 - Dir-Rob Minkoff
He Loves Me....He Loves Me Not - 4 out of 5 - Dir-Laetitia Colombani
Head of State - 2 out of 5 - Dir-Chris Rock
Herod's Law - 3 out of 5 - Dir-Luis Estrada
Holes - 3 out of 5 - Dir-Andrew Davis
Hollywood Homicide - 2 out of 5 - Dir-Ron Shelton
Honey - 1.5 out of 5 - Dir-Bille Woodruff
House of a 1000 Corpses - 1 out of 5 - Dir-Robert Zombie
House of Sand and Fog - 5 out of 5 - Dir-Vadim Perelman
House of the Dead - 0.5 out of 5 - Dir-Uwe Boll
The Housekeeper - 2 out of 5 - Dir-Claude Berri
How To Deal - 1 out of 5 - Dir-Clare Kilner
How To Lose A Guy In 10 Days - 3 out of 5 - Dir-Donald Petrie
The Hulk - 4 out of 5 - Dir-Ang Lee
The Human Stain - 4 out of 5 - Dir-Robert Benton
The Hunted - 2 out of 5 - Dir-William Friedkin
I
I Capture the Castle - 3 out of 5 - Dir-Tim Fywell
Ichi the Killer - 4.5 out of 5 - Dir-Takashi Miike
Identity - ZERO out of 5 - Dir-James Mangold
In America - 4 out of 5 - Dir-Jim Sheridan
The In Laws - 2 out of 5 - Dir-Andrew Fleming
In The Cut - 3 out of 5 - Dir-Jane Campion
Inspecting Sex - 1 out of 5 - Dir-Alan Rudolph
Intolerable Cruelty - 4 out of 5 - Dir-Joel Coen
Irreversible - 4.5 out of 5 - Dir-Gaspar Noe
It Runs in the Family - 1 out of 5 - Dir-Fred Schepisi
Its All About Love - 2.5 out of 5 - Dir-Thomas Vinterberg
The Italian Job - 3.5 out of 5 - Dir-F. Gary Grey
J
Japon - 3 out of 5 - Dir-Carlos Reygadas
Jeepers Creepers 2 - 1 out of 5 - Dir-Victor Salva
Johnny English - 3 out of 5 - Dir-Peter Howitt
Julie Walking Home - 4 out of 5 - Dir-Agnieszka Holland
Just Married - 1 out of 5 - Dir-Shawn Levy
K
Kangaroo Jack - 1 out of 5 - Dir-David McNally
Kart Racer - 1.5 out of 5 - Dir-Stuart Gillard
Ken Park - 3 out of 5 - Dir-Larry Clark and Ed Lachman
Kill Bill Volume 1 - 4 out of 5 - Dir-Quentin Tarantino
L
L'Auberge Espagnole - 3.5 out of 5 - Dir-Cedric Klapisch
The Last Samurai - 5 out of 5 - Dir-Edward Zwick
Laurel Canyon - 2.5 out of 5 - Dir-Lisa Cholodenko
Le Divorce - 3 out of 5 - Dir-James Ivory
The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen - ZERO out of 5 - Dir-Stephen Norrington
Legally Blonde 2 : Red , White and Blonde - 1.5 out of 5 - Dir-Charles Herman-Wurmfeld
Leo - 4 out of 5 - Dir-Mehdi Norowzian
Levity - 2.5 out of 5 - Dir-Ed Solomon
The Life and Times of Luchino Visconti - 3.5 out of 5 - Dir-Adam Low
The Life of David Gale - 1 out of 5 - Dir- Alan Parker
Lilya 4-Ever - 4 out of 5 - Dir-Lukas Moodysson
The Lizzie McGuire Movie - 1.5 out of 5 - Dir-Jim Fall
Looney Tunes : Back in Action - 2.5 out of 5 - Dir-Joe Dante
Lord of the Rings : The Return of the King - 5 out of 5 - Dir-Peter Jackson
Lost in La Mancha - 4 out of 5 - Dir-Keith Fulton and Louis Pepe
Lost in Translation - 5 out of 5 - Dir-Sofia Coppola
Love Actually - 4.5 out of 5 - Dir-Richard Curtis
Love Dont Cost a Thing - 2 out of 5 - Dir-Troy Beyer
Lucia Lucia - 3.5 out of 5 - Dir-Antonio Serrano
M
The Magdalene Sisters - 3.5 out of 5 - Dir-Peter Mulland
Malibu's Most Wanted - 2 out of 5 - Dir-John Whitesell
Mambo Italiano - 2 out of 5 - Dir-Emile Gaudreault
A Man Apart - 1 out of 5 - Dir-F Gary Gray
The Man on a Train - 3.5 out of 5 - Dir-Patrice LaConte
The Man Without a Past - 4 out of 5 - Dir-Aki Kaurismaki
Manic - 2.5 out of 5 - Dir-Jordan Malamed
Marci X - 1.5 out of 5 - Dir-Richard Benjamin
Marion Bridge - 3 out of 5 - Dir-Wiebke Von Carolsfeld
Master and Commander : The Far Side of the World - 4.5 out of 5 - Dir-Ridley Scott
Matchstick Men - 3.5 out of 5 - Dir-Ridley Scott
The Matrix Reloaded - 4 out of 5 - Dir- The Wachowski Brothers
The Matrix Revolutions - 3.5 out of 5 - Dir-The Wachowski Brothers
May - 4.5 out of 5 - Dir-Lucky McKee
The Medallion - 1.5 out of 5 - Dir-Gordon Chan
A Mighty Wind - 3 out of 5 - Dir-Christoper Guest
Millenium Actress - 3.5 out of 5 - Dir-Satoshi Kon
The Missing - 2 out of 5 - Dir-Opie Howard
Mona Lisa Smile - 1.5 out of 5 - Dir-Mike Newell
Mondays in the Sun - 3 out of 5 -Dir-Fernando Leon de Aranoa
Monster - 3.5 out of 5 - Dir-Patty Jenkins
Moving Malcolm - 3 out of 5 - Dir-Benjamin Ratner
My Boss's Daughter - 2 out of 5 - Dir-David Zucker
My Life Without Me - 2 out of 5 - Dir-Isabel Coixet
Mystic River - 4 out of 5 - Dir-Clint Eastwood
N
National Security - 3 out of 5 - Dir-Dennis Dugan
Northfork - 4 out of 5 - Dir-Michael Polish
Nowhere in Africa - 3.5 out of 5 - Dir-Caroline Link
O
Old School - 2.5 out of 5 - Dir-Todd Phillips
On-Line - 2 out of 5 - Dir-Jed Weintrob
Once Upon a Time in Mexico - 3.5 out of 5 - Dir-Robert Rodriguez
Open Hearts - 3.5 out of 5 - Dir-Susanne Bier
Open Range - 3.5 out of 5 - Dir-Kevin Costner
The Order - 1 out of 5 - Dir-Brian Helgeland
Out of Time - 3.5 out of 5 - Dir-Carl Franklin
P
Party Monster - 3.5 out of 5 - Dir-Fenton Bailey and Randy Barbato
Paycheck - 2 out of 5 - Dir-John Woo
People I Know - 2 out of 5 - Dir-Daniel Algrant
Perfect Strangers - 2.5 out of 5 - Dir-Gaylene Preston
Peter Pan - 3.5 out of 5 - Dir-P.J Hogan
Phone Booth - 3.5 out of 5 - Dir-Joel Schumacher
Pieces of April - 3.5 out of 5 - Dir-Peter Hedges
Piglets's Big Movie - 2 out of 5 - Dir-Francis Glebas
Pirates of the Caribbean : The Curse of the Black Pearl - 4 out of 5 - Dir-Gore Verbinski
Pistol Opera - 2 out of 5 - Dir-Seijun Suzuki
Poolhall Junkies - 3 out of 5 - Dir-Mars Callahan
The Princess Blade - 3.5 out of 5 - Dir-Shinsuke Sato
Prisoner of Paradise - 4 out of 5 - Dir-Malcolm Clarke and Susan Sender
A Problem with Fear - 4.5 out of 5 - Dir-Gary Burns
Punch - 1.5 out of 5 - Dir-Guy Bennent
R
Radio - 2 out of 5 - Dir-Michael Tollin
Raising Victor Vargas - 4 out of 5 - Dir-Peter Sollett
The Real Cancun - 2.5 out of 5 - Dir-Rick DeOliveira
The Recruit - 2 out of 5 - Dir-Roger Donaldson
Respiro - 3.5 out of 5 - Dir-Emanuele Crialese
Returner - 2 out of 5 - Dir-Takashi Yamazaki
Rub and Tug - 2 out of 5 - Dir-Soo Lyu
Rugrats Go Wild - 2 out of 5 - Dir-Norton Virgien
Runaway Jury - 3.5 out of 5 - Dir-Gary Fleder
The Rundown - 3.5 out of 5 - Dir-Peter Berg
S
The Safety of Objects - 3.5 out of 5 - Dir-Rose Troche
Scary Movie 3 - 0.5 out of 5 - Dir-David Zucker
The School of Rock - 3 out of 5 - Dir-Richard Linklater
Science Fiction - 4 out of 5 - Dir-Franz Muller
The Sea - 3.5 out of 5 - Dir-Baltasar Kormakur
Seabiscuit - 2 out of 5 - Dir-Gary Ross
Secondhand Lions - 1 out of 5 - Dir-Tim McCanlies
Secret Lives of Dentists - 3.5 out of 5 - Dir-Alan Rudolph
Shanghai Knights - 2 out of 5 - Dir-David Dobkin
The Shape of Things - 3.5 out of 5 - Dir-Neil Labute
Shattered Glass - 4.5 out of 5 - Dir-Billy Ray
Sinbad : Legend of The Seven Seas - 3.5 out of 5 - Dir-Tim Johnson
The Singing Detective - 3.5 out of 5 - Dir-Keith Gordon
16 Years of Alcohol - 2 out of 5 - Dir-Richard Jobson
Slap Her , She's French - 1 out of 5 - Dir-Melanie Mayron
Something's Gotta Give - 3.5 out of 5 - Dir-Nancy Meyers
Spellbound - 4 out of 5 - Dir-Jeffrey Blitz
Spun - 3.5 out of 5 - Dir-Jonas Akerlund
Spy Kids 3D : Game Over - 2.5 out of 5 - Dir-Robert Rodriquez
The Statement - 2 out of 5 - Dir-Norman Jewison
The Station Agent - 4 out of 5 - Dir-Tom McCarthy
Steal - 1 out of 5 - Dir-Gerard Pires
Stevie - 4 out of 5 - Dir-Steve James
Stuck on You - 4 out of 5 - Dir-The Farrelly Brothers
The Suit - 1 out of 5 - Dir-Bakhtiyar Khudoinazarov
The Son - 4 out of 5 - Dir-Jean Pierre Dardenne and Luc Dardenne
Sweet Sixteen - 3.5 out of 5 - Dir-Ken Loach
S.W.A.T - 1.5 out of 5 - Dir-Clark Johnson
Swimming Pool - 3 out of 5 - Dir-Francois Ozon
Sylvia - 3.5 out of 5 - Dir-Christine Jeffs
T
Tears of the Sun - 2.5 out of 5 - Dir-Antoine Fuqua
Ten - 3 out of 5 - Dir-Abbas Kiarostami
Terminator 3 : Rise of the Machines - 4 out of 5 - Dir-Jonathon Mostow
Texas Chainsaw Massacre - 0.5 out of 5 - Dir-Marcus Nispel
Thirteen - 4.5 out of 5 - Dir-Catherine Hardwicke
Timeline - 1 out of 5 - Dir-Richard Donner
To Be and To Have - 3.5 out of 5 - Dir-Nicolas Philibert
The Triplets of Belleville - 4 out of 5 - Dir-Sylvain Chomet
The Tunnel - 4.5 out of 5 - Dir-Roland Suso Richter
Tupac Resurrection - 4 out of 5 - Dir-Lauren Lazin
To Kill a King - 4 out of 5 - Dir-Mike Barker
Tomb Raider 2 : The Cradle of Life - 3.5 out of 5 - Dir-Jan DeBont
21 Grams - 5 out of 5 - Dir-Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
28 Days Later - 3.5 out of 5 - Dir-Danny Boyle
2 Fast 2 Furious - 3.5 out of 5 - Dir-John Singleton
Twelfth Night - 1.5 out of 5 - Dir-Tim Supple
U
Undead - 3.5 out of 5 - Dir-The Spierig Brothers
Under the Tuscan Sun - 3 out of 5 - Dir-Audrey Wells
Uptown Girls - 2 out of 5 - Dir-Boaz Yakin
V
Veronica Guerin - 3.5 out of 5 - Dir-Joel Schumacher
Vibrator - 3.5 out of 5 - Dir-Hiroki Ryuichi
View From the Top - 1.5 out of 5 - Dir-Bruno Baretto
Volcano High - 3.5 out of 5 - Dir-Tae-gyun Kim
W
Washington Heights - 3.5 out of 5 - Dir-Alfredo de Villa
Whale Rider - 5 out of 5 - Dir-Niki Caro
What a Girl Wants - 1 out of 5 - Dir-Dennie Gordon
Wilbur Wants To Kill Himself - 4.5 out of 5 - Dir-Lone Scherfig
Willard - 3.5 out of 5 - Dir-Glen Morgan
Winged Migration - 4 out of 5 - Dir-Jacques Perrin
Wonderland - 3 out of 5 - Dir-James Cox
Wrong Turn - 2.5 out of 5 - Dir-Rob Schmidt
X
X2 - 4.5 out of 5 - Dir-Bryan Singer
xx/xy - 4.5 out of 5 - Dir-Austin Chick
Z
Zero Day - 4 out of 5 - Dir-Ben Coccio
Zus and Zo - 2.5 out of 5 - Dir-Paula von der Oest
By Star Rating
5 out of 5
At Five in the Afternoon
The Barbarian Invasions
City of God
Elephant
House of Sand and Fog
The Last Samurai
Lord of the Rings : The Return of the King
Lost in Translation
21 Grams
Whale Rider
4.5 out of 5
American Splendor
Big Fish
Bus 174
Cowboy Bebop: The Movie
The Event
The Eye
The Fog of War
Ichi The Killer
Irreversible
Love Actually
Master and Commander : The Far Side of the World
May
A Problem with Fear
Shattered Glass
Thirteen
The Tunnel
Wilbur Wants to Kill Himself
X2
xx/xy
4 out of 5
A Decade Under The Influence
Aiki
All The Real Girls
Avalon
Bad Santa
Battle of Shaker Heights
Better Luck Tommorow
Blue Car
Buffalo Solders
Cabin Fever
The Cuckoo
Dark Blue
Demonlover
Down With Love
Dracula : Pages From a Virgin's Diary
The Embalmer
Expecting
Finding Nemo
Go Further
He Loves Me...He Loves Me Not
The Hulk
The Human Stain
In America
Intolerable Cruelty
Kill Bill Volume 1
Leo
Lilya 4-Ever
Lost in La Mancha
The Man Without a Past
The Matrix Reloaded
Mystic River
Northfork
Pirates of the Caribbean : The Curse of the Black Pearl
Prisoner of Paradise
Raising Victor Vargas
Science Fiction
The Son
Spellbound
The Station Agent
Stevie
Stuck on You
Terminator 3 : Rise of the Machines
To Kill a King
The Triplets of Belleville
Tupac Resurrection
Winged Migration
Zero Day
3.5 out of 5
A Big Girl Like You
Amen
American Wedding
Anything Else
Bruce Almighty
The Cat Returns
Charlie's Angels : Full Throttle
The Cooler
The Core
The Day of the Wacko
Dummy
Evil
Garage Days
Gerry
The Good Thief
Gozu
1/2 The Rent
The Italian Job
L'Auberge Espagnole
The Life and Times of Luchino Visconti
Lucia Lucia
The Magdalene Sisters
The Man on The Train
Matchstick Men
The Matrix Revolutions
Millenium Actress
Monster
Nowhere in Africa
Once Upon a Time in Mexico
Open Hearts
Open Range
Out of Time
Party Monster
Peter Pan
Phone Booth
Pieces of April
The Princess Blade
Respiro
Runaway Jury
The Safety of Objects
The Sea
Secret Lives of Dentists
The Shape of Things
Sinbad : Legend of the Seven Seas
The Singing Detective
Something's Gotta Give
Spun
Sweet Sixteen
Sylvia
To Be and To Have
Tomb Raider 2 : The Cradle of Life
28 Days Later
2 Fast 2 Furious
Veronica Guerin
Vibrator
Volcano High
Washington Heights
Willard
3 out of 5
Amandla : A Revolution in Four Part Harmony
Any Way the Wind Blows
Assasination Tango
Brother Bear
Calender Girls
Chaos and Desire
Charlotte Sometimes
Chihwaseon
Confidence
Divine Intervention
El Bonaerense
Foolproof
Freaky Friday
Freddy VS Jason
Girl with a Pearl Earring
Herod's Law
Holes
How To Lose A Guy In 10 Days
I Capture the Castle
In The Cut
Japon
Johnny English
Ken Park
Le Divorce
Marion Bridge
A Mighty Wind
Mondays in the Sun
Moving Malcolm
National Security
Poolhall Junkies
The School of Rock
Swimming Pool
Ten
Under the Tuscan Sun
Wonderland
2.5 out of 5
Camp
Cold Mountain
The Dancer Upstairs
Dickie Roberts: Former Child Star
Dirty Pretty Things
Final Destination 2
Fix : The Story of an Addicted City
The Flower of Evil
Its All About Love
Laurel Canyon
Levity
Looney Tunes : Back in Action
Manic
Old School
Paycheck
Perfect Strangers
The Real Cancun
Spy Kids 3D : Game Over
Tears of The Sun
Wrong Turn
Zus and Zo
2 out of 5
Anarchist's Cookbook
Anger Management
Basic
Bulletproof Monk
Beyond Borders
Chasing Papi
Cheaper by the Dozen
Cube 2:Hypercube
Daredevil
Dissonances
11'09'01
Elf
Free Radicals
Gothika
Grimm
Grind
Head of State
Hollywood Homicide
The Hunted
The In Laws
Love Dont Cost a Thing
Malibu's Most Wanted
Mambo Italiano
The Missing
My Boss's Daughter
My Life Without Me
On-Line
People I Know
Piglet's Big Movie
Pistol Opera
Radio
The Recruit
Returner
Rub and Tug
Rugrats Go Wild
Seabiscuit
Shanghai Knights
16 Years of Alcohol
The Statement
Uptown Girls
1.5 out of 5
Alex and Emma
Bend it Like Beckham
Bringing Down The House
Brother Bear
Deliver Us From Eva
DysFunktional Family
The Fighting Temptations
Flower and Garnet
The Haunted Mansion
Honey
Kart Racer
Legally Blonde 2 : Red , White and Blonde
The Lizzie McGuire Movie
Marci X
The Medallion
Mona Lisa Smile
Punch
S.W.A.T
Twelfth Night
View From the Top
1 out of 5
Agent Cody Banks
Biker Boyz
Blizzard
Blue Collar Comedy Tour
Cold Creek Manor
Cradle To The Grave
Duplex
Falling Angels
Father and Son
Gods and Generals
The Guru
House of 1000 Corpses
How To Deal
Inspecting Sex
It Runs in the Family
Jeepers Creepers 2
Just Married
Kangaroo Jack
The Life of David Gale
A Man Apart
The Order
Secondhand Lions
The Suit
Slap Her , She's French
Steal
Timeline
What a Girl Wants
0.5 out of 5
The Cat in the Hat
Darkness Falls
Gigli
Good Boy
House of the Dead
Scary Movie 3
Texas Chainsaw Massacre
ZERO out of 5
Bad Boys 2
Boat Trip
Daddy Day Care
Dreamcatcher
Dumb and Dumberer : When Harry Met Lloyd
The Far Side of the Moon
A Guy Thing
From Justin to Kelly
Identity
The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen
Films Seen for the first time or rewatched in 2003
Ali : Fear Eats the Soul (1974 - Dir-Rainer Werner Fassbinder) - 4 out of 5
Blacksnake (1972 - Dir-Russ Meyer) - 2 out of 5
By Brakhage (Various Dates - Dir-Stan Brakhage) - 4 out of 5
Coup de Grace (1965 - Dir-Jean Cayrol and Claude Durand) - 3.5 out of 5
Cyclo (1995 - Dir-Anh Hung Tran) - 5 out of 5
Eraserhead (1977 - Dir-David Lynch) - 4 out of 5
Grand Slam (1967 - Dir-Giuliano Montaldo) - 3.5 out of 5
Hiroshima Mon Amour (1959 - Dir-Alain Resnais) - 4 out of 5
The Honeymoon Killers (1970 - Dir-Leonard Kastle and Donald Volkman) - 4.5 out of 5
Hopscotch (1980 - Dir-Ronald Neame) - 3.5 out of 5
I Am Curious Yellow (1967 - Dir-Vilgot Sjoman) - 3 out of 5
I Am Trying To Break Your Heart (2002 - Dir-Sam Jones) - 4 out of 5
Jubilee (1978 - Dir-Derek Jarman) - 3.5 out of 5
Le Samourai (1967 - Dir-Jean-Pierre Melville) 5 out of 5
The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (1943 - Dir-Powell and Pressburger) - 4 out of 5
Morvern Callar (2002 - Dir-Lynne Ramsey) - 4 out of 5
Nausicaa of the Valley of Wind (1984 - Dir-Hayao Miyazaki) - 5 out of 5
Once Upon A Time in America - Extended (1984 - Dir-Sergio Leone) - 5 out of 5
Quai des Orfevres (1947 - Dir-Henri-Georges Clouzot) - 4 out of 5
Rosetta (1999 - Dir-Jean-Pirre and Luc Dardenne) - 5 out of 5
Russian Ark (2002 - Dir-Aleksandr Sokurov) - 4 out of 5
Santa Sangre (1989 - Dir-Alejandro Jodorowsky) - 4 out of 5
The Seven Minutes (1971 - Dir-Russ Meyer) - 2 out of 5
Stalker (1979 - Dir-Andrei Tarkovsky) - 5 out of 5
Style Wars (1983 - Dir-Henry Chalfant and Tony Silver) - 4.5 out of 5
Suicide Club (2002 - Dir-Shion Sond) - 3.5 out of 5
Sympathy For Mr Vengence (2002 - Dir-Chan Wook Park) - 5 out of 5
The White Shiek (1952 - Dir-Fredrico Fellini) - 4 out of 5
Animated or Live Action Shorts
The Animatrix : Final Flight of the Osiris - 4 out of 5 - Dir-Andy Jones
The Animatrix : Detective Story - 4 out of 5 - Dir-Shinichiro Watanabe
The Animatrix : The Second Renaissance Parts 1 & 2 - 4.5 out of 5 - Dir-Mahiro Maeda
The Animatrix : Kid's Story - 5 out of 5 - Dir-Shinchiro Watanabe
The Animatrix : World Record - 4 out of 5 - Dir-Takeshi Koike
The Animatrix : Program - 3.5 out of 5 - Dir-Yoshaki Kawajiri
The Animatrix : Beyond - 5 out of 5 - Dir-Koji Morimoto
The Animatrix : Matriculated - 3.5 out of 5 - Dir-Peter Chung
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2003 Films: 225
Other films: 45
Total: 270
Criteria: Oscar release--all films seen theatrically
Last update: 12/31/03
2002 total: 260
2001 total: 238
Recent additions: DVD: Better Off Dead and It's a Wonderful Life
2003 Films
2 Fast 2 Furious B- 6/3/03 (Arena Grand)
21 Grams B 12/16/03 (Drexel East)
28 Days Later A 6/19/03 (Drexel East)
Agent Cody Banks B- 3/8/03 (AMC Lennox)
Alex and Emma C+ 6/16/03 (AMC Lennox)
All the Real Girls A+ 8/15/03 (Drexel East)
American Splendor B+ 9/4/03 (Drexel East)
American Wedding B- 8/6/03 (Marcus Crosswoods)
And Now...Ladies and Gentlemen D+ 10/15/03 (Drexel East)
Anger Management C- 4/3/03 (AMC Lennox)
The Animation Show B- 12/13/03 (Drexel Grandview)
Anything Else C+ 9/19/03 (Arena Grand)
L'Auberge Espagnole B 5/22/03 (Drexel East)
Bad Boys II D- 7/18/03 (Arena Grand)
Bad Santa B+ 11/13/03 (Drexel East)
Basic D+ 3/26/03 (AMC Easton)
The Battle of Shaker Heights B- 8/23/03 (Wexner Center)
Bend It Like Beckham B+ 3/27/03 (AMC Lennox), 4/19/03 (Arena Grand)
Better Luck Tomorrow B+ 4/18/03 (Drexel East)
Beyond Borders D+ 10/21/03 (AMC Lennox)
Big Fish A- 12/10/03 (Drexel East)
Biker Boyz D+ 1/27/03 (AMC Lennox)
Blind Spot: Hitler's Secretary C+ 8/5/03 (Drexel East)
Boat Trip F 3/21/03 (Marcus Crosswoods)
Bonhoeffer B- 10/17/03 (Drexel East)
Bringing Down the House D 3/7/03 (Arena Grand)
Brother Bear B- 10/24/03 (Arena Grand)
Bruce Almighty C 5/20/03 (Arena Grand)
Bubba Ho-Tep C+ 11/11/03 (Drexel East)
Bulletproof Monk B- 4/14/03 (AMC Lennox)
Bus 174 A 12/20/03 (Wexner Center)
Cabin Fever C 9/5/03 (AMC Lennox)
Calendar Girls C 12/11/03 (Cinemark Gahanna)
Camp D+ 8/15/03 (Drexel East)
Capturing the Friedmans A+ 6/24/03 (Drexel East)
Casa de los Babys B- 10/14/03 (Drexel East)
Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle B- 6/24/03 (AMC Lennox)
Charlotte Sometimes B+ 4/26/03 (Virginia Theatre, Champaign, IL)
Cheaper by the Dozen C- 12/6/03 (AMC Lennox)
City of God A 3/4/03 (Drexel East)
Cold Creek Manor C- 9/10/03 (Marcus Crosswoods)
Cold Mountain B 12/15/03 (Arena Grand)
Confidence C 4/3/03 (Drexel East)
The Cooler B 12/4/03 (Drexel East)
The Core C- 3/25/03 (Marcus Crosswoods)
Cowboy Bebop: The Movie C 5/6/03 (Drexel East)
Cradle 2 the Grave D- 2/28/03 (Marcus Crosswoods)
Daddy Day Care C- 5/3/03 (AMC Lennox)
The Dancer Upstairs B- 5/8/03 (Drexel East)
Daredevil B+ 2/10/03 (AMC Lennox), 2/28/03 (Arena Grand)
Dark Blue B- 2/18/03 (Marcus Crosswoods)
Darkness Falls D 1/21/03 (AMC Lennox)
Deliver Us From Eva D 2/7/03 (AMC Easton)
Demonlover B 10/24/03 (Wexner Center)
Dickie Roberts: Former Child Star D+ 9/2/03 (AMC Lennox)
Dirty Pretty Things A 8/18/03 (Drexel East)
Divine Intervention B 5/31/03 (Wexner Center)
Le Divorce C- 8/14/03 (Drexel East)
Down with Love A- 5/8/03 (Marcus Crosswoods), 5/13/03 (Drexel East)
Dreamcatcher D+ 3/18/03 (AMC Lennox)
Dr. Seuss' The Cat in the Hat D- 11/23/03 (Marcus Crosswoods)
Dumb and Dumberer: When Harry Met Lloyd D 6/11/03 (AMC Lennox)
Duplex C 9/24/03 (AMC Lennox)
DysFunkTional Family D+ 4/1/03 (Drexel East)
Elf B+ 10/28/03 (Marcus Crosswoods)
The Eye B- 9/7/03 (Drexel East)
The Fighting Temptations C- 9/8/03 (Marcus Crosswoods)
Final Destination 2 C- 1/30/03 (Arena Grand)
Finding Nemo A 5/22/03 (Marcus Crosswoods), 6/6/03 (Arena Grand)
The Flower of Evil B 11/28/03 (Tivoli Theatre, St. Louis, MO)
Freaky Friday B- 7/21/03 (Marcus Pickerington)
Freddy vs. Jason C- 8/12/03 (AMC Lennox)
From Justin To Kelly D- 6/20/03 (Marcus Crosswoods)
Gerry A+ 2/19/03 (Wexner Center), 3/28/03 (Drexel East)
Ghosts of the Abyss B- 4/10/03 (Marcus Crosswoods)
Gigli C- 8/5/03 (Arena Grand)
Girl with a Pearl Earring B- 12/12/03 (Drexel East)
Gods and Generals D- 2/21/03 (Marcus Crosswoods)
Good Boy! C- 9/25/03 (Arena Grand)
The Good Thief B+ 4/10/03 (Drexel East)
Gothika D+ 11/18/03 (AMC Lennox)
Grind D- 8/11/03 (AMC Easton)
The Guru D 2/14/03 (AMC Lennox)
A Guy Thing D+ 1/17/03 (Marcus Crosswoods)
The Hard Word C 7/18/03 (Drexel Grandview)
The Haunted Mansion D 11/25/03 (Marcus Crosswoods)
Head of State C+ 3/29/03 (Marcus Crosswoods)
Holes C+ 4/2/03 (AMC Easton)
Hollywood Homicide C 6/10/03 (AMC Lennox)
The Holy Land C- 11/10/03 (Drexel East)
Honey C+ 12/6/03 (Marcus Crosswoods)
House of 1000 Corpses F 4/11/03 (AMC Lennox)
House of Sand and Fog A+ 12/2/03 (Arena Grand)
How To Deal D+ 7/14/03 (AMC Lennox)
How To Lose a Guy In 10 Days D+ 2/4/03 (AMC Lennox)
The Hulk B+ 6/17/03 & 6/29/03 (Arena Grand)
The Human Stain C+ 10/27/03 (Drexel East)
The Hunted C 3/11/03 (AMC Lennox)
Identity B 4/17/03 (AMC Lennox)
In America A 12/13/03 (Drexel Grandview)
The In-Laws C- 5/19/03 (AMC Easton)
In the Cut C- 10/23/03 (Drexel East)
Intolerable Cruelty C+ 10/7/03 (Arena Grand)
The Italian Job B 4/16/03 (Marcus Crosswoods) (work print), 5/27/03 (Marcus Crosswoods)
It Runs in the Family F 4/22/03 (AMC Lennox)
Jeepers Creepers 2 B 8/26/03 (AMC Lennox)
Jet Lag C- 8/5/03 (Drexel East)
Johnny English B- 7/15/03 (Arena Grand)
The Jungle Book 2 B- 2/8/03 (Marcus Crosswoods)
Just Married D+ 1/9/03 (AMC Lennox)
Kangaroo Jack D 1/11/03 (Marcus Crosswoods)
Kill Bill Vol. 1 A 10/7/03 (AMC Lennox), 10/10/03 (Arena Grand)
Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life C- 7/23/03 (AMC Lennox)
The Last Samurai B 11/24/03 (AMC Easton)
Laurel Canyon C 4/15/03 (Arena Grand)
The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen D 7/8/03 (Arena Grand)
Legally Blonde 2: Red, White, & Blonde C- 6/26/03 (Marcus Crosswoods)
The Legend of Suriyothai D 11/7/03 (Drexel Grandview)
Levity B 8/8/03 (Drexel East)
The Life of David Gale D+ 2/21/03 (Marcus Crosswoods)
The Lizzie McGuire Movie C- 4/29/03 (Marcus Crosswoods)
Looney Tunes: Back in Action B- 11/8/03 (Marcus Crosswoods)
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King B 12/10/03 (Marcus Crosswoods)
Lost in La Mancha B 4/29/03 (Drexel East)
Lost in Translation A- 9/18/03 (Drexel East), 10/18/03 (Drexel East)
Love Actually B 11/4/03 (Arena Grand)
Love Don't Cost a Thing D 12/12/03 (Cinemark Gahanna)
Lucia, Lucia B- 8/7/03 (Drexel East)
Luther C+ 9/26/03 (Marcus Pickerington)
The Magdalene Sisters B 9/12/03 (Drexel East)
Malibu's Most Wanted B- 4/15/03 (AMC Lennox)
Mambo Italiano D+ 10/31/03 (Drexel Grandview)
A Man Apart D+ 4/5/03 (Marcus Crosswoods)
Manna From Heaven C 1/10/03 (Drexel East)
Man on the Train B 6/20/03 (Drexel Grandview)
Marci X F 8/22/03 (Marcus Crosswoods)
Masked and Anonymous D 10/24/03 (Drexel Grandview)
Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World B+ 10/30/03 (Arena Grand)
Matchstick Men A 9/3/03 (AMC Lennox), 9/26/03 (Arena Grand)
The Matrix Reloaded B 5/12/03 (Arena Grand), 5/16/03 (Arena Grand)
The Matrix Revolutions B- 11/3/03 (AMC Lennox)
The Medallion C- 8/19/03 (AMC Lennox)
A Mighty Wind B 5/5/03 (AMC Easton)
The Missing B 11/14/03 (Drexel East)
Mona Lisa Smile B- 12/17/03 (Marcus Crosswoods)
Mondays in the Sun B+ 7/17/03 (Drexel East)
My Boss's Daughter D- 8/22/03 (Marcus Crosswoods)
Mystic River A 10/13/03 (Marcus Crosswoods)
National Security D 1/14/03 (AMC Lennox)
No Good Deed C+ 9/12/03 (Marcus Crosswoods)
Northfork C 7/28/03 (Drexel East)
Nowhere in Africa B+ 4/8/03 (Drexel East)
Old School B- 2/11/03 (AMC Easton)
Once Upon a Time In Mexico C 9/9/03 (AMC Lennox)
Once Upon a Time in the Midlands C+ 12/21/03 (Drexel Grandview)
Open Range B- 8/11/03 (Arena Grand)
The Order D 9/5/03 (AMC Lennox)
Out of Time C 9/30/03 (AMC Lennox)
Owning Mahowny B- 10/10/03 (Drexel Grandview)
Party Monster D+ 12/9/03 (Drexel East)
Paycheck B- 12/15/03 (Arena Grand) (work print), 12/22/03 (Marcus Crosswoods)
Peter Pan C+ 12/16/03 (Arena Grand)
Phone Booth B+ 3/20/03 (Arena Grand)
Pieces of April B- 10/17/03 (Drexel East)
Piglet's Big Movie B- 3/15/03 (Marcus Crosswoods)
Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl B 7/7/03 (Marcus Crosswoods)
Pistol Opera C 7/11/03 (Wexner Center)
Radio B- 10/18/03 (Arena Grand)
Raising Victor Vargas B+ 6/17/03 (Drexel East)
The Real Cancun F 4/28/03 (Marcus Crosswoods)
The Recruit B- 1/28/03 (AMC Lennox)
Red Betsy C+ 11/29/03 (Plaza Frontenac, St. Louis, MO)
Respiro D 10/31/03 (Drexel East)
Rugrats Go Wild C- 6/13/03 (Marcus Crosswoods)
Runaway Jury C 10/2/03 (Drexel East)
The Rundown B- 9/23/03 (Arena Grand)
Scary Movie 3 D 10/22/03 (Arena Grand)
The School of Rock B+ 9/29/03 (AMC Lennox)
Seabiscuit A- 7/22/03 (Arena Grand)
Secondhand Lions B- 9/4/03 (AMC Lennox)
The Secret Lives of Dentists A- 8/25/03 (Drexel East)
Shanghai Knights B- 2/6/03 (Marcus Crosswoods)
Shaolin Soccer C+ 8/12/03 (Drexel East)
The Shape of Things A 4/17/03 (Arena Grand), 6/2/03 (Drexel East)
Shattered Glass A 11/7/03 (Drexel East)
Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas C- 6/21/03 (AMC Easton)
The Singing Detective C- 11/4/03 (Drexel East)
Something's Gotta Give B- 12/9/03 (AMC Easton)
The Son B+ 6/6/03 (Wexner Center)
Spellbound B 6/3/03 (Drexel East)
Spider C 5/9/03 (Drexel East)
Spy Kids 3-D B 7/17/03 (Arena Grand)
The Station Agent B 11/1/03 (Drexel East)
Step Into Liquid B- 10/18/03 (Drexel East)
Stone Reader B+ 4/24/03 (Virginia Theatre, Champaign, IL)
Stuck On You B- 12/8/03 (AMC Lennox)
Super Sucker F 1/24/03 (Marcus Crosswoods)
S.W.A.T. B- 8/8/03 (Arena Grand)
Sweet Sixteen B 7/9/03 (Arena Grand)
Swimming Pool B 7/22/03 (Drexel East)
Sylvia B 10/28/03 (Drexel East), 12/5/03 (Drexel Grandview)
Taking Sides A- 11/30/03 (Tivoli Theatre, St. Louis, MO)
Tears of the Sun C 2/28/03 (Drexel East)
Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines C- 6/30/03 (AMC Lennox)
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre B 10/14/03 (AMC Lennox)
Thirteen D 9/11/03 (Drexel East)
Tibet: Cry of the Snow Lion C 11/28/03 (Hi-Pointe Theatre, St. Louis, MO)
Till Human Voices Wake Us C- 6/6/03 (Drexel East)
Timeline C- 11/20/03 (AMC Lennox)
Together B 7/5/03 (Drexel East)
Tupac: Resurrection C- 11/11/03 (AMC Lennox)
Under the Tuscan Sun C+ 9/11/03 (Arena Grand)
Underworld C 9/16/03 (AMC Easton)
Uptown Girls D 8/7/03 (AMC Easton)
Veronica Guerin C+ 10/9/03 (Drexel East)
View from the Top C+ 3/19/03 (Arena Grand)
The Weather Underground B 11/23/03 (Drexel Grandview)
Whale Rider A 6/23/03 (Arena Grand)
What a Girl Wants C 4/1/03 (AMC Easton)
Willard B- 3/10/03 (AMC Lennox)
Winged Migration B 7/15/03 (Drexel East)
Wonderland C+ 10/20/03 (AMC Lennox)
Wrong Turn C- 5/29/03 (Marcus Crosswoods)
X2: X-Men United B- 5/1/03 (Arena Grand)
The Young Black Stallion C- 12/11/03 (Marcus Crosswoods)
Non-qualifiers
25th Hour B 1/6/03 (AMC Lennox)
About Schmidt A 1/17/03 (Marcus Crosswoods)
Ace in the Hole A+ 2/28/03 (Wexner Center)
Adaptation A 1/12/03 (Arena Grand)
Alien: The Director's Cut B+ 10/16/03 (Arena Grand)
Chicago A- 1/2/03 (Arena Grand)
Confessions of a Dangerous Mind B- 1/8/03 (Drexel East)
*Corpus Callosum C 2/7/03 (Wexner Center)
Corridors of Blood B- 10/31/03 (Wexner Center)
El Crimen del Padre Amaro B- 1/29/03 (Drexel East)
Devil Doll B- 10/31/03 (Wexner Center)
Devils on the Doorstep B+ 3/28/03 (Wexner Center)
Evelyn C 2/4/03 (Drexel East)
Female Prisoner Scorpion: Jailhouse 41 C- 7/11/03 (Wexner Center)
Gangs of New York B 1/24/03 (Marcus Crosswoods)
God is Great and I'm Not C- 2/9/03 (Wexner Center)
The Happiness of the Katakuris B+ 3/28/03 (Wexner Center)
In Praise of Love D 4/4/03 (Wexner Center)
Love Liza C+ 4/4/03 (Drexel East)
Mala Noche B- 3/13/03 (Wexner Center)
Max B 3/13/03 (Drexel East)
Naqoyqatsi C+ 1/28/03 (Drexel East)
Narc B- 1/7/03 (AMC Easton)
Nicholas Nickelby B- 1/7/03 (Drexel East)
The Pianist A- 1/9/03 (Arena Grand)
Princes and Princesses B 7/21/03 (Drexel East)
The Quiet American B+ 2/6/03 (Drexel East)
Russian Ark B 4/12/03 (Wexner Center)
The Soft Skin B 10/10/03 (Wexner Center)
Talk To Her A 2/5/03 (Drexel East)
Trapped by the Mormons 7/25/03 (Wexner Center)
Videodrome B- 10/24/03 (Wexner Center)
The Way Home B+ 1/28/03 (Drexel East)
Winter's Child C- 10/10/03 (Wexner Center)
Roger Ebert's Overlooked Film Festival
(all films seen at The Virginia Theatre in Champaign, Illinois)
13 Conversations About One Thing A 4/26/03
The Black Pirate 4/25/03
Blood and Wine B 4/24/03
The Grey Automobile 4/24/03
L.627 4/25/03
Medium Cool 4/25/03
The Right Stuff A+ 4/23/03
Shall We Dance A 4/26/03
Singin' in the Rain A+ 4/27/03
What's Cooking? B- 4/25/03
Your Friends and Neighbors A- 4/24/03
Seen for the first time (DVD, screeners, TV)
All the Real Girls A+ 6/28/03
L'Appartement A- 7/20/03
Audition B 8/31/03
Battle Royale B+ 6/18/03
Bed & Board A- 5/11/03
Better Off Dead B- 12/30/03
The Big Clock B 5/31/03
The Blob (1958) B- 5/30/03
Brakhage: Hand-Painted Films 4/5/03
Branded To Kill C+ 7/10/03
Carnival of Souls B 11/23/03
Castle in the Sky B 4/13/03
Chimes at Midnight 8/16/03
Close Encounters of the Third Kind A 11/15/03
Day for Night A 4/20/03
Day of Wrath B+ 5/23/03
Drifting Clouds B 8/23/03
Fahrenheit 451 B- 11/17/03
Family Plot B 6/14/03
F for Fake B 6/19/03
Frenzy B+ 6/8/03
Giants & Toys B+ 8/23/03
The Gold Rush ("daddy" version) B- 5/16/03
Heaven B+ 9/12/03
The Heroic Trio (BVHE edit) C- 4/19/03
Highball D 8/30/03
The Hole B- 7/12/03
Irma Vep B- 4/18/03
Irreversible B 6/18/03
It's a Wonderful Life A 12/24/03
ivansxtc. C 5/3/03
Kiki's Delivery Service A- 4/12/03
Kissed C 8/30/03
Love on the Run B- 5/11/03
Mon Oncle B+ 2/16/03
Morvern Callar 1/13/03
New Guy (2003) B- 6/21/03
Paris When It Sizzles C+ 6/15/03
Playtime B- 2/16/03
Roman Holiday B 11/19/03
Shoot the Piano Player B 12/17/03
Sisters B- 11/16/03
Stolen Kisses A 5/10/03
Straw Dogs B 11/25/03
Suture B 6/11/03
Topaz C- 8/31/03
The Wild Bunch B- 12/19/03
The Woman with Red Boots C 5/13/03
The Wrong Guy B- 1/1/03
Seen on DVD
The 400 Blows A+ 5/10/03
About a Boy A 1/20/03
Back to the Future B 12/13/03
Dick B- 11/17/03
Down By Law A- 6/2/03
Gremlins B 11/9/03
Lilo & Stitch B 1/1/03
M. Hulot's Holiday B 2/15/03
Mulholland Drive A+ 4/6/03
Pee-Wee's Big Adventure B 2/22/03
Signs B+ 1/4/03
Spellbound (1945) B 12/14/03
Swingers B 2/14/03
The Terminator B- 7/4/03
Three Colors: Blue A+ 3/8/03
Three Colors: Red A+ 3/15/03
Three Colors: White A 3/8/03
Undercover Brother B- 1/31/03
Other films: 45
Total: 270
Criteria: Oscar release--all films seen theatrically
Last update: 12/31/03
2002 total: 260
2001 total: 238
Recent additions: DVD: Better Off Dead and It's a Wonderful Life
2003 Films
2 Fast 2 Furious B- 6/3/03 (Arena Grand)
21 Grams B 12/16/03 (Drexel East)
28 Days Later A 6/19/03 (Drexel East)
Agent Cody Banks B- 3/8/03 (AMC Lennox)
Alex and Emma C+ 6/16/03 (AMC Lennox)
All the Real Girls A+ 8/15/03 (Drexel East)
American Splendor B+ 9/4/03 (Drexel East)
American Wedding B- 8/6/03 (Marcus Crosswoods)
And Now...Ladies and Gentlemen D+ 10/15/03 (Drexel East)
Anger Management C- 4/3/03 (AMC Lennox)
The Animation Show B- 12/13/03 (Drexel Grandview)
Anything Else C+ 9/19/03 (Arena Grand)
L'Auberge Espagnole B 5/22/03 (Drexel East)
Bad Boys II D- 7/18/03 (Arena Grand)
Bad Santa B+ 11/13/03 (Drexel East)
Basic D+ 3/26/03 (AMC Easton)
The Battle of Shaker Heights B- 8/23/03 (Wexner Center)
Bend It Like Beckham B+ 3/27/03 (AMC Lennox), 4/19/03 (Arena Grand)
Better Luck Tomorrow B+ 4/18/03 (Drexel East)
Beyond Borders D+ 10/21/03 (AMC Lennox)
Big Fish A- 12/10/03 (Drexel East)
Biker Boyz D+ 1/27/03 (AMC Lennox)
Blind Spot: Hitler's Secretary C+ 8/5/03 (Drexel East)
Boat Trip F 3/21/03 (Marcus Crosswoods)
Bonhoeffer B- 10/17/03 (Drexel East)
Bringing Down the House D 3/7/03 (Arena Grand)
Brother Bear B- 10/24/03 (Arena Grand)
Bruce Almighty C 5/20/03 (Arena Grand)
Bubba Ho-Tep C+ 11/11/03 (Drexel East)
Bulletproof Monk B- 4/14/03 (AMC Lennox)
Bus 174 A 12/20/03 (Wexner Center)
Cabin Fever C 9/5/03 (AMC Lennox)
Calendar Girls C 12/11/03 (Cinemark Gahanna)
Camp D+ 8/15/03 (Drexel East)
Capturing the Friedmans A+ 6/24/03 (Drexel East)
Casa de los Babys B- 10/14/03 (Drexel East)
Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle B- 6/24/03 (AMC Lennox)
Charlotte Sometimes B+ 4/26/03 (Virginia Theatre, Champaign, IL)
Cheaper by the Dozen C- 12/6/03 (AMC Lennox)
City of God A 3/4/03 (Drexel East)
Cold Creek Manor C- 9/10/03 (Marcus Crosswoods)
Cold Mountain B 12/15/03 (Arena Grand)
Confidence C 4/3/03 (Drexel East)
The Cooler B 12/4/03 (Drexel East)
The Core C- 3/25/03 (Marcus Crosswoods)
Cowboy Bebop: The Movie C 5/6/03 (Drexel East)
Cradle 2 the Grave D- 2/28/03 (Marcus Crosswoods)
Daddy Day Care C- 5/3/03 (AMC Lennox)
The Dancer Upstairs B- 5/8/03 (Drexel East)
Daredevil B+ 2/10/03 (AMC Lennox), 2/28/03 (Arena Grand)
Dark Blue B- 2/18/03 (Marcus Crosswoods)
Darkness Falls D 1/21/03 (AMC Lennox)
Deliver Us From Eva D 2/7/03 (AMC Easton)
Demonlover B 10/24/03 (Wexner Center)
Dickie Roberts: Former Child Star D+ 9/2/03 (AMC Lennox)
Dirty Pretty Things A 8/18/03 (Drexel East)
Divine Intervention B 5/31/03 (Wexner Center)
Le Divorce C- 8/14/03 (Drexel East)
Down with Love A- 5/8/03 (Marcus Crosswoods), 5/13/03 (Drexel East)
Dreamcatcher D+ 3/18/03 (AMC Lennox)
Dr. Seuss' The Cat in the Hat D- 11/23/03 (Marcus Crosswoods)
Dumb and Dumberer: When Harry Met Lloyd D 6/11/03 (AMC Lennox)
Duplex C 9/24/03 (AMC Lennox)
DysFunkTional Family D+ 4/1/03 (Drexel East)
Elf B+ 10/28/03 (Marcus Crosswoods)
The Eye B- 9/7/03 (Drexel East)
The Fighting Temptations C- 9/8/03 (Marcus Crosswoods)
Final Destination 2 C- 1/30/03 (Arena Grand)
Finding Nemo A 5/22/03 (Marcus Crosswoods), 6/6/03 (Arena Grand)
The Flower of Evil B 11/28/03 (Tivoli Theatre, St. Louis, MO)
Freaky Friday B- 7/21/03 (Marcus Pickerington)
Freddy vs. Jason C- 8/12/03 (AMC Lennox)
From Justin To Kelly D- 6/20/03 (Marcus Crosswoods)
Gerry A+ 2/19/03 (Wexner Center), 3/28/03 (Drexel East)
Ghosts of the Abyss B- 4/10/03 (Marcus Crosswoods)
Gigli C- 8/5/03 (Arena Grand)
Girl with a Pearl Earring B- 12/12/03 (Drexel East)
Gods and Generals D- 2/21/03 (Marcus Crosswoods)
Good Boy! C- 9/25/03 (Arena Grand)
The Good Thief B+ 4/10/03 (Drexel East)
Gothika D+ 11/18/03 (AMC Lennox)
Grind D- 8/11/03 (AMC Easton)
The Guru D 2/14/03 (AMC Lennox)
A Guy Thing D+ 1/17/03 (Marcus Crosswoods)
The Hard Word C 7/18/03 (Drexel Grandview)
The Haunted Mansion D 11/25/03 (Marcus Crosswoods)
Head of State C+ 3/29/03 (Marcus Crosswoods)
Holes C+ 4/2/03 (AMC Easton)
Hollywood Homicide C 6/10/03 (AMC Lennox)
The Holy Land C- 11/10/03 (Drexel East)
Honey C+ 12/6/03 (Marcus Crosswoods)
House of 1000 Corpses F 4/11/03 (AMC Lennox)
House of Sand and Fog A+ 12/2/03 (Arena Grand)
How To Deal D+ 7/14/03 (AMC Lennox)
How To Lose a Guy In 10 Days D+ 2/4/03 (AMC Lennox)
The Hulk B+ 6/17/03 & 6/29/03 (Arena Grand)
The Human Stain C+ 10/27/03 (Drexel East)
The Hunted C 3/11/03 (AMC Lennox)
Identity B 4/17/03 (AMC Lennox)
In America A 12/13/03 (Drexel Grandview)
The In-Laws C- 5/19/03 (AMC Easton)
In the Cut C- 10/23/03 (Drexel East)
Intolerable Cruelty C+ 10/7/03 (Arena Grand)
The Italian Job B 4/16/03 (Marcus Crosswoods) (work print), 5/27/03 (Marcus Crosswoods)
It Runs in the Family F 4/22/03 (AMC Lennox)
Jeepers Creepers 2 B 8/26/03 (AMC Lennox)
Jet Lag C- 8/5/03 (Drexel East)
Johnny English B- 7/15/03 (Arena Grand)
The Jungle Book 2 B- 2/8/03 (Marcus Crosswoods)
Just Married D+ 1/9/03 (AMC Lennox)
Kangaroo Jack D 1/11/03 (Marcus Crosswoods)
Kill Bill Vol. 1 A 10/7/03 (AMC Lennox), 10/10/03 (Arena Grand)
Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life C- 7/23/03 (AMC Lennox)
The Last Samurai B 11/24/03 (AMC Easton)
Laurel Canyon C 4/15/03 (Arena Grand)
The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen D 7/8/03 (Arena Grand)
Legally Blonde 2: Red, White, & Blonde C- 6/26/03 (Marcus Crosswoods)
The Legend of Suriyothai D 11/7/03 (Drexel Grandview)
Levity B 8/8/03 (Drexel East)
The Life of David Gale D+ 2/21/03 (Marcus Crosswoods)
The Lizzie McGuire Movie C- 4/29/03 (Marcus Crosswoods)
Looney Tunes: Back in Action B- 11/8/03 (Marcus Crosswoods)
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King B 12/10/03 (Marcus Crosswoods)
Lost in La Mancha B 4/29/03 (Drexel East)
Lost in Translation A- 9/18/03 (Drexel East), 10/18/03 (Drexel East)
Love Actually B 11/4/03 (Arena Grand)
Love Don't Cost a Thing D 12/12/03 (Cinemark Gahanna)
Lucia, Lucia B- 8/7/03 (Drexel East)
Luther C+ 9/26/03 (Marcus Pickerington)
The Magdalene Sisters B 9/12/03 (Drexel East)
Malibu's Most Wanted B- 4/15/03 (AMC Lennox)
Mambo Italiano D+ 10/31/03 (Drexel Grandview)
A Man Apart D+ 4/5/03 (Marcus Crosswoods)
Manna From Heaven C 1/10/03 (Drexel East)
Man on the Train B 6/20/03 (Drexel Grandview)
Marci X F 8/22/03 (Marcus Crosswoods)
Masked and Anonymous D 10/24/03 (Drexel Grandview)
Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World B+ 10/30/03 (Arena Grand)
Matchstick Men A 9/3/03 (AMC Lennox), 9/26/03 (Arena Grand)
The Matrix Reloaded B 5/12/03 (Arena Grand), 5/16/03 (Arena Grand)
The Matrix Revolutions B- 11/3/03 (AMC Lennox)
The Medallion C- 8/19/03 (AMC Lennox)
A Mighty Wind B 5/5/03 (AMC Easton)
The Missing B 11/14/03 (Drexel East)
Mona Lisa Smile B- 12/17/03 (Marcus Crosswoods)
Mondays in the Sun B+ 7/17/03 (Drexel East)
My Boss's Daughter D- 8/22/03 (Marcus Crosswoods)
Mystic River A 10/13/03 (Marcus Crosswoods)
National Security D 1/14/03 (AMC Lennox)
No Good Deed C+ 9/12/03 (Marcus Crosswoods)
Northfork C 7/28/03 (Drexel East)
Nowhere in Africa B+ 4/8/03 (Drexel East)
Old School B- 2/11/03 (AMC Easton)
Once Upon a Time In Mexico C 9/9/03 (AMC Lennox)
Once Upon a Time in the Midlands C+ 12/21/03 (Drexel Grandview)
Open Range B- 8/11/03 (Arena Grand)
The Order D 9/5/03 (AMC Lennox)
Out of Time C 9/30/03 (AMC Lennox)
Owning Mahowny B- 10/10/03 (Drexel Grandview)
Party Monster D+ 12/9/03 (Drexel East)
Paycheck B- 12/15/03 (Arena Grand) (work print), 12/22/03 (Marcus Crosswoods)
Peter Pan C+ 12/16/03 (Arena Grand)
Phone Booth B+ 3/20/03 (Arena Grand)
Pieces of April B- 10/17/03 (Drexel East)
Piglet's Big Movie B- 3/15/03 (Marcus Crosswoods)
Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl B 7/7/03 (Marcus Crosswoods)
Pistol Opera C 7/11/03 (Wexner Center)
Radio B- 10/18/03 (Arena Grand)
Raising Victor Vargas B+ 6/17/03 (Drexel East)
The Real Cancun F 4/28/03 (Marcus Crosswoods)
The Recruit B- 1/28/03 (AMC Lennox)
Red Betsy C+ 11/29/03 (Plaza Frontenac, St. Louis, MO)
Respiro D 10/31/03 (Drexel East)
Rugrats Go Wild C- 6/13/03 (Marcus Crosswoods)
Runaway Jury C 10/2/03 (Drexel East)
The Rundown B- 9/23/03 (Arena Grand)
Scary Movie 3 D 10/22/03 (Arena Grand)
The School of Rock B+ 9/29/03 (AMC Lennox)
Seabiscuit A- 7/22/03 (Arena Grand)
Secondhand Lions B- 9/4/03 (AMC Lennox)
The Secret Lives of Dentists A- 8/25/03 (Drexel East)
Shanghai Knights B- 2/6/03 (Marcus Crosswoods)
Shaolin Soccer C+ 8/12/03 (Drexel East)
The Shape of Things A 4/17/03 (Arena Grand), 6/2/03 (Drexel East)
Shattered Glass A 11/7/03 (Drexel East)
Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas C- 6/21/03 (AMC Easton)
The Singing Detective C- 11/4/03 (Drexel East)
Something's Gotta Give B- 12/9/03 (AMC Easton)
The Son B+ 6/6/03 (Wexner Center)
Spellbound B 6/3/03 (Drexel East)
Spider C 5/9/03 (Drexel East)
Spy Kids 3-D B 7/17/03 (Arena Grand)
The Station Agent B 11/1/03 (Drexel East)
Step Into Liquid B- 10/18/03 (Drexel East)
Stone Reader B+ 4/24/03 (Virginia Theatre, Champaign, IL)
Stuck On You B- 12/8/03 (AMC Lennox)
Super Sucker F 1/24/03 (Marcus Crosswoods)
S.W.A.T. B- 8/8/03 (Arena Grand)
Sweet Sixteen B 7/9/03 (Arena Grand)
Swimming Pool B 7/22/03 (Drexel East)
Sylvia B 10/28/03 (Drexel East), 12/5/03 (Drexel Grandview)
Taking Sides A- 11/30/03 (Tivoli Theatre, St. Louis, MO)
Tears of the Sun C 2/28/03 (Drexel East)
Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines C- 6/30/03 (AMC Lennox)
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre B 10/14/03 (AMC Lennox)
Thirteen D 9/11/03 (Drexel East)
Tibet: Cry of the Snow Lion C 11/28/03 (Hi-Pointe Theatre, St. Louis, MO)
Till Human Voices Wake Us C- 6/6/03 (Drexel East)
Timeline C- 11/20/03 (AMC Lennox)
Together B 7/5/03 (Drexel East)
Tupac: Resurrection C- 11/11/03 (AMC Lennox)
Under the Tuscan Sun C+ 9/11/03 (Arena Grand)
Underworld C 9/16/03 (AMC Easton)
Uptown Girls D 8/7/03 (AMC Easton)
Veronica Guerin C+ 10/9/03 (Drexel East)
View from the Top C+ 3/19/03 (Arena Grand)
The Weather Underground B 11/23/03 (Drexel Grandview)
Whale Rider A 6/23/03 (Arena Grand)
What a Girl Wants C 4/1/03 (AMC Easton)
Willard B- 3/10/03 (AMC Lennox)
Winged Migration B 7/15/03 (Drexel East)
Wonderland C+ 10/20/03 (AMC Lennox)
Wrong Turn C- 5/29/03 (Marcus Crosswoods)
X2: X-Men United B- 5/1/03 (Arena Grand)
The Young Black Stallion C- 12/11/03 (Marcus Crosswoods)
Non-qualifiers
25th Hour B 1/6/03 (AMC Lennox)
About Schmidt A 1/17/03 (Marcus Crosswoods)
Ace in the Hole A+ 2/28/03 (Wexner Center)
Adaptation A 1/12/03 (Arena Grand)
Alien: The Director's Cut B+ 10/16/03 (Arena Grand)
Chicago A- 1/2/03 (Arena Grand)
Confessions of a Dangerous Mind B- 1/8/03 (Drexel East)
*Corpus Callosum C 2/7/03 (Wexner Center)
Corridors of Blood B- 10/31/03 (Wexner Center)
El Crimen del Padre Amaro B- 1/29/03 (Drexel East)
Devil Doll B- 10/31/03 (Wexner Center)
Devils on the Doorstep B+ 3/28/03 (Wexner Center)
Evelyn C 2/4/03 (Drexel East)
Female Prisoner Scorpion: Jailhouse 41 C- 7/11/03 (Wexner Center)
Gangs of New York B 1/24/03 (Marcus Crosswoods)
God is Great and I'm Not C- 2/9/03 (Wexner Center)
The Happiness of the Katakuris B+ 3/28/03 (Wexner Center)
In Praise of Love D 4/4/03 (Wexner Center)
Love Liza C+ 4/4/03 (Drexel East)
Mala Noche B- 3/13/03 (Wexner Center)
Max B 3/13/03 (Drexel East)
Naqoyqatsi C+ 1/28/03 (Drexel East)
Narc B- 1/7/03 (AMC Easton)
Nicholas Nickelby B- 1/7/03 (Drexel East)
The Pianist A- 1/9/03 (Arena Grand)
Princes and Princesses B 7/21/03 (Drexel East)
The Quiet American B+ 2/6/03 (Drexel East)
Russian Ark B 4/12/03 (Wexner Center)
The Soft Skin B 10/10/03 (Wexner Center)
Talk To Her A 2/5/03 (Drexel East)
Trapped by the Mormons 7/25/03 (Wexner Center)
Videodrome B- 10/24/03 (Wexner Center)
The Way Home B+ 1/28/03 (Drexel East)
Winter's Child C- 10/10/03 (Wexner Center)
Roger Ebert's Overlooked Film Festival
(all films seen at The Virginia Theatre in Champaign, Illinois)
13 Conversations About One Thing A 4/26/03
The Black Pirate 4/25/03
Blood and Wine B 4/24/03
The Grey Automobile 4/24/03
L.627 4/25/03
Medium Cool 4/25/03
The Right Stuff A+ 4/23/03
Shall We Dance A 4/26/03
Singin' in the Rain A+ 4/27/03
What's Cooking? B- 4/25/03
Your Friends and Neighbors A- 4/24/03
Seen for the first time (DVD, screeners, TV)
All the Real Girls A+ 6/28/03
L'Appartement A- 7/20/03
Audition B 8/31/03
Battle Royale B+ 6/18/03
Bed & Board A- 5/11/03
Better Off Dead B- 12/30/03
The Big Clock B 5/31/03
The Blob (1958) B- 5/30/03
Brakhage: Hand-Painted Films 4/5/03
Branded To Kill C+ 7/10/03
Carnival of Souls B 11/23/03
Castle in the Sky B 4/13/03
Chimes at Midnight 8/16/03
Close Encounters of the Third Kind A 11/15/03
Day for Night A 4/20/03
Day of Wrath B+ 5/23/03
Drifting Clouds B 8/23/03
Fahrenheit 451 B- 11/17/03
Family Plot B 6/14/03
F for Fake B 6/19/03
Frenzy B+ 6/8/03
Giants & Toys B+ 8/23/03
The Gold Rush ("daddy" version) B- 5/16/03
Heaven B+ 9/12/03
The Heroic Trio (BVHE edit) C- 4/19/03
Highball D 8/30/03
The Hole B- 7/12/03
Irma Vep B- 4/18/03
Irreversible B 6/18/03
It's a Wonderful Life A 12/24/03
ivansxtc. C 5/3/03
Kiki's Delivery Service A- 4/12/03
Kissed C 8/30/03
Love on the Run B- 5/11/03
Mon Oncle B+ 2/16/03
Morvern Callar 1/13/03
New Guy (2003) B- 6/21/03
Paris When It Sizzles C+ 6/15/03
Playtime B- 2/16/03
Roman Holiday B 11/19/03
Shoot the Piano Player B 12/17/03
Sisters B- 11/16/03
Stolen Kisses A 5/10/03
Straw Dogs B 11/25/03
Suture B 6/11/03
Topaz C- 8/31/03
The Wild Bunch B- 12/19/03
The Woman with Red Boots C 5/13/03
The Wrong Guy B- 1/1/03
Seen on DVD
The 400 Blows A+ 5/10/03
About a Boy A 1/20/03
Back to the Future B 12/13/03
Dick B- 11/17/03
Down By Law A- 6/2/03
Gremlins B 11/9/03
Lilo & Stitch B 1/1/03
M. Hulot's Holiday B 2/15/03
Mulholland Drive A+ 4/6/03
Pee-Wee's Big Adventure B 2/22/03
Signs B+ 1/4/03
Spellbound (1945) B 12/14/03
Swingers B 2/14/03
The Terminator B- 7/4/03
Three Colors: Blue A+ 3/8/03
Three Colors: Red A+ 3/15/03
Three Colors: White A 3/8/03
Undercover Brother B- 1/31/03
post #6 of 601
1/2/03 at 12:08pm
***Updated: 12/24/2004*** Criteria: First U.S. non-festival theatrical 2003 release.
Number of films seen (2003 eligible only): 113 : My emphasis - Quality matters more than quantity.
Alpha Listing Of Films Seen (out of 4 stars):
21 Grams ***28 Days Later **½
Assassination Tango **½
A Guy Thing *
All The Real Girls *** American Splendor ****Anger Management *½
Assassination Tango **½
Babi Leto (Autumn Spring) *** (Czech Republic) Bad Santa *** Bend It Like Beckham ***¼Better Luck Tomorrow **
Big Fish *½
Blue Car ***¼
Bringing Down The House *
Brother Bear ***Bruce Almighty **½
Bus 174 ***¼ (Brazil) Capturing The Friedmans ***½Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle *
Charlotte Sometimes ***¼ City Of God ****(Brazil) Cold Mountain *** Confidence **
Cooler, The **½
Daddy Day Care **
Dancer Upstairs, The **
Daredevil *½
Dark Blue **½
Dirty Pretty Things ***½Down With Love **½
Duplex *½
Elephant **
Elf **
Finding Nemo ***½ Fog of War ***Freaky Friday **
Gerry *½
Ghosts Of The Abyss **½
Good Thief, The **½
He Loves Me, He Loves Me Not ***½ (France) Holes ***¼House Of Sand And Fog **½
How To Lose A Guy In 10 Days **½
Hulk ***¼ Identity ***¼ In America *** Intolerable Cruelty ***Irreversible **
The Italian Job ***¼ The Kid Stays In The Picture ***¼ Kill Bill: Volume 1 ***½Kukushka ** (Russia)
L'Auberge Espagnole *** (France) The Last Samurai ***Laurel Canyon **½
The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen *½
The Lord Of The Rings: The Return Of The King **** The Lord Of The Rings: The Two Towers - Special Extended Edition ***½ Lost In La Mancha ***Lost In Translation **
Love Actually ***¼ Magdalene Sisters, The ***¼Man On The Train, The **½ (France)
Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World ***½Man Wihtout A Past, The **½ (Finland)
Marooned In Iraq COMING
Matchstick Men ***¼ Matrix Reloaded, The ***¼Matrix Revolutions, The *½
May *
Millennium Actress *** (Japan)Mona Lisa Smile **
Mondays In The Sun ***¼ Monster ***½My Boss's Daughter *½
Mystic River **½
Nowhere In Africa *** (Germany) Once Upon A Time In Mexico *** Open Range ***½Out of Time **½
Owning Mahowny *** Peter Pan ***¼ Phone Booth *** Pieces of April ***¼ Pirates Of The Caribbean: The Curse Of The Black Pearl ***½ Raising Victor Vargas ***Recruit, The **½
Runaway Jury **
School Of Rock *** Seabiscuit ***½Secret Lives of Dentists, The **
Secondhand Lions **
Shanghai Knights **
Shape Of Things, The ***¼ Shattered Glass ***½ Shelter, The ***Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas **
Slaughter Rule, The **
Something's Gotta Give *** Spellbound ***¼ Station Agent, The ***½ Stevie ***¼ Sweet Sixteen ***½ Swimming Pool *** (France)Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines *½
Tears Of The Sun **
Thirteen ***½Triplets of Belleville, The **½
Weather Underground *** Whale Rider *** Winged Migration *** X2: X-Men United ***XX/XY **
Sorted By Rating:
Marooned In Iraq COMING
Films (out of four):• American Splendor
• City Of God (Brazil)
• The Lord of The Rings: The Return Of The King
½ Films:• Capturing The Friedmans
• Dirty Pretty Things
• Finding Nemo
• He Loves Me, He Loves Me Not (France)
• Kill Bill: Volume 1
• The Lord Of The Rings: The Two Towers - Special Extended Edition
• Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World
• Monster
• Open Range
• Pirates Of The Caribbean
• Seabiscuit
• Shattered Glass
• The Station Agent
• Sweet Sixteen
• Thirteen
¼ Films:• Bend It Like Beckham
• Blue Car
• Bus 174 (Brazil)
• Charlotte Sometimes
• Holes
• Hulk
• Identity
• The Italian Job
• The Kid Stays In The Picture
• Love Actually
• The Magdalene Sisters
• Matchstick Men
• The Matrix Reloaded
• Mondays In The Sun
• Peter Pan
• Pieces of April
• The Shape of Things
• Spellbound
• Stevie
Films:• 21 Grams
• All The Real Girls
• Babi Leto (Autumn Spring) (Czech Republic)
• Bad Santa
• Brother Bear
• Cold Mountain
• Fog Of War
• In America
• Intolerable Cruelty
• L'Auberge Espagnole
• The Last Samurai
• Lost In La Mancha
• Millennium Actress (Japan)
• Nowhere In Africa (Germany)
• Once Upon A Time In Mexico
• Phone Booth
• Raising Victor Vargas
• School Of Rock
• The Shelter
• Something's Gotta Give
• Swimming Pool
• Weather Underground
• Whale Rider
• Winged Migration
• X2: X-Men United
½ Films:• 28 Days Later
• Assassination Tango
• Bruce Almighty
• The Cooler
• Dark Blue
• Down With Love
• Ghost Of The Abyss
• The Good Thief
• House Of Sand And Fog
• How To Lose A Guy In 10 Days
• Laurel Canyon
• The Man On The Train (France)
• The Man Without A Past (Finland)
• Mystic River
• Out Of Time
• The Recruit
• The Triplets of Belleville (France)
Films:• Better luck Tomorrow
• Confidence
• The Dancer Upstairs
• Daddy Day Care
• Elephant
• Elf
• Freaky Friday
• Irreversible
• Kukushka (Russia)
• Lost In Translation
• Mona Lisa Smile
• Runaway Jury
• Secondhand Lions
• The Secret Lives of Dentists
• Shanghai Knights
• Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas
• The Slaughter Rule
• Tears Of The Sun
• XX/XY
½ Films:• Anger Management
• Big Fish
• Duplex
• Gerry
• Daredevil
• League of Extraordinary Gentlemen
• My Boss's Daughter
• Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines
• The Matrix Revolutions
½ Films:
• A Guy Thing
• Bringing Down The House
• Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle
• May
***************
Legend: = Excellent½ = Very Good¼ = Better than Good = Good½ = Fair or Average. With Mixed Feelings. = Below Average. Not Recommended.½ = Bad. = Worst. Avoid At All Cost.I'm only going to see those that are noteworthy including independent, foreign films and the high profiled films. I value my time and life is too short to waste on such movies as Joe Dirt and Freddie Got Fingered. So my list will be shorter than most of the others here.
~Edwin
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1/2/03 at 12:33pm
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Total Film Count: 148
[c]2003 Theatrical Releases[/c]
Film / Grade / MPAA Rating / Director(s) / Date Viewed, Venue & Additional Info
21 Grams /¼ / R / Alejandro González Iñárritu / 06/16/04 (DVD)[RENT]
All the Real Girls / / R / David Gordon Green / 04/11/03 (RSB)
American Wedding / / R / Jesse Dylan / 08/04/03 (COBBD)
Bend it Like Beckham / / PG-13 / Gurinder Chadha / 04/12/03 (AMCSP)
Big Fish /¼ / PG-13 / Tim Burton / 12/28/03 (AMCSP)
The Blue Light (Ao no hono-o) (2003) /¼ / NR / Yukio Ninagawa / 04/12/04 (IC)
Bringing Down the House /½ / PG-13 / Adam Shankman / 03/13/03 (COBBD)
Brother Bear / / G / Aaron Blaise, Robert Walker / 11/15/03 (COBBD)
City of God (Cidade de Deus) /¾ / R / Fernando Meirelles, Katia Lund / 03/16/03 (RSB)
The Cooler / / R / Wayne Kramer / 09/29/05 (RENT)
Cowboy Bebop: The Movie (Cowboy Bebop: Tengoku no Tobira) / / R / Shinichiro Watanabe / 05/10/03 (LUC)[DUB]
Cradle 2 The Grave /¼ / R / Andrzej Bartkowiak / 03/13/03 (COBBD)
Daredevil / / PG-13 / Mark Steven Johnson / 02/15/03 (COBBD)
Dark Blue / / R / Ron Shelton / 02/22/03 (COBBD)
Dirty Pretty Things /¼ / R / Stephen Frears / 08/29/03 (AMCTC)
Elf / / PG / Jon Favreau / 11/22/03 (COBBD)
Finding Nemo /¾ / G / Andrew Stanton / 06/05/03 (COBBD)
Freaky Friday /¼ / PG / Mark Waters / 08/09/03 (COBBD)
Girl With a Pearl Earring /½ / PG-13 / Peter Webber / 09/29/05 (RENT)
The Good Thief /¼ / R / Neil Jordan / 04/19/03 (AMCSP)
The Guru /½ / R / Daisy von Scherler Mayer / 02/02/03 (RSB)
He Loves Me... He Loves Me Not (À la folie... pas du tout) / / PG-13 / Laetitia Colombani / 08/27/03 (DVD)[RENT]
House of Sand and Fog /¼ / R / Vadim Perelman / 01/07/04 (AMCTC)
Hulk /¼ / PG-13 / Ang Lee / 06/20/03 (LUC)
I Capture The Castle /¾ / R / Tim Fywell / 10/02/05 (RENT)
In America /¾ / PG-13 / Jim Sheridan / 12/24/03 (AMCSP)
Kill Bill: Volume 1 /½ / R / Quentin Tarantino / 10/11/03 (COBBD)
The Last Samurai /½ / R / Edward Zwick / 12/06/03 (COBBD)
The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen /¾ / PG-13 / Stephen Norrington / 07/11/03 (COBBD)
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King / / PG-13 / Peter Jackson / 12/17/03 (COBBD)
Looney Tunes: Back in Action / / PG / Joe Dante / 11/16/03 (COBBD)
Lost In Translation /¾ / R / Sofia Coppola / 09/20/03 (RSB)
Love Actually /¾ / R / Richard Curtis / 11/08/03 (AMCSP)
Madame Satã / / NR / Karim Ainouz / 09/20/03 (RSB)
Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World /½ / PG-13 / Peter Weir / 11/30/03 (AMCSP)
Matchstick Men / / PG-13 / Ridley Scott / 09/12/03 (COBBD)
The Matrix Reloaded /¾ / R / Andy Wachowski, Larry Wachowski / 05/15/03 (COBBD), 10/21/03 (DVD)
The Matrix Revolutions / / R / Andy Wachowski, Larry Wachoski / 11/05/03 (COBBD)
The Medallion / / PG-13 / Gordon Chan / 08/24/03 (COBBD)
A Mighty Wind / / PG-13 / Christopher Guest / 05/23/03 (AMCSP)
Millennium Actress (Sennen joyu) /¼ / PG / Satoshi Kon / 01/05/04 (DVD)[RENT]
Mona Lisa Smile / / PG-13 / Mike Newell / 10/05/05 (RENT)
Mystic River /¾ / R / Clint Eastwood / 10/19/03 (COBBD)
Old School /¾ / R / Todd Philips / 03/02/03 (CIN)
Open Range /¼ / R / Kevin Costner / 08/16/03 (COBBD)
Peter Pan /¾ / PG / P.J. Hogan / 12/31/03 (AMCSP)
Phone Booth /¾ / R / Joel Schumacher / 04/10/03 (COBBD)
Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl /½ / PG-13 / Gore Verbinski / 07/09/03 (COBBD)
Raising Victor Vargas / / R / Peter Sollett / 05/05/03 (RSB)
The Recruit / / PG-13 / Roger Donaldson / 02/10/03 (COBBD)
The Rundown /¾ / PG-13 / Peter Berg / 10/02/03 (COBBD)
Seabiscuit /½ / PG-13 / Gary Ross / 08/05/03 (COBBD)
School of Rock /½ / PG-13 / Richard Linklater / 10/12/03 (COBBD)
Shanghai Knights /¾ / PG-13 / David Dobkin / 01/25/03 (COBBD)[SP]
Shattered Glass /¼ / PG-13 / Billy Ray / 11/14/03 (AMCSP)
Something's Gotta Give / / PG-13 / Nancy Meyers / 01/05/04 (AMCSP)
Step Into Liquid / / NR / Dana Brown / 08/23/03 (RSB)
Stuck On You /½ / PG-13 / Bobby Farrelly, Peter Farrelly / 12/15/03 (AMCSP)
Swimming Pool / / R / François Ozon / 07/22/03 (RSB)
Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines /¼ / R / Jonathan Mostow / 07/03/03 (COBBD)
Thirteen /¼ / R / Catherine Hardwicke / 09/06/03 (AMCSP)
Veronica Guerin / / R / Joel Schumacher / 10/09/05 (RENT)
Whale Rider / / PG-13 / Niki Caro / 07/01/03 (RSB)
Willard /½ / PG-13 / Glen Morgan / 03/24/03 (COBBD)
Winged Migration (Le Peuple migrateur) / / G / Jacques Perrin / 07/01/03 (RSB)
X2: X-Men United /½ / PG-13 / Bryan Singer / 05/02/03 (COBBD)
[c]2003 Special Editions/Re-Releases[/c]
The Lion King: Special Edition / / G / Roger Allers, Rob Minkoff / 10/10/03 (DVD)
The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers - Extended Edition / / PG-13 / Peter Jackson / 11/21/03 (DVD)
[c]2003 Short Films[/c]
The Animatrix: Beyond /½ / NR / Kouji Morimoto / 07/24/03 (DVD)
The Animatrix: A Detective Story /¼ / NR / Shinichiro Watanabe / 07/24/03 (DVD)
The Animatrix: Final Flight of the Osiris /½ / PG-13 / Andy Jones / 06/04/03 (DVD)
The Animatrix: Kid's Story / / NR / Shinichiro Watanabe / 07/07/03 (DVD)
The Animatrix: Matriculated /¾ / NR / Peter Chung / 07/24/03 (DVD)
The Animatrix: Program / / NR / Yoshiaki Kawajiri / 07/18/03 (DVD)
The Animatrix: The Second Rennaisance Part I /¾ / NR / Mahiro Maeda / Date Viewed: 07/02/03 (DVD)
The Animatrix: The Second Rennaisance Part II /¾ / NR / Mahiro Maeda / Date Viewed: 07/02/03 (DVD)
The Animatrix: World Record / / NR / Takeshi Koike / 07/18/03 (DVD)
Batman: Dead End / / NR / Sandy Collora / 08/21/04 (WEB)
Fast Times at Hero High / / NR / Kyle Peck / 08/21/04 (WEB)
Fish Guys / / NR / Trey Stokes / 08/19/04 (WEB)
The Long and Short of It / / NR / Sean Astin / 09/06/03 (DVD)
Lucy Must Be Traded, Charlie Brown /¾ / TV-G / Bill Melendez, Larry Leichliter / 06/12/04 (ABC)
Max Payne: Hero /¾ / NR / Chris Chen / 08/21/04 (WEB)
Partners /½ / NR / Del Matthew Bigtree / 08/20/04 (WEB)
Silent But Deadly 2 / / NR / Jeff Cioletti, Lou Tambone / 08/23/04 (WEB)
So This Guy Walks Into a Bar... /½ / NR / Mark Kochinski / 08/20/04 (WEB)
Still Lover /½ / NR / Amir Motlagh / 08/23/04 (WEB)
A Token For Your Thoughts / / NR / Sammy Smith / 08/23/04 (WEB)
Untitled Russian Film /½ / NR / Trey Stokes / 08/19/04 (WEB)
The Visitor /¾ / NR / Etienne Terblanche / 08/20/04 (WEB)
[c]2003 TV Films[/c]
Comic Book Superheroes Unmasked / / TV-G / ??? / 06/23/03 (HIST)
The John Garfield Story / / TV-PG / David Heeley / 02/03/03 (TCM)
Soldier's Girl / / R / Frank Pierson / 09/24/05 (RENT)
Walking with Cavemen /½ / TV-PG / Richard Dale / 06/15/03 (DSC)
[c]Pre-2003 Theatrical Releases[/c]
12 Angry Men (1957) /¾ / NR / Sydney Lumet / 01/08/03 (TCM)
The Age of Innocence (1993) /¼ / PG / Martin Scorsese / 01/19/03 (TCM)
All About Eve (1950) /¼ / NR / Joseph L. Mankiewicz / 10/27/03 (DVD)
All About My Mother (Todo Sobre Mi Madre) (1999) /½ / R / Pedro Almodóvar / 02/11/03 (DVD)[RENT]
American Beauty (1999) /½ / R / Sam Mendes / 03/19/03 (DVD)
Annie Hall (1977) /½ / PG / Woody Allen / 02/11/03 (DVD)[RENT]
Batman: The Movie (1966) / / PG / Leslie H. Martinson / 07/31/03 (DVD)
Best in Show (2000) / / PG-13 / Director: Christopher Guest / Date Viewed: 08/01/03 (DVD)
Blackmail (1929) /½ / NR / Alfred Hitchcock / 01/19/03 (TCM)
The Color Purple (1985) /¾ / PG-13 / Steven Spielberg / 04/29/03 (DVD)
Creature From The Black Lagoon (1954) /½ / NR / Jack Arnold / 01/11/03 (TCM)
Dark City (1997) /¼ / R / Alex Proyas / 10/13/03 (DVD)
Dial M For Murder (1954) /½ / PG / Alfred Hitchcock / 01/19/03 (TCM)
Dogma (1999) / / R / Kevin Smith / 09/10/03 (DVD)
Elvis: That's The Way It Is - Special Edition (1970/2001) / / PG / Denis Sanders / 01/08/03 (TCM)
Frankenstein (1931) /½ / NR / James Whale / 01/11/03 (TCM)
Grand Canyon (1991) /½ / R / Lawrence Kasdan / 02/21/03 (DVD)
Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (1967) /¾ / NR / Stanley Kramer / 01/14/03 (TCM)
Gundam Wing: Endless Waltz (Shin kidô senki Gundam W: Endless Waltz) (1998) / / NR / Yasunao Aoki / 01/07/03 (DVD)
Henry & June (1990) /¾ / NC-17 / Philip Kaufman / 08/28/03 (DVD)[RENT]
High Fidelity (2000) /¼ / R / Stephen Frears / 11/25/03 (DVD)
The Ice Storm (1997) / / R / Ang Lee / 03/25/03 (DVD)
Jackie Chan's Who Am I? (Ngo si sui) (1998) /¾ / PG-13 / Jackie Chan, Benny Chan / 01/07/03 (DVD)
Kramer vs. Kramer (1979) /½ / PG / Robert Benton / 01/15/03 (TCM)
The Last Waltz (1978) / / PG / Martin Scorsese / 02/08/03 (DVD)
Lawrence of Arabia: Director's Cut (1962/1989) / / PG / David Lean / 01/05/03 (DVD)
Life As A House (2001) /¾ / R / Irwin Winkler / 08/23/03 (DVD)[RENT]
Lolita (1997) /¾ / R / Adrian Lyne / 11/10/03 (DVD)
Lost & Delirious (2001) / / R / Léa Pool / 01/08/03 (DVD)[RENT]
Ma Vie En Rose (1997) /¾ / R / Alain Berliner / 08/22/03 (DVD)[RENT]
Marnie (1964) / / PG / Alfred Hitchcock / 01/19/03 (TCM)
Mobile Suit Gundam: Char's Counter Attack (Kidô senshi Gandamu: Gyakushû no Shaa) (1988) / / NR / Yoshiyuki Tomino / 01/04/03 (CN)[DUB]
The Mummy (1932) /½ / NR / Karl Freund / 01/11/03 (TCM)
Not One Less (Yi ge dou bu neng shao) (1999) / / NR / Zhang Yimou / 08/22/03 (DVD)[RENT]
Notorious (1946) /½ / NR / Alfred Hitchcock / 01/18/03 (TCM)
Ordinary People (1980) /½ / R / Robert Redford / 01/29/03 (TCM)
The Postman Always Rings Twice (1946) /¾ / NR / Tay Garnett / 02/03/03 (TCM)
Ride With The Devil (1999) / / R / Ang Lee / 07/28/03 (DVD)[RENT]
Safety Last! (1923) / / NR / Fred C. Newmeyer, Sam Taylor / 04/20/03 (TCM)
Show Me Love (Fucking Åmål) (1998) /¾ / NR / Director: Lukas Moodysson / Date Viewed: 08/20/03 (DVD)[RENT]
Songcatcher (2001) /¾ / PG-13 / Maggie Greenwald / 07/30/03 (DVD)[RENT]
Spellbound (1945) / / NR / Alfred Hitchcock / 01/18/03 (TCM)
Star Trek III: The Search For Spock (1984) /¼ / PG / Leonard Nimoy / 01/03/03 (DVD)
Tenchi the Movie 2: The Daughter of Darkness (Tenchi Muyô! Manatsu no Eve) (1998) / / NR / Satoshi Kimura / 07/08/03 (DVD)[DUB]
The Terminator (1984) /½ / R / James Cameron / 07/13/03 (DVD)
The Transformers: The Movie (1986) / / PG / Nelson Shin / 11/22/03 (DVD)
Unforgiven (1992) / / R / Clint Eastwood / 03/31/03 (DVD)
The Virgin Suicides (2000) /¾ / R / Sofia Coppola / 07/29/03 (DVD)[RENT]
The Wind (1928) /½ / NR / Victor Sjöström / 12/29/03 (TCM)
[c]Pre-2003 Short Films[/c]
Gulliver Mickey (1934) / / NR / Burt Gillet / 02/08/03 (DVD)
Knick Knack (1989) /½ / G / John Lasseter / 06/05/03 (COBBD)
The Mad Doctor (1933) /¾ / NR / David Hand / 02/08/03 (DVD)
Never Weaken (1921) / / NR / Fred C. Newmeyer / 04/20/03 (TCM)
Water, Water Every Hare (1952) /¾ / NR / Chuck Jones / 12/27/03 (DVD)
[c]Pre-2003 TV Films[/c]
Eastwood on Eastwood (1997) / / NR / Richard Schickel / 10/07/03 (DVD)
__________________________________________________ _________
Rating System
- Astonishing
¾ - Excellent
½ - Great
¼ - Very Good
- Good
¾ - Above Average
½ - Average
¼ - Below Average
Poor
¾ - Bad
½ - Dreadful
¼ - Horrendous
- Absolute Garbage
Theaters: AMCSP - AMC Sunset Place 24, South Miami, FL
AMCTC - AMC Kendall Town & Country 10, Miami, FL
CIN - Cinemark 20 at Festival Bay, Orlando, FL
COBBD - Cobb Dolphin 19, Miami, FL
ISP - IMAX Theater at Sunset Place, South Miami, FL
LUC - Loews Universal Cineplex, Orlando, FL
RSB - Regal South Beach 18, Miami Beach, FL
Channels: CN - Cartoon Network
DSC - The Discovery Channel
HIST - The History Channel
IC - International Channel
TCM - Turner Classic Movies
Other Codes: DUB - Dubbed version of a foreign language film.
DVD - Viewed on DVD.
IMAX - Viewed in the IMAX format.
RENT - The DVD viewed was a rental.
SP - Sneak preview showing.
Total Film Count: 148
- 2003 Theatrical Releases: 65
- 2003 Special Editions/Re-Releases: 2
- 2003 Short Films: 22
- 2003 TV Films: 4
- Pre-2003 Theatrical Releases: 49
- Pre-2003 Short Films: 5
- Pre-2003 TV Films: 1
[c]2003 Theatrical Releases[/c]
Film / Grade / MPAA Rating / Director(s) / Date Viewed, Venue & Additional Info
21 Grams /
¼ / R / Alejandro González Iñárritu / 06/16/04 (DVD)[RENT]All the Real Girls /
/ R / David Gordon Green / 04/11/03 (RSB)American Wedding /
/ R / Jesse Dylan / 08/04/03 (COBBD)Bend it Like Beckham /
/ PG-13 / Gurinder Chadha / 04/12/03 (AMCSP)Big Fish /
¼ / PG-13 / Tim Burton / 12/28/03 (AMCSP)The Blue Light (Ao no hono-o) (2003) /
¼ / NR / Yukio Ninagawa / 04/12/04 (IC)Bringing Down the House /
½ / PG-13 / Adam Shankman / 03/13/03 (COBBD)Brother Bear /
/ G / Aaron Blaise, Robert Walker / 11/15/03 (COBBD)City of God (Cidade de Deus) /
¾ / R / Fernando Meirelles, Katia Lund / 03/16/03 (RSB)The Cooler /
/ R / Wayne Kramer / 09/29/05 (RENT)Cowboy Bebop: The Movie (Cowboy Bebop: Tengoku no Tobira) /
/ R / Shinichiro Watanabe / 05/10/03 (LUC)[DUB]Cradle 2 The Grave /
¼ / R / Andrzej Bartkowiak / 03/13/03 (COBBD)Daredevil /
/ PG-13 / Mark Steven Johnson / 02/15/03 (COBBD)Dark Blue /
/ R / Ron Shelton / 02/22/03 (COBBD)Dirty Pretty Things /
¼ / R / Stephen Frears / 08/29/03 (AMCTC)Elf /
/ PG / Jon Favreau / 11/22/03 (COBBD)Finding Nemo /
¾ / G / Andrew Stanton / 06/05/03 (COBBD)Freaky Friday /
¼ / PG / Mark Waters / 08/09/03 (COBBD)Girl With a Pearl Earring /
½ / PG-13 / Peter Webber / 09/29/05 (RENT)The Good Thief /
¼ / R / Neil Jordan / 04/19/03 (AMCSP)The Guru /
½ / R / Daisy von Scherler Mayer / 02/02/03 (RSB)He Loves Me... He Loves Me Not (À la folie... pas du tout) /
/ PG-13 / Laetitia Colombani / 08/27/03 (DVD)[RENT]House of Sand and Fog /
¼ / R / Vadim Perelman / 01/07/04 (AMCTC)Hulk /
¼ / PG-13 / Ang Lee / 06/20/03 (LUC)I Capture The Castle /
¾ / R / Tim Fywell / 10/02/05 (RENT)In America /
¾ / PG-13 / Jim Sheridan / 12/24/03 (AMCSP)Kill Bill: Volume 1 /
½ / R / Quentin Tarantino / 10/11/03 (COBBD)The Last Samurai /
½ / R / Edward Zwick / 12/06/03 (COBBD)The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen /
¾ / PG-13 / Stephen Norrington / 07/11/03 (COBBD)The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King /
/ PG-13 / Peter Jackson / 12/17/03 (COBBD)Looney Tunes: Back in Action /
/ PG / Joe Dante / 11/16/03 (COBBD)Lost In Translation /
¾ / R / Sofia Coppola / 09/20/03 (RSB)Love Actually /
¾ / R / Richard Curtis / 11/08/03 (AMCSP)Madame Satã /
/ NR / Karim Ainouz / 09/20/03 (RSB)Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World /
½ / PG-13 / Peter Weir / 11/30/03 (AMCSP)Matchstick Men /
/ PG-13 / Ridley Scott / 09/12/03 (COBBD)The Matrix Reloaded /
¾ / R / Andy Wachowski, Larry Wachowski / 05/15/03 (COBBD), 10/21/03 (DVD)The Matrix Revolutions /
/ R / Andy Wachowski, Larry Wachoski / 11/05/03 (COBBD)The Medallion /
/ PG-13 / Gordon Chan / 08/24/03 (COBBD)A Mighty Wind /
/ PG-13 / Christopher Guest / 05/23/03 (AMCSP)Millennium Actress (Sennen joyu) /
¼ / PG / Satoshi Kon / 01/05/04 (DVD)[RENT]Mona Lisa Smile /
/ PG-13 / Mike Newell / 10/05/05 (RENT)Mystic River /
¾ / R / Clint Eastwood / 10/19/03 (COBBD)Old School /
¾ / R / Todd Philips / 03/02/03 (CIN)Open Range /
¼ / R / Kevin Costner / 08/16/03 (COBBD)Peter Pan /
¾ / PG / P.J. Hogan / 12/31/03 (AMCSP)Phone Booth /
¾ / R / Joel Schumacher / 04/10/03 (COBBD)Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl /
½ / PG-13 / Gore Verbinski / 07/09/03 (COBBD)Raising Victor Vargas /
/ R / Peter Sollett / 05/05/03 (RSB)The Recruit /
/ PG-13 / Roger Donaldson / 02/10/03 (COBBD)The Rundown /
¾ / PG-13 / Peter Berg / 10/02/03 (COBBD)Seabiscuit /
½ / PG-13 / Gary Ross / 08/05/03 (COBBD)School of Rock /
½ / PG-13 / Richard Linklater / 10/12/03 (COBBD)Shanghai Knights /
¾ / PG-13 / David Dobkin / 01/25/03 (COBBD)[SP]Shattered Glass /
¼ / PG-13 / Billy Ray / 11/14/03 (AMCSP)Something's Gotta Give /
/ PG-13 / Nancy Meyers / 01/05/04 (AMCSP)Step Into Liquid /
/ NR / Dana Brown / 08/23/03 (RSB)Stuck On You /
½ / PG-13 / Bobby Farrelly, Peter Farrelly / 12/15/03 (AMCSP) Swimming Pool /
/ R / François Ozon / 07/22/03 (RSB)Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines /
¼ / R / Jonathan Mostow / 07/03/03 (COBBD)Thirteen /
¼ / R / Catherine Hardwicke / 09/06/03 (AMCSP)Veronica Guerin /
/ R / Joel Schumacher / 10/09/05 (RENT)Whale Rider /
/ PG-13 / Niki Caro / 07/01/03 (RSB)Willard /
½ / PG-13 / Glen Morgan / 03/24/03 (COBBD)Winged Migration (Le Peuple migrateur) /
/ G / Jacques Perrin / 07/01/03 (RSB)X2: X-Men United /
½ / PG-13 / Bryan Singer / 05/02/03 (COBBD)[c]2003 Special Editions/Re-Releases[/c]
The Lion King: Special Edition /
/ G / Roger Allers, Rob Minkoff / 10/10/03 (DVD)The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers - Extended Edition /
/ PG-13 / Peter Jackson / 11/21/03 (DVD)[c]2003 Short Films[/c]
The Animatrix: Beyond /
½ / NR / Kouji Morimoto / 07/24/03 (DVD)The Animatrix: A Detective Story /
¼ / NR / Shinichiro Watanabe / 07/24/03 (DVD)The Animatrix: Final Flight of the Osiris /
½ / PG-13 / Andy Jones / 06/04/03 (DVD)The Animatrix: Kid's Story /
/ NR / Shinichiro Watanabe / 07/07/03 (DVD)The Animatrix: Matriculated /
¾ / NR / Peter Chung / 07/24/03 (DVD)The Animatrix: Program /
/ NR / Yoshiaki Kawajiri / 07/18/03 (DVD)The Animatrix: The Second Rennaisance Part I /
¾ / NR / Mahiro Maeda / Date Viewed: 07/02/03 (DVD)The Animatrix: The Second Rennaisance Part II /
¾ / NR / Mahiro Maeda / Date Viewed: 07/02/03 (DVD)The Animatrix: World Record /
/ NR / Takeshi Koike / 07/18/03 (DVD)Batman: Dead End /
/ NR / Sandy Collora / 08/21/04 (WEB)Fast Times at Hero High /
/ NR / Kyle Peck / 08/21/04 (WEB)Fish Guys /
/ NR / Trey Stokes / 08/19/04 (WEB)The Long and Short of It /
/ NR / Sean Astin / 09/06/03 (DVD)Lucy Must Be Traded, Charlie Brown /
¾ / TV-G / Bill Melendez, Larry Leichliter / 06/12/04 (ABC)Max Payne: Hero /
¾ / NR / Chris Chen / 08/21/04 (WEB)Partners /
½ / NR / Del Matthew Bigtree / 08/20/04 (WEB)Silent But Deadly 2 /
/ NR / Jeff Cioletti, Lou Tambone / 08/23/04 (WEB)So This Guy Walks Into a Bar... /
½ / NR / Mark Kochinski / 08/20/04 (WEB)Still Lover /
½ / NR / Amir Motlagh / 08/23/04 (WEB)A Token For Your Thoughts /
/ NR / Sammy Smith / 08/23/04 (WEB)Untitled Russian Film /
½ / NR / Trey Stokes / 08/19/04 (WEB)The Visitor /
¾ / NR / Etienne Terblanche / 08/20/04 (WEB)[c]2003 TV Films[/c]
Comic Book Superheroes Unmasked /
/ TV-G / ??? / 06/23/03 (HIST)The John Garfield Story /
/ TV-PG / David Heeley / 02/03/03 (TCM)Soldier's Girl /
/ R / Frank Pierson / 09/24/05 (RENT)Walking with Cavemen /
½ / TV-PG / Richard Dale / 06/15/03 (DSC)[c]Pre-2003 Theatrical Releases[/c]
12 Angry Men (1957) /
¾ / NR / Sydney Lumet / 01/08/03 (TCM)The Age of Innocence (1993) /
¼ / PG / Martin Scorsese / 01/19/03 (TCM)All About Eve (1950) /
¼ / NR / Joseph L. Mankiewicz / 10/27/03 (DVD)All About My Mother (Todo Sobre Mi Madre) (1999) /
½ / R / Pedro Almodóvar / 02/11/03 (DVD)[RENT]American Beauty (1999) /
½ / R / Sam Mendes / 03/19/03 (DVD)Annie Hall (1977) /
½ / PG / Woody Allen / 02/11/03 (DVD)[RENT]Batman: The Movie (1966) /
/ PG / Leslie H. Martinson / 07/31/03 (DVD)Best in Show (2000) /
/ PG-13 / Director: Christopher Guest / Date Viewed: 08/01/03 (DVD)Blackmail (1929) /
½ / NR / Alfred Hitchcock / 01/19/03 (TCM)The Color Purple (1985) /
¾ / PG-13 / Steven Spielberg / 04/29/03 (DVD)Creature From The Black Lagoon (1954) /
½ / NR / Jack Arnold / 01/11/03 (TCM)Dark City (1997) /
¼ / R / Alex Proyas / 10/13/03 (DVD)Dial M For Murder (1954) /
½ / PG / Alfred Hitchcock / 01/19/03 (TCM)Dogma (1999) /
/ R / Kevin Smith / 09/10/03 (DVD)Elvis: That's The Way It Is - Special Edition (1970/2001) /
/ PG / Denis Sanders / 01/08/03 (TCM)Frankenstein (1931) /
½ / NR / James Whale / 01/11/03 (TCM)Grand Canyon (1991) /
½ / R / Lawrence Kasdan / 02/21/03 (DVD)Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (1967) /
¾ / NR / Stanley Kramer / 01/14/03 (TCM)Gundam Wing: Endless Waltz (Shin kidô senki Gundam W: Endless Waltz) (1998) /
/ NR / Yasunao Aoki / 01/07/03 (DVD)Henry & June (1990) /
¾ / NC-17 / Philip Kaufman / 08/28/03 (DVD)[RENT]High Fidelity (2000) /
¼ / R / Stephen Frears / 11/25/03 (DVD)The Ice Storm (1997) /
/ R / Ang Lee / 03/25/03 (DVD)Jackie Chan's Who Am I? (Ngo si sui) (1998) /
¾ / PG-13 / Jackie Chan, Benny Chan / 01/07/03 (DVD)Kramer vs. Kramer (1979) /
½ / PG / Robert Benton / 01/15/03 (TCM)The Last Waltz (1978) /
/ PG / Martin Scorsese / 02/08/03 (DVD)Lawrence of Arabia: Director's Cut (1962/1989) /
/ PG / David Lean / 01/05/03 (DVD)Life As A House (2001) /
¾ / R / Irwin Winkler / 08/23/03 (DVD)[RENT]Lolita (1997) /
¾ / R / Adrian Lyne / 11/10/03 (DVD)Lost & Delirious (2001) /
/ R / Léa Pool / 01/08/03 (DVD)[RENT]Ma Vie En Rose (1997) /
¾ / R / Alain Berliner / 08/22/03 (DVD)[RENT]Marnie (1964) /
/ PG / Alfred Hitchcock / 01/19/03 (TCM) Mobile Suit Gundam: Char's Counter Attack (Kidô senshi Gandamu: Gyakushû no Shaa) (1988) /
/ NR / Yoshiyuki Tomino / 01/04/03 (CN)[DUB]The Mummy (1932) /
½ / NR / Karl Freund / 01/11/03 (TCM)Not One Less (Yi ge dou bu neng shao) (1999) /
/ NR / Zhang Yimou / 08/22/03 (DVD)[RENT]Notorious (1946) /
½ / NR / Alfred Hitchcock / 01/18/03 (TCM)Ordinary People (1980) /
½ / R / Robert Redford / 01/29/03 (TCM)The Postman Always Rings Twice (1946) /
¾ / NR / Tay Garnett / 02/03/03 (TCM)Ride With The Devil (1999) /
/ R / Ang Lee / 07/28/03 (DVD)[RENT]Safety Last! (1923) /
/ NR / Fred C. Newmeyer, Sam Taylor / 04/20/03 (TCM)Show Me Love (Fucking Åmål) (1998) /
¾ / NR / Director: Lukas Moodysson / Date Viewed: 08/20/03 (DVD)[RENT]Songcatcher (2001) /
¾ / PG-13 / Maggie Greenwald / 07/30/03 (DVD)[RENT]Spellbound (1945) /
/ NR / Alfred Hitchcock / 01/18/03 (TCM)Star Trek III: The Search For Spock (1984) /
¼ / PG / Leonard Nimoy / 01/03/03 (DVD)Tenchi the Movie 2: The Daughter of Darkness (Tenchi Muyô! Manatsu no Eve) (1998) /
/ NR / Satoshi Kimura / 07/08/03 (DVD)[DUB]The Terminator (1984) /
½ / R / James Cameron / 07/13/03 (DVD)The Transformers: The Movie (1986) /
/ PG / Nelson Shin / 11/22/03 (DVD)Unforgiven (1992) /
/ R / Clint Eastwood / 03/31/03 (DVD)The Virgin Suicides (2000) /
¾ / R / Sofia Coppola / 07/29/03 (DVD)[RENT]The Wind (1928) /
½ / NR / Victor Sjöström / 12/29/03 (TCM)[c]Pre-2003 Short Films[/c]
Gulliver Mickey (1934) /
/ NR / Burt Gillet / 02/08/03 (DVD)Knick Knack (1989) /
½ / G / John Lasseter / 06/05/03 (COBBD)The Mad Doctor (1933) /
¾ / NR / David Hand / 02/08/03 (DVD)Never Weaken (1921) /
/ NR / Fred C. Newmeyer / 04/20/03 (TCM)Water, Water Every Hare (1952) /
¾ / NR / Chuck Jones / 12/27/03 (DVD)[c]Pre-2003 TV Films[/c]
Eastwood on Eastwood (1997) /
/ NR / Richard Schickel / 10/07/03 (DVD)__________________________________________________ _________
Rating System
- Astonishing¾ - Excellent½ - Great¼ - Very Good - Good¾ - Above Average½ - Average¼ - Below Average Poor¾ - Bad½ - Dreadful¼ - Horrendous - Absolute GarbageTheaters: AMCSP - AMC Sunset Place 24, South Miami, FL
AMCTC - AMC Kendall Town & Country 10, Miami, FL
CIN - Cinemark 20 at Festival Bay, Orlando, FL
COBBD - Cobb Dolphin 19, Miami, FL
ISP - IMAX Theater at Sunset Place, South Miami, FL
LUC - Loews Universal Cineplex, Orlando, FL
RSB - Regal South Beach 18, Miami Beach, FL
Channels: CN - Cartoon Network
DSC - The Discovery Channel
HIST - The History Channel
IC - International Channel
TCM - Turner Classic Movies
Other Codes: DUB - Dubbed version of a foreign language film.
DVD - Viewed on DVD.
IMAX - Viewed in the IMAX format.
RENT - The DVD viewed was a rental.
SP - Sneak preview showing.
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Jay Seaver's 2003 Film List
Last Updated: 6 July 2004
Criteria: Modified Academy qualification (played Los Angeles County, OR appeared at a film festival without a prior Academy-qualifying run, OR premiered on US television/video WAPAQR)
Total films seen: 144 year-2003 features, 35 shorts, 74 pre-Y2K1
- Superlative; ½ - Outstanding; - Very Good; ½ - Decent; - Below average; ½ - Not Good; - Repugnant; ½ - Disastrous
(BFF) indicates seen at the Boston Film Festival.
(SF/28) indicates seen at the 28th annual Boston Science Ficiton Film Marathon
(EO) indicates seen at the Brattle Eye Opener
(BFFF) indicates seen at the Boston Fantastic Film Festival
(IFFB) indicates seen at the Independant Film Festival of Boston
Films in gray may not fit the Academy-qualification criterion; also, I'm really just guessing on whether the entries for Shorts qualify
Last Updated: 6 July 2004
Criteria: Modified Academy qualification (played Los Angeles County, OR appeared at a film festival without a prior Academy-qualifying run, OR premiered on US television/video WAPAQR)
Total films seen: 144 year-2003 features, 35 shorts, 74 pre-Y2K1
- Superlative; ½ - Outstanding; - Very Good; ½ - Decent; - Below average; ½ - Not Good; - Repugnant; ½ - Disastrous- Features
- Cidade de Deus (City Of God in the USA) - - Loews Copley Place (BFF), 14 September 2002 (4) (Also appeared on 2002 Film List)
- In America - - Coolidge Corner, 29 April 2003 (33)
- Finding Nemo (animated) - - Loews Boston Common, 2 June 2003 (54)
- Northfork - - Kendall Square, 19 July 2003 (67)
- Ying Xiong (Hero in the USA) - - Brattle Theater (EO, projected video), 5 October 2003 (96)
- Intolerable Cruelty - - Loews Boston Common, 20 October 2003 (107)
- Lost In Translation - ¾ - Lowes Boston Common, 23 September 2003 (91)
- Blue Car - ¾ - Loews Harvard Square, 29 May 2003 (51)
- The Hulk - ½ - Loews Boston Common, 23 June 2003 (58)
- Irréversible - ½ - Harvard Film Archive, 26 January 2003 (9)
- Nirgendwo in Afrika (Nowhere in Africa in the USA) - ½ - Kendall Square, 1 April 2003 (22)
- Kill Bill Volume 1 - ½ - Loews Harvard Square, 11 October 2003 (98)
- Mystic River - ½ - AMC Fenway, 23 February 2004 (139)
- School Of Rock - ½ - Somerville Theater, 29 November 2003 (122)
- Les Triplettes de Belleville (The Triplets of Belleville in the USA) (animated) - ½ - Loews Boston Common (BFF), 11 September 2003 (83)
- Master And Commander: The Far Side Of The World - ½ - Loews Boston Common, 14 November 2003 (117)
- Lilja 4-Ever - ½ - Brattle Theater, 27 July 2003 (70)
- Dracula: Pages From A Virgin's Diary - ½ - Brattle Theater, 15 May 2003 (42) (Also appeared on 2002 List, but I slept through much of that video screening)
- The Company - ½ - Coolidge Corner, 7 February 2004 (138)
- Better Luck Tomorrow - ½ - Loews Harvard Square, 21 April 2003 (28)
- A Mighty Wind - ¼ - Kendall Square, 26 April 2003 (31)
- Bubba Ho-Tep - ¼ - Brattle Theater (EO), 12 October 2003 (99)
- The Station Agent - ¼ - Brattle Theater, 10 March 2004 (141)
- Da Wan (Big Shot's Funeral in the USA) - ¼ - Loews Boston Common (BFF), 15 September 2002 (5) (Also appeared on 2002 Film List)
- Die, Mommie, Die! - ¼ - Loews Copley Place, 17 November 2003 (119)
- All The Real Girls - ¼ - Kendall Square, 5 March 2003 (14)
- My Life Without Me - ¼ - Loews Boston Common (BFF), 10 September 2003 (81)
- Down With Love - ¼ - Loews Harvard Square, 16 May 2003 (44)
- Bend It Like Beckham - ¼ - Loews Boston Common, 12 April 2003 (26)
- Terminator 3: Rise Of The Machines - ¼ - Loews Boston Common, 2 July 2003 (62)
- Gojira, Mosura, Kingu Gidora: Daikaijû soukougeki (Godzilla, Mothra and King Gidorah: Giant Monster All Out Attack in the USA) - ¼ - Brattle Theater (BFFF), 18 October 2003 (103)
- Lord Of The Rings: The Return Of The King - ¼ - AMC Fenway, 28 January 2004 (136)
- Martin & Orloff - ¼ - Loews Copley Place, 19 May 2004 (143)
- City Of Ghosts - ¼ - Loews Copley Place, 19 May 2003 (46)
- Le Peuple Migrateur (Winged Migration in the USA) (documentary) - ¼ - Kendall Square, 16 May 2003 (43)
- Raising Victor Vargas - ¼ - Kendall Square, 6 May 2003 (37)
- Robot Stories - ¼ - Brattle Theater (BFFF), 22 October 2003 (110)
- Tokyo Godfathers (animated) - ¼ - Brattle Theater, 24 March 2004 (142)
- The Secret Lives Of Dentists - ¼ - Loews Copley Place, 18 July 2003 (77)
- Demonlover - ¼ - Brattle Theater (EO), 21 September 2003 (89)
- 21 Grams - - Kendall Square, 11 January 2004 (133)
- Ju-On: The Grudge - - Brattle Theater (BFFF), 18 October 2003 (101)
- Bad Santa - - AMC Fenway, 30 November 2003 (124)
- Garage Days - - Loews Harvard Square, 24 July 2003 (69)
- À la folie... pas du tout (He Loves Me... He Loves Me Not in the USA) - - Kendall Square, 27 March 2003 (20)
- I Capture The Castle - - Kendall Square, 20 July 2003 (68)
- Sennen Joyu (Millennium Actress in the USA) - - Kendall Square, 13 September 2003 (84)
- Looney Tunes: Back In Action - - Arlington Captiol, 19 December 2003 (128)
- Shanghai Knights - - AMC Fenway, 8 February 2003 (10)
- 28 Days Later - - Loews Boston Common, 30 June 2003 (61)
- The Last Samurai - - Loews Harvard Square, 7 December 2003 (126)
- Daredevil - - Loews Boston Common, 14 February 2003 (11)
- Love Actually - - Loews Boston Common, 6 December 2003 (125)
- X2: X-Men United - - Loews Boston Common, 4 May 2003 (36)
- Big Fish - - Loews Harvard Square, 31 December 2003 (129)
- Bruce Almighty - - Loews Boston Common, 28 May 2003 (50)
- Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl - - Loews Boston Common, 10 July 2003 (64)
- Paycheck - - AMC Fenway, 11 January 2004 (134)
- Suriyothai (The Legend Of Suriyothai in the USA; 142 minute version) - - Kendall Square, 25 June 2003 (59)
- Sweet Sixteen - - Kendall Square, 31 May 2003 (52)
- American Wedding - - Lowes Boston Common, 22 September 2003 (90)
- Chaos - - Brattle Theater, 30 April 2003 (34)
- The Dancer Upstairs - - Kendall Square, 18 May 2003 (45)
- Collusion - - Loews Copley Place (BFF), 8 September 2003 (80)
- Große Mädchen weinen nicht (Big Girls Don't Cry in the USA) - - Loews Copley Place (BFF), 11 September 2003 (82)
- Thirteen - - Kendall Square, 27 September 2003 (92)
- Capturing The Friedmans - - Brattle Theater, 15 January 2004 (135)
- The Hunted - - Loews Boston Common, 10 April 2003 (25)
- Dead Gorgeous (TV) - - Jay's Living Room, 11 July 2003 (65)
- Xun qiang (The Missing Gun! in the USA) - - Loews Boston Common (BFF), 7 September 2003 (79)
- Gerry - - Loews Copley Place, 19 March 2003 (18)
- The League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen - - Loews Harvard Square, 14 July 2003 (66)
- Undead - - Brattle Theater (BFFF), 17 October 2003 (100)
- Zero Day - - Loews Copley Place (BFF), 7 September 2002 (2) (Also appeared on 2002 Film List)
- Returner - - Brattle Theater (BFFF), 21 October 2003 (109)
- Tamala 2010 (animated) - ¾ - Brattle Theater, 4 November 2003 (114)
- Laurel Canyon - ¾ - Kendall Square, 30 March 2003 (21)
- Buffalo Soldiers - ¾ - Loews Copley Place, 18 August 2003 (78)
- Cold Mountain - ¾ - AMC Fenway, 5 February 2004 (137)
- The Missing - ¾ - AMC Fenway, 18 December 2003 (127)
- Pieces Of April - ¾ - Kendall Square, 30 November 2003 (123)
- Duplex - ¾ - Laptop on a bus, 5 July 2004 (144)
- Lost In La Mancha - ¾ - Kendall Square, 16 March 2003 (17)
- Visitors - ¾ - Brattle Theater (BFFF), 19 October 2003 (105)
- S.W.A.T. - ¾ - Loews Boston Common, 13 August 2003 (76)
- XX/XY - ¾ - Loews Boston Common (BFF), 6 September 2002 (1) (Also appeared on 2002 Film List)
- Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle Of Life - ¾ - Loews Boston Common, 4 August 2003 (73)
- Identity - ¾ - Loews Boston Common, 25 April 2003 (30)
- The Kiss - ¾ - Loews Copley Place (BFF), 14 September 2003 (87)
- Charlies Angels: Full Throttle - ¾ - Loews Boston Common, 7 July 2003 (63)
- The Italian Job - ¾ - Loews Harvard Square, 2 June 2003 (53)
- The Rundown - ¾ - Somerville Theater, 6 November 2003 (115)
- Cabin Fever - ¾ - Loews Boston Common, 29 September 2003 (94)
- Anything But Love - ¾ - Loews Copley Place (BFF), 13 September 2003 (86)
- Something's Gotta Give - ¾ - AMC Fenway, 5 January 2004 (132)
- 2LDK - ¾ - Brattle Theater (BFFF), 19 October 2003 (106)
- Riverworld (TV) - ¾ - Jay's Living Room, 23 May 2003 (49)
- Dark Blue - ½ - Loews Boston Common, 27 February 2003 (12)
- Lawless Heart - ½ - Loews Copley Place (BFF), 15 September 2002 (6) (Also appeared on 2002 Film List)
- El Otro Lado de la Cama (The Other Side Of The Bed in the USA) - ½ - Loews Copley Place, 30 September 2003 (95)
- House Of Sand And Fog - ½ - Arlington Capitol, 27 February 2004 (140)
- The Matrix Reloaded - ½ - Loews Boston Common, 15 May 2003 (41)
- Koi... Mil Gaya - ½ - Allston Cinema, 12 August 2003 (75)
- Confidence - ½ - Loews Harvard Square, 7 May 2003 (38)
- Hound Of The Baskervilles (TV) - ½ - Jay's Living Room, 23 January 2003 (7)
- The Guru - ½ - Loews Boston Common, 10 March 2003 (15)
- Cradle 2 The Grave - ½ - Loews Boston Common, 3 March 2003 (13)
- Stuck On You - ½ - AMC Fenway, 1 January 2004 (131)
- Yadon Ilaheyya (Divine Intervention in the US) - ½ - Kendall Square, 14 May 2003 (40)
- The Cooler - ¼ - Loews Harvard Square, 1 January 2004 (130)
- The Good Thief - ¼ - Loews Harvard Square, 13 May 2003 (39)
- Cowboy Bebop: The Movie - ¼ - Loews Harvard Square (print shown was dubbed), 23 April 2003 (29)
- The Human Stain - ¼ - Kendall Square, 9 November 2003 (116)
- Carnages - ¼ - Brattle Theater (EO), 19 October 2003 (104)
- Matchstick Men - ¼ - Arlington Captitol, 26 October 2003 (113)
- Once Upon A Time In Mexico - ¼ - Loews Boston Common, 15 September 2003 (88)
- Bringing Down The House - ¼ - Loews Boston Common, 24 March 2003 (19)
- Spy Kids 3-D: Game Over - ¼ - Loews Boston Common (DLP), 29 July 2003 (72)
- Yee do hung gaan (Inner Senses in the USA) - ¼ - Brattle Theater (EO), 23 November 2003 (120)
- L'auberge Espagnole - ¼ - Kendall Square, 3 May 2003 (35)
- Chuen Jik Sat Sau (Fulltime Killer in the US) - ¼ - Brattle Theater, 6 June 2003 (55)
- Sinbad: Legend Of The Seven Seas - ¼ - Arlington Capitol, 28 July 2003 (71)
- It Runs In The Family - - Loews Boston Common, 26 April 2003 (32)
- The Matrix Revolutions - - Aquarium, 23 November 2003 (IMAX) (121)
- Phone Booth - - Loews Boston Common, 10 April 2003 (24)
- Jian Gui (The Eye in the US) - - Kendall Square, 14 June 2003 (56)
- Swimming Pool - - Loews Copley Place, 8 August 2003 (74)
- Only The Strong Survive (documentary) - - Kendall Square, 22 May 2003 (47)
- Underworld - - Loews Boston COmmon, 20 October 2003 (108)
- Assassination Tango - - Kendall Square, 8 April 2003 (23)
- Levity - - Kendall Square, 17 April 2003 (27)
- Bollywood/Hollywood - - Brattle Theater (EO), 28 September 2003 (93)
- The Party's Over (documentary) - - Brattle Theater (EO, projected video), 26 October 2003 (112)
- What Alice Found - - Loews Copley Place (BFF), 13 September 2003 (85)
- Anything Else - ¾ - Loews Boston Common, 7 October 2003 (97)
- The Recruit - ¾ - Somerville Theater, 15 March 2003 (16)
- Koroshiya 1 (Ichi The Killer in the US) - ¾ - Allston Cinema, 21 June 2003 (57)
- The Event - ¾ - Brattle Theater (EO), 16 November 2003 (118)
- Avalon - ¾ - Brattle Theater (projected video) (BFFF), 22 October 2003 (111)
- May - ½ - Loews Copley Place, 26 June 2003 (60)
- Love Object - ½ - Brattle Theater (BFFF), 18 October 2003 (102)
- The Warrior - ½ - Loews Copley Place (BFF), 14 September 2002 (3) (Also appeared on 2002 Film List)
- Darkness Falls - ¼ - Loews Boston Common, 24 January 2003 (8)
- Anger Management - - Somerville Theater, 23 May 2003 (48)
- Shorts
- "The Vest" (live action) - - Loews Copley Place (BFF), 6 September 2003 (21)
- "Delivery" (animated) - - Loews Copley Place (BFF), 7 September 2003 (29)
- "Keys Of Life" (live action) - ¾ - Loews Copley Place (BFF), 7 September 2003 (26)
- "The Frank International Film Festival" (live-action) - ¾ - Somerville Theater (IFFB), 2 May 2004 (36)
- "American Made" (live action) - ¾ - Loews Copley Place (BFF), 7 September 2003 (23)
- "The Silvergleam Whistle" (live action) - ¾ - Loews Copley Place (BFF), 6 September 2003 (20)
- "Welcome To The Show/Intermission In The Third Dimension/End Of The Show" (animated) - ¾ - Brattle Theater (Animation Show), 16 November 2003 (33)
- "Luminous" (live action) - ½ - Loews Copley Place (BFF), 6 September 2003 (17)
- "Parking" (animated) - ½ - Brattle Theater (Animation Show), 16 November 2003 (31)
- "Calling Gerry Malloy" (live action) - ½ - Loews Copley Place (BFF), 7 September 2003 (28)
- "Running On Eggshells" (live action) - ½ - Loews Copley Place (BFF), 7 September 2003 (24)
- "Bjargvaettur" ("Savior" in the USA) (live action) - ½ - Loews Copley Place (BFF), 6 September 2003 (18)
- "A.N.I. 1240" (live action) - ½ - Loews Copley Place (BFF), 6 September 2003 (22)
- "Negative" (live action) - ¼ - Loews Copley Place (BFF), 7 September 2003 (32)
- "Ghosts Of The Abyss" (documentary) - ¼ - Aquarium, 20 May 2003 (2)
- "The Animatrix: Beyond" (animated) - ¼ - Jay's Living Room, 14 June 2003 (9)
- "The New Patriots" (documentary) - ¼ - Loews Copley Place (BFF), 6 September 2003 (12)
- "Blindspot" (live action) - ¼ - Loews Copley Place (BFF), 7 September 2003 (30)
- "Nutria" (documentary) - ¼ - Loews Copley Place (BFF), 6 September 2003 (16)
- "The Animatrix: Final Flight Of The Osiris" (animated) - - Jay's Living Room, 14 June 2003 (3)
- "Selfish Minds" (live action) - - Loews Copley Place (BFF), 7 September 2003 (27)
- "The Animatrix: Program" (animated) - - Jay's Living Room, 14 June 2003 (7)
- "The Animatrix: The Second Renaissance, Part II" (animated) - - Jay's Living Room, 14 June 2003 (5)
- "The Animatrix: The Second Renaissance, Part I" (animated) - - Jay's Living Room, 14 June 2003 (4)
- "Rotting Woman" (live action) - - Loews Copley Place (BFF), 6 September 2003 (15)
- "XP" (live action) - - Loews Copley Place (BFF), 6 September 2003 (19)
- "Ocean Wonderland 3-D" (documentary) - - Aquarium, 2 May 2003 (1)
- "Eastern Son" (live action) - - Loews Copley Place (BFF), 7 September 2003 (31)
- "Maree" (live action) - - Loews Copley Place (BFF), 7 September 2003 (25)
- "The Animatrix: A Detective Story" (animated) - :½ - Jay's Living Room, 14 June 2003 (10)
- "Live Bait" (animated) - ¼ - Loews Copley Place (BFF), 6 September 2003 (13)
- "The Animatrix: World Record" (animated) - ¼ - Jay's Living Room, 14 June 2003 (8)
- "Mrs. Meitlmeihr" (live-action) - - Somerville Theater (IFFB), 1 May 2004 (35)
- "The Animatrix: Kid's Story" (animated) - - Jay's Living Room, 14 June 2003 (6)
- "The Animatrix: Matriculated" (animated) - ¾ - Jay's Living Room, 14 June 2003 (11)
- "Are You Feeling Lonely?" (live action) - ¾ - Loews Copley Place (BFF), 6 September 2003 (14)
- Movies seen for the first time/released modified in 2003 (aka Brattle Envy)
- Modesty Blaise (1966) - ** - Jay's Living Room, 1 January 2003 - I have a new appreciation for how good Barbarella is.
- Fathom (1967) - **½ - Jay's Living Room, 3 January 2003 - Raquel Welch wasn't really an actress yet.
- Le Bossue (On Guard! in the USA) (1997) - ***¼ - Brattle Theater, 8 January 2003 - Great swashbuckling fun inexplicably gives way to an 18th Century stock swindle
- The Crimson Kimono (1959) - ***¼ - Brattle Theater, 20 January 2003 - Nifty noir that becomes a decent social commentary.
- Pickup On South Street (1953) - **½ - Brattle Theater, 20 January 2003 - Decent B-movie.
- Detective Story (1951) - *** - Brattle Theater, 27 January 2003 - A little over-wraught and stagey
- Unseen Cinema: "Manhatta" (1921), "Looney Lens: Split Skyscrapers" (1924), "Le Retour à la raison" (1923), "Twenty-Four Dollar Island: A Camera Impression of New York" (1927), "H2O" (1929), "Skyscraper Symphony" (1929), "The Soul Of The Cypress" (1920), "Ballet mécanique" (1929) - MFA, 30 January 2003
- The Black Pirate (1926) - **** - Somerville Theater, 1 February 2003 - Alloy Orchestra performance adds a whole star
- Human Desire (1954) - **½ - Brattle Theater, 3 February 2003 - Fritz Lang just never did get the hang of Hollywood
- The Invisible Boy (1957) - **½ - Coolidge Corner, 16 February 2003 (SF/28) - Goofy, but fun.
- The Valley Of Gwangi (1969) - ***½ - Coolidge Corner, 16 February 2003 (SF/28) - Cowboys and dinosaurs! Yee-haw!
- Invaders From Mars (1953) - *** - Coolidge Corner, 16 February 2003 (SF/28) - Great until the idiotic ending
- Planet of the Vampires (1965) - *½ - Coolidge Corner, 16 February 2003 (SF/28) - Mark!
- Sh! The Octopus (1937) - *** - Coolidge Corner, 16 February 203 (SF/28) - Short, but funny
- The Brain From Planet Arous (1957) - *½ - Coolidge Corner, 16 February 2003 (SF/28) - So bad, it's... bad.
- King Kong (1933) - **** - Brattle Theater, 21 March 2003 - All it's cracked up to be, and more. Lookin' good, too.
- Quai des Orfèvres (1947) - **¾ - Brattle Theater, 19 April 2003 - A not-bad police procedural, though not as good as its reputation
- Casino Royale (1969) - ** - Brattle Theater, 5 May 2003 - Man, I hope Woody Allen and Orson Welles got paid well
- Madame De... (aka The Earrings Of Madame de...) (1953) - **½ - Brattle Theater, 8 May 2003 - Cute, I guess
- Les Diaboliques (1955) - ***¼ - Brattle Theater, 8 May 2003 - Nice; a template for almost every thriller made since
- Bande à part (Band Of Outsiders in the US) (1964) - ***¼ - Brattle Theater, 15 May 2003 - So, is "New Wave" French for "nothing happens"? Charming, though
- Jules et Jim (1962) - *** - Brattle Theater, 15 May 2003 - Good, but dated, I think
- The Other Network 1: "Next!" (2002, ***), "Becoming Glen" (????, **), "Sick In The Head" (????, ***½), "Lookwell" (1993, ****) - Coolidge Corner, 19 May 2003
- L'Amour l'après-midi (Chloe In The Afternoon in the US) (1972) - *** - Brattle Theater, 22 May 2003 - OK
- Les Choses de la Vie (1970) - ***½ - Brattle Theater, 22 May 2003 - Outstanding performance by Michel Piccoli
- Tenku No Shiro Rapyuta (Castle In The Sky in the US) (1986) - **** - Jay's Living Room, 25 May 2003 - Loved this
- Majo No Takkyubin (Kiki's Delivery Service in the US) (1989) - **** - Jay's Living Room, 25 May 2003 - Oh yes, certain young cousins are getting this as a birthday present
- Nikita (aka La Femme Nikita) (1990) - *** - Brattle Theater, 29 May 2003 - Nifty, if over the top
- The Other Network 2: "Heat Vision And Jack" (1999, ****), "The Lewis Lectures" (????, ***), "North Hollywood" (2002, ***), "Saturday TV Funhouse" (1998, ****) - Coolidge Corner, 29 May 2003
- Fay Lung kwo gong (Enter The Fat Dragon in the US) (1978) - **¾ - Allston Cinema, 31 May 2003 - Sammo Hung is a funny, talented guy; high cheese factor
- The Thin Man (1934) - ***¾ - Jay's Living Room (DVD), 31 May 2003 - Charming, clever mystery. More fun than the book
- After The Thin Man (1936) - ***¼ - Jay's Living Room (PBS), 31 May 2003 - Like many sequels, a little bloated and desperate to recreate the original; unlike many, still very good
- Our Man Flint (1966) - **¾ - Jay's Living Room, 1 June 2003 - Did all the other brainwashed folks on the island really deserve to die?
- Delicatessen (1990) - **** - Brattle Theater, 5 June 2003 - Nnnnnnnnnifty
- Another Thin Man (1939) - *** - Jay's Living Room (PBS), 6 June 2003 - Fun; I wish there were more of these
- Shadow Of The Thin Man (1941) - ***¼ - Jay's Living Room (PBS), 6 June 2003 - One of the funnier entries in the series, though the weakest mystery
- In Like Flint (1969) - *** - Jay's Living Room, 8 June 2003 - Austin Powers is but a faint shadow of Derek Flint
- Long de xin (Heart Of Dragon in the US) (1985) - **¾ - Allston Cinema, 14 June 2003 - The "Kung Fu Rain Man", as the ad called it, needed more kung fu
- Gokudô sengokushi: Fudô (Fudoh: The New Generation in the US) (1996) - *** - Allston Cinema, 15 June 2003 - It's Takashi Miike, and thus insane. But it's energetic, well-filmed craziness
- Dracula (1931) - **¾ - Brattle Theater, 17 June 2003 - Iconic, sure, but doesn't hold up as well as, say, Frankenstein
- Dracula (aka Horror of Dracula) (1958) - ** - Brattle Theater, 18 June 2003 - Hammer has its fans, but I wasn't impressed
- Adam's Rib (1949) - *** - Jay's Living Room (PBS), 22 June 2003 - Cute, though occasionally shrill
- Near Dark (1987) - *** - Jay's Living Room, 22 June 2003 - Not bad, for a vampire movie
- Huo shao dao (The Prisoner in the US) (1990) - ** - Jay's Living Room, 6 July 2003 - Dubbed, non-16x9, and the movie wasn't much good, either
- Qing Feng Di Shou (Mismatched Couples in the US) (1985) - ***½ - Coolidge Corner, 13 July 2003 - This kung fu/breakdancing/slapstick teen comedy exists in a state of perfect dated insanity
- Shen Bu You Ji (The Victim in the US) (1980) - ***½ - Coolidge Corner, 18 July 2003 - Said to be Sammo Hung's best, and I won't argue. Damn good kung fu melodrama
- The Thin Man Goes Home (1945) - *** - Jay's Living Room (PBS), 29 July 2003 - Very entertaining; I'm sad to think there's only one left, though.
- Ride Lonesome (1959) - *** - Brattle Theater, 4 August 2003 - Solid, if dated, B movie with a young James Coburn
- High Noon (1952) - **** - Brattle Theater, 4 August 2003 - Classic enough to cover some rough bits
- Wong ga jin si (Royal Warriors in the US) (1986) - **½ - Allston Cinema, 6 August 2003 - The writing's awful, but the action's good, and no-one does over-the-top insane third acts like Hong Kong
- The Most Dangerous Game (1932) - *** - Jay's Living Room (PBS), 9 August 2003 - Shares cast & crew with King Kong, and is also very, very good
- Lady Of Burlesque (1943) - **¼ - Jay's Living Room (PBS), 9 August 2003 - Okay, but nothing special
- The Thing From Another World (1951) - *** - Brattle Theater, 11 August 2003 - Above average for 50s sci-fi, a genre I'm not overly enamored of
- The Man From Planet X (1951) - **½ - Brattle Theater, 11 August 2003 - ...because they so often have silly scripts and bad acting like this
- That Uncertain Feeling (1941) - **¼ - Jay's Living Room (PBS), 12 August 2003 - A dated domestic comedy, where a husband can lie to and belittle his wife because she wants more out of life
- Zhi Fen Shuang Xiong (Pantyhose Hero in the USA) (1990) - *** - Allston Cinema, 20 August 2003 - Gloriously insane martial arts action as Sammo Hung tries to track down a flaming serial killer.
- Yi Tian Tu Long Ji Zhi Mo Jiao Jiao Zhu (Kung Fu Cult Master in the USA) (1993) - *** - Allston Cinema, 3 September 2003 - There's no ending, but one would be impossible after how nonsensical the movie becomes
- Une Femme Est Une Femme (A Woman Is A Woman in the USA) (1961) - **¼ - Brattle Theater, 10 September 2003 - I've said it before, but I strongly suspect "New Wave" is French for "boring navel-gazing crap"
- Epidemic (1988) - * - Brattle Theater (EO), 14 Spetember 2003 - This early film by Lars von Trier is just pretentious and self-indulgent, without any apparent intent to entertain
- Dark City (1950) - *** - Brattle Theater, 21 September 2003 - A nifty little noir, with the added bonus of Jack Webb and Harry Morgan as hoods rather than cops
- Force Of Evil (1948) - **¾ - Brattle Theater, 21 September 2003 - Not bad, but doesn't have quite the kick some other noirs have
- Johnny O'Clock (1947) - **¾ - Brattle Theater, 28 September 2003 - Neat, but you can tell how tough-guy movies were kind of disposable, cranked out one a week, at the time
- Shockproof (1949) - ***¼ - Brattle Theater, 28 September 2003 - Even at a compact 85 minutes, a lot seems to happen in this highly enjoyable Douglas Sirk (!) noir
- Duze Zwierze (2000) (The Big Animal in the USA) - ***¼ - Brattle Theater (EO), 2 October 2003 - Sweet, but also smart
- Gui ma tian shi (1983) (Taoism Drunkard in the USA) - **¾ - Allston Cinema, 5 November 2003 - What's scary is I can almost describe a plot to this mess
- Long zai tian ya (1988) (Dragon Fight in the USA) - **¾ - Allston Cinema, 12 November 2003 - exquisitely goofy kung fu movie shot in San Francisco
- How To Marry A Millionaire (1953) - *** - Brattle Theater, 18 November 2003 - Part of the "celebrating widescreen" series. Good thing it's wide, because it's not terribly long or deep, but is entertaining
- Chokugeki! Jigoku-ken (The Executioner in the USA) (1974) - * - Allston Cinema, 19 November 2003 - Supposedly Tarantino's favorite Sonny Chiba flick. Too bad what is apparently the only print in the US looks awful and is dubbed by the cast of Speed Racer
- Kujaku ô (Peacock King in the USA) (1988) - *¾ - Allston Cinema, 3 December 2003 - Contrary to expectations, kung fu and stop-motion do not mix
- Portrait Of Jennie (1948) - **½ - Jay's living Room (PBS), 7 December 2003 - A decent ghost story
- Nu ji xie ren (Robotrix in the USA) (1991) - **¾ - Allston Cinema, 10 December 2003 - As B-movie exploitation goes, downright competent
- The Triumph Of Sherlock Holmes (1935) - **½ - Jay's Living Room (PBS), 12 December 2003 - Perhaps too respectful an adaptation of "The Valley Of Fear"
- Topper Returns (1941) - **¾ - Jay's Living Room (PBS), 13 December 2003 - This screwball mystery has an idiot plot, but decent slapstick
- Mo Tai (Devil Fetus in the USA) (1983) - ** - Allston Cinema, 17 December 2003 - Fitfully entertaining gross-out movie
- Theaters
- Allston Cinema (Allston, MA) - 2 screens. A passable theater from the bland cinderblock days that now shows mostly Bollywood films with some other things thrown in - **½
- GCC AMC Fenway (Boston, MA) - 13 Screens; all stadium seating/digital sound. Mainstream fare very well presented; slightly more expensive and less convenient than Boston Common - ***¼
- Brattle Theater (Cambridge, MA) - 1 Screen. Repatory house, rear-projection, just got stereo; nice balcony, great programs, and one ticket = two movies - ***½
- Capitol Theater (Arlington, MA) - 6 screens. Small, narrow rooms. Pretty much duplicates Somerville BUT has actual genuine ice cream at the concession stand (which has excellent prices all around). - **½
- Coolidge Corner (Brookline, MA) - 2.5 Screens (2 film/1 video), interesting special programs, 70mm capable. Scary restrooms - ***
- Harvard Film Archive (Cambridge, MA) - 1 Screen. Eclectic, good programs - ***
- Jay's Living Room (Cambridge, MA) - 40" Toshiba Widescreen & Yamaha HT-in-a-box. Works in a pinch - **¼
- Kendall Square (Cambridge, MA) - 9 Screens. Screen 1 very nice, screen 9 very small. All boutique/foreign/indie - ***
- Loews Boston Common (Boston, MA) - 19 Screens. All stadium seating/digital sound/one DLP screen. Mainstream fare, very slick - ***¼
- Loews Copley Place (Boston, MA) - 11 Tiny Screens. Generally the same shows as Kendall Square. AVOID - **
- Loews Harvard Square (Cambridge, MA) - 5 Screens. One great, four so-so. Mix/overlap of boutique and mainstream - **½
- Mugar Omni Theater @ the Museum Of Science (Boston, MA) - 1 dome screen. Gotta love the way it completely fills the field of vision - ***
- Museum of Fine Arts Remis Auditorium (Boston, MA) - 1 screen, nice room - ***
- Simons IMAX Theater, New England Aquarium (Boston, MA) - 1 big screen, 3-D capable. Nice. - ***½
- Somerville Theater (Somerville, MA) - Better than your average 2nd run theater; nice place for a live event, though - **¾
(BFF) indicates seen at the Boston Film Festival.
(SF/28) indicates seen at the 28th annual Boston Science Ficiton Film Marathon
(EO) indicates seen at the Brattle Eye Opener
(BFFF) indicates seen at the Boston Fantastic Film Festival
(IFFB) indicates seen at the Independant Film Festival of Boston
Films in gray may not fit the Academy-qualification criterion; also, I'm really just guessing on whether the entries for Shorts qualify
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1/2/03 at 2:04pm
2003 Film List
Last Updated: 3-20-04
Criteria: 2003 US Original Theatrical Release
Number of Films Seen: 66
Films: (Title/Rating Out of 4/Aspect Ratio/Running Time/Director)
American Splendor / *** / 1.85:1 / 101 min. / Shari Springer Berman and Robert Pulcini
American Wedding / **½ / 2.35:1 / 96 min. / Jesse Dylan
Basic / ** / 2.35:1 / 99 min. / John McTiernan
Bruce Almighty / ** / 1.85:1 / 101 min. / Tom Shadyac
Cabin Fever / ** / 2.35:1 / 92 min. / Eli Roth
City of Ghosts / *** / 1.85:1 / 116 min. / Matt Dillon
Cold Mountain / *** / 2.35:1 / 155 min. / Anthony Minghella
The Core / ** / 2.35:1 / 132 min. / Jon Amiel
Daredevil / ** / 2.35:1 / 96 min. / Mark Steven Johnson
Dark Blue / ** / 2.35:1 / 118 min. / Ron Shelton
Darkness Falls / * / 2.35:1 / 75 min. / Jonathan Liebesman
Dreamcatcher / * / 2.35:1 / 134 min. / Lawrence Kasdan
Final Destination 2 / *½ / 1.85:1 / 91 min. / David R. Ellis
Finding Nemo / *** / 1.85:1 / 100 min. / Andrew Stanton
Gods and Generals / ** / 2.35:1 / 216 min. / Ronald F. Maxwell
The Good Thief / *** / 1.85:1 / 104 min. / Neil Jordan
Hollywood Homicide / *½ / 2.35:1 / 117 min. / Ron Shelton
House of 1000 Corpses / * / 1.85:1 / 88 min. / Rob Zombie
House of Sand and Fog / **** / 1.85:1 / 126 min. / Vadim Perelman
The Hulk / *½ / 1.85:1 / 138 min. / Ang Lee
The Hunted / **½ / 1.85:1 / 94 min. / William Friedkin
Identity / *** / 2.35:1 / 90 min. / James Mangold
Intolerable Cruelty / *** / 1.85:1 / 100 min. / Joel Coen
Irréversible / ***½ / 2.35:1 / 98 min. / Gaspar Noé
The Italian Job / ***½ / 2.35:1 / 110 min. / F. Gary Gray
Kill Bill: Volume 1 / **** / 2.35:1 / 110 min. / Quentin Tarantino
Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life / *** / 2.35:1 / 116 min. / Jan de Bont
The Last Samurai / ***½ / 2.35:1 / 154 min. / Edward Zwick
The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen / * / 2.35:1 / 110 min. / Stephen Norrington
The Life of David Gale / ** / 2.35:1 / 130 min. / Alan Parker
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King / *½ / 2.35:1 / 201 min. / Peter Jackson
Lost in La Mancha / *** / 1.33:1 / 89 min. / Keith Fulton and Louis Pepe
Lost in Translation / **** / 1.85:1 / 102 min. / Sofia Coppola
Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World / **** / 2.35:1 / 139 min. / Peter Weir
Matchstick Men / *** / 2.35:1 / 116 min. / Ridley Scott
The Matrix Reloaded / *½ / 2.35:1 / 138 min. / Andy and Larry Wachowski
May / **½ / 1.85:1 / 93 min. / Lucky McKee
The Missing / **½ / 2.35:1 / 135 min. / Ron Howard
Mystic River / **** / 2.35:1 / 137 min. / Clint Eastwood
Nowhere in Africa (Nirgendwo in Afrika) / **** / 2.35:1 / 138 min. / Caroline Link
Once Upon a Time in Mexico / ** / 2.35:1 / 102 min. / Robert Rodriguez
Open Range / *** / 2.35:1 / 135 min. / Kevin Costner
Out of Time / **½ / 2.35:1 / 106 min. / Carl Franklin
Owning Mahowny / *** / 2.35:1 / 104 min. / Richard Kwietniowski
Paycheck / ** / 2.35:1 / 110 min. / John Woo
Phone Booth / *** / 2.35:1 / 82 min. / Joel Schumacher
Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl / * / 2.35:1 / 143 min. / Gore Verbinski
The Recruit / *** / 2.35:1 / 115 min. / Roger Donaldson
Runaway Jury / **½ / 2.35:1 / 127 min. / Gary Fleder
The Rundown / **½ / 2.35:1 / 101 min. / Peter Berg
Seabiscuit / **½ / 2.35:1 / 140 min. / Gary Ross
Spider / ** / 1.85:1 / 98 min. / David Cronenberg
Spun / ½ / 1.85:1 / 101 min. / Jonas Åkerlund
S.W.A.T. / *** / 2.35:1 / 118 min. / Clark Johnson
Swimming Pool / **½ / 1.85:1 / 103 min. / François Ozon
Tears of the Sun / *** / 2.35:1 / 118 min. / Antoine Fuqua
Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines / *** / 2.35:1 / 109 min. / Jonathan Mostow
28 Days Later / ***½ / 1.85:1 / 112 min. / Danny Boyle
21 Grams / **** / 1.85:1 / 124 min. / Alejandro González Iñárritu
2 Fast 2 Furious / ** / 2.35:1 / 94 min. / John Singleton
Under the Tuscan Sun / **½ / 1.85:1 / 112 min. / Audrey Wells
Underworld / *½ / 2.35:1 / 121 min. / Len Wiseman
Whale Rider / *** / 2.35:1 / 102 min. / Niki Caro
Winged Migration (Le peuple migrateur) / *** / 1.85:1 / 89 min. / Jacques Perrin
Wrong Turn / **½ / 1.85:1 / 84 min. / Rob Schmidt
X2: X-Men United / **½ / 2.35:1 / 134 min. / Bryan Singer
Last Updated: 3-20-04
Criteria: 2003 US Original Theatrical Release
Number of Films Seen: 66
Films: (Title/Rating Out of 4/Aspect Ratio/Running Time/Director)
American Splendor / *** / 1.85:1 / 101 min. / Shari Springer Berman and Robert Pulcini
American Wedding / **½ / 2.35:1 / 96 min. / Jesse Dylan
Basic / ** / 2.35:1 / 99 min. / John McTiernan
Bruce Almighty / ** / 1.85:1 / 101 min. / Tom Shadyac
Cabin Fever / ** / 2.35:1 / 92 min. / Eli Roth
City of Ghosts / *** / 1.85:1 / 116 min. / Matt Dillon
Cold Mountain / *** / 2.35:1 / 155 min. / Anthony Minghella
The Core / ** / 2.35:1 / 132 min. / Jon Amiel
Daredevil / ** / 2.35:1 / 96 min. / Mark Steven Johnson
Dark Blue / ** / 2.35:1 / 118 min. / Ron Shelton
Darkness Falls / * / 2.35:1 / 75 min. / Jonathan Liebesman
Dreamcatcher / * / 2.35:1 / 134 min. / Lawrence Kasdan
Final Destination 2 / *½ / 1.85:1 / 91 min. / David R. Ellis
Finding Nemo / *** / 1.85:1 / 100 min. / Andrew Stanton
Gods and Generals / ** / 2.35:1 / 216 min. / Ronald F. Maxwell
The Good Thief / *** / 1.85:1 / 104 min. / Neil Jordan
Hollywood Homicide / *½ / 2.35:1 / 117 min. / Ron Shelton
House of 1000 Corpses / * / 1.85:1 / 88 min. / Rob Zombie
House of Sand and Fog / **** / 1.85:1 / 126 min. / Vadim Perelman
The Hulk / *½ / 1.85:1 / 138 min. / Ang Lee
The Hunted / **½ / 1.85:1 / 94 min. / William Friedkin
Identity / *** / 2.35:1 / 90 min. / James Mangold
Intolerable Cruelty / *** / 1.85:1 / 100 min. / Joel Coen
Irréversible / ***½ / 2.35:1 / 98 min. / Gaspar Noé
The Italian Job / ***½ / 2.35:1 / 110 min. / F. Gary Gray
Kill Bill: Volume 1 / **** / 2.35:1 / 110 min. / Quentin Tarantino
Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life / *** / 2.35:1 / 116 min. / Jan de Bont
The Last Samurai / ***½ / 2.35:1 / 154 min. / Edward Zwick
The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen / * / 2.35:1 / 110 min. / Stephen Norrington
The Life of David Gale / ** / 2.35:1 / 130 min. / Alan Parker
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King / *½ / 2.35:1 / 201 min. / Peter Jackson
Lost in La Mancha / *** / 1.33:1 / 89 min. / Keith Fulton and Louis Pepe
Lost in Translation / **** / 1.85:1 / 102 min. / Sofia Coppola
Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World / **** / 2.35:1 / 139 min. / Peter Weir
Matchstick Men / *** / 2.35:1 / 116 min. / Ridley Scott
The Matrix Reloaded / *½ / 2.35:1 / 138 min. / Andy and Larry Wachowski
May / **½ / 1.85:1 / 93 min. / Lucky McKee
The Missing / **½ / 2.35:1 / 135 min. / Ron Howard
Mystic River / **** / 2.35:1 / 137 min. / Clint Eastwood
Nowhere in Africa (Nirgendwo in Afrika) / **** / 2.35:1 / 138 min. / Caroline Link
Once Upon a Time in Mexico / ** / 2.35:1 / 102 min. / Robert Rodriguez
Open Range / *** / 2.35:1 / 135 min. / Kevin Costner
Out of Time / **½ / 2.35:1 / 106 min. / Carl Franklin
Owning Mahowny / *** / 2.35:1 / 104 min. / Richard Kwietniowski
Paycheck / ** / 2.35:1 / 110 min. / John Woo
Phone Booth / *** / 2.35:1 / 82 min. / Joel Schumacher
Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl / * / 2.35:1 / 143 min. / Gore Verbinski
The Recruit / *** / 2.35:1 / 115 min. / Roger Donaldson
Runaway Jury / **½ / 2.35:1 / 127 min. / Gary Fleder
The Rundown / **½ / 2.35:1 / 101 min. / Peter Berg
Seabiscuit / **½ / 2.35:1 / 140 min. / Gary Ross
Spider / ** / 1.85:1 / 98 min. / David Cronenberg
Spun / ½ / 1.85:1 / 101 min. / Jonas Åkerlund
S.W.A.T. / *** / 2.35:1 / 118 min. / Clark Johnson
Swimming Pool / **½ / 1.85:1 / 103 min. / François Ozon
Tears of the Sun / *** / 2.35:1 / 118 min. / Antoine Fuqua
Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines / *** / 2.35:1 / 109 min. / Jonathan Mostow
28 Days Later / ***½ / 1.85:1 / 112 min. / Danny Boyle
21 Grams / **** / 1.85:1 / 124 min. / Alejandro González Iñárritu
2 Fast 2 Furious / ** / 2.35:1 / 94 min. / John Singleton
Under the Tuscan Sun / **½ / 1.85:1 / 112 min. / Audrey Wells
Underworld / *½ / 2.35:1 / 121 min. / Len Wiseman
Whale Rider / *** / 2.35:1 / 102 min. / Niki Caro
Winged Migration (Le peuple migrateur) / *** / 1.85:1 / 89 min. / Jacques Perrin
Wrong Turn / **½ / 1.85:1 / 84 min. / Rob Schmidt
X2: X-Men United / **½ / 2.35:1 / 134 min. / Bryan Singer
post #11 of 601
1/2/03 at 2:09pm
2003 Film List
Total Films Seen: 46
Last Updated: February 7th with Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World, Mystic River, American Splendor, and Lost in Translation
Criteria: North American Release
Films
Final Destination 2 (Director - David R. Ellis) **
Bringing Down the House (Director - Adam Shankman) **1/2
Dreamcatcher (Director - Lawrence Kasdan) **
The Core (Director - Jon Amiel) **1/2
Phone Booth (Director - Joel Schumacher) ***
Ghosts of the Abyss (Director - James Cameron) **1/2
Anger Management (Director - Peter Segal) **1/2
Identity (Director - James Mangold) ***
Darkness Falls (Director - Jonathan Liebesman) *1/2
Daredevil (Director - Mark Steven Johnson) **1/2
X2: X-Men United (Director - Bryan Singer) ***1/2
The Matrix Reloaded (Directors - The Wachowski Brothers) ***
Bruce Almighty (Director - Tom Shadyac) **1/2
Finding Nemo (Director - Andrew Stanton) ****
The Hulk (Director - Ang Lee) ***
Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines (Director - Jonathen Mostow ***
Pirates of the Caribbean: Curse of the Black Pearl (Director - Gore Verbinski) ***1/2
The Recruit (Director - Roger Donaldson} **
28 Days Later (Director - Danny Boyle ***
The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (Director - Stephen Norrington ) **
Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle (Director - McG) ***
May (Director - Lucky McKee) ***
Basic (Director - John McTiernan) **1/2
The Life of David Gale(Director - Alan Parker) *1/2
Seabiscuit (Director - Gary Ross) ***
Old School (Director - Todd Phillips) **
American Wedding (Director - Jesse Dylan) ***
House of 1000 Corpses (Director - Rob Zombie) *1/2
Freddy vs. Jason (Director - Ronny Yu) ***
Jeepers Creepers 2 (Director - Victor Salva) ***
Cabin Fever (Director - Eli Roth) **1/2
Holes (Director - Andrew Davis) **1/2
Secondhand Lions (Director - Tim McCanlies) ***
Down With Love(Director - Peyton Reed) **1/2
Scool of Rock (Director - Richard Linklater) ***
Kill Bill, Volume 1 (Director - Quentin Tarantino) ***
Texas Chainsaw Massacre (Director - Marcus Nispel) ***
Wrong Turn (Director - Rob Schmidt) **
The Italian Job (Director - F. Gary Gray) ***
The Matrix Revolutions (Director - Wachowski Brothers) ***
The Last Samurai (Director - Edward Zwick) ***
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (Director - Peter Jackson) ****
Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World (Director - Peter Weir) ****
Mystic River (Director - Clint Eastwood) ***1/2
[b]American Splendor (Directors - Shari Springer Berman, Robert Pulcini) ***
Lost in Translation (Director - Sofia Coppola) ***
Ranking
1. The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
2. Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World
3. Finding Nemo
4. Mystic River
5. Pirates of the Caribbean: Curse of the Black Pearl
6. X2: X-Men United
7. Kill Bill, Volume 1
8. School of Rock
9. 28 Days Later
10. May
11. American Splendor
12. Lost in Translation
13. The Matrix Reloaded
14. The Last Samurai
15. The Matrix Revolutions
16. Texas Chainsaw Massacre
17. Identity
18. Secondhand Lions
19. Seabiscuit
20. American Wedding
21. Freddy vs. Jason
22. Jeepers Creepers 2
23. Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines
24. The Italian Job
25. Holes
26. Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle
27. The Hulk
28. Phone Booth
29. Down With Love
30. Cabin Fever
31. Daredevil
32. Bruce Almighty
33. Anger Management
34. Ghosts of the Abyss
35. The Core
36. Bringing Down the House
37. Old School
38. Basic
39. The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen
40. The Recruit
41. Dreamcatcher
42. Wrong Turn
43. Final Destination 2
44. House of 1000 Corpses
45. The Life of David Gale
46. Darkness Falls
Total Films Seen: 46
Last Updated: February 7th with Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World, Mystic River, American Splendor, and Lost in Translation
Criteria: North American Release
Films
Final Destination 2 (Director - David R. Ellis) **
Bringing Down the House (Director - Adam Shankman) **1/2
Dreamcatcher (Director - Lawrence Kasdan) **
The Core (Director - Jon Amiel) **1/2
Phone Booth (Director - Joel Schumacher) ***
Ghosts of the Abyss (Director - James Cameron) **1/2
Anger Management (Director - Peter Segal) **1/2
Identity (Director - James Mangold) ***
Darkness Falls (Director - Jonathan Liebesman) *1/2
Daredevil (Director - Mark Steven Johnson) **1/2
X2: X-Men United (Director - Bryan Singer) ***1/2
The Matrix Reloaded (Directors - The Wachowski Brothers) ***
Bruce Almighty (Director - Tom Shadyac) **1/2
Finding Nemo (Director - Andrew Stanton) ****
The Hulk (Director - Ang Lee) ***
Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines (Director - Jonathen Mostow ***
Pirates of the Caribbean: Curse of the Black Pearl (Director - Gore Verbinski) ***1/2
The Recruit (Director - Roger Donaldson} **
28 Days Later (Director - Danny Boyle ***
The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (Director - Stephen Norrington ) **
Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle (Director - McG) ***
May (Director - Lucky McKee) ***
Basic (Director - John McTiernan) **1/2
The Life of David Gale(Director - Alan Parker) *1/2
Seabiscuit (Director - Gary Ross) ***
Old School (Director - Todd Phillips) **
American Wedding (Director - Jesse Dylan) ***
House of 1000 Corpses (Director - Rob Zombie) *1/2
Freddy vs. Jason (Director - Ronny Yu) ***
Jeepers Creepers 2 (Director - Victor Salva) ***
Cabin Fever (Director - Eli Roth) **1/2
Holes (Director - Andrew Davis) **1/2
Secondhand Lions (Director - Tim McCanlies) ***
Down With Love(Director - Peyton Reed) **1/2
Scool of Rock (Director - Richard Linklater) ***
Kill Bill, Volume 1 (Director - Quentin Tarantino) ***
Texas Chainsaw Massacre (Director - Marcus Nispel) ***
Wrong Turn (Director - Rob Schmidt) **
The Italian Job (Director - F. Gary Gray) ***
The Matrix Revolutions (Director - Wachowski Brothers) ***
The Last Samurai (Director - Edward Zwick) ***
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (Director - Peter Jackson) ****
Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World (Director - Peter Weir) ****
Mystic River (Director - Clint Eastwood) ***1/2
[b]American Splendor (Directors - Shari Springer Berman, Robert Pulcini) ***
Lost in Translation (Director - Sofia Coppola) ***
Ranking
1. The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
2. Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World
3. Finding Nemo
4. Mystic River
5. Pirates of the Caribbean: Curse of the Black Pearl
6. X2: X-Men United
7. Kill Bill, Volume 1
8. School of Rock
9. 28 Days Later
10. May
11. American Splendor
12. Lost in Translation
13. The Matrix Reloaded
14. The Last Samurai
15. The Matrix Revolutions
16. Texas Chainsaw Massacre
17. Identity
18. Secondhand Lions
19. Seabiscuit
20. American Wedding
21. Freddy vs. Jason
22. Jeepers Creepers 2
23. Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines
24. The Italian Job
25. Holes
26. Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle
27. The Hulk
28. Phone Booth
29. Down With Love
30. Cabin Fever
31. Daredevil
32. Bruce Almighty
33. Anger Management
34. Ghosts of the Abyss
35. The Core
36. Bringing Down the House
37. Old School
38. Basic
39. The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen
40. The Recruit
41. Dreamcatcher
42. Wrong Turn
43. Final Destination 2
44. House of 1000 Corpses
45. The Life of David Gale
46. Darkness Falls
post #12 of 601
1/2/03 at 2:10pm
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Craig's 2003 Film List
Criteria: NY/LA Academy Qualification
Rating Scheme: 1 (lowest) to 10 (highest)
Last updated July 3, 2004
Number of Films Seen: 98 (All seen theatrically except those marked with * seen on DVD)
All The Real Girls: 10 (1/1/04) *
American Splendor: 10 (9/21/03)
City Of God: 10 (4/11/03)
Finding Nemo: 10 (5/31/03, 11/4/03 *)
Kill Bill Vol. I: 10 (10/12/03, 11/1/03)
The Lord Of The Rings: The Return Of The King: 10 (12/17/03, 12/19/03, 12/29/03, 1/26/04)
21 Grams: 9 (12/30/03)
The Animatrix: 9 (11/9/03) *
Better Luck Tomorrow: 9 (4/27/03)
Big Fish: 9 (12/27/03)
Capturing The Friedmans: 9 (2/2/04) *
Destino: 9 (2/22/04)
The Fog Of War: 9 (5/13/04) *
Ghosts Of The Abyss: 9 (5/23/03)
In America: 9 (12/27/03)
Lost In Translation: 9 (9/27/03)
The Matrix: Revolutions: 9 (11/10/03)
Master And Commander: The Far Side Of The World: 9 (11/15/03)
A Mighty Wind: 9 (5/10/03)
The Missing: 9 (12/6/03)
Mystic River: 9 (10/18/03)
Open Range: 9 (8/17/03)
Owning Mahowney: 9 (7/5/03)
Pirates Of The Caribbean: Legend Of The Black Pearl: 9 (7/12/03)
School Of Rock: 9 (10/12/03)
Seabiscuit: 9 (8/2/03)
Thirteen: 9 (9/21/03)
Les Triplettes de Belleville: 9 (2/22/04)
Whale Rider: 9 (8/31/03)
28 Days Later: 8 (6/27/03)
American Wedding: 8 (8/3/03)
Bad Santa: 8 (11/30/03)
Bend It Like Beckham: 8 (12/31/03) *
Cold Mountain: 8 (1/3/04)
The Cooler: 8 (12/30/03)
The Dancer Upstairs: 8 (5/8/04) *
Dark Blue: 8 (1/1/04) *
Dirty Pretty Things: 8 (8/24/03)
Down With Love: 8 (5/23/03)
Elf: 8 (11/23/03)
Girl With A Pearl Earring: 8 (2/22/04)
The Good Thief: 8 (5/10/03)
Holes: 8 (5/3/03)
The Hulk: 8 (6/21/03)
The Human Stain: 8 (11/8/03)
Intolerable Cruelty: 8 (10/12/03)
The Last Samurai: 8 (12/13/2003)
Matchstick Men: 8 (9/12/03)
The Matrix: Reloaded: 8 (5/16/03, 11/9/03 *)
May: 8 (9/20/03) *
Millennium Actress: 8 (12/18/03) *
Peter Pan: 8 (1/24/03)
Phone Booth: 8 (4/12/03)
Pieces Of April: 8 (2/27/04) *
Runaway Jury: 8 (10/17/03)
Secondhand Lions: 8 (9/28/03)
Secret Lives Of Dentists, The: 8 (9/7/03)
Shanghai Knights: 8 (3/28/04) *
The Shape Of Things: 8 (4/6/04) *
Something's Gotta Give: 8 (12/13/03)
The Station Agent: 8 (12/7/03)
Swimming Pool: 8 (8/3/03)
Tears Of The Sun: 8 (3/22/03)
Terminator 3: Rise Of The Machines: 8 (7/1/03)
X2: X-Men United: 8 (5/9/03)
Brother Bear: 7 (4/4/04) *
Confidence: 7 (4/27/03)
Daredevil: 7 (3/8/03)
Hollywood Homicide: 7 (6/15/03)
House Of Sand And Fog: 7 (12/27/03)
Identity: 7 (4/25/03)
The Italian Job: 7 (5/30/03)
Le Divorce: 7 (9/7/03)
Monster: 7 (1/31/04)
Once Upon A Time In Mexico: 7 (9/14/03)
Out Of Time: 7 (10/18/03)
Radio: 7 (11/7/03)
The Rundown: 7 (9/26/03)
S.W.A.T.: 7 (8/29/03)
Veronica Guerin: 7 (10/18/03)
Wonderland: 7 (7/3/04) *
Alex And Emma: 6 (7/4/03)
Anything Else: 6 (9/19/03)
Basic: 6 (4/6/03)
Bruce Almighty: 6 (5/30/03)
Love Actually: 6 (11/14/03)
The Recruit: 6 (2/8/03)
Under The Tuscan Sun: 6 (10/25/03)
The Young Black Stallion: 6 (1/17/04)
Anger Management: 5 (5/3/03)
In The Cut: 5 (10/31/03)
Old School: 5 (3/16/03)
Paycheck: 5 (1/2/04)
Willard: 5 (3/22/03)
The Core: 4 (3/28/03)
Dreamcatcher: 4 (4/6/03)
The League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen: 4 (7/19/03)
Bringing Down The House: 3 (6/13/03)
The "Missed It - Gotta Wait For The DVD" List:
Alien: The Director's Cut
The Barbarian Invasions
Blue Car
Calendar Girls
Casa De Los Babys
City Of Ghosts
The Company
Elephant
Garage Days
Gods And Generals
The Hunted
The Life Of David Gale
The Magdelene Sisters
Northfork
Raising Victor Vargas
Shattered Glass
Sylvia
Underworld
The "Life Is Too Short" Pile:
Films I refuse to waste my time & money on. To those of you brave enough to see these, I salute you - thanks for taking one for the team!
- The Cat In The Hat, A Guy Thing, Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle, From Justin To Kelly, Gigli, Just Married, Kangaroo Jack, The Real Cancun
The "2002 Releases Seen In 2003" List:
The 25th Hour: 9 (1/11/03)
About Schmidt: 10 (1/3/03)
Adaptation: 9 (1/11/03)
Antwone Fisher: 9 (1/4/03)
Catch Me If You Can: 9 (1/19/03)
Chicago: 10 (1/4/03, 1/18/03)
Confessions Of A Dangerous Mind: 10 (1/25/03)
Evelyn: 8 (1/1/03)
Heaven: 9 (7/4/03) *
The Hours: 10 (1/18/03)
Igby Goes Down: 8 (5/17/03) *
Narc: 8 (1/11/03)
Nicholas Nickleby: 9 (8/30/03) *
The Pianist: 10 (2/15/03)
The Quiet American: 10 (3/16/03)
Reign Of Fire: 6 (6/20/03) *
Roger Dodger: 8 (6/22/03) *
Russian Ark: 8 (7/13/03)
Secretary: 8 (5/24/03) *
The "Older Films Seen For The First Time" List:
The Adventures Of Robin Hood (1938): 10 (10/25/03) *
The Best Years Of Our Lives (1946): 10 (1/5/03) *
Breakfast At Tiffany's (1961): 8 (1/18/03) *
Dinner With Friends (2001): 8 (3/9/03) *
From The Earth To The Moon (1998): 10 (6/27/03-7/12/03) *
Kiki's Delivery Service (1989): 9 (4/15/03) *
Love Is A Many Splendored Thing (1955): 6 (7/6/03) *
Roman Holiday (1953): 10 (1/18/03) *
The Shop Around The Corner (1940): 9 (2/14/03) *
Sleeping Beauty (1959): 10 (9/12/03) *
Three Colors: Blue (1993): 10 (4/19/03) *
Three Colors: White (1994): 9 (4/20/03) *
Three Colors: Red (1994): 10 (4/22/03) *
To Catch A Thief (1955): 8 (8/16/03) *
Criteria: NY/LA Academy Qualification
Rating Scheme: 1 (lowest) to 10 (highest)
Last updated July 3, 2004
Number of Films Seen: 98 (All seen theatrically except those marked with * seen on DVD)
All The Real Girls: 10 (1/1/04) *
American Splendor: 10 (9/21/03)
City Of God: 10 (4/11/03)
Finding Nemo: 10 (5/31/03, 11/4/03 *)
Kill Bill Vol. I: 10 (10/12/03, 11/1/03)
The Lord Of The Rings: The Return Of The King: 10 (12/17/03, 12/19/03, 12/29/03, 1/26/04)
21 Grams: 9 (12/30/03)
The Animatrix: 9 (11/9/03) *
Better Luck Tomorrow: 9 (4/27/03)
Big Fish: 9 (12/27/03)
Capturing The Friedmans: 9 (2/2/04) *
Destino: 9 (2/22/04)
The Fog Of War: 9 (5/13/04) *
Ghosts Of The Abyss: 9 (5/23/03)
In America: 9 (12/27/03)
Lost In Translation: 9 (9/27/03)
The Matrix: Revolutions: 9 (11/10/03)
Master And Commander: The Far Side Of The World: 9 (11/15/03)
A Mighty Wind: 9 (5/10/03)
The Missing: 9 (12/6/03)
Mystic River: 9 (10/18/03)
Open Range: 9 (8/17/03)
Owning Mahowney: 9 (7/5/03)
Pirates Of The Caribbean: Legend Of The Black Pearl: 9 (7/12/03)
School Of Rock: 9 (10/12/03)
Seabiscuit: 9 (8/2/03)
Thirteen: 9 (9/21/03)
Les Triplettes de Belleville: 9 (2/22/04)
Whale Rider: 9 (8/31/03)
28 Days Later: 8 (6/27/03)
American Wedding: 8 (8/3/03)
Bad Santa: 8 (11/30/03)
Bend It Like Beckham: 8 (12/31/03) *
Cold Mountain: 8 (1/3/04)
The Cooler: 8 (12/30/03)
The Dancer Upstairs: 8 (5/8/04) *
Dark Blue: 8 (1/1/04) *
Dirty Pretty Things: 8 (8/24/03)
Down With Love: 8 (5/23/03)
Elf: 8 (11/23/03)
Girl With A Pearl Earring: 8 (2/22/04)
The Good Thief: 8 (5/10/03)
Holes: 8 (5/3/03)
The Hulk: 8 (6/21/03)
The Human Stain: 8 (11/8/03)
Intolerable Cruelty: 8 (10/12/03)
The Last Samurai: 8 (12/13/2003)
Matchstick Men: 8 (9/12/03)
The Matrix: Reloaded: 8 (5/16/03, 11/9/03 *)
May: 8 (9/20/03) *
Millennium Actress: 8 (12/18/03) *
Peter Pan: 8 (1/24/03)
Phone Booth: 8 (4/12/03)
Pieces Of April: 8 (2/27/04) *
Runaway Jury: 8 (10/17/03)
Secondhand Lions: 8 (9/28/03)
Secret Lives Of Dentists, The: 8 (9/7/03)
Shanghai Knights: 8 (3/28/04) *
The Shape Of Things: 8 (4/6/04) *
Something's Gotta Give: 8 (12/13/03)
The Station Agent: 8 (12/7/03)
Swimming Pool: 8 (8/3/03)
Tears Of The Sun: 8 (3/22/03)
Terminator 3: Rise Of The Machines: 8 (7/1/03)
X2: X-Men United: 8 (5/9/03)
Brother Bear: 7 (4/4/04) *
Confidence: 7 (4/27/03)
Daredevil: 7 (3/8/03)
Hollywood Homicide: 7 (6/15/03)
House Of Sand And Fog: 7 (12/27/03)
Identity: 7 (4/25/03)
The Italian Job: 7 (5/30/03)
Le Divorce: 7 (9/7/03)
Monster: 7 (1/31/04)
Once Upon A Time In Mexico: 7 (9/14/03)
Out Of Time: 7 (10/18/03)
Radio: 7 (11/7/03)
The Rundown: 7 (9/26/03)
S.W.A.T.: 7 (8/29/03)
Veronica Guerin: 7 (10/18/03)
Wonderland: 7 (7/3/04) *
Alex And Emma: 6 (7/4/03)
Anything Else: 6 (9/19/03)
Basic: 6 (4/6/03)
Bruce Almighty: 6 (5/30/03)
Love Actually: 6 (11/14/03)
The Recruit: 6 (2/8/03)
Under The Tuscan Sun: 6 (10/25/03)
The Young Black Stallion: 6 (1/17/04)
Anger Management: 5 (5/3/03)
In The Cut: 5 (10/31/03)
Old School: 5 (3/16/03)
Paycheck: 5 (1/2/04)
Willard: 5 (3/22/03)
The Core: 4 (3/28/03)
Dreamcatcher: 4 (4/6/03)
The League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen: 4 (7/19/03)
Bringing Down The House: 3 (6/13/03)
The "Missed It - Gotta Wait For The DVD" List:
Alien: The Director's Cut
The Barbarian Invasions
Blue Car
Calendar Girls
Casa De Los Babys
City Of Ghosts
The Company
Elephant
Garage Days
Gods And Generals
The Hunted
The Life Of David Gale
The Magdelene Sisters
Northfork
Raising Victor Vargas
Shattered Glass
Sylvia
Underworld
The "Life Is Too Short" Pile:
Films I refuse to waste my time & money on. To those of you brave enough to see these, I salute you - thanks for taking one for the team!
- The Cat In The Hat, A Guy Thing, Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle, From Justin To Kelly, Gigli, Just Married, Kangaroo Jack, The Real CancunThe "2002 Releases Seen In 2003" List:
The 25th Hour: 9 (1/11/03)
About Schmidt: 10 (1/3/03)
Adaptation: 9 (1/11/03)
Antwone Fisher: 9 (1/4/03)
Catch Me If You Can: 9 (1/19/03)
Chicago: 10 (1/4/03, 1/18/03)
Confessions Of A Dangerous Mind: 10 (1/25/03)
Evelyn: 8 (1/1/03)
Heaven: 9 (7/4/03) *
The Hours: 10 (1/18/03)
Igby Goes Down: 8 (5/17/03) *
Narc: 8 (1/11/03)
Nicholas Nickleby: 9 (8/30/03) *
The Pianist: 10 (2/15/03)
The Quiet American: 10 (3/16/03)
Reign Of Fire: 6 (6/20/03) *
Roger Dodger: 8 (6/22/03) *
Russian Ark: 8 (7/13/03)
Secretary: 8 (5/24/03) *
The "Older Films Seen For The First Time" List:
The Adventures Of Robin Hood (1938): 10 (10/25/03) *
The Best Years Of Our Lives (1946): 10 (1/5/03) *
Breakfast At Tiffany's (1961): 8 (1/18/03) *
Dinner With Friends (2001): 8 (3/9/03) *
From The Earth To The Moon (1998): 10 (6/27/03-7/12/03) *
Kiki's Delivery Service (1989): 9 (4/15/03) *
Love Is A Many Splendored Thing (1955): 6 (7/6/03) *
Roman Holiday (1953): 10 (1/18/03) *
The Shop Around The Corner (1940): 9 (2/14/03) *
Sleeping Beauty (1959): 10 (9/12/03) *
Three Colors: Blue (1993): 10 (4/19/03) *
Three Colors: White (1994): 9 (4/20/03) *
Three Colors: Red (1994): 10 (4/22/03) *
To Catch A Thief (1955): 8 (8/16/03) *
post #13 of 601
1/2/03 at 2:53pm
2003 Film List
Last Updated through: 8 February 2004
2003 Films (US, non-festival, release): 112 (seen in pre-2003: 1, post-2003:10)
2002 Catch-up Films : 23
Television, Festival, Unreleased, or Directors Cuts : 4
Pre-2002 Films : 130
Rewatch List (not listed): 44
Total 2003 Film Viewings : 302
2003 Film Viewing List
City of God, A+, 8 Feb, Miramax
Lost in Translation, A+, 17 Sep, Focus
American Splendor, A, 19 Aug, Fine Line
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King, A, 4 Dec, New Line
Northfork, A, 23 Jul, Paramount Classics
Spellbound, A, 1 Jun, THINKFilm
All the Real Girls, A-, 7 Sep, SPC, dvd
The Barbarian Invasions, A-, 4 Dec, Miramax
Finding Nemo, A-, 14 Jan 04, Buena Vista, dvd
Gerry, A-, 6 Mar, THINKFilm
The Good Thief, A-, 27 Mar, Fox Searchlight
He Loves Me... He Loves Me Not, A-, 3 Mar, Goldwyn
Master & Commander: The Far Side of the World, A-, 31 Jan 04, Fox
My Life without Me, A-, 3 Sep, SPC
The Station Agent, A-, 26 Oct, Miramax
Stevie, A-, 8 May, Lions Gate
Sweet Sixteen, A-, 20 Jun, Lions Gate
Thirteen, A-, 25 Aug, Fox Searchlight
The Triplets of Belleville, A-, 21 Jan 04, SPC
Winged Migration, A-, 9 Jul, SPC
L'Auberge Espagnole, B+, 27 May, Fox Searchlight
Bad Santa, B+, 30 Nov, Dimension
Bend it Like Beckham, B+, 6 Jul, Fox Searchlight
Calendar Girls, B+, 29 May, Touchstone, tv-full-frame
Cold Mountain, B+, 27 Dec, Miramax
Confidence, B+, 17 May, Lions Gate
Cowboy Bebop: The Movie, B+, 17 Apr, Goldwyn
The Event, B+, 2 Dec, THINKFilm
A Family Affair, B+, 15 Oct, Small Planet, dvd
The Fog of War, B+, 27 Jan 04, SPC
The Girl with a Pearl Earring, B+, 10 Jan 04, Lions Gate
The Human Stain, B+, 25 Sep, Miramax
The Italian Job, B+, 14 Jun, Paramount
Kill Bill: Vol. 1, B+, 10 Oct, Miramax
Lost in La Mancha, B+, 13 Feb, IFC
The Magdalene Sisters, B+, 17 Aug, Miramax
Monster, B+, 6 Jan 04, Newmarket
Pirates of the Caribbean, B+, 12 Jul, Buena Vista
The Revolution Will Not Be Televised, B+, 19 Jan 04, Vitagraph
The Secret Lives of Dentists, B+, 17 Aug, Manhattan
The Sea, B+, 18 Jun, Palm
The Shape of Things, B+, 9 May, Focus
Stone Reader, B+, 23 Apr, JETFilms
Swimming Pool, B+, 26 Jun, Focus
T3: Rise of the Machines, B+, 1 Jul, WB
28 Days Later, B+, 28 May, Fox Searchlight
21 Grams, B+, 1 Dec, Focus
Whale Rider, B+, 18 Dec, Newmarket
X2, B+, 2 May, Fox
Big Fish, B, 2 Jan 04, Columbia
Buffalo Soldiers, B, 13 Aug, Miramax
Dirty Pretty Things, B, 28 Jul, Miramax
Don't Tempt Me, B, 23 Aug, First Look
Dopamine, B, 1 Oct, Sundance
Down with Love, B, 25 May, Fox
Fellini I'm a Born Liar, B, 29 Jul, First Look
The Fighting Temptations, B, 8 Sep, Paramount
The Girl from Paris, B, 5 Jun, Films Philos
Identity, B, 2 May, Columbia
In America, B, 15 Nov, Fox Searchlight
In this World, B, 22 Sep, Sundance
Intolerable Cruelty, B, 17 Oct, Universal
Levity, B, 19 Jun, SPC
Love Actually, B, 22 Oct, Universal
The Man on a Train, B, 22 May, Paramount Classics
The Man without a Past, B, 30 May, SPC
The Matrix Reloaded, B, 19 May, WB
A Mighty Wind, B, 26 Sep, WB, dvd
Mystic River, B, 13 Oct, WB
Open Range, B, 8 Feb 04, Touchstone, dvd
Phone Booth, B, 2 May, Fox
Seabiscuit, B, 22 Jul, Universal
Shattered Glass, B, 12 Nov, Lions Gate
The Slaughter Rule, B, 25 Jan, Cowboy, cable viewing
Somethings Gotta Give, B, 26 Dec, Columbia
S.W.A.T., B, 15 Aug, Columbia
Til Human Voices Wake Us, B, 16 Sep, Paramount Classics, dvd
American Wedding, B-, 15 Aug, Universal
Anger Management, B-, 19 Apr, Columbia
The Battle of Shaker Heights, B-, 29 Aug, Miramax
Capturing the Friedmans, B-, 11 Jun, Magnolia
The Company, B-, 7 Jan 04, SPC
The Cooler, B-, 18 Jan, Lions Gate
Daredevil, B-, 11 Feb, Fox
The House of Sand and Fog, B-, 27 Dec, DreamWorks
Jet Lag, B-, 23 Jun, Miramax
Laurel Canyon, B-, 30 Mar, SPC
Madame Satã, B-, 29 Sep, Wellspring
Returner, B-, 25 Apr, Sam Goldwyn
The Core, C+, 28 Mar, Paramount
The Dancer Upstairs, C+, 10 Apr, Fox Serchlight
Garmento, C+, 6 Aug, Spanish Moss
Irreversable, C+, 14 Mar, Lions Gate
Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life, C+, 15 Aug, Paramount
Made-Up, C+, 27 Apr 02, Sister Films
Mondays in the Sun, C+, 20 Aug, Lions Gate
Shanghai Knights, C+, 22 Jan, Touchstone
Suicide Club, C+, 11 Jan 04, straight-to-video, dvd
Assassination Tango, C, 9 Apr, UA
Dog Days, C, 10 Dec, Leisure Time
In the Cut, C, 2 Nov, Screen Gems
The Legend of Suriyothai, C, 11 Jul, SPC
Pieces of April, C, 9 Oct, UA
Spun, C, 6 Apr, Newmarket
Beyond Borders, C-, 21 Oct, Paramount
Biker Boyz, C-, 28 Jan, DreamWorks
Cold Creek Manor, C-, 10 Sep, Touchstone
The Hulk, C-, 29 Nov, Universal, tv-full-frame
The Anarchist Cookbook, D, 27 Jan, Innovation Film Group
Friday Night, D, 7 Oct, Wellspring
The Life of David Gale, D, 18 Feb, Universal
Tangled, D, 21 Jan, Dimension, dvd viewing, straight-to-video
2002 Catch-up List
About a Boy, B+, 5 Apr, Universal, dvd
The Bourne Identity, B, 23 May, Universal, dvd
Children of the Century, B-, 19 Feb, Empire
Cremaster 3, B, 2 Aug, Palm
Esther Kahn, C-, 13 Jul, Empire
Frida, B-, 15 Feb, Miramax
The Guys, B, 1 Apr, Focus
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, B, 30 Aug, WB
The Hours, B, 18 Jan, Paramount
How I Killed My Father, B-, 1 Jan, New Yorker
Max, B+, 25 Jan, Lions Gate
Moonlight Mile, B, 12 Jan, Touchstone, screener-tape
Morvern Callar, B+, 3 Apr, Cowboy
O Fantasma, C-, 26 Oct, Picture This!
On Guard, B, 29 Jan, Empire
The Quiet American, B+, 4 Feb, Miramax
Russian Ark, B, 16 May, Wellspring
Shanghai Ghetto, B, 31 Mar, unknown dist
Spider, A-, 12 Dec, SPC, dvd
25th Hour, A, 13 Jan, Touchstone
24 Hour Party People, B, 14 Jan, UA, dvd
Unfaithful, B-, 15 Mar, Fox, dvd
XXX, B+, 18 Apr, Columbia, dvd
Unreleased, Made-for-TV or Directors Cuts
Angels in America, B, 16 Dec, made-for-tv
Ken Park, B-, 9 Oct, dvd
Pure, B, 5 Aug, cable-viewing
Young Adam, B-, 22 Nov
Older Movies Seen for First Time
L'Age d'Or, 1930, B+, 10 Jun, Corinth
Akira, 1988, B, 9 Feb, Streamline, theater
Angels with Dirty Faces, 1938, A, 23 Jan, WB
Anna Christie, 1930, B, 23 Feb, MGM
Aparajito, 1959, A, 8 Jun, Edward Harrison
The Audrey Hepburn Story, 2000, C-, 27 Jul, made-for-tv
The Awful Truth, 1937, B+, 26 May, Columbia
Baby Doll, 1956, B, 23 Apr, WB
The Black Cat, 1934, B, 25 Feb, Universal
Boys Town, 1938, B-, 8 Mar, MGM
Breast Men, 1997, B, 23 Jun, HBO made-for-tv
The Burgler, 1957, C, 26 Apr, Columbia, theater
Burnt by the Sun, 1995, B, 26 May, SPC, full-frame
Butterfly Kiss, 1996, B, 19 Aug, CFP
Captain Blood, 1935, B+, 14 Jun, WB
Captains Courageous, 1937, B+, 31 Mar, MGM
Casino Royale, 1967, C-, 7 Jul, Columbia
Le Cercle Rouge, 1970, A-, 17 Jun, unknown dist., theater
Charge of the Light Brigade, 1938, B-, 29 Mar, WB
Chungking Express, 1996, A-, 14 Apr, Miramax
Comes a Horseman, 1978, B-, 25 Feb, UA
The Conformist, 1971, A, 16 Mar, Paramount, full-frame
Coyote Ugly, 2000, C+, 11 Aug, Touchstone
Cremaster 1, 1996, B+, 3 Aug, Palm
Cremaster 2, 1999, C+, 3 Aug, Palm
Cremaster 4, 1995, B, 4 Aug, Palm
Cremaster 5, 1997, C, 4 Aug, Palm
Cube, 1998, B+, 17 Aug, TriMark
David Copperfield, 1935, B-, 7 Jun, MGM
A Day at the Races, 1937, B-, 5 Apr, MGM
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, 1931, B, 28 Jun, Paramount
Dream with the Fishes, 1997, B+, 9 Nov, SPC
Drunken Angel, 1948, B, 12 Apr, Brandon Films, theater
Fly Away Home, 1997, B, 7 Nov, Columbia, full-frame
Fort Apache, 1948, A-, 20 Feb, RKO
The Four Feathers, 1939, B-, 14 May, UA
42nd Street, 1933, B+, 10 Mar, WB
Freaks, 1932, B, 19 Mar, MGM
Fury, 1936, A-, 16 Mar, MGM
Gambit, 1966, B, 30 Jun, Universal
General Idi Amin Dada, 1974, B+, 25 Jun, Tlnc
Germany Year Zero, 1949, B+, 16 Feb, Superfilm Dist.
The Glass House, 1972, B, 16 Aug, made-for-tv
The Good Earth, 1937, C+, 9 Mar, MGM
Goodbye Mr. Chips, 1939, B+, 26 Jul, MGM
Gunga Din, 1939, C, 1 Mar, RKO
The Harder They Come, 1973, B+, 21 Jun, New World
The Hunchback of Notre Dame, 1939, B+, 7 Jun, RKO
I Live in Fear, 1955, B+, 14 Apr, Brandon Films, theater
In the Realm of the Senses, 1977, C, 12 Dec, Surrogate
Intolerance, 1916, A-, 16 Mar, Triangle
The Intruder, 1961, B+, 13 Mar, Pathe-American
Island of Lost Souls, 1933, B, 4 Jun, Universal
Kiki's Delivery Service, 1989, B+, 11 Jun, unknown dist.
The Killing, 1956, B+, 4 May, UA
Koyaanisqatsi, 1983, A-, 23 Sep, Island Alive, theater
Lancelot du Lac, 1975, B, 29 May, New Yorker
Lara Croft: Tomb Raider, 2001, C+, 20 Jul, Paramount
The Last Wave, 1977, B, 1 Sep, World Northal
Last Year at Marienbad, 1962, C, 6 Jun, Astor Pictures
Little Caesar, 1931, B+, 2 Mar, WB
Little Women, 1933, A-, 29 Jun, RKO
Little Women, 1994, B+, 25 Jul, Columbia
Lost Horizon, 1937, A-, 26 Feb, Columbia
Lust for Life, 1956, B, 17 Feb, MGM
Miami Blues, 1990, B-, 28 Jun, Orion
A Midsummer Nights Dream, 1935, C+, 9 Mar, WB
Mr. Deeds Goes to Town, 1936, B+, 13 Apr, Columbia
The Mummy, 1932, B+, 2 Jun, Columbia
My Man Godfrey, 1936, A, 30 Mar, Universal
My Neighbor Totoro, 1988, A-, 26 Mar, 50th Street, full-frame
My Sex Life, 1997, C, 24 Feb, Zeitgeist
Ninotchka, 1939, A-, 7 Feb, MGM
Nothing Sacred, 1937, C+, 29 Jan, UA
Of Mice and Men, 1939, B+, 4 Apr, UA
The Old Dark House, 1932, B-, 20 May, Universal
Olympia 1: Festival of the Nations, 1939, B, 28 May, Excelsior
Olympia 2: Festival of Beauty, 1939, B+, 11 Jun, Excelsior
Once Upon a Time in the West, 1969, A, 5 Jul, Paramount
Open City, 1946, B+, 26 Jan, Mayer & Burstyn
Paisan, 1948, A, 5 Feb, Mayer & Burstyn
The Public Enemy, 1931, A-, 2 Mar, WB
Quai des Orfèvres, 1948, B+, 22 Apr, Vog Film, theater
Ratcatcher, 2000, A-, 21 Aug, First Look
A Real Young Girl, 1976, 1 Sep, C, unknown dist.
Red Dust, 1932, B, 11 Jan, MGM
Rembrandt, 1936, B, 12 Jun, UA
Rio Grande, 1950, C+, 22 Feb, Republic
Roman Holiday, 1953, A-, 19 Jun, Paramount, theater
Safety Last, 1923, B, 20 Jan, Pathe
Saint Jack, 1979, A-, 26 Feb, New World
Salesman, 1969, B+, 20 Mar, Maysles Films, theater
Seven Samurai, 1956, A+, 12 Apr, Columbia, theater
Shadow of the Thin Man, 1941, B, 27 Jul, MGM
She Wore a Yellow Ribbon, 1949, B-, 21 Feb, RKO
Shoot the Piano Player, 1962, B+, 13 Apr, Astor Pictures
The Shop Around the Corner, 1940, B+, 17 Sep, MGM
Short Eyes, 1977, B-, 19 Sep, Film League
Show Boat, 1936, B-, 1 Mar, Universal
Sleuth, 1972, A-, 21 Sep, Fox
Some Girls, 1988, B, 30 Jul, MGM
Song of the Thin Man, 1947, 10 Aug, B-, MGM
Sons of the Desert, 1933, B-, 4 Jun, MGM
The Story of Adele H, 1975, B+, 18 May, New World
Stray Dog, 1949, B+, 18 Apr, Toho, theater
The Subject was Roses, 1968, B, 22 Jun, MGM
Suddenly Last Summer, 1959, B-, 17 Dec, Columbia
Sweet Chartiy, 1969, B, 18 Aug, Universal
Swing Time, 1936, B-, 22 Feb, RKO
Taste of Cherry, 1998, B+, 30 Mar, Zeitgeist
Thief, 1981, B, 12 Sep, UA
Thieves Like Us, 1974, B+, 25 Oct, UA, full-frame
Throne of Blood, 1957, A+, 19 Apr, Brandon Films, theater
Thin Man Goes Home, 1945, B+, 8 Aug, MGM
Titus, 1999, A-, 3 Oct, Fox Searchlight
To Sir with Love 2, 1996, C, 29 Jan, made-for-tv
Topper, 1937, B, 24 Jun, MGM
Topper Returns, 1941, B, 28 Jun, UA
Trouble in Paradise, 1932, A, 16 Feb, Paramount
Twentieth Century, 1934, A, 5 Mar, Columbia
The Unbelievable Truth, 1989, B+, 9 Aug, Miramax
Virtual Sexuality, 1999, C, 16 Apr, TriStar
Wages of Fear, 1955, B+, 13 Jun, DCA
Watermelon Man, 1970, B, 29 Jan, Columbia, full-frame
Whatever Happened to Baby Jane, 1962, B+, 27 Aug, WB
Way out West, 1937, B, 3 Jun, MGM
Where is the Friends House, 1987, B, 24 Apr, unknown distributer
The World of Apu, 1960, A-, 16 Jun, Edward Harrison, full-frame
Yojimbo, 1961, A-, 3 May, Seneca, theater
The Women, 1939, B+, 8 Jun, MGM
### : Recently Added.
Unless noted all viewings are OAR, 2002 & 2003 are in theater, prior to 2002 are home.
Rating is on letter scale with B- being a marginal recommend.
Last Updated through: 8 February 2004
2003 Films (US, non-festival, release): 112 (seen in pre-2003: 1, post-2003:10)
2002 Catch-up Films : 23
Television, Festival, Unreleased, or Directors Cuts : 4
Pre-2002 Films : 130
Rewatch List (not listed): 44
Total 2003 Film Viewings : 302
2003 Film Viewing List
City of God, A+, 8 Feb, Miramax
Lost in Translation, A+, 17 Sep, Focus
American Splendor, A, 19 Aug, Fine Line
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King, A, 4 Dec, New Line
Northfork, A, 23 Jul, Paramount Classics
Spellbound, A, 1 Jun, THINKFilm
All the Real Girls, A-, 7 Sep, SPC, dvd
The Barbarian Invasions, A-, 4 Dec, Miramax
Finding Nemo, A-, 14 Jan 04, Buena Vista, dvd
Gerry, A-, 6 Mar, THINKFilm
The Good Thief, A-, 27 Mar, Fox Searchlight
He Loves Me... He Loves Me Not, A-, 3 Mar, Goldwyn
Master & Commander: The Far Side of the World, A-, 31 Jan 04, Fox
My Life without Me, A-, 3 Sep, SPC
The Station Agent, A-, 26 Oct, Miramax
Stevie, A-, 8 May, Lions Gate
Sweet Sixteen, A-, 20 Jun, Lions Gate
Thirteen, A-, 25 Aug, Fox Searchlight
The Triplets of Belleville, A-, 21 Jan 04, SPC
Winged Migration, A-, 9 Jul, SPC
L'Auberge Espagnole, B+, 27 May, Fox Searchlight
Bad Santa, B+, 30 Nov, Dimension
Bend it Like Beckham, B+, 6 Jul, Fox Searchlight
Calendar Girls, B+, 29 May, Touchstone, tv-full-frame
Cold Mountain, B+, 27 Dec, Miramax
Confidence, B+, 17 May, Lions Gate
Cowboy Bebop: The Movie, B+, 17 Apr, Goldwyn
The Event, B+, 2 Dec, THINKFilm
A Family Affair, B+, 15 Oct, Small Planet, dvd
The Fog of War, B+, 27 Jan 04, SPC
The Girl with a Pearl Earring, B+, 10 Jan 04, Lions Gate
The Human Stain, B+, 25 Sep, Miramax
The Italian Job, B+, 14 Jun, Paramount
Kill Bill: Vol. 1, B+, 10 Oct, Miramax
Lost in La Mancha, B+, 13 Feb, IFC
The Magdalene Sisters, B+, 17 Aug, Miramax
Monster, B+, 6 Jan 04, Newmarket
Pirates of the Caribbean, B+, 12 Jul, Buena Vista
The Revolution Will Not Be Televised, B+, 19 Jan 04, Vitagraph
The Secret Lives of Dentists, B+, 17 Aug, Manhattan
The Sea, B+, 18 Jun, Palm
The Shape of Things, B+, 9 May, Focus
Stone Reader, B+, 23 Apr, JETFilms
Swimming Pool, B+, 26 Jun, Focus
T3: Rise of the Machines, B+, 1 Jul, WB
28 Days Later, B+, 28 May, Fox Searchlight
21 Grams, B+, 1 Dec, Focus
Whale Rider, B+, 18 Dec, Newmarket
X2, B+, 2 May, Fox
Big Fish, B, 2 Jan 04, Columbia
Buffalo Soldiers, B, 13 Aug, Miramax
Dirty Pretty Things, B, 28 Jul, Miramax
Don't Tempt Me, B, 23 Aug, First Look
Dopamine, B, 1 Oct, Sundance
Down with Love, B, 25 May, Fox
Fellini I'm a Born Liar, B, 29 Jul, First Look
The Fighting Temptations, B, 8 Sep, Paramount
The Girl from Paris, B, 5 Jun, Films Philos
Identity, B, 2 May, Columbia
In America, B, 15 Nov, Fox Searchlight
In this World, B, 22 Sep, Sundance
Intolerable Cruelty, B, 17 Oct, Universal
Levity, B, 19 Jun, SPC
Love Actually, B, 22 Oct, Universal
The Man on a Train, B, 22 May, Paramount Classics
The Man without a Past, B, 30 May, SPC
The Matrix Reloaded, B, 19 May, WB
A Mighty Wind, B, 26 Sep, WB, dvd
Mystic River, B, 13 Oct, WB
Open Range, B, 8 Feb 04, Touchstone, dvd
Phone Booth, B, 2 May, Fox
Seabiscuit, B, 22 Jul, Universal
Shattered Glass, B, 12 Nov, Lions Gate
The Slaughter Rule, B, 25 Jan, Cowboy, cable viewing
Somethings Gotta Give, B, 26 Dec, Columbia
S.W.A.T., B, 15 Aug, Columbia
Til Human Voices Wake Us, B, 16 Sep, Paramount Classics, dvd
American Wedding, B-, 15 Aug, Universal
Anger Management, B-, 19 Apr, Columbia
The Battle of Shaker Heights, B-, 29 Aug, Miramax
Capturing the Friedmans, B-, 11 Jun, Magnolia
The Company, B-, 7 Jan 04, SPC
The Cooler, B-, 18 Jan, Lions Gate
Daredevil, B-, 11 Feb, Fox
The House of Sand and Fog, B-, 27 Dec, DreamWorks
Jet Lag, B-, 23 Jun, Miramax
Laurel Canyon, B-, 30 Mar, SPC
Madame Satã, B-, 29 Sep, Wellspring
Returner, B-, 25 Apr, Sam Goldwyn
The Core, C+, 28 Mar, Paramount
The Dancer Upstairs, C+, 10 Apr, Fox Serchlight
Garmento, C+, 6 Aug, Spanish Moss
Irreversable, C+, 14 Mar, Lions Gate
Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life, C+, 15 Aug, Paramount
Made-Up, C+, 27 Apr 02, Sister Films
Mondays in the Sun, C+, 20 Aug, Lions Gate
Shanghai Knights, C+, 22 Jan, Touchstone
Suicide Club, C+, 11 Jan 04, straight-to-video, dvd
Assassination Tango, C, 9 Apr, UA
Dog Days, C, 10 Dec, Leisure Time
In the Cut, C, 2 Nov, Screen Gems
The Legend of Suriyothai, C, 11 Jul, SPC
Pieces of April, C, 9 Oct, UA
Spun, C, 6 Apr, Newmarket
Beyond Borders, C-, 21 Oct, Paramount
Biker Boyz, C-, 28 Jan, DreamWorks
Cold Creek Manor, C-, 10 Sep, Touchstone
The Hulk, C-, 29 Nov, Universal, tv-full-frame
The Anarchist Cookbook, D, 27 Jan, Innovation Film Group
Friday Night, D, 7 Oct, Wellspring
The Life of David Gale, D, 18 Feb, Universal
Tangled, D, 21 Jan, Dimension, dvd viewing, straight-to-video
2002 Catch-up List
About a Boy, B+, 5 Apr, Universal, dvd
The Bourne Identity, B, 23 May, Universal, dvd
Children of the Century, B-, 19 Feb, Empire
Cremaster 3, B, 2 Aug, Palm
Esther Kahn, C-, 13 Jul, Empire
Frida, B-, 15 Feb, Miramax
The Guys, B, 1 Apr, Focus
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, B, 30 Aug, WB
The Hours, B, 18 Jan, Paramount
How I Killed My Father, B-, 1 Jan, New Yorker
Max, B+, 25 Jan, Lions Gate
Moonlight Mile, B, 12 Jan, Touchstone, screener-tape
Morvern Callar, B+, 3 Apr, Cowboy
O Fantasma, C-, 26 Oct, Picture This!
On Guard, B, 29 Jan, Empire
The Quiet American, B+, 4 Feb, Miramax
Russian Ark, B, 16 May, Wellspring
Shanghai Ghetto, B, 31 Mar, unknown dist
Spider, A-, 12 Dec, SPC, dvd
25th Hour, A, 13 Jan, Touchstone
24 Hour Party People, B, 14 Jan, UA, dvd
Unfaithful, B-, 15 Mar, Fox, dvd
XXX, B+, 18 Apr, Columbia, dvd
Unreleased, Made-for-TV or Directors Cuts
Angels in America, B, 16 Dec, made-for-tv
Ken Park, B-, 9 Oct, dvd
Pure, B, 5 Aug, cable-viewing
Young Adam, B-, 22 Nov
Older Movies Seen for First Time
L'Age d'Or, 1930, B+, 10 Jun, Corinth
Akira, 1988, B, 9 Feb, Streamline, theater
Angels with Dirty Faces, 1938, A, 23 Jan, WB
Anna Christie, 1930, B, 23 Feb, MGM
Aparajito, 1959, A, 8 Jun, Edward Harrison
The Audrey Hepburn Story, 2000, C-, 27 Jul, made-for-tv
The Awful Truth, 1937, B+, 26 May, Columbia
Baby Doll, 1956, B, 23 Apr, WB
The Black Cat, 1934, B, 25 Feb, Universal
Boys Town, 1938, B-, 8 Mar, MGM
Breast Men, 1997, B, 23 Jun, HBO made-for-tv
The Burgler, 1957, C, 26 Apr, Columbia, theater
Burnt by the Sun, 1995, B, 26 May, SPC, full-frame
Butterfly Kiss, 1996, B, 19 Aug, CFP
Captain Blood, 1935, B+, 14 Jun, WB
Captains Courageous, 1937, B+, 31 Mar, MGM
Casino Royale, 1967, C-, 7 Jul, Columbia
Le Cercle Rouge, 1970, A-, 17 Jun, unknown dist., theater
Charge of the Light Brigade, 1938, B-, 29 Mar, WB
Chungking Express, 1996, A-, 14 Apr, Miramax
Comes a Horseman, 1978, B-, 25 Feb, UA
The Conformist, 1971, A, 16 Mar, Paramount, full-frame
Coyote Ugly, 2000, C+, 11 Aug, Touchstone
Cremaster 1, 1996, B+, 3 Aug, Palm
Cremaster 2, 1999, C+, 3 Aug, Palm
Cremaster 4, 1995, B, 4 Aug, Palm
Cremaster 5, 1997, C, 4 Aug, Palm
Cube, 1998, B+, 17 Aug, TriMark
David Copperfield, 1935, B-, 7 Jun, MGM
A Day at the Races, 1937, B-, 5 Apr, MGM
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, 1931, B, 28 Jun, Paramount
Dream with the Fishes, 1997, B+, 9 Nov, SPC
Drunken Angel, 1948, B, 12 Apr, Brandon Films, theater
Fly Away Home, 1997, B, 7 Nov, Columbia, full-frame
Fort Apache, 1948, A-, 20 Feb, RKO
The Four Feathers, 1939, B-, 14 May, UA
42nd Street, 1933, B+, 10 Mar, WB
Freaks, 1932, B, 19 Mar, MGM
Fury, 1936, A-, 16 Mar, MGM
Gambit, 1966, B, 30 Jun, Universal
General Idi Amin Dada, 1974, B+, 25 Jun, Tlnc
Germany Year Zero, 1949, B+, 16 Feb, Superfilm Dist.
The Glass House, 1972, B, 16 Aug, made-for-tv
The Good Earth, 1937, C+, 9 Mar, MGM
Goodbye Mr. Chips, 1939, B+, 26 Jul, MGM
Gunga Din, 1939, C, 1 Mar, RKO
The Harder They Come, 1973, B+, 21 Jun, New World
The Hunchback of Notre Dame, 1939, B+, 7 Jun, RKO
I Live in Fear, 1955, B+, 14 Apr, Brandon Films, theater
In the Realm of the Senses, 1977, C, 12 Dec, Surrogate
Intolerance, 1916, A-, 16 Mar, Triangle
The Intruder, 1961, B+, 13 Mar, Pathe-American
Island of Lost Souls, 1933, B, 4 Jun, Universal
Kiki's Delivery Service, 1989, B+, 11 Jun, unknown dist.
The Killing, 1956, B+, 4 May, UA
Koyaanisqatsi, 1983, A-, 23 Sep, Island Alive, theater
Lancelot du Lac, 1975, B, 29 May, New Yorker
Lara Croft: Tomb Raider, 2001, C+, 20 Jul, Paramount
The Last Wave, 1977, B, 1 Sep, World Northal
Last Year at Marienbad, 1962, C, 6 Jun, Astor Pictures
Little Caesar, 1931, B+, 2 Mar, WB
Little Women, 1933, A-, 29 Jun, RKO
Little Women, 1994, B+, 25 Jul, Columbia
Lost Horizon, 1937, A-, 26 Feb, Columbia
Lust for Life, 1956, B, 17 Feb, MGM
Miami Blues, 1990, B-, 28 Jun, Orion
A Midsummer Nights Dream, 1935, C+, 9 Mar, WB
Mr. Deeds Goes to Town, 1936, B+, 13 Apr, Columbia
The Mummy, 1932, B+, 2 Jun, Columbia
My Man Godfrey, 1936, A, 30 Mar, Universal
My Neighbor Totoro, 1988, A-, 26 Mar, 50th Street, full-frame
My Sex Life, 1997, C, 24 Feb, Zeitgeist
Ninotchka, 1939, A-, 7 Feb, MGM
Nothing Sacred, 1937, C+, 29 Jan, UA
Of Mice and Men, 1939, B+, 4 Apr, UA
The Old Dark House, 1932, B-, 20 May, Universal
Olympia 1: Festival of the Nations, 1939, B, 28 May, Excelsior
Olympia 2: Festival of Beauty, 1939, B+, 11 Jun, Excelsior
Once Upon a Time in the West, 1969, A, 5 Jul, Paramount
Open City, 1946, B+, 26 Jan, Mayer & Burstyn
Paisan, 1948, A, 5 Feb, Mayer & Burstyn
The Public Enemy, 1931, A-, 2 Mar, WB
Quai des Orfèvres, 1948, B+, 22 Apr, Vog Film, theater
Ratcatcher, 2000, A-, 21 Aug, First Look
A Real Young Girl, 1976, 1 Sep, C, unknown dist.
Red Dust, 1932, B, 11 Jan, MGM
Rembrandt, 1936, B, 12 Jun, UA
Rio Grande, 1950, C+, 22 Feb, Republic
Roman Holiday, 1953, A-, 19 Jun, Paramount, theater
Safety Last, 1923, B, 20 Jan, Pathe
Saint Jack, 1979, A-, 26 Feb, New World
Salesman, 1969, B+, 20 Mar, Maysles Films, theater
Seven Samurai, 1956, A+, 12 Apr, Columbia, theater
Shadow of the Thin Man, 1941, B, 27 Jul, MGM
She Wore a Yellow Ribbon, 1949, B-, 21 Feb, RKO
Shoot the Piano Player, 1962, B+, 13 Apr, Astor Pictures
The Shop Around the Corner, 1940, B+, 17 Sep, MGM
Short Eyes, 1977, B-, 19 Sep, Film League
Show Boat, 1936, B-, 1 Mar, Universal
Sleuth, 1972, A-, 21 Sep, Fox
Some Girls, 1988, B, 30 Jul, MGM
Song of the Thin Man, 1947, 10 Aug, B-, MGM
Sons of the Desert, 1933, B-, 4 Jun, MGM
The Story of Adele H, 1975, B+, 18 May, New World
Stray Dog, 1949, B+, 18 Apr, Toho, theater
The Subject was Roses, 1968, B, 22 Jun, MGM
Suddenly Last Summer, 1959, B-, 17 Dec, Columbia
Sweet Chartiy, 1969, B, 18 Aug, Universal
Swing Time, 1936, B-, 22 Feb, RKO
Taste of Cherry, 1998, B+, 30 Mar, Zeitgeist
Thief, 1981, B, 12 Sep, UA
Thieves Like Us, 1974, B+, 25 Oct, UA, full-frame
Throne of Blood, 1957, A+, 19 Apr, Brandon Films, theater
Thin Man Goes Home, 1945, B+, 8 Aug, MGM
Titus, 1999, A-, 3 Oct, Fox Searchlight
To Sir with Love 2, 1996, C, 29 Jan, made-for-tv
Topper, 1937, B, 24 Jun, MGM
Topper Returns, 1941, B, 28 Jun, UA
Trouble in Paradise, 1932, A, 16 Feb, Paramount
Twentieth Century, 1934, A, 5 Mar, Columbia
The Unbelievable Truth, 1989, B+, 9 Aug, Miramax
Virtual Sexuality, 1999, C, 16 Apr, TriStar
Wages of Fear, 1955, B+, 13 Jun, DCA
Watermelon Man, 1970, B, 29 Jan, Columbia, full-frame
Whatever Happened to Baby Jane, 1962, B+, 27 Aug, WB
Way out West, 1937, B, 3 Jun, MGM
Where is the Friends House, 1987, B, 24 Apr, unknown distributer
The World of Apu, 1960, A-, 16 Jun, Edward Harrison, full-frame
Yojimbo, 1961, A-, 3 May, Seneca, theater
The Women, 1939, B+, 8 Jun, MGM
### : Recently Added.
Unless noted all viewings are OAR, 2002 & 2003 are in theater, prior to 2002 are home.
Rating is on letter scale with B- being a marginal recommend.
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2003 Film List
Last Update: March 20th, 2005 - I'll Sleep When I'm Dead
Next 2003 Film: Capturing the Friedmans, In The Cut
Criteria: Worldwide Release Date
Total Films Seen: 151
Ratings:
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Listing: Alphabetically:
2 Fast 2 Furious (*) (Director: John Singelton)
21 Grams (***½) (Director: Alejandro González Iñárritu)
28 Days Later (***) (Director: Danny Boyle)
Agent Cody Banks (**) (Director: Harald Zwart)
Alex & Emma (*) (Director: Rob Reiner)
All the Real Girls (***) (Director: David Gordon Green)
American Splendor (****) (Director: Shari Springer Berman and Robert Pulcini)
American Wedding (**½) (Director: Jesse Dylan)
Anger Management (*½) (Director: Peter Segal)
Bad Boys II (ZERO) (Director: Michael Bay)
Bad Eggs (**) (Director: Tony Martin)
Bad Santa (**½) (Director: Terry Zwigoff)
Basic (*½) (Director: John McTiernan)
Beyond Borders (*½) (Director: Martin Campbell)
Beyond Re-Animator (**) (Director: Brian Yuzna)
Big Fish (***¼) (Director: Tim Burton)
Biker Boyz (*) (Director: Reggie Bythewood)
Bringing Down The House (ZERO) (Director: Adam Shankman)
Bruce Almighty (**½) (Director: Tom Shadyac)
Bubba Ho-Tep (***½) (Director: Don Coscarelli)
Buffalo Soldiers (***) (Director: Gregor Jordan)
Bulletproof Monk (**) (Director: Paul Hunter)
Cabin Fever (***) (Director: Eli Roth)
Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle (**) (Director: McG)
Cheaper by the Dozen (½) (Director: Shawn Levy)
City of God (***½) (Director: Fernando Meirelles)
Cold Mountain (***¼) (Director: Anthony Minghella)
The Cooler (***) (Director: Wayne Kramer)
The Core (**) (Director: Jon Amiel)
Cube 2: Hypercube (**½) (Director: Andrzej Sekula)
Cradle 2 the Grave (*) (Director: Rent-a-Hack)
Danny Deckchair (**½) (Director: Jeff Balsmeyer)
Daredevil (*½) (Director: Mark Steven Johnson)
Dark Blue (***) (Director: Ron Shelton)
Dickie Roberts: Former Child Star (**½) (Director: Sam Weisman)
Dirty Pretty Things (***¼) (Director: Stephen Frears)
Down with Love (***½) (Director: Peyton Reed)
Dumb and Dumberer: When Harry Met Lloyd (*) (Director: Troy Miller)
Duplex (*) (Director: Danny DeVito)
Dreamcatcher (*) (Director: Lawrence Kasdan)
Elephant (***¼) (Director: Gus Van Sant)
Elf (***) (Director: Jon Favreau)
Fat Pizza (*) (Director: Paul Fenech)
Final Destination 2 (**½) (Director: David Ellis)
Finding Nemo (***¼) (Director: Andrew Stanton)
The Fog of War (***½) (Director: Errol Morris)
Freaky Friday (**) (Director: Mark Waters)
Freddy vs. Jason (***) (Director: Ronny Yu)
Gigli (*½) (Director: Martin Brest)
Gothika (*½) (Director: Matthieu Kassovitz)
The Guru (**) (Director: Daisy von Scherler Mayer)
A Guy Thing (*) (Director: Chris Koch)
Head of State (*) (Director: Chris Rock)
The Hebrew Hammer (**) (Director: Jonathan Kesselman)
Holes (***¼) (Director: Andrew Davis)
Hollywood Homicide (½) (Director: Ron Shelton)
Honey (*½) (Director: Bille Woodruff)
House of 1000 Corpses (½) (Director: Rob Zombie)
House of Sand and Fog (***½) (Director: Vadim Perelman)
House of the Dead (ZERO) (Director: Uwe Boll)
How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days (**½) (Director: Donald Petrie)
Hulk (***¼) (Director: Ang Lee)
The Human Stain (**) (Director: Robert Benton)
The Hunted (**) (Director: William Friedkin)
I Capture the Castle (***) (Director: Tim Fywell)
Identity (**) (Director: James Mangold)
I'll Sleep When I'm Dead (***) (Director: Mike Hodges)
In America (***½) (Director: Jim Sheridan)
The In-Laws (*½) (Director: Andrew Fleming)
Intolerable Cruelty (***¼) (Director: Joel & Ethan Coen)
Irreversible (***¼) (Director: Gaspar Noe)
The Italian Job (**½) (Director: F. Gary Gray)
Japanese Story (**) (Director: Sue Brooks)
Just Married (*½) (Director: Shawn Levy)
Kill Bill: Volume 1 (****) (Director: Quentin Tarantino)
Laurel Canyon (**) (Director: Lisa Cholodenko)
Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life (**) (Director: Jan deBont)
The Last Samurai (***) (Director: Edward Zwick)
The League of Extraordinary Gentleman (*) (Director: Stephen Norrington)
Legally Blonde 2: Red, White & Blonde (*½) (Director: Charles Herman-Wurmfeld)
Looney Tunes: Back in Action (***) (Director: Joe Dante)
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (****) (Director: Peter Jackson)
Lost in La Mancha (***) (Director: Keith Fulton & Louis Pepe)
Lost in Translation (***½) (Director: Sofia Coppola)
Love Actually (***) (Director: Richard Curtis)
The Magdalene Sisters (***) (Director: Peter Mulland)
Malibu's Most Wanted (**) (Director: John Whitesell)
Marci X (½) (Director: Richard Benjamin)
Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World (****) (Director: Peter Weir)
Matchstick Men (***) (Director: Ridley Scott)
The Matrix Reloaded (***) (Director: The Wachowski Brothers)
The Matrix Revolutions (**½)(Director: The Wachowski Brothers)
A Man Apart (½) (Director: F. Gary Gray)
May (***¼) (Director: Lucky McKee)
A Mighty Wind (***¼) (Director: Christopher Guest)
The Missing (**½) (Director: Ron Howard)
Mona Lisa Smile (**) (Director: Mike Newell)
Monster (***¼) (Director: Patty Jenkins)
My Life Without Me (**) (Director: Isabel Coixet)
Mystic River (***½) (Director: Clint Eastwood)
National Security (½) (Director: Dennis Dugan)
Ned Kelly (**) (Director: Gregor Jordan)
Old School (*) (Director: Todd Phillips)
Once Upon a Time in Mexico (***) (Director: Robert Rodriguez)
Open Range (***¼) (Director: Kevin Costner)
Out of Time (**) (Director: Carl Franklin)
Paycheck (**) (Director: John Woo)
Peter Pan (**½) (Director: P.J Hogan)
Pieces of April (***¼) (Director: Peter Hedges)
Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (***½) (Director: Gore Verbinksi)
Phone Booth (**½) (Director: Joel Schumacher)
Raising Victor Vargas (***¼) (Director: Peter Sollett)
The Real Cancun (ZERO) (Director: Rick DeOliviera)
The Recruit (**) (Director: Roger Donaldson)
Runaway Jury (**½) (Director: Gary Fleder)
The Rundown (aka Welcome to the Jungle) (**) (Director: Peter Berg)
Seabiscuit (***) (Director: Gary Ross)
Secondhand Lions (*½) (Director: Tim McCanlies)
Scary Movie 3 (*) (Director: David Zucker)
The School of Rock (***½) (Director: Richard Linklater)
Shanghai Knights (**) (Director: David Dobkin)
The Shape of Things (****) (Director: Neil LaBute)
Shattered Glass (***½) (Director: Billy Ray)
Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas (**) (Director: Tim Johnson and Patrick Gilmore)
Something's Gotta Give (**½) (Director: Nancy Meyers)
Spellbound (***) (Director: Jeffrey Blitz)
Spun (ZERO) (Director: Jonas Åkerlund)
Spy Kids 3-D: Game Over (**) (Director: Robert Rodriguez)
The Station Agent (***½) (Director: Tom McCarthy)
Stuck on You (***) (Director: The Farrelly Brothers)
S.W.A.T. (*½) (Director: Clark Johnson)
Swimming Pool (**½) (Director: Francois Ozon)
Take Away (*) (Director: Marc Gracie)
Tears of the Sun (*½) (Director: Antoine Fuqua)
Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines (**½) (Director: Jonathon Mostow)
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (½) (Director: Marcus Nispel)
Thirteen (***¼) (Director: Catherine Hardwicke)
Timeline (½) (Director: Richard Donner)
The Triplets of Belleville (***½) (Director: Sylvain Chomet)
Undead (**) (Director: The Spierig Brothers)
Underworld (***) (Director: Len Wiseman)
Uptown Girls (**) (Director: Boaz Yakin)
Veronica Guerin (**) (Director: Joel Schumacher)
View from the Top (*½) (Director: Bruno Baretto)
The Wannabes (*) (Director: Nick Giannopoulis)
Whale Rider (***) (Director: Niki Caro)
Willard (**) (Director: Glen Morgan)
Wonderland (**) (Director: James Cox)
X-Men 2 (***) (Director: Bryan Singer)
By Rating:
American Splendor
Kill Bill: Volume 1
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World
The Shape of Things
½
21 Grams
Bubba Ho-Tep
City of God
Down With Love
The Fog of War
House of Sand and Fog
In America
Lost in Translation
Mystic River
Pirates of the Carribean: The Curse of the Black Pearl
The School of Rock
Shattered Glass
The Station Agent
The Triplets of Belleville
¼
Big Fish
Cold Mountain
Dirty Pretty Things
Elephant
Finding Nemo
Holes
Hulk
Intolerable Cruelty
Irreversible
May
A Mighty Wind
Monster
Open Range
Pieces of April
Raising Victor Vargas
Thirteen
28 Days Later
All the Real Girls
Buffalo Soldiers
Cabin Fever
The Cooler
Dark Blue
Elf
Freddy vs. Jason
I Capture the Castle
I'll Sleep When I'm Dead
The Last Samurai
Looney Tunes: Back in Action
Lost in La Mancha
Love Actually
The Magdalene Sisters
Matchstick Men
The Matrix Reloaded
Once Upon a Time in Mexico
Seabiscuit
Spellbound
Stuck on You
Underworld
Whale Rider
X-Men 2
½
American Wedding
Bad Santa
Bruce Almighty
Cube 2: Hypercube
Danny Deckchair
Dickie Roberts: Former Child Star
Final Destination 2
How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days
The Italian Job
The Matrix Revolutions
The Missing
Peter Pan
Phone Booth
Runaway Jury
Something's Gotta Give
Swimming Pool
Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines
Agent Cody Banks
Bad Eggs
Beyond Re-Animator
Bulletproof Monk
Charlie’s Angels: Full Throttle
The Core
Freaky Friday
The Guru
The Hebrew Hammer
The Human Stain
The Hunted
Identity
Japanese Story
Laurel Canyon
Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life
Malibu’s Most Wanted
Mona Lisa Smile
My Life Without Me
Ned Kelly
Old School
Out of Time
Paycheck
The Recruit
The Rundown (aka Welcome to the Jungle)
Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas
Spy Kids 3-D: Game Over
Undead
Uptown Girls
Veronica Guerin
Willard
Wonderland
½
Anger Management
Basic
Beyond Borders
Daredevil
Gigli
Gothika
Honey
The In-Laws
Just Married
Legally Blonde 2: Red, White & Blonde
Secondhand Lions
S.W.A.T.
Tears of the Sun
View from the Top
2 Fast 2 Furious
Alex & Emma
Biker Boyz
Cradle 2 the Grave
Dumb and Dumberer: When Harry Met Lloyd
Duplex
Dreamcatcher
A Guy Thing
Head of State
The League of Extraordinary Gentleman
Scary Movie 3
Take Away
The Wannabes
½
Cheaper by the Dozen
Hollywood Homicide
House of 1000 Corpses
A Man Apart
Marci X
National Security
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre
Timeline
ZERO
Bad Boys II
Bringing Down the House
House of the Dead
The Real Cancun
Spun
Short Films:
The Animatrix - ***
Knick Knack - ***½
Ineligable List:
Alien: The Directors Cut - **** :- Director: Ridley Scott
The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers: Extended Edition - **** :- Director: Peter Jackson
The Wizard of Oz - **** :- Director: Victor Fleming
Films seen for the first time in 2003: (When I remember to add them
Donnie Darko - ***½ :- Director: Richard Kelly
Final Destination - ** :- Director: James Wong
The Iron Giant - **** :- Director: Brad Bird
Last Update: March 20th, 2005 - I'll Sleep When I'm Dead
Next 2003 Film: Capturing the Friedmans, In The Cut
Criteria: Worldwide Release Date
Total Films Seen: 151
Ratings:
****
*** ½
***¼
***
**½
**
*½
*
½
ZERO
Listing: Alphabetically:
2 Fast 2 Furious (*) (Director: John Singelton)
21 Grams (***½) (Director: Alejandro González Iñárritu)
28 Days Later (***) (Director: Danny Boyle)
Agent Cody Banks (**) (Director: Harald Zwart)
Alex & Emma (*) (Director: Rob Reiner)
All the Real Girls (***) (Director: David Gordon Green)
American Splendor (****) (Director: Shari Springer Berman and Robert Pulcini)
American Wedding (**½) (Director: Jesse Dylan)
Anger Management (*½) (Director: Peter Segal)
Bad Boys II (ZERO) (Director: Michael Bay)
Bad Eggs (**) (Director: Tony Martin)
Bad Santa (**½) (Director: Terry Zwigoff)
Basic (*½) (Director: John McTiernan)
Beyond Borders (*½) (Director: Martin Campbell)
Beyond Re-Animator (**) (Director: Brian Yuzna)
Big Fish (***¼) (Director: Tim Burton)
Biker Boyz (*) (Director: Reggie Bythewood)
Bringing Down The House (ZERO) (Director: Adam Shankman)
Bruce Almighty (**½) (Director: Tom Shadyac)
Bubba Ho-Tep (***½) (Director: Don Coscarelli)
Buffalo Soldiers (***) (Director: Gregor Jordan)
Bulletproof Monk (**) (Director: Paul Hunter)
Cabin Fever (***) (Director: Eli Roth)
Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle (**) (Director: McG)
Cheaper by the Dozen (½) (Director: Shawn Levy)
City of God (***½) (Director: Fernando Meirelles)
Cold Mountain (***¼) (Director: Anthony Minghella)
The Cooler (***) (Director: Wayne Kramer)
The Core (**) (Director: Jon Amiel)
Cube 2: Hypercube (**½) (Director: Andrzej Sekula)
Cradle 2 the Grave (*) (Director: Rent-a-Hack)
Danny Deckchair (**½) (Director: Jeff Balsmeyer)
Daredevil (*½) (Director: Mark Steven Johnson)
Dark Blue (***) (Director: Ron Shelton)
Dickie Roberts: Former Child Star (**½) (Director: Sam Weisman)
Dirty Pretty Things (***¼) (Director: Stephen Frears)
Down with Love (***½) (Director: Peyton Reed)
Dumb and Dumberer: When Harry Met Lloyd (*) (Director: Troy Miller)
Duplex (*) (Director: Danny DeVito)
Dreamcatcher (*) (Director: Lawrence Kasdan)
Elephant (***¼) (Director: Gus Van Sant)
Elf (***) (Director: Jon Favreau)
Fat Pizza (*) (Director: Paul Fenech)
Final Destination 2 (**½) (Director: David Ellis)
Finding Nemo (***¼) (Director: Andrew Stanton)
The Fog of War (***½) (Director: Errol Morris)
Freaky Friday (**) (Director: Mark Waters)
Freddy vs. Jason (***) (Director: Ronny Yu)
Gigli (*½) (Director: Martin Brest)
Gothika (*½) (Director: Matthieu Kassovitz)
The Guru (**) (Director: Daisy von Scherler Mayer)
A Guy Thing (*) (Director: Chris Koch)
Head of State (*) (Director: Chris Rock)
The Hebrew Hammer (**) (Director: Jonathan Kesselman)
Holes (***¼) (Director: Andrew Davis)
Hollywood Homicide (½) (Director: Ron Shelton)
Honey (*½) (Director: Bille Woodruff)
House of 1000 Corpses (½) (Director: Rob Zombie)
House of Sand and Fog (***½) (Director: Vadim Perelman)
House of the Dead (ZERO) (Director: Uwe Boll)
How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days (**½) (Director: Donald Petrie)
Hulk (***¼) (Director: Ang Lee)
The Human Stain (**) (Director: Robert Benton)
The Hunted (**) (Director: William Friedkin)
I Capture the Castle (***) (Director: Tim Fywell)
Identity (**) (Director: James Mangold)
I'll Sleep When I'm Dead (***) (Director: Mike Hodges)
In America (***½) (Director: Jim Sheridan)
The In-Laws (*½) (Director: Andrew Fleming)
Intolerable Cruelty (***¼) (Director: Joel & Ethan Coen)
Irreversible (***¼) (Director: Gaspar Noe)
The Italian Job (**½) (Director: F. Gary Gray)
Japanese Story (**) (Director: Sue Brooks)
Just Married (*½) (Director: Shawn Levy)
Kill Bill: Volume 1 (****) (Director: Quentin Tarantino)
Laurel Canyon (**) (Director: Lisa Cholodenko)
Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life (**) (Director: Jan deBont)
The Last Samurai (***) (Director: Edward Zwick)
The League of Extraordinary Gentleman (*) (Director: Stephen Norrington)
Legally Blonde 2: Red, White & Blonde (*½) (Director: Charles Herman-Wurmfeld)
Looney Tunes: Back in Action (***) (Director: Joe Dante)
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (****) (Director: Peter Jackson)
Lost in La Mancha (***) (Director: Keith Fulton & Louis Pepe)
Lost in Translation (***½) (Director: Sofia Coppola)
Love Actually (***) (Director: Richard Curtis)
The Magdalene Sisters (***) (Director: Peter Mulland)
Malibu's Most Wanted (**) (Director: John Whitesell)
Marci X (½) (Director: Richard Benjamin)
Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World (****) (Director: Peter Weir)
Matchstick Men (***) (Director: Ridley Scott)
The Matrix Reloaded (***) (Director: The Wachowski Brothers)
The Matrix Revolutions (**½)(Director: The Wachowski Brothers)
A Man Apart (½) (Director: F. Gary Gray)
May (***¼) (Director: Lucky McKee)
A Mighty Wind (***¼) (Director: Christopher Guest)
The Missing (**½) (Director: Ron Howard)
Mona Lisa Smile (**) (Director: Mike Newell)
Monster (***¼) (Director: Patty Jenkins)
My Life Without Me (**) (Director: Isabel Coixet)
Mystic River (***½) (Director: Clint Eastwood)
National Security (½) (Director: Dennis Dugan)
Ned Kelly (**) (Director: Gregor Jordan)
Old School (*) (Director: Todd Phillips)
Once Upon a Time in Mexico (***) (Director: Robert Rodriguez)
Open Range (***¼) (Director: Kevin Costner)
Out of Time (**) (Director: Carl Franklin)
Paycheck (**) (Director: John Woo)
Peter Pan (**½) (Director: P.J Hogan)
Pieces of April (***¼) (Director: Peter Hedges)
Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (***½) (Director: Gore Verbinksi)
Phone Booth (**½) (Director: Joel Schumacher)
Raising Victor Vargas (***¼) (Director: Peter Sollett)
The Real Cancun (ZERO) (Director: Rick DeOliviera)
The Recruit (**) (Director: Roger Donaldson)
Runaway Jury (**½) (Director: Gary Fleder)
The Rundown (aka Welcome to the Jungle) (**) (Director: Peter Berg)
Seabiscuit (***) (Director: Gary Ross)
Secondhand Lions (*½) (Director: Tim McCanlies)
Scary Movie 3 (*) (Director: David Zucker)
The School of Rock (***½) (Director: Richard Linklater)
Shanghai Knights (**) (Director: David Dobkin)
The Shape of Things (****) (Director: Neil LaBute)
Shattered Glass (***½) (Director: Billy Ray)
Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas (**) (Director: Tim Johnson and Patrick Gilmore)
Something's Gotta Give (**½) (Director: Nancy Meyers)
Spellbound (***) (Director: Jeffrey Blitz)
Spun (ZERO) (Director: Jonas Åkerlund)
Spy Kids 3-D: Game Over (**) (Director: Robert Rodriguez)
The Station Agent (***½) (Director: Tom McCarthy)
Stuck on You (***) (Director: The Farrelly Brothers)
S.W.A.T. (*½) (Director: Clark Johnson)
Swimming Pool (**½) (Director: Francois Ozon)
Take Away (*) (Director: Marc Gracie)
Tears of the Sun (*½) (Director: Antoine Fuqua)
Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines (**½) (Director: Jonathon Mostow)
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (½) (Director: Marcus Nispel)
Thirteen (***¼) (Director: Catherine Hardwicke)
Timeline (½) (Director: Richard Donner)
The Triplets of Belleville (***½) (Director: Sylvain Chomet)
Undead (**) (Director: The Spierig Brothers)
Underworld (***) (Director: Len Wiseman)
Uptown Girls (**) (Director: Boaz Yakin)
Veronica Guerin (**) (Director: Joel Schumacher)
View from the Top (*½) (Director: Bruno Baretto)
The Wannabes (*) (Director: Nick Giannopoulis)
Whale Rider (***) (Director: Niki Caro)
Willard (**) (Director: Glen Morgan)
Wonderland (**) (Director: James Cox)
X-Men 2 (***) (Director: Bryan Singer)
By Rating:
American Splendor
Kill Bill: Volume 1
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World
The Shape of Things
½21 Grams
Bubba Ho-Tep
City of God
Down With Love
The Fog of War
House of Sand and Fog
In America
Lost in Translation
Mystic River
Pirates of the Carribean: The Curse of the Black Pearl
The School of Rock
Shattered Glass
The Station Agent
The Triplets of Belleville
¼Big Fish
Cold Mountain
Dirty Pretty Things
Elephant
Finding Nemo
Holes
Hulk
Intolerable Cruelty
Irreversible
May
A Mighty Wind
Monster
Open Range
Pieces of April
Raising Victor Vargas
Thirteen
28 Days Later
All the Real Girls
Buffalo Soldiers
Cabin Fever
The Cooler
Dark Blue
Elf
Freddy vs. Jason
I Capture the Castle
I'll Sleep When I'm Dead
The Last Samurai
Looney Tunes: Back in Action
Lost in La Mancha
Love Actually
The Magdalene Sisters
Matchstick Men
The Matrix Reloaded
Once Upon a Time in Mexico
Seabiscuit
Spellbound
Stuck on You
Underworld
Whale Rider
X-Men 2
½American Wedding
Bad Santa
Bruce Almighty
Cube 2: Hypercube
Danny Deckchair
Dickie Roberts: Former Child Star
Final Destination 2
How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days
The Italian Job
The Matrix Revolutions
The Missing
Peter Pan
Phone Booth
Runaway Jury
Something's Gotta Give
Swimming Pool
Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines
Agent Cody Banks
Bad Eggs
Beyond Re-Animator
Bulletproof Monk
Charlie’s Angels: Full Throttle
The Core
Freaky Friday
The Guru
The Hebrew Hammer
The Human Stain
The Hunted
Identity
Japanese Story
Laurel Canyon
Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life
Malibu’s Most Wanted
Mona Lisa Smile
My Life Without Me
Ned Kelly
Old School
Out of Time
Paycheck
The Recruit
The Rundown (aka Welcome to the Jungle)
Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas
Spy Kids 3-D: Game Over
Undead
Uptown Girls
Veronica Guerin
Willard
Wonderland
½Anger Management
Basic
Beyond Borders
Daredevil
Gigli
Gothika
Honey
The In-Laws
Just Married
Legally Blonde 2: Red, White & Blonde
Secondhand Lions
S.W.A.T.
Tears of the Sun
View from the Top
2 Fast 2 Furious
Alex & Emma
Biker Boyz
Cradle 2 the Grave
Dumb and Dumberer: When Harry Met Lloyd
Duplex
Dreamcatcher
A Guy Thing
Head of State
The League of Extraordinary Gentleman
Scary Movie 3
Take Away
The Wannabes
½
Cheaper by the Dozen
Hollywood Homicide
House of 1000 Corpses
A Man Apart
Marci X
National Security
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre
Timeline
ZERO
Bad Boys II
Bringing Down the House
House of the Dead
The Real Cancun
Spun
Short Films:
The Animatrix - ***
Knick Knack - ***½
Ineligable List:
Alien: The Directors Cut - **** :- Director: Ridley Scott
The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers: Extended Edition - **** :- Director: Peter Jackson
The Wizard of Oz - **** :- Director: Victor Fleming
Films seen for the first time in 2003: (When I remember to add them
Donnie Darko - ***½ :- Director: Richard Kelly
Final Destination - ** :- Director: James Wong
The Iron Giant - **** :- Director: Brad Bird
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Film List (2003)
Eligibility Criteria: First US (non-festival) theatrical release in 2003.
Films Seen: 49
Last Added: The Lord Of The Rings: The Return Of The King (12/16/03)
City Of God (Cidade de Deus)
Finding Nemo
House Of Sand & Fog
The Lord Of The Rings: The Two Towers (Extended Edition)
The Lord Of The Rings: The Return Of The King
Lost In Translation
The Man From Elysian Fields (2002)
Matchbox Men
Monster
21 Grams
25th Hour (2002)
Friends & Family
In America (2002)
Kill Bill, Vol. 1
The Last Samurai
The Matrix: Reloaded
Rabbit-Proof Fence (2002)
Shattered Glass
Spider
Talk To Her (2002)
X-Men 2
American Wedding
Cold Mountain
Confidence
The Crime Of Padre Amaro (2002)
Frida (2002)
He Loves Me... He Loves Me Not (A La Folie... Pas Du Tout)
The Hulk
The Human Stain
Laurel Canyon
Master And Commander: The Far Side Of The World
The Matrix: Revolutions
People I Know
Personal Velocity (2002)
Phone Booth
Pirates Of The Caribbean: The Curse Of The Black Pearl
Seabiscuit
Sinbad: Legend Of The Seven Seas
The Station Agent
Terminator 3: Rise Of The Machines
28 Days Later
The Cooler
The Dancer Upstairs
Daredevil
Freddy Vs. Jason
Identity
The Recruit
Tears Of The Sun
Underworld
Willard
Hypercube: Cube 2
Once Upon A Time In Mexico
S.W.A.T.
Final Destination 2
Legally Blonde 2: Red, White & Blonde
Bruce Almighty
2 Fast 2 Furious
Shanghai Knights
Top 10 List (2002)
Film List (2002)
Eligibility Criteria: First US (non-festival) theatrical release in 2003.
Films Seen: 49
Last Added: The Lord Of The Rings: The Return Of The King (12/16/03)
City Of God (Cidade de Deus)
Finding Nemo
House Of Sand & Fog
The Lord Of The Rings: The Two Towers (Extended Edition)
The Lord Of The Rings: The Return Of The King
Lost In Translation
The Man From Elysian Fields (2002)
Matchbox Men
Monster
21 Grams
25th Hour (2002)
Friends & Family
In America (2002)
Kill Bill, Vol. 1
The Last Samurai
The Matrix: Reloaded
Rabbit-Proof Fence (2002)
Shattered Glass
Spider
Talk To Her (2002)
X-Men 2
American Wedding
Cold Mountain
Confidence
The Crime Of Padre Amaro (2002)
Frida (2002)
He Loves Me... He Loves Me Not (A La Folie... Pas Du Tout)
The Hulk
The Human Stain
Laurel Canyon
Master And Commander: The Far Side Of The World
The Matrix: Revolutions
People I Know
Personal Velocity (2002)
Phone Booth
Pirates Of The Caribbean: The Curse Of The Black Pearl
Seabiscuit
Sinbad: Legend Of The Seven Seas
The Station Agent
Terminator 3: Rise Of The Machines
28 Days Later
The Cooler
The Dancer Upstairs
Daredevil
Freddy Vs. Jason
Identity
The Recruit
Tears Of The Sun
Underworld
Willard
Hypercube: Cube 2
Once Upon A Time In Mexico
S.W.A.T.
Final Destination 2
Legally Blonde 2: Red, White & Blonde
Bruce Almighty
2 Fast 2 Furious
Shanghai Knights
Top 10 List (2002)
Film List (2002)
post #16 of 601
1/2/03 at 5:46pm
Last updated: 02/11/04 with Whale Rider.
Criteria used: Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences
Total of eligible films viewed: 43
Coming soon: ???.
post #17 of 601
1/2/03 at 5:56pm
MY RATINGS:
= Simply spectacular
= Excellent
= Good
= Average/fair
= Awful
2003 FILMS SEEN
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Bad Boys 2
Basic
Bruce Almighty
Bulletproof Monk
Cabin Fever
The Cat in the Hat
City of God
The Core
Cube II: Hypercube
Daredevil
Darkness Falls
Dreamcatcher
Elephant
The Eye (Jian Gui)
Final Destination 2
Freddy vs. Jason
House of 1000 Corpses
House of Sand and Fog
House of the Dead
How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days
The Hulk
Identity
Irreversible
Jeepers Creepers 2
Just Married
Kill Bill: Volume 1
Legally Blonde 2: Red, White, and Blonde
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World
The Matrix Reloaded
The Matrix Revolutions
May
The Missing
My Little Eye
Old School
The Order
Phone Booth
Scary Movie 3
Spider
S.W.A.T.
Tears of the Sun
Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre
28 Days Later
21 Grams
Underworld
Willard
Wrong Turn
X2: X-Men United
Next up:
FILMS SORTED BY RATING
Cabin Fever
Elephant
The Hulk
Identity
Irreversible
21 Grams
City of God
House of Sand and Fog
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World
May
My Little Eye
Spider
28 Days Later
The Eye (Jian Gui)
Final Destination 2
House of 1000 Corpses
Jeepers Creepers 2
Wrong Turn
X2: X-Men United
Daredevil
The Missing
Old School
Phone Booth
Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre
Underworld
Bruce Almighty
The Core
Cube II: Hypercube
Scary Movie 3
Tears of the Sun
The Matrix Reloaded
S.W.A.T.
Willard
Basic
Freddy vs. Jason
Just Married
Legally Blonde 2: Red, White, and Blonde
The Matrix Revolutions
The Order
Bad Boys 2
The Cat in the Hat
Darkness Falls
House of the Dead
How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days
Bulletproof Monk
Dreamcatcher
Kill Bill: Volume 1
= Simply spectacular= Excellent= Good= Average/fair= Awful2003 FILMS SEEN
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Bad Boys 2
Basic
Bruce Almighty
Bulletproof Monk
Cabin Fever
The Cat in the Hat
City of God
The Core
Cube II: Hypercube
Daredevil
Darkness Falls
Dreamcatcher
Elephant
The Eye (Jian Gui)
Final Destination 2
Freddy vs. Jason
House of 1000 Corpses
House of Sand and Fog
House of the Dead
How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days
The Hulk
Identity
Irreversible
Jeepers Creepers 2
Just Married
Kill Bill: Volume 1
Legally Blonde 2: Red, White, and Blonde
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World
The Matrix Reloaded
The Matrix Revolutions
May
The Missing
My Little Eye
Old School
The Order
Phone Booth
Scary Movie 3
Spider
S.W.A.T.
Tears of the Sun
Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre
28 Days Later
21 Grams
Underworld
Willard
Wrong Turn
X2: X-Men United
Next up:
FILMS SORTED BY RATING
Cabin Fever
Elephant
The Hulk
Identity
Irreversible
21 Grams
City of God
House of Sand and Fog
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World
May
My Little Eye
Spider
28 Days Later
The Eye (Jian Gui)
Final Destination 2
House of 1000 Corpses
Jeepers Creepers 2
Wrong Turn
X2: X-Men United
Daredevil
The Missing
Old School
Phone Booth
Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre
Underworld
Bruce Almighty
The Core
Cube II: Hypercube
Scary Movie 3
Tears of the Sun
The Matrix Reloaded
S.W.A.T.
Willard
Basic
Freddy vs. Jason
Just Married
Legally Blonde 2: Red, White, and Blonde
The Matrix Revolutions
The Order
Bad Boys 2
The Cat in the Hat
Darkness Falls
House of the Dead
How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days
Bulletproof Monk
Dreamcatcher
Kill Bill: Volume 1
post #18 of 601
1/2/03 at 7:03pm
edited 2/01/04
4 star rating system
2003 eligible seen in theaters: 94
2003 eligible seen on video: 6
total 2003 count: 100
Ineligible seen in theaters: 13
Seen for the first time (excluding 2003 titles): 144
2003 eligible (theater)
Teknolust - ** - 01/27/03
The Recruit - **1/2 - 02/05/03
Russian Ark - **1/2 - 02/15/03
All The Real Girls - *** - 02/16/03
Shanghai Knights - **1/2 - 02/19/03
DareDevil - **1/2 - 02/19/03
Lost in La Mancha - *** - 02/20/03
Dark Blue - *** - 02/21/03
Cradle 2 The Grave - *1/2 - 02/28/03
Tears of the Sun - *1/2 - 03/07/03
City Of God (Cidade de Deus) - **** - 03/08/03
He Loves Me, He Loves Me Not (?la folie... pas du tout) - *** - 03/12/03
The Son (Le Fils) - *** - 03/12/03
The Hunted - ** - 03/17/03
Nowhere In Africa - ***1/2 - 03/25/03
Irreversible - ** - 03/28/03
Phone Booth - *** - 04/07/03
Stone Reader - ***1/2 - 04/08/03
Anger Management - ** - 04/13/03
Ghosts of the Abyss - ** - 04/14/03
The Italian Job (working print, rating subject to change) - **1/2 - 04/16/03
The Good Thief - ** - 04/21/03
Bend it Like Beckham - *1/2 - 04/21/03
Confidence - ** - 04/23/03
Identity - *** - 04/28/03
Holes - *** - 04/28/03
X2 - ***1/2 - 05/02/03
Better Luck Tomorrow - *** - 05/07/03
A Mighty Wind - *** - 05/09/03
The Matrix Reloaded - **** - 05/14/03
Cowboy Bebop: The Movie - *1/2 - 05/21/03
The Dancer Upstairs - ** - 05/21/03
Down With Love - *** - 05/26/03
Bruce Almighty - *1/2 - 05/26/03
Man On The Train - *** - 05/29/03
Winged Migration - *** - 05/29/03
Finding Nemo - ***1/2 - 05/31/03
May - *** - 06/07/03
Hollywood Homicide - *1/2 - 06/14/03
Hulk - **1/2 - 06/23/03
Whale Rider - ***1/2 - 06/30/03
Capturing the Friedmans - ***1/2 - 06/30/03
Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines - *** - 07/01/03
28 Days Later - ***1/2 - 07/04/03
Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas - **1/2 - 07/04/03
The League of Extrodinary Gentlemen - *1/2 - 07/13/03
Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl - *** - 07/19/03
Bad Boys 2 - *1/2 - 07/24/03
Swimming Pool - *** - 08/11/03
Seabiscuit - *** - 08/12/03
Open Range - *** - 08/18/03
S.W.A.T. - **1/2 - 08/18/03
Spellbound - ***1/2 - 08/26/03
Dirty Pretty Things - *** - 08/26/03
Freddy vs. Jason - ** - 09/02/03
The Secret Lives of Dentists - **1/2 - 09/06/03
Thirteen - *** - 09/08/03
Lara Croft - Tomb Raider: The Craddle of Life - *** - 09/08/03
American Splendor - ***1/2 - 09/08/03
Owning Mahowny - ***1/2 - 09/11/03
The Medallion - ** - 09/15/03
Matchstick Men - *** - 09/15/03
Sweet Sixteen - ***1/2 - 09/17/03
Underworld - ** - 09/19/03
Once Upon a Time in Mexico - **1/2 - 09/21/03
Lost In Translation - *** - 09/29/03
The Rundown - *** - 10/01/03
Kill Bill: Volume I - ***1/2 - 10/10/03
Out of Time - *** - 10/16/03
Intolerable Cruelty - *** - 10/17/03
Mystic River - ***1/2 - 10/24/03
Scary Movie 3 - * - 11/03/03
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre - ** - 11/03/03
School of Rock - ***1/2 - 11/04/03
The Matrix Revolutions - *** - 11/05/03
Elf - *** - 11/09/03
Timeline - ** - 11/25/03
The Missing - **1/2 - 12/03/03
Bad Santa - *** - 12/06/03
Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World - *** - 12/09/03
The Lord of the Rings: Return of the King - ***1/2 - 12/17/03
The Last Samurai - *** - 12/20/03
Shattered Glass - ***1/2 - 12/21/03
Love Actually - *** - 12/25/03
Something's Gotta Give - **1/2 - 12/26/03
Mona Lisa Smile - ** - 12/26/03
Peter Pan - **1/2 - 12/28/03
Cold Mountain - ** - 12/30/03
House of Sand and Fog - ***1/2 - 12/30/03
Big Fish - *** - 01/04/04
The Barbarian Invasions - ***1/2 - 01/08/04
21 Grams - *** - 01/26/04
In America - ***1/4 - 01/31/04
Monster - ***1/2 - 01/31/04
2003 eligible (video)
Basic - ** - 09/04/03
Head of State - * - 09/06/03
Raising Victor Vargas - *** - 09/15/03
Stevie - ***1/2 - 10/05/03
The Shape of Things - ***1/2 - 10/10/03
Bulletproof Monk - *1/2 - 10/12/03
Ineligible seen in theaters
Metropolis (restored) - **** - 01/09/02
Martin Koerber and the FW Murnau Foundation's reconstruction of Fritz Lang's influencial film is so far the closest thing we'll see to Lang's original vision. While the newly added title cards make the film seem more disjointed and awkward in pacing, it also goes to show Lang's enormous ambition in subplots. The restored print is glorious, and the original musical score that Lang had wanted is a vast improvement over Giorgio Moroder's pop soundtrack. Metropolis is both anti left and right, but it's in my opinion that it is more anti left than right; nevertheless, the film offers an abundance of ideas, as well as its visionary and incrediable influence on all movies to come afterward. Its power only increases with this restoration, and more than ever, it stands as a true milestone of motion pictures.
Beauty and the Beast (La Belle et la bête) - ***1/2 - 01/15/03
The Evil Dead - *** - 03/24/03
Dead Alive - *** - 03/24/03
Le Cercle Rouge - *** - 03/25/03
Ratcatcher - *** - 03/26/03
Movie Crazy: The Best of Harold Lloyd, at the LACMA
Safety Last - **** - 03/28/03
An Eastern Westerner - **** - 03/28/03
Grandma's Boy - ***1/2 - 03/28/03
The Freshman - ***1/2 - 03/29/03
Movie Crazy - *** - 03/29/03
----------------------------------------------------------
Ali: Fear Eats the Soul - ***1/2 - 03/30/03
Robin Hood: Men In Tights - *** - 11/15/03
Seen for the first time
Summer of Sam (1999, Lee) ***....Meet John Doe (1941, Capra) ***
The Night of The Hunter (1955, Laughton) ***1/2....Tokyo Story (1953, Ozu) ****
Out of the Past (1947, Tourneur) ***....Los Olvidados (1950, Bunuel) ***1/2
Ugetsu (1953, Mizoguchi) ***1/2....Strange Brew (1983, Moranis and Thomas) **1/2
His Girl Friday (1940, Hawks) ***1/2....Shadows (1959, Cassavetes)***1/2
Beauty and the Beast (La Belle et la bête, 1946, Cocteau) ***1/2....Valley Girl (1983, Coolidge) **
American Movie (1999, Smith) ***1/2....28 Up (1985, Apted) ****
The Horse Thief (1986, Tian) ***....La Règle du jeu (1939, Renoir) ****
Belle De Jour (1967, Buñuel) ***1/2....The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie (1972, Buñuel) ***1/2 An Autumn Afternoon (1962, Ozu) ****....All About Eve (1950, Mankiewicz) ****
Rhapsody in August (1991, Kurosawa) ***1/2....The Firemen's Ball (1968, Forman) ***
"Don't Look Now" (1973, Roeg) ***....Walkabout (1971, Roeg) ***
The Boxer (1997, Sheridan) ***....Matador (1986, Almodóvar) **1/2
L'ami de mon amie (1987, Rohmer) ***1/2....Strike! (1925, Eisenstein) ****
Floating Weeds (Ukigusa) (1959, Ozu) ***1/2....Tabu (1931, Murnau) ***
Naked (1993, Leigh) ***....Tokyo Olympiad (1965, Ichikawa) ***1/2
Repo Man (1984, Cox) *1/2....Central Station' ('Central do Brasil) (1998, Salles) ***1/2
Henry V (1944, Olivier) ***....The Celebration (Festen) (1998, Vinterberg) ****
Spider Baby (1964, Hill) **1/2....She Wore a Yellow Ribbon (1949, Ford) ***
Hamlet (1948, Olivier) ***1/2....Happy Accidents (2000, Anderson) ***1/2
McCabe & Mrs. Miller (1971, Altman) **1/2....The Mission (1986, Joffe) ***
Dead Alive (1992, Jackson) ***....The Treasure of Sierra Madre (1948, Huston) ***1/2
Duck Soup (1933, McCarey) ***1/2....Le Cercle Rouge (1970, Melville) ***
The African Queen (1951, Huston) ***....Le Samourai (1967, Melville) ****
Ratcatcher (1999, Ramsey) ***....Chimes At Midnight (1965, Welles) ***
Safety Last (1923, Taylor and Newmeyer) ****....An Eastern Westerner (short, 1920, Roach) ****
Grandma's Boy (1922, Newmeyer) ***1/2....The Freshman (1925, Taylor and Newmeyer) ***1/2
Movie Crazy (1932, Bruckman) ***....Days of Being Wild (A Fei jing juen) (1991, Wong) ***1/2
Ali: Fear Eats the Soul (1974, Fassbinder) ***1/2....The Grey Fox (1982, Borsos) ***
The King of Comedy (1983, Scorsese) ***1/2....Better Off Dead (1985, Holland) **1/2
The Ghost and Mrs. Muir (1947, Mankiewicz) ***1/2....The Sea Wolf (1941, Curtiz) ***
42 Up (1998, Apted) ****....4 Little Girls (1997, Lee) ***1/2
October (1927, Aleksandrov and Eisenstein) ***....Frenzy (1972, Hitchcock) ***1/2
Andrei Rublev (1969, Tarkovsky) ***....MASH (1970, Altman) ***
Saboteur (1942, Hitchcock) ***....A Perfect World (1993, Eastwood) ***1/2
The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (1943, Powell and Pressburger) ****....Apache (1954, Aldrich) ** George Washington (2000, Green) ***1/2....Trouble in Paradise (1932, Lubitsch) ****
Fallen Angels (1995, Wong) **1/2....The Passion of Joan of Arc (1928, Dreyer) ****
I Am Cuba (1964, Kalatozov) ***1/2....A Little Princess (1995, Cuaron) ***
Un Flic (1972, Melville) **1/2....I Know Where I'm Going (1945, Powell and Pressburger) ***1/2
No Way Out (1987, Donaldson) **1/2....Human Condition I (1959, Kobayashi) ***1/2
101 Reykjavík (2000, Kormakur) **1/2....Human Condition II (1959, Kobayashi) ***1/2
Time Out (L'Emploi du temps) (2001, Cantet) ***1/2....Wages of Fear (1953, Clouzot) ***1/2
My Life As A Dog (1985, Hallström) ***1/2....Rock 'n' Roll High School (1979, Arkush) **
Equilibrium (2002, Wimmer) **1/2....That Obscure Object of Desire (1977, Buñuel) ***1/2
Human Condition III (1961, Kobayashi) ***1/2....The Son's Room (2001, Moretti) ****
Diary of a Chambermaid (1964, Buñuel) ***....Aguirre: The Wrath of God (1973, Herzog) ****
Infra-Man (1975, Shan) **....The Man Who Would Be King (1975, Huston) **1/2
Jules and Jim (1962, Truffaut) ***1/2....Stolen Kisses (1968, Truffaut) ***
Gone in 60 Seconds (2000, Sena) **1/2....Bed and Board (1970, Truffaut) ***
Love on the Run (1979, Truffaut) ***....Stalag 17 (1953, Wilder) ***1/2
Giant (1956, Stevens) **1/2....Shoot the Piano Player (1960, Truffaut) ***1/2
The Vanishing (1988, Sluizer) ***....The Red Violin (1998, Girard) ***
Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988, Zemeckis) ***1/2....For A Few Dollars More (1965, Leone) ****
Thirty Two Short Films About Glenn Gould (1994, Girard) **1/2....Ninotchka (1939, Lubisch) ***
Happy Together (1997, Wong) ***....8 Femmes (2002, Ozon) ***
Rain (2001, Jeffs) ***1/2....Laputa: Castle in the Sky (1986, Miyazaki) ***
Hana-bi (1997, Kitano) ***....It Happened One Night (1934, Capra) ***1/2
Swing Time (1936, Stevens) ***1/2....Suspicion (1941, Hitchcock) ***
The Three Musketeers (1948, Sidney) **....Black and White **1/2 (1999, Tobak)
Fulltime Killer (2001, To) **....The Grifters (1990, Frears) ***
Shallow Grave (1994, Boyle) ***1/2....Before Sunrise (1995, Linklater) ***1/2
Cool Hand Luke (1967, Rosenberg) ***1/2....The Sting (1973, Hill) ***1/2
?bout de souffle (1960, Godard) **1/2....Deconstructing Harry (1997, Allen) ****
The Rules of Attraction (2002, Avary) **....Badlands (1973, Malick) ***1/2
Audition (2000, Miike) **1/2....In The Company of Men (1997, Labute) ***
L'Atalante (1934, Vigo) ***1/2....Bananas (1971, Allen) ***1/2
Hiroshima, mon amour (1959, Resnais) ***....Thief (1981, Mann) ***1/2
Band of Outsiders (1964, Godard) ***1/2....La Haine (1995, Kassovitz) ***1/2
Mon Oncle (1958, Tati) ***1/2....My Sassy Girl (2001, Kwak) ***
Mildred Pierce (1945, Curtiz) ***....Shallow Hal (2001, Farrley Bros.) **1/2
Shiri (1999, Kang) **....Hero (2002, Zhang) ***1/2
top films seen for the first time
1. Tokyo Story
2. 28 Up
3. Rules of the Game (La Règle du jeu)
4. All About Eve
5. Safety Last!
6. The Celebration (Festen)
7. An Autumn Afternoon
8. The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp
9. Le Samurai
10. Aguirre: The Wrath of God
11. The Passion of Joan of Arc
12. Strike!
13. The Son's Room
14. 42 Up
15. Deconstructing Harry
16. For A Few Dollars More
4 star rating system
2003 eligible seen in theaters: 94
2003 eligible seen on video: 6
total 2003 count: 100
Ineligible seen in theaters: 13
Seen for the first time (excluding 2003 titles): 144
2003 eligible (theater)
Teknolust - ** - 01/27/03
The Recruit - **1/2 - 02/05/03
Russian Ark - **1/2 - 02/15/03
All The Real Girls - *** - 02/16/03
Shanghai Knights - **1/2 - 02/19/03
DareDevil - **1/2 - 02/19/03
Lost in La Mancha - *** - 02/20/03
Dark Blue - *** - 02/21/03
Cradle 2 The Grave - *1/2 - 02/28/03
Tears of the Sun - *1/2 - 03/07/03
City Of God (Cidade de Deus) - **** - 03/08/03
He Loves Me, He Loves Me Not (?la folie... pas du tout) - *** - 03/12/03
The Son (Le Fils) - *** - 03/12/03
The Hunted - ** - 03/17/03
Nowhere In Africa - ***1/2 - 03/25/03
Irreversible - ** - 03/28/03
Phone Booth - *** - 04/07/03
Stone Reader - ***1/2 - 04/08/03
Anger Management - ** - 04/13/03
Ghosts of the Abyss - ** - 04/14/03
The Italian Job (working print, rating subject to change) - **1/2 - 04/16/03
The Good Thief - ** - 04/21/03
Bend it Like Beckham - *1/2 - 04/21/03
Confidence - ** - 04/23/03
Identity - *** - 04/28/03
Holes - *** - 04/28/03
X2 - ***1/2 - 05/02/03
Better Luck Tomorrow - *** - 05/07/03
A Mighty Wind - *** - 05/09/03
The Matrix Reloaded - **** - 05/14/03
Cowboy Bebop: The Movie - *1/2 - 05/21/03
The Dancer Upstairs - ** - 05/21/03
Down With Love - *** - 05/26/03
Bruce Almighty - *1/2 - 05/26/03
Man On The Train - *** - 05/29/03
Winged Migration - *** - 05/29/03
Finding Nemo - ***1/2 - 05/31/03
May - *** - 06/07/03
Hollywood Homicide - *1/2 - 06/14/03
Hulk - **1/2 - 06/23/03
Whale Rider - ***1/2 - 06/30/03
Capturing the Friedmans - ***1/2 - 06/30/03
Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines - *** - 07/01/03
28 Days Later - ***1/2 - 07/04/03
Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas - **1/2 - 07/04/03
The League of Extrodinary Gentlemen - *1/2 - 07/13/03
Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl - *** - 07/19/03
Bad Boys 2 - *1/2 - 07/24/03
Swimming Pool - *** - 08/11/03
Seabiscuit - *** - 08/12/03
Open Range - *** - 08/18/03
S.W.A.T. - **1/2 - 08/18/03
Spellbound - ***1/2 - 08/26/03
Dirty Pretty Things - *** - 08/26/03
Freddy vs. Jason - ** - 09/02/03
The Secret Lives of Dentists - **1/2 - 09/06/03
Thirteen - *** - 09/08/03
Lara Croft - Tomb Raider: The Craddle of Life - *** - 09/08/03
American Splendor - ***1/2 - 09/08/03
Owning Mahowny - ***1/2 - 09/11/03
The Medallion - ** - 09/15/03
Matchstick Men - *** - 09/15/03
Sweet Sixteen - ***1/2 - 09/17/03
Underworld - ** - 09/19/03
Once Upon a Time in Mexico - **1/2 - 09/21/03
Lost In Translation - *** - 09/29/03
The Rundown - *** - 10/01/03
Kill Bill: Volume I - ***1/2 - 10/10/03
Out of Time - *** - 10/16/03
Intolerable Cruelty - *** - 10/17/03
Mystic River - ***1/2 - 10/24/03
Scary Movie 3 - * - 11/03/03
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre - ** - 11/03/03
School of Rock - ***1/2 - 11/04/03
The Matrix Revolutions - *** - 11/05/03
Elf - *** - 11/09/03
Timeline - ** - 11/25/03
The Missing - **1/2 - 12/03/03
Bad Santa - *** - 12/06/03
Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World - *** - 12/09/03
The Lord of the Rings: Return of the King - ***1/2 - 12/17/03
The Last Samurai - *** - 12/20/03
Shattered Glass - ***1/2 - 12/21/03
Love Actually - *** - 12/25/03
Something's Gotta Give - **1/2 - 12/26/03
Mona Lisa Smile - ** - 12/26/03
Peter Pan - **1/2 - 12/28/03
Cold Mountain - ** - 12/30/03
House of Sand and Fog - ***1/2 - 12/30/03
Big Fish - *** - 01/04/04
The Barbarian Invasions - ***1/2 - 01/08/04
21 Grams - *** - 01/26/04
In America - ***1/4 - 01/31/04
Monster - ***1/2 - 01/31/04
2003 eligible (video)
Basic - ** - 09/04/03
Head of State - * - 09/06/03
Raising Victor Vargas - *** - 09/15/03
Stevie - ***1/2 - 10/05/03
The Shape of Things - ***1/2 - 10/10/03
Bulletproof Monk - *1/2 - 10/12/03
Ineligible seen in theaters
Metropolis (restored) - **** - 01/09/02
Martin Koerber and the FW Murnau Foundation's reconstruction of Fritz Lang's influencial film is so far the closest thing we'll see to Lang's original vision. While the newly added title cards make the film seem more disjointed and awkward in pacing, it also goes to show Lang's enormous ambition in subplots. The restored print is glorious, and the original musical score that Lang had wanted is a vast improvement over Giorgio Moroder's pop soundtrack. Metropolis is both anti left and right, but it's in my opinion that it is more anti left than right; nevertheless, the film offers an abundance of ideas, as well as its visionary and incrediable influence on all movies to come afterward. Its power only increases with this restoration, and more than ever, it stands as a true milestone of motion pictures.
Beauty and the Beast (La Belle et la bête) - ***1/2 - 01/15/03
The Evil Dead - *** - 03/24/03
Dead Alive - *** - 03/24/03
Le Cercle Rouge - *** - 03/25/03
Ratcatcher - *** - 03/26/03
Movie Crazy: The Best of Harold Lloyd, at the LACMA
Safety Last - **** - 03/28/03
An Eastern Westerner - **** - 03/28/03
Grandma's Boy - ***1/2 - 03/28/03
The Freshman - ***1/2 - 03/29/03
Movie Crazy - *** - 03/29/03
----------------------------------------------------------
Ali: Fear Eats the Soul - ***1/2 - 03/30/03
Robin Hood: Men In Tights - *** - 11/15/03
Seen for the first time
Summer of Sam (1999, Lee) ***....Meet John Doe (1941, Capra) ***
The Night of The Hunter (1955, Laughton) ***1/2....Tokyo Story (1953, Ozu) ****
Out of the Past (1947, Tourneur) ***....Los Olvidados (1950, Bunuel) ***1/2
Ugetsu (1953, Mizoguchi) ***1/2....Strange Brew (1983, Moranis and Thomas) **1/2
His Girl Friday (1940, Hawks) ***1/2....Shadows (1959, Cassavetes)***1/2
Beauty and the Beast (La Belle et la bête, 1946, Cocteau) ***1/2....Valley Girl (1983, Coolidge) **
American Movie (1999, Smith) ***1/2....28 Up (1985, Apted) ****
The Horse Thief (1986, Tian) ***....La Règle du jeu (1939, Renoir) ****
Belle De Jour (1967, Buñuel) ***1/2....The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie (1972, Buñuel) ***1/2 An Autumn Afternoon (1962, Ozu) ****....All About Eve (1950, Mankiewicz) ****
Rhapsody in August (1991, Kurosawa) ***1/2....The Firemen's Ball (1968, Forman) ***
"Don't Look Now" (1973, Roeg) ***....Walkabout (1971, Roeg) ***
The Boxer (1997, Sheridan) ***....Matador (1986, Almodóvar) **1/2
L'ami de mon amie (1987, Rohmer) ***1/2....Strike! (1925, Eisenstein) ****
Floating Weeds (Ukigusa) (1959, Ozu) ***1/2....Tabu (1931, Murnau) ***
Naked (1993, Leigh) ***....Tokyo Olympiad (1965, Ichikawa) ***1/2
Repo Man (1984, Cox) *1/2....Central Station' ('Central do Brasil) (1998, Salles) ***1/2
Henry V (1944, Olivier) ***....The Celebration (Festen) (1998, Vinterberg) ****
Spider Baby (1964, Hill) **1/2....She Wore a Yellow Ribbon (1949, Ford) ***
Hamlet (1948, Olivier) ***1/2....Happy Accidents (2000, Anderson) ***1/2
McCabe & Mrs. Miller (1971, Altman) **1/2....The Mission (1986, Joffe) ***
Dead Alive (1992, Jackson) ***....The Treasure of Sierra Madre (1948, Huston) ***1/2
Duck Soup (1933, McCarey) ***1/2....Le Cercle Rouge (1970, Melville) ***
The African Queen (1951, Huston) ***....Le Samourai (1967, Melville) ****
Ratcatcher (1999, Ramsey) ***....Chimes At Midnight (1965, Welles) ***
Safety Last (1923, Taylor and Newmeyer) ****....An Eastern Westerner (short, 1920, Roach) ****
Grandma's Boy (1922, Newmeyer) ***1/2....The Freshman (1925, Taylor and Newmeyer) ***1/2
Movie Crazy (1932, Bruckman) ***....Days of Being Wild (A Fei jing juen) (1991, Wong) ***1/2
Ali: Fear Eats the Soul (1974, Fassbinder) ***1/2....The Grey Fox (1982, Borsos) ***
The King of Comedy (1983, Scorsese) ***1/2....Better Off Dead (1985, Holland) **1/2
The Ghost and Mrs. Muir (1947, Mankiewicz) ***1/2....The Sea Wolf (1941, Curtiz) ***
42 Up (1998, Apted) ****....4 Little Girls (1997, Lee) ***1/2
October (1927, Aleksandrov and Eisenstein) ***....Frenzy (1972, Hitchcock) ***1/2
Andrei Rublev (1969, Tarkovsky) ***....MASH (1970, Altman) ***
Saboteur (1942, Hitchcock) ***....A Perfect World (1993, Eastwood) ***1/2
The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (1943, Powell and Pressburger) ****....Apache (1954, Aldrich) ** George Washington (2000, Green) ***1/2....Trouble in Paradise (1932, Lubitsch) ****
Fallen Angels (1995, Wong) **1/2....The Passion of Joan of Arc (1928, Dreyer) ****
I Am Cuba (1964, Kalatozov) ***1/2....A Little Princess (1995, Cuaron) ***
Un Flic (1972, Melville) **1/2....I Know Where I'm Going (1945, Powell and Pressburger) ***1/2
No Way Out (1987, Donaldson) **1/2....Human Condition I (1959, Kobayashi) ***1/2
101 Reykjavík (2000, Kormakur) **1/2....Human Condition II (1959, Kobayashi) ***1/2
Time Out (L'Emploi du temps) (2001, Cantet) ***1/2....Wages of Fear (1953, Clouzot) ***1/2
My Life As A Dog (1985, Hallström) ***1/2....Rock 'n' Roll High School (1979, Arkush) **
Equilibrium (2002, Wimmer) **1/2....That Obscure Object of Desire (1977, Buñuel) ***1/2
Human Condition III (1961, Kobayashi) ***1/2....The Son's Room (2001, Moretti) ****
Diary of a Chambermaid (1964, Buñuel) ***....Aguirre: The Wrath of God (1973, Herzog) ****
Infra-Man (1975, Shan) **....The Man Who Would Be King (1975, Huston) **1/2
Jules and Jim (1962, Truffaut) ***1/2....Stolen Kisses (1968, Truffaut) ***
Gone in 60 Seconds (2000, Sena) **1/2....Bed and Board (1970, Truffaut) ***
Love on the Run (1979, Truffaut) ***....Stalag 17 (1953, Wilder) ***1/2
Giant (1956, Stevens) **1/2....Shoot the Piano Player (1960, Truffaut) ***1/2
The Vanishing (1988, Sluizer) ***....The Red Violin (1998, Girard) ***
Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988, Zemeckis) ***1/2....For A Few Dollars More (1965, Leone) ****
Thirty Two Short Films About Glenn Gould (1994, Girard) **1/2....Ninotchka (1939, Lubisch) ***
Happy Together (1997, Wong) ***....8 Femmes (2002, Ozon) ***
Rain (2001, Jeffs) ***1/2....Laputa: Castle in the Sky (1986, Miyazaki) ***
Hana-bi (1997, Kitano) ***....It Happened One Night (1934, Capra) ***1/2
Swing Time (1936, Stevens) ***1/2....Suspicion (1941, Hitchcock) ***
The Three Musketeers (1948, Sidney) **....Black and White **1/2 (1999, Tobak)
Fulltime Killer (2001, To) **....The Grifters (1990, Frears) ***
Shallow Grave (1994, Boyle) ***1/2....Before Sunrise (1995, Linklater) ***1/2
Cool Hand Luke (1967, Rosenberg) ***1/2....The Sting (1973, Hill) ***1/2
?bout de souffle (1960, Godard) **1/2....Deconstructing Harry (1997, Allen) ****
The Rules of Attraction (2002, Avary) **....Badlands (1973, Malick) ***1/2
Audition (2000, Miike) **1/2....In The Company of Men (1997, Labute) ***
L'Atalante (1934, Vigo) ***1/2....Bananas (1971, Allen) ***1/2
Hiroshima, mon amour (1959, Resnais) ***....Thief (1981, Mann) ***1/2
Band of Outsiders (1964, Godard) ***1/2....La Haine (1995, Kassovitz) ***1/2
Mon Oncle (1958, Tati) ***1/2....My Sassy Girl (2001, Kwak) ***
Mildred Pierce (1945, Curtiz) ***....Shallow Hal (2001, Farrley Bros.) **1/2
Shiri (1999, Kang) **....Hero (2002, Zhang) ***1/2
top films seen for the first time
1. Tokyo Story
2. 28 Up
3. Rules of the Game (La Règle du jeu)
4. All About Eve
5. Safety Last!
6. The Celebration (Festen)
7. An Autumn Afternoon
8. The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp
9. Le Samurai
10. Aguirre: The Wrath of God
11. The Passion of Joan of Arc
12. Strike!
13. The Son's Room
14. 42 Up
15. Deconstructing Harry
16. For A Few Dollars More
post #19 of 601
1/2/03 at 8:12pm
- If a film gets an official theatrical release in the United States during the year of 2003, it is counted towards the 2003 Film List.
- If a film skips an official theatrical release in the United States and ends up going directly to video in 2003, it is still counted towards the 2003 Film List.
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LAST UPDATE: 12/22/03
TOTAL FILMS SEEN IN 2003: 63
AVERAGE RATING OF FILMS SEEN IN 2003: **¼
List of films I have seen in 2003 (in alphabetical order):
2 Fast 2 Furious / *** / PG-13 / Dir: John Singleton / Viewed: 6/06/03
28 Days Later / **** / R / Dir: Danny Boyle / Viewed: 6/28/03
100 Women / **½ / R / Dir: Michael Davis / Viewed: 4/29/03
American Wedding / *** / R / Dir: Jesse Dylan / Viewed: 8/01/03
Anatomy 2 (Anatomie 2) / *** / R / Dir: Stefan Ruzowitzky / Viewed: 10/14/03
Anger Management / * / PG-13 / Dir: Peter Segal / Viewed: 9/28/03
Bad Boys II / *** / R / Dir: Michael Bay / Viewed: 7/18/03
Bad Santa / ***½ / R / Dir: Terry Zwigoff / Viewed: 11/25/03
Bend It Like Beckham / *** / PG-13 / Dir: Gurinder Chadha / Viewed: 4/18/03
Better Luck Tomorrow / **** / R / Dir: Justin Lin / Viewed: 5/04/03
Boat Trip / * / R / Dir: Mort Nathan / Viewed: 4/08/03
Bruce Almighty / *½ / PG-13 / Dir: Tom Shadyac / Viewed: 5/24/03
Bubba Ho-Tep / **½ / R / Dir: Don Coscarelli / Viewed: 12/05/03
Bulletproof Monk / *½ / PG-13 / Dir: Paul Hunter / Viewed: 4/18/03
Cabin Fever / **** / R / Dir: Eli Roth / Viewed: 9/12/03
Camp / **** / PG-13 / Dir: Todd Graff / Viewed: 8/16/03
Cheats / *** / PG-13 / Dir: Andrew Gurland / Viewed: 3/18/03
Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle / ** / PG-13 / Dir: McG / Viewed: 7/27/03
Cradle 2 The Grave / *½ / R / Dir: Andrzek Bartkowiak / Viewed: 3/13/03
Cube 2: Hypercube / ** / R / Dir: Andrzej Sekula / Viewed: 4/05/03
Daredevil / **½ / PG-13 / Dir: Mark Steven Johnson / Viewed: 2/14/03
Dreamcatcher / * / R / Dir: Lawrence Kasdan / Viewed: 4/08/03
Dumb and Dumberer: When Harry Met Lloyd / * / PG-13 / Dir: Troy Miller / Viewed: 6/13/03
Elephant / **** / R / Dir: Gus Van Sant / Viewed: 11/29/03
Eye, The (Jian gui) / ***½ / Unrated / Dir(s): Oxide Pang Chun & Danny Pang / Viewed: 7/20/03
Final Destination 2 / **½ / R / Dir: David R. Ellis / Viewed: 2/01/03
Finding Nemo / ***½ / G / Dir(s): Andrew Stanton & Lee Unkrich / Viewed: 5/31/03
Freddy Vs. Jason / * / R / Dir: Ronny Yu / Viewed: 8/16/03
Gerry / **** / R / Dir: Gus Van Sant / Viewed: 3/28/03
Going Greek / *½ / R / Dir: Justin Zackham / Viewed: 9/01/03
Grind / *½ / PG-13 / Dir: Casey La Scala / Viewed: 8/16/03
Guy Thing, A / * / PG-13 / Dir: Chris Koch / Viewed: 1/17/03
Hollywood Homicide / * / PG-13 / Dir: Ron Shelton / Viewed: 7/24/03/
How To Lose a Guy In 10 Days / * / PG-13 / Dir: Donald Petrie / Viewed: 3/21/03
Hulk / * / PG-13 / Dir: Ang Lee / Viewed: 6/20/03
Identity / * / R / Dir: James Mangold / Viewed: 4/26/03
Italian Job, The / **½ / PG-13 / Dir: F. Gary Gray / Viewed: 5/31/03
Just Married / * / PG-13 / Dir: Shawn Levy / Viewed: 1/17/03
Kangaroo Jack / * / PG / Dir: David McNally / Viewed: 1/12/03
Kill Bill: Volume One / **** / R / Dir: Quentin Taratino / Viewed: 10/11/03
League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, The / * / PG-13 / Dir: Stephen Norrington / Viewed: 7/17/03
Legally Blonde 2: Red, White, and Blonde / *½ / PG-13 / Dir: Charles Herman / Viewed: 7/03/03
Lord of the Rings: Return of the King / ***½ / PG-13 / Dir: Peter Jackson / Viewed: 12/20/03
Lost in La Mancha / *½ / R / Dir(s): Keith Fulton and Louis Pepe / Viewed: 3/15/03
Love Actually / ***½ / R / Dir: Richard Curtis / Viewed: 11/01/03
Malibu's Most Wanted / ** / PG-13 / Dir: Adam Whitesell / Viewed: 4/18/03
Matrix Reloaded, The / **** / R / Dir(s): Andy & Larry Wachowksi / Viewed: 5/14/03
Matrix Revolutions, The / **** / R / Dir(s): Andy & Larry Wachowksi / Viewed: 11/05/03
Mighty Wind, A / *** / PG-13 / Dir: Christopher Guest / Viewed: 5/09/03
Old School / **½ / R / Dir: Todd Phillips / Viewed: 2/08/03
Once Upon a Time In Mexico / ** / R / Dir: Robert Rodriguez / Viewed: 09/28/03
Phone Booth / ***½ / R / Dir: Joel Schumacher / Viewed: 4/05/03
Pirates of the Caribbean: Curse of the Black Pearl / *** / PG-13 / Dir: Gore Verbinski / Viewed: 7/09/03
Scary Movie 3 / ** / PG-13 / Dir: David Zucker / Viewed: 10/25/03
Slap Her, She's French / *½ / PG-13 / Dir: Melanie Mayron / Viewed: 1/16/03
Sol Goode / **½ / R / Dir: Danny Comden / Viewed: 3/27/03
Spy Kids 3D: Game Over / *½ / PG / Dir: Robert Rodriguez / Viewed: 8/03/03
Suicide Club (Jisatsu circle) / ***½ / Unrated / Dir: Sion Sono / Viewed: 11/24/03
S.W.A.T. / ** / PG-13 / Dir: Clark Johnson / Viewed: 8/09/03
Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines / *** / R / Dir: Jonathan Mostow / Viewed: 7/01/03
Volcano High (Whasango) / **½ / Unrated / Dir: Tae-gyun Kim / Viewed: 3/01/03
Wrong Turn / *½ / R / Dir: Rob Schmidt / Viewed: 5/31/03
X2: X-Men United / *** / PG-13 / Dir: Bryan Singer / Viewed: 5/02/03
List of films by their star rating:
****
28 Days Later
Better Luck Tomorrow
Cabin Fever
Camp
Elephant
Gerry
Kill Bill: Volume One
Matrix Reloaded, The
Matrix Revolutions, The
***½
Bad Santa
Eye, The (Jian gui)
Finding Nemo
Lord of the Rings: Return of the King
Love Actually
Phone Booth
Suicide Club (Jisatsu circle)
***
2 Fast 2 Furious
American Wedding
Anatomy 2 (Anatomie 2)
Bad Boys II
Bend It Like Beckham
Cheats
Mighty Wind, A
Pirates of the Caribbean: Curse of the Black Pearl
Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines
X2: X-Men United
**½
100 Women
Bubba Ho-Tep
Daredevil
Final Destination 2
Italian Job, The
Old School
Sol Goode
Volcano High (Whasango)
**
Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle
Cube 2: Hypercube
Malibu's Most Wanted
Once Upon a Time In Mexico
Scary Movie 3
S.W.A.T.
*½
Bruce Almighty
Bulletproof Monk
Cradle 2 The Grave
Going Greek
Grind
Legally Blonde 2: Red, White, and Blonde
Lost in La Mancha
Slap Her, She's French
Spy Kids 3D: Game Over
Wrong Turn
*
Anger Management
Boat Trip
Dumb and Dumberer: When Harry Met Lloyd
Dreamcatcher
Freddy Vs. Jason
Guy Thing, A
Hollywood Homicide
How To Lose a Guy In 10 Days
Hulk
Identity
League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, The
Just Married
Kangaroo Jack
--END--
- If a film skips an official theatrical release in the United States and ends up going directly to video in 2003, it is still counted towards the 2003 Film List.
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LAST UPDATE: 12/22/03
TOTAL FILMS SEEN IN 2003: 63
AVERAGE RATING OF FILMS SEEN IN 2003: **¼
List of films I have seen in 2003 (in alphabetical order):
2 Fast 2 Furious / *** / PG-13 / Dir: John Singleton / Viewed: 6/06/03
28 Days Later / **** / R / Dir: Danny Boyle / Viewed: 6/28/03
100 Women / **½ / R / Dir: Michael Davis / Viewed: 4/29/03
American Wedding / *** / R / Dir: Jesse Dylan / Viewed: 8/01/03
Anatomy 2 (Anatomie 2) / *** / R / Dir: Stefan Ruzowitzky / Viewed: 10/14/03
Anger Management / * / PG-13 / Dir: Peter Segal / Viewed: 9/28/03
Bad Boys II / *** / R / Dir: Michael Bay / Viewed: 7/18/03
Bad Santa / ***½ / R / Dir: Terry Zwigoff / Viewed: 11/25/03
Bend It Like Beckham / *** / PG-13 / Dir: Gurinder Chadha / Viewed: 4/18/03
Better Luck Tomorrow / **** / R / Dir: Justin Lin / Viewed: 5/04/03
Boat Trip / * / R / Dir: Mort Nathan / Viewed: 4/08/03
Bruce Almighty / *½ / PG-13 / Dir: Tom Shadyac / Viewed: 5/24/03
Bubba Ho-Tep / **½ / R / Dir: Don Coscarelli / Viewed: 12/05/03
Bulletproof Monk / *½ / PG-13 / Dir: Paul Hunter / Viewed: 4/18/03
Cabin Fever / **** / R / Dir: Eli Roth / Viewed: 9/12/03
Camp / **** / PG-13 / Dir: Todd Graff / Viewed: 8/16/03
Cheats / *** / PG-13 / Dir: Andrew Gurland / Viewed: 3/18/03
Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle / ** / PG-13 / Dir: McG / Viewed: 7/27/03
Cradle 2 The Grave / *½ / R / Dir: Andrzek Bartkowiak / Viewed: 3/13/03
Cube 2: Hypercube / ** / R / Dir: Andrzej Sekula / Viewed: 4/05/03
Daredevil / **½ / PG-13 / Dir: Mark Steven Johnson / Viewed: 2/14/03
Dreamcatcher / * / R / Dir: Lawrence Kasdan / Viewed: 4/08/03
Dumb and Dumberer: When Harry Met Lloyd / * / PG-13 / Dir: Troy Miller / Viewed: 6/13/03
Elephant / **** / R / Dir: Gus Van Sant / Viewed: 11/29/03
Eye, The (Jian gui) / ***½ / Unrated / Dir(s): Oxide Pang Chun & Danny Pang / Viewed: 7/20/03
Final Destination 2 / **½ / R / Dir: David R. Ellis / Viewed: 2/01/03
Finding Nemo / ***½ / G / Dir(s): Andrew Stanton & Lee Unkrich / Viewed: 5/31/03
Freddy Vs. Jason / * / R / Dir: Ronny Yu / Viewed: 8/16/03
Gerry / **** / R / Dir: Gus Van Sant / Viewed: 3/28/03
Going Greek / *½ / R / Dir: Justin Zackham / Viewed: 9/01/03
Grind / *½ / PG-13 / Dir: Casey La Scala / Viewed: 8/16/03
Guy Thing, A / * / PG-13 / Dir: Chris Koch / Viewed: 1/17/03
Hollywood Homicide / * / PG-13 / Dir: Ron Shelton / Viewed: 7/24/03/
How To Lose a Guy In 10 Days / * / PG-13 / Dir: Donald Petrie / Viewed: 3/21/03
Hulk / * / PG-13 / Dir: Ang Lee / Viewed: 6/20/03
Identity / * / R / Dir: James Mangold / Viewed: 4/26/03
Italian Job, The / **½ / PG-13 / Dir: F. Gary Gray / Viewed: 5/31/03
Just Married / * / PG-13 / Dir: Shawn Levy / Viewed: 1/17/03
Kangaroo Jack / * / PG / Dir: David McNally / Viewed: 1/12/03
Kill Bill: Volume One / **** / R / Dir: Quentin Taratino / Viewed: 10/11/03
League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, The / * / PG-13 / Dir: Stephen Norrington / Viewed: 7/17/03
Legally Blonde 2: Red, White, and Blonde / *½ / PG-13 / Dir: Charles Herman / Viewed: 7/03/03
Lord of the Rings: Return of the King / ***½ / PG-13 / Dir: Peter Jackson / Viewed: 12/20/03
Lost in La Mancha / *½ / R / Dir(s): Keith Fulton and Louis Pepe / Viewed: 3/15/03
Love Actually / ***½ / R / Dir: Richard Curtis / Viewed: 11/01/03
Malibu's Most Wanted / ** / PG-13 / Dir: Adam Whitesell / Viewed: 4/18/03
Matrix Reloaded, The / **** / R / Dir(s): Andy & Larry Wachowksi / Viewed: 5/14/03
Matrix Revolutions, The / **** / R / Dir(s): Andy & Larry Wachowksi / Viewed: 11/05/03
Mighty Wind, A / *** / PG-13 / Dir: Christopher Guest / Viewed: 5/09/03
Old School / **½ / R / Dir: Todd Phillips / Viewed: 2/08/03
Once Upon a Time In Mexico / ** / R / Dir: Robert Rodriguez / Viewed: 09/28/03
Phone Booth / ***½ / R / Dir: Joel Schumacher / Viewed: 4/05/03
Pirates of the Caribbean: Curse of the Black Pearl / *** / PG-13 / Dir: Gore Verbinski / Viewed: 7/09/03
Scary Movie 3 / ** / PG-13 / Dir: David Zucker / Viewed: 10/25/03
Slap Her, She's French / *½ / PG-13 / Dir: Melanie Mayron / Viewed: 1/16/03
Sol Goode / **½ / R / Dir: Danny Comden / Viewed: 3/27/03
Spy Kids 3D: Game Over / *½ / PG / Dir: Robert Rodriguez / Viewed: 8/03/03
Suicide Club (Jisatsu circle) / ***½ / Unrated / Dir: Sion Sono / Viewed: 11/24/03
S.W.A.T. / ** / PG-13 / Dir: Clark Johnson / Viewed: 8/09/03
Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines / *** / R / Dir: Jonathan Mostow / Viewed: 7/01/03
Volcano High (Whasango) / **½ / Unrated / Dir: Tae-gyun Kim / Viewed: 3/01/03
Wrong Turn / *½ / R / Dir: Rob Schmidt / Viewed: 5/31/03
X2: X-Men United / *** / PG-13 / Dir: Bryan Singer / Viewed: 5/02/03
List of films by their star rating:
****
28 Days Later
Better Luck Tomorrow
Cabin Fever
Camp
Elephant
Gerry
Kill Bill: Volume One
Matrix Reloaded, The
Matrix Revolutions, The
***½
Bad Santa
Eye, The (Jian gui)
Finding Nemo
Lord of the Rings: Return of the King
Love Actually
Phone Booth
Suicide Club (Jisatsu circle)
***
2 Fast 2 Furious
American Wedding
Anatomy 2 (Anatomie 2)
Bad Boys II
Bend It Like Beckham
Cheats
Mighty Wind, A
Pirates of the Caribbean: Curse of the Black Pearl
Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines
X2: X-Men United
**½
100 Women
Bubba Ho-Tep
Daredevil
Final Destination 2
Italian Job, The
Old School
Sol Goode
Volcano High (Whasango)
**
Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle
Cube 2: Hypercube
Malibu's Most Wanted
Once Upon a Time In Mexico
Scary Movie 3
S.W.A.T.
*½
Bruce Almighty
Bulletproof Monk
Cradle 2 The Grave
Going Greek
Grind
Legally Blonde 2: Red, White, and Blonde
Lost in La Mancha
Slap Her, She's French
Spy Kids 3D: Game Over
Wrong Turn
*
Anger Management
Boat Trip
Dumb and Dumberer: When Harry Met Lloyd
Dreamcatcher
Freddy Vs. Jason
Guy Thing, A
Hollywood Homicide
How To Lose a Guy In 10 Days
Hulk
Identity
League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, The
Just Married
Kangaroo Jack
--END--
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2003 Film Watching List
Listing Criteria: Worldwide First Public Screening (I don't give a shit about NY/LA release dates)
Last Updated Sept 29, 2007
2003 Films: 374
Last 15 2003 Additions: I Love Your Work, Kaena: The Prophecy, Tiresia, The Brown Bunny, The Republic of Love, Rhinoceros Eyes, Witnesses, The Middle of the World, Story of Marie and Julien, The Man of the Year, The Manson Family, Good Morning, Night, Save the Green Planet!, Latter Days, Raja.
Title /Director /Rating (from 1 - 5 )
2003 Films
2 Fast 2 Furious John Singleton 3
21 Grams Alejandro González Iñárritu 3
Agent Cody Banks Harald Zwart 3
Agronomist, The Jonathan Demme 2
Aileen: Life and Death of a Serial Killer Nick Broomfield, Joan Churchill 4
Akarui Mirai (Bright Future) Kiyoshi Kurosawa 4
Alex & Emma Rob Reiner 2
Alexandra's Project Rolf de Heer 5
Alien (Director's Cut) Ridley Scott 5
Alila Amos Gitai 2
All the Real Girls David Gordon Green 2
American Splendor Shari Springer Berman, Robert Pulcini 3
American Wedding Jesse Dylan 3
Anger Management Peter Segal 2
Animatrix: The Final Flight of the Osiris, The Andy Jones 4
Anything Else Woody Allen 2
Baak Fan Baak Gam Gaau 2003 (Feel 100% 2003) Chung Shu Kai 3
Baak Nin Hiu Gap (Love for All Seasons) Johnny To, Wai Ka-Fai 2
Baau Chai Lui Pang Yau (My Dream Girl) Yip Wai-man 2
Bad Boys II Michael Bay 1
Bad Santa Terry Zwigoff 3
Basic John McTiernan 3
Bastards Mort Ransen 2
Battle of Shaker Heights, The Kyle Rankin, Efram Potelle 3
Battle Royale II: Requiem Kinji & Kenta Fukasaku 3
Beyond Borders Martin Campbell 3
Beyond Re-Animator Brian Yuzna 2
Big Fish Tim Burton 3
Biker Boyz Reggie Rock Bythewood 2
Blue Collar Comedy Tour: The Movie CB Harding 3
Bon Voyage Jean-Paul Rappeneau 3
Bonhoeffer Martin Doblmeier 3
Bright Young Things Stephen Fry 4
Bringing Down the House Adam Shankman 3
Broadway: The Golden Age, by the Legends Who Were There Rick McKay 3
Brother Bear Aaron Blaise, Robert Walker 3
Brother Outsider: The Life of Bayard Rustin Nancy D. Kates, Bennett Singer 3
Brown Bunny, The Vincent Gallo 3
Bruce Almighty Tom Shadyac 3
Bu San (Good Bye, Dragon Inn) Ming-liang Tsai 3
Bukowski: Born into This John Dullaghan 4
Bulletproof Monk Paul Hunter 2
Buongiorno, Notte (Good Morning, Night) Marco Bellocchio 3
Buppah Rahtree (Rahtree: Flower of the Night) Yuthlert Sippapak 3
Calendar Girls Nigel Cole 3
Caminho das Nuvens, O (The Middle of the World) Vicente Amorim 5
Camp Todd Graff 3
Capturing the Friedmans Andrew Jarecki 4
Carandiru Hector Babenco 2
Carolina Marleen Gorris 2
Casa de los Babys John Sayles 3
Certain Kind of Death, A Grover Babcock, Blue Hadaegh 4
Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle McG 3
Chasing Papi Linda Mendoza 2
Cheaper by the Dozen Shawn Levy 2
Chuet Chung Hiu Laam Yan (Honesty) Wong Jing 2
Chuet Chung Tit Gam Gong (The Spy Dad) Wong Jing 1
Chakushin Ari (One Missed Call) Takashi Miike 3
Code 46 Michael Winterbottom 4
Coffee and Cigarettes Jim Jarmusch 3
Cold Creek Manor Mike Figgis 2
Cold Mountain Anthony Minghella 3
Comment Ma Mère Accoucha de Moi Durant sa Ménopause (How My Mother Gave Birth to Me During Menopause) Sébastien Rose 3
Company, The Robert Altman 2
Confidence James Foley 2
Cooler, The Wayne Kramer 3
Core, The Jon Amiel 3
Corporation, The Mark Achbar, Jennifer Abbott 4
Cowards Bend the Knee Guy Maddin 3
Cradle 2 the Grave Andrzej Bartkowiak 2
Crime Spree Brad Mirman 1
Crimson Gold Jafar Panahi 3
Daai Chek Liu (Running On Karma) Johnny To, Ka-Fai Wai 2
Daai Cheung Foo (Men Suddenly in Black) Pang Ho Cheung 3
Daddy Day Care Steve Carr 3
Danny Deckchair Jeff Balsmeyer 3
Daredevil Mark Steven Johnson 1
Darkness Falls Jonathan Liebesman 3
Dead End Jean-Baptiste Andrea, Fabrice Canepa 3
Death Curse, The Cheang Pou Soi 2
Deliver Us from Eva Gary Hardwick 3
Depuis qu'Otar est Parti... (Since Otar Left) Julie Bertucelli 4
Dickie Roberts: Former Child Star Sam Weisman 3
Die Mommie Die! Mark Rucker 3
Dillo Con Parole Mie (Ginger and Cinnamon) Daniele Luchetti 3
Divorce, Le James Ivory 1
Diy Hap Ji Yan Deng Sing Tin (Fate Fighter) Steve Cheng 2
Dogville Lars von Trier 5
Dogville Confessions Sami Martin Saif 3
Dopamine Mark Decena 4
Dopperugenga (Doppelgänger) Kiyoshi Kurosawa 3
Down with Love Peyton Reed 2
Dr. Seuss' The Cat in the Hat Bo Welch 1
Dreamcatcher Lawrence Kasdan 2
Dreamers, The Bernardo Bertolucci 3
Dumb and Dumberer: When Harry Met Lloyd Troy Miller 2
Duplex Danny DeVito 3
DysFunktional Family George Gallo 1
Easy Riders/Raging Bulls: How the Sex - Drugs and Rock 'N' Roll Generation Saved Hollywood Kenneth Bowser 4
Education of Gore Vidal, The Deborah Dickson 4
Elephant Gus Van Sant 3
Elf Jon Favreau 3
Emile Carl Bessai 2
End of the Century Michael Gramaglia, Jim Fields 3
Event, The Thom Fitzgerald 3
Face Cachée de la Lune, La (Far Side of the Moon) Robert Lepage 4
Fai Din Yan Sang (City of SARS) Cheng Wai-man 2
Falling Angels Scott Smith 3
Favorite Game, The Bernar Hébert 3
Fem Benspænd, De (The Five Obstructions) Jørgen Leth, Lars von Trier 4
Festival Express Bob Smeaton 2
Fighting Temptations, The Jonathan Lynn 2
Final Destination 2 David R.Ellis 3
Finding Nemo Andrew Stanton 5
Finestra di Fronte, La (Facing Windows) Ferzan Ozpetek 2
Five Abbas Kiarostami 1
Fog of War: Eleven Lessons from the Life of Robert S. McNamara, The Errol Morris 3
Foolproof William Phillips 4
Freaky Friday Mark Waters 3
Freddy Vs. Jason Ronny Yu 4
From Justin to Kelly Robert Iscove 1
Gaz Bar Blues Louis Bélanger 3
Geschichte vom Weinenden Kamel, Die (The Story of the Weeping Camel) Byambasuren Davaa, Luigi Falorni 3
Ghosts of the Abyss James Cameron 4
Gigli Martin Brest 3
Girl with a Pearl Earring Peter Webber 4
Gods and Generals Ronald F. Maxwell 1
Gojira tai Mosura tai Mekagojira: Tôkyô S.O.S. (Godzilla: Tokyo S.O.S.) Masâki Tezuka 3
Gokudô Kyôfu Dai-gekijô: Gozu (Yakuza Horror Theatre: Gozu) Takashi Miike 4
Good Boy! John Robert Hoffman 2
Good Bye Lenin! Wolfgang Becker 4
Gospel of John, The Philip Saville 2
Gothika Mathieu Kassovitz 2
Grande Seduction, Le (Seducing Dr. Lewis) Jean-Francois Pouliot 4
Greendale Neil Young 2
Grind Casey La Scala 1
Grønne Slagtere, De (The Green Butchers) Anders Thomas Jensen 4
Guy Thing, A Chris Koch 2
Gwong Yat Cham - Tin Hau (Diva - Ah Hey) Joe Ma 3
Hak Baak Sam Lam (Colour of the Truth) Wong Jing, Marko Mak 3
Harvie Krumpet Adam Elliot 4
Hatley High Phil Price 3
Haunted Mansion, The Rob Minkoff 1
Haute Tension Alexandre Aja 3
Head of State Chris Rock 1
Hebrew Hammer, The Jonathan Kesselman 3
Hija del Canibal, La (Lucia, Lucia) Antonio Serrano 3
Histoire de Marie et Julien (Story of Marie and Julien) Jacques Rivette 2
Holes Andrew Davis 4
Hollywood Homicide Ron Shelton 2
Hollywood North Peter O'Brian 3
Homem do Ano, O (The Man of the Year) José Henrique Fonseca 3
Honey Bille Woodruff 1
Hope Springs Mark Herman 2
House of 1000 Corpses Rob Zombie 3
House of Sand and Fog Vadim Perelman 2
House of the Dead Uwe Boll 1
How to Deal Clare Kilner 3
How to Get the Man's Foot Outta Your Ass (Baadasssss!) Mario Van Peebles 4
How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days Donald Petrie 2
Hulk Ang Lee 5
Human Stain, The Robert Benton 4
Hunted, The William Friedkin 3
I Am David Paul Feig 3
I Capture the Castle Tim Fywell 2
I Love Your Work Adam Goldberg 4
Identity James Mangold 3
I'll Be There Craig Ferguson 2
I'll Sleep When I'm Dead Mike Hodges 3
In the Cut Jane Campion 3
In-Laws, The Andrew Fleming 2
Intermission John Crowley 3
Intolerable Cruelty Joel Coen 3
Invasions Barbares, Les (The Barbarian Invasions) Denys Arcand 5
Io Non Ho Paura (I'm Not Scared) Gabriele Salvatores 4
It Runs in the Family Fred Schepisi 2
Italian Job, The F. Gary Gray 4
Janghwa, Hongryeon (A Tale of Two Sisters) Ji-woon Kim 3
Japanese Story Sue Brooks 4
Jeepers Creepers II Victor Salva 4
Jeux d'enfants (Love Me If You Dare) Yann Samuell 1
Jigureul Jikyeora! (Save the Green Planet!) Joon-Hwan Jang 3
Johnny English Peter Howitt 1
Ju-on: The Grudge Takashi Shimizu 2
Jungle Book 2, The Steve Trenbirth 2
Just Married Shawn Levy 2
Kaena: La Prophétie (Kaena: The Prophecy) Chris Delaporte, Pascal Pinon 3
Kangaroo Jack David McNally 3
Kap Sze Moon Yat Goh Gei Kooi (Give Them a Chance) Herman Yau 2
Kart Racer Stuart Gillard 2
Khushi S.J. Surya 3
Kill Bill: Vol. 1 Quentin Tarantino 5
King of the Ants Stuart Gordon 3
Kontroll Nimród Antal 3
Kyon? Kis Liye? Vinod Talwar 1
Lao Fu Zi Dong Hua da Dian Ying: Fan Dou Shen Tan (Master Q: Incredible Pet Detective) To Kwok Wai 1
Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life Jan de Bont 1
Last Samurai, The Edward Zwick 3
Latter Days C. Jay Cox 2
League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, The Stephen Norrington 2
Legally Blonde 2: Red, White & Blonde Charles Herman-Wurmfeld 3
Levity Ed Solomon 3
Life of David Gale, The Alan Parker 2
Limit, The (Gone Dark) Lewin Webb 1
Little Brother of War Damon Vignale 3
Liu Sue Oi Seung Mau (Cat and Mouse) Gordon Chan 2
Lizzie McGuire Movie, The Jim Fall 2
Locals, The Greg Page 3
Looney Tunes: Back in Action Joe Dante 2
Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King, The Peter Jackson 4
Lost Boys of Sudan Megan Mylan, Jon Shenk 3
Lost in Translation Sofia Coppola 3
Love Actually Richard Curtis 4
Love Don't Cost a Thing Troy Beyer 3
Love Object Robert Parigi 4
Love, Sex & Eating the Bones Sudz Sutherland 3
Love That Boy Andrea Dorfman 4
Luen Seung Lei Dik Chong (Good Times, Bed Times) Patrick Leung, Chan Hing-ka 3
Luk Lau Hau Joh (Truth or Dare: 6th Floor Rear Flat) Wong Chun Chun 3
Lung Gam Wai 2003 (Dragon Loaded 2003) Vincent Kok 3
Luther Eric Till 3
Magical Life of Long Tack Sam, The Ann Marie Fleming 1
Malibu's Most Wanted John Whitesell 1
Mambo Italiano Émile Gaudreault 3
Man Apart, A F. Gary Gray 2
Manson Family, The Jim Van Bebber 1
Marci X Richard Benjamin 2
Masked and Anonymous Larry Charles 2
Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World Peter Weir 3
Matchstick Men Ridley Scott 4
Matrix Reloaded, The The Wachowski Brothers 4
Matrix Revolutions, The The Wachowski Brothers 3
Mayor of the Sunset Strip George Hickenlooper 3
Medallion, The Gordon Chan 3
Meglio Gioventù, La (The Best of Youth) Marco Tullio Giordana 5
Melvin Goes to Dinner Bob Odenkirk 3
Mibu Gishi Den (When the Last Sword Is Drawn) Yojiro Takita 3
Mighty Wind, A Christopher Guest 3
Missing, The Ron Howard 2
Mona Lisa Smile Mike Newell 3
Mong Bat Liu (Lost in Time) Derek Yee 2
Monsieur Ibrahim et les Fleurs du Coran François Dupeyron 4
Monster Patty Jenkins 3
Mother, The Roger Michell 3
Moving Malcolm Benjamin Ratner 2
Mudge Boy, The Michael Burke 4
Murder of Emmett Till, The Stanley Nelson 4
My Architect Nathaniel Kahn 4
My Boss's Daughter David Zucker 1
My Flesh and Blood Jonathan Karsh 1
My House in Umbria Richard Loncraine 4
My Life Without Me Isabel Coixet 3
Mystic River Clint Eastwood 4
National Security Dennis Dugan 1
Ned Kelly Gregor Jordan 2
Noam Chomsky: Rebel Without a Pause Will Pascoe 3
Normal Jane Anderson 3
Northfork Michael Polish 5
Nothing Vincenzo Natali 4
Old School Todd Phillips 1
Oldboy Chan-wook Park 5
On Loh Yue Miu Lam (Anna in Kungfu-Land) Raymond Yip 2
On the Corner Nathaniel Geary 2
Once Upon a Time in Mexico Robert Rodriguez 3
Ondskan (Evil) Mikael Håfström 4
Ong-Bak: Muay Thai Warrior Prachya Pinkaew 4
Open Range Kevin Costner 4
Open Water Chris Kentis 3
Order, The Brian Helgeland 2
Osama Siddiq Barmak 3
Otets i Syn (Father and Son) Aleksandr Sokurov 1
Out of Time Carl Franklin 3
Owning Mahowny Richard Kwietniowski 3
Party Monster Fenton Bailey, Randy Barbato 3
Pauly Shore Is Dead Pauly Shore (color=blue]3[/color]
Paycheck John Woo 2
Peter Pan P.J. Hogan 4
Pieces of April Peter Hedges 4
Piglet's Big Movie Francis Glebas 3
Pill, The Chana Gazit 3
Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl Gore Verbinski 4
Problem with Fear, A Gary Burns 2
Proteus Jack Lewis, John Greyson 4
Radio Michael Tollin 3
Rage In Placid Lake, The Tony McNamara 5
Raja Jacques Doillon 3
Real Cancun, The Rick de Oliveira 2
Recruit, The Roger Donaldson 3
Republic of Love, The Deepa Mehta 4
Rhinoceros Eyes Aaron Woodley 2
Ricordati di Me (Remember Me, My Love) Gabriele Muccino 3
Robert Capa: In Love and War Anne Makepeace 4
Round Trip Shahar Rozen 3
Ruang Rak Noi Nid Mahasan (Last Life in the Universe) Pen-Ek Ratanaruang 3
Rugrats Go Wild! Norton Virgien, John Eng 3
Runaway Jury Gary Fleder 2
Rundown, The Peter Berg 2
S21: The Khmer Rouge Killing Machine Rithy Panh 5
Saddest Music in the World, The Guy Maddin 4
Salinui Chueok (Memories of Murder) Joon-ho Bong 4
Salmer fra Kjøkkenet (Kitchen Stories) Bent Hamer 3
Sam Hon (Shiver) Billy Chung 3
San Chat Bye Mooi 2 (Love Undercover 2: Love Mission) Joe Ma 3
Saraband Ingmar Bergman 4
Sat Yik Gui Nui Wong (Why Me, Sweetie?!) Jingle Ma 3
Scary Movie 3 David Zucker 2
School of Rock, The Richard Linklater 3
Schultze Gets the Blues Michael Schorr 2
Seabiscuit Gary Ross 4
Secondhand Lions Tim McCanlies 3
Shanghai Knights David Dobkin 2
Shape of Things, The Neil LaBute 5
Shattered Glass Billy Ray 4
Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas Tim Johnson, Patrick Gilmore 2
Singing Detective, The Keith Gordon 3
Sister Blue Doug Greenall 3
Siu Nin Wong Si (Memory of the Youth) Chan Kin-Chung 3
Soldados de Salamina (Soldiers of Salamina) David Trueba 3
Something's Gotta Give Nancy Meyers 5
Son Frère Patrice Chéreau 4
Spy Kids 3-D: Game Over Robert Rodriguez 2
Statement, The Norman Jewison 3
Station Agent, The Tom McCarthy 4
Step Into Liquid Dana Brown 3
Stuck On You Bobby Farrelly, Peter Farrelly 4
Sur le Seuil (Evil Words) Éric Tessier 4
Svjedoci (Witnesses) Vinko Bresan 3
S.W.A.T. Clark Johnson 3
Swimming Pool François Ozon 3
Swimming Upstream Russell Mulcahy 4
Sylvia Christine Jeffs 2
Tarnation Jonathan Caouette 5
Tears of the Sun Antoine Fuqua 3
Temps du Loup, Le (The Time of the Wolf) Michael Haneke 5
Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines Jonathan Mostow 3
Tesseract, The Oxide Pang 3
Texas Chainsaw Massacre, The Marcus Nispel 3
Thirteen Catherine Hardwicke 3
Tibet: Cry of the Snow Lion Tom Piozet 3
Timeline Richard Donner 2
Tiresia Bertrand Bonello 3
Tokyo Godfathers Satoshi Kon 3
Touch & Go Scott Simpson 2
Touching the Void Kevin Macdonald 3
Travellers & Magicians Khyentse Norbu 2
Triplettes de Belleville, Les Sylvain Chomet 5
Tulse Luper Suitcases, Part 1: The Moab Story, The Peter Greenaway 3
Tupac: Resurrection Lauren Lazin 2
Twentynine Palms Bruno Dumont 1
Twist Jacob Tierney 3
Undead Michael Spierig, Peter Spierig 2
Under the Tuscan Sun Audrey Wells 3
Underworld Len Wiseman 2
United States of Leland, The Matthew Ryan Hoge 3
Uptown Girls Boaz Yakin 3
Veronica Guerin Joel Schumacher 3
View from the Top Bruno Barreto 3
Visitors Richard Franklin 3
Vozvrashcheniye (The Return) Andrei Zvyagintsev 5
What a Girl Wants Dennie Gordon 2
What I Want My Words To Do To You: Voices From Inside A Women's Maximum Security Prison Madeleine Gavin, Judith Katz, Gary Sunshine 3
Wheel of Time Werner Herzog 2
Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill, The Judy Irving 3
Willard Glen Morgan 4
Wonderful Days Moon-saeng Kim 3
Wonderland James Cox 2
Wrong Turn Rob Schmidt 3
X2 Bryan Singer 3
Yes Men, The Chris Smith, Dan Ollman, Sarah Price 3
Young Adam David Mackenzie 4
Young Black Stallion, The Simon Wincer 2
Zatôichi Takeshi Kitano 3
Zelary Ondrej Trojan 3
Zi Hudie (The Purple Butterfly) Ye Lou 2
Listing Criteria: Worldwide First Public Screening (I don't give a shit about NY/LA release dates)
Last Updated Sept 29, 2007
2003 Films: 374
Last 15 2003 Additions: I Love Your Work, Kaena: The Prophecy, Tiresia, The Brown Bunny, The Republic of Love, Rhinoceros Eyes, Witnesses, The Middle of the World, Story of Marie and Julien, The Man of the Year, The Manson Family, Good Morning, Night, Save the Green Planet!, Latter Days, Raja.
Title /Director /Rating (from 1 - 5 )
2003 Films
2 Fast 2 Furious John Singleton 3
21 Grams Alejandro González Iñárritu 3
Agent Cody Banks Harald Zwart 3
Agronomist, The Jonathan Demme 2
Aileen: Life and Death of a Serial Killer Nick Broomfield, Joan Churchill 4
Akarui Mirai (Bright Future) Kiyoshi Kurosawa 4
Alex & Emma Rob Reiner 2
Alexandra's Project Rolf de Heer 5
Alien (Director's Cut) Ridley Scott 5
Alila Amos Gitai 2
All the Real Girls David Gordon Green 2
American Splendor Shari Springer Berman, Robert Pulcini 3
American Wedding Jesse Dylan 3
Anger Management Peter Segal 2
Animatrix: The Final Flight of the Osiris, The Andy Jones 4
Anything Else Woody Allen 2
Baak Fan Baak Gam Gaau 2003 (Feel 100% 2003) Chung Shu Kai 3
Baak Nin Hiu Gap (Love for All Seasons) Johnny To, Wai Ka-Fai 2
Baau Chai Lui Pang Yau (My Dream Girl) Yip Wai-man 2
Bad Boys II Michael Bay 1
Bad Santa Terry Zwigoff 3
Basic John McTiernan 3
Bastards Mort Ransen 2
Battle of Shaker Heights, The Kyle Rankin, Efram Potelle 3
Battle Royale II: Requiem Kinji & Kenta Fukasaku 3
Beyond Borders Martin Campbell 3
Beyond Re-Animator Brian Yuzna 2
Big Fish Tim Burton 3
Biker Boyz Reggie Rock Bythewood 2
Blue Collar Comedy Tour: The Movie CB Harding 3
Bon Voyage Jean-Paul Rappeneau 3
Bonhoeffer Martin Doblmeier 3
Bright Young Things Stephen Fry 4
Bringing Down the House Adam Shankman 3
Broadway: The Golden Age, by the Legends Who Were There Rick McKay 3
Brother Bear Aaron Blaise, Robert Walker 3
Brother Outsider: The Life of Bayard Rustin Nancy D. Kates, Bennett Singer 3
Brown Bunny, The Vincent Gallo 3
Bruce Almighty Tom Shadyac 3
Bu San (Good Bye, Dragon Inn) Ming-liang Tsai 3
Bukowski: Born into This John Dullaghan 4
Bulletproof Monk Paul Hunter 2
Buongiorno, Notte (Good Morning, Night) Marco Bellocchio 3
Buppah Rahtree (Rahtree: Flower of the Night) Yuthlert Sippapak 3
Calendar Girls Nigel Cole 3
Caminho das Nuvens, O (The Middle of the World) Vicente Amorim 5
Camp Todd Graff 3
Capturing the Friedmans Andrew Jarecki 4
Carandiru Hector Babenco 2
Carolina Marleen Gorris 2
Casa de los Babys John Sayles 3
Certain Kind of Death, A Grover Babcock, Blue Hadaegh 4
Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle McG 3
Chasing Papi Linda Mendoza 2
Cheaper by the Dozen Shawn Levy 2
Chuet Chung Hiu Laam Yan (Honesty) Wong Jing 2
Chuet Chung Tit Gam Gong (The Spy Dad) Wong Jing 1
Chakushin Ari (One Missed Call) Takashi Miike 3
Code 46 Michael Winterbottom 4
Coffee and Cigarettes Jim Jarmusch 3
Cold Creek Manor Mike Figgis 2
Cold Mountain Anthony Minghella 3
Comment Ma Mère Accoucha de Moi Durant sa Ménopause (How My Mother Gave Birth to Me During Menopause) Sébastien Rose 3
Company, The Robert Altman 2
Confidence James Foley 2
Cooler, The Wayne Kramer 3
Core, The Jon Amiel 3
Corporation, The Mark Achbar, Jennifer Abbott 4
Cowards Bend the Knee Guy Maddin 3
Cradle 2 the Grave Andrzej Bartkowiak 2
Crime Spree Brad Mirman 1
Crimson Gold Jafar Panahi 3
Daai Chek Liu (Running On Karma) Johnny To, Ka-Fai Wai 2
Daai Cheung Foo (Men Suddenly in Black) Pang Ho Cheung 3
Daddy Day Care Steve Carr 3
Danny Deckchair Jeff Balsmeyer 3
Daredevil Mark Steven Johnson 1
Darkness Falls Jonathan Liebesman 3
Dead End Jean-Baptiste Andrea, Fabrice Canepa 3
Death Curse, The Cheang Pou Soi 2
Deliver Us from Eva Gary Hardwick 3
Depuis qu'Otar est Parti... (Since Otar Left) Julie Bertucelli 4
Dickie Roberts: Former Child Star Sam Weisman 3
Die Mommie Die! Mark Rucker 3
Dillo Con Parole Mie (Ginger and Cinnamon) Daniele Luchetti 3
Divorce, Le James Ivory 1
Diy Hap Ji Yan Deng Sing Tin (Fate Fighter) Steve Cheng 2
Dogville Lars von Trier 5
Dogville Confessions Sami Martin Saif 3
Dopamine Mark Decena 4
Dopperugenga (Doppelgänger) Kiyoshi Kurosawa 3
Down with Love Peyton Reed 2
Dr. Seuss' The Cat in the Hat Bo Welch 1
Dreamcatcher Lawrence Kasdan 2
Dreamers, The Bernardo Bertolucci 3
Dumb and Dumberer: When Harry Met Lloyd Troy Miller 2
Duplex Danny DeVito 3
DysFunktional Family George Gallo 1
Easy Riders/Raging Bulls: How the Sex - Drugs and Rock 'N' Roll Generation Saved Hollywood Kenneth Bowser 4
Education of Gore Vidal, The Deborah Dickson 4
Elephant Gus Van Sant 3
Elf Jon Favreau 3
Emile Carl Bessai 2
End of the Century Michael Gramaglia, Jim Fields 3
Event, The Thom Fitzgerald 3
Face Cachée de la Lune, La (Far Side of the Moon) Robert Lepage 4
Fai Din Yan Sang (City of SARS) Cheng Wai-man 2
Falling Angels Scott Smith 3
Favorite Game, The Bernar Hébert 3
Fem Benspænd, De (The Five Obstructions) Jørgen Leth, Lars von Trier 4
Festival Express Bob Smeaton 2
Fighting Temptations, The Jonathan Lynn 2
Final Destination 2 David R.Ellis 3
Finding Nemo Andrew Stanton 5
Finestra di Fronte, La (Facing Windows) Ferzan Ozpetek 2
Five Abbas Kiarostami 1
Fog of War: Eleven Lessons from the Life of Robert S. McNamara, The Errol Morris 3
Foolproof William Phillips 4
Freaky Friday Mark Waters 3
Freddy Vs. Jason Ronny Yu 4
From Justin to Kelly Robert Iscove 1
Gaz Bar Blues Louis Bélanger 3
Geschichte vom Weinenden Kamel, Die (The Story of the Weeping Camel) Byambasuren Davaa, Luigi Falorni 3
Ghosts of the Abyss James Cameron 4
Gigli Martin Brest 3
Girl with a Pearl Earring Peter Webber 4
Gods and Generals Ronald F. Maxwell 1
Gojira tai Mosura tai Mekagojira: Tôkyô S.O.S. (Godzilla: Tokyo S.O.S.) Masâki Tezuka 3
Gokudô Kyôfu Dai-gekijô: Gozu (Yakuza Horror Theatre: Gozu) Takashi Miike 4
Good Boy! John Robert Hoffman 2
Good Bye Lenin! Wolfgang Becker 4
Gospel of John, The Philip Saville 2
Gothika Mathieu Kassovitz 2
Grande Seduction, Le (Seducing Dr. Lewis) Jean-Francois Pouliot 4
Greendale Neil Young 2
Grind Casey La Scala 1
Grønne Slagtere, De (The Green Butchers) Anders Thomas Jensen 4
Guy Thing, A Chris Koch 2
Gwong Yat Cham - Tin Hau (Diva - Ah Hey) Joe Ma 3
Hak Baak Sam Lam (Colour of the Truth) Wong Jing, Marko Mak 3
Harvie Krumpet Adam Elliot 4
Hatley High Phil Price 3
Haunted Mansion, The Rob Minkoff 1
Haute Tension Alexandre Aja 3
Head of State Chris Rock 1
Hebrew Hammer, The Jonathan Kesselman 3
Hija del Canibal, La (Lucia, Lucia) Antonio Serrano 3
Histoire de Marie et Julien (Story of Marie and Julien) Jacques Rivette 2
Holes Andrew Davis 4
Hollywood Homicide Ron Shelton 2
Hollywood North Peter O'Brian 3
Homem do Ano, O (The Man of the Year) José Henrique Fonseca 3
Honey Bille Woodruff 1
Hope Springs Mark Herman 2
House of 1000 Corpses Rob Zombie 3
House of Sand and Fog Vadim Perelman 2
House of the Dead Uwe Boll 1
How to Deal Clare Kilner 3
How to Get the Man's Foot Outta Your Ass (Baadasssss!) Mario Van Peebles 4
How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days Donald Petrie 2
Hulk Ang Lee 5
Human Stain, The Robert Benton 4
Hunted, The William Friedkin 3
I Am David Paul Feig 3
I Capture the Castle Tim Fywell 2
I Love Your Work Adam Goldberg 4
Identity James Mangold 3
I'll Be There Craig Ferguson 2
I'll Sleep When I'm Dead Mike Hodges 3
In the Cut Jane Campion 3
In-Laws, The Andrew Fleming 2
Intermission John Crowley 3
Intolerable Cruelty Joel Coen 3
Invasions Barbares, Les (The Barbarian Invasions) Denys Arcand 5
Io Non Ho Paura (I'm Not Scared) Gabriele Salvatores 4
It Runs in the Family Fred Schepisi 2
Italian Job, The F. Gary Gray 4
Janghwa, Hongryeon (A Tale of Two Sisters) Ji-woon Kim 3
Japanese Story Sue Brooks 4
Jeepers Creepers II Victor Salva 4
Jeux d'enfants (Love Me If You Dare) Yann Samuell 1
Jigureul Jikyeora! (Save the Green Planet!) Joon-Hwan Jang 3
Johnny English Peter Howitt 1
Ju-on: The Grudge Takashi Shimizu 2
Jungle Book 2, The Steve Trenbirth 2
Just Married Shawn Levy 2
Kaena: La Prophétie (Kaena: The Prophecy) Chris Delaporte, Pascal Pinon 3
Kangaroo Jack David McNally 3
Kap Sze Moon Yat Goh Gei Kooi (Give Them a Chance) Herman Yau 2
Kart Racer Stuart Gillard 2
Khushi S.J. Surya 3
Kill Bill: Vol. 1 Quentin Tarantino 5
King of the Ants Stuart Gordon 3
Kontroll Nimród Antal 3
Kyon? Kis Liye? Vinod Talwar 1
Lao Fu Zi Dong Hua da Dian Ying: Fan Dou Shen Tan (Master Q: Incredible Pet Detective) To Kwok Wai 1
Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life Jan de Bont 1
Last Samurai, The Edward Zwick 3
Latter Days C. Jay Cox 2
League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, The Stephen Norrington 2
Legally Blonde 2: Red, White & Blonde Charles Herman-Wurmfeld 3
Levity Ed Solomon 3
Life of David Gale, The Alan Parker 2
Limit, The (Gone Dark) Lewin Webb 1
Little Brother of War Damon Vignale 3
Liu Sue Oi Seung Mau (Cat and Mouse) Gordon Chan 2
Lizzie McGuire Movie, The Jim Fall 2
Locals, The Greg Page 3
Looney Tunes: Back in Action Joe Dante 2
Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King, The Peter Jackson 4
Lost Boys of Sudan Megan Mylan, Jon Shenk 3
Lost in Translation Sofia Coppola 3
Love Actually Richard Curtis 4
Love Don't Cost a Thing Troy Beyer 3
Love Object Robert Parigi 4
Love, Sex & Eating the Bones Sudz Sutherland 3
Love That Boy Andrea Dorfman 4
Luen Seung Lei Dik Chong (Good Times, Bed Times) Patrick Leung, Chan Hing-ka 3
Luk Lau Hau Joh (Truth or Dare: 6th Floor Rear Flat) Wong Chun Chun 3
Lung Gam Wai 2003 (Dragon Loaded 2003) Vincent Kok 3
Luther Eric Till 3
Magical Life of Long Tack Sam, The Ann Marie Fleming 1
Malibu's Most Wanted John Whitesell 1
Mambo Italiano Émile Gaudreault 3
Man Apart, A F. Gary Gray 2
Manson Family, The Jim Van Bebber 1
Marci X Richard Benjamin 2
Masked and Anonymous Larry Charles 2
Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World Peter Weir 3
Matchstick Men Ridley Scott 4
Matrix Reloaded, The The Wachowski Brothers 4
Matrix Revolutions, The The Wachowski Brothers 3
Mayor of the Sunset Strip George Hickenlooper 3
Medallion, The Gordon Chan 3
Meglio Gioventù, La (The Best of Youth) Marco Tullio Giordana 5
Melvin Goes to Dinner Bob Odenkirk 3
Mibu Gishi Den (When the Last Sword Is Drawn) Yojiro Takita 3
Mighty Wind, A Christopher Guest 3
Missing, The Ron Howard 2
Mona Lisa Smile Mike Newell 3
Mong Bat Liu (Lost in Time) Derek Yee 2
Monsieur Ibrahim et les Fleurs du Coran François Dupeyron 4
Monster Patty Jenkins 3
Mother, The Roger Michell 3
Moving Malcolm Benjamin Ratner 2
Mudge Boy, The Michael Burke 4
Murder of Emmett Till, The Stanley Nelson 4
My Architect Nathaniel Kahn 4
My Boss's Daughter David Zucker 1
My Flesh and Blood Jonathan Karsh 1
My House in Umbria Richard Loncraine 4
My Life Without Me Isabel Coixet 3
Mystic River Clint Eastwood 4
National Security Dennis Dugan 1
Ned Kelly Gregor Jordan 2
Noam Chomsky: Rebel Without a Pause Will Pascoe 3
Normal Jane Anderson 3
Northfork Michael Polish 5
Nothing Vincenzo Natali 4
Old School Todd Phillips 1
Oldboy Chan-wook Park 5
On Loh Yue Miu Lam (Anna in Kungfu-Land) Raymond Yip 2
On the Corner Nathaniel Geary 2
Once Upon a Time in Mexico Robert Rodriguez 3
Ondskan (Evil) Mikael Håfström 4
Ong-Bak: Muay Thai Warrior Prachya Pinkaew 4
Open Range Kevin Costner 4
Open Water Chris Kentis 3
Order, The Brian Helgeland 2
Osama Siddiq Barmak 3
Otets i Syn (Father and Son) Aleksandr Sokurov 1
Out of Time Carl Franklin 3
Owning Mahowny Richard Kwietniowski 3
Party Monster Fenton Bailey, Randy Barbato 3
Pauly Shore Is Dead Pauly Shore (color=blue]3[/color]
Paycheck John Woo 2
Peter Pan P.J. Hogan 4
Pieces of April Peter Hedges 4
Piglet's Big Movie Francis Glebas 3
Pill, The Chana Gazit 3
Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl Gore Verbinski 4
Problem with Fear, A Gary Burns 2
Proteus Jack Lewis, John Greyson 4
Radio Michael Tollin 3
Rage In Placid Lake, The Tony McNamara 5
Raja Jacques Doillon 3
Real Cancun, The Rick de Oliveira 2
Recruit, The Roger Donaldson 3
Republic of Love, The Deepa Mehta 4
Rhinoceros Eyes Aaron Woodley 2
Ricordati di Me (Remember Me, My Love) Gabriele Muccino 3
Robert Capa: In Love and War Anne Makepeace 4
Round Trip Shahar Rozen 3
Ruang Rak Noi Nid Mahasan (Last Life in the Universe) Pen-Ek Ratanaruang 3
Rugrats Go Wild! Norton Virgien, John Eng 3
Runaway Jury Gary Fleder 2
Rundown, The Peter Berg 2
S21: The Khmer Rouge Killing Machine Rithy Panh 5
Saddest Music in the World, The Guy Maddin 4
Salinui Chueok (Memories of Murder) Joon-ho Bong 4
Salmer fra Kjøkkenet (Kitchen Stories) Bent Hamer 3
Sam Hon (Shiver) Billy Chung 3
San Chat Bye Mooi 2 (Love Undercover 2: Love Mission) Joe Ma 3
Saraband Ingmar Bergman 4
Sat Yik Gui Nui Wong (Why Me, Sweetie?!) Jingle Ma 3
Scary Movie 3 David Zucker 2
School of Rock, The Richard Linklater 3
Schultze Gets the Blues Michael Schorr 2
Seabiscuit Gary Ross 4
Secondhand Lions Tim McCanlies 3
Shanghai Knights David Dobkin 2
Shape of Things, The Neil LaBute 5
Shattered Glass Billy Ray 4
Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas Tim Johnson, Patrick Gilmore 2
Singing Detective, The Keith Gordon 3
Sister Blue Doug Greenall 3
Siu Nin Wong Si (Memory of the Youth) Chan Kin-Chung 3
Soldados de Salamina (Soldiers of Salamina) David Trueba 3
Something's Gotta Give Nancy Meyers 5
Son Frère Patrice Chéreau 4
Spy Kids 3-D: Game Over Robert Rodriguez 2
Statement, The Norman Jewison 3
Station Agent, The Tom McCarthy 4
Step Into Liquid Dana Brown 3
Stuck On You Bobby Farrelly, Peter Farrelly 4
Sur le Seuil (Evil Words) Éric Tessier 4
Svjedoci (Witnesses) Vinko Bresan 3
S.W.A.T. Clark Johnson 3
Swimming Pool François Ozon 3
Swimming Upstream Russell Mulcahy 4
Sylvia Christine Jeffs 2
Tarnation Jonathan Caouette 5
Tears of the Sun Antoine Fuqua 3
Temps du Loup, Le (The Time of the Wolf) Michael Haneke 5
Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines Jonathan Mostow 3
Tesseract, The Oxide Pang 3
Texas Chainsaw Massacre, The Marcus Nispel 3
Thirteen Catherine Hardwicke 3
Tibet: Cry of the Snow Lion Tom Piozet 3
Timeline Richard Donner 2
Tiresia Bertrand Bonello 3
Tokyo Godfathers Satoshi Kon 3
Touch & Go Scott Simpson 2
Touching the Void Kevin Macdonald 3
Travellers & Magicians Khyentse Norbu 2
Triplettes de Belleville, Les Sylvain Chomet 5
Tulse Luper Suitcases, Part 1: The Moab Story, The Peter Greenaway 3
Tupac: Resurrection Lauren Lazin 2
Twentynine Palms Bruno Dumont 1
Twist Jacob Tierney 3
Undead Michael Spierig, Peter Spierig 2
Under the Tuscan Sun Audrey Wells 3
Underworld Len Wiseman 2
United States of Leland, The Matthew Ryan Hoge 3
Uptown Girls Boaz Yakin 3
Veronica Guerin Joel Schumacher 3
View from the Top Bruno Barreto 3
Visitors Richard Franklin 3
Vozvrashcheniye (The Return) Andrei Zvyagintsev 5
What a Girl Wants Dennie Gordon 2
What I Want My Words To Do To You: Voices From Inside A Women's Maximum Security Prison Madeleine Gavin, Judith Katz, Gary Sunshine 3
Wheel of Time Werner Herzog 2
Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill, The Judy Irving 3
Willard Glen Morgan 4
Wonderful Days Moon-saeng Kim 3
Wonderland James Cox 2
Wrong Turn Rob Schmidt 3
X2 Bryan Singer 3
Yes Men, The Chris Smith, Dan Ollman, Sarah Price 3
Young Adam David Mackenzie 4
Young Black Stallion, The Simon Wincer 2
Zatôichi Takeshi Kitano 3
Zelary Ondrej Trojan 3
Zi Hudie (The Purple Butterfly) Ye Lou 2
post #21 of 601
1/3/03 at 2:30am
Weinberg's 2003 Movie List!
I've divided my list into the following four sections:
I. Films already released theatrically in 2003:
II. Direct-to-video (or TV/cable) movies released in 2003:
III. Festival/Foreign Flicks Destined for a 2003 (or future) release:
I. Films released theatrically in 2003: (265 total)
(Numeric rating after the titles is my star rating, on a 1 - 5 scale.)
2 Fast 2 Furious (1) Dir: John Singleton / Release Date: June 6th / Universal
21 Grams (4.5) Dir: Alejandro Inarritu / Release Date: Nov. 21st / Focus
28 Days Later (5) Dir: Danny Boyle / Release Date: June 27th / Fox Searchlight
Agent Cody Banks (2) Dir: Harald Zwart / Release Date: March 14th / MGM
Alex and Emma (1.5) Dir: Rob Reiner / Release Date: June 20th / Warner
All the Real Girls (4.5) Dir: David Gordon Green / Release Date: Feb. 14th / Sony Pictures Classics
American Splendor (3.5) Dir: Shari Springer Berman & Robert Pulcini / Release Date: Aug. 15th / Fine Line Features
American Wedding (3.5) Dir: Jesse Dylan / Release Date: Aug. 1st / Universal
The Anarchist Cookbook (3) Dir: Jordan Susman / Release Date: July 18th / Innovation
Anger Management (1) Dir: Peter Segal / Release Date: April 11th / Columbia
Anything Else (1.5) Dir: Woody Allen / Release Date: Sept. 19th / Dreamworks
Assassination Tango (4) Dir: Robert Duvall / Release Date: March 28th / MGM
Bad Boys 2 (1) Dir: Michael Bay / Release Date: July 18th / Columbia
Bad Santa (4) Dir: Terry Zwigoff / Release Date: Nov. 26th / Miramax
Balseros (4.5) Dir: Carlos Bosch & David Trueba / Release Date: July 23rd / Seventh Art
The Barbarian Invasions (4) Dir: Denys Arcand / Release Date: Nov. 21st / Miramax
Basic (2) Dir: John McTiernan / Release Date: March 28th / Columbia
The Battle of Shaker Heights (2) Dir: Efram Potelle & Kyle Rankin / Release Date: Aug. 22nd / Miramax
Bend It Like Beckham (3) Dir: Gurinder Chadha / Release Date: March 12th / Fox Searchlight
Better Luck Tomorrow (3) Dir: Justin Lin / Release Date: April 11th / Paramount Classics
Beyond Borders (1.5) Dir: Martin Campbell / Release Date: Oct. 24th / Paramount
The Big Empty (2.5) Dir: Steve Anderson / Release Date: Nov. 14th / Artisan
Big Fish (5) Dir: Tim Burton / Release Date: Dec. 10th / Columbia
Biker Boyz (1) Dir: Reggie Rock Bythewood / Release Date: Jan. 31st / Dreamworks
Blind Spot: Hitler's Secretary (4} Dir: Andre Heller & Othmar Schmiderer / Release Date: Jan. 24th / Sony Pictures Classics
Blue Car (3.5) Dir: Karen Moncrieff / Release Date: April 25th / Miramax
Boat Trip (0.5) Dir: Mort Nathan / Release Date: March 21st / Artisan
Bringing Down the House (1) Dir: Adam Shankman / Release Date: March 7th / Touchstone
Brother Bear (2) Dir: Aaron Blaise & Robert Walker / Release Date: Nov. 1st / Disney
Bruce Almighty (2) Dir: Tom Shadyac / Release Date: May 23rd / Universal
Bubba Ho-tep (4.5) Dir: Don Coscarelli / Release Date: Sept. 19th / Vitagraph
Buffalo Soldiers (4) Dir: Gregor Jordan / Release Date: July 25th / Miramax
Bulletproof Monk (2) Dir: Paul Hunter / Release Date: April 16th / MGM
Cabin Fever (5) Dir: Eli Roth / Release Date: September 12th / Lion's Gate
Calendar Girls (3) Dir: Nigel Cole / Release Date: Dec. 19th / Touchstone
Camp (2.5) Dir: Todd Graff / Release Date: July 25th / IFC
Capturing the Friedmans (4) Dir: Andrew Jarecki / Release Date: June 13th / Magnolia
Carnage (3) Dir: Delphine Gleize / Release Date: Sept. 5th / Wellspring
Casa De Los Babys (3.5) Dir: John Sayles / Release Date: Sept. 19th / IFC
The Cat in the Hat (1) Dir: Bo Welch / Release Date: Nov. 21st / Universal
Chaos (4.5) Dir: Coline Serreau / Release Date: January 29th / New Yorker
Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle (2.5) Dir: McG / Release Date: June 27th / Columbia
Charlotte Sometimes (3.5) Dir: Eric Byler / Release Date: May 2nd / Sundance
Chasing Papi (2.5) Dir: Linda Mendoza / Release Date: April 16th / 20th Century Fox
Cheaper by the Dozen (3) Dir: Shawn Levy / Release Date: Dec. 25th / Fox
Cinemania (2) Dir: Angela Christlieb / Release Date: May 16th / Wellspring
City of Ghosts (2) Dir: Matt Dillon / Release Date: April 25th / MGM
City of God (5) Dir: Fernando Meirelles / Release Date: Jan. 17th / Miramax
Civil Brand (2) Dir: Neema Barnette / Release Date: August 29th / Lion's Gate
Cold Creek Manor (1.5) Dir: Mike Figgis / Release Date: Sept. 19th / Touchstone
Cold Mountain (3.5) Dir: Anthony Minghella / Release Date: Dec. 25th / Miramax
Confidence (3.5) Dir: James Foley / Release Date: April 25th / Lion's Gate
Controlled Chaos (3.5) Dir: Azita Zendel / Release Date: June 4th / Lovestreaks
The Cooler (4) Dir: Wayne Kramer / Release Date: Nov. 26th / Lion's Gate
The Core (2.5) Dir: Jon Amiel / Release Date: March 28th / Paramount
Cowboy Bebop: The Movie (4.5) Dir: Shinichirô Watanabe / Release Date: April 4th / Destination
Cradle 2 the Grave (2.5) Dir: Andrzej Bartkowiak / Release Date: Feb. 28th / Warner
Cremaster 3 (1.5) Dir: Matthew Barney / Release Date: April 25th / Glacier Field
Daddy Day Care (1.5) Dir: Steve Carr / Release Date: May 9th / Columbia
The Dancer Upstairs (3.5) Dir: John Malkovich / Release Date: May 2nd / Fox Searchlight
Daredevil (2.5) Dir: Mark Steven Johnson / Release Date: Feb 14th / 20th Century Fox
Dark Blue (4) Dir: Ron Shelton / Release Date: Feb. 21st / MGM
Darkness Falls (1.5) Dir: Jonathan Liebesman / Release Date: Jan 24th / Columbia
A Decade Under the Influence (3.5) Dir: Ted Demme & Richard LaGravenese / Release Date: April 25th / IFC
Deliver Us from Eva (2.5) Dir: Gary Hardwick / Release Date: Feb. 7th / Focus
Demonlover (2.5) Dir: Olivier Assayas / Release Date: Sept. 19th / Palm
Dickie Roberts: Former Child Star (1.5) Dir: Sam Weisman / Release Date: Sept. 5th / Paramount
Die, Mommie, Die (2.5) Dir: Mark Rucker / Release Date: Oct. 31st / Sundance
Dirty Pretty Things (4.5) Dir: Stephen Frears / Release Date: July 18th / Miramax
Dopamine (4) Dir: Mark Decena / Release Date: Oct. 10th / Sundance
Down and Out with the Dolls (3) Dir: Kurt Voss / Release Date: March 21st / Indican
Down with Love (4) Dir: Peyton Reed / Release Date: May 16th / 20th Century Fox
Dracula: Pages from a Virgin's Diary (3.5) Dir: Guy Maddin / Release Date: May 14th / Zeitgeist
Dreamcatcher (2) Dir: Lawrence Kasdan / Release Date: March 21st / Warner
Dumb and Dumberer: When Harry Met Lloyd (1.5) Dir: Troy Miller / Release Date: June 13th / New Line
Dummy (4.5) Dir: Greg Pritikin / Release Date: Sept. 12th / Artisan
Duplex (1.5) Dir: Danny DeVito / Release Date: Sept. 26th / Miramax
DysFunktional Family (3) Dir: George Gallo / Release Date: April 4th / Miramax
Elephant (4) Dir: Gus Van Sant / Release Date: Oct. 24th / Fine Line
Elf (4) Dir: Jon Favreau / Release Date: Nov. 7th / New Line
Expiration (4) Dir: Gavin Heffernan / Release Date: Sept. 25th / Sunchaser
The Eye (3.5) Dir: Pang Brothers / Release Date: June 6th / Palm
The Fighting Temptations (1) Dir: Jonathan Lynn / Release Date: Sept. 19th / Paramount
Final Destination 2 (3.5) Dir: David R. Ellis / Release Date: Jan. 31st / New Line
Finding Nemo (4.5) Dir: Andrew Stanton / Release Date: May 30th / Disney
The Fog of War (4.5) Dir: Errol Morris / Release Date: Dec. 19th / Sony Pictures Classics
Freaky Friday (3.5) Dir: Mark S. Waters / Release Date: Aug. 6th / Disney
Freddy vs. Jason (3) Dir: Ronny Yu / Release Date: Aug. 15th / New Line
From Justin to Kelly (0.5) Dir: Robert Iscove / Release Date: June 20th / 20th Century Fox
Fulltime Killer (4) Dir: Johnny To & Ka-Fai Wai / Release Date: March 21st / Palm
Garage Days (2.5) Dir: Alex Proyas / Release Date: July 18th / Fox Searchlight
Gerry (2.5) Dir: Gus Van Sant / Release Date: Feb. 14th / ThinkFilm
Ghosts of the Abyss (4) Dir: James Cameron / Release Date: April 11th / Disney
Gigantic: A Tale of Two Johns (4) Dir: A.J. Schnack / Release Date: May 23rd / Cowboy
Gigli (1) Dir: Martin Brest / Release Date: Aug. 1st / Columbia
Girl With a Pearl Earring (3) Dir: Peter Webber / Release Date: Dec. 12th / Lion's Gate
Girls Will Be Girls (2.5) Dir: Richard Day / Release Date: Oct. 10th / IFC
Gloomy Sunday (4) Dir: Rolf Schubel / Release Date: Nov. 7th / Arrow
Gods and Generals (2.5) Dir: Ronald Maxwell / Release Date: Feb. 21st / Warner
Good Boy! (2.5) Dir: John Hoffman / Release Date: Oct. 10th / MGM
The Good Thief (4) Dir: Neil Jordan / Release Date: April 2nd / Fox Searchlight
Gothika (2) Dir: Mathieu Kassovitz / Release Date: Nov. 21st / Warner
Grind (1) Dir: Casey La Scala / Release Date: Aug. 15th / Warner
The Guru (2.5) Dir: Daisy von Scherler Mayer / Release Date: Jan. 31st / Universal
A Guy Thing (1.5) Dir: Chris Koch / Release Date: Jan. 17th / MGM
The Guys (3.5) Dir: Jim Simpson / Release Date: April 4th / Focus
The Hard Word (3.5) Dir: Scott Roberts / Release Date: June 13th / Lion's Gate
The Haunted Mansion (2) Dir: Rob Minkoff / Release Date: Nov. 26th / Disney
He Loves Me... He Loves Me Not (4) Dir: Laetitia Colombani / Release Date: Feb. 14th / IDP
Head of State (1.5) Dir: Chris Rock / Release Date: March 28th / Dreamworks
The Hebrew Hammer (4) Dir: Jonathan Kesselman / Release Date: Dec. 19th / Strand
Hell's Highway: The True Story of Highway Safety Films (4) Dir: Bret Wood / Release Date: June 27th / Kino
Holes (4) Dir: Andrew Davis / Release Date: April 18th / Disney
Hollywood Homicide (1.5) Dir: Ron Shelton / Release Date: June 13th / Columbia
Home Room (3) Dir: Paul F. Ryan / Release Date: Sept. 5th / Innovation
Honey (1) Dir: Bille Woodruff / Release Date: Dec. 5th / Universal
House of 1,000 Corpses (1.5) Dir: Rob Zombie / Release Date: April 11th / Lion's Gate
House of Sand and Fog (5) Dir: Vadim Perelman / Release Date: Dec. 19th / Dreamworks
The House of the Dead (1.5) Dir: Uwe Boll / Release Date: Oct. 10th / Artisan
How to Deal (1.5) Dir: Clare Kilner / Release Date: July 18th / New Line
How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days (1.5) Dir: Donald Petrie / Release Date: Feb. 7th / Paramount
Hulk (4) Dir: Ang Lee / Release Date: June 20th / Universal
The Human Stain (2.5) Dir: Robert Benton / Release Date: Oct. 31st / Miramax
The Hunted (2.5) Dir: William Friedkin / Release Date: March 14th / Paramount
I Capture the Castle (3.5) Dir: Tim Fywell / Release Date: July 11th / Samuel Goldwyn
Identity (4.5) Dir: James Mangold / Release Date: April 25th / Columbia
In America (5) Dir: Jim Sheridan / Release Date: November 26th / Fox Searchlight
In the Cut (3) Dir: Jane Campion / Release Date: Oct. 31st / Screen Gems
The In-Laws (1.5) Dir: Andrew Fleming / Release Date: May 23rd / Warner
Intolerable Cruelty (4) Dir: Joel Coen / Release Date: Oct. 10th / Universal
Irreversible (4.5) Dir: Gaspar Noe / Release Date: March 7th / Lion's Gate
It Runs in the Family (1.5) Dir: Fred Schepisi / Release Date: April 25th / MGM & Disney
The Italian Job (4) Dir: F. Gary Gray / Release Date: May 30th / Paramount
Japanese Story (2) Dir: Sue Brooks / Release Date: Dec. 31st / Samuel Goldwyn
Jeepers Creepers 2 (2) Dir: Victor Salva / Release Date: Aug. 29th / MGM
Johnny English (3) Dir: Peter Howitt / Release Date: July 18th / Universal
The Jungle Book 2 (1.5) Dir: Steve Trenbirth / Release Date: Feb. 14th / Disney
Just Married (1.5) Dir: Shawn Levy / Release Date: Jan. 10th / 20th Century Fox
Kangaroo Jack (1.5) Dir: David McNally / Release Date: Jan. 17th / 20th Century Fox
Kill Bill: Volume 1 (4.5) Dir: Quentin Tarantino / Release Date: Oct. 10th / Miramax
Km. 0 - Kilometer Zero (3) Dir: Yolanda Garcia Serrano & Juan Luis Iborra / Release Date: July 11th / TLA
Lara Croft: Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life (1.5) Dir: Jan de Bont / Release Date: July 25th / Paramount
The Last Samurai (4.5) Dir: Edward Zwick / Release Date: Dec. 5th / Warner
Laurel Canyon (3) Dir: Lisa Cholodenko / Release Date: March 7th / Sony Pictures Classics
The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (2) Dir: Stephen Norrington / Release Date: July 11th / 20th Century Fox
Legally Blonde 2: Red, White & Blonde (1.5) Dir: Charles Herman-Wurmfeld / Release Date: July 2nd / MGM
Levity (3) Dir: Ed Solomon / Release Date: April 4th / Columbia
The Life of David Gale (2) Dir: Alan Parker / Release Date: Feb 21st / Paramount
Lilja 4-ever (4.5) Dir: Lukas Moodysson / Release Date: April 18th / Newmarket
The Lizzie McGuire Movie (2) Dir: Jim Fall / Release Date: May 2nd / Disney
Lockdown (2.5) Dir: John Luessenhop / Release Date: Feb. 14th / Palm
Looney Tunes: Back in Action (4) Dir: Joe Dante / Release Date: Nov. 14th / Warner Bros.
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (5) Dir: Peter Jackson / Release Date: Dec. 17th / New Line
Lost in La Mancha (4) Dir: Keith Fulton & Louis Pepe / Release Date: Jan. 31st / IFC
Lost in Translation (5) Dir: Sofia Coppola / Release Date: Sept. 12th / Focus
Love Actually (3) Dir: Richard Curtis / Release Date: Nov. 7th / Universal
Love Don't Cost a Thing (1.5) Dir: Troy Beyer / Release Date: Dec. 12th / Warner
Luther (3.5) Dir: Eric Till / Release Date: Sept. 26th / MGM
The Magdalene Sisters (4) Dir: Peter Mullan / Release Date: Aug. 1st / Miramax
Malibu's Most Wanted (3.5) Dir: Adam Whitesell / Release Date: April 18th / Warner
Mambo Italiano (3.5) Dir: Emile Gaudreault / Release Date: Sept. 26th / Samuel Goldwyn
A Man Apart (2.5) Dir: F. Gary Gray / Release Date: April 4th / New Line
The Man on the Train (4) Dir: Patrice Leconte / Release Date: May 9th / Paramount Classics
The Man Without a Past (3.5) Dir: Aki Kaurismäki / Release Date: April 4th / Columbia
Marci X (1.5) Dir: Richard Benjamin / Release Date: Aug. 22nd / Paramount
Martin & Orloff (3.5) Dir: Lawrence Blume / Release Date: Nov. 7th / Harlem
Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World (4) Dir: Peter Weir / Release Date: Nov. 14th / Fox
Matchstick Men (3.5) Dir: Ridley Scott / Release Date: Sept. 12th / Warner
The Matrix Reloaded (5) Dir: Andy & Larry Wachowksi / Release Date: May 15th / Warner
The Matrix Revolutions (4) Dir: Andy & Larry Wachowksi / Release Date: Nov. 5th / Warner
May (5) Dir: Lucky McKee / Release Date: June 6th / Lion's Gate
The Medallion (2) Dir: Gordon Chan / Release Date: Aug. 22nd / Screen Gems
Melvin Goes to Dinner (4.5) Dir: Bob Odenkirk / Release Date: Nov. 14th / Showtime
A Mighty Wind (4.5) Dir: Christopher Guest / Release Date: April 16th / Warner
Millennium Actress (4) Dir: Satoshi Kon / Release Date: Sept. 12th / Dreamworks
The Missing (3.5) Dir: Ron Howard / Release Date: Nov. 26th / Sony
Mona Lisa Smile (3) Dir: Mike Newell / Release Date: Dec. 19th / Columbia
Monster (3.5) Dir: Patty Jenkins / Release Date: Dec. 24th / Newmarket
My Boss's Daughter (1.5) Dir: David Zucker / Release Date: Aug. 22nd / Dimension
My Life Without Me (2.5) Dir: Isabel Coixet / Release Date: Sept. 26th / Sony Pictures Classics
Mystic River (3.5) Dir: Clint Eastwood / Release Date: Oct. 8th / Warner
National Lampoon Presents Dorm Daze (1.5) Dir: David & Scott Hillenbrand / Release Date: Sept. 26th / 120 Degrees Films
National Security (0.5) Dir: Dennis Dugan / Release Date: Jan. 17th / Columbia
No Good Deed (2.5) Dir: Bob Rafelson / Release Date: Sept. 12th / Seven Arts
Northfork (2.5) Dir: Michael Polish / Release Date: July 11th / Paramount Classics
Nowhere in Africa (4) Dir: Caroline Link / Release Date: March 7th / Columbia
Old School (1.5) Dir: Todd Phillips / Release Date: Feb. 21st / Dreamworks
Once Upon a Time in Mexico (3) Robert Rodriguez / Release Date: Sept. 12th / Columbia & Dimension
Only the Strong Survive (3) Dir: Chris Hegedus / Release Date: May 9th / Miramax
Open Range (4) Dir: Kevin Costner / Release Date: Aug. 15th / Touchstone
The Order (1.5) Dir: Brian Helgeland / Release Date: Sept. 5th / 20th Century Fox
Out of Time (4) Dir: Carl Franklin / Release Date: Oct. 3rd / MGM
Owning Mahowney (3) Dir: Richard Kwietniowski / Release Date: May 2nd / Sony Pictures Classics
Party Monster (2) Dir: Fenton Bailey & Randy Barbato / Release Date: Sept. 5th / Contentfilm
Paycheck (3.5) Dir: John Woo / Release Date: Dec. 25th / Paramount
People I Know (3) Dir: Daniel Algrant / Release Date: April 25th / Miramax
Peter Pan (3) Dir: P.J. Hogan / Release Date: Dec. 25th / Universal
Phone Booth (4) Dir: Joel Schumacher / Release Date: April 4th / 20th Century Fox
Pieces of April (4) Dir: Peter Hedges / Release Date: Oct. 17th / MGM
Piglet's Big Movie (2.5) Dir: Francis Glebas / Release Date: March 21st / Disney
Pirates of the Caribbean: Curse of the Black Pearl (5) Dir: Gore Verbinski / Release Date: July 9th / Disney
Poolhall Junkies (2.5) Dir: Gregory 'Mars' Martin / Release Date: Feb. 28th / Samuel Goldwyn
Prey for Rock & Roll (3.5) Dir: Alex Steyermark / Release Date: Oct. 3rd / MAC
Pride and Prejudice (2.5) Dir: Andrew Black / Release Date: Dec. 5th / Excel
The Princess Blade (3) Dir: Shinsuke Sato / Release Date: Aug. 8th / ADV Films
Radio (1) Dir: Michael Tollin / Release Date: Oct. 24th / Columbia
Raising Victor Vargas (4.5) Dir: Peter Sollett / Release Date: March 28th / Fireworks
The Real Cancun (0.5) Dir: Rick de Oliveira / Release Date: April 25th / New Line
The Recruit (2.5) Dir: Roger Donaldson / Release Date: Jan. 31st / Touchstone
Returner (2.5) Dir: Takashi Yamazaki / Release Date: Oct. 17th / Columbia TS
The Revolution Will Not Be Televised (4) Dir: Kim Bartley & Donnacha O'Brian / Release Date: Nov. 5th / Vitagraph
Runaway Jury (3.5) Dir: Gary Fleder / Release Date: Oct. 17th / 20th Century Fox
The Rundown (4) Dir: Peter Berg / Release Date: Sept. 26th / Universal
Russian Ark (3.5) Dir: Aleksandr Sokurov / Release Date: Jan. 10th / Wellspring
The Safety of Objects (3) Dir: Rose Troche / Release Date: March 7th / IFC
Scary Movie 3 (2) Dir: David Zucker / Release Date: Oct. 24th / Dimension
School of Rock (4) Dir: Richard Linklater / Release Date: Oct. 3rd / Paramount
Seabiscuit (3) Dir: Gary Ross / Release Date: July 25th / Universal
Secondhand Lions (3) Dir: Tim McCanlies / Release Date: Sept. 19th / New Line
The Secret Lives of Dentists (4) Dir: Alan Rudolph / Release Date: Aug. 1st / Manhattan
Shanghai Knights (2) Dir: David Dobkin / Release Date: Feb. 7th / Touchstone
Shattered Glass (4.5) Dir: Billy Ray / Release Date: Nov. 14th / Lion's Gate
The Shape of Things (4) Dir: Neil LaBute / Release Date: May 9th / Focus
Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas (2.5) Dir: Patrick Gilmore & Tim Johnson / Release Date: July 2nd / Dreamworks
So Close (3.5) Dir: Corey Yuen / Release Date: Sept. 12th / Columbia
Something's Gotta Give (3) Dir: Nancy Meyers / Release Date: Dec. 12th / Columbia
Spellbound (5) Dir: Stephen Blitz / Release Date: April 30th / ThinkFilm
Spider (4.5) Dir: David Cronenberg / Release Date: Feb. 28th / Sony Pictures Classics
Spun (0.5) Dir: Jonas Akerlund / Release Date: March 14th / Newmarket
Spy Kids 3-D: Game Over (2) Dir: Robert Rodriguez / Release Date: July 25th / Dimension
The Station Agent (4.5) Dir: Thomas McCarthy / Release Date: Oct. 3rd / Miramax
Stevie (4) Dir: Steve James / Release Date: April 11th / Lion's Gate
Stoked: The Rise and Fall of Gator (3) Dir: Helen Stickler / Release Date: Aug. 22nd / Palm
Stuck on You (2.5) Dir: Bobby & Peter Farrelly / Release Date: Dec. 12th / Fox
Super Sucker (2.5) Dir: Jeff Daniels / Release Date: Jan. 24th / Purple Rose
Suspended Animation (2) Dir: John D. Hancock / Release Date: Oct. 31st / First Run
S.W.A.T. (2) Dir: Clark Johnson / Release Date: Aug. 8th / Columbia
Sweet Sixteen (3.5) Dir: Ken Loach / Release Date: May 16th / Lion's Gate
Swimming Pool (3.5) Dir: Francois Ozon / Release Date: July 2nd / Focus
Sylvia (2) Dir: Christine Jeffs / Release Date: Oct. 17th / Focus
Tears of the Sun (2) Dir: Antoine Fuqua / Release Date: March 7th / Columbia
Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines (3.5) Dir: Jonathan Mostow / Release Date: July 2nd / Warner
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (4.5) Dir: Marcus Nispel / Release Date: Oct. 17th / New Line
Thirteen (2.5) Dir: Catherine Hardwicke / Release Date: Aug. 20th / Fox
Till Human Voices Wake Us (4) Dir: Michael Petroni / Release Date: Feb. 21st / Paramount
Timeline (2) Dir: Richard Donner / Release Date: Nov. 26th / Paramount
To Be and To Have (4.5) Dir: Nicolas Philibert / Release Date: Sept. 5th / New Yorker
The Triplets of Belleville (4.5) Dir: Sylvain Chomet / Release Date: Nov. 26th / Sony Pictures Classics
Tupac: Resurrection (3) Dir: Lauren Lazin / Release Date: Nov. 14th / Paramount
Under the Tuscan Sun (3) Dir: Audrey Wells / Release Date: Sept. 26th / Touchstone
Underworld (3) Dir: Len Wiseman / Release Date: Sept. 19th / Screen Gems
Uptown Girls (2) Dir: Boaz Yakin / Release Date: August 15th / Rated PG-13 / MGM
Valley of Tears (3.5) Dir: Hart Perry / Release Date: Nov. 28th / Seven Arts
Veronica Guerin (3) Dir: Joel Schumacher / Release Date: Oct. 17th / Touchstone
View from the Top (2) Dir: Bruno Barreto / Release Date: March 21st / Miramax
Washington Heights (3.5} Dir: Alfredo De Villa / Release Date: May 9th / MAC
Whale Rider (4) Dir: Niki Caro / Release Date: June 6th / Newmarket
What a Girl Wants (2) Dir: Dennie Gordon / Release Date: April 4th / Warner Bros.
Willard (3) Dir: Glen Morgan / Release Date: March 14th / New Line
Winged Migration (4.5) Dir: Jacques Perrin, Jacques Cluzaud & Michel Debats / Release Date: April 18th / Sony Pictures Classics
Wonderland (3) Dir: James Cox / Release Date: Oct. 3rd / Lion's Gate
Wrong Turn (2.5) Dir: Rob Schmidt / Release Date: May 30th / 20th Century Fox
X-Men 2 (4.5) Dir: Bryan Singer / Release Date: May 2nd / 20th Century Fox
XX/XY (3.5) Dir: Austin Chick / Release Date: April 11th / IFC)
Zero Day (3.5) Dir: Ben Coccio / Release Date: Sept. 3rd / Avatar
II. Direct-to-video (or TV/cable) movies released in 2003: (92 total)
29 Palms (2) Dir: Leonardo Ricagni / Release Date: Aug. 19th / Artisan
Absolon (1) Dir: David Barto / Release Date: Dec. 16th / Lion's Gate
Alien Hunter (1.5) Dir: Ron Krauss / Release Date: July 19th / Columbia
The Animatrix (4) Dir: several / Release Date: June 3rd / Warner
Arachnia (3.5) Dir: Brett Piper / Release Date: August 5th / MTI
Avenging Angelo (2) Dir: Martyn Burke / Release Date: May 20th / Columbia
Barbarian (1.5) Dir: John O'Halloran / Release Date: June 24th / New Concorde
Behind the Camera: The Unauthorized Story of Three's Company (2.5) Dir: Jason Ensler / Release Date: May 5th / NBC
Belly of the Beast (1.5) Dir: Siu-Tung Ching / Release Date: Dec. 30th / Columbia
Beyond Re-Animator (3.5) Dir: Brian Yuzna / Release Date: Dec. 30th / Lion's Gate
Bionicle: Mask of Light (2) Dir: David Molina & Terry Shakespeare / Release Date: Sept. 16th / Buena Vista
Blood Feast 2: All U Can Eat (2) Dir: Herschell Gordon Lewis / Release Date: July 29th / Ventura
Bog Creatures (1) Dir: J. Christian Ingvordsen / Release Date: March 4th / MTI
The Bone Snatcher (1) Dir: Jason Wulfsohn / Release Date: Dec. 23rd / First Look
The Boys of 2nd Street Park (4) Dir: Ron Berger & Dan Klores / Release Date: Sept. 28th / Showtime
Burning Down the House (2) Dir: Philippe Mora / Release Date: April 24th / Vanguard
Cannibal Rollerbabes (1.5) Dir: Kalman Szegvary / Release Date: Aug. 26th / Wildfire
The Challenge (1) Dir: Craig Shapiro / Release Date: Nov. 15th / Warner Bros.
Cheerleader Massacre (1) Dir: Jim Wynorski / Release Date: April 8th / Califilm
Cheerleader Ninjas (2} Dir: Kevin Campbell / Release Date: Nov. 25th / Lion's Gate
Consequence (2) Dir: Anthony Hickox / Release Date: July 11th / Warner Bros.
Crime 101 (3.5) Dir: Robert Sarkies / Release Date: May 13th / New Concorde
Crime Spree (2.5) Dir: Brad Mirman / Release Date: Dec. 23rd / Paramount
Cube 2: Hypercube (3) Dir: Andrzej Sekula / Release Date: April 15th / Lion's Gate
Detour (2) Dir: Steven Taylor / Release Date: Dec. 2nd / MTI
The Diary of Ellen Rimbauer (2) Dir: Craig R. Baxley / Release Date: May 12th / Lion's Gate
Director's Cut (3.5) Dir: Eric Stacey / Release Date: August 1st / Landfall
Dirty Deeds (3.5) Dir: David Caesar / Release Date: Nov. 4th / Paramount
Double Vision (2) Dir: Chen-Kuo Fu / Release Date: Aug. 5th / Columbia
Dracula 2: Ascension (2.5) Dir: Patrick Lussier / Release Date: June 7th / Dimension
Easy Riders, Raging Bulls (5) Dir: Kenneth Bowser / Release Date: March 9th / Trio
The Education of Gore Vidal (3) Dir: Deborah Dickson / Release Date: July 30th / PBS
Eternal Blood (3.5) Dir: Jorge Olguin / Release Date: June 24th / MTI
Faust: Love of the Damned (2.5) Dir: Brian Yuzna / Release Date: Sept. 9th / Trimark
Finder's Fee (2.5) Dir: Jeff Probst / Release Date: Oct. 28th / Lion's Gate
Flag Wars (3.5) Dir: Linda Goode-Bryant & Laura Poitras / Release Date: June 17th / PBS
The Foreigner (1) Dir: Michael Oblowitz / Release Date: June 3rd / Columbia
Genius (2.5) Dir: B.A. / Release Date: May 20th / MTI
George of the Jungle 2 (2) Dir: David Grossman / Release Date: Oct. 21st / Disney
Ghost Rig (3.5) Dir: Julian Kean / Release Date: July 1st / MTI
Hangman's Curse (2) Dir: Rafal Zielinski / Release Date: Sept. 12th / Fox
The Hitcher 2: I've Been Waiting (2) Dir: Louis Morneau / Release Date: July 15th / Universal
Horror (3.5) Dir: Dante Tomaselli / Release Date: May 27th / Elite
Hunting Humans (2) Dir: Kevin Kangas / Release Date: July 28th / Redrum
Ice Crawlers (1.5) Dir: John Carl Beuchler / Release Date: July 22nd / New Concorde
Infested (1.5) Dir: Josh Olson / Release Date: Feb. 4th / Columbia
Inspector Gadget 2 (1.5) Dir: Alex Zamm / Release Date: March 8th / Disney
Interstate 60 (3) Dir: Bob Gale / Release Date: Oct. 14th / Universal
Jane White is Sick and Twisted (4) Dir: David Michael Latt / Release Date: May 6th / MTI
Jesus Christ Vampire Hunter (2) Dir: Lee Damerbre / Release Date: Jan. 28th / Odessa Filmworks
Johnstown Flood (2.5) Dir: Mark Bussler / Release Date: Aug. 26th / Inecom
The Kidnapping of Ingrid Betancourt (4) Dir: Karin Hayes & Victoria Bruce / Release Date: Auguest 22nd / HBO
Killer Me (3.5) Dir: Zachary Hansen / Release Date: July 29th / Vanguard
Killers 2: The Beast (2) Dir: David Michael Latt / Release Date: July 22nd / MTI
The Kingston High (3.5) Dir: Stephen Townsend / Release Date: March 18th / Artisan
Leprechaun: Back 2 Tha Hood (2) Dir: Steven Ayromlooi / Release Date: Dec. 30th / Lion's Gate
Lessons for an Assassin (1.5) Dir: James Glenn Dudelson / Release Date: July 8th / MTI
Long Time Dead (2) Dir: Marcus Adams / Release Date: Oct. 28th / Universal
Maniacts (2.5) Dir: C.W. Cressler / Release Date: May 27th / Redrum
Midnight Mass (1) Dir: Tony Mandile / Release Date: July 8th / Lion's Gate
Mimic: Sentinel (2.5) Dir: J.T. Petty / Release Date: Oct. 14th / Dimension
The Murder of Emmitt Till (4.5) Dir: Stanley Nelson / Release Date: Jan. 20th / PBS
Out for a Kill (1) Dir: Michael Oblowitz / Release Date: Aug. 19th / Columbia
Persona Non Grata (4) Dir: Oliver Stone / Release Date: June 23rd / HBO
Pursuit of Happiness (3) Dir: John Putch / Release Date: May 20th / MTI
Red Water (1.5) Dir: Charles Robert Carner / Aug. 17th / Columbia TS
Ring (4) Dir: Hideo Nakata / Release Date: March 4th / Universal
Run Ronnie Run! (3) Dir: Troy Miller / Release Date: Sept. 16th / New Line
Sabertooth (2) Dir: James Hickox / Release Date: May 13th / Lion's Gate
Sanitarium (1) Dir: James Eaves & Johanne Roberts / Release Date: April 8th / MTI
Sasquatch (1) Dir: Jonas Quastel / Release Date: March 11th / Columbia
Savage Harvest (1) Dir: Eric Stanze / Release Date: Jan. 28th / Sub Rosa
Scenes of the Crime (3) Dir: Dominique Forma / Release Date: Sept. 30th / Columbia
Schlock! The Secret History of American Movies (4) Dir: Ray Greene / Release Date: Dec. 2nd / Pathfinder
Sex, Secrets and Lies (1) Dir: Stan Allen / Release Date: Jan. 14th / MTI
The Shaft (2.5) Dir: Dick Maas / Release Date: May 30th / Artisan
Short Cut Road (1.5) Dir: Marc Selz / Release Date: Oct. 10th / Sub Rosa
Silent Warnings (1.5) Dir: Christian McIntire / Release Date: May 3rd / Universal
Sinful Deeds (1) Dir: Dante Giove / Release Date: Feb. 25th / MTI
Sleepless Nights (2) Dir: William Hopkins / Release Date: Nov. 11th / MTI
Sniper 2 (2.5) Dir: Craig R. Baxley / Release Date: March 11th / Columbia
Solid Cover (2) Dir: Jason Wolthuizen / Release Date: July 29th / Wildfire
Speed Demon (1) Dir: David DeCoteau / Release Date: Nov. 11th / Asylum
Stitch: The Movie (2.5) Dir: Tony Craig & Robert Gannaway / Release Date: Aug. 23rd / Disney
The Suicide Club (3) Dir: Shion Sono / Release Date: Nov. 18th / TLA
Timecop 2: The Berlin Decision (1.5) Dir: Steve Boyum / Release Date: Sept. 30th / Universal
Versus (3.5) Dir: Ryuhei Kitamura / Release Date: July 29th / Media Blasters
Webs (1) Dir: David Wu / Release Date: June 28th / Sci-Fi
Wilder (2) Dir: Rodney Gibbons / Release Date: May 13th / MTI
Wilder Days (2.5) Dir: David M. Evans / Release Date: Oct. 19th / TNT
Without Lying Down: Frances Marion and the Power of Women in Hollywood (3.5) Dir: Bridget Terry / Release Date: March 11th / Image
III. Festival/Foreign Flicks destined for a 2003 (or future) release: (22 total)
All About My Father (3.5) Dir: Even Benestad / Release Date: ? / Distributor ?
An Angel for May (4) Dir: Harley Cokeliss / Release Date: ? / Distributor ?
Civilian Casualties: Fragments from the War on Terror (2.5) Dir: Frances Anderson / Release Date: ? / Distributor ?
The Dance (3) Dir: John Darling Haynes / Release Date: ? / Distributor ?
Detective Fiction (2) Dir: Patrick Coyle / Release Date: ? / Distributor ?
Flowers (3) Dir: Kirven Blount / Release Date: ? / Distributor ?
The Haven (4) Dir: Andrew Bowen / Release Date: ? / Dreadnought
Jon E. Edwards is in Love (3) Dir: Chris Bradley & Kyle La Brache / Release Date: ? / Ripe Entertainment
Long Gone (4.5) Dir: David Eberhardt & Jack Cahill / Release Date: ? / Distributor ?
The Lucky Ones (2.5) Dir: Loren-Paul Caplin / Release Date: ? / Universal
My Life as McDull (3.5) Dir: Toe Yuen / Release Date: ? / Distributor ?
The Nature of Nicholas (2) Dir: Jeff Erbach / Release Date: ? / Distributor ?
The Original Diner Guys (2) Dir: Barry Levinson / Release Date: ? / Distributor
Sam & Joe (3.5) Dir: Jason Ruscio / Release Date: ? / Distributor ?
Scream Queen (3.5) Dir: Tatiana Bliss / Release Date: ? / Distributor ?
Second Name (2) Dir: Francisco Plaza / Release Date: ? / Distributor ?
Security (4) Dir: Brien Burroughs / Release Date: ? / Distributor ?
Sexless (2) Dir: Alex Holdridge / Release Date: ? / Distributor ?
Three and a Half (2) Dir: Boris Mojsovski / Release Date: ? / Distributor ?
The Wannabes (3.5) Dir: Nick Giannopoulis / Release Date: ? / Distributor ?
Year of the Devil (3) Dir: Petr Zelenka / Release Date: ? / Distributor ?
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Totals:
I. Films already released theatrically in 2003: 265
II. Direct-to-video (or TV/cable) movies released in 2003: 92
III. Festival/Foreign Flicks destined for a future release: 21
Grand Total: 378
Last updated: o6/11/o5
2003 Releases I'm still planning to see ASAP: Anything But Love, The Company, High Times Potluck, Hotel, Jet Lag, Le Divorce, Manic, Masked and Anonymous, P.S. Your Cat is Dead!, Rugrats Go Wild!, The Statement, Step Into Liquid, Stone Reader, The Singing Detective, Young Black Stallion, The Young Unknowns
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5 stars
28 Days Later (I)
Big Fish (I)
Cabin Fever (I)
City of God (I)
Easy Riders, Raging Bulls (II)
House of Sand and Fog (I)
In America (I)
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (I)
Lost in Translation (I)
The Matrix Reloaded (I)
May (I)
Pirates of the Caribbean: Curse of the Black Pearl (I)
Spellbound (I)
4.5 stars
21 Grams (I)
All the Real Girls (I)
Balseros (I)
Bubba Ho-tep (I)
Chaos (I)
Cowboy Bebop: The Movie (I)
Dirty Pretty Things (I)
Dummy (I)
Finding Nemo (I)
The Fog of War (I)
Identity (I)
Irreversible (I)
Kill Bill: Volume 1 (I)
The Last Samurai (I)
Lilja 4-ever (I)
Long Gone (III)
Melvin Goes to Dinner (I)
A Mighty Wind (I)
The Murder of Emmitt Till (II)
Raising Victor Vargas (I)
Shattered Glass (I)
Spider (I)
The Station Agent (I)
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (I)
To Be and To Have (I)
The Triplets of Belleville (I)
Winged Migration (I)
X-Men 2 (I)
4 stars
An Angel for May (III)
The Animatrix (II)
Assassination Tango (I)
Bad Santa (I)
The Barbarian Invasions
Blind Spot: Hitler's Secretary (I)
The Boys of 2nd Street Park (II)
Buffalo Soldiers (I)
Capturing the Friedmans (I)
The Cooler (I)
Dark Blue (I)
Dopamine (I)
Down with Love (I)
Elephant (I)
Elf (I)
Expiration (I)
Fulltime Killer (I)
Ghosts of the Abyss (I)
Gigantic: A Tale of Two Johns (I)
Gloomy Sunday (I)
The Good Thief (I)
The Haven (III)
He Loves Me... He Loves Me Not (I)
The Hebrew Hammer (II)
Hell's Highway: The True Story of the Highway Safety Film (I)
The Hole (III)
Holes (I)
Hulk (I)
Intolerable Cruelty (I)
The Italian Job (I)
Jane White Is Sick and Twisted (II)
The Kidnapping of Ingrid Betancourt (II)
Looney Tunes: Back in Action (I)
Lost in La Mancha (I)
The Magdalene Sisters (I)
The Man on the Train (I)
Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World (I)
The Matrix Revolutions (I)
Millennium Actress (I)
Nowhere in Africa (I)
Open Range (I)
Out of Time (I)
Persona Non Grata (II)
Phone Booth (I)
Pieces of April (I)
The Revolution Will Not Be Televised (I)
Ring (II)
The Rundown (I)
School of Rock (I)
The Secret Lives of Dentists (I)
Security (III)
The Shape of Things (I)
Stevie (I)
Till Human Voices Wake Us
Whale Rider (I)
3.5 stars
All About My Father (III)
American Splendor (I)
American Wedding (I)
Arachnia (II)
Beyond Re-Animator (II)
Blue Car (I)
Casa De Los Babys (I)
Charlotte Sometimes (I)
Cold Mountain (I)
Confidence (I)
Controlled Chaos (I)
Crime 101 (II)
The Dancer Upstairs (I)
A Decade Under the Influence (I)
Director's Cut (II)
Dirty Deeds (II)
Dracula: Pages from a Virgin's Diary (I)
Eternal Blood (III)
The Eye (I)
Final Destination 2 (I)
Flag Wars (II)
Freaky Friday (I)
Ghost Rig (II)
The Guys (I)
The Hard Word (I)
Horror (II)
I Capture the Castle (I)
Killer Me (II)
The Kingston High (II)
Luther (I)
Malibu's Most Wanted (I)
Mambo Italiano (I)
The Man Without a Past (I)
Martin & Orloff (I)
Matchstick Men (I)
The Missing (I)
Monster (I)
My Life as McDull (III)
Mystic River (I)
Paper Chasers (III)
Paycheck (I)
Prey for Rock & Roll (I)
Runaway Jury (I)
Russian Ark (I)
Sam & Joe (III)
Scream Queen (III)
So Close (I)
Sweet Sixteen (I)
Swimming Pool (I)
Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines (I)
Valley of Tears (I)
Versus (II)
The Wannabes (III)
Washington Heights (I)
Without Lying Down: Frances Marion and the Power of Women in Hollywood (II)
XX/XY (I)
Zero Day (I)
3 stars
Bend It Like Beckham (I)
Better Luck Tomorrow (I)
Calendar Girls (I)
Carnage (I)
Cheaper by the Dozen (I)
Cube 2: Hypercube (II)
Down and Out with the Dolls (I)
DysFunktional Family (I)
The Dance (III)
The Education of Gore Vidal (II)
Flowers (III)
Freddy vs. Jason (I)
Girl With a Pearl Earring (I)
Home Room (I)
In the Cut (I)
Interstate 60 (II)
Jon E. Edwards is in Love (III)
Johnny English (I)
Km. 0 - Kilometer Zero (I)
Laurel Canyon (I)
Levity (I)
Love Actually (I)
Mona Lisa Smile (I)
Once Upon a Time in Mexico (I)
Only the Strong Survive (I)
Owning Mahowney (I)
People I Know (I)
Peter Pan (I)
Pursuit of Happiness (II)
Run Ronnie Run! (II)
The Safety of Objects (I)
Scenes of the Crime (II)
Seabiscuit (I)
Secondhand Lions (I)
Something's Gotta Give (I)
Stoked: The Rise and Fall of Gator (I)
The Suicide Club (II)
Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance (III)
Tupac: Resurrection (I)
Under the Tuscan Sun (I)
Underworld (I)
Veronica Guerin (I)
Willard (I)
Wonderland (I)
Year of the Devil (III)
2.5 stars
Behind the Camera: The Unauthorized Story of Three's Company (II)
The Big Empty (I)
Camp (I)
Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle (I)
Chasing Papi (I)
Civilian Casualties: Fragments from the War on Terror (III)
The Core (I)
Cradle 2 the Grave (I)
Crime Spree (II)
Demonlover (I)
Daredevil (I)
[b]Die, Mommie, Die[/i] (I)
Dracula 2: Ascension (II)
Deliver Us from Eva (I)
Faust: Love of the Damned (II)
Finder's Fee (II)
Garage Days (I)
Genius (II)
Gerry (I)
Girls Will Be Girls (I)
Gods and Generals (I)
Good Boy! (I)
The Guru (I)
The Human Stain (I)
The Hunted (I)
Johnstown Flood (II)
Lockdown (I)
The Lucky Ones (III)
A Man Apart (I)
Maniacts (II)
Mimic: Sentinel (II)
My Life Without Me (I)
No Good Deed (I)
Northfork (I)
Piglet's Big Movie (I)
Poolhall Junkies (I)
Pride and Prejudice (I)
The Recruit (I)
Returner (I)
The Shaft (II)
Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas (I)
Sniper 2 (II)
Stitch: The Movie (II)
Stuck on You (I)
Super Sucker (I)
Thirteen (I)
Wilder Days (II)
Wrong Turn (I)
2 stars
Agent Cody Banks (I)
Avenging Angelo (II)
Basic (I)
The Battle of Shaker Heights (I)
Bionicle: Mask of Light (II)
Blood Feast 2: All U Can Eat (II)
Brother Bear (I)
Bruce Almighty (I)
Bulletproof Monk (I)
Burning Down the House (II)
Cheerleader Ninjas (II)
Cinemania (I)
City of Ghosts (I)
Civil Brand (I)
Consequence (II)
Detective Fiction (III)
Detour (II)
The Diary of Ellen Rimbauer (II)
Double Vision (II)
Dreamcatcher (I)
George of the Jungle 2 (II)
Gothika (I)
Hangman's Curse (II)
The Haunted Mansion (I)
The Hitcher 2: I've Been Waiting (II)
Hunting Humans (II)
Japanese Story (I)
Jeepers Creepers 2 (I)
Jesus Christ Vampire Hunter (II)
Killers 2: The Beast (II)
The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (I)
Leprechaun: Back 2 Tha Hood (II)
The Life of David Gale (I)
The Lizzie McGuire Movie (I)
Long Time Dead (II)
The Medallion (I)
The Nature of Nicholas (III)
The Original Diner Guys (III)
Party Monster (I)
Sabertooth (II)
Scary Movie 3 (I)
Second Name (III)
Sexless (III)
Shanghai Knights (I)
Sleepless Nights (II)
Solid Cover (II)
Spy Kids 3-D: Game Over (I)
Suspended Animation (I)
S.W.A.T (I)
Sylvia (I)
Tears of the Sun (I)
Three and a Half (III)
Timeline (I)
Uptown Girls (I)
View from the Top (I)
What a Girl Wants (I)
Wilder (II)
1.5 stars
Alex and Emma (I)
Alien Hunter (I)
Anything Else (I)
Barbarian (II)
Beyond Borders (I)
Cannibal Rollerbabes (II)
Cold Creek Manor (I)
Cremaster 3 (I)
Daddy Day Care (I)
Darkness Falls (I)
Dickie Roberts: Former Child Star (I)
Dumb and Dumberer: When Harry Met Lloyd (I)
Duplex (I)
A Guy Thing (I)
Head of State (I)
Hollywood Homicide (I)
House of 1,000 Corpses (I)
The House of the Dead (I)
How to Deal (I)
How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days (I)
Ice Crawlers (II)
The In-Laws (I)
Infested (II)
Inspector Gadget 2 (II)
It Runs in the Family (I)
The Jungle Book 2 (I)
Just Married (I)
Kangaroo Jack (I)
Lara Croft: Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life (I)
Legally Blonde 2: Red, White & Blonde (I)
Lessons for an Assassin (II)
Love Don't Cost a Thing (I)
Marci X (I)
My Boss's Daughter (I)
National Lampoon Presents Dorm Daze (I)
Old School (I)
The Order (I)
Red Water (II)
Short Cut Road (II)
Silent Warnings (II)
Timecop 2: The Berlin Decision (II)
1 star
2 Fast 2 Furious (I)
Absolon (II)
Anger Management (I)
Bad Boys 2 (I)
Biker Boyz (I)
Bog Creatures (II)
The Bone Snatcher (I)
Bringing Down the House (I)
The Cat in the Hat (I)
Cheerleader Massacre (II)
The Fighting Temptations (I)
The Foreigner (II)
Gigli (I)
Grind (I)
Honey (I)
Midnight Mass (II)
Out for a Kill (II)
Radio (I)
Sanitarium (II)
Sasquatch (II)
Savage Harvest (II)
Sex, Secrets and Lies (II)
Sinful Deeds (II)
Speed Demon (II)
Webs (II)
0.5 star
Boat Trip (I)
From Justin to Kelly (I)
National Security (I)
The Real Cancun (I)
Spun (I)
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Welcome to the Special Retro Center! Watch your step.
This is where I list all first-time viewings of older (anything released before 2003) movies. Here's what I got so far:
100 Girls (2001)
187 (1997)
About Adam (2001)
The Adventures of Pinocchio (1984)
American Movie: The Making of Northwestern (1999)
The American Nightmare (2001)
Animal Factory (2000)
The Anniversary Party (2001)
The Apartment (1960)
The Apple (1980)
Arctic Blue (1993)
Audition (2001)
Autumn Born (1979)
Axe (1974)
Baby Bedlam (2000)
Bamboozled (2000)
The Bank Dick (1940)
Barquero (1970)
The Beach Boys: An American Band (1985)
The Beguiled (1971)
La Belle et la Bete (1947)
Best Laid Plans (1999)
The Big Twist (1997)
Black Sunday (1977)
Black Venus (1983)
Blood Crime (2002)
Brian Wilson: I Just Wasn't Made for These Times (1995)
A Bridge Too Far (1977)
Brubaker (1980)
Bruiser (2001)
Burnt Offerings (1976)
The Business of Strangers (2001)
Caligula (1980)
Campfire Stories (2001)
Cannibal Apocalypse (1980)
Cannonball (1976)
Captain Corelli's Mandolin (2001)
Cannibal Ferox (1983)
The Case of the Whitechapel Vampire (2001)
The Cassandra Crossing (1977)
Castle of Fu Manchu (1972)
The Center of the World (2001)
Chastity ( out of 5) (1969)
Chattahoochee (1990)
Cheaters (2000)
Children of the Corn: Revelation (2001)
Chrome Soldiers (1992)
Cinema Paradiso (1990)
Citizen Ruth (1996)
Cold Steel (1987)
Comes a Horseman (1978)
The Conqueror Worm (1968)
Cousins (1989)
Crash (1997)
The Crazies (1973)
Crazy Joe (1974)
Cronos (1993)
Cut (2001)
The Day of the Dolphin (1973)
The Desperate Hours (1955)
The Devil and Daniel Webster (1941)
Devil in the Flesh (1998)
Doc (1971)
Don't Look Down (1998)
Drugstore Cowboy (1989)
The Duellists (1978)
The Eagle Has Landed (1977)
Earth vs. the Spider (2001)
Ed Gein (2001)
El Dorado (1967)
Escape Under Pressure (2000)
Esmeralda Comes by Night (1998)
Eureka (1983
eXistenZ (1999)
Exotica (1995)
The Fantastic Four (-)
A Fistful of Dynamite (1972)
The Fortune Cookie (1966)
The Four Musketeers (1974)
Foxes (1980)
Free Enterprise (1999)
Full Moon High (1981)
Fun with Dick and Jane (1977)
The Gambler (1974)
Gas Pump Girls (1979)
Gates of Heaven (1978)
The Ghoul (1934)
Girlfight (2000)
Glitter (2001)
Glory Daze (1996)
The Godsend (1980)
Hangman (2001)
Hanover Street (1979)
A Hard Day's Night (1964)
Harold and Maude (1971)
Harper Valley P.T.A. (1978)
Here We Go Round the Mulberry Bush (1968)
Hopscotch (1980)
The Hot Rock (1972)
The Hound of the Baskervilles (2001)
Howling 5: The Rebirth (1989)
Howling 6: The Freaks (1991)
I, Madman (1989)
I See a Dark Stranger (1946)
The Idiots (2000)
In July (2001)
The Independent (2001)
Into the West (1993)
Invincible (2001)
Invitation to Hell (1984)
Island of the Dead (2000)
It's a Gift (1934)
It's a Very Merry Muppet Christmas Movie (2002)
The Italian Job (1969)
Jack Frost (1964)
Jesse James Meets Frankenstein's Daughter (1966)
Jubilee (1977)
Jude (1996)
The Killers (1946)
The Killers (1964)
Killing Heat (1981)
The Ladykillers (1955)
Lakeboat (2001)
The Last Days (1999)
Last Night (1999)
The Lathe of Heaven (1980)
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow (1999)
Léon (1994)
The Lion King 2: Simba's Pride (1998)
Lionheart (1987)
Lisa (1990)
The Little Princess (1917)
Little Richard (2000)
The Lost Weekend (1945)
Louisiana Story (1948)
Love 101 (2000)
The Luzhin Defence (2001)
A Man Called Horse (1970)
The Man Called Noon (1973)
The Man from Snowy River (1982)
The Man Who Cried (2001)
Marabunta (1998)
Married People, Single Sex (1993)
Meet John Doe (1941)
Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence (1983)
Meteor (1980)
Mimic 2 (2001)
The Minus Man (1999)
Murder in Greenwich (2002)
Murder on the Orient Express (1974)
Mutant Aliens (2001)
My Best Fiend (1999)
My Little Chickadee (1940)
Nashville (1975)
Never Cry Wolf (1983)
New World Disorder (1999)
Newsies (1992)
Night of the Demon (1958)
The Night of the Hunter (1955)
Night Scream (1997)
Nineteen Eighty-Four (1985)
O (2001)
Octopus (2001)
The Offence (1973)
On the Beach (1959)
Opera (1987)
Outrage (1998)
Panic (2000)
The Paper Chase (1973)
Party Girl (1995)
The Passion of Joan of Arc (1928)
Permanent Midnight (1998)
The Pest (1997)
Pete's Dragon (1977)
Phantasm 4: Oblivion (1998)
The Phantom of the Opera (1925)
Phantom Ship (1935)
Pornstar: The Legend of Ron Jeremy (2001)
Preston Sturges: The Rise and Fall of an American Dreamer (1990)
The Price of Milk (2001)
Prince Valiant (1998)
Prom Night 3: The Last Kiss (1989)
Prom Night 4: Deliver Us From Evil (:1992)
Quatermass and the Pit (1967)
Queen Margot (1994)
The Queens of Comedy (2001)
Rabid (1977)
Raptor (2001)
The Rat Pack (1998)
Raw Meat (1972)
Razor Blade Smile (1998)
Ready to Rumble (2000)
The Return of the King (1980)
Road Games (1981)
Roadie (1980)
Rosewood (1997)
The Royal Scandal (2001)
Sam Peckinpah: Man of Iron (1993)
Scarecrow (1973)
Second Time Lucky (1984)
Sense and Sensibility (1995)
Set It Off (1996)
The Seven Year Itch (1955)
Shadows Run Black (1986)
Shinbone Alley (1971)
Shivers (1975)
A Shock to the System (1990)
The Sign of Four (2001)
Slither (1972)
A Small Circle of Friends (1980)
A Small Town in Texas (1976)
Special Report: Journey to Mars (1996)
The St. Francisville Experiment (2000)
Start the Revolution Without Me (1970)
Steal this Movie (2000)
Sullivan's Travels (1941)
Sunset Blvd. (1950)
Surviving Picasso (1996)
Susan's Plan (2000)
The Swarm (1978)
Sweet and Lowdown (1999)
Talkin' Dirty After Dark (1991)
Targets (1968)
The Tenant (1976)
Terror from the Year 5000 (1958)
Terror Train (1980)
The Three Musketeers (1973)
Throne of Blood (1957)
Tigerland (2000)
The Tomorrow Man (2001)
Tourist Trap (1979)
Town & Country (2001)
True Grit (1969)
Turbulence 3: Heavy Metal (2001)
Tuvalu (2001)
Two Minute Warning (1976)
The Ugly (2000)
Valmont (1989)
Victim (1961)
Wanda Nevada (1979)
What Planet Are You From? (2000)
The White Sheik (1952)
Wild Iris (2001)
Wilde (1998)
Witness for the Prosecution (1957)
The World's Greatest Lover (1977)
The Wrong Man (1956)
I've divided my list into the following four sections:
I. Films already released theatrically in 2003:
II. Direct-to-video (or TV/cable) movies released in 2003:
III. Festival/Foreign Flicks Destined for a 2003 (or future) release:
I. Films released theatrically in 2003: (265 total)
(Numeric rating after the titles is my star rating, on a 1 - 5 scale.)
2 Fast 2 Furious (1) Dir: John Singleton / Release Date: June 6th / Universal
21 Grams (4.5) Dir: Alejandro Inarritu / Release Date: Nov. 21st / Focus
28 Days Later (5) Dir: Danny Boyle / Release Date: June 27th / Fox Searchlight
Agent Cody Banks (2) Dir: Harald Zwart / Release Date: March 14th / MGM
Alex and Emma (1.5) Dir: Rob Reiner / Release Date: June 20th / Warner
All the Real Girls (4.5) Dir: David Gordon Green / Release Date: Feb. 14th / Sony Pictures Classics
American Splendor (3.5) Dir: Shari Springer Berman & Robert Pulcini / Release Date: Aug. 15th / Fine Line Features
American Wedding (3.5) Dir: Jesse Dylan / Release Date: Aug. 1st / Universal
The Anarchist Cookbook (3) Dir: Jordan Susman / Release Date: July 18th / Innovation
Anger Management (1) Dir: Peter Segal / Release Date: April 11th / Columbia
Anything Else (1.5) Dir: Woody Allen / Release Date: Sept. 19th / Dreamworks
Assassination Tango (4) Dir: Robert Duvall / Release Date: March 28th / MGM
Bad Boys 2 (1) Dir: Michael Bay / Release Date: July 18th / Columbia
Bad Santa (4) Dir: Terry Zwigoff / Release Date: Nov. 26th / Miramax
Balseros (4.5) Dir: Carlos Bosch & David Trueba / Release Date: July 23rd / Seventh Art
The Barbarian Invasions (4) Dir: Denys Arcand / Release Date: Nov. 21st / Miramax
Basic (2) Dir: John McTiernan / Release Date: March 28th / Columbia
The Battle of Shaker Heights (2) Dir: Efram Potelle & Kyle Rankin / Release Date: Aug. 22nd / Miramax
Bend It Like Beckham (3) Dir: Gurinder Chadha / Release Date: March 12th / Fox Searchlight
Better Luck Tomorrow (3) Dir: Justin Lin / Release Date: April 11th / Paramount Classics
Beyond Borders (1.5) Dir: Martin Campbell / Release Date: Oct. 24th / Paramount
The Big Empty (2.5) Dir: Steve Anderson / Release Date: Nov. 14th / Artisan
Big Fish (5) Dir: Tim Burton / Release Date: Dec. 10th / Columbia
Biker Boyz (1) Dir: Reggie Rock Bythewood / Release Date: Jan. 31st / Dreamworks
Blind Spot: Hitler's Secretary (4} Dir: Andre Heller & Othmar Schmiderer / Release Date: Jan. 24th / Sony Pictures Classics
Blue Car (3.5) Dir: Karen Moncrieff / Release Date: April 25th / Miramax
Boat Trip (0.5) Dir: Mort Nathan / Release Date: March 21st / Artisan
Bringing Down the House (1) Dir: Adam Shankman / Release Date: March 7th / Touchstone
Brother Bear (2) Dir: Aaron Blaise & Robert Walker / Release Date: Nov. 1st / Disney
Bruce Almighty (2) Dir: Tom Shadyac / Release Date: May 23rd / Universal
Bubba Ho-tep (4.5) Dir: Don Coscarelli / Release Date: Sept. 19th / Vitagraph
Buffalo Soldiers (4) Dir: Gregor Jordan / Release Date: July 25th / Miramax
Bulletproof Monk (2) Dir: Paul Hunter / Release Date: April 16th / MGM
Cabin Fever (5) Dir: Eli Roth / Release Date: September 12th / Lion's Gate
Calendar Girls (3) Dir: Nigel Cole / Release Date: Dec. 19th / Touchstone
Camp (2.5) Dir: Todd Graff / Release Date: July 25th / IFC
Capturing the Friedmans (4) Dir: Andrew Jarecki / Release Date: June 13th / Magnolia
Carnage (3) Dir: Delphine Gleize / Release Date: Sept. 5th / Wellspring
Casa De Los Babys (3.5) Dir: John Sayles / Release Date: Sept. 19th / IFC
The Cat in the Hat (1) Dir: Bo Welch / Release Date: Nov. 21st / Universal
Chaos (4.5) Dir: Coline Serreau / Release Date: January 29th / New Yorker
Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle (2.5) Dir: McG / Release Date: June 27th / Columbia
Charlotte Sometimes (3.5) Dir: Eric Byler / Release Date: May 2nd / Sundance
Chasing Papi (2.5) Dir: Linda Mendoza / Release Date: April 16th / 20th Century Fox
Cheaper by the Dozen (3) Dir: Shawn Levy / Release Date: Dec. 25th / Fox
Cinemania (2) Dir: Angela Christlieb / Release Date: May 16th / Wellspring
City of Ghosts (2) Dir: Matt Dillon / Release Date: April 25th / MGM
City of God (5) Dir: Fernando Meirelles / Release Date: Jan. 17th / Miramax
Civil Brand (2) Dir: Neema Barnette / Release Date: August 29th / Lion's Gate
Cold Creek Manor (1.5) Dir: Mike Figgis / Release Date: Sept. 19th / Touchstone
Cold Mountain (3.5) Dir: Anthony Minghella / Release Date: Dec. 25th / Miramax
Confidence (3.5) Dir: James Foley / Release Date: April 25th / Lion's Gate
Controlled Chaos (3.5) Dir: Azita Zendel / Release Date: June 4th / Lovestreaks
The Cooler (4) Dir: Wayne Kramer / Release Date: Nov. 26th / Lion's Gate
The Core (2.5) Dir: Jon Amiel / Release Date: March 28th / Paramount
Cowboy Bebop: The Movie (4.5) Dir: Shinichirô Watanabe / Release Date: April 4th / Destination
Cradle 2 the Grave (2.5) Dir: Andrzej Bartkowiak / Release Date: Feb. 28th / Warner
Cremaster 3 (1.5) Dir: Matthew Barney / Release Date: April 25th / Glacier Field
Daddy Day Care (1.5) Dir: Steve Carr / Release Date: May 9th / Columbia
The Dancer Upstairs (3.5) Dir: John Malkovich / Release Date: May 2nd / Fox Searchlight
Daredevil (2.5) Dir: Mark Steven Johnson / Release Date: Feb 14th / 20th Century Fox
Dark Blue (4) Dir: Ron Shelton / Release Date: Feb. 21st / MGM
Darkness Falls (1.5) Dir: Jonathan Liebesman / Release Date: Jan 24th / Columbia
A Decade Under the Influence (3.5) Dir: Ted Demme & Richard LaGravenese / Release Date: April 25th / IFC
Deliver Us from Eva (2.5) Dir: Gary Hardwick / Release Date: Feb. 7th / Focus
Demonlover (2.5) Dir: Olivier Assayas / Release Date: Sept. 19th / Palm
Dickie Roberts: Former Child Star (1.5) Dir: Sam Weisman / Release Date: Sept. 5th / Paramount
Die, Mommie, Die (2.5) Dir: Mark Rucker / Release Date: Oct. 31st / Sundance
Dirty Pretty Things (4.5) Dir: Stephen Frears / Release Date: July 18th / Miramax
Dopamine (4) Dir: Mark Decena / Release Date: Oct. 10th / Sundance
Down and Out with the Dolls (3) Dir: Kurt Voss / Release Date: March 21st / Indican
Down with Love (4) Dir: Peyton Reed / Release Date: May 16th / 20th Century Fox
Dracula: Pages from a Virgin's Diary (3.5) Dir: Guy Maddin / Release Date: May 14th / Zeitgeist
Dreamcatcher (2) Dir: Lawrence Kasdan / Release Date: March 21st / Warner
Dumb and Dumberer: When Harry Met Lloyd (1.5) Dir: Troy Miller / Release Date: June 13th / New Line
Dummy (4.5) Dir: Greg Pritikin / Release Date: Sept. 12th / Artisan
Duplex (1.5) Dir: Danny DeVito / Release Date: Sept. 26th / Miramax
DysFunktional Family (3) Dir: George Gallo / Release Date: April 4th / Miramax
Elephant (4) Dir: Gus Van Sant / Release Date: Oct. 24th / Fine Line
Elf (4) Dir: Jon Favreau / Release Date: Nov. 7th / New Line
Expiration (4) Dir: Gavin Heffernan / Release Date: Sept. 25th / Sunchaser
The Eye (3.5) Dir: Pang Brothers / Release Date: June 6th / Palm
The Fighting Temptations (1) Dir: Jonathan Lynn / Release Date: Sept. 19th / Paramount
Final Destination 2 (3.5) Dir: David R. Ellis / Release Date: Jan. 31st / New Line
Finding Nemo (4.5) Dir: Andrew Stanton / Release Date: May 30th / Disney
The Fog of War (4.5) Dir: Errol Morris / Release Date: Dec. 19th / Sony Pictures Classics
Freaky Friday (3.5) Dir: Mark S. Waters / Release Date: Aug. 6th / Disney
Freddy vs. Jason (3) Dir: Ronny Yu / Release Date: Aug. 15th / New Line
From Justin to Kelly (0.5) Dir: Robert Iscove / Release Date: June 20th / 20th Century Fox
Fulltime Killer (4) Dir: Johnny To & Ka-Fai Wai / Release Date: March 21st / Palm
Garage Days (2.5) Dir: Alex Proyas / Release Date: July 18th / Fox Searchlight
Gerry (2.5) Dir: Gus Van Sant / Release Date: Feb. 14th / ThinkFilm
Ghosts of the Abyss (4) Dir: James Cameron / Release Date: April 11th / Disney
Gigantic: A Tale of Two Johns (4) Dir: A.J. Schnack / Release Date: May 23rd / Cowboy
Gigli (1) Dir: Martin Brest / Release Date: Aug. 1st / Columbia
Girl With a Pearl Earring (3) Dir: Peter Webber / Release Date: Dec. 12th / Lion's Gate
Girls Will Be Girls (2.5) Dir: Richard Day / Release Date: Oct. 10th / IFC
Gloomy Sunday (4) Dir: Rolf Schubel / Release Date: Nov. 7th / Arrow
Gods and Generals (2.5) Dir: Ronald Maxwell / Release Date: Feb. 21st / Warner
Good Boy! (2.5) Dir: John Hoffman / Release Date: Oct. 10th / MGM
The Good Thief (4) Dir: Neil Jordan / Release Date: April 2nd / Fox Searchlight
Gothika (2) Dir: Mathieu Kassovitz / Release Date: Nov. 21st / Warner
Grind (1) Dir: Casey La Scala / Release Date: Aug. 15th / Warner
The Guru (2.5) Dir: Daisy von Scherler Mayer / Release Date: Jan. 31st / Universal
A Guy Thing (1.5) Dir: Chris Koch / Release Date: Jan. 17th / MGM
The Guys (3.5) Dir: Jim Simpson / Release Date: April 4th / Focus
The Hard Word (3.5) Dir: Scott Roberts / Release Date: June 13th / Lion's Gate
The Haunted Mansion (2) Dir: Rob Minkoff / Release Date: Nov. 26th / Disney
He Loves Me... He Loves Me Not (4) Dir: Laetitia Colombani / Release Date: Feb. 14th / IDP
Head of State (1.5) Dir: Chris Rock / Release Date: March 28th / Dreamworks
The Hebrew Hammer (4) Dir: Jonathan Kesselman / Release Date: Dec. 19th / Strand
Hell's Highway: The True Story of Highway Safety Films (4) Dir: Bret Wood / Release Date: June 27th / Kino
Holes (4) Dir: Andrew Davis / Release Date: April 18th / Disney
Hollywood Homicide (1.5) Dir: Ron Shelton / Release Date: June 13th / Columbia
Home Room (3) Dir: Paul F. Ryan / Release Date: Sept. 5th / Innovation
Honey (1) Dir: Bille Woodruff / Release Date: Dec. 5th / Universal
House of 1,000 Corpses (1.5) Dir: Rob Zombie / Release Date: April 11th / Lion's Gate
House of Sand and Fog (5) Dir: Vadim Perelman / Release Date: Dec. 19th / Dreamworks
The House of the Dead (1.5) Dir: Uwe Boll / Release Date: Oct. 10th / Artisan
How to Deal (1.5) Dir: Clare Kilner / Release Date: July 18th / New Line
How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days (1.5) Dir: Donald Petrie / Release Date: Feb. 7th / Paramount
Hulk (4) Dir: Ang Lee / Release Date: June 20th / Universal
The Human Stain (2.5) Dir: Robert Benton / Release Date: Oct. 31st / Miramax
The Hunted (2.5) Dir: William Friedkin / Release Date: March 14th / Paramount
I Capture the Castle (3.5) Dir: Tim Fywell / Release Date: July 11th / Samuel Goldwyn
Identity (4.5) Dir: James Mangold / Release Date: April 25th / Columbia
In America (5) Dir: Jim Sheridan / Release Date: November 26th / Fox Searchlight
In the Cut (3) Dir: Jane Campion / Release Date: Oct. 31st / Screen Gems
The In-Laws (1.5) Dir: Andrew Fleming / Release Date: May 23rd / Warner
Intolerable Cruelty (4) Dir: Joel Coen / Release Date: Oct. 10th / Universal
Irreversible (4.5) Dir: Gaspar Noe / Release Date: March 7th / Lion's Gate
It Runs in the Family (1.5) Dir: Fred Schepisi / Release Date: April 25th / MGM & Disney
The Italian Job (4) Dir: F. Gary Gray / Release Date: May 30th / Paramount
Japanese Story (2) Dir: Sue Brooks / Release Date: Dec. 31st / Samuel Goldwyn
Jeepers Creepers 2 (2) Dir: Victor Salva / Release Date: Aug. 29th / MGM
Johnny English (3) Dir: Peter Howitt / Release Date: July 18th / Universal
The Jungle Book 2 (1.5) Dir: Steve Trenbirth / Release Date: Feb. 14th / Disney
Just Married (1.5) Dir: Shawn Levy / Release Date: Jan. 10th / 20th Century Fox
Kangaroo Jack (1.5) Dir: David McNally / Release Date: Jan. 17th / 20th Century Fox
Kill Bill: Volume 1 (4.5) Dir: Quentin Tarantino / Release Date: Oct. 10th / Miramax
Km. 0 - Kilometer Zero (3) Dir: Yolanda Garcia Serrano & Juan Luis Iborra / Release Date: July 11th / TLA
Lara Croft: Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life (1.5) Dir: Jan de Bont / Release Date: July 25th / Paramount
The Last Samurai (4.5) Dir: Edward Zwick / Release Date: Dec. 5th / Warner
Laurel Canyon (3) Dir: Lisa Cholodenko / Release Date: March 7th / Sony Pictures Classics
The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (2) Dir: Stephen Norrington / Release Date: July 11th / 20th Century Fox
Legally Blonde 2: Red, White & Blonde (1.5) Dir: Charles Herman-Wurmfeld / Release Date: July 2nd / MGM
Levity (3) Dir: Ed Solomon / Release Date: April 4th / Columbia
The Life of David Gale (2) Dir: Alan Parker / Release Date: Feb 21st / Paramount
Lilja 4-ever (4.5) Dir: Lukas Moodysson / Release Date: April 18th / Newmarket
The Lizzie McGuire Movie (2) Dir: Jim Fall / Release Date: May 2nd / Disney
Lockdown (2.5) Dir: John Luessenhop / Release Date: Feb. 14th / Palm
Looney Tunes: Back in Action (4) Dir: Joe Dante / Release Date: Nov. 14th / Warner Bros.
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (5) Dir: Peter Jackson / Release Date: Dec. 17th / New Line
Lost in La Mancha (4) Dir: Keith Fulton & Louis Pepe / Release Date: Jan. 31st / IFC
Lost in Translation (5) Dir: Sofia Coppola / Release Date: Sept. 12th / Focus
Love Actually (3) Dir: Richard Curtis / Release Date: Nov. 7th / Universal
Love Don't Cost a Thing (1.5) Dir: Troy Beyer / Release Date: Dec. 12th / Warner
Luther (3.5) Dir: Eric Till / Release Date: Sept. 26th / MGM
The Magdalene Sisters (4) Dir: Peter Mullan / Release Date: Aug. 1st / Miramax
Malibu's Most Wanted (3.5) Dir: Adam Whitesell / Release Date: April 18th / Warner
Mambo Italiano (3.5) Dir: Emile Gaudreault / Release Date: Sept. 26th / Samuel Goldwyn
A Man Apart (2.5) Dir: F. Gary Gray / Release Date: April 4th / New Line
The Man on the Train (4) Dir: Patrice Leconte / Release Date: May 9th / Paramount Classics
The Man Without a Past (3.5) Dir: Aki Kaurismäki / Release Date: April 4th / Columbia
Marci X (1.5) Dir: Richard Benjamin / Release Date: Aug. 22nd / Paramount
Martin & Orloff (3.5) Dir: Lawrence Blume / Release Date: Nov. 7th / Harlem
Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World (4) Dir: Peter Weir / Release Date: Nov. 14th / Fox
Matchstick Men (3.5) Dir: Ridley Scott / Release Date: Sept. 12th / Warner
The Matrix Reloaded (5) Dir: Andy & Larry Wachowksi / Release Date: May 15th / Warner
The Matrix Revolutions (4) Dir: Andy & Larry Wachowksi / Release Date: Nov. 5th / Warner
May (5) Dir: Lucky McKee / Release Date: June 6th / Lion's Gate
The Medallion (2) Dir: Gordon Chan / Release Date: Aug. 22nd / Screen Gems
Melvin Goes to Dinner (4.5) Dir: Bob Odenkirk / Release Date: Nov. 14th / Showtime
A Mighty Wind (4.5) Dir: Christopher Guest / Release Date: April 16th / Warner
Millennium Actress (4) Dir: Satoshi Kon / Release Date: Sept. 12th / Dreamworks
The Missing (3.5) Dir: Ron Howard / Release Date: Nov. 26th / Sony
Mona Lisa Smile (3) Dir: Mike Newell / Release Date: Dec. 19th / Columbia
Monster (3.5) Dir: Patty Jenkins / Release Date: Dec. 24th / Newmarket
My Boss's Daughter (1.5) Dir: David Zucker / Release Date: Aug. 22nd / Dimension
My Life Without Me (2.5) Dir: Isabel Coixet / Release Date: Sept. 26th / Sony Pictures Classics
Mystic River (3.5) Dir: Clint Eastwood / Release Date: Oct. 8th / Warner
National Lampoon Presents Dorm Daze (1.5) Dir: David & Scott Hillenbrand / Release Date: Sept. 26th / 120 Degrees Films
National Security (0.5) Dir: Dennis Dugan / Release Date: Jan. 17th / Columbia
No Good Deed (2.5) Dir: Bob Rafelson / Release Date: Sept. 12th / Seven Arts
Northfork (2.5) Dir: Michael Polish / Release Date: July 11th / Paramount Classics
Nowhere in Africa (4) Dir: Caroline Link / Release Date: March 7th / Columbia
Old School (1.5) Dir: Todd Phillips / Release Date: Feb. 21st / Dreamworks
Once Upon a Time in Mexico (3) Robert Rodriguez / Release Date: Sept. 12th / Columbia & Dimension
Only the Strong Survive (3) Dir: Chris Hegedus / Release Date: May 9th / Miramax
Open Range (4) Dir: Kevin Costner / Release Date: Aug. 15th / Touchstone
The Order (1.5) Dir: Brian Helgeland / Release Date: Sept. 5th / 20th Century Fox
Out of Time (4) Dir: Carl Franklin / Release Date: Oct. 3rd / MGM
Owning Mahowney (3) Dir: Richard Kwietniowski / Release Date: May 2nd / Sony Pictures Classics
Party Monster (2) Dir: Fenton Bailey & Randy Barbato / Release Date: Sept. 5th / Contentfilm
Paycheck (3.5) Dir: John Woo / Release Date: Dec. 25th / Paramount
People I Know (3) Dir: Daniel Algrant / Release Date: April 25th / Miramax
Peter Pan (3) Dir: P.J. Hogan / Release Date: Dec. 25th / Universal
Phone Booth (4) Dir: Joel Schumacher / Release Date: April 4th / 20th Century Fox
Pieces of April (4) Dir: Peter Hedges / Release Date: Oct. 17th / MGM
Piglet's Big Movie (2.5) Dir: Francis Glebas / Release Date: March 21st / Disney
Pirates of the Caribbean: Curse of the Black Pearl (5) Dir: Gore Verbinski / Release Date: July 9th / Disney
Poolhall Junkies (2.5) Dir: Gregory 'Mars' Martin / Release Date: Feb. 28th / Samuel Goldwyn
Prey for Rock & Roll (3.5) Dir: Alex Steyermark / Release Date: Oct. 3rd / MAC
Pride and Prejudice (2.5) Dir: Andrew Black / Release Date: Dec. 5th / Excel
The Princess Blade (3) Dir: Shinsuke Sato / Release Date: Aug. 8th / ADV Films
Radio (1) Dir: Michael Tollin / Release Date: Oct. 24th / Columbia
Raising Victor Vargas (4.5) Dir: Peter Sollett / Release Date: March 28th / Fireworks
The Real Cancun (0.5) Dir: Rick de Oliveira / Release Date: April 25th / New Line
The Recruit (2.5) Dir: Roger Donaldson / Release Date: Jan. 31st / Touchstone
Returner (2.5) Dir: Takashi Yamazaki / Release Date: Oct. 17th / Columbia TS
The Revolution Will Not Be Televised (4) Dir: Kim Bartley & Donnacha O'Brian / Release Date: Nov. 5th / Vitagraph
Runaway Jury (3.5) Dir: Gary Fleder / Release Date: Oct. 17th / 20th Century Fox
The Rundown (4) Dir: Peter Berg / Release Date: Sept. 26th / Universal
Russian Ark (3.5) Dir: Aleksandr Sokurov / Release Date: Jan. 10th / Wellspring
The Safety of Objects (3) Dir: Rose Troche / Release Date: March 7th / IFC
Scary Movie 3 (2) Dir: David Zucker / Release Date: Oct. 24th / Dimension
School of Rock (4) Dir: Richard Linklater / Release Date: Oct. 3rd / Paramount
Seabiscuit (3) Dir: Gary Ross / Release Date: July 25th / Universal
Secondhand Lions (3) Dir: Tim McCanlies / Release Date: Sept. 19th / New Line
The Secret Lives of Dentists (4) Dir: Alan Rudolph / Release Date: Aug. 1st / Manhattan
Shanghai Knights (2) Dir: David Dobkin / Release Date: Feb. 7th / Touchstone
Shattered Glass (4.5) Dir: Billy Ray / Release Date: Nov. 14th / Lion's Gate
The Shape of Things (4) Dir: Neil LaBute / Release Date: May 9th / Focus
Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas (2.5) Dir: Patrick Gilmore & Tim Johnson / Release Date: July 2nd / Dreamworks
So Close (3.5) Dir: Corey Yuen / Release Date: Sept. 12th / Columbia
Something's Gotta Give (3) Dir: Nancy Meyers / Release Date: Dec. 12th / Columbia
Spellbound (5) Dir: Stephen Blitz / Release Date: April 30th / ThinkFilm
Spider (4.5) Dir: David Cronenberg / Release Date: Feb. 28th / Sony Pictures Classics
Spun (0.5) Dir: Jonas Akerlund / Release Date: March 14th / Newmarket
Spy Kids 3-D: Game Over (2) Dir: Robert Rodriguez / Release Date: July 25th / Dimension
The Station Agent (4.5) Dir: Thomas McCarthy / Release Date: Oct. 3rd / Miramax
Stevie (4) Dir: Steve James / Release Date: April 11th / Lion's Gate
Stoked: The Rise and Fall of Gator (3) Dir: Helen Stickler / Release Date: Aug. 22nd / Palm
Stuck on You (2.5) Dir: Bobby & Peter Farrelly / Release Date: Dec. 12th / Fox
Super Sucker (2.5) Dir: Jeff Daniels / Release Date: Jan. 24th / Purple Rose
Suspended Animation (2) Dir: John D. Hancock / Release Date: Oct. 31st / First Run
S.W.A.T. (2) Dir: Clark Johnson / Release Date: Aug. 8th / Columbia
Sweet Sixteen (3.5) Dir: Ken Loach / Release Date: May 16th / Lion's Gate
Swimming Pool (3.5) Dir: Francois Ozon / Release Date: July 2nd / Focus
Sylvia (2) Dir: Christine Jeffs / Release Date: Oct. 17th / Focus
Tears of the Sun (2) Dir: Antoine Fuqua / Release Date: March 7th / Columbia
Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines (3.5) Dir: Jonathan Mostow / Release Date: July 2nd / Warner
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (4.5) Dir: Marcus Nispel / Release Date: Oct. 17th / New Line
Thirteen (2.5) Dir: Catherine Hardwicke / Release Date: Aug. 20th / Fox
Till Human Voices Wake Us (4) Dir: Michael Petroni / Release Date: Feb. 21st / Paramount
Timeline (2) Dir: Richard Donner / Release Date: Nov. 26th / Paramount
To Be and To Have (4.5) Dir: Nicolas Philibert / Release Date: Sept. 5th / New Yorker
The Triplets of Belleville (4.5) Dir: Sylvain Chomet / Release Date: Nov. 26th / Sony Pictures Classics
Tupac: Resurrection (3) Dir: Lauren Lazin / Release Date: Nov. 14th / Paramount
Under the Tuscan Sun (3) Dir: Audrey Wells / Release Date: Sept. 26th / Touchstone
Underworld (3) Dir: Len Wiseman / Release Date: Sept. 19th / Screen Gems
Uptown Girls (2) Dir: Boaz Yakin / Release Date: August 15th / Rated PG-13 / MGM
Valley of Tears (3.5) Dir: Hart Perry / Release Date: Nov. 28th / Seven Arts
Veronica Guerin (3) Dir: Joel Schumacher / Release Date: Oct. 17th / Touchstone
View from the Top (2) Dir: Bruno Barreto / Release Date: March 21st / Miramax
Washington Heights (3.5} Dir: Alfredo De Villa / Release Date: May 9th / MAC
Whale Rider (4) Dir: Niki Caro / Release Date: June 6th / Newmarket
What a Girl Wants (2) Dir: Dennie Gordon / Release Date: April 4th / Warner Bros.
Willard (3) Dir: Glen Morgan / Release Date: March 14th / New Line
Winged Migration (4.5) Dir: Jacques Perrin, Jacques Cluzaud & Michel Debats / Release Date: April 18th / Sony Pictures Classics
Wonderland (3) Dir: James Cox / Release Date: Oct. 3rd / Lion's Gate
Wrong Turn (2.5) Dir: Rob Schmidt / Release Date: May 30th / 20th Century Fox
X-Men 2 (4.5) Dir: Bryan Singer / Release Date: May 2nd / 20th Century Fox
XX/XY (3.5) Dir: Austin Chick / Release Date: April 11th / IFC)
Zero Day (3.5) Dir: Ben Coccio / Release Date: Sept. 3rd / Avatar
II. Direct-to-video (or TV/cable) movies released in 2003: (92 total)
29 Palms (2) Dir: Leonardo Ricagni / Release Date: Aug. 19th / Artisan
Absolon (1) Dir: David Barto / Release Date: Dec. 16th / Lion's Gate
Alien Hunter (1.5) Dir: Ron Krauss / Release Date: July 19th / Columbia
The Animatrix (4) Dir: several / Release Date: June 3rd / Warner
Arachnia (3.5) Dir: Brett Piper / Release Date: August 5th / MTI
Avenging Angelo (2) Dir: Martyn Burke / Release Date: May 20th / Columbia
Barbarian (1.5) Dir: John O'Halloran / Release Date: June 24th / New Concorde
Behind the Camera: The Unauthorized Story of Three's Company (2.5) Dir: Jason Ensler / Release Date: May 5th / NBC
Belly of the Beast (1.5) Dir: Siu-Tung Ching / Release Date: Dec. 30th / Columbia
Beyond Re-Animator (3.5) Dir: Brian Yuzna / Release Date: Dec. 30th / Lion's Gate
Bionicle: Mask of Light (2) Dir: David Molina & Terry Shakespeare / Release Date: Sept. 16th / Buena Vista
Blood Feast 2: All U Can Eat (2) Dir: Herschell Gordon Lewis / Release Date: July 29th / Ventura
Bog Creatures (1) Dir: J. Christian Ingvordsen / Release Date: March 4th / MTI
The Bone Snatcher (1) Dir: Jason Wulfsohn / Release Date: Dec. 23rd / First Look
The Boys of 2nd Street Park (4) Dir: Ron Berger & Dan Klores / Release Date: Sept. 28th / Showtime
Burning Down the House (2) Dir: Philippe Mora / Release Date: April 24th / Vanguard
Cannibal Rollerbabes (1.5) Dir: Kalman Szegvary / Release Date: Aug. 26th / Wildfire
The Challenge (1) Dir: Craig Shapiro / Release Date: Nov. 15th / Warner Bros.
Cheerleader Massacre (1) Dir: Jim Wynorski / Release Date: April 8th / Califilm
Cheerleader Ninjas (2} Dir: Kevin Campbell / Release Date: Nov. 25th / Lion's Gate
Consequence (2) Dir: Anthony Hickox / Release Date: July 11th / Warner Bros.
Crime 101 (3.5) Dir: Robert Sarkies / Release Date: May 13th / New Concorde
Crime Spree (2.5) Dir: Brad Mirman / Release Date: Dec. 23rd / Paramount
Cube 2: Hypercube (3) Dir: Andrzej Sekula / Release Date: April 15th / Lion's Gate
Detour (2) Dir: Steven Taylor / Release Date: Dec. 2nd / MTI
The Diary of Ellen Rimbauer (2) Dir: Craig R. Baxley / Release Date: May 12th / Lion's Gate
Director's Cut (3.5) Dir: Eric Stacey / Release Date: August 1st / Landfall
Dirty Deeds (3.5) Dir: David Caesar / Release Date: Nov. 4th / Paramount
Double Vision (2) Dir: Chen-Kuo Fu / Release Date: Aug. 5th / Columbia
Dracula 2: Ascension (2.5) Dir: Patrick Lussier / Release Date: June 7th / Dimension
Easy Riders, Raging Bulls (5) Dir: Kenneth Bowser / Release Date: March 9th / Trio
The Education of Gore Vidal (3) Dir: Deborah Dickson / Release Date: July 30th / PBS
Eternal Blood (3.5) Dir: Jorge Olguin / Release Date: June 24th / MTI
Faust: Love of the Damned (2.5) Dir: Brian Yuzna / Release Date: Sept. 9th / Trimark
Finder's Fee (2.5) Dir: Jeff Probst / Release Date: Oct. 28th / Lion's Gate
Flag Wars (3.5) Dir: Linda Goode-Bryant & Laura Poitras / Release Date: June 17th / PBS
The Foreigner (1) Dir: Michael Oblowitz / Release Date: June 3rd / Columbia
Genius (2.5) Dir: B.A. / Release Date: May 20th / MTI
George of the Jungle 2 (2) Dir: David Grossman / Release Date: Oct. 21st / Disney
Ghost Rig (3.5) Dir: Julian Kean / Release Date: July 1st / MTI
Hangman's Curse (2) Dir: Rafal Zielinski / Release Date: Sept. 12th / Fox
The Hitcher 2: I've Been Waiting (2) Dir: Louis Morneau / Release Date: July 15th / Universal
Horror (3.5) Dir: Dante Tomaselli / Release Date: May 27th / Elite
Hunting Humans (2) Dir: Kevin Kangas / Release Date: July 28th / Redrum
Ice Crawlers (1.5) Dir: John Carl Beuchler / Release Date: July 22nd / New Concorde
Infested (1.5) Dir: Josh Olson / Release Date: Feb. 4th / Columbia
Inspector Gadget 2 (1.5) Dir: Alex Zamm / Release Date: March 8th / Disney
Interstate 60 (3) Dir: Bob Gale / Release Date: Oct. 14th / Universal
Jane White is Sick and Twisted (4) Dir: David Michael Latt / Release Date: May 6th / MTI
Jesus Christ Vampire Hunter (2) Dir: Lee Damerbre / Release Date: Jan. 28th / Odessa Filmworks
Johnstown Flood (2.5) Dir: Mark Bussler / Release Date: Aug. 26th / Inecom
The Kidnapping of Ingrid Betancourt (4) Dir: Karin Hayes & Victoria Bruce / Release Date: Auguest 22nd / HBO
Killer Me (3.5) Dir: Zachary Hansen / Release Date: July 29th / Vanguard
Killers 2: The Beast (2) Dir: David Michael Latt / Release Date: July 22nd / MTI
The Kingston High (3.5) Dir: Stephen Townsend / Release Date: March 18th / Artisan
Leprechaun: Back 2 Tha Hood (2) Dir: Steven Ayromlooi / Release Date: Dec. 30th / Lion's Gate
Lessons for an Assassin (1.5) Dir: James Glenn Dudelson / Release Date: July 8th / MTI
Long Time Dead (2) Dir: Marcus Adams / Release Date: Oct. 28th / Universal
Maniacts (2.5) Dir: C.W. Cressler / Release Date: May 27th / Redrum
Midnight Mass (1) Dir: Tony Mandile / Release Date: July 8th / Lion's Gate
Mimic: Sentinel (2.5) Dir: J.T. Petty / Release Date: Oct. 14th / Dimension
The Murder of Emmitt Till (4.5) Dir: Stanley Nelson / Release Date: Jan. 20th / PBS
Out for a Kill (1) Dir: Michael Oblowitz / Release Date: Aug. 19th / Columbia
Persona Non Grata (4) Dir: Oliver Stone / Release Date: June 23rd / HBO
Pursuit of Happiness (3) Dir: John Putch / Release Date: May 20th / MTI
Red Water (1.5) Dir: Charles Robert Carner / Aug. 17th / Columbia TS
Ring (4) Dir: Hideo Nakata / Release Date: March 4th / Universal
Run Ronnie Run! (3) Dir: Troy Miller / Release Date: Sept. 16th / New Line
Sabertooth (2) Dir: James Hickox / Release Date: May 13th / Lion's Gate
Sanitarium (1) Dir: James Eaves & Johanne Roberts / Release Date: April 8th / MTI
Sasquatch (1) Dir: Jonas Quastel / Release Date: March 11th / Columbia
Savage Harvest (1) Dir: Eric Stanze / Release Date: Jan. 28th / Sub Rosa
Scenes of the Crime (3) Dir: Dominique Forma / Release Date: Sept. 30th / Columbia
Schlock! The Secret History of American Movies (4) Dir: Ray Greene / Release Date: Dec. 2nd / Pathfinder
Sex, Secrets and Lies (1) Dir: Stan Allen / Release Date: Jan. 14th / MTI
The Shaft (2.5) Dir: Dick Maas / Release Date: May 30th / Artisan
Short Cut Road (1.5) Dir: Marc Selz / Release Date: Oct. 10th / Sub Rosa
Silent Warnings (1.5) Dir: Christian McIntire / Release Date: May 3rd / Universal
Sinful Deeds (1) Dir: Dante Giove / Release Date: Feb. 25th / MTI
Sleepless Nights (2) Dir: William Hopkins / Release Date: Nov. 11th / MTI
Sniper 2 (2.5) Dir: Craig R. Baxley / Release Date: March 11th / Columbia
Solid Cover (2) Dir: Jason Wolthuizen / Release Date: July 29th / Wildfire
Speed Demon (1) Dir: David DeCoteau / Release Date: Nov. 11th / Asylum
Stitch: The Movie (2.5) Dir: Tony Craig & Robert Gannaway / Release Date: Aug. 23rd / Disney
The Suicide Club (3) Dir: Shion Sono / Release Date: Nov. 18th / TLA
Timecop 2: The Berlin Decision (1.5) Dir: Steve Boyum / Release Date: Sept. 30th / Universal
Versus (3.5) Dir: Ryuhei Kitamura / Release Date: July 29th / Media Blasters
Webs (1) Dir: David Wu / Release Date: June 28th / Sci-Fi
Wilder (2) Dir: Rodney Gibbons / Release Date: May 13th / MTI
Wilder Days (2.5) Dir: David M. Evans / Release Date: Oct. 19th / TNT
Without Lying Down: Frances Marion and the Power of Women in Hollywood (3.5) Dir: Bridget Terry / Release Date: March 11th / Image
III. Festival/Foreign Flicks destined for a 2003 (or future) release: (22 total)
All About My Father (3.5) Dir: Even Benestad / Release Date: ? / Distributor ?
An Angel for May (4) Dir: Harley Cokeliss / Release Date: ? / Distributor ?
Civilian Casualties: Fragments from the War on Terror (2.5) Dir: Frances Anderson / Release Date: ? / Distributor ?
The Dance (3) Dir: John Darling Haynes / Release Date: ? / Distributor ?
Detective Fiction (2) Dir: Patrick Coyle / Release Date: ? / Distributor ?
Flowers (3) Dir: Kirven Blount / Release Date: ? / Distributor ?
The Haven (4) Dir: Andrew Bowen / Release Date: ? / Dreadnought
Jon E. Edwards is in Love (3) Dir: Chris Bradley & Kyle La Brache / Release Date: ? / Ripe Entertainment
Long Gone (4.5) Dir: David Eberhardt & Jack Cahill / Release Date: ? / Distributor ?
The Lucky Ones (2.5) Dir: Loren-Paul Caplin / Release Date: ? / Universal
My Life as McDull (3.5) Dir: Toe Yuen / Release Date: ? / Distributor ?
The Nature of Nicholas (2) Dir: Jeff Erbach / Release Date: ? / Distributor ?
The Original Diner Guys (2) Dir: Barry Levinson / Release Date: ? / Distributor
Sam & Joe (3.5) Dir: Jason Ruscio / Release Date: ? / Distributor ?
Scream Queen (3.5) Dir: Tatiana Bliss / Release Date: ? / Distributor ?
Second Name (2) Dir: Francisco Plaza / Release Date: ? / Distributor ?
Security (4) Dir: Brien Burroughs / Release Date: ? / Distributor ?
Sexless (2) Dir: Alex Holdridge / Release Date: ? / Distributor ?
Three and a Half (2) Dir: Boris Mojsovski / Release Date: ? / Distributor ?
The Wannabes (3.5) Dir: Nick Giannopoulis / Release Date: ? / Distributor ?
Year of the Devil (3) Dir: Petr Zelenka / Release Date: ? / Distributor ?
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Totals:
I. Films already released theatrically in 2003: 265
II. Direct-to-video (or TV/cable) movies released in 2003: 92
III. Festival/Foreign Flicks destined for a future release: 21
Grand Total: 378
Last updated: o6/11/o5
2003 Releases I'm still planning to see ASAP: Anything But Love, The Company, High Times Potluck, Hotel, Jet Lag, Le Divorce, Manic, Masked and Anonymous, P.S. Your Cat is Dead!, Rugrats Go Wild!, The Statement, Step Into Liquid, Stone Reader, The Singing Detective, Young Black Stallion, The Young Unknowns
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5 stars
28 Days Later (I)
Big Fish (I)
Cabin Fever (I)
City of God (I)
Easy Riders, Raging Bulls (II)
House of Sand and Fog (I)
In America (I)
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (I)
Lost in Translation (I)
The Matrix Reloaded (I)
May (I)
Pirates of the Caribbean: Curse of the Black Pearl (I)
Spellbound (I)
4.5 stars
21 Grams (I)
All the Real Girls (I)
Balseros (I)
Bubba Ho-tep (I)
Chaos (I)
Cowboy Bebop: The Movie (I)
Dirty Pretty Things (I)
Dummy (I)
Finding Nemo (I)
The Fog of War (I)
Identity (I)
Irreversible (I)
Kill Bill: Volume 1 (I)
The Last Samurai (I)
Lilja 4-ever (I)
Long Gone (III)
Melvin Goes to Dinner (I)
A Mighty Wind (I)
The Murder of Emmitt Till (II)
Raising Victor Vargas (I)
Shattered Glass (I)
Spider (I)
The Station Agent (I)
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (I)
To Be and To Have (I)
The Triplets of Belleville (I)
Winged Migration (I)
X-Men 2 (I)
4 stars
An Angel for May (III)
The Animatrix (II)
Assassination Tango (I)
Bad Santa (I)
The Barbarian Invasions
Blind Spot: Hitler's Secretary (I)
The Boys of 2nd Street Park (II)
Buffalo Soldiers (I)
Capturing the Friedmans (I)
The Cooler (I)
Dark Blue (I)
Dopamine (I)
Down with Love (I)
Elephant (I)
Elf (I)
Expiration (I)
Fulltime Killer (I)
Ghosts of the Abyss (I)
Gigantic: A Tale of Two Johns (I)
Gloomy Sunday (I)
The Good Thief (I)
The Haven (III)
He Loves Me... He Loves Me Not (I)
The Hebrew Hammer (II)
Hell's Highway: The True Story of the Highway Safety Film (I)
The Hole (III)
Holes (I)
Hulk (I)
Intolerable Cruelty (I)
The Italian Job (I)
Jane White Is Sick and Twisted (II)
The Kidnapping of Ingrid Betancourt (II)
Looney Tunes: Back in Action (I)
Lost in La Mancha (I)
The Magdalene Sisters (I)
The Man on the Train (I)
Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World (I)
The Matrix Revolutions (I)
Millennium Actress (I)
Nowhere in Africa (I)
Open Range (I)
Out of Time (I)
Persona Non Grata (II)
Phone Booth (I)
Pieces of April (I)
The Revolution Will Not Be Televised (I)
Ring (II)
The Rundown (I)
School of Rock (I)
The Secret Lives of Dentists (I)
Security (III)
The Shape of Things (I)
Stevie (I)
Till Human Voices Wake Us
Whale Rider (I)
3.5 stars
All About My Father (III)
American Splendor (I)
American Wedding (I)
Arachnia (II)
Beyond Re-Animator (II)
Blue Car (I)
Casa De Los Babys (I)
Charlotte Sometimes (I)
Cold Mountain (I)
Confidence (I)
Controlled Chaos (I)
Crime 101 (II)
The Dancer Upstairs (I)
A Decade Under the Influence (I)
Director's Cut (II)
Dirty Deeds (II)
Dracula: Pages from a Virgin's Diary (I)
Eternal Blood (III)
The Eye (I)
Final Destination 2 (I)
Flag Wars (II)
Freaky Friday (I)
Ghost Rig (II)
The Guys (I)
The Hard Word (I)
Horror (II)
I Capture the Castle (I)
Killer Me (II)
The Kingston High (II)
Luther (I)
Malibu's Most Wanted (I)
Mambo Italiano (I)
The Man Without a Past (I)
Martin & Orloff (I)
Matchstick Men (I)
The Missing (I)
Monster (I)
My Life as McDull (III)
Mystic River (I)
Paper Chasers (III)
Paycheck (I)
Prey for Rock & Roll (I)
Runaway Jury (I)
Russian Ark (I)
Sam & Joe (III)
Scream Queen (III)
So Close (I)
Sweet Sixteen (I)
Swimming Pool (I)
Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines (I)
Valley of Tears (I)
Versus (II)
The Wannabes (III)
Washington Heights (I)
Without Lying Down: Frances Marion and the Power of Women in Hollywood (II)
XX/XY (I)
Zero Day (I)
3 stars
Bend It Like Beckham (I)
Better Luck Tomorrow (I)
Calendar Girls (I)
Carnage (I)
Cheaper by the Dozen (I)
Cube 2: Hypercube (II)
Down and Out with the Dolls (I)
DysFunktional Family (I)
The Dance (III)
The Education of Gore Vidal (II)
Flowers (III)
Freddy vs. Jason (I)
Girl With a Pearl Earring (I)
Home Room (I)
In the Cut (I)
Interstate 60 (II)
Jon E. Edwards is in Love (III)
Johnny English (I)
Km. 0 - Kilometer Zero (I)
Laurel Canyon (I)
Levity (I)
Love Actually (I)
Mona Lisa Smile (I)
Once Upon a Time in Mexico (I)
Only the Strong Survive (I)
Owning Mahowney (I)
People I Know (I)
Peter Pan (I)
Pursuit of Happiness (II)
Run Ronnie Run! (II)
The Safety of Objects (I)
Scenes of the Crime (II)
Seabiscuit (I)
Secondhand Lions (I)
Something's Gotta Give (I)
Stoked: The Rise and Fall of Gator (I)
The Suicide Club (II)
Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance (III)
Tupac: Resurrection (I)
Under the Tuscan Sun (I)
Underworld (I)
Veronica Guerin (I)
Willard (I)
Wonderland (I)
Year of the Devil (III)
2.5 stars
Behind the Camera: The Unauthorized Story of Three's Company (II)
The Big Empty (I)
Camp (I)
Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle (I)
Chasing Papi (I)
Civilian Casualties: Fragments from the War on Terror (III)
The Core (I)
Cradle 2 the Grave (I)
Crime Spree (II)
Demonlover (I)
Daredevil (I)
[b]Die, Mommie, Die[/i] (I)
Dracula 2: Ascension (II)
Deliver Us from Eva (I)
Faust: Love of the Damned (II)
Finder's Fee (II)
Garage Days (I)
Genius (II)
Gerry (I)
Girls Will Be Girls (I)
Gods and Generals (I)
Good Boy! (I)
The Guru (I)
The Human Stain (I)
The Hunted (I)
Johnstown Flood (II)
Lockdown (I)
The Lucky Ones (III)
A Man Apart (I)
Maniacts (II)
Mimic: Sentinel (II)
My Life Without Me (I)
No Good Deed (I)
Northfork (I)
Piglet's Big Movie (I)
Poolhall Junkies (I)
Pride and Prejudice (I)
The Recruit (I)
Returner (I)
The Shaft (II)
Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas (I)
Sniper 2 (II)
Stitch: The Movie (II)
Stuck on You (I)
Super Sucker (I)
Thirteen (I)
Wilder Days (II)
Wrong Turn (I)
2 stars
Agent Cody Banks (I)
Avenging Angelo (II)
Basic (I)
The Battle of Shaker Heights (I)
Bionicle: Mask of Light (II)
Blood Feast 2: All U Can Eat (II)
Brother Bear (I)
Bruce Almighty (I)
Bulletproof Monk (I)
Burning Down the House (II)
Cheerleader Ninjas (II)
Cinemania (I)
City of Ghosts (I)
Civil Brand (I)
Consequence (II)
Detective Fiction (III)
Detour (II)
The Diary of Ellen Rimbauer (II)
Double Vision (II)
Dreamcatcher (I)
George of the Jungle 2 (II)
Gothika (I)
Hangman's Curse (II)
The Haunted Mansion (I)
The Hitcher 2: I've Been Waiting (II)
Hunting Humans (II)
Japanese Story (I)
Jeepers Creepers 2 (I)
Jesus Christ Vampire Hunter (II)
Killers 2: The Beast (II)
The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (I)
Leprechaun: Back 2 Tha Hood (II)
The Life of David Gale (I)
The Lizzie McGuire Movie (I)
Long Time Dead (II)
The Medallion (I)
The Nature of Nicholas (III)
The Original Diner Guys (III)
Party Monster (I)
Sabertooth (II)
Scary Movie 3 (I)
Second Name (III)
Sexless (III)
Shanghai Knights (I)
Sleepless Nights (II)
Solid Cover (II)
Spy Kids 3-D: Game Over (I)
Suspended Animation (I)
S.W.A.T (I)
Sylvia (I)
Tears of the Sun (I)
Three and a Half (III)
Timeline (I)
Uptown Girls (I)
View from the Top (I)
What a Girl Wants (I)
Wilder (II)
1.5 stars
Alex and Emma (I)
Alien Hunter (I)
Anything Else (I)
Barbarian (II)
Beyond Borders (I)
Cannibal Rollerbabes (II)
Cold Creek Manor (I)
Cremaster 3 (I)
Daddy Day Care (I)
Darkness Falls (I)
Dickie Roberts: Former Child Star (I)
Dumb and Dumberer: When Harry Met Lloyd (I)
Duplex (I)
A Guy Thing (I)
Head of State (I)
Hollywood Homicide (I)
House of 1,000 Corpses (I)
The House of the Dead (I)
How to Deal (I)
How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days (I)
Ice Crawlers (II)
The In-Laws (I)
Infested (II)
Inspector Gadget 2 (II)
It Runs in the Family (I)
The Jungle Book 2 (I)
Just Married (I)
Kangaroo Jack (I)
Lara Croft: Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life (I)
Legally Blonde 2: Red, White & Blonde (I)
Lessons for an Assassin (II)
Love Don't Cost a Thing (I)
Marci X (I)
My Boss's Daughter (I)
National Lampoon Presents Dorm Daze (I)
Old School (I)
The Order (I)
Red Water (II)
Short Cut Road (II)
Silent Warnings (II)
Timecop 2: The Berlin Decision (II)
1 star
2 Fast 2 Furious (I)
Absolon (II)
Anger Management (I)
Bad Boys 2 (I)
Biker Boyz (I)
Bog Creatures (II)
The Bone Snatcher (I)
Bringing Down the House (I)
The Cat in the Hat (I)
Cheerleader Massacre (II)
The Fighting Temptations (I)
The Foreigner (II)
Gigli (I)
Grind (I)
Honey (I)
Midnight Mass (II)
Out for a Kill (II)
Radio (I)
Sanitarium (II)
Sasquatch (II)
Savage Harvest (II)
Sex, Secrets and Lies (II)
Sinful Deeds (II)
Speed Demon (II)
Webs (II)
0.5 star
Boat Trip (I)
From Justin to Kelly (I)
National Security (I)
The Real Cancun (I)
Spun (I)
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Welcome to the Special Retro Center! Watch your step.
This is where I list all first-time viewings of older (anything released before 2003) movies. Here's what I got so far:
100 Girls (2001)
187 (1997)
About Adam (2001)
The Adventures of Pinocchio (1984)
American Movie: The Making of Northwestern (1999)
The American Nightmare (2001)
Animal Factory (2000)
The Anniversary Party (2001)
The Apartment (1960)
The Apple (1980)
Arctic Blue (1993)
Audition (2001)
Autumn Born (1979)
Axe (1974)
Baby Bedlam (2000)
Bamboozled (2000)
The Bank Dick (1940)
Barquero (1970)
The Beach Boys: An American Band (1985)
The Beguiled (1971)
La Belle et la Bete (1947)
Best Laid Plans (1999)
The Big Twist (1997)
Black Sunday (1977)
Black Venus (1983)
Blood Crime (2002)
Brian Wilson: I Just Wasn't Made for These Times (1995)
A Bridge Too Far (1977)
Brubaker (1980)
Bruiser (2001)
Burnt Offerings (1976)
The Business of Strangers (2001)
Caligula (1980)
Campfire Stories (2001)
Cannibal Apocalypse (1980)
Cannonball (1976)
Captain Corelli's Mandolin (2001)
Cannibal Ferox (1983)
The Case of the Whitechapel Vampire (2001)
The Cassandra Crossing (1977)
Castle of Fu Manchu (1972)
The Center of the World (2001)
Chastity (
out of 5) (1969)Chattahoochee (1990)
Cheaters (2000)
Children of the Corn: Revelation (2001)
Chrome Soldiers (1992)
Cinema Paradiso (1990)
Citizen Ruth (1996)
Cold Steel (1987)
Comes a Horseman (1978)
The Conqueror Worm (1968)
Cousins (1989)
Crash (1997)
The Crazies (1973)
Crazy Joe (1974)
Cronos (1993)
Cut (2001)
The Day of the Dolphin (1973)
The Desperate Hours (1955)
The Devil and Daniel Webster (1941)
Devil in the Flesh (1998)
Doc (1971)
Don't Look Down (1998)
Drugstore Cowboy (1989)
The Duellists (1978)
The Eagle Has Landed (1977)
Earth vs. the Spider (2001)
Ed Gein (2001)
El Dorado (1967)
Escape Under Pressure (2000)
Esmeralda Comes by Night (1998)
Eureka (1983
eXistenZ (1999)
Exotica (1995)
The Fantastic Four (-)
A Fistful of Dynamite (1972)
The Fortune Cookie (1966)
The Four Musketeers (1974)
Foxes (1980)
Free Enterprise (1999)
Full Moon High (1981)
Fun with Dick and Jane (1977)
The Gambler (1974)
Gas Pump Girls (1979)
Gates of Heaven (1978)
The Ghoul (1934)
Girlfight (2000)
Glitter (2001)
Glory Daze (1996)
The Godsend (1980)
Hangman (2001)
Hanover Street (1979)
A Hard Day's Night (1964)
Harold and Maude (1971)
Harper Valley P.T.A. (1978)
Here We Go Round the Mulberry Bush (1968)
Hopscotch (1980)
The Hot Rock (1972)
The Hound of the Baskervilles (2001)
Howling 5: The Rebirth (1989)
Howling 6: The Freaks (1991)
I, Madman (1989)
I See a Dark Stranger (1946)
The Idiots (2000)
In July (2001)
The Independent (2001)
Into the West (1993)
Invincible (2001)
Invitation to Hell (1984)
Island of the Dead (2000)
It's a Gift (1934)
It's a Very Merry Muppet Christmas Movie (2002)
The Italian Job (1969)
Jack Frost (1964)
Jesse James Meets Frankenstein's Daughter (1966)
Jubilee (1977)
Jude (1996)
The Killers (1946)
The Killers (1964)
Killing Heat (1981)
The Ladykillers (1955)
Lakeboat (2001)
The Last Days (1999)
Last Night (1999)
The Lathe of Heaven (1980)
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow (1999)
Léon (1994)
The Lion King 2: Simba's Pride (1998)
Lionheart (1987)
Lisa (1990)
The Little Princess (1917)
Little Richard (2000)
The Lost Weekend (1945)
Louisiana Story (1948)
Love 101 (2000)
The Luzhin Defence (2001)
A Man Called Horse (1970)
The Man Called Noon (1973)
The Man from Snowy River (1982)
The Man Who Cried (2001)
Marabunta (1998)
Married People, Single Sex (1993)
Meet John Doe (1941)
Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence (1983)
Meteor (1980)
Mimic 2 (2001)
The Minus Man (1999)
Murder in Greenwich (2002)
Murder on the Orient Express (1974)
Mutant Aliens (2001)
My Best Fiend (1999)
My Little Chickadee (1940)
Nashville (1975)
Never Cry Wolf (1983)
New World Disorder (1999)
Newsies (1992)
Night of the Demon (1958)
The Night of the Hunter (1955)
Night Scream (1997)
Nineteen Eighty-Four (1985)
O (2001)
Octopus (2001)
The Offence (1973)
On the Beach (1959)
Opera (1987)
Outrage (1998)
Panic (2000)
The Paper Chase (1973)
Party Girl (1995)
The Passion of Joan of Arc (1928)
Permanent Midnight (1998)
The Pest (1997)
Pete's Dragon (1977)
Phantasm 4: Oblivion (1998)
The Phantom of the Opera (1925)
Phantom Ship (1935)
Pornstar: The Legend of Ron Jeremy (2001)
Preston Sturges: The Rise and Fall of an American Dreamer (1990)
The Price of Milk (2001)
Prince Valiant (1998)
Prom Night 3: The Last Kiss (1989)
Prom Night 4: Deliver Us From Evil (:1992)
Quatermass and the Pit (1967)
Queen Margot (1994)
The Queens of Comedy (2001)
Rabid (1977)
Raptor (2001)
The Rat Pack (1998)
Raw Meat (1972)
Razor Blade Smile (1998)
Ready to Rumble (2000)
The Return of the King (1980)
Road Games (1981)
Roadie (1980)
Rosewood (1997)
The Royal Scandal (2001)
Sam Peckinpah: Man of Iron (1993)
Scarecrow (1973)
Second Time Lucky (1984)
Sense and Sensibility (1995)
Set It Off (1996)
The Seven Year Itch (1955)
Shadows Run Black (1986)
Shinbone Alley (1971)
Shivers (1975)
A Shock to the System (1990)
The Sign of Four (2001)
Slither (1972)
A Small Circle of Friends (1980)
A Small Town in Texas (1976)
Special Report: Journey to Mars (1996)
The St. Francisville Experiment (2000)
Start the Revolution Without Me (1970)
Steal this Movie (2000)
Sullivan's Travels (1941)
Sunset Blvd. (1950)
Surviving Picasso (1996)
Susan's Plan (2000)
The Swarm (1978)
Sweet and Lowdown (1999)
Talkin' Dirty After Dark (1991)
Targets (1968)
The Tenant (1976)
Terror from the Year 5000 (1958)
Terror Train (1980)
The Three Musketeers (1973)
Throne of Blood (1957)
Tigerland (2000)
The Tomorrow Man (2001)
Tourist Trap (1979)
Town & Country (2001)
True Grit (1969)
Turbulence 3: Heavy Metal (2001)
Tuvalu (2001)
Two Minute Warning (1976)
The Ugly (2000)
Valmont (1989)
Victim (1961)
Wanda Nevada (1979)
What Planet Are You From? (2000)
The White Sheik (1952)
Wild Iris (2001)
Wilde (1998)
Witness for the Prosecution (1957)
The World's Greatest Lover (1977)
The Wrong Man (1956)
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2003 Film List
Last Updated: 1 July 2003
2003 Films Seen**: 73
2002 Films Seen Theatrically: 11
Total Films Seen Theatrically: 84
First Timers: 58
**Includes films release theatrically, direct-to-video, and films without distribution at time of viewing.
*Films rated out of five stars*
2003 Films
All the Real Girls \****½ \ Director: David Gordon Green
American Splendor \ ***** \ Director: Shari Springer Berman & Robert Pulcini
American Wedding \ ***½ \ Director: Jesse Dylan
Anger Management \ ** \ Director: Peter Segal
Animatrix, The \ **** \ Director: Various
Bad Santa \ **** \ Director: Terry Zwigoff
Bend It Like Beckham \ **** \ Director: Gurinder Chadha
Better Luck Tomorrow \ **** \ Director: Justin Lin
Big Fish \ **** \ Director: Tim Burton
Cabin Fever \ ***** \ Director: Eli Roth
Capturing the Friedmans \ ****½ \ Director: Andrew Jarecki
Cidade de Deus \ ***** \ Director: Fernando Meirelles
Cheats \ **** \ Director: Andrew Gurland
Cube 2: Hypercube \ *½ \ Director: Andrzej Sekula
Daredevil \ *** \ Director: Mark Steven Johnson
Dark Blue \ ***½ \ Director: Ron Shelton
Dirty Pretty Things \ **** \ Director: Stephen Frears
Dreamcatcher \ **½ \ Director: Lawrence Kasdan
Final Destination 2 \ ** \ Director: David R. Ellis
Finding Nemo \ ***** \ Directors: Andrew Stanton Lee Unkrich
Fog of War, The \ ****½ \ Director: Errol Morris
Freaky Friday \ **** \ Director: Mark S. Waters
Freddy vs. Jason \ *½ \ Director: Ronny Yu
Good Thief, The \ ****½ \ Director: Neil Jordan
The Guru \ ** \ Director: Daisy von Scherler Mayer
Holes \ ***½ \ Director: Andrew Davis (note: projector broke and I miseed the last 20 minutes)
House of 1000 Corpses \ *½ \ Director: Rob Zombie
Hulk \ **** \ Director: Ang Lee
Identity \ ** \ Director: James Mangold
Irréversible \ ***** \ Director: Gaspar Noé
The Italian Job \ **** \ Director: F. Gary Gray
Jeepers Creepers 2 \ ** \ Director: Victor Salva
Just Married \ * \ Director: Shawn Levy
Kill Bill: Vol. 1 \ ****½ \ Director: Quentin Tarantino
Last Samura, The \ **** \ Director: Ed Zwick
Laurel Canyon \ ***½ \ Director: Lisa Cholodenko
Life of David Gale, The \ ½* \ Director: Alan Parker
Lord of the Rings, The: The Two Towers \ ***** \ Director: Peter Jackson
Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King, The \ ***** \ Director: Peter Jackson
Lost in Translation \ ***** \ Director: Sophia Coppola
Matrix Reloaded, The \ ***** \ Director: The Wachowski Bros
Matrix Revolutions, The \ ****½ \ Director: The Wachowski Bros
Malibu's Most Wanted \ *** \ Director: John Whitesell
Matchstick Men \ ***½ \ Director: Ridley Scott
May \ ****½ \ Director: Lucky McKee
Mighty Wind, A \ ****½ \ Director: Christopher Guest
My Little Eye \ **** \ Director: Marc Evans
Mystic River \ ***** \ Director: Clint Eastwood
Old School \ **** \ Director: Todd Phillips
Once Upon A Time In Mexico \ ***½ \ Director: Robert Rodriguez
Phone Booth \ **** \ Director: Joel Shumacher
Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl \ ****½ \ Director: Gore Verbinski
Raising Victor Vargas \ ****½ \ Director: Peter Sollett
Recruit, The \ *** \ Director: Roger Donaldson
Run Ronnie Run \ *** \ Director: Troy Miller
Seabiscuit \ ****½ \ Director: Gary Ross
School of Rock \ ****½ \ Director: Richard Linklater
Secret Lives of Dentists, The \ ***½ \ Director: Alan Rudolph
Shanghai Knights \ ** \ Director: David Dobkin
Shape of Things, The \ ****½ \ Director: Neil LaBute
Spellbound \ ****½ \ Director: Jeffrey Blitz
Spider \ ***½ \ Director: David Cronenberg
Swimming Pool \ ****½ \ Director: Francois Ozon
Tears of the Sun \ *** \ Director: Antoine Fuqua
Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines \ **** \ Director: Jonathan Mostow
Texas Chainsaw Massacre, The \ **** \ Director: Marcus Nispel
21 Grams \ ****½ \ Director: Alejandro González Iñárritu
28 Days Later \ ****½ \ Director: Danny Boyle
Whale Rider \ **** \ Director: Niki Caro
Willard \ **** \ Director: Glen Morgan
Wonderland \ ***½ \ Director: James Cox
Wrong Turn \ *** \ Director: Rob Schmidt
X2 \ ****½ \ Director: Brian Singer
2002 Films Seen Theatrically
-The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers \ **** \ Director: Peter Jackson
-Catch Me If You Can \ **** \ Director: Steven Spielberg
-Gangs of New York \ ***** \ Director: Martin Scorsese
-About Schmidt \ ***** \ Director: Alexander Payne
-Adaptation \ ***** \ Director: Spike Jonze
-Confessions of a Dangerous Mind \ ***½ \ Director: George Clooney
-25th Hour \ ***** \ Director: Spike Lee
-The Quiet American \ ****½ \ Director: Phillip Noyce
-Hable Con Ella \ ***** \ Director: Pedro Almodóvar
-The Pianist \ ****½ \ Director: Roman Polanski
-The Hours \ *** \ Director: Stephen Daldry
First Timers
-Big Trouble \ ***½ \ Director: Barry Sonnenfeld (2002)
-Kissing Jessica Stein \ *** \ Director: Charles Herman-Wurmfeld (2002)
-Visions of Light \ **** \ Director: Arnold Glassman (1992)
-Unfaithful \ *** \ Director: Adrian Lyne (2002)
-Super Troopers \ **** \ Director: Jay Chandrasekhar (2002)
-North By Northwest \ ***** \ Director: Alfred Hitchcock (1959)
-Our Hospitality \ **** \ Director: Buster Keaton (1923)
-Eraserhead \ **** \ Director: David Lynch (1977)
-La Grande Illusion \ **** \ Director: Jean Renoir (1937)
-Lost Highway \ **** \ Director: David Lynch (1997)
-Pretty as a Picture: The Art of David Lynch \ **** \ Director: Toby Keeler (1997)
-Fear and Loathing In Las Vegas \ ****½ \ Director: Terry Gilliam (1998)
-Joy Ride \ *** \ Director: John Dahl (2001)
-Y Tu Mama Tambien \ **** \ Director: Alfonso Cuarón (2002)
-His Girl Friday \ **** \ Director: Howard Hawks (1940)
-From Hell \ *** \ Director: Hughes Brothers (2001)
-Shallow Hal \ ** \ Director: Farrelly Brothers (2001)
-Breathless \ **** \ Director: Jean-Luc Godard (1960)
-Waking Life \ **** \ Director: Richard Linklater (2001)
-Bully \ ** \ Director: Larry Clark (2001)
-The Thin Blue Line \ **** \ Director: Errol Morris (1988)
-The River \ **** \ Director: Pare Lorentz (1937)
-I Don't Know Jack \ **** \ Director: Chris Leavens (2002)
-A Walk to Remember \ *** \ Director: Adam Shankman (2002)
-Saving Silverman \ *** \ Director: Dennis Dugan (2001)
-Jeepers Creepers \ *** \ Director: Victor Salva (2001)
-Monster's Ball \ ****½ \ Director: Marc Forster (2001)
-Bad Taste \ **** \ Director: Peter Jackson (1987)
-Two Ninas \ ***½ \ Director: Neil Turitz
-Dead Alive \ **** \ Director: Peter Jackson (1992)
-In the Mouth of Madness \ **** \ Director: John Carpenter (1995)
-"O" \ **** \ Director: Tim Blake Nelson (2001)
-The Texas Chainsaw Massecre 2 \ ***½ \ Director: Tobe Hooper (1986)
-Assault on Precinct 13 \ ***½ \ Director: John Carpenter (1976)
-Murder By Numbers \ ** \ Director: Barbet Schroeder (2002)
-The Believer \ **** \ Director: Henry Bean (2002)
-Ghost World \ ****½ \ Director: Terry Zwigoff (2001)
-Equilibrium \ **** \ Director: Kurt Wimmer (2002)
-The Sum of All Fears \ ***½ \ Director: Phil Alden Robinson (2002)
-Road to Perdition \ ****½ \ Director: Sam Mendes (2002)
-Brotherhood of the Wolf \ **** \ Director: Christophe Gans (2002)
-Changing Lanes \ **** \ Director: Roger Michell (2002)
-Stanley Kubrick: A Life in Pictures \ **** \ Director: Jan Harlan (2001)
-Final Destination \ ***½ \ Director: James Wong (2000)
-Bottle Rocket (Short Film) \ **** \ Director: Wes Anderson (1994)
-About a Boy \ ****½ \ Director: Chris & Paul Weitz (2002)
-Heavenly Creatures \ **** \ Director: Peter Jackson (1994)
-Battle Royale \ ****½ \ Director: Kinji Fukasaku (2000)
-Dark Water \ **** \ Director: Hideo Nakata (2002)
-The Hills Have Eyes \ ****½ \ Director: Wes Craven (1977)
-The Fog \ **** \ Director: John Carpenter (1980)
-Cube \ ****½ \ Director: Vincenzo Natali (1997)
-Suspiria \ ****½ \ Director: Dario Argento (1977)
-The Thing From Another World \ ***½ \ Director: Howard Hawks (1951)
-Jesse James Meets Frankenstein's Daughter \ * \ William Beaudine (1966)
-It's Alive \ ***½ \ Larry Cohen (1974)
-The People Under the Stairs \ ** \ Wes Craven (1991)
-Valentine \ ½* \ Jamie Blanks (2001)
-Prince of Darkness \ ***½ \ Director: John Carpenter (1987)
-To Live and Die in L.A. \ ****½ \ Director: William Friedkin
Last Updated: 1 July 2003
2003 Films Seen**: 73
2002 Films Seen Theatrically: 11
Total Films Seen Theatrically: 84
First Timers: 58
**Includes films release theatrically, direct-to-video, and films without distribution at time of viewing.
*Films rated out of five stars*
2003 Films
All the Real Girls \****½ \ Director: David Gordon Green
American Splendor \ ***** \ Director: Shari Springer Berman & Robert Pulcini
American Wedding \ ***½ \ Director: Jesse Dylan
Anger Management \ ** \ Director: Peter Segal
Animatrix, The \ **** \ Director: Various
Bad Santa \ **** \ Director: Terry Zwigoff
Bend It Like Beckham \ **** \ Director: Gurinder Chadha
Better Luck Tomorrow \ **** \ Director: Justin Lin
Big Fish \ **** \ Director: Tim Burton
Cabin Fever \ ***** \ Director: Eli Roth
Capturing the Friedmans \ ****½ \ Director: Andrew Jarecki
Cidade de Deus \ ***** \ Director: Fernando Meirelles
Cheats \ **** \ Director: Andrew Gurland
Cube 2: Hypercube \ *½ \ Director: Andrzej Sekula
Daredevil \ *** \ Director: Mark Steven Johnson
Dark Blue \ ***½ \ Director: Ron Shelton
Dirty Pretty Things \ **** \ Director: Stephen Frears
Dreamcatcher \ **½ \ Director: Lawrence Kasdan
Final Destination 2 \ ** \ Director: David R. Ellis
Finding Nemo \ ***** \ Directors: Andrew Stanton Lee Unkrich
Fog of War, The \ ****½ \ Director: Errol Morris
Freaky Friday \ **** \ Director: Mark S. Waters
Freddy vs. Jason \ *½ \ Director: Ronny Yu
Good Thief, The \ ****½ \ Director: Neil Jordan
The Guru \ ** \ Director: Daisy von Scherler Mayer
Holes \ ***½ \ Director: Andrew Davis (note: projector broke and I miseed the last 20 minutes)
House of 1000 Corpses \ *½ \ Director: Rob Zombie
Hulk \ **** \ Director: Ang Lee
Identity \ ** \ Director: James Mangold
Irréversible \ ***** \ Director: Gaspar Noé
The Italian Job \ **** \ Director: F. Gary Gray
Jeepers Creepers 2 \ ** \ Director: Victor Salva
Just Married \ * \ Director: Shawn Levy
Kill Bill: Vol. 1 \ ****½ \ Director: Quentin Tarantino
Last Samura, The \ **** \ Director: Ed Zwick
Laurel Canyon \ ***½ \ Director: Lisa Cholodenko
Life of David Gale, The \ ½* \ Director: Alan Parker
Lord of the Rings, The: The Two Towers \ ***** \ Director: Peter Jackson
Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King, The \ ***** \ Director: Peter Jackson
Lost in Translation \ ***** \ Director: Sophia Coppola
Matrix Reloaded, The \ ***** \ Director: The Wachowski Bros
Matrix Revolutions, The \ ****½ \ Director: The Wachowski Bros
Malibu's Most Wanted \ *** \ Director: John Whitesell
Matchstick Men \ ***½ \ Director: Ridley Scott
May \ ****½ \ Director: Lucky McKee
Mighty Wind, A \ ****½ \ Director: Christopher Guest
My Little Eye \ **** \ Director: Marc Evans
Mystic River \ ***** \ Director: Clint Eastwood
Old School \ **** \ Director: Todd Phillips
Once Upon A Time In Mexico \ ***½ \ Director: Robert Rodriguez
Phone Booth \ **** \ Director: Joel Shumacher
Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl \ ****½ \ Director: Gore Verbinski
Raising Victor Vargas \ ****½ \ Director: Peter Sollett
Recruit, The \ *** \ Director: Roger Donaldson
Run Ronnie Run \ *** \ Director: Troy Miller
Seabiscuit \ ****½ \ Director: Gary Ross
School of Rock \ ****½ \ Director: Richard Linklater
Secret Lives of Dentists, The \ ***½ \ Director: Alan Rudolph
Shanghai Knights \ ** \ Director: David Dobkin
Shape of Things, The \ ****½ \ Director: Neil LaBute
Spellbound \ ****½ \ Director: Jeffrey Blitz
Spider \ ***½ \ Director: David Cronenberg
Swimming Pool \ ****½ \ Director: Francois Ozon
Tears of the Sun \ *** \ Director: Antoine Fuqua
Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines \ **** \ Director: Jonathan Mostow
Texas Chainsaw Massacre, The \ **** \ Director: Marcus Nispel
21 Grams \ ****½ \ Director: Alejandro González Iñárritu
28 Days Later \ ****½ \ Director: Danny Boyle
Whale Rider \ **** \ Director: Niki Caro
Willard \ **** \ Director: Glen Morgan
Wonderland \ ***½ \ Director: James Cox
Wrong Turn \ *** \ Director: Rob Schmidt
X2 \ ****½ \ Director: Brian Singer
2002 Films Seen Theatrically
-The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers \ **** \ Director: Peter Jackson
-Catch Me If You Can \ **** \ Director: Steven Spielberg
-Gangs of New York \ ***** \ Director: Martin Scorsese
-About Schmidt \ ***** \ Director: Alexander Payne
-Adaptation \ ***** \ Director: Spike Jonze
-Confessions of a Dangerous Mind \ ***½ \ Director: George Clooney
-25th Hour \ ***** \ Director: Spike Lee
-The Quiet American \ ****½ \ Director: Phillip Noyce
-Hable Con Ella \ ***** \ Director: Pedro Almodóvar
-The Pianist \ ****½ \ Director: Roman Polanski
-The Hours \ *** \ Director: Stephen Daldry
First Timers
-Big Trouble \ ***½ \ Director: Barry Sonnenfeld (2002)
-Kissing Jessica Stein \ *** \ Director: Charles Herman-Wurmfeld (2002)
-Visions of Light \ **** \ Director: Arnold Glassman (1992)
-Unfaithful \ *** \ Director: Adrian Lyne (2002)
-Super Troopers \ **** \ Director: Jay Chandrasekhar (2002)
-North By Northwest \ ***** \ Director: Alfred Hitchcock (1959)
-Our Hospitality \ **** \ Director: Buster Keaton (1923)
-Eraserhead \ **** \ Director: David Lynch (1977)
-La Grande Illusion \ **** \ Director: Jean Renoir (1937)
-Lost Highway \ **** \ Director: David Lynch (1997)
-Pretty as a Picture: The Art of David Lynch \ **** \ Director: Toby Keeler (1997)
-Fear and Loathing In Las Vegas \ ****½ \ Director: Terry Gilliam (1998)
-Joy Ride \ *** \ Director: John Dahl (2001)
-Y Tu Mama Tambien \ **** \ Director: Alfonso Cuarón (2002)
-His Girl Friday \ **** \ Director: Howard Hawks (1940)
-From Hell \ *** \ Director: Hughes Brothers (2001)
-Shallow Hal \ ** \ Director: Farrelly Brothers (2001)
-Breathless \ **** \ Director: Jean-Luc Godard (1960)
-Waking Life \ **** \ Director: Richard Linklater (2001)
-Bully \ ** \ Director: Larry Clark (2001)
-The Thin Blue Line \ **** \ Director: Errol Morris (1988)
-The River \ **** \ Director: Pare Lorentz (1937)
-I Don't Know Jack \ **** \ Director: Chris Leavens (2002)
-A Walk to Remember \ *** \ Director: Adam Shankman (2002)
-Saving Silverman \ *** \ Director: Dennis Dugan (2001)
-Jeepers Creepers \ *** \ Director: Victor Salva (2001)
-Monster's Ball \ ****½ \ Director: Marc Forster (2001)
-Bad Taste \ **** \ Director: Peter Jackson (1987)
-Two Ninas \ ***½ \ Director: Neil Turitz
-Dead Alive \ **** \ Director: Peter Jackson (1992)
-In the Mouth of Madness \ **** \ Director: John Carpenter (1995)
-"O" \ **** \ Director: Tim Blake Nelson (2001)
-The Texas Chainsaw Massecre 2 \ ***½ \ Director: Tobe Hooper (1986)
-Assault on Precinct 13 \ ***½ \ Director: John Carpenter (1976)
-Murder By Numbers \ ** \ Director: Barbet Schroeder (2002)
-The Believer \ **** \ Director: Henry Bean (2002)
-Ghost World \ ****½ \ Director: Terry Zwigoff (2001)
-Equilibrium \ **** \ Director: Kurt Wimmer (2002)
-The Sum of All Fears \ ***½ \ Director: Phil Alden Robinson (2002)
-Road to Perdition \ ****½ \ Director: Sam Mendes (2002)
-Brotherhood of the Wolf \ **** \ Director: Christophe Gans (2002)
-Changing Lanes \ **** \ Director: Roger Michell (2002)
-Stanley Kubrick: A Life in Pictures \ **** \ Director: Jan Harlan (2001)
-Final Destination \ ***½ \ Director: James Wong (2000)
-Bottle Rocket (Short Film) \ **** \ Director: Wes Anderson (1994)
-About a Boy \ ****½ \ Director: Chris & Paul Weitz (2002)
-Heavenly Creatures \ **** \ Director: Peter Jackson (1994)
-Battle Royale \ ****½ \ Director: Kinji Fukasaku (2000)
-Dark Water \ **** \ Director: Hideo Nakata (2002)
-The Hills Have Eyes \ ****½ \ Director: Wes Craven (1977)
-The Fog \ **** \ Director: John Carpenter (1980)
-Cube \ ****½ \ Director: Vincenzo Natali (1997)
-Suspiria \ ****½ \ Director: Dario Argento (1977)
-The Thing From Another World \ ***½ \ Director: Howard Hawks (1951)
-Jesse James Meets Frankenstein's Daughter \ * \ William Beaudine (1966)
-It's Alive \ ***½ \ Larry Cohen (1974)
-The People Under the Stairs \ ** \ Wes Craven (1991)
-Valentine \ ½* \ Jamie Blanks (2001)
-Prince of Darkness \ ***½ \ Director: John Carpenter (1987)
-To Live and Die in L.A. \ ****½ \ Director: William Friedkin
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JOHN STEFFENS 2003 FILM LIST
UPDATED: JULY 29th 2003
NOTE: some films on here are from when I viewed them at the 2002 Cinevegas Film Festival, and was told about the 2003 releases- they will be removed if dates change
CRITERIA USED: Films released in the USA
Grading scale: out of 4 stars
FILM COUNT: 62
MOVIE THEATER CODES
(LI)-Luxor IMAX
(NEON)-Neonopolis Crown Theater 14
(CO)-Century Orleans 18
(BRN)-Brenden Theatres 14
(VS)-Village Square
(SC)-Suncoast 16
(S5)-Sunset 5 Hollywood, Ca
(LUC)- Loews Universal city 18 California
(MH)- Music Hall 3 California
(RNT)-Debuted on rental/Had to rent it, due to it not showing in Vegas
Art of Dying (El Arte de Morir) (RNT) **1/2
Atlantis: Milos Return (RNT) *
Bad Boys II (SC) ZERO
Basic **
Biker Boyz ZERO
Blue Car (MH) ***
Bruce Almighty (LUC) **
Bubba Ho-Tep (BRN) ***1/2
Bug (RNT) ***
Charlie's Angels:Full Throttle (CO) ZERO
Cube 2:Hyperspace (RNT) **
Daredevil ***
Darkness Falls (RNT) **
Dumb & Dumberer: When Harry Met Llyod (BRN) *
Face (BRN) ***1/2
Final Destination 2 *
Finding Nemo (VS) ****
Garage Days (BRN) ****
Guru, The *
Guy Thing, A ZERO
How to Deal (CO) *
How To Lose a Guy in 10 Days *
Hulk, The (CO) ZERO
Identity (CO) *1/2
Inspector Gadget 2 (RNT) *
Irréversible (VS) ****
Italian Job (VS) ***
Jungle Book 2 **1/2
Just Married *1/2
Kangaroo Jack ZERO
Keep Your Eyes Open (BRN) **
Laura Croft Tomb Raider: Cradle of Life (CO) **
League of Extraordinary Gentlemen,The (CO) ZERO
Life of David Gale,The *
Lost in La Mancha ***1/2
Magdalene Sisters, The (BRN) ****
Matrix Reloaded (CO) **
May (RNT) ***
Mighty Wind, A (SC) ***
National Security *1/2
No News From God (Sin noticias de Dios) IN THEATERS AUG 2003 (BRN) ****
Octane (BRN) ZERO
Once Upon a Time in the Midlands (BRN) **1/2
Owning Mahowny (BRN) ****
Phone Booth ***
Piglet's Big Movie ***
Pirates of the Caribbean: Curse of the Black Pearl (BRN) ***1/2
Real Cancun, The *1/2
Recruit, The **
Road to Riches (BRN) ZERO NOTE: Saw this in 2002 at Cinevegas Film Festival, was originally titled "Strange Hearts"
Shanghai Knights ***
Sleeping Dictionary, The (RNT) ***
Spellbound (S5) ***
Spun-UNCUT (BRN) ****
Spy Kids 3-D: Game Over (CO) ***
Sweet Sixteen (BRN) **
Tears of the Sun **1/2
Together (Han ni zai yiki) (BRN) ***
Whale Rider (BRN) ****
Wrong Turn (CO) **1/2
X2 (SC) ***1/2
Zus & Zo (RNT) **
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****
Finding Nemo
Garage Days
Irréversible
Magdalene Sisters, The
No News From God (Sin noticias de Dios)
Owning Mahony
Spun-UNCUT
Whale Rider
***1/2
Bubba Ho-Tep
Face
Lost in La Mancha
Pirates of the Caribbean: Curse of the Black Pearl
X2
***
Blue Car
Bug
Daredevil
Italian Job
May
Mighty Wind, A
Phone Booth
Piglet's Big Movie
Shanghai Knights
Sleeping Dictionary, The
Spellbound
Spy Kids 3-D:Game Over
Together
**1/2
Art of Dying (El Arte de Morir)
Jungle Book 2
Once Upon a Time in the Midlands
Tears of the Sun
Wrong Turn
**
Basic
Bruce Almighty
Cube 2:Hyperspace
Darkness Falls
Keep Your Eyes Open
Laura Croft Tomb Raider: Cradle of Life
Matrix Reloaded
Recruit, The
Sweet Sixteen
Zus & Zo
*1/2
Identity
Just Married
National Security
Real Cancun, The
*
Atlantis: Milos Return
Dumb & Dumberer: When Harry Met Llyod
Final Destination 2
Guru, The
How to Deal
How To Lose a Guy in 10 Days
Inspector Gadget 2
Life of David Gale, The
ZERO
Bad Boys II
Biker Boyz
Charlie's Angels:Full Throttle
Guy Thing, A
Hulk, The
Kangaroo Jack
League of Extraordinary Gentlemen,The
Octane
Road to Riches
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Festival Screenings
CINEVEGAS 2003 FILM FESTIVAL
Viewings held at the Brenden's Palms 14 theater.
(Films will go up to the regular 2003/2004 list as soon as they have official release dates)
Total seen: 18
Assisted Living **1/2
Break a Leg ***
Dallas 362 ***1/2
Fittest, The(the version I saw was a work in progress, but very much finished) ***
Games People Play **1/2
Garage Days ****
Keep Your Eyes Open **
Klepto ****
Lady Killers ***
Magdalene Sisters ****
Octane ZERO
Once Upon a Time in the Midlands **1/2
Owning Mahowny ****
Private Property **
Sweet Sixteen **
This Girls Life ***
Together ***
Whale Rider ****
FESTIVAL SHORTS
Jeff Farnsworth **
Director: Paul Cotter
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Los Angeles 3-D Film Festival
FILM COUNT:0
NOTE: all films at the Expo will be run as they were intended to be seen: In 35mm "double interlock", Polaroid system, on the huge screen at the world famous Egyptian Theatre in Hollywood!
(all these titles will be added to my 'first timers' list,
I will have brief comments about the 3-D experience)
ARENA (1953) 93mins Special Guest: Barbara Lawrence
BWANA DEVIL (1952) 79mins Special bonus: An interview with the late, unsung hero of 3-D, Lothrup Worth.
DANGEROUS MISSION (1954) 75mins
HANNAH LEE (1953) 75mins IMPORTANT NOTE: This is the only surviving 3-D print of this feature, and is in faded Eastmancolor. Due to it's rarity, we have decided to run it anyway, but please be advised that the color is "off" on this title.
GLASS WEB (1953) 81mins This film has never played in 3-D in Los Angeles, even in its original release. This will be it's Los Angeles 3-D premiere!
JESSE JAMES VS THE DALTONS (1954) 65mins This film has never played in 3-D in Los Angeles, even in its original release. This will be it's Los Angeles 3-D premiere!
MAN IN THE DARK (1953) 70mins
PHANTOM OF THE RUE MORGUE (1954) 84mins
REVENGE OF THE CREATURE (1955) 82 mins
3-D shorts
HYPNOTIC HICK (1953) 8mins Woody Woodpecker decides to make a fast buck when he takes on the job of serving the tough Buzz Buzzard with a subpoena.
M.L. GUNZBURG PRESENTS 3-D (1952) 6mins
Also known as "Time For Beany", the short was produced by Gunzburg (one of the fathers of 3-D) to introduce audiences to the "Polaroid" 3-D process. This short was designed to go before "Bwana Devil", so that's where we're running it. Stars puppets Beany and Cecil, with the assistance of Lloyd Nolan.
Working for Peanuts (1953) 7mins
Chip and Dale, two hard working chipmunks. have to search for their daily meal of peanuts. Donald Duck is the zoo keeper who tries to prevent them from stealing peanuts from Dolores the elephant.
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Movies seen for the first time
TOTAL SEEN: 38
+ seen in the last 7 days
Movies in GREEN signify, that I saw it in the theaters
Total seen in 2002: 101
Total seen in 2001: 39
Are You Being Served? The Movie (1977) **1/2
Babysitter, The ZERO
Bad Boys (1995) **1/2
Big Bus, The (1976) *
Blazing Saddles (1974) ***
Boys (1996) **1/2
Broadway Danny Rose (1984) ***1/2
Caddyshack (1980) ***
Casino Royale (1967) **
Castle in the Sky (Tenku no shiro Rapyuta) (1986) ****
Charade(1963) ****
Crime and Punishment in Suburbia (2000) ***
Cube (1997) ***1/2
Chuck & Buck (2000) ***1/2
Dernier combat, Le (1983) ***
Diabolique (1996) *1/2
+ Divine Trash (1998) ****
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (1998) NOTE: Hosted by Beninco Del Toro ***
Final Destination (2000) *
Flashdance (1983) ***
Gleaners and I (Glaneurs et la glaneuse, Les) (2000) ***1/2
Go Tigers! (2001) ****
Hit Me (1996) *
Kiki's Delivery Service(Majo no takkyubin) (1989) ****
Killing, The (1956) ***
Man Bites Dog (C'est arrivé près de chez vous) (1992) ***1/2
Murder by Decree (1979) ***
My Man Godfrey (1936) ****
Night and Fog (1955) ***1/2
North by Northwest (1959) ****
Odd Couple (1968) ****
One Crazy Summer (1986) ***1/2
One Day in September (1999) ****
Program, The (1993) *
There's Something About Mary: Director's Cut (1998)****
This is Spinal Tap (1984) ***1/2
True Crime (1995) *1/2
+ What's Up, Tiger Lilly? (1966) (Formerly Kokusai himitsu keisatsu: Kagi no kagi) ***
Zelig (1983) ***
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UPDATED: JULY 29th 2003
NOTE: some films on here are from when I viewed them at the 2002 Cinevegas Film Festival, and was told about the 2003 releases- they will be removed if dates change
CRITERIA USED: Films released in the USA
Grading scale: out of 4 stars
FILM COUNT: 62
MOVIE THEATER CODES
(LI)-Luxor IMAX
(NEON)-Neonopolis Crown Theater 14
(CO)-Century Orleans 18
(BRN)-Brenden Theatres 14
(VS)-Village Square
(SC)-Suncoast 16
(S5)-Sunset 5 Hollywood, Ca
(LUC)- Loews Universal city 18 California
(MH)- Music Hall 3 California
(RNT)-Debuted on rental/Had to rent it, due to it not showing in Vegas
Art of Dying (El Arte de Morir) (RNT) **1/2
Atlantis: Milos Return (RNT) *
Bad Boys II (SC) ZERO
Basic **
Biker Boyz ZERO
Blue Car (MH) ***
Bruce Almighty (LUC) **
Bubba Ho-Tep (BRN) ***1/2
Bug (RNT) ***
Charlie's Angels:Full Throttle (CO) ZERO
Cube 2:Hyperspace (RNT) **
Daredevil ***
Darkness Falls (RNT) **
Dumb & Dumberer: When Harry Met Llyod (BRN) *
Face (BRN) ***1/2
Final Destination 2 *
Finding Nemo (VS) ****
Garage Days (BRN) ****
Guru, The *
Guy Thing, A ZERO
How to Deal (CO) *
How To Lose a Guy in 10 Days *
Hulk, The (CO) ZERO
Identity (CO) *1/2
Inspector Gadget 2 (RNT) *
Irréversible (VS) ****
Italian Job (VS) ***
Jungle Book 2 **1/2
Just Married *1/2
Kangaroo Jack ZERO
Keep Your Eyes Open (BRN) **
Laura Croft Tomb Raider: Cradle of Life (CO) **
League of Extraordinary Gentlemen,The (CO) ZERO
Life of David Gale,The *
Lost in La Mancha ***1/2
Magdalene Sisters, The (BRN) ****
Matrix Reloaded (CO) **
May (RNT) ***
Mighty Wind, A (SC) ***
National Security *1/2
No News From God (Sin noticias de Dios) IN THEATERS AUG 2003 (BRN) ****
Octane (BRN) ZERO
Once Upon a Time in the Midlands (BRN) **1/2
Owning Mahowny (BRN) ****
Phone Booth ***
Piglet's Big Movie ***
Pirates of the Caribbean: Curse of the Black Pearl (BRN) ***1/2
Real Cancun, The *1/2
Recruit, The **
Road to Riches (BRN) ZERO NOTE: Saw this in 2002 at Cinevegas Film Festival, was originally titled "Strange Hearts"
Shanghai Knights ***
Sleeping Dictionary, The (RNT) ***
Spellbound (S5) ***
Spun-UNCUT (BRN) ****
Spy Kids 3-D: Game Over (CO) ***
Sweet Sixteen (BRN) **
Tears of the Sun **1/2
Together (Han ni zai yiki) (BRN) ***
Whale Rider (BRN) ****
Wrong Turn (CO) **1/2
X2 (SC) ***1/2
Zus & Zo (RNT) **
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****
Finding Nemo
Garage Days
Irréversible
Magdalene Sisters, The
No News From God (Sin noticias de Dios)
Owning Mahony
Spun-UNCUT
Whale Rider
***1/2
Bubba Ho-Tep
Face
Lost in La Mancha
Pirates of the Caribbean: Curse of the Black Pearl
X2
***
Blue Car
Bug
Daredevil
Italian Job
May
Mighty Wind, A
Phone Booth
Piglet's Big Movie
Shanghai Knights
Sleeping Dictionary, The
Spellbound
Spy Kids 3-D:Game Over
Together
**1/2
Art of Dying (El Arte de Morir)
Jungle Book 2
Once Upon a Time in the Midlands
Tears of the Sun
Wrong Turn
**
Basic
Bruce Almighty
Cube 2:Hyperspace
Darkness Falls
Keep Your Eyes Open
Laura Croft Tomb Raider: Cradle of Life
Matrix Reloaded
Recruit, The
Sweet Sixteen
Zus & Zo
*1/2
Identity
Just Married
National Security
Real Cancun, The
*
Atlantis: Milos Return
Dumb & Dumberer: When Harry Met Llyod
Final Destination 2
Guru, The
How to Deal
How To Lose a Guy in 10 Days
Inspector Gadget 2
Life of David Gale, The
ZERO
Bad Boys II
Biker Boyz
Charlie's Angels:Full Throttle
Guy Thing, A
Hulk, The
Kangaroo Jack
League of Extraordinary Gentlemen,The
Octane
Road to Riches
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Festival Screenings
CINEVEGAS 2003 FILM FESTIVAL
Viewings held at the Brenden's Palms 14 theater.
(Films will go up to the regular 2003/2004 list as soon as they have official release dates)
Total seen: 18
Assisted Living **1/2
Break a Leg ***
Dallas 362 ***1/2
Fittest, The(the version I saw was a work in progress, but very much finished) ***
Games People Play **1/2
Garage Days ****
Keep Your Eyes Open **
Klepto ****
Lady Killers ***
Magdalene Sisters ****
Octane ZERO
Once Upon a Time in the Midlands **1/2
Owning Mahowny ****
Private Property **
Sweet Sixteen **
This Girls Life ***
Together ***
Whale Rider ****
FESTIVAL SHORTS
Jeff Farnsworth **
Director: Paul Cotter
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Los Angeles 3-D Film Festival
FILM COUNT:0
NOTE: all films at the Expo will be run as they were intended to be seen: In 35mm "double interlock", Polaroid system, on the huge screen at the world famous Egyptian Theatre in Hollywood!
(all these titles will be added to my 'first timers' list,
I will have brief comments about the 3-D experience)
ARENA (1953) 93mins Special Guest: Barbara Lawrence
BWANA DEVIL (1952) 79mins Special bonus: An interview with the late, unsung hero of 3-D, Lothrup Worth.
DANGEROUS MISSION (1954) 75mins
HANNAH LEE (1953) 75mins IMPORTANT NOTE: This is the only surviving 3-D print of this feature, and is in faded Eastmancolor. Due to it's rarity, we have decided to run it anyway, but please be advised that the color is "off" on this title.
GLASS WEB (1953) 81mins This film has never played in 3-D in Los Angeles, even in its original release. This will be it's Los Angeles 3-D premiere!
JESSE JAMES VS THE DALTONS (1954) 65mins This film has never played in 3-D in Los Angeles, even in its original release. This will be it's Los Angeles 3-D premiere!
MAN IN THE DARK (1953) 70mins
PHANTOM OF THE RUE MORGUE (1954) 84mins
REVENGE OF THE CREATURE (1955) 82 mins
3-D shorts
HYPNOTIC HICK (1953) 8mins Woody Woodpecker decides to make a fast buck when he takes on the job of serving the tough Buzz Buzzard with a subpoena.
M.L. GUNZBURG PRESENTS 3-D (1952) 6mins
Also known as "Time For Beany", the short was produced by Gunzburg (one of the fathers of 3-D) to introduce audiences to the "Polaroid" 3-D process. This short was designed to go before "Bwana Devil", so that's where we're running it. Stars puppets Beany and Cecil, with the assistance of Lloyd Nolan.
Working for Peanuts (1953) 7mins
Chip and Dale, two hard working chipmunks. have to search for their daily meal of peanuts. Donald Duck is the zoo keeper who tries to prevent them from stealing peanuts from Dolores the elephant.
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Movies seen for the first time
TOTAL SEEN: 38
+ seen in the last 7 days
Movies in GREEN signify, that I saw it in the theaters
Total seen in 2002: 101
Total seen in 2001: 39
Are You Being Served? The Movie (1977) **1/2
Babysitter, The ZERO
Bad Boys (1995) **1/2
Big Bus, The (1976) *
Blazing Saddles (1974) ***
Boys (1996) **1/2
Broadway Danny Rose (1984) ***1/2
Caddyshack (1980) ***
Casino Royale (1967) **
Castle in the Sky (Tenku no shiro Rapyuta) (1986) ****
Charade(1963) ****
Crime and Punishment in Suburbia (2000) ***
Cube (1997) ***1/2
Chuck & Buck (2000) ***1/2
Dernier combat, Le (1983) ***
Diabolique (1996) *1/2
+ Divine Trash (1998) ****
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (1998) NOTE: Hosted by Beninco Del Toro ***
Final Destination (2000) *
Flashdance (1983) ***
Gleaners and I (Glaneurs et la glaneuse, Les) (2000) ***1/2
Go Tigers! (2001) ****
Hit Me (1996) *
Kiki's Delivery Service(Majo no takkyubin) (1989) ****
Killing, The (1956) ***
Man Bites Dog (C'est arrivé près de chez vous) (1992) ***1/2
Murder by Decree (1979) ***
My Man Godfrey (1936) ****
Night and Fog (1955) ***1/2
North by Northwest (1959) ****
Odd Couple (1968) ****
One Crazy Summer (1986) ***1/2
One Day in September (1999) ****
Program, The (1993) *
There's Something About Mary: Director's Cut (1998)****
This is Spinal Tap (1984) ***1/2
True Crime (1995) *1/2
+ What's Up, Tiger Lilly? (1966) (Formerly Kokusai himitsu keisatsu: Kagi no kagi) ***
Zelig (1983) ***
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post #24 of 601
1/6/03 at 1:08am
2003 Film List
Last Updated: 1-11-03 (added Cold Mountain)
Criteria: movies with a 2003 US theatrical release
Number of Films Seen: 154
Films (in order of release date)(# of times seen)
1/10/03
Just Married, * 1/2
1/17/03
A Guy Thing, ** 1/2
National Security, **
1/31/03
Biker Boyz, * 1/2
Final Destination 2, *** (twice)
The Guru, ***
Lost in La Mancha, ** 1/2
The Recruit, ** 1/2
2/7/03
How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days, ***
Shanghai Knights, *** 1/2 (twice)
2/14/03
Daredevil, **
All the Real Girls, ** 1/2
2/21/03
The Life of David Gale, **
Old School, *** 1/2(twice)
2/28/03
Cradle 2 the Grave, * 1/2
Spider, ** 1/2
3/7/03
Bringing Down the House, ** 1/2
Irreversible, *** 1/2
Laurel Canyon, *** 1/2
Tears of the Sun, **
3/12/03
Bend it like Beckham, ** 1/2,
3/14/03
Agent Cody Banks, **
Willard, ** 1/2
Spun, ** 1/2
3/21/03
Dreamcatcher, * 1/2
View from the Top, * 1/2
3/28/03
Head of State, **
Raising Victor Vargas, ****
4/4/03
A Man Apart, *
DysFunKtional Family, ***
Levity, * 1/2
Phone Booth, *** 1/2 (twice)
4/11/03
Anger Management, ** 1/2
Better Luck Tomorrow, *** 1/2
XX/XY, **
4/16/03
Bulletproof Monk, *
A Mighty Wind, ***
4/18/03
Holes, ***
Malibu's Most Wanted, ** 1/2
4/25/03
Confidence, ***
Identity, ***
It Runs in the Family, **
People I Know, ***
4/30/03
Spellbound, ***
5/2/03
X2: X-Men United, *** 1/2 (twice)
Lizzie McGuire Movie, ***
New Suit, * 1/2
Owning Mahowny, *** 1/2
5/9/03
Daddy Day Care, **
The Shape of Things, *** 1/2 (twice)
5/15/03
The Matrix: Reloaded, ***
5/16/03
Down with Love, *** 1/2
L'Auberge Espagnole, *** 1/2
5/23/03
The In-Laws, ***
Bruce Almighty, ** 1/2
Gigantic: A Tale of Two Johns, ***
5/30/03
Finding Nemo, *** 1/2
The Italian Job, ***
6/6/03
The Eye, ** 1/2
2 Fast 2 Furious, ** (twice)
May, ** 1/2
6/13/03
Dumb and Dumberer, * 1/2
Hollywood Homicide, * 1/2
6/20/03
The Hulk, **
Alex and Emma, * 1/2
6/27/03
Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle, *** (twice)
28 Days Later, *** 1/2
7/2/03
Legally Blonde 2, **
Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines, *** (twice)
7/9/03
Pirates of the Caribbean, **
7/11/03
League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, *
7/18/03
Bad Boy II, ** 1/2
Johnny English, * 1/2
Dirty Pretty Things, *** 1/2
7/23/03
Masked and Anonymous, *
7/25/03
Buffalo Soldiers, ** 1/2
Mondays in the Sun, *** 1/2
Hotel, ** 1/2
Seabiscuit, ** 1/2
8/1/03
American Wedding, ***
Gigli, **
The Secret Lives of Dentists, ***
8/6/03
Freaky Friday, ** 1/2
8/8/03
S.W.A.T., *** 1/2
Le Divorce, **
8/15/03
Freddy vs Jason, ** 1/2
Open Range, ** 1/2
Uptown Girls, **
American Splendor, *** 1/2
8/20/03
Thirteen, ***
8/22/03
Marci X, Half star
The Medallion, * 1/2
My Boss's Daughter, *
The Battle of Shaker Heights, ***
9/5/03
Dickie Roberts: Former Child Star, ** 1/2
The Order, ZERO STARS
Party Monster, ***
9/12/03
Cabin Fever, **
Matchstick Men, *** 1/2
Once Upon a Time in Mexico, ** 1/2
Lost in Translation, *** 1/2
Dummy, ** 1/2
9/19/03
Anything Else, *** (twice)
The Fighting Temptations, **
Secondhand Lions, ** 1/2
Underworld, * 1/2
Casa de los babys, **
9/26/03
Duplex, * 1/2
The Rundown, ** 1/2
Under the Tuscan Sun, ** 1/2
10/3/03
Wonderland, ** 1/2
School of Rock, ***
The Station Agent, ***
10/8/03
Mystic River, *** 1/2
10/10/03
Dopamine, ***
Kill Bill Vol. 1, ***
Intolerable Cruelty, *** (twice)
10/17/03
Pieces of April, *** 1/2
Runaway Jury, *** 1/2
Sylvia, **
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, ** 1/2
Veronica Guerin, ***
10/24/03
Scary Movie 3, half star
Singing Detective, *** 1/2
10/31/03
The Human Stain, ** 1/2
Shattered Glass, *** 1/2
11/05/03
The Matrix: Revolutions, **
11/07/03
Elf, ***
Love Actually, ***
11/14/03
The Big Empty, ***
11/21/03
Blue Gate Crossing, *** 1/2
21 Grams, * 1/2
Gothika, ** 1/2
11/26/03
Bad Santa, *** 1/2
The Cooler, ** 1/2
The Missing, **
In America, ****
Timeline, ** 1/2
Triplets of Belleville, *** 1/2
12/5/03
Honey, ** 1/2
12/10/03
Big Fish, *** 1/2
12/12/03
Girl with a Pearl Earring, ***
Something's Gotta Give, ***
Stuck on You, *** 1/2
12/17/03
Lords of the Rings: Return of the King, *** 1/2
12/19/03
Mona Lisa Smile, ** 1/2
House of Sand and Fog, ** 1/2
12/25/03
Cheaper by the Dozen, ** 1/2
Cold Mountain, ***
The Company, ** 1/2
Paycheck, ** 1/2
Peter Pan, ** 1/2
Monster, *** 1/2
12/31/03
Japanese Story, ** 1/2
Top 10 Movies of 2003
1. In America, dir. Jim Sheridan
2. Raising Victor Vargas, dir. Peter Sollett
3. American Splendor, dir. Berman/Pulcini
4. Lost in Translation, dir. Sophia Coppola
5. Owning Mahowny, dir. Richard Kwietniowski
6. Mystic River, dir. Clint Eastwood
7. Triplets of Belleville, dir. Sylvain Chomet
8. Shattered Glass, dir. Billy Ray
9. Big Fish, dir. Tim Burton
10. Better Luck Tomorrow, dir. Justin Lin
David Ren
Last Updated: 1-11-03 (added Cold Mountain)
Criteria: movies with a 2003 US theatrical release
Number of Films Seen: 154
Films (in order of release date)(# of times seen)
1/10/03
Just Married, * 1/2
1/17/03
A Guy Thing, ** 1/2
National Security, **
1/31/03
Biker Boyz, * 1/2
Final Destination 2, *** (twice)
The Guru, ***
Lost in La Mancha, ** 1/2
The Recruit, ** 1/2
2/7/03
How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days, ***
Shanghai Knights, *** 1/2 (twice)
2/14/03
Daredevil, **
All the Real Girls, ** 1/2
2/21/03
The Life of David Gale, **
Old School, *** 1/2(twice)
2/28/03
Cradle 2 the Grave, * 1/2
Spider, ** 1/2
3/7/03
Bringing Down the House, ** 1/2
Irreversible, *** 1/2
Laurel Canyon, *** 1/2
Tears of the Sun, **
3/12/03
Bend it like Beckham, ** 1/2,
3/14/03
Agent Cody Banks, **
Willard, ** 1/2
Spun, ** 1/2
3/21/03
Dreamcatcher, * 1/2
View from the Top, * 1/2
3/28/03
Head of State, **
Raising Victor Vargas, ****
4/4/03
A Man Apart, *
DysFunKtional Family, ***
Levity, * 1/2
Phone Booth, *** 1/2 (twice)
4/11/03
Anger Management, ** 1/2
Better Luck Tomorrow, *** 1/2
XX/XY, **
4/16/03
Bulletproof Monk, *
A Mighty Wind, ***
4/18/03
Holes, ***
Malibu's Most Wanted, ** 1/2
4/25/03
Confidence, ***
Identity, ***
It Runs in the Family, **
People I Know, ***
4/30/03
Spellbound, ***
5/2/03
X2: X-Men United, *** 1/2 (twice)
Lizzie McGuire Movie, ***
New Suit, * 1/2
Owning Mahowny, *** 1/2
5/9/03
Daddy Day Care, **
The Shape of Things, *** 1/2 (twice)
5/15/03
The Matrix: Reloaded, ***
5/16/03
Down with Love, *** 1/2
L'Auberge Espagnole, *** 1/2
5/23/03
The In-Laws, ***
Bruce Almighty, ** 1/2
Gigantic: A Tale of Two Johns, ***
5/30/03
Finding Nemo, *** 1/2
The Italian Job, ***
6/6/03
The Eye, ** 1/2
2 Fast 2 Furious, ** (twice)
May, ** 1/2
6/13/03
Dumb and Dumberer, * 1/2
Hollywood Homicide, * 1/2
6/20/03
The Hulk, **
Alex and Emma, * 1/2
6/27/03
Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle, ***
(twice)28 Days Later, *** 1/2
7/2/03
Legally Blonde 2, **
Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines, ***
(twice)7/9/03
Pirates of the Caribbean, **
7/11/03
League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, *
7/18/03
Bad Boy II, ** 1/2
Johnny English, * 1/2
Dirty Pretty Things, *** 1/2
7/23/03
Masked and Anonymous, *
7/25/03
Buffalo Soldiers, ** 1/2
Mondays in the Sun, *** 1/2
Hotel, ** 1/2
Seabiscuit, ** 1/2
8/1/03
American Wedding, ***
Gigli, **
The Secret Lives of Dentists, ***
8/6/03
Freaky Friday, ** 1/2
8/8/03
S.W.A.T., *** 1/2
Le Divorce, **
8/15/03
Freddy vs Jason, ** 1/2
Open Range, ** 1/2
Uptown Girls, **
American Splendor, *** 1/2
8/20/03
Thirteen, ***
8/22/03
Marci X, Half star
The Medallion, * 1/2
My Boss's Daughter, *
The Battle of Shaker Heights, ***
9/5/03
Dickie Roberts: Former Child Star, ** 1/2
The Order, ZERO STARS
Party Monster, ***
9/12/03
Cabin Fever, **
Matchstick Men, *** 1/2
Once Upon a Time in Mexico, ** 1/2
Lost in Translation, *** 1/2
Dummy, ** 1/2
9/19/03
Anything Else, ***
(twice)The Fighting Temptations, **
Secondhand Lions, ** 1/2
Underworld, * 1/2
Casa de los babys, **
9/26/03
Duplex, * 1/2
The Rundown, ** 1/2
Under the Tuscan Sun, ** 1/2
10/3/03
Wonderland, ** 1/2
School of Rock, ***
The Station Agent, ***
10/8/03
Mystic River, *** 1/2
10/10/03
Dopamine, ***
Kill Bill Vol. 1, ***
Intolerable Cruelty, ***
(twice)10/17/03
Pieces of April, *** 1/2
Runaway Jury, *** 1/2
Sylvia, **
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, ** 1/2
Veronica Guerin, ***
10/24/03
Scary Movie 3, half star
Singing Detective, *** 1/2
10/31/03
The Human Stain, ** 1/2
Shattered Glass, *** 1/2
11/05/03
The Matrix: Revolutions, **
11/07/03
Elf, ***
Love Actually, ***
11/14/03
The Big Empty, ***
11/21/03
Blue Gate Crossing, *** 1/2
21 Grams, * 1/2
Gothika, ** 1/2
11/26/03
Bad Santa, *** 1/2
The Cooler, ** 1/2
The Missing, **
In America, ****
Timeline, ** 1/2
Triplets of Belleville, *** 1/2
12/5/03
Honey, ** 1/2
12/10/03
Big Fish, *** 1/2
12/12/03
Girl with a Pearl Earring, ***
Something's Gotta Give, ***
Stuck on You, *** 1/2
12/17/03
Lords of the Rings: Return of the King, *** 1/2
12/19/03
Mona Lisa Smile, ** 1/2
House of Sand and Fog, ** 1/2
12/25/03
Cheaper by the Dozen, ** 1/2
Cold Mountain, ***
The Company, ** 1/2
Paycheck, ** 1/2
Peter Pan, ** 1/2
Monster, *** 1/2
12/31/03
Japanese Story, ** 1/2
Top 10 Movies of 2003
1. In America, dir. Jim Sheridan
2. Raising Victor Vargas, dir. Peter Sollett
3. American Splendor, dir. Berman/Pulcini
4. Lost in Translation, dir. Sophia Coppola
5. Owning Mahowny, dir. Richard Kwietniowski
6. Mystic River, dir. Clint Eastwood
7. Triplets of Belleville, dir. Sylvain Chomet
8. Shattered Glass, dir. Billy Ray
9. Big Fish, dir. Tim Burton
10. Better Luck Tomorrow, dir. Justin Lin
David Ren
post #25 of 601
1/6/03 at 11:51pm
[font=Arial][size=2]Latest Update:21February2004:81Films Seen (Average Score:81.7%)
Criteria used: 2003 U.S. release, Academy rules (based on 2002 rules) Rating system used: Percentile scale. I rate movies on a percentage basis, rounded to the nearest 5% to make it easier to compare to other rating systems. I use objective criteria as a baseline for a movie's rating, then mesh in my own subjective opinions of the movie as a whole ("entertainment value") in coming up with a rating. I tend to be more forgiving of flawed movies, so long as they are internally consistent and aren't trying to pander to the lowest common moviewatcher. You'll find more 80%'s in my list than everything under 50% added together, because I try to avoid films I know are dreck, but also because my subjective biases throw off the curve a bit. Thus, if a movie at least makes it worth the money I paid -- meets the objective criteria first and then entertains me as a whole ("entertain" can mean "disturb", a la Schindler's List) -- the movie will receive a 75%. If it doesn't quite live up to expectations, but was enough to pass the time, it'll get between 50% - 75%. Anything below 50% connotes significant problems. Anything above 80% connotes significant quality. Also, like other members and their rating systems, I do have lots of movies that get the same rating, but unlike some others, the order I have them in is important; I try to rank them within their own percentile grouping, so that you can see overall which films I felt were better than others at that same percentile.
5 Most Recent Films (with reviews, if present)
Monster, seen at Other (Non-theatrical), 21 Feb 2004
This brutal film is worthy of note for one primary factor: Charlize Theron's performance is out-of-this-world incredible. Theron brings tremendous realism, vivacity, and ferocity to her role of convicted serial-killer Aileen Wuornos, and brings a film that would have otherwise gone unnoticed in the "who cares" pile into the forefront of this year's Oscar spotlight.
Patty Jenkins' direction is adequate, though some of the scriptwriting and some of the editing choices ultimately leave a gap of insight into the character and her motives. And although the performances are very compelling, there IS the fundamental problem of even wanting to empathize with Wuornos, and no matter just how jaw-dropping Theron's acting can be (and believe me, it is indeed amazing), this issue just won't go away, and, in the end, when she crosses an ethical line she herself drew, all sympathy that may have been earned is thrown right out the window, leaving the remainder of the film pretty hollow.
But it's the journey to that end that is so darned mesmerizing, that even after the deflated denoument, you're left breathless with what you've just witnessed. At least, I was. For that, I give the film an 85%, and a definite recommendation to see it.
21 Grams, seen at Other (Non-theatrical), 14 Feb 2004
Sean Penn's performance as a man struggling with life and given a second chance at it via a heart transplant is this film's primary attraction, but not its only one. 21 Grams is a story about the intimacies of living and dying, and while some may find the editing to be gimmicky, I find that the message the film tries to deliver could not be told any other way. That editing is its other great achievement, and it propels the film from a dull character story to a fascinating contrast of life and death and the struggles between.
All performances in this film are very compelling, far moreso than any other film this year (including and especially Mystic River, the film Penn is actually up for for Best Actor). Benicio Del Toro is very convincing as an ex-con trying to go straight through religious salvation, who tries to overcome a slew of horrors thrust upon him against his will. Naomi Watts also gives a compelling performance as the grieving widow of a horrifying loss of her husband and two daughters.
All three of these characters' lives intersect in a very twisted and tragic manner, and through each's unique outlook on life (and through the director's choice of editing), we see how each is able to cope with a cruel and unforgiving fate.
I give the film 90%, and a solid thumbs-up recommendation to see it. It is dark, implicitly violent, and will leave a lasting impression.
American Splendor, seen at home on DVD, 13 Feb 2004
I'd like to put my disclaimer up front: My romantic-ideal outlook on life has prejudiced my view of this film, and likely has skewed my feelings toward the negative.
I really wanted to like and endorse this film. After hearing so many things about it -- performances, story, acting, etc. -- I was itching to jump on the "Good film, go out and see this now" bandwagon; the only thing in the way was the perfunctory "see" part. Unfortunately, that's where reality and expectation smashed together, and unlike peanut-butter and chocolate, the end product didn't come out tasting particularly pleasing. The bitterness of reality won, in this case, and it was just too depressing of an experience to give my recommendation to see it.
That's not to say this film doesn't have its moments. Truth be told, I laughed my ass off on a couple scenes. And I did find the quirky narrative style very compelling at times -- although the comic-book layout was not used effectively enough throughout, and make me wonder if it was just a gimmick. The main character, Harvey Pekar -- the real-life one, apparently -- narrates as his older self viewing his younger self's growth through the late 70's and mid-80's. It's an off-beat, self-depracating view, full of cynicism and overloaded with anal-retentiveness. Harvey lucks into an encounter with Robert Crumb, creator of the comic Fritz the Cat, and after showing the guy his "The Real Life" view of comic material (an unheard-of thing in the industry back then), convinces his friend to illustrate his material, and propels himself into pseudo-stardom of the comic industry. Lucky Harvey also manages to be involved in more than one relationship through that period, but the story focuses primarily on his latest (and lasting) relationship with Joyce (played by Hope Davis with extraordinary depths of anal-ness, the likes of which I've not seen since Rainman; kudos to Davis for this).
I give the film this much: Through all the depths of Harvey's sarcasm and depressed cynicism, he does manage a grudging optimism that ultimately lets himself survive through all the banality and other of life's vulgarities. It's just too bad that it's Pekar very *nature* that leads to so much of his own problems, and the lack of admittance to that in any way really frustrated me, and ultimately led me to never empathize with him (or his wife).
Still, I cannot rate the film lower than 80% (my threshold for thumbs-up entertainment), because there *were* wonderful and funny moments throughout the film, plus the style of storytelling is a fresh departure from the usual Hollywood fanfare. And I recognize that it's my own fantasy-oriented mindset, my own anti-Pekar view on life, that leads me to shun a lot of what I saw, and for that I'm willing to give the film a little leniency. I'll just say ... see this if practicality and cynical realism are your cup of tea; for everybody else, rent the DVD before buying it.
Secondhand Lions, seen at home on DVD, 08 Feb 2004
Very good story about a boy (Haley Joel Osment) left by his mother with his two uncles (Michael Caine, Robert Duvall) in order to pursue an unburdened life. Osment plays well a kid who slowly gains trust with his uncles, but Michael Caine really shines in his role as the somewhat-submissive brother to Duvall, as he wonderfully shares with Osment the tale of how the two had disappeared for forty years and came back with huge amounts of money.
The story (and the story-within-the-story) unfolds slowly but with a decent amount of humor and intrigue, but is always full of detail and heartwarming moments. The only complaint (and it's somewhat a depressing one) is that the story strives terribly hard to make it hard to tell whether the story-within-the-story is real or not, in order to hammer home a point that Duvall says (and Osment takes to heart), that some things are worth believing in whether they're true or false...but the very last scene in the film destroys some of that. Despite that, it's a lovely film with some tearjerker moments, and I recommend it heartily. 85%.
Spellbound, seen at home on DVD, 07 Feb 2004
Interesting but not quite fascinating or gripping story following nine kids through local, regional, and the national Spelling Bee competitions. Some of the children are quite intriguing to watch, while some of them are just downright boring. Still, the film does keep you guessing all the way to the end which (if any) of the nine makes it to #1, but the style of it does make it unworthy of repeat viewings. 80%.
By ranking
| # | Title | Rating | ||
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1( ) | The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King |
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| 2() | À la folie… pas du tout (He Loves Me, He Loves Me Not) |
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| 3() | Finding Nemo |
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| 4() | Whale Rider |
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| 5() | X2 |
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| 6() | Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl |
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| 7() | 21 Grams |
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| 8() | Mystic River |
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| 9() | The Matrix Revolutions |
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| 10() | The Matrix Reloaded |
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| 11() | Seabiscuit |
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| 12() | L'Auberge espagnole (The Spanish Apartment) |
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| 13() | The Animatrix: Beyond |
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| 14() | Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World |
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| 15() | Les triplettes de Belleville (The Triplets of Belleville) |
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| 16() | Cold Mountain |
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| 17() | The Last Samurai |
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| 18() | Love Actually |
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| 19() | Down with Love |
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| 20() | Sennen joyu (Millennium Actress) |
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| 21() | The Missing |
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| 22() | Lost in Translation |
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| 23() | The Animatrix: The Second Renaissance - Part 2 |
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| 24() | The Animatrix: The Second Renaissance - Part 1 |
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| 25() | Jian gui (The Eye) |
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| 26() | Monster |
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| 27() | Something's Gotta Give |
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| 28() | Swimming Pool |
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| 29() | Secondhand Lions |
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| 30() | Le peuple migrateur (Winged Migration) |
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| 31() | Holes |
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| 32() | Once Upon a Time in Mexico |
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| 33() | Tengoku no Tobira (Cowboy Bebop: Knocking On Heaven's Door) |
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| 34() | Dirty Pretty Things |
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| 35() | The Animatrix: Final Flight of the Osiris |
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| 36() | Identity |
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| 37() | The Animatrix: Program |
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| 38() | The Animatrix: Kid's Story |
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| 39() | The Italian Job |
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| 40() | Runaway Jury |
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| 41() | Kill Bill: Vol. 1 |
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| 42() | School of Rock |
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| 43() | Open Range |
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| 44() | Better Luck Tomorrow |
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| 45() | Spellbound |
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| 46() | Hulk |
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| 47() | Final Destination 2 |
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| 48() | Cabin Fever |
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| 49() | Confidence |
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| 50() | Anything Else |
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| 51() | The Rundown |
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| 52() | Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines |
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| 53() | Willard |
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| 54() | Camp |
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| 55() | Underworld |
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| 56() | Out of Time |
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| 57() | 28 Days Later |
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| 58() | A Mighty Wind |
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| 59() | American Splendor |
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| 60() | Daredevil |
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| 61() | Freaky Friday |
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| 62() | Phone Booth |
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| 63() | The Animatrix: Matriculated |
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| 64() | The Animatrix: World Record |
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| 65() | The Animatrix: Detective Story |
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| 66() | Old School |
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| 67() | Shanghai Knights |
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| 68() | Matchstick Men |
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| 69() | Under the Tuscan Sun |
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| 70() | Scary Movie 3 |
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| 71() | Spy Kids 3-D: Game Over |
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| 72() | Bruce Almighty |
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| 73() | American Wedding |
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| 74() | Darkness Falls |
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| 75() | How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days |
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| 76() | Anger Management |
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| 77() | The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen |
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| 78() | Irréversible (Irreversible) |
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| 79() | Timeline |
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| 80() | The Core |
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81( ) | House of 1000 Corpses |
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By Date Seen
| # | Year | Title | Feature Type | Date Seen |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2003 |
post #26 of 601
1/7/03 at 7:09pm
Marty's 2003 Film List
Last updated May 30th, 2004
Out of
All the Real Girls
American Splender
American Wedding ZERO
Anger Managment
Bad Boys II ZERO
Barbarian Invasions
Basic
Bend It Like Beckham
Beyond Borders
The Big Empty
Big Fish
Bruce Almighty
Bulletproof Monk
Cabin Fever
Capturing The Friedman's
Charlie's Angels:Full Throttle
City of God
Cold Creek Manor
Confidence
The Core
Daredevil
Dark Blue
Darkness Falls
A Decade Under the Influence
Dickie Roberts:Former Child Star
Dreamcatcher
The Eye
Final Destination 2
Finding Nemo
The Fog of War
Freddy Vs Jason
Freaky Friday
The Good Thief
The Haunted Mansion
Hollywood Homicide
House of a Thousand Corpses ZERO
House of Sand & Fog
House of the Dead
Hulk
The Human Stain
The Hunted
The In-Laws
In The Cut
Identity
Irreversible
Jeepers Creepers 2
Just Married ZERO
Kill Bill:Volume 1
The Last Samurai
League of Extraordinary Gentlemen
Legally Blonde 2:Red,White & Blonde
Life of David Gale
Leo
Looney Tunes:Back In Action
Lord of the Rings:Return of the King
Lost In Translation
Love Actually
Master and Commander:The Far Side of the World
May
The Medallion
Monster
Mystic River
Old School ZERO
The Order
Out Of Time
Owning Mahowny
Paycheck
Phone Booth
Pirates of the Carribean:The Curse of the Black Pearl
The Quiet American
The Recruit
Runaway Jury
The Rundown
The School of Rock
Shaolin Soccer
The Shape of Things
Shattered Glass
Sinbad:Legend of the Seven Seas
Sinners
So Close
Something's Gotta Give
Spy Kids 3D: Game Over
Spellbound
Steal
Step Into Liquid
S.W.A.T.
Swimming Pool
Sylvia
Tears of the Sun
Terminator 3:Rise of the Machines
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre
Thirteen
Timeline
Touch and Go
Tube
21 Grams
Underworld
View From the Top
Wrong Turn
X2
Total Films seen to date: 100
Last updated May 30th, 2004
Out of
All the Real Girls
American Splender
American Wedding ZERO
Anger Managment
Bad Boys II ZERO
Barbarian Invasions
Basic
Bend It Like Beckham
Beyond Borders
The Big Empty
Big Fish
Bruce Almighty
Bulletproof Monk
Cabin Fever
Capturing The Friedman's
Charlie's Angels:Full Throttle
City of God
Cold Creek Manor
Confidence
The Core
Daredevil
Dark Blue
Darkness Falls
A Decade Under the Influence
Dickie Roberts:Former Child Star
Dreamcatcher
The Eye
Final Destination 2
Finding Nemo
The Fog of War
Freddy Vs Jason
Freaky Friday
The Good Thief
The Haunted Mansion
Hollywood Homicide
House of a Thousand Corpses ZERO
House of Sand & Fog
House of the Dead
Hulk
The Human Stain
The Hunted
The In-Laws
In The Cut
Identity
Irreversible
Jeepers Creepers 2
Just Married ZERO
Kill Bill:Volume 1
The Last Samurai
League of Extraordinary Gentlemen
Legally Blonde 2:Red,White & Blonde
Life of David Gale
Leo
Looney Tunes:Back In Action
Lord of the Rings:Return of the King
Lost In Translation
Love Actually
Master and Commander:The Far Side of the World
May
The Medallion
Monster
Mystic River
Old School ZERO
The Order
Out Of Time
Owning Mahowny
Paycheck
Phone Booth
Pirates of the Carribean:The Curse of the Black Pearl
The Quiet American
The Recruit
Runaway Jury
The Rundown
The School of Rock
Shaolin Soccer
The Shape of Things
Shattered Glass
Sinbad:Legend of the Seven Seas
Sinners
So Close
Something's Gotta Give
Spy Kids 3D: Game Over
Spellbound
Steal
Step Into Liquid
S.W.A.T.
Swimming Pool
Sylvia
Tears of the Sun
Terminator 3:Rise of the Machines
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre
Thirteen
Timeline
Touch and Go
Tube
21 Grams
Underworld
View From the Top
Wrong Turn
X2
Total Films seen to date: 100
post #27 of 601
1/11/03 at 1:09pm
Color Key (all the colors of the rainbow...)
RED films denote a movie in my current Top 10.
GREEN films denote a movie in my current Bottom 10.
GRAY films denote a movie that was either:
A) Viewed last year (and has just seen wide release this year).
B) Theatrical reissues.
C) Foreign films that have been playing in their native country for over two years, and are just getting release in the States.
Either way, they do not count towards the final total.
Directors or DP's that have an ORANGE mark denote what I thought was particularly impressive cinematography or direction.
Act 1 & 2 (Berkeley, CA): 9
California Theatre (Berkeley, CA): 2
Century 16 (Pleasant Hill, CA): 61
Cinearts (Pleasant Hill, CA): 18
Embarcadero Cinema (San Francisco, CA): 1
Jack London Theater (Oakland, CA): 1
Shattuck Cinemas (Berkeley, CA): 13
UA Berkeley 7 (Berkeley, CA): 2
Das Homestead (My Home): 36
ADDED: Head of State (3), House of Sand and Fog (3.5), Monster (2)
UPGRADES/DOWNGRADES: The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (2; from 2.5)
COMING SOON: Confidence, Fellini: I'm a Born Liar, The Man Without a Past
UP NEXT: The Fog of War
Gods and GeneralsRonald F. MaxwellKees Van Oostrum3/9/03*GerryGus Van SantHarris Savides12/22/03***1/2Girl with a Pearl EarringPeter WebberEduardo Serra12/30/03***The Good ThiefNeil JordanChris Menges4/25/03***The GuruDaisy V.S. MayerJohn de Borman2/2/03***A Guy ThingChris KochRobbie Greenberg1/18/03*The Hard WordScott RobertsBrian J. Breheny6/28/03**1/2Head of StateChris RockDonald Thorin1/8/04***The Hebrew HammerJonathan KesselmanKurt Brabbee12/8/03***He Loves Me...He Loves Me NotLaetitia ColombaniPierre Aim2/22/03***1/2The House of 1,000 CorpsesRob ZombieTom Richmond12/5/03*House of Sand and FogVadim PerelmanRoger Deakins1/2/04***1/2How to Lose a Guy In 10 DaysDonald PetrieJohn Bailey2/16/03**The HulkAng LeeFrederick Elmes6/20/03***1/2The Human StainRobert BentonJean-Yves Escoffier11/2/03*1/2The HuntedWilliam FriedkinCaleb Deschanel9/6/03***IdentityJames MangoldPhedon Papamichael10/4/03**The In-LawsAndrew FlemingAlexander Gruszynski10/18/03***Interstate 60Bob GaleDenis Maloney11/15/03**1/2In the CutJane CampionDion Beebe11/6/03*1/2Intolerable CrueltyJoel CoenRoger Deakins10/9/03***1/2IrreversibleGaspar NoeGaspar Noe3/17/03***1/2The Italian JobF. Gary GrayWally Pfister5/30/03***Johnny EnglishPeter HowittRemi Adefarasin7/16/03**1/2Just MarriedShawn LevyJonathan Brown3/9/03*1/2Kill Bill: Volume OneQuentin TarantinoRobert Richardson10/9/03***The Last SamuraiEdward ZwickJohn Toll12/6/03***Laurel CanyonLisa CholodenkoWally Pfister11/2/03**The League of Extraordinary GentlemenStephen NorringtonDan Lausten7/11/031/2Legally Blonde 2C. Herman-WurmfeldElliot Davis12/6/03*1/2Lord of the Rings: The Return of the KingPeter JacksonAndrew Lensie12/17/03***1/2Lost In La ManchaK. Fulton, L. PepeLouis Pepe6/30/03***Lost in TranslationSofia CoppolaLace Acord9/21/03***Love ActuallyRichard CurtisMichael Coulter11/21/03***1/2ManicJordan MelamedNick Hay5/23/03**1/2Man on the TrainPatrice LeconteJean-Marie Dreujou12/14/03***Master and Commander: TFSOTWPeter WeirRussell Boyd11/14/03***1/2Matchstick MenRidley ScottJohn Mathieson9/12/03***1/2The Matrix ReloadedWachowski Bros.Bill Pope5/16/03**1/2The Matrix RevolutionsWachowski Bros.Bill Pope11/8/03**1/2MayLucky McKeeSteve Yedlin9/12/03**1/2Melvin Goes to DinnerBob OdenkirkAlex Vendler12/27/03***A Mighty WindChristopher GuestArlene Nelson4/25/03***Millennium ActressSatoshi Kon--12/23/03**1/2The MissingRon HowardSalvatore Totino11/28/03**Mona Lisa SmileMike NewellAnastas Michos12/20/03*1/2MonsterPatty JenkinsSteven Bernstein1/2/04**My Life Without MeIsabel CoixetJean-Claude Larrieu10/21/03**Mystic RiverClint EastwoodTom Stern10/17/03***National SecurityDennis DuganOliver Wood1/18/031/2NorthforkMichael PolishM. David Mullen7/1/03*1/2Old SchoolTodd PhillipsMark Irwin2/22/03***Once Upon a Time in MexicoRobert RodriguezRobert Rodriguez9/12/03***Open RangeKevin CostnerJames Muro8/16/03***Owning MahownyRichard KwietniowskiOliver Curtis5/23/03***Party MonsterBailey/BarbatoTeodoro Maniaci10/3/03*Phone BoothJoel SchumacherMatthew Libatique9/1/03***Pieces of AprilPeter HedgesTami Reiker10/30/03***
Pirates of the Carribean: COTBPGore VerbinskiDariusz Wolski7/10/03***1/2Poolhall JunkiesGregory MartinRobert Morris12/26/03*Raising Victor VargasPeter SolletTim Orr9/6/03***1/2The RecruitRoger DonaldsonStuart Dryburgh1/31/03**1/2Ripley's GameLiliana CavaniAlfio Contini9/12/03**1/2The RundownPeter BergTobias Schliessler9/26/03***Run Ronnie Run!Troy MillerShawn Maurer9/23/03**School of RockRichard LinklaterRogier Stoffers10/9/03**1/2SeabiscuitGary RossJohn Schwartzman12/23/03**Secondhand LionsTim McCanliesJack Green9/26/03***The Secret Lives of DentistsAlan RudolphFlorian Ballhaus8/22/03***Shanghai KnightsDavid DobkinAdrian Biddle2/7/03**1/2The Shape of ThingsNeil LaButeJames L. Carter5/10/03***Shattered GlassBilly RayMandy Walker11/14/03***1/2Sinbad: Legend of the Seven SeasGilmore & Johnson--7/8/03**The Singing DetectiveKeith GordonTom Richmond11/13/03***SpellboundJeffrey BlitzJeffrey Blitz5/30/03****SpiderDavid CronenbergPeter Suschitzky3/28/03**1/2SpunJonas AkerlundEric Broms4/4/03***Spy Kids 3D: Game OverRobert RodriguezRobert Rodriguez7/27/03*1/2StevieSteve JamesVarious9/13/03***1/2The Station AgentThomas McCarthyOliver Bokelberg12/24/03***1/2Stuck on YouFarrelly Bros.Daniel Mindel12/20/03***Swimming PoolFrancois OzonYorick Le Saux7/11/03**1/2TattooRobert SchwentkeJan Fehse4/23/03**1/2Tears of the SunAntoine FuquaMuaro Fiore7/19/03**Terminator 3: Rise of the MachinesJonathan MostowDon Burgess7/3/03***The Texas Chainsaw MassacreMarcus NispelDaniel Pearl10/17/03**ThirteenCatherine HardwickeElliot Davis8/29/03***Tomb Raider: Cradle of LifeJan De BontDavid Tattersall7/27/03***The Triplets of BellevilleSylvain Chomet--12/30/03***28 Days LaterDanny BoyleAnthony Dod Mantle6/28/03***21 GramsA.G. InarrituRodriego Prieto11/28/03***1/2Under the Tuscan SunAudrey WellsGeoffrey Simpson9/26/03**1/2UnderworldLen WisemanTony Pierce-Roberts9/20/03*View From the TopBruno BarretoAffonso Beato12/28/03*1/2Whale RiderNiki CaroLeon Narbey7/11/03***1/2What a Girl WantsDennie GordonAndrew Dunn9/27/03*WillardGlen MorganRobert McLachlan3/14/03**1/2Winged MigrationJacques PerrinVarious12/30/03***WonderlandJames CoxMichael Grady10/23/03**Wrong TurnRob SchmidtJohn S. Bartley12/5/03**1/2X-Men 2Bryan SingerNewton Thomas Siegel5/2/03***XX/XYAustin ChickUta Briesewitz7/29/03***
2002 Films Seen in 2003 (to be posted in full in 2002 Film List, blah blah blah)
Chicago
Confessions of a Dangerous Mind
The Hours
Max
Narc
The Pianist
The Quiet American
25th Hour
Wide/Limited Films to Be Seen in February/March:
The Warrior
Wide/Limited Films to Be Seen in April/May:
Down and Out With the Dolls, Dracula: Pages From a Virgin's Diary, Only the Strong Survive
Wide/Limited Films to Be Seen in June/July:
Hotel, Jet Lag
RED films denote a movie in my current Top 10.
GREEN films denote a movie in my current Bottom 10.
GRAY films denote a movie that was either:
A) Viewed last year (and has just seen wide release this year).
B) Theatrical reissues.
C) Foreign films that have been playing in their native country for over two years, and are just getting release in the States.
Either way, they do not count towards the final total.
Directors or DP's that have an ORANGE mark denote what I thought was particularly impressive cinematography or direction.
THEATER TALLY
Act 1 & 2 (Berkeley, CA): 9
California Theatre (Berkeley, CA): 2
Century 16 (Pleasant Hill, CA): 61
Cinearts (Pleasant Hill, CA): 18
Embarcadero Cinema (San Francisco, CA): 1
Jack London Theater (Oakland, CA): 1
Shattuck Cinemas (Berkeley, CA): 13
UA Berkeley 7 (Berkeley, CA): 2
Das Homestead (My Home): 36
ADDED: Head of State (3), House of Sand and Fog (3.5), Monster (2)
UPGRADES/DOWNGRADES: The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (2;
from 2.5)COMING SOON: Confidence, Fellini: I'm a Born Liar, The Man Without a Past
UP NEXT: The Fog of War
Title | Director | Director of Photography | Date Viewed | Rating (****) |
| Alien: Director's Cut | Ridley Scott | Derek Vanlint | 11/1/03 | ***1/2 |
| All the Real Girls | David Gordon Green | Tim Orr | 9/28/03 | *** |
| American Splendor | Berman & Pulcini | Terry Stacey | 8/22/03 | **** |
| American Wedding | Jesse Dylan | Lloyd Ahern | 8/8/03 | *** |
| Anger Management | Peter Segal | Donald McAlpine | 4/11/03 | ** |
| The Backyard | Paul Hough | -- | 11/22/03 | ** |
| Bad Boys 2 | Michael Bay | Amir Mokri | 7/19/03 | **1/2 |
| Bad Santa | Terry Zwigoff | Jamie Anderson | 12/12/03 | ***1/2 |
| Basic | John McTiernan | Steve Mason | 9/13/03 | *1/2 |
| Bend It Like Beckham | Gurinder Chadha | Jong Lin | 11/22/03 | *** |
| Better Luck Tomorrow | Justin Lin | Patrice Cochet | 4/25/03 | **1/2 |
| Big Fish | Tim Burton | Philippe Rousselot | 12/31/03 | **** |
| Blue Car | Karen Moncrieff | Rob Sweeney | 10/18/03 | ***1/2 |
| Bringing Down the House | Adam Shankman | Julio Macat | 10/13/03 | * |
| Bruce Almighty | Tom Shadyac | Dean Semler | 5/24/03 | ** |
| Bubba Ho-Tep | Don Coscarelli | Adam Janiero | 10/12/03 | *** |
| Bulletproof Monk | Paul Hunter | Stefan Czapsky | 10/8/03 | ** |
| Bus 174 | Jose Padilha | Marcelo Duarte | 11/7/03 | ***1/2 |
| Cabin Fever | Eli Roth | Scott Kevan | 9/12/03 | **1/2 |
| Capturing the Friedmans | Andrew Jarecki | Adolfo Doring | 6/13/03 | **** |
| Charlie's Angels 2: Full Throttle | McG | Russell Carpenter | 7/1/03 | *** |
| Cinemania | A. Christlieb, S. Kijak | Angela Christlieb | 12/14/03 | ** |
| City of God | Fernando Meirelles | Cesar Charlone | 3/1/03 | ***1/2 |
| Cold Creek Manor | Mike Figgis | Declan Quinn | 9/20/03 | *1/2 |
| Cold Mountain | Anthony Minghella | John Seale | 12/25/03 | *** |
| Concert For George | David Leland | Chris Menges | 10/9/03 | *** |
| The Cooler | Wayne Kramer | Jim Whitaker | 12/24/03 | *** |
| Cowboy Bebop: Knockin on Heaven's Door | Shinichiro Watanabe | -- | 11/13/02 | ***1/2 |
| Cradle 2 the Grave | Andrzej Bartkowiak | Daryn Okada | 3/9/03 | **1/2 |
| Daredevil | Mark Steven Johnson | Ericson Core | 2/14/03 | * |
| Dark Blue | Ron Shelton | Barry Peterson | 2/22/03 | ***1/2 |
| Darkness Falls | Jonathan Liebesman | Dan Laustsen | 1/26/03 | * |
| A Decade Under the Influence (IFC TV Cut) | Demme/LaGravenese | Janelli/Smith | 8/23/03 | **1/2 |
| Demonlover | Olivier Assayas | Denis Lanoir | 9/20/03 | ** |
| Dirty Pretty Things | Stephen Frears | Chris Menges | 8/8/03 | *** |
| Divine Intervention | Elia Suleiman | Marc-André Batigne | 4/1/03 | *** |
| Le Divorce | James Ivory | Pierre Lhomme | 8/8/03 | ** |
| Down With Love | Peyton Reed | Jeff Cronenweth | 5/24/03 | ***1/2 |
| Dreamcatcher | Lawrence Kasdan | John Seale | 3/21/03 | *1/2 |
| Duplex | Danny DeVito | Anastas Michos | 9/26/03 | ** |
| Elf | Jon Favreau | Greg Gardiner | 11/8/03 | *** |
| The Event | Thom Fitzgerald | Tom Harting | 10/3/03 | ***1/2 |
| Final Destination 2 | David R. Ellis | Gary Capo | 2/2/03 | *** |
| Finding Nemo | Andrew Stanton | S. Calahan, J. Lasky | 6/4/03 | ***1/2 |
| Freddy vs. Jason | Ronny Yu | Fred Murphy | 8/16/03 | **1/2 |
| Garage Days | Alex Proyas | Simon Duggan | 7/16/03 | ***1/2 |
Pirates of the Carribean: COTBPGore VerbinskiDariusz Wolski7/10/03***1/2Poolhall JunkiesGregory MartinRobert Morris12/26/03*Raising Victor VargasPeter SolletTim Orr9/6/03***1/2The RecruitRoger DonaldsonStuart Dryburgh1/31/03**1/2Ripley's GameLiliana CavaniAlfio Contini9/12/03**1/2The RundownPeter BergTobias Schliessler9/26/03***Run Ronnie Run!Troy MillerShawn Maurer9/23/03**School of RockRichard LinklaterRogier Stoffers10/9/03**1/2SeabiscuitGary RossJohn Schwartzman12/23/03**Secondhand LionsTim McCanliesJack Green9/26/03***The Secret Lives of DentistsAlan RudolphFlorian Ballhaus8/22/03***Shanghai KnightsDavid DobkinAdrian Biddle2/7/03**1/2The Shape of ThingsNeil LaButeJames L. Carter5/10/03***Shattered GlassBilly RayMandy Walker11/14/03***1/2Sinbad: Legend of the Seven SeasGilmore & Johnson--7/8/03**The Singing DetectiveKeith GordonTom Richmond11/13/03***SpellboundJeffrey BlitzJeffrey Blitz5/30/03****SpiderDavid CronenbergPeter Suschitzky3/28/03**1/2SpunJonas AkerlundEric Broms4/4/03***Spy Kids 3D: Game OverRobert RodriguezRobert Rodriguez7/27/03*1/2StevieSteve JamesVarious9/13/03***1/2The Station AgentThomas McCarthyOliver Bokelberg12/24/03***1/2Stuck on YouFarrelly Bros.Daniel Mindel12/20/03***Swimming PoolFrancois OzonYorick Le Saux7/11/03**1/2TattooRobert SchwentkeJan Fehse4/23/03**1/2Tears of the SunAntoine FuquaMuaro Fiore7/19/03**Terminator 3: Rise of the MachinesJonathan MostowDon Burgess7/3/03***The Texas Chainsaw MassacreMarcus NispelDaniel Pearl10/17/03**ThirteenCatherine HardwickeElliot Davis8/29/03***Tomb Raider: Cradle of LifeJan De BontDavid Tattersall7/27/03***The Triplets of BellevilleSylvain Chomet--12/30/03***28 Days LaterDanny BoyleAnthony Dod Mantle6/28/03***21 GramsA.G. InarrituRodriego Prieto11/28/03***1/2Under the Tuscan SunAudrey WellsGeoffrey Simpson9/26/03**1/2UnderworldLen WisemanTony Pierce-Roberts9/20/03*View From the TopBruno BarretoAffonso Beato12/28/03*1/2Whale RiderNiki CaroLeon Narbey7/11/03***1/2What a Girl WantsDennie GordonAndrew Dunn9/27/03*WillardGlen MorganRobert McLachlan3/14/03**1/2Winged MigrationJacques PerrinVarious12/30/03***WonderlandJames CoxMichael Grady10/23/03**Wrong TurnRob SchmidtJohn S. Bartley12/5/03**1/2X-Men 2Bryan SingerNewton Thomas Siegel5/2/03***XX/XYAustin ChickUta Briesewitz7/29/03***
2002 Films Seen in 2003 (to be posted in full in 2002 Film List, blah blah blah)
Chicago
Confessions of a Dangerous Mind
The Hours
Max
Narc
The Pianist
The Quiet American
25th Hour
Wide/Limited Films to Be Seen in February/March:
The Warrior
Wide/Limited Films to Be Seen in April/May:
Down and Out With the Dolls, Dracula: Pages From a Virgin's Diary, Only the Strong Survive
Wide/Limited Films to Be Seen in June/July:
Hotel, Jet Lag
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1/14/03 at 9:39pm
Stats
Last Updated:8January2004
Criteria:First US nonfestival release
Count:81 (45 Eligible, 36 Ineligible)
Soon I plan to see:Thirteen, American Splendor, Lost in Translation, Kill Bill: Volume 1, 21 Grams, Elephant, The Station Agent, Mystic River, In America
Eligible Films
Films listed in a row with a red background are highly recommended.
| Title | Rating | Country | Year | Date Seen | Locale |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| À la folie… pas du tout (He Loves Me, He Loves Me Not) | ‡‡‡ | FRA | 2003 | 25 Mar 2003 | AFC |
| All the Real Girls | ‡‡† | USA | 2003 | 08 Jan 2004 | DVD |
| American Wedding | ‡‡† | USA | 2003 | 09 Aug 2003 | |
| Bad Santa | ‡‡‡ | USA | 2003 | 05 Jan 2003 | LJG |
| Bend It Like Beckham | ‡‡† | UK | 2003 | 25 Mar 2003 | LSS |
| Better Luck Tomorrow | ‡‡‡ | USA | 2003 | 02 May 2003 | HPP |
| Bringing Down the House | ‡‡ | USA | 2003 | 17 Mar 2003 | HPP |
| Camp | ‡‡ | USA | 2003 | 22 Aug 2003 | AVN |
| Capturing the Friedmans | ‡‡‡† | USA | 2003 | 20 Aug 2003 | AVN |
| Charlie’s Angels: Full Throttle | ‡‡ | USA | 2003 | 12 Jul 2003 | HPP |
| Cidade de Deus (City of God) | ‡‡‡‡ | BRA | 2003 | 18 Jan 2003 | AFC |
| Confidence | ‡‡ | USA | 2003 | 01 May 2003 | HPP |
| Cradle 2 the Grave | ‡† | USA | 2003 | 17 Mar 2003 | HPP |
| Daredevil | ‡‡ | USA | 2003 | 14 Feb 2003 | HPP |
| Dark Blue | ‡‡ | USA | 2003 | 06 Mar 2003 | LRW |
| Elf | ‡‡† | USA | 2003 | 23 Dec 2003 | LJG |
| Finding Nemo | ‡‡‡† | USA | 2003 | 14 Jun 2003 | HPP |
| Freaky Friday | ‡‡‡ | USA | 2003 | 13 Aug 2003 | HPP |
| A Guy Thing | ‡ | USA | 2003 | 20 Jan 2003 | HPP |
| Head of State | ‡‡ | USA | 2003 | 16 Apr 2003 | HPP |
| How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days | ‡‡ | USA | 2003 | 01 Feb 2003 | HPP |
| Hulk | ‡‡† | USA | 2003 | 23 Jun 2003 | HPP |
| The Hunted | ‡‡ | USA | 2003 | 22 Mar 2003 | LJG |
| Irréversible (Irreversible) | ‡‡ | FRA | 2003 | 28 Mar 2003 | AFC |
| The Italian Job | ‡‡† | USA | 2003 | 17 Jun 2003 | HPP |
| Johnny English | ‡‡ | UK | 2003 | 23 Jul 2003 | AVN |
| Laurel Canyon | ‡‡† | USA | 2003 | 28 Mar 2003 | USQ |
| The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen | ‡† | USA | 2003 | 12 Jul 2003 | HPP |
| The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King | ‡‡‡† | NZL | 2003 | 28 Nov 2003 | LJG |
| The Matrix Reloaded | ‡‡† | USA | 2003 | 14 May 2003 | HPP |
| A Mighty Wind | ‡‡‡† | USA | 2003 | 04 May 2003 | |
| National Security | † | USA | 2003 | 20 Jan 2003 | HPP |
| Old School | ‡‡† | USA | 2003 | 08 Feb 2003 | SWK |
| Phone Booth | ‡‡† | USA | 2003 | 16 Apr 2003 | HPP |
| Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl | ‡‡† | USA | 2003 | 22 Aug 2003 | HPP |
| Raising Victor Vargas | ‡‡‡‡ | USA | 2003 | 28 Mar 2003 | LSS |
| The Recruit | ‡‡ | USA | 2003 | 31 Jan 2003 | HPP |
| Ren xiao yao (Unknown Pleasures) | ‡† | CHI | 2003 | 26 Mar 2003 | CNV |
| Seabiscuit | ‡‡ | USA | 2003 | 09 Aug 2003 | |
| Shanghai Knights | ‡‡ | USA | 2003 | 26 Jan 2003 | LBC |
| Spun | ‡‡ | USA | 2003 | 25 Mar 2003 | LSS |
| Swimming Pool | ‡‡‡ | FRA | 2003 | 01 Aug 2003 | AVN |
| Tears of the Sun | ‡‡ | USA | 2003 | 07 Mar 2003 | LRW |
| Whale Rider | ‡‡ | NZL | 2003 | 09 Jul 2003 | AVN |
| X2 | ‡‡‡ | USA | 2003 | 02 May 2003 | HPP |
Eligible Films by Dagger Rating
‡‡‡‡-The best; could be labeled a modern classic
Cidade de Deus (City of God)
Raising Victor Vargas
‡‡‡†-Great, but not flawless
Capturing the Friedmans
Finding Nemo
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
A Mighty Wind
‡‡‡-Well-executed and well above average, but not groundbreaking
À la folie… pas du tout (He Loves Me, He Loves Me Not)
Bad Santa
Better Luck Tomorrow
Freaky Friday
Swimming Pool
X2
‡‡†-Slightly above average
All the Real Girls
American Wedding
Bend It Like Beckham
Elf
Hulk
The Italian Job
Laurel Canyon
The Matrix Reloaded
Old School
Phone Booth
Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl
‡‡-Average, mundane
Bringing Down the House
Camp
Charlie’s Angels: Full Throttle
Confidence
Daredevil
Dark Blue
Head of State
How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days
The Hunted
Irréversible (Irreversible)
Johnny English
The Recruit
Seabiscuit
Shanghai Knights
Spun
Tears of the Sun
Whale Rider
‡†-Below average; has at least one redeeming quality
Cradle 2 the Grave
The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen
Ren xiao yao (Unknown Pleasures)
‡-Horrible, but someone might like it
A Guy Thing
†-Detriment to society
National Security
Ineligible Films
| Title | Rating | Country | Year | Date Seen | Locale |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| About Schmidt | ‡‡‡† | USA | 2002 | 14 Jan 2003 | LNB |
| Adventures in Babysitting | ‡‡ | USA | 1987 | 11 Apr 2003 | DVD |
| Barbershop | ‡‡† | USA | 2002 | 03 Jan 2003 | DVD |
| The Bourne Identity | ‡‡† | USA | 2002 | 21 Jan 2003 | DVD |
| Box of Moonlight | ‡‡ | USA | 1997 | 17 Mar 2003 | IFC |
| Casablanca | ‡‡‡‡ | USA | 1942 | 18 Aug 2003 | DVD |
| Catch Me If You Can | ‡‡‡ | USA | 2002 | 07 Jan 2003 | LNB |
| Chicago | ‡‡† | USA | 2002 | 25 Jan 2003 | HPP |
| Chinatown | ‡‡‡‡ | USA | 1974 | 22 Jun 2003 | GP |
| Colors | ‡‡† | USA | 1998 | 31 Jan 2003 | DVD |
| Goin’ South | ‡‡† | USA | 1978 | 22 Jun 2003 | GP |
| Gone with the Wind | ‡‡‡‡ | USA | 1939 | 30 Jun 2003 | DVD |
| Groove | ‡‡ | USA | 2000 | 05 Feb 2003 | IFC |
| The Hudsucker Proxy | ‡‡‡ | USA | 1994 | 01 May 2003 | IFC |
| The King of Comedy | ‡‡‡ | USA | 1983 | 11 Aug 2003 | IFC |
| The Mask of Zorro | ‡‡‡ | USA | 1998 | 07 Sep 2003 | DVD |
| Minority Report | ‡‡† | USA | 2002 | 03 Jan 2003 | DVD |
| My Big Fat Greek Wedding | ‡‡† | USA | 2002 | 21 Apr 2003 | DVD |
| Narc | ‡‡‡ | USA | 2002 | 13 Jan 2003 | LJG |
| Nowhere | ‡† | USA | 1997 | 11 Mar 2003 | IFC |
| One Hour Photo | ‡‡‡ | USA | 2002 | 29 Aug 2003 | DVD |
| The Pianist | ‡‡‡‡ | USA | 2002 | 09 Jan 2003 | RWF |
| Punch-Drunk Love | ‡‡‡ | USA | 2002 | 25 Jun 2003 | DVD |
| Roger Dodger | ‡‡‡ | USA | 2002 | 20 Aug 2003 | DVD |
| Russkij kovcheg (Russian Ark) | ‡‡‡ | RUS | 2002 | 26 Mar 2003 | CNV |
| Signs | ‡‡† | USA | 2002 | 10 Aug 2003 | DVD |
| Spanking the Monkey | ‡‡† | USA | 1994 | 19 Mar 2003 | IFC |
| Spy Kids | ‡‡† | USA | 2001 | 27 Mar 2003 | SHO |
| The Sum of All Fears | ‡‡† | USA | 2002 | 10 May 2003 | DVD |
| Swimming with Sharks | ‡‡† | USA | 1994 | 18 Jun 2003 | IFC |
| Terms of Endearment | ‡‡‡ | USA | 1983 | 21 Jun 2003 | GP |
| Thelma and Louise | ‡‡‡ | USA | 1991 | 15 Mar 2003 | IFC |
| 25th Hour | ‡‡‡† | USA | 2002 | 10 Jan 2003 | LMS |
| 24 Hour Party People | ‡‡‡† | UK | 2002 | 26 Jan 2003 | DVD |
| Undercover Brother | ‡‡† | USA | 2002 | 22 Jan 2003 | DVD |
| What’s Up, Doc? | ‡‡† | USA | 1972 | 03 Jul 2003 | DVD |
Three Latest Reviews
All the Real Girls
An emotionally numbing portrait of young love. Many things are done right, yet the director’s attempt to be edgy and artful mutes the drama.
Elf
A charming holiday comedy. Corny, but not over the top. It kept me laughing, not sneering.
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
The concluding chapter of Peter Jackson’s trilogy has been lauded. It is an amazing cinematic realization of a hard-to-realize work of literature. However, it was clear that this film was designed to be a blockbuster. It was littered with cheap emotional tricks. I left contemplating what this film could have been had the director abandoned the idea of making a blockbuster, and stuck with the idea of making an honest interpretation of Tolkien’s book.
All Reviews of 2003 Films (click to show/hide)
À la folie… pas du tout (He Loves Me, He Loves Me Not)
I walked into this one half-expecting a rehash of Amélie. I was fooled. The first half of the movie is farely typical romantic comedy fare. We’re see a young art student giddy about her relationship with an older cardiologist. In the middle of the movie, the perspective shifts, and we learn the doctor’s side of the relationship. Its best to go into this one without knowing much more than this. I hate sappy romantic movies, but this movie is a wolf in sheep’s clothes. Engaging and entertaining, if not innovative.
All the Real Girls
An emotionally numbing portrait of young love. Many things are done right, yet the director’s attempt to be edgy and artful mutes the drama.
American Wedding
Hilarious. Most of the gags were hilarious (save the pubic hair bit that was in all the trailers: everyone knows kitchen fans are exhaust fans, not intake fans). If you liked the first two Pie flicks, you’ll probably like this. If not, it doesn’t have a chance.
Bad Santa
It’s great when someone gets irreverant comedy right. Or at least almost right… Bernie Mac’s part wasn’t big enough!
Bend It Like Beckham
A relatively amusing coming-of-age story. The plot is not new (girls wants to play football/soccer, girl’s parents want her to get ready for marriage, girl rebels and plays football anyway), but the surroundings– a traditional Indian family in the UK– are new. It’s an entertaining feelgood movie, but too often it resorts to cheap mainstream tactics. It strives to be feminist, yet it presents numerous exploitative images and stereotypes. (The main character’s friend, who you might recognize as the decoy Amidala from The Phantom Menace, is a tall, stick-skinny white girl.) Also: If you don’t want to hear, “Mommy, what’s a lesbian?” on your way out of the theater, I don’t recommend taking young children. On one hand, highly enjoyable; on the other hand, not the new standard for coming-of-age comedies (see below).
Better Luck Tomorrow
I can completely related to this movie, as it’s about something I like to call the OBF, or Overachiever Badass Fantasy. It starts with that thought of punching the kid out in grade school who makes fun of you for being smart, and can progress to visions of pulling guns on punks in high school to give them a taste of their own medicine. This movie is about a group of kids whose OBF manifests itself in reality. The characters are Asian American, but the movie doesn’t make a big deal of it. This is not a cliché race/stereotype/daddy-didn’t-love-me/revenge film, but is based more on the “grass is greener on the other side” cliché. The fight scenes make the kids look more like Tony Soprano than Bruce Lee. The film’s style is rather pedestrian, but it’s beautifully shot and manages to retain an indie feel without looking cheap. I was left wanting a bit, as some serious issues were raised and suddenly just dropped. Despite its flaws, Better Luck Tomorrow explores enough new (or forgotten) territory that it is well worth seeing.
Bringing Down the House
Yes, it’s bad, but the feel old school, and that charmed me a bit. Was it was the Lalo Schifrin score, the no-nonsense titles? I don’t know.
Camp
This is an entertaining movie that is plagued by a poor script. The concept is solid, but the characters are one-dimensional, which is sad considering this is such a character-focused piece. Odds are the predictions you make when you first meet the characters of what will happen to them in the end are dead on. This movie is littered gay and – keeping right with the times – metrosexual stereotypes. The performers are all ridiculously talented and the gags are great (though a lot of them will go right over your head if you don’t have an above average knowledge of musical theater), but the story the surrounds them is just poor.
Capturing the Friedmans
I can’t possibly convey the emotions this film caused me to experience. It was genuine emotion – emotion mixed with a sort of apathy towards society. This film brings to light the sheer idiocy of our communities – the desire to be a victim and to hang a witch. It starts very objectively, mixing home movies with interviews, and there is some doubt of who is guilty. Then comes a definitive moment when the police became the clear antagonist: One sex crimes officer describes the proper way to interrogate a child (do not ask leading questions, only ask vague questions such as, “what happened next?” since children tend to want to give the answer the interrogator wants to hear rather than the truth), then immediately after, another officer says exactly the opposite (“you need to be direct: ‘we know you took computer classes with Arnold Friedman, and we know he abused you’”). It sickened me that someone interrogating children about sex crimes had not learned something I learned from one little slide in a cognitive science lecture – something so basic that should be taught to any person interrogating a child. Some say this film is ambigious, but it is clearly shows that even though Arnold Friedman is a pedophile, he did not commit the things he was put in jail for, and that his son is neither a pedophile nor did he commit any sex crimes. It illustrates a couple of important flaws in our justice system, which left me feeling sort of sick to my stomach realizing that these are things that can never be fixed. Occasionally, I felt deceived (though I can’t put my finger on exactly why, maybe because of flaws of omission), but I can look past this. The film presents – nearly as honestly as a human can – many sides of an extremely complex incident of hysteria and the downfall of a family.
Charlie’s Angels: Full Throttle
How do you review stuff like this? It’s really just eye candy with a video game plot. It should really be called Charlie’s Angels: Like the First Movie, but More. Oh, yeah: Bernie Mac is the man.
Cidade de Deus (City of God)
Fernando Meirelles’ Cidade de Deus (City of God) slides you effortlessly into the world of this Rio de Janeiro slum. The narrative hops gracefully between two eras: the ’60s, where we see the protagonists as wide-eyed children, and the drug-heavy ’70s–early ’80s. Cidade is a violent movie, but its success lies in its realism. We follow the life of the slum through Rocket, and we grow and harden with him. The first time we see a prepubescent boy lift a gun, it’s heart-wrenching. The second time, it’s shocking. The third time, we are almost numb to it. The children in the slum want only to break free from their impoverished existence, and because of that, we are at least mildly sympathetic with even the most violent thugs, including the slum’s self-anointed king, Li’l Zé. This movie provokes its audience to question hope and to question happiness. Is life as a fish-seller better than death as a drug lord?
Confidence
You pretty much can’t go wrong with a con movie. Sure, if you go backward, they’re predictable and full of holes, but forward, they’re pretty damned entertaining. This one is highly derivative of previous films in the genre and the script is weak, but it’s fun and very well-cast. Average, but worth seeing.
Cradle 2 the Grave
This movie occasionally rocks and rolls, but in the end, it pops, covering the audience in milky white pus. The best part of the movie is the improv during the credits. I’ll go see the next DMX movie if Anthony Anderson and Tom Arnold do more cheesy improv. Scout’s honor.
Daredevil
Daredevil wasn’t bad. It’s very much in the same vein as Spider-Man. The script could’ve been better (there were some big cheese moments), but in general it was good otherwise. I felt like Affleck was upstaged by the supporting cast (Colin Farrell, Michael Clarke Duncan, Jennifer Garner, Joe Pantoliano). Daredevil’s execution was, overall, much better than Spider-Man’s. The effects were much tighter and seamlessly integrated with the movie. Glaring CGI moments were few. I definitely dug the visualization of Daredevil’s mental picture of sound-space. The fight scenes were definitely much better than those in Spider-Man. If the script didn’t suck so much, this movie might be above .500 on the Batman Comparison Meter.
Dark Blue
Average cop flick. Decent acting, decent script, but nothing special. What drama existed seemed phony.
Elf
A charming holiday comedy. Corny, but not over the top. It kept me laughing, not sneering.
Finding Nemo
Films like Aladdin and Shrek come to mind when you think about movies targeted to children, but manage to still appeal to adults. Of course, these films are laden with pop culture references and sexual innuendo. Finding Nemo, like its Pixar predecessors, manages to appeal to both children and adults without such cop outs. It’s sweet, but not sickeningly cute.
Freaky Friday
I’ve never seen the original, but I was enamoured by this film. Finally, a teen-family film that doesn’t feel like it was carefully crafted to appeal to 12–16-year-old girls. Lohan and Curtis are incredible. There’s some great comedy here. It’s nice to see that mainstream family films aren’t necessarily complete crap.
A Guy Thing
This is definitely not Jason Lee’s (character actor 4 life?) ticket to the A-list. It’s below average, but entertaining. The “underwear bin” bit was definitely clutch.
Head of State
This movie is funny. Bernie Mac is in it. He is really funny. I like Bernie Mac. Tracy Morgan is in it, too, but his character is just stupid. Oh yeah and Chris Rock is in it too but I think Bernie Mac should’ve been the star not Chris Rock. And the plot is so innovative – nothing like Bringing Down the House, scout’s honor. If you want to see this one, sneak into it.
How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days
“How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days” manages to mildly amuse, but ultimately it is no better than the countless other faceless romantic comedies that have preceded it. If you’re looking to see a good movie, avoid this one. If you’ve got some designs on what might happen after (or during) the movie, it’s definitely tolerable. (Get the full review here or here.)
Hulk
This film suffers from a serious case of overcool. While the visual effects, transitions, and such are cool, they’re overused, and every so often it looks like they let a 12-year-old with a bootleg copy of After Effects have his way with a few feet of film. The CGI is average, which is a major flaw considering the title character is brought to life via CGI. There are some extremely laughable action sequences. There’s nothing here to warrant the 2+ hour length. There is a lot of good material here, and generally this is an above average movie, but some of the time and energy that was spent on the eye candy transitions and split screens should’ve been focused on creating a more believable CGI Hulk and weeding out the weak parts of the story.
The Hunted
A no-nonsense action flick. I appreciate that. No love sideplot, just action. It’s just the right length, the pacing is dead-on, the acting is convincing, and it’s technically solid. The problem: It’s nothing I haven’t seen before.
Irréversible (Irreversible)
Scenes are presented in reverse chronological order, and each scene is shot in a single, uncut take. There are two scenes of extremely graphic violence, which is taken to a Faces of Death–like extreme since the film doesn’t cut away. It’s hard to stomach the sight of a man being beaten to death with a fire extinguisher or nine-minutes of the violent rape and subsequent beating of a woman. This film batters you over the head with symbolism and connections. (I’ll take flagrant symbolism over a fire extinguisher any day, thanks.) It is contrived and polished. It constantly reminds you– almost apologetically– of its message, which is “time destroys all.” Too obtuse for me. I kept searching for something to justify the violence and the style, but I couldn’t find anything. Tries to push the envelope, but fails.
The Italian Job
The Italian Job is a technoheist remake along the lines of Ocean’s Eleven. This above average popcorn flick entertains throughly with only a few groan moments.
Johnny English
This is an entertaining film if you open yourself up to slapstick (or you laugh at all British humor), but it’s not particularly good. It’s very hit-and-miss. The plot is predictable, as are many of the gags.
Laurel Canyon
This film is an indy through-and-through, which is both good and bad. It’s edgy, but it pretends like it has some sort of deep message. It’s about the journey– and I mean that both literally and figuratively– that two recently engaged Harvard medical school graduates take when they stay with the groom’s hedonist, record producer mother in SoCal. A series of events unfold that cause the main characters to question their relationships and lifestyles. If you though Frances MacDormand was sexy in The Man Who Wasn’t There, check her out here. Entertaining, but pretentious.
The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen
Very patronizing and only mildly entertaining.
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
The concluding chapter of Peter Jackson’s trilogy has been lauded. It is an amazing cinematic realization of a hard-to-realize work of literature. However, it was clear that this film was designed to be a blockbuster. It was littered with cheap emotional tricks. I left contemplating what this film could have been had the director abandoned the idea of making a blockbuster, and stuck with the idea of making an honest interpretation of Tolkien’s book.
The Matrix Reloaded
The Matrix Reloaded plays like a bad musical, but instead of songs, we get fight scenes surrounded by snippets of plot movement. This movie would be nothing if it weren’t for the visual effects. Without seeing The Matrix Revolutions, I get the feeling that Reloaded and Revolutions should have been– and might even have been planned as– one sequel. Here’s my approximate breakdown of the 138 minutes: 67 minutes of action scenes, 23 minutes of Neo–Trinity love story, 7 minutes of plot development, 11 minutes of dime store philosophy, 22 minutes of filler, and 8 minutes of credits. The Wachowski brothers went from the breakthrough scifi movie of our generation to a kung fu flick with some awesome visual effects.
A Mighty Wind
A Mighty Wind was my first experience with the post–Spinal Tap Christopher Guest mockumentary, and an extremely pleasant experience it was. Sure, it mocks the inflated self-importance and general weirdness of the folk music world, but it also gives you a sense of love and affection for both the characters and, surprisingly, the music, which is presented relatively honestly instead of overtly satirized. (If you concentrate on the lyrics, it’s a different story.) The music is both performed and sung by the actors, and as a result, it’s among the most convincing ever put on celluloid. Considering the roles the actors have played in the past, it’s amazing how believeable they are in their roles as generally normal people with various threads of insanity. I was pleasantly surprised and very glad I made the trip to see this film, and I’m definitely going to check out Waiting for Guffman and Best in Show as soon as possible.
National Security
National Security is the first movie to receive my coveted “detriment to society” rating. It’s not that the comedy isn’t funny, Lawrence and Zahn have no chemistry whatsoever, the bad guy is a loser, and the action scenes are boring. The premise of the movie is, “I am Martin Lawrence. I am black, and that makes me funny.” And we all know how wrong at least one-third of that statement is.
Old School
For the first fourty-five minutes, I thought the no-holds-barred comedy of old was back. The second half of the movie was a big, boring, Billy Madison–caliber joke, though. It felt to me like a lot of the fun was cut out of the second half in order to move the plot along. Could’ve been so much more had the laughs been consistent throughout the film.
Phone Booth
That crazy Joel Schumacher decided to direct a movie that’s set in one location. Alas, this is not The Breakfast Club. This is about a deranged killer trying to force a man to be a nice guy by pointing a gun with a really expensive sight at his head. This movie is all about development. It probably could’ve been about fifteen minutes long, but it’s nice to see a movie that hasn’t had it’s guts cut out. There are some plot holes, which, in a movie like this, are a bit painful, but overall it’s exciting, fun, and fresh.
Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl
This is how summer blockbusters should be done. Quick and polished. Johnny Depp’s dandy Captain Jack Sparrow steals the show, but Bloom and Knightly deliver quality performances, as well. The effects are as tastefully done as ghost ships and living skeletons can be. The transitions between human and skeleton were especially superb. But why-oh-why can’t the writers lay off the obvious – the cliché and the groaners? “He’s a blacksmith.” “No, he’s a pirate!” Like we didn’t see that one coming since the first reel… please.
Raising Victor Vargas
A coming-of-age love story of an adolescent player-in-training and a girl who’s sick of being no more than “Juicy Judy.” This movies best quality is its honesty. You will not find any emotional trickery. You will find honest, quasi-improvisitational performances that hit you with both humor and real emotion. Redefines the coming-of-age movie. Do whatever you can to see this one.
The Recruit
The first three-quarters of the movie were on par with The Bourne Identity. Nothing new, but still exciting and well executed. They must’ve hired Gary Coleman’s long-lost meth-addict twin sister to write the last quarter. It was total cheese. Not since Attack of the Clones have I heard people laugh out loud this much at dialog that wasn’t intended to be funny. Couple that with some ridiculously unbelievable moves by the hero (I could do better tailing someone) and a predictably cliché plot (thanks, trailer!), and you get a decidedly average movie. If you want to see a movie about a hot geek being manipulated by father-like figure and hot women he can’t be sure whether or not to trust, I suggest AntiTrust.
Ren xiao yao (Unknown Pleasures)
Two nineteen-year-old Chinese boys are affected by a decidedly Western lack of direction. This movie has its moments, but it’s long and boring. Maybe it’s some sort of autobiography. Avoid.
Seabiscuit
As well executed and moving as it is, I felt somewhat cheated by this film. The only time in the whole movie I didn’t feel like something bad was about to happen was during the victory montage. Right up to the end, I expected something to happen. This is a very manipulative movie, much like films from different eras. I would’ve prefered to see this story presented in a more realistic, gritty way. The story is so amazing that it doesn’t need any dressing.
Shanghai Knights
Features some of the funniest fight choreography I’ve seen. Owen Wilson’s style of humor is also refreshing. There is a lot of cheesiness, though. The “haha lets make references to the future in this movie set in the past” bit is getting a little played out. If you look past the cheesiness, however, it’s a funny movie. Note: I haven’t seen Shanghai Noon, so I have no clue how much of a rehash this is.
Spun
Spun features some popular young actors (Jason Schwartzman, Brittany Murphy, John Leguizamo, Mena Suvari, Patrick Fugit) as a bunch of meth addicts. It’s littered with music video–style visuals, such as quick-cut closeups of dialating pupils and parts of car engines. Oh, and pornographic cartoons. Not really much need for things like “plot” or “character development” here. (Sounds a little like Moulin Rouge, ey?) You’ll never see Mena Suvari look so nasty, but her and the rest of the characters’ roughness seems too polished.
Swimming Pool
This is a relatively interesting film. It feels artsy, but I don’t believe it’s all that unique. However, it oozes sex and knows when to interject bits of real world humor, so it’s not boring by any stretch of the imagination. Guaranteed to leave you confounded.
Tears of the Sun
As an action flick, it works. You have to shut your mind off to really enjoy it. The blatant message of American moral superiority presented here can be sickening, as can the violence.
Whale Rider
It seems like Niki Caro took screenwriting lessons from the writers of afterschool specials. From the prologue of this movie, the payoff is obvious. Thus, it needs to present the immensity of reaching the peak. Instead, Whale Rider is filled with mostly slow moving, predictible development. Only the final act of the movie manages to rise above the afterschool special, yet it could’ve been so much bigger – both in writing and technical execution. Keisha Castle-Hughes does a remarkable job in the role of Pai, but ultimately the character is too much god and not enough human. The only character that actually goes through some semblance of a change is the antagonist, Koro, but from the beginning of the movie we know he’ll cast off the blinders of tradition and accept Pai’s destiny. There’s really nothing to do here except admire the pretty pictures and authentic tribal rituals.
X2
When watching X-Men after other recent attempts at comic book adaptations (Spider-Man, Daredevil), I realized that it’s probably the best comic book adapation of (at least) the last decade. I don’t know whether it’s because of the nature of the X-Men world, which creates a rich ensemble environment, because it’s better executed, or because it seems slightly more realistic, but I find this movie leaps and bounds above all the other comic book movies I’ve seen. (N.B. I’ve yet to see Superman.) X2 takes X-Men to the next level for many reasons. The position in X-Men lore, the length of the film, and the quality of the effects are among them, but this film’s most unique element (in the comic/action film world, at least) is that it deals with not just good vs. evil, but good vs. good-intentioned vs. good-but-blind vs. really evil. It confronts an element of reality that most movies conveniently push aside: Morality is not two-sided. The characters, as in the first film, were very compelling and the movie was extremely well executed by Singer, the entire cast (Cumming is an excellent addition, and apparently Storm lost her quasi–South African accent since the last film, so Halle is more believable), and, of course, the crew. This film, however, was not perfect. There were a few lulls near the end where a little trimming m
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2003 FILM LIST
Last Updated: 11/10/2003
Total Film Count: 230
2003 Theatrical Releases: 64
- excellent
- good
- of interest
- mediocre
- bomb
2002 Film List
-24 Hour Party People/UK/Michael Winterbottom (DVD)
-25th Hour (R/B)
-28 Days Later (L/R)
-Alexei to izumi (Alexei and the Spring)/2002/Japan/Motohashi Seiichi (EFF)* (NGA)
-All The Real Girls/US/David Gordon Green (C/D)
-An Angel for May/UK/Harley Cokeliss (BAIFE)
-Anita and Me/UK/Metin Hüseyin (BAIFE)
-Antwone Fisher (AMC/MG)
-Assassination Tango/US/Robert Duvall (L/B)
-Ballad of Bering Strait, The (LB)
-Better Luck Tomorrow (L/G) (Q&A with J. Lin)
-Blue Crush/US/John Stockwell (DVD)
-Bollywood/Hollywood/Canada/Deepa Mehta (FFDC) (A)
-Child I Never Was, The (Ein Leben lang kurze Hosen tragen)/2002/Germany/Kai S. Pieck (JCC)
-Cidade de Deus(City of God) (2002)(L/B)
-Clockstoppers/US/Jonathan Frakes (DVD)
-Confessions of a Dangerous Mind (C/W)
-Decalage Horaire (Jet Lag)/France-United Kingdom/Danielle Thompson (FFDC (L/G)
-Demonlover (V)
-Dirty Pretty Things/UK/Stephen Frears (L/B) Q&A with Dir. Stephen Frears
-Divine Intervention (2001) (V)
-Dracula: Pages of a Virgin's Diary/Canada/Guy Maddin (A)(FFDC)
-Drumline (AMC/MG)
-Auberge Espagnole, L' (C/D)
-El Alamein - The Linefire/Italy/Enzo Monteleone (V)
-Etre et Avoir (To Be and To Have)/French/Nicolas Philibert (AFI)(SilverDocs)
-Eye, The/Hong Kong/Pang Brothers (DVD)
-For the Children/China/Yang Yazhou (FFDC) (C/W)
-Friday Night/France/Claire Denis (A)
-Good Thief, The/UK/Neil Jordan (AMC/MG)
-Green Butchers, The/Denmark/ (AFI-NT)
-Guru, The(AMC/MG)
-Heart of Me, The/UK-Germany/Thaddeus O'Sullivan (A) (FFDC)*
-Homme du Train, L'/France (C/D)
-Horns and Halos (V)
-Hours, The (AMC/MG)
-I Capture the Castle C/OC
-Into This World/UK/Michael Winterbottom (R) (HRW)* (Q&A with Dir. Michael Winterbottom)
-Irreversible/France/Gaspar Noe
-John Q/US/Nick Cassavetes
(DVD)
-Kahlekuningas (The Handcuff King)/Finland-Sweden/Arto Koskinen
-Klassenfahrt (School Trip)/Germany/dir. Henner Winckler (V)
-Laurel Canyon/US/Lisa Cholodenko (CA)
-Little Otik/Czech Republic/Jan Svankmajer (DVD)
-Left Behind/US/34min/Christof Putzel
-Lubovnik (The Lover)/Russian/Valeri Todorovski (FG)
-Lunes al Sol, Los (Mondays in the Sun)/Spain-France-Italy/Fernando Leon de Aranoa (FFDC) (C/W)
-Magdalene Sisters, The/UK/Peter Mullan (CS) (DC Premeir Private Screening - Landmark Bethesda: 7/25/2003: Q&A with Peter Mullan)
-Man Without A Past, The/Finland/Aki Kaurismäki (ICA)
-Marooned in Iraq C/D
-Mein Bruder, der Vampir (My Brother the Vampire)(2002 )V)
-Merci Doctuer Rey/2002/France-US/Andrew Litvack (LT) (Q&A with director)
-Morvern Callar (V)
-My Life without Me
-Narc (L/W)
-Ni neibian jidian (What Time is it There?)/2001/France-Taiwan/Ming-liang Tsai (DVD)
-Nos Miran/Spain/Norberto Lopez (AFI-NT)
-Oasis/South Korea/Chang-dong Lee (C/OC) (FFDC)
-Ônibus 174/Brazil/Felipe Lacerda-José Padilha (FFDC) (L/G)
-Phone Booth/US/Joel Schumacker (C/U)
-Pianist, The(L/G)
-Provence United/Israel/Ori Inbar (AFI-ST)
-Quiet American, The (LB)
-Raising Victor Vargas/US-France/Peter Sollett (C/D)
-Reverend Billy & The Church of Stop Shopping/Germany/Dietmar Post (CI) (DCUFF)
-Russian Ark (L/B)
-Shanghai Ghetto (V)
-Si-Gueriki: The Queen Mother/Benin-France-Germany/Idrissou Mora Kpai/62min (V)'New Visions of Africa'
-Slaughter Rule, The/US/Alex Smith, Andrew J. Smith (DVD)
-Sorority Boys/US/Wallace Wolodarsky (DVD)
-Space Station IMAX-3D (LM/NASM)
-Spellbound/US/Jeffrey Blitz (L/B)
-Spider/France-UK-Canada/David Cronenberg (C/D)
-Stevie/US/Steve James (C/D)
-Strange Fruit/US/Joel Katz (PBS)
-Swimming Pool/France-UK/Francois Ozon (C/O)
-Tattoo/France,Germany/Dir. Robert Schwentke (V)
-Ten/France-Iran/Abbas Kiarostami(AFI/ST)
-Tracker, The/Australia/Rolf de Heer (NG)
-True Whispers: The Story of the Navajo Code Talkers/US/Valerie Red-Horse/60min (H)
-Umur/Finland/Kai Lehtinen (AFI-NT)
-Whale Rider/New Zealand-Germany/Niki Caro (EFF)* (NGA)
-Ying xiong (Hero)/China/Yimou Zhang/98min (DVD)
-Zajaneh (The Ladies)/2002/Iran/ (AFI-S) (SilverDocs)
2003 Films
-Alex & Emma/US/Rob Reiner (C/TC)
-Alex's Wedding/Cameroon-France/Jean Marie Teno/45min. (V)
-Alien (Director's Cut)/1979-2003/US/Ridley Scott (CO/C)
-Always Wanted To Be A Saint/Luxemborg/Geneveive Mersch (AFI-NT)
-American Splendor (C/W)
-A Mighty Mind [L/B)
-Anger Management (L/G)
-Basic (H/R-C)
-Bonhoeffer (A)
-Brother Bear (AMC/MG)
-Bugs! (Imax 3D) (SLJ)
-Camp (L/B)
-Charlie's Angels 2: Full Throttle (LG)
-Daredevil (C-VVG)
-Darkness Falls (R/R)
-Die Mommie Die! (L/G)
-Down With Love (L/G)
-Dreamcatcher (AMC-MG)
-Eden’s Curve/US/Anne Misawa (LT)
-Elephant (A)
-Final Destination 2 (DVD)
-Finding Nemo (C/C)
-Fleur du mal, La (Flower of Evil) (A)
-Freaky Friday (C/W)
-Freddy Vs. Jason/US/Ronny Yu (L/R)
-Girl With the Pearl Earring (AFI-ST)
-Gods and Generals (AMC-MG)
-Holes (C/WF)
-Holy Land, The/Israel/Eitan Gorlin (A)
-House of 1000 Corpses (R/R)
-How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days (L/G)
-Human Stain, The (AFI-ST) (Q&A with director Robert Benton)
-Identity (UA/B)
-Intolerable Cruelty (AMC/MG)
-Italian Job, The (AMC-MG) [work in progress print]
-Just Married (DVD)
-Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life/US/Jan De Bont (L/G)
-Lost in Translation (AMC/C)
-Mambo Italian/Canada/ (CO-W)
-Matchstick Men/US/Ridley Scott (L/G)
-Matrix: Reloaded (L/G)
-Matrix: Revolution (L/G)
-Moi et mon blanc (Me and My White Guy)/Burkina Faso-France/Pierre Yameogo (V)
-Once Upon A Time in Mexico/US/Robert Rodriguez (CO-W)
-Orphans of Mathare (AFI-S) (SilverDocs)
-Pirates of the Caribbean
-Recruit, The (AMC/MG)
-Runaway Jury (AMC/MG)
-Seabiscuit (C/U)
-Season of Youth (AMC-MG DCiFF)* (Q&A with director Eric Perlmutter)
-Secondhand Lions (AMC/MG)
-Secret Lives of Dentists, The (A)
-Shanghai Knights (C-VVG)
-Shape of Things (C/OC)
-Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas (C/C)
-Singing Detective, The (L/B)
-Sylvia (AMC/MG)
-Spy Kids 3D: Game Over (L/R) (DLP Presentation)
-Tears of the Sun (AMC-MG)
-Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines (AMC/MG)
-Texas Chainsaw Massacre (L/G)
-Thirteen (L/B) Q&A with director
-Tulse Luper Suitcases Episode 3, Antwerp/UK/105min/Peter Greenaway (H) (Q&A with Greenaway) HiDef presentation
-Tulse Luper Suitcases: Part I The Moab Story/UK/Peter Greenaway (H) (Q&A with Greenaway)
-Underworld (AMC/MG)
-X2: X-Men United (C/U)
First Timers
-Absolute Beginners/UK/Julien Temple (DVD)
-Aguirre - The Wrath of God/1977/Germany-Peru/Werner Herzog (GI)
-Alai Payuthey (Waves)/2000/India/Mani Ratnam (FFDC) (C/W)
-Andrei Rublyov/1966/Soviet Union/205min/Andrei Tarkovsky (NGA)
-A Tree of Palme/2001/Japan (AFI/ST)
-Bai Fa Mo Nu Zhuan (The Bride with the White Hair)/1993/Hong Kong/Ronny Yu (FGA)
-Beefcake/1999/US/Thom Fitzgerald (DVD)
-Believer, The (DVD)
-Belle et Bete, La/1947/France/Jean Cocteau (AFI/ST)
-Berlin: Symphony of a City/1927/German/Walter Ruttmann (NGA)
-Bhopal Express/2001/India/Mahesh Mathai(V)
-Blazing Saddles/1974/US/Mel Brooks (TCM)
-Blue Car/2001/US/Karen Moncrieff (C/O)
-Borstal Boy/2000/UK-Ireland/Peter Sheridan (DVD)
-Buffalo Soldiers/2001 (C/W)
-Casino Royale/1967/Val Guest (TCM)
-C'era una Volta il West (Once Upon a Time in the West)/1968/Italy-US/Sergio Leone (AFI/ST)
-Citizen Toxie: The Toxic Avenger 4/2001/US/98min/Lloyd Kaufman (DVD)
-Cowboy Bebop: Tengoku no tobira /2001/Japan/Shinichirô Watanabe (C/D)
-Cremaster 1/1995/US/Matthew Barney (V)
-Cremaster 2/1999/US/Matthew Barney (V)
-Da zui xia/Daa chui hap (Come Drink With Me)/1966/Hong Kong/King Hu (FFDC) (A)
-Dead or Alive: Birds/2000/Japan/Takashi Miike (SD)
-Dead or Alive: Hanzaisha/1999/Japan/Takashi Miike (SD)
-Dracula/1931/US/Tod Browning (DVD)
-Dr. Strangelove Or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb/1964/UK/Stanley Kubrick (A)
-Emploi du temps, L'/2001/France/Laurent Cantet (DVD)
-Eugenie... the Story of Her Journey Into Perversion/1968/Spain/Jesus Franco (DVD)
-Fate ignoranti, Le (His Secret Life)/2001/France,Italy/Ferzan Ozpetek (V)
-Fiebre del Loco, La (Loco Fever)/2001/Chile-Spain-Mexico/Andres Wood (FFDC) (A)
-First Nudie Musical, The/1976/US/Mark Haggard-
Bruce Kimmel (DVD)
-Fitzcarraldo/1982/Germany/Werner Herzog (GI)
-For Heaven's Sake/1926/US/Sam Taylor (TCM)
-Freaks/1932/US/Tod Browning/66min (V)
-Freshman, The/1925/US/Sam Taylor (TCM)
-General, The (AFI/ST)
-Get Carter/1971/UK/Mike Hodges (BAIFE)
-Girl From Paris, The/2001 (V)
-Gloomy Sunday - Ein Lied von Liebe und Tod/1999/Germany-Hungary/Rolf Schubel (A)
-Golden Voyage of Sinbad/1974/UK-US/Gordon Hessler (TCM)
-Great Escape, The/1963/USA/John Sturges (TCM)
-Guns of Navarone, The/1961/US/J. Lee Thompson (AFI/ST)
-Havana/1990/US/Sydney Pollack (FFDC) (A) Q&A w/Sydney Pollack
-Haxan/1922/Denmark-Sweden/104min/Benjamin Christensen (DVD)
-Hell of the Living Dead (Virus)/1981/Italy-Spain/Bruno Mattei (DVD)
-How Harry Became a Tree/2001/UK/Goran Paskaljevic
(V - Irish Art Festival)
-Ikiru/1952/Japan/Akira Kurosawa (AFI/NT)
-Japon (Japan)/2001/Mexico-Germany-Netherlands/Carlos Reygadas (AFI-ST)
-Kid Brother, The/1927/US/Ted Wilde (TCM)
-Koroshiya 1 (Ichi the Killer)/2001/Japan/Takashi Miike (DVD)
-Krysar (The Pied Piper)/1986/Czechoslovakia/Jiri Barta/55min (AFI/ST)
-La Dolce Vita/1960/Italy/Fredrico Fellini (NGA)
-Lengua de las Mariposas, La(Butterfly)/1999/Spain
DVD)
-Life as A House/2001/US/Irwin Winkler (DVD)
-Lost in La Mancha (V)
-Madadayo/1993/Japan/Akira Kurosawa (AFI/ST)
-Magnificent Seven, The/1960/US/John Sturges (TCM)
-Mamma Roma/1962/Italy/Pier Paolo Pasolini (NGA)
-Mar, El/2000/Spain/Agustín Villaronga (DVD)
-Marquis De Sade - Justine/1969/125min/Italy/Jess Franco (DVD)
-Metropolis/1927/Germany/123min/Fritz Lang (TCM)
-Mysterious Doctor, The/1943/US/Benjamin Stoloff (TCM)
-Ordinary Decent Criminal/2000/UK,US,Germany/Thaddeus O'Sullivan (DVD)
-Peuple Migrateur, Le (Winged Migration)/2001 (LG)
-Picture of Dorian Gray, The/1945/US/Albert Lewin (TCM)
-Quai des Orfevres/1947/France/Henri-Georges Clouzot (AFI/NT)
-Reluctant Dragon, The/1941/US/Alfred L. Werker (DVD)
-Ring 0: Birthday/2000/Japan/Norio Tsuruta (SD)
-Safety of Objects, The/2001/US/Rose Troche (C/D)
-Sans soleil/1985/France/Chris Marker (NGA)
-Say Anything/1989/US/Cameron Crowe (DVD)
-Solaris/1972/Russia/Andrei Tarkovsky (NGA)
-Song of the South/1946/US/Harve Foster-Wilfred Jackson (LD)
-Speedy/1928/US/Ted Wilde (TCM)
-Stacy/2001/Japan/Naoyuki Tomomatsu (DVD)
-Stalker/1979/Russia/Andrei Tarkovsky (NGA)
-Strangers on A Train/US/Alfred Hitchcock (AFI-ST)
-Storm Riders, The/1998/Hong Kong/Wai Keung Lau
-Sueño del caimán, El (Caiman's Dream)/2001/Mexico/Beto Gomez (CA)*(AFI/NT)(Q&A with Director Beto Gomez)
-That's Entertainment Part II/1976/US/Gene Kelly (A)
-Village of the Damned/1960/UK/Wolf Rilla (TCM)
-When the Sky Falls/1999/Ireland (DVD)
-Zerkalo (The Mirror)/1974/Russia/Andrei Tarkovsky (NGA)
Short Films
-A Drink in the Passage/1997/South Africa/Zola Maseko/28min (V)
-A Night In the Gilman/2000/Canada/4min/David Nytra (DCiFF)Animation
-Albie: Quick On The Draw/2002/UK/10 min/Painting on cells/Francis Vose (FFDC) (A) Animation
-All-Colored Vaudeville Show, An/1935/11min/Roy Mack (TCM)
-Animatrix: A Detective Story/2003/Japan/Shinichiro Watanabe/18 min (DVD) Animation
-Animatrix: Beyond/2003/Japan/Koji Morimoto/21 min (DVD) Animation
-Animatrix: Final Flight of the Osiris/2003/US/CGI/Andy Jones (AMC-MG)Animation
-Animatrix: Kid's Story/2003/Japan/Shinichiro Watanabe/17min (DVD) Animation
-Animatrix: Matriculated/2003/Japan/Peter Chung/24 min (DVD) Animation
-Animatrix: Program/2003/Japan/Yoshiaki Kawajiri/15 min (DVD) Animation
-Animatrix: Second Renaissance Parts 1 and 2/2003/Japan/Mahiro Maeda/17 min (DVD) Animation
-Animatrix: World Record/2003/Japan/Takeshi Koike/17 min (DVD) Animation
-Atama Yama (Mt. Head)/2002/Japan/Koji Yamamura/2D Animation + CGI (The Animation Show) (AFI-ST) Animation
-At the Border/2002/US/16min/Patty Elahi
-Bunny/1998/US/7min/Chris Wedge Animation (DVD)
-Byt (The Flat)/1968/13min/Jan Svankmajer (DVD)
-Capelito Papá/2000/Spain/5 min/Clay/Rodolfo Pastor (FFDC) (A) Animation
-Captive, Waiting… (Asir, Entezar)/2002/Iran/23min/Mohammad Ahmadi
-Castle of Otranto/Czech/Jan Svankmajer/20 min/Animation and live action (AFI/ST)
-Choir, The/2002/UK/9min/Angela M. Murray (S-SRP)
-Click, Clack, Moo! Cows That Type/2001/USA/10 min, Drawing on cells/Doreen Cronin (FFDC) (A) Animation
-Cops/1922/US/Buster Keaton – Eddie Cline/18min. (DVD)
-Course À L'Abime/1992/Switzerland/Georges Schwizgebel/Acrylic paint on cel (The Animation Show) (AFI-ST) Animation
-Down to the Cellar/1983/Czech/Jan Svankmajer/15 min/Animation and live action (AFI/ST)
-Fall of the House of Usher, The/1980/Czech/Jan Svankmajer/15 min/Animation and live action (AFI/ST)
-Family/2002/UK/25min/Adrian Mead (S-SRP)
-Fifty Percent Gray/2001/Ireland/Ruairi Robinson/3D CGI (The Animation Show) (AFI-ST) Animation
-Franz Kafka's It's A Wonderful Life/1993/UK/23min/Peter Capaldi (S-SRP)
-Gone Nutty/2002/US/5min/Carlos Saldanha Animation (DVD)
-Hi De Ho/1937/11min/Roy Mack (TCM)
-Hide Your Words (Harfhayat Ra Penhan Kon)/2002/Iran/27min/Behnam Behzadi
-How Do Dinosaurs Say Goodnight/2002/US/8 min/Cell-2D computer/Jane Yolen (FFDC) (A)
-Ident/1989/England/Richard Goleszowski/Claymation (The Animation Show) (AFI-ST) Animation
-I Used To Be A Filmmaker/2003/USA/10min/Jay Rosenblatt
-In the Game/2002/US/12min/Leigh Dana Jackson (DCiFF)
-Is Your Mama A Llama?/2001/USA/6 min./Drawing on cells/Deborah Guarino (FFDC) (A)Animation
-Katedra (The Cathedral)/2002/Poland/Tomek Baginski/3D CGI (The Animation Show) (AFI-ST) Animation
-Leonard/2001/UK/25min/Brian Kelly (S-SRP)
-Life As It Is (Presto Zhizn)/2002/Russia/19min/Marina Razbeahkina
-Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness/2002/US/14min/Tiffany Shalain
-Live From Shiva’s Dance Floor/2002/US/21min/Richard Linklater
-Love is a Four-Letter Word/2002/UK/25min/Sarah Rantell Barr (S-SRP)
-Lucky Dip, The/2002)United Kingdom/3 min/3D models-CGI/Emily Spinner (FFDC) (A)Animation
-Lunar Jig/2001/UK/3min/Rachel Everitt (S-SRP)Animation
-Mars and Beyond (excerpt)/1957/US/Ward Kimbell/Traditional 2D Animation and Experimental Photography (The Animation Show) (AFI-ST) Animation
-New Scenes from America (Nye Scener fra Amerika)/2002/Denmark/35min/Jorgen Leth
-Parking/2003/US/Bill Plympton/Cell 2D (The Animation Show) (AFI-ST) Animation
-Petite Lumiere (Little Light)/2002/Senegal/Alan Gomis/15min. (V)
-Pit, The Pendulum, and Hope, The/1983/Czech/Jan Svankmajer/15 min (AFI/ST)
-Playhouse, The/1921/US/Buster Keaton – Eddie Cline/22min. (DVD)
-Posledni lup (The Last Theft)/1987/Czech/Jiri Barta/21 min (AFI/ST) (partial)Animation
-Rad, Das (The Rocks)/2001/Germany/Chris Stenner, Arvid Uibel, and Heidi Wittlinger/Stop Motion Animation combined with CGI (The Animation Show) (AFI-ST) Animation
-Rapbizz/2002/France/Benny Malapa/20min. (V)
-Rejected/2000/US/Don Hertzfeldt/2D Animation combined with Stop-Motion and Experimental Animation (The Animation Show) (AFI-ST) Animation
-She and Her Cat/2002/Japan/5min/Makoto Shinkai (DVD) Animation
-Spike & Mike's Festival of Twisted Animation 2003 edition/various years - directors/21 animation shorts (A)Animation
-Sun And Cloud/2001/Canada/1 min/Cell/Julian Grey.
-Strange Invaders/2001/Canada/Cordell Barker/Cell 2D Animation (The Animation Show) (AFI-ST) Animation
-Unscrew/2001/UK/10min/Clara Glynn (S-SRP)
-Welcome to the Show/Intermission in the Third Dimension/The End of the Show/2003/US/Don Hertzfeldt/Traditional 2D Animation combined with Stop-Motion and Experimental Animation (The Animation Show) (AFI-ST) Animation
-Yoko! Jakamoto! Toto!: The Scary Monster/2003/UK/5 min/CelAction, 2D computer/Tony Collingwood (FFDC) (A)Animation
TV Movies/Miniseries/Documentaries/OAV
-Dinner With Friends/2001/Norman Jewison (HBO)
-From Dollars to Donuts: The Making of the First Nudie Musical/2002 (DVD)
-Martin and Lewis/2002/John Gray (CBS)
-Normal/2003/Jane Anderson (HBO)
-Open House/2003/Arwin Brown (CBS)
-Three's Company Revisted/2003/Jason Ensler (NBC)
-Martha, Inc.: The Martha Stewart Story/2003/Jason Ensler (NBC)
-Comic Book Super Heroes Unmasked/2003 (HC)
-Scrolls to Screens: The History and Culture of Anime/2003/US-Japan/Josh Oreck (DVD)
-Screening at the Majestic/1995/France (DVD)
-Voices of A Distant Star/2003/Japan/Cel +CGI/24min (DVD) Animation
Key:
DVD
LD: laserdisc
VHS
PBS
TCM - Turner Classic Movies
SD - Sky Digital (UK)
HBO - Home Box Office
BAIFE: British Airways In-Flight Entertainment
Venues
AFI/NT: American Film Institute: National Theatre
AFI/ST: American Film Institute: Silver Theatre
AMC/MG: AMC Mazza Gallerie
A: Avalon Theatre
CA: Cinema Arts Theatre
C/C: Cineplex Odeon Cinema
C/D: Cineplex Odeon Dupont Circle 5
CI: Carnegie Institute
C/OC: Cineplex Outer Circle
C/S: Curzon Soho (London, England)
C/TC: Cineplex Odeon Tysons Corner
C-VVG: Consolidated - Valley View Grande/Roanoke, VA
C/W: Cineplex Odeon Wisconsin Ave.
C/U: Cineplex Odeon Uptown
FG: Freer Gallery
GI: Goethe Institute
H: Hirshhorn Museum
H/R-C: Hoyts/Regal Carousel 19 (Syracuse, NY)
ICA: Institute of Contemporary Arts (London, England)
L/B: Landmark - Bethesda
L/G: Loews Georgetown
L/R: Loews Rio
LM/NASM: Lockheed Martin IMAX Theatre
LT: Lincoln Theatre
NG: National Geographic
NGA: National Gallery of Art
R: Ritzy Cinema (London, England)
R/B: Regal Ballston
R/R: Regal Rockville
SLJ: Samuel L. Johnson IMAX Theatre
V: VisionsDC
Film Festivals:
-CA: Cine AmericArtes
-DCiFF: DC Independent Film Festival
-DCUFF: DC Underground Film Festival
-EFF: Environmental Film Festival
-FFDC: Filmfest DC
-HRW: Human Rights Watch 2003 International Film Festival; London, England
-SilverDocs: AFI/Discovery Channel Docu Film Fest
-S-SRP: Scottish Short Film Collection, Smithsonian Resident Associate's Program
Last Updated: 11/10/2003
Total Film Count: 230
2003 Theatrical Releases: 64
- excellent - good - of interest - mediocre - bomb2002 Film List
-24 Hour Party People/UK/Michael Winterbottom (DVD)
-25th Hour (R/B)
-28 Days Later (L/R)
-Alexei to izumi (Alexei and the Spring)/2002/Japan/Motohashi Seiichi (EFF)* (NGA)
-All The Real Girls/US/David Gordon Green (C/D)
-An Angel for May/UK/Harley Cokeliss (BAIFE)
-Anita and Me/UK/Metin Hüseyin (BAIFE)
-Antwone Fisher (AMC/MG)
-Assassination Tango/US/Robert Duvall (L/B)
-Ballad of Bering Strait, The (LB)
-Better Luck Tomorrow (L/G) (Q&A with J. Lin)
-Blue Crush/US/John Stockwell (DVD)
-Bollywood/Hollywood/Canada/Deepa Mehta (FFDC) (A)
-Child I Never Was, The (Ein Leben lang kurze Hosen tragen)/2002/Germany/Kai S. Pieck (JCC)
-Cidade de Deus(City of God) (2002)(L/B)
-Clockstoppers/US/Jonathan Frakes (DVD)
-Confessions of a Dangerous Mind (C/W)
-Decalage Horaire (Jet Lag)/France-United Kingdom/Danielle Thompson (FFDC (L/G)
-Demonlover (V)
-Dirty Pretty Things/UK/Stephen Frears (L/B)
Q&A with Dir. Stephen Frears -Divine Intervention (2001) (V)
-Dracula: Pages of a Virgin's Diary/Canada/Guy Maddin (A)(FFDC)
-Drumline (AMC/MG)
-Auberge Espagnole, L' (C/D)
-El Alamein - The Linefire/Italy/Enzo Monteleone (V)
-Etre et Avoir (To Be and To Have)/French/Nicolas Philibert (AFI)(SilverDocs)
-Eye, The/Hong Kong/Pang Brothers (DVD)
-For the Children/China/Yang Yazhou (FFDC) (C/W)
-Friday Night/France/Claire Denis (A)
-Good Thief, The/UK/Neil Jordan (AMC/MG)
-Green Butchers, The/Denmark/ (AFI-NT)
-Guru, The(AMC/MG)
-Heart of Me, The/UK-Germany/Thaddeus O'Sullivan (A) (FFDC)*
-Homme du Train, L'/France (C/D)
-Horns and Halos (V)
-Hours, The (AMC/MG)
-I Capture the Castle C/OC
-Into This World/UK/Michael Winterbottom (R) (HRW)* (Q&A with Dir. Michael Winterbottom)
-Irreversible/France/Gaspar Noe
-John Q/US/Nick Cassavetes
(DVD)
-Kahlekuningas (The Handcuff King)/Finland-Sweden/Arto Koskinen
-Klassenfahrt (School Trip)/Germany/dir. Henner Winckler (V)
-Laurel Canyon/US/Lisa Cholodenko (CA)
-Little Otik/Czech Republic/Jan Svankmajer (DVD)
-Left Behind/US/34min/Christof Putzel
-Lubovnik (The Lover)/Russian/Valeri Todorovski (FG)
-Lunes al Sol, Los (Mondays in the Sun)/Spain-France-Italy/Fernando Leon de Aranoa (FFDC) (C/W)
-Magdalene Sisters, The/UK/Peter Mullan (CS)
(DC Premeir Private Screening - Landmark Bethesda: 7/25/2003: Q&A with Peter Mullan)-Man Without A Past, The/Finland/Aki Kaurismäki (ICA)
-Marooned in Iraq C/D
-Mein Bruder, der Vampir (My Brother the Vampire)(2002 )V)
-Merci Doctuer Rey/2002/France-US/Andrew Litvack (LT) (Q&A with director)
-Morvern Callar (V)
-My Life without Me
-Narc (L/W)
-Ni neibian jidian (What Time is it There?)/2001/France-Taiwan/Ming-liang Tsai (DVD)
-Nos Miran/Spain/Norberto Lopez (AFI-NT)
-Oasis/South Korea/Chang-dong Lee (C/OC) (FFDC)
-Ônibus 174/Brazil/Felipe Lacerda-José Padilha (FFDC) (L/G)
-Phone Booth/US/Joel Schumacker (C/U)
-Pianist, The(L/G)
-Provence United/Israel/Ori Inbar (AFI-ST)
-Quiet American, The (LB)
-Raising Victor Vargas/US-France/Peter Sollett (C/D)
-Reverend Billy & The Church of Stop Shopping/Germany/Dietmar Post (CI) (DCUFF)
-Russian Ark (L/B)
-Shanghai Ghetto (V)
-Si-Gueriki: The Queen Mother/Benin-France-Germany/Idrissou Mora Kpai/62min (V)'New Visions of Africa'
-Slaughter Rule, The/US/Alex Smith, Andrew J. Smith (DVD)
-Sorority Boys/US/Wallace Wolodarsky (DVD)
-Space Station IMAX-3D (LM/NASM)
-Spellbound/US/Jeffrey Blitz (L/B)
-Spider/France-UK-Canada/David Cronenberg (C/D)
-Stevie/US/Steve James (C/D)
-Strange Fruit/US/Joel Katz (PBS)
-Swimming Pool/France-UK/Francois Ozon (C/O)
-Tattoo/France,Germany/Dir. Robert Schwentke (V)
-Ten/France-Iran/Abbas Kiarostami(AFI/ST)
-Tracker, The/Australia/Rolf de Heer (NG)
-True Whispers: The Story of the Navajo Code Talkers/US/Valerie Red-Horse/60min (H)
-Umur/Finland/Kai Lehtinen (AFI-NT)
-Whale Rider/New Zealand-Germany/Niki Caro (EFF)* (NGA)
-Ying xiong (Hero)/China/Yimou Zhang/98min (DVD)
-Zajaneh (The Ladies)/2002/Iran/ (AFI-S) (SilverDocs)
2003 Films
-Alex & Emma/US/Rob Reiner (C/TC)
-Alex's Wedding/Cameroon-France/Jean Marie Teno/45min. (V)
-Alien (Director's Cut)/1979-2003/US/Ridley Scott (CO/C)
-Always Wanted To Be A Saint/Luxemborg/Geneveive Mersch (AFI-NT)
-American Splendor (C/W)
-A Mighty Mind [L/B)
-Anger Management (L/G)
-Basic (H/R-C)
-Bonhoeffer (A)
-Brother Bear (AMC/MG)
-Bugs! (Imax 3D) (SLJ)
-Camp (L/B)
-Charlie's Angels 2: Full Throttle
(LG)-Daredevil (C-VVG)
-Darkness Falls (R/R)
-Die Mommie Die! (L/G)
-Down With Love (L/G)
-Dreamcatcher (AMC-MG)
-Eden’s Curve/US/Anne Misawa (LT)
-Elephant (A)
-Final Destination 2 (DVD)
-Finding Nemo (C/C)
-Fleur du mal, La (Flower of Evil) (A)
-Freaky Friday (C/W)
-Freddy Vs. Jason/US/Ronny Yu (L/R)
-Girl With the Pearl Earring (AFI-ST)
-Gods and Generals (AMC-MG)
-Holes (C/WF)
-Holy Land, The/Israel/Eitan Gorlin (A)
-House of 1000 Corpses (R/R)
-How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days (L/G)
-Human Stain, The (AFI-ST)
(Q&A with director Robert Benton)-Identity (UA/B)
-Intolerable Cruelty (AMC/MG)
-Italian Job, The (AMC-MG) [work in progress print]
-Just Married (DVD)
-Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life/US/Jan De Bont (L/G)
-Lost in Translation (AMC/C)
-Mambo Italian/Canada/ (CO-W)
-Matchstick Men/US/Ridley Scott (L/G)
-Matrix: Reloaded (L/G)
-Matrix: Revolution (L/G)
-Moi et mon blanc (Me and My White Guy)/Burkina Faso-France/Pierre Yameogo (V)
-Once Upon A Time in Mexico/US/Robert Rodriguez (CO-W)
-Orphans of Mathare (AFI-S) (SilverDocs)
-Pirates of the Caribbean
-Recruit, The (AMC/MG)
-Runaway Jury (AMC/MG)
-Seabiscuit (C/U)
-Season of Youth (AMC-MG DCiFF)* (Q&A with director Eric Perlmutter)
-Secondhand Lions (AMC/MG)
-Secret Lives of Dentists, The (A)
-Shanghai Knights (C-VVG)
-Shape of Things (C/OC)
-Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas (C/C)
-Singing Detective, The (L/B)
-Sylvia (AMC/MG)
-Spy Kids 3D: Game Over (L/R)
(DLP Presentation)-Tears of the Sun (AMC-MG)
-Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines (AMC/MG)
-Texas Chainsaw Massacre (L/G)
-Thirteen (L/B)
Q&A with director-Tulse Luper Suitcases Episode 3, Antwerp/UK/105min/Peter Greenaway (H) (Q&A with Greenaway) HiDef presentation
-Tulse Luper Suitcases: Part I The Moab Story/UK/Peter Greenaway (H) (Q&A with Greenaway)
-Underworld (AMC/MG)
-X2: X-Men United (C/U)
First Timers
-Absolute Beginners/UK/Julien Temple (DVD)
-Aguirre - The Wrath of God/1977/Germany-Peru/Werner Herzog (GI)
-Alai Payuthey (Waves)/2000/India/Mani Ratnam (FFDC) (C/W)
-Andrei Rublyov/1966/Soviet Union/205min/Andrei Tarkovsky (NGA)
-A Tree of Palme/2001/Japan (AFI/ST)
-Bai Fa Mo Nu Zhuan (The Bride with the White Hair)/1993/Hong Kong/Ronny Yu (FGA)
-Beefcake/1999/US/Thom Fitzgerald (DVD)
-Believer, The (DVD)
-Belle et Bete, La/1947/France/Jean Cocteau (AFI/ST)
-Berlin: Symphony of a City/1927/German/Walter Ruttmann (NGA)
-Bhopal Express/2001/India/Mahesh Mathai(V)
-Blazing Saddles/1974/US/Mel Brooks (TCM)
-Blue Car/2001/US/Karen Moncrieff (C/O)
-Borstal Boy/2000/UK-Ireland/Peter Sheridan (DVD)
-Buffalo Soldiers/2001 (C/W)
-Casino Royale/1967/Val Guest (TCM)
-C'era una Volta il West (Once Upon a Time in the West)/1968/Italy-US/Sergio Leone (AFI/ST)
-Citizen Toxie: The Toxic Avenger 4/2001/US/98min/Lloyd Kaufman (DVD)
-Cowboy Bebop: Tengoku no tobira /2001/Japan/Shinichirô Watanabe (C/D)
-Cremaster 1/1995/US/Matthew Barney (V)
-Cremaster 2/1999/US/Matthew Barney (V)
-Da zui xia/Daa chui hap (Come Drink With Me)/1966/Hong Kong/King Hu (FFDC) (A)
-Dead or Alive: Birds/2000/Japan/Takashi Miike (SD)
-Dead or Alive: Hanzaisha/1999/Japan/Takashi Miike (SD)
-Dracula/1931/US/Tod Browning (DVD)
-Dr. Strangelove Or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb/1964/UK/Stanley Kubrick (A)
-Emploi du temps, L'/2001/France/Laurent Cantet (DVD)
-Eugenie... the Story of Her Journey Into Perversion/1968/Spain/Jesus Franco (DVD)
-Fate ignoranti, Le (His Secret Life)/2001/France,Italy/Ferzan Ozpetek (V)
-Fiebre del Loco, La (Loco Fever)/2001/Chile-Spain-Mexico/Andres Wood (FFDC) (A)
-First Nudie Musical, The/1976/US/Mark Haggard-
Bruce Kimmel (DVD)
-Fitzcarraldo/1982/Germany/Werner Herzog (GI)
-For Heaven's Sake/1926/US/Sam Taylor (TCM)
-Freaks/1932/US/Tod Browning/66min (V)
-Freshman, The/1925/US/Sam Taylor (TCM)
-General, The
(AFI/ST)-Get Carter/1971/UK/Mike Hodges (BAIFE)
-Girl From Paris, The/2001 (V)
-Gloomy Sunday - Ein Lied von Liebe und Tod/1999/Germany-Hungary/Rolf Schubel (A)
-Golden Voyage of Sinbad/1974/UK-US/Gordon Hessler (TCM)
-Great Escape, The/1963/USA/John Sturges (TCM)
-Guns of Navarone, The/1961/US/J. Lee Thompson (AFI/ST)
-Havana/1990/US/Sydney Pollack (FFDC) (A)
Q&A w/Sydney Pollack-Haxan/1922/Denmark-Sweden/104min/Benjamin Christensen (DVD)
-Hell of the Living Dead (Virus)/1981/Italy-Spain/Bruno Mattei (DVD)
-How Harry Became a Tree/2001/UK/Goran Paskaljevic
(V - Irish Art Festival)
-Ikiru/1952/Japan/Akira Kurosawa (AFI/NT)
-Japon (Japan)/2001/Mexico-Germany-Netherlands/Carlos Reygadas (AFI-ST)
-Kid Brother, The/1927/US/Ted Wilde (TCM)
-Koroshiya 1 (Ichi the Killer)/2001/Japan/Takashi Miike (DVD)
-Krysar (The Pied Piper)/1986/Czechoslovakia/Jiri Barta/55min (AFI/ST)
-La Dolce Vita/1960/Italy/Fredrico Fellini (NGA)
-Lengua de las Mariposas, La(Butterfly)/1999/Spain
DVD)
-Life as A House/2001/US/Irwin Winkler (DVD)
-Lost in La Mancha (V)
-Madadayo/1993/Japan/Akira Kurosawa (AFI/ST)
-Magnificent Seven, The/1960/US/John Sturges (TCM)
-Mamma Roma/1962/Italy/Pier Paolo Pasolini (NGA)
-Mar, El/2000/Spain/Agustín Villaronga (DVD)
-Marquis De Sade - Justine/1969/125min/Italy/Jess Franco (DVD)
-Metropolis/1927/Germany/123min/Fritz Lang (TCM)
-Mysterious Doctor, The/1943/US/Benjamin Stoloff (TCM)
-Ordinary Decent Criminal/2000/UK,US,Germany/Thaddeus O'Sullivan (DVD)
-Peuple Migrateur, Le (Winged Migration)/2001
(LG)-Picture of Dorian Gray, The/1945/US/Albert Lewin (TCM)
-Quai des Orfevres/1947/France/Henri-Georges Clouzot (AFI/NT)
-Reluctant Dragon, The/1941/US/Alfred L. Werker (DVD)
-Ring 0: Birthday/2000/Japan/Norio Tsuruta (SD)
-Safety of Objects, The/2001/US/Rose Troche (C/D)
-Sans soleil/1985/France/Chris Marker (NGA)
-Say Anything/1989/US/Cameron Crowe (DVD)
-Solaris/1972/Russia/Andrei Tarkovsky (NGA)
-Song of the South/1946/US/Harve Foster-Wilfred Jackson (LD)
-Speedy/1928/US/Ted Wilde (TCM)
-Stacy/2001/Japan/Naoyuki Tomomatsu (DVD)
-Stalker/1979/Russia/Andrei Tarkovsky (NGA)
-Strangers on A Train/US/Alfred Hitchcock (AFI-ST)
-Storm Riders, The/1998/Hong Kong/Wai Keung Lau
-Sueño del caimán, El (Caiman's Dream)/2001/Mexico/Beto Gomez (CA)*(AFI/NT)(Q&A with Director Beto Gomez)
-That's Entertainment Part II/1976/US/Gene Kelly (A)
-Village of the Damned/1960/UK/Wolf Rilla (TCM)
-When the Sky Falls/1999/Ireland (DVD)
-Zerkalo (The Mirror)/1974/Russia/Andrei Tarkovsky (NGA)
Short Films
-A Drink in the Passage/1997/South Africa/Zola Maseko/28min (V)
-A Night In the Gilman/2000/Canada/4min/David Nytra (DCiFF)Animation
-Albie: Quick On The Draw/2002/UK/10 min/Painting on cells/Francis Vose (FFDC) (A) Animation
-All-Colored Vaudeville Show, An/1935/11min/Roy Mack (TCM)
-Animatrix: A Detective Story/2003/Japan/Shinichiro Watanabe/18 min (DVD) Animation
-Animatrix: Beyond/2003/Japan/Koji Morimoto/21 min (DVD) Animation
-Animatrix: Final Flight of the Osiris/2003/US/CGI/Andy Jones (AMC-MG)Animation
-Animatrix: Kid's Story/2003/Japan/Shinichiro Watanabe/17min (DVD) Animation
-Animatrix: Matriculated/2003/Japan/Peter Chung/24 min (DVD) Animation
-Animatrix: Program/2003/Japan/Yoshiaki Kawajiri/15 min (DVD) Animation
-Animatrix: Second Renaissance Parts 1 and 2/2003/Japan/Mahiro Maeda/17 min (DVD) Animation
-Animatrix: World Record/2003/Japan/Takeshi Koike/17 min (DVD) Animation
-Atama Yama (Mt. Head)/2002/Japan/Koji Yamamura/2D Animation + CGI (The Animation Show) (AFI-ST) Animation
-At the Border/2002/US/16min/Patty Elahi
-Bunny/1998/US/7min/Chris Wedge Animation (DVD)
-Byt (The Flat)/1968/13min/Jan Svankmajer (DVD)
-Capelito Papá/2000/Spain/5 min/Clay/Rodolfo Pastor (FFDC) (A) Animation
-Captive, Waiting… (Asir, Entezar)/2002/Iran/23min/Mohammad Ahmadi
-Castle of Otranto/Czech/Jan Svankmajer/20 min/Animation and live action (AFI/ST)
-Choir, The/2002/UK/9min/Angela M. Murray (S-SRP)
-Click, Clack, Moo! Cows That Type/2001/USA/10 min, Drawing on cells/Doreen Cronin (FFDC) (A) Animation
-Cops/1922/US/Buster Keaton – Eddie Cline/18min. (DVD)
-Course À L'Abime/1992/Switzerland/Georges Schwizgebel/Acrylic paint on cel (The Animation Show) (AFI-ST) Animation
-Down to the Cellar/1983/Czech/Jan Svankmajer/15 min/Animation and live action (AFI/ST)
-Fall of the House of Usher, The/1980/Czech/Jan Svankmajer/15 min/Animation and live action (AFI/ST)
-Family/2002/UK/25min/Adrian Mead (S-SRP)
-Fifty Percent Gray/2001/Ireland/Ruairi Robinson/3D CGI (The Animation Show) (AFI-ST) Animation
-Franz Kafka's It's A Wonderful Life/1993/UK/23min/Peter Capaldi (S-SRP)
-Gone Nutty/2002/US/5min/Carlos Saldanha Animation (DVD)
-Hi De Ho/1937/11min/Roy Mack (TCM)
-Hide Your Words (Harfhayat Ra Penhan Kon)/2002/Iran/27min/Behnam Behzadi
-How Do Dinosaurs Say Goodnight/2002/US/8 min/Cell-2D computer/Jane Yolen (FFDC) (A)
-Ident/1989/England/Richard Goleszowski/Claymation (The Animation Show) (AFI-ST) Animation
-I Used To Be A Filmmaker/2003/USA/10min/Jay Rosenblatt
-In the Game/2002/US/12min/Leigh Dana Jackson (DCiFF)
-Is Your Mama A Llama?/2001/USA/6 min./Drawing on cells/Deborah Guarino (FFDC) (A)Animation
-Katedra (The Cathedral)/2002/Poland/Tomek Baginski/3D CGI (The Animation Show) (AFI-ST) Animation
-Leonard/2001/UK/25min/Brian Kelly (S-SRP)
-Life As It Is (Presto Zhizn)/2002/Russia/19min/Marina Razbeahkina
-Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness/2002/US/14min/Tiffany Shalain
-Live From Shiva’s Dance Floor/2002/US/21min/Richard Linklater
-Love is a Four-Letter Word/2002/UK/25min/Sarah Rantell Barr (S-SRP)
-Lucky Dip, The/2002)United Kingdom/3 min/3D models-CGI/Emily Spinner (FFDC) (A)Animation
-Lunar Jig/2001/UK/3min/Rachel Everitt (S-SRP)Animation
-Mars and Beyond (excerpt)/1957/US/Ward Kimbell/Traditional 2D Animation and Experimental Photography (The Animation Show) (AFI-ST) Animation
-New Scenes from America (Nye Scener fra Amerika)/2002/Denmark/35min/Jorgen Leth
-Parking/2003/US/Bill Plympton/Cell 2D (The Animation Show) (AFI-ST) Animation
-Petite Lumiere (Little Light)/2002/Senegal/Alan Gomis/15min. (V)
-Pit, The Pendulum, and Hope, The/1983/Czech/Jan Svankmajer/15 min (AFI/ST)
-Playhouse, The/1921/US/Buster Keaton – Eddie Cline/22min. (DVD)
-Posledni lup (The Last Theft)/1987/Czech/Jiri Barta/21 min (AFI/ST) (partial)Animation
-Rad, Das (The Rocks)/2001/Germany/Chris Stenner, Arvid Uibel, and Heidi Wittlinger/Stop Motion Animation combined with CGI (The Animation Show) (AFI-ST) Animation
-Rapbizz/2002/France/Benny Malapa/20min. (V)
-Rejected/2000/US/Don Hertzfeldt/2D Animation combined with Stop-Motion and Experimental Animation (The Animation Show) (AFI-ST) Animation
-She and Her Cat/2002/Japan/5min/Makoto Shinkai (DVD) Animation
-Spike & Mike's Festival of Twisted Animation 2003 edition/various years - directors/21 animation shorts (A)Animation
-Sun And Cloud/2001/Canada/1 min/Cell/Julian Grey.
-Strange Invaders/2001/Canada/Cordell Barker/Cell 2D Animation (The Animation Show) (AFI-ST) Animation
-Unscrew/2001/UK/10min/Clara Glynn (S-SRP)
-Welcome to the Show/Intermission in the Third Dimension/The End of the Show/2003/US/Don Hertzfeldt/Traditional 2D Animation combined with Stop-Motion and Experimental Animation (The Animation Show) (AFI-ST) Animation
-Yoko! Jakamoto! Toto!: The Scary Monster/2003/UK/5 min/CelAction, 2D computer/Tony Collingwood (FFDC) (A)Animation
TV Movies/Miniseries/Documentaries/OAV
-Dinner With Friends/2001/Norman Jewison (HBO)
-From Dollars to Donuts: The Making of the First Nudie Musical/2002 (DVD)
-Martin and Lewis/2002/John Gray (CBS)
-Normal/2003/Jane Anderson (HBO)
-Open House/2003/Arwin Brown (CBS)
-Three's Company Revisted/2003/Jason Ensler (NBC)
-Martha, Inc.: The Martha Stewart Story/2003/Jason Ensler (NBC)
-Comic Book Super Heroes Unmasked/2003 (HC)
-Scrolls to Screens: The History and Culture of Anime/2003/US-Japan/Josh Oreck (DVD)
-Screening at the Majestic/1995/France (DVD)
-Voices of A Distant Star/2003/Japan/Cel +CGI/24min (DVD) Animation
Key:
DVD
LD: laserdisc
VHS
PBS
TCM - Turner Classic Movies
SD - Sky Digital (UK)
HBO - Home Box Office
BAIFE: British Airways In-Flight Entertainment
Venues
AFI/NT: American Film Institute: National Theatre
AFI/ST: American Film Institute: Silver Theatre
AMC/MG: AMC Mazza Gallerie
A: Avalon Theatre
CA: Cinema Arts Theatre
C/C: Cineplex Odeon Cinema
C/D: Cineplex Odeon Dupont Circle 5
CI: Carnegie Institute
C/OC: Cineplex Outer Circle
C/S: Curzon Soho (London, England)
C/TC: Cineplex Odeon Tysons Corner
C-VVG: Consolidated - Valley View Grande/Roanoke, VA
C/W: Cineplex Odeon Wisconsin Ave.
C/U: Cineplex Odeon Uptown
FG: Freer Gallery
GI: Goethe Institute
H: Hirshhorn Museum
H/R-C: Hoyts/Regal Carousel 19 (Syracuse, NY)
ICA: Institute of Contemporary Arts (London, England)
L/B: Landmark - Bethesda
L/G: Loews Georgetown
L/R: Loews Rio
LM/NASM: Lockheed Martin IMAX Theatre
LT: Lincoln Theatre
NG: National Geographic
NGA: National Gallery of Art
R: Ritzy Cinema (London, England)
R/B: Regal Ballston
R/R: Regal Rockville
SLJ: Samuel L. Johnson IMAX Theatre
V: VisionsDC
Film Festivals:
-CA: Cine AmericArtes
-DCiFF: DC Independent Film Festival
-DCUFF: DC Underground Film Festival
-EFF: Environmental Film Festival
-FFDC: Filmfest DC
-HRW: Human Rights Watch 2003 International Film Festival; London, England
-SilverDocs: AFI/Discovery Channel Docu Film Fest
-S-SRP: Scottish Short Film Collection, Smithsonian Resident Associate's Program
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HOLADEM'S 2003 FILM LIST
Films seen threatrically in 2003: 25
Eligible Films seen theatrically in 2003: 13
Max Rating is (4) stars
Most of what I see will probably be 3 stars and up, as I try to be selective about what I watch.
Eligible for 2003
The Recruit
Daredevil
The Life of David Gale
Tears of the Sun
City of God
Phone Booth
Bend It Like Beckham
Identity
X2
Matrix Reloaded
Finding Nemo
Terminator 3
28 Days Later
Martix Revolutions
Raising Victor Vargas
Pirates of the Caraibean
21 Grams
Big Fish
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
Whale Rider
House of Sand and Fog
Mystic River
By Rating
Outstanding movie / An experience / Instant Classic
Excellent
City of God
Phone Booth
Identity
X2
Matrix Reloaded
Finding Nemo
Terminator 3
- Good all around movie
The Recruit
Daredevil
Tears of the Sun
28 Days Later
- Good, with some serious flaws / Marginal recommendation /
The Life of David Gale
Bend It Like Beckham
- Very average / Uninspiring / Yet another one of those...
- Waste of time
Current Top 10
.
.
.
Theatrical viewings not eligible for 2003
The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers ****
Antwone Fisher ***
About Schmidt **1/2
The Hours ***1/2
25th Hour ****
Chicago ***
Adaptation ***1/2
The Pianist ****
Far From Heaven ***
Love Liza *1/2
Talk To Her ***
The Quiet American ***1/2
Rabbit Proof Fence ***
Films First Seen in 2003
American Graffiti **1/2
The Laramie Project ***
13 Conversations about one thing ***1/2
Charlotte Gray **
Band of Brothers **** (mini series but eh...)
Farewell my Concubine ***1/2
Rushmore ** (Ugh... HUGE dissapointment, just like Election another higly praised one was...)
Do The Right Thing **** (Instant Classic)
Joy Luck Club *** (IMO a solid piece of feminist propaganda...)
Rope *** (TV, very good considering it all took place in one room)
Frankenstein (1931) ***
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid ***
Patton ***
Trois Couleurs: Bleu ****
Trois Couleurs: Blanc ***
Trois couleurs: Rouge ****
The 39 Steps ***
Bride of Fankestein ***1/2
The Game ****
Swingers ****
Simon Birch **1/2
The Piano Teacher ***1/2
The Gathering Storm ***1/2
Belle de Jour ***
Dark City ***1/2
The Manchurian Candidate ***1/2
8 1/2 ***
Ran ***1/2
Rashomon ***
Yojimbo ***
The Hidden Fortress **1/2
High Noon ****
Sunset Blvd ****
The Searchers ***
Some Like it Hot ***
Stagecoach ****
12 Angry Men ***
Rebecca ***1/2
Apocalypse Now (revisit) ***
At Bat:
Brazil
--
Holadem
Films seen threatrically in 2003: 25
Eligible Films seen theatrically in 2003: 13
Max Rating is
(4) starsMost of what I see will probably be 3 stars and up, as I try to be selective about what I watch.
Eligible for 2003
The Recruit
Daredevil
The Life of David Gale
Tears of the Sun
City of God
Phone Booth
Bend It Like Beckham
Identity
X2
Matrix Reloaded
Finding Nemo
Terminator 3
28 Days Later
Martix Revolutions
Raising Victor Vargas
Pirates of the Caraibean
21 Grams
Big Fish
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
Whale Rider
House of Sand and Fog
Mystic River
By Rating
Outstanding movie / An experience / Instant Classic ExcellentCity of God
Phone Booth
Identity
X2
Matrix Reloaded
Finding Nemo
Terminator 3
- Good all around movieThe Recruit
Daredevil
Tears of the Sun
28 Days Later
- Good, with some serious flaws / Marginal recommendation / The Life of David Gale
Bend It Like Beckham
- Very average / Uninspiring / Yet another one of those... - Waste of timeCurrent Top 10
.
.
.
Theatrical viewings not eligible for 2003
The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers ****
Antwone Fisher ***
About Schmidt **1/2
The Hours ***1/2
25th Hour ****
Chicago ***
Adaptation ***1/2
The Pianist ****
Far From Heaven ***
Love Liza *1/2
Talk To Her ***
The Quiet American ***1/2
Rabbit Proof Fence ***
Films First Seen in 2003
American Graffiti **1/2
The Laramie Project ***
13 Conversations about one thing ***1/2
Charlotte Gray **
Band of Brothers **** (mini series but eh...)
Farewell my Concubine ***1/2
Rushmore ** (Ugh... HUGE dissapointment, just like Election another higly praised one was...)
Do The Right Thing **** (Instant Classic)
Joy Luck Club *** (IMO a solid piece of feminist propaganda...)
Rope *** (TV, very good considering it all took place in one room)
Frankenstein (1931) ***
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid ***
Patton ***
Trois Couleurs: Bleu ****
Trois Couleurs: Blanc ***
Trois couleurs: Rouge ****
The 39 Steps ***
Bride of Fankestein ***1/2
The Game ****
Swingers ****
Simon Birch **1/2
The Piano Teacher ***1/2
The Gathering Storm ***1/2
Belle de Jour ***
Dark City ***1/2
The Manchurian Candidate ***1/2
8 1/2 ***
Ran ***1/2
Rashomon ***
Yojimbo ***
The Hidden Fortress **1/2
High Noon ****
Sunset Blvd ****
The Searchers ***
Some Like it Hot ***
Stagecoach ****
12 Angry Men ***
Rebecca ***1/2
Apocalypse Now (revisit) ***
At Bat:
Brazil
--
Holadem
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