I love movies--don't you? Here are my movie lists for 2011, some having to do with movies coming out this year or at least movies I saw this year for the first time and the rest consisting of topics of personal interest, because, well, lists are just fun to make!
Filmakers Whose Movies I Love But Who Also Thoroughly Depress and/or Confuse Me
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Top 5 Movies I Saw This Year That Really Surprised Me (in a good way)
- In The Loop (Funny!)
- The Road (Depressing, disturbing, and yet hopeful)
- Catfish (Is this for real?)
- Lars and the Real Girl (Oh so very touching and not what I expected. And did I mention Ryan Gosling? New man-crush!)
- Sunshine (Zombie sci-fi! And the sun!--it's so big and bright)
Top 5 Movies I Want to See the Most That Have Come Out/Are Coming Out This Year (that I have not yet seen)
- Hugo
- The Adventures of Tintin
- Warhorse
- The Descendants
- Drive
Filmakers Whose Movies I Love But Who Also Thoroughly Depress and/or Confuse Me
- Ingmar Bergman (SO good but Soooo depressing)
- Stanley Kubrick (Can you feel the angst?)
- Wes Anderson (only half the time)
- P.T. Anderson (only 3/4 of the time)
- Charlie Kaufman/Spike Jonze (Have you SEEN Synecdoche, New York?)
- Akira Kurosawa (Did you know he tried to commit suicide once?)
Top 5 Coen Brothers’ Films (In order) (Because they are my most favoritist of all)
- The Big Lebowski
- No Country For Old Men
- Barton Fink
- A Serious Man
- Fargo
Top 5 Least Favorite Coen Brothers’ Films (#1 is my least favorite)
- The Ladykillers (oh what an awful film)
- Intolerable Cruelty (it had its moments, but still...)
- The Hudsucker Proxy (many, many great moments, but many blah moments as well)
- Miller’s Crossing (definitely not a BAD film, and again, definitely some great moments, but on the whole it fell flat for me)
- True Grit (If I’m to be honest with myself, I didn’t really enjoy this movie that much, at least not compared to their other films. It left me mostly cold.)
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Related Articles:
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Summer Reading List (2013)
2 comments:
HOW CAN FARGO BE NUMBER 5? IT SO DESERVES A BETTER RANKING!
"No Jean, no money, NO JEAN, NO MONEY!"
I KNOW. I think it's that I saw Barton Fink and A Serious Man more recently and they're both pretty deep, whereas I saw Fargo a long time ago and about 4 times since. It would have been my number 2, but then I saw all the other ones.
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