All the Films I Watched in 2011
It’s time for that thing I do! Here’s last year’s list. Asterisk means a rewatch, numbers in parentheses are release dates. Let’s DO THIS:
1 - Centurion (10) - Jeremy was given this movie at a secret santa type-deal. The tradition continued with a New Year’s Day viewing of a secret santa gift in 2012. What was it?? You’ll have to wait a year…
2 - * Octopussy (83)
3 - The Great Train Robbery (79)
4 - * Short Circuit (86)
5 - Whiskey Galore (49)
6 - The 39 Steps (35)
7 - Get Low (09)
8 - The Ladykillers (55)
9 - I’ve Loved You For So Long (08)
10 - Roger Dodger (02)
11 - Infernal Affairs (02)
12 - The Lady Vanishes (39)
13 - Please Give (10) - this was excellent, if awkward.
14 - Doubt (09)
15 - Passenger Side (09) - more Adam Scott is better Adam Scott
16 - Piranha 3D (10) - can you tell Joey persuaded me to watch this one?
17 - The Illusionist (06)
18 - * Back to the Future (85) - watched on the BIG SCREEN, yo
19 - Vicky Christina Barcelona (08)
20 - * Predator (87) - also a big screen rewatch, saw this by myself at a midnight show
21 - Quick Change (90) - this is a Bill Murray movie you may have forgotten about (probably for good reason)
22 - Swoon (92) - do you like the Leopold and Loeb murders of the 1920s?? This movie might be for you
23 - Rec 2 (08) - not as good as Rec, believe
24 - Diner (82) - this movie was nostalgic about the 80s before they had really even begun, by pretending it was nostalgic about the 50s.
25 - Blue Valentine (10) - oh god brutal, but so well-done
26 - * Down With Love (03)
27 - Cyrus (10)
28 - The Bridge (06) - this was the continuation of a Sad Movie Festival started by Blue Valentine
29 - The Romantics (10)
30 - Winter’s Bone (10)
31 - Love Story (70) - why did I watch this? Geez.
32 - * Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
33 - Mother (10)
34 - Tale of Two Sisters (03) - A K-Horror afternoon. Mother is much MUCH better.
35 - The Black Stallion (79)
36 - Glorious 39 (09) - pretty vacant
37 - Darby O’Gill and the Little People (59) - Sean Connery??? REALLY?
38 - And Everything is Going Fine (10)
39 - * Le Cercle Rouge (70) - can never decide my favourite Melville. Might be this, might be Army of Shadows
40 - Dirt (11) - first 2011 movie on the list!
41 - Art + Copy (09)
42 - Schindler’s List (93) - and Sad Movie Fest continued…
43 - Hopscotch (80)
44 - The Cable Guy (96)
45 - Hanna (11) - one of my year’s favourites
46 - The Bachelor and the Bobby Soxer (47)
47 - Suspicion (41)
48 - Ace in the Hole (51) - not my most face Billy Wilder
49 - * Shaun of the Dead (04)
50 - Batteries Not Included (87) - we’d wanted to watch this with Short Circuit, but somehow that didn’t quite happen
51 - Last Days of Disco (98)
52 - * Notorious (46)
52 - Australia (08) - sometimes I find a movie at the library, and watch it while I work on something mindless? that means some terrible movies get watched.
53 - Elf (03)
54 - * LA Confidential (97)
55 - * The Royal Tenenbaums (01)
56 - * The Magnificent Seven (60)
57 - * Star Trek (09)
58 - * Commando (85)
59 - XMen First Class (11)
60 - * XMen (00)
61 - * XMen 2 (03) - Can you tell I got enthused about XMen, and went back into the archives? yeah.
62 - Exit Through the Gift Shop (10)
63 - * Who Framed Roger Rabbit (88)
64 - Midnight in Paris (11)
65 - Touch of Evil (58)
66 - Sleep Dealers (08)
67 - Send a Bullet (07) - This and the previous two are Border related films that I watched for my summertime Border Town project. This one is an AMAZING documentary about Sao Paulo, I recommend it for sure.
68 - Temple Grandin (10) - first plane movie of 2011
69 - Cedar Rapids (11) - 2nd…
70 - Bridesmaids (11) - and 3rd plane movie
71 - Topkapi (64)
72 - My Favourite Wife (40)
73 - *The Queen (06)
74 - The Man in the White Suit (67)
75 - The Wages of Fear (53)
76 - * Jurassic Park (93)
77 - Mesrine (08)
78 - Mildred Pierce (45) - watched the miniseries, had to watch the movie too.
79 - Captain America (11) - AKA the movie that made me realize that I can’t watch 3D, ugh.
80 - Rise of the Planet of the Apes (11) - I do love a movie when I can tell it was filmed in Vancouver.
81 - Thor (11)
82 - In the Realms of the Unreal (04) - Harvey Darger! So excellent!
83 - Jane Eyre (11)
84 - Lair of the White Worm (88)
85 - Marathon Man (76)
86 - Objectified (09)
87 - Contagion (11)
88 - Bill Cunningham New York (11)
89 - Happy Go Lucky (09)
90 - District 9 (09)
91 - Our Idiot Brother (11) - better than you’d think, seriously. Even if you already think it’d be pretty good.
92 - Super 8 (11) - some great kid actors, some forgettable story elements
93 - Potiche (10)
94 - * The Life Aquatic (04)
95 - Sir, No Sir! (05) - doc about military resistors during the Vietnam war
96 - Moneyball (11)
97 - Fright Night (11)
98 - * Four Weddings and a Funeral (94) - Why so terrible, Andie MacDowell??? Always so terrible.
99 - Martha Marcy Mae Marlene (11) - another (brutal) favourite of the year. I was utterly terrified by the final scene.
100 - The Sun Also Rises (57)
101 - Brighton Rock (10)
102 - * Donnie Darko (01)
103 - * The Jungle Books (67)
104 - The Lavender Hill Mob (51)
105 - Tintin (11) - definitely not into this adaptation, but then I’m not really into the TV show either. Comics only, please, French or English, makes no difference.
106 - Submarine (11) - possibly the only Welsh coming-of-age film I’ve ever seen?
107 - The Haunting (63)
108 - Can’t Buy me Love (87)
109 - * Thunderball (65)
110 - Red Dawn (84) - had higher expectations for this than I ought to have had…
111 - *Road House (89) - SO GOOOOOD, so Sam Elliott
112 - Royal Flash (75)
113 - Downhill Racer (69)
114 - * Star Trek - Generations (94)
115 - Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (11)
115 - Sherlock Holmes: Game of Shadows (11) - no more Guy Ritchie Fight Scenes, not ever
116 - * Star Trek - First Contact (96)
