"No Such Thing"
directed by Hal Hartley
| Stephen | "Russian Ark", "Way of the Gun (clip)", "Versus", "Winged Migration", "Animatrix", "Kyua (Cure)", "Bubba Ho-Tep", "Coffee and Cigarettes", "Payback", "Dogdeball", "The Village", "The Motocycle Diaries" |
|---|---|
| Mat | "Raising Victor Vargas", "Gigantic: A Tale of Two Johns", "Pieces of April", "Spartan", "Something Wild", "The Candidate", "A Home at the End of the World", "P.S.", "To Live and Die in L.A." |
| Maggie | "Millay at Steepletop", "Pumpkin", "Northfork", "Heartbeeps", "They Might Be Giants", "Corn", "Harold and Kumar", "The Manchurian Candidate" |
| Jeff | "No Such Thing", "Trust", "Love Is Colder Than Death", "Stolen Kisses", "Tokyo Godfathers", "Torque", "Spider", "The Era of Vampire", "Drowning By Numbers", "State and Main", "Red vs. Blue", "October Sky", "The Book of Life" |
| Stephanie | "(Ernest Hemingway's) The Killers", "When We Were Kings", "L'Avventura", "Dawn of the Dead", "Rollerball" |
| Angelique |
| Sarah | "What's Cooking" |
|---|---|
| Seth | "Aguirre, The Wrath of God", "The Independent", "Party Monster" |
| Tessa | "Super Troopers", "Belle Epoque", "Girl with a Pearl Earring", "The Sweetest Thing" |
| Jackie | "Scene It?" |
"No Such Thing"
directed by Hal Hartley
"Millay at
Steepletop" directed by Kevin Brownlow
"Pumpkin" directed by
Anthony Abrams and Adam Larson Broder
"Russian Ark",
directed by Aleksandr Sokurov
"Trust" directed by Hal Hartley
"What's Cooking"
directed by Gurinder Chadha
"The Independent"
directed by Stephen Kessler
"Aguirre, The Wrath of
God" directed by Werner Herzog
"Northfork" (dir. Michael Polish)
"Versus" (dir. Ryuhei Kitamura)
"Raising Victor Vargas" (dir. Peter Sollett)
The hilarious profanity-laden first scene of "The Way of the Gun"
(dir. Christopher McQuarrie)
"Love is Colder than
Death" (dir. Rainer Werner Fassbinder)
"Party Monster" (dir. Fenton Bailey and Randy Barbato) — I missed this one.
"Winged Migration" (dir. Jacques Cluzaud, Michel Debats, and Jacques Perrin) — A beautiful film, I believe. It's a good combination of spectacular views of birds in flight with the necessary occasional conservation message. Also interesting to watch is the "making of" on the DVD. Basically, they "imprinted" the birds so that they could film them upclose during flight.
"Stolen Kisses" (dir. François Truffaut) — The middle movie in the Antoine Doinel series. Antoine, as usual, is torn between two women. I think it's a beautiful movie because it seems Doinel is so earnest and yet confused, so much like life. I think it's best to watch the movies in sequence because Doinel changes (or doesn't depending on what you look at) though them.
"Gigantic: A Tale of
Two Johns" (dir. AJ Schnack) — I thought this was going to
be about toilets, but it turns out it's about a couple of guys in a
band called
"Heartbeeps"
(dir. Allan Arkush) — Let's just say that the same writer wrote
for "Thunder in
Paradise" and leave it almost at that. The best character in the
movie is a security robot named Max because he doesn't even attempt to
stick oddly to the same robot characteristics as the other
characters. They call movies like this
"Tokyo Godfathers" (dir. Shogo Furuya and Satoshi Kon)
"Animatrix" (dir. Peter Chung, et al.)
"Pieces of April" (dir. Peter Hedges)
"Bubba Ho-tep" (dir. Don Coscarelli)
"Torque" (dir. Joseph Kahn)
"Spartan" (dir. David Mamet)
"Spider" (dir. David Cronenberg)
"Buffalo Soldiers" (dir. Gregor Jordan)
"Kyua" aka "Cure" (dir. Kiyoshi Kurosawa)
"Garden State" (dir. Zach Braff) — An outing! This one we saw in the theater. This is so sugary sweet I should have brought along my dentist. Needless to say, I thoroughly enjoyed it, except for the unique thing scene. In a movie that is cliched, that was just too much for me.
"Something Wild" (dir. Jonathan Demme)
"Super Troopers" (dir. Jay Chandrasekhar)
"The Era of Vampire" (dir. Wellson Chin)
"Coffee and Cigarettes", 2003 (dir. Jim Jarmusch)
"Drowning by Numbers", 1988 (dir. Peter Greenaway)
"Nói Albinói", 2003 (dir. Dagur Kári)
"The Killers" aka "Ernest Hemingway's The Killers", 1946 (dir. Robert Siodmak)
"Belle Epoque", 1992 (dir. Fernando Trueba)
"Payback", 1999 (dir. Brian Helgeland) — Missed.
"The Candidate", 1972 (dir. Michael Ritchie) — Missed. I'm told it's better on DVD because the images tend to stay on the screen. Beware the old VHS copy from the local video store!
"They Might Be Giants", 1971 (dir. Anthony Harvey) — A great film. Reminded me of other flicks from the 70s like "Harold and Maude". The whole movie is firmly tongue in cheek. George C. Scott thinks he's Sherlock Holmes and proceeds to diagnose the delivery man's dog. Hilarious. Of course, being made when it was, all's well that ends well. Luckily, he isn't cured at the end, rather just less lonely. Psychiatrists would probably disapprove of the doctor/patient relationship, but you saw that coming, right?
"State and Main", 2000 (dir. David Mamet)
"When We Were Kings", 1996 (dir. Leon Gast)
"Girl with a Pearl Earring", 2003 (dir. Peter Webber) — Missed.
"Dodgeball", 2004 (dir. Rawson Marshall Thurber)
"A Home at the End of the World", 2004 (dir. Michael Mayer)
"Corn", 2002 (dir. Dave Silver) — Oh, the pain. Stay away. Please.
"The Village", 2004 (dir. M. Night Shyamalan)
"Red vs. Blue: The Blood Gulch Chronicles", 2003 (dir. Burnie Burns and Matt Hullum)
"L'Avventura", 1960 (dir. Michelangelo Antonioni)
"The Sweetest Thing", 2002 (dir. Roger Kumble )
"P.S.", 2004 (dir. Dylan Kidd)
"Harold and Kumar Go to White Castle", 2004 (dir. Danny Leiner) — Maggie has brought us a funny stoner flick! Yes!
"Dawn of the Dead", 2004 (dir. Zack Snyder) — The losers were "Talk to Her" and "Honey"
"October Sky", 1999 (dir. Joe Johnston) — Not seen "Hardboiled" and (dammit!) "Cinema Paradiso"
"The Motorcycle Diaries", 2004 (dir. Walter Salles) — There were no losers!
"To Live and Die in L.A.", 1985 (dir. William Friedkin) — Runner up was "Being There"
"Scene It?", 2003 (Screenlife, LLC) — Didn't make the cut: "The Big Lebowski" and "Identity"
"The Manchurian Candidate", 2004 (dir. Jonathan Demme) — Last but not least... "Maria Full of Grace". Also, "Happy Birthday, Maggie!"
"The Book of Life", 1998 (dir. Hal Hartley) — Though I haven't seen all of Hartley's films, I'll hazard a guess that this is the worst. Others lost in the woods were "Il Grido" and "I'll Sleep When I'm Dead"
"Rollerball", 2002 (dir. John McTiernan) — refused, rejected, and overal denigrated: "Where the Buffalo Roam"
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