UNOFFICIAL FLICKERS PROJECT FIRST 100

 

YEP, THAT'S CORRECT, HUMPH -- I'M A SLACKER!  While this year I'm not officially continuing last year's "Super-Colossal Eye-Popping Flickers Project" which found me watching as many films as I could in one year, I have been keeping an unofficial count and I've finally reached 100 films watched this year.  This is, indeed, a paltry pittance and I knew it would be -- that's why I'm not doing the Flickers Project as such since I knew my movie-watching wasn't going to be what I hope for.  However, it's interesting to see what I DID manage to fit in so far this year.

The year started off with the Russian film version of HAMLET (Thanks, Weaverman!) as well as Francois Truffaut's flawed filming of the Ray Bradbury novel.  The first part of the year was rather heavy with silent movies:  D.W. Griffith's A CORNER IN WHEAT, Sergei Eisenstein's STRIKE, EARTH, CHESS FEVER, THE BIRTH THE LIFE AND THE DEATH OF CHRIST, THE PENALTY starring Lon Chaney, the first feature length motion picture (Sorry, Walt Disney) THE ADVENTURES OF PRINCE ACHMED, THE GODDESS starring the Chinese Garbo Ruan Ling-yu, THE MAN WHO LAUGHS starring Conrad Veidt and THE BELLS featuring an early role for Boris Karloff.  The beginning of the year also rather a lot of Russian movies with the aforementioned HAMLET, STRIKE, EARTH, CHESS FEVER and THE ADVENTURES OF PRINCE ACHMED.  Documentaries too featured very heavily so far in 2013 with AND EVERYTHING IS GOING FINE (about Spalding Gray), GREAT DIRECTORS, UNIVERSAL HORROR (the 90's doco about Universal Horror narrated by Kenneth Branagh), IN SEARCH OF BEETHOVEN, PUBLIC SPEAKING (Martin Scorsese's tribute to Fran Leibowitz), KINGDOM OF SHADOWS (an examination of horror in silent film narrated by Rod Steiger), PAUL WILLIAMS:  STILL ALIVE, A PERSONAL JOURNEY WITH MARTIN SCORSESE THROUGH AMERICAN MOVIES, FAMILY BAND:  THE COWSILLS STORY (Who knew?!?), DEFIANT REQUIEM,  ZERO:  AN INVESTIGATION INTO 9/11 (conspiracy theorists unite) and the monumental career-spanning HISTORY OF THE EAGLES.  And, of course, not ALL the movies I've watched this year were re-watches; some were brand new to me.  The oddest film of the year, for sure, is the over 7 hour long HITLER:  A FILM FROM GERMANY with Roy Boulting's THUNDER ROCK a close second; the former because of it's avant-garde filmmaking techniques from to-the-camera soliloquies to a Hitler puppet and the latter because of it's schizophrenic nature not knowing whether it wants to be a ghost movie, a propaganda film, an anti-fascist statement or a socially-conscious suffragette tribute!  And of all the new movies I watched this year, what was the worst one?  Well, sadly ABRAHAM LINCOLN VAMPIRE HUNTER takes the dubious crown.  And now...on to watch the second 100 movies of 2013.  Hopefully they won't take as long to get through as this lot!

1. HAMLET (1964)
2. FAHRENHEIT 451
3. WITNESS FOR THE PROSECUTION
4. LE JOUR SE LEVE
5. THE NAKED TRUTH
6. JUSTE AVANTE LA NUIT
7. MONSTER IN A BOX
8. AND EVERYTHING IS GOING FINE
9. A CORNER IN WHEAT
10. LE CERCLE ROUGE
11. GREAT DIRECTORS
12. DRACULA (1931)
13. DRACULA (1931, Spanish language)
14. STRIKE
15. EARTH
16. CHESS FEVER
17. TINKER TAILOR SOLDIER SPY
18. CULT OF THE COBRA
19. THE THREE STOOGES
20. UNIVERSAL HORROR
21. PUBLIC SPEAKING
22. IN SEARCH OF BEETHOVEN
23. SMILES OF A SUMMER NIGHT
24. IRON SKY
25. WINTER'S BONE
26. THE ARBOR
27. KINGDOM OF SHADOWS
28. THE BIRTH, THE LIFE AND THE DEATH OF CHRIST
29. THE PENALTY
30. THE ADVENTURES OF PRINCE ACHMED
31. CASINO ROYALE (2006)
32. HITLER:  A FILM FROM GERMANY
33. THE GODDESS
34. THIRTEEN WOMEN
35. POR PRIMERA VEZ
36. THE MAN WHO LAUGHS
37. THE DEVIL'S EYE
38. THE THIRD MAN
39. SKYFALL
40. THE MAN WHO COULD WORK MIRACLES
41. THE BELLS
42. THE SONG REMAINS THE SAME
43. THE IRON LADY
44. PAUL WILLIAMS:  STILL ALIVE
45. A PERSONAL JOURNEY WITH MARTIN SCORSESE THROUGH AMERICAN MOVIES
46. ROCK 'N' ROLL HIGH SCHOOL
47. THE HEADLESS WOMAN
48. DOCTOR WHO (1996)
49. FRANKENWEENIE (2012)
50. THE RETURN OF DR. MABUSE
51. CARTESIUS
52. X:  THE MAN WITH X-RAY EYES
53. FAMILY BAND:  THE COWSILLS STORY
54. ARGO
55. I LIVE IN FEAR
56. COLORADO TERRITORY
57. THE TEN COMMANDMENTS
58. ORLANDO
59. MONSTERS
60. TWELFTH NIGHT
61. DEFIANT REQUIEM
62. PHIL SPECTOR
63. THE BLACK DAHLIA
64. THE BOUNTY
65. ARTHUR
66. THE IDES OF MARCH
67. PRESUMED INNOCENT
68. THE SUSPICIONS OF MR. WHICHER
69. WILSON
70. TOO MANY CROOKS
71. YOUNG AND INNOCENT
72. ZERO:  AN INVESTIGATION INTO 9/11
73. REMBRANDT
74. A ROYAL AFFAIR
75. IN WHICH WE SERVE
76. THUNDER ROCK
77. THE BREAKFAST CLUB
78. RED
79. THE CRIMINAL
80. THE TITFIELD THUNDERBOLT
81. HOUSE BY THE RIVER
82. DRAGONWYCK
83. THE SMALL WORLD OF SAMMY LEE
84. TWO WAY STRETCH
85. MAKE MINE MINK
86. SUDDENLY, LAST SUMMER
87. VERTIGO
88. THE THIRTY-NINE STEPS (1978)
89. ABRAHAM LINCOLN VAMPIRE HUNTER
90. SEANCE ON A WET AFTERNOON
91. OUR MAN IN HAVANA
92. HISTORY OF THE EAGLES
93. CROMWELL
94. THE SERVANT
95. THE MIND BENDERS
96. ACCIDENT
97. COMANCHE STATION
98. DANGER:  DIABOLIK
99. SANTO AND THE VENGEANCE OF THE MUMMY
100. THE HAND OF POWER