Tuesday, May 14, 2013

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
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