Thursday, December 24, 2009

January 2010 UK & Ireland Releases

The following release information is from Sight & Sound. The year in the square brackets denotes the year the film received it's Irish premiere, if known.

Watched:
Amelia [2009] (Mira Nair) 21/100
Departures (Okuribito) [2010] (Yôjirô Takita) 71/100
The Limits of Control [2009] (Jim Jarmusch) 77/100
Me and Orson Welles [2009] (Richard Linklater) 62/100
Micmacs [2010] (Jean-Pierre Jeunet) 43/100
Nowhere Boy [2009] (Sam Taylor Wood) 56/100
Planet 51 [2009] (Jorge Blanco) 55/100
The Box [2009] (Richard Kelly) 48/100
The Men Who Stare At Goats [2009] (Grant Heslov) 33/100
Unmade Beds (Alexis Dos Santos) 61/100
Where the Wild Things Are [2009] (Spike Jonze) 66/100

Eager to Watch:

Will Watch:
Machan (Uberto Pasolini)
Paranormal Activity [2009] (Oren Peli)

Might Possibly Watch:
Disney's A Christmas Carol [2009] (Robert Zemeckis)
Love the Beast (Eric Bana)
The Magic Hour (Za majikku awâ) (Kôki Mitani)
My Father My Lord (Hofshat Kaits) (David Volach)

Have No Interest In Whatsoever:
2012 [2009] (Roland Emmerich)
Carriers (Àlex Pastor, David Pastor)
Cirque du Freak The Vampire's Assistant [2009] (Paul Weitz)
Exam (Stuart Hazeldine)
Harry Brown [2009] (Daniel Barber)
Law Abiding Citizen [2009] (F. Gary Gray)
Love Happens [2010] (Brandon Camp)
Michael Jackson's This Is It [2009] (Kenny Ortega)
Nativity! [2009] (Debbie Isitt)
Post Grad [2010] (Vicky Jenson)
Saw VI [2009] (Kevin Greutert)
Starsuckers (Chris Atkins)
The Stepfather (Nelson McCormick)

Edits:
Moved Nowhere Boy from Eager to Watch to Watched 5/1/10
Moved Where The Wild Things Are from Eager to Watch to Watched 5/1/10
Moved Departures from Eager to Watch to Watched 7/1/10
Moved Amelia from Might Possibly Watch to Watched 10/2/10
Moved Micmacs from Eager to Watch to Watched 3/3/10
Moved Planet 51 from Will Watch to Watched 16/3/10
Moved The Box from Will Watch to Watched 27/3/10
Moved Unmade Beds from Will Watch to Watched 14/12/10

Monday, December 7, 2009

Cinema Listings Dublin December 2009

* Denotes either a once-off showing, a festival or a reissue.

Blue
means watched
Green means hoping to watch
Red means will not watch
Black means I'm on the fence

December 2009:

Regular Programming:
Cracks (Cineworld)
Me and Orson Welles (IFI, Cineworld, Screen)
The Box (Cineworld)
The Merry Gentleman (Cineworld)
Where The Wild Things Are (Cineworld)
Nine (Cineworld, Lighthouse)
Sherlock Holmes (Cineworld)
Happy Ever Afters (Cineworld)
Avatar (Cineworld)
The Descent: Part 2 (Cineworld)
Paa (Cineworld)
3 Idiots (Cineworld)
Alvin and the Chipmunks 2 - The Squeakquel (Cineworld)
St. Trinian's: The Legend of Fritton's Gold (Cineworld)
Johnny Mad Dog (Lighthouse)
The Girlfriend Experience (IFI, Lighthouse)
Humpday (IFI)
Situations Vacant (Screen)
The Limits of Control (IFI)
Unmade Beds (IFI)
Love Exposure (IFI)
Nowhere Boy (IFI, Cineworld, Lighthouse)

Re-issues:
The Wizard of Oz (Screen) *
Oklahoma! (Screen) *
The Red Shoes (IFI, Lighthouse) *
An American in Paris (Screen) *
It's A Wonderful Life (IFI) *
Les vacances des Monsieur Hulot (Lighthouse) *
Last to Know (IFI) *
Berlin '36 (IFI) *
Hilde (IFI) *
The Crocodiles (IFI) *
Germany '09 (IFI) *
German Souls (IFI) *
Long Shadows (IFI) *
Storm (IFI) *
Carmen (IFI) *
Alias (IFI) *
Bastion of Sin (IFI) *
Peaceful Times (IFI) *
A Woman In Berlin (IFI) *
Gerda's Silence (IFI) *
The Miracle of Leipzig (IFI) *
Effi Briest (IFI) *
Hotel Darklight (IFI) *
Lulu & Jimi (IFI) *
John Rabe (IFI) *
Crude (IFI) *
White Christmas (IFI) *
The Nutcracker (IFI) *

Tuesday, November 24, 2009

January 2000 UK & Ireland Releases

The following release information is form Sight & Sound.

Watched:
Bringing Out The Dead (Martin Scorsese) 61/100
Dogma (Kevin Smith) 65/100
The World Is Not Enough (Michael Apted) 65/100

Eager to Watch:
The Legend of 1900 (La leggenda del pianista sull'oceano) (Giuseppe Tornatore)
The Limey (Steven Soderbergh)
Time Regained (Le temps retrouvé, d'après l'oeuvre de Marcel Proust) (Raoul Ruiz)

Will Watch:
Angela's Ashes (Alan Parker)
8 1/2 Women (Peter Greenaway)
The Iron Giant (Brad Bird)

Might Possibly Watch:
The Five Senses (Jeremy Podeswa)
October Sky (Joe Johnston)
Wonderland (Michael Winterbottom)

Have No Interest In Whatsoever:
Anywhere But Here (Wayne Wang)
The Big Tease (Kevin Allen)
Blue Streak (Les Mayfield)
Cotton Mary (Ismail Merchant)
Guest House Paradiso (Adrian Edmondson)
Happy, Texas (Mark Illsley)
Hold Back the Night (Philip Davis)
Inspector Gadget (David Kellogg)
Janice Beard 45 wpm (Clare Kilner)
The Last Yellow (Julian Farino)
Muppets from Space (Tim Hill)
The Muse (Albert Brooks)
The Secret Laughter of Women (Peter Schwabach)

Edits:
Moved Bringing Out The Dead from Eager to Watch to Watched 26/3/11

Monday, November 23, 2009

February 2000 UK & Ireland New Releases

The following release information is from Sight & Sound.

Watched:
American Beauty (Sam Mendes) 84/100
Double Jeopardy (Bruce Beresford) 68/100

Eager to Watch:
The End of the Affair (Neil Jordan)
Limbo (John Sayles)
The Lovers of the Arctic Circle (Los amantes del Círculo Polar) (Julio Medem)
A Room for Romeo Brass (Shane Meadows)

Will Watch:
The Cider House Rules (Lasse Hallström)
Sleepy Hollow (Tim Burton)
Summer of Sam (Spike Lee)

Might Possibly Watch:

Have No Interest In Whatsoever:
Anna and the King (Andy Tennant)
The Cherry Orchard (Mihalis Kakogiannis)
The Darkest Light (Simon Beaufoy, Bille Eltringham)
End of Days (Peter Hyams)
Fast Food (Stewart Sugg)
Music of the Heart (Wes Craven)
Mystery Men (Kinka Usher)
One More Kiss (Vadim Jean)
Simpatico (Matthew Warchus)
Stigmata (Rupert Wainwright)
Strange Planet (Emma-Kate Croghan)
Three Seasons (Tony Bui)
The Wood (Rick Famuyiwa)

Friday, November 20, 2009

March 2000 UK & Ireland Releases

The following release information is from Sight & Sound.

Watched:
The Bone Collector (Phillip Noyce) 65/100
The Green Mile (Frank Darabont) 87/100
The Insider (Michael Mann) 83/100
The Talented Mr. Ripley (Anthony Minghella) 74/100
Toy Story 2 (John Lasseter) 74/100

Eager to Watch:
Being John Malkovich (Spike Jonze)
Open Your Eyes (Abre los ojos) (Alejandro Amenábar)
Rosetta (Jean-Pierre Dardenne, Luc Dardenne)
Show Me Love (Fucking Åmål) (Lukas Moodysson)
Topsy-Turvy (Mike Leigh)
Xiao Wu (Zhang Ke Jia)

Will Watch:
The Beach (Danny Boyle)
Three Kings (David O. Russell)

Might Possibly Watch:

Have No Interest In Whatsoever:
Agnes Browne (Anjelica Huston)
Bicentennial Man (Chris Columbus)
From the Edge of the City (Apo tin akri tis polis) (Constantine Giannaris)
House on Haunted Hill (William Malone)
Julian Po (Alan Wade)
Lies (Gojitmal) (Sun-Woo Jang)
Mela (Dharmesh Darshan)
Rancid Aluminium (Edward Thomas)
Tumbleweeds (Gavin O'Connor)
Whatever Happened to Harold Smith? (Peter Hewitt)

Thursday, November 19, 2009

December 2009 UK & Ireland Releases

The following release information is from Sight & Sound.

Watched:
A Serious Man (Ethan Coen, Joel Coen) 94/100
Bright Star (Jane Campion) 72/100
Bunny & the Bull (Paul King) 36/100
Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs (Phil Lord, Chris Miller) 51/100
Cold Souls (Sophie Barthes) 53/100
Cracks (Jordan Scott) 41/100
Disgrace (Steve Jacobs) 58/100
Examined Life (Astra Taylor) 53/100
Glorious 39 (Stephen Poliakoff) 36/100
Jennifer's Body (Karyn Kusama) 48/100
Johnny Mad Dog (Jean-Stéphane Sauvaire) 70/100
Rage (Sally Potter) 66/100
Séraphine (Martin Provost) 89/100
Taking Woodstock (Ang Lee) 69/100
The Girlfriend Experience (Steven Soderbergh) 72/100
The Informant! (Steven Soderbergh) 82/100
The Invention of Lying (Ricky Gervais, Matthew Robinson) 48/100
The White Ribbon (Das weisse Band) (Michael Haneke) 90/100
Tulpan (Sergei Dvortsevoy) 60/100
We Live in Public (Ondi Timoner) 71/100
Zombieland (Ruben Fleischer) 59/100

Eager to Watch:

Will Watch:
The Merry Gentleman (Michael Keaton)

Might Possibly Watch:
The Sea Wall (Un barrage contre le Pacifique) (Rithy Panh)

Have No Interest In Whatsoever:
Couples Retreat (Peter Billingsley)
The Crimson Wing (E.H. Calvert)
The Descent: Part 2 (Jon Harris)
Fame (Kevin Tancharoen)
Halloween II (Rob Zombie)
The Horseman (Steven Kastrissios)
Lala Pipo - A Lot of People (Masayuki Miyano)
Made in Jamaica (Jérôme Laperrousaz)
Morris: A Life with Bells On (Lucy Akhurst)
Pandorum (Christian Alvart)
Paper Heart (Nicholas Jasenovec)
Surrogates (Jonathan Mostow)
Surviving Evil (Terence Daw)
Vanishing of the Bees (George Langworthy)
wmd. (David Holroyd)

Edits:
Moved The Informant! from Eager to Watch to Watched 20/11/09
Moved Taking Woodstock from Eager to Watch to Watched 22/11/09
Moved Séraphine from Will Watch to Watched 30/11/09
Moved Glorious 39 from Eager to Watch to Watched 5/12/09
Moved The White Ribbon from Eager to Watch to Watched 6/12/09
Moved Tulpan from Eager to Watch to Watched 8/12/09
Moved Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs from Might Possibly Watch to Watched 17/12/09
Moved Johnny Mad Dog from Will Watch to Watched 19/12/09
Moved Zombieland from Might Possibly Watch to Watched 21/01/10
Moved Cold Souls from Will Watch to Watched 27/1/10
Moved Rage from Might Possibly Watch to Watched 3/3/10
Moved Examined Life from Have No Interest In Whatsoever to Watched 18/3/10
Moved Cracks from Might Possibly Watch to Watched 3/5/10
Moved We Live In Public from Will Watch to Watched 6/5/10
Moved Bunny and the Bull from Have No Interest In Whatsoever to Watched 5/1/11

April 2000 UK & Ireland Releases

The following release information is from Sight & Sound.

Watched:
Any Given Sunday (Oliver Stone) 52/100
Magnolia (Paul Thomas Anderson) 84/100

Eager to Watch:
Holy Smoke (Jane Campion)
Joan of Arc (Luc Besson)
Man on the Moon (Milos Forman)

Will Watch:
Bleeder (Nicolas Winding Refn)
Boys Don't Cry (Kimberly Peirce)
Girl, Interrupted (James Mangold)
The Hurricane (Norman Jewison)

Might Possibly Watch:

Have No Interest In Whatsoever:
The Bachelor (Gary Sinyor)
Body Shots (Michael Cristofer)
Broken Vessels (Scott Ziehl)
Les Convoyeurs attendent (Benoît Mariage)
House! (Julian Kemp)
Lake Placid (Steve Miner)
The Last Broadcast (Stefan Avalos, Lance Weiler)
Lola + Bilidikid (Kutlug Ataman)
Love, Honour & Obey (Dominic Anciano, Ray Burdis)
Mansfield Park (Patricia Rozema)
The Miracle Maker (Derek W. Hayes, Stanislav Sokolov)
Next Friday (Steve Carr)
Ordinary Decent Criminal (Thaddeus O'Sullivan)
Third World Cop (Chris Browne)

Tuesday, November 17, 2009

May 2000 UK & Ireland New Releases

The following release information is from Sight & Sound.

Watched:
American Psycho (Mary Harron) 71/100
Erin Brockovich (Steven Soderbergh) 72/100

Eager to Watch:
Brother (Takeshi Kitano)
Ghost Dog The Way of the Samurai (Jim Jarmusch)
Of Freaks and Men (Pro urodov i lyudey) (Aleksey Balabanov)
Sunshine (István Szabó)

Will Watch:
Claire Dolan (Lodge Kerrigan)
Cradle Will Rock (Tim Robbins)
Mission to Mars (Brian De Palma)

Might Possibly Watch:
L'Ennui (Cédric Kahn)
Galaxy Quest (Dean Parisot)
The Million Dollar Hotel (Wim Wenders)

Have No Interest In Whatsoever:
Asterix & Obelix Take on Caesar (Claude Zidi)
Hanging Up (Diane Keaton)
Hurlyburly (Anthony Drazan)
In All Innocence (En plein coeur) (Pierre Jolivet)
Kevin & Perry Go Large (Ed Bye)
La Nouvelle Eve (Catherine Corsini)
Pippi Longstocking (Michael Schaack, Clive A. Smith)
Rien sur Robert (Pascal Bonitzer)
Scream 3 (Wes Craven)
Sex The Annabel Chong Story (Gough Lewis)
SLC Punk! (James Merendino)
Trick (Jim Fall)

Thursday, November 12, 2009

TV Shows I Have Watched

Season/Episode is last one I've seen

90210 (2008) - First Season
Arrested Development (2003) - Second Season
Brotherhood (2006) - Third Season (Complete)
Burn Notice (2007) - S01E05
Californication (2007) - S01E04
Chinese School (2008) - First Season (Complete)
Chuck (2007) - S03E03
Cidade des Homens (2002) - Fourth Season
Community (2009) - S01E12
Crash (2008) - First Season
Curb Your Enthusiasm (2000) - First Season
Desperate Housewives (2004) - First Season
Dexter (2006) - S02E04
Dollhouse (2009) - First Season
Entourage (2004) - Sixth Season
Family Guy (1999) - S08E10
Generation Kill (2008) - First Season (Complete)
Gossip Girl (2007) - S03E02
How I Met Your Mother (2005) - S05E10
Hung (2009) - First Season
In Treatment (2008) - S01E08
Joey (2004) - First Season
Kings (2009) - S01E08
Lie to Me (2009) - S02E09
Mad Men (2007) - Third Season
Modern Family (2009) - S01E11
Newswipe (2009) - First Season
NYPD Blue (1993) - S01E10
Pushing Daisies (2007) - Second Season
Secret Diary of a Call Girl (2007) - Second Season
Seinfeld (1990) - S01E03
Six Feet Under (2001) - S02E04
State of Play (2003) - First Season (Complete)
Studio 60 on Sunset Strip (2006) - First Season (Complete)
Sugar Rush (2005) - First Season
The Big Bang Theory (2007) - S03E10
The Office (2001) - Second Season (Complete)
The Sopranos (1999) - Seventh Season (Complete)
The Thick of It (2005) - Third Season
The Tudors (2007) - S02E02
The West Wing (1999) - Seventh Season (Complete)
The Wire (2002) - Fifth Season (Complete)
Veronica Mars (2004) - Second Season
Weeds (2005) - Fifth Season
Worst Week (2008) - First Season

Edits:
15/11/09 Community S01E09
16/11/09 Family Guy S08E06
16/11/09 Arrested Development S02E09
16/11/09 Arrested Development S02E10
16/11/09 Arrested Development S02E11
16/11/09 Arrested Development S02E12
16/11/09 Arrested Development S02E13
16/11/09 Arrested Development S02E14
16/11/09 Arrested Development S02E15
16/11/09 Arrested Development S02E16
16/11/09 Arrested Development S02E17
16/11/09 Arrested Development S02E18
17/11/09 How I Met Your Mother S05E08
17/11/09 The Big Bang Theory S03E08
19/11/09 Modern Family S01E08
20/11/09 Community S01E10
24/11/09 Family Guy S08E07
24/11/09 How I Met Your Mother S05E09
24/11/09 The Big Bang Theory S03E09
25/11/09 The Thick of It S03E01
25/11/09 The Thick of It S03E02
25/11/09 The Thick of It S03E03
25/11/09 The Thick of It S03E04
25/11/09 The Thick of It S03E05
26/11/09 Modern Family S01E09
29/11/09 The Thick of It S03E06
30/11/09 Family Guy S08E08
30/11/09 Hung S01E08
30/11/09 Hung S01E09
30/11/09 Hung S01E10
1/12/09 Lie to Me S01E01
1/12/09 Lie to Me S01E02
1/12/09 Lie to Me S01E03
1/12/09 Lie to Me S01E04
1/12/09 Lie to Me S01E05
2/12/09 Burn Notice S01E01
2/12/09 Burn Notice S01E02
2/12/09 Lie to Me S01E06
2/12/09 Lie to Me S01E07
2/12/09 Lie to Me S01E08
2/12/09 Lie to Me S01E09
2/12/09 Lie to Me S01E10
2/12/09 Lie to Me S01E11
2/12/09 Lie to Me S01E12
3/12/09 Lie to Me S02E01-09
4/12/09 Burn Notice S01E03-05
5/12/09 The Thick of It S03E07
5/12/09 The Thick of It S03E08
13/12/09 Modern Family S01E10
13/12/09 How I Met Your Mother S05E10
13/12/09 The Big Bang Theory S03E10
13/12/09 State of Play S01E01
13/12/09 State of Play S01E02
13/12/09 State of Play S01E03
13/12/09 State of Play S01E04
07/01/10 Modern Family S01E11
07/01/10 Family Guy S08E10
11/01/10 Chuck S03E01
11/01/10 Chuck S03E02
11/01/10 Chuck S03E03
18/01/10 Chuck S03E04
25/01/10 Chuck S03E05
30/01/10 State of Play S01E05
30/01/10 State of Play S01E06

June 2000 UK & Ireland Releases

The following release information is from Sight & Sound.

Watched:
The Girl on the Bridge (La fille sur le pont) (Patrice Leconte) 77/100
Gladiator (Ridley Scott) 83/100
L'homme est une femme comme les autres (Jean-Jacques Zilbermann) 31/100
One Day in September (Kevin Macdonald) 81/100
28 Days (Betty Thomas) 48/100

Eager to Watch:
The Virgin Suicides (Sofia Coppola)

Will Watch:

Might Possibly Watch:
Pola X (Leos Carax)

Have No Interest In Whatsoever:
Boiler Room (Ben Younger)
Fantasia 2000 (James Algar, Gaëtan Brizzi)
The Filth and the Fury (Julien Temple)
Idle Hands (Rodman Flender)
The Last September (Deborah Warner)
A Monkey's Tale (Jean-François Laguionie)
My Life So Far (Hugh Hudson)
Nora (Pat Murphy)
Pokemon The First Movie Mewtwo Strikes back (Michael Haigney, Kunihiko Yuyama)
Sacred Flesh (Nigel Wingrove)
Saving Grace (Nigel Cole)
Snow Falling on Cedars (Scott Hicks)
Stir of Echoes (David Koepp)
The Story of Us (Rob Reiner)
The Tigger Movie (Jun Falkenstein)
Up at the Villa (Philip Haas)

Edits:
Moved One Day in September from Eager to Watch to Watched 29/4/11

Thursday, November 5, 2009

July 2000 UK & Ireland Releases

The following release information is from Sight & Sound.

Watched:
Final Destination (James Wong) 58/100
The Whole Nine Yards (Jonathan Lynn) 59/100

Eager to Watch:
Barber of Siberia (Sibirskiy tsiryulnik) (Nikita Mikhalkov)
Kikujiro (Kikujirô no natsu) (Takeshi Kitano)
Sweet and Lowdown (Woody Allen)

Will Watch:
American Movie The Making of Northwestern (Chris Smith)

Might Possibly Watch:
For Love of the Game (Sam Raimi)

Have No Interest In Whatsoever:
The Adventures of Elmo in Grouchland (Gary Halvorson)
Battlefield Earth (Roger Christian)
The Closer You Get (Aileen Ritchie)
Eye of the Beholder (Stephan Elliott)
Gangster No.1 (Paul McGuigan)
Honest (David A. Stewart)
The King of Paris (Le roi de Paris) (Dominique Maillet)
Une Liason pornographique (Frédéric Fonteyne)
Mal (Alberto Seixas Santos)
Maybe Baby (Ben Elton)
Mission: Impossible II (John Woo)
Relative Values (Eric Styles)
Return to Me (Bonnie Hunt)
Simon Magus (Ben Hopkins)
Small Time Obsession (Piotr Szkopiak)
Snow Day (Chris Koch)
To Walk with Lions (Carl Schultz)
U-571 (Jonathan Mostow)
When the Sky Falls (John Mackenzie)

Tuesday, November 3, 2009

August 2000 UK & Ireland Releases

The following release information is from Sight & Sound.

Watched:
Beau Travail (Claire Denis) 90/100
Best (Mary McGuckian) 19/100
Big Momma's House (Raja Gosnell) 25/100
Chicken Run (Peter Lord, Nick Park) 67/100
Deuce Bigalow Male Gigolo (Mike Mitchell) 45/100
Frequency (Gregory Hoblit) 64/100
Gone In Sixty Seconds (Dominic Sena) 47/100
High Fidelity (Stephen Frears) 64/100

Eager to Watch:
The Emperor and the Assassin (Jing Ke ci Qin Wang) (Kaige Chen)
Flamenco (Carlos Saura)
Not One Less (Yi ge dou bu neng shao) (Yimou Zhang)

Will Watch:
Kadosh (Amos Gitai)

Might Possibly Watch:

Have No Interest In Whatsoever:
Bats (Louis Morneau)
Boiler Room (Ben Younger)
Brothers (Martin Dunkerton)
Chill Factor (Hugh Johnson)
Circus (Rob Walker)
Deception (John Frankenheimer)
Down to You (Kris Isacsson)
Essex Boys (Terry Winsor)
In Too Deep (Michael Rymer)
Isn't She Great (Andrew Bergman)
Jesus' Son (Alison Maclean)
Love & Basketball (Gina Prince-Bythewood)
The Next Best Thing (John Schlesinger)
Pitch Black (David Twohy)
Stuart Little (Rob Minkoff)
Supernova (Walter Hill)
Three to Tango (Damon Santostefano)
Titan A.E. (Don Bluth, Gary Goldman, Art Vitello)
Wild Side (Donald Cammell)

Edits:
Moved Beau Travail from Eager to Watch to Watched 29/12/09

Monday, November 2, 2009

September 2000 UK & Ireland Releases

The following release information is from Sight & Sound.

Watched:
X-Men (Bryan Singer) 64/100
The Perfect Storm (Wolfgang Petersen) 60/100

Eager to Watch:
The Colour of Paradise (Rang-e khoda) (Majid Majidi)
La Veuve de Saint-Pierre (Patrice Leconte)
The Ninth Gate (Roman Polanski)

Will Watch:
Ring (Ringu) (Hideo Nakata)
Those Who Love Me Can Take the Train (Ceuz qui m'aiment prendront le train) (Patrice Chéreau)
Timecode (Mike Figgis)

Might Possibly Watch:

Have No Interest In Whatsoever:
Beyond the Mat (Barry W. Blaustein)
Breakfast of Champions (Alan Rudolph)
Butterfly's Tongue (La lengua de las mariposas) (José Luis Cuerda)
Drive me Crazy (John Schultz)
The Flintstones in Viva Rock Vegas (Brian Levant)
Fortress 2: Re-entry (Geoff Murphy)
Gendernauts (Monika Treut)
Himalaya (Eric Valli)
Me Myself I (Pip Karmel)
My Dog Skip (Jay Russell)
The Patriot (Roland Emmerich)
The Road to El Dorado (Bibo Bergeron, Will Finn, Don Paul, David Silverman, Jeffrey Katzenberg)
Rules of Engagement (William Friedkin)
Shergar (Dennis C. Lewiston)
Siberia (Robert Jan Westdijk)
Some Voices (Simon Cellan Jones)
There's Only One Jimmy Grimble (John Hay)
Thomas and the Magic Railroad (Britt Allcroft)
The Wedding Tackle (Rami Dvir)
Whatever (Susan Skoog)

Cinema Listings Dublin November 2009

* Denotes either a once-off showing, a festival or a reissue.

Blue
means watched
Green means hoping to watch
Red means will not watch
Black means I'm on the fence

November 2009:

Regular Programming:
Bright Star (IFI, Lighthouse, Cineworld)
The White Ribbon (IFI, Lighthouse)
Cold Souls (IFI, Cineworld)
A Serious Man (IFI, Screen)
The First Day of the Rest of Your Life (IFI, Lighthouse, Screen)
Séraphine (IFI)
Jennifer's Body (Cineworld)
The Men Who Stare at Goats (Cineworld, Screen)
Amelia (Cineworld)
Taking Woodstock (Cineworld, Screen)
Welcome (Lighthouse)
Tulpan (Lighthouse)
The Fourth Kind (Cineworld)
One Day (Cineworld)
A Christmas Carol (Cineworld)
Harry Brown (Cineworld)
Ajab Prem Ki Ghazab (Cineworld)
2012 (Cineworld)
Pananormal Activity (Cineworld)
Kurbaan (Cineworld)
The Twilight Saga - New Moon (Cineworld)
Glorious 39 (Cineworld)
Law Abiding Citizen (Cineworld)
Planet 51 (Cineworld)
Nativity (Cineworld)
Bunny and the Bull (Cineworld)
De Dana Dan (Cineworld)


Re-issues:
Hobo Film Festival (IFI) *
The Magnificient Ambersons (IFI) *
Zidane (IFI) *
Journey Into Fear (IFI) *
Visual Acoustics (IFI) *
The Stranger (IFI) *
The Lady From Shanghai (IFI) *
Confidential Report (Mr. Arkadin) (IFI) *
Macbeth (1948) (IFI) *
Derek Mahon: The Poetry Nonsense (IFI) *
Touch of Evil (IFI) *
Das Kanninchen Bin Ich (IFI) *
We Live In Public (IFI) *
Let Lemass Lead On! (IFI) *
An Evening With John Canemaker (IFI) *
Citizen Kane (IFI) *
The Trial (IFI) *
The Immortal Story (IFI) *
Nikolaikirche (IFI) *
F For Fake (IFI) *
Die Unberuhrbare (IFI) *
Gran Torino (IFI) *
Fig Trees (IFI) *
MICMACS (IFI) *
Tati Shorts (IFI) *
The French Kissers (IFI) *
Monsieur Hulot's Holiday (IFI) *
Someone I Loved (IFI) *
The Girl On The Train (IFI) *
Playtime (IFI) *
Bellamy (IFI) *
The Beautiful Person (IFI) *
Henri-Georges Clouzot's Inferno (IFI) *
The Regrets (IFI) *
The Thorn of the Heart (IFI) *
Please, Please Me (IFI) *
The Horde (IFI) *
Hidden Diary (IFI) *
Round Da Way (IFI) *
The Magnificent Tati (IFI) *
Sisters (IFI) *
Villa Amalia (IFI) *
Bluebeard (IFI) *
Around A Small Mountain (IFI) *
My Beautiful Laundrette (Lighthouse) *
Animal House (Screen) *

Thursday, October 29, 2009

Sight & Sound Best Films of 2008

I went through the pdf file of all the votes that Sight & Sound received from their worldwide contributors. I've ordered this list of films (170+!) in order of the number of votes they received.

18
Hunger (McQueen)

11
There Will Be Blood (Anderson, PT)

10
Wall-E (Stanton)

9
Gomorrah (Garrone)

8
A Christmas Tale (Desplechin)
The Class (Cantet)

7
Happy-Go-Lucky (Leigh)
Of Time And The City (Davies)

6
Let The Right One In (Alfredson)

5
In Bruges (McDonagh)
The Dark Knight (Nolan)
Waltz with Bashir (Folman)
My Winnipeg (Maddin)
The Headless Woman (Martel)

4
Man On Wire (Marsh)
Persepolis (Satradi)
Rachel Getting Married (Demme)
Still Walking (Koreeda)
Summer Hours (Assayas)
The Wrestler (Aronofsky)
United Red Army (Wakamatsu)

3
Before The Devil Knows You're Dead (Lumet)
Che (Soderbergh)
Liverpool (Alonso)
The Beaches of Agnes (Varda)
The Silence of Lorna (Dardenne)
Itineraire de Jean Bricard (Straub & Huillet)
Le Genou d'Artemide (Straub)
Our Beloved Month of August (Gomes)
The Flight of the Red Balloon (Hsiao-hsien)
Unrelated (Hogg)

2
35 Shots of Rhum (Denis)
Be Kind, Rewind (Gondry)
Frost/Nixon (Howard)
I've Loved You So Long (Claudel)
Il Divo (Sorrentino)
In Search of a Midnight Kiss (Holdridge)
Lake Tahoe (Eimbecke)
Lust, Caution (Lee)
Milk (Van Sant)
No Country for Old Men (Coen)
Slumdog Millionaire (Boyle)
Synecdoche, New York (Kaufman)
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (Fincher)
Three Monkeys (Ceylan)
Tokyo Sonata (Kurosawa)
Tony Manero (Larrain)
24 City (Zhang-ke)
4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days (Mungiu)
A Week Alone (Murga)
Appaloosa (Harris)
Bullet in the Head (Morales)
Colossal Youth (Costa)
Couscous (Ketiche)
End of the Rainbow (Nugent)
Heartbeat Detector (Koltz)
Import/Export (Seidl)
Julia (Zonca)
Le premier venu (Doillon)
Parque via (Rivero)
RR (Benning)
Taxi to the Dark Side (Gibney)
The Romance of Astrea and Celadon (Rohmer)
Tyson (Toback)

1
Adoration (Egoyan)
Beijing Olympics Opening Ceremony (Zhang)
Burn After Reading (Coen)
Charlie Wilson's War (Nichols)
Cloverfield (Reeves)
Edge of Heaven (Akin)
Generation Kill (Simon)
Gone Baby Gone (Affleck)
Helen (Lawlor/Molloy)
Hellboy II (del Toro)
I Served The King of England (Menzel)
In The City of Sylvia (Guerín)
Iron Man (Favreau)
Jar City (Kormakur)
Juno (Reitman)
Katyn (Wajda)
Lars and the Real Girl (Gillespie)
Mad Detective (To)
Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist (Sollett)
Offside (Panahi)
Sleep Furiously (Koppel)
The Changeling (Eastwood)
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (Schnabel)
The King of Kong (Gordon)
Vicky Cristina Barcelona (Allen)
Wendy and Lucy (Reichardt)
You, The Living (Andersson)
99 francs (Kounen)
300 (Snyder)
Altar (Ilarde)
Ano Una (Cuaron)
Ballast (Hammer)
Birdwatchers (Bechis)
California Dreamin' (Endless) (Nemescu)
Camino (Fesser)
Caramel (Labaki)
Chaos Theory (Siega)
Chelsea on the Rocks (Ferrera)
Chop Shop (Ghobadi)
Client (Balasko)
Death In The Land of Encantos (Diaz)
Emerald (Weerasethakul)
Fine, Totally Fine (Yosuke)
Frownland (Bronstein)
Good Cats (Liang)
Half Moon (Ghobadi)
Heavy Metal in Baghdad (Alvi)
Hotel Diaries (Smith)
I'm Going To Explode (Naranjo)
I'm Not There (Haynes)
In The Valley of Elah (Haggis)
In The Woods (Vester)
JCVD (El Mechri)
Johnny Mad Dog (Sauvaire)
Joy Division (Gee)
L'aimée (Desplechin)
La Rabia (Carri)
La Terza madre (Argento)
La Vie Moderne (Depardon)
Laila's Birthday (Masharawi)
Last Days (Ponce)
Lawrence of Belgravia (Kelly)
Le Dernier Macquis (Ameur-Zaimeche)
Le Diexieume Souffle (Corneau)
Let's Make Money (Wagenhofer)
Los Bastardos (Escalante)
Love and Other Crimes (Arsenijevic)
Mamma Mia! (Lloyd)
Melancholia (Diaz)
Mongol (Bodrov)
Patria mia, nomad direction (Zagorac)
Prisoner, Terrorist (Masao)
Puffball (Roeg)
Redbelt (Mamet)
Rembrandt's J'accuse (Greenaway)
Revanche (Spielmann)
Savage Grace (Kalin)
Secret Sunshine (Lee)
Serbis (Mendoza)
Shine a Light (Scorsese)
Shirin (Kiarostami)
Si le vent souleve les sables (Hansel)
Snow (Begic)
Stalags (Libsker)
Step Brothers (McKay)
Stop-Loss (Peirce)
Stranded (Arijon)
Subramanyapuram (Kumar)
Sweeney Todd (Burton)
The Banishment (Zvyagintsev)
The Gift to Stalin (Abdrashev)
The Girl Who Leapt Through Time (Mamoru)
The Good, The Bad and the Weird (Kim)
The Happening (Shyamalan)
The Lie of the Land (Dineen)
The Mist (Darabont)
The Orphanage (Bayona)
The Solitary Life of Cranes (Weber)
The Witnesses (Techine)
Tout est pardonne (Hansen-Love)
Tropic Thunder (Stiller)
Trouble The Water (Lessen/Deal)
Tulpay (Dvortsevoy)
Two-Legged Horse (Makhmalbaf, S.)
Uprise (Aguilar)
We Own The Night (Gray)
Years When I Was A Child Outside (Torres)
Yumurta (Kaplanoglu)
Z32 (Mograbi)

Sunday, October 25, 2009

November 2009 UK & Ireland Releases

The following release information is from Sight & Sound.

Watched:
9 (Shane Acker) 54/100
An Education (Lone Scherfig) 67/100
Army of Crime (L'armée du crime) (Robert Guédiguian) 88/100
Fantastic Mr Fox (Wes Anderson) 88/100
Henri-Georges Clouzot's Inferno (L'enfer d'Henri-Georges Clouzot) (Serge Bromberg, Ruxandra Medrea) 62/100
Katalin Varga (Peter Strickland) 48/100
Le Donk & Scor-Zay-Zee (Shane Meadows) 41/100
Love Exposure (Ai no mukidashi) (Shion Sono) 82/100
Tales from the Golden Age (Amintiri din epoca de aur) (Hanno Höfer, Razvan Marculescu, Cristian Mungiu, Constantin Popescu, Ioana Uricaru) 74/100
The Cove (Louie Psihoyos) 68/100
The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus (Terry Gilliam) 75/100
Thirst (Bakjwi) (Chan-wook Park) 69/100
Welcome (Philippe Lioret) 71/100

Eager to Watch:

Will Watch:

Might Possibly Watch:
The First Day of the Rest of Your Life (Le premier jour du reste de ta vie) (Rémi Bezançon)
Ip Man (Wilson Yip)

Have No Interest In Whatsoever:
Baabarr (Ashu Trikha)
Beyond a Reasonable Doubt (Peter Hyams)
Colin (Marc Price)
Dead Man Running (Alex De Rakoff)
Died Young Stayed Pretty (Eileen Yaghoobian)
District 13 Ultimatum (Patrick Alessandrin)
Driving Aphrodite (Donald Petrie)
The Final Destination (David R. Ellis)
G.I. Joe The Rise of Cobra (Stephen Sommers)
Gamer (Mark Neveldine, Brian Taylor)
Greek Pete (Andrew Haigh)
Jack Said (Lee Basannavar, Michael Tchoubouroff)
Ong Bak The Beginning (Tony Jaa, Panna Rittikrai)
Passchendaele (Paul Gross)
Pontypool (Bruce McDonald)
Sorority Row (Stewart Hendler)
The Goods Live Hard Sell Hard (Neal Brennan)
The Red Baron (Der Rote Baron) (Nikolai Müllerschön)
Triangle (Christopher Smith)
Whiteout (Dominic Sena)

Edits:
Moved Katalin Varga from Will Watch to Watched 28/10/09
Moved Tales from the Golden Age from Will Watch to Watched 12/11/09
Moved Fantastic Mr. Fox from Eager to Watch to Watched 14/11/09
Moved 9 from Might Possibly Watch to Watched 16/11/09
Moved Henri-Georges Clouzot's Inferno from Will Watch to Watched 24/11/09
Moved An Education from Eager to Watch to Watched 16/12/09
Moved Le Donk & Scor-Zay-Zee from Will Watch to Watched 17/12/09
Moved Love Exposure from Might Possibly Watch to Watched 26/12/09
Moved The Cove from Will Watch to Watched 30/12/09
Moved Welcome from Will Watch to Watched 14/3/10

Wednesday, October 21, 2009

October 2000 UK & Ireland Releases

The following release information is from Sight & Sound.

Watched:
Cherry Falls (Geoffrey Wright) 26/100
Hollow Man (Paul Verhoeven) 61/100
Me, Myself and Irene (Bobby Farrelly, Peter Farrelly) 65/100
O Brother, Where Art Thou? (Joel Coen, Ethan Coen) 74/100
Scary Movie (Keenen Ivory Wayans) 52/100
Snatch (Guy Ritchie) 73/100

Eager to Watch:
Dancer in the Dark (Lars von Trier)
L'Humanite (Bruno Dumont)
Julien Donkey-Boy (Harmony Korine)
The Wind Will Carry Us (Bad ma ra khahad bord) (Abbas Kiarostami)

Will Watch:
Billy Elliot (Stephen Daldry)
Space Cowboys (Clint Eastwood)

Might Possibly Watch:
Secrets of the Heart (Secretos del corazón) (Montxo Armendáriz)

Have No Interest In Whatsoever:
Elephant Juice (Sam Miller)
Going Off Big Time (Jim Doyle)
Gossip (Davis Guggenheim)
Hotel Splendide (Terence Gross)
Keeping the Faith (Edward Norton)
Love & Sex (Valerie Breiman)
The Luzhin Defence (Marleen Gorris)
Miss Julie (Mike Figgis)
Nightfall (David Twohy)
Nurse Betty (Neil LaBute)
Play It to the Bone (Ron Shelton)
Shaft (John Singleton)
Shanghai Noon (Tom Dey)
Titus (Julie Taymor)
Twin Falls Idaho (Michael Polish)

Tuesday, October 20, 2009

November 2000 UK & Ireland Releases

The following release information is from Sight & Sound.

Watched:
In The Mood For Love (Fa yeung nin wa) (Kar Wai Wong) 94/100
Memento (Christopher Nolan) 84/100
Road Trip (Todd Phillips) 65/100
The House of Mirth (Terence Davies) 84/100
What Lies Beneath (Robert Zemeckis) 68/100

Eager to Watch:
Goya in Bordeaux (Goya en Burdeos) (Carlos Saura)
Water Drops On Burning Rocks (Gouttes d'eau sur pierres brûlantes) (François Ozon)

Will Watch:

Might Possibly Watch:
The Golden Bowl (James Ivory)
Liberty Heights (Barry Levinson)

Have No Interest In Whatsoever:
I Could Read the Sky (Nicola Bruce)
It Was an Accident (Metin Hüseyin)
The Little Vampire (Uli Edel)
Nasty Neighbours (Debbie Isitt)
Nutty Professor II: The Klumps (Peter Segal)
Purely Belter (Mark Herman)
Romeo Must Die (Andrzej Bartkowiak)
Sorted (Alexander Jovy)
Tom's Midnight Garden (Willard Carroll)
Where the Money Is (Marek Kanievska)

Edits:
Moved The House of Mirth from Eager to Watch to Watched 8/1/10

December 2000 UK & Ireland Releases

The following release informatio is from Sight & Sound.

Watched:
Bring It On (Peyton Reed) 34/100
Coyote Ugly (David McNally) 50/100
Human Resources (Ressources humaines) (Laurent Cantet) 82/100
Loser (Amy Heckerling) 41/100
The Skulls (Rob Cohen) 56/100
Suzhou River (Suzhou he) (Ye Lou) 64/100

Eager to Watch:
The Road Home (Wo de fu qin mu qin) (Yimou Zhang)

Will Watch:
Harry He's Here to Help (Harry un ami qui vous veut du bien) (Dominik Moll)
Wonder Boys (Curtis Hanson)

Might Possibly Watch:
East-West (Est - Ouest) (Régis Wargnier)
Into the Arms of Strangers Stories of the Kindertransport (Mark Jonathan Harris)

Have No Interest In Whatsoever:
Bedazzled (Harold Ramis)
The Best Man (Malcolm D. Lee)
Black and White (James Toback)
Bodywork (Gareth Rhys Jones)
Book of Shadows Blair Witch 2 (Joe Berlinger)
The Cell (Tarsem Singh)
Center Stage (Nicholas Hytner)
Chopper (Andrew Dominik)
Chuck & Buck (Miguel Arteta)
Complicity (Gavin Millar)
Dinosaur (Eric Leighton, Ralph Zondag)
Disney's The Kid (Jon Turteltaub)
Duets (Bruce Paltrow)
Flawless (Joel Schumacher)
Grey Owl (Richard Attenborough)
Gun Shy (Eric Blakeney)
Judy Berlin (Eric Mendelsohn)
Pourquoi pas moi? (Stéphane Giusti)
Siam Sunset (John Polson)
The Way of the Gun (Christopher McQuarrie)
Where the Heart Is (Matt Williams)
The Yards (James Gray)