Friday, September 25, 2009

June 2002 UK & Ireland Releases

The following release information is from Sight & Sound.

Watched:
40 Days and 40 Nights (Michael Lehmann) 52/100
Monster's Ball (Marc Forster) 79/100

Eager to Watch:
Blade II (Guillermo del Toro)
Read My Lips (Sur mes lèvres) (Jacques Audiard)

Will Watch:
Divided We Fall (Musíme si pomáhat) (Jan Hrebejk)
Pollock (Ed Harris)
Tape (Richard Linklater)

Might Possibly Watch:
Betty Fisher and Other Stories (Claude Miller)
Biggie and Tupac (Nick Broomfield)
The Way I Killed My Father (Comment j'ai tué mon père) (Anne Fontaine)

Have No Interest In Whatsoever:
Beginner's Luck (James Callis, Nick Cohen)
Chop Suey (Bruce Weber)
Crush (John McKay)
Dragonfly (Tom Shadyac)
Hardball (Brian Robbins)
John Q (Nick Cassavetes)
Living in Hope (John Miller)
Offending Angels (Andrew Rajan)
Queen of the Damned (Michael Rymer)
Resident Evil (Paul W.S. Anderson)
Roberto Succo (Cédric Kahn)
The Scorpion King (Chuck Russell)
Showtime (Tom Dey)
Snow Dogs (Brian Levant)

Thursday, September 24, 2009

July 2002 UK & Ireland Releases

The following release information is from Sight & Sound.

Watched:
Beijing Bicycle (Shiqi sui de dan che) (Xiaoshuai Wang) 73/100
Birthday Girl (Jez Butterworth) 66/100
Kissing Jessica Stein (Charles Herman-Wurmfeld) 65/100
Spiderman (Sam Raimi) 64/100
Star Wars Episode II - Attack of the Clones (George Lucas) 61/100

Eager to Watch:
What Time Is It There? (Ni na bian ji dian) (Ming-liang Tsai)

Will Watch:
Killing Me Softly (Kaige Chen)

Might Possibly Watch:
Dogtown and Z-Boys (Stacy Peralta)
Everything Put Together (Marc Forster)
Murder by Numbers (Barbet Schroeder)

Have No Interest In Whatsoever
The Abduction Club (Stefan Schwartz)
Big Fat Liar (Shawn Levy)
Dancing at the Blue Iguana (Michael Radford)
The Girl from Paris (Une hirondelle a fait le printemps) (Christian Carion)
Grégoire Moulin (Artus de Penguern)
Lawless Heart (Tom Hunsinger, Neil Hunter)
The Musketeer (Peter Hyams)
Novocaine (David Atkins)
Skin of Man, Heart of Beast (Peau d'homme coeur de bête) (Hélène Angel)
The Time Machine (Simon Wells)
Unfaithful (Adrian Lyne)

August 2002 UK & Ireland Releases

The following release information is from Sight & Sound.

Watched:
Minority Report (Steven Spielberg) 79/100
Nine Queens (Nueve reinas) (Fabián Bielinsky) 62/100
Not Another Teen Movie (Joel Gallen) 40/100
Platform (Zhantai) (Zhang Ke Jia) 81/100
Scooby-Doo (Raja Gosnell) 40/100
The Sum of All Fears (Phil Alden Robinson) 65/100

Eager to Watch:
Amen. (Costa-Gavras)
Heaven (Tom Tykwer)

Will Watch:
ivansxtc. (Bernard Rose)
Lost in La Mancha (Keith Fulton, Louis Pepe)
Sunshine State (John Sayles)

Might Possibly Watch:

Have No Interest In Whatsoever:
L'Afrance (Alain Gomis)
Bad Company (Joel Schumacher)
Before You Go (Lewis Gilbert)
Jason X (James Isaac)
Lighthouse (Simon Hunter)
Rollerball (John McTiernan)
La Spagnola (Steve Jacobs)
Spirit Stallion of the Cimarrons (Kelly Asbury, Lorna Cook)
A Walk to Remember (Adam Shankman)
The Wash (DJ Pooh)
What's the Worst That Could Happen? (Sam Weisman)

Edits:
Moved Platform from Eager to Watch to Watched 14/1/10
Moved Nine Queens from Will Watch to Watched 2/11/10

September 2002 UK & Ireland Releases

The following release information is from Sight & Sound.

Watched:
Austin Powers in Goldmember (Jay Roach) 48/100
Insomnia (Christopher Nolan) 64/100
Men in Black II (Barry Sonnenfeld) 45/100
Once upon a Time in the Midlands (Shane Meadows) 48/100
One Hour Photo (Mark Romanek) 67/100
Stuart Little 2 (Rob Minkoff) 46/100
Talk to Her (Hable con ella) (Pedro Almodóvar) 87/100
The Bourne Identity (Doug Liman) 76/100

Eager to Watch:
Dog Days (Hundstage) (Ulrich Seidl)
Happy Times (Xingfu shiguang) (Yimou Zhang)

Will Watch:
Secret Ballot (Raye makhfi) (Babak Payami)

Might Possibly Watch:
Lantana (Ray Lawrence)
Windtalkers (John Woo)

Have No Interest:
Black Knight (Gil Junger)
The Crocodile Hunter Collision Course (John Stainton)
Devdas (Sanjay Leela Bhansali)
Eight Legged Freaks (Ellory Elkayem)
The Importance of Being Earnest (Oliver Parker)
Lovely & Amazing (Nicole Holofcener)
Reign of Fire (Rob Bowman)
Scratch (Doug Pray)
The King Is Dancing (Le roi danse) (Gérard Corbiau)
Time of Favor (Ha-Hesder) (Joseph Cedar)
Tortilla Soup (María Ripoll)

Edits:
Moved Talk to Her from Eager to Watch to Watched. 3/11/09
Moved Once Upon a Time in the Midlands from Will Watch to Watched 3/5/11

October 2002 UK & Ireland Releases

The following release information is from Sight & Sound.

Watched:
Donnie Darko (Richard Kelly) 74/100
The Guru (Daisy von Scherler Mayer) 35/100
Lilo & Stitch (Dean DeBlois, Chris Sanders) 56/100
Sweet Sixteen (Ken Loach) 84/100
The Sweetest Thing (Roger Kumble) 55/100
Van Wilder (Walt Becker) 54/100

Eager to Watch:
10 (Abbas Kiarostami)
Road to Perdition (Sam Mendes)

Will Watch:
Ma femme est une actrice (Yvan Attal)

Might Possibly Watch:
All about Lily Chou-Chou (Riri Shushu no subete) (Shunji Iwai)
Frailty (Bill Paxton)
Minor Mishaps (Små ulykker) (Annette K. Olesen)
Signs (M. Night Shyamalan)

Have No Interest In Whatsoever:
The Bunker (Rob Green)
Christie Malry's Own Double Entry (Paul Tickell)
My Big Fat Greek Wedding (Joel Zwick)
My Kingdom (Don Boyd)
My Little Eye (Marc Evans)
The New Guy (Ed Decter)
The Rookie (John Lee Hancock)
Spy Kids 2: Island of Lost Dreams (Robert Rodriguez)
Super Troopers (Jay Chandrasekhar)
Swimf@n (John Polson)
The Trespasser (O Invasor) (Beto Brant)
Villa des Roses (Frank Van Passel)

Edits:
Moved Sweet Sixteen from Eager to Watch to Watched 17/3/2010

November 2002 UK & Ireland Releases

The following release information is from Sight & Sound.

Watched:
Bowling for Columbine (Michael Moore) 86/100
Changing Lanes (Roger Michell) 58/100
Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood (Callie Khouri) 37/100
Morvern Callar (Lynne Ramsay) 76/100
Slap Her... She's French (Melanie Mayron) 35/100

Eager to Watch:
All or Nothing (Mike Leigh)
Laissez-passer (Bertrand Tavernier)
Rabbit-Proof Fence (Phillip Noyce)

Will Watch:
K-19 The Widowmaker (Kathryn Bigelow)
Possession (Neil LaBute)

Might Possibly Watch:
The Eye (Gin gwai) (Oxide Pang Chun, Danny Pang)

Have No Interest In Whatsoever:
Asterix & Obelix Mission Cleopatra (Alain Chabat)
Clockstoppers (Jonathan Frakes)
Club Le Monde (Simon Rumley)
Halloween Resurrection (Rick Rosenthal)
High Crimes (Carl Franklin)
Kin (Elaine Proctor)
Pluto Nash (Ron Underwood)
The Powerpuff Girls (Craig McCracken)
S1møne (Andrew Niccol)
Two Can Play That Game (Mark Brown)
Two Men Went to War (John Henderson)
xXx (Rob Cohen)

Edits:
Moved Morvern Callar from Eager to Watch to Watched 3/1/10

Wednesday, September 23, 2009

December 2002 UK & Ireland Releases

The following release information is from Sight & Sound.

Watched:
8 Women (8 femmes) (François Ozon) 66/100
28 Days Later... (Danny Boyle) 74/100
Boat Trip (Mort Nathan) 16/100
L.I.E. (Michael Cuesta) 70/100
Mr. Deeds (Steven Brill) 50/100
The Quiet American (Phillip Noyce) 70/100
Red Dragon (Brett Ratner) 60/100

Eager to Watch:
Abouna (Mahamat-Saleh Haroun)
Dirty Pretty Things (Stephen Frears)
Monday Morning (Lundi Matin) (Otar Iosseliani)

Will Watch:
The Dancer Upstairs (John Malkovich)

Might Possibly Watch:
A la folie Pas du tout (Laetitia Colombani)
Manic (Jordan Melamed)

Have No Interest In Whatsoever:
AKA (Duncan Roy)
Anita & Me (Metin Hüseyin)
The Announcement (Troy Miller)
Avalon (Mamoru Oshii)
Bundy (Matthew Bright)
Enough (Michael Apted)
Juwanna Mann (Jesse Vaughan)
Like Mike (John Schultz)
Mrs. Caldicot's Cabbage War (Ian Sharp)
The War Bride (Lyndon Chubbuck)

Edits:
Moved 8 Women from Eager to Watch to Watched 22/9/10
Moved L.I.E. from Eager to Watch to Watched 4/4/11

January 2003 UK & Ireland Release

The following release information is from Sight & Sound.

Watched:
11'09''01 September 11 (Youssef Chahine, Amos Gitai, Alejandro González Iñárritu, Shohei Imamura, Claude Lelouch, Ken Loach, Samira Makhmalbaf, Mira Nair, Idrissa Ouedraogo, Sean Penn, Danis Tanovic) 58/100
About Schmidt (Alexander Payne) 72/100
City of God (Cidade de Deus) (Fernando Meirelles) 93/100
Die Another Day (Lee Tamahori) 56/100
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (Chris Columbus) 55/100
Trouble Every Day (Claire Denis) 73/100

Eager to Watch:
The Curse of the Jade Scorpion (Woody Allen)
Divine Intervention (Yadon ilaheyya) (Elia Suleiman)
Spider (David Cronenberg)

Will Watch:
Blood Work (Clint Eastwood)

Might Possibly Watch:
Big Shot's Funeral (Da wan) (Xiaogang Feng)

Have No Interest In Whatsoever:
Butterfly Man (Kaprice Kea)
City by the Sea (Michael Caton-Jones)
Deathwatch (Michael J. Bassett)
Eight Crazy Nights (Seth Kearsley)
Ghost Ship (Steve Beck)
The Good Girl (Miguel Arteta)
The Kid Stays in the Picture (Nanette Burstein, Brett Morgen)
The Santa Clause 2 (Michael Lembeck)
Sweet Home Alabama (Andy Tennant)
They (Robert Harmon)
The Transporter (Corey Yuen)

Edits:
Moved Trouble Every Day from Eager to Watch to Watched 3/1/10
Moved 11 09 01 September 11 from Eager to Watch to Watched 6/3/10

February 2003 UK & Ireland Releases

The following release information is from Sight & Sound.

Watched:
Catch Me If You Can (Steven Spielberg) 73/100
Chicago (Rob Marshall) 72/100
8 Mile (Curtis Hanson) 54/100
Gangs of New York (Martin Scorsese) 64/100
The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (Peter Jackson) 81/100
Punch-Drunk Love (Paul Thomas Anderson) 80/100
The Pianist (Roman Polanski) 71/100

Eager to Watch:
The Man without a Past (Mies vailla menneisyyttä) (Aki Kaurismäki)

Will Watch:
Love Liza (Todd Louiso)
Take Care of My Cat (Goyangileul butaghae) (Jae-eun Jeong)

Might Possibly Watch:
Narc (Joe Carnahan)
Perfume de violetas (Marisa Sistach)
Real Women Have Curves (Patricia Cardoso)

Have No Interest In Whatsoever:
The Banger Sisters (Bob Dolman)
Barbershop (Tim Story)
Hey Arnold! The Movie (Tuck Tucker)
I Spy (Betty Thomas)
Joe Somebody (John Pasquin)
Live Forever (John Dower)
Mad Dogs (Ahmed A. Jamal)
The Master of Disguise (Perry Andelin Blake)
Revengers Tragedy (Alex Cox)
Star Trek Nemesis (Stuart Baird)
Treasure Planet (Ron Clements, John Musker)

Edits:
Moved Chicago from Eager to Watch to Watched 17/3/2010
Moved The Pianist from Eagert to Watch to Watched 3/12/2010

March 2003 UK & Ireland Releases

The following release information is from Sight & Sound.

Watched:
25th Hour (Spike Lee) 91/100
Adaptation (Spike Jonze) 63/100
Confessions of a Dangerous Mind (George Clooney) 63/100
Frida (Julie Taymor) 70/100
Irréversible (Gaspar Noé) 92/100
Jackass The Movie (Jeff Tremaine) 36/100
The Son (Le fils) (Jean-Pierre Dardenne, Luc Dardenne) 89/100
The Tuxedo (Kevin Donovan) 43/100
Undercover Brother (Malcolm D. Lee) 58/100

Eager to Watch:
Far from Heaven (Todd Haynes)
Japón (Carlos Reygadas)

Will Watch:
Auto Focus (Paul Schrader)
The Good Thief (Neil Jordan)
The Hours (Stephen Daldry)
The Magdalene Sisters (Peter Mullan)
Solaris (Steven Soderbergh)

Might Possibly Watch:
Elling (Petter Næss)

Have No Interest In Whatsoever:
Analyze That (Harold Ramis)
Derrida (Kirby Dick, Amy Ziering)
Grateful Dawg (Gillian Grisman)
Innocence (Paul Cox)
Maid in Manhattan (Wayne Wang)
The One and Only (Simon Cellan Jones)
The Wild Thomberrys Movie (Cathy Malkasian, Jeff McGrath)

Edits:
Moved 25th Hour from Eager to Watch to Watched 2/12/09
Moved The Son from Eager to Watch to Watched 28/12/09
Moved Adaptation from Eager to Watch to Watched 5/1/10
Moved Irréversible from Eager to Watch to Watched 6/1/10

Tuesday, September 22, 2009

April 2003 UK & Ireland Releases

The following release information is from Sight & Sound.

Watched:
Daredevil (Mark Steven Johnson) 47/100
Final Destination (James Wong) 58/100
Phone Booth (Joel Schumacher) 69/100
The Recruit (Roger Donaldson) 59/100
Werckmeister Harmonies (Werckmeister harmóniák) (Béla Tarr) 86/100

Eager to Watch:
L'Homme du train (Patrice Leconte)
Open Hearts (Elsker dig for evigt) (Susanne Bier)
Russian Ark (Ruskiy kovcheg) (Aleksandr Sokurov)

Will Watch:
Bollywood/Hollywood (Deepa Mehta)
In This World (Michael Winterbottom)
Nowhere in Africa (Nirgendwo in Afrika) (Caroline Link)

Might Possibly Watch:
Equilibrium (Kurt Wimmer)
The Life of David Gale (Alan Parker)
Personal Velocity Three Portraits (Rebecca Miller)

Have No Interest In Whatsoever:
Evelyn (Bruce Beresford)
Hejar (Büyük adam küçük ask) (Handan Ipekçi)
Jiyan (Jano Rosebiani)
Moonlight Mile (Brad Silberling)
National Security (Dennis Dugan)
The Ring (Gore Verbinski)
The Rules of Attraction (Roger Avary)
Stark Raving Mad (Drew Daywalt, David Schneider)
Thorns (Sanjay Gupta)
Two Weeks Notice (Marc Lawrence)

Edits:
Moved Werckmeister Harmonies from Eager to Watch to Watched 8/1/10

May 2003 UK & Ireland Releases

The following release information is from Sight & Sound.

Watched:
How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days (Donald Petrie) 57/100
Just Married (Shawn Levy) 40/100
Lilja 4-Ever (Lukas Moodysson) 82/100
Shanghai Knights (David Dobkin) 32/100

Eager to Watch:
Ararat (Atom Egoyan)

Will Watch:
Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress (Xiao cai feng) (Sijie Dai)
Intacto (Juan Carlos Fresnadillo)
Le Souffle (Damien Odoul)

Might Possibly Watch:
Life and Debt (Stephanie Black)

Have No Interest In Whatsoever:
The Actors (Conor McPherson)
The Core (Jon Amiel)
Cradle 2 the Grave (Andrzej Bartkowiak)
Dark Blue (Ron Shelton)
Fogbound (Ate de Jong)
A Guy Thing (Chris Koch)
The Heart of Me (Thaddeus O'Sullivan)
Heartlands (Damien O'Donnell)
Hope Springs (Mark Herman)
I Capture the Castle (Tim Fywell)
Johnny English (Peter Howitt)
Puckoon (Terence Ryan)
Pure (Gillies MacKinnon)
Stealing Harvard (Bruce McCulloch)
Trapped (Luis Mandoki)
Virgil Bliss (Joe Maggio)
Welcome to Collinwood (Anthony Russo, Joe Russo)

Monday, September 21, 2009

June 2003 UK & Ireland Releases

The following release information is from Sight & Sound.

Watched:
Bringing Down The House (Adam Shankman) 18/100
Secretary (Steven Shainberg) 72/100
X2 (Bryan Singer) 64/100

Eager to Watch:
Dolls (Takeshi Kitano)
The Happiness of the Katakuris (Katakuri-ke no kôfuku) (Takashi Miike)

Will Watch:
Ghosts of the Abyss (James Cameron)
Tableau de famille (Le fate ignoranti) (Ferzan Ozpetek)

Might Possibly Watch:
Antwone Fisher (Denzel Washington)
El Bola (Achero Mañas)
Chihwaseon (Drunk on Women and Poetry) (Kwon-taek Im)
Son of the Bride (El hijo de la novia) (Juan José Campanella)
To Kill a King (Mike Barker)

Have No Interest In Whatsoever:
Bulletproof Monk (Paul Hunter)
Girl from Rio (Chica de Río) (Christopher Monger)
Darkness Falls (Jonathan Liebesman)
Dreamcatcher (Lawrence Kasdan)
The Hot Chick (Tom Brady)
The Last Great Wilderness (David Mackenzie)
Life or Something Like It (Stephen Herek)
The Little Polar Bear (Der kleine Eisbär) (Piet De Rycker, Thilo Rothkirch)
A Man Apart (F. Gary Gray)
Mostly Martha (Bella Martha) (Sandra Nettelbeck)
Seeing Double (Nigel Dick)
Shiri (Swiri) (Je-gyu Kang)
Thomas pynchon A Journey into the Mind of (Donatello Dubini, Fosco Dubini)
Trembling before G-d (Sandi Simcha Dubowski)

July 2003 UK & Ireland Releases

The following release information is from Sight & Sound.

Watched:
Anger Management (Peter Segal) 44/100
The Matrix Reloaded (Andy Wachowski, Larry Wachowski) 78/100
Old School (Todd Phillips) 54/100

Eager to Watch:
Criminal Lovers (Les amants criminels) (François Ozon)
Pot Luck (L'auberge espagnole) (Cédric Klapisch)
Springtime in a Small Town (Xiao cheng zhi chun) (Zhuangzhuang Tian)
Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance (Boksunen naui geot) (Chan-wook Park)
Unknown Pleasures (Ren xiao yao) (Zhang Ke Jia)

Will Watch:
Broken Wings (Knafayim Shvurot) (Nir Bergman)
Full Frontal (Steven Soderbergh)
Fulltime Killer (Chuen jik sat su) (Johnnie To, Ka-Fai Wai)
Winged Migration (Jacques Perrin)

Might Possibly Watch:
La Comunidad (Álex de la Iglesia)
Dark Water (Walter Salles)
Igby Goes Down (Burr Steers)
Snake of June (Rokugatsu no hebi) (Shinya Tsukamoto)

Have No Interest In Whatsoever:
Dirty Deeds (David Caesar)
Extreme Ops (Christian Duguay)
Fausto 5.0 (Álex Ollé, Isidro Ortiz, Carlos Padrisa)
fear dot com (William Malone)
Girls Can't Swim (Les filles ne savent pas nager) (Anne-Sophie Birot)
Half Past Dead (Don Michael Paul)
In the Name of Buddha (Rajesh Touchriver)
The Jungle Book 2 (Steve Trenbirth)
Kangaroo Jack (David McNally)
Max (Menno Meyjes)
Ripley's Game (Liliana Cavani)
Summer Things (Embrassez qui vous voudrez) (Michel Blanc)

Sunday, September 20, 2009

October 2009 UK & Ireland Releases

The following release information is from Sight & Sound.

Watched:
Away We Go (Sam Mendes) 71/100
Creation (Jon Amiel) 59/100
District 9 (Neill Blomkamp) 71/100
Dorian Gray (Oliver Parker) 52/100
Fish Tank (Andrea Arnold) 80/100
Funny People (Judd Apatow) 58/100
Goodbye Solo (Ramin Bahrani) 64/100
Je veux voir (Joana Hadjithomas, Khalil Joreige) 51/100
The Beaches of Agnes (Les plages d'Agnès) (Agnès Varda) 80/100
The Soloist (Joe Wright) 62/100
Up (Pete Docter, Bob Peterson) 78/100

Eager to Watch:

Will Watch:

Might Possibly Watch:
Orphan (Jaume Collet-Serra)
Tricks (Sztuczki) (Andrzej Jakimowski)
White Lightnin' (Dominic Murphy)

Have No Interest Whatsoever:
The Agent (Lesley Manning)
Aliens in the Attic (John Schultz)
BirdWatchers (Marco Bechis)
Blind Dating (James Keach)
Born in 68 (Nés en 68) (Olivier Ducastel, Jacques Martineau)
Bustin' Down The Door (Jeremy Gosch)
Chevolution (Luis Lopez, Trisha Ziff)
Coffin Rock (Rupert Glasson)
The Firm (Nick Love)
G-Force (Hoyt Yeatman)
Heart of Fire (Feuerherz) (Luigi Falorni)
Jetsam (Simon Welsford)
Julie & Julia (Nora Ephron)
The Meerkats (James Honeyborne)
Mega Shark vs. Giant Octopus (Jack Perez)
Morning Light (Mark Monroe)
A Perfect Getaway (David Twohy)
The September Issue (R.J. Cutler)
Shank (Simon Pearce)
Shorts (Robert Rodriguez)
The Spell (Owen Carey Jones)
31 North 62 East (Tristan Loraine)
The Time Traveler's Wife (Robert Schwentke)
Vinyan (Fabrice Du Welz)

Edits:
Moved Away We Go from Eager to Watch to Watched. 4/10/09
Moved The Soloist from Will Watch to Watched. 5/10/09
Moved Goodbye Solo from Eager to Watch to Watched 17/10/09
Moved The Beaches of Agnes from Eager to Watch to Watched 18/10/09
Moved Up from Eager to Watch to Watched 30/10/09
Moved Funny People from Might Possibly Watch to Watched 1/1/10
Moved Creation from Will Watch to Watched 26/1/10
Moved Dorian Gray from Might Possibly Watch to Watched 3/2/10
Moved Je veux voir from Might Possibly Watch to Watched 24/3/10

Tuesday, September 15, 2009

August 2003 UK & Ireland Releases

The following release information is from Sight & Sound.

Watched:
Bruce Almighty (Tom Shadyac) 20/100
Identity (James Mangold) 70/100

Eager to Watch:
Bad Guy (Nabbeun namja) (Ki-duk Kim)
Être et avoir (Nicolas Philibert)
Ichi the Killer (Koroshiya 1) (Takashi Miike)
Minimal Stories (Historias mínimas) (Carlos Sorin)
Sex Is Comedy (Catherine Breillat)

Will Watch:
Hulk (Ang Lee)
Whale Rider (Niki Caro)

Might Possibly Watch:
The Clay Bird (Matir moina) (Tareque Masud)
Mon-rak Transistor (Pen-Ek Ratanaruang)
Public Enemy (Gonggongui jeog) (Woo-Suk Kang)
The Truth about Charlie (Jonathan Demme)

Have No Interest In Whatsoever:
Brown Sugar (Rick Famuyiwa)
Buffalo Soldiers (Gregor Jordan)
Charlie's Angels Full Throttle (McG)
The Crime of Padre Amaro (El crimen del padre Amaro) (Carlos Carrera)
Hoover Street Revival (Sophie Fiennes)
The Hunted (William Friedkin)
I'll Be There (Craig Ferguson)
Nicholas Nickleby (Douglas McGrath)
Rain (Christine Jeffs)
Standing in the Shadows of Motown (Paul Justman)
Tadpole (Gary Winick)
2 Fast 2 Furious (John Singleton)
Wrong Turn (Rob Schmidt)

September 2003 UK & Ireland Releases

The following release information is from Sight & Sound.

Watched:
Angel on the Right (Fararishtay kifti rost) (Jamshed Usmonov) 63/100
Dumb & Dumberer (Troy Miller) 1/100
Goodbye Lenin! (Wolfgang Becker) 81/100
Legally Blonde II (Charles Herman-Wurmfeld) 30/100
Pirates of the Caribbean (Gore Verbinski) 62/100
Spirited Away (Sen to Chihiro no kamikakushi) (Hayao Miyazaki) 84/100

Eager to Watch:

Will Watch:
All the Real Girls (David Gordon Green)
Animal Factory (Steve Buscemi)
Belleville Rendez-vous (Les tiplettes de Belleville) (Sylvain Chomet)

Might Possibly Watch;
Cowboy Bebop The Movie (Kaubôi bibappu: Tengoku no tobira) (Shinichirô Watanabe)
Roger Dodger (Dylan Kidd)

Have No Interest In Whatsoever:
Agent Cody Banks (Harald Zwart)
Angela (Roberta Torre)
Biker Boyz (Reggie Rock Bythewood)
Camp (Todd Graff)
Daddy Day Care (Steve Carr)
Dragonflies (Øyenstikker) (Marius Holst)
The Four Feathers (Shekhar Kapur)
Gods and Generals (Ronald F. Maxwell)
The In-Laws (Andrew Fleming)
Jeremy Hardy versus the Israeli Army (Leila Sansour)
Ma vie (Denis Langlois)
Y Mabinogi (Derek W. Hayes)
Respiro (Emanuele Crialese)
The Safety of Objects (Rose Troche)

Edits:
Moved Spirited Away from Eager to Watch to Watched 1/11/09

Thursday, September 10, 2009

October 2003 UK & Ireland Releases

The following release information is from Sight & Sound.

Watched:
American Wedding (Jesse Dylan) 46/100
Gerry (Gus Van Sant) 76/100
Jeepers Creepers II (Victor Salva) 38/100
The Man Who Sued God (Mark Joffe) 51/100
Veronica Guerin (Joel Schumacher) 68/100
What a Girl Wants (Dennie Gordon) 56/100

Eager to Watch:
Le Chignon d'Olga (Jérôme Bonnell)
Swimming Pool (François Ozon)
Vendredi soir (Claire Denis)

Will Watch:
Terminator 3 Rise of the Machines (Jonathan Mostow)

Might Possibly Watch:
The Man of the Year (O Homem do Ano) (José Henrique Fonseca)
Petites Coupures (Pascal Bonitzer)
Young Adam (David Mackenzie)

Have No Interest In Whatsoever:
Blind Spot (Slepa pega) (Hanna Antonina Wojcik-Slak)
Confidence (James Foley)
Cypher (Vincenzo Natali)
Le Divorce (James Ivory)
Double Whammy (Tom DiCillo)
Food of Love (Ventura Pons)
Lara Croft Tomb Raider The Cradle of Life (Jan de Bont)
The Most Fertile Man in Ireland (Dudi Appleton)
Piglet's Big Movie (Francis Glebas)
Rivers and Tides (Thomas Riedelsheimer)
Rugrats Go Wild (John Eng, Norton Virgien)
Sinbad Legend of the Seven Seas (Patrick Gilmore, Tim Johnson)
Spy Kids 3D Game Over (Robert Rodriguez)
Tears of the Sun (Antoine Fuqua)

Edits:
Moved Gerry from Eager to Watch to Watched 2/1/10

November 2003 UK & Ireland

The following release information is from Sight & Sound.

Watched:
Calendar Girls (Nigel Cole) 58/100
Finding Nemo (Andrew Stanton) 72/100
Intolerable Cruelty (Joel Coen, Ethan Coen) 60/100
Matchstick Men (Ridley Scott) 55/100
Spellbound (Jeffrey Blitz) 73/100

Eager to Watch:
El Bonaerense (Pablo Trapero)
Crimson Gold (Talaye sorkh) (Jafar Panahi)
Time of the Wolf (Le temps du loup) (Michael Haneke)
Waiting for Happiness (Heremakono) (Abderrahmane Sissako)

Will Watch:
Comandante (Oliver Stone)
Kirikou and the Sorceress (Michel Ocelot)

Might Possibly Watch:
Bright Young Things (Stephen Fry)
Long Way Home (Peter Sollett)
Ned Kelly (Gregor Jordan)
Once upon a Time in Mexico (Robert Rodriguez)

Have No Interest In Whatsoever:
Bad Boys II (Michael Bay)
Blackball (Mel Smith)
The Boy David Story (Alex McCall)
Bugs! (Mike Slee)
Citizen Verdict (Philippe Martinez)
Down with Love (Peyton Reed)
Emotional Backgammon (Leon Herbert)
Freddy vs. Jason (Ronny Yu)
Gigli (Martin Brest)
The Hard Word (Scott Roberts)
Hollywood Homicide (Ron Shelton)
It Runs in the Family (Fred Schepisi)
The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (Stephen Norrington)
The Lizzie McGuire Movie (Jim Fall)
9 Dead Gay Guys (Lab Ky Mo)
Okay (Jesper W. Nielsen)
The Order (Brian Helgeland)
Party Monster (Fenton Bailey, Randy Barbato)
This Is Not a Love Song (Bille Eltringham)

Edits:
Moved Intolerable Cruelty from Eager to Watch to Watched 19/3/11
Moved Matchstick Men from Eager to Watch to Watched 31/7/11*

December 2003 UK & Ireland Releases

The following release information is from Sight & Sound.

Watched:
In America (Jim Sheridan) 77/100
Kill Bill Vol. 1 (Quentin Tarantino) 87/100
Love Actually (Richard Curtis) 71/100
Mystic River (Clint Eastwood) 74/100

Eager to Watch:
The Five Obstructions (De fem benspænd) (Jørgen Leth, Lars von Trier)
In the Cut (Jane Campion)
[One] Cavale (Lucas Belvaux)
[Three] Après la vie (Lucas Belvaux)
[Two] Un couple épatant (Lucas Belvaux)
Ten Minutes Older The Trumpet (Kaige Chen, Víctor Erice, Werner Herzog, Jim Jarmusch, Aki Kaurismäki, Spike Lee, Wim Wenders)
Together (Tilsammans) (Lukas Moodysson)

Will Watch:
Cinemania (Angela Christlieb, Stephen Kijak)
Cremaster 1 (Matthew Barney)
Cremaster 4 (Matthew Barney)
Nói Albinói (Dagur Kári)
Taking Sides (István Szabó)
thirteen (Catherine Hardwicke)

Might Possibly Watch:
The Italian Job (F. Gary Gray)
Krámpack (Cesc Gay)
Seabiscuit (Gary Ross)
White Oleander (Peter Kosminsky)

Have No Interest In Whatsoever:
Bollywood Queen (Jeremy Wooding)
Cabin Fever (Eli Roth)
Concert for George (David Leland)
Decasia (Bill Morrison)
House of 1000 Corpses (Rob Zombie)
The Mother (Roger Michell)
Mr In-between (Paul Sarossy)
Octane (Marcus Adams)
Secondhand Lions (Tim McCanlies)
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (Marcus Nispel)
Traces of a Dragon Jackie Chan & His Lost Family (Mabel Cheung)
Underworld (Len Wiseman)
XX/XY (Austin Chick)

Wednesday, September 9, 2009

January 2004 UK & Ireland Release

The following release information is from Sight & Sound.

Watched:
American Splendor (Shari Springer Berman, Robert Pulcini) 61/100
Intermission (John Crowley) 77/100
Lost in Translation (Sofia Coppola) 80/100
My Life without Me (Isabel Coixet) 71/100
Ten Minutes Older The Cello (Bernardo Bertolucci, Claire Denis, Mike Figgis, Jean-Luc Godard, Jirí Menzel, Michael Radford, Volker Schlöndorff, István Szabó) 72/100
The Matrix Revolutions (Andy Wachowski, Larry Wachowski) 70/100

Eager to Watch:
Blind Shaft (Mang jing) (Yang Li)
Master and Commander The Far Side of the World (Peter Weir)
Touching the Void (Kevin Macdonald)

Will Watch:
Aileen life and Death of a Serial Killer (Nick Broomfield, Joan Churchill)
Cremaster 5 (Matthew Barney)
Elf (Jon Favreau)
The Shape of Things (Neil LaBute)

Might Possibly Watch:
The Cuckoo (Kukushka) (Aleksandr Rogozhkin)
Kiss of Life (Emily Young)

Have No Interest In Whatsoever:
American Cousins (Don Coutts)
Bodysong (Simon Pummell)
Brother Bear (Aaron Blaise, Robert Walker)
Freaky Friday (Mark Waters)
Gasoline (Benzina) (Monica Stambrini)
Good Boy! (John Hoffman)
Holes (Andrew Davis)
Interstella 5555 (Kazuhisa Takenôchi)
Kung Phooey! (Darryl Fong)
Laurel Canyon (Lisa Cholodenko)
Miranda (Marc Munden)
Out of Time (Carl Franklin)
The Singing Detective (Keith Gordon)
Spun (Jonas Åkerlund)
SWA.T. (Clark Johnson)
Wilbur Wants to Kill Himself (Lone Scherfig)

Edits:
Moved 10 Minutes Older: The Cello from Eager to Watch to Watched 21/9/10
Moved My Life Without Me from Eager to Watch to Watched 12/2/11