Films 2011 / Drama List

[nunuuu]

At least 10 previously unwatched movies a month in 2010 2011. Feel free to recommend movies, I'd really love it. (No film school stuff though, got those pretty much down pat because I studied film. No "The Ring"esque horror films too. Just, no.) Anything that struck a chord, in any language, and preferably well-made, do tell.


Bold = films I recommend

2010

January
1. Legions (Scott Stewart)
2. Sepet (Yasmin Ahmad)
3. Inglorious Basterds (Quentin Tarantino)
4. Otonari (Naoto Kumazawa)
5. Ahiru to Kamo no Koinrokka (Yoshihiro Nakamura)
6. Avatar (James Cameron)
7. Lost in Translation (Sofia Coppola)
8. Spirited Away (Hayao Miyazaki)

February
1. Bride Wars (Gary Winick)
2. Brokeback Mounatin (Ang Lee)
3. Halfway (Eriko Kitagawa)
4. Grizzly Man (Werner Herzog)
5. New York I Love You (Various)
6. The Diving Bell and The Butterfly (Julian Schnabel)
7. Princess Mononoke by (Hayao Miyazaki)
8. Pan’s Labyrinth (Guillermo del Toro)
9. Where The Wild Things Are (Spike Jonze)
10. Ghost World (Terry Zwigoff)

March
1. Spring Summer Fall Winter…and Spring (Kim Ki-Duk)
2. Paris Je’taime (Various)
3. Amelie (Jean-Pierre Jeunet)
4. Once (John Carney)
5. It’s Complicated (Nancy Meyers)
6. The Isle (Kim Ki-Duk)
7. In the Mood for Love (Wong Kar-Wai)
8. Ao no Honou (Yunio Ninagawa)
9. Morvern Callar (Lynne Ramsay)
10. Air Doll (Hirokazu Kore-eda)
11. Ultra Miracle Love Story (Satoko Yokohoma)

April
1. Kama Sutra: A Tale of Love (Mira Nair)
2. Clash of The Titans (Louis Leterrier)
3. Lala Pipo (Katsumi Nojiri)
4. Shutter Island by (Martin Scorsese)
5. Fantastic Mr. Fox (Wes Anderson)
6. A Clockwork Orange (Stanley Kubrick)
7. Plein Soleil (René Clément) - This is seriously the most suspenseful film I have ever watched. Puts modern thrillers to shame. With a sumptuous Mediterranean setting and beautiful photography, this film is nothing but memorable. The lead actor is quite a looker too. Now if only he wasn't a psychopath...
8. The Lovely Bones (Peter Jackson)
9. Il Postino (Michael Radford)
10. Summer Wars (Mamoru Hosoda)

May
1. Iron Man 2 (Jon Favreau)
2. A Single Man (Tom Ford)
3. The Girl Who Leapt Through Time (Mamoru Hosoda)
4. Stealing Beauty (Bernardo Bertolucci)
5. Bright Star (Jane Campion)

June
1. Helvetica (Gary Hustwit)
2. The September Issue (R.J. Cutler)
3. Shrek: Forever After (Mike Mitchell)
4. The Piano (Jane Campion)

July
1. The Karate Kid (Harald Zwart)
2. Synecdoche New York (Charlie Kaufman)
3. Au Revoir Tapei (Arvin Chen)
4. I Give My First Love To You (Takehiko Shinjo)
5. In The Realm Of The Senses (Nagisa Oshima)
6. The Man Who Fell To The Earth (Nicolas Roeg)
7. Coco Before Chanel (Anne Fontaine)
8. Knight And Day (James Mangold)
9. Inception (Christopher Nolan)
10. Koyaanisqatsi (Godfrey Reggio)

August
1. Five Centimeters Per Second (Makoto Shinkai)
2. Manufactured Landscapes (Jennifer Baichwal)
3. Beautiful Losers (Aaron Rose)
4. Tekken (Dwight H. Little)
5. Only Yesterday (Isao Takahata)
6. The Happening (M. Night Shyamalan)
7. Nights in Rodanthe (George C. Wolfe) 
8. Mimi wo Sumaseba (Yoshifumi Kondo)
9. Ploy (Pen-ek Ratanaruang)
10. Into The Wild (Sean Penn)
11. Adventureland (Greg Mottola)

September
1. Sex and the City 2 (Michael Patrick King)
2. Summer Hours (Olivier Assayas)
3. Tenshi no Koi (Yuri Kantake) 
4. Fair Love (Yeon-Shick Shin)
5. A Very Long Engagement (Jean-Pierre Jeunet)
6. Going The Distance (Nanette Burstein)

October
1. Schindler's List (Steven Speilberg)
2. Wallstreet 2: Money Never Sleeps (Oliver Stone) 
3. Hachi: A Dog's Tale (Lasse Halstrom)
4. Paprika (Satoshi Kon)
5. Eat, Pray, Love (Ryan Murphy)
6. My Darling is a Foreigner (Kazuaki Ue)
7. The Social Network (David Fincher)

November
1. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 (David Yates)
2. Villon no Tsuma (Kichitaro Negishi)
3. Chungking Express (Wong Kar-wai)

December
1. Winter's Bone (Debra Granik)
2. I Am Love (Luca Guadagnino)
3. Le Mépris (Jean-Luc Godard) 
4. Howl's Moving Castle (Hayao Miyazaki)

2011

January - May
1. When In Rome (Mark Steven Johnson) - SHITTIEST MOVIE I'VE SEEN IN AWHILE. DON'T GO ANYWHERE NEAR IT 
2. Easy A (Will Gluck)
3. The Last Exorcism (Daniel Stamm)
4. Virgin Suicides (Sofia Coppola) 
5. The Cove (Louie Psihoyos)
6. The Age of Innocence (Martin Scorsese)
7. Thor (Kenneth Branagh)
8. The King's Speech (Tom Hooper)
9. Encounters at the End of the World (Werner Herzog)
10. Departures (Yojiro Takita) 
11. Serbis (Brillante Mendoza)
12. Kafoo: Waiting for Happiness (Yu Nakai)
13. Norwegian Wood (Anh Hung Tran)
14. Cinema Paradiso (Guiseppe Tornatore)
15. The Legend of 1900 (Guiseppe Tornatore)
16. Tokyo Sonata (Kiyoshi Kurosawa)
17. Ohoku (Kaneko Fuminori)

June
1. Kung Fu Panda 2 (Jennifer Yuh)
2. X-Men: First Class (Matthew Vaughn) 
3. The Hangover Part 2 (Todd Phillips)
4. The Science of Sleep (Michel Gondry)
5. How To Train Your Dragon (Dean DeBlois)  

July
1. Harry Potter and The Deathly Hallows: Part 2 (David Yates) HUHUHUHUHU </3 END OF AN ERA!
2. Karigurashi no Arrietty (Yonebayashi Hiromasa)

August
1. Rise of the Planet of the Apes (Rupert Wyatt)
2. Plum Blossoms (Ji-kyun Kwak)


Also, Japanese dramas watched, in alphabetical order.

RATING GUIDE:
✩ ✩ ✩ ✩ ✩ - Amazing, a masterpiece, would definitely watch again
✩ ✩ ✩ ✩ - Pretty awesome and entertaining!
✩ ✩ ✩ - Mediocre at the least, but watchable w/ redeeming moments
✩ ✩ - Meh.
✩ - No. Just, no / never even finished

Anego ✩✩
Bambino! ✩✩✩
Bartender ✩✩✩✩
Freeter, Ie wo Kau ✩✩✩✩✩
First Kiss ✩
Gokusen ✩✩✩
Hana Yori Dango ✩✩✩✩✩
Hana Yori Dango Returns ✩✩✩✩✩
Hanawake no Yon Shinmai -still airing-
Hanazakari no Kimitachi e ✩✩✩✩✩
Ichi Ritoru no Namida ✩✩✩✩
Ikemen, Desu ne! -still airing-
Inu o Kau to Iu Koto ✩ ✩
Jin ✩ ✩ ✩ ✩
Jotei ✩ ✩ ✩
Juui Dolittle ✩ ✩ ✩
Kaibutsu-kun ✩ ✩ ✩ ✩
Kimi Wa Petto ✩✩✩✩✩
Kindaichi Shonen no Jikembo 3 ✩✩✩
Kisarazu Cat's Eye ✩✩✩✩
Koizora ✩
Konkatsu! ✩✩✩
Kurosagi ✩✩
Last Friends ✩✩
Liar Game ✩✩✩✩
Liar Game 2 ✩✩✩
Long Love Letter ✩✩✩✩
Long Vacation ✩✩✩✩✩
Love Shuffle ✩✩✩✩✩
Maou ✩✩✩✩✩
My Girl ✩✩✩
Myu no Anyo Papa ni Ageru ✩✩
Natsu no Koi wa Nijiiro ni Kagayaku ✩✩✩✩✩
Nobuta wo Produce ✩✩✩
Nodame Cantabile ✩✩
Orange Days ✩✩✩✩✩
Orthros no Inu ✩
Papa to Musume no Nanokakan ✩✩✩
Proposal Daisakusen ✩✩✩✩✩
Regatta ✩✩✩✩
Ryusei no Kizuna ✩✩✩✩✩
Saigo no Yakusoku ✩✩
Soredemo, Ikite Yuku -still airing-
Stand Up! ✩✩✩✩✩
Taisetsu na Koto wa Subete Kimi ga Oshiete Kureta ✩
Taiyou no Uta ✩✩✩✩✩
Troubleman ✩✩✩
Tsuki no Koibito ✩
Uta no Onii-san ✩✩✩
Yamada Taro Monogatari ✩✩✩✩
Zenkai Girl -still airing-
Zettai Kareshi ✩✩

Comments

[literaryidiot.wordpress.com (from livejournal.com)]

Why haven't I done this before! Now I want to know the movies I've watched per month since 2007.

[nunuuu.livejournal.com]

Start now, list even those you remember from this year. It's actually pretty rewarding to see all the films you've watched in a list. (You can also your emotional trajectory per month, somehow?)

:)

[nunuuu.livejournal.com]

*You can also track your emotional....

Fail.

[sweetestnothing.livejournal.com]

This is a really cool idea! Allow me to please copy this post

May I recommend Black Snake Moan? Its a movie I really like, yet cannot truly explain the reason why. Its just a strange tale that in end moved me.

[nunuuu.livejournal.com]

By all means, make a post like this too!

Black Snake Moan? Hmm. I'll give it a go. My friend, who's beside me, said he liked it too. :]

[svenwyn.livejournal.com]

alright, umm here's my reccomendations!

the lord of the rings - they're long, yes, buut amazing if you're into that kind of stuff
reign over me
casablanca (idk if that'd be something you'd study in film?)
annie hall
king kong (peter jackson version)
eternal sunshine of the spotless mind
hellboy 1 and 2
the imaginarium of doctor parnassus (i REALLY liked this one, it's kinda weird though)
the road
the dark knight
grave of the fireflies

hope you like some of those suggestions!

<3

[(Anonymous)]

I'm ehra. EAT PRAY LOVE, I recommend! <33333

[whiteloafers.livejournal.com]

So I felt like I commented on this before but I guess I didn't??? I need to start doing this!! I just finished my film degree and have been lagging behind in watching things in favor of watching jdrama (NATSU NO KOI!) XD

Like Schindler's List. I've still never seen Schindler's List, but I've seen every episode of Stand Up!! twice. How can I call myself a human. Goooodddd.

I'm stealing some of your recs!! KTHNX

[nunuuu.livejournal.com]

Don't fret, I still have 25 movies to go before this year ends (which there is, like, just a couple of weeks, more or less, remaining of it) so that I can complete the 120 films in a year plan that I set out to do! I DON'T KNOW IF IT'S DO-ABLE AT THIS STAGE, BUT HEY I TRIED XD (And yes, I also blame jdramas for my lagging behind! Natsuniji was beautifoooool)

Schindler's List and Stand Up! are both masterpieces in their own right, so don't feel too bad. HAHA OMFG HOW BLASPHEMOUS. But whatevs. The sheer awesomeness and watchability of Stand Up! is hard to resist! I don't blame thee

No problemo!

[whiteloafers.livejournal.com]

YOU CAN DO IT!! JUST TURN OFF THE INTERNET AND WHATEVER YOU DO, DO NOT REWATCH NATSUNIJI (YET...)!!


I was totally going to continue with some more comparisons b/t Schindler's List and Stand Up! but caught myself in the last minute! I'm just saying, more than one of them deserves an Oscar XD

[tudorqueeny.livejournal.com]

This is great! You just gave me more films to watch!:D I started a list like this just this January kaso nanakawan ako a week ago, including the list! damn. Anyways good thing i dropped by your lj! :D

[finanwen.livejournal.com]

That's a nice list! :) Totally gonna snag some movie ideas :)

As for recommends, I'd just name a couple of random ones, though you might have seen them :)
- Flipped (don't even remember the story properly, but it was sweet)
- Pillow Talk (an old Hollywood comedy, 1950s, I think)
- The Reader (if you haven't seen it before, Kate Winslet's acting is spectacular!)

J-wise:
- Kokuhaku (scary but amazing)
- Tokyo shoujo (lovely story about love on the distance of 100 years)

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