Films 2011 / Drama List
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nunuuuAt 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 ✩✩
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 ✩✩